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Morning News Bui'diig, Savannah. Ga.
TUESDAY. NOV EM ISKR 1, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings— Confederate Veterans' Associa
tion; Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1. I. O. O. F.; Ger
nyin Fire Company; The German American
Mutual Loan and Building Association; Savan
nah Lodge No. 1153, K. of H.; DeKalb Lodge
No. 9, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices— Notice, Adams A Fleming;
K igilts of Pythias Hall Association; Notice as
to Upper Steam Rice Mills; As to Bills Against
British Steamships Cartagena, Gladiolus and
Bay ley; Notice. John T. Rowland.
\V. ' 1,. Douglas' $3 Shoes— W. L. Douglas.
Brockton, Mass
The Toy the Child Lues Best— F. Ad. Rich
ter & Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements -Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Boarding: Miscellaneous.
Extraordinary Inducements in Black Silks
—Crohan & Dooner.
Legal Sales— City Marshal's Sales.
Legal Notices— Citations from the Clerk of
thp Court of Ordinary.
Bananas and Cocoanuts— Kavanaugh &
Brennan.
Auction Sales— Executor's Sale. Admini--
trator's Sale. Furniture. Etc., by C H. Dorset!;
Household Furniture, by D. R. Kennedy.
New Railroad— Davis Bros.
The Supreme Court must have run across
a knotty question in the case of the An
archists, or intends to write an elaborate
opinion. The delay in rendering a decision
is rather unexpected.
There is every reason to think that the
yellow fever will soon disappear from Tam
pa. There is a noticeable decrease in the
nuinVier of cases reported, and the cool
weather will have a beneficial effect.
Even Iceland has home rule and fishery
question, and threatens to rebel if Denmark
does net make certain concessions. This is
a quarrel in a very small family, however,
and will not disturb the rest of the world.
Henry George goes to Chicago immedi
ately after the New York election to agitate
his land theory. He knows that bis strength
lies among the foreign-born citizens and
sticks to the cities in which they are most
numerous.
States Attorney Grinnell seems to have
won golden opinion by his argument before
the Supreme Court in the Anarchist cases.
It seems almost a pity - to elevate so able a
prosecuting officer to the bench, though he
has undoubtedly won such a reward.
There has been another advance in the
price of coal at Philadelphia. The great
strike in the Lehigh region seems to be
hurting only the miners and the eonsum rs.
The railroad company, which also owns
most of the mines, is recouping itself for
any loss in freights by getting more for its
coal.
It seems that England’s troubles in Egypt
are not ended, as the Mahdi’s followers
again threaten to invade the country. It
may cost a great deal of blood and
treasure to repel them, but England will
have a good excuse for retaining her troops
ou the Nile, and she may look on that as
something of a recompense.
A Philadelphia book reviewer speaks of
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson’s last novel,
“At the Mercy of Tiberius,” as her best con
tribution to American humor. “St. Elmo”
is not a marker to it, in the matter of
learned allusions. It can be safely predict
ed, however, that the book will sell, even if
jieople will laugh when the author intended
that they should be serious. Unconscious
humor is the most enjoyable kind.
It has been discovered that an old house
ou the border of Warren county, Penn-’
svlvania, in which hundreds of couples
have been married, with the purpose
of escaping the payment of a li
cense fee, is really in Pennsylvania,
ami not in Ohio, as had been thought. Asa
marriage in PeniLsylvania without a license
is not legal, the question arises, what are
these couples going to do about it f
Charles E. Mayer, atone tune somewhat
prominent in Alabama as a Federal official,
was shot and almost instantly killed by a
friend named Israel in Washington Satur
day, who thought bis pistol was
unloaded. The men were both Hebrew
lawyers and particular friends. It cannot
be doubted that the killing was an accident,
and it illustrates again the almost criminal
carelessness of which there have been so
many instances in this State.
Twelve out of seventeen men summoned
to serve as jurors in a Utah court the other
day, refused to qualify by taking the neces
sary oath. As several of them had been
members of the convention which adopted
the constitution which will be presented to
Congre-s, it will be seen that they were not
very much in earnest when they inserted
the provision in that instrument against
polygamy. It is to their credit, however,
that they refused to take tin oath with the
purpose of disregarding it.
Gov. Koraker, in a speech a few days
ago, boasted that under his administration
the credit of Ohio was better than that of
the United States, and that there had Ix-en
an animal saving in interest alone of 887,-
200. He ought to have taken time while he
was on the subject to explain why there
was not money enough in the treasury to
pay the contractor for putting up monu
ments on the Gettysburg battlefield, or the
monthly expenses of the different State
asylums. These amounts, already overdue,
are greater in amount than the whole
balance in the treasury, so that the State is
practically bankrupt, no matter what its
credit may be. Though the bloody shirt
issue is a bad and unpatriotic one, it is evi-.
dently a safer one for Mr. Foraker to rant
about than financial questions. He had
better stick to it.
Gov. Gordon in Ohio.
