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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetinob—Magnolia Encampment No. 1, I. O.
O. F.; Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, L O. O. F. ;
Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A. M.
Special Notices —Steamer Pope Oatlin for
Beaufort and Bluffton, S. C.; As to Crew of
British Steamship Coningsbv.
Wholesale Grocers —A. Davis & Son.
Lumber— A. S. Bacon.
Auction Sales —General Sale, by D. R. Ken
nedy; Furniture, by J. McLaughlin A Son;
Piano, Etc., by I. D. Laßoche’s Sons.
The Great Southern Portrait Cos. —I. B.
Davis. Secretary ana Treasurer.
Steam sate Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Miscellaneous.
Mr. O’Brien must find it rather difficult
to occupy a heroic attitude in bed. If the
cause he represented wore a lees noble one
people would be disposed to laugh.
Gen. Boulanger is a free man once more.
During his retirement he perhaps concocted
some scheme to bring himself again into
public notice, and may proceed forthwith to
put it in execution.
A Connecticut labor paper came out Fri
day with turned rules, in mourning for the
Anarchists, and weat into the hxn-ls of a
receiver the same afternoon. Cause and
effect are not generally so closely connected
in the news; .aper business.
Jay Gould amused his loisure in London
by trying to have Western Union listed on
the Stock Excliange. Success in that little
business undertaking would no doubt add
to the pleasure of his Mediterranean tour.
Pleasure is business with Mr. Gould, and
vice versa.
Cornel! University ha-abolished “honors,"
and hereafter tho only incentive to diligence
will lie the student’s love of learning. This
is in line with the sentiment which has been
growing among colleges arvl universities in
favor of treating students in every way as
men, rather than as children.
Panama shares have fallen 37f. In a single
month. It is said that the larger holders
are selling out, being better informed than
the ignorant pea-ants who hold most of the
shares. The result will be that when the
great crash comes the loss will fall upon
those who can least afford it M. de Les
seps has much to answer for.
Bath, Me., is to undertake tho building of
iron ships, and hopes thut in time tho Ken
nebec will rival the Clyde—with the help of
government subsidies. But it is extremely
improbable that the government will go
into the busiuess of helping to build ships,
to which private parties will hold the title,
•r pay the expense of running them.
The Anti-Poverty Society of Dr. Me-
Glynn and Henry George has further evi
dence that it belongs to a very badly beaten
party. and that business men think its end
is near The Academy of Music, in which
the Sunday meetings have been held, has
been rented over its head for other purposes,
and the society will have to find other quar
ters.
United States Minister to Lineria Tay
lor is about to resign in disgust. He says
f Liberia: “It u the toughest country I
ever struck. If this is the country of my
fathers, it is a good thing they left, und any
negro who wants to get back ought to l>e
lianged, and any white man who wants to
go there ought to be put in an insane asy
lum.”
“Prayer is all humbug,” exclaimed a
miserable woman, who wandered sobbing
aliout the entrance to the Chicago jail as
the Anarchists were lieing executed. She
but spoke the belief of all who hold the doc
trines of anarchy. In repudiating civiliza
tion. they also repudiate the divine teach
ings upon which it is founded, and moral
laws as well
Mrs. Maekay has thought it necessary to
cable a long letter explaining that she has
received no snub from the Prince of Wales,
but, on the contrary, that his royal high
uess has always been kind and expresses
admiration for her. Mm Maekay evidently
thinks a snub would be a dreadful thing,
but she does not seem to care if her country
men believe her a snob. There is good
ground for such a belief.
Our dispatches yesterday contained the
•oufirmation of the report of tho marriage
of Clara I/iuise Kellogg to her manager.
It was only about seven years ago that there
was considerable gossip about her engage
ment to Mr. William Whitney, a millionaire
and a member of one of the oldest families
of Philadelphia. Whitney was reputed a
connoisseur in wine and terrapin, and show
ered a modest fortune in gifts on the great
American prirna donna. These she returned
to him when she discovered, as rumor had
jt, that he was too gallant with the sex to
suit her ideas of fidelity.
With Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the
doctrine of protection is almost a religion,
and he devotes to its propagation time and
labor. He has not been idle since Congreej
adjourned last spring, but ha* traveled al
most continuously in the South and West,
speaking frequently and writing many let
ters. His exertions resulted in an attack of
fever, which still confines him to his bed,
but it is pleasant to know that he will soon
recover. Mr. Kelley is the oldest memlier
of the House, and one of (he best, in spite
of his tariff vagaries. He has done as
much, perhaps, as any other man of late
years to turn the attention of capitalists to
the advantages of the South, and is entitled
to gratitude for so doing.
Florida Passenarer Rates.
The Florida Railroad Commission has
established the passenger rates on railroads
in that State, and it is safe to say that they
are not satisfactory to those of the roads
upon which the rates have been reduced
below sc. a mile. It was the purpose of the
commission when it first considered the
question of passenger rates to establish a
uniform rate of 3c. a mile, but argument
seems to have convinced it that a rate of
that kind would drive the small roads,
which penetrate spaisely settled localities,
into bankruptcy. Argument, however,
does not appear to have convinced it that
the more important roads are in need of
any greater rate than that to meet their ex
penses and make a fair profit upon the capi
tal invested in them.
