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4 C|fponungHfli)s Morninr News Building, Savannah, Ga SUNDAY. .11 Fe&istered at the Post Office in Savannah. ’"'The Moknino News is published ' very (lay in fbe veilr. and is served t> subscribers in the <'ity % by newsdealers and carriers, ou their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $1 <*) n month, $5 (X) for six mouths and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, I>v mail, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 GO; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO (X). Tho Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. Tim Morning News. Tri Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridavs, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, SI 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 (*>. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 Of) The Weekly News, by mail, one year. Si 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Hamit by postal oPder, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed 44 Working News. Savannah, (to." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Of Citizens Opposing Factors' Walk Transfer: For Organization of Trades Unions. Special Notices—As to Crew of Spanish Bark ObJulia; To Water Takers; Townsend on Top. Amusements. Testimonial Benefit to Mr. Lawrence llanley. Exceptional Reductions in Summer Goods.— Crohan & Dooner. Change ok Schedule.—Savannah and Tybeo Railroad. Regatta. —lsle of Hope Yacht Club. Educational.— Miss Maddnck, M. A. O'Brien. Fall Exhibit. —Savannah Floral and Art As sociation. Grand Reduction in Prices—Gustave Eck ■tein & Cos. Undertaker— John H. Fox. Doors. Sashes, Blinds. Etc.- Andrew Hanley. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted ; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Photography Ixist; Miscellaneous. Special Sale of Fans F. Gutman. Auction Sales— Central Railroad Stock, by I. D. Laßoche’s Sons; A Desirable Residence and Store, by C. H. Dorsett. A Bull’s Eve—Gray & O'Brien. Business Stand for Rent—A. P. Wright & Cos., Thomasville, Ga. The Morning- News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 35c. a week, $1 for a month or $3 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vanee. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them whilo away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will bo given to make t his summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Mr. Blaine's peculiar antics in Scotland suggest that he is getting ready to havo an other sunstroke. In Savannah Sundny is peculiarly a day of rest. It is fortunate that so many “breathing places - ’ are provided for the people close by. Ex-Mavor Grace, f New York, says of Dr. McGlvnn: “His brain is addled— addled -with vanity.” The ex-Mayor is not far from the truth. The convict is attracting inoro attention in Georgia, just now, than anybody else. Well, he should havo his rights, which in clude humane treatment. Soys Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jer sey: “It will lie impossible to defeat Gro ver Cleveland m the next campaign.” A great many people share Gen. Fisk's opin ion. The invitations to President < 'leveland to visit various e-itios invariably include Mrs. Cleveland. Her popularity is as great as his, nud the people will do honor to lKith alike. A remarkable illustration of the force of the imagination is found in the fact that Re publican newspapers profess to believe that tho color line exists nowhere except in the •South. _ A Labor party man says that his party will cast '.10,000 votes in the election next year in New York. Perhaps so, but most of them will he cast for tho Democratic candidates. When Canada seizes American fishermen and their vessels she knows that she is back ed by England. She also knows that this country is without a nnvjr. Altogether, Canada plays rather a safe game. Hon. Thomas E. Powell, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, is red headed. If ho is like other rod-heuded men 1 will wage a fiery campaign against the demagogue the Republicans lia ve nominated. Barber county, Kan,, is trying the ex periment with considerable success of raising cotton. If the West becomes a cot ton producing section it is likely that the king of plants will become more of a king than ever. It is said that during the hottest days of the heated term the one cool spot in this country was the Chicago jail. It is hard to believe that tbo place in which arc conllned Spies and bis associates could bo cool even in mid-winter. Senator Butt, of the General Assembly, ■ltfiuUl remember that it is never well to put oif for to-morrow what can lie done to-day. The Western and Atlantic railroad matter ought to bo settled by the present General Assembly. Delay may result in a 'greater snarl. Hon. Jefferson Davis having written a letter opposing prohibition the Houston, Tex., l’ust says that the anti prohibition ma jority in Texas will lx) 100,000. Tho I but may be right, but the indications as soon at this distance suggest u much closer vote. • A Western genius has patented a chair with a clock fastened in the back. It will doubtless In - in demand among parents, pro vided the clock has an alarm attachment which will warn the young men who visit their daughters that it is time to go home about 10 or 11 o'clock p. m. It lias been suggested that the country ought to have a grand naval review on Bept. 17, tho centennial anniversary of the constitution. Tho only trouble in tho way • that the country hus no navy, Porhn]is Buffalo Bill might induce (Jueeu Victoria to lwd