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4 Cljcponungtletos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1887. Registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. "~Tbe Morning News is published every day In *be vear, and is served to sutwcribars in the city. fey newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 rents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 0U Cor six months and $lO 00 for one yixir. The Morning News, by mail, one month, fl 00; three months. $2 30; six months, >5 'JO; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $0 (X) one year, $8 00. The .Morning News. Tri-weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday's, Thurs days and Sat unlays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one’ year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 2Y Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Nevsjiaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Fetters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah. >fa." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS; Special Notices— New Year Novelties, Kuckuck & Seemann. Legal Notices— Order of Circuits of Supremo Court of Georgia. Cheap Column Advertisements- Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule Ocean Steamship Cos. Steamer’s Schedule Steamer Pope Catlin. House Furnishing Goods Lovuli & Latti more. Fall 1887—A. Falk A Son. Rust Proof Oats, Etc.—T. P. Bond A Cos. Medical—Civiale Agency Remedies. Auction Sale— Oil Paintings, etc., by Mar Shall & McLeod. Mrs. IA-slio now confesses to the public through the press that she at one time “de votedly loved” DeLouville. If she has any friends, they ought to lock her up. Grain is now being carried from Chicago to Liverpool for sc. per 100 pounds less than from Chicago to New York. Here is a fine opening for the Interstate Railroad Com mission to get in a little work, if the law authorizes it. Mr. Blaine, over in Europe, says he would not have the Presidency were it offered him. His friends on this side continue to industriously work for his nomination. They evidently know that when he says one thing he means another. Mr. Randall’s faee is said to be continu ally wreathed with smiles since the Allen town convention. After Congress acts upon a tariff reduction bill and he has to give an account of his stewardship of their interests to his backers, he will not be so happy. If Arkansas laws are anything like those of other Southern States, tho rich Chicago grocer who married a negro servant girl at Rammelsburg hot springs, and made her a ■wedding present of #15,000, may have time and opportunity to repent his folly in jail. Senator Gorman, w'ho is a great politi cian, does not abuse the bolting Maryland Democrats. On the contrary, he speaks of their ’‘high character and attainments," as if they were about as numerous as a din ner party, and he knew each of them per sonally. Spinners in the great Stafford mills, at Fall Rivfr. Mass., are about to strike be cause they can make only nine dollars by six days' work. This is a specimen of the high pay which protectionists claim their policy insures to skilled labor. Farm labor ers are paid that much in some parts of tiie Country at certain seasons. A proclamation from the Count of Paris, pretender to a throne which doesn’t exist, was posted all over France nt midnight Thursday. If the French jieople mined that their country shall always be a republic, they should find some way to silence the banished princes, who are always trying to keep the question open. President Wright, of the Chicago Board q[ Trade, having referred to the New York Produce Exchange as a “bucket shop"’, and its members as gamblers, the latter ex pressed their indignation by hanging and burning him in effigy. Is it possible that having Vanquished her old rival, St. Louis, Chicago begins to (eel more important than New York? Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, has offered State's Attorney Grinnell, who is a Demo crat, a judgeship, with a salary of $7,000. It is to be hoped that this is intended as a proper recognition of his able services in the Anarchist prosecution, and not, as is in timated. a mere ixditical trick to get him out of politics, in the interest of a local ring in Chicago. The New York Sun stated a few days sinoe, in giving some facts about its own pet candidate for the Presidency, Gan. But ler. that he was born in Maine, and is a graduate of Bowdoin. In fact, says the Boston Herald, he was born in New Hamp shire, and graduated at Waterville, now Colby. Per naps the Sun's ignorance con cerning Gen. Butler explains why it found it possible to support him so ardently. The Heading railroad company's action in acceding to the demands of its miners for an advance of wages will probably force all the other coal companies to do likewise, and the thousands of men now idle will escape the sufferings of a prolonged strike at the be ginning of winter. The Beading was doubtless actuated by selfish motives, but its course is no less a blessing for that rea son. Congressman Cox, of New York, was in Washington Thursday, and let it be known that he would accept the chairmanship of the Ways uni Means Committee. He lias been a consistent advocate of tariff reform, is a hard worker, an able man, and would, perhaps, be more usoful in the position named than Mr. Mills, of Texas, who has been mentioned for the place, but whose leadership would perhaps excite unneces sary opposition. An American Irishman named Lynch has taken the trouble to go over into Quetxic and denounce Lord J Atisdowue face to faee at an agricultural fair. He was very roughly ban<lld by the crowd, and naval from perhaps fatal injury only by the inter venttou of the police and the cavalry escort of the Governor General. Before be gsU out of jail lie will perhaps have coran to the conclusion that a man should he sure be has the crowd on his side before he attempts to •nset tb* rule played by Editor O’Brien lu fanads A Convention Interviewed. The New York World undertook to get opinions on several interesting subjects from the delegates to the Republican Convention of New York, which met at Saratoga last JVednesday. The questions which the re jiorters asked each of the delegates were the following: 1. Who is your choice for Presi dent in 18S8? 