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4 Cj)c|Horning|lclus Morning News Building. Savannah, Ga. MONDAY, NOVEMBER SI, 1887. Registered at - • Office m .So noun ok. ’’'•pie- Morning News Is published every day In te year, and Is served to subscribers in the city, iy newsdealers and carriers, on their owu ac count at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mail, one month. J 1 00; three months. $0 60; six months, $6 tk>; one vear, $lO 00. The Morning News, fiv wail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year, $s 0". The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, rintrs days and 'Saturdays, thn*e months, il -o; six montlm. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one vear. 8. OR The Weekly News by mini, one year. SI in. Fubseriptions payable in advance, hemit by postal order, check or reeisrered letter Cun rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This pa tier is kept on Hie and advertising rates may lie ascertained at the office of the Amen can Newspaper Piiblishei***' Asttooidtion, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and teleprams should bo addressed "Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on nopiicßtton. INDEX TO NjWJDYEETISEMEm Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 54, F, A. M.; DeKalb I/dge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; Railroad Loan Association. Special Notice-As to Claims Against the Estate of the Late W. P. Owens. Amusements —"The Devil's Auction" at the Theatre. A Cakriaoe Spoke— Sa'omon Cohen. t.RAis, Hay, etc.— T. J. Davis * Cos. Steamship Schedule— Geueral Transatlantic Übmpany. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Lost; Boarding; Miscellaneous. Western Meat and Produce Exchange— Adams A Fleming. Congress will meet in December and the chances are that it will remain in session until August. In that time it ought to pass a satisfactory river and harbor bill. Judge Holman thinks that the House will be able to agree upon •‘a compromise bill that will cut down the revenues about $90,000,000.” It is to be hoped that the revenues will be reduced, but no compro mise should be agreed to that makes whisky tree. Louis Li’gg, the Chicago Anarchist in his autobiography, just published, says his father worked in a lumber yard, and his mother helped along things by running a laundry. Louis, however, never exhibited a desire to become a “slave” as he termed his parents The Briti-h members of the commission to settle the fisheries dispute occupy thirty seven rooms at the Arlington Hotel in Washington. If they pay the regular rates •f that hotel the British government will have to estimate for a deficiency in its next budget. The Royal Yacht Club, of which James Bell, the owner of the Thistle, is Vice Presi dent, has withdrawn its challenge for the America’s cup on the ground that the re vised deed of gift is “unjust and unsports manlike.” Does this indicate that there will be no international yacht race next year? Mr. Carlisle says that the prospect of passing some kind of a tariff bill during the present Congress is better now than it has been since the days of theTarifl Commission. It is certainly time it was doing something toward reducing the revenues. At the rate at which the surplus is accumulating all the money in the country will soon be locked np in the Treasury. The fact that the great ocean steamships, which ply botween New York and European jmrts, do not carry enough boats to hold more than half their usual complement of passengers is exciting comment. In the •vent of an accident in midocean that would necessitate the leaving of the ship, only a comparatively few li .es could be saved. Human lives are of little account in comparison with gold. There is some talk of bringing Roscoe Conkling to the front as the Republican candidate for President. It is talk, how ever, that will come to nothing. Mr. Conk ling has many strong friends in New York, but ho has also many strong enemies. It is doubtful if he could poll as many votes in that State as Blaine. It is becoming more and more evident that the Repub licans will have to accept defeat in 1883. Mr. Wharton Baker, the head of the syndicate which obtained the concessions from China which were the talk of the country a month or so ago, says that he is still confident that the syndicate will get all that was originally gran led it. The impression appears to be very strong, how ever, that the concessions have been can celled because the Emperor would not con firm what his Viceroy had done. This ends another scheme that was to pour untold wealth into the lap of its projectors. It now appears that Jailer Folz and his underlings in the Chicago jail, were not as strict and wide awake in dealing with the coudemned Anarchists as it would appear was necessary. Liugg communicated regu larly with his friends on the outside, by sending the notes pinned to the articles of clothing he sent out to be washed. It is now thought the bombs found in his ceil were in troduced there in the same manner. Jailer Folz under oath told a different story from (hat which he gave the Chicago newspaper men. John L Sullivan continues to lie the great man in England. Buffalo Bill and Blaine are forgotten. It is stated that the Prince of Wales expressed a desire to see the charunion punch somebody's head in a friendly way as soon as possible, ami that the champion sent him this message: “Write to the Prince of Wales and tell him I’m too busy to see him until after Nov. 80, but let him hold on till then, and I’ll show him something he never knew anything a I unit l<fore.” It seems that the slugger isn't very anxious to be patronized by the Prince. Chauncev M. Depew favors restriction of naturalization, and Mayor Hewitt thinks meetings at which violent anarchistic speeches are to be delivered should be pre vented. The “Anarchist uprising,” as it has Iwen termed, should not scarce the American |ieoplo out of their senses. A few crazy bomb-throwers and professional agitators should not be considered of on rngh importance to make it necessary to close the gates on the oppressed of other countries. Nor would the American people favor a proposition to prevent people from meeting to discuss grievances, whether real or fancied. If the right of public meeting is denied to Anarchists it can be to others. The better way is to punish promptly those who violate the law. A Political Scheme. The dependent pension