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4 flic||loniing|Jflus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATI’UDAY, OCTOBER ‘2l*, INN*. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah The Morning News is published every day In *te year, and is served to subscribers in the city, tiy newsdealers and earners, on their own ac count, at C 5 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 (A) tor six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Morning News, l>y mail, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 00; six months, $0 i*J; one year. $lO (VI. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Bundsy issue), three months. $2 00; six months. $1 00 one rear. $S Oil. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thors days and Saturdays, three months, $1 2>; Six months. $2 50; one’ year. $5 00. The Sunday News, bu mad , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News. By mail, one year. SI Subscript ions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter, t.ur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This lvaiier is kept on file and advertising rates may lie ascertained at the office of the Amen Can Newspaper Publishers Association, Ids Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams be addressed "Morning News. Savannah Ga." Advertising rates made known on applies’ on INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, Special Notices—Roll of Honor Savannah Academy: As to Rills Against Austrian Brig Maratona; An Appeal to the Merchants and Citizens of Savannah. Rust Proof Seed Oats—G. S McAlpin. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; For Rent: For Sale; Found; Miscellaneous. Henry George says his party is certain to re-write the laws of this country. He will himself hardly have a hand in the job, though he is only about 50. Jay Gould sails for Europe to day, for an indefinite stay. It is not probable he can remain away long, however, and he will always lie in easy reach of the cable. There is no longer any doubt of Mrs. Potter's ha ving lar . e audiences. She brought back witli her from Paris forty trunks full of dresses made by Worth. Every woman in New York will go to seo them. The health officers at New York insist that there is no danger whatever that cholera will work its way into the country through that port. A great responsibility i-ests oh them, and nothing but the most unremitting vigilance and caution on their part wffi satisfy the country. It is announced that several days ago, without any ceremonies whatever, the re mains of Mr. Beecher were removed from their temporary resting place an l deposited in a lot which Mrs. Beecher has bou :ht in Greenwood Cemetery. A monument will soon be erected, and it will tie long before it ceases to be a place for visitors to gal her. The New York Evening Post thinks Ohio Republicans the most unreconstructed peo ple in tlie country. That is a fact, but just wait until they are satisfied they are not on the side of the majority, and see how quickly they will make themselves over again, into ■whatever promises best for getting office. Politics is business with the*Ohio Republi cans. The great strike of printers in New York is about ended, the men having failed to carry their point. Though the strike has not been officially declared off, many men have gone back to work, and the offices have about all the printers they want. Too many men wanted work, and the griev ances complained of were too small to al low the movement to be successful. It now seems to be settled that the Polish adventurer Mitkiewicz did use Mr. Vander bilt’s name in his Chinese negotiations without authority, and resorted to other un justifiable means to gain recognition, but the result of his work will stand, in spite of the fraud he practiced. The men for whom Mitkiewicz acted will probably dispense with his farther services as soon as possible. The excitement in Chicago as the day for the execution of the Anarchists approaches is growing intense, and the wisdom of granting a respite of a week, which is said to be contemplated by Gov. Oglesby, is doubtful. It will only give a longer t ime for the fomenting of excitement and the ex ecution of plots. It is doubtful, too, whether such a respite would be a real kindness to the unhappy men. Hardly has Boston’s slugging hero got out of town when the newspapers of that city print long articles with big display heads containing the challenge of a Boston man who wants to win fame and money by out-eating anybody in the world. The mat ter seems to excite much interest. The town apjiears to tie surfeited with estheti cism and culture, and in its hours of is not ashamed to show its real nature. Mayor Hewitt told a city official who wanted his salary raised because his services were worth more to the city than bo was re ceiving, that his own services as Mayor were worth about $200,000 a year, but he was satisfied. This is apparently a high estimate, but not too high if the public service is not crippled by the way in which tne Mayor is trimming down the estimates. He has cut off many thousand dollars. The ruling of the Bureau of Navigation, that Capts. Boyd and Beuer must pay out of their own pockets the pilotage fees in curred when their vessels were carried up the Delaware to take part in the constitu tion’s centennial, has been reversed, and the government will foot the bill. The sympathizers with the officers who were passing around a subscription paper for their benefit in Philadelphia will, no doubt, be glad to hear this. Senator Stanford says most of the gradu ates of Eastern colleges who come to Cali fornia looking for employment become horse-ear conductors, for which business they are well suited by their manners aud the fact that none of them will steal. It speaks well for the Senator that he thinks well of honesty in other people. Perhaps the graduates of the great university he is building will