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> A 1 l RDAY, 0< TOBSK 9, 1887.
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hi DEI TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—' Trawlers' Protective Association.
Special Notices—As to Crew of Steamship
JSayley; Chatham Heal Estate and Improve
ment Cos.
Steamship Schedci.es —Ocean Steamship Cos.;
Baltimore Steamers.
Portland Cement— Andrew Hanley.
To Mill Men— Palmer Bros.
Cheap Oolchh Advertisements— Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; Strayed or Stolen; Mis
cellaneous.
Auction Sales— Horses, Bedsteads, etc., by C.
H. Dorse;t; A Choice Lot, by J. McLaughlin &
Son.
Legal Notice— Application to Sell Stock.
At the Head of the Heap- Appel & Sc haul.
The Happy Max— At Lindsay A Morgan's.
Jay Gould has suddenly recovered his
health, and abandoned his proposed trip to
Europe. There is a universal sigh of regret
Mr. Gould could be very well spared for a
Short while.
Nina Van Zandt and her proxy husband
are again quarreling, because he will insist
on writing love letters to another woman.
Eneh conduct as this ought to help the poor
woman back to sanity.
A Western Union official expresses the
opinion that the telegraph business must be
a monopoly in order to please the people.
This fact will no doubt add to the pleasure
■with which Mr. Gould sees the Western
Union absorb the Baltimore and Ohio.
The New York Republicans are buying
thousands of Henry George's Standards
and using them as campaign documents.
They seem to think any effort to strengthen
their own ranks would be wasted, and are
devoting their energies to the building up of
Henry George's Socialistic party, which
they hope will draw most of its strength
from the Democrats. They are playing a
dangerous game.
There is a movement on foot in Washing
ton to secure certain reforms in the local
government. It is noticeable, however,
that nothing is said about restoring the bal
lot to the citizens of the District It is
probable that the people of the District, all
things considered, are better off without the
ballot They have more improvements,
better police protection and less taxes than
when they had the ballot
Few men have experienced such extremes
of fortune as has Duncan Karas. A few
Jrears ago, in Pennsylvania, he was more
than a millionaire, but the other day, in
Colorado, he was found by an old friend
carrying a bod up a ladder on anew build
ing. He was bright and hearty, and told
his friend he was much happier than in the
days when he was burdened with wealth
Mr. Karas is evidently a philosopher of a
Very rare kind.
Mr. GrinneU, who so ably prosecuted the
Anarchist cases in Chicago, ha* resigned his
place of State's Attorney in order to go upon
the bench. He has fairly earned this re
ward, but it is to be regretted that his resig
nation could not be deferred until the cases
are finally disposed of. It may be. however,
that Mr. GrinneU is convinced that all
further attempts of the counsel of the con
demned men to have the jury’s verdict set
aside must fail.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who entertained the
Duke of Marlborough at Newport a few
weeks ago, and who was greatly incensed
because the newspapers criticised the pri
vate life of her guest, is about to have some
of her peculiarities exposed. She is suing
Mr. Melcher, one of the trustees of her
estate, and Mr. Melcher says he has his
office half full of affidavits relative to her
conduct, which will make the gossips wild
with delight when the case comes to trial.
A Mr. Bmolianinoff is rivaling Lieut.
Zalinski in adapting dynamite to the use*
of war. He has just made some experi
ments at San Francisco, in which he
fired a number of shells charged with dyna
mite trom an ordinary powder gun, and
they did not explode until the proper time.
Tt would seem that the experience Russians
have had in practicing on the Czar have put
them ahead of the rest of the world in prac
tical knowledge of high explosives. When
a man habitually carries bombs around in
his pocket, he is apt to devise some means
to make the practice safe to himself.
Justice Miller, of the Supreme Cdurt, said
In a speech at the Grand Army banquet in
Bt. Louis that when Cleveland was made
President it was one of the “greatest elec
tions of the patriotic American people,” and
that the President is an honest and pure
man, to whom no corruption belongs. Jus
tice Miller is a Republican, but in speaking
in this strain he showed he had no regard
for the sensibilities of that other prominent
Republican, J. B. Foraker, who thought it
necessary to apologize to a dog for com
paring Mr. Cleveland to him. Perhaps,
however, Foraker has no sensibilities.
Central Pacific railroad millionaire Blair
said in his testimony before the investigat
ing committee that in every Legislature he
had found there were a number of members
who always wanted money for their votes.
He thought Jacob Bharp was unjustly con
victed, as he was dealing with inon of that
sort, and only “drove n sharp bargain.”
Mr. Blair's subsequent affirmation, that he
knew of no bribery practiced by his col
leagues, was not worth much, after the ex
pression of such an opinion. A man who
looks upon bribery as a more business trans
action may very well consider perjury, to
nave himself from its consequences, not only
justifiable but right. And how did Mr.
Blair find out that legislators were for
sale, if be did not buy!
A Significant Resolution.
A resolution adopted by the Republican
.Stateconvention of Nebraska, on Thursday,
that the farmers of the West are tired of
paving tribute to the manufacturers of the
East, is significant.
