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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER , 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings Jasper Mutual Loan Association.
Special Notices-Hats, at Jaudon's; As to
Nor. Bark Patent; Oysters, Etc., Chas. F. Gra
ham.
Guns Palmer Bros.
Proposals- Bids Wanted for Construction of
Thomasville, Tallahassee and Monticello Hail
road.
Cheap Oolcmn AnvEßTisr.iiENTs—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
ArmoN Salk Personal and Perishable Prop
erty, by J. Mol-aiighlin & Son.
Ayoub Khan, the Afghan refugee, tntiy
yet prove to he the agent through which
the Czar will disturb the peace of Europe.
Mr. Khan appears to he at home in Russia.
District Assembly No. 4it, Knights of
Labor, of New York, lias voted that, mem
bers may contribute money to aid the Chi
cago Anarchists. This is in direct opposi
tion to Mr. Powderly’s orders, and is
another evidence of his lessening influence.
What has become of the gas well which
was to give Chattanooga a population of
100,000 within a year, and about which that
city was in such a fever of excitement a few
weeks ago? The newspapers have nothing
to say about it lately. Was their talk all gas ?
The feud between the Belt and Oldham
families, In Hardin county, Illinois, has led
to about a dozen murders, and the commu
nity is practically without the protection of
law. It looks as if Hardin county, Ken
tucky, had slipped across the river to get
out of the way of Gov. Buckner’s militia.
It is more than probable that the survey
of the extension of the Central railroad
from Carrollton, Ga., to Decatur, Ala., had
considerable to do with the collajise A>f the
alleged New York capitalists, Grovesteen
& Pell. The prospect of the Central’s bnild
ing an almost parallel line with the Rome
and Decatur railroad paralyzed the effort to
float the bonds of the latter concern.
.
The Northern papers are printing sketches
of the career of Count Eugene DeMit
kiexwioz in this country before his departure
for China, which contain statements it will
trouble him to explain satisfactorily to the
Mandarins he has brought over to investi
gate the standing of himself and his as
sociates. It is said the Russian minister had
something to do with the collection of these
facts. From all accounts DeMitkiexwiez is
a wonderfully bright and resourceful ad
venturer.
A member of the New Hampshire Senate
charges Kirk P. Pierce, a nephew of Presi
dent Pierce, with having attempted to bribe
him to make a sjiecch in favor of a railroad
bill, and an investigation is in progress.
Mr. Pierce has possibly had experience in
the Washington lobby, and thought it as
easy to buy a State Senator now as it was
to buy a Congressman in the Pacific rail
road days. He is no doubt chagrined at his
mistake.
Rhode Island, like Georgia, is having a
penitentiary investigation. Gen. Viall,
warden of the State prison, who is accused
of brutality toward convicts, demanded in
vestigation, but, not finding it what he
thought it would be, has so intimidated the
commission, appointed by the Governor, by
threats of suits for libel that several of its
members have resigned. The State should
push the investigation aad protect its
agents.
Baltimore and Ohio stock has declined
front 175 a few weeks ago to 140, and diffi
culty is experienced at selling at the latter
price. It is fearod in Baltimore that the
decline may continue, and the large income
derived by the city and Johns Hopkins Uni
versity from their holdings be serious
ly diminished. The city is prosperous und
growing and could stand the loss, hut the
usefulness of the University might be se
riously crippled.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, is about to
begin a vigorous attack on the encroach
ments of the elevated railways on the rights
of the city. Mr. Hewitt is probably as good
a Mayor as New York has over had, and the
citizens would probably cheerfully undergo
at every recurring election the turmoil and
anxiety caused by Henry George's candi
dacy, if necessary, to secure the services of
men of the high character and ability of the
present Mayor.
The Washington Republican says the
revenue reform measure which has lieen
agreed upon in conferences at Oak View, in
which it says Mr. Randall took part, pro
vides for the abolition of the tax on tobacco
and fruit brandy, a reduction of customs
duties and a large addition to the free list.
Other papers deny that Mr. Randall has
been to Oak View and that any agreement
bas been reached. The policy indicated
above, while Issttor than doing nothing, in
dicates too great concessions to the Randall
faction to be readily accepted by people
anxious for real revenue reform.
The New York Herald, whose owner has
a million dollars invested in the Commercial
Cable, indignantly denies that Mr. Markay,
who controls the company, is about to sell
out to Jay Oould. Mr. Mackay is said to
have lost several millions in the big Cali
fornia wheat ileal and to lie practically out
of ready money, though he has many mil
lions locked up in telegraph lines and other
property. If this state of affairs really
exists Mr. Bennett's million is in a pretty
ticklish position. The Herald has made
Jay Gould and his schemes the target for
Innumerable attacks, and if opportunity
offers he rnay be counted on to get even
with its owner
A Talk With tho President.
The New York World, on Wednesday,
printed a very interesting interview’ with
the President. There were three points in
it which were much more prominent than
any of the ot hers. Thu flrpt was the evident
anxiety of Mr. Pulitzer, the proprietor of.
the World, to get before the country a
statement from the President that he had
never sought to influence appointments,
and had never, except in one instance, rec
ommended an applicant for office. Doubt
less Mr. Pulitzer is bappy now, since it cun
not lie said, when he publishes something
unkind about the President, that he is hos
tile to him because the President refused to
give offices to his friends.
