The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 25, 1887, Page 4, Image 4
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT!
Meetings—ConfederateVeterans' Association;
Travelers’ Protective Association; Chippewa
Tribe No. 4,1. O. K. M.; O. I. H.; L. A. U,103, K.
of L
Special Notices—As to Lease for Shooting
and Fishing on Queensbury Plantation; Notice
to Teachers; As to Crews of British Steamship
Wolviston and British Bark filer; State and
County Taxes, 1887; Fall F,xhibition. Postponed.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale;
Board; Lost; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales —A Very Comfortable Home,
by D. R. Kennedy; Underwriters’Sale Sundries,
by I. D. Laßoche's Sons; Damaged Cotton, by
J. McLaughlin & Son; Administrator's Sale of
Personal Property, byC. H. Dorsett.
“Buirsted” is a word used in a Herald
headline. Now is the Sun's chance to enact
its favorite role of school teacher.
The Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jackson
ville will be more than a show of Florida’s
resources only, great as they are. A portion
of the exhibit of the Bahama Islands has
already arrived and is an interesting collec
tion.
In almost every speech Col. Grant tells
an anecdote of his father. The Colonel is
evidently a modest man, and knows the
only thing of interest or importance atxmt
himself is that he is Gen. Grant’s son.
Therefore he reminds the people of that
fact constantly.
St. Louis and Chicago agree about one thing
—they unite in making sarcastic speeches
about their own base ball clubs. They have
nothing but the most wit hering contempt
for players who have allowed themselves to
be beaten by the representatives of the little
town on the straits.
Though one-fourth of the Anthracite
mines of Pennsylvania are idle on account
of the Lehigh strike, the production of that
variety of coal last week was about the
tame as last year. This looks bad for the
strikers, as it shows the demand can be sup
plied without their labor.
Tho Republicans evidently think they
will need a great deal of time in which to
mend fences and attend to other necessary
work of the next national campaign. A
meeting of the National Committee is called
for Dee;. 8, to iix the time and place for hold
ing the next nominating convention.
The New York Herald's Philadelphia cor
respondent predicts certain defeat for the
Republicans. The attempt to placate tho
Prohibitionists by making war on the Ger
mans is likely to bear bitter fruit. If the
Republicans cannot elect their ticket in
Pennsylvania, it is about time they retired
from business.
It is remarkable that $66,000,000 of the
debt of so rich a city as New York should
bear interest at a rate as high as 6or 7 per
cent., and the fact is evidence of bad man
agement of the city’s finances. Mayor Hew
itt’s efforts to substitute bonds at 3 percent,
are receiving tho support of the press with
out regard to party.
The latest aspirant for theatrical success
is Miss Ethel Sprague, oldest daughter of
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague. She, of course,
intends to start in England. Coming from
London, she can hope for a big auction sale
of seats and immediate if short-lived fame.
JHI this is rather hard on the deserving ac
tresses who have won their way by hard
Work.
The Kansas drug clerk who was sentenced
to seventeen years in the penitentiary and
fined $30,800 for violations of tho prohibi
tion law, has made application for a miti
gation of his sentence, and is almost sure to
get it. Many Prohibitionists revolt against
•he severity of the sentence, and its enforce
ment would doubtless have an unhappy
effect. It is not reasonable.
The editor of tho Planet, the colored
people's organ of Virginia, published at
Petersburg, is doing his part in the hot
Virginia campaign by preaching social
equality with all his might, without any
mincing of words. He doesn’t intend it
that way, but he is doubtless helping tho
Democrats very much in solidifying the
white vote, and that of course means a
Democratic victory.
The corner-stone of the Ig>o monument
will be laid at Richmond Thursday. There
will be a notable gathering of ex-Confeder
ate soldiers on that occasion, to do honor to
the memory of the great soldier. Almost at
the same time there will be in Macon a
similar gathering in honor of another great
ex-Confederate leader, who is himself the
monument of the cause of which he was
the foremost representative.
Not satisfied with one thick and thin sup
porterof tho protective tariff in New York,
the Tribune , Robert P. Porter and Frank
Hatton huve raised $300,000 with which to es
tablish another newspaper, to be called the
Press. To the outsider Now York looks like
the most fully occupied newspuper field in
the world, and the new journal will have a
hard time shouldering a way through the
crowd of its lusty competitors.
Rabbi Schindler, of Boston, is delivering
% course of lectures which is attracting no
little attention. He isn’t an atheist, but he
evidently doesn’t believe much in certain
portions of the Old Testament. He
thinks there may have been a man
(mined Moses somewhere about the dawn of
history. Other great personages of Hebrew
history are treated in about the same way.
Doubt is cast on everything. Rabbi Schin
dler is evidently a sort of Jewish Bob
tngnrsoil, and may find himself without nu
tecupatiou the first thing he knows.
Still Harping on Pension Vetoes.
In the political campaign now going on
in New York the Republican orators and
newspapers are endeavoring to make capi
tal against the Democratic party by calling
attention to, and commenting on, the pen
llion vetoes of the President. In his speech
in New York city on Saturday night Sena
tor liiscock said that “the Republican
1 party always stood pledged to the support,
by liberal pensions, of tho Union veterans,
but President Cleveland lias sent limping
from the White House, or the halls of legis
lation, 100 of our Union veterans, to be
supported by charity of their friends, or by
the diffent States, as paupers.”
