The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 17, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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This paper is kept on tile and advertising rates tray he ascertained at the office ol tiie Aicen can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Tetr.plp Court, New York City. Tetters and telwrams should he addressed ‘ Morning News. Savannah (la." Advertising rates made know n on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings—Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. A A. M.: Workingmen's Benevolent Association: St. Andrew's Society. Special Notices— Boys' flats, at Jaudon's: Wrestling Match at Turner Hall; Proclamation by Mayor Lester. Insurance—The Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance Cos. Holiday Goods— L. AB.S.M. H. Auction Sale—Sale of House Effects, by J. McLaughlin A Sou Catholic FAJ*-For Benefit of St. Patrick's Church. Wholesale Grocers— Grady, DeLettre A Cos. Direct Importation— Schreiner's Import House. Pianos and Oroans—L. AB.S.M. H. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Board: Miscellaneous. Postmaster General Vilas has been a spe cial object of Republican attack, but he can afford to rest on his record. He has made the postal service self-supporting —and ‘•the money talks.” Were there ever a pair of trousers so im portant as Mr. O'Brien’s? The base ruse of the enemy to capture them by surprise has cost the newspapers of this country many dollars in cable tolls. The New York World has sent a reporter to find out its standing with the Sing Sing convicts, and is pleased that it is very popular with them. Newspapers generally do not avowedly cater to that class, but it is the World's boast that it is for every body. A Maine Republican paper says that Col. Grant wa the only candidate who had :he honor of Mr. Blaine’s indorsement. It per haps did not know that the Republican can didate for sheriff in Philadelphia received a similar favor, and that ho, like Col. Grant, ran far behind his ticket and was defeated. Indorsements from that ource wiil hardly be worth much hereafter. It is stated that there are as many cattle owned in small “bunches” by the farmers of lowa as can be found in all the wide range country east of the Rocky Mountains, and that they are much more profitable than are great herds to the cattle compa nies. It will not be manv years liefore lowa will not be the only State of which this can be said, if it can be now. There is a big newspaper scheme on foot In Kansas City. It is said thut a syndicate of rich men of that city, at the lua l of which Is Dr. Morrison Munf id, of the Kan sas City Times, has been formed to pur chase the Si. Louis Republican, and make it the basis of a eombinat iou of new- papers which will have for its obje-t the control of the Democratic party of the State It is said that the syndicate has all the money it needs to carry out its scheme. Citizen George Francis Train hos kept his promise and gone to St. John. He stopped at Ban<or, Me., to make a final speech, and predicted that in thirty days the country would lie plunged in civil war. It is to lie hoped that life in St. John will prove so pleasant that Mr. Train will have no desire to return. His country can very well spare him, and newspaper renders need a rest ft'om his lunatic ravings. His mouth has of late been entirely too protuberant. An Anarchist who delighted to extol Spies and his gang in a Toledo iron mill was very much surprised to find himself suddenly hanging from a lamp post with a rope around his neck. The workmen had be came tired of his incendiary tirades. They dia not hang him to death, but they came very near it, and then nut him in a barrel Mid rolled it down a hill. There are some valuable suggestions in the course of pro cedure adopted by these men, and its gen eral adopt ion might have a happy effect. A great change has come over the spirit of Herr Most, the most ferocious in speech of Anarchists. He threatens to me the New York World because, as he says, it* report df a recent speech slanders him. in attribut ing to him violent language which he did not use. A few short months ago the only limit to Most’s violence was his ability. The fate of the Chicago Anarchists is evi- j dently having its effect. It might be inten sified by sending this btooj-tuirsty disturlier of the peace to the penitentiary, as the law officers are said to be thinking of doing. The New York Tribune reveals what it a “si'amlalously corrupt plot" of Mor mons and Democrats to s cure the admis sion of Utah as a Stats-. A Mormon bishop is represented as giving away the details in an artless, child-like way which is refresh ing in these days of secret political tracing. Even Henry George can keep a secret of that sort, and nobody likea to talk better than he. Democrats arc not in need of the vote of Utah, and the Mormons must trade with the other side, which needs all the help it can get, and would doubtless pay well for it ' M. de Lcsseps gets a hard blow in the re port of Senor Armoro, who represen ts Co lombia on the Isthmus in its dealings with the canal company. He shows that the re ports by American engineers who have gone over the ground were not unjust to the com pany, and that it must soon fail if immense sums of money are uot raised in addition to those already spent. It is improbable that this can be done. John law, whose Missis sippi scheme almost bankrupted France, will always live in French history, and it looks now a* if Dc Lessops’ name will ul ways Ve coupled with Law’s. The