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4 CkllTununtiHflus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY* Al OrST <i, ISS7. Rtgisierefi at the Past Oflcr in S*im nnnh Mom "■ ■ Si v !•■ published yjpqr da> in fbe year, and i- served t> subscribe* > iu Me r ity, by newsdealers und carriers, on their own a. count, at 25 ivnts a week. Si <*>a month, $5 DO for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning Nows, />/ mail, one month, $1 00; thre‘ months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning Ynrs. fa/ mail, six tfraea a week (without Sunday issuei, three montlia, $5? 00; six months. $4 < one year, 00. The Mornino Nr.ws. Tri weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays anil Fridays, or Tuesday's, Tliurs days and Saturdays, iline months, £1 25; sue months. $2 50; one year. $5 00 The Sunday News, by mail, one year. 00. _ The Wi.ekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Sttoacriptions payable in advance. Hemit by postal order, check or repisteivd letter. Uur tenev sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed ‘‘Morning News, Savannah. (a." Advertising rates mod** known on application. INDEX TO "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Metropolitan Savings ami Loan Cos.; Dividend Notice Metropolitan Sav ings ar.d Loan Cos.: Notice to Water Takers; Notice, Geo. W. Mattair. Steamship Schkdixk Ocean Steamship Cos. Yacht Race-At Montgomery To day. Auction Sale —General Auction Sale, D. K. Kennedy. Cheap Cou bs Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; Personal; Reward; Miscellaneous. For Sale—A. H Champion. Educational —Fauquier Institute, Warren renton, Va. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, #1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ml ▼ance. The address may be changer! as often as desired. In directing a ehango care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. The statement is made that “the weather is settled,” but there are peoplo who are afraid to believe it. No change in Mr. Blaine's plans was re ported yesterday. Doubtless he will make up for the omission to-day. A lost canary bird flew into the Darling ton (Wis.) Republican office while a composi tor was setting the type to advertise it. Ad vertising pays. A theatrical company in Chicago is play ing a comedy called “A Rod-Hot Stove." In winter when a rnilroad smaslmp occurs a red-hot stove has more of tragedy than comedy about it. Hereafter in Washington distributing handbills is to Re a jail offense. The custom a* a nuisance wherever it prevails, and the Washington people are quite right to suj>- press it in their city. The President in his reply to the Memphis committee, inviting him to visit that city, indicates his intention to pay Savannah a visit. He will get a genuine welcome if ho gives Savannah a chance to welcome him. Victor Newcomb, who once figured as a “young Napoleon of Finance,’’ is said to have made large sums of money by recent transactions in Wall strret. It is not likely that he will put any of it in railroad enter prises. In Michigan twenty-six towns are tHiring for natural gas. So tnr only one has found enough to make it profitable. The attempt to find natural gas in Georgia, outside of the General Assembly, has so far resulted in complete failure. The statement is made that two yeaps ago Scott county, Kan., returned an assessed valuation of $12,000. This year it returns $910,000. Hus is said to be a fair illustra tion of the progress the West is mukiug. If it is true it is wonderful. At the recent picnic of the Fat Men’s Club of Hudson county, N. ,J., the combined weight of tho President and memliersof the committee of reception was found to lie 14,- 016 pounds. How they must have enjoyed themselves during the recent heat id term! A member of the General Assembly has “dropped into poetry." Hon. W. C. Glenn, of Whitfield, is tho member in question, and, strange as it may seem, he selects as tho subject of his rhyme “Best." Tho im pression has liecn that a member of the Gen eral Assembly never rests—from talk. In lowa whisky is sold in flasks which are made to resemble books, and on the buck is the title “Reveries of a Buchelor." Thoso xvho imbibe too freely and are compelled to spend a night in tho lockup, doubtless in dulge in rovories much more unpleasant than those of Ike Marvel’s “Bachelor." Says the Griffin Xews: “If there is any thing that needs reform in Georgia more than the public roods, we have yet to run aeross it. Put the convicts on tho roads Ucd reform 1 s>th together." There is no doubt tliat the public roods are greatly in need of improvement, and the host way to improve them is to put the convicts to work upon them. Prof. Proctor, the astronomer, claims to have made another discovery. This t ime it is not with tho stars, heavenly or base bull, that he deals. Ho declares that if it were not for tho housefly, 1,000,000 people would be carried off by epidemics every your. Prof. Proctor ought to let the public know how ho made his discovery for it is rather remarkable. The question of an extra Bcssion of Cou gDT-s seems at least to have liecn definitely settled. Congressman Payson, of Illinois, is quoted as raying: “I was at the White House the <lny the Kansas City delegation arrived to invito the President to visit their city. President Cleveland told them he should accept the invitation, and that he expected to spend tho greater*]mrt of Octo ber traveling in the West and South. I wiki to him: ‘ln that event, Mr. President, I suppose we may as well abandon all thought of an extra session of Congress?’ Ho replied by shrugging his shoulders indif ferently, and I guess we won’t have uu ex *r soaxiou this vuor.” The Prohibition Defeat In Texas. Tho defeat which the Prohibitionists in Texas have suffered will hardly stop the prohibition agitation in tlint State. It is pretty certain, however, that they will not invite another content of tho same kind very soon. They would have been wiser if they had adopted the Georgia plan in the first instance. With a local option law they could have captured one county after an other until they had possession of the greater part ,if not all, of tho State. The local op tion method insures a strong public senti ment it: favor of prohibition in each locality which adopts it, and a sentiment of that sort is necessary for the enforcement of tho law. If the prohibition amendment had hocn carried in Texas, some counties would doubt less luive given a majority against it, and while it might have t eon an easy matter to have enforced the law in the counties which gave it majorities, it would have been diffi cult. if not impossible, to have satisfactorily enforced it in counties in which the majori ties were against it. The Prohibitionists of Texas comprise perhaps three-fourths of the best element of the population, and they will not accept their defeat as conclusive. They will pre sent the prohibition issue in anew shape, and keep on agitating it until they have secured a remedy for many of tho evils of tho liquor traffic. High license is within their grasp. They have only to ac cept it to insure the pas,sago of a very stringent high license law. The anti-Probibitionists have already announced their willingness to favor high license, and it may bo that that will lie the outcome of the exciting contest that has just closed. But it would not be surprising if nil effort should be made to secure a local option law. The Prohibitionists have shown such strength that the Legislature would be willing to pass almost any law, except n • prohibitory one, restraining the liquor traffic. No doubt the Prohibitionists will claim tliut their defeat was partly due to the strong letter against prohibition which Hon. Jefferson Davis wrote to nil ex-Governor of Texas a few days before tiie election. Tho letter undoubtedly helped the anti-Prohibi tionfcsts. They gave it a very wide circula tion and commented on it in a way to aid their cause. Senator Reagan replied to it, but in his reply he admitted that it would probably defeat the prohibition amendment. It is safe to say, however, that although tho letter influenced a great many votes against prohibition, tho amendment would have boon defeated by a large ma jority if it hail not been written. The Democratic Malority In Kentucky. The majority for the Democratic ticket in Kentucky is considerably smaller this year than it was at the last gubernatorial election, or at the last Presidential elec tion. Some of the protection journals claim that this reduced Democratic ma jority is due to tlie free trade teachings of Mr. Carlisle and Henry lVattorson. Other jour which are dispose! to lie unfair in order u> make a point against the adminis tration Jnsist that the Calling off in the Democratic vote is wholly owing to the President’s Civil Service policy. Tho truth, doubtless, is that the Demo crats were so certain of a victory that thou sands of them did not take the trouble to go to the polls. There are just as many Demo crats in Kentucky as there over were, and they arc as thoroughly convinced now as at any previous time that tho tariff ought to be reduced, but they must In' satisfied that their votes are needed lieforo they will astonish their political opponents with one of their big majorities. At the last Congressional elec tion in this Htate comparatively few Demo cratic votes were polled. Tho reason was not a scarcity of Democratic voters, but a belief that the Democratic candidates would bo elected. Doubtless tho same belief caused a small Democratic vote in Ken tucky. Tho New York Tribune Ims a enms]itmtl ent in Atlanta whoso imagination is some thing wonderful to contemplate, Relutive to the Gloim hill ugninst the ro-o,location of the races in this State, he writes that ap peals from prominent Democrats in all parts of the country have Ixen received by members of the General Assembly urging that the bill lie killed. These appeals, says the correspondent, declare that already the discussfon of the bill has aroused bad fil ing in the North, and that if the bill lie comes a law the Mugwumps will bo driven away from President Cleveland. The cor respondent expresses the belief that the bill will be pigeon-holed in the Senate. There is littlo cause to doubt that all this is pure romance. As to pigeon-holing the bill, such a thing is not probable. It passed the House by almost a unanimous vote, audit will likely pass the Senate without serious opposition. The Washington correspondent of the New York I If. raid gives an account, of what is probably the last Revolutionary war pension claim that wall ever ho filed at the Pension Ofllee. The claimant is Mi's. Mary Casey, of Washington, Fayette county, Ohio. Her husliatid, John Casey, stowed during the Revolution in the Virginia line. He died in 1845, at the nge of 75 yours. A few years prior ho was married to Mary Cox, then a girl of Id. Ten years ago Mrs. Casey tilts! her application for a pension, but it was pigeou-holel on same slight technicality, and there it lnv until u few weeks ago, when it was brought to Gen. Black’s attention. It was found that no valid reason existed for delay, ami by Gen. Black’s orders the claim was allowed as soon as the necessary papers could be tilled up mul signed. Justice is justice in New York. Not only ore men anil women who commit breaches of the pence hauled up before the courts, hut auiuials of a much lower order are simi larly treated. A fow days ago in tho Essex Market Police Court a monkey sat on a bench and grinned in the Justice's face. Assault was the charge