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It is estimated that the cotton crop this
year will lx> 7,500.000 bales, which means
that cotton is still king.
Every tenement house in Boston is vis
ited oneo a week by a health ofliccr. Other
cities might profit by the plan.
Phil Oanz, of Lyons, N. Y., will realize
SB,OOO when he sells his peppermint crop.
The julep is in high favor in his neighbor
hood.
The strike of 5,000 carpenters in Chicago
adds another to that city’s long list of
troubles. It would bo well for Chicago to
rub out and begin anew.
A man named Brigham, living at Na
varro, Tex., stands in a doorway, and his
two feet, placed heel to toe, till it from sill
to sill. He ought to utilize himself as a pile
driver. _
A man in New York is advertising for
100 white banjo players. Ho doubtless in
tends to paint th. m black and send them on
the road hr give bad imitations of negro
minstrelsy.
Buys the New York Times: “'Wall street
lambs are something t hut we don’t hear
much about tl ■se times.” Perhajis the rea
son is that Wall street wolves have devoured
sOi tho lauilis.
The McGlynn-Qeorge Anti Poverty So
ciety is not gaining ground outside of New
York city. The fact suggests that the
tranks of tho country are making Now
York their headquarters.
lowa has sixty-four of her old soldiers in
poorhousos. Georgia is kinder to her uu
pensioued soldiers. None of them are in
Doorhouse;, although th >y draw nothing
!rom tho United State- Treasury.
The Houston Post dom.: i!mt the num-
Dcr of counties in Texas tln'. '■ " give I’ro
tiibition majorities ut the ap. T.iuehing elec
tion will not reach llftcen. Tito Post is
evidently not a Prohibition organ.
At a labor mass mooting recently the
May< >r of Minneapolis, Minn., said: “I
have always favored all strikes.” The best
thing Minneapolis can do is to ri-1 itself of
its Mayor, utid get ono with a little more
lense. _____
In a northern city, tho other day, ono of
tho principals in a prize fight was maimed
for life and the other was seriously injured.
Tho prize fight is a kind of sport too brutal
for a civilized country. It ought! to bo sup
pressed.
A Western genius claims to have suc
ceeded in producing a fair article of illum
inating gas from potato bugs. There is
room for him in Georgia if ho wishes to
sstalilish works for tho manufacture of his
article. __
A Connecticut man has invented tho verb
••to tourizo.” He is doubtless kin to the
man who invented tho verb “to funeral
ize.” Tho perpetrators of such crimes
against the language ought to receive no
encouragement.
In Cincinnati lor the week ending July 83
there wore 887 deaths. For the same week
in 184 W the number was 111. Such an ap
palling immt)er of dentils is ample evidence
nf the terrible execution done by the sun
luring tho heated term.
Jacob Allen, of Frankfort, Ky., who is
forty years old, says that he lias never drank
a drop of anythin# but whisky since he war.
Sixteen. Jacob will doubtless burn well if
be should be so unfortunate us to go down
Instead of up when he dies.
Jay Gould's son Eddie is rapidly becom
ing a rich man. His deal in#* iu his father’s
securities have leon very profitable. There
is no telling what the wealth of Uie young
man will be if lie continues stus'eesful until
be reaches his father’s present art'".
Tho courts often bring queer peoplo to
light. A few ilays ago in Cincinnati, u
woman was asked in court why she had
thonged her religion. She replied that she
and changed it because, liein# so pa
fated from her husbpnd, sho wished to
avoid meeting liim in heaven. She ovi
iontly was under tho impression that the
Itilercnt kinds of religion separate people in
oeuven us effectually us they sometimes sep
arate them in this world.
Two “Bloody Shirt” Politicians.
Johu Sherman and Gov. Eoraker ought
to be happy. Sherman ((> reived the kind
of an indorM inert from the Republican
State Convention of Ohio yesterday that
ho had been seeking fo months, and Foru
ker was renominated for Governor. They
aro lxith “bloody shirt” politicians of the
most pronounced type, but, strange ns it
may seem, they are not warm and loving
friends. Sherman wants his party to
nominate hint for President, and Foraker
favors Illaine's nomination, because he
wants tho nomination for second place on
the national ticket.
The platform is a curious medley of prin
eiples, assertions and declarations. It is
apparently bavl upon Fnraker’s recent arti
cle in the Forum, in which he undertakes
to give reasons why the Republican party
should lx* restored to power in the adminis
tration of national affairs. One of its pur
poses is to catch votes, and another is to de
fine the issues- for tho national contest next
year. Its insincerity is so evident that
thinking people will regard it as furnishing
a very good reason why tho Republican
party should not bo restored to the control
of the government.
Of course it contains an attack upon the
South. It would tie impossible for Ohio
RcpuhJji<j|M | )ict9 frame a platform that didn’t
contain of that kind. They pre
teiulijj). .heKove that the Republican vote
in thpjßnutb is suppressed, and they howl
for n friv ballot and a fair count. They
present no facts, of course, that the ballot
is not as free and the count ns fair at the
as i,t, is at the North. They rely
wholly upon assert ions. They claim that
every Hack man is a Republican, and if he
doesn't come forward and vote the Repub
lican ticket, they boldly assert that he is in
timidated, bulldozed, and is prevented from
doing so. Was there ever anything so reck
loss in the way of assertion in the polities of
the country before? If this assertion were
supported by a reasonable number of black
voters there would be a little excuse for it.
