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4 Che JUorningßclos Morninfr News Building, Savannah, Ga WEDNESDAY, OC TOBER o. IHH7. Regitfered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day n fbe year. and is served to subscribei-s in the city, lj newsdealers and earners. on their own a court, at 25 cents a week, $1 wa r wntn, $5 OU lor six months and $lO to for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, f] 00; three months. $2 50; six months, $5 <a); ©ne year. $lO 00. The Morning News, /y marl, six f.'mes a week twitbout Sunday issuethree months, $2 00; six months. $4 ii) one year, $ s 00. The Morning News. Tri Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Phdavs. or Tuesday >. Thurs days and Saturdays. tfiree months, jfl 25; six Bionths. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, ory* year. $2 CK ~ The Weekly New- by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order. cheek or registered letter. Cur* rroev sent bv mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and ad vert isinjr rates may tie ascertained at the office of thy Ameri can Newspaper Publisher* Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. Ha." Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetivjs—The Equitable I>ian and Build ing Aaso'iation; Georgia Chanter No. 3. R. A. M: Chippewa Tribe No. 4. I. R. M : Magnolia Encampment No. 1. I. O. O. K.: (.rand I/idge F. end A. M.. State of Georgia: Citizens’ Meeting. Special Notices—As to Crews of British Steamship Sylvia and Norwegian Bark Pomona: Bills Against British Steamship Amoor: Convey ances for Springfield < amp Meeting: The Great Southern Portrait Company. Ureal. Notices— Petition for Incorporation of Savannah Cold Storage and Ice Manufacturing Company: Citations from the Court of Ordinary. t heap Coups A ove stive wests.—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous Soaps -Butler's Pharmacy. Booxtso-L. & B. S. M. H. Steamship Scheoci.e Ocean steamship Com pany. Acctios Sai f. -Elegant Household Furniture, by J McLaughlin A Son. Hams. etc., os ConsiokmbHT. A. F.hrlicb A Bro New York is just beginning to appreciate what a public lienefactor was George Fran cis Train in keeping his mouth shut for ten years. Rhode Island has one advantage from tier Email size. Gala- the ends of railroads ate on her territory, and she is not Is-there! with making laws to regulate them. Mas sachusetts relieves her of that trouble. It is to lie feared that the feeling liotween the landlord and tenant parties in Ireland is too bitter to admit of the success of Ajrchhishop Walsh's effort to effect a settle ment. between them by a friendly con ference. A Republican paper thinks that Mr. Cleveland should have indorsed upon his alleged letter to Superintendent Fox, of the Philadelphia mint, “Burn this letter."’ Mr. Cleveland, perhaps, -lid not wish to infringe upon Mr. Blaine's patent in that phrase. The Pittsburg glassbiowers have gained a partial victory and have gone to work. They refuse to teach American boys the trail", and foreign workmen cannot be im ported. It looks as if the business will die with the men, if the present arrangement eu tmues. One of the best evidences that a newspa per is losing its grip is its frequent assertion that some other newspajier, that does not come into competition with it, is the most powerful newstiaper in the locality in which it circulates. The newspaper making an assertion of this sort is anxious for a similar ■wnplimeut. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is dangerously ill at Newport. If her illness should prove fatal, the poor of New York will have lost their most generous friend. Sue is said to have spent much of her time for manv years in going about among them, and to have expended many thousands of dollars every year in unostentatious charity. Her death will be a public calamity. The interstate commerce commission knows how to spend money, though it may not know how to settle satisfactorily the many difficult questions presented to it for adjustment. The appropriation for its ex penses for the current year was SIOO,OOO, and it is now estimated that SIIOO,OOO w ill be required. The commission is certainly doing what it can to relieve the Treasury of its surplus. The Mouth Florida Exposition in January, will do much to show the world the wonder ful resources of that favored region. The building of new railroads has made it acces sible, and it presents attractions not possible in any other part of the United States. Tty day cannot be far distant when there will Ik- a great movement toward it of those seeking pleasant homes and profitable in vestments. Even the Tory London Times is moved by the Aylesbury incident to say it is “scanda lous” that a man of the character of the disgraced Marquis should have the privi leges of an hereditary legislator, and that his conduct “brings nearer the highly neces sary reform of the Roust of Lords.” The English people, when they liegiu, may not lie satisfied to merely reform that venerable but useless legislative body. They may abolish it. Texas finds herself, in a financial way, in the same embarrassed position as is the general government. Hbe has a revenue larger than there is any need for. Haj piiy, it will not be so hard to reduce taxes in Texas as in the country at large, for they come directly from the people and not through custom houses. This surplus is in spite of the fact that Texas is building and paying lor a very large and expensive State bouse at Austin. The invitation to Mr. Randall to make the opening speech at the Piedmont Exposi tion was what might lie called a second hand one, 8. 