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4 C|e|Pflrningp£tos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER *25, 1887. Registered at the Post Office fn Satninnah. Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 26 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. $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; c-ne year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mad, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and ‘Saturdays, three months, $1 six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year, $2! 00. The Weekly Nbwh by mail , one year. $1 ~>. Subscriptions pavahle in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Ttua paper is kepi on file and advertising rates may he ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. IN DO TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Magnolia Encampment No. 1,1. 0. O. F.; Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. F.: Haupt Lodge No. 54, I. O. O. F.; G*md Lodge of Georgia, I. O. O. F. Speciai, Notices— State and County Taxes, 1887; Horse, Buggy and Harness and Lady’s Saddle for Raffle; Steamer rope Catlin for Beau fort. Bananas, Cocoanuts, Etc.— Kavanaugh & Brennan. Soft Parlor Coal—D. R. Thomas. All Fresh Goods —A. S. Cohen. Some Slight Changes— L. &B.S.M. H. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Lost: Miscellaneous. “Kissing is out of style” says a society journal, the editor of which is undoubtedly a dried up old maid. The corn crop this fall is reported the smallest with but one exception in ten years. As yet the shortage has had little influence on prices. Imported plum pudding has been decided dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent, ad valo rem, and home industries must be pro tected, you know I The sessions of the Lutheran Synod in this city will be full of interest. Among the delegates ore some of the ablest clergymen of the Lutheran Church. Why do all the fashion magazines and newspapers print fashion plates that are suitable for slender women only? Are there no fat women to be pleased? Tbank.i'Hing passed very pleasantly in this city. The streets were very quiet, and the inf rence is, therefore, that the people, as a rule, spent the most of the day at home lookiug after the Thanksgiving turkey. It is said that Gen. John H. Inman is being mentioned as the next President of the Richmond Terminal. It is more than probable that be would rather be the power behind the throne than to be on the throne. The death of an eleven year old boy from narcotic ponsoning from excessive cigarette smoking again calls public attention to a growing evil. The tobacco habit is particu larly injurious to the young, especially when it assumes the form of cigarette smok ing. It seems that J. Hampden Robb was of fered the position of First Assistant Secre tary of State before it was offered to Mr. Rives. Mr. Robb is spoken of as one of the bright young Democrats of the Empire State, too bright, in his own estimation, to be buried in the State Department. The Boston police, failing to convict a newsboy engaged in selliug papers contain /.ig cuts of the paintings seized by Comstock in New York, on the charge of circulating obscene literature, for which he was ar rested, caused him to bo convicted of selling on the streets without a license, and he was fined $lO and cost;. The attempted suicide of two young girls in New York the other day has brought to light a fact that may explain many of the numerous “disappearances” of young girls recently. In the girls’ room was found a letter from Hamilton, Bermuda, in which inducements wore offered by the writer for the young women to visit that place and en ter a life of shame. The girls were unable to obtain legitimate employment in New York and preferred death to such a life. When Senator Hoar made his speech ad vocating the enactment of a law- requiring freedom to vote and a fair count south of Mason and Dixon’s line, why didn’t ho refer to some of the peculiarities of the election laws of the Northern States? For instance, he might have found material for a good speech in the rending and writing qualifi cation in Massachusetts, or the property qualification in Rhode Island. Again, he might have referred incidentally to the condition of the, working classes in Northern manufacturing towns where they are vir tually coerced into voting the Republican ticket. The Republican leaders are at their wits’ ends over the announcement that Gov. Hill will again send to the Senate the name of Gol. Grant for Quarantine Commissioner of New York, in place of Thomas C. Platt. The last Senate “hung up” the nomination, but since that time the party has honored Grant by placing him at the head of their State ticket. Truly Gov. Hill will make a shrewd move if he nominates Grant, for it will place the Republicans in a bad holo in any event, and create a row in tbeir camp. If the nomination is confirmed, the Gov ernor will be rid of Platt, and his friends will fight the Grant faction of the Republi cans the harder, while if the nomination is again rejected, it will be a direct slap at Grant. The recent announcement of the con templated appointment of Don M. Dickin son to a Cubinet position recalls on incident which proved thut gentleman’s loyalty to the Democratic party and its chosen leader, and at the same time earned for him the title of Administration Chaplain. It ap pears that at the Grand Rapids State Con vention last year the Chaplain in his prayer mentioned Jefferson, Tilden and other noted statesmen, but neglected to mention Mr. Cleveland. When the Chaplain had finished Mr. Dickinson arose and, with head erect and flashing eyes, called atten tion to the omission. He then, with up lifted hands and solemn voice, said: “God bless and save and keep that Democrat of Democrat*, the noblest of them all, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States.” A Question for Mr. Carlisle. According to our dispatches Mr. Randall is very anxious to lie re-appointed Chair man of the Committee on Appropriations, and is in Washington to see what his chances are for getting the