In the absence of any such support, and, in
fact, of any support, it is rather remarkable
that the Republicans have the hardihood to
continue to make it.
John Sherman in his Springfield speech
boldly claimed that the South was solidly
Democratic because the Republican vote
was suppressed, and Gov. Foraker, in his
Forum article, claims the same thing.
Foraker attempts a little more than Sher
man did, because ho undertakes to liolster
up tho claim. And how? Why, by point
ing out that at the last Congressional elec
tion in Georgia only 2S,of>o votes were east
out of about 300,000. lie wants to know
why tho vote was not larger, and concludes
that it was not because it was suppressed.
Does Foraker think the readers of the Forum
lack common sense? Did tho votes cast
represent one-sixth of the Democratic votes?
Of course not. If any votes were suppressed
then it is apparent that a very largo per
centage of them was Democratic.
Asa matter of fact, however,
no votes were suppressed. White
and black verters, Democrats and Republi
cans, cast their ballots without let or hin
drance, apd all ballots cast were counted.
The smallness ot the voto wf-s du n to the
absence of opposition in all but three of the
districts, and in those three the interest was
not sufficient to bring out a largo vote.
The Republicans didn't vote throughout the
State, because they had no candidates, and
the Democrats generally remained away
from tho polls, because they folt that
their candidates were safe. All of
theso facts, however, Fornk -r carefully
suppresses. For a man who indulges in a
tirade against alleged suppression of the
ballot he shows himself to lie a conscienceless
suppressor of facts. However, there is some
satisfaction in knowing that though he may
succeed in obscuring the truth for awhile,
the people are certain to get hold of it even
tually. Demagogues may have a transient,
but not a permanent, success.
Dr. Westmoreland's Report.
The testimony is accumulating that tho
convicts in some of the camps nro inhu
manly treated. The report of Dr. West
more land, the penitentiary physician, re
specting the condition of the convicts ntthe
Bondurimt & Jopling camp is calculated to
create something of a sensation throughout
the State. It is not the purpose of the State
that convicts shall bo overworked, nor that
thdy shall lie furnished insufficient food, and
it is an outrage of tho worst sort for tho
lessees to inflict heavier punishment upon
them than are imposed by tho courts.
Ttio Legislature having begun this in
quiry into the management df tho convict
camps and tho treatment of tho convicts,
should make it very thorough. There
ought to l>e no favor shown to tho lessees.
Rome of them doubtless are men of influ
ence mid Mill try to kiep damaging disclos
ures from being made, but the legislature
will not do its duty unless it gets at tho
whole truth respecting tho abuses alleged to
lie practiced in the comps.
Lot some of tho convicts be called ns wit
nesses—tho most fearless among them—and
lot them be examined without permitting
them to hear each other’s stories. If their
statements, in tho main, agree there will be
some reason for believing thorn.
We do not lieliovo in dealing with the
lessors unjustly, hut we do believe in making
them live up to their contracts. Tho men
and women who wear prison stripes are
human beings, ami should be treated as
such. The greed of tho lessees should not
be permitted to bring the good name of
Georgia into disrepute with Chrirtian peo
ple every whore, or to cause a Georgian to
hear with shame the convict system of his
State discussed. There is a way to secure
humane treatment for the convicts. Let it
Ixj taken without hesitation whenever it is
necessary to do so.
The Host on Globe says: “AH the South
ern Governors will bent Atlanta to meet
the President, and the prediction is safe that
the Governor of North Carolina will not
have a chance to repeat his chestnut to the
Governor of South Carolina.” The f,/of il
ls right, and tho two Governors will lie nil
the better tiff for not being able to come in
closo contact with the cup that inebriates.
An exchange sai*: “In Savannah ewmo
of her citiams are tullting of getting up an
excursion to the North pole.” Tliit it a mis
take. Asa rule Savannah is dclightfidly
cool. When tho weather is warm, however,
at it was recently, tho people of Savannah
run down to Tybeo, which the now railroad
now makes only fifty minutes distant.
Barclay Peak, the New Jersey man who
in under sentence of death for the murder
of Katie Anderson, says that if he is hanged
he is sure of salvation. For tlie sake of his
soul, then, there ought to bo no delay. Ho,
and all other murderers who are “sure of
salvation,” should be given speedy opportu
nity to enjoy it.
THE MORN I?
Mr. Barnum and Cabinet Changes.
It looks as if Mr. Bajriutn, Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee, had
been trying to make a change or two in the
Cabinet without being requested to do so by
Mr. Cleveland. The London correspondent
of the World cabled a conversation to that
paper a day or two ago, which he had with
Gen. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, who is
at present in I/uidon. According to this
conversation, Mr. Barnum asked Gen. Col
lins, just before the latter left Boston,
whether he would accept the office of Secre
tary of War if it were offered to him, and
Mr. Collins replied as follows; “Mr. Bar
nuni, what led you to suppose that I hud an
appetite for second-hand food, or would
wear second-hand clothes ?’
A World representative called on Mr.