3. What do you think the Prohibition vote will be? 8. What do you think of the labor vote of all the different organizations? The number of delegates was 693, and great difficulties had to be overcome in get ting opinions. Some could not be seen at all, owing to their engagements; others were very shy, and not a few refused out right to answer questions, for the reason, probably, that they had no opinions re sponsive to them. The importers, however, succeeded in getting answers from 372 of the delegates. Of these 201 were for Blaine for President, 23 were for Chauueey M. De pew, 19 for Robert T. Lincoln. 7 for Joseph R. Hawley and 100 were non-committal. The others were divided among Conkling, Foraker, Gresham and half a dozen other prominent Republican leaders. With reference to the Prohibition vote one delegate placed it as high as 75,000 in the State, and another as low as 15,000. Of the 372 who were questioned, however, 124 placed it above 40,000 in the State and 128 below that number. There were 76 who had no opinion and 44 who refused to oxpress any. Views with regard to the labor vote varied greatly. A few placed it as low as 25,000 ami one or two as high as 250,(XX) in the State. There were 197 who placesi it above 75,000, and 54 who placed it below that number. There were 70 who declared they were not sufficiently well informed to give an intelligent opinion, and 45 who declined to express one. From the interviews it is apparent that Blaine is far ahead of any other candidate in the estimation of his party in New York, and that the Republicans think the Labor vote will be about double the Prohibition vote. They wish the Labor vote to be large, however, and the Prohibition vote to lie small, because the latter vote will be almost wholly drawn from the Republican party, and their wish may have a great deal to do with shaping their opinions with regard to it. The chances, however, are that the Prohibition vote will be a great deal larger than the Republicans pretend to think, and that it willfully offset the vote that the Labor party will draw from the Democratic party. It is pretty safe to assume, however, that no estimate of either the Prohibition or the Labor vote will be accepted by the politi cians as reliable, but it is hardly probable that the Labor party will poll as many votes in New York as Henry George did for Mayor at the last municipal election in that city. The Fishery Question. The British Minister at Washington talks very frankly about the important features of the commission plan to settle tho troubles in connection with tho Canadian fisheries. In an interview published in the Washing ton Post, a day or two ago, he said that he thought that the commission would be ready to go to work about Nov. 1, but he seemed to lie rather doubtful about the re sults of the commission’s work lieing satis factory to the Senate. He called attention to the fact that the Senate expressed its hostility to the commiasion’s plan last winter, and he saw no good reason why it should entertain a different opinion with regard to the plan this winter. Only two of thfe commissioners on the part of the British government havo been appointed, viz: the British Minister at Wash ington and Mr. Chamberlain. The third one will be appointed by Canada. It is thought that Sir John MacDonald will be selected, on account of his acquaintance with the constitution and laws of this coun try and his familiarity with the matters which will bo the subjects of negotiation. No one of the commissioners for this country has yet been appointed, and, although rumor is busy with tho names of several prominent men, no one outside of the Cabinet circle yet knows who will probably be appointed. Doubtless two Democrats and one Republican will repre sent this country. The subjects with which the commission will have to deal will be those wholly con nected with the fishery troubles. Other mat ters will, of course, be touched up incident ally, but there will be no negotiations with regurd to them. In his interview, Minister West was extremely careful to state that the suggestion of a commission came from our government. It seems rather remark able that lie should have been desirous of having that fact brought prominently be fore the public. Is he anxious to have the American people understand that the Eng lish go. eminent is satisfied with the situa tion as it is, and t hat this country, ufter Con gress had passed a resolution authorizing re taliation, requested negotiations relative to the pending troubles with the view of se curing a peaceful settlement of them, and that England, equally ready for peace or war, acceded to the request? Secretary Bayard, a day or two ago, said that only three ways were open for the set tlement of the fishery- dispute, viz: by war, arbitration or a commission, and that for his part he preferred a commission. There certainly can l>e no objection to a commis sion, provided our rights can be secured by means of it. After threatening retaliation, however, this government cannot afford to recede from the position which it has tuken. It is as necessary for it to insist upon its view of the issue If it is convinced that that view is right, as it is to secure to our fisher men the privileges they claim. Commissioner Coleman's Sorghum Ex periment. Commissioner Coleman thinks that there is now n fair prospect for this country, in the course of a few years, to produce all the sugar it consumes. The making of sugar from sorghum by the diffusion or saturation process is, according to the Commissioner, proving to boa great success. He is con ducting experiments at Fort Scott, Kan., and Kio Grande, N. J. By the diffusion process costly mills ore not needed, and all the