Land Office Trouble. Mr. Spark's connection with the General Land Office has closed, and doubtless there are not a few persons who are glad of it. He is a very difficult man to get along with and generally succeeds in making trouole for those witli whom he has business or official relations. He is a man of ability, and. as far as the public knows, of integrity, but he is overbearing and contentions. He tainks that Ids way is the right way, and he will not accept orders from his official superiors unless the orders are such as meet wdh his approval. In his letter to the President, which ac companied his resignation, he endeavors to make it appear tliat the differences between Secretary Lamar and himself related wholly to questions of law, and not to authority, and his statement of the case i* calculated to create the impression that he has not been dealt with justly. Doubtless he under stands his ease just as he puts it, because men 'ike him do not think it possible that they can be wrong. If the reports which are telegraphed from Washington, however, are to lie relied upon, Mr. Sparks was a source of annoyance al most from the day he entered the Land Of fice. He assumed at once that he knew more aliout how the office should be con ducted thau the Secretary, and looked upon himself as responsible to the country for all that was done in it. He seemed to aim at making a reputation for himself as the de fender of the rights of the “poor settler,” and in pursuit of that aim he succeeded quite effectually in/ obstructing business. Secretary Lamar never said a word that could be construed as unfriendly to him. al though reports frequently reached him that Mr. Sparks was speaking of his administra tion of the Interior Department in a very disparaging way. The immediate cause of Mr. Lamar’s let ter, telling Mr. Sparks that one or the other of them would have to resign, was a letter of Mr. Sparks’ to Mr. Lamar relative to the land grant of the Omaha railroad. Mr. Lamar gave Mr. Sparks written direc tions for the adjustment of that grant, and asked him if h: had any views to express apon them. If be had none Mr. Lamar de sired him to adjust the Omaha grant at once in accordance with the act of Congress. Mr. Lamar told him particularly not to write him an official letter and sign it as Commissioner of the General Land Office, about the advisability of settling the grant in accordance with the law and precedents, because he did not want to receive such a letter. Mr. Sparks did not adjust the grant, but he did write the very kiud of letter that Mr. Lainar objected to. In it he reviewed all the differences between Mr. Lainar and himself, and of course tried to make it ap pear that Mr. Lamar was in the wrong Mr. Lamar at once concluded that it was time for him or Mr. Sparks to go, and Mr. Sparks has gone. The Secretary had either to accept Mr. Sparks’ views on all matters relating to public lands, or devote his whole time to a correspondence with him. As he was not disposed to do one thing or the other, and a* he alone was re sponsible for the act* of the department, lie adopted the only honorable course that was open to him. That the press and the pub lic will generally sustain him there is no doubt. The General Land Office will be much more satisfactorily administered without .Mr. Sparks than it was with him, and none of the reforms contemplated by the administration wiil be abandoned. Mr. Thompson's Banking 1 fcheme. It is admitted that the tariff an 1 currency will occupy a large share of the attention of Congress next winter. Tiie tariff is a con stant subject of discussion; the currency a periodical one. Just now the hankers of the country, per'i ulariy of New York, are having a good deal to say about the cur rency. John Thompson, Vice President of the Chase National Bank, of York city, has just puhll l.ed a jiapor in which he out lines a plan for perpetualing the national banking system. Ho insists that the country hasn't enough currency,tha’ is,real money coin. greenbacks and national bank notes. Nine-tenths of the business transactions are in checks, drafts and letters of credit. Those become comparatively useless when there is a panic, or a threatened panic, and at such time real money becomes very scarce, because it Is hoarded. How is the country to get more currency? Mr. Thompson says it can be obtained by following his plan, which is as follows; First. Permit the banks t o discontinue the deposit of government bonds as security for currency, and iu licit adopt the following: Second. Make it legal for banks to obtain currency from the Tree ttry Department of 50 per cent, on capital " ltd up. Third. Give this issue of currency a pre ferred lieu on the entire assets of the bank, including the individual liability of stock holders. in esse of insolvency. Fourth. Divert the annual ntemal reve nue tax of 1 per cent, per annum on circu lation into an insurance fund to lie held in the Treasury of the Unit ‘d States as a guarani re for the redemption of any cur rency which may fail to he redeemed under the above preferred arrangement. Mr. Thomjison would not repeal any of the requirement* of the national hanking act. He would simply amend the act as above indicate and, and he fe.ls fissured that the rational lianking system would become a permanency, and it would afford a cur rency thnt would lie accepted the world over at par, and would be suf ficient to meet every demand. He thinks tiiat it would absorb the State banks, and that the banking of the country woul<yoeGOme almost uniform. He makes the prediction thnt. if