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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings Pulaski Lonti Association; The
Merchants and Mechanics Loan Association;
Golden Rule Lodge No. IS. I. O. O. F.; Working
men’s Renevolent Association.
Special Notices—Notice. Mrs. C. Mueller; Al
guernes Deutsche Volksfest.
Notice—Oil Piiiltings, Engravings, Ktc., L. &
B. S. M. H.
Steamship Sellfcit.ks- Ocean Steamship Cos.;
Baltimore Steamship Cos.
Hi:atk:is. Ere -Isivell & Lattimore.
Auction and General Commission Mer
chants -Marshall .V Mcl-eod.
Cheap Column Ahvertisements— For Kent.;
For hale; Lost; Found; Employment Wanted;
Miscellaneous.
Auction Bales -Unclaimed Freight S. F A
W Rv ,by I. D T-aßoche’s Sons; Groceries, Etc.,
by J. McLaughlin ,Y Bon.
Publication—The Daily Sun, Charleston, S. C.
Eastern Hay, Etc.—W. D. Blinking & Cos. .
Dialogue poii a Private Family.—Davis
Bros.
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The way to make the laws respected is to
enforce them.
The man who will determine whnt a “full
crop” is should have a gold medal.
The Georgia negro seems determined to lie
an “issue.’ lie wants more attention than
. his importance warrants.
The “cold day in August” promised by
the Signal Service Bureau seems to have de
termined to skip Georgia. Perhaps a cold
Say in December was meant.
It is hint'd that the members of the Gen
eral Assembly want the President to see
them in session. It is also hinted that they
are likely to gratify themselves.
It is stated that a farmers’ club in Middle
Georgia has for a motto: “Politics be
.” An amendment should bo adopted
so that the motto will read: “Politicians
be
If Noah were a citizen of Georgia just
now he would doubtless boast that he had
seen “a bigger flood,”, but the people who
live along the water courses would hardly
believe him.
The courts of this country are not an un
mixed blessing. They often move too
slowly, and, as paradoxical as it may seem,
they sometimes defeat justice iustead of
upholding it.
It becomes more apparent every day that
the <h orgiu plan for abating the liquor evil
is the best. Local option affords each
county the means of enforcing the will of
its people on the question.
There are people who sympathize with
Mrs. Cleveland on account of the annoying
publicity given to her nets. Some of the
stuff printed about iter is doubtless as dis
tressing to her ns it is nauseating to the
public.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s recent experiences
in Scotland are likely to make him love
America more than ever. The land o’ cakes
is not as pleasant for ono who believes in
republican institutions ns is tho “land of
the free.” _______
At the beginning of each term of some
courts jn this country it would be well to
read to tho lawyers the oath they took when
they were licensed to practice. There are
lawyers who either forget or willfully ig
nore that oath.
The bonanza king, J. C. Flood, of San
Francisco, is said to he dying. The other
bonanza king, John Mackay, is not dying,
buthe is seriously afflicted. The money ho
recently lust in the wlwat market amounted,
it is said, to #(1,001,000.
Prince Ferdinand must find time to hang
heavy on his hau ls, or ho would hardly go
through tho farce of accepting tho Bul
garian throne ono day only to abdicate: it
the next. Muiuble-the-peg would he n safer
amusement for t'uo Prince.
It is better to hang the man who murder
ed another than to save his neck through a
mistaken septimeut, and thus give license
to some other man to take a human life.
The sentiment which permits such a thing
is really worse than mistaken—it is crimi
nal.
Michael Davitt has tho courage of his con
victions. He declares that tho Irish people
ore too fond of shout ing, and that deeds,
not words, are needed. Nevertheless, agi
tation combined with patience will lie more
likely than deeds of violence to gain justieo
for the Irish people.
The peaceable citizens of every commu
nity in this State should unite to see that
the laws are rigidly enforced. Human life
is hold too cheaply. There should bo no
more temporizing with criminals, and pub
lic sentiment should compel judicial and
executive officers to discharge their duties
promptly and faithfully.
The New York Herald publishes editorial
opinions on the Glenn bill upninst the co-
B.iucntion of tho races from the Morning
News, tho Atlanta Constitution, the Macon
7'etegraph and the Augusta Chronicle.
The opinions, of course, ure favorable to the
bill. They will doubtless convince the Her
ald's mulera that Georgia means to manage
her own affairs, tho on tire Republican
purty of the country to tho contrary not
withstanding.
Tho New York World prints a letter
from Hon. Jefferson Davis in relation to tho
story of his proposed assassination during
the war at the hands of a convict liberated
from tho Pennsylvania penitentiary by
Gov. Curtin. Nothing new i developed by
tho letter, except, that Gov. Curtin did re
lease u convict upon what ho supposed to be
u request from the United Slates govern
ment) and that Mr. Davis i ' i v* hud ruuson
to fear assuosinaUan.
Fairchild’s Civil Service Views.
Secretary Fairchild’s views relative to
civil service reform, which appeared in the
Baltimore Snn a day or two ago, are excit
iug considerable comment. The anti-civil
service reform journals pretend that * hey
are different from those expressed by tho
President at the lieginning of his adminis
tration, though they may lie in harmony
with the civil service reform policy of tho
President at the present time.
