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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— De Kalb Lodge No. 0, I. O. O. F.:
Calanthe Lodge No. 28. K. of P.; The Southern
Mutual Loan Association; German Friendly So
ciety: Savannah Lodge No. 217. I. O. B. B
Special Notices--As to Sword to be Voted for
at St. Patrick's Fair.
Railroad Schedules—Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway; Charleston and Savannah
Railway.
Auction Sales —Wet Cotton. Clothing. Sun
dries, by J. McLaughlin A Son; Blankets,
Sashes, etc., by C. H. Dorsett.
Steamship Schedule— General Transatlantic
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company;
Ocean Steamship Company.
Legal Sale—Administrator’s Sale of Land.
I .otter y—Drawing Louisiana State Lottery.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Raffle ; Miscellaneous.
John Brown’s portrait, draped in black,
is now a favorite ornament of Anarchist
meeting balls. There is a peculiar fitness in
its presence in such places and in its being
draped.
The Cincinnati Timex-Star hears that
Gov. Gordon has fallen out of favor in
Georgia because he kissed an Ohio man.
That paper is misinformed. Nobody in
Georgia believed the story for an instant.
There are too many pretty women in Ohio.
At an Anarchist meeting in Baltimore to
express indignation at the fate of the Chi
cago murderers, one of the speakers inti
mated that the time for revenge would
soon come. He spoke with a caution, how
ever, that showed he had learned something
from the Chicago tragedy.
Some of the people who urged Gov.
Oglesby to pardon the Anarchists cited as a
precedent the fact that the “rebels were not
hung.” It’s bad enough to be a sickly senti
mentalist without being a fool as well. No
parallel between the Confederate soidiet
and the Haymarket bomb-thrower can be
drawn.
How much capital is dependent upon law
and order, was illustrated in the New York
stock market, which grew stronger as it be
came more certain that Gov. Oglesby would
not interfere with the sentence of the Anarch
ists, and the execution was the signal for a
rapid rise in prices. European investors
bought heavily.
Jesse Pomeroy, Boston’s juvenile monster,
has just made another attempt to escape
from prison by causing an explosion of gas.
A good deal of damage was done to the
building, but Pomeroy only had his eye
brows singed. Would it not be a good idea,
to save future trouble, for the Governor to
sign that long-delayed death warrant.
The Boston Globe goes into quite an
elaborate calculation to show that, at the
rate of increase which it has shown for sev
eral years, in 1892 the Democratic party will
certainly control Massachusetts. VVTien
Massachusetts becomes Democratic, Ver
mont will be about the only State in opposi
tion. Really, that is more than we want.
Only a little more than half will do.
The price of steel has sunk to $32 per ton.
Its makers are alarmed, and have been hold
ing a conference to agree on terms by which
the output may be lessened. It is one of
their favorite arguments in defending the
tariff that domestic competition will soon
bring down prices to the foreign level, but
so soon as anything of that sort is threat
ened they immediately take steps to pro
vent it. They are not the patriots they pre
tend.
Miss Nellie Cook, the young lady who
attracted so much attention by her canvass
as a candidate for School Commissioner of
Wayne county, New York, failed to cap
ture the office, but she met with success in
another direction, which, perhaps, satisfies
her as well—she captured one of the enemj.
a bright young Republican lawyer, for a
husband. Female candidates for school
comnrissionerships may be expected to be
numerous hereafter.
It has heretofore been asserted that the
exportation of Indian wheat to Europe
would be limited by its poor quality. Now
comes the Austrian Consul General at
Venice to explain that the rapid increase in
the importation of wheat from India to
Italy is caused by the fact that it is better
than that of other grain exporting coun
tries, and “produces the finest grades of
flour.” This is further proof that the
American farmer must be relieved of his
burdens.
The New York World , with its usual en
terprise, had an extra edition on the street,
with full details of the execution of the
Anarchists, about an hour before they were
hung, and one of its contemp rories is very
indignant because it “cheated these poor
wretches out of forty minutes of life for the
sole purpose of selling a few papers.” That
the contemporary was cheated out of the sale
of a few papers is probably the real cause of
its indignation. The Anarchists 1 lives were
not shortened.
Samuel Fielden, one of the Anarchists
who escaped the gallows, in a well-written
letter to the Chicago News, points out that
in the Supreme Court record and in the
opinion of that court his actions are con
founded with those of a German of similar
name, who was not on trial but was con
spicuous during that exciting flint week in
May, 1886, so that the el iminating acts of
two men are counted against him. It is a
singular thing that Fielden should have
waited so long to bring out this point, or
that his lawyers did not do so for him
w hen they were trying to save him from the
gallows. It is a matter worthy of investi
gation, however.
Results of the Elections.
Tho New York World of Friday pub
lished replies from the Governors of many
of the States, Congressmen, leading politi
cians and the editors of leading journals of
the country to a telegraphic inquiry sent
them by that paper asking their views as to
the probable effect of the recent elections on
the national carnpuign of next year.
The most striking feature of these replies
is the unanimity with which it is agreed
that tho elections of last, week make the
renomination of Mr. Cleveland certain.
Democrats are also agreed That they make
his election certain. All are confident and
full of enthusiasm.
