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4 Clt e Wtor nin aIT ctu s Morning News Buiidinr, Savannah, Ga Thursday, October is, isst. Registered at the Pw/ Oflier in Savannah jfliMoiffiKV km It published WM7 darn rhe year. and is .served to subscriber- in the t it//, by newsdealers and carriers, on their ow n a count, at 25 cents a week. $l OU a mouth, S ■> tw for six months and $lO 00 for one year Tbe Mofucrxo News, by viail, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 CO; six months, $3 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail. ix times a week (without Sunday issue*, three months, si? 00: six months. $4 00 one year. S* 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouth*, $1 months. $2 50; one year. $ r 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. J J 00. Tbe Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 ~>* Subscriptions pa> able in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept n hie and advertising rates may be ascertaiuevi at the ofttce of ibe Amen can New-vpaj>er Publishers* Association, 304 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. *'a" Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mirmros—Zerubbabel Lodge No IJ,F A.M : Confederate Veterans' Association; Georgia Hussars; Irish Jasper Greens. Spec!ai. Notices—As toUrews of British Steam ship Harrogateand Norwegian Bark Johann**; A Proclamation of Reward, by Gov. Gordon; Bills against Spanish Steamship Buena Ventura and British Steamship Kate Fawcett; Notice, John F. Schroder. Medic* P. P. Publications —New Boolrs, at Estill s News Depot. Cheap Column* Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous. Auotion Sales--Lumber, by C. H. Dorsett; Important Sale of Damaged -Goods, Handsome Furniture. by J. McLaughlin & Son. ‘ Wasted—Heart Pine Railroad Ties. The New York Nun now leads the Repub lican press —in abusing the President. It has been definitely determined that Mr. Robert Garrett is not suffering from an aberration of the mind. He is only tired. One seldom hears of Foraker nowadays. If, carrying out the policy inaugurated at Philadelphia, he would part his coat-tails invitingly, somebody might be induced to kick him into prominence again. The Maryland Democratic Association of the District of Columbia has adopted reso lutions defying Civil Service Commissioner Oberly. When the election excitement is over its members may find cause for regret at their action. The balloon ascension, the horse and bi cycle races have thus far attracted more attention at the Piedmont fair than the ex hibits. Douttbws the exhibits will be got ten into place sometime before the closing days of the fair. Senator George Frisbie Hoar says that all the ignorant voters in the country are Democratic. Doubtless Mr. Hoar desires to have it understood that all those who are controlled by malice and have no regard for truth are Republicans. Jake Kilrain is dividing the honors of London society with Buffalo Bill. He has just dined with the Mai*quis of Queensberry. The pretty American girls who have mar ried English noblemen were all wealthy and may be said to have paid their way into Vanity Fair, but the bull whacker and slugger are received on their meritc. It is too strange to be true, viz: the story that the bomb which killed the Chicago policemen at the Haymarket riot in Chicago was thrown by one of Pinkerton’s detec tives, and that the condemned Anarchists had no connection whatever with it. It will soon be asserted probably that there were no Anarchists at tfie Haymarket meet ing- It is now said the great strike of coal miners in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania is almost certain to continuo into next year. The estimated money cost to the companies and miners is $4,000,000. What additional cost the miners will pay in privation and suffering cannot be expressed in dollars. Meanwhile, coal is becoming scarce and an advance in price is expected that will cause the poor of the cities also to add to the sum of misery. The interesting newspaper war at Birmingham, Ala, continues. The Chan cellor before whom the case between the Ayr and Herald was brought has de cided that a contract of one newspaper with the Associated Press for exclusive ser vice is void, as against public policy, but as the Associated Press is outside of his juris diction he cannot help tbe paper which his decision favors. So the Herald, and Aye will continue to fight on equal terms. Henry George, in advocating his laud theories the other day, asked if in heaven houses and lands were held in severalty, per haps expecting an answer in the negative. Such an answer, however, would not be worth much. In the first place it would be a guess, and then, if popular reports be cor rect, the system of government in vogue is quite different from our own. This is a re public, and up there is a King. Under such circumstances it is not of much use to com pare the land systems of the two govern • nients. Mr. George might emigrate, how - ever. Asa general thing, one would not think of going to Mexican law courts for a prece dent., but the following remark of a judge on the other side of the Rio Grande, in de ciding a suit for damages against a railroad, might be remembered sometimes to the furtherance of justice on this side of the river. After deciding against the claimant, he said: “Those ties over there were intend ed to have rails on, and the raiLs were in tended to carry trains. If you will agree to keep away from the track, I will see to it that the train don’t chase you about the fields.” An Ohio correspondent of a New York paper, in describing the recent trouble at Yellow Springs on account of the attempt to enforce co-education of negro and white children, says the community was a famous stronghold of the Abolitionists before 18tll, and was one of the most important stations on the “underground railroad.” One would naturally think that in a community with such a history negro children would be wel comed in the schools. Another statement made by the write!