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THI'RSDAY.SKITKMBKU 8. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15, F. and
A. M.; Savannah Mutual Loan Association;
Travelers' Protective Association.
Special Notice Chatham Real Estate anil
Improvement Company.
Cheap Coliuk Advertisements— Help Want
ed ; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Board ; Miscellaneous.
The Great Southern Portrait Company--!,..
B. Davis. Secretary and Manager.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com
pany
Boynton Furnaces and Heaters—Cornwell
& Chipmnn.
Free of Deception—Lovell <£ Lattimoro.
The cyclone and the flood have moved
over into Scotland.
The home government is trying to “re
form Cuba.” But, in event of success, will
it stay reformed?
It begins to look as if Ives & Staynor
treated their books in tha way Blaine
wanted the Mulligan letters disposed of.
Judge Simmons’ friends appear to have
landed him in the vacant place on the Su
preme Court bench without any very great
effort.
Appointment Clerk Higgins, unknown
outside of Baltimore two years ago, is now
a national figure. He has prospered on the
revilings of his enemies.
A Savannah belle, when chided by her
mother for detaining her lover to a late
hour on the piazza, artlessly explained that
they were looking for the comet. Love and
astronomy go together with the young folks.
Sir Lionel Playfair, ex-Sjieaker of the
House of Commons and one of England’s
foremost scientists, who is at Newport, has
just hinted a lesson in decency to the society
people of that most fashionable of water
ing places, by refusing a pressing invitation
to meet the Duke of Marlborough at din
ner.
Representative Morgan Rawls is in favor
of making liberal appropriations for tbo
common schools. In this he shows that ho
has a level head. He knows what the peo
ple need and if he will champion the cause
of the common schools the people will not
forget him when they are hunting for a
man to take care of their interests.
The Civil Service Commission is divided
in its opinion of the conduct of Collector
Seeberger, of Chicago, and happily not on
party lines. The President’s decision in the
matter is looked for with a great deal of
interest, as it will settle the important ques
tion whether an employe of the government
in the classified service can be dismissed by
his superior officer without cause.
Gen. Simon Cameron, 80 years old. hale
and hearty, is back from his trip to Europe,
▼here he has been having a good time. His
first act on getting ashore was to tell an in
terviewer that Cleveland was a safe man
and a gixxl President, which must distress
those of the party he used to lead who can
not see any good in a Democrat. The Gen
eral is no longer in politics, and can afford
to tell the truth.
A gentleman In New York recently no
ticed that a pieco of manuscript was used
in the lining of a book he was reading. On
being removed it proved to be a complete
document, and, strange to say, was written
by Duke George, of Saxony, in 1499. This
ih the Duke George who figures in histones
of the great reformer, Luther. The letter
Itself is on a trivial subject, but that it
should have been preserved in such a way
is remarkable.
It is said that heretofore the principal
means relied upon for promotion in the gov
ernment departments at Washington, es
pecially by female clerks, has been flattery
of superior officers, and that the rule re
cently put in force requiring periodical ex
aminations for promotions has made good
work the means instead. If this be true the
action of the Civil Service Commissioners is
to be heartily approved, as it will certainly
improve the service.
The contest between the Liberal and
Clerical parties in Mexico, the former of
whiclj has been in power since the expulsion
of the French, seems every ilay to grow
more bitter, and the Liberal journals now
affect to fear a conspiracy of the Clericals,
which will repeat in Mexico the horrors
once witnessed in France on St. Bartholo
mew's day. The expression of such a fear
is doubtless intended purely for political
effect, and is insincere.
Speaker Carlisle’s failure to take any tes
timony in the contest brought against him
by Thobe seems to astonish the Tribune very
much and fill it full of dire forebodings of
Democratic villainy about to be practiced.
Mr. Carlisle probably know his seat was
perfectly safe, and wanted as little
trouble as possible. The Tribune, along
with everybody else, knows he was elected,
and that the alleged contest is a Republican
scheme to embarrass the Speaker’s party.
It was asserted after the burning of the
Opera Comique at Paris, that the frightful
loss of life in that disaster would attract
attention to public buildings of that char
acter, and that such fatalities would in
future be made impossible. The Exeter
Theatre calamity was more terrible than
that at Paris, and still the same assurances
are given that such a thing will not be per
mitted ui happen again. The public eye
Uno'i closes to the fact that many of tiie great
play-house* are death traps, and before the
grass is green over the graves of the latest
victims, the insecurity of the buildings for
I<ubUc amusement U forgotten.
A Long Session Probable.
The people arc U-ginning to yvonder when
! the legislature will adjourn. There are no
■ indications of nn intention to adjourn at an
i early day. Two resolutions have been in
i' traduced on the subject, but they have
received no attention. There is not much
probability that the final adjournment will
occur this month, and it nmy not occur
until the latter part of next month. The
members intend doubtless to attend the
| Piedmont Fair, and they will hardly con
sent to an adjournment while it is in
progress.
In fact the Legislature is in no condition
to adjourn. There are nearly a thousand
bills yvaiting consideration, and some of
them are quite important. The amount of
business that has been transacted is very
small. A groat deal of time yvas wasted on
the foolish Brady bill, and Representatives
Felton and Simmons amused the House for
a few ilays with their abuse of each other.
There has been very little legisla
tion of a general character that is calcu
lated to meet the needs of the State.
Tlie Finance Committee has attended to
the financial affairs of the State, but noth
ing is settled with respect to the convict
question, the State road matter and other
important things in which the whole State
is interested.
