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4 Ck|Honiing|lctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1887. Rcgitteml "t the Poet Office in .Sonatina* *~Th.’ Morning News is publisher! every day in rhe year, and is starred to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers nnl carriers, on their own ac count at 25 cents a week, St 00 a month, $5 U 0 for six months ami SlO CP for one year The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1 00; three months, S'l 50; six months, $5 UO; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News. I*v mail, six times a week (without Sunday is-'uei, three months, *2 00: six months. S4 to one 'ear. $8 01. The Morning News. Tri-weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thun-- days and Saturdays, threo months, $1 25; six months, 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. 52 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions ivallr in advance. Remit by postal orner. check or resrisU*red letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk <*f senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed •‘Morning Newh. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates mad** known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notice—Notice to Water Takers; To Stockholders Brush Electric Light Cos.; Notice of Mutual Gaslight Cos.; Nottce Water Works Builders and Contractors; As toCrew of Swed ish Iljrk Anna Maria; Hats, at Jaudon s. Base Ball Amateurs vs. Montgomerys. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Miscel laneous. Stoves. Etc.—Lovell & Lattimore. The Largest Lithographic Establishment in the .Sorrn—The Morning News Steam Print ing House. - Pianos—L. &8.8. M. H. Auction Sai.e—Beautiful Building Lot, by I. I) Laßoehe’s Sons. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE — Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE - OY SEPTEMBER 3d, 18H7. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily End Weekly News will lie 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 facta relating to cotton, naval stores and the different branches of tho city's wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear Idea of the city’s business for the year ending Sept. 1. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by buying copies of the Mornino News Annual Special Edition and sending them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containinguu accurate account of the business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy and ai-tivity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer 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 (he inducements which it offers to those who are seeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to all sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of extra copies will he mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and space In its columns can he ob tained upon application to the Business Office. Boston’s costly base hall nine has proved a failure. Next season Boston will doubt- Ihk acknowledge no idol but John L. Sulli van. The total cost of tho Buez canal was loss than 8100,000,000. So far the Panama canal lias cost 8275,000,000. and, if M. de Lesscps succeeds in his plans, it will cost a great deal more before it is completed. A subterranean current of magnetic wind is said to have been discovered in Texas. If such a current has really been discovered Texas is to lie pitied, for her politicians arc windy enough to cause sorrow from one end of the State to the other. It is said that there only two women in the State of New York who stutter. The man that made the discovery doubtless in terviewed every woman in the State. That he survives so much talk entitles him to rank among the wonders of the world. Dr. Metrlynn says that, the appimise he has received has not puffed him up or made him think himself a god. He doesn't deny, however, that his lieen increased to such an extent that ho thinks himself the only man of real importance in the country. The New York Tribune says that Presi dent Cleveland and his wife will stop a few hours in Memphis, Miss., on their Southern trip. There is no Memphis.. Miss., and it is not likely that the people of Memphis, Tenn.. will relish the Tribune's exhibition of igno rance. In Van Vorst Park, Jersey City, the other day, 15,000 dond English sparrows were gathered up. It is supjiosed that they were killed in a storm that prevailed the night previous. The incident affbrils a pretty good idea of the amazing increase of the little posts since their introduction into this country. The Arabians believe tliat the tomb of Eve is at Jeduo, on the shore of the Kod Sea. It is IfSO feet long and 5 feet wide. If Eve was such a remarkably tall woman she must also have been a very powerful one, and it is, therefore, not surprising that Adam ate of the apple when she commanded him to do so. If Representative Brady and his allies arc after the scalp of Hon. J. Tp Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture, why don't they say so, and try to take it openly? Ridiculous resolutions like tluit introduced in the House the other day, concerning agri cultural convention lmdgcs, aremero child’s play, not at ail likely to help the cause of Representative Brady and his friends. At the international prize drill in Chi cago, next October, a “spear corps,” com posed of women, will be present. They are students in the lowa Agricultural College, The soldiers of the masculine gender will have their gallantry severely tested. Of course they will hate toliearoff the prizes from their fair comjM.