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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mthctinos—Ancient Landmark Lodsre No. 231.
F. and A. M.; Chipjiewa Tribe No. 4, I. O. R. M.;
Burglar Alarm and District Telegraph Com
pany; Board of Offieers”First Volunteer Regir
merit of Georgia; Meeting of Chatham County
Bar.
Sp*ciALNoTiCES--Bills Against British Steam
ships Amaryllis and Sue/,: As to Crew of British
Steamship Cartagena; County Commissioners'
Notice.
A Home Remedy—P. P. P.
Direct Importations— Pianos, etc., at
Bchriener's.
Turkish Delight—A. M. &C. W. West.
('heat Column Advertisements- Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Baffle; Lost; Board; Miscellaneous
Consignment—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Bargains—Ludden & Bates S. M. H.
Educational—The Oglethorpe Seminary.
Pittsburg manufacturers seem to fear that
the natural gas supply will soon be ex
hausted and are competing with each other
in the purchase of large bodies of coal lands.
It may be found, when the vast system of
pipes by which gas is now distributed be
comes useless, that there was no economy in
the substitution of gas for coal after all.
The tuft hunters of Northern society seem
tjot to be at all sensitive to newspaper criti
cism. A correspondent writing to a New
York paper from Lenox, in the Berkshire
hills of Massachusetts, speaks of the Duke of
Marlborough secluding himself from the
pursuit of the society people, who were
anxious to entertain him. In their eyes,
apparently, an English Duke cannot sin.
A telegram from Atlanta states that the
anti-Prohibitionists of that town will en
deavor to induce Mr. Jefferson Davis to
make a speech in their favor during his
coming visit to this State. Mr. Davis
■would undoubtedly resent any attempt to
involve him in Atlanta’s local squabble,
and his friends ought to protect him from
those who would attempt to use him in this
way.
The Piedmont Exposition hail a very sat
isfactory opening yesterday. There was a
good deal of speech-making and everybody
appeared to be happy. Hon. Samuel J.
Randall was given a very cordial reception.
He performed the prominent part assigned
him in the ceremonies in a manner worthy
of his great reputation and the high place
he occupies among the distinguished men of
the country.
Maine, after thirty years of State prohi
bition, is greatly agitated by Gov. Bod
well's efforts to enforce the law in the cities.
He is not meeting with much success.
Maine had better adopt the Georgia plan.
We don’t have much fuss over the matter
down here, because the law is in force only
where it has the local sentiment to hack it,
and a law of that sort, without such hack
ing, is much worse than a deat| letter.
Labor societies in fixing their policy
would do well to consider a fact recently
brought out by the London Engineer. That
paper shows that one of the principal effects
of strikes is to cause the invention and
adoption of labor saving machinery, render
ing the employment of fewer men neces
sary. A strike among the shoe operatives
of Massachusetts caused a permanent re
duction of 1,500 in the number of em
ployes. Such a reduction as this causes a
sharper competition for work, and finally
lowers the scale of wages as well as the
number of men employed.
It now turns out that the young woman,
Nellie Brown, or Nellie Moreno, wlio made
such a mysterious appearance at a WOman’s
Home in New York, and was finally sent to
the insane asylum, was a clever female re
porter of a New York newspaper, who
adopted this means of gaining information
as to the inside administration of the asylum
from the standpoint of a patient. Her re
port is now being printed, and is interesting.
Her experience proves how uncertain and
elusive are the symptoms of insanity.
Though her madness was feigned, the pre
tense deceived physicians who are supposed
to be experts.
The site has been chosen for the great
Episcopal cathedral of New York, which
has so long been talked of. It is located on
One Hundred and Tenth street and Teuth
avenue, comprising several acres of ground,
and the price agreed upon is $1,000,000. It
is intended that the building to be erected
upon this site shall be the finest
and most imposing of any devoted to a
like purpose on this continent. As it is ex
pected to cost about $10,000,0U0 and only a
comparatively small amount has yet been
raised, it will probably be years before the
actual work of contruetion is begun. The
denomination of which it will be the princi
pal church is a very wealthy one, hut so
great an undertaking will severely task its
resources.
Henry Goorge has lately been denying
that he is a Socialist. In answer to this
denial it is fair to quote from his “Progress
and Poverty,” written long before he ex
pected to be a candidate for public office.
In that book be says: “The ideal of Social
ism is grand and noble, and it is, I am con
vince:!, possible of realization, hut
such n state of society cun
not be manufactured—it must
grow.” He goes even further, saying that
“all that is necessary to social regeneration
Is included in the motto of those Russian
patriots, sometimes called Nihilists —‘Laud
and Lilierty.”’ After reading these sen
tences it is almost impossible not to lielieve
that George would lie hand and glove with
such fellows as the Chicago Anarchists wero
it S' it that he is more politic and less honest.
Uuiu they.
Trying to Catch the Prohibitionists.
The Prohibition party of New York is %1-
; most wholly composed of speeders from the
! Republican party. The Prohibition party
j polled 1,500 votes in 1860, and 110,000 in issti.
The probabilities are that it will poll 50,000
this year.
The Republicans cannot can y New York
this fall without the help of the Prohibition-
I ists, unless the labor parties draw many more
| votes from the Democratic party than
it is now expected they will.