8. Cox having declined. It afforded Mr. Randall an opportunity, how ever, which ho no doubt desired, lo add to the knowledge gained in his Western trip by association with Democrats other t hail the hide-bound Pennsylvania breed. Such association will liberalize bis views and lie well for him and his party. It seems that Civil Service Commissioner Oberly did not print his recent letter for bidding the formation of political clubs among the department clerks without con sultation with the President, There has lieen a great change since the days when the departments were looked upon as a great machine to work for the success of the party in power, and a clerk’s place was safe in proportion as he was an “offensive partisan," and the change is iur the better, j Mr Carlisle's Suggestion. Mr. Carlisle's article in the Octeter num ber of the Forum on “The Continuance of Democratic Rule” is exciting considerable I comment. The position which he occupies in the Democratic party entities wh3t he says upon public questions to careful con sideration. In the articl- in the Forum he deals with a number of important questions, but what he says about the Treasury sur plus. and the necessity for getting rid of it by reducing the revenues, attracts the most attention. He states very clearly the position which the Republicans occupy with res;-ect to the question of reducing the revenues, and also that occupied by the Democrats, and in a way that cannot lx- very well misunderstood he points out the superi ority of that occupied by the Demo crats. In brief, the Republicans want all the internal taxes repealed and the pres ent tariff taxes retained. They pretend to think that it will be better for the people to have free whisky, beer and tobacco than cheap necessaries of life. They are not honest enough to say that they want the whisky and tobacco taxes repealed in order that the present high protective tariff taxes may be preserved, but pretend the}’ desire them repealed because they are inquisitorial, and require an army of spies and officials to collect them. They do not seem to real ize -hat the high protective tariff taxes which they wish maintained are open to the same objections which they make to the internal taxes. In deed, the enforcement of the tariff laws are more annoying in some respects than the enforcement of the internal revenue laws. The trunks, packages and even the persons of travelers arriving gi the country from abroad are carefully searched, and not in frequently indignities are suffered by inno cent persons which are hard to tear. In fact, the tariff laws are more inquisitorial iu their character than the internal revenue laws, and the percentage of those who de mand their reduction is a hundred times greater tlian that of those who insist, upon the repeal of the latter laws because of any objection they have to them Mr. Carlisle points out that it is imuera tivelv necessary that there shall be a reduc tion made in the revenues as soon as pos sible in order to get rid of the Treasury sur plus. As one branch of Congress is in the hands of the Republicans he believes that a reduction can be secured only by means of a compromise. He thinks that a bill pro viding for a reduction in the tariff taxes and the repeal of the tobacco tax would pass the House, but is doubtful about its fate in the Senate. The Republican Senators might insist upon free whisky and beer. If th-iy should the chances are that there would be no revenue legislation next winter, ami that the question whether whisky and beer should be free or the neces saries of life cheaper would liecome a party issue in the next national campaign. The Democratic party would have no reason to avoid such an issue. The Republicans, however, would hardly dare to acknowl edge themselves to tie the champions of free whisky, if they should they would be beaten so liadly that their party organiza tion would disappear. The Boss Shepherd Blow Out. The friends and admirers of “Boss” Shep herd who have arranged to have a big pa rade and a grand demonstration in Wash ington in his honor to-morrow are not meet ing with as much encouragement as they exjieoted. They thought they would have no trouble in raising SIO,OOO or $15,000 to meet the expenses of the proposed recep tion, but the shopkeepers and other busi ness men have not re-ponded liberally. In fact, the most of them have refused to con tribute a cent. Apparently they are not anxious to buy champagne for Shepherd's old cronies and their friends. The commit tees which have charge of the re ception have succeeded in raising $5,000, chiefly among their own members, and if they want any more they will have to contribute it themselves. The pro gramme includes a parade of the working men of the District. From present indica tions, however, that pai t of it will have to lie omitted. The workingmen have been looking up Shepherd's record when he was boss of the District, and have discovered that he was the oppressor rather than the friend of men of their class. They have, therefore, given notice that they will not permit themselves to lie dragged at the wheels of his triumphal car. It is a question whether Shepherd is enti tled to any special honor from the people of Washington. It is true that the street im provements and the magniliceut sliude trees are largely due to Ins efforts. He is olio entitled to much of the credit for the beauty of the parks, but it lias not yet been satis factorily settled whether he wasn't at the head of a strong ring, when he was the leading politician of the District, which robbed the people under the forms of law. It is certain that Congress broke up the existing District government because it was so notoriously corrupt, and that Shep herd left Washington untier a cloud. If he were condemned unjustly, the injury that was done him ought to be repaired, but be fore lie is given the keys of thecitv and hoi - ored as a public benefactor, it ought tube clearly shown that the charges that wei e lodged against him, and pressed with vig o in the of the District government, were untrue. Some of the Republican papers are angry at the dismissal of a cousin of the late Presi dent Arthur’s wife from n Washington clerk ship because, on account of age, and bad health, he was no longer able to perform the duties of his place. Perhaps they would favor a pension law to cover such cases, hut they would have very few of the people with them. Until such a law is passed, however, the government is entitled to ser vice for all the money it pays out, und when a man cannot render it he ought to be put out. It is not claimed that the dismissal in this case was caused by partisan feeling, as the man is a Democrat. Mr. J. H. Had writes from Jacksonvil’e, Fla., to the New York B or'd offering to donate 100,000 acres of land in Georgia to the suffering peasantry of Ireland, each man or family to lie given twenty-five acres. Mr. Hall does not state in what part of the State the land is located, but if it turns out that there is a Mr. Hall, and that he owns such a vide stretch of territory, his schem ■ may give Georgia some thousands of citi zens. Mr. Henry Richardson, who has for years represented the Atlanta Constitution in Washington, it is said, will he in control of the Macon Telegraph, now that it has passed into new hands. It is also said that, Maj. Hanson, late manager of the Tele graph. will start anew paper to advocate the protection theory. The chances are, however, that, in future protection will have uo newspaper advocate in Macon. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1887. The Minneapolis Convention. The proceedings of the convention of the Knights of Labor at Minneapolis will be watched with a great deal of interest. The (•’invention will doubtless remain in session ten days or two weeks, and will undertake to settle a number of important questions which have been pressed upon the attention of the order since the adjournment of the Richmond convention. The most of these questions will require very careful consider ation. Mistakes will do the organization a great deal of harm, and it cannot afford to lose any of its strength. It is not as strong as it was a year ago. A great many of its members have left it for one reason or an other, and if it is to accomplish what it originally intended to it will have to dis play greater vvisd *m and judgment than it has yet shown. That other organization of workingmen, the Federation of I.atior, has been growing steadily for a year or more, and promises to be a very strong rival of the Knights in the near future. About the only two points worthy of no tice that Mr. Rowderly made in his opening address were those relating to the Anarch ists and the temperance cause. He is against whisky and he said so frankly. He *nlso said that he was against the Anarchists, but the tone of his remarks were such as to leave a doubt whether he would oppose a resolution asking for the pardon of the con demned Chicago Anarchists. He seemed to labor under the impression that the An archists are so ignorant that tboy do not know what the laws are, and, hence, are morally guilty of no wrong when they vio late them. Asa matter of fact the most of them are about as familiar with the laws as Mr. Powderly is. Those of them who are under sentence of death at Chicago are in telligent men, and need no teacher to inform them respecting the laws which they vio lated. If Mr. Powderly is wise he will use his in fluence to keep the Knights from showing any sympathy with them. He will endeavor to have them regarded as other criminals are. An effort, will doubtless be made to get the convention to protest against their punishment, and he will fail in his duty if he does not exert himself to the utmost to defeat it. A Mistaken Newspaper. It is clear that the New York Sun does not know what the public sentiment in Geor gia respecting the tariff is. It seems to think that the protectionists have got their grip on the State, and that in a very short time they will have entire control of it. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is safe to say that there isn’t a district in the State from which an avowed protectionist could bo elected to Congress. The senti ment is in favor of tariff reform, and it is daily growing stronger in that direction. The journal that was the most pronounced advocate of protection is at Macon. It talked protection as vigorously, persistently and intelligently as the Philadelphia Press. It doesn’t seem to have met with the ap proval of its readers, and has passed into the bands of those who favor tariff reform. In future it will be in harmony on the tariff question with the people among whom it circulates, and will doubtless be more pros perous. The assumption of the Sun that Senator Colquitt will he permitted to remain at home after his present term because he is a tariff reformer indicates that it gets in formation from sources tlmt are not wholly reliable. There isn't a protectionist in Geor gia that can beat Senator Colquitt for any office in the gift of the people. If the Sen ator seeks a re-election there is no reason to doubt that he will be successful. It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the Democrats of Georgia are tariff reformers. If from the few who advocate protection were taken those who are protectionists for reasons personal to themselves, there would not re main enough to form a respectable escort for Mr. Samuel J. Randall from the cars to his hotel, when he goes to Atlanta to often the Piedmont fair. The attempt of a New York syndicate, which has purchased a large body of land in Gadsden county, Florida, to inaugurate the growing of tobacco on a large scale, will be watched with a great deal of in terest. Much of the land of Florida is said to be peculiarly adapted to the growth of a tobacco suitable for cigar wrapjiers, and this is the kind of leaf which is scarcest and brings the highest price. In spite of a heavy duty. many millions of pounds are imported annually from Sumatra. The quality of the Florida leaf is evidenced by the fact that one Gads den county farmer this year sold his crop for :10c. per pound, which is almost three times the average price of Virginia tobacco. It may lie that in this product Florida will f ind as great a source of income as in oranges and other fruits. It is anew and valuable resource added to those of a State already rich in them. Frauds in the ballot box became so com mon in Now Jersey that the Legislature was forced to adopt a patent ballot-box. The box adopted is one built on the Ohio idea, and costs $~5. There is a fortune in it lor the manufacturer. It is somewhat remarkable that the Republicaan politi cians at the North should howl themselves hoarse about election frauds in the South while such frauds are so common in North ern Slates that it is necessary to use patent ballot-boxes. No such boxes arc necessary at the South. The committee of arrangement* for the President's reception in Chicago has decided that he shall not be asked to lay the corner stone of the “Auditorium,” on account of the threat of union workingmen to resent such r.ction on his part. The work on the building is being done by non-union labor ers. Some of the local journals protest against the “back-down” of the committee, liut the committee was right. It lmd no right to involve the President in a local quarrel. Henry George thinks that he could cap ture the farmers of New York if he could only get at them. He doesn't know what hard-headed, obstinate old fellows the farm ers are when they think they are in the right or he wouldn’t entertain that opinion. He and Dr. McGlynn, however, continue to charge 25c. admission to their anti-poverty meetings, and their meetings are well attended. They evidently mean to abolish their own poverty first. The bill passed by the State Senate to es tablish a Forestry