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4 I'lflftorningHclus Horning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TITSDAV. AUGUST 80, ISB7. gtgittertd at the Post office in Savannah. to The Mornino News is published every day in fee year, and is served to subscribers in th* city, |y newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac fount. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 n month, $5 Oh lor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, }l 00: three months, $2 .V); six months, $5 00: Ine year. $lO 00. The Morn png News, by mail, six times a Eeek (without Sunday iaßue), three months, >00; six months. $4 0) one vear. pi 00. The Morning News. Tri Weekly. Mondays, k’eidnesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs lays and Saturdays, three months, fl 25; six norths. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Si vday News, by one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mat I, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions parable in advance Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur* lency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates bay lie ascertained at the office of the Ameri t&n Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams bo addressed “Morning News. Savannah. (a.'* Advertising rates made known on application. mi TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mimses-Teutonia Division No. 3, K. of P. Special Notice—Attention, George Bartel. Dissolution of Co-Partnership—Weed 4 Sornwell. Auction Salks—Sundries, by I. I>. Laßoche’s Ions: Paris Variety Store Auction Sale, by I). t Kennedy. Cheap Column Advertisements Employ hent Wanted; For Kent; For Sale: Miseella teous. ('ow Peas, Etc. —G. S. McAlpin. Educational Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Va.: John Gadsden's School at (umniciyille. S. C. UfIUAL SPECIAL EDITION - OF THE Savannah Morning News —AND THE-- Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE tSM F.D ON SEPTEMBER and. 1887. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily tnd Weekly News will be issued Sept. 3. It trill contain a complete and comprehensive teview of the trade of the city for the past year, Ind will show the progress the city has made in ITerything that helps to make up its wealth and lhat contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and ibe different branches of the city's wholesale Irade will lie so presented as to give a clear idea ►f the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1. The business men of Savannah cannot make a letter investment than by buying copies of the llorniko News Annual Special Edition and lending them to their friends and correspon lents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, sontaininz an accurate account of the business tf this city, is the best advertisement of the •nergy and activity of the people of Savannah, bvery citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer thant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure. should feel a pride in the progress the city h making, and in presenting to the world the feducements which it offers to those who are kicking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to all suh- Icribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a hrge number of extra copies will be mailed, Iboroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Hdition of treat value, and space in its columns can be ob iained upon application to the Business Office. The Lincoln homestead, now the property If the State of Illinois, will be turned into i museum. The city editor and six reporters of tho New York leader have resigned, because it las begun to advocate Socialist doctrines. A. N. Cole, of Buffalo, who called the first Republican convention in 185(5, which hominated Fremont for the Presidency, has fciven in his adhesion to tl)i> George party. The Prohibitionist* must be very conti nent or very desperate, when, iu addition lo the burden of their own battle, they ttndcrtake to carry that of the woman suf fragists. The war between the Jacksonville papers Itill continues unabated. One charges that Ihg other has no legal existence. The one tgainst which the charge is brought leems to know it has nn actual existence. It is hinted that Senator-elect Iliscock is k candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, and thut he will go to (he convention with tlie indorsement of New York, if the skill and influence of ex- Senator Platt can give it to him. Mr. Williams, the registrar of St. I,ouis ( lays that JO.OOO of the 70,000 names on the poll books are fraudulent, but says ho will have the list corrected before the next elec tion. If he does, it will look very much like an apprentice boy’s first proof. American taxpayers should hope every tuecess to the Peace Society anil extend a rordial welcome to the English deputation When it comes to this country. The go vern tnent still pays for military services ren dered more t han a hundred years ago. The tide of travel to Kuro|ie is slackening. In a few weeks the thousands of Americans How abroad will begin to hasten home, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a win ter passage. It is estimated tliat they will spend iu Europe more thun $50,000,000. Bar Harbor is in moui-niug because of tbe departure of the North Atlantic squadron for another jiort. Dancing is that part of the modern naval officer’s education which lie has had an opportunity to put in prac tice. Mont of the other jjart is theoretical. Congressnutn Butterworth and Ernstus Wimun have lioeii making speeches at To ronto and Detroit, advocating commercial union lietwecn