The question which presents itself is this:
Can the roads which are required to carry
passengers forJSc. a mile do so and provide
as good accomodations As they do at present
without actual loss ) The impression gained
from their arguments before the commission
is that they cannot. If there is any doubt
about the matter it would seem to be easy
to get at the truth. Let the roods show the
commission their books, or at least a state
ment of their gross earnings and expenses
for several years past. It is certain that
one of the greatest roads in the State has
not made any money at the rates for freight
and passengers which prevail at present.
There may be other roads in the same con
dition. If the roads have lost money, or
barely met expenses at sc. a mile, how will
they be affected by the 3c. rate t
The commission, of course, wants to do
the best it can for the people, but will it be
to the interest of the people to cripple the
roads? The commission, doubtless, does
not think the rates it has established will
cripple them, but it will be admitted that
the roads are better Informed relative to
their business than the commission is, and
they certainly regard the rates with feelings
of gloom, not because they foresee reduced
profits, but because they fear that they will
not be able to make their receipts meet their
expenses.
We do not believe in permitting the rail
roads to make either discriminating or ex
orbitant rates, but the best interests of the
people, as well as of the railroads, require
that living rates shall lie permitted. The
demagogue, to gain the favor of the crowd,
inay assert that the railroads are robbing
and oppressing the people, even when one
after another they are passing into receiv
ers’ ha mis, but the people never vet have
been benefited by following the advice of
demagogues.
The business which the Florida Railroad
Commission has in hand ought to be settled
on business principles. The roads ought to
be required to furnish ample and first-class
accommodations to passengers, and they
ought to be permitted to charge a ra e that
would enable them to do that, and to meet
their obligations and pay fair dividends
upon their capital stock. Such a rate would
satisfy all parties.
Fever at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati is now suffering severely from
typhoid fever. It is e timated that there
are at present COO cases in tho city. Last
week there were forty deaths from thut dis
ease. The death rate indicates that the
fever is of a very mild type.
The Health Officer says that he does not
corsider that the fever is epidemic. Before
a disease can be properly considered to be
epidemic, lie says, one death in each I,IXIO of
population must occur from it every twenty
four hours. It is worthy of notice thut
when yellow fever makes its appearance in
any city, it is declared to be epidemic long
before its victims number one to each 1,000
of the inhabitants every day.
The causes of the typhoid fever in Cincin
nati is the subject of a great deitl of discus
sion. Some of the physicians say one thing
and others another. The same differences
of opinion exist as are apparent among the
physicians of a city stricken with yellow
fever relative to the cause of that disease.
The fact is, little is known as to the cause
of either of the diseases.
The typhoid fever may not let go its hold
on Cincinnati before mid-winter, but her
trade will not suffer on account of the ex
istence of the disease within her limits, and
nobody will leave or avoid the town on ac
count of it. If yellow fever should break
cut in New Orleans or any other Southern
city, however, although It might not be so
general and fatal as the typhoid fever at,
Cincinnati, there would be a stampede from
the infected place at once.
The Dangerous Cigarette,
In our dispatches this morning there is an
account of the loss of $330,000 worth of
cotton and $50,000 worth of other property
at Little Rock, Ark., by fire, which was
started by a lighted cigarette which was
carelessly dropjied by a boy in a cotton com
press building. If the cause of this fire
were not known it is probable that it
would be believed to be tho work of an
incendiary.
The occurrence of several firos in cotton
cargoes at this port during tue present sea
son which could not lie satisfactorily ac
counted for led a good many people to be
lieve that they wore not accidental. It is
possible that that opinion is, to some extent,
still entertained. The fact, however, that
tho cause of cotton fires is frequently dis
covered to be due to carelessness in the
handling of fire, or to accident, greatly
weakens the incendiary theory.
If the truth were known it is not at all
improbable Hint it would appear that there
is a groat deal more smoking on ships that
are being loaded with cotton than tho pub
lic has any idea of, ami that matches are
carried carelessly about the persons of those
who are employed in some capacity in con
nection with them while their cargoes ure
being stowed.
The tiro at Little Rock shows one thing
quite clearly, aud that is that a cigarette
in the hands of a boy in the vicinity of cot
ton is a very dangerous thing.
The Now York Tribune , in opposing the
confirmation of Mr. Lamar as a Supreme
Court Judge by the Senate, should ho be
nominated by the President, recalls the fact
that thirteen years ago so prominent a Re
publican as Caleb Cushing was rejected
when nominated for the same office because
lie had once addressed a letter to “Presi
dent’’ Jefferson Davis. That was probably
only a pretext behind which the real reason
was hid. At any rate it can be seen
now that it was a verv insufficient reason.
Mr. Lamar should lie confirmed because it
is admitted that the Southern States should
lie represented on the bench of the Supreme
Court. He is well qualified to discharge
the duties of the place, and no one, not even
the Tribune, entertains a genuine doubt as
to his loyalty. His record as a Confederate
would not be brought up against him were
he now a Republican
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1887.