bill which the pension claim agents succeeded in getting the last Congress to pass, and which the President vetoed, is to bo introduce! into this Congress. All the indications are that en extraordinary effort is to be made by the Republicans to pass it. The influences be hind it now are stronger titan they were during last Congress, and it is doubtless the intention of those in charge of it to nutke a great deal of political capital out of it. The bill will go to Congress indorsed by about all the Grand Army poss in the coun try. A great many Grand Army men aro op posed to the bill, but they are in the minority in about every post. It will, therefore, ap pear as il the measure had the united support of all the ex-Union soldiers. The effort will be to get it passed during the first session, so that if the President vetoes it tho veto can be used against him in the Presidential campaign. If it is found impossible to do that, no opportunity will be missed to have a vote taken upon it with the expectation that the Democrats will vote against it. If they should the Repu iicaus will assert in the campaign that the Demo cratic party is the enemy of ex-Union sol diers. While the pension claim agents and many of those who expect to he benefited by it want the bill to pass, it is evident that at present it is intended to be an instru ment to assist the Republican party to get control of the government rather than the means of distributing the surplus in the Treasury among ex-Union soldiers. Whether it will prove to be a potent instru ment remains to be seen. There is a pretty well founded suspicion that the people now think that the pension burden is about as big as they care about carrying. It is certain that the press quite generally commended the President's action when he vetoed the dependent pension bill a year or so ago, but it is impossible to pre dict, with any degree of certainty, wbat the Republican part of it would do if the bill were vetoed on the eve of a Presidential election. Tho Supreme Court Vacancy. Secretary Lamar is said to have assur ances upon which he relies that, should his name be sent to the Senate to fill the vacant place on the Supreme Court bench, the nomination would be promptly confirmed, without reference to a committee. Tlie New York 7'ribune prints this bit of news, and meets it with an ably written but very unfair editorial in opposition to Mr. Lamar’s confirmation. It reviews his career, at tempting to show that he sympathized with the views of extreme States’ rights advo cates, was active in organizing secession, and in the Confederate service, and still be lieves tbe Southern States acted within their constitutional rights. A special grievance is that Mr. Lamar, on the floor of the Sen ate, once emphatically denied that Jefferson Davis was a-traitor. The position tbe Tribune takes, appa rently, is that no man who believes in the Stutc-s’ right of secession in 1801 can be trusted to administer the law in 1887. It refuses to believe that the settlement of a great disputed question reached on the battlefield can be accepted with entire hon esty by the defeated party as final and ir revocable, unless those who lost join with the victors in denunciation of the princi ples for which they fought and the men who led them. Any man with extensive knowledge of Southern sentiment knows that a vast majority of the people are now sincerely grateful that the Union was pre served. They accept that result of the war, not sullenly hut gladly. Their interests are now all in the Union, not outside of it It Ls very true that most Southern men, with whom, perhaps, Secretary Lamar Is included, believe that the war established as law for all time an interpretation of the constitution upon which the framors of that instrument would not themselves have agreed, but they recognize the fact that the interpretation established by force of arms was one contended for almost from the be ginning. They still believe that in 1801 it was at least an open question. There is no good reason why a man hold ing these views, competent in other re spects, should not be made a member of the Supreme Court. The Southern States are supposed to stand on an equal footing with other members of the Union, but the suppo sition Ls false if a man who fairly represents their people is proscribed because of his opin ions on a question settled twenty-five years ago. The objection urged against Mr. Lamar would apply with almost equal force to any Southern man of proper age and attain ments to be a fit nominee for Supreme Court Justice, and if it be effective with the Senate, tho result will be the exclusion from one of the co-ordinate branches of the gov ernment for an indefinite period of almost one-thinl of the country. We do not bc lievo the people at large want any such proscription. The Tribune's article bristles with such words as traitor, treason, rebel, rebellion, etc., which in this connection have long since lost their meaning. The application of such epithets to several millions of its fellow citizens may indicate that it Ls very loval to the government, which no one questions, but it leaves room for doubt whether its patriotism is not limited by geographical lines. There is a 18-year old boy at Reading, Pa., who is a fit companion for Jesse Pomeroy, the hoy murderer of Mas-achu setts. In a hat factory of that town a day or two ago a number of girls were at work in one of the rooms, when Jacob Hartman, n boy employed in the same department, turned from his work and said: “Girls, 1 am going to make you all kneel before me at dinner time.” "Well, you’ll not make me kneel,” said one of the girls. In an in stant Hartman displayed a revolver and discharged it, the ball striking Amandu Briner, aged 15 years, m the right breast. One of the bosses snatched the smoking revolver out of young Hartman's hand, and Miss Briner was carried into the office At, last accounts the girl was still alive, but was not expected to live. What sort of punishment should be ineted out to the boy? Hanging is too good for him. Republican Congressmen who have ar rived hi Washington are more cautious about expressing their preferences for President than they were when the last Congress adjourned. Then they named a half dozen of their leaders, any one of whom they pretended to believe could beat Mr. Cleveland. They are not naming any body now who can beat Mr. Cleveland. Senator Gorman, of Maryland, says that both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Blaine will be nominated, and that the candidates for Vico President on each ticket will be taken from the West. Gorman is something of a poli tician, and knows wbat lie is talking auoul. TfIK MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1887. Government in t he South. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has long been considered one of tho ablest Republican journals in the West. It may be taken to voice as far as any one journal may the sentiment of its party. The following ex tract from one of its recent edi orials, in reply to , Southern editor's assertion that tho whites must rule in tlie South, is in teresting and important: It is scarcely necessary to tell reading people, whether in the South or tho North, that the Republican party does not now de sire, and never lias desired, black man's government for any State. Theoretically the United States, ns n whole and in its parts, is neither a white man’s nor a black man’s government, but a “government of the people, by tne people, and for the people.” Actually, however, it is a white man’s government. It always has been and always will be. In the nation, as a whole, the white man Ls largely in the majority, and, for reas< ms which will suggest them selves to every thinking, reasonable per son, must forever remain so. At the time tlie last national census was taken the negroes in several of the Southern States nearly equaled the whites, and in Mississippi and South Carolina exceeded ttm. That was seven years ago. Three vear- hence, when the next national enumeration is made, it is altogether safe to say that the whites will be hi the preponderance in numb-'rs in the two States named, and he far in the lead in every other State in the South. But even iu the States in which the negroes were more numerous than the whites there has not, for the past dozen or more years, lieen the slightest real reason to fear that a black man’s government could be established. Of course the pretense that such a thing would lie possible now, even if every negro should vote and have his ballot honestly counted, is ludicrous. In the North, broadly speaking, wealth ar.d intelligence are on the side of the Republicans. In the South the reverse is the fact. Wealth and intelligence, when wielded wisely, will always prevail over mere brute force. The negro, in most of the purely Intellectual attributes, is the white man’s inferior, and he will undoubt edly remain so for centuries, if not forever. For tULs reason, even if he should be as numerous as the white, his influence in the State must always be comparatively insig nificant, if the white displays a moderate amount, of political astuteness and tact. It is gratifying that so important a Re publican journal as the GloberDemocrat should admit that this is and always will be a white man’s government by right of supe rior intelligence, as well as for the reason that he has a greater stake in it. But it is a slight mistake to say it has always been a government of tliat kind, at least so far as the South is concerned. The people here remember a period which, though short, had so many disagreeable incidents that when they look back upon their political history they see but few things in the quiet, unevent ful years which intervene. Tiiere was not then a white man’s government. It took almost a revolution to bring that period to a close in some of the States, and they will be careful that another like it does not begin soon. When the Globe-Democrat says that wealth and intelligence will always prevail over mere brute force, it utters an axiomatic truth, which has been better illustrated no where than in the South. The white people have seen plainly that they must stand to gether, and the solid South is the outcome of their intelligent action. If the Globe- Democrat means, however, that the whites could fall apart in politics and still control the colored voters, and through them the government, it is very much mistaken. The colored voter is sus ceptible to influence of a certain kind in local contests between white men, and generally votes without reference to the action of his fellows; but when party lines are drawn it is no use denying that the colored vote is practi cally solid for the Republican candidate. The colored voter is not open to argument on this question. He is certain to vote with the Republican party. He may not vote at all —and vast numbers of them do not, for various reasons—but he would be looked upon as a traitor by his race if he should vote the Democratic ticket. This is, per haps, a very unfortunate and mistaken po sition for him to occupy, as he is in the mi nority, and it deprives him of all political influence, but at least the Republicans can not criticise his almost pathetic faithful ness, however much it may weaken them. In a homogeneous community wealth and Intelligence will control, in the way meant by the Globe-Democrat, by thoir moral in fluence. Every man stands upon the same social footing, and is open to thoir influence. In a community made up of two different races, standing on different planes, their in fluence cannot readily extend from one race to the other. Other influences counteract it. For this reason the white people have had to depend upon themselves. Of the danger of division they have had an exam ple in Virginia. There, on a local question, enough whites joined the negroes to give control ot the State to the Republicans, or R-adjustors, as they at first called them selves. The fact that they were Republi cans did not necessarily make their govern ment a bad one, but its acts soon showed that it fairly represented only the average of intelligence and morals of its party—not that of its most intelligent element. This is necessarily true of every party. It will uot long tolerate leaders either better or worse than itself. The Commissioner of Pensions says that on May 18 of this year be mailed request through the Department of State to our various Ministers and Consuls General ac credited to the courts of Great Britain. France, the German Empire, Turkey. Rus sia, Italy, China and Spain, requesting that they obtain and forward to him the fullest txjssible statements relating to the pen-ion laws and administration thereof of the vari ous countries to which they were accredited. The most courteous consideration was paid to the requests iu every instance, save in the one addressed to the