As to Mr. Blaine, opinion is divided
among both Democrats and Republicans.
Gov. Gordon and others think his chances
for a renomination not affected one way or
another; his special friends are sure defeat
in the recent elections has
made the necessity of his leadership
plain, while many, including several editors
of Republican journals, incline to the
opinion that he can not be nominated.
On the whole, the tone of these replies is
most encouraging to Democrats. It is plain
that Mr. Cleveland's popularity, always
with the people rather than the politicians
of his own party, is greater than ever. The
politicians no longer dure oppose him. They
see that the party is determined to nominate
him, and that it is the part of wisdom to
overcome or conceal any grudges they may
entertain on account of disappoint
ments caused by the President’s at
tempts to carry out in good
faith the civil service law. Among the
Senators most prompt in their congratula
tions at the White House upon the result in
New York, and the strengthening of Mr.
Cleveland’s position, were those who have
been loudest in their denunciation of wlmt
they have been pleased to call the civil ser
vice “fraud” or “foolishness.”
As is said by Gen. Patrick Collins, of Bos
ton, “no matter how individuals, and
groups of men may growl, the people be
lieve in Cleveland, and will support him
more heartily next year than in 18-84." He
will stand at the head of a united and en
thusiastic party, made so by his wise and
progressive policy, and is almost certain of
re-election. The greatest danger lies in a
possible want of harmony in the party in
dealing with the important matters which
will come before Congress. There is a pos
sibility that radical differences on the ques
tion of tax reduction may lead to damaging
dissensions, but even in this direction the
result of the elections, particularly of that
in New York, cannot fail of happy effect.
In that State l tie sense of the people was
taken upon the proper manner to reduce
taxation, and it was so emphatically in
favor of the plan favored by a majority of
Democrats in Congress that the minority
may feel the necessity of falling into line.
Altogether, the pros[>ects of the party are
brighter than for many years.
The Wesleyan Monumental Church.
John Wesley, the founder of the Metho
dist Church, was one of the great men of
the world. His work in behalf of Chris
tianity is a grander monument to his mem
ory than any that can be built by the
hands of man. The veneration in
which his name is held, however, and
the profound gratitude which fills the
hearts of those who-e lives have
been guided by his teachings, have led to
the erection of monuments in the shape of
churches for the propagation of the doc
trines which he taught, in nearly all parts
of the civilized world.
In this city a memorial Methodist church
was begun several years ago, but it
is still unfinished. In its present
condition it is not such a
memorial as it was intended it should tie by
its projectors, nor as it is desired it shall be
by those who worship within its walls. It
is proposed that an effort stall be made at
once to raise the money to complete it, and
as it was in this city that John Wesley began
the labors which have been productive of
such marvelous results, it is but reasonable
and proper that the money should be con
tributed here.
John Wesley’s work in Georgia brought
him in contact with the Salzburgers
and Moravians who had sought refuge
from persecution in Europe in the colony
which laid the foundation of this city.
From the simplicity of their religion, the
purity of their lives and the self-denying
and self-sacrificing character of their
preachers, he gained the impressions which
inspired him to lay the foundations of n new
religious sect. On his return to England he
first endeavored to impress these impressions
upon the established church, with which he
was connected, but without success. How
these impressions became stamped upon the
hearts of the people outside of that church,
and how the Wesleyan denomination took
shape and became a powerful religious or
ganization, are matters of history.
The Wesley Monumental church in this
city can tie properly called a monument to
one of Savannah’s greatest sons. John
Wesley was a hero, not of war but of peace.
Although no marble shaft like those which
have been raised to Greene and Pulaski, or
that about to be raised to Jasper, is
needed to keep his memory fresh in the
hearts of the people,but it is eminently proper
that a church bearing his name should be
contributed towards the payment of that
debt of gratitude which is due to him,
and which can never be wholly canceled.
The pastor of the Wesley Monumental
church, the Rev. Mr. Wynn, whose earn
estness and sincerity command for him the
love and respect of all who come in contact
with him. proposes to ask such assistance
from the people of this eity as will enable
him to finish his church, and it is to be
hoped that his request will meet with a
prompt and liberal response.
The Sorghum Sugar Problem.
The farmers of the West are discussing
the advisability of cultivating sorghum
cane on a large scale. The recent
statement of Mr. Coleman, the Com
missioner of Agriculture at Wash
ington, showing that the cane can bo
grown at a handsome profit, has induced
many farmers to think seriously of giving
it a trial. The yield of sugar from the sor
ghum by the diffusion process is quite large.
The experiments at the sorghum sugar null
at Fort Scott, Kan., were so satisfactory
that it is expected that other mills will bo
erected at other points in the West. The
fanners have not been prosperous for a year
cr more because of the low prices of all
kinds of farm products, and they would
gladly cultivate sorghum if they felt that
they could do so with a fair prospect of
getting a better return from their farms
than at present.