position. It is also stated that Alexander K. McClure, on behalf of Mr. Randall, has approached Mr. Carlisle with regard to the matter, but has received no satisfactory answer. There is no doubt that Mr. Carlisle will lie re-elected Speaker, and that in making up j the committees he will strive to so arrange them as to produce harmony in the Demo j eratic ranks on all great questions that are j likely to come before the House during the 1 present Congress. The most imjiortaiit of these is that of tariff reduction. The j Doiftocratic majority is much smaller in I this Congress than it was in the last, and it will require about every Democratic vote to pass a tariff reduction bill. It is absolutely necessary for the welfare of the country, and the success of the Dem ocratic party in the next national campaign that the tariff shall he reduced. It is un derstood that the President will urge a re duction with even more emphasis in his forthcoming message than in any previous one, and it is certain that all the Democrat ic leaders, with the exception of Mr. Ran dall, will agree upon a tariff reduction measure. The question, what shall be done with Mr. Randall in framing the committees ? is a very difficult one, but it is one that Mr. Car lisle will have to settle. Mr. Randall wants his old place at the head of the Appropria tions Committee. It is a place of impor tance and power. Mr. Carlisle would gladly give it to him if he were sure that he would not use it to obstruct a reduction of the tariff. But he is not sure that he will pot so use it. In fact, he has good reason to be lieve that he will use it in that way. It is asserted that he so used it in the last Con gress, and he has given no hint that he will not so use it again. Under the circumstances, why should the Democratic party heap honors upon Mr. Randall ? Why should it put a weapon in his hand which he is certain to use in a way to injure it? The tariff issue is the most distinctive one which separates the two great parties, and Mr. Randall is on the Republican side of it. Standing within the Democratic fold, he strikes blows for the Republican cause. Ho gives the impression to the country that the Democratic party is divided upon the most important question before the country, while the Republican party is united. By this means the Demo cratic party is weakened and the Republi can party strengthened. It may be said that if Mr. Randall is not given the chairmanship he wants he will fight tariff reduction anyhow, and that sym pathy for him may give him a larger Demo cratic following than if he is still treated as an honored Democratic leader. If there are any whose sympathy for a man who has already done the party incalculable damage, and who proposes to do it still greater dam age, is greater than their desire for the suc cess of their party, they are very lukewarm Democrats, and the sooner thej r are dropped from the Democratic roll the better it will be for the party. But it is doubtful if there are many who will join with Mr. Randall to obstruct their party. When the test comes the weak-kneed ones will lack the courage to give the Republican party an advantage which, if skillfully used, might give that party control of the government. If Mr. Randall persists in differing with his party, there is no obligation resting upon it to honor him. Blaine Losing Ground In the West. There appears to be an impression among Western Republicans that their party will make a mistake if it nominates Mr. Blaine again. They have no personal objection to him, and regard him as one of the ablest of their loaders, if not the ablest, but they are inclined to think that there nre others who would stand a better chance of being elected. One of the most prominent of the Western Congressmen—a man who has been elected to the House of Repre sentatives seven times —said a day or two ago, in an interview, that the Western Republicans wanted a candidate who would not have to make explanations, and who would stand a good chance of car rying New York. Tnero is a very serious doubt among Western Republicans whether Mr. Blaine could carry New York, and they regard the defeat of their party os certain unless they carry that State. The two fac tions of their party there are no closer togother now than they were four years ago. Mr. Blaine did not harmonize them in 1884, and he cannot do so in 1888. Conkling is his bitter enemy, and will not permit him to become President if he can help it. The name of Judge Gresham is being mentioned in the Republican journals of the West with increasing frequency, ami it would not bo surprising if he should be chosen to leud the Republican ticket. He certainly would not be required to make explanations, aud the lighting factions in New York might accept him as a satisfac tory candidate. The New York Sun announces its inten tion of occupying a position in the front line of the Democracy in the next Presi dential canvass, and in the same issue, re ferring to the President's letter in favor of Col. Fellows, says: “It warmed toward him the Democratic heart, and made those who had hitherto looked at him with coldness, or even with aversion, ready to shake hands and begin anew in a common and hearty effort to promote real Democracy and build nil the Democratic party, without regard to Mugwump criticism or interference.” All of which goes to show that the Sun concedes the renomination of tho President, nud is willing to support him for re-election. It is evident that the Sun has had enough of bolting, but how will Mr. Dana feel when tho Republican papers quote some of his reckless utterances which marred the col umns of tho Sun at the time he was sup porting Butler? Mile. Columbier who accompanied Sara Bernhardt to this country, has written a book on her travels in America. She terms t’lara Morris, whom she suw in “Alixe,” in New York, a barnstormer and says: "It is impossible for the Parisians to conceive the American star.’ Just imagine a woman who could give points to Sargli in thinness; angular, having no more age, and who couldn’t have even had beauty; youth she may have had, but it must have been a long time since. Her mouth is a black hole. Her teeth look like old nails stuck in seal ing wax.” Members of the Democratic Staite Com mittee of Indiana upon the first occasion that presented itself, expressed their unani mous opiuiou that Mr. Cleveland would not only be renominated but rs-eiocted. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. No Room for "Reds.” In a letter to Mayor Hewitt, of New York, the “Reds” with the usual flourish of stereotyped phrases announced that “the so cial revolution has begun;’’ that “the rights of the citizens of this country will be de fended with all the means obtainable;” that “no sensible man ever advocated brutal force to obtain justice, but that as men we, now more than ever, do recommend to the peo ple to make full and energetic use of the l ights of self defense if their rights are brought in danger or infringed upon by a lawless gang of policemen.” Thus far the “social revolution” has made very little progress. In fact, it appears to have developed that peculiarity noticeable in many other misguided movements of progressing backwards. "The rights of the citizens of this country will bo defended” through the ballot boxes, and no better means of preserving them have ever been devised. The great trouble is that the guiding and governing spirits ntnong Anarchists are not citizens, and many of them cannot speak the English language. No better evidence of this is needed than the letter above re ferred to, which was w’ritten in German, and when translated by a prominent mem ber of the organization was almost unintel ligible. But whether they understand our institutions or not, these Anarchists will find out, if they have not already done so, that laws which depend upon the will of the people for their enforcement are as much to be feai-ed as those which depend upon the will of a king. The sooner they make themselves acquainted with our laws and institutions, particularly the spirit of them, the better it will be for them. There is no room in this country for men who march under the red flag of anarchy. The War on Powderly. The movement of Joseph R. Buchanan and others in Chicago to obtain control of the Knights of Labor organization wrill hardly be successful. It may do the organ ization some harm, but when it is fully un derstood what kind of men Buchanan and those who are acting with him are, genuine workingmen will have nothing to do with them and their schemes. Their boast that they will have control of the Knights of Labor within three months is an idle one, and is intended to influence weak and vac illating members. Tho Chicago movement is too strongly tinctured with anarchism and socialism to be popular with right thinking citizens. It may attract some attention, but if it does it will lie because of its noise rather than its numbers. Mr. Powderly has certainly acted in ac cordance with what he thought was for the best interests of the Knights of Labor. He has not hesitated to take a firm stand in fa vor of temperance and against anarchy. The former he knew to be good for the order, and the latter bad for it. That his position has been right with re gard to these matters and that it is right now no sincere workingman will deny. Buchanan and his friends are making war upon him and his administration not be cause he has not done right, but because he has not done as they Want him to do and because they want to control the order. If they should by any chance be successful there would quickly be an end of the Knights of Labor organization. There might still be an organization, but its object would not be to promote the welfare of workingmen. The Buchanan clique, however, will not be successful. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is getting ready a report which will give the circum locution business in the departments at Washington a black eye. r An instance of the way business is done in them is given by a Tribune correspondent: A collector of customs recently had occasion to repair a lock upon one of the doors of his office. A locksmith was summoned, and it was found that the necessary repairs would require an outlay of 15c. The Collector was obliged to write a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury requesting permission to make the expenditure. The re ceipt of the letter at the department had to be acknowledged and authority given to repair the broken lock. The voucher of the locksmith had to be forwarded to the department, and after it had passed through the regular channels, a warrant for 15c. was drawn, signed and returned to the person in whose name it was made out. In this instance four letters were exchanged in addition to the stationery used to carry on the corres pondence officially sanctioning the repair of the lock. If there were less circumlocu tion tho public business could lie done much more satisfactorily aud at half the present expense. It would be well for dyspeptics to be care ful how they light their cigars. The New York Sun says that a queer thing happened in the up-stair.i cafe at Monquiu’s in that city a day or two ago. A rather dysiieptic lookiug man had dined, and was preparing to smoke a cigarette over his black coffee. As he lighted the match and held it to his lips a slight convulsion passed over his fea tures and a jet of flame flashed from his mouth to the match, with an audible re port. Medical works rela.e such cases. In Ewald’s book on indigestion the analysis of the gas in one of these cases showed car bonic acid, hydrogen, carburettod hydro gen, oxygen, nitrogen, and a trace of sul phuretted hydrogen. If Anthony Comstock is anxious to do the public good service by suppressing vice he will adopt the suggestion of the New York Herald aud begin proceedings against the dealers in gamblers’ implements who pub licly advertise their wares in New Y’ork city. The Herald furnishes the Agent for the Society for the Suppression of Vice plen ty of material upou which to work. It is asserted that a dealer in marked cards, loaded dice and other cheating apparatus makes tho chargo that his list of patrons in cludes several judges and about