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8 rCk 5 Horning 51 eln s Morning; Nows Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER :5, 188 7. Registered at the Fast Office in Savannah. The Morning Nf.wr is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and caniers, an their own au count, at 83 cents a week, Si O' a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, bn mail, one month, >1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $j 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, fry rwiiZ, six times a week (without Sunday issued, three months, §2 00; si* months. $1 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-weekly. Mondays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs day's and ‘Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, />y mat/, one year. $2 no. The Weekly News, fry mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions in advance. Remit by postal order, check or rejdstered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This pajx'r is kept on file and advert isinjr M ates nay te ascertained, at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers* Association, 104 Temple Court! New York Pit; Letters ajid telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. 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. BAKING FOYVDER. r —WE —__ PURE Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Univerjities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. 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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. CROHAN & DOONER. ■a "IJID-JL !!.!!!!! .! 1 E.. J 9 MEDICAL. TORMD^u!!^ A torpid liver deranges tbo whole sy* tern, and produce* Sick Headacke, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu* tnatism, Sallow Skin and Piles. There i no better remedy Tor these ionimnn disease* than Tutt’* Live, Pill*, a* a trial will prove. 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