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4 Ck|itoniinglfctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TIIT Rsn\Y. AUGUST 1, 1887. Registered at the rout Office in Snvnnnah. Mobkino News is puWishwl every day in ] (be year and is served to subscrtlx rs m the city, by newsdealers and cnniers, on their .mu a.-- couDt at 25 eents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morsino News, by mail, one month, j. (tlj 1 1’.rre months, 50; six months, $o 00; one year. $lO 00. The Slonsixo News, try nail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, ft' 00; six months. $4 <<o one year, $S 00. The Mokniso News. Tri weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. or Tuesdays, Thure daj-s and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. S- 50; one year. $5 Oil. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. S3 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance, liemit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should lie addressed “Slorxikg News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application, mu TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetinos—Tlie Work man's and Trader's Loan and building Association. Special Notices —Base Ball. Amateurs vs. Montgomerys. Amusemuts—Musical and Literary Entertain ment at Yonge's Park Hail. Steamship Scnedulb —Ocean Steamship Cos. BnsT’s Reliable Seeds Osceola Butler. Cheap Colcmx Adveutispmknts—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; For Rathe; Personal; Miscellaneous. Educational—Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga. Auction Sale- Groceries, Furniture, etc., by D. R. Kennedy. The Morning News lor the Hummor. 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 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invnriably in ad vauce. The address may bo changed as often ns desired. In directing a chango care should bo taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who di'sirc to have their homo paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will bo given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. One highwayman in Texas is able to rob a mail coach full of men. Has Texas lost her old time pluck? The Methodists are slow to depart from old usages. The New York Methodist Book Concern does not handle tho revised Bible at all. The publication of duinaging extracts from the military record of Gen. Tuttle probably causes him to wish that he hadn’t said it. Remnants of a mastodon hnve been found ut Catawba Station, O. Remnants of other fossils—political fossils—are found any where in Ohio. Earthquake shocks in Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama are not likely to snake the people of Georgia and South Car olina feel comfortable. It is saiil that Senator Edmunds’ daugh ter helps him even in his law business. Doubtless some limb of tho law would like to form a life partnership with her. The New Haven (Conn.) Palladium sug gests that “possibly by next year tho Re publican party may have issues and men not dreamed of now.’’ It is always well to bo hopeful. hi Clare and Genesee counties, Mich, frost fell on July 25. The bucktione of summer may have been broken in that State, hut in this latitude it has not oven been bent. Ex-Secretary of tho Treasury Manning is said to Ik? teaching his Wall street friends what it is to play whist scientifically. If he doesn’t mind they will lie showing him hqw to lose lnqiicy scientifically. An alleged prophet in Maine is going about telling tho people that a second flood is coming. In some parts of Georgia the people are doubtless willing to admit that a second flood has already come. Mr. Andrew Carnegie professes to believe that “public sentiment will come to lie that the tnan who dies rich dies disgraced.” In order tlias ho may not die disgraced, Mr. Carnegie may give his fortune to the poor— perhaps. _ James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and Mary Anderson, tho netrnss, seem to have expatriated themselves. One finds more pleasure on tlie other side of tho sea and the other finds more money. If they should ever return to the United States they will doubtless feel us if they were in a foreign land. In denying tho rumor that, his father lmd established a bunk in Shanghai, Chino, with fc2UO,OOJ,iAM) capital, George Gould said; “America is large—quite large enough for us.” The information is gratifying- more or loss. The fact that Gould, tho father, has been spending much of his time on tlie Atlantic ocean suggested that he found America too small. The MeOlynn-Goorgo Anti-Poverty Soci ety lias received $5,057 during its fifteen weeks’ existence and still has Ffl2 on hand. It has spent $1,280 for tracts and has 1,252 members. Bn far it has made no headway in aiiolishing poverty. The U ntil is, very different work from that ilonn by the soci ety is required to abolish poverty, and most people aro sensible enough to be aware of tho fact. _ It was reported, a few days ago, that h committee had been appointed by tho Wall Hi root (Now York) Clearing House Associa tion to go to Washington and urge tlie Sec retary of the Treasury to adopt a jsilicy that would prevent stringency in tho money market. It is now announced that tho re port was without foundation. Wnil street will therefore doubtless try and worry along us it has done heretofore. Suvstlio Providence Journal: “The plat form of the Republican party of Ohio con tains many planks, some of whirh an- round uii'l some of which are badly decayed. Tim worn-out pbrusos that ‘wo view with ularm’ and ‘we jxiint with pride' had much liett- r liave lioen omitted. Many important quest ions are simply straddled. ” Tlie Jon r tuU must have meant to lie sarcastic when It referred to notne of the plunks in the plat *<uiu um sound. The Prison Problem. The second annual rejiort of Carroll D. Wright, Commissiouer of the National Bu reau of Labor Statistics, which was issued a few days ago, is attracting considerable attention. It deals with the prison problem at considerable length, and furnishes some very interesting statistics with regard to it, but its suggestions will hardly