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4 CkHToriungJlcfos Morning; News Building;, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11*. IHS7. Registered at the Post Office in Barannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , hy newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at CT cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mail , one month. $1 00; three months, $2 00; aix months, $0 U; one year. $lO 00. Ttie Morning News, by matt, s!x times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. S* 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 Oil. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. s'2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 TV Subscriptions payable in advance. Keuiit by postal order, checic or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on tile and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, (la." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, Meetings—Mutual Co-operative Association; Magnolia Encampment No. 1, I. O. O. F.; Gol den Rule Lodge No. 12, 1. O. O. K. Special Notices—As to crews of British steamships Maude and Wetherby aud British bark President and Norwegian bark Chondor; As to Bills against steamship Wick Bay; State and County’Taxes, 1887. Amusements —Thomas Keene at the Theatre. Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship Company; OeneraJ Transatlantic Company. Railroad Schedule East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia Railroad. Notice .1. McLaughlin A Son. The World Tvpe Writer-George Becker & Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements - Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Board; Ixtst; Miscellaneous. Auction Sales—Household Furniture, by Marshall A McLeod; Sale of Handsome Furni ture Continued by J. McLaughlin A Son; Sato Without Reserve, by D. R. Kennedy. Twenty thousand voters registered in Cincinnati on the first registration day, against twelve thousand last year. This is further evidence of the intense interest felt iu the Powell-Foraker campaign. Mrs. James Brown Potter is back in New York from her Loudon experiences. She seems not to have shown herself much of an actress, but as an advertising agent of herself she is a genius, aud that will carry her most of the way to success. Louisiana newspaper readers must be fearfully bored by the long-continued fac tional fight in the Democratic party. The New Orleans papers have been burdened with it for months, and it grows bitten r every day. The worst of it is that it threatens Democratic supremacy in the State. The Birmingham Age, in an editorial on the impolicy of removing or lowering the duty on sugar, says that if protection is continued ten years longer sugar will be so cheap that every laboring mao may have fruit pie for dinner. He ought to submit willingly to a great many years of priva tion with such a glorious prospect set before him. There is a rubber ring, or trust, but this has not prevented the National Rubber Company, of Rhode Island, from failing, with liabilities of nearly $1,000,000. It must be a peculiarly weak “infant” which a big bounty, a combination to prevent competition, and a growth of muny years together cannot brace up so that it can stand. English preachers seem to be all the fashion in New York. Rev. Charles A. Perry on Sunday preached an experimental sermon in Mr. Beecher’s old pulpit, and made so favorable an impression that he may remain permanently. He had better make a contract Indore he goes to England for his family, or Collector Magone may return him as a contract laborer. So long as almost every Senator and Representative carries in his pocket a book of telegraph franks there is not much dan ger of a telegraph system owned by the gov ernment in opposition to the Western Union. What influence the possession of such franks would have on the votes of their holders if the company wanted to sell out at a good round price is another question. Gadsden country, Florida, can not only grow- the finest tobacco, but it can raise other wonderfully profitable crops. The Quincy Herald tells of a quarter-acre or chard of pears which this year netted its owner $l6O, besides giving him the pleasure of supplying his pear-loving neighbors with fruit and his own cellar with two barrels of cider. Gadsden is evidently a great county. The leaders of the opposition to Mr. Powderly in the Knights of Ijabor are said to be discussing the wisdom of heading a revolt. They claim to be able to carry 150,000 men out of the old order into anew one, but if they attempt such a movement it is not at all probable they would meet with that degree of success. If they should suc ceed they would greatly weaken the cause of organized labor. Father McTighe, principal of a Pittsburg public school, is having more trouble than he counted on. He desired Sisters of Char ity for teachers in his school, and they were examined 'as to their literary attainments by the School Board. The übiquitous re porter was of course on hand, and so of fended the Sisters by describing them as “beautiful,” that they refused to teach. The good nuns are evidently of a different mind about compliments than their sisters out in the world. A Washington church was surprised to see twelve of its prettiest young ladies at tend evening services recently escorted by twelve Chinese laundrjsnen, who are their Sunday school pupils. It takes a teacher to each Chinaman, and the relations estab lished in this way have more than once led to marriuge. These same young women would perliaps have hesitated to attend church in company with white men occupy ing no better position in the world thau do these Chinamen. A gentleman from Virginia and a gentle man from Kentucky tried to fight a duel in the Bois de Boulogne, Pam, the other day, but their seconds slyly unloaded their pis tols, jumped in a carriage and returned to the city, leaving the chagrined principals shivering in the frosty morning air, to set tle their difficulty as best they could. They concbuied not to resort touature's weajxms, and in the long ride back to the city, made friends. They showed themselves sensible fellows after ail, but the Frenchmen laugh. Protection for Loan Associations. The loss of $32,000 which the Jasper Loan Association recently suffered through the wrongful acts of its Treasurer, and which