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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Chippewa Tribe No. 4. I O. R M.;
Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 231, F. 4 A M.
Special Notices— Metropolitan Savings and
Loan Cos.; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Cos.; A Printer Wanted; As to Bills Against
British Steamships Scawfell, Maude, Naranja
Harrogate; Notice as to Books of Subscription
Citizens’ Bank; F.lection Returns at John J.
Sullivan's Wine Room.
Auction Sales — Guardian’s Sale of Central
Railroad Stock: Administrator’s Sale, Sundries,
by 1. D. Laßcche’s Sons; Lot and Improvinents,
by D. R. Kennedy; Two Houses and Lot’hv J.
McLaughlin 4 Son; Lot and Improvements, by
C. H. Dorset t.
Legal Sale;— City Sheriff’s Sale.
Cannot be Duplicated L. 4 8.. S. M. H.
Steamship Schedule— Baltimore Steamship
Cos.
('heap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Boarding; Miscellaneous.
The story of a Pittsburg man that he
threw the bomb at the Haymarket riot is
denied by the Anarchists themselves. They
seem to have a certain knowledge that
Schnaubelt was the guilty man.
Independent Democrat Cowen calls Sena
tor Gorman a political bandit. When the
Baltimore and Ohio directors meet he may
find it necessary to invent another epithet
to describe the Senator’s great kicking
power.
Jay Gould is a very rich and powerful
man, but at Queenstown he was completely
ignored in the rush to meet John L. Sulli
van, who arrived the same day. Mr.
Sullivan is more to the Irish taste than the
weazened little millionaire.
The impartiality and good humor with
which the editors of the Atlanta Constitu
tion divide the space of that paper between
themselves to attack and defend prohibition
is something admirable. It is a family
quarrel which has certain advantages.
The Construction Bureau and the Advis
ory Board ha quarreled as to their respec
tive jurisdictions and in consequence work
on the new cruiser Boston has been stopped.
Mr. Whitney must hurry back from his
sick leave and get his boys in order once
more. v
The acquisition by the United States of
one of the best harbors in the Sandwich
Islands as a coaling station will be taken ns
evidence that the administration proposes to
look out sharply for American interests in
that part of the world. It is an important
and commendable step.
Coal schooners seem to have a fatal at
traction for United States men-of-war.
The Portsmouth has just linen badly
damaged by one in New York harbor. It
may be that navai officers have not had
enough experience of late years to enable
them to navigate a ship.
The Lord Mayor's parade comes off iu
London to-morrow, and the police fear
there will be trouble. Would it not be a
good idea to abolish this mediteval foolish
ness and use the thousands of dollars it costs
in relieving the distress of the poor whom
the police fear will make trouble.
Even the New York Times speaks of
President Cleveland’s letter indorsing Fel
lows as “impertinent.” It may have been
unwise to write such a letter, but Mr. Cleve
land perhaps remembered who was his
champion against Tammany in the nomi
nating convention four years ago.
One Pennsylvania coal company has
yielded to the demand of its striking
miners for an advance of wages, and it is
hoped that others will speedily follow. As
there has been a considerable advance in
the price of coal, there is more reason that
better wages should be paid than at the
time of the strike.
The trustees of the proposed great Episco
pal cathedral in New York have purchased
the site for it, paying SBSO,(XX). As the
building is to cost $10,000,000, to be raised
by voluntary contributions, its construction
may extend through severe) generations, as
iid that of most of the European cathedrals
whose grandeur it is designed to rival.
Gen. Rosser, having made a fortune in
railroad building, seems ready to devote him
■elf to politics. He is agitating a proposi
tion to divide the public lands among the
States in aid of education, but he will hard
ly meet with much encouragement. The
money gift proposed by the Blair bill is ob
jectionable for many reasons, but it would
be better policy than that the General pro
poses.
Mr. W. D. Howells writes a letter in be
half of the condemned Anarchists, in which
he urges that the execution of the sentence
Against them would be both unjust and im
politic, as they were only justly indictable
for conspiracy. He seems to forgot that the
rouspiracy was carried into effect. Mr.
Howells evidently knows more about
analyzing the character of young Boston
ladies than tho evidence of a murder trial.
Mr. Murat Halstead is, apparently, trying
to outdo even Foraker in the number aud
:haracter of his campaign falsehoods. In
s recent speech he declared that if the Dem
ocrats win next year the war amendments
to the constitution will be wiped out, and
Confederate pensions, war claims and war
debts paid. The most remarkable thing
about such assertions as these is that a man
9f intelligence can think they will have any
Affect,. It may be, however, that the rest
f the country has no adequate conception
f the ignorance and partisan bias of the
average Ohio KeDublican.
To-Day’s Elections.
The interest in the elections which occur
to-day is not confined to the States in which
they are held. The returns will be closely
watched for evidences of changes in public
sentiment which will have an important
bearing upon the national contest next year.
Elections occur to-day in New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, lowa,
Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Massa
chusetts and Virginia.