saccliarine matter is extracted from the cane. The expensive mills in use on the sugar plantations of Louisiana leave at least a third of the sac chorine matter in fbe refuse cane. The Commissioner says that Kansas will find the culture of sorghum for sugar much more profitable than the culture of com or wheat. From 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of sugar per acre is secured, worth Ojf per pound. Besidia the sugar, from VM to MO gallons per acre of molasses fs obtained, and - J5 bushels of sorghum seed, which is worth as much as com for fed for cattle. If tb* diffusion pnxvas is all that the Com niiMSkouer claims for it, sorghum might be ouibvgt*d ui this locality with profit. TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1887. The State Fair. In some respects the more interesting of the two great expositions to he held in Georgia this fall is that under the auspices of the State Agricultural Society, at Macon. It is in a true sense representative of the whole State, as the society by which it is given, long recognized as a powerful and beneficent factor in the affairs of the commonwealth, is made up of men representing, perhaps, every county. The fairs heretofore given by the society have been almost uniformly successful, par ticularly those given in Macon, whose ad vantages for such shows of the people are peculiarly great. Several years ago that city expended very large sums in the improve ment of a public park. The plat of ground selected is within the limits of the city, is, perhaps, two hundred acres in extent, aud tiie larger part is covered with a growth of fine forest trees. Those grounds have been beautified in almost every possible way, nu merous buildings erected, and one of the best race tracks in the Southern States pro vided. A large part of the expendi ture upon the grounds was incurred to secure the permanent location of the State fairs, and thoy will here after be always held in this beautiful park. However desirable may be the develop ment of the State’s mineral resources and of manufactures, her leading industry must always be agriculture. Compared with its product, that of manufactures is almost in significant, and yet the room for develop ment in extent and improvement in pro cesses is almost as great in agriculture os in any other direction. It is these facts which lend importance to the fair of the State Agricultural Society. It is almost entirely a farmers’ show. There would doubtless have been this year, as heretofore, a large attendance upon the fair, even were its attractions limited to those which have characterized others of the series; but on this occasion there occurs, in connection with the fair, an event which appeals strongly to the loving remembrance entertained by our people for those who par ticipated in the great deeds of a quarter of a century ago. This event is the coming together of Confederate veterans to meet for the last time their Commander-in-Chief during those troublous times. Their meet ing with him and with each other cannot fail to evoke memories from whose sadness time has taken all pain and loft only pleasure. CHd comrades, in “fighting their battles o’er again,” will tramp through the valley with Jackson and charge again at Malvern Hill. In these recollections there will be nothing of the bitterness of defeat—only pride in duty well performed. The Morning News hopes there will be thousands of the old veterans present, that they will enjoy them selves to their hearts’ content, and that they will send their old commander homo happy in the knowledge that, even though he lost the prize for which he fought, he gained the affection and confidence of his followers, and that he has them yet. The Missouri Bald Knobbera. The history of the band of “regulators” in a remote portion of Missouri, known as Bald Knobbers, whose persecution of their fellow citizens and trial by the courts have filled considerable space in the newspapers for several mouths, can be profitably studied in other parts of the coun try, where manifestations of a spirit similar to theirs have not been un common. It is not a peculiar history. In fact it is monotonously like that of nearly every other hand which has undertaken to right wrong und wipe out abuses without resort to the law of the land. This band or society was not, when formed, composed of dospJfedoes, but of men who considered themselves the best jieople of the community—reputable inen of property, farmers and even preach ers being among the number. Their pur pose was to correct certain abuses, and their first acts were, perha; s, wrong only in that they were without authority of law. But they could not stop at this. Having acted in violation of law and made themselves liable to punishment, the moderate men had no choice but to fol low the lead of the most reckless. The fear of the law they had violated was a rope around their necks to drag thorn forward to the commission of yet more serious crimes, which succeeded each other more and more rapidly, becoming all the time of graver character until they culminated in murder. And so it came übout that men who con sidered themselves so much better than their neighbors that they could justly try them for offenses without giving them oppor tunity for defense, found themselves red handed murderers. Hunted down by officers of the law, and Anally, after months of incarceration in jail, brought to trial, the last of them gave up a hopeless defense and appealed to the mercy of the court. Law breaking cannot be prevented by law' breaking, no matter how good the motive, and if men orgauize themselves for the pur pose, they are as a band of highway rob bers, who arc prepared to murder if neces sary to obtain their booty, compared with a sneak thief who timidly filches a purse. Or ganization makes them more criminal and more to be dreaded. A St. Louis man has invented an auto matic grain scale. It consists of a box with inclined j>artitions placed on an ordinary scale. AVithin this box is a revolving pan supjxirted