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THURSDAY• AUGUBT 96, IMT.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—The Brush Electric Light
and Power Cos.; Of Interest to Ladies, A. S.
Cohen: Postponed Raffle.
Day's Tournament At Chatham Gun Club's
Park.
Cheap Column Advertisements- Help Want
rd: Employment Wanted; For Rent; Personal;
Lost; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sale Fast Sailing Yacht Gertrude,
by I. D. Laßoche's Sons.
German Dill Pickles—Strauss Bros.
Monet Talks— L. & B. S. Nl H.
Farmer Girl Stoves—Lovell &, Lattimore.
ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION
—OF THE
Savannah Morning News
—AND THE
Savannah Weekly News,
—TO BE—
-ISSIED ON SEPTEMBER 3d, 1887.
The Annual K|iecial Edition of the Daily
and Weekly Nets will be 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 branches of the 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
Morning News Annual Special Edition and
sending them to their friends and correspon
dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition,
containing an accurate account of the 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, mer
chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis
ure, should feet a pride in the progress the city
is making, and in presenting to the world the
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 ext ra copies will be mailed,
thoroughly covering the territory tributary to
Savannah.
Advertisers will find this Special Edition of
great value, and space in its columns can lie ob
tained upon application to the Business Office.
The Morning News will liegin next
Sunday tho publication of a very interest
ing story by Miss S. Lucy Joyner, of North
Carolina, entitled “Five Old Letters.” The
story is a comparatively short one, but it
will be well worth reading.
Pity that the alKluction of an old squaw
should make an Indian war cloud hover
over the Northwest.
There were none to weep for Alexander—
there will soon be an opportunity to com
miserate Ferdinand.
The Ameer of Afghanistan now has but
one foot to stand on, and if ho isn’t careful
Httssia won’t leave him a place to put that.
According to Dr. McOlynn shoel is a
state and not a place. There are doubtless
a good many people who will derive consola
’ tion of this view of the place of future pun
ishment.
An Austin jury has exploded another
Radical roorbaeh. The Republicans who
aired the “great election frauds in Texas”
In the United States Senate last winter will
have to try anew tack.
The Canadians are a most ungallant
people, if Lefever and Leflour arc specimens.
They deliberately swain ashore, having
women and children to drown, :me of
whose lives might have bee® saved.
In view of the! fact that Henry George is
a free trader it is rather interesting to see
the New York Tribune, a leading Republi
can organ of the protetionists, giving him
and his United Labor party a quiet boost.
It seems strange tbnt an earthquake shock
should have been felt at sea, a few miles off
Charleston, and not at Charleston or here.
It may be that the one which jarred the
New Orleans steamer was purely a local
affair.
Could it be that the Socialists in denounc
ing George at the Cooper Union meeting tho
other day had a method in their madness.'
Certainly Mr. George and the Socialist*
ought to be en rapport, for thoy will meet
at the cross-roads in the end.
It looks as if the United Labor party in
New York is to tie an annex to the Repub
lican party. It lias selected a Republican
Commissioner to name their election in
spector. The Republicans have always lieen
great friends to laboring men—with their
mouths.
Our dispatches this morning announee the
death of Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Jr., at the
Hermitage, yesterday, at tho ripe old age of
81. The deceased did the honors of the
White House during the second term of
“Old Hickory," and was a popular first lady
of the land.
The importance of voting the Democratic
ticket straight may be seen in the present
situation in California. The Democratic
Governor of that State, stricken with par
alysis. is likely to die, to lie succeeded in the
Gubernatorial ohalr by the Republican
Liailiauant Governor.
Savannah River Freshet Banks.
It is a question whether the government
is not under obligations to assist in repair-
I ing the freshet banks which protect rice
j plantations above Hutchinson’s Island. For
the purpose of improving the navigation of
the river in front of and below the city, it
constructed a dam at cross tides which ex
tends front the eastern end of Argylo Island
to the western end of Hutchinson’s Island.
The effect of this darn is to raise the level of
the river very considerably for quite a long
distance above the cross tides. Of course,
when the river is at its ordi
nary stage no damage is done,
but when there is a freshet, as
there was a week or so ago, then the harm
ful effects of the dam become very appar
cut. The late freshet, however, was an ex
traordinary one, and the rice fields would
have been overflowed doubtless if there had
be**n no dam, but it is a question whether
the damage done to the freshet banks would
have been so great, and whether the water
would have remained on the rice fields so
long. Of course reference is had only to
rice plantations of that portion of the
river in which the water is backed up by
the darn.
If application were made to the govern
ment for assistance in repairing the freshet
banks it would have to be based upon the
statement that the dam at
cross tides makes the building of stronger
and higher banks a necessity and increases
the expense of keeping the bauks in repair.
The government, in mnking public improve
ments, has no right to injure private prop
erty without compensating the owner of it.
If, therefore, it can be shown that the cross
tides dam has caused injury to the rice
plantations above it, the government ought
to repair that injury.
It might be argued that the building of
levees along the Mississippi river by the gov
ernment is a sufficient precedent for
building banks for the protec
tion of the Savannah river rice plantations.
