The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 15, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 CkiHorningllctos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. SATURDAY, OCTOBER la, IMS7. Register'd of the Post Office in Savannah. *~Th* Morkino Vftw is published every day in the rear, and i rerved to subscribers ?. Lhe city, tv newsdealers and carriers, on their own* at 25 cents a we**k Si ("'a month, s*> U) for six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, f ] on: three months. $2 So; aix months, $5 t; ©ne year. $lO 00. The Morning News, bv mail, six times a week 'without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00: six months. $4 00 one >ear. S'* 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday#, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturday*. three months, fl 25; slx months. $2 50: one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. 00. The Weekly News, by mod. one year. $1 *->• Subscriptions pa cable in advance. Remit by postal order. cb**ck or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of >*nders. This pap**r is kept on file aud advertising rates may T** ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspai**r Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, fa." Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, Special Notices—As to Biita Against British Steamship John Dixon; Notice of Removal, Dr R.B. Harris: The Brush Electric Light and Power Cos.; Sherwood's Dancing Academy. Established 1H45-—Lovell & Lnttimore. Cheap Coll-mx Advertisements— H<*ln Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous. Pianos and Organs— L. AB.S.M. H. Cocoa nuts, Etc. —W. D. Simkins & Cos. Auction Sales— Elegant Furniture, Damaged Cotton, Etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son; New Bedsteads. Carpets, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett. StiahshhSohedcle— Ocean Steamship Cos. The President of the Bankers’ convention t Pittsburg, in his opening eddress, said: “A good banker will not promote a corner in breadstuff's; he will not aid in locking up capital to promote pools and trusts.” It is a pity that all the bankers are not good. The New York Tribune is very angry with the Prohibit 1 .., leaders. It calls them the hirelings of Democratic saloons. Demo crats can only rejoicj in the Republican organ’s displeasure, as it is evidence that Prohibitionists are doing their work well. The New York Star say 9 that Republican quidnuncs admit that Fred Grant will be beaten in the coming election, but claim that the rest of their ticket will be elected. Is it possible that the son of his father is an element of weakness instead of strength? The Star's own subscription list, however, ■hows that his name is not worth much. John W. Garrett once refused an offer from Jay Gould of $225 a share for a con trolling interest in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The market price is now about sllO. The man under whose management the great decline took place was made Pres ident of the road because he was the son of his father. That policy somehow doesn’t seem to work well. A strange and impressive thing occurred at Salem, Mass., the other day. Every saloon in the city was closed for a day and a night, voluntarily, out of respect to the memory of Father Matthew, the great apostle of temperance, a monument to whom was dedicated that day. These sa loonkeepers exhibited a respect for public opinion and the proprietiesxif the occasion not always shown by people who are ac customed to think themselves much better and holier. The New York Tribune thinks the aver age American has learned something during the last three years which he will remember when the next election comes. The Tribune is perfectly right. The average American lias learned that the Democratic party gives the country the best government in the world, and when the election occurs he will vote to retain that party in power. The only matter of regret to him is that he had no opportunity to gain this important knowledge until three years ago. Great is Boston. Even her Anarchists are cultured and humane gentlemen One of them writes to the Globe , in choice language and correct Latin quotations, to repudiate the idea that the Boston variety of the wild animal hankers after the life-blood of the police, or has any particular lore for dynam ite. He only wants Cos get the majority of people over to his way of thinking about certain things, and then make some import ant changes in the government The Bos ton anarchist is evidently no Anarchist, and trill be repudiated in the red flag crowd. A leading Republican paper says: “When a Federal officer-holder makes voluntary campaign contributions he is anxious to propitiate power in order to obtain future Immunity for delinquencies of duty, or else he has other resources besides his slender salary.” Few will deny the truth of this statement. It shows he remembered, how ever, that it was undor Republican adminis trations that the assessment of office-holders was developed into a system, which was only abolished when Democrats came into power. The Republicans always claimed that the payment of assessments was volun tary. It is pleasant to see them acknowl edge the error of their ways. The Htate Republican Committee of Pennsylvania has issued an address, the first in several years. The reason it is thought necessary is that the liquor dealers have combined against the new high license law, are raising a large campaign fund, and will help the Democrats all they < au. One feature of the addioss is its appeal to “Christians of all denominations.” This is taking it for granted that all Christians are in favor of putting very heavy burdens on the liquor trade, and is pretty hard on the thousands of Germans who have heretofore lieen good Christians, good citizens, good Republicans, and lovers of good lager beer. There is one element of inconsistency in their