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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—'Travelers' Protective Association.
Special Notices— As to Hills Against Steam
ship Elsie: as to Crews of Austrian Bark Sirena
and German Bark Elena; Arcade Oyster and
Chop House. T. H. Enright, Proprietor; New
Shoe Store, A. S. Cohen; Grand Free Hunch,
Charles Kolsbom <6 Bro.; Variety Bakery, John
Derst.
A Rake Opportunity—Newspaper for Sale.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Enterprise and E.verge l.indsay & Morgan.
Peanuts— C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
Kippered Herring, Etc.—A. M. & C. W
Weot,
Auction Sales- Horses, Buggies, etc., by I.
15. Laßoehe's Sons; Furniture. Groceries, etc.,
15. R. Kennedy; Elegant Household Furniture,
by J. M cLaughlin & Son.
OheapColumn Advertisements- Help Want
ed; Epiployinont Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
The governors of the New York Stock Ex
change have again expelled Doremus. Ives’
partner. It won’t do for a broker to get
caught twice.
Chicago gamblers are betting five to three
that the Anarchists will hang. They ought
to be sent to jail themselves for gambling
on such a chance.
A banquet* tendered Gov. Hill at New-
Imrg was, at his own request, a total absti
nence affair. The candidate is called upon
to make many sacrifices.
It is said the Europeans in China stand
tghast at the magnitude of the “American
i oup” in that country made by Mitkeiwicz.
The Americans may yet stand aghast as
they contemplate their losses and the im
possibility of recouping them.
[Senator Ingalls says that with new issues
the Republicans will win. But new issues
nre just what they lack. They haven’t had
any in twenty years, and no doubt would
nominate the man for President who could
invent a promising assortment.
If all householders wero ns plucky as was
Dr. Hornblower, of Jersey City, the other
night, burg la is would perhaps not be so nu
merous. The man with whom he had so
desperate a struggle in his bed room put in
his appearance at the hospital next morn
ing with a bullet hole through his thigh.
It is said Germany wants to exchange her
wide possessions in New Guinea for the
little hundred acre islet of Heligoland, al
most in the mouth of the Elbe, so long held
by England. But England likes to hold
points of vantage over her neighbors, anil
it is hardly probable that she will trade.
Gen. Banks seems not to have been more
successful as a bookkeeper than as a Gen
eral. He has been United states Marshal
of Massachusetts for several years, and his
accounts are now in such a tangle that it is
impossible to know how he stands with the
government. His honesty is not suspected.
The tire at Sanford, Fla., entailing a loss
of §175,000, is a severe blow to one of the
most energetic and self-reliant communities
in that State. The business men of the
town will no doubt go promptly to work
to repair the losses which it has suffered,
and they will not bo long about it, heavy
as those losses are.
Alabama and Tennessee are not to have
all of the mineral boom to themselves.
Large deposits of magnetic iron ore, es
pecially suited for steel making, have been
discovered near Dahlonega. Alabama and
Tennessee ores are not generally suitable
for steel, on account of the large proportion
of phosphorus in them.
Mr. Randall is talking about a letter
which the President wrote to Supt. Fox, of
the Philadelphia mint, on the eve f the
Allentown convention, as of such a charac
ter as to ruin his administration and destroy
his chances for re-election if made public*.
When he hears of the talk, Mr. Cleveland
will doubtless give the letter to the press!
Anarchist Fielden, in a speech shortly
before the Haymarket tragedy, urging the
people to violence, said that “the time has
ootnc for men to strangle tin- law, or the law
will strangle them.” The time has indeed
almost come when the law will strangle
him, and to that extent he was a true
prophet. He has found that the law is a
hard thing to strangle.
If the last reports from Colorado are true,
there are meaner men than Indians. It is
now said Colorow was not on the warqiath
at all and did nothing wrong, and that the
scare was started to enable white men to
steal the Indians' ponies, sheep and goats, of
which they had a great number. The worst
of it is that the scheme succeeded. This in
formation comes from Commissioner At
kins after an investigation.
Miw. Pomeroy, mother of the boy con
victed some yea:*s ago of soveral murders in
Boston, in denying that she aided him in his
rerent attempt to ew*a]ie, takes occasion to
write of his goodness and her belief in his
innocence. Khe is perhajMi the only person
in the world who doubts his guilt, and her
doubt is without reasou, yet there is some
thing touching in her faitbfuluese to her
child. But that is the way with women.
The family Bible of tho Lees, giving their
history for SOU years, was stolen from Ar
lington during tiu* war. It has just lienn
recovered in Maine, the widow of the sol
dier who earned it away having seen an ad
vertisement asking for information concern
tug it. Its recovery is very fortunate, as. in
addition to its own value from asaoristion
and otherwise, it suppiim important lufor
kutUmi which could be found now ia-ie else
The Tax on Whisky.
The plan upon which the proteetionisb|
have apparently settled to reduce the rev
enue of the government to something like,
its needs is to abolish the tax on whisky
and tobacco. They at one time seemed in
clined to advocate n large reduction in the
duty on sugar, but the fear of losing the
votes of protectionist Congressmen from
Louisiana seems to have caused them to
abandon t hat idea.
The arguments put forward in favor of
abolishing the tax on whisky are that it is a
war tax. ttiat it is contrary to the spirit of
our institutions, and that, in its collection
great hardships uro imposed U(ton the in
habitants of remote mountain regions, who
iind it impossible to haul the corn produced
on their farms to the towns over rough
roads, but who, by manufacturing it into
the more compact and valuable form of
whisky, can find a profitable market for it.