half the police captains in the city. At tho wedding supper of Judge Reilly, of Detroit, ou Monday night, Don M. Dick inson, who, it is expected, will succeed Mr. V ilas as Postmaster General, presided. In closing his response to the toast to his future happiness, Judge Reilly proposed the health of the Postmaster General, and Mr. Dickinson was tumultuously called for. Mr. Dickinson was too shrewd to be forced to commit himself in that way. He paid a glow ing tribute to the Postmaster General, and closed by saying, “we honor ourselves as we honor him, when we drink the toast to William F. Vilas. ’’ If Herr Most gets out of his present scrape ho will bo careful to roar less vicious ly in future. It would serve him about right to send him to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum until he recovers his senses sufficiently to avoid violating the law. CURRENT COMMENT. Something True Education Never Dobb. From the, Philadelphia Call (Rep.) Education is a good thing when it does not directly unfit a man for working for a living. No One in New York Thinks So. From the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.) The opinion is gaining ground, East and West, that Mr. Sherman is the one strong man who can lead the Republican party out of New York with a rousing majority next year. Better than a Government Telegraph. From tire Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.) For the people generally, outside of board of trade men and speculators, an extended and ex pedited fast mail service would probably do much more than a cheaper system of telegraphy. The Mugwumps Stick Fast. From the Boston He:aid (Ind.) President Cleveland has done things in Mary land that could not be approved, in Massa chusetts that were mortifying, in New York that merited clear condemnation. Are we going to give him up for that? BRIGHT BITS. Miss Sangbleu (to coachman, who is actually crowding her out of the cart I— Patrick, I wish you would have the kindness to move. Green Coachman—Yes, miss. Which way, miss? —Harvard Lampoon. Dyer D. Lum, editor of the Chicago Alarm, is not saisfied with the waythe Anarchistsare sup porting his journal. Possibly the Anarchists having taken the alarm in one way do not care to do it in another. - Sew York World. Did you ever watch the noiseless movements of a pretty girl’s lips as her dress is trodden upon, and marvel at the self-command which enables her to do the situation justice in so quiet a manner?— Shoe and Leather Reporter. Mrs. Haggabty—Yure late wid yure wash, Johanna. Mrs. MePhinn—Oi am. Me man carried a rid flag in the labor parade lasht week, an’ sorry a bit can Oi git tli' egg stains out ter mek little Timy a Bunda’ shirt. — Tid-Bits. "An Eastern c apitalist has been in town this week.” remarks a Denver paper, looking around with the view to putting in some gigan tic manufacturing establishments. He did not register at the hotel, and strived to conceal his identity, but was readily recognized by our re porter from the fact that during the first day or two of his stay he clung to the Eastern custom of wearing his pants outside his boots.” Yocng Wife (at dinner table, sobbing)—l think you—you—are just as mean as—as—you can be. I made that—that —apple dumpling as a pleasant surprise for you, and—and now—you want me to bring a handsaw to cut it in two with. Young Husband- Good heavens, Maria! Is that a dumpling? I took it for a cocoanut. (With desperate firmness.) I’ll eat it now, Maria, if it kills me.—Chicago Tribune. A Millerstown (O.) young man not long since wrote two postal cards on entirely different subjects. He then turned them over aud ad dressed them, but by mistake placed the ad dresses on the wrong cards. The result was that the shirt-maker in Harrisburg got a polite invitation to take a carriage ride in a barouche, while the young man's girl was made frantic by receiving the following: "Please send me a sample of the stuff your shirts are made of.” A Somerset business man not long since had occasion to write to a gentleman who evidently had few correspondents. The envelope had the usual “Return in ten due's to , Somerset, Ky.,’’onit. In about ten days the letter came back to him, accompanied by a scrawling note, the writer saying th the had returned the letter according to the request on the envelope,though he "didn’t see why he was so all-fired particular about having it sent back.” —Somerset (Ky.) Republican. George Francis Train says he is “himself a bomb of dynamite.” if George will kindly step a few paces furl her down street and stand a little nearer the curbstone, just in front of this window, where we can drop a four-pound paper weight upon his head, we will gladly essay to prove the truth of bis assertion, with apologies to the window owners if he does go off, and to himself if he doesn't. A man who w'ears his mouth at full cook and on a hair trigger all the time, ought to be fired once in a while. —Bob Burdette. PERSONAL. The young lady who figured in the Valentine Baker affair is still alive and unmarried. Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Bavaria, cousin of the late mad king, is a practicing physician, and has been actively engaged upon a hospital staff for several years. President Hendrickson, of Bell county, Ken tucky, who has killed three men and wounded another, is naively described by the. local press as "an influential citizen, a church member and a dead shot.” James Payn, tho once prolific novelist, who has about abandoned the art of story telling since he became the editor of the Cornhill Mag azine. is soon to publish anew fiction entitled “A Prince of the Blood.” It is probable that next spring Queen Vic toria will unveil the colossal bronze statue of Gen. Gordon, which is to be erected at Aberdeen in front of the Art Gallery. The statue was subscribed for by members of the Gordon clan. George W. Williams, of Ohio, who is now accredited with the title of "Colonel,” has just published the second of two important histor ical works Col. Williams is the author of the “Colored Race in the United States,” and "The Colored Soldier.” Baron and Baroness Rosen, of