Another of the points was the President’s
satisfaction with the progress ho bas mode
in the matter of civil service reform. He
is confident that if he lias not placed the re
form upon a Ann basis he will do so before
the end of his term. In the course of the
interview he said that for the first year and
a half he was overrun by crowds of people
who demanded the removal of this or that
man from office on the ground that he was
a Republican, and when they were informed
that being a Republican was not a sufficient
ground for removal under the new order of
things they went away in a very unfriendly
state of mind. Now, the President said,
when a delegation asks for the removal of
an official the ground allogad is that the man
is unfit for the place he holds, and is an un
faithful public servant.
There is no doubt that the President has
brought alxmt a great change for the better
in the civil service, and he has done it at
the risk of alienating many of his strongest
and warmest supporters. Some of the poli
ticians who, during the last Presidential
campaign, were loudest in demanding a
thorough reform in the civil service, were
the first to approach the President, after his
inauguration, with a request that he would
disregard tho civil service law and break
the pledges he had mode to enforce it. The
President’s firmness in behalf of civil service
reform was the cause of all the attacks upon
him by members of his own party during
the first eighteen months of his administra
tion. That he resisted the immense pres
sure that was brought to bear upon him to
cause him to abandon civil service reform,
and, that too, when for a time it looked as
if he were about to lie left to fight the civil
service reform battle alone, convinced the
people that he was strong and honest, and
they at once gave him a firm and steady
support. With the people to lean upon he
no longer had need of the politicians; but
the politicians, finding that he had the peo
ple with him, quickly came to his support
also. He has the satisfaction of having
brought about a reform which the people
always said they wanted, but which no
other administration was able to effect.
The third point in tho interview related
toaseoond term. Mr. Cleveland, in effect,
said that he did not want to be President
longer than his present term. His ambition
is satisfied, and he has no friends he wants
to reward and no enemies he desires to pun
ish. He will accept a renomination if it is
the desire of his party that he shall, but he
will do so not because he wauts another
lease of power, but from a solemn convic
tion that he should not shrink from accepting
any of the burdens of citizenship which he
is capable of bearing when called upon to do
so. There is no reason to doubt that he is
sincere in what he says. No one knows of
any act of his which looks like seeking a re
election. He has a hold upon the people, not
because ho has eourted them, but because
he is an honest and faithful President.
The Becond Flag Incident.
Mrs. Cleveland's refusal to accept the in
vitation of the authorities of New York to
present certain flags to the firemen of that
city continues to be the subject of specula
tion and comment in New York and Wash
ington. Asa rule her course is commended,
but the New York Aldermen say that in
not inviting the President to be present at
the ceremony there was no intention to
slight him.
There is another phase of the matter
which has attracted some attention, and
which, in the opinion of some, affords the
true reason of Mrs. Cleveland’s course. It
is that Mayor Hewitt and the President are
not on the most friendly terms. It seems
that Mr. Hewitt has never been at the
White House since Mr. Cleveland has occu
pied it, although ho was in Congress for
quite a long while after Mr. Cleveland be
came President.
It is assumed by some, therefore, that the
invitation was not intended so much as a
compliment to Mi's. Cleveland as a slight to
her husband. If there is any truth in this
it will be admitted at once that there was
but one course left open to Mrs. Cleveland,
and that was the one she took.
It is probable, however, that there was
no intention on the part of anybody to slight
the President. Before the invitation was
sent to Mrs. Cleveland it was understood
that it would be accepted, and it was re
garded as only a necessary formality.
Doubtless Mrs. Cleveland expected that the
invitation would include the President, and
was surprised when she alone was asked. It
is also probable that she immediately hunt
ed for some reason for the omission to invite
the President. The fact that the ceremony
did not require his presence may never have
occurred to her as a reason why he was not
invited. Her letter of declination was so
adroitly and pleasantly written that it was
not possible to find fault with it, or with
Mrs. Cleveland for declining the invitation.
New York has narrowly escaped a great
theatre horror. Tuesday night the largest
audience ever at the Casino wus present to
witness the five hundredth performance of
Erminie, and some idiot in the gallery
screamed fire. The great crowd was instantly
on its feet, and a rush for the doors began.
Several women fainted, some people were
bruised ill the jam, and a few men exhibited
their cowardice by deserting the ladies in
their charge, and bolting headlong through
the crowd in a mad rush for safety.
A cool-headed and strong-voiced actor
finally succeeded in allaying the excitement,
for which there was no real cause. A lmv
ought to be passed sending the man to the
penitentiary who unnecessarily gives the
alarm of lire in o crowded theatre. As
everybody knows, oven ill case of Are, the
most imminent danger to the audience lies
in its own frantic efforts to escape. If
lanic could lie avoided there would rarely
be a loss of life. The theatre could be
emptied in an orderly way before the dan
ger from fire became imminent.
Not long since the Ceutral Labor Union,
of New York, suspended the Musical Protec
tive Union Ik'.auo the latter refused to
obey certain orders. The musicians avenged
themselves on Die day of the great labor
[tarode by demanding an extra t'l apiece,
and they got it—-the Central Union had to
march to their music.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1887.
Tho Mistake of a Contemporary.
