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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mkicting— DeKalb Ixxige No 9, I 0.0. F.
Special Notice —Bills against British Steam
ship Abeona.
Steamship Schedules —Ocean Steamship Cos.;
General Transatlantic Cos.
Mackjmel—C. M tlllbert & Cos.
A Touching Story—Lindsay & Morgan.
Sea Island Route—Steamer St. Nicholas.
Circulars Nos. 94 and 95-Kailroad Commis
sion of Georgia.
Index to Dohsett's Offerings— At the Court
House Tuesday, Nov. 1; Furniture, etc., at auc
tion.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales— lnterest in a I-Ot of hand, by
I. D. Laßoclie's Sons.
The interminable litigation over the Stew
nrt estate has begun again, after what once
looked like a final settlement. This time a
niece wants the will of Mm. Stewart re
voked. _
Booth and Barrett have entered into an
agreement to act together for another Year.
Their extraordinary success this season has
probably shown them that more money can
be made in that way than if each starred on
his own account.
Jacob Sharp’s appeal to the New York
Court of ApjM-als will not he argued befor
Nov. 39. If the decision of that court is
unfavorable, an appeal will be taken to the
Federal courts. It is apparent that the
great briber will not go to Sing Sing this
year.
London’s Trafalgar square paraders have
suddenly dropped their demand for work.
Now they want an equal distribution of the
land and wealth ot thecountry. There will
not be so much sympathy for them now
that they show themselves Socialists, pure
and simple.
Two Baltimore policemen w T ere in Wash
ington a day or l wo since, and one was
robbed and the other arrested for profanity
If they were fair samples of the whole force,
there may have been good ground for the
recent attempt to overthrow the party re
sponsible for their appointment.
Canadians are so inconvenienced by the
way Maine juts into their territory that
they want to acquire about half the State.
The land they want isn’t worth much, but
the United States is not in the habit of
selling. The inconvenience complained of
might be remedied in another way—say by
commercial or political union.
Mr. Jay Cooke, who, it will be remem
bered, cut quite a ligure in the financial
world in 1873, thinks the surplus a blessing,
as it enables the government to “flush the
channels of trade with money at will."
Does not Mr. Cooke make a mistake of one
word! He evidently means Wall street,
and should have said the sewers of trade.
The City Council of Philadelphia has de
termined to seine the poles, wires and other
property of the defunct Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company in that city to satisfy
certain claims. The Western Union proba
bly cares very little, as in the trade with
the rival telegraph company the principal
purpose was to buy off opposition. Wires
are cheap.
Banker Drexel, of New York, hus been
traveling in the West, and has come to the
conclusion that the prosperity of tliecouutry
is on a firm basis. He thinks there will lie'
no jianic, and there will be money enough
to meet all probable needs of business. Mr.
Drexel’s opinion is, probably, worth
as much as that of any business man in the
country, and that it is of so favorable a char
acter will add to the general confidence.
William Walter Phelps, who is a candi
date for the United States Senate, seems to
have declared for the Robeson wing and
against the Sewell wing of New Jersey Re
publicans. It is beginning to lie plain whom
Gen. Sewell meant when bespoke of “vin
dictive and virulent’’ Republican leaders.
New Jersey Democrats, wh.it time they are
not pulling each others’ hair, can watch the
fight among their enemies with great com
placency.
An inquiry into the condition of the poor
of Vienna led to the discovery that upward
of 4,000 little children attended school while
suffering the pangs of hunger, some of
them being on the verge of actual starva
tion. The discovery caused a great out
burst of popular sympathy, and now the
little ones are well clothed and fed. Popu
lar sympathy is fickle, however, and doubt
less before long most of the children will
have sunk to a condition even more miser
able than before.
Mexicans catch on to American ways in
an encouraging way. A syndicate of City I
of Mexico bankers has recently been trying,
to corner the wheat market, has pushed up
the price 50 per cent., and has a tremendous
stock on hand. And they are likely, too, to
meet with the average American luck, as it
is said the corner Is almost sure to burst and
swamp the speculators. Then a few banks
will probably close, and their officers, still
following the American plan, emigrate to
Canada. It is always Canada which suf
fers.
The New York Tribune calls the Demo
cratic districts of New York city the
“boodle" districts, and tho o which usually
give Republican majorities the “brown
•tono" districts. It will hardly make con
verts by the insinuation that Democrats are
thieves and Republicans rich. It is probably
true that more Republicans than Democrats
are rich, but it is because they have been
dividing up among themselves for years the
immense amount of boodle taken from the
people under the forms of law. Republi
cans are “pcotectioniats” and “hoodlum.”
The Negro Vote.
A few week- ago nn article from tho !>en
j of Senator Colqu 'l on l> prohibit! >• dues
I tion appeared in 1 i>r‘k A air rich P ■
'• view, which ult ra re.; reii atteniicr. u 1
| favorable criticism, io .he current mini
I tier of the /'n.•uni the s . a;o- writes u]>-ia
| subject ol even greater contemno/accon-'po
! litic.il interest —the position an 1 condition of
• negroes in the South. An effort is made to
( show —and to unprejudiced minds it
I must appear to bo successful —that
| the white people of the South in
! their policy toward the weaker
! race are restrained and directed by a sense
|of religious and moral responsibility. He
jis confident that an overwhelming
j public opinion in Georgia, at leu.st,
is in favor of affording every
I possible facility for the education of negroes,
as such a policy is believed to be wise and
resting on principles of justice.