the United State* and tho Dominion. They were very favorably re ceived. It will be remembered that Mr. Butterworth has introduced a bill in Con gress with this object in view. Ex-Senator Platt, of New York, who as pires to lead the Republican party in that State, finds himself in an unpleasant predic sment. He recently made oaih tliat his resi dence ha* for Home year* been in New York, though he alwuys voted in Oswego, and on two occasions when his vote wss challenged in that town, swore that he was a resident of that place. The ex Henator will have tifficulty in reconciling the two affidavit*. Vague Fears of Republicans. The New York Times , in the course of a lengthy article condemning Gov. Poraker, of Ohio, for his folly, bordering on idiocy, jin indulging in offensive language at | Wheeling, W. Va., the other day, says: I “There are, of course, many Republicans, ! perhaps a majority of the whole jiarty, who honestly and fervently believe that the I country is in danger of- some terrible in jury from the South.' Their belief is not the less fervent because the injury they apprehend is vague.” Can it lie possible that ther> are any in telligent Republicans who apprehend injury to the country from the South 1 We have never thought so, but when an influential journal like the New York Times says there are, and expresses the opinion that perhaps a majority of the Republican party are dis turbed by an indefinable and indescribable apprehension of danger from the South, it is certainly time to inquire whether there is an)- foundation for such an apprehension. We have all along been under the impres sion that the attacks of the Forakers, Tuttles and Fairchilds upon the South were due to hatred, rather than fear, of the South, and that they hoped by their course to hold their party together by arousing bitter sectional feelings. We never for a moment had so low an opinion of the intelligence of the Republicans as to think that their hostility to the South was based upon fear. When Mr. Cleveland was elected the ne groes throughout the South thought that some great calamity was about to overtake them, and in localities they talked over in whispers the change that was about, to tuke place in the control of the government, but their fears were easily accounted for. They were ignorant, and had been taught for years by Republican emissaries that the triumph of the Democratic party meant their return to slavery. But ignorant as they were, and, therefore, having but lim ited means for obtaining correct informa tion, it was not long liefore they understood, and accepted the truth. No where now among the colored people of the South is there a belief that the ascendancy of the Democratic party threatens them with harm. Indeed, within a few months after Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration their ap prehension of danger disappeared. And yet the colored people had just as much reason to apprehend dunger to themselves from Mr. Cleveland’s election as the Republican part y has to apprehend danger to the coun try from the South. How is it then that the comparatively ignorant colored people wore able to get rid of their fears so quietly, while the Republicans, assuming that what the New York Times says is correct, have not been üble to get rid of theirs in twenty years? But where is the evidence of the appre hension of the Republicans? They are anxious to sell goods to Southern mer chants on credit, and they are investing millions of dollars annually in Southern enterprises. As far as all business matters are concerned they apparently regard the South as being as much interested in, and as desirous of, maintaining the integrity of the whole country as any other section of it is. Is there anything in the attitude of the South, or in the sentiments expressed by the Southern people, calculated to alarm Re publicans? If there is. what is it? Even Oov. Foraker would be at loss to specify anything that fills his mind, or that of any other Republican, with alarm. No, the Republicans are not apprehensive that the South threatens tho country with danger, but they are apprehensive that on account of tho South they will not get con trol of the government again. Some of them are very bitter because the South will not acknowledge that she was in the wrong in the war between the States, and others are hostile to the South because she Is solid ly Democratic, but those who do not know that the South is sincerely devoted to the interests of thy whole country, and is proud of its growth and prosperity, must be more ignorant than the colored jx-ople who thought the election of Mr. Cleveland meant their return to slavery. The Wrong Man Hit. A day or two ago the Morning News called attention to the frequent complaints of irregularities in the mail service of this part of Georgia and of Florida. A quota tion was made from a communication which was published in the litnes-Union, of Jack sonville, in which it was charged that owing to physical disabilities the railway postal clerk on the VVaycross and Chattahoochee route was unahle to discharge his duties satisfactorily. Tho postal clerk referred to has denied, in a communication to the Times-Union, that there is any truth in the statements mode with respect to him. The Morning Lews does not desire to do any one an injustice. The postal clerk on the VVaycross and Chattahoochee route is entitled to a chance to make his defense. The Morning News commented on the publication in the Times-Union, supposing that there was no doubt about the eorrect ness of it. The Times-Union will doubt less hunt up its correspondent and find out his reasons for his statements. But the