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4 £ljc|E(mungflctos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. MONDAY. OCTOBER 84, IBBT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Tbe Mountno News is published every day in fbe vear. and is served to subscribers in the city, ty newsdealer* and earners, on their own ac count, at cents a week. $1 00 a month, $3 00 for six mouths and $lO 00 for one year The Morning Nrws, by mail, one month, $] 00; three months, 00; six months, W; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue\ three months, $v 00; six months, $4 00 one year. <K>. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 &>: six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. ;w. The Weekly News, bp mail, one year. $1 Uj. Subscriptions pavablf in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter Cur reoev sent bv mail at risk of senders. 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The parishioners of Dr. McGlynn show no signs of growing weary in their devo tion to the excommunicated priest. Their meeting Friday night was crowded and en thusiastic. The church will win in the long run, however. It can afford to wait. The Chinese of New York are indignant because their Consul will not let them hold a mass meeting to protest against Denis Kearney’s slanders. Who will now say natives of the Celestial Empire do not promptly catch on to American ways? A contractor of a Central Now York city employed Knights of Labor bricklayers, and is met by a threatened boycott by the Bricklayers’ Union if he does not discharge them. This is anew phase of the labor question, and the Knights will have an op portunity to see how their weapon works when wielded by hands other than their own. The decline in speculation on the New York Stock Exchange and consequent profit to brokers can be gauged somewhat by the fact that the seat for which Doremus, Ives' partner, paid $34,000 less thou two years ago was recently sold for $20,000. The country will look on with the greatest equanimity should the decline continue even at an accelerated rate. A dispatch published elsewhere states that Hon. Jefferson Davis left Mississippi yester day for Macon to meet the Confederate veterans at the fair there. No doubt there will be an immense number of people at Macon to welcome him, and the meeting between him and the veterans will be a no table one. Mr. Davis will not visit Athens, his physician deeming it injudicious for him to do so in the present condition of his health. The Athens people will be disap pointed, but many of them can go to Macon to see him. The English and Canadian governments are doing everything possible to add to the importance of the government-built Cana dian Pacific railroad. Vancouver is to be made a great postal centre, all Asiatic mails to be received there by a fast steamship service, and distributed to American and Canadian points, or forwarded to Europe. The British government seems to attach great strategical importance to this rail way, and is strengthening its position by mail subsidies and in other ways. It is announced from Columbus, 0., that Got. Gordon will make two speeches during the campaign now in progress in that State, one at Cincinnati on Oct. 38 and the other at Portsmouth on Oct. 29. It is encourag ing evidence that the war issues are dead when the Democratic managers of Ohio should think it wise to invite so distin guished a “Confederate Brigadier” as the Governor of Georgia to take part in their campaign. It can be promised that he will talk nothing but the straightest Democratic doctrine. The New Hampshire Legislature spent so much of the time of its long session on the Hazen railroad bill, while some of the mem bers dickered with corporation bribers, that it has reached the day of adjournment with out having passed any of the appropriation bills, and an extra session will be necessary. Here another difficulty arises. The treasury is so empty that it cannot pay the per diem of members for services already performed. Altogether, between corrupt legislators ana an empty treasury New Hampshire seems to be in a very bad way. The radical members of the late Knights of Labor Convention at Minneapolis, to the number of fifty-four, mot in Chicago Fri day and called on the condemned Anarch ists. They assured the condemned men of their sympathy, and promised renewed ef forts in their behalf. If there had been any doubt of the wisdom of the General As sembly in sustaining Mr. Powdorly in preference to these men, this action on their part would dispel it. There was never a falser idea than that these condemned mur derers in any sense represent the working men of the United States. The death of Hon. E. B. Washburne, at Chicago, Saturday, after a somewhat pro tracted illness, removes another of tho men prominent in politics and business during and after the war. Of late years, however, lie has lived a retired life, sometimes men tioned as a possible candidate for high office, but apirently taking no part himself in any effort to bring about his political ad vancement. Tho incidents of Mr. \Vash burne’s life which will, perhaps, tie remem bered longest occurred during his term as Minister to France, and which have recent ly been graphically portrayed by his own pen in .Scribner's \fagaxin*. He was the only foreign minister who had the courage to remain in Paris during the siege by the Germans and the yet more perilous reign of the Commune which followed, and the courage with which be worked in the cause of humanity during those terrible days will always bo remembered to his houor. Virginia Politics. A groat Jeal hinges on the result of the election which is to come off in Virginia within a few Jays. Anew Legislature is to lie elected, with which will rest the duty of electing a successor to Senator P.iddiebcrger. The po'.it’cxl division ol' that laxly, after March 4 next, if the threatened objection to seating Messrs. Hoarst, Turpio and Faulkner is abandoned, or re resuits in nothing, will be: Republicans 08, Democrats 37. and Mr. Kiddletierger. The Vi. ginia