be good enough for conductors on ills numerous railroads. It is announced that Mr. H. C. Hanson, lately business manager of the Macon Tel egraph, has assumed editorial and business control of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. This is a most fortunate thing for that pa per. Mr. Hanson is not only one of the best managers of a nowspajior’s business affairs in the State, but it can safely be predicted that he will make his journal a leading ex ponent of tiie theories of taxation to which the Democratic party is committed, and on the carrying out of which the prosperity of the country depends. The revenue reform Brctas in him gains a most valuable recruit Louisiana’s Faction Fight. The Democratic parly in Louisiana is be ing pretty thoroughly shaken up. There are two factions in the party in that State and they are widje apart in their policies and purposes respecting State affairs. A con tost for the control of the approaching State convention has been in progress for several weeks, attd the organs aud stump speakers of the two factions have given the people but little opportunity to think of anything else than State politics. Tito faction that has control of tho Slate government is striving to have Gov. Sam D. McEaery re nominated, and the other faction is urging the nomination of ex-Gov. Nicliolls. A Senatorship is also involved in the con test. The term of Gen. Gibson, the senior United States Senator, expires very soon, and the Legislature to be elected tiiis fail will choose his successor. Oeu. Gib son is battling for the Nicbolls faction, and his colleague, Senator Eustis, is in sympathy with the McEnery faction. The supporters of ex-Gov. Nicholls assert that they have the better element of the party with them, anti that if they are suc cessful they will introduce into tho adminis tration of State affairs purer methods, and will put a better class of men into the minor offices. In other words, they pledge them selves to inaugurate some reforms of which, it is asserted, the people stand greatly iig in need. Gov. McEnery has already been elected Governor twice, and the third term cry has beeu raised against him. He pretends that ho has done more than any of itis predeces sors toward improving the levee system of the State. Ho has certainly exerted himself in behalf of levee building, but whether he has really accomplished much in that direc tion is a question that is not regarded as settled. If his performances had been equal to his pretensions the levees would he in a much better condition than they are. The belief is expressed that his influence in State afTairs is not great, and that his course upon every important matter is dictated by a small number of shrewd politicians who find bitn a vory useful instrument in ad vancing their own schemes. The factious are separated by a feeling so bitter that the probability of their acting in complete harmony in tho near future is not promising. If it were not for the fact that the supremacy of the party is menaced by a strong, but unorganized. Republican patty, they would carry their warfare to much greater extremes than they have yet done. They are not so mad, however, as to nominate sejiarate tickets. They know if they did that the Republicans would get control of the State. As much as tiiey dis like each other, they are forced to stand together to resist the Republicans. The Republicans seem to think that there is a fighting chance for them at the next election. They hope that the defeated Democratic faction will be so embittered that it will r ot give the ticket of the party a hearty support, aud that they will have a chance, therefore, to elect their ticket. They have called a convention and projxise to nominate a full State ticket. They will bo di*aji[Kiiuted, because before the State will be jiermitted to pass under their control again the Democrats will abandon their faction fight for a time and give their ticket a sufficient support to elect it. The probability now is that Gov. McEnery will be re-elected, an l if Gen. Gibson gets back to the Senate it will bo by a majority so small as to almost take his breath away. The Reports Respecting Mr. Garrptt. Reports continue to come from along the route which Mr. Robert Garrett is travel ing, that he is not suffering from any men tal trouble, and that he is enjoying excel lent physical health. These reports doubtless give pleasure to his friends in Baltimore and elsewhere. It is admitted by his physician, who it traveling with him, however, that for two years or more, he lias been under a greater menial strain than was good for him, ami it was thought wise to remove him from all exe ting influences of a bus ness character. Just before be started for Europe it was thought that bo was in danger of an attack of brain fever, and that danger, it seems, is still apprehended. The impression prevails to some extent that Mr. Garrett is suffering from a mental trouble. This impression may be erroneous, and it is to be hoped that it is. The fact that his physician accompanied him to Europe, was with him all the time after he returned home until lie started on his West ern trip and is with him now indirates that Mr. Garrett is in a condition that needs constant medical attention. His talk at the depot just before he started on his present trip to tho West aud Mexico mid the fact that he left Baltimore at all at tiiis time, wliou changes arc takiug place in the owner ship aud management of the great proper ties in which he is so deeply in terested, are sufficient to justify a suspi cion that there has been a want of frankness on the part of those who, lieing in a position to know the truth, have furnished statements respecting his condi tion for publication. A good many unkind things have ap peared in the newspapers with regard to Mr. Garrett which wouldn’t have beeu pub lished if it had been understood that he was not entirely responsible for his actions. If he is