was discovered only by accident, suggests the inquiry whether the interests of the stockholders of these loan associations are sufficiently protected. The loss sustained by the Jasper association is a heavy one, and from present indications will have to lie almost wholly borne by its stockholders. The officers who managed its affairs enjoyed the reputation of being excellent business men, and were thought to be in every re spect well qualified for their trust. In spite of their ability, however, to manage the r own business affairs they failed to manage successfully the association committed to their care by their fellow stockholders. Upon many of the stockholders of the Jasper assoeiation the loss which they will have to bear will fall quite heavily, as their means are small. Any additional tax on their incomes is a severe burden. The Treasurer, it is true, was under a bond of $5,000, but the directors of the asso ciation do not appear to have kept them selves posted with respect to the ability of the bondsmen to meet the obligation which they had assumed, in case it should become V'cessary for them to do so. Indeed, it is not certain that they inquired very closely into the financial standing of the bondsmen when they accepted them. It is understood that only one-half of the amount of the bond can be collected. In this city and other parts of the State, large amounts of money are intrusted to the keeping of these loan associations. The money, as a rule, belongs to those who can ill afford to lose it, and who depend upon it to build for themselves homes, or to afford them comforts in their declining year-. The associations, to some extent, take the pluce of savings banks, and the savings of clerks, mechanics and even merchants find their way into them. The Jasper's loss shows that there is some ground for assuming that the State should enact laws for the protection of those who put their money into these loan associations. The associations should be treated just as banks, and other institutions which handle the money of the people, are. They should be required to make reports at stated pe riods to the Comptroller General, and to publish them, in order that there may be a public record, open to every one, of their condition. In one of the mutual loan associations of this city there is an Auditing Committee, elected by the stockholders, which is inde pendent of the directors, and which exam ines its accounts every month. The mem bers of the committee are not only stock holders, but expert accountants, and they ate paid for their services. A committee of this kind affords the stockholders protec tion, and at the same time assists the Treas urer and other officers in keeping the affairs of the association in good condition. It is clear that most of the loan associa tions should have greater safeguards thrown around them either by legislative enactments or otherwise. They are good institutions, but another affair like that of the Jasper association would seriously injure them by weakening confidence in them. The stock holders don’t get the kind of protection they want from men who are chosen presi dents and directors because they are popu lar, from stringent by-laws or from bonds men whose wealth cannot be found when it is wanted. A Brave Messenger. J. Ernest Smith, the express messenger who killed two men who attempted to rob the Galveston, Harrisburg und San Antonio express last week, an account of which was given in our dispatches, deserves something more than an expression of thanks from those who were benefited by his brave act. Train robbers have been so successful, not only in securing plunder, but in escaping arrest, since the practice of robbing trains began, that they have grown recklessly bold. Iu some instances they have acted as if they apprehended very little, if any, trouble in accomplishing their puiqioses. The resistance offered by Messenger Smith will have the effect of making other mes sengers more determined in protecting the property intrusted to them, and of causing train robbers to be a little more cautious in attacking railway trains. According to the first account of the af fair only one of the robbers was killed by the messenger, but later aud fuller accounts state that two of them were shot dead. Two were all that were seen. It is supposed that there were others near at hand, and that they wore afraid to come to the assist ance of their companions. The railroad companies whose trains are supposed to be liable to be attacked do not appear to have taken any precautions to protect their passengers from being roblied, and the express companies, which carry large amounts of money t hrough the danger ous territory, have not, as far as the public knows, made any provision against train robbiug beyond furnishing their agents with extra arms. Hpwever, the express companies promptly make good the losses which their patrons suffer through them, and nobody, therefore, has much fault to find with them. Messenger Smith showed himself to be a cool and courageous man, and train robbers will be careful in future to let the trains alone on which he is messenger. His em ployers and the railway company should recognize his services in an appropriate way, not only because he deserves such recogni tion, but also because if proper apprecia tion of his brave act is shown other messen gers will bo more likely to follow his exam ple should the occasion for doing so arise. The rivalry among the New York city papers is so great that they have about ceased to have much independence. They al! appear to be striving to gain the favor of the crowd rather than to direct the crowd with regard to the proper course to pursue. A week ago the most of them e sure that Delaney Nicoll, an assistan! hi the Distriot Attorney's office, who mi. le quite a reputation iu the boodle trials, should be made District Attorney to suc ceed Mr. Martiue, and now about all of them think that somebody else should be District Attorney. Mr. Nicoll has not changed but the newspapers have, and that, too, without any satisfactory reason. A Newport society man has just com mitted suicide with a pistol because he feared he would die of apoplexy. He must be a very particular sort of man who is not* satisfied with the promptitude with which apoplexy generally does its work. There is only small choice between it and a pistol shot. Senator Hiscock said in a speech recently that “we fix the price of wheat for the world.” Then what a lot of fools are we for fixing it so low. About $1 50 would be much more remunerative. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1887. Not Yet Settled. The question of the location of the new public building is not yet definitely settled, notwithstanding the announcement of the Secretary of the Treasury that the Bull street front of the barracks property has been accepted. The government doesn’t accept any property to which it cannot get a clear title, and there is some doubt, it seems, whether it can get a clear title to the barracks property. In view of the fact that the property was bought from the govern ment, it was thought that the question of title would be quickly settled. It appears, however, that the city authorized the con veyance of the property to the government in 1835, for barracks purposes, and when the government sold it in 1883, the city con sented tet* its transfer to the parties who purchased it, provided it were used as a site for a hotel. The following shows the posi tion of the city with respect to the property: Extract from Minutes of meeting of City Council of Savannah, Nov. 14th, 1883. Resolution by Alderman O’Connor. Whereas, An ordinance was passed by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, on the 22d day of August, 1838, authorizing the conveyance to the United Stetes of the piece of ground In said city of Savannah, bounded by Bull, Harris, Drayton and Liberty streets, for the purpose of erecting barracks thereon for the accommodation of the troops of the United States; and. Whereas, The said piece of land, so author ized to be conveyed, is about to be sold at public outcry by the United States, and a great desire is manifested by the public that the same shall lie purchased for the purpose of building a hotel thereupon; therefore, lie it Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen in Council assembled, That the city of Savannah will make no claim to any reversionary or other right in said piece of ground f provided, however, that the same lie bona fide purchased at the sale for the purpose of building a hotel, as aforesaid, and to be used therefor. It would seem, therefore, that before the government can get a satisfactory title to the property the city must again relinquish all claim to it. Will it do so! That is a question for the Mayor and Aldermen to answer. Their duty is plain. They must look out for the best interests of the city. Will they do so by permitting the new public build ing to be located on the barracks lot ? Clearly not. And why ! Because the site is too far away from the business portion of the town; because it will lessen the attrac tions of Bull street as a promenade, and be cause it will delay the building of anew hotel for perhaps a quarter of a century. If the holders of the barracks property are given to understand that they cannot sell it except for hotel purposes, they will exert themselves to find a purchaser who will build a hotel upon it. There is no other eligible hotel site that can lie obtained at any reasonable price. It is the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen to do all they can to get both the new public building and anew hotel. We shall get the new public build ing even if the government does not get the barracks site, but we may not get the hotel if the government does get that site. There is another thing for the Mayor and Aldermen to consider. The bill to sell the court house site has passed the House, and doubtless will pass the Senate. If the gov ernment does not get the barracks site it may be induced to purchase, the court house site, which would be satisfactory to every body. The county would sell the court house site for the same amount the govern ment has agreed to pay for the barracks site. The failure of the government to get the barracks site may result iu giving us a new hotel and anew court house as well as anew government building. If the court house site should not prove satisfactory to the government there are other sites which can be obtained that would be satisfactory both to the government and to the people of Savannah. If the city should refuse to relinquish its claim to the barracks site, then the business men of the city should set to work at once and assist the government in getting a site that would so nearly meet with the approval of all interests that there would be no more wrangling over the matter. Mr. Lamar’s Critics. A Republican journal, in trying to ex plain why the disasters it prophesied as the result of Democratic success in 1884 have not come upon the country, lays stress on the fact that the Senate and the Supreme Court are still Republican. The one stands, it says, like a rock in the way of reckless legislation, and the other is ready to preserve the results of the war. It then g.)t's on to repeat the prophecies of disaster which proved to havo so little influence in 1884, making them contingent this time on the election of Democrats to the Senate and the elevation of Mr.Lamar and men like him to the Supreme Court bench. It takes occa sion to speak of Mr. Lamar as a “blatant rebel and repudiationist. ” It is not necessary in this latitude to deny such charges as these, but they naturally raise the question us to what results of the war there are to be preserved only by the Supreme Court’s remaining Republican. No one fears that the questions settled by the war will bo raised again. It is not asserted now that a State has a right to secede, aud law has done all it can for the negro. No Supreme Court decision will hasten or re tard the progress of the colored people. Mr. Lamar is called a rsbel because, when a Senator, he denied that Jefferson Davis was a traitor, and a repudiationist because Mississippi refused to pay certain claims which she thinks are unjust. Mr. Lamar is well qualified in every re spect for a position on the Supreme bench. He has courage, integrity and ability, and on the Supreme bench he would make his mark, as ho has made it in every position which he has held. A young negro, educated in Maine, is in New York, and tells of his terrible ex|ieri ence in Aberdeen, Miss., where ho went to secure a place in the public schools. He did not get the position he wanted, and gives