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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Golden Rule Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O.
F.; Magnolia Encampment, No, 1, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices— Notice to Teachers; As to
Cretv of British steamship Naples; Lunch, Chas.
F. Graham.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
New Goods— Bernard Brady.
Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Board; Strayed or Stolen, Lost; Miscellaneous.
Reliable Concerning Florida — Florida Ag
riculturist
Educational— The Oglethorpe Seminary for
Young Ladies and Children; Commercial and
Practical Institute.
The envelope manufacturers’ combination
lias advanced the price of envelopes 10c.
per 1,000, on all sizes. This is the second ad
vance since July 1.
The Bell Telephone Company has carried
the great Chinese syndicate into court. Be
fore it gets out China may have beer, “de
veloped' 1 by somebody else.
Mr. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia’s
greatest merchant, is back from the Hom
burg conferences. He is not a politician,
but may be he wanted to know how his
contributions to the campaign fund would
be spent.
Gov. Gordon went to Philadelphia to enjoy
himself, but he mixed business with pleas
ure. The Philadelphia Press contains an
interview with him, in which he tells of
Georgia’s greatness and the inducements
she offers to emigrants of the right sort.
The Treasurer of Manitoba says the Red
river railroad will be in operation by the
time snow flies. As the proposed road is
seventy miles long, the money to build has
not been raised yet ami the snow flies very
early in Manitoba, he must propose to do
some lightning railroad work
The New York Republicans now reluc
tantly admit that Gov. Hill will not boa
rival of President Cleveland before the next
Democratic National Convention, but that
be will again run for Governor of Now
York next year. That arrangement onght
to make New York safely Demi*,.- t* .
A Kentucky mil Daman has been fined
SIOO and sentence •*. to three months in jail
for deserting his colors during the recent
campaign in Rowan county. The Ken
tucky mihtiama- is not entirely a play sol
dier. He has to go to the mountains occa
sionally to help the courts administer jus
tice.
The Philadelphia Press, which is a P-epub
iican paper of the stalwart variety, had
kuch a high opinion of President Cleveland’s
tpeechcs at the late centenary celebration
that it printed them in both Sunday's mid
Monday’s issues; the New York Sun, which
claims to be Democratic, makes them the
tubject of carping editorial criticism.
The professional base ball players have
formed a brotherhood, but the League di
rectors refuse to recognize its existence. If
promises are kept, there will be a hard
fight between employers and employed
when tho time for signing contracts comos.
W*it was a sport a few years ago has be
come a thoroughly established business.
Mr. Talmage was greeted on his return to
bis church .Sunday from his summer trip by
‘‘Boulanger's March.” It is not a religious
tune, but probably did not shock the sense
of propriety of the audience, who go to be
entertained and do not greatly care what
means are used. The house resembles a
theatre in more ways than in appearance.
The Sixteenth Connecticut Regiment, in a
resolution thanking the Second Alabama
regiment for the return of colors captured
during the war, say that they “prize the
valor and devotion of their Southern breth
ren.” This is very generously and grace
fully said, but do not the Connecticut vet
erans stand in danger of a denunciation for
disloyalty from shrickers of the Foraker
type? The devotion they praise was shown
to the Confederacy.
Gen. Sheridan says the improvement in
weajKms is so rapid that he is convinced
that within a hundred years the waging of
wars will have ceased, and all disputes be
tween nations be settled by arbitration.
That such a conviction should lie expressed
by a soldier makes it more striking. If it
shall prove to have been well founded, it
will be a curious reduction for people of that
age that one of the greatest curses of man
kind was abolished by the means adopted to
tnake it more effective.
Tho visitors from the tiouth to the Consti
tution's Centennial seem to have impressed
Philadelphians with the idea that they
were a fine lot of men. The Press
Bays: “None of the guests at the
celebration deserved or received more cor
dial welcome or heartier praise than those
from the South. Their manliness, their un
failing dignity and good fellowship under
all circunistau vs were the subject of com
mon remark and are among the pleasantest
memories of the groat demonstration."
Candidates for office in Western New
York find themselves in a peculiarly un
pleasant dilemma. A German organization
Said to represent 20,000 votes demands a
pledge that they will support a proposed
law to allow the sale of beer on Hundny,
while tho Citizens’ Reform Association
threatens to slaughter any candidate who
gives such a pledge. It wot *1 seem that at a
time when so many citizens are demanding
that the sale of liquor lie prohibited on all
days it Is inopportun* to start an agitation to
lessen the restrictions put on the traffic. It
wiii be a long t une tofor* Americans accept
the German idea of Htnihuy
The Crowded Jail.
Is it not a mistake to have both Superior
and the City Court closed at the same time;
When the Superior Court is closed the City
Court ought certainly to be in session for at
least a day or two each week. It is said
that every cell at the jail now contaias at
least two prisoners. Some of them contain
three. If the court does not open until No
vember. ti e Sheriff will have some difficulty
in meeting the demand for jail room.
Tliv' crowded condition of the jail in
creases tlie chances for sickness there. Try
as hard as he may, the jailor cannot keep
the jail, crowded as it is, in as good sanitary
condition as if it contained only such a num
ber of inmates as could bo provided with
ample accommodations.
