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MX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Oglethorpe Real Estate Company;
Workingmen's Union Association.
Spkaiai. NoticKß -State and County Taxes,
1887: New Home Sewing Machine Company;
Contest Between Chatham and la-fever Gun
•'lubs: Workingmen's Benevolent Association;
Disabled Bark for Sale; As Much Red Paint as
the Space Would Allow at Townsend’s; Soda
Water Manufacturers' Notice
Military Orders —No. 8, First Battalion Geor
gia Volunteers; Union Lincoln Guards.
Abstracts of Titles— l. Beckett.
Auction Sales —Special Sale of Millinery
Goods, by Marshal! & McLeod; Damaged Cot
ton. Damaged Goods, by J. McLaughlin & Son.
New Currants, Etc.—Strauss Bros.
Array of Bargains— H. A Dumas.
Fall anti Winter, 1887—Budd.
Boots, Shoes, Etc.— Byck Bros.
Clothing, Etc.—-B. H. Levy £ Bro.
Direct Importation - Schreiner's Import
House.
Pears, Etc.— W. D. Simkins & Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements- Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Photography; Strayed or Stolen; Boai-ding;
Ixist; Personal; Miscellaneous.
New Goods. —Wm. G. Cooper.
Another Week of Unparalleled Attrac
tions.—A. R. Altmayer A Cos.
Eckstein s Weekly Ad.— The Old Reliable
Dry Goods House.
Knabk Pianos.— Davis Bros.
Soda Water Manufactory.— H. F. Lubs A
Cos.
Falland Winter Styles— Gray A O'Brien.
Georgia State Fair -East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia Railway.
New York will have one less Anarchist
hereafter. He has been convicted of in
cendiarism. His crime was committed not
to advance the great cause of humanity, but
to fill his pockets by swindling an insurance
company.
Henry George has cancelled his country
engagememte-and will confine his efforts till
election day to New York and Brooklyn.
There is more Democratic material to work
on than in the country and less chance to
barm his allies.
The promised flop of the New York
Graphic to Republicanism has not come
about yet. Chairman l’latt may liave come
to the conclusion that Nov. Bis too near to
allow time for effective work. Meanwhile
the Graphic is doing all it can for the
Democrats.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, staunch Republi
can and particular friend of Blaine, says of
Cleveland's administration that it has been
highly creditable, and that he will not grieve
if he is re-elected. Many Republicans who
are not friends of Blaine would rather sta
him re-elected.
The death of Right Hon. Beresford Hope,
a member of the British Parliament, will be
regretted at the South. His sympathies
during the war were with this section, and
it will be remembered that a few years ago
he presented a very fine statue ot Btone wall
Jackson 'o the State of Virginia.
A divorce case tried in a Brooklyn court
last week was singular, in the fact that the
counael for both the plaintiff and defendant
•were colored men. The case is said to have
been an interesting one, and the thorough
ness of preparation and ability displayed
by the colored lawyers excited general re
mark.
The Thakore Sahib has sailed for Europe.
In a parting interview he was very compli
mentary as to everything American except
the newspaper reporters, w-ho, he said, were
often unshaved, unclean and without knowl
edge of gentlemanly manners. The wily
Indian knew when the only safe time came
to get even with his tormentors.
The Duke of Marlborough, having had a
wide and interesting experience in the
Unglish courts, will soon have an oppor
tunity to compare it with anew one in
those of America. He has been sued for
libel by the proprietor of the New York
Truth, who probably hopes to auvertise
the existence of his paper in this way.
A Baltimore paper is angry because of
the continuance of rumore unfavorable to
the financial standing of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, and asserts tba; its condition
is better than for years past, which, it savs,
is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the
stock is held at fifteen points above par.
Then what did the price at which it was
held only a few months since, about 100,
demonstrate?
It looks as if Mr. Delaney Nicoll would
be another disturbing element in New York
politics in the coming election. He was not
nominated by the Tammany County De
mocracy combination for District Attorney,
and may be nominated by the Republicans
or run as an Independent, with the support
of Irving Hull. Not often has u young
lawyer been the bone of so much eouten
tion among politicians and newspapers.
Mr. Thomas C. Platt, the New York Re
publican boss, is an old and cautious poli
tician. but even he makes mistakes. He
has made two lately of the same sort. 11-'
wrote a letter to a gentleman of an interior
county, whom he supposed to be a stalwart
Republican, urging him to do everything
possible to keep down the prohibition vote,
but the man happened to lie a Prohibitionist
and made the letter public. To another Mr.
Platt confided that he cared little about the
details of the campaign in the counties, as
the result depended on the success of Henry
George in New York city. These tilings
show the weakness of the Republican posi
tion in New York. They have no hope of
success in a direct appeal to the people on
questions of policy, but Hojie by multiply
ing lections and deceiving voters as to the
Teal issues to slip into office.