Protection Sentiment in the South.
The Philadelphia Press quotes a statement
I from the Nashville American to the effect
that “if the Democratic party plants itself
squnrely on a free trade platform next year
it will have to get along without tho assist
ance of several Southern States whose in
terests are bound up in the protectionists’
policy,” und remarks that “the party will
pursue its accustomed course and adopt a
platform which will mean free trade or pro
tection as necessity and locality may re
quire.”
In the first place the Democratic party is
not advocating free trade and has never
advocated it. It understands that the reve
nue for the expenses of the government
must be largely derived from tariff taxa
tion. In the second place it is proper tosay
that, while the Nashville American may
be very sincere in what it says relative to
the probability of several Southern States
voting against the Democratic
party next year if the party fail
to make concessions to the
protectionists, it is not a safe paper to fol
low in this matter. There is a prominent
daily, newspaper in this State which, until
wltlijn a month or so, talked just as the
American is now talking hut it evidently
didn’t give satisfaction to those who should
have been its supporters, and so it passed
into other hands and is now in harmony
with the sentiments of the people of the
State on the tariff question.
In the third place, the probabilities are
that the next national Democratic platform
will contain a much more emphatic indorse
ment of tariff reform than the last one did,
and there will be no protest from any
Southern State. There are a few protection
ists here and there in the South, but the
number of them is so small that their
influence is scarcely felt In Tennessee,
for Instance, there are a few roanu
facturera who would like to see
a prohibitory duty on whatever
they manufacture. They want to get just
as big prices as they can for the products of
their mills and foundries, but the great
majority of the people of the State who are
farmers, mechanics and laborers, are not
anxious that tho manufacturers shall be
como millionaires in a few years, while they
are just able, by the greatest industry and
economy, to mako a living.
The American ought to name the South
ern States which it thinks are leaning sc
strongly toward protection. The Philadel
phia Pess, the Pennsylvania organ of the
protectionists, is certainly relying upon its
statements, and, if they should not be found
to be entirely correct, a coolness might
arise between these two able champions of
the doctrine of protection.
It is jierfeetlv safe to say that there are
Western States which will accept the Demo
cratic party’s position on the tariff long be
fore any Southern State will vote with the
Republican iiarty.
Bidding for the Convention.
The California Democrats want the na
tional convention of next year held in San
Francisco. They make some big promises
as an inducement—promises which it is
doubtful if they can fulfill. They are very
sincere in making them, however, and it
may be that they have means of fulfilling
them of which the public knows nothing.
Among the things they promise are that
the electoral votes of Nevada, Oregon and
California shall be given to the candidate
the convention nominates, whoever he
may be.
There are several things to be said in
favor of Sun Francisco. The climate there is
superb in July, and there is a hall there
that will hold ten thousand people. As for
hotels, there is no city in the country that
is better supplied with them.
The committee that is in Washington try
ing to arrange to have the convention
called to meet in San Francisco, has issued
a circular which sets forth some of the rea
sions why it should be held in that city.
The following is a sample of some of the
statements in it:
“In July, the month in which the conven
tion will meet, the California harvest will
lie in full blast, our markets will be over
flowing with fruits of every conceivable
kind—oranges, lemons, limes, apples, pears,
peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, pome
granates, grapes in endless variety, nuts of
every land and clime; figs rivaling the
famed Smyrna, and honey in boun
teous profusion. Add to this the
balmy winds of the Pacific gently blowing
in through our Golden Gate, enriching the
blood, brightening the eye and making
every movement of life a pleasure, with un
surpassed accommodations, all tho comforts
of life in profusion, a clear sky and an abid
ing trust that a successful campaign will
crown the labor of that convention.”
There is a bare possibility that this com
mittee is working in the interest of William
Tell Coleman, the Sun's forgotten candi
date. It would be well for the national
committee, which is charged with the duty
of selecting a place for the meeting of the
convention, to be careful not to fall into a
trap set by the friends of the wily and am
bitious Coleman.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
The Savannah News has never written
us an essay on the duty on rice. Nor has it
violated its silence, so far as we know, in
regard to the protective plank in the plat
form of the Democrats of the First Con
gressional district. These mutters are
worth writing about.
Yes, and there are some matters which
our esteemed coutemjiorary, the Constitu
tion, might, find worth writing aliout. It
might write an answer to one of its mvn
editorials, which was reprinted in the Macon
Telegraph yesterday. One of the sentences
in that editorial reads as follows:
But who are the real lieggars for “protoc
fion?” Not tho poor—but the rich—not
usually too the moderately rich, but the very
rich. Sometimes they deceive the poor into
begging, too, the alms, however, going to
the rich.
When our esteemed contemporary writes
something about the above, one of it. edi
torial utterances, we may consent to en
lighten it about the duty on rice.
Col. Nicholas Smith, famous for his good
looks and for huving married a daughter of
Horace Greeley, having wasted the fortuno
left his children hv their mother, is now ac
cused of raising monoy by methods which
look like cheating and swindling. It will
lie bail if Kentucky is obliged to send her
handsomest colonel to the penitentiary. It
is worse that the grandchildren of the great
old editor have such a inan as father and
guardian.
