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4 Clje ||lflnung |tftos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. SATI RDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in rte year. and is served to subscribers in the city, toy newsdealers ami carriers, on their own ac count, at 85 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 (A) for six mouths and flO 00 tor one year The Morning News, by mail . ono month, f] 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $3 >0; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, bv mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, f2 00: Fix months. $4 00 one year. 00. The Morning News, Tri-weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three month*, $1 26; tax months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00 The Weekly News, by mall , one year. SI 2>. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter, Cur* renry sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publisher**' Association, 104 Ten.pie Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. ria ” Advertising rates made known on npoheabon. INDEX TO NtW ADVERTISEMENTi Meeting— Workingmen’s Benevolent Associa tion. Special Notices —Bills Against British Steam ships Sylvia, ati i Wolviston. Clothing. Etc.—Appel & Sehaul. Shoes, Etc.— At Cohen’s. Hardware. Etc. -Lovell * Lattimore Arm ON Sauce—Half Lot and Tenement, a Valuable Corner InfcYamacraw, Sundries, by C. H. Dorsett. Amusements— “ Two Old Cronies' 1 at the Theatre. Cheap Column Advertisements—Hein Want ed: For Rent; Found; Personal; Miscellaneous. An item concerning a recent strike in the tin-plate factories of Wales shows that the more skilled workmen were earning from $3 62 to $4 43 per day. Really, that does not look much like pauper labor. Having got rid of Mahone, Virginia Democrats can now afford to put themselves in line with their party. Any little vagaries they may have indulged in while struggling to free the State from his influence will be freely forgiven. The gains made by the Republicans in New Jersey do not give them the Senator ship at. the end of Mr. McPherson’s term, but it gives them an advantage in liold-ever members of the Senate which will be hard to overcome next yeutr. New Jersey Demo crats ought to be asnamAl of their dissen sions. Mr. Randall rejoices with the rest of the Democrats and thinks the New York elec tion settled the greater question of next year. Democratic success is certain. Mr. Randall is considerable of a Democrat, and a victory like that in New York has a great tendency to make him wholly one. There is great hope for him. Several Rhode Island wool manufacturers are quoted as saying that if the duty on cer tain grades of imported wool, which are needed to mix with domestic wool, were re moved they could compete with the world. The industry languishes because of the tax. How many other industries of the country are in the same condition. A week ago the New York Tribune, an nounced: “As goes New York in 1887, so the country will go in 1888.” New York has gone overwhelmingly Democratic, and now, as both the Democrats and the chief Republican authority are agreed, perhaps we will have a quiet, unexciting walk-over by Mr. Cleveland next year. The New York World heartily commends a speech made by Col. Fellows since the election, and promises him its earnest sup port. A week ago it was heaping upon him the most virulent abuse money could buy. The World has discovered that the people are with Col Fellows, and it is best for a newspaper to be with the peopla Bishop Keener is said to be of the opinion that Charleston is located on the spot where Adam and Eve grew apples and garden vegetables. The evidence brought forward to support his theory is not very conclusive, but, putting it aside, people who know Charleston will very readily agree that he may be right. Eden is represented to ha ve been a very pleasant place. It seems that the Nevada Bank was hit even harder than was supposed by the fail ure of the great wheat deal, in which it was interested, last summer. It is now said that as soon as its affairs can lie put in order the bonanza millionaires will turn it over to a Scotch syndicate, who will run it as a “legitimate banking institution.” Has it not always pretended to that character! When the Republicans were confident of success in New York they insisted that their victory would mean a rebuke of the na tional administration. Now they are doing all they can to make it appear that the elec tion was decided upon local issues entirely. It makes a great deal of difference in some tilings whether you inspect them from be hind or before. For instance, an election or a mule. The unusually large number of young men who have been committed to the State insane asylum of Michigan in the last year and a half has led to the discovery that al most all of them smoked cigarettes to excess. In many cases it is said to be abso lutely certain that cigarette smoking was the cause of the insanity. It is also reported that a prominent society young man in Detroit has been made deaf by cigarette smoking. Col. Grant ran several thousand votes be hind his ticket. Not many voters, probably, had anything against him. but they voted against him because he wa the “son of his father. ” That is, they resented the fact that the man was put up for office not because of his own merits, but because of his name. Claims to the consideration of voters are not, hereditary in this country. We have probably heal'd the last of the Lincoln and Grant business. The result of the Ohio election was peculiarly it Foraker victory, and the friends of Senator Sherman are disposed to think it was too complete. There is not