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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Myrtle Lodge No. 6. K. P.; Pulaski
Council No. 153, R. A.; Landrum Lodge No. 48,
F. and A. M.
Special Notices— To Shareholders of Germa
nia Fire Company of Savannah; As to Crew of
British Steamship Winston: State and County
Taxea 1887; Bills Against Austrian Bark
Aquila.
Auction Sale— Horse and Buggy, Furniture,
Matting, etc., by 3larshall 4 McLeod.
Publications— The Century.
Grand Display— At West’s China Palace.
Legal Notice— Application to Sell Real Es
tate.
McGlashan Saddlery C 0.—187 Broughton
street.
CnrAP Column Advertisements -Hein Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; hound;
Strayed or Stolen; Reward: Miscellaneous
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Carpets. ETc.-Tveple 4 Cos.
Chicago is preparing for the next census
by annexing surrounding towns, with an
estimated population of !00,0(Xi. She is
anxious to rank next after New \ ork, and
may do so.
The drawings for the new public building
at Charleston please all who see them. The
structure is to be Gothic in design, and con
structed of white marble, if the cost of that
material be not too great.
There is consolation for the red-headed
girls. A dramatic critic d-scribes Mrs.
Potter, just now' the most famous American
beauty, as a slight young woman with red
hair. She may make it the fashion.
Some New Yorkers are said to be building
a flying machine, to be driven by electricity.
The community could afford to pay Herr
Most and a few of x-u immediate followers
a good round sum to make an experimental
trip in it.
The Commercia 1 Cable Company has in
creased its stock from $4,000,(Xk) to $8,000,-
000. Perhaps this increase of capital is in
tended to meet the expenses of the cable
war, as no announcement of an extension of
lines is made.
The Mormon., have come to t he conclusion
that Turkey is the only country whose laws
will not bother them, and have asked per
mission to establish a colony in that coun
try. The Sultan ought to make them
heartily welcome.
The New York city newspapers are get
ting to be quite warlike, but there is no
probability that there will be any blood
spilled. Some of Mr. Nicoll’s newspaper ad
vocates are doing him more harm than
good. Beware of a newspaper that seeks
to boom itself when it is pretending to boom
some popular favorite.
The grand jury at Wolverhampton, Eng.,
has appealed to tho governing committee of
the public library of that city, to with
draw from its shelves all copies of Andrew
Carnegie’s “Triumphant Democracy.” The
result will doubtless be that the book will
attract more attention than ever. The
grand jury advertises it very widely by its
action. _____
Copper has advanced 40 per cent, in price
In the last few weeks. It is interesting in
this connection to remember that the pro
duction of this metal in the United States
is in the hands of one or two great com
panies, protected by a high tariff, who are
said to be able in some mysterious way to
sell copper more cheaply in foreign than in
home markets.
It has long been thought that among the
editors of Western frontier newspapers was
to be found the greatest capacity for the
use toward each other of the abusive epi
thets with which the English language is so
liberally supplied. This is a mistake. The
men who edit the great dailies of New York
now take the lead in this accomplishment
of the blackguard.
Stephen Girard, most of whose immense
fortune went to found the college called by
his name at Philadelphia, has been dead
more than fifty years, but a suit has just
been instituted by some of bis relatives to
recover a part of the estate for their own
use. The wills of dead millionaires seem to
be the hardest things in the world to prop
erly construe and execute,
John C. New, one of the leaders of In
diana Republicans, says it would be suicidal
for his party to nominate Blaine next year,
and an Ohio Republican says if Sherman
makes a fight for the delegation from that
State he will certainly lose it. It liegins to
look as if- the Republicans were despairing
of success with the old leaders, and when
the time comes will select new men.
Frightened by the concessions to Count
de Mitkiewiez, Loudon merchants have
formed au association to push their trade
energetically in China. They fear that the
supremacy they have long enjoyed in that
market is threatened. This action on their
part will do much to convince incredulous
Americans that the Philadelphia syndicate,
of which De Mitkiewiez was the agent, has
got something valuable.
Mr. Powderly failed in his effort to oust
Barry from the Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor, and some recent utter
ances of the latter will deepen the regret
that he failed. He not only expressed sym
pathy for the condemned Anarchists but for
anarchism, and expressed the belief that
the murderous Haymarket bomb was
thrown by detectives. He does not give
any reason for this belief. As might, per
haps. be expected, Mr. Barry is also an in
fidel. Altogether, he has succeeded in
making it plain that he is very much out of
place in the governing council of ail order
of law-abiding workingmen.
Sea Coast Defenses.
One of the most important questions be
fore last Congress was that of sea coast de
fenses. It was quite fully discussed, and
there appeared to be but little if any doubt
that the work of constructing defenses for
our sea coast cities should be begun at once.
In fact, it was said with very general ap
proval that a portion of the surplus in the
Treasury could not be more wisely used than
in protecting our almost defenseless har
bors.
One of the reasons, doubtless, why there
has been so much delay in this matter, is the
feeling of uncertainty with regard to the
kind of defenses that it would bo advisable
to adopt. Experiments are being made all
the time with torpedoes ami dynamite guns,
and results are liable to be obtained at any
time that would change the whole plan of
coast defenses.
