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4 ©jcffiorningfletos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY. JUDY *B, ISS7. Registered at the Pott Office in .SotxinnoA. tile Morkinu News is published every day In fbeyear, and is sennl to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers ami carriers, on their own ac count, at 'Si cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and 810 00 for one year. The Mornino News, i't mail, one month, J 1 00; thris months, $2 DO; six months, 85 00; one year, 810 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three inontlis. is 00; six months. ?4 on one year. $8 On. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays mid Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, 81 35; six months. S3 DO; one year. ?5 ill. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. 82 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, 81 35. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders Letters and telegrams should las addressed “Morning News. Savannah, tin.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings- Haupt I .edge No. 88,1. O. O. F. Speciai. Notices Base Rail, Cadets vs. Sa vannah Volunteer Guards. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Lost ; Miscellaneous. The Morning Nows for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer ran have tho Morning News forwarded by the etirliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25e. a week, 81 for a month or 82 50 [or three months, cash invariably in ad ranee. Tho address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well os tho new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while a way should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by tho most direct and quickest routes. Tho Puyallup Indians, who were granted the right of suffrage by the last Congress, ire Democrats. The fact is ample atone ment for their horrible name. The man who gives the advice: “Take What is in sight and rustle for more,” will lot do to trust. Following such advice is tvliat sends many a man to the chain-gang. A man in New York advertises to do '‘mending for bachelors.” The women loubtless regard him as an enemy, as his trasiness decreases their chances of marry g- Gen. Sherman is fond of being called a food sailor. If ho were in the American lavy be would doubtless lose his love for :be sea. It isn’t very pleasant to bo afloat n a rickety tub. Even the Anti-Prohibitionists are begui ling to admit that prohibition in Atlanta loes prohibit. It would be queer indeed if tlosing more than 100 saloons did not de crease liquor drinking and drunkenness. The Summer School of Philosophy, at Con rd, Mass., presents a sad spectacle of mis lireeted intellects. Tho people who com prise the teachers and pupils of the school ire wasting time and are doing nobody any good. John L. Sullivan, Boston's slugger, con templates a trip to England. If he goes Mr. Blaine might ns well come home. With x>th Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan in ihe midst of them, Englishmen would have k> eyes for lesser lights. It is stated that corn is growning in Rooks county, Kan., at the rate of two nches every twenty-four hours. The man ,liat made the statement refuses to make Himself known, however, doubtless because le fears embarrassing questions. The hot weather in fho West is said to be !iaving a salutary effect upon the men who manufacture the tall stories aliout the boom m that section. They are so badly wilted that they cannot treat the truth with us ittle respect as they have heretofore done. New Haven, Conn., is agitated over a level elopement. The parties rode away in lenreh of bliss in a horse-ear. Romance teems to have gone to the dogs. Tho idea if an elopement on a horse-car is enough to make ull the bread-and-butter misses in the and weep. The postmistress ut Klimvooil, Neb., is Musing considerable trouble to her support ers by her efforts to have the Sunday mail to that point discontinued. Her supporters ought to respect her motive. Kite doubtless Wants time to attend church on Sunday so that sho may show other women whut sho weans It is alleged that Mr. Blaiuo has discov ered that Americans spend abroad alsiut $75,000,000 ovory year. It isn't stated what use he intends to make of the discovery. If the figures are correct it is not to bo won dered at that the jieople of foreign countries are always ready to welcome American visitors. Kays an exchange: “With microlicsin the drinking water, tyrotoxicon in ice cream, malaria in watermelons. Bright's disease in beer, and paralysis in iced ti i. wherewithal may the thirsty soul refresh itself in sum mer timeT’ Tho question is hard to an swer. Perhaps it might be well to try dis tilled dew. Tho American Shipping and Industrial I/eague, which lias already held conven tions at Washington, Charleston, Pensacola, Son Francisco and Chicago, will hold one in Boston in September, ami in Birming ham, Ala., Nov. 8, 0 and 10. The one in Birmingham bids fair to ho largely ut tendtxi, und arrangements aro already be ing made to insure Us success. Don. Clinton B. Fish, of New Jersey, raid In an interview the other day: “The result of the election next year will depend alto gether on the labor movement, and if the workingmen should nominate a strong man it would weaken the Democratic party moro than tho Prohibition party would weaken the Republicans. This would lie emphatic ally true in New York. I should not bo sur prised to see an alliance between laimr and prohibition in tho next twelve months.” The result of the election for Mayor in New York city last year did not leave room to believe that Gen. Fish is right as to the in jury the Labor party is to do the Demo cratic party. As to an alliance tictwoon the Labor jiarty and the Prohibit)onibts there is not