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4 <L|c attorning |lch)S Morning News BoHd ng. Savannah, Ga. •ATI BOAT, OCTOBKB (t, 1887. Regitfrmi **t th+ Post Office in Savannah The Nnr* '% publtubwl *T~rx da • rhe r*ffar and i* *err*-1 to uhcrihorv m the Hty. hy ne* *d**i*r* and earners, oo tb*ir own a count, at * cent* a sl 00 a r.'tr'.C &> v for ix zroDtba ax*-.2 f!0 OD for of* ▼**' Tb* MoaxTxe Niva fc* ma*i. on* monrh. f: or . tbiw mootfe*, &U; mx mootot, * <x* w>f year. $lO U) Tbe Mriunna Nm. ft* fr ttc |Mk vttM / Sunday i tS 00; fc.* months. $4 GO r>r> V •>. Tbo Houripo Ncw. Tn*weekly Moodar*. Wadnmdar* and Fridays. or Tueadajr*. Tfcar*- d*n and Saturday#, t£rwr months, 51 *ix c ootba. P 80; oot y**r. s£> () Tb* Simar Nrfe by mail, one j+* r ?* 00. TV Wbbily Sira* rr u or.*; j‘*a' f: *£"• Itebicrtpuocx ptviblf in advance pr*?a l enter. cmeck or mriftered M:cr Cur* leery amt by ma*i a* r*Jr of #er> TtiO is cry* ' £** and adrert.;nr "a-*-**# | may U- *vrrt mined a* fb*- office ot tb Amen car,’ !fmptpr r Pub: -ber' A.sacartatioo, .“4 Temple Court, and sfuAiM tie addraMed Vop*. Oa " Adiprlains rates made known on ar.r.‘. v *3* or. INDEX Ti) NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Rttcuu, None**—Steamer Grace Pitt; As to Cres of Norwejriai Bart Mutant* AitaKimT, The Ms-* Vdlui cipera ('ooiiqu*- V otrtpar.y at the Theatre: Oranu Coa-plimeu trv and Classic Matin*'*- fio-ita! stiaksmip Smr or r* —Ocean Ht<-nipl.!p t o. < heap Counts ADvi.irnnif*XT* Help W ant ed; Employment V. aM*-d: i■ -r Kent For hale: Hoard: P*-.* i.ci Lo-t; Miacciiarieou*. Anmox Sai-e I/an-agi-d Good* by J. Mc- Laughlin A Son Ho*-r.*not: o. Kt P Barrett T-i th r ftiuc—Lovell A Laitimore. Via Sale A Good Newspaper \tw i ifoß* A M. AC. W West. Toaso". Irucii. IxrrafTntTr asd Tors-- Hcl-remer lmport H<-u*c Tbe manager of a commercial agency and the deoot agent of a railroad in Cincinnati have skip pen to Canada, pre-tiraably carry ing large roll* of money with tb-m One had been playing poker and the other super intending a Sunday school. Senator MccTienson's reply to H. S. Little* bitter attack is publishes! and hoi tbe Henator is very angry. He denies ail important allegations made against him. and on tbe whole makes a good defense It is said he will sue Ijttle for defamation of character. The ed tor of tbe Tampa Tribane ha- been doing his lewt to keep up the spirit* of tbe peop'e of that town, but he says that be is beginning to feel that the wort is too e- j were for him. He mentions that tbe gov- | eminent ha-i put up a S.VJO hospital for the fever patients and that it is now ready for oompation. | j \ j | ! j | ] 1 i 1 Senator Hiacock said the other day that the man who ha.-, a majority of the dele gates in the .Vow York Republican -State ci-mrention will be nominated for President. Mr. Hiscock has beeD very lu ,ky of late, and no doubt thinks he will be the man to have that majority. But. really, the nom ination is not worth much. Almost every Republican who has re turned from traveling in Europe reports that though Mr. BlaiDe is in better health than for ten years, he will not be a candi date for the Republican nomination in IW*. He ha- perhaps despaired of the atic cewi of his party in that election and does not .wish to s whatever political ambition be may yet cherish in another and final defeat. The Chattanooga Time* defends Mr. Cleveland from the slanders on bis personal appearance printed in the pictorial pajiers. Among other things, it says “his head fills full a liat 7% inches in circumference.'’ This makes it rather larger than the head of an ordinary walking cane, but it might I* compared with a horse apple. The Timex evidently doesn't know much about heads or hats. John Kelly is dead and no longer subject to abuse as a corrupt political bo*. The Herald thinks, however, he is to have a successor even more dangerous. It devoted its leading article Thursday to a review of the character, methods and ambitions of ex-Mayor Grace which that gentleman can not have found pleasant. He may console himself by remembering that perhaps the Herald didn't mean it and may support him for the next office he wants. An effort is being made to bring the In diana “White Caps” outrages before the United Btates courts, as the State has shown itself powerless to deal with them. An old statute intended for Southern con sumption only will be appealed to. It was aimed at Ku-Klux, but will hit “White < 'ape” as well. If backed by a healthy local sentiment it will prove effectual. It is a discredit to Indiana that she cannot protect her own citizens from organized outlaws. Massachusetts in making an experiment In the punishment of criminals which it would lie well for other Htales to watch. It in intended to reform habitual criminals. The law is to the effect that when a man is convicted of a penitentiary offense, and it can lie shown that he has already nerved two terms in prison of ax long as three years each, the penalty for the third offense shall not be Ipsr than twenty-five years. If this law is vigorously enforced, it must result in Tilling the Btate prison with habitual crim inals, driving th .a from the State or re forming them. The Pennsylvania Republicans soem to bo reully frightened. The passage of a high license liquor law by the last legislature has caused thousands of Republicans, es|ie cialiv Germans, to desert the party. The Prohlbitftmists are strong in the State and have a ticket of thei ■ own The Republi cans are now appealing to them to support their ticket, on the ground that a Demo cratic victory would mean the removal of restrictions on liquor selling. They seem to forget, that ardent Prohibitionists look upon a liquor license as a ‘'league with the devil,” aud the higher the license the stronger the leagre. A protection journal jubilantly quotes and calls the attention of tariff reform pa pers to a statement made by the London Iron, to the effect that American hardware ' is gradually driving all competitors out of the Kuropeun markets. This is the strong est possible argument in fuvor of abolishing any duties which may “protect” hardware manufacturers. They aro manifestly not needed to enable Americans fco meet foreign competition, aud only serve to tax home consumers. Inquiry would doubtless develop the fact that these American mode goods are sold more t heaply in Kuropo than Withia a hundred miles of the factory. The Work of the Legislature. < Ttte pur;v*e of the constitutional provis ion providing for b.vftfliai xewions of the I gii.iature was intended to reduce tb -c-”i of ietndst.on. Tha' purpose has untioi-W *llr been defeated. While there wa. techni cally, oulv on* we.