Col. Emmons Clark, of New York, who
returned from Europe last Saturday, said
that it was generally believed there
that “America did not dare to hang the
condemned Chicago Anarchists.’’ Europe
has now another, aud an altogether different
idea of the power that can be exercised in
this country in favor of law und order
when occasion requires it.
CURRENT COMMENT.
What the Republicans Need.
Prom the Philadelphia Times iDem.)
The crying need of the Republican party lust
now Sturms to be somebody to bell the Cleveland
cat.
Two Things Forgotten.
Prom the Missouri Republican ( Dem .)
Those who think that Blaine has been dis
posed of as a Presidential candidate ignore two
things. One of them is Blaine, and the other is
Blaine’s party.
George and McGlynn.
Prom the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.)
As Dr. McGlynn’s efforts have about finished
up Henry George as the leader of a political
party, it would be but u return favor if Henry
George would now silence McGlynn as a political
priest.
The Beauty of the Result.
Prom the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
The beauty of the result in New York is not
se much in that it eliminates’’ Blaine, as the
enemies of that frisk} - statesman declare, but in
fiat it '‘eliminates'’ tne hepubliean chance of
electing the next President. There is no other
Republican in sight for whom the people of
New York have any greater fondness than they
have for Mr. Blaine.
The Republicans Not Yet Whipped.
Prom the Baltimore American (Rep.)
Democrats make a m eat mistake when they
say that next year’s Presidential contest is set
tled. It is going to bo one of the greatest fights
that our political history has ever known, and
no man, however good a prophet be may be,
can foretell the result. Ten months from now
those self-same Democrats will be shaking in
tueir boots, and will be scared out of their wits.
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Potter’s stage dresses are said to be a
‘'revelation.” Most actresses’ costumes are.
They reveal the wearer.—Binghamton Repub
lican.
At a Coroner's inquest the verdict was: “Died
from drinking too much whisky.” A red-nosed
individual present, supposed to have been from
Kentucky, said he “didn’t see bow that could be
possible.”— Norristown Herald.
Thtnos One Would Rather Have left Unsaid.
—Prof. Ohatterleigh— By George! I’m so hungry
I can’t talk.
l air hostess (on hospitable thoughts Intent).—
Oh, I in so glad.—London Punch.
Yes, Honorius. a pretty face may drive a man
to frenzy. In fact, it need not be particularly
pretty If. upon pulling It out of his vest pocket,
it shows that he has just seven minutes to catch
a train which is fifteen minutes distant.—
Binghamton Republican.
Mavino the pennies makes millionaires, but a
little Somerville boy says that he has given up
nil idea of being a millionaire himself g<> long as
lis father keeps up his habit of shaking the
bank whenever he wants a matutinal cigar.—
Somerville Journal.
Britisher— And have you any—aw—pawk In
Cincinnaughty like Hyde Pawk. ye know?
Miss Bacon—Any iiork! Well, in good, round
numbers. I should say about fifty thousand to
the square mile.
Britisher--Fifty thousand square miles of
pawk: By Jove, now you really surprise me,
Miss Bacon.— Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Hendricks (to caller)—No, I didn’t read
the story, Mrs. Hobson. My husband read it
and tola me that it ended dreadfully, aud I
don’t like that style of novel.
Mrs. Hobson (surprised)—Why It ended beau
tifully, and they were married in tho last chap
ter
Mrs. Hendricks (with a set look on her face) —
I’ll speak to Mr. Hendricks about it again.—
Epoch.
Omaha Dame—. Jane, our guest, Mr. de Hunter,
complalus that you ehopjiecl up his decoy ducks
for kindling.
New Cook—lt wasn't for kindling, mum. I
thought they was a pair of chickens your hus
band sent home, an’ 1 was tryiu’ to cut them,
mum.
"Of all things! Where was it you said you
worked liefore you came here?"
"At Mrs. De Style’s boarding house, mum.”—
Omaha World.
“I want to ask you a question. Miss Smith,”
ha said, in a low, tender tone of voice, "and
mav J not-hope that you will say yes, that
you ”
"Really, Mr. Sampson,” Interrupted Mias
Smith, austerely. "I oeg of you not to go on.
It is impossi *
"That you,” he went on, not heeding her in
terrupuon, "will go with me to Delmonico's for
a dish of ice cream?”
“V s,” said Miss Smith, without austerity.—
Epoch.
C’nntsoNßEAK—l think heat is conducive to
good music.
Yeast—Nonsense! Aren't most of our con
certs given in the winter lime?
"True; but do not the birds sing more in the
summer time?"
"Yes. I believe they do ”
"Aud does not the vocal artist sing better
when she has been given a warm reception?”
“I cannot deny it.”
"And look at this, you old mutton-head. Did
Sou ever know a tea kettle to sing unless it was
ot?" Yonkers Statesman.
A Hundred Years Hence.—First Lady Juror
—There wens to bo no doubt that the prisoner
murdered his wife.
Second Lady Juror—Yes. isn't he handsome.
Third Lady Juror—The poor fellow hasn’t had
a single bouquet sent to him to-day.