the Russian Legation, are in New York city arranging for their removal there soon, and to meet Minister de Struve, who will arrive Dec. 5. The Rosens will then reside in Now York, the Baron as Con sul General, and Mr. Alexander Greger will lie with Mr. de Struve, as first secretary of lega tion, at Washington. Tnc Earl of Dysart. who now honors New Y'ork with his presence is a fairly good speci men of the red headed Scotch nobility, liis family is one of the old-timers in the land of thistles and have what most of his blue-blooded fellow citizens have not plenty of money. The Earl does not spemkmuch of it and is more no ted for his quality in gathering in shekels than spending them. He is about 30 years of age and his Calvinism is as vermiliou-huod as his curly locks. In the newly published life of Prof. Darwin by his sons, the following sentences give the great scientist’s views on some religious questions: "In my most extreme fluctuations I have never lieen an atheist In the sense of denying the ex istence of a God. I think that generally (and more and more as I grow older) but not always, an agnostic would be the more correct descrip tion of my state of mind. For myself, I do not believe that there ever has been any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabili ties." Lieut. Gov. R. S. Honey of Rhode Island, has just got over the effects of a trip to Europe. He lias been thirty years in America, where be came a barefooted boy from Lancashire. He never went back until last summer, and he would not have gone then only he had just been elected to the second highest offlee in his State. He whooped things up for the boys in the little country town where he used to make mud pies, and they t hought him a very big man and he is a very rich one. During the canvass last year in his* State some irreverent Republicans accused Mr. Honey of being an Irishman ami denying his country. He had to prove to the irritated Green Islanders of the State that he was really a native of England before they would vote for him. and then they elected him by an unusual majority. Mrs. Cleveland will resume her afternoon receptions about the middle of December. At these receptions only those ladies with whom Mrs. Cleveland is socially intimate, the wives aud daughters of the members of t he diplomatic corps, the members of the families of Cabinet Ministers and Senators and others who are in “the White House circle" are expected to be present, They are not intended for the general public, but simply to give Mrs. Cleveland an opportunity of seeing her many friends just in the same way that the wife of any other promi nent jiersonage is at home on certain afternoons to her social acquaintances. During the winter Mrs. Cleveland will hold three and jierhaps four afternoon public receptions at w hich anybody can pay his or her respects to the lady of the White House. Mrs. Cleveland will lie assisted by the ladies of the Cabinet and such other friends as she may invite. These receptions last winter were attended by thousands, and so greut was the crush many people were unable to gain admittance to the white House. How Boys Can Make Money. Interviews in the Washington Post. Russell Sage's advice: "By(l) getting a po sition: (!!) keeping his mouth shut: (3> observing; <4 l being faithful; (5) making his employer think that he would be lost in a iog without him; (6) and to lie polite. That Is a good way to begin after he gels there. If he lives up to these rules he wul not want a friend at court for any length of time—in fact, not at all." Jay Gould’s policy: "Keep out of ld com pany and go to work with a will. The boy who does liiat is bound to get on in the world ’ Cyrus W. Field’s scheme; "Punctuality, hon esty and brevity,” Mr. Field says, "are the watchwords of hie.” Three New York Journalists. From the Xrir York Graphic. Bennett, Dana ami Pulitzer have amassed for tunes, but not exactly in the work of a writer, as Greeley or the elder Bennett understood it. Young Bennett, I believe, does not write at all, though he concerns himself with the minutest details of his great journal. .Mr. Dana is the only purely literary man at the head of a news paper in New York. Mr. Pulitzer is an able writer a very able writer. In 1875-'76 he wrote letters from Washington to the Sun, and their value was so conspicuous that they were always printed in double leads. There is no man in this country, sav Carl Schurz, who commands a style more vigorous and lucid than Pulitzer. But it is as a money-maker that he takes rank. When be set about recreating the World he offered Frank McLaughlin, the publisher of the Philadelphia Times, a third in terest totakeholdof the business department of the World. He made several t ials of men before he got the right one, but it was Pulitzer's own genius for business deal and perfect knowledge of a newspaper’s resources that made the paper what it is. Making John McCullough’s Bust. From the Bouton Herald. The other day I was introduced to a small, slight man, with a fair Vandyke beard and pen etrating blue eyes, in whom I discovered the sculptor of the John McCullough bust that is to form part of the monument to he erected to the memory of the late famous American tragedian. The sculptor, W. Clark Noble, is distinctly American in one phase of his art, and that is he has never spent one hour in foreign travel or study. The bust of McCullough has recently been finished in bronze, and is to surmount a stately pillar of granite in the cemetery near Philadelphia, in which the actor's remains are buried. The pose and character selected fortlie bust is McCullough as "Virginius.” Tlie well known classic throat and head, with the short, crisp, curling locks an 1 clean-shaven face, giv ing the proper prominence to the equally classic features of the dead and gone actor, are repro duced in a startlingly natural manner, and Ihe classic folds of drapery over the shoulders are also wonderfully realistic. Mr. Noble tells me his drawing was accepted from among those of numberless competitors for the work. The bust was modeled in Newport, where, for a number of