against the animal. Frederick Smith, a boy 18 years old, was the complainant. Ho had an ugly gash near the comer of his right eye that hail been inflicted by tho monkey's claw. The boy saitl that the owner had thrown the monkey on him. It was proved, however, that the boy had tormented the animal, nnd so the Justice dismissed the complaint. The monkey testified its joy by turning a somer suult over the bench. It is reported in Chicago that a Justice of the Supremo Courtnf Illinois has said that tho veixlict in tho case of the condemned Anarchist* will bo adlrmod. If this turns out to be true nnd tbo Anarchists are hanged, it is probable that Johann Most and others like him will conclude that Vi leuco will be the best uoliev they tun pursue. TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1887. Reformers and Spoilsmen. The President appears tolie able to satisfy the masses ot the ]teople, but not tlie s]oil men and those who ]se as civil service re formers. Ever since his inauguration he has been a target for the attacks of the spoilsmen. They do not approve of his ; civil service reform policy, and have never ceased trying to tiring him into disrepute with the Democratic party because he has refused to violate Ills pledges and make a clean sweep of all the Republicans in office. Ho has courageously resisted tho pressure which they have brought to bear upon him, however, und has continued to administer tho civil service reform law faithfully. But it seems that he has failed to satisfy Mr. Georgo William Curtis, the dis tingushed Mugwump civil service reformer. Mr. Curtis made a speech at the annual meeting of the National Civil Service Re form I league, the other day, in which he declared that he was not satisfied with the President's Civil Service Reform record. He thought that altogether too many tried nnd trained men hnd been removed from the public service and their places filled with new men be longing to tho Democratic party. He said that he had been disapjiointcd in the Presi dent, but had not wholly ceased to trust him. He thought that the President would lie re-elected, and hope 1 that civil service reform would find in him a rntvh stauncher friend in tho future than it hud in the past. One of the things on which Mr. Curtis dwelt with especial emphasis was that several Federal officials, whose homes are in Baltimore, had taken a leading part in the Democratic primaries in that city recently, and that they had not lieen either dismissed from office or rebuked for doing so. He said that the President’s letter prohibiting Federal officials from taking an active par tisan part in politico I affairs might as well be considered as withdrawn. Mr. Curtis pretends to lie a very just man as well as a reformer, and yet he mado this grave charge against the President at a public meeting without having any other foundation for it than the statements of partisan pujiers. Surely Mr. Curtis is not the sort of a reformer the country is likely to follow, or to regard with a great ileal of respect. If he is ready to accept the state ments hostile to tho President, which are found in opposition journals, and, with out investigation, to use them to bring bini into disrepute with the people he stands upon no higher moral plane than the spoils men. Like the spoilsmen, also, he shows himself willing to attack the President be cause the President declines to follow closely the course he marks out for him. The President is not in need of the good will of either tho civil service reformers of Mr. Curtis' kind or of tho spoilsmen. Tho people believe that ho is keeping his pledges to them, and the evidence that he has their confidence and good will is accumulating. An Interesting Inquiry. A writer of a communication to the New York Sun wants to to know whether or not the dog star is responsible for the startling and unaccountable increase in crime. He calls attention to tho fact that on Tuesday three columns of tho Sun were devoted to accounts of suicides, murders and felonious assaults. A curious feature of the most hor rible of these crimes, he points out, is their inexplicable origin. He calls attention to several of them, and shows that the crim inal in each seemed to be moved by some sudden impulse, and that too, without any apparent reason. This sudden increase in number of deeds of violence affords insan ity experts, he thinks, an interesting subject for investigation. “Is there not,” lieasks, “a very close relation between prolonged pe riods of torrid heat nnd crimes of violence? It would be curious and might be useful to know the number of |>ersons whoso brains can be thrown off their equilibrium by a fever in the blood, caught from a high at mospheric temperature. It may generally Ixi observed that violent crimes ore more violent in summer than in winter; and there is good reason to think that tho dog star is the patron of rallies not only among dogs, but among beings who hold themselves much suiiorlor to the dogs. The data upon the iHiint would be worth collecting.” The Washington correspondent of tho New York Star says that a strong feeling prevails at the capital tliat Senator Riddle berger is preparing to nut with tho Demo crats in tho coming campaign in Virginia. The Breach between Iti'it and Mahono is wide and permanent, mid he is not an in active man under unv circumstances. lie was recently in Washington, and talked in a wav to indicate that tho position assumed hv the Democrats of Virginia on tiie debt question was highly satisfactory to him. His return to the United States Senate is, ho plainly sees, an impossibility. If tho Democrats carry the Legislature Barbour will he Senator, and should the Republicans win, Mahono will he chosen. As betivren tho two. Senator Itiddlolierger prefers Bar- Imur Ho charges