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Meetings —DeKalb Lodge No. 9. I. O. O. F :
German Friendly Society; Workingmen's
Benevolent Association; Calanthc Lodge No. 28.
K- P.: S.. F and W. and C and S. Railways Em
ployes Mutual Relief Association; Savannah
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dergarten. Miss Cunningham.
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Millinery—Mrs. P. J. Golden.
Devotional—J>avis Bros.
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Circulars Nos. 92 and 93—Railroad Commis
Sion of Georgia
Gus Williams, the comedian, has fallen
Upon anew advertising dodge. He is tieing
sued by a matrimonial agency for procuring
him a wife.
Old Scotland having failed to capture the
American cup with the Thistle, New Scot
land wants to have a trial at it. Money is
being raised at Halifax to build a yacht to
beat the Yankee fleet next year.
Mr. John L. Sullivan will sail for Europe
op the 29th of October, and will no aoubt
divide the honors bestowed on distinguished
Americans with that other distinguished
New Englander, Mr. J. G. Blaine.
Prof. Goldwin Smith says that in Canada
annexation is opposed by the politicians
and favored by the people. If that is true,
it will not t>e many years before Canada
has representatives in Washington.
Another misfortune incident to the
Anarchist outbreak has befallen Chicago.
Citizen Train announces that he has taken
up his quarters permanently in Union
square, of that city, having deserted Madison
square, New York, forever.
The Fifth avenue stage line drivers
struck the other day against n rule of the
company compelling them to wear silk hats.
Their strike was successful, and the public
must rejoice that the insidious attempt to
make dudes of honest workingmen has
failed.
Mr. Blaine’s friends are said to lie dis
couragisl and gloomy because the President
in his administration of the government,
has not made some big blunder, which will
serve as a campaign bludgeon to beat him
with. These patriots sigh for misgovorn
tnent of the country that their party may
prosper.
While the man who will be the Demo
cratic candidate for President next year is
going about among the people, that they
may know him better, the man who expects
to be the Republican candidate is hiding
himself in Europe. The American jieople
already know’ him too well, and their knowl
edge is not to his advantage.
A convention of German societies of New
York, representing 75,000 voters, adopted ok
its own the plank of the Democratic plat
form dealing with the liquor question. As
most Germans have heretofore voted the
Republican ticket, it is thought the Demo
cratic gains from their ranks will more than
offset any losses which may be caused by
the George movement.
The Socialists of Chicago are determined
to have revenge on Judge Gary, who tried
the Anarchist murderers. They are now
dickering with both factions of the Demo
cratic party, promising their support to the
one which leaves the Judge’s name off its
ticket. If they succeed in making a trade,
it ought to doom the faction which accepts
their hid to disgraceful defeat.
lowa is haviug an illustration of the way
emotions are carried out in Ireland. The
English holders of the disputed title to a
large tract of railroad lands in that State
are putting settlers nut of their houses by
force. Some families have been obliged to
spend the night in the road. These English
holders had better get their title to the
property settled lief ore they put in practice
the odious system to which they are used in
Ireland. They may suddenly find them
selves without any land.
The New York Tribune thinks a largo
part of the surplus just paid out by the
Treasury in the purchase of bonds was accu
mulated because there is systematic under
valuation of certain goods at the New York
custom house, so that importations were
possible under a tariff rate which would
otherwise have been prohibitory. Admit
ting that the charge of undervaluation is
true, though it may not lie, the Tribune's
argument would mean that had the law
been properly enforced the money which
went to [iay the national debt would have
gone into the pockets of a few monopolists.
People in general will think the proper dis
position has been made of it.
The enemies of the President have been
at their wits’ end to find something in his
speeches or conduct during his present
Western tour which they could attack. The
worst they could do was to charge that he
acquired knowledge of certain facts in re
gard to cjtii* he has visited from an ency
clopedia, and that his speeches wore printed
at the Government Printing < tftlce before
his departure from Washington. The first
charge is not worthy of an answer, and
Public Printer Benedict Keys that the other
is false. The people will understand that
such silly Btories are put afloat because the
President’s course has been so frank and
consistent' that it has left his enemies no
openings for attacks of a serious character.
Ohio Politics.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is making some
revelations which, j**rhap*, explain Gov.
Foraker’s desperate efforts to make the
campaign in Ohio turn entirely on tlie is
sues of the war. It has sent a reporter to
Akron to investigate the lease of some of
the State's canal property in that city, and
what he found out is interesting to say the
least. A few words are sufficient to give
the gist of the transaction, the parties to
which were Gov. Foraker and Mr.
Flickinger, who has charge of public
works, on the part of the .State, and
otto Andrew Jackson. In almost the
centre of the business portion of Akron
is what is known as tlie Lower Basin, a
piece of property owned by the State, but
not now used by the canal. This large
space, of course very valuable, was leased
to Jackson for thirty years at the nominal
rental of #lOO a year, and this, it is alleged,
in spite of a plain prohibition of the statute.
The ice off the basin had been sold every
year for $lOO, the sum for which the prop
erty was leased to Jackson. Before the
trade with Jackson was consummated, an
other citizen, hearing of the proposed terms,
went to Flickinger and offered a bonus of
#lO,OOO cash, and the same annual rent.
His offer was refused. The real value of
the property is shown by the fact that, after
a few thousand dollars had been spent in
improvements, when a railroad company
wished to sub-lease a small part
of it Jackson demanded $15,000 for
that part, and leading business men
called as witnesses in proceedings to
condemn the property for the use of the
road fixed its value at from $l‘J,OOO to
$lB,OOO. The portion wanted by the road
was only one-twentieth of the six acres, and
shows that the whole is worth from $J40,000
to $500,000.