character, but they can cure that by becoming good Democrats. Henator Don Cameron is a Republican, but he is not a narrow partisan. He is re ported to have recently said that Mr. Cleve land has shown himself an honest., fearless anil independent official, and that he is cer tain of re-election, no matter who the Re publicans put up against him, unless before the election there is a financial panic for which it can be shown the administration was responsible. Tins is perhafM as accurate a statement of the political situation as could be made. It remains to be seen if the small knot of Pennsylvania Democrats and their few allies will risk the precipitation of a panic and the defeat of their party rather than nliow a revision of tho tariff in the interest of the people rather than of monopolists. They have a great responsi bility resting upon them. The Virginia Coupon Case. The case of the imprisoned Virginia offi cials—the Attorney General and the pros ecuting attorneys of three counties —which comes befoi-e the United States Supreme Court next Monday on a writ of habeas corpus is one of great interest, aud has al ready attracted wide attention. The prin cipal facts in the case are these: The last Legislature of Virginia enacted a law compelling prosecuting attorneys of the different counties, and also the At torney General, to bring suits against per sons who tender coupons of the Suite's bonds in payment of State taxes. The ef feet of this law, which is called the “coupon crusher,” is to prevent the collection of the debt which the State owes. About all the bonds are owned outside of Virginia, a verj large amount of them be ing held in England. Some of the bond holders applied to Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, for an injunc tion against the enforcement of the “coupon crusher” act, which he granted. The At torney General and the three prosecuting attorneys, who are now in jail, brought suit to enforce the act, notwithstanding the injunction. They were, there fore, arrested for contempt of court and fined SSOO each. Declining to pay the fines, they were sent to prison. Their ap plication for a writ of habeas corpus is based upon the theory that the United States 'Circuit Court has no such jurisdic tion as that exercised by Judge Bond in en joining the enforcement of the “coupon crusher” act. The imprisoned officials will doubtless be released on bail next Monday, aud then the case will be thoroughly argued on each side. The question involved is a very important one. Judge Bond in this cou|K>n matter has probably encroached further upon the rights of a State than any other Federal Judge. It is a fact, which is the subject of frequent comment, that the Fed eral courts are gradually extend ing their jurisdiction, and that the time is not distant, if they are not checked, when they will assume jurisdiction over all State matters. If the Supreme Court sustains Judge Bond, Vir ginia will have to find another way to avoid paying her debts, if she can. This question will Also present itself, viz: Whether the jurisdiction of the Federal courts is not suf ficient to open a way for the collection of debts which a State has repudiated? Smalls in no Danger. The Republican organs refuse to accept facts with regaid to elections in the South. Falsehoods suit them better because they serve as a basis for assertions which these organs regard as necessary to the welfare of the Republican party. In a late issue the Detroit Tribune said that “with a Democratic majority in the House there is not the slightest danger of Smalls being awarded the seat which he claims. ” Of course there isn’t, and there wouldn't be the slightest danger if the ma jority of the House were Republicans, if they were honest men. Mf. Elliott was elected in the Seventh district of South Carolina, and there isn’t the least doubt that he will retain his seat. Smalls will make a contest for it, but he has no better right to it than Thoebe has to Mr. Carlisle’s seat. He will not be able to show that he got a majority of the votes cast, or that any voter was prevented from casting his ballot either by persuasion, in timidation or bribery. There was an abso lutely fair election, and Smalls was beaten because the greater part of the colored people who had supported him in previous elections remained away from the polls. They had ceased to respect him and had be come tired of him. The colored people of the Seventh district —those who think for themselves and know what is best for their interests—are glad that Smalls was defeated. He never did anything for his constituents. Ho was not capable of serving them. They have a Representative now who will take good care that the Seventh district is not neg lected. No, there is not the slightest dan ger that Smalls will be awarded a seat in the present House. It is safe to say that his public career has come to a full stop. Tho River Convention at Memphis. The people interested in tiie improvement of the Mississippi river have succeeded in having a river convention called to meet at Memphis next Thursday. They hope, they say, that all the river interests of the South and West will be represented. They mean, probably, that they would like to lrnve enough representatives of other rivers than the Mississippi present to render the conven tion respectable in numbers. They don’t care very much about the improvement of any other river than the Mississippi, and the way they want that improved is by the building of levees. They want the channel deepened, of course, but they will not grow) much if sufficient attention is given to the levees to protect the adjacent lands from overflow. The Mississippi river people know how to get appropriations. They work for them, and their Representatives do the same. They never give up until they have secured what they want. The people who are interested in the rivers and harbors along the South Atlantic coast ought to insist that the appropriation for the Mississippi river shall be made in a separate bill. As long as it gets $4,000,000 or $.