There are Republicans in other States
who are beginning to regard the present
high protective tariff just as the Republi
! cans of Nebraska do. Mr. Randall, next
winter, will not find it so easy a matter as
he has heretofore to indues enough Demo
crats to follow him to prevent a reduction
of the tariff taxes. He may influence a few
Pennsylvania Democrats to stand by him,
but it will uot be surprising if a very con
siderable nuinlier of Northwestern Republi
cans are found acting with the Democrats
in favor of tariff reduction.
The truth is that the effort to reduce the
revenues by making whisky, tobacco and
beer free while continuing the taxes on the
necessaries of life does not appeal with any
force to the common sense of the people.
Republicans as well as Democrats of the
West understand very well that the policy
of the Protectiouists is not beneficial to their
interests, and they are about tired of it.
The Republican party will have to agree to
a reduction in the tariff if it doesn't want
to lose a very considerable portion of its
strength.
The Philadelphia Press a day or two ago
sought to create the impression that Mr. Car
lisle was responsible for the threatened pan
ic in September. It charged that he refused
to agree to any reduction in taxation tfcat
was not the reduction that he favored. It
is probably true that he declined to favor
the removal of the whisky *ax, which no
body but the protection barons wanted re
moved, but ho certainly urged the
reduction of the taxes on such things as the
people are bound to have, and which
they want cheapened. Would it not have
been much more honest and decent in the
Press to have said frankly that the Repub
licans, assisted by Mr. Randall, brought the
country to the verge of a panic by refusing
to let a tariff reduction bill pass because
they preferred to legislate in the interest of
manufacturing monopolies rather than of
the people!
Lately an attempt has been made to cre
ate the impression that there is a growing
sentiment in Georgia in favor of protection.
It would be difficult to find evidences of
such growth in any part of the State. The
Georgia farmers know as well as the Ne
braska farmers that protection promises
them nothing—that, in fact, it collects a
tribute from them to enrich the manfac
turers of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
other Northern States.
There has been some talk lately of trying
to prevent Senator Colquitt’s re-election
on the ground that he is a tariff reformer.
The talk evidently emanated from feather
headed enemies of his. Mr. Colquitt will re
main in the Senate as long as he wants to,
if opposition to him is based wholly on his
tariff views, for on the tariff he is in har
mony with nine-tenths of his party. At At
lanta. on Wednesday, he said that "the
farmers, who compose the great backbone of
the country, should not be asked to pay
tribute to the business ventures of others,”
and that he would be glad to meet his oppo
nents before the people on the tariff issue. It
can be said with entire safety that no effort
based upon his tariff views will be made to
prevent Senator Colquitt's re-election to
the Senate.
A Social Commotion in St. Paul.
According to a special from St. Paul, Mrs.
Cleveland will not be received by the tip-top
society ladies of that city when she arrives
there next Monday. They would be glad to
receive her if they could pick their com
pany, but they object to being in the same
“swim” with Mrs. Davis, the beautiful wife
of United States Senator Davis.
When it was known that the President
and his wife would visit St. Paul 150 of the
first citizens were appointed a reception
committee, who, with their wives, were to
do all the honors of the occasion. When it
was learned that Senator Davis was one of
the chief members of the committee, and
that his wife would, of course, figure at the
reception, the wives of the other commit
teemen backed out of the affair and de
clared that they woald have nothing to do
with it
But what is their objection to Mrs. Davis?
Can anybody say a word against her, or is
there a blemish on her reputation! No, she
is proof against the tongue of gossip, and
as pure as a snow flake. The objection to
her is that, although the most beautiful
woman in the Northwest, and although all
Washington raved about her last winter,
she was only a dressmaker when Senator
Davis married her. He was Governor of
the State at the time of the marriage, and
match-making mothers never forgave her
for snatching such a prize, as the handsome
young Governor was, from the very grasp
of their daughters. They are jealous of
her beauty, and resent her sudden rise from
an inferior social position.
It seems that in Bt. Paul a man who rises
to fame and riche* by his own exertions is
honored, but that a woman, who by her
beauty and accomplishments steps
from poverty and drudgery into a
position that entitles her to entrance
into the highest social circles is received
coldly and regarded with disfavor. Mrs.
Davis, however, asks no favors. Although
not a favorite in her own city, where the
fact that she was a seamstress cannot be
overlooked, she is welcomed in the best
houses in other cities.
George Crist, who is in New York city
with no other apparent object than to boom
Senator Allison for President, thought when
he was defeated for Bergeant-at-Arms of
the Benate that the world hail used him
badly, but he now thinks that his defeat
was about the most lucky thing that could
have happened to him. Immediately after
his defeat Benator Aliison procured for him
a position in the Interior Department,
where he had a roving commission to ex
amine government laud affairs. While in
the Southwest he heard of a gold mine in
Honora, of which he obtained possession in
company with a number of friends, and re
cently sold his interest for upward of
SIIOO,OOO.