It is the customary thing, of course, to
find fault yvith Legislatures, but as a rule
the fault-finding is not unreasonable. Leg
islators do too much talking and too little
work. A great many of them are absent
from their post of duty too often, and when
they are present they do no not give their
whole attention to their duties.
The people have to foot the bills and
they have a right to complain if they find
that they are paying too much for what
thy get. When the new constitution was
adopted it yvas hoped that one session of the
legislature every two years would he all
that would be necessary. The present Leg
islature held its regular session last year,
and has been in session two months this
year. How much it will cost before it con
cludes to adjourn it is impossible to estimate
with any degree of certainty. It is pretty
safe to say, however, that the value of its
work from present indications will be small
in comparison with its cost. It seems disposed
to shirk the responsibility of settling the
really great matters which come before it.
Perhaps it thinks its successors will be bet
ter qualified to settle them.
A Favorably Received Suggestion.
The suggestion made by the Morning
News yesterday relative to the improve
ment of the streets not only attracted a
great deal of attention, but, there is reason
to believe, was very generally approved.
The people having secured good water, are
now quite anxious for good streets, and they
are willing to pay a reasonable amount for
street-paving. It is doubtful if there is a
property owner on the paved portion of
Broughton street who would consent, for
three times what it cost him, to have the
asphalt pavement removed if it were under
stood that the street was to be left without
an}’ pavement whatever.
Of course much of the yvantof enthusiasm
in the matter of street paving which the
Council displays is due to the want of means,
but if it would compare the amount that is
now annually expended upon the streets,
from which only a temporary benefit is ob
tained, with the amount which, in all prob
ability, would have to be expended if the
streets were improved, it would see its way
clearly to putting a great deal more money
into street paving than it does.
It will cost very little to make an experi
ment in the direction suggested. Let the
grass plat on South Broad street, for' in
stance, be widened and improved, and if
the experiment gives general satisfaction it
can be continued upon other wide streets.
Let one of the narrower streets also bo im
proved in the way indicated, viz., by at
taching a part of the roadway on either
side to the sidewalk, and beautifying it by
planting it in grass.
The effect of the improvements is certain
to be so satisfoetory that the desire that the
streets shall be paved will be immensely
strengthened, and as the cost of paving will
be greatly lessened by the reduction of the
area to be paved, property owners will
readily bear the burden which paving will
impose upon them. Let the Council take
hold of this street paving question earnestly,
and it will soon be able to make headway
in settling it.
Sam Small has replied to the Missouri
Ile)>ubtican's strictures on his confession of
having staffed ballot boxes in a violently
abusive speech from the pulpit, in which
he manages to be very inconsistent. He
says lie has been converted from a ballot
box stuffing Democrat to a deceut one, but
at the same time vigorously defends ballot
box stuffing at the jieriod his crime was
committed, reciting the circumstances and
closing with the declaration that “self-pro
tection overrides every law on the statute
books.” The Rev. Ham it evidently not
deeply penitent—indeed he seems to he
proud of his exploit.
Before Gen. Crook broke his leg he had
planned anew departure in the training of
the soldiers of his command A company
of cavalry, thoroughly nrmed and pro
visioned, was to be sent into the region of
country in which the hostile A|>aehes have
heretofore operated, and the officer in com
mand was to exhaust his ingenuity in avoid
ing capture by Gen. Crook and the rest of
his forces. All the forms of an Indian
canqiaign were to bo gone through. The
plan was doubtless a valuable one, and it is
to be regretted that an accidont has pre
vented its being carried out.
Ex Senator Platt has exercisod the pow
ers of a quarantine commissioner at New
York for several years. His term expired
long ago, but ho has held over liecause Gov.
Hill and the Republican Benute have been
unable to agree ujxm bis successor. In a
suit at law to oust him from the office the
Attorney General has shown him to be
guilty of perjury, and to have been ineligi
ble to the office he has held. And yet Mr.
Platt is the leader of the great, Republican
party of New York, which never tiros of its
Pharisaic attitude toward Democrats.
The Prince of IVnlcs is reported to have
said that Bluine and Depew are the bust two
story-tellers who ever regaled him outside
of Boccaccio. It is fair to presume their
stories were of the same kind ns the Italian’s.
Mr. Blaine is exhibiting a phase of his char
acter of which many of his admirers were
ignorant,and of which they are not proud.
M. Grevy, who was 80 years of age on
Aug. 14, is said to have received a full
1,000 congratulatory telegrams, but it is not
stated whether they were prepaid or not.
If he hud to foot the bills he will approach
his next octogoimry anniversary with tear
and trembling.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1887.
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A cig Contract With China.
It is announced that Count Mitkiewicz
and those associated with liiin succeeded
iin getting confirmed the concessions
from the Chinese government for
i which they have been negotiating
| for several months. The Count's
: backers are Philadelphia capitalists, and
they will have no difficulty in raising the
$50,000,000 which will lie required to float
all the schemes they have in view in China.
It seems rather remarkable that
Count Mitkiewicz should have suc
ceeded in getting from the Chinese
government what so many have sought and
failed to get. Englishmen, Germans, French
men and Russians have all tried to obtain
exactly the kind of foothold in China which
the Count’s syndicate has secured, and they
mot with no success whatever. It is proba
ble that the Chinese would much rather fa
vor Americans thou any other people.
Their experience with Europeans has not
been such as to inspire them with much
confidence.
The Chinese minister at Washing
ton was entrusted with the deli
cate duty of finding out whether the
syndicate was composed of trustworthy men,
and whether it could command the capital
necessary to carry out its undertakings.
