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4 C|t|Horning|lclus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY• AUGUBT 96, IMT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Mornivo News is published every dnv in fbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 25 cents a week, $1 <*> n month, $5 UO for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, f] 00; three mouths, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one vear, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue*, three months. |2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $S 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 NO; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, bu mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year, $1 35. Subscriptions parable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rales may he ascertained at the office of the Auferi can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Oa.” Advertising rate* made known on application. 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. I BAKING POWDER. WEI PURE fpMCEfe CREAM S&KI 0 Used by thi United States Government. En dorsed by til heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest Purest aud most Healthful. Dr. Price's the civ Baking Powder that does not contain AnuiVtiia, Lime or Alum. Sold only ia Cans. PRICEBAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. V CHICAGO. ST. LOI’IS. Pin GOODS, ETC. keptioDil Reductions -VIN Siiiinr Goods -AT— (Mu 4 Dims, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 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. ( ROHAN & DOONER. MEDICAL., T utt’s Pills sill save the dyspeptic front mans lays of misery, und enable him to out nhutever he wishes. They prove-* Sick Headache, tanse the food to assimilate and nour ish the body, give been appetite, aud Develop Flesh and solid muscle. Elegantly sngal touted. Price, 23cts. per box. SOLD EVERYWHERE. Tansy pills TT?^irT?o!!^^ i iT"?uT ,, TrrT? i "7rfbCTcir. Used to—*l • v regularly by IQ.OUO Aiosncaa Womm. Uiubantbbd ruraaioa r> all • tiibbb. or CtiH KsruitDßh, Don’t ***** money <>o NoBTBLMi TBY THIB RKMKDY FIB|T. **+ you will Di* , *d no othor. ABSOLUTELY INFaLLIBLW. Farticulars, healed. 4 cent*. . wi D wILCUX SPECIFIC ra. For sale by LIPPMAN PROS., Savannah, G TTia taken tn lead !• tlie *.ales of that class of ißinedies, and has fire* almost üßucrsai satulac* tlOtt, MURPHY BROS.. Pam. Tea ® has won the favor o i he public and now raakt sm.ng On lading Mndl tines of the oildom. A. L. SMITH. Bradford. Pt. SoMhy Druggists. Trade supplied b▼ LI PPM AN BROS. MANHOOD RESTORED. ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility. Dost Manhood, etc., having tried iu vain every known remedy, lias discovered a simple self-cure, which he will semi FREE to his fellow sufferers. Ad dress (\ J. MASON, Post Offlco Box 3179, New York City. HARDWARE. EDWARD LOVELL k EONS, HARDWARE, Iron ;iod Turpentine Took ofllce; Cor. State and Whitaker street* Warehouse: J 33 and 140 State streak.