Senator is a Republican, but his votes have lieeu so eccentric that he is gen erally classed by himself. It will be seen that the Senate is very close, and that the election in Virginia may go a long way to ward putting it into the control of the Dem ocrats. The chances for Democratic success are good. The majority of the State Senators who hold over are Democrats, so that the election of eight or ten fewer new Democratic mem bers is necessary to give a majority than if a full Senate were chosen at each election, The party is united and hopeful, while their opponents are distracted by quarrels among their leaders. The weakness of the position of the Vir ginia Democrats lies in the fact that in past years they have allowed themselves to bo forced into adopting views on certain ques tions vital to Virginia which were at first distinctively Republican, and which they fought when the Republicans advocated them. The semi-repudiating Riddleberger bill, providing for a settlement of the State debt, was a Republican measure. After it became a law it was doubtless the duty of whatever administration was in power to enforce it, but the Democrats have aban doned the position they once occupied, that a settlement more favorable to credi tors would he just, and now in sist that the Riddleberger bill is the best the State can do or ought to do. The party lias insisted on this strenuously, and the Attorney General was recently sent to jail by a United States Judge because he was endeavoring, in the face of an injunction, to enforce a law which is a later develop ment of the Riddleberger bill. In the matter of Federal taxation, also, the Virginia Democrats have abandoned the position of their party to adopt that of their adversaries. They declare for a protective tariff, so-called, and the abolition of the in ternal revenue. This is probably the result of the election of a majority of Re publican Congressmen last year, and indi cates an anxiety to get on the popular side rather than to uphold certain principles of government as just and right. It will be seen that on the two great ques tions which interest Virginia most the Re publicans have led and the Democrats fol lowed. The result is that many voters will naturally look to the bolder party to meet the crisis in the State’s financial affairs brought aliout by the action of Jhe United States courts. The Democrats have shown a lack of statesmanship and courage. In spite of this they deserve to succeed, and we believe they will. Not only are the political accidents of unanimity in their own ranks and dissension in those of their oppo nents in their favor, but every man who calmly examines the situation must see that they represent in a larger degree the intelli gence, property and good intention of the State. The issue between the parties has been re duced largely to a matter of men, and in a comparison of this sort the Dem ocrats have all the advantage. If they have no loaders who stand pre eminently above the crowd, yet the crowd is thoroughly respectable. On the other hand, the Republican party is Mahone and Riddleberger, the first raised to a bad eminence which none can envy by corrupt political methods, and the second famous in State politics only as the author of a law which has caused endless trouble, and in the Federal Senate for eccentricities of conduct which sometimes seemed to indicate lunacy. In the trial of the issue between these men and the Democrats Virginia people ought not to hesitate over their verdict. Two Candidates. There does not appear to be much doubt anywhere that Mr. Cleveland will be re nominated, and there is, therefore, very little speculation about who will be the next Democratic candidate for President. There is a good deal of speculation, how ever, as to who will be the next Democratic candidate for Vice President. The friends of Postmaster General Vilas and of the Commissioner of Pensions, Gen. Black, are attracting attention by their efforts in the interest of their respective candidates. Gen. Black has not indicated by words or actions that he would like to be his party's candidate for Vice President, but some of the pension agents, who are supposed to be acquainted with his wishes, are quite active in securing notices favorable to him for that position. The ambition to be Vice Presi dent is an honorable one, and there is no reason why Gen. Black should not seek that office. He has the ability to fill it. In fact he has ability sufficient to administer suc cessfully any office in the gift of the people. He would make a popular candidate. He is a Grand Army man and no one of the old veterans has a better war record. The frequent attacks upon him by the Republi can papers, without any apparent reason, show that they recognize his popularity and indicate that they would not like to see him nominated for Vice President. Postmaster General Vilas doubtless has some friends in the Northwest, and it would be possible to nominate a less acceptable man. If the newspaper reports do not do him injustice he is much more active in promoting his own interests in connection with the nomination for Vice President than Gen. Black. While he has made a very good Postmaster General he has made some mistakes, which leave the impression that while he may be a very superior orator he is not a very shrewd politician, nor a statesman of marked ability. As between Gen. Black and Mr. Vilas there is no doubt that the former is the favorite, both at the North and at the South. It is by no means certain, however, that either of them will be nominated. Roliert Garrett is on his way to Mexico in a train of three magnificent cars, accom panied by his wife, two physicians, several friends and a retinue of servants. He cx pects to spend several months in traveling to all the pleasant places to which his private train can carry him. Whoever else may have been hurt by the Baltimore and Ohio deal, the young millionaire evidently still feels that he has enough left with which to enjoy life The Birmingham people have the cour age of their convictions, or they want to be consistent. They have assessed the value of their property this yearat over #40.000,000. But then the btate tax rate is very low, and the local rates they can lix for themselves. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887. Arbitration Instead of Wer. Peace societies, peace congresses, etc., are not new things in the world. People have been accustomed to look upon those who participated in them as impractical en thusiasts, who, no matter how commendable their purposes, were wasting time that might he valuably employed in another way. Now, however, it seems as if a really practical step is being taken toward the sub stitution of arbitration for war in the settle ment of disputes between two of the great est nations, when negotiation has failed to reach a satisfactory result. A few days ago there landed in New York three members of the British Parliament. Sir John Swinburne. O. V. Morgan and Halley Stewart, who will be joined by Sir Lion Playfair, Lord Herschell, Cabell Wright, Sir George Camp bell and three official delegates of the Trades Union Congress. The members of Parliament represent 250 members of that body. The purpose of the delegation in coining to the United States is to present to Congress an appeal for perpetual peace be tween Great Britain and the United States. It is proposed that the precedent set by the Alabama claims case be followed hereafter, and that a treaty to that effect be entered into. It is peculiarly appropriate that the first attempt to secure lasting themselves should be made by the two great English-speaking peoples. They have like institutions and to a great degree like objects, their language and literature are the same, and their peoples are devoted entirely to industrial pursuits. Among all the people of the civilized world, it is only the Americans and English who are not born to be soldiers. With them soldiering is a trade or profession which a man may adopt if his tastes run that way; with other peoples it is a national business, in which every man must perforce take part. Though both have been engaged in many wai-s, they are nevertheless the best repre sentatives of the peaceful policy necessary to the well-being of industrial and commer cial pursuits. Their peoples love peace, and it cannot be doubted that if the matter were submitted to a vote the mission of the English delegation to Congress would meet with the hearty indorsement of both na tions. In this country it can meet the con demnation only of that class of interested politicians who are constantly preaching the doctrine that England is the arch-enemy of all mankind, corrupting with her gold where she cannot conquer with her bayonets, in order that their sophistical protection arguments may be addressed to minds tainted with hatred and distrust of every thing English. Gen. Sheridan recently expressed the opinion that the appliances of war were lie coming so deadly that the time was not far off when armies could no longer be put in the field against each other, and war would end. His opinion is perhaps not justified by facts, as battles become less and less bloody with the improvement of arms, in propor tion to the numbers engaged. The small standing armies of a century ago, however, have grown into millions, involving an enormous outlay, and here lies the best augury of disarmament and peace. Even a victorious war may mean bankruptcy, as came near being the case with Russia in her last campaign against Turkey. To Russia’s shaken credit may be due the peace of Europe to-day. To the sentiment in favor of a peaceful settlement of disputes aroused by the bur den of taxation made necessary by great armies and immense war debts, such an agreement as that proposed between the United States and England would no doubt materially add, aud it might iu time lead to far-reaching results. Prohibition Without Compensation. Prohibitionists in all parts of the country are manifesting considerable interest in the important cases now before the United States Supreme Court, involving the con stitutionality ot the prohibition laws of cer tain States. One of the best known of these cases is from Kan sas, and because of neglect on the part of the Attorney General of that State, it is claimed, is in danger of being decided on an ex parte presen tation. The case involves the question whether the State cau destroy a brewer’s business without compensating him, and was ably argued in tho liquor interest by Senator Vest, of Missouri, an<l Mr. Joseph Choate, of New York. There was no appearance on the other side. A motion to rehear the case will be made this morning, and if it is granted Kansas will be represented. Additional interest is lent to this case by tho fact that in an exactly similar one Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court for Kansas,' has decided that the State is bound to com pensate liquor dealers for the damage done them in suppressing their business. It will be seen that the principle involved is one of vital importance, and justifies the effort which will be made to have all the prohibition cases on the Supreme Court docket advanced, that they may be argued at the same time. These cases are seven in number —two from Kansas, four from lowa and one from Georgia. Though the ques tions involved in all are not exactly the same, they are nearly enough alike to be un favorably affected by an adverse decision in the Kansas case, now under con sideration by tho court. It is said that an adverse decision was indicated by re marks of the court in reference to Judge Brewer's decision. It is needless to say that a decision from the highest court sustaining Judge Brewer’s views would be a great shock to the plan to promote temperance adopted by various States. Georgia has not thought it wise to resort to a State prohibition law, but has wisely preferred to let tho restraining law spread only as fast as it is welcomed by local sentiment, thus insuring for it respect and obedience. The prin ciple that compensation must be paid for disturbance, however, would certainly npply in Georgia us well as in those