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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1087.
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Special Notices- Madame Ohastenet's Select
Girls’School; Bills Against British Brigantine
Edina; Dr. Geo. C. Hummel’s Removal.
Auction and General Commission Merchants
—Marshall & Molded
Opening of the Fall Season, 1887—Krous
koff's Millinery House.
Cheap Column Advertisements Employ
ment Wanted; For Rent; Lost; Boarding;
Found: Miscellaneous.
Timothy Hay—P. R. Kennedy.
Potatoes —C. M. Gilbert A Cos.
Educational— School for Boys, Oglethoriie
Barracks.
Sell Lowest— Lovell & Lattimore.
Our Stationery Department— L. & B. S.
M. H.
Auction Sales— Furniture, by J. McLaughlin
& Son; New Furniture, Stoves, etc, by D. R.
Kennedy.
Having wrecked various railroads and
telegraphs, Jay Gould is to now try his
hand on a steamship line. He has gaiuod
control of the Pacific Mail.
The fight among the New Jersey Demo
crats may interest and amuse themselves,
but to Democrats of other States, who care
nothing about their local squabbles, it is
not at all amusing. New Jersey Democrats
have no strength to waste.
The record made by the courts in New
York and Chicago of late is enough to in
spire hope for the future of the country in
the most despondent. Everything is not
bad when a millionaire like Sharp cannot
save himself from a felon’s cell.
Robert Garrett is said to be in high
spirits and to “feel himself the coming win
ner.” What he expects to win is not stated,
but he had better stay in Europe and let
railroad management alone. He is about
the most conspicuous failure in that busi
ness developed in recent years.
The last man named as the probable Re
publican candidate for President is Senator
elect Hiscock. His boom so far is very
small, being confined to the county of his
residence, but it may grow. Republicans
who believe in luck may remember that
their last successful candidate had just been
elected to the Senate.
Attempts by women to smugglo finery
through the New York cus nm house were
never so numerous, or else the customs ser
vice is much better than it ever was. The
seizures of laces, silks, etc., sometimes
amount to as much as SB,OOO or SIO,OOO in
a single day. Collector Magone is evidently
attending strictly to business.
The Old Brick Church in Boston paid the
Harvard church SI,OOO for the release of
Rev. Mr. Emerson, father of the great es
sayist, from his contract with it. How
does this compare with the SIO,OOO paid by
Boston for the base ball player Kelly?
Really, Boston seems to be about on a level
with the rest of this wicked world.
Queen Victoria is said to be suffering
from such a depression of spirits, approach
ing morbid melancholia, that she can bear
the society of only one person, u favorite
maid of honor. If the Queen's mind should
become unbalanced, as did her grand
father’s, another troublesome element would
be added to the politics of England, already
so chaotic.
The New York Herald is displaying its
spite in a way not very creditable to it.
Scattered over its editorial page are para
graphs advocating for Vice President Bal
lard Smith, the representative of the World
who wrote the famous interview with the
President two weeks ago. The Herald, is
too great a ixiper to display its jealousy of
a rival in this way.
Secretary Fairchild has not decided upon
the Treasury's policy after Oct. 8, the date
when the offer to purchase $11,000,000- of
bonds expires. It is probable, however,
that even should the time lie oxtended no
great amount of bonds will lie tendered.
The knowledge that the government stands
ready to help in a crisis seems to be all that
is necessary to make money plenty.
The Philadelphia syndicate to manu
facture gas for fuel has succeeded in pur
chasing one of the existing ga-s plants and
will begin business as soon as possible. It
is now announced that by the new process
00,000 feet of gas can lie obtained cheaply
from one ton of coal or coal dust. As the
djust can be obtained almost for the cost of
hauling it, the discovery is one of vast im
portance.
Kieman'x Wall Street Summary of
Sept. 36, says: “Money brokers say funds
are easier. The railroad companies, in
cluding the Illinois Central, St. Paul,
Northwestern and Union Pacific, are loan
ing round sums on the street.” This is not |
the first appearance of railroad companies i
in the money markets in the capacity of I
lenders, but it illustrates the closeness with
which their business must be run nowadays
to make dividends. Every means of profit
must be utilized.
A report by the appraisers of th assets
of the wrecked Columbian Bank, of Phil !
adelphia, shows that a very large part j
of the worthless [iaj>er was given !
by officers and directors for loan
to themselves, some of it being noml |
pally secured by stock of the hank itself,
when they must have known that it was sb j
aoltitoiy worthless. It was merely s dishoii :
•st trick to save themselves from losing ,
west they had paid for the stock ; and like
all other dishonest tricks, ought to b# put)
tebod by a fan iu in tits penitentiary.
The State Road.
The Iyouisvillo and Nashville railroad
owns a majority of the shares of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad Company, the
lessees of the State road. The President of
that company, Senator Brown, is said to be
only a dummy stockholder, the one-eighth
of n share standing on the books in his name
really belonging to other parties. He there
fore has no other interest in the lease than
the salary which is paid him for his
services. The salary is a large one,
but it cannot be doubted that he
is worth all of it to his associates.