Another reasou is that, defenseless as our
seaports are, there is widespread confidence
in our ability to meet any emergency that
may arise. Notwithstanding the assertion
that is frequently made that England's
great iron-clads could force their wuy into
our harbors and destroy our seaport cities,
there is a belief in the public mind that
some way would be discovered to prevent
them.
Doubtless the present Congress will take
hold of the sea coast defense question in a
business-like way. Admiral Porter and
Gen. Duane, Chief of Engineers, in their
annual reports deal with this question very
thoroughly. They point out the necessity
for beginning the work of building fortifi
cations at once at a half dozen or more dif
ferent places. In fact, Gen. Duane has very
little to say about river aud harbor im
provements. He devotes almost the whole !
of his report to sea coast defenses.
Avery good beginning has tieen made
towards budding a navy, but the work can
scarcely be said to have fairly begun. Mil
lions more must follow the millions that
have already been spent, and even then we
shall not be able to meet upon the sea several
of the other nations on terms of equality.
There is no immediate danger of this
country becoming involved in a war, but
war sometimes comes when leiis ■ expected.
The Canadian newspapers are talking of
the probability of war between this country
and England if the recently appointed com
mission should not succeed in settling the
fishery trouble This probability may
hasten the action of Congress with regard
to sea coast defenses.
The New York Quarantine.
It would be interesting t<> know the truth
about the management of quarantine at
New York and the accommodations which
are provided for those who are held in
quarantine on Hoffman and Swinburne
islands. Several of the New York capers,
notably the Star and Timm, insist that the
accommodations on the islands are not
sufficient, and that the means pro
vided for preventing the introduction
of cholera into the country are far from
being satisfactory.
These broad statements based upon alleged
facts, and upon the opinions of several
Philadelphia physicians who have inspected
the quarantine arrangements at New York,
have induced ex-Senator Thomas C. Platt .the
President of the Quarantine Commission, to
rush into print, and declare that the publi
cations derogatory to the management of
the New York quarantine are falsehoods,
and have no other purpose than to bring
a bout the removal of Republicans who have
control of the quarantine, and the appoint
ment of Democrats in their places. Mr.
Piatt further hints that the Philadelphia
doctors were influenced in making the
statements they did by a desire to increase
the business of Philadelphia at the expense
of that of New York.
It is remarkable that so level-headed a
man as Mr. Platt is believed to lie should be
guilty of the folly of publishing such stuff
He accomplishes nothiug beyond creating
the impression that he wants to keep in
office the Republican quarantine officials,
whether they do their whole duty or not.
He admits that the accommodations on
Hoffman and Swinburne islands are not
what they ought to b , and that the cholera
infected immigrants who are now detained
there are without a good,matiy conven
iences which are necessary for health and
comfort. Mr. Platt also asserts that
the Governor has vetoed bills con
taining appropriations for the erec
tion of hospitals on the islands,
and hints that he did so to bring the man
agement of the Quarantine Commission
into disrepute.
In view of the fact that the cholera
which broke out in different places in this
country in 1878 was brought here by a
vessel which was noticeable for cleanliness,
and on which there had been no sickness
daring the voyage, Mr. Platt’s reasons for
permitting the Independente, a vessel
with immigrants from places where cholera
existed, to go to her wharf after only t wentj--
four hours detention, is certainly not satis
factory. The shaking up which the quar
antine officials at New York are getting
w’ill probably have the effect of making
them a little more careful. If it does, those
newspapers which have been stirring up
this quarantine matter will deserve the
thanks of the country.
The Morning News has received front
the publishers, Messrs. Mclntosh & Davis,
of the Albany News and Advertiser , a
neatly printed pamphlet, entitled “A Hand
Book of Albany and Dougherty County,
Georgia.” An edition of 10,01)0 copies of this
book has been printed, for free distribution,
and paid for by the city of Albany and the
county of Dougherty. What is strange ’n
such a pamphlet is that it is not an adver
tising scheme, gotton up in the interest of
some private speculator, but a well
written book, giving an account of
the advantages and inducements offered
by Albany and the county in which it is lo
cated to R ose seeking homes or investments
the South. Such a book, widely distrib
uted, cannot fail to be of great benefit to
the enterprising people who got it up. and
they will find that the SI,OOO invested in
printers’ iuk will bring them good returns.
A. R. Parsons, the condemned Anarchist,
has written a book, which he hopes will
make a little fortune for his wife and chil
dren after his death. Perhaps, in his im
mense egotism, he ranks himself in public
estimation with Gen. Grant, whose book,
also written with the hand of death upon
him, has brought a comfortable support to
his widow. Every one will hope that Mrs.
Parsons and her children may find the
means of livelihood, but it will hardly be
furnished by sales of her husband’s defense
of anarchism.
It is denied that Secretary Whitney has
any intention to resign. Ho is too proud of
what he has accomplished to leave his task
of creating a navy unfinished.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER i, 1887.
A Little Tariff Talk.
Gov. Hill, of New York, mode a ringing
speech in Brooklyn on last Tuesday night.
The points he made were' strong ones and
he supported them with arguments which
were convincing.
He called attention to that clause in the
last national Republican platform in which
the Republican party plodges itself to cor
rect the inequalities of the tariff. He
wanted to know what the Republican party
had done toward keeping that p.edge.