The President’s Journey.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived
at the White House early yesterday morn
ing. They were both in fine spirits and ex
cellent health after their remarkable jour
ney of three weeks, during which they
traveled thousands of miles, visited ninny
cities and shook hands with tens of thou
sands of people. That the President is
pleaded with his trip there is no doubt. It
was marred by no particularly' unpleasant
incident. The weather for the greater part
of the time was all that couid be desired,
and he was welcomed everywhere with a
heartiness that must make him feel that his
efforts to administer the government hon
estly, economically and for the benefit of
the w hole people are not only understood
but appreciated.
Some of the Republican journals, in
order to destroy the effect of his popularity,
have asserted that he was welcomed only as
other Presidents have been, and that his
journey was undertaken for the purpose of
improving his chances for a renomination.
It is doubtless true that other Presidents
have been cheered, hut no other President
was ever greeted and cheered by such crowds
as greeted and cheered him. The enthu
siasm that was displayed everywhere
along the route he traveled was
a spontaneous acknowledgment bv the
people that he is admini. tering the great
trust that has been confided to his keeping
faithfully, intelligently and conscientiously.
Even his political opponents were glad to
honor him—not because he is President, but
because he possesses the straightforward,
manly qualities which always command re
spect.
The charge that his journey was under
taken for political purposes is certainly
without foundation. It is not known that
he seeks a renomination, and it he does he
had no reason to think that a long journey
through the West and South was necessary
to assist him in getting it. He undertook
the journey because he wanted to
see some of the Western ami South
ern country. He had never been far
away from Saw York, and he very natur
ally desired to see more of the great country
of which ho is tpe Chief Executive. Origi
nally he did not intend tint the journey
should be a long one, or that it should
occupy more than a week. So manv invi
tations, however, were sent him from cities
all over the country, and all were so kind
and urgent, that he final. - decided upon the
programme which was so successfully and
happily completed yesterday.
Much lias been said in the opposition
press of the speeches which he delivered.
They were not great speeches and they did
not deal with political subjects. They were
just what the President intended they
should be. His purpose was not to talk
politics, but to shake hands with the people.
The desire of the masses was not to hear
speeches from him, but to see him. and to
show their appreciation of him. If he had
talked politics it would have been asserted
at once that he was electioneering for a sec
ond term, and party adherents, rather than
the people as a whole, would have had
the honor of welcoming him. The
President did what was wise under
the circumstances, and he has good
reason for being very well satisfied with
himself and his journey. He did not seek to
increase his popularity, but it is greater
than wheu he left Washington three weeks
ago.
Not a Believer
A great mistake the faith cure people
make is that they claim too much. Their
faith is so great that they believe everything
they hear that upholds the faith cure doc
trine, and they not infrequently make
statements about the cures they effect which
they cannot support by facts. The result is
that they drive away from them intelligent,
but sincere inquirers, and make themselves
and their cure the subjects of ridicule.
At a convention of Christian Scientists in
Boston on Wednesda there oecured an in
cident which shows how little reliance there
is to be placed upon the statements of the
believers in the faith cure who are anxious
to make converts. Some of them have
been stating lately that the Rev. Dr. Bartol
was an adherent of their metuod of cure.
He went to the convention on Wednesday
and was asked to make a few remarks.
Among other things, he said: “I
believe ypur school is apt to be extrava
gant. There are some things that you can
not do. I was riding in the cars the other
day and a cinder got into my eye. i tried
your cure, but it was not successful and I
had to go to an oculist to get it out. Now
I believe that you can take the beam out of
my eye, but the cinder is too much for you.
When you can take the cinder out of my
eye or set a broken limb 1 can believe thor
oughly in your cure and not till then. Let
us be consistent. Let us be honest. I
believe somewhat in faith cure, but I don’t
believe it can remove the germs of typhoid
fever. ”
There was no desire to hear further from
I)r. Bartol. If the faith cure doctors have
such firm faith in their method of cure it is
lather strange that some of them do not
offer their services to Tampa. It is notice
able, however, that they are not anxious to
go where there is danger.
Foraker’s Vivid Imagination.
The evidence accumulates that Gov. For -
aker, of Ohio, is not only a demagogue, but
is, in other respects, a very bad man. He
refused to correct the story so widely pub
lished by the Republican press that Mrs.
Cleveland had snublied him and his wife at
the Philadelphia centennial. In fact, by
his manner he strove to strengthen the im
pression that it was true. A simple, manly
denial of it would have saved the President
the necessity of denying it.
It is stated that in a speech at Cleveland,
0., a few nights ago, he stated that the
veterans in the Soldiers’ Home at Milwau
kee received the President, during his re
cent visit to that city, with entire silence
and without any manifestations of pleasure
whatever, but that the convicts in the peni
tentiary at Joliet, 111., being drawn up in
line out of respect for him, threw up their
hats and shouted themselves he -sc.
Of course Gov. Foraker knew that he was
deceiving his audience, and yet for the pur
pose of making what he considered a point
against the President he was ready to tell a
falsehood. Asa matter of fact the Presi
dent was received by the Milwaukee
veterans with very great enthusiasm and
respect, and he was not at Joliet at all.
