The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 03, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 CljfPtonting'Hctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga THURSDAY* SO\ EMBER iss; Registered at the Post Office m Savanna* The Morning News *s published every da fl e year, and is served to subscribers in tht city, bx newsdealers ami earners. on tbeir own a count, at S> cents a week, $1 00 ft month, $0 uu for six months and $lO U 0 for one year. 'Hie Morning News, by mail, one month f! 00: three months, $2 00; six months, s:> On: one year. $lO 00. The Morning News. wail, sir time** week (without Sunday issue). thr*** months. si? 00: six months. $4 00 one year. 00. The Morning News. Tri-WeeMy. Mon.iay*. Wednesdays and Fridays. or Tuesday a. fhurs day and Saturdays. three months, $1 mx months, $- 50: one year. $5 00. The Son day News, by mail, one year. i. _ The Wkeei.y News, op mail, one year. $1 'S. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit b}* postal order, check or registered letter Cuo reocv sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rales may he ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, lU4 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should t>e addressed ‘ Morning News. Savannah <ia. Advertising rates mad** known on onpllcc^on. INDEX TO NEW ADVEETiSEMENTS. Meetings —Solomon's Lodge No. 1. F. and A M.: The Workman's and Trader's Loan and BHilding Association; Travelers' Trot net ive As sociation. Special Notices— Technological Instruction. R. W. Habersham: As to Crew of Brit it i Bark Memlo: A Challenge, Thomas McCarthy; I>r J I). Martin's Return; Rental of Pews in First Presbyterian Church; As to Bills Against Brit ish Steamship Glen Tanar; Notice to Consignees and Captains of Vessels; Bananas. Etc., J. S Collins A Cos. Magazines fob November — EstiU's Depot Proposals —John B. Howard, City Survey r. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost: Miscellaneous. Importer of Crockery— George W. Alien. Auction .Salks —Furniture and Fixtures, by I. I). La Roche’s Sons; Two Houses and Lot, by .J McLaughlin & Son. Mr. Blaine is in Paris and is reported to be in good health. The wicked reporters, however, still pursue him. The epidemic 'n Tampa is nearing its end. The people of Florida will bo sincerely glad when they are relieved from the burdens which quarantine places upon them. Georgia is always furnishing the country something to talk about. The whole coun try is now talking about a speech delivered in Georgia by a Georgian. Gov. Gordon refuses to talk about it, however. It is not thought now that the talk about anew line of steamships between Baltimore and Charleston will materialize. The rea son is that there is no profit in sight in such a line. The rate at which Alabama is increasing in wealth ought to attract the Anarchists to her. They are always to be found where there is plenty of wealth. They want to tie where there is plenty when their doctrines prevail and the day of distribution comes. It seems that the President has not yet made up his mind to go to Buffalo to vote* He is beginning to think that ht* has done enough traveling for awhile, and that l e cannot do a wiser thing now than to give his entile attention to the preparation of his message. The New York Herald says that the route proposed for the Nicaragua canal is a comparatively simple affair. That is what M. de Lesseps said about the Panama route before he began his canal there. Since he has spent several hundred million dollars and has accomplished very little, he does not re gard it so simple an affair. Some of the Philadelphia politicians pre tend to think that repeaters will defeat the will of the people in that city next Tues day. The will of the people is perhaps de feated in that city by fraud about as often Min ahy other city in the country. There the Republican heeler and Republican boss flourish in all their glory. Gov. Hill, of New York, will lend a help ing hand to the managers of the Democratic party in that State during the remaining days of the campaign. He will make it ap- Irent that there is no enmity nor jealousy tietween him and the President, and that ho is not. trying to defeat the President’s re nomination. A few of the most extreme of the Repub lican papers are trying to make it appear that the Republican clerks in the detri ments at Washington are denied the priv ilege of going home to vote, while it is granted to Democratic clerks. The purpose of charges of this sort is so apparent Hint there is no necessity for denying or even no ticing them. According t - our dispatches Mr. Randall is taking a very deep interest in the Thoelie- Carilste contested election case. Can it be that he hopes that some way will he found to deprive Mr. Carlisle of bis seat! It can hardly be probable that Mr. Randall is that kind of a man. Even if Mr. Thoebe had a good ease against Mr. Carlisle, which he hasn't, the way wouldn't be open for Mr. Randall’s election to the Speakership. Complaint is being made that the accom modations for the cholera patients at Hoff man and Swinburne Islands, New York harbor, are not sufficient. The suggestion is madejuid it seems to be a very proper one, that if a part of the extravagant income of the Health Officer were used for improving the accommodations he would still have far more than he ought to, and there would ho no ground for the complaints that are now heard. _ There is no better Democrat in Virginia than Hon. Randolph Tucker, and he is a good representative of Democratic senti ment in that State. In Washington, a day or two ago, he said that no party could afford to vote for tree whisky while there ■was a heavy tax on the bread and butter and clothes of the people, and yet there is here and there a crank outside of the Re publican party who would like the Demo cratie party to do that very thing. The mystery