The truth is that it not only has done noth
ing but it has obstructed every attempt of
the Democratic party to correct the ine
qualities of the tariff. Whenever the
Democratic party has proposed a tariff
measure, looking to the correction of
these inequalities, it has been met
by the Republican cry that
any interference with the tariff would dis
turb the great’ business interests of the
country, and would be followed by financial
disaster and industrial ruin. The Republi
can party also persistently asserts that the
Democratic party aims to reduce the labor
of this country to the condition of the
pauper labor of Europe.
The fact that the Republican party nledges
itself to correct inequalities in the tariff is
an admission that such inequalities exist.
Is not that party then dishonest I It not
only refuses to do what it has pledged itself
to do, but also hinders the Democratic party
from doing it.
As for the Democratic party wanting to
reduce the labor of this country to a less
desirable condition than it now occupies,
that is all nonsense. The Democratic party
is the party of the laboring man. Its ranks
are filled with those who earn their bread
by manual labor. Its aim is to improve the
condition of workingmen, and promote
their welfare in every possible way.
in a speech lately delivered in New York,
Senator Hiscock said that the Republican
party was the real anti-poverty society. In
one respect it is. It is filled with rich men
—men who have accumulated millions from
manufacturing industries which a e pro
tected by the tariff. But the workingmen
of these millionaire manufacturers, are they
rich' Do they share in the profits which
the protective tariff makes possible; Asa
matter of fact as the years go by they see
themselves growing poorer, and the number
of comforts of life which they enjoy de
creasing. The Republican party is the friend
of workingmen only so lar as it can use
them, and no further. That this is true
must be aoparent to every workingman who
gives the history of the Republican party
careful study.
Increasing Rainfall.
It theory with some Western people
that the annua! rainfall on the dry plains
of that region is increasing as the railroads
multiply. Evidence is strong that the rain
fall is increasing, but the railroads aro re
sponsible for it only in the sense that they
ojien the lands to settlement. If it is true
that there lias been a steady increase the
most reasonable explanation of it is. per
haps, to be found in the increase of the num
ber of trees which lias followed the settle
ment of the plains, the upturning of the
soil by the farmer’s plow, and the growing
of green crops. These things are thought
not only to have a tendency to store moist
ure in the soil, but to attract it.
Gen. Morrow, of the United States
army, has had a long experience
on the Western plains, so that
his testimony is peculiarly valuable.
In a recent address at an agricultural fair
in Cheyenne county, on the extreme west
ern border of Nebraska, he stated that more
than twenty vears ago he led soldiers
through that region, when there was no set
tlement for 500 miles east. He then ob
served that the men could sleep in the open
air from May to November, and their blan
kets were not dampened by dews. Tb:-
vear he saw dews in August as heavy as in
States east of the Mississippi. At Cam)
Douglass the rainfall in 1861 was only eleven
inches, while for niue months of the
present year it was fourteen inches,
and it may be safely stated to have doubled
since the year first name’. The effect was
seen in the exhibitions at the fair of farm
products of every variety suited to the lati
tude The country is rapidly filling up with
homestead settlers.
The same state of things, in a less degree,
is shown in Texas. Years ago the plains of
the northern part of the State were looked
upon as valuable only for grazing purposes,
being too dry for profitable agriculture.
Now the whole regiou is becoming thick!v
populated, iarge towns aro springing up, all
varieties of Southern field products are
grown, and cattlemen are being forced into
the extreme western and northwestern por
tions of the State, where they may in time
be followed by the farmer, as climatic con
ditions change. Though no statistics are
given, it is the common opinion that the
amount of rainfall has increased largely.
This is true, also, of Western Kansas.
It has only of recent years that gov
ernment observation stations have been es
tablished in any part of the vast
regiou, comprising one-third of the
territory of the United States,
which was once looked upon as practically a
desert and incapable of development. It is,
therefore, hard to obtain exact knowledge
of the progressive improveinen- in climatic
conditions, but their carefully kept notes
will prove of value hereafter. It is to be
hoped they will prove beyond dispute that
the popular belief is well founded. It may
be that In time the country west ot the
Mississippi may be as thickly populated as
that east of it.
The wretchedness and suffering among
the families of the 1,300 employes of the
bankrupt National Rubber Coippany at
Bristol, R. 1., are described by a Boston
paper as extreme. Women and children
are crying for bread, and the storekeepers
of the town are threatened with financial
ruin, because they will not refuse credit to
their starving customers. Wages for several
months are due its workmen by the com
pany, and it seems to be hopelessly involved.
Protection and a ring did not save it from
a disaster which involved hundreds of poor
people.
The Lehigh Coal Company has finally
found a seam of coal in the search for
which it had expended SBO,OOO. It is at tho
great depth of 1,089 feet, and is estimated
to bo worth $3,000,000. The great depth at
which anthracite is being mined contrasts
sharply with the shallow Southern mines.
Exploration at greater depths in tho latter
may lead to valuable developments, but
will hardly be necessary for many years to
come.
The Republicans have a very large ma
jority in Philadelphia, hut tho Democrats
seem to have them on the run in this cam
paign. It is unsafe for even the strongest
machine to defy public opinion in its nomi
nations.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A May Make Trouble.
From tlif Hi emaa/ham Aye (Deal.)
