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SUNDAY. AUGUST 38. 1887,
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices —Mißs E. M. Johnston's
School; For Rent or Lease, J. C. Rowland; As
to Crew of Br. Steamship Ixia; Are You Look-'
log for a Wagon, Townsend.
Cheap Column AiivERTisEMZNTs-Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; Board; Miscellaneous.
Grand Fall Campaign— Gray & O'Brieji.
Closing Up the Business ok the Summer Sea
son—At Eckstein's.
Auction Sales—Valuable Lot and Improve
ments, by I. D. Laßoche's Sons.
The Truth, Nothing But the Truth— L. &B.
S. M H.
Direct Importation Schreiner’s Music
House.
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will contain a complete and comprehensive
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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 ootton, 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.
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inducements which it offers to those who are
seeking homes in the South.
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tained upon application to the Business Office.
Cannot somebody find out whether or not,
there has been an Indian outbreak in Color
ado! _
The opinion is growing that General Mas
ter Workman Powderly’s friends will be in
complete control of the coming Minneapolis
convention.
England has quarrels with tho TJnitod
States, France and Belgium, and all about
fishing. It begins to look as if tho fishing
rod were as trying to men’s tempers os to
their veracity.
Herr Most says that Henry George is a
Socialist, which the latter denies and claims
to be an individualist. George knows best,
and most people already believe he Is work
ing for his own infcrests.
The Prohibitionists of New York have
adopted the picture of a crank as their
badge. This punning defiance of the popu
lar estimate of the more ardent of their
number is bold, to say the least.
The Atlanta Cousfifution save the bonds
of the new Atlanta and Havvkinsville rail
road were sold at a “low but fair” price,
and congratulates the sellers. Does the
Constitution mean that tho bonds were not
worth much and the Atlanta people wore
lucky to get rid of them!
Chattanooga's hopes, talk and even values,
so inflated by the discovery of natural gas
in that vicinity, are likely to suffer some
thing of a collapse. The famous Logan
well, though now many feet deeper than
when tho first poekot was pierced. Is not yet
a spouter, and a different stratum has been
reached.
Ike Vincent, the “good fellow” who, as
Treasurer of Alabama, robbed the State of
1250,000 and is under sentence to spend ten
yearn in tho penitentiary, hopes by an ap
peal to the Supremo Court to get a now
trial. He may delay his departure to tho
coal mines, but it cannot be believod that
be will escape punishment.
The controlling spirit, it is said, of tho
new paper that is to bo started in Atlanta
will be Mr. G. A. Woodward. If one may
judge from his past record as editor of the
Working World, the principal article in
the political creed of his now publication
will be hatred for “dull Grover,” as he de
lights to coll the President. If this should
prove to be true, ho will (lnd that fighting
against the opinions and sentiment of the
people is unremunerative and exhausting
work.
The enemies I)r. Iluwthorno has mode by
his vehement speeches in tho eanse of pro
hibition—and they are many and widely
distributed—are rejoicing over tho appar
ent success of a writer in the Augusta
Chronicle in an attempt to convict the dis
tinguished divine of plagiarism. The arti
cle has been reprinted in the Richmond
Mate, whose editor, Mr. Buime, Dr. Haw
thorne once denounced from his pulpit a* a
duelist, and causos much excitement The
***u - tU*i ceiuuui is a deadly weauoa.
Wall Street Influence.
The moral influence of Wall street reaches
every part of the country, and it is bad.
Whether it is worse than it was a dozen
years ago is a question not easily answered.
It is generally believed, however, that it is.
There are, of course, good men in Wall
street—men who would not do a mean nor
a dishonest act, but it is doubtful if the num
ber is large enough to have an appre
ciable effect upon tho moral standard of the
place.
The number of dishonest failures does not
furnish the only, or the best data upon which
to base an opinion of Wall street’s morality.
There may tie but few failures that show
crooked dealings in the course of a year,
and these may not involve directly more
than a dozen people. A bettor idea of Wall
street’s morals is obtained, from observing
how men of shady reputations, who have
acquired wealth, are treated. If a man
have wealth he is pretty sure of a hearty
reception, however bad his reputation for
honesty may lie. Bankers and brokers will
make much of him as long as they think
association with him can be rendered profit
able. They will not stop to inquire how he
gets his money, and if there are whisper
ings that he gets it as a thief gets what he
disposes of to the junk shops and “fences,”
they will assist in hushing them up.
How was it in tho case of Ives! Only a
little more than a year ago Broker Doromus
was shut out of the Stock Exchange for
having business relations with him. He was
caught in a disreputable transaction, and
was looked upon as a black sheep. It soon
became noised about, however, that
Ives was getting ahead in the
world, and that ho bod some
choice collaterals to dispose of at prices
which loft a handsome margin for profit.
Broker Doromus was restored to his place
in the Exchange, and Ives was offered the
hand of friendship and declared to be a very
good fellow, who had been shamefully treat
ed. Ives had collaterals, and plenty of
them, but where did he got them * Did the
eager bankers who took them inquire? They
must have known that Ives did not come
by them honestly. They are shrewd men,
and could have reached no other conclusion,
if they had cared to think about the matter
at all, than that he could not have legally
accumulated so many millions of securities
in so short a time. They asked no questions,
however, because they didn’t care where he
got them.
