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4 CliclftTontingHctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY . DECEMBER l. IXS7 Registered at the Post Office in .SaixitmaA. The Morning News is published every day in Ibe year, and is serv ed to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and canters, on their own ac count, at SB cents a week, f 1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and? 10 00 for one year. The Morning News, bu mail, one month. $1 00: three months, $2 50; six mouths, $5 10; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by malt, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, (2 00; six months, (4 00 one year, $s 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thuni rlays and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, SI a.Y Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rencv sent by mail at risk of senders. This i taper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. Si to new advertisements. Meetings— General Committee of Arrange ments Jasper Monument Celebration; Road Commissioners: Workman's and Trader's Loan and Building Association; Solomon's Lodge No. I, F. and A. M. Special Notices —Knights of Pythias Hall Association; Election for Directors Central Rail road and Banking Cos. of Ga.; Notice, O. T. Bluffer; Choice Dressed Turkeys, John Lyons A Cos. Chapeau's Distemper Powders —T. T. Chapeau. Pumpkin Pie-A. M. & C. Vi. West. Educational—University of Virginia. Legal Notices —Petition of Tyler Cotton Press Company; Citations from the Court of Ordinary. Star Clothing House—Menken & Abrahams. Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent ; For Sale; Personal; Lost; Photography; Boarding; Miscel laneous. Auction Sale —Pl Rotation near Savannah, by J. McLaughlin & Son. To Sportsmen—George S. McAlpin, 31 Whit aker street. Raisins, Currants, Etc.— 'William G, Cooper. Useful. Ornamental Artistic Holiday Goods—L. &B.S.M. H. If government depends on parties, there ought to be excellent government in this country. Not less than eight parties cast votes in the recent elections. The United Labor party in Chicago is calling for a reduction in street car fares. It will probably require a very loud call to make the car companies hear. What the people now demand of the Democracy is backbone to reduce taxation and nerve to put to rout the obstructionists who stand in the way of reduction. It is thought that Senator Ingalls will be elected President pro tempore of the Senate. The place is desirable for the honor and the 53,000 additional pay which belong to it. The Avalanche states that there is now a great deal of cotton standing on the streets of Memphis, the insurance companies re fusing to take risks on it wh n stored in sheds. There appears to be considerable anxiety to know why the threatened injunction against the new street railroad has not been taken out. The anxiety about a good many things cannot be allayed at once. The Philadelphia Press declares that Mrs. Cleveland trims her own hats and bonnets, and that she never wears a big one to the theatre. The more people know of Mrs. Cleveland the more t hey admire her. A question that is agitating New York is this: Does Mr. Gould propose to unload Western Union Telegraph stock on a syndi cate of London capitalists? An article in a recent issue of the St. James Gazette sug gested the question. The cold weather has not had the effect of cooling off those who are fighting in Ireland for home rule, as is shown by the reports of disturbances at Limerick and Kilmurry and the large and rather bitter meetings at sev eral places in Ireland. The contest in Louisiana continues with unabated interest, and that State is ex periencing all the unpleasantness of a cam paign such as Georgia had some years ago. The Democratic party is generally injured by these factional fights. There has been a vast increase of travel in New York city during the past year. The figures show that the receipts on the elevated roads are $2,250,000 in excess of last year. Other roads have increased, but not proportionately. The railroads in New York do a thriving business. The Macon Telegraph learns on good au thority that Mr. Carlisle will come to Geor gia during the holiday recess of Congress, and will deliver a speech in Atlanta. He will be invited to Macon. He ought to pay Bavannah a visit and take a look at tho prettiest as well as the busiest city in the South. Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, keeps up the Republican howl about the admis sion of Dakota, aud proposes to make it a national issue next year. When Republican arguments on this question are boiled down, they will be found to be nothing more than the expectation that Dakota, if admitted, will vote tho Republican ticket. The New York Sun says it seems to be certain that Riddleherger's successor wifi he John S. Barbour. Virginia can do no lees than reward Mr. Barbour for ridding •her of Mahone. He conducted the cam paign in Mahone’s retirement from the Senate, and now he retires Riddle berger. He is a vigorous and practical man. It is hardly probable that the Governor of Florida will call an extra session of the Legislature to fix up the muddled charters of Jacksonville and Palatka. It might he well for the Florida legislature to hire a lawyer to look over the bills it passes and see that they are in accordance with its in tention and strictly constitutional. A pood lawyer in that position might do the State very valuable service. The wires have, in the last few days, flashed the news of several fires cuused by defective flues and of boiler explosions in kitchens. These things should remind man agers in homes and public buildings that cold weather is here, and that strict atten tion should be given to furnaces and pipes and precaution taken to preservo the flow of water in boilers. Ono of the most prac tical truths ever uttered was that “a stitch in time saves nine.” The Indemnity Lands. Aecording to our dispatches one of the most important features of the forthcoming report of Mr. Lamar, the Secretary of the Interior, will be that relating to the part which the department has taken within the last few months with respect to the public lands set apart for indemnity purposes. The Republican party, during the time it was in power, granted vast tracts of land, in some instances equal in area to some of the most populous of the States, to railroad companies. It not only did this, but it withdrew other vast tracts adjacent to these grants from settlement, with which to indemnify the companies which obtained the original grants for any losses they might sustain of lands within the granted limits. When the Democratic party came into power it found j that settlers, without good reason, were shut out from many millions of acres of the iinest lands in the world. In some instances the original grantors had not earned their grants, and in others they had wholly failed to comply with their contracts, and if they had not disappeared they were in a bankrupt condition. In few, if any, instances had an effort been made to discover whether any of the companies were entitled to in demnity lands. The companies, however, claimed the indemnity lands, and Ihoir agents kept watch over them and warned settlers off of them. They hoped in some way to get possession of them. The attention of tho President was called to this condition of affairs and ho was quick to soe the abuses which wero being fostered by the laws which a Republican Congress had passed, and which Republican adminis trations took no steps to remedy. The Guilford Miller case was bought to his notice, and having the advice and co-operation of the Secretary of the Interior he made a ruling iu it which, being accepted as a precedent, the Secretary has followed to the extent of releasing more than 21,000,000 of acres from indemnity re strictions. The President took the gr°tind that as these indemnity lands wero with drawn from settlement by Executive au thority, they could be reopened to settle ment by the same authority*. Mr. Lamar will be remembered in the In terior Department for his connection with the indemnity lands, and when the history of Mr. Cleveland’s administration is written , there will be no page of it that will reflect more credit upon him than that which records his action in giving back to tho people the vast tracts of fertile lands of which the Republican iiarty had deprived them. Beecher’s Eulogist. The burning issue in Brooklyn is the Rev. Dr. Parker. He delivered the Beecher eulogy, and the Plymouth congregation lauded him to the skies. They t hought tlbe eulogy was the work of love, but when they found out that it had been paid for, and that the sum paid was by no means insig nificant, they began to pick him ti pieces and to say a good many very uncomplimentary things about him. He was engaged to preach in Plymouth church for two Sundays at SIOO for each sermon. Ho has preached one and has received his money. It is doubtful if he preach the other. It is stated that if he attempt to, tho congregation will make the situation so warm for him that he will wish himself back in England. An admission price was charged to hear the eulogy, and the amount realized was about 52,000. Maj. Pond, who brought Dr. Parker over here on a lecture tour, said that he proposed to donate the proceeds of the eulogy to tho Beecher monumental fund, and the Plymouth congregation flocked to the Academy of Music in Brooklyn to hear and see the great English preacher. Not half as many would have paid to see and hear him if they had not believed they were helping to build a monument to Beecher. Maj. Pond proposes to keep his contract— that is, after he pays all expenses he will turn over the balance of tho eulogy receipts to the monument fund—when he gets ready. There will not be much to turn over, how ever. The expenses, it is said, were very heavy, and Dr. Parker got more than a third of tlie whole amount. The newspapers which said flattering things about Dr. Parker when he first came to this country, now say that ho is here “on the make.” He sold his manuscript of the eulogy for (230, making $950 in all which he received for it. The Plymouth church people paid his board while in New York, and so his eulogy money was clear gain. The good doctor now wants to sell an in terview which he proposes to have with Mr. Gladstone on his return to England, but the newspapers don’t seem to want it. 