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The “wet” condition of affairs in North
and XJjddlo Georgia is bad, but it is uot in
toxicating.
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The Peabody Institute is having a very
successful meeting at Atluntu. The Jeotuis-s.
ttnd addresses are of a very high order of
merit.
When the members of the Legislature
contemplate the number of local bills which
olaim their attention they doubtless wonder
whether they will not have to eat their
Christmas dinner in Atlanta.
The artesian water was turned on just in
time. The Savannah river water, when the
coming flood reaches here, will contain so
much silt that it will Iki almost possible for
the children to make mini pies of it.
The members of l)r. McGlynu’s church,
St. Stephen’s, say that they will pursue “an
aggressive policy” in seeking his restoration'
to the priesthood. Too much aggression is
what hus caused all tho doctor's trouble.
The gubernatorial campaign in Kentucky
progresses favorably for the Democrats.
The Republicans have about given up the
fight. This is as it should be, for Kentucky
i too grout a State to bo dominated by Re
publicans.
If Mr. 11. M. Flagley curries out his ex
pressed pur|x*L> of spending SB,O 10,000 in
Florida in impre t uiu .. the amount which
he will annual y imy into the State Treasury
in the shape of taxes, wilt be quite u hand
Vane little fortune.
Those who observe closely will be puzzled
by tho fact that every tarnished woman
that does anything sensational nowadays Is
said to be of “tho bast society.” Either
“tlie best society” is grossly libeled or it
sadly needs reforming.
Representative Felton’s bill, providing a
fefomiatory institution for youthful con
victs, is a step in the right direction, but
unless he can show that the cost of it will
te much less than it is claimed, it will not
meet with much favor in tho Legislature-
In oil ports of this Ktato and Florida the
.'arniers were rejoicing a couple of weeks
ago over the prospect of bountiful crops.
, In some localities rejoicing lias boon turned
into mourning by the remarkably heavy
rains which have fallen within the past few
lays.
If tho people who live along the water
rourscs wish to prevent loss from high water
;hoy should plant trees on the banks of tho
streams. The remedy has proved ellloaeious
in some sections of tho ►ountry. l’lunt trees
nd cease to cut down tlioso that aro already
(rowing.
The reunion of tiie survivors of the Third
Beorgm regim-nt at Ratal.ton on Aug. 5
|md 1 will doubtless be a very enjoyable one.
The jxrople of Eutonton know how to enter
tain and make people enjoy themselves.
Tho reunion will bo under the auspices of
the “Brown Rifles.”
Joseph Smith, Jr., Rrc.idout of tho Mor
mon church at Lauioni, 111., will go to Salt
Lake City uud present his claims to the
Presidency of the Mormon church in Utah.
He will find that the church in Utah has bc
como too “advanced" to accept u nou-polyg
imist as its President.
There is nothing like- flgurcs to show the
development of the Mouth. Tennessee, for
instance, lias an area of 5,100 square miles of
ooal, which covers twenty-two counties.
During tbo past six yearn the output of coal
in that State hus gix>wn from 494,000 tons
to 1,100,000 tons, uu incrcaso of 100 per
rent.
The American Forestry Congress will
meet at Springfield Aug. it), and will con
tinue in session two days. In view of the
fact that it is the growing belief that trees,
particularly along streams, havo a ten
dency to prevent destructive floods the
congress ought to receive every possible
oneourwgciner.t.
It is su'd tho number of bottles that have
’■icon broken l.y the,3t. Louis people since
the Prcxidmit agreed to visit tlmt city would
stock'll Wine house. The Bt. Louis jsoop’e
shouldn't manifest their gratified ion by irn
bicinj too freely. If t’itydo bcadaehe may
keop uwny o? them i thulr bouses during
r-D rj .uidta-j v*f I
Science end Food e,nd Drink.
In some directions it is a question whether
science L aceomplif-hing more goixl than
harm. Nobody will deny that it has accom
plished a great deal of good. Considering
how much it has added to the conveniences
and comforts of life, it is difficult to under
stand how the people of primitive ages man
aged to live ns well as tl oy did. Put science
has also added much to the inconveniences
and discomforts of life. For instance, our
ancertors of 100 years ago were not driven
almost to the point of starvation by scien
tific revolutions regarding the injurious ef
fects of the food they ate and the liquids
they drank. They did not refuse to eat
bread made of flour for fear of plaster of
l aris adulterations, nor did they boil the
water and tho milk they drank. Neither
did they swallow a nauseous
drug after every meal in ordo” to counter
act the impurities of their food. At the
present, however, if science is to lie lie
licved, people risk their lives every time
they oat or drink, unless they first —or
afterward—take the precautions which sci
ence prescribes.
Perhajis tho alleged discoveries with ref
erence to the hurtful influence of certain ar
ticles of food and drink which have long
lieon in use arc the result of the multiplicity
of doctors. The doctors must live, and
every fresh discovery of the nature men
tioned increases their opportunities for
making visits and proscriptions.