No other man could fill his place so well. It
is probable that he has learned a good deal
about railroad management since he was
elected President of the road, as a man of
his deal - mind and close observation could
not fail to do; but it has been in another
field than the management of the railroad’s
business affairs that his services have been
of most value. He has had to manage
politicians and spoilsmen, and possibly some
newspapers, and nothing but his steady
hand and shrewd judgment has saved the
lease from hostile legislation, or, perhaps,
from abrogation. It has been as a politician
rather than as a business man, that he has
earned his salary.
Senator Brown is a great power in Geor
gia, and the manner in which his power
will lie exercised in closing up the existing
contract between the State and the lessees is
a matter of great interest to the people.
Personally, perhaps, he cares very little
whether the State road is sold or not, but
he will not be true to his record, nor to his
duty, iierhaps, if he does not get every cent
out of the State Treasury that he can in the
payment for betterments and other claims
for the benefit of the lessees.
If the State road is sold, and the proba
bility is that it will be, there ought to lie
lively competition between the great South-
ern lines for it.
It is certainly to the State’s interest that
there should be. It is not to be presumed
that any astute legislators will propose to
rule out certain bidders, as was the case in
the sale of the old Macon and Brunswick.
The wisdom learned from experience in that
transaction will probably lead to an unani
mous endeavor to secure all the competition
possible between those who desire to buy
the State’s property.
The Louisville anil Nashville, which has
for so long a time controlled the State road,
and with which Senator Brown may be
said to lie identified, will in all probability
be one of the most eager bidders
for the road should it be sold.
On the determination by the Louisville and
Nashville directors of the question whether
a sale of the State road would be advan
tageous to them, it is fair to infer, depends
in a considerable degree the decision of the
question whether it shall be sold. Those di
rectors may decide that their treasury is not
in condition to make such a purchase, or
that they would stand a better chance for a
profitable arrangement if the road were to
be again leased. To whatever decision they
may come, if Senator Brown gives them his
political influence, it will probably settle
the fate of the State road. The Senator’s
influence is not omnipotent, of course, but
past events have shown that if he goes
earnestly to work, either in favor
of or in opposition to the proposi
tion to sell the property, it will prove
a deciding factor. Senator Brown is one of
the best living exponents of practical poli
tics, and would probably see nothing wrong
in such use of the power given him by a
clear head, a great fortune, and the opjmr
tunities of a long and singularly successful
political career.
If a sale is decided upon, however, it is to
be hoped that a clear field will be made for
all who want the property. In that event
other interests may prove strong enough to
wrest the prize from those which now con
trol it.
The Palatka (Fla.) Hews complains be
cause tie Savannah Morning News
reprints without credit in its State news
columns small items taken from its
exchanges. It is the policy of the
Morning News to thoroughly cover the
happenings in its territory, and to that end
it picks up news matter wherever it can find
it. Once news matter is circulated in the
prints it becomes public property. It does
not require great genius to oompilo the class
of matter reprinted from the Palatka News,
and that its items should tie altered to suit
the columns of this paper, and used, would
not worry any writer save one who liko
the mountain labors, to bring forth a
mouse. Exchanges help themselves to the
matter in the columns of the News with
out credit, a few alterations making it pos
sible foi them G> run the matter in letter
journalistic style than they could do by
using the clumsy credit line. They are
welcome hi do so, and the Morning News
will pursue the same policy when it istoits
convenience, and enables it to present its
matter in more readable shape.
The movement among liquor men to pro
tect t heir business by organization has taken.
a now form in Pennsylvania. The whole
sale dealers have formed an association and
are using the boycott Hs a means of forcing
those who do not wish to do so to join it. A
large assessment will lie paid by each mem
lie.-, and though the purjiose for which the
fund will be used is not declared, it is
thought it will lie put where it will do the
most good in preventing legislation hostile
to the liquor interests.
The field ojien to women grows larger.
Miss P turbo W. Couzins has just been ap
pointed United States Marshal of the St.
Ijouis district, to succeed her deceased
father. The appointment was made by
Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme
Court, and is only nd interim, but it ostab
lishos a precedent of which the women suf
fragists will no doubt be proud. Miss
Couzins seems to havo lioeu the person best
suited for the place, having practically hod
charge of her father’s office for some time.
The movement inaugurated at. Gettys
burg, when the Philadelphia Brigade and
Pickett’s Division met for the second time,
to erect a monument, ou that field to Ameri
can heroism, has not lx>en allowed to stop.
A considerable sum lias been contributed
for the purpose and committees ap|Miintrd
to carry the idea into effect. When ereobsi
it will bo the most notable of the many
monuments on the field, even though it
should be the smallest.
The oft-repealed story that at the famous
Oak View conferences the out lines of a tariff
bill were agreed upon, is now dented. The
real purpose of the conferences wsc t lut the
Pnsidsnt might have the ml vice of the
leaders of his party in the preparation of
the clause in his niumag.- In reference to the
reduction of taxation, lie wishes to go as
far ia bis renoui msudstio us as ha can with
propriety, but the duty of framing tbs law
rests with Congress.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1887.