Esgluirrs lor tho occasion. Prohibition in Georgia. Not a few of the loading Georgia Prohi bitionists are confident that every county in the State will havo adopted prohibition within the next two or three years. One hundred nnd fifteen counties havo adopted either prohibition or high license, and in all tho others of the KIT the prohibition senti ment is more or less strong. Every onro in a while the announcement is made that an other town or county has voted for prohi bition, nnd it would not bo at all surprising if within a comparatively short time tho whole State were captured by tho Prohi bitionists. When prohibition was adopted by At lanta there was a groat outcry against it in that city. It was said that real estate hail depreciated in many instances to an alarm ing extent, that the business of the town had been mined and that improvements of all sorts had been checked. Tho picture which the anti-Prohibitionists drew of At lanta’s futuro was a very gloomy one in deed. They insisted that the town was on the down grade, and created the impres sion that it would soon bo not much better than a deserted mining camp. A few days ago, in answer to inquiries from Chattanooga, many of the business men were asked what the effect of prohi tion bad been. Almost without a dissent ing voice they declared that it liad helped tho town wonderfully. Even those who had voted against prohibition willingly ad mitted that tho result had been very differ put from what they hnd expected, and that prohibition, instead of hurting, had helped business. Some of them even went so far as to say that they believed the city was far more prosperous than it would have been hnji prohibition been, defeated. There was one feature of the interviews with business men that was particularly noticeable. It was that which reiatud to collections from workingmen and their trade. It seems that since the adoption of prohibition tb<> labeling class has spent more money for the necessaries nnd com forts of life, and have paid their bills more promptly. A fair inference from this con dition of affairs Is that there are hioro hap py homes in Atlanta than there ever were before. In all the country districts where pro hibition prevails there is tin* greatest satis faction with it. Labor is far more reliable and crimes of violence arc much less fre quent. There are evidences of thrift and prosperity where there were only indications of neglect and poverty. The people seem to be happier and look to the future more hopefully. Tho reason is that their home life is more attractive, being free from the poverty and deeds of violence for which strong drink was responsible. No one will deny that the Prohibitionists have managed wisely in Georgia. They ha ve not forced prohibition upon communities by legislation which did not want it. They converted the people to it, and when it was adopted it had a solid foundation to rest upon—a foundation that promises to grow more solid with time. Wherever public sentiment is for prohibition there it will 1 e enforced, and its beneiioial results witnessed. If the Prohibitionists pursue the same wise courso in the future that they have in tho past it is probable that the prediction of leading Prohibitionists, that at no distant day every county in the State will have prohibition, will be realized. A Suggestion. The suggestion has been made and favor ably received by those who have had their attention called to it, that tlio county court house be offered to the government us a site for the public building. Tlio location is an excellent one for the post office and it is equally as good for the Federal Court. The lot is large enough and it’s situation offers opportunities for architectural display. The county, doubtless, could be induced to sell it at a very reasonable price. Anew county court house is greatly needed, and the pro ceeds of the sale of the site of the present court house would go a long way toward erecting u*nw county building. The county may hesitate about parting with the present court house site, unless it can got another equally us satisfactory. Thorn is another which it ought to have no trouble in getting. It is the old cemetery on South Broad street, that is now over grown with weeds and bushes. This ceme tery, in its present unsightly condition, is a blotch on the fair face of the city, and there is no doubt that nine-tenths of the people w-ould like to sett it improved. It could be made a very pretty spot, and tho county would undoubtedly make it so if it could get tho opportunity. If it cannot get control of the entire cemetery at once it ought to have no difficulty in getting control of enough of it for a court house site. It would doubtless be willing to keep the re mainder in good condition if a part were used for a county building. The ceme tery is the most eligible site for a court house probably in the city. It is near the jail and the barracks, aud the court house ought to he, for several reasons, near those buildings. Lot the County Commissioners consider this suggestion, and they may find a way for adopting it. Says the Mobile Hegister: “The Morning News seems ignorant of the fact that a man who takes wine with hisdinner is more temperate than the man who dot's not, and who drinks strong liquors during tho day aud night.” Tho Morning News is not ignorant of tho fact mentioned by the Kei/ister , nor is it ignorant of the fact that the man who drinks no intoxicating liquors is more temperate than the man who drinks wine with his dinner. Tho statement is made that, the Indian name "Chautauqua” means "easy death.” At the