The interest in the New York election is
greater than that in any other Htate. A
Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer,
Attorney General, State Engineer and Sur
veyor, iiine Supreme Court Judges and the
Legislature, are to be elected. There are
five tickets, viz: The Democratic, Republi
can, United Labor, Progressive Labor and
Prohibition tickets. There is considerable
uncertainty about the strength of the
United Labor and Prohibition parties, and
the estimates of the results of the election
are not, therefore, regarded as very reliable.
The local contest in the city of New
York may have some influence upon the
result in the State, though those who are
best informed do not believe that this in
fluence will be us marked as some of the
politicians pretend to believ'e. Therqp is no
doubt, however, that the result in the State
will have a great deal to do with shaping
political events next year.
Virginia elects a portion of her Senate
and a House of Delegates. Of the holding
over Senators seventeen are Democrats and
four are Republicans. It is not believed
that the Republicans can elect fifty of the
hundred members of the House of Dele
gates, and there is nothing to indicate that
the Legislature will not be Democratic by a
fair working majority.
The campaign in Ohio has been conducted
with more feeling than that of any other
State. An entire State ticket, including a
Governor and Legislature, is to be elected.
It is hardly probable that the Democrats
will carry the State. About all that they
hope to accomplish is to cut down the usual
Republican majority. Gov. Foraker. who
leads the Republican ticket, has been striv
ing to largely increase the Republican ma
jority with the hope of calling the attention
of his party to himself as an available can
didate for President or Vice President,
Oregon votes on three constitutional
amendments and they are quite important
ones. One is to prohibit the sale and manu
facture of intoxicating liquors, another is to
change the day of the State election from
June to November, and the other is to in
crease the salaries of her Supreme Court
Judges.
Pennsylvania votes for a Treasurer and a
Judge of the Supreme Court. While the
State is undoubtedly Republican there are
complications which give the Democratic
ticket a bare chance of being chosen.
The Democrats will, of course, carry
Maryland. A Governor, other State offi
cers and a Legislature are to be elected.
The question whether a convention shall be
called to revise the State constitution is also
to be voted upon. The Republicans, aided
by alleged Reformers, have been making
a very active canvass, but the defeat which
they sustained at the municipal election in
Baltimore a few days ago leaves no doubt
that they will be defeated to-day.
lowa elects a Governor, and, of course,
the Republican ticket will lie chosen. There
is a straightout Greenback ticket in the
field, but its support is so insignificant that
it is hardly worth noticing.
The contest in New Jersey is over the
Legislature. Eight Senators are to be
chosen and all of the lower House of the
General Assembly. The election in that
State is interesting because, to the extent of
the Senators, it involves the election of a
successor to United States Senator Mc-
Pherson.
Nebraska is a Republican State, and will
undoubtedly elect the Republican ticket.
A Supremo Court Judge and two regents of
the State University are to be elected.
The campaign in Massachusetts has not
attracted much attention outside of I hat
State. A Governor, other State officers
and a Legislature are to be elected. The
Democrats say that they have a chance to
elect their candidate for Governor, and it is
to be hoped that they will not be disap
pointed. The probabilities are, however,
that the Republican candidate will be
chosen by a fair plurality. The re
turns, which the Morning News will pub
lish to-morrow morning, will give a very
good idea of how the elections have gone.
Dakota’s Election.
There was an election in Dakota Territory
yesterday to settle the question of dividing
it. It has more than enough inhabitants to
entitle it to admission into the Union as a
State, but owing to various unsettled ques
tions the request for admission has never
been a unanimous one. Some of the
people, it seems, want the Territory
divided. It is certainly large enough for
two States. It contains 147,000 square
miles, and can, therefore, lie cut into two
parts, each containing 73,500 square miles.
They would be very big States as far as
territory is concerned—very much bigger
than Georgia, and, in fact,
bigger than the whole of New England.
The proposition is to divide the Territory
by an east and west line. The southern
half has about two-thirds of the population,
and if the division is effected, it will at
once apply for admission into the Union.
It is rather remarkable that any part of
the people of the northern half should favor
division; but, doubtless, they have very
good reasons for the position they occupy
with regard to the matter.
Dakota has had a wonderful growth, and
is still having it. The increase in its popu
lation this year, up to Out. 1, was about
70,000. Its population is close on to 600,000.
The growth of the northwestern section of
the country is simply marvelous.
The Toronto Globe continues to insist
that war will be the result of a failure of
the fisheries negotiation at Washington. It
is perhaps natural that Canada should be
frightened a little when she has a quarrel
with a neighbor so much bigger than her
self, but there is really little cause for fear.
The non-intercourse act would probably be
put in effect at once, and that would he the
end of it. Canadian trado, though doubt
less desirable, is not necessary to the pros
perity of the citizens of the United States,
and only a small proportion of them like
codfish balls.
Dr. Gatling has invented anew instru
ment of death, which he calls the “police
gun.” It only weighs a little over a hun
dred pounds and will discharge 1,000 shots
a minute. It is designed to disperse rioters
in the streets of cities. The Doctor is not
likely to make a fortune out of this inven
tion. Riotous mobs are rare in this coun
try, and there is a general feeling that
policemen have already rather more deadly
weapons than are necessary.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1887.
