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4 C|fiH(rnung'Hftos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1887. R*gisiei'ed at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in rbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 85 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 far six months and STO 00 for one year. The Morning News, bu mail, one month, fl 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issued, three months, s'j 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $i 00. The Morning News. Tri-weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Tbure* days and Saturdays, three months. $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Svnday News, py mail , one year. The Weekly Sews, try mail , one year. $! 7*. Subscriptions payable* in advance. Remit by postal order, cbeoV or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on tile and ad vert isi njr rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri dan Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, via.' 1 Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—PeKalb Lodge No. !), I. O. 0. F.; Southern Mutual Loan Association: Calanthe Ixxlge No. 28. K. P.: St. Patrick s T. A. B. So ciety: German Friendly Society. Special Notices —Oysters, Chas. F. Graham: Bananas, Potatoes. Etc . .1. S. Collins .t Cos.: As to Crews of Spanish Steamship Buenaventura and British Steamship Wimbledon. SteamshipSchedules—Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos.; General Transatlan tic Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements -HelpWanled Railroad Schedules —Savannah and Tybee Railway: Savannah, Florida and Western Rail way. Apction Sale— Furniture. Etc., by I. P. Laßncbe's Sons. Furniture. Etc —A. J. Miller & Cos. Hebrew New Year Cards, Etc.—L. &B. S. M. H. It is reported at Washington that Mr. Randall and his followers have determined to prevent the election of Mr. Carlisle as speaker, unless they are given a guarantee of the committee places they want. It is safe to say Mr. Carlisle does not want the office on such terms. The lat -st suggestion in New York of names for the Republican Presidential tick, t is Lincoln and Grant. The nomination of these men would be an open confession that the Republican party has ended its mission, and can now only appeal to the recollection of its past deeds. It would tie an appeal to the sentiment and not to the intelligence of the people. It is said Jay Gould virtually acknowl edges that the Western Union is about to absorb the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph lines. Even,- transaction of this lort will Strengthen the detnand for a government, instead of a private, monopoly of the tele graph business, and when the government buys Gould out it will hardly pay for the water in his stock. Sheriff Grant, of New York, who is one of the Tammany sachems, denies that the society has made any “arrangement” with President Cleveland, or that, to his knowl edge, it is more friendly to him than in 1884. Tammany will support him, how ever. Its members are good Democrats, and, like other men, would rather be on the winning side. The Socialists are showing that they are conscious of one of the weakest points of their political position—their foreign origin. At their meeting in New York a few days since the chairman refused to allow a tweaker to use the Gorman language, saying that English was what was wanted in this country. But Socialism in English is as un- American as in any other language. The Civil Service Commission is revising its rule*, and will probably extend the limit of age at which apiiointnieuts tnav be made. The rule requiring that all appointments in the classified service shall be ma le of per sons under the age of 45 lias heretofore im posed a disability on most men who served in the Confederate army, so that though an ex-Confederate could legally lie elected President he could not be appointed to a S6OO clerkship in one of the departments. Mrs. Frank Leslie was one of the City of Romo’s many passengers, and she had hard ly got ashore before she began to tell the re jiorters about her love passages with Prince This and Count That. Mrs. Leslie won great deal of admiration by the business talent she displayed in rescuing the estate of her late husliand from bankruptcy, but she seems to have effectually gotten rid of her womanly modesty in the process. She is paying a high price for the advertisement sh e is getting. Mr. Blaine is reported to have said to one of his entertainers at Frankfort who had in troduced him to the company as the noxt President of the United states, “I have no idea of allowing my name to be used. lam not seeking-the Presidency, nor would I ac cept it as a gift.” Perhaps the result of the Homburg consultations was the conclusion that Mr. Blaine could not get the Presi dency if he tried, and he prefers that some one else should be sacrificed in the useless attempt to beat Cleveland. He knows the bitterness of defeat. A Washington correspondent,in discussing the expected elevation of ex-Gov. Pattison,of Pennsylvania, to a place in the Cabinet to succeed Secretary Lunar, sneaks of him as the luckiiost Democrat, next to Cleveland, in the United States, and refers to the fact that, though a Democrat in a Republican city and State, he has served ten years as Comptroller and Governor, at a Ralary of 110,000 per annum. To ascribe Mr. Patti son’s success to luck is hardly fair. His career is only another exemplification of a fact often illustrated in our politics, us it is every day in private life, that high charac ter is worth more than brilliant talent. And in the people’* appreciation of this fact lies the safety of our institutions. It is Baid many of Mr. Carlisle's friends are warning him that if he does not promise that in his appointments Mr. Randall shall bo relegated to the foot of unimportant committees they will not support him for the Speakership. It is charged that Mr. Randall,when Speaker, adopted this course toward Cox