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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Myrtle Lodge No. 0. K. of I*.;
Pulaski Council No. 153, R. A.; Workingmen’s
Benevolent Association; Metropolitan Savings,
and LoanOo.; Savannah Typographical Union
No. 183.
Special Notices Bills Against British Steam
ship Foscolia and Kate; As to Crew of British
Bark Unicorn.
Ho fob the State Fair B. W. Wrenn, G. F.
and P. Agent E. T.. V. and Ga. Railroad.
For Doboy and Darien—Steamer Pope Catlin.
Consignment ok Meats—Rieser A Stem.
Steamship Scheiiule - Ocean Steamship Cos.
Cheap Column Ahvkrtisements Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; Raffle; Boarding; Per
tonal; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales —Administrator’s Sale, Under
writer’s Sale of Damaged Clothing, by Mc-
Laughlin St Son; Positively No Limit, by D. R.
Kennedy; Furniture. Etc., by Marshall A Mc-
Leod. *
The Irifih World has deserted George and
McGlynn. The ohureh shows its strength.
Ben Butler will speak for the Anarchists
before the United States Supreme Court.
There is a chance to make money and add
to his notoriety, inducements of equal po
tency to him.
A New York court has decided that Sun
day concerts are not illegal, though ope
ratic performances are. A good many peo
ple will be puzzled in trying to decide why
one is so much better than the other.
The Sugar Trust is getting actively to
work. Eight of tho refineries ba,ve been
closed down. Consumers of sugar will pay
interest on the capital invested in them and
much more in the extra prioe they will
pay, on account of the artificial
scarcity.
The bride in one of tho fashionable mar
riages in New York this week settled $200,-
000 upon her husband. This is a very un
usual occurrence in this country, but is ex
plained by the fact that the man had a title.
He was an Italian Count. She paid a very
large price for him.
A Pennsylvania court has just sent the
former President of a national bank and his
son to the penitentiary for five years, for em
bezzling funds of the institution. That is the
way the courts do over the line in New
Jersey, and it is a practice which might be
pursued with great benefit to the commu
nity in other parts of the country.
John Swinton has accepted the nomina
tion for the State Senate of the Progressive
Labor party in the strongest labor district
in New York city. He is said to stand a
chanco of election. So it was not a disin
clination to hold office which caused him to
refuse to run for Secretary of State; he
saw there was no chance of success.
With the slacking up of work on the
Panama canal comes suffering to the thou
sands of laborers gathered on the isthmus
from almost ever}’ country. It is feared
this will lead to violence and rioting, as the
local government is weak. The great
French enterprise may yet prove an unmiti
gated curse instead of a blessing. It seems
ces.ined to fail.
The Hazeu railroad bill, which has been
tbe occasion of so much bribery, or at
tempted bribery, in the New Hampshire
Legislature, though passed by both Houses,
has been vetoed by the Governor. Where
bo much suspicion existed tljpi the passage
of the’ measure was obtained by corrupt
methods, no other course was open to an
honest- Governor, no matter what its in
trinsic merits.
Just as the strike in the Lehigh coal re
gion seems about to break down, because of
tbe failure of the Knights of Labor General
Assembly to come to their relief wit h a gen
eral assessment, the shoemakers of Philadel
phia, io the number of 5,000, have walked out
of the shops. It is thought the contest will
be a long and bitter one. Pennsylvania, the
centre of protected industries, seems also
the centre of discontented labor.
Gov. Foraker is not yet tired of abusing
Cleveland. His last allusion to the Presi
dent is as a “copper-head stay-at-home, who
ought not to raise his voice about the rebel
lion.” The Governor had better got back
to issues which interest the people of to-day.
His opfJOfSeHt is doing that very thing, and
may treat him like Hoadly did on one occa
sion. The best patriot may have gone to
the frontin 1861, but nowadays he is anxious
for peace and concord.
Jacob Sharp is yet a long way from Sing
Sing. It has been determined by his coun
sel, in the event that the State Supreme
Court refuses hitn anew trial, to carry the
ease to the United States Supreme Court on
the ground that ho was convicted on his
own evidence given before a Legislative
committee and used against him in tho
criminal trial over his protest. The ques
tion is not whether Shnrp is guilty and
deserves punishment, but whether his guilt
was proven in a legal way.
Mr. louis K. Post is the candidate of tbe
United iabor party for Attorney General
of New York. He advocates a plan which
ought to make him popular -with the crimi
na I classes. It is nothing less than to abolish
the.jaw requiring the giving of bail by
criminals, and allowing them to go on their
word of honor to apjtear for trial. If his
idea should be carried out, this country
woukrbe the paradise of the burglar, thief,
ptc. When caught committing one crime,
all that would be necessary to avoid punish
■ ment would be to get out of the jurisdiction
the court. The criminal might lead an
active life and yet die of old age before he
’rnudp the circuit of all the States and Terri
tories. # •
The Cholera Scare In New York.
The press of New York is beginning to show
1 some uneasiness about cholera. The steamer
Britannia arrived at that port a few days ago
with over 400 Italian immigrants, nearly all
mf whom came from localities where the
cholera is epidetnip. She belongs to tho
same line that the Alesia floes, and sails
from the same ports. A large number of
the Alosia’s immigrants died from cholera
on the voyage, and more of them have died
witb’the s uno disease since their arrival in
this country. All of the survivors are now
quarantined on Swinburne and Hoffman
Islands in New Y T ork harbor, and there
they ought to remain until it is safe to per
mit them to go to New York city ulid scat
ter over the country.