Mr. Jackson made such a very good trade
that there is room for suspicion that some
body else profited by it as well as himself.
Such a transaction could not fail to bo em
barrassing to the Republicans, who were
responsible for it, in a campaign fought on
State issues, and Foraker has evidently
sought to hide it, and possibly others of the
same sort, by stirring up the ashes of the
burued-out hate of twenty-five years
ago. He abused the privileges of
a guest at Wheeling, insulted and bullied
the President in the flag matter, and went
home from Philadelphia glorying in an al
leged slight put upon him by a woman,
which would have shamed a man of finer
feeling. All this was done tiecause he was
anxious to put the Democratic administra
tion in an attitude of hostility to the pa
triotic memories of the war, and to himself
as their special representative. .Such an at
tempt was not honest, but was a mere trick
to divert attention from the real questions
on which the election in Ohio should turn.
The Democrats are conducting an aggres
sive campaign on .State issues, and if the dis
closures made by the Enquirer can be sub
stantiated, there ought to be no doubt of the
success of their ticket, in spite of the fact
that Ohio is naturally a Republican iState.
The Central European Alliance.
It now seems to be settled that Germany,
Austria and Italy have come to an agree
ment to meet by concerted action any ag
gressive movement of France or Russia.
The latter countries, representing, as they
do, respectively, the extreme forms of popu
lar and of uutocratic government on the
continent of Europe, are not natural allies,
but they have been drawn into sympathy
by a common hatred of Germany. Their
alliance would be a threat of war. On the
other hand, the agreement of the central
jiovvers to stand by each other means peace,
and they have the sympathies of the world
with them.
The preservation of the [leace of Europe
is no doubt the first object of Prince Bis
marck’s policy in bringing about this de
fensive alliance, but another subject is said
to be under discussion in connection with it,
of almost equal Importance, and an agree
ment upon which would have far-reaching
consequences. This is a proposition to ex
tend the principles of the German Zollverein
so as to break down the customs
barriers between the three coun
tries and within their limits leave
trade free from restrictions. In commercial
matters, if such an agreement were entered
into, Germany, Austria and Italy would
stand in about the same relations to each
other as do the States of our Union. The
rate of duties on imports might not be low
ered, but among more than a hundred mil
lion people trade would be free, and they
could not fail to benefit by such freedom.
TUoy would experience in perhaps as great
a measure the blessings of free trade among
themselves which have made this country
prosperous in spite of unwise laws, restrict
ing and almost destroying its foreign com
merce.
Such a commercial union would tend to
make strong and permanent the political
alliance. The interests of the people of the
three countries would become interwoven,
and their common interests would be a
pledge of peace among themselves as well
as a bond of strength against the outside
world.
There are no doubt many and serious
obstacles to such a union to be overcome,
but it is to be hoped that even this limited
experiment of free trade will be made, and
that its results will induce other nations to
adopt the same policy.
If the Republicans ever get a chance they
will wipe out the tariff duty on sugar and
then their Democratic brethren from i ,0111s
iana will gnash their teeth in agony. They
will see themselves in the same position as
the great body of the people in other parts
of the country—subject to a draining tax
without any corresponding benefit. This will
be very hard to ondnre after the long course
of protection benefits the sugar planters
have enjoyed. They had better get back on
the Democratic platform. Then, if they lose
any of their protection they will be partly
compensated by a reduction at the same
time of the taxes they have to pay on other
necessaries of life. If they continue to vote
with the Republicans, the interest they
represent is bkely to be made the scapegoat
to carry off as much as possible of the sin of
the surplus.
* A marble tablet recently found in an
ancient sepulchre on the Via Portuensis,
Rome, Is apparently a work of the first cen
tury. It represents a naked youth, with
long, dishevelled hnlr, defending himself
against two women, one facing him and the
other attacking him from behind. The
women braiuiisk thyme resembliug lancos
in one hand, and a serpent winds itself
around the other arm of each, and they
seem as if about to fling them at the face of
the y./uth. Archaeologists are puzzled to
know whut it is all about, but guess it rep
resents the fate of Pentheus, who was torn
in pieces by Mwnads on Mount Cithmron
for having reviled tho Bacchic mysteries.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1887.
Worthy Officials.
An official who discharges his duties con
scientiously and intelligently is pretty cer
tain to be appreciated. The difficulty of
getting honest aud capable officials is so
great that when one is obtained the people
do not like to part with hint. It is true that
the schemers and wire-pullers are more suc
cessful in getting offices than steady-going
and thoroughly honest men, but that is be
cause the people are not always able to dis
tinguish the honest men from the dema
gogues and rogues.
In New York at the present time there is
a very general demand by the le-st | ample of
th- city that Mr. Delaney Niclioll, the
young assistant of the District Attorney,
who was chiefly instrumental in securing
the conviction of Jacob Sharp, shall be
chosen District Attorney. It is said that
the lioodlers offered him a fortune if he
would quit the District Attorney's office at
a critical peried in the Sharp case, and that
he refused the bribe. All the boodlers and
their friends, and all those who are anxious
for a lax administration of justice, are
opposed to him for District Attorney. The
great mass of the people, however, want
him, and if the politicians refuse to nomi
nate him, it is not improbable that he will
lie a candidate of the jieople. and be elected.