The Senator failed to state why the Presi
dent vetoed the pension bills to which he
called attention, and why Congress failed
to pass them over the vetoes. It he had
done so he would have destroyed the point
he wished to make. He acted the part of a
demagogue instead of that of a statesman.
It will not be denied that Mr. Cleveland
has already signed more pension bills than
any of his predecessors, notwithstanding
that the length of time that has elapsed since
the close of the war would seem to justify
the conclusion that about all the veterans
entitled to pensions have been provided for.
This alone proves beyond a doubt that he is
not unfriendly to wise pension legislation.
He vetoed a large number of pension bills
because be was satisfied, after examining
them, that tho beneficiaries mentioned in
them were not entitled to pensions. He
took the trouble to do what Congress had
failed to do, viz.: to find out whether the
claims for pensions made in the private pen
sion bills which came to him for his ap
proval were fraudulent or not. If Con
gressmen had been as faithful to the trust
reposed in them as ho was to the trust re
posed in him tho bills would never have
reached him. When the vetoes came up
for consideration in Congress they were
sustained because the reasons given for
them were satisfactory. If the pensions
ought to have been granted why was it that
Congress did not grant them notwithstand
ing the vetoes! ,
Everybody knows how private pensions
bills are put through Congress. Some
member of the Pension Committee accepts
the statement of a jienslon claim lawyer re
specting the justness of a claim, and the
entire committee adopts the report of the
member. The claim goes to the House or
Senate, as the case may be, with a favorable
report, and is passed some night when the
fow members present have no other purpose
than to act on pension and other claims.
The Senator did not say anything in his
speech about the dependent pension bill
which the President vetoed, and which, if
it had become a law, would have taken
something like $75,000,000 out of the Treas
ury. And why did he not? Because the
ablest of the newspapers of his own party
condemned the bill and commended tho
President for vetoing it. They pointed out
the folly of giving pensions to those who
had not earned them. They did not dare to
taka any other position, because the common
sense of the country was against such a
monstrous measure.
Of course, the Republicans will continue
to promise pensions as long as they think
that a i>olicy of that kind will benefit them.
They aim to get control of the government,
and are ready to adopt any means to accom
plish their purpose.
Atlanta’s Social Disturbance.
It is to be regretted that statements are
finding their way into the public prints that
some of the prominent people at Atlanta
were not shown the consideration to which
they were entitled during the visit of the
President and Mrs. Cleveland to that city.
The sufferings which thousands of visitors
endured for want of something to eat, a
place to sleep, an umbrella to keep off the
rain and rubber boots with which to wade
through the inud are nothing to the heart
burnings and jealousies endured by those
who ought to have had a place on the front
seat, but who were not honored with any
seat at all.
It is said that when the announcement
was made that the President and his lovely
wife were going to pay the town a visit a
social club of standing was accorded the
privilege of managing the reception. Ac
cording to reports, it did manage it to the
entire satisfaction of its members, who ac
commodated their friends and left out the
Mayor of the city aud other muuicioal offi
cials; and some of the visiting Governors
and other prominent persons from other
States had to get what satisfaction they
could out of the President’s visit
by standing in the rain with the multitude
and looking at the President and Mrs. Cleve
land as thoy passed in their carriage, or by
watching them as they entered the houses
where receptions were held or dinners given.
Those who were entitled to places of
honor, however, and got left should console
themselves with the reflection that Atlanta
is one of those towns where the chances of
getting what you want are greatly increased
by asking for it.
Even the bucket shops have rights which
must he respected. An Illinois court has
refused to dissolve an injunction to prevent
the Board of Trade of Chicago from cutting
off quotations from them, and recommend
ed that recourse be had to the criminal law.
It is admitted that the bucket shops are a
demoralizing evil which the cutting off of
quotations would have effectually destroyed,
but it was thought wiser to endure it thau
make a board of trade monopoly.
It roally looks as if Mr. Jay Gould were
about to desert his native shores for awhile.
He will not risk his safety in his $1,000,000
Atalantn, but she will cross to Gibraltar to
meet him, he going by Havre, for a Med
iterranean cruise, and, perhaps, a trip to
China. There seems to be a feeling in New
York that his departure will be a good
thing for the prosperity of the country, and
the only fear is that he will not stay away
long enough.
Henry 8. Ives is in Chicago on railroad
business. He told it reporter he ex
pected to get on top again. It will bo
noticed that in spite of the many crooked
transactions with which he is charged he
still has railroad business, and seems to lie
in no danger of criminal prosecution. It
would not be at all surprising if he again
became a great figure in Wall street, for
whose atinosphero he seems to be peculiarly
well fitted.
Alleged registration frauds in Baltimore
have lieen a favorite subject for the denun
ciation of Philadelphia papers of late. De
velopments of the last week show a state of
affairs in their own city which is little, if
any, better, and they will probably devote
their energies to correcting it. It may be,
however, that it is only Democratic fraud to
which they object, anil that they nets! very
little evidence to convince them of its ex
istence.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1887.
New York City Politics.
Col. J. R. Fellows, who was nominated
for District Attorney by the Democrats of
New York city a day or two ago, isn’t going
to have as easy a time in getting elected as
some of the other candidates on the ticket
with him. Just about half of the news
papers of the city are opposed to him, and
those against him evidently intend to defeat
him if they can.
