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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER :5, 188 7.
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THIS ISSUE
OF THE
MORNING NEWS
CONTAINS
TWENTY PAGES.
See that you get tlieyn.
The original Tichborne claimant, Arthur
Orton, is selling whisky in New York. He
hhs found his true place at last.
It is believed in Wall street that Jay
Gould, having supplied himself with an
abundance of ready money, is about 'to
begin a bull campaign. If ha does there
■will soon be a good many would-be capital
ists bare of cash.
Editor Dawson, of the Sewsand Courier,
Las been to the White House.to talk politics
with the President and urge him to visit
Charleston. The President may arrange
bis programme go as to do so, but the
chances are that he will not.
The Jlew Yerk Star is becoming almost
frantic in its appeals for money to build the
Grant monument. The amount, collected,"
after many weeks of effort, is still less than
$5,000. New York doesn’t seem to be anx
ious to honor Grant's memory with a monu
ment.
The National Opera Company announces
through Mrs. Tburber that its enterprise is
supended during the present year - . Its
property, though sold to satisfy- debts, can
be recovered on easy terms, and the com
pany hopes to meet with better fortune next
season. The chances are that its hopes will
not be realized.
The Central Pacific people appear to bei
providing against tho contingencies of a
suit against them by the government or ad
verse action by Congress. A mortgage on
their property for $10,000,000 has just been
recorded in San. 'Francisco. The Pacific,
roads are now loaded, with about as many
obi igatiopg as they can, carry.
The labor parade in New York Monday is
expected to be one of the greatest demon
strations ever witnessed in that city. The
committee in charge uas determined that
no red flags or political mottoes shall be
allowed in the prooessiou. There are occa
sions when even the government finds it
advantageous to use the boycott.
At th ,Columbus (0.) fair Thursday the
managers had all throe'candidates for Gov
ernor on the speaker’s stand at once—Fora-
Ver, Powell and Sharp. The Democrat was
tho only man who in his speech had the
good taste on such an occasion to eschew
politics. The other two dapper-clawed each
Other in the regular Wheeling style.
In making exaavatiens on the site of pro
posed new buildings in London a number of
subterranean passages bos been discovered,
at a depth of sixteen feet. In these many
objects of grent interest were found,, in
cluding a red granite tomb dated 15UH,
bronze armor, guns and a large quanity of
vellum manuscript. ‘The last may prove of
great value.
If cable reports can be relied upon, Mr.
Rlaiue has been exercising his famous “mag
netism'’ on the Prince of Wales with consid
erable effect, as the latter misses no oppor
tunity to say complimentary things about
the Maine statesman. Blaine must be happy.
He has had so much truth told' about-bim in
this country that a little flattery must be
sweet to him.
Ex-Senator Camden, of West Virginia,
expresses the opinion that Mr. Faulkner,
elected as his successor, will find no diffi
culty in obtaining his scat, even if it should
be contested by Mr. Lucas, the Governor's
appointee. This, however. pFobably de
pends entirely upon whether the Republi
can Senators can make any party advantage
out of thp complication. They were never
known to let slip an opportunity to hold on
to power.
Wall street gossip distributes the body
and limbs of the' great Baltimore and Ohio
property among its greedy rivals as follows:
The express business to the United .States
Company: the telegraph lines to Jay Gould;
tl\e railroad and >ts branches to the West
'.Point Terminal Company. The first of these
transfers is an accomplished fact, and the
others, it is said, will follow soon. In the
tmantime President Garrett is seeking the
pleasures which Europe affords.
Mr. Powderly, in a recent circular to his
order, says that in a conference with capi
talists, he quoted certain passages from the*
declaration of Independence, without stat
ing the source from which they were draw n,
and the ideas they embodied were decried
as revolutionary. Those capitalists cer
tainly displayed their ignorance in not rec
ognizing ext racts from so well-known a doc
ument, but did not those ideas once laad to
a revolution, of which wo have ail heard!
Perhaps that is what the capitalists ipeant.
Mr. Powderly also says a majority
of the United States Sena tom are elected
through the influenco of corporate capital,
aad that the government has ne ears for the
common people. He thinks the time has
come for the institution of a “new form of
government” Doe* the General Master
want another revolution, and that It shall
move backward this time! It Is douhtfufif
h know* exactly what be does want.
The Business Year of 1836-87.
The Morning News in this edition pre
sents a paper that every citizen of Savan
| nah has reason .to be proud of. It is the
; largest and most complete trade pajier ever
! issued in this city, and its columns contain
j the evidences of Savannah’s steady growth
; and continued prosperity. A glance at the
!. reviews of the different kinds of business
1 for the year that closed on Aug. 31 reveals
the pleasing fact that the city Is growing
in importance its a commercial centre, and
is gradually gaining control of the trade of
new territory.
Savannah still hoids her place as the sec
ond cotton port of the country and the
greatest naval stores market of the world,
and the indications are that she will con
tinue to hold it; aud while the forest* and
fields jmur their wealth into hor lap h*r
merchants, by their energy and enterprise,
will increase her importance as a distribu
ting poiut for all kinds of merchandise.