His popularity is due wholly to his integ
rity and ability. He has never been a fa
vorite with those who manage the political
machine.
11l Baltimore Mr. Gans made himself a
reputation by his fearless prosecution of
those charged with having committed
frauds on the ballot box. Tho political
bosses refused to give him any indorsement
and the people have made him their candi
date for Prosecuting Attorney. They want
him because they know that he will do his
whole duty without fear or favor.
The people jierhaps are not as careful to
distinguish merit as they ought to be.
While they appreciate a good official they
iio not show tbeir appreciation as they
should. The right kind of officials are so
scarce that when they get one of them they
should not only not want to part him,
but should also make it their business to see
that he is retained as long as he will con
sent to serve them.
The New Navy.
The United States for some years has had
practically no navy. During the same
years our commercial marine lias steadily
declined, and with it the probability of any
urgent need of fighting ships to inspire re
spect in remote quarters of the globe where
trading ships are apt to create trading sta
tions of the nationality to which they be
long. The business of the Pacific archi
pelagoes, China, Japan, etc., of which
American merchants once had a large share,
is now mostly in the hands of Englishmen
and Germans.
The argument for tho necessity of a
powerful navy, therefore, may be said to
rest entirely on tho idea that such a force is
essential to the maintenance by our gov
ernment in its relations with other powers
of the position to which its importance en
titles it, and to the safety of our sea[>ort
cities from sudden attack by sea. These
objects justify the largo ex|>endituio
authorized within the last two years by
Congress, and will cause the report of Secre
tary Whitney to tie looked forward to with
much more than ordinary interest. The
money w hich has been placed at his disposal,
increased by each session of Congress, evi
dences the confidence inspired by the clean
and energetic administration of his depart
ment: “The closing session of the Forty
eighth Congress appropriated $3,000,000 for
cruisers and gunboats; the first session of
tho Forty-ninth appropriated #5,000,000 for
two iron-clads and $1,500,000 for a large un
armored cruiser, and increased the
amount for the Newark fr m $1,100,-
000 to $1,31X1,000; also $2,500,000 to
complete the monitors, exclusive
of armament; also $.150,000 for a
dynamite cruiser and SIOO,OOO for a first
class torpedo boat. The last session of the
Forty-ninth Congress appropriated $4,100,-
000 for two nineteen-knot cruisers a.id two
1,700 ton gunboats; $4,000,000 toward the
armament of all the authorized ships, $0,000,-
000 for armor and $2,000,000 for coast de
fense as above set forth. The grand total up
to March 4 last was $27,300,000 in two years’
administration. This is nearly $13,050,000 a
year, or nearly equal to the largest amount
appropriated for new construction during
any single year of the civil war.”
When Mr Whitney took charge of the
Navy Department not a single ship con
structed on modorn principles and belong
ing to the United State's was alloat. He be
gan at the beginning to create anew navy.
Three new cruisers of moderate size and a
dispatch boat were on the stocks, but either
the work on them or their plan was- so de
fective as to cause long delay. Even yet
two of the cruisers are unfinished, and the
one in commission is the subject of experi
ments to render her fit for real service.
Congress should adopt some definite plan
relative to the strength to which the new
navy is to lie raised, and pursue it steadily
until it is carried out, appropriating money
to the purpose as fast as it can be economi
cally used. It is fair to infer from the
liberality recently displayed toward the
navy that the money will lie given, and
Secretary Whitney’s report ought to help
in maturing the plan.
A fine glass vase, just discovered in an
Etruscan tomb at Bologna, is of a sea-green
color, like a soda water bottle, thick anti of
a unique form, with two handles. It is nine
inches high and without ornamentation.
There is not a single defect, flaw, crack or
chip about it. With it was found an ivory
chair, made after the fashion of a modern
camp stool, having all its screws and rivets
still in perfect condition, and a small casket
containing beads and soma very elegant
articles in bronze. The articles are sup
posed to date from the fifth century. The
tomb in which they were found was closed
at the top by an enormous globular mass of
stone as fresh as if it had only been fashion
ed yesterday.
Hon. Thomas Osborne, of the Pennsyl
vania Legislature, member of Gov. Beaver’s
staff, and who stands high in the councils of
the Republican party, was recently turned
out of a post office which ho has held for
twelve years. It was then discovered that
by fraudulent reports of the cancellation of
stamps he had caused his salary to li raised
from $2OO to fSOO. It wot Ud do no harm to
examine with a little extra care the accounts
of all Federal offr-ials who, like the Hon.
Thomas, are "high in the councils of the
Republican party.” it might result In pro
viding more places for honest Democrats.
The Western custom of introducing mar
riages at agricultural fail's has got a couple
into trouble at Youngstown, 0. Tho
preacher who jierforniecl the ceromony hud
not tho necessary license from the Probate
Court, and the marriage is illegal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Mugwump’s Discontent.
From the Boston Herald ( Inti.)
The Democratic party is doing much to prove
that it has no more the capacity to discipline
itself than it has to command the confidence of
the people. It is working to destroy its chances
for future success with a foolishness that would
be beyond belief were not the evidence of it so
constantly before our eyes.
Chicago Crows.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
“I lielieve there was a time when St. Louis
was a determined and jealous rival of Chicago.”
Was it for this, O my suffering soul, that a
whole summer was devoted to entreating the
honor of a Presidential visit? Was it for this
that the population of the Missouri metropolis
rose en masse to testify its grateful apprecia
tion of the honor when the long-desired visit
was made at last? poor old St. Louis!