It is important that the District Attorney
of New York shall not only be a man of
very high character and spotless integrity,
but ho must be a good lawyer ami very firm
in whatever position he takes with regard
to any matter pertaining to his office.
Col. Fellows is a man who has almost a
national reputation. Ho is an orator who
lias attracted a great deal of attention in
county, State and national conventions. It
has never been said that he is u great
lawyer. In fact, it is doubtful if lie isn’t
too much of a talker to be a first-class
lawyer.
The ambition of his life is to be District
Attorney of New York, and at last lie
thinks he sees a chance to have it gratified.
It is generally admitted by those who know
him best that he is almost invaluable as a
subordinate in the District Attorney’s office.
He does most of the talking for the State to
the juries, and he does it remarkably well.
There are many who believe, however, that
he is totally unfit to be at the head of a great
office.
There is another thing which renders him
objectionable to many. It is that, he doesn’t
pay his debts. A man is excused for not
paying his debts when, by the closest econ
omy he cannot more than meet his neces
sary exjienses, but it is doubtful if there is
any satisfactory way of explaining a failure
to pay debts where there is no at
tempt at economy. The pajiers opposed to
Col. Fellows published on Sunday a long
list of the judgments for comparatively
small amounts pending against him, and it
makes a rather damaging showing. The
question which is asked, and which the
Colonel’s friends cannot answer is this: Is a
man who is extremely careless about money
matters likely to administer a great office
honestly #
Col. Fellows is 54 years of age, a South
erner, and has had experience enough in the
District Attorney’s office to manage the
office satisfactorily. A man who is not
strictly correct with regard to his private
affairs, however, is quite liable to get into
trouble when he is placed in a position
which requires the highest kind of integ
rity.
The New York press does not appear to
be guided so much by a desire to promote
the public welfare as to get on the popular
side. The competition between the leading
papers is so great that each one is trying to
injure the others, and to secure success at
any cost. It is doubtful if the people pay
much attention to the editorial utterances
of any of them when they deal with politi
cal matters.
Attack the Mystery.
The fire which occurred on the steamship
Sylvia on Sunday night appears to be
clouded in more mystery than those on the
Resolute und Naples, for the reason that
there was some grouud for thinking that
the fire in those two vessels was caused by
sparks from tugs or steamers. The cause
of the lire on the Sylvia, however, could
hardly have originated in that wa v. The
cotton was not loaded from lighters, and
hence, had not been exposed to sparks. It
was loaded directly from the press.
If matches had not been found under the
band of a bale of compressed cotton a
week or so ago, that was ready to be put on
shipboard it is probable that, from any
thing now known, there would not be any
thought that the fire was the work of an
incendiary; but the finding of the matches,
and the fact that the Sylvia's cotton was not
exposed to sparks of steam vessels, suggests
the probability that no one of the fires that
has occurred here this season was acci
dental.
It would not be unwise, at least, to act on
the theory that they were not the result of
accident. The city, the insurance com
panies and the cotton men represented by
the Cotton Exchange are deeply interested
in having the fires checked at once. Indeed,
that they should be checked is a matter of
the gravest importance. If they are the
work of an incendiary the only
way to check them is to lmn{
down the guilty party, or parties.
How is that to be done# Certainly not by
waiting for some clew to be disclosed.
There is only one way to reach the truth of
the matter, and it should adopted at
once. Let a shrewd, thoroughly reliable
detectivo be put to work on the case. He
should be a stranger here, and one of the
best that money can procure.
Electric lighting is no longer an experi
ment in New York city. Its advantages
over gas are so many and so manifest that
even if the electric lights cost a great deal
more than they do it would be economical
to use them. They are groat crime-re
strainers. A dozen electric lights and one
policeman will take better care of a given
extent of territory than half a dozen police
men without the electric lights. A long step
has just been taken in providing for au ex
tension of the electric lights to all the ave
nues, all the streets leading to the ferries,
and all the principal cross streets. It is
only a matter of time when all parts of the
city will bo lighted in the new way.
Important news from several English
papers: “In the United States the telephone
is already being superseded. A writing
telegraph is already working on a commer
cial scale, and with marked success. The
writer uses a stylus or pen, with which he
writes in ordinary fashion, but only on the
empty air. Before his face is a second pen,
which reproduces his words on the tape in
front of it. At the other end the receiving
pen reproduces the message in fae-simile.”
The Rahway mystery is more impenetra
ble than ever. The latest supposed identi
fication of the murdered woman has been
ups et by the finding of the person for whom
she was mistaken. The case seems to lie
entirely beyond the skill of the detectives.
It will take its place on the long list of
murders in the Eastern States of which
women were the victims, and whose perpe
trators have for years escaped detection.
The Rev. IJr. Parker, in an address at
Tremont Temple, Boston, on Monday eve
ning, said that religion has suffered more
from theologians than from infidels, and
that “if any theologians says that men may
lie condemned for not believing what they
never heard, I say such theology should lie
branded and excommunicated.”
Maj. Campbell Wallace, Railroad Com
missioner of Georgia, is over 80 years of
age and still actively busy. He got rich by
buying Kiyton I-and Company stock at l£c.
and holding it at $4,000 a share.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Short Cut Across Lots.
Prom the Philadelphia Press (Sep.)
The Rev. Bam Jones has declared for woman
suffrage as a means of abolishing the saloon
power. Come to think of it, that would be a
pretty short cut across lots.