'l'he tone of most of the New York papers indi cates that they have had enough of Dr. Parker. For his part he declares that he has had enough of the “in fernal press” of this country. How loving were the relations between the doctor and the press when he first landed from England, and how strained they are now! There will be no tears shed when the doctor departs for home. Mr. Cleveland’s newspaper opponents among Democrats have about .concluded to stop their foolishness. The New York Sun, which was his most powerful enemy during the campaign, has lately concluded to jump over to the President’s side; the World be gan a bitter fight against him a year ago, but has since been willing to make a truce; tho Courier-Journal pitched into him quite vigorously some time ago, but soon saw that he was too strong to oppose; the Augusta Chronicle engaged in a little war on him, but it says nothing now; tho Macon Tele graph gave him, at best, a negative support during tho campaign, and was not very en thusiastic afterward, but the new monage agement has stopped all of that. Another interesting aspect is that in Mr. Cleveland’s State the papers that opposed him have lost circulation. When Mr. Atkinson, of Boston, wrote his article showing that men are larger now than they were 100 years ago he must have had in mind John Peters, who died at the county hospital iu Chicago last Sunday. He was 7 feet 4 inches in height. When ho was taken to the hospital it was discovered that there wasn’t a bed big enough iu the hospital for him, but a wide one was selected, the foot removed, and a wooden extension built to it, making a bed about 9 feet long. Medicine was given him in doses nearly double the usual size, and everything possi ble was done for him, but the doctors were unable to conquer the disease. Dr Wolfred Nelson, late of the Board of Health of Panama, who has been in Tanqia during the yell: w fever epidemic, says in a letter to the Jacksonville Hmes-Union that the fever’s origin can be clearly traced to a schooner engaged in smuggling. Dr. Nel son makes this statement after having all tho facts placed before him. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER J, 1887. Suggestions of the Postmaster General The annual report of the Postmaster Gen eral, from which some extracts are pub lished in another column, shows that the Post Office Department is being very satis factorily conducted, and that the postal service is now about self-sustaining. In fact there is every reason to believe that next year the receipts will slightly exceed the expenses. I'he Postmaster General calls attention to the efforts which are already lieing made to secure a still further reduction in the rates of postage. He docs not think that these efforts should be successful, for the reason that any reduction that could be made without causing a very considerable annual deficiency, would be so small as not to be appreciated. He suggests, and the suggestion appears to be a good one, that it would be much better to wait until the an nual surplus is sufficient to justify such a reduction in both letter and news paper postage as will remove from the people a very considerable burden. There is only one other nation where rates of postage are lower than those of this, and the Postmaster General believes that if his suggestion is approved by Con gress it will not tie very long before it will be possible to make such reductions, without causing an annual deficit, as will placo the postage rates of this country below those of any other. 'i'he Postmaster General makes a sugges tion with regard to post office buildings which ought to, and doubtless will, attract tho attention of Congri •ss. It is that the government should at once adopt a plan which would enable it to own buildings for post office purposes wherever it has to rent them. At tho present time there are 517 post offices for which the government has to provide accommodations. Some of these are in government buildings, but over 300 are not, and for these tho rentals amount to nearly $1,000,000 per annum. The last Con gress authorized the Postmaster General to rent buildings for second-class post offices. When this authority is exercised there will have to be about 2,000 buildings rented for post offices, and they will cost the government an immense sum annually. The Postmaster General is confident that if the plan is adopted of erecting in the smaller towns fireproof buildings, to cost