But there are two other strong reasons
why both tho Superior and City Courts
should not be closed for a at the
same time. One is that prisoners are en
titled to a speedy trial. Some of those who
are not able to furnish bail may lie inno
cent, and it is a great hardship to be forced
to remain in a crowded jail for several
montlis in hot weather. In fact, it is a hard
ship for those who are guilty of the charges
resting against them. The guilty ones
would much rather bo serving their sen
tences than waiting for their trials.
The other reason is that the county is put
to a very heavy expense in feeding prison
ers. It would be interesting to know ex
actly what additional expense will be im
posed upon tho county by the closing of
the courts for two or three months. Tho
sum doubtless will bo quite large.
Of course the judges are entitled to a va
cation, but their vacations might be so ar
ranged that one judge would be in the city
when the other is away. Even the Ordinary,
if we are not misinformed, is out of the city
at tho present time, and if the necessity for
a writ of habeas corpus should arise there
wou’d be no one in the county who could
grant it. A judge would have to bo hunted
up outside of the county.
A New Kind of Insurance.
There are several different kinds of in
surance but there seems to be room for
others. There are few who are not familiar
with fire and life insurance. The übiquitous
ami voluble solicitors of the latter kind have
carried a knowledge of it to tho remotest
corners of civilization. Accident insurance
is not so well known but it is growing in
popularity. man somehow c r other feels
better satisfied with an accident policy than
without one. •> Probably the thought that if
ho should be killed somebody would lie
benefited by his death is a rather gratifying
one. The guarantee companies are gradu
ally growing in favor. They are particu
larly appreciated by those who, having ac
cumulated a little property, are expected to
be always ready to become the bondsmen of
those who handle other people’s money.
When a man seeks a bondsman now-a days
he is politely referred to a guarantee com
pany which will insure his honesty to a cer
tain amount for a consideration.
Another sort of insurance is now before
the public for favor. A company proposes
to insure employers against suits for dam
ages by their employees who have been in
jured while in their employment. It would
hardly seem as if a company of this kind
would do very much business. However,
it is impossible nowadays to say what fields
will yield financial harvests until they are
cultivated.
There is one other kind of insurance that is
needed. It is that which will insure railroads
against losses from suits instituted by persons
injured, or claiming to lie injured, on their
lines. The railroads would be glad, doubt
less, to pay so muoh a year to get rid of the
annoyance and expense of these suits. They
would like n .thiug better than to have all
the accident suits defended by a Grout Rail
road Guarantee Company. Possibly such a
company would have to pay less in damages
in the course of a year thau tho railroads
do, as it would fight harder to save its
cash, and would not have so much preju
dice to contend with. Gome of the heav
iest verdicts against railroads are based
upon the idea that the roads are rich and
able to pay, rather than upon the justice of
the claims.
The Internationa! Yacht Contest.
The interest in the approaching contest
between the Volunteer and the Thistle is
every day growing more intense. The
yachts are discussed from every point of
view, and their respective merits pointed
out aud commented upon. Judging from
the New York pajjers little else than tho
race is talked about in sjiorting circles. In
fact, the race is the leading topic of con
versation in business and society circles.
The contest between the Mayflower and the
Volunteer for the honor of defending the
America’s cup has changed public sentiment
considerably with respect to the chances of
the Volunteer for success. Before that con
test the lietting was about even, but now it
is in favor of the Volunteer. The fact that
tho Mayflower was beaten with ease,
although she is a much lietter boat than
she was n year ago when she defeated the
(lenesta, has not been without its effect in
increasing confidence in the Volunteer.
Indeed it is believed by some that
flower can beat the Thistle. In her race
with the Volunteer tho Thistle was present,
and did about tlie best sailing she could un
der the circumstances, but she failed to
show herself a faster boat than the May
flower.
But it must not be overlooked that tho
Thistle was not in raving trim, that her
bottom was foul, and that she towed a small
boat. All of these tilings doubtle.-s
hindered her somewhat, but to what
extent it is, of course, impossible
to say. When tho race is sailed
she will bo in the liest possible condition
and will lie stripped of everything calcula
ted to impede her progress. She may have
a surprise in store for the public, but the
general impression is that it is pretty
clearly known wliat she can do. The This
tle’s strong point is running free before the
wind, and tho Volunteer’s tieating to the
windward. Doubtless both will have a
chance to do their liest work.
The Baltimore American prints the talk
of an unnamed Pennsylvania politician on
the Cnrlisle-Thoebo contest. This politician,
whoever ho may lit*, says it is the deliberate
purpose of Mr. Randall and his followers to
keep Mr. Carlisle out of Congress this win
ter by seating Thoebe, with tho aid of the
Republicans. This Pennsylvanian probably
only voiced hat hopes. Mr. Randall is a
Is.ld man, but he will not ventureou such a
desperate stroke as that outlined. Mr. Car
lisle is tho foremost man lit Congress of the
party to which Sir. Randall claims to be
h>ng, and no one can doubt that he whs re
elected to the scot in Hie House which he |
hoi iso long o ruphsi. Should he Ist ousbsl
by Mr. ltaudnll’s nrntrlvanro. the latb-r
would ie obliged to seek |iolitioal prefer i
rwent hereafter os a Republican; he could tto ]
longer {.use ms a Democrat
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1887.
