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4 C|c|flffrning|lftos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. Registered at the I J ost Office in Savannah. Morning Nkws is published every Uy in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 2‘> cents a week. 00 a month, $0 U) for six months and $lO (X) for one year. The Morning News, mail, one month, $1 00: three months, $’ UJ; six mouths, $5 00; one year. Sid 00. The Morning News, bp mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), three mouths, $2 00; six mouths. $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri*Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 JJS; six months. $2 50; one year. $6 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. 55 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 25 Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News, Savannah, (a.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX To NEW Meetings— Magnolia Encampment No. 1,1. O. O. F.; Sons and Daughters of Debora. Special Notices—Strayed or Stolen, J. O. Sullivan A Cos. Summer Goods at Cost—Lindsay * Morgan. Cheap Column- Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Board; Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com pany. Prices to Suit the Times—L. &B.S.M. H. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE— Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE - OY SEPTEMBER 3d, 1887. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily anri Weekly News will he issued Sept. 3. It will contain a complete and comprehensive review of the trade of the city for the past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everything that helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and the different hrauches of the city’s wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear Idea of the city"B business for the year ending Sept !. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than hy buying copies of the Morning News Annual Special Edition and sending them to their friends nnd correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containing an accurate account of (he business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy and activity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, iner chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure, should feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in presenting to the world the inducements which it offers to those who are ••eking homes in the South. This Special Edition will he sent to all sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of ext ra copies will he mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and spare in its columns can lie ob tained upon application to the Business office. A woman in Maine has made a collection of between 800 and '.*oo specimens of candy. She ought to be proof against taffy. With a population of 25,000, Kingston, N. Y., has no police force. Kingston is either a model city or its treasury is empty. Henry S. Ives is sanl to have but $5,000 that he can call his own. No doubt some of bis victims wish that they were as well off as he. It is reported that Mr. Blaine is sorry there is such a place as Ireland. Perhaps this is the reason he hurried out of the Emerald Isle. It is said that the list of centenarians in cludes more women than moil. Tho fact suggests that tea aud coffee nre better pre servatives than beer and whisky. The world does move. Banker Holman, Of Lsis Angeles, Cal., who is a Hebrew, is about to present the Sisters of Charity with $35,000 toward the new orphan asylum which thoy propose to erect in that city. Tlie French are mourning because the sar dines have abandoned the coast of their country. The people of the United States would sing paeans of joy if tin- sardines—po litical sardines—would seek another abiding place. The New York Tribune is authority for the statement that 8,000 Boston servant gii’ls carry liooks or music rolls on the streets when they go out, thinking thus to deceive the people as to their occupation. Tbcy will never succeed in their purpose un til they also wear eyeglasses. Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton is positive that ex-Secretary of War Roiiert T. Lincoln will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency under any circumstances. The ex-Posttnas ter General ought to know, for he seems to be the ex-Secretary of War’s guardian. The Georgia editor who recently said in Washington that tho Democrat* of this State would adopt a protective tariff platform next year either knows nothing about public sentiment or imagines that a handful of politicians controls the party in tlie State. He will discover his mistake when the Geor gia Democrats meet in convention. It is a wise soldier, whether his skin lie white or black, who lielieves discretion to be the bettor part of valor. The heroes at Thunderiioit who, on Monday, ran away from a loaded pistol recognized tlie fact just stated, and they aLo doubtless remembered thut he who fights—or docs uot fight—oiul runs away may live to fight—or run away —another day. Mayor Hewitt, of New York, was led into making a very funny mistake, a few days ago. It seems that a man wrote to him complaining that a crowd of “disorderly persons” congregated daily on the second Hoor of No. 113 Fulton street, and that thoy “looked like gamblers.” The Mayor or dered tho police to raid the place at once. His surprise may be imagined when it was developed that the second floor of No. US Fulton street was occupied hy tlie Fulton Street Prayer Meeting Association, an or tani'oii'.im well known all over too country. Cotton Mills at tho South. The current number of Bradstreet's has ] some interesting statistics relative to Kouth j orn cotton mills. It has complete data from | 141 establishments, and it compares these i establishments with