-titors. It is probable, too, that Cupid's durts will do much more '"’ecution than the spears of tho lowa corps. The Reported Death of Stanley. It is impossible to say how much impor i tance is to be attached to the statement in our dispatches this morning that Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has been massacred by natives, after having lieen deserted by his escort. A week or two ago a dispatch was received announcing his death. It was soon discovered that the information it con tained was not correct. The present dis patch, however, appears to be more au thoritative than the one of a week or two ago. Mr. Stanley left this country some months ago to lead an expedition into tho wildrof Africa for the relief of Emin Pasha. His expedition consisted of 750 men, and from the accounts that have been received from it lie handled it in a masterly way. One of its marches was through a famine-stricken country for 350 miles, and most of the men, during this march, carried heavy burdens of ammunition and other stores. There were several occasions during the progress of the expedition when a revolt was imminent. On the way up the Congo to the Aruwimi a number of the men gave out, for want of rations, and between Stan ley Pool and Bolobo hundreds of the carriers showed a very ugly disposition due to their sufferings from hunger. Stanley, however, proved himself to be equal to the emergency and promptly put the ringleaders in irons. His severity on thatoccasion doubtless saved the expedition from ruin. The greatest discipline was maintained among the men. When the expedition de barked frotji the lower Congo to begin its land march it was divided into companies, each with its captain and other officers. Tho discipline was so perfect and everything worked so smoothly that the chiefs of the trilxw at the different Congo stations which the expedition passed could not refrain from openly expressing their admiration of the manner in which it was managed. It is to be hoped that Stanley is yet living and that his expedition will prove to he a success in every respect. It must lie ad mitted, however, that the positive character of tho dispatch is calculated to creuto the impression that the career of tjie great ex plorer is ended. An Explanation of Riddelberger’ b Conduct. Senator Riddleberger continues to be the source of sensational gossip at his home In Woodstock, Va. The statement pub lished in our dispatches yesterday was that he does not know what he is doing. If this is correct it is pretty safe to conclude that he did not know what he was doing on previous occasions when he made himself ridiculous. Ever since he has been a mem ber of the Senate he has been the subject of more or less gossip of an uncomplimen tary kind, but his strange conduct was at tributed to too much whisky. His conduct in defying tho court at Wood stock was regarded as remarkably strange for a United States Senator, but owing to his re)>ntation, acquired chiefly in Washing ton, of doing strange things, it was not thought that there was anything the matter with his mind. If it lie true that he is men tally unlwlanoed there is some excuse for the exhibitions which he sometimes makee/)f himself in the Senate ChamVer. His friends ought to have him examined as to his mental condition by insanity ex perts. If he is really unfit to attend to his public duties, as well as to his private affairs, his constituents ought to know it, in order that they may prepare to fill his place with someone callable of representing them in the Senate. The people of Virginia have lieen represented in Congress by some of the ablest men who figure iu the history of the country, and they certainly do not want to be represented now by a man who does not know what he is doing. With Riddleberger out of the way, Vir ginia would select as his successor a man every way worthy to represent her. She has plenty of men within her borders who would do her great credit on the floor of the Senate. Riddleborger does her no good there, and while tho people of Virginia doubtless wash him no misfortune, they can not feol very great regret if an affliction has overtaken him that, will unfit him for the discharge of his Senatorial duties. He eor tuinly has been a great affliction to them, and if the way is opened for them to get rid of him they can hardly lie blamed for taking advantage of it promptly. Stealing from the Mails. A Florida paper a few days ago com plained of the mail service in portions of Florida. It asserted that tho service was in seme respects very inefficient. Whether it hail good reasons for making tho assertion or not is a matter for tho postal authorities to determine. The Morning News has a complaint to make. It is that there is ground for sus pecting that there is a light-fingered em ploye in tho mail service at Savannah, Ma con. or on the route between the two cities. The Morning News sends and receives, in the course -of a year, many thousands of dollars through the mails. Last June it placed a letter containing money in the mail box in front of its office. The money was in an office envelope, which wns ad dressed to a party in Macon, and was not registered. Advices received from Macon state that it was not received by the party for whom it was intended. What became of it# The postal authorities have been try ing to find it, but have not succeeded. It is rffiiortcd that quite a numlier of let ters containing money and directed to Macon lias boon lost recently. Doubtless