The Senator thinks that, considering tho
tremendous hindrances and obstructions
which have lieen in tho way of the people
of the South, the success with which they
have met the obligations resting
upon them have been more tiian creditable.
He gives some figures to show the
difficulties with which Georgia has strug
gled and the measure of success which has
attended her efforts to overcome them and
fulfill her duty to the negro.
It is shown that in lS'll, the year the war
began, the value of property in Geor
gia was $072,000,000, while in 1805 it was
$191,000,000 This comparison will show
the dire poverty caused by the
ravages of war. Values, however,
have since steadily risen, and as they
increased more and more has been
done for negro education. In 1871, the
number of colored children in the schools
was only 0,004; in 18s5, 119, .48 attended the
schools, and the number is now probably
140,000.
Senator Colquitt is one of the best known
in the North of the statesmen
representing the South in Congress.
His high moral character and con
nection with the temperance move
ment will give force to his words. He
is recognized as a man who represents the
sentiment of the |>eoplo rather than a polit
ical machine. Occupying so advantageous
a position, he can engage in no work more
profitable to bis constituents than that in
which he is now employed
The*|fc'Wer of sectional issues at the North
is always a threatening danger to the South.
It makes enemies of those who should be
friends. It rests on the belief prevalent
among Northern people of humanitarian
instincts that Southern win to people are the
enemies of Southern negroes, and deter
mined to koep them in a state of ignorance
and serfdom. Nothing could be further
from the truth, and if Senator Colquitt can
disabuse their minds of this belief he will
do the South as good service as be will have
opportunity to render in his seat in the Sen
ate.
The House Drainage Question.
The communication of Dr. Fallignut, pub
lished in another column, criticising the
privy drainage ordinance of Dr. Duncan, is
worthy of the attention of every resident of
this city, whether a property owner or not,
and it ought to he carefully considered by
the city authorities, as it presents facts
which show that the good work proposed by
Dr. Duncan’s ordinance can be more satis
factorily and more economically accom
plished by adopting the house drainage sys
tem which is authorized by an act of the
Legislature. One of the objects of Dr.
Duncan’s ordinance is to get rid of the foul
and abominable privy system which still
exists in parts of the city, and everybody
will lie glad when that system w holly dis
appears. There does not seem to lie any
doubt, however, that the house drainage
plan, explained in Dr. Falligant’s commu
nication, is preferable to that embodied in
Dr. Duncan’s ordinance.
During the past summer the Morning
News several times called attention to foul
smelling vaults which, there is every reason
to believe, were the cause of considerable
sickness, and it is gratifying that it is now
proposed to get rid of them. The city
authorities will fail in their duty to the
public if they neglect to remove these
nuisances before warm weather returns.
In settling upon a plan for their removal,
however, and for draining houses generally,
care should be taken to adopt that which
promises the best results, and at the same
time will put as light a burden as possible
upon the property holders. A careful and
candid consideration of the two plans pro
posed can hardly fail to result in a decision
favorable to that advocated by Dr. Falli
gant.
Dr. Duncan’s ordinance gives house own
ers until March, 1889, to connect their
privies with sewers. They should be re
quired to make the connections at once,
that is, as soon as the city can put down the
pipes in accordance with the requirements
of the law. There certainly should be no de
lay in removing the disease breeding vaults.
It might be -advisable to enforce Dr. Dun
can’s ordinance immediately, so far as it re
lates to the removal of the vaults, but using
the drainage system to w hich Dr. Falligant
calls attention in doing so. Ail parties are
aiming at the same object, viz., the promo
tion of the health of the city. They differ
only with respect to the way of attaining
that object.
That must have been an impressive spec
tacle in the New Hampshire capital the
other day, when two members of the legis
lature presented gold watches to two of the
best known lobbyists, in “recognition of
their services.” Haiti services were proba
bly rendered in pushing the railroad bill
recently vetoed by Gov. Sawyer, through
both houses of tho Legislature, and the
members who benefited by their “lobby
ing,” naturally sympathize with men who
have gone to so much trouble ami expense,
f all to no purpose, because of the foolish scru
ples of the old Governor about bribery.
The)' will no doubt see to it that ho is not
re-elected.
It is said the Pope is anxious to act in all
things concerning Ireland to the satisfac
tion of England, and still not wound the
susceptibilities of tho Irish Nationalists.
His holiness has undertaken a course of con
duct which even his well-known diplomatic
astuteness will haiilly be able to bring to a
satisfactory conclusion. It is hardly possi
ble to please both parties to a controversy
involving such great questions and so much
animosity.
Spies, who, perhaps, indulged in the most
violent language of any of 'the condemned
Anarchists, is said to be almost crazed by
the fear of death. He treats the foolish
woman who calls herself his wife with the'
coldest indifference, and is sunk in sullen
despair. He Is not the first talker of brave
woi-ds who has shown himself a cowani l
when he had to face death
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1887.
Armed hurope.
