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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER Its, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings- Pulaski Council No. 153. R. A.;
Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. P.; Savannah Volunteer
Guards Battalion; Landrum Lodge No. 43, F. &
A. M.
Special Noticrs—As to Bills Against British
Steamship W’iuston.
Steamship Schedules —Baltimore Steamship
Cos.; Ocean Steamship Cos.
AUCTION Sale—Rice Plantation for Sale, by
C. H. Dorsett.
Legal Notice— As to Demands Against
Estate.
Scared to Death—Lindsay & Morgan.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help YY'ant
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For'Sale;
Lunch; Lost; Found; Miscellaneous.
If the Atlanta Constitution is in favor of
prohibition in Atlanta it ought to say so at
once—in a communication.
Some Keel)- motor stock sold at nuction
in New York this week for about half of
1 per cent, of its face value. The buyer
knew he was cheated and tried to back out.
The Chicago Morning News crows over
all the Eastern papers by claiming, on the
Jay of the execution of the Anarchists, a
circulation of 4S-,843 copies. The New York
affidavit builders should now retire from
business.
Dr. H. T. Holmbold, whose name was
jierhaps more familiar to newspaper road era
than any other a few years ago, was up be
fore a New York Police Court Tuesday for
drunkenness. He illustrates almost as well
as is possible the vicissitudes of fortune.
A w eek from to-morrow Atlanta votes on
the prohibition question. Whatever the
result, it is to be hoped that the factions
which have divided the community will
coalesce and live in peace. Anything is
better than the state of war which has
existed.
Mr. MediU, of the Chicago Tribune, a
thick and thin Blaine organ, says the pros
pect of any Republican candidate for elec
tion to the Presidency next year is “not
particularly flattering.” That is a very
mild way to put it, but it answers every
purpose.
Officers of the Arrow Steamship Com
pany deny the statement of the New York
Herald that it is a swindling concern, and
say all its plans and provisions will be car
ried out. The best way to refute the Her
ald's charges is to push the work of the
Pocahontas.
Showman Barnum sent the President
word that he has advanced the price of his
property in Bridgeport 50 per cent. This is
the way he acknowledges having made a
fool of himself on the eve of the election in
1884, when ,he offered to sell out at half
price if the Democratic ticket was success
ful.
Reporter Bruffey’s stay in the Atlanta
jail for refusing to divulge the names of
jiersons who gave him grand jury secrets
tor pablic&tioo, was very short, but he will,
doubtless, find it was tune well spent. He
is the best advertised reporter in the
country, and compliments are showered
on him.
Under Don M. Dickinson's leadership the
Michigan Democracy has mane wonderful
gaius in the last few years, and if he be
comes a member of Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet
it is possible that the electoral votes of that
State may next year be cast for the Demo
cratic candidate.
The Atlanta National (negro organ) evi
dently admires Republicanism of the bloodv
shirt sort. It wishes Gov. Foraker to
“stump” the South. He is not wanted down
this way, but should he come he will be ac
corded much better treatment thau a much
better man recently received in Ohio.
Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express has recently
acquired privileges on 8,000 miles of new
road—that is, new to them—and as other
companies think it is poaching on their pre
serves, a long express war is looked for. It
will hardly affect this part of the country,
however, but will have its seat west of the
Mississippi mostly.
The persistency with which the Republi
cans are asserting that Thoebe defeated Car
lisle by 1,000 votes con only be intended to
pave the way to a partisan attack on the
Democratic majority for giving the lattor
the seat. Such an attack, however, will do
no harm. Everybody knows Mr. Carlisle
was and is the choice of bis district.
About ten days ago it was announced by
Victor de Lesseps in behalf of his father that
no more money was needed by the Panama
Canal Company. Now the cable brings
the news that application has been made to
the French Prime Minister for permission
to float a large loan by means of lottery in
ducements. French peasants would be
wiser to invest their money in three-card
monte, if that fascinating game has been
Introduced in France. They would stand
no chance of getting it, back, but they would
not bo worried about it for years.
Mr. Robert T. Lincoln is on a tour
through the South, to him almost an un
known land. At Nashville he was greeted
with a warmth which must have surprised
him, if he had any belief in the stories of
Southern hate for the memory of his father
so often printed in his party papers. He
was made iVi%— am by the most distin
guished citizens of the city. Wherever Mr.
Lincoln may go in the South he will lind
that, though cordially received for liis own
sake, a peculiar interest attaches to hitu lie
cause of his origin. And that interest is
not antiputhcfcal.
The City’s Shade Trees.
The amendment introduced in the City
Council on Wednesday night by Alderman
Thomas, to the ordinance of 1840 relative to
the planting of trees, affords the opport u
nity for saying that there is not as much
interest taken in the shade trees of the city
as there was a few years ago. The Council
appears to be doing something toward
keeping up the reputation of the city for
having more and finer shade trees than any
other city in the South, but the great
majority of the citizens do not appear to
take as much pride in the trees as they
ought to. It is not an unusual thing to see a
horse hitched to an unprotected tree. Of
course the horse bites or
rubs the bark off of it, and
in the course of a year or so the tree decays
and has to be removed. A tree that has
been a score or more of years in reaching
proportions of beauty and usefulness, and
which has cost considerable care and ex
pense is oftened ruined in a day through
thoughtlessness or carelessness.