Gov. Foraker must possess very little self
respect. A men occupying as distinguished
a position as he does, who has so little
regard for the truth, certainly cannot be
held in very high esteem by truth-loving,
self-respecting people of his Kioto.
All the lumber mills in LaCrosse closed
down when the President was in the city in
order to give the employes an opportunity
to see him.
THE MORNING NEWS* SUNDAY, OCTOBER T\ 1887.
Civd Service Wranglers.
Civil Service Commissioners Edgerton
j and Oberly' are having a rather lively dis
cussion in the newspapers relative to the
proper interpretation to be given to a part
|of the civil service law. There has been
; for some time a doubt whether these gen
tlemen are wholly fitted for the responsible
ami delicate positions which they occupy.
Trie course they are pursuing now in at
tacking each other in the public prints is
1 calculated to do the cause of civil service
reform incalculable harm. The satisfac
tion which the enemies of the reform ex
hibit at the spectacle presented by the con
tentious commissioners shows how ready
they are to utilise anything that is calcu
lated to bring it into disrepute. If the com
missioners liave differences with re
spect to the law, with the administration
of which they are entrusted, they
ought to settle them quietly. If they cannot
do so they ought to resign and let their
places be filled by those who can. Their
whole purpose should be to promote the re
form, ana they should lie willing to make
almost any sacrifice rather than injure it.
The reform is one that, for its success, re
quires tlie exercise of the highest intelli
gence, the best judgment and the greatest
patience. It was inaugurated because the
people saw the necessity for it. The danger
and abuses of the spoils system alarmed
them. It is not a difficult matter, however,
to make them believe that the civil service
luw is impracticable, and there is no better
wav to encourage such a belief than for
those who are clothed with authority to ad
minister it to engage in quarrels in the
newspapers aiiout its meaning.
Commissioner Oberly is apparently too
radical in his interpretation of the law. and
Commissioner Eilgertou too conservative.
The former says that the Democratic party
w ill accept his interpretation of it in less
than a year. That i* an admission that he
is a sort of an experimenter and’is trying to
lead the party, lie is much too small a
politician, and too insignificant an official,
for such a role. If he is in doubt about
the meaning of any part of the law lie should
be guided by what appears to be the senti
ment of the people.
Commissioner Edgerton seems inclined
to interpret the law in a way that will meet
the approval of that class of politicians who
shout for civii service reform, and at the
same time insist upon making tho offices a
reward for party services. He is making a
mistake, for an interpretation of that
kind will do as much to damage civil ser
vice reform as the radical and unauthorized
interpretation of Commissioner Oberly.
The trouble began with a letter from
Commissioner Oberly to an Illinois associa
tion of Democrats who are employed in the
departments at Washington. He. in effect,
told the association that its organization
was illegal, if its purpose was to render any
assistance to its party in Illinois. The next
thing be did wa- to make a ruling that no
one who was connected with any committee
or club, whose object wus to assist a politi
cal i>arty, could be a member of a civil
service examining board. Commissioner
Edgerton does not approve of tho letter or
the ruling, and he lias improved every op
portunity to tell the public so. Commis
sioner Oberly has replied, and the discus
sion, thus far, seems to be only the begin
ning of a misunderstanding that isaegretted
by the true friends of civil service reform.
If the two commissioners cannot get
along harmoniously and keep their quarrels
out oi the newspapers, the President will
doubtless find it to be his duty to do some
thing in the way of reform that will not be
pleasant to them. Ho cannot afford to have
his work in behalf of civil service reform
obstructed by those whose duty it is to ad
vance it.
Two Mysteries.
The Rahway, N. J., murder mystery is
again attracting public attention. It has
been many months since the body of the
murdered gil l was found, and the different
accounts which havtf been published about
the mysterious crime, and the various inci
dents connected with it, would make a large
volume. Several times the statement has
been made that clews had been obtained
which would establish the identity of the
murdered girl, and lead to the arrest of her
murderer. The clews, however, proved to be
false ones.
It is again said that it has been discovered
who the girl was and who her murderer is.
It will lie gratifying to a very much inter
ested public if this last clew shall prove to
be a correct one.
It is now asserted that the girl was Annie
Ingraham, who arrived in Philadelphia
from England, in February of last year.
She finally found employment in the mills
at Bound Brook, on the Reading railroad,
and there met a man named Credeford,
whom, after a short acquaintance, she mar
ried. She repented of her hasty act within
a few minutes after the ceremony was
performed, and refused to go with him *o
his home. She left Bound Brook the fol
lowing day and secured employment in
Philadelphia. In a short time she disap
peared from that city, and soon afterward
her body was found in Rahway. The theory
is that Credeford murdered her.
There is more than a passing interest in
this ease here because of the existence of a
similar mystery in this locality. The de
tectives and reporters have worked faith
fully on the Rahway ease, and think they
have reached, the truth. In view of the
fact that they hud thought the same thing
several times before the present facts were
discovered, the public will not consider that
the mystery has been solved until all doubt
has been removed.