BRIGHT BITS.
A w*v may be behind in his work and still
show push. This is so if he is wheeling a bar
row.— Yonkers Statesman.
He (before the wedding)—You are sure you
won't be nervous nr the altar?
She (four times a widow)—l never have been
yet .—Christian Ci-im.
Young wire—l took great pains with the salad
we bad for dinner. Robert.
Robert (rubbing his “embonpoint” ruefully)—
And so did I, my dear. -Arkansas Life.
Reading, Pa., has as many breweries lo the
square foot as any town in thecoijntry. So that
Bacon was right when he said that "Reading
makes a full man.”— Brake's Magazine.
American Toceists meet in the city of Mexi
co—“ Hello, Jones! I'm delighted to see you.
Come out and see the bull fight with me.”
Jones —Not much! I 'ra just from Wall street.
—Burlington hee Press.
Lawyer—Your uncle makes you his sole heir,
but the win stipulates that the sum of $lOO must
be buried with him.
Heir (feelingly) The old man was eccentric,
but his wishes must be respected, of course. I'll
write a check for the amount.—.Yetc York Sun.
Medium—Are there any here who would like
to be put in communication with departed
spirits?
Toper (an accidental intruder)- Yes. Just put
me in communication with the demijohn some
body walked off with last night while I was
asleep on the Common. Boston Budget.
Robinson—What was the amount of your doc
tor's bill, Dumiey ?
Dumiey—l paid him s2od.
Robinson --$200! That’s too much.
Doijley—He saved my life, you know.
Robinson—Yea, I know he saved your life.
But s2do, Dumiey! That's too muuh.— New
York Sun.
Nothing causes the Nebraska farmer more
dismay than to return from town after spend
ing a few hours there and find that his farm
lias been converted into a thriving city, with
street cars and electric lights, during his ab
sence. But such things will occur now and
then, and should lie regarded with comparative
calmness.— Nebraska .State Journal.
Mrs. Pompano—Heard about the row at Bag
ley's bouse ?
Pompano—No; what was it ? The Sheriff
Mrs. Pompano- Nonsense! Mr. Bagley kicked
out three suitors in one night.
Pompano (excitedly)—Kicked out three! Good
heavens, woman, where were you that you
didn't catch one of them for Amelia? Another
miliner’s bill like the last and I'll lasso the first
man I meet and make him marry her.—Phila
del/thia Call.
Uses os' Anarchy.—Omaha Man—Hello! You
must have made a ten strike somewhere. Dia
monds. eh?
Chicago man—Yes, I’ve done first rate lately.
I joined the Anarchist society.
“What good did that do you?”
"Gave' me a chance to make money, and I
made it—piles of it.”
"Well, well! Don't see how.”
“Being a member, 1 was able to get privileges,
you know. ’
“What sort?”
“I secured the privilege of the beer stand at
the Bread or Blood picnic."— Omaha World.
First Burglar -How yer cornin' on. Bill?
Second Burglar -Bully. Me, an' Jake, an'
Mike, an’ a lot of others has agreed ter w-ork to
gether on’ divide the swag between us.
“Robbin'banks?”
“No, that's too risky. Robhin' bouses, but
not in the old way. We're goin' to take only a
little at a time from each house so the people
won't suspect we re robbing ’em until we kin
retire.”
“I s>-e. What do you call y’r copartnership,
the 'forty thieves,” er the‘cut-throat gang,'er
what ?”
“We call it ‘The Other People's Property
Trust.’”— Omaha World.
Our little 3-year old is very fond of oranges.
One day when he had eaten a large one he came
to mamma and wanted more. “How many are
there in the dish?” asked mamma.
He counted them. “Just three.” he said.
“\ cry well," w-as the reply, “there is one for
papa, and one for mamma, and one for ycui.
You can have one.” He ate it and wanted an
other.
“How many are left?" said mamma.
“Just two,” he replied, "one for papa and one
for me.”
"But where is mine?” said the astonished
mother.
“Oh,” he replied quickly. “I’ve eaten it.”—
Babyhood.
PERSONAL.
Kino Wim.iam, of Holland, is almost restored
to health. He was driving a four in-hand last
week uiili his young Queen by his side.
Senators Sh human, Hawley. Halo, Harrison,
Edmunds, and .Unhone and Gov. Foraker are
booked for speeches in New York during the
campaign.
Ex-Congressman Reid, of North Carolina,
who lost his sent through financial troubles, is
in Washington. He proposes to practice law in
a Western Territory.
Andrew Carneoie will sail for this country
Oet. 8. He expects to interview President
Cleveland and the inter state arbitration depu
tation soon after his arrival.
Ex- Vice-President Wheeler's will is to be
contested upon the ground that he was not com
petent to make a will at the time it. was dated,
and that the signature is not genuine.
Hon. John Premier of Manitoba, is
in Toronto, but tho reason of his coming Pals I is
a secret, and the Canadian public are not at all
certain that it has anything to do with the wel
fare of his province.
G >v. Ai/ier, of Michigan, lias just built and
presented a fine school house to the town of
'Vest llarrisville, Mich. The Governor thought
the school building at that point a disgrace to
the State, and accordingly replaced it with a
new one.
The widow of the late Senator Matt Carpen
ter, with her son and daughter, have arrived
from a year's sojourn in Europe to visit her
father, ex Gov. Dillingham, of Waterbury, Vt.
She will then return to her home in Milwaukee.