Chuutauquas that have been estab lished in various parts of the country lit tie else goes on but talk, and the general impression is that to bo talked to death is the hardest hondblc way of dying. Soine liody ought to hunt up another meaning for Chautauqua. A noted preacher says that lie can marry a couple in eighty seconds. Out West p.i>- ple have been divorced in thirty minutes, and it is probable that the time will bo still Wirt her reduced. Tho Western courts will not permit a preacher to join people quicker than they ran unjoin them. ... .X ■■ ----- 1- , The body which makes law s for llayti sits only three hours a day. In order tp expo dite legislation these hours are the hottest of tho twenty-four. Not even a negro will do much talking over proposed laws while tho mercury in the thermometer is climbing out of roach. In Brooklyn, the other day, a young man named Christopher met a pretty girl tunned Hattio Boylo on the street, ’j'liey took a drink together and then caught, a preacher and were marriid. Married life which be gins with a drink is not likely to be happy. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, and ULY 31, 1887. A Delayed Report. What has become of the report of the committee which was appointed at the regu lar session of tho Legislature to investigate the charges against Judge Fain, Hon. W. R. Han km and Mr. James ]’. Harrison in eon noction with the $90,000 donation to tho Marietta and North Georgia railroad, and to find out how that railroad managed to get the legislature to authorize the donation! Does tho committee intend to make a re port? If so it is about time that it was showing signs of such an intention. The legislature has been in session several weeks and there has been ample time to prepare the report. The people never did understand the rea sons which induced the Legislature to donate $90,000 of their money to the Mari etta and North Georgia railroad in the face of a constitutional prohibition, and they are very anxious to hear what this investigat ing committee has to say about it. They have a right to know all about the transac tion, as they are particularly interested, and the chances are that before it is finally dis posed of they will get the bottom facts of it. It can hardly be possible that the commit tee is waiting uhtil tho tail end of the ses sion to make its report? so as to prevent any discussion of it, or action upon it. It is making a grave mistake if that is its pur pose. If it is not ready to report, let it state why it Is not, and when it will lie ready. Let it appear tliat there are no roa sons for delay which the public shouldn’t know. Perhaps the effort which the Marietta anil North Georgia railroad is making to get a charter from Marietta to Atlanta has some thing to do with the delay of tho report. We do not know that it has, but in hunting for reasons tills is the only one that presents itself. The chances are that the road will not get the charter in question, because the legislature is not likely to do anything that will cause a depreciation in the value of the State’s property. The investigating committee, therefore, need not hold back its report from any fear of damaging the road’s ciiances of getting the charter. The House has already twice re fused to grant the charter, and, if the com mittee waits for another refusal, it won’t stand much qhanee of getting in its report at all. If the report isn’t ready let the committee get it ready at once. It might boa good idea for some member of the Legislature to make an inquiry about it for the purpose of finding out what is be ing done with regard to it, and when it will probably be presented. Tbo interest in it is too great for it to remain in the hands of the committee much longer. The Story of Anna. A correspondent gives the Boston Gtohr an account of n wonderful achievement by a young woman who is partially blind. Her surname is suppressed, hut for the purposes of this article it will suffice to call her Anna. She was born of parents in liumblo cir cumstances. When hi']' mother died her father failed to supp >rt her, ami sho was placed in an alms-house. With the exception of a short period, she was in St. John’s Hospital at Lowell, Mass., from May, 1870, until 1880. In 1880 sho was admitted to the Perkins Institution for the Blind, when a surgical operation improved her sight. Afterward she was educated after the man ner of the famous school of which sho was n pupil. In the summer of 1 885 a Southern gentle man visited the Perkins Institution in search of a teacher for his daughter, who was born blind, deaf and dumb. lie employed Anna She proceeded to lit herself for her difficult task upon the plan used in the education of Laura Bridgeman. After being introduced to her work in her Southern home, she ac complished her task in six months. The correspondent fails to state definitely what sho did for the young Southern girl, but leaves the impression that she accomplished even tnoro than was done for Laura. Bridge man. The story of Anna and her pupil teaches an important lesson to people possessed of all their faculties and yet who do not use their talents as they should. If a young woman, partially blind, can make a second I<aura Bridgeman of a girl born blind, deaf and dumb, there is no excuse for failure to make the best use of their talents upon the part of other p<>op!e. The young, especially, may profit by the story. Patience and per severance will accomplish astonishing re sults, and with their aid nothing that is within the reach of human attainment is impossible to those whoso faculties are un impaired. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herahl says that Mr. Kuki, the Japanese Minister, and Public Printer Ben edict have had several conferences of late regarding the employment of some of the government printing force by the Japanese Emjieror. The Emperor has decided to es tablish a government printing office at Tokio. He is anxious that the nucleus of the force shall bo composed of Americans. Minister Kuki lias submitted a projxwition to twenty compositors, bookbinders, stereo typers and pressmen in Mr. Benedict’s office to proceed to Japan under a five years’ con tract with the government. Each of those persons is to receive $2,<XK> a year, and ex penses to and from the empire. At Saranac, Mich., the other day, Julian F. Mills was arrested on the charge of drunkenness and fined. lie was engaged to he married and the lady interested declared the engagement off when she heard her lover hud iieou arrested. Mills declared the arrest unjust and has sued the town for B:.\),(KX), alleging that the arrest alienated his sweetheart's affections. Perhaps there never was a ease like this. It suggests that ik might he well for police officers to inquire, before arresting a man, v bother or not lie is engaged. Tlie National Woman's Ruffrago Associa tion is circulating slips in Ohio for the sig natures of women who wish to exorcise the elective franchise and of men who lieliovo in their doing so. The association would do well to confine its attention exclusively to the women. The men will be more willing I to grant the suffrage to woman when they are satisfied that she really wants it. Prince Devamongse, Minister of Affairs of Siam, who is visiting this country, travels in royal style. He is attended by a suite of ten persons, not including servants, and has an unlimited amount of money. It is not likely that the color line will lie drawn on him in fastidious Northern circles. A member of the Calumet Club in New York lias invented a soothing mixture which he calls "Sabbath Calm.” It Is made of brandy, eggs and coffee. Jf a man drink.-, enough Of it lie is likely to sleep oft its sooth ing offocls in the police barracks. CURRENT COMMENT. But They Will Not be Carried Out. /'Yoni the Netc York World (Dem.) John Sherman's Republican Convention in Ohio demands the wholesale pensioning of soldiers and soldiers' widows. There will be no Treasury surplus when John's ideas are carried out. How Thoy Do Hang On! From the Bouton Globe (Dem.) Mercy on us, how these over-fed spoilsmen of the Republican party do hang on to the public teat! They have not given up a thing to the Democracy, from the Presidency to the smallest poundkeeper, without a whimper and a whine. Some people use,l to think that offleeholding was part of a Republican's religion, but now no one doubts tliat it was simple, gnawing hun ger. Republican Dark Horses. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) There is a good deal of anxious looking around for possible dark horse to make the run ning for the Presidency on the Republican side. The name of Robert T. Lincoln is sometimes mentioned, but timorously. The name would count for something, but there is nothing note worthy behind it, Mr. Lincoln is an amiable, common-place gentleman, with no smack of his father's natural force and capabilities. He might do for the Vice-Presidency. Running the Other Way. From the Galveston News (Dem.) One of the most interesting features of the political situation is the apparent enthusiasm with which Democratic politicians wholessthan a year ago were abusing President Cleveland in most emphatic language are now praising him. There is nothing that can cause the average poli tician to revise his opinions so completely, and wit h sue'i a degree of promptness as to ascer tain that the popular current Is running the other way, and that he is about to get lodged against the shore by an eddy. BRIGHT BITS. “You musn’t call me a salesperson," said a pretty shop girl, bridling, to a rather elderly co worker. “Then you shouldn't have told Mr. Crash that it was very appropriate putting me at the rem nant counter,” was the indignant reply .—Life. “Ah! I beg pardon, but your name is Gray?" he said as he met a man coming out of the post office. “No, sir—no, sir—my name is not Gray." “Oh—oh it isn't, eh! Then I beg your par don for begging your pardon,"— Detroit Free Press. Irate Customer—Won't trust me for a pound of butter ? Won't trust me, eh ? I'll—l'll Big Guoeer—See here, if you want to fight about it, just off with your coat. “Oh, well, when it comes to that, a fight in this store wouldn’t he an even thing, you know.” "Oh, it wouldn’t ?” “Mo, you’ve got your butter to back you.”— Omaha World. The sunstroke falls on city walls And men are petulant and beery; Ttie long light shakes across the lakes And makes the people hot and weary. (•low. pavements, glow, and let men's comfort mizzle, And answer, sunshtue, answer, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. —Chicago News. “Tell me,” he whispered, with the hoarse ness of emotion, whispered if he feared the mur muring surf might catch the question and bear it to somo other ears. “Tell me, have you ever lQved?" She trembled. She hesitated for a moment, and he thought he felt let blushes glow into his eyes. She trembled, and in a still, soft whisper, gentle as the summer breeze, answered: “Not this summer."— San Francisco Chron icle. She I saw a funny thing in the paper. It says that somewhere out West the weather is so hot that a farmer who went out into his corn-field found that all the corn had popped. It must be awfully nice to have such weather. He—Why, what are you talking about? Think how you'd suffer! She Yes, I might suffer. But then, perhaps, other things besides the corn might pop. He popped.