lie regarded as furnishing a satisfactory solution of that problem. As tho Legislature of this State is inquiring into the charges of abuses under the lease system, and is considering the ad visability of establishing a reformatory in stitution for youthful convicts, it might find in the rejiort some information which might be of use to it. The Com missionin' gives the result of his investigation of tho prison systems of all the States, and reaches the conclusion that what is known as the hand labor pub lic account system Is best calculated to give sutsfaotion. Under 14>is system tbe indus tries of a prison are carried on for the bene fit of tho State. All the articles are manu factured without tiie use of power machin ery, hand machinery and tools alone being allowed. Tho purpose of shutting out power machinery is to prevent competition between free labor and prison labor. The Commissioner admits that this hand labor public account system will not make a prison self-sustaining, but thinks that un der proper management it will relievo tax payers of a great part of the burden of maintaining convicts. While it might lie satisfactory to those engaged in manufac turing the sumo kind of articles manufac tured by convicts, it would hardly meet with general approval. The pre vailing idea • is that convicts should not only work, but that they should earn enough to cover all the expenses of supporting and guarding them. There are very few States in which they <lo this, but the system which comes tlie nearest to doing it. and which at the same time is hu mane, and has reformatory features, is cer tain to he the most widely adopted. There is a very strong objection on tho part of taxpayers to hear the burdens of supporting criminals after having paid the cost of se curing their conviction. The financial results of tho different sys tems vary greatly. The lease system,which is in operation in seven Southern States, shows a profit. Tho contract system jwys 05 per cent, of the expenses of the prisons, tho public account system 52 per cent., the piece-price sjtitem 23 per cent., and tlie mixed system 42 per cent. From this state ment it will be scon that the convicts are what might ho termed tax-eaters under all the systems except tho lease system. Tlie showing made in this report, consid ered in connection with tlie objection of tlio people of this State to any higher rato of taxation, is calculated to lead to the conclu sion that the lease system will not ho abol ished in Georgia at present, and that no very radical modifications of it aro likely to lie made. There will no doubt be a strong effort to remedy abuses committed under it, because the people intend that the convicts shall lie treated humanely, but, strong ns tho conviction is that there ought to boa reformatory institution for youthful con victs, it is pretty safe to say that there will bo no prison legislation that will materially increase taxation. A Word for the Cotton Factor. There has been some discussion recently in the press of the Southwest respecting tlie relations of tho farmer to tho cotton trade. The tenor of somo of tho articles has been to show that the farmer would get a better price for his cotton if lie sold directly to the agent of the spinner, and ignored the factor altogether. Tho money now made by the factor, it was claimed, would go into tho jun ket of tho farmer, and, besides, a bettor price would Ik- obtained for cotton. In dis cussing the subject tho Galveston News has this to say: “Tho cotton factor is essentially interested in high prices and in getting a good figure for his constituents; tho spinpor’s buyer is essentially interested in low prices and in get! 'ng cotton at low figures for his constituents. Spinners and their buyers are wall organized; cotton producers are not. Tho bugaboo about tho middle man, or cotton factor, which the spinner and lits agents havo artfully raised, is being exploded. The cotton factor has been held up as the enemy of the cotton producer, a kind of ghoul that lias conic in between hitn anil the manufacturer of the staple nnd eaten up alt the profits. Is the manufacturer of tho raw staple the pro ducer's friend in that lio is anxious to pay him a higher price for his products? Not much. Self-interest derides this quishion nt once, and self-interest dictates that tho cotton producer and tlio cotton factor shall come once more together and make com mon ami combined cause against tlie woll organizisl combinations of spinners uud their buyers.” A man in New York has declared war against England. The other day he posted n proclamation on tho fence surrounding the excavation for the new Consolidated Ex change building setting forth that, ns Eng lish ships had seized United States listiing vessels, “therefore, we, the I. R. Legion of the United Stab's, do hereby firmly resolve that the honor of our glorious rejiublic must Ik l upheld.” The proclamation then went on to suy that the “I. R. Legion" would forthwith proceed to seize English ships wherever found. It is hardly probable that England wifi order her ships to remain in home ports, hut it is prolmlilo that some lunatic asylum will gain another inmate. It is announced that Mr. Rlaine lies changed liis mind and that, he will not re turn to tho United States immediately. It is supposed that tlie change was caused by reassuring dir,patches sent him by his friends. It is alleged that the cable was freely used, just lifter the Ohio Republican convention was held, to inform him that the indorsement given Benutor Sherman amounted to nothing. It is safe to say, however, that Mr. Blaine will not remain much longer in Scotland. His stay in the land o’ cakes lias not been ox pleasant as he hojsd it would he. Senator Sherman says that ho was much gratified at receiving the compliment of an indorsement from the Republicans of Ohio. He felt that the convention at Toledo should express itaolf in somo manner and indorse himself. Mr. Blaine, or somelxdy else, so that the Republican party in Ohio might have a foundation to work upon. The Sen ator's view of his indorsement will lie nows to the country. The general Impression has been that lie desired it in order that lie him self might have a l whig to work ujkui. 