The Montgomery Dispatch savs: “ ‘The swan
song of the ColiftWF lUI •} ’ ai ilacon last week
was the dlapWßOTor adveaveiily melody." It is
n-t unlikely our kind friends at the North are
going to pli*y. The with that tuiie.
Must Give a Guarantee Against Gould.
I'ra.c 'the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
Before Senator Cullom’s scheme for a postal
telegraph is put into operation there is one
thing which should be definitely settled. That
is. the government must give its solemn promise
that it will never sell out to Jay Gould.
The Pope Rits on a Happy Phrase.
Front the Philadelphia Record (Dem. i
The Pope told a deputation of 1,800 French
workingmen vyiio ma le a congratulatory call
upon him to-beware or th li sivoincitation. The
phrase “delusive mi lratl- n hits the nail on tile
head, it is the pup rue ..flabor the world over.
Democratic Allias Will Do as Well.
Fei*n the 11-I .7 ton Past ( lie in.)
The Aupistbn /hd fr .t would like to si e the
Republican party of \1 ibanm in much belier
condition than S' is. not too large, but just large
enough to be regularly defeat-d. if half a
dozen Alabama papery, of which the Hot Blast
is one, succeed iri wjpiug out the internal reve
nue tax and retaining the tariff as it is, the size
of the Republican party in Alabama and else
where Will not be of so much consequence.
BRIGHT BITS.
A new color in ladies’ dress goods is called
“spanked baby.” it is used in bawl dresses.—
Nvtr Hacen Sews
' ’Pa." said a New Hampshire farmer’s daugh
ter, ' the laziest tramp t ever saw came into the
yard to-day. He stood t here by the wood pile
and let the dog undress him.”— Burlinyton
Free. Press.
A cousin or John Brown died lately and
Queen Victoria had the funeral delayed two
days until she could attend. Anglomaniacs will
tie their ears back with mourning ribbon for
two weeks.— Pilot,
“Ota dinner tahitV,” said Mr. Newboarder
pleasantly, as lie studied the pattern of the
cloth, “reminds me of a time table." “And
wherefore?” inquired the prompter. “More
figures BhSn ' fodder. " was the soft answer,
which tuffiea on the wrath.— Burdette.
Teacher to Naughty Boy—Now, sir, hold out
your ba mb!
Naughty Boy—Look out, ma'am! There’s a
raou-e behind you 1
(Tearher screams violently and makes a dash
for girls’; entry. School adjourns at boys’
entry,)— Bnehnytan Free Press.
Jim Jinks (meothigLonl Horfleswell on Broad
way)- I low are you, my lord?
Lord Horfleswell (puls up his glass and stares)
—You hate tile advantage.
J J —Met you in the Adirondacks. Don’t you
remember.-
Lord Hdpfleswell—Oß! All! Delighted, you
know, to know you in the Adirondacks.
Turns his back and goes on— Town Topics.
A oentlemlih entered a phrenologist’s office in
Boston and asked to have bis head examined
After a moment's inspection the professor
started back, exclaiming- "Good heavens! you
have tile most unaccountable combination of at
tribute I ever discovered in a human being.
Were yisir parents eccentric?"
"No, sir," replied the all-round character,
meekly, “but my wife is. You needn’t to pay
any attention to’ the larger bumps, sir.”—Bur
lington free Press.
The Blessings of Freedom — Distinguished
Foreigner—u studying your public school sys
tern i find that, according to the reports, Ameri
can girls are smarter i nail American boys,
rnnaha MaJi—Well, they ought to be.
“Why so?"
“If girls don’t marry they must be smart
enough to earn a living, you know.”
"But so must the boys.”
“No; if they have no brains they can make
plenty of money by running our political con
v.-ufions. pJfiidjgoiu 1 iv contracts aud holding
the offices.’"— Omaha World.
New York Dame-—firs, 'vent is the sensation
of the IjoGriiSi;New York now. She claims to be
a daughter orQiieen Victoria.
Omaha Girl—Queen Victoria!
“Yes, she say., t e nurse or somebody substi
tuted uhother child for her. and she wants her
relation to the t>!-en rec ig:iiz.-d.”
"Hut if she is Victoria's daughter that would
make tie Briny-o of Wales her brother, and con
nect her with (Some of those dukes and mar
viuises the l apcrs tailt, about.’’
"Yes.”
“Humph! I should think sled keep quiet
about it. —Out alia World.
All Ladies— Ah, Mrs. Genteel, how do you
do to-day? It is im age since I have seen you
How is your daughter Katie? 1 haven't seen
her for a (oau.tinie.
"She's quite well, thank you. She’s a sales
lady note ht Plush A Silk's .-.10re.”
“ind -ed? .fuvi your daughter Mamie?"
“Oli. Mamie is fort-lady in the new tomato
canning esiabli-hment.”
T hadn't heard that. Is Lulu at home now? '
"No. she bis give- to Hartford as waiting
1 !y t.> 1 ye.ry Wealthy and aristocratic woman
1 ring there.
“Oh, has she? Then you have only Lena at
home, I presume?"
“Oh. hu; I .utjfc has just accepted a situation
as mirscdadjni the family of Judge K. She
lias an elegant place.”
"So you are l.vuig alone?”