and Morrison, with much lees reason. This remedy for Randall’s opposi tion to the policy of his party niav bo con sidered too radical by many Democrat*, who remember bis Horvioes in his better diy, but be should not be permitted to bring the purty into contempt by paral.va in* it* (tower to deal with the greatent governmental problem which it, 1* it* duty 8o solve—the Inurmue of taxation. Enlarging the Sta f e Supreme Court. The Judiciary Committee of the House has agreed to report favorably a bill in creasing the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to five. The action of j the committee was wise, and the j bill should be promptly passed, j The Judges of the Supreme I Court of Georgia have long had more to do ■ than they could do well. A year or two i ago a statistical comparison was printed, giving the number of cases appealed to the courts of review of the different States, and though in Georgia the number did not equal those in the more populous and richer States, yet, on account of the small number of judges, the amount of work allotted to each of them was greater than that of a member of any other court of like charac ter in the country. This state of affairs should not be allowed ti continue. The evils which have resulted from it are well known to those so unfortu nate os to have been involved in litigation. Delay in the final decision of cases has been a long recognized hardship. The fact that Gie decisions cf the Supreme Court of this State do not rank high in the literature of the legal profession is, perhaps, due to the fact that the court does not have the time to weigh its decisions as it ought to. Judges, like men of other professions, can not do their best work when they are under a constant pressure. If the bill increasing the number of judges shall become a law, the next move ment toward giving the court the standing it ought to have in public opinion will be toward increasing the salaries to a sunt which will draw the best legal talent of the State to tho bench. It is not to Georgia’s credit nor interest that the judges of her highest court shall be overworked and un derpaid. Dr. Freire’s Inoculation Theory. The paper of Dr. Domingo Freire, of Rio Janeiro, on “vaccination with attenuated culture of the microbe of yellow fever,” read at the Medical Congress in Washing ton, appears to have commanded very con siderable attention from that body. Dr. Freire has maintained for several years that inoculation offered protection against yel - low fever, and he has advocated it so earn estly that he has made many converts. The Medical Congress evidently thought that there was something in the inoculation theory, and the resolutions it adopted showed that it thought the theory should be thoroughly tested. There was a bill before the last Congress, making an appropriation for a commission to visit Rio Janeiro, an 1 report upon the results of Dr. Freire’s experiments. The bill seemed to meet with much favor, but for some unexplained reason it failed to become a law. Probably it was not pressed vigorously enough, and failed for want of time to consider it, as thousands of others failed. Dr. Freire is a physician of high stand ing in Rio Janeiro, and there is no doubt that he believes that ho has made a very important discovery. Hu published a state meat a few mouths ago in which it was shown that not more than one in a hundred of those treated by him, and subsequently exposed to yellow fever, was attacked by the disease, and it was the belief of those who watched the experiments that those who were attacked had not been properly inoculated. The recommendation of the Medical Con gress should be acted upon at the earliest possible moment. Yellow fever is more dreaded in the southern part of this country than cholera Anything, therefore, which promises to rob it of its terrors ought to be carefully inquired into. Statisticim Dodge's Chance for No toriety. It begins to look as if Statistician Dodge, of the Agricultural Department, would come out ahead of the Kentuckians after all. It will be remembered that a commit tee of them went to the Agricultural De partment and bulldozed him and the Com missioner of Agriculture into publishing a statement that the department’s estimates of the tobacco crop were altogether too high. Mr. Dodge didn’t want to admit that his es timates were wrong, but ho was pressed so hard and the facts appeared to be so much against him that he finally signed a com munication to the public that made the Louisville tobacco dealers happy. Since Mr. Dodge published-bis explana tion there have been much needed rains in the tobncco growing regiou. and the reports which have been received concerning the prospects of the crop within the last few days ht the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue are to the effect that the yield will surpass the estimates in Mr. Dodge's original report. The thing for Mr. Dodge to do now is to require the committee of Louisville dealers to announce that he was right. If Mr. Dodge doesn’t insist upon something of the kind he will not do justice to himself. There is no doubt, if the latest rejjorts are correct, that his original estimates were not far out of the way. They were made before the drought came. The Louisville dealers, in making their estimates, tools into considera tion the drought, but the rains have re paired much of the damage which it caused: McOarigle, the convicted Chicago boodler yrho so cleverly deceived tho Sheriff and es caped to Canada, is not lieing jiermitted to enjoy the rewards of his rascality in peace. He has been indicted by the grand jury at Montreal for conspiracy to damage the rep utation of James Baxter. The acts com plained of were performed about seven yeurs ago, when Mcliarigle was chief of police of Chicago. It is understood that the Illinois authorities have instigated the Montreal prosecution in the hope of compelling tho fugitive to return across the line. The law officers have exhibited a praiseworthy zeal and activity in bringing to