Seriously, people are too much given to
taking medicine. In every household may
be found almost a sufficient quantity of
drugs to kill nr cure a regiment. It would
lie well for the present generation to throw
physic to tho dogs and re-urn to the ways of
the forefathers. Let the habits of life be
simple aigl regular, avoid intoxicants and
the hundreds of fancy drinks thnt are sold,
and eat food known to be healthful and
which is well cooked. Don’t turn uigbt
into day. and be careful not to work
eight tan hours oyt of tho twenty-four. If
this advice be followed there will lie fewer
dyspeptics, and the alleged discoveries of
science regarding food and drink will cease
to be terrifying.
Keep tho Quacks Out
It is related of an Irishman who wanted
to get rid of u decayed tooth that he filled
the hollow with gunpowder, touched a
lighted match to it, undthen raji around tbo
corner to get out of the way of the explo
sion. His plan was not worse than that of
which the negroes in a noigliiHiring town
have been made the victims. It seems that
a “doctor,” who claimod to extract teeth
without pain, operated among the negroes
of this town greatly to iiis profit. He used
a ding which really caused teeth to come
out without pain, and during three days and
nights he relieved scores of patients. On
tljo fourth day he decamped, notwithstand
ing the fact that many more patients were
eager to lrnvo his services. In tho course of
a b ook or ten days every negro that had
Permitted the “doctor” to puli a tooth was
‘in bed suffering agony from a disease that
resembled lockjaw. The “doctor’s” drug
was a poison, and its effect was excruciating
ly painful.
Every town in Georgia of any impor
tance is jaeriodionlly visited by some quack,
.-'•he either proposes to cure all diseases or to
mrp tor.',.chronic cases with which able pliy
cen kept, larger experience have been unable
lose for tbfijjng ” Unfortunately there ure
[arv is t h n °rnnt people to be imposed upon,
m* i tifsi quack generally reaps a golden har
vest. People forget, too, that a “euro-all”
why stays in a town but a few days is more
than likely to be a swindler, and it there
fore* frequently occurs that some who should
know better ure also imposed upon. The
latter clnss, perhaps, deserve to be swindled,
for they willfully place themselves in the
wny of losing money and of receiving
physical injury in spite of frequent warn
ings not to do so. The former class, how
ever.* should bo protected.
If the laws now in force are not sufficient
to prevent quacks from operating in Geor
gia, then others that will accomplish that
object should bo promptly enacted. Human
flesh is heir to enough ills and the number
should not lie increased by unscrupulous
persons whoso only object is to obtain
money. A tax upon quacks would not be
sufficient. What is needed is a law that
will keep them out of the State, or, if they
persist in coming into it, that will severely
punish them.
Tbo Finance Committee's Bills.
The Finance Committee, of which Repre
sentative Gordon, of this county, is chair
man, has worked very faithfully since tho
beginning of the adjourned session, and, ns
a result, has presented to the House bills
relating to the State’s financial affairs
which cannot fail to command the approval
of the Legislature. There is no abler mem
ber of the Legislature than Mr. Gordon,
and certainly no one better, if so well, fitted
to handle the State’s finances.
The State’s bonded indebtedness
amounts to $8,71)4,500. It falls due us fol
lows; $2,141,000, Jan. 1, 1880; $2,0118,000;
Oct. 1, 181X1; $307,500, July 1. 1802; $542,000,
July 1, 1800; $11,202,000, July 1, 1015. The
constitution requires that a sinking fund
shall lie provided for tho jiavuiont of tho
above amounts, and the Finance Committee
lias introduced bills for that purpose. There
is also $254,000 of fifty-year University
bonds for which the State is liable, but no
sinking fund is required for their payment
The Finance Committee has reported two
bills—one to raise SIOO,OOO in lssi, and the
same amount in 1888, U s n sinking fund,
to lie applied to tho payment of bonds
which become due in 1889—and the other
authorizing tlie issuance of bonds to raise
money to pay the lionds falling duo
in 18811 not liquidated l>y tho sinking fund.
Tho bill also provides for a permanent sink
ing fund of SIOO,OOO a year, and for apply
ing the proceeds of the tale of the Western
and Atlantic rood to tlie payment of tho
Htnte debt if the road is sold.
Tho bills are framed with groat care and
will doubtless accoiii)>lish tbo object for
which they arc intended.
The lower Savannah river planters ure
threatened with a very serious overflow.
Tho rank vegetation in tho swamps, how
ever, will chuck the (low of the water to
the river, and if they keep a sharp lookout
for the weak places in their banks they
H>av, to a very great extent, save themselves
from surious losses. Tho (arms immedi
ately below Augusta are already under
water. _
When Oscar J. Harvey, the forger of the
Treasury Department ,caine lief ore the court
for sentence, bis counsel interposed a plea
fur leniency, on the ground tlmt tho prisoner
bad a “morbid disposition to live beyond
his means.” As his sentence is twelve years
in tho penitentiary, it is evident that tho
e nfirt thought it necessary to put him w here
be would not b; uxv'jmsJ to tacit tatUA
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1887.
Why Wo May Celebrate.
The Boston Journal recently gave some
interesting reasons why the people of the
United States should celebrate the centen
nial of the adoption of the constitution. It
was on Sept. 17, 1787, that the convention
which framed tho constitution presented it
to the people for ratification. After con
siderable delay it was ratified, and what
Mr. Gladstone has pronounced “the most
wonderful work ever struck off at a given
time by tlie brain and purpose of man, ”
went into operation early in the year 178'.).