Barnum at his Connecticut home on last
Tuesday and asked him whether he had sug
gested to Gen. Collins the possibility of an
offer to him of the War Offlco. Mr. Bar
num declined to be interviewed or to make
any statement. The President’s private
secretary was asked about tbe matter, and
he said that if Mr. Barnum had offered the
War Oiliee to anyone he had done so with
out any authority from the President. He
also said that the President did not contem
plate making any change in that office.
Avery close friend of the President is re
ported to have said that Mr. Barnum has a
habit of distributing patronage in his own
mind and upon his own responsibility. If
Mr. Barnum is afflicted in that way he
ought to seek a remedy for his affection nt
once. Ha is in danger of getting himself
into trouble and of getting other people
into annoying situations. He is no doubt
a well-meaning man, and the President
would doubtless like to gratify him to the
extent of letting him believe that he is very
influential with the administration, but if
he lacks discretion and judgment the Presi
dent will have to perform the disagreeable
duty of showing him how little his influence
really is. The Boston people, however,
doubtless feel grateful to Mr. Barnum for
bringing out the fact that Gen. Collins’ ap
petite is not the kind which relishes second
hand victuals and that the General scorns
second-hand clothes.
Relative to the failure to invite negro sol
diers to the International Military Encamp
ment at Chicago, Gen. C. J. Bentley, the
General Manager, says: “Because it is de
sirable that perfect harmony should pre
vail, and that would not be the ease if col
ored companies were allowed to participate,
I made the order entirely on iny own judg
ment, and adhere to it because I did not,
and do not now, think it wise to bring un
congenial elements together. The occur
rences nt the military encampment last
May show that the admission of colored or
ganisations would cause bad fooling.” Gen.
Bentley is a bravo man, but if 110 isn’t
careful, Fairchild and Tuttle, and others of
that ilk, will have his scalp—that is, of
course, if Gen. Bentley happens to be a
Democrat. If ho is a Republican, they
will let him off.
Perhaps the most peculiar accident that
rover occurred took place on a farm near
Louisville, Kv., a few days ago. A Mr.
Simpson bought some dynamite to use in
blowing up stumps in his yard. He had u
lot of hogs roaming aliout the place. Near
the noon hour the members of his family,
who were at dinner, were startled by a very
loud report, and, hurrying to the window
to ascertain the cause, saw a cloud of dust
arise from the ground. An investigation
showed that two hogs and a horse hail lieen
blown to atoms. It seems that one of the
hogs swallowed a dynamite cartridge. A,
farm hand saw the horn l ki-dc the hog, and
the next instant the explosion followed. No
trace of the hog was left, and a hole several
feet dorp was made in the ground. The ex
plosion was heard several miles away.
In the lieighliorhooil of Austin, Tex., n
drought has prevailed for many woeks, and
the people are praying for rain. Sunday’s
issue of the Austin Statesman contained
the following: "Let to-day in all the
churches bo set aside as a day of prayer for
rain. Tho drought in this section is now
something terrible, and, unless relief inager
crous flood of rain soon conics, there will boa
failure of all growing crops, a id destitution
through all our neighboring counties. Let
petitions earnest anti constant to-day go up
to heaven for a baptism of life-giving rain.”
The sufferers in Texas have the sympathy
of the more favored paoplo of other
States.
The New York World is responsible for
the following: “Gilbert Ball is a prominent
negro politician of Philadelphia. He re
cently entered o restaurant at Atlantic City,
kept by a man much blacker than ho. Ball
ordered n sirloin steak. ‘You can't got it
hero,’said the dusky proprietor,‘we serve
only white people.’ Hall left the place in a
rage, sought a lawyer and will bring suit
against the proprietor.” The
Press has a lively correspondent nt Atlantic
City, but ns yet this ease of drawing the
color line has not received the Press’ atten
tion. Insincerity seems to bo tho Prvaa'
trump card.
Some time ago Fred Kayser, of McKees
port, Pa., sent tho Emperor of Ge rmany a
box of lino cigars. The other day lie re
ceived a letter of thanks from Prince Bis
marck anil also a small music box. The
tune tho box does not play is Gen. Bou
langer’s march.
Yung Wing, n Chinaman who lives in
Hartford, Conn., is again contemplating
matrimony. Ho lias been a widower several
years. His wife was an American lady.
Yung Wing would doubtless like an heiress
litis time in order to match Yan l’iion Loo,
his countryman.
John O’Day, First Vico President and
General Manager of the St. Louis und San
Francisco railroad, was divorced from his
wife the other day, all the proceedings
occupying just thirty minutes. He evi
dently believed in doing everything at rail
road speed.
In a broach of promise suit in Ohio tho
fair plaintiff showed 745 letters which she
had received during 120 days of love. If
all lovers correspond as frequently with
each other it is easy to understand why the
Post Oflice Department is so nearly self sus
taining. __
A traveling “doctor,” who is selling nos
trums to the iteople of Indiana, has his hills
read thus: “If not hung by a mob I -hall
reach this place about ." The |xs>ple of
Indiana would doubtless lie liettor off if the
“doctor" should be hung without delay.
A pious Baptist lady iu Ulchmoud, Va.,
htis rented hot* line lienie ami moved into
cheaper quarters, so that she may bo able
to give $l,OOO a year more to charity than
she otherwise could have done. “Pious” is
not out of place when uoulied to her.