That Macon Speech.
Judge Thurman, in his address to the
Thurman Club, at Columbus, 0., on last
Saturday night, doubtless spoke much more
harshly than he intended of Gen. Henry
R. Jackson, if he is correctly reported. It
is not improbable that he is made to say in
the public prints tilings
which he did not say. It
does not appear that a reporter was present.-
In fact, it is stated that the address was
made only to members and invited guests.
If the repork of the remarks relating to
Gen. Jackson were furnished by some mem
ber or guest of the club, the day after the
address was delivered, there is a chance that
it is not entirely correct.
There can lie no doubt, however, that
what Mr. Thurman did say was of a char
acter to create something of a sensation.
The speech which Gen. Jackson delivered
at Macon has been commented upon all over
the country, and the comments have not
been of a friendly character. Nothing that
has appeared in the newspapers, however,
has been quite so personal and uncompli
mentary as the remarks of Judge Thurman.
The fact that he is a distinguished leader of
the Democratic party, and for a long time
occupied a high public position will cause
more attention to be paid to his attack upon
Gen. Jackson than if be were a compara
tively unknown man.
Judge Thurman is a very old man, and is
doubtless much more irritable than he was
when he took a much more active part in
politics. He has been watching the present
campaign in Ohio with deep interest, and,
to the extent that his strength has permitted
him, has taken part in it He doubt
less noticed with satisfaction that
the people were getting tired of
the bloody shirt speeches of Senator Sher
man and Gov. Foraker, and that they list
ened with pleasure to Gen. Gordon’s eloquent
appeals for harmony and the burying of
dead sectional issues, and applauded them.
For a distinguished Southerner, there
fore, who had been honored by the
present National administration, to
place in the hands of the bloody
shirt speakers another weapon with which
to undo much of the work which Gen. Gor
don and other Democratic orators had done,
and this at the very ( lose of the campaign,
when there was no time to explain and to
correct misapprehensions, aud false impres
sions, doubtless seemed to him to be the
height of folly which deserved the strongest
condemnation.
But whatever opinion Judge Thurman
might have entertained of Gen. Jackson’s
speech, or of the wisdom of delivering it at
the time he did, he certainly ought to have
expressed it, if he expressed it at all, in a way
that would not expose him to the charge of
lack in courtesy to a gentlemen who is wor
thy of his respect. The insinuation that
Gen. Jackson’s relations with the govern
ment as Minister to Mexico were severed
because ho was too free in the use of in
toxicating liquors was clearly unjust. Geu.
Jackson does not drink to excess, and there
was no scandal of any kind connected with
him while he represented this country in
Mexico.
Escaping Convicts.
Is it not about time for the Governor to
give a little attention to that convict camp
near Augusta 1 A few days ago we called
attention to the fact that John Walsh, a life
prisoner, who was sent to the penitentiary
from this county, had escaped after he had
served only a year or two. It is
now announced that a few days ago
another notorious convict escaped. The
convict in question is a man named Stout,
a professional burglar. He was sent to the
penitentiary from Appling county for ten
years. He was convicted of an attempt to
break into and rob the depot at Grove
town. The statement is made
by the Augusta Chronicle that
escapes of notorious criminals from the
Augusta camp have been frequent lately.
A charge like this ought to arrest the atten
tion of the Governor at once.
How is it that the con vie is who escape
are, as a rule, white men, and have friends
who are not only willing, but are
in a position to help them? Would
it not be well for the prison authorities to
find out whether the convicts are properly
guarded? What is the use of wasting time
aud money in convicting notorious crimi
nals when the way out of the penitentiary
is so easy?
It is said that for the apprehension of the
cracksman, Stout, a reward of $25 has
been offered. For Walsh the reward is
SIOO. The lessees do not seem to value
these white convicts very,highly as laborers.
Can it be possible that they are able to get
so little work out of them that they are
glad to get rid of them if they can do so
without making themselves liable to a
prosecution for a failure to comply with
their contracts? It would seem so from the
apparent indifference they manifest with
regard to the recapture of escaped convicts.
One thing is certain: It is that
courts aud juries will become care
less about convicting persons charged
with crimes if their work is
permitted to be nullified in the convict
camps. It is hardly probable that either
Walsh or Stout will be recaptured. Would
it not be interesting to know just how many
convicts escape from the camps in the
course of a year, and whether about all of
those who escape, and are not recaptured,
are not white men?
The New York Sun has an article on
what it calls “the white slaves of New
York," in which it describes the toil and
suffering of 20,000 to 40.000 women of that
city who earn a living with the needle. The
story is a touching one, the more so that it
seems impossible to devise a remedy for the
extreme poverty which springs from wo
man's inability to compete with men in the
work of the world, while her competition in
the narrow field which is o]ien to her drags
down her sisters with herself to the verge of
starvation.