->,000,000 in every river and harbor bill there isn’t much chance for harbors and other rivers getting what they need, and what they are entitled to. There is no objection to the Mississippi getting $10,000,000 a year if it j can, but let it take it in a little bill of its j own. If the appropriation for that river is put into the river and harbor bill tho smaller rivers and the harbors will get very little, or if they get somewhere near what they ought to have the bill will be vetoed on the ground that it appropriates too much money. The Prohibitionists of Tennessee l ave sot a fashion which it would be well for other parties to follow, though there is no i probability that they will ever do so. In a Nashville paper is printed an itemized ac- j count of every cent received to carry on the late prohibition campaign and of the pur poses to which the fund was devoted. Such an account of an election fund in New York or Philadelphia would make interesting reading. Some of the papers are commenting rather harshly on the refusal of the Georgia Legis lature to appropriate S4OO to decorate the State House oil the occasion of the Presi dent’s visit to Atlanta. The Legislature is very economical with the people's money in all i-espccts except one, and that one relates to the cost Of its sessions. This Legislature has cost the people a very pretty sum, and how many really*important matters has it settled! THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1887. The Cafiarel Affair. The sentence imposed upon Gen. CafTarel, the French officer who was detected in sell ing the decoration of the Legion of Honor, the only order left in France, is not a severe one. He was found guilty of a very grave breach of trust, and if his sentence had been much more severe public senti rneut would have approved it. The position that he occupied was an hon orable and responsible one, and the most implicit confidence was felt in his integrity. When the report first got abroad that he was untrue to his trust it was not believed by Gen. Ferron, the Minister of War. The evidence in support of the report became so strong, however, that the Minister determined to find out whether it was true or not. He instructed a detective to disguise himself as a merchant and apply to Gem Catfarel for one of the decorations, and to offer a handsome sum for it. The Minister’s instructions were followed, and the officer’s guilt was established beyond ail question. When he was charged with his crime he denied his guilt, aud thus deprived himself of what little respect some of his brother officers still had for him. It was hoped, doubtless, that he would not wait for an investigation of his conduct, hut would immediately put an end to his life. It seems that Gen. Boulanger hinted to him that the only course open tA him was to blow his brains out. The old soldier, how ever, who had shown his courage on many battle fields, was not quite ready to die, at least by his own hand. He will live out the rest of his life a disgraced man, shunned by his former associates. He owes his down fall to two or three notorious women who gained an influence over him, and so in creased his needs for money that if he had not disgraced himself in the way he did he probably would have done so in another way. Gen. Boulanger, it appears, has been talk ing too freely about the CafTarel affair, and insinuating that the Ministry attempted to connect him with it, not because they had good reasons for doing so, but for the purpose of having an exease to get him out of the army. He has been summoned before tlie Ministry to answer for this attack upon them. If be does not make a very good ex cuse he may find himself in a very trouble some position. Owing to bis efforts to make himself popular with the army he is not regarded with much favor by those at the head of the government. Our dispatches this morning contain a report that he has resigned. These troubles with army officers are not calculated to inspire confidence in the army, which the French people have been led to be lieve is in a first-rate condition, and in every respect prepared to meet the armies of Ger many. Jealousy and corruption very quickly rob an army of the qualities which are necessary for success. That Little Tariff Skirmish. A month or so ago the protection organs in this State announced, in effect, that they proposed to make tariff reformers scarce in Georgia politics. Ttie statement was made by these mouthpieces of the protection bar ons that in making selections for any office the tariff issue would be raised, and that only those who were protectionists would stand a chance of being chosen to public positions of honor and trust. For the purpose, doubtless, of showing how very much in earnest it was one of these organs attacked Senator Colquitt, who is a tariff reformer, and who at all times and under all circumstances is found acting in harmony with his party on the tariff question. The organ in question was so much in earnest in its war upon him that it named the man with whom it was proposed to beat him for re-election to the Senate. The tariff reform papers of the State im mediately accepted the issue thus presented, and made it very plain that they were ready to support their position on the tariff. Senator Colquitt himself must have been greatly surprised to see how unanimous was tiie sentiment in his favor. Friends came to his assistance from unexpected quarters, and he was, doubtless, gratified to find that he had many more supporters in the State than he had any idea of. The attack upon him did him no harm. In fact, it made his political prospects rather more promising. He is more firmly con vinced now than ever that the great major ity of the people want the tariff taxes re duced. It is worthy of notico that the organ that made the attack upon him sub sided after