G NEWS: FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1881.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Prof. Tyndall in Politics.
From the Few York Tribune (Rep.)
Prof. Tymlall takes very little philosophy with
him when lit* makes an excursion into English
politico. He loses his temper, is abusive and iu
:*uJt ing in referen t* to public men and brings
the scientific world into disrepute as deficient
in manners and good taste.
No Accounting For a Republican’s
Mouth.
From the Missouri Republican (Deni.)
The Democratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio served with distinction in the Union army.
It is safe to say. however, that John Sherman,
who never smelled of war until pe.ore was pro
claimed, will lx* denouncing the Ohio Democrats
as traitors and rebels one of these days. There
is no accounting for u Republican's mouth.
The Ohio Republican Convention’s
Pledge.
From the New York lleraUl (Tnd.)
Its pledge to the Sherman boom will some
what resemble the solemn promise of the bride
to love, honor and obey the gentleman who has
had the reckless audacity to ask for her hand.
She swears to ol#*v, but'with a very emphatic
mental reservation which in the ordinary North
American vernacular may be translated, “I*ll
be hanged if I will, though.”
Pressure of a Woman’s Hand.
From the New York World, (Dcm.)
It is said of Gen. Paine'* new cup-defender,
the Volunteer, that “so delicately jwised is the
beautiful sloop that a pressure no greater than
that of a woman's hand is enough to compel her
to yield to its influence.” There are compari
sons that do not compare. Tb‘* pressure of a
woman's hand is one of the most potential forces
in nature. It has turned the rudder of this old
world's progress more than once in its history.
BRIGHT BITS.
He—What a lovely complexion you have, Miss
Maud?
She -It 6cght to be lovely—lt cost $1 a box
Detroit Free Frets.
A i.rrrLE covin East Nashville heard bis sister
sny that Adam was the first man, and when he
was asked who the first woman was, replied
‘Adam's mother.”— Nashville American.
Well, I don't think much of their essays,”
commented, a much bustled young lady, as she
left a high school commencement, ‘but their
ilreesrs were quite as pretty as those seen on the
stage last year.” Wall Street News.
Bkg<hk—Give me a nick eh sir?
Pedestrian—Why. ain't you the fellow who
hAdatineord hanging on your breast saying
you were blind?
Beggar Kr yes, but I tried the faith cure last
night. Judge.
Wive (to husband who has just returned from
.a visit> So you intend to go back again some
time?
Husband—Yes.
Wife You must have felt perfectly nt home.
Husband— O no; I enjoyed myself very much.
—Arkansaw Traveler.
”1 don't believe in bullying,” said Pompano,
sternlv, ‘ but 1 do thinks that a man ought to be
master of hia own house. My wife, of course,
doesn't agree with me, but this suinmer I car
ried my point.”
‘‘Ah, indeed,” said Bagley. in interested tones.
“Have you the recij>e with you?”
“Yes. 1 sent her to the seashore for the sum
mer. ”—Phifadelphia Coll.
First Omaha llt-romr Say, Bill, here’s a
eminent citizen advertisin’ for a faithful wateh
dog.
Second Burglar—Well, I hate to part with my
dogagiu, but I guess I'll have to.
• Vv. .1, I'll take him around nu<J sell him to
lira. x*r sure he's faithful, are ye?”
“Kwry time. He'll be faithful to us every
time wc want to climb in the winders.”— Omaha
World.
“Oh, how was the game?” was the anxious cry
To a couple of men as they passed him by.
One turned and smiled as he said, ‘‘Oh. fine!
Twas as good as a glass of I he mellowest wine 1”
While the other sail, with a scowl and a sneer,
“The rottenest game I have seen this year!”
They passed along and the questioner said.
As his fat .sides shook aud his face grew red:
‘‘There arc many men of as many minds;
There are many bets of as many kinds;
But, though men and wagers disagree,
The mind and the purse are in sympathy.”
—Columbus News .
As Mr. Jones walked down the aisle,
< >n Sunday, lienming with a smaisle.
His heart was wholly free from gua'.sle.
What then could his culm spirit raisle?
In one hand was a shining t aisle;
His clothes were of the latest :>taisle.
And which the fame laid cost a pailse.
The people eyed Jones all the whaisle—
But mournful to tell,
lie stumbled and fell.
Ah, then would Jones have giutwed afaisle.
Or jumped headlong into the Naisle,
lbit he thought no thoughts that were vaisle,
Nor made a display of ms baisle—
He got up anil sat down.
Without a grin or a frown,
Yet wished he were distant a maisle.
—Cincinnati Times-Star.
“Tt\; a shame,” said a pallid-face veteran of
the late war, to a brother member of the Grand
Army the other day, “that while some men are
draw ing j comfortable pension my claim has
be •! disallowed.”
“What disability did you meniion as a reason
for governmental consideration?”
“A heart i rouble brought on by the exertion
of a long and desperat * charge.”
you tile a doctor's certificate proving
your iujury?”
“J did.”
“Well, what, reason was given for failing to
allow your claim?”
“Oh, they said had evidence that the
over exert ion was brought aliout by undue haste
in getting to the rear.”
“Ah! I see. You should have run in the op
posite direction,” returned his companion.—
Poston liudijet.
