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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1 :J, 1887.
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Auction Sales Furniture, Groceries, etc., by
D. R. Kennedy.
The Finance Committee of the legislature
lias set an example to the Legislature which,
if it had been followed, the day for final ad
journment would be much nearer than it is.
That indescribable crank, Private Dalzell,
nominates Gov. Foraker, of Ohio, for Pres
ident. There is a sympathetic cord between
these two which accounts for Dalzell’s en
thusiasm in behalf of Foraker.
Sydney Rosenfeld has turned Stockton’s
“The Lady or the Tiger” into a comic
opera. It is to bo hoped that he has found
an ending for the story. If ho has not the
tiger ought to catch him.
The teachers of the public schools at Mc-
Kinney, Tex., have struck for shorter hours,
and the schools are suspended. They are
evidently teachers with advanced ideas,
who believe in new methods.
The Chicago AVies dees not mince its
words in referring to the denials by Mi-.
Blaine of the truth of the accounts of his
actions cabled by the News' correspondent
from Europe. It says the denials are lies.
The Maine coast summer resorts are pre
paring to close for the season. This action
looks rather precipitate, considering the
weather, but the hotel proprietors are very
anxious to get time to count their gains.
The Constitution says Dr. Hawthorne's
back in that city—a typographical error
which suggests that Lawyer Benet rublted
the reverend gentleman even harder than
has been suspected in the famous plagiary
controversy.
It was suggested some days ago that in
consequence of the complications arising
out of Dr. McGlynn’s case, the Caldwed
endowment of $300,000 for the Catholic col
lege at Washington would be withdrawn.
Mr. Eugene Kelly says that the suggestion
has no foundation whatever.
It is said Jay Gould has threatened to
hang somebody’s bide on the fence if he is
not let alone. If reports are to be believed,
Mr. Goiild has already a number of hides in
his collection as well tanned as were some of
those in his possession when he was regu
larly in the tanning business in Pennsyl
vania, and among them is that of that old
bull, Cyrus Field.
It is now said Mr. Randall did not attend
the Oak View conferences because he was
ilj, and that he was ill of too much Allen
town convention. This is very indefinite.
A great victory is claimed for him at that
convention, and success rarely ever makes
men sick. But, perhaps, since he has had
a chance to review the work of that conven
tion, he does not find his victory to be as
great as he thought it was.
Gov. Foraker, it will lie remembered,
after his insulting language in reference to
the President’s action in connection with
the battle flags, had the temerity to semi
him an invitation to visit Columbus. He
has received no answer, and it is intimated
that he will not. That ho should have in
vited Mr. Cleveland, under the circum
stances, was a wonderful exhibition of
audacity, and he merited a proper rebuke.
The Republicans must have abandoned nil
hope of conciliating the Prohibition seceders
from their ranks. The Chicago Tribune, in
the course of a very caustic editorial, speaks
of their “meanness and malignancy,” which
are proved, in the eyes of that journal, by
their desire to defeat the party they have de
serted. While the Democrats don’t care for
the company of these deserters, they look
upon them as engaged, indirectly, in a rath
er important work, and os deserving encour
agement.
In his speech at Caldwell, Ohio, on last
Saturday night Gov. Foraker referred to
John Sherman as “being on a sure Presi
dential train with a free pass in his own
name, which would not be taken away from
him by any one in Ohio.” According to
the reports this reference to the Senator was
loudly applauded. But the Senator can
hardly feel grateful for the Governor's as
sertion that he is trying to dead-head his
wny to the Presidential chair. Foraker is
always hitting Sherman under the belt
whenever an opportunity presents itself.
The Hon. Thomas F. Orady, of New
York, who mode himself conspicuous at the
Chicago Democratic Convention as Tam
numy’s spokesman in its opposition to Cleve
land, and afterwards by supporting Bin
Butler's candidacy, has got himself talked
about again in a way that be perhaps
doesn't enjoy. lie had been known a* a
bachelor until Thursday, when a variety
actress, named Klorem'e Irwin, inserted an
advertisement in the news|>apert, announc
ing that she was his wife. No sufficient
reason is given for the concealment of the
marriage This is proof that in private as
well as in public life, the lion. Mr. Grady
prefers ways that arc a little shady.
Where Reform Is Needed.
While the Governor is investigating the
charffbs of abuses in the convict camp3 he
should also inquire whether the precautions
taken to prevent the escape of convicts are
sufficient, and whether all the convicts re
ceive the same treatment. There is a sus
picion that if a convict have influential
friends he does not find life at the camps
very burdensome. It will be remembered
that at the last session of the legislature a
committee of that body visited one of tho
convict camps and was surprised to find
that the most prominent convict not only
did not wear a striped suit, but was treated
more as a guest than as a prisonor. He
employed his time as he pleased, and went
fishing whenever it suited him to do so. If
discrimination of this sort is permitted why
may it not be exercised in the oaso of any
convict whom the lessees may be disposed to
favor?
A few days ago four convicts escaped
from tho camp near Augusta. Two of them
were from this county. They attacked the
guard, took his gun from him and fled. The
amoukt which was oxjiended in sending
them to the penitentiary was, no doubt,
large, and yet the efforts to punish them, in
accordance with the sentences imposed upon
them, were defeated ut the convict camps.