— Boston Transcript. Mu. Blaine— By the way. Hi ’ad a glorious time hattending the Frincc of Wales' recep Reporter—Eh! what? Did you go to the I'rince's reception? "Why, you don't misplace jour haitehes—l mean aitches—at all. Are you an H'American - I mean American?” “Yes, sir, 1 am an American newspaper cor respondent. You didn't attend the Prince’s reception, did you?” “No, begorry! Oi hnd a pravious ingagement to attind an Oirish wake, an’Oi wint there, av coorse.’’— Omaha World. Philanthropist—My dear little children, you should not play in these dirty alleys. Don't you like the public parks ? Chilli—Oh, yes, Ihey are beautiful. "Yes, indeed, and you should go to them as often as possible, breathe the fresh air and learn to love the beauties of nature." "Yes sir.” “Remember, my dear little ones, that God made the country, but man made the town. Now, my good little girl, 101 l me what you first observe when you visit those delightful homes of nature ?" “Keep off the grass."— Omaha World, “Sary’ ” said a Dakota man to his wife, “did you take them ten bitches of wheat I brought in an' put ’em all together an' mix the roots all up, an’ plaster some mud ou 'em in good shape ?" “Yes, I fixed ’em.” "Put the bunch in the wagon, an’ I II take it to town an' give it to the ed’tor an' tell him it all grew from one seed. And then he will sat in liis paper that, he 'was on Wednesday showed a stool of wheat by farmer Doozen’bcrry, in which there went over 400 stalks an' heads. This remark'hle product is all from one grain of seed. Dakota agin the world! Next '."—Dakota Belt. PERSONAL. Anew hotel to bo erected at Baltimore by Roliert Garrett will be seven stories high and cost $500,000. lx the new Congress will lie two veterans of the Mexican war Mr. Rice, of Minnesota, and Mr. I lure, of Texas. Ri.so Wise, proprietor of a Chinese laundry in New London, Conn., was recently baptized in a Congregational church. Justice Guay, of the United States Supreme Court, is about to build a house at Washington, and the gossips are certain he is going to bo married. McGarioi.r. the missing Chicago boodler, is a man about 5 feet 11 inches in height and of slim build, llis complexion is dark and he has very little hair on Ids head. Crown Prince Redoeph, of Austria, during three bunting days at Berczenoze recently, shot with his owa giiii forty-seven roebucks, a feat unpa-ci-dented in the annals of European sport Ex-Senator McDonald is for Cleveland for a second term because he "has inode a good record, is a thoroughly conscientious man ami lias not done a single thing to curry favor with the public.” Ernesto Rossi has recently published the first volume of his memoirs. “Forty Years of an Artistic Life." in which the beginnings of his artistic career aud his first journeys to foreign lands tiro described. Wst. Hearst. son of the Senator, is described ns a tall, lair link ed young man. qui-'t and self possessed. He has taken charge of the Ran Francisco /Crumbier in earnest and is said to work harder than any other man In the estab lishment. Richard T. Booth, the temperance advocate, has returned to Boston from a seven years' tour around the world. In the course of his labors he has induct'd more than a million persons to sign th" pledge He is about to set out for another foreign campaign. Gen WoLsui.rv holds the post of Adjutant General of ill" British army on ail annual salary of r ih. '-r To Field Marsha! von Mull In*, who p-iTorms Lie same duties in the German army, only ?M.nod is paid, and the Adjutant General iif the French army only gets $4,000. Muss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade Hampton's daughter, has a hobby. It is the healthy one of p-Jest rianlsm While the General was away on Lis last fortnight's Northern tsiur. Miss Hampton walked from Iter home to Charleston, a distance of 145 miles, making a record of twenty-five milesln sate day. Tra Bp Ban Cpßin. a Chinese graduate of Yale in t he clasts of '7H. recently visited Saratoga. Hetsa Hong Koucteamerchant.hAkalsout 45,000 acres of tea under cultivation ami employs 4,000 coolies, lie is of medium height nn<L has • lisp-used with his queue In conversation he is most interesting, speaking perfect English He remained but a short time at Rnrntogn and is now on his way to Hong Kong. Mr. and Mrs. William Lattis. of New York, an-making sonset hing of a sensation at Sura toga. Mr. laytln is Hie owner of a fleet of Fast River ferryboats, and a very rich man. tin IPs arrival at tin- Uniiui Union Hotel, Snratogu. lie Upp -sl tin- beast waiter with a $fl(l i.pl, according to rumor, anil Is therefore well served sit his meals. Mrs iaytiu has 000 costumes with her. Sescuty-fivo of these are for out-of-door wear, uni ii.s.e hats, uurusvL and fuue to match. A LUCKY VERMONTER. How a Jeweler Cleared $150,000 by Hie Knowledge of Geology. Drattleboro Letter to Sprt u afield Republican. The wife of one of Brattleboro's well-known business men has recently received a letter from the family of her nephew residing in Vergennes, with interesting details concerning the discovery of a rich vein of granite just across Lake Cham plain from Vergennes and the organization of a stock company of capitalists for the purpose of developing the quarry. The Bnittleboro party is more particularly interested in the fact that the nephew, through this discovery of the vein, comes into possession of a large fortune. The story told by the relative is