on a rocking lever. Attached to t'lo lever is an upright upon which rests a vibrating valve for the purpose of cutting off the main flow of grain. Extending down from this valve is a rod that disturbs the equilibrium of the grain when the pan is full, and causes it to discharge itself. The grain pours through tho main opening un til the |xui contains almost the required weight, then the level on which the pan rests rocks and partially cuts off the flow. The grain now runs in a very small stream until the weight is completed, when the box descends and the scale-beam rises, breaking the electric circuit, which, acting on the elec tro magnet, causes the supplemental valve to cut off the grain completely. The latest Kansas boom is salt. King man has found a vein of it tieiienth her. Kilsworth has discovered 155 foot of it, said to be of the very finest quality, and Wichita has organized a company with #lOO,OOO to prepare the article for use. The grandest peak in the United (States is said to lie Mount Williamson, in Inyo, (lal. It is 15,000 feet high, a large portion of the northern side living nearly |>crpeii dicular. Two of the three peaks are inac cessible. Henry George really doee not need a ilailv newspajier organ in New York, such ahe wishes to establish The New York 'i'ribuM is doing all it cau lor him. CURRENT COMMENT. Carlisle Will Not Please the Barons. From the Missouri Republican (Item.) The high-tariff barons would lie highly pleased if Mr. J G. Carlisle would decline to accept the Kje-ukership of the House of Representatives of the Fiftietn Congress. Mr. Carlisle, however, is not in the habit of bowing to the will of the barons, and it is very likely that the Pennsyl vania suggestions will die a barren death. What the Decision in the Anarchists’ Case Means. From the New York Tribune (Rep.) American law has declared with no less delib eration than emphasis that a homli is a murder er's weapi in. that every one connected with its manufacture aud use is a murderer, and that murderers must suffer the. extreme penalty of the law. even if they profess to be the cham pions of the poor and working classes and the agents of social reform. Must Be Made a Party Question. From the Galveston News (Dem■) If the (tariff) measure submitted to Congress has the indorsement of the administration and a Democratic caucus there w ill lie no middle ground for the liaudall faction and they cannot again thwart the policy of the party anil the popular w ill while acting under a friendly ban ner. The alternative will lie presented for those who are unwilling to stand with the party on this question to enter the Republican ranks, and the chances are tnat if Mr. Randall should ac cept this alternative he could not carry a suffi cient force with him to do much harm. BRIGHT BITS. New Republican creed: The three P's—Pro tection, palsy and pensions.—Louisville Demo crat. Fish should he weighed in their own scales. The catch weight that, fixed by the man who catches the flsh, is never correct. — Picayune. The senior dead head of the world has just been taken out of a stone coffin in Sidon, where he had been 2,800 years. -San Francisco Alta. If you want to get a good idea of tumultu ous motion you want to watch the agitation of the hustles of two women dancing a hop waltz. —Boston Transcript, Lady of the house (urging company to eat) — Please help yourselves. Do just as you would in your own uouse. I am always so glad when rny friends are at home.—Nan b'rancisco Wasp. About 80 per cent of the oyster is water. It is tills fact that makes a man of experience take a drink of straight liquor immediately after eating a dozen raw oysters.— New Orleans Pica yune. Mistress (to servant)— Did you tell those ladies at the door that I was not at home? Servant—Yis, mum. Mistress—What did they say? Servant—How fortiuit ’.—Exchange. The mind cure has already abolished all dis ease. Nobody bus any disease; the trouble is simply they think they have. Another K<£!ety is to be started to enable people to lift them selves up by the straps of their boots. Hartford Courant. Catherine Owen has published a book called "Ten Dollars Enough.” She may think so now, but by the time she gets all the jet trimming and stuff for tile overskirt she will find that about $lO more is necessary, not including the dressmaker’s bill. Ten dollars is enough for the material, but trimming and making cost like sixty.— Norristown Herald. .Master Tom (aged 12, visiting for his vacation) —Have a cigar, grandpa? Urandpa->-Hey? a what, sir? Master Tom—A tig—cigarette, you know. Grandpa—Certainly not, sir. I never smoked in my lire. Master Tom—Ah, then I wouldn't advise you to begin. (Lights up and sits down to read the Sporting News).—Town Topics. A clergyman in Carson, Nev., recently sent to a local paper a notice of the servi-es at his church, in which the subject of his sermon, “How to Cure Hoodlumism,” was given. It ap peared in print, however, as "How to Cure Rheumatism,” and the church was ]lacked. It is easy enough for a preacher to be popular. All tuat is necessary is to preach on subjects which people are interested iu .