-! m of the Leg-s’.a - ore wiycii na just adjourned, there were ready two. There was a regular wewtioa of more than f .Tty day* last year .and an ad journed sek*n of K'T tail year, afjut 1 eidays in ail. It is sale to say that tbe ->n.s of future Legislatures will increase, rat: than decrea-e. in length, a* the in >e: es*s .■ all parts at tie-State demand.ng lev'.'.at. ::i a: e multiplying. The way to iesset. toe “xpe;!-*-* of legisla tion i not by trying to limit the time which the le-jtixiature shall remain in sev- on, but by reducing tbe number of tle subjects of legislation. At tbe close of the regular ses-ion /art De wil ier the Mp.mvo News -uggested the ad viaability of submitting to the people an amendment to tbe constitution giving Coun i tv Commissioner,, municipal authorities and State officer* authority to pa* upon many of the local and other matters wh.oh now occupy tbe greater part of the t-rne of the Legislature. There might be general laws passed, a'vn. covering a great many matters that would relieve tbe Legislature. It is not too much to *ay that more than half of the measures which are passed upon by tbe Legislature at o much cost to the Stab-, and, in some instances, to th'**- specially inte-ested in them, could be much more expeditiously and intelligently at tended to by city, •■ounty or State autnor:- ies. \ distinguished member of tt Leg mature from the county a few week- jo i*ointed cut among other things that much of the time of the Finance Committee and of tbe Legislature was taken up with the adjustment of the ai-counts of tax collector-, and sugg-eted tba’ a matter of the sort could be handled just as well, and perhaps better, by tbe State officers who are familiar with it. and to whom the Legislature has to appeal frequently for information with re gard to it. This is only one of many things of which the Legislature could i/e relieved Why is it then tha* no steps have been ’aken to inaugurate the reform herein out lined? It fan not be that men big enough for such work are not found in tbe Legisla ture, far some of the ablest in tbe State are sent there. It must be b.-oause the time of the really abie member* is so occu pied with local matters in w hi-h their con -tituent* are interested that they haven't time to think out reforms and urge their adoption. Doubtless tbe great majority of the mem bers of the present legislature feel that they have worked faithfully, and have done ail they could to meet the expectations en tertained with, regard to them, but they will admit, probably, that during the two sessions they did very little that is conspic uous for its importance. They discussed the convict problem, but they didn't solve it. Indeed they did nothing with regard to it. The lease system remains, and, that too, without any enactment to reform those features of it which have been, and are still, the occasion of widespread complaint. The claim of the lessees of tbe State road for compensation for 1/etterments was not disposed of, aud the question whether the road shall be leased or sold remains an open one. Theee important matters wifi have to be handled by tbe next Legislature under such a pressure for time that it will be very difficult to protect the State's interest* fully. Even the Marietta and North Geor gia bond business was not settled, although it wa an urgent one throughout the entire session. At the last moment it was [lacked upon the already overburdened shoulders of the Governor with instructions that, after investigating it, if he found he had no authority to settle it to turn it over to the next Legislature. For years tbe press of the State has in sisted that there should be a reform in the methods of assessing property. There isn't a member of the Legislature who doesn't know that the burdens of taxation are un equally borne. The honest man pays more taxes than he ought to and tbe dishonest one finds no difficulty in getting a i-eceipt for all he owes the State bv [laying a small part of what the law intends he shall [my. This i* not right, and yet no special effort was made during the session just closed to distribute the tax burden equally. Of course it is an easy matter to find fault, but it is only by finding fault and pointing out tbe shortcomings of those selected for public service that tbe people get their affair* attended to as they should be. Haskell’s Apology. TV. E. Haskell, who wrote the article which was published in the Miunea]>olis Tribune the morning after Mr. Cleveland and his party visited that city, and which contained an insult to Mrs. Cleveland, is a Boston man and a graduate of Harvard. He is the junior member of the firm which owns the Tribune, and is its editor. His father is the editor of the Boston Herald, which paper is a stanch supporter of the President. The people of Minneapolis and the Northwest held Mr. Blenthen, the chief owner of the Tribune, responsible for the article, and he very narrowly esca|ied some punishment at the hands of the indignant