as one reason that to do so he would have been obliged to make affidavit thnt be would “support, perpetuate and defend, to the best of bis ability, the interest and perma nency of the Democratic party, live by it swear by it, and die by it.” He claims that for no reason whatever he was ordered to leave the town, and finally did so, barely in time to escape being lynched. In the Maine school where this young man receiver! his education, he was evidently not taught to always speak the truth, or else has profited little by the instruction received. The sea son for campaign lies is just opening, and he hastens to supply the demand. Rev. Sam Small is down on the Germans. He said in a New York speech Sunday that ho would rather Bismarck were an absolute monarch in this country than that it should be controlled by Germans. Perhaps there yet remains in the Rev. Sam’s mind some of the jealousy he must at one time have felt of the self-control which enables the German to drink without getting drunk. Mr. Sinai) seems to have turned from in temperance iu driuk to intemperance in speech. CURRENT COMMENT. Preparing to Absorb From the Baltimore American (Rep.) Now that the Pullman Car Company has in creased its capital stock for the purpose of en larging Its facilities, the announcement of the sale or the Baltimore and Ohio Parlor and Sleep ing Car plant may lie expected any day. A Display of True Patriotism. From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.) Don Cameron having declared that nothing but a financial panic will prevent Cleveland's election, there are some Republicans trying their level best to get up a financial panic. This is true patriotism, but soi nehow the panic doesn’t seem to pan. BRIGHT BIT3. “Will you marry me?" asked Augustus, who is a matter-of-fact young man. “Oh,” she replied, fluttering!}', "ask papa.” "Certainly: Ull ask your father if you wish it, but I naturally thought you ought to know best."— Washington Critic. Mas. Perehby (to new servant)—The last ser vant had a habit of going into the parlor with her young man and sitting there the whole evening. Have you a young man? New servant—No, mum; but I might get one, with such inducements offered.— Judge. Father - Who are the leading men in your class at college, Tom ? Tom—Let’s see. There is Ed Pender can curve a ball around two posts; Tom Smith can kick nine feet and two inches high, and Andy Jordon can throw uny man in the university. Our class is going to make a brilliant record, father.— Burlington Free Press. "What’s a foolkiller, ma?” asked little Johnny? "Go and ask your father, my dear,” she re plied with a sneering intonation; "he knows everything.” “A foolkiller, niv boy,” returned old Brown* glancing slyly under his paper at his wife, "is a little tiling called a cigarette."— Judge. “There's something that I think will suit you,” said the real estate agent to the theatri cal manager who was looking for a residence. “It’s a corner lot, with a nice, roomy, light house." "Well, I don't want it.” "Why?” ‘‘l see enough of light houses in my regular business. "—Washington Critic. The agent of a Cincinnati grocery house who went over to a Kentucky town to inquire into the failure of a grocer, asked to see the books. The grocer raised ids voice and called to a negro at the back end of the store: “Hi! you boy, bring out them books. Get those two lives of Daniel Boone; and if there's a Bible ’round bring that. This chap wants to see our books, and we want him to know that our books are all to be sawn."— Walt afreet News. As noon As Russian— You are quite a linguist, I believe. “Yes, I am familiar with four or five lan guages.” "What are they?" “I speak French, German, English and Greek, and 1 can read and write in several languages that I cannot speak fluently.” “Do you write Ru.-sian?" “No, but I do the next thing to it.” "What’s that?" “I'm practicing on a type writer.— Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. An old gentleman recommended “Ben Hur” to one of his young friends, advising her to read the book by all means. Meeting him soon after, she told him that she had inquired for it at sev eral bookstores, bvt none of them had the book. "What did you usk for?” said the gentleman. “Why, 'Ben she,' of course replied the lady. A few weeks later the old gentleman received an invitation to the young lady's wedding, and the bridegroom’s name chanced to be Benjamin “Ah!” said he, as he read the card, “she failed to find ‘Ben Hur,’ but she has had better suc cess, it seems, in the search for Her Ben.”—Bos ton Journal. Rich Men's Brains.— Omaha Lawyer—l have just heard of the death of your uncle, whom you kuow was an old client of mine. Nephew—Uncle's dead, eh? Smart man that uncle of mine. Started on nothing and made million after million without half trying. "Yes, lie was a smart mail, there is no doubt of that.” "Smartest man I ever knew. Saw him only a few months ago and his brain was as quick as a steel trap, old as he was. You have charge of his will. I believe?" "Yes; hi left all his money to orphan asy lums.” "He did? That will won’t stand. He’s been a half idiot these twenty vears ."—Omaha World. The existence of a driver on a bobtail car is not a happy one. The other day a couple of colored men boarded the step on the rear, but neglected the usual trip to the contribution box in front. The driver jingled the bell that is used to wake up delinquent passengers, but to no purpose. They rode as far as they cared to go, and then walked around to the front of the car and politely tha-ik <1 the driver for the ride. Tic functionary stood aghast for a moment, and then whipped up his horse without saying a word. "That's mighty provoking, isn't it?" said a sympathizing passenger on the front platform. "Oh, that's nothing." was the philosophical reply; “there’s lots of ’em gits on and rides and don’t even thank me.”— Washington Critic. > PERSONAL. Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, is at Yokohama. Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent, is a hopeless invalid. Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, who has been ill at Pittsfield, Mass., is engaged upon her first novel. John Boyle O’Reilly declares that $500,000 a year is paid to British spies on the Irish in America. The cobblers of Natick, Mass,, are about to erect a monument to the late Vice President Henry Wilson. Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost, the Socialist preach er, has accepted the nomination of the Labor party for the Mayoralty of Newark, N. J. Susan Cooudoe, Mrs. Preston and Charles Egbert Craddock are the American contrib utorstothe new English! magazine Atalanta. Gen. Paine, of the Volunteer, has a long list of invitations from Boston clubs that want to entertain him within a gastronomic inch of his life. Henry E. Abbey denies the report of a com bination of Mary Anderson with Booth and Bar rett for 188S, as he has engaged Miss Anderson for that season. Thf. grave of Charlotte Temple in New York is visited by more tourists than any other sepul chre. with the single exception of Gen. Grant s. It is in Trinity church yard. Rev. Bernard Carpenter has resigned from the Unitarian church, of which he was pastor in Boston, and has been succeeded by Edward Everett Hale His congregation presented him with a check for SIO,OUO. Joseph Sellwood has made $500,000 from his contract to take the ore out of an iron mine at Gogebic, Wis. He started penniless three years ago, and now makes $250,000 a year by sub-let t ug his ten year contract. Fx Senator Blanche K. Bruce, who is deliv ering lectures in the West, w ill be introduced to his heir era in Indianapolis next week by "Old Saddlebags'’ McDonald, who was in the Senate ut the same time as the colored orator. Miss Pimuii: Couzixs, United States Marshal of Missouri, Is oflllcted v ith rheumatism. She is unable to attend the coming Congress of Fo male Suffragists at Washington, hut writes Mrs. Lockwood that she is with the movement hotly and soul. Among the heaviest taxpayers of New York are John Jacob Astor, $235,040: William Astor. $170,000: estate ot W. 11. Vanderbilt. $171,124; estate of Robert Goelet, $107,390: New York (hntral, $348,013, aud the Consolidated Gas Company, $223,810. An 8-year-old giri. in Marlboro, Conn., is abundantly supplied with living ancestors. Be sides her mother anil father, she has two grand mothers, two grandfathers, two great-grand mothers. two great-grandfathers, and one great-great-grandmother, who is almost a cen tenuriun. Miss Jgsie Holmes, ths confidential clerk of E. L. Harper, I'resldent of the wrecked Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, is utterly craze I by the un enviable notoriety she has attained during the liast three months. On Monday she took a large dose of chloroform with suicidal intent, and came within an ace of effecting her purpose. Krastus Wiman has another gigantic acheme in contemplation. It is in brief to bund 1,000 cottages on Staten Island and sell them on long lxiyme.it* to actual hoods of families who will occupy the smite, each purchaser to receive a sort of life insurance contract which in event of ills death will cause the property to revert to his heirs free of all debt. Count Inovte, the eminent Japanese scholar and statesman who recently resigned the office of Foreign Minister, was. like his life-long friend, the Premier, Count Ito, a member of the Cho Shin clan, and, with Count Ito, went to England in IHtW, w hen it was a capital offense for any Japanese to leave his country. They returned home when they leaned that the allied fleet was about to attack Shimo-no-Seki, tlie chief Cho Shin port, and thus braved deat h in order to explain to their countrymen the use lessnss of reaislance. Chicago’s Modesty. From the Chicago New*. A bright-eyed little miss of 5 years rode down on a Madison street cur last evening sitting on her father's knee. She was so full of queries that they kept running out of her in a perfect stream. Some of her questions were posers, and the father showed signs of weakness several times. He struggled along gallantly, however, and the passengers got interested in the contest. The toddler finished him up, however, just as the car was lumbering over the viaduct west of the bridge. "If I got In one of those cars where would I be to-morrow?’’ she demanded, as her eyes caught tile cars in the Union de]>ot. “You’d go to sleep and wake up in St Paul in the morning.' answered the father. “Who'd wake me up?” “The porter, the man in the car." For a moment missy was silent. Then she cast a look of scorn upon papa, and in a tone of inimitable contempt she said: "And do you suppose I'd let a man dress me?” Iter futber lay down. Six Weeks in February. New York Dispatch to the Philadelphia Star, Ned Giimore and McKee Rankin had w hat threatened to be a row the other night at Niblo’s Garden. Gilmore, however, carried the honors off. as usual, and with not much of an effort at that. Rankin was to have produced “Macbeth" in a week or two at Niblo's. but at the last mo ment Manager Gilmore gave the time to another attraction. Rankin rushed to him, with fire in his eyes and anger in his soul, and demanded to know the reason why he was shut out of the theatre. ”IVby, you’re not ready,” said Mr. Gilmore, innocently. “Rut I will be," protested Rankin. “I’m afraid not,” said the other gentleman. "But I tell you I will," said the actor, hotly, “or I'll sue for damages.” “Oh, well." said Mr. Gilmore, with the air of a man who is too good-natured to take any worry in hfs life, "don't bother about it and I'll give you six weeks' time in February." "Will you?" gasped Rankin, delightedly. “Six w eeks," repeated Mr. Gilmore, senten tiously. Mr. Rankin wrung his hand and departed hap pily up town. It was some hours before lie realized that there is a palpable degree of diffi culty in inserting six long weeks in the very short month of February. Then bitterness filled his soul, and his remarks about Gilmore were free and forcible. Gambling in ’49 in San Francisco. Prom the Overland Mon thly. There was a French woman who played the violin receiving SIOO a day therefor, and as women were so scarce in t hose days, whenever she left the saloon to go out on the street, e very saloon around the square was emptied to get a look at her. In these saloons then' were piles of gold, both in eoin und in sacks of gold dust, that would put some of our commercial banks of the present day to the blush, and long lablesthat had their croupiers ready to rake in or pay out as fast as the cards were turned off. I have often watched some novice who was putting down his first ventures at play. On one occa sion I saw at the same