Europe has cause for more anzirty. The
i . .'cciiug between Jtu -in and Germany has
reached such a pitch that the Czai cannot
inept hi- gland nacre, ;noGeiman Emperor,
and the frontic" fortni; ions of Ixitb na
tion. are neing strengthened, it h not a. all
probable that there will lie war, thougn, of
course, the bad feeling spoken of makes
such a calamity possible, because Germany
doesn’t want to fight, aid Russia is
nearly bankrupt. The Czar’s cmlit with
European money lenders has been eon
slautly sinking for years, and of late the
German government is supposed to have
done its best to injure it. The Russian debt
grows many millions larger every year in a
time of peace, though internal taxes are
high and those collected at the custom
house-, next to prohibitory. This is a bad
state of affairs for Russia, but a fortunate
one for nations who have cause to fear her,
as it forces her to keep the peace.
Though there may be no war, the strained
relations of the two countries serve to call
yet more anxious attention to the immense
preparations for it made by every nation in
Europe and the growing antipathy between
nations. They only wait for favorable op
portunities to tear each other to pieces.
The rules fixed by religion and civiliza
tion for the guidance of individuals do not
seem to apply to nations. The average Ger
man or Frenchman may be the very pink
am! flower of civilization, nn amiuble, po
lite person, devoted to good works, but the
nations made up of Germans and French
men, in their relations with each other and
other countries, stand about on a level with
the individual Apache Indian. Full of
hatred, suspicious, and armed to the teeth,
each watches for an opportunity to take the
other's scalp. And they are no worse than
other civilized nations.
There is an opening for some man who
thinks he knows it all to tell why individuals
have become gentle, while nations remain
savage.
The Chinese Concessions.
It is denied from Philadelphia, presuma
bly on authority of Mr. Barker, that the
banking and telephone concessions made by
the Chinese government to the syndicate
represented by him have been annulled, as
has been reported from London, or that
there is any hitch in the negotiations neces
sary to settle the details of the great enter
prise. The continuance of Ma Iviet Chang,
the high Chinese official who represents his
government in the matter, in Philadelphia,
would seem to strengthen this denial.
There are other reasons for believing that
the concessions are real, and will lead to a
great development of American enterprise
in China. For many years Chinese con
servatism has doggedly resisted the advance
of European ideas beyond the treaty ports
opened to commerce by force of arm.. The
time may now have come, in the judgment
of Chinese statesmen, when t lie safety of
the empire demands that the policy be
changed. With all its wealth and teeming
millions of people it is almost lieipiess
against the attacks of greedy province
hunting European powers. The last war
with France not only cost millions ,n
money, but severed from the empire a
great stretch of country which had from
time immemorial acknowledged the suzer
ainty of tile Chinese Emperor. On the
north the all-conquering Russian is pressing
down. If the Chinese feel their helpless
ness. caused principally by tho lack of
means of transportation and a modern
system of finance, it is natural that they
should turn to Americans to help them de
velop them. We are the only one of the
great civilized nations which wants nothing
of China but her trade, which would be
mutually advantageous. England has
already a lodgment on her coast
at Hong Kong, France impinges on the
west and Russia on the north, while the
colonial policy lately adopted by Germany
is not of a kind to inspire confidence in a
nation so little capable of self-defense as is
China. It is safest to deal with Americans.
The opportunity for increasing American
trade and influence is a great one, and if a
wise home policy is adopted by our own
government, ihe great commerce of Eastern
Asia may centre on our Pacific coast, and
(low across to Europe.
The Overproduction Problem
Some of the advocates of protection are
beginning to be alarmed at the signs of
overproduction. They understand that
overproduction means stagnation in busi
ness, disaster and distress.
They have a plan, however, for getting
rid of our surplus products. It is a rather
attractive plan, but it doesn’t bear investi
gation. It is to use the surplus money in
the Treasury to establish steamship lines to
South American ports, and use them to
carry our surplus products to South Ameri
can markets.
It is true that we ought to have the
greater part of the trade of South America.
Asa matter of fact, however, we have only'
a very small part of it. Would we have
much more of it if we were to subsidize
steamship lines* A little more, perhaps,
hut the increase would be in those articles
which we now manufacture cheaper than
they are manufactured elsewhere. But
there is no danger of overproduction in
these articles. They find a market all over
the world. Overproduction is threatened
in those things which we do not manufac
ture as cheaply as they are manufactured
in other countries. If we should subsidize
steamship lines, therefore, we would not got
rid of our surplus productions.
Our true policy is not to subsidize steam
ship lines but to reduce our tariff so that
our goods can be manufactured as cheaply
as they are manufactured elsewhere. We
might also amend our navigation laws so
that we might own the ships that are neces
sary to do our carrying trade.
If the lithographic stone, of which a de
posit has been found in Floyd bounty, lias
all the good qualities claimed for it, it will
prove no inconsiderable addition to the
mineral resources of the State. The best
stone now comes from Bavaria, and is very
expensive, though some of an inferior qual
ity is quarried in Canada and
other countries. If, when com
pared in actual use, the Floyd
county stone proves equal in the various.
needful good qualities to the imported Bava
rian article, a fortune awaits the lucky
holder* of the Georgia quarry.