room in the State for two Presidential candidates who want to attract attention by waving the bloody shirt. It will lie u matter to congratulate the country upon if their jeal ousy leads to a fight in wliich they will give each other bloody noses, metaphorically specking. Asa matter of fact, it is to be doubted if Sherman, at least, has enough good, warm blood in his body to stain his collar if his throat were cut, Let Them Heed the Warning. If the Anarchists in this country are wise they will heed the warning they received at Chicago, yesterday. As long as they keep within the bounds of the law they are safe, but when they step beyond it and not only advocate but commit murder, they will have no more leniency shown them than if they were to stealthily approach a personal enemy and drive a knife or fire a bullet into liis heart. The lives of the officers of the law are as sacred as those of private citizens and any attack upon them should be as swiftly and severely punished as an attack upon those who wear no badges of author ity. The 60,000 citizens of Chicago who signed a petition to the Governor, asking a pardon for the murderers of theseven policemen at tlie Haymarket meet ing eighteen months ago, forgot,apparently, that if it were not for the police their city would be in the hands of the mob. and their business and their homes destroyed. Anarchists cannot bo reached by acts of mercy or appeals to reason. If the four teen who died yesterday on the scaffold, and the tw o who were sent to the peniten tiary for life, bad been pardoned they would have at once begun again to advo cate anarchy. They would have renewed their appeals to workingmen to resist the law. They would have conspired again to make war upon the police with death deal ing bombs. Mercy shown Anarchists would be inter preted by them to mean that the authorities were afraid of them, and they would feel secure in indulging in greater ex cesses and committing other an-1 more atrocious deeds of violence. To them leniency means fear and liberty means license. There is only one way to deal with them, and that is to show them no quarter. When they violate the law they must be made to suffer the penalty for such viola tion, and be made to understand that there is power enough in this eountry, though it is lodged with the people, to inflict whatever penalties the law provides. The Anarchists who seek this country be cause their own has become rather uncom fortable for them. have the idea that they can do as they please as scon us they land upon our shores. This idea is strengthened by hearing in public places the most violent expressions against the law and those who administer it. and seeing in the public prints the highest officials criticised in harsh and bitter terms. They are given every opportunity to learn, how ever, that while this is a country of free speech there is the most profound respect for the law. The people speak their minds, but they want the law respected and obeyed because it is their safety. The Anarchists have no respect for law, and there is no way to prevent them from violating it, except by fotce. Most and his companions in New York would do in that city what the Anarchists did in Chicago, if they were not afraid they would suffer the fate that overtook Spies, Parsons and the others of the Haymarket group. The Anarchists pretend that the hanging of some of their leaders at Chicago will not check anarchy. If that will not, what will' They say the Chicago hanging will swell the ranks of the Anarchists and incite them to more violent deeds. Well, they will have to be met with greater force, and if they insist upon committing other murders, other Anarch ist necks will have to be stretched. If mercy would have weakened anarchy there would have been some reason in granting it, even though justice would have been ignored, but it would not. The course that was pursued was the right one, and the future will show that it was. The time had come when it was necessary to take a stand against the vio lence and crimes c f Anarchy. The admin istrators of the law were ready to take that stand and public sentiment supported them. The condemned Anarchists declared, and their counsel and friends declared in their behalf, that they had nothing to do with throwing the bomb at the Haymarket meet ing, and that they never intended to use force in carrying out tlieir principles. These things were said when they saw themselves in danger of being condemned to the gallows. The truth is, that they were engaged in a great con spiracy to overthrow the law and to intro duce chaos where peace and order reigned. It was in their programme that human lives should be sacrificed, though they in tended to take good care of their own lives. They have paid the penalty of their crimes and the verdict of the country is that they deserved their fate. The Anarchists in Chicago. The number of Anarchists and Socialists in Chicago is not very large, although the impression outside of that city has all along been that their number is many thousands. What they lack in numbers, however, they make up in bluster and noise. In the Chicago election last Tuesday their candidate for J udge of the Superior Court was Capt. Black, who was the leading coun sel of the Anarchists who were hanged yesterday. He is popular with the Chicago Anarchists and Socialists, and it is probable that they made an extra ordinary effort to give him a big vote. Capt. Black is a brother of Gen. Black, the Commissioner of Pensions, and having many friends in Chicago it is probable that he got hundreds of votes which were not cast either by Anarchists or Socialists, or by those who sympathize with them. There are also in Chicago labor