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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. IHH7.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetinc.s—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.;
Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. & A. M.; Railroad Loan
Association ; Savannah Cadets.
Special Notice—As to Bills Against British
Steamships Watlington and Marion.
Change or Schedule— Central Railroad.
Steamship Schedule -Ocean Steamship Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements - Help Want
ed ; Employment Wanted; For Sale; For Rent;
Lost; Reward.
Lottery— Drawing Louisiana State.
Apples, Pears, Etc.—A. H. Champion.
A Golden Opportunity— Lindsay & Morgan.
Auction Salks— Damaged Cotton, Elegant
Furniture, etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son.
It is estimated that values on the New
York Stock Exchange shrunk $1,000,000,000
Friday. A word from Mr. Depew is evi
dently worth something.
It is a boast of Philadelphia that it is a
city of homes. Many of them must lie very
unhappy homes, as nearly a thousand hus
bands have deserted their wives in that city
during the last nine months.
The Valley Virginian, the most influen
tial Republican paper in Virginia, which is
edited by Congressman Yost, has revolted
against Mahone. Every day the prospects
look gloomier for the little bo®.
It is said the sharp differences of opinion
and sentimeu existing among the Civil
Service Commissioners may soon lead to the
resignation of one or more of them. It is
fortunate that the division is not upon party
lines.
William R. Travers, the genial New York
wit, who died a few months ago in Ber
muda, was saved the sorrow of seeing his
son, whom he made executor of his will, a
maniac. The young man has just been re
moved from the executorship on his moth
er’s petition.
Cbaunoey M. Depew disavows the alarm
ist views imputed to him in a St. Louis
newspaper interview. On the contrary, he
has every confidence in the financial situa
tion. The reporter’s fabrications, however,
made a big bear day on Wall street, and
perhaps that was what they were intended
to do.
Lord Aberdeen is evicting a large number
of settlers from lands in Texas, which have
been leased by his cattle company, in viola
tion of the settlers’ rights under the home
stead laws of Texas. His lordship’s popu
larity will wane rapidly if he resorts to
practices in this country which he condemns
in Ireland.
The chairman of the Republican State
Committee of Massachusetts has just applied
to the Boston Globe, the leading Democratic
paper of New England, for a subscription of
$lOO to the Republican campaign fund.
The “grand old party” must be in great
straits, indeed, when it appeals to the charity
of its chief enemy.
Tbe latest opinion about Emin Bey is that
of Nubar Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt.
He says that Emin is practically prince of a
semi-independeut provinoe, is rapidly get
ting rich from the trade in gold dust and
ivory, and is probably perfectly happy. It
is not strange that under such circumstances
he has bo desire to be “rescued.”
George Francis Train went to Chicago
with the announcement that he expected to
be shot. Nevertheless, he got out of the
city on ten minutes’ notice, rather than be
locked up. He has got more sense than
most people give him credit for, and is only
insane in that he is crazy for notoriety. He
is not of the material of which martyrs are
made.
The Republican local candidates in Phila
delphia are running a hurrah campaign
among the saloons, while their newspaper
organs preach on the danger of the liquor
influence in politics. They don’t mind the
inconsistency if the preaching shall catch
the votes of the “moral element of the com
munity” and the liquor those of the “boys.”
Office is what they want.
A Vermont Yankee is doing his best to
make Lieut. Zalinski’s pneumatic gun use
less. He has invented a way to charge
ordinary shells with dynamite so that they
can be handled and fired as are ordinary
powder-filled shells. Experiment seems to
have proved that his invention is a success.
The Yankee can always be depended upon
to invent the thing needed.
The reporter whom the Anarchists allege
was sent away from Chicago by the “cap
italistic oress” because he knows too much
about the Hayrnarket tragedy, has been
found. He knows nothing of the matter
that everybody else does not, and the story
originated in a joke ho perpetrated upon an
Anarchist sympathizer. Tho Anarchists
will uow say he is bribed to tell this story.
The sugar refiners have determined to
brave public opinion, and their “trust” is
said to be an accomplished fact. It is an
nounced that though they have the power
to regulate the price of refined sugar, “large’
profits will not be demanded.” There is
something almost sublime in tho use of tho
word "demanded’’ by men whose huge
“infant” industries are fed on pap contrib
uted by an overtaxed peo pie.
Republicans in general, and those of Phil
adelphia in particular, lay claim to all the
political honesty and purity of methods ia
the country. This did not prevent them
from serving notice on the Philadelphia
police at roll call ouo day last, week that
they were ox|)ected to contribute to the
campaign fund for tbe city election. The
amount expected was stat'd, and police
•Ulcers were present to see that it was paid,
A Postal Telegraph.
Mr. Gould may have absorbed one rival
telegraph system too many. He would find
it embarrassing to have a competitor with
the governmental revenues to draw upon
for expenses. And if, to avoid this, he
should desire to sell the Western Union
stock, it would be very painful to submit to
the awful pressure necessary to squoeze the
water out of that bloated evidence of prop
erty. Yet, some of the most influential
papers of the country are demanding that
Mr. Gould lie placed in just such a dilemma.
They want the Federal government to make
the telegraph an adjunct of the postoffice.
If this were done, Mr. Gould would be
obliged to sell at the valuation fixed by the
government, and it can be safely said that
ia fixing such valuation account would be
taken only of the actual cost of the Western
Union property.
The idea is not anew one, but interest in
it is revived just at this time by the adop
tion by the Knights of Labor General As
sembly of a resolution favoring govern
ment ownership of telegraphs, and by the
absorption of the Baltimore and Ohio by
the Western Union, leaving the latter a
practical monopoly of the field. A good
deal can be said in favor of it. The adop
tion of a uniform low rate for telegraphic
messages, as for letter carriage, would no
doubt greatly stimulate correspondence by
that means, and be a great aid to the busi
ness of the country. The rate for telegrams
might in time approach that now paid for
letters.