The Jacksonville Times-t’nion appears to
have a very largo capacity for making miß
stetements. If these misstatements did not
appear so frequently in its columns there
would be a disposition to believe that they
were intentional, but the number of them
leaves no room for doubt that they are the
result of carelessness and indifference. In
its issue of Sept, 7, in an article entitled
“Charleston Itedivivus,” it says: “During
the year that Charleston experienced a fall
ing off of only a few hundred thousand dol
lars Savannah lost about £4,01X1,000 worth
of business as compared with the previous
year.” The reference is, of course, to the
year which closed on Aug. 31 last.
It would be interesting to know where the
Timcs-Union obtained its authority for this
statement that Savannah lost $4,000,000
worth of business last year. The fact is
that Savannah’s business was never before
so large as it was during the year that has
just closed. The number of bales of cotton
received was about 1,000 less than that of
the previous year, but the cotton crop was
smaller by over 150,000 bales. The figures,
therefore, show that the pro
portion of the crop which Sa
vannah received was greater than
that of the previous year. The significant
fact, however, cannot he overlooked that
while, owing to a shorter crop, 1,000 bales
less of upland cotton were received, the re
ceipts of sea island cotton were very much
larger. In fact, so great was the increase
in the receipts of this kind of cotton that
there is every reason to believe that in
future Savannah will lie the market for
pretty much all of the sea island cotton. Of
course, this does not afford the Times-
Union joy. It has been doing its utmost to
influence Florida planters to send their sea
island cotton to Jacksonville, but its efforts
have had no other effect apparently than to
swell the receipts at this port.
But Savannah’s increase in business last
year was not alone in sea island cotton. She
handled more lumber than in the previous
year, and her receipts of rice and naval
stores were a great deal larger. Her whole
sale trade, particularly in groceries,
amounted to many hundreds of thousands
of dollars more than in the preceding year,
although it was remarkably large in that
year.
No, Savannah is not losing any of her
business. She is increasing it, and that, too,
at a rapid rate. She has reason to expect
that her business during the present year
will be several millions of dollars larger
than it was for the year just closed. Savan
nah is so prosperous herself that she is not
jealous of the prosperity of her sister cities.
The Morning News has not been, and will
not lie, slow to make known the prosperity
of Jacksonville or any other Florida city,
and if, through lack of information, it does
any one of them au injury, it will promptly
do what it can to repair it.
The Fisheries Question.
According to our dispatches, the London
Timm wants to know whether it is too much
to expect “that the American Senate should
in some way signify before hand its willing
ness to be bound by the decisions of the
Fisheries Commission.” It certainly is, and it
is rather remarkable that the Times should
have raised such a question. There is no way
in which the Senate can indicate now what
it will do when the work of the commission
is submitted to it. In the first, place the
Senate may not approve the appointment of
a commission, as Congress has already au
thorized the President to insist upon the in
terpetration which this country places
upon existing treaties, and to retaliate if
the rights of our fishermen are denied to
them. But if it does consent to
a commission to settle the questions at,
issue, by confirming the commissioners
\whieh the President mny appoint, it cannot
divest itself of the duty, which the consti
tution imposes upon it, of passing upon the
treaty which the commission inav negotiate.
The treaty must be ratified by the Senate
before it can have any force, and the Senate
cannot say whether or not it will ratify it
before knowing what its provisions are.
The English Commissioners are authorized
to muke such a settlement of the fisheries
difficulty as seems to them to lie best, but
the American Commissioners will have no
such unlimited authority.
The Nashville American is devoting all
of its energies to securing a subscription of
$500,000 by Davidson county to the new
railroad being built from Memphis, length
wise through the State, to the Virginia line,
and known as the Tennessee Midland. A
recent issue contained a cartoon represent
ing Nashville as a vory small child in the
Claws of an immense vulture. The unclean
bird represented the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad. Yet that railroad has been
the principal factor in making Nashville a
large city. The American's course illus
trates what has often been observed—that,
with certain people, nothing good enough
can be said of a railroad uliout to lie built
and nothing laid enough about one already in
existence.
Mrs. Ada C. Bittenbender has been nomi
nated by the Prohibition party as a candi
date for Supreme Court Judge of Nebraska,
and is making an active canvass. She is a
married woman, young, and was admitted
to the liar only four or five years ago. It
is difficult to take seriously a |ilitieal party
which makes such a nomination ns this.
Leaving out the question of sex, it is im
possible that t n lawyer with so little experi
ence can be possessed of the great fund of
knowledge necessary to the projicr discharge
of the dutios of a judgo of a reviewing
court.
An Ainericus guano company has named
oue of its brands of guano “John David
son," after the President of the Senate,
whose casting vote defeated tha Brady bill.
Mr. Davitlson is a level-headedman, and in
the Brady case displayed considerable nerve
for an old politician who is ambitious to
“go up lugher.” He is on the right track
to future honors. He is a bachelor, and
probably the handsomest mau of his age in
Georgia.
A man named John Grundy was found
dead in a dirty garret in Philadelphia a
day or two ago, amid the most horrible sur
roundings. He had sup|>orted a miserable
existence for a long time as a rag-picker.
Thirty years ago this same man was nil in
fluential politician, was for several terms
au Alderman of the city, und a Police Jus
tice. His wretched end is but another
warning of the perils of drink.