Some of the Republican papers of Ohio
are making the presence of Gov. Gordon in
that State as a campaign speaker for the
Democratic ticket the occasion for say ng
some very unjust things about him and the
people of Georgia. The Timex-Star, of Cin
cinnati. for instance, savs that Gov. Gordon
was a leading spirit in the Ku-Klux-Klan,
and that no one doubts that be is a sharer
in the profits of the Georgia convict
lessees, although he pretends to be horrified
at the cruel and brutal treatment to which
the convicts are subjected under tbe lease
system. Tbe Timex-Star further alleges that
although the people of Georgia demanded
that the convict system should be abolished,
the Legislature paid no heed to the demand,
but did pass a bill, which is on the statute
books, making it a crime for a white teacher
to instruct colored children In company with
white children.
Doubtless the Times Star knew that it
was not dealing fairly with Gen. Gordon
when it published tbe article referring to
him. Asa matter of fact he was never a
member of the Ku-Klux Klan, and it
is entirely safe to say that he lutsno interest
whatever in anyone of the convict leases. At
one time he did have an interest in one of
the leases, but the convict business did not
suit him and. therefore, he abandoned it.
The Legislature did not nbohsh or modify
the present convict system, but Gov. Gor
don is not to blame for that. He recognizes
the bad features of tbe lease system, and
has been using his influence to get rid of
them. He sent a special message to the
Legislature advising the establishment of
an experimental farm for youthful con
viets, and for women convicted of crime,
and not more than two months ago he
instituted a searching investigation of
abuses alleged to have been committed in
the convict camps for the purpose of deter
mining whether or not there was sufficient
ground for declaring the leases of two of
the three convict companies forfeited. Gov.
Gordon has shown his determination to have
the convicts treated justly and humanely.
It is not in his power to abolish the lease
system. If it were it is probable that it
would not be long before another system
would be substituted for it.
The Times-Star is mistaken in saying the
Legislature adopted a law making it a
crime for a white man to teach u negro
child in company with a white one. A bill
was introduced in the Legislature making
it a crime to teach mixed schools, but it was
not passed. The bill, however, was a good
one, and simply provided the means
for carrying out the purposes of
the framers of the constitution. The
purpose of it was to prevent the destruc
tion of the common schools in which the
ctilored people are as much interested as
the white people. For opposition to mixed
schools the Times-Star has only to look in
its own State. When it get? the mixed
s 'bool question settled satisfactorily there
it will be time enough for it to undertake to
settle the mixed school question in Georgia.
If it will pay strict attention to the speeches
which Gov. Gordon is delivering in Ohio it
will find much more in him to admire than
to find fuult with.
Spies Less Defiant.
The most boastful and defiant of all the
condemned Chit ago Anarchists when they
were first convicted was August Spies.
He felt so certain that a way would be b und
for him and his fellow prisoners out of their
trouble that he was not at all guarded in his
utterances. He is beginning to discover that
there is law in this country, and it is en
forced when the necessity arises for doing
so. The Anarchists have been permitted to
do and say about what they pleased so long
as they did not disturb the peace, because it
has been thought that the common sense of
the people could bo depended on to hold in
check the few who are threatening to change
law ami order into chaos. TJie Huymarket
affair, however, was a little more than the
most patient of people could endure without
seeking to make the guilty parties pay the
penalty of their crime.
Spies is no longer boastful, and his voice
is no longer heard defying the authorities.
He is under the shadow of the gallows, and
his feelings partake of the gloom of his sur
roundings. Even his proxy wife, whose
presence until within a few days has been a
source of great pleasure to him, fails to
bring a smile to his face. He sits in sullen
silence through the long hours of the day
and his jailers are beginning to think he is
insane. It is more than probable, however,
that he is just beginning to realize that he is
not so much of a hero and reformer as lie
pretended to lie, and that the law has a grip
on him that is not likely to be relaxed until
it lias rendered him incapable of engaging
in any more bomb-throwidg conspiracies.
The Jasper Monument. .
The association which was formed ten
years ago to erect a monument to Sergt.
William Jasper, the revolutionary hero who
10-t his life in front of this city Oct. 9, 1771*,
has very nearly completed its work.
It feels warranted in announcing that the
tinveling of the monument will tako place
on Feb. 22 next, and, as the purpose is to
honor and perpetuate the memory of one
who was a gallant soldier, whose deeds will
be recited by coming generations
it is intended to make the cere
monies imposing and the occasion
one of more than ordinary interest. The
citizens of this and other States, therefore,
wifi be invited to be present. The weather
is generally pleasant at the time appointed
for the unveiling, and there are many vis
itors from all other parts of the country in
this section of the South at that season of
the year.
There has been an intimation that the
President and Mrs, Cleveland might again
visit the (South late this winter or early
next spring. If this should prove to be the
case, they might he induced to time their
visit so as to lie present at the monument
ceremonies. They would find a visit to Sa
vannah a pleasant one, as will all of tho ;e
who attend the unveiling.
Tho President will soon decide as arbitra
tor upon the con dieting boundary claims of
Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It cannot be
doubted that his decision will 1* a just one,
according to his best judgment, but his
selection us arbitrator by the contending
parties is more than ordinarily compli
mentary, since the United States is
somewhat interested in his deci
sion. The territory in dispute
has long been held by Nicaragua, and
through it lies the route (if the promised
canal, for which a grant is held by an Ameri
can company. Should the decision be in
favor of Costa Rica this grant would prob
ably be unsettled.