At that date, therefore,national development
began. In 1790 the population of the United
States was 0,929,314. It is now estimated
to bo over (il ,000,000. The development of
the country in population has been nothing
than wonderful. “In 1831 Great
Britain and Ireland contained 34,0(X>,0iX) of
people, and fifty years later 34,000,000.
During that period France increased from
33,000,000 to 37,000,000. During that half
century this republic bounded from 13,000,-
000 to 50,000,000. That is, in fifty years tlie
increase has been equal to the population of
France, and to-day more English-speaking
people live in tho republic than in all tho
world besides.”
In 1850 tho wealth of the United States
was but $8,430,000,000, wlple that of Great
Britain and Ireland was more than $22,500,-
000,000. In tho next thirty years Great
Britain's wealth was measured by $43,0Q0,-
000,000, while that of tjil) Vijited States
was $48,950,000,000. Mr. Chauncey M. De
pew, of New York, said not long ago that
the current estimate of the country’s wealth
was $00,000,000,000. The United States are
the greatest agricultural and the greatest
manufacturing country in the world. In
1880 tho value of manufactures was
$5,500,000,000, while that of Great Britain
and Ireland was $4,090,000,000. Not only
aro the people of this country the greatest
producers, but they are the greatest
consumers of the products of industry and
skill in the world. The total annual saving
of the people is $1,100,000,000—*280,000,000
more than that of the people of Great Bri
tain. Mr. Andrew Carnegie says: “The
50,000,(XXI Americans of 18H0 could have
bought up the 140,000,0<)0 of Russians, Aus
trians and Spaniards; or, after purchasing
wealthy France, would have had enough
pocket monoy to acquire Denmark, Nor
way, Switzerland and Greece.” They could
have bought Great Britain, Ireland and
Wales and still have had enough to pay off
the national debt of those countries. In
shipping tho United States rank next to
Great Britain. There are more miles of
railway in this country than in the whole
of Europe, and there are 700,000 miles of
telegraph.
In 1880 tho United States expended $82,-
500,(XX) for public schools, there lieing 177,-
100 of them at that date, not to mention
higher institutions. A foreign-born citizen
of tlie United States says: “The free com
mon school system of the land is probably,
after all, tho greatest single power in tho
unifying process which is producing the
new American race. Through the crucible
of good common English education, fur
nished free by the State, pass tho various
racial elements—children of Irishmen, Ger
mans, Italians, Si>ariish, Swedes, side by
side with tlie nativo American, all to lx;
fused into one language, in thought, in feel
ing, and in patriotism.”
No other nation in the world expends ns
much money for religious training, for
charities, anil for higher education.
“In 1880 only five persons in 1,003 were the
objects of public charity, while in Europe
the number was forty-one. ()ur jieople gen
erally are the most intelligent, the best fed,
clothed and housed in the world. What the
laboring classes here enjoy as every-day
necessaries of life those in other countries
regard as luxuries. While other nations
are expending millions annually to keop up
costly armaments, we have no standing
army. While our public debt is decreasing,
that of the leading nations of Europe is an
increasing burden.”
Much more might lx> added, but enough
lias been said to show that the people of the
United States have tho very best reasons
for celebrating tho centennial of tho adop
tion of tho constitution under which they
live.
The Galveston News makes tho following
argument against prohibition; “The Pro
hibitionists say that tlie people of Texas pay
$50,000,000 a year for liquors. This sum is
a dead loss to the people, and the peoplo
would lx; $50,000,000 a year richer if liquor
were prohibited. So far so good, but why
not save the jx-ople a round $100,000.000 a
year and at the same time rid the land of
dogs and hydrophobia 1 Texas doubtless
contains 2,5(H),(KM) dogs. These dogs con
sumo the substance of tho poor man, make
havoc among the sheep, howl and suck eggs.
They make night hideous, interrupt re
ligious devotions and torment the sick and
nervous. If the government must take
charge of tho jieople and control their pri
vate affairs, why not prohibit dogs?” If
the News will advocate a constitutional
amendment prohibiting dogs, it may sno
oped in having it adopted. Without whisky
and dogs Texas would have a boom com
jjarod to which tlie Ixioins of other States
would be mere boomlcts.
Mr George E. McNeill, a representative
member of tin* Knights of Labor of Bos
ton, lias published nn address to the Labor
party urging a cessation of violent mid
almsivo tactics and a settlement of differ
ences with employers by arbitration. Ho
wants Mr. Powderly to call a conference of
the opponouts cf his administration and dis
cuss v.lth them this question; “What can
Ik* done to restore harmony and advance the
interests of the order of Knights of La Lug”
Mr. McNeill is on tho right track, but it is
far from certain that his address will ac
complish the ob ject lie aims at.
Tho jieople of New York and Boston wore
much worried lately by tho statement of tho
weather bureau that the atmosphere was
full of “humidity.” They felt better, how
ever. when it was explained to them that
“humidity” merely meant damp and
muggy. The Weat her Bureau ought to lx*
careful about tho words it springs ujion tho
jxsiple of Boston and New York. There is
no tolling what may happen if their under
standings arc taxed too heavily.
A letter from Mrs. Blaine to a friend in
Augusta, Me., says that Mr. Blaine “several
timoe danced upon the green” at Bridge of
Earn, Scotland Some time next year Mr.