Three young New York toughs have just
shown that though they were guilty of
highway robbery they would not commit
the meaner crime of allowing innocent men
to be punished for it. One of them was
caught utthe time the robbery was commit
ted, and confessed his guilt. Two other
young men were arrested on suspicion, iden
tified by the victem, and convicted. Then,
rather than see innocent men suffer, the
man who had confessed guve the names of
his companions to the officers, and when ap
prehended they at once acknowledged the
truth of his story. In this case the courts
made a narrow escape from committing a
grout wrong
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER s, 1887.
Th 9 Sad Voyage of tiio A’.esia.
A reporter of the New York Timm ob
tained from the Rev. Dr. Maynard some of
the facts of tho voyage of the Alesia, the
steamer which brought the cholera-infected
immigrants from Naples to New York a
couple of weeks ago.
There were about 000 immigrants on
board when the steamer started from
Naples, forty of whom were from the
plague-stricken city of Palermo. The steam
ship company should not have accepted the
Palermo immigrants as passengers, and the
Neapolitan authorities should not have per
mitted them to board the vessel.
During the first few days the immigrants
were in the best of spirits. They sang and
danced all day long, and their merry
making lasted well into the night. They
appeared to be without a care, and they in
dulged in the most pleasurable anticipations
with regard to the land for which they were
bound.
On the twelfth day a young Neapolitan
died. It was stated that the cause of his
death was heart disease, and there was no
reason at the time to question the state
ment, but for some unaccountable cause a
feeling of dread, as if some terrible calamity
were impending, crept into every heart.
The glad songs were hushed, the merriment
ceased and a stillness, like that which is
witnessed in the presence of death, pervaded
the steamer.
The young Neapolitan's funeral was an
impressive one. With drawn faces, and
eyes that told of the indescribable fear by
which they were haunted the immigrants
watched the ceremony of consigning the
body to the sea.
The disease spread rapidly. The immi
grants made no fight against it. They
seemed to regard themselves as doomed,
and to think that it was useless to struggle
against what appeared to be their fate.
"They collapsed,” says Dr. Maynard, “as a
tent does when the pole ls removed, and
were so listless and lifeless that they seemed
to invite death bv their dread of it.”
How many died on the voyage no one
seems to know. There were no funerals
after the first one. Every day had its list
of victims, who were dropped into the sea
without ceremony and without unnecessary
delay. More Neapolitans died in propor
tion to their number than of those from
Palermo, although the latter brought the
disease into the ship.
It seems as if some action should be token
to punish the steamship company for per
mitting immigrants, known to have been
exposed to cholera, to take passage on one
of its vessels. Its greed has already cost
many fives, anil may result in planting the
dread disease in this country.
Florida Railroad Rates.
It is reported that the Railroad Commission
of Florida has decided upon a very consider
able reduction in passenger and freight rates.
Assuming that this reixirt is correct, it is
reasonable to supposs that the commission
has given the business of the railroads of
the State a very thorough study, and has
reached the conclusion that the reduction
decided upon will not injure the roads. Of
course, the railroads in a State like Florida,
where much of the country is sparsely set
tled, and where business, both in freight
and passengers, is comparatively small, can
not exist upon the rates that afford hand
some net incomes to roads which run
through the thickly settled sections of
country.
The thing to be avoided is the making of
railroad business so unprofitable that rail
road building will practically cease. For
the post half dozen years the building of
railroads has been very active in Florida,
and the roads have done more than any
thing else to build up the State and make it
what it is. It would be in the nature of a
calamity, therefore, if any action were
taken by the Railroad Commission that
would tend to check railroad building. The
commissioners, however, have the reputa
tion of being level-headed men, and they
will doubtless look out for the welfare of
the State.
The Tampa Scare. ,
It is asserted now that there are a few
cases of yellow fever at Tampa, but the
disease appears to be of a very mild type.
Indeed it was doubtful for a day or two
whether the disease was dengue or yellow
fever. There is a good deal of dengue there
and some malaria! fever, and it may be that
the fever which appears to have given the
Tampa people a great scare is not genuine
yellow fever.
The season is so advance! that there is
very little chance for yellow fever to make
much headway at Tampa or anywhere else
in Florida now. Frost may be reasonably
expected in three or four weeks, and already
the weather is quite cool. However, the
Florida people are justified in taking pre
cautions.
Jacksonville apparently doei not propose
to take any chances. The refuge s arriving
there from Tampa did not reieivoa very
hospitable reception. They were hunted up
and put on the northern-bound trains.
Doubtless this was a hardship for some of
them, because they probably lacked tho
means for making a long journey. As
the fever, if it really exists at Tampa, has
not made its apjiearanee outside of two or
three houses, it is not probable that any of
the refugees are in a condition to spread the
disease. They are pretty certain to be re
garded with suspicion, howevor, at any
place that has ever suffered from the fever,
at which they may stop.
A quarryman residing near Lookout
Point, a high peak in the Black Hills
country, recently found a flat stone leaning
against a large oak tree. . The tree had
grown around the edge Git i the ■Stone, show
ing that the position 6f.*sliel£pße had been
the same for many years. On one side of
the stone were the names of 4vqu men and
this inscription: “Came to these hills in
1888, seven of us. All dead but me, Ezra
Kind. Killed by Ind,' bjiyond tbo high hill.