his plan is adopted there will lie $500,000,000 of bank note cur rency in circulation within three years, and tint the guarantee tuud will amount to $10,000,000. The ban leers have plenty of schemes for increasing the currency and improving the National Banking system, and doubtless Congress will hove a very choice lot of them from which to make a selection. This one of Mr. Thompson’s seems to have merit. Onp day last week >0,710 was collected in duties and penalties from eighty-six wom en, passengers on a single vessel, who were attempting to smuggle good* into this coun try. Some old curmudgeon, not half so gal lant as ho ought to bo, has said that women have no sense of duty to the public, and this wholesale seizure would go to prove that he was right; but if men wore bustles they might smuggle too. Mr. Robert Lincoln says of Col. Grant’s defeat that it ‘‘effectually disjioses of tho proposed Lincoln and Grant ticket. The heredity platform ia not strong enough fora party to stand on.” Which goes to show unit Mr. Lincoln inherit and a great part of his father’s good common-sense and modesty. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1887. The Fishery Commissioners. There is no doubt that the Republican leaders are hostile to the effort which the administration is making to settle the fish eries dispute. The Republican orgaus have been insisting that the President was wholly without authority to nppoint commissioners to negotiate a treaty, and they now say that the Senate will, in all probability, refuse to ratify the treaty that may be negotiated. What the Republicans want is the en forcement of the resolution adopted by the last Congress, which authorizes the Presi dent to employ retaliatory measures to com pel Canada to grant to American fisher men the same privileges which are granted to American traders iu Canadian waters. They know tliat the enforce, meni of that resolution would re sult in complications which would injure the popularity of the administration, and, consequently, of the Democratic party, and that the Republican party would be benefited by such a condition of affairs. The administration, however, kuows what it is doing, and is not likely to be pushed into the position which the Republican lead ers would like to have it occupy. It is true that the Senate, at the la,t session of Con gress, indicated its hostility to any effort to secure another treaty with regard to the Canadian fisheries, but the administration is not bound by the attitude of the Senate. Hamilton Fish, who was Secretary of State during Gen. Grant’s administration, says that, there is ample authority in the consti tution for the appointment of commission ers by the President to negotiate a treaty, and that in appointing them to settle the fisheries dispute he has not exceeded his powers There is no better authority on this matter than the ex-Secre tary. and it is probable that there will be no further question relative to the legality of the commission. It is true that the Commissioners will have to be confirmed by the Senate, but it i possible that they will have completed their work before it will become necessarv to send their nominations to the Senate for confirmation. If their nominations should be sent there, however, soon after Congress meets, and they should lie rejected, it is probable that the President would imme diately nominate other commissioners t<> carry on the work. The chances are that the present commissioners will not be disturbed and that they will nego tiate a treaty. Mr. Blaine’s Programme. If the statements sent to this country by European correspondents respecting the effect which the result, of the recent elec tions has had upor. Mr. Blaine are to be re lied upon that eminent Republican., will not be a candidate for the Presidential nomina tion of his party next year. It may be. however, that he has a purpose in letting the impression get abroad that he proposes to stand aside in 1888, and let some ot her leader of his party have the non ination. but reaiiy means to take it h.inself if he can gut it. liefore the elections this year his support ers were sure that the result would show Republican gains, particularly in New York, and if it had they would have im mediately said that Mr. Blaine should be u uniri ted because all tliat would be needed to insure success would be liis name at the head of the ticket, und his magnetic man agement of the campaign. The remit, how ever, was against the Republicans, and Blaine’s friends now insist that he alone can save the Republican party from another disastrous defeat next year. As an evidence of his extraordinary popularity they point to the fact that he ran within a thousand or so votes of Mr. Cleveland in New York, while Col. Fred Grant, who led the Repub lican ticket in that this year, was beaten by nearly 20,0 K.I votes. It inav be assumed as certain tliat until the result of this year’s elections were known Mr. Blaine intended to be the Re publican candidate for President next year, but tliat now, having grave doubts about tiie ability of bis party to elect him, he is uncertain what course to pursue, and will be guided by events that will occur before the meeting of the national convention. His confidential friend, Mr. John H. Alley, of Massachusetts, who is in Europe with him, is reported a* saying that Mr. Blailib will not be a candidate next year, but will enter the Senate from Maine, and will seek the Presidential nomination of his party again in 1892. He will only be (il years old then, and a* he is in vigorous health now he may succeed in carrying out this programme. The chances that he will ever reach the P esideucy, however, are de cidedly against him. The Leader, edited by the notorious Col. Hinton, which has professed to lie tiie organ of organized labor in New York, in its Fri day's issue had a number of paragraphs on the execution of the Anarchists, of which the following is a fair specimen: “Ameri cans, drap- your once glorious stars and stripes in mourning t They are disgrace-1, polluted, spat upon by the vermin which now controls your c lU.itrv!” In another column is found the following announcement: “The Leader is kill'd by the indifference of workingrn n. After a year of struggles and hardship-, of every kind, the Leader is compelled to temporari ly suspend its publication.'’ This looks like another case of cause and effect. The Leader, whatever its pretenses, evidently did not represent the workingmen, and they would not support it. A great deal has lieen said in the newspa | pel's about the remarkable vessels to be built by the Arrow Steamship Company, at .Alexandria, Va. It was confidently pre dicted that they would revolutionize marine architecture. The New York Herald now prints a long expose, which shows that the company is a fraud, the Pocahontas, so soon to he launched, a myth, and the whole scheme a gigantic swindle, by which a few men were growing rich. There was never any intention of building a vessel. If the Herald's allegations can he proved, the [ men it accu-es cannot be put behind the bars of a jail too soon. The liohigh coal strike is aliout to enter a new phase. About 70,000 Knights of Labor, railroad men and others, propose to boy cott all merchants whose goods are handled by the Lehigh road. The result will be watched for with interest. It is hard on the merchants, who have nothing to do with the quarrel, thnt they should be beaten with the boycott club in order that the railroad company may be crippled. Ex-Senauir Conkling mode a speoch of cnly twenty-five minutes before the Su preme Court to earn the fee of SIO,OOO paid him by Virginia, and his effort is said to have lieen a very poor one. Virginia evi dently made a very poor investment. CURRENT COMMENT. Anything to Gamble With. >Vom the Chicago Tribune (Rep.) Jay Gould is in Paris. If the French crisis ha* Any negotiable value, and is tor sale, it will b-iu Mr. Gould's pocket before be leaves the city. A Happy Result of the Ohio Election. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) There is no denying the fact that Tuesday's election made Foraker a bigger man than Sher man in Ohio. Even for small favors of this kind the country has cause to be grateful. A Place Where Sparks Would be Useful. From the Philadelphia Record 1 Dem.'i Commissioner Sparks upon retiring from his present office should tie made Surveyor of the Territory of New Mexico. Sparks would be a good man to wrestle with Stephen W. Dorsey and his cowboys. BRIGHT BITS. •'Now. how mill I do with this wedding cake to dream on it?” asked a gushing damsel of a matter-of-fact young man. • lust eat it, that's a.l.' was the reply,— Wash ington Critic. Old Lady—-I'm sorry to bear a little boy use such shocking language. Do you know what becomes of little b lys who swear* Urchlq—Yes'm. i>e v gits ter be boss car drivers. -TUI-Bit*. Edison says that only one-fourth of a ton of coal is used. The rest goes up the chimney. It is well tiiat Edison lias settled this question, for we had been led to believe that the three-quar ters not burnt went off with the wagon.—Bos ton. Transcript. Willing to Accommodate.—Miss Sangbleu (to coachman, who Is actually crowding her out of the earn—Patrick. 1 wish you would have the kindness to move. Green Coachman—Yes, Miss. Which way, hlissl--Harvard Lampoon Bulgaria is said to be overrun with armed bands. The Bulgarian band has the reputation of being w orse than any we have in the back towns of New England, and if they aid not go armed the people would fall upon the trombone min and stuff liis horn with old boots.—Bur linyton Free Frees. Bunks— Ah: How de do, Jenks? Becoming famous, I see. Jenks—Well, my name has been in the papers a good deal lately. "So 1 have noticed. How do you like It ?” “It makes no change in my daily life except that my mail is overburdened with liver pad circulars.''— Omaha World. • "What are you going to do with that gun, Hal?" "What am I going to do with it? Don't you see the tramp iu my patch? - ’ "Yes; but you surely am t going to give it to him are you?” "Oh no. iam merely going to let him have charge of it.”— Yonkei i Gazette. "CLARENce,” exclaimed his mother, “come to me quickly, dear. How pale you are. How strangely "you look. You are ill. 1 smell to bacco. Oh, Clarei.ee, you have a tobacco heart.” Clarence shook his head and gasped feebly. "Nome, ' he said, moving away in the direction of the lonelv cov. barn, "nome. tain t my heart.” And with white compressed lips, he was gone behind the barn: not l ist but gone lie hind: though lost to sight, to memory and other faculties qtute altogether perfectly audible.— .Vent York Tribune. “And so you are going to be married?” “Yes: and 1 am so happy: 1 love Charles with my whole heart." "Has he any property?" •Vi n. I believe so. And as he isn't very well 1 permitted him to make a will in my favor." "Very good in him. I'm sure, lint you have some property of jour own? Have you willed that to Charles?” "What a ridiculous idea: Of course not; but I've fixed il so that he can t get hold of it.”