Blaine will daneo again, provided tho Re
publicans nominate him for President, lie
will dance in anger because of a second de
feat at tho hands of tho Democratic jiorty.
The statement is made that California's
raisin crop this year will lie 1,009,(XX) boxes,
and that the quulity will be the very best.
Georgia might probabjy produce raisin*. It
is said that both the soil and the cliuiuto of
•a* Giwt-j are sulsaoht fur their jioducUou.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Give Us a Rest.
From the Kern York Herald find.').
i When a red hot Republican opens bis month
to denounce the Democratic administration for
lieing honest and straightforward he does not
appreciate the value of the early closing move-
I meat, which is intended to give us a lest.
They are All Dead.
from the Missouri l.’enublican (Dem.)
Neither Blaine nor Sherman, nor Allison can
I Ih* elected President. Ex-Postmaster General
[ Hatton Ki*es this clearly and admits it. By
taking one stop after another in this direction,
he will finally arrive at th" great truth that the
j Republicans woo could lie elected ure ail dead.
Not for the Political Beaver.
from the New York World (Dem.)
John Sherman is an old-fashioned jiolitician.
He wants to be President. He has been a
standing candidate for fifteen years. Like the
man in the rural districts who seeks to be
Sheriff, he puts his "announcement” in the
iii'ivs)sifters and goes to work. He sets up the
primaries and takes charge of the conventions,
lie solicits votes and is ready to “swap.” But,
alas! the Presidency is not often conferred ujioa
the jxilitical beaver.
In the Last Ditch.
from the New York Graphic (Dem.)
Tho friends of a protective tariff in this
country seem to be in the last ditch. The com
mon sense of the people has repudiated the fal
lacies upon which their system is based; the ne
cessities of the, government no longer demand
the large revenue which justified the inquisition
of heavy duties on imports—the public demand
is now for relief from the burdens of war taxa
tion. The combat between the protectionists
and the revenue reformers has been fierce and
protracted, but little by little the cause of the
pcopluhas advanced, and its opponents have
lieen forced from what they deemed impreg
nable positions. Lately they heve boon driven
to resort to the most desperate tactics to pre
vent immediate defeat.
ERIGHT BITS.
It is the skirt of a lady’s ball dress that costs.
The corsage doesn’t come high.— Boston Cou
rier.
A Philadelphia school girl upon lieing asked
by the teacher to licline a hollow mockery,
promptly replied, "a bustle."— Philadelphia
Herald
Thin Old Man (cramped and cross)—Thi3 car
ought to charge liy weight.
Stout Woman (regarding him contemptuous
ly)—lt they did they’d never stop to pick you
up. —Texas Siftings.
Until once with a picnic jiarty we stumbled
over a wasp’* nest we had never fully grasped
all the outlying and circumjacent wisdom of the
okl saying that nothing runs like woman stung.
—Duluth Paragrapher.
“Swim* Not a hit, stranger, but I reckon if
ye’d tlrap me down in ther middle of this hyur
river. I'd reach lan I ’thout much difflkelty.”
“Why. how so?'’
“Waiil, I carcalate I'd go right to the bottom.”
—Harpers' Bazar.
"Well, iiqw. Mr. Jacobs.” said the doctor.
“I ll ask you whether you have any stiffness in
your arms or hot?"
"Waal, no. sab, not ticklar. 'eept ’tween my
shouldah an' elbow, an' my elbow an’ wris’ j’int
yer.”— Harper's Bazaar.
“Johnny," inquired his aunt, “what do you
like best of all?"
"Candy,” replied Johnny.
“And what after that?” inquired his aunt.
“More candy," rejilied Johnny, after a mo
ment’s deliberation. - Pittsburg Dispatch.
D l jileY, Jr —Say, jia. I just put tho thermom
eter out in tne sun and it run right up to 120 in a
little while.
Duml.v—Well, you just bring that thermome
ter back in the shade. I thought it was getting
terribly warm all of a sudden. —Detroit free
Press.
Omaha Mamma—You can't toast that cheese,
Dot; it's too old.
Little Dot—Well, it don’t know much if it is
old.
"Don’t know much?"
“No; just fts soon as it began to feel the fire it
jumps right into it.”— Onuiha World.
- Wom an (ju.bo' 4:store> -1 want a motto of some
kind to hang up in my parlor.
Clerk—Yes, madam, how does “God Bless
Our Home”strike you?"
Madam—old-fashioned, ain’t it ?
Clerk—lt is a trille old-fashioned. Well,
there’s "Thrice is he armed that hath his quar
rel just?’’— Life.
A colored gentleman apjilied to Col. Yerger,
of Austin, Tex., for employment. "Have you
any references from your former employers?”
asked Col. Yerger.
“Yes, I has, boas. I’se worked under all the
superintendents of the jienitentiary for de las’
tell years, anil dey jess worshiped me, boss.”—
Texas BiftDujs.
Proud Father—Welcome back to the old
farm, my boy. So you got through college all
right ?
Farmer's son—Yes, father.
Proud father—Ye know I told ye to study up
on chemistry and things so you’d know best
what to do with different kimls of land. What
do you think of that flat medder there, for in
stance?
Farmer's son—Cracky, what a place for a ball
game 1— Tid-bits.