“No. we have given up our house for the win
ter. aud latu now cook aly at Mrs. Blank's
hoarding hofist*.”— Tid Bits.
PERSONAL.
H. Rider H*cxiard is said to have two more
literary monstrosities in course of construction.
The woman who threw the pancake in Mrs.
carriage is now on exhibition in a
dime museum.
Col. Yajlaol'cht, Capt. 11. Islierly and
T.ieuf. M. i.o.it. of the Japanese Imperial
army, arc expected in Washington in a duy or
two.
Before me. Patti would consent to take a
recent voyage the owners of a channel line of
steamers had to repaper and paint her state
room.
Mr, Joseph Chamberlain, the British states
man now crossing the ocean to this country,
describes himself as "a diplomatist not a
politician, ’ aiul adds that he is "a tried yacnts
uian.”
Mrs. John Marki.e. of Hazleton. Pa., bears a
striking resemblance’ to Mrs. Lillie Langtry
when she llrst emerged upon the stage Charles
F. Naegie's portrait of the Jersey Lily sas very
generally taken at t lie recent exhibition at
Washington Heights for a portrait of the beau
tiful Mrs. Markle.
The Duchess d'Auxy s baby, born last week
in New York, is named Gannie Felicite Lucille
Belynde Mary Rost- Atige. The father is regis
tered as Charles Eugene Edouard, Duke and
Marquis d'Auxy, and the mother as Charlotte
Antoinette de Cr.rawne Lamar. The godfathers
are Secretary lamatr iu>d Gen. McMahon, and
the godmother Mrs. Lamar.
Col. Rice, Gor. Hill's private Secretary, who
has been paying a visit to the White House, is
a second Lament, so fns as political ability is
concerned. His smooth, boyisn face gives little
indication of his mature mental powers. He
looks like u young "society man" w hose gavext
care lies in lending germane. But under his
suave and polished exterior lies a far-seeing,
wellnalaiicjJ ruth powerful character. To his
natural girtifdie lias added the ornaments which
coijv* from culture and travel, and he has a
bright future
When Gerf.'l’hiltoek Was presented to Miss
Wiss Winnie Davis she was alluded to as the
"Daughter Confederacy." The gallant
General whs HI ’captive at once by her beauty
and grace, aud. extending his hand, said: "Miss
Winnie, I am a widower; please enroll me
as a candidate for the position of
son-in-law of the Confederacy.’’ This sally met
witli a found of applause, and Col. Hardin re
marked that "there would be one source of con
gratulation in marrying the daughter of the
Confederacy—the groom would never be both
ered with nitVnothei-iu law."
Mire. Patti Wifi leave her castle, Craig-y-
Nois, in South Wales, Nov. 15 for u concert tour
of the British provinces, which will continue
until Dec. 0. Then She will go to Paris, where
she will give a concert on Dec. 8 for the benefit
of the French tins filial in London. Dee. 13 she
will begin a season of two weeks in Lisbon, after
which she will spend a month giving concerts in
Madrid, tin s first bf which Is fixed for Dec. 31.
At the coitclueiDroCt his season she will return
to London and remain thmv until March S. when
she will sail foi) Bueno* Ayres, accompanied by
Maurice Gran, to fulfill an engagement fora
South American tour.
The Princetrm lav. takes pride in recalling the
fact that both Mr. Cowen. of Maryland, and Mr.
Niooll are Princeton men, saving: "In the pres
ent political exciteteuut in many State and
municipal Campaign^’no two names have lieeu
more prominent than those of J. K. Cowen, 'tlti,
and De Jamcey Modi, 74. Mr. Cowen has led
the most remui liable political revolt against a
State party \yv, boro scon in recent years, and
has been supported throughout by Princeton
’men. Mr. Ni'eviW'wafrvices in the boodle trials
have made him 'famous over the land, and de
spite the (UlWtVov the Democracy to nominate
him for District Attorney, his nomination by the
UeLublicans may raise him to that office."
THE DECLINE OF KISSING.
Some of the Reasons Why It Has Fallen
Into Desuetude.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Kissing is out of style. Nobody does it now
but sweethearts, young children, and teachers.
The first blow was struck by the medical pro
fession about the time of the decease of Princess
Alice. Ever since the practice has been de
nounced. and in families where proper respect
is paid to hygiene, children are cautioned
against promiscuous kissing.
In society a woman is not kissed twice in a
season. When an old friend is greeted and she
advances with her lips the victim turns her face
and the carer s falls askance. Possibly the very
woman who is opposed to the practice takes the
initiative, but her lips never meet lips. She may
kiss within a fraction of your mouth—kiss your
chin, vour cheek, or your forehead; kiss your
“eyelid into repose/’or kiss your hair—but if she
has had any training, socially, she will never kiss
{'our mouth. The repugnance to kissing is due
largely to the academic training. In nearly all
the famous colleges for women there is a
social teacher, or doerress, in physiology; and
in the so-called oral recitations the pernicious
elects of osculation are considered at great
length. By way of tolerating w hat seems to be
u necessary evil, various theories are advanced
and various provisions advocated. The girl
who comes from Smith College. Northampton,
kisses on the oblique line that falls from the
left corner of your mouth, but when kissed, is
so adroit in the way she jerks her head that the
point of salutation may lie found on a radius
from the ot her demure little mouth. The
Vassar graduate kisses more than her Smith
College friend, but the chin is her choice, as you
will observe in an attempt to salute her. The
seniors from Wesley press their kisses high up
on the face, almost under the sweep of the eye
lash. and the Lake Forest autl Harvard Annex
maidens kiss at a point equally distant from the
nose and eat*.