To the first of the** arguments it is
sufficient answer to say that in the vast
sums appropriated for pensions and the in
terest on the public debt we yet bear war
burdens, and to the second that from
almost the beginning of the government
it has derived a portion of its income from
internal taxation.
It is the third argument, however, upon
which the protection journals of this part of
the country delight to dwell. Tiie illicit
distiller is made the persecuted victim and
the revenue officer who is trying to enforce
the law a sneaking spy or brutal ruffian.
Pathetic tales are told of the ioor moun
taineer, forced by his necessities to disre
gard a law which he would otherwise obey,
though he regards it as a denial of his just
right to turn his com into whisky, if he
wishes to do so.
Now, it is safe to say that no law on the
statute book carrying with it such severe
penalties for its violation has been adminis
tered so gently as has that against, illicit
distilling. Great numbers of offenders have
been released on their own recognizance,
and the sentences of those convicted have
almost always been very light. The
exceptions to this rule of kindness
have been in the cases of old
offenders who have shown that
leniency was wasted. But even if the law
had been administered as sternly as possi
ble, should there bo any great sympathy
for the man who violates it in the hope of
safely filling his pockets! He knows the
risks he takes, and deserves no sympathy if
his venture turns out badly. The right to
turn one’s corn into whisky is no more in
herent than the right to spend one’s money
where it will buy the most—that is in the
cheapest market. The internal revenue law
puts restraint upon the oue right and the
tariff laws upon the other.
In treating of the wrongs and sufferings
of the hunted mountaineer who makes
moonshine whisky, there is one point upon
which the journals who demand the repeal
of tiie whisky tax do not touch. They say
he cannot haul his corn to market profitably
because it is bulky and the price low, but
is it not the margin made by the 90c. tax
which makes it possible for him to haul
whisky profitably over the same rough roads I
Whisky is quoted in Chicago at $1 10
l>er gallon, of which 90c. is tax. Can the
mountaineer, with his crude machinery and
twenty-gallon still, make whisky, haul it
over the rough roads so often insisted on,
and sell it for 20c. a gallon! In all proba
bility he would find it more profitable to
sell the corn.
It is plain enough that it is the tax which
makes tiie moonshiner’s market, and he has
no right to complain of a law as restraining
him in the exercise of an inherent right
when it is only the existence of that law
which makes the exercise of the right
profitable and therefore possible.
A New Time Table.
We acknowledge the receipt of a marked
copy of The World's Advance-Thought , a
newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, and
devoted to Second Adventism. It is filled
with articles and communications on the
subject of manifestations, which, it is ar
gued, show that tho second coming of the
Messiah is near at hand. It is claimed that
“a yvave” of such manifestations is now
sweeping over the land, and is plainly dis
cernible to those who lielieve in the Second
Advent doctrine. It is now nearly a half
century since tho Millerites set a day for the
great event, and in order to be ready,
many of them gave away their possessions.
They* wore very sorry afterward that they
had not arranged to take their possessions
with them, as it was rather awkward to start
life again witii only a thin ascension robe.
It is probable that the Oregon cranks will
have similar regret! if they do not heed the
lessons taught by the experience of the Mil
lerites. According to the Oregon (taper all
mankind, without regard to race or creed,
are called on to unite in soul-communion on
the 27th of each month, and in order to
have the praying done simultaneously, the
pap% also prints what it calls “The World’s
Soul Communion Time Table,” standard
“time, 12 m., Salem, Oregon, U. S. A..”
a.l gives a list of all the principal cities of
the vorld, with corresponding time at
tached. Savannah’s commune hour is 2:is
p. m. Atlanta is not on the list, from which
it would appear that it is either not one of
the powerful cititios of the world or that its
inhabitants just now have no time for soul
communion.
Mr. C. P. Huntington considers himselt a
public Iwnefactor, and that ho has lieen very
liadilv treated by Congress nnrl the press.
Mr. Huntington forgets other things as well
as what was meant when his agent wrote.
“I believe 1 could pass our bill with #100:-
000." He forgets that this Congress which
he reproaches has made it possible for him
to accumulate a fortune of many millions
in a few years. Perhaps, however, he looks
upon that vast sum as honestly earned by* his
own tramceudant abilities. He may be im
mensely vain, as well us immensely woalt by.
The leader of the Massachusetts Mug
wumps. Mr. Everett, announces that lie
will not vote for Lovering, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, because the civil
service plank in the platform does not suit
him. As he doesn’t like the Republicans
much, if any, better than the Democrats,
and down t believe in throwing away his
influence by voting for somebody with no
chance of election, Mr. Everett must feel
himself in an cmliarnuuingpredicament. A
man can la* too nice in such matters.
There is evidence of alarm in the llcpub
llcaii camp in Ohio, A Chictunati fUipoKft
can (siper says tbit the executive coin
uiittcc in mismanaging the campaign and
party intensrte are suffering grievously,
Korukor in enough to leal his (tarty, with
out any mismanagement, and if the He
(Miblleniis have Pi struggle mi lor the weight
of both, the Democrats ouglit to win witii
case, even it Ohio is naturally a Republi
can bluUi.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887.
The Glenn Bill Substitute.