fact that the statements respect ing the VVaycross and Chattahoochee postal clerk are denied doesn’t relieve the postal service from the complaints that there are grave irregularities in the mails. It is not stated who is responsible for the irregulari ties, and it is probable that only an investi gation can determine that. The investiga tion ought not to be delayed. The people want their letters and uewspajiors promptly, audit they don’t get them when they are duo they are going to make trouble. There is negligence or iuconipetency some where and it is the duty of somebody to find out where it is. When it is located the remedy should be applied without auv favor. There is uo desire to see any official lose his place, but the Morning News proposes that the mail service of this section of the country shall lie efficient if such a thing is within the hounds of possibility. George Koch, who Is spoken of as an ex pert, says that the oil fields of Pennsylvania are nearly exhausted; that the production is rapidly decreasing, and that there is no ho|x> of discovering new deposits in that State. It might profit Pennsylvania oil men to investigate the resources of Wilkes county, in this State, where indications of oil are said to lie abundant. Savannah is convenient ns a shipping port. It would seem that Napoleon’s epigram matic characterization of the Bourbons— they never learned or forgot anything— would apply with equal force to many of their followers. A large meeting of Roy alists was held at Augers, iu l*i Vendee, a few days since, and the leadership of the Comte de Paris was rejected, because he represented the changes wrought by the rev olution . THE MORNING NEWS: TEES DAY, AUGUST 150, 1887. The Convict Lease Question. It would seem as if the lessees of the con vict camps would make a special effort to keep the camps in good condition, and to prevent abuses in them while the legisla ture is in session. There have been more exjxisures of abuses, however, since the present session begun than during six months, and jierhapsa year, immediately prior to that time. The evidence appears to be quite conclu sive that in some of the camps the convicts are overworked, and have not a sufficient amount of wholesome food. They have not as clean and comfortable beds as the law re quires, and that they are brutally whipped there is no doubt. The questions which present themselves to the Legislature are these: What shall be done with respect, to this convict problem ? How can it be solved? There is no doubt that nine-tenths of the people would like to see the lease system abolished, provided it were possible to adopt a bettor one that would not increase their taxable burdens. The State is not proparol, however, to im pose a tax for the maintenance of the peni tentiary, and until it is there is not much prospect that the lease system will be abol ished. There are two things that can be done, however, and they should be done by the present legislature. A reformatory institu tion should be provided for youthful con victs and the Governor’s hands should lie strengthened sufficiently to enable him to put a check upon abuses in the convict camps. Convicts ought to be punished, and that too, severely, but they should be pun ished as the law dipacts. It was never the intention of the State that punishments, in addition to those imposed by the courts, should bo inflicted upon them. The action that the Governor was compelled to take last week in order to enforce obedience to the luw is calculated to create the impression that while the Governor is ready and prpmpt to do his duty there must lie untold outrages suffered by the convicts of which the public hears nothing. This and other Legislatures have wasted time enough on this convict question with out doing anything to prevent abuses. This Legislative has all the facts it needs for its intelligent action. If it does not see its way clear to abolish the present system, lot it at least make such provision for youthful convicts as will give them a chance to be come honest men, and so strengthen the hands of tho Governor that he will be able to correct such abuses as are continually re ported from the convict camps. It is said that the present lease law is ample for tho protection of the convicts. If it is, why are not the abuses prevented ? The Governor has shown his willingness to do all he can to prevent them. There must boa weak spot somewhere in the law. Let the Legislature find and strengthen it. Interstate Commerce Amendments. As the time for tho meeting of Congress approaches the talk about amendments to the interstate commerce law increases. There is every reason to think that the number of amendments proposed will lie large. Senutor Cullom who had almost as much to do with securing tho passage of the law as Henator-eloct Reagan, says that he expects that the Interstate Commission will suggest some changes, as it thinks it has discovered wherein the law can be im proved in several important re*])eets. The probabilities are that there will be a great many more amendments proposed than Senator Cullom has any idea of at present. Senator Butler says that he opposed the enactment of the law, but now that it is on the statute books he thinks it ought to lie made effective in protecting people against the carelessness, indifference and the grasp ing nature of railroad corporations. He pro poses to suggest some amendments whieh will tend to secure greater safety for the traveling public. One of the proposed amendments which he has consented to dis cuss in tho newspapers is that employes shall not be on duty more than ten or twelve hours a day, His object is not to lighten