The elf oils made by rival cities to draw
her trade away from her have not been suc
cessful, but the fact that these efforts have
not ceased, and are not likely to cease,
should not be overlooked. Railroads are
projected in different parts of this Wtate
and Florida, ami some of them are being
built. The effect of all of them will lie to
change to some extent, the hannols through
which trade flows. Savannah should b*
so watchful of her interests as to
ward off any injury to her prosperity that
may be threatened by new railroads. In
deed, she should do more than simply guard
against possible harm. Bhe should lend a
helping hand in the work of building such
railroads as will bring her trade. She need
ot expect that railroads t hat w-ill greatly
tosnefit her will be built without hor aid.
Her rivals will take care, iu building rail
roads for their own advancement, to do her
:u> little good as they possibly can.
As prosperous as the business of Savannah
is. and as bright as her prospects for the
future are, it will be admitted that there is
one thing iu which she is wanting, and that
is public spirit. Her citizens are so much
engrossed in their own affairs that they fail
to trike as much inten-st as they ought to in
thigs which are foi; the general goisl. For
years the necessity for anew hotel lias been
discussed, and nobody doubts, apparently,
that a hotel affording first-class accommo
dations would pay a handsome interest upon
the money invested in it. There is plenty
of money in the city seeking investment,
but for some reason or other it cannot
be obtainpd for a hotel. There
is anothey thing which ought to arrest the
attention of the city’s leading business men.
It is that the time is not very distant when
the greater part of her cotton factorage
business will be transferred to the interior.
Of course as much cotton as ever will con
tinue to come here for skipmemt abroad,
but it will not leave as much money as at
present, and will not afford occupation for
as many people as it does now.
Tiie population of the city is increasing,
and there must be some way opened for
them to earn a living. Efforts should be
made to start manufactories, just as they
have 'been startl'd elsewhere in the South.
A cotton seed oil mill lias been built here
within the last few weeks, and, doubtless,
there are other kinds of mills which could
be operated profitably here. As the cotton
factorage business declines, manufacturing
of all kinds should iiuTease. The money
that is released from the one should lie put
"into the other. This matter of providing
occupation for the city’s increasing popula
tion should not be put off until the necessity
for considering it beeomes imperative, but
should be taken in hand at once.
Tho amount of building that has been
done within the last year, particularly in
the southern part of the city, is a subject
for congratulation. A great many hand
some houses have been erected, and the
prospect is that the city will continue to
push southward rapidly. The number and
character of the improvements show that
confidence in tlie city's future is not only
unimpaired but is heceming stronger. And
why shouldn’t it glow stronger! Savannah
is certain to remain the greatest of the
South Atlantic seaports, and her growth
must keep pace with that of the
great section of country that is
tributary to her. Her railroads are reach
ing into, new territory and in a compara
tively short time a very, considerable per
centage of the products of the West must
seek the seaboard at her wharves. Before
another business year is ended the Central
railroad will be completed to Birmingham,
and will there find a Western connection.
The Savannah Florida and Western
railway will also soon have a connec
tion with Birmingham, and the Savannah,
Dublin anil Western is building in that
direction. These additional railroad facili
ties justify the eonchision that more steam
ships will bo needed here in tho near future.
The improveineiit of the river is progress
ing as rapidly as appropriations for that
purpose can he ohfcained. The survey for
twenty-eight feet of'water from the city to
the sea has beou completed, apd will lie
made tho basis for larger appropriations
next winter.
What is needed now as much as anything
else is an earnest and harmonious effort on
the pArt of all who are interested in Sa
vannah’s welfare to push her forward to
greater prosperity. The conditions aro all
favorable and tb# exhibition of public spirit
would work wonders. Let those who have
money to invest put it into enterprises of
one kind and another that will afford oc
cupation for the people instead of hoarding
it in the banks or purchasing securities that
pay only a small interest. Savannah will
have a splendid future if her rich citizens
aud business men discharge faithfully tho
duty they owe her.
Tho gross corruption of a number
of Cuban custom house officials is
illustrated by a story told by a New
York merchant. engaged in trade
with that island. Ho loaded a vessel
with assorted goods, covered the cargo with
a layer of coal, paid duty on all as coal—
half the true charges would have amounted
to—and divided tho sum saved, $15,000,
with the collector. It Is no wonder that
Copt. Gvii. Marin had hard work to oust
the thieves.
An assault upon a respectable young lady
on an English railway train a few days ago
recalls the famous Valentine Raker ease, a
dozen years since, and the more recent rob
bery and rourler between London and
Brighton. Travelers on English roads will
el ways be at the mercy at desperadoes until
cars of the American pastern are subeti
tutod for looked compartment carrlagna.
The Philadelphia Prrm speak* of the
Democratic attitude at Allentown as a
“straddle, with the longest log on Mr. Ran
dall's side.” This means, of course, that tho
bulk and weight of the party in i'ennsyb
vania aro on the tariff reform side.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1887.
A Claim That Has Merit.
In selecting a judge to fill the vacancy on
the Supreme Court Bench there is one thing
that the Legislature should not forget. It
is that in the appointments of Supreme
Court Judges this section of tiie State has
been ignored. Savannah is one of the most
important cities in the State, and her bur
lias always been a vory able one. She has
never had a representative on the Supreme
Bench, however, aud it would be but just to
give her claims on the present occasion the
consideration they deserve. She has pre
sented a candidate who is in every respect
ns well qualified as any one of the candi
dates from other sections, and, perhaps, it
is not too much to say that his qualifica
tions are supei ior to those of most of the
other candidates.