Again these same bankers and brokers
will undertake to float bonds and stocks
which they know will, in a year or two, he
comparatively worthless. They are aware
of the arrangement by which two or three
dividends are to be paid in order to induce
the public to purchase tho securities, but
they don’t make it known. They take the
money of their victims with as much readi
ness as if they were doing a perfectly honest
business. Perhaps such business is con
siderocf honest in Wall street.
The reports of the quick fortunes made in
Wall street spread all over the country, and
their effect is very demoralizing. Young
men, and even old ones, send their savings
there to be invested and are made penniless.
The doubtful business transactions which
take place there, and which frequently roach
the public, lead business men in distant
cities to attempt similar transactions. The
result, ns a general thing, is that fortunes
and reputations are wrecked. No one can
doubt who studies the matter thoroughly
that Wall street’s influence is bad.
The State Road Question.
It is pretty safe to say that the question
whether the State road shall be leased or
sold, will not be settled by this Legislature.
The defeat of the Dean bill indicates the
purpose of the Senate to leave tho ques
tion to be disposed of by the next Legisla
ture. Although the debate on the bill was
quite a long one, it is probable that it would
have been much longer, if the impression
hail prevailed that the vote upon it would
be close; and if tho bill had reached the
House, it would perhaps have occupied the
attention of that body for tho greater
part of tho time that the
legislature will remain in session. If the
question involved in it should come up
again it will in all probability be quickly
pushed aside, with the understanding that
it shall he made an issue in the next State
campaign, with the view of getting the
sense of the people with regard to it.
All things considered it would be better
for this Legislature to settle the question
and to perfect arrangements for making
such disposition of the proporty as would tic
necessary, but it doesn’t appear to want to
take the responsibility, and, besides, it is al
ready beginning to think aliout adjourning,
although it has not made much progress in
disposing of the great number of bills which
await its action. To settle the railroad
matter would prolong the session sevei al
weeks, or cause the groat majority of tl e
pending hills to be neglected.
The present lease of the road will expire
soon after the next Legislature meets, and
whatever it does will necessarily have to be
done hurriedly. It may, of course, be in
structed by the people as to what it shall do
with respect to the road, nnd in that case it
will have to deal only with details, but if
it should not be instructed tho chances arc
that, on account of the necessity for prompt
action, the matter would be disposed of
without tho care anil deliberation required
for the protection of the State’s interests.
Tho Legislature, however, appears to hnvo
deckled upon its course, and there is not
much, if any, probability that it will
change its decision.
Foreman Canfield’s Wild Talk.
Mr. Canfield, who was foreman of the
jury which convicted Jacob Hliarp, has
been saving some things which may get him
into trouble. He appears to boa man of
good judgment, but like a good many other
men who have been for a little while thrust
into prominence, and who dislike to drop
liack suddenly into obscurity, he doesn’t
use his tongue with discretion.
The day that Judge Potter granted a stay
in Jacob Sharp’s case, Mr. Canfield said to
a reporter: “I understand that it was all
arranged that Sharp should have a stay,
and I was so informed.” The question
which,' naturally presents itself is, Who
were the |iarties to the arrangement, and
how could there be any arrangement which
was not basts! upon the assumption that one
of the Judges of the Supremo Court could
be improperly influenced ?
It is certain that the Pistrict Attorney did
not consent to a stay, and the only other
parties’ who could make arrangements
about the matter were Sharp's attorneys
and the Judge who heard the application.
It is pretty sale to assume that Judge
Potter made no arrangements with the de
fendant’s counsel, or any other parties. He
may have been prejudiced in favor of
Sharp, and, henoe, believed that he found
good reasons for granting a stay. In fact,
his reaauns may be sound ones in law.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1887.
Whether they are or not will soon bo de
termined by the Supremo Court, which has
been called together iu extra session to hear
the case. But there can be no doubt that
Judge Potter was influenced by pure
motives. He could hardly afford to run tho
tho risk of ruining his reputation to keep
Sharp out of tho penitentiary for a few
weeks.
Mr. Canfield, doubtless, did not say what
he meant, or, if he said what he meant he
could hardly have known what he was
talking about. The court ought to call
upon him to explain his meaning. Judge
Potter can hardly afford to permit such a
statement as his to stand uncontradicted.
The State and Its Convicts.
The prompt action of Gov. Gordon, when
information reached him concerning the
brutal beating of convicts at tho railroad
camp near Griffin, will add to the esteem in
which he is held by ‘the people of Georgia,
because it is further evidence that
in his administration he is en
deavoring to serve them with
fidelity, guided by his own intelligence,
untainted by influenoas which have been
thought strong—even irresistible —in Geor
gia politics. In this action, however, is
only to be found the satisfaction which the
good citizen feels when ho sees tho will of
tho people, expressed in the laws, vigorous
ly sustained in the punishment of offenders
against even the humblest of his fel
lows. The higher satisfaction which springs
from the knowledge that such offenses are
made impossible by good laws well admin
istered is not found in this incident. If tho
sufferings of Bingham’s victims impress
more deeply upon the public mind the neces
sity for amending our penal laws or reform
ing their practical application, then they
will have suffered vicariously in a good
cause.