Two Nuisances.
• In another column will be found a com
munication from a well known citizen who
calls attention to two things which have a
bad effect upon the health of the city. They
are the loud-smelling and disease-breeding
vaults to which the Morning News has
called attention more than once, and the
pumps upon which a very considerable
number of people depend for water.
There are two objections to the vaults.
One is that on account of the odors which
emanate from them there Is no pleasure in
living in the neighborhoods in which they
tire located, and the other is that they cause
sickness. The reasons for their removal
being so strong it would seem as if an en
ergetic effort would be made to get rid of
them at once. They are nuisances, and
tlwre Is always a legal way to abate a nuis
ance. It is much more important that these
vaults should be removed than that some
of the other things, to which the city au
thorities give their attention, should be
done.
It will hardly be denied that the water
obtained from the pumps in different parts
of the city is impure. That being tho case
it ought not to lie used. It is certain to be
used, however, as long as the pumps remain.
Let them be rejnoved at the earliest possible
moment, and the wells closed. It may be
said that all who use pump water do so with
the full understanding of its character, and
that those who are harmed by it have only
themselves to blame. This is not the right
view to take of the matter. The city pumps
are public institutions, and if the authori
ties know them to be dangerous to the public
health they ought to have them removed at
the public expense, and without unneees
ary delay. #
It might be advisable to sink a few ar
tesian wells in the public squares and princi
pal streets, not only to accommodate those
of the poor people who are not able to take
water from the city, but also to supply the
city with water if any accident should
happen to the water works which would
cut off tho water supply from that source.
If tho city authorities will give to these sug
gestions the attention they deserve, they
will strengthen their popularity with a Very
considerable portion of their constituents.
■Wasting Great Fortunes.
Some of the bonanza kings will have to
handle their money with greater care, or
they will stand a pretty good chance of
ending their days in the poor house. Of
the four who made such enormous fortunes
out of the Comstock mines O’Brien is dead,
and Flood is reported to be a very sick man.
Maekay and Fair are yet strong and
healthy. It is doubtful if any one of them
is as rich by several million dollars as he
Ifas a few years ago.
It hasn’t been very long since Maekay
and Flood crowded Fair out of the Bank of
Nevada. They thought it was a good thing
and they wanted it ail themselves. There
was a young Scotchman in their employ
ment in whom they had the greatest confi
dence. His name was Brander, and if
there was any one thing about which he
claimed to know everything it was
banking. Flood and Maekay put him
in charge of tho Bank of Nevada,
with its many millions of capital Flood
remained in San Francisco as President of
the institution, and Maekay went to Lon
don to look after his cable interests, and to
see how his wife,and daughter, who married
an Italian Prince, were getting along.
Brander, who was permitted to do as he
pleased, concluded that it would be a good
idea to assist somebody to corner tlie wheat
of the world. He sunk between $,000,000
and $7,000,000 of the bank's money and was
then satisfied that wheat was not so easily
cornered. Flood and Maekay, when they
heard of the matter, were astoundod. Flood
went to bed and Maekay hurried to Saa
Francisco from Loudon. They saw ruin
staring them in the face. They noeded
millions of ready money to save tho bank.
Tho greater part of Maekay's fortune is
locked up in 'an unprofitable cable, and
Flood’s in real estate. They couldn’t get
the money they needed without making im
mense sacrifices. Maekay went to Fair and
toid him the situation, and ho furnished what
money was needed to save the bank, and
he is now President of it.
Another wheat corner is perhaps all that
is needed to make at least two of the bonan
za kings poor men. Fair may keep his for
tune, but if Maekay and Flood don’t get rid
of the idea that they are good business men
they will be known as e::-bonanza kings in
the course of a few years.
Chili is manifesting a disposition to at
tack Peru again, this time on account of
the provisions of the agreement recently
made by the latter with her English bond
holders. Chili claims that the carrying out
of the agreement would involve a violation
of the Monroe doctrine, and prove danger
ous to other Bouth American republics,
from the power it would give tlie English
in Peru. The real reason for Chili’s atti
tude, probably, is that, having rendered her
enemy perfectly helpless, she is determined
to keep her in that condition, so that a war
of revenge will be impossible. The hatred
between the two peoples is said to rival that
between French aud Germans.
Tho Rev. Mr. Pentecost, who is one of
Henry George’s most anient supporters,
said Sunday, at the anti-poverty meeting in
New York, that behind each of tho United
Labor party ballots in tho next election
would be a prayer, aud that on the success
of that party depended the “redemption of
Christianity." Christianity is in a very bad
plight if it depends on a political party to
> redeem it from any errors into which it
may have fallou. There has long existed in
this country u prejudice against tho preacher
in politics, aud many of Mr. Pentecost’s re
cent utterances have shown it to bo well
founded.
The mousy market in New York is said
to bo getting in a dangerous condition,
money being scarcer every day, aud there
is a disposition to urge the Treasury to buy
largely of bonds. If bonds are offered at
low enough figures, no dpubt Seerotary
Fairchild will buy all that are offered, but
ho will not sacrifice the Treasury to meet
the needs of Wall str*>tt stock speculators.