—Exchange. “Suppose,” said a Dakota teacher, while hear ing a class iu mental arithmetic recite, “that your father should plunt-an addition of thirty lots to the town, and there should be a boom and he should sell fourteen of them ’to “a man from Chicago, and sixteen to a man from Min neapolis, what would be left?" "I know:” shouted a bey in the middle of the class. • "Very well, Tommy, you may tell us." “The men from Chicago and Minneapolis would be left. My pa has an addition, and I heard him tollin' ina about just such a ease last night, and he said they would be left awful bad!” —Dakota Bell. PERSONAL. Dr. McGlynn's bead measures 23t£ inches in circumference, not allowing anything for that portion which has beewswelled. Sir Dinshaw Manocowee Petit, a Parsee mill owner of Bombay, has in twenty years given away a million dollars for various benevolent purposes. A friend of C. P. Huntington quotes him as saying that he is not half so much afraid of the Pacific railroad investigating committee as he is of Mrs. Hetty Green. Because the custom house people inspected Mrs. Frank Leslie's baggage when she returned from Europe last Friday and found some dutia ble articles, the lady publisher promises to begin a free trade crusade against the govern ment. Nearly two weeks ago Miss EUa Sugg, of Betterton, 111., told her parents she was going off on a visit, and, laboring under the delusion that the I.or l called her there, she went into the woods and fasted for eleven days. She is sadly wasted but will recover. Mary Mares Dodge, editor of si. Nicholas, author or ‘Hans Drinker’’ and other noted works, has (men many years a widow. She began Rvritlng as a distraction from her grief at the loss of her husband and as a means of properly educating her two boys. Walpole's Dccii ess of Rutland was ac customed to say to her niece, when one of those apcc yphal anecdotes of which the Courts of the Georges were so prolific, came to her oars. "That’s a lie. my dear; but make a note of it; it will do for news In the country." Many of Patti’s childish treasures are to be seen at Oraigy Nos Castle, among others, the lrieml and companion of her youth, the doll Henrlette, dressed in snowy white muslin and laces, and ready as ever to squeak "Mamma” and "Papa" when pressure is Drought to bear upon her. The will of Mrs. Vincent, the Boston actress, who died last week, leaves SI,OOO to each of her six nieces and nephews. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals gets the same amount, and that for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children sf,oo. Her Jewelry Is divided among her friends. Charles Hutchinson, the young Vice-Presi dent of the Chicago Corn Exchange Bank, is a dilctante. His collection of paintings is one of the finest in the West. ills Horary is filled with rare booms. He bus sound notions of archi tecture and interior decoration and a fortune of ?I.tIOO,UOU to carry out the same. One of the most successful temperance workers beyond the Mississippi is Miss Laura Winkler of lowa. She was bom blind, but her earnest zeal is not impaired to any serious ex tent by her infliction. .Miss Winkler's favorite field is the workshop. She visits factories during the Boon hour and makes personal ap peal to the workmen to shun King Alcohol. After all, what is fame! Eckley B. Cox,of Drif ton, one of the Democratic leaders in the Penn sylvania Senate in 1881 and 188-1, who could have lieeu nominated for Governor the year that Robert K. PuUison was named, had he said the word, is described by a Hazleton corres|x>ndent of the Now York Wvrl'l as a man "high in the councils of the Republican party,” who "warm ly indorses its plntform about protection." Mrs. Gould, a rich widow of California, re cently resolved to disinherit her daughter, be aauaaof bee nlnpnrannt sxin afterward she learned that the parent* of the groom had clow I their doors against tho young couple. She Ix-cuine angry at this, declaring that her daughter was as good as any woman on earth, and concluded by forgiving all. presenting the bride and groom with a comfortable share of her home uud fortune. Lyman Taumdull, the famous ex-Renator, la living quietly at Oakland, 111., taking eare of his fpirden and nix law practice. His brother and ila sous live uear him. He doe* not look mueli older tbuu ho did fifteen yearn ago. when Nuat so often sketched Ida strong ami Intellectual face. Hia law practice la enormous, and is said to txs worth S.V).OUH a year There are not half a dozen lawyers 111 the Word who can command fees as large as Lyman Trumbull’*. In an Interview at Baltimore regarding the Cal belle University at Washington. Bishop Ire land says that the faculty will coiixlal of ten professor*, three of whom have already Isseu secured Pastor, the great German historian front the umvaniity at Tyrol, alio silllelec Uiror on hlsl-n y. nod \ ordat. from on* of tha iiniverolle* In itoiue, os locturar on Aaaymlogy and Kgyptlogv Tip- name of lb* third pro fcasir has n g yet been mode public, but be M an vuuiumt man of latter*. THE MADNESS OF LEAR. How Edwin Forrest Became Convinced of the Fact. .fVom Dr, Qross' Autobiography. I became acquainted with Mr. Forrest under peculiar circumstances. In the summer of 1828 Prof. George McClellan called at my office at Library and Fifth streets, in this city, to ask me if on the morrow I would accompany Mr. Edwin Forrest to the Pennsylvania Hospital, adding that the young actor was studying the character of Lear, and was anxious to see a Mr. Rush, who had long been confined in that institution on account of insanity. My answer was: “Certainly; it will afford me much pleas ure to be of service, in any manner possible, to you or to your friend ” Punctually at 12 o'clock, the hour appointed for our meeting at McClel lan's house, we were presented to each other, and Forrest and I strolled off. talking pretty briskly us we passed along to the office of the steward, to whom I introduced my companion. In a trice we were at the desired spot. Mr. John Rush was a son of l>r. Benjamin Rush, and had been educated for tbe Philadelphia bar, then perhaps the most famous bar in the United .States, adorned as it was by many of the leading minds of the country. The case of Rush was a singularly melancholy one. In an evil hour tbe young lawyer quarreled with his bosom friend, a Mr. Bingham, who oc cupied a high position in the social circle. A meeting took place soon after—in Canada, I believe -ami Rush killed his adversary. Re morse seised him, and in a short time he l>e came a victim of incurable insanity. At the time of our visit the insane were confined in the basement of the building, and Rush was in the habit of pacing to and fro in the corridor, with his hands behind liis back, engaged in inco herent niutterings, in which the word ''Bing ham’’ was conspicuously noticeable. He was then an old man, although he was still erect, with a handsome, open, manly