froth SIO,OOO to $20,000 each, the government would save money and the buildings would give much more satisfac tion than rented ones. The present plan of renting buildings, which requires the re inoval of the ]tost office every year or two, not only injures business, but keeps the peo ple of the towns in which such post offices are located in a state of perpetual worry. It will be seen that if a few more than 300 offices cost the government $1,000,000 a year, 2,000 offices will eo-1 it a very pretty penny. It could save a large sum yearly by borrowing money at 3 per cent, and erecting all the buildings it needs, provided they would not cost more than what Postmaster General Vilas’ estimates call for. Opposition to Immigrants Growing. The activity of Anarchists and Socialists in different parts of the country is creating n sentiment against immigration. It is not long since it was a very unusual thing to hear a public speech against immigration, or to see anything in the newspapers against it. Now, however, there is a good deal said againtt it. A few nights ago Prof. Rich mond M. Smith, in a lecture before the Academy of Political Sciences of the Co lumbia College, declared that this country had enough immigrants from Europe, and that to continue to receive them would be hurtful rather than helpful to the country. He said that already 34 per cent, of the en tire population of the country was of either foreign or mixed foreign and native par entage. The Rev. Heber Newton, the sensational Episcopalian clergyman of New York, had a word to say about immigrants in his ser mon last Sunday morning. Among other things he said; “We are overtasking our national powers of assimilating the raw ma terials of citizenship. No country on earth ever attempted to make citizens on such a wholesale scale. We have thrown open our doors to the rich and the poor, the true and the untrue, the powerful and the op pressed, the ignorant and the educated, the pauper and the criminal. Wo dare not con tinue this foolish essay further unless we want to load our blood with the undigested matter which breeds the fevers of anarchy. We do not need and we dare not safely keep on welcoming shoals of the most ignorant peoples of Europe, crowning with the fran chise the lazaroni of Italy and the settlings of races utterly alien to our institutions.” There is some truth in what the Rev. Mr. Newton says, but it is probable that we can continue to assimilate all who come, provid ed there are no paupers, criminals, lepers, or cholera-infected subjects among them. The doors of the nation ought certainly lie shut against the classes named. As for Anarchists, if they don’t obey the laws, they will be dealt with as those in Chicago were. The laws are strong enough to pro tect society against Anarchism and Socialism. There are a good many foreigners in this country, but, as a general thing, they quickly become good citizens and good Americans. They have helped to make the country what it is, and their children know no other country than this. The time has not yet come to shut out immigrants. It may never come. Some experiments at the Newport torpe do station with the electric light, show that it may become very valuable in naval war fare. With lamps of about 100 candle pow er fastened on the ends of poles submerged in the sea to a depth of twenty feet, the water is so illuminated that objects in it can be distinguished within a radius of 150 feet. There is little or no glare from the submerged light to betray the presence of the lwat using the spars. It is beiieved that by this means a boat might countermine an enemy’s field of submarine mines by cut ting their cables or sweeping them to one side. * Some of the papers that frown upou every thing English are carrying matters quite far enough when they make a great hulla baloo because Minister Phqlps had a long talk with the Prince of Wales the other day. These papers are probably justified in attacking the American habit of aping Englishmen, but do they expect Phelps treat the Prince with incivility? The great expense of funerals is attract ing considerable attention, and a reform movement is talked of. Some Episcopal clergymen met in Boston tho other day with the view of inaugurating a reform. The subject comes up now and then, but the expensive funerals go on all the same, and the probability is that they will increase rather than diminish. CURRENT COMMENT. Resigned. From the Baltimore Globe. (Dem.) Thu only sign of resigning on tho part, of Mr. Powderly is the resignation with which he bears the false reports. To Be Made Doubly Famous. From the Philadelphia In'/uirer (Rep.) If Gladstone comes to America he may he assured that It will tie put in next year’s almanac as among the great events. Settling Two Troublesome Questions. From the. Richmond Dispatch (Dent.) A crank called on Secretary Lamar last week and demanded a million acres of land in the West. Why didn't Lamar give him Utah and Dakota ? Probably Won the Reward. From the Baltimore American (Rep.) The Australian government offers $125,000 to any one who shall devise an effectual met hod of exterminating rabbits. Wehaveit. Inducethe French milliners to make them the fashionable trimming for hats and bonnets. Send tho check along, please. No Doubt of It. From the Few York Herald ( Ind.) It is reported that Mr. Chandler, once on a time Secretary of the Navy, is loading his little musket with a heavy charge, and proposes to take aim at Secretary Whitney. All right. We have heard, however, of guns that kicked, and it wouldn’t surprise us if this were one of them. Mr. Childs Gains a Reader. From the Boston Advertiser. Pall-bearing has been adopted as a profession by n man in Philadelphia. He is attached terno undertaker's establishment, but offers his ser vices independently. The Philadelphia ledger can at length count confidently upou one reader of its obituary notices besides its honored pro prietor. The Hew pall bearer reads them ail as a professional duty BRIGHT BITS. Cardinal Newman says a gentleman is one who never inflicts pain. This is rough on the dentists.— Omaha World. “Wine is a mocker," said a temperance ad vocate, gulping down about a pint of coffee. “Coffee is a Mocha, too," replied a man across the table, and called for a bottle of beer.— Washington Critic. Gold-handled i mhrkllas are coming into fashion. The handle is so arranged that it can be taken off. This is an improvement on the old style, where the entire umbrella was taken off.— Yonkers Statesman. Snarley—The man who tv mild smoke a cigar ette would associate with pickpockets. De Timpkins (inhaling vigorously)—ls that so, old man? Come out and have a drink, then.— Brooklyn Standard-Union. The Canadian paper which referred editorial ly the other day to “the young females of Can ada," really meant young women, although it might have meant young female beavers, whicn are very numerous in the Dominion.— Few York Tribune. The Graphic says: “Since George Francis Train has been preaching the uses of the Turk ish hath he has lost ground with the Anarchists.” If the Anarchists were to ad ipt the uses of the Turkish bath they would lose ground, too.— Norristown Herala. A very young babe in Duquesne was recently, in spite of all it could do, named by its father Thomas Benton Schnatterly Boyle Cleveland Flemming. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has work to do in the west ern part of the State.— Philadelphia Times, “What did you marry my son for?” fiercely dernanded an old gentleman of a clergyman who had just united his runaway scapegrace in the holy bonds. “Two dollars.” meekly answered the dominie, “to be charged to you.”— Binyaamton Republi can. Husband (just starting out of town) —My dear, here is a SSO bill. Wife i hastily)—Oh, John, I'm ever so much obliged! Husband—Which I wish you would give to the tailor for my new overcoat. He said he would send the bill to-day.— Fpoch. Jobson— Hello, Nobson, you're not looking well. Nobson—l am under the weather. Have had to leave off smoking, too. Jobson—That's bad, that's bad. Nobson—But that isn't the worst of It. lam dreadfully afraid that leaving off smoking is going to do me good.— Boston Post. Some things are better unsa id. Here is one of them: In a Vermont town the other day a friend of one recently deceased was selecting persons suitable for pall bearers. Among those whom he chose for this sad duty was a Mr. , but when the name was mentioned to a near friend object.on was mode thus: “Oh, no, he will not do He doesn’t believe in a place of future punishment This was a little rough on the deceased man, and doubtless sounded somewhat differently than the speaker ex pected.—St. Albans Messenger. Employer—Are your books balanced, Mr. Smith? Mr.Smith (the bookkeeper)—No. sir; there is a discrepancy of 2c. in Blank <£: Co.’s account in our favor, and that must be settled before I can strike a balance. Employer-Have you written them? Mr. Smith—Several times. Employer—Well, write them again and in close stamp for reply. That ought to fetch them. Two cents are not much, but they are worth as much to us as Blank & Co.—Xia- Bits. PERSONAL. Ludwig Bareav, the German tragedian, will sail for New Y'ork in February, and will return home in April. Mrs. Dinar MuLOCK-CRAiKleft a personal es tate valued at more than $85,000. It all goes to her adopted daughter, Miss Dorothy Craik. P. T. Barnum says that his favorite novel is “Ivanhoe.” He is, of course, especially inter ested in the chapter describing the burning of Front-de-Bouf s castle. Oren Shelly, of Keene, N. H., is 9S years old. and his wife one year his junior. They were married sixtv-seven years ago, and have lived toget her very happily ever since. Speaker John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, called on Mayor Hewitt Monday and had a short talk with him on private matters. The visit, it is understood, was purely a social one and had no political