11l Hartford, Conti., Goorgiu watermelons cost 75c. ajiieee. Even ut that price, how ever, they aro bought in large ntimlers The Georgia watermelon has a firm place in the affections of tho Hartford ijcouie. TIIE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1887. The Jury Exemption Bill. The bill now (lending in the legislature to repeal tho law which exempts from jury duty a certain mmilier of members of mili tary companies in tliis city is not regarded with favor by the city’s military organiza tions. Those members of the companies who have expressed an opinion with regard to it admit that there are strong arguments in its favor, but claim that tlie law, which it is proposed to repeal, affords them the only source of revenue tiiey have outside of the dues which the members of tho compa nies (wy. There is no doubt that our military or ganizations should have assistauce from tiio State. If a disturbance should occur that could not he quelled by the peace officers the military organizations would lie required to render assistance. These organizations, which are subject to the call of the State, and which are ready at all times to respond, ought to have a part of their expenses borne by the State. It is neither right nor just to depend upon them for protection, when the officers of the law are powerless to afford it, without helping them to bear the burdens which are necessarily imposed upon them. Georgia's policy in dealing with her militia is narrow and illiberal, and in strik ing contrast with that of some other States which ore not so able to pursue a generous policy as she is. Her failure to deal justly with her military organizations, however, ought not to he a sufficient excuse for legis lation which tends to bring the jury system into disrepute, and helps to defeat jus tice. Tho law which the Gor don bill seeks to repeal not only lessens the number of citizens from which jurors can ho drawn, hut operates to exempt those who are, or ought to lie, among the most influential in forming public sentiment in favor of a vigorous enforcement of the laws. A man who avoids jury duty cannot have much influence in creating a healthy public opinion against lawlessness. It is generally udinittod that t|jo exemp tion law, so far as tho best interests of the community arc concerned, is not a wise one, and tlie only ground on which it is defended is that it relieves the military companies of a part of their burden. It would be far 1 letter for the State to re peal all special exemption laws relating to military companies and to give to the com panies direct froci t£e Treasury tlie assist ance they now get from these laws. If the Legislature will give tho subject careful consideration it can hardly fail to reach this conclusion. The Ferry-Boulanger Affair. It doesn’t look as if Gen. Boulanger and M. Ferry would have a shot at each other after all. The friends of the principals have failed to arrange a meeting. Gen. Boulan ger insisted upon conditions which were not acceptable to M. Ferry, and so negotiations were brought to a sudden termination. Gen. Boulanger took exception to some words spoken bv M. Ferry in a sjxx>ch de livered at a banquet to the rifle societies at Epinal. AVliat M. Ferry said was that the government would not “follow- the mob be hind the car of a god of the music halls.” He did not intend tho expression to be of fensive, nnd doubtless Gen. Boulanger would not have considered it so if ho had not, a little while tiefore the delivery of M. Ferry's sjieech, lost favor with tbe govern ment and been sent away from the capital. The truth of what M. Ferry said will hardly be questioned, and that his motive was patriotic rather than personal will notin' doubted by those who know him well. Why tlii'n should he be forced to take the chances of being shot? M. Ferry is a very prominent man nnd has t well-established reputation for ability mid courage. Doubtless Geu. Boulanger hoped fo increase liis popularity in the music halls by putting q bullet into M. Ferry’s body. Tho fact that he insisted upon terms in the proposed duel that w-ould have ro suitivl in one or both of tho principals get ting hurt, indicates that ho was reeking not satisfaction for what, at most, was a very slight affront, but to make tho most of nil opportunity to advance his political for tunes. Tho outcome of tho affair will not injure M. Ferry's standing with tho best element of his fellow countrymen. Editor Joseph Med ill, of the Chicago Tribune, has been interviewed in New York about the < )bio Republican convention. Hi’ said; “All that flurry out there amounts to nothing. Tho Toledo convention might as well be a Vermont town mooting as far as any binding force is concerned. We broke up the State unit rule in national conven tions long ago. No State convention can now do more than restrict its four delegates at large. It cannot bind a single district delegate. There is no State sovereignty in the Republican party organization. This convention nt Toledo had not even delegates to instruct, and the convention of next year may or may not follow its lead. So there is nothing in it except the expression of friends and neighbors that they believe in Mr Sherman. Everybody knew that.” If Editor Medill is right then tho “indorse ment” this convention gave Senator Sher man was in the nature of “sounding brass uud a tinkling cymbal.” “A Western gentleman” seems to have taken the jilaeo of “a prominent jiolitician" in Washington. Such a “gentleman” is authority for tho statement that Postmaster General Vilas want* to lie the Democratic candidate for Vice President next year, and tlie Democratic candidate for President In lspo. Whether this “gentleman” is cor rect or not, there is no reason why the Post master General should not desire to lie the candidate for Vice President. Ho is a pond Democrat, lias done the party valuable service, and he is from tlie West. As to being n candidate for President in 1892, he oa:i afford to let that matter rest until 1892 draws somewhat nearer. A dispatch