Bureau is a step in the right direction. Its cost will be small, and if it shull bn able to exert any influence in preventing the destruction of forests, and in encouragement of tree planting that cost will be a hundred times repaid. The meas ure does not, perhaps, go far enough, hut it is a good beginning, and it is hoped the House will eoucuro in the action of the Senate. i CURRENT COMMENT. Knows Somethin? About Machinery. From the Philadelphia Pres* (Rep.) UncW Randall will start the machinery at the Atlanta Exposition He knows low about ma chinery of one kind ami another. May Invite a Kick Too Often. From the Philadelphia Record ( Deni.) Foraker has again been snubbed, this time in Sr This >larc Meddle of American poli tic* probably will part his coat-tails once too often, and receive a kick which, in th** classical language of the ring. will put him to sleep. When the Distribution Will be Made From the Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) The story that Mr Henry George, bavin? ac cumulated some £Ai.ooo by strict attention to business, will distribute this amount of money to the poor of New York on Christmas day, bears internal evidence of inaccuracy. If Mr. George ha* accumulated ® or any other sum of money, which he intends to appropriate for the relief of the needy, he will prouablv dis tribute it on election day. bright BITS. Said a well known citizen, alluding to the very moderate attendance at the two recent lectures given iu this city: “Sam Small seems to have struck 12 o'clock." Toronto Globe. The highest ambition of some people seems to Im* to make themselves disagreeable, as for instance, the man who asks you what tune it is, when he knows you have your watch pawned.— Lincoln Journal. “Sr) you Maintain, professor, that children should never be slapped or whipped?" ' Ido maintain it. The parent who whips his child is a criminal. Happily, my children are all quiet and oliedient. If I had a son like Sniderlv's boy I'd break lus back."— Lincoln Journal. Friend—Don't cry so, dear. Charley was a real good husband. Widow—l kn-ow it. I don't believe I’ll ever ?et any one like him agaiu. Everybody knows he was ho ?ood to me that in common decency I can Ifor dver so Ion?. 800-hoo: Boo boo! Town Topics. i see," said Mr. McSlugen, “that they have organized a Milk Trust Company in Chicago." “A Milk Trust Company! Well, that’s some thin? like. I w ish they'd organize one here: and a Beefsteak Trust Company, too. This thin? of being dunned by the butcher is awfully tiresome.' ’ — Washn gton Critic. A condemned CRIMINAL noticed among the spectators stand in? in the front row next to the ?uiilotine the doctor who takes possession of the condemned immediately after the execu tion ts over for examination purposes. lie bowed politely to him. and saluting him grace fully by waving his. hand to him, called out; “A toute a l*heure!" iln a minute at your service.) —Pi t tsburg Chronicle. “Bill." said the Prince, with some hesitation. “I want to speak to you on rather a delicate subject, and I trust you won't be offended.'* "Speak ri?ht out, old boy," was Bill s hearty rejoinder. “Well, mother wants to ask Dirty Do? to din ner, and she was wondering if he would mind tier directing the note of invitation to Soiled Canine.' 1 —New York Sun. Young lady (at church festival)—Really, Mr. Feathcrly, I must ask you to excuse me: I have eaten so very lieartiiy. and there is a limit to one's endurance, you know, even in so ?ood a cause as this. Mr. Featherly—Quite true. Miss Smith, but still I think you might oblige Young lady—Oh. well, since you seem so earnest about it, Mr Featherly. I believe I will take just one more lobster.— Harper s Bazar. A Foolish Queen. -Omaha man tin England) That's a prettv fair sort of a house. I believe I’ll take that for the season. Englishman-'Ouse? ouse. That's no ‘ouse, sir. No house eh? What is it then, a stable?” “That's one of the Queen s palaces." “Oh! 1 see its empty." Yes it stands h empty most of the time." “1 wonder what rent sue wants for it?" “Kent? You couldn't get that for million pun, sir." “A million pounds! Great Scott! I wonder if she thinks this I jOH Angeles .-Omaha World. Proud Philadelphia*—lt was a glorious cole -1 iratlon. wasn't it* Wife Indeed it was. And how thankful we should Ik* that our ancestors were members of the first constitutional convention. “More than that. More than that, iny dear They fought for liberty on the field of battle. They laid all they had oil the altar of freedom, yea, life itself, that- we might enjov the bless ings of human liberty, but I must hurry down town." “Why, what's going on to-night?” “I w ant to find out what candidate Boss Mc- Maneshas set up for me to vote for.”— Omaha World. t Young Fortune Hinter Eh- What? Do you mean to say your father has failed? Miss Beauty—Oh. no, not failed: he has paid up every dollar; but he is no longer rich, you know. “Noble man! He refused to take advantage of his creditors, then?” ‘Yes. he owes no man a penny, but it will be a long time before he can retrieve himself. He said, however, that if we married next month as we desired, ne could give me a small dowry; bat it would be very small, only thirteen hun dred.” “My dear, we'd better wait. Thirteen is an unlucky number.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Kmprbss Eugenie will pass the winter in Naples. I’RixcEss Bismarck, in speaking of her illtis iriou* husband never refers to him otherwise than as “Bismarck,” Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has only $30.- 000 a year private income, but he will inherit 3i,000,000 from his mother. Moses T. Stevens, of Andover, Mass., is said to lie the largest individual woolen manufac turer iu the United States. Francis Bullkinch, the oldest employe in the City Hall at Boston, is dead at Ihe age of St. HA had held office for thirty consecutive years. (iouNon has promised to conduct the five hundredth representation of "Faust” at the Paris Opera, which is fixed for Friday, Nov. 4. Qceen Victoria is now correcting the proofs of Rev. William Tullocli's popular biography of the Prince Consort. Ihr majesty is also adding a number of anecdotes. Miss Qu>rr Kjiarer. of Ottawa. 