organizations which have no connection with the Anarchists, but which have expressed some sympathy with those who were condemned for the Haymarket massacre. No doubt they contributed a good many votes to Capt. Black, and yet he received only 6.358 votes altogether. His opponent. Judge Gary, who presided at the trial of the Anarchists, received nearly the whole vote of the city. Could there be any better evidence than this that the number of Anarchists iu Chi cago is comparatively small, and that they have very few sympathizers! It is tme that nearly 60,000 people in Chicago signed the petitions to the Governor asking him to par don the condemned men, but, as in nearly all petitions, the signers doubtless did not have a very clear idea of what they were sign ing. It i- pretty safe to say, taking the vote for Capt. Blac k as a basis for an opin ion, that there are not 3,000 tneu in Chicago who do not believe that the Haymarket assassins were guilty of the crime of which they w'ere convicted. There is no imme diate danger, therefore, that the Anarchists will get the upper hand in Chicago, or any other American city. A cloud of scandal is said to bo hangiug over Mr. Parnell, the Irish leader. It is, perhaps, a Tory scheme to destroy his in fluence- THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1887. Atlanta’s Prohibition Contest. The prohibition contest in Atlanta is daily increasing in iuterest, and there is a prospect that the feeling that will be developed before the contest is over will become more bitter than the feeling was during a similar contest two years ago. If the Prohibitionists win in the present contest the probabilities an- that Atlanta will remain a prohibition town. The anti- Prohibftionists know this, and they are, therefore, making an extraordma'y effort to reverse the verdict of two years ago. The testimony of the lletter class of the people, as a rule, is that Atlanta has never been more prosperous than during the two years under prohibition rule. The working classes have been better satisfied and have had more comforts in their homes, there has been less drunkenness than was ever be fore known in the city's history, and all kinds of retail business has been more pros perous. One improvement has been so noticeable that it ought to arrest the attention of all having a voice in the approaching election who have sons. It is the almost total disappearance of the habit of drinking among young men of the city. A few of them may still continue (lie habit, but if they do it is because they haven’t the will power to discontinue it, and obtain liquor surreptitiously to satisfy their appetite for it. The great mass of the young men, however, who drank, did it simply because it was thrown in their way in the bar and billiard rooms. They drank occasionally, not be cause they wanted to, but because it was the custom to do so. Since prohibition went into effect they have been almost total ab stainers, and ought to be found earnestly working on the side of prohibition. Atlanta will make a groat mistake if she abandons prohibition. The good effects of it are just beginning to be, realized. There is sufficient moral backbone in the town to see to it that the law in enforced, which is not the case in some other towns of the State where the Prohibitionists would like to give prohibition a trial. The Beef Supply. The failure recently of several of the great cattle companies of the Western plains, caused by the almost complete anni hilation of their herds by the unusually severe weather of last wintor, would seem to indicate that the cattle raising business in that region, on the immense scale attempted by these companies, involves too much risk to induce the further investment of capital. The cattle ranch business in that cold climate will probably decline, giving place to the raising of cattle in comparatively small herds, which may receive attention during the winter months from their owner. This condition of the business in the re gion that has been looked upon as the great beef reservoir of tlie country, if not of the world, naturally directs attention to other sections where cattle can be profitably raised, and which are not subject to the ex treme climatic conditions which have proved so disastrous. There are many reasons to believe that the natural seat of this industry is in the Southern States. Here there is no loss from winter’s cold, lands are cheap, native grasses are abundant, running streams numer ous, and every year the means of speedy and cheap transportation to market multi ply. In many parts of the South lands suitable for cattle raising can be bought in large tracts at almost nominal prices, and that they should be de voted to such a purpose rather than lie idle is much to be desired, but it is as an adjunct to other agricultural business that most must be expected from the industry. Un der such conditions the indirect as well as the direct returns may be large. Notwithstanding that all the conditions are favorable for cattle raising, it is true that the South does not now supply its own need i. Because of the want of proper at tention to breeding and the care of animals, the demand for the best quality of meats cannot be supplied, and to a certain extent the beef markets of the larger cities are in the North. The breeds of cattle, however, are being steadily improved, and with in creased attention it is not probable that it will long be neceessary to depend on dis tant sources of supply. There is a great future for this industry in the South, and when a proper degree of attention is devoted to it, it will aid greatly in bringing atont the state of general pros perity of agricultural interacts so long looked