It is true that the Mississippi levees protect
the adjacent lnnds from overflow, and there
is some reason for thinking that that is
about the only purpose they do serve, but
the mason alleged for building them is that
they are a part of the scheme for improv
ing the river. The river, the engineers say,
must lie kept within its kinks to prevent it
from shoaling. The owners of the lands
bordering on the river do not care, of
course, what the reasons for building the
levees are so long as they are built.
If the Savannah river rice planters can
show that their lands are rendered more
liable to overflow by the building of the
cross tides darn, and that the expense of
keeping up their freshet banks are greater
now than before the dam was built, they
certainly have a good claim against the
government for assistance in rebuilding and
keeping in repair their freshet banks.
The Public Schools.
Representative Gordon strengthened him
self with the progressive portion of the peo
ple on Tuesday, by his remarks on the bill
to consolidate the common school laws of
the State. He not ouly favored the general
purpose of the bill, but he was willing, he
said, to go further than the bill did in the
direction of providing an ample and com
plete common school system. He did
not mako a mistake when he said
that the General Assembly could give
its attention to no more important subject
than the improvement of the common
schools. There are those who grudge every
cent' that is appropriated for educational
purposes, but the majority of the people
lie]leva that there is no other thing for
which public money could be appropriated
t hat would be productive of such beneficial
results, and would tend so much to ad
vance the interests of the State as
the common schools. In the course
of his remarks Representative Gordon said:
“Chatham county spends many times the
amount spent by the State in support of her
common schools. She pays it out of her
own pocket and thinks it money well spent.
In addition to what she now pays, she would
willingly respond were a tax levied for the
support of the common schools of the State.”
Chatham county knows how great the ben
efits are which flow from good schools,and Hho
can always lie depended upon to exercise
her influence in behalf i>4 the improvement
of the public school system.
The farmers of the Legislature appear to
be pretty woll satisfied that fertilizers are
not ns closely inspected as they ought to be.
The bill of Mr. Matthews, of Houston, pro
poses to ilo away with inspection tags and
to substitute the official brand of the Agri
cultural Department, therefor It also adds
three inspectors to the present number, pro
hibits inspection in lots of more than 400
pounds and allows SSOO for labor in hind
ling guano. Whatever merits or faults the
bill has will doubtless bo made apparent
when the committee gets to work on it.
It is to lie regretted that Alderman
Thomas has resigned. He has always been
regarded as one ol' tho ablest and most ex
perienoed members of the Council. He
certainly has been very active and consci
entious in the discharge of his duties. It is
doubtful if the Council had any intention of
condemning his course by its action with
rospect to a petition which related to a
matter of which he had jurisdiction. It is
to bo hop* si that, he will withdraw his resig
nation and continue to give tho city the
benefit of his services.
The Florida State military heroes most
likely imagine that they are soldiering at
Pablo Beach, but some of the old “vets”
could tell them that there wore no Pablo
Baaobes in active service, and there were
some harsher sound* than the pop of the
champagne bottle and the night songs of
the pioneers at Pablo. Tho Mokmno
News, however, docs not grudge [them tho
pleasures of a peaceful camp.
Quite a numlier of people yesterday ap
peared to be greatly disappointed h -cause
the cyclone reported by the signal service
failed to roach here. If it had come and
overthrown a few chimneys and unroofed a
few buildings these sumo people would
doubtless have complained because it did
come. How difficult it is to satisfy every
body!
There ought not to be any occasion for
introducing into the Legislature such
a bill as that of Dr. J. Northrup
Smith. Its purpose is to prevent physicians
from disclosing professional secrects. A
physician that would voluntarily disclose
such secrets ought to be driven out of the
profession.
It is said that the outlook for promotion
of Democratic clerks in the War Depart
ment is so unpromising that tho clerks of
this political faith do not expect advance
ment except through tho death of some Re
publican clerk. Mr. Endiontt is not quite
so much of a “clean sweeper” as Mr. Vilas.
TITE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1887.
Grant the Charter.
Tt seems to lie quite probable that the
Legislature will grant a charter to the pro
jected Savannah, Macon and Birmingham
railroad. The opposition to granting it is
ver}’ strong on the part of those interested
in the Savannah, Dublin and Western rail
road, but it seems to us that the opposition
is unreasonable, and if it is it should not in
( fluence the legislature in the least.
The Railroad Committee of the House has
agreed to report favorably the bill granting
a charter to the Savannah, Macon and Bir
mingham road, with an amendment that it
shall not go into effect until Oct. ID, 1888.
The bill, as it was originally drawn,
fixed March 19, 1888, as the
date for it to go into effect. There can
be no very strong objection to the amend
ment. It gives the Savannah, Dublin and
Western people a little more time to show
whether or not they ran build their road.
They ought to be able to build it within the
time that the amendment allows them, if
they can build it at all. They say that they
will have it finished to Macon before the
beginning of next year. The Railroad
Committee of the House says, in effect, that
they may meet with some drn whacks, and
that, therefore, they should have sufficient
time to overcome all legitimate obstruc
tions.
Of course if the Savannah, Dublin and
Western is built before the date fixed for
the charter of the Savannah, Macon and
Birmingham to go into effect, the charter of
the latter road will he worthless. The pur
pose in seeking a charter for the Savannah,
Macon and Birmingham is not to damage
in any way the Savannah, Dublin and
Western enterprise, but to be prepared to
give Savannah another railroad if that on
terprise proves to lie a failure.