countenance. Through the grating in the heavy iron door of the corridor Forrest steulthily studied the con duct of the demented duelist. He visited the hospital a number of times, and finally came away perfectly convinced of the madness of ‘Tear,” as graphically portrayed by Shake speare. Forrest henceforth made a special study of the character, and how faithfully he delineated it is too well known to require com ment. A Blind Dog’s Guardian Cat. Letter to the Spectator. I know you have a high opinion of the dog's character, but of the “harmless, necessary cat,” perhaps you may not think so well as he or she deserves. The following anecdote of my own “Black Beauty,” or “Prof. Blackie," as I often call him, may find a place in your generous paper. A favorite Pomeranian dog was cruelly blinded by a carter's lash, and while his owner tenderly bathed the infiamed eyes. ''Blackie.” the sleek tom-cat, always sat by with a kindly look of pity in his luminous green eye. When "Laddie,'' the blind dog, was called in at night’ be often failed to find the door, or would strike his venerable head against the posts. “Blackie,” having noted this difficulty, would jump off his warm cushion, by the kitchen fire, trot out with a "mew'' into the dark night, and in a few min utes return with “Laddie” shoulder-to-shouldef, as it were and the Trends would then separate for the night. “Laddie," when younger, had quietly re sented the attentions shown by his owacr to a fascinating kitten, who used to frolic with his long, fringed tail; but he was too noble to show active dislike. When tbe kitten died in convulsions—a victim to nerves and a ball of cotton—and its owner bent over the stiffened form in grief, “Laddie" came gravely up and kissed it. He followed to the grave, and for many days was seen by his mistress to go up the garden and sit upon the sod. Was this his way of showing remorse for his former cold ness, or might it be an expression of sympathy for his bereaved owner? Wicked Western Wiles. From the Chicago Tribune. “Have any of you found a bank-note?” in quired a man in wild-eyed excitement as be hurriedly approached .a knot of loungers at the Union depot yesterday moruing. “Have you lost one?” asked an elderly stranger of bland and sedate appearance. "Yes. yes: have you found it?* “Wait a moment. What was its denomina tion?" “It was a SSO bill—national bank note.” The stranger leisurely drew a roll of bills from bis pocket, looked them over, took one out, and passed it over to the excited individual, re marking, with much urbanity as he did so: “It is well for you, my friend, that it was found by an honest man. I picked it up a few minutes ago, and take pleasure in giving back to you what I am satisfied is your property.” “Thank you, sir; thank you. It’s ray turn now to do the fair thing. Here's a $lO bill. You shan’t refuse it. Take it, sir; take it, or I shall feel hurt.” The stranger, thus urged, took the money, and the grateful individual walked off with his SSO. He was considerably surprised to learn, a few hours later, that the bill was not the one he had lost at all, but a counterfeit. He is now looking for the blaud and elderly stranger, but there are reasons for doubting his success in finding him. Just Like Abe. From the Bismarck Tribune. “Have you seen this story about Abe Lincoln, where, when he was a clerk in a dry goods store, he discovered after the lady had gone that he had cheated her out of six and a quarter cents in making change, and how he closed the store and walked three miles after dark t hat evening to refund the money?” Tills question was asked by the minister, and uddressed to old Sobersides. “Yes,” said Sobersides, “Pve got a clerk who reminds me of Old Abe. and every time I read that story I think of him.” “You don't say. He must be a Splendid fel low.” “He is. He bad precisely the same expe rience that is told of Lincoln.” “You don't say! Failed to give back the right amount of change? Discovered his mistake? Anil walked three miles to give it back? Did he do that?” “Yes, I letter than that. He walked four miles instead of threfc. and did not return until 2 o'clock next moruing.” “Magnificent youth! God bless him!” ejacu lated the minister. “Yes, nice fellow, and he would have made his mark, too, if the girl hadu't had him ar rested.” “Arrested? What for?” “Breach of promise.” A Heartfelt Plaint. From the Chicago Herald. Down at the First National Bank all the sil ver depositor must go through the window of the silver teller, lie is a very diminutive but very sharp fellow, who stands up on a dry good box, but he knows all about silver. He keeps a big wooden mallet and a great big wooden block right at his elbow. It is his duty whenever he gets his hand on a counterfeit to stamp it with a big “C.” A profitable Jewish customer shoved in hlty pass book around at the hank the other dav. There were six silver dollars and the "receiver," handing them Ixiek, told the depositor to take them over to the silver teller. The Hebrew picked up the six silver dollars and walking over to where the little fellow stood upon his dry goods box. poked them through his window. It seemed as If the business was all done with one movement, for It ull happened in a twinkling. There was a smash as the hammer came down on the block; a splash, as the glassy counterfeit broke into pieces, and $6 good currency was handed liock to the customer. But it wasn't so quick that he didn't understand it all. "My Cott ?" he ejaculated, “I vaa an honest, man i vouldn’t peat der batik; but I could bass dat tollar T' What is Love? Darling. I’m lonely when tbou art not near me, Lonely, with even the dearest beside; Voices whose tones used to gladden and cheer me Seem to have all their old magic denied. But in thy presence each dear one is dearer, Music is sweeter anti starlight is clearer, Friendship and truth upimar truer, slncerer, O! surely 'tis this that they tell us is love. Absent, thine image Boats ever before me— Present, 1 only can feel that thou art In the vague