the full number re j ported in the census of 1880. The compari- I son shows an increase in the capital invested I in cotton manufacturing concerns within ' the Inst seven years of 15.4 per cent,; in the number of spindles 87.8 per cent.; in the number of looms 58.1 per cent.; in the number of employes 21.6 per cent,; in the amount of annual wages earned 83.2 fier cent.; in the ainonnt of cotton used 40.0, and in tho number of yards of cloth inade 40.0 per cent. The amount of capital reported to be in vested iu cotton manufacturing in the Southern States in the census of 1880 was $18,365,897. There is invested in the 141 mills from which Bradstreet's has returns $21,074,284. The number of operatives in 1880 was 17,250; in the 141 mills there are 20,384. Tho amount of wages paid in ISBO was $2,848,000; in the 141 mills there is now annually paid 83,305,969. In 1880 tho number of bales of cotton used was 188,784; at the present time in the 141 mills the number is 208,850. The number of yards of cloth made in 1880 was 152,761,- 238; the number now made in the 141 mills is 228,345,384. About all the cotton mills are in a pros perous condition and arc making satisfactory dividends. Froip 1881 to 1885, however, few of them made any money. The business of all of them was greatly depressed. In 1880 there was a marked improvement, which has continued until the present time, with tho exception, perhaps, of some of those en gaged in the mqpufactnre of yams and warps. It is claimed that there is over production in this branch of cotton manu facturing. Some of the manufacturers are afraid that the American market, to which they are limited by tho high protective tariff, will not be able in the near future to absorb ail the cotton goods offered it. A president of a North Carolina corjiorntion, engaged in the manufacture of plaids, speaking of pos sible overproduction, says that the “annual production may glut the American market —all we have or are likely to have so long as the throttling policy prevails in this country. This policy is in conflict with tho natural laws of trade, and, as I think, unwise and dishonest.” There is nodoubt that the high protective, or, ns tho North C’aroiina manufacturer calls it, throttling, jiolicy is unwise, and that it is so even those who now strongly advocate it will very soon have to admit. The South is certain to become a great manufacturing section, and it must have an outlet for the part of its products which cannot lie absorbed by tlie home market. That outlet can only be obtained by re ducing the tariff. Bradstreet's quotes a Massachusetts paper which says that the New England manufac turers are beginning to feel the competition of tlie South, which has the advantage of being near the raw material. The admis sion is made that Southern enterprise will before very long monopolize the manufac ture of common goods, and that the North ern manufacturers will have to turn their attention to the manufacture of fine goods such as are now imported in such vast quantities. The'outlook for manufacturing in the South is certainly a very promising one. The Indemnity Lands. The administration intends to carry out its policy of restoring to tho public domain the unearned indemnity lands. There is no doubt that this policy is a correct one, nnd that it meets with public approval. The order of Secretary Lamar, issued on Mon day, withdrawing the indemnity lands of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad and other roads will open for settlement about 30,000,- 000 of acres, much of which is excellent land. Tho Atlantic and Pacific has had every opportunity to make good any claims that it may have to these lands. It has not improved its opportunity, although repeat edly warned that the government would not respect its claim much longer. Indemnity lands are not a part of a rail road’s land grant. Thoy are lands with drawn from tho market by executive mi thority, ami the purpose in withdrawing them was to have a reserve from which to make good a land grant that was found not to contain as many acres os granted. The Atlantic and Pacific has not yet earned its land grant. It built its line a few miles into the Indian Territory, and there stopped. It should lose its land grant as well as its indemnity lands. The government has waited for years for it to complete its line to the Pa eifle, nnd as it does not seem disposed to do to do so it has no right to expect that the public lands set apart to aid it will con tinue to lie held for its benefit. There are thousands of people seeking lands in the West for homes, and it is unjust and unfair to permit corporations which refuse to com ply with their contracts to keep out of mar ket for years lands which nre so much needed, nnd which, if opened to settlement, would soon be improved. The great land grant railroad companies were so accustomed to do as they pleased un der Republican rule that they thought they could act the same under Democratic rule. Thoy have found out their mistake. The Guilford Miller case first openod their eyes to the fact that they could only expect jus tice, not favoritism, from this adminis tration. The Now York Times says: “In addition to having tho biggest cotton crop this year that ever lias boon known, the South will have the further advantage of being nearer out of debt than at any time since the war. Records show that not only was there a gen eral and liig reduction of mortgages on farm lands all over the South lust year, but Southern busmens men, lately in New York, say that their fanners have been able to make this crop without having to worry over anything like the ordinary needs for ‘advances.’ Millions of dollars of cash will lie ready for investment by Southerners just as soon ax this cotton crop is marketed.” There is no doubt that the South is lietter off in nil respects than it has been at any other time since the war. Prosperity lias ceased to be spasmodic, and has become steady. The statement is made that 1,003,000 watermelons have Isjeu* (hipped’North and West from Horn fell county, S. C. /during the present saasou, and that the net profits have been at least 850,000. If the state ment is true Bqrnwoll county has found something that pays a great deal better than cotton. Russia has not yet kicked Prince Ferdi nand out of Bulgaria. It may be that in stead of kicking him out she means to lead him out by the ear THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. Grant tho Charter. Tho more railroads Savannah lias tho greater will lie tlie trade which sho will con trol. If other roaiLs leading townrils her are built they will necessarily jioss through sec tions of country which are now to a great extent, without railroad facilities. Much of the trade of these sections will be enjoyed by her because of the facilities for reaching her. The citizens of Savannah, therefore, who are all interested in promoting her pros perity, ought to exert whatever influence they have in favor of railroad projects which promises to give her a boost. In all parts of the State the people are active in behalf of railroads. They are aware that rail communication does more to build up a country than almost any other thing. They do not depend wholly upon others to build tho roads hut they lend a helping hand themselves. The result is that new roads are all the time luring projected, and there is at the present time a great deal of railroad building in the State. There is now an application pending in the Legislature for a charter for a road which is called the Savannah, Macon and Birmingham line. If the charter is granted there is good reasons for thinking that it will he built, provided the Savannah, Dub lin and Western is not built. Some rich men of Alabama are ready to build that part of the line from Birmingham to the Georgia State line if they are given assur ances that the part from tho State line to Savannah will be built. The application for a charter for this road is opposed by those interested in tho Savan nah, Dublin and Western, and why ) Be cause they say it will parallel their line, and injure it. They say, further, that they will have their road ready to operate from Sa vannah to Macon by March 10, 1888. They base this statement on their contract with the United States Construction Company, which is now engaged in building the road. Their objection to the granting of a charter to the Savannah, Macon and Birmingham company appears to be a very good one, until the proposition of the latter company is heard, and then it doesn’t seem to be so good. In effect the Savannah, Macon and Birmingham peoplesay: Let us have our charter with the understanding that it shall not be valid until after March til, 1888, and shall not lie valid at all if the Savannah, Dublin and Western is built by that date, or within a reasonable time thereafter. This appears to tie very fair. If the Savannah, Dublin and West ern people build their road, they will never be bothered by the charter to tlie Savan nah, Macon and Birmingham. It certainly looks now as if they were in good earnest about building it. It is difficult to under stand, therefore, why they oppose the appli cation of the Savannah, Macon ami Bir mingham for a charter. It cannot hurt them if they nre in earnest in what they are doing, and if they are not in earnest, the way will be open for Savannah to secure another road if a charter is granted to the Savannah, Macon and Brrmnghani. Our aim is to help Savannah, and to that end we would like to see the Savannah, Dublin and Western built, and we would like to see a charter granted to the Savan nah, Macon and Birmingham, in order that Savannah may lie in a good position to get another road to Birmingham and the West if, for any reason, the Savannah, Dublin and Western should fail to be completed. We do not see that under the circumstances the Legislature has any reason for refusing to grant a charter to the Savannah, Macon and Birmingham. A Rather Novel Experiment. The New York Times gives an interesting account of an experiment soon to bo made in the New Jersey State prison. It seems that there are H6O convicts in the prison, and that taken altogether they constitute about as rinigh a set of men as were ever sheltered lieneath a single roof. To main tain the strict discipline of the prison and keep them in proper subjection requires eternal vigilance on tin* part of the keepers. A physiognomist would shudder at tho sight, of some of the faces were he to review this troupe of criminals as in the lockstep they I Kiss to and from the shops in which they are kept at hard labor. Some of them have committed murder, and would not hesitate to dye their hands in blood again for the sake of regaining their free dom. Still the State treats these men as kindly as it can, and the oxjieriment that is about to be tried, while novel, lias a merito rious object. On Sept. 1 a night school will lie opened in the prison. Books, slates and charts have been receivix), and such convicts as wish to improve their minds will be allowed to attend the school. It will lie in session two hours every night. There are 140 convicts in tho prison who can neither road nor write. Special pains will lie taken with such of these ns attend the school, in order that they may leave tho prison with at least the rudiments of an education. The teachers will be convicts who are able to instruft their fellows. There are among the cropped heads men who have been bank clerks, one who was a bank president, and many of whom it cannot be said that their early education wits neglected. Several have expressed their willingness to teach in the night school. Keeper Patterson is cred ited with having originated the idea. A primary school, in which