Will Linger Many a Month.
Prom the Philadelphia Sceord (Vem.)
It will take a Sunday rest to get the rumbling
of the rails out of the President's ears; but the
rousing thunder of popular applause on both
sides of the Appalachian range will linger many
a month.
Sympathy at $250 a Day.
/•>om the Chicago Sews (Idem.)
Ben Butler has a great ileal of sympathy for
the Chicago Anarchists, hut it is fortunate for
them that they can pay him a big retaining fee
and $250 u day. If it had been otherwise they
could not have applied his sympathy to any
useful purpose.
A Point the President Neglected.
Prom the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
In his speech at Atlanta, Ga., the President
complimented the people of the city on its
growth aud enterprise, but strangely omitted to
say a word concerning its enormous trade in
wool, notwithstanding the fact that the hotels,
boarding houses, ami merchants were doing a
business in fleecing seldom equaled, and never
excelled.
BRIGHT BITS.
The woman who shows her love of admira
,ion has not been spoiled by flattery. Only the
spoiled girls take it as a matter of course.—
Philadelphia Call.
"Din your husband see his picture we printed
last Sunday?” asked the editor.
"Yes, he saw it."
"Just gave it a cursory glance, I suppose?”
‘‘No, sir; he gave it a cursory swear word.”—
Washington Critic.
We heard the other day of a Nebraska man
who breaks stones with his fist. This is just the
sort of man who skedaddles for the foothills
whenever there is a prospect of meeting an un
dersized, left-handed sheriff or an effeminate
tax collector.— Burlington Prec Press.
Society women in St. Paul wouldn't serve on
a committee to receive the President with Sena
tor Davis’ wife, because she was a seamstress
before her marriage. Sew: That's a pretty
kind of bias to show in a republic, and it illus
trates the seamy side of society .—Lowell Citi
zen.
The Philadelphia North. American says that
“Insurance Agent Adams has been waiting for
fifteen years for a letter which has just reached
him.” The sender must have inadvertently put
one of the immediate delivery stamps on the let
ter, but it doesn't seem fifteen years since such
stamps were introduced.- Norristown Herald.
A Cautious Analysis. “I have a letter of In
troduction to Mr. Samuel Slump," said a
stranger in a Western town to a citizen "Can
you tell me if he is a man of drinking habits?"
“Wall, stranger,” replied the citizen, expector
ating copiously. "1 wouldn't go so fur as to say
that Sam is a hard drinker, but I reckon if you
ask him to go an' take suthin’ you won’t have
to build a fire under him to git him started.
Tid-Bits.
Just Feeble Enough.— Smith—You look a lit
tle mussed up. Brown.
Brown —I should say so! I’ve just had a row
with my mother-in-law, and I’ll be hanged if she
didn’t put me out of the house. The house be
longs to her you know.
Smith—You told me a day or two ago that
your mother-in-law was very feeble
Brow'ii—l meant feeble for her .—Harper's
Magazine.
An American joke sometimes loses itself
through translation into another language. A
native humorist wrote; "Notwithstanding that
a lady should always be quiet and self-contained
she cannot even enter a place of worship with
out a tremendous bustle.” A French writer re
produces it in this form: "According to an
American author, the ladies of that country are
so greedy of notoriety that they cannot enter
the holy sanctuary without disturbing the kneel
ing worshippers with their vulgar and unseemly
ado. ” — Bingham ton Republican.
One cannot help pitying the unfortunate
Frenchmeu who are obliged to buy their deco
rations. In t his country no Oaffarel could make
a living in selling medals and ribbons. All one
has to do here is to join a rifle team and shoot'a
hole in a barn door at twelve paces, or get
elected to the Common Council. Perhaps, how
ever, someone will retort that in the latter case
the medal is got by purchase. But such a sug
gestion is not only unwarranted, it is ungener
ous. Common Councilmen are invariably chosen
spontaneously. We know because we have
heard them say so themselves.— Boston Tran
script.
Applicant for work—Do you want to employ
any more help, sir?
Proprietor- Yes, I believe we are a little short
handed. Are you sure you understand the busi
ness?
Applicant—l ought to I’ve worked at it for
twenty years and 1 can bring you recommenda
tions from every man I ever worked for.
Proprietor—Can’t volt come in again? The
office boy is out just now, and the porter and
the private watchman are holding a labor meet
ing. I’ll state your case to them when they are
disengaged, and if they are willing I shall be
glad to hire you. But 111 tell you frankly that
though 1 may be able to get the consent of the
private watchman and the porter. Pm some
what in doubt about the office-boy. He’s awfully
particular However, it’il do iio harm to call
again.— Boston Transcript.
PERSONAL.
Count von Moi.tke will celebrate his 87th
birthday Oct. 36.
Ex-Secretary Lincoln favors Senator Sher
man for President.
Senatob Jones, of Nevada, is again financially
flourishing. He has made his last fortune out
ol a rise in some real estate which his bonanza
friends set aside for him.
Frank Kurd's friends say that that free
trade enthusiast likes his present life in New
York so well that he will not stand up in the
Congressional ring again.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, accom
panied by the Dowager Duchess, known for her
devotion to the race course, started for India at
the close of the racing season in England.
Frank Hatton has retired from the editorial
management of the Chicago Mail and will
probably go into the railroad business. He
says he is through with the newspaper business
forever.