Tho efforts of the enemies of civil service
reform to defeat it are aggressive and lief
sis tent. There are a few Democratic jour
nals which improvo every opportunity to
attack the reform, but it is noticeable that
about all of them are hostile to Mr. Cleve
land. The Republican journals do not have
so much to say ugainst the reform as they
do against tho President for bis alleged
failure to carry out the civil service policy
which |ie announced when he was inaugu
rated. They want to make the people be
lieve that ho has not been true to bis
promises.
Asa matter of fact Secretary Fairchild’s
views arc not inconsistent with the policy
which the President has’ always pursued
with respect to the civil service. He says
he is in favor of a practical, not a sent imen
tal reform. By that, ho means that he is in
favor of doing all that it is possible to do
to improve the civil service. He believes
that important officials who have some in
fluence in shaping tho character of the ad
ministration ought to lie of tho same politi
cal faith as the administration, and that in
filling the minor places fitness alone should
bo considered.
The President never said that he meant to
retain Republicans in tho principal offices
if they hud good records. Neither did he
say that lie would turn them out, or appoint
only Democrats to succeed t hem when their
terms of office /expired. What be did
promise to do was to enforce tho civil ser
vice reform law in letter and spirit, and
that lie has done. He has done even more
than that: he has retained in office a great
many Republicans simply because they are
qualified for their positions. It was not ex
pected that ho would make no changes in
offices which do not corno within the juris
diction of the civil service law. The occu
pants of the most important of tho offices
have it in their power to help to make tho
administration a success, or they can do
much toward making it a failure. It is
important, therefore, that they should have
the same political principles as the party in
power.
Mr. George William Curtis, who said in
his Newport address that ho was disappoint
ed in the President’s civil service reform
is a sentimental civil service reformer. It
would be impossible to put his theories into
practice in the present state of public senti
ment. It is a question whether the time
will ever come when it will bo advisablo to
adopt them in their entirety.
Fitness and not political affiliations should
control tho appointments of minor officials.
Fitness has controlled these appointments
under this administration. Tho people are
satisfied with the President’s course with
regard to civil service reform, and if they
are satisfied he can afford to disregard the
criticisms of the sentimental reformers on
tho one hand and the howls of the spoilsmen
on tho other.
Canal and Ship Railway Bcliemes.
A company to build the ship railway
across the Isthmus of Tohuaptepoc, which
was projected by tho late Capt. Rads, wits
organized recently, and the announcement
is made that tho great undertaking will be
gin nt an early day. It is further announced
that no aid will bo asked from Congress.
This last announcement is very gratifying,
because if help from Congress were de-
IRUided upon tho railway might not be built
very soon.
This appears to be an auspicious time to
boom the ship railway scheme. Tho Nica
ragua route scheme doesn't appear to be
making any progress, and tho French
people are getting tired of put
ting up money for do Lesseps’ Panama
canal Indeed, it is not to be wondered at
that they arc beginning to lie suspicious of
the success of that enterprise. They have
already invested in it #.'134,000,000, but of
that amount only #309,500,000 has gono into
the treasury of the company. The balance
was spent, in securing the loans. The lowest
estimate of the cost of the work is now
$000,000,000, with a chance that the canal
will never Ik> completed. The annual in
terest charge will be $54,000,000 which the
canal will luivo to earn before any dividends
can lie paid. Tho prospect of tho French
men getting their money bark is not a very
promising one.
The Hon. Frank 11. Hurd announces that
ho intends t<i take an active part in the
Ohio campaign. Regarding the |x>liticnl
outlook in that State, ho says: “The tariff
jilapk in tho Democratic platform is an
honest declaration of principle's, and one
upon which every friend of tariff reform,
can stand. Tho Sherman indorsement
amounts to very little and will have no
goi and • -ITect so far as the Senat or is concerned.
If it lias any effect, at all it will be to insure
u divided delegation to the national conven
tion, und os Sherman luis already shown
his hand his opponents will bo able to
exactly measure his strength before tho
real contest comes.” Senator Sherman and
his Presidential prospects are of but little
importance to the Ohio Democrats. The
tiling for them to do is to work with all
thoir might for supremacy in their State.
Every prominent Ohio Democrat should
follow Mr. Hurd's example, and take an
active part in the campaign.
Two months ago ox-Gov. Franklin J.
Moses, of South Carolina, was pardoned
out of a Northern penitentiary. At
tbo time it was said that lie was
dying. Since then his health must have
improved, for it. is miuoutie.xl that, he Ims
written a book of 1,400 pages on reconstruc
tion and prison reform. He relates his own
prison experience at some length, In order,
ho says, “that 1 might add my individual
efforts to those which others are making
towards explaining the subject of prison re
form.” The ex-Govomor uml ox-convict
ought to dedicate his book to H. I’>. Hayes.
Tho latter, in addition to raising chickens,
takes considerable interest in prison re
form.
Dr. McGlynn says that he is opposed to
Socialism. Ho declares that this country
wants po foreign Socialism, hut, that it
wauta more of American individualism.
Dr. MoUlynu sometimes says a sensible thing
iu spite of the source from which ho draws
inspiration. A a rule, however, ho is most
effective %hfii he is silent.
The North lias tired of summer, nnd is
preparing to grumble at winter weather.
