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4 C|e looming |tctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY* NOVEMBER 19, ISBT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The MoRNTNn News te published every day hi ihe year, and is served to subscribers tn the city , by newwiealers and earners, on their own ac count, at 2ft cents a week, $l 00 a month, $0 DU lor six months and $lO 00 for oue year. The Morkino News, by mail , one month. 9 1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 (X); one year. $lO 00. The Mornino News, by mart, six tlir.es a week (without Sunday issue), three months, fi: 00: six months, $4 00 one year. $6 00. The Mornino News, Tri Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, tnree months, $1 ~o; sue months. $2 50: one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 £>. Subscript ions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter Cur* penny sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed * Mornino News, savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices— Turkeys, John Lyons & Cos.; State anti County Taxes, 1887. Amusements —“Only a Woman's Heart,” at the Theatre. Auction Sales— Material for Carpenters, Plumbers aud Builders Generally, by C. H Dor sett; Horses. Drag. Furniture, Etc, by J. Mc- Laughlin & Son. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos. Ko-Ko-Nuts—W. D. Simkins * io. Potatoes— C. M. Gilbert A Cos. Western Meat and Pkodcce F.xchanob— Adams A Fleming. Fish and Oyster Dealer— M. M. Sullivan. General Commission Merchants— W. W. Gordon & Ce.; Garnett, Stubbs A Cos.; Geo. W. Tiedeman. Publication —Key West F.vening Call. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale; Photography; Reward; Lunch; Lost; Miscel laneous. Indian summer appears to have departed from this locality. It was enjoyed while it remained. Now that George Francis Train has to Canada it is questionable whether com mercial union is desirable. There is a gas case in the Chicago courts which involves S7,(XX),(XX). This does not in clude the gas of the lawyers. The Florida orange crop this season is small, hut very sweet. Hweet things are frequently found in small packages. Sam Small has attacked Munkacsy’s pic ture of “Christ Before Pilate.” Is there anything for which Mr. Small has rever ence? Is Mr. Randall getting ready to do the ob struction act as soon as the tariff question is presented in Congress? An interested public would like to know. Mr. Perry Belmont is happy. It is re ported that he is to be offered the place of .Assistant Secretary of State. The office does not require a very big man. Mr. Sparks, who was lately bounced out of the General Land Office, says that he feels like a galley slave just released. He is doubtless accustomed to whistle when he goes by a graveyard. So it is proposel to build a big city at Port R oval! The South Atlantic coast is dotted with almost forgotten sites of would fce big cities. Man appears to have little to do with determining the sites of cities. We are certain to have another and a inueh-needed street railroad, even if we don’t build a big hotel right away. The more street and other railroads we have the greater the necessity for a hotel will be. Ex-Governors are so numerous in New York city that they no longer attract atten tion. If a man desire fame, he will have his desire grutified much more completely by being an Anarchist or a slugger than a statesman. In another week Atlanta will decide the question whether she is to be wet or dry for the next two years. If she is always as disagreeable v hen she is wet as she was during the Piedmont fair, she had better remain dry. Does the Atlanta Constitution still be lieve that the “protection leggars” are still all very rich ? As its editorial expression apjiears to be largely in the shape of com munications an answer in that way will not lie objected to. It is said that no successor to Mr. Sparks, ex-Commissioner of the General Ijand Office, will be named until Mr. Lamar’s successor is installed in office. It is to be hoped that whoever succeeds Mr. Sparks will know how to obey orders. James J. Belden, of New York, who suc ceeds Senator Hiscock in the House of Rep resentatives, is always received with ex treme politeness at the aristocratic Windsor Hotel, New York city. The reason 1b that he owns the hotel. The appropriations of the John F. Slater fund to various educatioual institutions in the South for the year 1887-08 amount to $40,390. As the appropriations go to about forty five institutions the amount which each gets is very small. A story has lieen sent out from Atlanta that the colored people of that town are in dignant because Senator Colquitt attempted to dictate the appointment of a minister for one of their churches. The story may be set down as an invention of the Senator’s political enemies. Editor Pulitzer, of the New York World, continues to attack, by insinuation. Col. John R. Fellow’s, lately elected District At torney of that city. That is his way, proba bly, of getting even with Editor Dana, of the New York Sun, who keeps telling him that he must “move on.” It is said that Miss Susanna Bancroft, granddaughter of the Historian Bancroft, engaged herself to the rather ancient M. le Viconte de Chnunor-Lanzoc to please her grandfather and quietly married Charles Carroll, of Maryland, to please herself. A very sensiblo woman is Mrs. Carroll. Herr Most, who has so often announced His willingness to die for the "cause,” dis claimed the violent ’language attributed to him by the New York press as soon as he learned the District Attornoy was consider ing his case, and then hastened away. It is evident that the valiant Anarchist is not anxious to serve another term in the peni Mntiorv. Mr. Atkinson's Suggestion. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, the political economist w’hose writings have attracted a great deal of attention within the last few years, has made a suggestion looking to the settlement of the fishery dispute that is being very generally commented on. It is, that this country shall purchase the prov inces of Nova Scotia, Now Brunswick and Cape Breton. He thinks t hat the Dominion I of Canada would be willing to part with ! them for $50,000,000. and it may lie that I they could be obtained for that sum. The amount would not bo very large for this I country, whose treasury now contains more money than the government know’s what to do with. It would be about equal to the surplus which is accumulated iu five months. The purchase of the provinces would of course settle the fishery question forever. There would be need of no more treaties with regard to it. But it is not certain that this country wants the provinces. Before public sentiment could be settled on that point there would have to be a great deal of discussion. There is much to lie said in favor of Mr. Atkinson’s suggestion and much against it. The question is a large one, and would present many phases if it were to bo seriously considered. The reason that Mr. Atkinson places the amount at $50,000 000 is this: The debt of the Dominion of Canada is now about $.50 for each inhabitant. A great part of this was contracted in building the Cana dian Pacific Railway, which will not per haps pay running expenses in the next quarter of a century. The provinces which Mr. Atkinson proposes to purchase contains about 1.000,000 inhabitants, and they are benefltted very little by this railway. The $50,000,000 is their portion of the public debt, and that sum would enable Canaria to complete the railway, and keep it in running order until it would pay ex penses. Therefore Mr. Atkins on thinks that Canada would be glad to entertain his suggestion. But as far as the fishery question is con cerned could not that be settled by a com mercial union, or a treaty of reciprocity ? From 1854 to 1868 this country had a treaty of reciprocity with Canada, and there was then no trouble between the two countries, about the fisheries or anything else. As soon as that treaty ended the fishery trouble began. Mr. Atkinson points out that we could very well afford to admit Canadian fish free even if we derived no other benefit from a commercial union, although we should re ceive other and greater benefits. The value of fish annually imported from Canada is about $2,250,000, and the import tax amounts to something like $500,000. The only people benefited by the tax are a few owners of fishing vessels at Gloucester and Portland, and they employ New Brunswick and Nova Scotia fishermen. The people of New’ England, who are the main consumers of the fish, have to pay the import tax. The removal of the tax, therefore, would benefit hundreds of thousands of peo ple, while its retention benefits only a few. The advocates of the doctrine of protection, however, would doubtless claim that the tax ought to be retained even though those injured wore a thousand t imes as numerous as those benefited. Mr. Atkinson calls at tention to the fact that the value of the eggs imjiorted into this country from Canada annually is as great as that of the fish. The eggs, however, are not taxed, and he does not see why fish should be. The farmers of this country who supply the market with eggs are just as mu' h entitled to protection as the few fishermen of Port land and Gloucester. Mr. Atkinson makes a good many other points in discussing his suggestion, all of which are very pertinent to it. Herr Most and Bomb Distributors. It is a source of satisfaction that Herr Most, the loud-mouth Anarchist of Now York, has been locked up, and stands a very good chance of being sent to the peniten tiary for a year. The charge against him is that at a meeting a few nights ago he made a speech that, was calculated to incite a riot. He knew that he had violated the law, and immediately secreted liimself. Believing that the police did not intend to molest him he returned to his office. He was mistaken in Ilia calculations about the police. They had been watching for him, and arrested him as soon as they could place their hands upon him. If he goes to the penitentiary he should be given such work as anil make him very careful not to get into the clutches of the law again. Liberty does not mean license, and free speech does not mean the right to incite un thinking men to destroy property and com mit murder. If Herr Most cannot conduct himself as a law-abiding and order-loving citizen he ought to be put where he will have to conduct himself in accordance with well established and rather rigid regula tions, and where he will not have a chance to do anybody harm or to urge others to do so. There is a lawless element in the country that must be dealt with in a way to impress it with the fact that the law is going to lie enforced. Since the hanging of the four Anarchists in Chicago dynamite bombs have been found in different pat ts of the country. The finding of one ou the City Hall steps in St. Joseph, Mo., was men tioned in our dispatches yes terday, ami accounts of the finding of others have appeared in the newspapers. These bomhs indicate a disposition to create uneasiness in the public mind on the part of those who sympathize with the Anarchists. They are very care ful, however, to keep their identity hidden. If anv of them are caught, and some of them will bo sooner or later, it is pretty cer tain that they will be shown no more mercy than is shown to a horse thief in the far West. The effort to enforce the Sunday law in Philadelphia is meeting with considerable opposition, as was to be expected. Even when keepers of saloons are arrested and inmates of the'r places summoned ns wit nesses, it is found hard to obtain a convic tion. The Philadelphia Preis says: ‘lt is astonishing how many people went up the back alleys of taverns last Sunday to look at horses, to light their pipes or to visit friends, and not less astonishing how uhnost universally the tavern-keepers withstood all persuasions to sell liquor ou that day. To buy or sell a drink on Sunday is a statutory offense; to tell n lie on the wit.ne s-stand is a moral crime.’’ Capt. Black, who gained considerable notoriety from the fact that he appeared ns counsel for the Chicago Anarchists and afterward accepted a nomination on the Socialistic ticket for a judicial position, has paid dearly for his experience. It is re ported he lost <ind,oOO by his connection with Parsons and his followers. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1887. The Outlook in France Tiie clouds which have been gathering in France for 9ome time are becoming more threatening. The Oaffarel scandal, which seemed at first to be a small affair and one that would be quite easily dis]iosed of, has assumed immense proportions. M. Wilson, the son-in-law of President Grevy, who is charged with being a party to the scandal, is to be prosecuted on the charge of having realized vast sums of money from the sale of the decoration of the Legion of Honor and of goveißunent contracts. Prom the evidence against him which has found its way into the public prints there is not much reason to doubt that he will lie found guilty. President Grevy has used bis influence to the utmost to protect him. Indeed, the whole influence of the government was used to prevent an investigation and prosecution, but without success. When President Grevy found that his son-in-law was implicated in the scandal he should have demanded for him an investi gation at once. Being at the head of the government he could not afford to take sides against the Stato. That is exactly what he did do, however, and of course he quickly lost whatever influence he possessed. His feelings were stronger than his sense of duty, and the consequence is that he will have to resign, if he has not already doneso. The wisest statesmen of France must view the situation of affairs in their country with gloomy feelings. The contending factions will make it difficult to establish a strong government if President Grevy resigns. In fact, it is apparent that the present govern ment is by no means strong. What the immediate future has in store for the nation, no one can predict with any degree of cer tainty. \\ ar with Germany is bound to occur sooner or later, and it may occur very soon. Ihe wishes of the Emperor and Bismarck are for peace, but all the indications are that the Emperor cannot live long, and his eldest son is afflicted with an incurable dis ease, which may cause his death within a few months. The young man who will then become Emperor posseses a warlike dispo sition, and is extremely anxious for a war with France. He would quickly find a way to provoke a conflict with that country. It is clear that France is not in a condi tion for war. She lacks harmony in her counsels, and is heavily loaded with debt. The Caffarel affair justifies the suspicion that corruption exists in all departments of her government. This being her condition, what chance would she have in a contest with Germany? Her soldiers would lack spirit, and her Generals an incentive to do all that could be done to save her. If Ger many is triumphant in another war with France, the latter will not bo loft in a condi tion to threaten war again in a quarter of a century. It is not strange, therefore, that the thinking men of France view the nation’s affairs with alarm. Gov. Lee and the Vice Presidency. Gov. Lee, of Virginia, has been frequent ly mentioned for Vice President on the Democratic ticket, and it is probable that if the South were to insist upon it he would lie nominated. AVith the possible exception of Gov. Gordon, of this State, he is the most widely known and most, popular of the Southern Governors. He is a man of ability, and knows how to make and retain friends. He was asked a day or two ago what he thought of the talk about himself in connec tion with the office of Vice President. He answered that he had not given it much conside ation, and that lie was not looking in the direction of either the Vice Presi denev or the United States Senate, He had no other ambition, he said, than to dis charge satisfactorily the duties of his pres ent office. He said it was rather curious, however, that the South was expected to vote for anv Northern man for President or Vice Presi who might be proposed, ns it had been doing for the last twenty years, without expressing any preference or indicating a desire to exercise a controlling voice in selecting a ticket. He said that it was too much to expect that this state of affairs would continue, but that he was satisfied that the National Democratic Convention next year would do what was best for all concerned. As the Democratic ticket depends chiefly "lion the Sout h for its success it would seem to be only fair that the South should have a very potent voice in lecting it. The South has plenty of statesmen who are well qualified for either Piesident or Vice Pis?si dent, and while it might not be advisable at present to select a candidate for President from the South there is no verv weighty reason why the candidate for Vice President should not be a Southern man. As Gov. Lee says, for twenty years the South has not attempted to control the de cisions of the national ernventions. It has simply said to the Democratic party of the North that it had so many electoral votes which would be cast for the Democratic nominees if they were good men. The Northern Democrats have made the ticket and the Southern Democrats have furnished most of the electoral votes it has received. At the next national convention tlio North will not be asked to name a candi date for President, because the party, North and South, has determined to nomi nate Mr. Cleveland, but a candidate fov Vico President will have pi be chosen. It is not improbable