really a sick man, aud not a snobbish, purse-proud millionaire, there will lie gen eral regret that an unkind word has ap peared iu print about him. The decision of a Now York lower court that a woman was a drunkard aud inca pable of managing her property has lieen reversed, and the action of the court in ap pointing a guardian set aside because the evidence ou which the decision was based was given by her physician. The reversing court held that his knowledge was gained iu his professional cnpucity, and could uot be legally used agaiust his patient. The principle established is a very just and proper one, but it sometimos makes it im possible, as in this case, to restrain the victim of a morbid app tite from acts very damaging and disgraceful to herself. A Pennsylvania clergyman who was ac cused of hugging and kissing one of the prettiest female members of his flock, when brought to trial admitted that he had done so, but suid he was actuated by a worthy motive. The trustees found his excuse suffi cient and acquitted him. The old fellows probably remembered their own courting days. District Attorney Martine is urged to have Jay Gould indicted for larceny before he leaves for Europe. The counsel of the swindled Kansas Pacific bondholders claim to have plenty of evidence to convict him, but that may Ik) doubted. It would take a tremendous amount of the straightest sort of evidence to put tho owner of $50,000,1X10 iu the penitentiary. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1887. Dissatisfied Politicians. The political situation in New York city dues not appear to lie wholly satisfactory to tho [Kiliticiuns. There was a pretty general desire :t few weeks ago that Assistant Dis trict Attorney Nhull should be nominated for District Attorney. As one of the prose cutors of the boodle Aldermen mid of Mr. Sharp, tho briber of the boodlers, he made quite a reputation. He is a Democrat, and wanted the Democratic nomination for Dis trict Attorney. Col. Fellows, another As sistant District Attorney, proved himself to lie the better politician mid wire worker and secured the prize. The Irving Hall Democrats concluded to nominate Mr. Nieoll, and the Republicans in lorsetl him. Mr. Nieoll refused to accept the nomination and indorsement, unless the Republicans indorsed the Democratic candi date for Criminal Judge, Mr. Martino, who is the present District Attorney. Rather than lose Nieoll the Republicans indorsed Mr. Martine. Now the Democrats are not satisfied. They don’t like it lieeause Mr. Nieoll ac cepted an independent nomination, and some of them insist that Mr. Martine shall refuse the Republican indorsement. The straightout Democratic organ, the Star, tells Mr. Martine that bo cannot run on both tickets, that he must get off one or the other. It remains to lie seen whether he will permit himself to lie bußdozed. Some of the Republicans did not want to indorse Mr. Martine, but the leaders said that it would be lor their interest to do so. The Republicans cannot elect either a Crim inal Judge or a District Attorney, but by in dorsing such men as Mr. Martine and Mr. Nieoll they strengthen their State ticket. They are wise. The success of their State ticket is all they care for. It is not to be wondered at, therefore,that tho Democratic leaders kick against Mr. Martine’s accept ance of the Republican indorsement mid Mr. Nicoll’s independent candidacy. The Free Whisky Programme. Congressman W. D. Kelley, of Pennsyl vania, is as well informed as any other Re publican loader as to what the course of the Republicans in the present Congress will be with regard to any tariff legislation that may be proposed. A few days ago, in New York, he said that if the proposition to re peal tho tobacco tax were presented as a separate measure, the Republicans would support it, but that if it were combined with a measure to reduce the customs du ties they would oppose it. From this statement it is evident that the Republicans intend to oppose any reduction of the tariff. They acknowledge that it is absolutely necessary that the revenues shall be reduced, and, lienee, they are willing to vote for the repeal of the tax on whisky and tobacco, but they will not permit the tariff laxps to be reduced if they can help it. It is certain that the Democrats will not consent to repeal the whisky tax. They have made up their minds that as long as they have contro' of tho government whisky shall not be made cheap while the people are demanding clieapor necessaries of life. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Ran dall will continue to act with the Republi cans on revenue matters, and if he does whether ho can control enough Democratic votes to prevent the D into rats of the House from passing a tariff reduction bill. If he still continues to act with the Re publicans the only thing the Democrats can do is to present their tax reduction measure and let Mr. Randall and the Republicans lake the responsibility of defeating it. The people will seo where the fault is, and will correct it by sending men to Congress who will not do tile bidding of monopolies built up by the protective tariff. Mr. Chamberla'n’s Lack of Tact. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is getting him self disliked as one of the members of the commission to settle the fishery dispute be tween this country and Canada. He talks too much. He pretends to think that any treaty which he has a hand in making will be rejected by the Senate. His alleged rea sou for so thinking is that tho Irish people do not like him, and as they are influential in this country they will endeavor to defeat the treaty to spite him. He is mistaken. The Irish people in this country may not have any love for him, but they will raise no opposition to the treaty if it prove to he what the American people want. The Sen ate will deal with the treaty on its merits. The fact that, Mr. Chamberlain is regarded as an enemy by the Irish people will not be tuken into account when the question of ratifying it is considered. There is another matter which Mr. Cham berlain has been talking about. It is that of a commercial union between this country and Canada. He says that Eng land might as well agree to a separation from Canada at once as to con sent to such a union, because it would virtually deprivo her of whatever benefits she now enjoys from her connection with Canada. That being Mr. Chamberlain's view of the matter, it is evi dent that the commission will do nothing toward bringing about freer commercial relations between this country and Canada. Tho impression appears to be growing that the selection of Mr. Chamberlain as one of the commissioners was not a happy one. Mr. Edwin B. Haskell hits severed his connection with the Boston Herald. He was its editor, and owned one-third of it, the other two-thirds being owned by Messrs. Pulsifer and Andrews. Mr. Haskell has been connected with the Herald os reporter, editor and proprietor for twenty-eight years. The purpose of his retirement is to give more time to other business interests, and to study and travel. He is only a little past 50 yeai's of age and is in the enjoyment of excellent health. Mr. Haskell, Mr. Pul sifer and Mr. Andrews bought the Herald when it was worth very little. Tiiey hire made it a great paper, and it has mude them rich. The Herald is one of the best news papei projierties in the country. It occupies about the same position in Boston and New England that the New York Herald does in New York and the Middle States. Mr. Haskell will doubtless be greatly missed in the newspaper world of Boston. The concealed hostility of Sherman and Foraker is said to be in danger of breaking out into open war. Both want places on the national Republican ticket, and Sherman no doubt resents the fact that Foraker has made himself a national notoriety by ener getic work in a department of politics which he considered his own—tho bloody shirt department. The country will look on tranquilly while they fight. It would be hard to find two politicians who could be allowed to choke each other to death with less danger to the public welfare. The good news about Bartley Campbell, the playwright, is contradicted. Instead of recovering his mind and health, as was re oorted. he is said to be slowly dying. CURRENT COMMENT. Thurman's Bed Bandana. Praia the Philadelphia Timet (fViii.) One tvaxo of Thurman's red bandana makes Benny Foraker feel bln Nature s Impartiality. From the Are- York World (Oem.) The reported discovery of a spring at Merid ian. Miss., welch tastes like weak lemonade has been confirmed. Not long ago a spring having the flavor of whisky was found in a Western State. Nature t hus retuses to take sides on the Prohibition question. The Difference Explained Prom the Sew York Tribune [Rep.) "Jonah Chautlierlain" is the playful title be stowed upon the British Commissioner by Cana dian journals. The pleasantry is not quite ac curate. Iu the case of the original Jonah it was the whale that opened its mouth ot the right time. In the present instance it is Mr. Cbam lieritin who is opening his mouth at the wrong time. A Ghastly Burlesque on Civilization. Prom the Sew York Herald lad.) The mobilization of the French army at the ebst of $1,000,000 is a dear experiment. But what a ghastly burlesque of the tieatiiudes ■is our modern civilization, where all the resources of finely tempered, highly gifted nations like France aud Germany are devoted to ihe busi ness of making ready to cut one another's throats! BRIGHT BITS. A Boston Pronunciation. -Signorina Tere sina Tua is on a starring ttui in this countro. She plavs the violin, but is, we trust, no amatua. — Boston beacon. Tai.mage is authority for the statement that there are no pianos i:i heaven what's the use of a piano trying to be square or upright, then* Yonkers Statesman. "Bridget. I t’ink 1 11 shave off me galways,” remarked Mr. Hoolahau, sadly. "Why, Micky’" “Tho b’ys is beginning to ask me why I don’t put tassels onto that fringe."— Washington Critic. Wife— Where shall we put that tall clock? Husband-*Well, 1 notice it is the style to put clocks at the head of the stairs. "Yes, 1 have noticed that they are often put there, but 1 should not think it a good place. "I should think was a temptation for them to run down.”— Yonkers Statesman. When the family doctor hesitates while writ ing .the prescription, don't let the hard, crystal lized thought that he don't know Latin come into your mind. He is simply trying to pull his brain tissue up to the point ot deciding whether the corner druggist, will pay a higher conimis sion uu cubebs or digitalis. -Tid-Bits. A young miss, age ten. whose sister had just become engaged ton physician, was seated at the supper table with the tauiily. There had been remarks made and opinions expressed about the, M. I>., when the young miss gave her opinion as follows: "I think it will lie a very good thing for the doctor, as he can now leave his babies with Carrie, and not give them all away to strangers." Supper was adjourned. — Judge. A Friend in Need..- First Undertaker-Come around to mv house to-night. Second Undertaker—l would, but I have an engagement. " Business’” “No. I promised a lady friend of mine to call this evening and try- to cheer up her hus band." “Sick?” "No He's a funny man on a newspaper."— Omaha World. "Yes," said the customs officer at the hustings, “these free traders, if they lind their way, would aboiisii all revenue duties. Aud what would follow if such a condition of things should come about?” A thick headed individual none of the back seats quickly responded; "Well, I suppose you'd tie looking about lor a job." This was proba bly not the Correct answer, but the speaker found it impossible to go on with his argument. —Boston 'Transcript. Burlington Husiiand—Are you aware, my dear, that you make away with about S3O a year in horse ,ear lares riding to ybur sewing society and other meetings? Wife—Yes, sir, 1 an: but I do it for econo my’s sake 1 don’t believe you could afford to have me walk. Husband— Why so, pray? Wile- Perhaps you are not aware that be tween our house and the post office there are four milliners' shops. — Burlington Tree Press. A Victim op the .Testers.