The Supreme Court was organized in
January, 1846, and since the date of its
organization twenty-three Supreme Court
Judges have been appointed or elected.
Their names and their placos of residence at
the time they were selected were a.s follows:
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Athens; Hiram
Warner, Greenville, ~Meriwether county;
Eugenius A. Nisbet, Macon; Ebenezer
Starnes, Augusta; Henry L. Benning, Co
lumbus; Charles J. McDonald, Marietta:
Linton Stephens, Sparta; It. F. Lyon,
Albany; Charles J. Jenkins, Augusta; Daw
son A. Walker, Dalton; Iverson L.
Harris, Milledgeville; Joseph E. Brown, At
lanta; H. K. McKay, Atnericus; O. A.
Lochrnne, Atlanta; W. AV. 'Montgomery,
Augusta; Robert I’. Trippe, Forsyth; Lo
gan E. Bleckley, Atlanta.; James Jackson,
Macon; Martin J. Crawford, Columbus;
AVillis A. Hawkins, Americus; Alex M.
Speer, Griffin; Samuel Hall, Macon; Mark
Blanford, Columbus. In two or three oases
(like Judges Warner and Bleckley’s) there
have been resignations and re-elections.
As to cities, it will be noticed that At
lanta, Augusta, Macon and Columbus have
had three representatives each. It ■will be
seen ajso that Southeast Georgia has never
been favored.
South East Georgia certainly has a right
to complain. If it lacked able lawyers there
would be good reasons for ignoring its
claims, but it does not. In fact, some of the
most distinguished lawyers that the State
has ever produced—lawyers whose
tions are not confined to tho
State—have had their residences
within its limits. The bar of this
city will compare favorably with that of
any other city of its class in tho country.
If the Legislature is disposed to treat all
sections of the State with equal fairness in
the matter of selecting Supremo Court
Judges, it will recognize the claims of this
section in filling the existing vacancy.
The Future of the Grand Army.
The speeches of Fairchild, Tuttle and
Foraker, the refusal to march under a flag
upon which a portrait of the President ap
peared, at Wheeling, W. Va., and other
things of a partisan character, have caused
the question to be seriously discussed
whether or not it is the purpose of the
Grand Army of the Republic to become a
partisan organization. There are certainly
indications t hat it is drifting in that direc
tion, but they may not show correctly its
temper and spirit.
Gen. Black, Commissioner of Pensions,
stated ajiay or two ago that of the 400,000
members of the Grand Army he was satis
fied that a respectable majority were Demo
crats. He is a prominent member of the
organization, and is, therefore, in a position
to speak of it intelligently. His opinion is
that the organization has been drawn
slightly away from its moorings by the
efforts of demagogues, who want to
control it for selfish purposes, but that tho
great body of the members are true to the
pledges of the organization, which are that
it shall he non-partisan and shall have for
its aims the promotion of the interests of
the aged and disabled veterans and the ren
dering ©f assistance to the wives and chil
dren of ex-soldiers.
It is possible, of course, that the men
who have succeeded in getting into the
places of prominence in the Grand Army
may make it a partisan body, but if they
do a very large percentage of its members
will leave it, and it will cease to have the
influence it now ha,s. Ever since it came into
existence its requests and petitions have been
readily granted by both of the great politi
cal parties. It has only had to ask to re
ceive. If, however, it changes from a
non-partisan to a partisan organization it
will find it impossible to effect the objects
which called it into existence.
Doubtless at tie encampment at St. Louis,
in October, soino action will be taken to set
the organization right before the country.
There will be cool, clear headed men there
who will insist that if the organization is to
maintain a non-partisan character, the men
who are doing so much to bring it into dis
repute and wreck it shall lie removed from
the places of responsibility. There can be
no objection to thq Grand Army as long as
it confines itself to its legitimate sphere of
action, but it becomes very objectionable as
soon as it undertakes to play an important
political role while pretending to have noth
ing to do with politics.
The New York Tinbunc has evidently be
gun to fear that the slight put upon the
President by t,ho Grand Army, at Wheel
ing, does not meet the approbation of the
people in general. It now prints a story
that the parading body marched around the
flag at the request of a sub-committee of the
local committee on arrangements, who re
sented a refusal of the owner of the flag to
remove it. This is a rather flimsy excuse,
but it is sufficient to show that, in the opin
ion of their organ, the Grand Army men
were guilty of an act they ought to bo
ashamed of.
Mr. Marquand, a wealthy citizen of New
York, has spent nearly s.'>o,ooo for a piano,
employing the services of the most eminent
of English ilecorative artists, Alma Tade
nia, in its ornamentation. Mr. Marquand
can now congratulate himself that he has
bought distinction from the crowd of rich
men, which was perhaps his purpose in
making the investment.
Mr. Bultonstall, who is Collector of the
Port of Boston, recently refused to furnish
a list of the employes of that institution to
a Democratic committee who requested it,
presumably for the purpose of ascertaining
how many Republicans were on the roll.
Two of the Civil Her vice Commissioners dis
approve his course, on the ground that no in
formation concerning a government office
should be refused.