surrounding the infernal machine which whs sent to the Wechsler mansion, Brooklyn, last Friday, and whoso explosion came near filling Mi-s. Wechsler and her child, still remains unsolved. The chances are that the sender of it will never lie disaovered. The detectives have made several arrests, but do not appear to have gotten hold of the-criminal. It is not prob able that thejnaohine was sent by a dis charged workman or an Anarchist. The more protydile theory is that it was sent by a crank. There apiiears to he a good many wank* about now-a-davs. The Writ Denied. The refusal of the Supreme Court to grant a writ of error in the case of the con demned Anarchists is not a surprise. The ’ impression of lawyers generally, and ea i peeially of those who were present in the i Supreme Court room and heard the argu t meats, was that the writ would be denied. The points made for the Anarchists were 1 weak, and the lawyers who presented them ! did not seem to have much confidence in j their case. On the other hand, the lawyers I who represented the State of Illinois were confident that no mistake had been made in the proceedings in the State court which .justified the highest court in the land to in terfere with the verdict. All that can tie done in the courts for the condemned men has b#e:+-tknic. They have had every chance which the law offers them to escape the penalty of tlieir crime. They have been defended by able lawyers, and every technicality has lieen taken ad vantage of in their behalf. The only thing they have to depend upon is a pardon. The attention of the country is now trans ferred from the courts to the Governor of Illinois. The Executive of that Slate has suddenly become the subject of great inter est. People want to know what kind of a man he is. and whether he is likely to resist the tremendous pressure that is certain to be brought to bear upon him to pardon the condemned men. He has given no indication of his probable course. He has simply said, in answer to questions, that only oi.e of the many petitions which have been presented to him for a pardon is in the shape required by law. and that one is signed by le-s than a dozen persons, it seems that the law points out certain things which must be observed in petitions, and the fact that the Governor has called attention to them indicates that he will consider only thoe petitions to which no legal objection can he raised. Gov. Oglesby is what is termed a self made man. He has the reputation of being able, honest and fearless. He will doubtless do his duty n= he sees it, and will not place much dependence upon the advice of those who seek to enlighten him as to the course he ought to pursue. He is pleasant man nered and amiable, and leaves the impres sion upon those who come in contact with him that he would much rather give pleas ure than inflict pain. Such men, however, can be very firm wlion they think their duty or their interests requires them to be so. The responsibility which rests upon him is not very great. The convicts he is asked to pardon have had a fair trial, and the high est court in the land has failed to find that the law has not, in all respects, been com plied with. No new evidence has been dis covered, and no legal reason can be offered for a pardon that has not already been de clared to tie insufficient to show that the condemned men have not had every right and privilege to which they are entitled. If. therefore, the Governor grants a par don it must be because he dosires to show mercy, or believes that public policy justi fies it. But when he considers the cowardly crime of those seeking clemency he con hardly have any feeling of mercy, and as far as public policy is concerned it would seem as if the public welfare would be served best by permitting the law to take its course. A murder committed by Anarchists with bombs should be punished as promptly and surely as one committed by ant . iniglit assassin with a stiletto or a bludgeon. The condemned men sav that they do not want a commutation o!' their sentences to imprisonment. If they cannot, have their freedom they want to be hanged. They re gard themselves as martyrs, and they ex pect that if they die on the gallows they will occupy a prominent place in history. If they can get satisfaction out of that thought they ought to bo permitted to en joy it. The people of this country are more interested in having Anarchists taught that they cannot murder the representatives of the law with impunity than they are about the place coudemned Anarchists, who are hanged, will occupy in history. Gordon’s Ohio Visit. Gov. Gordon, according to our disj>atches, is on his way home. He was well received in Ohio, and made an excellent impression there. His speeches were all in good taste and just the kind to capture a crowd. In some quarters doubt was expressed whether his presence on the stump in Ohio would help the Democratic cause in that State. That doubt no longer exists. It is admitted that he did a great deal of good. Indeiiendent conservative voters were con vinced by him that there was no foundation for tbs charges of disloyalty made against the Southern people by Senator Sherman, Gov. Foraker and other Republicans. They were also convinced that the Southern people are just as much interested in promoting the prosperity of the Union as the Northern people. Gov. Gordon can congratulate himself on having spiked the heaviest of the Republi can guns in Ohio, and though that Slate may not go Democratic next Tuesday, he made an impression that may not be with out its influence in placing it in the Demo cratic column. The Officers of the House. As the time for the meeting of Congress approaches the interest in the offices which the House has to dispose of increases. The impression is that all of the officers of the last House will lie re-elected except the Door keeper. Mr. Donelsou, who was Doorkeeper