the teachers and pupils are convicts, and the monitors turn keys armed to tho teeth, will lie a novelty, and no doubt its work will lie watched with interest, and copied by other similar institu tions if it turns out to he at all successful. Tho Washington correspondent of the Now York Herald , says private advices from St. I sin is indicate that tho 1 Jeniocratie politicians of Missouri nre making a quiet effort to secure tho National Democratic Convention in that city next year. It ap pears that Mr. John G. Priest, an ex member of tho National Committee from Missouri, has boon doing a little electioneer ing since ho started East, a few weeks ago. Tho first results of this work, as shown by Mr. Priest, nre a square commitment of the present members of the committee from Ohio, Indiana and New Jersey for St. Louis, and an assurance from ex-Sonator Barnuni, of Connecticut, that his influence will also be thrown in favor of the Missouri metropo lis. Quite a number of other members of the committee are mentioned as favorable to St. Louis in case tho convention cannot lx? earned to the city of their first choice. In the South, it is said, there is a general feeling that the convention should be held in New York city. John Guy Vassnr, the last of tbo Vaesnr brothers, of Poughkee|jsio, N. Y., is danger ously ill at his home in that city. Take his brothers, John Guy did much for the cause of education, lie having freely given aid to the famous Vnssar College whenever it was needed. HU death will causo widespread rezrot. CURRENT COMMENT. Riddlobergrer Not Wanted. From the Chnttanooaa Times (Deni.) And what, pray, has the Democratic party done that Rlddleherger has been led to expect Ite could forward his schemes by joining it ■ He should be “warned off." To accept this maud lin fellow into Denioi'ratic fellowship would helti instead of hurting the Mophistophelian Mahoue. * That Touching AppeaL FYoro the New York World (Dem.) The piteous appeal of the Massachusetts Re publicans to the Prohibitionists, to save their State from lapsing into the control of the dread ful Democrats, is really touching- to the risibili ties. It has not lieen equalled for naive selfish ness since a wily fox warned an honest farmer against exposing his chicken coop to the ra pacity of the egg-gatherers. The True Democratic Policy. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) It is luster to keep up the whisky tax to pay the soldiers’ pensions, and the tobacco tax to pay the interest on the war debt. By so doing the tax on the necessaries of living and on the crude materials out of whioil we make metals, cloths, medicines and the like may lie lessened, and the lot of poor men and workingmen bo made comfortable. That is the Cleveland policy, and it is the true Democratic policy. Senator Stanford's Memory. From the Philadelphia Times ( Ind .) Senator Stanford's memory is now so bad that when Gov. Pattison asked him what he hail done with $171,000 spent by him for the Central Pa cific railroad m December, iftq). he could not recall anything about it. If the Senator were to die to-morrow there would lie considerable room for a will contest, on the ground that the old mao's mind is breaking up fast. Presidential layouts need better preserved intellects than that. BRIGHT BITS. A poet says: "Behind the clouds the sun is shining.” There is Just where we want it to sb iue —Dcijtipiarc .4 merican. Ada—Why, one of your cheeks is red as fire and the otlier pale as a ghost. Eil.v-Yqs, Harry was on oae side aud I was afraid mamma would see us on the other.— Town Topics. Indignant father Did you have a hand, sir, in that kissing scrape bark in the tunnel; Harvard youth itraveling with a gay party)— Yes, paw, I had somebody's hand; don't know whose 'twaiv. liurlingtuil Free Press. “Tnz K. of L. must be getting ready to paint things red,” remarked the Judge. •■Why?” asked the Major. "They have issued a circular calling for a re turn to 'cardinal' principles.” —Pittsburg Chron icle. You may lecture on “patiently hearing your cross,” And lecture front now till next Christmas; But the effort is futile, the labor is loss With a maiden whose cross is strabismus. Washington Critic. Ram Johnsino, an Austin colored man, has a mule t hat balks. After Satn had belabored the mule for an hour the mule trotted off all right. "Dar," said Sam confidently to the mule, “dar, yer see.. Kf yer would only <lo wbafs right we moot lib tergedder jes like twobrudders.”— Tea - os Siftings. “TiißtFr and economy, my son,” said the old man, are the important elements of success in this world. Together they will accomplish won ders.” "Then I hope, father,” responded the young rnun earnestly, "you will practice both for my sake.” —New York Sun. “My head, " said he to his lady love, “I've been busy all day; not manual labor you know, but brain work- which is the hardestekind.” “Yes, indeed; 1 know it must be for you,” and there was a look of tender sympathy in her eyes which aroused him. She was quite in earnest. Ho changed the subject. —Shoe anti feather Reporter. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight, give us a frost again just for to-night; I'm so weary of weather so hot; the sweat it pro duces would fill a bright pot; weary of collars t hat wilt like a rag, weary of toiling away for the sivag. A snow storm or blizzard would go very nice; put me on ice, mother, put me on ice.