There apjiears to be some doubt whether
the Count’s reputation is of the kind that
would gain for him a hearty welcome into
the Young Men’s Christian Association, but
those who com]>ose the syndicate are inenof
wealth and standing. In view of the fact, that
the Count will not lie the responsible party
in the business, it is probable that the dis
creditable stories relative to his conduct in
past years which are being quite exten
sively circulated, will not interfere with
the plans of the syndicate.
From what hag reached the public the
Count did not go to China with the purpose
of obtaining the magnificent concessions
which he finally obtained. He went there
to introduce the Turnbull Telephone, and he
enlarged his plans after reaching his destina
tion and seeing what possibilities there were
for grand undertakings.
There is a rumor that the Turnbull Tele
phone Company is afraid that it is to be left
in the lurch, and that some of the members
*>f it threaten to make damaging disclosures
respecting the Count. The chances are,
however, that the rumor was started by
someone jealous of the Count’s success. It
is certain that, the syndicate’s movements
will be watched with deep interest. It cer
tainly ought to receive every possible en
couragement in this country. If it gets
control of China’s banking anil coinage sys
tems and supplies her with railroads, tele
graphs and telephones, our trade with her
will necessarily be greatly increased.
A Suggestion Relative to Campaign
Funds.
Ex-Senator William Mahone and Senator
Riddleberger are having a little trouble.
Virginia hasn’t much use for either of these
men, but every once in while something in
their affairs crops out which is of general
interest. It seems that when Mahone and
Riddleberger were acting together in poli
tics the latter borrowed of the former
$1,500. Riddleberger never having shown
any disposition to return the money, Ma
hone concluded to see what, the law could
do in the way of assisting him in getting
it. Suit has been brought against Riddle
berger at Woodstock, Va., for the amount
claimed.
Riddleberger does not deny that, he got
the money, but he insists that he was under
the impression that it was part of the cam
paign fund. There does not appear to be
any good reason for questioning his testi
mony, but it does seem strange that he
should borrow campaign money to pay per
sonal debts, and also that he did not return
the money to Mahone when he discovered
that it belonged to him.
There is no great importance to be at
tached to this Mahone-Riddleberger suit,
except to make the suggestion that perhaps
a great deal of the money that is collected
for campaign purposes never reaches the
destination for which it is intended. If the
truth could be got at it would probably np
jtenr that the lion's share of political con
tributions finds its way into the pockets of
the political bosses.
At the time that Riddleberger obtained
tho $1,500 from Mahone he was a candidate
for the United States Senate. Admitting
that he thought the money came out of the
campaign fund, the fact that, he used it to
pay his debts would seem to indicate that
his morality is not of the broad-gauge kind.
The young man who writes paragraphs
for tho Washington Post may be quite
brilliant, but ho is not exactly the kind of a
person to be trusted in an editorial room
without somebody to keep an eye upon him.
A few days ago the Morning News stated
that the New York Star hail not yet col
lected quite $5,000 for the Grant monument
fund, and this young man came at once to
the front with the statement that, the amount
collected was over $7,000, including SSOO
which Henry Clews has guaranteed. Tho
young man also ventured the suggestion
that “it is best to be accurate in such im
portant matters." If this Smart Aleck will
look at the statement of the condition of the
fund published in the Star on Tuesday he
will find that the amount collected up to
that date was $4,838 34. Yes, it is best to
be accurate.
The New York Herald is urging that the
sixty-five acres of Governor's Island lie
turned into a park for the benefit of the
people of the crawiled lower wards of the
city. The island is owned by the Federal
Government, is fortified in an old-fashioned
way, and is the headquarters of n military
division, but on account of the improvement
in modern artillery it is now useltvis as a site
for works intended to defend New York
from an attack by sea, being only n few
hundred yards from the lower end of the
city. Buch a breathing spot would cer
tainly tie a great blessing to those debarred
by distance from the free use of Central
Park.
The special term of the New York Su
preme Court, ordered by Gov. Hill to hear
the apjicai in the Jacob Sharp case, con
vened yesterday, and after organization ad
journed to next Tuesday. There was some
acrimonious debate between counsel, tho
district attorney fearing thut an application
would be made to release Sharp on bail.
Sharp’s friends think that there is some
chance for him to get anew trial. If the
decision is in his favor hail will lie furnished
and, in all probability, he will seek Canada.
Thut Noenis to be his only way to e*c:qx> Sing
Siwg.
It is now said that room was’ made for
Mr. Randall's friemls—those made at tho
Allentown convention— in the rtiiladelpbia
mint, by shortening the hours of work of
all the employes. Superiuteudent Fox
should be investigated
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tho People Like Pluck.
From the Bos’on Ileralrl (Ind.)
The people like pluck iu a party. They have
no pat fence—and they ought to have no patience
—with incapacity in legislation.
Only the Republicans are Tired.
From the Philadelphia yeses (Rep.)
Mr. Bayard evidently thinks he is stronger
than r'ongress. He will he likely to find out his
mistake when Congress meets. The country is
tired of Mr. Bayard.
No Half-Holiday Wanted.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
A steady diet of six days’ work in the week is
the foundation of national prosperity. Business
New York has just refused to carry the half Sat
urday holiday through the year. The refusal is
right. Such a holiday is well in summer. The
rust of the year u fnaii needs all the working
week to keep up with the procession.
New York's Uncertain Politics.
/■’com the A'eie York World (Hem.)
The plain fact is that no Democrat has the
most remote prospect of election as President
without the electoral vote of New’ York. If the
Prohibition vote in this State next November
should Ue from 70.0 M to lUO.OQO and the'Labor
vote from -10,000 to ’50,000.1 he Democracy would
then, to use Mr.-Watzershtr,slanguage, "hold the
trump cards in the political pack.’' But how if
the figures should lie reversed?