Minister of the court of St. James. It would be interesting to know why Minister Phelps ignored tlie request ot tho Commissioner of Pension . Was he too buisy selecting the names of American tourists who were of sufficient social importance at home to entitle them to be presented at court? He ought to have another open letter written to him. In a memorial to Congress the Mormons say: “we ask for a 'Republican form of government,’and we ask that it be given us now. For nearly fortv years Utah has been pleading for statehood. Shall n deaf ear lie turned to her entreaties?” It is probable that Utah will plead in vaiu for admiadon until she shows beyond all doubt that she has abandoned po’ygamy forever. Sir; needn't make tbe mistake of thin King that she will be given a place in the sisterhood of States as long as she nurses that crime in her bosom. There were 14,0f) in ire Prohibition votes cast in New York at the Nov uuber epetion this year than there were at the last Presi dential election. The Prohibition vote in tliat Htate is certain to increase. Tlie chance that the Republicans will curry New York next year is not one iu a thousand. CURRENT COMMENT, Class Supremacy -Unknown. From the Chicago News. There is pot a community in America where the ballots ot the working classes do not out number those of the capitalists, or where b.v an honest, courageous presentation of their wrongs, they cannot obtain redress. Capital does not control the ballot box except where the masses are divided or indifferent. In fact, no class is supreme with the ballot in America, and this should be the glory as it is the safety of our in stitutions. Even Worse than Sherman. From the Pniladetnhia Record lDeni.) It has been said that the re-election of Gov. Foraker in Ohio would put an end to the as pirations of Senator Sherman for the Presi (irticy. We do not think so. The Republican party will be put upon its mettle in selecting its next Presidential candidate. Mr. Sherman is a fit man for nomination for that great office, and there are few men in the country so noted as Gov. Foraker wuo are so inra able. The Re publican party is a little disordered in Its mind, but it has not yet reached the stage of dotage, an i lias no use for its Forakers as Presidential candidates. Jurors May Bo Intelligent. From the Philadelphia Call. The Supreme Court decides that the juror is not incompetent because lie is intelli vent, and the common sense of the Union will applaud the judgment. It will not be an agreeable de cislon to pettifoggers who reiv upon quips and quibhl-s to secure the acquittal of atrocious criminals, hut it will simplify trial procedures and relieve the courts of much of the odium which has attached to them through the escape of notorious malefactors. It will also purify tho jury box of ignorance and incompelency and make it what it has always assumed to be—a guardian of our liberties. BRIGHT BITS. A hoijjno stone gathers no moss, but a bicycle rider accumulates lots of real estate on his buck.—Milwaukee Journal. "Art is long, and time is fleeting," remarked the young portrait painter, as he introduced his watch to the pawnbroker.— Pacl. A spinster refused an off r of marriage from a well-to-do bachelor because she bad been told thtt he was an enthusiastic relic hunter.—Mer chant Traveler. Tbe Sun of Sunday contains an editorial on the American party. It falls to call attention to the paradox that the most fashionable American party is a German.— Life. The Indians have taken to smoking cigar ettes. Now let them stand around sucking the heads of their canes, and the problem of their civilization is solved. — Springfield Union. A London paper speaks of "health resorts for horses"—localities where members of the first equine families are sent for change of air.” Would it be proper to caII such resorts horse pitals?—Norristown Herald. He—Oh, my darling, you will bo mine, will you? When may 1 talk t > your mother—to morrow? She—Yes—that is—no no: To-morrow is washday. Waterbary American. "An unfortunate mistake occurred In last week's edition." plaintively mutters a Custer county paper. "We referred to Mr. Takera, candidate for Sheriff on the opposition ticket, as a 'rough-hewn diamond.' It should have been 'ruffianly demon.’ We trust our readers will forgive the mistake."— Omaha Bee. "Mamma,” said a young lady just home from school, gazing upon Alexander Harrison’s "Open Sea," "is this an oil painting or a water color?” “Sb!" answered her mother, with a look of surprise and chagrin. "It's a water color. Don't you see the water?"— Chicago Tribune. Father—Ain’t you going to work ? Ijizv Son—Guess not. "I don’t understand how anybody can loaf such weather as this. Why, it is a real pleasure to work now." "1 mow u, but I don't want to give myself up too much to mere enjoyment.”— Texas Siftings. "Was the prisoner quite incapable, con stable?” asked the Magistrate. "Very nearly incapable, your worship; but I don't think that he’d been quite so bad if the lamp posts ’ad been nearer together. They’re awful wide apart in the road where I picked him up," said tbe good-natured officer.— Jiulye. Honor the pumpkin vinel Long alioy u tenuriis twine Over the laud'. Blessed be those who wear Crisp hayseed in their hair— Glorious band? —Minneapolis Tribune. Customer— Aunt Dinah, I am glad to see that you are getting along so well in the hot corn business. It fully meets your expectations, I presume? Aunt Dinah—Yes, Bah, from a peculiary point it do, but dis constant ’sposure to de elements am mighty rough on de complexion—deed it am. sa.h.— Tid-Bits. There was a heated discussion in a hotel the other night. "I tell you. sir," said one of the disputants, "there is no law made but what the people can change.” "Yes there is," said a newcomer; “there is one law which no man or people can change. " "What is that?’’ "A mothcr-in-law.”— Scranton Truth. Mormon wife— Pretty time of night for you to come home. Husband—lt’s only 12 o’clock. "Only 12 o'clock:'’ “Yes, you know when we were engaged you never let me leave you until nearly midnight." “What of it?” “I'm engaged to Miss DePink now."— Omaha World. It is an awful thing that there should be such persons as Margaret Cain, who has been con victed of drunkenness no less than 2SO times at various metropolitan courts. But there is a touch of griru hmnor about the woman’s last exploit, which has procured her a two hundred and thirty-first conviction. She turned up, very, very drunk," at the Leman Street Police Station and began singing "Home, Sweet Home."