punishment all tho official thieves who have plundered Cook county, and it is hoped their efforts in this case may not prove fruitless. In tho Catholic University at Washing ton, tocost eventually $8,000,000, the Catho liccburoh is establishing an institution which will in time doubtless rival Harvard, Yale and Princeton. It will, perha[)s, bo more distinctly sectarian than they, but. perhaps, not less useful for thnt reason. With such a largo and rapidly growing constituency to support it, it cannot fail, when once fully under way, to be a great power in assisting to mold the character and broaden tho cul ture of the men of the country. The City of Rome arrived at New York Friday from Liverpool with nearly a thous and cabin passengers on lioard, after a very rough voyage, Some of those days a thousand or two of the gay butterflim thai flutter over to ICurope every summer will get a ducking in the Atlantic, and tiien, per haps, those who are left will bo<pn to look up the beautiful places of their own iwustsrr. TIIE MORNING NEWS: .MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1887. Powderly Pleading for Peace. It is reported front New York that Gen eral Master Workman Powderly, recog nizing the danger in which he stands, is strenuously endeavoring to placate his ene mies before the meeting of the Minneaoolis convention. If he does not succeed there is danger that contending factions may wreck the great order over which he presides, and justify the gloomy views expressed by John Swinton in an article reprinted a few days since in the Morning News. The idea on which Mr. Powderlv's order was founded was one which stirre l the im agination. The promise that each indi vidual worker, however humble, should have at immediate call the aid of millions of brethren in defense of his smallest right was a fascinating appeal to that lust for power inherent in all men, and to the re sentment felt for real oppression. The history of the order, however, has made plainer l month after month, that its founders undertook more than they could accomplish. Strike after strike has failed, and attempts to coerce rival labor organi zations have proved useless. Trade unions, based on narrower, but more practical ideas, are proving themselves stronger, and unless a great change is made in tho man agement of the Kuights of Labor the rapid loss of membership will continue. A movement is announced from Phila delphia among tho railroad men which threatens to make great inroads upon the order. The employes of the Pennsylvania railroad, now Knights of Lalxir, have or ganized, anil will lie speedily followed by those of other lines, to form a trades assem bly, which shall have complete control of their own affairs. They may continue for a time to be known as Knights of Labor, but they can be so only nominally when the officers of that order have no authority over them. This is but further evidence, added to much that has been given before, that the interests of each trade can be best attended to by men belonging to it. Public Schools in England. The figures presented in the House of Commons by the head of the education de partment of England, in submitting its an nual estimates for the common school sys tem, disclose some interesting facts. The law establishing the system was only adopted in 1870, and in that year places for 1,878,584 scholars were provided; now the number is 5,200,1)85, showing a wonderful increase in accommodations. In fnct, the number of places provided is in excess of needs, as the number of names on the school registers is only 4,553,751, and the average attendance 3,470,509. Attendance upon the schools by children between certain ages is to a degree compul sorv, the duty of compelling attendance resting on boards of guardians. These guardians have met their principal difficulty in the indifference to the advantages of the schools manifested by the poorer classes— those classes for whose benefit, principally, the schools were established. It may be that much of this indifference springs from the very meagre education which the schools attempt to bestow—the mere rudiments of knowledge. In only 370 schools, of the 19,000 and more, was history taught. The prize to lie gained is not great enough to rouse ambition. In spite of this drawback, the develop ment of the system has been surprisingly rapid, and now that the principle is admit ted that it is the State’s duty, in its own in terest, to provide for the education of its children, the efficiency of the schools will be increased and their sco, e enlarged in pro portion as the classes to be benefited grow in political power. This growth has been rapid of late years, and the near future promises a yet greater expansion. Even now an important addition to the course of study is contemplated, and in fact has been recommended by the education department—technical instruction. This subject has been pressed upon public atten tion liy the accumulating evidence that the long conceded superiority of the British mechanic is challenged by the increasing skill of workmen of other countries, espe cially of Germany where technological schools of high grade have demonstrated their worth. The schools could not, per haps, be developed in a more useful direc tion. The people of this country will watch with no little interest the advance of those of tho mother country along a path in which they themselves have made considerable progress, and which they know leads in the right di rection. Florida Expositions. The Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jackson ville, commencing in January and con tinuing several months, will doubtless attract many thousand visitors, and con vince all who attend it that Florida’s resources have hut begun to bo appreciated and developed. The State occupies a posi tion peculiar to itself. The resources upon which it prides itself, and upon the develop ment of which it depends for prosperity and wealth, belong to it almost alone, and are not, as is the case with those of most other