- It is probable tliat all of the minority
who voted against the substitute passed by
the Senate for the Glenn bill did so lie
cause they preferred the original bill, and
not because they were opposed to any law
preventing the co-education of the races.
On that subject the white people of
Georgia are a unit. The effect of the Senate’s
substitute, if it is accepted by the House
anil made a law, will probably be as great
in preventing the evil at which it is aimed
as would the Glenn bill, had it become a
law. If this shall prove to be true, then
the people will be satisfied with
the result, and gratified that
no harsher measure was necessary. The
prevention of co-education of the races is
what is demanded, not the punishment of
anybody. It would be well, however, for
those who have set their hearts on breaking
down the distinction between the races, by
forcing them to associate intimately as
children, to learn that if mild measures
prove unavailing, harsher ones will be
resorted to. Indeed, however much the
teaching of Republicanism, which the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat seems to think part
of the duty of the teacher of negroes, may
be thought outside the proper curriculum of
a school, it will not be interfered with
where the school is supported by resources
other than the State’s. The teachers may
make Republicans of their pupils if
they can and nobody will interfere, but
they will not he allowed to pull down white
children to their social level.
Mr. Wright, of this district, made an
aide speech in opposition to the substitute,
but we think he was mistaken when be as
sumed that the adoption of the
substitute was in effect an abandonment
of the constitutional prohibition of the
co-education of the* races. The purpose of
the substitute is to prevent co-eduoatior,
and it is an open question, which can only
be settled by experiment, whether the pen
alties which it provides for its violation will
not prove more effectual than would those
of the Glenn bill. For some reasons it is
easy to believe they will. The people
who are advocating co-education are, many
of them, fanatics who would jump at the
chance of martyrdom on the chain-gang, but
will hesitate to make a money sacrifice and
shut the door to the propagation through
their pupils of the leveling doctrines they
teach. Even fanatics can calculate.
All that Mr. Wright said as to the disas
trous effects of the education of children in
schools common to both races is true. To
allow it would be the lieginning of the end
of our civilization. There is a firm deter
mination on the part of our people that
such a beginning shall not be made, and the
only question is as to the best means to be
employed to that end. In the choice of the
means, that should be selected which will be
most effectual, without regard to the
punishment which will be inflicted
on violators of the law. It is no doubt an
noying to have a lot of people among us,
who consider themselves missionaries among
barbarians, trying to turn the long-estab
lished relations of the races topsy turvy, but
it would not lie wise to allow that annoy
ance to affect tho laws we make to prevent
their purpose being carried into effect.
Prohibition in Tennessee.
The prohibition contest in Tennessee is
becoming almost as bitter as that which
lately took place in Texas. The politicians
and the newspapers tried to keep out of it
for awhile, but about all of them have now
been drawn into it. The prevailing impres
sion is that the Prohibitionists will be de
feated. Anti-Prohibitionists are showing
the mast skill in getting votes. They don’t
make a great deal of noise, but they are
doing a vast amount of effective work.
Party lines are not drawn. Both Demo
crats and Republicans are divided on the
issue. As was the case in Texas the negroes,
as a rule, an* against prohibition. Even
their preachers, who can influence them
in many things, can’t get them to vote
against whisky.
At the North the impression appears to
be that in Texas the Republicans voted for
prohibition. An analysis of the vote shows
that all the counties which voted for Blaine
voted against prohibition. In Tennessee
the percentage of Republicans that will
vote for prohibition will be much larger
than that which voted for it in Texas. Tiie
reason is that a larger part of the Tennessee
Republicans lielongs to the better element
of the people.
The Tennessee Prohibitionists will doubt
less come to the conclusion, after the con
test is over, asthe Texas Prohibitionists did,
that it was a mistake to attempt to capture
the whole State at once. The Georgia
plan, viz., to capture a State by districts
and counties, is much the better one. Mis
souri is trying the Georgia plan with every
prosjiect of success. It will not be long
before the Prohibitionists will have nearly
every county in Georgia, and they hold the
counties they capture. It is impossible
to enforce a prohibitory law unless it is sup
ported by public opinion. It is enforced in
tiie Georgia counties because a strong ma
jority of the people of the prohibition
counties are in favor of it.
It takes time to effect great reforms. The
Tennessee Prohibitionists want to do in a
day what, doubtless, it will take them years
to accomplish. If they were to carry pro
hibition by a narrow majority they couldn't
enforce it. They will have to come back to
local option, and they will be wise if they
stick to it.
Indian Commissioner Atkins has hope for
the future of the mi men. He says that
many of them are taking advantage of the
law conferring lands upon them in sev
eralty, acquiring the virtues as they had
already many of the vices of civilization,
and becoming good citizens. If the experi
ment has resulted so favorably it should be
extended. Leaving out the question of
humanity, hunting wild Indians is a very
expensive business.
A Pittsfield, 111., man is said to have made
a big luirrel churn on wheels. Ho goes
through the country gathering the cream,
and when he has secured the proper quan
tity returns home. On the way home ho
connects the churning gear, and as he drives
along the churning goes on as the wagon
goes along, and when he arrives then* is
nothing to do but takeout the butter and
draw off the buttermilk.