One objection has been urged to a gov
ernment control of telegraphs that to many
minds is conclusive—the great additional
power it would bestow on the party in office
in the general government. The number of
place holders is now very large, but by this
plan many thousands would be added to the
number. As long as the idea of a non par
tisan civil service is not universally accepted
there is danger in increasing the number of
agents by which a party in office may per
petuate its power.
Othei-s argue that a State telegraph mo
nopoly would mean after a little while a
State monopoly of railroads, and lone steps
would have been taken toward State social
ism.
The question is one which is likely to at
tract a good deal of attention, but it is
hardly ready for solution yet. The people
have more urgent and more irnjioriant mat
ters to attend to.
The State Fair.
The fair under the auspices of the State
Agricultural Society begins in a few days
at Macon. Its attractions will be fully as
great, if of a different kind, as those of the
exposition now in progress in Atlanta. The
exposition is in a sense a local affair, prima
rily intended to advertise Atlanta, and car
ried forward by private enterprise. This
does not detract from the value of its expo
sition of the resources of North Georgia and
other mineral producing regies, anil the
benefit to the State must be large. The
State Fair, however, is far more representa
tive of Georgia life and interests. It is one
of a series which began many years ago,
and its patron society has long been identi
fied with the history of the State. Some of
its officers have been among our most promi
nent men.
The number of people in attendance this
year is expected to be much larger than
usual. The premiums offered have in many
cases been doubled, insuring the finest dis
play of agricultural products, cattle, horses,
etc., and railroad rates are very low. The
racing programme is extensive, and the
purses large enough to attract fast horses.
Another feature of the occasion which is
naturally arousing no little attention and
interest is the proposed reunion of Confed
erate veterans, at which Mr. Davis will be
present. Indications point to a large as
semblage of the men who followed Lee and
Johnson, and though when the old fellows
get to talking about the experiences of
twenty-five years ago they may forget the
fair and everything else of contemporane
ous interest, they will go home happier for
having been in attendance.
This is the farmers’ and the soldiers’ fair,
and they will find it profitable and pleasant
to be present.
A Falthftil Public Servant.
The House, by a vote of 99 to 35, has passed
Judge Harrell’s bill repealing the resolu
tion by which the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad was released from the pay
ment of nearly SIOO,OOO in bonds due the
State. This action of the House will meet
with the hearty approval of the
people. It remains to be seen whether the
Senate will prove itself to be equally inde
pendent of the influences which were so ac
tively and potently exerted to secure the
passage of the resolution which it is now
sought to have repealed, and which, without
any good reason, gives away to a railroad
company, contrary to the provisions of the
constitution, nearly SIOO,OOO of the people’s
money.
Judge Harrell has been untiring in his
efforts to undo the wrong which was com
mitted by the passage of this resolution,
and he deserves, and will receive, the thanks
of the people. The fight in tho House for
his bill repealing the resolution was won by
the skill and vigor with which he conducted
it. and the persistence with which the right
thinking members clung to their convic
tions. Now let the Senate do its duty in
the matter.
Land Commissioner Sparks is the object
of peculiarly bitter attacks from a portion
of the opposition press. The best explana
tion of their animus can bo found in the
fact that largely through his efforts an
area of territory larger than the State of
New York has been restored to the public
domain. The Commissioner says that over
5,000 cases have been discovered where
perjury or subornation of perjury was re
sorted to to gain possession of lands, and in
following them up many thousands of acres
in addition to those already recovered will be
gained for settlement by honest men.
The Mayor ami one of the Aldermen of
Louisville engaged in a rough and tumble
fight in the Council chamber the other day,
in which the Mayor seems to have main
tained the dignity of his office by thrashing
the Alderman. This way of settling inter
nal dissensions seems quite popular of lato
in the Louisville city government, and
though it may make outsiders laugh is per
haps an improvement on the old plan of ap
pealing to firearms. The old fashion is now
confined to the mountain counties, the lute
Judge Craig Toiliver having been one of its
leading exponents.
The I egislature should proceed to add to
or substract from the New York Police
Board. With tho present arrangement of
two Democratic and two Republican mem
bers it is never able to do anything of im
portance, ami only serves to delay business.
Add a Democrat.
TIvE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1887.
Doing- Away with Competition.
One of the favorite arguments of advo
cates of the protection theory has always
been that, if foreign goods were barred out
by tariff taxes, the opportunity to make
large profits would induce so many to begin
manufacturing - that In a short time
competition among them would
reduce the price of goods to about the same
as would have to to paid for foreign-made
articles of like kind and quality. Some
protectionists have lieen bold enough to as
sert that such a state of things already ex
ists, while at the same time demanding that
the present high tariff rates to maintained.
Such a demand shows their inconsistency
and insincerity.
Not only has competition not reduced
prices of manufactured goods to the world’s
level, hut it has failed to bring them down
to their natural level in this country. And
the robber barons are determined that it
shall not do so. Having preached the doc
trine that competition would cheapen
until they got all the concessions they
wanted from the people, they are now en
gaged in the business of killing off compe
tition among themselves. They have asteel
association to limit the output of the mills,
a nail association to see that only so many
nails are cut, a glass association, a charcoal
iron association, and so on into the dozens,
perhaps.
Tho latest movement in this direction is
designed to put up the price of sugar. All
the refineries are to to put practically under
one management, and the pooling arrange
ment is to be called a “trust"—a term very
popular nowadays with associations of this
kind. The price of refined sugar will to
put as high as the high tariff will let it
go and still keep out foreign sugar,
and even if some of the refinerias stand
idle tho owners will get big returns from the
money invested in them. Every cent they
get under such circumstances will have
been unjustly taken from the people.