table two clergymen shove their coin under another man's arm on the tabic. I knew them both and know of what I speak—we are all mortals after all. Among other noted players was a Judge at that time, who made it a point every evening to go around from place to place ami make high play. Upon entering with his attendant, who carried the sack, he would first sit down at a table and bar off every other player; then set his time of play at a limb, say twenty minutes or half ar. hour, the stakes from SIO,OOO to $20,- 000, with the bank. Meantime, to keep the crowd that would be in at the time, which would number from 300 up to near 1,000, he always asked them all to take a drink, which meant 26c. a head for the bar; and if he won he paid for the drinks; if he lost the bank had them to pay for. She Wanted Some Flowers. From the Boston Courier. A lady living in the suburbs was called down the other morning to see a young girl who asked for her at the door, but declined to enter the house. The lady recognized the caller as a girl she had frequently seen in the neighborhood, but of whose name she was ignorant. The gil l looked hurriedly up and then bash fully cast down her eyes to the doormat, which she nervously prodded with the toe of her coarse boot. “Got anv flowers?" she demanded, with a manner which seemed gruff, but which was probably only frightened. “Yes, a few,” was the reply. “Get any flowers?" “Not many. Why?" “Cause Mis’ Purington wants some." “Who is Mrs. Puiington?” “She's the widow woman what lived in the red house at the end of Back Alley." "What sort of flowers does she want ?” in quired the lady, utterly at a loss to know why Mrs. Purington. the widow who dwelt in the red house at the end of Back alley, should send to demand flowers from a perfect stranger. “I ilunno," answered the girl, more sullenly than before. “But what is she going to do with them ?” persisted the puzzled lady. "I dunno," repeated the caller. “She's dead, an' she wants some flowers.” And the pathetic situation having thus become clear at length, the lady sent to the departed widow who would dwelt no more in the red house at the end of Back alley whatever blos soms the frost had spared in her little garden. New Story About Napoleon’s Heart. Cable Dispatch to the New York Mail and Ex press. The alleged disappearance of the remains of Napoleon 1. from t lie tomb in the Invalided has brought into publicity a very curious anecdote, which is related by Ur. Bremoud, in his work on “Hygiene." The doctor alleges that the heart of Napoleon was eaten by rats in May. 1881. It is a remarkable story, and has increased the sensation occasioned by the rumored theft of the ashes. Dr. Antomachi and Dr. Carswell bad begun a post mortem examination of Napoleon's body at ljongwood. Thov were unable to com plete their labors on the day on which they commenced them, and, night corning on, they suspended their operations until the next day. On resuming their examination of the Ixrdy on the following morning, they discovered that Napoleon's heart had been devoured by rats. Upon this revelation, and to pre vent the accident becoming publicly known, ibey substituted for the natural heart a portion of the viscera of a sheep. This is the tale which is now supplementing tne previous sensation, and it linUs credence as readily as the other. The officials at the Invalldos deny the truth of this extraordinary story as strenuously as they dented the canard about the removal of Napo leon's remains. They contend, very plausibly, that more care was taken of the body than would appear from Dr. Bremond's account, and that it was carefully watched all night long, during the cessation of the labors of the examining physicians. Nevertheless, the cir cumstantial manner in which the story is told has greatly impressed many Parisians with a belief in its verity, and further investigation will probably take place to satisfy their doubt and curiosity. The Song of the Sirens. f'rom Macmillan's Magazine. The moonlight bathes the sea, And the ripples wash the sand, The song qt our hearts goes free Down the shelving silver strand. Neither goddesses are we, nor women, Nor angels, nor spirits of death; We are maidens of evil omen. And we breathe the sea spray for our breath. The gods love us not in heaven, The souls of drowned men in hell Curse us, from morn till even. For tne songs we sing so well. We are neither alive nor dead, We know not of death nor of life. But the life of man is our bread, And tho tears of the widowed wife. When the Mother of all, before the light, Labored to bring forth gods to Chaos. Wrapped in the pul! of ancient night, No mother had we in her bosom to lay us. To dandle anil fondle, caress us and nurse us, For we sprang out of moonlight and soft sea mist. And we sing that the sailors may lore us and curse us, And die in the song of the lips they have kissed. In the thick darkness the ages moaned When the Mother travailed; the shapeless god, The awful father. Chaos, groaned. Shaking the vaults of space as he trod. Then the Mother laid hold of the pillars of night And bowed herself and shrieked aloud. Till the firmament rocked tmneatli her might And *plk, and was rent/dole streamers of cloud. The broad black waste of space was torn, The arch of heaven was hurst to the day, The sun leaped up. and the gods were born. And Chaos the father passed away. But gods anil men have bodies and souls. And they live and they know that their lives are sweet. While the dear sun shines and the blue tide rolls. While the heart is full and the pulses beat. The beasts of the forest, the flocks on the mountain, The bright-winged birds and the fish in the deep. All drink of the water of life's clear fountain— Ail die at the last and are lost In sleep. i\ Marion Crawford. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Presided wears a collar and a No. 12 shoe. One factory in Newark, N. J., turns out 150,000,000 corkscrews in a year. Hugo Hug married Miss Emma Frank at In dianapolis. What girl could resist a fellow with such a name. The Dominion government will soon send a carload of lobiters to the Pacific coast for prop agating purposes. The South Hsa Islands, at their last mission ary meeting, raised $1,531 for anew yacht to carry the Gosptl to New Guinea. Linus Jones ?eck, of St. Clair, Mich., has been on a moose hunt in Canada, and, to prove that he killed a mo*se, brought back a pair of ant lers. They wsigh thirty-six pounds and are tipped with twelve prongs each, having a spread of 41 inches. A deer hunter in the Florida pine woods re cently shot a buck that carried a brand put. on him eleven yearn ago, when he was caught by a settler, branded with his cattle brand and turned loose. Arizona is about to operate a dam which in magnitude surpasses anything in the country. The reservoir will store 15,000,000,000 gallons of water for irrigating thousands of acres of placer and grazing lands. At Grand Forks, Dak., Halvor Bentrue put a lighted pipe ia his pocket which contained a number of matches. The matches ignited and burned Mr. Bvntrue so badly that one of his arms will have to be amputated. The Prinoesi of Wales bas consented to be come the patroness of the ladies' department of King's College, England. This department was established eight years ago, and the lectures are now attended by 400 women, The collection at a church in Bornemouth, Eng, on a recent Suntfliy was divided as to purpose by the givers as follows; For harvest festival, £2O 12s. 7d.; for church expenses, £ls 12s, 9d.; for the poor, £llls. 4d, Two fin-back whales were caught in a weir at Campobello, Me., last week. One escaped be fore low water, but the other was killed. He was 20 feet long and 4 feet through, and esti mated to yield ten or twelve barrels of oil. If Jud Marshall, of lonia, Mich., could sell his barber shop he would be in Tennessee inside of four days. He has Just, heard from his relatives for the first time since he was a slave, and was sold away from them forty-three years ago, and they are all in Tennessee and well-to-do. E. A. Meares, of East Saginaw, is said to have fallen heir to an estate of $2,400,000 in Ireland. He was a laborer, and now he is a landlord. A correct diagram of his sensations before and after he heard of his luck, might make a good campaign document in the United Kingdom. Monday the City Council of Dubuque rejected the petition to have the saloons closed on Sun day, saying there was no ordinance against them being open. The prohibitory law, they said, was a State enactment, and the responsi bility for its enforcement rested with the State, not the Council. James Gilchrist, who has drilled the gas wells at Knightstown, Ind., contracted with the trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home to drill for and supply that institution with natural gas for the period of one year for a sum less than the cost of coal for the same period. The well becomes the property of the home at the ex piration of the contract. “But you may be entertaining an angel, madam,” said Tom O'Brien, tramp, to Mrs. Pybum, of New Albany, Sunday. “Yes. you smell like one long dead, assented the lady, meditatively, “but I'll let the Pyburn before I'll set it up for you, nevertheless." Then he went out and set Are to her barn, got shot in the leg, and is eating locusts and wild honey in the coun ty jail. France De Laune, of Sharsted Court, county Kent, has attracted to himself the admiring eyes of the British nation by successfully raising and harvesting a crop of tobacco. It is said to be the first ever raised in England. The gov ernment has graciously given consent that he shall go on with his experiment, but insists that he must pay duty on his crop the same as though the tobacco were imported. The indications are that there is a considera ble increase in the value of property in the State of North Carolina, as compared with last year. This is shown by the reports from the counties so far received. The last Legislature reduced the rate of taxation from 25c. to 20c. per $!00 valuation of property, so that the amount of taxes, even at the increased valua tion, will be smaller than last year. The wife of a prominent citizen of Birming ham, Conn., caught fourteen pounds of black fish in front of her seaside cottage at Ansonia, the other day, and would have caught more if a two-pounder hadn't broken her tackle. But this fish didn't get away; for, when she saw that there was danger that he would, she waded into the water, and, using her skirts as a landing uet, brought tire fish in triumph to the shore. Just in front of the spot where President Cleveland stood in the room of the Board of Commissioners in the City Hall of Philadelphia, when he received the public at the recent Cen tennial, there is a threadbare spot in the carpet. It was formed by the people marching up to him, shaking hands, and then turning toward the exit. Many thousand feet shuffling in that turn wore the carpet to threads in a few hours. The “Normal diapason" has been adopted this month for the bands of the German army, This is the same pitch used in the French army, and makes probably the only feature of har mony between the two countries. English sol diers still march to music pitched in what is Known as the English diapason, although that was abandoned several years ago by many English orchestras, including that of the Royal Italian Opera. The First Surrey Rifles, of the British Army, are giving a burlesque performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. It was given first at Wimbledon, and was so successful that it had to be repeated before the Duchess of Albany, Lord and Lady Wantage, and otlfer distin guished spectators, and now the soldiers are giving it a; a prelude to their promenade con certs. Whereat a London paper regretfully re marks that “Nothing is sacred to the satirist or the burlesquist.” A FINE BLOODED bull belonging to Mr. Con den, a farmer of Cass county, was bitten by a dog several days ago. Yesterday it became sud denly mad, and, tearirg across the field, gored about a dozen fine heifers, valued at over $2.500. It then jumped a high fence, and starred for I-ogansport. Two of Conden's hired hands,who witnessed the unusual actions of the animal, mounted horses and pursued him to within one mile of the city, wheirthey shot him just as he was making for a party of children who were out nutting. A good and faithful servant is Fred Schulties. He has been guarding the premises of Milton Shook, of Bethany. Gratiot county. Mich., and when a couple of thieves were stealing that gen tleman's corn, the other night, he came down on them like a hawk on a June bug. They wanted to give up the corn, but he said no. Then l