The big farms in Northern Dakota are
suffering from the effects of the decision
in the Northern Pacific indemnity cases.
.Squatters have taken advantage of the
doubt as to whether they are within the
certified limit to sprinkle their claims and
shanties all over the farms. If the farms
are without the limit there will be quantities
of law suits, and the sums invested will be
lost. One of the large owners is ex-Henator
Windom. who has 10.000 acres.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Lambs and Goo?© Have a. Cfc Mce.
Froiti th t '>?/! YfitJc World (Item )
While .la? Gould #*>•* - abroad *to gel *£•. h©
lambs that he has shear* i aad the gees** tu t* he
has plucked .vi!l h;*v * a <•! ance ro xrmv :i i vw
crop of wool an-1 feauu*:>. And perkayo me
public can put on a lilt) /at. too.
The Pyramids Are Safe.
From the Chicago Tribune {Rep.)
Jay Gould talks of v siting Egypt before lie
returns from his European trip. The Khedive
is taking no steps to provide additional anchor
age for the Pyramids. He probably considers
the English mortgage on his country heavy
enough to hold them do.rn.
Foraker’a Opportunity.
From the Phdaderflhia Record (Dem.)
The reuppeava no'* of Mr. Jeffersou Du vis on a
public occasion and his beany ’>*ceptini by the
Georgians is • verv titnelv oevi von <1 for Gov.
Foraker, He will i.nv shake the bio *,ly shirt
with redoubled energy. Tie spectacle of the
feeble old man kistmu' the tattered Confederate
flag is calculated to turn the gentle Foraker*s
loyal blood iuto boiling vinegar.
Besrinniny to Appreciate the Mug
wumps.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.)
The Presidential year is so close at hand that
the friends of Lincoln. Allison and Hiseock are
beginning to argue that they would Is* accepta
ble to the Mugwumps. It seems to lie recognized
th.it voters who have been abused like pick
pockets for three years are not to l>e won over
by mere taffy and that they want clean men to
vote for.
BRIGHT BITS.
The women's pockutbooks are getting larger
and larger, and it til by one who pretends to
know -though, of course, the fellow is uttering
a libel—-that the bigger the poeketbook the less
it has in it.— Boston Transcript.
One of the things better left unsaid*
Mrs. Moyonage How well you’re looking, Mr.
Niladmirari: Really. Europe has done wonders
for you. You look made over.
Mr. Niladmirari Yes, indeed I am. You
ought to go to Europe.- Boston Herald.
The following testimonial from a lady has
been left at this office for sale by a dealer in
patent medicines; “pear Doctor- I will say that
while suffering from a severe backache 1 took
my purse lu my hand and went out to buy one
of your plasters. I met a street thief on the
ihe corner, and was relieved at once. You can
use this for w hat it is worth.’’— Burlington Fiee
Press.
Brown—Have you seen Durnley lately, Robin
son?
Robinson—Yes. only a few moments ago. He
invited me to have a drink with him.
Brown- -Hid he have anything in particular to
say ?
itobiDson—Well, yes. He said if I would pay
l or the drinks, he'd lix it up with me some other
time. -Ttd-Bits.
Tramp—Madam, you see before you a hungry
man: in fact, I'm starving.
Housewife—Got nothing in the house but
baker’s bread.
Tramp—baker’s bread! Saved! Madam, here
is a bunk of home-made bread your neighbor on
the left gave me. 1 will gladly exchange it for
a variety I can eat. Thank you. ma'am. You
can use this for i stooping stone. Good day,
ma'ain.— Omaha Herald.
Mary was Bent away from the dinner table
because she misbehaved, and told to go up stairs
and tell nurse to put her to bed. The family
coming in from dinner a half hour later, found
her threading her wav among the parlor chairs
and tables in most complicated figures.
“Mary!" exclaimed lier mother, “didn't I tell
you to go upstairs?"
Mary looked up placidly: “Yes’m. I’m go
ing: I'm on my way now ."—Harper's Bazar.
A poor little fellow was observed the other
day sobbing on a Boston street - orner, and a
kind hearten gentleman accosted him with,
"Saw my little man. what is the matter?"
“Fadder and mudder be dead, and dey ain’t
got miffin to eat,"
“But, my clnld," continued his questioner,
"they have little need -f anything to eat if they
are dead. What put such an idea into your little
head."
“Bat s what tky told me to say," tearfully ex
claimed the youth: and mendicant, unwittingly
exposing the fact licit lie had been sent out on
his supplicating mission, and had got the appeal
he was to make ridiculously mixed up.— Boston
Budget.
“Have you seen papa's new dog, Carlo?" she
asked as they sat in the parlor,
"Yes, ’ he replied uneasily, “I have had the
pleasure of meeting the dog. 1
“Isn't lie splendid? Hods so affectionate."
“I noticed that he was very demonstrative,"
returned he as he moved uneasily in his chair.
“He is very playful, too. 1 never saw a more
plu\ fill animal in my life."
"I am glad to hear you say that."
“Why?"
“Because I was a little bit afraid that when he
bit that piece out of me the other evening he
was in earnest. Rut if he was only in piay of
course it's all right. lean take fun as well as
anybody."— Merchant Traveller.