PERSONAL.
Parnell appears to be gaining reputation as
an after-dinner speaker.
The Marquis of Salisbury is a sleepy-looking
gonitis who is leonine when stirred up.
Jn'OE Hilton keeps twenty-six horses nt
Saratoga and yet he walks a great deal in fine
weather.
Gen. Boclanoer's daughter is about to he
roine a nun, and his enemies say it is a shrewd
device of his to curry favor with the Clericals.
The Boston Herald says the weak point of
F.tlgar Fawcett's eulogy of “Ouida,” in Lippin
t ori X is that lie gives her more exception and
apology than praise.
Ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll, of Maryland,
goes to New York for the summer. He has just
returned from Europe, where he says Mr.
Cleveland is "very favorably regarded."
M. Caro, the French philosophical lecturer,
wau exceedingly popular with a large class of
fashionable woineu iu Paris, who used to dock
to hear him expound Schopenhauer as they
would tosoe a sensational play. "Carolines"
they were called.
Jerome Havel, the great pontomlmlst, en
gaged liy the Kiralfvs to rewrite some of their
product ions to be played on t he American stage,
is not the Havel who attained such prominence
as the famous comedian in France. Ravel, the
Com shall, die and ten or twelve years ago.
Hi nry Row ike first eatttblinlied a bureau for
reading ncwspajters and making clippings from
them for statesmen, politicians, actors, news
paper men and tin* public generally. This ays
tern, which In* originated in London, lias been
successfully put iu practice in America.
Ex-Mavoh Carter Harrison has given $1,500
to the Michael ltcoso hospital, of Chicago, to lie
invested in the p Tj-'ttial funds of the institu
tion, in the muiie and In memory of his deceased
wife. Murgnirtta Stearns Harrison. In accept
ing the gift, (he directors determined also to
place Mrs Harrison's name on a memorial
tablet in the hospital.
A vi'W UAVs ago It ivas noised about Boston
thru Mrs. t Inr.i Erskine Clement Waters was
going to have mi addition made to her bouse,
containing a chapel in ivhieh Halm E. Moliini
Obatterji would conduct Buddhistic services.
Great was the sensation created thereby. But
now It is explained that Mrs. Waters intends
merely to enlarge h-r tUning-rootn, hospitality,
not Buddhism Ding her motive.
Tibs is W. S. Gilbert's latest pun: Oeorge H.
Brotipbttiu writes: rive Wttro going dowu the
silvery Thames from lllslttiu Abbey. A lady of
the party wart attracted by n showy little cot
tage, with a tlnv lawn sloping to the river.
‘lsn't that what they call a bijou residence. Mr.
Gilbert!' slut asked.' Gilbert looked a moment
with* his twinkling eye. ‘Y'es, madam, and
there's the It .Jew on the lawn and the b-Jewets
in the garden.' "
The st. Paul Glnhc speaks In this way of Col.
“Pat" Ponun; "Col. Peter Donan. journalist,
professional li *a i nm! a-v mitili-h'-l cosmopo
lite. is tudeisl a lucky fell uv But a few mouths
ago delving In Honduras mines and trailing
through Central American Jungles hundreds of
miles from a civilized nettfeoat: now the ac
credited chaperon an 1 beau extraordinary to a
bevy of beautiful and ocet mplislied young
ivonten, who fiy from the heated South to enjoy
the euoliur breezes of Miuuei::x”
X HANK JAMES.
How tl2o Women Flocli Around to
Euy Goods of Him in Dallas.
from the San fyancisco Examiner.
“The reformed bandit Frank James, late of
Missouri, is the latest and attraction it
Dallas.” This was remarked to an Examiner
reporter yesterday by Thomas Witherspoon, a
broad-shouldered Texan, at the Russ. “Frank
is the mildest-mannered man you ever saw.
You would think Lie was a preaolier to look at
him and listen to the soft cadences of his voice.
Rut you just ought to see how the women flock
about him to buy dry goods. It beats the world.
It*s Mr. James this and Mr. James that—a per
fect love of a man some of them call him.
I don't mean that all the women visit him at the
store and dote upon him, hut a big per cent, of
them do the morbidly curious ana mentality
off. Frank James docs not look like a shooter,
nor a bad man. He is of medium size only, very
quiet, and his black hair is lately beginning to be
well tinged with gray, as his moustache. He
lives in an unassuming way in Dallas, with bis
wife and two smalt boys. The boys are not
over 12 or H years old. The family seems a
very harpy one The store be works in is owned
by Worthington, Jones & Cos. Those ]*eople
got him away from the St Louis shoe store by
offering a bigger stipend. It is understood in
Dallas that he gets t-k*) a month. He ought to
have more, for in the past four months he has
just about doubled the firm's business. It was
a lucky stroke, their getting him. Frank James
is reported to be poor. People thought for a
long time he hod a big lot of wealth that he had
made in train and hank robberies and hold-ups
of one sort and another, that was buried, or at
least stored away somewhere, but if so it has
been kept secret. Nobody knows where it is.
Sometimes they have thought maybe Frank
James had glided incognito to various towns
like St. Paid, Omaha. Sin Francisco, or other
towns West and South, and bought property in
the names of his wife or sons. Dallas people
keen wondering all the time what has become
of tne swag. Of courge there is a percentage of
them, though, who say they don't believe he
has any money—that ho was more sinned
against than sinning.