- Atchison Globe. Stranger (at ticket office window) —When does the next train start west? Ticket Agent (unintelligible grunt). "Is it a through train or way traiu?” Grunt. “Caii you tell me where I can find a time table?" Grunt. "Young ntan. I am the new Superintendent of this road, and am delighted with the evidence you give of long experience in your posit oi. Your salary shall be raised at once.” —Omaha World. "Dan." said a contractor to one of his trusted employes, “when you are down seeing about the lime this morning I wish you would mention to Dempsey that 1 would like to have that little bill paid. You needn’t press it, you know, but just mention to him in an off-harid manner." "Yes, sorr.” "1 got the money from Dempsey, sorr,” said Dan on his return. "I'm very glad; you merely alluded to it in an off-liand way, I suppose?” "Yes, sorr; I handed him the bill and towld trim if he didn't pay it I would let off me hand and give him a wipe in the jaw that he wouldn't forget for a while, and he paid it at wanst. Boston Courier. PERSONAL. Chief Engineer Melville looks ruddy rnd strong, and says be never felt so well in his 1 fe. W. 8. Caine, 31. P.. is setting out on a jour ney around the world. He will tarry long in America. Babelsbikg is surely a strange name for the plaoain which Emperor William expects to ob tain rest and quiet. Rev. Dr. Bi rchard looks weazened and pinched, the wrinkles of his face overlapping each other, and his small eyes reminding one of the ferret. Buffalo Bill intends to give a fall season in Paris and a winter season in the Coliseum in Rome. His European engagements extend over three years. Mich ael Katkoff, in 1841, was a student at the University of Berlin, and was much liked by l i.i colleagues personally, though they regarded his political ideas os eccentric in the extreme. Minn Celeste Stauffer. the New Orleans belie to whom Mr. Tilden left $lOO,OOO, is at the St. Sauveur, Bar Harbor, and goes in for row ing and other out-of-door exercises. She is one of the best dressed young women there. Hev DkWitt Talmaoe and Iris family are at the Rodich House, Bar Harbor. Both of his daughters are handsome girls anil dress in striking costumes. Mrs. Talmage h.as very handsome diamonds, and young Talmage sports one of the most stunning “blazers” at Bar Har- Isir. Dr. Norvin Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, thinks that a great many men break down f-oin overwork. He be lievs in evening amusements that take the mind away from the shop after work is done. He seldom works at night and tries never to do so. T I). Sullivan, the poet-journalist, proprietor of tlie Nation and author of "God Save Ire land," wears his advancing years pleasantly and with Juvenile spirits. Tnis is his (loth year, but age has only whitened his hair and close trimmed beard, not chilled his heart nor nutnlied his fancy. The "dresser” of the season at Bar Harbor is Miss Adcle Horwitz, the daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. Benjamin F. Horwitz. of Baltimore, and, a* was the case last season, she has “easily dis Inured all competitors for the Champion Frock Stakes for fillies. ’ tut one of her admirers put it the other evening. Victor Emanuel, the Crown Prince of Italy, has gone to live at Naples. On Nov. 11 next he will attain Iris majority, and will set up u splendid establishment In the |ialaee of Caserto, the home of the old Bourbon kings. He bids fair to succeed to the popularity enjoyed by his father and grandfather. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is a most en ergetic in in when on his travels. 11l Paris he rises at 6 in the morning, and works und studies with the enthusiasm Of a young scientific man on a foreign tour. He takes copious notes on all lie sees and hears, and it Is feared that he may contemplate a book of European travel. The Crown Princess Stephanie, of Austria, bo*contributed s une chapters to her huslMtnd's grnn. work. "The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture." The editorial committee insisted’upon paying her by making a band some dejnn.il <n a savings batik in the uoose of Htephanlo's babv daughter, the A rctkduches* Elizabeth. Not only Count Juliuß Andmssy, the Hungs rian statesman, but also his son. Count Julius. Jr., was iu danger during the recent burning of lhe former's astle near Tisza Dob. Count An drossy, St ~ who had lieen suffering from n lame fool. Insisted on |ierso;ially directing the efforts tn prevent the spreading of the flames anil was almost buried under (ailing teams: while his sou cut his hand Imdly iu helping a man to escape turouab a window. A Substitute for Prayer. From the Albany Express. A minister w ho is at present sojourning amid the verdure-clad lulls of Greenhush tells the fol lowing: Somewhere in the country a number of ministers were wont to meet together on stated days, for purposes jiertaining to their calling. As might be supposed each meeting was opened with prayer. But one day they met at the house of a brother who had a stock of excellent cigars, which he passed around freely. Soon all the brethren were putting away, and before they knew it they had taken up the busi ness of the meeting. Suddenly one of them re membered the forgotten prayer aud suggested that somebody make up for lost time. Bnt one of the others was equal to the occasion. "Never mind now, Brother X-—,” he said, “wo have opened this meeting by offering up incense. Let that suffice.” A Tasto of High Life. FYom the Detroit Tribune. "Last season my maid of all w ork asked early in the spring if she might have the month of July. I said yes. not realizing the trouble there was in getting help," said a prominent Detroit la.ly. "As I could not find a servant I decided to close tlie house and go for the month to one of the fashionable beaches near home. While watching the bathers the morning aftenl arrived I noticed one, a pretty looking girl picturesquely dressed, who struck me familiarily. As she came near me I recognized her as ray maid Julia, notwithstanding she hail changed her hair from dark hrowu to a pale gold, and I spoke to her. To ray surprise she entirely ignored me, never showing by even the raising of an eye brow’ that she recognized me or the children. On returning to the hotel I found that she was registered under the name of a friend of mine, a