What reasons can the projectors of the
Savannah, Dublin and Western have to the
amended bill of the Savannah,
Macon and Birmingham? If they
are sincere in their professions they
can have no reasons which ought to have in
fluence with the Legislature, ’becauseif they
can build their road they certainly can build
it within a year from next Octolier. If they
do not intend to build it, and are only en
gaged in a speculative scheme, it can easily
be seen why they don’t want a charter
granted to the Savannah, Macon and Bir
mingham upon any conditions.
There is no apparent reason, however, for
thinking that they do not intend to build
their road, and that is why it seems so
strange that they are opposing a charter for
the Savannah, Macon and;Birmingham. If
reports are to be credited they have a large
force at work on their lino, and have all the
money they want. Why do they not give
their entire attention to building their road
and cease their opposition to the Savannah,
Macon and Birmingham bill ? The proper
way for them to oppose the latter road is to
build their own. In fact, it is the only safe
way of opposing it. and the only certain one
of making any charter that may be granted
it of no value.
The President is said to be in doubt
whether he ought to permit newspaper cor
respondents to accompany him in a
“press” ear on his promised trip through the
West and South. The Associated Press re
porters will, of course, accompany him, but.
there are many others who want to bo in
his party. It is probable that the mutter
will li settled by attaching a “press” car to
the Presidential train, and permitting
representatives of about fifty leading papers
to occupy it. The trip would lose much of
its interest for the public if the rejiortei’s
were not along. They always see what is
really worth seeing.
If*there is any truth in some of the
rumors which are afloat, the State road can
be sold for a great deal more than the mini
mum price mentioned in the Dean bill. One
of the rumors is that the Tjouisville and
Nashville will give $15,000,000 for it, rather
than it should pass into the possession of one
of the Louisville and Nashville’s competi
tors. If the price named can be obtained
Tor the property, it is probable that even
the member from Bartow would lie willing
for it to lie sold. But if it cannot be sold
for $15,000,000, it certainly can be sold for
more than enough to liquidate the entire
State debt.
The Superintendent of the Railway Postal
Service insists that recent criticisms on
the postal service in Florida for failure to
deliver newspapers are unjust, and he
points out what ho considers to be the
reasons why newspapers in that State are
not delivered through the mails as promptly
ns they should be. If the reasons he gives
are correct the criticisms were rather hasty.
An issue has boon made, however, and the
sufferers in Florida would no doubt be glad
if both sides would produce their facts to
support their respective positions.
The legislature has been in session about,
fifty days, but it hasn't jmlss.sl fifty bills.
In fact, about four days Ims lx>on given to
every bill that has passed. Doubtless later
on lulls will be sent to the Governor with
amazing rapidity. Asa rule, however,
they will not lie given the attention they
ought to have. If the Legislature could man
ago to do a little more work at the be
ginning of a session, and a little less at, the
end of it, the probabilities are that there
would lie fewer objectionable bills passed.
The headquarters of the lately organized
Whisky Trust at Peoria, 111., are said to be
palatial. Well, why shouldn't they be?
The Trust has a capital of $40,000,000 and
proposes, it is said, to at once rxluoe the sala
ries of employes. Doubtless it can get enough
out of its employes in six months to pay for
the headquarters. It adopts the same sort
of financiering as that which other similar
cortHiratious find so satisfactory.
Mahone in his manifesto pleads that tho
“Republican party has no account of its
stewardship to render, since for four years
it has ha 1 no control over the administra
tion of Stats’affairs.” Virginia’s experience
with the Republican party was not such as
to make it probable that she could ever de
sire to experiment further with u party that
is rus]K>usible for Mahone and Riddlcbcrger.
The war between tho cable and telegraph
companies is for some unaccountable reason
delayed. Wall street appears to be very
anxious to know what the reason is. Per
haps the trouble will be settled by arbi
tration. The impression is growing that
in the affairs of individuals as well as of
natious arbitration produces as satisfactory
results as war, and is far less costly.
It would only lie history repeating itse'f
if Russia should abandon France at the
critical moment in return for Germany’s
neutrality while the Czar marches his
armies to the Indian sea. When Russia's
credit rises at Berlin it is not reaction—it is
diplomacy. What is Bulgaria to Bismarck,
or Bismarck to Bulgaria I
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Worst Surplus.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.)
A surplus of saloons is the worst surplus we
| suffer from.
Iron Entering Blaine’s Soul.
From the New York Star (Rem.)
The iron is entering Mr. Maine's soul at Ham
burg, but tt comes from a spring this time, and
not from political sources.
Our Spanish-American Neighbors.
From the St. laor is Republican. (Don.)
The growing intimacy ls-lween ourselves and
the Spanish American peoples south of us is a
guarantee that their appeals to us for protec
tion will not tie in vain. Indeed, we cannot
afford to see them wronged. We would defend
ourselves in defending them.
Spread of Northern Ideas
From the New York World (Rem.)
South Carolina is developing a big fertilizer
“combine,” and one of the charleston cashiers
has skipped out with all the money in the bank
the (irsi instance of the kind in Oie history of
the State. And yet the K,inkers insist that the
South is not sufficiently open to Northern ideas.
BRIGHT BITS.
Love may make a coward of almost any man.
