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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 90, IM7*
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Solomon's No. 1, F. A. M.:
St. Andrew’s Society; Haupt Lodge No. 58, I. O.
O. F.; Memorial Services I. O. O. F.
Special Notices- Texas Ponies, D. ('ox's Sale
Stables; State aud County Taxes, 1887; as to
Crew of British Steamship Urandholm; as to
Bills against Norwegian Bark Birgitte.
Amusements— A Musical Treat, hy Prof. Dahl
berg. *
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help w ant
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sale? Carriage and Horses, by I.
D. Laßoche's Sons; Sale of Damaged Cotton,
Household Furniture, by J. McLaughlin & Son.
Brass Goods— L. &B.S.M. H.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland were
pi von a welcome by Georgians that they
will not soon forget.
The Chicago International Encampment
is in the hands of a receiver. It was not in
the proper latitude, but should have been in
the South to be successful.
W. D. Howells is to live most of the year
in New York. What is to become of Bos
ton, now that the chief delineator of her
boasted culture is to de-ert her I
The arrangement which required the
President to hold his reception in the Fair
grounds at Atlanta, shows that the man
agers of the Fair are able financiers.
Those Tampa officials who took to the
woods when the yellow fever made its ap
pearance in that town will doubtless live to
conduct another campaign for office.
An earnest effort is apparently being
made to keep white squatters off Indian
reservations in the West. This is the best
way to avoid costly wars and bloody out
breaks.
Accounts of sure cures for yellow fever
are beginning to make their apiiearnnce in
tho Florida papers. It is strange that these
sure cures fail to attract the attention of the
doctoi-s.
The power of the Republican machine in
Philadelphia was illustrated by the nomi
nation of Leeds for Sheriff, though ho was
opposed by the entire Republican press, with
one exception. It remains to lie seen if it is
strong enough to elect him.
The retimn of Sir. James Gordon Bennett
to New York has made a great difference
in the course of the Herald. It has sud
denly become anti-Cleveland and nnti-
Nicoll, and in its news columns give glow
ing accounts of the George campaign. In
short, it is now a Republican paper.
So many requests have been made for
chips chopped by Mr. Gladstone that he has
taken to sidling them at 25c. apiece. The
thrifty old gentleman has evidently in
herited some of the commercial instincts of
his father. Ho ought to derive a considera
ble income from the sale of such high -priced
chips.
The revenues of the Post Office Depart
ment are not long depressed by a reduction
in the rate of postage. The shortage of
$7,000,000, caused by the reduction of the
rate to 2c., has been steadily reduced every
year, and it is now thought the postal ser
vice will be self-supporting in a short time.
Then other improvements will bo in order.
Roscoe Conkling will argue the case for
Virginia before the United States Supreme
Court in which the liberty of Attorney
General Ayres is involved, if he is given
time enough to prepare. An exposition of
the State's rights doctrine from a whilom
Republican leader of so much ability as
Mr. Conkling would make interesting read
ing-
The New York Star wants to know if
Roscoe Conkling is Joseph Pulitzer 'b candi
date for the Presidency next year. There
is no one down this way that can relieve the
Star’s anxiety on this point. In fact, in
this locality nobody cares who Joseph Pu
litzer’s candidate is. It is known hero, how
ever, that Mr. Cleveland is the people’s
candidate, and that the Democratic party
will nominate and support him.
The dissatisfied members of the Execu
tive Board of the Knights of labor are
vigorously charging corruption on the iiart
of the governing majority, but the mem
bers of the General Assembly do not take
much stock in the truth of the allegation.
Bailey and Barry seem to be looked upon as
radical agitators, who wish to commit the
order to a programme of violence. The
sympathy of the public is with the con
servatives, represented by Mr. Powderly.
The collapse of the present Panama
Canal Company seems to be imminent. The
money provid-d by its last loan, obtained
by such groat sacrifices, will be exhuusttHl
in February, and the greater part of the
work remains to be done. The failure of
the company would, doubtless, cause a
great financial convulsion in France, and to
prevent this it is hoped tho French govern
ment will itself undertake tho work. Then
the opportunity would arrive for the Mon
roe doctrine to get in its work.
Senator Hoar is putting forth all his ener
gy to mend the breach in the Republican
ranks in Worcester county. Massachusetts,
where a bitter quarrel between leaders has
existed for years. The Senator says Worces
ter was the birthplace of the Republican
party, and if the district is captured by a
Democrat, it will presage Republican de
feat in the country at large. As the district
is now represented by a Democrat, who suc
ceeded a Republican elected by scarcely
400 majority, when it had before been
thousands, th<> Senator must think his party
is in a desperate strait.
Utah Must Wait.
The Mormons are very anxious that Utah
shall be admitted into t'ue Union, and it Is
expected that they will have a strong lobby
in Washington next winter to urge its ad
mission. They point out that since the Ter
ritory has adopted a constitution which
prohibits polygamy the only objection that
has been urged to its becoming a State has
been removed.
The Mormons are not to be trusted. Tho
impression prevails that if Utah were
clothed with alltfhe powers of a State the
Mormons would immediately change tho
constitution so as to legalize polygamy.
This they could undoubtedly do, and there is
no power any where that could prevent them.