In the Republican platform there
is a plank intended to catch the Pro
liibitionists. It asserts that the Republican
party will do anything that is reasonable to
provide healthy regulations for the liquor
traffic.
Tiie Republican leaders make the mistake
of sup[>osing that the Prohibitionists can be
drawn away from their purpose by insincere
promises. They have fixed up their platform
with the hope of winning back
the Prohibitionists. Their insincerity,
however, is as apparent to the Prohibition
ists as it is to themselves. The Republicans
of Now York are not in favor of prohibi
tion, and if they had the power would not
pass prohibition lasvs.
At their meeting at Chickering Hall last
Saturday night to ratify their State ticket
all of the speakers dwelt upon the im
portance of securing the assistance of the
Prohibitionists. The young ex-reform
Mayor of Brooklyn, Seth Low, intimated
that without them the Republicans could
not carry the State. He gave several
reasons why they should return to their
allegiance to the Republican party, and
wound up by admitting that he was not a
Prohibitionist. This admission was greeted
with applause, showing that the Republi
cans have written a falsehood in their plat
form to catch the Prohibitionists. They
must be very poor politicians or have a very
low opinion of the intelligence of the Pro
hibitionists.
The thing that the politicians do not seem
to he able to understand is that the people
cannot be deceived by flattery and insincere
declarations. The people read and think
for themselves, and they understand all
public questions just about as well as the
politicians do. The fraudulent temperance
plank in the platform of the New York Re
publicans will hurt, as it ought to, rather
than help the Republican party of that
State.
The President’s Rebellious Temper.
Every once in a while the President
makes the mistake of striking hack at those
w’ho attack him. It is natural that he
should resent the efforts which are made to
bring hi/n into disrepute with the people, hut
his observation and experience should have
taught him that to notice publicly these
efforts benefits him in no respect, and
affords satisfaction to his enemies. It
would be much more becoming in him to con
tinue to do what he believes to lie right, and
to treat his detractors with dignified silence.
At Madison, the home of Postmaster Gen
eral Vilas, he referred to the "hitter, iqa
lignant and senseless abuse” that is fre
quently heaped upon the President. It was
evident to all that he referred to the attacks
which a few newspapers have made upon
him in connection with liis present tour and
the speeches he has been making. Once be
fore, at tho Harvard celebration, he permit
ted his feelings to get the better of his judg
ment and said things that were not becom
ing to him in his present position, and
which were the source of regret to his
friends.
It is not improbable that when Mr. Cleve
land was a politician in a small way at Buf
falo he did not hesitate to condemn, in pretty
severe teas, the public acts of those with
whom he did not agree politically, or for
whom he had no kindly feeling. He proba
bly did not stop to think whether there was
good reason for his criticism or not.
He must not expect that everybody will
praise him or admit that liis administration
is all that the people could desire, and he
makes a very great mistake if he supposes
that all of those who do not approve of his
acts are going to tell him so in words in
which there is no sting. They are going to
express themselves as they please and there
is no way to prevent them. The great mass
of the people, however, who respect him
and lielieve that he is giving the country an
exceptional}’, able and pure administration
are not influenced in the least by what the
malcontents say, and if he is wise he will
not let it appear that he is disturbed by
them.
A Powerless Railroad President.
Mr. Robert G arrett, nominal President of
tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is not
showing himself to lie a very great man.
He ran off to Europe immediately after the
failure of Ives & Staynor to complete their
deal for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
system, though nobody attempted to ex
plain why he left the country at a time
when the great company of which he is
President was in trouble. Ho came back to
New York rather suddenly last week, and
found that in his absence the Baltimore and
Ohio telegraph lines had been sold. He
pretended to he very angry about the mat
ter, and declared that the sale should not he
consummated. The sale will lie consum
mated, however, if, in fact, it has not
already been, and that, too, without consult
ing Mr. Garrett about the matter.
It seems that he had a scheme to unite the
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system with
the Postal Telegraph and the United lines,
and with the combination thus formed
to bring the Western Union to its knees,
so to sjieak. He seems to be much
better qualified to suggest schemes than to
carry them out. Indeed, it is doubtful if
any of his schemes could be carried out with
a profit to those investing in them. The
idea of his bringing the Western Union to
its knees is preposterous. Jay Gould must
have smiled audibly when he heard of his
ambitious project.
Mr. Garrett has probably ceased to be a
power in the business world. He may still
remain a shining light in the social world.
Gen. Fairchild, who wanted the Presi
dent palsied because of his assent to Gen.
Drum’s plan to return the captured Confed
erate battle flags, decorated his house in
Madison gorgeously on the occasion of Mr.
Cleveland’s visit. His daughters also at
tended tlio receptions given the Presidential
party in Bt. Louis. Gen. Fairchild is doubt
less thoroughly ashamed of the outburst of
silly wrath which, has subjected him to
so much deserved criticism. He is said to
be a man much above the Tuttle-Foraker
type. ;
If Gen. Parsons would put some of the
evidonce he claims to have that his brother,
the condemned Anarchist, was improperly
convicted before the proper officials instead
of talking about it in a vague way to news
paper reporters, he would stand a bettor
cliuhce of being believed. November is near
at hand, and it behooves him to hurry.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 18S7.