Dr. McGlynn announced from the stage
of Cooper Union Friday night that he had
won his fight against his ecclesiastical
superiors and would soon resume his priestly
functions, with full liberty to continue the
advocacy of George’s land theories. This
announcement is met by a flat denial front
Archbishop Corrigan, who certainly ought
to know all the facts. It is probable the
Archbishop is right, and the doctor is
merely playing one of the tricks he has
learned by association with politicians.
San Francisco Democrats are anxious that
tips next national convention shall be held
in their city. If they will make arrange
ments to get free passes for the mom here
they may possibly have their wish. There
is no inducement to long and exhausting
journeys like a free pass. The average man
will go when equipped in that way whether
he wants to or not.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Med Elected to Office.
From the'Philadelphia Times iDem.)
The hloody-sljirt, orators fail to observe that it
is the Gordons and not the Jacksons who are
elected Governors of Southern States.
Shaken In Reckless Fashion.
From the Memphis Avalanche (Dem )
Col. Merrill says the Macon howlers commit
ted neither treason, burglary, arson nor “In
fanticide.” No. but tbe.r pitched that promis
ing baby, the “New South,’’ about in rather
reckless "fashioni
Foraker’s Lying Appeals.
From the New York Times (/ltd.)
The re election of Gov. Foraker in Ohio would
be a misfortune, if for nothing else, for the
reckless manner in which he and his managers
have been seeking to accomplish it by persistent
and lying appeals to sectional fear and hatred.
No Hope for Annexation.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
If G e F s T—n carries out his threat
against Canada and becomes a permanent
dweller in that country the Canadians may
abandon all hope that the United States will
offer any further encouragement to the scheme
of annexation.
BRIGHT BITS.
When a man is up a stump he feels bad.
Whan a squirrel is up a stump he feels all right.
—Detroit Free Press.
“Why, Bobby." said his mother, very much
shocked, “where in the world did you hear that
expression f”
“I heard pa say it when be was putting up
the stove this morning,” explained Bobby.—
New York Sun.
Mb. Lamb (to Wall street man)—What do you
think of “Reading," Mr. Wolfe?
Mr. Wolfe (Confidentially)— “Reading” is a
good purchase: baug up!
Mr. Lamb (excitedi—Where can I get some?
Mr. Wolfe—l can let you have all you want.—
Epoch.
Kate—Shall we go by the elevated or Broad
way car -
Agues—l always go by Broadway car.
Kate—But, dear, it is much slower.
Agnes—Yes, I know that; but you see, I am a
brunette, aud the dark-orange car sets me off
best,— Puck.
Mr. BumPUs -T saw you taking a horseback
ride this morning. Your own horse?
Mr. Mumpus No; only a livery hack.
“He looked like a very fine charger."
“So I thought until I paid the bill. Then the
owner of the stable cast him all in the shade.”
—Harper's Baza r.
The flexibility of the English language is
shown in the reply of an Irishman to a man
who songht, refuge in his shanty in a heavy
shower, and finding it about as wet inside as
out. said, "You have quite a pond on the floor."
“Yds; shure we have a great lake ib the roof.”
--Editors Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for
November. \
Wife—l have just been down-town and
bought a pitcher.
Husband (aghast)—Good heavens! Do you
want, to ruiu me?
Wife—Why, a cream pitcher only costs a
quarter.
Husband—Oh, thunder! I thought it was a
base ball pitcher. - Detroit Free Press.
Young Writer —Have you read my article in
the current number Every Other Monthly Re
view, Miss Penelope?
Miss Penelope—No: that pleasure is still in
store for me. i heard papa say, though that he
had read it.
Young Writer—Did he not think that I treated
my subject in a very exhaustive manner?
Miss Penelope Yes, I believe he did say some
thing about being tired .—Harper's Bazar.
First Chicago man— l hear there is to be
another bread or blood parade.
Second Chicago man—Yes, I have heard
about it.
"And they are coming right down the street
you live on, and may bombard your house.”
“I have arranged to prevent that. The pro
cession won’t pass my house; they will turn off
at the next corner.”
“Got a police guard?”
“No, I've ereefeda sign there: ‘Men Wanted.’ ”
—Omaha World.
A little miss of 5, with a good deal of origi
nality aud independence in her composition, has
a brother-in-law- of whom she is very fond.
They are great chums, and it is hard to decide
wbether-tne little girl or the man is the most
mischievous when they begin their romps. She
persists in calling him “my brother.”
“Your brother-in-law,” corrected a precise
ladv visitor one day.
“He’s no la)V to me,” retorted the youngster—
a fact so self-evident that it precluded further
genealogical explanations.— Harper's Bazar.
My son, I would have you ever brave and
bold never timid and cowardly; but when a
gushing creature in the bloom of youth anil a
fetching costume gazes into your eyes, with a
dreamy look inhers. aud asks you if it is really
true that young gentlemen do sit up half the
night with the young ladies to whom they are
attentive, and if there is anv foundation for
those funny things the papers say about turn
ing down the gas, and all that sort o’ thing, you
know, then, my son. is the time for you to set
your face awayward from that young woman
and go tlieueeward with all the speed that you
have On hand. Boston Transcript.