John Donohue's statue of Sullivan is excit
ing great attention in Boston, it is said to be
“an idealized figure and is beautiful as a Greek
god." It bears no resemblance, it would seem,
to Sullivan.
Lady Randolph Churchill is understood to
be averse to visiting New York She will have
to acviV many invitations from people who
are fishing for a return in kind at the next Lon -
don season
M, Grew. President of the French Republic,
enjoys smoking a pipe, and does so whenever
he can w ithout offending decorum. He is a
man of very simple habits, and rises and retires
at an early hour.
Mrs. Phelps is highly popular in London,
Her afternoon teas are attended by the very
smartest people, and she goes to all the best
houses on her own merits as well as oil her hus
band's official standing.
Countess Christine Nilsson de Casa Mi
raxde is seriously ill in Paris. A few weeks ago
she took a severe cold at Interlaken, and since
her arrival in Paris she has suffered intensely
with abscesses in her ear.
Pkesident Barnard, of Columbia College, has
prepared for the Hnnim for November a sharp
article on the Knights of Labor, in which he.
charges them with “blockading industry" and
“attempting to eoerce society.”
Alderman de Keyskh, the Belgian inn-keeper
of London, wno has lieen elected Lord Mayor of
tin- British metropolis, is not a Homan Catholic,
as lias been generally stated. He has just ap
pointed a Protestant clergyman to be his olfi
cial chaplain.
The German Crown Prince's voice has not yet
recovered its full tone, but he speaks aloud
w ithout any difficulty, when questioned about
his health not long ago, he replied: 'Well. lam
not yet able to sing, hut 1 feel so well that 1 hope
to be all right again in a short time.’’ He took a
six hour walk the oilier day, showing no traces
of fatigue.
Count Henry de Rcolz. whose death has
been recorded, began life with an income of
$lB,OOO a year: devoted himself first to musical
composition, in which he achieved some suc
cess, and afterward to scientific and mechanical
experiments, in which he invented the galvanic
plating process, anticipated Bessemer in steel
easting, and produced other valuable novelties,
and died at the ago of S3 with hardly a dollar in
the world.
F.x Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, will
not, as previously stated, remove to Louisville
und engage in the newspaper business, or the
practice of law. A man who claims to know
maps out this programme for him: “Gov. Knott
w ill remem at ja'lsuioh, and it will not lie very
long until you hear of him as a candidate for
Congress. He nuiy not run next year, hut he will
likely I e a candidate tnree years from tills time,
an I I predict that whenever he offers for Con
cress he will be elected.''
A Millionaire’s Gift to the Poor.
From Ihr Rnllu-a'j Ayr.
While Communists an<l Anarchists are de
claiming ou the tyranny of capital and trying
to excite war upon those who have accumu
lated money it is well to see how some capital
ists feel toward the poor. Senator Stanford,
who is to the demagogue the embodiment of
hated capital, is building near San Francisco a
great university, and tins is what he says about
it: “It will be built with a sole regard to the
poor. No rich man's son or daughter will want
to go there. The houses for the comfort and
convenience of my guests will be plain hut sub
stantial. and due regard will be had to every
want of the pupils, lint nothing ornate or grand
will be allowed. This institution will absorb
my wealth and be a monument to the memory
of my son. The poor alone will be welcome; it
will not be built for the rich."
Dry Weather Stitching'.
From the Washington News.
“Excuse me, I thought I was in Mr. Jones’
place.”
“And so you are.”
“Yes. hut I mean Jones, the tailor.”
“Well, this is Jones the tailor."
“No. 120?”
“Yes, 120." ,
This was the conversation that followed a
hurried entrance into a down-town tailoring
establishment by your correspondent this morn
ing. As he opened the door he come upon a
man with a glue pot in one hand and a brush in
the other. A perceptible odor of the gelatinous
compound pervaded the apartment.
“Oh, yes,” I at last found breath to say, re
cognizing Mr. Jones in the back partof the shop.
“Are my trousers done*"
“Not yet; about noon. Brown is just goingto
turn the bottoms.”
Brown was the man with the glue pot. I
watched him He took the brush, and daubing
the lower part of the leg of a pair of line black
Melton trousers with glue, turned them up. and
laying a hot iron on thorn said: “Y'es, sir; come
in about noon; they 11 be done by that time,"
“But, Jones. I w ant my trousers sewed. You
are building these as a mau would a house.”
“That’s all rignt, my boy. We turn out only
first-olass w ork. Glue beats thread. No rips,
no seams showing, no creases, you know.”
And sure enough when at noon the trousers
came home the owner found in several places
where he had hitherto been accustomed to see
his garments held together by thread that glue
had been used.
Where Dickens Got His Genius.
Letter to the Editor of the London Daily News.
In your issue of Tuesday last you refer to a
statement in an Indian paper regardiug the
grandmother of Charles Dickens As there are
some inaccuracies in the story quoted by you.
especially so far as it refers to the first" Lady
Houghton, you may possibly allow me to send
you the correct version as 1 heard it many years
ago from Lady Houghton herself. Old Mrs.