*, however, shows the cause of the apparent inconsistency of the people of Yellow Springs. He says: “Greon county has relatively one of the largest ne gro populations of any district in the North ern States.” Savannah’s Need. I Savannah shows less enterprise in the j matter of railroad building than any other important town in the State. While other | towns are projecting new roods for the pur | pose of extending their trade and holding that which they already have, .Savannah : appears to be satisfied to wait for those who | have no interest in her prosperity to build J roods for her benefit. This is not a wise thing for her to do, because the chances are that while she is waiting roads will be built j in other parts of the State which will draw her trade away from her. If our merchants will give a little of their time to the study of the map of the State ■ they will be able to discover where they can use some of their surplus money to good ad vantage in building roads. That there is plenty of money here that is not profitably invested, and which could he obtained for any promising railroad enterprise if the right sort of an effort were made, there is 110 doubt. If leading business men were to act harmoniously and energetically they could not only obtain money for building rail roads that would help Savannah immensely, but also for other enterprises which would afford employment for the city’s increasing population. The Savannah, Dublin and Western, it is reported, is being pushed aloug quite rapidly. The amount of work said to be done upon it is sufficient to justify the belief that it is going to be built. A little assistance offered to it now might insure its early completion. It is not asking for help, but a show of con fidence in it by this city might aid it greatly in disposing of its securities. When it is built it will greatly increase the volume of our trade. It runs through a country which is capable of great development, and which will at once furnish immense quantities of lumber and naval stores. It will also pre vent trade from being drawn away from us by roads that are now either being built or are projected. A projected road that Savannah is more interested in than any other, however, is the Savannah and Western. The char ter of it is virtually controlled by Savannah men. It should be built at once. It would do Savannah an immense amount of good—more, perhaps, than any other road that could be built. It has splendid possi bilities, and might eventually become a great trunk line. If the projectors of it will make an earnest effort to build it there is every reason to believe that they can get, here in this city, all the help they need. It is clear to anyone who observes care fully what is being done in the State, in the way of railroad building, that Savannah cannot afford to permit railroads to be built all around her without doing something in railroad building hei-self. The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, for instance, is being pushed ahead vigorously. A cargo of rails arrived at Brunswick a few days ago for it. This cargo will be sufficient for twenty-three miles of track. Other cargoes are now on the way, and it is confidently expected that by May next the road will be in running order from Macon to Valdosta. From Valdosta it will run to Palatka, and Chief Engineer Wells says that there are so few difficulties on that part of the line to be overcome that he will be able to build it at a compara tively small cost. The building of this road from Macon into Central Florida, connect ing there with the system of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, will have a very marked effect upon the present transportation lines in South Georgia and Florida. Of course it will not bring trade to this city. It will tend to draw it away. Our merchants cannot afford to see rail roads built all around their city, and through the territory whose trade they have always controlled, without making an effort to protect their interests. Savannah needs more railroads, and she ought to be prepar ing to build them at once. Watching the Cholera. Dr. Edward O. Shakespeare, of Philadel phia, who was sent to Europe to investigate the cholera scourged districts, has been making some experiments with cholera germs obtained from the cholera infected immigrants on Swinburne and Hoffman Islands in New York harbor, and reports that they developed exactly as they do in the cholera districts of Southern Europe. The impression is getting abroad in New York that there has been a good deal of carelessness in the management of the quar antined immigrants on Swinburne and Hoffman Islands. It is reported that the guards employed to prevent any one from landing on or leaving the islands except those authorized to do so are not sufficient in num ber to perform their duty satisfactorily. It is also said that for two weeks the islands were virtually unguarded, and that boats carrying provisions and vegetables lauded at their wharves. If these reports are true they show a condition of affairs that is rather alarming to say the least of it. If a few eases of cholera should appear in New York next summer the whole country and the greater part of the civilized world would quaran tine against her. Her commerce would be checked mid her business come to a stand still. Carelessness now in dealing with the cholera immigrants may be the cause of a calamity, the extent of which it is im possible to foresee. The New Y’ork Tribune is printing a great many letters, written iu response to a circular sent out by it, with the purpose of finding out the true sentiment of the Grand Army of the Republic relative to pensions. The following extract from a letter written from Tarkio, Mo., shows the feeling enter tained by the more violent partisans among Grand Army men: “The worst in suit of this administration is the last (Cleve