the postal authorities are doing all they can to unravel the mystery, but if they are not su -cossful pretty soon they will be in danger of losing their reputation for shrewdness. Our dispatches this morning give the de tails of another frightful railroad accident. It was on tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad, close to the Washington, D. C., depot The air-brakes refus'd to work and a part of the train, which was running at a higti rate of speed, was thrown from the track while passing a sharp curve. The accident was a remarkable one in many respects. The number of people hurt was quite large. But why would not the air brakes work ! And it isn’t explained why thabrakoinan didn't put on the other brakes when warned to do so. Henry George, Jr., the son of the anti poverty mau, doesn’t seem to be a success as a public speaker. At a mass meeting of miners, held at Wfikeebarre, Pa., tho other day, he spoke more than an hour on the land theories of his fat her. When he tiegan his audience numbered 2,500. When he finished it numbered 500. It is stated tliat William T. Coleman & Cos., of Han Francisco, have cleared $3,000,- 000 on their salmon ofs*ratlons this season. The New York Sun's candidate for the Presidency will not lack a "bar’l,” if the stutemout is true. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1887. The Bulgarian Problem. The action of Prince Ferdinand in accept ing tho throne of Bulgaria promises to bring the interminable Eastern question promi nently to the front again. The Porte has sent a circular to the powers asking advico as to the course Turkey shall pursue under the circumstances, and the German press asserts that Germany cannot approvo of Prince Ferdinand’s course. It is not known positively that any of the powers are pre pared to sustain Prince Ferdinand, although it is rumored that England, Austria and Italy regard his eloetion as being in harmony with the provisions of the Berlin treaty. Russia entered her protest against .him some time ago and it is not probable that she will be content with a simple protest. It is difficult to understand how any of the powers can regard Prince Ferdinand’s action otherwise than as a violation of the Berlin treaty. His election by the So branje was in many respects irregular, and can hardly be coasidered to be the action of the people, but even if it were so considered, in order to comply with the Berlin treaty it would have to be ratified, or at least con sented to, by all the powers who are parties to that treaty. There is no probability of such ratification. Prince Ferdinand talks as if he regarded Bulgaria as an independent State. Its in dependence lias never been admitted oven by England, its staunchest friend. It is a dependent principality, and the Bei lin Con gress authorized its national assembly to elect a ruler, but it expressly provided that the election should bo confirmed by every one of the (lowers before the chosen ruler could occupy the throne. Doubtless Russia will be heard from in the matter shortly. She is not in the habit of permitting her wishes to be treated with indifference or contempt. When she is ready to act it will be discovered who Prince Ferdinand’s backers are, if he have any. Sherman’a Bargain With Mahone. Senator John Bhorinan is not having as easy a time as he expected to have in work ing up a sentiment in the South favorable to his candidacy for the Presidency. It seems that when the Senator was making his Southern tour he met ex-Senator Mahone and formally agreed to see that the New York millionaires were bled in the interest of the Republican party of Virginia if the ex-Senator would agree to see that the Senator’s canvass for the Presidency in that State was successfully looked af ter. A prominent supporter of tho Senator says that it was further agreed fchat this object would be more surely secured if the ex- Henator would keep his personality out of the canvass. It was also agreed that the latter was to have tho United States Sena tor ship and the absolute control of the Vir ginia patronage during tho former’s admin istration, provided the name of the next President should be John Sherman. Some time after this agreement was made the Senator and tho ex-Senator met in New York. It is not known what occurred dur ing the conference hold by them, but the ox-Senator immediately returned to Vir ginia, called about him the Republican leaders, and organ ized the party in the interest of himself and the Senator. Ho did not, how ever, keep his personality far enough in tho real- to suit the New York millionaires, who had been induced to contribute boodle solely because they were anxious to see the Ohio icicle elected President They protested, the ex-Senator refused to alter his course, and the result was a coolness between him and the Senator. The latter has been ad vised to have another conference with the Virginia boss, but so far ho has not agreed to do so. In the meantime it is likely that the Democrats of Virginia will profit by the misunderstanding. At any rate, it is not probable that the ex-Senator will be able to bleed the New York millionaires any more. An Ohio Democrat snys: “There was quite a crowd in our town the night of the Toledo convention waiting for the news. When vvp heard tliat tho Sherman resolu tion had passed, there must have been nearly 10) Republicans pro lent. Someone proposed three cheers for Sherman. They were given with a will. I didn’t see a single Republican bang back. Well, some of us Democrats thought wo would hnvo a little sport and perhaps