PERSONAL.
Delascey Nicoll was not long ago a reporter
in New York. He is about 36 years of age, a
vradnate of Princeton and was stroke oar or a
Princeton four in 1874.
Sir John Pulkston, Knight and Member of
Parliamenr, from Wales, is a former resident of
Brooklyn, and w as the private secretary of Gov.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania.
Joe Hurt, of Wyoming Territory, enjoys tho
distinction of having in the course of ms life on
the frontier killed over 100 hostile Indians,
slaughtered 10,000 antelope and about 6,000
buffalo.
Joseph Fuller, a seaman in the United States
navy, residing at Newburyport Mass., lias been
allowed a pension for total blindness from Oct.
27, 1803. The first payment of $13,085 has
already been made.
John Habbkrton. who has written many
stories better t han "Helen’s Babies.” but who is
best known as the creator of “Budge" and
"Toddy,” lives in a fine old place just outside
of New Rochelle, N. Y.
The wife of that wicked and witty French
man, Max O’Rell, is very popular in London
society and a prominent personage at Mrs.
Benue's receptions. With her husband she is
expected to arrive in this country soon.
Henry Irvino declares it to be his belief that
a well conducted theatre is as necessary as a
free library, and that if the question were put
to a vote the majority of the ratepayers in
large towns would support such an iustitution.
Mas Jefferson Davis is said to have re
marked to a gentleman at Macon last week that
she never, from the first, believed in the success
of the Confederacy in the war, but always told
Mr. Davis that defeat was only a matter of
time.
( 'hauler Delmonico. who succeeded his father
in the management of the famous Delmonico
restaurant iu New York, is quietly weeding out
the gamblers and other loud-voiced objection
able who oqgg threatened to drive his other
patrons away.
Howard Lee is the youngest office-holder in
the United States, He has a place in the Pen
sion Office and earns S72U a year for himself
and his mother, although he will not be 12 years
'diptill next spring. He was appointed by Presi
dent Cleveland’s express order.
Henry Irvino ami Kllen Terry occupied a box
during Joseph Jefferson’s performance of "Bob
Acres"at the "professional matinee" in the Star
Theatre. New York, on Thursday. Tile audito
rium eonlatnrd fullv I.UOO other actors and
actresses, famous and otherwise.
Secretary 1-amak is quoted as Raying tho
other day to a Senator who is a close personal
friend: “I am going out of this office after Con-
Svhs convenes, and lam glad of it. I will then
i rid of the annoyances and troubles that the
< iceupant of the Qfflce necessarily has to con
tend with.”
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts Is among the
people of importance who will visit the United
Status this yea*. Mr. Baroness Burdett-Coutts
will come with her, but it is doubtful whether
bo will introduce liis age. 1 ami distinguished
wife lo the numerous disowned relatives he left
on this side. The Baroness is now a well-pre
served woman of 73.
Lx Huso Phi-mi, the Viceroy of China, is 6
feet, tall, (15 years old. well-built, gray arid
swarthy; his eyes are dark and piercing and his
teeth dark aud uneven. When receiving Amer
ican guosts he wears a gray Astrakhan surtout
with long, flowing sleeve*, loose silken trousers,
felt shoes and a flaring hat with the button of
his rank on tho top and a peacock’s feather
sticking out behind.
Gen. Sir Frederick Midddeton, tho hero of
the Kiel rebellion, who was rewarded for bis
heroism by knighthood and a grant of $20,000.
has reached the age of 1)2 and will lie retired on
a pension of $3,700. It is thought that he will
lie succeeded by Col. Cameron, a sou-in-law of
Sir Charles Tupper, the Canadian Minister of
Finance, and chief representative of Canada Id
the Fisheries Commission.
Plantation Philosophy.
From the Arkanmw Traveler.
Men and wimin is difltunt, but putty much all
boys is erlike.
It ain't wlmt nr man Is dat makes him happy
in disyere vvorl'. It's whut be thinks lie is.
Folks may talk ez much ez da please erbout
all people bein’ created ekul, but it ain't er
tack. lie game chicken's meat is better den
de Shanghai's.
Ez we git old we kaint do nigh so much work
ez we could we’n we wuz young, but it peer like
we do it better.
De apples on er young trees grows bigger den
da on er ole tree, but da ain’t so sweet.
It is er mighty hard matter for us to see de
bad p'ints in er thief dat is willing ter lend us
money, ur de good p'ims in’er hones’ man dat
hab fused ter do us a favor, Dar ain't er
weaker raskil in dis yere worl’ den human na
tur’.
The Man, the C.-.t and the Rat.
From the Neiv London Day.
A man was watching ahalf-grown cat chasing
a rat not much smaller than herself. "Sic
him!” he cried encouragingly to the kitten.