The many little rows that are occurring
in Ireland justify tbeopinipn Diet there will
be a big oue there one of t hese days, and it
may not be very long delayed.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER t, ISS7.
Fires’ln Cotton Cargoes.
The New York Maritime Register, in
commenting upon the numerous fires which
have occurred in cotton cargoes this season,
reaches the conclusion that while some of
them may be of incendiary origin, the most
of them are due to carelessness, and to
causes which have not yet been discovered.
The impression seems to be that the
number of these fires is much greater thus
far this season thnn for the same period
of any other season for quite a long time.
The fires have not by any means been con
fined to this port. Almost all the cotton
ports have suffered to a greater or less ex
tent. Considerable attention has been at
tracted to this port, however, because three
or four fires have occulted within a period
of about four weeks. Another serious fire
may not occur during the entire season.
| The Regixter says that “the inquiry made
I by the British Board of Trade into the loss
, of the steamer City of Montreal, which was
] burned on Aug. 10, while on a voyage from
New York to Liverpool, shows how little is
known as to the causes of the fire, which
was first discovered in the cotton cargo of
the steamer. The board decided that the
cotton in the steamer's cargo was not prop
erly packed. It also states that the cotton
was riot as well packed as that coming from
India, that it was more liable to external
ignition, but that there was no risk of spon
taneous combustion. The Liard was unable
to attribute any absolute cause for the fire,
although some imperfection in the banding
of the bales was probably the cause
through bands breaking and emitting sparks.
In fact the result of the inquiry is that no
body was to blame for the fire and no reason
can be given ns to it c origin. The inquiry
is unsatisfactory, but still little was to 1*
expected in view of the general ignorance
upon the subject. What causes the fires
remains as much a mystery as before the
inquiry. But the inquiry was good in
demonstrating that nothing scarcely can be
exacted from the present system of investi
gaiing cotton fires, and that a thorough
study of the matter by a duly qualified
board is absolutely needed in order to secure
more accurate knowledge upon the subject
of what causes fires in cotton cargoes.”
A good deal of attention has been given
to the investigation of the causes of fires in
cotton cargoes, but we are unable to say
whether such an investigation as the Regis
ter thinks necessary has been made. If
it has not it ought to be undertaken at once.
Speculation as to the causes of the fires has
been exhausted. If it is thought that a care
ful study of the subject by a board of com
petent men can throw any light upon it
such a board should lie organized and au
thorized to begin work at once.
The Samoa Trouble.
There is no doubt that it is the purpose of
Germany to take iiossession of the Samoan
Islands. She may delay final action for
awhile, but all her movements indicate her
purpose to have the islands at no distant
day. Our dispatches a day or two age
stated that she had deposed King Malietoa,
who was really an illegal king, and placed
Tamezcsj, a rival chief, upon the throne.
England, Germany and the United States
have been squabbling over the Samoan
Islands for several veal's, and have ex
elianged many diplomatic notes with regard
to them. King Malietoa was always very
favorably disposed towards this country,
and several years ago gave us advantages
in the way of trade which were denied to
other countries. Germany has always
shown an aggressive spirit, however, and not
very long ago Malietoa undertook to plate
himself under our protection to avoid her
aggressiou. Our Consul at the islands agreed
to wlalietoa’s propositions, but bis action
was not sustained at Washington. Since
that time this country has not been so
prominent in Samoan affairs as it had been
prior to that time. The contest for the con
trol of tbe islands since then has been al
most wholly between England and Ger
many, and German)', it seems, is now far
in the lead.
The Samoan Islands contain 3,000 or 4,000
natives who have adopted Christianity.
They are not sufficiently civilized to com
pete successfully in trade with Europeans,
and the consequence will be that the trade
and property of the islands will soon all
pass mto the possession of American, Ger
man and English traders. They own pretty
much all of it now. Under German sway
the interests of the foreigners will doubt
less be protected, and the Samoans will be
the hewers of wood and drawers of water.
The free traders chuckled when the Macon
Telegraph passed from the hands of Maj.
H. C. Hanson, a vigorous protectionist, to
become a n alleged tariff reformer. They
don’t chuckle to an appreciable extent over
the news that Hanson has secured control
of that old and strong journal, the Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.—Ctuittanooiju Times.
The chuckle-headed Times really ought
to keep better posted us to the names of tbe
leaders of it* variety of Dem cracy.
There are only a few, and it would
take no great effort of memory. Maj. J. K.
Hanson, the bast anil strongest of them all,
is not eng:t r ,si in any newspaper business.
Mr. H. C. Hanson is, ami has always been,
a consistent advocate of tariff reform, and
be will make the Enquirer a strong repre
sentative of that policy. Then will the
Democrats chuckle again, and the chuckle
headed Times will not.
The Rev. Dr. Price, who died in New
York a day or two since, was the oldest
Episcopal clergyman of that diocese. His
was a peculiarly useful anil honorable ca
reer. Thrice offered a bishopric, he was
prevented by his modesty from accepting.
A remarkable fact connected with his life
was that, having determined in his
youth to become a minister, and be
ing too poor to pay his way through
college, he adopted the stage
as the readiest means of earning the neces
sary money He was four yea: s a profes
sional actor, then acquired the school
knowledge necessary to his chosen profes
sion, and became a preacher. His long and
useful career showed that his theatrical
experience did not unfit him for his holy
calling.