— One of our Somer ville ministers is complaining that he has a grudge against the newspaper paiagraphers of ihe country. "I used to tie kept supplied with daintily embroidered slippers all the time," says he. "but you fellows have made so many jokes about the practice, ami poked so much fun at the fair donors that I’ll lie hanged—er, that is to say. 1 would be nnuged if I were uot a minister—df the other day 1 didn’t have to go anil buy a pair for myself.”— Somerville Jour nal. A Needed Proviso.—Omaha Man -So you are from Kansas, eh? Stranger—No, from Missouri. I am from Kansas City. Missouri. -Of eourse. 1 forgot. Your friend is from Michigan, I believe.” No. from Indiana-Michigan City, Indiana. We are both going to Kansas to found anew town, but we ueed more capital.” “Well, I'll go in with you if you’ll promise, not to call it Massachusetts City, Kansas. "—Omaha World. Two Wavs of Seeing Things.—First Anarch ist -Look at that rich man now; too lazy to drive his own horses. Second Anarchist —Yes, has to have a private coachman to bold the reins while he lays back in the cushions. At Another Corner.—First Business Man—l de clare it there isn't old Scrouge doing his own driving. Second Business Man—Yes, he's so infernally mean and stingy that he discharged his coach man. a poor man with a large family, lieeause he thought him an unnecessary expense.— Omaha World. “And what does your husband do for a livin'; " asked Mrs. Chatterwcll during her first call mi anew neighbor. “He’s a reporter.” “A what?’ “A newspaper reporter: he goes about every where, learns all tne news and takes it to the pnfier, ” "And do tliev pay for that?” shrieked Mrs, Chattel-well, rising to her feet in sheer amaze ment. "Yes; SBO a month." “Oh, mercy on me I I've lost moron $20,000 good money since I've I;vt‘/i in Talkertow*n.” She makes a straight rush for the newspaper office.— Journalist. • PERSONAL. Gen. Simon Cameron has a steer that weighs 2,100 pounds and measures over eight feet around I lie body. Robert G. IngeuSoll wrote in a liquor deal er's autograph album: "Wine is the fireside, whisky the conflagration.” Mn. Washburn, of Minneapolis, one of the greatest millers In the United states, is a slender man with mutton-chop whiskers, who looks more like a professional man than a flour king. Jons B. Stetson, the Philadelphia hat maker, employs 800 men, women and children, and has a Sunday school ot I,(*X) scholars in connection with his" factory. The ctiapel where tho school meets cost $ 10,000 Tiik widow of Gen. Logan made her first pub lic speech on Sunday -an address to the inmates of the reform school at Washington. She was follow ed by the wife of Parson Newman, who spoke at greater length. Olive Logan's translation of Francois Cop per's olio act pot tie play, "The stroller” ap pears to be decidedly successful in London, and Olive Ixigau herself as u playwright speaker of thanks is even more successiul. Tatin Baba has gone to New York. This ac tive Japanese radii al believes firmly in the fu ture of his country, hut be is certain that telling changes must proceed from the progress of the people rather than from arbitrary changes of form by the government officers. Lady Blunt, Alio insisted last Sunday on sharing her husband's imprisonment at Wood ford, Ooimly Galway, for presiding at a Home Rule meeting, is a granddaughter of Lord By ron. It wilt lie reinemliored that her grandfath er tried to help the Greeks to home rule. Rear Admiral Worden, hero of the Monitor and Merrimac tight, is living in Washington. He is 70 years of age, but looks younger. He lias a full blonde be n and and bis Ictlr is not *s white ns Ills ngp wo and 1 warrant. The wound he received at the Monitor mid Merrimac battle not only impaired his •hgli*. but lias left him always subject to severe headache lie was retired from the navy in I'KC on full pay, and is thus in receipt of $6.0X1 n year. David Hostet-. i it, of Pittsburg, who has made a vast fortune m the manufacture of bitters, is a man about To yearn of age. He is not much over S feet in height and of slender build. His eldest son, who v is threatened with consump tion. is now in California and is in much letter health than when ne left Pittsburg. Mr llo* let ter's wealth is estimated at between $0,000,(AX) and SU,(XX) DO There was a time when he pod pled his medicines ou foot. The Light. From the Centufy for November. There is no shadoiv where my love is laid; For (ever thus l fancy in my dream That wakes with me uid wakes my sleep), some gleam ♦ >f sunlight, thrusting thnrijrh the poplar shade. Falls thei*e; anti even when l a v.-'nd has played His requiem for the liny, uno stray sunbeam, Pale as the palest moonlight glimmers seem, Keei*> sentinel for her till starlights fade. And I, remaining hert? and waiting long, And all enfolded in my sorrow's night. Who not on earth again her face may see, For even Memory d<es her likeness wrong, Am blind and hopeless, only for this light- This light, this light, through all the years to be. ! His Name Kindly Suppressed. From the Asheville ( N. C.) Citizen. The only unpleasant incident which occurred yesterday was the defacing in a small way of the President's private car. Mr. wais arrested and taken before Esquire A. T. Summev, upon the charge of defacing and damaging the Presi dent's car. He pleaded guilty and further stated that he did not intend to violate the law or to offer insult or injury to the President; said he came from South Carolina specially to see him, that he was a Democrat, and that his father was as good a Democrat as lived in Spartanburg county, and having failed to get a