A clergymen's meeting has beeu held in
Helmswofth iu favor of early interment, in
plain earth, in the simplest |M*nibl coffin,
instead of falsely so-called burial in vaults
and crowded graves, simplicity and econo
my in place of ostentatious display; Chris {
tinn simplicity instead of pagan and due I
reverence at the burial of the very poor, I
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Tariff Must be Reduced.
From the New York Herald (Ind.)
It is clear that there is no other duty so seri
ous as this in sight. The country is Ijehind the
men who have the courage of their convictions
on this subject, and that party will hold the
White House which works for the best interests
of the American people.
The Way to Disarm Labor Parties.
Prom, the New York World ( Dem.)
The way for either or both of the old parties
in any State to make the labor movement non
formidable is to make it unnecessary. And this
can be done by correcting the remediable evils
and righting the curable wrongs which give to
the movement whatever strength it has.
Tho Fisheries Commission.
Prom the Springfiehl Republican {lnd.)
A joint commission is an excellent medium
through which to arrive at an agreement, if it
cannot be reached through distant ministers.
It is far wiser than a resort to retaliatory meas
ures on the part of the ijnited Slates toward
Canada, the outcome of which cannot lie fore
seen. Let us hojie that success will attend this
effort to settle a vexatious question in a friendly
way.
Virginia’s Trading Politics.
Prom the New York Times (Rep.)
if the Virginia Democrats still look for “har
mony" in the party by means of "truck and
dicker" iu official patronage, which is only a
form of corruption, a nd by means of concessions
of principle, then it will he well for the party
that they shall be disappointed. The miserable,
mercenary game t hat has been played in Vir
ginia by both parties has been a curse to the
country.
BRIGHT BITS.
Now is tte time when the managers of
fall fairs fall foul of each other.— Philadelphia
News.
The day of miracles i4 past, but in this coun
try the younger brother may become the elder
by simply entering the ministry.— Exchange.
Mr. Howells calls himself “we” in his contri
butions to Harper's Magazine. This does not
alter the fact that Mr. Hotvells is a very singu
lar individual.— Chicago Tribune.
When a young man sits in the parlor talking
nonsense to his best girl—that's capital. But
when he has to stay in of evenings after they’re
married—that’s labor.— Chicago Merchant Trav
eler.
' ‘Then you don’t like hash ?’ ’ said the landl idy
sternly.
"I don’t object to hash,” exclaimed the
boarder? “It's rehash I kick at."— Philadelphia
News.
On Deck Again.—
The minstrel shows on deck again
And the end men are a chaining,
And the jokes that tickled old Adam and Eve
Again set the audience a laughing.
“Stay, jailer, stay; I am not mad," com
menced the amateur elocutionist to an audience
of which Mr. Griggins was one.
“No, B’gosb, ye ain’t got no cause to be.
Us fellers out here is the ones."— Washington
Critic.
“Ur,i a writer for an undertaker's journal,"
sai l Graves, when asked his occupation.
“Do you ever have any of your contributions
rejected?" asked his friend.
"Ob, yes," was the ready response; “but when
they are returned as being too gloomy 1 remail
them to a comic paper and they are accepted
willi thanks."— Drake's Travelers' Magazine.
Person, just back from England—Here, boy:
come and hoid me haws.
Boy—Does he kick?
Pupson—Kick! naw.
Boy—Does he bite?
Pupson Bite' naw. Catch hold of him.
Boy —Does it take two to hold him?
Pupson—Naw.
Boy Then hold him yourself.— Burlington
Free Press.
Bad Boys Beware.—
The spectacled school ma’ams are home from
the beach
And the mountains, the good boys and the bail
hoys to teach
Addition, subtraction and mu'tiplication,
Aud the turbulent hoys misbehave at their peril.
For they find flnt their teachers can manage
the ferrule
With a vigor inennsed by the summer vacation.
When fair September, rich in wines,
Puts blushes on the apple’s cheek,
And drives indoor the ice-cream signs,
And makes the cider presses creak,
And paints ih S wood in (laming red,
And by a slow and devious track.
The happy granger sends to bed.
Ilis soul o'erflf wa with applejack.
Then gayly comes that jolly royster—
The merry, blithe and boneless oyster.
American Tourist—Oh, yes, oui oui, I visited
Paree, of course.
(•rest Traveler—Did you see the Alps?
“Veil, no,"
"There is a remarkable echo in the High Alps.
Itisonthe Italian side, no matter what lan
guage you shout the echo always comes back
witluan Italian aecnt.”
“Eh? Is net not wonderful?”
"Well, scientist* agree that it is no more won
derful than t lie fact that Americans who have
been iti Pal is a week always entne back with a
French accent."— Omaha Worll.
PERSONAL.
Dr McGlynn’s health continues excellent and
be now says he will wiu his fight against the
Church of Rome.
Rev. Joe A. Munday, the Georgia revivalist,
began life ns a circus rider, and was converted
while following his profession in a little town in
Georgia.
Pope Leo presented his niece, Maria Pecci,
with an elegant trousseau. The Pontiff chose
the materials and the famous Parisian eoutu-
Here constructed the costumes.
It is reported on good authority that Victoria
M<irosini-Schii 1 ing- Hu iskainp is now in a con
vent in Italy, where she will remain for some
years, “the world forgetting, and by the world
forgot.”