States which have attempted to prohibit by a gen eral law, and if established by a Supreme Ceurt decision would prove a serious stum bling block to local or State prohibition. Tho thousands who have been delighted by his plays will be delighted to learn that Bartley Campbell, so long immured in an insane asylum, has almost entirely recov ered his mental equipoise, aud will lie dis charged in a few weeks fully recovered. His case hod been l<siked upon as hopeless, so that surprise will add to the pleasure of his many admirers. The Secretary of State of Texas, on the advice of the Attorney General, has refused a charter to a Scotch cattle and land com pany with a capital of #2,000,000. The granting of such a charter to a foreign cor poration is declared contrary to the public policy of the State. CURRENT COMMENT. Briefly Stated. From the St. Louis Republican Every dollar taken from the people for a treasury surplus Is a dollar withdrawn from legitimate circulation; and every million |iid out of the treasurv surplus "to relieve strin gency'’ is a million taken from safe business to swell speculation. The Prohibition Gad-Fly. From the Philadelphia Record ( Dem .) The gadfly under the tail of the grand old party in New York is Prohibition. The result ing antics are curiously lively, but they are in consequent to i ibservers who do not understand the trouble. Whenever the Prohibitionists have I e'en zealous in New York the Republicans have suffered defeat. , * Gibed at by a Friend. From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.) YVhenever Ex President Hayes happens to make himself conspicuous, even in the most harmless and well-intentioned wuy, the event is a signal for an irreverent press to hurl some gibe at him. History at least will lie just to Mr. Hayes. It will declare that no public man of his day and generation has done more than he to improve the various breeds of Ohio chickens. BRIGHT BITS. Spe.vkino entirely a priori, we think the most humiliating end that can befall a man is to lie gored to death by a cow without horns.— Life. The poet who sang I Owe No Man a Dollar,” unconsciously pai l a high tribute to the busi ness sagacity-of the community in which he lives.— Puck. "No girl gets along well without a mother," says a moral contemporary. This may be true, but hereabouts girl-. work harder to get mothers-in-law than they do to get mothers.— F.xchunge. Ax exchange prints an article entitled “The Age of Actresses,” few of the ages given being over 40 years. Some of the daily papers are just now devoting too much space to fiction.— Morristown Herat 1. Southern Man (to Northern country editor)— Y’on don’t have desperadoes in the North who rob railroad train pa-sengers, do you? Editor (who has tiad his pass taken up)—Yes, but they don’t go by that name— Epoch. Ouiver Wendell Holmes says that English people are taller, stouter and healthier than Americans. That is not unlikely. The best American beef is shipped to Europe, while the tough and indigestible pieces are sold at home. —Omaha World. A Dr ll Day— Able Editor—Much news in your department to-day - Political Editor—No, it’s dull, very dull. "Dull, eh ?" "Y’es, no new parties have been started since breakfast.”— Omaha lFor/d. Brown—Well, sir, I don’t believe I ever en joyed excursions so much as I have this season. Smith—Were the objective points unusually interesting, or do you attribute it to the com pany you were in - “Neither, I guess. I stayed at home.”— Bing hamton Republican. “I have an unfortunate habit of talking in my sleep." "1 should call that fortunate, rather than un fortunate—that is to say, in your case, you know.” "How in my case?" "Why. don’t you see? Because you are not a Waite to hear yourself talk."—Boston Tran script. * “Witness." said a lawyer in the police court the other day, “you speak of Mr. Smith being well off. Is he worth §7,000;" “No, sail.” "Two thousand?" "No, sali; he liain’t worf $05." "Then how is he well off?” "Got a wife who s’ports de hull fam’ly‘ sah I” Detroit Free Press. A Wise Precaution.—Fond Wife (to music mail husband; —My dear, did yon read that about that man who died from rupture of the ear drum; He—No, darling; why? Fond Wife —Because, dear, I have been think ing that since you go so often to this Wagner society of yours, you might put an extra $5,000 on your life insurance, don’t you know.—Town Topics. . Brown (reading)—He was always a favorite wherever he went. He was genial in disposition, generous to a fault, a kind aud indulgent father and a most devoted husband. He was above all those meannesses which so deform human na ture, and he— Fogg- Beg pardon, but what nine did he be long to ? Brown—Nine did he belong to ! Why, man alive! he wasn’t a base ball player. Fogg—Wasn't a base ball player' Then what in thunder does a newspaper want to fill up its columns with such rot as that for ?— Boston Transcript. PERSONAL. Senator Allison is to take the stump in New Y'orlt soon, and close his campaign labors for the Republican cause by speaking in lowa. Miss Ellen Robbins, the painter, has sold her Bar Harbor cottage, that resort having become altogether too bustling and fashionable to suit her taste. It is humored that Joseph Pulitzer recently offered James Russell Lowell SIO,OOO a year to become liter ary editor of the World, but that Mr. Lowell declined. Mrs. Joseph Keppler, wife of the Puck artist, has a diamond brooch set with large stones which revolve for eight hours. It is wound up like a watch and the effect is dazzling. Two Americans, James Lynch and John Aynyo. have discovered rich gold fields on the banks of the river Cielo Aguina, in the Songo District, Bolivia, so papers from that sec tion announce. William M. Singer ly, of the Philadelphia Record, hns purchased fifty blooded colts reared amid the blue grass section of Kentucky, and transferred them to his farm in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. A Michigan telle, who was jilted by her lover, has brought suit against him for SB,(XX). Two thousand of this is for her lacerated heart strings the remainder to