If love doesn't, marriage is pretty sure to.—
Somerville Journal.
While they are discussing the tax on tobacco
it might he a good scheme to make the fellow
that chews it and spits on the carpet pay a
license for living. - Washington Critic.
At Bah Hah bob—“ There go the Fiyaways."
“Yes, 1 see."
“Do you cut them?”
“Of course. They're hotelers you know."—
Town Topics.
“Hello, old boy. Heard you're going to be
married, and a tine girl, too. eh?”
“Well, she has a very comely figure.”
"Oh, hut that's aside from the question. How
about the incomely figure?”— Detroit Free
Press.
Charlie Knickerbocker—l tell you, our club
room is going to lie fixed up fine. It is going to
have all (he home comforts.
Mrs. Knickerbocker, with a sneer—And when
is our home to have all the club comforts?—
Texas Siftings.
Editor—What was that awful crash in the
composing room now ?
Foreman- Sure, all our foreign news has
fallen info pi.
Editor Pick it up, and head it, “List of
Members of the New Hungarian Parliament.
Life.
"What's the reason the mosquitoes bite you
so persistently, amt don't toueh me at all?”
‘ Well. J don't know, Johnson, but it seems to
me when a man gels so far gone that even a
mosquito won’t have anything to do with him,
it's hi eh time he reformed and took a hath.
Dansville Breeze,
The Post Office Department has very sensibly
refused to name a Nebraska post, office “Old
Maid.*' A Western town which wants anything
better than “Washington,” “Franklin’' or “Co
lumbus” should lie made to go hungry for
awhile. And it is also the duty of this govern
meat to protect the old maids from ridicule.—
Detroit >Y re Press.
He was an artist, courting the daughter of a
sea captain. While he was whispering soft
nothings in her ear in the parlor, he was para
lyzed by the liarsh voice of the ancient mariner
in a neighboring room:
“Castoff that painter I”
But she explained that her father often used
nautical phrases in his sleep, and the engage
ment proceeded to a finish.— Cape Ann Adver
tiser.
Magazine editor I regret to say, sir, that I
must dispense with your services.
A Me assistant—What?
“This magazine can appear only once more;
I will get up the last number myself and then
lie down to die.”
“Ah, the time has come; the blow has struck;
tlie day of American literature is dead.”
•‘Yes, the war articles are all out.’’—Omaha
World.
An Elmira lawyer had a witness on the stand
recently who claimed to have been drugged and
robbed of his money. “They gave me some
tiling to drink,” said the witness, “and I lost all
conscientiousness.” “Indeed.” answered the
lawyer, “and have you ever fully recovered your
conscientiousness?” “Faith. sor,“ wns the
honest reply “many toimes 1 think I have not.”
And the witness cud not see why the audience
smiled.— Elmira Gazette.
PERSONAL.
The President has a splendid show for a
potato crop at Oak View—all he and Mrs. Fol
som can use next winter.
At an introduction in Ruffalo, a few days ago,
a curious coincidence occurred. Said the mu
tual friend: “Miss Cummings—Mr. Goings.”
Dr. McGlvnn came very near being appointed
Bishop of Pittsburg, but, as Dr. Corrigan ob
serves, “A miss is as good as a mile, and this
was a good miss.”
Another German singpr has found favor in
Spain. The tenor Alfred Kittershaus has been
engaged for the Madrid opera house. He is a
son of the poet Kittershaus.
John 11. Craig, of Franklin county, Ky.,
claims to he the great grandson of the first Gov
ernor of Vermont, which does not make him
half so conspicuous as the fact that he weighs
800 pounds.
Thomas Sexton proliably lias fewer acquaint
nnces in the House of Commons than any
other of its members. He sits by himself in the
smoking-room when it can he done. He walks
alone on the streets by choice.
Mrs. Ecreka C. Story, widow of Wilbur F.
Story, of the Chicago Times, has become an ex
pert portait painter. She took up the art as a
pastime while awaiting the settlement of tier
late husband's sß.ikX),ooo estate.
At the Wimbleton rifle meeting last month
the London Daily Telegraph cup was won, after
the shooting among the ‘’possibles,” by Sergt.
Allison, First Durham, gold medallist in 18TI,
who made nothing but bull's-eyes, both in score
and ties.
W. J. Florence, the actor, looks not older
than 35. He has a brother who looks 50 if a day.
Yet Florence was born in 1831 and the brother
in 18t8 Tlie perennial youth of Mr. and Mrs.
Florence is one of the things that astonishes
even the “profession.”
Senator Edmunds has lieen retained at a cost
of 835,000 by lho Chicago dressed beef interest
in their battle with the railroads before the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and lii.s old
friend and whist partner, ex-Senator Conkling,
will represent the railroads.
Tra Bu Ban Cos Sin, a Chinese graduate of
Yale in the class of '7B, recently visited Sara
toga. He is a Hnng-Koug tea merchant, has
about 45,000 acres of tea under cultivation, and
employs 4.000 coolies. He is of medium height,
nnd has dispensed with his cue. In conversa
tion lie is most interesting, speaking perfect
English.