There was a certain character in one of our
country towns, who was noted more for the va
rious means t*> w hich he resorted to earn a liv
ing than for his veracity. Atone time it hap
pened he was peddling fish, and his cry sum
moned a very part icular old lady to the side of
the wagon.
“Are these fish fresh?" she asked, viewing the
finny representatives with suspicion.
“Yes'in; caught this very mornin', ' was the
reply.
“Are you sure,” she continued, giving the load
sundry pokes. “They all seem to lx* dead.”
“Dead?" echoed the vender—"dead? Yee’m
they arc dead. They were so lively when I left
home that I had ter kill e'm to keep 'em from
jumpin' outer ther wagon— Harper's Bazar.
PERSONAL..
The President has decided not to resume his
midday receptions to the public until after Con
gress meets.
The happiest suggestion yet made to the Post
office Department, says the Albany Jrgwi, is
that of putting Mrs. Cleveland’s portrait on a
new postage stamp.
(jI'ES. Victoria and the Prince of Wales are
the only ones in the future to be given special
steamers between England and the continent at
the expense of the English taxpayers.
Mas Maoham.xe Boons, of Milton, Indiana,
will soon celebrate her 104th birthday. Her
health is excellent, but her sight has failed, and
she has only one tooth left. She finds no diffi
culty in eating meat.
Cot. Jerome Bonaparte, of Washington, is a
thorough horseman aud a good reinsman, and
when he has charge of a spirited team many
persons fancy the expression on his face is very
suggestive of that which some of the pictures of
his great uncle Napoleon have.
Mr. and Mrs. Prkvoht, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond, recently celebrated their golden well
dings, they having been married on the same
day, fifty years ago. Their eighteen children,
with their descendants and friends, attended
the double reunion which was lield at High
Ridge. Ct.
Mr. Barncm’s only partner in the ‘show busi
ness,” as Arteraus Ward called it, is J. A. Baily,
who retired from the firm on account of illness
some years ago, aud now re-enters it in restored
health. Mr. Hutchinson, one of the retiring
members, has made upward of? 1,000,000, which
lie now proposes to enjoy.
Thomas Hast and Dr. Norvin Green are
among the leading members of the Lenox Club,
which has reclamed the rooms of the old Carle
ton Club, on West Twenty-fifth street, New
York, and will henceforth make its home there.
John Chamberlin, who has a proprietary inter
est in the building, will have general charge of
the cuisine.
Probajbly the oldest person in the world who
is taking the Chautauqua literary course is Mrs.
B. Needham, of Bristol, Vt. She is now 9*4 years
old. and expects to receive her diploma certify
ing to the completion of her four years course
in I sail. She seems to feel the weight of her
ninny years but lightly, and is in better health
than most people at 00. She lives all alone and
has for years done her own work, Including her
own dressmaking.
Ex-Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, writes
to Sunset Cox: ‘ My official life closed on Aug.
HO, 1* m,, and since then I have been resting at
this quiet little country home, with an occasion
al episode in tbe way of a brief speech or a
visit of u few days’ duration among my good,
faithful old friends. What I shall do hereafter
Ido not know; possibly resume the practice of
my profession, inayba go at something else that
will enable me to turn an honest penny
with greater celerity and les* trouble.”
Gov. Bob Tavuor. of Tennessee. says that hr
is careful of champagne and apple jack, and
this is the why of the apple-jack* **vv*> j was
a boy one cold, frosty night we were out oa a
lark in the Tennessee mountains, and drank an
abundance of apple-jack. The cold prevented
Us taking effect, But when I came into mother's
warm room it floored me. I had sense enough
not to talk and groaned how sick,. I was. and
knowing she wouid smell the brandy I said I
had stopped bV aunt's and got some hrardy,
but' it had not helped my stomach ache a bit.
She t hen put uie to bed and spread a groat big
mustard plaster on me. and I could not walk for
three weeks. I have the marks of it on me yet. ’’
The House’s Darling.
O sweet, shv girl. with rose'* in her heart,
And love-iijrlit in her face, l.ke those upgrown,
I-’.. 1 of still dreams and thoughts t hat, dream
like, start
From tits of solitude when nor a.one!
Clay dancer over thresholds of bright days.
Tears quick to her eyes as laughter to her
lips:
A game of bide-and >eek with Time she plays,
Time hiding his eyes t oin hers iu bright
eclipse.
O gentle-Noiiled’—how dear and good she is,
Blessed by soit dews of happiness and love;
Cradled in ieinterest arms! Her mother's kiss
Seals all hex good night prayers. Her father's
smile
Brightens her mornings. Through tho earth
shall move
Her child-sweet soul, not far from heaven the
while! John James Piatt.
The First Law Which Must Bo Repealed.
From Puck.
Labor Reformer—Oh, we're getting along
finely. All we want is more laws!
American Philosopher --More laws, eh?
L. U.—Yes, sir. We want laws to regulate the
relations between capital and lal>or.
A. P.—That's not very definite.
L. R.—So a capitalist will have to pay big
wages, you know.
A. P.—And thus increase the cost of bis prod
ucts.
L. R.—Oh, we've gol that nil figured out.
We re going to have laws to fix the price of the
products, too!
A. P.—Not leave him any margin, eh?
L. R.—Don't care w hether he has any margin
or not.
