The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 15, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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This tinner is kept on file and advertising rates may he ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Ihihlishers* Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and teleprarna should bo addressed "Marking News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on npplicat.io INDEX TO NSW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—The Chatham Mutual Loan Asso ciation; “Clam” Committee of Tybee Railway Stockholders. Special Notices—As to Bills strains*. British Steamship Wylo, as to Crews ot German Steam ship Donar, aud British Barks Baroma and Tikoma; Steamer Pope Catlin for Beaufort, S. C.; Grand Wrestling Match at Turner Hall; Dissolution, Octavus Coben Jk Cos. Thaniboivino at Thunderbolt-Trotting Race at the Park. Gents' Furnishings—At LaFar's. Seasonable Goods— L. &. B. 8. M. H. Shoes—A. S. Cohen. Legal Notice—Demands against Hattie J. Donelly's Estat#. Who Abe—D. Altiek <£ Sons? S6OO PER Mohth—Union National Gas Saving Company, New York. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous. The movement in lowa to establish “courts of conciliation” is perhaps in the light direction, but its success would be a hard blow at the lawyers. The efforts of the Republi can press to ex tract some comfort from the result of the late elections, continued now for a week, show that it has tackled no easy job. The colored concert singer, Flora Batson, must have proved a financial success, as her white manager is about to marry her. Her colored friends are justly indignant. A pretty New York lady is winning fame as a whistler. Should she set the fashion, bo that the girls' lips would be habitually puckered, they must stand the consequences. Old Russell Sage is about to quit gam bling in puts and calls on the New York stock market. He has not had a sudden awakening of conscience. The business is no longer profitable. The New York World remarks that last Thursday was a cold day. The World seems to have suffered more than any one else, and to be yet shivering It ought to have stayed inside the Democratic wigwam. Anarchists think it praiseworthy to attack society with dynamite bombs, but when society hits back with the policeman’s club or the Sheriff's rope, that is most cruel tyranny and murder. The world loves con sistency. The latest theory is that Lingg made his fatal cartridge of two steel pens and a piece of tallow candle. The pen which wrote the “Revenge” circular killed Spies. The pen is evidently sometimes a deadly in strument. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser gracefully acknowledges the seriousness of its party’s defeat when it says “The Repub licans will at least not suffer in the coming struggle from over confidence.” It must be a comforting reflection that that element of weakness is removed. It used to be the law in England that the bodies of executed criminals should be taken from the scaffold to the prison yard and there buried in quicklime. When one reads rtf the demonstrations in honor of the Chi eago murderers at their funeral it inclines him to wish such a law were in force here. The eleven ladies who swore their votes into the ballot-box at the recent election in Binghamton, N. Y., will be prosecuted for a violation of the election law. When informed of the probability of their arrest, they fell to crying, which proves they are loomed, however much thoy may pretend to the contrary. New Yorkers seem to be not a little ner vous over the prospect of cholera entering that port. This may have had something to do with Boss Platts Waterloo defeat in the recent election. Voters may have thought he should devote his time to the du ties of his office of Quarantine Commis sioner instead of running the Republican machine. A trifling difference between fifty shoe makers in a Philadelphia factory and their employers led to the strike of 3,000 others. They are still out, and have already lost *150,000 in wages, while their employers have lost a great deal more. It would be hard to point out a sillier or more wasteful way to settle a difficulty than was chosen in this case. Nina Van Zandt failed in a last attempt to secure a legal marriage with August Kpies. She wished to gain legal title to his body, have it cremated and keep liis ashes in an urn in her room. The country has wanted a rest from Miss Van Zandt for a good long time, and alter this last exhibi tion of her folly will insist on having It. Good-by. The French Londoner who has made fame by writing of England and Englishmen under the half-Irish, half-German name Max O'Kell, has arrived in this country, and will make a lecturing tour. Here he will touch up in pleasant style the eccentricities of John Bull and Friend McDonald, and when he goes bark will doubtless do the eame for Brother Jonathan. CoL Fred Grant, who led the Republican ticket to defeat at the late election in New York, is reported to have said lately: “I am fully aware of the fact that all the reputa tiou I possess is due solely to my latner’s name, but I am at a lose to understand that any degree of unpopularity should touch me on that account or any other.” CoJ. Grant appeal's to labor under the impression that be is unpopular. The truth i tiiat he is neither popular nor unpopular. The jieople are wholly indifferent with regard to him. The Fishery Commission. There is no doubt a very general desire i throughout the country thut there shall be a peaceable settlement of the fishery dis pute. A war is not wanted by either this i country or England, not only because it would be a