Mahono with bad faith and treachery. It certainly is to lie hoped that Virginia will bo finally rid of Mahono. A Judge at Wilkosharro, Pa., has just rendered a decision in a novel case. Mrs. ltufus J. Bell, a leading society lady, not long ago applied for an injunction to re strain her husband from coming into the house where she and her family resided nnd yyl.ich is her property. Mr. Bell is a mom Ist of the bar and a man of undoubted ability nnd legal acumen. He was nt one time prominently eonnretod with tho labor movement, but lately lie hu.x been addicted to drink, and when under its influence ls allusive. This is the reason why Mrs. Bull applied for an injunction to keep hi:n away from tier house. Tiie Judge refused to grant the injunction. Ho said that such a pro ceeding would bo equivalent to directing a separation ltd,wren man ami wife, which ho did not Imvo the power to dooxi-cpt through tho proper channel of a divorce suit. Admiral Luce hns received orders to make such arrangements as the public service will jierinit for assembling a naval force at Phila dolphin on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the adoption of Uie constitu tion. The sailors und marines who will take purt will lie sent ashore. This will he wise action upon the part of the govern ment, for it would be risking the lives of tho men to let them take part in tho cele bration in their ships. At Bay St. Louis, Miss., tho other tiny John Ladner beat his wife into insensibility with a club and then killed himself. Ho would have left a better reputation behind him if lie had killed himself nnd omitted beating his wife. In Massachusetts a law lias just gone into effect to prevent girls under 15 from lug ging or peddling. There is no good reason why girls should not lie allowed to peddle, hut no State should permit them to Ixm. CURRENT COMMENT. A Silly Story. From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.) ’Somebody has started a silly story to tho effect that Mr. Gladstone is coming t<* Ymeriea as the guest of Mr. Blaine. If Mr. Gladstone ever comes to America at all. which is doubtful, lie will be the guest of tho whole American people. The Love of Titles. From the Boston Globe (Deni.) It may as well bo admitted that the love of titles is inborn in human nature. The les£ reason there is for conferring or wearing them, the .stronger the desire for their possession. For a i*ople professing rigidly Republican princi ples and |>eculiariti£s. we lavish these cheapen ing destructions upon one another in a most wasteful way for the preservation of their shadowy value. How to Reduce the Surplus. From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.) The net surplus in the Treasury on Aug. 1 was S4S,fHJS,SIM. Since there is no portion of the public debt to which tin* surplus may be ap plied, its volume must rapidly increase before the close of the current fiscal year unless Con gress shall make provision for its abatement. Tin* legitimate and practical means of reducing surplus revenues are to be found iu lessening surplus taxation upon raw materials of industry and necessaries of living. Tho Claim is Premature. From the Bout on Herald {lnd.) The St. Louis Globe Democrat takes exception to tue reported remark of kqx.*aker Carlisle, that the Labor party in this country i unneces sary. This paper holds that it is highly neces sary, to lx* used “to rive the Republicans a h;ia<l in driving the Democrats out of power in lfiW." In point of fact. we think it will I** found that tiiini i>arties on this issue have always played into tnr hands of on.* or the other of the leading parties in the nation, though th*' Republican claim in tho case .seems to have been put in sot new ha t pn •in a t u re' y. BRIGHT BITS. You can be sun* that the man who is nut down as a religious fanatic was a fanatic before he got to be religious.- Ismisville Democrat. JjtN*iiNs—l air. afraid we are going to have a thuntk "storm, and— iVliK-. .\nn 'jotAK Now, don't add that old chestnut about me lx*ing so “attractive," etc J**nkins-No; f won't—iu fact--I cannot con scientiously."- Puck. Littli’ two-year-old Robert at the breakfast table the other day heard his father and mother exchargre the c mmiiments of the morning with their guests until ue could stand it no longer, and interrupted them with; “Papa, let ne tell my 'tory now. I want some hash.— " Concord (.V II.) Monitor. Master Tommy is sick and also indisposed to take the prescribed remedy, “Come, my pre cious." says his mother, “you must swallow your medicine." “I can t." "< )ne always can when one wants to." "But I don't want to." Jiulgc. Omaha Manufacturer— Well, did you sell any of our automatic fire alarms iu St. Louis?' Returned Agent- They won't do there. You know they go off when the temperature of a room reaches 136°. "Of course." "Well, they all began going off while I was putting 'em up,"— umaJut World A young man at college wrote as follows to his father: “My dear father, 1 have only time being greatly rushed with my studies to send my love and tell you that I w ish you would send me $80." The father replied: "Sly dear sou, I have only time—being greatly rushed with my hay —to send love and tell you that I have not sent you $5O." —Arkansaw Traveler. Mrs. Judge Peterby. of Austin, Tex., was having her hair dressed by her colored servant, Matllaa Snowball, when the latter accidentally dropped the hand mirror. "Oh, you awkward thing: ' exclaimed >2 rs. Peterby. ** I never sa w such a fool." "Dfo glass ain't broke; jess look in it," replied Matilda, picking up the glass and holding it before Mrs. Peterby's face.