the burdens of employes, but to prevent keeping men on duty in responsible positions until they become too tired to do their work faithfully and conscientiously. Doubtless when the door for amendments is once opened, the friends of the law will lie surprised at the number of suggestions for its improvement. Efforts will also lie mode, doubtless, to have the law so changed as to permit assistance to be extended to special interests. Senator Cullom says that the largest carriage manufacturer in Chi cago expressed his hostility to the law the other day, because he was now deprived of free passes for his possible customers. He told the Senator that before the law went into effect he used to get blank passes from the railroads and fill them out and send them to any one who wrote to him expressing a desire to see his stock of carriages with the view of making purchases. Of course the free passes helped him greatly in his busi ness, but as the smaller manufacturers in the same business did not have free posses for their customers there was unjust dis criminations in his favor. There is no probability that there will be any changes in the law that will wink at discriminations of any sort. The demand for the law originally was based almost wholly on unjust and even outrageous discriminations. An Advertisers’ Guide Book. J. Walter Thompson, Esq.,:) Park Rpw, New York, has issued a selected list of standard daily and weekly newspapers of the United States and Camilla. It is a neatly gotten up pamphlet of 148 puges, containing a fae-similo page of nearly every newspaper mentioned in it. The book does not pretend to be a complete enumeration of all papers printed on the North Ameri can continent, but only those which Mr. Thompson, who, by the way, stands at “the top of the ladder" as an advertising agent, has by experience found to bo worthy of commendation. Herr Most, tho leading Socialist iu this country, says Vanderbilt's mul Gould’s yachts do not belong to them, but to the men who made them. Then have not the men who made them a largo amount of money in their possession whieh belongs to Vanderbilt and Gould? Some amusing stories of Chiiiose imita tiveness have been told, but a San Fran cisco young man who insulted John on the street to amuse a crowd did not find the quality so agreeable as he liad thought, for the Oriental slugged him in true Bullivau style. The Chicago ,\eirs prints returns from that portion of Illinois affected by tho re cent drought, estimating that the yield of <-orn anti oats will be stout half what is usual. This is much better than was at one time expected. CURRENT COMMENT. Mahone the Tariff’s Guardian. From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.) It is painfully evident from Mahone’s address ns cliui'Tiian of the Virginia Republican State committee that the wild-eyed free trade Demo crats of the West, art* going to colonize Vir ginia this fall and outvote the protection Demo crats who live there There is no safety for the inqierilleti tariff except under Mahone's speckled wing. George’s Arguments Must Be Met. From Vic Chicago Tribune (Rep.) The press of New York and Boston cannot dispose of Henry George with an affected sneer. He is gaining converts every day and will con tinue to do so as long as the Eastern pa)iers show themselves indisposed to give him fair u-eatment or powerless to meet his arguments. If Georgeism is to be exploded it must be by showing that it is inexpedient and incompatible with justice and right. The Interstate Commerce Law. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) We have before us a handsome volume of the decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. It was a tolerably long haul to tackle, but the effort has been made, and the conclusion is this: That there is noth ing in tlie law that cannot lie got rid of when ever it is convenient to ignore it. It is a great thing—that is, under substantially similar con ditions and circumstances. BRIGHT BITS. The pendulum sings A song as it swings “Tick, tick, tick;” The-tallor, he swears lie is tired of rrrayers For “Tick, tick, tick!” The pendulum's rhyme As it measures the time Is “Tick, tick, tick;” The tailor rehearses His debtors, and curses “Tick, tick, tick!” --Charlestown Enterprise.. My little man, years old, looking out of the window one day, exclaimed: “O, mamma, I see such a pitty tail to ’e kite, en’ e kite has a boy to it. Come and see.”— Babyhood. A paraoraphkr wits put on the market* the other day. but when he headed a fall in India rubber ’’gum drops,'’ he was restored to his former position.’—Boston Commercial Bulle tin. Thin Old Man (cramped and cross) —This car ought to charge by weight. Stout woman t regarding him contemptuous ly>—lf they did they’d never stop to pick you \\p.~ Texas Siftings. A oay rooster tipped on the light fantastic toe up to the oocupant of a quiet nest and said: ' Will you dance, Biddle?’’ ‘ Excuse me," said the hen, “I am engaged for the set." -.Yen: Orleans Picayune. A Duluth t-YF.ARet.n hopeful, who was re ceiving an application of the corrective rod, looked up to his offended mother, who had told him of bis prehistoric whereabouts, and said: "Oh. mamma, I wish I’d stayed in heaven.”— Duluth Paragraphs)'. “Georoe,” she said tenderly, “do you be lieve in the old saying, ’Out of sight, out of mind?’ ” “Weli, no, not altogether,” responded George hesitatingly. "For instance, take a boil on the hack of one's neck.”— New York Sun. “Patsy, oi've lieen insulted. Mickey Doolan called me a liar,” said an excited Irishman. “An’ phat are yez goin’ to do about it?” “I don't know. Phw-at would ye do av ye wor mo?” “Well. Uinny, I think I'd tell the truth often er.”