reimburse her for her trosseau expenditures. Mrs. Mackav says it's a wicked story that she has sent two marksmen to New Guinea to kill &JMO little green birds whose l eathers were to lie utilized in making a clonk. She is a member of the anti-bird killiug society. Gen. E. A. Merritt, of Potsdam, who was Collector of New York and afterwards United States Consul General at London, is one of the backers of Zaliaski’s dynamite gun, and expects to make a fortune out of it. Several Wall street men are of the opinion that Berry Wall's mantle will fall upon Charlie Johnes. who is the finest dresser on Wall street, and who is credited with teing the proud pos sessor of 865 suits of clothes. George Francis Train, having been switched off from Chicago, is delivering a series of ramb ling discourses at other points in the West, the burden of which is an indict ment of Chicago as the meanest village on the face of the earth. Miss F.iiith Hornor, who is shortly to wed Senator Hawley, has resigned her position in the Philadelphia Hospital, and been made the recipient of highly eulogistic resolutions passed by the Bureau of Charities and Correc tion. F.x President James L. Clarke, of the Illi nois Central, and Chief Engineer L. 11. Clarke, of the Lake Shore, took recently one of the longest wagon rides ou record. They started from Sail l.nke City on July 28. and rode for fifty three days, not stopping until they arrived at Norfolk, Neb. The distance was over 1,000 miles. Pkruqini writes to Cot. McCaull from Vienna that Dr. Pulitzer, the aurist, has made the final operation on the ears of the singer, and assures him that alter a few weeks of quiet he will be able to return to the stage Perugini says he is now able to hear a whisper, and he hopes to re sume bis place in the McCaull Opera company by Jan. 1. A Union Club man says the Duke of Marl borough cume to this country in tlie interests of his ambition. He is jealous of bis brother, Lord Randolph Churchill's political reputation, and thought ho could make a hit here by giving expression to some radical ideas. Mrs. Paran Stevens’ fiasco spoilt him, however, for any thing but recrimination. Thk most self-sacrificing editor in Michigan is J. T. Roriek, of the Bad Axe Democrat. He refrains from printing the details of a murder trial because it would get people so well pouted that It would lie impossime to procure a sufti cient.lv ignorant jury for a forgery ease which is to follow , and which will deni with about the same evidence as the murder ease. Lotusk 1 Iknsler thirty-five years ago was a poor little girl 'in Springfield, Mass. Slg. Quidi. a teacher of vocal music, one day heard Iter singing and thought, her voice so remarkable that he gave her lessons gratuitously, and finally interested some Boston jxsiple in her. them ufier she went abroad and studied anil sung. One evening the King of Portugal heard her anil fell in love wit li her. Eventually lie eontraeted a morganatic marriage with her, and she has since liveiLin sumptuous style with im mense sums of money nt tier command, and she is now thinking of coming hack to America to riMifia They Don't Speak Now. From the Baltimore American. “My huaband loved me when I was a mere child,” said one Chicago lady proudly to an other. "Indeed! That is quite romantic*,” “Yes. he asked papa for my hand when I was only 15 years old, and papa said he could have me if I would consent. “And he waited till he was of age?” “Yes.” “Well,” said the other spitefully, “I recol lect hearing your husband say the other day that he always did get left when he dabbled in futures.” Snowdrops. Marion Boyd Allen , in Cottage Hearth. Gleaming, drifting, whirling, sifting Through the dark pine boughs one day, Far from home, a thousand tiny Wind-swept snowflakes lost their way; From such dainty freak and mirth, Weary quite, they .sank to earth. Sad winds sighed there; sunbeams tried their Smiles the wee things to awake. Till, one glad morn, see uplifted In a flower, each wayward flake! Fearless they ‘neath stormy skies— They're but snowflakes in disguise. A Boston Boy’s Names for His Tops. From the Boston Transcript. One top is named Stonewall Jackson because of an unconquerable tendency to “ride ahead” of the rest. This name shows that “Barbara Frietchie" haS stuck in the memory of at least one small boy. Another long-legged top, which has a decided preference for a stationary atti tude in spinning and wears an aspect of patient, smiling dignity, is named Gen. Grant, because, its owner said, it suggested to him Gen. Grant “sitting in his window and smiling down on the children going by to church”—obviously an in cident of the General’s last illness which had impressed the small boy’s imagination. There is a certain battered old top, seamed with lash ings and perforated with hostile peg holes, w hich nevertheless lies very close to its owner’s heart, and which proudly hears the designation, always quoted at its full leugth, of “Daniel Webster, the old war horse " One top lias the name of Pegasus, a tit le which the writer fondly fancied showed a classical tendency on the part of Tommy’s tastes until, upou inquiry, he found that it was borrowed from the name of a highly approved locomotive on the Boston and Lowell railroad. Toll’ver’s Nell. From Tid-Bits. She’s a leetle mite o' creetur, Har’ly knee-high ter a duck, Butter sight a cuter, sweeter Face has never been my luck. Ha r a middlin’ sorrel color, Eyes that make the sky look duller; Tnet's her style an' suits me well Ez the rest (PTolPver’s Nell. Laws! she wouldn't reach my shoulder Boosted up on tippy-toes! Yet I feel er right smart bolder W en she ain't so ve’y close. Cur'us theta gell sh'if daze me, W en no man er beast kin faze mel 'Pears like it’s a kind o’ spell No one hes 'cep ToU'ver's Nell. I am not much use' ter takin 1 Any word off any man; But I set plum seart an' shakin 1 W'en she 'casion ly sez, "Dan! How long 'fore you’ll 'low it’s true Thet I hev no use for you?” She's a master hand to tell Cuttiu’ things, is Toll'ver’s Nell. Thar be men 'ud git erfended By sech plain-out talk ye