land's letter). Dues the fool not know (for fool or coward lie must In*) that there is no assassin among the old guard to-day? We know that the veterans are to-day the guard of honor and law. The nation’s President is our President. We will vote him to his deserved perdition, but would shield Ins effeminate body and imbecile bruin from even an excessive caress of a Mugwump.” It would be hard for even the most besotted partisan to find justification in Mr. Cleve land’s let ter declining to visit St. Louis any excuse for the insult put upon him by the, publication of such a letter as the one from which this extract is taken. When a Labor orator, in addressing an audience of workingmen in Brooklyn, ap plied very insulting terms to Mayor Hewitt he found lie iiad made a mistake. There were protests from all parts of the hall, and tho speaker was obliged to modify his re marks. These workihgmen perhaps differed from Mayor Hewitt iii politics, and it is to their honor that they refused to allow an absent man to be slandered. They knew he was not the villain he was described to be, aud said so. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1887. Cotton Fires. The number of ilres that has occurred in ships at this port, this season, loaded wi:h cotton is sufficiently large to cause consid erable anxiety among those interested in the cotton business. Three largo cargoes have been greatly damaged by iires within the last two weeks, and the cotton season has only fairly begun. Of course it doesn't follow that other fires will occur before the season is over, but it is certainly time that a most thorough and vigorous investigation of the fires was made with the view of dis covering if possible the cause of them. If facts are discovered which admit of the conclusion that they are the result of care lessness then more rigid regulations for pro tection against fire must be made and en forced. If any evidence pointing to crime is found, then careful search for the crimi nals should be made. It is apparent that something should be done, because, if these fires continue, the cotton business of the l>ort will be paralyzed. It will not do to admit that the causes of the fires cannot be discovered and that there is, therefore, no use to attempt to discover them. They may all result from the same cause or from different causes, and a careful inquiry may lead to the adoption of precau tions that will put a stop to them, or at least lessen the number of them. On Tuesday there were three cotton fires, one of which—that on Gordon’s wharf—was certainly due to carelessness. It was caused by a match that had been dropped, and it might have destroyed a large amount of property if it had not been promptly smoth ered. Only a few days ago a fire was dis covered in some loose cotton in front of an office of one of the cotton factors. Some one had carelessly thrown a lighted cigar stump upon it. If there is carelessness in one place, why may there not be careless ness in another i Those engaged in the handling of cotton' should not be permitted to carry matches while at work. Doubtless there are regulations providing all kinds of precau tions, but are they strictly enforced? When regulations are made they are generally enforced for a time, and then are allowed to fall into disuse. Vigilance must be con tinuous from the beginning of the cotton season to the end of it if protection against cotton fires is to be secured. Drawing Comparisons. The Republican papers are finding a great deal of satisfaction apparently in compar ing the speeches of Mr. Blaine, delivered on his tour through the country during the last Presidential campaign, with those which Mr. Cleveland is now delivering. They claim that Mr. Blaine’s speeches showed him to be a man of brains, while those of Mr. Cleveland afford convincing proof of his medioority. Thi sort of talk not only indicates a great lack of respect for the truth, but a degree of maliciousness that any respectable jour nal ought to be ashamed of. The fact that a mau is not a fluent public speaker is no indication that he is not a man of. ability. No Republican newspaper would assert that Gen. Grant was not a man of brains, and yet he never showed any capacity as a speechmaker. In fact, it was not until the latter part of his political career that he ever attempted to make more than a few commonplace remarks when called upon for a speech. It is true that Mr. Rl&ine is a brilliant public speaker, and that his speeches, when ho was traveling through the West in 1884, were fresh and bright, but it must not be forgotten that he had a great variety of subjects to talk about, and that each sub ject was sufficient for a good speech. It wouldn’t be in good taste for Mr. Cleveland to discuss political questions. He is not on a political mission, and it would not be wise for him to make political speeches. He is virtually confined to common place subjects, and it is impossible for him, therefore, to make an oratorical display even if be were capable of doing so. He is getting along very well, and the people are satisfied with his speeches. They are not so anxious to hear him talk as they are to shake hands with him. To shake hands with a thoroughly honest President is something to remember and be proud of. As for Mr. Cleveland’s ability, the success of his administration proves that he is not wanting in that respect. A cablegram reports that the cancerous growth in the throat of the Crown Prince of Germany, which has several times been re moved by cauterization, has reappeared with greater virulence than ever, and that the Prince’s strength lias lieen so exhausted that he cannot stand another course of caus tic applications. It now seems probable that he will die before his aged father, the Emperor. Such an event would be ominous of troublous times in Eurojie, the heir to the German throne, so soon to be vacant, would then be a young mau whose tastes are all military, and who is said to be anxious