much probability of that. Au Objectionable Bill. It is probable that there will be strong opposition to tho bill pending in the Legis j lature authorizing the government to con demn property in this city for a public building site. The understanding seems to bo that tho government intends to condemn the property of Dr. Hopps, on the corner of Bull and South Broad streets. Dr. Hopps objects to having his property taken from him in that way, or in any other way, with out his consent, and ho is right about it. It is true that he offered his property for a public building site, at a price which he fixed u]Kin it, but he had no intention of letting tho government have it at a price which a commission, appointed under proceedings to condemn it, might placo upon it. He knows what his property is worth to him, and it is a rather bigli-handed proceeding to take it from him for less than he is willing to accept for it. The commission may be a fair one, and may place a just valuation upon it, but that is no reason why ho should be forced to sell it for less than his own valuation. Tho same is true with respect to any private property, other than that of Dr. Hopps, which the government might wish to condemn. If it were absolutely necessary for the government to have Dr. Hopps’, or any other piece of private property which the owner refused to part with for a fair com pensation there would be some excuso for tho bill, but there is no such necessity. There are plenty of sites which will answer the government’s needs, and which can be had at reasonable prices. The Union So ciety, for instance, offered a lot on Whit aker street, which has a front on a public square, and which, in the opinion of many, is a more desirable location for the public building than the corner of Bull and South Broad streets. The agent of the Supervis ing Architect, however, reported in favor of tho latter location, notwithstanding the fact that the price asked for it was almost double. A petition containing almost 1,000 names of prominent citizens urging the ac ceptance of tho Whituker street location was sent to tho Supervising Architect, but Ho jietition, as far as the public knows, was presented in favor of the location on the corner of Bull and South Broad streets. It seems strange that the wishes of so many citizens should have been disregarded in a matter in which they were so deeply interested, and that the recommendation of a representative of the Supervising Archi tect, who knew little or nothing about the city, should have had so much weight. If the Whitaker street sib' had been selected it is probable that the corner-stone of the public building would have been laid by this tiino. The indications now are that it will boa long time before it is laid. The Union Society may not be willing now to sell the Whitakor street lot. It has made arrangements to improve it. There is a possibility, however, that it might be induced to part with it simply to have the public building in an eligible location. Mr. Freret, who was appointed Supervising Architect a few days ago, might be more willing to comply with tho wishes of the people than hts predecessor, Mr. Bell, was. But if the Whitaker street sib' is not available there are other sites which can be obtained at fair prices, and that, too, without the legislation that is now sought at Atlanta. If the pending bill becomes a law any rdizen’s property can be taken at a valuation which a commission may fix upon it, whether file property is for sale or not. Before the Legislature acts upon this bill it should inform itself whether it is needed. It will lmve no difficulty in discovering that it isn’t. Tho Popo and the Knights. Tho announcement is made that the Pope has decided that there is no ground for Pa pal interference with the Knights of Labor organization. It will he remembered that tlie Archbishop of Montreal thought that there was, and that he took some steps look ing to Its condemnation in Canada. His action brought the Knights of Laimr ques tion before tho Pope, and. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, appeared as tho defender of tiie Knights. In a brief bilk on Tuesday night Cardinal Gibbous said that there was nothing in tho purposes or organization of tho Knights which deserved condemnation, and that in his opinion there would lie no condeinna tion of them as long as they kept themselves free from Anarchists and other dangerous associations. There cannot, of course, lie any reason for finding fault with the Knights as long as they respect tho rights of others, and seek only to !tetter their condition. Efforts are all the time being made, however, to induce them to go beyond tho legitimate purposes of their organization and to lend their in fluence to the promulgation of doctrines which aro hostile to the best interests of society. To what extent those efforts will succeed remains to b > seen. It is noticeable that Dr. McGlynn and Henry George are welcome guests at their meetings, and that they wore received with favor nt the great picnic of District Assem bly 4K, near New York, last Mon day. Thera is probably no reason why these two men should not have nt tended the picnic If they went there simply to encourage the Knights to pay great at tention to those things which promise to better their condition, but if they went there to make converts to the Henry George land theory, and wore listened to with favor, the Knights may well ask whether such men are not dangerous to them, and whether the Knights, in supporting and en couraging them, are not drifting away from safe moorings. The Socialists, Com munists and Anarchists are each striving to gain control of the Knights, but there is no evidence yet that they are meeting with success. Tho statement is made that a gigantic scheme is being planned to control tho Knights