The suits ordered by the Governor to be
instituted against the lessees, to show why
the lease should not be forfeited, and against
Bingham, the man directly responsible for
the cruelty, wilbbring out under oath the
truth respecting the management of the
convicts much more fully than has either of
the several investigations by a legislative
committee. When this information is ob
tained the people and tho Legislature will
lie in bettor position to determine the proper
remedy for the present intolerable condition
of affairs.
The present convict system is a bad one,
and will continue to be a disturbing issue iu
the politics of the State. The unnecessary
hardships it inflicts are a reproach to our
civilization. It is not probable that It will
be abolished until the State sees its way
clearly to the adoption of a better system,
but something should be done at once to les
sen its abuses.
Aim High.
A few weeks ago a college student called
upon tho President of the institution at
which he was receiving instruction and
asked advice about seeking employment
during the summer vacation. lie informed
the President that two offers had been made
to him, one from the proprietor of a sum
mer resort hotel who wished to employ col
lege students as table waiters, and the other
from a publisher who wanted book agents.
The President decided quickly. He said:
“Refuse the first offer and accept the
second.”
This incident occurred in a Northern
State, but there is in the Southern States
quite a large number of college students who
find it necessary to obtain employment dur
ing the summer vacations. Indeed, with
out such employment they would be com
pelled to withdraw from college; for not
only is the necessity upon them to earn a
living during tho vacations, but they must
also earn enough to pay their expenses dur
ing the next college term.
The college student who is manly enough
to earn tho money with which to pay for his
education should accept no employment
that is likely to make him lose his self-re
spect. Waiting at. a public table is honest
enough, hut it is not nn elevating occupa
tion, and, as a rule, only tho uneducated
and the unambitious engage in it It. is not
likely, therefore, that a high-spirited col
lege student could become a waiter at table
without feeling more or less degraded.
This, no doubt, was tho reason why the
President, whose advice on the subject was
tusked, told the student to refuse the offer
from the proprietor of the summer resort
hotel.
Book agents are to some extent regarded
as troublesome, and they are the subject of
much ridicule and many jokes. Neverthe
less a successful book agent must have qtiali
fientions that are very likely to make him
successful in other aud higher occupations.
In any event, it is better that a collqge stu
dent should boa book agent than a waiter
at a public table.
Any young man, college student or other
wise, in choosing an occupation, whether
temporary or permanent, should he sure
that it is both honevst and elevating. In
other words, aim high.
An exchange says that an Ohio editor hr.s
just invented “an infernal machine, which
he places in an envelope and sends to those
of his subscribers who ‘refuse’ his pjqier
after a five years’ trial of it. It explodes
and kills the whole family, and the frag
ments, which fall in tho yard, kill the dog.”
If some method wore invented to prevent
publishers of newspapers from sending their
papers to t hose who don’t pay for them in
advance, and won’t pay for them when
trusted, it would lie very valuable to the
publishers, who, in ninety-nine eases out of
a hundred, waste their lives in trying to
build up a newspaper circulation by send
ing their papers to people who think it costs
nothing to publish weekly papers, and that
they are doing the publishers a favor when
they read them without paying for them.
The Savannah Weekly News was run
on tho credit system twenty years ago, and
not enough money was received for it, to
pay for the ink used in publishing it. It
was changed to a cash-in-advanee ]iaper,
and started anew with a small but paid up
list of subscribers. It began to prosper nt
once, and has prospered ever since. If the
trust-e very body, tnist-to-luck system had
been adhered to, it would have soon lmuk
rupted its publisher, as it had a number of
others who preceded him in Its publication.
It would be a curious illustration of the
weakness in a certain direction of the great
European powers if Prince Ferdinand, hated
by the greatest of them, but saved from de
struction by their mutual jealousy, should
establish a stablo government in Bulgaria.
He has probably the negative sympathy of
most people of this country.
A Charleston man broke up a prayer
meeting by the use of a revolver, because
he objected to the noise. A little exercise
in breaking stones would put his nervous
system in better coudltiou, and enable him
to endure sounds disagreeable to him.
CURRENT COMMENT.
What Ie To Be Feared.
From the Providence Journal (Rep.)
The danger to bo feared, as things now look, is
that at the next session of Congress that body
will be engaged in distributing the surplus with
out touching the inconsistencies and injustice
of the present revenue laws. This is neither
complimentary nor encouraging.
The Internal Revenue.
From the Washington Post (Dem.)
The man or newspaper, therefore, favoring
the repeal of the internal revenue laws, so long
as the country's yearly outgo for pensions is
$30,000,000, and for Interest on the public debt
over $10,000,000, is advocating a policy which, if
successful, will make tariff revision and lower
duties an impossibity for years to come.