for but so tardy itj making its ap pearance. The feeling in Canada in favor of commer cial union with the United .States is evi dently growing very fast. A conference of ministers of the different provinces which met at Quel>ec this week to protest against the encroachments of the Federal govern ment upon provincial rights, took occasion to pass resolutions iu favor of commercial union, expressing the opinion that such union would strengthen the bond between Canada and Great Britain. Of thirty farmers’ in stitutes, twenty-eight have also declared in favor of union, and more than one commer cial body has done so. These things show the conviction that the interests of Canada arc identical with those of the United State , but, it is difficult to see how the proposed scheme can be carried into effect while the political connection with Gi-eat Britain continues. Thirty years ago the property of the Catholic Church in Mexico, estimated as a third of the national wealth, was confis cated by President Juarez. The extent of the reaction against clerical influence, which has been growing of late years, is shown by anew law proposed by President Diaz to Congress. It provides that all property held by the church, or which shall hereafter be acquired, shall be “nationalized," and that the government shall be the judge of the number of churches necessary. Presi dent Diaz’s influence in Mexico is supreme, anti the law will doubtless be passed. It looks tyrannical to American eyes, but is perhaps a logical result of the interference of the church iu politics—an interference which has brought unnumbered eviis upon Mexico. Mrs. Cleveland was in Bridgeport, Conn., yesterday to show her sympathy with a movement to better the condition of work ing girls. She was present at the dedica tion of the Seaside Institute, built by Dr. Warner for the comfort and instruction of working girls, and held a reception after ward, to which only such girls were ad mitted. It is a noble undertaking, and the President’s wife could do no better thing than lend it her countenance and support. Wild rice, celery and other game food is to be distributed by sportsmen in the ponds and inland lakes of Warren county, New Jersey, in hopes of enticing water fowl to that section. CURRENT COMMENT. Will Keep It Secret From Butler. •FYoin the Wa*hington Star (Ind.) ! Experience is an excellent teacher. The next I time Henry B. Lovering, of Massachusetts, runs I for anything, he wi!£be careful not to let Gen. I Butler hear of it. Henry George Moves On. From the Philadet ohia Pres* (Rep.) The Henry George movement in New York appears to have received orders to move on and to have obeyed orders to th.* letter. It was one of the smallest moving parties over seen in the Empire State. The People Don’t Like Dudes. From the Baltimore American (Rep.) It is curious, but significant, that one of the most effective arguments used against Delancey Xicoll in New York was that he.was a dude. It was a false cry, of course, but it made votes for Fellows. It is a sad day for a young man’s future when he is known as a dude. Why Not a Murderers’ Ticket? From the Xew York Tribune (Rep.) Judge Gary’s re-election In Chicago is a de served tribute to a brave judge. It is astonish ing that even in Chicago any man, even (’apt. Black, shall have the effrontery to offer himself ns an Anarchist candidate for Judge. An An archist ticket ought to tie as much of an impos sibility in n civilized communty as a murderers’ ticket or a burglars’ ticket. BRIGHT BITS. A newspaper poet demands to know “Where are the girls of the past*" Bringing up the girls of the future, don’t you think?-- Lowed Citizen. People have been known to talk against gam bling all their lives on everj possible occasion, and then, after all, to go and get married.— Somerville Journal. Duluth’s new Congregational church will have a stairway so citizens and strangers can ciiinb up under the spire and see the city from a religious point of view.— Exchange. “Did the wedding go off smoothly?’’ “About as smoothly as such affairs always go off. The only hitch that occurred was when the pair stood up to be united.”— Boston Courier. Magnetist—Yes, waiter, 1 am a inagnetist. Would you like to see me tip the table? Waiter—No. sab; but if it’s all de same to you, sab, you might tip de waiter, sah.— Boston Buatqet. Smith— Hello, Gedneyl I thought you took the pledge? Gedney— Yesh. b’ grashus; but I ain’t (sic) s mean'sh keep little ;hic) tiling like that.—Bur lington'Free Pen*. “Boreas does business on a cash basis, I ob serve,” remarked the snake editor. “Whv?” asked the horse editor. “Weil, he is always able to raise the wind and rarely fails to put up the dust.”— Pittsburg Chronicle. Gacley—l hear your son has gone into jour nalism. madam. Mrs. Malaprop—Yes; he’s a contortionist tor the comic papers. Uaglny— n in: Trying to make both ends meet, I suppose.— Tut Bit*. In a recent railroad disaster in the West the only person killed was a man who was taking a “straw vote” of the passengers. If all railroad accidents resulted so satisfactorily, there would be no railroad officials censured by coroners’ juries.— Morristown Herald.. A rridp. may lie robed in yellow and stand with her bridegroom in a bower of yellow flow ers and all that, and even be married by a min ister who has tlie jaundice, but no amount of decoration will prevent the discovery of the couple’s greenness at the first hotel they put up at.— Springfield Union. Primitive but Proud: Mr. Waldo (a guest of dim. Wabash, of Chicago)—That is a very odd looking tableknife, Mrs. Wabash; silver, is it not? Mrs. Wabash—Yes, it has been in the family a great many years, and I prize it very highly as au heirloom. 