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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.
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