It is ulx>ut impossible to so guard the
camps that no convict will ever escape, but
it is possible to prevent any considerable
number of convicts from escaping. Ac
counts of the escape of convicts are by no
means uncommon in tho press of the State,
and it is probublo thut all who escape are
not mentioned in the public prints.
* It was stated a few days ago that
a man who was convicted about
a year or so ago of murdering an
inoffensive citizen in this county, and sent
to the penitentiary for life, hod made his
escape. There is good grounds for thinking
that the statement is correct. ft does not
seom to be of much use to go to the expense
of convicting criminals when the way out of
the penitentiary seems to be so easy. Even
if nothing is done towards adopting a better
convict system, something at least might be
done to remedy the worst features of the
present one. Tim j ample certainly don’t
want to be taxed to support courts and jails
if convicts are so badly guarded in the pen
itentiary that they experience little difll
culty in escaping.
The lessees are liable for damages to the
extent of $2OO for every convict who es
capes. Doubtless the proper officers see to
it that tho money due the State from this
source is paid, but is it not apparent that
$2OO is wholly inadequate to insure the safe
keeping of convicts who can command
money ? No lessee, of course, would wink
at the escape of a convict for any such
sum, or, perhaps, for any sum likely to be
obtained, but can as much be said for the
poorly paid guards? All of tho present
guards may be incorruptible, but no
one will deny that in the changes that are
all the time being made, there may be some
who can bo corrupted. Would it be strange
if a guard, who is paid $3O or $4O a month,
should, for a few hundred dollars, give a
convict a chance to escape?
The lease system is no doubt a very bad,
though a very cheap, one, but bad as it is
there is no reason for some of the abuses
which are practiced under it in this State.
When the present investigation is finished
let the legislature see if it cannot do some
thing to lessen them. If the law under
which tho leases are made does not give the
Governor as much power as ho ought to
have let it be amended. let something be
done to insure the convicts humane treat
ment. and at. tho same time the full punish
ment which the courts inflicted upon them.
The Mitchellstown Riot.
The affair at Mitchellstown, Ireland, looks
as if it might lie the beginning of troubles
in Ireland of a very grave character, grow
ing out of the coercion act. Our dispatches
this morning show that the number of the
police injured is much smaller than at first
reported, but tho nutnlier of citizens kiln'd
or of officers injured is a matter of only
secondary importance in comparison with
the fact that au attack by the police was
made upon a lawful meeting, where there
was no disturbance of any kind, and several
persons clubbed or shot to death.
A spirit of resistance has been aroused in
Ireland, such as has not been witnessed
there for many long years, and disturb
ances of a more or lass grave character
may be expected to follow that of last
Friday. Of course the government has its
side of the story, and it attempts to show
that the police were attacked by the citi
zens while attempting to perform a jier
fectly legitimate act. It will have great
difficulty, however, in supporting the
position which it taltos even to the satisfac
tion of its adherents. Mr. Labouchere,
who was present, places all the blame upon
the police, and there, doubtless, it will rest
unites the government can bring forward
incontrovertible testimony that its officers
were not in the wrong.
There was no occasion for the govern
ment to proclaim the National league. It
must have known when it did so that its
action would bo followed by outbreaks of a
more or loss violent character. The police,
feeling that they were being supported by
the government, nnd were acting in accord
ance with its wishes, were certain to lie
more aggravating in their attitude toward
tlie people, while the people, embittered by
the course of the government, were ready
to resent any infringement of their rights.
If it were the intention of the govern
ment to make trouble in Ireland, so as to
have au excuse for adopting more stringent
measures for breaking down the spirit of
resistance to English injustice, it pursued
the right course. The Irish people are now
in a very high state of excitement, and un
ready to resist the effort* of the government
to crush the National League. It would
not be surprising if the government, in
inuking war on the league, is doing more
to advance home rule than it is to destroy
the league. %
With 30,000 coal miners out on a strike in
the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania,
there is likely to lie n re|ietition, on a much
lartrer scale, of the scenes of violence and
suffering which attended the struggle for
higher wages in the Connellsville region a
few weeks ago. If the result of the inves
tigation of tho New York World, that the
average earnings of the men amount to
only HOc. a day. can be relied upon os cor
rect, there would seem to be justice in the
demand for higher wages. It is au inter
esting question n to how much of the 80c.
is due to the protective tariff.
It now seems to be certain that Mr. Pow
derlv will resign anil insist on retiring from
tho leadership 'if the Knights of Latior. lie
is too sensitive to attacks made upon him,
and U overworked He ought to toughen
his skin and learn how to take things easy
by a llttl* experience in his State's politics.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1887.
Suggestions Worth Considering.
The Morning News, within the last year
or two, has time and again called attention
to the advisability of so amending the con
stitution as to relieve the Ilegislature of a
great deal of the work that it is now called
upon to do. More than half of every ses
sion is taken up with little local measures
which could be much* lietter attended to by
city councils or county commissioners. A
few constitutional amendments clothing the
authorities of counties anil cities with the
power to do certain things would so lesson
the pressure upon the Legislature that one
short session in every two years would an
swer every purpose, and greatly reduce the
financial burden of the State.
One of the ablest members of the Legisla
ture, in sneaking of this matter a few days
ago, said: “It is often asked how the ses
sions can be shortened. The answers are
various, but most all agree that some good
would result from constitutional amend
ments to accomplish these objects, viz.: (1)
To pay members and officials of the Legis
lature salaries, instead of a per diem com
pensation, it being understood that the Leg
islature shall sit for not less than a certain
specified number of days, with the privilege
of sitting longer, but without compensation.