M. Ferry, the French statesman, has a knack
for saying unpleasant things in an unpleasant
way, and consequently makes many enemies
L *nl Ronald Gower, in his interesting “Remi
niscences,'' siK’aking of M. Ferry, whom he
heard iu the Cbginber, says: “He looks like a
cross between a cafe waiter and a retired green
grocer, and speaks as unattractively as bis ap
pearance would lead one to expect."
Gen. Fisk, of New Jersey, and ex-Oov. St.
John, of Kans is, are the leading candidates for
the Prohibition nomination for President in
1888. Neal Dow. of Maine, who. in spite of his
81 years, is one of the most active workers in
Die Prohibition party, thinks that if the conven
tion were held to-day Gen. Fisk would lie the
choice. He says, however, that hi; party is
jierfeetly satisfied with St. John amt thoroughly
proud of the vote lie received in 188*4.
The sensation Mrs. Cleveland's visit has Croat
ed among the quiet country folk of Marion,
Mass., is very great. Men. women and children
follow her about, stand gazing at her windows,
cix*vd about her carriage, and even gather on
the shore to watch l;er ns she Ini the- in the sen
But these honest and admiring (nsiple are in no
way impudent. They always show great re
s]h*i t for tlie President's handsome wife, and if
their curiosity is indiscreet it is not meant to lie
insulting.
Gov. Hkavkr, of Pennsylvania, had a narrow
escape from severe injury at Camp Hancock,
Thursday. Ib' was standing under a large can
tos awning watching an approaching storm.
Suddenly tic' eiprtoious wind caught the canvas
roof and lifted it and Its fastening high in the
air. (ini' of (lie iron stanchions which sup
ported the canvas came within a few Inches of
striking the Governor's head. As it was, his
high hat was ruined. A summer gale is ns re
s|iecter of persona.
Asa sequel to the visit which the Empress of
Austria paid.to Heinrich Heine’s sister at Ham
burg, before her MaDstv went to England, it Is
now reported that the Empress lias wait the old
lady her portrait in an elegant frame, and a
present for her son. consisting of a valuable
breast pin representing the Inq crial crown en I
the Empress a initials In brlllianis. along with a
cabinet letter expressing her MnJ stv's warm
thanks for the Information she bad received
about Hclue's life, and for souio relics of tliv
Most.
Mr. Hathaway’s Buttons.
f'rom the Lewiston Journal.
There is a curious story told in regard to 0. F.
Hathawity, Esq., proprietor of the extensive
shirt works in Waterville. Mr. Hathaway, it
seems, wears no buttons on his coats, except
those absolutely necessary to keep them to
gether. This eccentricity is thus*accounted for:
Mr. Hathaway one day met one of his opera
tives, a girl of about 18* decked out in furbelows
and various bright colored ribbons. Noticing a
particularly fascinating bow on her hair, Mr.
Hathaway said:
“What do you wear that for? Does it make
you look or reel any better /"
The girl pertly replied: “What makes you
wear buttons on the back of your coat?"
The justice of the criticism struck Mr. Hatha
way so forcibly that he has never allowed his
tailor, since then, to make him anytning but
buttonless coat tails.
A Bride in a Cherry Tree.
From the Hartford Courant.
Tiiere is an eccentric old gentleman in a Con
necticut town who recently married a some
what hoydenish young wife, and who hits been
quoted as an awful example of senile folly ever
si no*. Shortly after his return from the honey
moon he was waited on cougrat ulatorily by quite
a deputation of his fellow townsmen and local
mAgnates. He had been apprised of the in
tended visit, and wa* muck annoyed that his
girlish spouse was not on hand wnen the visi
tors arrived. Inquiry elicited that her where
abouts was the garden, and he thereupon
invited the guests out to be introduced to her.
As they arose to accept the invitation his son, a
lad of 14, exclaimed:
“Don’t do it, dad
“Why," he demanded angrily.
“Because," answered the ooy, half apologeti
cally, "she is up a cherry tree."
Fate.
From the American Magazine.
When first the circle of thy life touched mine.
And both together traced the self-same curve.
We dreamed not path from path could ever
swerve;
Thinking fate led our lives along one line.
One. and all ours, no longer “mine" and "thine."
And when it seemed one way for both should
serve
By fate's sweet will, how love thrilled every
nerve!
How perfect then life’s beautiful design!
Ah, blinded eyes! why saw we not beyond?
How could we faii to know the self-same
power
That joined our lives to touch and kiss should
then
Drive us as soon apart, to meet again
Never in this swift circuit of life’s hour.
But in that further region? Ah, too fond!
Much Mulish Mischief.
From the Reno Gazette.
“Talking about mules," said Louie Deane, the
cattleman, to a party of friends in Becker's sa
loon last evening, “puts me in mind of one that
was owned several years ago by Clem Ogg. That
animal knew more than any I ever saw, and was
always up to some mischief. If he saw a team
hitched up- no difference if there were two ani
mals or twenty animals in it—he would sneak
around until he saw nobody was looking, and
then he would unloosen the bridles of every one
of them quicker than a man could, and off they
would come. If he got into a corral where there
were a lot of horses or mules haltered, he would
turn every blasted one of them loose and strut
around among them as though he were cock-of
the walk. Nothing but a padlock would prevent
his opening anv stable or corral in Wadsworth.