— Texas Sifting*. I see a paragraph is going around in the pa pers about a certain German word which is said to be the longest found in any language," said Mr. Faithfullust evening: “but that's nothing. It's only a line and a half in length. The long est word I ever came across is the Row Moriah Jyclar.e's ‘One word more and I'll close.' That makes upward of a column generally."— Ojdtn Herald. One of the most absent-minded of men, a most worthy minister of the Gospel, lived and died not long ago in a town not far from Con cord. lie once called on a lady parishioner and invited her with characteristic politeness to go to ride. Sh** accepted gladly and “fixed up," only to fiud with tnc dominie when they reached the door that be hud made his call on horse buck, and that his chaise was at his home a half dozen miles away. The horse was often led to a brook to drink. One morning the loafers on the piazza of the village store were dumb founded to see the parson come out of the barn with the halter dragging from his hands folded behind his back, pass slowly down to the brook, then tuna and bok at the horseless halter and hasten buck to tin* barn, where thirsty old Dob bin in his box stall was pitying his kind, forget ful old master. - Concord Uv. II.) Monitor. Only a gate Bent with the weight Of a youth and a maiden a-swinging; Only a word, Zephyrs have heard, Yet it sets both their young hearts a-singing. Only a dad, Dreadfully mad, Whoso voice starts the maiden a-cryiugl Only a youth Lifted forsooth. And sent down the avenue dying. < >nly a maid. Grief unallayed, Our sympathy's solace demanding; < >n ly a swain Doomed t > the pain, Just now, of porhik.ug lunch standing. —Boston Budget. PERSONAL. Mavor Hewitt, of New York city, is confined to his residence by illness. Annie Louise Cary owns the collection of music formerly owned by the Piet dray. lirx. Pains is cruising about the waters off New London in Ms new yacht, the Volunteer. Garrisonis tho wiiming jockey of the season up to date, lie has l inden. Jd races and won 41. (len. 0. 11. Netti eton. a roillioiaire of Mimic a|H)lis. pi ddled Bibles in Philadelphia before the war. Sabah licaxUAiior bits been coining money in iAindnn. Her receipts have averaged over S'.’.iVM for each performative. A cat named dim Klsite is being sought for far and wide by the disconsolate widow of the lute Marcus Cicero Stanley, of New York. Oov. Foraker over-exerted himself at John Sherman's Toledo convention, and he bus lieen quite ill at his home in Columbus since his re turn. Si'kaker James \V. llcsted, of the New York Hons * of her rexentativos, has been elected l'rrsul it of the Hartford and t'ounecticut Hail way Company. * Prince I’krdinaxd of SaxeOoburg is an on thusiastic naturalist. lie possesses one of the (inert ornithological collections In the world and u notable cabinet of precious stones. Van Piion Lee delivered a lecture in Spring field, Miles . Monday night. He is a very fluent sjiettkci'and base large uuinlicrof stcrenpticon views of China and the Chinese. His wire was on** ~f tii,. nudience and she seemed to appreci ate her husliaiid's powers as a speaker. Accormnh to Cairo papers the Egyptian hoir nresiiiiiptlve. Aldus Hoy. and his younger liriither will not return to Geneva. where thev have until recently been studying, lint will (lnis.li their studios at tin Vicuna Tiieivsuttium. an in stiluttoM for the education of young nohk'nieu, In which tin- lute Alfonso XII. of S|iam also spent several years. The Berlin Itorm-Courier learns that Prince Itlsiuari'k will soon surrender the portfolio of the Mutlst rv of t'onmi"rce, which lie has liecu nominally hold in ; lor so ue years, and will ap point :t new Mini ter for that departtneni Among the candidates meiitloaed. Herr Mlquel, the First Burgomaster of Frankfort ou-the- Mslu. is com- lilereil t-i have the best chances. M. Jn,t:i Ci.ahetii:, the fiirector of the Come die l-'niucAisc, is said to show unusual severity towmsls the writer Jules ClareUe. A friend of his haviog suggested to him the propriety of dramatising one of his novels for the Cotnedle Kruneuise, Claretle replied: "1 shall not accept any one of my plays; l sliull mercilessly reject it; I shall not iiermit myself to submit one of my plays m invself." M sanxa .Maiiora Salter, Mayor of Argonia, Kau.. is having a very snecessrul administra tion When she wo* elected Pi her present olfice her enemies predicted that she would make n failure of her,-Hurt to run the tnunlci|ml ufTairs of Argonia. lip to the present time she has made no great blunders She Is, however, tire. 1 of the burdens Ilf office and says that when her Ufosent term expires she will retire Pi private hfe and 1-ave the gmeniatt'nt of Argun si to the c..tv of the sterner jes. JOHN DEAN'S SUIT. Tho Hero of the First Coachman Mar riage Seeking Damages. Fr om the Troy Pert*. John Dean, a traveling salesman for a New York wool brokerage house, lias instituted through James Lansing, his attorney, an action for $lO,OOO damages against Peter McCarthy, of this city. Dean alleges as his cause of action that Mr. McCnrthß wrote a letter to the house which employs Dean, stating that the latter had prevaricated*in his method of budnees. and that he was not a lit character to travel for any re spect.able business house. This is not denied by Mr. McCarthy. John Dean, the plaintiff in the action, has had quite a romantic career. About the year ISO* Dean was employed as a coach man by a New York manufacturer named Boker. Boker had an only daughter. Julia Ann Boker. This daughter was about 25 years of age, handsome and well educated. Dean, who was about 30 years of age at the time, was fre quently brought into contact with Julia Ann. The close relationship caused a feeling to spring up between the couple which soon ripened into love. Then came the climax. They both well knew that Papa Boker would never give his con sent to their marriage. They eloped and were married. Fora time all ran along