people of Minneapolis. From our dispatches it seems that Haskell has acknowledged that he alone is responsible for the article, and has admitted that, in publishing it, he committed a grave error. Ha is clearly not the kind of a young man to have control of any part of a newspaper. He may be a very good writer ami well fitted for a subordinate capacity, but he is pretty certain to get himself and others into trouble if not held in check. The dispatches state tliat when the editor of the Boston Herald saw the article and realized the trouble that it was likely to (muse he started foi* Minneapolis at once. It may be that he gave his over-smart son a lecture w hen ho reached that city which that youth veil! not soon forget. For several days after the article ap peared the Tribune paid no attention to the angry expressions of tho people, and the indignant comments of the press, but it is alleged that the circulation of the paper lie gan to decrease so rapidly thnt Blenthen was threatening to get rid of his interest in it nt any cost. Blenthen's course, together with tho presence of the senior Haskell, who, it is said, owns u big interest in the paper, doubtless forced the young man to declare his responsibility for the article and his re gret for its publication. Birmingham has a number of very rich men, aud they subscribe liberally, when the call is urgent, to help local enterprises. It took less tlmn two hours to raise $40,000 to estabiisu a branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The sewerage diffi culty w as inet oven more proiuntly. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1887. Lynch Law in West Virginia. A serious state of affairs exist* in Roane county, Wes: Virginia. A few days ago a preacher named Ryan was cruelly murder id wii.e trying to protect his house from rob bery. Circumstances led to the belief that toe crime was committed by an organized bend of robbers and subsequent deveiop rr*-;.*s justified this belief. Warrants were .■ s*.ied for the apprehension of tbe murder ers. and then tbe curious part of the pro ceedings uegan. It is presumed that the warrant* were placed in the Lands of offi ■ but if so the posse* soon developed into lynching parties. Hundreds of men took to the niii* in *eerch of ’be murderers, they were one by one captured, and most of them confeseed. not only to the perpetration of tbe murder with which they were charged by tbe warrants, but to the existence of the organ ization of robbers which had been sus pected. Whether they confessed or not, however, made little difference—they were immediately lynched I: is understood that s.x. at least, of the seven men implicated in the murder of Mr. Ryan uai e met this fate. Numerous other outlaws are said to Sourish in that region, who hve by robberv. A fact brought out l>) the lynehiugs is the existence of a 1/and of regulator*, -aid to be near i.uOU strong and covering four counties, whose purp/*e is to punish crime, and -t seems that the men who sought legal authority to arrest the Ryan murderers, but executed them on their own, were members of this Jecret order or society. This discloses a very serious state of affairs It is much woise than if the men had been slain in an outburst of popular pav-ion. It is the deliberate art of men who have a* great a contempt for law as three whom they shoot or hang. The fart that the murderer- were worthy of death did not warrant individuals in killing them. Only the State could do that without the stain of blood-guiltiness. Tbe purpose of the society may be praise wortby—to rid the community of criminal*: but the history of all such societies show.* that, no matte • what the.r purpose, the fatal fact that the members themselves are outlaws doom-them to the control of the worst and boldest of their own number, who wiJl iead them from (.Time to crime until the original purpose is forgotten. Let the>e regulators remember the history of the Mhsoun Bald Knobbers and other bands. West Virginia ha* need of a vigorous vindication of the law. Two Celebrated Cases. The full bench of the -Supreme Court at Washington will hear argument next Mon day on the question whether a writ of error shall t/e granted in the case of the con denined Chicago Anarchists. The course pursued by Mr Justice Hai lan in declining to hear argument in behalf of the applica tion for the writ was a wise one. If he had denied the application, it would, perhaps, have been presented to another of the justices, and that proceeding would have been continued thrdligfc the whole list of justices, unless someone of them had granted it. If he had granted the applica tion, the full bench would have had to pass upon it. It was, therefore, better that the application should be presented to the court at once. Whether the points which the counsel for the Anarchists make are strong ones or not is a question upon which lawyers doubtless differ. If they are valid ones tbe court will not hesitate to grant the writ, and the case, as presented to the Supreme Court of Illi nois, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States. This case and the case of Jacob Sharp, the New York bribe giver, have attracted the attention of the whole country lor months. It is now probable that they will continue to occupy public attention for some months more. If the Court of Appeals of New York decides that Sharp's conviction was in accordance with the law, an effort will certainly be made to have the United -States Supreme Court review the case. Some of the best lawyers in New York declare that the admission, on the trial, as evidence, of the testimony which Jacob Sharp gave before the committee of the Legislature, was illegal, and furnishes good ground for a writ of error from the United States Su preme Court. There is certainly a proba bility that the Anarchists will