very serious interruption to commerce, but also because it would co t nmnv times more than all the fish in Cana dian waters are worth. There appears to be an impression that the representatives of England on the com mission are better qualified for their task than the American representatives. Mr. Chamberlain, who lately arrived from Eng land, will be assisted by the British Minister at Washington, Mr. West, anil Mr. Tupner, of Canada. They will have the benefit of the experience of Mr. Bergne, the chief of (he Treaty Division of the Foreign Office in Condon, who is reported to be one of the best trained diplomats in Europe, and Mr. Thompson, of Nova Scotia, who is regarded a- the best posted man on the Canadian fisheries in the Dominion. Mr. Bayard, on behalf of the United States, will be assisted by Prof. Angell, of Michigan University, and Mr. W. L. Put nam, a bright voung New England lawyer. However, if Mr. Bayard needs other assist ance he will not have any difficulty in get ting it. It is thought that the commissioners of this country will endeavor to confine the work of the commission to an interpretation of the treaty of 1818. Perhaps this effort will not be objected to by the commissioners of England. This country contends that un der the 1818 treaty American fishing vessels should have the same privileges in Canadian waters as are enjoyed by American trading vessels under British laws. On the part of England it is contended that there is a great difference between trading and fishing, and that this difference is recognized in all the treaties which have been made concern ing the fisheries. If the commissioners fail to reach any agreement with regard to the interpretation to be placed upon the treaty an attempt may be made to arbitrate the fishery differences. No doubt the country will support Mr. Bayard in any course he may pursue so long as he makes no sacrifices of rights or principles. There is some reason for thinking that the Republican Senators will endeavor to defeat the work of the commission for the purpose of forcing the country to the edge of a war with England, with the hope of bringing the administration of Mr. Cleve land into disrepute, and thus gaining a party advantage. It will be gratifying if this shall prove not to be the case, but it is certain that some of the Republican leaders are ready to take any risk, however great it may be, to carry the next Presidential election. Mr. Platt’s Mistake. Thomas C. Platt, the Republic an boss of New York, does not stand quite so high in the estimation of the Republican leaders of that State as he did liefore the election last Tuesday. The alliance which the Republi cans made with the Henry George party is believed by well informed Republican politicians to have cost the Republican party a great many votes. In fact, by some it is estimated that the George movement did the Republican party more damage than it did the Democratic party. Mr. Platt and bis advisers assumed that only Demo crats would be drawn into the Henry Geoige movement, and they, therefore, con cluded to encourage it in every possible way. They overlooked the possibility that Republican workingmen were just as likely as Democratic workingmen to become con verts to Henry George’s land doctrine. They also failed to take into account the effect which an alliance with the Henry George parly would have upon Republican voters who were not workingmen. The Republican leaders in New York are now trying to find out just how many votes their party lost through Mr. Platt’s bad management, and the discoveries they are making are not calculated to make them think very highly of Mr. Platt’s ability as a political manager. It may be accepted as certain that if Henry George should ever again appear as a candidate, he will not find a friendly hand extended to him from the Republican party. If there is one thing more than another that is calculated to arouse the hostility of a Republican, it is an attempt to interfere with his control of his property. It is believed that thousands of Republicans refused to vote on Tuesday, simply because they did not approve of the alliance which their party had made with Henry George’s party, and also because they thought that such an alliance would tend to encourage ♦,' spread of Henry George’s land doctrines. There will be no mourning outside of the Republican party because that party overreached itself. The New York Herald, says- “Col. Fred Grant was one of the most popular men in his class at AVest Point. A skilled boxer, with undaunbsl pluck, he held his end well up in those occasional battles royal whereby cadet quarrels are generally settled. In one of those a terrific right-hander from a pow erful young Southerner conpletely flattened young Giant’s, nose and it was only by wearing silver tubes in it for a considerable time that the shape of tha: essential organ was restored.” The blow which Col. Grant got at the polls last Tuesday was much more severe than that which he got at West Point. It flattened him out so completely that no number of silver tubes would be sufficient to make him a desirable candidate again. The steamships for the Pacific mail ser vice in connection witii the Canadian Trans continental line will be of 7,001) tons burthen and very fast. They will receive a heavy subsidy from the British government, and will no doubt prove formidable competitors to the American vessels in the Asiatic trade sailing from Han Francisco. The latter get only moderate compensation for carryin; the mails, and, being American built, cost a great deal more than wili their rivals. Clara Louise Kellogg will no longer play the part of a frisky young maiden. It is stated that she was married to Carl Strak oseh at Elkhart, tnd., a couple of weeks ago. An effort was made to keep the mar riage a secret, but it was not successful. Miss Kellogg, who was burn at Sumter, S. C., is 45 years of ugo and the young man who has become h i midland is alxmt 30. As she carries the pm se, she will doubtless be able to manage t he young man, Old Sitting Bull advises the Crows to go back to their agency and helm'e themselves, telling them t hey do not know how good the White Father enu be. The Crows may re meintier, however, that tile old rascal lias been a sort of government pi t only since lie thru-lied the I'niti-d stairs army in the bat tle of the Little Big Horn. They tnuy at tempt Ui do the same Uiirnj. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1887. The Hip Pocket Evil. I It is expected tiiat a murder case will be tried at Newberry, S. C.,this week In which there is very groat, interest in that com munity. In fact, the interest is not con fined to Newberry and its vicinity. On ac count of the prominence of the accused the trial will attract attention all over the State. The defendant is Georgo Johnstone, a law yer, and he is charged with having mur dered John B. Jones, who, also, was a law yer. The ease was to have been tried at the last term of the Newberry Court of Ses sions, but the presiding judge postponed it in order to permit another judge to preside at the trial, for the reason that he is con nected with the Johnstone family. The accused belongs to one of the best known families of South Carolina. He finished his academic education at Edin burgh University and studied law in his native State. He quickly attained promi nence at the bar and in politics, and has served several terms in the legislature. At the last Congressional election he was de feated by only a few votes for Congress. The man whom he is accused of having murdered was considerably younger than he is—being only 25 years of age at the time he was killed. He had won considerable reputation in his profession, however, and was regarded as one of the rising men of the State. The quarrel, which ended in a tragedy, occurred in the court room at Newberry one day last June. During the trial of a case in which they were on opposite sides, they indulged in some very uncompli mentary remarks with regard to each other. Johnstone threatened to slap Jones’ face for some remark the latter made, and Jones at once drew his pistol and fired at Johnstone, the ball cutting off a part of one of his ears. Johnstone, who was ready for a shooting affray, immediately began shooting at Jones. Two of his shots passed through the latter’s body, causing his death. The im pression is that Johnstone will be acquitted on the ground of self-defense. As long ns the practice of carrying con cealed weapons is countenanced by respecta ble and law-abiding people tragedies like this one are certain to occur. In a moment of passion the ready weapon is resorted to, and in a moment a deed is done which sad dens the whole after life of the one who does it. There are few fatal deeds of vio lence which do not bring remorse to those who commit them, if they have had the benefits of education and refined social sur roundings. The press and the pulpit can do society no greater service than to educate public sentiment against the pernicious practice of carrying concealed weapons. Three Schemes. In time probably there will be a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for ships than that which they now follow. M. de Lesseps says that his canal across the isthmus will lie opened to com merce in 1890, but nobody seems to believe it will except its projector. It is much more likely to be abandoned for want of money to continue it than it is to be opened @t that date. , The final survey of the Nicaragua route is now being made. It will be completed by next spring, aud the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company will then, doubtless, ask the public to take its stock and bonds. The public may grant the request if it can make it clear that its securities are a safe aud profitable investment. It was generally believed that Capt. Eads’ Tehuantepec ship railway scheme would be abandoned after his death. This belief, it seems, was not well founded. Capt. E. L. Corthell, who was Capt. Eads’ chief en gineer, appears to be the moving spirit in the enterprise now. Its President is ex- Senator Windom, and its manager is Capt. Andrews, of Pittsburg, who built the jetties under Capt. Eads’ direction. It is not proposed to ask Congress for any aid. That probably is a wise determina tion. Congress would hardly give the en terprise any financial aid, if it were asked. If Capt. Eads, who possessed remarkable skill in handling Senators and Represents tives, was unable to influence them to open the public purse in behalf of the Te huantepec undertaking, it is useless for his successors to try to get them them to do so. A company to build the ship railway is to be organized at once under the laws of the State of New York, and it is understood that Mr. Windom and Capt, Andrews will soon go to Europe to place their bonds with English investors. If they fail to have their expectations realized they ought not to feel greatly disappointed. The ship rail way scheme is only an experiment at best, and it is by no means certain that it will be a successful one. The fact that the French people have put millions of dollars into the Panama canal, no part of which from pres ent indications, will they see again, will cause Englishmen to take a tighter grip on their cash when they are asked to contrib ute towards building the ship railway. The snake’s