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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, IMS'.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings, — Zembbabel Ix>dge No. 15, F. and
A. M.; Calant he Lodge No J2N, K. P.
Base Bali,—Amateurs vs. Warrens.
Special Notices —Melons, J S. Collins & Cos,;
Cassimere Pants, at Jaudon’s.
Auction Sales -Crawford Ward Property;
Household and Office Furniture. I). K. Kennedy;
Hay. Etc , by I 1) laßoche’s Sons.
CnEAP Column Apt* tisemf.nts Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
XiOst; Found: MisceUae. - '
Coal and Wood - P ' Thomns.
Educational—Moreland Park Military Acade
mv. near Atlanta, Ga.
Legal Notice—Libel for Divorce.
Mean whisky and n pistol form the most
execrable combination conceivable. Both
should be banished from all civilized coun
tries.
A spasm of public indignation on account
of crime accomplishes but little. To make
the laws respected aey must lx* enforced
every day in tbe *..•.
A fact neve ■ yet satisfactorily explained
Is that the ir \ who ilrinks nothing but
xwhisky generally complain? more than
anybody elso when th; water works are out
of order.
Sam Jones, the vangelist, said to a Balti
more audience tho other day: “You may
call this silly talk, but I’m talking to a silly
crowd.” Tlie fact that the audience did
not withdraw proved the truth of his asser
tion.
The South will have :XKS votes in the
National Democratic Convention. It isstul
that the number cannot be 1105 or 1107. It
will be remembered that 500 was tho num
ber of interested patriots who wanted Gen.
Grant nominated for a third term.
The Georgia lunatic asylum is about to
become the means of making bad blood
among a number of gentlemen prominent
in the State. What the pooplo want is the
truth and it doesn’t make any difference to
them whose toes are trodden upon in the
effort to get at it.
Anent the Woolfolk murder, the indlvidu
al who sees a hero in every criminal is
again objecting to “trial by newspaper.”
If all trials were as prompt and as just as
th'ise conducted by newspapers there would
be less complaint about inefficient courts
and openly defied laws.
The Augusta Evening News says: ‘Via
vannah’s invitations were sent to Washing
ton last night. We'll let Grover will take
our hint and accept.” If the President
wishes to become a<‘(plainted with a typical
Southern city and to enjoy genuine Georgia
hospitality he certainly will accept.
It is stated that a Parisian is construct
ing a balloon which will carry up lUO ]>er
sons. The Democrats of this country are
preparing to send up a much larger number
of persons next year, but a balloon will not
be needed. They are preparing to s >ud the
entire Republican party up salt river.
In the bill for the divorce which she is
seeking from her husband, Mrs. Charles
Palmer, of California, alleges that he lias
slept with his boots on for the last eighteen
years, and .that she has concluded to stand
it no longer. She is quite right. Under
such circumstances patience ceases to lie a
virtue.
It is stated that one of the big redwood
laws of California furnishes “4,000 feet of
lumlier for Pullman car interiors. Perhaps
it is the knowledge of tho fact that bis car
is partly made of such a big thing that
makes the Pullman porter have such a
swelled head. He wants to live up to his
surroundings.
Says the Baltimore American: “The
United States Consul at San Salvador, in a
report upon the imitations of American
goods sold there, says that ‘the deadliest of
all the decoctions is labeled Kentucky
whisky.’ The original is bad enough—how
terrific, therefore must bo this imitation!”
The American evidently has no subscribers
in Kentucky.
Now that it uppears to lie definitely de
terminod that Secretary Lamar is to have a
seat on the bench of tho United States Hu
preme Court, there will doubtless be con
siderable uneasiness among certain Georgia
statesmen. If Senator Colquitt should he
roine Secretary Lamar's successor what a
pretty scramble there would be in the neigh
borhood of Atlanta.
George l’arkesisa Washington man who
desires a little cheap notoriety. He an
nounces that, he is willing to bet $5,000 that
President Cleveland will not lie re-elected
next year. If anybody should accept tho
bet and President Cleveland should be re
nominated, Parke? would have an opportu
nity of personally illustrating the fact that
a fool and his money aro soon parted.
lloil Roswell P. Flower, of New York,
Who is. just now in Paris, is said not to look
upon either Air. Blaine or Senator Sherman
as the choice of the Republican party for
President. He considers that Mr. Chauncey
M. Depew is the coming man. Well, it
makes little difference whom tho Republi
cans nominate, for the Democrats are
going to win in the contest next year.
President Arthur, although a Republican,
had a proper conception of tho position of
an office-holder. It is said .that an Indiana
man, who was at the Whit* House toward
the close of President Arthur’s term, said to
him; “I presume you are getting ready to
step down and out.” President Arthur re
plied: “Out, but not down. Up, to the
people.” It would be well if all office
holders understood that they aro but the
servants of the people aud that their posi
tiuus aro below the people, not above them.
How to Make Prohibition Successful.