Tho Struggle in Maryland.
The fight being made by a faction of dis
satisfied Democrat/i in Maryland against tho
party is attracting very wide attention,
New York and Piiilndelphia papers devoting
almost as much Space to it as they would
were it a matter local to themselves. Tho
"Reformers,” as the recalcitrant Democrats
call themselves, are for the time thoroughly
identified with tho Republicans. In under
taking to reform machine methods in poli
tics, which they say have become tho conven
tional thing in Baltimore, these gentlemen,
it seems, do not hesitate to break social con
ventions by which honorable men feel them
selves hound.
The last campaign document published by
them contains two affidavits by H. C. Naill,
until recently Purveyor of the port, and C.
L. Wilson, also a lately ousted Federal
official, setting forth what they swear to
have occurred at a meeting of Senator Gor
man, Mr. Jackson, the Democratic candi
date for Governor, aud other leading Demo
crats. The meeting occurred in the private
room of Mr. Archer, Chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Committee, and these two Re
publican ex-office-holders swear that they
hired an adjoining room, and by intently
listening at the keyhole overheard various
plans to thwart tho will of the people dis
cussed. These affidavits have been met by
Mr. Archer with a categorical denial of all
their important allegations, and Mr. Archer
will he believed by all decent people, who
can have nothing hut contempt for follows
guilty of such conduct as Naill and Wilson
swear themselves to have been. The man
who will kneel with his ear at the keyhole
of a private room cannot he depended upon
to repeat truthfully what he heard while in
that position, if it will serve his interest and
his revenge to tell a lie.
On the other hand, certain charges
brought by the Democrats against the Re
form-Republican alliance liear the sem
blance of truth. One of these is that there
has been a wholesale importation of negroes,
and an instance is given where sixteen negro
voters are registered from one small house.
The Democrats claim that on the registra
tion lists 5,470 names iilegall" appear, and
this is met by the Reformers with tho cry
that a conspiracy is on foot to disfranchise,
a large body of citizens. Conspirators do
not publish their scheme* in the newspapers
before they are put in execution, as the
Democrats have done this matter, and it
will probably be found, if an opportunity is
given them, that they can establish their
claim by projier proof.
The ground on which the Reformers base
their revolt is that the government of the
city and State is in the hands of the “crim
inal classes,” but they fail to make specific
charges of inisgovermneut. There is strong
presumptive evidence that there has been no
misgov eminent. There have been no scan
dals involving State or city officers, and
that the finances have been well managed is
shown by the fact that Maryland has just
received the money for nearly £2,000,000 of
bonds, sold at par, though bearing only 3
per cent, interest.
On the W’hole, it looks like these Reform
ers, who set themselves up as being so much
better than the “criminal classes” who have
long controlled the State and city, are noth
ing hut disappointed politicians, who are
none too good to descend to the methods
which they charge upon their adversaries,
hut who hojie to make capital, like other
hypocrites, by pretending to bo better than
their neighbors. Looking on at the fight
from this distance, Democrats cannot but
hope that the Reform-Republican coalition
may fail of its purpose.
i_
Dangerous Haste of Health Officer
Smith.
The Health Officer at New York is begin
ning to realize that it is by no means so
easy a matter as he pretended to think it
would be to get the cholera at Hoffman
Island under complete control. About the
middle of last week he announced that be
thought the disease at tho island had about
spent its force, and that it would claim no
more victims. Three days afterward the
disease claimed three more victims. It is
pretty certain that the Health Officer
has all along been too confident of
his ability to quickly get the cholera under
control, and to prevent it from securing a
lodgment on the mainland
The cold weather which will soon prevail
at New York may check the disease on
Hoffman Island, hut it is not certain that it
will kill the germs of it. If the great
est precautions are not taken the
chances are that it will make its ap
pearance next summer in the various
parts of the country in which the Hoffman
Island immigrants may locate. They
ought not to be permitted to carry any of
their clothing or bedding away from the
island. All of their belongings should he
burned, and they should be provided witli
new clothing by New York or the general
government. Tho Health Officer inuy insist
that there is no necessity for such extra
ordinary precautions, but no attention
should he paid to what he says on that sub
ject. Nobody knows much about either
c lolera or yellow fever, except that wher
ever either finds a lodgment it
claims a good many victims, and claims
them quickly. It will be much the wiser
and safer plan to spend a few thousands of
dollars in furnishing the immigrants with
clothes thau to allow them to enter New
York and from there scatter over tho coun
try, dressed in the clothes which for weeks
have been exposed to cholera-infected at
mosphere.
It would not be at all surprising if it should
turn out that tlio steamer Alesia, which
brought the cholera to this country, was
allowed to go to New York city altogether
too soon after being relieved of her immi
grant passengers. It seems that all her
cabin passengers were permitted to go ashore
a few days after she reached port, and
doubtless her crew are now wandering about
the streets of New York and Brooklyn. It
may lie that Healt h Officer Smith is making
no mistakes in handling the Alesia ami
her passengers. It Is certainly to he
hoi>ed that lie isn't, hut it is not ttm much to
say that a little more caution would hive
been highly appreciated, not only by the
people of Now York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City, hut also by the entire country.