Improve the Streets.
I The season is now at hand when improve
ments can lie made in thiscity without being
hampered by the jieculiar regulations of
our sanitary system. , If any public or pri
vate improvements are in contemplation,
now is the time to get them into shape.
There is one question of public interest
that the people are unanimous upon, and
that is the necessity of better thorough fares.
Some well devised system of paving the
streets should be speedily settled upon to
meet this popular demand.
But few jieoplo in Bavannah keep vehicles
for their private use, because there is no
pleasure iu sitting in a carriage drawn by
straining horses through deep waste* of
sand. It is the very opposite of pleasant;
it is painful. For this reason our people
prefer dependence on street cars or
the few public vehicles. But if
the streets were properly paved there would
be a large increase in the number of horses
and carriages kept by our citizens for their
own pleasure, and thus the revenues of the
city would benefit by the addition of a con
siderable amount of property subject to
taxation at a high rate.
The Morning News has so often re
ferred to the subject of street paving, that
in recurring to It again it runs a risk of be
ing tedious. Its excuse is the importance
it attaches to the subject. It was the Morn
ing News which suggested the widening of
sidewalks, that the sand area of the streets
might bo reduced. The plan was accepted,
and years ago an ordinance to carry it into
effect was passed by the City Council.
Where the plan has Ixsen tried, it has done
much good.
The Morning News also advocated the
Broughton street asphalt pavement, and
after a very tough light had the pleasure of
seeing that street paved for a part of its
length. That the result has justified its
advocacy of the project will hardly be denied
liy any one.
Some weeks ago it was suggested, as a
means of lessening the sand area, and there
fore the cost of paving, that grass plats lie
made on the sides or in the middle of cer
tain streets. This plan has been adopted
with great success in some of
the Northern and Western citios,
and we might, profit by their experience.
The streets of no city in the Union are bet
ter adapted to such a plan of improvement
than those of Savannah, and if it is carried
into effect intelligently it will change dis
figuring wastes of sand to trim lawns
of grass that will add greatly to the city’s
beauty and attractiveness.
What is wanted is a system of paving
that will be complete and which at the
same time will not bear too heavily on tax
able values, and the plan above referred to
seems to meet those conditions.
Alderman Thomas has the confidence of
the community, and has done well as far as
he has gone; but he is capable of doing a
great deal more, and the jieople want him to
do it. He and his colleagues need not hesi
tate in the matter of public improvements,
especially in the matter of bettering our
thoroughfares, of which every citizen sees
the necessity. There will be but little if
any objection,from any quarter, to wise ex
lienditures to that end.
Making the city attractive in appearance
and comfortable to live in is the best way
to add to its material wealth, by increasing
its jiopulation. The people who would be
attracted to Savannah by the kind of im
provements suggested would be of the very
class which would add most to the prosper
ity of people already here—namely, people
of means, accustomed to the comforts and
convoniencies of Northern cities, who de
sire to escape the rigors of the winters of
that region.
Cotton in Japan.
United States Consul Jaruigan has made
an interesting report on the growth and
manufacture of cotton in Japan. From his
statement it appears that the industry is by
no means anew one, its introduction ante
dating the discovery of America by several
hundred years, though it was subsequently
abandoned and not again resumed until the
sixteenth century. The cotton plant is said
to have been brought to Japan originally
from India, and like the staple now grown
in that country, the Japanese production is
much inferior to American cotton. The
amount produced, however, is con
siderable —134,688,300 pounds in 1884,
the last year for which a
report is made. This is a smaller amount
than was raised several years ago by many
million pounds. The importation of cotton
from China, however, is very large, amount
ing to five times as much as is produced at
home. There are in the country about
twenty prosperous spinning mills, and iheir
number is increasing. The cotton of Japan
and China lieing entirely consumed at home,
they are not often referred to as cotton
growing countries. It will be seen, how
ever, that their production is considerable.
A correspondent suggests in another col
umn that the troublesome convict question
tie settled by putting the men to work in
State-owned quarries. The idea is perhaps a
good one. At any rate, it is worth putting
before the people for them to think ab jut.
There.are two points, however, which our
correspondent seems to have overlooked.
'6)io contracts of the IS late with the lessees
uro still in full force, and should the Chatta
nooga property be sold its proceeds must be
applied to the debt.
Mr. Kennedy, who is trying to have Rev.
Mr. Warren sent back to England because
he came to this country under contract to
preach at the Holy Trinity church, New
York, seems to bo in earnest. He has em
ployed a lawyer, a-id will push the case be
fore the United States courts. He will not
succeed iu sending Mr. Warren back, but
he may succeed in attracting attention to a
law which does very little good, and may
be used to work great hardships.
Tho strictest quarantine, according to
the New York view of the matter, doesn’t
seoni to amount to much. It now turns
out that an Italian fruit vender from
Brooklyn has visited the cholera stricken
steamer Alesia twice every day, returning
after every trip to his store in a crowded
section of the city. Such carelessness os
this may cost thousands ui jieople their lives,
and should lie severely punished.