The prohibition vote in the recent election
in Kentucky was very small. This is rather
remarkable in view of the fact tliat several j
counties of that State have adopted prolii- ;
tion under n local option law. The Prcihi- I
hitiou vote in Texas last week was a great
deal smaller than it was expected it would
lie. In fact, tho most enthusiastic of the
Anti-Prohibitionists did not estimate their
majority above 50,000, and they were very
natch surprised when the returns showed it
to he about double that. Next month Ten
nessee votes on a prohibition amendment
similar to that which was defeated in Texas,
and before the Texas election tho opinion
seemed to prevail that the Tennessee amend
vent would be carried. The result of tho
Texas contest, however, may so encourage
the Anti-Prohibitionists and discourage the
Prohibitionists as to bring about a reaction.
In that event there will Vie another prohibi
tion defeat to be recorded.
In reviewing tho various prohibition con
tests there ore several things which are
quite noticeable. Ono thing is that prohi
bition commands comparatively few votes
when it is mixed up with politics. Tho
Prohibitionists do not, in any considerable
numbers, vote for prohibition candidates at
either national or State election’s. Another
tiling is that when prohibition is presented
as an issue at a State election, although not
connected with politics, it does not com
mand the full prohibition strength.
These things would sixtm to indicate that
the people do not seem to regard prohibition
as a political question nor as a national or
State issue. They look upon it as a local
issue. If this conclusion is a correct one
then the Prohibitionists would display wis
dom by giving their entire time and atten
tion te the local option plan, because it has,
ns a rule, beeu followed by success wher
ever it hits been tried. Thero are several
strong reasons in its favor. ()ne is that it
does not afford politicians im opportunity to
uso prohibition for the advancement of their
political fortunes. Another is that prohibi
tion i.s not forced upon communities that
do not want it, and in which, therefore, it
cannot ho enforced. It is adopted only
where tho way has boon prepared for it, and
where public, sentiment is sufficiently strong
to insure compliance with its regulations.
If Texas and Tennessee Prohibitionists
will adopt the local option plan their States
will accept prohibition much sooner than if
prohibitory constitutional amendments are
insisted upon. Maine has had a State pro
hibitory law for twenty years, and yet the
restriction upon the sale of intoxicating
liquors in her largo towns is comparatively
slight. In this State, where thero
is a local option law, and where
four-fifths of the counties have
adopted prohibition under its authority, tho
sale of intoxicating liquors Ims l>oen almost
wholly stopped in the prohibition counties.
Whisky is carried into some of those coun
ties in jugs, but even tho jug traffic has
ceased to lie as noticeable ns it once was.
The young men are being educated to bo
lievo in prohibition, and as tho good effects
of the reform become more clearly recog
nized the prohibition sentiment grows
stronger. Tho anti-prohibition counties,
particularly those which are adjacent to the
prohibition'counties, become infected, as it
were, with prohibition ideas, and, without
much agitation, they aro ready almost be
fore they are aware of it to join the pro
hibition column.
The great, difficulty with which prohibi
tion has to contend is that too many of t hose
who are prominent in the prohibition move
ment insist ui>on making prohibition a po
litical rather than a moral question. They
want to make it serve their personal pur
posses. Neal Dow, for instance, said a few
days ago that the first duty of the prohibi
tionists was to destroy the Republican party.
He hopes, of course, te build up a Prohibi
tion pai-ty upon the ruins of that party.
Tho freer prohibition is kept from polities
the greater will its success be. The truth of
this experience is daily teaching.
The Terrapin Bill.
Representative Wilson, of Camden county,
is strongly opposed to the bill to protect ter
rapins which passed the House on Tuesday.
Ho lias announced his purpose to ask for a
reconsideration of the bill, but there is not
much probability that his request will lie
acceded to. The bill is a wise one, and it
did not require much argument to convince
the lloubo that it is. The terrapins are fast
disappearing from the waters of the State,
because, they are captured out of seamen and
tints prevented from increasing.
Representative Wilson, perhaps, thinks
that the bill is in somo way intended to de
prive people of bis color of a highly ap
preciated privilege, but a little considera
tion ought to eonvice him that, the restric
tion proposed is not a discriminating one,
and if it becomes a law will operate t > the
IxMiefit of colored, ns well as white, jieople.
Tho aim is to give terrrapins a chance to
multiply. If nothing is done to protect,
them there will bo none in tho waters of the
State in a very few yours.
Not many years ago terrapins were
plentiful in this locality. They were caught
in large numbers, and tho market in this
city was well supplied with them. Now,
however, comparatively fow are caught.
Tho reason lor their scarcity is well under
stood.
Tho supporters of the bill do not desire to
deprive anybody or any class of a privilege
that ought to bo possessed, lly limiting the
privilege of capturing terrapins to certain
months in tlv.i year its value will bo greatly
enhanced, while if it remains unlimited it
wiii soon become worthless. The colored
fishermen will lie as free to capture terra
pins in tho months in which the bill itermite
them to lie taken as the white fishermen.
If Representative Wilson will give tho bill
a little more consideration ho may become
an advocate, rather than an opjiogent, of it.
The North Georgia cracker members of
the General Assembly made merry, it seems,
over the bill for the protection of terrapin
introduced iu tho House by Hon. Ira E.
Kmitb, of Glynn. It would iterhaim benefit
the cracker members in question to travel
in this direction. Under competent in
structors they might lte mode te learn to
distinguish between terrapin and the North
Georgia “tarry-pine.”