There still seems to be a difference of
opinion relative to the existence of yellow
fever at Tampa. Tho Tampa Postmaster
may not be a yellow fever expert, but ho
appears to be confident that there is no yel
low fever in that town. It is certainly
time that tho question whether there is
yellow fever there or not was satisfactorily
settled.
Mr. Halstead says Mr. Blaine did not
hurry away from Ireland, but visited the
island “at his convenience.” It is to he
observed, however, that he found it con
venient to get back to England very quickly
when called upon to make a speech.
CURRENT COMMENT.
What Mr. Randall. Will Learn.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
If Mr Samuel .1. Randall is an observant man
he will find during his Georgia tour that the
sentiment of the Atlanta Constitution on the
tariff question is shared by only a feeble
minority of the people of Georgia. It is better
that public men should know the truth, even if
it is sometimes unpleasant.
Kelley's Reception in Kentucky.
From the Philadelphia News (Rep.)
This honor to the great apostle of protection
to American industry carries with it a lesson to
politicians >vho trim their sails to every idle
breeze and are ready to make any port in a
storm instead of keeping a steady course, chart
in hand. Principe ana consistency in its ad
vocacy are seen to count for something. It is a
lesson to be taken to heart.
BRIGHT BITS.
Edith- You ought to read this book of How
ells', ma. It's so real I never saw anything
like it.— Life.
A Minneapolis landlady has been fined $lO
for slapping her hired girl. We M ill make one
of ten to pay that woman's fine.— Puck.
Is the man M’ho is rejiorted to have stolen
Napoleon's remains is still in the business, he
can now steal the remains of the Sherman boom
w ithout creating a sensation.— St. Louis Post*
Dispatch.
If Jim .Jenkins don't stop shooting our win
dows out there'll be trouble. This is no rented
house and the windows cost money. If he
wants to shoot at us he must come inside
Hawesville (Ky.) PI a indealer.
Quest (to landlord)— I say, landlord, have you
got such a thing as an encyclopedia about the
house ?
Landlord—No,sir. we have not; but there is
a gentleman from Boston in the reading room.—
Harper's Bazar.
A Spiritualistic organ contains an article
entitled** Why Spirits Throw Stones." We haven't
read it, but suppose it is because they don't
live in glass houses. Sopie men throw stones
lxvau.se they associate too much with spirits.—
Norristown Herald.
"Now," said a Walnut street Sunday school
teacher, “bur lesson to day is about the battle
between David arid Goliath. Why did they
fight y"
Little Towbead - For the gate receipts and
points. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
Made a hog of himself: Farmer Hayseed
Got a letter from .Johnny to-day. He's a get
tin' along fine, and says he's got into cube
root.
Mrs. Hayseed Thar! T told you that thar
boy would make a hog of hisself. Newark la
de/pendent.
Omaha man-How ridiculous this faith cure
cruze is!
Noted physician—Well, T don't know about
that. I've seen a good many people cured by
faith.
"Eh? Faith in the Lord?"
"No. Faith in me."— Omaha World.
"I'll wager, son in-law, that you have not
brought anything for me back with you from
Moscow."
"You are wrong, mamma, dearest; I
brought you a product of the country—a snuW
infernal machine which I bought for you of a
Nihilist. You have only to ojien it w hen you
art* alone."— Le Minute Comique.
A Sad Chicago Romance.—Chicago Girl—So
you are to be married next month? Y r ou art*
more fortunate than I. My wedding has been
postponed.
obmaha Girl—Why, are you engaged?
"Oh, yes. I wais just ready to send out my
cards when poor, dear George, came in aud said
we would have to wait."
"How awkward! What happened?'*
"He hasn’t got a divorce from his wife yet."
—Omaha W orld.
For wit and reverence the Western offspring
takes high honors aud sets an example for the
platform and pulpit. A 3-year-old Duluthian,
who ha I been forbidden to climb on the table,
broke the maternal command, and after getting
tired finally called, "HYre 1 is. mamma; better
tun) and det me down." Being told that he
would have to remain on his forbidden perch,
he studied the matter over a minute, ana then
hanging his feet over, proceeded to jump, ex
claiming. "Here I doze, mamma. Lord help
ine." — Dulnth Paraqrapher.
Not the Work: "How much will you charge
to go up to my house and black a small—a very
smalt—stove?" be asked of one of the colored
brigade at the market.
"Just as much as [ would to black a large—a
very large stove, sah."
"But it won't take so much blacking nor
rubbing."
"No, sah, but dose fings doan' count. It’s
gif tin' me away from de market an'deprivin'
nu* of de chance fur religious discushun dat I
charge fur." Deti'oit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
It is re port* id that Wilson Barrett and Mary
Anderson have arranged a combination to
travel together next season.
It is reported that the physicians of Dom
Pedro, Emp'ror of Brazil, have decided that he
will never lx* ab\* to resume his public duties.
Dr. (J. 31. Toner, of Washington, emphati
cally denies the story that George Washington's
* '“id does not repose in the tomb at Mount
Vernon.
William Nouthmayd, the oldest elector in Con
necticut, voted at the town election in Middle
town this week. He is 1)8 ye; r, old and has
voted at every election since 1811.