The city authorities ought to plant trees
wherever they are needed in all parts of the
city. If they wait for property owners to
do the tree-planting the city will soon lose
its name of “Forest City.” There are a few
proj-erty owners who have enough apprecia
tion of the beautiful to take the time and
boar the expense of beautifying their prem
ises with trees, but where there is one who
will do this there are half a dozen who wil 1
not. All admire trees, but all do not ad
mire them enough to take the trouble of
planting them.
It is better for the city to plant all the
trees that should lie planted, and to remove
all that should bo removed, and the work
should be done uudor the supervision of
ome one who makes arboriculture a study.
In no other way can we have uniformity in
tree-planting or be sure that no part of the
city is being neglected.
Many trees have been removed within
the last year or two. They were decaying
and would soon have been dangerous.
When a tree is cut down it should be re
placed by another, and In planting trees
care should be taken to select those best
adapted to the soil and climate of this
locality. A revival of interest in tree
planting would be very gratifying.
Cotton Fires at the Ports.
It is doubtful if more cotton fires have oc
curred at this port this season in proportion
to the cotton cargoes loaded here than at
other cotton ports. Cotton fires that have oc
curred at New Orleans, Norfolk and other
places have been noticed only in the local
press of those places, and have not been pub
lished generally. On last Monday a fire
broke out in cotton stowed in the forward
compartment of the steamer Harrogate, at
New Orleans, and five hundred bales
were damaged. The compartment, it is
stated, was flooded. From this it would ap
pear that the same methods for fighting
cotton fires on shipboard are used in New
Orleans as here. When the fires occurred
here a few weeks ago it was repeatedly
asked why the same methods were not used
to put out cotton fires at this port as in
New Orleans, where, it was stated,
a gas of some sort was four.d to be as effect
ive as water, and did not damage the cot
ton. It is true that gas was used at one
time in New Orleans, and it may be used to
some extent there yet, but the statement
that burning cotton in the Harrogate was
flooded would seem to indicate that little, if
any, dependence is placed upon gas.
In the fires here this season the principal
losses were from water. If gas can be used
successfully it certainly ought to be adopted.
If all has not been accomplished in experi
ments with it that can be accomplished, the
experiments ought to be continued. If cot
ton fires could be controlled without the use
of water there would be a big saving to un
derwriters and the owners of vessels.
The greatest protection against fire is be
lieved in Liverpool to be the way cotton is
packed in India. It is alleged that a fire
never occurs in cotton packed in that way.
If this lie true would it not be wise to con
sider the advisability ot packing cotton
here as it is packed in India f
Gen. Tuttle Must Explain.
There is a prospect that Gen. Tuttle, of
Wisconsin, who is about as offeusive a parti
san as there is in the country, and who
tried to make the flag incident the occasion of
arousing bitter feelings between the North
and South, will be shown to be an old
fraud. He draws a pension of S3O a month
on account of an alleged disability received
in the war of secession. He asserted that a
fall on a log, which he received at tho battle
of Fort Donelson, resulted in hernia, and, of
course, he got the pension which is granted
for a disablility of that nature.
There Is a suspicion, based on information
received at the pension office, that Gen.
Tuttle was never harmed in the war, and
that he isn’t suffering from hernia, but is
afflicted with a congenital malformation.
The officers in the Pension Bureau do not
say that Gen. Tuttle secured a pension by
fraudulent representations, but they expect
to be in a position in a few days to say
whether he has a disability that entitles him
to a pension. The doctors of the bureau
have his case under consideration, and will
soon be ready to make a rejiort upon it.
If it should appear that ho has been de
frauding the government, ho will not only
lose his pension, but will become an object
of the scorn of all decent people, not only
because of his fraudulent conduct, but,
also, and chiefly, because when the flag in
cident was attracting public attention, he
made himself extremely offensive by his
pretensions of extreme loyalty and his bitter
assaults upon the President and the South
ern people. We do not wish Gen. Tuttle
auy harm, but if he is proven to lie a bad
man we shall not regret it if ho gets all the
punisbmeut he deserves.
Mr. Lucas, appointed by the Governor of
West Virginia to a seat in the United States
Senate, announces his purpose to contest tiie
claim of Mr. Faulkner, elected by an extra
session of the Legislature. Both are Demo
crats, and their contest will give tho Repub
lican majority an opportunity of which
they are very apt to take advantage to
maintain their control without the aid of
the eccentric Riddleberger. A vacant seat
would be a very convenient thing for them
just now. The Democratic party has a
right to complain of a local faction fight
which has so great an influence in national
politics.
The New York Giants, though aided by
Boston’s SIO,OOO Kelly, was beaten in a
game of base ball by a nine of Texas ama
teurs at Austin the other day. If they had
been playing with pistol balls such a result
might have been expected, as even the
Texas amateur in that line of business is
generally looked upon as something of an
expert, but under the circumstances the re
sult is somewhat surgrising.
THE .MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1887.