The rat became bewildered, and, in making a
dash for liberty, ran up the leg of the man's
trousers, and kitty followed suit, but she could
not go as far as the rat could, and with sundry
struggles, accurately recorded by scratches on
the man’s legs, she managed to extricate her
self from her strange predicament, and lieeame
an Interested and critical spectator of the re
mainder of the game, which was confined ex
clusively to the man and the rat. It is not neces
sary to give a minute account of the tight from
this point, but it will suffice to say that, with t he
aid of friends, another was eventually added to
the list of victories achieved by man over the
lower animals. The man is on exhibition in
proof of the truth of this story, but the rat has
joined the majority.
Gen. Gordon’s Wife.
From the Columbus (0.) Dispatch.
The wife of Gen. Gordon is a woman at whose
feet the greatest of earth might bow, and think
it an honor. If ever there breathed a noble
woman, if ever there lived a devoted wife, that
woman and that wife is Mrs. John B. Gordon.
From the time her husband entered the war to
the day he emerged from its sufferings, its dan
gers and its glories, she was ever at his side.
In the thick of the battle she was near by to
watch him: in his hour of despondency she was
there to console and encourage him; in all his
awful sufferings she was his faithful nurse and
best physician; and in the hours of his triumphs
she was the first and last to congratulate and to
cheer him. Surely, greater wifely love and de
votion than this no angel ever recorded. Truly,
to possess such love and devotion is to enjoy
Heaven's highest boon. Long may she live to
enjoy her brightest reward, her husband s grate
ful love; and long may he live to reward her.
Tossed the Children Out of a Window.
From the New York World.
Baltimore, Nov. 4.—Mrs. Vogel, with her two
children, occupy the second story of a house on
Washington street, this city. About 6 o’clock
yesterday morning a coal oil stove in one of the
rooms exploded and set fire to the furniture.
The arrival of the engines awakened Mrs. Vogel,
and when she saw the smoke she screamed, but
without waiting to see if any one would respond
to her calls clasped her little ones under her
arms and rushed to the window, which was
open. -Then she kissed them several times in
full view of the crowd assembled below, and
finally, with a quick movement, she threw the
children as far out from the building as her
strength would allow. They fell 35 feet.
The spectators were horror-stricken, but two
of them had presence of mind to rush forward
and catch the children before they reached the
pavement. But for this they must have been
killed, but they escaped without any injury.
The frantic mother, after tossing her children
to the ground, climbed out upon the sill of the
window and was preparing to leap out when
those below called to her to stop, as the fire had
been extinguished. She paused long enough for
a fireman to rescue her.
At the Circus.
From the Chicago Tribune.
We went up to the house of a Western Kansas
settler, near where we were camped one night,
and had scarcely got in when he said:
"You fellers been down along the railroad
lately ?"
“Yes."
“Heard anything ’bout any circus cornin’ this
way ?"
“Now, you jes’ hold on, William Henry,”
broke in his wire; “if I’d skun up the centre
pole when the elephant snorted at the last cir
cus that was here I wouldn’t say nothing ’bout
no more.”
“Who dim the centre pole ?"
“Youdid, William Henry, when tho elephant
breathed hard.”
“Well, s’posen I did—l didn’t know nothing
nothing ’bout elephants—l don’t take no
chances on strange varmints. Anyhow, I didn’t
let no candy peddler beat me making change,
nor buy no little balloons to shrink up on my
hands.”
“But you shinned up the pole!”
“And you took a quarter an' a short bit for
forty-five cents!”
“You got scart of an elephant!"
“You let a boy not more’n thirteen beat you!”
“You was a ooward!”
“You was a dum fool!”
Then we told them the circus season was over,
anyhow, and there was peace again.
A Postmaster Who Was Slandered.
From the Chicago Tribune.
“Give me five two-cent stamps,” I said, as I
presented myself at the general delivery of the
post office in a small Wyoming town. The post
master laid aside a large jack knife and a pine
stick and said:
"Hey?”
“Two-cent stamps—five of ’em.”
“We ain’t had a two-cent stamp in the house
for a month,” he replied.
“Give me ones, then.”
"Sold the last one a week ago.”
“Anything that will stick, then; flve-cent, one
cent—anything.”
"We never kep’ nothin’ but ones and twos
since I been runnin’ the office.”
“Got any postal cards?”
“No: sold the last one to Hank Reed last
night.”
" Your stock hardly seems as complete as it
might be."
"No, the layout is all run down. I Tow I’ll
have to order some post office truck ’fore long.
I got three kinds of plug terbacker. some lug
hats, forty-four an’forty five ca’tridges, spurs
with jiuglers on ’em, and all that kind o’ stuff
if you should want anything of that kind. An’
say, hold on, I can fix you on this mail business,
too! I got a slough of one-cent wrappers—sell
you a dozen of ’em fer a short bit air you can
write oil the wrong side of ’em and sorter fold
’em up an’ they’ll go all right, I reckon!”