The latest Hawaii papers show that the
people of the Sandwich Islands, at least the
foreign element, which controls them, begin
to fear that they will not long be allowed
to retain their political independence, and
they wish to choose the nation to which
they shall lielong. They seem to prefer the
United States. American interests are,
perhaps,-larger in the islands than those of
any European people, but our foreign
policy has been so uuaggressive for many
years, compared with that of Germany and
nthtfr nations, that it is not at all probable
these valuable islands, the half-way house
to Asia, will ever come under ouu flag.
New York and Boston will be rather lone
some with Jay Gould aud John L. Sulli
van both in Europe,
CUP RSI NT COMMENT.
Donnelly's New Ta-sle.
Prom the New York World (Dem.)
Mr. Ignatius Donnelly has a heartrending job
on hand. He is trying to fin*i a cipher which
will show thar the famous clause “Bum this
letter" means that Mr Blaine is not seeking a
renomfn'ition. He admits, however, that he
Las made no progress so far.
A Revival for Rhode Island.
Prom the Chicago Netrs (Dem.)
Indiana and Kentucky have gone to law about,
the ownership of au island in the Ohio river.
Neither of those commonwealths needs the ugly
little sandbar and they should have it made
into a separate State in order to provide Rhode
Island with a rival in territory and population.
The Most Remarkable Town.
From the Philadelphia News (Pep.)
Atlanta has been a “dry" town for some
months, and it now appears that it goes hungry
sometimes. Atlanta is probably the most re
markable town in tlie United States. It has the
best pavements in the count 17, but the people
insist on keeping them eighteen inches unaer
mud.
Gordon In Cincinnati.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
Gen. Gordon, the Governor of one of our sis
ter States. spoke t*> a magnificent audience in
Cincinnati last evening. The peace was pre
served. The war of a quarter of u century ago
did not again break forth. And the Queen City
of the West rejoiced to listen to the able argu
ment of a very strong man.
BRIGHT BITS.
It is pleasant to reflect that the Chicago
Anarchists will shortly get to the end of their
rope.— Life.
Many of the car wheels now used are made of
paper. Here’s a chance for some more tall ly
ing about paper circulation,— Yonkers States
man.
A man may go to heaven and have feathers on
his wings, but ne can t hold a picnic plate on his
knees without sitting pigeon toed.— Duluth
ParaQrapker.
Generally speaking, a woman’s praise of
another woman means about as much as "Yours
faithfully" does at the end of a letter.— Somer
ville Jowmal.
“Ts your father a Christian?" asks the new
minister.
“No," replied the boy, “he sings in the choir."
—Brooklyn Eagle.
“I’m a lily," said the tramp. “I toil not,
neither do I spin, but I*ll bet my boots that Solo
mon in all his glory was not arrayed like me."—
Philadelphia Call.
Ti?e red-flag species of Socialists don't want
the earth. They mly want the land and the
lager. The rest of the folks can have the water.
—Oil City Blizzard.
The Hotel Mail is responsible for the state
ment that “a certuin uptown hotel clerk never
attends a funeral because his habitual smile is
so fixed that he couldn't look sorry if he tried."
Yonkers Statesman.
Guide (explaining the view of mountain to a
party)—Ann h>*re is the place where a young
lady jumped off am! committed suicide.
1 iady—From mein ncholy ?
Guide—No, ma'am; from Boston.— Judge.
“Mr. Snyderly. I hear that you referred to
me as a liar."
"Yes. sir, I did. What are you going to do
ab>ut it?"
“I was going to ask you to nut it down on
for me. I want to get n jon in an Omaha
real estate office, and l don't need a better
recommendation.**— Lincoln Journal.
( 'hicago policemen are now* having what they
cal! an Anarchist driil." They nicer in squads
every other day and are instructed in the use of
Winchester rifles, with which everv policeman
ou the force is siid to be supplied. In order
that they nuw become proficient in the drill the
city should furnish them with n few Anarchists
to practice on. They couldn't b? devoted to a
lietter purpose. —Norristown Herald.
“I've got a poem," he said, when he had
secured the attention of the editor.
**My dear iii*. t;ia pigeon-hole is filled with
poems awaiting publication."
“But this describes the virtues of the Double-
Decked S >ap. and I will pay 61 a line to have it
printed," said the author.
“Ah. charming: I'm glnd to see you turn your
attention to verse. I w ish all had your gift."—
Tid Bits.
“Oh, dear, those children make so much
noise that I can t hea* myself talk’" exclaimed
Aunt Harriet, as she left the room with a slain
“Children, said |>apa, “von must he more
considerate. Your aunt might have something
to say that we should want to hear. Now*, if
you will be real good I'll buy Johnnie a nice
bazoo and Hattie a grand piano, and Tommie a
big watchman's rattle, and I'll make a hors.'
fiddle of the dining table for tbe baby. But
don't bother auntie with your noise any more
than you can help. Springfield Union.
“Gentt emen." thundered the Judge to the
contending lawyers, "this case must be settled
before the court, adjourned. There has been
dilly-dallying enough. Well, what is it ?" he
s:iid, turning to a court attendant who had ven
tured to bespeak the judicial attention “lam
very busy."