The matron of a church home for little
children in New York has discovered anew
way to keep them quiet and save herself
trouble. It is to make the children stupidly
An investigating committee found
several in that condition lying on the floor.
The woman can hardly is- punished severely
enough to expiute tier crime.
I'lieuuiatle tuts* am the latest fail of
•rchlUN'fai. Now they are mainly used for
stusilmg letters and |*|M*rs to the iqiper
stories, but stem we shall have them j*r
fi'G| to the extent of doing away with the
•isvslar.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The South Can Spare the Missionaries
Needed.
FVom the Boston J'ranseript (Rev).
Ohio is pretty good missionary ground yet for
those who insist that colored anil white children
should lie taught together in public schools.
A Valuable Suggestion.
Prom the Chicago News ( Dem ).
The national government intends to make an
analysis of the various kinds of beer manu
factured in this country. If it could also gather
up living specimens representing the effect of
each variety of the brewers' product on con
sumers it would have something really valuable
for comparison and study.
Grant and Lincoln as Candidates.
Prom the ftoston Globe (Bern).
However much the people may reverence the
names of Lincoln and Grant, the general ver
diet will lie that their sons must take their
chances for popular favors on rheir personal
merits alone, as did Iheir fathers. Trie level
headed genius of Democracy cannot be led far
with reflected light, the mere inheritance of a
lustrous name.
BRIGHT BITS.
They strolled along through the wood together,
A manly youth and a maiden fair,
Gathering leaves, in the autumn weather,
Tinted with colors most rich and rare.
He said; "You are much like the autumn
leaves.
With your cheeks of red and your hair of
gold:
And your heart, the frost that the leaf receives
Ere its hues are seen, for your heart is cold."
The maiden answered: "It may be so;
You’ve known me long and, perhaps, know
best.
But the frozen leaf soon thaws, you know,
After ’tis gathered and properly pressed.”
—Boston Courier.
Sam Jones told the Baltimore people that they
were a "silly crowd,” and they paid him $l5O a
night and proved the statement true.—Hartford
Post.
Chicaoo consumes 10,000 pies every day for
breakfast. This Is the only kind of "early
piety” known in that city .—Burlington Free
Press.
There is likely to be another Insurrection at
the Maine State College The limit of one piece
of pie. has been set at the boarding-house.—
Lewistim (Me) Journal.
Pat—Moike, th’ tells me as yez have quit
worrukin’ in the powder factory. Was it too
dangerous?
Mike -Dangerous? AVell.be gob! T believe if
I had worruked there till now I’d be’n dead a
year ago.— Life.
English waiter (contemplating emigration) to
American tourist—And ’ave you any otel tips
over there?
American (enthasiastically)—Hotel tips? You
bet! You should just see a cyclone tipping a
Western hotel.—Boston Courier.
Peddler—l'd like to show my stock of laces,
ribbons, and—”
Domestic —Dont’ want none o’ y’r truck.
Peddler—l did not expect to sell to you,
maduui; you have plenty of time for shopping.
The one I wish to see is the lady.
Domestic—Come in. I ll Ink at 'em .-Tid-Bits.
Cause of Emotion— Omaha Man -The paper
says seven brides in different parts of the coun
try have died of excitement and emotion at the
altar.
Wife—Shouldn’t wonder. It is remarkable
that so many women live through the ceremony.
"I don’t see why they shouldn’t.”
“Humph! That shows all you know about
dresses.’— Omaha World.
A little girl, daughter of a well-known com
mercial traveler of the city, was walking down
street with her mother. She left her mother’s
side and went out some distance from the edge
of the sidewalk, walking along in danger of be
ing run over. “Come back," said the mother.
“You should walk on the sidewalk."
“No,” said the little one, "I’m going out on
the road like my papa.”— Toronto Globe.
“My boy,” said an aged tailor to his son, a
young man who was about to go West to make
his fortune, “I have given you a good start along
the seam of life. It depends on you to keep at
it with A strong and even stitch. And don’t
forget to fasten off your work with a knot at the
end of the suam.” That youth never forgot his
father's admonition. He was hanged in Arizona
three years afterward for stealing a horse.—
Chicago Tribune.
Very Fair.—“ How are the times, Uncle
Jerry ?” he asked of an old colored whitewasher
on the market yesterday.
"Very fa’r. Sir—very t'a’r.”
"Then your Business is rushing, eh?"
“Seems to be, sail. My wife has aimed ober
fo’ dollars at washin’ dis week, an’ de chill’en
has picked up a suit of clothes an’ a basket
of vittles. 1 can’t complain, sah—can't com
plain.”—Detro.t Free Press.
PERSONAL.
The Queen of Sweden is slowly dying.* Her
majesty is !i'l years of age.
Mr. Phelps,4he American Minister, is visit
ing Lord Aberdeen at Haddo House.
Wilson Barrett's lease of the Globe Theatre,
London, is for a period of seven years.