1 actually saw him goone day to a wagon loaded
with barley in sacks. He caught a sack in his
teeth, yanked it off, dragged it to a corral
wherein were a lot of mules, unlatched the gate,
took the sack inside, chewed a corner off it and
poured the grain out onto the ground. As the
animals gathered around and ate it he walked
off and then viewed them with the greatest sat
isf action. He beat any animal I ever saw. And,
remember, whatever mischief he did, it was al
ways to help out his fellow animals.”
Some Curious Wedding Rings.
From the Sew York Jewelry News .
In speaking of wedding rings, we learn that
these important symbols have not always been
manufactured from the precious metal, gold.
We are told,that in lieu or a ring the church key
has often been used; and Walpole tells of an
instance where a curtain ring was employed.
The Duke of Hamilton fell so violently in love
with the younger of the celebrated Misses Gun
ning, at a party in Lord Chesterfield’s house,
that two days after he sent for a parson to per
form the ceremony; but as the Duke nad
neither license nor ring, the clergyman refused
to act. Nothing daunted, Hamilton declared
“he would send for the archbishop." At last
they were married with the ring of
the bed curtain, at 12:80 at
night. at Mayfair chapel. Forget
ful bridegrooms have been reuuced to greater
straits than this even; in one instance a leather
ring had, on the spur of the moment, to he cut
out of a piece of kid, from the bride's glove. A
t ragic story of a forgotten wedding-ling is told
in the “Lives of the Lindseys." When he should
have been at church, Colin Lindsey, the young
Earl of Balcarres, was quietly eating his break
fast in night-gown and slippers: when reminded
that Mauritia of Nassau was waiting for him at
the altar, he hurried to church, but forgot the
ring; a friend present gave him one, w hich he,
without looking at, placed upon the bride’s
finger. After the ceremony was over, the conn-*
tess glanced al her hand and beheld a grinning
death's head on her finger. She fainted aw ay,
and the omen made such an impression on her
that, on recovering, she declared that she was
destined to die within a year: a presentment
that brought about its own fulfillment, for in a
few months the* careless Colin was a widower
Gambling and Racing:.
From the Saturday Review.
Gambling and raciug are great stumbling
blocks in a young man's career now. Many men
think that they can increase their limited income
by a recourse to these pursuits; and how many
poor young fellows have disappeared from the
ken of men through this unhappy belief! Luck
very often attends these, when they are feeling
their way, with comparatively small stakes:
but it is like the will-o'-the-wisp, w'hich is pretty
sure to lead them to their destruction if they
have not the moral courage to take a pull when
they arc getting out of their depth It only
wants a study of the betting ring to assure men
*f common sense that backing horses in the
long run means coming to grief. The ring in
creases daiiy in numbers and prosperity. None
of the old faces disappear except by death,
while new ones are continually joining Tatter
sail's, and apparently prospering, so it must
be obvious Inat they were doing well and
making money but how? at the expense of the
backer. But the numbers of men who have
taken to racing, and who have succumbed, is
enormous, while those who have made anything
by it could be counted on the fingers of one
band. The same may b* said of gambling, with
this additional advantage, or we might say
disgrace, that wh?n young men play, as they
frequently do, for higher stakes than they can
afford to, and losing are unable to pay. it is their
friends and acquaintance who are "let in" by
them, who have the disagreeable choice of
whether to post their quondam allies or silently
suffer the loss. It. seems a mistake now that
the only penalty that can he imposed on a man
for wilfully playing for higher stake's than he
can afford, and then not pAying his friends if he
loses, is to turn him out of his club; it strikes
us a worse crime than the stealing of a loaf of
bread by a poor starving 4 wretch who, if he is
caught, “gets" two months.
Romanes in the Breakers.
Maud Howe's Newport Letter in the Bouton
JYanteript.
Yesterday I passed an hour on the seasands,
watching tb cool beryl-green waves frothing
into foam (lowers ns they broke on the hard
white shore, looking at the bathers as they
passed to and from their cabins, and at the
swimmers buffeting with the wares or quietly
swimming in the deep water beyond. A canoe
propelled by a vigorous young man carries as
passenger n girl who is pretty and young, if wo
may judge bv ap|x-aranees. She leans hack in
t he ennoe with tile air of a Venus Viclrix; every
movement of her small heal and lithe, light
body bespeaks the tyranny < and youth anil beaul v.
He has yielded to the tyrant, the reigning lieile
of the hour; we see that even from the shore, by
the intent, rapt manner with which hi' watches
her slightest movement. She is a good swim
mer, as well as a good dancer, as is shown by a
little trick she play* upon her companion. She
attracts his attention to something on the
shore and when his head Is turned away
leaps from the canoe with a quick movement,
upsetting Ihe light lurk, and tumbling her
escort all unexpectedly into the water. He
sinks, rises, catches ids paddle, anil, tossing it
into the empty cation, starts in pursuit of the
water nymph, whose strong, quick strokes have
curried her well away from him. He swims
after her. first on his hock, then on his side, then
like a wind mill, whirling his arms round and
round and making a great splashing and to-do
in the green water, which heaves in soft, un
broken billows beyond the line where the waves
break. He is gaining on her, slowly aud surely,
and at last thiiy njv neck mid neck. Her haul,
innocent of disfiguring bathing cup or hut, is
lifted well our of the water. The sun strikes her
bright hair and her glistening white throat; he
Is well up with lies- now, nn<l he throws about
her neck a delicate chain of bright seaweed
which he ha* caught as It tloa'ed past him and
then, l-eing overtaken, site turns about and thev
both swim bock to their canoe All this Incident
I have watched through the pow erful field-gloss
lent me by a friend who comes to claim the
glass, and I *ee no more of the little matinee
performance bv two unknown actorc.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Secretary Lamar, some months ago, had a
letter from an old lady in Ireland, asking if he
knew where her son was. This kind-hearted
Secretary sent an inquiry on foot and found the
son had killed a man and been hanged for it in
one of the Territories. The Secretary hardly
knows how to write to the old mother.