— LondouiCllobe. There was once great consternation in tbe office of Zion's Herald when the writer of an obituary article upon a mother in Lsrael having -aid in pious phrase t ;at she died and "claimed the promises. ’ the paper was made to aver that she had died "ami cleared the premises.” And it was out at Worcester, Mass . where the Rev. George H. Hepworth having declare 1 in a pub lic address "I am not a free lance,” the sedate -(ii/ gave him fame by printing the sentence "I want a free lunch.”— Boston Transcript. A lady was taking her little daughter down town and,something had gone wrong and she was crying very hard. The policeman on the eat, whom she feared for his uniform, was standing on the cornet- as they passed. He was very friendly, but she did uot trust his friend liness very much. "What little girl is that crying and making so much noise?” "800-hoo, boo-hoo—it isn't me; it’s some other Ittle girl—boo-hoo, boo-hoo.’’— San Fran cisco Chronicle. PERSONAL. "Joe" Jones, a brother of "Sam" Jones, has made his debut as an “evangelist,” and is de scribed as the liveliest oue yet seen. He must be pretty lively to beat his brother. Dr. bAHlik.mann. the great explorer of the cities -wTroy and Mykene, lias made a last will by which he leaves his great collection at Ath eiis to the city of Berlin. After his death, there fore, i'll the relies collected by the fatuous ex plorer will lie united in the museum of ethnol ogy at Berlin, Germany, j Duke Ernest, of Coburg-Gotha, is publishing bis memoirs, the introduction to which having already found its way into the columns of the Cologne Gazette. The Duke Is the elder brother of Prince Albert, the husband ot Queen Victoria He is now seventy years old, and ascended the throne nearly forty-four years ago. He has maintained relations of a more or less intimate nature with all the most prominent characters and sovereigns of Europe, for which reason his memoirs will occupy a place of unrivaled im portance among the original works on the his lory of the century. It is reported that Secretary Whitney is prac tically a weli man. It is said he is in constant communication with the bureau officials of the Navy Department, ami frequent iucloeures couie i'r m iiim relating to the unmial report which is in course of preparation. He is giving, in fact, so much attention to the general scheme and form of the report that it will go to the Presi dent with his own signature and as his docu ment The understanding among his friends in Washington is that the rest which he has been enabled to obtain during the low weeks lie has been away from Washington lias proved very timely, and that his health is almost completely restored. The disturbing headaches which in terfered o completely with the performance of his official functions, and offered so serious a presage of probably greater disability in the future, are said to have altogether disappeared, so that there is confident expectation that he will within a very short time be üblo to take hold of his routine official work Just how soon he will return to the Nary Department to Pike full charge of affairs there is not stated. It is <pnte probable that be will not bo too hasty in loading iiim -ell with depart mental business,'but w.li take up the burden of ins work by degrees as be feds himself able to do so Yet He Loves Her. From the San Francisco Report. Man finds any amount of fault with a woman, and yet works tooth anil nail to Ret her. He calls her extravagant, yet yearns to pay her hills. She’s heartless, yet he devotes months to finding the spot where that heart should lie. She's fickle, yet be struggles for a place in her affections. She's timid, yet he, noble creature, has courage for two. She's a fraud, but a darling, she's a goose, but a duck. She's snippy, and sweet. In fact she's a chameleon, in the very latest style of spots, and dots, and feathers and fixings. She's lithe and graceful, and dainty and dear—and changeable as the wind. Yet she's a most desirable article of household furnishing, and there are mighty few men who want to get along wit-out her, chameleon—in a bustle—though she oe. A Frenchman Leaves His Money to the German Crown Prince. From the London Times. A wealthy Frenchman named Bellardin. who died lately, bequeathed his whole fortune, amounting to several million francs, to the Ger man Crown Prince. Tuis he did to accentuate the violent hatred of his own countrymen which somehow or other had taken full possession of bis breast. But the Crown Prince refused to profit by such a motive, and therefore declined the Frenchman's legacy. Among the other reasons which had brought M. Bellardin to loathe his compatriots was the fact that ho had been imprisoned for some act of personal violence, and It was when lying in jail t hat he changed his wiil in favor of the heir to the German crown. The intentions or the testator w ere communicated through the French Ambassador and the Foreign Office here to the princely legatee, who, however, has waived his right to this curious inheritance. Utility of the Modern Bustle. From the Boston Courier. 1. THE CATASTROPHE. Her ma said her boots were too high in the heel, But no other style she would wear. One day while out walking she stepped on a peel Of banana, and uttering an ear-piercing squeal, She frantically clutched at the air. 11. SHE IS SAVED. Her bustle was rubber, inflated of course. The fashion prevailing to meet; And it turned out to be of her safety the source, For when she sat down on the sidewalk with force She bounded right back to her feet. • "• THE HORAE. In the foregoing, maidens who stylish boots wear This moral will easily find; When sidewalks are icy or out of repair, A-bustie of rubber inflated with air, Is handy to carry behind. How Don Dickinson Looks. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Don Dickinson, who seems to have "the call" now for Postmaster General, is described as a man who at first sight might be taken for an Episcopal rector, but who. on closer inspection, shows signs of .