to udd to the fame gained by Ger man arms in the last three ware. It is to be hoped, for this reason if for no other, that the accounts of the illness of the peace loving Crown Prince have been exaggerated. At midnight Sunday night a large force of hands began to put Gainesville. Fla.. iu good sanitary condition. Energy and promptness could not have been displayed in a better direction, but it would have been wiser by previous effort to have niude such headlong haste unneccessary. Florida towns, on account of the proximity of Cuba, cannot be too careful of thtir sani tary condition. The opinion seems to be general among those best qualified to judge, that, there is no danger whatever of tho yellow fever spreading from Tampa to other Florida cities. The precautions taken against such a calamity are very thorough. The New York courts have upset the ac tion of John J. O’Brien, Chief Supervisor of Elections, iu swearing in George election inspectors, and it looks like the United Laisir party will lie unrepresented in the (silling places. Every party which lias cast .■>o,ooo votes is entitled under the law to an inspector at each polling place, hut iu this case it has been impossible to determine by what party the fiS,OOO votes for George when he ran for Mayor were cost. They are claimed by the United Labor party, the Progressive Labor party and the Irving Hall faction of Democrats. The first hauled probably had the best claim to them. A report based upon an inspection of 1,214 factories in 125 different branches of work in Russia states that the hours of labor there vary from six to twenty, and that in one or two sjieclal instances workmen were compelled to labor twenty-four hours unin terruptedly. These differences are purely ar bitrary and not controlled by the kind of work. In the same district in the same sort of work there is sometimes a difference of eleven hours in tne amount of work re -1 quired in a day in the different factories. CURRENT COMMENT. The Mugwump Way of Looking at It, From the .\>ic York Timer 1 Muff.) The appointment of (ionium’s tools in Mary land is wholly inconsistent with the avowed purposes and pener and policy of the President, and Mr. Gorman do**s the President the greatest possible harm in identifying him with action that is in every waj discreditable anil nufortu nate. The Nobleman’s Coming Rival. From the Louisville Courier-Journal iflem.) When the time comes for the American girl to choose between a veteran 100 years old, with n fnt jiensiou, and a nobleman from Europe, no doubt shew ill marry the veteran The Ameri can girl is bound to learn, after awhile, that a United States pension is a much surer thing than the income of a count. The Proper Way to Get Rid of the Surplus. From the Keic York World (Dem.) With ‘‘an admitted surplus of $45,000,000 and a teal surplus of $300,000,000 more,” a war tariff journal sees no reason why the Secretary of the Treasury should not exercise to the full est extent his power to buy bonds. The people who pay the unnecessary and unjust taxes that produce this surplus see every reason why Con gress should “straightway” stop the excess by reducing the taxes. A Mistaken Conclusion. From the New York Tribune (Rep.) There are not wanting signs that intiuential Democratic organ-, anticipating the defeat of their party in this State, will make it the occa sion for a resolute attack on the President. But when they prove that the people are disgusted with him, what other and better candidate can they offer? The truth is that voters are more disgusted with the President's party than with the President himself. BRIGHT BITS. “Do you think that we literary men are over worked?” asked a writer during a conversation at a dinner table? T don’t think so,” someone replied. “It's the public that is overworked. The readers are the ones that need rest.” —Arknnsaw Traveler. Two Paris critics were discussing a young actress who had recently made her debut. "What do you think of her?” asked one. “She has very little talent, but lots of dog.” “Why, I thought she took a jirize at the con servatory?’’ "No, it was at the dog show ßoston Her ald. Police Jruor.—Officer, you say this man is a notorious Anarchist ? "Yes, your honor. He's as bad as Herr Most.” “Where did you urrest him?” “I caught him in the act of carrying away several bars of soap from a grocery.” “And yet you swore he was an Anarchist? Officer, you are under arrest for perjury.”— Lincoln Journal. Omaha Dame—l see you preferred being an old man's darling to a young man’s slave. Young widow—Yes; my husband was very kind to the day of his death. “He left you, I understand, over $5,000,000.” “Yes.” “What do you intend to do with yourself now, dear?” "Well, I'm thinking of becoming a young man's slave.” —Omaha World. Omaha Youth—Yes, 1 guess my sister will go to church with you if you ask her. You are both Episcopalians, I believe. New York Youth Kr—no, I nevah attend that church any more, igo to the Presbyterian. “Well, well: What caused the change in you?” “The—er—Presbyterians do their praying standing up, and that keeps a fellah’s Sunday trousers from bagging at the knees, don’t y'e know.” —Omaha World. \ Edward (flshingly)—l think of going to the Cannibal Islands as a missionary, Cicely, but you have only to say one little word to bid me stay, darling. Cicely (much interested in church affairs)— And did the horrid things eat the last mission ary, Edward? Edward (eagerly)—Yes, Cicely, yes, they left nothing but the bones. Cicely—Oh how exciting? Yes, I think you had better go, Edward.— Harper's Bazar. A cadaverous looking man Invaded tbe count ing room of a busy merchant on Madison Etreet yesterday morning and handed him a card on which was written: “I am deaf and dumb, please buy a box of matches.” The merchant shook his head and the peddler turned to go. His look of deep dejection touched the heart of the business man and he impulsively called after him: “Hold on! I’ll buy a box.” The deaf and dumb man did not respond. Not he. He was an artist in his particular line. He merely happened in again the afternoon of the same day and sold the penitent merchant two dozen boxes.