BRIGHT BITS.
The nam ■ of the Chinese Emperor's wife is
Kan I)i. htie isn’t as sweet as that, though.—
New Haven Sews.
The country editor never troubles himself
about cholera in the hot weather. He has
patent insides. -Tld-Bits.
About 1,000 good-sized watermelons can be
got into a freight ear. That's why the Southern
negro wishes he was a freight car .—Tray Times.
A fashion journal speaks of white satin Tam
O’Slianters with rackets embroidered on them.
Dili the original Tam have his racket embroid
ered, or was it Just a plum drunk?— Burlington
Free Press.
It is a singular phase of human nature that
when a mail gives his wife a dime to buy a box
of hairpins or a gum ring for the baby it looks
about seven times as big as when he planks it
down for bitters.—. Shoe and Leather Reporter.
"Pm so deathly afraid of the cars," said Mrs.
Timid, “especially the fast trains. I'd
rather walk any time than get on an express
train."
"That's so," said her husband, who is a brute,
“you always travel on afraid train.”
The fact that her majesty presented all the
crowned heads of Europe present at the jubilee
with a copy of "Leaves from fhe Highlands"
has made anew edition necessary. The sale of
the book has not been extraordinary, but the
number of copies she has been able to give
away lias afforded her majesty great satisfac
tion.— Life.
Mrs. Moneybags (to her husband)—Now un
derstand me, Mr. Moneybags. Unless I can sit
on the right-hand side of the ship I don’t want
any meals at all.
Mr. Moneybags—Why, my dear?
Mrs. Moneybags—l heard someone say the
star board would be on that side and I guess
we're rich enough to have the best.
Tt is on the railroad trains that one is most
sure of hearing amusing things, as witness the
following fragment overheard on an Old Colony
train recently: “What town is this?” one pas
senger askeef another.
"This is Quincy."
“What is there in Quincy?”
“Well, there’s some buned Adamses and some
unburied Adamses, but they’re all dead just the
same.” — Providence Journal.
Detective -You wish to see me, sir?
Citizen—Yes; I have been robbed of a package
of money.
“HoWT’
"I intrusted it to a messenger boy and he has
not tieen heard of since.”
"How long ago?”
“Ten hours; 1 suppose he Is half way to
Canada by this time. ’
“O. no;' he can't, be more than fire or six
blocks off. I’ll look for him.”— Omaha World.
A pleasant NEioHßonnooD.—“ls that family
that has moved in next door neighborly?” asked
one Sioux Falls woman of another.
"Yes, they appear to be. They’ve borrowed
flour of me twice, tea once and sugar three
times. Then they have got our tub and the
hatchet and two lengths of stovepipe and the
baby carriage, and the woman empties all her
stops over the fence in our yard and I see her
coming across now to hang her clothes on our
line.”
“I shouldn’t think you would like to have them
borrow things so much and act quite so free.”
“Oh, I don't worry much about it. We’ve got
their mop and about half of their dishes and
their rollingpin and washing machine and the
other day I borrowed ten sticks of wood from
them, arid eacli afternoon our hired girl puts on
better clothes than the woman has to her buck,
and walks up and down on the sidewalk, and to
night I'm going to put out poison for their dog.
Oh, we're getting along very nicely and I think
they are going to be very pleasant neighbors.
This always was a splendid neighborhood.”—
Dakota Bell.
PERSONAL.
J. W. Gladstone, now visiting Newport, is a
nephew of the British statesman.
Bismarck is said to tie ageing fast. His hair
ia snow white and his face Is marked with deep
wrinkles.
Mary Anderson denies the rumor that she is
to become a subject of Queen Victoria. “I
shall always be a Blue Grass country girl," she
says.
Mrs. Langtry is building a cottage on the
shores of IJike Tahoe, California. Tahoe is one
of the most beautiful sheets of water in exist
ence. It is 6,200 feet above the level of the sea.
Ex-Senator Tador. of Colorado, has taken
$12,000,000 out of mines in the Rocky Moun
tains. He has a natural genius for the busi
ness. anil has succeeded where hundreds ltuve
failed.
Du. Jessup, of Beirut, writes that “the Sultan
of Turkey has set the seal of imperial approba
tion upon thirty two editions of Arabic Scrip
tures, allowing them to In- sold, distributed and
shipped without leave or hindrance.”
Dr. 8. Fleet Spier says that base ball and
tennis are danger us games when played to ex
cess. So true is this that the “liose bail pitcher's
arm" and the "tennis arm" are recognized iu
the medical profession as special diseases.
Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, wife of the
editor of the Century, was said by Lord faith
ness to lie the most charming woman in New
York. She is said to be the author of “Tho
Breadwinners," so long attributed to Col. John
Hay.
One of the great characters of London society
is Maria. Dowager Marchioness of Aylesbury.
She is an octogenarian, very eccentric and sar
castic. but despite great poverty a favor t ■ in
the grandest nouses. Many of tho English
papers do not hesitate to refer to her as "Old
Maria."
Jlrs. Susan M. Fjpuf-h. of.Orlando, Fla., died
at Sewanee, Ten il, >m the rtWlnst., after a long
illness. She had gone to that place in the hope
of tielng beneiittid by the cWnge. Mrs. Eppes
was tho relict of the late Francis Eppes. of
Tallahassee, a member of the old Virginia
family of that uarne, anil a grandson of
Thonias Jefferson, by whom he was educated
and reared in the Whits House in Washington.
The deceased' lady was 71) years of age.