Dickens was not nurse, but housekeeper, r.c
Crewe in the time of the first Lord Crewe, the
grandfather of the present holder of the title,
and of his sister, the first Lady Houghton. I
w-ell remember Lady Houghton speaking to
me w-ith enthusiasm of Mrs. Dickens’ wonder
ful powers as a story teller. It was her de
light as a child to listen to the tales which the
old lady was able to relate w-ith so much dra
matic forge and feeling; and it was with the
greatest interest that, later on in life, Lady
Houghton recognized in the illustrious author of
“David Copporfleld” the grandson of the
favorite of her childhood. Old Mrs. Dickens
had one grievance which I-ady Houghton still
recalled when she. told me about her. It was
the conduct of her son John, Charles’ father,
against whose idleness and general incapacity
she was never tired of inveighing. There have
been many conjectures as to the source from
which Dickens derived his wonderful gift as a
story teller, but I believe that, uutil the pub
lication of the article to which you refer, noth
ing has ever beon printed regarding his grand
mother. It is hardly a far-fetched fancy to sup
pose that he inherited his special gift from the
old housekeeper at Crewe.
A Powerful Bemedy.
From Harper's Magazine for November.
In the village of O ,in Central New York,
lives a sharp-tongued old bachelor whom I have
known for twenty-five years as "Uncle John.”
Uncle John is something of a character about
town and not destitute of Yankee wit and
shrewdness. He used to make and vend in an
amateurish way a certain cough mixture, the
merits of which he preached to his friends with
great enthusiasm, warranting the remedy to
cure any cold in twenty-four hours “or no pay "
Oue of his old friends, whom we will call Ike,
being afflicted with a severe coughing cold,
Uncle John used his best efforts in argument,
persuasion, and finally vehement and profane
scolding to get him to try the remedy. But ike
could not be induced to “chance
it.” Not long after this Uncle John
caught a hard cold himself, which was accom
panied by a most distressing cough that shook
his poor old frame unmercifully. It did not.
however, prevent his coming down-town and
“settin," as he called it, in Ike’s market. The
cold hung on for a week or more, and the cough
had grown no better. Finally one day Ike re
solved to brave Uncle John's sharp tongue, and
tease him a little about his failure to rid himself
of the cold, and the following dialogue ensued.
You are to understand that Uncle John's replies
were interrupted with violent coughing:
“John?”
“What yer want?”
“Got a bad cold, 'ain’t ye?”
“Yes; got the wust ever had’n my life."
“Hangs on pretty bad, don’t it?”
“Yes; beats all b—.”
Hesitatingly: “Why don’t you try some o’
y’r cough med'eine you wanted ter sell me?"
“I thought mebbe y’ was fool ’nough ter ask
that question; d’yers’posel want ter livefor
everr'
The Adventures of a Watch.
From the Washington Star.
A curious story about a watch has just devel
oped at Troy, Ala. Twenty years ago Mr,
George Etheridge, who lived in the upper part
of Pike county, treated himself to a tine gold
watch, for which he paid $lO5. lie took it
home, and his father told him that, inasmuch
as he had invested so much in a watch, it would
be a good idea to take down the maker’s name
and number, w hich ho did, without ever think
ing that that little precaution would ever avail
anything. He kept it until 1373. when a laborer
on his place took advantage of his absence one
day, broke into his house, and stole the watch
and chain, and skipped out. The thief went
down Into Dale county, and in a short time got
into trouble. In order to evade the clutches of
the law, he laid out in a piece of woods, and
while there he lost his stolen prize, and in a
short time left for the West. In 18HJ, while Mr.
Metcalf, who lives near Daleville, was shrub
bing a piece of second year's land, he found the
watch and related the circumstances to several
of his neighbors, but could find no owner for the
property. The watch had been lying in the
woods six years, and was In a bad fix. Metcalf
carried it to a jeweler in Kufaula ami had it re
paired, and took it home with him and kept it
until last Saturday. In the early part of the
week Mr. A. Haley, of thiscity, who is a brother
in-law of Mr. Etheridge, heard something that
induced him to wire Mr. Etheridge, at Ever
green, to come over: that he. thought lie could
put him on the track of his lost watch. Mr.
Etheridge arrived in the city and went to Mr.
Metcalf's: described the watch, gave the num
ber and the maker's name, paid Metcalf what
he had paid out for repairs, received his prop
erty, and returned highly elated over his success
in recovering his lost jewelry.
A Question.
From the Overland for October.
Ah, whither go the souls that are called lost?
Is it to some dim land
Round which huge waves, in storm-vexed fury
> tossed,
Roar madly up the sand?
Are there no blooms nor grass to make it fair?
No birds to waken song?
Do they walk sadly, with disheveled hair,
The cold, bleak hills along?
Is there no hand-clasp given, no word of love,
No smile, nor look that cheers?
Silent and lonely do these lost souls move
Through multitudinous years ?
And do they hear of the refulgent days
That in this life they knew ?
Of brooks that murmur on through fragrant
ways,
And skies of limpid blue;
Of the glad roses blooming in some June
Made sacred by a kiss,
When all the world with beauty was a-tune—
Ah. do they dream of this?
And then to see the gray clouds gather round
This drear, waste land, the rain
Falling, forever falling with sad sound.
The storm-wind's wqjrd refrain—
To have the memories of sunny hours
Like vague dreams throng the mind,
Bringing from days remote the thought of
flowers
They never more may find—
To feel the wind made by an angel’s wing
That passes by unseen,
And hoar the echoes of sweet words that ring
Their home and heaven between—
Is this their fate? O vast and sombre sea,
No morial yet has crossed,
Rise in wild wrath, that there may no more be
Souls that are known as lost 1
Thomas S. Collier.