— Boston Transcript. First Easterner—l guess you remember me. We met in Los Angeles. Second Fasterner-I remember you perfectly. You are the good arigel who sold me a corner lot on which 1 made a small fortune. 1 sold tliat lot for JOU.UUO. You know X only paid you ®30,- 00(1 for it. “ Yes. and as you did so well. I don't mind con fessing that riohrlv all that $30,000 was clear profit. I bought that lot fur a couple of hun dred dollars. By the way, wliat became of the man volt sold toy" "Tin: last 1 heard of him he was in the alms house."—Omaha World. Vigilance tiie price of big profits. Omaha man—See here. I u durst and the fruit canning trust proposes to advance prices. Fruit Can Baron—Yes. it is necessary. ‘The crops were good enough, weren't they?” “Yes, crops were fair.’" "Been no advance in the price of tin, has there?" No. tin is cheap.” “How's solder?" "Unchanged ” "Then what under the canopy are you going to advance prices for?” "We are afraid the Job printers’ strike in Chi cago will iiioren-e the cost of nextyearislabela.” —Omaha World. PERSONAL. George Francis Thais spent $20,000 to secure a pardon for the executed Anarchists. Senator Ingalls’ much talked-of-novel, a satire on Washington life, is said to he almost ready for publication. Mbs. Laiuhton. of Washington, has presented her daughter. .Mrs. I)? Pedros, nee Bcrghmann, with an income of $38,000 a year. Mrs. Brown Potter ha* a souvenir from the Prince of Wales in the shape of a diamond prudunt representing the Prince's crest, three feathers It is declared that Secretary Bayard is not even acquainted with the lady to whom heedless rumor is trying to marry him within a year of his wife's death. The funeral of Sarah E. Williams, of Doug button, L. 1., on Sunday, woe at'ended bv her son. aged s years, and seventeen grandchildren. She as 90 years old. Pol. Fr.rn Grant telegraphed to the Hon. Fred Cook, his successful opponent for I lie Sec retaryship of State: “Accept my congratula tions upon your election.” The building for the Ramona Indian Girls’ School at Santa Fe. .V >!.. commemorating Helen Hunt Jackson, will cost $30,000, being arranged to accommodate 150 pupils. C’apt. William P. Black, one of the counsel for the Chicago Anarchists, who delivered an oration over their graves, is a brother of Uen. Black, the Commissioner of Pensions. Fcrd. McCavit, a Titusville telegrapher, made tho fastest time on record in New York Wednes day. sending rifty eight words a minute for forty-six minutes, a total of nearly 2,700 words. \ genuine sensation was caused in Sheix <v /an. \VI, r-i entlv by the announcement of the urn i r'ii'. -of Mr Joseph Keller, aged 72 years, to Miss Mary Bauckneclit, of Manitowoc, Wls., aged 18. A poem by Thomas Hood was published for the first time in a recent number of Murray's Magazine, it was written for the Islington Literary Society and read at their tint meeting in October. I*2o, when Hood, then 22, was Presi dent of that organization. Arthur W. Du e. iv Brooklyn man. who dis appeared in 1830. left behind him a will which was tak-n into the courts for probate. \s it was proved that lie had threatened to terminate hi life, tie has been judicially pronounced dead, which ivi!! make ir extremely awkward for him if he should turn up. Mi:f,:i Maibob \li Khan is the signature of the Nyzam of Hyderabad's letter to the Anglo- Indian government sending $-3,000,000 for from tier defenses. The Prince concludes his com munication with these words: “This is my offer in the time of peace. At a later stage you can count upon my sword.” Hono Yen C’hano, Esq., is iho firs'. Chinese lawyer, it is believed, to bs arimiit *d to practice in this country. Mr. Chang, who is a graduate of the Columbia Uw School, was admitted las! week, in New York, and though he is free to ac cumulate a general practice, will with the pro fesaional f-How feeling make a specialty of his countrymen's legal interests. Warren C. Aiida, who has been elected to Congress from Rhode Island, commenced work ing for a living when only S years old in a cotton null. He remained there ten years, acquiring in the meantime a good common school educa tion. After seven years spent in storekeeping, he engaged in cotton manufacture, from which he acquired a considerable fortune. By the death of David Mahoney Washington loses an interesting character. For the last quarter of a century Mahoney has been William McGarralian's backer in the latter's fight in Congress to establish his olaim to the New Idria Quicksilver Mines, the richest mines of their kind in the world. Mahoney and McUorrahan were inseparable companions. Both had known what it was to be worth millions, and lioth had suffered poverty. Mahoney owned Crystal Lake, San Francisco, and because he would not. accent $,.',500,000 which the city offered him for it he died poor. He thought the lake worth more than the amount offered, and his pride would nut allow him to accept it. MAN'S LOVE FOR A HORSE. Jerry May Have Been Tough, but He Had One Soft Bpot In His Heart. Prom the Ch icago Journal. ‘ Your little story about Judge Randall White's purchase of Charley Ford, Jerry Mon roe’s old racer, reminds me of an incident that occurred the other day, in which the three men tioned were interested," said a friend of mine yesterday. "Jerry has figured for so many years as a dive-keeper, an owner of gn me cocks ami a patron of the dog pit that public opinion of the old man has given him a hard name and a desperately immoral character. He may have been brutal in his taste.