Thej' are in the majority in the Territory,
and would, of course, have political control
of the new State. The Edmunds law is be
ing enforced so vigorously that it is impos
sible for polygamy to flourish in the Terri
tory, and there are good reasons for thin k
ing that their unxiety to get into the Union
is based upon a belief that they would then
be free to do as they please with respect to
that institution.
The Judiciary Committee of the last
House proposed an amendment to the Fed
eral constitution making polygamy a crime
in all the States, and giving the Federal
courts authority to deal with it. If an
amendment of this kind were to be adopted
there would then be no reason for refusing
Utah’s request. Tho government would
have the same power to deal with polyga
my in Utah as it now has.
Doubtless this proposed amendment to the
constitution will be considered by the pres
ent Congress. It offers the only satisfactory
solution of tho Mormon problem. Of course
Utah could be kept in the condition of a Ter
ritory until polygamy entirely disappeared
within its limits, but there are two objec
tions to doing that. One is that a large
minority of tho people are not Mormons,
and it would be unjust to deprive them
of their political rights in order
to punish those who refuse to obey the
laws. The other is that it would be impos
sible to determine whether the Mormons
were sincere if they pretended to give up
polygamy. Thy might abandon it for
years, and, having inspired confidence in
their pretended conversion, might legalize
it as soon as they secured the power to do so.
The safest and wisest way to deal with
polygamy is to make it a crime throughout
tho whole country, and give the Federal
courts power to suppress it whenever
found within their jurisdiction. Utah will
have to wait probably for admission into
the Union until this is done by a constitu
tional amendment.
Cotton Fires Must Be Prevented.
Those interested in handling cotton at
this port are fully aroused to the import
ance of greater vigilance in protecting
cotton from fire. The warning contained
in the action of the cotton under
writers of New York is heeded, and there
is no doubt that no means will bo left un
tried not only to find out the causes of the
fires which have already occurred at this
port this season, but, also, to prevent the
occurrence of others.
The question of expense should not be
permitted to stand in the way of the
adoption of auv precaution which may l>e
deemed necessary. The plain truth is that
the fires must be prevented. Their continu
ance means tho ruin of the cotton business
of the port. Heavier insurance rates here
than at other ports would drive cotton
away. That the rates will lie raised if
other serious fires in cotton occur soon there
is no reason to doubt. Already the insur
ance companies have suffered losses which,
they claim, amount to more than the
premiums they will receive during the en
tire season.
No possible source of danger should lie
left unguarded, and the regulations already
in existence, or which may be provided for
securing protection against fire, should be
enforced with such fidelity and vigor as to
leave no doubt that the men who control
the cotton business are in earnest in ward
ing off the threatened danger.
There may bo those who will argue that
there is no necessity for doing this or that
thing, and others who will disregard the
regulations. The former may be influenced
by a desire to avoid expense, und tho latter
by an unwillingness to submit to any
authority, or by the belief that they know
a great deal more than those who made tho
regulations. It is apparent that if safety is
to be secured there must be no yielding to
the arguments of thoso influenced by per
sonal considerations, and no concessions to
those who propose to defy authority. In
telligence, firmness, vigilance and prompt
action are necessary to save the commerce
of the port from a serious blow.
Tho action of the City Council last night,
requiring cotton, while being transported
on lighters, to be covered with tarpaulins,
is a move in the right direction. There are
a good many who have given cotton fires
careful consideration who believe that, as a
rule, they are caused by sparks from steam
vessels.
The Fishery Question.
There have been contradictory accounts
published of wnat the policy of the State
Department is relative to the fishery ques
tion. The fact that such accounts have ap
peared in print afford the best of evidence
that the department has not authorized any
statement about its policy. The correspond
ents have been drawing on their imagina
tions in the absence of facts, and have not,
therefore, agreed in their stories of the course
which the State Department will pursue.
Secretary Bayard says that the policy of
the State Department has not been deter
mined upon fully, and will not be until the
following question is settled: What
are the rights of American fishermen
in Canadian waters? More than
a hundred years have elapsed
since this question was first raised, and it
has been debated from time to time during
the whole of that period. The prospect of
its being determined very soon, therefore,
if the experience of the past, is a good basis
upon which to found an opinion, is not
promising. That being the case it may Iks
quite a while before the country knows the
policy of the State Department relative to the
fishery question. One thing is certain, how
ever, nn(J that is t hat the American people
want tho question scttltsl in a way that will
encourage peaceful relations between the
United States and Canada.
Just as the Western Union succeeds in
extinguishing competition in the United
States, a rival springs up for its South
American and West Indian business. A
French company is to build lines from New
York to Charleston, tho 'cc to Havana, Ja
maica, Centra] America and Brazil, which
will be under the control of tho French and
Commercial Cable Companies, connecting
with them at New York. Even a little in
fringement on the monopoly is a good thing.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1887.
Falso Reports.
Whenever the public mind is excited
about any matter of importance and ready
to accept sensational reports about it, how
ever unreasonable they may be, such re
ports are certain to get afloat. Sometimes
they originate with persons who are influ
enced only by a desire to alarm their ac
quaintances, and have a little fun at their
expense, at other times they are the result
of misunderstandings, and not infrequently
they are suggested by malice, und are in
tended to do harm.
Soon after yellow fever made its ap
pearance at Key West early last summer,
it was reported that it had broken out in
several Florida towns, and also in this city.
Since the fever has been in Tampa alarm
has been caused in several of the other
towns of Florida by unfounded reports that
it had been discovered in them.