If Gov. Lee, of Virginia, desires to go to
the Senate when Rlddleberger's term ex
pires it is probable that his desire will be
gratified He is not only very popular, but
he has shown quite an ability to pull the
political wires. He would make a good
(Senator and serve his (State as well in tho
(Senate as he is serving it in the gubernato
rial chair.
Of the tiiimioers of the lute Ann of Grant
ft Ward one serves the public by tivudliug
u printing press at King King and the other
Is the > andidate of the Republicans for
(Secretary of Hiale He also desires to serve
the public, but to get pay lor his work.
King Ming |vs uo wages
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Improvement on Miss Rose Eliza
beth.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
Mrs. Cleveland's refusal to “assume any pub
lic role independently of her husband," takes
her a long way from the camps of those who
believe woman inusi 1* '‘emancipated.” There
is in many respects a marked aud gratifying
difference between Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
Democratic matron, and Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, Republican spinster.
Democracy's Patience and Justice.
Prom the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
In these Chicago cases Justice was duly delib
erate. Autocracy condemns without a hearing
every attempt to resist its mandates; anarchy,
imbued with an iconoclastic spirit, seeks to pul!
down without furnishing the materials where
with to rebuild, democracy, patient, long-suffer
ing and tentative, waits and watches, tests and
experiments, weighs and balances, and never
decides until it feels that the evil unearthed may
be the seed of some unwholesome revolution.
An Appeal for Mercy.
Prom the New York Herald (bid.)
If the Southerners do not check the frequency
of their patriotic remarks about the Union and
the flag they will drive tlie Republican leaders
frantic. Have you no bowels of compassion,
gentlemen? Don't you know that if you deprive
the Jacobin leaders of the privilege of waving
the bloody shir, and rattling the three famous
palsies they will have to play “Hamlet" next
year with Hamlet left out? Republican politics
will be knocked into a cocked hat if you go on in
this appallingly patriotic strain.
BRIGHT BITS.
“What is more lovely than a peaceful grand
m .therU’ asks an exchange. Her granddaugh
ter If this is not the right answer, we give it
up. —Omaha IF arid.
VTe have heard of swell dinners with twelve
kinds of wine, but are of the opinion that one
kind of wine would swell us so that we wouldn't
care about any dinner.— Lowell Citizen.
Sunday School Teacher —What is it. Tommy,
that stiugeth like an adder?
Pupil (recently caught in a neighbor's pear
tree)—The end of a trunk strap.—Burlington
Fro- Pre -s.
Agent—On what grounds do you claim a pen
sion 1
Applicant—Grandfather lost his health in the
war of 1812, and left an impaired constitution to
the family.—.Yen' Haven News.
Hn was lecturing against polygamy and eulo
gizing womau. "What is there in the wide
world.” said he, “so pure and noble and lovable
us woman?” And just then u voice in the
audience replied • “Two women ."—Paragrapher
“I she by the paper.” said Scruggs, "at least
by u headline, that a womun snot at Coney
Island.”
“Well," said Muggs, “I'll venture to say, from
what I know of the sex's marksmanship, that
she didn't hit it."' —Philadelphia Times.
Mas. Minks —Does your boy show any particu
lar bent yet?
Mrs. Rinks - Yes, indeed. He'll be a noted
scientist some day.
"Do you really think so?”
“O, there's no doubt of it at all. He always
uses the biggest words he knows.”— Ontafia
IVorUt.
An English clergyman declares that clergy
man's sore throat is due to the fact that, speak
ing from an elevation t o listeners below irritates
und presses the vocal organs. An impression
existed in some quarters that it was due to the
fact that the clergyman wished a few months'
vacation to take a trip to Europe.— Norristown
Herald.
Amateur Photographer (to a friend) —You
know Dutaiey, of course?
Friend—Oil. yes: ultimately.
Amateur Pnotographer (snowing him a pic
ture)—Well, what do you think of that for a
specimen of amateur work?
Friend—Fine, old boy, line! Er—who does it
represent?— Drake's Magazine.
"What do you 'spose made those boys holler
Go up. thou bald ueud,' to their unfortunate
elders in olden times?” asked Johnny of another
boy in his Sunday-school class.
"I dunne," was the response, “unless they
wanted the old fellers to try the gallery them
selves for a little while, and give the toys a
chance at the orchestra eluiirs"— Washington
Critic. 1
Ah Unlucky “Reading Notice:” “Excuse me,
sir.” said the business manager to the city edi
tor, “but you promised to print that puff of
Bmithers' dry goods store just as I wrote it. "
"Well, didn't I?”:
“No. sir. It wasn't published at all. ”
“Did you write on one side of the paper
only?”
■ ’Certainly. ”
“Then I guess I must have published the
wrong side of the manuscript.”— Washington
Critic.
Colored Confdence,—Candidate—You live
out iu the colored settlement in the outskirts of
town?
Negro Voter -Yes, sah.
Candidate—Well, there is going to be award
meeting to-night, Jim, and I want you to be on
hand with all your n ighbors. Don't come
without them.
“You kin jess bet dat all my nabors comes
along wid me or I stays nt home tiiyse’f.”
"How's that?”
“Ef all my cuilud nabors comes wid me ter de
ward meetin'. den I'll know dat my fonr domi
neeker liens and de rooster am safe. Ef I was
ter go to dater meeting and leaves jess one na
tor at home I nebber see dem fowls no moah?”