smoothly. They wen* happy and contented and envied by many. Meantime the news of the elopement had been spread throughout the country, which resounded with the popular applause of John Dean and his bride. Songs were written, one of which bore the appropriate title of “John Dean and his own Julia Ann,” and they were the hero and heroine of the hour. But life, especially married life, us fraught with vicissitudes. Julia had been reared from childhood in luxury. Her parents disowned and disinherited her. A longing for the joys and comforts of the parental home returned to her. sh** became displeased with tier life with John Dean. He was poor.'aud they were neces sarily deprived of many of the luxuries of life. The more she pondered on the subject the more discontented with her lot it made her. At last she returned to the home of her parents, who willingly received her. Dean wandered away from the scene of his adventure, aud the elope ment was forgotten. Mrs. Dean shortly after went to Purls, where she now resides. Dean has since then risen to a higher position in the world than he occupied as a coachman. He held various positions, and for the past several years has traveled as on agent for wool commission houses in New York city. He is widely known throughout the country, and has the reputation of being a reliable cotton and wool expert. THE FISHING SNAKE. A Pleasing Variety of Serpent With a Remarkably Useful Tail. Backwoodsman in the Dakota Bell. T think the strangest snake I have seen is what T call the fishing make. I saw one on a log floating in a little arm of slack water run ning in from the river. It was long and slender, and one or two coils were on the log and its head raised about a foot Suddenly I saw it make a quick movement, and a small fish seemed t leap out of the water, which the snake caught in its month and proceeded to swallow. I could not imagine how the snake got the fish, aud wen* further, where I could see it better. I watched it eaten two more and saw how it was done. It bad its fail in the water for the length of about throe feet, and the fish bit the end of it and was jerked exit. I under stood it still more thoroughly when the snake left the log and swarn to the shore, where I killer! it,. <)n the end of its tail there was a sort of bone fish hook. It was double and much the shape of an anchor. It was very sharp, like the teeth of some fish, and the snake had baited with a large grasshopper. The whole length of its body was s*ven feet. It was of a yellowish color, much the same as the water in which it was fishing. I think it must be confined and in tended for the Missouri river, which is always of the same muddy, milky color. Since killing that one T have seen n number of others. One day last week I saw three on one log and fishing very intmtly. While I was watching them ojje booked a larger fish than he could land It was a catfish which would weigh as much as six p mods. The snake coiled around the log and hung on. but it could have never drawn the fish out bad not the others come to its assistance, reached down their tails, coiled them around the fish and ftually landed it. It was too big for them to swallow, and after un hooking it from the first one's tail they let it slide back. A BABE IN A SKIFF. Singular Episode on the River Near Lawrenceburg From the Cincinnati Enquirer. An exciting incident took place last evening on the river, near Lawrunoeburg. Ex-Marshal Hutli is tho owner of a handsome skiff, and very proud of his abilities as a sailor. Taking liis wife and 3-year-old boy in the skiff he rode them out to the bar last evening, and the father and mother alighted from tho boat, leaving tho child quietly sleeping in the stern of the craft. While the parents were busy amusing them selves fishing a passing steamer caused repeat ing circies of wave*; t*> rook the boat until it became loosened from the shore, and, floating out in the stream, began a trip south ward with ire solitary and helpless passenger. Having caught a string of fish, the thoughtless parents returned to where they had but a few moments before noticed their vessel with its sleeping cargo, and with hoiTor Iteheld it several hundred yards dwav. rocking upon the agitated waters, while upright in its unsteady centre stood the imperiled child. Unconscious of dan ger, it clapped its hands joyously, and called for its mamma to rid** with it. With no means of reaching the boat, the parents looked on, momentarily expecting to sec the little innocent tumble into the water, as it tottered from side to side of the uncontrolled skiff. A passing sk.ff, attracted by the cries of the mother, appeared. The cause of her grief was quickly known. The father leaped into the boat, and then heaan a race for the fugitive •dciff. After a chase of nearly two miles the runaway boat was overtaken, and the little babe nestled safely in the arms of its parents. Latent. Without the garden wall it grows, A fboverl *ss tree, Wrung by the restless Mast that blows Across the sea; Forgotten of the fickle spring, The scanty I<* ives droop, withering; ? Scarce would it seem—poor, sapless thing!