striking only one feeble blow, leaving the impression that, in its opinion, the Senator cannot be beaten for re-election. It is not clear w r hat the immediate occa sion for the attack was. There is a belief, however, that it had two objects—one to create the impression that protection senti ment is making some progress in this State, and the other to convince Mr. Randall, who opened the Piedmont fair, that it will not be long before (Georgia, so far as jiopulation is concerned, will be ranged on his side of the tariff issue. Senator Colquitt wus doubtless surprised to find how numerous his friends were, and that they were ready to make a strong tig lit in his behalf, if it should lie necessary to do so. It is safe to say. however, that if lie fails to secure a re-election, his failure will not lie due to the efforts of the protec tionists. There is no probability, however, that he will fail. The Hennepin canal project has been be fore Congress for years, and lately has been pressed with great persistency. It will again come up this winter. In view of this fact tho frank confession of the Chicago Times as to the interest of that city in the proposed canal, on which Northwestern Congressmen, and particularly Chicago Congressmen, have urged the government to exjiend many millions of money, is of in terest at this time. The Times says that Chicago can get alone very well commer cially without the canal, but there can bo no thorough drainage without it, and it is therefore necessary to the future growth of the city. Chicago is a great place, and its wonderful growth is tho pride of Americans, but they will hardly contribute $16,000,000 to $50,- 000,000 from the general treasury that its growth may continue. It is big enough to iiave a great many undesirable citizens now. Senator Edmunds, at a local soldiers’ re union in Vermont, the other day, iuuulged iu some insolent remarks relative to the battle-flag incident. If he isn’t careful somebody will indulge in some insolent re marks about tho $’25,000 fee which he took from the great pork packer. Phil Armour, to argue the dressed beef case before the In terstate Commerce Commission. Iu view of the fact that iu a few weeks lie is to help to decide whether the nominations of the members of this commission shall be con firmed or not. he didn’t show much deli - cacj in accepting the big fee. CURRENT COMMENT. The Surplus Where the People Can See It. From the st. Louis Republican (Dem.) Government is economically administered and the surplus revenue is stored in the treasury vaults, where neither the naval jobbers, the steamboat subsidists, nor the other bilks who exacted tribute from th- people under Republi can rule, can reach it. In fine*, the surplus is in , full view of the people, and the fact demon strated that It* collection was unnecessary and i consequently unjust. Every dollar collected from the people beyond what is necessary to administer the government economically is an • unjust extortion. Government Telegraphv. From the Boston Globe. (Deni). It is evident that the Knights of Labor are practically united in tue demand for govern ment control of the telegraph business. The ' committee, of which Robert Howard, of Ma.ss:i --' cl inset ts, is chairman, has introduced into the : convention at Minneapolis resolutions unquali ; ficdly approving tin* project and pledging the I knight** not to vote for any candidate for Con gress who does not favor it. This means busi ness. So rapidly is public opinion forming on this question that an attempt to add the busi ness of telegraphing to the government busi ness of carrying letters will probably be made in the next Congress. BRIGHT BITS. ‘What shall we do t • be saved?" asked a re vivalist. And a small boy in the rear shouted: “Let’s trade teams with Detroit— Judge. An exchange says Gettysburg is becoming a summer resort. So it was iu 18)3, but it was much warmer then. .\>tr Orleans Picayune. As it isn't polite to say “lie,” the young ladies at Narrn gun sett Pi*r call it “prevaricating on the sand'* in their bathing suits.— Tiut Water bury. "No, my son, a mouse do*s not grow into a rat any more than a dude ever becomes a man. Quite a different race in either case." — Boston Transcript. The editor who saw a lady making for the only seat iu tiie car found himself crowded out to make room for more interesting matter.— Jewish Men s. Lady of the house to her cook: “The veal was not done enough yest rday." “I know it. 1 had to cook it over for us—we never could have eaten it otherwise."— Paris Figaro. She (sentimentally inclined; -What is your favorite flower. Mr. I*itt /' lie (commercially inclined)—Well, we handle various brands, but. there is the biggest margin in red w inter No. 2. Epoch. Moriarity—bure an I wul n't wurrk on that selicafTold,Slevin. an” git kilt, fora farrum! Slevin—'Yes wud n't. eh: faith and I'd do that same. Moriarity: and whin f got kilt Id have the farrum to farl back on!— Puck. The following brief but pointed conversation was heard the other day on a South Halstead street car; “Good loomin', Mrs. McCarty." "Good mornin* Mrs. Mulcahy, and how's Mr. Mulcahy?" "He’s dead, thank you."—San Francisco Re port. "Any man,** said Bonebrake, “can achieve success by persistent eflfoit. There is ;i great deal of truth in that old maxim that in the bright lexicon of v .util there is no such word as fail, and it applies to the old as well as to the young." ‘ That's rather odd . ' "What’s rather id.''’ "Why, the fact mat you are only paying your creditors 10c on the dollar." Lincoln Journal. Oil on the Troubled Waters.- Road jKiunder —I ni no hog, inarm, but might Ihcvaiitile karyosene to spiv; and on this home-made biscuit? Lady of the House (a cooking-school graduate) —For mercy's sake: What do you mean ? Road-Pounder- Xcuse me, lady, but that Rio Janizary coffee you gev me kicked up a sea in my stumniick tint I'm afearcl th' biscuit'll aggervate into a hurricane, an’ I'd like ter pre caut a little. Oil is prescribed lor storms. \ ' know, lady. Tid Bits. It Failed.