In cultivating sorghum cane the chief dif
ficuity to be overcome is that of transpor
tation. At the Fort Scott mill the price
I laid for cane is $2 a ton. On land that will
produce a good crop of corn from ten to
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1887.
fifteen tous of sorghum per acre can be
raised. An average yield would Ire twelve
and a half tons, which could be sold at the
mill for $25. A farmer could afford to cul
tivate sorghum for that sum per acre pro
vided the mill were close at hand, buthe
could not afford to do so if he had to haul it
tenor fifteen miles. Tho cost of transpor
tation would be too great. If there were
a mill in each county of a sorghum produc
ing section only those whose farms were
within a mile or two of the mill couid af
ford to cultivate sorghum. A ton makes a
pretty good two-horse load unless the roads
are in an excellent condition.
If it were possible for a farmer to grind
his cane and manufacture sugar at about
the same cost that sugar is made in the
large mills, the cultivation" of sorghum
would doubtless increase very rapidly. The
making of sugar, however, even by the dif
fusion method, requires an extensive and
costly plant. A farmer who cultivated
several thousand acres might own and
operate a mill, but small farmers would
have to depend upon selling their cane.
In thickly settled sections of country, if
the fanners could lie induced to devote the
greater part of their farms to sorglium,
mills might be sustained, but it is evident
that furmers could not afford to transport
their crops more than a couple of miles.
Capital will have to be found to build the
mills liefore much attention is given to the
cultivation of sorghum.
There would be no occasion to fear that
the demand for sugar would not be greater
than the supply. This country now con
sumes annually nearly a million anil a half
tons, and the consumption is increasing
rapidly. The duty on that which we import
yields the government about $50,000,000 a
year.
A South American Rival.
For a long time the countries of Eastern
Europe have looked to the United States to
make good any deficiency in their home
raised supplies of food, and the exportati n
of wheat, floor, corn, liog products, beef,
etc., has been largely the basis of our
foreign trails. Of late years, however.
India has to some extent been contesting
the English markets, with vario ts circum
stance', in her favor, and steadily lessening
the demand for American grain. And
India is not alone. Attention has lately
been directed by consular reports and news
paper articles to the rapid progress being
made by the Argentine Republic in a field
which has been peculiarly our own. The
territory of this republic is about a third of
that of the United States, almost
all of it suited to agricul
tural purposes, and now that a strong
stream of European emigration has been
turned into it, its development is very rapid.
Its wealth in cattle is as great as our own,
and already 10,000 carcasses of dressed beef
are monthly shipped to Europe. Of sheep
it has more than twice as many as the United
States. The shipment of breadstuffs has
only begun of recent years, but already the
demand of Brazil for flour, which for many
years was supplied by exportation from the
United States, and which amounts to mil
lions of dollars, is met by supplies from its
Southern neighbor.
T*ast year the exportations of grain
amounted to $7,000,000 only, but this year
they ore estimated at $17,000,000, and the
rapid ineroa.se may be expected to continue.
The country ls penetrated by rivers so large
that ocean vessels may ascend them for
hundreds of miles, and railroads are being
built.
These advantages make the Argentine
Republic no contemptible rival of the Mis
sissippi valley, and with a foreign immigra
tion of 125,000 a year it will soon have a
population sufficient to develop them. If
the agricultural products of
thi; favored region are to join
with those of the pauper labor of
Russia ami India in disputing the European
market with the American farmer, it is
time the latter was being put in better posi
tion to maintain his supremacy. The price
of breadstuff's is fixed across the ocean, and
no legislation by our government can affect
that. No laws can prevent the American
farmer coming into competition with the
pauper labor so much dreaded for other
occupations, but some of the law's which
add to the cost of every bushel of grain he
grows can be repealed. He can lie relieved
of excessive taxation, of the neces
sity of paying bounties to other
industries, and his living made
cheaper. The much boasted balance of
trade depends upon him, and indeed the
foreign trade itself. It would not amount
to much if it were not a matter of exchange
but merely the purchase by Americans of
such articles of European production as
were necessary to their comfort or enjoy
ment. Under the present system manufac
tures could not be exchanged for them, as
they could not be made cheaply enough,
and, besides, Europe wants chiefly agricul
tural products.
The crematory of Paris is announced, to
be opened next month. This building,
which is situated in the north of the Ceme
tery of Pere la Chaise, hus the form of a
parallelogram and is three stories high, sur
mounted by two chimneys in white stone.
The facade is in black and white marble,
over which are three domes, and a large
vestibule has also been erected. Dr. Brouar
del, in a report which he has drawn up on
the working of the crematory, estimates
that the furnaces will lie able to consume
4,501) bodies annually, which is said to bo
about, the average number of corpses leav
ing the hospitals in Paris during the year.
The Chamber of Deputies has passed the
bill authorizing cremation, which, however,
is only optional, and it only remains for the
Senate to sanction it before it can be
adopted by the public, but it Is doubtful if
this mode of disposing of the dead will be
come popular among the French.
A shabby looking pocketbook, which had
been kicked about by schoolboys tiie other
day in the neighborhood of Lausanne,
France, under the impression that, as it was
wrapped in a newspaper, it could be of no
value, was found to contain 16,000 francs,
the exact amount stolen from a gentleman
as he was leaving the Banque de Commerce
at Geneva. The presumed thieves, who had
been seen in the neighborhood of Lausanne,
were about to be liberated in default of di
rect evidence against them, and it is believed
that they threw the pocketbook away on
noticing the approach of the police.