111., a native Esquimaux from t be Fasterucoast of Greenland, bus tieen lecturing in Chicago, she is 30 years old aud is only 40 inches high. M. Zola, the author of “Nana, ' has a mania for hi icks aud mortar, ami all tile time he can snare from Ins writing hespends in superintend ing the a Unions wine i arc being made continu ally to his villa at Medan. Civil Service Commissioner Kooerton. of Indiana, is mjw 76 years of age. He is a very active man, however, extremely particular about his clothes and he looks many years ymmgvr-tlmn he really is, Rrrnr.N R. Thri 11, of Rutland, Vt., aged 03 years, is in attendance hp.m the Rutland County t 'ourt, now in scssiou. looking alter some old cases o:i the docket. lie is probably the oldest practicing attorney in the world. Col. Blanton Duncan, who recently predicted the end of the world in .013, no.v Declares Hint "Mr. Cleveland will not permit Ins name to lie used for President agam." There is probably as much truth in one prediction as iu the other. F. A. Cloudman, of Kingston. N. Y . inventor of the present system of oc an lightship sta tions. has received an i it Ration from the British government u> trv .his hand at electric light buoy*, to tie maintained at certain dangerous points oa the Knglish coast. The late Admiral Mnllntiy, before his death, desired that an eight-pound solid hot wincu lodged iu the mainmast of the United Stub s ship Oneiilil during the light in ?tohilc Bay should lie presented to the Philadelphia Union League, it now forms an ornament in the parlor. One of Kit Carson's sons claims to own a large tract of laud in the suburbs of Los An poles. His father homesteaded the same hack m the fifties, ami it was afterward sold for taxes. It is now worth $1,0110,000. Young Carson lias instituted suit for the recovery of the laud. Julia Turnbull, R famous dancer, who in he r youth suppnrtei Fa tin* Kllsler and Madame Ceieate. died hi New York recently, ag**d o She made her appearance on the stage w hen 0 years old, aud created a Hensation ny singing “The Dashing White Sergeant," at that time a popular song. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, can boost of the finest farm in that State. It is sHuated only a lew miles from Detroit and comprises do>) acres. The Senator has the best Jersey ca tic and Fercheron home* In the Northwest, and is never ho ha py ns when entertaining friends under his hospitable roof tre * County Commissioner Schubert, of Chicago, is one of the most enterprising men in Cook county. He recently paid SIO,OOO for the privi lege of selling liquor on the grounds of the mili tary encampment, and expects to clear $35,000 by the Iran fiction. The temperance people, however, :*r to defeat his re clcctivu. BREAD FROM HEAVEN. An American Missionary Describes a Fall of Manna in Eastern Turkey. From the Sew York Sun. Boston*. Oct. 2. —Mr. Cole, of Bit lie. a mission ary of the American Board in Eastern Turkey, in describing a journey from Harpoot to Bitlis, says: “We traveled for four days through a region where had newly fallen a remarkable deposit of heavenly bread, as the natives sometimes call it—manna. There were extensive forests of scrubby oaks, and most of the deposit was on the leaves. Thousands of the poor peasants, men. women and children, were out upon the plains gathering the sweet substance. Some of them plunge into kettles of boiling water the newly cut branches of the oaks, which washes off the deposit until the water becomes so sweet us to renund the Yankee of a veritable sugaring off in the old Granite State, as he takes sips or it. Other companies of natives may lx* seen vigorously bearing with sticks the branches, that, from having spread on the ground, have so dried that the glistening crystals fall readily upou the carpet spread to receive them. The crystals are separated from the pieces of 1* aves by a sieve, and then the manna is pressed into cakes for use. The manna is in great demand among these Oriental Christians. As we were ~aveling through a rather dry region, the arti cle came in play for our plain repasts." She Was Only a Woman After All. From the .Sunday Democrat. I m**t her at a count ry place. Where she was spending her vacation* And much admired her form and fac *. Likewise her sjiarkling conversation She was a Boston girl, but wore Nor spectacles nor goggle glasses. Though* she of learning had a store As rich as other Boston lassies. The maiden was of beauty rare. CTis that, not learning, that doth sway us) As Aphrodite she was fair. Or Helen, spouse of Menelaus; But colder than Diana fair. Who male a stag of poor Actieon, And distant as the furthest star That glitters in the blue empyrean. I loved her. and I think she knew That much from my admiring glances, For she, as we acquainted grew. Somewhat unbent to my advances. By when njy love I would have told, I felt a dread, a terror seize me, 1 feared if I became so l>old, The maiden with a look would freeze me. At length a firm resolve I made. For I was bordering on distraction. That the proposal, long delayed. I'd make, whate er might be her action. And having thus made up my miud. That evening when alone 1 found her. Before she ruy intent divined. 1 boldly threw my arms around her. I felt her tresses brush my face Their faint, sweet perfume thrilled my senses, I clasped her in a fond embrace. Regardless of the consequences: I kissed her lip* --oh, honeyed bliss! 1 gave her hand a thousand squeezes. And all she said to me was this: "John, are you sure that no one sees us?" Defrauding: Sewing Git Is Systemati cally. From the Chicago Inter fk'ean. The few belongings of this small family were nicely stored away in the one room, and the three motherless children began the struggle for self maintenance. The little ones could do nothing, of course, so the responsibility rested upon the shoulders of the 14-year old sister. The first thing she did after the funeral was to scan the papers for advertisements in the “help wanted' columns. She found in an even ing ]>aper an advertisement for a girl to run a knitting machine. It was from a well known firm on a prominent street. She applied and was given a job. After she had l>een there a couple of days she saw a*constant change in the many faces around her. Girls that were there yesterday morning were not there this morn ing But new girls were engaged. she l**gan to make inquiries among the older girls, ana found that the girls left because they could not make enough to live on The night of the second day she determined to see about it. and she askea the forewoman for her time. She was given a card with two days* full time •redited. She had made two jackets ami one dozen hustles in the two days. When she pre sented the card to the office she was told tuat she owed the firm 20c. balance for the use of the machine and steam