■-harper contact with the world than a religious teacher has. His face is sharp, but not lacking in fle-sli. His eyes are keen, giving him the appearance of being al ways on the alert, and when he smiles his thin lips uncover a flne set of teeth. The first thing noticed about his smile is the amount of ivory in it. He is rather tall and not conspicuously slim, and his suit of black is scrupulously neat. He is quick in his raovemtnts arid affable in his manners. He is of the old Dickinson family of Massachusetts, and is a son of Asa Dickinson. He was born in Auburn, N. Y., and went to Michigan with bis parents in his early youth. He was educated there, and gradnated in law in :sO9. He practiced with his brother, who, leav ing the State, turned all the practice over to him. Since then he has built up a large prac tice. His reputation is that of a reliable lawyer, and his practice is said to yield him from $40,600 to 550.000 per year. He was a Greeley man, and in 1876 was Chairman of the State Democratic Committee. In INB4 he was chosen a member of the National Committee which worked for the election of Cleveland. His reputation is that of a lawyer rather than a politician. The Editor In Luck. From the Eagle Gulch War Whoop , The good book has said that it is rot well for man to lie alone. It has been saying so for about 2,000 years, more or less, but it was only yesterday that we conceded t hat such indeed was the case and proceeded to get us a wife. Our readers are no doubt well acquainted wit h the Widow Plodgers, who keeps the boarding house just around the corner from this office good clean beds and a square meal for 50c. There iu that mansion it was that the shot from Cupid's bow was shot clean through our two tender hearts. Yes, there we suw the Widow Piodgers, and it was t here we wooed and won and wed her. It was on a moonlight night she approached us with a board bill in her hand, hut, all undaunted, we fell at her feet and poured forth the tale, of affection that filled our bosom. Need we say that the moon looked down with watery eves through the dark, swaying boughs of the oak? Need we say that fair head nestled upon our editorial shoulders, and she said she would be ours? No! but such was the case, and to-night we are a marr.ed man. The ceremony! Who can tell about it? There was the parson—we premised him $2; there was the bride, all white fluixluds and veils and flowers, and rihbons and smiles, and there was we—the whole is summed up in the confession that we hereby breathe forth to the brethren of the press—we are no longer we—we are us. "Nat” Goodwin and John L. Sullivan. Prom the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Nat Goodwin, the comedian, is a great patron of everything in the way of sport ami the little fiery-headed fun maker will bet about, as high as anybody on the result of a fight, a foot race, a hall game, a horse race, or in fact anything that comes along. He is a lucky speculator, too. and Nat's opinion is eagerly sought after by his friends, llis acquaintances among the fraternity can lie numbered by hundreds, and there is scarcely a prize-fighter of note in the land that Nat is not ou the best of terms with. Among the fighters that Nat is ou particularly friendly terms is the champion John L. Sulli van, and whenever the twain struck the same town together there was always sure to be a heap of fun before they got away. It was two years ago this comiug winter that Nat struck the town to play an engagement at Hooley s, and the same week John TANARUS,. Sullivan blew in. One night, and a cold, bitter night it w as, too, after the theatres had closed tlieir doors for the night, John L. Sullivan and a party of friends had assembled at “The Store,' on Clark street, for the purpose of having a social time, although it was generally given out to Uie papers at that time that John was a total abstainer. Along the bar the crowd stood two deep, and the champagne corks were flying about right mer rily, when the door opened and in walked Nat Goodwin, apparently a little the wore for wear His long ulster flapped loosely aliout him, aid his sealskin cap was drawn far down over his eves. Walking up to where Sullivan stood lean ing against the bar. he coolly picked up the glass of wine that sat before the champion and tossed it off without as much as saying “by vour leave sir” The crowd looked on in breathless aston ishment, there being only two or three present that recognized the comedian in his street attire, or that knew that lie and John were on particularly friendly terms. Sullivan looked surprized, and then, ordering another bottle, he again tilled his glass. Scarcely had he sat it down on the bar again heroic Goodwin, with a peculiarly aggressive look, again picked up the glass and gulped down the wine. Tills time the crowd expected to see Sullivan knock the stranger into a cocked hat. Foiling himself to gether the champion gruffly said: “Sav, young feller, don't you do that again” “Will if 1 want to," came back the reply in quick, sharp tones. "No yer won't, neither." “How will you help yourself?" "I'll lick the stuffin’ out o' you." “Hat you you don't, you big loafer.” it was growing interesting now, and the crowd gathered In breathless Interest about the pair. “Say,’' blurted out the big fellow, bringing his huge list down with a thump on the bar. “I guess you don't know who you are talking to?" “No. nor 1 don't care either. You might be that big loafer John 1,. Sullivan for all I know.’’ •Well that's just who I am," and John squared himself around for business. “You’re just the duck I’m looking for," said Goodwin, “Now you get out of here," and with the crowd gazing on in a horror struck wav he rustled at Sullivan, and catching him by the najie of the neck and the seat of the trousers he rushed him toward the front door and fired him into the street, Sullivan apparently being struck dumb with astonishment. Slamming the door lichind the flying form of the pugilist. Nat started back to the bar and ordered wiuo for the party, who looked on with admiration at his gameness, and who evidently thought him a perfect demon, while ‘ the Par son," who hail sneaked off into a corner, was nearly bursting with laughter. By and by Snlllvan poked Ids bead into the door, as if tearing a rejietition of the “firing out” process, and meekly said: ' Say, Mister, can I come in?" “You can, if you'll behave yourself." was Nat's reply, and Sullivan sneaked in and took up his position at the far end of the bar. It was fully an hour before the crowd was in troduced to Nat, and then those present fully realized the meaning of the little comedy that Nat n'd John had lUed up for their especial benefit. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Nevada is as proud over the fact that a big vein of fine anthracite coal has been struck as it is of its silver mines. Fidelity Harper of the burst hank re ceived one vote for Treasurer of Hamilton coun ty in the Tenth ward, Cincinnati, at the late election. Over 60,000 feet of splendid pine iumber was washed ashore at Frlar’sjpoint, near HarrisviUe, Mich., during the recent gale, and uobody has yet claimed it. Perhaps the most lucrative office in the na tional government, next to the Presidency itself, is the clerkship of the Supreme Court at Wash ington. It yields an annual income in fees of from $25,000 to $40,000. In a paper on injurious insects, Prof. J. A. Linter placed the total number of insect species in the world at 820,000. Of those found in the United States 7,00' or 8.000 species are fruit pests, and at least 210 attack the apple. Rev. Dr. J. F. Goucher, of Baltimore with some otl er members of his immediate family, has given $125,000 tow ard a woman's college in that city. The trustee will raise s‘lo,ooo as an endowment, in accordance with the terms of the donation. John Smith, of Hamilton, Ont., was knocked down by a runaway team and had thrive ribs broken. The ribs pierced the lungs without breaking the skin, anil "the air from his lungs, escaping under the skin, puffed him up like a balloon from his eyebrows to his feet,” says the Ottawa Free Press. Roumama is making an effort to build up its local industries. A law has been passed enact ing that every person who establishes a factory worth Si.oixi and employs twenty-five workmen fur five months in the year can set up his build ings on crown property, ground being allotted to him on a lease for ninety years. There is an interesting case before tae Court of Appeals of Virginia, which is probably the first of the kind in the country. A colored man named Coleman was sentenced to State prison for assaulting a colored woman, on the verdict of a jury of twelve colored men H s attorney anpealed the case on the ground that the selec tion of twelve inrors on account of their color was unconstitutional. In Bradford, N. Y., Wednesday last. Clarence Showers, a wealthy young farmer, was killed by a 5-year-old Jersey bull that he was leading with a stick attached to a ring in his nose. The animal, in his vicious lunges, broke the stick and dashed at once upon the farmer. He ran his horns clean through the man's body, tossed him over his head 20 feet and then deliberately trampled the body until life was extinct. Meredith McCoy, a Connecticut dude, at tempted to bribe the uncle of a Branford, Conn., belle to induce the young lady to marry him by offering SI,OOO as a cash consideration. The young lady heard of the offer, and with the as -1 sistance of a few frien sof her own age organ ized a regulating committee for the benefit of the dude. He was waylaid by the girls, inked, rotten-egged and ducked in a horse pond. During the month of October the reserve of the Russian army was called in for general practice for the first time since the introduction of compulsory military service for every citizen of the empire. The reports of the officers upon the results of the practice are very favorable, stating that the reserve was composed of '‘re liable soldiers, well prepared in every way.” The Russian papers declare in consequence, as the French did after their late experiment of mobilization, that “the armv is prepared for war,” and, consequently, "Russia is ready.” The gift of $500,000 to build a school house in Fall River, said to be the finest in the world, is another evidence of the Judicious and superior use of riches. This building Is provided with a gymnasium and with the third best telescope in the country. It is endowed, in addition to its cost, with $50,000 as a library fund, and there is nothing omitted to make it a perfect seat of education. Such a worthy provision fora com mon school Is far more than an ornament. While the structure is fine and possesses ele ments of taste and beauty, the stimulus given to teacher and scholar hy such an offering to the public is beyond calculation. A French newspaper, the Paris, points out that M. Wilson is liable tosurrendera great deal more than the 40,000f. he has sent to the National Treasury. According to the law of the twenty-seventh Prair al, year IX.. every func tionary who abuses the official frank is liable to a fine of 150f. for each offense, and the fine can under no pretext be remitted or reduced. Now, M. Wilson pleuds guilty to the offense to the ex tent of 100 letters a day for six years. A hun dred letters multiplied by 2,190 days makes 219.000: and this multiplied hv 150, makes 32.- 850,000f., of which only 40,000f. have been paid, leaving a balance due of 32,810,000f. A Boston man has a twin brother living in the West who looks very much like him. The other morning the Boston twin, after being shaved, went horn* and found there his brother, who had just come East. The Western twin needed shaving badly and was directed to the barber shop. He entered and seated himself, but the barber paid no attention to him. “What’s the matter with you?” said the Western twin after waiting long enough. “Why don't von shave me?” “Why, I've just shaved you,'' said the barber. "Much you did.” said the twin. “Look at my face.” The barber looked at the big black bear! of a week's growth, felt of it to as sure himself that his eyes were not deceiving him, and burst out : "If you can raise a beard like that in twenty minutes you'd better go into the mattress business.” It is claimed by M. Me.guin that the date of death may be determined by studying the gen erations of acarina which have been at work upon the body. Ou the production, before the French Acadmey of Medicine, of the cadaver of a young woman which had lain in a cellar a year it was found possible to trace five different species of acarina. and the order of succession and duration of each species: one species con sumes the fatty acids, another absorbs the fluids, and each dies when its work is ended, the period of life of each, in summer, being from six to eight weeks. In a case of murder, in which the remains of the victim were discovered in a garden, M. Meguin was able to establish the dote of burial with great accuracy so that, if these observations ami deductions prove reliable, the discovery will, it is thought, lie of great medico-legal impoi tance. The white wipe of a Canton Chinaman, seek ing a divorce on the ground of non-support and cruelty, is one of