Col A. Andrews, of San Francisco, is the
richest pensioner in the United States, being
worth something like $4,500,000. lie is a veteran
of tho Mexican war and pays over Ins monthly
stipend from Uncle Sani to a needy veteran
who receives no [tension.
Miss E. C. Ruthhafp, of Lebanon, Pa., las
been elected President of the Woman’s Home
and Foreign Missionary Society. The compli
ment is a deserved one, as Miss KuthratT has de
voted the best years of her lite and a large for
tune to charitable Christian work.
Mas. Hakrikt Bailey died at Louisville cn
Thursday in her 100th year. She was the moth. r
of six children, the grandmother of nineteen
und the great-grand mother of forty-two. She
outlived all of tier children and nearly half of
th<> grandchildren. Her youngest great-grand
child is 14 years of age.
Miss Akneslky Kknkaly accompanied Mis s
Edith Horner, Senator Hawley’s betrothed, to
this country, and both ladies became nursing
sisters in Philadelphia about the same time.
Miss Kouealy is now in charge of the Children’s
Hospital, in New York. She is a daughter of
the late Dr. Kenealy, member of Parliament for
Stoke-on-Trent.
KnoAit E. Peters. of Springfield, 0., is under
arrest for perjury in sweuring in the Probate
Court that Jessie Howell, a sixteen-year-old
miss whom he proposed to marry, was of age.
The parents or Miss Howell are both wealthy
and indignant, and they propose to punish the
unfortunate young man. The girl has been sent
to a private school.
John 0. Westbrook, of Milford, has been
thirty years Prothonotary* Register of Wills
Recorder of Heeds and Clerk of the Court in
Pike county, Pennsylvania. He will be elected
this fall to another three-year term. His
brother, lafayette, sat in the Legisliture fir
six years, ipid then moved out of flip comity
becmistsl tie got tired of going to Harrisburg.
Gov. Rfsx, of Wisconsin, having been accused
of scheming to take tho wind out of Gen. Fair
child's sails as a Vice I’residential candidate, the
Oskosh S'nrthu'rxtrrn says: “Gen. Fairchild
has publicly stated that he is not a candidate
for any place on the national ticket, and as the
chances are now excellent for Gov. Rusk’s
nomination for the Presidency, it is hardly
probable that any Vice Presidential aspirations
could lie entertained by another man from the
same State."
HIS LIFE A SAD ONE.
Thirteen Cate and Eleven Dog 9 Make
Him Tired of Heme.
fVotn the Baltimore American.
“ 'Squire, she had thirteen dogs and eleven
eats in the house, and we couldn't agree. I paid
a man s.“> to come round into the yard and try
and make some arrangement w ith the animals,
so that I could get some rest, and that's the
cause of the disagreement. My wife would have
th** dogs and cats, and resented any interference
with them. We have no children."
This was the answer a man with a sad face
made to Justice Warfield yesterday, after his
wife had told the Magistrate she aud her hus
band couldn't get along. She complained that
the domestic breach was widening every day.
The man rested his head in his hand and listened
to the story, exaggerated to his mind, the wife
told of her troubles. She, said but little of the
dogs and cats, bur when her husband spoke of
them it was with sorrow and suffering. The
Squire advised them to try, if possible,
to adjust their differences Lovingly,
and not let a little trifle like thir
teen cats and eleven dogs wreck their happi
ness. It was evident the animals were a bur
den on the mans mind. He seemed thoroughly
dejected. The couple went out of the court
room and discussed the situation, but it seemed
impossible to come to satisfactory terms. The
man consented to try life at home again if the
number of aninmls were cut down in some pro
portion, say one-half. She wanted all her pets
with her. The two left the station. The hus
band refused to go home to be greeted with
those playful yelps and meows, so grating to
his nerves, but music so pleasant to his spouse.
He stood on the corner the picture of sadness,
and looked at the splendors in the western sky
as the sun was sinking, and thought, no doubt,
of life in the beyond, where neither cats nor
dogs disturb the tranquility of the soul. Some
th ng conquered him, it may be the look from
his wife on the other side of th* street. With
the expression of a martyr ou his fact 1 !, he fol
lowed his wife down the * street, and the two
went home together.
1,000 SHOTS AT A CRAZY MAN.
Found Safe After a Long Attack by a
Company of Mexican Soldiers.
From the .V ew York Star.
Er. Paso, Tex., Oct. s.—News has reached
here of an affray ten days ago at the Planchas
de Plataraine, near Salxinet, State of Chihua
hua. Mexico. An Irish miner named John Lloyd
became crazed from a prolonged spree, and
conceived the notion that the Mexicans wanted
to kill him. He procured a Winchester rifle, and
told a German teamster named Weiner that he
was going to guard agaiust bis expected assail
ants. Werner told a Mexican foreman named
Rodriguez what Lloyd had said. Rodriguez
went to pacify Lloyd, whereupon the
latter threw up his' rifle and snot Rod
riguez dead. Weiner got a rifle and tried to
shoot the infuriated mao, but while he was
mameuvring for a sure aim, Lloyd got a chance
and shot him through the thtgli. Lloyd then
took refuge in the office of the superintendent,
who was away, and bode defiance to the camp.
A courier was dispatched to a Mexican mili
tary camp a few miles away for a detachment
of soldiers. When they arrived, they dispersed
themselves among the rocks and opened fire
upon Lloyd's fortress. Lloyd replied for a time,
and then became silent. After firing a thou
sand shots the soldiers charged the building and
found Lloyd hidden among a lot of boxes un
harmed. He was taken to Casa Grandes.