Fourth Lady Juror—But you know the ladies
weren’t sure he was guilty.
Fifth Lady Juror—Of course not; they didn't
hear half the evidence.
S.xtli Lady Juror—lf we bring him In guilty
a hat will they do?
Seventh Ladv Juror—Hang him. „
Chorus—Horrors 1
Lighui Lady Juror—Why not say the second
degree.
Ninth La lv Juror—Then they’d imprison the
poor man for life.
Chorus— Horrors!
Tenth Lady Juror—lt won’t do to bring him
in guilty at all.
F.loventh Lady Juror—l’m afraid not.
Twelfth Lady Juror—Of course not. If he is
locked up we cau't any of us marry hiui.—
Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
Booth and Barrett took s'.’l,ooo at Cincinnati
last week for seven performances.
Mrs. Gladstone is 73 years old, but looks con
siderably younger and is very vigorous.
Harry, son of the late President Garfield, is a
student at Oxford University, England.
J. Randolph Tucker is to receive $5,000 for
the efforts ho made In behalf of the Chicago
Anarchists.
The Parliamentary district which John Bright
represents has always paid that statesman's
political expenses.
The library of Lori Crawford, the finest and
Inrgest private collection of books In the world,
is to be sold at auction.
Mas. Garfield is greatly enjoying her visit
to England. She finds B, >urnemouth delightful
and her health is already improving.
Thf. youg Due d’Or leans, the eldest son of the
Comte de Paris, will arrive at Sun Francisco in
the spring and make a tour through the United
States. He is now 18 years of age.
Mr Haldkmak, the publisher of the Lonis
ville Courier-Journal, lately directed his pastor,
by telegraph, to draw upou him for the full
amount of his church's indebtedness.
John L. Sullivan is the great American lion
in London, 110 lias dined w ith several peers,
ami on Thursday was given a theatre party at
the Princess’ by the Marquis of Queenslierry.
Lord Pysart, of England, is the latest mem
?>er of the English aristocracy to arrive in tho
United States. Beyond the fact that he is an
earl, there Is nothing of any interest about him.
Mrs. McPherson, while sitting in Maoy’s
store in New York on Friday, fell in a faint, amt
her hat-pin was forced into the base of her skull,
penetrating her brain, und causing a mortal in
jury.
Vice Admiral Viscount Kalayama, of the
Japanese navy, recently visiting New York,
looks like a Spaniard ana dresses like an En
glishman. Like Mr. Chamlierloin. he uses a single
eyeglass to improve his sight.
Rev. Dr Pareer, of London, declined to
preach in Plymouth ohurch, Chicago, Sunday,
liecause the congregation* bad refused to adopt
resolutions of condolence to Mrs. Beecher after
the demise of her husband.
Fred H. Rivc.e, of California, formerly of
Cambridge, Mass., has offered to build and pre
sent to the city of Cambridge anew city hall,
an industrial school and a site for a high school
for boys The Aldermen and Cty Connell at a
special meeting accepted the gifts. These gifts
of Mr. Ringe, in addition to the new public
library, approach nearly $300,000 in value.
Frank B. It arte, the eldest son of Bret Harto,
bad a narrow escape for his life recently by his
mother’s giving him a tablctqiooiiful of lauda
uiim In mistake tor another medicine. He dis
covered the mistake himself, and fainted away
in lright. The doctor labored for twelve bourn
to keep him awake, and he finally recovered,
much to the joy of his mother, who was terri
bly alarmed.
HER HORSE GOT THERE.
A Plucky Woman Whom a Dakota
Town Would elect to Anything.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
Frankie Cleveland won tae hearts of her sub
jects by marrying a President. She deserves
credit for that, but a Grand Forks, Dak., la y
won the hearts of the denizens of that lively
little city not long ago more completely in half
an hour. She did it with a horse. The lady
drove a sleepy-looking carriage horse about
town on her snooping tours that in appearance
didn't look as though it could go a mile in a
week. A well-known citizen had a spanking big
team that was acknowledged to tie the swiftest
in the town. The lady and gentleman met in
societ y frequently, and the latter never lost an
opportunity to chaff her about her ill-looking
horse. One day they happened to drive up to a
city drag store at the same time,
"Say,” began tue man as he looked at the
lady and then glances! at the horse, ‘‘why don't
you hitch a snail to your carriage? It would go
faster titan that horse, and look a deuced sight
better.”
"You have ‘guved’ me repeatedly about that
horse,” replied th lady “Now 111 wager that
I'll beat you in a half-mile race."
■‘i'll bet you Jjld.you can't."
“Wait till I drive home and get the money and
I'll take you."
“Never mind doing that; I'll loan you the
money," broke in a bystander.
The money w. . put up and a half mile on a
level street was chosen. Half the town wit
nessed the race. The flyers got an even start
and away they went. The little horse spurted
at the start and took the lead. The little beast's
mane and tail fairly stood up in the air as she
went at a Maud S. gait down the stretch. The
big team was not only beaten, but in a- straight
race would have been distanced. The town
went wild. They are guying the man yet up in
that country.
How Sarah Bernhardt Didn’t Recite.
