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4 C|cpiirning|lth)s Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. IHH7. Registered nt the Post Office in Savannah. Morning News is published every day *n tbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and earners, on their own ac count. at ar> cents a week, $1 00 a mouth, go 00 ior six months and $lO 00 for one year ’The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1*00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning Newr, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year, $N 00. The Morning News, Tri Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00, The Sunday News, by mail, one year. *2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions pa\ able in advance Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of t he Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Oa." Advertising rates made known on application 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 CREAM 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 CaQ3 ' PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. 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. 1 1,11 ■ ■■ ■■■ ZON WEISS CREAM. 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. 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