A gas well has lietm bored on tho Indiana
aide of the Ohio river, twenty-five miles
below I/niisville, which is said to furnish
over 10,000,000 cubic feet a day. It is pro
posed to convey the gas by pipes to that
city. The area of territory known to lie
underlaid by stores of this great natural
fuel is being constantly enlarged.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Fairchild’s Impatience.
From the „\Vtc York World (Dem.)
Gen. Lyeius Fairchild says he is biting bis
tongue. That is much better than wagging it
with palsy curses.
A Thoroughly Creditable Ticket.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.)
The Allentown convention closed its work so
well begun in the adoption of a platform upon
which Pennsylvanians, with a proper regard for
Pennsylvania's prosperity can stand, by nomi
nating a thoroughly creditable ticket, one which
Pennsylvanians, regardless of party, could well
vote for.
Randall and the Dem ocra’ic Party.
From the. Xew York Times (hid.)
If the Democratic party, as represented by
the national administration, stands for any
thing it is the reform of the civil service and tne
reform of the tariff. Mr. Randall, in full con
trol of the Pennsylvania Convention, entirely
ignores the former and so easts his allusions to
the latter as to deprive them of any significance
whatever.
BRIGHT BITS.
Now thistles wave their silken wands
From moisture bound oases,
And bees do roam in vandal bands
Thro’ buckwheat Intricacies.
The thrushes in some flowery thatch
Do hold a sylvan kirmess,
And urchins quit the melon patch
With sLo". in epidermis.
Yonkers Gazette.
It is said that St. Peter is falling into the
habit of identifying Nebraska people by the
rope marks on their necks .—Nebraska State
Journal.
"1 saw a cool deed this morning," re
marked Faugle at the supper table. '‘What
was it?” asked his wife, with deep interest.
"The title to an ice house,’’ replied the wretch.
—Life.
Never ask a girl if she believes in love in a
cottage unless you can show a clear deed to the
cottage. It, would be well to have the deed with
you, and show it as a curiosity.— Louisville
Democrat.
Conductor —8h l-schtop; de piece vas gon
gluded.
Von Blutwurst -Ve haf schtopped. You vas
keeping time mit dot thunder-storm outside,
ain't it l—Life.
Of course. hen such a ticklish piece of busi
ness ns handling the Scotch Thistle is to be un
dertaken there must be a bold Volunteer, and
it cannot be done without Pauie.— Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
They tell of a lady who was not afraid to be
called a woman; yet it is just worth mentioning
that a mere woman is so tickled when she is
called a lnd.v that she shows herself to be noth
ing of the kind.—The Judge.
A man escaped from a Rhode Island jail by
making n rope of newspapers twisted together
Newspapers nave got many a scoundrel into
jail- but they are not often used to get scoun
drels out.— Leavenworth Times.
DeYoung—By Jpve! That’s a stunning suit
Miss Van Gohlville has on
DeSmith—Yaps; she is evidently trying to get
as near as possible to the style worn by her
grandmother.
DeYoung—Grandmother? Who?
DeSiifftli— Eve.— Judge.
“John,” said the heart-broken lady to her
sick husband, “the minister is down stairs;
would you like to see him? ”
"I think it would be advisable,” responded
John, feeblv.
“And. John, he njay suggest that you endow
a chapel or something of that sort ?”
“Don't be alarmed," responded the invalid re
assiii'inL-lv, ‘Tam not sick enough for that yet. ”
-Tid-Bits.
A New York Times financial gossiper notes
the fact that Jay Gould has turned $7,000,W0
more of his bonds into cash. This makes
$17,000,000 within thirty days, aud asks: “What
does Gould want with all this ready cash?” Mr.
Gould is a man who keeps his own counsel, but
it looks us though he was going to have all the
plumbing in his house changed on account of
that blessed baby of George's . Buffalo Com
mercial.
Surprised Citizen—lsn’t this Gen. Croton,
the celebrated temperance orator?
Beam-ended individual—That'sh roy (hie-g
--gill name, sir-
Citizen—Row did you come into this disgrace
ful condition.
Beam-ended individual—evicted sheveuteen
bartenders on Cxcuse me; thought your foot
wash a dog) pershonally s'cured evidensh thish
inorn'n.— Puck.
A general complalnt— Among housekeepers
in Savannah, who are obliged to put out their
washing by the week, is that their clothes are
so rapidly destroyed and so often returned in a
slovenly condition. Tho mystery may possibly
be solved by a conversation, said to have been
overheard some days since.
“Hello. Tom! I want to know how you can
keen so fat and dress so fine when you don’t do
no kind o’ work.”
"Hel he!” replied the well and fashionably
dressed dude of tawny hue, “don’t you know
dat one o' my gals is a cook and the tother one
a wnsher lady ?”
"Ail! data it, eh!”
“Yea, dat’s it for shu, but don’t you say
not’ing about it, you bear." Straws.
PERSONAL.
Congressman John T. Wait, o/ Connecticut,
reac ed his 7tSth birthday last week. He has
been a member of the Norwich bar for fifty-one
years.
Count Brazza, the intrepid African explorer,
is to I e married ip October to MissCqra Ho
comb, of New Orleans. The marriage is to take
place in New York.