of Labor throughout the country. It is said to bo in the interest of District Assembly No. 40, of Now York, General Master Workman Powderly and General Secretary Liteitmuu. According to a Knight of Labor who is not committed to tho scheme, it is ijroposod to. have delegatee go to the General Assembly that will sustain the Powderly administration. This will i>o accomplished by establishing classes con siiting of nine memliers in every city in tho country. These classes ure to bo made up of the most influential Knights available and will be really branches of 4il’s Assembly. The scheme is one that will displease many Knights, and will be found to be another wedge to widen the split in the order. In Boone county, la., a preacher recently kicked vigorously liecuuse a newspaper there published Rev. T. DeVVitt Talmuge s sermons each week. Ho claimed that the Brooklyn preacher's sermons caused tho con gregation of the Boone county church to be dissatisfied with anybody rise’s sermons. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1887. The New Navy. Th new war vessel Atlanta has gone to sea with a board of naval officers, who are instructed to report whether she is strong enough to resist tho strain to which sho is subjeeb'd when her modern guns are fired. Some time ago, when a test was made of her eight-inch rifled guns, she suffered con siderable damage, and some of her officers expressed the opinion tliat the tiring of guns of that size on board of her would very soon render her unfit for service. They went further than that, and expressed a doubt w hether she could resist the strain of six-incli guns unless she wore greatly strengthened. There aro a good many obstacles to bo overcome in building a navy of armored vessels. The constructors and builders are forced to feel their way, as it were, since they have never had any experience with such vessels, and that which appears to lie very satisfactory in theory often proves to be very unsatisfactory in practice. All the vessels which lmve thus far been built for the new navy were very faulty, and required a great deal of tinkering be fore tlio Navy Department would accept them. It was thought that the Atlanta would prove equal b the expectations which were entertained of her after numerous changes had been made, but unless the im pressions obtained from the first test of her guns prove to be erroneous sho will have to be classed as a failure. The ship-builders in this country lack the experience in constructing armored war vessels which England’s ship-builders have, and it is not surprising, therefore, that, the Secretary of the Navy thought it advisable to purchase plans of a couple of vessels from English naval constructors. When it became known that he hail gone abroail for plans some of the Republican papers were cpiick to condemn him, but it is noticeable that they have had very little to say since the Atlanta lias proven unequal to the demands upon her. It was intended to arm tho Chicago, which is now being built, with ten-inch rifled guns, but since the experience with the Atlanta it is said that six-inch guns will be substituted for them. An Old Proposition. A correspondent objects to the composi tion of the General Assembly, anil suggests that, at the next election it would lie well for tho pooplo to chooso as their representa tives none but farmers. About once a year somebody makes a similar proposition. There seems to be an impression among these people that there is neither ability nor honesty among lawyers, doctors, and merchants, and that to force them out of the General Assembly would greatly benefit the State. Of course the impression is erroneous, and those who have it are either ignorant or willfully shut their eyes to the facts. It is doubtful if the composition of the General Assembly could be improved. There are in the body representatives of various interests, each capable of assistance to the other, or of being a check upon the other when occasion requires. If none but farm ers were elected the agricultural interest would receive more attention than it de serves. Not only would this lie true, but other interests would suffer. A farmer, for instance, would not be likely to know the needs of the legal or the medical profession, nor would he understand correctly what legislation would be of benefit to commerce. Tho old saying, “every man to his own trade,” contains a valuable suggestion. Each important interest should be repre sented in the General Assembly, just as is t in' case at present. It cannot be denied that the farmers who devote their attention to law-making render tho State good service. They are generally conservative, refusing to act hurriedly. They know how necessary economy is, and they therefore carefully scrutinize every proposition to spend the State’s money, not Infrequently preventing waste. In addition it may tie said that some of tho most impor tant laws on the statute books were origi nated by farmers. It is not probable, how ever, that these laws would have been made ns nearly perfect as they are without the aid of the representatives of other intezests. It is certain that these representatives have originated laws as important as those claim ing farmers as their authors, anil it is equally ns certain that there is ns much honesty nnd ability among lawyers, doctors and merchants as there is among farmers. The General Assembly is well enough as it is, and may be depended on to do its duty. An interesting dispatch from Cincinnati to tho New York Tribune says that at Font bank, near Cincinnati, is the workshop and laboratory of Henry B. Cox, a young elec trician who, though known to but few iu this country, is attracting tho notice of scientists nnd electricians in Europe by his inventions, in which ho is as prolific and in genious as Edison. His latest device