No satisfactory clews have been obtained
which tend to explain the mystery sur
rounding the murder of the girl whose body
was found, a couple of months ago, a few
miles south of this city. All known clews
have been followed, but without any result
which was at all satisfactory. The officers
are still on the alert, however, and may
find something in the near future which
will throw light on what is admitted to
have been a niurdor of the most horrible
kind.
A New York doctor fired five shots at a
stranger who happened to sit at the same
table with him at a cafe the other night.
The cause for the attempted murder was an
intimation by the stranger to a companion
that a young woman who accompanied the
doctor was a mulatto. This intimation did
not escape the doctor’s attention, and seems
to have made him quite as angry as if he
had been a Georgian instead of a New
Yorker. _____
The postmustersbip at Washington is the
biggest political plum which is nearly ripe,
and District Democrats are much exercised
in their minds for fear the President may
go outside their ranks to find a successor for
Postmaster Conger, whose term will expire
soon. They have not entirely forgotteu
the way the Registers office was filled.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Yes, Fill Him Up.
From the Scxc York Star l Der.t.)
That pestilential fool, the quail eater, is
around again Fill him up with tiird shot ’
Kept in Reserve for a Bacon Celebra
tion.
From the Indianapolis Journal (Rep.\
Ignat ias Donnelly seems to have been a cipher
m the Stratford on Avon inceedings.
Their Cause the Same.
From the Boston Globe (l)ern.)
The poor of London are starving as well as
those of Ireland. The English people are tie
ginning to find that the Irish cause and theirs
are one.
Just Like Grown Folks.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem i
The newsboys of Pittsburg are boycotting the
Chronicle-Telegraph, and thrashing those of
their own number who sell it. Once upon a
time it could be said tliat grown folks acted like
children, but it is a queer and not altogether
Mattering commentary on our civilization that
these children should fie acting just like grown
folks.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Have you heard that Jones’ wife has twins?”
‘ What’ again?" “Oh, well, large families are
so English, you know, and Jones is the worst
Anglomaniac you ever saw.’’—Judge.
"Women can not be satirical,” says a writer,
“any more than they can he humorous.” So?
How is that wnea a man, after courting a girl
for seven years, proposes, she says, “Oh!
George, this is so sudden.” —Boston Courier.
Whipper jx of the Essex county hunt (hold
ing his nose)—"Savin tti presence o’ th’ ladies,
sor. that fox is a black au’ pbwile wan, wid
sthripea on him, an’ be th’ way th’ dogs is
sneezing. Oi fink he can’t be well, sor.”—Rucfc.
After Dempsey had worn a pair of new shoes
for four days lie went out to the ash heap and
resurrected bis old ones. When his wife asked
him what he was going to do. he replied savagely
that he was “going to get on a peace footing
again.” —Burlington / reePress.
’’Well,” remarked Fogg, after vainly trying
to attract the attention of the gentleman .n
cbarge of the mercantile end of the horse car,
‘ there’s one thing to be said of electric motors
on st reet ears. The company will be obliged to
have good conductors. "—Boston Transcript.
Caller- Your son seems very much affected
over his uncle’s death
< iinaha dame—o, he’s almost crazy; he neither
eats nor sleeps.
"Poor fellow. He is uncle’s sole heir, is he
not!"
"No! All the money has been willed to an
orphan asylum '—Urn tlui World.
"George, dear, since you ask me, I do love
you."
“I am glad to hear you say so.”
“You are the best, the truest, and most noble
man on earth."
"Mabel, will you do me a favor? ”
“What is it?’’
“Go into the house and try to convince your
father of that, will you?"— Merchant Traneler.
“Fare 1” exclaimed a conductor on a Lincoln
avenue car. leaning toward a grizzled oid man
its the car came out of a "switch" at Indiana
street.
"Why I gave you my fare on the bridge," said
the old man. "I got on there. "
"No one got on at the bridge but a little boy,’’
said the conductor.
"I know it," persisted the old man. “I am that
little boy." —Chicago .Vices.
Anarchistic Field Mouse—Did you tell that
huh we wanted this field to ourselves?
Auarchistic ChipiiHink—Yes, l made a speech
that ought to sell In him.
Did lie say he'd go away?”
"He didn’t say anything, but he must have
Isjen pretty well scared. He gave an awful bel
low ami started on a run toward the fence.”
"Can he get over the fence?”
“He's trying to. 1 guess he wants to ask that
woman in a red sbaw 1 to help him.”— Omaha
World.
“You must practice economy, young man,"
said the old gentleman; "you are altogether too
extravagant.”
"I do practice economy,” was the response:
“I only ale a bow l of bread and milk to-day for
my lunch.’
"That looks better,” commented the father,
somewhat inullified; "what did it cost you—ten
cents?"
“Well, i had to give the waiter half a dollar,
father. '—Harper s Bazar.