The Driven Well Fraud.
The farmers all over the country, but par
ticularly in the Western States, are rejoicing
that the driven well patent has been de
clared invalid. For a dozen years or more
the driven well cases have attracted more
or less attention, and in some localities law
yers of the claimants of the patents have
been boycotted at the {Kills when they have
been candidates for office.
It appears from the decision of the Su
preme Court, a synopsis of which was given
in our dnspatches a day or two ago, that the
{latent was fraudulently issued. According
to the statement of facts the man who took
out the patent, and who has profited so
much by it, drove a well near Cortland, N.
Y., in 1801, for the purpose of getting water
for a regiment that was quartered there.
About four years after that date it occurred
to him that a patent on the methods by
which ho sank that well would be n rather
profitable thing to have. He secured his
patent, and he and those to whom he sold
an interest in it have been having a lively
struggle in the courts ever since.
During tho trial of the casß just decided
by the Supreme Court, it appeared that
nothing that was covered by the patent
was new, and that as long ago as
1849 wells were driven in Michi
gan, in the same manner as they
are now driven. The man who took out the
patent, however, was successful for many
years in preventing a case from reaching
the Supreme Court, which, involved the
point that, if decided against him, would
have put an end to his patent. The case in
which the decision was rendered was first
brought in an lowa court, and by regular
and slow stages finally reached the highest
court in the land.
Had the decision been rendered years ago,
as it would have been if the Supreme Court
were not so far behind with its business,
many farmers in different parts of the coun
try would have escaped the payment of
royalties which the holders of the patent
forced from them. Only a few weeks ago
a great number of farmers in the vicinity of
Morrison, 111., paid for driven wells,
and soon afterward a man
claiming to own the driven well patent
came along and endeavored to collect a roy
alty of from $lO to 835 from each of them,
lie was preparing to bring suit against
those who refused to pay, when the Su
preme Court decided against the validity of
tho patent. Doubtless, dishonest persons
will still try to make the uninformed believe
that the patent is in force, and some of those
farmers who do not read the newspapers
may be imposed upon.
Not Lincoln and Grant.
Tbe remark of Robert T. Lincoln the
morning after the November elections that
the result in New York effectually disposed
of the proposed ticket of Lincoln and Grant,
is being very generally commented on, be
cause it expresses the popular idea that in
this country a man must stand on his merits,
and that as far as he is concerned, the repu
tation enjoyed by his father or grandfather
counts for nothing.
The Republicans have thought of nomi
nating Robert T. Lincoln for President and
Col. Fred Grant for Vice President, not
i ecause they believed these gentlemen were
entitled to those positions on account of any
thing they have accomplished, or of any
particular talents they possess, but because
they thought the enthusiasm which would
be excited by the names made famous by
their fathers would be sufficient to give the
Republican party control of the govern
ment.
The fact that Col. Grant ran behind his
ticket, however, proved to be quite satisfac
tory to the Republican managers that the
son of a great man stands no better chance
than any other man of getting an office,
particularly the highest office in the gift of
the people.
Robert T. Lincoln is an honest, straight
forward man, who is rapidly making his
way to the front of the legal profession in
Chicago. He doesn't want an office of any
kind, and if he is lot alone he will not desert
his rapidly increasing legal practice for one.
If he has any ambition to lie Presi
dent it is probable that he is careful not
to permit the fact to be known. Unlike
Col. Grant, he will not let himself be used
by politicians for political purposes. He
has plenty of common sense, and it has
kept him from doing many foolish things.
It may he accepted as certain that the next
Republican national ticket will not be Lin
coln and Grant.
Hypnotism.
A few years ago the possibility of such a
thing as mesmerism was almost universally
scoffed at, and the career of the man from
whose name the word was coined was re
ferred to as illustrating the success which
could be won by a bright and bold charla
tan. Now, under anew name, hypnotism,
this curious subjection of the mind and
body of one person to the will of another is
considered so well established that the
governments of France and Denmark have
passed laws in regard to it. Hereafter no
one but a physician will be allowed to exer
cise this strange power, and he only with
the written consent of the subject, in the
presence of another physician. The adoption
of such laws may be taken as official
acknowledgment that mesmerism is no
longer a matter for dispute, hut is an estab
lished fact.
What queer possibilities of crime are
made possible to the possessor of, this dan
gerous power over his fellows! He might
move among them as a master among his
most abject slaves. At his suggestion tbe
most terrible crimes would be committed by
persons morally innocent of them, and who
could not remember 1 heir acts when again
restored to a natural state. The real crimi
nal would be connected with the wrongful
deeds only by the intangible thread which
bound int o helplessness the will and memory
of his victim, and made him his instrument.
Murder,or any other offense, would be almost
absolutely safe under such conditions, and
in time villains might be develo(>ed of a de
gree blacker than the annals of history,
dark as are many of its pages, can show.
The outlook for a development of this
science, if it may be called a science, is in
deed so startling in its possibilities, that, in
spite of the investigation of learned French
men, and the expressed belief of legislators,
the plain, every day citizen must yet look
upon the whole matter with incredulity. It
is too much like spiritualism, with its medi
ums and other frauds.