— A rose to lx*! Yet must tho frail and faded spray A rose remain. Though bitter, blowing winds to-day Its growth restrain. Somewhere, however those deny, The color and the fragrance lie: Somewhere the perfect flower its dr* Dull stalks contain! If in a kindlier soil perchance The root should grow. When' dews would fail, and sunbeams glance, And soft airs flow, Fair as the flower the garden shows The leaf might spring, the bud unclose— From out the calyx of a rose A rose will blow! KaTB PI’TNAM OSGOOD. Cured by Applesoft. From the Philadelphia Press. Although for many years an Ardent prohibi tionist, Michael B. Bowker, u resident of South ampton. Burlington county, found it absolutely liec sxary for him yesterday to abandon his vows in r *grd to total abstinence. Early in the morniieT Mr. Bowker left his home, mar Taf>oninel \ f. *r th* purpose of gu*’jering buck lelH’iries on the edge .;f Me* pine forests. When ho had wandered a Jon? distance In* e uue upon a spot where the fruit hung in great clusters, I and so intent was ho in sruttiering them, that he did not nolle* an immense rattlesnake coiled di n*otly in front of him. Ash* reached forward to pull tin* bush toward him the snake* fastened itself on Mr. llnwtar'n Innd. In a moment he had shaken It oiT and started otf on a run. suck ing tho bhnxl from tie* wound ns he ran. lb* kept on for over a mile, when lie found Dr. Reeve* of Medford. who cut the flesh about ttie* wound on Mr. Bowker's baud, and then started with hirn for Medford. On mocking that place lie drank a quart of real old anplejuck. This had tie* desired effect and completely counter - actcd the effect of the )H)i<nn. A Novel Entertainment. From a Wash ington Special. A numtar <f Washingtonian* are spending tin* summer at Berkeley springs. wtn*r** a eharmiiuly novel entertainment was given them last \v**k by Mrs. Crichton. For this pur pom* th** men's pool, ln*iug the lurg***t, wan eiy 1 gaffed (or two hours find appropri itely and s'erat | ♦’’l with ferns and llowei*s. The bathroom for each of the young ladies invited was designated ! by a ribbon on one end of which was printed the name: this wa, fastened tothrd*Kir. The i artistie effect of ttie scene was greatly iwiglii- I eel by the costumes worn, tiuuiv of which were very unique. After a tnv of twenty min I nfes ill the water the ladles left the pool and I wen* at oner handed coffee, nerved in delicate i Heviyacups. When they again euiuita] from i the drcs.*iuif*Pi*oms they were given a iieUgarul , collation of i*en, t*ttk*a and champagne punch. A prize for the l**st swimmer -a bunds*>me bo.skg of flowers -aud a glass slip|s*r filial with lsnlsais for the m/nad in*;i Hwfmunr*, weie awarded to >liste Sue and M uu.m tfn.itaar. ITEMS OF INTERE3T. Brooklyn's public baths were used by 40,000 bathers last week. Ten mi les hauling a bullion train were killed by lightning near Rapid City, P. T. Thirty-four deaths from the heat were re ported at the Coroner's office in New' Y’ork on Monday. John Young, of Roaring Springs, Pa., can part his beard in the middle and after wrapping it three timesaronnd his neck tie the ends. A Mrs. Wei dm an, of Davis county, la., trod on a potato bug with her bare foot, crushed the insect, and the poison killed her within two hours. A man entered the Verona, N. Y\, post office and timidly asked for a posts! card, saying that “he had never used one of them things, but would risk it for once anyway.” The horses on the street cars of New York have suffered terribly during this hot weather. They die at the rate of forty a day, and more than I,(XX) have died sine June 1. Kansas City in 1555 had .‘IOO people. To-day it has 175,000, stands tenth among the cities of the Union in the amount of its bank clearances, aud does a business of $200,000,000 a year. Lightning struck in twenty-eight places with in the limits of Bridgeport, Conn., local authori ty records, during a storm on Sunday. Trees and buildings were shattered, but nobody was hurt. As near as can be estimated, one-third of th * fires in this country an* due to incendiaries, and another third to carelessness. It is estimated that the careless man is responsible for the de struction of say $25,000,000 worth of property annually. Miss Belle DeLoxg, a popular young lady of Council Bluffs, la., left her home last winter to become a member of the Salvation Army. Her relatives mourned her as dead until last week, when she returned to her family disgusted with her hallelujah experience. Washington is a groat town for dogs. There wore 5,987 licensed dogs in that city last year, and probably as many more unlicensed. Some of the licensed animals bear the namq of Gro ver Cleveland; three are name ! after (Jen. But ler, two after Garfield ami Grant, and one each for Blaine. Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley aud Thomas Jefferson. George Barber, of Appleton, Wis., lost a horse on June 8, and supposed it had been stolen. Monday night ho recovered it from Mr. Morrell, of Itantoul, upon whose premises the animal t anle on July 5. In the interval not accounted for the horse fattened up and learned to |ace, single-foot and lope, gaits with which he was en tirely unacquainted before. Mrs. Lena Hall, a wrinkled, coffee-colored woman, recently applied to the health commis sioner of St. Louis for a burial permit. said that she was I*7 years old, and could not live much longer, and wanted to make all tin* neces sary preparations for her death while she was able. She was much disgusted at being told that ante-mortem burial certificates were never issued. Fish in the Illinois river are dying by the thousands at Peoria and Pekin, aud along the bank.of the river they are piled up by the wagon load. The cause is attributed to the low and impure water which is said to have been poisoned bv the still sloix> of the Peoria distil leries. Old river men, however, say the same thing occurred years ago before there were any distilleries at Peoria. Near Tamaroa, 111., several days ago. n little child of Mr. Vaughman was set in its high chair at the table while its mother was getting dinner. A chicken came in at the door and flew upon the table. Mr. Vaughman threw a case knif* at the chicken: the knife glanced or rebounded and struck the child in the forehead, cutting a gash near the temple about an inch and a half long. The child lived about a week. Town Clerk R. H. Whittaker, of Salem, 111 , has a young leghorn rooster that possesses a wonderful