There is just now a demand from several
quarters in Georgia that the pistol shall be
made to vacate the hip-pocket. W hen those
who are sworn to execute the laws cease to
carry deadly weajtons pistols will not so fre
quently be found in other men’s liip-pnektts.
As things aro, nearly every man vested with
brief authority sets a pernicious example in
the matter of carrying concealed weapons.
The New York World continues to make
wnr upon President Cleveland. It is diffi
cult to distinguish the World's politics from
those of its neighbor in the tall towor—tho
Tribune.
TIIK MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1887.
Why Murder is Common.
Tho minister who officiated at the funeral j
of the murdered Woolfolk family in Macon, |
on Sunday last, seized tho occasion to jioiut j
out tlie failure of the law to prevent mur- j
dec. He said that there were too many |
loopholes by which murderers might escape
punishment, and that as long as this was
true murders would continue to be numer
ous. illustrating tlie ease with which those
who maliciously take human life escape pun
ishment, he said that ho once heard a young
man rejieat the advice given him by a dis
tinguished lawyer, namely; “If ever you
find that you must have a personal collision
witli a man, get one point of the law on
your side and then kill him.”
It is useless to deny tho frequency of
murder. Scarcely a day passes but that
from ono to half a dozen aro recorded in
tlie newspapers. No part of tho country is
exempt; for tlie papers of tlie* Nortli and
West, as well as those of the South, often
contain tlie horrible details of atrocious
murders committed in their respective sec
tions. It is seldom that tho perpetrators
escape arrest, but those that are adequately
punished are few in number. The minister
who stood among the coffins of the mur
dered WoolfoJks and declared that there
were too many loopholes by which murder
ers might escape punishment told tlie truth,
and ho also told tlie troth when he said that
as long .as this was true murders would con
tinue to be numerous.
Tlie value of the advice given by the dis
tinguished lawyer to the young man men
tioned by the minister was fully appre
ciated by tlie man who, when he saw a
friend engaged in up angry controversy
with another, cried: “Make him strike you
and thou kill him!" It is a lamentable con
dition of affairs when, with a single trivial
point of tho law on his side, a man may
commit murder with impunity. It is a still
more lamentable condition ot affairs when,
without just provocation, a man may take
tho life of another and yet go unpunished.
Time and again have both these conditions
prevailed in tliis country, so that instead of
preventing murder, as it was meant to A>,
the law frequently does not even cause the
hand to hesitate that is about to commit a
cruel and dreadful crime.
A police official who has devoted nearly
all his life to the supervision of the criminal
classes, recently made this statement:
“There are thoso who say that tlie publica
tion of the details of murders in tlie news
paiters leads to other similar crimes. This
is a mistake. The reason why so many
murders are committed is because the news
papers do not often publish the details of
tho conviction and punishment of the per
petrators. Of course, the newspapers
would publish these details if they were ob
tainable. Unfortunately the courts seldom
convict murderers, and the newspajiers are
forced to publish the dotaiis of acquittals
when for the good of the country they
should iiealiloto publish tho details of linng
ings. I have repeatedly been told by mur
derers that they would not have stained
their hands with blood if they had believed
tliat their necks would lie in danger.”
Testimony like tliis cannot bo successfully
refuted. Murders are frequent because the
law is not properly enforced.
In Georgia it is time for a change for the
the better. It is well known that unpro
voked murders have recently frequently
disgraced the Htate. This is n plain state
ment, but it admits of no contradiction.
There are men in Georgia, guilty of foul
murder, who walk abroad when and where
they please because the courts failed to do
their plain duty. In future such a shame
ful tiling should lie impossible. The lietter
element in every community should insist
upon the rigid enforcement of tho law.
Judges and solicitors and sheriffs alone do
not constitute the courts. Juries are vitally
important parts of them. Juries convict
or acquit. In order that they may render
efficient service they should be composed of
the best citizens, and to this end such citi
zens should not avoid jury duty. Let the
needed change come, and let it come
quickly;for when it is known that the law
cannot lie violated with impunity tho dread
ful crime of murder will cease to be so
alarmingly common.
Why tho Charter Cannot he Granted.
Tho prospect that the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad will get a charter from
Marietta to Atlanta from this legislature
is not promising. There may bo reasons
why it should have a charter, but the
reasons why it should not lmvo one at once
art' much stronger.
To grant it tho charter it wants would be
to greatly lessen the value of tho State road.
The jieople own the road and their represen
tivos have no right to injure their property
without excellent reasons for doing so. If
the Marietta and North Georgia were per
mitted to parallel the State road from Ma
rietta to Atlanta (he latter property could
neither l>e sold nor rented for as much as it
can now.
It has not l)oen very long since the Ma
rietta nnd North Georgia was voted a dona
tion of in bonds from the Htate. It
is most too soon for it to expect to receive
nnotlior favor that would damuge the Htate
niueh more than SIOO.IXIO.
lot tiie Htate road he sold and then the
legislature will lie at liberty to consider the
application of the Marietta and North Geor
gia for a charter. Indeed the very great
objection to granting this charter at this
time is a strong argument in favor of selling
the Htate rood.
Col. IV. C. Lewert, of Lima, 0., is tho
business nnd political associate of ex-Gov.