start dissension, and I proposed three cheers for Blaine. Hang me if they were not given with equal readiness and equal vigor. Then one of us got on a box and asked all the Illaino men to hold up their hands. Up went seventy-eight hands. Then the Sherman hands were asked for, and up went eighteen.” It is quite gener ally agreed that the indorsement given Sen ator Sherman was purely in the nature of a compliment. Doubtless ho has the fact hy this tiiuo, and is convinced that there is more sham than reality in an in dorsement such as ho received. Now, then, here comes the Washington correspondent of the New York Star who says that story that Judge Pettus, of Alabanm, is to he appointed to fill (ho vacancy on the bench of the United States Supreme Court is untrue. Instead, the cor respondent says, it is probable that Judge Pettus will be appointed to oup of the .As sistant Secretaryships of the Interior upon the elevation of Secretary Lamar to tbe bench. The slate is as follows: Assistant Secretary Muldrow for Secretary, Second Assistant Hawkins for First Assistant, and Judge Pettus for Second Assistant. We shall see after awhilo. Col. W. P. Canaday, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, seems to lie a hero among the Republicans. When ho visits New York the Tribune fairly goes into ecstasies over him. It quotes his opinions with approval, and appears to re gard him ns a political oracle. Recently Col. Canaday said tliat Gov. Forakcr would carry ()hio by on overwhelming majority. Perhaps he will, for, tu> everybody knows, Ohio is a Republican Stab*. Tho Tribune, however, seize* Col. Canadnv’s prediction and imrades it as something quite too wonderful to lie discussed except in capital letters. A negro doctor of divinity by the name of Miller was refused a state room on a Hudson river boat for himself and family the other day. Tho color line was drawn on him. although .he won a graduate of Kisko Methodist Univer sity and Yale Theological Seminary. This, was worse than forcing him into a “jlm crow” stateroom, but the Republican pa perr. of New York havo not yet licgun to shriek on tho subject. Prince Ferdinand declares hluisclf ruler of Bulgaria “by the grace of God.” Prince Alexander did the same thing, and after wards, doubtless, wished that he had de dared himself ruler “by the grace of the Com.” CURRENT COMMENT. Where It Will Stand. Prom the Galveston News (Deni.) The New York Trttrme announces that the Republican party stands now where it stood in 1384. And it should have gone on and stated that It will stand in the latter part of 1888 as it now stands—aw ay from the fleahpots. The Land for the People. Prom the New York Herald ( Ind .) At last we have an administration that stands squarely for justice and the rights of honest settlers. It deals a blow from the shoulder at one of the intolerable evils of the day and an nounces the broad principle of the land for the people. Riddleberger Ia a Wonder. From the New York Star ( Dein .) Riddleberger Is a wonder His capacity for making himself odious and disagreeable, his gift ot destroying honor and dignity in the highest positions and importing into the noblest arena in the land the manners and the flavor of the rum shop—these are attributes of Riddleber ger that command our respectful amazement. A Law that is Needed. Prom the New York World (Dem.) There is some talk of the criminal prosecut ion of Mr. Henry S. Ives. Possibly there is good ground for it. But the evil which is represented in the case of this very active young man needs the attention of law makers more than it does that of criminal prosecutors. We need a law which shall render dealers and manipulators in railroad and other corporation stock subject to the same standard of honesty that governs mer chants and bankers. BRIGHT BITS. And now the merry farmer boy Goes running, gay and frisky; He steps upon a rattlesnake And lills Himself with whisky. —Nebraska State Journal. "Missus Flinn, I heard that your son Carna lius Stanley had lost his job.” “I say job to yer Missus.Canty. Sure he has an illigant job: he's a telegraph operator and does lie goin about diggin’ phost holes for the Western Union.— Harrisburg Star. ’Twas a six-dollar tile, to be brief, But a fat party brought it to grief, For she sat on it flat; What he said after that We'd repeat; but we’ve turned anew leaf. —Texas Siftings. “Good bye, my dear,” said a wife, anxiously as her husband turned to go. '‘l shan't have a moment s peace until you return. Oh John, when w ill you nave saved enough to give up a life so beset with peril and danger?” "Before long, dear, I hope. Lut I must go. I want to eall tho game promptly at 4 o'clock.” New York Sun. “We will have to cancel your life in surance policy, sir, I'm sorry to say,” remarked the agent. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the frightened Cobwiggbr; “whatever is the matter?” “Why," replied the agent. ”we understand yon are going on a trial trip on one of the new steel cruisers."— The Epoch. "Job,'' said Mrs. Shuttle, “do you know that I think wo had better call our Sam The Volunteer after this.” “Why, has he been racing with any one?” “No; but he ruus away from us every day as easily as the Volunteer (loos from the rest.” “Umphl I guess a spunking breeze will put hhn on another tack." — Hartford Post. Ponsonby -Sir, I have come to request the honor of yonr daughter's hand in marriage. Pompano—lmpossible I Never will I give my consent. Ponsonby (anxiously)— ls your decision fixed— irrevocable? Pompano (firmly)—lt is. Ponsonby (much relieved)—Thanks, awfully. Nellie has been l ettering me to ssk you. and i did it just to oblige her.