during the last Congress is not an unpopular man with the mem hers of the House, but he is not as good a wire-puller as some of the other candidates. The man who seems to lie in the lend is Mr. O. B. Hurt, of Mississippi. Mr. Hurt is a young lawyer and newspaper proprie tor who held a minor office in the Senate wing of the capitoi four or five years ago. He makes friends readily, and is fully capable of filling acceptably the position which he seeks. He is supported by the delegation from his own (Stale and by a good many of the other Southern members. A strong ar gument in his favor is, that about all the other places in the gift of the House, except the Sjienkership, will go to Northern men. The Congressional campaign in the Twen ty-fifth New York district is a very hot one. Charges by the score are made against the Democratic and Republican candidates. Mr. Davis is the Democratic candidate, and the last charge brought against him—it is brought by an Anarchist—is that lie cats his dinner at 0 o’clock p. in.! Think of it! A man who eats his dinner somewhere near sun down wants to go to Congress! What stronger reason could there be for defeating him? Henry George has finished his campaign in the rural districts of New York, and is now engaged in whooping up the voters iu New York city. He mav whoop them as he will, but he will have a minority still. TIIE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, Mr Hewitt’s Letter. Mayor Hewitt, of NeW York, though a i good and weli-mea.iing man. is not always ; in an amiable mood. He has been afflicted for a long tune with insomnia, nnd when i things do not go just as he wants them lie is : disposed to scold. His letter to the President of the Harlem : Democratic Club, published in our dis patches yesterday, although rather fault- S finding in its character, contained a good ileal of truth. He was especially happy in his reference to the bulldozing newspaper j boss who has made his appearance in Niw York politics, and in the politics of some I other places. The newspaper boss doe j not seek so much the good of J the community in which his | newspaper circulates as he does to have ' things his own way, and impress upon the people the necessity for taking his news paper. The newspaper boss is very active in New York City just now. Mr. Hewitt says that he is dangerous and despotic. There is no doubt that he is making a great deal of con fusion in New York. What is known as the Nicoll movement was inaugurated by an al leged Democratic newspap r, and Mr. Hewitt insists that, in its inception the movement was nothing more than a news paper advertising dodge. The Republicans seized upon it with the hope of demoralizing the Democratic party, and bringing about the return of the Re publican party to power. The Republicans insist that they can de feat any Democratic candidate for President except Mr. Cleveland, and their aitn is to prevent his renomination. They hope to do this by defeating the Democratic party in New York next Tuesday. If the impression can lie made that the candidate who is elected President in 1888 must carry New York, and that Mr. Cleveland cannot carry New York, his nomination will be doubtful. If New York is lost to the Democrats next week, the newspaper boss who booms the Nicoll movement, anil who pretends to be a Democrat, will be largely responsible for it. Republicanism in tl>e South. Gen. Woodford, who has been prominent in the Republican party for many years, recently made an address before a Republi can club in Lancaster, Pa. After dwelling on the great things accomplished by the party in the past, he showed that he appre ciated the weakness of the party’s present position by saving that it is not sufficient that a party should have a record behind it; it must meet and grapple with the great questions of the day. One of the most im portant duties resting upon his party, Gen. Woodford thinks, is the task of Repuhlican izing the South. He believes that in this direction lie victory nnd dominion for his party, and the weapon with which it can win them is the protective tariff. Gen. Woodford’s idea that the record of a party is not enough to give it continuous success before the people is a correct one, though undoubtedly the history of a pat ty is a very important element of success when it is entirely to the party’s credit. But in the South the Republican party has a record which is not at all to its credit, and which for a long time must discredit it in the eyes of intelligent, order-loving people. In these Stutes it was identified with all that was mean and vile in politics. Its leaders were men who sought only per sonal ends, and those who followed repre sented no ideas or principles, but mere blind opposition to those who owned the property. This was a natural and excusable attitude of the colored people, and it is the shrewd carpet-baggers who took advantage of It to do all manner of wrongful things who should bear the blame. These leaders of the negroes had the backing of the Repub lican party at large, and it is also respon sible. There are many reasons why the almost unanimous support which the Republican party received from the colored voters in the past i to be regretted, not the least of which is that it has prevented white voters from dividing on natural lines. The col ored vote, to a very large degree, still ad heres to the Republican party, and as long as it does there is little use iu preaching Re publicanism, pure and simple, at the South. To the tariff question the colored voters are indifferent, because they are wholly igno rant concerning it. Whichever is Repub lican doctrine is their doctrine, and it might be changed every month without affecting their support. At first glance this unquestioning support *bv a large majority of the colored voters would seem to lie an element of no little strength to the Republicans, but in