While a number of Indians were taking
a ride on the platform of a mail car, near
Pocatello, Utah, recently, the trainmen
noticed that one of the redskins was
shunned by all the others. The grimaces of
disgust bestowed upon the ostracizod mem
ber of the party led to an investigation,
which revealed that the lonely one was a
tramp disguised as an Indian in order to get
free transportation.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Land Monopoly Triumph.
From the Missouri Republican (Dent.)
The greatest triumph the land monopolists
ever achieved was when they set such men as
Lamar and Spai ks by the ears.
Will Hold on to One.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
Henry George warmly denies the story that
he and Hr. McGlynu have disagreed. He does
not intend to yield up all his converts without a
struggle.
Has a Chance to Know How It Would
Feel.
From the Baltimore American (Dem.)
A man swindled Henry George out of $l3O.
He took it without compensation. This is the
dodge that Henry wants to play on all the land
owners of this great republic, excepting, of
course, that he will take the land instead of
money
Described by Job.
fVom the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
, Speaking of prophecy, is there anything in
that line more remarkable than the fact that
.lob, in his remarkable dissertation, gave an out
line of the present disturbance in the Interior
Department of the United States'. “Man,” said
this prophet, "is born unto trouble as the Sparks
fly upward.’’
BRIGHT BITS.
Very few persons can hold their own on their
first sea voyage.— Boston Courier.
Considering the price of fashionable bonnets,
we begin to think the word “millionaire” is but
a corruption of milliner.— Life.
The older a niau gets the more difficult it Is to
pull the wool over his eves. He has a good deal
less wool, you know.— Yonkers Statesman.
Fitz Brown (with indignation)—Sir, you have
broken your promise.
Robinson (complacently)—Oh, never mind, I
can make another, -Exchange.
There is no period of a girl's life at which she
is not beautiful and charming and all that, but
it must be confessed t hat it is as a bride that she
takes the cake.— Nashville American.
A Cincinnati deacon is under arrest for steal
ing $8 45 from the contribution box. It is un
necessary to state, perhaps, that his peculations
dated over a series of years.— Binghamton Re
publican.
Smith—l see coal has gone up 40c. per 100
weight.
Brown—You mean 40c. a ton. do you not?
Smith- No. You arespenliug in tbe language
of the dealer: I am sutikg the fact '.—Bing
hamton Republican.
With such a Big Four as Jay Gould, John L.
Sullivan. .lakeKilrain and Buffalo Bill in Europe,
It may be taken for granted that such portions
of the country as may not be worth bringing
over to America will be pounded into submis
sion.— Chicago Tribune.
Sick man—Am I to take all that medicine?
Wife-Yes, all of It.
Sick man—There’s enough in that bottle to
kill a mule.
Wife—No, there isn’t, John, or the doctor
wouldn't have prescribed it.— Puck.
A writer in n November magazine suggests
that a prize of $lOO,OOO tie offered to any one
who will find a means of communication witti
the lower animals it would be cheaper—and
safer—to get a girl whose father doesn't keep
lower animals.— Norristown Herald.
In Tcrkky, when any man is the author of
notorious falsehoods, they blacken the whole
front of his house We presume, however, that
the law is off during the pendency of a heated
political campaign: otherwise the city streets
would look like a procession of hearses.—Boston.
Transcript.
“When you get very tired,” said one young
man, “do you ever lose cominand of words and
ideas?"
“No,” said the other yoAng man, “I can’t say
that I do: but I have felt that way sometimes
when l got home very late at night."—Somer
ville Journal.
‘ What is the price of that tea?" she asked of
the guileless grocer.
“One dollar ’narf, marm,” was the response.
"Is not that too steep? ’ was the next ques
tion. and the g. g, replied:
“Yes, marm, that's what they do with it."—
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
"TnE seats at the circus get narrower every
year,” remarked a young lady in a horse car the
other evening, "when I was told where to sit
down there was no sign of a seat anywhere,
only the laps of two gentlemen.”
“Didn’t you sit down?”
“Why. of course,” and there was a lapse in
the conversation.— Buffalo Courier.
A Kansas paper publishes the following
unique reminder to delinquent subscribers:
There i$ a little matter that Some of our sub
tcriberS have Seemingly forgotten entirely.
omei them have made u$ many promises,
blit have not kept them. To u$ it i$ a very im
portant matter It’S necefSary in our huslness
We are very modekt, and don’t like to Speak
about it. It might be called a matter of $$ and
sense.
Mr. Stretctter—lt was at Shiloh, Mrs. Keene.
T had been hit, and was lying where I fell,
when—
Mrs. Keene—Beg pardon. Mr. Stretcher, but
how you must have changed your methods sluce
then!
Mr. Stretchev—l don't understand you
Mrs. Keene-Why, now—judging from the
fact that Shiloh was fought twenty-five years
ago. you must be lying where you stand—Har
per’s Bazar.
Dtu Times West.—Eastern Man—How is
business in Prairie Oitv?
Western Man—Everything's dead; don’t kuow
what the country is coming to.
E. M.—Why. I heard ten new factories were
going up there.
\V. M.—Yes, that's so.