interesting. Howard Burt, it seems, was for sev eral years a jeweler in Vergennes and, although he was economical and indus trious, his little business hardly afforded more than a comfort able living for himself and family. Gradually he became deeply interested in the subject of geology, to the study of which lie gave much of his leisure time: and finally it re sulted in his being recognized as one of the most scientific geologists in that section of the State. He was daily investigating the different strata comprising thf earth's crust, and he was par ticularly fond of gathering specimens of min erals and fossils. One day he crossed the lake, and in rambling about came upon a vein of granite which subsequently proved to In? of great value and utility, He confided the fact of bis discovery to a leading Vergennes physician, who became interested and was finally offered an interest with the understanding that he was to furnish the capital for developing the quar ry, which he did. The buildings and derricks were erected and t he work of quarrying was in time lx'gun, but, the capital being limited, im mediate results were not encouraging, and the work was, after the lapse of some time, dis continued. though as it lias since turned out the quality of the stock was such as to insure a large demand. Mr. Burt, fully imbued with the idea that the quarry was rich, and satisfied that ultimately it would be profitably worked, de cided to remain on the ground, title to which he had in some manner secured, arid thus hold it from trespassers.' And now comes the interest ing part of the story, which proves the wislom ot his course and snows how he was amply re warded for his patience. His faith in his dis covery and his determination to hold on has been heroically maintained through a period fraught with frequent discouragements. A syndicate with ample capital comes for ward at last and takes possession of the quarry, which turns out to be of groat value, and the aged geologist and dis coverer Is paid $1.10,000 and still retains a profit able interest in the company. The little town of Westport gets quite an impetus in conse quence of the discovery, while the pecuniary oiroumstaiif* s of one who has experienced the hardships of life are most pleasantly trans formed. People acquainted with the circum stances tell of the discovery by this same Burt of a fossil in the shape of a large serpent, which the geologist has partly unearthed from the rooks in the vicinity of the quarries. He has already got out about eight feat of the monster, the largest part <*.' which is some five inches in diameter. Beginning with the tail, every joint is said to be perfect in detail, as are the fine petrified scales, while the cavity which held the intestines is a perfectly smooth surface. Burt continues to unearth the fossil as time permits, and he feels sure of obtaining the head, which he thinks, like the body, is encased in solid rock. Shmilingf Betty. Shmiling Betty, Shweet and pretty. Like dose budding flower, Haf completely Shamed me shweetly Mid her vitching power. so merry, Lips like cherry— Ach, dose eyes of azure! Sbeeks so rosy, Form as cozy. Fill mine heart mit pleasure. Of she only Knew how lonely Dot I vas mltout her, She not sbcold me, But would told me Nefer more to doubt her. Ha! she*s coming, Softly humming, Down der shtreet a-sailing. Guess I'll hold her, Und vill told her, Vat mine heart was ailing. “Shweetest Betty, You alretty Had mine heart gebroken; Von't you lof me— Only gif mo Youst von leedle token/” Yah, she like me!— Y oust vat shtrike me 1 haf not discover. Blizzard may be, Or a"baby Cyclone" blow me ofer. Hold. I bit it- Dot’s vat did it: Shon L. must haf dress hin Like a lady, Dot for Betty I tried to caress him. Any way, I Cannot say I, Find her more so pretty: After all, she Radher tall, she Freckled, too, alretty. Eyes of green und Figure loan und Shtyle shoost like a Quaker; Ugly mout\ I Y'oust found out: 1 Guest I potter shake her. Emilr Pickhardt (“Mentor.") He Wasn’t Built That Way. From the Detroit Free Press. There were half a dozen of us sitting around the depot at Verbe a. Ala., when an old darkey, evidently just in from the plantation after 'baccy or groceries. hove in sight. "Now, boys." said the Colonel as we all re. marked the old man. ‘ you keep still and I’ll scare that old nigger out of a year's growth,” With that he called to Sambo and the old man came up, doffed his hat and asked what was wanted. “I’m (Jen. D. Krastus Longfellow, and have been sent down her,' by the United States gov ernment to look up the marriage certificates of colored people. Have yougot yours with you?” “N-no, sau.” “What: Have no marriage certificate to show?" "Deed I haven't, salt" “Then, sir, lot me inform you that the penal ty is five years in State prison! Bid you lose your certificate?” “Reckon not, sail.” • “Never had one?” “Neither. ” “Great snakes! but it will go hard with you. Uncle Moses! I hate to tear you from your family and send you to prison for the rest of your days, hut duty must be obeyed. No certificate of marriage, never had one, and I don't suppose you can remember who married you?” “No. salt. I can't.” “F Pluritnu ITntim' Rut won’t you catch it! Where and when were you married:" “Nowhar, ear! Neither got mur'd 'tall. Alius dun bin what you white folks call an old bach —haw! haw! haw?” Watertown's First Boom. From the Pittsburg I‘ost. Rome five or six years ago. when Watertown link., was anew place, the business men raised $5OO with which to build a church. A meeting was called to talk over the plans. “You've got the $5OO, have