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4 ©|c|ttonungseh)S _ - . -* ' - *■. ■ -■ . ' - - - —S' .- .. * Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. TUESDAY. SEPTKMKER U, ISB 7. Registered at the Fost Office in &inannah. The Mormxo Nkws is published every <lu* in the year, and is served to subscribers in th< city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $1 <*> a for six months ana $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1 00; three months $2 SO; six months, $>00; one year. $lO 00. The Moaning News, tv mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue\ three months, $2 00; Fix months. $1 00 one year. s*s 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. _ The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions parable in advance. Remit by postal onier. cbeclc or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper kept oij file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, {ia.” Advertising; raters made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings- The German-American Mutual t.oan and Building Association; Savannah Lodge No. 1153. K. of H.: Ancient landmark Lodge No. 281. F. and A. M. Special Nottces—As to Crews of British Steamships Albania and Napier; To Burglars, Cracksmen and Light-Fingered Gentry Gener ally. Davis Bros.; All the Delicacies at C. F. Graham's Restaurant; Potatoes, J. S. Collins & Cos. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos. Wanted— Marshall & McLeod. Correct Styles ok Clothing, Etc.—A Falk * Son. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Lost; Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— Valuable Building Lot, by I. p. Laßoehe's Sons; Horses, Mules, Etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son. Dynamite— Davis Bros. Legal Notice— Application to Sell Real Es tate. Legal Sales— Chatham Sheriff's Sales; City Bheriff's Sale. It is now said that Mr. Blaine will refuse to be a candidate unless he is reasonably certain of election. Would not his refusal, under snch circumstances, be a burdensome handicap on the man to whom the nomina tion was given? Senator Daniel says ho is confident that Virginia will go handsomely Democratic, but in the next breath admits there is dan ger from Democratic apathy or over-eoufi dence. Virginia politics is something hard to understand. How can Democrats be •pathetic when the issue is Mahone? The latest reports front the mobilization of the Seventeenth corps of the French army state that it is a brilliant success. It might have been better for the peace of Europe bad the success been less perfect. It will be a dark day when France comes to the con clusion that her army overmatches that of Germany. The British government has ordered a squadron to Honolulu, to be in readiness to take active measures should the new reform party now ip power in Hawaii decide to re pudiate the loan recently raised in Ixmdon. From the zeal with which that government protects the interests of its citizens our own might learn a valuable lesson Keefe, a member of the New York base ball club, umpired a game the other day be tween his own club and the Detroits, and the latter won. The Tribune. , in its report of the game, spoaks of him as “not much of an umpire—he tried it and his nine was beaten.” The Tribune no doubt thinks Keefe was a great fool not to use the power of his office to help his party. If the Rev. Ham Small is not more care ful he may make himself the subject of an indictment bv the grand jury. He has been confessing, when wanned up at a Missouri camp-meeting, that in his unregenerato days he was guilty of the crime of ballot box stuffing. If the issue were prohibition, it might be dangerous to trust the Rev. Barn's suddenly acquired honesty even now. Ex-Auditor Hughes, heretofore eminent ly respectable and possessed of powerful friends among Philadelphia politicians, has been caught selling his salary to four dif ferent persons, and is in hiding, with the prospect of going to the penitentiary. That is where he belongs, but one can’t help re membering the army officers who, guilty of the same offense, have suffered only a nomi va! punishment. The Chicago •_**-*■* prints a letter front Mrs. Fox, who of the Norris silk farm at Spring Garden, Volusia county, Florida, in which she speaks in most' en couraging terms of the prospects of the silk industry in that State. From the fact that five crops of cocoons can bo raised each year, and the further fact that mulberry Vees grow luxuriantly, it would seem that the business would prove much more re munerative than in colder climates. Gen. Butler has announced his conversion to the theory that Bacon wrote the Shakes peare plays, but says it occurred before Donnelly ever wrote anything on the subject. The General also announces that he has per haps the only copy in America of the origi nal folio edition of the plays—that in which the famous Donnelly cypher key fits. It is an immensely valuable book, and Mr. Don nelly’s alleged wonderful discovery will no doubt odd considerably to its money worth. The negroes of Philadelphia are display ing more good sense and proper feeling as to the part they will play in the approach ing celebration of the constitution’s cen tenary than do the white men who are in c harge of it. The latter had arranged that in the procession one “float” should carry an old log cabin, surrounded by com and cotton fields, with negroes at work under the eye of a white overseer, armed with the traditional bull whip. To this the negroes object, urging that such a picture cannot do any good, and may do harm. The successful trial trip of the Boston gives occasion to certain Republican journals to again attack Hecretary Whitney, because of hi* alleged ill-treatment of the late John Roach, who had the