Two Pictures.
Paint me an apple tree crowded with blooms,
And 'neath it -uplifting two round arms bare,
To the wealth of bl< ssoms not half so fair
As the white hand thrust midst their perfume—
Paint a young girl with an angel's face,
Soft brown hair, with a tint of gold
Slumbering in every braid and fold,
Crowning her queen of youth and grace.
Give her deep sweet eyes of darkest blue.
Lake Constance eyes with the sunny light—
< >f a noble nature strong and bright.
Shining steadily through and through.
Give her oval cheeks the delicate tiut,
< >f the sky as it flushes at dawn of day;
But before you have touched the mouth, I pray,
Painter, try you hard to imprint
My words on your memory's safest cell.
The red curved lips must be full of pride,
And yet, not overmuch to hide
The gracious sweetness I know well.
The subtle something but half revealed
By the beautiful lips of the pictured face
Lends it an almost pathetic grace
That is fairer than human speech can tell.
* * * ******
Paint me a face that is older and wiser
The face that is now th* girl's over there,
Leavt out the youth, but make it fair.
Place lines where dimples once reigned supreme.
Put thought into eyes that once held a dream,
lake a little—for Time- from the oval check,
And to the lips iust ready to speak
(rive a fainter red: but you must pay
Back fur what you have taken away
A hundred folu. Make a saintly face.
With nothftig of earthiness, not a trace.
Use your best skill on the steadfast eyes,
Pure as a child's as tender and wise—
I-et a beautiful life shine thro' the face,
I ret every sad hour, if you choose, keep pace
And accent itself in her silvering hair.
But, then, do you think you can gather there
The blessings of living and of those long dead
And weave in a crown for the silvery head?
Ah, painter! 1 see your brush falls back
And the hand that held it is all too slack.
Greater than you have failed, I ween.
To picture the “essence of things not seen."
But two pictures live iu my heart ahvay:
As 1 .'.Hr her then, and again to-day.
Tats.
How She Hid Her Morphine Vice.
From the New York World.
The ingenuity of morphine victims to hide
their vice has never been better illustrated than
in the ease of a young girl at a fashionable
young ladies' boardiug-school near Philadel
phia. who has Just been taken away by her
imrents. She said she learned to use morphine
from a young married woman, well known in
society in New York, whom she met at a water
ing place last summer. The disclosure came
about accidentally. When the young student
returned to the school this fall she had |x*riods
of deep despondency, and often asked the
privilege of going to the room in the seminary
set apart as a hospital. There she would lie for
a day at a time, only rousing herself when any
one approached the table, on which stood an ink
bottle and a stylograpbie pen. The nurse having
occasion to send a message to the doctor at
tempted to write with thisj**n, the young girl
at that time l>eing asleep. The pen not onlv re
fused to write, out the practiced eye of the
nurse instantly recognized in the point' the punc
turing needle of a hyinxlermic syringe. This
led to an examination of the ink bottle. It was
a four-ounce bottle, hut there was ho ink in it.
It was painted black on the outside, and con
tained Magendie's solution of morphia, enough
for 128 one-half grain doses, or sufficient to last
until the Christmas holidays. The principal of
the school was summoned immediately, and
the sleeping girl's arm hared. It was punctured
from tlie shoulder almost to the hand, and the
livid blue marks confirmed the suspicion, which
was changed to absolute certainty by the small
abscess which had lx*gun to form in the fore arm
just above the wrist. The habit bad been
formed about, two months only, and there is a
possibility that a cure can lx* ejected.
As Clever as Three-carde Monte.
From the New York Sun.
“Lady, you've dropjx-d some of your money,"
said a well-dressed young man to airs. S, A. van
Riper, of Newark, in the State Bank at that
place yesterday noon. Mrs. Van Riper stooped
down to pick up a dollar bill, and when she
arose her satchel, containing Si 23, was gone.
I'hi* man who called her attention to the bill on
the floor was still at her side.
“That man Is runuing away with your sat
chel," he said.
Mrs. Van Rq>er did not sec any man running
away, but iu her excitement she ran out of the
hank to look for the thief Meanwhile the man
who had called her attention to tlie bill, which,
without doubt, he had himself thrown on the
floor, went out of a side door, and was seen no
more. Mrs. Van Riper. when she got tired of
looking for the thief in the street, hurried to
ward the police station, and was met near there
by a man who informed he- that lie had re
ported the case to the police. She turned back
then, and the police heard nothing about, the
matter until they learned of it accidentally two
hours later. All the confederates got away
safe.
Mrs. Van Riper is a waistcoat manufacturer,
and was drawing a check to pay her help when
the theft was committed. She saw two men
watching her, but hail no suspicion of their in
tentions.
A Sharp-Witted Doctor.
From the yew York &un.
A story is told of two doctors uptown who
had a long convivial seance at a saloon the other
night. They liv, a door or two apart, and one
started for hot no ahead of the other. Unfortu
nately his night key had swelled. as night keys
will, and while he w an st ruggling with it, he Ml
asleep on fh* doorstep. His friend, the other
doctor, followed in a few minutes, and seeing
the plight of his friend, and also that his own
wife was waiting up for him on his stoop, he
said to her: “I've been kept up very late on a
surgery ease and 1 consider it very fortunate,
for there is poor Dr. Dash, whom I must assist
into his house for sake, of the dignity of the pro
fession.” This falsilicr now not oniv receives
the thanks of the unsuspecting friend, but
laughs in his sleeve at his own duplicity.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ex-Gov. Click is an honored man ii Kansas.