E. 51.—And anew board of trade had started
in opposition to the old one.
W. M.—Yes. I believe so.
E. M.—And I was told 100 new houses were In
course of construction.
W. sT.—Yes. I s’pose that’s about the number.
E. 51.—But you say things are dull.
W sL—Dull’s no name (or it: dead, absolutely
dead. Why. sir. I staked out a suburb, only fifty
miles away, into 20-foot lots at slrt.o"o a lot, aii’
I ain’t sola a danged one of ’em.— Tid-Bits.
PERSONAL..
Miss Cleveland will go to the White House
for the holidays.
Booksellers say that Hugh Conway’s novels
are no longer popular.
Mbs. Sarah Gordey, who died at Portsmouth.
0., on Monday, at the age of SO, was present at
the birth of Gen. Grant, and acted as his nurse
in infancy.
TnE King of Corea furnished his winter palace
with $lB,OOO worth of American chairs, beds and
tables, lie also bought an American steamer
for $'.18,000.
Mr. Taylor, minister to Liberia, who is in
Washington on leave of absent-'', says that every
military company in Liberia lias about twenty
seven officers to two or three privates.
Herbert Spencer is notv living at .Marine Pa
rade, Brighton, ilis health is precarious and lie
receives no callers. For some mouths he has
liven preparing chapters of autobiography.
Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secretary to
Queen Victoria, indignantly denies the alleged
scenes of drunkenness at ihe recent Balmoral
festival to the memory of the Prince Consort.
It is probable that next spring Queen Vic
toria will unveil the colossal bronze statue of
Gen. Gordon which is to tie erected at Alier
deen m front of the Art Gallery. This statue
wns subscribed for by members of the Gordon
Clan.
Gen. Sparks, the thorn in Secretary Umar's
sensitive side, is not u general at all, according
to the Baltimore sinteriran. He got his title
from the military hat which he wore when he
entered Cougrefs and it has clung to him ever
since.
Lord Brassky recently telegraphed to a friend
that Isulv Brussey died of malarial fever Hop.
14, seven days after leaving Port 1 larwin. Buried
the same day. Calm, patient, affectionate to
the end.” This effectually silences the stories
of her having committed suicide.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha lias sent
Queen Victoria the proof sheets of all the clia li
ters in his forthcoming '.Memoirs” in which the
Prince Consort is mentioned, in order I hat her
majesty may revise them if so disposed. It is
said that the publication of most of Prince
Albert's letters to his elder brother has been
vetoed by the Queen.
Hvoh J. Jewett, ex-President of the Krie
railroad, met with a serious accident lasi Snt!i!
day night. He made a misstep on the porch of
bis son s residence, near Glenville, Hartford
county, Maryland, and fell to the ground. Mr.
Jewett sustained a severe nervous shock ami
was unconscious for a long time. He is now
lying critically ill in his son’s house.
A cheat many Bostonians now hold the belief
that the clemency shown by Gov. Oglesby to
Flelden and Schwab was tne direct outcome of
the pci It ion sent to the Governor by William I).
Howells. Some of the Hubbites say that Gov.
Oglesby "must have attached great imp-'rtonee
to the views of one who nmy be called our most
notable .-Koert in the analysis of obscure mo
tit c of action.''
TO BE USED IN WAR AS CRUISERS.
The White Star Line to Have Two Re
markable New Vessels.
From the New York World.
The new vessels which will be added to the
White Star Line next season, may revolutionize
ocean travel It is said that the boats will be
able to make tne passage in five days. The ves
sels are being built on anew plan. There are
two of them, just alike. They will have twin
screws and two engines. A bulkhead extends
from the bow to the stem, completely dividing
the vessel, and the only passage from one side
of the vessel to the other will be through an au
tomatically closing door on the engineer's plat
form. The engines will be built on anew model,
and are expected to give great speed.
The first-class saloons will be fitted up for the
accommodation of 300 passengers only. They
will be divided into suits of bed-room, parlor
and bath-room. The second-clans accommoda
tions on these vessels will be the same as the
first cabin of the ordinary Atlantic lines. There
will be no steerage. They are built for a double
purpose. It lias been arranged that the govern
ment is to pay the White Star Company $90,000
annually in order to retain these boats in case
of war. Specially designed plans are being fol
lowed so that each vessel can lie changed from
an ordinary liner to a naval cruiser in three
days. The armament will consist of forty
pound guns, and it is expected that the triple
expansion engines will make the vessels very
desirable and of much practical service as
cruisers or transports in case of war. The main
framework of these vessels is already up, and
they will be the largest steamers afloat, except
the Great Eastern.
A MAGNET MADE OP CANNONS.
It Lifts a Cannon Ball as If It Were a
Needle.
From the New York World.
Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 14.— One of our lead,
ing army engineers has brought before the
engineer classes of late an experiment of so
startling a nature in its inception as to promise
wonderful results. It is a monster magnet made
of two Rodman guns, which are connected at
the breech. Around the magnet thus formed is
wound about twenty miles of submarine cable.