The late Judge Aaron Goodrich had a sincere
contempt for all men who affected to lie what
they were not. lie never lost an opportunity to
puncture the thin veil of their pretensions,
Unix was discussing with him one day the exist
ence of a God. lie was an atheist, and re
marked with a sneer, “If Got! lets me alone I'll
never trouble him."
"My dear sir." snid the Judge, “I have always
hail the Arm belief thut you gentlemen never
hod the least cause for worry as to God's both
ering His head about you. He finished w ith you
when you were created. —St. Paul Pioneer Press.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Cleveland is having several new dresses
made by Worth for next season's social
gayeties.
Ben l)trri.Eit says he has fully recovered from
tbo elects of hi* fall, but his boom is still una
ble to move.
Jvdbe Cooley has gono to Ann Arbor, Mich.,
to cool off. The other Interstate Commission
ers will take u holiday soon.
Gen. Randolph B. Makcy, Gen. McClellan's
father-in-law, has promised to write for Outing
a series of articles on big gamo hunting in the
West.
Mrs. Frances Hodoson Burnett will send her
next story to a newspaper instead of a maga
zine, as sin* can get $19,000 against $7,500 paid
by u magazine for her last story.
Sylvanc . Conn wrote 108 serial stories for the
New York Ledger. They were all published
during bis lifetime, and we nets l have no fears
of a post mortem deluge from his jien.
The Cologne Gazette says that the German
Crown Priuce met ex-Empress Eugenie on
board the Queen's yacht at tho Bpithead re
view. I’ufoitmiately the Gazette la a notorious
libber
Payson Tucker, of Portland. Me., has offered
to give ilu* grin!to for the jsslcstal of the Long
fellow statin- in that city. Tin* stone will come
from the qiiary at North Conway, which is sunt
to furnish the most durable granite in New
England.
James Bowler, of Chicago, Lieutenant of
Police, Is making his first visit to bar.itoga. He
was in command of the policemen at the Hay
market riot on May 1, 1880. One of tho police
men fell dead Into Cowler'i; arms after the ex
plosion of the fatal bomb.
Cuahi.es Rav, one of the curator* of the
Smithsonian Institution, who recently filed In
Washington, was a curious Character, lie bail
no relatives in this country, and loaves Ills for
tune to a nephew In Germany. For fifty years
he lived the life of a miser. He slept and
cooked iu oue room ill tho Smithsonian build
ing.
In the Blainc Carueglo party at latest accounts
were Mr- Carnegie, Mr. and Urn Blaine anil
family, Sir. and Mrs. Courtlaud Palmer, of New
York; the Misses Palmer and Mr. Palmer, Mr.
hidings, of the Now York Tribune, and Mrs.
hiding', Mr. Alexander King, of New York, and
Lady Clark and Miss Lily Clark, wife and
daughter of the Lord lTovost ot' K.dhilmrgh.
(senator Eliiiu E. Jackson, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Maryland, is alxiut NO
years of age. lie Is happily married and has
live cbUdron. lie lives handsomely ly u line
bouse ut Salisbury, whore he disjieuses a truly
Southern hospitality. He Is a business umn of
ability and reputation, and I* president of two
national taluk* Ho was at one time l*pe*lilent
ot the Maryland Senate. He bus always been a
Democrat, und is will acquainted with the muds
of his State.
One if the liclles of Saratoga is Miss Bach,
the dauglither of a Wall street broker. A eor
n-eponrtent thus descrii oi her: "Miss Utu-h l a
stately brunette, with round face, large dark
eyes, and when she ujipears with her buir ar
ranged in a Grecian knot, as she usually does,
ooe call Imagine the graceful form and regular
and classic features of n Hellenic maiden as she
sweejis along tbe loiitc-eolnmmsl piazza of C n
i-rusA Hoik" Tin ugh tbit is not strictly am
uiaticu It to ec.Uuuly g-arluc.
Wliero tho Supremo Court Justices are
Summering.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Judges of the Supreme Court are now in
different parts of the country. Chief Justice
Waite is in Ohio. When he was attending the
Findlay gas well celebration, a pickpocket
placed a number of empty pocket-books in his
pocket, as if to defy justice Justice Blatcbford
is supposed to be at the watering-place where
he genoraliy makes Ills summer home. Justice
Matthews is in Ohio in attendance upon his sick
wife. Justice Miller went to the Northwest to
hold court, but Congress having failed to appro
priate the necessary funds for court expenses,
hi! was obliged to adjourn this court because
there was no money to pay clerks, marshals or
witnesses. The justice will not regret this en
forced vacation, which be is enjoying nt Block
Island, where lie generally s]ends the summer,
or at least so much of it as members of this
hard working court are allowed for rest. Jus
tice (/ray is in New England, but is compelled
to make occasional trips to Washington to
superintend the construction of the magnificent
house which lie is building, and which “every
body" thinks is too large for a bachelor. Jus
tice Harlan is attending court in Indiana and
Illinois, and makes occasional visits to Wash
ington, where his family still are. Justice
Field is in California.
Trousers Which Come High.
From the Washington Star.