-If was raining hard, and he stood under the shelter >f a Jefferson avenue awning and watched until the right sort of a man came along. Then he stepped out and said: “Ah' I was laying for you. old fellow! That umbrella was stolen from me three months ago!" “Chestnuts!" was the prompt reply. "Don t you believe me?" “Hush! I just got it five minutes ago bv plav mg the same game. Tackle the next man!"— Detroit Free Press, PERSONAL. The Thakore of Morvi carries hack to India the skin of a bear which he killed in Manitoba. The latest hobby of the the Duke of Argyll is the American starling. His country seat is said to literally swarm with species of this [ducky, hardy warbler. Nina Van Xandt, the proxy wife of Anarchist Spies, last week w rote ner signature in the an tograph album of a Muncie, Ind., man. She wrote "Nina Spies.” Congressman \V. L. Scott's horses have won $25,000 worth of stakes and purses for him on the Eastern racing circuit this season. They have paid their way and left a balance to the good. Major Ticker, the commander of the de tachment of the Salvation Army that Ims just invaded India, is said to have declared tiiat he will never give up the light until he has won India! President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, is one of the best amateur lawn tennis players in Ihe country. He pronounces the exercise neces sary to a good game second only to that lo be found at the oar. John f. Blair, the richest man in New Jersey, owns three railroads in Kansas, two in Missouri and one in lowa. Although 74 years old, and worth $12,000,000, he is still planning new money-getting projects. Jesse Grant’s prospects for becoming the richest member of the Grant family are first rate. He is largely interested ia the iron mines of the Lake Superior country, which promise to be immensely valuable. Mrs. F. A. Rowley, of Cleveland, mourns the sudden departure of her hnsliand after two weeks of wedded bliss. As her little fortune of s■-’,OOO disappeared with him she is inclined to believe that he only married her for her money. Columbus Delano, Gen. Grant's Secretary of the Interior, is still living on his farm near Mount Vernon, 0., and has preserved his vigor Wonderfully. He is out of politics, but savs that Foraker will have about 20,090 majority on a light vote. John F. PoTYer. familiarly known as “Old Bowie-Knife” because of Ids famous affair with Gen. Roger A. Pryor in 18 >O, still lives on his furm in Walworth county, Wisconsin. He is in very comfortable cireumstatc :s, and is as genial an old gentleman as one often meets. Chief Justice Waite is paying a great deal of attention to educational matters. He savs lib eral education for the rising generation will do more towards suppressing Anarchism than any safeguard which can be devised by legislation. He favors a genera! law of compulsory educa tion. Since Mrs. Langtry became a citizen of Cali fornia, with the object of securing a divorce, the Superior Court of San Francisco has been overrun with women seeking relief from matri monial chains. In the [vast four months over 200 women have begun suits for divorce in San Francisco alone. Mrs. Woolsky Shaw, of San Jose, Cal., s sued liy her husband for the recovery of lus $50,000 estate. Mrs. Shaw is 56 years old, while tier husband is 7H. When the couple were mar ried a year ago the groom deeded hi- property to the bride, ami now he claims she is ; renting him inhumanly. He does not care for a di vorce. Friends of Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, of Phila delphia, sny she was engaged to Poet Browning for brief period two years ago. The engage ment was dissolved by mutual consent, the American widow lieing too exacting iu her de mands upon the poet's time, and lie being too stilted ami independent to suit tho wealthy woman. Joseph M. Douglass, of Nevada City, while worth $5,000,0 0, is accounted the most ec centric miser on the Pacific slope. He wan re cently fined slbO and commited to jail for twenty four hours for contempt of court. He served his jail sentence, but announces that he will light payment of the fine iu every court ou the coast. Phocbe Couzins, who is now United States Marsbulat St. Louis, said to President Hayes, lust after his inauguration, that it was a pity tiiat some women lawyer like herself was not 1 the Chief Justice who administered the oath to tin' President. "Iu that case,” gallantly replied Mr. Ilayes. “I should have kissed, not the book, but the Chief Justice.” Kosice Conklins has taken up his residence at the Hoffman House, ami now divides the at tention of strangers with the ‘'Nymphs and the Satyr" and Billy Edwards, ex-champion pugilist and "bouncer' of the palatial barroom. Mr. CoukUng no longer appears in the faultless garb for which he basso long been famous. He now wears a short ami heu v double-breasted pea-jacket of the kind affected by sailing masters, and a black slouch hat with a brim that a cowboy might envy. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. The Old Soldier Seeks His Parents— Quite a Romantic Tale. From the Chicago Daily yews. Tolono, 111., Oct. 11.