Dangerous Literature. —Omaha man—So
you are a Mormon wife, eh ? Kept a prisoner, I
suppose?
51* men w ife—Oh. no. you see no one is watch
ing me now.
"Are you not under lock and key at home?"
“No, indeed; Igo where I please and when I
please.'
“Then why on earth don't you run away?”
"I did think of it once, but my husband bought
me some Gentile newspapers, and after I read
them 1 changed my mind.”
"Eh? Y\ liat did you find in the newspapers?"
“Not milch of anything except reports of di
vorces, cruelty, neglect and wife beatings. ’—
Ulna ha WorUl.
PERSONAL.
Sir Charles Dilke is in Constantinople hob
nobbing with the Sultan, w ho, of course, is in
no position to object to Sir Charles on moral
grounds.
Lord Ruthven. a well-known Scotch noble
man, is running a coach daily between Hamil
ton and laiuark, and lias been obtaining much
patronage from tourists.
The Princesses Pignatilla and De Gorouki are
soon to appear on the Vienna stage, and the
Princess Anna Katief has been engaged for the
Winter Garden in Berlin.
Archbishop Casinavo, who has been banished
from Guatemala, has arrived at San Francisco.
He says the country has practically gone
to rack and ruiu since Barrios' untimely death.
A HOME for working girls is being built in
Pittsburg. It is under the auspices of the Sis
ters of Mercy, but no creed distinctions will be
permitted. The estimated cost of the home is
SBO,IXIO.
Miss Ada H. Addis, of Los Angeles, who is
preparing to sneex-Gov. Downey, of San Fran
cisco, for $300,000 as damages for breach of
promise of marriage, is desirihe i as "the lead
ing literary woman of the coast.”
Last week the venerable mother of the late
Bayard Taylor celebrated the 88th anniversary
of her birt hat her home in Rennet square She
is quite active for one of her years and delights
in having her friends call upon her.
Miss Jeannette L. Gilder, of the Critic.
thinks that Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
was more helpful to her than any oilier Look
she ever read, and is certain that it gave her the
idea of becoming a newspaper woman.
Supt Horner, of the Kansas State silk sta
tion, thinks that the climate of the West is pe
culiarly adapted to silk production, and that
silk con be made in Kansas and Missouri which
shall be superior to the imported article.
Henry W. Bishop, a native of Berkshire
county. Mass., and leading lawyer of Chicago,
proposes to erect aud equip, at a cost of not
less tlta.li *25.000, a traiumg school for nurses in
connection with the Pittsfield (Mass. ) House ot'
Mercy.
Mrs. La Greer. Topeka's female lawyer, has
succeeded in building up a good paying practice.
She is a first rate speaker and captures the
average juror without much effort. Mrs. In
Gii-or is about 35 years of age aud rather good
looking.
The re-election of Leonard W. Jerome ns
President of the Coney Island Jockey Club, this
w eek, is a just recognition. Mr. Jerome is
practically the father of the American turf. He
was the first man to drive a nail iu the coffin of
dishonest trotting.
A number of Christian women have been
found by Canon Body iu London who are will
ing to reside among the miners of Durham for
the purpose of teaching, nursing and in other
ways helping to humanize them. Tne result of
the experiment will be watched with great in
terest throughout the colliery regions.
Miss Louise Fieder. a handsome New York
heiress, has been married to the Baron Paul
Victlnghoff, of Kussia. and the pair will start
for Europe on Saturday. The Baron was once
wealthy, but losing his fortune, he came to
America and supported himself by acting as
riding master in a fashionable school for young
ladies in New York
Mrs. Margaret Sullivan of Chicago, the
distinguished art and musical critic, has ac
cepted the position of art entic and editorial
w riter on the Tribune at that city, it is not
only a matter of personal congratulation to
artists that so cultivated ami accomplished a
connoisseur should interpret, pictures to the
public, hut it will mark an advance in art rec
ognition ami interest in the West.
M. de Vikl-Castfl. senior member of the
French Academy, whose deal h was announced
some days ago, was a grand-nephew of Mira
iK-au and the brother of Count Horace de Viel-
Castel, whose memoirs are prohibited in France
because of the scandalous gossip contained in
them aliout the great personages with whom he
was acquainted. His mother remembered
Horace Walpole, Franklin and Voltaire, and he
himself saw two empires, two monarchies and j
two republics in Fiance.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Michigan maiden who chased a robher
with a pitchfork and made him drop his booty
is said to be receiving an average of fifteen
offers of marriage per week.
Mn. Hamlet is a candidate fox the Virginia
Senate, and his opponents say that the outcome
of his candidacy will be strongly suggestive of
the pluy of that name with the title role left out.
Puget Sound salmon are scarce and high this
year, and the canneries pay the Indian fisher
men 10c. for silver salmon and ssc. for jack
salmon. A large business is the shipment of
salmon to Eastern points.
At the recent festival of Big Joss Pidger, in
Canton, the. temple was lighted with ten large
2.000-candle power electric lights, which bright
ened the interior, and lit up the hideous features
of the a.ssernbled demons and josses.