Paris Letter to Brooklyn Eagle.
Since her return Sarah Bernhardt is very
busy spending the money she made in Amer
ica. Her managers. Abbey and Orau, have
made an arrangement with her creditors. She
was about $2U.000 in debt when she left, and
about one-third was offered and accepted to
cancel the indebtedness. They have rented a
hotel-private house—for her, and for the fur
nishing of which she is now displaying her
artistic taste und her love for lavish "expendi
ture. She Bpent $7,000 for her bedroom; had
the furniture come from Mable’s, in England.
It is made of all kinds of inlaid wood, har
monizing in colors and forming arabesque,
vermicuTated and fretwork. The other
night she consented to recite at a re
ception given in honor of the Emperor
of Brazil. She arrived at the late hour of 11,
dressed In a white flowing Roman toga, caught
and fustened with jeweled clasps at the sboul
ders and tbe rest of it looking very much like a
night dress. On her entrance into the room she
threw herself languidly on a sofa, closed her
eyes as if about to faint, languidly murmured a
“Bon solr, mon cber," to every g ntleman.
When asked to recite she languidly rose, tot
tered to the piano and, leaning against it, took
plastic attitudes of the suffering Niobe and
other agonizing goddess s, put one hand up to
her aching head, the other to her palpitating
heart, then, fumbling in her pocket, she slowly
took out a small piece of paper and without
gesture or expression monotonously read a
small insignificant poem, barah Bernhardt is
fast allowing her airs to run away with hor
talent.
A Lady’s Kindly Tact.
From the Boston Courier.
It would be hard to afford a stronger evidence
of being well bred than that of a society leader
who had among her dinner guests one evening a
relative from a distant rural district who,
though refined and well educated, knew but lit
tle of society ways and manners. Soon after
the dainty finger-bowls were placed on the table
the rustic visitor took up her bowl and drank
from it! The hostess observed it, and showed
admirable tact a moment after by drinking
from her own bowl, thus sparing her guest the
mortification which might otherwise have re
sulted. Another case where generous considera
tion and tact were sh wn was where a well
khown lady of Boston was traveling in Europe
not long since. She went to London for only a
day or two for the sole purpose of seeing a
fnend who, by the way, belonged to thenobility.
When strongly urged to meet a few friends at
dinner next evening she declined, and on being
pressed for a good reason, was frank enough io
say that she had with her no suitable dress for
such an occasion, but only a black silk. "Wear
your black silk and I will wear one, too, so you
may feel quite at ease,” said the hostess, and a
promise was given to be present. What was the
surprise of the Boston lady, on entering the
drawing-room, to find all the ladies in black silk
gowns. Imdy Dash had written her guests re
questing them to "wear black silk.”
Mdijorio.
Willis Boyd Allen in Wide Awake.
“O, dear:” said Tanner Brown one day,
”1 never saw such weather!
The rain will spoil my meadow hay
And all my crops together."
His little daughter climbed his knee;
“I guess the sun will shine," said she.
“But if the sun," said Farmer Brown,
"Should bring a dry September,
With vines and stalks all wilted down,
And fields scorched to an ember"—
"Why, then 'twill rain," said Marjorie,
The little girl upon his knee.
“Ah, me!" sighed Farmer Brown, that fall,
“Sow what’s tlie use of living?
No plan of mine succeeds at all”
“Why next month comes Thanksgiving,
And then, of course," said Marjorie,
"We’re all as happy as can be.
“Well, what should I be thankful for?"
Asked Farmer Brown. “My trouble
This summer has grown more aud more,
Jl.v losses have been double.
I've nothing left"—"Why, you’ve got me!"
Said Marjorie upon his knee.
Gen. Sickles and Barton Key.
from the New York Truth.
A singular rencontre took place at the Fifth
Avenue Thiatre the other day. Mr. Stokes, the
polite ticket seller, and father-in-law of John
stetson, wanted to leave the box-office for a
few moments, and he left it in charge of Philip
Barton Key, who said he would attend to the
business during Ills absence. Barton Key is the
personal manager for Mrs. Brown Potter. He
had been there only a moment when there
l-obbedupto the ticket window the familiar
form of Gen. Dan Sickles, who asked for two
seats for one of the Potter nights. There was
no way out of it, aud Key very properly put up
two tickets and handed them out to the General.
The latter took them and held out the money,
wlieu for the first time he looked up anil saw
who he was talking with. His hand trembled
and his face blanched. Then he moved away as
quickly as bis crutches would permit him. I
have seldom seen anything more really dra
matic. Barton Key is the son of the man whom
Sickles killed in Washington thirty or thirty five
years ago. 1 did not ask Key how he fell over
the matter, but I could uot help wouderiug.
Col. Morrison’3 Pension.
hhrom the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Some weeks ago Commissioner of Pensions
Black instructed one of his clerks to issue a jh-h
--sion certitioate to Hon. William R. Morrison.
The clerk looked over the list of applicants and
informed Gen. Black that the name of Mr. Mor
rison did not appear thereon.