contract for building her. It is difficult to see any good reason for thi*. That the Boston has more than fulfilled the terms of the contract, does not alter the fact that the Dolphin and Atlanta failed to come up to them. Who would have tabled u greater howl than these same Republican journals had the Secretary (grid out the government’s mousy for vessels less serviceable than had beeu bargained fort j The Supreme Court Judgeship. The Legislature ought not to be in a hurry ■ to fill the vacant place on the Supreme | bench. The position is a very important | one. and, although the salary is just about I half what it ought to be, n very desirable I one because of the honor attached to it. l The whole State is interested in having it ■ tilled by a first-class man. A w eak Supreme Court not only brings the State into disre pute. but also causes confusion in its affairs. All of the candidates for the Judgeship may be men of ability and well versed in the law'. They may have every necessary qualification. It is the duty of the Legisla ture, however, to make itself thoroughly acquainted with the . character, acquire ments and general fitness for the perform anco of judicial duties of each of the candidates, and if no one of them comes up to thestundard which it fixes, it ought to’rejoet them all, and look for a judge among those who have not •sought the office. It is no discredit to a man to seek an office, hut those who seek offices are not always the ones who ought to be chosen to fill them. It is said that the candidates for the Judgeship are making extraordinary ef forts to win the votes of members. Their friends are working for them with a zeal and an earnestness that are attracting very general attention. In a contest of this sort tho suspicion cannot be avoided that reAl merit stands very little chance of securing the recognition it deserves. If even - member of the Legislature real ized how great the responsibility is that rests upon hitn in this matter of the judge ship he would not permit himself to be persuaded to vote for this or that eundidate for any other reason than that of fitness. Unfortunately members differ in their opin ions as to what constitutes fitness. Home of them, while their judgments may be ex cellent on some other matters, may not know what qualifications a man must have to he a good judge. Ho important is it tbnta pure and an able man shall be chosen that it might be wise lor tho Legislatnre to appoint a Joint Committee of the .Senate and House to In quire into the qualifications of the candi dates. It would then have something to guide in making a choice. If nothing of this sort is done the candidate who lias the most influence will get the place. He may or may not be qualified for it. The Appeal of the Anarchists. The Illinois Supreme Court is expected to render an opinion in the Anarchist cases to-morrow. There has been a good deal of speculation as to what the opinion will lie, but it is pretty safe to say that no one out side the members of the court know any thing of the conclusion at which the court has arrived. The court is certain to be criticised se verely, whether anew trial is granted the Anarchists or not. If it is held that no se rious errors were committed on the trial, and that the judgment of the lower court shall stand, the Socialists and An archist will make all the noise they possibly can, but if it is held that grave errors were committed and the verdict is set aside, the press will certainly make a pretty thorough inquiry into the character of the errors. Of course judges are hound to follow the law conscientiously, and without regard to the conclusions which they may reach. It would be unsafe for courts to permit them selves to be influenced in the least by their personal feelings or public clamor, but they should he careful not to magnify small errors and give them too much importance. Errors which did not, in all probability, in fluence the verdict, should not be accepted by the higher courts as being sufficient to set aside that verdict. Tho Anarchists claim that the jury in tlieir cases was not legally constituted. Whether it was or not it was certainly a very good jury, and was only obtained af ter weeks of almost tireless effort. It gave the Anarchists a fair hearing,and condemned them only because the evidence against them was overwhelming. It would be a very difficult matter to get another jury, anti it would be alsmt impossible to get one so intelligent as that was which convicted them. Of course, the Anarchists do not intend to leave any chance untried to save their necks from the hangman's noose. Notwithstand ing the fact that they boast that they are wiling to sacrifice their lives for their doc trines, they are not so ready to become mar tyrs as they would like the world to believe. The Facts Coming Out. Very little about the financial condition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com pany was known to the general public until the recent deal was consummated. It is now understood, however, that the com pany was under the necessity of making an arrangement of some kind to save itself from going into the hands of a receiver. The books indicated thut it had a surplus of over *4K,000,000, but tho treasury of the company showed nothing of that kind. In fact, the treasury was empty and badly in need of assistance. The surplus which has been the subject of so much speculation was doubtless all used up long ago in making improvements of one sort and another, and in acquiring control of new lines. Of course Mr. Garrett Will not remain President of the road. His career as a rail road man may be considered to he at an end. He lias not displayed any of the talent which liis father iiossessed for managing great business enterprises. He is a society