Foster, more generally known to fame ns
“Calico Charley.” Col. Lewert said to a
reporter in New York a few days ago:
“There has never been a time in John Hlier
man’s history when ho was so certain to
hnvo a divided delegation from Ohio as
now. I went to Toledo and helped to got
tlie Hherman resolution passed. It has left
the glove thrown down to men who will
take it up in the districts and divide tho
Htate against Hherman surely.” All of
which can hardly lie eomfortiug to Kher
mau, however much he may profess to bo
gratified by his little “indorsement.”
The Han Francisco Alta is authority for
the statement that tho voting citizens of
that city come from sixty different political
divisions of the world, Egypt L ing about,
tho only rountry not represented. To lie
successful tlie politicians out there doubt
less find it necessary to master many lan
guages—that, is, of course, provided tho
voters have not I earn ml tlie meaning of tho
word* “Insidle” and “patronage.”
The insanity dodge has boon played often
enough in tho courts of Georgia. There is
ou record more than one cn.se in which a
murderer hns osea|*sl the gallows by plead
ing Insanity. If it is claimed that a mur
derer Is insane lot tliat question lw settled
independently of tho criminal charges.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Sister Bolva Ann Lockwood.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
Tbnv is considerable likelihood that Sister
Belva Ann Ixxrkwood will run for President next
year. She is solidly in favor of her nomination
and she majority of tho Belva
Lockwood party.
Th© Days of Jobbery are Over.
From the Sew York Herald (Ind.'s
The Democrats no sooner reached Washing
ton, however, than they demanded that the
country b;* r>ut in a state of defense. The con
tracts which were given out yesterday show
that the party in power is both earnest and
patriotic. The days of jobbery are over, and
tho people will by and by have a navy.
Five Possible Candidates.
From the Missouri Republican (Dcm.)
Ben Butler ha-snot yet joined the Anti-Poverty
Society. This in liable to mean that t here will
hi* live Presidential candidates in the field next
year. With a Democrat. Republican, Anti-Pov
ertyite, Butler and a Prohibitionist in the field,
the most fastidious voter will have a chance to
find someone approaching his ideal.
A Boom That is Resting.
From the Washington Star (liul.)
Tlie little syndicate of politicians and news
paper correspondents who undertook to Ket
Senator Stanford “s]>oken of" as a possible
Presidential candidate sufficiently to induce him
to ‘’open a barT' must he intensely disgusted at
tile outcome ' f the Pacific railroad inquiry in
California. The Stanford boom is laid quietly
to rest under the drooping branches of the
weeping willow tree.
BRIGHT BITS.
There are and g days, and they aren’t fit for
anything else.— Burlington Free Press.
A Bf/TT this time look out for the man who is
in the hands of his friends. — Boston Globe.
The: title of George W. Cable’s latest lecture
is “Cobwebs in the < ’hurch." It may le guessed
that .Mr. Cable makes some sweeping state
ments.—fx/uv/Z Citizen.
The girl who fills her essay with “the true,
the beautiful and the good" may have learned
how to make cake, but we must refuse to be
lieve it.— Pittsburg Dispatch.
“This is n sad and bitter world," remarked a
gentleman of Irish extraction. “We never
strew flowers on a man's grave until after he is
dead. ’ Washinyton Ha tchet.
“Thisre i evidently a great deal to lie learned
about women,' says a Philadelphia editor.
There is, indeed. an<l the best way to learn it is
to oak some other woman about it.—Somerville
Journal.
A neat proposal of marriage was made by a
South Yonkers man the other night, who said:
“Now, my dear, you say you have $50,000 in your
own name, why not put it in mine? — Yottkers
Statesman.
Fair Saturn has a silver ring,
The moon a ring of flame:
The sun has got no ring at all,
But he gets there just the same.
—Nebraska State Journal.
Mose Schaumburg, Jr.—Vader, vat ish a gap
ital grime?
Mose Schaumburg, Sr.—Yen a man takes less
den .*> per slient a month for dot gapital vat he
lends out. l)at vas von of de most gapital
grimes dot der vas. Texas Siftings.
Possible Patron What do you charge for
your paper, mister?"
Country Editor Fifty cents a year."
“My stars and stripes' That’s cheap."
“Yes, I put the price so low that no one sub
scriber will think lie can bankrupt mo by stop
ping his paper.—lndianapolis Journal.
A doctor who had been attending a dairy
man's hired girl called at the house the other
day. “How’s your milkmaid?" he asked of the
farmer when he came to t he door.
“It's none of your business how our milk is
made," was the indignant response, and the dor r
slammed most emphatically.— St. Paul Herald.
“Young Blabb is a very diverting fellow,
isn't he?"
“Very, indeed, sir."
“He's a lawyer, is he not?"
“Oh, ’yes, 1 thought you understood that.
It's his business that affords him opportunity
to be He's continually diverting trust
funds, you know.— Yonkers Gazette.
“How did it happen that, you didn't find that
man guilty?" asked a New York man of the
foreman of a jury in Dakota; “the evidence was
dead against him."
“1 know that,," was the reply, “hut if we'd a
found him guilty we'd uv had to hang him."
“Certainly."
“Well, we’re paying taxes enough now. Hang
in's expensive.— Washington Critic.