— Washington Critic. “I see,” said a talkative guest to an up town hotel clerk, “that St. Louis has the biggest bore in the country an artesian well over 3.000 feet deep.” The clerk sighed and said, “Well, any man who stands behind this counter for a day will agree that there are bigger bores than the one in St. Louis.''- Hotel Gazette. Annette I have just beeu having a delight ful stroll with Harold. Can anything be more poetical than a walk in the moonlight? Jeanette (five years older)—Poetical, no doubt, Annette; but when you have had my experience you will know that a dark corner of the porch is equal to ten moonlit nights.— Philadelphia Call. “I am going to have the Legislature change my name to Notoriety,” recently remarked a Franklin street girl who had never yet had a chance to tell her love A strange choice. How did that happen to strike your fancy?” inquired one who overheard the declaration. “So many men court notoriety, you know.”— Buffalo Express. “Well, did you take any orders?” asked a county agent for a patent pump of anew- man he had sent to a small town that morning. “No, sir, not yet; I couldn't find anybody. I saw a biz crowd in the saloon and waited all day for them to come out, but they didn’t.” “Young man,” replied the agent, “if that’s your line of action you'll never do for business in this State. The only way to get an audience in Missouri is to go in and address them right before the bar '."—Dakota Bell. Omaha Man—How is the Anti-Poverty Society getting along? New York Man—Don't know. “You wrote me that you had joined it.” “I did join it, but last week I withdrew. Henry George is a crank. I’ve no patience with his theories at all.” “Well, well! You are getting sense, I see. By the way, you have come West on business, I suppose?” 'Business and pleasure, too. I have just fallen heir to a fortune in Colorado.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Mr. Gladstone has agreed to drive the first pile of a bridge across the Dee. Gen. O. O. Howard has been lecturing on “Geu. Grant” at the Chautauqua Assembly, at Long Beach, Cal. Ren. Du. Curry, United States Minister to Spain, is at White Sulphur Springs. He will re turn to Madrid early next month. Mrs. John A. Logan's condition is much im proved. The swelling in the shonlder has been reduced, and she is gaining strength. Gen. Albert Pike Is very fond of birds, and lias in his study, dozens of them iu cages; mock ingbirds, canaries, robins, bluebirds and others. Congressman Randall wears no jewelry except a diamond collar button, which was prt rented to him by admirers at a church fair in Philadelphia. Bunion Walker, of the Episcopal church, since going to Dakota one and a half years ago, him built eloveii new churches. He reports his church as prospering. Mmk. Modjkska. the famous actress, and her husband, Couut Bozenta. have returned to Omaha, and are the guests of Ralph Modjeska. The madame opens the new Grand Ojn-ra House on Sept. 1.1 James C. Kendall, the Colorado sheriff, who is in pursuit of Colorow. is a native of Kentucky, having bren born in Summit county, in 1850. He was a cowboy for several years after he went West, and is very popular. George AV. Cable made a Sunday school speech in Boston, iu which he said: “I have five children, and half of them are girls.” The omnipresent bad boy shouted out: “That's a lie!" "No, it isn't," said Cable, "for the other half are girls also.” The Pester TJoyd says that Louis Kossuth, who left Turin July 7 for Couminyeur. where he will take the waters, is in excellent health. In spite of his 85 years, he is perfectly erect, his complexion is rosy, and his intellect ns vigorous as ever. Ills sister, Madame Kuttkav. who formerly resided iu the United States, is his con stant companion. John Anderson, a Philadelphia barkeeper and a relative of linns Christian Andersen, has fallen heir to s.'loo,oooby the death of his mother in Copenhagen. Andersen was drawing six lieers when he received the dispatch, lie let the six glasses fall with a crash, leaped over the liar, and executed a wild dance. Then he hur ried to his employer ami resigned. Robert Tirrell, for many years a resident of Rhode Island, deserted from the British army seventy-two years ago, when George 111. wins King. A few days ago Tirrell, who is now 03 years old, received a royal pardon far hisotfeoae from the hands of his offended monarch's grand daughter. Queen Victoria, and now after an ab sence of nearly three-quarters of a century, he is about to ret urn to his native land that he may die among his kin ami again see the the places he knew liefore compelled to go into exile. Aocordino to the Chicago Mail the eminent capitalist known as "Old Hutch” is probably the most democratic millionaire on earth. A street car is good enough for him any ibiy in the year. But he is particular to a nicety where he sits His favorite place is the front seat of the grip. And he must han It all t<> himself He ha* beeu *eeu standing on a corner waiting for an op|Kirtunity of thi* sort, ami will often allow several trains to pass because of his favorite plain- being taken Once aboard the grip he spread* himself out so as to occupy the whole space, and the man or woman ivho trie* to crowd upon him ha* alwut the same fun that he or she would have in the bear-pit ut Lincoln l*ark. TOM GREEN’S CATS. An Ex-Bartender With a Hotel and a Mania for Cats. fVom the New York Nun. Philadelphia, Aug;. 27.