—Philadelphia Call. Confound excursion parties! The sight of them benumbs My heart when my piazza They strew wilh greasy crumbs. And when they fling around them Their sly banana peels, Again I say, “Confound them!" As upward go my heels. -Hotel Mad. Servant to the parson, who is very ill indeed— If you piense, sir, me c.iUl'jri .< -i i-, uuwn an i wants to know if ycu won t give him the hymus for next Su diy's service? Parson, feebly- Tell i.im there will be no ser vice ; 1 expect to be deud before next Sunday. Servant, exit and re-enter—lf you please, he says then will you be kind enough to send down the hymns you'd like sung at the funeral? [Parson recovers much more rapidly than chorister. \—Uruoklyn Eagle. They were Americans seeing the sights in Paris, and they liod their entire stock of bill of fare French with them. Toward evening they went into the cafe for something to eat. ‘‘Mary," soid the old man, ‘you do the talkin', X don't s’pose we kin make 'em under stand." So Mary adjusted her eye-glasses and said to the polite waiter near at hand: "Gnrcon all—nous vmilons-ah-souper.” The polite waiter hesitated a moment, and then replied: “Oim raly sorry, miss, but we niver have soup for supper." Merchant Traveler. PERSONAL. Emma AnnoTT has gone to Paris to purchase new operatic charms from Worth. Sergeant at-Armh Canaday, of the Senate, has just pin-chased a home in Wilmington, N. C. The Countess Tolstoi, widow of the poet, is living in Rome. She was a great frientl of the late Abbe Liszt. T P. O'Connor, M. P., will be the editor of the half penny tlladstonian paper, which will appear in London in a few weeks. The King of Sweden has a nr-.-at passion for farming and tine cattle. He should come over hero and go into the ranching business. Mu. Ri skin' is again seriously ill, having lieen confined to his bed at llrantwood for nearly a fortnight, llis condition is undoubtedly grave. W. T. Coleman the .Sitw's candidate for the Presidency, is largely interested In anew hotel . to lie built at San Rafael, Cal., at a cost of $lOO,- 000. Mrs. Cleveland has again taken to swinging a four pound pair of dumb-bells, in order to be in trim for the hand shaking business of the winter. Sir Michael Hicks Beach writes that his sight is surely though slow ly improving. Its failure was due to an uilment of the retina more than to cataract. The Boston Traveler openly accuses W. D. Howells of using the opportunities of hispesi t ion r.s a mag i/.ine critic to advertise himself and his literary wares. Mill Grant is at Long Branch. She is ex pecting a visit front her daughter. Mrs. Surtoris, in August Mrs. Surtqj'is is now at Southamp ton, England, at the home of her husband's father. Patti's refusal to sing at a recent state con cert in London indicates that the Queen of Song considers herself a greater monarch than the Queen of England. She at least has more jubilees. Col. George B. Andrews, who for twenty-five years has been stationed at Fort Winfield Scott, that guards the entrance to San Francisco Bay, was buried recently without military honors, ac cording to his own request. Charles Hoyt, author of the “Rag Baby," ‘A Bunch of .Keys," etc., has lust married in Charlestown. N. 11. It is not* believed that matrimony will lessen bis familiarity with rag tobies and bunches of keys. Da. Lewis Hamilton Garrard. of Cincinnati, whose death ha* been announced, was a great grandson of the first Governor of Kentucky. Ilis mother's second husband was Justice Mc- Lean, of the United States Supreme Court. Mrs. Coppenmaokn, of New York, daughter of James 11. Kntbrv, of Washington, once law porta i- ol Reveroy Johnson, is described fiy Mr. Bancroft as (sisseesing one of the mom brilliant minds he ever knew a woman to pos sess. Cake Schuiiz made his first break into public life as Alderman of the Fifth ward of Water town, Wls., which position he held for several terms. He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of ft iscoasin on the Republican ticket in 1353, and was defeated. Daniel Spraxer. President of the Mohawk River Bank, at Fonda, N Y„ is probably tbe oldest bank president In the country. He has toi l his present position since the bank was founded, In iS.IS. lie is now 90 years of age, ard is in u very precarious state of health. He b as been blind and deaf for some years, sut at tended to.bis duties at the hank up to a few days ago. Ezra Whitman, who died in Baltimore Tues day, was one Of the pioneer* in the constructing of reaping anil mowing machines, and also per fected a number of improvements in agricul tural machinery. Since KWS he has leten a resi dent of BultiuviiY. and his name had become a household word in the homes of Maryland farmers nearly forty years ago, and was also widely luioe u Uii oucaout the South. MARRIAGE IS A PARTNERSHIP. The Independence of Married People Now Greater Than Ever Before. From the Poll Hall Gazette. Marriage is still only too often a bargain, but at least it is no longer an entirely one-sided bar gain. It is tending toward the only true idea! oflifelong companionship— a partnership on equal terms, with equal give-and-take on both sides. Women no longer feel bound to render that implicit oliedienee which was considered de ni/ueur in our great-grandmother's days, and men no longer universally demand it. Husbands, moreover, are beginning to learn that their prime duty is not “to look after" their wives. The very sentence is indicative of the most ghastly