At the Topeka fair there are forty buls, rams
and boars which bear his name. The ct-Uover
nor has seen nearly every one of them
John Denmead, „he last of the Bruns
wick, N. J.. hermit family, says that b will live
like other people for the future. HaWtended
Church on Sunday for the first time in hirty-flve
years.
The oldest General of the United Stt.es army
is William Selby Harney. He was *om near
Nashville, Tcnn., in IN*), and enteredthe army
in 1818. He was breveted Major general on
March 13, 1805.
There must either be a notable increase in the
length of human life within the past -entury or
the records of centenarians daily furnished
must be lies out of whole cloth. Th* latest list
is that furnished by the Russian OJJIcUI Gazette,
and gives the total of the ages of sevei residents
in the single province of Astrakhan as 774 years,
the oldest being 120 and the youngest 1&.
The chief in the recently discoverer frauds
on English life insurance companies in /aris is
reported to be a German baron, Kurl Ludwig
Wilhelm von Scbeurer. He is a uauralized
American, who married a wealthy American
lady residing in London. He desertedhis wife
and fled to Paris with another womai. There
he met Dr. Castlenau and organized th swindle.
It is suggested by a Boston yachtiman that
an iron keel, hinged upon the bottom of the
boat so that it would hang perpendicularly
w hatever the jiosition of the yacht would be a
novelty worth trying. Substantial)' the same
thing has been tried on small sai loats and it
works well. It consists of a board hung from
the ends of outriggers hinged to the mil of the
boat.
Senator Ingalls closed his eloquent speech
at the Philadelphia Academy banquet with this
prediction: “And I doubt not that when the
next centennial of the constitution iscelebrated,
in this place and at this anniversary it will be
celebrated by the representatives ol a mighty,
indissoluble continental republic w.iose shores
will extend from the waters of the frozen zone
to the warm waves of the tropic seas."
An old mailing table in the Ogdensburg, N.
Y., post office was torn to pieces recently, and
between the linings and the out tide of the
shutes leading to the bags were found sixty
seven letters that had siiuj>ed througa cracks in
the table. Some of the letters bore postmark
dates showing that they were mailed in 1873,
and one contained a foreign money order that
the post office department made good several
years ago.
William O’Brien has written a public letter,
in which he says: “On the day of my convic
tion at MitcheUstown the Solicitor General
telegraphed in cipher to the crown counsel:
•Mistake; O'Brien will beat us. Harrington will
be disbarred at our next meeting.* This ex
plains why I received three separate sum
monses. The plot for ruining Mr. Harrington is
here disclosed with brutal candor.** In an in
terview Mr. Harrington says. “Perhaps some of
my words at the Mitcbelistown inquest were
too strong for some of our English friends, but
nothing else could elicit the facts from the
police.”
Prince Ferdinand is not so rich as is com
monly suppose* 1. He has about £B,OOO a year,
but his mother has a very large capitalized
fortune, most of which is entirely under her own
control, though it is understood that Prince
Ferdinand will inherit at least half of it. The
Princess Clementine, being very ambitious ot
seeing him reign, w ould answer any call made
upon her fortune for his good. But this is not
at all the view taken by other members of the
House of Coburg, who tremble to see the family
wealth dissipated in Bulgarian speculations, and
it is said that some rather uneasy corre
spondence has been and is being interchanged
among the Prince's relatives.
The physician, says Robert Louis Stevenson,
in dedicating his recent volume of poems, “is
the flower (such as it is) of our civilization; and
when that stage of man is done with, and only
remembered to be marveled at in history, he
will be thought to have shared as littl*3 as any
in the defects of the period, and most notably
escaped the defects of the race. Generosity he
has, such as is possible to those who practice an
art, never to those who drive a trade: discretion
tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried by a
thousand embarrassments; and, wliat are more
important. Heraclean cheerfulness and courage.
So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sick
room, andaoften enough, though not so often as
he wishes, brings healing.”
It is the boast of Weehawken, N. J., that no
Italian, Chinaman, or negro lives within its
borders. Mayor Kelly says: “I won't have a
Chinaman in the place; I detest them. One did
open a laundry here and I gave him a certain
amount of time to get out of town, and you l>et
he got. Last week one tried to come here, but
I saw him and ordered him to go back to New
York at once, and he didn't wait to be told the
second time. The idea of these fellows coming
into a town to take away the living of our own
residents is something I won't tolerate. As for
the Italians and negroes, they don't come here,
because there is nothing here for them to do.
The last negro who was here left thirteen years
ago. He was a coachman and drove for a pri
vate family.”
“Karavelopf,” says the London Times cor
respondent at Sofia, “will shortly have to stand
his trial for susjiected complicity in the over
throw of Prince Alexander. It will be remem
bered that after the Prince's abdication then*
was a general outcry for the impeachment of
Karaveloff, who had been the Prince's Prime
Minister. So long as Karaveloff was Regent the
question was, of course, shelved, and after he
had resigned the Regency eluded it in every
way. But now that a regular government has
lieen established, the Cabinet feels it can no
longer decline giving satisfaction to public
opinion, and must also, in justice to Prince
Alexander, bring all the suspected authors of
the August plot to trial. Accordingly, upon the
meeting of the Sobranje a proposal will be
brought forward by the Ministry for the im
pel ch meat of Karaveloff, Nikiforoff, ZanotT,
ex-Ministers, and some others.”