There is a stumbling block, however, in
the path of these conspirators, and one of the
protection organs talks about it quite frankly.
They are afraid that the formation of such
a trust would “attract attention.” They
know it would make perfectly plain the
false pretenses of their position. Therefore,
it is said, the trust may be a secret one, and
care be taken that the public be furnished
no evidence of its existence. It is a shady
business, and has to to carried on in the
dark.
Too Many People.
The chief point of pride to a prosperous
American city is the rapidity with which
the number of ite people increases. To the
greatest of all cities, London, some way to
check the rapid growth of its population is
now a serious problem. It is hard to realize
that there are concentrated in the English
capital almost as many peoplo as live in
three average American States, and the
number increases rapidly. London is the
haven of the unemployed of England, and
among its 4,500,000 inhabitants, there is
perhaps more dire poverty than anywhere
else in the wond. Recent dispatches have
described the nightly scenes in Trafalgar
square, its wide expanse covered with the
wretched forms of men,', women and chil
dren, who find on its paving stones their
only sleeping place, no matter what the
weather. These peoplo have reached the
lowest depth of poverty and wretchedness,
and thousands more are but a degree higher.
Their number is said to be rapidly increas
ing, and tho winter which has just begun
will witness a degree and extent of suffer
ing which perhaps no former year has
equaled.
The English government must realize that
in the wretchedness of this great popula
tion of homeless men it has around its
Parliament House a problem no less diffi
cult of solution than the discontent of the
people of Ireland. It is a population used
to privation and to quiet submission to
laws made by classes they have been taught
for generations to believe totter and wiser
than themselves, but the day may come
when, made desperate by suffering, they
will rival in London the scenes which make
lurid the history of the closing years of the
last century in Paris. Men will not quietly
starve to death.
Let the British government expend some
of its vast wealth in assisting emigration
from England as it has so long done from
Ireland. The English colonies in every part
of the world are in need of population, and
if planted in them thousands of the people
now starving in Loudon would soon become
prosperous and happy citizens, strengthen
ing the empire instead of weakening it.
The New York Keening Post publishes
the amounts assessed against the Democratic
candidates for office in that city for the use
of Tammany and the County Democracy.
The sum of the assessments is $238,500.
The World, "commenting on this, esti
mates that tho societies will spend on the
election no more than $78,380, leaving a
large amount for other purposes, or for
division. The power to extort such large
sums of money from candidates should in
some way to abolished. Pure politics is im
possible as long as it exists. The best way
to do it, perhaps, would be to reduce the in
come from the offices to a fair remuneration
for the services performed.
It is said that Thomas Nast, the carica
turist, intends to start a pictorial paper m
opposition to Harper's Weekly, with which
he has been so long identified, because he is
not satisfied witli the Mugwump politics of
that journal. He wishes to support the Re
publican nominee, whoever he may to,
vigorously. Mr. Nast is understood to have
acquired a fortune by the work of his pencil
in Harper's. If he carries out the idea
which he is said to entertain he will proba
bly find that it can to dissipated much more
quickly and easily than it was earned.
To keen the public schools of New York
in operation costs an immense amount of
money. The Board of Education this year
asks $5,885,363. A local paper, comment
ing on this, says that the upper classes of
the schools are attended by so few pupils
that it would bo cheaper for the city to pay
their tuition at private schools. This seems
to show that the public demand is for only
the elements of au education, or else that
the services of a great majority of children
are necessary to their parents after they
pass a certain age.
There is evidently some very loose swearing
going on before the committee which isinves
tigating the alleged bribery of New Hamp
shire legislators. A number of monitors pf
the House swear that they agreed to accept
money for their votes, hut subsequently
reconsidered their determination, while tho
men they charge with offering the bribes
swear they never offered any. The legisla
tors who hive testified seemed to treat the
matter as a mere matter of business. If
their votes could he sold, they wanted all
they would bring.
CURRENTgopMMENT.
Real Republican Doctrine.
Prom the Washington Post ( Dem ,)
A Pennsylvania Republican has been found
who wanted the Bankers' Convention at Pitts
burg to pass a resolution to the effect that they
"consider a reduction of the revenues wholly
unnecessary, inexpedient and unwise." Of
course the convention quietly pigeon-holed the
projxisal, though, in fact. it was nothing more
than the doctrine which high tariff Republican
papers would preach if they dared.
The Minneapolis “Blunderer.”
Prom the Philadelphia Press {Rep.)
Mrs. Cleveland has had a great deal of good
luck first and last, but she has rarely had better
than the attack made upon her in the Minne
apolis Tribune by some fool who ougnt to he
put in a cage os the great American bhuiderer.
No woman who has Sad the good fortune to
occupy the White Mouse since t he days of Dolly
Madison has won the esteem, the enthusiasm
and affection given this lair and charming
woman by the Americau people.
Republican Hypocrisy Made Plain.
Prom the New York Evening Post ( Rep.)
If such outrages upon negroes had been com
mitted anywhere in the backwoods by Southern
whites as have occurred during the past month
in college towns of Ohio, the Republican press
and the Republican stump sjieukers would have
llamed with indignation ugaiust a section so lost
to all sense of justice: but neither Foraker, nor
Sherman, nor any other Republican orator, nor
any Republican organ, so far as we have seen,
has uttered a word in condemnation of this har
barism. The hypocrisy of the pretence of Re
publican politicians that they feel an unselfish
interest in the negro was never before made so
plain.
BRIGHT BITS.
The dishonest butcher is always willing to
meet his customers balf-weigh.— Boston Trans
cript.