from London represents Mr. Robert Garrett ns declaring Unit lie is "glad that the Baltimore and Ohio deal col lajisod," but is “still willing to sell at his price, nnd not particular who buys.” Tlie same dispatch quotes Mr. Uhnuncey M. Di'JK'W ns predicting that there will yet lie found “a strong syndicate to which the Bal timore anil Ohio will lie attractive.” It is to be hopod, if the P>altiniore and Ohio figures in another deal, that the trade will not drag through several months and then come to nothing. The Now York correspondent of the Philadelphia press is authority for the state ment that Col. Roliert Ingersoll, sometimes called “the great infidel,” has liecn suffering from an affection of the throat similar to the one that makes su 'h a inurtyr ot the Crown Prince of Germany. Several pieces of tho growth have lately been removed from the Colonel’s threat and he is now progressing favorably. It is time for tho Colonel to repent, nevertheless. CURRENT COMMENT. Tho People’s Paj*ty. From the New York Herald ' Ind.) But the Democratic party is th* people's party. In its two conventions already held it na# occupied strong ground. Take th** war tax otf the necessaries of lift* that its keynote* In this campaign and it must fight it out on that line until the government is frc t from the in cubus of t(K> much money wrongfully extracted from tile business of the country. It May Como. F'romthe Boston Herald (Ind.) Gail Hamilton has n<>t been heard from on the , subject of the i**latious bctw**en smator Sher man and Mr. Biaim*. It is suggested, however, that there is room fora robust article from her pen of the Arthur Richmond type, i.u which Mr. Sherman shall in* hammered with flue severity for having the audacity to carry his own State while Mr. Blaine was in th * field against him. “I Am a Candidate for President.’’ From the New York World (Dem.) Senator John Sherman, having embellished himself with a tag on his coat-tail announcing l am a caudidate for Preddent,” has started off to the Northwest to cool his heated brow aud study the needs of the Territorial citizens. It will not be well for him to attempt to borrow money on his Ohio indorse men t while t raveling. If he even attempts to borrow political im portance on that indorsement he will subject himself to prow* cut ion for tryiug to obtain valuables under false pretenses. John Sherman’s Idoa. From the. Minaouri Repuhliran (Dem.) Tin* Toledo platform demands coercion for the Southern Ft a to* in order to protect North ern workingmen against negro competition. This Is apparently a non s*n/uitnr, but in John Sherman s mind the prosperity which enables the is Hltnern manufacturer to compete in the world's markets is an evil which can be reme died by destroying the prosperity of that sec tion. Tuttle, one of th** class of automatons moved by other m *n‘s ideas, caught his idea from the Springfield speech, and expressed it in the declaration that tne prosperous South was digging out its coal and iron that it might man ufacture cannon. BRIGHT PITS. The average boarding house i3 having a fly time of it just now.— Duluth Farnqrnpher. Tuers are lots of men in this world who are born to rule, but. the other fellows are such a pack of ignoramuses that they can't be made io realize it. —Merchant Traveler. “Bached to his memory,” said Fogg, reading the legend mi the tombstone of bis friend Hawk ins. “Why, Hawkins never had any memory. He never could remember anything for five minutes in all his life." Boston Transcript. Absewt-winded Business Man to Office Boy— Tommy, go up to tny house and tell my wife I have again forgotten my watch. Bring it back with you. lit pulls out his watch sml continues: “Now, Tommy, it iso o'clock; be back at 10.” The Epoch. De Tomyeyns— I hear, old boy, that you're to be married.” l)e Baggs- Oh, no; that's a mistake. “Honor bright, now.” “Why, of course, my dear fellow. I'll prove it to you. 1 wear uo buttons but patent ones ” —Pittsburg Disjtatch. A c hild was recently watching a young lady in Hollislon busily talking into a telephone transmitter. Suddenly the child said. “Who are you talking to?” The lady answered, “I'm talking to a man." The child replied, “Well, he must be an awful little man to live in such a small house as that.— Boston Globe. Commissioner—On whet ground do you claim a pension? Were you in the army? Applicant—O, no; the war was all over before I was born. But I've had my mind all lacerated and torn up and confused like readin' the maga zine war articles Commissioner- All right; I see: I'll give you a pass to the insane asylum.— Burdette. PiTTsnt’iiOEit—Doctor, I am convinced that I am suffering from the most pronounced form of insomnia. M. D.~ What are your symptoms? Pittsburger on Sunday last I remained awake during the entire services, though tbe sermon was one hour long and the thermometer in the vcjtibuie Klood at tk*. Pittsburg Bulletin. Omaha Wife -You are the meanest, ugliest thing in existence. I just bate you. Husband What have I done now? “Don**! What have you not done? Thismorn iug when I discovered that Colorado beetle crawling on my dross and colled to you for help you didn't stir, bur let in** sit there writhing in terror until I had to shriek.” i didn’t hear you call. What else?” “This aft moon when that jeweler showed us a live Brazilian beetle beautifully sot in a breast pin, you refused to buy it for m e."—Omaha World. My sister recently crossed the Atlantic with her three children aged resp**ctively 3, and 8, and th*• eldest two were soon. lik* their juirent, afflicted with seasickness, and sought the seclu sion that the stateroom grants. Master Willie, aged 8. lay tossing and restless, and groaned out: “ <d\ why do I suffer so, why do 1 suffer so?” Whereupon Nellie, the sW ycur-old, who had evidently re me in lx* ml the words if n*it the meaning of what she bad learned in Sunday school, learned over the edge of the hunk and said coimniseratiugly: “Willie, don’t you know what the good hook says? “Suffer little children.' and we are all the little children.” I hou** the explanation made Willie feel hotter. My little 4-yenr-old, who is very fond of running “barefooty,” ami who bears heroically tin* pain of splinters rather than bear the penalty ot boots and shoes, announced the other day that “ the reason angels wear wings is so as not to get splinters in their feet."