(2) Dispense with the first reading of bills;
let them be road by caption only, and re
ferred to their appropriate committees.
(3) Give local authorities more scope in
purely local matters. lx>t fishing, hunting
and many other questions be sot
tied by popular vote, like the
questions l’olating to fences and
the sale of whisky are now settled.
(4) Provide soma less expensive tribunal
than the Legislature to decide whether or
not an insurance company, which has failed
to make its return in accordance with the
law, shall be relieved of the penalty or not,
and whether a tax collector who is guilty of
omissions, oversights, errors anil delays in
the performance of his duty, shall be excused
or not . There are any number of these petty
anti annoying matters which occupy the
time of the Legislature. It is difficult to
dispose of them quickly, because the princi
pals in them have strong friends, who will
not be satisfied until they get what they
want. If an unfavorable report is made,
the committee having charge of the matter
is certain to be urged and worried to grant
the interested parties another hearing, nnd
if the committee refuses to re-open the case
an effort is at once made to have the bill in
volving the matter under connsideration
recommitted. Sometimes bills of this class
deal with only small amounts. It often
costs the State much more to dispose of
one of them than the sum at stake in it.”
Doubtless, in all such matters the opinion
of the Comptroller General, Treasurer, or
other State officer decides the course of the
committee. Why would it not be better,
therefore, to leave them in the hands of
these officers altogether?
There is no doubt that if three of the
ablest members of this legislature were to be
appointed as a commission to report to the
next legislature a plan for lessening the
subjects for legislation, and thereby shorten
ing the sessions of the Legislature, they
could discover ways to savo thousands of
dollars to the State annually, and that, too,
without depriving the people of any privi
lege or right they are entitled to, or ought
to have.
Carlisle’s Place In Congress.
It seems tiiat it has been suggested that if
Mr. Carlisle were made chairman of tie
Ways and Means Committee of the present
Congress, the prospects of getting a tariff
bill passed, would lie much better. There
is no doubt that he is well qualified to han
dle the subject of the tariff, and there would
lie more willingness to submit to his judg
ment, perhaps, than of any other member
of the House, but after all he can give his
views to the Ways and Means Committee as
Speaker almost as well as if he were chair
man of it. It is said that the advisability
of electing some other Democrat Speaker
was discussed at the recent conference be
tween the President and Mr. Carlisle at Oak
View, but it is not known what conclusion
was reached.
Some of the Republican papers pretend
that. Mr. Carlisle hesitates about accepting
the Sjieakerslup because he is afraid that the
Thobe contest for his seat will lie derided
against him. Ht> has no fears of anything
of that kind. In answer to a question a day
or two ago, as to why he took no testimony
in the case, he said:
I took no testimony, for the simple reason
that it was not necessary for me to do so.
The contestant, in his notice, charged fraud
and irregularities in almost every preeint in
the district, but when he came to take evi
dence he did not oven attempt to prove any
thing except, that there were four illegal
votes east for mo at one precinct in Coving
ton. Ido not think the evidence is sufficient
to show that those four votes were actually
cast for me, hut assuming that they
were it makes no difference in the
result, as my majority was 895. The charges
that I intend to relv unon some legal techni
cality, and that. 1 will ttsk an extension of
time to tak" te .tlmo iv. a o prejxjsterous.
Certainly I would not nee "it n seat in the
House if my right to it could be .sustained
only by relying ution a technicality, anil so
far from rcivltw upon anv stteh ground Ido
not even intend to emoloy an attorney or
submit any nr unent to‘ the committee or
the House. Members etui lake the record
just as iny opponents have made it up, and
upon that they can decide the case without
interference from me.
This ought to satify the Republican
paiiers that Mr. Thobe has no case, and
that he is being pushed forward to make the
contest, not with the exi>octation of iieittg
successful, but for a purpose that has not yet
been made public. But if Mr. Carlisle
declines the H]>eakership, and accepts the
Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, he will not tie influenced in his course
by Sir. Thobe's contest.
Canadians are very much dissatisfied with
the proposed llsheries commission, which
they fear will settle the pending dispute to
the satisfaction of the United States ami
Great. Britain without reference to Canada's
interests. They want the power to negoti
ate treaties for themselves. The right to
regulate their foreign relations in exchange
for the duty of protecting them from
foreign attack is almost ull that, is left of
Great Britain’s power over her colonies, and
if she were to give up that she might as
well turn over Canada to the UniUsi States
at once.
The Egyptians are worri sl because benefi
cent old Father Nile is bestowing his gift of
waters on the land this year earlier than
usual, ntnl liefore the crops are planted.
Thy have cause for complaint when their
oldest and only friend joins their human
enemies to help impoverish the country.
It is now said that big Bd McDonald, the
heavy villain of the Chicago boodle troop,
did not come so near escaping as has lieeu
descrilied in the dispatches. Ho oould not
get his 2AO pounds of flesh through uu eight
huh window.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Foraker's Rant Will Not Help Him.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Politicians of the Fornker type cannot smother
the common sense of the men who fought for
the preservrtion of the Union.
Republican Unity Includes Randall.
From the Boston Herald find.)