The 14-year-old daughter of Absalom
Buker. living in Wicomico county, Mary
land, U nowin the forty -seventh day of a
ft* t. Hbe lies in nn uunatural stupor, and
can only be aroused by the agency of an
electrid battery. Her case puzzles the
physicians
Our Civil Service Commission weems to
have made fame abroad. British Civil N*r
vice CoinmissloiMM* Sargent is in this coun
try to gain infonnation for the improve
ment of his own eoiiinilskion from its work
I tugs. iViLijr be will loam what to avoid.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Burchard Not a Recent Convert.
Froitl the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
These stories to the effect that the blundering
Burchard hail joined the Democracy are mere
passages from ancient history. Burchard was
a first rate ftemocrat in 1884, and made a cele
brated speech to prove it.
It is Kansas, Not Georgia.
4*s*o m the St. Ismis Republican (Dem.)
It is Fort Scott. Kan., and not Atlanta, Ga.,
which is now shutting out negro children from
the public schools for whites, but the Republi
can press lias wasted so much sauce on the
Georgia goose t hat it . will have none left for
the Kansas gander.
The Real Way to Reform.
Prom the New York World (Dem.)
One important way to. reform is to stop the
use of money at-popiitar elections: as has been
done in England. That strikes at the root of
till* evil. Its effect would lie felt immediately
in tin* House of Representatives, the State Legis
latures and soon in the Senate.
BRIGHT BiTS.
Hawthorne did not write his "Scarlet Letter”
with red ink. It-eonthmes be read notwitli
standing.—Bostirs VlulHetiiC* I '■
Like the policeman's, tiie grave digger's jot is
not ,i Pappy one. In the pursuit of. grip calling
lie is sure to find himself in a hohXcMßosfon
Courier.
“Procrastination" may be, as the poets in
sists. "thief of time,” but" certain it is. it is one
of the few friends that Mr. Jacob Sharp has
now left. —Philadelphia Ledger.
At a base ball game. "Is it a good or bad
thing to lie nut, George?”
"It depends entirely upon whether your
mamma knows it or not,” George growled, in
utter impatience. —Boston Transcript.
City Hotel Man—How is the run of visitors
this year?
Summer Resort Man—Big. Tbe only objec
tion is that so many of them run off without
paying their bills.— Burlington Free Press,
The New Hampshire lawmakers, like those in
Massachusetts, refused to give municipal suf
frage to women, but they also have just taken
good care to protect mifk cans Reason why:
The owners of milk cans have votes, women
have none. —Boston Wamnn's Jonrna ..
“Say, Watson,” said Bagley, “you know
Jenks; what sort of a fellow is he? He has
owed me a bill for over a year; is he honest ?”
“Yes," said Watson slowly “Jenks is honest:
there's no doubt about that,; but it takes him a
long time to find it o>t. Boston Journal of
Education.
"Ah. my heart strings,” said bis landlady*, in
a burst of confld -nee, seeking sympathy. “Ah,
me! This is a cold, cold world I have been
deceived, sadly deceived in my time.”
“If you refer to that iast lot of butter,” said
he gently*, “I don't wonder you feel so bad about
it.” —Philadelphia News.
The late Dr. Bethune once asked a morose
and miserly man how he was getting along.
The man replied: "What business is that of
yours ?”
Said the doctor: “Oh, sir, I am one of those
who take an interest in even the meanest of
God’s creatures.”— The Epoch.
“A presidential campaign is approaching,
isn’t it?" asked Mrs. McSwilligen.
“Yes,” replied her husband. “Why do you
ask?"
1 thought it was, for the word ‘slogan’ is
making its appearance in the papers again,”
said Mrs. McSwilligen, who is an observing
woman. —Pittsburg Chronicle.
At the Sunday School.— Teacher — William,
what is the Golden Text to-day!
William—Dunno.
Teacher—lt is “Watch and—” what else?
William—liunno.
Teacher Think again. What did your papa
do just before breakfast this morning?
William (with animation)—Kissed mamma!
How’dyou know i-Tul-Bits.
“Well, Smith, I’m glad to see you out at last.
You’ve had an awful long puli of it, haven’t
you ?”
“Yes, that’s so, and I'm grateful enough to
that medical congress in Washington forgiving
me a lift.”
“Medical congress? Why, you haven’t been
to Washington to be treated have you?”
"No, but my doctor has been down there for
nearly a week, and I'm feeling first-rate.’’—
Springfield Union.
A little dot of Duluth’s feminine humanity
who had not yet learned to put all the corners"
on tiie English language, went on a Sunday
school picnic excursion up the liay this week
At dinner she was given an adult piece of cus
tard pie, and in her infantile gyrations suc
ceeded in falling down and getting a plaster
cast of her hand. Rising with ruffled feelings
and disheveled locks, she lifted the unfortunate
member to an attitude of invocation and ex
claimed: '‘Mamma, take this cussed pie.—
Duluth Paragrapher.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Gladstone has been holding forth at
great length on horticulture.
51rs. Maggie Van (,'ott. who is said to have
converted more than 30,000 people in the West,
is now waging an unequal conflict with the sin
ners in New York.
Mrs. Moore, the “Sweet Singer of Michigan,"
now holds down a chair in a post office in the
Peninsular district of that State, and appro
priately twangs her tuneful lyre in praise of the
Democratic administration.
Mrs. Jacob Kevser, of B-tyant, Wis.. last
week routed a sheriff and three deputies, who
sought to arrest her husband for some petty
crime. She procured a shotgun and a mule and
chased the officers into anotuer county.