seuseof delight that steals o'er me, WiMorfng my brain and thrilling my heart. There is no one so lovely where lieauty assembles. There is nothing my dreaming about thee resembles Save some bright star in the far sky that trembles- Oh I surely 'tis this that they tell us is love. tiBOHOK ARNOLD. An Effectual Treatment for W&rte. From the Mrdiral Pro**. It Is now fairly established, says a writer in the Mnlicul Prtu, that the common wart, which Is so unsightly and often so proliferous on the hand* and fac, can lie easily removed by small doses of sulphate of iiiagnestu taken Internally M. Colrut, of Lyons, ha* drawn attention to this extraordinary fact. Several children nested with tliiMe grsJu doses of Epsom suits mornlug and evening were promptly cured. M Aubert i lies tlie case of a Woman whose fare was ills figured by these excrescences and who was uu i until Ip ,i diaehui suit n half of magnesia taken dally. Another medical man reports a ease of very large wart* which dlaap ■■oared In a fortnight from the dally ad minis Ira lion yi ton grams of lias salts. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mors than 1.000 members attended the recent congress of German cyclists at Frankfort-on the-Maiu. The convict population of the United States, not counting the rogues out of jail, is 64,349, or one to every 980 inhabitants. Queen Christina, of Spain, who is a German by birth, has been unable to conquer her aver sion to bullfights, and now absolutely refuses to attend any. The first glass window in England was one put up iu an aMvy aboat 680. Glass windows, however, did not become general for many hun dred years, and as late as 1577. A London news agent says that the sales of the five American magazines reissued in Eng land exceed the sales of the twenty-live leading magazines of the United Kingdom. The new library building just commenced in Washington City, for which Congress appropri ated something like $1,000,000, will be the largest structure in the federal capital, with a single exception. A Bhuioepobt (Conn.) manufacturing concern is sending large numbers of a family button hole machine to India and Japan, and <*— establishment has an order for fifty sewing ma chines for Asia. The heaviest member of the Fat Men's Club of New York is John Fiske, 4(A pounds. The minimum weight allowed in members is 200 pounds. The heaviest sixteen of them weigh a total of 8,851 pounds. Queen Victoria has the largest book ever bound. It measures eighteen inches across the back, and weighs over thirty pounds. It is the volume with the Jubilee addresses of congratu lation from the habitations of the Primrose League. Georoe F. Hull, of New Lebanon (on the Hudson), N, Y., has a cat which recently had a litter of kittens, among them being a black and white one with a perfect Wyandotte chicken feather in its forehead and markings similar to this fowl on its paws. Under the operation of a high license law in Philadelphia, the number of saloons will be re duced from 5,760 to about 3,000, and the decrease will close up most of the low grade of grog shops. That is, this is expected to be the re sult if the law is enforced. A Chicago syndicate proposes to expend $500,000 in improving 2,000 acres of land on False Bay, in Southern California, and then put it on the market for sale. These improvements in clude a hotel, to cost $125,000, and a non-secta rian college, on which $200,000 will be expended. A cheeky rascal called up the Sheriff of Sag inaw', Mich., by telephone the other day and said: “You may turn Flynn loose; he's paid his tine. This is Judge Nolan talking.” And the gentle Flynn, who was doing twenty days for being drunk, was on the verge of freedom W'hen the Sheriff discovered the hoax. A congress of Russian ra inufacturers is to meet early text year in St. Petersburg. It will consider ways and means of remedying the com mercial stagnation in Russia, and opening new markets to ner products. Incidentally the reg ulation of the tariff, of railway rates, the organ ization of industrial credit institutions, etc., are to be discussed. The latest scheme to swindle the farmer is being perpetrated under the guise of a so-called society to prevent the killing of birds. A man invades the rural home, talks glibly about the good being done for the farmer by the birds, and ends by asking him to sign a pledge not to kill a bird in twelve months. The pledges, with a little manipulation, turn up in tne way of a promissory note, and make trouble. A St. Paul man says that in noticing the sig natures of children of friends of his he is fre quently startled by the close resemblance of their penmanship to those of their parents. Inquiry does not demonstrate that the children have in - tentionally copied the handwriting of their sires, but without intent have come jnto the same pen peculiarities. In sonje instances the difference between the two could scarcely he distinguished. Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Baron Aversley, at 94 years old is still a sprightly and active man in body and mind. He is as close a student of current politics as when he was Speaker of the House, thirty odd years ago, and as keen a sportsman as ever, aa may be inferred from the fact that he has just been purchasing a brace of breech-loading guns containing all the modern improvements invented by men bom since he passed the meridian pf life. A “drug store” in Bangor, Me., according to a local paper, was found by a constable who officially visited it to be equipped as follows: Seventeen bottles of lager beer, a bottle with one and a half pints of whisky, four bottles each containing a gill of whisky, one bottle with a half a pint of wine, one bottle with a pint of wine and a bottle with a pint and a half of wine, a pint of gib, two quarts of alcohol and a can containing two gallons of alcohol. There has just died in Paris, in poverty and neglect, a man who once played an important part in European politics. Odian Effendi was the real author of the constitution which Midhat Pasha