Cardinal Newman says a gentleman is one
who never inflicts pain This is rough on the
dentists.— Omaha World.
A San Anoelo editor was not only saluted as
“brother” at a Methodist meeting, but was
trusted to pass the hat.—Omaha World.
“There is nothing new under the sun," says
Solomon. Nevertheless it will be admitted that
the dude is pretty fresh -Boston Courier.
Ik the conundrum fiend asks you why the Pro
hibitionists hate the Volunteer, be quick and
answer, “Because she is always ready to defend
the cup.’’— Philadelphia Call.
“What was Nero’s greatest act of cruelty?"
asked the teacher of the class in history.
"Playin’ the fiddle," was the prompt response,
and the teacher let it go at that.— Washington
Critic.
Little Girl- Ma, was Adam the first human
being?
Mother—Yes, my dear.
“Well, who shoved him in the baby carriage?"
—Texas Siftings.
Sunday School Teacher (after reading the
parable of the loaves aud fishes) —Do you know,
Robert, who wrote that story?
Robert (grinning)—No, but it sounds a good
deal like my dad.—Te-ras Siftings.
He Roosts Hioh— Backslide Johnsing, being
near-sighted, mistakes the weathercock for a
fugitive from the chicken roost. “Yer needn't
roost so high, chicken. I ain’t goin’ to touch
yer. l’se rel’o’rned.”— Texas Siftings.
Augustus Popinjay -Good morning, Snooks.
I understand you have been indulging in puts
and calls lately.
Snooks—Well, yes—that is, I did the calling
and her father did the putting. He put me
out. —Bu rl ing ton Free Press.
Customer (In restaurant) — What’s the matter
with the cheese, waiter? It looks as if it might
have been used to bait a rat trap.
Waiter—Yo’ has got dat cheese turned upside
down, sah. Dat’s de side what’s tended to
be up. Now dat cheese am all right, sir.—
Puck.
“I tell you, professional men area clog in
society," said one man to another. “Look at
the ministers, for instance. What are they
good for?”
“I reckon they’re good because it’s a part of
their regular business,” was the response.—
Washington Critic.
Friend—Well, Eliza, how do you like your
husband?
Eliza—He is a villain.
"All men are; but what has he done?”
“You know he was a widower. Well, I’ve
fouud out that all his love letters to me w-ere
copied verbatim from the ones he wrote to his
first wife when they were courting."
“Well, I wouldn’t mind it. He never will send
you any more.”— Texas Siftings.
Omaha Dame—How proud 1 am to know you.
You are a true heroine and everybody is talking
about you.
Brave Girl—l wish it had never happened.
"How can you? Just think, you attacked a
burglar single-handed and held him until help
arrived. The papers said he was utterly pros
trated with the blow you gave him with that
rolling pin."
"I wish I hadn't touched him.”
"Why, dear?"
“I’m afraid I've spoiled my chances of marry
ing.”— Omaha World.
A citizen of Detroit, who probably intends
to run on the next county ticket, met a farmer
from Romulus on Grand avenue, yesterday, aud
held out his hand and said:
“Ah, fine rain this."
“Well, I dunno.”
“Do the crops lots of good."
“It will, eh? What crops?"
“Well, er —you—know—won’t it help the
crops?”
“It may soften up the dirt so I can dig out
some old stumps."
“Exactly—exactly— that's what I meant.
Beautiful weather for softening—beautiful.
Good-bye!"— Detroit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
Sow Kee, the richest Chinaman in San Diego,
Cal., is dead, and has left $500,000 behind him.
Miss Charlotte Morrill, secretary of a
Brooklyn educational institution, may succeed
Miss Freeman us President of Wellesley College.
The latter is to be married next month.
A silver haired patron of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, in New York, who has lived there for
twenty live years, claims that in that time his
lodging and meals have cost him $700,000.
Hidej: Aito Namboo, of Japan, was graduated
at Princeton in IS7B. He is now court astrono
mer at Tokio. When he accepted the court ap
pointment his name was changed to liidemuro
Okenuu.
Gov. Lee. of Virginia, is a candidate for the
Senate, and his friends say he will receive the
iiomiiiiitioii by acclamation. Hon. J. S. Bar
bour contemplates withdrawing his name for
that high place.
By the death of Mrs. Jacob Persinger, of
Salem, Va., Roanoke College will come into pos
session of real estate worth about SIO,OOO, which
was bequeathed to the college by her husband
eight years ago.
Wilford Woodruff. President of the Twelve
Mormon Apostles, is in danger of being deposed.
He is partially inclined to renounce polygamy,
and his brother apostles begin to think he is
tainted with heresy.
Krskine M. Phelps, of Chicago, who was
master of ceremonies at the dinner given to the
President nt the Palmer House, is one of the
best dressed men in the Western Venice. He
bear a striking resemblance to J. Wilkes Booth.
William Mavern. employed in the rolling
mill at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., on Monday, as
catcher of the rolls, failed to notice a liar of
reu-hot iron, and in an instant it coiled
itself twice around his body, inflicting fatal
Injuries.
Old Marshal Bucher is still warmly remem
bered by the Prussian people. On tile last an
niversary of his death his statue in Berlin was
covered a ith liurel, and one aged veteran who
fought under Bluclier laid at its feet a wreath of
oak leuve-4.
Miss Annie L. Leonard, of East Hampton,
Mass., has sailed for Germany to complete hei
musical studies. Her voice is said to ue au ex
act couuteriiui tof iterator's. As Miss Leonard
is the only daughter of a wealthy family, she
will never sing m public.
Gov, McGill, of Minnesota, is visiting the
East fur the first time in twenty years. He left
Pennsylvania iu IHO.i in quest of fortune und
fame, ail 1 now that he happily succeeded In nt
tabling both, he is passing a few weeks among
relatives and friends in Erie county, the Key
stone State.