BORING A SQUARE HOLE.
A Machine Which Will Do This to Be
Manufactured at Detroit.
from the Detroit yews.
Among the many manufacturing enterprises
seeking a permanent location in Detroit is that
which will engage in the making ol square hole
boring machines. An lowa genius devoted
fourteen of the host years of his life to solve
the problem of boring a square hoi#*, and finally
succeeded. His patents were disposed of toJ.
F. Curt ice, of Fort Wayne. Ind. A company
was organized at Wooster, 0.. and the last two
y ears have been devoir l t<> perfecting the ma
chine, which was at first cumbersome and some
what complicated. It is now simple and ad
mirably adapted to the purpose for which it is
intended. In the words of an admiring me
chanic. that old problem of squaring tl
has finally been solved.
The machine is on exhibition in the basement
of No. 00 Griswold street, and attracts a great
deal of attention. Carpenters, builders,
contractors r.nd capitalists are all in to see it
work, and all pronounce it an invention that
will meet with universal demand. It is simply
an oscillating head with chisel edges and pro
jecting lips, which cut out the corners in ad
vance of the chisel. The balance of the ma
chine is an almost exact counterpart of the
old-styled boring machine. Mr. Curtice’s pur
pose is to interest Detroit capital and establish
an immense factory’ here, which would he the
base of supplies for the United States and Can
ada. Its sale is assured upon its merits, and as
it cuts gains and tenets as well as mortices, the
demand is greater than can be met. It will
cut a two by four mortice in from four to five
minutes, and doing it with perfect accuracy,
that a carpenter cannot possibly* complete iu
less than half an hour. Everything points to
the moving of the factory to Detroit and a very
large increase of its capacity.
The Cowboy.
He came from the land of the setting sun,
This blazing star of the first degree;
A cowboy* bold, all ripe for fun.
The home of the tenderfoot to see.
His eyes were black and his hair was long;
The rim of his hat was soft and wide;
And his gorgeous pants were of buckskin strong;
With wonderful fringes down the side.
His mustang was kinky as ever y*ou saw;
To the martial jingling of lus spurs
The small boy* listened with breathless awe;
He was a terror to city curs.
A pistol was thrust through his leathern belt,
And a knife reposed iu his horseman’s boot,
Every inch a King be doubtless felt;
A Western hero, right on the shoot:
He ogled the ladies day by* day
As lie gracefully* ambled to take the air?
Oh. he was a daisy, this cowbov gay*;
One of the brave* who deserve the fair.
What sensitive maids, in his mind, were seen
Hopelessly pining for him in vain,
What scalps of swains, with jealousy green,
Adorned this conquering lord of the plain.
He welcomed the tanglefoot, hot and strong;
And terrible oaths this creature swore I
For n deadly conflict he seemed to long,
His thirst was excessive for human gore.
Till he stirred up a gentleman, mild and slim,
Who wielded daily a bloodless pen,
But ‘the sand” was there, all the same, in him;
And ho went for the braggart right there and
then.
He reached for that cowboy’s ringlets long.
And pulled him down from his wild mustang;
He wined the street with the buckskins strong*
While the spurs resounded with merry clang—
And he left him a wreck, did this man of might
With the broadcloth suit and a lmt of silk;
And the small boy scoffed at the buckless wight
As he limped to the lockup weak as milk.
No more with the cattle the cowboy dwells;
His pistol and knife in the pawn shop rest;
The mustang atipeurt vile pro;*#;;
He will gallop no more in the far Southwest.
And his master has studied his lesson well.
Let roughs and rowdies of this take note,
’Tis the swaggering cowards who boast and
swell.
And the man may be bravo in a broadcloth
coat.
John S. Adams.
A Remarkable Idiot.
A dispatch from IVovidence, R. 1., to the New
York World says: One of the most remarkable
instances of idiocy, or lunacy, to be witnessed
in any part of the world may be seen in an old
farmhouse in the town of Smithfield, about
seven miles from this city. Almou Smith, nearly
40 years of age, is fastened with strap and man
acle in a small room, and usually naked, and has
been kept in this situation for many* years. This
may seem incredible, but it is nevertheless a
fact, and, what may seem equally* incredible, is
that nothing better can 1m done with the man.
He liar, been an Idiot from birth, or at least from
infancy. He has no intelligence whatever, not
even tout of the lowest stage of the brute cren
tion. and does not even know Ins mother, who,
from babyhood up, has been his devoted attend
ant.
The mail is well formed, his bead is of the
round type and the brain apiiarently well de
veloped. He does not talk, hut utters shrieks
and cries nt intervals, and sometimes tears at
his head with his hands ns if suffering pain.
He is kept fastened to a staple in the Hour, not
from fear of his doing violence to any one, to
which he has never shown a di.sp>>iti>ii. hut
from apprehension that, in his utter helpless
ness, he might hurt himself. Hir, cries cmiinoiuc
times Ih heard for a quarter of a mile, hut as
the house stands at some distance from the
traveled highway the public are not disturiied.