Miss (lEUTpunK Barrett, the oldest daughter
of Lawrence Barrett, the tragedian, will so >n he
married to Mr. Joseph Anderson, a brother of
Miss Anderson. He is at present in England
with his sister.
George M. Pcixman and family went to the
Thousand Islands a few days ago to reclaim
their island fromslesolation. They will build a
splendid mansion there and henceforth make it
their summer home, Mr. Pullman bought the
island for $4O. That was seventeen years ago.
it is worth $lO,OOO now.
Ada Reran has brought with her from San
Frnneisro a warm admirer. He is a little China
man. 11 years of age, named Lu-Feen. Mr. Paly
purchased bis services fora term of three years,
and intends to use him as a i ate in bis theatre.
Lu-Feen has lost his heart to Miss Kshan and
follows her about wherever she goes. Jle is
only just tx-ginmng to sneak English, but is a
bright little fellow, and t r,muses to learn a
great many tilings in New 1 ork in very short
order.
JrnriF. Keixey, as is recalled by the Washing
ton correspondent of the Kansas City Times,
was one of the committee sent by the national
convention of 1800 to notify Abraham Lincoln
of his nomination for the Presidency. Kelley
was tail, straight us an arrow, and when Lin
.coin saw him ne eyed Kelley all over. After
tlie formalities were all over Lincoln promised
to Kelley that they measure back to back, and
it was found that they were Just of a height.
That pleased Lincoln greatly.
Harold Knox Hunt, the English reviewer
and art critic, now visiting this country, writes
to the London (tmirdinn that, in his opinion,
the Rev. Dr. Frank L. Norton, of St. Stephen's
church, Lynn. Mass., is the best type of
American pulpit orator. Dr. Norton's delivery
is simple, earnest and effective. Says Mr. Knox-
Huut: "His enunciation is so good that his
low est tones are audible to the remotest corner,
and ids illustrations, which seem inexhaustible,
are like parables." Dr. Norton is probably the
wealthiest clergyman in America.
It is not improbable that Mr. Walter Besant
will visit the United States next year. He has
received an offer, through Dr. Vincent, to write
and read a short novel before the famous ( hau
tauqua Society next summer. He Ims not do.
elded to accept the offer,, but probably will do
so. lii several of his novels American charac
ters are introduced, and are generally of the
type set forth in "Martin t’huzziew it." The
United States of that |ieriod, like the Loudon of
Dickens, is fast disappearing, and a novelist ris
ing into fame should understand this. The social
life of tile operatives ill some of the great mill
towns of tlie New England States would b* an
interesting study for Mr Besant, anil perhaps
give him a novel experience.
Mrs. portrait in bronze hy Au
gustus St. Gaudens lias just bean sent to the
foundry to be cost. Mrs. Cleveland gave Mr.
St. Uaudens eleven sittings. The portrait is de
signed as a low relief medallion and the model
ing from life was done In pipe clay at. Marion.
This model was then brought to New York and
nit exact copy of it made In planter of parts
I'rom t his bluster cast a mould will he Impressed
iu casting sand, at the foundry, and the finished
medallion is lower than a has rsnsf, but snffl
eientiy raised from the base to give* striking
portrait of a beautiful face, a little more full
than a profile it is somewhat loss than life
size, and includes the shapely head, the deli
cately out lined face, and the perfect neck The
lips are the prominent feature of artistic ex
cellrneo In the medallion, and the neck, set
most tiecomlngly, is a marked outline of beautv
mid grace. Tlie entire medallion Is an utmost
ideal portrait of a beautiful face, and at the
same tune suen a correct llkcuoss that every
body who has seen it pronounces the work
a moat, coiunlcto success.
A Vacation Romance.
From the Somerville Journal.
They met at the seashore one summer.
With results there's no need to define.
He told bis chum she was "a hummer,"
And he. she told hers, was "divine.”
Thev flirted upou the veranda.
With the moon shining bright overhead;
He ventured to call her "Amanda,”
And she shyly answered: "Why, Ned!”
Their romance was sweet while it lasted,
As seaside romances may be;
But. alas! all his fond hopes were blasted
In a way that, of course, you foresee.
For. when he went back to the city.
Her coolness occasioned him pain:
And—to make a short end to my ditty--
Her husband met her at the train.
Jews in Summer Hotels.
Prom the American Hebrew ,
There are a number of houses in the Catskill
Mountains and elsewhere, which, early in the
season, refused to take Hebrews. As the season
advanced, and the rooms were not taken up as
eagerly as expected, the prejudice relaxed, and
it was given out that the rule was abolished and
that the Hebrew and his shekels would he ac
cepted.
Those who have watched the advertisements
in the daily papers early in the season will hive
seen a number of them which read: "No He
brews,” and looking overtiie announcements of
the same parties a few weeks ago would have
nqtjced that the "No Hebrews" was left off.
There are any number of .these houses which,
seieral years ago, refused to take Hebrews, but
which take them now.
Effects of Sunday Closing:.
From the Term Siftings.
“Where can I buy a pair of cuffs?” inquired a
late riser c f an Au -tin hotel proprietor one Sun
day morning.
‘Don't believe you can buy them anywhere,”
replied the hotel man, "clothing stores are all
closed up at 4 o’clock in the evening.”