Lady Henry Somerset, daughter-in law of
the Duke of Beaufort, has created a considera
ble sensation in Worcestershire with her "Gos
pel Tent” and peripatetic preaching. Her lady
snip’s oratorical powers are said to be of a
high order.
It is a French journalist, who asserts that
Queen Victoria is about to publish a novel which
sue has had in her desk for thirty years, anil
which she lias been constantly correcting and
revising. It is remarkable to what extremes
French hatred of “perfidious Albion” is some
times carried.
Gun. Sherman has in bis possession, at his
office in New York, tho original copy of the
song "Sherman's March to the Sea.” It is
beautifully written on the most ordinary kind
of note iiapar, the verses oeiug separated by
sketches, iu pen anil ink, of nags, stars and
other national emblems.
The daughter of ex-Mayor Harrison, of Chi
cago, violated the traditions of her sex by get
ting married on a Friday and wearing opals in
her hair. Ladies will probably watch with
much interest the fortunes of the bride, anil if
she perse ceres in health and happiness a blow
will bo given to a favorite superstition.
Since the death of Joseph Gilley, on Saturday,
Simon Cameron is the oldest surviving ex-Sena
tor. lie was boru in ITIMI, ami is followed by ex-
Senator James Bradbury, of Maine, born in
1805, Jefferson Davis, born in 1808, ami Hanni
bal Hamlin, born iu 1809. Mr. Cameron served
in the Semite with Messrs. Cilley, Bradbury,
Davis and Hamlin.
Mu. Blaine's two sons, who are citizens of
Chicago, live at the Union Club, Of the two,
Emuiuus, the elder, would attract tne most
glances. Ills noariy white hail* sets off his
swarthy complexion and black moustache. Ht*
has the Blaine features. Both of the brothers
go into society a good deal, anil Walker is essen
tially ajaopuly man. 4- - '
VilrtiMV olfinCil Will I>4 offered the re
fusal of dhe IlJlini Avrrtf rtoeSisiter. The Arch
deacon’s present iii&rttie as canon of Westmin
ster is su>, oo a j ear, ami us m la stiii in the
prime of life, as well os being In some respects
the most popular preacher in Loudon, Ids
friends do not think he would like to make the
change, unless he covets the leisure which he
would obtain.
I'aoK Mason, of (lie Null emu! Mil. nil), H(teak
ing of the late I’rof. Hpcncer F. Baird, said:
"Doyou know tout ihut great lug man. six fool
and more, could not. make a speech? Even if
nil its I oil to make a re. xinse to a i on of t hanks
liefor.* one of our little scs ieties. v, ueiv lie knew
every one, be Would tremble like a child. But
take him in his private office w here he could
ruck in his chair, and thru wouldn't he talk!"
51 ait v J. Holmes, the famous novelist, lives at
Broekport, N. Y. .die is a woman alsuit no
years of age and ehiidless. She is tall, erect
and queenly in bar iM-.iring, and looks much
younger limn she is in reality. She has written
twenty-HiX'novels, many of wham have bad s
i cry Rp. circulation. Her “ I'enif iest ami Ho a
shine Mies passed through many e Hums Sin*.
Holmes is u great render, bus- (raveled exo n
lively ami Is fond of entertaining. Her house
Al Broekport It filled wiib boons, picturea.
statues, corn *iumtand brie-a-brao
Ma*. John J Hadley and her daughter lllitre,
Slits Cutter, of Grait 1 Haven, slid Mr* Stone,
ot Poll Huron MD'ti., rein rued last week from
a sixteen months' lour abroad, during which
Grey visited nearly all countries and places of
mterest in tourists Tletv Iravtded entirely un
uitended by gentlemen, met witii no annoymice
o oisiilt auywliep lu city or country, and dls
covered full ladles can go about in fure|gu
Ixnds al -as'Siable hours with (In- same free
ftoiu as In this cot*airy, and poaaihiy with lass
i hates* of ruileuM* or bsutg A and at than at
hour.
BORODINO AND GETTYSBURG.
Modern Battles in Which a Great
Number of Men Were Killed.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
It is not uninteresting to state what hare been
the bloodiest battles of the last 100 years, that
is, to compute the pe>centago of loss to the
numbers engaged. Within the allotted time the
Napoleonic battles come first. The battle of
Lodi, Bonaparte's first brilliant success, was
simply tbe daring passage of a brigade, and does
not enter into the computation. Areola was the
most sanguinary struggle of the Italian cam
paign. The forces engaged numbered about
70,000, and the loss was about 25,000, or about 35
per cent. At Rivoli there were 80,000 men en
gaged, and tbe loss was 40,001, but 20,000 of
these consisted of Austrians who surrendered to
Napoleon, so that the real loss was only 25 per
cent.
After Bonaparte's return from Egypt he
fought tlic battle of Marengo. In its results this
was one of the most momentous engagements in
history, but all accounts agree that it was the
worst planned and worst fought of all Bona
parte’s victories. There were (10,000 men en
gaged, and the loss was 17,0*10. or about 28 per
cent. At the battle of Austerlitz. which by
many is considered Napoleon's most brilliant
victory, the French and Austro Russian armies
numbered 210,000 men. and the loss was 10,000,
or about 18 per cent. At Jewa-Auerstadt there
were 326000 men engaged and the loss was 40.-
000, or about 12 per cent. At Borodino there
were 170,000 men iu battle, ami 80,000 were
tilled and wounded, amounting to more than 47
per cent, At lasipsic there were 500.000 men in
the battle, which lasted three clays, and the loss
was 110.000, or 22 per cent. At Waterloo 140,000
men were engaged, and the loss was 40,000, or
28 per cent. In the Crimean war there were
125,000 men at the b ttle of Inkerman. and
the casualties amounted to 25,01). or 20 per cent.