I told hinAhat i didn't waut to write so badly
as I did. and started out, when he called me
back and added:
"Say, Bill Somers is cir'latin’ a pertition
'round to have me removed an’ himself
app inted to this ’ere office, blit don't you sign
it, don't you have nothin’ to do with it! The
iiertition goes to say that I don't ’tend to the
bus'ness of the office properly, an’ it’s a (turned
lie, sir, that's what it is! If it. said I was a offen
sive part san I wouldn’t ’a’ cared, 'cause 1 do
git petty zealous at Territorial conventions
sometimes, but when it says I don’t do my duty
by the office it hits my business standin' an’ I’m
going to fight it!”
When the Frost is on the Punkin.
When the frost Is on the punkin and the fod
der’s in the shock.
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the
stnittin’ turkey cock.
And the clackin’ of the guineysand the cluckin’
of the hens,
And the rooster hallylooler as he tiptoes on the
fence;
O, it’s then the times a feller is feeling at his
best,
With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of
peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house bareheaded and goes out
to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's
in the shock.
They’s something kind o’ hearty-like about the
atmosphere
When the heat of summer's over and the coolin’
fall is here
Of course, we miss the flowers and the blos
soms on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin-birds an’ buz
zin’ rf the bees;
But the air's so nppetizin’, and the landscape
through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the early au
tumn dnys
Is a pictur’ that no painter has the colorin' to
mock—
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's
in the shock.
The husky, rusty rustle of the tassels of the
corn,
And the raspin of the tangled leaves, as golden
as the morn:
The stubble in the furries—kind o’ lonesome
like, but still
A-preachin’ sermons to us of the barns they
growed to fill;
The st raw-stack in the medder, and the reaper
in the shed;
The bosses iu their stall below—the clover over
head
O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a
clock,
When the frost, is on the punkin and the fodder's
in the shock.
James WarrcoMß Rii.it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Efforts are being made to raise funds to
build a large hotel at Gettysburg to cost not less
thau SiUO,OUO.
The season at Newport grows longer every
year, so that the winter colony has become an
important contingent.
An estimate places the money spent at Bar
Harbor, Me., the past season, by non-residents
of the State, at 5884,400.
A coal famine threatens Cincinnati on ac
count of the lowness of the Ohio river and the
consequent inability to navigate coul barges.
Lord Wolseley has written a letter asking
British employers to give preference to mem
bers of the reserve and to discharged soldiers
when choosing their employes.
The truly good Yazoo, Miss., Delta-Review is
responsible for the following: "A pony threw a
hoy yesterday on the street, and while he was
in the uir he kicked a bottle of whisky out of
his pocket.”
The “American Firm” is the name of an as
sociation of American thieves, who are said to
have recently committed a series of mysterious
robberies in London. The firm not long since
got away with £3,000 in Bank of England notes
which have been found in circulation ou the
Continent.
“Old Zion,” the first, brick Methodist Episco
pal church built in lowa, is located in Burliug
ton, and has recently been transformed into a
theatre, and in the house of which was once
heard fervent exhortations and prayer and
songs of devotion and praise, is now heard the
jokes of negro minstrelsy and the songs of the
comic opera.
A man well-known in St. Louis has, the doc
tors say, a heart forced to the right side and
greatly displaced, and the liver to the left. The
lungs are compressed, and the stomach badly
crowded, but the ribs and sternum being firmly
set, the position is permanent. He has been so
since boyhood, and, with the exception of his
Irregular form, is a perfectly healthy man. Con
sumption or pneumonia, would be sure death,
they say.
A rare fish, the opah or kingfish, has been
caught off the Yorkshire coast. The specimen
measured four feet three inches in length, and
is said to be the most beautiful in color and form
of any fish that inhabits the North Sea. The
body is blue and black and bronze, studded with
silver stars; the fins are vermilion, and the iris
of the eves white. The fish has been preserved
and added to a collection of natural history
specimens at Grimsby.
What promised to be an interesting lawsuit
has just been settled in Indiana by compromise.
The State sued the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $1,900 for failing to report its prop
erty for taxation in 1887. The company’s de
fense was that the tax levied by the State was a
trespass upon the province of interstate com
merce. No taxes, it is said, lias been paid the
State by the co i pany since IRBO, and the terms
of the compromise were that the seven year's
arrearages should be refunded.
The Chicago Hail has learned that an enter
prising man in Chicago proposes to procure tin
boxes just large enough to hold an ordinary
sandwich, piece of pie. a flask of coffee and a
Chinese napkin. He will fill a light wagon with
them, and at a certain hour -the lunch hour
will deliver to his patrons a box and contents
for the sum of 15e. He says his scheme is work
ing; that he has secured over 300 subscribers on
State and Dearborn streets. As rapidly as his
business increases he will put on more wagons.
Experts say that curtains and fine laces can
be made of malleable iron or steel. At the Cen
tennial Exhibition a piece of steel rolled by a
mill in Pittsburg was so thin that it weighed
less than a book leaf and could be blown off the
hand easier than paper the same size. The
sheets for steel lace will be rolled down to a low
gauge and the patterns pressed into them. The
lace can be made light or heavy, and is suitable
for ladies' aud children's underwear, and per
haps for trimming hats, wraps and dresses.