In August Frank Fagan, Marshal of Marion,
Ind., was attacked by a savage bulldog belong
ing to Samuel Clannin. arid seriously bitten.
He sued Clannin for SI,OOO. The case was tried
and the jury brought iu a verdict for the plaintiff
for SSOO.
An intelligent horse is spoken of in the
Lynn (Mass.) Bee. It was minus a shoe when
stabled for the night, but next morning walked
off of its own will to the blacksmith and was
waiting its turn to be shod when found by the
owner.
Chinamen unlawfully in this country are to
be prosecuted at Tacoma, W. TANARUS., and, as the
penalty is a fine of SI,OOO or imprisonment for
one year or both, the immigration from British
Columbia, it is expected, will be checked, if not
entirely stopped.
The river below H inrun A Ward * mill at
Battle Creek, Mich., sa; t the Moon, is shiny
from the white skins of dead eels that line the
shore and cover the bottom The eels average
a yard in length, and are killed by the water
wheels of the mill.
The crematory in the Pere la Chaise ceme
tery, Paris, is nearly finished, and may begin
work next month. Before being applied to
human remains, however, the municipal au
thorities are at present testing its efficacy cn
garbage of various kinds.
The manufacturing village of St. Etienne, in
France, sent to the United States in August
go and * to the value of $20.),000. Of this amount
tl)‘*re were s*o.ooo worth of ribbons and more
than SIOO,OOO worth of gloves, the balance in
laces, trimmings and buttons.
Pfof. Virchow says, concerning the keeping
windows open in sleeping apartments: “The
vitiated air can only rush out when the tempe
rature inside differs from that outside; it re
inai us stationary when the air inside is already
of equal temperature with that oursdcie. In
that case serious complications may b** the con
sequence, and many persons have paid their
mistaken notion with tne.ir life.”
The Emperor of Germany recently received
the Chinese Ambassador, who prosen ted him
with a number of handsome birthday gifts,
though several months tia\e now' elapsed since
he celebrated his 90th biri hday. Aeeorapanying
these gifts. which include several pieces of
splendid silk tapestry embroidered with histori
cal and mythological Chinese figures, a number
of vases and other articles of porcelain, was a
letter conveying the congratulations of the Chi
nese Emperor.
Diphtheria has lately increased in various
parts of New Jersey, and Dr. E. M. Hunt, Secre
tary of the Board of Health, thinks this is largely
due to damp eeliai*s. which are suddenly heated in
the fall. This theory has been verified for several
years b,v reports from vari *us places where the
disease has raged. The doctor *.ys that during
the summer, in many cellars a good deal of
vegetable matter is allowed to decay, and
when the fires are started in the fall this decayed
matter is stirred up and mingled with a pecu
liar dampness which must be m the cellar, and
it pervades the entire house. This is the cause
of m 9c h of the diphtheria, and the board is try
ing to induce people to guard against it.
A Dead Summer.
Are you sure she sleeps and w ill not waken?
I've sen them lie nist so, times past,
And sudden rise to bright, triumphant glory.
When we were sure each death-throe was the
la*t.
Well, she has died hard, and each struggle
Brings back the thought of all the joy
She foi ls away in her dead arms forever.
Ere it has minglod w ith the world's ulloy.
Hardy she's dead—*tis hard to think so—
When on her perfect face there rests a smile
So full of love, and life, audduughter,
One would think she played at sleep the
while.
And then, the roseate fingers lightly clasping
1 Ait ? roses —red as wine - have yet
Retained their lovely pink and white perfection,
Nor paid to death its ghastly, pallid debt.
Her dewy lips still hold the pink of coral.
And ready seem to overflow with laughter,
As in the brilliant days when life was love.
And love the dream she followed after.
Just beneath the fringed lids resting.
lake daysnriugs hidden in some shaded nook,
Thn wells of her clear eyes—l wonder
If in her day-dreams they had not that look?
Well, if you're sure she sleeps, to waken
No mow in likeness quite tlie same again,
I'll leave within her coffin all my treasures
She helped me gather—but I Reap the pain—
A dear vet bitter-sweet remembrance.
Culled from the kisses left on her dead face,
Upon which rests no pallid, ghastly shadows.
And w here grim Death has left no single trace.
Pats.
He Talked Business.
Xeiz York Correspondence San Francisco
Argonaut.
They toll a curious story of old Christopher
Meyer who was more or less with Ives. Many
years ago he was a workman in a factory where
lubber shoes were made. He received the
fabulous sum of $1 25 a day. At night he
worked out the details of an invention for econ
omizing in the number of men employed in the
factory. One day he finished bis machine,
carrie t it to the shop, and showed his boss how
well it would do the work of a dozen or twenty
men. The boss was thunderstruck: but before
he could examine the invention Meyer seized a
oig hammer and knocked its delicate machinery
into chaos.
“But I want that/’ protested the boss.