At Magenta there were 225,001 men: the loss was
11 per cent., or ahout ’25,000. At Solferino there
were 250,000, and the loss was 40,000, or 16 per
cent. At Sodowa the hostile forces numbered
425,000, and 70,000, or 1G per cant, were killed
and wounded. At Gravelotte there were 450,000
men iu the encounter, of whom 35,000, v or about
8 per cent, we,re killed and wounded. At Shiloh
the armies numbered 90,1X10, and the loss was
30,000, or one-third. At Fredericksburg there
were 180,000, and the loss was 20.000 or 11 per
cent. At Antiatam there were 150,000. and the
loss was 00.0,0, or about 13 per nent.J At Chicka
mauga there were 105100. and the loss was 30,-
000, or 81 per cent. At Chaneellorsville there
were 150 000, and the loss was 30.000, or 29 per
rent. At Gettysburg there were 160,000, and the
loss amounted to 57,000, or 33 per cent. Thus
the figures show that Borodino was the blood
iest battle of modern times, with Gettysburg in
the saoopd place.
An Unsatisfactory Physician.
From the Dakota Bell.
Several years a young doctor named Mabee
came out from the East and Settled in a small
Dakota town to practice his profession. He had
a diploma rroui one ot the best medical schools
printed on sheepskin, which he carried around
with him in a heavy block tin tube. He got but
little to do. Most of the practice, was monop
olized by a man named Daggett, who had been
located at the place some time. Daggett did
not follow any regularly recognized school of
medicine, but pinned his faith to a poultice
made on the “hide side of the skin of a black
cat killed in the dark of the moon.” Mabee was
at last himself taken sick. He got unite low
and finally called in Dr. Daggett. One (lay after
re had recovered he was waited on by a com
mittee of the citizens, headed by the May or, who
broke the ice by remarking.
“Doc, we’uns have called on a little p’int
which we reckon will be middlin’ interestin' to
you."
“All right—go ahead,” replied the young
physician.
“We noticed that when you got pretty sick
you called in Doc Daggett to fix you up."
“Why, yes, he came to see me once or twice.”
“Y’-a-e-s, we seeu he did 1 Little bit skeered of
your own medicines, we ’low?"
"No. sir, but I was too sick to do anything for
myself. That's all professional.’’
“It may be profess’nal, but it wont wash in
these diggin's. young man 1 Her you been tell
in’ all the time that old Doc Daggett wa'n’t no
good, an’ poking at bis blaekskin po'litices, an'
sayin’ that lnebby he would do rer cows and
mules, but that he wa'n’t quite up to hosses an'
persons yet, an’ when yer sick yerself the first
thing you do is to send for him 1 Here you been
pourin' yer liniment an’ condition powders an'
one truck an’ "nother down us fer six months,
but when you're sick yerself you're mighty glad
to go hick to the good old ’ngiual catskin. Mil
lions o' bottles of your stuff fer the rest of us.
hut not a drop fer yerself That’s the kind of a
doc you be! We’re on to your plan,and as cheer
man of a committee of our leadin' cit'zens 1
want to warn you to move on! Git right out o’
town! A man what das'sn't take his own med’-
cines can't dose the rest or us, not In this
place!”
An Isle Where Hurry Is Unknown.
Xantvcket Letter to the Chieayo yews.
In order to protect the Pennsylvania iron
lords Congress has seen fit to kill the shipping
industry of the Atlantic coast, and the, daring
seameu of twenty-five years ago have been put
into dry docks to rot at their leisure. Some have
been obliged to turn pilots or fishermen, and
others eke out a scanty living by taking summer
boarders. This latter industry, the burden of
which falls chiefly upon the women, is, iu fact,
the principal source of revenue to the town.
The ex whalers, who are all oil the shadv side
of 50, enjoy as a rule a dignified leisure,
smoking their pijies with much delilieration
on the wharves, or in the old custom house,
where they sit from morning till night
sninning endless yarns of "the days that are
no more." They are curiously bent and gnarled
figures, with grave, weather-beaten faces, bow
legged. stiff kneed, and often badly “out of
plumb" by reason of rheumatism. For a con
sideration of $1 an hour or $8 a day they will
sail you anywhere you may like to go in their
catboats, and if you are endowed with super
human iwtience and a pocket-flask you may
succeed in extorting from them a little of their
own history and that of the island. There Is
not a particle of American hurry ahout these
old sea-dogs; they talk and move as if they had
eternity to draw on. If time is money here,
then the Nantucketers are the richest people in
the world, for they have no end of it at their
disposal.
A Fish Yarn of Fifty Years Ago.
From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal,
“It was about fifty years ago," said Dr. M.
Kendall, of Hnwdolnbmn. tile other day. “I
was a youngster and play in von the bauk of the
Kennebec 1 never shall forget it in my life
how neat I saw a crane get a pickerel dinner.