“Well, where can I get a cocktail? lam as
dry as a puff ball.”
"Can't. Baloons are all closed until after 4
o’clock."
”i suppose I can get a glass of sweet cider at
some corner grocery, can’t I?"
"Not much; groceries are all closed tip until
after 4 o'clock.”
"Are, eh? Then I guess I'll have to go down
to some drug store uud get a glass of plain
soda,' ’
"Can't do that. eit her Drug stores are not
allowed to sell sod . until after 4 o'clock.
The mau moved mournfully over to the water
cooler and had about half filled a tumbler when
a policeman in front of the hotel commenced
shooting at a suspicious looking dog. The hotel
guest dropped the glass, jumped about 14 feet,
and running behind the office desk, shouted:
"Don't snoot again. Cap: 1 won’t touch a
drop of your darned old ice-water until after 4
o'clock ! if you think it is too rich for my blood
I’ll practice self-denial and spit cotton till sun
down.”
Land Hunting Near Patterson’s Bayou,
in the State of Arkansas.
From the Arkaneau) Traveler.
A man stopped near Patterson’s Bayou and
thus addressed an old fellow who stood with his
arms resting on a fence:
‘‘Do you live here?" he asked.
"Don’t see me dyin’ hers, do you?”
“Ah, you are sportive? I have heard of this
neighborhood, and have the names of several
people. Where is J. B. Muckle?”
“Dead.”
“Ah!”
“Ah, hah.”
“What was the matter with him?”
“Sick.”
"Wh it sort of sickness?"
“Swamp fever.”
“LetTne see,” consulting a scrap of paper,
“where is Tom Buck?”
"Dead."
"What did he die of?”
"Swamp fever.”
"Humph. Where can I find Sim Bly?”
“In the graveyard."
"Swamp fever?”
"Yes."
“Do you know anything about Calvin Hun
ter?"
“Yes, laid him out.”
“What was the matter with him?”
“Swamp fever.”
“My friend, I have come to this neighborhood
to buy land.”
The native, smiling a welcome, replied:
"We’ve got the finest country on earth, pod
ner, right here. I’ve got 260 acres that I'll let
you have.”
“How does it lie?"
"Fust rate.”
“How's the water?"
"Best in the world.”
“Land rich?”
“Cream couldn’t hold a lightning bug to it?"
“How is this neighborhood in the way of
health?"
“Sweet as a pre- ’flnest you ever saw.”
"No chills?”
"Not a one.”
“Fever of any kind?"
“Nof a feve.
"What about those fellows that died?”
“Hah—-oh, them fellers. W’y, yousee, they—
they—w’y. they oughter died.’
"That's all right, but I don't believe I want
any land round here.’’
“Y’ou don’t! W’y eopfound your ugly hide,
w'y didn't you tell me at fust that you thought
o’ buyin' land an’ I wouldn't a-said nothin’
about them fellers dyin’. Blast your hqle! you
go aroiuid the country- takin’ advantage o’'fel
lers this way. You don’t know how to treat a
gentleman. Move on, now, or I'll hurt you.
Come cheatin’ me out of a sale. Move on, I tell
you."
Two Hearts That Did Not Beat as One
at Call.
from the Detroit free Press.
These harrowing details are given in the
words of the estranged ones, who sat in the
Newark Opera House eating caramels and say
ing cruel things to each other during the play.
She began it.
“You did, too,” she said, with a sob. It
wouldn’t have been any kind of a lovers’
quarrel without numerous “great sobs”
brought into it.
"Now, Bessie,” moaned the agonized ninety
pounds of lover and high collar.
"You needn't deny it.” said Bessie, coldly.
“Bessie, I never in all ”
“You did. Marne Blank told me that she saw
you.”
• Saw me what?”
“Saw you Hilling with that horridly horrid
Hattie Marsh.”
“Hattie Marsh? Bah! Now, Bessie, you know
perfectly well that I don’t care a snap of my
Huger for Hattie Marsh.”
“No; it looks as if you didn't-flirting with
her every time she crosses your path.”
“Now, Bessie, you know just as well as ”
“Oh, yes, I know all about it, Mr. Lonnie Mar
shall.”
“Now, Bessie, don’t talk that way."
“I will, too."
“Bessie.”
“I don’t care, Lou; it isn’t right, and I’m not
going to play second fiddle to anybody.”
‘‘Nobody wuts you to, dearie."
"No! It looks as if they didn't. I must say."
“Well, now, Bessie, what if I got mad and
said cruel things because you flirted a little with
Bennie Dean or
"Ben Dean! I wouldn't wipe my feet on Ben
Dean."
"You used to like him.”
“Lon Marshall, I'll never speak to you again
as long as l live and breathe if you ever men
tion that horrid affair again. I hate Ben Dean.’’
“I know it, darling, and I detest Hattie
Marsh.”
“Yes, you do.”
“Indeed, I do.”
“Yes, over your left shoulder."
“Now, Bessie.”
“If you wont your ring back again, Lon Mar
shall, ail you have to do is to say so.”
“On, Bessie!"
“I mean just exactly what I say, sir; every
word of it.
“Bessie. Bessie!”