Secretary latuav is now wearing trousers of a
rather peculiar color. One pair has a purplish
tinge and the other is blue. The Secretary re
gards them us great additions to his wardrobe
and calls the attention of his friends to the ex
cellenee of the material and the fact that they
are entirely made by hand. They are manufac
tured in Louisiana by people who raise their
own cotton, color and weave it into cloth, just
as the}- did many years ago. They never wear
out, and while the color might not suit some,
yet the fact that the cloth costs $7 50 per yard
ought to bo sufficient to make it at once fash
ionable. The Secretary without saying
anything about the price is in the habit of tail
ing bis friends that he can order them a suit of
this cloth, or a part of a suit. Asa rule they
sav that they would be very glad if he would
take the trouble to do so. Commissioner Black
was so enthusiastic over the stuff, as shown in
the shapely pants worn by the Secretary, that
be at once said that he must have a suit, and
while they were about it they might as well
order two suits for his children. The Secretary
suggested that, as the cloth cost $7 50 per yard,
some cash would lie acceptable; otherwise there
might lie some delay while the Secretary was
accumulating the money needed to pay for
t hreo suits. The Commissioner thought that, in
view of the price, the Secretary need not send
the order for the suits for the present.
Eats Poas With His Knife.
From London Society.
Lion hunters seom to have gone clean stark
raving mad over the burly ehanns of the Ameri
can circus man. Nothing is too good for him,
from the box seat at Charlie Beresford’s coach
to a seat at the supper table of uuy fad-monger
ing hostess who Is fortunate enough to work a
mutual advertisement by securing the buffalo
person's presence at dance or reception. Now.
against Buffalo Bill himself, we have not a word
to say. Asa showman he is a distinct success,
and the very fact of him getting himself
asked to London drawing-rooms proves
that he is not only a circus manager, hut an
“advance agent'’— that is the eorreet American
ism—of more than common enterprise. But it
does seem passing strange that ladies should go
out of their way to ask to their houses a man
who professes not only to have indulged freely
in the uncleanly outrage of skinning the heads
of his fallen foes, but to have treasured the
relics of such nasty surgery.
Apart from this. Bill is said to carry his firm
belief in the knife into the supper rooms of 1 1 is
new friends, giving preference to that imple
ment over his fork for the purpose of “trailing"
round his plate, and finally conveying to his
mouth the new peas and other luxuries with
which he is supplied, his manoeuvers being
watched with open-eyed admiration by the
other privileged guests. Scalps aud Buffalo
Bill reign in the very same rooms that a year or
two ago were the temples of the sunflower
and Oscar Wilde. After all, Buffalo Bill for
choice.
Blessings Brighten, Etc.
“When the wind is in the east
'Tis neither good for man nor beast;”
Thus thebe runs a runic rhyme
Writ in Mother Goose's time.
And the world as gospel truth
Takes this legend of their youth;
All their simple faith Is pinned
To this libel on the wind.
When it blows so sharp and chill
Then catarrhal curses fill
All the air, and dismal moans
Go up from rheumatic bones.
But in days of dust and drought,
When tho wind is in the south,
Writhing in the cruel clutch
Of the summer s torrid touch,
Fighting with tho fierce simoon,
Then you feel "twouid lie a boon
Just to sniff the very least
Bit of breath from out tho east.
When old Sol pours in hot shot.
Till you cannot find a spot
That is not as warm as—well,
What the parsons now call sheol,
Frying in your fat you cry,
“Gracious Providence, O why
Do we cooling breezes lack?
Send.O send, the east wind back!"
M. N. B.
He Knew the Law
From the New York Sun.
Ilomer A. Nelson, variously addressed as
Judge, Senator und plain Mister, has been little
seen in criminal courts for many years, except
for bis appearance for the defense in the Sharp
trial. A good many jieople do not know that he
was for eight years a Judge in a criminal court,
and for many other years a Senator at Albany,
and chairman of the .Tudiuiarv Committee,
which bandies nine-tenths of all the acts tinker
ing with the criminal law that are passed. One
such person was a young lawyer, who called to
expostulate with him over something that was
being done or not being done, in the Snurp trial.
The point under discussion was as to the legal
effect upon a jury of a Judge's order to bring
in a certain verdict. The discussion became
warm, and the young lawyer said:
"Now, Judge, the trouble with you is that
you're not posted on criminal law. You've liecu
devoting yourself toci.il law so long that you
have grown rusty in criminal practice. Wuut
you say would lie true, but that there's liven an
amendment to the Code that you don’t know
of."
And the young man patiently exploited to
Judge Nelson the language of the amendment
he referred to aiul Uie t/jdeni intent of the
Legislature in passing it. .'Ac Judge hoard him
through and then remarked, quizzically:
“Young men, you’re perfectly right about
that unu-udivient It lsAliere. jus: us you quote
it. I couldn’t say it any better myself. lint
when you come to the int uit of it, with all due
1-ecoliecMon ot tny rusting**, I tliiuk I'll have to
ins st on having a little knowledge about it. My
dear sir. I drew that aiutudinent mvself. f was
chairman of the conmifttCU that rejiorted it. and
I fought it through the Senate A mighty hard
time 1 hud of it, too. 1 may not know what it
was inteu 'ed to un an, hut 1. 1 don't, 1 don't be
lieve any one Alee does"
Tho Rich Widow's Smilo.