-,, and hardened through contact with the depraved inmates of the noto rious resort of which he was proprietor, but Jerry had one soft spot in his flinty old heart, and that was for the aged white horse he sold the other day to Judge White. When old Char ley was in his prime Jerry was offered SI7,(KM for him. but refused it, and remarked at the time that he did not think money could buy him. Back in the rear of his State street dive, just off from the room in which were caged some of the best bred game chickens in the country. Monroe had provided a big box stall, warm as toast, and the floor of which was ulw-ays covered with sev eral inches of clean yellow straw. Here the old horse had the best of everything. Jerry never being without a lump of sugar for him when he went to the stall. Upon the evening of the day when he sold the horse to Judge White, Jerry went into the little saloon at the corner of Twenty-fifth and State streets, and resting his head upon his hands at the little table which stood behind a pile of ale boxes in the corner, cried like a woman, the tears running down his iiar lened fac ■ until it was wet with a moisture it hail not known for years. The other afternoon Judge White took the horse from his stable and drove to his house on Wabash avenue, beyond Twenty fifth street, where he hitched him and entered the house The day was chilly.and the old horse shivered a bit in the cold wind as Jerry happened to pass. A look almost of tenderness came over the old dive-keeper's face, and this deepened as the aged trotter whinnied when he felt his former master's hand upon his neck. Jerry glanced at the house, and when the Judge himself appeared at the door in answer to Jerry's ring, said: 'Excuse me, Judge, hut the old horse is out there uncovered. He ain’t used to it, Judge, and he's getting old. like. I know he's your horse now, but say. Judge, I'd rather take off my overcoat and cover the old fellow with it than to see him shiver another minnte.' The big-hearted Judge smiled, and going into the house cam * out with a wool blanket, which he threw over the old racer's back. ‘Thank'ee, Judge.' said Jerry, 'I didn't want ter interfere nor nothin', but old Charley was my pet, and I'd go huugry to day to give him a square meai,' You see," concluded my friend, “it is a stony bearr, indeed, that has not one tenderspot for something or somebody.” A Game Littie Irishman. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “Did you ever hear about the adventure Char lie Mitchell had in Leadville a few years ago?” remarked a venuer of shoes on Clark street the other day, "and how he got fooled by a little sawed-off miner there? No? Well, I’ll tell you about it. Hilly Madden was managing Charlie Mitchell then and the pair had been meeting with great success all through the country. Ar riving at Leadvilie Madden offered, as usual, to give the sum of SIOO to any man who would stand before Mitchell four rounds. Among the miners there was a little man named Mike Hays, who had the reputation ot being a pretty tough man to get away with, and he was egged on by his friends to attempt the feat, and finally con sented to do so. " He can't knock me out w ith a club,' he said confidently, as he walked onto the stage. "The theatre was crowded, and probably in the whole crowd them were not 'ten men who believed that Hays would succeed in his under taking as he stood before Mitchell in an awk ward attitude with his gloves on and seemed almost Hire a dwarf. Mitchell played with him for a few moments, and then his right shot out. catching Hays under the ear and knocking him dear into the scenery in tile further corner. No one expected to see him come up again, blit come up he did. and smiling, too. as the sport! ii;g reporters have it. Time and time again did Mitchell knock him down, and just as often did he turn up ready for more. Mitchell grew more and more vicious at every faiiure, and during tlie last round lie knocked the little follow all around the stage like a shuttlecock, but when the round was over little llays was still on deck, and, marching proudly off when the fight was over, he said: “ ‘Begorra, he kicks like a mule, that fellow does, an’l'll bet right now bis hands is sorer than me head, and me head is pretty sore at that.’ "Madden promptly paid over to Hays that SIOO that he had won, and so pleased was he with the little Irishman s gameness that lie bought him a handsome suit of clothes besides it was a long time, however, before Mitchell could use his hands again, he having knocked them out of all shape against Hays’ cocoanut.” The Maid and the Highwayman. From Texas Siftings. It was a giddy, gushing girl from New York, with an amplitude of bang and a scarceness of vocabulary, which showed at once her romantic tendencies. She was traveling in a stage coach iu one of tlie sparsely settled regions of the country. "Oh 1” she said to her mother. “I do wonder whether we are going to make this whole trip without even the sign of an adven ture. Wouldn't it be horrid.” Her mother informed her that she didn't have much common sense, but the girl didn't seem to mind it in the least. In the course of the next hour, however, the coach stopped suddenly and the muzzle of a pistol was shoved through the door. "Sorry to trouble you, ladies," said the man whose head followed the pistol, “but if you've got any valuables, them's wliat we want, an’ we're it little pressed fur time.” "Oh, Mamma, at last we have found a real highwayman,” said the girl with a delighted shriek. "You’re a real live robber, aren't you?” "Well. I reckon that's what I’m called.” " And you tell people to hold up their hands, and say,' 'your money or your life' to them don't you?” "I liev done so. Miss. But I ain’t got no time ter talk I'll have to ask—” "How lovely! Just come right in and sit here beside me." "Ye gee, Miss, I'm here on business, an' I'll trouble you—" “No you won't trouble us at all. Just come in. wo won't hurt you. I just dote on robbers.” The bighwiivmun had dropped his pistol and was beginning to look apprehensive. "Do you have to goaway and rob somebody ?