is a trumpet to be used for telephoning nt sea, on which he has been nt work for some months. The Invention is the outgrowth of his discovery of tho grant distance an echoed or reverberated sound will carry, and tho discovery that speaking trumpets, if made to give the same fundamental note would vibrato and produce the phenomenon known in acous tics ns “sympathy." With this trumpet con versation in an ordinary tone of voice was carried on between parties four nnd a quar ter miles apart. People sitting at their windows or on their porches a mile away conversing iu an ordinary lone could lie distinctly heard, and in two instances they were fold of the nature of their conversa tion and admitted that such had taken place. By listening to the whistle nnd tracing it to and beyond Fernbank to Law roncebiirg, Ind., it was found that tho instrument has a well-defined range of twenty-six miles; that is, a load sound like a locomotive whistle or the rumbling of a train can be distinctly heard at n distance of thirteen miles in every di rection. Conversation was readily carried on between two men on high hills on opposite sides of the Ohio river, about four nnd a half miles apart. Tests made on the water showed that the trunifsit was even roora available than on land. The instrument will be patented as soon as perfected. A name lias not yet lieen chosen for it. Mr. Coxhasagript many other curious and valuable devices, both electrical and me chanical, but none as curious as ids sou tele phone. It is stated by tho New York Times that when business is normal in Wall stns-t the Ktix-k Exchange, not counting transaction* in Ismds, counts it a small day when.soo,ooo shares of stocks arc dealt in. Monday n fill! day’s business resulted in a grand ag gregate of 108.000 shares. Tho liottom seems to have fallen out of speculation in Wall street, hut why nobody seems able itisfactorily to explain. CURRENT COMMENT. He Needn’t Keep Awake. I'rnni the Missouri Republican (Peril.) Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of his father, is becoming a considerable quantity in Republican calculations. Blaine has more to fear from Lincoln than from Sherman, though from pres cut appearances there is not enough to fear from either or both to keepthe man from Maine awake o’nights. While the Tariff Keeps Steady. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) If wages would certainly be reduced by a re duction of tbe tariff many protectionists em ployers would be as swift to demand tariff re duction as the loudest-mouthed friend of rev enue reform But wages are one matter anil tariff duties quite another. Wages go up and down, while the tariff keeps steady. They Can’t Be Forced Out. From the Washington Post (Dem.) The rumor that Randall and a few other Representatives of like high tariff views will help the Republican , organize the next House on a high tariff basis is a little absurd even in the hot and silly season. These persons have influence only as Democrats within the Demo cratic party, and a combined derrick and pile driver couldn't force them out of it. An Uncomfortable Fact. From the Poston Globe (Dem.) There is no more helpless lieing in the world than a man who has a sick wife and children to he cared for, and who is in search for competent help to do it. It matters not what his financial resources may be, for money, no matter how lavishly expended, may not command the as sistance he needs. While almost ever}- branch of employment is crowded with those eager and anxious fur work, household assistants are so scarce that it is a matter of chance to secure a competent one. BRIGHT BITS. One good way to avoid being sunstruok is to keep the elbows perfectly straight.—Philadel phia News. “Never take a sulky girl to ride in a buggy,” says Harper s Bazar. No, we should prefer a hansom girl iu a phaeton.— Springfield Union , Up in Washington Territory there Is a ranch where they shear 3,0* 1 sheep in one day. This threatens to rival the business done in Wall street. Rochester Post-Express. After running a lawn mower for an hour this morning he remarked that if ever he had said anything derogatory or unkind of the snow shovel he would most willingly take it back.— Springfield Union. It has heen asked why a city is called “she.” The answer seems an easy one. There is always more or less bustle about a city. Besides a city has outskirts, and a he could not under any cir cumstances have skirts of any kiud.— Pittsburg bulletin. “Waiter,” said a gentlmm in the dining car, “have you any gooseberry pie?" “No, sahffaint carry hr any this yeah, salt.” “Why is that?" "Well, you sea-, sah, dey’s seace dis sesum. Las' winter was so cole and stormy dnt it wus mighty tough on de geese.”— Washington Star. “On, no. ma’am,” pleaded the tramp, “you may think my life all sunshine, but it ain’t. Wherever Igol am beset by dangers. In short , m'-'otn. I carry mv life in my hands.” “Ah, I see!” exclaimed his temporary hostess; “that accounts for your not washing your hands. You don't dare to do it for iear you'll drown yourself.”— boston Transcript. “The money wasted in worse than useless fireworks in our city,' writes the astute editor, "would save hundreds of the poor and needy from starvation. Will people ever leant the judicious use of money? Here," he continued, turning to the office hoy, “take that biggest tin pail there and go and get it full of lieer. Hustle yourself because I'm dry," - Dakota bell. Mrs. Goldleaf, newly graduated from a very humole spnere of lif--. is lend of using a French word now and then, and this she always dees with striking effect. As, for instance, when, speaking of some duty her maid servant had lefi undone, she remarked, in a light and airy man ner, “Pauline is a good servant—a very good servant—but, I must confess she is apt to be neglige.”