man, and, doubtless, will give his whole at tention in future to social matters. The Baltimore and Ohio will not be per mitted to become a wreck. Tho syndicate which lias agreed to furnish 1*10,000,000 to take up its floating debt and put it on a strong financial basis know what it is doing. It will not only get its money bark, hut will probably put the road in a better paying condition than it has beeu for years. The road will cease, however, to threaten the Pennsylvania Cen tral, the New Jersey Central and tile Read ing with a loss of a part of their busi ness to New York. Those three powerful corporations will take care that it doesn't got into a position calculated to hurt them. Doubtless Mr. Garrett wonders sometimes what the present condition of the road would have lieen had hi* father lived until the present time. Speculation of that kind, however, can hardly afford hini any satis faction. The presence at Spithead, alsmt to depart for the East, of five new steel war ships, manned hy ('hineso crews and eonimanded by Chinese officer*, illustrates the rapid progress their country i* making in putting iteelf in line with other nations in the use of mod-re appliances of war and commerce The day has probably passed when the great Chinese Empire, with it* wealth and teeming million* can he Imposed upon by anv European power. | THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER fi, 1887. SavannfßTs Railroad Projects. There is a very fair prospect that Savan nah will soon lmvo additional railroads. It is stated that there are about 700 men at work on the Savannah, Dublin and Western, and if work on that road continues to be pushed forward as rapidly as at present, it will not be many months before grading between this city and Macon will be finished. Tne engineers who are surveying a route for the “South Round railroad,” which is projected from Columbia. S. C.. to this city, have reached Brighton, S. C., a small town about five miles from the Savannah river. It is the purjxjse of the projectors of the road to have two routes surveyed. One of them i crosses the Savannah river to a point on the j Georgia Central in Effingham county, ami I the other reaches the Charleston and .Savan nah railroad at Hardeeville, 8. C. An ex tension of the latter route has been sug gested, viz: from Hardeevillo to this city, crossing the Savannah river near here. Eitiler of the routes is from 120 to 130 miles in length and in connection with the upper line of railways, would afford a short line to New York, and also a shorter line than now exists to upper South Carolina and North Carolina. The proposed road will run through the richest part of South Carolina, the citizens of which are ready to make liberal contributions to assist in its construction. One town, it is said, has sub scribed *lOO,OOO. Darien will soon have a railroad. It should have had one long ago. It has a fine harbor, a river navigable lor hundreds of miles and busy, enterprising and well-to-do citizens. Mclntosh county has given the “Darien Short Dine” the right of way along the Cowhorn road, which is a public highway sixteen miles in length. and it is stat ed that the railroad company has secured the right of way over the tram road, which was formerly used in eonnec ion with Milieu’s nulls. From this state ment it will he seen that for a very consid erable part of the line the cost of prepar ing the roadbed will be quite small. In fact, outside of the tramroad and the pub lic highway, only twelve miles have to be graded to make a continuous roadbed, ready for the ties, from Darien to Wal thourville, on the Savannah, Florida and Western railway. The charter under which this road is being constructed permits the line to he extended to Mi lien, Ga., and to Dog Hummock, in Sapelo Sound, where there is twenty-five feet of water. Savan nah’s prospects for more railroad connec tions are certainly good. A little encour agement. from her business men may cause all these prospects to be realized. Railway Building. The current number of the Railway Ayr gives some statistics of railway building for the last eight months which arc very inter esting, but which must surprise mauv by the very unequal distribution of the mileage in different part,s of the coun try, as well as by the very great activity shown. The mileage added to the railroad system of the country during the first eight months of I*B7 was 0,402, against 3,475 miles for the same period of 1080. In the latter year the aggregate mileage for the twelve months, according to Poor's Manual, was S*,(JOO, so that if any thing like the same proportion in building is observed this year as last, between the early and the late months, the total of miles of new road will exceed the record of any previous year. New lines have been constructed or old ones extended in forty of the forty-seven States and Territories, and while it was to be expected that most activity would be shown in the new country west of the Mis sissippi, the disproportion is somewhat startling. Of the aggregate of 6,462 miles of new road, 4,904 were built west of the Mississippi, 714 in the Southern States east of the Mississippi, 657 in the States north of of the Ohio river ami 127 only in the North ern and New England States. Kansas leads in the number of miles of new road, 1,184, followed by Texas with 665, Nebraska 536, Dakota 491, and the Indian TerritoiY, though barred from settlement by white men, 443. Among the Southern States, Alabama and Georgia lead, with 189 and 155 miles re spectively. Avery large amouut of construction is to be finished this year, and if the weather should prove favorable, the Railway Aye estimates that the total mileage for the year will reach, if it does not exceed, 12,000 miles. The seven States in which no new rail road has been built this year are New Hamp shire, Vermont. Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, West Virginia and Nevada. According to a correspondent who has seen the interior of Balmoral Castle, it is furnished with questionable taste for a royal palace. Stuart tartan carpets aud curtains, only engravings and photographs on tho walls, may be in perfect harmony w ith the country, but very much lacking in that variety of decoration which makes great apartments habitable und homelike. Very few of her majesty’s subjects have been within the gates of the Queen’s favorite residence. She writes “no company,” and it is as much as a lady or gent)eman-in waiting’s place is worth to admit strangers to see the castle without royal permission. Victoria seems to understand that curiosity is man’s besetting sin. It now seems that the reported disorder in Havana last week was much exagger ated, and that it was not wholly caused by Captain General Marin's radical measures in purifying the administration of the cus tom house. The populace were excited by two things, viz.: Tho brutal murder of n woman by ft man whom she had robbed, and the sudden loss of employment of 3,000 government place-holders. It is to the credit of the people that Marin’s reform measures are generally indorsed. They may lessen the burden of taxation, which rests heavily upon all Cuban industries. The last volume of the “Bibliotliek dor Kirchenvater” (Library of the Futhers of the Church) has just been completed. This gigantic work, which comprises seventy nine volumes, was begun in 1808, under the editorship of Fjofs. Raithmayr, of Munich, and Thalhofer, of Eiohstart. It contains the principal works of the Latin, Greek, and Syrian fathers of the church, together with biographical commentaries and in dexes. The general index is the result of eight years constant labor on tho |>art of Father Uhl. Frank Ferrell, the leading negro y>oliti rian of New York, has left tho United labor party, to whose recent convention he was a delegate. He is the man who ■* made prominent during the Knights of labor convention in Richmond by a theatre manager's refusal to allow him to sit among white people. CURRENT COMMENT. Randall as a Tariff Reformer. From the Nnv York Evening Sun * hid.) If the administration purposes formulating a | tariff measure to be submitted to Congress as ; its own, it lias taken the flrt step in the direc tion of success in culling; upon Mr. Randall for suggestions us well as Mr. Carlisle. Should Not Try to Please Wall Street. From the Nsv) York World (Dent,) Mouopoly is marching on with giant strides, and as it presses forward over individual rights Wall street rejoices and makes glad and bails its growth as a benefaeto*\ since it stimulates speculation, revives business and makes Blocks active. Does not this fact show how different are the views and interests of Wall street from the views and interests of the general people? Compromise His Ruling Principle. From the Sew York Tribune ( Rep.) ; If Secretary Bayard, for the sake of avoiding ! the upi>earance of opposing the wishes of the i Senate, shall neglect to appoint Commissioners and attempt to meet single handed Mr. Cham beriain. Sir Liouel West anil a Canadian states man or the first rank. Heaven help American interests! Compromise is the ruling principle of his nature, of protecting American interests he w ill be certain to sacrifice them. Instead of vindicating historic rights he will surrender them without cause. BRIGHT BITS. The glaziers report business as “putty” good. —Uooaall's Sun. Young Bi.oaso.s has named his canoe William Henry Harrison, because it's a tippy-canoe.— Burlington Free Press. Is a week's time the earth travels over 11,000,- 000 miles. Fortunately there are no wooden bridges oil the line. -Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin. The other day a calf belonging to Mrs. Joseph I ■ Garrett, of West Fallow field, ate nineteen young turkeys, and wanted more.— Toronto Globe. Is it. not somewhat paradoxical to class as “supporters of the government” those men tuid newspapers which the government have to sun portt—Ottawa (Canaria) Free Press. “Alas, how disappointment frowns,” says an unknown poet in a recent effort, of his, “when hope most bright is gleaming; the stitches put lit wedding gowns are oft but idle seaming.”— Nashvilie American. He—Then you love me? Bhe—l do. He— And I may s|teak to your pa? She-No. Speak to ma. l’a ain't anybody in this house. Boston Courier. “Elm," said Clara, as they were sealed on the veranda of tlieir country hoarding house, "1 went fishing w ith Charley this morning.” “Did your What did you catch?” “1 caught Charley.”—.Yew Fork Sun. “Dapa, does z stand for ‘zic?’ ” “Why, there isn't any such word as ‘zic,’ my son.” “Oh, yes. there is; don't you remember? When you say, 'Pie zic scuse me!”— The. Epoch. Old Golddust ion his knees to the Widow' Bullion) Ah. madam! I adore you—-. Widow Bullion There, there? Do not get ex cited, ?!l Golddust. You have let your teeth fall In my lap. Shall l give them a caramel. Life. F'ikst Tramp—l hear (hat some of thim Chinee bastes in Mott street are wearing dia monds. Second Tramp- Yis, bad cess to 'em! Before they come here my wife was able to support me takin’ in washin’. Tid-Bits. “Ethel, dear, you are looking pale and ill tl is morning.” “Yes. mamma; T went in bathing yesterday and got my feet wet.” “Ob. careless girl, and spoiled vour bathing suit, no doubt. Never let that happen again.” Brooklyn Eagle. “You have a lively set of clerks.” he said to the proprietor of the establishment. "It must tie pleasant and profitable to have employes so full of energy and vim.” “Y'es,” responded the proprietor, “we close early to-day, and they are getting ready to go home.”