love of music, which has long been suppose l to form a potent element in snake-charming, is flatly denied by the Sec retary of the Bombay Natural History So ciety, who lias been studying the subject. He contends that snakes cannot hear at all, and that the cobra, which appears so affected by flute-playing in the native charming entertainments, is only attracted by the constant movement of the musical instrument before his eyes. Vipers, being far less timid, are not open to similar influ ence, and so are not used in these entertain ments. On the other hand, snakes strongly feel the earth vibrations, and so can detect the footfall of any one approaching for some distance. Thus tree snakes are more easily approached than ground snakes, which giide away when any one comes near. There are about 150 Washoe Indians at Truckee, Cal., who prove that some Indians will work. They never used to work, but when the Chinese were driven out of Truckee it occurred to these Americans that they might take the Mongolians’ place, and they did so. The bucks chop wixxl and do work of that sort, and the squaws wash end iron. One objection to them as servants is said to be their extreme sensitiveness. Tell on In dian to cut your wood and he’ll turn dis dainfully away. Impart to him. in a casual way, that you have wood to cut, and won der who’ll do it at such a price, and the noble red man will, with the air of con ferring a favor, intimate that he will, and he does. Some of the New York papers have been di-posed to criticise som wltal -evereiy the publication of Hecretary Lunar’s letter to Land Commissioner Spark , bidding that it would eniburruss the I’J'csidcnf, and was hasty and undignified. It non transpires that the letter was submitted to Mr. Cleve land and received his hearty approval. He perhaps knows best whether he is embar rassed. CURRENT COMMENT. One Leaf is Turned. from the Chicago Tribune (Rep. I A fateful chapter In Chicago's eventful history is closed, the leaf is turned, anil the Hayinarket monument will hold it down. Didn’t Know When to Retire. from the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) Henry George has shown with vivid dearness the folly of a man who insists upon remaining in politics after his boom has gone out. The Crown Prince’s Throat. Prom the Missouri Republican (Dem.) The Crown Prince's throat is now the chief issue in European polities. Certainly more than 800,000.000 people are affected by its condition. Upon less than a square inch of larynx depends the history of the continent for the century. Stocking a Silver Mine. ’ Prom the Washington Star (Rent.) The new silver vaults at the Treasury are nearly doae. The New Zealander who is to sit on the ruins of the dome at tie eapitol, twenty centuries hence, and survey ti e beautiful plain where Washington once stood, will probably stake out a mining claim between the White House and Fiiteenth street, unless Congress tackles the surplus in earnest this winter. BRIGHT BITS. A medico! backed by a spirit hand ought to be invincible in poker.—Texas Siftings. The old style men who made the dictionaries never defined “trust" as conspiracy.— Xew Or leans Picayune. Little Tommy—Ma, wouldn't it be nice if you had the tootaclihe stead of Bridget? Sirs. Blueblootl—Why, my son? Little Tommy Cause you could take your teeth out; she ran t.—Columbus Spectator. “Is it true, papa, that New York is a very wicked city and full of temptations “Yes, my child, there are 10,000 milliners there. But perhaps it will be better not to say anything to your mamma about it ."—Boston Transcript. “How is your son getting along in New York, Mr. Hayseed?" "I guess he ain’t doin’ as well as he says he is. He was home t'other day, an’ had on a colored shirt an’a white collar. I rayther suspect he’s behind with his washerwoman.’’—Harper’s Bazar. Young Mrs. Popinjay, at market for the first time—Are you sure this chicken isn’t an old hen ? It feels very tough. Marketmau I can assure you, ma’am, that fowl is very young. (Opening bill of the biped) —See, it hasn’t a single tooth yet. Mrs. Popinjay takes the hen— Burlington Free Press. “Comic right out and say what you mean, Mr Crimson beak," sail!the boarding house mistress: “I dislike to have any one ‘make any bones' of anything at my table." “It's quite impossible,” replied the young man, glancing at the fowl just brought in, "to make bones of something that is bones already." —Yonkers Statesman. If you drop your collar botton there is one sure method of finding it. After you have hauled the bureau across the room to look un der it, then replace the furniture and put on a pair of heavy shoes; start to walk across the room and before you have taken three steps you will step on the collar button and smash it all to pieces.— Dansville Breeze. Judge B. (with emphasis)—Clara, is that George fellow coming round here again to night? Clara (hopelessly)—l believe so, papa. Judge B Well, daughter, remember this — this house closes at 10 sharp, and— Clara (hastily)—Oh, George will be here be fore that, papa; please don’t worry.— llaiper's Bazar. He was being examined as to his sanity before a jury, and a great deal of evident# bad been introduced without proving that his mind was out of repair. Finally his sister was called upon for her testimony and was asked; "Do you be lieve your brother to be insane?" “Yes, I know he is insane.” “What proof do you oiler?" “Best in the world." “Let us hear it.” “Why, just yesterday I beard him tell his wife that she must really get a couple of new dresses and bonnets ahd not to think of the expense." An application for his admittance to the asy lum was made out at on e.