—Chicago Tribune. Two ok A Kind.—A rather sharp-looking gen tleman sat opposite to a roughly-dressed man on an elevated car. The roughly dressed man was remarkable for his bow legs. “My friend, ’ said the gentleman, “parilen my curiosity, but bow did you acquire such a peculiar curve in your legs?” “When I was a boy, I went in swimming one day. When I came out. I laid down on the grass to dry. I fell asleep, and when I woke up the sun had warped my legs,” replied the man with the peculiar legs. “My friend,” said the gentleman, “allow me to take you by the hand. We are two of a kind. 1 prepare the affidavits to the circulation of a certain New York daily paper.”— Texas Siftings. PERSONAL. Kaiser Wilhelm is enjoying excellent health. Ex-Senator Dorsey has never allowed a razor to touch bis face. Mrs. Tyler, widow of the President, went shopping in New Y'ork Tuesday. Ex-Gov. St. John is talking prohibition in California. He has now become a public lec turer of the third class. Miss Frances E. Willard wants all temper ance women iu the world to observe Nov. 13 as “a day of special prayer for the cause.” Alexander R. Webb, of St. Louis, the newly appointed Consul to Manila, is assistant city editor of the Republican. He was bora at Hud son, N. Y. Mrs. Charles Coye. of Washington, who was one of the party traveling in Europe with David Dudley Field, died on the steamship WerraSept. 38, and was buried at sea. Bell, of telephone fame, has conveyed his very large interests iu his patent to his wife, re taiuing for himself but one share of the stock. This he invests solely in cigars. The Duchess of Roxburghe, who is a most ex pert angler, lauded three fine salmon ill one morning's fishing near her Scotch estate, the average weight icing thirteen pounds. Edmund Sylvester, the founder of Seattle, W TANARUS, and the oldest member of the Masonic Order west of the Mississippi, died in Seattle last, week at the advanced age of 93 years. Gen. Paine is on the wrong side of 50, but he impresses nearly every one as a man of about 45 years, and scarcely iu his prime, lie is a Harvard man, graduating in the class of 53. Thomas A. Edison is an inveterate pipe smoker. It is said that lie Ims invented anew kind of pipe which will make a sensation in tue world of puffers. There is no electricity aliout it. Mrs. Gov. Foraker is a daughter of Hezekiah Bundy, an ex-Congressman and an old and re spected citizen of Ohio. She is 37years old, and is said to he as diplomatic in political matters as was Mrs. Gen. i.ogan a few years ago. Miss Isabelle Frances Morris, who has a dowry of sl.o<X>,0 | M, part of the profits of her father out of the Louisiana lottery, is to be mar ried to-day at Westchester, N. Y., to Mr. Thur low Weed Barnes, a grandson of tbe late Thur low Weed. Gov. Hill ami a party of prominent politi cians attended a base ball match at New burg the other day, but were almost unuoticed amid the superior attractions of the game, not a cheer being raised. A Governor is a very insignificant personage when stacked up against an umpire. James ('. Flood, the bonanza millionaire, has been ill bad health for months. His disease, combined with great anxiety over the wheat ■deal” that lias ended so disastrously for him self and Mackey*, have reduced his strength, ami his physicians have recommended him to go to Carlsbad. It is expected that he will soon sci out on his journey. Mr. Flood Is bO years of age. Gen. Henry Shaw Bnioos. who died in Pitts field, Mass., last Thursday, was a graduate of Harvard College, and a lawyer by profession. He entered the army os captain of the Allen Guard of Massachusetts, aud took part iu many engagements, being luully wounded at Fair i laks. He was made a brigadier-general in 1842. Since tbe war he had been Auditor of State, Dis trict Judge. amlVustom House Appraiser When Marie Wainwright went on the stage a few years ago her family -staid old Pennsylva nians threatened her w ith ostracism. She per severed and her relatives, except a favorite brother, completely ignored her. Now the old folks have relented and are w illing to forget Miss Wamwrigiit's disobedience, as they term it. She is happily married to Louis James, aud evinces no haste for a family reconciliation. Curious Grave-Robbin e in France. From the London Sexes. Paul Vtlleneuve is a day laborer aiul sexton in t ie village of Artigues, near Monerabeuu, on tii ■ river Boise, in Gascogne, France, one day a lady from a ncighl>oring village, staying at. Artigucs, was .struck dumb with astonishment when she perceived Villeneuve passing her dressed in a knitted vest of the exact pattern and color of that vest in which she had buried her husband two years before, the fashion of the region being to bury the dead in a complete suit >t clothes. She followed Villeneuve and recog nized on the back of his vest the exact mark she had years before stitched with her own hands in all her husband s wardrobe She im mediately reported to the maire. who issued a search warrant. Proceeding to Villeneuve’s house the officers found all the drawers, cup boards and closets filled with kerchiefs, rags, neckcloths, sheets and shrouds, shirts, drosses, vests, pants, and other articles used in dressing the (bad. liverything was mended, brushed, washed and from*l. with tue utmost care, prov ing Villeneuve's wife to be a most commenaable housekeeper. Nevertheless the court sent both of these grave-robbers to the penitentiary for five years. The Madrigal. From the Century. Once, as I walked in the woodlands green, 1 chanced on Love where he sat alone Catching the moles of the air, and sheen From sunrays broken and downward thrown. “Wliat are you doing, Love!” quoth I; For Love anil I have been comrades true. And I speak him freely when none are nigh, And he answers me as he might not you. “I am making a madrigal.” he said; "i need but one rhyme to close it well." And. lo: it seeiued that a spider's thread Glanced in the light and lie caught its spell. Wonderful, beautiful, rare and sweet It lay there, perfect, upon his hand; It throbbed with a murmur, soft, complete, I could not describe nor understand. \ “And how will you send it, Love?” quoth I; Ah. how he smiled! but lie said no word; But he beckoned me, and I followed, shy, | jAnd we came on a poet all unheard. There os he dreamed, did Love liestow The little song in hi3 car content: And fled so quickly that none might know Where it was written and how it was sent. Samuil Willoughby Duffibld. A Bad Man With a Bowie. From the New York Sun. "I’m from Californy, 1 am; ye hyar me’ Tin from the elope. I kin flte my heft in wildcats. 