An Affront to Workingmen.
From the Manchester Union (Dem.)
The Pennsylvania Republicans offer an affront
to the workingmen of America when they claim
that the policy of protection, which was bom
on their soil, is designed to protect American
workmen from the unequal and unjust compe
tition of imported and pauper labor. With the
hundreds of thousands of Poles and Hungarians
who have been brought into Pennsylvania to
work at pauper wages in the coal and iron
mines this statement in their last State platform
soun is like a piece of sarcasm.
Advice to Business Men.
From the Philadelphia Times ( lnd .)
The business world will probably never be
from the depredations of thieves. Thieves have
existed and will exist in all ages. But it should
be the policy of business men to reduce the
{iractice of thievery to the narrowest possible
units by making it dangerous. A policy which
offers a direct premium to a little thief to be
come a big one Is more than suicidal; it is crimi
nal in itself, There will be no safety to banks
aud other financial institutions until this is
abandoned. When a groat defalcation has taken
place tie punishment of the defaulter should
be the first and important consideration.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Do you think you will give this vacancy in
the counting room to young Smith?”
“No. i’m a little doubtful about Smith.’’
Why?”
“Because he always has so much luck when
he goes fishing.”— Washington Critic,
Some fresh air children located near Ithica,
N. Y., asked permission to pick flowers. The
kind hearted family gave them permission to
pick all they chose. Imagine their surprise
when it was discovered that they had picked off
every blossom from a large cucumber patch.—
Floating Item.
The Congressional Record contains many such
moral sentences ns this; “Mr. Jones, of Illinois,
having secured a pair, retired to the cloak room."
A pokerexpert at our elbow asks: “But, sup
pose Mr, Brown, of South Carolina, was there
with three of a kind, what then?”— Shoe and
leather Reporter.
M(Hr I Li. Y—l can’t make out your friend
Bowipr. Yesterday I read him an original poem
of thirty stanzas, and at its conclusion he walked
away without a word of comment.
Begley (enthusiastically)—'That’s just like
Bowser! He’s the most forgiving man I ever
knew.— Philadelphia Call.
A YOUNG CITY CLERK who felt inclined for a
trip to the seaside called upon a friend. “Hal,
my dear boy,” said he, “I’m off for my holiday,
and I find I’m a trifle short. Lend me a ten,
will you ?”
Hal, after a pause, which apparently included
a mental examination of his financial arrange
ments: “Well—Phil—to tell you the truth—l do
not feel—disposed—at present—to make—any—
permanent investments.”—Ledger.
A well-known lady guest of Congress Hall
occupied one chair and her fussy poodle
sprawled over another at the crowded Congress
Hall ball last evening. A veary-lookin; woman
approached the “owner of the poodle," saying:
Is this chair occupied, madam?"
“Yes isharply), my 'poodle is occupying it.
madam," was tlie* cold reply, nn I femininity in
the vicinity of the poodle mistress drew up its
nose a peg or two.— Albany Journal.
Two ladies who hail not scon each other for
years recently met in the street. They recognized
each other after a time, and their recognition
was cordial. "So delighted to see you again.
Why. you are scarcely altered.”
“So glad, and how little changed you are.
Why. how long is it since we met?"
“About ten years.”
“And why have you never been to see me?”
“My dear, just look at the weather we have
had.’’— Jjeed's Mercury.
An Omaha Failing—Detroit mailen—Papa
says I shall never marry such a specimen of
humanity as you. Ain't tie horrid?
Omaha Youth—What in creation lias got into
your father ail of a sudden? Ijist Sunday,
when I went to your church, he was particularly
kind and told me always to come into his pe\v.
“Yes, but you went to the base ball game in
the afternoon."
“Great Caesar 1 How did he find that out?"
“He was there himself, and said he knew from
the scratches you applauded that you hadn't
the first idea aliout the game.”— Omaha World.
They tell a good story at the Press Club about
one of the nautical reporters of the Herald.
Some three years ago there was a young jour
nalist employed in the capacity at a salary of
sls a week: a collision had occurred between
two steamers, and some liver, had been lost.
The young reporter wrote a florid description in
which he used the words, speaking of the mo
ment when the vessels collided, “the scene that
followed baffles description." Young Bennett
was nt home and went for him.
“Why did you not describe tho,seene that fol
lowed. instead of saving that it baffled descrip
tion?" thundered the great man.
“Why, it did baffle description."
“What do you mean, sir?"
“That it baffled the description of any sls a
week reporter."
Bennett raised his salary,—New Fork Truth.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Buffalo Bill has su id for a divorce.
M. Katkokk. the Russian journalist, left a
fortune of 2.000,000 roubles.
C P. Huntington says that the Central
Pacific railroad money was used simply to
bring ennstituents to Washington to “explain
things” to their representatives.
•Tav Gould is passing a quiet summer Two
days a week are spent on his yacht each week;
two. including Sunday, at his farm at. Irvington,
and the remaining days are killed leisurely in
New York at his office.