Jacksonville especially has been greatly
annoyed by false reports of tho existence of
the yellow fever within her limits. A few
days ago a report got abroad in Tallaliassee
that there were thirty-five cases of fever in
Jacksonville, and on investigation it was
found that a dispatch hail been received at
Tallahassee containing a statement of that
kind.
The manager at Jacksonville of the
Western Union Telegraph Company de
termined to find out the sender of the false
information. His investigation had not
proceeded far before one of the operators
confessed that he had sent the dispatch
upon which the report circulated at Talla
hassee was based.
He said that a young girl at the Tallahas
see office, whose acquaintance with teleg
raphy was so limited that one became
hungry while waiting for her to receive a
message, kept bothering him with the ques
tion whether there was yellow fever at
Jacksonville. He told her several times
that there was not, aud finally, in a spirit
of fun, stated that there were 350 cases, but
that she must lie careful not to tell any one
about the matter. Her understanding of
the dispatch was that there were thirty-five
eases, and ulthough the rules of the Western
Union Company forbidding operators to
make public information they receive over
the wires are very stringent, the report
soon circulated through Tallahassee that
Jacksonville had thirty-live cases of fever.
A fun loving operator at Jacksonville, an
inefficient operator at Tallahassee, and the
inability of a woman to keep a secret, com
bined to sot afloat an apparently authentic
report, that was very injurious to the
metropolis of Florida.
Not very many years ago it was the
policy in towns in this country liable to yel
low fever to conceal the existence of the
fever as long as there was any hope of pre
venting it from becoming epidemic. That
policy no longer prevails. The health
authorities now act on the theory that tho
people should be informed when danger
threatens them, in order that they
may have ample time to escape
before escape becomes impossible. If they
are to deal with an epidemic they prefer
that there shall be as little material as pos
sible for the disease to work upon. If other
alarming reports are started, therefore, in
Jacksonville, or other healthy Florida
towns, the people interested can afford to
wait and see if they are confirmed by their
health authorities before abandoning their
homes.
Mr. H. S. Little, New Jersey railroad
man and politician, who calls himself a
Democrat, but is credited with having at
divers times killed off aspiring men of that
IMtrty, writes an eighteen-column open letter
to Senator McPherson, which is intended to
consign that distinguished gentleman to the
political limbo in which previous victims
languish. Tho principal charge against the
Senator is that he conspired in 1878 to elect
Gen. Sewell, a Republican, to the Senate,
when the seat might have been given to a
Democrat. The charge is an old one, and
Mr. Little will find it difficult to make of it
a lever powerful enough to pry out of his
seat in the Senate a man weighted down
with as many dollars as is Mr. McPherson.
American citizen Wong Chin Foo re
cently started to Canada on a lecturing
tour, and when he got to the frontier had to
pay duty on himself in the sum of SSO, as
if he hud been a valuable package of tee.
Besides this, Mr. Foo was obliged to wear a
numbered tag, after the manner of a town
dog. Because of these things Mr. Foo is
angry, and wants the United States to pro
tect him from such outrageous treatment.
His case seems to be a good one, but Mr.
Foo ought to have learned by this time that
if he wants to be treated like nil American
citizen he must have his name changed to
John Smith, Patrick O’Flaherty, or some
thing of that sort. Wong Chin Foo won’t
do. _____
A Boston druggist, who was arrested and
fined for selling cigars on Suuday, pleaded
that tobacco was a drug, and put the
American pharmacopoeia in evidence. Ho
appealed from the decision, and the progress
of the case in the courts will lie watched
with interest. Should the higher tribunals
sustain the druggist’s plea, which action, it
is said, would accord with the decision of
an Alabama court, tho druggist’s cigar
would be a drug, and could be legally sold
on Sunday, while that of tho tobacco dealer
would not, but would be merchandise. The
tobacco dealers could perhaps get around
the difficulty by taking out licenses as drug-
Rists.
Among Henry George’s large audiences at
Kingston, N. Y., no one at the end of his
speech cared to ask him the usual questions.
A man in the audience explained this by
saying that all present accepted Mr.
George’ B theories, and was heartily cheered.
The question of which party tho labor vote
will be drawn from must make the Repub
licans not a little anxious. They have been
patting Georgo on the back and encourag
ing him in every way, only to find that out
side of the city he is more heartily received,
if possible, than in it. Tho Republican
strength li©3 outside the city.
Commissioner Oberly’s fulmination
against political societies in the government
departments at Washington docs not seem
to have had much effect. The Maryland
and Virginia Democratic associations have
frequent and enthusiastic meetings. It has
not been long since a Democratic associa
tion among the clerks became possible, and
the most rigid reformer ought to look with
a great deal of allowance for youthful ex
uberance upon their proceedings.
Andrew Carnegie, after making himself
ns conspicuous as possible by his money in
Scotland, is again in Now York. His prin
cipal business since his return npjiears to bo
to talk of Mr. Blaine’s good health and
greatness. Is it possible that Mr. Carnegie
married political ambition with his wife,
and ho])es to pull himself into jxwition by
the Maine statesman's coat tails!
CURRENT COMMENT.
How Canada Can Get a Fair Market.
From the tit. Louis It' publican ( Dem.)
The easiest way for Canada to get a free fish
market In this country is to hold a convention
and annex itself to the United States. We are
not pining for Canada, hut we are not churlish,
and can do a graceful thing if politely re
quested.