Got our gold. June, IJCiA” On the ot her
side of the stone was 1 tikis: “Got*ail the
gold we could carry. Our pouvs all got by
the lndiuns. I have lost my gun and
nothing to eat, and Indians hunting ”
The last of the inscription is illegible.
Citizen George Francis Train announced
In his last New York speech that he was
going to Chicago to save the Anarchists,
and expected to be shot. He stands in little
danger of being shot or hung, but if he keeps
on at his present rats, it may bo neeessarv
to put him in a lunatic asylu m to relieve
the people of an intolerable bore.
Memphis people have mot the extrava
gant demands of a monopoly in what will
no doubt prove an effectual way. An in
crease of til for telephone service was de
manded by the company, and 800 subscribers
ordered the instruments taken out of their
houses.
CURRENT COMMENT.
When They Will Get Mercy.
Prom tlte Philadelphia Times (Dent.)
The Chigcago Anarchists wanted justice and,
now that they are going to get it, they want
mercy. Tney may get that, too, but not till
after they are dead
Sheridan May be the Man.
From the Philadelphia Record ( Dem ).
Probably both the Democratic and the Repub
lican candidate for President in 1888 enjoyed
the hospitality of Philadelphia on the late cen
tennial occasion. It is quite likely that Gen.
Sheridan may be the Republican choice.
Evidence of a Reform.
From the Chicago Tribune (.Rep.)
Mr. Randall is going to deliver a speech and
start the machinery' on the first day of the At
lanta ex]s Kitten, which ojiens next week. He
has been blocking the machinery of the tariff re
form fora very long while, and It is a hopeful
sign of progress that he is willing at last to set
something moving.
The President’s Tour.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
It will lie said often in tie future by the ene
mies of Democracy, who have lie gun to say it
already, that the western trip is part of the
i H-mocratic campaign, but when the President
in his every worn and action makes it so clear
that his Democracy is patriotism and his pa
triotism Democracy, partisan rancor will be
rendered powerless to injure bim by ascribing
to him other motives than such as arise from a
sincere desire to promote the welfare of the
whole country, of the entire people.
BRIGHT BITS.
“I think I'll give this country the shake,” re
marked the malaria, as it prepared for busi
ness.— Wash itiyton Critic.
The man who can buy the most with 25c. is
likely to come out ahead in the race of life. He
gams on the quarter stretch.— Washinejton
Critic.
At a Country Hotel.—“ You will be perfectly
at home hpre, sir."
“That is exactly what I want—to live en
familie.”
“Yes, sir, you can live as if you were at home
—every one here polishes his own shoes every
morning. " Paris t hnrivari.
Miss Travis How <in you like August Popin
jay's new volume of verse?
De Smith—Oh, so, so; his feet are rather
faulty—don't you think so?
Miss Travis—Oh. Mr. li-Smith, how can you!
He has got the loveliest, little feet I ever saw on
a man. -Burlington Free Press.
“Do you recollect Shakespeare's famous re
mark that 'all the world's a stage?’ ’*
"Yes.”
“Did you ever notice that it applies to chick
ens as well as to people?”
"To chickens?"
“Yes. They have their entrees and their egg
sits. don't they?'*- Washington Critic .
Overheard on ihe beach at Long Branch.
Tw o little girls hav ■ arrived at a certain famil
iarity anil are beginning to get interested in
eaeli other's domestic relations.
"What is your pop, anyway?"
"My papa is a colonel in the army.’’
“Colonel, is he? Well my pop is a general
dealer in the Bowery."— Town Topics.
“You don't mean to say that you had to pay
just as much for your pew during the summer
months when the church was closed as when it
was open?"
“Certainly."
“How ridiculous;"
“Oh, 1 don't know; I don't begrudge the
money. I enjoyed the pew quite as well al
though I was in it: better, if anything.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
Omaha Dame So you are named after your
father? I supp *• though your mamma has
some pet name for you.
Little Boy—No; she calls me Will, same as
she does papa.
"When she is in another room and calls,l don’t
see how you can tell which one she means, you
or your papa?"
"Oh, that's easy enough. She always calls
me kind o'coaxing, you know.”— Omaha World.
The'Press as a Maxslayer.—“People who are
connected withetbe press do uot live long." said
the professor "The continued mental and
physical effort is very wearing, and a man
breaks down sooner or later.”
"Yes. that's true. Iliad a brother who
adopted the press as a profession and it killed
hun the first day.”
"Indeed: HOW could that occur?'”
“Why, h - fell into it. It was a hay press, you
see."—Lincoln journal.
A Boy's Prayer.—Omaha Mamma—There
now. stop chattering and say your prayers.
Little Son —Make sister shut up, so I can. Say,
mamma, can— .. . • ,
“1 told you to stop talking."
"I know. Can you—"
“Say your prayers.”
"Y-s. I m goin to. Now I laymedowntosleep
1 pray thTgirdniysoultokeepfl shoulddiebefore
awake I praytbLordmysoultotakesavmanuna,
can you move your ears i"—Omaha World.