Although it was known that the Britan
nia had immigrants ou board from cholera
infected places she was permitted to go to
the upper quarantine on the statement of
her officers that there was no sickness on
board, and had been none of ain infectious
or contagious character during the voyage.
While she remained there no great care ap
jiears to have been exercised to prevent
communication between hpr passengers and
persons from the mainland who
visited her in boats on various
errands. After she had been
thero a day or two the Health Officer heard
that there had been, during the voyage,
several deaths. She was at once ordered to
the lower Quarantine, and several of the im
migrants who were sick were sent to the hos
pital on Swinburne Island. The Health Offi
cer is not prepared to say whether they are
suffering from cholera or not. The symp
toms are similar to those of cholera.
There appears to be a growing feeling in
New York tlisft, the Health Officer is not as
careful as he should be, and that there is
great danger that the diseaso will be intro
duced into the city.
There does not appear to be any sufficient
reason why immigrants from places in
fected with cholera should bo permitted to
come to ttys country. They are not so de
sirable that any risks should be run in their
behalf. A cholera epidemic in this
country wohld destroy thousands
of lives and paralyze business.
Burgeon General Hamilton, a few days ago,
speaking of the risk there is in permitting
immigrants from places afflicted with
cholera to come to this epuntry, said “that
the world tamely submits to
repeated inoculations of cholera
by another nation, however
friendly, is simply due to the fact that pub
lic sentiment has not yet crystallized.” It is
certain, however, that if a case of cholera
should be discovered in New York public
sentiment in that city would quickly crys
tallize against permitting any more immi
grants from cholera infected places from
coining there. But would not the crystal
lization have taken place too late?
The Philadelphia Medical Xews does not
have as high opinion of the precautions
taken at the New York quarantine to pre
vent the cholera from being introduced into
this country us the health authorities of that
city have. It says that from what it can
learn about the preventive measures taken
there they should lie characterized as dan
gerously lax. The talk of holding tho
Health Officer responsible if cholera gets
into New York is the merest nonsense. To
condemn him then would do no good. The
proper tiling to do is to prevent any persons
from cholera infected localities from land
ing in this country.
The State Fair and the Veterans,
The indications are that the Southern vet
erans will appear in force at Macon next
week. It is probable that since the disband
ing of tho armies of Lee and Johnston in
the spring of 180.5 no such gathering of Con
federates has been w itnessed as wifi meet
Mr. Davis at Macon.
These Confederates are now largely the
farmers, merchants, mechanics and profes
sional men of the Houth, and while they
recognize the fact that tho cause for which
they fought was lost, and lost forever,
their hearts thrill with emotion when tht jj
recall the many battlefields on which they
proved their valor, and on which the “red
cross” waved and beckoned them to vic
tory. These men are the representative
men of the Bouth, and they speak her sen
timents wherever she needs an advocate.
It is true that they are crowded by
another generation, but the places that
belong to them will never be denied to
them; and neither they nor their children
will ever fail to feel the most profound
respect for the leader of the lost cause while
he lives, and for his memory when he shall
have been gathered to his fathers. Thou
sands who will see him at the State -Fair at
Macon will seo him for the last time. This
fact doubtless will be a strong inducement
to the veterans to make n sjiecial effort to
miiet their chief next week.
‘Southern veterans have nothing to re
gret. They did their duty conscientiously.
Mr. Davis has nothing to regret. Ho fol
lowed tho course which liis judgment,
marked out, and was faithful to the trust
reposed in him. The Chief will meet the
veterans and the veterans will meet their
Chief, therefore, with no other foelings tiian
those of mingled love and respect. For the
brief time they will bo together they will
live over again the scenes which are asso
ciated with so much glory and so much suf
fering, and then the veterans will go back
to their farms, workshops and offices, and
strive with renewed energy to make this
the greatest country the world has ever
known or man ever dreamed of. The gath
ering at Macon will be a notable one, as it
ought to bo.
Grovesteen & Pell, who were building one
of tile new railroads in Northwest, Georgia
at the time they failed on the New York
Stock Exchange, are accused of some very
questionable transactions. They made the
broadening of tho gauge of tho road the
pretext for issuing bonds to the extent of
sojooo per mile, and the bonds were sold,
though the work was never done. Plenty
of things just as open to objection as this
occur on Wall street, however, and the men
responsible for them suffer no punishment.
The New York Graphic, which has here
tofore been Democratic, has been bought
by Thos. C. Platt and other Republican pol
tieiaas, and will hereafter be run in their
interests. The power in politics of the pic
torial press is every year more marked, and
as almost every paper of that class is now
unfriendly to the Republicans, they proba
bly felt the necessity for, strengthening
themselves in that respect.
Four couples are living in Killingworth,
Conn., who were married in 1887, and three
other couples are living in other places who
were married in Killingworth in the same
year. Twelve of the fourteen individuals
are natives of that town. The ceremony iu
each instance was performed by the Rev.
E. G. Swift.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887.
Slandering the South.
The Philadelphia J*resx never fails to im
prove an opportunity to say unpleasant
things about the Bouth. Speaking of the
ill treatment of the prisoners in the New
(Irleans jail it says: “The callous indiffer
ence to those things in the South is one of
the strongest and saddest relics of slavery.”