The Ex-King of Oude, who lately died at Cal
cutta, was as particular about neatness and
cleanliness as the proverbial Dutch housewife.
If when walking in his gardens, he found astray
bird's feather among the flowers or a few straws
or withered leaves lying about he would flue the
gardener and the watchman of the day three
days’ pay. The same penalty was inflicted on
any indoor servant who left a speck of dust or a
scrap of litter about the palace, where floors,
walls, and furniture were being cleaned and
dusted ail day long, r
There is a man of Indian descent named
}*ickett Nelson, living in Essex county, Vir
ginia, who is a veritable giant, being over 7 feet
in height and weighing 340 pounds. His out
stretched arms measure seven feet four inches
from the finger tips: from his wrist to the end
of his middle finger is twelve inches. His foot
is fourteen and a half inches long and he wears
a No. 18 shoe, his lasts being necessarily hand
made. He can easily lift 500 pounds, is about 25
years old, is quiet and even diffident in manner,
and works at a saw mill in Essex.
The Princess Bismarck is said to be a frugal
housewife. Speaking to a friend shortly after a
man in Posen had left her husband, the Prince,
2,000 marks, about SSOO, she said: "I am so glad
Bismarck got the money just this tune when he
needs a good steady horse to ride. He always
refused to buy one on the ground that he
couldn't afford it. But I told him to use the
2,000 marks for the purpose. It comes in handy,
doesn't it?” He has an income of $125,000 a
year, and is frequently the recipient of legacies
from patriotic admirers in every part of Ger
many.
From 8,000 to 10,000 gallons of blood a day are
used in making buttons in a large factory in
Bridgeport, near Chicago. About 100 men and
boys are employed in the factory. The blood
must tie fresh beef blood. A Mr. Hirsh was the
first to introduce the business, some .years ago,
and is now immensely wealthy. Much of the
blood evaporates in the process of drying, but
the pure albumen remains. Blood sheets are
used by cloth manufacturers for “setting” the
color in calico goods. These sheets, broken up,
will make buttons, earrings, breastpins, belt
clasps, combs, and even door knobs. There are
a number of “blood” utilizing factories in
England, and a blood doorknob factory in Tren
ton, N. J.
Practical long distance telephoning is now
only a matter of a few months. New York
City is now connected with Philadelphia, and
before the month is out connection will be made
with Boston, 300 miles distant. Service will be
opened by Jail, 1 to Albany, N. Y., and thence
rapidly along the line of the New York Central
railway to Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Cin
cinnati. The rental for an instrument connect
ing with Philadelphia is SIOO a month, and to
Boston will cost S2OO per month. The wires for
the service are of a large size and high insula
tion. The company which is bringing the new
system into use is the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company of New York City. The
subscribers will have the right, of course to
communicate with all intermediate cities and
towns.
A fenny story is told about Mr. Blaine in Vi
enna. He was on the steps of the Opera and
saw one whom he thought was his valet, De
Place, giving his ovcrc at to a stranger. With
great dexterity he grabbed at the coat and told
the stranger to let go. The stranger was H. J
Cullen, of Brooklyn, who was going to the opera I
accompanied by his courier. Cullen held on
and joHingly remarked that he was a good Dein
ocrat, but he did not think Blaine was bad i
enough to try to take the coat of a compatriot
whom he met in strange land Blaine was I
mystified.but nevertheless held on and upbraided
both Cullen and the courier until his daughter I
assured him that be had made a mistake and i
that his valet was waiting faithfully on the out 1
side. The valets resembled each other and the I
coats were very much alike.
Oi-r jovial ancestors in England had merry,
conceited jests, wags that they were. One of
these jests was the frog tnug, or, as it is called
in the North the “puddock mug.” Deep in the
hollow of a beer mug, more or less higlily deco
rated outside, the effigy of a frog or toad, mod
elled to the size and tinted to the color of life
was to be seen. The mug, filled with hunlming
ale, was presented to a victim, who deeply
drank; when reluctantly he withdrew his lips
to draw the usual deep breath of satisfaction
and gazing into the tnug to see what further de
light was in store, he saw the tdd tons reptile
head peering up at him, and the body as if in
the act to leap. The mugs were made very
strong, so that when the frightened victim
dropped them to t he lioor they should not break
and interrupt the joy of the Jokers.
When the grave of an old Viking tvas opened
recently his skeleton showed that he had been
laid to face the setting sun. He had worn a
w oollen sureoat edged with a frilling of gold
and buckled at the neck with a golden clasp
His belt was of stamped leather fastened by
two golden buckles. Over his lap was his shield
round, two feet across, with the underside of
wood and the outer bronze, with a rim of iron
Jits hands were placed across his shield as
ir to clasp it to his breast, and on them had lieen
bracelets of bronze with serrated edges and a
rim of gilded silver. IDs two-edged sword of
Iron thirty Inches long and sheathed in wood
lav at his side, anil close at hand was a dagger
of iron and a barbed javelin. To the right of
his feet was a bucket such as the Saxons car
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