Dr. Mackenzie reports that the growth of
the Crown Prince’s throat is now so slight that
he expects the trouble will soon cease altogether.
Tho Prince’s voice gains daily in strength and
his general health is excellent.
“Dan Lamokt was more conspicuous for his
organizing ability than for his literary efforts
during the years we worked together in the Al
bany Argus," said Mr. J. A. Waldron, the man
aging editor of the Saratogian.
TriE late Elisha A. Welsh, the original “Yan
kee clock man,” accumulated in the cloek
iil.iking business a fortune estimated at $3,000,-
000. He made millions of clocks, yet it is stated
that he emild not keep tho ono in his own house
wound up the year round.
The young puke of Newcastle is contem
plating holy orders. He will not be the fir.-fi
peer who has become a clergyman: but for a
man of his high rank, the Duke's entrance into
the church, if he decides upon taking that step,
will lie regarded as a very extraordinary pro
ceeding by English society.
Andrew Carnegie will introduce to President
Cleveland the twelve members of the House of
Commons who are to visit this country in Octo
ber, mid present tie* memorial asking that • Ilf
ferences arising lietwecn America and England
which cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agency
shall lx* referred to arbitration.
A correspondent who has met Buffalo Bill
and his daughter In London desrrih •* the latter
as a young lady of 10, "Inclined to Is* pretty,
gather conveying the impression that sho revels
in sucking oranges, chewing gum, etc." One of
the curious feature? of her make-up noted was
n piece of court plaster stuck artistically on tho
side of her nose.
A year ago Cougty Commissioner Van Pelt,
of Chicago,’ who is now being tried for bribery,
was at the head of a delegation of business men
who called on the President to ask him to ap
point McGarigle. now a fugitive, to the Maishnl
ship of the Northern district of Illinois. Mr.
Cleveland did not like the looks of either Van
Pelt or McGarigle, and appointed another man.
The Duchess of Cumberland is now living at a
villa In the Kosentlud. at Wilhelminonburg, near
Vienna. It is a large house, and stands in
charming gardens, beyond which is an extensive
and well-wooded juirk. The physical condition
of the Duchess is excellent, hut there is uo real
improvemeat In her mental state, nor Is anv
change expected until after her aooouchmeut ,
which will decide the issue of the case.
Miss Kate Fiei.ii will go down to posterity as
the first person who ever delivered a public lec
ture in Alaska The subject of her discourse
was entitled "An Evening with Dickens."a i.iost
inappropriate title, os the lecture began at 11:80
a in. It took place in a dance-house In Juneau,
tho mining camp and largest town of the
province. Miss Field hail a large nnd attentive
audience. Her only remuneration was a vote of
thanks, a dinner at tho hotel, and a subscrip
tion to the JVcs Press, the oulr paper in Alaska.
END OF A NO3LE ATTACHMENT.
Tli© Late Gen. Toombs’ Faithful Ser
vant Laid to Rest.
Wahington {(id.) Special to Boston Globe.
To-day the body of Uncle Billy Toombs was
buried in the colored cemetery here in the pres
ence of a large number of the best white citi
zens, as well as' of almost the entire colored
population. Prominent among those present
and taking personal charge of the arrangements
were the members of the family of the late Gen.
Robert Toombs.
Uncle Billy was bom eighty-seven years ago,
the slave of Maj. Toombs, and was 11 years of
age when the Major's son Robert was bom.
Billy was assigned to duty as the boy in waiting
to the baby, and took great interest in his de
velopment.
Wueu young Mr. Toombs grew up and mar
ried, his father presented him with Billy, and
ever after the closest friendship existed be
tween the two. Billy accompanied his mas
ter to Washington, to the fashionable watering
places and to Europe. In this way he became
familiar with many distinguished people.
Iu all this.change of life, however. Billy never
lost his head, but was polite, and faithful to his
master's interests. Before the war he had an
intense hatred for the Abolitionists, refusing to
countenance them in any way. When the war
was over and the Toombs family had gathered
once more at the old family mansion, Billy re
turned there, too, as well as the rest.
“You are free," said Gen. Toombs to him.
“I ll never be free from old master,” said he,
“but I will follow' you all my life.”
To this Gen.* Toombs replied: “Very well,
then, I’ll take care of you.”
Ever after Billy was the most devoted of ser
vants. looking after his master’s interests as
though they were his own.
When Gen. Toombs died, two years ago, he
left full provision for Uncle Billy's support, and
no mourner at the General’s grave shed Warmer
tears than did the faithful old African, who
lingered there long after the crowd had melted
away. Uncle Billy will be ramembered as the
only African who absolutely refused to accept
his freedom.
New York’s Girdled Girls.
From the Jewelry News.