Short Rations—’ The Widow Flapjack is cele
brated for,the smallness of the steaks with
which she feeds her boarders. A few- mornings
ago Hostetter McGinnis was cynically regard
mg the little piece of in-at on his plate, when
the Widow Flapjack asked sharply;
Mr. McGinnis, “you are not eating your steak
this morning.”
"No, mum. it's too hot." ,
“Then why don't you c id it by blowing if?”
“Humph, I’m afraid I'd blow it away if I were
to blow un it, and then I might not be able to
find it again.— Terns Siftings.
PERSONAL.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the British
poet, is in failing health and is leading a retired
life.
Mr. W. N. Beauclerk, Second Secretary to
the British Legation at Rome, has been trans
ferred to Washington and will shortly arrive
then*.
Countess Telfener, sister of Mrs. Mackay,
lias secured, it is rumored, a separation from
the Count, her husband. When she married,
her bonanza brother-in-law gave her a hand
some dowry.
Edward Burgess is said to be enjoying great
practical benefits, as well as international fame,
in consequence of the achievements of the Puri
tan, Mayflower and Volunteer. His hands are
full of orders for lioat building.
Miss Emm\ Lazarus, the poet, who Inis been
very ill in Paris for several months past, has
just returned to her home in New York
city much improved in health, hut she is not
yet strong enough to continue her literary
labors.
The Comtesse de Paris, wife of the Bourbon
pretender to the French throne, is more mascu
line than h*r husband in many of her tastes.
She is passionately fond of shouting and every
sort or hunting, whereas he likes sedentary oc
cupations.
Robert Garrett is leading rather an isolated
life m Paris. He is to l>e seen a good deal on
the boulevards wanderingabout apparently in an
aimless fashion. He rarely wears the same suit
i wice, and he has exhibited some startling spec
imens of the tailors’ aid..
Princess William, who is likely at no very
distant day to be Empress of German}*, is a fair
blonde, not beautiful, but decidedly attractive.
She. has a bright, smiling face, charming man
ners and plenty of tact. She dresses in good
taste, and her figure is well rounded, but slen
der.
Louis T. Rrbihho has been awarded the con
tract for th* $20,000 monument of President
Harrison to Ik* erected in Cincinnati. The
famous sculptor, Ezekiel, was Rehisso's most
prominent rival for the contract. Rebisso was
i)orn in Genoa, Italy, in 1887. He went to Gin
clnnati in 1887.
Sir Charles Young, the dramatist, was a
man of deeply religious views long before he
took the extreme step of joining the Church of
Rome, six months l*fore his death. He was
for many years secretary of the famous high
church organization known as the English
Church Union.
Marx Twain Is very particular about the edu
cation of his children. He has a school room in
his house, which is filled with pretty chintz-cov
ered furniture and floods of sunshine, and there
his three little daughters study every day from
It until 1. These children are remarkably good
linguists, and have been taught to speak French,
German anil Italian.
Mrs. Dahtx;rkn. the widow of the Admiral,
will take up her residence in Washington dur
ing the winter. For several years past Mrs.
Danlgreu has lived at her country seat, near
South Mountain, which is said to represent a
uiediipval castle. She owns nearly 8,000 acres
of land in Maryland, and is in receipt of a large
income. The people in her neighborhood
always s)>cak of her as the “ludy of the cas
tle."
. r is reported that the Prince of Wales has
d:s Sereda new American beauty this year at
lloinburg, whom he propones introducing to
London society during the earning season. This
timp Lie young lady is not only endowed with
great physical attractions ami heavy money
Ivigs, bui, moreover, with a contralto voice,
which his royal highness asserts is eqiuel to the
voice of Trehelli when in he** orirae. Luckily
this time there is no mother or father, but uuiy
nine brothers and a younger sLtor.
Reg-artl lor the Proprieties.
From the Bottom Conner.
A coqntrv maiden who was newly engaged
ran in familiarly to see a neighbor one morning,
and after she was gone the hostess mentioned
the fact to a third acquaintance.
"I haven't seen Alice before since she was en
gaged,” she said. "She was looking wonder
fully bright and happy. 1 am glad she ia in
such good spirits.”
"Did you congratulate her?” a*bed the other.
“What did you say?”
“Congratulate her?' 1 echoed the first speaker.
“Why, no, how could I when I had on my old
calico and tny hair wasn't even combed? I’ve
got to go and see her for that.'
Which shows that the social proprieties are
not lost sight of even in the rural districts.
Noblesse Oblige.
Front the Century.
What is diviner than the peace of foes!
He conquers not who docs not conquer hate.
Or thinks the shining wheels of heaven wait
On his forgiving. Dimmer the laurel shows
On brows that darken; and war-won repose
Is but a truce when heroes atxlicate
To Huns unfolding those of elder date
Whose every corse a fiercer warrior rose.
Oye that saved the land! Ah yes. and ye
That bless its savitig! Neither need forget
The price our destiny did of both demand—
Toil, want, wounds, prison, and the lonely sea
Of tears at home. Oh, look on these. And
yet—
Before the human fail you— quick! your hand!
Robert Underwood Johnson.
A Trick of Speech.
From the Host on Courier.
Tricks of speech grown into mannerisms often
betray people into blunders absurd enough.