—A few years ago Tom Green stood behind a bar in a little saloon on Pock street, down by the river, and handed out a neat napkin with each drink of whisky. That napkin idea was his own. and lie had a lot of others like it that he put into effect, until now Green's Hotel, which began operations in one building just beiow Eight lion Chestnut street, takes in a quarter of a city block and covers an acre with tiled floors, mirrored walls, and frescoed and upholstered ceilings, while the an nual increment to his bank account is placed at 8100,008. One other idea Tom Green has which is not so conspicuous a feature as his ones about napkins and mirrored walls. This other idea is cats. Down in his basement under his marble floor he has the greatest feline menagerie to be found in a week's journey. There are anywhere from seventy-five to one hundred cats prowling around in the regions under ground. They are in all stages of growth, from kittens just open ing their eyes to patriarchal old cats grown gray and rheumatic. There are cats w ith long tails and cats with bobtails, and cats with no tails at all. There are handsome tabbies and ugly toms, and if there is a cat anywhere on the earth that the owner wishes to duplicate he can find the exact image in Tom Green’s basement. These cats roam around at will in their gas-lighted quarters. Anew and unsuspicious waiter was sent down stairs the other (lay with a pan of milk. He was told to "feed the cat.” He came up the stairs flying. “What’s the matter?" asked one of the waiters. "Matter! Par's a millyun debbles down dar. I put down dat dar pan oh milk and called, Kitty, Kitty,’ an’ you' oughter see 'em come. Dar was eyes astartn’ out ob every corner. Talk about keyats! Say, dey'sa-comin' yet. Yo’ don't git me down dar no mo’, no, sah'” Said one of the old bands: "They live high. They can have anything they want. There's plenty of waste in a big place like this, and they can have tenderloiu and mushrooms if they want it. There isn't a rat about the hotel. There used to be lots of them, and big ones, too, but you can’t find a trace of one now. It’s a sight'to go down there, though. You can t see anything but cats, and if you happen to get into a dark corner cat’s eyes are storing at you like coals of fire from all around.” FOUR SETS OF TRIPLETS. Lively Competition for the Ten Dollars Contributed by the President. From the New York Sun. Washington, Aug. 27.—The East Aurora Fair Association is still searching for attractions for its combined fair, horse trot, baby show, and grand wedding. Photographs of one of the sets of twins entered for the Cleveland prise were received here to-day and attracted a great deal of attention. The statement that the President did not offer a prize for the triplets is true, but the officers of the association assert that the President contributed $lO to the fair, which he has not denied, and that they offer it as a prize for the triplets, four sets of which are already entered. They come from Erie, Steuben, Cat taragus, and Oneida counties respectively. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is the latest celebrity to take an interest in the fair. He has contribu ted a present for the young lady who will be married to Mr. Lamb on the fairgrounds by the Rev. Pr. Talmage on Sept. 15. Here’s a Plot for a Good Story. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A few days ago a well known merchant on Sixth street, near Penn avenue, was busy serving a customer, when an elegantly dressed and pleasant-looking young man strolled in and asked for a private interview. He was shown into tne proprietor’s private office, where he in troduced himself as a former employe of the For! Wayne railroad. The merchant failed to remember him at first, but after a little further talk he was convinced that he had knoivn him several years ago, when he traveled a great deal over the Fort Wayne road. Then the young man had him where he wanted him. and he ealmb' asked for a loan of $lO, offering to put up his diamond stud as security. He was in a tight place but would be able to redeem the stud tne next day. The merchant took the diamond to the w!a(low and examined it care fully, It looked all right, and he concluded to let the yopng man have the $lO and retain the stud as collateral. The youth departed and the merchant waited patiently for hjs return. But the days passed and he came not. Neither did the $lO. Yesterday the merchant dropped into the jew eler’s store to have the diamond tested and get an estimate on its value. It was paste. The jeweler said, as they were friends, he would give $1 50 for it, but he would lose money on it even at that price. The merchant didn’t say" a word. He put the bogus diamond deep down in his vest pocket and sauntered home. He was in a melancholy frame of mind. Along in the afternoon a friend, who lives across the street, and who has been studying photography for some time, came in to show him his first effort with the instantaneous pro cess. It was an excellent picture, but it almost gave the merchant a fit or apploplexy. for it showed him and his pleasant friend, the bor rower, standing in front of the window exam ining the supposed diamond. The merchant secured the picture, and by showing it to his friends soon found one who knew the young man. The matter will be placed in the hands of the police, and the merchant says the case will be pushed to the limit. A Female Sam Jones. From the Kansas City Jouma’. Mrs. Richardson, a member of the Salvation Army, who is a trifle too old to pass for a Sal vation lassie, entertained a big crowd on the public square yesterday afternoon. In the course of a twenty-minutes’ exhortation, she said the following among other things: “A saloon-keeper is the devil’s advance agent.” “I haven’t got any use for these kind of peo ple that keep their Christianity in a bandbox six days in a