Pa ok. E. P. Th'Vino, M. D., of Brooklyn, read
n hp*r a; "American Life as Related to
liri(*fV ’ tit fife (]'twtcrly meeting of the So
ciety for the Stilly of Inebriety iu London. As
there are hi o'aw than private inebriate asy
lums io Great Britain his paper about govern
mental ref real s in America excited great at
tentlou and interest.
S, T>. SmolianokK, inventor of the nitro-gly
ezrive sacll. ha? left Siu Francisco for Wash
ington, en rout Ato Europe. The shell has at
tracted considerable attention In England and
Franc", aud Gen. Boulanger has Invited the in
ventor to Paris with the object of t -sting its
worth. Bmolmtioff is a Russian of middle age.
He came tit meriea a dozen years ago.
A PRpMLNgNT hot.;;, steward in C hicago is
said to make a good income by teaching wealthy
but inexperienced epicures the art of dining.
The Lady Retired.
From the St. Paul Globe.
Anent the visit of Chief Justice Waite to St.
Paul some years ago ami a stair party which
was iriven for his benefit by a prominent citizen
I am reinlmied of a little incident in connection
with the party which is very good in its way.
The host, whose wife was in the East, thought
it becoming to invite, to sit at the end of the
dinner- table a well-known society lady of those
days, now deceased. She came anil did the
honors gracefully, but when she should have
ret ire, 1 and left the gentlemen to their wine she
manifested an intention to stay. The host was
perplexed, the guests annoyed anil an awkward
scene was promised, when one of the gentle
men—a diguitle.l judge in demeanor and posi
tion-furnished the key to the situation. He
saw the dilemma, cleared bis throat and an
nounced an anecdote; “Years ago,” said
he, “I was waylaid with a party of friends one
stormy night in a country town. It was hot,
our rooms disagreeable, and the mosquitoes
vexatious. At midnight we all arose, and in our
nightshirts went to the barroom. There we
shook dice, matched dollars, cut matches and
did everything else possible, to pass away the
time. Finally we hit on anew scheme. All of
us stood up against, the bar with our backs to it.
The bartender took the tail of each man's shirt
and tacked it to the top of the bar. To each tail
there was the aame number of tacks and each
tacked in the same position. The idea then was
for all to pull away, and the man who got loose
last was to pay for the drinks. We started. My
shirt ” It was growing ton hot in that room
for the lady. She tied without an adieu.
Recklessly Happy.
Front the Chicago Herald.
Whatever ills befall me now.
Whatever woes betide me,
One memory I have, I trow.
To coinfort and to guide me.
Let poverty and want assail.
Let Fame refuse her glances,
I will not let my courage fail—
I’ve shaken hands with Frances.
Let all my trusted friends desert,
Let Fortune fair fly from me.
Let her I love be proud and pert,
My raiment not become me.
Let me be ever deep In debt.
I A*t friends refuse advances,
Let dark clouds lower; I'll not forgot
I’ve shaken hands with Frances.
Let countless promissory notes
Come due when unexpected.
May every girl who on me dotes
Be straightway disaffected.
Whene’er I seek an heiress' hand.
May something atxjil my chances,
All this and more lean withstand—
I’ve shaken hands with Frances.
I will forget all rude unrest
And ev’ry care that fidgets.
When I remember 1 have pressed
Those dear, delightful digits.
Then totter, castles in the air.
And vanish fair romances,
I miss ye not, for I’m aware
I’ve shaken hands with Frances.
The Czar in Denmark.
Of all the crowned anil uncrowned princely
heads in the castle of Fredensborg, Zealand,
Denmark, none attracts so much attention as
the Czar of Husain. The unusual extension of
his sojourn In that secluded spot into the month
of October is easily understood if the fact is
known that it is the only place on earth where
the mighty ruler of the largest empire that now
is or ever was feels at ease and can allow him
self to go about and behave like other human
beings without the fear of nihilistic attacks
harassing his mind. Although he has surround
ed his castle of Gatchina near Petersburg, with
walls and guards believed to lie impregnable,
death from a murderer's hand has several times
already stared him in the face in his very pri
vate study in that palace. Aud whenever he
goes within his own empire things are
worse and more threatening than at
Gatchina! But at Freilonsborg his fear
leaves him, and he is familiar and human like
other men. The other day the whole family
circle—some three dozen in number made an
excursion to Helsingoer by train. The Czar in
vited his sister-in-law, Princess Marie of Orleans,
to walk with him. and the couple actually trav
eled the whole distance, some nine miles, and
enjoyed the walk On their arrival they went
to the public restaurant at the depot, and had
their lunch by the side of a drummer, who wug
not at all aware of the high rank of his table
companions. All the children of the Princess —
Danish. (ireek and English—are unanimous in
the opinion that the Czar is their “very best
uncle,” and whenever they have a chance they
will crowd around him. The other day a few
hundred Danish children came to celebrate the
birthday of their own queen Louise. They sung,
and the Czar, stepping into their midst, joined
in the song. The Queen desired the song to be
repeated, when the Czar placed himself in front
of the little ones, and, acting the director, beat
time to the children’s song.
Is She Legally Dead?
From the Philadelphia Press.
The elopement from her parents’ house of
Elizabeth Polis, thirty-seven years ago, is
brought to the surface now by the petition of
her brother, Dr. George S. Polls, residing at 461
North Fourth street, to be appointed adminis
trator ot the estate of his sister, “deceased. ”
That Dr. Polls’ sister is “deceased” is a legal
fiction, as no evidence is at hand to prove the
death of Miss Polis, but because she has been
absent so long her relatives have at last given
up all hopes of hearing from her, and wish to
divide among themselves the accumulation of a
legacy left to her by an aunt, anil her share in
the estate left by her parents. As they can do
this only after her death, they seek, through the
intervention of Counsellor Thomas W. Barlow
and the Orphans’ Court, to have her “death”
judicially determined.