When two men start out with the understand- i
ing that they are to get full they decorate the I
town with iIU-agree work.— Merchant Trawler.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
The consumption of petroleum by England in
18S0 was about 2,250.000 barrels.
A woman who has been nominated for School
Commissioner in Wayne county, New York, will
stump the district.
The cruel punishment of slow death by hang
ing so as to stand on the tips of the toes is still
extensively inflicted in China. The barbarous
system of conferring tenors on widows who
commit suicide is also continued.
The adopted daughter of a Michigan farmer
named Henderson confesses that she set fire to
his house five times, poisoned his cows because
she didn’t want to help milk them and smoth
ered the baby in order to get rid of it.
The report of the Secretary of the Interior on
the condition of affairs in Utah shows, among
other things, that of the nearly 200,000 adult
inhabitants of tiiat Territory. 1:19,297 lieiong
to the Mormon Church, and 50,000 are non
Mormons.
An ingenious woman is working a novel
scheme for getting material for a crazy quilt.
She has w ritten to many postmasters asking
for a piece of silk, satin, or velvet, and setting
forth that she hopes to get pieces for her quilt
from every State in the Union.
Gen. Ouphant, of Trenton, is having made a
china cup, embossed in gold and decorated with
floral and other designs, for his old friend Capt.
Ball, who came trom Scotland for the cup the
Volunteer won. Tiie cup is intended as a souve
nir of the visit of the Thistle to America.
Measurements of 100,000 Russians were taken
of both sexes working in different industries,
and it was found that workmen in the textile
branches were smaller and had narrower chests
and less weight than those engaged in other
works, the spinners being the weakest in every
respect.
Railway conductors have fads, and the latest
one is collecting punch holes from other con
ductors. A conductor on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad has a collection of more than
a hundred punch holes, representing disks,
hearts, crescents, crosses, bkds, and many other
objects.
The will of Melvin Procktor, of Claremont,
N. H., is being contested on a fine point of pro
bate law. Lawyer Parker was called to Proek
tor’s bedside to write his will. He did so, and
Procktor started to sign it. wrote the word
“Melvin,” and fell back dead. The validity of
the will under such a signature is questioned.
Annie E. Moore, of Winthrop, bids fair to be
one of Maine’s most valuable daughters. In
1885. when she was but 18 years old. she took
the first premium on butter at the Eastern
Maine Fair: in 1838 she again took the prize at
the State Fair, and now she has taken the pre
mium at the Eastern Maine Fair for butter made
by a girl not over 15 years of age.
Ex-Senator Dorsey declares that Postmaster
General Vilas lost his opportunity at the time
he made the speech at the banquet to Gen.
Grant in Chicago. That speech made Vilas
known, and he would have been welcomed by
the Republicans with open arms. Mr. Dorsey
has some reas in for suspecting that he thought
of flying to those arms at that time.
Justice Andrew Selleck, of Norwalk, Conn.,
went to a dark closet to take some acid phos
phate, and instead took some oxalic acid, lie
discovered the mistake very soon, and told his
wife, who at once poured into him a big cup of
coffee, a raw egg. a lot of castor oil, and a glass
of milk. Of courqp the acid had no show, and
the Judge lived; but he can’t tell which made
him feel the worse, the poison or the antidotes.
Powdered glass is largely taking the place of
sand in the manufacture of sand paper. It is
readily pulverized by heatiig it red hot and
throwing it into water, the finishing being done
in an iron mortar. By the use of sieves of dif
ferent sized meshes, tne powder is separated
into various grades. A strong paper, or muslin,
is tacked down and covered with a strong size
of glue, the surface covered with powdered
glass, and when the glue is dry, the surplus
glass is shaken or brusned off.
I. W. Collard, a member of the Seventeenth
Indiana Volunteers, ten years ago started for
the West, intending to send for his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Collard, within a year. Each lost
track of the other, and after numerous success
ful attempts to obtain information each con
cluded that the other was dead. At the recent
reunion of Gen. Wilder’s Brigade atGreencastie,
Ind., Collard met an Indianapolis man who tola
him of the whereabouts of Mrs. Collard, and
mother and son are united again.
The San Francisco Examiner says that the
steamship City of Sydney, w hich recently ar
rived in that port, brought $(>0,000 worth of
Chinese girls to replenish the slave quarters of
that city. Though such importation is against
the Chinese restriction act. against, the contract
labor act. and against the still older law pro
hibiting the immigration of women brought for
immoral purposes, their owners will tiud no
serious difficulty in landing: these costly chat
tels. A foiv dollars for witnesses, something
more for a lawyer, and sl7 50 apiece for court
fees will settle the matter.
Miner Ed Scheffelin, who recently sold the
Toughnut mine, of Arizona, for $1,000,000, went
to Carson the other day and put up at the best
hotel there. When dinner was announced he
sauntered into the dining room with his long
hair trailing down over his shoulders, which
were not covered by a coat. The head waiter
told the millionaire that he must put on his
coat. “I guess you don't know who I am, you
black rascal,” said Mr. Scheffelin. “Don’t make
no difference, sah," said the waiter: "you must
put on yo' coat.” And the landlord backed up
the waiter, and the man of money had to dress
before he could eat.