They were driving logs down stream. 1 watched
a crane acting sort of funuy standing perched
on one of the logs near the shore. I made up
my mind to see what it was about, and hid iu a
cltirno of bushes. The crane had a bug in his
hill, and he kept dropping it into the current
till it floated past him. and then grabbed it
again and repeated the same performance. I
couldn’t thipk what he was trying to do. He
looked at me as if he was going to sleep. The
old fellow kept the bug floating in front of the
log for a half hour, when, all of a sudden, a big
pickerel came up to the surface and made a
dive for the bait. The pickerel was down the
crane's throat In less than a seeond, and Mr.
Crane flapped his wings and flew away. He
took the bug in his bill, though. They look
sleepy enough, but they know more than a good
many people—how to get their bread and
butter/'
Strangle Suicide at Berlin.
From the Chirapo News.
On a recent Sunday, toward Hat night, a girl
with a white pinafore, evidently a domestic set
vant. walked with a young man along the canal
side in the city of Berlin. Germany. The girl
clinging to her companion's arm was evidently
pleading with him In great agitation mid earnest
ness of expression. Near a bridge the couple
stopped and the man looked at Ins watch. At
that moment the girl disengaged hr hand from
his arm. and, with n most impetuous rush, but
without t he utt ‘ranee of a single sound, jumped
over the high battlement into the water. The
man. apparently trying to follow her,seemed to
{ret hurt ii|sm the parapet ami begun ci ving for
ielp. Hundreds or people were upon the spot
almost Immediately, but none of them dared to
jump over the high In line Into the doep stream
below, and when a boat was found und reached
the spot ihe unhappy girl had sunk and th •
corjise could not lie found. Her male com
isuiion had taken advantage of th excitement,
of the crowd and disappeared without leaving a
trace.
The Blacksmith.
From Tut Hits.
Oh, worlttnan of the brawny arm
ABd the oron/od brow. Oh. say.
Out of the hissing a el smitten stee
What dost thou make today ?
Dost thou un thin* an m (hi* time of peace
To fail non the thirsty sword,
Thai shall •’leave itaouurae without remorse
In the I gitth* wrath abhorred
Or dost thou forge, with fonts and Are,
The terrible liayotn-t.
Thai shall gleam at Ike frost and hear the brunt
Whru the serrlnd bdw* are met ■
And I tie grs) loured workman paused In bis task.
His heated brow to coal;
He ebook his lipsd and "Ala* ’ Its aaid,
"l tu making qfaw tar a units "
ITEMS OP INTERE3T.
A Hindoo wedding was a recent attraction in
the Methodist church at Marion, la.
I’rof. Gesei-schap will receive £25,000 for
frescoing the cupola of the Berlin arsenal.
A firm at Pottstown. Pa., is building an Iron
bridge which will he shipped to China in sec
tions.
Ecrope’s population is 387,000.000, according
to reports prepared for the International Sta
tistical Congress.
A sics horse belonging to the Sheriff's van
has bean kept eleve i months by San Francisco
at an expense of S!MO to the city treasury.
A dog Iu Jackson, Tena., is trained to bark a
chorus to a French harp awl does it to a queen's
taste. He is in the habit of taking a daily
bath.
In a divorce case at Lafayette, Ind., one wit
ness by agreement,i was sworn and gave his tes
timony by telephone, being too busy to attend
court in person.
America now holds the championship in lawn
tennis, croquet, prize-fighting, chess, base ball,
yachting, trotting and several other fine arts of
minor importance.
An apple tree at Woodbowine, Sullivan
county. N. Y., is fourteen feet five ami a half
inches in circumference, fifty feet in height, and
has been bearing fruit for seventy years.
Within forty years the per capita consump
tion of whisky in the United States has decreased
50 per cent., the consumption of wine has in
creased 40 per cent., and of beer 700 per cent.
Tho eightieth wedding anniversary of Manuel
Barriant, of Matamoras, 111., was recently cele
brated. The husband is in the best of health at
102, while the wife enjoys the same blessing at
96.
D. M. Hunter, of Jit. Morris, Mich., owns a
colt which has no eyes, having been born in that
unfortunate condition. It is now over a year
old. and rather more intelligent than the ordi
nary equine.
A submarine tumjel between Scotland and
Ireland is again lieing discussed. The latest
proposal is to run the boring from the Mull of
Cantyre to Fail- Head in Antrim, about ten
miles' distance.
Johns Hopkins University holds 17,000 shares
of Baltimore and Ohio stock, which ha* steadily
yielded $136,000 in income. The institution may
really be much crippled by the depreciation of
this investment ' -
The royal forests must go. A gentleman
writes to Truth protesting against the gates of
Windsor forest being locked against him, for
which, as a tax payer, he pays taxes. The gates
will doubtless open before long.
A lady on the steamer Suevia, just in from
Europe, gave birth during the voyage to twins—
a sea-born, lusty boy and a pink mermaid of a
girl. The lady's husband is in Hong Kong,
whither she was journeying to join hiui.
A violin maker in France, much of whose
goods find their way to this country, says the
instruments cost him 90 cents each, and that
the profit he has iu selling them to the trade at
the rate of $1.12 each is satisfactory to him.
Chetopa, Kan., has a gentlemen's club. Each
member pays $3 a month to the manager, and
he buys liquor in barrels, bottles it, and al
lows each member so many bottles per month.
The County Attorney is now after the manager.
A crazy woman, who was agent for a book on
the lunatic asylums of the country, struck
Vicksburg, Miss., a few days ago. She entered
the telephone office, chased all the telephone
girls out. and shut off telephonic communica
tion for an hour.
