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4 C|e|PflnungsJetos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY. NOVF.M HER 10,18H7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. *Vrie Mornino News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, 85 00 " tor six months and 810 00 for one year. The Mousing News, ay mail , one month, 11*00: three months, Si’ 50; six months, $5 00; ore year. $lO 00. The Morning News, hi matt, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00: six months, $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, si 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by maU l one year, 82 00 The Weekly Kews. by mail , one year. 81 2". Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on iile and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed ’ 'Morning News, Savannah, Ga.” * Advertising rates made known on application 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 BA KING POWDER. PURE p ßffllCs CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century it is used by the United States Government. In ilorsed by the beads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful p r Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in 'aus. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. Vfw YORK. o ST. T/iftm MILLINERY. Bead Dowd THE ROYAUIST! 138 Broughton Street. Are pouring forth a cavalcade of the rarest Bar pains. The purchasing public alive to real catches s ould not fail to vis r our establishment as all departments h ive been searched into, and thesa flaming oilers are the result. MILLINERY! • Fifty dozen Ladies’ and Misses' fine Wool Hats in the latest shapes and colors only 36c., wort i fully 63c. One larpe lot sampl3B in Ladies' and Misses’ Broad Rim Hats, with Plush Riin and Fre.iCh Felt crowns, only $1 each, worth $?. One liOt Rich, Full-size i Wings for Hats, this week only 9Tc : grand values even for 50c. Nobbv Line of Striped and Fancy Ribbons, Cheap Glace and Moire Velvets at greatly Reduced Prices. ladies’ mmm 500 Ladies’ White 3-Ply Linen Collars, Oler ical Shape, with Cape, only sc. each, worth 10c. 1 Lot Ladies' white 4-Piy Linen Collars, the Latest styles, with cape, ouiy !%c. each, worth i Lot Ladies' ?-Ply White Linen Cuffs, at the surprising price of 10c. per pair, cheap even tor 20c. 35 Dozen Ladies' Mourning Sets. Linen Collars and Cuffs, for this week, 30c per Set. Mflpiers for Gloves! Country Orders Solicited. ~ SHOE*. " “ TVe are the agents for the JAMES MEANS $1 SHOE and tho JAMES MEANS -a $3 SHOE. -JA 51E8 JH BANS SI SHOE f 1 5 bglit and stylish. It fits like a r stocking, and REQUIRES f 0 * v “ BREAKINGIN,”bs- I & A "ik perfectly easy the first time M fr. C C\/\ is worn. It will satisfy the most / o. <U fastidious. 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Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, in large quantities, at, their yard on the SPRING" FIELD PLANTATION, aud will deliver the some in any part of the city upon the shortest notice- The best Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Office —Corner Bull and Broughton, at SI MON GAZAN S CIGAR STORE, where all or dent will receive prompt attention. CONTRACTORS. , P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. I?STIMATES promptly furnished for buildlai -i of any class.