“I know you do,” answered the workman
quietly. \
“Come aud see me to-morrow noon,” con
tinued the head of the firm, pompously, “and
we will make some arrangements—”
‘‘lf you want to talk busiuess with me,” re
marked the workman, coolly, "You can come
to my lodging at 7 o'clock to night. Better not
be late.”
The millionaire was there at 7, Meyer was
taken into the firm, and in a short time he was
at the head of the business. Me lives in New
Brunswick, N. J . in a pretentious house, and
his sons are ail well married. A short time ago
the old man—he is more than 70 years of age—
took it into his mind to marry again, picked out
a beautiful 19-year-old girl, aud prepared for the
wedding. Immense opposition was expected
from the family, as old Meyer is worth SIO,<XX).-
000 or $12,000,000: but. to the amazement and
chagrin of society and the sensational press, all
of the old mnnufaeturer’s friends, family, and
connections backed him up heartily, and sent
him off on his bridal tour looking aud feeling
like a major.
How Burglars Have Their Tools Made.
From the Xew York Star.
P. .T. Jennings, an Mast Side engineer and
machinist, tells an interesting story about his
dealings with a burglar. He was sitting in his
office one day, a few months ago. when two men
entered with a design they w anted made of steel.
He took the job, and turned it out according to
order. The men came next day, and after chat
ting pleasantly about the boodle Aldermen and
other matters of popular interest in the city,
paid their bill ana went away. Several other
designs were brought him by toe two men. and
he got to know' them quite well. He did not
learn their business, however; but it is such a
common thing to deal with men whom one
knows only by sight, that Mr. Jennings never
bothered his heacl about it.
But he found out who the men were after all.
One day they called to have him make halt a
dozen eight-inch steel screws. He promised
them for o o'clock, but the men did not come.
He did not see them the next day or the next.
On the third day one of Pinkerton's detectives
dropped in upon him in the afternoon carrying
a handsatcbel. He opened it and threw a lot of
curiously shaped pieces of steel on the table
"Were these made in vour shop. Mr. Jen
nings?” casually remarked the detective.
Yes, that's our work.”
"Who din you make them for?”
‘‘Now you’ve got me—it's more than I can
tell. 1 never had any reason to inquire, and the
men didn't bother about telling me.”
"But you are sun* you made that steel work
here?”
"Yes. oh, yes; I'm sure enough of that ”
Two days later Mr. Jennings was subpoenaed
by the prosecution as a witness against two
men who had attempted to crack the safe in a
bank in Ellonvllle, ulster county. He met a
Harlem machinist and an iron worker from
down town at the court house in Kingston.
Pinkerton s men opened wide their eyes when
he took the pieces of steel that each had shaped,
aud, putting them together, showed what a per
fee; sectional jixnruv they maun.
BAKING rOWREB,
perfect
Its superior excellence proven in millions of
homes t'or more t liana quarter of a century. It is
use<l by the United States Government! In
1 dorsed by the heads of the Groat Universities as
the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful. Or.
! Price's the only Baking Pow der that does not
contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in
Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. UOt'IS
A. R. ALTMAYER A- CO.
ANOTHER WEEK
__ -OF
Unparalleled Attractions
mLMERWS
CPHE SUCCESS attending the past week's
JL inducements was most pronounced,
our store being crowded from enrly morn till
late in the evening with seekers after the UN
MATCH ABLE BARGAINS we have thrown out.
THIS WEEK
the inducements are greater than ever. There
are BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
We have space to quote only a few specialties,
but they will give you a general idea of the
GREAT DRIVES FoK THE WEEK.
IN’ DRESS GOODS
WE WILL OFFER:
1 more case of those double width Checked
and Plaid Suitings at 10‘^c.; cannot be matched
in the South for the money.
A case of Lovely French Plaids. J 8 inches
wile, at 4<\\: these goods are quite pretty and
the newest tilings out. Look at them before
the assortment is broken.
A lovely line Striped Silk Velvets at $1 50; can
match any dress in color
11ST CLOAKS.
A Tailor-made Jersey-cloth Jacket, with satin
lined hood at $2 60.
An English Check in Tailor-made Jacket,
with satin-lined hood, ONLY $4 38. This is an
extraordinary offer, an l our Silk Plush Short
Wrap, with plush ornaments and qniited satin
lining, at sls 50, is simply unapproachable.
INBOYS’ CLOTHING
we are so far ahead of other houses that com
parisons are out of the question. Our liue
COULDN' T BE MORE COMPLETE nor Styles
any choicer. This is a great feature of the
bouse. For the week we will offer in this de
partinent:
A FULL SUIT in nobby style goods for §2 75.
These are especially suitable for SCHOOL
SUITS.
You must look through this department to
get any idea of it.
DRESS TRIMMINGS.
We have the most unique things in Braid Sets.
Braids by the yard, and Beaded and Cut Steel
Trimmings.
The styles in these goods are the choicest and
newest, and were selected with great care by
our luj r er. Our Buttons, too. are the prettiest
and newest things that could be found. We
can match ANY COLOR DRESS GOODS MADE
with them.