1 perfer wildcats; but now I want to cat up a dude. Fetch me a dude until I sliver him. I own this end of this blank, blank town just now. I’m takin 1 this hull sidewalk; d’y’hyar me: this hull sidewalk. I want it all. 1 might need it. The fust blankety dude who puts nis fut on this walk ‘s my meat. It was a western gentleman favoring the metropolis with a passing call. He stood in front of the World office a little before 8 o'clock last evening, and held at bay a swarm of alarmed looking newsboys. The bigger the crowd got the more he slashed around, making an ever-widening circle about him as ho brand ished a long, ugly-looking knife and extended a general invitation to the masses to come and have their livers carved. “D'ye see me?” he went on. “D'ye hear me? Wildcats is iny regular vitties. I own this end of the town. This hyar sidewalk's my private property. I take it because I want it. Don't none uf ye set a foot ou it. I own it. I own the hull gulch. Wildcats is—” Just then he caught sight on the outskirts of the crowd of a policeman's buttons moving calmly down on him. “Good evenin',” he said to the assembly. “You may hev your d— town now. I'm through with it.” His knife disappeared in a twinkling, and in another moment he was around the corner in Beekman street, as mild and law-abiding citi zen as any who were abroad. Writing: by Electricity. From the Pall Mall Gazette. One of the most beautiful of modem inven tions it remains to be seen whether it is as use ful as it is beautiful —the instrument devised by Mr. John Robertson, for the transmission o*f writing by electricity, may now* lie seen at work at the American exhibition. Out of the top of a box, which is about the size of an ordinary dispatch box, protrudes what has the appear ance of a stylographie pen. This, how ever, is not a pen, but the handle of the “transmitter,” and its lower eud is fixed to a light brass per pendicular liar Any motion given by the hand —you hold it just like a pen—to the handle of the transmitter is communicated by this bar to two series of carbon disks contained within the box, and, after various adventures among mag nets, etc., is carried again to the top of the box, where it is reproduced exactly by a small ink holding pen, w hose point rests on a white paper tape. A clockwork apparatus pulls this tape along at a gentle pace; and after a little prac tice you find that it is quite easy to move the handle of the transmitter so that the pen shall write legibly on the moving tape. Now, whatever is written on the tape before you is written simultaneously a mile off, or it may be fifty miles off. on a similar tape, by a similar instrument at the other end of the wire. The instrument is very compact, and apparently efficient; and, as it is quite silent, there seems to be no reason why a reporter sitting in the House of Commons should not straightway write off his report of a debate to be instanta neously read off in Printing House Square or Northumberland street . A name will be w anted for his machine. Perhaps the “wire writer” w ill do. Her Ambition Realized. Boston Letter to the Providence Journal. A city missionary related this interesting, and not wholly uninst ruotive. tale ill connection with his labors among the destitute. The incident occurred last winter, but the moral is of a con tinued application that keeps it fresh. He found, in the course of his examination of a certain district, a woman who was not only wretchedly destitute, but seriously ill besides. She seemed a very decent and uot undeserving person, an impression which accorded with the reputation given her by her neighbors, and the missionary interested himself in her behalf, calling to nis aid a couple of ladies who were members of the associated charities. Every thing needful for the comfort of the w oman was done. Her room was kept in order, she was provided with a nurse, the young ladies brought her delicacies, and when at last the patient was thoroughly convalescent they presented her with $5 as a help toward starting her once more on the way of earning her ow n living. A day or two later the missionary called and was pleasantly received by the jo >r woman, who evinced due gratitude for ail the kindness she had received. Then with an overflowing self-satisfaction and an nbs< l .itely child like de lig.it the pauper produced from a closet anew and remarkably gay bonnet. “There,” she said, beaming with satisfaction, “don't you think that is pretty? All my life I've wanted a bonnet with a feather in it, and when 1 got that $5 all at once, I said to myself that now was my chance to have one. The man asked $7 for it, but I told him s.