—A IvUtle-scarred vet eran of two wars who, for nearly twenty-two years has beeu held in captivity by Mexican brigands, was in town yesterday afternoon and related the wild weird tale of his adventures. The story sounds more like romance than his tory, but his personal appearance and a mass of letters from prominent men attest its truth, at least in part. The old “walking lead mine" is H. P. Osgood. At 15 he joined the regular army at New Orleans in 1848. He served in the Mexican war, and was at the first Bull Run, but never received a scratch till he reached Vicksburg, after which the shot poured into him thick and fast, and seven bullets can now be plainly felt through his skin. Almost every part of his body is hor ribly mutilated One hand and foot are nearly gone. He sj>ent eleven months and five days at Afidersonville. where he was uninten tionally shot through the head by Gen. Winder. A band of Mexican greasers captured him on the Rio Grande in 1805. He made several in effectual attempts to escape, only to be shot for his pains. Two wounds received three weeks before his rescue are yet unhealed. One is in his forehead; the other, inflicted with a copper missile in his breast, is six inches across. Last April the Mexican troops surprised and made prisoners of the outlaws, who held him captive. Osgood was sent to the American Consul Gen eral at the City of Mexico, thence to Vera Cruz, where the Vice Consul provided him w ith trans portation to New York. He is now' going home to his parents, whom be believes to be still liv ing near Alton. Lady and Burglar. From the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. A young married lady whose face is familiar at the hospitals, charitable institutions and the various art rooms and picture galleries had, not long since, a singular experience. Her bedroom had a large bay window front and two ordinary windows on one side of the room. It was a warm night early in the season, and her hus band being absent she took the extra precau tion of fastening the. blinds of the long front w indows by placing a rainst them a carp-t b is sock. Ou retiring she at once fell asleep, but found lierseif suddenly aroused and in an in stant wide awake. Wondering what had aw ak ened her she sat up in bed and noticed that the blinds w'ere pushed apart and that it was early dawn. She said audible, as if to herself: “Why, 1 am sure I fastened those blinds!" an 1 making up her mind to fasten them and have another nap, put her feet out or lied, but instead of touching the floor they rented on a man’s stom ach! Although thoroughly frightened, while feeling the quick beating of a heart beneath her feet, sue thought out what was best to do. A chiffonier stood near by and with a single step she reached it. opened a drawer and took therefrom a little revolver—lately won in a bet—which had never been loaded, bhc cocked it and for the first time looked at her intruder. He was a colored man. She, being born and bred at the South, was os indignant at that fact as she was afraid. Pointing the pistol at him, she said: “Get up. you nigger, go out as you came in! How dare you enter a lady's room in this way?' He moved toward the window, she pointing the pistol toward him all time, when her indignation increasing, she or dered him t* "sit down!” As lie obeyed he put his hand behind him, and she. fearing a razor might be forthcoming, said • ‘ Your hand to ihe front, or 111 blow your black head off!" She t hen gave him a bit of advice and ordered him “out of the window.** I'etdiug nervouely un>; rung by this time, she opened her door to go to her mother's apart ment, when lo and behold! there stood another darkey! This was the “last straw." and yield ing to a womanly impulse, she screamed ‘murder! murder! ' which brought her family and servants to the hall, and ‘•number two" made a hasty exit through the lady's room and out of the open window. Valuable jewels and clothing were found in a bundle under the bed, but the rascals had taken nothing from the house with them. A Phosphorescent Toe. From the Alta California. A lady of this city, whose little feet are always daintily shod, is also the unfortunate jxjsscisor of an obstinate and burning corn upon the smallest toe of her left foot. Chirop odists had dug tunnels through that corn, yanked at it with nippers, smeared it with stinging ointments, and, in despair, suggested amputation. The corn held tne fort, and suc cessfully resisted the assaults of t!ie nest razor the lady's husband possessed —used, of course, without his knowledge. Finally, a kind friend suggested that if phosphorus was rubbed on th** afflicted toe the corn would succumb. The lady determined to try the ivmed\. and did so just before retiring tne other night, and forgot to tell her liege lord what sheliad done. The hour of midnight had struck when the husband suddenly awoke, and was somewhat startled to see the flash of a firefly at the foot of the bed. Sleep was again asserting its mastery, when once more the sie-en of that firefly caused the husband to op;*n wide his eyes, lie could not recollect ever having a firefiy in Cali fornia, but he could not dislelieve his senses. Again an l again that firefly flashed its baleful gleam, effectually banishing all thought of sleep from the liow thoroughly aroused and wrathy husband. He determined to end his own misery and the firefly's existence simul taneously. He reached out in the dark, groped with his hand about the carpet until ho felt his own heavy shoe. Hr seize;! the weapon, slowly and cautiously raised himself in bed, and, lift ing high the sturdy brogan, brought it down with a vigorous whack on th** innocent firefly. A wild shriek, an avalanche of bedclothes, and the husband lay sprawling in the middle of the floor, while his wire rolled around the bed, clasping her foot and moaning in anguish. It was not- a firefly. It was the phosphorus anointed toe. He Hated a Thief. From the Dakota Bell. Late one afternoon, while on the edge of the Black Hills country, near Buffalo Gap, we got into conversation with a settler, and mentioned that we were going to camp for tile night down the road about a quarter of a mile, among some trees. “Of course you'll do as you please, gen’l’- men," said the native, “but I'll advise you Hot ter camp there” “Why not?” “D'ye see that cabin down 'bout fifty yards from the timber you’re speakin’ of?” “Yes.” “Well, sir, the biggest thief in the Hills lives there. If you camp there he'll be sure to steal som'thfn’ from you 'fore mornin .” “Is that so?” “You bet < There's my barn back there where I store my oats. For the last two year that feller hasn’t fed his team a single mouthful of his own hoss