good look at the President, he wanted a chip off his car to re member him Jdy. The judgment of the court was in these words: “It. is adjudged by the court that the defendant pay a fine < *f $5 in order that he may more feelingly and tenderly remem ber the President and his beautiful wife, and at the same time aid the school fund of Buncombe county.” Gen. Houston's Freedom from Preju dice. Editor's Drawer , in Harper's Magazine for November. When CJen. Sam Houston was Governor of Texas he wai\ very active and persistent iu caus ing the prosecution of a defaulting officer so much so. indeed, that the friends or the accused raised the cry of persecution. The Governor, speaking of this to a company of gentlemen, hooted the Idea that he was prejudiced against the defaulter, declared that he had no other motive than the enforcement of the laws, and said that be should probably have the oppor tunity of convincing the public that he had no feeling of personal animosity against the man. “The evidence against him will be so over whelming that any grand jury will find a t rue bill of indictment,” said the Geeural, “and no lK*tit jury in the world can fail to convict the criminal on such evidence. Then, when found guilty and sentenced, he will change his tune, and he, and iiis sympathizing friends for him, will appeal to me for executive clemency. Then will be my time to show that I have no preju dice. I shall pardon him, for I will never allow such an unmitigated scoundrel to contaminate the penitentiary ot Texas.” Eli Lucas' Long: Nap. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Dr. Gober, the physician at the Frankfort Penitentiary, relates a most remarkable case in the history of his professional practice. He says that two years ago Eli Lucas (colored) came to the jienitentiary from Louisville, under a life sentence for murder, and that until with iu six months past he was healthy and capable of performing the heaviest labor, At that time he manifested extreme nervousness, and would shrink and crouch into corners as if experienc ing great fright. He soon lost the use of every member of his body, and then foil into a heavy stupor that evidenced the loss of all sensation. In this condition, a dead man to all appearances except an occasional turning of the head, he re mained until the day of the inauguration of Gov. Buckeer, when he showed the first symp toms of returning life by making a feeble effort to mutter. Two weeks ago there was an app&r ent improvement, and to-day the doctor pro nounced him restored sound in body and mind. Lucas says he doesn't remember his illness. lie thought he had been in the hospital but a day or two, and was surprised to awaken from an April iu p to learn that be was in the middle of the month of October. The treatment was ad dressed to the bin as the seat of the nerve centres. “Gumboil” in Luck. London Special to the New York World. That much iilted youth. Earl Cairns, whose love episodes have at different limes afforded food for gossip in society, has just experienced a singular stroke of good iuek. His uncle, the late Mr. MeCalmont, has, it is said, left him a fortune of upward of <£1,000,000. Cairns, as Lord Garmoyle. or, as he was more familiarly known, “Gumboil,'' was the accepted suitor of Miss Fortescue. a gaiety burlesquer, who tried to aco in America last season, if reports cabled across the Atlantic were true. But he broke off the match and a breach of promise suit resulted. in which she recovered $50,000 from the idiotic sprig of nobility. Pending the trial the corre iponclence of both parties was published. Loudon was amazed at the remarkable literary skill dis played by Miss Fortescue in her love letters until a day or two later, when it was discovered that the lackadaisical creature had simply copied whole pages of a “Lover's Ready Letter Writer.’ Miss Adele Grant, the American beauty, was his lordship's next fiance, and it is said the match was broken off by Miss Grant on the advice of the Prince of Wales because “Gumboil” had not paid for the presents he made her, and was over anxious for a settle ment. of the dowry before marriage. “Gum boil” is now' very rich, and despite his failings will doubtless have little difficulty in marrying a titled lady. Qualifications of a Dakota Statesman. From the Chicago Tribune. Some ten years ago, wheu the Dakota Legis lature met at Yankton, at the beginning of one session a man from x\rmstrong county named Edmunds contested another man's seat. A committee was appointed to look into the mat ter. After examining the ease for some time it went into executive session, and one of the members said: “Mr. Chairman, there seems to be no question but that this man Edmunds is entitled to the seat. He got the most voters, the people evi dently want him, and Yandell simply got in through the rankest fraud.” The other members seemed to look at it in about the same lighfbu. aft r they got through the Chairman arose and said: “Gentlemen, I presume what you have said is all so. I don't know anything About it, but while you have been investigating the votes I have looked up the men themselves. I met this Edmunds out nere this morning and 1 proposed a little game of poker to pass away the time. ‘I never gamble,' says he; T consider it a perni cious practice.' ‘Ah.'says 1, ‘come over and have a drink then.’ ‘I never drink.' lie replied; ‘1 do not consider it right.’ ‘O, well.’ says I, ‘take a cigar with me, then.’ T never use to bacco in any form,’ says bo; -I cons dor it inju rious to the health.’ I was *eai for a minute, but I braced up and said: ‘Mr. Edmunds, come out to the barn with me and we'll get a bite of hay. Don't he backward, I'll stand it, the hay is on me this time!' ‘My dear sir.’ says he. ‘I haven't taken a mouthful of hay for over twelve years. Ido not consider it fit food for a man.' Now’, this is straight talk and that's just what he said, and I nay we don't want him in the Dakota Legislature. Ho hasn't the first mmlifioation. gentlemen; he don't play poker. Now. Yandell does. Yandell is a statesman. Yandell isn't afraid to stay in on a jack-pot, and I t*U you old Joe Yandell is the man we want, and Edmunds ought to be warned to leave town.” The chair man's revelations settled it, and Yandell had his seat. The Mayor Was Cross. From the Chicago Tribune. I war. in the ‘ Two Orphans” saloon at Eagle Past! City, Wy., one day, engaged In the fatiguing business of leaning against the wull and watch ing the barkeeper polish the glasses, when a strikingly large man. with a ferocious black moustache and a hand the size of a St. Paul man's suowshoe, came in and directly to where I stood. I tried to look as if I wasn't doing anything and got one corner of my eye on the side door. The man regarded me scornfully for a moment, then suddenly jumped up and cracked his heels together twice, brought hin fist down on the edge of a card-table so that it tipped over and rolled away, and with a whoop that jarred the chandelier, yelled: "Stranger, I eat snakes!” As I remember It, 1 replied ttjat I had no doubt of it, and that I fully believed he was the only man in the country who did eat snakes, and that 1 presumed lierarhcr preferred rattlesnakes and yellow headed moccasins, when he made a leap at me and again whooped: "Stranger, I'm a wolf: Hear me howl!" 1 was hacking toward the door and trying to look as sociable and agreeable as possible, when he added with astonishing emphasis: "I'm a wildcat: I want blood! 1 want It to drink!" I was now moving on the door so rapidly os to resemble a dark-colored streak several yards long, when he started forme, howling: "I'm a intiu eater! I'm from Bitter Creek! Gimme some raw snakes! Leinmo at him!" All the time kicking the i hairs through the air and making the building tremble. I managed to get through the door and fell across an alley and two vacant lota. Fifteen miuuteM later when I ventured out on another street, 1 happened to meet the harkeejier and said: "What was the matter with that man who tried to kill me at your place," "Mayor Everts, you moan, I revjcon. Oh. nothing much; only the Council passed an or dinance that be had vetoed over his head last night and it has made him cross all day. ITEMS OF INTEREST. With a watch case, the edges of which he sharpened, a prisoner in Chicago shaved off lii3 moustache, but billed in his chief object, that of hiding his identity. A private letter from Rome states that the Pope intends to mark the occasion of the jubi lee by bestowing special honors on several Americans distinguished for church services or charity. Two rival minstrel companies in Louisville are spending their proilts in advertising. One of tho companies has distributed the lithographs of one of its end men on horseback, dressed to perfection, and ignoring ttie salutes of Gen. Grant and the Prince of Wales, A New Haven preacher called to account the bicycle club of that town in a recent sermon, and a member of the club is reported as saying that the club will retaliate by electing the preacher an honorary member aud then ex pelling him by a unanimous vote. Bidding for the national political conventions next year is becoming quite active. Boston is suill to have offered $*5,000 that one of them he held in the “Hub," and now the Alta, Francisco, says that that city doubles the East eru bid, and besides, guarantees quadruple the amount in pleasure. In Maysville, Ky., Saturday last, a case in the Circuit Court of Mason county was decided in which parties who hnve had possession of a certain valuable piece of laud for over seventy years have been ousted. Tile plaintiffs were grandchildren of the original purchaser and heirs of Mary Hester McMillen. A turtle was recently hatched out in the parlor of a Jersey City woman from an egg which she brought home last summer as a souv enir of a trip. At the time the egg was placed in the card receiver, where it remained all dur ing the process of hatching, which latter is at tributecf to the heat of the room. A dog in some unaccountable manner gained access to a cornice which extends around the county buildings in Chicago, last week, and for four days, according to the account in a local paper, remained there unable to reach a place of safety and with rescue from the build ing entirely cut off. Finally the animal was shot. According to the Paris Morning News, there is to be a test of the devotion of Poillerat, the shoemaker and socialist orator, to the princi ples he has professed. That paper says that his fellow Socialists are about to cal! a meeting to determine what shall be done with a legacy of $8,000,000 bequeathed to Poillerat by a brother who died iu America. Some time ago Emily D. Wheeler and Laura Wheeler erected a flfty-foot clock tower, with a deep-toned bell, just opposite a hotel in Sharon, Conn. Amy F. Cole, the proprietor of the hotel, has sued out an injunction against the clock being allowed to strike the hours on the bell. She says that it annoys her boarders, and has driven some of them away. An aged fanner of East Sullivan. Me., an noyed by the depredations of a bear, set a spring gun for him. When he visited the gun be found the bear there, badly wounded. The old man tried to kill it with an ax, but the bear knocked him down, and was in a fair wayto kill him, when a neighbor arrived with a gun and killed the bear. The old man was mangled. Two and a half years ago a family in Ply mouth gave away their pet cat. She wouldn’t stay in her new home and disappeared. The other day the children of her old mistress found her three miles from town and carried her home, where at their bidding, she did the tricks that they had taught her three years ago. She seemed delighteu to get back and purred steadily for six hours. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that she could never understand why the uncovering of pretty arms aud shoulders was any more im modest than the uncovering of a pretty face. Decullette is from a French word which means "to uncover the neck,"but in her opinion it does not signify any indecent display of the person though it is frequently improperly used in that sense by critics. Last spring Miss Lottie Temple of Heath, Mass., a young woman just past 21, leased a large farm which she worked successfully, making good crops. The other night a party of her friends gave her a surprise husking bee, and all her large crop of corn was well husked in a little over two hours. Reports from other parts of New England indicate ■. revival of that excel lent institution—the husking bee. The Duke of Edinburg, whose repeated acts of rudeness to French officials have necessitated the issue of special instructions concerning the behavior to be adopted toward him when visit ing French ports, has caused much unpleasant comment at Trieste, by an act of discourtesy toward the United Mates consul, Mr. Gilbert, whose official visit on board his flagship he omitted to acknowledge or to return. W. H. Wells, a young man only 23 years old, has just been placed in the Frankfort (Ky.) peni tentiary for a term of five years. He is an ex pert stenographer and telegraphist, and was employed at one time by the .Southern Express Company. He stole from the company in order to go to St. Louis and meet a young woman, whose acquaintance he had made in Louisville, Ky. Wells states that he has not been imprisoned under his real name as he did not wish to bring disgrace upon his family, which is one of the best he says in the country. A special from Owensboro, Ky., of Saturday says: "Miss Fannie Moore, daughter of Mr. Levi Moore, one of the most respected citizens of the county, and Dr. J. D. Coffman, a promi nent physician, were to have been married yesterday. The doctor failed to come to time, and Miss Moore procured a pistol, and, going to bis residence, opened tire on him. She fired two shots, neither of which took effect, when he seized the pistol and threw it away. He then mounted his horse and rode away, and has not been heard of since. Miss Moore returned to her home, and is now a raving maniac.” Tine question has often been raised what pro portion of balls, exchanged by hostile armies, will hit their marks and kill. Difficult as it is to solve it exactly, some approximation may be arrived at from the number of balls—estimated at CO,(XX),000 which were tired by the Germans in the war of 1870-71. The French army lost, in the dead and wounded, about 110,000 men. Ac cording to this, only one hall out of 11.1 fired hit its man, and assuming that on an average one man out of seven hit was actually killed, it would seem that only one rille bull in 858 proved fatal. If it is further considered that the nuni lier of men wounded and killed by the guns of the artillery are included in the above estimate, it may safely tie said that not over one ritie ball in a thousand lired proved to be fatal. An altogether incorrigible thief is being looked after by the Washington authorities. He is 83 years of age, and, on being released from the Baltimore penitentiary after serving out a term for horse stealing, was taken to Washing ton to stand trial for a similar offense. At the capital he giroused the synijiathy of the court by stating that he intended to reform, and wanted to go to his birth place in Texas, and spend the remaining days of Ins life with his six sons, who, he represented, were in business there. He was given his freedom, and also a ticket to New Orleans. It now turns out that he sold the ticket, and after knocking about for a while, brought np at a horse bazaar, where he again embraced an opportunity to steal a horse. The last heard of him was that he sold the ani mal for SOO and a promissory not e for S2O. A San Francisco newspaper offered S2OO to the one who would correctly guess the number of types in a jar, exhibited in the exposition there. Two men were successful, naming the correct number—£4,2oo. How they citin' to bit on the number is interesting. One of them once guessed the number of shot in a jar about the same size as the one containing the type. There were 95.000. He thought t here was one thltd as many type as shot, and so divided 95.W1 by three, and, as he. said, “added a little to make it even." The other man saw a crowd around the jar, and felt in his pocket for a pencil with which to write a number. He couldn't find one, and moved on; but afterward, feeling strongly impelled to make a guess, felt again for a pencil, and found an old lottery ticket, on which was the number 34,2C0. He borrowed a pencil, put down the number, and won SIHO. • London detectives on one occasion were cleverly used against themselves by a gang of forgers from this country. An English wn-iter narrates the story. The gang had prepared an elaborate scheme for defrauding the English banks by means of counterfeit circular notes. Shortly after they left New York by steamer en route for Britain the scheme was discovered, and the English police were furnished by At lantic cable with all its details. The forgers were, of course, ignorant of this Their auda cious leader, upon arriving in Eondon. thought It would 1m- as well to make himself acquainted with the faces of the chief detectives, and in the character of an American tourist lie paid them a visit. They were so taken off tlicir guard by the pleasant, maimer of their visitor that one of the officers not only told him of the Impending fraud, hut actually showed him the New York telegram, which happened to be tying or a disk It need hardly he said Unit the forger thus warned did not tarry long in the metropolis; he and his gang left London that night. BAKING POWDER. WE ! G/yr*-\ E PERFECTIIAD^ Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes fo more than a quarter of a century It is uses! by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. 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