It would be interesting to know how “cal
lous indifference” to human suffering on
tho part of the Southern people can be in
ferred from the failure of the criminal
Sheriff of New Orleans to supply the
prisoners in his charge with a sufficient
ainoujit of wholesome food. The Sheriff,
if the charges against him are true, has been
starving his prisoners, and putting the
money which ought to purchase food for
them into his own pocket. When the facts
became known there was an investigation,
and a reform was inaugurated. Iu this
matter.the people of New Orleans acted just
about as people in'any other city would.
Officials who violate their trust are found
in every part of the country. Only a few
days ago an ex-superintendent of the Phila
delphia almshouse was discharged from, the
penitentiary. He was convicted and im
prisoned for certifying to false bills for
almshouse supplies. Doubtless he starved
the inmates of the almshouse as well as
nobbed the bounty of Philadelphia But no
Southern journaf said that the almshouse
incident showed that tho Northern people
were so heartless that the sufferings of their
paupers made no impression upon them.
A couple of weeks ago a bright young
woman of’the New York World's staff pre
tended to be insane in order to get a chance
to write up the actual condition of affairs
in the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.
Although a perfectly sane woman the smart
doctors pronounced her a crazy Woman,
and to tho asylum she went. Bhe staid
there ten days, and then secured her release
and wrote her story. And what a story it
was! No self-respecting journalist, after
rending it, would charge the Bouthern peo
ple with “callous indifference” to human,
suffering, because a Sheriff of a Bouthern
prison denied his prisoners sufficient fowl.
Tho poor insane women on Blackwell’s
Island are not drily starved,
but are subjected to cruelties that would'
drive a healthy woman crgzy
in leis than a mouth. The condition of
affairs in that asylum, however, doe- not
prove that the Northern jieoplri are indiffer
ent to human suffering, any more than the
starving of the inmates of the New Orleans
prison proves that the Sou', hern people re
gard with indifference the wrongs suffered
by those who are not in a condition to pro
tect themselves. The man who would
slander a whole people because of the acts of
one man, or one set of men, is a fit associate
for those who starve criminals and paupers
to fill their own purses.
Co-operative Labor.
One of the important subjects eo u
sidereii by the General Assembly of the
Knights of Labor at Minneapolis is
the best moans of encouraging co operative
enterprises by workingmen. It is the desire
of the order that such enterprises shall lie
both of the productive and distributive
kind. Though much discussed, few at
tempts have been made iu this country
to put the principle of co-operation among
workers to a practical test, ami those at
tempts have been mostly of the distribu
tive kind. In Engtrind, however, the mat
ter is not an untried one. Numerous manu
facturing establishments in which the
workmen were stockholders have been put
in operation, but the results do not seem to
have been generally satisfactory. Most
of them finally passed into
the hands of individual owners or ceased
operations. The lack of proper business
management iwas probably the cause of
most of those failures. Workmen at smifll
salaries, themselves stockholders, will per
haps generally he found unwilling to pay
the large compensation necessary to secure
the best business talent and exjierience
They do not appreciate the necessity of
doing so, and, valuing their own labor
highly, think it unjust that the apparently
less laborious efforts of another inan should
be much more richly rewarded.
But tho co-operative societies of England
have been eminently successful in another
line —that of distribution. They are said to
now own a bank whose transactions amount
to $80,000,000 a year, their 1,400 stores do a
business of $150,000,000, and the annual
profit to the 900,000 members is about $25,-
000,000. During the |>a.st twenty-four years
their profits have been $150,000,000.
It is probable that in this line co-operation
in America " ill make its greatest success.
It has already been tried. During the
Grange movement several years ago many
farmers’ stores were established, and in
spite of the collapse of that movement some
of them ill the Western States are yet in
existence and prosperous. The success of
these stores and of the English societies
shows that workmen, by co-operation, can
materially reduce the cost of living. This
is, of course, equivalent to an advance of
wages.
A civil suit to recover $6.000,000 from
Jay Gould and Russell Sage has been begun
by Dutch bankers interested in the Kansas
I’acific Railway Company, and criminal
suits, charging those distinguished finan
ciers with having stolen securities entrusted
to them, are threatened. The evidence on
which the suits nt-e based was partly
brought out by the Pacific railroads inves
tigation, so that that costly proceeding may
not prove entirely useless. There is not tho
least probability that Gould and Bage will
ever wear convict stripes, but the suits may
bring to light a great many interesting and
useful facts.
A convention of the American Shipping
and Industrial League commences in Bos
ton to-day. It is intended to discuss the
question of tho best way of reviving Amer
ican ship building, and it is safe to say the
result of their deliberations will boa de
mand for bounties. Mossi-s. Frye ar Ding
ley will be leading spirits, and they are
too good Republicans to acknowledge that
the best way to encourage ship building is
to relieve them from unnecessary taxation,
and let them hnve-an even chance with Ihe
rest of the world.
Mr, Bancroft has been riding a great deal
at Newport, this season, and in spite of his
87 years sits firmly and securely in the
saddle. He wears a soft cap of black silk,
shaped like a yachting cap, and his white
hair gleams like silver beneath it. The ven
erable historian still accomplishes a certain
amount of literary work every day.