say? Well, it ’pears ez if Pm lendea Stren'tn ter stan' it tbts-a-way j Fer I'm bonn’ ter stick till she Takes me ter git shet o' me; Ye kin wear out any gel. Though she’s sot as Toli ver's Nell! A Peculiar Superstition of the Wan dering Egyptians. Gypsy Lore in New York Sun. As with all things else in use among the gyp sies, the kettle-stick has its place among the legends and lore of the race. It is not only an imperatively needed factor in even day life, but it is far more. Indeed, this one black piece of iron possesses almost the same cherished value as the ingle-hook. It is the typified hearthside of the race. The female head of the gypsy household is always its keeper, and the anxiety about the proper protection of this one bit of old iron, from which the pots and kettles hang and sizzle above the cnery tires, sometimes amounts to positive lunacy. The reason for this I discovered to be that all sorts of supersti tions cling to its continued possession. It is a kind of amulet to the gypsy home as an entire ty. Its loss, especially through any manner of carelessness, is fully believed to be the precurs or of all sorts of ill luck. But they have no use for this prized utensil unless it comes into their possession through the gro tesque avenue of precedent and race bugaboos. I once found a little band of newly arrived German gypsies on the banks of the romantic Wissahickon, in a state of pitiable poverty. I felt I was doing them a great turn in having made them a handsome kettle stick in Philadel phia at my own expense. They accepted it wit h apparent gratitude and delight; but I afterward learned that I was not well out of camp ere they had sold my fine gift for old iron. It had come from a Gorgio, a non-gypsy However kindly meant, it could never possess gypsy character. The truth is, they would have eaten their food raw before they ‘would have used it. The New Silver Vault. From the New York Sun. Last spring the Treasury Department began the construction of a huge vault for the storage of silver dollars. There is now a vault of con siderable size in the basement of the Treasury building, but as long ago as December last its capacity became practically exhausted. Hun dreds of visitors go down on the elevators daily to gaze in open eyed wonderment at the cords of ; ‘cart wheels” piled up in mathematically even rows. This vault Ls small compared with the one now being constructed. The new one will be complete*! early in November and will hold by careful storage 106,000,<)00 silver dollars. I-Arge as this sum is, it is stated at the Treasury that there is nearly enough silver now seeking storage to till up the new vault. It is in the court between tne four walks of the Treasury building. It is SO feet long. 51 feet wide, about 15 feet deep, and rises a few feet only above ground. The outside walls and the floor are made of concrete. It has air chambers all about, and an arched roof covered with brick. Of course there are no windows or other means for obtaining light, and the air chambers are depended on to keep ihe place dry. There is only one entrance to the vault, this being a small door in the southeast corner. There are nine compartments, separated by iron lattice work partitions, riveted together with thousands of iron holts. Between the compartments are arranged straight, narrow aisles, with small doors opening into the different sections. The necessary gas light will be stationed in these aisles. When the silver dollars are in the vault the pressure is all upon the floor, as the bags are so piled as not to lean against the partitions. The greatest skill is required iu piling the bags, as the least unevenness might result in upsetting the whole pile, and perhaps causing them to fall outward upon the visitors or employes. The cost of this vault will lx* about $.>0,000. It was at first thought advisable to have the walis double lined with steel. This would have in creased the expense to more tlmn SIOO,OOO, so it was decided to use walls of concrete. Texas Wants More Style. From the Washington Post, The people of Texas are very jealous of t heir public men, While at home they resent it if one of their Congressmen or other public men should appear among the people in any dress but the slouch hat ana the knoe-high hoot style which belongs to the noil; yet if they hear that their Representatives fail to come right up to the standard of the best fashion ut the public and social assemblies in Washington and else where. the offender will have to answer for it whenever he returns home. A Texan of some distinction came to Wash ington the other day in what was considered for Washington a shabby outfit. Coming from Texas he fancied lie was “got up regardless.” Rut when he met his Congressional friend here, the first thing the latter said was: “What in h 'h the matter, Tom? You certainly do look tough and shabby. You must go to my tailor's and get anew suit of clothes before you can make an appearance in Washington society.” •Why, what's the matter with you?” said Tom to the Congressman “I was up in your county the other day with this same toggery aboard, and they were going to shoot me for a dude.” “That's all right at home,” said the Congress man, “but it's very different here, you know. liook at this,’' and the Congressman took from the wardrobe In hift lodging a nice new evening dress suit. “Great Jupiter!” exclaimed the new arrival, amazed at tne extraordinary cut of the thing; and what do you intend to Jo with that?” The Congressman explained that personally he was as much opposed to foppery and con ventionality as anybody, but t hat the word had lately come from Texas that the representa tives of the Lone Btar State must lick the ln*st of them in the matter of style at Washington, incouseqence of which every X*xvn nowin Washington has provided himself with an even ing dress, including diamond studs and patent leather pumjs that will tuke the shine out of Anything else to be seen hero during the coming winter. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The dwelling bouse In Lichfield, Eng., famous as the birthplace of Dr. Samuel Johnson, is to be solcPthis mouth. A Texas jury gave a verdict of $l9 75 in favor of a man whose dog luul been run over and killed by a railway train. Gen. Lew Wallace has received $37,000 as royalties on “Deu 11 nr,” the sales of which have reached nearly AX),000 copies. Houston, Tex., is only a small town in com parison with Chicago, yet sixteen divorces were recently granted there in one day. A pet parrot, whose owner died lately at Chariot test own, Priuce Edward Lsland, refused all food, and has since died in its cage. The oldest volunteer fireman in the United States is said to be John de Mier, of Allentown, M<., who joined KHi f Company So. 2, of Cin cinnati, in 1828. He is more than 80 years of age. The eapitol at Washington is being put in condition for the assemblage of Congress. A new' carjiet has been cut and fitted to the floor of the Senate chamber and will be laid in a tew days. The Worcester Spy says, with every appear ance of believing its own statement, that the body of a full grown red squirrel was found in a four-and-a-haLf pound pickerel recently taken at Oxford. The Auditor of Marion county, Indiana, in which Indianapolis is situated, has obtained a judgment for $5,92? against the Western Union, wing the amount of tax imposed on the net earnings within the State. A hive of bees was found under a cornice that was being repaired last week on a house in Salem, Mass., and after the insects had been smothered, a store of honey, amounting to a tub and a half, was secured. John Varney and his wife have lived on Moosehead Maine, for twenty-fire years, and (luring that time have together killed over 400 bears, unnumbered deer and caribou and much small game. Mrs. John is as expert a bear hunter as her husband, and accompanies him in all his hunting excursions. In June, ltBs, they killed five bears in one day. George Carter aud Ella Crosby w r ent in from the country to see the Louisville Exposition. When they arrived they found that the show was over. They returi.ed.to the depot, but found that their train would not leave in several hours. Carter proposed that in order to kill time they should got married, so in that way they killed time until the next train came along. When Gen. Buckner, now Governor of Ken tucky. made his last sortie from Fort Ponelson, he was met and repulsed by Col. Thayer, com manding the First Nebraska Regiment. The two commanding officers never met again until they grasped each other s hands at the Philadel phia Centennial, Gen. Buckner as Governor of Kentucky, and Gen. Thayer as Governor of Ne braska. Horace Allen, of Delaware, 0.. suffered much with rheumatism, and decided to try what outdoor exercise and a change of air would do for him. So he started out with a wheelbar row’ laden with small notions, and he has just arrived in Bennington. Vt„ after a journey of 700 miles on foot, during which he supported himself by selling his wares. He is 84 years old, and is a nephew of Gen. Ethan Allen. According to one of the French chemical journals, a plant belonging to the lettuce tribe, technically known as soachus oleraceus , and common on the wayside and among dry rubbish heaps in France, has been found to yield, in fair proportion, a very good quality of caoutchouc. To this end the plants are steeped in carbon bisulphide, and afterward boiled in alcohol and caustic potash. About 4.3 per cent, of the weight is thus obtained as caoutchouc. Young couples in Portland, Me., that have recently returned from bridal tours are com paring notes of bad luck. One young man was detained by the ]>oiiee on suspicion that he might be a law-breaker for whom they were looking. Another was taken into custody in because he answered the description of a man who had eloped. The incident spoiled the journey of the bride, who was thereafter seized with nervousness whenever a policeman came in sight. Though high license has been in existence less than four months in Minnesota, and in many places has not yet gone into operation, still enough of its benefits have been s**en to encour age the friends of the system. Where it is in force the number of saloons have been reduced one-third, and the revenue returns have in creased over fifty per cent. There are now 550 fewer saloons than before high license became a law; and when it is in full force it is said that there will be 1,000 fewer saloons. Young Charlie Parmalee, of Ansonia, Conn., had a tremendous scare the other night. lie was walking on the railroad track after dark and caught nis foot between a plank and a rail at a crossing. While trying to get free he heard an approaching train. As he struggled it came nearer and nearer until, just as he made up his mind for death, the headlight showed him that he was on a switch, and not on the main line. After the train thundered by a watchman re leased him. He was very lame for several days. Philadelphia has a professional sparrow catcher. His name is Joe Johnson, and he sup ports himself by catching the pests and selling them for reed birds, lie hunts his game at night and early in the morning, principally on the side walls of churches and other ivy-clad buildings. He covers a large space where the vines are thickest with a net, and then his as sistant stirs up the vines with a long pole. The sparrows flutter blindly into the net and Joe pulls the puckering string. He has captured 1&) dozen in a single night. In some parts of Germany and Austria, nat ural pumice stone has l>een superseded by an artificial stone, to which a suitable shape can be given and different degrees of fineness of grain obtained, which allows the stone to be used in all the industries where natural pumice stone were formerly emp’oyed. The ingredients are white sand, feldspar and fire-clay, mixed in suitable proportions, to obtain the desired com position, and the paste is poured into plaster moulds, being finally placed in fire-clay recep tacles and baked in ovens. In making his speech at one of the county fairs this fall, Gov. Hill told a story of his neighbor, Mark Twain, of Elmira. It appears that