“I am determined to be embalmed when T
die," remarked the young man that boards on
South Division street. “I’ve been reading that
they can inject poison into you and wrap yon
up and take you out in 3,000 years' time fresher
than Lazarus. They tell me a mummy 8,000
years old is worth $*25,000, rind, as it's the only
chance I'll ever have of being worth that much,
I'm going to clutch on to the mummy act when
I die," and tbe irreverent young inan resumed
his corncob in silence.— Buffalo Courier
“I wish to report a case of larceny," she said,
as she entered the police station yesterday.
“Yes m. When did it occur ?"
“Last evening."
“At what place?"
“< )n a ferry boat, sir."
“What are the particulars?"
“Why. 1 was a with a young man—young
man. and
“Oh, you were. Well, go on."
“Ana tell his name."
“Of course."
“And that I never saw him before?"
“Certainly."
“Then 1 wont report the case, sir. You are
too particular, and the ring wasn't worth over
$3 anyhow."— Detroit Free Pres*.
PERSONAL.
Dai A m Murska, the famous Hungarian singer,
wifi come to this country next fall.
Thk smallest jockey in the country is De Long,
a must inappropriate name. He weighs only (W
I rounds.
IjONDon Truth says tho Prince of Wales hns
pivs'nted Buffalo Bill with a horseshoe pin set
with diamonds.
Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts, has a daughter
named Kvelyn, who is said to be the finest Latin
scholar iu Boston.
Senator Hamttojc has gone to Dagger's
Springs, on tho North river. Va. It is tlie fisher
man's paradise, und several notable fishermen
are there.
The Princess Pignatalo is now a waiter girl in
a second-class Vienna e if\ She quarreled with
her relatives lant winter and tried life in a Lon
don music hall for a brief period.
Samckt C. Davis, the richest man in Ft. Louis,
is worth $8,1*10,000 all inherited at the death of
his father a few years ago. Ho is about 50
years old, and works at his dry goods house
from 8 to 4 o'clock daily.
William Wirt, of Detroit, on returning from
a Southern trip a year ago, planted some cotton
seed in Ids garden. The plantsare now growing
finely, and Mr. Wirt thinks if tin* heated term
continues he will be able to harvest a small crop
of cotton.
Ma.l Gfn. Siemens, who lately died in Berlin,
had hitrodm- and nuury imjxirtant improvements
intollu* material of tho German artillery. It
wnamainly owin' to bis influence that Rrunp
mins instead of tho English were adopted in th ;
German navy.
Ex-Senator Thurman recently said: “I am
only a poor old ghost wandering along the banks
of tin* Styx anil waiting for old ChAron to come
over In his boat for me." List full, in ( iticin
uati, ho said: “I'm waiting for the grim ferry
man to row me over the Styx."
President Cleveland, if is stated, will bo en
tertained for u day or t wo tlie latter part of this
month at the Democratic Club house, on Slide
Mountain, in the (UtskilD. The clubmen are
Judge Alton B. Parker, Judge Maynard, Public
Printer Benedict and a score or more of other
prominent Democrats.
M. (laknikr, leading man in Sarah Bernhardt's
conijiany, his challenged M. Rochefort to a
duel. Rochefort published in his pa|>er a do
rogatory article concerning certain incidents
which occurred while tlifc company was at Rio
Janeiro. If Pool effort will not light. Gamier
will sue him for libel. The code of laws has to
take second place under the code duello in
France.
At a Savage rlub dinner in London recently
Wayne Moveagh, of Pennsylvania, made a very
doo r hit. In tho course of a long si>eoch be
said to his English auditors: “We admire your
pictures-aud buy them; we weleorne your
actor* and pay them: vre your lv>ksand
stujil there.' The s|e%k**r*s frankness was i*j>
predated hr hie h-Mirers and they wtn enthusi
astic Iu thou applause.
Walt Whitman has lMien tho target of very
oousldemble attention from artists iu the last
six months. J. W. Alexander has eomploted a
life size study in crayon; Mr Mone, the Boston
sculptor, has modeled a head aud a statuette of
the jniet in his big chair: Huliert 11. Gilchrist, of
KiWittn l, has fhiidied a portrait in oils; Angus-
Gis t. (iAud**u is planning a trip to Philadel
phia to take studies for a bunt, aud Thomas
taking has begun work on a no: ir*it.
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE.
The Summer Line Between Modesty
and Immodesty.
It is alleged that to the pure all things are
pure, and that much-abused motto is true of
Narragansett, writes a correspondent from that
charming summer resort. The people and their
pranks ate innocent enough, and when mad
emoiselle removes h**r bathing suit she removes
entirely all the conditions surrounding its
use, and becomes once more a young per
son of great conservatism in matters of
modesty. The peculiar contrast is
sometimes funny. This morning a young lady
of 18, whose Christian name appears to be Mary,
appeared on the I**aeh in a blue bathing suit
and conventional dark blue stockings. She was
so little bothered by her short skirts and long
legs that she fairly waltzed into the breakers,
in merry indifference, and afterward took a long
walk up the beach in the company of a gentle
man bather, with only one thickness of cloth
between the most of her and the soft clemency
of the weather. When she came out she chatted
unconcernedly with several ladies, and tramped
around with easy indifference until, by a cir
cuitous route, she reached her hath house and
disapj>oare<l. This was at 1:3:30 o'clock.