A rich widow here from Philadelphia lielongs
to one of the oldest families of the Quaker Oil v.
writes the lying lira: oh cori-esnoiiflenf of the
Philudclpidn ,Y- irs. St.e can. without ditlieultv,
trace her ancestors back to t he days of William
Penn. Sh" is a very oxclusire person a I suit
making now acquaintance*. Stopping at the
same hotel with I ills lady was the gambler and
hi* family, who. by the way. .ire very nice peo
ple. The wife ot the gambler is a charming
uumnu, well educated, and possesses tue most
refined taste. She accidentally boeume ac
quainted with the widow, and very naturally
that lady took a great fancy to her. She saw at
once that her new acquaintance was a lady, uud
she did not take the caution to inquire about her
connections. The two became very Intimate, ami
lor a week or more they were continually In each
other's society. The othev iluy tne) urove out
to the races in tiie carriage of tne widow . They
had the best seats in the grand stand and their
mutual admiration was quite noticeable to ei
erybody around them. After the lirsf race the
gambler's wife got up to go over to speak to
some friends. Luring her absence some friends
of flte rich widow spied her and came whole
she was.
“Ho you know who that ltujv was who accom
panied your” one of them asked.
"Yes. of course 1 do." with u little bit of re
sentment In her tone. “That is Mrs Mn-und-fio,
who is stopping at the same hotel that I mil.
•he is n clear, delightful creature, uud 1 have
not met anyone lu a long time that 1 liked so
well"
■‘But do you know that she Is the wife of ouo
of the leading garni decs of New York City"
The widow was shocked. Upon recovering her
self, t he ordered her carriage ami drove liack to
the hotel without notifying the gambler's wife
of her departmv. and left lien.- for Newport.
Her sudden departure naturally created inquiry,
when tills explanation was elicited.
Any attack of wind colic <>r flatulence may be
relieved and corrected by a dose of Fred Brown s
JUUI.UCa l.'iiuu.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An army of tramp dogs infests New Bruns
wick, N. J., to the great discomfort and danger
of her citizens.
There arc over 300,000 children in the United
States between 1 and 12 years old whose lives
are insured.
During its period of growth, Indian corn
draws from the soil thirty-six times its own
weight of water.
Wilkinson Dears, aged 97, is the oldest mas
ter Mason in Michigan. lie lives at Belleville,
and took the sublime degree in 1811.
There are about 150 female physicians in New
York city, aud quite a number of these are mak
ing £lo.<>k) a year out of their practice.
Joseph W. Means, of Lawrence county, Pa.,
killed a hen recently, and in her he found nil
egg which he placed under a sitting bun. The
resultant chicken is as lively as any other, and
has four wings.
There is a town in Scotland where twenty
two men have refused to speak to or recognize
each other for years, begaii.se they have differ
ent theories about the creation of the world,
and none of them will give up to the other.
Nachf.s, head chief of tho Piute Indians in
Nevada, bus turned liis tomahawk into a hoe
and sottled down to farming. He has a fine
crop of wheat, oats and barley, “half a mile
long and all the same wide, and he no go hungry
next winter.”
One hmidred and sixteen thousand five hun
dred and fifty-nine Germans, 74,020 English and
Welsh, and (18,130 Irish emigrants have landed
in this country in the last twelve months. The
emigrants from ail sections, except Canada aud
Mexico, numbered 484,110.
James James, a negro living in Cairo, 111., was
celebrating his 135th birthday, when along came
his grandfather and dropped his age back to 08
witli such a tnud that James will have a heaii
.aehe for a month to come. These old pioneers
sometimes get altogether too fresh.
On a very hot afternoon in the beginning of
the week a man dressed in the heavy blanket
suit of a snow-shoe club, and wearing a pair of
snowshoes on his feet added to the sufferings of
the New Yorkers by walking briskly down
Broadway and across the East river bridge.
Mrs. Dr. Johnson, of Perry, lowa, although
having four children and a huslmnd to look af
ter, yet found time to raise 20,000 silk worms
last year, besides running an incubator and
hatching 75 per cent, of fertile oggs, doing her
own housework, and going one' mile into the
country for food (mulberry) for silk worms.
Frank Ives, aged 20, while sitting with a party
of young friends in a window in the third story
of the Teachout building at Des Moines, la.,
Sunday playfully threatened to fall backward
to scare the girls present. Finally he said;
“Now lam going sure,” lost his balance, fell
through an awning to the pavement, and broke
his neck. He died instantly.
Perhaps it will help us through the dog-days
to read that the Hartford Post predicts an
early fall, and for those reasons; Tho locust
sang a week earlier than has been noticed for
years; the crickets were abnormally soon in
their coming; the dahlia, which is an August
plant, blossoms in July: the golden-rod adds
its willowy stalk, with innumerable pods of
blossom, to the army that is beckoning to
autumn.
A Portland, Mich., .man who employed a
number of small hoys as berry pickers Was
much afraid they would he devoured by mos
quitoes aud induced them to wear netting over
their mugs, a contrivance which they adopted
with gratitude in their hearts until they discov
ered that there were not only no mosquities to
be seen but that the confounded netting also
prosorilied berry eating. Then the infants made
a concentrated kick for freedom and got there.