The London Times correspondent at Stettin,
speaking of the recent review there, says: “The
troops marched past twice in different forma
tions, and though this part of the show lasted
nearly two hours, the Emperor stood upright
most of the time in his carriage, which he oc
cupied alone, using no other support than what
was afforded by a walking stick. It was a proud
moment for his majesty when his grandson.
Prince William, led past his infantry regiment,
but louder still was the cheering when the
twelve companies of the Col berg Grenadiers
came tramping past like living walls, 1 he proud
est regiment on the field, for their head is no
l**ss a personage t an Count von Moitke him
self, and no one would think, to see the Field
Marshal pacing along, so easy and erect in the
saddle, that he is only about three years young
er than the Emperor himself physically almost
a greater miracle still. The Emperor beckons
the great strategist to approach, and extends
his hand in silent gratitude and admiration to
him alone of all the commanders as to tie* man
who has done most to win all Germany's mo
mentous battles.”
“The nose,” says the St. James Gazette , “is,
if we are to believe M. le Bee, a French savant,
gradually losing its power to discharge its tradi
tional function in the ease of the civilized peo
ples; and when the sense of smell vanishes
altogether, as will infallibly be the case one day,
he tells us, the organ itself is bound to follow
its example sooner or later. It is no doubt tlie
fact, as he points out, that the olfactory sense
is ever so much keener in the savage than in the
civilized man. and it is reasonable to conclude
that the more we progress in civilization the
duller the sense will grow. Its complete extinc
tion, M. le Bee assures us. is a mere question of
time, and it is certain that Nature never con
serves useless organs. When the nose loses its
power of smelling, the nose ‘must go.' (’iviliza
tiou is gradually making us bald (about that
then* can be no doubt whatever), and it will lie a
heavy price to pay for it if we are to lose our
noses as well as our hair. If this ever happens,
the civilized world will for one thing have to re
vise its standard of comeliness, it, may lx* that
t heciviliz* and man of the future will see no beauty
in a Greek statue unless it has lost its now-,
which, it is true, is the case with most of them.’’
Dr. W. F. Hutchinson writes the American
Magazine for September: “Going ashore early,
before sunrise, our first visit was mode to the
marketplace, to see what Maraeaibans live i
upon. A better and cheaper market would be
hard to find. Excellent beef, goat, pork and
fowls averaged 10c. a pound, and all varieties of
tropical fruits alKiuuded at corresponding prices.
Tied together in bunches wore great green
lizards, two or three feet long, with brown warts
nil over them ami vicious block lieuds of eves
They snapped at us like dogs as we passed, and
when teased with a stick, clung to it lice bull
turners. These were iguanas, whose delicious
whiu* fiesb is eagorly raten by all classes. It
tastes like chicken, but is more delicate. Of
course, considerable hunger would be needed to
make them appetizing to a stranger who should
recognize them in a stew. Farther on an animal
with head and tail like a rat, feet like an aliga
tor, and a coat of mail like an ironclad man-of-
,M,n r,v '*‘ v *nz a poke
it rolled itself promptly into a ball, head ana all
being quite covered by its plates, and thus de
uttack - Th , w Wrts an armadillo,
also a tidbit when properly stowed and roasted
Moidcuys were scarce iu the Maekot.”
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On THURSDAY and FRIDAY,
Oct. 13 and 14,
AT THE—
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\ITE will have on exhibition the grandest ar-
VV ray of
NOVELTIES
Ever displayed by any house in the South.
Every Department is replete with the NEW
EST things that could be found in the WORLD'S
GREAT CENTRES OF FASHION,
New York and Paris.
The chief attraction will be our
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT.
OL’R OWN MILLINER made a special trip to
Ne a - York in order to secure the very latest
shapes in Bonnets, Hats. etc., and she will show
you the Most Beautifully Trimmed Hats and
Bonnets ever seen in Savannah, and a magnifi
cent line of Trimmed Hats in every style known
to the milliner s art. In this department you
will find a dazzling array of elegance and style,
and any lady who buys a Hat or Bonnet before
giving ours an inspection will regret it most
thoroughly.
OTTR
Dress Goods noil Sis
will also be a great feature. This line was se
lected with great care.and every novelty out this
seas >n can b** found in our stock. Our Combina
tions especially will be found a thing of beauty.
They will be tastily displayed for your inspec
tion, and
CLOAKS!
We have a world of Cloaks, of every style an 1
texture, and every size made. We can fit any
ladv in the State, from the smallest Miss to the
stateliest Matron.
Every other department is equally replete
with new things; in fact, every Stock iu the
house is
FULL TO OVERFLOWING 1
We have by far the largest stock ever brought
to Savannah, and we are going to sell it cheaper
than ever before.
We extend a cordial invitation to EVERY
ONE. but especially the LADIES, to call and
witness this grand display.
f#You will find a full corps or experienced and
affable salesmen, ready and happy to serve you.
Very Respectfully Yours,
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} orrell, Washington, J>. C. - “I have had
ZonweisH analyzed, it is the iLo&t perfect denti
frice I have ever seen.”
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FOOD PRODUCTS.
test City ills.
■yyrE are making an extra quality of GRITS
and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trada
as superior to any In this market. Would b
pleased to give special prices on application.
Wc have on haud a choice lot of EMPTY
SACKS, which we are selling cheap.
BOND, HAYNES a ELTON.