1 only use it to eat pie with.— Texan Sifting*. • His Compensation— “ Who is that brute across the street who slaps those little boys? For a cent I'd go over and kick him.” “l eave him alone. It’s the only comfort he has.” “Why?” ' “lie s the editor of the ‘children’s corner’ de partment of a weekly paper.’’— Lincoln Jour nal. Master Tommy's father and mother were go ing to the theatre and he was in great grief be cause he couldn't go, too. “Shut up. you inconsiderate brat,” growled his father; “didn't you hear me say I had only two seats?” "And to think,” whimpered Master Tommy, “that if you hadn't married mamma I might have gone along.”— Judge. “Would you believe it,” she gurgled, “while I was bathing in the sea the other morning a nasty crab fastened itself on my toe.” “Quite an intelligent crab, I should think,” her lover replied. ••Intelligent? Why do you think so?” "Because it knew how to catch on to a nice thing." Then she blushed, and when he attempted to take a kiss she made scarcely any resistance.— Boston Courier. Who War the Widow.-This inscription ap pears on a headstone in the Milford graveyard: DAVID CLARK, Died July 17, IFBI, iu the 80! h year of his age. Also his wife, ANNA CLARK, Died Feb. 14, 1818, Ae. 57. This stone erected by his late widow. —Hartford Post. PERSONAL. Mbs. J. A. Logan has sold the Logan home stead in Chicago for $15,800. Miss Mcrkrub, the novelist, will spend the most of the win.er in Boston. Cardinal Langenikux. Archbishop of Rheims, .•nlled "the Father of Workingmen” in bis diocese. EX Senator Tabor'-: first wife, who laid the foundnt ion of Ins fortune, is said by the cor respondents to be living quietly in New York. She is about 10 years old. and is worth $500,000. Mr. Walker, formerly Consul General at Paris, will come home from Europe with his 1 i mily this month. I will sell his place at r.-i ter, N. H.. and make his liouie at Washing ton. 'l'm* Empress Eugenie's jubilee present to the Pope is a portrait of the lato Prince Imperial (godson of Pius IX.), framed in violets of ame thyst and gold bees, and supported by an enameled eagle with outstretched w ings. Davih Citnxx, President Cleveland’s Adiron .lack guide, lias left the woods for the first time in years, and recently ealled on Dr. Ward in Albany, .ie IK now in New York eity. He is an old man. and lias been a guide in the North Woods for many years. Mrs. Helen Campbell, well known from her book. "Prisoners of Poverty,” is now in London maxing investigations iu regard to London’s working women. She will furnish a series of articles on the subject to one of the London dailies, and will also contribute to home publi cations. Col. Lwont is very fond of horse racing, and he has been a daily attendant at the ivy City course. He takes his wife with him In a buggy, and, driving upon the grounds, selects a se cluded spot where lie w ill nut attract attention, and watches the races from the carriage. He never bets. Marion Ckawpord tells this story of Oscar Wilde: “Wilde.”says lie. "cameinto my study one day and sat down at a table, leaning his bead heavily on his hand." Here Crawford drooped into Wilde's position. "And he sai l. Ah! Craw ford. Craw ford, lam feeling very sad to-night. One-half ihe world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.’” When Sir Charles and Lady Dilke were leav ing his palace, the Sultan took up a small packet, which he asked Sir Charles to accept, as, “though of no Intrinsic value, it contained some views of Constantinople. ' When it was opened at the hotel, the packet was found to contain a gold cigarette box. with enameled views of Constantinople set in brilliants. An irade was also given to enable Sir Charles and Igtdy Dilke to see the treasure and the palaces; and if it did not, said the Father of the Faithful, cover everything, further facilities would be granted. It is reported that preparations are being made for transferring the remains of I)r. Naeli tlgal, the apostle of Prince Bismarck's colonial policy, from Cape Palmas, on toe Slave coast, where they were first interred, to Cameroon, the scene of the doctor’s first exploits as an annexa tionist. This transference would seem to have bean prompted by the recent complaints of Ger man travelers about the neglect, and even dese cration, of Dr. Naebtigal s present place of burial. There is a movement for erecting a fit ting monument to his memory on the African coast, but it is uncertain where it will be raised. Nearly Drowned, but Still Polite. From the Boston Post. A young fellow of my acquaintance tells me that a friend of his always practices, however trying the circumstances or wnatever his phys ical condition, that unselfish civility which dis tinguishes the true gentleman. And he related the following incident: Last September we took a canoe trip together, and on going down soino rapids wo were upset and found ourselves float ing about iu a sort of hay where the river widened. As the weather was cold we were pretty thick!}- dressed, and our boots were heavy, so that the situation was rather preca rious. We were strugeing toward shore, and he had his paddle, but T had lost mine. Seeingthat I was in difficulties, although he was just as badly off himself, he said: “Take my paddle, old fellow, 1 don't want it; do oblige me." I believe I should have laughed, if I had not been afraid of drowning, at the contrast between his statement that he was all right and the gasping voice in which it was spoken. However, v.e got ashore safely. Some Other Grounds. From the Detroit Free Press. We had been talking to a colored minister on the depot platform at Talladega for some time when the Colonel turned on him with: “Now, Josiah, you are a preacher of the Gospel?" “Yes, sah.” “You preach virtue, honesty, charity and all that?” "I does, sah.’’ “And you are supposed to live up to them yourself?" “Sartin, sah.” “Now, then, suppose I had a hog and be was runuing at large and you—” “White man stop right dar:” interrupted Josiah. as he raised his hand. “I knows v. hat you is gwine to say, but yon can’t make no p int on me. Pe hog law lias got so strict dat nobody but a fool nigger would think of stealiti’ ins pork. Try suntbin’ else, sah. Put it on the ground that you had lost your pocket-book an’ I had found it, an ax me what Pd do." How a Bear Delayed a Train. From the New York World. Omaha, Neb., Nov. B.—A Union Pacific train went out of Cheyenne very late last Saturday evening, for a peculiar reason. In the train was a private car of the United States Fish Commis sion. Its occupants had been presented with a large black Ivar. which wn} kept confined in the apartment partitioned off for that purpdte. When train time arrived, a messenger was sent out by the dispatcher for the crew. No train men reported, and the messenger did not re turn. Two hours dragged their weary lengths along, and a second messenger was seut out to notify the erew. On his way to the engineer's room* he heard the first messenger crying for help, and, going in the direction of the voice, found the man on top of a box car. terribly frightened, with the bear sitting on the track close by, wait ing for him. The animal had escaped from his car, and. meeting the first messenger, attempt ed to hug him. The messenger, in his fright, scaled the car and stayed there until help ar rived. By the aid of a couple of meu the bear was again secured, and the train pulled out of the Wyoming capital, nearly three hours late. Goes Into a Fit. From the New York Evenlnq Sun. “Misinterpreted messages sometimes play havoc with the hopes of telephone subscribers.” said a down-town Central the other night. And then he told a story: James G. is an up-town livery stable man, and his best friend is Dr. William O'B. The Doctor is somewhat of a dog fancier, and takes great interest in his pack of bird dogs. One of his canine pets is called Fanny, out of compliment to James G.’s wife, and the Doctor had promised James the pick of her babies when she gave birth to a litter. It happened recently that at James’ house active preparations were being made for the reception of an heir. A few days ago James was called to the telephone in bis office. He thought the crisis in liis domestic affairs had arrived. This is what he heard as he adjusted the receiver to his ear: "Uellol Is that you James?” “Yes. Who are you?” “Dr. O'B. Are you busy?” “Not particularly so. Can I do anything for you?” “Yes. Come to the house as soon as possible. Triplets just born to Fanny—one white and two spotted. They are beau ” But James had fallen in a fit. Kail way Projects in Russia. St. Petersburg Dispatch to London Daily News. While the Russian government makes the greatest efforts in Paris to negotiate a loan, which would be partially employed in the con struction of the Siberian Pacific railway, an other project has been formed, for which, it is hoped, foreign capital will be unnecessary. Ac cording to this plan, which really seems to pre sent serious advantages over the previous Si berian railway scheme, the Russian Pacific rail way would commence at Slataoust, the very centre of the Oural iron works. The entire length would amount to 6,000 versts."The cost is calculated at 380,000,000 rubles, viz., 300,000,000 for the railway construction proper, 30.000,0(10 for five large bridges. 20.000,000 for ten smaller ones, and 30,000,000 for contin gencies. According to the scheme, which has been elaborated in all its details, the railway could be completed within five, or at the utmost within eight years if the construction were com menced simultaneously in five sections, viz., the first between Slataoust and Omsk, the second between Omsk and Krasnojarsk. the third be tween Krasnojarsk and the Baikal Sea, the fourth between the Baikal Sea and the Seeja river, the fifth between the Seeja river Vladivos tok, on the Pacific, each section being 1,200 versts in length. It is said that this project is supported by the most influential persons, amt it is supposed by many that the necessary capi tal cou'd easily lie found in Russia at 5 per cent., the realization of the project demanding only 50.000,000 rubles yearly during eignt years, or 30,000,000 yearly during five years The Pope’s Approaching ouhilee. From the Corrierc del Mot tin i. There is a great activity in Catholic circles on account of the jubilee, as it is desired that the demonstrations should l><; truly Catholic- that is, universal, and not without apolitical charac ter. It is wished that some reigumg prince should be present, anil it seems certain that the Emperor of Brazil will assist at the pontifical mass to lie celebrated by the Pope on New Year's day. The Nuncios iu Spain, Bavaria and Austria- Hungary are also active in this respect. An ap peal has been made to the Secretary of State that the whole diplomatic corp. accredited to the Holy See should also be present. None will be absent, not even the Protestant Minister Plenipotentiary of Prussia. . The mass, however, is not to he celebrated in St. Peter’s, and the regrets, therefore, are uni versal. Instead, the Hall of the Loggia of St. Peter's is being transformed for the purpose, at a great expense. It is the Hall of Benediction, for the Pope used to bless the people from its central balcony. This hall served as a church when the last saints werp canonized, but the ex pause then was nothing compared with what will he incurred now for the splendid do -ora ti ns. the tribunes