— New York Sun. Omaha Girl What ! Art at funerals? Boston Girl Yes. indeed. Hand-painted cof tis are all the style in Boston now. Some of the latest designs ure gloriously beautiful. “Beautiful?” “Dist racthifriy. It is all w e can do to keep from committing suicide.”—Omaha World. The Rilling Passion: Brown—Hello, Robin son, what’s your hurry ? Robinson (out of breath)- Don't detain me; I've just heard that my house is on Are. Brown—That's too bad. I was going to ask you to have a drink. Robinson—Well, I’ll go you one, but we'il have to be quick about it, “Sire" "Yes, Daniel.” ”1 learn with grief that you are becoming a base ball crank.” 'Daniel!” "No offense meant, sire, but the papers say you intend to make short stops at various points.” Pittsburg Chronicle. 1 was told of a Cambridge girl who lives under the shallow of Memorial Hall, who directed her shoemaker, while ordering a pair of boots, to be sure to put in good leather penultß. “ HayF said the cobbler. “Penults.” murmured she. “Penults,’.' murmured he. "Yes. penults.” Insisted the damsel, “inner soles; they come next to the last, don't they?" "Well, yes: 1 guess they do,” returned the cobbler in that peculiar twang of the Down Easter that can never be imitated in cold print. —Boston Letter to the Augusta (Go.) Chronicle. PERSONAL. Puince Bismarck and Count. Kainoky will have an interview at Fried rishsruhe next Thurs day. Justice Fikia) is closing up his court business in California, and w ill in a few days start for Washington. H. T. Bk a (REGARD, son of the ex-Confederate General, who is the presiding genius of Ihe Umisiana lottery, is one of the leading business men of ban Diego, Cal. Mr. Hkaly. who was under contract to come to this country this fall to lecture, has decided to remain at home and take his chances with the proclaimed national league. Mrs. Iva Richmond, of Goldeu, Mich., was thrown into the machinery of a reaper that she was driving, but her life was saved bv her faith ful dog, that rushed forward and stopped the team. “Mits. Cleveland is simply exquisite and the President noble," is the closing line of a letter from a lady to her friends abroad, describing the pleasures of the President’s t routing party in the Adirondacks last summer. Jesus Waldonado. a ranchman, is dead at Vera Cruz. Mexico, at the undoubted age of 153 years. Among the poll fearers at his funeral were three sons, aged 110. 120 and 10!) years. They were white haired, but strong and hearty. President Cleveland writes all his letterstmd addresses with his own iiogd. He tried dicta ting ton stenographer some time ago. but found that it bothered him. and that he could do his work much more satisfactorily iu the good old fashioned way. Will If. Kkrnan, the wild-eyed lunatic, for merly of the Okolona States, has become con nected with a labor paper in lowa, and an nounces that he lias “renounced the Democratic lrty.” Tlds will be unwelcome intelligence— to all but the Democratic party. Ukouuk Bidwkli. the released Hank of Kng laud forger, says that while in prison be taught himself seven, languages French. German, Italian, Ijttin. Greek and Spanish. He also de ■ eloped a taste for poetry, und bad composed 2,000 verses, which he will publish in I took form. M. LAVORiuSBTiait, an old music-teacher, who recently died in Paris, endowed with bis fortune a fund hose purpose is the consolation of young ladies disappointed in the hope of finding fame and fortune on the stage. All those whose Illusions were thus ruthlessly dispelled are to receive sums that will enable them to pass the first, days of hitter disappointment in mu disturbed retirement, and to lay subsequently the foundation for another existence. Tiuhamc Pasha, the Egyptian Under-Secre tarv of state, and son-in-law of Nubnr Pasha, fought recently a duel with Signor Mlnghetti, a loading Italian resident of Cairo. Three shots liad been exchanged, when Tigratie s pistol ex phslod, wounding him in Ihe hand. MinghettPs seconds declared themselves as satisfied, nut the seconds of Tigrane Pasha, Mason Hey and M. Chevalier, desired to see the duel umttimed until one of the combatants reninim-d on the Held, but the stirg>s)iis Interfered. The two op ponent k parted without saluting each other. Tiik Prussian Mai. Ueu. von Haumetster, who fought with great distinction in the wars of IMHO and I*7o-71, dbsl recently at Helnenr. The Her lilt Sdititanm-krn ItWslilatt relates that in the haltlu around Chevilly l.'llay, on Sent. SB, 1870. Haumeiater. then I.ieuteniuit Colonel, was It) the cheat by A hall, but was saved fmlu death by the order |w tui-U itirrtk which lie wore, and which was Item out of shape by the hall The ('row n Prince told Haumetster to ai> ply tn Vetwallles for another decoration, whldit, ho smilingly remarked, waa after all. a very uscf'il one. The Bparrowe Whipped for Once. front the Baltimore American. The gathering of hundreds of B-martins iu and around the p blic squares every dayat Mar tinsville, Henry couhty, Ya., has excited no lit i tie curiosity lately. An examination has d.s --: closed the fact Unit they were making deliber ; ate and apparently systematic war upon the English sprrrows, the victory invariably re maining w ith the martins. They have now, it is said, literally whipjied the sparrows out of the place. No Regard for Her Feelings. Harper's for September. An Austiufaintly has a cf-l tred servant that, while very atte. tve to her duties, has never been known to give anybodv a civil answer. Purely as an experiment the lady of the house bought her anew calico dress, and gave it to her. say big: Tam glad to have the pleasure. Matildy, of giving yitu this dres." "Yer moot hah had dat pleasure long ago, ef yer had had any regard fo’ my feelings,” was the gracious reply. “College Widows.” from Lippi arotfs Magazine. That class of