One instance of this pomes from a town in
Maine, where dwelt a man who qualified his re
ply to every question with the word ‘‘handy”
twisted into some sort of a conditional clause.
It was even asserted that lie projwised to the
lady who became his wife by declaring he would
like to marry her “if she could make it handy.”
but this very likely is a fabrication of invidious
gossips.
(’ailing recently at a house, of which the late
master was lying unburied in the parlor, the
visitor was asked if he would like to see the re
mains of his oh! friend.
“Well, yes,” he answered, “that is, Id like to
see them if .vou’vq got ’em ’round handy. If
you haven’t, it’s no matter.”
Puncturing? a “Masher's” Vanity.
Frfrii the San Francises Chronicle.
He wtts an elegant thing. Perhaps his clothes
were not paid for. and he had not had any din
ner, but he looked wealthy and was stylish to a
degree. An ineffable consciousness of irresisti
ble fascinating power overspread him from the
top of his silk hat to the toe of his polished
boot. The collar was high up, and his mous
tache away out in greased points. Oh. he was
elegant. And he stood at the corner of the
street, ogling the girls as they passed. Thir
giggles he took for admiration, and when they
couldn't resist taking another look at the
gorgeous thing he felt that they had simply
fallen before his beauty and attractiveness. He
stood against a store window on the very cor
ner, and just beside him was a tamal stand.
The owner of th fi tamal parlor had moved away
for a moment, ami two young ladies whom he
had been ogling for some time came past him
for a third time. He grinned. Taere was a
little crowd stopped at the corner by a passing
ear, and when the young man grinned one of
the young ladies walked up to him, blandly,
politely and graciously aud s lid in a voice that
could *>e heard by the crowd:
“How much do you charge for your tamales?”
The crowd turned round and looked, and the
gorgeous thing disappeared very hastily.
The Wickedest Place in Town.
From the Chictigo Journal.
A rather old-fashioned but very sincere and
devout Christian minister, whos - life has been
devoted to ministering to the spiritual wants
of smaller and perhaps better corn mum ties than
Chicago, recently made Rev. C. M. .Morton, the
evangelist, a visit. He saw a great many things
in the city, particularly on the Sabbath, that
shocked his sense of propriety arid morality,
but he was assured that all great cities con
tained large ntiml>ers of godless people, anu
that Chicago was no worse than a dozen other
places east or west of us. He was too well
lirei to question the word of his host, but be
came thoroughly convinced that since the de
struction of Sodom the world had never seen
such a wi' ked citj'. His right *o is indignation
finally reached the point of explosion when he
read an item in the paper in regard to the Wo
man’s Exchange. “Is it true- tba‘ there is
a Woman's Exchange in Chicago?” he asked ot
Mr. Morton. That gentleman saw from the ex
citement of his guest that he misapprehended
the use of that worthy institution,hut he did not
undecceive him. “I believe there is,” he r*-
plied. ‘‘Can it have come to this in a Christian
city!” exclaimed the indignant clergyman. ”A
public place, opofily advertised, where men
change their wives! I tell you that all the imps
of hell are loose in your city, sir!”
The Bushy-Ha’red Man.
From the I/neiston Journa’.
A bushy-haired man, driving the burses of the
street sprinkler, bad buck 'd up to the standpipe
in Lewiston and was lighting hi* pipe, “Whoa,
blank ye,” shouted he to the horses, as they
started up, so that the powerful stream from
the standpipe struck up on the side of the big
tank of the street sprinkler and spattered
w idely.
The horses stopped deliberately, and the
bushy-haired man gave three or four desis-rate
pulls on his pipe to sa>e his smoke before he
gathered in his rains and gave a yank.
Haste eternally begi ts waste, and pride goeth
before a fall. The man, in much anger, yanked
desperately on his horses and his horses backed.
The last seen of the mati was in a nimbus of
curling smoke. luch by inch the stream from
the stnndpi|>e with til" full force of the water
pressure, approached the edge of the tank.
Twenty persons saw it and held their breaths.
The horses reared their heads and shook
with anger. The huge tank sliptied
past the rushing stream, and in less
than two shakes of a lamb's tail the
bushy-haired man was it) the track of the water
spout, and the way his hat flattened out, his
pipe sizzldt) in wet ashes, the way lie shouted
and drove and banged ou the bucks of his horses
was a caution. When he emerged from the
position he looked like an April picnic party.
The spectators trust that lie didn't catch cold,
but they should have laughed just the same.
Phenomenal.
From TUI Bits.
“Oh, George.” cried young Mrs.-Merry, run
ning to meet her husband at the door. “I'ye
something thy best to tell you.”
“Not” said George, “what is it?"
“Why, don’t you think—the baby can talk!
Yes, sir. actually talk! He’s said over and ever
so many things. Come right into the nursery
and hear him.”
George went in,
“Now, baby,” says mamma, persuasively,
talk some for papa. Say ‘how do you do,
papa?' ”
"Goo, goo, goo, goo, says baby.
“Hear him!” shrieks mamma, ecstatically.
“Wasn't that just as plain as plain could lie!”
George says it is and tries to think so, too.