power. She was credited with 20c. apieee for two jackets that's 40c. ■ and with 30c. fur the dozen bustles (that's 70c >. She was charged 15c. a day for the use of machine and steam power <that's 90c. , leaving a balance of 20c. due the big firm. At this rat/* she would have to paw n her soul at the end of a week to pay the firm for the bad air she breathed while using the machine and steam power. This firm keeps a standing advertisement in tbe evening paper, ami a small army of girls pass through the factory every week. They get the jackets and bustles made for nothing, ex cept the wear and tear on the machines and loss of steam power. The Lay of a Lost Minstrel. From the Lincoln < Seb.) State Journal. Sad was the song that the minstrel sung, in the light of the waning moon, and his voice was cracked and his knees were sprung, and bis eyes tar out of their sockets hung, and he howled a dirge in a foreign tongue, and his lyre was out out of tune. I softly unchained the br imlle dog. and loaded the old shotgun: while he scraped his lyre in the damp and fog, and sung of a fairy who drove a frog, and held a court in a sombre bog. by the light of a midnight sun. "No fairies for me,'* I softly said, "so. singer, you'll change your tune; you must ring of a ballad of death instead, of ghosts in purple and gho* s in red. of regions where wander the phantom dead, andtheie are no stars or moon. " lie tuned his harp to u dismal lay, thut chilled all the blood I ow ned, and he sung. “There's a land in the faraway, where never is gleaming the light of the day* where the goblins damp and the spectre* stay, and the wind with their shrieks is toned. The ghost of tin* paliid dude is there. l>ereft of its gitded cane; it has no oil for its yellow hair, it lias no glasses to eye the fair, and it cannot stand on the street and stare, *o the dude Is bowed in pain. The dude is chained to a sad eyed ghost, that u*ed to lx; wild for gore; that followed the teaching of Spies ami Most, and tried the law and the courts lo roast, and was later stiuig to a towering post, and clamored tor biood no more.** I loused the dog on the minstrel there, ami I fired my gun in the dump; and pieces of harp Hew in the air, and stogy boots and wads of hair, and all that was left of the minstrel fair, was rolled in a postage stamp. Paralyzed by Electricity. From the See York Graphic. Mar}' Harmon, the pretty 19-yeur-old daughter of a funner living in l,omm. thirty miles trum Cleve.aiul, 0.. was engaged to lx* married to Jacob Ebevlin. an employe in oue of the electric light establishments there. Some months ago Miss Hannon came to Cleveland, and with a party,of friends paid a vU it to the establish ment .u which her Affianced worked. While passing through the shop Miss Harmon received a severe shock of electricity him! fell to the floor, in a few 1111110: -s see recovered suffi ciently to be removed from the place, and was taken to her home. Medical aid wa* summoned. For tour days the girl lay in lied in a paralyzed condition. Then she regained the use 01 her limbs, but ini . ediately began to lose Mesh. The hair on tne ielt m h* of her head turned gray ami began lallniK uvit. After four weeks Miss Harmon was able to b • nlxMit and attend to most of her household duties, but in mat time ah.* had been trun. forma l from a healthy girl into n feeble and prematurely aged woman. Her form, which had lx*t*n pi uinp and ro uxlcd. is thin and bent and the skin on her faco dml body i* dry and w rink.ed. Her voice is hafnh sod cracked, and no one would imagine ti4t sue is i->s than 50 year-, of age. The physician* claim that tie electric current communicated direct U with the principal nerves ot the spine and leftside of t.;e la-ad. ami tnattne shock almost com pletely destroyed their \ itality. A Funeral Episode. From the Bouton Budget. Avery funny episode occurred sonic years since on the occasion of a funeral, at which the remains or a celebrated Boston truckman were deposited in the classical cemetery of Mount Au burn. Tue deceased gentleman was a promi nent member of several military and Masonic organizations, and a procession was made up by delegates of the<e bodies under the charge of Col. Bob N . When they arrived at the ceme tery gate anot liar procession, following the re mains of a distinguished Celtic gentleman, made its appearance. It was raining quite hard, and in the confus on which ensued when both parties alighted from their carriages at the same time, the leaders be came somewhat mixed, and unfortunately, Col Hob N headed the crowd of mourners hear ing the remains of the distinguished Celt. Ar ri • ing at the grave he announced in stentorian tones: “Brethren, fall hi and join in the last tribute to our worthy brother. Col. Peter I) Whereu|xni another loud voice shouted: “Be gorra, you've got the wrong corpse!" And so it proved, for Col. Bob N had headed the wrong procession. and the mourners of the illustrious truck man were aw aiting at the gate then mistaken leader, who was quite dumb founded at his unfortunate mistake. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The grave of Benjamin Franklin in Fhiladel* phia is in a much neglected condition. The business of Louisville, Ky., increased $32,000,000 in the first six months of this year. Superstition received another blow in the recent acquittal of Peter Botthoff, who was tried in St. Louis on the charge of having stolen thirteen sheep. Recent explorations show that the Island of Terra del Fuego contains valuable farming lands, forests and mineral deposits. It is peopled bv two distinct races of savages, one lieing well formed and remarkably strong, sub sisting chiefly by the chase: the other a coast people, physically inferior, but not in intelli gence. A partridge was found in a grass field in Hockliffe. says the London Field , that was rear ing a white barnyard chicken. When the chicken was caught the bird evinced ail the signs of distress usually shown if their natural offspring are molested. The place where the bird was found is nearly a mile from any farm buildings. The Scottsboro (Ala.) Citizen publishes the editor of the opposition paper as "a contempti ble. low-down puppy, a scoundrel, an unmiti gated liar, and a rascal in every sense of the word. ' and adds: "Of course this howling cur w ill vomit at us, but we hope never again to have to darken our columns w*ith mention of this miserable hound, whose record is not that of a gentleman." In climates having a difference of 70° in tem perature between hot ami cold seasons, a rail road track of 400 miles is found to be 838 yards longer in snmmer than in winter, so it has been ascertained. Of course the length of road re mains the same, but expansion has the effect of forcing the lengths of metal closer together, making an aggregate closing up of space lie tween the rails of nearly a yard in each mile. One of the attractions of a fair in McHenry county. 