Chief Colorow. of the Utes, is about 70 years
old, some 5 feet Slnches in height, and weighs
about 225 pounds. He ts so deaf that it is neces
sary to shout in talking to him in order to make
him hear.
Millard Fillmore Tompkins, grandson of
Millard Fillmore, once President of the United
Slates, lives in New York. He is proprietor of
many retail grocery stores and is reputed to be
worth at least $500,000.
John Kino. President of the Erie railway, said
in regard to the Baltimore and Ohio transfer:
“I am not interested iu it all. You can say for
me that, as far as lam concerned, I shall re
main with the Erie road.”
“Congressman Boi-rkk Cochran,” says the
New York Sun, “is growing fatter through con
stant happiness. He has all the money he
wants, a lovely wife, political success, youth,
anil a growing law practice. It is hard to see
what more a man can want.”
Mmk. Patti has declined the “professorship
of vocal music” in the Imperial Conservatoire
of St Petersburg, recently offered to her bv the
Czar. For the present she will remain in Paris,
where she has built a private theatre next to
her house, and where she will do all her practice
work this fall.
Charles Dickens. Jr., who is to lecture in
this country, is about as unlike what the public
would expect in a son of Boz as a parlor match
is unlike u comet. His round face and rather
feeble cast of features arc scarcely redeemed by
a large pair of spectacles, and In fiis delivery he
has neither physical uor dramatic power.
Robert Bonner recently presented Jockey
Murphy with the roan gelding Keene Jim, rec
ord 2:19, aud added jokingly: “I don’t care for
horses that can’t go a quarter better than .13
seconds.” Murphy got up behind the horse,
which is valued at Jti.soo, aud sent him n quarter
of a mile in 32 seconds. Keene Jim has been
driven in 2:10.
Col. Inokrsoll is an enthusiastic lover of
home racing, anil was a regular attendant at the
Saratoga course up to the last day of the meet
ing. Somebody asked him to spend the morn
ing lit the lake. “Can't do it,” lie replied.
“Must go to the races, where I shall endeavor to
win enough to pay my board bill. If I have had
luck to day aud to-morrow, the lasl day of the
races. 1 fear I shall have to remain in Saratoga
nil winter.”
There is a theory held by some people in
Chicago that "Uoodler” McGarigle left for
Canada with his wife only a few days ago.
They claim that the man who was taken for
McOarigie in Canada and who escaped from
Chicago on a steamboat was "made up” to rep
resent tile famous boodler und put trie deice
fives off the truck. The real McGarigle, they
say, has been secreted In Chicago for weeks.
There are certainly some very strong argu
incuts advanced In favor of these assertions.
Miss Lyles, of Mobile, was the heroine of the
steamship Knk'kerliocker, which encountered a
hurrtcanee during Mm recent voyage to New
Orleans Khe was placed aboard the ship at
New York by her father aud was traveling
alone. While the storm was at Its height ana
the waters were washing over the snip she
remained calm and hopeful, encouraging tile
women bv her example and doing 11111141 to (we
vent a panic ller heroism has received Um
highest priow in New (trieaiui from ail who
were a *ourd the KuiukorbouJtar.
Beauty and Utility Combined.
f\vm the Philadelphia Call.
A Philadelphia man and his Boston friend
were sitting in a restaurant, and the Boston man
said: '‘You people have considerable artistic
taste.” “As now?” asked the Quaker, between
bites. "Hera, for instance." said his friend.
“Look at that doorway, heaped up with (lowers
and trailing vines, giving such a fresh and pas
toral air to the room. I declare, it is thoroughly
artistic.” “It is very useful,” said the Philadel
phia man. “Useful?” “Ys. useful. You will
observe that the cashier's desk is near the door
not artistically decorated. You will also ob
serve that it is impossible to make an exit
through the artistic doorway—at least, without
attracting attention —consequently they cannot
slide out without paving Alas, for human na
ture! That is the reason for the art istie decora
tion.” The Boston man heaved a mighty sigh
of regret and ate bis steak in silence.
A Device for Steering Balloons.
Paris Dispatch to the London Standard.
It is announced that Oapt. Renard. Chief of
the Military Balloon Service at the camp of
Chalons, has Invented a mechanism for lialfoon
steering and propelling. The balloon made by
him two years ago could not make headway
against a current of the velocity of more than
five metres a second, that is to say, against a
light wind. It is affirmed that with his inven
tion the balloon will be able to resist a current
of double the strength. If it is true, it is a step
forward which may render balloons really use
ful in times of war. Cajvt Renard is so confi
dent of the success of his new propelling mech
anism that, in order to prevent the secret being
discovered, he is having each piece of the ma
chine made in a different establishment and in
various parts of France. When they are all
finished they will be sent to him, and he himself
will put them together. It is said that the ma
chine will be completed by about the end of
next month, when the invention will be put to a
test without delay.
A Woman Who Steals Children.
Boston Special to the Philadelphia Press.