not be hung on the day fixed for their execution, and that Jacob Sharp will not go to the peniten tiary this year. Where there is plenty of money for lawyers’ fees, it seems always possible to find ways to delay justice. Among the innovations which have rei>om mended themselves to M. Bees, the designer of the new Flemish theatre at Brussels, is the rather startling one of the abolition of the footlights. He maintains that the present system of lighting the stage is altogether a mistake froin the acoustical point of view, tbe thick stratum of heated air through which the voice of the actors has to pass before it reaches the audience necessarily tending to diminish its sonority. He has substituted for the familiar row of lights in front of the stage a triple range of gas jets immediately behind the orchestra. They, too, will, of course, create a rarefac tion of the atmosphere ill their immediate vicinity; but its effects will be much less sensible than those of a single row of lights in the more limited cadre of the stage. The new system of stage-lightihg was tested in the presence of a number of competent judges, and they pronounce it a decided im provement on that now is use. The only large hall available for a public meeting in Albany, on the night ol Henry George's appearance there, is owned by a Catholic society, and they refused to rent it to him, so that he was obliged to speak in the open air. Whatever the public may think of the society's treatment of Mr. George, the incident shows that outside of St. Stephen’s parish the alliance of the land agitator with Father MeGlynn is a source of weakness to his cause. It pits against him the most powerful church in the world. The wonderfully skillful advertising of Mrs. Janies Brown Potter has not been in vain At the auction sale of seats at her debut on the American stage, $40(1 was paid for one of the proscenium boxes, and the sale realized $lO,OOO. It is described as having been the busiest auction sale of tho kind ever seen in New York Mrs. James Brown Potter promises to ’ie a success, whether she can act or not. Prof. Huxley has lately been making in quiries into tho phenomena of Spiritualism, and has expressed a desire further to in quire into the subject. The Spiritualists j have already secured the adhesion of Profs. Crooks and Wallace. What a victory, savs a i jondon correspondent, if they bag Prof. Huxley. I CUR3ENT COMMENT. The Responsibility for Panic Fears. Pmm Vie V He:mbliran Oem.' Tbe protective tariff sit Sus collected as taxes is tb-- rea-il; of K/-' -their, policy aad the hast* i fir-phe*.ie* of disaster. John Shermsmsm .. respr u.ue for Uepewisin. Sand-Loiters of the Pulpit. FVuwi the Ph laieltehia fie -i > Toe *m Jonrs-Saa, Snail comt icatior. is no longer an aitracuve amusement The novelty ha* worn away Perhaps it is just as well These* worthies were the sand-lotter* of the pul p ann their toe tin *!* •,r pr >ve morality hav* done more harm than good. Will Boss the Bosses. Prom the Pki!ad*l-jhin Tone* iDeie.) It is not at ail iiupri-oaole tha: Democratic Baltimore will elect a v --elerahie portion of tbe ReDubliran tic*-: in November, and that Republican Ptnla i-lphia will at the same lime elect a encsidera e- portion of the Democratic ticket. It won't tv s Republican victory in Baltimore r,./r will.- be a Democratic victory in Philadelphia; it will be the victory of tbe In ie pcr. Jeots; the pe p - bussing the busses, that's ail. Matters Cleveland Will Decide. From the l . caoo ,Vr v/Vei.) There a grow er suspicion that tbe next le-uiocratic nooiir.ee for the Presidency will be ‘A Grover (. ie.eland s naming There is a violent enepS ion. t cc that Grover Oevetand will nane- the Vice presidential nominee. As for the Democrat; convention, it willbebeid ju*t where Grover Cleveland wishes it to be heel. Tte-se are matters in which the Demo cratic party may be interested, but will have no voice: it must simply obey. Grover Cleveland bag the Democrat.' . tiger cat by the tail, and he isn't going to let go. BRIGHT 31T3. Hostess—'Mr. Lew. will you have some pork’ Mr levy N .V Hoteas (confuse! - uh: I forgot - Excuse me. Jobs, get some cold ham for Mr. Levy.— Ej-change Hi-*basd (desperately Life ha* no longer anv .-Harms tor ine. I'll kill mvself. 11l take poison. vv .tr pleasantly—Well, if you do take poison, my dear get tb- cir.d that's advertised—“ Don't die m the bouse '- Pa ilndalphin .Veic*. Tcjtuv's father * business affairs call him fr rn h .me early in tb* morning and keep him unt.i la’e at night Recently the old ger.t.einsn found it t.. punisn Tommy, and the boy -ought k.s mother for con-let ion. Why. what * toe matter. Tommy;" she asked. -'The rn inan that s-el'-eps here n-ghts *-.*panked me,'' u* sobbed.—Ezciui A Moral Parfst Do you ever play cards? “No. and I never will.' 1 Why? " “Tbe last request of mv dying father was that I w ould never gamble in any way. ' ' He must have -—n a very good man.'' Yes. and he had just lost a farm on a game of poker two day* before lie died. "—Lincoln -Yen Journal Neat Patriotism Mr. Siiaveinouth icon tinuing conversation Yaas. Mr. CYowley is lawther an Interwesting anconal, but he cawn t compare in the London Zoo. y'knuw. Mi-* Washington serenely*- rfut you must consider. Mr. .vt'iavemoutb. that our ' a-awnimal " ha.* learned everything himself, with no model* to copy fiom.