At 4:30 o’clock she sat down on the top step
of the hotel stall’s, and soon lducame absorbed
in the fascinating pages of “Allan Quatermain.”
Soon she forgot everything else. Lost in the
centre of Africa, she became unconscious of
the social amenities of America. Becoming
cramped in her position, she crossed her right
knee over her left. Her gray cashmere dress
was tight, and she gave it a twitch. Heratti
tude to any one entering the place and ascend
ing the steps thereupon became unconventional,
if not picturesque. It must have been so to
some extent, for her companion of the morn
ing as he entered the yard and stopped at the
foot of the stairs made a remark. Ilis eye
twinkled and his tone was at once patronizing,
mildly reproachful aud humorously malicious.
He said:
“You’re getting to be a big girl now, Mary.”
Iu less time than it requires to road it, Mary
had done several tilings. She hail straightened
out her feet, slapped down her skirt, blushed
to a deep ochre tint even to the hack of her
neck, and hurled “Allan Quatermain” with all
her strength at the gentleman, who, though he
dodged, refused to stop laughing. Then, as the
ludicrousness of the situation struck her, she
began to laugh too. Though the stockings were
different, the liml>s inside them were precisely
the same that she bad exhibited that morning
to a far greuter extent and without a blush.
Circumstances appeared to alter the case, as
they always do w ith women.
COURTSHIP IN GREENLAND.
Ardent Lovers Must Sometimes Find
it Vexatious to Play a Go Between.
From the Manchester Courier.
The preacher is invariably resorted to, both
by young men and maidens, as the matrimonial
agent. The young man comes to the missionary
house and says to him. “I want to marry.”
“Whom?” asks the missionary. “Have you
any one in mind?”
“Yes,” answers the lover, “but, she will not
have me. I want you to speak to her.”
“Have you not spoken for yourself?”
“Many times, hut she always says ‘No.’ ”
“That is nothing,” says the pastor; “you
know the ways of maidens. Does she like you?”
“It is difficult to find out. She will tell you.”
1 The pastor accordingly sends for t lie girl, who
comes willingly enough, knowing what the mes
sage means.
“Well, iny daughter,” he observes, “it is time
you should’think of marriage.”
“I never mean to marry,” is the invariable
and conventional answer.
“That is a pity,” says the minister, “because
I have a good husband for thee.”
“Who is he?” she asks.
The missionary then tells her his name—al
though she knows it as well as he does—and
launches out into the lover’s praise. He is
strong, good-looking, kindly; he caught two flue
whales when his companions took none, or
whatever else can lie said to his repute. After
i he catalogue of his merits has been recited the
girl replies;
“But I think him a good-for-nothing.”
“All, well,” says the missionary, “thou art not
wise. There is no lad can fling a harpoon as he
can. 1 shall soon find him a wife."
He then wishes the girl a good day, affecting
to believe that the interview is over. But she is
sure to linger, and after a blush and sigh she
whispers: “So it is particularly your wish, Herr
Pastor? Tdo not quite like him,” with a deep
sigh, “hut if you——” At this point she vir
tually hands over the business to the minister,
who has to tell her that she knows she loves the
lad: that she would not have come if she bad
not thought of accenting him and that nothing
is wanting hut to ass the blessing of God upon
their union.
The marriage, curiously enough, usually takes
place upon t.he very day on which the bride has
emphatically protested that she w ill never have
the bridegroom.
Louise.
You say you are not cruel, yet
You tease
My very heart out. Yes, you do,
Louise!
Of course it’s yours, to do with as
You please;
My heart's not mine since I saw you
Louise.
But barriers more bitter than
The seas
You put between ray heart and me,
Louise.
Ah, me! I envy all things, e’en
The breeze
That plays about your lily brow,
Louise.
The skies that bend above you, and
The trees
That shelter all your loveliness,
Louise.
I envy birds that sing to you,
And bees
That hover o’er your rosy lips,
Louise.
I envy blossoms blowing on
The leas,
Since they may lie upon your breast,
Louis;.
Yet I offend you! How can I
Appease
You? Is it my fault that I love
Louise?
In Cupid’s hands I’m helpless. He
Decrees
That I shall be the lover of
Louise.
Nay, do not frown, my sweet! Upon
My knees,
I swear I can’t stop loving you,
Louise. M. N. B.
A Boston Merchant With a Lone Head.
From the Boston Transcript.
A Briston capitalist, who is a leading merchant
as well as a lrir.'c owner of real estate, is noted
for the interest he takes in young men in cleri
cal positions. Once a frightened hank cashier
waited upon him to say Mint hy the mistake of
one of the clerks a cheek of the merchant's had
got into the pigeonhole marked "protested.'’ As
Mr. Millions might have heard a rumor that Ids
check had been protested the cashier hastened
to explain and said that he would disetiarge
promptly the young man who made the mis
take.
"And why discharge him, sir?” mildly asked
Mr. Millions.
“Because lie put your check in the ‘protested’
Ix>x."