A rare case of emotional kleptomania is ex
citing the scientists of this city. The culprit,
patient or victim, whichever she deserves to be
called, is Minnie Nelson, whose age is put down
in the police record as 112. She is a fine-looking
woman, whose strange mentatcondition results
entirely from‘excessive use of liquor. She was
a rest and r c intly for ki Inaping the 1- ear-old
daughter of Mrs. Donovan, of No. 40u < ~cries
street. The singular part of her mania is that
she never thinks of stealing a child when she is
sober. At such times any mother is perfectly
safe in letting her children run around where
Miss Nelson is. without the slightest fear. At
sueh moments she could even be trusted in an
orphan asylum without an attendant being
present. But when she is in her cups a close
watch is necessary over stray children. Ragged
or richly dressed, pretty or homely, tidv or
soiled, all children are alike to her under these
circumstance*. The cause of this remarkable
mania is a puzzle to the physicians, and she will,
doubtless, be placed in custody soon and closely
watched to see if it is possible to solve the mys
tery.
Prayed Out of Bed.
Chattanooga Special to the New York Herald.
A most remarkable ease of "faith cure” took
place here last night.
Mrs. W. K. Jordan, wife of a well known min
ister of this city, who had been confined to her
bed for a year and a half with “heart disease”
and a complication of other troubles, was thor
oughly “cured.”
An emissary of "Christian science,” from Bos
ton, arrived in this c ty Saturday, and a service
of prayer was held at the bedside of the sick
woman that night.
Tiie service lasted two hours, when, to the
astonishment of all present, Mrs. Jordan arose
from her bed unaided, dressed herself and start
ed out into the street.
She walked ten squares before returning
borne.
Yesterday morning she arose from her bed,
and, after partaking of a hearty breakfast, went
to church for the first time in two years.
When she mitered the church her most inti
mate friends could not believe their own eyes,
although they saw her.
The affair ha - created a decided sensation in
the city. .and her husband, who is wild with de
light, fays there is no use questioning the “faith
cure in the future.
Ballad© of Auoassm.
Suggested by a ballade of "The Fair White
Feet of Nicolette.”
Where smpoth the Southern waters run
Through sighing reeds and poplars gray,
Beneath a veiled soft .Southern sun,
We wandered out of yesterday;
Went Maying through that ancient May
Whose fallen flowers are fragrant yet.
And lingered bv the fountain spray
With Aucassin and Nicolette.
The grassgrown paths are trpd of none
Where through the woods they went astray;
The spider's traceries are spun
Across the darkling forest way:
There come no Knights that ride to slay,
No Pilgrims through the grasses wet.
No shepherd lads that sang their say
With Aucassin and'Nicolette,
'Twas here that Nicolete begun
To build her lodge of blossoms gay;
Scaped from the cell of marble dun
T was here the lover found the Fay;
O lovers fond, O foolish play!
How hard we find it to forget,
Who fain wonld dwell with them, as they
With Aucassin and Nicolette.
ENVOI.
Prince, 'tisa melancholy lay!
For Youth, for Life we both regret:
How fair they seem; how far away.
With Aucassin and Nicolette.
—A ndreut Lang, in the Critic.
Differences in Social Customs.
From the London Life.
Europeans uncover the head as a token of re
spect or reverence; Orientals never uncover it,
anil the Turkish Ambassador is allowed to re
tain his fez even in the presence of her majesty.
In church all men's heads are bore; in the syna
gogue it is considered wrong to remove the bat.
In China to uncover the head is a mark of dis
res]>ect. To salute with the left hand is a deadly
insult to Mohummedans in the East, and for this
reason the native commissioned officers of our
Indian army In giving the military salute con
fined it to the sword held in the right hand with
out at the same time raising the left hand to the
forehead, as in the ordinary English salute.
Unlike our women, who, when they go
out, adorn themselves most, carefully,
Thibetan women, when leaving their houses,
smear their fae< s over with a dark, sticky
substance; it is said that they do so in compli
ance with a law made by a certain laina, King
Nomekhan, in order to protect their morals by
making them look ugly when in public. The
Thibetansalso put out the tongue as a sign of
respectful salutation, and In similar contradic
tion to our own customs the Malays, Fijians,
Tongans and many other Polynesians always sit
down when speaking to a superior. At Nata
vulu it is reapectful to turn one's back toward a
superior, especially when addressing him. and
among the Wahuina. in Congo and in Central
Africa, the same custom prevails. The Todas
of the Neilgherry hills show respect by raising
the open right hand to the face and resting the
thumb on the bridge of the nose. By way of
compliment the peopje of Yddfih shake the
clenched fist; the inhabitants of the White Nile
and Asbontee spit ou those they delight to hon
or, and some of the Esquimaux pull noses.
Some of Oscar Wilde’s Yarns.
Mrs. L. C. Moulton in the Boston Herald.
He told two the other day illustrative of the
disadvantages of the houses in a block being
too much alike. A mail was asked to dinner,
and he went to the house next door to the one
where he bad been bidden. His name was an
nounced. and his host stepped forward to wel
come him. As it chanced, the guest knew the
wife and not the husband. “I am so very sor
ry," said the host, “that my wife is too ill to
come down stairs. But we must get on ns well
as we can without her.” Still thinking he was
in the right place, the guest stayed on, took a
pretty girl into dinner, and had a charming
evening. Two days afterward he met the lady
who was to have him, anil she as
sailed him with reproaches for spoiling the sym
metry of her dinner table, and It came out that
he had inadvertantly dined next door.