Roanoke College of Salem, Va., lias oponed
with every indication of an uniLsually success
ful year. Students come to Roanoke from great
distances. Some are from Utah and some from
Mexico, and the Choctaw delegation is to re
ceive several additions.
Down in Douglas county, Missouri, there are
three children whose aggregate weight is 623
pounds. They are all girls, aged respectively
14, 12 and 9 years. The mother weighs 170
pounds. On each hand of tlie two younger chil
dren are six fully developed fingers.
A prisoner before a California court lately
on a charge of murder was permitted to retire
in company with a deputy sheriff to a neighbor
ing saloon wbile the jury was deliberating. He
is said to have returned intoxicated, and in this
condition he ird the verdict of manslaughter
passed upon him.
The watermelon fleet is a great institution in
Chesapeake Bay. It comprises about eighty
vessels. The season opens about the first week
in August, and for nearly two months the bay
is filled with these boats loaded down with
melons. They carry from 2,000 to 8,000 melons
each and give employment to several hundred
men.
Capt. Jack Crawford. ex-United States
scout, explains that among scouts and the
braves to wear long hair is considered a mark
of defiance to the euemy and is interpreted as
meaning, "Here is my scalp, with a convenient
handle to it, come and take it If you can.” A
short-haired man, he says, is looked upon as a
coward.
O. W. Mathewson, of DeKalb, 111., has a tame
maltese rabbit which will fight most anything
from a mouse up to an elephant. It recently
had a bone to pick with a hound. Waiting until
the hound was wrapped in slumber, it quietly
approached, jumped on the hound’s back, and
made the fur fly in a maimer which would be a
caution to rats.
The day before the solar eclipse the following
advertisement of a restaurant keeper appeared
in the Weimar Deutschland: “I shall be on
hand on the Bareuliugel early to morrow for
tbe solar eclipse with a fine cut of Mocha and a
•stiff grog. A delightful panorama of al 1 the
surroundings, including roost sausages. If de
sired, card tables will be ready."
The white topaz found near Pike's Peak is
almost equal in value to the diamond. Not
many people know this; but St. Louis man
found a topaz on the banks of the Platte river
this summer and sent it to a lapidary in New
York to have it cut. It weighed 828 carats, and
the lapidary sent back word that he w ould give
SS(H for it. The. offer was refused.
There seems to be an agricultural reaction
from the West, to the East predicted by judges
of farming land. In proof of this the town
clerk in a town near St. Albans, Vt., has re
ceived a letter from an lowa farmer inquir
ing for farms, and announcing his intention
to sell out and return to the Green Mountain
State, confident that he can better his con
dition.
Some of (he toriest Tories have been attempt
ing to boycott Lord Kandolph Churchill aud
Lords Fevershaui and I-ondesborough refused
to preside ni a meeting at which Ixird Kandolph
was to speak. The Tories in North Hunts boy
cotted the Liberals to a degree never attempted
in Ireland. Laborers who would not wear the
Tory colors could not get work and a Liberal
traveler couldn’t get food for his horses.
In Guadabajara. Mexico, a young man, Ros
endo Velez, mounted a horse in front of the door
of his house. The animal reared aud threw its
rider on the hard pavement. Velez carried in
his breast pocket a dagger without a sheath
In falling the blade of the dagger entered his
breast and was driven through one of the lungs.
He raised himself from the ground, pulled out,
tlie weapon, and fell and died in the presence of
his family.
Among the valuable stage • ’proper!leg” burned
in the St. l-oiiis Grand opera house flrc, was the
straw crown and the sw *rd used in the crazy
s tone In’ Lear.’’ It w.s the one last used by
Junius Brutus Booth, and that, too, the last
time ho was on the stage, at New Orleans. Such
things are generally thrown away, but it had
been tossed ill with Other stuff to in' loaded on
the boat Mr. Booth, it will Is- remembered
died on the lioat coming up the river
The Prussian army list forldW contains two
field marshals, the Crown I’riuce und Count
Moltke; llft.v nine cavalry and Infantry gen
erals, seventy six lieutenant generals and Ilf
major generals. The cavalry staff consists of fifty
five colonels, unity elgnt lieulruantcolonels
and AH majors, and In the infantry staff
there are 181 colonels, 174 lieutenant-colonels
arid 7txi major . The number of officer* shows
an increase of Silty-Six at compared w ith
year
“SAritso' concerts of opera lioutTe mtici..’ amt
popular win ;s are to Isi suppivsted by sx|ioriH
in New York. I’niprietorn have lawn arrested
liofore, but succeeded m a* •ibg their discharge
lieeanse the oflhs rt ivnild not swiwr the muele
iierrormed was not sserek Now the lusistetor
lui |-e •taiPn employed on (lie wink Men in
the departui. il' wuo snow music, have Im-n de
tailed to these places, aud no matter wltai the
programtiut says. Uu-y can sweat p.iiiv. ly to
a cofupowltl 111 witwu they hear It When it M
considered that many of whai at* now r •garde-1
as standard saeretl . ouijioetUoiis are from op
nrss by It-iwdni, Verdi, b.,„w,-u. Itclllui sod
.<yrull.rH omopmsm at lUm I tells,i school,
the; ham i tor drawing tnu JisktucUutts u
coat as qtfd"
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