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4 CbHlonungHctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SUNDAY. AUGUST 38. 1887, Registered at the Post Offloe in Savannah. " , ~Th,. Morning News is published every day in the year and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 35 cents a week, $1 00 a month, 85 00 for six months and 810 00 for one year. The Morning News, l>v mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50, six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three mouths, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and ‘Saturdays, threo months, 81 35; six months, $2 60; onSyear. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. 82 00. The Weekj.y News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postaj order, check or registej-ed letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and adve.rti.sinß rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertislng rales made known on application. 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. ANMUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE — Savannah Morning News —AND THE— Savannah Weekly News, • —TO BE— 16BIED ON SEPTEMBER 3d, 1887. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily •nd Weekly News 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 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. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by buying copies of the 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 tho 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 feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and In presenting to the world the inducements which it offers to those who are seeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to nil sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of extra oopies 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 be ob 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. - BAKING POWDER. WE/OffTN PURE CREAM Baking BpWDEf Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only iD Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY GOODS, ETC.' Exceptional Reductions IN Slimmer Goods AT tab 4 Dooicr’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS 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. CROITAN & DOONER. SHOES. Ask your Retailer for the ORIGIN AL$3 SHOE. Beware of Imitations. None Genuine unless bearing the Stamp J arnes Means’ $3 SHOE. ass & Un- Com- A 1 will how >e in •itory :00., This Shoe stands higher in the estimation of yvearers than any other in the world. Thousands who wear it will tell you the reason if you ask them. For sale by A. S. Nichols, 128 Broughton street, Savannah, Oa. MEDICAL. ~ MOTHER’S FRIEND makes jjpi CHILD - BIRTH|JpiI m ag Send for book "To Mothers,” mailed free. BitAunsLii Regulator Cos., Atlanta, Oa. “STEAM JgAUNDK VL SAVANNAH STEAM LAINDRY, 131 Congress Street Blankets anfl Lace Curtains Cleaned as Good as New. SEE OUR NEW REDUCED PRICE LIST. Work Called Xbr ujx<\ Delivered*