— Harpers Bazar. Now at thy seashore doth the maid In garb fantastic sport her, And with aquatic fervor wade Within the sunlit water. A yard-wide hat she doth disclose To sliield her from the sunbeams. And yet, when she returns, her nose A little overdone seems. —Yonkers Gazette. Once doubly in love, 1 wavered between The two sweetest girls that I know. And only these faults in the pair could be seen: A little too lively ami quick was Pauline, While Jane was a trine too slow. But, alas' their behavior uo harmony kept. When 11 egged them by turns to be mine; In spite of the way that i pleaded and wept, Pauline was unfeelingly slow to accept, Jane cruelly quick to decline. . —Tid-Bits. A coNSTAnt.it recently brought a man before a justice of the peace in n Dakota "no license” county, charged with selling liquor. “Well, Jim," said the justice, addressing the officer, "where's the licker ho was selling?” • They had just finished drinking the last of it, your honor." “Ilev?" thundered the court. "I say it was all gone tiefore I got there.” “All gone before von go* there? Great Scott! where was you ail tho t ine'’ Do you think I am going on with a cise like this without some licker put iu as evidence for the court to sam ple? Let the prisoner go and mebbe he'll bring some more to town. And you see that you get around and make your arrest just liefore he begins to sell, and not after it's alt lieen swal loved by a lot of l'ellers that ain't half as dry as the court." Dakota Bel, PERSONAL. Rk'r Admiral Franklin will be retired next men h. He will be m -eaeded by Com. Gherardi. E I>. Morgan, the recent purchaser of the Mayflower, has been elected Rear Commodore of tbe New York Yacht Club. Ex Senator Robert Mercer Taliaferro Ulster, of Virginia, was a classmate of Edgar A. Poo at the University of Virginia, John McMackin, Henry George's political or ganizer, predicts that the Land and labor party's State ticket will poll 150,000 to 300,000 votes in New York this year. At the suggestion of H. H. Carter, Super!it t’oident of tin- Baltimore and Potomac railroad, a library for th - employes of that company has been established at Washington. Postmaster Jeon, of Chicago, is a power In Episcopal church councils, ils well as polities, and is sari to bo aliout the best posted man on ecclesiastical law in this country. Ex Gov. Ext,list:, of Connecticut, has returned from Europe, whither lie has been on a bridal trip. He and his new wife an- to go to house keeping in the land of steady habits. The Prince of Wales, who keeps the wolf from the door by an income of about 81,000,000, has boon well-high bankrupted bv the expenses of the jubilee and is u frequent borrower on the London “street." Rorert Loris Stevenson will probably arrive in New York sometime in August or Septem ber. He proposes to cross the plains and to pass a year or so in California and New Mexico for the benefit of his health. Gits. 8. \V. Caiipkxtkh. of the United States army, is among the prominent guests at Sara toga Gen. UariH'iifer enjoys the distinction of being the man who tired the lust shot at the memorable siege of Fort Sumter. Lii.i t Felix, of tbe French navy, who died of bruin fever a few weeks ago out on the Congo, where he was engaged on a special mission oil liehalf of the French government, wus the favorite sou of tile great tragedienne Rachel. Coqt'BUN is a i>-t us well as an actor. Here are some of his lines: "When I see a petticoat sweep the pave und dangle in the gutter. ‘That is no molest woman,' I am free to mutter, she lias, i'll vow. an ugly calf ora stocking needing washing. ’ This creature, who, with skirts adrug, goes down the streets a sloshing.” The literary men show up well in the addi tions to the Fiftieth fongr-ss Henry Uatsit lgidgp ays: "Mv lsisinoK.s is literature." Sen ator Daniel alludes to the fact that lie is author of "Daniel on Negotiable Instruments.' Thera an l not many clergymen in the next Congress. Stewart, of Georgia, and McKinney, of New Hampshire, ure ministers. McKinney served through the war, mid went through college after he was SH years old in order to enter tlie ministry. Miss Jennie Collins, well known and identi fied with charity work In Boston for many years, died July 20 She first came before the public in the capacity of a lecturer, and was one of the first women who interested liersjlf in the anti slavery movement. Soon after the war she took upon herself the duty of educating soldjar Isiyu She founded the institution called “Boffin's Bower," the principal feature* of which were to aid girls who have to work for u livelihood. It is said that she did more in aid of the working girls of Boston than alt of the charitable socie ties of tbe cily put together. It boil lieen the i sir pee of Miss Collins to found u Dickens library, white the p<ior children of the city could co and procure gratuitous literature. EXPERIMENT WITH A D. T. BOY. Going 1 to Seo How Long it Will Take Him to Got to London and Back. From the New York Sun. A district messenger hoy ia to be started on a long and novel errand on Wednesday next, his destination l>eing no less distant a place than London. After the Lyceum Theatre closed Manager I)an Frohrnan conceived the curious idea of sending by a district messenger souvenirs and congratulatory letters to the surviving writers of ‘The Highest Bidder'* and others in London. Th* nlav as originally produced in England was called “Trade/ and it was written by the elder Sothern, Madduson Morton, and Robert Reece. Frohmai and Sothern oreiared a souvenir, and the services of Low’s Exchange w-reengaged to see that the boy was properly cared for during the voyage over and back. The lari, in anew uniform resplendent with brass buttons and red tu;e, will Like the steamer Germanic next \Vednenduy. On landing in Liv erpool he will be met by John 