The Philadelphia Press informs one of its con
temporaries in another state that there need be
no concern about Republican unity in Pennsyl
vania. There has been nothing to surpass this
state of affairs there since order reigned in War
saw. The process to bring it about is less vio
lent in the more modern case, but it is fully as
effective. This unity even laps over to take in
Mr. Samuel J. Randall in instances where he is
needed.
The Real Question at Issue.
l-hum the Sew York Times (Rep.)
We have no fear that Mr. Randall could de
feat Mr. Cleveland as a candidate for the Presi
dency. The Presidency may be put to one side,
and the question will remain: Which is better
for the Democratic party, to abandon all pre
tense of a policy on the tariff and maintain, at
best, an idle and vain majority in the House, or
to ’‘take arms' against Randall and Randalllsm
and “by opposing end them 1”
The West and the Tariff
From the (Jhicago Tribune (Rep.)
The people of the West can have no sympathy
with Randallism in any shape. They don’t want
cheaper whisky and tobacco at the expense of
higher priced woolens and other necessaries.
They demand a revenue reform that shall re
duce takes to an amount needed for support of
economical government and the cost of living to
the people. Western Congressmen—Republi
cans as well as Democrats—may as well under
stand that allegiance to Randallism will leave
them in the lurch at the polls.
BRIGHT BITS.
Little things upset the plans of little men,
hut solid honesty stands solid to the end.—Phil
adelphia Record.
“Well. Harry, writing for the press Is thank
less sort o’ work, ain't it?”
"Bless your heart, no. 'Bout everything I
write is ’returned >ith thanks.’ ” — Epoch.
Wife (at breakfast) —I want to do some shop
ping to-day, dear, if the weather is favorabie.
What are the probabilities 1“
Husband (consulting his paper)—Rain, hail,
thunder and lightning,—Buck.
Gamp to the Last. The conversation turned
on an old woman who had Just died at the age
of KXi "And was she really as old as that!”
“Yes, and so intelligent! Do you know, only
the day before her death she kicked up a row
with bor son-in-law” Figaro.
A tortoise recently found had engraved on
its shell “Adam, year 1." The man on whose
property the tortoise was found, recognized
Adam’s signature. Adam used to drive team
for him, but he cannot imagine why he didn’t
add the other three figures - 3S6.— Sorristoicn
Herald.
A Business View.—" You admire beauty In
women, then, Mr. Kamphor?"
“O, very much: 1 never see an exceptionally
pretty face and figure that I am not filled with
enthusiasm utonce.”
“Are you ail artist. Mr. Kamphor?"
"No: my business is getting up soap adver
tisements."—Tid-Bits.
A i.ady who had recently lost her husband
ami a friend were eating dinner together at the
residence of the latter. “1 sympathize with you
from the bottom of my heart in your great sor
row," said the friend. "It must be terrible to
lose such a man."
“Ah, me, yes," sighed the widow. "It is only
the hope of soon meeting him in a better land
that gives me courage and desire to live.—Ar
kansaw Traveler.
Early Depelopment ok Human Nature.—A
Court street lady forbade her little girl to play
with a neighbor's boy and had frequent occasion
to chide her for disobedience. "Nellie,” said
her mother one day, "I have told you a great
many times not to romp with Tommy, and you
must obey me.”
Nellie Could I play with him if he was a
girl ? *
"Perhaps,” replied the mother, absently.
Nellie -But I wouldn't want to.— Binghamton
Republican.
On the Hotel Piazza—“ What do you think
of Mrs. Jones?"
"I don’t know. I—"
"Ob. I guess she’s amice person enough. But
th si she's so egotistical.”
"Yes;"
"Yes: I was asking her something or otliqjjt
b nit the Brookses, and she said that she nevftr
troubled herself about anybody's business tint
her own. Don’t you call that egotistical?” M
"Really, you shouldn't be so severe. It m;4|,
be only narrow-mindedness."— Boston Trans
cript.
A Growing Child. —Conductor—Madam, did
I understand you to say that this girl is not yet
twelve years old?
Mother—She will be twelve next spring.
“And you want to go all the way to New York
in this car?"
"Yes."
"Then you should not go on this train.”
“Why not?"
"Because this is a slow train, and if the girl
keeps on growing as she lias been, by the time
we get to New York she will be so large that she
will not be able to get through the ear door.
The company can’t afford to take the car to
pieces on ahalf-fare ticket."— Texas Siftings.
PERSONAL.
Mns. G uifield is recreating in Canada with
her family.
M. Chkvrevl, th veteran French scientist,
entered upon his 103d year on Aug, 31.
The late Mrs. Vincent, during her thirty-four
years' Connection with the Boston Museum, ap
peared in 4-14 characters.
Kasah BEimHARDT has been on a pilgrimage
to lAiurdes, and Parisians are speculating as to
whether she is about to retire to a nunnery.
The Princess of Wales is reported in poor
health, the result of the sad fate of her favorite
sister, the Duchess of Cumberland, who recently
became insane.
F.x Senator Miller bas leased a tract of 50 -
000 ocrei of Adirondack timber land, in the
north ■ -Ural paid, of Hamilton county, for fifty
years for a game preserve.
Mrs. Sigourney s grave is in Spring Grove
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. It is shamefully
neglected. Weeds and wild vines overrun the
lot, and the brown stone monument sorely needs
attention.