you?” said Judge R. J Conklin, who was at that time Mayor of the city. “Got it right here." replied the chairman of the soliciting committee. “It strikes mo,” eontiuued the Mayor, “that it is a good deal of money Pi put into a church.” "Yes. that's so.” said another prominent citi zen. "I suppose we can do what we please with it." "That's It exactly." relumed Conklin, “and my idea is to put it hit > something of more per manent value to the city than A church.” "That's my opinion, t oo,” raid another lead ing citizen, "how would a school-house do?" “School-housereplied the Mayor, “what we want to nut that money Into Is something that will stand as a monuments to the lilierality and public spirit of the citizens of Watertown, and something, also, which will Is- useful and of lasting benefit to the place. I move that fAOil be used to lav out a fom mile race track that shall be the finest west of the Mississippi. If w e're boomers let iis boom!” They finally compromised on n mils track and offered wmat money was left as purses for the Fourth of July races. The Guileless Landlady. From the Deh-oit Free Press. “How much for tills melon?" she asked at the market yesterday, as She Indicated her choice. ' That melon, madams, is a green one." “But how much?" “You wouldn't want It at all. madaino, as it would disappoint you." "Hut Ido want It, sir, and here's a dime for it." ‘‘Ah, how dull I am to day to he sure!" sighed the man ns tie looked after her. "bho keeps a boarding houae, ul course.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. At Woodsville, Newaygo county. Mich., last week, a social black hear quietly walked past a lady who was picking berries. “They did not speak as the)' passed Dy." The “Pickwick Papers," Dickens' best literary work, owes its origin to tho publisher of a maga zine upon which he was doing job work deal ing him to write a serial story to fit some comic pictures which wore in the publisher’s pos session. There is a law in Washington Territory com pelling the teachers of public schools to teach physiology and hygiene, and if they do not teach the same they cannot draw school money; also, if the pupils will not study those studies they can be expelled from the school. Ray Mitciiell, a 7-year-old boy of Reno, Cal., recently stole $2:3 75 from a hotel till, and was sneaking out the back way when the hotel keep er started in pursuit. The boy ran, but finding his pursuer was gaining on him he threw the odd change on the street, and thus, delaying the pursuit, Ray escaped with the rest of the plun der. John 11. Arnold, of Ballston, N. Y\, has a cu riosity in the shape of a parrot. Some time ago it was noticed that the bird would try and fol low Mr. Arnold’s little girl when she said the Lord's prayer on retiring at night. The bird has kept on from night to night, until he can re peat the whole prayer. Some evenings he will repeat it several times. Six Scotch bailies came to present an address of congratulation to Queen Vietori.a. They ask ed wbat they had to do on entering the Queen’s presence, and ware told they should kiss hands. Thereupon bailie No. 1, as he solemnly stalked past the throne, raised his hand to his mouth and blew her majesty a lass. Tnc remaining five followed suit Queen had a fit of the heartiest had enjoyed for a loi g time. The Virginia City Enterprise says: “The Piutes now have a squatter's claim upon the site of the old opera house (burned in 1875 in the big fire) on the east side of D street. Men, women an l children squat there daily, hour after hour, engaged in the fascinating game of poker. Sometimes three or four games, with ten to twenty Indians in each circle, are to be seen in blast at the same time. Their games are for coins and for keeps.” Lou Scarheriiy, a Scotia (Neb.) butcher, ac companied by a peace-persuading bulldog, was invited, while meandering homeward Sunday night, to “throw up your bands.” Lou’s dukes went up and the dog went out into, the dark ness. A mighty struggle ensued. Bones cracked and wild yells were heard, in the midst of which Lou scampered off unharmed. The bulldog turned up a few hours afterward, loaded with scraps ot old clothes and masticated cuticle. Fred Irish is the 14-year-old son of Mart Irish, the village blacksmith of Deerfield, Mich. The other day he was loading a revolver, and, finding the cartridges too large, he look the chamber from the revolver and essayed to push them in with his teeth. The cartridges stood this, but when he proceeded to pound them in with a hammer they rebelled. The chamber of the revolver is a total loss, but Fred saved one of the balls, catching it in his leg, and he has it yet. The fish story of the season is told by the Perkiomen e respondent of the Reading Her aid, who describes an exhibition made by a resi dent of that place of two t rained catfish which were harnessed to a boat and drew rheir owner .through the water at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. “After the trip the novel team seemed none the worse, except that one of them was slightly blown and the other had ohe shoulder chafed by the harness.” The owner is reported to be coming to Philadelphia to exhibit his team on the Schuylkill. The Reno Journal says: “When Mr. Gibson took charge of the Pyramid agency he con cluded to give names to all the Indian children, and has named them after his friends or public men. The little folk are proud of their Ameri can names and like to near the history of the great men they are named after. Among the boys there is Mark Twain. Professor Young. Bill Gibson. Andy Jackson, Pete Dunn, John Logan, James G. Fair, J. P. Jones, John Gillig, Jim Blaine, Dr. Dawson, George Cassidy, Jeff Davis, and many others. The girls have an Emma Nevada, Adelini Patti, Clara Morris, Ella Ben der. I.a ura Holman, Maud Doane, Lilly Snyder, and others. An editor who has started a newspaper in Wuddy, Buford county. Dak., says: “At the present writing there are the following business houses here: One newspaper, 7 restaurants, 1 drug store, 4 lodging houses, 3 hardware stores, 2 general merchandise houses. 