Dr. Mdlly n announces that, having
Itoen ousted from St. Stephen’s, the whole
world Is now Ins parish, and he will pro
ceed to look after the English part of it in
a few weeks. If he has as good luck across
the water as did the author of “Progress
and Poverty,” the proceeds of his lectures
will pretty effectually abolish his poverty,
ami he will not have to wait until the gen
era! division of property is made.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Time for Train to Emigrate.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
George Francis Train threatened to leave the
country In case the Anarchists were executed.
His attention is gently, but firmly, directed to
the fact that it is time to move, or confess that
he didn't mean it.
Soften Animosities.
From the Xew York Graphic <Pem.)
The Chicago Anarchists have paid the penalty
of their crime. The event will leave a sting
that will burn for a long time, and too much
care cannot be taken to soften the ani
mosities between the employe and employed,
which are, unfortunately, entirely too strained.
The Labor Question in Politics.
From the Xetrark Advertiser (Rep.)
When labor is numerically strong enough to
organize and carry forward to victory a party
of its own, it will be strong enough to seize and
control the machinery of either one of the great
political parties already in existence; until then
a distinctive political labor organization will be
a doubtful experiment.
One Cause for Discontent.
From the Xeut York World < Dem.)
It is felt by many sincere men who have not
the remotest sympathy with anarchical ideas
that the essence ol real political equality is de
parting from our institutions. Money largely
Voptrols politics; money governs; money fixes
the price of necessaries of life; money, and cor
porations and corruption are creating a plutoc
racy within the Republic. This is their feeling.
And can it be denied that for much of it there is
Some basis of reality!'
BRIGHT BITS.
Nothing more quickly curdles the milk of
human kindness which irrigates the creamy
purity of the bosom of a milkman than for a
customer to order a pint of the lacteal fluid and
then tell him to ' chalk it down."—Hartford
Sunday Journal.
“George, dear," r.he said reproachfully, as
she clung loudly ground his neck, “why will
you eat raw onions when you know you are
coining to see mo!”
"Merely to test your love, my precious," re
plied George. — Exchange.
Off the track.— Miss Bas-Bleu—Are you very
fond of reading, Mr. Downtown?
Mr. Downtown—Fair to middling.
Mtss B.—Have you read "Homo Sutn?"
Mr. D.—No, I never was fond of arithmetic,
ami when I wus at school I couldn't even get to
on the Iliad.—Puck.
Guest at country tavern—Have you any
cheese, landlord?
Landlord—Not a bit in the house, sir.
Guest—Not even a little piece?
Landlord—By gum, there is. come to think!
Here, Pete, run down cellar and fetch up that
rat trap.—Detroit Free Press.
“Say, bub, I hear that your folks are going
to have a conversation club at your house this
winter.”
“Yep; we got one."
“Who are the members?"
“Me and mother. I furnish the conversation
and mother provides the club. Enny more?"—
Detroit FVee Press.
First Gentleman— “See that cab horse? Well,
he was once t tie celebrated race horse Sheet
Anchor, but now he is only the cab horse Ex
celsior."
Second Gentleman —“What on earth do they
call him Excelsior for?”
First Gentleman- “Because hestands for hire.
Ta ta."— Harper's Bazar.
“Sir." said the prisoner. “I did not pay this
man for my refreshments, because I know
nothing of the value of money. I never pay my
debts. lam a child of genius."
"And what is your age?" asked the Justice.
“Forty-two years.”
"Then it is time you were weaned.” and his
honor gav e him thirty days aw-ay from the bo;-
tie.— Pittsburg Dispatch.
Manager of Opera— Mr. Editor, your paper
says that our company should be suppressed,that
resjieetable people would not patronize It, and
that the ballet is disgraceful.
“Yes' sir; and I cau’t retract a word I have
said."
“Who wants you to? Here's S2O and passes
for your family. When a man treats me white
I appreciate it. Whoop 'er up some more.—
Nebraska State Journal.
Wk are a long ways ahead of the heathen.
When a Chinese banker defaults, peculates or
irregulates. the government takes off his bead.
But in our happier land the hanker takes off his
own head, and the rest of his anatomy with it to
a laud beyond the lakes, thus saving the expense
of a trial and the disheartening spectacle of a
public execution. Even if the government gets
judgment the agile one beats it on execution.
SO does a pianist.— Burdette.
A conjugal conversation overheard in a
street car: " What are you going to give me on
the 15th, dearest? You know that it is my birth
day."
"It is a date I never forget, darling. I shall
give you $100."
"On, how lovely! I’m going to buy that ex
quisite wrap."
"Excuse me, love. I give you the SIOO to pay
the rent.” Sulks. —Boston Herald.
It was Judge McMahon, quite well known in
the State, arid especially in Olmsted county,
who. one fine morning, met Sam Whitten, an
other state character. Said the .Judge: “What's
your nationality, Sam?”
"Irish!"
"Aik! what church do you belong to?"
‘‘Methodist!’’
And what party?"
‘‘Republican!"
“Well," commented the Judge, “that’s the
record I ever knew any man to have—an
Irishman, a Methodist and a Republican."— bit.
Baul Globe.