R :v. Dn. Justin D. Fulton, who left the Bnp
tisi church to devote himself to the task of de
mob-lung Roman Catholicism.is at Ixm Angeles,
Cal., where a people's temple, whutever that
may be. is to bo built for him.
The statement that Gilliert ami Sullivan are
making the "Buffalo Bill Wild West" the sub
ject of anew comic opera is deuied and con
demned as pure guesswork. No one knows
what these gentlemen are doing.
It is doubtful if Bonanza Flood re-enters busi
ness His eyisdght since his recent illness is
p -iii t eally destroyed, and he feels like spending
the remainder of his days as quietly as possible.
His fortune is estimated at $10,000,000.
llon. Henry W. Hilliard," ex-Congressman
from Alabama, Minister to Belgium under Mr.
Tyler, and Minister to Brazil under Mr. Hayes,
is busily engaged upon his “Reminiscences at
Home and Abroad. ' It will be published by
Appleton.
Senator Vest has devoted considerable time
this season to a study of the liquor traffic and
the tiest method for Its government. After
studying the various arguments advanced by
liquor men and Prohibitionlste he concludes that
Jhe high license system admirably fills the bill.
J. T. Trowbridge, the author, has grown rich
in an ensv and pleasant way. He is one of the
principal stockholders in the company which
owns all the available land for cottages at Ken
nebuiikport. Me. The rapid rise in the price of
land at that resort has made the stockholders
wealthy.
The ex Empress Oarlotta. of Mexico, has of
late shown great fondness for the eoiii|>any of
children Every morning the tiro children .it
her gardener are brought to her and nljo h|k-h.ls
hours with them playing hide and seek,
ntnl listening to tluiir songs, and feels unhappy
when they leave.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has accepted an
invitation to attend the annual fai • of the Color
ed Indus:ral Association.to be held In Raleigh.
N. t'., and comminuting Oct. 24. He ixexpccted
to make an address The Raleigh Observe ■ says
"it is already evident that the approaching fair
of the colored people will surpass tlint of last,
year, and if Senator Shertuan comes this year
lie mil probably aw th# largest assembly of
colored !>eopie ever in North Carolina."
The romance of Robert Louis Stevenson's life
1* thus told by an acquaintance: "Mrs. Steven
son was horn in Imll umpoils. She isthedaugli
ter iif J;u‘ ib Yaudegrift. an old and prominent
citizen of that city. When Stevenson met her
in Pari* she hud Just secured u divorce from iui
uncoil..- -nisi htisluind. whose name was OslHiine
From I’uns Stevenson followed her to (.'allfortilu
mid there the couple were married, after an
ardent wooing. Mrs. rtlevenson is u women of
noble character and a great aid to this popular
writer in Us literary work."
IMPLANTATION OF TEETH.
An Operation Successfully Performed
by Dr. Younger, of San Francisco.
A man of about JO years of age, short, pleas
ant faced, and with the appearance of an epi
cure, was watched with keen interest by a room
ful of dentists at the Franklin School building
in Washington, as he performed a clinic in oper
ative dentistry upon a portly Englishman, who
lay back in the dental chair. The clinic was a
practical demonstration of the art of implant
ing teeth. The operator was Dr. William .I.
Youuger, of San Francisco, and the operation
was the result of a dispute between him
and an English dentist who had stoutly as
serted his disbelief in the praoticability
of planting a tooth in a man’s
mouth and making it grow there. The dispute
was so warm that he offered himself as a sub
ject if no other person could be found to be
operated upon. It was not necessary, however,
to hold him to this promise as a fellow-coun
tryman was secured. It is claimed that although
a inan may have been without his natural teeth
for years, the process which Dr. Younger has
discovered, will allow sound teeth to lie in
serted in the place of the lost ones, and thus do
away with that trite subject—the false too'b.
By the process diseased t.-eth can also lie re
moved cleansed and replaced.
The operation is thus briefly described by one
of the dentists present this morning: "Dr.
Younger takes a sound tooth corresponding in
space to the hole left by the missing tooth,
ligates the gum and separates it from the id
vial process, and drills a cavity into which he
piaees the tooth, and then ligates it to another
tooth to retain it in position.”
PROBABLY A TRUE STORY.
Unpleasant Result of Porcine Gluttony
and Mule Energy.
From the Henderson (A'j/.) Journal.
Henry Simpson, of this city, has been in the
habit of using dynamite for the purpose of
blowing old tree stumps out of the ground.
The other day he carelessly left the dangerous
compound lying by the side of a stump. The
dynamite was mixed with sawdust and gave an
exceedingly pleasant odor, which attracted the
attention of two of Simpson’s' hogs. They fin
ished their inspection of the stuff by eating it,
and then one of them, probably to aid and ac
celerate digestion, began nibbing its side against
a post at the entrance.of a mule’s stall.
The mule remained passive for only a few
moments, and then, as mules will do, gave the
hog a tremendous kick in the side. A terrific
explosion followed, and When the smoke and
dust had cleared away the hog was only found
in detachments, while an enormous hole marked
the spot where he luul stood. The mule, of
course, survived, or it wouldn’t have been a
mule, but it was the most surprised mule you
ever saw. The other hog escaped, and is now at
large, greatly to the discomfiture cf tho6e in
the habit of straying away from home at night.
The Favorite Office Liar.
tYom the Boston Transcript.