It Gas just leaked out that Alexander
Mitchell, late President of the St. Puul road,
lost $2,000,000 on a wheat deal shortly be
fore he died. He did not live long enough
to profit by his experience. John Maekay
has paid $4,000,000 for a little schooling in
the same direction.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Small Enough to bo Manager.
From the Philadelphia Press (He)).)
Master Workman Powderly is fast making the
Knight* of Labor small enough to control.
The Treaty Most Needed.
Fmn the Philadelphia Times (Dean.)
What this country needs worse than a com
mercial tn-aty with Canada is a boodlers' ex
change treaty.
Something the Public Cannot Scare
Away. ,
From t,he New York Graphic (Dem.)
The London police seem anxious to solve by
arrest the question of disposing of the paupers
who dwell in Trafalgar square. But this is only
a makeshift. Poverty is not crime, and so long
as the i>eople cry for bread or work the Tory
government is confronted with u phantom
which the police cannot scare away.
BRIGH'f BITS.
In Tennessee they imprison men for lying. If
that practice should ever become general it
would be necessary to build a Chinese wall
around this country ami call the inclosure a
prison.— Syracuse Herald.
“Why don't you fight?" asked a spectator of
one of the pugilists who refused to leave his
corner.
“Wait a minute, can't ye? I’m waitin' fur de
constable. He's a friend of mine, and I prom
ise I to wait for him so he could see the-scrap.—
Washington Critic.
They were talking scandal, and one of them
observed that when a certain JM>tmg lady snnled
her mouth opened right back to her ears.
“Never mind, she has beautiful teeth," re
marked a kind friend.
"Ah," replied the first speaker, “but her teeth
will decay. Her smile won't."— Exchange.
“I wonder if that story is true about. St. Pat
rick driving all the snakes out of Ireland?" said
Mr. Swishem to his wife, as she put another wet
towel on his head.
“I don’t know. Why do you ask?"
“Because I don't know whether to go to Ire
land or sign the pledge."— Washington Critic.
Young Artist (displaying a picture)--This
painting is entitled: '.Jonah and tne Whale."
Possible Purchaser--When* is Jonah?
•Young Artist—You notice the rather distend
ed appearance of the whale midway between
the tail and the neck?
Possible Purchaser Yes.
. Young Artist —That's Jenali. Exchange ,
T have just been reading," raid the clerk,
“about, a Pennsylvania man who has a lizard in
his stomach."
“A JizarU," sneered the proprietor; “that's
nothing. It looks to me from the way they eat
as if the stomachs of some of the boarders here
contained sea-serpents."
And the Boniface sighed heavily as he pre
pared to fill out a check in favor of his butcher.
—lfotel Gazette.
Young Mr. Snooks had a very bad headache
and pretty Mi’s Snooks was reading to him.
Presently she stopped and looked very much
annoyed. “What’s the matter?" asked Snooks.
“There's a swear word in here, or what was
intended for a swear word, and I won't read it!"
pouted Mrs. Snooks.
“Let's see." said Snooks. He took the book
and read—“ The prisoner looked at her. in blank
astonishment."— Burlington Free press.
A coPple of negroes applied to 'Squire Armer
to be married last Monday. They had a license,'
but had no money with whicn to pay the
‘Squire. Heat fir<*t refused to unite them.
They insisted they had no money. They begged
hard and long, and proclaimed loudly their love
lor each other. The teuder-hearted 'Squire
finally succumbed and married them in the fol
lowing style:
“William Martin, do you love this woman,
and do you take her to he your iawful ami wed
ded wife?"
Answer: “Y>s, lioas." ,
“Amanda Best, do you love this man, and do
you take him to be your lawful and wedded
husband?"
Answered by a grunt. *
“Then by the authority vested in me by the
laws of the State of Kentucky I pronounce you
husband and wife, and may the Lord bless you
and keep you from freezing this winter, as you
have nothing to live on hut love."
It took about twenty secouds .—Richmond
(Kg.) Climax,
PERSONAL.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Forbes will spend
most of the winter in Augusta, Ga.
Rev. ('. H. Spurgeon is credited with having
declined an otter of $IX),()00 for 100 lectures to
be delivered in this country.
Misr Aoele Grant, the young woman who
declined to marry Karl Cairns, will lie one of
the leading belles of Washington society this
winter. *
lx the last sermon preached by the late Dr.
Barton, of Hartford, who was then apparently
in perfect health, he quoted the famous poem
“If I Should Die To-Night."
Robert Doris Stevenson, the English nov
elist. lias derived so much iienetit from a so
journ in the \diroinLu k region that he Intends
to pass the cold weather at Saranac Lake.
When Prince Bismarck received from Lord
Ranelagh a writing desk made from cannon
balls he exclaimed: “God grant that cannon
balls may always be as peacefully employed."
The ex-Minister to Sweden, W. W. Thomas,
Jr., of Portland, Me., was married on Oct. 11 in
Stockholm to Miss Dagmar Elizal>elh Terue
blad, the daughter of the well-known Swedish
statesman.
Yuenie McLachlan, discoverer of the Tread
well mine in Alaska, has recently closed out his
mining interests north of Leuga Island to a San
Francisco syndicate for $750,000. He now in
tends to give up prospect ing.
Jesse Sharp of Brandywine Hundred, Del.,
gave the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany six acres Of Land, on condition that they
erect a station on if. Now trains stop there
daily, people get on and off, and the whole of
Sharp's farm is rapidly increasing in value.