States, common in some degree to all. This fact is recognized in the title of the Jacksonville exposi tion, and its existence is the strength of Florida’s position. The people of many States can, by the display of the proper energy, develop mines of coal and iron, build cottou mills, etc., hut when they want to grow tropical fruits and early vege tables. or escape entirely the rigors of winter —well, they have to go to Florida. These facts the Sub-Tropical Exposition will emphasize, and in the hands of the energetic and public-spirited men who have it in charge it ought to prove a powerful force in bringing forward the high degree of prosperity which must eventually come. But this exposition at Jacksonvillle is not the only one which will this winter illus trate Florida’s peculiar greatness. During January the South Florida Ex)>osition will be held at Sanford, and the largo premi ums offered will doubtless cause a rivalry between exhibitors, which will lead to very fine displays. There is no rivalry, however, between the expositions, as they have u a common object. The Republican journals which have been so exercised in their minds about the im propriety of Mr. Carlisle being elected Speaker while his right to a sqat is being contested, should have familiarized them selves with Congressional history before saying so much on the subject. Had they done so they would have discovered thnt a precedent exists for such action by tho Democrats, Mr. Jones, of Virginia, hav ing been elected Speaker of the Twenty eighth Congress while a contest over bis seat, was pending. On that occasion the Kle •t ious Committee was selected by tho House, at tho Hpeaker’s request. What makes tho precedent more valuable is that it wws •*.- blg-Lsd bv Alimorata CURRENT COMMENT. Luck Spelt With a P. From the Philadelphia Time* (bid.) There are multiplying evidences that C eve land’s luck is to lie spelt with a big P. A Good Exponent of Jeffersonlaniasm. From the New York Graphic I Drill. ) Look over the record of President Cleveland's administration. Has it not been remarkably free from mistakes? Is it not public opinion that the President is an honest, conscientious, straightforward man and as good an exponent of Jeffersomanlsm as any man since Jefferson? It is impossible to please everybody. Has not President Cleveland come as near to that result as any President could ? Cleveland’s Growth as a Statesman. From the Sew York World (Dem.) Three years, however, have borne their legiti mate fruit and naught their lesson. Mr. Cleve land shows bis si/a- as a statesman in his readi ness to accept the hints which time has whispered. He has that kind of wisdom which is willing to learn, and that kind of moral courage which lavs aside a cherished notion when it ceases to work well and adopts another which will work more satisfactorily all around. New York’s Labor Parties. From the Philadelphia Times (/ad.) It is not probable that either of the parties will aid the cause of progressive or united labor to any appreciable extent, for the simple reason that there seem to be so many labor parties t hat none of them will have votes enough to make a respectable showing But this is a free country, and the right to get up anew political party every day In the year cannot be denied. From the New York Sun (Dem.) Altogether the prospect of the New Crusade does not seem encouraging. If they succeed notwithstanding nil these untoward facts, in bringing to tho polls a respectable number of voters. Mr. George's party will be more impor tant than ever in view ot next year’s Presiden tial election and of its possible power in that great contest: but if it come up with only a meagre array of votes, it will no longer be’ re spected or feared by either Republicans or Dem ocrats. BRIGHT BITS. When you come to think of it, young man. isn't the mafrigo ceremony miss leading?— Yon kers Statesman. The world may owe every man a living, hut. like bringing to time a bad debtor, it requires considerable hustling on a man's part to collect tiie bill.— Boston Budget. One Youngster-We have a nice canopy top to cover our carriage. Other Youngster That's nothin’. We have a chattel mortgage on ours that more than covers it, pa says.— Tid-Bitn. It is not necessary to have a pneumatic tube to Europe through which people can be shot at the rate of a thousand miles an hour. All that is le-eded is a pneumatic tube connection with Canada.— Chicago Journal. Little Tommy ( who has never been out of the city before. Oh 1 oh: oh ! Kind Lady—What’s the matter, Tommv’ Little Tommy- Why, what a big sky they’ve got here, miss.— Harper s Youna People. “And were you robbed, too?’’ asked a passen ger of the Pullman car porter after some high waymen had cleaned out the train. “Was I robbed, boss?" replied Sambo, turning almost white with indignation. "Deed I was Pey only guv me fo’ bits apiece.”— New York Sun. “Yes. dear children, ' said the school teacher, "Gen. Washington died a comparatively poor man, although be might have amassed great wealth if he had been a different sort of person. Tommy Waffles may tell us why Gen. Washing ton died comparatively poor.” “Because he couldn’t tell lies," responded Tommy, who has a bright business career be fore him.—. Yen; York Sun. A Kansas man was viiiting a friend in Lin coln, and the latter presented him, yesterday, with a handsome field-glass, snying: “Just take this as a keepsake, old man.” “I’m very much obliged, Charlie, very; but sav—■” "Well*" "How in thunder do you open it when you want a drink ?”