Secret of Powderly’s Success.
From the Boston Herald ( Ind.)
Unless some now unforeseen event takes
place, Mr. Powderly will emerge from the con
vention, when it adjourns, with Hying colors,
proving by this, what we have always asserted,
that he iH, by long odds, the ablest man con
nected with the order, and holds his position
because he deserves to hold it.
The Minneapolis “Tribune’s” Insult.
From the .Vein York Sun (anti-Cleveland Dem.)
It is inconceivable that the article entitled
“Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland as Mere People” could
have found its way into the columns of a self
respecting and carefully edited newspaper
except through a lapse of vigilance on the part
of the responsible authority. This Is the most
charitable view to take of the occurrence. A
manly apology from Mr. Blot hen and Mr.
Haskell would help them very much iu the
general estimation of the public.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Mamma, where does Dod live?”
“Way up in the sky. my child."
“Well, then, I seen" Him yesterday a tummln’
dqwn de telegraph pole wit a wire in his hand.”
Yankee Blade
Jay Gould has made his son George's new
baby a present of a pearl cradle with gold
rockers or legs. Jay should also give the little
fellow a block of his railroad stock for a bath
tub.— New Orleans States.
"I thought the Ute trouble was over," re
marked the snake editor.
"Well, Isn't it?" asked the horse editor.
“Not much A lot of papers are still printing
old Colorow’s picture."— Pittsburg Telegraph.
The guide leads a couple to the brink of a
frightful precipice, and then says in n mourn
ful tone: "I brought a gentleman and his wife
here last year. The lady leaned over too far
and disappeared. The gentleman said it was
one of the finest views he had ever seen.”—
Judge.
“What are you going to be when you get to
be a man, Johnny?" asked Menitt, anxious to
pass away the time till Cora came in.
"A minister." said little Johnny, proudly.
“And why a minister?”
“Because then 1 11 be sure to go to heaven."—
Epoch.
Omaha Man—Will you reopen your summer
hotel next season ?
Summer Landlord— I shall be here, but not as
the lessee. 1 have obtained a job as head
waiter.
“Eli? You don’t say so? Who w ill be the
lessee then?"
"The head waiter I had this season.— Omaha
World.
“Have yon seen Mr. Mushbrain lately?" asked
the fair girl languidly of her gallant companion,
young Tennisbat of the bank.
“Not for ages." lisped the youth.
“I understand he has made a mesalliance,"
said the weary beauty.
‘‘ I should like to see it." said Tennisbat with
a shade of animation. “I used to potter about
my father’s park at home aud am somewhat of
a mechanic myself.’’— San Francisco News-
Letter.
New York Girl—Oh, we can trace our an
cestry back hundreds of years. We are descend
ants of one of the old North kings.
(>maha Girl—A Viking?
“Yes, that is what they were called.”
“You mean the men who sailed big warships
with skeletons for figureheads, and raided the
peaceful settlements farther south?”
“Yes; but you must‘remember such things
were considered all right in those days. The
world had not progressed very far.”
"I understand that, dear, of course. By the
way, your father Is still living, isn't he?”
“Oh, yes. He's a New York immigration com
missioner.”— Oniaha World.
The Saxons are a very polite people, so over
polite that they not infrequently bring down
ridicule upon themselves. It used to be told in
Dresden that a stranger in the city was one day
crossing the great bridge that spans the Elbe,
and asked a native to be directed to a certain
church which he wished to find.
"Really, my dear sir." said the Dresdener,
bowing low, "I grieve to say it, but I cannot tell
you.”
The stranger passed on, a little surprised at
this voluble answer to a simple question. He
had proceeded but a few rods when he heard
footsteps behind him, and, turning, saw the
same man running to catch up with him. In a
moment his pursuer was by his side, his breath
nearly gone, but wit-n enough left to say; "My
dear sir, you asked me how you could find the
church, and it pained me to have to sav that I
did not know. Just now I met my brother and
asked him. but I grieve to say he did not know
either."— Ex.
PERSONAL..
James Whitcomb Risky, the Indiana dialect
poet, is preparing for publication a volume of
choice selections from his poems.
P. T. llaunvm. the veteran showman, is plan
ning a long trip through Central and South
America. lie. will not lie accompanied bv his
show, going for pleasure only.
Mbs. Coleman Drayton is said to be the best
dressed woman in America. Her gowns and
things cost about iMo.OOl) a year, but are selected
with rare discrimination and taste.
Harper, the Cincinnati bank wrecker, was
worth s7,tiOo,(X)o in IKSS. When the turn came
he lost §C,700,0(Xl in Wail street, and the remain
der in mine and wheat speculations.
Phil Armocr, the big Chicago beef and grain
man, docs not permit i is clerks to smoke cigar
ette::. He says that between whisky and cigar
ettes he chooses whisky as the less evil.
E x-Gov. Watts, of Alabama, is a candidate
for the United States Senate. He says he can
strike a happy medium between free irade and
protection it he is only permitted to do so.
Robert (lahreit, ex-Prosident of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad, intends going abroad
tlie first week in November, for at least a year.
Business cares have greatly impaired his health.
Miss Nettie Carpenter, who took the first
prize as a violinist at the Paris Conservatory, is
an American girl, only 10 years old, and is com
ing to this country with the Oerstor Opera Com
pany.