reality as long as it exists it is an insuperable ob stacle to the success of that party in the South. It forces white voters to cling to gether to save their local governments from the control of those who are unfitted to ad minister them. Some of the Republican papers of Ohio pretend to doubt the statement which Gov. Gordon made in his Cincinnati speech a day or two ago, that the whit* people of the South have a very kind feeling for the col ored people. The following incident con firms Gov. Gordon's statement, and it i> only one of the many that are occurring all the time which show that the stories circu lated at the North to the effect that the col ored jieople of the South are ill-treated are not true. On last Sunday, near Pickens, S. C., a negro family, living on the plantation of George W. Cox, locked theirsiek child in their cabin and went to a revival meeting. During their absence the cabin caught fire, and Mrs. Sallie Cox. who is known through out the county in which the Cox plantation is located, seeing the flames, and knowing that the child was locked in the cabin, r.sn at once to rescue it. The door being locked, she found an ax and broke it in. By this time the flames had made groat progress. She did not hesitate, however, about com pleting her work cf mercy, but rushed into the burning building. Before she could get the child out the roof fell, and she was quite severely injured. She secured the child, however, and carried it safely from the burning cabin. She was not dan gerously injured, but the burns she received were painful. Her act was one of heroism as well as of kindness. Mrs. James Brown Potter’s first, appear ance on the New York stage is regarded as a very decided success. The Fifth Avenue Theatre was crowded on Monday night to witness her performance. Very many of those present were her personal friends, and, of course, did what they could to make her feel that she was meeting their expectations. Mrs. Potter is about the best advertised woman on the stage, and if she prove to be a failure it will be her own fault. The critics sav that she has a great deal to learn before she can fairly be considered to be a good actress, nnd the probabilities are that they are right. Beauty and tine dresses will not insure permanent success. CURRENT COMMENT. It Looks That Way. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) It is not impossible that the building of statues is being pressed a trifle too far. Lrfty Ir.solence From the Philadelphia Times (Inti.) The 6,000 saloons still claim the right to shape the morals of ifld.OOO homes in Philadelphia. This is the loftiest altitude of insolence. Let L's Hope So. From the St. Louis (/tube-Democrat (Rep.) If will take more persuasive eloquence than is ever likely to b * heard in the Supreme Court at Washington to convince that great tribunal of last resort, American public opinion, that hemp is not the best answer to dynamite. Foraker’s Predict on. From the New York Herald 1 Jntl. > Gov. Koraker told the people of (thio the other day that (Senator Sherman Would undoubtedly tie the next. President of the Unite I mates. But Fora her was the Senator's guest at ttie time, and it would have be n discourteous not to pay his host a compliment, even il be had to fib to do it. Soon Forgotten. From the Philadelphia inquirer {Rep.) The first time that Pari 1 Manning's name has been seen in public print for a long while was yesterday, in n description of anew elevator in i educed in his New York residence li must have made the ex Secretary of the Treasury feel how quickly he has passed out of public dis cussion. Not Dignified but Safe. From the Philadelphia Record {Dem.) The erudite editor of the New York Sun calls tlie accomplished editor of the Xew York World .bales Pulitzer, and the accomplished editor re torts by calling the erudite editor diaries Ana nias Dana This method of controversy has the advantage of being exasperating and a' the same time easy, infantile u<l safe. But it is not dig nified nor in true'ire. We regret to see two gentlemen occupying positions of such com mantling influence wasting their advertising space in this way. BRIGHT BITS. .Tons U, Ft’!. l,l van isQne of the few men who can lie unrestrainedly without being told of it. —Merchant Traveler. Auw prohibiting the intemperate hoarding of wealth might prevent money from becom mg tight.— Neic O’ leuaS Picayune. It is a mistake to use mice as a bait, for cat tish. It is equally improper to atiemut to allure the lamprey with bits of mutton.— Tidßiis. Returns from all the fishing resorts show that the men with the least conscience nlwovs capture the biggest string of fish. - Philadelphia Herald. Did you ever notice, in playing poker, how hard it is for a young ludy who holds a flush in her hand to conceal it in her face?— Burlington Free Press. Physiologists sav that the older a man grow s the smaller his brain becomes. This ex plains why young men know everything and old men nothing. —Huston Courier. Ouf MAimsH looking GIRLS in Kentucky are wearing the little corkscrew curls that were fashionable forty years ago. Same curls, but not the same girls. .Yen- Orleans Picayune. “Water as a medicine." read a Kentucky poli tician in a sanitary journal. “Next some blame fool will be advocating water as a beverage.” he added, in a tone of deep disgust.— Norristown Herald. People from the North and East are flocking to California for their health, and Californians are going to the East and North for the same article. They could all save money by meeting at some half-wav point and swapping healths.— Minneapolis Tribune. The Sultan of Morocco has I.TOO wives to manage, and when one of them doesn't behave he makes her go out in the yard and try to ride a bicycle, while he and the harem enjoy seeing the headers. Twenty-five tumbles ai-e re • uir< and m a bad case of discipline.