Ever since Evq first put on corsets there have
been flippant allusions made to a supposed
fondness that young ladies cherish of having
their waists squeezed. No visible proof of that
weakness has ever been offered to the public’s
gaze until recently. But it's here now, and the
girls can’t dodge it. The silver girdle business
has become fashionablo, and young men who
are addicted to the arm act are as blue as po
licemen. It’s hard enough to make an impres
sion through corset armqr, but when a silver log
chain is added humanity gives up and takes to
lamp-posts. Naturally, it is worn around the
waist, because it’s too big for the neck, and a
girl couldn’t grab her skirts with one hand
and her back hair with the other if
she wore it around her arms. A smell
ing bottle, a box of caramels, a powder
puff, or, in fact, almost anything can
be bitched to the front end of the girdle as an
excuse for wearing it. It is a convenient place
to carry surplus hairpins. Within the last week
or two Fifth avenue and Madison avenue girls
have bloomed out with girdles. They are an ex
pensive shackle. But with all their drawbacks
they have many advantages. When a girl is
drowning, a girdle is a much surer thing to lift
her out with than hair. Hair is liable to come
off. In walking through a crowd the escort
could take a hitch of the chain around his wrist,
and be dead sure of his prey. Then they are
convenient things to attach dogs to, and, in
case of defense, can he used as slung-shots.
When traveling and living in ftrange hotels a
gi’ 1 will find the girdle an infinite protection by
using it to attach the door-knob to the bed-post.
The girls have got the girdle very badly. It is
liable to injure the matrimonial market some.
But after all, the girdled girl is the delicacy of
the season.
It Was Joseph Himself.
Washington tetter to the New York World.
Secretary Moseley, of the Interstate Com
m-ree Commission, was trying hard to keep
cool one sultry afternoon last week when a
meek-looking old gentleman with a long white
beard and general ministerial air entered, and
inquired for the clerk of the commission.
“I am the Secretary," said Mr. Moseley.
“What cau I do for you ?”
The old gentleman said ha would like to get a
copy of the long and short haul decis on. This
was hooded to him, the Secretary wandering
what this country preacher wanted with it.
"You look warm,” Mr. .Moseley added.
“Won’t you take a seat near the window and
cool off ?"
“Thanks.” was the reply. “I don’t care if 1
do." After a few moments' silence the old
gentleman ventured to ask: “What part of
th > country are you from?”
“I’m a Yankee—came from Massachusetts."
Then bis Yankee curiosity asserted itself and
he said: “Where do you live?”
"In Georgia," was the reply.
“Are you interested in railroads?”
“Yes, I am President of one of them. My
name is Brown."
“Are you any relative of old Senator Joe
Brown? I have always had a desire to see him.”
“Yes, l am slightly related to him." was the
reply, "and I might say that I am the gentle
man himself.”
Mr. Moseley now says that he \Vishes public
men would wear badgesto designate their office.
Gen. Lee’s Advice to Young Wfves.
Advance Sheets of Mrs. Hancock's Book.
“How well I remember Gen. Robert E. bee,
then a Major, who was stationed there at that
time. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and a
gentleman. When bidding us good by and Cod
speed upon the eve of our departure, he said to
me: ’I understand that you contemplate desert
iug your post, which is by your husband's side,
and that you are not going to California with
bim. If you will pardon me, I should like to
give you a little advice. You must not
think of doing this. As one consider
ably older than Hancock, and hav
ing had greater experience, I consider
it fatal to the future happiness of young mar
ried people upon small provocation to live apart,
either for a short or long time. The result is
invariably that they cease to be essential to
each other. Now, promise me that you will not
permit him to sail without you.’ The sequel
shows how faithfully I sought to follow tha
noble admonition, and bow after, in my varie*
experience, 1 had occasion to transmit to otherd
his disinterested, truthful convictions Wit s
many regrets we hade adieivto a host of frlendsh
most of whom I never saw again. Not so with,
my husband, however. He met them taco to
face on the battlefield in less than three years.”
The Sleeping: Child.
My baby slept - how calm his rest—
As o>r his handsome face a smile
Like, that of angel flitted, while
He lay so still upon my breast.
My baby slept—his baby head
Lay ail unkissed neafh pall and shroud
I did not ween or cry aloud
I only wished TANARUS, too, were dead!
My baby sleeps—a tiny mound.
All covered by the little flowers,
Woos me in all my waking hours
Down in the quiet burying ground.
And when I sleep I seem to be
With baby in another land—
-1 take his littl * baby hand—
He smiles and sings sweet songs to mo.
Sleep on. O baby, while I keep
My vigils till this day lx* past:
Then shall 1. too, lie down at last
And with my baby darling sleep.
—Ecoene Field.
Tho Trap Would be a Safeguard.
From the Saratovian.
“Well, what on earth do you suppose that old
lady up iu 1.110 wants now; she lias just rung
again?" said a clerk in one of the largest hotels
in Saratoga to the senior proprietor, who had
lioon several times appealed to to gratify the
whims of a notional old lady guest.
"Well, I don't know. What does she want?"
"She wants a mouse trap."
"Well, get her a mouse trap."
"But you know there was never a mouse seen
on that floor since the house was built.”
"What difference does that make?" said the
circumspect Boniface. It is not a mouse that
she wants, it s a mouse trap—get her a mouse
trap."
l r ne clerk sent right out. got a three-hole
mouse t rap for 10c. and the old lady was com
fortable in mind for several hours.