well-known society young lady, whose name she kept during her stop there, vhy didn't I expose her* What would have been the use ? She wore better clothes than 1 did, was bright and pretty, and had gathered around her the cream of the society there. The probability is that if I had said anything no ono would have believed me.” Life on the Farm. From the Toronto Truth. At the foot of the hill the milk house stands. Where the Balm of Gilead spreads his hands, And the willow trails at each pendent tip. The lazy lash of a golden whip. And an ice-cold spring with a tinkling sound Makes a bright green edge for the dark green ground. Cool as a cave is the air within, Brave are the shelves with the burnished tin Of the curving shores, arid the seas of white That turn to gold in a single night. As if the disk of a winter moon Should take the tint of anew doubloon 1 Burned to a coal is the amber day, Noon's splendid fire has died away, And lodged on the edge of a world grass-grown, Like a great live ember glows the sun; When If falls behind the crimson liars Look out for the sparks of the earl)’ stars. With the clang of her hell a motherly brown— No trace of her lineage handed down— Is leading the long, deliberate line Of the Devons rod and the Durhams fine; "Co-doss!" "Co-boss!" ami the caravan W ith a dowager swing comes down the lane, And lowing along from the clover bed Troops over the oars with a lumbering tread. Under the !ee of the patient beasts. On their tripod stools like Pythian priests, The tow-dad boys and the linsey girls Make the cows "give down” in milky swirls. There's a stormy time in the drifted pails, There's a sea-foem swath in the driving gales. Then girls and hoys with whistle and song, Tw > pails apiece meander along The winding path in the golden gloom. And "set" the milk in the twilight room. Big Stakes at Baccarat. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. In an experience meeting of gamblers re rently John Pondir, of Philadelphia, said: "Ben Wood, a brother of Fernando Wood, is the hero of the greatest game of faro ever played in America—a game without limit—at which in the early morning hours, after all night's play, Ben Wood rose up. after winning from John Mor risey, in his own gambling house in Twenty - fourth street, $106,000. No wonder John Mor l issej’ died poor. I took part in the biggest baccarat game ever played in this or any other country 1 had moved to New York. Schuyler and Jimmy Watson, the latter one of the best known sports in the State of New York. kept a liaccarat game at 11 West Twenty-fourth street, New York. The game was just becoming pop ular in this country. Jimmy Watson had in vited August Belmont, Lloyd Phoenix, Charles Keep, myself and one or two others I need not name, to a swell dinner at his gambling house. And it was a dinner. He gave us to understand that a little game might be expected after dinner, and without limit. I got all the wine I wanted, and was in bad luck. Six hundred dollars was mutually agreed upon between us players as the limit for each turn. I played till l o'clock in the morning, and to my disgust found myself $4,500 out, and rose up from the table thinking I hail enough to Igst me all night, and lay down on a sofa in the front room till Charley Keep woke me up to take a bottle of champagne. I was not too sleepy to do that. My courage woke up. too. Keep's father-in-law. was worth $5.000.(X>0, and he himself commanded unlimited cash, as did overy man at that board. I said: Charley, give me $1,000.’ He said, ‘Certainly, aud as much more as you want.’ 1 went at it again with varying fortune, pausing to hold my breath with astonishment to see Belmont make a bet of $60,000 on one turn. Belmont won By 4 o'clock in the morning (it was a hot August night in 1871) I was winner of $ll,OOO, besides my $l,OOO debt to Keep and outside of my loss early in the evening of $4,500. Lloyd Phoenix ivon, too. We nearly ‘busted’ Jimmy Watson, for the entire party took from the hank that August night $BOO,OOO. Jimmy Watson had to mortgage all his stud of fine race horses anil his Jersey farms, and what has become of them 1 know not—but that was a great night.” Nancy Fat. Prom the Chicago Herald. Not long since there was a brief noticeinlhe papers of the death of Mrs. < ten K B. Elliott, ■vife of the negro Congr ’sstnan who a few years ago took such an active part in South Carolina politics. Fossibly no woman of the present cent ury has experienced such a sudden etiange from indigence to opulence, or has risen so quickly in the social scale Mrs. Elliott was owned by a family in Columbia. S. C. lier name was Nancv, hut on account of her | 1 imp figure she bore the suggestive appellation of "Nancy Fat.” She was an amiable, humble creature. Happy and indolent, with no am bition or pride of character, she was as con touted while engaged at the most menial toil and drudgery as when, arrayed in fantastic and gaudy attire, she danced as belle of tho shucKings, During tile period of Republican rule (Jen. Elliott, while in Columbia, was one afternoon driving behind Lis splendid pair of liays. He was dressed in his usual style of black broad cloth and lavender kid gloves. At the corner of one of the streets he saw a picture that proved t<> be tho lcev to his destiny. It was "Nancy Fat." She tiad just drawn a bucket of water from the pump, and it was balanced on her tur tianed head, the crystal drops trickling down her brown face ami neck, and she laughed good naturedly. Her skirts were tucked high, and there was a generous display of bare feet aud ankles. The effect was instantaneous, and the Congressman in broadcloth was hopelessly in fatuated with the merry.ignorant water carrier. The result was a speedy courtship and mar riage. Tlie transformation was as wonderful its it was sudden. From the waslituh and cooking stove she became mistress