John Oog, of Guelph, Ont., Is the champion
ride shot of Canada. In matches of the Victoria
Rifle Club, this week, lie made Cl out of a
possible 70 at 000 yards, and G'J out of 70 at 000
yards,
Nina Van Zantit, of Chicago, who will lie a
proxy widow after Nov. 11, writes George
Francis Train that she ean trace every atom of
her present misery to the Satanic press of the
United States.
Rev. Davip Sbymovb of Minnesota, whose
elopement with an editor's wife some time
since created quite a sensation, has been sum
marily expelled by his conference from the min
istry and the church.
Rowley S. Sidklinoer, the Boston labor and
temperance allocate. who surrendered himself
recently as a deserter Don the United States
army, a dozen years ago, lias been released by
order of the War Department,
Col. A. T. Babbitt is the cattle king of Wyom
ing. Ho owns 00.000 head of stock aud leases
about 100.000 acres of grazing land. Cheyenne
owes considerable of its prosperity to the'trade
derived from the Babbitt cowboys.
KhtelLa Clayton, the actress, is said to lie the
best posted horsewoman on the stage. Sfle sel
dom bets on a horn: race, but when she does
she usually wins. Georgia Cayvan and Carrie
Turner are also well versed in turf matters.
Sites Lucv Bavmann is one of the richest
young women in California. Bin; resides in San
Francisco, and owns no less than !iS,i<W acres of
land in the interior counties, uot to mention a
big block of stock in a line of coast steamers.
Pres Hendrickson of Bell county, Ken
tucky, is credited with killing three men a'd
dangerously wounding another, lie is naively
described by tho local press as “an influential
citizen, a church member, and a dead shot.”
A Mrs. Mabtin. of Atlanta, has sold her
10-year old son to Joseph Burns, of Chicago, for
SJOO. Burns was a discarded suitor of Mrs.
Martin a dozen veal's ago, and now rich and
childless he purchases the boy and will adopt
him.
Rev. Wii.uam F. Davis, who persisted in
preaching on the Boston Common, is at last a
martyr. Convicted on four indictments for
preaching without a city license, he has been
lined sy;s and sent to jail for the term of one
year.
Mrb. Mark Hopkins, who is said to be worth
about $40,000,000, is noted for her charity. She
lias given to Great Barrington, Mass., a church
u nioh cost i1.’.0.0 io, besides paying the minister's
salary. Many a young girl has to thank Mrs.
Hopkins for tier start in life.
Attorney General Blair, of New Bruns
wick, is 1 he latest Canadian of note to coma out
for Krustus Wtman's project for commercial
union. Tho distinguished convert is of the
opinion that the United Stoles and Canada have
too much in common to be kept apart.
HE LOOKED SEEDY AND WEAK
But the Dudes Who Tried to Have
Pun With Him Got Left.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
I,ast evening a seedy individual, wearing a
long grey beard and careworn look crossed
Smithfleld street toward City Hall. When he
liad reached the middle of the street he gazed
in the direction of the city clock long and
anxiously. Three dudes stood on the hotel
steps, and one of them, dressed in the latest
fashion, spied the old man and immediately
addressed his companions in this manner:
"Say, fellows! there's an old guy; now watch
me have some fun with him.”
The dude then walked out to the curb, and as
the old man reached the pavement he was
stopped by the would-be humorist, who accosted
him thusly:
‘Hello! Mr. Drexel, what's your hurry? Are
von on your way to the hankers’ banquet at the
Monongahela House ? Can we go along ? Say,
you had better fix your hat straight.” And as
the young scamp said this he crushed the
stranger's hat over bis eyes, and began pulling
his board. The old man said nothing until after
he had adjusted the crushed head-covering.
He then calmly remarked:
"Boys, you shouldn't make a fool out of a
weak old chap like me when I’m not looking.
Now, young fellows, my hat is just resting on
the top of my head. Just knock it off, and you
will see some more fun.”
The dude attempted to do so, but the weak
old man's (Ist caught the dude fair on the nose.
The claret dew. and the owner of the damaged
nose attempted to strike back, but he was not
quick enough, ns the old man gnve him another
stunning blow which knocked him sprawling as
far as the car track. One of the fallen man's
friends attempted to interfere, but was knocked
down in a jiffy, and “Drexel” was master of the
situation. Detectives Shore and (lumbert, hear
ing the squabble, ran out of the Mayor's office,
when the feeble old man rushed down Virgin
alley and out of sight, thus escaping arrest.
The squelched dude went to a neighboring bar
ber shop for repairs.
A Pretty Spanish American Custom.
Prom the Chicago Herald.
Many interesting stories could be told of the
cascarone balls of the past, but only one will be
mentioned as au instance of the popularity of
this peculiar feature of the halts. On one occa
sion at a ball given at the residence of Don Jose
Abrego, in Monterey, Cal., Pete Serrano, then a
inuchacho, was on hand selling cascarones. A
gentleman approached and asked w hat he would
take for his cascarones.
"One dollar a dozen," was the answer.
"How many have you?” was the next inquiry.
"Forty dozen.”
"AU right, i’d take them.”
Taking the basket he started down the hall,
but had not taken a dozen steps when he was
surrounded by a number of young ladies, and in
ft moment all hands were diving into the basket,
coming out with double handfuls and crashing
them on his head, while he manfully strove to
return a few of the compliments he received.
In five minutes not one of the forty dozen casca
rones remained whole.