“Have you no confidence in your own race?”
“Conferdence en a niggah when dar’schickens
in de coop and nobody in de yard wid a shotgun?
Why, kurnel, yer muss be a dreamin'.”— Texas
Siftings. .
PERSONAL.
Oakey Hall writes from London to sav that
he is not to become managing editor of the New
York Herald.
Rider Haggard has a brother who is British
Consul at Tamutave, and will soon issue a work
on .Madagascar.
King Humbert, of Italy, is only 43 years old,
but his hair is nearly white. Ho is the hardest
worked monarch o' Europe.
Mr. Thof.ee is going on to Washington in a
few days to set* to the preparation of his politi
cal suit agaiust Speaker <Carlisle.
William D Howells will go to the national
capital this winter to gather more materials for
his promised novel on Washington life.
The ucw story which “Ouida” is writing is
said to be u picture of society iu Rome and
tomlou—on the lines of her tale In a Winter
City.'
Emily Soldene the actress, wears in the
street huge earrings iu the shape of crosses.'
Each earring is made of six rive dollar gold
pieces.
Dr. Holmes once jocularly said that he had
to chalk the house at which he was visiting in
Philadelphia, in order to tell it from the others
in tho row.
Thomas M. Nichol, who was at one time pri
vate secretary of Ueu. Garfield, is going to tell
some of the inside Garfield history in n series of
newspaper contributions.
Queen Victoria's present to the Pope on the
occasion of the Holy Father s Jubilee will be a
small chamber organ of exquisite workmanship
and with beautifully illuminated pijies.
Ex-Senator Kerry, of Michigan, is adding to
his Utah mining properties, lie is now-iu Salt
l ake, and is said to contemplate removing from
the Northwest to tue Mormon territory.
Crown Prince Frederick William of Ger
many. recently gave u diamond pendant to the
wife of tite innkeeper where he stayed, ueur
Norwood. England. After lie left it was found
that the diamonds were paste. The husband
wrote to Herein. but received no answer.
A certain Lieut. Werner having written home
to the Herman press from Aden, describing the
colonizing enterprises of the least African Com
pany iisu scandalous failure and fiasco, against
which all his niysieflod countrymen ought to to
timely warned, the company has resolved to
prosecute him for libel.
The Duchess of Marlborough, mother of the
Duke, now traveling iu America, is s|siken of as
the mother of peeresses. Her daughters are
tho Duchess of Roxburgh*, Baroness Ramsey,
baroness Winbornc. tody Mujorthanks and
Viscountess Cnr/oii. The two last named are
the wives of heirs of lasers, Lords Twcedmouth
an 1 Howe.
W. W. Belknap, the Secretary of War under
l’lvsid nt Grant, who fell Into disgrace, Is mak
ing his homo at tbsqulet little village of i'owimi
un Court House, a tout twenty miles south of
Hichmoud. Vu., ni the Richmond and Dan rifle
Railroad. Hero he hoards with o private family
und lives in seclusion. Ills time is pulsed
mining ids books, und in the cultivation of
fiowers.
Gen A W. Gnr.Ei.v bun devoted ninny hours
recently to latolllig til* spoils of Ids ArvtiC ex
pcdition, and espe illy to classifying the spool
metis of fiowers and grasaet which he ga?tiered
there, lie hue distribute | many of tb'-.M* siati
mens among hj friends. L I (rich, ihe Fifth
avenue wme iiH*ri'iiaut. recently received from
tie* Geiieisil a dower gathered at Kurt ( ouger.
which looks like ti mini Rul e son llower. and
some grasses pluck.- I from tto ssrih at Ils<
high 'St |sutlt or he Uni yet ie c in | Yor\ Con
gur Is !aM ill.is) from the North Pols.
A SURE CURE FOR CHILLS.
In This Case the Remedy is Rather
Worse Than the Disease.
From the St. Ism is Republican.
“I am no more afraid of malaria than I am of
vou," and as the speaker was at least ten inches
taller than the reporter, and proportionately
broader, his fear of that dread malady was
probably not excessive.
“I've nad malaria and I've been cured.”
“Yes, but a man can have malaria more than
once?”
“Not if he is cured the way I was. About ten
years ago I was living in Indiana, in Vigo coun
ty, near Terre Haute. In those days a man was
regarded os a stranger until he had drank about
a gallon of whisky and quinine, ami shaken
down his bedstead three or four times with the
ag le. I had a rather reticent nature, and I
suppose it took the climate longer to get
acquainted with ine than it did the ordinary run
of men, for I had to drink about a barrel of
w bisky and take whole pounds of quinine before
I could get strong enough to even shake my
self, let alone a bed. Old citizens told me that
I had tire worst case of “fever’n ague," as they
called it, the county had ever seen.”
“How were you cured?”
“I was .just coming to that. I was living with
the Dennis family, from the North of Ireland.