“A couple of political friends of yours," whis
pered the attendant, “are- outside waiting for
you to ‘join’ 'em."
“Upon further consideration,'’said his Honor.
“I declare this court adjourns until to morrow
at 11 o'clock."— The Epoch.
ITe Lost It. —A Detroit lawyer was talking
with a manufacturer on Griswold struct, near
the City Hall yesterday, when he suddenly gave
a start of surprise and said:
Just excuse me fora moment, will you?"
"What is it?"
"A man has fallen down on the comer there."
“Ah —some friend of yours?"
“No; but I must see him. He may be an alien."
“And what of it?"
“Why, he'll probably want to sue the city for
SIO,OOO damages, and of course he'll want a law
yer. There, confound it!"
“He's got up."
“Yes, and I'm left. ’Nother lawyer got in
ahead of me. I've lost no less than three first
class jobs hist that way in the last two weeks.*’
—Detroit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
Ingersoll, the infidel, is said to be very nerv
ous when facing an audience.
Mils. Marshall Field, of Chicago, is too
much of an invalid to go into society, so she de
votes herself to books and the study of lau
gunges.
Pig. Crispi, the Italian premier, is an inde
fatigabie worker. A Roman writer sai lof him
recently: “He is a laborer with his mind, pulse,
brain anti backbone."
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's national
fame ;i a story writer was made ten years ago.
when she published “That Lass o’ Lowries."
It was her first novel and is said to lie her best.
Postmaster General Vilas has never been
son y that he joined the Democratic party. His
eloquence was never held of enough ac
count to be rewarded among his old companions.
“J. S. op Dale" is Fred Sthnson, a New York
lawyer. wh<. as Bacon is said to have dhne, dis
guised his literary work lieoauxe he feared his
standing as attorney would b?-prejudiced if it
were known that he wrote fi t ion.
Irvine Browne, editor of the Albany fx\w
Journal, objects to Senator Ingalls’assertion
that a gentleman should shave himself. Lawyer
Browne contends that the conversation of a
burlier is worth the price of a shave.
Lew Wallace's “Ben Hur" was originally
dedicated “To the wife of my youth." He bap
been so lx>red by letters of condolence from
people who imagined that his wife was dead
that be has added the line, “Who still abides
with me.*'
C>r,. John A. Joyce, of Washington, has lx en
spending a few days in Denver prejmratory to
going up in the mountains somewhere ) nd
secluding hlm.se If all winter, which he will put
in by writing a novel-—presumably a rich, racy
and picturesque tale of the West.
Joseph Hoffman, the child pianist, is an epi
cure. and refused u cross 0:1 the steamship se
lected by his manager on the ground that the
cooking was execrable. Artists naturally lov*
the beautiful* whether it takes the form of a
Delmonico entm*. a painting by Bougereau or a
symphony by Beethoven.
Count John I.illichi rtz. of Sweden, a
colonel in the French army, recently visited
Hartford. Conn., and created* sensation in that
staid city bv the gorgeousness of his attire. Tie
was dn-se-cl in full uniform and his breast was
literally covered with medals. While in the
city he paid Mark Twain a vi. it.
Senator Palmer. of Michigan, has on hiR
Wayne county farm a log house furnished with
articles taken from the New England home of
his ancestors. The spindle used by his grand
mother. rb“ l>ed in which his mother slept when
aj.irJ. and the tell clocks, old china, rag car
pets and cane chairs, all are there.
The world moves, says the Boston Trav
eller. but wo doubt if in any newspajier except
one published in Boston could such an adver
tissment as tbe following be found. Tbe Globe
is responsible for it: “Housework—An Ameri
can girl wanted to do the work for 2, and be used
as one of the family: oue that can cook and play
the piano. Box 919, Gardiner, Ma as."
Two Robust Old Men.
Fromthe Philadelphia. Call
There w an old man fir thtr Ktrat ward who
rineß at 4 in summer and 5 in winter all the year
round.
**I)o you suppose that this absurd, that this
strange way or living has lengthened your lifey"*
askeu a Call reporter.
“I am certain of it.'* sa?d th old man stoutly,
“I was SI last January, and apart from a little
touch of rheumatism T feel as well as I did thirty
years ago."
“How are the rest of your family?" ventured
the reporter. “Are they robust and do they rise
early?*’
“Well, was the subdued reply, “I have a
brother who is robust, but ho never gets out of
bed until i).“
“How old is he?*’
“Eighty-five. But that proves nothing.'*
•‘Certainly not," said the reporter.
She Got. no Further.
From *h,e Chicago Tribune.
It was in Waukesha last summer that n (Ti!-
cago woman became acquaint‘Hi with a distin
guished professor from the East. He was a
man of grave and dignified demeanor, and in
spired the somewhat flippant Chicago woman
with no little awe. With the professor was his
young wife, a particularly quiet young woman,
who seldom spoke. The Chicago woman, being
left alone with them, undertook to furnish the
cliat.
“I was sitting out on the piazza here last
night," said she, "after every one else had left,
and I chanced to hear a scran of conversation
from one of the windows. I don't suppose a se
rious gentleman like yourself, professor, will lie
at all interested, and I tell it for tin* amusement
of your wife. The voices floating out were
those of a man and woman, arid I heard the
mau say: ‘Poor 'ittle birdie, Is oo afraid to l>e
all alone in de world wid a great big horrid
man?'"