young ladies known among the students as “college widows.” and commonly supposes) to have acquaintance of several generations of collegians, is not larger in New Haven than elsewhere. I.et a girl once get such a reputation, however, whether justly or un justly acquired. she can hid good-bye to all bojies of wedding a uollege man. A fellow may enjoy her company* he may call on her; he may pay her sufficient attention to ordinarily justify a popular suspicion of an engagement, but he rarely or neverdnarries her. Interesting Incident at. Washington /from the St. Pgnl Globe. There never was a more o(U-etionat e meeting, never aduore demonstrative wife. As soon as the train stopped Mrs. Ifajpom descended and was welcomed Ivy her son in-law with a kiss, bht* was followed hy her daughter, who fell iuto the arum of the big American citizen who calls her wife. She literally fell into Lis arms, and kissed him long and loud, then dignitiedly walked to the awaiting carriage with him. Mrs. Cleveland believe.s, as nil good wives should, that she has drawn the drat prize and gotten a chromo with it. she fairly idolizes her husband. She and her mother are now busy making prep arations for the coming trip to the West, North west and South. Curious Fate of a Cask of Wine. from the Boston Post. The following incident is vouched for by sci entific persons: An English gentleman was presente 1 w ith a cask of Malmsey sweet wine, whico he unified to be placed fa an inner room in bis wine cellar. He was absent from home for a long time and on his return directed his butler to open the w ine for his guests. His astonishment may well he imagined when he was informed that the entrance to the room was closed by aneiiormons fungus grow th. An entrance was effected with difficulty by chip ping the fungus with an ax. The cask was found empty, nressel against, the ceiling, sup ported upon and surrounded by this vegetable matter, which almost entirely filled up the remaining space iu the apartment. The Slave Trade Still. from the St. Jo-men Gazette. A Blue Book was published yesterday eon taming last year's correspondence on the slave trade. Col. Schaefer, the head of the T)apart ment for th# Suppression of the Slave Trade, states in 1886 that in six months thirty-six per sons, many of them professional dealers, had been tried by court martial for buying or sell itig slaves; of these thirteen were condemned, four acquitted, ten were still under judgment, ami nine were released for want of evidence. The report as to the Progress of the Home for V. omen Slaves in Cairo, founded by the efforts Oi Mr. t djfford Lloyd and Mrs. Sheldon Amos, is encouraging. In May. 1888, irn women had been received into the Home, most of them ne gresses, a few Circassians and a few Abyssal ians. A ecordiug to another report drawn up by t °l. Schaefer, in the twelve months previous to May, 1885—that is, before the Slavery De partment took over the working of the Mami missiou Bureaus —the number or slaves freed in Egypt proper amounted to 1.032. In the follow mg year that number increased to 2,78(5. of w horn B\3 were the property of Dongola refu gees. In 1883 there were thirty-two slave deal ers in Cairo; there are now only four or five, and they only act as brokers. Beck and Blackburn. from the St. Paul Globe. “Do you know Beck and Blackburn, the two Kentucky Senators?” asked a former Kentuck ian yesterday. “Well, I’ll tell you about them. It is singular that two men of such distinct characteristics should he colleagues iu the Sen ate Jim Beck and Joe Blackburn are anti gitdes. One is everything that the other is not. eck is brusque and brawny Blackburn is oily and willowy. Beck is a sledge-hammer speaker, who drives the nail right home at the first blow. When Blackburn speaks he festoons thp room with bouquets, and when be has fin ished you have no recollection of what he said. To illustrate, we will suppose that you give each of them the simple proposition to state that twice two makes four. Beck will state it in just that language, and everybody will grasp it at once. But Blackburn will come at it iu about this way: ‘1 will take the figure 1 and then duplicate it, and when I have combined that duplicate with it*, equivalent by a process of multiplication. 1 wnkyenture the assertion, and I do it \with the fullest confidence that l can demonstrate it to you beyond all possibility of doubt, and I wish it understood, my fellow countrymen, that I always stand ready to verify my assertions even to the spilling of my heart's blood, that when these multiples have been combined and adjusted in the manner I have heretofore indicated, you will find as a startling result that the combination has produced the number four.' Beck can say in one sentence what it willtake Blackburn a half hour to cir cumvent.” The Sailing of Paris. from the Temple Bar. Iu a dark and au evil day , Where the sails of our ships outspread; In an evil and dolorous day. Though the skies were bright overhead. And the green w aves laughed to the sands of the bay, And the white clouds seaward sped. And the fifty sons of the King Came down with shield and with spear. And the maidens followed to sing. And the children to shout and to cheer. And the earth was glad with the smile of the spring And the strength of the weakening year. And with oxen and garlands fair The priests to the altars came Of the Gods who are slow to spare. Whose anger is as fierce as a flame— Of the gods who have hardened their hearts to our prayer. Who are deaf to the call of their name. For a woman in sable show Cried Woe for the broken faith; And her speech is over of woe. Of terror and horror and scathe: And. Woe for the storm which begins to blow And the brand which is kindled, she saith. In a liark and an evil day Were the sails of our