misapprehension of the whole ideal of matrimony. The general feel ing of society condemns a man who lqjiestorule his wife on the same principles as a pasha rules his harem. And indeed the whole scheme of modern life makes it practically impossible for him to do so. A married woman enjoys, as a rule, com plete liberty during the livelong day, and even at night it is frequently impossible for a busy man to escort his wife. Thus everythipg turns on the relations between the marrl'vi couple. If a girl is really in love with the man she marries, she may be trusted with any amount of subsequent freedom. If not. not: and therefore we say that the injudicious and worldly parents who are responsible for the great majority of .ill-assorted unions are also responsible for the many evil results which are to be seen in society at this day. For it is a fact that rows of English girls are as much forced into marriage as the French girl, whose husband is selected while she is yet m her convent. Not by main force, no.—but by the whole tone of her education, by the exag gerated fear of being an old maid, by the ob vious necessity of malting way for a younger sister, by the persistent scheming of her parents and by her own longing for emancipation. For marriage undoubtedly does mean emanci pation to most women; and it is precisely those who look forward to it most who are likely to make the worst use of it. Explaining a Machine-Made Language. From the Nev) York Tribune. Col. Charles E. Sprague, President of the In stitute of Accounts, gave a lecture before the institute last evening, at the University build ing in Washington square, explaining the new international language. Volapuk. he said, means world-speech, but this is not a good name, as the language is not intended to lie spoken among the people of any nation, but only to be used In correspondence among people of dif ferent nations. “International language” would be a better term. Attempts to make a common language date back to about the year 1500 A. D. The fault of all of them has been that they tried to embody a system of philosophy. An enthu siast for one of these. Col. Sprague said, had had a conversation with him, and had since died. The present system. Volapuk, was devised hy Father Sohleyer. a German priest, and pub lished in 1881. It now has 100,000 students in Europe, six periodicals are devoted to it, and about sixty societies are striving to introduce it. It aims to embody what is best in all the great languages with none of their bad points an l as English is more widely spoken than any other tongue, Volapuk Is 10 per cent. English. There are no irregular verbs and no irregular in flections. The advantage of inflections of any kind may tie questioned, tint Father Schlever would have been no true German if he had left them out. The effort is made to have no sounds that are absent or deflective in any language, and on this plan “R,“ the English 'll ’ and "TH,“ and the German “CH” are all left to gether in the cold. All plurals are formed with s. Thus, the plural of “sheep," which is spelled in Volapuk “jip,” is “jips.” “I” is translated “ob.” and "we'’ is accordingly “obs." Col. Sprague placed the f llowing sentence from a note that he had received, on the blackboard: “Nemi onsa lofiK in volapukagased venlk elila dobol, spidob onse spodnka li penon,” which turned out to mean: “I. having rend your dear name, in the Vienna Volapuk paper, hasten a postal card to write." The ingenious gardener will be able to dig several English roots out of this. Col. Sprague showed Volapuk • papers of several countries, including a comic paper in which the jokes were explained in Germun. The Shoes Wouldn’t “Squake.” From the Boston Transcript. Some two months ago, a boot and shoe dealer, of the Listener's acquaintance, sold an esteemed customer a neat pair of low shoes for Bft. He hi and not heard from the customer for all this inter ral until, the other day, the man dropped into the store, and stepped up to the proprietor with a reproachful gaze, on his countenance. “Hood afternoon, Mr. O'Brien,” said the pro prietor. “Good-day to ye,” said Mr O'Brien; “but all the same, ye shtuck me on the pair o' shoes ye sold me for 85.” “Stuck you ? Was there anything the matter with the shoes ?” “Ah, well”- the customer shrugged his shoulders—"we’ll say no more of it, but ’twas a moigbty chape pair of shoes." “What makes you think they were a cheap pair ?” Mr. O'Brien intensified the reproachfulness of his gaze, and laid his finger on the side of his nose. "Sure,” said he, “I've worn these shoes for two moot hs, and divil a squake have 1 had out o’ thim I" Stirring Times. Dot sbmall poy be vas habby. Dot lcedle girl vas glad; Derilawc vas acharea and schnappy, Der fader he vas mad. De" Sunday school’s neglected, Dot contribution box Youst like could peen oxpected, Vas gather in no “rocks.” Dot sbmall poy safe each penny Until he got some dimes; Of he haf not got enny. He veeps dose roaring times. Und now he hear der drumming— Der blaying of der band; Der circus it vas coming Mit curious dings und grand. Und now der show's peginning, Der glory shtrike him dumb; Der horse-post he vas shinning, Der circus it vas come. Emilk Pickhardt. A Bat Story, Funny ana Singular. From the Danbury New*. In the rear of a certain bouse some miles out of town there is a small outbuilding use' I as a wash-house and summer kitchen. One day an old rat was seen to come out from under it, which, from his peculiar appearand, attracted attention. His ears were ragged and partly gone, his tail