The little woman from Chicago got no fur
ther, for the professor and his wife had turned
a vivid scarlet.
The Land of Rest.
From Good Housekeeping.
Beyond the valley lying low.
Through which our feet some day shall go,
Beyond the high hill's purple haze.
That stretches far beyond our gaze.
There is a place most sweet and blest*
Which here we call the Land of Rest.
A land with hills and valleys fair.
And many of our loved are* there;
So silently, and one by one
They went the lonesome journey on;
All. with white bands upon their breaaQ|
Went out into the Land*of Rest.
I long that happy bourne to see,
I long to know now it will be
When first these eyes of mine behold
The land of whieh th'* prophets told;
Of my inheritance possessed.
When shall I reach the Land of Rest#
O blessed Land! O time so slow!
Not with reluctance I shall go,
But on my lins a happy song
That It, the day looked for so long,
Has come to take me to that blest,
That peaeeful land, the Land of Rest.
Bn A. Manyillk.
An Affecting Incident.
From the Detroit Tribune.
Pedestrians on tVoodford avenue were treated
to a singular and affecting incident last evening.
Freddie Maline. a little newsboy whose legs are
so crippled that he walks on his knees, was
trudging down the street when a legless sailor
came plodding along in the opposite direction
on his stumps. They did not observe each other
until the sailor attacked the lad. The assault
was so sudden that it was all over before any
body had a chance to interfere. “What do you
mean by this?” demanded a bystander of the
mo n.
“The boy is mocking me,” replied the sailor.
Then he got a good, look at the little fellow’s
legs, and cried: “What! so you are ac ipple
like me r My God! boy, forgive me. I thought
you wore mocking.’’
The tears coursed down a cheek bronzed by
sun and wind, and possibly hardened by sin.
“Oh. I wouldn't a-done it.' he exclaimed: “I
wouldn't a-done it if I’d a known, for these two
hands, and they're all I’ve got left. I ask your
pardon, my boy—l ask your pardon.”
Then the adult cripple hobbled on. The boy
gathered up his papers that had been strewn
around in the struggle, and, wiping away the
tears that had filled bis eves as the sailor was
speaking, crawled ou down the street, but not
before handfuls of coin had been showered on
both the unfortunates.
A Lightning Hair Cut.
From the Chicago Journal.
As 1 was entering a down-town barber shop
the other day a gawky looking countryman
dashed by me, and plunging into the first va
cant chair, said: “Gimme a quick shave; I’m in
a hurry.” The barber spread the calico wrap
per over the countryman’s breast, and as he
tucked it in, said: "Hair cut. sir?” "Hain’t got
time,” answered the man. “Wouldn’t take but
a couple of minutes.” said the barber, per
suasively, as he reached for a pair of scissors.
“Mean ter tell me you kin cut my hair in two
minutes—no, nor in ten, nuther." “Oh, yes,”
quietly said the barber. “I could do it in five.”
“Bet. you $5 you can’t.” said the countryman,
explosively, “an’ that's a dollar a minute." Tlie
boss barber nodded to indidate that the bet
might be taken up, and the workman, as he
quietly slipped one of those close-clipping ma
chines on the head rest back of the chair, said,
“Done.” The boss came over, and just as the
minute-hand of tlie clock pointed to the even
nuarter time vus called. In about two seconds
the barber hail run the machine up the back of
the countryman’s neck to the top of his head.
“Hold on!" yelled the man, as ho jumped from
the chair: “what’s that yercuttin’ my hair
with—a jack-plane?” With the aid of a hand
mirror he viewed the hare strip on the back of
his head and concluded he had lost the bet. The
barber pocketed the V and eonc tided his work
of beautifying the stranger, who said, on leav
ing the place: "Next time I come to Chicago
I’ll start early enough to get shaved without
makin’ any fool bluffs.”
A Level-Headed Wife.
From the Arkanxaw Traveller.
The Governor of Arkansaw had just turned
from a petition bearing GS4 names, when a tall,
angular woman, carrying a gingham sun-bon
net by the strings, entered the room and, drop
ping on a settee, said:
"I want to see the Guv'ner.”
“I am the Governor, madam.”
"Shore?”
"Yes, I am quite sure.”
"Well, 1 come to itgk you why you didn't an
swer my letter. I live out in the" hills. Moved
there lately from I tidy any. Sent you a letter
by a feller named Steve Spencer. Why didn’t
you answer it?"
"Your name, please?”
“Jane Hrornfield. From as good a family as
ever lived in the State. Father was a Mclntosh
and mother was a Harkrider.”
"I did not receive your let ter, Mrs Bromfield.”
“Look here, do you reckon that feller got
drunk an' lost that dockyment?”
"I don't know anything about his habits."
"But don't it stand to reason that he got
drunk?”
"Well, its far from impossible.”
“111 tell you what thi letter was. Shortly
after I got here. Tobe. my husband was sent to
the penitentiary. He wasn't a citizen of the
State at the time, and didn't think his senteuce
would hold him."
“His not being a citizen makes no difference.”