The modus operand! of cascarone making is
very simple, and about as follows: Into an
empty eggshell—whole, except for an opening
in one end just large enough to remove the
original contents —is placed about a teaspoonful
of finely chopped paper of various bright
colors and gold tinsel: then the opening is
neatly closed hv pasting a piece or colored
paper over it, and then the cascarone is all
ready for use. In Mexico in the good old times
gold dust mixed wdth diamond dust was often
used to fill the eggshells at the swell fandangoes
given by the old grandees. And it is done occa
sionally nowadays by some of the wealthy old
dons who wish to do the thing up in style.
Another way of tilling the shells was to use
finely perfumed powder, and sometimes rare
and costly perfumes were used. Very often
the shells were beautifully decorated, and some
times handpainted. In Monterey, before the
decline of the custom, the shells were often
colored in fanciful designs, like Easter eggs, and
at other times tastefully decorated with differ
ent colors of paper. Chopped paper and tinsel
were usually put in the shells, but on more than
one occasion gold dollar pieces were used—one
in each shell. Spiced candy was often used,
and sometimes powder and perfumery. House
wives religiously save the shells of all the eggs
they us.; and put them away until cascarone
season comes around.
In cascarone breaking it is not necessary that
one should be acquainted; in fact, it is a sort of
"mashing” proceeding all through. The act of
breaking a cascarone on another’s head is to be
considered a compliment by the recipient, who
is in honor bound to return it at the first oppor
tunity. The proper way to break them is to
crush the shell in the hand over the person's
head, allowing its contents to fall oil the head.
In the excitement, however, the shell is more
frequently broken on the head, regardless of
locality or force used, ami is oftentimes sugges
tive of anything but amiable feeling on the part
of the bestower* When the ice is broken by
some adventurous maiden or plucky man the
contagion soon spreads, and in a very short
rime everybody is chasing around the room,
breaking cascarones indiscriminately and
receiving them from all sides. These mock
battles usually occur between dances.
The End of a Love Story.
Prom the Washington Star.
After days of searching for the body of his
betrothed, Louis S. Szczepanaky found the
corpse Monday night in the pickling vat of a
medical college at Louisville, Ky. The girl's
name was Louisa Faber, and she came from
Germany. Three months ago she received
money from her lover to bring her over to this
country. Upon her arrival they agreed to be
married next Christmas, and in order to save
money she took service as a domestic. Two
weeks ago she was attacked with typhoid fever,
and was removed to the City Hospital in I,< mis
ville, where she died Oct 7. Her lover called to
see her, but was refused admission, and on his
return Saturday was told that she was dead and
had been buried in the Potter's Field. Taking
an assistant he went out to secure the body, but
was horrified to find that the grave was empty.
He then made a search of the medical colleges,
and Monday discovered the corpse in a pickling
vat with fifteen or twenty others the college au
thorities had secured for the dissecting table,
and it had already been under the knife of a sur
geon and his class of students. They said that
the corpse had been "snatched from the grave,”
and willingly surrendered it. Szczepanaky was
almost overcome by the appearance of the re
mains, biit had the corpse removed to an un
dertaking establishment, from which the
funeral took place. He was the only mourner
that followed the corpse to the grave.
Lively Traveling Companion.
From the San Francisco ChrOnide.
There is an American in the customs service
of China who is quite a character. His coolness
and assurance have tried the patience of Sir
Robert Ilart. the imperial director of customs,
any time these twenty years, but he is still there,
He never could learn Chinese, and even when it
was made imperative that the customs men
should know the language to some extent, he
didn't learn it. He was always doing something
wrong or against the rules. On one occasion
Sir Robert Hart was in Shanghai, and walking
down the Bend he met an American whose post
was in a southern port. The American saluted.
"Well, sir," said Hart, “will you have the
goodness to explain why you are not at your
post in Amboy?'
"Certainly. Sir Robert, I am traveling with a
No. 1 mandarin on duty."
“You! You can't be of much use. How do
you manage? You don't understand Chinese?"
“No; but 1 don't talk to him.”
"How can you get on without talking to him?”
“Well, you see. Sir Robert, he's dead.”
He was escorting the body of adead mandarin
to his family place.
Light and Shade.
Were there no clouds across the evening sky.
The sunset radiance were not half so fair!
The wondrous traceries in the forest glade
But owe their birth to shadows trembling
there!
The sombre pines upon the mountain Ride
Make clear the dazzling whiteness of the snow,
And deeper silence followsto the roar
Of avalanche leaping to the depths below.
So in this strange, mysterious life we lead,
Bright joy is wedded unto tear-dewed pain,
And to the union, hallowed and serene,
Comes meck-eyed Peace, with all her blessed
train.
The lesson old. take once again, sad heart;
Sweet Comfort, first is born Within the soul,
When Sorrow sits, a guest beside thy hearth
And writes thy name upon her sacred scroll!
—Mary Amy Ghtford.
A Good Remedy for a Dog.
From Texas Siftinqs.
One of the richest men in Austin lives in a
magnificent residence, almost next door to the
humble cottage of a poor Irishman, whose
principal wealth consists of a dog that has got
a voice like n Fourth of July orator. One
morning the wealthy nabob knocked at Mr.
O'Uaffertv's humble cottage, and addressed
him as follows:
“For three nights now your dog has barked
incessantly, so that I have not been able to
sleep a wink. My aged mother, who is an in
valid, has also been kept .awake, lam sorry to
bother you, but this hats to stop."