hey offered $2 to settle, and he said no again. What would he do? He would take $lO for the eight bushels they had in their wagon. They didn’t really want the corn at that price, but they took it. The Ventura county branch of the University of California will be built at the new town of Montalvo, on the Southern Pacific railroad, about four miles from San Buenaventura. Un der the terms of the agreement the board of regents are to build, within the next six months, a $25,000 college building. For this pur pose they are giveu nine acres offend very close to the centre of the tract for a campus, and a sufficient number of lots scattered through the tract Is bestowed upon them to bring the en dowment up to $60,000. W. R. Pease, who resides near Mount Hamil ton, Santa Clara county, Cal., says his atten tion was attracted to the cries of the cattle in his corral, and on going to learn the cause he saw a very large eagle trying to fly over the fence with n young calf in his talons. Mr. pease seized a pitchfork und struck the bird, which let go tbo calf and attacked him, and he sus tained a number of severe blows from the eagle's wings before he succeeded in impaling it on a pitffhfork prong, when he got his shotgun and finished the job. The calf was so badly in jured that it had to be killed. The eagle was the largest ever seen in that part of the State. Several tears ago William Gibbons, a brother of Sir John Gibbons of Stanwell Place. England, come to New Haven, where he lived and died. He was buried in the Whitneyville Cemetery, and Elias Dickertuan, the executor estate, paid $175 for a lot and monument. In 1880 he found that the sale ha*l not been properly recorded, and he allowed the body to be tak.-n up and reburied in a corner of the cemetery. The body of Amelia Gilbert was put in the place of the dead Englishman, and later the hpdy of her husband was laid alongside of hers, the Gibbons estate paving for all this Sir John now asks that Executor Dickerman be compelled to put the body of William Gibbons Where the monument indicates that he was bnrird. The curious case will be tried in New BAKING POWDER. PUR E CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more thana ouarterof a century it is 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 does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. K. ALTMAYKIt A (XL OUR OPENING IS NOW OVER,' But we would assure our friends and cus tomers that the GRAND DISPLAY STILL CONTINUES AT A, R. ALTMAYER k CO.’S. r pHE unanimous verdict of the ladies, and all JL who called Thursday and Friday was that such an array of lovely goods was never before seen in Savannah. In every department were they chnrmad by the beauty, taste and elegance displayed. These new and choice things were last week on exhibition but are THIS WEEK OIV 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 different 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 12bjc. pier yard. 50 pieces Double width All wool filling Cash mere, in all the new shades, at 19c. per yard; cannot be matched anywhere for less than 25e. or 35c. 40 pieces 40-ineh wide Camel’s Hairs at per yard, equal to any 65c. goods in the city. FLANNELS. WUI offer an ALL WOOL RED FLANNEL at 15c. pier yard, and a soft white wool Flannel at 12Wc. pier yard; and a full case CANTON FLAN NELS At 6J4c. per yard; worth 10c. anywhere. BLANKETS. Being out of our regular 99c. Blankets, we will sell for the week, or as long as they last, OUR $1 25 10-4 BLANKETS at 99c. While here look at our lovely large size LAMB’S WOOL BLANKETS at $5. DOMESTICS. Several cases new styles DRESS GINGHAMS just received which we will sell at 10c, and 12!4c.; never before sold less than 15c. Ask to seethem. And notwithstanding advance in “Fruit of Loom,” we will sell two cases this week at 9c. pier 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 BEE OTTR MILLINERY. It is the completes! and most beautiful line ever displayed south of New York. See also our lovely CLOAKS. This line can not be surpassed anywhere. Wo would call your especial attention to our SILK PLUSH, SATIN LINED wrap at sl2 60. It is the pret tiest thing ever seen for the price Look also at our SILKS. This is a special feature of our business and we believe our line is unapproachable. Every depart ment in the house you will find as complete as those mentioned. All are filled with the Newest Novelties. We extend a warm invitation to you all to call whether you w ish to purchase or not. Our salesmen and salesladies are taught to SHOW GOODS with pleasure. We are respectfully yours, A. R, ALTIAYER & CO. r. S.—Mail orders will receive prompt atten tion. and samples will be sent on application. Our ILLUSTRATED FALL CATALOGUE also can be had on application. A. R. A. & CO. SHOES. Wo are the agents for the JAMES MEANS $4 SHOE and the JAMES MEANS iOE. i MISAKS ®4 SHOE id stylish. It tits lilies Jri md REQUIRES SREAKIN(fIN,”b.; cctly easy the first time i: It will satisfy the mosi as- TAM KS*M3£A N 5 HOE is absolutely th* y shoe of its price whicl; has ever been placed ex tenalvely on the market v fa which durability is considered befors . mere out:- ■ N. ward nsx iortne James S H fc g 2SL Mcans $2 .Shoe for Bovs \ yjgmS** >ur Store and try on a pair ox these £ !&(?£*• A. S. NICHOLS, 12S BROUGHTON STREF.T. SAVANNAH BAKER’S COCOA. rpr* GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. BAKER’S IkJraUtatGnL Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the excess of Oil hue been removed. It ha* tJiret flf ■ jl timesthe strength of Cocoa mixed ifv It rVW Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, l|| |f jiyil and Is therefore far more econom. ill L 5 raVi leal, costing less than one cent ft &V3 f if! delicious, nourishing BH If j| 111 strengthening, easily digested, On II /I n |l anc * liflmirabl y adapted for lnrsl* as well as for persona in health, bold bjr Grocers erorywhere# V. BAKER & CO., Dorchf-ster, Mass. DUCRO'S Aim mm. Its principle ingredient./’T/r* Meat , is scientifically form ul ted with medical remedies, giving it won. df/Vyly stimulating properties; invigorating tha tlisltoroeQ without fatiguing the digestive orgaD#. l, n Ttphoid.Yllow and Malakiai.. fevers.itls n- Valuable, giving strength to overcome nudig* nsnt diseases. Highly recomniimded by leading Fliy* Picianaof Pans as atonic tor Convalescents and Wojils