“This is all so sudden, Mr. Sampson," she
said, with maidenly reserve, "and so une\
pected, that although 1 confess I am not entirely
indifferent to you, 1 hardly know what to say
in reply to —"
“It von are in favor of the proposition," sug
gested Mr. Sampson, who. like Dick Swivelier,
is a Perpetual Grand Master, "you will signify
your assent by saying aye.’ ”
“Aye." came softly.
“Contrary?"
“No!” thundered the old man, opening the
door.
“The lines have it by a large majority,” said
Mr. Sampson, reaching hastily for Ins hat.— Sun.
PERSONAL.
Jin. Wiggins, the prophet who can't predict,
is seeking oblivion in the town of Lynn. Mass.
Lotta lias $3>0,000 invested in mortgages and
$lOO,OOO in a very large hat manufactory estab
lishment in New York.
Frank Luddinoton, of Bridgeport, Conn., has
invented a machine that will manufacture
30,000 cigarettes in a day.
The title of Henry James' new story is “The
Aspen Papers.” It will run through the Atlan
tic during the coming year.
Bismarck's rheumatism is less severe than
usual, but the Iron Prince is much depressed at
the Crown Prince's critical condition.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, has pre
sented Kosa Bonheur with three young w hite
bears in payment of a philopeua debt con
tracted at a dinner party last year.
A thref.-hundred-ooi-i<ak diamond ring given
by Lord Beresford to Jem Mace in that pugil
ist's palmy day, is now in the hands of a New
York pawnbroker, who got it for $3l.
Andrew Lang will go to live at The P.vnes, the
seat of the Nortbcote family, in order the better
to pursue the great task of editing for publica
tion the pa pels aud letters of Lord Iddesieigh.
Joseph Chamberlain, the English Commis
sioner. lias accepted the invitation of the New
York Chamber of Commerce to Is- present at its
one hundred aud nineteenth aunuul banquet in
Delmonico's Nov. 15.
Frank Winne, a Texas negro of no education,
is said to l>e a prodigy of mechanical genius.
He exhibited at the Dallas fair recently a steam
engine of small size but remarkable power
which, it is predicted, will work a revolution in
mechanical ideas.
Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with 3,000 work
ing girls during her reception at Bridgeport,
Conn, She wore a dark straw bonnet trimmed
with brown, a dark brown tailor-made traveling
suit, with closely fitting jacket of similar texture
aud color and bound with wide braid.
Tom Rochford, an enthusiastic supporter of
Candidate Baird, who wanted to be mayor of
Brooklyn, ate a w hole crow in that city the
other night, in payment of a wager. A large
crowd watched the performance, which wasen
livehed by the diner's grimaces at every bite
The quality of Hungarian cigars was recently
discussed in the Hungarian Parliament. Some
of the members asserted that they wi ,e so bad
that they were obliged to buy their supplies in
Austria Whereupon the Premier Tisza arose
aud solemnly declar'd that In his opinion Huu
garinn cigars were lieiter than Austrian; adding
that every time he bought cigars in Vienna this
opinion was confirmed. One of the Deputies
then asked: "Pardon the indiscretion, hut how
much do you pay for Ibeso cigarsy" And Tisza,
whose economic habits are well known, replied
with a smile; ”1 make it u point nev> r to smoke
a cigar that costs less than four krueUers” (.two
cents).
NCT AN OBLIGING CORPSE.
A Man Pronounced Dead Twice Before
He Pound it Convenient to Die.
Ft am the Pittsburg Post.
A prominent county official told a remark
able story last night, but declined to give
names, although he gave his solemn word that
the statements could easily be verfled. He said
that on Monday, Oct. 24, an undertaker down
town received a telephone message from an
other undertaker in the Lawreucoville district
asking him to come out and embalm a body,
the Lawrencevtlle undertaker n t having facili
ties for embalming. The down-town under
taker went to the house indicated and
found what he supposed was the
corpse of a man. He opened
his satchel, took out bis force-pump and
bottle of embalming fluid, and prepared for the
operation. He then took hold of ihe arm of the
supposed corpise to make the usual incision for
the, insertion of the tube of the pump. As he
lifted liis arm he was astounded to see the man
open his mouth and yawn, and discovered he
was alive. He hastily kicked bis embalming
materials under the bed and called the family,
who at once sent for a physician. The embalmer
then learned that the man had been lying in a
stupor for nearly three months, during which
time he had been kept alive by injections of
milk, but that the doctor had Anally pronounced
him dea<l. On Thursday, Oct. Si. the em
balmergot word again from the same under
taker that he had a body to embalm. When he
went out lie found it was the sameperson he
hud visited the Monday previous. This time,
after he hud got everything iu readiness again,
and had lifted the arm to make the incision, the
man not only opened his mouth, but also un
closed his eyes, looked at the embalmer for a
moment, tbeu, with a faint groan, rolled over
on his side and once more became insensible.
The embalmer hastily pulled the sheet up over
him, and the physician \v as the second time sent
for. On Wednesday of lasi week, Nov. 2. the
embalmer was once more called upon, and found
that for the third time he was asked to embalm
the same man. This time he found no further
evidences of life, and concluding the man ought
to tie dead, if he wasn't, made a sure thing of it
and embalmed him.