ships outspread. Though the city shone golden and gay Asa victim whose blood shall In* shed - The city w hose homes are a waste to-day. With none to bury her dead. Will the Young Lady Cash the Check. From the New York Sun. Avery chaiming young Indy, with an auto graph album In her hand, approached Mr. E. M. Rowdier, the Treasurer of the New York Cen tral Railroad Company, at a aocinl gathering a lew evenings ago, and requested him to add his name to-ber collection. “See," she said. “I have only names of prom! nent men in my album, nnd I have long wanted yours to complete It.” Mr. Kossiter was flat tens!. hut he said: "Oh. 1 don't believe yon really care very much for my autograph?" “IndecdC 1 do," asserted the lady, “I wouldn't miss getting it for anything." “Not for u hundred dollar billy" asked the New York Central's Treasurer. “No. not for a hundred dollar bill.” Mr, Kossiter took the album and withasty lographic pen wrote on a blank |*igo of the ixxik a check on the Chemical National Hank for® 100, payable to the young lady. “There.” he said, as he handed her the album, “I hat e taked you at. your word You can take your choice between keeping uiy autograph or purtiug with It and getting the hundred <lol lur bill." The lady was highly delighted at this addi tion to her allmm, and showed II to her father. He is a business man, nnd ids tirst act after reading the check wns to turn it over and glams, at the Hack. There. In a bold hand, was the lu dorsement: Life it real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal fREOERIrK .1, JoNRH. IS!*- Narragunset l*ler. “Who is this Jones?" naked paterfuudlas. “oh, that is u young gemleman whom I met at the seashore a few weeks Mgo,“ avowed the daughter “ well, '* said the old gent leman, “1 don’t sup poae his indorsement to the value of the check, but if you shook 1 evnr rrv to caah it you wfU have to esjiUiu how It got liters.” I ITEMS OF INTEREST. A CiGAHETTE smoker cannot obtain admission to the naval or military academy. O.VE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND bricks made on Mr. Gladstone's estate have been sn.pl*-d to Boston for anew court house. Mils. B. F. Davis, of Harri Sou, Kiln., a lady 37 years old. had ail Iter teeth extracted three months ago, and now nature is furnishing her with a third set. Two anchors have been picked up off Chat ham. Mm-s , which, it is thought, may have ljeloiged to a Dutch mau-of-war wrecked one hundred years ago. The fashionable Swiss hotels now have Ameri can bars, presided over by handsome Swiss giri.N in native dress. This is said to account for til j withdrawal of the English patronage. A Medford (N. J.i mother prevented the elopement of her daughter the other night by locking up all her wearing apparel. AgiiTslove of dress often stands iu the way of her success ia life. The temperance women have prevailed upon the managers of the New York State fair, to be held in Septemter, to allow no sale of intoxicat ing liquors on the grounds and to permit tem perance addresses to he made by both men and women. An English statesman asserts that not only do married men live longer than bachelors, but that the lat ter are more criminal. He says that there are thirty criminals among every 1.000 bachelors, while among married men tb'o ratio is only eighteen. A man w as riding on the footboard of a switch engine near A l kansas City w'henacow came out of the weeds onto the track just ahead of the engine, and before the rider could change his position his limbs were crushed betweeu the engine and the cow. Tn e tower which is being erected by the Rus sians on the highest point of the Mount of Olives is already several stories high, but one more is to be added. The object i.s to make it so high that both the Mediterranean and Dead sea may be seen from the top. There is a remarkable body of gold ore in Alaska. It is in a cliff fronting the ocean and is 250 (o 300 feet wide, practically inexhaustible in body. It is a rich quartz. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has a fifth interest in the mine. Tred w ell, the man who discovered it, owns another fifth. The Philadelphia papers record an evidence of the iron-clad qualities of the mule.,. One of these animals there fell headlong into a well forty feet deep yesterday, and stood on his head at the bottom uulil he was drawn up by means of a derrick, with only a few scratches to tell the tale. He was at once put to work again. Two unknown men attempted to enter the bouse of Mrs. John Botts of Chadron, Neb., and , w hen she told them to go awa.v. one pulled a revolver. Thereupon Mrs. Botts bulled her revolver and fired first, putting a bullet through the abdomen of one and into the thigh of the other intrude". One wound was fatal, the other uncertain. A new incandescent electric lamp has, it is said, been devised by the electrician of the Julieu Power Storage Company at Brussels. The filament is made of anew material, and gives a discharge of electricity in the hydrogeu filled bulb which produces au aureole of light. It is claimed that the illuminating power is one third greater than in the Edison lamp for the same expenditure of energy. A Virginia gentleman relates that while fish ing for chubs he saw a terrapin crawl In a chub's ted, w-here the female had deposited her spawn, when the male chub sighted the intruder, caught him by the tail, backed out about six feet and threw him ithe terrapin > almost twenty feet clear of the water. The fact is vouched for by several gentlemen of repute who witnessed the summary bouncing of the terrapin. Another curious phenomenon in the shape of a plague of ants is reported from Nancy. The insects were immense in size, some having wings, hut the majority wingless. They fell in such large nuinters t tun the inhabitants t hought