attempted to introduce into Turkey years ago For a long time Odian Effendi Das'been sick In Paris from a disease which did not per mit him either to sit or lie down, and he had to be kept in a standing position constantly. A devoted sister nursed him faithfully. The richest copper in the world is said to be found in a mine not far from the Calumet, in which much of the copper is found pure and in great masses too heavy to handle bodily, and too soft and pliable to be sawed or blasted to pieces. The only way to reduce the mass is by the tedious method of chiseling. This is so ex pensive, says the New York Commercial-Adver tiser, that It actually makes the richest mine in the world practically almost valueless. About a year ago a young man named Sant; ders, living in Huntingdon, Eng., stabbed hi., sweetheart in the chest with a sword-cane. The jfirl apparently recovered, but she has always insisted that a piece of the weapon must hav i broken off and remained In the wound. Pr. f Humphreys, of Addenbroke Hospital, Cam bridge, has just succeeded in extracting from the girl's body a piece of the blade more than six inches long. It was taken out from ler back, broken end first, showing that it had turned completely around since she was stabbed. “Old Uncle Tom” Saijuels, of Birmingham, Ala., is one of the well-to-do members of the colored race. He was at one time the property of Col. Samuels, of Richmond. Va. After the death of the Colonel “Tom” passed, as part of the estate, through several hands, and was finally made a free mail by the great proclamn tion. He went to Alabama and worked on a railroad, saving his money and living economi cally. About thirteen years ago he bought t ivelve acres of land near Birmingham for $lO an acre. The growth of the city has made his property valuable, and he sold six acres a year ago for SI,OOO an acre. He has refused SIB,OOO in cash for his remaining land. A submarine CABLE, measuring about 2,5C0 feet, was Ashed out of the lower harbor, near Bridgeport, Conn., a few days ago, by Capt. Oreen, of the steamer Isis. Where it came from, or how loug it has lieeri where found, is a mystery. Harlior Master McNeil, who is an old sound captain, thinks some tug or heavily laden coal barge having a broken nose, or aproject ing spike j n her keel, picked It up at Throgg's Neck or in New York liay, broke it from its shore tostenings and brought it there. The cable is c imposed of seven copper wires en cased in rubber, surrounded by ten galvanized iron wires, the whole covered with hempen cord, tarred It had evidently been in the water fifteen or twenty years. Arthur Seymour, Assistant Professor of Botany at Harvard University, is absent-mind ed, the Boston Trttveler says, and while gather ing specimens near Hartford, Conn., a few days ago, upon hearing the whistle of a train he wanted to take, dropped his haaket of s|ieci mens, and not stopping to pick up his hat that he had thrown down in a moment of enthusiasm, he started on a dead run for the station. Over ffir fields and through the village streets he an. while pedestrians cleared the way for him, and corner loafers gave him a wide berth. Just at the time there was a reward of SSO out for the capture of an escaped lunatic, and one vil lager, bolder than the rest, gave chaae, and captured Prof, Reytnonr, who, only after much explanation was set free. "A man named Jellink," say* the Vienna cor respondent of the London Timm, "living at Talior. In Bohemia, was in lertl sentenced to death for attempting to poison his wife The sentence was quashed through a a new trial took place, and the man whs sentenced to sixteen years' penal servitude. Ilfs wife hud in the meautline emigrated to America, and there slut declared Iwfore an Austrian Consul that Ist buslMiid was linmr -ut, uni] tlust she had herself poisoned iierJiiMsl to get him into trouble Tin- Aunt nan Judicial authoriUea were loath to believe this storv, tnariug coUu*loii; but, after *< 'lu.tderable delay, anew trial was ordered, and it baa completely established Jel links inis mein's As perjury is not an extra dltabie uffaUM, Mute Jelling will earafie ail pun- Ishinant for the false swear mg which kept bar husband six yuais to prison " BAKING WEio/Zr^ PURE CREAM p qwdeß Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Limo or Alum. Sold only ii Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. DRY' GOODS, ETC. Exceptional Reductions ' IN Summer Goods AT toll & taw’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. Y\7"E will clow out the remainder of our stock Tv of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to 12!4c. 25 pieces Figured Lawns, 83 inches wide, regu lar price a yard; now Bj^c. 75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3tsc. 50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price 10c. a yard; now One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice 15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12^c. One lot of Dress GiDghams. 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 and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Block and Colored Hose, regular price now 9c. a pair. A mixed lot 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 (Jndervests, regular prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each. 35 dozen Ladies’ extra fine quality Gauze Un dervests, regular prices 50c. t 66c., 75c. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low price of 47c. each. Onr SI Unlauodried Shirts Reduced to 90ft 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 90e. each. CROHAN & DOONER. MEDICAL. Tutt’s PilSs SAVES JWEONEY. tne box of these pills will save man] 101 l are In doctor's hills. They an pecially prepared aa u Family Medicine, ind supplies a want long felt. They re nove unhealthy accumulations Iron he body, without nausea or griping Idapleil to young and old. Price, Stv aOU> EVEJiYWHKBU. Tansy pills Tr^>er l ffcT l l^Ti7r i^hua, U*ed 10-4*7 r*iil*rly br 10.000 Aci*rta women. 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