A Curious Marriage Contract.
From the Sew Orleans States.
It having been rumored around the city, since
the marriage of Miss Cora Slocomb to Count
Detalmo Francisco di Brazza Savoi gtion Cerg
nen, that Miss Slocomb had paid an enormous
sum of money as her dowry, a States reporter
this morning visited the office of Recorder of
Mortgages,and saw the marriage contract which
has been recorded.
The contract is dated New York, Oct. 15, 1887,
a few days before the marriage, and was
drawn up by Joseph B. Braman, Commissioner
of the State of Louisiana in and for the State of
New York.
The first part of the contract is relative to the
contracting pari in and their antecedents. The
contract was written in the royal consulate of
Italy, in New York city. The following is the
mam portion of the contract.
Article 1. As the future wife, by reason of the
marriage, will assume. Italian citizenship, which
is the condition of the husband, the status of
both will be regulated by the laws and prescrip
tions of Italy.
Article 2. The parties hereto agree that they
shall be separate in estate, and that there shall
lie no community of acquets and gains between
them. The wife shall enjoy the free administra
tion of her property, movable or immovable,
which shall belong to her at the moment of the
solemnization of the marriage, or which she
may have acquired during the continuance of
the same, whether by way of purchase made
w ith funds belonging exclusively to herself, or
which she may acquire by way of donation,
legacy or inheritance, and she shall have the
free enjoyment and the full right to dispose of
her income, but she shall not lie able to sell,
transfer, assign, alienate or mortgage her
property, movable or immovable, without the
previous consent of he.r husband.
Article 3. The expenses of the first marriage
establishment and those which shall be incurred
by reason of the conjugal relation will be borne
by the parties iu proportion to their respective
means.
Article 4. Both parties hereto bind themselves
that they shall not make any loan, whether
upon interest or otherwise, to any jiCrsoii what
soever or any sum which, singly or with others,
shall exceed the sum of 10,000 lire or the equiva
lent thereof, without having first obtained the
consent of the other party. Ttie future husband
declares that he authorizes hereby and from
this moment his future wife to return and so
journ in the United States of America, when
ever she may be required to enable her to at
tend to administration of her property, whether
he shall or not be able to accompany her.
Cora Ann Slocomb,
Hr. At. B. S. (’kronen,
Baron Savkrio Fava,
L. P. di Canola.
Besides the above names the other witnesses
were George L. Whitney, of New Orleans; Ed
ward H. Dixon and Clarence D. Ashley, of New
York, and Robert S. Day, of New Orleans.
John L. in Marble.
New Orleans Picayune's Bostci Letter.
It was my privilege this morning to privately
view the completed statue of that distinguished
modem Athenian, Mr. Johu L. Sullivan, which,
it is hoped, will eventually adorn the Common,
representing in imperishable marble the apo
theosis of pugilism. This great work of art, exe
cuted by our most eminent local sculptor, Mr.
John Donoghue. represents the champion in
conventional tig-leaf att ire, posed as if on guard,
with fists clinched tightly at his sides. The fig
ure is of heroic size—seven feet in height—and
his muscular development is such as would l>e
calculated to dissuade the British champion,
Mr. Smith, from engaging in his contemplated
mill with Massachusetts’ pride. Possi
bly it Is just a trifle idealized. In one
particular respect it has been considerably
modified bv the artist. I wish 1 knew ho •• to
tell just what this point is. Unfortunately, we
Bostonians are constantly puzzled to find terms
sufficiently refined for the expression of our
ideas. For once, however, I will cast aside my
constitutional modesty and will say that Mr.
Sullivan's paunch was too pronounced for
faithful reproduction. This feature of his aiuit
tomy has, therefore, been "toned down,”as the
sculptor expressed it, and thus the laws of sym
metry are preserved at the expense of fact.
The head is that ot a typidhl prize-fighter, bul
let shaped and closely cropped. The face is an
excellent likeness. The torso is massive, and
the—well, let us say limbs, are really magnifi
cent. The fists seem to me a trifle pudgy. On
the whole, the statue is a fine one. and will fitly
serve to remind future generations of what
Boston in the nineteenth century could pro
duce in the way of physic 1 development.
The Gravedigger’s Song.
By Alfred Antoin.
The crab, the btiilace and the sloe,
They burgeon in the spring;
Ami when the west wind melts the snow,
The redstarts build and sing.
But Death sat work in rind and root,
And loves the green buds !>est;
And when the pairing music's mute,
He spares the empty nest.
Heath! Death!
Death is master of lord and clown;
Close the eollin and hammer it down.
When nuts are brown and sere without,
And white and plump within,
And juicy gourds are |issed about,
And trickle down the chin;
When comes the reaper with his scythe,
And reaps, and nothing leaves,
O then it is that Death is blithe.
And sups among the sheaves.
Death! Death!
bower the coffin and slip the cord;
Death Is master of clown and lord,
When logs about the house are stacked,
And next year's hose is knit.
And tales are told and jokes are cracked,
And faggots blaze and spit;
Death sits down in the ingle-nook,
bits down and doth not speak;
But he puts his arm round the maid that’s
warm,
And she tingles in the cheek.
Death! Death!