they were having a repetition of one of the plagues of Egypt, it is supposed that the rain of insects w*as the forerunner of the violent storm which swept over Nancy on the .ext day A phenomenal dog has been eu joying his va cation at Oneida lake this summer. The anh mal seems to have an abnormal appetite for fish, and whenever he wants any ue is in the habit of catching them himself. He walks out into the lake and after watching the water for some time, he makes a qqick .pin jge and catches a small sized fish in his mouth. This he devours and repeats the operation till his appetite is satisfied. An army officer now in Chicago asked the other day: “Do you know where the exact geographical centre of the United States is? Never thought anything about it, probably? "ell. it is marked by a grave—that of Maj. Ogden, of the United States army, who died at Fort Riley, in Kansas, in 1,855, during the cholera epidemic that year. Mai. Ogden's remains w ere afterwards removed to Fort Leavenworth and buried in the National Cemetery there, but his monument still stands on a knoll a little to the northeast of the post—Fort Riley—and it lifts its head toward the clouds in the exact geo graphical centre of the United States. This isn't a conceit: it's a fact, though probably of the hundreds of men now at the fort, no* one in a hundred ever stops to think about it. Fort Riley is a few miles cast of Junction City, Kan., and is one of lhe most important cavalry posts iu the country.” Of the, “Ute campaign” in Colorado a Denver tetter says: “The expenses will be very, large. The men are mounted on horses which are al most all hired at the stables at from $2 a day upward. A great many will die before they reach home, and for these the State w ill have to pay about twice their value. Provisions have been transported to Mfeker nnd ‘the front.' for which enormous prices have lieen paid The men are all to be paid as well as the bills for transportation. A good share of this expense will come on Garfield county. which has a verv small population and can iil afford it. It he's been a good thing forthe Denveraml Rio Grande railroad, on which is Glenwood Springs, the nearest station to Sleeker, eighty miles distant. Meeker has lieen thoroughly garrisoned by militia, most of whom will go home without having seen an Indian. It is estimated that the expense to the State of Colorado will befiom SloO.dOOto $200,000, It will probably finish Gov. Adams political!.” A horse w ith goggles was one of the attrac tions of the Clinton Square market place in Bos ton, Saturday afternoon. The Manlius farmer w ho ow ned him said lie discovered recently that the animal was very near sighted, and an oculist took the necessary measurements, and. sending to New York, hud a pair of concave s|<ectacles made expressly for Dobbin. When the farmer tried them for the first time the horse ap|>eared to lie startled, but recovering from his surprise manifested every symptom of pleasure. They are made so as to he firmly fastened in the head stall, and cannot be worn without that piece of harness. “When I turn him out to pasture,” said the farmer, “he feels uneasy and uncom fortable without his goggles, and last Sunday he hung around the barn and whinnied so plaintive like that I took out the bit and put the headstall hud goggles on him, and he was so glad that he rublied my shoulder w ith his now'. Then he kicked up his heels and danced down to the nas ■ lire. You ought to have seen him. I hate to let him wear specs all the time, (hough, for fear he will break them.” At the annual meeting of the Selsmological Society of Japan on May 27. Prof. S. Sekiya ex hibited aiiinteresUng model of bis own design, showing the motion of the ground at the time of mi earthquake The actual motion was magni fied fifty times. At the same meeting Prof Milne read a pup-r on Ihe effects prorhmed bv earth quakes upon the lower animals. Animals often show signs of alarm, not only while an earth quake is going on. hnt la-fore the shock- i felt Prof. Milne's friend. James BisseD. of Yokoha ma, testifies that thirty seconds before the tirst shock on Jan. 13 last one of his ponies got upon its feet and pranced about in the stall, evidently terrified at the coining shake. Apimy at Tokoi was observed to act in a similar maimer. Prof Milne has had many opportunities, iuat before earthquakes, of confirming the fact that pheas ant! scream: and several observers liuve assured him that in like circmimtaiices frogs suddenly ceas- croaking. of all animal!, geese, swine and dogs are said to give the clearest indication! of an ap proaching earthquake, p U said, too, that many birds show uneoainet . billing their head beneath their wings, and behaving ffi an tin usual manner. Prof, Milne suggests that some of the lower animals may lie si nsiUve to small motions w hich we do not notice The terror manifested hy iule'ligeut animals like dogs and horses may lie. bethinks. Hie result of their own experience, which has nuigtii them that slight tremors are premonitory of mm mien's more alarming. In the ease of pheasants. f r ..gs and geese, alarm may lie due solely to tile tremors Htrauge behavior on the |*ir of animals several hours or days liefore an c irthquulre Prof. Milne attributes for the most part toa> vblenui! causes. In ioli unlc dlsirii t. however, as he shows ii ha-sometimes lu|,|,emsl tliul before an earth quake certain gases have emanated from the earth; and where this has occurred the smaller animals have not only lieeu alarmed, but some uiiieti killed. i BAKING POWDER. PURE CREAM Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY GOODS, ETC. Exceptional Reductions IN Summer Roods AT Mil k Oil’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. 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