“> was all I had and he'd have to let me have it for that; and true as you're alive he did.” The missionary looked at the bonnet, regarded the woman, opened liis lips, and wisely recog nizing the futility Of remonstrance, closed them again. The story i* literally true, and very likely could le matched by any city visitor of long experience. Mary Will Get Along:. From the New York Graphic. The steerage passengers of the City of Rome were landed at Custle < warden. As they fled past the registering clerk a rory cheeked, buxom lass of 18 years halted before John Nigiutseh. and, in reply to the usual query as to her name, answered: “Mary Egan, sor.” “Where are you from, Mary?” “Queenstown, sor.” “Where are you going?” “Sure. I don’t kno v. sor. I've been w orking five years for one family in Queenstown for four pun an' me tioord, sor, an' sure I couldn't save enough to buy docent clothes an' 1 just thought I'd try me luck in America. I had tuppence and the clothes 1 stood upih, but 1 kissed me brother Tim, who runs a donkey cart from the docks to the boarding house an' went out in the little boat to the steamer with the rest. As 1 went on the deck I waved my hand to Tim. who with theonld donkey was watching nit* from the dock and cried out, 'Good-live, ouid Ireland.' The donkey st etched out his nose toward me, and Tim waved bis hand, an' I knew they were both wishin’me good luck. The officer on the ship asked me for my ticket, an' 1 showed him my tuppence an* tould him what I wanted to do, nii’ snrehetuk me down vvid the rest of cm', an' they treated me just as well as any on** who paid their passage. I had a good bed an' plenty to ♦ it an' everybody was rale kind to me, and here's my tuppence yet, sor.” “But how do you expect to live over here?” asked Nigiutseh. “Sure, an h docent girl who is willing an'can work ougnt to live nsy enough in America, sor. I'm going to get a situation, sor.” “ltow much money does your brother Tim make with bis donkey cart?” asked Niglutscb. •‘Sure, sometimes one shilling an’ sometimes two or throe, sor. The most he ever made in one day was five shillings. s* >v. an' when he's paid for the donkey's living an' bis own he's nothing left, sor.” Mary was turned over t-o Matron Boyle of the Employment Bureau, who interested herself at once in finding her a situation. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are forty Jewish millionaires in New York city. Joel Schlitz, of Stroudsburg, Pa., a con stable who is 50 years of age, recently walked fifteen miles to serve a summons. Black River Falls, \\ is., has a winter-green oil distillery. The owner pays IHjC. a pound for the vines and receives $2 a pound for the oil. It is estimated that the presses of the Eng lish, French and German nationalities turn out nearly 50.000 distinct works every year. Anew supply of natural gas has been found in Western Pennsylvania 150 feet below the ex isting source of supply. The pressure is 000 pounds. Young Edwin Gould, the second son of the great financier, has just turned 21, and been elected a director of the Western Union Tele graph Company. The names of thirty-six widows of soldiers who served in the revolutionary war are still on the rolls of the Pension Office. The average age of the pensioners is 82V4 years. An 18 year-old youth of Axtell, Kan., has seventeen nephews and nieces, and a boy of 11 is uncle to twenty seven persons, all living. Two have died, making the number twenty-nine. Near Coal Canyon, Cal., is a mammoth fig tree, measuring 102 inches in circumference four feet from the ground, it has four immense branches, each of which exceeds 50 inches in circumference. A young woman of Michigan has sued her re calcitrant lover for $8,000—52,000 for damages to her heart and SI,OOO for her bridal trousseau. Affections are seen to be worth just twice as much as clothes. The Lloinia volcano in Araucania, in Chili, has recently been in eruption. The lava ami falling rocks and the fear that the melted snow’ would cause a landslide, compelled the picket stationed there to move off about two leagues. Stella Davis, a young woman living at Fort Saunders, W. TANARUS., appropriated a horse, saddle, and wedding dress and started out to see the country last week. She reached lAramie in time to be welcomed and cared for by the Sheriff. At West Point there is a dog which belongs to the band, and every afternoon at dress parade the dog stations himself near the cannon which is fired at sunset. The dog watches intently for the discharge, and then starts down the hid to look for the ball. This he has done for yeais. The Prefect of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has issued a decree imposing a line of from Si to S2O upon all persons using the telephones for the purpose of sending chaffing or immoral messages. This decree was rendered necessary by messages of an improper character being frequently sent through the wires. There is a rumor in the American colony in Paris-that Count and Countess Telfener have separated. Countess Telfener is the young'r sister of Mrs. Mackay, and on her marriage with the Count she received a handsome dowry from her brother in law, Mr. Mackay. The par ties have not been living together for some time past. The Garrison cemetery of the old Brit ish fort at Crown Point, N. Y., unused since the days of the French and Indian wars, bas i>een gradually denuded of its tombstones by predatory farm ers until but two remain. Gen. John Hammond, of Crown Point, has recently had these two removed to the village park, where they can receive the care which their historical interest merits. Mrs. Gen. Grant, the New York World says, has been quietly making ai rangements to dis pose of her house on Sixty-sixth street. It is a valuable property, but she w ishes to have its value in some form where she can divide it among her sons and give them the benefit of it. One of her projects m this direct to ex change the property for three less v.mtable ones, which her sons might occupy. New Haven was invaded by a flock of birds the other evening from 0 to 11 o'clock. Thrushes, linnets, catbirds, and even humming birds thronged about the electric lights, and many of them entered stores aud dwellings and were caught. The onlv explanation offered was that flocks of these birds flying southward were attracted by the bright electric lights, and fool ishly stuped in their long journey. A strange negro appeared in New Haven on Monday, and