—Lincoln Journal. T.O vert wore a crimson scarf Coining through the rye; There was Farmer Brown's young bull Standing idly by. i*- Reader, you have’guessed the rested ov'l Drop a silent tear. no ?:! “Dead, by gosh,” said Farmer Brown** "That makes three this year.” L r , , A young man wrote thus to the object! of his affections: “I love you not for your fortune— it is a consideration that could never influence me in choosing a wife.” Being unfamiliar with the rules of punctuation, he awkwardly inserted a full stop after the words “f love you not,” and the young lady in her grief, desDa r and out raged feeling, entered a convent, while her lover, after v a’ting in vain for a reply to his letter, became the driver of a soda pop wagon. Chicago Tr im ne. One Henry George Vote Lost— Omaha Man —Hello, Fred, what brings you here? Eastern Actor—l have been to California and am going liack East. “Do you intend to resume your Henry George lectures against land monopoly?” "No, I got full of those notions when I lived in New York city. I’m bravely over it now. Land? There’s no land monopoly. There's no end of land, too much land, humireds and hun dreds of miles too much." “You ore on the other extreme now. What has changed your ideas so completely* "I joined a snap theatrical company last spring, went as far as Cn’ifomia, and am walk ing back.’’— Omaha World. PERSONAL. The Empress Eugenie has gone to Scotland to remain until October. Princess Beatrice is a Spiritualist, and she soys sue doesn’t care who knows it. The friends of M. Emile Zola unite in saving his latest work, “Land,” is a disgrace to the literature of any age. Senator Hiscock is one of the best swimmers at Watch Hill, and he keeps up the exercise whether the weather is hot or cool. Cot.. John A. Cockkrill vigorously denies that he has been offered the managing editor ship of the New York Herald, or that there has been any rupture of bis friendly relations with the proprietor of the World. Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet scout, pro poses to go on the stage in anew historical play called “Daniel Boone," with real Indians, living bears, elks, mustangs, wolves and all the other accessories of the wild Western drama. Newport society has split, into factions over the question of Mrs. Clew s refusal to invite the Duke of Marlborough to a musics le Mrs. Paran Stevens requested that, the Duke should be invited, but was told that “ the list was com pleted.” Baron de Worms, the President of the British Board of Trade, has written a strong letter to the English railway companies demanding car riages exclusively for women, so as to prevent in tuture the occurrence of outrages such as that to which Miss Scragg was subjected near Shrewsbury. The man who will write up America for the London Timex more fully than it has ever been done before is said to tie no other than Joel Cook, the regular American correspondent of the journal in question Mr. Cook receives $5,000 a year salary from the Timex, but will be paid extra for this special work. Archibald Forbes has written a very sad let ter ty the papers denying the current rumor to the effect that he was about to leave for a lec ture tour in America, and that in the spring he would be ready to go.to the wars. Forbes says that his health is still uus itisfuctory, that his experiences as a war correspondent are over, and that the lecture-room wlil know him no more. A STATUS of the late Alfred Kmpp is to be erected in the market place of Essen by the Municipal Council of the town, at a cost of £•‘1.000. Herr Krupp lias left £26,000 to lie used for the benefit of the inhabitants of Essen, and he desired hia son and successor to set aside £60,000 for a charitable fund in aid of the work men of the establishment, to be managed by a committee selected from the workmen and officials. His Impihiai, Highness Prince Chun, father of the Emperor of China. Lord High Admiral of China, and the holder of many other exalted positions, last year took a short sea journey in u Chinese mun of-vtar to several ports in North China The eve nt was regarded as of great po litical importance, for It was the first time that a Mancbu Prince bad gone to sea The incident called forth the Prince's unisc. ami he luts com memorated it in u number < if poems. Judge “Ton” Hughes passed through New York lust week on his way to visit the English colony at lingliy. Tcun lie is fairly contented with the succisss of his colonization scheme, but still lulls** tr bigger tilings Before returning to England. Judge Hughes will go to Kansas to visit a son who lives there, uml will also utay a few days Id Now York His health is excellent, and lie is the sar.i • genial man that he has sR ay* been. If ht Is grow lug old no one woUV ; FOILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. ! The Partner of Boodler McGarigle Caught at the Jail Door. A telegram from Chicago says for a good many days mysterious rumors have been float ing around the stone walls of the county jail concerning an affair, the knowledge of which has until now been confined toa few individuals "Ed'' .McDonald, the partner of McG&rigle, who was sentenced along with him, made a daring break for his liberty about two weeks ago. One evening u friend of the prisoner, a woman, was admitted to sea him. She had a long coil of rope concealed, which she left in the possession of McDonald. The apartment in which he was confined is on the third floor.aud a ventilator runs from the cell lo the roof. Through this aperture McDonald managed to climb till he reached the roof. He then fastened one end of the rope to a projection on the root and let the other end down. Once in the yard he went stealthily to the stairs,where visitors pass down into the jail. As he came up to the turn of the stairway he ran against one of the guards, but the latter supposing him to be a visitor did not challenge him. Half way between the stair and the en trance is another hall leading to another en trance. Through this hall McDonald was walk ing. the street entrance in view, when he wus confronted by t bree men. These were a lawyer, a detective and a deputy sheriff. This was the critical moment for McDonald. Had he quietly passed along, the probability is that no notice would have clean taken of liim by any one of the party. But he was taken with a timid fit and dr w back into the shadow, a movement that at once ex cited the suspicion of the detective, who promptly sensed him by the arm and drew him forward into the light. McDonald, in sheer