The cable is some that has been used in the tor
pedo service. It is wound and fastened in a
substantial manner, making a permanent mag
net, When electricity is applied some strange
results take place. For instance, a bar of rail
road iron 30 feet long, if placed in the open
cannon's mouth, cannot be drawn out by as
many men as can grasp it.
Another instance of the strength of this big
magnet was illustrated Saturday with a 850-
pound cannon ball. The shot w-as placed in the
mouth of the cannon on the negative side. On
reversing the electrical current it fell from its
position, but was attracted to the opposite can
non and clung to its side. The positive current
was then reversed alternately with the negative,
and the heavy cannon-ball played between the
two cannon like a tack between the poles of a
toy magnet. Before many days there will be a
public exhibition of this remarkably attractive
magnet.
Not the Smartest Folks.
You may notch it on de pailin’s,
You may mark it on do wall,
Dat the higher up a toad frog jumps.
De harder will he fall.
And de crow dat fly the swiftes'
And de scones' in de corn,
And de fly dat am de meanes’
Get up earliest in de morn.
De brook dat am de shallo’es’
Chatters most upon de way.
And de folks det am de sillies’
Ar de ones hab mos" ter say.
And de rooster dat am younges'
And de one dat crow de inos’
And de man who am de coward
Always make de bigges’ boas'.
And he am not’de greates’ man
Who.totes de bigges’ muscle;
Nor ain she de flues’ gal,
Who war de bigges' bustle,
You kin not jedge de kin’ ob man
By de manner ob his walkin',
And dey are not de smartes’ folks
Who do de loudes’ talkin'.
—Uncle Zeke.
Mrs. Tilton Buys a Souvenir of Beecher.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
New York, Nov. 12.—There was a bit of senti
ment in an auction sale this week. Although it
was a disposal of the effects of Henry Ward
Beecher, little interest was excited outside of his
personal friends, who attended for the purpose
of buying souvenirs of their beloved pastor.
Books and bric-a-brac went, one after another,
at about their original cost, until a tiny, paper
bound copy of Mrs. Browning's poems was
offered. The auctioneer regarded it carelessly,
but one person present had discovered written
on a fly leaf, •Theodore Tilton to Henry Ward
Beecher,” and lie bid it up slowly to sl. $2, $3,
fliually losing it to somebody who gave $5.
“Glad I didn't get it,” he remarked; “it isn’t
worth any such ridiculous price.”
Who had paid $5 for a thing intrinsically worth
no more than 5c ? Elizabeth Tilton. The os
ton,Pile purchaser was an intimate friend. Pre
sumably Mrs. Tilton desired it as a joint me
mento of the two remarkable men who onee
made such an awful commotion over her. What
particular memory was to her associated with
this gift of her husband to her pastor I do not
know, but I do know that the little volume is
now at the bindery being oovered handsomely
in morocco.
The Model South Carolinian.
Columbia Special to the Washington Star.
A novel feature of the State Fair here was a
convention of the veteran farmers of the Slate,
no one being eligible to participate who had not
made farming his principal pursuit for the past
fifty years. Every county in the State- was
represented. James M. Bradbant, Sr., a dele
gate from Barnwell county, was voted to be “the
model man of the Slate,’’ for the following
reasons: He is now 78 years of age. and has
plowed every summer for sixty-eight years, hav
ing made fifty-four crops on tile same planta
tion. He has never made a failure in a crop.
He has never bought a pound of bacon or lard
for bis own use, but lias always made bacon and
lard to sell. He has always raised wool enough
for b s own clot fling, and to a|iare. He does not
recoiled ever having sworn an oath. He Aus
never refused a call of charity, and has always
given liberally for the support of the gospel and
charitable objects. He has been steward of a
Methodist church for fifty years, and has missed
but two stewards' meetings in that period. He
took his last drink of whisky in 1837, and thinks
it was his Hint also, ns he does not remember
ever having taken a drink before. Me regrets
nothing in his past life, and has no fears for the
future.
A Wild West Chieftain.
From a London letter.
Red Shirt, Cody says, is the best Indian he
ever had anything to do with. He is high
minded. honorable, and particularly tractable
and affectionate. He is always cool and very
quiet, yet be is a very rigid disciplinarian. He
has killed at six different times men of his tribe
in the West who refused toobey him. Last sum
mer ono of the Indians caused the police a great
deal of annoyance by crossing the bridge over
to the American Exhibition side, for the pur-
I>oko of miking with some of the bazar girls.
Repeated fines would not check him. He was
lined so much that his pay for the season was
down to about £l. Then Red Shirt was ap
pealed to to use his authority. Red Shirt
walked up to the disobedient Indian, and with
out raising his voice at all, he said in his smiling,
gentle way: "You are a bad Indian. You have
been requested by Col. Cody and myself to not
cross t his bridge. Now I have come to tell you
one thing. If you ever cross that bridge again
without permission I will kill you.” With this
Red Shirt stalked away. From that day for
ward this bad Indian never oven went near the
end of the bridge.
Dr. Bryant’s Joke.
From the Chicago News.