Joaquin Miller lias become reconciled tb his
favorite daughter, Maud, who incurred his dis
pleasure by marrying Loudon S. McCormack,
the actor. They now correspond regularly.
She and her husband have not prospered on the
stage, and are now in St. Louis out of engage
ments.
Schuyler Brinkerhoff Jackson, the Repub
lican candidate for .Mayor- of Newark, was a
student ai Yale. His beau tv made him famous,
and the girls used to go to the chapel to stare at
him and rave about him. But be was a woman
hater then, and fought shy of the girls, to their
deep sorrow.
Tub daughter of President Hughes, of the
Keokuk and Western railroad, was secretly mar
ried to Alexander Moore, a millionaire Califor
nia ranch owner, last August. This week she
apprised her family and relatives in Keokuk by
sending out her wedding cards and going West
to join her husi and.
Wajid Aid, the dead King of Oudh, was a
poet, whose renown extends from the Hima
layas to Cape Comorin, for his love songs have
obtained an immense popularity throughout
India. His majesty received a pension of JttOO.-
000 a year from the Indian government, which
will be continued to his heirs.
William L. Gilbert,of Winsted,Conn., who has
given $400,000 for the eretHon and maintenance
of an orphan asylum in that place, has decided
to give the town a public academy, and is
arranging plans for the structure. TBf orphan
asylum, which will be known as the Gilbert
Home, will be completed in a year.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of Barry Cornwall, is
the most interesting old lady in Ixmdon so
ciety. She is M 7 years of- age. nut “goes every
where," as the phrase is. and is eminently popu
lar for her wit, good spirits and conversational
powers. Charles Dickens used to say that when
lie wanted “to brighten up" he went to see Mrs.
Proctor.
King ITumuert. of Italy, often causes annoy
ance and embarrassment by taking fancy to any
little novelty which he may see in the hands of
any of his. courtiers. His majesty will show
such an intense desire to possess it that finally
the object is offered Ijim. but it is always re
placed by a present of double or triple its
pecuniary value.
Rev. Samuel F. Gross, of Chicago, whose
zeal in pleading for larger social privileges for
shop gir!s and seamstresses led to an insurrec
tion among his congregation, has, since his
vindication, been follow ing up that line of work.
He has preached six weekly sermons to young
women and th ir employers which have at
tracted much attention.
James Burrell Anorll, of Michigan, one of
the gentlemen who have been selected by Sec
retary Bayard to act with him in the fisheries
negotiations, is a man of exceptional cult ivatiou.
At the age of 24 lie was professor of modern Iflii
images and literature at the Brown University.
Later he was made President of the University
of Vermont and of the University of Michigan.
Mr. Blaine's wonderful memory for names
as well os faces is well known, and he declares
that he cultivated the faculty in early life by
always indexing alphabetically all names, so
that when he meets a face he recognizes the
initial always comes up in his mind, and aids
him to recall tho patronymic. Sometimes he
cannot recall the names, and then h*
hitudelf with addbessing therein k man by his
initial until he secures the niaß’by some casual
remark.
A BARBER'S BLUNDER.
He Thinks His Customer is Timid, But
Finds He is Mistaken.
From the New York Evening Sun.
At 7:57 o'clock last night a timid man with a
stiff, wiry beard entered au up-town barber
shop. All the chairs were empty, and seven
artists sat nervously eying the clock. Eight
o'clock was closing time, and each man was
anxious to leave. The barbers glared at the
new comer, but slowly walked to their chairs
with an air of resignation. The man hung up
his hat, walked toward the nearest seat and
sank into it with a deep drawn sigh.
The barber—a short, dark visaged
little man with black moustache
and chin-whiskers—uttered.an ominous grunt,
gave a tiger-like glare at his victim, punched a
towel under his collar and used a lather brush.
Then he grabbed the dullest razor in his collec
tion. He twisted the man’s face to one side, and
with a straight arm movement drew the razor
over his face. With a cry of pain the man
squirmed Into a sitting posture, but the barber
pushed him down and repeated his action. It
brought tears to the eyes of his prey. .Gasping
for breath, the timid man ventured to mildly
expostulate:
•Tin in no hurry," he said. "I don't want to
catch a train."
"All right," blurted the barber with a grin as
he proceeded.
In five minutes the torture was over.
"Close shave, sir." snarled the artist, who ex
pected a negative reply.
"Yes," replied the timid man, determinedly.
"Clean and close, too."
He was bent upon having revenge.
The distress over, the timid man. with a keen
sense of humor, demanded a hair-cut, and the
barber's companions giggled. Fifteen minutes
elapsed before the lob was completed, and the
artist was almost foaming at the mouth with
rage. All hjs mates had gone home thoroughly
enjoyijig his miser)’.
"is that all, sir?* inquired the barber in-tones
of withering irony, clutching the bottle of hair
toni<\
"No-o-o," drawled the timid man, Smiling as
he noticed the artist's agony. Give me a sham
poo."
.'.n expression of speechless rage disfigured
the barber’s features. lie wanted to refuse, but
lie didn't dare, for the proprietor was sit ting on
the opposite side of the. room. So the timid
man was shampooed, but it was in a very per
functory way, and his hair was Almost removed
from the scalp. He stood it all without a grim
ace, paid the. charges. slipped a cent into the
barber s hand, and with a cheery good night
glided through the door.
The barber didn't reply.
Pity %he Poor Salesman.