The Listener remembers that earnest and con
scientious liar, formerly known in a certain
newspaper office as Lying FootviJle, or George
Washington Footville as the fancy served. Foot
ville could not open his mouth without lying,
either by direct statement, or implication, cr sup
pression, or in some other way. He was innocent
about if; he never seemed to lie for a purpose,
never with malice aforethought; the truth sim
ply was not In him, and he lied from a necessity
of his being. He had charge of a certain de
partment of work where his lying propensity
had no opportunity to find reflection in thie
paper, but which was an important department
of semi-mechanical work. The autocrat of the
establishment mistrusted him and criticised his
work, but iield on to him. as lie did toeverybody
else. Regularly every day the autocrat called
him Into Ids private office, and loud words would
be heard within Presently Footville would
come out, radiant and triumphant.
"Ah, boys," ho would say. "you should have
heard the blessing I gave the old man'. I told
him some plain truths about the way he is run
ning things, and gave it to him hot and heavy."
Footvilie’s abuse of the autocrat was a nine
day’s wonder in the office, until one day one of
the “boys" managed to get the door or the pri
vate office open—Footville always closed it care
fully when he went in and there was an oaves
dropping party organized, “for the good of the
service,” at the door, to hear Footville “go for
the old matr.” The dialogue began with an em
phatic complaint from the autocrat about some
thing that had been done in Footvilie’s depart
ment. Footville made a weak and shuffling ex
planation, and the autocrat came in with a
denunciatory rejoinder. The more Footville
shuffled and extenuated the softer and more
apologetic his voice became, while the auto
crat’s rose to tones of thunder, and terms of
I abuse were used which no other man iu the
office would have submitted to. Poor Footville,
his excuses completely riddled, could only fal
ter out;
"I’ll try to do better, sir.”
Then the door was softly closed from with
out. The hpys had hea’d enough. But when
Footville came out he was radiaut as ever.
“Dili you h.-ar me cussin’ the old man, boys?”
he asked, triumphantly. “Oh, I gave him par
ticular fits to-day!”
John Randolph’s Reply.
From the Philadelphia Times.
When Ohio was first admitted as a State and
entitled to a Representative in Congress, an un
couth fellow was elected as her Representative.
He lacked many of the essentials needed to in
spire respect, attention, and weight to cany the
measures he advocated or proposed; he sat im
mediately behind Mr. Randolph. When the
Clerk of the House rose and read the petition of
the Ohioan of such matters as that State
needed, he arose, witli his tall, lanky apjaiar
anee, uncouth gestures, boisterous vociferation
and remarkably bad grammar, advocated its
passage, and sat down, perfectly subsided. Mr.
Randolph arose very demurely, and looking
around the House with feigned bewilderment,
turned his face toward the Speaker, who always
gave him polite attention. He said in his earn
est speaking tone of voice: “Mr. Speaker," and
paused.
“Yes, Mr. Randolph, you have the floor.”
“Mr. Speaker," again said Mr. Randolph, with
his thumb pointing over his shoulder, and half
turning his head toward the Ohioan, "Mr.
Speuker, good God! good God! good God!” and
then sat down perfectly composed, leaving the
House convulsed in laughter and the Ohio
statesman embarrassed as to the point and
meaning of his remarks.
Swindled by a Smart Young Man.
From the Few York World.
Geneva, Sept. B.— An English clergyman,
whose name is not given, recently arrived here
from India with his two daughters. The young
ladies, who are very handsome, made the ac
quaintance of an American named Cllnehwood,
who represented himself as coining from
Buffalo. In a short time he was engaged to be
married to the younger of the two, and the day
for the marriage was fixed for last Thursday.
He speut a great deal of money and spoke of
his father as being the President of the Buffalo
and Toronto Railroad Company, which he said
was enormously wealthy, and paid an annual
dividend of li per cent, on a capital of
$180,000,<j90. The clergyman believed this
story, arlon the advice or his would-be son-in
law tiaii'f hltn his savings and the proceeds of
u small if ,ey. amounting in all to i! 1.000. to
invest :J .is wonderful stock. Cllnehwood
handed rom certificates In return and departed
with the money. The certificates were found
to lie worthless. Clincbwood has been traced
to Berlin, where he registered under the name
of Johnson, of London.
When is a Hatter Not a Hatter?
From the Buffalo Courier.
A well known hatter was riding up town last
night, and engaged with a scholarly neighbor in
an animated conversation on tli obscurity of
Browning’s poetry. At Eagle street a young
swell got on and took the sent la-hind the hatter,
whom he at once recognized as the man of
whom lie purchased his headwear, though the
latter didn't know him After sitting sometime
uneasily the swell suddenly stuck his head for
ward and inquired with a loud voice, "1 say.
when'll the.fall styles o’hats be out down to
your place? I can’t wear this thing much longer
and Id like to know when I can get anew one."
The irritated individual addressed, brought
down from his supreme contemplation of
Browning to the consideration of huts, replied
tartly,"Sir. I am n hatter only between 8 o’clock
and li." and therefore resumed his conversation,
while the reproved swell quickly alighted and
disappeared down a side street.
Baci: Again.
>Vom the Boston Courier.
Back again froip the ocean's abore.
Back from the mountain*, lake*. and rivera.
Back to the city's roar
With stronger lung* and healthier livers.
Back again, with fuce* tunned and brown,
Parent*, children, maid*, and nurse*,
Back to the social life in town
With brighter eye* and lighter purses.