On August 7, at WellsviUo, N. Y., a white
frost covered tho ground, and the thcrmoui
uU-T i cgutomi about 40' übo\e zero.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887.
Pennsylvania to Fall into Lino.
Home of the leading Democrats of Penn
sylvania, intend to make an effort to have
tho next Democratic Stale Convention of
that State adopt a tariff plank similar to
that lately adopted by tlio Democrats of
Ohio. Of course they will be opposed by Mr.
Randall and his friends, but they are confi
dent that they can overcome all the
opposition tho Randall taction can offer.
The sentiment in favor of a reduction of
the tariff lias been growing steadily in
Pennsylvania for several years, and it is be
lieved to be strong enough now to insure a
declaration in the platform of the Demo
cratic party there favorable to tariff reform.
The workingmen are beginning to see that
while their material condition does not im
prove, the great iron and coal companies,
aided by a high protective tariff, divide
immense profits.
The tariff plank in the platform adopted
by tho Virginia Democrats last week does
not meet with much favor from
Democrats outside of that State. At least
nine-tenths of the members of the Demo
cratic party favor a reduction of tho tariff
rather than a repeal of the internal revenue
laws, and it is somewhat surprising, there
fore, that the Democrats of Virginia should
have taken a position on the tariff that is
more in harmony with that of the Repub
lican party than of tlioir own.
Tho more tho tariff question is discussed
tho more clearly is it seen that the proposi
tion to make whisky and tobacco free and
to retain the tax on the necessaries of life is
in favor of the rich monopolies and against
the interests of tho workingmen. If Vir
ginia Democrats side with the Republicans
on the tariff question simply because to
baceo'is cultivated in tlioir State, they need
not bo surprised if there should lie a luck of
enthusiasm in their ranks or if they
should be in danger of losing control of the
Ktntc.
The tariff is a great issue between the
Democratic and Republican parties. The
Democrats of Ohio have just fallen into
line with their party in most of the other
States on this issue, and there is a prospect
that Pennsylvania will do the same tiling.
It seems rutlier strange, therefore, that Vir
ginia should have taken the course ou the
tariff that she lias.
Mr. Ives’ Careor.
If the story is true that Mr. Ives, the
young man who has caused so much talk in
Wall street by his connection with tho Bal
timore and Ohio railroad deal, lias offered
to turn over all his property to his creditors
it they will pay his debts and give him $400,-
000 in cash, it shows that Ills misfortunes
have not deprived him of any of his monu
mental cheek. If the reports of his affairs
are correct his assets arc much less than his
liabilities. No doubt he would like to get
out of the tangle into which he has got him
self with a handsome fortune in his pocket.
The thing that threatens to make him
trouble, however, is tho unsatisfactory con
dition of tho treasury of the Cincinnati,
Dayton and Hamilton railroad. It is al
leged that #.",000,000 in stock and money,
that ought to bo there, cannot bo found.
Probably Mr. Ives can tell what lius become
of it. Ho is certainly expected to do so.
It is stated that the liabilities of his firm
amount to $12,000,000. Wall street must
have had considerable confidence in him to
have loaned him money to that extent, not
withstanding tho fact that it is claimed that
his reputation for honesty is rather shady.
It is renuirkable, to say the least
of it, that men of cheek and
brains, who lack capital, succeed in
gaining the confidence of Wall street.
Ferdinand Ward, who wrecked tho Marine
Bank of Now York, and who is now in the
p mitent.iary, is much tho same sort of a man
that Ives appears to he. There is no reason
for saying yet that Mr. Ives’ career will
end in tho same way that Ward’s did, but
if soino of liis transactions are not sat
isfactorily explained it would not be at all
surprising if un effort were made to send
him to keep Ward’s company.
Mon like Ives and Ward cause distrust in
business qjrcles. They tiro schentors whose
aim is to get money without much regard to
the means they employ in getting it.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Bcboonmaker has been talking for the bono
lltof tho country at large. Ho said to a
newspaper man at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
the other day: “Neither 1 nor my associates
will see you in Washington until late in
September. lam going to the Adirondacks
to nxil off, and expect to see Commissioner
Walker up there in a short time. Wo will
all meet again at Rutland, Vt., on Sept. 1,
and then go to Chicago, where wo will
make quite a stay. There is to ho a great
number of cases brought before us there.
We go to Mahomet, instead of bringing him
to the mountain, as there are a great many
witnesses to lx> heard, and tho outlay to the
various people interested would be very
large for transportation. Again, I think it
very wise for us all to visit tho principal
sect ions of the country. We get tho atmos
phere of the section us wo could in no other
way. Tliis was proved to mo by our trip
through the South.” Commissioner Schoon
nuikcr is doubtless right as to tho wisdom of
the commission’s plans. In the meantime,
while lie and his associates are cooling off,
there are some very important questions
remaining unsettle:!.
Tho Washington correspondent of the Al
bany, N. Y., Journal say* that Secretary
Lamar is getting ready for his appointment
to the United Slates Supremo bench. Ho
has issued instructions to all tho bureau
chiefs in his department to have their re
ports ready to hand to him by Sept. 1. It
is not usual to have these reports ready be
fore the latter part of October or early in
November, as the Secretaries are not in the
habit of submitting their abstracts to tho
President much before Nov. 15. The Su
promo Court assembles on the tint Monday
in October, which will enable Secretary
Lamar to give an account, of his official
stewardship in the Cabinet for the year be
fore hazarding the batteries of the Senate on
his wr y to the Supreme Court bench. From
whnt is known it is believed that he will get
his appointment soon after tho court Con-
Mini's.