Wayne MacVeaqh was n passenger on the
steamer Umbria, which discharged her comple
ment safely in New York on Saturday.
A ribald Paris correspondent cables to the
New York World that Sarah Bernhardt has
written a play called "The Pin,” in which she is
to appear in the title role.
Sidney Morsf.. the Boston sculptor, who has
been at work for several weeks on a a statuette
of President Cleveland, lias just completed the
model and has had the first cast made.
Buck Tayloh. the King of the Cowboys, has
sufficiently recovered from his late accident to
ride again, much to the delight of the Hon
William Cody and his aristocratic London
friends.
Manuel Barriant and wife, of Matamoras,
111., recently celebrated the eightieth anniver
sary of their wedding day. The husband is in
the best of health at lOi), and his wife enjoys the
same blessing at 90.
The Vanderbilt holdings of United States
bonds, the brokers say, are all registered 1 per
cents, and amount to $40,000,00!). The late
William II Vanderbilt s original purchase was
$50,000,000 worth at par.
Prince Charles of Sweden, the third son of
the King, is one of the handsomest men in
Europe lie is a manly fellow as well, a daring
horseman, highly accoriiphshed, and an author of
vigorous and polished style.
Mrs. Cleveland is reported as saying that
she would never sit for a photograph again
while she remained mistress of the White
lloina* Some of ttie prints used as tobacco
sign'mre said to be the cause of her taking this
resolution.
Gen. Lucies I’. Fairchild, thocommander-in
chief of me Grand Army of the Republic, will
lie presented with a valuable diamond souvenir
at the reunion in St. Louis. The presentation
will lie made by the new commander to be se
lected at the meeting.
Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen
Victoria, la undoubtedly the best cricketer that
the British royal family has hitherto produced,
and lie was quite deserving of his place iu the
I Zingari eleven that played the "Gentlemen"
at Scarborough during last week.
Horace Allen, a grand-nephew of Ethan A1
len, and a mall HI years old. has just arrived iu
Albany from his home in Delaware, O. This
does not seem to be an extraordinary fact until
one understands that he made the journey of
H7S miles on foot and pushing a wheelbarrow.
Senator Vance didn't go to Europe with the
other globe-trotters. Not lieing able to afford
such a trip he went straight to his borne at the
foot of the Great Black mountain in North
Carolina sud remained there ever since. Dur
ing the summer he ha* kept his feuees in repair
and learned to play at least a dozen new airs on
the violin.
Francis Joseph, Enqieror of Austria and
King of Hungary, tins more royal titles than
any other Eu, o)iean sovereign. Hr is King of
seven countries or provinces, grand Prince of
one, Prince or Margrave of several others ami
Archduke, Grand Duke and Duke of half a
dozen more.
F Marion Crawford, the novelist and poet
of Philadelphia's recent centennial, is a man of
many aocomplisliuientN besides his lirerary
gifts, lie is a goml musician, being able 10 ac
company Ids own songs on either piano or
guitar lie Is a rare linguist and an athlete of
acknowledged power.
The Sultan of Morocco is a tall man of about
4?> years of age. In complexion he is very dark,
black blood allowing Itself very plainly in Ills
thick lljm, thougn tnis iUsw not preiimt his tiring
an exceedingly handsome man His lace Is thin
and took* worn. He wears a black beard and
inousiachii ami dresses entirely In white
Max • i’Kell's real name ia Paul Blouet He
wear* a single rvegl las and ia a lypi. nl French
loan. 41* y-urs old, a lininette. with bright Hjan.
has eyes and a llieljr engaging mauuei lie
J 1 “Is s England bv a French standard: (sit al
Juifamid" 7 '' m> **** vlaa.ll j
Love and Misery.
From the Paris Morning News.
Avery sad ending tor two young lives is re
ported. M. Julian P , a lieutenant of hussars,
fell in love with a young girl. As she had not
the regulation dowry, he could not marry her
and hold the commission. He left the army
and married. The young couple came to Paris,
j and the husband obtained a situation at 150?.
per month. Together they struggled on, till the
poor young wife fell ill. The monthly pittance
would not pay for the food and medicines
necessary for her. The husband got into debt,
and his credit was stopped. Finally he found
himself confronted with the alternative of see
ing iiis beloved wife die of starvation, or of
stealing the milk that alone could keep her
alive. He stole the milk. Arrested, and taken
liefore a police magistrate, the latter had pity
on him and let him go. He returned to his
wife's bedside, only in time to receive her last
sigh. He determined not to survive her, and in
a few moments lay dead by her side, having
blown out his brains.
A Queer Colorado Wedding’.
From the teadvtlte Democrat.
On the arrival of the Salt Lake express at
Salida an aged-looking man of dissipated, ap
pearance, accompanied by a handsome young
woman, stepped from the train, and, repairing
to the Monte Christo hotel, requested that a
minister lie summoned, as they desired to lie
married. This was complied with, and soon the
twain were made one. The newly married
wife retired to the privacy of the chamber
which had been assigned the couple. Not so,
however, with the husband. II proceeded to
iill up on whisky.