Mrs. Dennis used to tell me she could cure my
chills if I would take her medicine She never
would tell me what her medicine was, but al
ways said if I would let her Ire the doctor, she
would cure me. Finally one dav I agreed. She
waited till evening Tueo she brought to my
bed a towel liind that around your head so
you can't see,’ said she. ‘What's that for? said
I. 'Who's the doctor, you or me,’ said she. So
I bound the rag about my head. 'Now,’ said
said she, ‘take this glass of water in your right
hand, open your mouth, take your dose and a
drink ot water the second it is in your mouth
Be sure and swallow what I give you.’ I prom
ised. but there was something so ominous about
her pains that It was with no little apprehension
that I opened my mouth, held my breath, and
braced up to take my punishment.”
"l)id it taste bad?*
"It did not have any taste at all. It felt like
a little ball of dust, such as you find in the cor
ner of the carpet 1 washed it down several
seconds quicker than instantly, you may be
sure. Just as it was going down I felt a sharp
pain in my throat, as ir it had been scratched.
" ‘ls it down?' asked Mrs. Dennis.
“ ‘Yes.' I sain,
“ ‘Ail down?’
” ‘Yes; now tell me what I've taken.'
‘l'll tell yon to-morrow, and then you
will have no more shakes.'
“I slept soundly that night, but when I woke
up in the morning my throat was swollen and
pained me. About 11 o’clock Mrs. Dennis came
to my room. She had a. little pasteboard box in
her hand. 'There,' said she,'look in there and
see what it is.’ I looked, and I felt the blood
leave my heart. I turn si cold and fainted.
When I recovered Mrs. Dennis was standing by
iny side Did I take one of those?’ I asked,
'ton took the mate of that one.’
"That was many years ago, and I never had a
chill after that day. My throat got well in
time, and so did I. I was effectually cured, but
i would not take another dose of that medicine
to save my life.”
"What was it you swallowed?” asked the re
porter.
‘ It was a big, hairy black spider, and it was
alive!’ ’
* A VALUABLE ENEMY.
Old Hall Had an Interest in Defending
a Man He Had Whipped.
From the American Magazine.
Not many years ago a Kentucky horse driver
found himself in a small town in Lumpkin
county, Georgia. Having disposed of his stock
he celebrated the fact by going on a spree and
bantering nearly every mau who would have
anything to do with him for a fight. He aspired
to “run the town,” and, being'a huge, muscular
fellow, seemed likely to succeed.
No one wanted to accommodate him, though
several intimated that if nothing but a fight
would do “Old Hall'’ would be in town that af
ternoon, and, ?ts he was never known to refuse a
banter, would doubtless respond to the driver's
pugilistic desires.
Said one man' “Old Hall! He'll fight any
thing, from a circular saw to a blind preacher.”
Another remarked; “Why, Old Hall: He’d
raythur fight than wear his clothes.”
Our driver avowed that if Old Hall didn't
show up lie would have him run down with dogs
rather than lose the chance of whipping him. In
the afternoon, sure enough. Old Hull appeared,
and was poi itetk out to the swaggering Ken
tuckian as he. stood at the bar of the principal
saloon, "taken’ a patch of Georgy red-eye,” as
he phrased it
Old Hall was small, lean and vicious looking.
The large driver gazed down on him for a mo
ment, and remarked:
”Ef that's yore bully 1 11 jest unbully him fer
ye in about ten seconds.”
Then, walking up, he slapped Old Hall on the
shoulder, saying;
”Es yore name Hall?”
Old Hall —the impersonation of terrier-like
pugnacity—glared up at him and replied:
"Yes, my name’s Hall.”
"Well, you've got ter fight. Ef yore name’s
Hall I II jest change bit to Bawl afore ye know
wharye air.”
•'You’re a liar!" was Old Hall's prompt re
sponse, and at it they went without further par
ley.
To the surprise of every one Hall, after a se
vere tussle, whipped the driver, who seemed
much cast down and thoroughly cowed. Then
the numerous nun whom the latter bad ban
tered bristled up and wan tel also to wnip the
bully. They found an unexpected obstacle in
Hall, who interposed as follows:
"The fust man that teches this feller has got
ter jump on the two on us. I've font all over
old Lumpkin, 'n Berrien 'n Loundes kyounties
fer more n twenty year, 'n thish yere is the fust
man I've ever made ter holler. He's Old Hall's
friend. He's done fer me what no other man
has ever dine, 'n ef ye tnink I'm a goin' ter
stand by n see my reppertoohun ruint by lettin’
him git whipped by every little lice dog' In the
settlement e - wants ter bounce him, ye don't
know Old Hall,”
The driver was not further molested.
A Woman of Tact.
From the Xem York Graphic.
Everybody looked at them when they entered
the car, which was crowded. And everybody
had good reason. He was a very clean-skinned,
finely built, well dressed and Very handsome
young man—a very good sample of America's
oest make. She was a beauty from any point
of view—a pronounced beauty of a very pro
nounced type, a rich brunette Sh ' was dressed
with exquisite taste. Both were so easy ami
natural in their manners that it was a plasure
to look at them. A gentleman gave the lady a
seat, then another —a good-looking, well-man
nered young man— rave his seat to her escort,
very much against the latter’s will. The con
ductor began to collect the fares. He touched
the young man's arm lightly. He started, thrust
his hand into one pocket, then in -another,
then, as the eyes of everybody were ipm him,
he paused to think. Before lie could . >afc the
lady said In low toues: ‘‘llow stupid of me! I
declare, when you hundo I me yi ur jiockrtbook
to hold in the store while you turned to catch
that child 1 forgot to give it back to you. ' s:io
handed it out, blushing, ne took it. iiaid the
conductor, placed it in his pocket, and the con
versation flowed on without a break. Com
mend me to a woman of tact, A man would
never have thought of that in a thousand years.