13. Curtis, General Manager of the Midland railroad, who will whoop him along in a special carriage to the first, train for the city. In London no will at once start on his round delivering the souvenirs. Edmund Tates, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry. Buf falo Bill, Nate balsbury, Emily Faithful, Nat Goodwin Toole, Clement Scott and many others will receive them. Each will sign the little ticket, iust as would lie done if the recipient were in New York. Tiie souvenir consists of a number of sheets of heavy cream-and-chocolate colored paper bound toget her with ribbon. The first page has a photograph of E. 11. Sothern. At the bottom is the legend, in tine writing of Bothern: “He did-i'f do it very well, but lie did it.” It is si"tic lby Sothern. The four following pages are filled with sketches made by Sothern from scenes in the play. As soon as tne boy gets his packages deliv ered he will take the first ship back to New York. His ticket, signed by those who re ceived souvenirs, will be quite a souvenir in itself. No End of Rattlesnake . From the Birmingham Age. Just over the Hue in Morion county, Ga., a wild mountainous section of the county, a man by the name of Becker has lived for several years. Mr. Becker's home is the ordinary one room log cabin of that section, and his family consists of a wife, several small children and naif a dozen dogs. The Becker homestead is located in a picturesque ravine near a number of small caves in the mountain side. week Mr. Becker, returning at sundown from his day's labor, found his family some distance from the cabin clinging to each other in abject terror. The half dozen dogs lay dead in the yard, and over their swollen bodies crawled and hissed hundreds of rattlesnakes. The floor of the cabin and the entire yard were covered with the poisonous reptiles. Mrs. Becker informed her husband that early in the afternoon several snakes erawud into the yard, coming from the direction of the nearest cave, which was about 2 yards away. These were promptly killed by the dogs, hut in a few minutes others came in such numbers that the dogs were overpowered and stung to death ty the poison ous tangs of the reptiles. They soon began to come in still larger numbers, and several of them entered the house. Mrs. Becker and her children then fled in terror aud left the reptiles in full possession of the premise's. In the semi darkness even the bold mountaineer did not dan* attack the hideous invaders of his house, and carried his family to the house of a neigh bor, where they remained during the night. Early in the morning Mr Becker returned home, only to find the snakes still in possession ami largely reinforced. He summoned several of liis neighbors, and the party, armed with shot guns, returned to the cabin to exterminate the reptiles. Volley after volley was fired into the writhing mass, but still snakes continued to crawl out of the brush and coil themselves in tiie yard or cabin. After killing snakes for an hour the party left, and the reptiles were still in IKissessiou of the cabin. Mr. Cleveland’s Double. A dispatch from Syracuse, N, Y., to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer says: Had the Presi dent qf the United States walked into the office of the Vanderbilt House when he was here and written on the virgin page of the register the autograph: “C. C. Hicks, Philadelphia,” people familiar with the personal appearanee of Grover Cleveland could not have been more surprised than three or four gentlemen were to set* an incident so like this as to be absolutely startling. C. C. Hicks, of Philadelphia, is a gentleman who frequently comes to Syracuse in pursuit of trade, whose resem blance to the President is really remarkable. He is a trifle older, perhaps, looks his years and is broader about his girth, but in facial con tour and facial expression is the double of the President. The peculiar expression which Mr. Cleveland habitually wears in his eyes, as if they were being blinded by the sun, is Mr. Hicks' to a dot, as is the rather mottled complexion of the fac*. Mr. Hicks has a thousand times been told of the likeness he bears and was once intro duced to the President at Washington as his double. Indeed they frequently met before Mr. Cleveland became great. Mill more unusual is the fact that Mr. Hicks’ handwriting s so nearly like the President's that one would b* * forgery of the other, it is a small and nervous hand, aluios f ininine in its characteristics, and in letters like the capital C's ir. a el* 82 copy. Mr. Hicks says the re semblance in chirogrophy is as unstudied as the personal likeness. A friend suggested yes terday that Mr. Hicks ought to travel with the President in order to p vse for him at the cross roads where they stop his way and s|**ll \ ini in th * orocessions which insist on taking him ly t e hand. He coul lbe intr xkiced at any ii*ne without the d~c *it being app irent to the aver age observer. Mr. Hicks did not go to Fayette ville or he rnig-it have complicated matters. Concealed His Crime for Years. A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., to the New' York 11 arid says: One of the members of th<* Lowell Grand Army posts had a curious experi mice at the dose of the Into war, which caused him to postpone his return to Lowell for years. His name is Halsey, ami when the war ended he was released from a Confederate prison. He went to New Orleans, where he fell in with an other Ijowell man named Darnly. On the levee Darnly was accosted by a six-footer of the Louisiana Tigers, and the two got into a fight about The merits of Northern and Southern soldiery. They grappled and the Southerner got an advantage. Halsey had not interfered, but when the Southerner drew a knife Halsey seized a stick from a pile and aimed a blow at the Southerner'll head. Darnly just