— Springfield Union. A whiter in a Novembermagazineasks: “Are the lower UTRipais approaching man?" Seme of the low er animals have frequenty approached boys in the vicinity of apple orchards, and no doubt they would also approach man if he Were on the same errand as the boys. —Norristoirn Herald. The minister ujects Donald, who has a pro nounced taste for whisky. "You are fond of whisky, Donald, ami yet you know you shouldn’t be. You know as well as Ido that w hisky is your worst en-mv.” "Yes. minister, but you often say in kirk that we are to love our enemies." "That's so," replied the minister,“but I never told vou to swallow them."—.Wax O'Rell'sT tmi Donald. A paper in the upper part of the State has discovered "a tramp who writes poetrv." Tramps who steal chickens are numerous in this part of the State, but one guiltyflif the more heinous offense of writing "poetrv" has not yet put in an appearance—and if he has any regard for his health he never will. Poetry b.v tramps is something like that composed by condemned convicts—mighty lame in the bind fecit.— NorrMonm Herald. Omaha Dame—l have come on a sad mission, my dear: prepare yourself for terrible news' Oh: how my heart goe i out to vou'. Sweet Girl—Mercy on us! Has that dress maker spoiled mv wedding suit? "Worse, dear, far worse. The young man you intended to wed came to our house last night in a state of beastly intoxication, and I have just found out that he has been for years a confirmed sot," "Horrors! Don't for tlie world breathe a word about it. If pa should hear that he wouldn't let me man y him."— Omaha World. PERSONAL. James Gordon Bennett sailed for France on the steamer Uascogne on Sunday. Minister Pendleton, Germany, and Minister Anderson, Denmark, are in London. Sen itor Voorhkeb w ill speak this week in New York forthe Democratic ticket. Mr. Washington Irving Bishop, the “mind reader." has been seriously ill with an epileptic tit iu San Francisco. While Mrs. Langtry is dying nightly as “Lena D* s ward" her husband is engaged in the life saving service at Queenstown. Mr. Garrett still insists that Jay Gould got the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph lines for about one-half what they were worth. 11. Riper Haggard has two novels almost ready for the press, and he is said to he a rival of the late Hugh Conway for i-apid story-writ ing. A cablegram says Mr. Chamberlain will he ac companied in this country by four special de tectives. who will watch the members of the Clan-na-Gael. Mr. Hostetter. residing near Indianapolis, a descendant of Gen. Murren. has the uniform coat the hero wore when he fell pierced by a British bullet at the battle of Ranker Hill. Col. George Washington Jones, of Missis sippi. has s-nt this communication to the Presi dent: “As I desire President Cleveland to be re-elected, I send him the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit that was killed iu the dark of trie moon. Tell him to preserve it carefully, and as long as he keeps it he will always get there." Little Marshall P. Wilder's latest story is about the North Pole. A party of working men were sitting in a group one winter evening dis cussing t.b* North Pop expeditions. Finally a quiet member of the party was appealed to with. "Well, what do you think of it, Pat?" Removing bis pipe. Pat, with due debiieration. ivinariied: "I think the man that put the pole out there ought to go out and get it." Carter 11. Harrison, ex-Mayor of Chicago, has been in Japan for some weeks )iast. From lone acquaintance with Chicago Mr. Harrison was naturally astonished to find no ilntuken men in Tohio, a city containing over 1,000,000 inhabitants. So impressed was he by the ap parent sobriety of the Japanese that he ques tioned the Archbishop at Yokohama as to its cause. The Archbishop explained that when a Japanese got drunk he at once went to sleep. Chapncby M. Depew has ten letters a day in his office mail requesting him to make addresses at corner-stone layings, conventions of the clergy, railroad men. college SAicieties, Young Men's Christian Associations; to deliver com mencement orations or lectures in behalf of needy churches or charities. Queerly enough, n large portion of this daily chorus of requests is the demand for agricultural addresses from Grangers who spout against the railroads the rest of the year Miss Rose Klizarkth Cleveland appeared at her best at the Berglimann De Pedroso wed ding at Torresdale last Wednesday. She wore a dress of terra-cotta velvet, with the bodice out lineo in gold passementerie. Her present to the bride was both original ill design and elegant iu make-up. It consisted of a magnificent casket of xvliite satin bearing the royal arms of Spain and the crests of the De Pedroso and Heigh tuanu families. In the casket was an elegantly bound copy of tha "Romance of flu) Lid." OY EMBER 3, 1887. THREE LETTERS. They Got Into the Wrong Envelopes Somehow, and There Was Trouble. j\em York Letter in Richmond Dispatch. It is a bail practice to write several letters at one jcb. inclose them in envelopes and address the batch. Many accidents occur. A gentle man who uses a pencil for bis correspondence, bnt makes the superscriptions in ink, wrote three epistles, secured them in envelopes and laid them in order . u his d'*sk. The first was to his mot her-in law. ae second to his latest and best girl, and tho last to his tailor. Discovering that the in’: was absent in the stand, he left ids desk for a moment. A clerk in search of a ruler took up the top letter that lay upon the ruler, and put it below tire missive intended for the tailor. Hack came the complete letter-writer. He addressed letter first in the row to his mother-in-law, the next to Maud, aid the misplaced epistle to the tailor. At l o'clock that afternoon a military-looking fe male. sitting beside an invalid daughter, got black in the face as she r. a i on the stamped pafier of the s>n in