was skinned and sore and he no pe a red generally used up. He moved slowly and carefully, and after watching him a while it was seen that he was blind. Another smaller rat came out soon, and busied himself about lie the old one. bringing him bits of food and keep ing near him constantly. A dog barked across the street, and instantly there was a commo tion. The younger one jumped toward his blind companion, another rat coining to his as sistanee, and the two seizing the old follow bv the eara, one on each side, dragged him quickly under the shed, out of danger He was evidently n old patriarch of the family, and his well worn appendages wen* evidences of the fre quent anxiety of his friends for his safety. The above is a true as well as a curious story. A Surprising: Reception. From the Omaha World. Hook Agent—l am offering to the public anew wo k. the "Encyclopedia Universal, Eternal,” (wily fine— Omaha Man—Come in, sir. Don't stand there in the hot sun. "I—l guess you didn't understand. lam sell ing- " Certainly There, take that seat by the win dow lam delighted to see you.” “Permit me to explain. This hook, glorious work, is Complete in forty five, volumes, at s:> a volume, and I am the agent for it." “I am Sorry you brought only one volume. Can you get tho rest soon f" “Oh, yes, hut—" “By the way, there's the bell. Stay to dinner, won't you f* ”I—l beg pardon. This is very strange. Am I awake or dreaming ''Yes. the house don’t look very pretty, does it ? Yon see this is a private lunatic asylum, and I am one patients.'' Benefits of Life Insurance. From the Lincoln t\eh.) State Journal. Two raeu met in a Lincoln hotel, and man manlier one naked the other what he thought of the Bev. l)r. TaJmage's remarks pn life instir and 1 . I The greatest effort of his life There was a great deal of sound sense in what he said By the way—" "I agree with you. Life insurance is one of the noblest, privileges of the age. 1 was going to ak if you—” "People who doubted the merits of insurance before will have faith - in It now I represent the ‘‘And 1 represent tho Sight Hawk Insurance Comjiany. Couldn't I issue a pol—“ '"it mi represent that rotten company? I am the agent for the Vulture Insurance t’ompauy; 1 didn't know vou were In the business." “And I didn't know you were. Talmage made great display of ignorance, didn't hey” '' Want 1 ever saw. But it is a great card for us." ITEMS OF INTEREST. More bears have been killed in the State of Maine this year than any year previous within the remembrance of the oldest furrier in the State. Five thousaxp Indians are expected in Taco j ma, W. T.. shortly to assist in picking the hop ; crop. They come from points as far off as Alaska. The Jackson, Mich., fire department is now the possessor of a milk-white rattlesnake, eighteen inches long, with pink eyes and nine rattles. A modest little tin sign in black and white in a New York doorway attracts much attention. It reads; “Noses repaired, reduced, enlarged and painted.” A whole street full of people was terrorized by a "mad cat" in Passaic. N. J., the other day until no less a personage than the Chief of Police came to their relief. “Greasy Joe’’ Whelan is a local celebrity in Pittsburg, Pa. His claim to notoriety lies in his fondness for drinking crude petroleum. Ho is fond of the stuff, and it seems to agree with him. There are but three survivors of the eighteen actors who played "Our American Cousin" on the night of President Lincoln's assassination in Ford ’s Theatre—Harry Hawk, W. J. Fergu son and John Mathews. Clark Smith, of Fort Supply, and Miss Gus sey Nason, of Fort Sill, 200 miles apart, were married by telegraph on Mqnday. The report says that "everything went lovely, and a full ceremony was given by means of lightning.” The “Cleopatra’s Needle” that now stands in Central Park, New York, is thought by a writer in the London Athcnrcum. who bases his theory upon a very rare Arabic manuscript in the British Museum, to have been one of a pair that stood on a single pedestal. A military post near Bismarck, D. TANARUS., has a sensation. A beautiful nun sent out to teach the Indians has fallen in love with a handsome young lieutenant. The nun has been sent East to be disciplined within convent walls, the officer being a married man whose wife is visiting in the East, The tomb of Gen. Lafayette, in the private cemetery of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in Paris, was decorated, by a large number of Americans, on the day before the French na tional holiday. A society was formed for the purpose of presenting a statue of Lafayette to the city of Paris. A bachelor’s idea of a comfortable house, when the bachelor has plenty of money, is illus trated by the mansion which Justice Gray is building in Washington, The entire second floor —and it is a house of great size—will be entirely devoted to the owner’s wants —big bed-room, big library and bathroom. Meek and mild married men seldom get such quarters. A stranger stepped into a Chicago shooting gallery a day or two ago and spent a few min utes in firing at a target. In six shots he broke a window in the side of the building, destroyed one of the gas fixtures, put a hole through his hat, which he had hung on the wall, and lamed a dog. The owner of the shooting gallery sus pects him of lieing an escaped French duelist. Burglars are sometimes so fastidious as to decline to take anything but gold coin, but all members of the profession are not so hard to please. A St. Louis detective recalls the case of a thief who stole a hive of bees, of