then man aged to turn the Southerner oa his back and Darnly received the blow on the skull. He was rendered insensible and it was some time tx>fore he left the hospital. Halsey supposed he had killed his companion. Greatly alarmed, he reached the steamer, which was just leaving the dock tor New York, lie was considerably re lieved when no officer approached the steamer to arrest him at the landing in New York. Halsey took another name and made his way to a Western city. He did well in business, but always felt an inclination to return to Lowell. A few days ago he did come back. While stand ing at the corner of Merrimae and Shat tuck streets, yesterday, he was approached by a stranger, who asked him if ho was ever in New < )rieans. Halsey says be was sure be was to l>e arr**ited. Tlio stranger said ho had rather a strange story to tell about that city. Much ex cited. Halsey inquired If it was about a Lowell soldier killing his comrade. The stranger hesi tated, but finally said that there was no killing, and then Halsey recognized him as the man w hom, for many years, he itelieved he had slain. The reunion between the old veterans was of the happiest nature. On Nancy Stitching. fVoai thr Toronto drip. Never ps.iator's fairest f,i*oy Can comnare with my ewe t Nancy, For she is n perfect picture Of n perfect womanhood; Though sue is not blessed with riches, And I mist earn her hre.Kl liy stitches, She is better than her liettei*. For her heart m pure auil good. When t sometimes watch her stitching, Every stitch my heart bewitching, I exclaim In hasty language At the sad mistakes in life; But she I nights -i quick und joily, Aa she puts to Iti flit my folly By asking if 1 wish to have A duchess for a wifu. Then I say with IV. ■ that lingers Near the stitches hy her lingers. That if l had Aladdin's lamp A duchess she should i.. And slie answers, archly smiling, In u niutitier most beguiling. That If she were a duchess She would never marry me. So perhaps, it may be hotter After nil to wear tne fetter Of a poverty that's honest 'l oan he titled, proud and rich; For lief ore the moon is changing, By a mutual arranging, King ('upiil will our threads of life Fnite iu one strong stitch. A Hr.MAKKAOT.R occurrence to~>k place in nn adjoinm* county one day last week. A homo wa* killed by lightning. and a newspaper ac count of the incident, lustfu l of Haying "a valu able horse** I aloofing to Mr. so-aiid-so, stared that the animal was * oldutid nearly worth loan." FJrJMb? An* thne on record that a horao killo Thy Itghtufog was not reported us “valu able.* - J Vorrtaloum llarald. ITEMS OP INTEREST. A Brooklyn preacher, who had gone mad on total abstinence, once proposed to celebrate the eucharist with buttermilk. More deaths occur from lockjaw on Long Island, it is stated, than upon any other eorres ponding area of territory in this couutrj’. The Richmond (Va.) State is agitating the establishment of a Confederate museum in w'hieh to “preserve the relics of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and the other heroes.” Absalom Dennis, aged 87, was buried at De- Witt, lowa, Sunday. Ho drove the stage in New York in 18:28 on which the Freemason apos tate, William Morgan, left his home for Canada. Someone clipped off 20) names from the Yankton county (D. TANARUS.) local option petition after it had been presented to the County Com missioners. Twenty-five dollars reward is offered. Senator Bill Chandler is not the only thrif ty person in the Granite State. There are 132,- 000 depositors in its savings banks, and they have increased the deposits within a year more than $4,000,000. The Palouse (W. TANARUS.) Gazette is responsible for the following statement: “Whitman county has the smallest woman living. She resides three miles from Bine City, is 27 years old, twenty-nine inches high, and weighs thirty-three pounds.” A 10- year-old girl was arrested in Washing ton last week charged with breaking into a bouse, robbing it of about SIOO worth of goods and then setting it on fire. She was wearing some of the stolen property at the time of the arrest. John Osterman, who recently opened a hotel on the bank of Brown's lake, Racine county, Wis., thought to evade the law by anchoring a couple of bouts on the lake and selling Honor from them. He sold SB7 worth of beer on July 4, but has since been lined SSO and costs. Prof. Elisha Gray's new discovery is called autotelegraphy, and it is claimed that it will be possible with its use to write upon a sheet of paper and have an autographic fac simile of the writing reproduced by telegraph 800 miles away, and probably a mucli greater distance. In St. Luke's Church, Birmingham, Eng., there is a vested choir of young men and young women. The surplices of the young women art* said to he made of Scotch lawn, with plaited hacks. Th<* male attendants of the church think that they (the women) look very pretty. Dr. West, r ctor of Grace church, Grand Rapids, had fifteen persons to preach to Sun day. The remainder of the members went to Ottawa le eh. The doctor will announce in t 1 e prayer meeting, it is reported, that lie will french during the summer at the beach in the morning and go swimming with his congrega tion in the afternoon. Boatmen on the Seine receive 15 francs for each dead body they find in the river in the de partment of the Seine. Iu the two adjoining departments no reward is paid. It has now lieen discovered that all dead bodies found above or below th#* prescrHxrd limits have been carefully towed down or up stream until they could be profitably passed over to the police. Advices have been received to the effeet that the governments of Belgium aud Switzerland will send one infantry company each to partici pate in the international military drill in Chi cago in October next. Jl is expected that France will send a