Adoct four months ago in Toledo, lowa coun
ty, la., a man was brought to jail on a charge
of murder that was never committed. After an
examination he was released, but the citizens of
the place believed him guilty, and made several
furious attempts to lynch him. The supposed
murderer finally succeeded in escaping. Now
the victim himself has appeared on the scene,
and the same citizens who were so wild to
avenge him are engaged in getting up testimo
nials and subscriptions as an atonement for the
injury done to the supposed assassin. This is
an excellent example of the dangers of mob
law. that one day calls ft >r a halter I- > string up
an innocent man and soon afterward hastens to
honor him.
Mrs. William McKee Dunn was the daughter
of the late Hon. Lot 51. SlorriU. After 51aj.
Dunn had won her heart he was referred to her
father. He wrote slr. Morrill a letter form
ally requesting the hand of his daughter. Now,
the .Major writes a hand that looks like a cross
between a Virginia rail fence and a Chinese
lauudry bill. Mr. Morrill sat up with the letter
several nights and finally guessed the contents.
If, anything, Morrill's handwriting was worse
than Dunn’s. He replied accepting the 51ajor
as his son-in-law. Neither of the young people
could make out a word of tho reply, but they
guessed it was favorable. Of all the great num
ber of visitors at Mrs. Dunn's house no one has
yet been able to decipher the two letters.
A youno man at Fort Popham, 51e., the other
day caught a cod which weighed probably
thirty pounds, and which he placed in a large
hogshead and so kept it alive. When the party
went into the water the young man harnessed
up the cod with stout twine and placed him in
the water. He had a great ileal of sport, and
finally, after considerable persuasion, allowed
a young lady to try his sea horse. A life pre
serve’-was (procured and fustened on her. and
she grasped the reins holding the large cod.
The fish struck out for deep woter at a rapid
pace. The young lady, becoming uneasy,
dropped the reins, but they caught in her feet,
and if a party had not gone to her rescue in a
sailboat the result would have been disastrous.
Johs Chamberlin, the well-known caterer and
■Washington clubhouse man, has been in Sara
toga for a week. His family are in the cottage
of his wife's brother, “Ned" Thorne, the actor,
at Pleasure Bay, Long Branch. He says he has
lost every bet he bos tried to make in Saratoga,
but nevertheless thinks it the most delightful of
summer places. A story is told about how he
got a Senator's vote for his Old Point Comfort
land grant bill last winter. He had asked “Jim"
Young to request Senator Evarts to come off
the floor and speak with him in the marble
chamber. Young is one of the clerks and had
access to the floor. While Young was on his
mission, Chamberlin spent his time trying to
secure the vote of General Butler, of South Car
olina. Butler was holding back when Young
eame out and said to Chamberlin: "Bill will ho
here in u moment.” The idea of any one daring
to w)ieak in such n manner about Senator Evarts
convulsed Butler with laughter and Chamlier
lin's further arguments were unheeded. “1 am
for the bill," said Butler, “Say no more about
it. lam with Bill for the hill.”
Ttif. new enilser Boston, which is now to lie
tested for speed prior to Itelng regularly put
upon station duty, lias had several predecessors
of the same name in the United States navy.
One of them, built during the first year of inde
pendence at the place from which she took her
nnme, mounted 24 guns, and was captured at
Charleston when the British took that city
in 1789. Her successor, built ill 17#, was a ves
sel of 709 tons burden, carrying 28 guns and a
crew of 250 men. She also'fell a victim to tho
British, after u somewhat longer career of ser
vice than her predecessor, being burned at
Washington by the British when they captured
the national eunitnl in 181). The next vessel of
this name was built in 1825, and of about the
dimensions of the second Boston, but only car
ried 18 guns. She was lost in the West Indies
about forty years ago, having lieen in service a
score of years. All tlr-se vessels met rather an
fortunate ends, hut it may be trusted that the
luck in tills respect will change with the fourth
Boston, which, unlike the other three, was not
built in the city whose name she bears.
The Vtcsnna -Year h\cic Prcssc describes the
members of the Bnlgcrian deputation who of
fered the crown to Prince Ferdinand of Coburg
as “stately tnon of dark brown complexion In
European traveling dress. Only Melienvd
Eff-mdi and a priest wore their national cos
tumes. None of the members were above mid
dle age, and some of them were still young. A
characteristic figure is Shlslimanoff, a broad
shouldered, powerful man with energetic fea
turns, who offers u decided contrast to 31. Kalt
slieff, whose elegant appearance betrays the
young diplomat. Some of tho members of Ihe
deputation speak German perfectly. Their
ways are thoroughly modern, und it would
lie a mistake to consider these Bulgarian
gentlemen with their cosmopolitan liear
log as representative* of a people removed from
modern culture." Dr. Totitsheff. tho leader of
the deputation and the President of the Bo
itrunje, Is a lawyer of PhillpeniKilis who stmllisl
In the University of lleidoflterg Htoyanoff,
who originally wuh a shepherd, and learned to
rea l and write when already grown up. is now
editor ofati Influential anti Russian journal,
and was formerly correspondent of several Ixvi
dou )mpcn<. Dr. Tshomakoff was, until re
cently, a physician in huge practice at Cuimtan
tiaopln: Md.hailoff. another lead mg inemlx-r. is
also a doctor of medicine: gtranulcy is Vice
presldeut of the Bulgarian Railroad (Vxnpeiiv,
and Kult dc’ff is u graduate of Hubert College at
Constantinople.
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