An lowa editor closes a rhapsodical eulogium
of his State in the following style: “When the
roll call is sounded on the judgment day, and
the heavens are rolled together as a scroll, and
the reverberations of wrecked and ruined
worlds peal forth from the fiat of eternal rest, I
want to hang mv weary bones on the galley
rack of immortality and register in fopr-line
pica as a man from lowa.’’
Mme. Huot, the anti-vivisectionist, delivered
recently a sensational lecture ip Paris, which
caused such au uproar among the students and
adherents of Pasteur present that the chair
man. Maj. Marechal, was compelled to dismiss
the audience ln*fore the close of the lecture.
Mme. Huot is the lady who thought fit to inter
rupt the proceedings at the unveiling of the
stat ue of the physiologist Claude Bernard by
whistling with a key. and who during a recent
lecture at the protested so loudly
against Pasteur that even the gallant M. de
Lesseps lost his patience and remonstrated with
her.
Advices from Egypt report the death, at an
advanced age, of one of the oldest and best
known consular officials in the East. Mehemet
Mustapha Agha was appointed British Consular
Ageut at Thebes in 1858, and since that time his
proverbial hospitality to travelers of all ranks
and nationalities has been regarded as one of
the attractions of the Nile trip. Among his
guests he numbered the Prince of Wales, the
Empress Eugenie, and members of most of the
royal families of Europe. A native of Egypt,
he had yet traveled in India and gone round the
world. His death occurred on July 17, within
a few days of the completion of his twenty
eighth year of service.
It is interesting to take a retrospect of the
past two years and a half of Democratic poli
tics. The President entered his office with a
very clear idea of what he proposed to do in a
party sense. Under the circumstances of his
surroundings and the pressure which has been
brought to bear from ail quarters, not to speak
of threats and clamor, he nas succeeded better
than any of his predecessors who have under
taken such a herculean task. The reason that
the mutterings of disappointment are no longer
heard is because the young, vigorous and ag
gressive men of the party, who are abreast of
the times, have been brought to the front, and
the ancient barnacles who helped to scuttle the
Democratic ship have been sent to the bottom.
The political rubbish of the last quarter of a
century has been thrown overboard, and the
ship lightened and trimmed for the campaign
of 1888.
The creosoting or preserving of pine timber
for docks and wharves and for the construction
of railromls has became one of the great inter
ests of the Atlantic coast. The works of a large
concern are located at Wilmington, Del., and
other works are being constructed at Fernan
dina, Fla. Yellow pine logs, fid to 00 feet in
length, are taken, placed into the cylinder re
torts, ami forced full of creosote This treat
inent preserves the timber against dry and
water rot, as well as against the rav
ages of the teredo worm in salt
water. Millions of feet of timber for cross
ties are sent to South America, and there is a
prospect that 80.000,000 feet *or more of lumber
will be sent to France within the next twelve
months. The works at Wilmington have a
capacity for creosoting 100,000 feet of timber a
day. C. P. Huntington is having a dry dock
constructed at Newport News (the Largest dry
dock in this country), the timber of which is
ereosoted.
Mr. Ikglis, a resident of Travancore, India,
had a narrow escape from death the other day,
having to run for his life before a rogue ele
phant. The animal was among the small clump
of trees close to the jungle path by which Mr.
Inglis had to pass. After a careful survey of
the “monarch'* that gentleman dared to throw
stones at him. The first one missed, and only
caused the animal to cock his ears to catch the
slightest sound. The second went straighter,
and hit him right in the eye. The elephant
made a salaam-like movement of his trunk, ac
companied with a terrific roar of anger, and
made straight for his assailant at a furious pace.
Mr. Inglis. however, was too clever for him, and
ran very fast, but, in suddenly turning a corner
round a huge tree, he stumbled and fell. The
elephant was close on him with outstretched
trunk, the point of which at one time touched
Mr. Inglis' coat, and had his fore foot already
raised to crash him; but the animal's head be
ing caught at this instant by the tendrils of a
climbing plant which had suspended itself from
the branches above, he turned away, leaving
Mr. Inglis frightened, but with no limb broken.
The rogue is a great terror on the hills.
The coming gathering of the Democrats in
New York is likely to lead to some very sig
nificant developments. While the old rounders
• ere clamoring for places, and would not bo
comforted because they were not forthcoming,
the President, with the aid of his private secre
tary, has been quietly acting an organiza
tion which will make itself felt, within the next
twelve months in the affairs of the Democratic
party and the national campaign. In this im
portant work the President could not have
found anywhere a person more competent to
fill its requirements than Col. He
held practically the same relations in
party mobilization and movements to Samuel J.