*’ she inquired naively. I hope you will not run away, because I am just beginning to get ac qm; iiited with you. lulu ays said I would hug the first real robber I—” But the stage door slammed shut and the higuwayiiian had fled. The Old South. Shall Halid n aud Oeey live, Emblaz'd by hand of Mars, And Roland's name and valor flame Immortal an the stars: Shall Hellas old and Hellas new Grow grander thro’ the years. And this fair pageant fad", uway As mist that disappears i And milder scenes that lie beyond The earthquake w aste of war When proud traditions wrought their end Beneath a fav’riug star. And that fair flower of knightly grace I- lash'd joyance on the day. Till glowed again the lights of old | In dreamland far away. Immortal names like blotted suns, Must perish in that and ath And spirits, still our nations boast. Must yield their God-like breath And all too soon that certain doom Come swiftly moving on. As come it must—our nation's dearth— When dies great Washington! Let perisli hate and feudal pride, Onr old ancestral foes, And o'er their waste let union rise As erst the ocean rose Above our hdls and unform'd plains With shoreless swell and high. Till slept the fire in cratered depths— So let our passions die! The new is but the old renewed And come to higher state. Resurgent froni a fiery grave And quick with life innate. To fate's dim prescience pass the false, But heaven sliall keep the true! Then, dollied and crowned, old South, all ball! And hail—thrice hail, the New! — H. it Duliose in Dallas Newt. A Girl Who Eats Paper. From the Boston Oazette. There Is a young lady of this city who Is very much addicted to eating paper. Every clean speck of this article that comes in her way is immediately put in her mouth. She happened to be in a counting room the other day, and after she had <k‘|>arted the gontleman missed a check that he had made out that morning and laid upon his desk. It woo sought for high and low, but could not be found, and. finally, as a last resort, a messenger was sent to the fair caller to ask if sne had seen it She returned answer at. follows; "Pear Mr. Blank: There was a nice smooth, shiny piece of palter in front of me in your office aud 1 ate it. Could it have been that s'’ 5 '’ The itaymon of the check was stopped, though this proceeding was deemed IUIMWH7. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tux dome of the new Texas capitol is thought to be unsafe, a crack having appeared in it. The structure towers 30(1 feet above the ground. Joseph Snyder, residing near Little York, is the smallest voter in New Jersey. He is 22 years old, weighs 73 ponnds, and is 39 inches high- The Sultan of Morocco has been tormented by a revolt in his har -m. and forty of his majesty s ladies have been distributed among officers of his guards. Diphtheria is reported so bad in Clearfield, Pa., that the public schools have lieen closed. The low stage of water in Clearfield Creek is blamed as the cause of the epidemic. The gamblers of East Saginaw, Mich, tried to present a silver tea servive lo a police sergeant. The officer refused the gift, and ras since been raiding the gamblers to set himself right with the public. The congregation at morning service in Can terbury cathedral, England, the other day con sisted of one person. This is said to be an un paralleled circumstance, the smallest congrega tion hitherto having been four. What do Protestant Episcopalians think of the statement, by the Rev. Dr. Norton, that the average yearly contributions to the cause of missions by converted h<-athens is $1 50. and the average contribution of Episcopalians in the United States 7J4c.? In Boone county, West Virginia, forest fires have caused such an unnatural beat in the at mosphere that the trees are budding and put ting out new leaves and blossoms. In pi ces where tlie fires have been raging the thermome ter has marked 90°. An Iroquois (Dak.) man has rigged up a prairie yacht, in which he is said recently to have trav eled eighteen miles In an hour and a half. The yacht consists simply of an ordinary road wagon, to which sails and a steering apparatus have been attached. David Foster, an old man who was pardoned from a life sentence ten years ago, and who re turned to the Michigan State prison recently with the request that he be allowed to spend the remainder of his days there, is now temporarily boused, but there is no authority for keeping him. A gang of tie choppers in Colorado recently saw two large buck deer engaged in deadly combat on the side of a mountain, near Trini dad. The animals' horns had become locked together so that the men had no difficulty in approaching and killing the deer with their axes. There is a hotel In Arkansas where the rooms are designated by names of cities and States. "Here, front, show this gentleman to New Or leans. take a pitcher of ice water to Minnesota, see wbat that man in Boston wants, and make a fire in Chicago,” is a sample of wnat one hears in the office. A man with a load of hay attempted to go through a toll-gate near Brockville, Canada, but the gate was too narrow. The toll-keeper then pulled down the fence and the load was taken through the hole. On being asked to pay