significance. The infant daughter of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry ol Battenburg, was christened with water from the Jordan river, a bottle hav ing been secured for that purpose by the Rev. C. M. Owen, of Birmingham. The grave of Thomas H. Marshall, the famous Kentucky orator and wit, is in an opeu fisld not far from Versailles. It is uncared for, and the mound has been rooted up by hogs. The stone at the head of the grave is small and in significant. Numerous New York friends of Count Ferdi nand de Lesseps sent their congratulations to the veteran canal cutter on ms 83d birthday anniversary last Saturday. It is rumored that he will visit New Y'ork in January next, on his way to Panama. The strong feeling of Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter against German surgeons is said to arise from the fact that Prince William of Germany has a deformed hand, an infirmity due to the clumsiness of a physician who was in attendance at his birth. One of the most appropriate floral decora tions on Jenny Lind's cofliu was a wreath of myrtle from Mr. Goldschmidt. It was made from a tree planted years ago by the great singer herself, in the shape of a tiny twig plucked from her wedding wreath. Howard Van Schaick, a New York groom, failed to appear on Friday, at Long Braucn, at. the time fixed for his wedding with Miss Corne lia West. The guests were there and the sup per was eaieu, though the bride was absent. The groom sent word that lie had caught a cold. Dr. Gerhardt, tho private physician of the Crown Prince of Germany, long ago discovered the tumor on the left vocal chord, and told him it must be excised, but “Unser Fritz” declined toliave the operation performed. Dr. Wegener was called in, and agreed with Dr. Gerhardt. Both of these eminent specialists were set aside to get the opinion of Dr. Morell Mackenzie, and the fact remains that it Dr. Gerhardt's advice had been taken in the first place the Crown Prince would have been relieved to-day, if not cured. This is the opinion of Drs. Von Berg mann, Frunkel, Halm, Bering, Wiggers and other specialists. Josef Hoeman. the boy pianist, whom Anton Rubinstein called “one of the marvels of the age,” has arrived in New York. He is a hand some, stnrdy-looking little follow, a thorough boy, with nothing of the “infant prodigy’ in his appearance. His features are regular, and his dark complexion has a ruddy tinge. He speaks French fluently, and has in conversation a lively and unaffected manner. In fact, in everything but his marvellous musical talent, he is a child, with a child's love for toys ana games of all kinds. On the voyage a concert was given for ttie usual charities, at which Hof man played. The sum realized wes over (SOP. ilia father and mother accompany him. ft CONGRESSMAN BILL MARTIN. The Texan Statesman's Appearance in Washington. Washington cor. New York Graphic. The Hod. William H. Martin, of Texas, was hauled by the heels out of his room in Willard's Hotel yesterday morning. He had gone to bed very late In the night, and not being accus tomed to modern appliances for turning off the gas, he simplv blew it out and was nearly suffo cated when the servants burst in the door and dragged him out, The honorable Bill Martin is a character. He was elected last summer to succeed Judge John H. Reagan in the House of Representatives. Bill has lived all his life in the pine woods of Henderson county, Texas. He never saw a gas burner in Ins neighborhood. Pine knots and tallow dips are good enough for Bill's vicinity, and there is not a two-story house w ithin fifty miles of where his ramshackle cabin sits on stilts. There are ten big counties in the Congressional district. •When the convention met in Palestine last summer everyo e of them had a candidate, and all the aspirants w ere invited to address the delegates. When Bill Martin stood up and swung his arms around he gathered in the piney woodsmen at the first word. His manner and his gestures were never learned from books of elocution. His competitors were well dressed men. some of them w ith a better reputation for statesmans ip. Bill had come in on his mule from Henderson county. He had his pants in his boots. He w ore a butternut shirt and his hands were big enough to cover a wide ex- J>anse of territory Bill told the boys how he lad been brought up to raise cotton, whittle pine sticks, chew tobacco and hunt razor-back hogs of the Texas persuasion. He said he was no statesman, but he wanted the office and wanted it bad, and above all things he thought t here ought to oe one genuine home made Texan in Washington, Then the convention howled— but they how led loud r and longer when Bill shouted out that when he went to Washington he would be the same old Henderson County Bill Martin as before, and would go in the same clothes that be then wore. They turned right round, and after emptying the other candidates out of the convention they nominated Bi.l, and lie was elected by a