years, Mr. Noble has occupied the Greenough studio. Southern Jeweler Fakirs. From the Jeweler's Weekly. Every cheap jewelry "fakir” regards the South as his special territory, and ihe darkies, when they have money, will buy of him any thing that does not cost more than 50c. I met a queer character in Georgia. He told me that he hud been peddling cheap jewelry, either singly or in combination envelopes, for nearly fifteen years. Evidently the business paid, too, liecause lie put up at one of the best hotels, ami lived pretty high when he wasn’t out "trading,” as he called It. So much “jewelry” used to go into his packages that I often wondered how on earth he could give even so much brass for 25c. In one parcel, which a darkey bought one night, I saw' him put a watch, six colored stone rings, two plain band rings, six cuff buttons, a watch chain, half a dozen collar buttons, and two rings with two enormous white stones. When the last two articles dropped into the bag, the buyer, who had been watching every move, pkssed up his quarter ond left the crowd with protruding eyes. Half an hour later, while I w-as still w'atching the fakir's operandi, his customer came back with a look of scorn on his face and demanded his money back, because “dem stuns wa’nt di munsatall.” Journalism in Russia. From the London Daily News. The conditions of journalism in Russia are often puzzling to the outside observer. It is scarcely possible, however, to misunderstand the order which, according to Reuter, has just been issued by the Emperor in regard to the Moscow Gazette. The Emperor is said to have appointed a committee, consisting of the Minis ters of Finance and of the Imperial Domains, the Procurator of the Holy Synod (M. Pobedino seff) and two members of the Council of the Em pire, “in order to examine the question of the successor to be appointed to the late M. Kat koff." In the time of its late editor this journal used to be held up to admiration as an example of independent journalism in Russia. As re gards other newspapers, one was known to be the organ of the Minister of the Interior, anoth er of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and all were under the control of a censorship and of a severe press law. But the restraints to which other journalists submitted gave way liefore the vigor and determination of Michael Katkoff, who by sheer force of character defied the cen sorship and rose superior to the press law. That, at least, was the theory on the subject, though it now appears that the editorship of the Mos cow Go ’die is a post which is as much under povernment as any office belonging to the pub lic administration. One Touch of Nature. All alone I waited In the rain At the junction For the train, And as the slow hours flew apace I cursed the dreary, lonesome place Where so doomed I waited In the rain For six long hours For the train. W'here to and fro I paced In the rain. Waiting at the wayside junction For the train. And counted still the rough planks o'er That formed the junction platform floor, As alone I watted In the rain At the junction For the train. Where, so doomed, I waited In the rain For six long hours For the train; So on the map. unknown unnamed, Unwrit, unsung, unwept, unclaimed— Where to and fro I paced In the rain, Waiting at the wayside junction For the train. j. A, Parker. Humors of Retrenchment. From the Ixmisville Courier. Journal. Every now and then some funny things occur in the attempts at reform and retrenchment in the departments. A notice appeared in a paper that henceforth clerks in the War Department were either to have their own towels washed at their own expense or go with dirty hands. The washing had been paid for out of a fund for ne cessities, and a clerk who had charge of the ac counts decided that clean towels did not come under that head, and therefore there was no ap propriation to pay for the washing of towels, A match to this occurred some time ago when there was found among the accouuls of an offl cer which were forwarded for audit S4O for post age stamps. This last item was disallowed, for, said the Dogberry who wrote to the officer, “the law requires that an offer for bids should 1* made for all supplies and the contract given to the lowest bidder.” In reply the following an swer was sent: "As counterfeiters are the only competitors with the government for furnishing postage stamps. I thought it best not to ojieii bids with them.” Another ease: Gen. Poe is stationed at De troit. In a violent gale he saw a government vessel wrecked with all on hoard. Tic quickly chartered a tug and sent it to rescue the men. When he sent the bill to Washington to pay for the services of the tug, the account was re turned as disallowed, owing to the fact "that no bids had been opened for the furnishing of a tug to rescue the drowning seamen.” The dig nit.v of an office should be as jealously guarded as its honesty. No laws are as good as those of common sense, and hair-splittings are neither wise nor desired. Convenient Divorce Laws in Egypt. Alexandria Cor. of the Milwaukee. Sentinel A wife may be divorced twice and return to her husband, but if he divorce her a third time, and with a triple divorce declared, and send her away, he cannot live with her again until she has been one month married to another man. Alter the third divorce the husband must pay the part of Ihe dower which was set aside for the wife before marriage, and he must support her out of bis house during the three months in which she may not marry again. If the wife lie separated from the man, and not divorced, she receives a weekly allowance from him. A divorced woman may, after divorce, retain her son, under two years of age, and custom gives the child to the mother till it is seven years old; then the father must claim the son. When a man forfeits an engagement to marry, he must pay the woman half her dower, and she is free to marry at once. When a wife is disobedient, the husband may beat her; if she persist in disobedience, he may take her with two witnesses, not his relations, to the court, and declare against her. and if she does not promise to