company from tne graduat ing class of St. Cyr, the West Point of the Re public. In an interview with Gens. Breutley and Chetldin, Chicago's representatives, now in Europe, Sir Garnet Wolseley said, in response ta a special invitation to attend the military en campment, that he would be pleased to revisit the United States, of whose citizens he had many pleasant memories. Ex-Gov. Shepherd was thrown against a rock while in Mexico and stunned. He became de lirious for a time and his bead was terribly swollen from the erysipelas. He says they tell this story on him: “When I was at my worst I was very desirous of seeing myself in a mirror. I wanted to see if that head looked as it felt. The doctor wouldn't let me do it, but one day, while the attendant was not attending, I stepped across the room to a looking-glass. This was when one side of my head was bigger t han the other. One eye was bulged out aud the other looked sunken from contrast. They said that I stood intently gazing at my reflec tion a moment and then exclaimed, ‘Hello, Ben Butler, what in the devil are you doing way down here?’ ” A Police Justice in the city of New York is an officer of serious responsibilities. This year Police Justice Duffy, who lias served thirteen years, passed sentence in more than 16,(XX) cases. He says that the most difficult of the duties of a police justice is to act according to the dictates of his conscience. By long train ing he thinks that he always knows when a prisoner is lying. A guilty prisoner's wisest course, he declares, is to say: “Judge, I am guilty. I throw' mvsclf on the mercy of the court.” In a case oi intoxication or disorderly conduct this course is likely to secure his dis charge if it is a first offense. “When a woman weeps lief ore me," declares Judge Duffy, “I re member that I had a mother, a sister and nieces and lam apt to let her go. When a man weeps 1 think the worse of him. I haven’t wept my self since I was 16 years of age.” Says the Manager of the Oregon Immigration Bureau: “I never knew immigration to Wash ington Territory and Oregon to be as heavy as at the present time. The Pacific coast boom be wail in California, and is extending north to the international line. The class of people who are taking up land in the north an* better than the average of past season**. They all have money; not fortunes, but ufflei ntto keep thin inde pendent of tiie farm ior two years or more. There are no pauper foreigners among them to make themselves a burden. Most of the people who go nortii engage In st^ckraising or dairy farming. Washington Territory is considered unapproachable as a dairy-farming country, and the government and railroad lands are being taken up rapidly. The completion of the Cali fornia and Oregon line will assist greatly in populating Northern California and Southern Oregon, and will institute a boom that will have no precedent.” An Eastern visitor says that a Pacific coast town is thus launched into existence. A real estate dealer secures an option to purchase a certain tract of land, has it surveyed and sub divided into lots, gives it a catching title like Atzuea, Roseerans. Providencia, Glendale, Mol rose, or San Juan-by-tho-Sea, and then proceeds to work the land craze. A large lot in the cen tre of the town is reserved for a SIO,OOO or a $20,000 hotel, circulars are distributed dwelling upon the salubrity of the climate, the adapta bility of the soil ■■■ raise every*''<ng under the sun thoexcollen eo the water, the insttrpossid scenery, etc. Tin.. an auction 5... is carefully worked up. and the Eastern gudgeon, having heard of tne wonderful advance in prices, and knowing of no reason why he .should not take advantage of a booming market, fairly scram bles for an opportunity to get in. The end of the sale finds the real estate agent ahead 310,000 or $20,000 on the transaction. Ton Rabbi of the principal synagogue in Ber lin recently testified as follows relative to "Kosher" (conforming to ritue.listic require ments! meat at a trial of a butcher charged with offering “unclean" meat to Jewish customer!: The Mosaic law requires that the Jew butcher lie a perron of good reputation nnd morals, ami. after undergoing an exnminnti. n by the Rabbi, should only exercise bis particular function on the strength of a certificate. One of the tests of bin fitness for the place consists in promptly resharpening Ins knife, which the Rabbi bas purposely blunted. During the act of butcher ing lie bus to any certain prayers; be must se” that the l lood falls upon ashes or [Halt, and. above all things, he must avoid being touched by anyone while In the act. this in itself render irig the si nightered animal unclean. lie is re quired to put bis seal upon the carcase, giving too date on which the animal is killed. So li ra. lit-- is nermltte l toe.it fn-.U which has been kiled more than three days lief ore.” Gi:n. UrcottoE A. Siikhioan, of Louisiana, s again in New York, where bis SSO pounds of avoirdupois hugs tiie sidewalks on a flvc-foot four-inoh frame while the General mops the per spiration from his big face and forehead. He has Ivon sweltering In Chicago for right week* in attendance on the sick lied of his (laughter who was taken ill while playing with Richard Manofleld in “Prince Karl. She Is now count lesoent. and tig. General expect / to bring I or soon to tiie scashoic. He has managed to get several shots at the public lately through his lecture on 'The Modern Pagan," and had an audience of l.tioo people in Chicago. He will go out next winter under the auspices of Kedpath's lecture bureau. The lecture is an arraignment of Col. Ingersoll on the religious issue In its earliest form the General mude the statement that Ingersoll hu.i backed out of a controversy with "Jerry' Iliad;. Col. 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