—Tid bitt. “Leave the door ajar, please. ' said the mer chant courteously. And the visitor from Ar kansas as h- went out. fetched it to with both bauds, yanked off the knob, springing both hinge* and leaving a jar that rattled eve-.y win down in the building. And. if you'll believe it, the merchant got mad. You don't know how to please some men. because they never know what they want themselves - Burdette. A Boston girl, giving directions for anew Stir of boot* to be made to Oder, told the cot* er to be sure to put in good leather penults "Penult*;'' queried the horny-handed son of a lap stone "Yes; inner soles, don't you know?” “Ob. certainly; but why do you call them penult*. Mis*:- ' Because they come next to tbe last, don’t theySerin rj/ield L'n ion. C'ou Witherspoon, of Austin, died last De cember Hi* case was hopeless from the first. Calling bis physician to his bedside one day he whispered: > • “Duelor. can’t you arrange so that I can slide out quietly before Christmas?” 4 ‘ Why so?” “You see. doctor. I can save a lot of money by not having to buy presents for Tom, Dick and Harry,” —Texan Si /tings. PERSONAL. Edwin Booth keeps up bis habit of smoking from one to two dozen cigars per day. Report has it that the daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is presently to be married to Mr. If. Taylor, of Chicago The latest accession to kcightship in the Legion of Honor is Mine Boucicaut. proprietor of the famous Bon Marche shop in Paris. .1. L. M. Curry. United States Minister to Spain, and Mrs. Carry sailed for the former's post of duty on the steamer Elder on Saturday. Mr. Gladstone has lately expressed himself in tavur of some plan by which members of Parliament will receive salaries for their ser vices. No one bas been elected to succeed Dr. Bar bour as College Pastor at Yale, and President Dwight will have charge of the religious services for the year. Rufus Mac, he. the American Minister to Sweden, is accused of accepting commissions from Stockholm merchants, and of forgetting to pay his official bills. Gov. Foraker. of Ohio, has turned his cam paign oratory away from the subject of the snub he did not receive, and is devoting his attention to theories of taxation. Mrs. John .Jacob Astor pays her chief cook $7.00U per annum, and then has to content her self with eating the plainest kind of fare. She is troubled with dyspepsia in its worst form. Mdle. Julia Bennati, of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, has a face startlingly like that of the late Marie Aimer, and can sing better; but she lacks the chic that made Airaee such a favorite. Gov. Bodwedl, of Maine, looks like a farm hand and drives a bargain like Shylock of old. He made a fortune out of marble quarrying, aud is devoting his time nowadays to keeping the fortune. The wife of Robert P Porter is said to have made SS.cOO iu the last twelve months writing for the papers, “without letting a single one of her three handsome children cry for maternal affection." Her earnings last week were slsi. The voung English pianist, Pauline Ellice, now 11 years of age. will be heard in Berlin. Her programme has such works as the C minor Concerto bv Beethoven, the E major Polonsise by Weber-Liszt, and several numbers of Bach’s. Geohue Fordham, the jockey, who lately died, is one of the popular heroes of the hour in England, lie wo.- a most honorable man. and especially refused to take advantage where the start was not equal. He rarely made any bets. M. Lons Brandts, who recently committed suicide in Paris, was the friend and executor of Meyerbeer, and owned the copyright of all his works. He also owned many of Offenbach's and Halevy's works, and Rossini's "William Tell.” Mrs Armstrong Gibbs, of Melbourne. Aus tralia. who has made a sensation at Brussels as on:na donna, sings under the slage name of Melva. Bhe has a wonderful soprano voice, of great compass, aud many critics say i; is equal to Patti's. Mme. Katkofe is engaged in collecting all the newspaper articles wbicu were written hv her husband himself, with a view to publishing a complete edition of them. It is estiimited that the collection will occupy eight volumes, com prising 5.0U0 pages. Lieut. I’oi i.ke, who ns a diplomat and lands man during his services as naval attache of the United States Legation in Cornu, was fora part of the time acting Miuislcr, is going to marry a Japanese girl at Nagasaki, who helped him' to study her language. Richard Qfain. who died a few weeks ago. and left his fortune to University College, Lou don, wus a celebrated surgeon, and author of “(Juain's Anatomy," but was not the renowned author of "Qtiain's Dictionary of Medicine.” The latter still lives and prospers. ( oi.. Ch4oi.es Marshall. formerly chief of staff to Gov. !<ee, is credited with giving this reason for his support of the Maryland Republi can ticket: "1 uni content to lie governed by wiiat they call tried Democrats, but I am not willing to lie governed by tried and convicted Democrats." It was Randolph Tucker who asked Garfield, as the General was leaving the cloak room ol the lions: 1 to go to Ihe Chicago Convention in 1881. who the Rcoublicans were going to nomi- Dale, "it's as likely to be me as anybody. Ran." replied Uarti-ld. throwingnls arm around Tucker's neck, for they were great friends Mr. Tiuv.er tbinlu now that Garfield "spoke by the card.” Commissioner Miller Had to Wait. Washington D.*pateh to the Cincinnati En quirer. Some time ago Commtmtoaer of Internal Revenue Miller * A- called 'ait of town on a bur ned trip.ar-i needed some laundrying done. The Bight o-fore he VO t- start on ho. lourney. he took a bundle erf hm soiled Knee to a convenient Chinese iauhu.