On returning to the hotel the man actually
forgot thatbe had lieen married. He went up
Into the parlor and sank into a drtmkeu slum
ber sofa, entirely forgetting that his
young wife was in an agonizing suspense on ac
count of his not returning.
Next morning when she learned the true state
of affairs she paid the hotel bill anil left the
town in disgust, before her lately made husband
was awake.
Horace Greeley’s Humor.
From Rare Bits.
Mr. Greeley's humor was of a peculiar sort,
but it was allied to genius. One evening an as
sociate editor of the Tribune accosted him as
he came into his desk with some such question
as this: •
“Dldn t you know, Mr. Greeley, that you made
a dreadful blunder In one of your statistical
editorials this morning?''
“No; how was it?" said Mr. Greeley.
“Why, you said something about Heidsick
and champagne? Don’t you know Heidsick is
champagne?”
“Well," said Mr. Greeley quietly; “I am the
only editor of this paper that could make that
mistake.”
On another occasion a person who wished to
have a little fun at the expense of his consis
tency said, in a group where Mr. Greeley was
standing:
“Mr. Greeley and I. gentlemen, are old friends.
We have drunk a great deal of brandy and wa
ter together.”
“Yes,” said Mr. Greeley, “that is true enough.
Y’ou drank the brandy and I drank the water.”
Eire from Ice.
From the British Journal of Photography.
The London correspondent of te Moniteur
rle la Photographic, writes to that journal that
in the middle of the winter that has just elapsed,
a student made a lens of ice, with which he lit
the pipes of some of the skaters on the Serpen
tine by means of the solar rays—an experiment,
he says, which was first performed in the polar
regions hy I)r. Scoresby, to the great astonish
ment of the sailors, for they did not understand
why the ice did not freeze the beams of the sun.
We may remark that Prof. Tyndall at times
would set fire at the Royal Institution to a little
heap of gunpowder with rays from the electric
arc concentrated upon the powder by means of
a lens of ice.
His explanation was that although ice absorbs
rays of certain wave lengths, and is gradually
melted thereby, other waves it does not absorb,
and these latter produce the heating effect at
the focus of the lens. It Is wholly a question of
the relative motions of the molecules of frozen
water and the motions of the waves of light:
when there is discord between the two the
discordant waves pass through the ice without
absorption.
A Queer Story from Japan.
Naqaski tetter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is a little stir in medical circles here
that may make Nagaski known to all the world
in this connection, and Pasteur and the hypno
tizing Parisian will find themselves deposed as
lions in medical society for a young peasant
woman from a village near here who has anew
theory and cure for rheumatism Many of
those short-tempered people who have had
rheumatism in tneir knees and gout in their
toes have declared that the sensation was as if
something were gnawing at their muscles, and
this Japanese woman says that it
is in reality that. Rheumatism, ac
cording to her, is a growth of
small parasites finder the skin, a smull insect
that gnaws and bites and causes the untold
misery and all the twinges of that ailment. She
has had for one of her patients here a grizzled
and skeptical sea captain, and as sea captains
may always be believed,except about the sea ser
pent, his case ought to settle it. The mariner
was completely laid up with hts ailing knees,
and the Japanese woman was sent for.
She claimed to see the move
ment of the parasites under the
skin, ordered foot baths of bran and
hot rice brandy and came another day with a
little steel hook and niptxxl small white insects
out by the dozen. By the stories it must be a
large white flea, for one of them when brought
out to the surface made a spring and was lost
to sight. One of the bystauders felt a sting
and the next had a sore place on his arm. and
cutting into it was found that the rheumatism
bug was there, burrowing like a tick.
The regular practitioners are still sceptical
about the new theory of rheumatism. They
put one of the Insects under a microscope and
decided that, by its organism, it never could
have lived under the surface of the skin away
from the air, and that she must have carried ft
under her finger nail and produced it at the
proper moment. To this the sea captain enters
vigorous denial. He says that she has taken
the insects from his knees and ankles by the
hundreds now, and that all have been killed in
his sight, and that he is growing better and can
feel the relief after each treatment.
Aaron Burr’s Wooing.
From Harper's for October.
Front the commandant’s quarters on West
chester Height
The blue hills of Romapo lie in full sight;
On their slope gleam the gables that shield his
heart’s queen;
But the redcoats are wary—the Hudson's be
tween.
Through the camp runs a jest: “There's no
moon --'twill ne dark;
’Tis odds little Aaron will go on a spark!”
And tl.e toast of the troopers is: “Pickets, lie
low.
And good luck to the Colonel and Widow Fre
vost!”
Eight miles to the river he gallops his steed,
Lays him bound in the barge, bids his escort
make speed,
Loose their swords, sit athwart, through the
fleet reach yon shore.
Not a word—not a plash of the thick-muffled
oar!
Once across, once again in the seat and away -
Five leagues are soon over when love has the
say;
And “Old Put” and his rider a bridle-path know
To the. Hermitage manor of Madame Prevost.