Nothing is more dainty than the kiss of a
well-bred chaperone, who, mindful of the time
and trouble spent over the powder box, gently
presses her lips on your hair just north of your
ear. The minister's wife is another sweet soul,
who knows where a kiss will do the least harm,
and her favorite met hod is an air kiss, with a
gentle pressure of her cheek to your cheek. The
woman of fashion who patronises you. and lets
you visit her while she is at her siesta, kisses
you anywhere about the triangle between the
eye, ear. and hair line. Bhe has learned long
ago about the incompatibility of haste and
grace, and as she advances you see her lips
turn in. and simultaneous with the kiss is a
thick, viscous noise that sounds like the tearing
of a middle-aged marshmallow drop.
Married women are more addicted to kissing
than single ones, as every lady knows who goes
calling, and they are the very kisses that a
young woman least enjoys for the reason their
lips are always wet. Kissing the face of an ir
regularly powdered soapy smelling dame is
about as unsavory a pastime as gathering a bou
quet, of dandelions. The West Side women
otffkiss any other division of Chicago. The South
Sillers kiss discreetly and the belles and ma
trons along the lake shore are too eosmo|x>litan
ro waste their sweetness. Their greeting is the
handshaking prescribed by London and indorsed
bv the patricians >f Newport and Murray Hill
Meet a Kush or Cass street lady and she frankly
proffers her easily gloved hand and shakes
from the shoulder to a one-two count. Her
nretty cousin on B<!lveue avenue and lake shore
drive Is more artistic, and her arm is rigid
from the elbow up. Go still further north,
and the carefully schooled young wife and her
queenly sister shake hands, but never an inch of
t ue arm.
Andrew Johnson's Fondness for
Sherry.
From the Washington Critic.
If Dickens* fat boy bad been colored he would
have looked very much like Col. Lament s door
keeper, Arthur, who has been in the White
I louse for a Quarter of a ceutury, Arthur was
he White House butler when* Johnson was
Hivsideut, and he says: “He (the Piesident)
liked good liquors, but he did not drink too
much, and he was especially toud of sherry. I
guess I remember his sherry mighty well/’
Arthur went on. smacking his lips* “Bale
sherry! Have you ever drunk it? And Mistah
loh u.son always had the best. I had the keys
of the pantry and 1 served all the wines. I re
in-miter once we got a case of seuppernong
vine from North Carolina. It was presented
u> the President. I brough him in
-one one day. He tasted it, and then handed
the glass back to me saying; ‘Arthur, that wine
is from North Carolina, and you are from North
. ‘arolina; I guess that wine w ill suit you l>etter
than it does me. and you make take it.' I
carted those two dozen bottles home that night,
and let me tell you that seuppernong wine w'as
•; tod.
“I remember the time when they were trying
to get Stanton out of the War Department.
We had three or four Cabinet meetings a day,
and every Cabinet meeting I would have io
bring in a lunch, a part of which was always
ome of this pale sherry. You remember Sta -
son shut himself up in the War Department and
he wouldn't let any of Johnsons appointees
get possession. I remember how old Mr.
Thomas, when he was appointed Secretary of
War, was got out of Stanton's office by him.
ild man Thomas liked good whisky. He had
got into the office of Secretary of War and
Stanton wanted to get him on;. He asked him
if he wouldn't like to have a drink, lie told
him he had a good bottle across the hall. When
h * got him there he quietty slipped back before
Thomas knew what he was about and locked
the door."
To-Morrow.
From the Chicayo Inter-Ocean
Bind up a wreath and give it me
Before this dull day closes,
And in the garland let there be
The thorns as well as roses:
Weave violets in and greenest bays
Weave willow for my sorrow.
Sad flowers for the yesterday,
White lilies for to-morrow.
White lilies, for they tell of peace
Beyond the gates of even
Where whispers of the soul's release
Seem mystic hints of heaven.
And yesterday—but that has gone,
And so I needs must borrow
A hope of that swift coming dawn.
The proatise of to-morrow.
Forever more to-morrow lends
Bright visions of completeness;
Tin-- levers, and :he steadfast friends
With faces full of sweetness;
But backward all seems dim and gray,
And vaguely touched with sorrow;
I care not for your yesterday
If I may have to-morrow.
The past is past—ah: dead indeed,
I weep not for its going.
Its phantoms weird no more I heed
Than west winds wildly blowing;
Press onward, aye. and upward, heart,
While I my gladness borrow,
For hope and I shall never part
While I can have to-morrow.
Ernest McOaffney.
Gave the Crook a Pointer.
From the Chicayo Journal.
Two gentlemen neighbors happening to sit
next to each other on the street car on the
morning trip to their offices, one temarked to
the other,that be should lx* bothered all day be
cause lie had left his watch under his pillow.