Back to the counting room and ochool,
Bock to the Ixiwtcx who employ us,
Back, for September niglil 001.
And the jieaky (ilea no more annoy us.
Back again with the name old he*
'Bout the fiali we caught their weight and
me—mt;
Back to deplore with many sighs
The money aural on our summer's p 1 sac on.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A large peanut crop t looked for this year.
One New York firm stit London 100,000 bar
rels of oysters.
In 1811 26,000,000 Britis*rs used 23.000,000
pounds of tobacco. Now 37)00,000 use 53,000,000
pounds.
During the last week in A,gust Rolta, Mo.,
lost by death three citizens whose combined
ages sum up 246 years.
Russian an wheat planted in he northwestern
British provinces shows that it natures before
the frost and will lie of great vkue to that re
gion.
One of the rare production! of Jackson
county, Michigan, is a white ratlesnake with
seven rattles. It belongs to Rickird Crouch,
and is quite tame.
Mr. Buekemann, of Jefferson count,, Missouri,
caught in two weeks four fish that wighed 224
pounds—first one weighed 70 pounds, \econd 75,
third 45, and the fourth 84.
The oldest known paintings in Einland are
portraits of Chaucer and Henry IV. 'fee por
trait of the former is on a panel, and W.S exe
cuted about 1S30; that of Henry IV. was painted
in 1405.
The old com psiss which was used in surveying
Iroquois county as far bock as 1832. is oi ex
hibition in a show window of Alter's drug sore
at Watscka. It is the property of Mrs. Robirt
sou. of Watseka.
John Hill, the “Norwegian king,” of Gruniy
county. Illinois, canceled his contracts wife
farm tenants at s.l cash rent per acre and wii
take in lieu half of the corn they raise, whicl
will not be much.
Life estimates the number of American visi
tors to England this year at 90,000. It places the
average expenditure of each American tourist
at ±llOO, resulting iu a benefit to English trades
people of over §4,000,000.
Theue is said to be a barber's sign near the Pa
lais Royal, in Paris, bearing the legend in the
vernacular, "Callileucoeapillaire water, which
colors the hair white. For the use of magis
trates and young physicians.”
The Ijondon Economist estimates that there
are $5,030,003,000 of coin in the present circula
tion of the world or available for circulation.
Of this magnificent total, $3,200,000,000 is in
gold and $1,800,000,000 iu silver.
A colony of negroes is going to Shasta, Cal.,
to settle on 7,000 acres of laud above Shingle
town, which has been purchased for that pur
pose. The colonists will come under the lead
ership of a minister named Petty.
There is a hotel in Sugar Hill, in the White
Mountains, where the night watchman and
clerk are both divinity students, and the scrub
girl has been for five years teacher in a public
school and speaks French and Latin.
N. H. Wilson, of Merced, Cal., has just re
ceived some Egyptian wheat 3,000 years old,
which was found in the coffin of an Egyptian
prince while unrolling the mummy. Prof.
Gilden, of Boston, brought the wheat to the
United States in 1850.
Mrs. James Frroubon, of Chester county,
Pennsylvania, couldn’t imagine what was steal
ing her young chickens, until she happened to
see a big frog from a pond near the barnyard
catch a chick and jump into the water with it.
The pond was drained, many frogs were killed,
and the little chickens are safe.
At the Terre Haute polytechnic the other day
experiments were made to ascertain just what
a snail’s pace is. Half a dozen of these slow
goers were permitted to crawl between two
points ten feet apart, and the average piace was
ascertained. It w-as calculated that a snail can
crawl a mile in just fourteen days.
Sixty thousand orange trees are on their way
to California from Japan, where they wore
shipped on board of an English bark in the
harbor of Yokohama about two weeks ago.
With them also comes a miscellaneous assort
ment of over 90,000 trees and shrubs, indigenous
to Japan, which it is proposed to acclimatize in
California.
Several weeks ago T. J. Nalle, of Elsberry,
Mo., had his cistern cleaned out ready for the
first rain that should fall. It remained dry for
some time, until just after the earthquake,when
it was found to contain a bountiful supply of
living water It is an old well.and as it never cut
such an antic before, it is supposed the earth
quake did it.
The church of Santa Bonosa, in Rome, situ
ated between the Via Lungaretta and the Tiber,
' will soon be demolished in the course of the
work of improvement now going on along the
Tiber quay. The church is said by some writei-s
’to contain the toinb of Cola di Rienzi the last
of the Tribunes, a statement the truth or
untruth of which has never been definitely as
certained.
In Sydney, Australia, roughs of the streets
are called “larrikins.’’ The name came from
the reply of a policeman who was asked by the
court what there was against the prisoner whom
he had arrested. "Just larrikin about the
shtrates, yer Honor,” was the reply of the offi
cer, who was an Irishman. From that time dis
orderly conduct was termed larriking, and the
rough was called a larrikin.
Ontonagon, Mich., has a baseball dog. He
can judge a sky-scraper as accurately as any
professional, and is a much surer catch, while
liners and daisy-cutters are simply his veal. He
has been Known to jump five and a half feet
to nail a hot one, and his pickup* are the ad
miration of town. Had he eight equally pro
ficient companions, and were they able to hat,
it would make the strongest aggregation in the
country.