"And he could be sent to the penitentiary be
fore he had a right to vote?”
"Yes."
"And stay there just the same as any citizen?”
“Certainly."
"Shore?”
“Of course, madam. I know what lam talk
ing about. 1 would like to tell you. before you
put yourself to the trouble of pleading his ease,
that it is quite useless. He is doubtless guilty,
and I therefore cannot grant him a pardon."
"My sakes alive, man, don't sk’er yourself,
for I'm not going to ask for a pardon. The let
ter I writ you at a time when I thought you
couldn't hold him unless he was a voter stated
the fact that he voted at the last election wheth
er or no.”
“Then you don’t want him pardoned?”
“Not much. Tve done so much better sense
he’s heen in there that l never do want to set
eyes on him again. It maysounda little strange,
but it is a fact, thn l as shod as they took him
away the hens that nad been mopin' round on a
sort of strike all spring, put tolayiu', and I wish
1 may die if 1 didub think they would lay them
selves to death. One big old dominicker—the
finest hen on the place, out mighty sulky and
hard lo pleas" at limes—hadn’t laid a single egg
for two mouths, but when she found that they
had took Tobe off she set in to lavin' an' I never
seen nothin’s to ekel her. She'd walk around
#trd and sing awhile, an' then she’d go m
ty. Tohe was sent up for a year. Couldn’t
o oblige a poor woman, make it two. Gov
?”
“Ob. no; 1 have no authority to extend the
time."
“I didn't know but to oblige a po' woman you
mout." •
"No, I cannot.”
“Well, don't you think you could slip six
months on him, anyhow?"
"No, can't extend His time a minute.”
"But you are sure that you won’t let him out
under a year?"
•'We’ll, keep him in that long.”
“Well, I'm much obliged to you for doin' what
vou can.' she said, arising, "and I believe that
if yon tied the power you would do more for me.
Good day.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST..
Queen Victoria has presented Mine. Aibanf
with the jubilee commemoration medal, in dia
monds and sapphires.
Veneering is now being used upon cigar boxes
in this country. The boxes are constructed of
ash, with a cedar veneer as thin as papei on the
inside and outside.
The Mexicans are preparing to properly cele
brate the the four hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America at the capital of that
country. The Dukeof Verragua of Spain is a
legitimate descendant of Christopher i oltimbus,
and he heartily approves of the ceieoration.
The registration in Philadelphia generally
largely exceeds that of New York, although at
tlie last Presidential election New York polled
210.000 votes to Philadelphia’s 175,000. The
probabilities are that in Philadelphia there are
double the number of false registrations that
appear.
It is now time for every one to throw up his
hands and quit. George Francis Train intends
to publish 1.000 books of 400 pages each, one of
them to appear every day until all are out. He
says he has ten trunks full ot material for them,
and thnt the subjects to he treated of include
everything on, in. and over the earth.
Laborers digging a cut for a railroad near
Canterbury uncovered an almost perfect circu
lar well built of Hints. Local antiquaries sav
that it is the opening to some suuterranean
passage used by the Romans when they camped
there. The workmen had previously found near
the same spots the remains of two Roman sol
diers.
It is interesting to note just at this time that
anew translation of Shakespeare's plays bus
been made in Dutch Burgersdvk, the famous
poet of Holland, has made the translation,
which is said to be a work of art. His “Macbeth”
was recently given before a brilliant audience at
an Amsterdam them re and received great ap
plause. The popularity of Shakespeare in Hol
land and Germany is remarkable.
Lnstruction in the use of tools is about to l e
introduced in all the primary schools of France.
It has already been introduced in many, and
has been successfully tried at such schools in
Manchester, in England. It is found that the
use of tools furnishes an agrheable relaxation.
Apprenticeship schools, which are the next
higher grade, are taking the place of the old
apprenticeship system in Germany, France and
Switzerland.
A farmer and his son have had a most un
pleasant series of ad vent tires at Whitt, Tex.
First, the father fell into an abandoned well,
and then the son came tumbling after. The
well was sixty feet deep, and there was an ugly
moccasin snake at the bottom. To make mat
ters worse, it began to rain, the water rose in
the well and the earth caved in around them.
They passed twenty hours in this plight, and
were finally rescued by passers-by who heard
their cries.
, Gov. Ramsay says that the venerable Simon
Cameron once explained to him how it was that
so many hotel-keepers bear military titles.
When the revolutionary war closed tlie business
of the country was in a chaotic condition, all
industrial affairs having suffered a complete
prostration during the seven years’ struggle
The American officers came out of the war
ivithout any occupations and as poor as a lot of
church mice. About the only business they
could go into that didn't require capital was
tavern-keeping So it came to pass in a short
time that the head of every hostelry in the
country was a Colonel, a Major or a Captain.
And from that day to this it has been regarded
as the proper thing to invest a hotel-keeper with
a military title. It comes to him in the line of
honorable tradition.