that the South will again let the North make the choice though it would seem to be but fair that the South should be asked to do so. However, the South is growing in wealth ami influence, and by 1892 will be in a position to have a good deal to say with respect to the can didates for both President and Vice Presi dent. The Right Honorable Joseph Chamber lain, the British member of the Fishery Commission, lias points and they are prom inent enough to attract attention. The New York Sun savs that he is “ono of the most peculiar of the thousands of peculiar folks who have feasted in Deliuonico’s great dining hall. He sat through the long dinner of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night and listened to the flow of oratory, and not the faintest indication of a smile or evon interest flitted over his clear cut features. Secretary Fairchild tried to engage him hi conversation, and Mr.Depew, his next neighbor, seemed disposed to make things pleasant for the stranger. Mr. Chamberlain, with his gold-rimmed monocle stuck in the right eye, would show momentary interest in the courtesy of his two neighbors and relapse into the frozen state. He giured straight ahead like a soldier on dross parade. He spoke, of course, , an ‘English, ycr-kuaw’ accent, and in his speech of 13,000 words only two forlorn and unprotected (>erio<ls were accommodated with standing room. It was a speech of commas. ” CURRENT COMMENT. Get Rid of Both. From the yew York Tribune (Rep.) The next time Mr. Carney meets McAuliffe let him carry out his intention of worrying him first and killing him afterward, and when he gets through with his work let the spectators treat Mr. Carney in the same way. The civi lized portion of this community would not ob ject to a summary disposition of the two brutes. Senator Sherman Called to Task. From the Norfolk Virginian (Dem.) What's the matter with Senator Sherman? In a recent letter to the New s'ork Chamber of Commerce, he declares tliat "the enormous de velopment of our internal industry has'now made it necessary to seek foreign markets for our surplus productions. ’* What becomes of the shut-out theory of protection? Does he propose to exclude foreign manufacturers from Ameri can markets and yet expect free trade rules for the products of this country? He will wind up himself not long hence. Chamberlain Rebuked. From the New York Star (Dem.) Why Mr. Chamberlain should have been made a feature of the Chamber of Commerce dinner, to tne annoyance of many of the guests is a puzzle, ft is true that he made a clever speech. It is his ability as a bright speaker that has made him so valuable as an article of political merchandise to the Tory government. What he had to say about the Canadian question was well enough In its way, but when this pervert to Toryism announced himself as a Radical and Democrat to an Ameriean audience he deserved rebuke for attempting to inqiose upon the credulity of his auditors, BRIGHT BITS. They put tacks in a carpet to keep it down, but they put tax on tobacco to keep it up. Strange, isn't it?— Yonkers Statesman. The man who has an expensive health-lift fitted up in his bedroom seldom gets up muscle enough to bring up the family coal— Wakefield Citizen and Banner. Scientists say that the savage has a more acute sense of sms'll than civilized people. When two savages get together how they must suffer Boston Transcript. The Alta California, of San Francisco, says that the future Mrs. Senator Hawlev has a red head. That settles Joseph. No red headed girl and dark horse go together.— New York World. Now that M. Wilson, son-in-law of President Grevy, has officially left the Elyses, all fears that he would pawn that palace and escape with the proceeds have been allayed.— New York World. Countryman (in gallery of Stock Exchange to wife) —Some o' them seats down their, Marlar. cost 'bout $20,000 apiece. Wife—Mercy me! Why don't they set down on ’em, then ’ —.Vew York Sun. ■Teems (high muek-a-muek to H. R. H.)—Two H’merican gents b’outside. you Roy’l ’lglmess. H. R. H.—Names. Jeems? .Teems—Mr. Gould an' Mr. Sullivan. H. R. H.—Tell Mr. Gould that I’ve gone to the Highlands, and show Mr. Sullivan .in.— New York Sun. At the Zoo.—The keeper gave the lion a large piece of meat. Poet—Does he get that, often? Keeper—He gets it regularly twice a day. Poet (with claspnl hands)—What a boon it would lie If I could only get a position as lion here.— From the German. A Sharp Traveler. Train Robber (on Texas express >—Shell out now, quick. Passemrer—All my money is in this satchel. "Open It." “Look.” “All in silver dollars! Keep it, We ain't no draymen.— Omaha World. “Married or unmarried?" anked the Judge of a female witness. “Unmarried just a few minutes ago,” was the reply. "A few minutes ago? What do you mean? “Just what I say. Got my divorce papers. That unmarried nie.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. “Franklin." said the professor, who was about to introduce Prof. Morse to the alumni of a Western college- “Franklin drew the light ning from heaven and controlled its power to harm, but it was left to Prof. Morse, gentlemen, to—(puzzled to know exactly what he should sav’—itlwos left to Prof. Morse, gentlemen, to reduce it to a horizontal position."— Hartford Post. John Radcliffe. the well-known English flutist, was recently visiting a country town, where he met a quaint old w oman who was gaz ing intently at a cheap print representing the Virgin, with St. Elizabeth on the one hand anti St. Joseph on the other, and the inscription "Are Maria" underneath. "Of course, you un derstand that?” asked Radcliffe, seeing the old lady appeared puzzled. “O, yes,” was the reply, “I know’ all about that. The man is axing the ’ooman in the mid dle will he 'are her. and she is saying as how, bein’ married erself, she can’t, but won’t he 'ave Maria.” The Telephone Cat.