another vvko stole a skeleton from a dime museum, of another who relieved a menagerie of a case of rattle snakes, of another who took a cigar-store Indian, and of still another who confiscated the clothing of a baby that had not yet arrived in the world. One well-known countess, whose life is spent in devising new varieties of social pleasures, gave a canine “at home" a week or two since, at her London home, at which more than fifty pet dogs, principally terriers, pugs, and dachs hunds, put in an appearance. A cold collation, served on a special dinner service, was pro vided, while, as a delicate attention, several live rats were placed in a back room for the ter riers, who were equal to the more exciting task of worrying them. The Virginians cannot locate the spot where Capt. John Smith was to have been killed. A Richmond man says: “Sometimes we have strong reasons for locating the spot at ‘Pow hattan,' just below the city; then again we think it ought to be farther down the river. Many relic hunters have chipped pieces from a big rock at ‘Powhatan,’ believing that they were securing fragments of the stone upon which Smith's head was placed to receive blows from the clubs of the Indians.” Independence, in Polk county, Oregon, is likely to secure more lawyers, tailors and dress makers than may be needed there, in conse quence of the wide publicity given to an appeal from a resident, who says: “This town has neither a lawyer, a tailor nor a dressmaker, and one of each is sadly needed here. We had a good dressmaker, but she moved to Corvallis, having property- there. The tailor moved to Albany and our lawyer was elected District At torney and had to live in Salem.” Toads, it is stated by an observer in Westfield, Mass., are duped by electric lights lately located in some retired streets there. It is asserted that the liatrachians. attracted by the brilliant light when the streets are quiet, gather hy dozens under it and hold high revels. The greatly en larged shadows of countless insects fluttering around the light fall upon the ground, and the innocent toads, thinking them to be real, hop about in all directions to catch them, making it seem as though they were going through a merry cotillion. The rabbit pest is so bad at Merced, Cal., that hunters are employed to do nothing else but hunt them down. Over 7.000 of them have been killed this season, and the "good work still.goes on." Hunters are furnished horses, wigonsand ammunition, and "repaid sc. for every one they bring in dead. Alter being brought in and counted the raid its are thrown into an immense vat, to which a tertaia amount < t grain is added and then the entire mass is boned to a turn, after which it is fed to the hogs. Boiled ja'k - rilt'at is a dish much sought after by the San Joaquin rooters. Senor Francisco Lienfiesta, formerly Guate malan Minister at Washington, has returned to this country with his two daughters on a special mission, the nature of which will not be dis closed until after his arrival at the national capital, hut which, it is hinted, aims at the nego tiation of anew commercial treaty between the two countries. Accompanying Senor Ueuflesta are Senor Enri Neutz. a large coffee planter and exporter of Guatemala, now en route to Europe, and Renor I. Asparacio, the owjier of several large coffee plantations. The latter gentleman is a brother of the widow of the late President Barrios. A well dressed man attempted the other day to board the front platform of a Grand street car in Jersey City, N. J. He missed his footing, fell to the ground, and the iron wheels crushed over one of his legs, completely severing it at the knee. There was a erv of horror among the people who saw the arc dent, and two ladles fainted The wounded man showed wonderful self-contr I and stoicism, and crept unaided to the curbstone before the frightened bystanders could reach him. So composed was he, in fact, that one man, growing suspicious, went and pickixl up the amputated limb. One look at the should be-but -wasn't ghastly and bleeding frag ment of mortality explained the man’s stoicism. The leg was artificial. The faiuting women had recovered by this time and hurr'et awav after one scathing look at the victim, who unft elingly laughed at them and went home in a carriage. A family doctor tells the following amusirg story in Cornell's Magazine : Prof. Blank, of E- , devoted a whole week of the sessioij to lecturing to his students on the subject of heart diseases. He had a private apartment opening off the class room, to which he wus wont to re tire after he had finished his discourse. In or der to take off his gown and enjoy a little med itation by the Are. On the afternoon cf the second day a modes! knock came to the door. "Enter,” said Prof. Blank And. list in hand, appeared one of his students, looking somewhat worried and pale. ‘What can I do for you, Mr. M.?" "Nothing, I fear." was the reply. “Nothing on earth can aid me. 1 have the very symptoms that you were to-dav describing. Sound me and see, sir.” The sounding was soou performed. “You’re in pefect health as a re* Sards your heart." That was the verdict. And 'r. M went away happy. But hardly had the kindly old professor resumed his seat before another knock resounded on the door. "Come in. Well, what’s the matter with vou, Mr. C.?" "I’m a de ad man,” gasped Mr. C. looking wildly round as if he wauled to clutch something, ‘Tvs got heart disease os sure ue a gun." ‘Not quite as bad as that, I trust. Take off your coat." 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