week and take it out on the sev enth.” "There isn’t a church in this city that has got the spirit of God in it. They will guar antee you a seat in heaven for SSO a year.” “You can't get Christianity into a fool any more than you can get bologna sausage from a rattlesnake.” “Do you think that a man with a chew- of to bacco in his mouth and a bottle of whisky in his pocket is a fit temple for the spirit of God?" “I would try to get into heaven just to keep out of the con i pany there is in hell, if for no other reason.” "The Salvation Army is the people’s church. You don't have to wear a silk dress there to get religion.” "Jay Gould will have to take his brimstone straight, just the same as the poorest crimi nal.” The Tea-Gown’s Victim. From the McGregor yews. I could well resist those melting looks, Sweet mischief lurking in their Hashes; I could resist those roguish eyes, Tho' love lay hid beneath their lashes. I steeled my heart with fortitude sublime, Against the tete-a-tete's insidious grip; Sly soul kept guard for snares and wiles, Deep laid a bachelor's feet to trip. I warded off the hammock's tempting swing With its bewildering oscillations; With heroic sacrifice 1 shunned Charming half-offered osculations. Tho' groom small oft. 1 was not captivated With timid bridesmaid's hesitating kisses; The church-fair game of forfeits left me whole, 1 steered ’tween Seyllns and Charibdises. With art well planned 1 parried all, Till, meeting fatal beauty, half concealed, I fell a helpless victim of love arrayed In the charms of the tea-gown half revealed. Belva Withdraws. Hoston Traveler Washington Letter. Holva lockwood, tlie late Presidential candi date of the Woman's Su(Tragi• jiarty. was up to the White House the other day. Belva is what you would call a fine-looking woman, and, it is said, makes a great deal of money out of her law practice here. When asked whether she would run against Cleveland again, she replied with a laugh. “To quote several illustrious ex amples. '1 am out of polities’ just now. The Woman Suffrage part.i will lie iu the field, how over, you can depend upon that, for we will never give up the light until the victory is won. Now 1 think that we ought to nominate the most popular woman iu the country in IHHk for Presi dent . I have been looking over the list of candi dates. and 1 have come to the conclusion that Mrs. Cleveland is that woman. Nominate Mrs. Cleveland for IVesldent and we will sweep the country. She is piy candidate, and I shall not run agalust her for the nomination." Pa and the Children. From Harper's for September. A small boy, Tommy Peterby, who Is one of a family of ten. was taken out in the faintly car riage with his mother. As they drove past a small cottage of three rooms, Mrs. Peterby re marked how pret y it looked, "Yea, it looks very nice," said Tommy, "and it wouldn't be a lilt too big for our family, If it wasn't for pa and the children.'' ITEMS OF INTEREST. John Moore, of King's River, Ark., was bap tized the other day at the mature age of S9. The people of Stratford, Can., woke up the other morning and found that someone had painted every dog in tow-n a pale pink. A learned tramp, named Samuel AVytton bach, has been delivering prohibition lectures at Dresden, Tenn. He is supposed to be insane. A Naitvoo (III.) man went to the well in the dark to get a drink. Feeling something strike his tongue ho closed his teeth in time to catch a snake several inches in length. In Lancaster, Pa., last week one of a gang of colored hod carriers fell while descending the ladder, but. luckily, was caught in the hod of a fellow workman ahead of him, and enabled to regain a hold on the ladder. Rogersville, Tenn., had a sensation last week. A well-dressed man passed through the village in a buggy, having w ith him a lieautiful young ludy who was tied in the vehicle. The man was making for Virginia. He was well armed and nobody attempted to rescue the damsel. At Scranton, a baby carriage which had been left standing on the sidewalk by its juvenile at tendant, while he gazed in a show-window, was started off by a gust of wind, and rolled beneath the feet of a horse. The animal kicked the lit tle vehicle to pieces, but luckily didn’t injure, the child occupant in the least. At the grounds of the Texas State Fair at Dallas there is exhibited a freak of nature, it being a bullock with the hind half of a calf grow n out of its right shoulder. The parent lies on his right side to give the calf a chance to rest its weary legs. The muscular action of the calf seems to be independent of its parent. Near Tomarora. 111., a little child was set in its high chair at the table while its mother was getting dinner. A chicken came in at the door and flew upon the table. The father threw a case knife at the. chicken; the knife glancedand struck the child in the forehead, cutting a gash near the temple from which the child died in about a week. A cat gave birth to two kittens in a hen’s nest in San Antonio. One of the oldest matronly fowls of the establishment, after a fight with the mother of the kits, drove her off and took charge of the young felines. The hen cuddled them to her breast, and when she clucks the kittens have learned to hover under her wings for protection. The various computations of the amount spent yearly in this country on liquor are very curious. One speaker at a temperance meeting at Brockton, Mass., the other night, asserted that from the sum spent every year on liquor a thousand $1 gold pieces might be put on each word in the Bible, and that even then there w ould be $58,000 to spare. Something of reeent manufacture is the “ad justable boot.” By means of a patent