Dr. Bryant, who accompanied President
Cleveland on his recent tour through the \\ est
and South, is a serious raun, who never jokes
and never uses siang. One day the doctor was
walking through the woods on the Belle Meade
farm, near Nashville, with Gen. 'Bill" Jackson
who is known far and wide as a very successful
raeounteur. The General was in particularly
high spirits that day and stories ran out of him
like sap out of a sugar maple.
At the end of one, especially good story the
doctor, who did not seem to be much pricked by
the (joint of it. continued to look up at the trees,
w hich he hud been some time examining, and
said:
■ General, you raise a good many chestnuts
here don’t you?"
All the rest of the way the doctor wondered
why Gen. Jackson told no more stories.
Simply Bruised.
From the St. Paul Globe.
Young Doctor—You say you have a pain in
your side?
Patient—Yes,
“How long have you been troubled with it?"
“Since lust night. I was walking dow n-town
aliout 9 o'clock. Ail of a sudden I felt a sinking
sensation on"
"Epilepsy!"
“And then nil was dark, I ha" ——
“Epilepsy sure, go on.’’
“I hud stepped into a coal 6010.”
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
A Texas jury in a murder trial reached a ver
dict by drawing straws.
Arizona stockmen have organized to secure
the repeal of “obnoxious State laws.”
The bicycle has penetrated Persia. It is said
six of the machines are now in use at Teheran
two by Persian nobles, the others by telegraph
men.
Mrs. Holmes, of Cincinnati, who has just
reached home after a 3,000-mile yacht cruise
through the great lakes, managed her own
yacht durnig the entire trip.
Nevada is about as proud over the fact that a
big vein of fine anthracite coal has been struck as
it is of its silver mines. There’s about as much
money in the coal, too, as in the silver.
A lady clerk in the Coldwater post office
proudly wears as a pin a small silver teaspoon
which t he British overlooked when they pillaged
Peekskill, because it was hidden under a baby's
head.
Portland, Ore., makes its 160 saloons pay
$48,000 into the treasury, and Portland landlords
charge the saloon-keepers rent to the amount of
$192,000 yearly. This means that a good many
men in Oregon support the saloons better than
they do their families.
Poultry men say that pullets hatched by in
cubators and raised in brooders lay much sooner
than those hen-hatched and raised. A Trenton
man has one of these artificial young hens that
began laying when ten weeks old, anil has laid
an egg u day ever since.
The Elyton Land Company of Alabama re
cently declared a script dividend of $1,200 per
share—equal to 1,200 percent. The stockhold
ers are to issue Ixindsat Gperoeut. for $2,400,000
to pay off this dividend. This is a watering of
stock worthy of Jay Gould.
The flames from a sulphur pile that has been
burning for years broke out afresh in the forest
on a hill between Wellsville and Yellow Creek,
0., Tuesday, and only the active exertions of the
Wellsville citizens prevented the destruction of
several dwelling houses. The only loss was sev
eral miles of fencing.
Christopher Chancellor, who lives in the
Spoon river brakes, tvas digging a stock well a
few days ago, and when 18 feet below the sur
face he found 123 petrified rattlesnakes. They
were as heavy as stone, and the largest one
measured 8 feet in length and 2SU, inches in
circumference, and had forty-three rattles on it.
Thb Nashville (Tenn.) Board of Underwriters
are much disturbed over their losses on fire
risks, and have been meeting for the purpose of
devising some means for better protection. The
board asserts that it has paid out during the
past five years in the city alone $500,000 more
than it received from the city and outlying dis
trict combined.
China papers, speaking of the recent census
of the empire taken by the authorities of Pekin,
state that the figures returned by the village
bailiffs make the population 319,383,500, which,
together with the estimate of five provinces
omitted, makes the aggregate about 392,000,000.
These figures are independent of the population
of Corea, Thibet and Kashgar.
In an article describing the rooms of the
wealthy students of Harvard that of J. Pierre
pont Morgan, Jr., son of the New York banker,
finds a conspicuous place. Just above the fire
place in this room a gun is suspended on a pair
of antlers, and before the fire-place lies the skin
of a huge bear; the mouth of the beast yawns at
you from the opposite wall; and on another pair
of antlers hang another gun. a cartridge belt,
and a pair of beaded moccasins.
Three oarpenters of Bloomfield, N. J., w hile
tearing away the shingles of a house were sud
denly surrounded by thousands of bees, which
settled on them viciously and stung them so
badly about the face and hands that it was with
difficulty that they reached the ground. After
the bees had been driven off by the smoke of
burning sulphur the roof was torn off and
seventy five pounds of excellent buckwheat
honey was discovered between the wall and
weatherboards.
A 14-yeak-old boy was found dead in a corn
bin in the elevator at Shabbona Grove, 111.,
Thursday. Some men were loading a car Wed
nesday out of the bin, when the corn stopped
running, and they carried the idea that the bin
was empty. Thursday it was noticed there was
plenty of corn in the bin, and an attempt was
made to load the car, without success. On
closer examination it was found that the boy
lay across the spout in such a way as to stop
the flow of corn.