The Stan* authorities investigated the case
some time ago and came to the conclusion that
the nmn was I setter olf w here he was than he
would be in a lunatic asylum. In the summer
tune he is .sometimes taken out and fastened to
atm for fresh air. 'Hie case is especially sin
gular for the reason that the unfortunate man’s
health is apparently excellent, npart from his
utter idiocy. He is the owner of a small prop
erty and is under the guardianship of a relative,
the family being tan* of tho oldest and most re
spectable in tho State.
Tho Latest Immigrants.
From the A>r York Keening Sun.
Among the queer people who laud at Castle
Garden are the Finns. Ethnologists sneak of
their language as allied to the Mongolian, and
there is a suggestion of the Mongol in the short,
squatty forum and rytmi faces of many of? ho
arrivals. others again are nft light, blue-eyed,
and fair bail'd *.-• the tnjoßvrvfc*x.
Mr Groulunder. who Is lifmvlf a Finn, and
has an office near the Battery, told the writer
that tie* Finns had oujy begun of luie year?; to
come over in anything like considerable num
bers. Those who immigrate are mostly from
the north of Finland, when* the peasantry find
it harder work to make a living than m the
southern section, if'* say < that the i duns wet
t**rfectly contented under Russian rule. They
were }H*rtn iff oil local self-government, and had
n comparatively cosy time of i* pilfileullv.
They usually >?<j to the Northwest on arriving iu
New York. Nearly every* Firm brings SM) or
SOO itito the country, which it may huve taken
him years to stive.
When taken with cramfui in the stomach, re
lief may lie found at ouoe by the use oi 1 Ted.
Blown s Jamaica 'Jirtrer.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tiir. equestrian statue of Washington, which
Prof. Sierncring i3 modelling in Berlin for the j
United States, is progressing rapidly. The
figure of Washington will lx- finished in a few
weeks, when the model will be sent lroiu Glad
enbeck’s foundry to Ham urg, whence it will l>e
shipped to Philadelphia.
R. G. Condon, of Friendship. Me., is now* at
Portland on board a novel craft which he has
built tor cruising along the coast and photo
graphing points of interest. A Maine de
scribes it a: a catamaran with two long narrow
hulls carrying a boat between them, which con
tains a roomy cabin. In this Mr. Condon is to
lit up a dark room for his photography, ile
built tho boat himself, doing ali except the iron
work and rigging.
A resident of Rocton, 111., was driving to the
creamery* the other day, when his team became
frightened and ran away. Tho horses were
rather high-strung animals, and were only ar
rested after they bad got tired and had covered
eight or ten miles. When the owner came up
to the place where the runaway*; had been
stopped, be was surprised to find that tho
cream i:i the wagon had been converted into a
prime quality of butter, that onlj* needed salt
ing and the finishing touches to make it ready
for the table or market.
A Chinese joss house or temple, on Chatham
stra t, New York, was burned a day or two ego
and totally destroyed. The furniture and a
rificial ornaments, which were only recently im
ported from Ilong Kong, the gorgeously deco
rated ioss, who was seated on a throne having
been burned with the temple, it is said the
more devout and superstitious Chinamen claim
that the joss hail suddenly got mad at the New
York Chinamen for their infidelity and depart
ed voluntarily. It is said a joss of American
manufacture will lx* installed in his place,
The jewels worn by the leaders of the Ameri
can colony* in London this season, a correspond
ent of the American Register (Paris) writes,
are the talk of society. At a recent “function.”
the well-known ludi(*a apparently vied-with each
other in their dazzling display. Each posed
under chandelier just where the light fell
with brilliant effect upon the revieres of dirt
diamonds and stars, crossrs, crescents and studs
of sapphires, emeralds and a!', the gems,of the
Orient; It was a veritable jewel competition
and fairly bewildered some of tho more mod
estly .adorned natives.
Mr. Quinn, agent of tho United States Ex
press Company* at Chenoa, 111., has a curiosity—
a freak of nature which he dug out of the
ground. It is a piece of the root of a cherry
tree,aboutßinches I>ng, and has several sprouts
extending out on ail Miles. On one of these
sprout •> there is a bowl of a gutta-percha pipe,
t'trough which the root has grown, going m at
the place where the stem goes on and coming
out of the top of the howl of the pipe. The
bowl of the ptpo was probably* lost by someone
and got buried in the ground, and tne roots of
the cherry tree grew through the bowl.
Little by little the government engineers are
evolving from tho “Potomac flats” what is to
lx* one of the largest and finest parks in the
world. According to the latest report on the
work by Col. Ha ins. the officer iu charge, 375
acres have now tx*c*n reclaimed. Abort hnh the
work is already done. When completed, the
park will be connected with the reservat ions,
beginning with the extensive grounds surround
ing the capitol, the botanic and gardens, the
Smithsonian grounds, the agricultural grounds,
the Monument park and White lot, the whole
forming a park of extraordinary size ami
beauty.
That merry little American, Marshall P. Wil
der, is having a good time in London as well as
Buffalo Bill. Marshall was in the lobby of the
House of Commons the other day talking with
some sporadic dukes and earls, when a certain
Irish member rushed out in a state of great ex
citement. “What?” asked Marshall, hiding
most of his face behind one of his largest
smiles, “what is the difference between me and
that many” And then taking it for granted
that every one would give it up he replied: “Ti e
difference is just this: he is a wild Iff. I\, and I
am an M. P. Wilder.” The noble cohort of lis
teners gave the regulation guffaw, and took
Marshall out to have something.