feed, been stealia’ out o’ mine all the time.” “Should think you would do something about it." “Me? Well, y a-e-s, you might think I would, but you see the fack is durin'all ibis time I've been feedin' mv team out o' his oats—been goin’ down nights alter he's abed an' backin' 'em up. My teaui is a little heftier eaters liian liis'u, sn‘l don't enmpiain much. Bul ldo hate a thief—l jos dispise 'em. Unhook right here in front o' my house if you want to —this is good campin' ground." The Tender Shepherd. From the Youth's Instructor. In the far away Eastern countries, Where the mountains, grim and grand. Tower skyward like stern old sentinels— Guards to a better land— The craggy slopes are dotted With many a feeding (lock, And here and there are the sheepfolds. Built ou the solid rock. As we stand on the heights at evening^ To gate on the slopew beiow. The sneep look like tair white lilies— Like lilies, white as snow. Set in a bank of emerald— And upborne ou the evening air. There comes a low. Soft tinkling, Like the vesper call to prayer. As we gaze on those lowly shepherds, It gladdens our hearts to see That the weary, and faint and weak one, Are borne so tenderly; That the young lambs are laid on their bosoms; And we think, as our eyes grow dim— If i e lambs uiv so dear to these shepherds, How much dearer arc we to Him! A Nice Surgical Distinction. From the Detroit Free Press. Dr. M is a very enthusiastic surgeon and delights in cutting up the defunct in the cause of his profession. He was lately called upon to attend a case at St. Mary's Hospital. A poor follow had his face filled with bird shot anil one arm nearly taken off. Tile doctor had come di rectly from t lie dissecting room, and his head was full of his work there. Walking into the ward with both hands in his pockets, as is his way. he approached the bed. "Is this the subject ?" he asked briefly. "No, doctor.” tue poor fellow answered, “I’m not a subject yet, l m only an object,” and he smiled comically The doctor nodded grimly (he likes a joke, even at bis own expense!, but he gave an extra touch to his professional care for the witty ualieul. ITEMS OF INTEREST, \ ■ \ A Maine widower gave a man ten li. to pay for lights and fuel while the wido\ courting the man's daughter. She retL lQ marry him, and he is trying to recover L^ n dollars. \ John Gentle is the name of a Kansas who has licked all his neighbors, been in -j h: If a dozen times, run away from two wit and is now locked up for shooting at a juds, He should have been called Peaceful John. Outside the walls of Jerusalem anew town has sprung up, a building club having been established a few years ag*. under the operat ion of which 130 houses were erected in four years by the Jews, while along the .Jaffa road many country villas have been erected of late by Euro|**an residents as summer abodes. While some men who were taking the places of striking hands in a Northampton, England, shoe factory were going home from work they were beset by a mob of strikers, and in the midst of the excitement George Arnold, one of tiie workers, staggered, threw up his hands and fell to the pavement dead from heart disease. The destructive habits of rabbits are well known, In Australia they abound. When a servant enters a situation she requires a prom ise that at least one day in the week she shall not be obliged to eat rabbits. In three years 18,000,000 of rabbits were and stroyed, and a boun ty of SIUO,OOO has been paid out for their de struction. A 225-ouxcx nugget has been unearthed by Chinamen at Hargraves, Australia. The news of the find leaked out through the transmission of it to the mint by Chinese agents. The cele brated Cair nugget of one cwt. was found at Hargraves in the year 1852, and recently, a few miles away, at the Maitland bar, a 400-ouuce nugget was found. Dit. Pancoast, of the treasure-seeking com pany, has returned to Philadelphia and aban doned the search for the S2O,UOUX#> of treasure, which went down with the privateer Deßrook, off Cape Henlopeu, a century ago. The work will be resumed next spring, Dr. Pancoast le -ing determined that the mound over which they have l>een working all summer contains the missing treasure. The rivalry between Montreal and Quebec long since reached the stage of fervent com parisons about port facilities and transactions. On the one side it is said that Montreal as an ocean port is doomed, but the reply is that Mon treal has increased its ocean tonnage 115 per cent, in nine years. Furthermore, in the pe riod of 1870-188 G the foreign trade of Montreal, as the (iazetle declares, lias been increased by $14,439,180, while that of Quebec has declined $3,307,478. Philadelphia has an institution called the “Sanitarium,” the purpose of which is to pro vide “outings" at a resort established at Red Bank. N. J., for poor children, and Mr. John F. Smith, a merchant of that city, has made it the princely gift of $25,0i)0 to provide for a continu ance of the noble charity. During the past summer7l,(XX) children were taken to R°d Bank, two steamers being employed for the purpose. Mr. Smith's donation will he devoted to the building of a steamer the coming winter. A collection of seals of royal houses and of the principal families of France and other Euio pean countries was recently sold at the Hotel Drouot, Paris. This collection, unique in its kind, which belonged to the late Mr. Dubrun faut. a celebrated collector of autograph . con sisted of 13,000 seals in excellent preservation, arranged in about COO cases. It brought only about 150f., or about a tenth part of the cost of the cases, although more than twenty years of expert work and continual researches liad been spent upon it. A baby zebra, that cost $1,200, comes from South Africa, and lias l*een named “Little Phil,” after Gen. Phi! Sheridan, arrived at the Zoolog ical Garden Saturday. On the same day there arrived a j>air of pituig-horned antelopes from Nevada. They are. brown, except