—-High Chair Theology in Babyhood. PERSONAL. Mias Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is at Cran ston ’s-on-t he Hudson. C*EOttOK M. IYllman is becoming a horseback rider at Long Branch. Mis? Kate Fd:li> did not tarry long in Alaska Flu* has already returned to California. A man named Sherman is Vice-President of the Hlaim* Clu!) at Columbus, O. He is not one of brother John’s kinsmen. Representative Bkriah Wilujxs, of Ohio, does not believe nr.y Democrat will vote against Mr. Carlisle for Speaker **f the new House. Miners ('. Stearns is the sole survivor of Chicago’* original Board of Trade. He is now 7i? v*ars old, very rich, and has long been out of bu> in* as. The late Alfred ICrupp was a tall, spare man, with deep-set eyes, a long thin nose, gray hair and a firm mouth, hidden by a white moustache ar.<l beard. On Monday night “Bright Lyes,” now Mrs. Tibi Kills, ftdln'Jsc 1 large audience in London on tlx* Am rii an Indian quest! m. Her account of tile wrongs endured by the Metiakalitiana created great interest Tun President will not Ik* able to complete bis arrangements for ids Western trio before the middle of August. Already several members of the CukiuH ha* •• announced th ir iutentiou of joining the Presidential party. I it a I>. Sank ky lias given the land on which the new hull liiK*. of the Firs; Methodist church nr New Castle, I’n.. will .tand. Mr. San key at tended th* 1 cliuivh in his younger day's, and was superintendent of its Sunday school for several years. Mmt. Jakai'sciibr is unending tbe wvson at Newport. She ride* out rr*quentlv, but pn*fers rumbling alrn*. She usually wears n him* iWn nel. tailor m i |e dress,which is extremely simple, but stylish. oh* wear* u;.ly, ilut, English walk ing shoes, for comfort’a sake. Ex-Gov. Hr,:)i e. of New Jersey, who led the grand March at the West Eud Hotel in Long Branch, the other night, bad his hair twinged for i { th who in irclicd w ith him. iviir* a hi n*\ faille I’raneaiv dnip<*d hoi if. fontoiu skirt, m*d Inrliee with block fill; tulle. Tu ** or.-ng** was cut pampadotjr, aud ton hand of i -n *k velvet nrounil her neck was pendant an immense diamond. J. H. Huntington, of Amesbury. Mas*., has d*H*i*.h*d to er*.*ct on ti)C public square of that town ftu heroic bronze statue of bis maternal RiM vsior. Dr. Josiah Bart left, one of the signers of the Declaration of ladepembmee. A ixuirait of l)r. KutMf, by Trumlmlt, will furnish the sculptor. Karl Gerhardt, Ills inspiration. Dr. Bartlett was the first Governor Of New Hamp shire after It became a State. William McDairmtd. who claims to lie the “oldest living printer and newMjpaper writer in the United States,’ lives tn Heakuihijrg. Sonoma county. < a! He wa* born in Edinburgh in I7W. wah apprenticed to a printing firm wheu he was H years old, came to this country in worker! on various papers hen* and in Cincinnati until 1878, when he went to California, where, until a year ago. he uaed to write for the proas. Hknri D’lorvtLUt. equally well known aa diplomat and writer. dU**l recently in Purls at th* age of f>7 lie was Seivefarjr of l>*i;ation Hucovmively In Turin, Homo, Dresden, and Atbena. un i uK* at one time Prefect of Algiers. He was a French Baron Aid an Italian Count. Hle writings, widen all breathe a conservative spirit. include *Moumal and un Diplomat© cn Italic,” “Journo! d’nn Dlp’ornsto eu Allrtnatne eu Greet*," “Petit* Colo* tie L'llistoirc.” etc. THREE INGENIOUS 3RIDES. How a Costly Outfit Was Made to Do Service on Several Occasions. From the Xcic York Evening Telegram. We liave just beard a story of throe very in genious young ladies that is out of the ordinary. Thm* yoiuig ladies ore all about the sauit* age and size, and, by ft singular coincidence, u ere all to be married about the suite time. They were all ambitious to have .‘.well weddings and stunning outfits, but their purses were not long enough for and to posseos the lutter even was a financial puzzl* which gave them many a sleepless night. Finally they nut their oads to gether and nit upon a plan. To avoid any un pleasant gosip amon£tivfir mutual friends and in M v|tahl ; ' eoaip:uii >ns, which is always odious, tney and *cide i to give up the big wedding, but they would have the hangup outfit by pooling their moneys. No. 1, who was to be married first, was to make a bargain with the dressmaker to make any alterations desired i.i the trousseau after the wedding was over, and the three were to go together to select it, which they did, and the dress was made up in the very pink of fashion, with point lace enough to exhaust the stock of a VN'i rth, and bride No. 1 was married. The ceremony over, the trousseau was turned over to No. 2, and she took it so the dressmaker for alteration according to the contract, and in it she was married, after which the second refit ting was done, and again th - brilliant outfit stood before the marriage altar and a third bride was thp envy of a few guests present be cause of the gorgeous bridal decorations. How was the dress paid for? No. 1 paid half the bill because she had the first wear. Nos. 2 and 3 shared the other half. No. 3 was willing to share as much as No. 2, Im* co use, though sne did not have the privilege of the second wear, she, by mutual consent, kept the dre s. A Small Snake Story. A letter from Harrodnburg, Ky., to the Louis ville Courier-Journal bays: The season for snake stories is not over, and here is one that will tally with the l>esfc. It was told to me by Sam King, the boss fisherman of King's Bottom, an l everybody knows that what Sum says is true. He has a well-worn path down the s*. eep I fix river eliifs to Kiug's mill, where day after any he £oes with rod and line to enjoy solitary sport with catfish and bass. 1 give the story in his own words: “I'll tell you something you wouldn’t b'lieve less you had a seen it. I've been going to a cer tain rock, which sits out in the water