-v. and haiid-ng it to the CVI-stial in charge. %a :ti be waste, it done up in a hurry. The Chinaman asked Mr. Miller how soon he wanted the clothes I want them to-morrow morning." answered Mr Miller. The laundry-man looked at him. and observing it was after 7 o'clock in the eveniug. he tossed the bundle hack to his distingu-sbed customer, remarking. ' You dlara flooly. Can t glit them." Sordid he. A Three-legged Stool as a Bank. From the Ogdent/urg Journal. Tbe family erf Benjamin Denny found in a •hree-legged stool at hu house, in this city. so> m gold. It was wtpyosed that atxjut that much in gold had ben l It by him. but where it was secreted no one could tell. Mother Barnes, the -erress of Plumb Hollow , back of Brocksville, was consulted and she told the inquirers that it was buried in the garden. They dug up the premises and tore up tb- floor in the house, but all to no purpose By accident the stool was tipped over, when a hole in the bottom filled with plaster of parts was discovered, and upon investigation the gold was found secreted in the bottom of tbe stool. Mr. Denny lived alone. He lost Sat) by the failure of the Judson Bank ten years ago. and since that time had been making his deposits in the three legged stool. Possession. Robert Bu'icer, Lord Lytton. A poet loved a Star. And to it whispered nightly. "Being so fair, why art thou, love, so far? Or why so coldly shine, who shin'st so bright? < i beauty wooed and unpossest Oh. might 1 to this beating breast But clasp thee once, and then die b'.est That Star her Poet's love So wildly warm, made branau: And leaving, for his sake, her heaven above, H;s Star stooped earthward and became a woman. # "Thou who has wooed and hast possest, My lover, answer: Which has best- Tne .Star's beam or the Woman's breast?" “I miss from heaven."' the man replied 1 A light that drew my spirit to ,r. And to the man the woman sighed, "I miss from earth a poet." A Venerable Chestnut Made Useful. Front the Albany A rgu s. The late Justice Patrick Grattan was one of the most popular citizens of West Troy, where his memory wiil ever be. gn-en. and reminis cense-s of bis witieisros continue to bring smiles to the countenances of his surviving friends, as passing events recall 'he name of tbe genial "Pat " It was but seldom that his quick wit would not pierc> through any practical Joke 'hat was attempted to be plaved on him. and he used to relaie tuat the most completely that he was ever taken in was by a rollicking son of Brin, who stood arraigned and convicted before him for public intoxication. The fellow plead for mercy, saying that be had a large family de pendent on him for support: "How many chil dren have you.’" asked the kind-hearted Grat tan "Oi hv siven byes and a sister for iverv wan o' em." was the reply. He was let off with the payment of a light fine, and it was not till several minutes had elapsed that the court com pr-hended that one girl could be a sister to .-even boys, just as easily as seven girls, as he at first thought He Got His Interview. From the Philadelphia Time*. Cbauncey M. Depew. who appears to have talked for publication once too often, says the most original encounter be ever bad with a re !*>:-.er was in Chicago several years ago. The story, as Mr. Pepew relates it. is as follows: "Just as the train was moving out of the depot a reporter jumped on the platform of my car and said: “ ‘Excuse me. Mr. Depew, but I want to get your views on finance, politics and railroad matters. “ Why,’ I replied, the train s moving. Y'ou'll break your leg.' “ 'Will Blaine be nominated?' “ I think so.’ “ Hen 's Sew York Central?' " ‘Doing well.' " What's the general condition of the coun try?’ " First rate ’ • Then he jumped off. The train had got un der headway, and he was thrown fiat, but he veiled buck: I'll send you a copy of the paper.' He did. There was a column and a half inter view with me in it. It told bow he rode with me behind a pair of prancing steeds, such as rail way magnates always have, and how we in dulged in a great deal of promiscuous and pri vate conversation, and then he went on to make me run down the officers of the other railways in a frightful manner. Of course I would never say any such thing, but it all went.' A Boston Shark Story. From the Boston Herald, Oct. 12. A youth named Richardson, residing in Wash ington Village, went out smelting in Dorchester Bay last evening, at a point not far from Burn ham's wharf. He was iu a small rowboat, a yacht’s tender, and suddenly his attention was attracted to the water bac k of dim by an un usual movement. Looking he thought he saw a Newfoundland dog swimming toward him. When the object was within a few feet of his boat it turned and threw open its immense jaws. The voting boatman was almost frozen with fear. Realizing that he had a struggle he dropped his lines and seized an oar. and With all the strength that is born of frenzy, despera tion, and the feeling of self-preservation, he struck the shark on the side of the head, sink ing its head under the water. It came to the surface again in an instant. The young man had as quickly recovered himself, ami rained blows thick and fast on the fish's head. It made several snaps at the oar. and then lay out on the water. Giving the ani mal one more blow on the head, the youth jumped into his seat and rowe l for the shore. Once safely on term flrma. be told his asso ciates of bis adventure, and. after the dropping of the tide ar a late hour, young Richardson and a party of friends walked out to the spot where the combat had occurred, and there. stranded on the flats, the -lead shark was fotiod. After considerable difficulty the monster was brought ashore and laid across a wheelbarrow, and the young man proceeded to wheel it to their club room on Dorchester avenue, adjoining Wash ington Hall, where the curiosity ui at present to lie seen. It measures 8 feet 7 inches, is w hite underneath, is as smooth ass lk when rubbed from head to tail, and as rough as sand-paper when caressed against the grain. A gentleman who claims to know all about the “critter," said that it was of the worst man-eating species. How a Greyhound Lost His Tail. From the Chicago Herald. The fast train lietween Alameda and San Francisco the other day ran down upon a rang nifleent mouse-colored greyhound of the grand est proportions of his breed. The beatitirul dog was standing about twelve inches from the rail over which the crushing