that on the hips are two large, round spots c vred with snow-white hail*, which is several inches long, and when the animals are frightened rises like the hair on a Circassian girl in a dime museum, later in the day came fourteen pairs of prairie dogs, six pairs of which are destined for Central Park, New York, a ground bog from Maryland, and a six-foot Rocky Mountain rattlesnake. Eighty-eight men. who are called the “rebels, belonging to a certain religious sect," have been beheaded at one time in Chang Chou, China. The offense of this sect seems to be tba tuey appear in the streets as vendors of children's toys, the chief of which are cash swords, dag gers and dragons, each formed out of 180 of the cash coins, strung together in various shapes. They are said to have annoyed the people a great deal by cheating the children, and to have caused much disturbance by higgling about prices, and a Chinese paper naively adds: “Since the above-mentioned cases have been so severely dealt with not one of them has been seen on the street. The people highly appreciate the en forcement of stringent laws and prompt action." An iron column, 23 feet long and weighing over fi,o<X) pounds, part of anew lighthouse being built, was recently landed at Bishop Rock, England, and a storm coining up. was left lasned by a half-inch chain at each end to strong eyelxilt*. Three days afterward the workmen returned and found that the column had been tossed up by the waves 20 feet to the top of the rock, where it was swaying about like a piece of timber. Two days'afterward, when they were able to land, the workmen found that a blacksmith's anvil weighing 150 pounds, which they had left in a hole 3U feet deep and only 'i% feet in diameter, had also l>een washed by the waves completely out of the hole. Otter Belt, one of the greatest of Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Territory a few days ago. Five minutes before his death they held him erect and rigged him out in his best war i os tume. They painted him red, set his war b< n net on his head, tied up his hair in beaver skit s, and laid him down just as he died. Then lus five wives took sharp butcher knives, slashed their faces with long, deep cuts, cut themselves in other places, and beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their hair. They also burned every thing they had, tepees, furniture, and even most of the clothing they had ou. A big crowd of bucks looked on and killed ten horses, in cluding a favorite team of Kress Addington, on whose ranch Otter Belt lived. New South Wales has sent to the Queen for her approval an act facilitating divorce which equals the famous Illinois and Connecticut laws. It provides that whenever husband end wife remain away from one another for three years, without personal or written communication! either may get a divorce. Cruelty continued for two years is a legitimate ground against the husband, but not against the wife. A continual habit of drunkenness for two years is, however, a valid plea for either party to put in ({gainst the other, provided it prevents the husband from providing for the wife or the wife from performing her domestic duties. A man, appa rently, may keep as drunk as be pleases, pro vided he gives his wife plenty of money. The first young girl to be cremated in America was D-year-old Alida Weissleder. the daughter of the superintendent of the Brush Electric Light Company in Cincinnati. Her body was burned last week at the crematory iu that city. The corpse, wrapped in white alum linen, with white and yellow roses on the breast, was slid into the retort by two attendants. Who at once retired, and ill the stillness that followed the mourners could hear the puff and sizule of the gases of the body as the heat devoured it. After an hour the blue flames stopped circling about t he body and a long white streak was seen where it bad been. These aslies, when gathered up. weighed less than a pound. They were returned to’ the parents and will be preserved in an urn. It was the ninth incineration at the crematory. In pulling down part of a private museum at 22 Soho square, London, the other day, the workmen found a recess that bad been closed up for half a century. On the panelling inside was written, in the handwriting of Sir Joseph Banks, who accompanied Capt. Cook, the dhs covore , on his oyag. s “Is rumen's use carvings, weapousand heads collected by Capi* Cook during the voyage of the Endeavor -J Banks. Among the relics in the recess were two mummied tattooed heads of New Zealai and chiefs, a wooden bowl, with a lip, used for bann ing u round human blood in the days of canni balism; models of native canoes, beautifully carved cannoe paddles, and a carved wooden **Pt[e, with the words, presumably scratched onUby ( apt. Cook: “Made for me by Wanga. - Oliver White, secretary of the Peoria Scien tific Association, tells of a self-mending snake found in that neighborhood. They are eighteen inches long and steel gray and black in color. tlb>s°si‘s' 1 “*? 1 **Kht one of these rep “, lm to pieces from one to twoiuches long, from the anus to the tip of his tail-two the whole length of the b,„I V --then m'. tnJ OV '‘J him so that he could by no Then ,lnd mistakes were impossible on , ™turmng to the place twenly-fom hours after, the snake was there soin <1 anil of'"he break l h"? 1 c0,,1d when* the must, of the breaks had been, and the first section aUnil an inch and a half long, was not perfectly Arure flne ten f‘ t dlnallinos of the t! r.n 1 one-sixteenth of an inch out of the way The remaining fractions corre : ponded, uot with that, but with the body." BAKING POWDER. VIEIOHf~ ■V. CREAM Its superior silence proven in millions of homes for new-- , ;ln a quarter of a reutury It is used by the UrWi states Government. In dorsed by the of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Pifot and most Healthful. Hr. 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