”1 can manage to live without you, Lon Mar
shall! And if you thfijk I’m one of the ’Rough
on Rats’ kind of girls you're badly left ”
"Now, Bessie, you know I never ”
“If you were u gentleman, sir ”
* “Besides, this is too much.”
“If you don't like it you can lump it, sir! I’ll
et you know that you can't twist me around
your Huger. Do you want your ring?"
“You know l don’t, Bessie."
“Well, you oould have It mighty quick if you
did.”
At last the worm turns and says acridly;
“Very well, MiSs Whltford, just os you please
about it.”
"Why, Lon.”
“1 have done all that a gentleman could do
to "
"Now, Lon. I was only joking."
“It is no joking null ter, where one's affect ions
are conorrnod. I’ve tried to be a gentleman of
my word with you, but *’
“<M>, Lon. bush.”
“No, Bessie, we bad better understand each
other right here. If we quarrel so now, what
would If lx* when ?’
“Oh, Lonuio, I was only "
( "You were woundtug me cruelly, Bessie, and
“Oh, 1/onnle”’
“If you really desire everything to come to an
end bet ween us, I hope I am too much of a gen
tleman to ’’
Tne curtain dropped at, tlit* juncture w hile
those who saw this frightful scene were watting
with bated breath for the Huai word that would
aauaraui Luuuia and Uoasle forever.
ITEMS OP INTBIREST.
A farmer near Kenton, Tenn., put npa barrel
of vinegar about a year ago and stopped it
tight. Last week he opened the barrel and
found a swarm of yellow jackets inside.
Ln Brow n county, Illinois, is the home of a
man who is in his 86th year, and has never seen
a piano, never been within ten miles of a rail
road, never wore a collar or necktie, never liad
on a pair of socks since he can remember.
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM StEFFEUS, Of
Highland, Minu., was bitten on the hand by a
rattlesnake, and, ill spite of the whisky that he
drank, and all other remedies that could be ob
tained, he died in great agony within twelve
hours,
Frank Purdy and David Sherman, two Indian
printer boys at the Genoa (Neb.) Indian school,
are trying to raise $230 for a small printing out
fit witu which to issue a paper from that school
called The Pipit of Peace. Their subscription is
indorsed by the superintendent of the school.
Three children, the eldest 11 and the youngest
3, found a horse caught in a railroad bridge
near Piedmont, Mo. It was toward evening and
a passenger train was soon due; so the little
oik s made a bonfire on the track, and when the
train came in sight waved burning branches.
The engineer stopped the engine the horse was
removed, the train went on, uud few of tne pas
sengers knew how near they had been to an ac
cident.
The enemies of the Young Men's Christian
Association frequently assert that it is in a
state of decadence, but the facts do not bear
out this assertion. On the contrary, it is grow
ing in iiifiuer.oe and power. While so much is
being done for young men, it is a matter for
sincere regret, that so little in the same way has
been done for young women. The Young
Women s Christian Association of New Yom
city is a model that ought to be copied in a
great many other cities.
Several weeks aoo a young lady and her
mother went to Findlay. 0., from Michigan to
visit friends. There the young woman met a
young man who pleased her and soon they were
engaged to be married. Her lover begged for
an immediate marriage, and the girl consented
and a day was set. but a friend of the girl
stepped in at the last hour and proved that the
groom was & burglar, liable to arrest at any
time and imprisonment in the penitentiary.
There was an exciting Scene, and the wedding
party broke up.-
Charles E. Jackson, of Halifax, Fla., has a
pet snake that catches rats. Jackson .heard a
racket in a cupboard, and. opening the door,
found the snake had captured a rat a-nd was
trying to swallow it nose first. The rat was
alive, and strenuously protested against going
into such a hole, using his feet to catch hold of
the fioor or other surroundings. Ths snake,
wiser than the rat, raised him up a foot or two
iu the air, and in that position continued the
swallowing process, dropping down to the floor
to rest occasionally, until the rat was sw allowed.
Daniel Rogers, a miner near Oro, Ari., had
both hands blown off at the wrist by a prema
ture discharge of giant powder recently. He
was alone, and he walked two miles to a deserted
cabin, where he bound up the stumps of his
wrists after a fashion with pieces of a curtain,
which he tore with his teeth. He traveled all
night, during which time his trousers became
loose and dropped around his feet. He kicked
off his shoes and the trousers, and at 6 o’clock
was found lying unconscious near a Mexican
cabin. He was taken to a hospital and is get
ting well.
The latest contribution to the curious litera
ture of French statistics is by a M. Renaudin,
who has been busying himself about the Forty
Immortals of the Academy'. He finds that the
ages of the august Forty, when lumped to
gether and added up, give a total of 2,687 years.
The doyen of the body by age is the Baron de
Viel-CasteL, whose principal literary luggage is
a history of the Restoration. He is 87, ana M.
Cuvilier Fleury is 85. M. de Lesseps eomesnext
with 82 years. The "(air-hairedjboys” of the
body are M. Sully Prudhomme, the poet, who is
48, and Francois Coppee, who is 43.
Mr. John McKeown, of Oil City, Pa., struck
it rich. On June 22 last an oil well that he had
been boring came iu. It was a good well from
the start At first it yielded 86 barrels an hour.