New York Letter to tits’ Hartford Courant.
A woman behind the counter is like a queen
Jbehiud her throne, and is frequently a tyrannic
al and arbitrary sovereign, but a man selling
goods does not possets the same ini posing ap
pearance. Ilis object s‘*etns too plainly to sell
his wares instead of to trifle with the customer,
or to exercise his great privileges. He is not a
diplomat, and in this position with all its
temptations he is seldom a bully.
A few days ago while waiting on a will of a
peerless ladv with bandoline bang and a haughty
mien in a Broadway shop, the subscriber was
attracted by negotiations between two ladies
and a salesman. He was a heavy built, stalwart
young man, with a fresh color, and to the casual
glance in good, training, weight about 160
pounds, skin clear arid well colored. The ladies
were from out of town —we will say Jersey, the
Jersey flats by way of a venture. The younger,
the would-be purchaser, was very thirt, inclined
•to straw color, chill and aguish looking—not at
all in good condition. You would have given
the shopman long odds in any combat between
the two. Blit there* was a mother with the
.younger woman, her duplicate, if duplicate
means double; lor she was just double as fat,
double as old, double as eagle-eyed.
"I want to see some black silks," remarked
the daughter.
"Certainly, madam," said the shopman.
“Here is, l guarantee, the fluest piece of black
silk ever made up in the citp. If I were a lady,
aud buying silk, I’d buy this black. As long as
any of it's left, even after it gets slick and
shiny, you can add to it, you can turn and twist
it."
"Ah, but I don't want it, if it's going to get
shiny and going to fall to pieces like that, ’ said
the younger lady from Jersey; "I want some
thing that'll wear.”
"But, madam," began the shopman, "I didn't
say—"
“Well, Mary Jane," interrupted the elder
lady, disparagingly, "it does seem an awful pity
you’ve got to give up your black silk, but 1
s’pose if the man says himself it's going to get
.slimy ana's cmiung to pieces, it’s no good look
ing for one. Black silk's always convenient; iu
case of family ‘fiietion, there you are: there's
nothing geateeler for church; and as for teas,
all’s extra you've got to have’s a lace fichu and
there you are again. Give me a black silk, says
I, and there I am. no mattter where you put me.
But of course if it's going to get like that, fall
ing to pieces in your hand, as he says "
"Mauam -’’ gasped the shopman His knees
had begun to tremble ami his oreath to shorten.
"Of course nulwniy wants a dress that's going
to fall to there’d be the dress
maker to pay, 2hd what’s the use of making up
if it's bound to act like that?" went on the
younger lady: but she was not weakening, her
color was high, and a healthful excitement
glowed in her eyes.
"1 said, madam, that—" whispered the shop
man.
“Of course T feel discouraged, Mary Jane,"
said her mother, waving him aside, "but at
least he's honest; some tnen’d tried to pass off
their goods as worth buying. Young man. 1 11
say this to you. Your silk's poor, but you're
honest, aud 1 wish you well."
With this sally they moved off. If I kept a
shop I'd keep it with saleswomen. They’d awe
and subdue, but they'd sell my black silks.
The Red-Nosed Woman’s Revenge.
From the Chicago Mail.
A fashionably dressed lady with very haughty
demeanor crowded her way into a Cottage Grove
avenue car. Tlu re was a bit of vacancy on one
side, near by which sal an elderlywoman, plain
ly dressed, but with a n*d nose.' The fashion
ably attired lady had red hair. It matched the
elderly lady’s nose perfectly. A section of the
elderly lady'wrap was spread out on the vacant
spot on the seat. The woman with the red hair
shoved this section of the wrap to one side in a
manner that justified the suspicion that
she had a temper which was her master.
The action attracted the attention of several
people, who smiled. The elderly lady with a
red nose maintained her dignity. In a few
minutes a poor washerwoman, with a bundle of
clothes, boarded the car and stood, but only a
moment. The woman with the red nose pulled
the folds of the dress of the washerwoman and
said: "Have my seat." The washerwoman ac
cepted it, and her bundle obtruded into the lap
of the fashionably attired woman with red hair,
who "looked daggers." The elderly lady with
the red nose signaled the conductor to stop, and
as she was leaving the car, jmused long enough
to say, in a voice that everybody on the car
heard, "lam the Whitehorse” The fashion
ably dressed woman's face looked like a spot
where a mustard plaster had got in its work,
and she got off at the next corner.
Quits.
I‘Yom Fuck.
Miss May and myself had been sitting
In the sofa tete-a-tete chair;
She was busy with "tatting," or “knitting,”
Or some such device of the fair.
I had tried to supply conversation,
But the warmth of my manner was feigned,
For our previous tender relation
Now was strained.
We were both in an awkward position.
We'd neither been lovers nor fnends
And our state had defied definition,
(It usually does—till it endsp
But the erstwhile diaphanous fetter
Had grown to lie irksome, and so
I longed to be fare, and twas better
She should know.
But before I could speak she was saying
The words that my trouble assuaged.
While blushes her cheeks were displaying,
She said she was (lately) engaged.
I detected a slight exultation
In the silence that followecMier sigh
So I said, with no little elation;
“So am L”
Politeness. .
From the Irish Times.
A brave, active, intelligent terrier, belonging
to a lady friend, one day discovered a monkey
belonging to an itinerant organ-grinder seated
upon a honk within the grounds, and at once
made a dash for him. The monkey, who was
attired in jacket and hat. uWnited the onset in
su-'h undisturlied tranquility that the dog halted
within a few feet of him to reconnoitre.