2 meat markets. 4 barber shops, <> livery stables, 8 bakeries, 2 harness makers, 4 music halls and 24 saloons and club rooms, besides various other industries overlooked in our enumeration.” A determina tion to make the paper of some use in elevating the moral and social tone of the place is evi dent from this paragraph from the same issue: A man must have a horrible disposition who can take .delight or pleasure in the brutal pas time of shooting at a woman.” A tablet has been placed in the chapel of St. Faith, Westminster Abbey in memory of Bishop Mcllvaine and of the shelter given there to his remains by Dean Stanley while on the way from Italy to Ohio. It bears the following inscrip tion: “In this chapel, during Easter week of 1873, by request of the Dean, Arthur Penryhu Stanley, rested the remains of the Right Rev. Charles Pettit Mcllvaine, 1). !>.. D.C.L. (Oxou.), LL.D. (Cam ), Bishop of Ohio, U. S. A., on their way from Florence, where he died, to their in terment in his own diocese. This tablet com memorates an honor paid a prelate widely re spected and deeply beloved, whose life and work helped to draw together England and America in one communion of faith and love,” Three Scottish miners, who spent an entire night diving for the body of a companion who had been swimming with the party and was not seen to emerge, were completely fagged out at daybreak, when, at the suggestion of a police sergeant who joined the trio, one of the men started otT to gently notify the "drowned" miner's wife of his fate. Shortly the messenger returned, almost, breathless, with the news that lie had found the missing man asleep on the hank near by, and that he was "no more drowned than we are." It was subsequently learned that he was "under the weather*' whoii he took the dip. had scrambled out of the water unobserved, climbed the bunk and lain down on the grass by the road, where he slept the night through. At Higgins Lake, Roscommon county, Mich,, Mrs. Charles H. Pettit and her little daughter, aged 3 years, were boating, when the little one, while gleefully capering about, sprang into the water. The mother, in her anxiety and frignt, then upset the boat, and as they were alone the chances were excellent for a double funeral. Indeed, such would have been the ease had not their horse, an intelligent French ponv. which had been turned loose to graze on the shore of the lake, come to their rescue. Alarmed hy the screams of the mother and by the commotion which the two made in the water the brave ani mal swam boldly out to them, and when they had taken a secure hold of its mane struggled back to shore, a tired but heroic pony. The animal was inclined to he balky and he never would null anything hut a light load, but, it will lie eolif weather when he isn't a prime favorite after this. "Tiik arrest of the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles and Ids son as spies at Buxarea, in Algeria, is the latest illustration of tbe spy fever in French territory," says the St. James Gazette. "Tile excuse for tile oftleiousncss of the gen durmes ill this ease is that the Bishop was at the time studying t! e lav of the country from a hill by the aid of a‘map. All remon strances, as usual in these cases, proved vain. The Bishop and his son were murchisl off un foot to Algiers and brought up tiefore an ofli cial. who was with some difficulty induced to set them at liberty cm parole Sir Lambert Playfair, lhe British Consol, at once laid a com plaint liefere tin- French Governor Generri and some days latm- official apologies were tme liered to the Bishop. The Consul his report "and the enre to Lord Salisbury, but nothing more Will, of course, be hoard of it. The sforv affords a warning to tourists thill even in Algeria they will do well to leave their maps at home.” 3 “The Governor of Heligoland Is not a man to stand nny nonsense,” says the st. James Gazette. “An attempt has lately been made to corrupt the morals of the islanders by the set ting up of a roulette bank; but the organizers of the scheme must feel now somewhat as the Artful Dodger predicted that his judges would feel bet ore be had done with them'. They w ere haled before the Governor’s court and inconti nently fined .Oi each; while,the owner, of the house in which the bank was held was fined LldO. All the found in the gaming- rooms was confiscated, and the enterprising croupiers and the rett of them were bauislesl from tnc island And even tha* was not all The inhabi tants and summer visitors were treated (like, wise by enter of the Gevernnri too tine bonfire to celebrate the event : t.„. f ue i consisting of the roulette boards, drakes, the cloth and cards und a chest in which tbev were secreted w hen they were not in use. The burning took place, very appropriately, opposite the house of the isiliis’ magistrate. Il ls unlikely that tbe seduc tive’click' will bn heard in Heligoland again during tlie urwui Governor's tenure of office,” | POWDER. Used by the United States Government. En. dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest auil most Healthful. 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