below the dam at King's mill, every day or so to fish. One day I was eatin’ of my dinner when I seed a big black water snake swimming along right up to 'urds me, and I just throwed him a piece of bread,thinking it would sheer him away, but he just grabbed it and went under, and pretty so. mhe come up again. I dropped him a half a biscuit, and tie jest, made uwrv with that too. Arter while he come back agin with another snake ns big as he was. Well, I divided my dinner agin with the snakes, and off they went with it, and by and by t. e game two snakes conic back, bringing about fifteen or twenty more with them. I didn't have no more grill), and they jist played around the rock tame as chickens. I never thought much more about it. t il 1 went down to the rock again m and com menced fishing, and the first tiling I knoweil I liar was them snakes come playing around agin. I'd piteli down bread to ’em, and they'd scram ble for it like minnows arter crumbs. M.v grub give out agin, and th* y ail Wt but the big old fellow and tie <xawled iip on the rock and curled liisself around, and laid dar rght by me, jist like he had sorter took up wifi ipe. Ky and by l felt a jerk and I knowed Id hung a cat, ka.se the water was muddy and I was fishing wid worms. ] give a right smart pull, and my line broke jist above too cork, wnfeb was bobbin' under and out at uicb a likely gait that 1 knowed thar was a big one on my hook. I reached out to the cork, ami was a-trying to git the line below it wrapped around the tip of my pole so I could save my fish, when all at once de snake ’peered to git skeerM and darted off the rock: but be went straight to de cork, and 'fore 1 knowed what was up, he wrapped his tail around de line iwfiov the cork and grabbed <le end of my pole with his mouth. Well, i pulled and pitlle<l till 1 thought that snake would pull in two. but he only stretched a little, .and when I got that ten-pound cat out and landed him on the bank, the snake jist let go with both ends and went on back in the water jist like nothing bad ever happened. You needn't tell me nothing about it—saakes is got sense.” The Prince of Wales’ Heir. Fi'Om a London Letter. In everything except the indispensable tawny beard that falls like a roll of dead gold silk to the extremity of a massive chest. Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, models himself on Ouida's heroes. He is as fond of knickknacks as a lady. Hit; private apart meats arc the nearest approach to the talented but vulgar authoress’ ideal of a young Guards man's rooms. He would not brush his hair otherwise than with an ivoiy-backed brush to save his life. Eau dc* Cologne and other per fumers have their place in bis bath. To write a note on paper that was not the triumph of the perfumer's art, would, in his own imagination, he unworthy of his tastes and position. He has started in life, in fact, as n;i exquisite of the George IV. typ*: but limkily for himself and for * the nation, he is preserved from some of the most objectionable traits of the “First Gentleman's” character by the sensitive shyness of his dis position. He differs again from most exquisites m haring a praise worthy desire to pay promptly for the luxuries in which he indulges. Indeed, he worries his attendants to worry his trades people to send in their bills sharp, and frets and fumes if the astute shopkeeper—alive to the value of having the future King of England upon their books within decent limits--demy in delivering their accounts. Like his father, he gets his clothes -and plenty of them-from Poole. Prince Albert Victor's idea of dignified muft is a frock coat and la vendor or gray t rous ers. He seldom wears a cutaway coat, and even when traveling hardly ever uppoars in a suit of dittoes. On the whole, he may be de scribed us a very stately and solemn young man. He Wanted a Bath. Washington Letter to the Baltimore American. Washington saloons seem to sell whisky at too high a price for some of Mr. • uu*s Charles county constituents. Ji -vutly one of tin* rare kind of diaries county “Democrat: " who is at v ork in the ord-iaace yard here, went into a sa loon near the yard. ’•Barkeeper,*’ said he, “I want some good whisky. 1 believe in drinking only good whisky.*’ “I'll give you the best I have got,” said the dispenser of red-eye. A bottle and tumbler were given the man, and the bartender turned his attention to some work at baud. The Charles county man filled the tumbler, cast a loving glance*at the con tents, and with one gulp he downed the whisky. “What's the damage?*' “Ten cents,” said the barkeeper in a tone of disgust. “Ten cents,” echoed the Charles county man, as his eyes and mouth Hopped wide open in as tonishment. “I fid you expect it for nothing. This isn't n charity hospital for bums,” and the barman got hot. “I never )id more'n sc. for my whisky in (diaries comity in my life, und I got twice as much.” said the Marylander, now indignant. “‘k , e hero, country,' sold the barman narcos tic'dly, “tin* next tim** you want a hogslu*ad of whisgy to drink for V. you bad better go down whore you came fion:. I don't sell corn-cob whisky here.” , The stvn* leaked out and the Charles county man was the “butt” of Ills fellow workmen. Disillusions. From the Ponton Hi >bc . A rustic maid who milked the cows, 1 met her 'neath the apple boughs; We sat u:m)ii the dewy gross And iuteiviiungcd our loving vows. This shy and simple little lass And I, beneath the upplu houghs. That was last year. \Vhat memories souse A-thinkmgof thciipplc boughs! Where u she now, m.\ bm.-*iuug maid? Down ui the uicad tiie cauls Uniwsg. Has she forgot the words we Mid Out there beneath me applo boughs? What, tho', mayhon. Love's been ftdrowao Since, ther. 1 benchii the apple iM^ughs, We |Kiitxl at tuo heaa n'sen 1? Now, after many a ufi.d carouse. My heart turns t ward my lit -lo friend. My love Innuath the apple lioughs. She dwells within yon vine-clad bouse That's nheit T*d by the apple iKiughr. What '• that you say ? what? Married? She? And to a horrid wretch that ploughs? And that'* their on by that 1 Out there beneath tli* apple boughs? How* goer, ker slump into the tdougha. Talk not to me of apple boughs! The wicked, sly. dec-fitful jilt! When* is her bold biu-ollc enottflu? I'd like t< his heart's olood spilt, Then hang him to the app?o bougrs. Omaha Max bn avnjuement y —Ten dollars a yard for such stutf os that? Wife ivory nutu.div mistaking the cause of ] ms surpn That's all; uni t it a bargain? Only $lO. just think of It. j “Why. it*m aourcaly half width.” “Oh, don't worry about that, dear. I was I careful to urnks every allowance ami got twice j U 4 tuai'.v Yards as usual." —umalut Uor/u. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Over the grave of a l>ao ball player*.in a Western town are simply his name and*the j words: “He Made a Clean Home llun.” A Tacoma (W. TANARUS.) jury failed to agree upon a*, cone of deadly a.-r auit, and eleven members | Mgned a paper staling that the “eleven do not j consider the on* obstinate a qualified juror. j That lie is essentially lacking in certain gilt:lid- ■ cations necessary to constitute gootl juror, j We would, therefore, ask th?.t, in making up the jurv list in future for this county, his name lie left off.” The only cities in the United States having j public baths are Boston, with 17; New York, 15; ; Philadelphia, 5; Brooklyn, 3: Cleveland and j Hart for* j. each 1: and Buffalo, the number not given. In New York 3,431.988 persons bathed from June to October in 1888; during the same time in Boston 1)59,705, and in Brooklyn 125,885. In eighteen cities where there are no public baths only about 23 per cent, of the residents | are supplied with bath tubs. Deceptions of all sorts are said to be prac- j ticed by French Canadian families of mill j hands in Salem, Mass., in order to conceal the j age of children too young to work from the In spectors. Lately, however, a memlier of the ! local school board, a dentis*, hit- upon a means j of overcoming the obstacles, and now in doubt- > ful instances the child is ordered to open its j mouth, and if no molar, due .at 11 years o? age. can he discovered, it must go to school in spite of all protestation. All the conductors on the Maine Central railroad have been provided by the manage ment of the road with cases containing all the remedies to be used in cast's of accident, such as linen and rubber bandages, plaster, surgical in struments. medicine*, linamente. etc., with books of directions. Every conductor will be his own doctor. The occasions are frequent also in times of accident where physicians arc passengers upon trains, anti where they are nanaicApped by lack of the tools of their trade. Such will not be the case hereafter. The rules are strict that the cases shall accompany each train. The New York Evening Post states that one of the newest of the german figures at summer resorts is known as the “railroad.” This re quires six railroad tickets for the ladies, six placards for the gentlemen and a whistle for the leader. The gentlemen fasten the placards around iheir neclcs, while the tickets ar** dis tributed among the ladies. Upon the signal from the lender the orchestra plays a railroad galop and the gentlemen march into the room, imitating a train. At the sound of a whistle the train stops, and the leader calls the name of one of the stations upon the placard, when the lady with the corresponding ticket takes her part ner, the rest following according to their desti nation. Tiiere appeared last week in the obituary columns of the Philadelphia Public Ledger no tices of the deaths of twenty-four persons, nine men and fifteen women, who bad lived to or be yond the advanced age of 80 years, to-wit: Priscilla Bryant. Margaret E. Foreman, 80; John \V. Boyer, Sarah Ann ITellorman, 81; John M. Miller, (Verge t'argenter, Lydia A. Ilutz, Anna A. Bradshaw. 82; Sydney Uamplieil, h lizabeth V. Culm, S3; Abraham Kuokman, William Cress, Sr., Mafia P. Herrmann, 81; Henry Li c, 85; Elizabeth Ha lam, 86; Mary Elizabeth Wiv*r, Sarah Kauffman. Ana Marie Kunkel, Mary Daley, 87; John H. Siner, William Coopin, Kitty Ann Hill, 89; Margaret Deveney, 90; Bridget Coudron, 92. Says a St. Louis physician: “An operation lately performed in this city set me to thinking about that sj stem which keeps from the public facts al>out great surgical performances. Here was a man whose subclavian artery was cut as a last desperate resort. The oiieration was a great one. but the world heard nothing of it. Now. 1 wondered if my profession is not goifig too far in its concealment. One of the blessedest things in life is hope, and yet that is denied the world in matters of disease because the public are not told of tfie great advancement in sur gery and medicine. Only once in a while is the , veil lifted for the masses to look through tlie public press. No line of human endeavor has shown greater progress in the past twenty years than surgery, and yet the world is iust as fear ful as it was in 18ti0. for the simple reason it doesn't know what has been done.’’ Daniel S. Dickinson, formerly United States Senator from New York, who was very fond of saying sharp things, sometimes gave offense by his witticisms when he least expected to do so. One day when he was walking moodily along the street in Albany, at the lime Silas Wright was Governor, lie met Mrs. Wright, the Gover nor's wife. She, observing his abstracted air, said to him in a jocular manner: “What does a man think of when he is thinking of noth ing?” “Of a woman's promise,” responded Dickinson. “Well done, Senator," said Mrs. Wright, who passed on. but did not forget Dick inson’s remark. Sometime afterward he re quested her to help him to rersuude th * Gover nor to appoint a friend to office, reminding her. at the same time, that she had promised to aid him whenever h* should ask for her assistance. “That is true, Senator," she replied, “but of course it was nothing.” “How is that?” ex claimed Dickinson, much surprised. “Because it was a woman's promise, don't you know?” responded Mrs. Wright. Th* Senator did know, and he had to tell his friend the “adverse influ nccs" were so strong that the coveted ap pointment could not be obtained for him. Leslie Coombs, a groat friend of Henry Clay, and a