for the princes and diplo matic corps, etc. St. Peter's as a church is now dcflnatelv abandoned. The grandest of Christian temples will be come a mere museum or promenade. Almost all the Bishops of the Catholic church will come to Rome on this occasion, and certainly no Italian Bishop will lie missing. It is asserted that the Pop- , in his encyclical letter, will protest against the law for the abolition of the tithes. The present tribulations of the church will also bo the subject of all the discurses and addresses. In a letter to the Pope, the Bishops of India ex pres the hope that his holiness’troubles in his Vatican prison will soon come to an end. A Painful Chapter In the Peerage. Philadelphia Telegraph's London Corres pondenee. The all-ruling power whom some men call providence and others fate is responsible for some curious and significant dealings with those whom the unthinking world puts down as for tune's most favored pets Here, for instance, is His Grace Henry Fitzalnn Howard K. G., fif teenth Duke of Norfolk and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, almost fresh from the grave of an idolized wife, shedding bitter but unavailing tears over the heir to his title, now just recovered from an attack of illness. With an annual income exceeding 5i.300,000, splen did palaces in which to reside, and a title which dates back to the time of Richard 111., one would think that the duke ought to be a happy man. But, u.s a matter of fact, there is not a simple cottager or latxirer on his vast estate at Arundel whom he does not envy one at least of his possessions. The cottager can find happiness in his lusty, healthy lads, growing up to help him in his old age; but the duke, with all his wealth and all his advantages, is forbid den such joys. All that remains to him is the poor creature known as the Karl of Arundel and Surrey. Born eight years ago, this heir to potential wealth ami position is blind, is deaf, is dmuh, is deformed and weak in intellect. Lite to him must ho h burden, a riddle which he cannot solve; and not all the wealth of England can alter the circumstance. People say that grief at this wreck of all her hopes hastened the death of the duchess, and it is certainly ageing the duke. People who envy him hisYeut-ioU should look also at this skeleton in liis cupboard, and admit that there are some things more precious than wealth. If tba voting earl reaches the ageof manhood, it is pitiable to think that he will he unable to wield the power placed in his hands, and must, in all probability, remain forever a living and breathing corpse iu a gulden coffin. ITEMS OP INTEREST. Water is so scarce around Rocky Hill, Conn., that the babies are bathed in hard cider. A member of the Legislature of British Col umbia has resigned his seat, and will, it is said, join the Mormons. A. G. Douglass, of St. Louis, a few days ago sent to the Farmers’ Bank of Wilmington, Del., a $5 note issued in 1813 for redemption Three month's imprisonment was the sen tence given an Englishman who attempted, but failed, to steal a hot plum pudding, but found it too hot to carry and dropped if on the floor. George Tarey, of Moscow, Idaho, took aim at a small black bear, but his gun would not go off. He threw it aside and rushed for the brute, and. grappling with it, held on to it until another man shot it. The family of James Rothchild, of Centralia, 111., went to the fair grounds to see the I erd of deer. A red blanket in the baby carriage at tracted a big buck, and he charged on the family. Mr. Rothchild was badly hurt before assistance came. Avery unique monument has been recently erected in Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston. It is a spherical ball of Quincy granite, 4 feet in diameter, and resting on a granite base of 10 inches. The original memorial is suggestive of a well-rounded life. The boys on an English reform ship in the Mersey mutinied recently, and for several hours were in possession of the ship. They smashed the furniture and did a great deal of damage, after which sevent# n of the worst ringleaders lowered a boat and escaped to the shore. Some of them were recaptured. A Huntsville (Ala.) special says that on Tuesday, while some workmen were excavating in front of the Huntsville Hotel, they discovered a cave. A young man entered and explored the cavern for fifty yards, and it seemed to run in the direction of the county courthouse. A fur ther exploration is soon to be made. Sisters of Charity have been going to the race courses near New York during the last season. They have stopped at the entrances until the crowds of sporting men emerged, and then have solicited from the winners of bets contributions for church benevolence. They found little difficulty in pickiug out the men who won money. In Germany the average duration of the life of garderiKrs, marinersand fishermen issßyears; butchers. 54 years; carpenters and bricklayers, 49 years; shoemakers and tailors, 44 years: com positors and lithographers. 41 years, and labor ers 32 years. Of* the professions the average lifetime of the clergymen is 67 years; teachers. 