The Sultan of Turko.v has been having a good
deal of trouble of late Not long ago his harem
revolted, and his oriental majesty has lieen
niueb annoyed by caricatures which have ap
peared in the comic Journals of Vienna. The
sublime Porte has officially requested the Aus
trian government to Interfere in leialf of the
Sultan, and the result is that the offending
editors have promised to ridicule no more the
sensitive monarch of the Turkish Empire.
A Darmstadt correspondent writes that
Prince Alexander of Battenherg.wlio alternately
resides with Ills parents in the castle of Heill
genberg and In the old palace of Darmstadt,
placed at his disposal by the Ora id Duke, de
votes n good deal of his lime to the chase in the
company of the latter. He ulso witnesses for
houi-s nt a time the exercises of the Hessian
troops and those of the artillery regiments of
Wurtu.nlierg mid I Tussla in camp nt ( irie-heim.
He is on a thoroughly cordinl footing with the
officers, bm absolutely avoids political discus
sions iu his iuiovcourse with them.
Gen. Tuiirunaieff. Katkoff's successor on
The Moscow (inzette, has been not only a soldier,
but .us" a notary and a newspaper t ilitor. The
KniisTou Alexander 11. was. h i Winer, so shocked
at thisiliKtltiguWhe.l commander's uecoming a
lawyer that he called upon him to let the toga,
in anew sene*, “give way to arms, and lien.
Tchurnaieff r.is-onlingly purchased the Russian
H'.u.W io support the uluinis of the Slnvotiic
populations ui the Balkan Peninsula upon the
sympathy and ii'wlathnce of Russia. Not rou
te it with lucre ri'lng. Tcai'i-naicff, ns a man of
action, started a suliMTiptUm for Us* insurgents
in la and Herzegovina, sent military .--.i
respondent* to the scene of action to help the
insurgents, not with news)>*|*r articles alone,
but ills., with money, armsmml leadership; ana
tin ill.* weal himself to Sorvla to take command
of i Is* Hm-vu.B nriuy, Htrengthensd by some
3,500 or i.tIUG iUuuiau volunteers.
A Pretty Alabama Widow.
Saratoga Letter to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
There is a pretty little widow at the Union,
a Mrs. Fountain, from Alabama, who manicures
her hands, pedicures her feet and dresses like
an Empress, She has lovers by the host, ho
chaperon but a groom that looks iike a gentle
man's son, a colored maid, two saddle horses, n.
sian of bays, and a swell Victoria. She is a"
perfect mascotte. and wins on terry horse she
backs. At Lon;{ Branch she lost her diamonds,
and came near putting dynamite under the
hotel. The stones were found, and ever since
she carries them in a soapulelte, given her by a
Chicago (rricst who tried to proselyte her, which
she wears about her neck with high dress, ami
about her waist when her corsage is nt ebb tide.
She is very pretty, an ex wife, twenty-three,
and the envy of half the young women, and the
dread of all the married ones.
Van Amburgh’3 Wonderful Power.
From the Few York Graphic.
On one occasion, while in a barroom, Van
Arnliurgh. the great lion tamer, now dead, was
asked how he got bis wonderful power over ani
mals. He said: "It is 6y showing them that
I'm not the least afraid tnem. and by keeping
my eye steadily oh theirs. I'll give you an ex
ample of the power of my eye.” Pointing to a
loutish fellow, who was sitting opposite. Van
Am burgh said,, "you see that fellow ? He's a
regular clown. I'll make him come across the
room to ine, and I won't say a word to him."
Sitting down, he fixed his keen, sternly eye on
the man. Presently the fellow straightened
himself gradually, got up and came across to
Van Anuiurgh. When he got close enough he
drew back ills arm struck the tamer a tremend
ous blow under the chin, knocking him dear over
tile chair with the remark, "I hope you'll know
me ag'in:”
A 9-Year-Old Boy’s Remarkable Story.
Wilmington (O.Y Special to Xev) York World.
A 9-year-old son of Hiram Taylor mysteri
ously disappeared about thirteen months ago.
He was an unusually bright child, not worse
than the average boy. He hoarded up his
money, read lioeks of travel anil was passion l
atcly fond of horses. Search was made, but all
traces of the child ap|s>ared lost. < )ue day last
week a letter was received by Mr. Taylor from
the lost lioy. It bore the date of Cape Town.
Africa, and recited tbut, having S3O, the bo-,
had resolved “to go around the world.” He
had left Wilmington on a freight train, stolen
his way to Columbus, paid his fare to Philadel
phia and heat hjs passage to New York, where
he t'onud no difficulty in getting on board a
ship. He said he was in flue health, had been
well treated and was about to sail for Hong
Kong. Thence he would go to Pan Francisco,
then come home. He neglected, purposely, per
haps, to give the names of the vessels on'whieh
he had sailed. Mr. Taylor is a contracting
painter and well known here.
Some Bashful Bridegrooms
From the Rochester Herald.
A Justice of the Peace in Saratoga county re
cently joined a pair who were so embarrassed
that they hardly knew what they were doing.
The man wore a white straw hat which he
whirled on his finger before the ceremony be
gan. When told to stand up he jumped before
the Justice with the greatest alacrity. For a
few moments he did not know what to do with
the hat, but finally found his way out of the
difficulty by putting it between his knees. This
was too much for the bride. With the handle
of her parasol she caught the hat, pulled it from
its position and then, abashed at her audacity,
dropped hat and parasol to the floor.