"Ain't 1 sorry myself." said the good hearted
fellow, with tears in his eyes, “for the poor
dog? Don’t you know of a good remedy tor dog
wid the distemper?"
The other man said be did, and started for a
gua shop.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Indian games are a feature at some of the
Pacific coast agricultural fairs.
At a point in a deep ravine two miles from
Wellingford, N. Y„ ice, it is said, forms the
year round.
The native Christians of Madagascar have
given more than $4,000,000 for the spread of the
gospel in the past ten years.
Tiie Northwestern Lumberman estimates that
100,000,000 feet of hemlock will be put into
Michigan streams this winter.
The mulberry tree was cultivated in China
and known by the name of the golden tree 2,000
years before the Christian era.
The first shark seen in the Kennebec river for
vears was captured a day or two ago. at Fort
Popham Beach. It weighed 800 pounds.
Sawdust has succeeded straw for horse bed
ding in several of the street railway stables in
Boston, and it is said to he about one-half less
costly.
The wife of Dr. J. B. Jones, of Bolivar, Tenn.,
possesses two china plates of a set presented to
Thomas Jefferson when he was Minister to
France.
Two greyhounds accompanying a Washington
lady whose purse was stolen from her joined in
the chase after the thief and succeeded in head
ing him off.
From Madison, Wis., the home of Postmaster
General Vilas, comes a rumor that Mr. Vilas
will not lie a candidate for the Vice Presidential
nomination, but is biding his time with the hope
and purpose of succeeding Mr. Cleveland in
1832.
A colored woman of Lansing, Mich., has
given birth to a child which enters at once upon
the pathway to fame. Tiie doctor says it is a
boy, while the mother insists that it is a girl,
and it is thought that a convention will have to
be called to settle it.
A Connecticut man has Invented a way to ride
free in bobtail street cars. He walks boldly to
the fare box, rattles a nickel, so that: it sounds
as if he had deposited it, and then sits down
and tries to look honest. The drivers in his sec
tion are beginning to watch him closely.
A lively carrying trade has been built up
along the Pacific coast by the Klamath Indians.
With their large canoes, hewn out of the solid
trunks of huge trees, they make trips along the
coast as far as Crescent City. They carry dairy
and farm produce for the settlers and return
with loads of groceries and other supplies.
Early Sunday morning ail traffic on the east
ern end of the New York division of the Penn
sylvania rabroad was stopped to allow the re
moval of the Methodist church at Linden, N. J.,
across the tracks of the railroad. After mid
night the telegraph wires were cut to make a
free passage for the steeple. It required seven
hours to move the church.
, A cow pastured in the declivitous precincts of
Dubuque, lost her balance a few days ago, and
bowled down t he almost perpendicular bluff and
through the roof of a humble residence at the
bottom. The family proceeded to pick the
shingles out of the cradle and wipe the milk
spatters from the furniture, and the cow sadly
and slowly reascended the hill.
The ladies of Terre Haute, feeling indignant
over the condition of the village cemetery, as
sembled the other day and arming themselves
with axes, sickles, anil similar weapons repaired
thither and commenced cutting out the thistles
and weeds that had been left to ripen there.
The sexton felt so scandalized that he agreed to
finish the job if they would leave.
Grant Huston leaned out of the door of a
mail car to salute his sweetheart as the train
was rapidly passing Strawns, six miles west of
Cambridge City, Ind., when the crane used to
hold tiie mail pouch struck him, knocking a
two-inch hole in his skull. He is in an uncon
scious condition and will die. Miss Nora Peed,
the lady to whom he was to have been married
in a few days, is nursing him.
Some wicked young Boston men met in their
club house the other evening to play poker, and
one of their number suggested that the winnings
be given to ft man who had recently been arrest
ed in the North End for stealing cabbage for his
starving family. This was agreed to, and at the
close of the game the winnei-s took a carriage,
hunted up the cabbage thief’s home, and made
his family happy with a very respectable sum of
money.
An American sailing veesel that left Yoko
hama in May last shipped twelve Japanes sail
ors as part of her crew. Near Hawaii the mas
ter, in a fit of rage, shot one of these men—
Hidaka Kikuinatsu—and afterward beat the
poor fellow with a stick until he died. The body
was then flung into the sea, and now the trag
edy has been disclosed by the return to Yoko
hama of four of the Japanese sailors who wit
nessed the murder.
The tower, which is being erected by the Rus
sians on the highest point of the Mount of Olives
is already several stories high, and hut one more
is to lie added. It is to be so high that both the
Mediterranean and Dead Sea may tie seen from
the top. A number of bells will be placed in
the tower. In digging the foundation seven
Christian graves were found together, with an
inscription in Greek, in which the word "Stepha
nus” could be deciphered.
It has been decided by the Circuit court for
the county of Lenawee, Michigan, that it is law
ful to hug a girl if the girl is willing. A certain
school-teacher brought suit for damages
against a couple of fellow s because he heard
they reported tha t he had hiR arm around a girl.
The court decided that a report of that kind did
a man no harm, that if he really did hug the girl
he committed no offense, and‘that he had no
right to kick if the lady didn’t.