BLANKETS.
Will sell for the week a full size all wool
Blanket at Si 98; cheapest thing yet. And a6%
pound Blanket worth 5? 50 for $5.
Do not fail to notice our changes from week
to week. You will certainly find something to
interest you. as we go through every depart
ment.
Our ILLUSTRATED FALL CATALOGUE
now ready, free on application.
We are. Very Respectfully Y’ours,
A. R. ALTMAYER k CD.
SHOES.
YVe are the agents for the
JAMES MEANS
§4 SHOE
end the
JAMES MEANS
% $3 SHOE.
-TAMES MEANS $4 STTOP
> light and stylish. It fits like a
REQUIRE!*
I qt\ v \ y(V\ NO LREAKJNG IN,”bo;
I OU> °\Si in * perfectly easy the first time h
f 'y,*' 15 wo " n * It will satisfy the mosi
M Oa * XjS/asfimous. JAMES MEAN!*
(O SHOE is absolutely th<
i dVX °nly shoe of its price whjet
K VJv nas ever been placed ex -
V, 0/ . tenaively on tne market
wtlctyr- Y<V in which durability
s 8 considered befor*
• A t \ mere out-
U fw.hr .Tanu?^^>H^^3i;iK‘ r '
Means $2 Bhoe tor Boys Call at
>ur Store and try on a pair o X these Shoe*-
.A. S. NICHOLS,
128 BROUGHTON .STREET. SAVANNAH
PORTRAJ l’>.
The Great Southern Portrait Company,
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA.
L. 13. DAVIS,
Secretary and Manager of the Great South
ern Portrait Company.
A N Inspection of samples of our Portraits at
XA our office, with Davis Bros., and 44 Bull
street will greatly interest those who content
plate having sma*! pictures of themselves, their
friends, living and deceased, copied and enlarged
OIU WATER COLOR. INDIA INK pi*
t-UFo' anil t RAN ON. We guarantee a tier
feet likeness and excellence of work We hnvn
twenty different styles and
GRADES IN SIZES OF ENLARGED Pow
TRAITS from HxlO to Ethan, ami our prices are
from $4 to SBOO each. EMPLOY FORTY apt
ISTS: been twenty-six yearn in the bu,in££
have a 6,000 candle-power ELECTRIC I IQITt'
and are fully pre,.are, 1 with allpVoJer 2
tion and s™.ll to execute all orders protnm.lv
ajmsatisfaetorny. We n.pec tfuhy sX ;i S
“pSSi V The Ureat South,™
Bighlatid Brand Condensed Milk.
A Pure Milk condensed to a syrupy consistency.
FOR SALE
AT STRONG'S URUG STORE,
Corner Bull and Perry street leae.
BOYS’ C l THING, CAffPET*. ETC
9 Hogan.
US' CLOTRING.
We vill place on sale on
MONDAY MORNING 500 as
handsome Boys’ Suits as can
be found south of New York.
Prices of tailor-made and per
lect-ftting suits are for better
grades $0 50, $7 50, $8 50,
$9 aid $9 50.
Alto a large variety, fully
500, just as durable, but not
as fine at the following prices •
SI 75 $2 25, $2 50, $3,
$3 50, $4, $4 50, and $5.
SPECIAL SALE
OF
Tapestry and hgrain
Carpets
DURING THE ENSUING WEEK.
One lot Tapestry Carpets
at 65c. per yard.
One lot 3-Ply All Wool Car
pets at 85c. per yard.
One lot All Wool Extra-
Supers at 60c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at
55c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at
50c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at
40c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at
22 ac. per yard.
500 Smyrna Rugs
HANGING PRICE FROM
85c. Each to $lO.
CANTOK
MATTING.
100 rolls fresh Canton Mat
ting, ranging in price from
20c. to 50c. per yard.
Special Bargains
M ill also be found in the fol
lowing goods during this
week: Silks, Satins, Dress
Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Lace
Curtains and Curtain Goods,
Flannels, Blankets, Bed Com
forts, Underwear, Hosiery,
Gloves, Corsets, Ladies’ and
Gents’ Silk Umbrellas, etc., etc.
Jaul Hop.
STOVES AND FURNACES.
STOVES.
"yyrE are now in our new quarters on Brough
ton, near Barnard. Our quantity, quality and
variety of STOVES are unsurpassed by any
firm in the city. If you want a good article at
a reasonable price call on
Cornwell & Chipman,
167 BROUGHTON STREET.
BANKS.
KISSIMMEE CITY BANK,
Kissimmee City, Orange County, Fla.
CAPITAL - - - f.V),OM
r URA NS V(T a regular banking business. OR#
J particular attention to Florida collections.
Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange ■;
New York. New Orleans, Savannah and .lac--
sonviUe, Fla. Resident Agents for Coutts & * '>•
and Melville, Evans & Cos., of London, Kngiano.
New York correspondent: The Seaoo* 111
National Bank.