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4 C!c ‘Periling ilftos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. THI'RSDAY.SKITKMBKU 8. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Thu Morning News is published every day in the year, and iR served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own a fount. at 25 cents A week. $1 On a mouth, $5 Ou for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning Ness, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 U); ere year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months. $2 00: six months. $4 00 one year. $S 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. Si !E>; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly Nets, by mail, out- year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on 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, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. 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. i 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 rMc; P. ft. Haw. audf Apoth**- <’*rv. or<r .Joii'M u<l vlvn-oru ptr**H*; Kiiwaro J. Kmrrßß, coimer W*t Blued and tiujwan trU.