©n May 4 last Leroy Deaton, living uear
Enochville, Rowan county, N. C., was married
to an estimable young lady of the neighborhood,
and in a few days thereafter the couple paid a
visit to friends at Mooivsville. Iredell county.
On the night following the arrival at the place
some of the young friends of the couple sere
naded them after midnight. One of the sere
nading instruments was a drum, which was
thrust through an open window of the room in
which the couole were sleeping and beaten vio
lently. The shock was too great for Ihe nerv
ous system of the young wife, arid she was
thrown into spasms from fright. Every effort
has since been made to restore her to her usual
health, but she gradually grew worse until she
died.
The cunning of foxes has an illustration in
the practice of one which is said to have been
observed by all the men about a stable yard in
which he was kept in London. When fed, he
throws scraps of food as nearly uspossihle about
the spots to which the limits of his chain enables
him to reach, then retires his kennel, and does
not go to sleep, but sinks, in all appearances, in
slumber. The fowls presently come
pecking about, and some appetizing morsels lie
on the ground just, as it seems, out of tlicir
enemy's range. He is, asthey suppose from bis
looks, in a condition of slumber, and so, gaining
confidence, an incautious fowl is tempted. Then,
with a spring, out bounds Mr. Fox, there is a de
spairing cluck, and he returns to his kennel
with chicken for supper.
Mrs. Pierre Lohil lard is said to have discov
ered in a Newport store a set of antique Dutch
cut glass that proved to ba, one of the oddest
t hings. Some industrious Dutch workman must
have spent a year on each of the pieces. The
dishes were oblong in shape, with a silver how
fora handle. And he had bestowed the most
delicate mathematical work upon the sides,
edges and bottom of each. Exquisite little
r. . os, no larger than a pea. were cut on every
facet, and the crystal was like diamonds. Mrs
Lorillard pounced on them with the intuition of
appreciation. They were wrapped in a.square
of old Spanish embroidery and taken to im
prove the Laly's line collection, altogether the
most artistic bric-a-brac shown at Newport,
where old hits and pieces abound this season.
And there are no duplicates, either.
A kangaroo in the Philadelphia Zoo has de
serted its four-month-old baby and the little
long-legged specimen is being brought up on
the bottle. This is a state of affairs that has
never been known to exist before, in this coun
try, if, indeed, it has ever been heard of any
where. As is well known to scientists, the
female kangaroo takes the young one at its
birth and places it in the pouch which nalure
has provided for the purpose, carrying it there
and nourishing it until the young jumper is old
enough and strong enough to look out for itself.
P appears the mother kangaroo became fright
ened at something and suddenly threw out the
young one she hud been carrying. The little
one was not able to care tor itself, and the
keepers made several attempts to replace it iu
the mother's pouch. Each time, as soon as the
keepers withdrew, the mother threw it out.
M. Pasteur was of course deeply gratified at
the favorable report made on his system of anti
hydn tpnobio inoculation by the English scientific*
commission. Speaking on the subject to the
French Academy of Scieuce he said: 'T leave
aside tie passionate attacks which have been
made by persons who did not at tempt the least
exiieriment themselves, nor observe for them
selves the facts set forth ia my laboratory, nor
even exchange any words or ideas on the sub
ji-ct of tiio prophylactic against rallies with
Prof. Grande r or trie doctoi s who assisted him.
lint, deep as is mv sati faction as a Frenchman
at the coiiclu iiin of this report, I cannot help
experiencing n sentiment of great sorrow when
I remember that this high testimony. g|\en hva
committee of illustrious savant*, will not Ist
known by him who in the beginning of the ap
plication id' tile method upheld me by his advice
and his inlluoneo, and wlm lati roh when I was
absent and ill, knew so well ho * To defend Urn
interests of truth and justice—l nteau our dear
colleague Vulpiaa.”
A qt'EEU Story Is told In connection with the
recent death of Mrs. Potter of near Marlotte,
MieU., and the subsequent discovery of her re
mains. The old lady lived with her sou, six
miles from Murlette, and wandered from homo
about three months ago. Largo nutnlters ot
men scoured the woods for several days in
search of her, but without avail, and it was ij, -
elded a few days ago. as a last resort, totrv
what a clairvoyant could do. Tin* result has
furnished a theme of conversation for that part
of the country that will Inst for some time.
Mrs. George Smith, a clairvoyant, of sr (‘lull*
wua applied to. The lady stated that tin lost
woman s body would he found In the la
three fourths of a mile fro.it home: descri* c l
the locality exactly ami the condition of the
wood-leading to it: that the lost woman hat l
torn otr her clothing: that lew nude bo ly would
!• found by a largo log; that it 1 iv on its right
side; that Is'foru they reached it they would Hud
her show] and fnrthortn a tdioe, and that they
would find her stocking* on n polo near by. Tint
way deserllied led through a i V- l ei 1 swamp so
dense at: to l* almost bnpu.-ralde. The shawl,
the shoe, the *t "eking*. ant) the body were found
exactly us she said they would be, and the body
lav ou the right t>ido.
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