Then they naturally fell into a conversation ns
to how they disposed of their valuables at night
At the next street corner a man got off, went
back to the house of the owner of the watch,
wiiom he knew by sight and reputation, and
represented himself to the lady of the house us
a messenger from her husband sent for his
watch left under his pillow. She. finding the
valuable in that place, unsuspectingly handed it
to the thief, who ran no risk whatever of detec
tion, and deliberately walked away with his
booty. Another case was that of a lady, some
years ago, who, while ascending on the eltvo
ter of one of our largest dry goods stores, sud
denly discovered that she had left her silver
portemonnaic at some counter. Acash hoy was
in the elevator going up to the top floor with
them. "Send this boy to the desk for it," said
the lady's friend Thereupon the lady described
the purse, its contents and its inscription. The
boy left the goods he was carrying at thair des
tination, received his reti r.i instructions, and
then went to th • and -sk. He was just a moment
too late. ‘'l have just given that purse to a
woman who descii >ed it accurately," said the
clerk at the disk ''and, she went immediately
out of the door." The owner of the purse
should have le’ hough I h -rselt how many audi
tors she had in the elevator.
Eig Baltimoreans.
From the Baltimore Newt.
The average Baltimorean feeds well, and
under the persuasive influence of the gentle ter
rapin, the gamey canvashack ami the pensive
oyster, his waist expands and the lines of his
form extend to take in his well rounded propor
tions.
Col. Louis Strasburger said, “there were five
measures taken out of our establishment in
the last thirty days which I think were the
largest ever taken 111 this city, considering the
age of the persons measured. Here are the tig
ures:
"Ist 50 breast, 52 waist, age 27.
"Sid—sl breast, 56 waist, age 21. •
"3d —52 breast. V. waist, age 24.
‘ '4th -53 breast, 58 w aist, age 80.
"sth—s4 breast. 58 waist, age 16.
"The last measure is t hat of a youth of 16,
who hts not yet attained his full growth, but
who tkeiehs ,iv4M' iVJ puuudtj."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The America's cup committee will prepare
and print a complete history of the recent trial
contests and the late famous victory.
Congregationalism is growing in Pennsylva
nia. It has now ninety-five churches in that
State and has made a net gain of 80 per cent, in
church membership since 1880.
The Strasburg library, which was destroyed
by fire during the Franco-Prussian war, now
contains 600,000 volumes, a large part of which
have been given to the institution.
A large pelican, with a bill as long as a
coal-dealer, was captured near Crete, Neb., last
week. It measured 6 feet from tip to tip of
wings, 5 feet from the tip of its bill to the tip of
it* tail, and weighed 12 pounds.
A wax figure of Pranzini, the famous French
murderer, has been added to the chamber of
horrors in Mine. Taussand's exhibition in
don. The clothes are like those worn by him on
the morning of his execution, and the figure
has been placed near the guillotine, which is an
exact model of the one which sliced his head off.
William Russell Sever, the oldest graduate
of Harvard College, died at Plymouth, Mass.,
Sunday, aged 96. His father, grandfather and
great-grandfather all graduated from Harvard.
He graduated in 1811 in t lie same class with
Edward Everett, Dr. William Perry and Prof.
John White Webster, who murdered Dr. Park
man. He was a bachelor.
There w#h an extraordinary drought in ore
part of China this year. On July 5 H. E.
Sheuf, the taotai of Cheloo customs and
Cheloo circuit, issued a proclamation
prohibiting the killing of four-footed beasts,
and he, with some officials, went to the
Tien Hon temple to pray the gods for rain. On
the following day there was a gentle rain, and
on the thirteenth a heavy shower.
Cookey Gamm and Shoo Peterside, sons of Ja
Ja, the great Oil river sovereign, will spend sev
eral years in England studying branches of
learning not taught in their native mangrove
swamps. It was Cookey Gamin who was round
by a traveler last year sprawled out under a
palm tree with scarcely a thread of clothing on
diligently studying algebra. Shoo Peterside has
also displayed commendable zeal in the pursuit
of knowledge.
During a recent sitting of the Council-General
of the Bouches-du-Khone, a committee ap
pointed to examine the finances found that 800
francs a year was paid to the “guardians of the
tower." Investigation showed that the tower
had been suppressed since 1867; a total, there
fore, of 10,000 francs having been paid for
guarding nothing for twenty years. At St.
Cloud an employe of the palace still received a
salary for waxing the floor. The palace was
bombarded into ruins in 1870.
Frank M. Taylor, the superintendent of the
great ocean pier at Long Branch, carries a
unique silk umbrella. The handle is topped
, with hammered gold from ass piece found on
the beach last winter. The stick was cut from
one of the leaves of an ebony table which came
over with the Puritans in the Mayflower. The
ribs are covered with black silk taken from the
dress worn by a lady at the time she was pulle l
from before an engine in time to save her life.
The ease, or cover, is made from cloth from the
catafalque in the funeral car of President Gar
field.
Large consignments of whisky of American
manufacture sent to Germany for storage two
years ago are now returning on the European
steamships, the freight both ways and the stor
age being considerably less than the cost of
keeping the bailors in l>onded warehouses in
this country. During the summer the owners
of large distilleries shipped their products to
Bremen ad other ports for storage and to
avoid onerous revenue charges. Much ot the
whisky exported i- now lx*ing returned, the
limit of tune it is allowed to remain out of the
country having expired.