John Xorquay, the Premier of Manitoba, is
the descendant of a Scottish family and is
lorty-six years old. He is heavy and home!}',
bur talks well and is an agreeable person to
meet.
M. Bartholdi has been invited by the Span
ish-Amurieans to build a companion monument
to the Statue of Lilierty for the Isthmus of
Panama. They' desire to dedicate the same to
Bolivar.
Mrs. Marv Allen is the oldest w'oman in New
Hampshire. She is 108 years old, and is an
inmate of the Hillsooro county farm at Wilton,
having outlived all her descendants, relatives
and friends.
Mrs. L. Hull, w'ho resides near Eau Clair,
Wis., recently discovered five half-grown bears
in her sweet potato garden. Taking her hus
band's shotgun, which was heavily'charged with
buck -hot, she fired into the group, killing three
of the cubs.
Sir Salar .Tung, the former lYime Minister of
the great Indian feudal State of Hyderabad, who
is now on a visit to England, bps caused eon
siderable astonishment, both at Balmoral and in
London, by his gigantic stature. He tips the scale
at nineteen stone, is six feet five inches in height
and broad in proportion.
Cardinal Bartolini. who died on Monday
last at Florence, wits ku >wn as the fattest and
most Unwieldy member of the Foe red College.
It was he who campaigned the present Pope's
election, in 1878. displaying at the time an
amount of electoral sagacity and perspicuity
worthy of a modern American politician.
Audubon was buried in Trinity Cemetery, on
Tenth avenue. New Yo. k. A new' street is to be
cut through there, and the naturalist's remains
are to lx* removed to Trinity churchyard, and
a monument to his memory will be erected by
the Academy of Science at tin* head of the new
street, which is to be called Audubon street.
Oscar Wilde’s judgment is sometimes re
markably* good. In assuming the editorship of
an English magazine Wilde insisted upon having
the name changed from the Lady's World to
the Woman's World. This little incident serves
toshow that the erstwhile aposte of estheticisin
is not quite so immbypamby as he used to lx*.
Ex-Secretary Manning lias leased for three
years the old Talbott house, 21) Fifth avenue,
New York. It is a three-story building with a
plain front. The interior has been renovated
and the outside newly painted. The situation
of the house enables Mr. Manning to ride to his
office in a comparatively short time. Mr. Man
ning's house ui Albany has not yet been dis
posed of.
Aimf.k Tranchon, for such was the come
dienne's family name, was buried on Tuesday
in the garden of har country place at Nogent.
on the Marne < >nlv some two score of personal
friend* attended tqp funeral service* At the
church at Auteui I. Among them were Serpette,
the composer: Maurice j;ran. Chizzola, Baron,
the singer, aud Bertrand, the director of the
Varieties. The chief mourners w ere M. Tricou,
Aimee s stepfather, ami a little niece.
Picture of Mrs. W. F. Gladstone at the
Hawarden fete to venerable villagers: “Mrs.
Gladstone, her face wreathed with smiles, and
w ith the air and manner of a young maiden,
took the hands of the oldest of the old women,
who became young again for the occasion,
and the two danced wit n stately step into the
tent, Mr. Gladstone standing by, clapping his
hands loudly' and saying, *Gocxl, my dear!’
while all the company applauded and laughed
heartily."
The London cable letter to the New' York
Tnbutie on Tuesday contained a statement t o
the effect that Mark Twain Is now residing at
BuckenliaM Hall, near Norwich, Eng., spending
his time in yachting, editing his “Library of
Wit and Humor," and entertaining a party of
Dutch friends. The real Mark Twain, who is in
New York, is just now wondering w hether he is
being personated by somebody in Englaud, or
whether some English reporter is merely trying
to inject a little American enterprise into the
news business.
EXTRAORDINARY WORD PLAY.
A Sentence Containing: the Names of
Seventy-Nine Publications.
Prom the New York Tribune.
At a recent meeting of a chib of literary peo
ple in this city, the amusement of the evening
was making puns. A prize of a handsome set
of Chamber's Encyclopaedia was offered to the
one who should get into a single sentence the
greatest number of names of New York publi
cations, the sentence to make perfect sense and
to contain no reference to the publications
named. The members worked diligently all the
evening, and the prize was won by Mrs. Mary
E. Bryan, assistant editor of George Mu tiro's
publications und author of “Maneh,’ “Kildee,”
and other novels. She far outstripped her
competitors and achieved the extraordinary
feat of getting into one harmonious sentence a
play upon the names of seventy-nine New York
uewspaiiers, weekly journals ami magazines.