— Though most of the eats on the back-yard fence Belong to the self same choir. And faithfully call ami caterwaul, “Maria! Maria! Maria!" There's one that shouts above all the rest. At any hour that suits him be.st, In a strangely human, familiar tone, As if he called through a telephone, "Hello? Hollo! Hello!" His voice we have learned to know: And whenever we hear it we say: “That’s that Detestable nuisance—the telephone cat!” Harper's Bazar. PERSONAL. Mas. Chcrchill Joddreu. a cousin of Lord Randolph Churchill, a lieautiful and accom plished heiress, is about to seek glory on the professional stage. She will begin her hr,limit ■ i t career as Lulu in “Forbidden Fruit’' at the Alexander Theatre, Liverpool, Eng. Ur. H. T. Helmbold. the once famous patent medicine man, who made an immense fortune out of his btiehu. has been consigned to Belle vue Hospital New York, having been arrested in the street helplessly intoxicated. His extrava gancies dissipated his fortune many years ago. Ex Gov. Exoi.ish is a remarkably well-pre served man for ins years. He is nearly 75. and does not, look a day over (10. He is a man of great wealth, and began life at the carpenter's bench, ills election as Governor of Connecti cut in |S67, when he beat Joe Hawley, broke the line of Republican victories in Northern States. Miss Fringes E. Wii.i-aro. President of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, claims to have visile 1 every town in the United Srates of 10,010 population, and most of those of 5,000, organizing branches of the association to which she lias devoted her life. For ten years she has delivered on an average one sjieech a day. Those who knew Gov. Cornell in the old days of his political ambitions ami successes are de lighted with the change in his manner. Then he was taciturn, almost severely gloomy, at t imes positively repelling approach. Prosperity seems to have changed all this. He is now one of the most affable and genial of men. demo cratic in his meeting with everybody, and seems keenly to relish fun. Be'ides, he seems to have fancied Senator Evarts' habit of wearing shott ing bad hats, as if he bad become so attached to a head covering that he hated to paid with it. >lts Edith A. Horner, who was recently married to Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, has been in this country but three years, she came from London to teach American girls avhat little they knew about skilled nursing, and has made countless friends. She is about SO years old, but in consequence of her active life she does not look so old. She comes of a line old English country family. Her father was a prosperous country squire with a large estate, and her oldest brother is now a Justice of the Peace. Her brotlier-in law, Mr, Vaezey, is the lord of the manor. It is a sight to see Gen. Husted make his rounds in the ticinity of the Graud Central de pot. New York, before he goes home each night. Ho conies up on an elevated car, and rushes in to see Chauncey M. De|)ew. Then he hobs out and skips across the street to see Gen. James in the Lincoln bank. He whispers into James'ear, and then scurries across the street to hud ex- Marshal Payne at the Grand Union. He talks two minutes to Pavne. winks at him, and then flies around the corner to the Harlem depot. Here he has a chance to catch Judge Robertson. More winks anl whisperings. Then he dodges away like a hoy playing huu; and seek and in two minutes is aboard a Peeksklll train, with hiss|iectacles over bis nose, reading the evening papers, ar.d he never seems to get tired. Tut death is announced from Venice of Baron Haileidstch, a fervent believer in spiritualism and tlie author of several books on that subject. Me turned his back upon Vienna four years ago indignant at the treatment which a certain American medium hnd received at the hands of the Archdukes Rudolph and John. Itwili be recollected that by a clever contrivance they closed a door by pulling two strings, and there by caught a very substantial ghost in socks and gray cassock, covering an evening dress. Baron HaUeuhach, a devout believer in tho manifesta tions. was playing soft music on the piano at the time. When the Archduke John published a pamphlet throwing light upon these interest ing feats, the Baron wrote an indignant reply and then went to St. Petersburg. There he found sympathetic friends in M. Aksakoff the Councillor of the .State, aad other ardeut die tables of spiritualiiuu. No More Watching and Waiting. From the Argosy. To-night as I walk on the lonely shore. And list to the mournful surge's beat, 1 think of the music that falls ou your ear, Of the beautiful blossoms that lie at your feet. And 'tis joy to know that no grief of mine Can darken a brow so bright and fair; Yet I sometimes fancy my spirit can feel A gleam from the glorious radiance there. A boat will lie shortly on yonder wave, The boatman be drawing toward the shore; His call of warning I soon shall hear, Aud the soft, low splash of his ready oar. He will bear me safely, his arm is strong, Till the walls of the golden gate I see; . And when I reach it your task is done. There is no more watching and waiting for me. The Biggest Supremo Court Justice. J'Yom, the Heio York Graphic. Justice Horace Gray, of the Supreme Court of the United States, has just gone back to Wash ington after a quiet week at the Brunswick. He is a great strapping, broad-faced, bald-headed man, without the slightest evidence about him of the Massachusetts Puritanism, from which he sprang. He is the cham pion bon-vivant of the court, and by long odds the most companionable and genial man, not excepting Stanley Matthews, on the Su preme bench. Before be was appointed to his present place he was in the highest court of Massachusetts, aud many a sudden shock he used to give grave old Judge Ames and the now Seen*tar. of War Endicott, who were on the bench with him. He had a way of putting his judicial decisons that hardly comported with