The other tale was of a curious looking old
couple, who went to an evening party. They
knew no one, and seamed desivrately out of
place. When the last guests were gone, the
husband said to thd wife: "Queer old codgers
(hose two friends of yours." ‘Of mine! Why,
they were your friends, surely. I never saw
them before." “Well, lam sure I never did!”
and inquiry elicited the fact there was a ser
vant's ball next d<sr, and that'the old couple
hail meant to go there, and had lieen us uncom
fortable as possible at not finding any of their
acquaintances
When Mr. Wilde told thesestoriesthey sounded
true, but now I're written them down. I really
don't think they do. However, “I tell the tale'’
as I heard it told! and also I tell you aunt her
one, widely current in London, that a certain
duchess invited one of the cowboys of the
Auiertcun exhibition to dine and he arrived at
tiie ap|H>lnted time with his wife and baby H
said there was no one to Waive the baby with, so
he had to bring him. The baby was confided to
tie-ducal nursery, and the 4‘nner was nrroil
It's the fashion to tell this story, so you may ss
well ts-lleve it,
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When cramped you bavs no time to egperi ■
incut. Van warn relief. If powible, at oaim
Tell your druggist you want Fred Brown’s !
OUiger tie- genuine. Philadelphia. 1122. i
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The architectural aspect of Berlin is mate
rially changing. Last year no less than
469 buildings were demolished, four times as
many as were ever before dismantled In any one
year.
fcoME hundreds of railroad cars, almost wholly
o* teel and iron, are being built in England for
Hindostan. in the expectation (hit they will
prove less perishable in that climate than cars
of wood.
An interesting addition to the population of
Calaveras county. Cal., is promised, in the shape
of a colony’ of Japanese farmers. Land has
been bought for them near Valley Springs, and
two pioneer members of the colony are already
at work ou it.
Tiie New York hotels are generally comply
ing with the law relative to ropes and fire es
capes, the Mayor being determined upon its
vigorous enforcement. Hotels of ordinary size
can be fitted up according to the requirements
at an expense of about SSOO each.
Tiie following, called a railroad problem, is
going the rounds: A freight train one mile In
length stopped with the caboose just opposite
the depot. The conductor got orders to move
his tram to the next station, which was just five
miles distant. He gave the ongiueer the order
to move, which the latter did while the con
ductor walked over head on top of the cars and
got there just as the engine arrived at the next
station, where he got off The question is, how
far did he walk; or, as he was walking during
the entire five miles, did he ride at all?
One of the simplest and at the same time one
of the most efficient of barometers is a spider's
web. When there is a prospect of rain or wind
the spider shortens the filaments from which its
web is sus]>ended and leaves things in this state
as long as the weather is variable. If the insect
elongates its thread it is a sign of fine, calm,
weather, the duration of which may lie judged
of by the length to which the threads are let
out. It the spider remains inactive it is a sign
of rain, but ir, ou the contrary, it keeps at work
during a rain the latter will not last long and
will lie followed by fine weather. Other observa
tions have taught that the spider makes chauges
in its web every twenty-four hours, and that if
such changes are made in the evening, just
before sunset, the night will be clear and beau
tiful.
Op the objects displayed at the exhibition re
cently held at Hanoi for Tong-king is already
sufficiently “in the movement,” as the French
say, to have had a little World s Fair of its own
—none took the fancy of the natives so much as
an immense case of corsets of the most modern
and most approved shapes and shades. Black
and white, red and yellow, lavender and gray—
every tint was represented, and every material
and style as well. The “Jeanne d'Arc," the
“Parissen,” the “Indispensable,” the “Seduis
ant,” the “Culrasse,”'the “Tonkinois,” were
voted one more bewitching than another by the
Tonkinese ladies, who eagerly nought up the en
tire stock. They scout the notion of hiding the
treasured acquisitions which they contemplate
with so much pride themselves, and the corset
is worn for the time being as the outward cov
ering of the body by all the ladies of fashion in
that part of the world.
A vessel has just lieen launched at the Im
perial dockyard at Wilhelmshaven which marks
anew departure in German naval architecture.
It is the cruiser Swallow, whose dimensions are,
length 62 metres, breadth 9.36 metres, and depth
5.60 metres, the tonnage being 1.300 tons. The
Swallow is a composite ship, w ith twin engines
of i,500 horse power, driving two screws, which
give a speed of 13J4 knots. The vessel is armed
with eight long lOjjjj centimetre Krapp guns, for
firing in the direction of the keel, the rest being
revolving cannon. The crew numbers 120. The
vessel is not, of course, intended to take its
•place side by side with armored vessels in the
contingency of a naval war, but will be em
ployed on foreign service, especially in cruising
about the coasts of African colonies. Scarcely
ten months intervened between the laying of the
keel and the launch of the ship.
Felix Reqamy, a French artist, well known in
Boston but now living in Paris, has made the
very interesting discovery that the family of a
plaster moulder, by the name of Hubard, has in
its possession a bronze copy, full size, of the
marble statue of Washington by Iloudon. and
that it can lie bought for ?H,nOC. In a communi
cation to the Paris Figaro, M. Regamy alludes
to a proposition made in this country soon after
the erection of the Liberty statue in
New York harbor, that the Americans
should take up subscriptions in the
larger cities for the purpose of present
ing to France a statue of one of our eminent
men, by an American sculptor, as a recognition
of tue gift of Liberty. In place of this, he sug
gests that a hint tie made to the government of
the United States that it should buy the bronze
Houdoii and give it to the Gallery of the Louvre.