—Nebraska State Journal. Where, oh where, has the young man gone who graduation clothes put on, some time along the last of May, and owned the whole wide world fora day? And where is the sweet girl graduate, who chanted an essay dread with late, and started out w ith a giggling frown to turn this old world upside down? And where is last year’s candidate, who had things fixed tor this year’s slate? Who carried around, as you’d believe, a couple of counties in his sleeve? And where is the scribe with the vaulting will, who tried a long-telt want to fill, and courted shekels and renown with a minion paper in a bourgeois town ? The lad has divided the world up fair and owns but his own eight-billionth share; the sweet girl grad, is a grand surprise, and conquers the world with well-made pies: the candidate with the deathless "gall’’ is fixing himself for another fall; while the joumu list with the haughty crest has gone the way of last year's nest. So year by year and day by day the world runs on in the same old way; the hal loon that’s the biggest round about is the flab biest rag when the gas is out.— Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. PERSONAL. Russell Sage's hair dye is so poor that his beard has three tints. Emma Nevada has scored an immense success in "Soinuambula" at Lisbon. Paul R a.iok, the distinguished French etcher, lias returned on his second visit to this couutry. William Astor. brother of John Jacob Astor, has given SIOO,OOO to the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral. The Marquis of Ailesbury and Col. Hughes- Hallett are both mentioned as "about to visit America" in some English papers. Joe Jefferson will not act after the middle of December. He goes South then and gives himself up to the art of agriculture. Archibald Forres is rapidly recovering his health in Washington, aud will spend the winter there instead of going further South. Mrs. W, F. Storey says that for ten years she accompanied her husband daily to his Chicago Times office and assisted him in bin ■■cork there, missing only two days in all that time. r.i or.NE FiKr.i), the brightest and most pol ished of the Western humorists, came into a fortune of $70,000 on attaining his majority and pent the bulk of it in a gorgeous tour of Europe. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr., have tal eu a pretty apartment at 8* East Fifty-fifth treet. New York. Mrs. Blaine, who, by the way, seems to get prettier day by day, is an in veterate matinee goer, .Mrs. Annie Besant and Mr. Bradlaugh have parted company so far as editing the .\ational tinformer is concerned. Mrs. Besant has bo come an Ultra-Socialist, going far beyond the exiretriest Radicalism of Jlr. Bradlaugh. Rear Admiral AVorden, hero of the Monitor and Merrimae light, is in his 71st year, but does not look his age. He was retired oil full pay in iSSti, and as this mean- sii.oDo a year he can live very comfortably for the rest’of his days. Georoe Goci.d has just purchased an exquisite pair of thorough bled carriage horses of faultless form null |lerfect motion. Their pedigree is un impeachable. andche/ were bred by Mr. Powell, of Virginia, the brother-in-law of Mr. A’irgiuius Dabney, the author of “Dun Miff.” AVhisky Arithmetic. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. “How many drinks of whisky do you average a day 7" said one gentleman to another aa they were enjoying n social glass at a well kndwn re sort ou A ine street yesterday afternoon. "O, taking the year round. I presume my average would he about ten a day.’’ “And how tong has this been going on?" was asked. "Straight along for twenty years, I guess: but it never hurt me auv.and 1 can attend to my pa tints ■ he is a professional man) just as well as I ever could " “Bui how much whisky, taking your own statement for it. do you supposeyou have drank during that time?" "l‘m sure I don’t know. 1 never thought about that. ” •‘TVcil, let us take another nip and then figure on it.' and they did. and hero is the result of their work: “Ten drinks a day would lie seventy drinks a week, or l ino drinks in u year. In twenty years i iuif would give the enormous number of f'i.SUO drinks. Row , the average drink taken in this country is said to ho sixty to a gallon. Then di vide the* W,ki)U by sixu. and you will find that y si have consume I IJild and a fraction gallons. .Now, there are supposed to be, on an average, thirty-six gallons to, barrel. Divide 1,218 by thirty-six. and you find that you have drank just about thirty-six barrels of the stuff. ’ The old toper looked at the figures and then at his friend, and then remarked: "Well, let's take one mots', and then J think I’ll give iuy stomach a rest for a day or two." A FEE OF $6,000,000. How lawyer Williams’ Claim of $ 1 600 Made Him a Many-Millionaira. FYom the Louisville Courier-Journal. A young gentleman of prepossessing appear ance, who is well-known in Louisville society and is a familiar figure at Alexander's Hotel, where he is temporarily residing, is Mr. Sherrod Williams, a w ulthy Californian. Mr. Williams is bright, gonial and companionable. He has been in Louisville for several mouths, and as he is fond of Kentucky his stay here may be said to be indefinite. It is entirely natural for the young Califor nian to love Kentucky and to feel at home here. His father, Thomas 11. Williams, was a native of Wayne county, this State, who went to Cali fornia in 1819. The eider Williams settled in Virginia City, where he was, after a few years, elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney. Mr. Williams was retained as the General Attorney for a large min ing company, whose headquarters were at Virginia City. This company became heavily