Many ixvipli) will doubt the propriety of
tho Governor's private secretary having
anything to do with the eases of criminals
who have been, r,r who will lx\ arnygned
before the courts of the State. It i* not itn
prolmblo that tbo Governor may have to
pas* upon the same cases, and that his sec
retary wifi have to assist him. The Gov
ernor’s private secretory ought to hove no
business outside of the executive ofllco, ex
cept such as concerns his own private
affairs. _ _____
Many of tho technicalities of the laws
should !> swept away. The technicalities
of the criminal laws have saved t<x> many
criminals from malted punishment.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Thoy Run Against Them.
From the Missouri Republican. (Deni.)
Mr. Blaine is advised by Galignani's Messen
ger that be can win the’sympathy of Scotch
men most effectually by visiting the Southern
States and lieing as e irdial there as he is in Scot
land. Oalignoni's does not understand tliaf Re
publican candidates run against tho Southern
Males, not in them.
Foraker an a Sucking Dove.
From the Washington Star (Ind.)
Gov. Foraker joins his imitation to that of
other prominent citizens of Ohio, urging the
President to pay a visit to their State. Its tone
is less vigorous than that of bis dispatch about
llie battle flags. The Governor doubtless wants
to show that, on occasion, he can roar you as
gently as any sucking dove.
Tuttle and Fairchild’s Boomerang.
From the Few York Herald (Ind.)
Tuttle and Fairchild have not received invita
tions to visit different parts of the country and
bring their political assets Tuttle, a cotton bale
and his military record, and Fairchild, a large
assortment of palsies— with them. They have
subsided, anil the little boom which they fondly
nourished has turned out a boom-erang.
They Withhold the Facts.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.)
These ignorant or reckless partisan critics
withhold the facts that the free school system
of every reconstructed State. excepting Virginia,
was enacted by Kepunllcan Legislatures or by
Republican votes in t raining and adopting State
constitutions; nnd in the cases of Louisiana.
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Caro
lina. a majority of tho legislators who enacted
tii" free school laws were colored men. In every
instance where colored legislators controlled the
legislation inaugurating free schools in the
South, they distinctly provided forfseparate
schools for the white and colored races. They
did it because both races preferred it, and be
cause it assured the more hearty co-operation
of both in maintaining universal education.
BRIGHT BITS.
The only time when a woman doesn't object
to having it said that she got her foot into it is
when she is trying on a No. -L. slipper. — Bur
lington Free Press.
A Philadelphia publisher says the revised
Bible has “fallen fiat.'' This is lucky for the
Bible. A book Hint falls Hat is less liable to
sustain injury than when it falls on the edges or
on ouo corner. Xnrnstoirii Herald.
On, for a thousand pounds of snow,
In which to make a lied,
While others swelter in the glow
Of sunbeams fiery red.
Washington Hatchet.
“How does it happen that there are so many
old maids among the school teachers?" asks ah
inquirer. Well, it is just jiossible that a girl
who has taught school is afraid to marry.
Siie knows just what sort of cubs most men
were when they were young .—Omaha Daily
World.
Miss Colpcasii Do you know, Mr. Guffau.
that pa remarked brutally the other day that
lie was only going to dress me one more sea
son.
Young Outran-Deah me. Miss Coldcash! how
1 should like to -aw—see you two yeahs fwom
now.— Town Topics.
A middle-aged man at tile beach, whose wife
thought the water too cold for bathing that day,
encouraged her in a novel wav. “No, Manor,”
he said, pointing to some iron water pipes that
entered the waves near where he stood; “don’t
you see? They're mimin' hot water into the
ocean an’ heatin’ her up.”— Boston Globe.
Now it Is the candy sweet
Gets shoved on to a back seat
And lies sad and forgotten in its case.
For the soda fountaiu biz,
With its cool, refreshing fizz.
Rakes in all the dimes and nickles in the place.
, — Dansville, Breeze.
A Disingenuous Hack.—Airs fash tied (dis
sembling, having engaged a conveyance by the
hour)—You must come over and take a drive
with me, my dear Airs. Censer. Our new car
riage is awful roomy.
Mrs. Censer (glancing at the carriage lamp,
not to lie bamboozled)—Yes, I noticed that it's
built for a number.— Tid Bils.
“I give thee aw), I can no more,”
The shoemaker said ho;
“The bench and tools are all my storey
You may as well lake me.
My sole is in my business, I
Shall stick unto the last.
And when I peg my latest, sigh
Shall be hand-sewed and fast.”
—New York Morn ing Journal.
Romance and Reality. Eastern Alan—So you
are one of those writers who demoralize the
youth of (he country with dime novels, eh?
Western Author—Do-moralize the youth?
“Yes, sir. Thousands of Eastern boys have
been so carried away with those tales that they
have run off from home, gone to the West to
fight Indians, and—dear only knows what has
become of them.”
“My dear sir, they have done no harm. You
will fina most of them earning an honest liv
ing ns waiters in hash-houses.”— Omaha World.