Death is master of lord and clrAn;
Shovel the clay in, tread it down.
No Moral Whatever.
Prom the London Topical Times.
An undergraduate at Oxford surreptitiously
conveyed to his room a barrel of beer. His
tutor came to hear of the presence there of
that contraband article, and asked him for
an explanation. His reply was that he had
acted under medical advice, inasmuch as it
was necessary for him to keep up his strength.
"And do you find the prescription answer?"
asked the tutor.
“Oh, yes,” replied the undergrad. “I have
only had the barrel throe days. When it came
I could not lift it. and now 1 can run all around
the room with it."
There is no moral to this tale.
Probably True.
Prom the St. Joseph (Mo.) Daily Newt.
The following conversation, heard by a re
porter on the street last uiglit, is suggestive:
"Are you still tugging away at those gloves of
yours f
"Yes, dear."
"You know It disgusts me to see you walking
through the streets making your toilet."
“Does it, dear !"
"Why, do you know that I would just as soon
see you pulling on your—stockings in the streets
as your gloves ?’’
“Most men would,” was all she said, and he
hod nothing else to say.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In Connecticut a gang of tramps killed and ate
a farmer’s dog that interfered with them.
Work has been commenced on the big Mexi
can Custom House, at Paso del Norte. It is ex
pected to be finished within a year.
Pkter Lawson, a Swede, of Goshen, Cal., is 98
years ol 1, and confidently expects to live many
years yet, because, as he declares, his grand
mother lived to be 128 years old.
P’or several weeks a noble eagle, measuring
nearly six feet from tip to tip of its wings, made
its nightly perch on the steeple of the First
Baptist church in Galveston. Then came along
a gun and killed it.
Farmer Stauffer, of Montgomery, Pa., has a
big black hog that is particularly unfriendly to
fishermen. .Already this fall he has chased sev
eral parties off the farm, and has bitten three of
these fishermen, one of them severely.
A post office employe says that the gummed
surface of a postage stamp should never be
placed on the tongue. Moisten the other side of
the stamp and the corner of the envelope, or the
latter only, and the stump will stick for all it is
worth.
A carrier pigeon which flew into a shop
at Spencer, Mass., had under his wing a paper
bearing the request: “Give me some com and
water to drink and bathe and let me go.” After
the directions had been complied with the bird
went onits way.
Howard R. Deacon, of Philadelphia, cut his
great toe while trimming the nail and claimed
compensat ion from an accident insurance asso
ciation for one week’s total disability. The as
sociation refused to pay it until suit was brought
and then it payed up.
An ingenious fellow is traveling through
Pennsylvania selling “a valuable preparation
warranted to polish tinware.” This valuable
preparation is wood ashes, which he begs from
the farmers along the road, sifts, put up in neat
boxes and sells for 25c. a box.
One of the oldest bands in the country is said
to be the “American,” which celebrated the
semi-centennial anniversary of its organization
at Providence, R. 1., this week. All the surviv
ing members of the band at its formation, four
in number, were present and took part in the
ceremonies.
One of the inmates of an Indiana reformatory
for young women was released on a two weeks'
parole and took the occasion to be married.
This being clearly against the rules of the insti
tution and the laws of the State, which forbids
marriage under such circumstances, the bride is
spending the honeymoon in prison.
George Oolesby. of Waco, Tex., has gone
into the bloodhound business and has the finest
kennel in the United States. He is encouraged
in his business by the increased frequency of
deeds of violence, and thinks that if the re
volver law is repealed, his dogs will come into
great demand to hunt bad men with.
Librarian Hubbei-l, of the Pittsfield (Mass.)
Athenaeum, was surprised on entering the art
gallery recently to find that some person had
draped all the large statues with curtain lace.
Some of the figures presented a very ludicrous
appearance. On Apollo Belvidere was a paper
on which was written “Clothe the naked.”
A mule deer and a fallow buck, whose pens
in the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens were
separated by a fence, got together the other
night, and were found in the morning with their
horns interlocked in deadly combat. It required
the exertions of three keepers to separate them,
and when this was accomplished the deer chased
the men from the pen. The keepers triumphed
in the end.
Hiram Brown, of Peoria. 111., was 90 years old
the other day, and seventy-five big and little
Browns assembled to do honor to the patriarch.
He went to school in Cummington, Mass., with
William Cullen Bryant, and was a deacon in the
Congregational church there until he became an
Abolitionist. Then the brethren w ent back on
him and threw stones at him after dark, and so
the deacon became a free thinker.
A Californian, largely interested in the fur
seal industry, says that sealskins are expensive,
not because they are scarce, but because the
trade limits the supply. If all the skins that
could be taken were poured on the market, the
fur would become so common that it would
cease to be desired by the wealthy. So the seal
catchers agree upon the total number that they
will put upon the market, and they make their
report to the furriers of London and Paris, who
meet each spring and decide upon prices.
A citizen of Norwrich, Conn., who had stocked
his pond with a rare and handsome breed of
ducks, found that they were slowly disappear
ing, but where they went he could not deter
mine. One day, a visitor, sitting on his pizza,
said, “You’ve got queer ducks. I’ve seen two
of them dive, but they haven't come up yet,”
This was a suggestion to be acted upon. The
owner drew off the water from the pond and
found seventeen snapping turtles at the bottom.