involved, mid was on the verge of bankruptcy. Mr. Williams learned its condi tion, and, as ho had a claim of $1,500 against the company for legal services, he brought suit and attached its property. His attachment made him a preferred creditor, and when the property of the company, consisting solely of its mines, was sold, Mr Williams purchased it, bidding no more than the amount of his judg ment. He secured a perfect title to the prop erty, but made no attempt to develop or dispose of it. Years passed away, and Mr. Williams had been elected to the office of Attorney Gen u al of California. One day he was approached by a representative of Hood, Maekav A O’Hrien and asked if he was not the owner of certain mining property near Virginia City. “I am,” said Mr. Williams. "Do you wish to sell it?” inquired the agent. "1 do not,” was the reply. “Will you take SICO,OOO for it?” “I will not,” returned Mr. Williams, who knew the difference besween a cowboy and a cart-wheel.” "I will give you $2.’0,0C0,” said the agent. “The property is not for sale,” said Mr. Will iams. The agent left, but the next day he come back and offered Mr. Williams $5>)0,0)0 for the prop erty. The offer was declined. The negotiations were then taken up by a member of the firm of Flood, Mackay & O'Brien. Asa result. Mr. Williams put his property into the firm, taking in return a big block of stock. That stock began to fly like a kite. About the time it was at its highest Mr. Williams sent for his partners and told them he was going to sell his shares, “If you want them," said he. “you can take them at regular market quotations." They wanted them, and they took them. When the stock had been transferred, the firm of Flood, Mackay 4 O'Brien gave Mr Williams a check for $i ; ,000,000. He had waited a good while to collect his attorney's fee from the insolvent mining company, but when it did come it was a crusher. It was by very considerable odds the largest fee ever realized by an attorney in the history of this country. Sift MORELL MACKENZIE. The Eminent Specialist Who Deals With the German Crown Prince's Throat. From London Vanity Fair. Three generations ago a Ross-shire Highlander put a shilling about some part of his person and set his face across the Scottish border. His name was Mackenzie, he amassed a good fortune and his grandson grew into a mad doctor of much ability but of retiring habits. To this physican, then living at Leytonstone, England, there was born, fifty years ago, a son who was named Morell after an uncle who ]>erished very creditably in the loss of the Pegasus. Young Morell was left to run wild in Epping Forest to an advanced boyhood, but he progressed well later; took a high degree at tne University of London; abjured the retiring habits of his father; screwed a brass plate on his door; and took to looking down people’s throats for guineas. His success in private practice was great and immediate, and in a few years after setting up he could give to phy sicians who had been established a lifetime a score of patients and a beating. He became a specialist. He wrote books on “Diseases of the Throat and Nose” and on the “Hygiene of the Vocal Organs.” He founded the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, in Golden Square, ob tained all the professional honors in general which throat and nose can give, and became the special champion of specialism in medicine as i,:.posed to general routine, in which capacity he largely developed and amply displayed the bellicose and controversial predisposition he had inherited from the original Highlander. A few months ago he was called in to deal with the throat of the Crown Prince of Germany, which had baffled all the German doctors, and this he has treated with such success that it hat; been made the occasion for conferring upon him the distinction of a knighthood. Sir Morell is a man of wealth, of capacity and of strong indi viduality. He has long been the physician and friend of all singers and actors, and he has a son who is already making a name as a come dian, He can often see a joke, which is unusual for a Scotehmau. A Fated Ship. From the New Orleans Picayune. The superstition of sailors is proverbial. A cablegram from Gibraltar to the Picayune brings information which most strongly con firms the force of this superstition of the sea and how Its forebodings of evil were realized. last July there was lying at the wharf at the head of Spain street, in this city, the Austrian bark Lussignano. She brought a cargo of Italian marble. Mr. Vincenzo Buja was the stevedore who was engaged to discharge her freight, and on July 12, while he was engaged aloft in rigging some hoisting gear, he fell to the deck, a distance of 40 feet, and was killed. Finally, when the vessel was unloaded, she took on board a cargo of cotton seed oil for Genoa, where it was to he converted into pure olive oil. When the ship was ready to sail the crew de serted ill a body, declaring that having brought over a cargo of tombstones which bad already caused the death of a man, the vessel had coma under evil influences which would cause her de struction. Anew crew was engaged, and the bark sailed from this port on Aug. 12. Now, the telegraph brings the news that she was burnt at sea, her crew' having been rescued by the bark Gaspare and brought into Gibraltar on Oct. 2. Whether the evil omens which the ignorant sailors lmd professed to recognize had any significance or not, the vessel at any rate met the destruction to which she had lieeu doomed, to the satisfaction of the supoi-stitious at least. , The Practical Joker In Canada. From the Toronto Olobe. '1 h?following story has its headquarters at Clinton: On one of the (ine days of lasi week a lady came down town to do some shoppiug She brought her ‘ yearling’' in a baby carriage, which she left at a certain dry goods store while she went in to make her purchases. One of the clerks in the store who knew the mot her well thought to play a joke. So while she was busy he went out and wheeled the carriage and baby into an adjoining store. Though he was not aware of it the lady had lieen watching his manoeuvres, and when she was ready to go home she did so without carriage or babe. Shortly after “hubby" kicked up high jinks, and the joker clerk was sent for to take him away. And as the mother was gone he was oblige I to wheel baby home, the youngster howling at the top of his voice nearly I lie whole of the waj. and advertising the situation much to the annoyance of the clerk. When lie reached the guto the mother came out, and her exclamation was: "Dear me, I forgot a parcel, difl IV and as she saw the youngster: "Oh, I thought it was a spool of twist I had forgotten." It was worse than a spool of twist on the clerk. The Acrobatic Candidate. From the boston Courier. Into the gay saloon he strolled With free and easy air. And quickly for the drinks he called For everybody there. The glass lie grasped, the band he raised And said: "Come up, boys, come;” Then on the crowd lie smiling gazed And drank success to rum. He drained his glass, paid for the treat And then the candidate Went out and met upon the street A temperance advocate. "Ha: ha!" he cried, “give me your fl- Fin proud to meet a foe Of rum, a prohibitionist: The ruin shops, sir, must go!" The Red-Headed Woman’s Revenge. From the Minneapolis Journal. "There, take that," said a red headed female, as she brought her parasol with a tremendous whack on the head of an inoffensive-looking n iddle-aged geuCem&n who sat opposite her in an outgoing Fourth avenue car last night about :i. "Madame! 1-ah- 1 don’t understand the n n son for this. How liare 1 offended you’" "Don't modame me. sir. You’ve been look ing around for a white horse ever since 1 got in. and I want yon to understand tlurt if 1 am red headed you can't hitch me with a white horse to make a team. No, sir.” Alt inoffensive-looking man, with a crushed derby hat and a woe-begone countenance, dropped off the rear platform of the car about a minute later. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Four burglars at Grand Rapids, Mich., were caught while sleeping in the cellar of a house which they had robbed A letter addressed to “Skaarr Eggine” puz zled the Maine mail-route agents as to its proper delivery, but an agent solved the mystery by for warding it to Skowhegau. There is an unprecedented demand for cider barrels in Connecticut. All the farmers except the deacons are making cider, and the deacons are putting'in a few barrels of vinegar. The Grand Rabbi of India won first prize a t the Rothschild wedding In Parts recently for the greatest show in diamonds. His exhibit was worn in his turban, and was valued at $250,- 000. The third cable within four years is about to be laid on the bridge connecting Newport and Cincinnati. The cables are used for telephoning, and the first two were failures because of the constant cross talk of induction. The Electric Club, of New York is anew candidate for social honors in the club world of the city. The club is social in character and w ill haVI I all the ordinary accessories of a social clqh, hut in addition thereto it proposes to raise the standard of electrical work and will carry on a theoretical and practical school of instruc tion. A bouquet of iron flowers over 2 feet high, consisting of a branch of oak leaves with iron acorns, surrounded by twigs of laurel and olive, which are again enclosed by elder blossoms, lilies of the valley, buttercups, heliotropes, for get me-nots and other flowers, interspersed with sprays of fern and maidenhair, was pre sented by the owners of the lead mine, “Bis marckshutte," to Prince Bismarck on Ids recent twenty-fifth anniversary as German Minister. An ex-sufferer, who says he has never known it to fail, recommends the following treatment for cold feet: “Before you retire at night bathe yottr feet in water at a temperature of about 80°. Hold them in the water teu mimites. Repeal this in the morning. The next day make the. water 5° colder, until it reaches the temperature of 38°. When you find you can stand that, keep it up for a fortnight or so, and you will never be troubled with cold feet again. I have tried it myself and recommeuded it to about 100 other sufferers, and it has succeeded every time. It's worth while trying.” Rev. John Emory Rounds, principal instruc tor at the Centenary Biblical Institute for Young Colored People in Baltimore, and formerly a prominent member of the New England Con rerence, and associate editor of Zion's Her ald, the leading Methodist journal in the East. has become insane, and was sent to an asylum Tuesday last. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and is just 50 years of age. He is one of the best linguists in the country. Some eighty of his students are now preaching, and (X) are teachers. He went insane on a hobby— that of establishing a university in Central , Florida, which lie fancied he could have en dowed for $50,000,000. A certain Oxford professor some years ago was captured by brigands near Damascus, but the mild-mannered lienevolence of his appear ance excited the pity of hiseustodians. Instead of demanding a ransom front the vice chancellor they merely stripped their captive of his clothes, and considerately leaving him a hat, a pair of boots, and a pair of spibtaeles to cover his nakedness, bound him on the back of an ass. with his face to the tail, and drove him back to the town from which he had too hastily started Freshmen invited to meet the professor at the breakfast table are invariably instructed by their seniors to inquire whether he has ever been to Damascus, ana what he thinks of that great Eastern city. It is said that 100 women ride tricycles in Washington. The smoothness of the streets makes the work easier than it is anywhere else. Most of the women have a special costume in the nature of a riding habit with the train cut off. Nevertheless it takes them a good while to get over their nervousness and their self-con setousness so as to really enjoy their ride. Very few of them ride in the daytime, although the most proficient of them ail—the Misses Gal laudet, the daughters of the President of the Columbia Institution for Deaf Mutes, never ride at any other time. These young ladies ride with perfect ease and grace. They show the possibilities of the tricycle to perfect ion as they sweep through the streets on noiseless wings. Dr. Fhantzel, of Berlin, reporting on the ef fects of immoderate smoking upon the heart, says that smoking, as a rule, agrees with per sons for many years, although by degrees cigars of a finer flavor are chosen. But all at once, without any assignable cause, troubles are ex perieuced with the heart which compel the call ing in of the doctor. Common cigars are not so liable to produce these effects as the finer fla vored ones. Nor can the charge be laid upon cigarettes, although they produce evils of their own. The troubles seldom begin till after the smoker is over 30 years of age, and most usually attack him at between 60 and 00. While it has not been determined what it is that makes smoking injurious, it appears certain that the efleet does not and epend upon the amount of nico tine. An autograph collector says that of the Presi dential autograph letters those of Audrew Jack son are the rarest and costliest. This is because he seldom wrote letters—never when he could help it. The fact that his letters were often both written and signed by proxy is known to collectors, and a paper of this sort recently sold for $3. A full genuine letter is worth from $2 > upward. Washington's autograph letters come next in value and rareness. Next come the let ters of Zachary Taylor, who wrote a bad hand and had letter. They are worth from SIS to $-35. Lincoln’s letters erme next in rareness, and range from sl2 to S3O. Grant's are high-priced, not because rare, but because they are Grant s. Arthur’s letters are scarce. They haven’t had time to find their way into the hands of strangers. Twenty years from now they will be commoner. The French fleet at the end of the present year, according to the London Illustrated News, will comprise 6 first class ironclads of the new model, running 14 knots: 17 second class iron clads, 14 anno-plated cruisers, running 15 knots; 8 torpedo dispatch boats, running 18 knots; 8 armor-plated coast guards, of the Ton nerre type;, 9 seagoing torpedoes, 8) first and second class torpedoes. The other vessels, of no great war utility, are 30 dispatch boats', 10 transports of the < ’aravanc type, 12 transports of the Annamite typ. 4 t ransports of the Sui t In type, and 40 gunboats. In 1872 the value of the French fleet was 223,0C0.000. In 1888 it will ha worth 392.000.000 viz: 313,000,000 in ships built and 79,000,000 in shins in construction. In build ing, repairing and increasing the French fleet there has been spent within live years the sum of 475,000,000f. The Coeur d’Alene Sun says: “There was a sight in Buckskin Gulch yesterday that would have made the oldest placer miner’s heart leap with joy. The surface gravel had been washed off. and the large cut in the jagged bedrock for over 100 feet was a mass of glittering gold In places where it had lodged in the crevices it could be picked up by the spoonful. About a pint of nuggets, from S2O to SSO in weight were picked up in the forenoon by Charles Dud ley, and about twenty pounds of gold had al ready been taken to the bank, which had been scorn led out of the pit-holes. No very large pieces hail been found—the largest would proba bly not go over three ounces. The clean-up which will probably take two or three days vet to make complete, will be by far the largest ever made in the camp. It "is estimated to reach fifty pounds, or in the neighborhood of In practice at the present time, the running of electric cars, says an expert, requires no more intelligence or skill than the running of horse cars, and the electric current, with continuous conduction on lines using a few cars, need not be of such tension as to endanger human life •'<oo volts being sufficient. With the storage bat tery system the tension of the current is so low 180 volts being sufficient, that no shock what ever could be experienced by a man taking through bis body tin- whole current required to propel the car. The term "storage batteries" so generally in use, is apt to give a wrong im pression. no electricity whatever being stored or contained within them, for in charging the bat teries a chemical action is forced to lake place and when this chemical action is allowed to re verse itself, electricity is generated thereby rile car motor immed ately uses this, and when * niotor is stopped, the cb#*mical notion nnd therefore the generation of electricity coases. In 1808 George I). Prentice sketched a pen picture of George Francis Train as follows: "A locomotive run off the track, turned upside down, with the cow-catcher buried in a stump, and the wheels making a tho -and revolutions a minute. 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