wheels would roll in five seconds. He was gazing suspiciously at another flog that was watching him at a safe distance from the track. In his earnest desire to ascer tain whether peace or war was t > be proclaimed he cared nothing for the flying engine, and. as suredly, the engine cared as little for him, as it swept remorselessly cn. making no sound be yond that caused by the thunder of its a pproaeh, to which the hound had listened too often, un der less dangerous conditions, to be alarmed by it now. Many i*ersons, including the dog's owner, stood upon tb f * sidewalk, some of them with very jxile faces and none with very much h>pe that the apparently doomed greyhound would ever coui-se a bare again. Nobody spoke, for th** time ha 1 passed when a sharp call to the animal might have done some good: but sud d**nly he saw the crashing monster when it was four feet away. and. utterly bewildered, lie made a great bound- -in tb*, wrong direction. He alighted well on the p lot of the engine, and if the powers that regulate mum matters had not had some future use for him surely he would have been converted into .-'atisage meat at once. As it waR. he was hurled six yards into the air and fell on his feet near to the parsing cars He wan clearly non compos menti . tor. without a second s hesitation, he sprang directly at th** train again as though his whole desire in life wash# ioard it as it licw. This time he struck the rail of one of the platforms and fell on his back lietween Mh* ears and partly under the wheels. The next moment the train was rush ing away in the distance, and, to the amaze ment of the bystanders, the gaunt dog was on his feet and busily engaged in heking the pos terior extremity of his spine. Tle crowd at once surrounded him. “What is the matter with him*" cried bis owner, who was a* much confused now as tlm hound had been a few seconds earlier. “He does not seem to be as long os he was." He was much shorter. His lengthy steering apparatus h ul been ground off. and he stood before his mastor a curtailed dog! At this moment his eye lell upon the animAl he had been contemplating when the locomo tive interrupted hirn. and he growled savagely: “You brute!" exclaimed his owner. “You ought to be down on your knees thanking the Lord for the escape you have just had." The j>ent up feelings of the crowd were sharp ly relieved, aud wild a hcarfy laugh it dis persed. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The business erf expkiag lumber to South 1 America and tbe Wv-tcd-es occupies seven wharves in Portland. Mq Htxar A. Robinson. aßnoos dealer in aport : ing gvods. says that M'-i, buys more pistols ' than all tbe United Sta dput together. The P-t pistols there are cf s- biggest size and calibre. The record for fast Raveling across the | Pacific coean was brogi recenriv by the steamer Ocealnic. which tade the trip from Yokohama to San Eraoico in fifteen clays j twenty-three hours. Mrs. Mk hael LeahueJ residing south of Staunton. Ind . poured wiVome carbolic acid in her hand : let the E** inhale it and in haled jt herself. It abs r+J in her hand, going ! all through her system aticce. She was re ; lie-red by a physician. Less than a year Home of Re-d for Horses was established bvprtaiu merciful per sons in London, and since km more than fifty ; h- r~es belonging to tradgnen and others in moderate circtuustanoea ave had rest and recreati.au at Xeasdeu and pdbury. A block or oßjuv.'te. *jfee* long by 5 feet wide and 5 feet thick, lstiemg quarried in Barre Vt. It will be trtc sjrted four miles to the railroad -cation by thiy sjajis of horse*. The block w ill then be loafd upon cars and shipped to California, wberik will do service in a isink vault. Average wages in Pud sound logging camps: Skid greasers. $-V |r month: swamp ers. barkers and hook tend*, about s+■>: skid ders. $5O: the teamster- pli, $:Jo: cooks. $4O to $;u0; head-saw vers. $lOO ($121; other saw yers. Junto $65; filers. huts employed gen erally about the mill. J-Ju to St jjer month Among other relics of the round-builders dis covered near Devil's Lake. D*.. by Prof. Mont gomery. of the North Dakta University, is what he calls a sacriBci.il tnoud. iu which, sev enteen inches from tbe urfa.w are wells easily found because of a lining of lime about tne side* and layers of bark on tbibottoui. These are deep enough to hold bodied:, a sitting pos ture. Ax elephant belonging to at raveling circus broke out of the stables at Rgby, Eng . and bursting open the door of a stall cottage ad joining. squeezed in. unfast-nk the cupboard, and dined on a dozen pots of jam. a gallon of pickled onions, a supply of daisons. a joint of meat, a loaf of bread a pound t butter, and a quantity of sweets. It took negly two hours to get the animal out. A jar containing two hands jre-erved in alco hol caused considerable excitement in a St. Louis saloon recently. The barkeeper savs that about four weeks ago a young man. well dressed, entered the sabon aal asked permis sion to leave a paper rsekage until next day When no one came for it the barkeeper undid the paper aud fonnd the pickled hand-. A patrol wagon reraovedthe Jar to the Morgue. W. L. Smith tried tocommit suicide at Fargo the other day. He pafl a man 25 cent* to hang him. They went to tb Urn. found a rope, and when about ready to commit the deed his as sistant returned to tbi bar for a drink and did not return Smith thm went to his room, se cured a dose of morptne. and placed it in some whisky. Before he coild drink it the proprietor of the hotel broke iuo his room and took it away. ' lx Portland. Ore., a nan befriended a China man who fell, as 'h 'U;h from exhaustion, in front of his door. On he following day. while a friend was praising he teniler-hearied man for his good deed, thf tame Chinaman again fell sprawling in front of them. Tbe kindly disposed resident liftedt'ne prostrate man to his feet and sent him reding with a tremedoua kick, remarking that a line must be drawn somewhere. The laws of the State •{ Illinois say that first cousins cannot marry. This bit of informa tion dealt out list WMvk by Deputy County Clerk Abernathv. fell lile a thunderbolt on William Hooverdale aud Mss Provia M Roberts, of Wheaton. Putnam comtv. Indiana, who ap plied for a marriage lieerwe They went home sadder, hut wiser, people. nd say they will try another State before snog flies and see if they cannot be legally spliced. The body of a man wh died in Omaha was sent to Akron. 