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4 Clic|Uorningllftos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, IBS7. Registered at the Post Office in Saixsnnah. Tbe Mo&ittxq News is publfetMMl every dajr n fbe vear. and is served to subscribers m fL <?/, by newsdealers and carriers, on tbeir **• a fount, at 2T> cents a Meek, $1 00 a month, (Ai lor six months and $lO uO for one year. Th* Mount so News, by mail . one month, $1 00: three months, $-*3O; but months, <X>; one year. $lO 00. Tlie Morning News, by mail, six time* a week (without Sunday isww>, three months, f2 00; six months. $ tt) one wt-*r. s**> 0". The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or ’i ist lays. ih'ir> days and Saturdays, three months, $1 six months. $2 50; one year $5 00. The SUNDAY Vfw* by mmi one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $! *2>. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Association, 104 Temple Court, New York Oty. letters and telegrams should be addressed •'Morning News Savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application \SM DJ NEW ' ADVERTISEMENTS. 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 Lodge No. 217. I. O. B. B. Steamship Schedules —Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baliimore Steamship Line; General Transatlan tic Cos. Special Notices T>r. Bouton's Return; Kin dergarten. Miss Cunningham. Auction Sales Building Lot by .1. Mc- Laughlin & Son; Sundries, by I. D. LaUocbe’s Sons. Cheap Column Advertisements—For Rent; Miscellaneous. Millinery—Mrs. P. J. Golden. Devotional—J>avis Bros. Canned Goods—C. M. Gilbert & Cos. 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.” BAKING POWDER. ✓ we/ o?pßicrs CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It is used by the United States Government. In dorsed by the beads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest aud most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lijpe or Aium. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. K. ALi'MAVER A CO. GRAND OPENING] On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, Oct. 13 and 14, AT THE— DRY GOODS EMPORIUM OF—- 1 l Altmavcr & ft. __jj \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, A. R. ALTMAYER & CO. ZONVV EISS CREAM. FOR THE TEETH Ft mad* from Nerr Materials, contains no Acids, Etard (Jiu t cr injurious matter It is Push, Rxfinid. Perfect. Nothing Like It Evkr Known". From Senator r<iegr*hnll,—“TtakepleA*- ure in recommending Zonwcib# ou account of it* efficacy and purity.” I'rom j|rs. Urn. I,naan's Dentist, Dr. } orrell, Washington, J>. C. - “I have had ZonweisH analyzed, it is the iLo&t perfect denti frice I have ever seen.” From Hon. Chni. P. Johnson. F.x. Tit. ©I Mo.— '/ontveiHH'’leunsrsMie teeth thor oughly, le delicate, convenient, very pleasant,and leaves no after taste. Sold iy all dbuggists. Price, 35 cent*. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y. JJVX.V. I J > (- 1 <r ■ '• 1 . EJUJ UIA MJ For salo by BUTMAN' BROS., Lippraan’* Block, Savannah. 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.