The same Justice tells a story of another
couple who came to be married. The man was
awfully puzzled, and without realizing the act,
pulled a cigar from bis pocket and liegnn
twirling it around. When that portion of the
ceremony was reached where bride and gr< om
join hands, he happened to have the cigar in
his right hand. What to do with the cigr h
apparently did not know. The Justice paused
a minute, and then again directed the jiair to
join hands. By this time the poor fellow's em
barrassment was painful. He gave one agonized
look at the Justice of the Peace and stuck the
cigar in his mouth. Before the ceremony could
be concluded the Justice had to take the cigar
from the man’s lips.
A Perplexing Family.
From the Madison ( Wis.) Journal.
Mr. L. Osborne, of this city, married his
grandfather’s second wife, and tnev have a son.
Given this simple statement and ‘a number of
peculiar family relationships may lie deduced.
For example, Mr. Osborne is a grandchild of his
wife. His son being also a sou of his (Osborne's)
grandmother, is uncle to his own father. Os
borne becomes a brother to his uncles and
aunts, and also a stepfather to them. The boy,
being the child of Osborne as a grandson, is
thereby a great-grandson of his own mother,
while his father may rejoice in the title of great
grandfather to his own child. Thus the boy be
comes a grand-uncle to himself and his parents’
great-grandchild. Osborne is the boy’s father and
great-grandfather at the same time, and, being
tliehusband of his own grandmother, enjoys the
distinction of being his own grandfather as well.
Osborne's mother married a man named Blake
and his sister married a hrotlier-in law of her
mother, Henry Blake. Osborne's sister liecomos
a sister to her own mother. Mrs. Blake, being
Osborne's mother, is grandmother to Osborne's
son The latter, however, being a son of the
wife of Mrs. Blake's father-in-law. is therefore a
brother to his grandmother and granduncle to
his grandmother's sister, the daughter who mar
ried Mrs. Blake's brother-in-law. lie also is her
nephew, as the son of her brother. Osborne is
the younger Mrs. Blake's grandfather as well as
her brother. Thus her nephew, Osborne's sou,
becomes uncle to his aunt, being a son of her
grandmother. This scries of relationships may
be likewise traced almost indefinitely. The fam
ily are liapp.v aud contented, and live as pleas
antly as though the peculiar family lies were
not present.
A Story of Mme. Blavataky.
from the Kansas City Journal.
Just a few evenings ago, at a small dinner
party. Prof. Clarke, or the geodetic survey, who
was once a student at Cornell, in the same class
with (Jov. Foraker, of Ohio, told me of a st range
experience he once had in Now York with Mine.
Bla vat sky, the notorious Theosophist.
He wished to test her supposed supernatural
powers and sec for himself if she could do any
of the wonderful things alleged, of which Julian
Hawthorn* is ro fond of writing. He called and
stated the object of his errand. The madaxne
was seated in an arm-chair at one end of her
room. She was gracious, polite, volatile and
agreeable. Ttere was a centre-table in the room.
“Write a letter personally to yourself,” she
said, “about something known only to yourself,
and seal it.”
He did so.
"Drop it on the floor near the table.”
This was done. She put her bond near the
ear|iet. pointed with one tlqger, and the letter
came to her. She took it up and made a mo
tion as if she would opeD it.
"I beg your pardon. ' said the disturbed pro
fessor. "That is a personal and private letter."
“Oh, I will not open it," was the reply. "If
you look upon the table you will And a copy of
She handed the sealed letter to Prof. Clarke.
He went to the table and saw an exact copy of
his letter in his own handwriting upon another
sheet of paper.
“Seal that up," said Mme. Blavatsky, "and
when you get home you will find it under the
table in your study.
"I put on my hat. thoroughly frightened," he
said to me. "and got out of the house as soon
as I could, and rushed home. 1 found the copy
of my letter just ms she s*M I would."
"How do you explain it," I asked.
“There is no explanation," was the reply.
She and I.
Jame* Aahcro/t Noble.
Whv do I love m.v love .so well?
Why is she all in all to me?
1 try to tell, 1 cannot tell,
It still remains a mystery.
And why to her I am so dear
I cannot tell, although I try.
Unless 1 And both answers here—
She is herself, and I am I.
Her face is very' sweet to me,
1 ler eyes beam tenderly on mine;
But can 1 nay 1 never see
Face fairer, eyes that brighter shine?
This thing I surely cannot say,
If I speak truth and do not lie;
Yet tiers I am in love to day,
For she's herself and I am 1.
It eannot bo that I fulfill
Completely all her girlish dreams;
For fur beyond my real, still
Her old ideal surely gleams,
And vet 1 know Iter iove is mine,
A flowing spring that cannot dry;
What explanation; This, m line—
She is herself, and I am 1,
'Mid all the curds by which two hearts
An* drawn together into one,
This is ueord that never parts,
itnt streng!lions us the yeuiw roll on;
Andi hough ns seasons hurry past.
St length, beauty, wit and genius die.
Till death strikes us this charm will hist—
She is herself, and I am I.
She is herself, and I am I.
Now,) eneeforth. evermore the same,
Till the dark angel dr iveth nigh.
And culleth her and me by name:
Yea, after death has doe* his worst.
Kuril he*.i soul will straightway tly
To meet the other, a* nt first
She U lw herself, 1 shall la) 1.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A green two-cent STAMP will soon replace the
“barn-red” one.
Kansas estimates that its annual poultry and
eg x crop is worth $1,500,000.
A Deaowood Judge ordered a jury fed on
bti id and water until a verdict could be agreed
on.
Bufpalo has a womau contractor. Her name
is Mis. A. M. Holloway, aud she lias just se
cured the contract for cleaning the streets of
that city for five years by a bid of $417,000.
A sycamore tree in Edinburg, Lawrence
county, Pa., is probably the largest tree of any
kind in the State, as it measures twenty-five
feet in circumference at the trunk. Only live
feet from the ground it sends out three huge
branches.