M. Peligot, a French chemist, has discovered
that not the wine merchants, but the foreign
manufactured bottles are dishonest. When soda
and potash formed the basis of bottle glass,
wines improved by keeping, but now the glass
is adulterated, and the nest, of wines are liaole
to be spoiled He advises lovers of good wine
wbo do their own bottling to pay high prices fi >r
their bottles, as materials that are largely fer
ruginous are constantly employed in the manti
facture of glass for bottles, and upon these con
stituents the acids in the wine act powerfully,
and the liquid becomes impregnated with ina •-
nesia and what not. Most French bottles, he
says, arc well worth good wines.
During examination at Edinburgh Univer
sity, Scotland, the students, owing to the
scarcity of cloak rooms, in their excitement
fling their hats, or used to. anywhere, and often
on the examiner’s desk. The examiner finally
said that if he found another hat on his desk he
would rip it up. The next day while the ex
aminer was absent temporarily an undergradu
ate took the examiner’s hat and placed it on the
desk. The examiner on re-entering the hall saw
the hat and a gleam of triumph shot over his
face. ‘‘Gentlemen,” he said, T told you what
would happen if this would occur again.” Then
lie deliberately cut to pieces the hat, amid the
prolonged applause of the students.
Charles Laces and Algernon R. Thomas,
Pennsylvanians, while fishing a few days since
at Wolf Pond, saw a short distance from their
boat, the head and neck of a gigantic snake fish,
long and pointed at the mouth, and increasing
in width until it appeared to be 6 or 8 inches
wide between the eyes. Laces struck at the
reptile with a heavy pole, and instantly the head
went down and the body rose and was thrown
across the end of the boat, nearly capsizing it
The object then disappeared. 'The head ’was
mottled green and looked something like the
shell of a turtle. Its body was bldcli, encircled
with rings of a dirty yellow color. The men
say its length was 30 feet. Its body was about
(i inches in diameter.
Rev. J. T. White (colored), pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist Cherch at Helena, Ark., owed ont -
of his dock S6O, with interest for ten years back,
which he failed to pay, though often importuned
to do so. Finally, he told his creditor. Isaac
McNeal, that he wouldn’t pay, as th * debt was
outlawed. The deacons determined that Mc-
Neal should be paid or Brother White could not
officiate ill his pulpit again. A few nights sin e
the deacons met Mr. White at the door of the
church and refused him admittance. After
some consideration he gracefully surrendered
", ent , *' ome auil his wife's signature to a
check for the debt and interest. lie was then
allowed to enter the church, and preached what
was said to be one of the most powei ful ser
mons of his life.
Precious stones are dyed at Obefstem, Ger
many, where nearly the whole population is de
voted to the work of making bogus jewelry and
fixing up cheap gems to look fine. Different
families have their different modes of treat
ment, and some families have the secret of some
one or another special tint, which can bo made
nowhere else. Chalcedony is the usual base of
false onyxes and agates, which me most ccun- I
terieited. the stones are boiled rj the cob. in - !
matter and then subjected to intense lea’ !
The color permeates the whole stone. Oi e
family has the secret of converting crocidolile
into cat s-eyes.” Gypsum and hornblende arc
also mafic into tile same gems. Tircons, which l
are cheap stones of silicon and zirconia, have I
the color washed out, and are appartently dia
monds until tested. A thin slice of diamond is I
mid over a topaz so that the whole appear to
b-' one gem. Emeralds are easily imitated,
lany stones sold as rubies are only red spinal
and much of the lapis lazuli is only dyed chal-
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ANOTHER WEEK
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Unparalleled Attractions
AT
AIALTMATOW
THE SUCCESS attending the past, week'*
inducements was most pronounced,
our store being crowded from early morn fir
late in the evening with seekers after the UN*
MATCH ABLE BARGAINS we have thrown out
THIS WEEK
the inducements are greater than ever. Then
are BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
We have snaee to quote only a few specialties
but they wilt give you a general idea of thi
great drives for the week.
IN DRESS GOODS
WE WILL OFFER:
1 more ease of those double width Checked
ami Plaid Suitings at U^jc.; cannot be matched
in the South for the money.
A case of Lovely French Plaids, .38 ir.chet
wide, nt 4V.; these goods are quite prett v* and
the newest things out. Look at them befoii
the assortment is broken.
A lovely line Strijwd Silk Velvets at $1 50; cai
match any dress in color.
IN CLOAKS.
A Tailor-made Jersey-cloth Jacket, with satirv
lined hood at 50.
An English Check in Tailor made Jacket,
with satin-lined hood, ONLY 554 38. This is an
extraordinary offer, and our Silk Plush Short
Wrap, with plush ornaments and quilted satia
lining, at $l2 50, is simply unapproachable.
IN BO YS’ 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. Thus is a great feature of the
hoiise. For the week we will offer in this de
partment:
A FULL SUIT in nobby style goods for $2 73,
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 buyer. 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 woo)
Blanket at $1 1)8; chc?apest thing yet. And a (*
pound Blanket worth $7 50 for $T>.
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 Yours,
A. l AL-TMAYER k HO.
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Sick Headache, **U ruu down,” los
iug flesh, you mill liud
the remedy you need. They tononi
the nenk stomach and build up tin
Diigging energies. Sufferers fron
mental or physical overlook will fi n f
relief from them. Meelj sugar coaled
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boa,
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Q has won the favor ol
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