A comical incident was observed at Congress
Spring Park a night or two ago. There was a
very large attendance, and the concert was par
ticularly fine. For a wonder a couple of vigorous
dogs had eluded the watchfulness of the gute
keepers and were enjoying the freedom of the
parade ground. They were not long in finding
each other out and were on thi ■ best of terms.
It may have been that Gartland’s music “sooth
ed their savage breasts” into unwonted quiet.
As soon as it ceased, however, and a vigorous
clapping of hands began by wav of applause,
the two animals flew at each other w ith great
fury and hail as earnest a light as if they had
been enemies front puppyhood The dogs had
mistaken the applause as a “sick ’em” from
respective champions, and they fought it out on
that basis.— Saratoyian.
PERSONAL.
Mayor Francis A. O'Keefe, of Limerick, will
visit this country in September.
Senator Wade Hampton has been catching
salmon and getting sun burned iu Canada fora
couple of weeks.
It has been Intimated that. Prince-elect Ferdi
nand, of Rulgaria, will marry tho Archduchess
Valerie, of Austria.
After Jules Verne has finished his novel of
the civil war he should try his hand nt a muga
sine article on the battle of Gettysburg.
JointANN Alost, the Anarchist leader; Is
making a mint of money by his monthly publi
cation, which ig called The International Lib
rary.
Oufen Victoria is going to institute? an order
of literary merit, consisting of twenty knights,
fifty knights' companions and one hundred com
panions.
RonniT IjOuih Stevenson is again seriously HI
r.t Bournemouth. There is some fear that lie
will never be strong enough to make his con
templated American journey.
Mai. Gen. Baird, Inspector General of the
Oni'ed States army, sailed for Europe Satur
day. commissioned by the President to watch
tile maniuuvres of tho various armies abroad.
Rev Phillips Brooks fairly takes the breath
of droning English church-goers by his rapid
delivery. The Queen bus “commanded” the
distinguished American divine to appear before
her at Windsor.
It appears that Congressman Phelan, of Mem
phis. Is not. aft r all, the youngest member of
the Fiftieth Congress. Congressman Shively,
of Indiana, was born iu March, 1557, a year later
than Mr Phelan.
Bm Gkohok O. Trevelyan had his watch
stolen on Friday night after the political meet
ing whle'i he aililrcsso lln the Bridgeton Divi
sion of Glasgow, which he is contesting on be
half of the Gladstonians.
Benator-e Liter Daniel, of Virginia, will add
another to the list ot fmie toon in the Senate,
lie uses crutches owing to a misshapen limb.
Respite iiis tlis ibility. however, lie served In the
late war as Adjutant General of Ewell's division
It has been some time since tlie American
public has heard anything about Louise Michel,
the famous Parisian agitator. It seems she hn:
been devoting herself to literary work, and will
soon publish a volume of poems entitled ”Les
OccanHimt's."
Few people know anything uljout Marion.
Muss., where Mrs. Clrwland is now located.
The place lias boon described, however, ill a
well-known novel. Henry James, in "The Bos
te lians. " makes liso Ilf a village culled "Marmi
on" as a huekgrouud for Certain inuiortant in
cidents 111 Ills story. In a visit, to It. \V. (older,
of the Century, at. Marion, Mr. Janies received
(he inspiration w hich led to bis descriptions of
"Marmloty a "little straggling loosely clus
tered town."
Misa Rom: Elizabeth Cleveland has some of
her brother's prejudice neatest newspapers.
Bite writes to the editor or a Maine magaziuo
that she has not given iid literary work for
periodicals, she up s she has been au associate
editor with Mrs. Lamb Sims' June 1 on the
Magazine of Antrriran History To the Maine
editor she turner mys: "The untruthful and
InvontlviMiewspapertare at fault and not your
self My work in Mrs. Reed’s school for the
next year is that of an associate, not assist int,
and Is In connection with uiy historical work m
Mcacrai.”
FUNNIEST OF FAMILIES.
All Chronic Lauffhors from the Old
Folks Down to the Bable3.
Writing from Now York a correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch makes record of Jersey
oddity thus:
Jersey's laughing family reside in a large,
substantial house not far from tho Delaware
river, in Hunterdon county. The father and
sons are farmers and prosperous and well-to-do.
The entire family are chronic laughers, having
an affection of the muscles of tho mouth and
throat tliat compels them to give vent to ap
parent merriment at stated intervals. The
malady first appeared in the father about a
dozen years ago. He was seated at the dinner
table one day in the spring of the year, eating
steadily nnd not engaging in any of the conver
sation. Suddenly, without ant cause, he burst
into a loud lit of laughter, so extremely different
from his accustomed laugh that alt were at
tracted by it at once. Peai after peal of what
squirted like the heartiest kind of fun came
from him, and nothing would avail to prevent
it. The father continued laughing until about
sundown, when he suddenly stopped and fell on
the floor, completely prostrated. It continued,
recurring each day shortly after noon and in the
night about 8 o'clock, anti has ever since.
The trouble was very regular in its coming
anti going, and occassionatly broke forth at un
looked-for seasons. Once tho old tnan was
taken in church, just when the minister was ex
horting his hearers in the most solemn strains,
and spoiled the effect of the discourse lieside
disturbing the equilibrium of the clergyman.