Frederick Bennett of Newton county. 111.,
courted Anna Haywood: and as her father ob
jected to the young man she eloped with him to
the State line, and, going 100 feet into Indiana,
the young folks were married under the stars.
Two days afterward Anna went home to get
her clothing, and did not return to her husband.
Bennett then brought habeas corpus proceed
ings against Haywood to get possession of his
wife; but when t he case came on Anna surprised
Frederick by going into court and swearing that
her father,wasn't keeping her at home; that she
luid had enough of Bennett, and wouldn't live
with him any way.
Miss Louisa Alcott gives the foliowtng ad
vice to girls: “Girls, don't be in haste to wed.
Build up healthy bodies by good food, plenty of
exercise and sleep. Learn all the useful house
hold arts before you attempt to make a home.
* Cultivate your minds \\ ith the best books, that
you may l><* able to teach your children much
that school training alone will never give you.
Choose your amusements wisely, for you must
have pleasure, but need not waste itself in
harmful frivolity. Above all. select your
friends with care. Avoid girls who live only for
fashion, lliitatiou and enjoyment, and use the
privilege all women may claim to decline the
acquaintance of young men whose lives will not
i>ear inspection."
Mrs. Richardson, a member of the Salvation
Army in Kansas ( ity, has attracted attention by
her Sam-Jonesque preaching. Hr? are some
of her reputed remarks: “I haven't got any use
for these kind of people that keep their Chris
tianity in a bandbox six days in the week and
take it out on the sev nth." “You can't get
Christianity into a fool any more than you can
get bologna sausage from a rattlesnake.” “Do
you think that a man with a chew of tobacco in
nis mouth and a 1 o’tie of whisky in his pocket
is a fit temple for the spirit of God ?" “I wo dd
try to get into heaven just to keep out of the
company there is in hell, if for no other reason.”
"Jay Gould will have to take his brimstone
straight, just the same as the poorest criminal."
“The highest mountain in America” must
now be changed from Mount St. Elias to Mount
Wrangle, a little to the north. Several of these
mountains have been newly measured. Mount
Hood, one • “roughly - ’ estimated at. 17,000 feet,
then "closely’ at 1(1.000. was brought down by
triangulation to 13,000; an aneroid harotnett r
made it 12.000. and a mercurial barometer 11,255.
Mount St. Elias, estimated by D'Agelet to be 12.-
G'2feet, is triangulated by Mr, Baker to 10.500. It
now appears that Mount Wrangle, lying to the
north, rises 18,400 feet above Copper river,
which is in turn 2.000 feet above the sea at that
point. If this holds true Mount Wrangle is at
least 1,000 feet higher than any other peak in
North America. It lies within the United States
boundary.
Homestake mine, near Peadwood, has a rail
road twenty-two miles long to the pineries
where fuel is obtained, and the road ends at the
top of a high bill just above Hie mill. Here the
wood is dumped into a chute made of heavy logs
lined with iron. The logs descend with tremen
dous velocity, and on reaching the mouth of the
chute leap out into the air. pass over tlit? mill,
and land some 250 feet from the foot of the bluff.
For hours a perfect stream of logs passes over
the heads of the men at work below, and to a
newcomer it seems sufficiently dangerous, but
no accident ever occured, and one soon gets
over the nervous feeling. Five thousand cords
of wood are piled at a time by this arrangement,
which saves-tens of thousands of dollai-s an
nually to the company, disposing of 80,000 cords
a year without any cost for piling.
Concerning the decline of business on the
Ohio river, the I.ouisville Commercial says;
“Thirty live years ago we saw from ten to
fifteen steamboats at the wharf at Southland
loading cotton, pig iron. etc. Wo saw 1.500 to
2.000 men at work in the construction of three
big steamboats. Saw mills, foundries and other
manufactories were in successful operation.
Cumberland river was alive with big. fine
stenmboatsgoingnnd coming and the commerce
and trade of that stream alone wus greater than
that of the Ohio river to-day. Uncle Sam sends
a lot of inferior engineers nnd inexperienced
mariners out here to waste a big “wail" of the
people's money on ‘ -improvements." They did
it. The Ohio river was ruined, bars were
formed, channels changed, furms washed nwnv
islands made, the Cumberland river closed up at
its mouth, anil Smithland reduced to a dead
village, ail on account of the ignorance and
inexiierience of men who were better at wasting
money than they were at improving the navi
gation of rivers. It's a dam shame.”
It is claimed that the new system of certifica
tion of cotton, now being tried at the New York
Cotton Exchange, gives greater advantages to
buyers than to sellers It is believed by many
that the increased trading is largely due to this
new plan, by which the purchaser of a contract
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cate of gia le attached and ihe weight stamped
on the receipt. Thisnoe pt a-id certificate of
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date. The grade is guaranteed by the New
York Cotton Exchange inspection fund This
can be passed with the same facility as a cer
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of high standing—a secur.ty second to none us
a collateral for hanks or investors. Heretofore
under the old system a seller might give notice
of his intention to deliver 25,000 or 5(1.000 bales
in one day, when it would be phi sically impos
sible either for the seller to deliver or the buver
to receive, the cotton. Under the new system
the seller must have his cotton all weighed
sampled, stored nnd classed, and the quantity
which The buyer can receive simply depends
upon the amount of money ut his command
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