he obedient thereafter is not obliged to feed, lodge or clothe her, but need not divorce her; and if he suspects that she desires to be divorced in order to remarry, he surely will not. If she confesses her wrong, and promise obedience, lie must at once divorce her or take her home. If a wife does not wish to live with her husband, she enters a complaint against him at the court, stating that her family w ill support tier, and makes a demand for sepa ration. If the women of the same harem, or of different ones, quarrel and are complained of to the court, their husbands are punished by the court: but we may be sure that their vicarious correction does not save the poor women from chastisement. The husband divorces the wife, but the wllo cannot divorce the husband. ITEMS OF INTEREST. E. C. Huntley, of Stanton, Mich., has raised a radish that is 25 inches long and weighs 14 pounds 8 ounces. m TnKEE AND ONE-HALF TONS OF DIAMONDS, valued at $100,000,000 have been taken from the famous Kimberly mine since its discovery in 1871. A piano that had seen service for over a hun dred years, and had music in it still, fetched but $1 at an auction the other day in Reading, Pa. In Ohio 100 farmers’ institutes will be held next winter as part of the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of tho founding of the State. Little Miss Lizzie Bell Sinclair, of Ever ittstown, N. J., celebrated her 12th birthday re cently by completing a bed quilt that contain! 11,210 pieces. The doctors of Paris now prescribe oyster juice as the most fortifying aliment that weak constitutions, disgusted with every other kind of food, can take. One of the Brooklyn theatres displays a sign announcing that umbrellas are lent to patrons of the house on nights when a rain storm begins during the performance. The American Board recently held a farewell meeting in Boston for tifty-eight missionaries— one to Spain, nine to India, thirteen to Turkey, sixteen to Japan, nineteen to China, A Nashville undertaker is authority for the statement that, in accordance with the dying request of a lady buried in that city recently, her new bonnet was interred with her. The Presbyterians of New York city are talk ing about raising a fund of $1,000,(XX) for minis terial relief, and it is desired to have the amount pledged before the centennial of Presbyterian ism in 1888. The American Missionary Association has buildings and lands worth $576,000, endowment funds Worth $129,000, and trust funds amount ing to $70,000. Its receipts last year were $306,- 761 and its expenditures $298,783. At Burg Hill, 0., Charles Smith shot a blue heron at his carp pond, and found forty-seven fish in its stomach. From the appearance of the carp they had just been swallowed, and con stituted only one meal for the bird. The iron railroad bridge across the Missouri river a few miles below Kansas City is about completed. It is one of the big bridges of the world. It is 7,392 feet long, weighs 31.275 tons, is 50 feet above high water, and its towers are 200 feet high. Caft. Mackenzie, the famous chess player, was pitted against thirteen of the best chess ex perts in Boston one night last week. Thirteen was an unlucky number for the Bostonians, for they lost eight games and won but three, while two were drawn. Rev. Dr. Hall of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Chuich in Brooklyn read President Cleveland’s Thanksgiving proclamation from the pulpit on Sunday, with the remark that it was one of the few papers of the sort he had seen which he fully approved of. Marshall P. Wilder’s latest hit is the toast which the modest Irishman drank to the Eng lishman: "Here’s to you as good as you are and here’s to me as bad as I am, but as good as you are and as bad as I am. I’m as good as j’ou are as bad as I am.” The Queen Regent of Spain has signed a de cree authorizing the construction of six war vessels of 7,000 tons each,with a speed of sixteen to twenty miles an hour: four torpedo boats, similar to the Ariete, and twenty other torpedo boats of 60 tons each. The owner of a fish pond near St. Paul has made a pet of one of the largest fish in it—a trout, which appears at the surface of the water at his call, eats from his hand, and when particularly pleased, flops up into the air with every manifestation of joy. Capt. Parrish’s horse, at Durham, N. C., kicked off a shoe while standing in its stall, and, breaking the halter, trotted over to the black smith's for anew one. The smith divined what the horse wanted and shod it, whereupon it walked quietly back to the stable. Something is wrong with the men of Daven port, la., if the news is true that during the past ten months sixteen husbands have deserted their wives, and that in almost every case the deserted women were young, good-looking, good-natured, industrious and economical. A farmer near Albany, N. Y., whose vineyard had suffered at the hands of thieves, arranged a system of wires among the vines, connecting the wires with a powerful battery, and gave the grape stealers shocks that proved entirely satis factory to himself and salutary to the thieves. Queen Victoria has decreed that the Jubiiee medal, of which about a thousand have been given awrny, is to rank above all war medals, and is to be always worn on full dress-occasions. If Victoria bad been a theatrical star she would have shown great ability in advertising herself. The red man is fast acquiring the arts of civi lization. At a little game of draw-poker at Centreville, Ore., last v’eek, in which three In dians took part, Poker Jim, a noble chief, was accused of concealing an ace in his sleeve. He resented the insinuation and stabbed bis two companions fatally. Fakmer O’Rourke, of Ontonagon county, Michigan, was whacking away at a big hoilow tree the other day, when the ax cut through the shell, and when he pulled it out it was covered with blood. Then he heard growls in the tree, and knew that he h and struck bear. He chopped the tree down and killed the bear. A $5 rote issued by the Farmer's Bank of Wilmington, Del., in 1813, just seventy-four years ago, has just returned from its long wan