111., was the marriage of a volunteer couple, to whom presents valued at S2OO were to he given. The couple came to the scratch aud were marri*d in the presence of the multi tude, but it is charged that they had already had the knot tied elsewhere, and the managers of the fair are withholding the presents pending the result of an investigation. Six weeks ago a Negaunee (Mich.) man took a walk out of town on the east range, accom panied by his dog. On his wav home he missed the dog, but did not doubt he had preceded him back to town. A few days ago two explorers found the dog in a test pit seventeen feet deep and rescued him. He was a mere skeleton after his six weeks* fast, but was still alive and has now almost regained his old prof >ort ions and spirits. A few days ago the men who were working at the bottom of thePana Coal Company's mines came upon a peculiar snake that had apparently been blasted up by the last shot that iiad been fired. It was alive and coiled up in a bunch when one of the workmen disclosed it with his shovel It had no ej es, apparently, and when sent to the top with a load of dirt and thrown upon the ground it twisted about in a jeculiar manner. Freeman Good, a Detroit negro, was c night butting down John Hall s woodshed. Hall tried to stop him by hitting him 0:1 the head with an ax. when In* had demolished the woodshed Good had Hall arrest**d. The Judge discharged the man who used the ax, at the sane* time de livering the opinion that Good's head was the more dangerous weapon of the two. Good has now challenged the world to a butting match for the championship. In the mountain counties of Kentucky, the homes of the feuds characteristic of that region, the average pay of a County Judge is SSOO a year, of a County Attorney SSOO, of a County Clerk $750. and of a Sheriff SBOO, yet most of the rows originate in strife for these places. The |x*rouisites. however, are prized, as in the case of tne late Judge Craig Toliver, of Rowan county, whose office enabled him to considerably prolong his career of lawlessness. Dubois county. Indiana, has precious metals in paying quantities. A ton of the ore was sent to an assayer in Covington. Ky., about three weeks ago from the Seitz mine, seven miles north of Jasper. It assayed $55 silver an 1 $7 gold to the ton. The assayer was at Jasper recently and entered into an agreement with Seitz Bros., on whose farm the mine is, aud in six weeks he Is to have smelting machinery worth $2,000 erected on the ground. While a circus was exhibiting at the base of Fern cliff, Massachusetts, two boacoustrie tors, something over ten feet in length, made their escape, which was not discovered for more than an hour. The circus men quicklv armed with clubs aud started in pursuit. They were overtaken, and with some dexterous work wit h forked sticks one of them was securely pinned to the ground and recaptured. Tne other b came so ugly that no one da rod attempt the capture, and he was quickly dispatched with clubs. A police patrol wagon in Baltimore was con veying a passenger to a station-house, when the rear axle snapped, and the box came down on the pavement with a crash. The passeiigesw as sleeping when the mishap occurred, but it did not wake him. Th* noise of the crowd that gathered disturbed him, however, so that he yawned and turned over. From then he slept, while the wagon was pried up and the axle tem porarily spliced. 11 util it became necessary to tell the Judge how he happenei to take n drop too much. Near Mount Carmel the other day Mr. John Dell and Robert Nunley cut a turkey oak, and in the heart they found several bullets. The tree was a little over 2 feet I; inches in diameter, and parties skilled iu woodcraft, after viewing the point where 1: appeared the bullets had en tered the tree while it was a small saplinr. estimate that the bullets were fired into the tr* e some eighty years ago. (Ounting the li igs the age of the tr**** was 107 years. The distance from the outside to where the first track of the bullets were fouud was about 14 inches. The. Ohio and Mississippi construction hands at work 011 a dump at Casyville, 111., have dug into an ancient burying ground. Some of the bodies were found at a depth of ten feet buried in tine w alnut coffins. Already fifteen skeletons have been exhumed and the‘hands art* not re burying them, hu are dumping them in with the dirt and rubbish to fill up the dump. The circumstances point to the fact that the bodies belonged to a civilized race, but the oldest resi dents s *em to have no knowledge of there ever having lx*eu a burying ground at that point, and its history probably dates back to the time of the French settlements. The California Pioneer Society has a section of timber taken from the side of the Powhatan, including a portion of the skin, which is four inches thick, and a piece of the abutting knee, which is nine inches t.hicTransversely through the whole a swordfish has dashed Ins sword, and the portion broken off is still left imbedded in the timber. Toe sw,.rd pierced till itigb fourteen inciies of solid oak. and the fish w as going in t le same direction ns the ves el. which was under a good head of steam. An idea of the streneth which must have i.eeu exerted can he obtained from t ie fact that a rifted six pounder could not have done inure thau pierce t hat thickness of w ood. The London Court Journal says that at a dinner given recently by a young American millionaire, after the host bad displayed im mense sums in bank notes and many costly gems, ‘'be gave his ieg a smart tap wh h a knife, when it emitted a sweet, soft, ringing tone which fell pleasantly on the ear. and said •That, my friends, is made of virgin California gold, and the garter is of diamonds of the first water.' They vended the fact as he roiled up his trousers." Ou which tde r,„irl Jen n o naively remarks: "Tue hero of Monte Cristi must take a back seat." S ■ m a; the cham pion liar of the western continent. A million aire with a leg of virgin California gold goes a little beyond the best American record if the Court Journal meant tii.it the knife, and not the leg. was of gold, it ought to have sad so. With reference to wolf children ac irrespond ent of C'ha mb os' Journal writes as follow s: “While lately on a visit to Melbourne,the writer went with his wife and two little children, aged * and 4, to see the Hoyal Park, w here the wild animals are kept. Tnere. among others, they came upon a cage with four large wolves, lying sleeping upon me ground. They took no notice of the writer or his wifi or the eider child- but the moment tho young.