the views of the solemn-faced old boys who were his associates, and he has brought the custom with him to the Supreme bench. Able, broad minded and widely read in law and literature, he is one of the brightest men that have ever done honor to the great tribunal of which he is a member. How the Battle Was Won. Chauncey M. Depew told the following story in New York city the. other day: In my early career before I became Interested in my wife and would not look at any other girl, or before she knew me wed enough to be jeal ous of the other girls, I went out one evening to call upon the r rettiest young lady in the village. When got there I found a young man from New York with a Crony & Lent suit, and with all the latest metropolitan stories and graces, and knew that as a simple countryman I was gone. I looked at Mr. Fifth Avenue with animosity, and Mr. Fifth Avenue looked at me with con tempt. Subsequently her father came in to meet Mr. Fifth Avenue, and then I re membered that the old Captain had a theory showiug how Napoleon might have won the battle of Waterloo. He bad told it to me a hundred times, and I said: “Captain. Mr. Fifth Avenue never heard how Wellington might have been defeated at Waterloo;” and Mr. Fifth Avenue, not kuowin" what was in store for him, asked the Captain to tell the story. I had two of the most delightful hours I had ever passed in my life up to that time with the young lady in the back room, and, when I,came out. Mr. Fifth Avenue lay paralyzed on the sofa, aud the Captain had just gotten down to the charge of Marshal Ney and the Imperial Guard. How She Reads the Paper. From the Chicago Journal. Did you ever notice how a woman reads a paper? She always begins by looking for a marriage notice. Then their monologue runs something like this; "I don’t see it” (reading the I leadings). "It is Nip and Tuck Now;” no that's between the type-setters and their union. •Explosions of Natural Gas;' that's not it either. ‘A bride from the Chippewas;’ well, the bride we want is blue-blooded but not red-skinned; though, as the Irish girl said. They say the rale Amerikins do be red.’ 'A One Day Circus;’ that’s not it, though it might well be.’ ’An Important Treaty;’ nor that, O here! ‘A Grewsome Gathering.’ Oh, no: that's about cemetery suiierinten.leuts, after all. 'Kashi >n Notes—The Raglan is the wrap of the passing moment.’ O, is it? Well, when any moment passes me wrapped in a raglan, you bet 1 11 seize that moment. Here it is at last. ’Result of a Combine.’ Queer wav to put it. Gracious! that’s about sugar. A Costly Blunder’—that’s frank, anyhow. O, that's about registration. ‘No New Trial for Them.' Guess there will be— in the divorce court. However, that's about the Anarchists. ’Wife Murder.’ Of course. ‘A Rejected Lover Kills His Girl.’ What a nice thing it is to be a woman nowadays! If you marry, your husband kills you—if you don't marry, your lover murders you. 'Social Events.’ Here it is at last, 'Golding and Bright. ’ Lovely and accomplished bride. Of course, every bride is that. Nothing said about her two previous engagements. Groom, prominent citizen. Exactly. No mentiou made of his late divorce, though, Well, newspapers only give news, I suppose. The wedding is news, but the other facts wouldn’t be.” A Glimpse of Roscoe Conklins:. i'Vom the Richmond Times. By the way, I saw Senator Conkling in New York this week. He is hale and hearty, and he weighs twenty-five pounds more than he did when he left the United States Senate His golden locks have, however, turned to siiver, and the curl which hangs over his forehead is as white as the driven snow, I caught only a glimpse of him, but it seemed to me that he had lost some of the dudish airs he affected at Washington, and he was, though well dressed, more carelessly attired than I have ever seen him. He wore a rough, blue sack-coat, and his head was crowned with a military slouch. He coins, I understand, from SfiO,OUO to SIOO,OOO yearly, but he mourns, I doubt not, for the flesh pots of politics. No statesman who has had the adulation showered upon him which has fal.en to the lot of Senator Conkling can be content with the humdrum life of a lawyer. The almighty dollar is a god which fails to sat isfy such men, and Conkling’s friends hope that some occasion will thrust him again into the swim. He has only one chance, so ex-Postmas ter General Crosswell says, of becoming a po litical leader. This chance would arise should some great issue come before the country, and Conkling, by his wonderful eloquence, lie noted as its leader. This issue would iiave to he a striking one, and one which would swallow up persons in principles. A war with Great Britain or some other power might furnish such a chance, and the people becoming infatuated with their side of the struggle, again make a hero of their leader, Lord Rosooe. It is won derful how Conkling s friends stick to him, and 1 have been surprised in traveling over the United States to find how widely scattered are Ins admirers. They say they would support him for President if he were nominated to-day, and they proclaim with all his abilities he is the honestest statesman in the country. It is true be has failed once, but his friends claim that he did not want to return to the Senate, and that he resigned for good. The Boy About Town. From the New York Tribune. It is in the evening at balls that the boy about town reaches the apex of his glory. There is no mistaking him then —languid, weary, with heavy drooping lids and hair shining like his patent-leather pumps, he leans against the door-post and views with cold lark-lustre eyes the budding beauties and blossomed belles. He has a friend to support him through this weary evening-a rosy, dimpled, baby-faced friend— from whose [lockets g< dd chains emerge, vanish ing darkly beneath bis waistcoat, and on whose fingers gleam rings galore. A ni.uing beauty floating past them in a mist of tulle, from waich her slender waist emerges, widening with a graceful sweep into her bare and gleaming shoulders says airily to her partner: “Why, those two pretty little boys ought to have been in bed long ago.'’ The boys hoar her, but they never flinch. The soul of the boy about town must soar above petty slights—perhaps in time he gets used to them. They look after her with lazy interest, and one says loudly, for even a boy must have his revenge: “Used to be a corking fine girl about five years ago.” Presently, mnida crowd of black coats and obsequious bowing heads, a popular married belle drifts into view—a jolly, dainty UtUe lady, with fuzzy blonde hair, a plump, satiny neck, and arched black eye brows under her flaxen lKing Hither the strong contrast of her eyenrows and hair, or the bird like motions of her head, recall a ratnous opera bouffe singer. She is very vivacious, lias a very small waist and a reputation for saying gay little things in a gay little way, extremely fasci nating Now, if there is one thing the boy loves as Tommy loves a lark it is a married belle who is in the fashion. When the boy about town tries to penetrate Into her notice he finds the atmosphere arctic, He tries to push his way between the surround ing men, but they suddenly dose up shoulder to shoulder, and block him out. Then lie goes around the phalanx, and finds himself close to the lady, who, however, has her back turned toward him, as she laughs with the semi-circle of men. She doesn't see him, and goes on talk ing. He can see the long black gloves drawn up over her plump pink arms, the dear little feathery curls which turn down on the nape of her neck, the clasp of her diamond necklace, the loose, crimned hair drawn tip into shining coils on top of her head, with aflufTof murabout feathers set hewitchingly on one side. As she pauses he says softly, in his best and drowsiest manner: “Good evening, Mrs. Marabout; charmed to see you. Can’t t have a dance*' "O, dear boy. Is that von*” she savs. glancing at him over her shoulder with laughing inso lence; "how pretty you look, I)o you kuow, I'm awfutly thirsty, and i know vou’rc dying to get me a gloss of water like a sweet, good boy.” All the surrounding men laugh wickedly, and the charmer laughs up into their faces with tilted chin sod sparkling eves. ITEMS OP INTEREST. A coppkr (Sin in his pocket turned aside a bullet tired at t California lad by a highway man. The recent death of Mrs. Polly Ford, of Mil ford, Conn., reduces the numlier of living cen tenarians in Connecticut to eleven. Annie Nelsn, aged S years, has just arrived at her aunt’s Is me in Montague, Mich., having traveled all tht way from Denmark alone. The annual etodus of Chinamen, anxious to take part in the New Year festivities in their own land, has aready set in. A recent steamer from San Francsco for China had more than 800 Celestials as passengers. E. Hunnewell, of Cincinnati, has just been expelled from tht Garfield Club in that city for two reasons. Ht declared on election day that Jefferson Davis vas a better patriot than Gov. Fm-aker, and alst yoted the straight Democratic ticket. A company with $2,000,000 capital has been formed in Baltimore to trade between that city and the Congo coast of Africa, and to carry the mails. The company expects to furnish passage to numbers of colored people desiring to emi gate to Africa. Calvin H. Schivily, of Philadelphia, is in hard luck. He carried all his savings in a belt strapped around his body for twenty-five years until be had accumulated $5,000. Then he put the whole amount into a business venture along with two newly-made acquaintances, and lost it Preparations are nearly completed for light ing the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts with electricity. Over 1,300 incandescent lamps will be used. They will be placed at a distance apart of 20 feet, and an equal number erected on each side of the tunnel. The Westinghouse alternat ing system will be used. The Parkersburg (W. Va.) Sentinel states that it has private Information to the effect that Senator Faulkner will be seated without oppo sition, except from Mr. Lucas. A number of Renubi ican Senators have expressed an opinion favorable to Senator Faulkner's unquestioned right to the seat, and will vote for him. A citizen of Topsfleld, Mass., was greatly startled the other night when a tall white figure loomed up in front of him on a lonely road. He kept his senses, however, and investigated, and what might have been a first-class ghost proved to be an insane woman who had escaped from the Danvers asylum. The citizen at once took her back to the institution. Probably the oldest man in Massachusetts, who voted at the recent election, was Ezekiel Peabody of Ipswich. Mr. Peabody will be 100 years old on June 13, next. He did not b tend to vote but upon request of his Republican friends, who had urgent need of him and more, he went on foot and unaided except, by his cane acquitted himself as in the days of young manhood. Branford. Conn., has a genuine “wild girl.” Her name is Lizzie Hearn. She is insane and was placed in the Middletown asylum, from which she was released four months ago. Soon afterward she disappeared, and ten days later was found by hunters in a swamp near Bran ford. She was taken home, but two days after ward escaped to the woo Is again, and was there at last accounts wandering in the swamps. An application for a charter for the Mary J. Drexel Home and Mother House of Deaconesses has been applied for in Philadelphia. The build ings are to l>e of stone, and very massive. The objects of the home will be the reception and support of worthy aged couples and aged single men and women of German birth or descent, and for the religious instruction of deaconesses, who shall be members of the Lu theran church. Senator Cameron, Capt. Rogers, and others, who have been traveling by special car in the West, recently side tracked the coach and drove to a neighboring ranch. While they were away a gang of drunken cowboys surrounded t he car, lassoed the conductor and the three colored servants, and when the Senator and his com pany came up stopped their horses and t hreat cried all soils of things It required considerable diplomacy to induce them to go away without first riddling the coach with pistol balls and having “more fun with the coons.” California has some big orchards, and the largest is in the Suisun valley, and is owned by A. T. Hatch, President of the California Fruit Union Mr. Hatch has 200 acres in pear trees, 180 in peaches, 70 in apricots, 10 in nectarines. 