popular stump speaker, used to tell a good story about Counsellor Higgins. He was exceedingly adroit in defending a prisoner, and wonkl sometimes almost laugh flown an indict ment for a small offense. A fellow (one Smith) being oil trial for stealing a turkey, the coun sellor attempted to give a good-humored turn to the affair. “Why, gentlemen of thejuo',” said he. “this is really a small affair: I wonder any one would bring such a complaint into court; if we are going on r.t this rate we shall have business enough on our hands. Why, I recoiled when I was at college that nothing was more common than to go out foraging. We did not get the poultry too often in the same place, ami there was no harm done, no fault found." Notwithstanding this appool the jury convicted the prisoner. After the court rose, one of the jury, r plain old farmer, meeting the counsellor, complimented liis Ingenuity in the defense. “And now. squire," said he. fixing a knowing look upon him, 1 should like to ask you a question, which road do you take in going homo, the upper or the lower?" “The lower," answered tue counsellor. “Well. then, it's no matter; I only wanted to observe that 11 you wen* going my way I would just jog on lK?fore and lock up my henhouse.” They tell a good story of a constable up in the t own of Huron, N. Y. Several months ago he was given a judgment of 530 against a “re spectable” dead beat in that town. The eonsta- M* 1 was offered mors than his usu.il fee if he should collect the money, and h** spent weeks in looking for property upon which to make a levy. Hut all in vain: his efforts were only ridiculed. Then h<* resolved to make a levy anyhow. He learned that Ills man was accustomed to go to Sodus Hay tor a swim with fri* nds every Satur day evening, and lie watched his chance. It came l Saturday, when ho crept tealthilyup to the spot where the man's clothes were lying upon the bank, while their ow ner was disporting in th* water Immow. An armful of the clothing, hat. shoes end all, wan hastily gathered up by the constable, who .shouted to his victim that he guessed he was “onto*' him at last. Protests aud threats from the angry man in the water wer of no avail. A park y of un hour ensued, during which the constable dung to the cloth ing, while tbe unhanriy debtor sat in the tall grass, clad only in Ins Innocence*. Finally one of the m in’s companion*. a responsible oili<en, fool, pity *n him aud agrc*d to pay the debt with c..sts, whereupon the clothes’were deliv ered over to the shivering defendant. Mns. Lanotry visited Ogdon.Utnh, a few days ago, on her way luiek to the East, and, says the Salt Lake Tribune, “in accordance with his promise made some week* ago, ‘Alf’ Ignve served up for the Jersey Lily’s especial delecta tion an Indian war dance. ‘Alt' was on pins and lies f r so>:u*day- pa;t for fa ir he could not make good I is promt* . Hi t t ie fjtev f ( vored him, in the guise of a i.and . f Fho>ho ; s who hap.-iencd down from the Nona ji.; t in lime. Three bucks, two squaws and an Indi in b‘y formed t be eondellai ion who were to appear beforthe woman who a few years ago ft tho world raving over her beauty. I’li** i\* Toor Los’ appeared in their war paint at the depot near Buj erinten l n Foil s office. Mich veiling and such nnths Mrs. Langtry never remembered to have wvn before, not. eveji in the palmiest days of Mr. Langtry's rage, when be was trying to win her Iwck from the allurements of a social circle in which the Princ • and a few other notables were the bright, particular stars. The red mm did it up handsomely, and the JJlv every now and thm smiled audibly. Hut ‘Fwwidy’ looked as serious os a‘polyg.'docs when the pen suit es him in the fa*-**, and had to be poked iti tbe ril by the Lily every two or three mhiutes add made to laugh “nolens miens.' For half an hour the terps e’n ivan frost continued, ami when ‘Eweddy* was niflfleiently boml. and Mri. 1-ingtiw hail u sup* roi us' me* of ilelight. time w caned, an 1 the “Knights * f the Scalp* rang down tiie curtain. Mrs. Langtry wax profuse in her thanks to Mr. I/iwe, and Fweddy,' loosen ing up one of Ills corse: strings, bo*.ve l f lightly in acknowledgment of the eoiiinlitnmt pai l to the future Mrs. (ielihard. Inwardly vowing that vh'ii .be won that honor'**l name ho would •how her what a cool Zulu war danco was like.” , BAKING-POWDER. w e i Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the beads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest and most Jiealthful. Dr. Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE CAKING POWDER CO. KEW YORE. CHICAGO. ST. LOCIS. MILLINERY. Platshek’s, 138 Broughton St. Positive Clearance Sale OF OUR ENTIRE REMAINING STOCK OF SUMMER GOODS N.Millinery, Parasols, Gloves, Hosiery, Embroideries, Laces, Collars, Infants’ Lace Caps, Ladies’ Muslin Underwear, Canton Mattings, Linen Ulsters, Knit Underwear, Jerseys, and Our Great line of Novelties Those wishing to buy real, live bargains can never avail themnelvoa of a bettor chance than wt, arc now offering, for what we state is posi tively bona fide. N. B.—Country orders will receive tho same benefit of reduction given to our home trade. 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MURPKY tf'Sl Mr and #riy hj-tijg dhwwoß the favor of rtß* . _ . the public and now rauka VCo. amotit: ii- lending Meii4- Olttalnnati BUMBB cinet of the oild^om. iE* a - L. SMITH. WBk Drad/t r!. Pft. Sold by Dru^giatt, Trado supplied by LI PPM AN BROS. HANBOOB RfiSTORED. ASgSJUSS: n*' Premature Decay, Nervous Debility. Loet Man hoot, etc*., having triod in vain every kuown reiufity, has diecovoreda simjkbt*lf-curi\ which lie will m.*u I FHICK to his fellow guffrircni. Ad* dress ( 1 J. MASON, Post Office B<iX 3179, New Y'ork OktJT. Tjl WEAKfigEM feolenf youthful er- Efj i ■ <■• |f] Up rors. ear hr decay. mauhtwid. etc. I will pend n valuable treatise(aal**j rontaißipe full DariicttUr* for home care, free or chart** Address Prof. If. 0. FO W LF.lt, Moudua. Goaa. , . . .. -■ i W. I>. DIXCfN, UNDERTAKER DK.VUtR IN ALL KINDS OF COFFINS AND CASKETS, 4k Bull street. Renidonoe 58 Liberty i>treat. bA.VJ_N.NAU. Ui.Utit.lA.