Another time he was found by one of the neigh
bors along the road, lying beneath a bag of
flour, laughiiigata terrific rate. He has been ta
ken while driving home from the mill, and the
suddenness of the sounds frightened the horse,
causing it to run away and dump the man and
part of his load out in the road. For eighteen
months the father was the only one of the
household afflicted with the malady. Several of
them had complained from time to time of an
inclination to loin the father in tho laugh, but
none of them did so until nearly two years after
he was taken. When Susie the youngest child
suddenly burst into a similar tit during one of
her father’s attacks.
From that time on she has laughed at about
the same hours her fat her does. Olio by one the
remaining members fell victims to the strange
complaint until two years ago there was but one
left free, and that was Charles, the eldest son.
His long exemption led him to believe lie would
escape the malady. But he was mistaken, and
it is said he had his first attack while proposing
for the hand of a girl at Wilkesbarre, Fa. So
frightened was the maiden by Charles' queer
behavior that she ran from the room, and it
was weeks liefore the proper explanation could
induce her to see him again. She is now one of
thy family, and, escaping the malady, never
minds the hideous chorus of laughter which
twice a day' resounds through the house.
Several grandchildren have been horn, and in
all but one instance they were taken soon after
birth with stated attacks at the same hour as
their parents. Of course they do not laugh as
the older ones do, hut they crow and express all
the signs of baby glee twice a day. and never
cry while in that state. If the disease con
tinues in the new generation the laughing family
may ultimately become a laughing village.
YACCO SHAVES HERSELF.
A Monkey That is Rapidly Adding to
Her Stock of Accomplishments.
From the New York World.
Adolphe Beyer, of No. 19 Fulton street, Brook
lyn, has a monkey which, though young and
comparatively untutored, is learning a thing or
two. Yacco was bought from a ship carpenter
who brought her from Brazil six months ago.
Mr. Beyer has allowed her the run of the sheds
and back yard. When the warm weather came
Yacco elected to live on the sloping roof of the
shed and watch the movements of the men as
they came into tho vurd. Al ter a while she
could imitate a drunken man to perfection, even
to the hiccoughing and the leaning against the
wall with closed eyes.
A few days ago someone throw a piece of a
broken mirror to Yacco, and she clutched it and
ran with it to the highest ]><lint her chain would
permit her to reach, where she examined it
she does everything. Bhe was not
long in seeing her own sweet face, much to her
surprise. She then sat on her haunches, held
the bit of glass between her fore paws and
glanced cautiously over it at the back in the ex
pectation of seeing another monkey, but she
•lid not. She did this several times, and at
length, judging from the ray of intelligence
that swept across her expressive countenance,
realized the truth. She held on to the mirror
like grim death, however, and gazed at herself
every snare moment. These who know Yacco
assert that there is a kind of proud, intellectual
look on her face not observable there before the
looking-glass came into her possession.
On Saturday she surpassed herself. She had,
through a window, been watching her master
shave himself. When he was through she re
tired to a quiet corner of her shod, procured a
piece of hoop, rubbed her face with the back of
a feather, and then calmly began shaving tier
self. When discovered Mr Boyer says her face
was suffused with a blush, which, however, he
admits may have arisen from the friction caused
by the scraping process.
A OAT STEALING A RIDE.
Finding a Seat on the Truck Frames
of a Fast Train.
A dispatch from Kingston, N. Y., to the New
Ycrk Tribune says: There was a passenger on
the Saratoga and Catskill Mountain West Shore
train for Saratoga lust night who traveled with
out ticket or pass. The conductor bad entirely
overlooked him until the train rolled into the
union depot here, and even then he would have
escaped the vigilant eyes of the ticket puncher
but for the discovery of a peering trainmen It
was a sleek and well-fed out and he was sitting
quietly curled up on one side of the truck frames
of n baggage coach. Some of the trainmen
thinking to have a little sport drove the animal
down from his pereh. but he quickly jumped
to his place again and would not h ave it. He
went off with the train to Saratoga. It is be
lieved he belonged to some person on the train,
whom he had followed from homo, concealing
himself amoug the baggage, resolving to join
bis mistress on her summer vacation trip. An
effort to find the owner of the faithful cat was
being mode when the train left here.
Min© Shtyort.
I haf’ a friend, more faithful der vas none,
He sbtiek to mo. no matter vat I done;
He nefer slmeak off by un odder shtreet.
As of he was afraid he got to treat.
Dot friend he vas von of der noble sort;
Dot vas mine shaggy dawg. I call him Shport.
Dot friend of me vas’ujvayu youst so proud
As of I vas der biggest in der crow and.
He nefer take offense nt vat I say.
But alvays turn mine shcoldings into blay,
Uud of I efer sthrike him, den his eye
Look youst so sad as of he gone to cry.
Und of it efer happen dot I get
In troubles, vhy, lie shilck much closer yet,
Und of 1 say: “Good dawg, mine line old
Shport."
He feel so proud und happy as a lord.
Oft, ven I rest me by some shady tree,
He conio und lay Ids het oopou my knee;
Of he could only shpeak. 1 know lie say:
“Now, don't you fear; I keep all harm avay.”
Und ven I sometimes far avay must roam,
Und haf to leaf mine trusty Shport at home
He vas so glad to sis* me after vhile,
It seem to hie der dawg vas von big shmile
I told you it vas “gar l;ci" use to talk,
Der vas no friend so fait'fu) as a dawg,
He nefer "sour" on you, mark mine vord.