Of courselt washer pocketbook.
Tho Fair Type-Writer.
From the ,Journal of Education-
She clicks the keys
And she tinkles the bell,
With a practiced ease
No tongue would tell.
Her nimble fingers fly—
And 1?
Well. T sit by
And I watch the girl,
So sweet, so shy,
And my brain's a-whlrl,
For I love her tenderly—
And she?
Well she tinkles tho bell
And she clicks tlie keys,
And if I should tell
My love, she'd freeze
My blood with a seotiful “You!’*
Rheu!
Chimpanzee Crowley's Lack of Gal
lantry.
From the Sew York lYorld.
The wedding of Mr. Crowley, the talented
chimpanxeenfCentral I’ark. who lines a fork,
a|Mion and napkin, drinks out of a glass and has
a pillow and wheels on his had. and the tH-autlfiil
Kittle O’Br.en, late of the forests of Liberia, has
b**-*n Indefinitely postponed, due. menagerie
Hii|H-rlntendent Conklin says, to the reprehend
l)le, not to nay outrageous, conduct of Mr.
Crowley hltnselr. When Mis* O'ltrleu arrived
she wu* plaeed in a cage adjoining that of Mr.
Crowley, hut the latter threw* Handlist in her
eyes Beery day. Bud a itoxen times a day. he
coaxes her up to the bam of the cage. and I lien,
quick as a flash, dashes a handful of sawdust
Into her fnee. which causes list to cry. and
greatly anvisiwi Mr Crowley. Frequent whip
ping* liave not tirolten him iif this habit, hut, on
the contrary, have developed In him a most
dlaicienable and most. unlover Uke tssiisr, and
therefore the engagement has ls it broken alt.
A pain in the bowels, from whatever earns*,
may ha rebev l by Fred. brown's Jamaica Gin
ger Philadelphia. I#f
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
j lx lowa there are 116 wholesale and 3,415 re
-1 tail liquor dealers who are licensed by the
| National Government and do au active trade.
A Clarksville, 111., turkey gobbler stole a
guinea-hen's nest, set on the eggs, hatched the
! chicks, and is raising them with assiduity and
care.
Pocketbooks of rattlesnake skin, with the
genuine rattles sewed on the side, are among
tue novelties to be introduced this brilliant au
tumn.
A check for a million and three-quarters ster
ling was paid to the Bridgewater Navigation
1 Company lately for its work on the Manchester
Ship Canal.
A soldiers’ monument was unveiled Saturday
at Braddock, Pa. The site of the monument
overlooks the historic spot where Gen. Braddock
met his disastrous defeat July 9, 1755.
A Buffalo canary has a miniature well in
its cage, with a bucket, the chain of which
j reaches to its perch. When it wants a drink it
I draws up the bucket, much to the delight of the
j children in the neighborhood.
A woman down in Maine has a collection of
I more than 800 kinds of candy, and she is consid
ered a great blessing to the town in which sms
I lives. All the flies in the village collect about
her house and stay there the season through.
William Milan, a merchant of St. Joseph,
Mo.. has gone to Australia to marry a young
lady whom he has never seen, but with whom
tae engagement was brought about by corres
pondence. The lady is a? handsome heiress and
Milan is also rich.
Prof. F. A. Marsh says that we spend at
least J 100.000,000 paying printers and publishers
for sprinkling our books and papers with silent
letters. We ought to be willing to pay a great
deal more than that to silence about three
quarters of the writers.
Surveyors going over the line between Wash
ington and Greene counties, Pennsylvania,
found one house so situated that the husband
eatsnis meal in Washington while the wife eats
hers in Greene, and they sleep with their heads
in one county and their feet in the other.
Dr. Elizabeth Beatty; of Indore, sent out by
the Presbyterian church in Canada as a medi
cal missionary, has treated over 6,000 patients in
the past twelve months, and thinks a hospital
and training school for Hindoo women would
make thousands of converts to Christianity.
Sevres at the present moment employs 200
hands, of which forty are artists proper, twenty
sculptors and as many painters. Some of
these are too much at lathed to the old school
of art to look favorably upon the innovations
which their younger collaborators are anxious
to adopt
It has heretofore been supposed that the im
plements of jade found in British Columbia and
elsewhere on the Pacific coast, must be of Asiat
ic origin, as the mineral avaa not known to exist
in Western America, but bowlders of jade have
now been discovered in the valley of the Frazer
river, and jade also Occurs in Alaska.
The Toronto Mail learns that Premier Nor
quay, of Manitoba, has raised $1,000,000 on the
bonds of the province to be used in building the
Red river railroad. That ought to be money
enough, and the pluck and energy of the Mani
tobans ought to finish the line before the first
snows whiten the level fields about Winnipeg.