"It is a good many years,’’ said Mr. Millions,
ns lie tilted hack in ids ofllce chair, and after his
fashion harpooned his blotting pad with his p m,
"since 1 was a young man, bui my memory is
that I sometimes made mistakes. If I had been
discharged for every mistake I made I should
not have made my fortune. The young man
whose mistake is pointed out to him and for
given is the most careful man In the offlee ever
afterward. 1 think my business relations with
your bank are likely to he prolonged if the young
man is not discharged.”
And the young man was not discharged.
Kaiser and Steam-Hammer.
From the Vienna Ejctraltlatt.
The Emperor displayed great interest in the
working of the ste.uu hammer, and Herr Krunp
took the opportunity of speaklug in high praise
of the workman who had special charge of it,.
"Ackertnann has a sure eye,” he said, "amt can
stop the tailing hammer at any moment. A
hand might tie placad on the r.nvif without fear,
and tic would slot) the hammer within a hair's
breadth of it. "Let us try," said tho Emp-ror.
"hut Dot with a humon hand—try my watch,"
and he laid it, a i plondid specimen of work
richly set wit b brilliant*, on tie anvil. Down
cam* the jinntense mass of steel, and Acker
'mu tin. with his band on the lever, stopped it
just the dxth of an-Inch from the watch. (Vljeii
lie went te liaud it back the Ktmutror replied
kindjy. “No, Ackermann, keep the watch in
memory of an mtercet lug moment." The work
man, embarrassed, stood with outstretched
hamt, not. knowing what to do. Kriipp came
forward and took tho watch, saying, “I'll keep
it for you if you arc afraid to tak- it from Ids
rnaj sty." A few minutes later they ngatn
passed the spot, ami Knipp said, "Now,'you can
take the Emperor's present from inv liand,"
mid ha died Ackermann the watch wrapped up
in a I.UOU-oiark note.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Chicago is the largest railroad centre in the
world. It has twenty trunk lines. Buffalo has
eleven roads.
The rains that have fallen in some parts of
New England lately are declared to have been
the most copious known for twenty-five years.
The planters of Brazil are now' so successful
in obtaining laborers from Europe that some of
them will will free their slaves within the next
two or three years.
Two carriers attend to tho wants of Salem, |
Or., where the rree delivery system was inaugu
rated on Aug. 1. One of them rides a bicycle,
the other a tricycle. .
Coffee Rice is the name of a gentleman
who has just been appointed three tor of one of
the agricultural districts of California by the
Governor of that State.
Thomas Mora.v, Associate Justice of the Ap
pellate Court of Illinois, says his mother, a na
tive of Ireland subject of Great Britain, took
out papers and became a naturalized citizen of
New York State as far back as 1836 or 1837.
A colored man of Hopkinsville, Ky., thought
to scare a deaf mute of the place by suddenly
rushing out on him as he passed. He was suc
cessful, for the mute was so alarmed that he
drew a revolver and shot five balls into the
practical joker, killing him.
Sixty thousand orange trees are on their
way to California from Japan, where they were
shipped on board of an English bark in the har
bor of Yokohama about two weeks ago. With
them also comes a miscellaneous assortment
of over 00,900 trees and shrubs, indigenous to
Japan, which it is proposed to acclimatize in
California.
A nugget of gold weighing 156 ounces and
five pennyweights was recently found near
Breckenridge. It is worth as a specimen close
to $5,000. It is said to be the largest lump of
gold ever found in California, but one almost, if
not quite as large, was taken from the Little
Annie mine in Sunpnit district, Rio Grande
county, late in 1876. Australia produced the
largest nugget of gold ever discovered. It
weighed 130 pounds, and was found at Ballarat,
near Geelong.
An imniensedrainagc work undertaken by the
Russian government contemplates the recovery
of the vast region known as the Pinsk marshes,
in the southwest of Russia, near the borders of
Gatticia, and which hitherto has
munication, not only between the Russian dis
trict on either side, but also between Russia and
Austro Germany. Up 1o the present time about
1.000,000 acres have been reclaimed by means of
the construction of several thousand miles of
ditches and canals.
A remarkable family of musicians, known
as the “Familia Montenegro,” have just left
Chihuahua, Mexico, for an extended tour through
the United SiAtes. This group is composed of
Mr. Pancezo Montenegro and nine children. The
father has been their instructor, and is now the
director of his pupils. Some of his children are
graduates of the (’onservatory of Music, located
at the City of Mexico. They furnish both instru
mental and vocal music, and play every instru
ment from the bass violin to a drum. The
youngest virtuoso of the group is Raffaela, a
little girl only 3 years of age. and she, it is said,
handles the drumsticks to perfection.
In a young man named Hugh
Fries, who had been once confined in an asylum
for feeble-minded children, was taken before a
court charged with theft. In reply to a question
from the Judge, Fries said: “In regard to my
insanity, one of the physicians in the asylum
said I was crazy and the other said 1 was not.
You know doctors sometimes differ.” “What
is your own opinion about it ?” asked the Judge.
“Self-praise is no recommendation,” smilingly
answered the defendant. “The craziest man
out of the asylum will say he is sane. Others
may look upon me as insane. I hardly know,
but I think lam perfectly sensible.” “You ap
pear to lie, and it ought to lie a consolation to
you that you think so,” remarked the Judge, as
the prisoner was placed back in the dock.