Both animals took a.long, steady stare at each
other, but the dog evidently was recovering
from his his surprise, and was about to make a
spring for the intruder. At this critical junc
ture the monkey, who had remained perfectly
quiet hitherto, raised liis paw and gracefully
saluted by lift ing his hut.
The effect wqs magical. The dog’s head ami,
tail dropped, ana he sneaked oft to the house,
refusing to leave it until his polite but mysteri
ous guest had departed.
’’Charley*,’’ said a young wife, “is there really
any such person as the fool-killer?"
"Oh, 1 guess not; I don’t know," said Charley,
who was-reading the morning paper.
' “Well, Charley, all I wapted to say is please
don't go out after dark any more until xou find
Washington Critic.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Of the peers of Japan, the income of Prince
Shimazu is the largest, heing $200,000 per an
num.
There are 10.000 milliners in New and
Brooklyn, or about one bonnet maker to every
fifty women.
The liquor dealers in Boston will take an
active part in the State campaign in so far as it
relates to the Senatorial districts.
It is reported inUbina papers that arrange
ments- have been made whereby direct tele
graphic communication will be established be
tween China and Europe.
Senator Leland Stanford is said to seriously
contemplate resigning his seat in the United
States Senate. He thinks the game of public
life is not worth the candle.
One of the most remarkable catches of eels
was made in the Findlay mill-dam, near Pleas
ant Hill. Pa., one night last week, the number
secured being not less than 485.
Dr. Bcisson, of Paris, claims to cure hydro
phobia by hot baths often repeated. He makes
the patient remain continually in a hot room,
and the baths are made as hot as 142°.
* An exchange has been figuring on the Presi
dent’s hand shaking. It finds that in greeting
8,000 people his. hand would traverse a distance
of more tnan four miles, allowing 3 feet for each
shake.
Workmen laying the foundation of a railroad
shed in Portland, Me., on Sept. 1, found ice
thirteen feet below the surface. This shows
that in a hot summer Maine thaws out for a dis
tance down.
The Register of Deeds in Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, recently found a conveyance
recorded in J 770 It was for 300 acres of land,
the title to which was guaranteed "forever and
a day or two longer,"
Savants have discovered that the hair of the
prong-horned antelope, like that of man, is
made to stand erect by sudden fright. Investi
gation in this line might take in the hedgehog
and the ridge pole cat.
The English carry bad taste in advertising to
a greater extent than is done in this country.
A big picture of Gen. Gordon on his deathbed,
used as an advertisement for a patent medicine,
appears in a London woman’s journal.
In a Louisiana hamlet the ceremonies in cele
bration of the Jewish New Year were held in the
Baptist church, and the music was led by a
Jewish woman, the wife of a catholic, who is of
mixed Protestant and Catholic descent.
Mr. Gladstone has presented to D. M. Davies,
of Bryn Mawr, in recognition of his services
twenty-five years ago as guide on the Peunde
marn Mountains, a plank of oak grown <>n the
Hawarden estate and felled by Mr. Gladstone
himself.
A Texas woman of an experimental turn of
mind put some eggs in a bin of cotton seed, and
a healthy brood of chickens was hatched out in
due time. It is her intention to pursue the ex
perience further aud see whether the chickens
won’t make a good salad without olive oil.
A farmer at Sherman, Tex., has died from
sqrcw-worms in his head. About two weeks ago
he took an out-of-door nap after having bleeding
at the nose. It is believed that the screw-fly de
posited its larvae on theJilood in his nostrils.
A Bowdoin student named Cilley climbed
by a lightning rod to the top of a spire on King's
Chapel at Brunswick, Me., the other night and
fastened there a white flag bearing his class
numerals in token of a victory gained over the
Freshmen. The spire is of stone 120 feet high.
A woman named Louisa Smith has instituted
suit against the village of Wiarton, Out. for
allowing a young man to be buried in a lot next
her’s on which a tenement house. Her
claim is based on assertion that while the
corpse remained there the house was tin ten
anted.
At Washington, Ind., says an exchange, a
mule was tied to the frame supporting the fire
bell at the comer, of Maine and Second streets.
Being humorously inclined, it would catch the
rope in its teeth and giving it a jerk tap the bell
to the great amusement of tne large crowds
which stood at the corners.
Miss Frances E. Willard suggests that the
women or the United States should purchase
Whittier's old home and keep it beautiful to his
memory. Whittier was peculiarly the poet of
woman, and it is probable that any sum neces
sary to carry out Miss Willard's suggestion
could easily lie collected from them.
A man was killed by lightning in the upper
part of King William county, Virginia, on Thurs
day night, under peculiar circumstances. He
was in bed. his wife lying by his .side, when the
lightuing struck, passed through a window, and
out of the door. The man was instantly killed,
but his wife received only a very slight shock.
Miss Ida H. Addis, of Los Angeles, has pre
pared her papers for a $500,000 breach of
promise suit against ex-Gov John O. Downey,
of San Francisco. She will charge that ex-Gov.
Downey won her heart some years ago, and
that he now declines to make her his wife Miss
Addis is the leading literary woman of the
coast. ‘
Andrew Gboutha, a Russian, who travels the
country with trick bears, has sued J. Bolliard, J.