the latest litigations in the Supreme Court of New York city. Her name is lona Lavem and. though she is the mother of two children, she is still young and attractive. The husband's name is George Layem, but he is known ns Charlie Lee He is about 40 years old apparently, ami. although he has been in this country only twelve years, he lias $30,000 deposited in tiie Hudson City Savings Bank. Mrs. Layem says her husband did not support her and was cruel to her-elf and children. Through her counsel she asked for a divorce and half the bank account, to-wit. SIS,(XX). La vein's lawyer, said that Lena hail left her husband without cause in 1885 and refused to return to him, although he repeated,}’ wrote to her to do so. Mrs. Layem is a German. Some time since it was noted that certain en terprising merchants of Buffalo, N. Y., had of fered a prize of SIOO,OOO for the best contrivance for converting the force of the Niagara river at that city into practical power. Many devices have been submitted, and it is suspected that one of them, if found to lie all that is claimed for it, will be accepted. A practical test is soon to be made. The favored contrivance consitsnf an endless chain equipped with paddles, which passing around drums is submerged to a depth where it cannot be affected by ice. The motion given to the drums by the current operating against the paddles will be communicated, through suitable gearing and shafting, to ma chinery on the bank of the river. As the drums and part of the framework are to be made hol low and air-tight, the whole plant can bo brought to the surface for necessary repairs, by pumping out the water. An essential part of the and 'vice is the hinge feature of the paddle on the endless chain, tlieirarrangement being such that the paddles will tie perpendicular to the current when passing down stream, and parallel with it on the return tip stream. Fifteen years ago a movement was begun in New York city looking to the connecting of the East and Hudson rivers by a navagable ship ca nal. Wednesday last the bids were opened for excavating the first 150.000 cubic yards of a rock cut The highest bid was $525,000, and the low est $154,500. The first appropriation for the work, $400,000. was made In 1878, but Congress at the same time (Missed a bill forbidding tbe use of the money unless the right of way should be obtained without cost to the government. This obstruction was not removed until the be ginuing of this year. The one great problem of tbe canal is how to protect its sides against these remarkable walls of mud which will flank it. Tbe sides will either have to be riprapped or walled with piles. The money od hand at present, says the New York Tribune, is not enough to make either of the cuts, and the work specified in the advertisement for biclK was therefore restricted to a part of the rock cut. In connection with the ship canal, a move ment for a bridge across the Hudson river to Jersey City has been made, and it is probable that it will be constructed in the next yeur or two. | BAKING POWDER. s "viIUL VtfC t -v ppWICEIj CREAM ECT proven in motions of nomes for more than a quarter of a century, p is used bv the United States Government. In iorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as ue Strongest, l“urest and most Healthful. lr. Price's the only Hakim- Powder that does not •nntain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in ’aas. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. view york. cmciro. st. t.o>us A. R. ALTMAYER * CO. Public Benefactors. Observer E. A. Hanner, of the U. S. Sig nal Service, says there is every indication of cold weather for next week.' This means n big demand for Boys’ Clothing, Blankets, Wraps, Cloaks, etc., etc. The house that can show the most reliable value iu these goods is the one that - going to sell the big gest share of’em. Try us. You take no chances. We are here for success and to stay. Here’s a few hummers for you to gaze ou. only a few of the thousand in vincible bargains to lie found ii tins the largest establishment of its kind in the Booth. Blankets are our hobby; here’s one Yrom 150 bargains in this department: 100 Pairs 6 1-2 lb. White All Wool 12-4 Blankets, Conceded by Wholesale Dealers to be Cheap at $6 50; We’ll Sell 100 Pairs This Week for $4 a Pair. Purchase a pair; you’ll need ’em; then step to counter directly opposite and ex amine sample of 100 Dozen Ladies’ All Wool Undervests, Guaranteed Medicated Wool Scarlet, were Considered Cheap Last Week at $1 50; This Week We’ll Run ’em at $l. You MUST have a Muff? Well, here’s 1,000 elegant Black Fur ones we’re running off at 50c.; $2 50 is their value. How are you off for Wraps? Didn’t get one of the 75 we sold last week? Well, here's a chance: $25, jc’>s and $4O Imported Plush Satin-lined Short Wraps have TAKEN A TUMBLE for this week only to $l7 98. Two bales F ivy Cantou Flannel was sel ling last week <~g 10c. ; this week’s price 6 Vc. Come and see the quotations in our pet department (Dress (roods); see the unap proachable bargains on centre Dress Goods counter. The small fry will now stand aghast and cry “a bait, a bait,” acting on the principle that “good wine needs no bush.” We r&pectfully solicit an inspection of the above and ask you to kindly be the judge as to the genuineness of these invin cible bargains. A. R. ALTMAYER k CO. Broughton and Bull Sts. ZONWEISS CREAM. FOR THE TEETH I* made from IVeto Material*, contains no Acids, Hard Grit, or injurious matter It is Pub*, nsFissn, Perfect. Nothing Lik* It Ever Known. From Senator <'o*ge*linll.' “Itakcplf*** uro in recommending Zouweisa ou account of It* efficacy and purity.” From Mrs. Gen. T.ognn’s Demist. Dr* JE. !■*. f nrroll, Washington, I). C.~*‘l have ba<l Zonwel** analyzed. It la the most perfect denti frice I have ever seen.” From Hon. Clinn. P. Johnson. Ex. lit* Gov. of Hlo.—“Zonwelaa cleanwcs theteeili thor oughly. la delicate, convenient, very pleasant.and leave* no after taste. Sold nr all. dbuooists. Price, 35 cents. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar Bfc. t N. T. Fcr sale by LIPPMAN BROS., LippmanM Block, Savannah. FOOD PRODUCTS. Tores! City Ills. W K aro making an extra quality of GRITS and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trade as superior to any in tills market. Would be pleased to give special prices on application. We have on band a choice lot of EMFTV SACKS, which wo are selling cheap. BOND, HAYNES & ELTON