desperation, struck the detective a powerful blow on the head with his fist which sent the latter reeling to the Door, and then made a break for the door. At this moment the deputy sheriff recognized the prisoner, and with the help of the lawyer succeeded in overpowering him after a fierce resistance. Then an alarm was given, and the would-be fugitive was secured, hilt not until he had uttered a shrill whistle which could be heard for a considerable distance, and which was evidently a nrecon certed signal, for a carriage which was standing near the jail suddenly dashed down the street. Moonaiu was taken to a common cell where he could be under more careful surveillance. Since then he has been subjected to the full rigor of the discipline of the Jail. JEFFERSON DAVIS ON LIQUOR. A Prominent Southerner’s Ideas on Prohibition and Local Option. In response to a letter of inquiry Mr. Wal lace Williams, editor of the Booneville (Mo.) Advertiser, received the following letter from Jefferson Davis: ’ Beauvoir, Miss., Sept. 1, 1887. Dear Sir— l have received your letter of the 27th ult. requesting me to settle the question in regard to my opinion as to local option being a proper method to secure temperance. Many of the controversies of men are rather in relation to terms than things. If local option means the right of a local community to decide whether t icy will hare barrooms and saloons licensed to sell intoxicants, tnen I should say, if thus lim ited, I mould be in favor of the exercise of the power. It should he commended for two rea sons. First, the adoption of the rule would de pend on the Consent of the Governor, Second, the rule being supported by public opinion could he peacefully and efficiently exe cuted. The measure would be merely withhold ing the license to do that which one has not an inalienable right to perform, would take no one's property without just compensation and would not invade the rights of any man’s neighbor. You will not fai 1 to perceive that my position is very far short of what is demanded by the Pro hibitionists, to use the recognized designation of an existing party. Respectfully, Jefferson Davis. His First Taste of Champagne. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. “Have you any champagne?” The questioner was an awkward looking fel low, apparently from the country, the place a well kno r n Grand avenue restaurant, and the time early Saturday evening. Upon being ans wered in the affirmative, he asked: “Do you sell it by the glass?” “No, sir, by the bottle,” replied the waiter. “All right. Piease give me a 1 Kittle." The young man took a seat and the wine was brought and uncorked in his presence. Filling his glass after the manner of a man emptying a bottle of beer, he hesitatingly raised it to his lips; then, after a moment's consideration, blew the froth from it and swallowed the contents with one gulp. It was so good that he repented the dose until the bottle was empty. The dofcu pants of adjacent chairs had meanwhile become interested and wore watchinq the vigorous wine drinker with the keenest interest. Apparently sat sfieil with himself he called fora !oe. cigar and puffed away contentedly. When he got ready to go he handed the waiter a quarter. T.ie Teutonic beer slinger gazed at the piece of silver and then at the countryman in undisguised amazement. “ Haven’t you forgotten the champagne?’, said he. “ Certainly not. Take it out of the quarter," glibly answered the young man. The waiter attempted to explain that champagne was not a five-eent drink, but the innocent granger would have none of it. Then the proprietor ap peared on the scene and in terms that stirred up the stagnant waters of the river demanded the reason of the man's conduct. The em barrassed would-be blood pleaded ignorance of the rules of high society, paid his bill and re tired to hide his confusion from the amused crowd. The proprietor then paralyzed every body by setting up the drinks all around. The First Gray Hair. From the Omaha World. And thou hast come at last. Thou baleful issue of the buried years— Sad fruitage of the past, Root, nurtured in a loam or hopes and fears I hail thee, but I hate thee, lurking there, Thou first gray hair! Thou soft and silken coil, Thou milk-white blossom in a midnight tress: Out from the alien so l I'll plqck thee in thine infant tenderness, As the rude husbandman uproots the taro, Thou first gray hair: Of all the fleecy flock Thou art the one to loathe and to despise! The cheat within the shock, The mould t hat on the early harvest lies, The mildew on the blossoms of the pear— The first gray hair! And thou the Judas art, The tattler of Old Time, who doth betray The weary, worn-out heart, F.re yet we dare to dream of its decay; Thou art a hint of wreck beyond repair, Thou first gray hair! A Ventrlloquial Genius. From the Boston Budr/et. A little Boston boy who was taken to the en tertainment of a ventriloqist some time ago, and who was a close observer of the performer's modus operand!, accompanied bis parents lnat week to his father's native town, and among the places visited during their rural sojourn was the country cemetery, where sleep the progeni tors of his paternal parent, The latter pointed out to the child a certain mound, saying: “There, dear, is the grave of your grandfather." The little fellow gazed curiously at the place of sepulture for a moment, and then seized by a sudden idea, stooped down and rapping on the tombstone, said: “Grandpa, are you down there?” following it up with a self supplied “Yes” in as deep and gutteral a tone as his lit tle throat could make vocal. “Does you want to come up?” he resumed in his natural pitch of voice, and again dropping to the lower tone an swered his own query with a bass and hollow “No.” The parents, greatly shocked, cut short further ventriloquinl efforts on the part of the too precocious child. How He Got His Durham Cow. The Bandera (Tex.) Bugle reports the expe rience of it* editor in a dime savings bank of his town: We now sport a nice milk cow. How