“It must lie done,” said the President, ac
cepting the St. Louis invitation. “This remark,”
says a Washington correspondent of the Pliiladel
phia Record , “so pleased the St. Louis delega
tion that they made it a watchword of their
visit. While they were here, when they went to
Mount Vernon and when they left for home,
every other word seems to have been ‘lt must
ho done.’ Whether the proposition had been to
take a drink or the train, to pay a bill or a call,
the reply chorused by as many of the delegates
as heard it, was always the same. ‘Tt must he
done.' Before they left for St. Louis they had
Tt must be done’ painted on a long strip of cot
ton and tacked on the side of their principal
car. When the President shall get out to St.
Louis he will find it everywhere. In the next
campaign, according to some of the Missourians,
the transparencies will all hear this legend:
’For re-election, Grover Cleveland, of New
York—lt must be done.’ ”
A Jersey City police officer on Friday had
his attention attracted to a milk wagon in which
were a middle-aged man and a girl apparently
about 15 or 16 years (fid. The appearance of the
couple and the rig indicated that they were
from the country, and the Sergeant, after ques
tioning the main took them to a station house.
Idic man gave his age as 40, and sai i he was a
milkman from Camden. N. J. His companion
was also from Camden. He told a queer story*.
He said his wife left him some time ago and
went to live with a negro. He decided to drive
to New York and sell his horse and wagon, and
started on Sunday night. On the outskirts of
Camden he met the gild, who told him she had
left home because ncr father beat her. She
asked him to take her with him, and he con
sented. They drove all the way from Camden,
journeying by night, and resting during the day
in a hotel or farm house. A Justice decided to
hold the couple until the authorities of Camden
could be communicated with and some informa
tion obtained about them.
Somewhat of a sensation was caused in Phila
delphia Thursday last by the death of Melville
Resse Dill, brother of United States Marshal A.
H. Dill, while under the influence of ether being
administered by Dr. Agnew and Prof. William
White, a prominent Professor of the University
of Pennsylvania. The patient was undergoing
a safe, but painful operation under the knife,
when lu sullenly stopped breathing. Squibbs'
ether was used, and was administered on a towel
folded in the shape of a cone, in the ordinary
way. The patient took it very well, and in
about ten or fifteen minutes was completely un
der its influence, whereupon the operation was
begun. The ether used was pronounced by
both physicians as undoubtedly the best that
could be procured. The method of administra
tion was the one employed by these physicians
for many years. Neither of them in their indi
vidual practice had had, it, v.as stated, a fatal
case before. The high standing of t e physi
cians and the prominence of Mr. Dill in Demo
cratic political circles in the State caused a
sensation.
•At the time of the census of 188) there were
ten cities in the United States with more than
3)0.000 inhabitants each. They were New York,
Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St.
Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco and
New Orleans. Their populations aggregated
4,914,897. In 1887 the number of cities with
more than *.*00,000 inhabitants had increased to
fourteen, the four additional being Buffalo.
Cleveland, Pittsburg and Washington. The total
jMipulation of these fourteen cities was esti
mated at 6,798,090. It is estimated that there
are iu addition to the cities alwive enumerated
thirteen with populat ionsexccccliug 100,000 each,
as follows: Albany, Alleghany. Detroit.
Indianapolis, Jersey City. Kansas City, Louis
ville. Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark, Provi
dence. Rochester and St. Paul. These thirteen
have au estimated population of 1,750.000. There
are also thirteen cities with over 60.(XX)each,
whose combined population is 902,000. Alto
gether these forty cities hare 9,450,090 inhabL
tains, or nearly one-sixth of the population of
the United States.
Archaeologists and antiquarians will rejoice
to hear that an important discovery has been
inadv* near the town of Adatnville, France. A
few days ago a Paris architect, M. Mace, was
superintending some alterations in the park of
St. Maur when Ills men suddenly dug up some
mouldering bones. The architect immediately
stopped the works, and, jumping into the trench
which had lieen dug, liegan to scoop out with
his own hands what apjw ared to be parts of
skeletons. He next disinterred an iron lance
head. the form of which and its incrustation of
rust denoted its antiquity. M. Mace now set his
men to work again, and they soon brought to
light a large collection of swords, helmets,
laueeß and bracelets*. Next came a row of
tombs, which looked as if they had lieen hastily
built and arranged w.thout order. It was sup
posed l hat the place Was the bury teg ground of
the Itagaudi, a tribe of ancient Gauls, who were
driven from the mountains of by
Maximum and were shut up in tft. Maur. That •
town was. in fact, called St. >U*ur-le Fo.<**•*
owing to the cuttings made by the Romans, mid
Adamville was known of old the camp of the
Bagaudi. The Bogaudi remained in possession
of their entrenchment on the little peninsularor
Bt. Maur. and their dead who were numerous,
were burled lifter the Homans left. It is also
supposed that some of the famous Theban Le
gion, which wa* massacred by Diocletian, es
caped to St. Maur. Some or the arms and
bi*d\3lets which have been discovered are iu a
uood titato of uc-icrvuUou.
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For Old and ITo^mg
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tliild.tliedelirate female or lulirif
old u|i j ! as upon the vigorous uiuu.
Ilfs Pills
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MURPHY B ROS ” ci
44 has won the lavor of
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