"Now say, 'l’m glad to see you, papa.’ ”
' Ha. da, boo, bee, boo."
“Did you ever?” cries mamma. “He can say
everything! Now you precious little honey
bunny boy, say. ‘Are you well, papa?'"
“800, ba, de, goo, goo "
“That it is said ' mamma., “Did you ever
know a child of his age who Could really talk as
lie does? He can just say anything he wants to;
can’t vou, you own dear little darling precious,
you?’'’
“Goo. goo. dee. dec, di, goo."
"Hear that? He says,‘Of course I can,'just
as plainly as anybody could say it. Oh, George,
it really worries' me to have him so phenomen
ally bright. These very brilliant babies nearly
always die young ”
He Knew When to Stop.
From the Chicago Tribune.
A man was traveling on a Dakota railroad
managed by a local company. The train moved
so slowly that It forced him to believe that eter
nity rather than time was in view by those in
charge. After a while it stopped entirely and
tiegan to back up. Approaching the conductor
the passenger said:
••See here. sir. what's the matter—what you
backing up for?"
"Cow on the track ahead,” replied the offi
cial.
• Weil, 'spose there la—what of it?"
“Why, great Scott, we~we don't want to run
into her do we?”
“Of course, run into her if she doesn't get out
of the way !’*
"Yes, I'll he pretty apt to go smashing into a
cow that s standing pn the track with her feet
braced, and shaking her head, and bettering,
and jes’ waiting for us! S'posen we should
knock her out. The old farmer is standing up
there looking a* us, and lie would come down
and drive us off liefore we could get the hide
and taller; and then he'd go and sue the com
pany. and then where would we he! Pretty tlx
for a rai Iroad to get Into, wouldn't it -suit coming
on and no hide nor taller to tight it with! Big
judgment agin the com|iany, and obliged to sell
the injine and sleeping oar to pay it! I tell you,
if 1 bad run into tile cow, that in less titan two
months that old farmer would have owned this
roml. and would haie t aken my place himself
and given the presidency and general manage
meat to some of his neighbors! You but, 1
know when to back up!”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The common red blooming heather is Bis
marck's favorite flower.
An Atlantic county (N. J.) minister recently
preached to an audieuce of one.
The corner-stone of the Lee monument will
be laid at Richmond, Ya., on Oct. 23 with im
posing ceremonies.
The Jersey jacket that covers the ample bust
of the women in the Salvation Army at Cold
water, Mich., bean the legend “Xo water in
hell."
A lily of the species Victoria regia, which is
blossoming in a Rochester conservatory, has a
blossom about 1* inches across, the bud of
which was l foot in diameter.
A boiling spring in the centre of Crystal
Lake, near Ravvnua, is exciting attention. The
water about it is much agitated to permit
investigation from a rowboat.
Gounod has earned 200,000f. during the last
three years—a good deal in France, but not
much for an onera singer in America—and has
just sold his “Joau of Arc” mass for sJO,OOOf.
A Texas newspaper claims to have received
in payment of a subscription “the oldest hen on
record." The editor says she was imported
from Mexico by the local physician eight or
nine years ago.
The whole number of casualties reported by
the medical corps of Philadelphia during the
three days'constitutional celebration was 884.
of which only two were fatal. The majority of
tlie cases were of fainting, exhaustion and other
results of fatigue and expc sure in the crowd.
A Norwich (Cohn.) newspaper says that in
that city is a man about 5 feet 8 inches tall
whose beard is so long that when he stands
erect it reaches the floor and extends out from
his feet fully 20 inches. The beard is 6 feet
8 inches long, and up to date is the longest
known.
The Swedish Count, M. Bjornstjerna, sug
gested more than forty years ago, in a book on
“The Theo.srony of the Hindoos," that, as both
poles must have been cooled to a suitable tem
perature at tb** same time, the earth might have
been peopled from the North Pole with its white
races ana from the South Pole with its colored
races.
Gen. Prjevalsky is to be presented by the
Imperial Scientific Society, of St. Petersburg,
with a gold medal, which has been specially
struck in his honor, by or b rof the Emperor.
It bears on the obverse t hr* ini'i ds of the recip
ient, and on the reverse the in eription “To the
first stud ent of the natufal history of Central
Asia."
A Hartford youngster goes to church where
the concluding Amen of the parson's prayer is
sung by the choir. The other night, after he
had said his prayers, he produced a harmonica
from beneath his pillow and astonished his
mother by blowing a blast where the Amen came
in, remarking: That s the way we do in
church."
The military doctors account for the preva
lenee of diseases of the heart in the French
army as arising from the fatigu ng duties im
posed on recruits, at an age when, generally,
the development of trie b >’y is not. in harmony
with th it of the heart, but either in advance of
it or ehin l it. In the latter case there is hyper
trophy of growtu, in the former insufficiency.
King Humbert, of Italy, is reported to have
said in a recent conversation tuai the best mon
archy is the one in which the King is felt every
where without being observed. “And the best
republic?" he was asked. “It is that one ” was
the reply, “where, as in America, the genius of
tile people has so deeply jkmi *trated every fibre
of stxdal fabric that no place remains for a
king."