did we get bery Bought her. Paid S4O for her, the whole amount being 10c. per day saved since March 0,188 ti. On that day a friend of ours in sisted on treating us to a smoko, us it was our birthday, hut we refused the kindness, inform ing him courteously that we had Lever smoked u cigar, to which he replied that he averaged from one to three per day, at a cost of Sc. to sv. each day, and that he never missed the small change. We told him than that from that (lay on we would lay away 10c. per day as long as were able to do so, and see how much it would amount to each year We have kepi it up to date, and as a consequence we have a fine Durham cow and calf bought with 400 lu-ccut pieces. Beer Assists Nature. From the. Scranton Truth. “1 regard the use of beer as the true temper ance principle When I work ail day and am exhausted uothing helps me like a glass of l>eer It assists nature, you understand," said Kemson to Henson. “It mukcH a fool of me,” Henson replied. “Just so,” exclaimed Kemsou. ‘That's what I say; it assists nature.” brown s (linger, the genuine article, with hot water and sugar, causes the strength to be sustained, makes the nkin act well, and does n< harm. Try a. froderiok iirowu. PbUadel ITEMS OF INTEREST. The new laboratory at Yale, cost ng $75,000, is nearly finished. Miss Lavra M inkle r, a blind woman, is preaching effective temperance sermons in [ lowa. Four hundred cahuier pigeons were pro vided for the mobilization of the French army corps. A few days ago two inches of snow fell and the thermometer registered 34 degrees above zero at Louisiana. Mo. SrNCE Memphis was made a taxing district, in 1880, it has paid off nearly $4,000,000 of its debt. About $3,01X1,000 is yet to be paid, An aerolite is said to have fallen in the street at Spokane Falls. Ore., Tuesday evening, which struck an electric light wire and burst into a thousand pieces. The wearing of false hair was introduced into England from France in 1572. The practice was introduced into the latter country from Italy, where it originated. A Maine judge has declared Jamaica ginger an intoxicant. When a man has the colic down in Maine he must make a dead rush for New Hampshire or Massachusetts. The slide trombone, the most perfect of brass musical instruments, is the sackbut of the an cients and was revived about 1790. after a model found among the rains of Pompeii. The independent militia companies in the Dis trict of Columbia have been organized into a district national guard, after considerable oppo sition, and form a command of 2,300 troops un der Gen. Ordway. A cherry tree of the white oxheart variety on the premises of John Capura, of Orovilie, Cal., bore this season 2,800 pounds of fruit. It is eigethen years old, is sixty feet high, and is six feet in circumference. The church formerly occupied by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in Boston, was dedicated as a Jewish synagogue on Sunday. The congrega tion that is to occupy it had the only synagogue in Boston forty years ago. Now there are seven in that city. Abraham Burbank, of Pittsfield, Mass., aged 85 years, fell about thirty feet from a scaffold on one of his buildings, striking on his head and shoulders. He was considerably jarred, but the next morning was at work, apparently none the worse for his big drop. The schoolmaster is not abroad in California as much as he ought to be, judging from the following paragraph printed in the Shasta Courier: “A man who spells God with a ‘j’ and county and Califo nia with a ‘k’ is not fit for postmaster, but there is one such in this county.” English sporting words are rapidly becom ing common property on both sides of the chan nel. “Match’ is already imported into France, “jockey,” “starter,” “ring” and ‘‘handicap” bear it company. And, so far from entering the Gallic newspapers in italics as strangers, they appear in ordinary type. Thebe are 400 Mormon bishops in Utah, 2,423 priests, 2,947 teachers and 6,854 d< a -ons. Salt i ,ake City is divic e 1 into wards of eight or nine blocks each aiul a bishop is put in chnrgeof each ward. Under him there are two teachers, whose business is to learn the employment and income of every resident of the ward and report the same to the bishop. Then the bishop collects the tenth of each man's income and turns it into the church authorities. A PAitTY was arrested for stealing and haul ing to Pine Bluff, Ark., three Wagon loads of watermelons from a neighboring patch. The de fendant was acquitted: firstly, because he proved an alibi by sixteen darkies; secondly, the court thought it doubtful, if not a dangerous prece dent to set, to convict a man of stealing water melons. especially when it was proved that the prosecutor hail a patch of seventeen acres—some rotting for want of attention. The fetes in celebration of the establish ment of the independence of Belgium have been brought to a close. At Brusselsone of the most interesting events was the competition of anglers. Thirty-two societies (twenty-seven Belgian, four French and one Dutch), muster ing altogether 584 anglers, took part in it. It was curious to see them at wort during three hours at the Canal de Charleroi, the places for all the men, who sat close to one another, being numbered. A curious button was made about a century ago and worn by the English dandies of the period. It consisted of polished brass and was ruled with lines so fine as to be almost micro scopic. The roughness of the surface thus ob tained broke the reflection of the light falling on it and gave it prismatic colo:s. The lteauty of mother of pearl and 1 s iridescent brilliancy are believed to be produced by three plates nverlaping each other unevenly, and thus they disperse the light as they reflect it. The Probate Judge of Smith county, Kansas, is insane. He ought to be removed and another appointed. Put the Governor finds himself in a dilemma. He cannot appoint a Probate Judge until a vacancy occurs, and no vacancy can be declared until the incumbent is adjudged in sane. In order to effect