"That makes no difference,” said the Com
missioner. "Mr. Mcnrisou served over sixty
days in the Mexican war, and, being over 02
years of age, is entitled to a pension of $8 a
month, under the act of last January. Make
out his certificate.”
The clerk did as instructed, and the docu
ment entitling the _ Interstate Commerce Com
missioner to draw S9O per annum was made out
in due ami approved legal form and trans
mitted to the benifleiary. Col. Mori Ison perused
the document, anil quietly folding it up. placed
it in an Interstate Commerce envelope of official
sire and returned it to the Pension Office, ac
companied tiy a terse little note which stated
that lie bad never applied for a pension and did
not desire one, expressing at the same time his
thanks for the unsolicited favor.
Berlin’s Negrro Colony.
From the Paris American Heyister.
Berlin would lie Incomplete without Its negro
colony. There are at present twenty-three
male negroes within Its walls, some of whom
have even married Berline.se and are the happy
fathers of a numerous mulatto progeny. Most
of them are house servants, waiters, porters,
peddlers, eta By far the largest number come
from the United stale*, and are proud ot claim
ing American citizenship, and of lining able to
produce their government passports. Nearly all
■re Christians, Monging to one or other of the
Various religious seels tiiere. Two or t hree are
Mohammedans, of African origin; one is a
heathen. one of them are born in Her la, but
stand the climate well. They all speak German
fluently, some ot them with a strong Beninese
accent, and have so fur adopi ed the customs
andbuliitßof the country as to enll each other
by {nit-aud-out Bernn nicknames, such as
Naiike, Aujust, Fatz-ke, etc
“What's this I hear atiout Pickins? They
say ho U a sufferer from kleptomunia. Did
you bear anything of that kind? ’
"Not. exactly: 1 have been given to under
stand that the shopkeepers are the sufferers
Boston Tiunucriyt,
ITEM3 OF INTEREST.
Chinese doctors are among the latest inno
vations in Texas.
The steel tubing made in Cleveland for the
Lick telescoDe has reached California. It is 50
feet long and 3 feet in diameter.
Rev. Da. Theodore L. Cutler, of Brooklyn,
has visited Saratoga Springs regularly for forty
summers, and has "preached 1 tig s u'inons there.
There is a young mau In Hartford who has
had the broken bone of one of his legs mended
with a silver rivet, and will toon be out on
crutches.
A woman of Mulberry Grove, 111., tried to get
out a warrant of arrest against neighbors who
found her house on fire and broke open the door
to put out the flames.
In the seventeenth century, according tc the
records of Doncaster, England, the proper
length of a pole to hold a ducking-stool for
scolds was sixteen yards.
Manufacturers of fire brick say that the
only reliable way to distinguish good clay is by
tasting. If it tastes salty, it is genuine Are
clay; if flat and dull, it is worthless for lira
brick.
While George Bindley was working on the
banks of the Sangamon river, near Decatur.lll.,
he pulled a hollow log from the water and found
in it a caitish three feet and six inches long
which weighed forty-two pounds.
A massive monument to the late Chief Jus
tice Taney is being erected in Baltimore by Will
iam T. Walters of that city. The statue is a du
plicate of the famous bronze figure of Taney,
by Rinehart, in the State capitol grounds at An
napolis, Md.
By the improved method of welding by elec
tricity a broken bar of metal can be easily re
united, or bars of different metals welded to
gether, and those metals which previously re
sisted welding most strenuously are now joined
with ease, while those previously easily welded
remain the same by the new process.
An evanqelist, known at camp meetings as
“Weeping Joe," is holding revivals in Indiana
county, Pennsylvania. In the midst of a ser
mon the other day he suddenly paused, leaped
out of an open window, and a moment after
came in at the door. This he did to more
strikingly illustrate a point of his discourse.
He weeps copiously when he speaks.
Charles M. Mullen and Michael Dempsey,
tramps, built a Are in an old gravel pit near
Somerville, N. J., and lay do vn beside it to
sleep. Both men were drunk. Toward morn
ing Dempsey was awakened by the groans of
his companion aud found that Mullen had rolled
over into the fire. One hand was burned off,
his side was horribly burned, and be died soon
afterward.
Archdeacon Farrar says that Cruikshauk,
the artist, offered SSOO for proof of a violent
crime committed by a total abstainer from in
toxicants, and that the money remains un
claimed to-day. The Archdeacon says that he
will give the sime amount for proof of anv one
cose, “either in the church or out of it, where
drunkenness has been cured without total ab
stinence.”
Mr. Watson, the American traveler, thus de
scribes an annual ceremony at the court of Da
homey: "The king sits on the platform with
his subjects below him. Men are then put,
bound hand and foot, into a basket, which runs
down a slide and discharges them among the
mob. who at once proceed to chon them into
small pieces. .Mr. Watson expostulated, but the
king explained to him that the victims were ‘of
fensive political partisans.’ ’’
A mare belonging to J. W. Stone, of Petaluma,
Cal., struck her fore leg just above the ankle
with her hind foot, burying the cork of her shoe
under the skin. She fell and while rolling help
lessly around was discovered by the owner's
son. He tried to free the hind foot by pulling
at the fastened leg, but hadn't sufficient strength
to accomplish it. Finally the mare ripped the
skin off the fore leg down to the heel of the foot,
taking a strip off six inches long by four wide.