This bit of word play purports to give an ac
count of a startling message from the world of
the Occult. Here it is:
Times more dreadful than eye has yet been
Witness to or Graphic art portrayed are now at
hand, to Judge from a Telegram that eatne at a
late Hour yesterday through a mystic Messen
ger, more swift of Dispatcn than any Express
train or Ilomiug Pigeon or even Mercury—the
winged Herald of the (Hympus—saying that a
Tribune of inexorable Power had decreed from
a celestial Forum that the Sun should lie
eclipsed, each Star should fall, the World be
wrapped in a Shroud of darkness, the wind,
“that grand old Harper,” be stilled, and Life be
no more; which awful news, carried Post haste
through Town and Country, lias spread like Wild
Fire through Two Hemispheres, and though
Public Opinion is divided as to its Truth, and it
is sneered at by many a Critic, yet many a man
in this Christian Nation has made Chronicle of
the prophesied catastrophe in his Journal dur
ing a Leisure Hour, and it is upon this Saturday
Night, in these Golden Days of a Century
that marks the highest Epoch of civili
zation, the chief or Town Topics, silenc
ing all Tid Bits of Our Society, while it is held
under excited Review by every Citizen at
Church, at Home and Abroad, at the Saloon, the
Bazar, the Theatre and on the Street Hail way
or the Produce Exchange, over his Wine, his
counter or tys Ledger, or with a Fireside Com
panion or Friendly Visitor in his Study, being
discussed alike by the sober Churchman and
Evangelist and the gay member of the Sporting
World, or of the Army or Navy; by the Advo
cate of orthodox faith and the Independent
thinker, that Metropolitan, that Mirror of
Fashion, and the sample Angler and Agricul
turist beside the Forest ami Stream; by the
Machinist,the Builder and the Brewer, as by the
Banker and the Stockholder; by the Cosmopoli
tan forever taking an Outing, or the Rural New
Yorker, content with Cottage and Farm; by the
non-advertising Merchant, who fails, and the
Commercial Advertiser, who succeeds; by the
old and the Young People, even the Little Ones
--in short, by every Progressive American who
is Wide Awake to the interest of the human
Fraternity.
What the Governor Said.
Washington Letter to Philadelphia Record .
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomp
son was formerly Governor of South Carolina,
and might, therefore, be supposed to know more
or less about that famous remark of the Gov
ernor of North Carolina. He said to me the
other day that it was marvelous how far that
remarx had traveled. During his long tour of
inspection among the lighthouses and life-saving
stations on the great lakes this summer he
heard of it in the most unexpected ways and
places. “Why,” he continued, “one day Mr.
Kimball (the Superintendent of the Life Saving
Service) and I went ashore at a little village
to get shaved. We found a barber's shop
and two inquisitive barbers. The one
who shaved me asked questions about my
iourneyings until he found out that I was from
Washington, and then he asked me whether I
had a place in any of the departments. I told
him i ba<l. but did not tell him what it was, and
lie did r ot think it well to pursue! the subject.
He got through before the other barber, and I
told Kimball as I surrendered my chair to an
old couutryman that I would wait for him out
side. No sooner had I gone than my barber
asked Kimball who I was. ‘That was Gov.
Thompson, of South Carolina,” he said, ‘now*
Assistae* Secretary of the Treasury.' With that
i he old farmer rose up in his chair, all lathered
as lie was, and said: “Do you suppose he would
lell me what it was the Governor of North Caro
lina said to him?' ” I asked Gov. Thompson who
those famous Governors were,and just what oc
curred at their famous meetiug. He said that he
did not know them by name, and that the story
was old when lie was born. The tradition was
that the Governor of North Carolina in the good
old days when prohibition was not (freamed of
journeyed, on horseback of course, to make a
formal call on the Governor of South Carolina.
Lie latter had a jug full of liquor in the house
at the time, and for some inexplicable reason
could get no more. When his distinguished
guest arrived he set the jug out on the table and
invited the Governor of North Carolina to make
himself at home. The guest drank copiously,
the host moderately, to preserve at once his so
urness and his liquor. At last he saw* with dis
may that his guest had drank the last drop of
the precious liquor. The guest was too drunk
to know it, but he missed the familiar invita
tion of the host to take another drink. So,
leaning on his elbows, he looked across the ta
ble reproachfully with the melancholy remark:
“Governor, it's a long time between drinks.”
Illogical.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Cosmopolitan.
She stood beside me while I gave an order for
a bonnet;
She shuddered when I said: “And put a bright
bird's wing upon it.”
A member of the Audubon society was she,
Andcutt’nc were her comments upon worldly
folks like me.
She spoke about the helpless birds we wickedly
were banning,
She quoted the statistics, and they really were
alarming.
She said God made his little birds to sing in trees
and skies,
And there was pathos in her speaking, and tears
were in her eyes.
“Oh. surely in this beauteous world, you can
find lovely things
Enough to trim your hats,” she said, ‘‘without
the dear birds’ wings.”
J sat beside her that same day in her own home
at dinner—
Angelic being that she was to entertain a sin
ner!
Her well appointed table groaned beneath the
ample spread,
Course followed appetizing course, and hunger
almost fled.
And then my charming hostess cried: ‘‘Do have
a reed-bird, dear:
For they’re so delicate and sweet at this time of
the year!”
A Physician's Narrow Escape.
Prom the Baltimore Sun.
