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4 flifHloriungßftiis Morning News Building, Savannah, . Ga. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ""Vlx l M irfkiNO News Is published every day in the year. ami is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 25 I*olllß a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, bu mail , one month, $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 (X) one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, hy mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Tins paper is kept on file and advertising rates may l>e ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. 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. BAKING POWDER. weigTTF^n PURE 1 0?pmcr$ CREAM IAKINg fQWOE^ perfect Its superior excellence proven in millions ot homes for more than a quarter of a century. It is used by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities -is the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful. 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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. OTJR 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 FULL TO OVERFLOWING ! 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. Very Respectfully Yours, A. B. ALTIAYER & GO. L PIANOS. STEAMER TALLAHASSEE TO-DAY: PIANOS! FROM E. ROSENKRANZ, DRESDEN. Just Opened 8 Cases Assorted Toys, AT Sch re i ner’s. CLOTHING. KICRABODT $4 75 AN ALL-WOOL SUIT WITH EXTRA PANTS AND CAP TO MATCH FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 14 YEARS FOR $4 75 101 CONGRESS ST., B. H. LEVY & BRO.