A. P.~ Suppose men with money won't in
vent it in enterprises under those' laws, what
then?
L. R.—We'll repeal all laws which give them
any chance to live on the interest. You see,
there’s a great principle at stake.
A. P.—Perhaps; but lie can live very com
fortably on ins principal. Can you live on
yours ?
1.. R. If we can't we'll repeal more laws.
A. P. -That will be very necessary. Shall
1 tell you which law you will have to repeal
fifst ?
L. R.—T wish you would.
A. P.—The law of supply and demand.
Legal Practice in Montana.
From the Chicago Tribune
A man was up before a Montana Judge for
preliminary examination. .Several witnesses
swore that he had blazed away at a man with a
big revolver at close range and subsequently ex
tracted SSO from his pocket while he was dis
abled.
“This is evidently a ease of highway rob
bery," said the Judge, and perhaps attempt
to kill. I’ll bure to hold the prisoner without
bail.”
“If your honor will give me a chance to say a
word." remarked the prisoner, “I think I can
explain the matter. lam a lawyer "
‘'Well, go on." replied the .fudge
“1 had an account of SSO against this man,
which had been placed in mv hands for collec
tion. I went about it, closely following the
usual practice in our Territory and got the
money."
“Oh, well, 1 ' replied the court, “if it was a
legal matter like that, why of course I'll have
to discharge you. By the way. do you find the
self-cocking six-shooter as much better for col
lections as the resolutions of the Montana Bar
Association would seem to indicate? I have a
son who is coming out here to practice before
long, and I want to get all the points for him I
can. My son already has a library consisting
of two double?-barreled shotguns, a repeating
ritle. and a pair of brass knuckles. I think he
will do well.''
Joke on a Judge.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Ex-Judge William P. Jenks, of Brookville, has
been in the city all the week attending the Su
preme Court. A goo<V*t<>ry is told of him while
he was on the bench of Jefferson county. One
day, a few years ago, he was trying a case in
which his brother. Solicitor General George A,.
Jenks, was counsel. The story goes that George's
client would have got the worst of it if the case
had been decided by the jury according to law.
But George was determined to win if it was in
th-* wood, and made one of his eloquent speeches
to the jury, which was composed of woodchop
pers from the back districtsof the county. After
he had concluded the Judge said:
"Well, George, you have explained your side
of the case to the jury; I will now give them the
law."
The Judge, after explaining the law, points to
the twelve “good men and true," instructed
them to return a verdict against his brother's
client. The jury retired, and in a brief time
returned with a verdict for George's client. The
Judge was dumfounded, but accepted the find
ing. After the jurors had been disciiarged one
of them was asked why they ha t returned a
verdict contrary to t he Judge’s instructions.
“Well," he replied, "you see. George is a bet
ter lawyer than Bill, and tie told us we must
bring in a verdict for his client. We did so."
That is one reason why the present Solicitor
General of the United States was so successful
as a lawyer in his native county. The people
believed everything he said.
She Got the Cloak.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
When Mr. Montgomery came home the other
night he found Mrs. Montgomery weeping.
Great, salty tears chased one auother down her
fair cheek.
"What is the matter, dear?" ho asked, as he
placed anew clove in his mouth and prepared
to kiss her.
"Oh, everything is the matter," she sobbed as
she placed one arm about his neck and laid
her head down on his shoulder. “I want to
die."
"Oh no, you don't, dear." be remonstrated.
“Tell me what is the matter. Noav do."
"Fergy," she questioned, "do you love me as
much as you did when you married me?"
“Why, of course I do. What put such a ques
tion in your head?"
“Are you sure that you do?"
What do you mean, Ellen? You know that I
love you as much as I ever difl, and more if any
thing."
“Don't be silly, Fergy. How am Ito know’it?
The minister was here to-dav and said that a
loving husband was continually showiug his de
votion for his wife. He always bought her
everything that she wanted, and did everything
that she asked him to do.'
"Yes. What are you driving at ?"
“It pained me when I heard that, and I have
be<*n crying all day."
“Have I been unkind to you ?"
“No-o o, but then the minister went from here
over to that hateful Mrs. Brown's, and I just
know that he said the same thing to her."
• Well, what of it ?"
“Nothing: only Mrs. Brown is going to have
anew sealskin cloak, and she will go around
and tell what the minister said. Then she will
tell how much her husband loves her and hint
that you and 1 are goir.g to separate.’*
Mr. Montgomery ordered the new cloak the
next morning, and incidentally put out a story
shout the minister having lost a great many
friends, and that he had better look for a differ
ent field.
Saw His Dyi-g Brother’s Ghost.
l'yitn the Punmutawney (Pa.) Spirit.
“I don’t believe in ghosts," remained a promi
nent citizen of this pines the other day, "hut I
saw something one night while going through a
dark woods on the IteynoldHville road that 1
have never been aide to account for. I was
riding along'on horseback, when, just a few feet
in front of tne. I saw a man tn the road. I
turned tny horse to one side in order to let him
pass, and at that moment he stumbled and fell
in the middle of the road. The thought at once
occurred to me that it was a drunken man, and
as the night was intensely cold—being in the
wintertime—l was afraid he would lie there
and freeze to death, so I concluded to help him
up and see that lie reached a place of safety,
with this purpose in view, I said: ‘Hello,
stranger, what are you doing here?’