A physician of Washington had a thrilling ex
perience recently, which will doubtless cause
him to be very cautious about giving ladies a
“lift” while he is driving over the suburban
roads. He has a spirited pair of bays, of which
he is very proud. Almost every evening he may
i>e seen driving at a good rate of speed over the
excellent roods outside the city. A short time
ago while he was going over his customary
route he was accosted by a woman. He was
asked for a short “lift,” and he stopped his
horses and allow ed the woman to take a seat be
side him. He had gone but a short distance
when he discovered that his companion was not
a woman, hut a man in woman s clothes. As
soon as an opportunity offered he dropped his
wuin on the rood, lie told the supposed woman
that he was afraid to got out because the horses
were wild and might take fright and start off
without him und asked his companion toget the
whip for him. As soon as the man got out of the
carriage the physician starttyi his horses at
a breakneck speed down the road He had
gone but a short distance when a man jumped
from behind a hedge and tried to stop the team,
but failed to do so. The physician found a self
acting revolver In the muff his companion
left in the carriage. He thinks he narrowly
escaped being the victim of a well-concocted
plan to rob him.
That Russell Woman.
Prom the San Francisco Post.
“Mydear,” said a Mission street woman to
her husband, “I need sl7 for anew sacuufe.”
“Then you’ll have to need, because I haven’t
got it to spare.”
“I suppose not, you spend so much money in
saloons that your family has to go short.”
“I dont.”
“Oh. yea you do. Mrs. Russell told me last
week that when her husband was out late one
night he confessed t-o her that it was you who
led him astray, and kept him out having one
more.”
“She did, did she? Weil the next time you
have a gossipping match with thatVld crow you
tell her that 1 was at niv office when I got a note
to comedown to the jail ami bail her sweet hus
band out, and that he was locked up for insult
ing respectable women. I had to rush around
two hours to dig up the money, and twenty of
it he owes me now’ for his tine.”
“Why, my darling, is that true? I forgive
you, dear, and you Jreedn’t mind about that *l7.
It’s worth more than that to crow over that
Russell woman with her six-bit silk dress and a
bonnet that would be too giddy for a pickle-fac
tory girl.” I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Pheasants have overnin Willamette Valley.
Cal., and are destroying the grain crop.
A bootjblack at Butte, Mont., not over 12
years old, has something over SBOO to his credit
in one of the city banks.
Many of the principal streets in the central
part of Paris arc having their former stone
pavements changed to wooden ones.
An examination of wharves in San Francisco
recently showed the teredo to have and me damage
that will require two men eight months to
repair.
The right to produce Verdi's latest opera,
“Otello,” in this country, has been secured by
Campanini, and it will be heard here during the
season.
The paper money cf Germany is printed in
the Imperial Printing Office, Berlin, which has
a force of about 900 employes and forty printing
presses.
A curious fact noted by the St. James Gazette
is “that there is hardly a reigning monarch in
Europe whose family is of the same nationality
pur sang as the people governed.”
The defense of a woman on trial in Greens
burg, Ind., for killing her husband is that she
was made crazy by finding in his pockets love
letters written by a widow' signing herself Jen
nie James.
At Balakban, near Baku, Russia, anew petro
leum spring, which rose 150 yards, flooded the
country, impregnating everything. Nobody
ventures to light a tire, for fear the town will go
off like fireworks.
A lighthouse official at Amherst burg, Ont.,
is said to receive pay both from the United
States and Canadian governments, and the
Canadian Marine Department has sent an ex
pert to look into the case.
Thomas Whipple, of Sullivan county, lived
10J years without drinking whisky or riding on
a railroad The other night he went to bed in
very good health for a centenarian, and was
found dead in the morning.
At Mesterton, England, a ferret entered the
bed in which a four months' child was sleeping.
When discovered the infant had one eye torn
out and the flesh of its face lacerated in a dread
ful manner. It died in a short time
Elizabeth Stockton, aged 7 months, put her
head between the spindle rails of a chair her
mother had set, against the bed to keep her from
falling out, and, being caught there by the neck,
was found suffocated to death when her mother
returned.
“Heart disease, due to tight lacing,” was the
cause of death given by the Coroner's jury in
the ease of Bertha Oppenheimer, of Philadel
phia, who fell back with a cry of pain while
laughing at a comedian's joke in a theatre in
that city Thursday afternoon,
Owing to the numerous congresses of physi
sicans and naturalists held this seson in this
county, Austria, Germany, Italy and England,
the Frst International Cremation Congress in
Milan, announced to take place last month, has
been postponed until next April.
A composition by Emperor Dom Pedro 1., of
Brazil, the father of the reigning sovereign, at
present sojourning in Baden Baden, entitled
“Ilymne ae Vlndependance ,” was for the first
time executed there, according to the direction
of Dom Pedro 11., who is himself a talented mu
sician.
At Toronto, lately, a workman was refused
sixty cents in settlement of a claimed balance
due him of one dollar, avowed his intention of
remaining about his employers' door until the
dollar was forthcoming. He attempted to ex
ecute his threat, but was arrested ana fined one
dollar and costs.
Do nine-tenths of the Philadelphia girls smoke
cigarettes? At the recent convention in that
city of the County Woman’s Temperance Union,
Mrs. Kissed, the Superintendent, is reported to
have said that she knows girl members of the
church who smoke, and is informed that nine
tenths of the girls puff the weed.
A Washington bicycler, wheeling through
New Jersey, became unmindful of his position
through a curiosity to decipher the inscription
on a linger board in the distance, and was given
a “header.” Gaining his f et, he walked to the
sign to find it read: “Prepare to meet thy
God.” It had been placed there by members of
the Salvation Army.