Miss Polls lived from the time of her birth.
1829, until 1850, with her parents, the late George
S. and Deborah L. Polls, when she disappeared.
Her father was a merchant, having bis store
and residence at that time at 329 South street.
He and his wife were imbued with the ideas of
their Puritan forefathers, and on the disappear
ance of their daughter, refused even to speak of
her afterward in the presence of the other chil
dren, at that time a half dozen in number. Of
those children there survive only Dr. George S.
Polis and Etella S. Polls, of this citv, and Mrs.
Ann Truitt, of Milford. Del. Their recollection
of the circumstances of their sister’s elopement
is of the dimmest kind, hut they believe that
slie had been thwarted in her desire to marry
when young, and had obeyed her parents until
sbe came of age, when, being her own mistress,
she took “French leave.” All the neighbors
who might have knowledge of the circumstances
have either died or moved out of reach of the
brother and sisters.
The court received the petition and decided to
hear evidence concerning the alleged absence,
the circumstances and its duration.
President Jackson and the Baby.
F. G. Caritenter in the October Cosmopolitan.
Judge a. R. Boteler, now of the Attorney
General’s office at Washington, was a boy at
Princeton College when President Jackson made
his famous torn through the Eastern States in
1833. It was tuken shortly after his famous
nullification decree, and the North went wild in
their adulation of Old Hickory. Baltimore and
Philadelphia lind received Jackson in grand
style, aud he was to pass through Princeton on
his way to New York. Judge Boteler's eyes
now brighten as he tells how excited the college
boys were over Jackson’s expected coining, and
they twinkled as lie told me now he, with sev
eral of his mates, ran away from Princeton the
night before, and went to meet the President at
Trenton that they might accompany him to
Princeton. During the journey, the following
incident occurred, which I give in Judge Bote
ler’s own words:
“Tlie people came in crowds from the sur
rounding country to see the Presidential party
pass by. and Gen. Jackson was uniformly kind
to all. He rode in a splendid four liorsu coach,
which was driven by Old Residi-s, the noted
stage owner, and Gen. Eaton, the Secretary of
Win sat beside Jackson in the coach. About
mid way in the journey a poor woman was seen
out in the fields alongside of the road, hurrying
toward the carriage. She had almost reached
(he road whan the carriages cattle up. The
co w-hmen were about to whip up their horses,
when Jackson, seeing the woman, called out iu
stentorian tones, ’Ha t ”
"As the carriage stopped he said to Eaton:
‘Don’t you see that lady; she wishes to meet us.’
“At tins moment the poor bareheaded wo
man, with a little baby under her arm, had
reached the fence. As she crawled through
and stood looking anxiously from one fain: of
the party to the other, Gen. Jackson raised his
tall white hat and courteously said, ‘Madam,
can we do nuytlilng for youf’
“Rather abashed, the poor woman replied,‘l
want to see the President.'
"At this Jackson again raised his hat, and
said, ‘I am he, and I am glad to know you.
And is that fine hoy your baby? Let me have
him.'
"The woman handed the dirty -faced infanY to
Old Hickory. Jackson took it, and held it up
before him.
' Ah! There is a fine specimen of American
childhood, i think, madam, your boy will make
a tine man some day.’
"Then, with a quick gesture, he put the dirty
face of the infant close to the face of Secretary
Eaton, saying quickly and soberly, ‘Eaton, kiss
him
“Gen. Eaton pretended to do so with a wry
face, amid the laughter of the crowd, and Jack
son then banded the baby back to the happy
mother.”
Judge Boteier once told this story to President
Hayes, and lie profited by it. There is no reason
why Hecretsn s Whitney, Fairchild and Endi
cott should not render tliti same assistance to
President Cleveland.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Germany has eight bachelor heirs to thrones,
the eldest 56 years old; the youngest 8 years.
The Salt lake Hews declares that the con
stitution of the United States was inspired of
God.
Four or five musicians will shortly go on a
visit to Japan from Austria to study Japanese
music.
There are about 85,000 Hebrews in California,
and they are among the most desirable citizens
in the State.
The highest mountains in Arizona are saiil to
be near Prescott. They are 18,000 feet above
the level of the sea.
One Vineland (N. J.) man has made 4.000 gal
lons of unfermented wine this sooson, and
another 8,000 gallons.
At a California agricultural show two tons of
grapes form one exhibit, illustrating the culture
of the vine in one county.
The vintage in California this season, should
the weather continue favorable, is expected to
prove the finest known for years.
The peanut harvest in Virginia is estimated
at 1,000,000 bushels, and nine peanut factories
clean aud sort the nuts for market.
Father McGowan, the pastor of the Catholic
church at New Gascony, Ark., has spent forty
of his 81 years in his present position.
The Board of Regents of the Oregon State
University has increased the salary of the presi
dent from $8,300 to $8,500, aud the salaries of
the other professors from $1,760 to $2,000.
An eagle flying off with a sheep in Santa
Clara county, California, recently, was inter
rupted by a farmer. The bird at once dropped
its prey and attacked the man, who was roughly
handled in the fight. He came out the victor,
however.
Willis Skiff, of Union, Ore., has been miss
ing about a year. Two persons have been tried
for his murder and acquitted. It is considered
almost certain that he was murdered, and pre
parations are being made to settle his estate,
although one man reports that he saw Skiff re
cently working on a railroad In the southern
part of California.