derings, having been sent on for redemption by A. G. Douglass, of St. Louis. A Wilmington paper says that Ihe note is well preserved, and there is no doubt of its genuineness. Is there anyone who still sneers at the white liorse-red-haired girl theory? Let him read this: A Nashville man stood in a pool room, unde cided how to place his money. lie glanced out of the window as a girl with red hair passed by, saw her, whirled around, bet his money on the only gray horse in the race, and won a big pot of money. When the principal of a seminary for girls in Washington, Fa., started to take her scholars home from church the other Sunday evening, she found the usual crowd of young men wait ing outside the doors. She made the girls go bock, much against their will, and would not budge until a policeman, whom she sent for, made the boys go away. The Union League Club of Philadelphia,which was organized in 1803, has furnished the model for by laws and constitution to every other Union league Club in the United States, not excepting that of New York. The Secretary got so tired of writing the by-laws out in answer to such applications that he had an answer printed, and scores of clubs have profited by it. Francis Murphy, the temperance worker, still is actively employed, though he makes no fuss about it, He is now on his fifth week of successful work in Chicago. He absolutely refuses to admit that prohibition or sumptuary laws can keep men from being drunkards; blit preaches that tielief in Jesus Christ and a changed heart is the only cure for drunken ness. Extensive preparations are being made by the Presbyterian Board of Indian Schools to educate the Indians of Arizona. At Tucson they are building an 88,000 school house. Fifty acres of land have been bought on the Santa, Cruz river, where the young Indians will lie in structed in farming, and another building to cost SO,OOO will soon lie erected, where 100 pupils can be accommodated. A political party docs not often command such practical service as the English Liberal or ganization secured from the late Baron Woiver ton, whose fortune, it is reported by cable, ex ceeds $,',000,000. Tills nobleman on one occa sion placed in the hands of the Liberal General Election Committee a sum equivalent to $300,000 for campaign exiienses. He was continually giving for such purposes, and there is a report that he had expressed his willingness to expend $500,000 for Liberal uses lu the next general election. Throuoh carelessness in handling the middle section of the mirror which is used ou the Pres ident's state dining tublo to represent a lake in the centre of the festive board, and upon which a miniature Cleopatra's barge of gold, laden with fruits and flowers, gracefully rests, was broken In numberless pieces recently. This ven erable hut magnificent piece of table furniture has seen years of service at the White House and it attracted the attention and admiration of the hundreds of distinguished people who have crossed their legs under the Presidential dining table. Several weeks ago it was deemed advisa ble to send these mirrors away to have them touched up and the framework regilded. The work was done with great care, and tiieir beauty improved. When they were received at the hit* House it was found that the glass in the second section was shattered beyond repair It will tie sometime before the damage can be rem edied. as the glass is of a ueuuliar grade aud thickness. BAKING POWDER. CREAM RBFEIIT Its superior excellence proven in millions of •lomes for more than a quarter of a century. It is ised by the United States Government. In lorsed by the heads of the Great 1 Diversities aa he Strongest, Purest and most Healthful Dr •’rice’s the only Baking Powder that does not •ontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in 'ans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. R. AXTMA.YER <fe CO. Hi Altar I Cos., 11 ’ 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 a big demand for Boys’ Clothing, Blankets, Wraps, Cloaks, etc., etc. The house that can show tho most reliable value in these goods is the one that’s going to sell the big gest share of ’em. Try us. You take no chances. We are hero for success and to stay. Here’s a few hummers for you to gaze on, only a few of the thousand in vincible bargains to be found in this the largest establishment of its kind in the South. Blankets are our hobby; here’s one from 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 sl. 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, $35 and S4O Imported Plush Satin-lined Short Wraps have TAKEN A TUMBLE for this week only to sl7 08. Tw o bales Heavy Cant* Flannel was sel ling last week at 10c.; this week’s price 6jsc. Come and see the quotations in our pet department (Dress Goods); 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 respectfully solicit an inspection of the above and ask you to kindly be the judge as to tho geuuinouess of these invin cible bargains. A, R. ALTIAYER & CO, Broughton and Bull Sts. ————————— ZONWEISB CREAM. ZOftWZlftl CRIAM TOR THE TEETH T* made from Few Material*, contains no EariTQrii, or injuriv us matter It is Pubs, Refined, Perfect. Notiiino Lies It Ever Known. From Senator Coßgeshall.—“ltakepieM are In recommending Zouwcisa on account of Ita efficacy and purity.” Front Mr*. Gen. J.ogan’s Dentist. Hr. K. St. Carroll, Washington, D. C.—“l have had Z.onwelß3 analyzed. It, is ttie most perfect denti frice I have ever seen.” From Hon. Chan. P. Johnson. Fx. T,t. Gov. of Mo. -“Zonweiss cleauces the teeth thor oughly, la delicate, convenient, very pleasant, and leaves no after taste. bomi by all DEUOOisra. Price, 35 cents. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. T. —i———i — ——m Fcr sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippraan* Block, Savannah. FOOD PRODUCTS. tost City 11 W E are making an extra quality of GRIT and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trad as superior to any in this market. Would W pleased to give special prices on application. We have on hand a choice lot of EMPTIf SACKS, which we ore selling cheap. BOND, HAYNES & ELTON