Dennis Ferguson, a negro, is known in Chi
cago as the “King of the Bootblacks.” He em
ploys many assistants, his wife acts as cashier,
ana he is getting rich. He has 2,001 regular
customers who buy his tickets, of which 148 are
women, and he knows the faces and names of
the whole 2,000 besides remembering the names
of hundreds of transient customers whom he
sees but seldom.
An evening newspaper in an English town,
determined to beat its rivals on the report of
the great foot race between Hutchins and Gent,
had its account written up beforehand and put
in type, with blanks left for the name of the
winner and other essential details, to be tilled in
later. Instead of the race there was a great riot
on the grounds, but the paper got the news too
late, and came out with its report of the race,
blanks and all
At the foot of the mountain Eggishom, on
the southern slope of the Jungfrau in the can
ton of Wallis, Switzerland. Lake Merelen is lo
cated. Lqst year the people intended to drain
off its water, and use the dry land for agricul
tural purposes. One night a shock of earth
quake was felt in Wallis, and the next morning
the waters of the lake had disappeared, and the
inhabitants may now partition out the ground
given them so very cheap.
To judge from charts in a recent issue of
Mature the fashion in academic Scotland' is
strongly toward medicine and the fine arts as
against law and theology, in which branches
the Scotch have heretofore been famous. Uni
versity training, thus broadened, is more popu
lar than ever. Since 1869 the population of
Scotland has increased 18 per cent., while the
total attendance at the universities has increased
in the same period 9U per cent.
The California mountain lion is usually a cow
ardly creature, but the other day one of them,
unprovoked, jumped from the bushes upon Lee
Downs, as he was coming out of the Humboldt
mountains in Nevada, and after mangling him
severely, fled as suddenly as lie had appeared.
Downs is a strong, large man. and an experi
enced mountaineer: but so sudden was the at
tack, and so severe the pain, that he fainted
away and lay unconscious ror at least an hour.
The pack of stag hounds recently brought
from Colorado, and in use by the Sun River
Range Association of Montana, is reported
doing good service in the wolf-killing business,
for which industry the dogs were purchased.
Six of the hounds recently brought to bay
double their number of wolves and engaged
them in battle, doing to the death all but two of
the sheep and cattle destroyers. Not a few sin
gle combats have’occurred, resulting in uniform
victory for the dog. which has the advantage of
fleetness, pluck and strength. A pair of hounds
can do up a wolf in pretty short order. One
will toss the wolf in the air, and before the as
tonished animal is again on the ground he is
caught nt neck and loin and torn asunder. The
hounds are fed no meat, their diet being eon
lined to corn bread and buttermilk inmost part.
Toe Range Association are satisfied that they
have made a good investment iu these wolf ex
terminators.
On a stretcher in the baggage car of a train
that arrived a few days ago in Providence, R.
1., was an emaciated man, who hail undergone
extraordinary hazard in his efforts to reach
home to die. He was too sick to stand or even
to talk, and directions as to his mother's ad
dress were on the stretcher, on which he had
come all the way from New Brunswick without
a companion. An open letter, of which the fol
lowing is a copy, signed by Rev. I. A. Badneau,
of lacadie, N. 8., expla tied the stranger s sad
plight: “To all those to whom these presents
may come: I wish to certify that the bearer,
Mr. William Brideau, wishes to reach Provi
dence, R. 1., where his mother resides. He is
in an advanced stage of consumption, mid lias
very limited means. I recommend him to the
kind charity anil attention of the conductors
and others with whom he may travel, that he
may reach In safety his place of destination."
Compulsory education is the law all over
Germany. But the ignorant population of the
agricultural districts do not everywhere recog
nize the tieneflts of the compulsion. One of
these non conformists, a woman in the city of
ICulmsee, near the Vistula In Prussia, refused
to let her boy go to school, A policeman was
commissioned by the court to take the refrac
tory child by force. The mother followed close
behind him, and, after he had delivered the boy
and gone away again, she entered the school
room and informed the teacher in the most
abusive language that she did not waul her boy
to attend school, and that he must go home
With her right away. The teacher, having tried
persuasive words in vain, told the woman that
she must leave rlie room. She immediately took
off her heavy shoe and began boat iug t he teacher
with it about the head. Her boy ran to her
assistance, drew a knife and slabbed (he teacher
several times in the back and head. The poor
vnctim of the attack is laid up and seriously,
though not dangerously, ill. Mother and soil
were taken into custody.
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AI7E will have on exhibition the grandest ar
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Every Department is replete with the NEW
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The chief attraction will be our
MIILINfcIU DEPARTMENT.
OUR OWN MILLINER made a special trip to
NevTork 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.
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Dress Goods and Silks
will also be a great feature. This line was se
lected with great care.and every novelty out this
season can be found in our stock. Our Combina
tions especially will be found a thing of beauty.
They will lie tastily displayed for your inspec
tion, and
CLOAKS!
We have a woriC ijf Cloaks, of every style and
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 in the
house is
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We have by far t he largest stock ever brought
to Savannah, and we are going to sell it cheaper
than ever l>ofore.
We extend a cordial invitation to EVERY
ONE, but especially the LADIES, to call and
witness this grand display.
You will find a full corps of experienced and
affable salesmen, ready and happy to serve you.
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