“But there was no resjxinse. I spoke louder
and louder, but still he would not answer. This
convinced me that he had fallen into a drunken
sleep and would inevitably perish if not taken
care of. I therefore dismounted, lighted a match
and bent over the figure to see if I could recog
nize his features, when, to my utter astonish
ment, the object dissolved from view, and there
was not the least indication that there hail been
anything in the snow before me. I tried to con
vince myself that it was an illusion, but I was in
such complete possession of my faculties and
my thoughts had been running in such a widelv
different channel that, I could not believe I had
been deceived. And what tended more firmly
to convince me tha! 1 was not dreaming was
the fact that my horse shied and pawed and
snuffed the air, and seemed to be in such
terror of the object that I could scarcely hold
it.
“I went on home, but in spite of the most vig
orons mental efforts, was haunted all-night by
strange forebodings of evil, and the next day I
received a dispatch to the effect that my
brother, who was living in Dakota, had been
naught in a iiiiziand the previous night, and was
frozen to death Subsequent inquiry develeped
the fact that bis death occurred at the same
moment, allowing for difference of time, that
MJie apparitian appeared to me. Since that
me I have been slightly tinged with supersti
tion "
"You sav, Mr. Smith," said the g®tinalow,
thoughtful, this-is-a serious matter sort of tone,
“that yon have loved me for five years and huve
never dared to tell me so until to-night’’’
‘'Yes." he replied.
"Well, I cannot be your wife. A man who
has no more courage than that would feign to
he asleep whUoVhurgiar stole his baby’s shoes.
—Jar JSuouA.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
hhere let s a 100 yards toot race ai Helena,
Mont., til,! other day. between Fred Stone of
P.ii’adelpbla. and Billy Barker a> Australian
tsprint'*!. Stone is report• i to nave won In yw
Be on!?. Ten the use ml dulars c muged hands.
DcnixotUe high .voter of last week Santa
Anita and Ixtacaleo in Mexico abounded in
“floating islands ' truly The houses were float
ing, the dogs and pigs' were floating around oil
flatboats; there was even a large floating popu
lation.
Sunday's Tacoma Ledf/er says: “On Oct. 15
there died at C. ('ampbell’s hop-yard an Indian
child, which the Indians packed in salt, as they
would meat, and buried. Yesterday the hotly
was exhumed and the Indians started for Victo
ria with it.” ,
Coldwatkr, Mich., has a school girl of 14 who
is quite a trapper. She lias a dozen traps set,
and has already sold one or two flue mink skins.
She lias also toyed with a revolver enough to send
one bullet through her finger and another Into
the calf of her leg.
Attorney General Blair, of New Brunswii k,
is the latest Canadian of note to come out for
Erastus Wiman's project for commercial union.
The distinguished convert is of the opinion that
the United States and Canada have too much in
common to be kept apart.
A wild Northwest show has been organized
and w ill soon appear in Chicago. It is composed
of native Indians from Alaska anil will endeavor
to give the elTete region east of the Mississippi
an idea of the customs and manners of the peo
ple of what was once known as Russian
America.
In a bundle of old papers recently discovered
in Portland is ah extra issued by the Eastern
Aryns, announcing the news of Gen. Jackson's
victory at New Orleans. The victory' was w'on
on Jan. 8, 1815. This bulletin was issued on
Feb. 10. It took a month for news to reach
Portland.
A set of salad dishes, recently imported from
Italy, represents the various sized leaves of a
cabbage, the centre piece or bowl being a whole
cabbage, with projecting leaves as handles.
This set is as original and appropriate in design
as one may desire, but is rather an expensive
indulgence.
A remarkablp accident recently occurred at
Chapultepec. A youthful student named Con
treras was about to cast in bronze a small statue
representing the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc in
torture, when the vessel containing the molten
metal burst and let it fall on his feet, producing
horrible bums similar to those inflicted on the
tortured emperor.
Prince Bismarck’s paper mill near Varzin,
which was burnt last year, has been rebuilt with
every modern improvement, and may now fairly
claim to be the largest of its kind in Germany.
The two machines alone cost $50,0)0, and the
outlay on the whole establishment is stated to
be upward of $280,000. It is lighted with elec
tricity throughout, and its daily production is
from fourteen to fifteen tons.
A “parcels carrier" between Chester and
Hawarden, Eng., an old lady known as ‘'Lady
Margaret Hughes." lias held the position for
thirty years. lately Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone
stopiied at her cottage and accepted her invita
tion to take tea with her, “sitting, with‘Lady
Margaret* at the head of the table, for nearly
an hour chatting with the old lady about past
times and scenes at Hawarden. *’
Sundown is sixteen miles from Big Indian,
and Big Indian is somewhere in or near the
Catskills. In Sundown, at this season, the sun
doesn't rise until 9 o’clock, and it sots when
about three hours past the meridian. Four
mountains nearly surround the settlement The
people are gene y healthy, ami those who
have lived there for a long time have an owl-like
faculty of seeing in the gloom.