Ho Had Wasted Time Shockingly.
From the Omaha Raihray Reporter.
It was on a Wyoming railway.
"Conductor," said a man, who, from his ap
pearance. was without doubt a clergyman, "I
.have a complaint to make. There are a couple
of men in the rear coach playing a godless game
called poker. One, 1 am sure, is dreeing the
other, who seems to have plenty of money.
Won't you take some action fn the matter?"
"Uow long they been playin'?"
"About an hour."
“An hour? Why the devil didn't you tell me
aooner? Here, Jim," U> the brakeniftn, "you
take tickets while 1 drop hack iuto that game.
If there's any mouey to be made out of suckers
ou this run Just count me In."
Uoo DATs are here. The dog that owns this
one can have it, if he will only take It away
with him. and no Question* naked.— Bangor
Commercial.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It is humored in Montreal railway circles
that the Grand Trunlr will form a connection
next year by way of Duluth with the Manitoba
Boundary railway, thus placing itself in compe
tition with the Canadian Pacific.
A negro cook on board of a Scotch schooner
is the author of a novel way of killing a shark.
He heated a fire-brick red-hot. wrapped it up in
a greasy cloth and threw it overboard, when the
voracious shark darted after it and swallowed
it. The shark’s fury was soon subdued ana he
floated to the surface dead.
Ma. Moody is reported as saying that he was
in favor of a whole holiday on Saturday at this
season, and then there would be do excuse for
Sunday excursions and Sunday newspapers.
As to the influence of Sunday papers he is said
to have said: “You can’t pound a sermon into
a man with a sledgehammer after he has got
through reading one of those Sunday papers.
An Albany watchmaker to whom a watch
that had been dropped overboard on a fishing
excursion was taken found that some of the
works were so badly rusted that they were use
less. “If,” said he, “you had dropped your
watch In oil as soon as you took it out of the
water, or, better yet, have dropped it into
alcohol or any kind of strong liquor, it would
have cost you nothing but the cleaning.”
“The rush of visitors to the White Mountains
just now is unprecedented,” says the Boston
Herald. “Asa rule in the hotels and boarding
houses, every inch of room is occupied, visitors
are admitted only by waiting and watching
their opportunity, while hundreds have wan
dered from place to place seeking a spot on
which-to rest them even temporarily. The sea
son is late, and it may prove short, but It set in
with a rush last week.”
The Vienna newspapers state that when the
train in which Prince Ferdinand traveled to
Orsova reached Temesvar a superior staff officer
who was waiting for him on the platform asked
him either to remain in the conntry or to sign a
paper resigning his commission in the army.
Of course he chose the latter alternative. The
incident shows how anxious the Austrian gov
ernment was to let the world know that it had
nothing to do with the Prince or his friends.
In Amsterdam, N. Y., there is a remarkable
photograph, according to a newspaper there.
It is a group of the heads of four young ladies.
“But if the picture is placed across the room
and looked at with half-closed eyes for a few
moments, a striking likeness of the late Senator
John A. Logan can be seen. Two of the young
ladies form his long black hair; the shadows
make a high forehead and prominent nose; the
heavy bangs o another of the group furnish
the prominent moustache, and the neck of the
fourth his eyes. This phenomenon was discov
ered by a near-sighted gentleman when without
his glasses.”
California producers of fruit and vegeta
bles, especially of canned fruits, will not mind
the higher freight rates caused by the inter
state commerce law this season. The fruit
yield in the East, and in the Mississippi Valley,
is so far below the average, taken as a whole,
tjiat there is sure to be a brisk demand for the
products of the Pacific coast, and the market
in Chicago has already advanced enough to
make up for the rise in freig tg. Meanwhile
consumers will enjoy the blessings of living in a
country where all soils and climates are found
in perfection, and the products of widely sepa
rated regions are poured into every important
market m the land.
The Cunard steamship Etruria's last trip to
New York ended Saturday, was made in six days
four hours and forty-seven minutes, or thirty
five minutes longer than the fastest trip on rec
ord that of her sister ship, the Umbria. The
world is seeing great developments in the mer
chant marine since the Savannah, the first
steamer to cross the m ean, went from Savan
nah to Liverpool in 1819, in twenty six days
The smallest steamer that ever crossed the At
lantic arrived in August, 1880, and went
to Philadelphia. She steamed the entire
distance, 3,3111 miles, with a consumption of
less than twenty-five tons of coal. She is 81
feet in length and her gross tonnage is seventy
tons.
A certain Albany grocer, to make a good
show, has been in the habit of leaving coffee
bags filled with sand in front of his store during
the daytime. The other night, by mistake, one
of the bags was not taken in. Covetous eyes
saw what appeared to be, a bag of coffee, and
the covetous mail paid $2 for a wagon, and
after dark confiscated the bag and drove off
with it. He discovered that it was filled with sand
and that he was out $2, and then had the assur
ance to send a threatening letter to the grocery
man, telling him of the fact, and stating that if
he did not send $2 to him (he gave a fictitious
name) through the post office he would expose
his dishonesty. The scheme did not work.