A partridge was found in a grass field in
Hockliffe, says the London Field , that was rear
ing a white barnyard chicken. When the chick
en was caught the bird evinced all the signs of
distress usually shown if their natural offspring
are molested. Tne place where the bird was
found is nearly a mile from any farm buildings.
One of the curiosities with the San Diego,
Cal., exhibit at the St. Louis Grand Army Na
tional Encampment will be a 600-mound turtle
taken from the bay of Esenada do Todos Santos,
in Lower California. After its huge projiortions
have been sufficiently viewed by the gathered
thousands of boys in blue, turtle soup will be on
the bill of fare.
A plant has been discovered in India which
is said to and srroy the power of tasting sugar.
It will be useful in counteracting a morbid
appetite for sweetmeats, which is an active
promoter of indigestion. Another plant found
in Madi as destroys the relish for cigars and to
bacco Thus two important curatives are added
to the materia medica.
The New York Commercial Bulletin's fire
record for August shows a total loss in the
Un.ted States and Canada of $8,317,500. against
$13,000,000 in August , 1880. The average August
losses for ten years have been about $7,000,000.
The total losses for the first eight months of
1887 are $55,25,6;)0. against $76,900,000 for the
corresponding period of 1886.
Miss Lucy Salmon, the professor of history
at Vassar College, is a women with a history be
fore her. Her book, “The Appointing Power of
the president,” is the clearest monograph that
has appeared on that difficult subject, and is a
noteworthy production for one of the non-po
litical sex. Miss Salmon is a graduate of the
Michigan University, and a fellow of Bryn Mawr
College.
A granite shaft recently quarried by the
Bodwell Granite Company in Vinalhaven, Me.,
is the largest piece of stone ever quarried on
earth, and if erected will be the highest, largest,
and heaviest single piece of stone now standing
or that ever stood, so far as there is any record.
It considerably exceeds in length any of the
Egyptian obelisks. The shaft is 1)5 feet long,
10 teet square at the base, and weighs 850 tons.
A real estate scheme proposes a grand ave
nue to run from the Virginia shore, opposite
Washington, to the tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon. At present the grounds are
practically inaccessible by land approach, so
that all visiting is done bv a steamboat service,
which enjoys a very profitable monopoly. A
.straight, fine avenue leading to Mount Vernon
from .Washington would make anew attraction
for the capital
The sensibility of thermometers varies
greatly. If the capacity of the reservoir is
large, compared with the bore of the tube, a
slight change of temperature will materially
affect the height of the mercurial column. If
small, and the glass bulb is thin, the mercury
contained in it will be more rapidly affected
than if a larger amount were to he aeied upon
A cylindrical reservoir is bettor than a spherical
one, because it exposes a larger surface.
Canon Tristram has recently classified the
fishes to be found in the Sea of Galilee, and ha*
announced a strange discovery. He says these
fishes do not belong to the Mediterranean sys
tem, hut are peculiar and belong to tlie fish
system of the great inland lakes of Africa—
Tanganyika, Nvusa, and the neighboring waters
The Canon draws the Inference that untold ag, s
ago too .lordan valley wu* filled by n lake which
was joined to the Hod Sea, then a trash water
lake, and which, in turn, was in direct communi
cation with the great lake system of Central
Africa.
William Allen, of San Francisco, a boy, shet
and wounded a large hawk that was soaring
away with a weasel in its talons. After it fell
he hurried to pluck off its large feathers, when
the bird suddenly threw its win < about his
body and sank its bonk ferociously into his
cheek while both arms were pinioned. Finally
he released one long enough to take out a
small peu.knife, with which he stabbed the
hawk. Tlie stabs had but little effect. Fortu
nately a man. Martin Welch, came along and
rescued the young and almost exhausted hun
ter. He will soon tat all right again, lint a slight
scar w ill remain for life. The hawk measured
'eight feet from wing to wing.
Dr. Ch arles C. Abdott says that in experi
menting on the intelligence of birds when he
girdled branches on which bird* had built their
nests, causing the foliage to shrivel, exiiosing
their nests, although they had laid their eggs
they would abandon them: but if the nests al
ready contained young birds, notwithstanding
the exposure, they wool I le naiu until the
young were able to tlv. He placed a number of
pieces of woolen yarn red, yellow, purple,
green and gray in color—near a tree in widen a
couple of Baltimore orioles were building a
nest The pieces of yarn were all exacfly alike
except in color. There was an equal number of
each color, and the red aud yellow wore pur
posely placed on top. 1b -birds chose only the
gray pieces, putting in a few purple and blue
ones wh m the nest was nearly finished. Not a
red, yellow or green strand was used.
From llethel, Ky.. come* the following strange
story: "Two years ago. Calvin Stowers, whose
wife had been an invalid for several month*, was
called to her bedside to say farewell Sim placed I
a small Iron ring that she had ordered modi- La
the purpose on the third finger of his left hand, '
and extorted nu oath that be would never m*r
ry again. Then *jje died contentedly, sating I
tuat if lie broke his word, she would haunt and
min his life. On Tuesday lie was married lo
Kmum 111- ckel, to whom lie was engaged befnre
hl first marriage. The bride took the ring I
from his Huger, saying that It wu* auparstitloua I
to regard wish so ndtlsh Within two hours I
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lirfck’jrrnom * nmr<*r ti m!nl iuL, apt* i
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