The sinews of her leg were not injured.
Buncombe county. North Carolina, was named
after Col. Alfred Buncombe, of Buncombe Hall,
near Edenton, who came of a fine old English
family. He raised, equipped, and led a regi
ment in the revolutionary war. Fifty years ago
the Representative from that county in the
State legislature made a florid speech ou a
local issue, which he innocenl ly explained was
especially intended for Buncombe. Thus origi
nated an expression which has now a permanent
place in the language.
A Mr. Seymour and some members of his
family recently entered a railway train at
Ilitchin. Eng., and in the farther corner of the
compartment which they occupied was a man
apparently asleep; but hardly was the train in
motion when they discovered that he was dead
They at once tried to communicate with the
guard for the purpose of stopping the train, but
the cord which connected the carriages with the
van broke, and thev were obliged to travel tor
nearly an hour with the corpse.
One of the ugliest of the finny tribe is the
toadflsh, a slimy creature not even an enthusi
ast could venture to touch. The enormous
mouth extends in a semi circle from side to side
and is the most prominent feature of the soft,
wedge-shaped body. The colors aie ill-defined
and impress one with their dirtiness, adding to
the disagreeable effect. Repulsive-looking as
the toadflsh is, it is said to manifest more care
for Its young than is usual among fishes, re
deeming its appearance by its moral char
acter.
The Saxons of old believed that a wolf’s head
placed under the pillow caused the unhealthy to
sleep sweetly, and that a wolf’s flesh well dress
ed and sodden, given to eat. cured “devil’s sick
ness and an ill sight." With the Saxons it was
a common practice with sufferers from diseases
of the joints to take a live fox, seethe him until
the bones alone were left, adding oil during the
seething, and to use the liquid thus obtained as
a bath. This remedy was deemed as efficacious
as the eating of lion's flesh as a cure for those
suffering from apparitions, or lion’s suet for
sore cars.
Thb Clinton, 111., Fublic says; “Last Friday
Mr. Bust,rod Monson’s cow choked herself with
a cabbage, stalk, and for hours they worked with
the animal to bring her relief. Poor old bossy
was about on her last gasp, when a passer-by
suggested that they build a high ]>eii around the
cow and make her jump out. The pen was
built, and after several sharp prods with a pitch
fork, the cow leaped over the barrier. In the
effort to jump the cow swallowed the cabbage
stalk, and was relieved. Half an hour after
ward she was quietly nipping the glass and was
all right."
There is considerable stir among the congre
gation of Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Louis,
and much opposition on the proposition to in
troduce confessional boxes into the church dur
ing the misssion services, shortly Pi be held by
the "Fathers” of the Order of St. John the
Evangelist, which in turn is an offshoot of the
Anglican Society, known as the Cowiey Broth
ers. It is said that the only Episcopal Church
in this country in which the confessional box is
used, is St. Ignatius Church. New York City, of
which the Rev. Arthur Ritchie is rector, unless
there is one at Ascension Church, Chicago,
where he formerly was.
The Hawuiian sugar planters are said to
be greatly exercised over Claus Spreckels' beet
sugar scheme. At a recent meeting they de
cided that if a large beet sugar refinery was
started in San Francisco they would have to
find anew market, and it was contended that
to send raw sugar to New York would never
[>a,v. Hence several of the largest planters ad
vocate the substitution of coffee for sugarcane
on the islands. The land is adapted to coffee
and experiments are said to have proven that
coffee wid pay. No action has been taken yet
by the planters, but it is thought some radical
change will bo necessary if Spreckels succeeds
in bis plans.
One of the most remarkable cases of signal
ing was during the Zulu campaign, when Col.
Pearson, of the British army, with 1,300 men,
was surrounded by 20,000 Zulus at Elkhowe and
.ill communication with (lie British forces at
the fort were ( cut off; harassed by the savages
suffering from the want of food, and almost
without hope, ho gave courage to iiis men and
sustained them In their perilous position for
three months by means of un ordinary hand
mirror, He used this as a heli graph and
Hashed messages to the fort, twenty-flve’miles
distant. They had to wait unt, 1 troops could
come to their relief from England, and this
hand mirror was their salvation.
”A i.Eintxo Yew York physician, well known
not only as an able surgeon, but an advanced
scientist, ridicules the idea that it is at all diffi
cult for any one to eat a single or more quail for
any given number ot days. He says that gama
of any kind may be eaten as a steady diet just
as well as cau lieef or pork. He cites the Tact
i hat sailors eat salt pork—a pounl a day for
1,000 days—and what, he adds, is worse than
sailors' pork? During his active connection
with the army in the West, many years ago he
ate prairie chicken every day for ‘months, and
was glid to get it, and suliaequently ate sage
hens for a long time, and did not get tick or be
come nauseated. He concludes by saving that
the mental disturbance caused by tlie fear of
uot being able to eat a quid! a day for anv given
time or a wager, is all there is iu the urcvaUim?
idea of not being able to do it. b
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