Probably the biggest yoke of oxen in the
world were on exhibition at the Eastern Maine
Stare Fair last week. They were raised in Ver
mont. and measure ten feet in girth and actually
weigh 7,000 pounds. It cost to raise them up to
their great weight over SI,OOO.
There is to be a reunion at Louisville this fall
of the survivors of Gen. Walker's Niearaguan
expeditions, the history of which from 1855 to
1800 reads like a romance. It. was during the
latter year that he was eaptured and shot while
making an invasion of Honduras.
Mrs. Horace Lewis, of Ketchum, Idaho, re
cently received a young antelope as a present,
and the animal has become so thoroughly do
mesticated that it follows its mistress at all
times, invades the kitchen, and seemingly takes
a great interest in what is being prepared for
the meals.
A tremendous dust storm visited Tucson,
A. TANARUS., the other day. It came almost directly
from the south, and struck the city with a roar.
It shut out the sun, and almost total darkness
hung over the city for nearly half an hour.
Every place bad to be closed, and g-s and lamps
were lighted throughout the houses. The dust
was of a reddish east.
The Brussels mint has just finished the coins
for the Congo State, which are gold and silver
pieces of five, two, one and one-half francs each.
One side of the coins shows the image of the
King of the Belgians, with the inscription in
French: "Leopold 11.. King of the Belgians,
Sovereign of the Independent Congo State,"
and the other side bears the motto of the new
State, "Labor and Progress.”
Philadelphians are excited over the transfer
of fifty-two pieces of real estate in various parts
of the city, from Mr. and Mrs. John Wanna
maker to Charles F. Hazeltlne, the picture
dealer. The inference is that the real estate was
in payment for pictures, and that Mr. Wanna
inaker is forming a large collection, perhaps
with the intention of presenting it to the city.
Both Mr. Wannamaker and Mr. Hazeltine are
now in Europe.
The 6-yeal-old son of Bernard Green, near
Bennettsville, Ind., was recently run over by a
heavy wagon and had his right leg crushed.
The father knew that the leg must come off,
and, after vainly trying to get a surgeon, de
termined to perform the operation himself. He
had no instrument, with the exception of a
razor and a small meat saw, but with these he
took off the leg neatly, and the boy recovered
from the shock and is doing well. Surgeons say
tbat the job was as successful as any one could
ask.
The average of the United Kingdom's wheat
crops for the ten years from 1870 to 1886 has
been 81,452,304 bushels. The average gross im
ports of wheat and wheat flour for the same
period have been 131,282,482 bushels, and the
average yearly exports have been 2.598,768, and
the average yearly supply 210.116,083 bushels.
The population on Sept. 1, 1880, was about
37,000,000, and is now more by about 360,000.
The gross imports of wheat and wheat flour for
the eleven months ended July 31,1887, have been
126,288,472 bushels, against 113,301.980 bushels in
the corresponding period in 1885-86, and 1.34.-
.364,472 bushels the corresponding period in
1884-85.
Oscar Wilde has recently had a visit from
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. “The 'Apostle
of the Beautiful’ has, she says, a pretty wife
and a pretty house. I found his dainty, cream
colored dining-x-oom especially attractive. I
think it must be an original design, this delicate
white room, white walls, white chairs, white
cabinets, a white shelf, a foot wide, running
round the walls at a convenient height—not a
trace of color anywhere, save in the rare glass
and china and the flowers and fruit ou the well
spread table. Oscar Wilde tells the best stories
of any one I know, and the only fault I could
find with some he told was that they were too
good to be true."
A singular story comes from St. Malo. A
vessel bound thither from Jersey with coal,
came up on the way witli a handsome yacht in
full sail, but apparently deserted. The captain
threw a rope on board, and tugged the yacht
along with his vessel. Presently one head after
another to the number of four peeped out of
the yucnt'B cabin. Ou reaching port the captain
sent for the gendarmes, who took a boat and
boarded the yacht. Two of its four occupants
had disappeared, but the remaining two proved
to lie French naval deserters from Brest, who
had escaped to Jersey, and there seized on the
yacht Louisa, gone out to sea, and fallen
asleep. The two men will be sent to Brest to
undergo a court martial, and the yacht will, of
course, be claimed by its owner.
Among the recent arrivals at New York from
Palermo were Catharine Vilmo and her mother.
At one time, in their native city Venice, the
Vilmos enjoyed both wealth and station, but
misfortune overtook them and they were re
duced to poverty. In the height ot her pros
perity Mrs. Vilmo had a servant named Domin
ico Wagauni, who fell in love with their fair
Catharine. When the tide of their affairs
changed, and the Vilmos could no louger afford
to keep a servant, Waganni, who is a man of
some education, came to this country to battle
with fortune, and try to make money to pay
the passage here of the Vilmos. Success
crowned his efforts and the meeting tie tween
Miss Catharine and her old-time servant was
very touching. Dominico is now her accepted
lover, und they are to be married in the near fu
ture.
On Nov. 7 next the people of Delaware will
vote upon the question of having a constitu
tional convention. The present constitution
was adopted in 1H32, and its provisions are held
to be unsuitable to the wants of to-day. The
chief friends of the movement for anew consti
tutiou are the Republicans, who hope from it
better results for their party. At present t uch
county sends a certain number of representa
tives to the General Assembly without regard
to population. The representation, it is held,
should Is- proportioned to population. Tins
view is held as well by many Democrats. Every
Democratic platform for some live years -
except the last one—has favored a convention.
Asa number of Influential New Castle county
Democrats have taken the matter up, it is
thought that increased attention will be given
by the people to the matter.