Lightly done! but he halts In the grove’s deep
est glade,
Ties his horse to a birch, trims his cue, slings his
blade,
Wipes the dust and the dew from his smooth,
handsome face
With the kerchief she broidered and bordered
in lace;
Then slips through the box-rows and tans at
the boll.
Sees the glint of a waxllgbt, a hand white and
small,
And the door Is unbarred by herself all aglow
Half in smiles, half In tears—Theodosia Prevost.
Alack for the soldier that's buried and gone!
What's a volley above him, a wreath on his
stone,
Compared with sweet Ufe and a wife for one’s
view
Like this dame, ripe and warm in her India
fichu?
She chides bar bold lover, yet holds him more
dear,
For the daring that brings him a night-rider
here;
British gallants by day through her doors come
and go,
But a Yankee's the winner of Then Prevost.
Where's the widow or maid withs mouth to be
kissed, -
When Burr comes a wooing, that long would
resist?
1 lights and wine on ths boaufet, the shutters
nil fast,
And “Old Put” st mips In vsln till an hour has
flown post - •
But an hour for eight leagues must be covered
ere tie, y;
Isrigle Aaron “Let Washington frown as be
mgy.
When be hears of me mitt In a raid <• the ?, i
lie'll t'dglvs 101* night's try*! wllht te Widow
HpvfH”
benvoo CtaUMMe-A brunt**. 1
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A farmer drove into Charlotte, Mich., the
other day with a load of 120,160 eggs. t
The first idea of electricity was given by the
friction of two globes of quicksilver in the year
1017.
Three new mouths. or blow holes, have ap
peared in the side of the volcano Cebornco in
Jalisco, Mex.
Hutchinson, Kan., has a man of many occu
pations. He is a real estate man, a professional
burglar and sings in a church choir.
Eight cars for the State railroad of Chili are
being about finished in a Springfield (Mass),
establishment. They are drawing-room
coaches, luxuriously fitted, and will cost $12,-
(JOi) each.
Peter Mclntyre, a sprinter of San Francisco,
was badly burned in a tire at Central Park last
May. One hundred and sixty friends volun
teered skin for grafting purposes. Mclntyre is
getting well.
The people of Siberia buy their milk frozen,
and for convenience it is allowed to freeze about
a stick, which comes as a handle to carry it by.
The milkman may leave one chunk or two
chunks, as the case may be, at the house of his
customers.
Puget Sound fishermen £ave organized a
branch of the Columbia River Fishermen's
Union at Seattle. There were thirty-five In
dians, twenty-three Greeks and Italians, and
one Chinaman who wished to join, and all were
admitted except the latter.
Young men clad in the garments formerly
worn by students have been numerous in the
streets of Osaka, Japan, lately They lecture in
out-of-the-way corners, and even crowded
streets when no constables are at band, upon
political subjects, and frequently urge the doc
trine that "official salaries are the lite-blood of
the people."
A suit over a rooster that cost the defeated
party SSOO, was decided at Hackensack, N. J.,
the other day. The plaintiff and defendant were
both butchers. James Stuart accused John
May, Jr., of killing a valuable gamecock owned
by Stuart. Stuart lost tue case, but declares he
will appeal. If he does another SSOO will be
added to the cost of the dead rooster.
With the aid of science even the desert of the
Sahara is becoming inhabitable and colonization
is encouraged. The Lower Sahara is an im
mense basin of artesian waters, and the French
are forming fresh oases with skill and success,
so that the number of cultivated tracts is in
creasing rapidly. After a period of thirty years,
forty-three oasA have 13,(XW inhabitants, 120,-
000 trees between one and seven years old, and
100,000 fruit trees.
A farmer in Hamilton, Van Buren county,
Mich., is the owner of a pig which does duty
about the premises as a night watchman. It
spends its time in patrolling the barn and door
yards at night, and thievery has been unkuown
since it began its vigils. It does not hesitate to
attack a stranger, ami even succeeded in put
ting a lot of neighbors to flight as they were
making a descent upon the house iu the shape
of a surprise party the other eveniug. •
The kingdom of Saxony is richer in railroads
than any other G- r nan State, containing 165
metres of track on every square kilometre of
ground, as against 64 in Prussia, 67 in Bavaria,
74 in Wurtemberg, 86 in Baden, 100 in Hesse,
105 in Saxe-Aitenburg, 106 in Anhalt, 88 in Saxe-
Weimar, etc. Saxony enjoys also the distinc
tion ot being the most saving of all German
countries, 40 out of every 100 inhabitants being
depositors in savings banks. In Prussia the
proportion is 14 in 100, ill Bavaria 8 in 100.
Work on the tunnel under the Hudson, which
is to connect New York and Jersey City, is pro
gressing slowly. Want of funds lias prevented
its completion at the anticipated date, but it is
constantly increasing its length, and the meet
ing of the sections seventy teet beneath the sur
face of the river is sure to be accomplished in
the not very remote future. Two tunnels are
iu fact being constructed side by side, one of
which has been extended a distance of 2,100
feet, the other 630 feet. The daily average of
progress made at a heading is 3J4 feet.