There is to he a goddess at the Golden Gate.
A San Francisc > dispatch to the New York
Times tells about the project thus: Adolph
Sutro, of tunnel fame, has decided to present a
colossal Statue of Liberty to the city of San
Fransisco. The figure will be of stone, and. in
cluding the pedestal, will be forty feet high.
At the base will crouch a figure representing
Anarchy. The statue is to lie erected on the
summit of one of the twin peaks, two cone
shaped hills at the extremity of Market street,
midway of the peninsula, overlooking both the
Pacific Ocean and the Bay of San Francisco,
The site for the statue is 90(5 feet high, so that,
the electric light torches which Liberty' will hold
aloft, will be 1,000 the level of the sea,
William J. Shepherd, of Philadelphia, is
happy. Twenty-three years ago on Washing
ton’s birthday he was wounded by the acci
dental discharge of the musket of a comrade
during the parade of the Twenty ninth Penn
sylvania Volunteers, of which regiment he was
a member. After lus recovery he rejoined his
command at the front, and served iu several
important engagements. At the close of the
war he applied fora pension, but received no
encouragement From time to time, however,
he persistently renewed his application, until it
was at last favorably considered. The argu
ment made by Shepherd was that he was still in
the service when he was wounded. The back
pay' and arrearages due him will amount to
SIO,OOO or more. He still suffers from the wound.
A suit brought in the Court of Common Pieas
in Piekawa.v county, Ohio, brings to light a novel
ante nuptial contract. Col. L. H. Bond, now a
well-known lawy'er of Cincinnati, was, in 1864,
living at Circleville, O. He had recently been
elected prosecuting attorney. In September of
that year he married Miss Eva Saxon, the
adopted daughter of Josiah Reniclt, one of the
wea thicst and most influential citizens of that
region. lie afterward moved to Cincinnati,
where he prosp'red. Not long ago Mr. Remck
dietl, leaving the income of his property to his
widow during her lifetime, nnd after her death
ibe property was to go to certain religious in
stitutions. Thereupon Mrs. Bond brought suit
for $53,000 against the executors of the estate
and alleged in her complaint that Mr. Renick
had entered into a written agreement on July
10, 1864. to will to her at his death the sum now
sued for. the sole condition of the contract
heing that Lawyer Bond and she should be mar
ried within sixty days after the signing of the
contract.
A magazine published in Philadelphia in 1818
gave the following as an item of news: “In the
course of the twelve months of 1817, 12.000
wagons passed the Alleghany mountains from
Philadelphia nnd Ball iniore, each with from
four to six horses, carrying from 3,500 to 4,000
pounds. The cost of carriage was about $7 per
hundred weight, in some c ises as high ns $lO to
Philadelphia. The aggregate sum paid for the
conveyance of goodsfexceededl, $500,000. ’ To
move a ton of freight lietween Pittsburg and
Philadelphia, therefore, cost not less than $l4O,
and took probably two weeks’ time. In 1888 tbc
average amount receive,! by the Pennsylvania
railroad for the carriage of freight was three
quarters of lc. per ton per mile. The distance
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg is 385 miles, so
the ton w hich cost $l4O in 1817 was carried in
1886 for $2 87. At the former time the working
man in Philadelphia bad to pay sl4 for moving
a barrel of flour from Pittsburg, against 28c.
now. The Pittsburg consumer paid $7 freight
upon every 100 pounds of dry goods brought
from Philadelphia, which 100 pounds is now
hauled iu two days at a cost of 14e.
At a recent meeting of the Berlin Medical
Society. Prof. Mendel Introduced a patient, a
well to-do mechanic, who regularly at 9 o'clock
in the morning loses the power of speech and
hearing, remaining a deaf mute until 6 o'clock
of the following morning. From 6to 9 o’clock
he bears and steaks as well as anybody. This
peculiar trouble showed itself first last year as
a sequel to an epileptic attack. Ihe patient,
whose mental powers have not suffered, ex
hibits another curious anomaly. If a certain
spot in the joint of the right hand Is pressed, ho
is At once seized with convulsions; if a certain
spot on the right upper ami Is pressed, the con
vulsions instantly disappear. Prof. Mendel
made this experiment twice liefotc the assem
bled physicians. He was unable to give the
cause of these abnormal conditions, blit con
sidered them related to the bysterico-epileptio
manifestations sometimes seen in women.
Their origin is probably to be nought In tem
porary* interruption of the ner;re functions in
volved in tlie process of bearing and speaking.
Prof. Mendel said that there wtu) but one analo
gous case on record, but that lie hoped to briug
about a cure.
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AI r E will close out the remainder of our stock
y V of these fine (roods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12J^c.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu
lar price 12MjC. a yard; now B>sc.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular prfe*
10c. a yard; now Oj^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12V£c.
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot ou*
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12j£c.: now 9c. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose,
Rjbbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each.
35 dozen Indies’ extra fine quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr $1 Uolaundried Shirts Reduced to 90e.
75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced hack and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. Iu order to reduce our largo
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
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