Un usual toll the driver refused on the ground that he liad not passed through the gate. Heajine, traveling among the Indians, was asked by a friendly chief for a charm against bis enemy. Hearne wrote some words and made some marks on a piece of paper. Tne Indian took care that the facts should come to his enemy's ears, and the "brave” in question forthwith sickened and died, having been killed by bis imagination. TnE old fence on the Yale College grounds, which has been known to students for years as a favorite lounging spot, is not to be demolishes as had been intended. The situation of the new recitation and lecture building, for whose erec tion it was to give way. has been changed by the college corporation so as to allow of the old fence remaining. When William Lawrence was arrested in Chi cago the other day for obtaining money under false pretenses he had a long flowing moustache. When he was taken from his cell to court even the policeman hardly recognized him. He had sharpened one edge of his watch case, and with it shaved off his moustache, hoping thus to escape identification. Mas. Frank Seacoy, a poor woman in a Ne vada village, had her well cleaned, and her chickens scratched over the gravel and dirt that came out. A few day - afterward she killed one of them and in its crop was a piece of gold as big as a bran. Mrs. Seacoy at once located a mine in her well, and asks a big price for her hitherto modest property. A St. Lons man teds as the truth that he saw a large blacksnake catch a rabbit and swallow it and then crawl part way through a fence and catch another rabbit. Having swallowed the second morsel the snake could not crawl back ward or forward, the hole in the fence being too small to allow the rabbits to pass. In that position the snake was killed. One hundred and sixty head of metinoshei p were forwarded to New York from Vermont this week, for shipment to Australia They were gathered from various parts of the State, and are pronounced the finest specimens ever exported from Vermont, each animal being valued at from SSO to SSOO. They are intended to be used for breeding purposes. One of the most successful missionaries in Oroomiah is a blind Armenian from Harpool, Turkey. He knows the Bible thoroughly, and riding on a miserable little donkey, which is led by a one-eyed deaf man. he goes boldly from village to village preaching the gospel. His blindness protects him. and the people crowd to see the wonder—a blind man reading. Queen Victoria's fancy for the highland dress has brought it into the highest fashion. As soon as she goes up to Balmoral every ser vant is at once put in kilts. As for tlie royal princes, they are extremely fond of the high land costume, and even that round faced Ten ton, Prince Henry of Battenberg, comes out as a bare legged highlander. They all wear the Stuart tartan. The electric light fluctuates in popularity in London, according to a correspondent writing from there. •It has been abandoned at most of the restaurants where It at one time flamed, has been adopted by many of the clubs, has been very little accepted by West End shopkeepers, and is tieing gradually introduced in the thea trex, though it is giving so much trouble in the latter that they may give it up.” Idaho newspapers are calling attention to the fact that the Lemhi Indians are slaughtering deer by wholesale, just for the hides. They form a circle covering miles of country, and drive the deer toward a common centre, gener ally a deep ravine, and do their work so thor oughly that almost every animal started within the outer circle is killed. The authorities are asked to put a stop to this slaughter. An Ohio preacher visiting in Boston asked a bright woman there about her religious belief. He was shocked to find that she didn't seem to have any. “How can you be happy without faith?" he asked. "Doesn't your woinanly nature demand a belief in something?” "Oh, yes.” she answered, "and I give absolute belief to eacli Boston craze as long as it lasts, and that not only sat sfles the demands of ray womanly nature for faith, but also for variety.” Con Jack Haverly is keeping out of the newspapers just now, but his busy brain isn’t idle. The scheme to which he is giving his at tention now is to form a theatrical syndicate which shall build three magnificent theatres one in S'. Paul, one in Minneapolis, and one in Omaha; and he (Mr. Haverly) shall manage them. It is said that he has succeeded in get ting some of the richest men in the Northwest interested, and is as likely as not to develop his project. The London Live Stock Journal says that in England conflicts between horses and bulls are not uncommon and are usually disastrous to the horses. A liery colt often chases cattle m the pasture, biting t hem as they run: but when he tackles a bull the latter usually won't nm, but charges the colt broadside arid often kills him Having come off best once, the hull thereafter is apt to charge horses that arc grazing quietly' It is never safe to leave any bull in a past ure with horses. The latest “fad" of a wealthy young man of Larchmont, reports the Boston Herald, is hunt ing sparrows with trained falcons. He has half a dozen falcons and travels around with them in a bottle-green hunting suit. The falcons, wh* n liberated, swoop down on the innumerable spar rows of the vicinity with great voracity The presence of the destroyers has driven nearly all the birds from the neighborhood, and the local huntsmen complain that there is nothing to shoot now but sparrows. 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