After producing at this rate a few days it was
drilled deeper into the sand. Anew “pay
streak” was found and its production immedi
ately increased to 140 barrels an hour. Since
June 22 it has produced 145.000 barrels of oil, on
which Mr. McKeown has realized 68c. per barrel.
He has no partners, and owning the land iu fee
has no royalty to pay. The entiye output has
been his own. and this amounted in the two
mouths and four days to $98,6‘)0. The original
cost of the well was about $4,000, and the ex
pense of taking care of it since it was struct!
not over SSOO. This would leave Mr. McKeown
n profit from this one well tit' $9*1,100. The well
is still doing 50 barrels an hour, and experienced
operators think it will turn out slso.o**l worth
or oil even at the present low prices. Which is
why we remark that Mr. John McKeown stijick
it rich.
A sadder story than this one, takgn from the
Kansas City Journal, is rarely told: “Inthe
ladies’ waiting-room at the Union Station sat a
young husband and his wife. The man, honest
faced and bronzed by exposure to the sun. held
in his arms what many doubtless loooked upon
as a sleeping babe. At his side sat a young
woman with an old-fashioned sun-bonnet pulled
over a rather handsome but girlish face. Her
dark eyes were moist with tears. She took but
little notice of those about her. but kept her
eyes fastened incessantly upon the still burden
that rested in the arms of her husband. The
cause of their grief could lie easily guessed.
The White cloth, upon which lightly rested a
hand accustomed to toil, covered the bloodless
features of a dead child. A sadder spectacle of
mute sorrow has rarely been witnessed. The
baby died in its mother’s arms on board a Union
Pacific train just before reaching this city The
father covered the dead face with a cloth, and
held the body until au undertaker arrived to
take charge of it,”
The first part of the administrative report on
the railways in India for 1880-i has just been
issued by the Indian government. Accompany
ing the report is a letter from the Director-Gen
eral of Railways, stating that the net receipts
for the year 1886 show an increase, as compared
with 1885, of 6.314,696 rupees, and the percent
age on the capital expended on open lines gives
a return equivalent to 5.90 per cent., against 5.84
of the previous year. There had been a genera,
increase in the net receipts and percentug.-
eamed on most of the lines in India, but more
especially on the great Indian Peninsula ami
Rajputaua-Malway railways. In the case of the
former this satisfactory result is attributed to
the improvement recorded under goods traffic
toward which the carriage of cotton, wheat and
railway materials mainly contributed. On the
other hand there had been a decrease on the
Northwestern railway, due to a very large fad
ing off In the wheat export trade, caused by the
high prices and scarcity of food grains in ti e
Punjab. The earnings for the first three months
of the present year show a slight decrease trom
those of the corresponding period of last year,
hut a substantial improvement compared ‘with
the returns for 1885.
The dispute respecting the genuineness or
otherwise of the Schiller skull is of very old
standing. Julius Schwabe raised the question
in 1852, and siuce then all has been uncer
tainty and contradiction. Of late years the
leaders of the opposed camps have been
SchaafThausen, of Bonn, and Hermann Welker,
of Halle. The former holds that the skull is
genuine, but that the lower jawbone is false;
while Welker, who has just com ributed an art i
cleon the suhjeit to-the Archiv/ur Anthropolo
gic, holds to the ungenuineuess of the skull,
which he supports by new proof. .Schaafhausen
maintains that the lower jawbone is fabo be
cause it does not conform with the upper jaw
hone, as is at once seen when the two bones are
placed together, for when the condyles of the
lower jawbone are introduced in the sockets of
the skull, the incisors of the two jaws do not
meet perpendicularly. To this Welker answers,
on the authority of celebrated anatomists, hat
such a position of the jaws and Uvtn is normal,
so that the jaws may belong to the skull.
Welker brings strong evidence to support his
contention that, the lower jaw is a part of the
Bchlller skull; and this contention established,
he goes back to his farmer invest igations, show
ing that the skull is quite irreconcilable with
(Schiller's physiognomy.
A Victim to the Clgrarette Habit.
From the London Globe.
I see stories regarding the Intelligence of dogs
are going about, and I should luce to tell you
my dog’s tale. He is a clever and generally
well-behaved dog Every day 1 give him (in the
approved manner of clever dog-owners) the
sum of 2d., wherewith he goes to the baker's
and the newsdealer's to buy a roll for himself
ami a Daily .Vein for me. yesterday, however,
he came home with neither physical nor mental
pabulum, but smelling strongly of smoke. To
day 1 again gave him the 2d.. but followed him
at a discreei distance He w ent up to an auto
matic cigarette box at the railway station, stood
upon his hind legs, dropped ids penny in.
pressed the knob w.Rh his nose and took his
cigarette. Me was .lost making for the similar
juatch urovider hai a bv when 1 ai rested him.
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FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
\UE will close out the remainder of our stock
T T of these fine goods, formerly sold at 180.
a yard, now reduced to 12k£c.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, A? inches wide, regu
lar price a yard; now BJ4c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at BVaC.
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12j4c.
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price 12(4c. a yard; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at $l 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12k£c. '• now 9c- a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses' Fine English Hose,
Ribbed. Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at J7c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies’ Gciuze Undervests, regular
prices 2oc. and 35c.; to w 19c. each.
35 dozen ladies' extra fin? quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 83c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Our Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In ord"r to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 90e. each.
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