A New York jeweler ha*; a curious clock
which was imported from Paris. It is a bronze
medal of a steam boiler, and h*> a steam gauge,
safety valve and sj>eed regulator, while a ther
mometer occupies the place of the water gauge.
The dial of the clock is on the furnace door, and
above it is a barometer. When the clock is run
ning the pendant twills of the speed regulator do
the work of the ordinary pendulum,
There is no service to which a horse can be
put that wears him out so quickly’ as drawing a
sleigh. He is used to the resistance of a buggy’B
weight, and when he tinds that he has nothing,
so to speak. behind him. he runs through him
self. People suppose that because a liveryman
charges $5 an hour for a sleigh during the few
days of the sleighing season he is paying him
self for storage of the cutter during the rest of
the year. That is not the case.
The Cuban authorities have published regula
tions permitting American citizens to arrive at
or depart from Cuban ports without being
obliged to present a passport or other docu
ments signed by a Spanish consul A simple
certificate from the American consul at the port
of entry’will enable any citizen of the United
States to travel all over Cuba, to remain on the
island as long as he pleases, and to leave when
ever he wishes, without molestation.
At lake Hopatacong a few day’s ago Albert
D. Winfield noticed a large fish apparently in
great trouble swimming on the surface of the
water. He passed a net under the fish, and it
proved to he a black bass of B*4 pounds. The
fish had chased a sunflsh and caught it. hut the
sunflsh had erected its dorsal fins and positively
refused to be swallowed, and the fins fastened
In the jaws of the bass. The sunflsh could not
extricate itself, nor could the bass eject it.
At the penitentiary in Trenton, N. J., Sunday
last, sixty-two convicts, including three women,
were confirmed. The rite was administered by
Rt. Rev. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell, in the
presence of Vicar General Smith, of the Trenton
Diocese, Rev. Father Fidelis, twenty-five or
thirty spectators and .‘5OO prisoners. The con
victs thus received into the church wore white
shirts, but otherwise were appareled as usual.
The three women were in their ordinary prison
attire.
There is a great scarcity of seamen just now
in the port of Philadelphia, and no little diffi
culty is had in manning vessels for sea. Thirty
dollars a mouth is being paid in the New Eng
land trade, and a commission of $5 each for
procuring the men. Tt is much easier, says the
Record, to find men willing to go South, owing
to the milder weather and the opportunities to
desert and work on shore in Southern ports as
longshoremen until spring. In New York the
situation is as bad as in Philadelphia, with few
men available and the wages advancing.
The consumption of coffee in Great Britain
shows a steady decrease, while that of tea is in
creasing The consumption per head of coffee
is at present .86! pounds, against .961 in 1877.
The total consumption in 18S6 was 81,608,804
pounds, against 43,386,010 in 1887 On the other
hand the tea consumption per head is now 4.87
pounds, against 4.53 pounds in 1877. The total
consumption in 1886 was 178.909.881 pounds,
against 151.374,853 pounds in 1877. The changes
which have occurred in the course of Great
Britain's tea supply are instructive. In 1876. 84
per cent, of the British supply came from China
and Hong Kong, and only 15 nor cent, came
from India and Ceylon. In 1886, >r ten years
later.the former supplied only 63 per cent.of tiie
total, and India aim Ceylon supplied 35 percent.
An inscribed rock has lately been found
about 100 yards distant from the well-known
SUabbaz Ctarhi rock, one of the five famous
rocks which bear inscribed on them the edicts
of King Asoka. The upper corner of the in
scription was lately laid bare by heavy rains
eroding the hill side; and having been noticed
by some villagers and reported to civil authori
ties, steps were taken to excavate the face of
the stone, which was found to bear an inscrip
tion written in the same character as that found
on the welt known rock close by. The inscrip
tion is about five feet long by three feet wide;
it is in an excellent slate of preservation, and
consists of about ten lines or writing. These
are the earliest Indian inscriptions which have
yet lieen discovered, the edicts having been
promulgated about 334 H. ('. Some are written
on rocks, and some on pillars, and some (n
caves. The inscription on the newly-discovered
stone is being deciphered from impressions and
photographs, and it will he Interesting to know
what, if any, further information it will con
tribute to our scanty knowledge of the times of
the first Buddhist king.
The capture of four Englishmen near Smyrna
has again called attention to the prevalence of
brigandage throughout Turkey. Scarcely a day
passes in which the local papers do not mention
new captures, In Macedonia and along the
shores of Asia Minor to within twenty miles of
the capital brigands are everywhere The want
of railways and other meaus of communication
makes thisir . scape easy Many of them are be
lieved f be in league with the polled, who are i
usually unpaid, and in case of the brigands being
Turkish are believed to be unwilling to attempt
a capture even when bribed. A notorious scoun
drel), the captain of a band within forty miles of
the capital, boasts of having killed twenty-seven
with his own hand. He was captured two years
‘ago. but was allowed to escape. Property, the
■Constantinople correspondent of the l>aih/ \ew
says. Is everywhere depreciated in value, and
farms are even deserted in consequence of the :
prevalence of brigandage. The neighborhood i
ol Smyrna is especially favored by them, partly
from the increase in wealth due to its railways
and commerce, and partly from the facility of !
oscatw to the Jlgean Islands. J
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