M. Stevenson anil 11. Miller, of Monroeville, 0.,
for SSOO. After one of his exhibitions he went
to sleep in a shed with his bears, but was soon
after notified to leave town, and, failing to do
so, one of his bears was* shot. He now seeks to
recover its alleged value.
Eliza Foxall, a young married woman*, and
a fortune teller named Scrafton, of Hartleiiool,
Eng., are on trial on a charge of conspiracy to
poison Foxall, who was a haroer o£ Sunderland.
The defense is that what was administered was
not poison, but simply a love charm prepared
for tne wife for the purpose of enabling her to
regain her husband's love.
The Virginia City (Nev,) Enterprise says; ‘‘A
letter from Lillian Smith, the champion rifle
shot, enumerates a number of presents received
by her in Londpn. among wbicn are diamonds,
two collie dogs (Mach fifty pounds weight), one
skye terrier, a parrot, one monkey, three cats, a
canary bird, and a spaniel dog. She reports
herself tired of London, and will be glad to get
back to the home of her childhood."
Z. C. Cheney, of Adams county, Mississippi,
accompanied by his wife and little child, had
gone out to hunt for muscadines. In climbing
a tree he became sick and faint from the un
usual exertion, and told his wife below of his
condition, warning her to get from under the
tree. A moment afterwerd he fell to the ground
from a height of about 50 feet, sustaining in
juries from which he died t*wo hours after.
A woman told Mr. Sheil, at Greenwich Police
Court lately, that she had been twice married,
both husbands being sons of one mother, but
not the same father Eighteen months after the
death of the first she married the second, who
refuses to support her, and she desired the
magistrate's advice on the legality of the mar
riage. The English law does not allow her to
marry two brothers, but whether she has done
so is a legal conundrum.
The first volume of the "Ancient History of
the Maori" has just been published. For some
years past John White, one of the best authori
ties on Maori lore, has been engaged on this
book under the auspices of the government It
is a translation of the traditions and mythology
of the different tribes, and it will be valuable in
future times to scientific men, and when per
haps no one would be left who could collect and
translate native traditions.
A fenny fellow who owns a diamond has
been creating amusement for himself and
wrath in the breasts of his victims by cutting
various legends into the plate-glass fronts of
stores at Battle Creek. Among his favorite in
scriptions are: "Saloon," in Ijold characters for
drug stores; “Undertaker two doors west for
doctors’ offices; "Poker-room upstairs," for
saloon windows; “We arc all liars," for cloth
inß stores, and “Come early and avoid the rush"
for banks.
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Oveh 400 suits for divorce have been filed in
the County Clerk's office, in San Francisco, Cal.,
since Jan. 1. The highest number filed in one
day was seven, and rarely (lues a day pass bv
that n petition is not recorded. During the nakt
three months there has been a markeS
m the number of divorce suits brought. All the
civil departments of the Superior Court Me
crowded with cases of this character. The cause
of this remarkable rush to secure relief from
f matrimony Is ascribed to tbe laxity
i ‘ dlvorce laws - many of the ap
plicants not having resided long in the State.
A ghastly collection of clothes, linen hats
purses, rings, watches, chains, paintings, time
pieces daggers. knives, guns, revolvers, pistols
and other objects, which have helped to prove
the guilt of the criminals who have been tried
P °, ,lurtll k ,h .e past year, were sold in
Paris a few days ago. ami bought up by amateur
collectors of the horrible. The names “f the
Criminals to whom the objects had belonce l
were withheld, and the puroWrs had £ ”*£■
X'J U ' U ' ?, wn or imagiiXm in
identifying tbelr purchases. A knife, supposed
to have been the one with which Prat® cut
the tin oats ot his victims, was bought at an ex
orbituut figure tv an American, it & said.
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r pHE unanimous verdict of the ladies, and all
x 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 hew and choice things were
last week on exhibition but are THIS WEEK
oisr sa.ljE,
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 difierent depart
ments that are GREAT DRIVES
DRESS GOODS.
Commencing MONDAY MORNING we wiU
offer:
BO pieces Colored Cashmere, in all the new
shades, at sc. per yard.
30 pieces Fancy "Checks, Plaids and Stripes, in
double width, at 12J4c. per yard.
50 pieces Double width All wool filling Cash
mere. in all the new shades, at 10c. per yard;
cannot be matched anywhere for less than 35c.
or 35c.
4o pieces 40-inch wide Camel's Hairs at
per yard, equal to any 05c. goods in the city.”
FLANXEI.S.
Will offer an ALL WOOL RED FLANNEL at
15c. per yard, and a soft white wool Flannel at
12U<\ per yard;, and a full case CANTON FLAN
NELS at o)4c. 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 ne will sell at 10c, and
12jjc.; never before sold less than 15c. Ask to
see them.
And notwithstanding advance in “Fruit of
Loom." we will sell two cases this week at 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
OTJIJ JVIIX,r.IINrERY.
It is the completes! and most beautiful line
ever displayed soutlvof New York.
See alsp our lovely CLOAKS. This line can
not be surpassed anywhere We would call
your especial attention to our SILK PLUSH.
SATIN Lined wrap at $l2 50. It is the pretr
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 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 to call whether you wish to
purchase or not. Our salesmen and salesladies
are taught to SHOW GOODS with pleasure.
We are respectfully yours,
A, H. ALTMAYER & CO.
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