Tilden during the most vigorous campaigns of
the Democratic party within the past ten years.
It was Mr. Manning, that shrewd judge of men
find merit, who discovered the political astute
ness of the young man from Cortland county
and brought him to the attention of the sage of
Greystone. With such a field before him it did
not take long tor Lament to demonstrate his
usefulness, and naturally he was recommended
to the new Governor, who had not given much
attention to politics beyond the limits of Erie
county.
At Newport the, bay is full of pleasure
yachts—the finest fleet of the kind in the world,
as far as known. Life on these vessels is luxu
rious. and a little lascivious. The utmost free
dom of the sexes srems to prevail, and it is no
uncommon thing to observe young men and
girls asleep on deck in the same silken woven
hammocks. It is the rule, rather than the ex
ception, that handsome wives of owners and
guests, after the wine and game dinners which
Lucullus would have envied, if he had not dined
ami dilated some 2,0U0 years too soon, shall
rest on the deck in the hammocks of
others, rather than those of their own liege
lords. Able seamen of the yachts are speci
ally employed to fan the couples thus reposing;
and 1 am told that one very discreet millionaire
who issues many invitations for long cruises on
his large and fleet .steam yacht, accompanies
each invitation with a postscript notice to the
effect that “no seaman on the can either
hear, speak or write." The Newport ladies
have reduced hammock flirtation to a science,
and the attitudes into which they can throw
themselves in these pliant couches would justify
a true artist, in throwing tiie “Taiee Graces”
overboard and substituting yacht owners’ w ives
and daughters os models.
A curious attempt to poison a British regi
ment wholesale occurred recently in India. The
following account of the affair is given
hy a correspondent of the Indian
Railway Service liazette: “Very con
siderable excitement has 1-a'n aroused at
Agra owing to an attempt that has been made
to poison the Manchester Regiment, stationed
there. It seems that some seventy men belong
mg to this regiment, shortly after visiting the
canteen, were - seised with violent attacks of
vomiting, which created a suspicion thut some
thing was wrong with the beer. The lieer on
tap was accordingly examined, when it was
found to contain arsenic. Several other hogs
heads were then examined, and, to the conster
nation of those engaged in the tests, the
beer in every one of them was found
to be poisoned by the introduction of
arsenic. The dastard Ur attempt U not consid
ered to have been male with any political ob
ject. but it is somewhat strange that only those
casks containing beer for the Manehester regi
ment were found to have been jmisoned. A
cask that had just been tapped at the Sergeant 's
liiess. Koyu! Artillery, was tested and found to
contain arsenic; but it bad been previously
marked for the Manchester regiment, which
s'rengthens the belief that there is nothing po
litical connected with the attempt; for, had
there lieen, all the troops lu the garrison would
have been served alike. The whole of the Ix-er
in store at Agra is undergoing a strict chemical
analysis, und samples of each cask are 1 icing
taken and sealed, livery impiiry Is being made,
an-1 rewards have been offered to try and dis
cover the authors of this diabolical plot."
How Col. Ochiltree Enjoys Life.
fhm Truth.
Col. Tom OcliUtree is at Long Rraneh, stop
ping at the West End. The Colonel, who is a
good fellow, and the most accomplished liar in
America (alter Eli Perkins, of course), manages
to amuse biqiself splendidly. lie gyts up about t!
In the afternoou. has a hratulv and soda, goes to
sleep for a couple of hour*, has another brandy
and soda, sleeps a couple of hours more, has
dinner, another brandy and soda, takas posses- I
sion of the parlor sofa and guc. to sleep until 11
or It km. Then, Just as everybody is going to I
bed. the ga-lant Colonel begins to wake up, and
(airly bunb.us over with tlsa stories. He is get- !
tiuir very fat and very florid.
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the Strongest Purest aud most Healthful. Dr.
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contain AnuiVtiia, Lime or Alum. Sold only ia
Cans.
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Pin GOODS, ETC.
keptioDil Reductions
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SUCCESSORS TO
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137 BROUGHTOJ STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
AUE will close out the remainder of our stock
i t of these tine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12Hc.
25 pieces Figured LawD,33 inches wide, regu
lar price 12Hc. a yard; nov RJ,£e.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at
50 pieces Wide Width lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now 6^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. aud 17c. a yard; now t2^Sc.
One lot of Dress Ginihanis, choice styles,
regular price 12>4e. a yard, now 10c.
30 Imported Marseilles Qtilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We rill close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery nod Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Blackand Colored Hose,
regular price 12>$e.: now 9c. a pair.
A mixed lot i “Misses’ Fhe English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain aoc :Jilk ClockoL regular price of
these goods from ic. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze TJkdervests, regular
prices 25c. and 35c.; now 190. each
35 dozen Ladies’ extra fine quality Gauze ITn
dervests. regular prices 50c., Me.. 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr $1 Uolanndried Shirts Redifced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlauutfried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our largo
stock we will offer them at 00c. each.
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Develop Flesh
and solid muscle. Elegantly sngal
touted. Price, 23cts. per box.
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tlie *.ales of that class of
ißinedies, and has fire*
almost üßucrsai satulac*
tlOtt,
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he public and now raakt
sm.ng On lading Mndl
tines of the oildom.
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ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility. Dost
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