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4 ffhcponiingMctos Morning News Building. Savannah. Ga. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER Its, 1887. Registered at the Pont Office in Savannah. Tlie Morn-iso News is published ever)- day in (be year, and is served to subscribers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers, on their own count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, to do for six months and $lO 00 for ons year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00: three months. $2 60; six months, $3 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, hi/ matt, six limes 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 mouths, $1 id); six months. $2 60; one' year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The YVkhcl.y News, by mail, one year. $1 26. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit, by postal order, check or registered letter. Cun tenev sent bv mall at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Amen can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telesmams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Oa." Advertising rates made known on application. 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. 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