this the lunatic must be tried by a jury and declared by the Probate Judge to oe insane. No otlier person in the county has this power. This is the first case of the kind which has ever arisen in Kansas. A lady in London stole a piece of Valen ciennes lace while examining some. She was detected, but permitted to leave the shop, whence a letter to this effect was soon sent: “Madam--—I am afraid that the fifteen yards of lace which you selected in my shop will not be sufficient to trim your dress; I therefore take the liberty of sending you a second piece of the same pattern. I beg to be informed whether you accept.” The signature was that of the proprietor. It was accepted and paid for. Mrs. Mary A. More, a widow of Yolo county, Cal., aged 89, and worth $500,000, determined to marry James A. Black, the foreman of her ranch, a good-looking fellow, aged 30. The license was procured, but the relatives of Mrs. More, who wanted to keep the money in the family, served an injunction restraining her from marrying until her mental condition could be inquired iuto, and had Black arrested, accus ing him of “stealing the body of the woman.” The Supreme Court is now wrestling with the case. The pop weed is a Dakota curiosity. Its stalk is like that of a cabbage, with a large, round top, the size and color of a Hubbard squash. The “northwesters” in the fall blow the pop halls off the stalks and roll them for miles over the prairies till they reach uneven country, where they pile up like snowbanks and serve buffalo herds as a shelter from the winter bliz zards. A pop ball which meets any hard object explodes with a tremendous report and seDds about thousands of fine, needle-like seeds in every direction. The other day an enormous flock of sea gulls appeared between the baths and the railroad wharf at Santa Cruz, Cal., and It was soon mani fest that the cause of their presence was an enomimis school of sardines, which were crowd ing each other in the water along the beach. Several thrifty fishermen were soon on handund dragged their nets for an abundant harvest. One haul brought out ten boxes of fish, or 1,000 pounds. The sands were covered with fish stranded by the breakers, and several young sters xvere amusing themselves by pelting eacii other with sardines. In the Cologne cathedral there are 7 niches for the reception of statues at all the chief doors and at the side entrances. The height of the vestibule is 7 times 8 feet; 7 pediments for figures stand in the same; 7 chapels surround the choir, the width of which, like that of the inner area of the church is 7 times !.'H feet, while the height of the choir is 7 times sSI feet; (he height of the aisles are 7 times 10 feet. and twice 7 pillars adorn the jhoir. In the aisles are 7 times 8 pillars, and 4 times 7 shafts rise along the walls. The western portal is 7 times :s:i feet wide, the length of the vast building is 7 times 70 feet, and the height to the summit of the prmci]>al towers was also fixed at 7 times 7ti feet. The three transverse aisles are 7 tiroes 1.4 feet wide. Not only does the number 7 enter so largely into the general architectural arrange ments, but also Into the smallest details as the parts of decorative work. The London correspondent of the Paris Tempt, in an account of a visit to Killaruey, re lates a conversation with a peasant named MacMahon. who got into con versation with him on the road, invited him to his cabin, offered him some "mountain dew," made his wife sell the visitor some lace, and would fain have sold him a shillalah. MacMahon told him that ls>rd Kemnare did not receive a tenth of bis rents, and for seven or eight years had been un ableto reside there, on pain of Mug fired ut I-ady Kemnare, with her children, lived there' guarded bv the police. "Yet Lord Kentnare is not a bad landlordy" sahljthe eorresponsent to MacMuhon. "No," was the reply, "far from It His tenants number IffflO, and there are not three evictions a year on the estate j myself know twenty of his tenants who owe him tour years'rent, and are not molested Hut lie has taken his stand against the league. and that is enough. Besides. In the eyes of the jsstaauts do ISP gs .H” J* ttm, iMuliorq > gyod far noth BAKING POWDER. | PU R E p?pHicrs CREAM PERFECT MAg^ggi Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the beads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful Dr Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only iu Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. • NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY GOODS, ETC. Exceptional Reductions IN Summer Goods • AT toll & tow’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. P. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. TTT E will close out the remainder of our stock V of these flue (roods, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to 12^e. 25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu lar price a yard; now BJ4c. 75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, atSl<Jc. 50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price 10c. a yard; now Gtfcc. f One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice 15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12J^e. One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles, regular price a yard; now 10c. * 36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled, formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery obi! Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose, regular price 12J^c.; now 9c. a pair. A mixed lot of Misses' Fine English Hose. Ribbed. Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the lot out at 17c. a pair. 50 dozen ladles' Gauze Undervests, regular prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each. 85 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. Onr $1 UnlauDdried Shirts Reduced to 90a 75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaun&ried 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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