The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 15, 1887, Page 4, Image 4
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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.
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ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
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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,
\
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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."
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