57 years; lawyers, 54 years, and physicians 49 years. The Town of Franklyn in Tasmania, named after the famous navigator, who was once Gov ernor of the island, is now a deserted ruin. It , was once the most thriving town of the settle ment and a promising seaport, and was, besides, one of the most beautifully situated towns in the Australasian world. The gold rush lo Australia took its population away, and it has never re covered it. A Texas candidate for Congress wrote hs campaign speech on sheets of paper and pasted them together. He carried the roll of manu script to a meeting and in the excitement of the occasion allowed the unread part of the roll to become unwound upon the floor. When he came to the railroad issue he discovered that some of his impatient hearers hail cut ofi that part. Fora moment he stood amazed, and then he thundered: “Who the has stolen my railroad?” Some years ago, as a punishment for certain political offenses, a Thibetan Lama was inform ed by the Emperor of China that after his death his soul would not be permitted to revisit this world. But on the Lama's death recently, his pupils besought the Emperor to withdraw this interdict. Yielding to their solicitations, the soul has been allowed to reappear in the person of a baby. The Manchu residents of Thibet now appeal on behalf of this infant for the restitu tion of all the deceased saint's posthumous honors. Town gossips in Elkhart, Ind., have just suc ceeded in causing the death of a young and in teresting girl of that place. Miss Minnie Adams, daughter of Rev. F. W. Adams. The poor girl, while the family were away attending a funeral, robed herself carefully for burial, then swal lowed a large dose of strychnine, and, locking tier door, died in agony without uttering a cry. The afternoon of her death she attended school and was as animated as usual. There is much feeling in the community toward the gossips who slandered her. Baron Nicholas Korff, of St. Petersburg, Gentleman of the Chamber of the Emperor of Russia, and Mr. Louis Poerschke, of Riga, a port of the Baltic Sea, who is connected with the Finance Department of Russia, are visiting this country to investigate the workings of the internal revenue service of the United States, and are giving special attention to the study of tobacco taxation Monday last these gentlemen were in Louisville, Ky., visiting a number of tobacco manufacturers and looking into the workings of the collector’s office in that city. The hope of zoological London is at this mo ment a young goriila brought from the Gaboon, and in stature and bulk about the size of a boy of 13. His room is warmed constantly to a tem perature of 72°, and he has clean straw for his couch, and the most tenmtiug delicacies in sweetened puddings and bananas, but he has no appetite, and is evidently in doleful grief at having been kidnaped from his native forests. A most amiable and accomplished female chim panzee lives next door, but even the dulcet tones of her humorous confabs with her keeper have not a single charm for the homesick go rilla. The Imperial Academy of Science at London has recently completed the publication oi a translation of the New Testament into the lan guage of the Calmucks. This is the first at tempt to make know n to the Calmucks the text of the Christian Gospels. The initiative is due to Ihe British Billie Society, by which the work of translation was confided to Prof. Pozneieff, of the chair of Mongol and Calmuek literature in the University of St. Petersburg. Two hun dred copies have been sent to Astraohau and sold to the converted Calmucks of that province. The rest have been sent for distribution in Asia by European missionaries. Mr. Jones, with his wife and child, lived happily and prosperously in a little home n Nanticoke, Pa., until recently, when an old woman called at. their house and demanded food. The hideousness of the woman's appear ance frightened Mrs. Jones, and she slummed the door in her face. The old hag cursed the family and went aivay. A few days later Mr. Jones became sick, and has not been able to work since: their child became sick also, and a la t the wife, their money being exhausted, called on Burgess Powell, and said she thought they had been "voudooed." and wanted aid to return to their home in England. The Merchant World says that wood in cer tain form is a most contain and constant article of diet on the Lena river, all along the north coast and in the immediate neighborhood of Yokut.sk. in fact, whi raver the Yakut resides. North of Verehoyansk, except, in a few she] tered valleys, it may lie said there is no other wood than Die larch, and for miles south of the tree limit absolutely uo other. The natives eat ;t because they like it. Even when fish are plen tiful. it usually forms part of the evening meal, as many of the cleanly stripped larch logs ne r every but testify. They scrape off the thick layers immediately under the log, and chopping it fine, mix it with snow. It is then boiled in a. kettle. Sometimes a little fish roe is mixed with it, and further south, cow s milk or butter. The Cape Cod Canal Company is now con structing a ship canal 200 feet wide from Buz zard bay to Barnstable bay, near the mouth of Scusset river. The estimated cost is 87,•00,000. The excavation cosls $1,000,000 per mile. About, one mile has been completed, leaving six and one-half miles to be dredged. A toll of 10c. per ton on vessels traversing the canal will give, it is estimated, an income of $1,20!’,000 a year. Traffic from the coal trade alone, it is said, wili support the canal and pay the investors. The Fall river. Providence. Stoningten and Norwich lines of sound steamers will extend their course through it, it is said, to Boston. The distance saved is 140 miles, if regard be had to the ocean route, and seventy six miles as compared w ith the dangerous route through Vineyard and Nantucket sounds. The late Archbishop of Canterbury, when preaching at St. Paul's had the notes of his sermon, containing some important statistics, on half a sheet of note paper before him on the pulpit cushion. During the hymn a sudden gust of wind whirled the little paper among the audience, ond wafted it into the lace of a citizen at some distance from the pulpit. 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