He killed them, and now the ducks come up
again when they dive.
A Maine physician says that one day he saw
a big crane standing on a log floating near the
shore of the Kennebec river. The crane had
captured a large bug which he would drop into
the stream so that it floated down past him, and
then would grab it again and repeat the per
formance at intervals. He kept this up’for
nearly half an hour, and then a pickerel darted
up from below after the bug. This was just
what the bird had been waiting for, and the
next moment the fish was down his throat, and
he was winging his way slowly up stream.
Lieut. T. H. Crosby, United States navy, who
had comm uid of the United States coast and
geodetic survey steamer Gedney in the Gulf in
1885. reported (hat there was said to be a place
about fifteen miles west of Sabine Pass where
there is a soft liquid mud on the beach, off which
small fishing craft ride out gales very comfort
ably. It was said there was no bottom to this
mud and that small vessels run right in for the i
beach, stick in the mud, let go an anchor to
steady them, and when the gale is over work out.
The sea breaks outside, while the mud remains
smooth.
A restaurater in Providence, li. 1., secured a
dozen or so quails a few days before the game
law was off and was arranging them in his ice
box one morning when a friend told him that
he was liable to a fine of 82) for each bird found
in his possession. The birds were put awav out
of sight, but at noon one of his customers
looked over the bill of fare and asked: '“Have
you any quails?" "No." replied the proprietor,
“the law won't let me keep them, but 1 have
some of tlie best imitations of quails that you
ever saw." The imitations were ordered and
pronounced equal to the real thing.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, who recently
gave property worth $20,000 to the Women's
Presbyterian Board of Missions of the North
west. $.->O,OOO to the Congregational Theological
Seminary and the same amount to the Presby
terian Theological Seminary, to be used for the
education of worthy young men. made these
gifts on the ground that lie desired to give away
a portion of his estate in his lifetime instead of
by will after bis death. He lmd previously
given $35,000 to the Presbyterian chapel and
SBO,OOO to the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of Chicago, making $175,000 in all.
A novel craft is being built in Montreal. It
is a steam catamaran, each of the cigar-shaped
hulls being of steel, 65 feet long, and built in two
compartments, one being for water ballast and
the other for stove coal oil, which will be used
for fuel. Two vertical engines will furnish
the power to two propellers, which are soar
ranged that they will lift themselves out of the
wav wtien the hulls strike Moating ice or other
obstacles. The boat can be taken apart and
packed on a ship, and is intended for whale and
walrus hunting in the Arctic regions. It will
carry a Gatling gun and a powerful electric bat
tery.
Forty-five years aoo a North Carolina farmer
married and moved into a log house near Dan
bury. The house had one room down stairs in
which were two holes, eight by ten, for windows
and a big fireplace. When he built a fire in the
new borne he said that as long as he lived the
hearth-stone should never grow cold, and up to
date it hasn't, the tire iu the fireplace has never
gone out. Meantime the man has never slept
from home a single night; lias never tasted food
from any other table than his own; has never
used a particle of oil or a single candle to light
his dwelling; has been married three times- has
begotten fourteen children, all of whom are liv
ing, and all but three married; has become a
great-grandfather and is now in vigorous health.
From the San Francisco Bulletin: A state
ment giving an approximation of the number of
Chipese arrivals and departures from 1852 to
June SO, 1887, has been prepared by Surveyor
Tinnin for the use of Congress. The total ar
rivals within the date mentioned were 835 204
and the departures 196,308, leaving 139,001 Chi
nese in the country, who arrived at this port
This is considered short by 00,000. Prior to Aug
6, 1882, when the restriction act went ititoeffect’
there arrived 298,700 ami departed 136,475. Dur
ing the half year from Jan. i to June 80, 1887
11,117 heathens arrived and 8.762 went away’
These figures will lie used ul the coming session
of Congress, when the Pacific const delegation
will endeavor to press through that bodv anti
( lunese legislation of a more thoroughly re
strictive character.
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departments have been searched into, and these
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MILLINERY!
Fifty dozen Ladies’ and Misses’ fine Wool
Hats in the latest shapes and colors 0u1y35e.,
wort j fully 68c.
One large lot samples in Ladies’and Misses’
Broad Rim Hats, with Plush Rim and French
Felt crowns, only Si each, worth
One Lot Rich. Full-size i Wings for Hats, this
week only 95c : gr and values even for 50c.
Nobby Line of Strijied and Fancy Ribbons,
('heap Glace and Moire Silk Velvets at greatly
Reduced Prices.
LADIES’ NECKWEAR!
500 Ladies' White 3-Ply Linen Collars, Cler
ical Shape, with Cape, onlv sc. each, worth 10c.
1 Lot Ladies’ white 4-Piy Linen Collars, tha
Latest styles, with cape, only S'-se. each; worth
12!4e.
1 Lot Ladies' 3-Ply White Linen Cuffs, at the
surprising price of 10c. per pair, cheap even
for 20c.
25 Dqzen LadF Mourning Sets. Linen Collars
and Cuffs, for th * week, 20c per Set.
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Country Orders Solicited.
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