In "Pilgrim’s Progress," as translated into
Japanese and illustrated by native artists, Chris
tian has a close-shaven Mongolian head. Vanity
Fair is a feast of lanterns with popular Japa
nese amusements, the dungeon of Giant Despair
is one of those large wooden cages in which
Eastern criminals are confined, and the angels
waiting to receive the pilgrims on the further
side of the bridgeless river are dressed in Yoko
hama fashion.
A temperature of 570° will produce a dark
blue color on polished steel, and 590° a pale
blue. Oil or grease of any kind will answer for
drawing the tempier of cutlery. The temper for
lancets is obtained at 430° Fabr., axes at 500°.
swords and watch springs at 530°, small saws at
570°, and large saws at 590°. Copper-colored
spots are not produced by tempering, hut they
may be obtained on the polished surface of
steel by immersing the article in a solution of
sulpihate of copper.
The Rio Neu-s gives this picture of social ob
servances in Brazil: “Someone has recently
ventured to protest against the practice of
smoking in the theatres during the progress of
the play, it is a gross piece of impoliteness, of
course, but then what can lie done? There is
no place exempt from the practice of smoking,
and t here is no one so inconsiderate and selfish
as the habitual smoker. We doubt whether
there is any place in the world where there is
Hess reul politeness than in Rio de Janeiro,”
A liquid invented by M. Raoul Pictet, for use
as a disinfectant, answers well as a freezing
mixture for hardening microscopic specimens.
Sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide, having
been mixed and cooled, are compressed until
they are liquid, and stored In syphons. When
liberated they rapidly evaporate, with great re
duction of temperature. By this means mer
cury may lie frozen, and animal or vegetable
tissues rendered solid in a few seconds. It is
easily managed and more effective Ilian ether,
the odor being the principal objection.
Mr. Bai.tkrham, of Asheville, N. C., thinks
that he ha* a very intelligent Newfoundland
dog. He says that after her four pups had be
come large enough to wean lie gave one aw ay,
and a few days afterward, pointing to another
pup, said, witli some emphasis: "To-morrow I
am going to give that one 10 Mr. Blank." The
mother seemed to listen with attention, und the
next morning she was missing with the doomed
brat, leaving the other two puppies to take care
of themselves After nightfall she slunk hack
very slyly with the pup In her mouth, and
seemed happy In having saved it from .separa
tion from its family.
Staoo, Y ai.x’b famous base ball pitcher, en
torqfl Phillips' Kxetcr Academy some years ago
a poor lad. For the first month he lived on he.
a day, his food being oat meal and corn meal,
with meat, the toughest kind of beefsteak, a* a
rare treat once a week. The second month he
succeeded in getting fairly good day board in
return for the care of a horse. At tlie end of
this month he was still Isdler off. for lie found
hoard and lodging for taring for a horse and
doing all the odd chore* around the houe, and
thus he supported himself through Kxeter. At
Yale he earned his way by tutoring ami writing
for the pHiiers In the meantime he h.u. found
leisure ki he one of the lent amateur pitchers m
the country ami lu maintain u high ch.darshlp.
A* for hi* social stamimg.il I* only uecesaufy
to say Ilia' he is a nieiiils-rof the Skull and
Bone* Society, the right tsi wear the isotgeof
which 1* one of the most desire,J honors in col
lege ile ban s remarkable is,*-. Imhm Handsome
Ilian si roue, a highly lutere*lmg study to those
who know the fas ts of Ills psM life The lines
In h * countenance ggj denote endsirsune and dc
tsrminsUou, with keen pvrsapUva powers.
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contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only ia
Cans.
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NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
DRY GOODS, ETC. “
IN
Summer Goods
AT
tola & tar’s,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
VEfE will close out the remainder of our stock
Tv of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12jjjc.
25 pieces Figured Towns. 33 inches wide, regu
lar price a yard; now Bj^c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3V£e.
£0 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard: now 6)4c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 1
One lot of Dress Gingkc choice styles
regular price a yard; ic,
36 Imported Marseilles Qi. -htly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We wi- -.->se the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Blaekand 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 Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 35c.; now I9c. 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.
Our $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.
CROHAN & DOQSER.
MEDICAL.
Tutt’s Pills
SAVES MONEY.
One box of these pills will save man;
lollars in derter's bills. They an
tpcciully prepared ns u
Family Medicine,
• niHnppUcs a w ant long felt. They re
move unhealthy arcuinulatioiiw from
he Imml.v, without nausea or griping
Idupted to young and old. Price, 23
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tioe,
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Q has won the favor of
the public end now rack*
emontr t leedin? Modi*
ciae*of the oildom.
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Bradford, Pi.
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MANHOOD RESTORED. AfigKtnS
ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility, l.iOt
Manhood, etc., having tried in vain every k„ >wn
remedy, lion discovered a simple self cure. which
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dress C. J. MASON, Poet Offloe Box 3179, New
York City.
DITTOS AND NSDICim
Dn’t Do It! Don't Do Whitt’
TIfMT don't walk our tony streets with that
> > nice <lre*s or milt of clothes <si with Siam*
or I,reuse Spots In, to which the Savannah dus*
sticks "doaor Until a brother, when
Japanese Cleansing Cream
will take thern out clsau as anew pin. if*' *
bottle Mode only by
J. R. HALTIWANGEK,
At UM lirug Btorna, Uroughron and DrmyUss
Wbuutkar sod H'syts >UwvU.