device, which in itself is ornamental, the shoe gives with every movement of the foot; it is said a person can with perfect ease wear a boot of this description a half size smaller than in those of the ordinary kind. This will commend them to people who are sensitive about the size of their feet. Although many Italians come to this coun try, the Uuited States is not the favorite settling place for Italian emigrants. The Latin colonies of South America seeni to offer greater attrac tions. Of 187,829 persons who left Italy last year to settle in foreign lands, only 26,920 came to this country, or about one out of six. Thirty six thousand five hundred went to the Argen tine Republic, and 11,334 to Brazil. The dialect of the New York Wliyo Gang is Choctaw to the uninitiated. For instance, a schooner of beer is a “basin," a month in jail is "a stone,” a week is "a brick," and the favorite oath of some of the blackguards is, “If I did dat, may I be as low as me mudder." Asa matter of fact, the parents of the ruffians are, in the majority of instances, hard-working peo ple, who weep over the evil ways of their sons. It is understood that a syndicate is being formed for the publication of some letters about the late Henry Ward Beecher, in which many persons in whom he had confidence, but for whom others closer to him burbored nothing but distrust, are to be severely dealt with. There weye Half a dozen cliques in Plymouth church and one or two cliques of Beecher admirers out side the church. The soiled linen that accumu lated now forms an immense basket. A telegraph operator, no matter how ex pert he may be, becomes in time a sort of ma chine. In sitting long hours at his instrument, listening to the monotonous tick of his sounder, becomes deaf to reason, and perpetrates bulls that, in his waking senses, ke knows to be wrong. Here is one that caused considerable consterna tion in a New York family. As (The operator re ceived it it read; “Unclean Gus died to-day.” It should have read; "Uncle Angus died to day.” The mite of a baby recently born to Ida Stevenson, a mulutto woman in Cairo, 111., was found by accurate measuretnents to have the following dimensions: Length from head to heel, 14 inches; length of foot, 2 inches: knee to side of foot, inches; length of hand, !A* inches; circumference of ankle, 1-Vs inches; length of middle finger, 9-15 of an inch: circum ference of wrist, 13-16 of an inch; chest. B>4 inches; weight. \% pounds. The midget is bright, cries loudly and will live. The "stogie” is derived from the old Cones toga wagons, which used to be so numerous on the old national pike. The drivers of these wagons were in the habit of buying cheap, strong cigars, and being heavy smokers kept asking for a cheaper cigar than was then made. Over at Washington. Pa., a cigarmaker, in answer to this demand for cheaper cigars, evolved a long, slender roll of tobacco, which he offered to the drivers at the rate of four for a cent. The new cigar became popular among the mail drivers and freighters, and was called the Conestoga cigar, abbreviated afterward to "stoga, and later to "stogie.” A Few days ago E. C. Loomis and his wife of Burlington, Vt., celebrated the 55th anniver sary of their wedding. They have lived unin teruptedly in one house from the day of their marriage. The house has been standing ninety seven years, aud some of the first clapboards used iii its construction remain on the gables. In this house Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, Spent three days in 1793. He had been commanding a regiment of British troops in Canada, and passed through Burlington ill February, 1793. on bis way to Bos ton, w here he was to take a ship His party re quired thirteen sleighs for themselves and bag gages. An eldebly woman who lived at an old-world place called St. Ouen La Rouerie, France, re cently fell ill, and, as her friends thought, died. The funeral took place, and as the grave-digger w as preparing to lower the coffin into the earth he beard moans issuing from inside the lugu brious four boards inclosing the presumed corpse. The grave-digger left the coffin in the care of the mourners and went off with his som bre story to M. le Maire. That rural dignitary, having daily donned his scarf of office and sum moned the village doctor, prix-eeded to the hx’al "God s acre.” The coffin was then opened, and it was discovered that the woman had just died from fright, having awakened from a t rance to find herself hemmed in between the terrible deal planks. A singular abnertisment attracted my at tention the other day, says Truth. It was a call for 10,000 live fleas, to be delivered in parcels of not less than 5,0<J0 each at a certain address. I confess my curiosity to know- what a man could want with such a vast number of these interesting insects led me to go and make per sonal inquiry. I found the man was a flea trainer, and 1 gathered these facts, that it takes three months to teach a flea to do anything worthy of a public performaeo; that only one flea in a thousand can Is* taught anything; that a performing Ilea usually lives a year, with great care, and that in response to his advert ise meul he had only received in three days one |>ackage estimated to contain 8,000 lira-, and they came from the dog pound. He paid s'3s for them, and they were very good fleas. Dr. Bekii.lon, a well known hypnotic special ist, stated in the course of a lecture which he delivered a day or two ago lit Paris, that it would be impossible to over-rate the value of the hypnotic suggestion as a means of combat ing habits which children are apt to contract. 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