0.. for burial. On the case en closing the coffin was an itemized bill for $llO. which was to be collected the body was delivered to the friend* of the de ceased man The bill called for the collection of $OO for the undertake-. S2> for hospital care. $lO for the physician's fee. st> for carriages and $-’ for an Omaha priest's saying mass for the repose of the dead man's soul. Mrs. George W Child s parlor at Woottnn is a gem. The carpet is gendarme blue and the mahogany furniture is upholstered in a rich dark brown, with a few odd pieces in white and gold set out. The ornaments on the mantel are few and large. The prevailing color in the scarfs and draperies, stuck here and thereon corners of chairs and other articles, is yellow. As beflttiDg a country home Mrs. Childs has white mull curtains ail through the house. Two car loads of Texas steers escaped to the woods from Ishpeming recently, and thereby hangs a tale. The owner, who knew of no bet ter way to reclaim his property, went out and shot all of tlie herd that be could find Then some frinds of his who thought the sport must be great because the game sms went out to shoot the rest of them for liim.VThey found plenty of cattle and had bagged eight or ten before a fanner torn, I up with a club and drove them away. They had beon shooting creamery cows. There is a society of young ladies in Creston, lowa, known as the “S. N. E.." which letters stand for “Speak No Evil." The cardinal prin ciple of the organization is to discourage the practice of speaking evil words of others, aid each member is fined 1 cent for each anp every otTense. There are twelve members, and at the last regular nteetiug the fines amounted to s!'.3l. Already “what to do with the surplus ’ is the absorbing topic, and the members are fast becoming converted to the lielief that iaxiug the necessaries of life is wrong in principle. Uncle Johsxie Morris, of Jaeksoriport, Ark., saw- a beautiful mound some distance from him and advanced toward it, but soon found it to be a large rattlesnaice in its coil. He found a club about three inches in diameter and attacked the huge reptile, but says he was unable to kill it without first procuring a lareer stick. He says the reptile will nma ure H inches lietweeu the eyes. :i feet 6 inches in circumference, and thut its rattles were at least fi inches in width. He also says that the snake in its coil was nearly as high as his head. That is all he said about the snake. About as mean a man as often comes to light is the New York undertaker who took advan tage of a poor woman last week. Her child died and the undertaker agreed to bury it in Calvary Cemetery for sl2. and charged her $2 50 for a burial permit. She was too poor even to go to the cemetery with her little one's coffin and she learned a day or tw o Inter that the un dertaker had buried the child in the Potter's Field, and that burial permits are issued free by the city. She will sue ihe undertaker, and it is to be hoped that he will be made to smart for his meanness. Swans will not sing before they die, and spiders will not cure earache. Whalebone is not bone at all, and Jerusalem artichokes never saw Jerusalem. Cleopatra's Needles were not built by Cleopatra, and Pompey s Pillar has nothing to do with Pompey. The Bank of England holds no colossal fortunes in trust for undiscov ered heirs in America. Alfred the Great did not found Oxford University, and Bishop flatto never persecuted the poor; in fact, this much calumniated character is said to have been a very excellent and kind-hearted old gentleman and the rats that swam the Rhine and scaled his castle walls are like the false facts that overrun every page of history and every nook and cranny of our daily lives. Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts, and three of his staff. Cols. Newman, WeiJ, and .Menard, were returning to Boston front Taunton fair a few days ago. and hoarded the Newport express 1 here were seats for four in only one car. and that had been hired exclusively by a nobodv named Huuon or Button, of Baltimore, who ii .. 1 rie . a sister of Ron* Winans. The *tute of affairs was explained to Mr. Hutton, and he was a-ked to give up a part of bis car to the Gov ernor and his party. lie haughtily refused He wou and not even permit them to occupy the• smoking compartment, so they were obliged to ride to Tjontou in the baggage car. Thus the riCh mau ' s d ‘ u, " htpl ' I^l George H. Yarn-ell, Mayor of Mount Vernon. 111., with his wife, attended a fair in a neighbor iuß town recently, ami took Daisy, their IS year nl,l daughter. She was lost in the crowd. Her parent* thought she had been alslucted anil placed the matter in the bauds of the ixiliee Mr. Varnell, with friends, kept up the search for a day and a half, w hen Mrs. Varnell “ap. HZ? "!<rrr '.r the brakeman and conduß. w-n f V u l,,u,,t accommodation train leurn-d thii a little girl answering to the dewn Iplion of then- daughter hod asked to ride to Mount Vernon free, she had been lot® from her parent*. A telegram to the servants In charge <t the house brought word that Daisy" had kuau right home from the fair. BAKING POWDER. 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