"Although the scientific results of the obser
ration of the solar ecli|>se in this neighborhood
are insignificant," says the Berlin correspondent
of the London Am"*, “mime Interesting reports
are given of the effects upon the lower animals
of the untimely obscuration of the sun. Forest
ers state that the birds, which had already be
gnu to sing before the eclipse took place, be
came of a sudden quite silent, and showed signs
of disquiet when dorknesi set in. Herds of deer
ran about in alarm, as did the small four-footed
game. In B rlin u scientific man arranged for
observations to lie made by bird dealers of the
conduct of their feathered stock, and the re
sults are found to deviate considerable. In
some cases the birds showed sudden sleepiness,
even though they had sung before the eelips >
took jilnee. In other oases great uneasiness and
fright were observed. It is noticeable that pur
rots showed far more susceptibility than cana
ries, tiecoming totally silent during the eclipse,
and only returning very slowly to their usual
state.”
Tone orass, which grows in abundance on
the. plains and waste places of Southern Cali
fornio, is said now to be manufactured into life
preservers, and to Ist admirably adapted to the
purpose. They weigh about live | ounda and
have a buoyant power of about forty-two
pounds Col's preservers weigh on an average
seven to eight pounds, and the United Stales
Oovrrnmrnl Inspector of life pionc.-vers tells
the Pittsburg Drspofefi that they a;e rejected
unless they have a buoysut power or iwent
fum pounds. The lost ho says, is made by put..
•In: the prosevor in water and allaehing
weights. Referring to the title grass preservers
the Inspector stated that "the griss growsto a
height oi fifteen feet. is about as Lilies itsu man's
fiimer. consists largely of all airy pith, ami has
n covering which i< verv l ar i and entirely im
pervious lo water \ preserver nuule i;t of
this grass hrs a greater liuoyant poser after :t
has Ins 11 in si it number of t . liws. Tlie grass is
••111 ill bundles noon' two feel in lengtli. amt
wraiqied at I lie ends tilth terv fine coolier wire
to kis-|i tile water out. in this form it Uri.t
b-s-‘. v/liore if is iii.nle Into life pres -r el hby
wrapping tiiese 1 o miles with very flm* ootluii
material, a id is inttsrhsl to lie tied around the
isslv. Is.nc r ift< ms* in.ale mil of this gi-ass
whs li wfil mi.ok.ii ffty persons. I have tested
W; ftw of them, and Utey ill!ve is-oil largely in- I
troaucvJ on the Ohio and Mrunueppi rivers. * j
BAKING POWDER.
WEIO/Tr^N
CREAM
jjAKlNjjl
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.*Liuie or Alum. Sold only in
Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
DRY GOODS, ETC.
Exceptional Reductions
IN
Summer Hoods
AT
Mi & Dour's,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
IUE will close out the remainder of our stock
* f of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12V£c.
ai pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu
lar price 12V6e. a yard; now Bj^e.
75 pieces Figured lawns, choice styles, at 3l£c.
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now 6^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12J^c.
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10c.
30 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12^c.; now 9c. 4 pair.
A mixed lot of Misses' 2 ine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at !7c. a pair.
50 dozen I .adies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 85c.; now 19c. each.
35 dozen Ladies’ extx-a fine quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr Si Unlanndried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoins, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
('IU)IIAN & DOONER.
MEDICAL.
Tutt’s Pills
rhe dyspeptic, tlje debilitated, whetli
tr from oxcc.rs of wor!< of mind o/
ody, drink or exposure in
Malarial Eegions^
till find Tntfs I*III* tlie most srenfa
estorative ever offered tbe suffering
uvulid.
Try Tllgsu Fairly.
A vigorous body, pttre bloosl. ntroni
terves and a cheerful m Ind will result
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
™ PILLS
md"T!r^iTFrCTUAL.
I j by 10,000 Aoi^ricMS
VPIRIOB TANARUS AI L ' THEM,
utiH kbpiibdr and Hon i w.inifl nirtorjr on
Woktrlme TRY THIS REMEDY ElliST.and
▼on will ■•] no othar. ABSOLUTELY INFALLIBLE.
ArtisuUrs, vmied. 4 renu.
WILCOX SPECIFIC CO.. PhiUdclphU. Fn.
For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Savannah, G\
•■?* taken me lead In
thesdiM of that r.ltu of
roiiiedicE. And ha given
ninioft universal Mtislsc*
tloa,
MURPHY B*OS^
® Has won th e fsvov of
the public and now rtuka
tor>K ike lending Modi
cintk of fhe oildom.
A. L. SMITH.
Brndforf. PR.
Sold hr Drut'igists.
Trad* au pplled by LI P PM AN B ROS.
MANHOOD RESTORED. f AfiSSSS,
n I’reinature Decay, Nervous Debility, Lost
Manhood, etc., bavin,; trie 1 m vain every k,.r,vn
remedy, lias discovered a simple self-cure, which
he will tend FJi&K to nis tallow sulfercri. Ad
dress C. J. MASON. Fuat Office Box 3171), New
York City.
DYES.
LADIES I
I\o ypir own liyeinff, at bonu, with PKKR
" IsEmS DYKaS. Tiit*y will dye n*rythin
Thoy ar* Klfi twrywbviv. Pried 10c. |i paekaffO
—lo fiiioii*. 'fogy have no j)]ual fointrenita,
bright imms amount In pRokBOM, or famtii&u
nt color, iA' non fmLuK Tiftty do not
i rH*li or *rnut. for'nuta f#y u. F. Ulmitu. M. U.,
Phannoi-U t. corner liroiurbUm omit lUmmUw
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