The live stock sanitary commission of Arizona
assumes entire responsibility for the quarantine
against Mexico, and declares that Gov. Znlick
had nothing to do with it except to officially
proclaim it when declared by t he commissioners,
as required by law. The reason of proclaiming
Mexico is asserted to lie the fact that neither
Mexico nor the State of Sonora lias quarantined
against infected stock from other places. Cattle
in transit may pass through Arizona, but they
will not be allowed to go outside the cars and
the railroad stock yards.
A Paris workingman named Barthes asked
his wife to look down a well, and as she did so
pushed her in. When she came to the surface
and screamed for help he let down the bucket,
and she clinging to it, drew her up, making her
think he was going to save her. When nearly
to the ton lie let her drop again into the well,
and, as she still refused to die, he flung large
stones on her. The neighbors interfered, and
one of them put a ladder down and brought the
woman, still alive, up on it, the husband, mean
time, doing everything in his power to hinder
the rescuers. He was sentenced to fifteen years'
penal servitude.
A widow in Burlington, la., whose husband
committed suicide, was charged by the family
of her husband with being the cause of the
suicide. The widow, to vindicate herself, had a
Spiritualistic seance, where departed spirits
were called to testify in the case, at which the
father of the suicide was present. The husband
who had suicided was called to tiie stand nnd
testified that there were no unpleasant relations
between himself and wife: that she had tieen a
good wife to him. He further said he did not
commit suicide. He had gone to the stable to
clean his revolver, and, as he stood in the door
way, the wind suddenly blew the door against
his arm, causing the pistol to be discharged,
thus ending his earthly existence. The affair
excites not a little comment in Burlington.
The curious fact is noted that months and
seasons have their influence upon the sum total
of incendiarism. As suicides are more frequent
in certain months than in others, so are incen
diary fires more prevent at some seasons of
the year than at another. For example, statis
tics go to show that whatever tiie number of
fires In January there are likely lobe fewer in
February; March is likely to liave more than
February, April more than March, and May
more than April. In June there is a lull, in
July a little more activity, in August and Sep
tember a revival, and in October a rest. In No
vember there is as apt to lie a diminution as mi
increase, and iu December there are always
fewer fires than in November. The months in
which the fluctuations of tiie incendiary wave
are most pronounced are September, October
and November, and there seems to bo an extra
ordinary regularity in the number of criminal
fires in the first six months of the year.
H°RE result of the determination of the ad
ministration that departmental work in Wash
ington shall lie conducted strictly on business
principles has been to diminish materially the
receipts of certain saloons and restaurants in
the vicinity of the department buildings On •
keeper of a restaurant has put In's com
plaint into words, which cannot he misunder
stood, and which, though not intended to have
such an effect, are really a tribute to the char
acter of the administration. Business is very
dull, lie says, because the department clerks
who used to drop in for a drink and remain
sometimes two orthree hours, now seldom come
during business hours, and when they do they
take their drink or lunch and hurry back to
their desks. Independently of the fact that the
government is getting better work than under
tae old system, and more of it, the clerk i
h£'nh e lZ e L are H PPrentlv saving money and
health ns the result of their enforced attention
to their duties.
BAKING POWDER.
—fouu WEIGSt^n
p?pßicrs
CREAM
Baking
Its superior excellence proven in millions of
homes for more than a quarter of 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, I)r.
Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not
contain Ammonia, Lime or Amin. Sold only in
Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
A. R. ALTAI AYER A CO.
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.
unanimous verdict of the ladies, and all
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 tnings 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 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 ('hecks, Plaids and Stripes, in
double width, at 12ksc. per yard.
50 pieces Double width All wool filling Cash
mere, in all the new shades, at file, per yard;
cannot be matched anywhere for less thaii 25c.
or :15c.
40 pieces 40-inch wide Camel's Hairs at
per yard, equal to any Hsc. goods in the city.
FL A.N'N'ELS.
Will offer an ALL WOOL RED FLANNEL at
15c. per yard, and a soft white wool Flannel at
12t£c. per yard; and a full case CANTON FLAN
NELS at 654 - P er 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!^c.; never before sold less than 15c. Ask to
see them.
And notwithstanding advance in “Fruit of
Loom,” we will sell tw r o cases this week at 9c.
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
OTJR MILLINERY.
It is the completest and most lieautiful line
ever displayed south of New York.
See also our lovely CLOAKS This line can
not be surpassed anywhere. We would call
your especial attention to our SILK PLUSH,
SATIN LINED wjtup at sl2 50. 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 w e believe our line
is unapproachable.
Every department 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 w hether you wish to
purchase or not. Our salesmen and salesladies
are taught to SHOW GOODS with pleasure.
We are respectfully yours,
A, l ALTIAYER & GO.
P. 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,
COTTON SEED WANTED.
Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good
com SEED
Delivered in Carload Lots at
Southern Cotton Oil Cos. Mills
—AT—
SAVANNAH, GA.,
ATLANTA, GA.,
COLUMBUS, GA.
Price subject to change unless notified of a*
ceptance lor certain quantity to be shipped by 4
future date. Address nearest mill as above.
TYPE-WRITERS.
ASK TOUR STATIONER FOR IT.
Does the work of one costing SIOO. Indorsed
by LEADING BUSINESS MEN.
GEO. BECKER & CO.,
30 Great Jones St., New York City.
Send for Circular.
P. J. FALLON,
BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR,
2a DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
ESTIMATES promptly furnished for building
of any claa*.
We want AGENTS in every city
and town. BIG COMMISSIONS.