The food of the American laboring man is
much more nutritious on the average than that
of his European tom net. tors. It is also shown
that he turns off much more work than the
European workingman. He is better paid,
better housed, betier clothed and letter fed
than the European. He das better opportunity s
for self-development, more to stimulate his am
bition, and more hope of reward if his work is
efficient.
Observations mad at the late South Ken
sington aquarium up>a the effect of tempera
ture on fisu show that the dogfish, mullet, con
ger, skate, flounder, bass, cod, trout, catfish,
pike and carp are extremely hardy and can
exist in a temper..ture ranging from s4® to 71°.
The gurnard, wrasse, bullhead, s>le. bream,
crayfish, olennie. perch, dace, tench, minnow,
chub, roach and gudgeon are sensitive to ex
tremes of temperature.
A woman at M nmouth, 111., thus replies to
the advertisement of her husband warning peo
ple against her: “I never knew him to own a
ed. and as for board it wasn't much, for any
body can see by my face that 1 am high in bone
and low in flesh. As for credit he had none.
The reason 1 left him he told me to leave and
has lieen telling me that all summer and he
called me lazy. 1 will leave it to my neighbors.
He also threatened to kill me."
The bouse No. 42 Lothian street, Edinburgh,
which was fortn-rly occupied by Thomas de
Quineey, and wnere he died in 1859, has been
distinguished by a tablet, composed of tiles
with an ornamental border, the letters being in
ivory white on an Indian red ground. The in
scription is as follows: “Tnomas de Quineey.
Prose Writer, Lorn 1785—Hied 1859, Lived Here.”
Something of a similar description is to be done
upon anew building in course of erection in
Chambers street upon the site of the house
where Sir Walter Scott was born.
There is a man in Allegan, Mich., who is go
ing to have a house of his own by snowfall if
vim will do it. He works for $7 50 per week,
pays $2 50 of that every week on a debt, sup
ports himself and wife on the S'', and saves
enough out to buy all the lumber he can work
up nights and mornings during the week. He
lias carried every piece of lumber on Ins back to
the house, to save dravage, and a distance of
over half a mile, before work in the morning,
he has backed two loads home from the yard,
and going home from work he always improves
the time.
A white squall, is one which produces no
diminution of light. This furious and danger
ous gust appears in clear weather without any
other warning than the white foam it occasions
on the surface of the sea and a very thin haze.
It usually breaks upon a vessel when she is
totally unprepared lor such a strain upon her
canvas, and consequently proves one of the
most dangerous forms of the sailor's existence.
A black squall is far less dangero is, as it is
usually preceded by an accumulation of dark
clouds ana accompanied by heavy rain. Time
is thus given to trim sails and to avert peril.
In the printing offices of Great liritain even
yet the capitals are at the top of the upjier case,
while the galley rests upon its lower edge; there
also are the figures. While the improvements
in printing in earlier years came from the
mother country, as teas to lie expected from her
greater wealth and the greater amount of work
done, we have fully kept pace with her for the
last forty years. The cylinder mess was used
in England thirteen years before it was brought
into service here, and composition balls and
rollers ten years before; but the type revolving
press was American, and Craske invented
stereotyping for newspapers years before it was
used by the London Times. Endless rolls of
paper to feed with and a thousand small inven
tions are ours.
An Austrian paper, theLa Lumiere Elec
trique, now tries to rob Franklin of the honor of
his discovery, and says a monk of Sen'neiiberg,
in Bohemia, named Bishop ltiwiseh, erected the
lirst lightning rod on June 13. 1754. "The ap
paratus was composed of a pole surmounted by
an iron rod supporting twelve curved up
branches, and terminating in ns many metallic
boxes, tilled with iron ore. and closed by a box
wood cover, traversed by t .venty-seven sharp
iron points, which plunged at their base in the
ore. All the system was united to the earth bv
a large chain. The enemies of Diwiseh, jealous
of bis success at the court of Vienna, excited
the jieasants of the locality against him, and
under the pretext that his lightning rod was the
cause of the great drought, they made him take
down the rod wldch he had utilized for six years
What is the most curious is the form of this first
lightning rod. which was of multiple points like
the one which Si. Melseu afterward invented.”
A London playwright suggests that "it
should be the duty of the manager, or stage
manager, of the theatre to appear every night
in front of the curtain, previous to the com
mencementof the principal plav. forte pur.
pose of explaining to all sections of the audi
ence the available means of egress. This expla-
Lwte’/V, ™,? le cll>arl >’ ami formally, should be
aided bj the voices of the doorkeepers in several
pails ol tie house, e cm of whom, when the
particular door in Ids keeping Is indicated
should jir .vs. by the word •here!' that lie is at
his inis', extravagant ns iiis elan may appear
at the first giane... and cannot heir, thinking that
the min K ‘ K ' Vi tm , ! H ' i r,,r jurying straight to
the mind-, oi the and.ences the actual position
of the doors of the theatre. I would inform
play goers directly or the eotent or the pre
cautions taken on their behalf It would keep
constantly alert; and, while ft
tended to allay apprehension during the per
fni iiiance of the play, in the even! of accident,
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