The Welsh newspapers contain reports of an
exciting incident in connection with the annual
regatta at Newport, Pembrokeshire. During the
progress of the regatta the sea became rough
and several of the boats had very narrow es
capes. Excitement was caused among the mul
titude on shore w-hen it was discovered that the
barge bearing the officers and committee was in
peril, The vessel had been carried into the hay
and seas were breaking over it. There were
twenty persons aboard, including three children
and two injured men. The excitement among
the Crowds on the beach was intensified when
the telescope revealed that those on board the
craft were absolutely helpless, having neither
oars, m ists, nor sails. In a few minutes the
Clevedon life-boat was luunc.hed.and the persons
in peril were rescued with great difficulty.
Hardly had the last person leaped into the life
boat than the barge filled with water and sank.
Tumultuous cheering was raised by the crowds
as the life-boat returned.
A small steam yacht has just been con
structed at Yonkers, N. Y., the diS gners and
owners of which expect with her to beat the
famous Stiletto. The new boat is 30 feet long,
with 4 feet beam. The draught is very light,
being 5 inches forward and 22 inches aft. She
has no skeg or stern post. Her keel curves from
the stem to her extreme overhang at the stern.
She is built of oak, the surface being made very
smooth. On the keel is a casting very in
geniously formed to hold the shaft, which makes
a close connection with the engine. Her wheel
is of phosphor-bronze. 16 inches In diameter,
with 2Lj feet pitch, and having two flanges. The
rudder is of brass, supported from tl e top of
the stern, and is described as working like a
flsbs's tail. The engine is compact and light. It
is the boiler on which much of the success of
the experiment is supposed to depend. Inside
of it is a coil of double copiier tubing, one tube
being placed within another. In the smaller or
central tube petroleum is placed, and in the
outer tube water. A small fire beats the coil,
producing vapor from the oil and steam from
the water. This vapor and steam produce an
intense heat. The whole is tightly sealed up,
and no oxygen is drawn from the atmosphere.
This, it is claimed, is the great secret of the ex
periment.
A writer in the Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung
describes an interesting episode in the life of
Col. Sudeikin, the St. Petersburg Chief of Police,
whose assassins were but recently sentenced to
death. “On a Saturday in the first weeks of the
year 188:!,'' he writes, “ ‘La Perichole' was per
formed in the Demidoff Theatre at Moscow-. I
had a sent in the first row, directly behind the
orchestra, and next to me sat a police i ifflcer
who seemed to know everybody. It was Col
Sudeikin, a handsome young man of elegant
appearance, whose faultless military dress was
very liecoming to him. A singer had just
finished the famous romanza of the let
ter when a flame was seen to shoot up
between the wings on the left side
‘Fire!' I called to the police officer. ‘We
are lost, sitting as we do behind the orchestra,
far from the exits, in this wooden structure.’
'Don’t liudge,’ he called, drawing a revolver
with one hand and violently pressing my arm
with the other, simultaneously jumping upon
his seat. Mer.aring the crowd with his weapon
be called ill a voice of thunder: 'ln the name of
the Emperor, let everybody remain In his seat"
And now I witnessed a most remarkable scene
On the one side there was a stage wrapped in
flame aiul smoke, on the other an immovable
mass of people, chained to the ground by the
word of a single man who had invoked the
magic of the imperial name. All this had oc
curred with the rapidity of lightning, for that
courageous and cool-blooded man knew well
how precious evei y moment was. • (inrodovoi
hi- called to the policeman guarding the doors
•assist the audience out!' Then, one after the
other, those whom the Oarixbiihii touched with
the fingers, rose and left. Boxes anil rows of
seats were emptied almost noiselessly Behind
us, who stood with our hacks to the stage mu
sicians aud actors had long ago fled nd above
us the ceiling was burning I was seized with a
desire to flee, hut as a Frenchman I did not
want to show less courage than th- Russian is.
bee officer, and I was, moreover, convinced
that, had I made the attempt to save myself
he would haie shot me down a he would' have
sh<S any one else a surmise the oorreel ness of
which I learned from him the next morning
W lien we finally reached the door the theiitm
laid been emptied so quietly that it was posslide
ev#u to remove coats and furs from the cl.uik
room Into the open air. At the moment of our
leaving the officer preceded me, saving' 'Asa
stranger you may have the honor of having
iwwu the last to leave the building.* in.' wlioi.
isauirreiue. which to l|e seemed endless, iuid
iasled lonely ten minutes A qiisrter of an
hour later the flumes had completely devoured
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137 BROUGHTON STREET,
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
VVTE will close out the remainder of our stock
VV of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12j$c.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, S3 inches wide, regu
lar price 12}4c. a yard; now B^e.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now 6j^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 1214 c.
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price 12J4e. a yard; now 10c.
36 Import’ll 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 12Wjc.; now 9c. a pair.
A mixed lot Yf Misses' Fine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain add Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods froffl 25c. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladles' Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 86c.; now 19c. each.
35 dozen Ladies' extra 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.
Oar $1 Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
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