of a magnificent home on one of tho fashionable streets of Columbia. Gan. Elliott was a man of brilliant intellect and uubounded ambition. Me was one of the leading spirits of the Republican party, and was regarded as one of the most intelligent negroes who was ever known in the South, tie was from Boston; he was a finished scholar and a successful lawyer. Ilis alliance with the un tutored Nancy caused general surprise. Yet she was received by his friends with courtesy and kindness. Oije day 1 was passing her house in company with her former mistress, wheu we espied a sight that was droll and amusing. Beside a marble fountain, surrounded by rare exotics, sat Mrs. Elliott. She wax arrayed in a costume of most extreme elegance. Peeping from liejueath her skirts of amber satin we plainly saw her bare brown feet. As she saw us she qfiickly tucked them under her skirts, and exclaimed good naturedly: “Now. old missis, don't luugh at your nigger; you know i never did like tho shoes. If the General saw me be would scold, but every chance I get I just slip them off. All this finery oan't make me forget the happy days when 1 was plain Nancy Fat. and now lam Mrs. Gen. Congressman Elliott." Much amused, we passed on. and left her with her liare feel in the damp sand of the fountain A few years later Mrs. Elliott became a promi nent (Wore in the Republican society of the State, and also figures! conspicuously in Wash ington It was during President Garfield's ad muiWrnHo* at on* of the balls that she caused melt a sensation on account of the devoted at tendons she received from certain white poli ticians who s .shod to make conspicuous their npproval of the see I til equality law. The bril liant negro Congressman is dead And only a few days ago the woman whom he endeavored to elevate by all that wealth and power could do died in poverty and obscurity. Every family should always have a bottle of Fred Brown's Jamaica Ginger In the house, readily accessible, for ail pain* in the stomach. Brown's Glutei 1* tho best. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Chinese fishing junk at Vallejo, Cal., has a mile and a quarter of line carrying 5,360 hooks. A Brownville (Neb.) max laid awake for skunks Saturday night and shot his mother-in law. Virgil Olds recently jointed 70.000 staves in fifty-six hours at the mill of M. I>. Olds, of Van derbilt. Mich. The flame in a prairie fire in Manhattan, 111., reached a height of 80 or 30 feet at times, and the fire spread faster than a man could ran. Last week a farmer near Clear Creek, 111., killed a black adder snake, on the scales of which was cut in plain characters, “C. R. 0., Oct. 88.” The Governor of Maine will probably be es corted to the constitutional celebration next month by 400 of the State troops, in uniforms that conform to the regulations of the United States army. Mrs. Craighead is the boldest woman in Andover, Mass. Being aroused by a burglar last Tuesday night, she drove the intruder from her house, secured a revolver and pursued him a block, lodging a bullet in his head. The highest price that was ever paid for hock was paid the other day by an American firm to Drexel Brothers in Frank fort-on-the-Main.' Ttvo hundred bottles of Sehloss Johannisberg, the last of 1861 vintage, fetched 105 marks, or $B5 per bottle. A large pie manufacturer in Chicago calcu lates that Chicago eats 40,000 pies a day. Asa person is said rarely to eqt more than a quarter of a pie. there must l>e at least 160,000 people, or one-fourth of Chicago's population, who cat pie every day. A bio schooner laden with ice arrived at Philadelphia on Tuesday of last week, and was to be unloaded next day. As she lay at the dock she sprung a leak, and the salt water rushed in so fast that nearly ail the ice was melted before it could be got out of the hold. Lexington, Mo., owed nearly ail its debts to its citizens, and almost all the citizens owed Luxes and license fees to tbo city. The . City Council resolved recently not to pay any citizen the amount owed him. nor any city official his salary, til! his taxes were paid. Lexington is now’ out of debt and has a small surplus. One of the queerest facts of natural history has been discovered by Rev. J. J. Lafferty, who gives it to thg world in his religious journal as ■ follows: “When a sparrow hawk pounces on a guinea he lets the guinea tty, but the hawk, sit ting on the back of tho 1 owL Uses his own tail to guide the guinea. He always steers his victim to Ids nest in the forest.” Near Wallowa, IV. TANARUS., is a sheep-killing deer that understands his business. Last week the herders of Sutherland's band of shqpp, now on Trail creek, observed a large buck among the herd, but he was put to flight by the dogs. The sanguinary animal, however, was not satisfied with a single attempt, and afterward returned. Up to date he has placed several sheep on the "retired list.” The prize offered by the French government of sio,ooo, for the most valuable discovery re lating to the utilization of electricity, is to be awarded next December. It is for any use or application of electricity, namely, as a source of heat, of light, or of chemical action, as a means of transmission of mechanical power, or of verbal communication in any form, or, finally, as a curative agent. B. D. Bcmoartner. of Munfordsville, Ky., loved Mary Richardson, for whose father he worked, and she level him; but when he asked Man’s father for Mary’s hand the old gentle man drove him off the farm and locked Mary up. Bumgartner waited as long as he could stand it, and then, seeing t o signs of yielding on the part of the cruel father, went with eight lusty friends to the house of his sweetheart, Ivat in the door, and took the willing girl to Jeffersonville, where they were married. The sea serpent mystery has been solved for Maine. He was seen recently from the vessel of