law: "Baby mine: Your pet will lie aide after all to get away. Have sprung the tallest kind of a stall on the Vam pire. which I will tell you about when we meet. Take a cab to Vesev street, and get thereat sharp 8 with a big appetite far a good supper. You sweet, little toad, it will be a long day tor your old man; but 3 o'clock will have to make a landing, and then hurrah!" That is the way the lightning struck in one place. Uptown, iu a gorgeous flat, Maud Tricot pint zled over this mysterious epistle: ‘ You old fraud, that cheviot is the worst job that ever was done. 1 thought the checks lieat the world giving me tits, nut here you are worse than ever. I shad certainly have to try someone else, ami T don't want to; lint you are certainly getting infernally careless. Will let you have some money during tlie mouth, but I'm beastly hard up just now." At the moment that Maud was imagiuiug her sweetheart was gone completely mad. and an infuriated, middle-aged woman was making her toilet to go down town, George's tailor studied this document with a dazed expression: "Kind est of friends. break to my little one this un pleasant news: No Georgie to night. The hank has a meeting that will no doubt necessitate a run from here to Boston: will wire you in the morning if that should be the ease. How sad that this parting can't be avoided, but business is business, and it's for both your dear sakes that I must attend to this matter. With my love and a kiss, your troubled lad.” At 8 a cab containing a lady stood in Vesey street waiting for a gentleman, who bounced the door open and blurted out to the driver the name of a restaurant. "Now, my little girl, tell me all the news,” he added, as he sprang out; and his blood froze and his hair rose, mid his mother-in-law said: "You villain. I will:” Gambler's Luck. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Many examples of luck have been cited of late years, and the exploits of such men as Dink Davis, Kirk Gunn, and others at the card table, have time and time again been published in the papers, hut the way in which old Captain S. did up the gamblers in Galveston in 1819, was about as wonderful an example of wbat luck will do for a man as can he found anywhere. The Captain, who was a retired steamboat man living at Houston, frequently visited the city of oleanders, and whenever he did he indulged iu a bit of a spree and a tussle with the tiger. It was one night in the early spring that 1 had oc casion to visit the bank presided over by Odell i Norton, just over the Two Brothers’ saloon, and going up the stairs I brushed against the Captain, who was already, although it was still early in the evening, about half seas over, and insisted on my keeping him company while he tackled the Royal Bengal animal. Jim Odell was at the table himself dealing as the Captain entered, and buying JSO worth of checks he began the contest. Luck steadily favored him. and in a few minutes he had won $3,750 of the bank. With a drunken gravity the Captain now insisted I hat he had had enough for one night, and that he was going to bed. The smiling gambler tried in every way to induce him to play longer but to no purpose, and cashing in hi checks the Cap tain donned his evorcoat and prepared to leave the tiger's lair. Jim Norton, >he other partner, had entered the room in the meantime, and hail taken his place at the roulette wheel, which stood just inside the door of the gambling room. As the Captain lurched by him on his way to the door. Norton remarked: "You ain’t going out without giving us a bet, are you, Cap?" The Captain stopped a moment, and then un buttoning his overcoat he said t uckly: "Make you Just one bet, Jim." and laying a note all crumpled up into a little hall on the double eagle, he said: "Just let >r go, Jim. - ’ “Around spun the little ball, and when it stopped at last the double eagle had won. Drawing the note toward him to see how much he bad got to pay, the double eagle calling for 37 to 1, he burst into a loud oath, for the Cap tain had laid down a cent ury note, and that single spin of the ball had just cost the Arm just 83,700 more. Slowly and sadly the surprised gambler paid over the money, saying: "You can go now. Cap. The "man that can win $3,700 of us at faro, and then double it on one bet at the wneel has too much luck to buck again. Come in some time again when you're sober.” Killed by her Husband and her Son at her Own Request. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ottawa, Can., Oct. 33.— Advices received by the government here from Edmonton, North west Territories, in connection with the prelimi nary investigation into the murder of Mrs. Marie Courtereille, by her husbaDd and step-son, dis elose one of the most inhuman crimes ever re ported in the far West. John Ward, son-in-law of the elder prisoner, testified that he was liv ing near the prisoners at Lesser Slave Lake. Early in July last Mrs. Courtereille showed symptoms of insanity, and, as he alleges, begged of her relatives to kill her, as she was about to become a canuilial. and was possessed of an evil spirit, that impelled her to kill and eat human beings. To prevent her doing in jury it was attempted, according to Ward's story, to keep her tied for twenty days, but she repeatedly got loose. One night, however, about the beginning of September, Ward who was sleeping in Courtereille’s house, was awakened by the woman, who had unloosed her fetters, and was choking the old man. When spoken to she bellowed luce a wild animal. She was secured and asked to lie killed, other wise she would kill and eat them The husband anil stepson replied that they could not kill her. as they loved her, hut finally agreed to pray for her. She again appealed to them to take her life, as she said she could not resist the evil spirit within her, and would certainly kill and eat them all if they did not do as she