Dot vns der reason vhy I lof mine Shport."
Emile PicxriAKUT (“Mentor.")
Tho Innocent Youth and the Wicked
Driver.
From the New York Tribune.
Isaac Jahrouski, a youthful and innocent ven
der of .V. neckties, was standing at Ptirkuvoiuio
and Fifty-ninth street, w ben the driver of a bob
tail car stopped his bom* in front of the youth
and exclaimed:
"llelloa, let's look nt your tics." Isiac was
delighted, and as he quickly stcpiicd out to the
ear, visions of profit on a sc. tie floated
through hi< deluded brain.
"Dees is von lovely necktie—so cheep,” he
said in tones of deep admiration, as with a
smile lie hold out a muddy looking specimen for
Inspection. The driver look il. crammed ii into
bis iioeket und remarked wickedly as a grin
spread over bis face:
"Thanks, awfully." Then “Geotap!" lie
exclaimed sharply to Uhl horse, and before tho
astonished Isaac could collect his wita, not to
■speak of his 5e., the car*was half a I-lock
away.
“vere ees dot ruouey'" screamed Isaac ns the
dread night mure ivemed to Isieome a horrible
reality, and be realized that be and not his
wares had been “sold." But the “moneys”
came not. neither did tbe driver re-turn, anil as
the car vuntstied In ihr distance Isaac remarked
with an air of deep conviction, net altogether
unwarranted by his recent experience: ‘T vas
von fool.”
A pain In the bowels, from whatever cause,
may be relieved by Fred. Brown's Jamaica Gin
ger. Philadelphia, io*B.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Nearly 75 per cent, of tho inmates of the New
York City Insane Hospital are foreign bom, ilio
Superintendent states.
The Athletics of Bergen Po:nt, N. J., played
a game of base Iwill at that place a day or two
ago with a nine composed of well known
theatrical people, who appeared in costume.
Twenty young men competed last week at
Westfield, Mass., for a West Point cadetship,
and the examining surgeon was compelled to
rejected ten of them on account of *'tobacco
heart,’’ brought on by cigarette smoking.
Tiie Islo of Man steamer Queen Victoria is
claimed by her admirers across the water to be
Iho fastest steam vessel in the world. She re
cently ran from Greenock to Liverpool in nine
hour;, averaging a speed of 26.62 miles an hour.
A portion of the trip was made in,the teeth of a
gale of wind.
The Conservatory the organ of tho colored
folks of Chicago, has this to say about the Mc-
Garigle episode: “So you let McQorigle g**t
away, did you? I ’noweu it, leastways I ’spec ed
it. You all was too particular ‘bout bis health
an* his high toned ways, ff ho had been a col
ored man put in jail for grabbla’ a stray chfcken
they’d dun put him in a cHI and forgot he was
there. This way makin’ fish out o’ one man an’
dog meat out o’ ’nother ain’t right."
The latest fasting girl reported is Lulu Grim,
of Cumberland county, N. U. Lula is J 9 years
old, and until Juno 7 was robust. On that day
she declared that sho could not and would not
swallow anything. Since that day nothing, not
even a drop of water, passed her lips until July
2t'. the fifty second day of her long abstinence.
She then took a tablespoonful of chicken broth.
Her emaciation is not extreme after her long
fast, and she does not seem to suffer from its
effects.
Two bears chased a West Grcenleaf (Mich.)
man. He climbed a tree which was too small
for the bears' grasp, but they hung around the
neighborhood for five hours, while the man, who
had been to school and could read and write and
make a speech and vote, remained aloft because
he was afraid to come down. At the end of that
time his wife came over tbe same route, and,
upon meeting the bears, flapped her apron
like she was driving chickens out of the garden,
and they ran away.
New government envelopes, it is stated, are
to be issued about Sept. 10. The 10. envelope
will he blue in color, the 2e. green, the 4c. car
mine, the sc. Milori blue, the 10*;. chocolate, the
30c. Bismarck brown, and the 90c. pnrple. The
10c., 30c. and flOc. stamps will not be changed.
The dies for the new designs have been com
pleted. It is not probable that any of the old
will bo issued after this month, enough
being made from now on to supply the interval
from Sept. 1 to Sept. 10.
Hon. J. F. Casanova, of Philadelphia, was
sitting in his office reading, when he heard a
sharp click, and felt something enter his right
eye. On examination he found that a small
scale of glass had burst from his eyeglasses.
Going to a barber’s shop, he had a stream of
water injected forcibly, by means of a rubber
tube, under tbe eyelid', with the effect of wash
ing out the sliver of glass, which was about the
size and shape of a shad's scale. No harm was
done to the eye whatever. A short time before
the accident the frame of the eyeglasses had
been tightened.
The interesting statement is made in the last
municipal reports of the corporation of Chel
sea, near London, that, contrary to what has
generally been assumed in the relations of oc
cupation and health, the sewermen of that
place show marvelous health and vitality, not
withstanding they spend seven hours daily in
the sewers, often in cramped up positions,
dealing with offensive -and dangerous matter.