Capt. C. 11. Griffin, who harpooned him, and the ship was carried over the seas at a rate of speed that would excel the Volunteer. But after a few hours the animal became exhausted and rose to the surface, revealing its identity as an immense turtle. When it was hoisted on shore it was weighed and tipped 1,430 pounds. A vessel containing ten Southern turtles was wrecked in Maine waters about fifty years ago. and this is supposed to be one of them, and ac counts for the many sea-serpent stories that have originated in the State. A farmer named Corner, of Roane county. West Virginia, has invented anew plan to catch squirrels which has proven a great success. He has a large cornfield which borders on the woods, and which tho squirrels have almost de vastated during the past season. Observing that they retreated to tne woods along a certain line of fence he covered the tops of the rails of the fence with tar. The squirrels succeeded in clearing the fence, but when they struck the woods Th tv Laves and sticks stuck to their feet so badly that they could not climb the trees. The first capture amounted to twenty-seven, and within a week Corner had killed and cap tured over 100 squirrels by his unique device. The celebrated historiaa, Prof. Mommsen, is very absent-minded. "The other day," says the Berlin Borsen-Courier, "a young Privat-docent delivered an address in the presence of several distinguished professors on the posthumous work of a great scholar, which be is to edit. After the lecture the auditors remained in ani mated conversation around the festive hoard. Suddenly the young scholar missed, to his hor ror. his valuable manuscript, und all search re mained fruitless. At last the mystery was solved. Theodor Mommsen, who sat next to the lecturer, had in his absent-mindedness out into his pocket all the papers of the Prival do rent, and t ken them to Charlottenburg. It is easy to imagine tho astonishment of the fa mous scholar on being asked to return the man uscript. Some singular statements have been made in the Deutsche Monatschrift com eroing the effect pr iduced by different trades an i in Inst rial oc cupations upon the general health. Among these facts are those contributed by Prof. Hesse, of Leipsie, who points out the deplorable condi tion or the teeth of bakers, and who also asserts that ite is frequently able to indicate the nccu- wit ion of persons by the condition of their teeth. n the case of linkers the caries is soft and rapid ly progressive; the principal parts attacked are the labial and buccal surfaces of the,teeth, com mencing at the cervix rapidly extending to the grinding surface the approximal surfaces not seeming to be attacked more than in other trades. Prof. Hesse believes that the disease is owing to the inhalation of flour dust, the cartes being caused by the action of an acid which is formed in the presence of fermentable carbo hydrates. As apparatus has been devised by means of which, it is claimed, a breach in a vessel's hull from a collision or other cause, may be effeo tually closed from either the inside or outside of the craft. For closing an opening from the outside a frame, made of an appropriate size, and weighted so as to sink in the water, is pro vided. To the edges of one side of the plate are secured wooden strips, at tached to which are cushions of rubber or other suitable material. The frame is lowered over the apertures from the deck by ropes secured to eyes In one edge; the pressure of the water causes the plate to hug tlie hull, so that it will prevent all or nearly all the inflow of water to the vessel, the cushions forming water-tight joints between the hull and frame; the inner surface of the plate is pro vided with several bolts, to which ropes may tie attached, in order to secure tho plate in place from the inside of the vessel. In Ills recently published memoirs M. Legouve relates the history of some of his dramatic part - nerships. For instance, "Louise de Lignerolles” was written in the following manner: His wife once spoke at the breakfast-table of the remark able fate of one of her schoolmates by the name of Cleliu. I/igo’ive becomes so interested in the story that he rushes into his study, sketches the outline of a drama embodying delta's history, and nearly finishes the first act on the spot, in the eteuiug Goubaux drops in, who listens to the plot. “Why, there is material in it for a five-act drama!" he exclaims. A lively discus sion arises as to the development of the plot, the exposition and the climax. Got’- ' imux, the author of "Thirty Years of the Life of a Gambler,” and principal of an educational institute, takes a week's vacation pretending to go on a journey, and installs him self In Legouves dwelling. Like schoolboys they write both at the sail • table, facing each other; only the meals and music in the evening interrupt their work According to a fixed plan, each one writes scene after :nd -pendent ty or ftc Other, asd in ten days fie first two sets are-real). They are read to Mine l/igou-i. Wdio appnmes now of a soene by Goubaux. now of one by her husband. There are discussions corr Action*, and finally agreements The friends take the finished piece to Ktigeue Hue He at once goes to his easel, pretending to listen never so well as when he paints Sue finds the first three set* excellent; the last two poor New discuss oas, more ocrr.vtiug and braire racking. At list a third partner comes to fiolr assistance--accid'mt. A failed olrl letter, which 1-egouve finds among his papers, recalls the I ragle fate of a dead friend, and furnishes the conclusion of the drams BAKING POWDER* WEI PURE p?pßicrs CREAM j|AKIlVjj Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does no 6 contain Ammonia, lame or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. COTTON SEED WANTED. 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