Twain, whenever he is honored by the birth of a child, erects a water trough in the city upon which i he name of the child is chiseled. The Governor was commenting upon this fact and urging his hearers to follow the good example of Mr. Twain, when someone iu the audience exclaimed: “Well, Governor, what are you doing for the water-trough business?” The bachelor Gover nor could do nothing hut blush. A farmer near Lewiston, Me., used a horse to run his machine for cutting fodder, and was much annoyed at frequent stoppings of the horsepower, particularly as soon as the horse was left alone. So he watched the steed, who as soon as he thought that he was alone, reached over th** side of the machine, grabbed the brake with his teeth, pulled it over, stopped the ma chine. and then waited calmly for someone to take off the brake and start him again. The old fellow actually looked sail when the fanner tied the brake down, and started him ou the tread mill again. Thk great dragon drawn in a recent Chinese procession in San Francisco, by six Chinamen, is described as follows: From a point just uuder the mansard roof of the dragon's head to within three feet of his fail there is a network of elec trie wires, all communicating with a compli cated machine located in close proximity to his lower jaw and out of sight. One ol the men who march under it, at a given signal, touches an ebony button, and the electricity causes the huge jaws to fly ojen. disclosing a mouth like a tunnel, filled with frightful fangs, and darting tongues of fire. * It is said that once when the missionaries ruled in the Sandwich Islands, one of them preached a sermon adjuring his congregation that they were in danger of eternal damnation because they persisted in the disrespect of coming to church without any hats on their heads Resides this, he went on and told them Ju.-t bestvleof hat that they might to wear to maun ! ,* 1 salvation. Next morning hix (look aft, ' rt,is commands, found that lliey could he procured at only ,„ie place which was the store in which the' missionary whs a partner. The firm hail got a big consign pitched ° Week bef,,r ® thesefmoli j It is only a question of time, s*ys a voumr engineer just from India, when Yankee moth ods will lie applied to railway building and ag Hcu"ilire there. Several railway bridges have already been constructed in that country on American model*, and there is a rising school of the yotiug l.ntlsh Engineer* in In iia which fn vor* American ideas. The cunibrousness and inconvenience of English rolling stock ami li e slowness or native labor are to mike tbenisehes lelt as ohstructiotiH In the wor ~t civilization In spite of these drawback* the o n W ea a rh m .' 'S,T h #S J"™? '<<* “ lto ““A BAKING POWDER. WEfoTTr^N O*PRICfS Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than si quarter of a century it is used by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities aa the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful Dr Price's the only Raking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Aiuxn. Sold only ia Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW TOBK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. R. ALT MAT EB A CO. ANOTHER WEEK —or— Unparalleled Attractions —AT— I LILT.™ M r |MIE SUCCESS attending the past week's 1. inducements was most pronounced, our store being crowded from early morn till late in the evening with seekers after the UN MATCHABLK 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 vou a general idea of the GREAT DRIVES FOR THE WEEK. IN DRESS GOODS WE WILL OFFER: 1 more case of those double width Checked and Plaid Suitings at 12V£c.; cannot be matched in the South for the money. A cast* of Lovely French Plaids, 38 inches wile, at 40c.: these goods are quite pretty and the newest things out. Look at them before the assortment is broken. A lovely line Striped Silk Velvets at $1 50; can match any dress in color. IN CLOAKS. A Tailor-made Jersey-cloth Jacket, with satin lined hood at $•-* 50. An English Check in Tailor-made Jacket, with satin lined hood. ONLY $f 38. This is an extraordinary offer, and our Silk Plush Short Wrap, with plush ornaments and quilted satiu lining, at 50, is simply unapproachable. IN BOYS' CLOTHING we are so far ahead of other houses that com parisons are out of the question. Our line COULDN'T BE MORE COMPLETE nor Styles any choicer. This is a great feature of the house. For the week we will offer in this de partment: 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 iu these good* are the choicest and newest, and were selected with great care by our buyer. Our Buttons, too, are the prettiest and newest things that could lie found. We can match ANY COLOR DRESS GOODS MADE with them. BLANKETS. Will sell for the week a full-size all wool Blanket at $1 SIS; cheapest thing yet. Anil a BJ4 pound Blanket worth $7 51) 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 ou application. We are, Very Respectfully Yours, A. | ALTIAYER & GO. ZONWKISS CREAM. ZOMWhM OMAM FOR THE TEETH ryyttfrvm New Material*, contains no Acids, Hard Grit , or injurious matter It is Pub*, Refined. Pbrfect. Nothing Like It Evkr Known. From Senator i oegrslmll.- “Itake plras urj* m recommending Zonweißß on account of lti efficacy and purity.” From llrs. Gen. T.oenn'n Dentist, Or. h • C arroll, Washington, 1). C.—“l have had /.on we las analyzed. It is the moat perfect denti frice I have ever peon." From Him. ( bin. P. Johnson. Fx. lit* Wov. or M<. “Zonwelsa cleanses tlie teeth thor pughly. Is delicate, convenient, very pleasant, and leaves no after taute. t>OLD by ali* dbuguist#. 1 rice, 35 cent*. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y. -^wpaufiau i^l For sale by LI PPM AN BROS., Lippman’l Block, Savannah. SUED OATS. _ Rust Proof Oats, Seed Rye, APPLES, POTATOES, ONIONS, „ CAB PAGES, And all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS By ovary steamer. 25 Cars Oats, 25 Cars Hay, 50 Cars Corn. GRITS, MEAL, CORN EYE BEAN, PEAS, and feed of all kinds 1M BAY STREET. Warehouse in 8., F. & W. R'y Yard. T. P. BOND & CO.