liking for music. When Mr. Whit taker's daughter seats herself at the piano to piny he passes into the room through the door or window, flies upon the instrument, and after looking at the keys for a short time he proceeds to run up and down on the keys, and the tones thus made seem to fill him with delight. All the Eastern l>atli houses keep bathing corsets as a regular thing, and nearly every woman wears them this year. It used to ho that only actresses did that, but persons ac customed to corsets feel so utterly limp without that, apart from the pretty appearance they give tlie figure, they arc comfortable in them selves. Of course they are not laced tight, and are made of reeds instead of the usual steels. In the recent death of Baron Gleichen-Russ wurm, the husband of Schiller's youngest daughter, Emilio, who herself died about fifteen years ago, German literature lost one of the few connecting links between the present and the classic past. The castle of Gleichen in Franconia had l\v its possessors been trans formed into a veritable Schiller museum, and it is hoped that its literary treasures and relics will Iw* permanently preserved to the German nation. In Detroit. Mich., Friday last Charles W. Sloughton and wife, both colored, were sen tenced to thirty days in jail for assaulting an old colored woman named Lee. The accused loth swon* in court that the old woman had voudoued them, causing innumerable toads to till their cellars and yards. Slimy lizards haunted them, and both became sick whenever Mrs. Lee was about. She told them to draw blood on her and the witchcraft would cease. Sloughton was formerly an attorney. The Florence (Arizona) Enterprise says: The Pima Indians select several promising youths of their tribe from time to time for repositories of their traditions. Judge J. D. Walker says, and they are carefully instructed in flu* historical legends pertaining to their tribe, being required to commit them faithfully to memory. They in turn instruct their successors, and thus preserve the traditions in the exact language recited by t heir ancestors of mrfny years ago They have knowledge of the trilx* that built the old Casa Grande and other vast buildings, whose ruins now excite such interest and curiosity. The de scendants! f this trilx? now live in Sonora, and from tlx*m it may bo possible to learn much of the civilization that once prevailed along the Giia river. The story runs that Mr. Edmund Yates bad his pocket picked and lost his watch, worth S2OO, in going to a Guildhall ball; vvh *roupon Mr. (*. A. Sale, says: “This comes of being haughty, Mr. Yates, and wearing chronometers jewelled in many holes, and riding in handsome calw, and su**h like. My own name is old Art ful.” Mr Sola left Ids watch at home, and his overcoat to boot. (Hi the night of the bull, and the (lomndsftionor of City Police allowed his humble four wheeler to stand in the Old Jewry bard by Guildhall, so that tie had not tlx* slight est difficulty in getting then* or in getting away to work*, which was not over till 2in the morn ing. Mr. Sain, by way of •‘chaff,'* as he in in re ceipt of quite S7JIOO a year from his pen, says hia own particular handsome gold watch is at present in the keeping of his “uncle." who is passionately fond of articles of vertu, and jxditoly declines to part with his timekeeper until a ridiculous process called “redemption ’ is gone through. A thorough STUDY of the subject of petroleum lamps has boon lately made bj f S r Frederick Abel. Ho suggests that the reservoir of a kerosene lamp should always be of metal, the more strongly to resist any explosive tenderer of the oil or vapor within, and that there should be no other opening than that for th** wick, unless so small a one that flame < ould hnrdlv enter Jr. He further says the Vck should be s<fr and dry when put in, nnd should complete ly fill Its space, but without forcing; that it should be scarcely longer than to touch the Ixritnm of the reservoir, and there the oil should never he suffered to lx* less than two thirds ~f the depth, while the lamp should always be filled partly liefnre lighting The wick should never l*e turned down suddenly, and the lamp shout 1 not lx* suddenly coolod fallowed to meet a draught and when the flame is extinguished it. should first lx* lowered as far as possible, anl th*n a aharn, strong puff should be blown across, but not down the chimney. A writer in tile sinuate* Politiquea rt Lute mires quotes Alphonse Baudot ns saving: “As noon as I have finished the first chaf teißof a now book I send them to n iip\vs|>ij**r. This prevents me from interrupting my work and yielding to the almost irresistible desite of im proving what I have written a desire which causes some authors to rewrite a single page sometimes ten or twenty limes. I have known some who fairly exhausted themselv<* by this process, who brooded for years over one book, and finally l**caine slaves of what I might cnli ‘the literature of denf mutas.* since none but themselves are able to get ail the beauty and art out of their book*. Another advantage In working ns 1 do lie* In the fact that i run there by aroused from my natural indolenco. ID* who falls into the water is obliged toswlm; therefore I plunge into it without reflection. But no one knows what suffering this costs me: how one day I am w*iz**d with the fear that I may sud denly become ill, a id the next day really get tlm* fever from fear that the newspaper fvuUl*- ton, which is ever uftwwnu with lU seven league boots, will cveitake mo.” BAKING POWDER. Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest, and most Healthful. I)r. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only iu Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. 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