The EO2TORB of Pattenburg, N. J., are much
puzzled over the case of Jonas Robinson, who
seven years ago swallowed a peanut shell. The
boy vomited the shell sixteen months after
swallowing it An eruption appeared in his
side last June from wnich there has been a
steady discharge of pus. The physicians admit
that they cannot diagnose the ailment.
Gen. Sfmpt, Governor of the Invalides, wears
artificial arms which, owing to their perfect
mechanism, admit of his making a series of
natural looking gestures. Both his hands are
gloved. The General distinguished himself in
Africa, in the Crimea, in Italy, and in the war
of 1870. In consequence of his terrible wounds
1 at Sedan, his arms had to be amputated.
The re-survey of Formosa discloses the fact
that much of the land is held in seigniories, or
manors. The early Chinese petty squatters hail
no titles for the land appropriated from the
savages, and as soon as it was cultivated the
powerful gentry applied for wholesale govern
ment grants, which thus placed them in a posi
tion to treat the cultivators as tenants-at-will.
French Corral, Nevada county, Cal., lias its
sensation. A Chinese girl living at that place
desires to attend the public school, and there is
some ‘'kicking’’ against it. The trustees con
sulted County Superintendent Tiffany on the
subject, who has ordered that she be admitted
to tue school and accorded all the rights and
privileges that are enjoyed by the other pupils,
the law so demanding.
The death is announced in Upper Austria of
Frederick Ganglebauer, only brother of Cardi
nal Gangiebauer, Archbishop of Vienna and
Primate of the empire. Frederick Ganglebauer
was but an ordinary peasaui, and fell dead of
an aneurism of the heart while engaged in plow
ing his field. Cardinal Simor, the Primate of
the Kingdom of Hungary, is tile son of a village
cobbler, and has his old mother residing with
him in his splendid palace.
A writer in the Boston Journal says: “If I
want to tell a woman's temper I watch her eye
lids. You can read a man the same way, but
not so readily A woman with a iiery temper
will move her eyelids with a snap and that snap
betrays her. Another who is easy-going and
hard to arouse moves her eyelids languidly.
One with a quick brain and temper furious
when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither
quickly nor slow ly, until engaged in interesting
conversation.”
The report of United States Consul General
Bonham, at Calcutta, shows that the area de
voted to growing wheat in India during the
year ending March 31, 1886, was 27,500.000 acres,
and that the total yield was 889,000,000 bushels.
He states that the quality is inferior to that of
the product of the Pacific coast. The export of
wheat showed an increase over the previous
year of 5,000,000 cwt., and fears that in the fu
ture the United States will find India a formid
able competitor.
At the Smithsonian Institution experiments
are shortly to be commenced to determine if a
solution of permanganate of potash is a local
antidote to the venom of rattlesnakes. Three
serpents, of the Crotalus horridus species, se
lected for the test, will be held by the neck and
made to eject their venom in a saucer, which
will then be in jected, by means of a hypodermic
syringe into pigeons, rabbits, etc., and the symp
toms carefully noted. The supposed antidote
will then be administered by the same means,
in all the stages of toxic symptoms, and the re
sults recorded.
In carrying oft the extension of the Via
Genova the foundations have been uncovered of
a house belonging to a distinguished Roman
lady, .Emitia Paulina Asiatica, sister-in-law of
Scipio, who vanquished Hannibal, at Zama. In
excavating for the foundations of the new
Banca Nazionale fragments of a large marble
calendar were dust up. on w hich were noted the
games to be celebrated in April in honor of
Ceres and Cybele on the Palatine. Near the
Porta Pinciana an inscription has been found
indicating that a temple to Silvanus had been
built on tnat spot.
The Munitobau railroad trouble has ended for
the present, in a disappointing way to the peo
ple of the Province. The contractor of the Red
River Valley road, Hugh Ryan, after waiting for
a long time for payment of the estimates, has
thrown up his contract, and on Saturday gave
notice to all sub contractors to stop work. It is
reported that the statement of the Provincial
Ministers that the estimates were being paid out
of ttie Provincial Treasury as they came due
was false; that only $40,000 has been paid the
contractors, and that $150,000 is due. Many of
the people believe that the Provincial authorities
have humbugged them.
A girl 13 years old, belonging to a spiritualist
family at Gilroy, says the San Francisco Ex
aminer, has startled the community by com
munications and penciled sketches of heads,
supposed to be from life. These written mes
sages aud likem-sies appear on her arm, and
often remain visible for an hour. The father of
the girl says they come and go on the girl s bare
arm evidently under the cuticle, and cannot be
washed away. A statement which has gained
currency, that the girl is in the habit of sewing
carbon tracing paper in her sleeve, is indignant
ly denied by the family, and many regard her as
a most remarkable medium.
Matrimonial advertisements are anything
but a novelty in the Fatherland, and are pushed
to a point rarely seen in other countries. A
love-lorn bachelor of Frankfort recently adver
tiseil fora “helpmate of agreeable exterior and
good education," adding that nionev was only
a secondary consideration. He received no less
thaw 3,643 offers! Of this number 8.187 came
from Germany, inclusive of 237 from Frankfort
alone: the remainder were sent from abroad
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
respondents had said nothing about their for
tune. anil tbe remaining 1,816 had stated their
worldly goods to bejlrom 1.0001 o 800,900 marks
Two hundred and seventy-three offers were of
a more or less joco-e character. Three thou
sand one hundred anil twelve offers were ac
companied by photographs, the return postage
on which involved the sum of 786 marks. The
fair victor in the contest was a poor young Han
overian maiden.