announced himself as the steward of George Gould's yacht. He said the yacht was in that port, with Mr. Gould. Mrs. Gould, the baby, and a party on board, including “Mr. Macy, the drv goods man of Fourteenth street, and Jay Gould's nephew Timothy.'' all bound for Havana. The negro ordered a large bill of supplies to be sent aboard, and then disap peared. Agitation for a revolution in the manner of addressing mail matter is going on in Chicago. The new plan provides for the reverse of the present order of addressing- instead of the person's name coming first that of the country, followed by the State, then city and street, and last the person's name. The Chicago Tribune has interviewed many post office attaches on the scheme, and. while several approve of it on the score that it would expedite in casing, others pronounce it worthless. Anew marriage law went into effect in Michigan last Wednesday which is already causing trouble. It provides that licenses must be issued in the county where one of the parties resides. This prevents elopers from getting married in the State. Even foreigners are affected, for a ('anadian couple who came to Detroit to l>e wedded were refused a license. In vain the groom protested that the law applied onlv to residents of the State. The clerk was obdurate, and the couple bad to recross the line. John Buckley of Meriden. C'onn., caught a snapping turtle and took it t< the central tele phone office, where hejpurposed killing it with electricity. He let the turtle snap at one end of the wire, put another wire beneath its shell, and turned on the “full strength of *he current. Heavers that he “heard the current go through it, making a noise i ke a small planing machine, and he left the turtle for dead. The next morning he found th<* turtle walking around and snapping at wires, as though it wanted another taste of the current. Sheridan Powers was out hunting one day last week in the St. Francis river bottoms, near Wappapello, Mo., when his attention was drawn toward the river by a.strange aud pecu liar noise. Un arriving on the banks of the river lie disco-. - ered two large turtles fighting in shallow wan r a few yards from the bank. He watched the battle a few minutes, aud until the larger turtle drove his antagonist from the field, when he leveled his fowling piece on the remaining out* and shot him through the head. When taken to town and weighed his turtieship pulled the beam at 120 pounds. The process of welding invented by Mr. De Benardoz. of Russia, is now applied industrially by the Society for the Electrical Working of Metals. The pieces to be welded are placed upon a cast Iron plate supported by an insulated table and connected with the negative pole of a source of electricity. The positive pole com municates with an electric carbon inserted in an insulating handle. On drawing the point of the carbon along the edges of the metal to be welded the operator clones the circuit. He has then merely to raise the point slightly to pro duce a voltaic arc whose high temperature melts the two pieces of metal and causes them to unite. Col. Coxf. of North Carolina, has the most comprehensive and impartial war record of any man in the country. He began service in the Southern army; then, to protect his inheritance, he gained the consent of the state authorities to procure a substitute and visit Pennsylvania. Arrived there, he was soon drafted Into the Union army, but again procuring a substitute, ami, letting the two hired patriots fight it out between them, lie went to Huropu, His record is thus succinctly summed up by a correspond ent of the Boston Herald: "He fought on both sides, simultaneously, and yet at the same time was in Europe. He was killed in one army wounded in the other, and yet never received a battle scar." Friday last, in New York city, while William A. Sandberg and his wife were standing in front of their store on Sixth avenue, the wife resting her arm on an iron railing surrounded l.y sharp spear-like points, which guard the basement steps, they heard a cry in the air and the next instant a dark object was seen descending. The object was Eddie Bingham, 7 years old. lie fell heavily upon the woman s arm and rebounded into Mr Sandberg's embrace. Mrs. Sandberg was knocked down by the falling buy and had her sir,u der dislocated, while her arm was badly bruised by the. railing points. The only 1 injury the hoy received was a gash on otic 1 cheek, received by coming in contact with the raihng ot the fire escape at the . cm,l story. He had fallen through tt.e man-hole in the (lie escape at the third story, while living a kite ' If Mrs. Sandberg, says the Ne.v York H orM. had not been there to break the lait's fall he would certainly have been impaled on the iron I spears. \ |he bpy seems to baur a charmed life I Ah,m. three years ago his brother was chop ping wood, when he, in stooping to pick up a toy, received the full force of Hie blow on his head, the a* remaining fast in the child's skull from which it was with di/ticutty removed BAKIXG POWDER. weig/Tt^n PURE CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more flmn a quarter of a century. It is useil by the United States Government. 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In this department yoa 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. OUR, Dress Goods and Silts will also be a great feature. This line was se lected with great care.and every novelt y out this season can he found iu our stock. Our Combina tions especially will lie found a thing of beauty. They will be tastily displayed for your inspec tion, and CLOAKS! We have a world of Cloaks, of every style 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 the largest stock ever brought to Savannah, ami we are going to sell it cheaper than ever before. We extend a cordial invitation to EVERY ONE, but especially the LADIES, to call and witness this grand display. 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