The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 25, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 Ck|storningftctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY, OCTOBER ‘<ss, 1 HH7. Regifitered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Mqrninq News is published every day in fb“ year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week, $1 tX> a Month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Morning News, bu mail, one month, fl 00; three months. 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mad. six times a week (without Sunday issueV three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, ii 25; mx months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail . one year. $2 00. _ The’WEEKLY News, oy mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers* Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News. Savannah, via." Advertising rates made known on application. 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- BAKING TOW DEB. 7 —foU. WE/Gr~> --^i j CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions ol homes for more than a quarter of a century rt it used by the United States Government, liv dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities ai i the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. j Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only is Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. R. ALT .MAY ER A CO. ANOTHER WEEK OF 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. MEDICAL. Sf You Have Voispnefits. 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