said. Fearing her threats would be carried into exe cution, father and son agreed to dispatch her, and, securing an ax, they carried out their ter rible determination, burying the body immedi ately. The prisoners are noiv both confined in Fort Saskatchewan waiting trial. The Trials of a Mother. From the Chicago Tribune. The benevolent old lady's face took on a sadder expression as she drew out a large handkerchief with a pink border and said: "1 have been very sadly afflicted by my chil dren—very." "Yes?" Inquired the sympathetic friend. "My son llazubah, my first-born, committed forgery and went to the penitentiary for tiveive years." •sad," admitted the friend. "Mv next son, Ahirneleeh, burned up his house to get the insurance and got twenty eight years.” "What an affliction!” murmured the friend. "Then my next son, Joshua, embezzled the funds of an orphan asylum and went to Canada.” "Very, very heartrending," said the friend. "Obadiah, my next son. took to petty thiev ing. became a vagrant and a drunkard, and has been a t ramp and Anarchist for ten years. But it seems as Ir it was reserved for my youngest son. Josaphat. Who should be the support and comfort of my declining years, to try me the worst and fill my last days with bitterness.” "Murder?” faltered the friend, "red-handed, bloody—” "Oh, no," replied the old lady as she again sought her handkerchief; “no, not murder’ though I reckon some of his victims would rather prefer it. No, he went out to Kansas City and has goue to booming real estate. An Ode to Chicago. From Drift's Hired Man. Seven little bomb-throwers in a bad fix; One gets his neck stretched, then there are sLx. Six little bomb-throwers still left alive; One takes a jump up, ami then there are five. Five little bomb-throwers occupy the floor; One slips his cable, and now we have four. Four little bomb-throwers singing “tra la la tee!" One walks the tigbt-rope, and now there are three. Three little bomb-throwers feeling quite blue; One kicks his feet out, making it two. Two little bomb-throwers watching the fun: A man waves a h indkerehlef, leaving us one. One little bomb-thrower out on a fly; Seven little bomb-throwers against the clear sky. Seven little bomb-throwers nil hi a row: Learn well the lesson, hoys, cover bomb? throw. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It is said that Col. Cody's share of the profits of the American Exposition in Loudon consisted of £70,000 and a position in "society.” The Czar entertained his royal Danish rela tives with a feat of strength the other day. He took anew pack of cards, and by a quick mo tion of his hands tore it right through. James B. Bell, who is mentioned as having been an eccentric man, died recently in Middle field, Conn. Ho leaves four wives, and has goi • to meet three, and at the lime of his death ho was preparing for his eighth marriage. Simon Cameron announces, at the age of 88 years, that he proposes to make a European tour every two or three years to watch the progtess if civilization. An old man of sued spunk is worth a dozen of half bis years. Miss Rhoda Burchett, a prominent young lady at Owensboro, has given birth to a child without ears, eyes, or arms. It has a patch of hair on each cheek and also between the shoul ders. The report says it is living and doing well. A meeting of colored men of English birth was held in Boston last week for the purpose of arranging to join the British-American Associa tion. It is said that there are between 800 and JO.) colored British subjects in Boston and nearly 0,000 scattered throughout tlie State. To construct new railroads in the United States and repair old ones, according to the estimate of timber of the forestry division of the Agricultural Department, a total of 8Ai,713,358 cubic feet of lumber is used annually. This is equivalent to over 000,000,000 feet of round timber. Newport is becoming more and more a place for the very wealthy. People with iucomes of 830.000 to $33,000 a year can no longer make a show there anil participate in fashionable gayety. Au income of $50,000 even does not enable one to meet the exacting demands of the American Vanity Fair. Fire and smoke issuing from the show win dow of a dealer in spectacles in Torquay. Eng., attracted the attention of a passer-by, who en tered and aroused the proprietor. The sun's rays had become focused through the glass of a pair of spectacles which were shown in a win dow, and thus ignited a shade. Senorita Matilde Montoya is the first Mexi can girl to become a doctor. A committee of young men of the City of Mexico got up a hull light in honor of her courage, and devoted the proceeds to the purchase of books and instru ments for her. In the Dull fight two of the toreros were hurt, one of them seriously. Wine from a b-wmetioally sealed bottle ex humed in 1877, from the Roman Cemetery of Aliscamps, near Arles, is said be the London Globe to have been analyzed by Berthelot, the well-known French ctieniist. The analysis shows that the liquid has retained its vinous , character, and contained 4j<j per cent of alco hol. Last wee.k at Durazno, Sinaloa, in Mexico, seven bandits entered the place. The inhabi tants treated them kindly, and got ud a ball in their honor. The uncanny guests were liberally plied with liquor, and when quite drunk were set on by men and voinen, armed with knives, and all killed exee*.