-,- toddled up. they sprang simultaneously to their feet and made for tbe corner of ihe cage nearest her. Not con tent with this, two of the largest stood on their mild feet and pressed themselves flatly a.-ainst the cage, pushing their great fore paws through the ours towards the child as though to get at her and wagging tb-ir tails and barking frantically the whole time, their eyes riveted on her. As she \tj!iK**(l uwu\ they rushedticross the outre to thu ot her corner und repeated their unties. When the child uttered n word or two it seemed to af fect the wolves singularly, and they redonbed their efforts to get near her. The w riter went again with the same party and infant, and with the same result. Now. the aspect of these "i wolves, ill spite of their barking and excite ment. was decidedly uot ferocious, but more re sembling a great collie when at pliy;awl the writer felt convinced no harm would have hap I peaed to ttie child bad they wolves succeeded in getting to her. Possibly in lome wolves the • maternal iustiuct may be very strong." i BAKING PQWDKR, ✓"fUU- WE/GtfF-v. p?pßicrs CREAM Baking Powder perfect w*g£<; Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century-, it, is used by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. .NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. I.Ot'IS. A. B. ALTMAYEB A CO. ALTWEII'S OFFERINGS FOR THIS WEEK. DRESS GOODS. 1 ENGLISH Suitings, in Novelty Plaids, Stripes j and Checks, double width, elegant goods, all the new fall shades, price 12j^c.; good value at 20c. Little fiper. Yes, here is a lot of Imported Dress Goods, consisting of plain. Pin Checks and Stripes 38 inches wide, nobbly styles, at 25c.; positively worth 40c. Please examine. Our stock of Combination Suits embraces all the latest Parisian and English ideas, ranging in price from $3 V sto $35. SPECIAL —1 lot of handsome Braided Tricot Combination Suita, very stylish, price for this week $9; sold last w eek at sl2 50. SILKS. 1 lot of 25 pieces Heavy Black Gros Grain Silk, cashmere finish, a big 1 Mir gain, and would be considered cheap at $1 25. We are going to run this lot off at 87i4e. per yard. DOMESTICS AND FLANNELS. 5 cases 4-4 Bleached Shirting, heavy, soft finish, equal to Fruit of Loom, at rtjqe. yard. 35,000 yards, double width Unbleached Sheet ing, heavy quality, serviceable goods, at 15c. yard. 5,000 yards Fast Color < 'alico at 2c. yard. 85 pieces All Wool Red Flannel at 15c. per yard. 25 pieces White Wool Flannel at 20c. peryard. 50 pieces White Shaker Flannel at 10c.; sur prising value. KID GLOVES AND HOSIERY. We are still selling Ladies' P Button Swede Undressed Kid Gloves, embroidered back in all the new tan shades, at 50c. per pair. Not very many left. Come aud get a pair. Special lot of Black and Solid Colors Misses' Riohett Hose, extra length, double gauge fast colors, have been selling at 45c. Price this week 25c. Examine this lot. JERSEYS-SECOND FLOOR. One lot Ladies' Black Tailor-made Jerseys, all wool, extra fine gauge, superior goods. Price for one week $1: a regular v 1 75 Jersey. BOYS* CLOTHING SECOND FLOOR. We are particularly “stuck" on our great stock of Boys' and Childrens Clothing. The parents who examine the stuck are pleasantly surprised at its magnitude, style and very modest prices. Said one of our patrons vester day: “I l*v saved fully S4O on clothing tor my five boys the last year." Every parent can echo the sentiment of our lady patron if they will give our Boys and ( hildren’s Department a trial. Boys' Knee Pants, sizes 4-13, at 25c., 35c. and 50c. School Suits from $1 50 up. PIHSS TRIMMINGS AND BUTTONS. Corresponding to our unrivaled stock of Dress Goods and Silk is our great stock of Dress Trim mings. We have Just placed on our counters wonderful lines of the newest things for t’.e present eason. Tuey will be found displayed ou a separate counter, which has been devoted to them. The stock o njarises all ti e latest styles and effects in beaded Panel Passemen teries, Beaded Ornament. Gimps. Braided Sets for w aist trimming, Black Mohair Hand-Crochet and Feather Edge Tin? eled Braids, Black and Colored Braided Sets at prices that will astonish. LADIES M- KINO UNDERWEAR. OurstocKof Ladies', Miss**ss and Children's Merino Underwear is now complete at 25c., 35c . 48c., 78c.. 98c . which we guarantee to lx* supe rior to any similar goed •> sold in this city for 25 per cent. more. SEKCiAL. 1 lot Ladies* Scar let Medicated Vests, pure dye, all sizes, goods that ore positively worth $1 25. Price this week 75c. each. SPECI ALTIES FOR THIS WEEK ONLY. 6 cases ladies' extra fine French Dongola Kid Button Shoes, opera toe, laG sizes 2U, to 6, C. Dand E widths, $] 98: actually worth $4 50. 3 cases Boys' extra fine Calfskin Shoes, lace and button. £d 48; good value tor 52 75. 16 cast's Infant's Hand-Sewc 1 Shoes, sizes 2 to 5. 35c.: sold 1 sew here foroOc. 14 cases Misses' Pebble Goat Spring Heel School Shoes, sizes 11-2, $1 25; worth $2. 8 cases Gents’ l ine Calf Wardwell Hand- Sewed Shoes, lace ami elastic, sizes 5 to 10, f2 75: worth $5. Gentlemen's Shoes ot all de scriptions and prices. ALTMAYER’S. CLOTHING. Kinder Sorter Amazin' is the powerful fine display of Fall and Winter CLOTHING On Our Tables and Arriving. ( ' ENTS', YOUTHS', BOYS’ and CHILDREN'S V T BUSIN ESS ami DRESS SUITS. SCHOOLS' ITS and Durable "ROUGH AND TUMBLES" for the BOYS. THE JAEGER SYSTEM OF SANITARY UNDER AND OVERWEAR in full supply. Stylish Hats, Furriishings, Hosiery, Etc. li CONGRESS STREET. B, H, LEVY & BRO. SHOES. - - nrp tho nTrent* for tho JA3ISS MEASJS $4 SHOIn and tho JAH'IES MEATS* a ms,. $ MEAJCS *4 n£ stylish. It fit* 111. fa iff. ujiU BK<l I3Li*> fbctlycasy the firs: tmlo >’ . It v.’Ui satisfy the rn. ft A *.I V. S £K AN S SHOE is übso.iite y th shoo of its tv. n • v*ixs fca* ever be f !i nt:n t *1 cx tensively on t’r tnorkH V in winch .urabUtt* ►Vii corunicred befoi\ >ere on'- AT* fhr tb* ,T*"ne* S M n*32 k.'a>* toi* )ur N*'"*** ho .i rv r. ltd ./• of these N i'ZS BttuLUai’ON bTHttKI,