Gabriel Scott, a colored man who has bei n
at the county poor farm near St. Joseph. Mo.,
for the last two months, died on Monday last at
the advanced age of 105 years. Gabrie: was
born July 19, 1788, in Richmond, Va For
twenty-two years he was a slave, and was
owned by a man named Randolph, a relative of
John Randolph, of Roanoke In 1801 he pur
chased his freedom of his master and went to
New Haven, Conn., where he lived until 1819
when he sent to Louisville, Ky., where he mur
ried. He was the father of nine children, all of
Whom are dead. He has several grandchildren
m Kentucky, but did not know where t’nev re
snled In 18.59 he moved tog . Joseph, and has
lived there ever since. At the time of hi I death
he was in full possession of his faculties, and
but a, few minutes before passing away ro
markwl that he “was done played out." Rcott
wa l t ! ,R Person in North wed Missouri
with the exception of an old negro woman re
siding on Levee and Franklin streets, known as
Aunt Jenny,” who is now past 108 years. She
is not apparently more than 60, and takes fre
quent walks all over the city.
BAKING POWDER.
PURE
p?PR!CrS
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Its superior excellence proven in millions of
homes for more than a quarter of a century. It u
used by the United States Government. In
dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as
the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr.
Price's the only Baking Powder that do >s not
contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in
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NEW YORK. CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS.
A. K. ALTMAVER & CO.
OCR OPENING IS NOW OVER,
But ive would asture our friends and cus
tomers that the
GRAND DISPLAY
STILL CONTINUES AT
A. R. ALTMAVER k CO.’S.
r PHE unanimous verdict of the ladies, and all
I who called Thursday and Friday was that
such an array of lovely goods was never before
seen in Savannah. In every department were
they charmed by the beauty, taste and elegance
displayed. These new and choice things were
last week on exhibition but are THIS WEEK
ON SALE,
and we warmly invite you to call and take ad
vantage of the opportunity'. It is unnecessary
to assure you that we will maintain our rep
utation for
CLOSE PRICES
that is already established, but we will quote a
few SPECIAL THINGS in the dilierent depart
ments that are GREAT DRIVES
DRESS GOODS.
Commencing MONDAY MORNING we will
offer:
50 pieces Colored Cashmere, in all the new
shades, at sc. per yard.
30 pieces Fancy' Checks, Plaids and Stripes. In
double width, at 12t£,c. per yard.
50 pieces Double width Ail wool filling Cash
mere. in all the new shades, at 19c. per yard;
cannot be matched anywhere for less than 25c.
or :15c.
10 pieces 40-inch wide Camel's Hairs at ITJslc.
per yard, equal to any 65c. goods in the city.'
FLANNELS.
Will offer an ALL WOOL RED FLANNEL at
15c. iter yard, and a soft white wool Flannel at
12>yc. per yard: and a full case CANTON FLAN
NELS at o)4c. per yard; worth 10c. anywhere.
BLANKETS.
Being out of our regular 98c. Blankets, we will
sell for the week, or us long as they last, OUR
$( 25 10-4 BLANKETS at 99c.
While here look at our lovely large sizd
LAMB’S WOOL BLANKETS at S5.
DOMESTICS.
Several eases new styles DRESS GINGHAMS
just received which we will sell at 10c, and
12v^0.: never before sold less than 15c. Ask to
see them.
And notwithstanding advance in “Fruit of
Loom,"’we will sell two cases this week at 90.
per yard.
GLOVES.
FOR THE WEEK: A line of Dressed and
Undressed Kids, plain or embroidered backs,
4-button, at 50c.
To those who have not yet called we will say
DO NOT FAIL TO SEE
OTTII MILLINERY.
It is the complelest and most beautiful line
ever displayed south of New York.
See also our l<>v My CLOAKS. This lint: can
not be surpassed anywhere. We would call
your especial attention to our SILK PLUSH,
SATIN LINED wrap at $l2 50. It is the pret
tiest thing ever seen for the price.
Look also at our SILKS. This is a special
feature of nur business and aelielieve our line
is unapproachable.
Every department in the house you will find
as complete as those mentioned. Ail are filled
with the Newest Novelties. We extend a warm
invitation to you ail to cail whether you wish to
purchase or not. Our salesmen and salesladies
are taught to SHOW GOODS with pleasure.
We are respectfully yours,
A. l ALTIAYER k CO,
P. S.—Mail orders will receive prompt atten
tion, and samples will lie sent on application.
Our ILLUSTRATED FALL CATALOGUES
also can be had on application.
A. R. A. & CO.
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FOR THE TEETH
ft made from Mir Material*, contains no Acidi,
Hard Grit, or injurious matter
It is Pubb, Refined, Pirfect.
Notiuno Like It Ever Known.
From Senator (ocircwlt nil.--"I take pleas
ure in recommending Zojjwlibb on account of Its
efficacy and purity.”
From Hire. Grn. T.oenn> Dentist* Hr.
B. Carroll, Washing‘>u, J). C.—*‘l have had
Zonwelss analyzed. It la the most perfect denti
frice I have ever seen.”
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Uiv. of iVlo. —“Zonwelts cleanseHtneteet.il thor
oughly, is delicate, convening, very pleasant, and
leaves no after taste. Sold by all. dbuugistb.
Price, 35 cents.
Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y.
tLim.iDiu 1 ■ 1 >,
For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman 1 !
Block, Savannah.
~ BAKER** COCOA*
-57, GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878,
BAKER’S
tßrtfastCecoa.
Warranted abeolnteiy pure
Boa, from which the exccsn cf
has been removed. It ha * three
ee the strength of Cocoa mixed
b Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar,
11* therefore far moroeconotn-
I, costing less than one cert (l
). It in delicious, nourishing
mgthoning, eablly ciliated,
l admirably adapted for Inval
a* well as for persona in health*
did by Groccraetcrywhero#
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