- one, who escaped badly wounded. Among the relics taken from the High Mound, near the Ohio river, recently, were two silver crosses auu thirty silver shoe buckles. The buckles, bearing tlie French crown and date of 1730, were probably part of a convent outfit and belonged to some Jesuit missionaries. This in dicates the use of the mounds as burial places down to quite recent times. At Monti cello, N. Y., a few days ago a con test between a black snake 5 feet long and a water moceasin 18 inches long was witnessed by several people. The moccasin had the battleali its own way. It ceiled itself so tightly around the neck or its opponent that ridges half an inch deep were imbedded in the flesh. The black snake was choked to death. In the stomach of a man-eating shark caught off the coast of Virginia, were a shoulder of bacon, a piece of beef weighing five pounds, and the shoulder blade of some good-sized animal. A schooner had gone to pieces a few days pre viously not far from where the shark was caught, and that probably accounted for the creature's well-fed condition. Although Californians have given much at tention to the cultivation of the olive, the oil produced lacks the best qualities of good Italian oil. It has not the rich color of the oil of Italy. It is so limpid, and is wanting in the aromatic flavor so desirable. Italian experts think that the California olive growers have not gone high enough in the mountains. Dr. W. I. White of Council Bluffs gave the President a health charm as he rode through that city. As he put it into the President's hand he said: “That's a Christian charm to cure alt manner of diseases. When you had rheumatiz last winter 1 sent you a charm that cured you and saved your life. This will save your life and bring you into the kingdom of God.” There are twenty-five academies and sem inaries in Indian Territory to which the youths of the different tribes have access, and now they will soon h ive a college. Subscriptions amount ing to 820.000 have already been raised, and building will begin next spring. It is to be lo cated at Vinita. and named Galloway College, after Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi. B. B. Bunnell, of Bradford, Conn., has in vented an automatic lamp which goes by clock work. When the right hour comes a cap is drawn over the wick, leaving a small blaze: the cap is lifted wheu the lamp is needed again. Several of these are use in the streets of New London, and go without any care for several days, a large tank of oil supplying them. It is reported that the old Great Eastern is to be brought to New York and converted into a floating hotel and ocean excursion boat. It is said that she lias just been re-sold in t.onion for $105,000, which shows that she has passed into new hands, and it may be these that are acting for the New Yorkers. The alleged syndicate in eludes some wealthy theatrical and Wall street people. # Martin Gaefori, aged 35, has just been sen tenced to penal servitude for life by the Corsi can Assize Court . In four years he has commit ted fifty highway robberies and several murders Once he lav in wait for the local magistrate, compelled him to sign n judgment in favor of Gaffori’s brother in a litigation pending, and then took all the magistrate's money and seared him so that be did not dare make complaint to the police until Gaffori was arrested. Eighteen years ago, when the air brake was tried, it required eighteen seconds to apply it to a train 3.000 feet long. Four years later the time was reduced four seconds. Rec oit exnori ments with the air brake on freight trains show that it can be applied to every car in a train of that length running at the rate of forty miles an hour, and that this train can be stopped within 500 feet, or one fourth of its own length, and all this without any serious jolting. Within twenty-four hours recently the ther mometer fell from summer weather to some de grees below zero centigrade in Silesia. A single night's snowfall put an end to telegraphic communication. Wreaths some inches deep hung from the poles and wires, anil in mai y places the wires were hroken and poles over turned by the fierce winds accompanying the snow. It. is many years since there has been such a severe and early beginning of winter there. Among the early frequenters of Hyde Park, London, in the winter is an elderly lady whose regular appearance between the hours of fi and 7 furnishes a pleasing incident of a morning promenade. She enters by wav of the Marble Arch, an attendant closely following, and her coming is the signal for the gathering of the sparrows about her. They evidently recognize in her their purveyor, and their graiuerv hi the hag from which the servant liberal]’- disburses For years the winter's scant simply lias finis heen supplemented for the chattering little ! brown birds that live n old elms, and they like the doves of Venice, seeming to take note of time, are always in prompt attendance upon the morning meal furnished bv their humane friend In May last Mr. Lutlier F. Brooks of the firm of Brooks & Pike, diamond merchants and mounters, came across a petrified lish in Oregon ami purchased it of a man who had just brought it down from the mountains. The finder said it mtme out of a ledge on top of the mountain near Portland, about 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. The stone from which it was obtained came off in layers. At the time Air. Brooks purchased it the tail of the fish could he seen and that was all. He set to work removing the rock that covered the remainder of the fish He worked carefully and slowly for several hours a day for six weeks, and was rewarded by obtaining a tine specimen of a petrified fish that is probably thousands of years old. The fish is about 17V£ inches long and ti inches through fhe widest or thickest part. The outlines of the tail are perfect and the small rib bones are ns distinct as though they had just been placed there. Fhe upper and lower fins are also plainly seen, and the head has retained il t shape. The vertebral column Is also ■ lendv defined. The stone proper is of a lighi grayish tint, forming an excellent relief or background for the dark color wt the fish. It is not unlike a codfish. BAKING POWDER. cream Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century It is used by the United States Government. 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