Gen. Green B. Raum, chairman of the Wash
ington committee appointed to provide for the
erection of a statue to Gen. Logan at the na
tional capital was called upon by Col. Alberto
Malo, of the Mexican army, and informed that
the American colony in Mexico, together with
a number of Mexicans, had obtained and desired
to present to the monument committee an onyx
slab from the Mexican mines. The slab, which
is 2!t> feet square, cost 81.000 in Mexico. It is
now in New York, and will be at once sent to
Washington to the committee, which will re
quest Mrs. Logan to be custodian of it until the
monument shall be completed. It is expected
that the soldiers will contribute the fund for the
monument, and Congress will undoubtedly fur
nish a suitable place to erect it upon some of the
government reservations.
An exceedingly plain and unimpressive look
ing woman was making her way slowly down
Broadway when she discovered her reflection in
a big mirror that had been set out on the side
walk. Thereupon she stopped short, crossed
the street with an air of elegant leisure to the
mirror, and stepping up to it, surveyed herself
complacently, rearranged her hat, lifted her
veil, took w hat is know n, I believe, as a “pow
der rag” from her hand satchel, touched up her
face with an air of pleasantry and repose, and
then dropped the. rag in the satchel again. Af
ter this she fixed her veil with satisfaction, gave
her bustle two or three vicious thumps, pulled
down the back of her dress, pulled down her col
lar, and sailed down the street again, the observed
of all observers, but not embarrassed in the
slightest degree by the attention she had at
tracted.
Says the Lake Geneva (Wis.) News: “On
Wednesday a novel scene was witnessed bT one
of the pupils of the high school while looking
out of a window. Dr. Macdonald had left his
horse and buggy in care of his faithful dog Hard
while he went In to make a professional call.
The horse got uneasy and started off on a brisk
trot. Fard grabbed the lines, got up into Lie
seat, and commenced to pull with all his might.
He would brace himself and pull, but the
cushion was smooth and he would slip, where
upon he would hitch back, brace himself, and
pull again. Finally he became disgusted,
dropped the lines, and coiled himself up in t e
front part of the buggy, prepared to meet any
fate w hich might a -ait him. We have had oc
casion to sjieak of t his dog's adventures in these
columns once or twice before; now we insist he
ought to be made a citizen and given the free
dom of the city.”
Probably the most interesting and valuable
curiosity in the firemen's museum at No. 2 en
gine house at Jackson. Mich., is the one brought
in a day or two ago by a farmer, whose name
the men did not learn. It has been found to be
a South American black vulture, though the
fanner thought it a black eagle. He said he saw
it running about bis farm a lew days ago, and
chased it into a brush pile, where he captured
it. The bird is about the size of a hen turkey
and its main color is a rich blue-black, though
many of the larger feat hers and plumes are bril
liantly colored, mailing tlie bird a very hand
some one. The bead is small and nearly bald,
and the beak is about three inches long, strong,
and a Utile hooked. About the centre of the
upper portion of the beak is a comparatively
large hole, cut by nature, nearly rectangular in
form. The bird measures five feet from tip to
lip of its wings, w hich are very large and strong
in comparison to its body, showing that it is ca-
Cable of long flights and of carrying considera
le weight in its talons.
The critical condition of the relations be
tween China and Corea may be largely traced
to the opening of the latter country to inter
course with the United States and with
European powers. So long as the “hermit
kingdom" remained true to its traditions of
isolation, its real political status as regards
China was an afTair which evidently troubled
very little the two countries chietiy concerned.
But with Ihe entrance of vessels other than
Chinese and Japanese into Corean ports, and
the making of regular commercial treaties with
the leading powers of the world, the peninsula
acquired new interests, and tie question
whether China had a real or only nominal
sovereignty over it became of the first impor
tance- The act wuieli has caused the sudden
withdrawal of Ihe Chinese Minister from Seoul
is the appointment of ministers to represent
Corea in European courts; but while this ti n v
lie a peculiarly open and ostentatious assertion
of independence, tbo very making of treaties
was, after all. in itself an assumption of sovm
eign now. r. Should war result, unless Corea
should find some ally, China would be able with
her navy to blockade its ports, and thus nuke it
once more, againsl its will, a hermit kingdom.
Looking through history, we find that
though in all other particulars the art of war
has made wonderful strides, yet in the actual
distances accomplished in marches on foot Ihe
ancients wen* lolly equal to modern soldiers.
In tael, the most wonderful feat ever recorded
in marching was accomplished l,y the ancients,
in tl.e second Punic war Hannibal lay waiting
at l anusium for his brother Hasdruhal to brink
him reinforcements from Spain. FacingHannn
hal WAS a Roman army under the Consul < lau
rtius Nero, while opposite ilnsdrubnl wasanotln r
Roman army under Ihe Consul Livius Leaving
the mam body to hold and deceive Haim Unto
P lokw * ,km1 >' of <•) horse auii
V’™7 tool > marched secretly and quicklv to
lavms and. joining forces with him. 'they
hurled themselves ou Hasdruhal and defeated
Claudius then ai once marched bock
again before !I..nniiial was aware of his '
brother s defeat. Now. the distance between i
Canuslmntind Berra Gallica, the place of the 1
Kittle, by the best authorities is given at tlie
leust measuremeut as 225 miles. The march
"MS *!* ' v >; in Id*'lays, or at the rate
eiulre W leK a Bllt ‘his march is mi
exc. ptiouurone, and. if believed, must stand i
ancients 30 m * ny otber of lho wond ™ of the j
j atKna roaE3.
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