One of the sewermen, who is now pensioned off,
is R 6 years ok!, and was a sewerman for more
than twenty-eight years: another, who is yet at
work, is 74, and has followed this occupation
more than thirty years.
A stranger applied fqr work at slating on a
new house in Newark, N. J., a few days age,
and w*as given a job with another man. The
two men were working near the hole where the
chimney was to be placed, when tho stranger
suddenly disappeared while hij companion’s
hack was turned. The latter looked from the
edge of the roof to the ground, but could see
nothing. He then peered down the chimney
hole and could see the man lying in the cellar.
He had fallen through a hole sixty feet to the
ground. He was insensible when picked up,
and was revived with some brandy. An hour
afterward the stranger dragged himself to a
street car and was earned away. None of the
workmen knew tho man.
T. C. Crawford writes from London to the
New York World that the paper with the
largest income in England is the Daily Tele
graph. Its circulation is nearly 300,000, aud its
net profits are $1,500,000. It has n reserve fund
of 30,000,000. Tlio London Times has only
a iout 60,000 circulation. Its net income is
about $750,000. The Standard has 210,000 cir
culation. and clears about as much as- the
Times. The circulation of the Daily News is put
at 100,000, and its profits at $500,000 a year.
Tin* Graphic and the Illustrat'd Loudon News
each clear more Ilian ssoo.o9oannually. Lloyd's
Weekly is worth $350,000 a year to the pro
prietor. None of the London papers are any
thing like as enterprising as the great dailies in
t he United States.
Mrs. Beecher has finally agreed to write a
series of articles for publication in the weekly
papers of this country and Canada. The arti
cles will lie devoted mainly to social topic?,
ranging from marriage and divorce to the dress
and care of children, and thence on to society
in general, education, and the domestic duties
of women. It is officially stated that Mrs.
Beecher’s purpose in writing these papers is not
a money-making one, us the insurance upon iter
husband'slife, added to their savings, has placed
her beyond th<* reach of want. Since tho
great preacher’s death, however, the lady has
iiad little or no occupation, and as idleuess lends
..only to brooding in her case, she has wisely de
cided to go to work. She is now at the home of
her son-in law in Stamford, but will return to
Brooklyn in the fall.
The young King of Spain, says the Pall Mall
Gazette writer, was one year old on June 18.
The Tailor’s Guild of Madrid respectfully asked
permission of Queen Christiana to present his
juvenile Majesty with his first uniform. The
Queen regent cheerfully gave her assent, aud
now the tailors are busy cut ting out and sewing,
out of the finest cloth manufactured, tho small
est uniform that was probably ever made for a
monarch. It is elaborately trimmed with real
gold lace and much ornamented. The question
of rank arose and was submitted to the Queen.
On his first birthday the King, who was enrolled
in the army from his birth, was to be promoted.
In the Spanish army the officers wear the insig
nia of rank on the sleeve, hence it was necessary
for the tailors to know his degree of rank. The
Queen’s decision has not yet been made known.
A tiny sword, a veritable baby sword, with a
hilt of gold that is said to be a masterpiece of
the jeweller’s art, goes with this remarkable
uniform.
Istehestino STATISTICS relating to the new
insurance law in Massachusetts prohibiting life
insurance companies from discriminating be
tween white and colored people in rates have
been prepared by the insurance commissioner
and summarized by the Springfield Republican.
They show that nn.ro c lore.l women than men
live to he (to and 100, and more women die than
men. With the whites, however, the men don't
have as good a show. For, whether they are
married or single, more of them die than
women: but strangely enough, more widows die
than widowers. Thus a woman is much surer
of life while single or married than a man. but
in widowhood she must surrender any such phy
sical siuieriority. How regardless both widow
ers and widows are of these statistical con
clusions can bo seen in the fact that widowers
ar" much more prone to marry (ban widows, A
curious thing is that more colored people die
from hums than from any oilier form of neei
dent. Few of them commit suleldp and few be
conie insanb. One white man in every 484 goes
crazy, and one of the colored race in every I ff!*.
The Sacramento Her publishes a lively letter
from a Washington oorros|>nndent, who snvs:
"I met the wife of a Western Congressman in
the Corcoran (biliary here yesterday. While she
does not by any means represent a typo of
Washington women, she yet combines so many
traits that are found among them dial she Is in
u certain sense representative. She seems to bo
in a sort of transition stale in every particular
not only an to mental eharaclerisl ies, hut even
in her att ire and maimer. She had on a bonnet
that reached the furthest extreme of fashion, a
pair of thiclt-soleil and awkward hoots
that could only have l>oen made by a
buck-country cobbler. and her attire
vns an indescribably odd collection of various
styles and fashions. Immediately beneath the
new-fashioned bonnet she had an old-fasbioimd
bang. Her eyes were bright, her color perfect.
and she talked with an enjoyment of one who
was upder a perpetual spell of excitement In
summing ini her attire I should place it some
what ns follows: Shoes. Keokuk; bonnet. Peris;
cloth Jacket. London: gown, Washington: mas
sive gold chain. Chicago: parasol. Now York;
girdle. Vienna: accent.. London. lowa. Paris,
Illinois, New York. New Knglnntl. tlerme.nv
South Carolina and Ireland. That those wear
ing elements will shortly iovohc a dashing rep
ivaeutatiie American uoiutin is luo result to bo
looked luu.” ......
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