The Burnet and Palace Hotels of Cincinnati
were cleverly swindled out of considerable
money a few days ago. The swindler’s ruse was
to call up the clerks of these hotels by tele
phone, and by feigning the voices of prominent
ooarders, request the payment upon what
seemed to be express packages sent in by a
messenger boy In every case the money was
paid without hesitation. Some of the other
Hotels declined to advance the alleged charges,
but held the bundles, which, upon being opened,
contained nothing but sawdust and other rub
bish.
The Oroville Mercury vouches for the follow
ing: Charles Sadowski has a curiosity in the
shape of a half-grown lemon. It was picked by
one of his little children from a tree in his yard
on Pine street, The lemon almost perfectly
represents a hand with a trail inclosed in it. The
thumb aud index finger look very natural and
protrude free from the imaginary ball, while the
remaining three fingers press tne ball firmly iu
the palm of the hand, which tapers gracefully
into an almost perfect wrist. At first sight one
would believe t hat the whole had been molded
in wax.
Adulteration of flour by means of potato
flour may be detected by m-ans of acids. Take
a spoonful and pour upon it a little nitric acid;
if the flour he of wheat it will change to an
orange yellow; if wholly of potato flour the
color would not be altered, but the flour formed
into a tenacious jelly; if, therefore, the Hour lie
adulterated with potato flour, it will not be dif
ficult to decide. Again, take a spoonful of the
Hour aid pour upon it a little muriatic acid; if
the flot r ue of pure wheat it will be changed to
a deep > inlet color, without odor; but if potato
flour be mixed in it, it will then have an odor
Uke that of rushes.
A man of Fort McDowell, Ari., found a hollow
stonq ‘.V/i inches in diameter. On breaking it
he found a frog's skeleton. Shortly afterward
he found some birds carrying mud to a cliff and
depositing it in holes that they had dug in the
side of the cliff. He went to" the top of the
cliff and climired down to one of the holos, ex
pecting to find the nest of the peculiar bird,
but instead he found a globular stone contain
ing a decayed lizard. He found thousands of
insects intomhed alive in the hanks. Why they
put the animals in the balls is a mystery, for
after the mud dries it is so hard that it requires
considerable force to break them.
A regular gang of manufacturers of spuri
ous archselogicai articles has recently been con
victed in the Canton of Neufchatel, whose
scholars had long complained of the frauds
practiced on hunters for relics of pile-dwellings.
One of the accused had invented the “hom
age" for the benefit of an enthusiastic antiqua
rian, and dug out for him a number of skill
fully prepared articles of horn. Another fraud
consisted in forging the signature of the Cura
tor of the Archaeological Museum of Neuf
chatel, and testifying thereby to the genuine
ness ot a shield. The forgers were sentenced to
terms of imprisonment varying from two duys
to half a year.
A resident of Plymouth, Mass., protects his
grain-vines from thieves in a novel manner.
The supports are of wood, hut the cross pieces
are of wires insulated from the ground and con
nected with an induction coil capable of deliv
ering a heavy spark through an inch of air.
The other pole ol the coil is connected with the
ground, Six good-sized bichromate of potash
cells furnish electro-motive force for the coil.
Short wires bunging among the vines are se
cured to the large wires, and when any one
“monkeys' with the grapevine while the bat
tery Is connected the neighborhood is apt to
hear from him. It works every time, and nooue
comes for a second dose.
The Calcutta Englishman calls attention to a
remarkable decline in the popularity oft! e
great Rath Jattro, or Car festival, at the Jug
gernaut temple in t trlssa. That the number of
visitors this year should show a large decrease
might have been expected, owing to the recent
loss of two pilgrim steamers and to the common
wltef Mint the loss of tbe thitti ha* I ire
dlet-d It appears, however, that although the
falling off is more marked this year, it has lieen
going on steudily tor some years past. The re
ligious enthusiasm of the crowd is said in bo
also dlsapi tearing. There is no l inger a wild
rush for the car, in which the idol is dragged
from the temple to a country house and hack
again, and on several occasion* it has been nec- j
essar.v to hire coolies to perform the work
Thk intereat taken by women in Kymnaiulu
**ercl*e in dally Krowlnff in Knffland. At ail of
th<- fcyiniiUMiunm 'bar.- areapeclal inntnntoraf.ir
woman. Tim value of tbin InatrurUoa ban Ihmmi
abown in two iiiataniww during ttm week. Tbr
wlfa of a prominent londmi ai lilete, who ia bar
aalflii I rain Ink. waa walking on the atairn of
Highbury hint lon the other night to taka the
tram Kha wua alone. U waa It o'clock in the
evridug A loilf drunken man name down iif
atalra, put hi- arm n round h*T welat and tiled
to kina u<f She wrenched hrim-U fro* from bin
ftaiji, tom off her fallow kid flm* fimiit Itrr
right band, ami I ban atrtr-k out ntrnlgbt from
the aboilili-r bilt'.uk lb" ruffian brftveeu tie*
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