210 in almonds. 40 in cherries, 100 in plums and prunes, besides 40 acres of currants and goose berries nnd hundreds of lemon and orange trees. Of these acres, 300 bore fruit this season to the amount of 2,000 tons, which brought the owner SIOO,OOO. He calculates that when the whole orchard is in full bearing it will produce 8,000 tons of fruit, worth $400,000. A few days after the reoent rich strike was made in the Black Queen mine, near Gunnison, Col., D B. Fowler, who had a lease and bond on the claim, prepared to ship ore. Mrs. Ellen Jack, one of the owners of the mine, went there just as a pack train was starting with a load of ore, and drawing a pistol, ordered the men to leave the mineral. They obeyed, and then swore out a warrant for her arrest, charging her with assault with intent to kill. After a throe davs’ trial Mrs. Jack was acquitted, the Judge hold ing that Fowler had no right to the ore, and that she had a right to defend her property. It appears from the results of the tests made at Christiania, Norway, that the De Bange gun is likely to prove a powerful rival of the famous Kropp weapon. The former guns have a caliher of 8.4 centimeters, and the number of shots fired, amounting to 1,000, have not effected the smallest trace of extension, the diameter, measured before and after the 1,000 shots, agreeing to a hundredth part of a millimeter. The accuracy and range of the firing have also been entirely satisfactory. Some minor draw backs in connection with the gun carriage and the regulating screws, both of which suffered somewhat from the powerful recoil, have been removed, and those now used have stood the last 600 round* without the least hitch. B. A. Bartlett, of Randolph, is a remarkable rifleman. In a recent exhibition of his skill, he is said to have hit a common white bean at a distance of twenty-five yards, holding his rifle in various positions. He also hit a postal card that was set up edgewise. Using a 32-calibre ball, he shot through a 32- ealibre pistol barrel, the bullet splitting oti a knife-blade on the further end of the revolver barrel, and each half of the bullet breaking an egg. He ignited a parlor match held by a per son at the target stand, knocked the ashes f ■ om cigars, and concluded by shooting a bean from the nose of a friend, who had sufficient confi dence in his skill to permit the attempt. All these remarkable shots are vouched for by rep utable witnesses. A 9-year old Eagleville, Conm, boy was be lated at Coventry, several miles from his home, the other night, and, being afraid to go home in the dark, put his Yankee wits to work. Pretty soon a doctor of the place was informed by a small boy that a well known citizen of Eagle ville was very ill with typhoid fever, and want ed hint to come to him immediately. The doc tor said he'd go after supper, and asked the lad to Join him at the table. The bov did so, and soon after was snugly tuck 'd by the side of the doctor in his carriage and rolling homward. When they arrived at the house of the alleged sick man the boy scrambled out, and the doctor followed and knocked at the door. The citizen, himself, in usual health, opened it. He hadn’t been sick, and hadn't sent for the doctor. Then they looked for the hoy. They couldn’t find him. He had had his supper and ride homo and was well out of the way. The Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania provides that there shall be no discrimination in charges made by transportation companies. Senator Emery, of McKean county, in that State, who has been fighting the Standard Oil Company for years, was compelled to ship his oil through the Standard oil pipes. His linn re cently constructed pipes of its own to the Penn sylvania railroad, and it has been shipping its oil to tide-water in the cars of that company Senator Emory having discovered that the rail road was allowing u rebate to the Standard (>il people, has no* brought a suit against it for sl9i .000, which he claims is due his company for drawbacks. The suit is of unusual interest and it involves the testing of the construction of a law which, if construed in Senator Emery’s favor, will enable certain oil and other shippers to recover from $1,500,0CX) to 000,0(10. James Pays, the novelist, says: “One of my favorite theories is that archery Is a fraud, and its feuts the invention of the historical novelist. It is idle to suppose that if any great excellence could really be arrived at with the bow and arrow It would have been demonstrated either at the Crystal palace or the Aquarium. There is no advertisement that could be compared with 'Feats with the Old National Weapon of England,' if it could really be got to hit with ac curacy anything smaller than a ti-foot target Who would go to see a girl smash glass h ills with shot from a rifle if there was auy one to cleave an apple with an arrow off somebody's head* No, no. ‘To draw the Ikiw and to tell the truth’ was what every Persian boy was taught, but that was not the long-bow. The old English long bow is to ray mind the greatest of ail historical impostors; It goos straighter than the boomerang, I admit, but that is not high praise for a weapon of precision.” BAKING POWDER. 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