The details’ published in late date China pa
pers of the loss of the Chinese transport Way
lee show that there were on board the vessel
about 500 Chinese soldiers and six Europeans,
and that 300 Chinese and all the Europeans, ex.
cept the chief mate, were drowned. The soldiers
are said to have become ungovernable after the
accident, and to have by their conduct con
tributed greatly to the enormous loss of life. It
is said that, if the soldiers had allowed the boats
to be lowered, every soul could have been saved.
According to the Electrician , anew and
quick method of soldering telegraph wires has
been invented in Russia. Tbe principal ad
vantage of it lies in the saving of time required
for the work, and also in the avoidance of any
“scraping," which would to some extent reduce
the strength of the wire. The process consists
in dipping the two ends of the wire—already
embraced by binding wire—into a vessel holding
n considerable quantity of melted solder, upon
the top of whioh there is sufficient powdered
sal ammoniac to leave a thick layer of liquid
salt. The ends of the wire pressed into this
vessel are quickly joined, however dirty they
may be.
The Austrian method of executing criminals
differs greatly from that in vogue in this coun
try, and, though apparently more horrible in
the deliberate rigor of the arrangements, is
more speedily effective. The condemned is
placed against a post, at the, top of which is a
hook and at the bottom a pulley. A rope hav
ing a loop at each end is passed around the
neck of the victim, another is tied about his
feet, the end being passed through the pulley.
Two assistants then lift the man by means of
the rope about his neck about six inches and
suspend him from the hook at the top of the
post. At the same time the other assistants
pull with great force at the rope attached to the
feet. Death ensues usually instantaneously,
though there is a range from one-half to two
minutes in many cases.
A Boston man who, until he was 40, lived an
economic, hard-working life, and one which was
both happy and useful, had the. misfortune at
that time to inherit from a relative a fortune of
some millions. He was instantly overwhelmed
with importunities from all sides.. Gifted with
an acutely sensitive New England conscience,
he was not only anxious to do good with his
wealth, but he was almost morbidly afraid that
through ignorance or carelessness lie should do
harm v.ith it. He investigated with the most
painful care the cases presented to him. and he
literally agonized over tho things he desired to
do, that he feared to do, and those that he was
urged to do. Two years of this worry killed
him. The Boston correspondent of the Provi
dence Journal tells the story and quotes the at
tending physician as saying that the certificate
of death should have been filled out, “Died of
his money.”
The Mexico Two Republics, of Oct. 13, pub
lished the following: “On the morning of Feb.
22, this year, the flag over the United States Le
gation, in Mnriscala street, was seen to be fly
ing at half-mast. An American me! Minister Man
ning on his way to the legation and jokingly in
quired: ’What prominent person is dead? I
see you have >lhir flag at half-mast.’ The Min
ister explained that it was Washington’s birth
day and the servant had probabh not attended
to his duty properly, and added: “I will see
that the flag goes up to the top of the staff as
soon as 1 reach the office.’ There is a supersti
tion to the effect that if a flag is flown at half,
mast by jnistake it will be again flown at half
inast in sorrowful earnest before the year Is
out." The Mexican superstition in that case
found a most decisive realization in fact. Seven
months later the flag was flying at half-mast for
tbe death of the Minister himself, who died on
Oct. 11.
O. W. Drum, of San Francisco, who is 74
years old, and white-haired and white-bearded,
has just returned from New Mexico and Western
Texas, where he spent the summer collect jug
insects. He collected 8.000, and will sell them
to collectors, colleges and schools. He has Ijecn
hunting bugs since 1874, and has had some Queer
adventures. He thus describes a couple
‘Twice I escaped the Apaches miraculously i
was catching insects one day in a little brush
patch in the Raton Mountains. I had just risen
up when I saw a big Indian looking down Into
inv net. He strode away. That night four
wood-choppers, half a mile away from me were
killed. 1 was left unharmed. One day I went
up on a high knoll in the Whetstone Mountains
where there was a spring, to get a drink. Brusii
surrounded it , and when I stepped up to the
edge of the spring I saw five Indians sitting
there. I couldn't back out, so I asked for their
tin cuu, drank, and came away. They killed
four or live whiUs near at hand, but didn’t
bother me. They took me for some sort of a
medicine man. with my nets for insect, catching
and on account of my white hair and beard and
that s why 1 escaped. ”
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MILLINERY!
Fifty dozen Ladies’ and Misses’ fine Wool
Hats in the latest shapes and colors only 35c.,
wortn fully 68c.
One large lot samples in Ladies' and Misses’
Broad Rim Hats, with Plush Rim and French
Felt crowns, only $1 each, worth $2.
tine Lot Rich, Full size] Wings for Hats, this
week only 95c ; gr and values even for 50c.
Nobby Line of Striped and Fancy Ribbons,
Cheap Glace and Moire Silk Velvets at great#'
Reduced Prices.
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500 Ladies' White 3-Ply Linen Collars, Cler
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1 Lot Ladies' white 4-Ply Linen Collars, the
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-1 Lot Ladies' 3-Ply White Linen Cuffs, at the
surprising price of 10c. per pair, cheap even r '
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25 Dozen Ladies’ Mourning Sets, linen Collars
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From .lira, Gen. Tojran’s Dentist, Dr.
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From lion. Clin*. P. Johnson. Ex. Lt,
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