big majority. Nothing ha* been heard of imn. until a few days ago, since last summer. A week ago be appeared at the little retiread siation in Pales tine in his old piney wood toggery, and started fur the national capital. He had never ridden twenty miles on a railroad in his life before. He carried no gripsack, for he had nothing to put in one. He made a speech before he left, and said that it Congress did uot like his ways and clothes they could “be darned, for old Bill Martin never would change. The other Texas members in Washington had taken measures to capture Bill. Congressman Crain, from the Galveston district, and Roger O. Mills, from Waco, wutebed for nim at Balti more and coralled him. Bill fought hard against their suggestions, but finally consented to haw. his hair cut. They kept him in Bal timore three days and got his pants out of his lK)Ot.s. On Thanks iving day they brought him anew suit of store clothes and emptied his but ternut coverings into the cellar. That night they brought him to this city, and after warn ing him against the wiles and dangers of the places put him in his room at Wil ard's and thought he was safe. Th n the Hon. Mr. Mar tin blew out the gas. When he had recovered consciousness and was himself again he made solemn oath that no such death trap should catch him again, and early this morning he left the hotel to find a place of rest where only candles are burned. And the dainty Mr. Crain and the well-dressed Mills are hard after him, for old Bill Martin has only commenced the sensations he will create in Washington. When he left the betel to seek another boarding place he forgot his coat, and went in his shirt-sleeves. Ana the other Texas members want to lasso him. HIS FIRST VIEW OF THE CITY. A Rural New Englsnder Sees Nothing: but Bricks in Boston. From the Providence Journal. Way back in the interior, in a little red house with blinking windows and a generous drab stone chimney, lives a pretty nice old gentleman of 74 years. Sometimes he comes into the little village of Phenix, and one day recently while here remarked that he never had been in Boston or New York, or, in fact, any city but the sprightly one with the effervescent cove and the pigmy railway station. Some of the old mans friends thought that if one had to die with out seeing either New York or Boston he would have to take a seat without a cushion in the bet ter world; so two of them asked him the other day: “Uncle Dave, don't you want to go up to Boston?" “ ey?' answered the old gen tleman. “Go up to Boston?" restated the in quirer. “What for?" “To see the sights of a big city,'* replied the young man. They offered to pay Uncle Dave's expenses, so one day this week he went to the gaseous city of culture. His sunny old blue eyes opened when he stepped out of the cars into the airy Boston station, and as he walked up Washing ton street he remarked: “Boys, ft must be sickly here in Boston; there's an awful lot of doctor signs hung out." They walked him all around, showing him all the points of interest, and besides a “Dutell!" and “Want to know!" the boys elicited nothing from him, so finally one said: “Uncle Dave, what do you think of wbat you’ve seen so far?" “Seen?" said the old* man. sadly; T ain’t seen nothing; I’ve kept looking and looking, hoping we would get by these high buildings. I can't look over them; they're all four or five stories high. Let’s go some place where we can see something, boys, 'cept bricks and stones." And oti his return he stopped in the village store and remarked lie “guessed Boston is a nice town if anybody had a chance to see any of it." The Cow as a Transmitter of Disease. From the London Lancet . The transmission from the cow to man of scarlet fever and tuberculosis was the subject of the opening address of Prof. Hamilton at Mari schal Cottage, Aberdeen, in which the lecturer gave an excellent account of the investigat ion conducted by Mr. Power and Dr. Klein iuto the relation of a cow malady to scarlet fever in man. lie referred also to the observations of (’op *land, who believed that both the dog and the horse could suffer from the latter affection, and stated that n febrile condition of some kind can be communicated to animals by inoculating them with the blood of persons who are the subjects o scarlet fever. He further expressed the opinion that tubercle could be conveyed to man ty means of milk from tuberculous cows. While the possibility of such occurrence can not be denied, it must be borne in mind that Klein has pointed out that there are certain important differences between bovine and liumau tuber culosis; and again, Creighton has shown that man occasionally suffers from a form of this disease which resembles the bovine malady, making it probable that by far the greater number of cases are not of bovine origin. Nevertheless, the subject deserves much greater investigation, and certainly every effort should be made to prevent the distribution of milk from tuberculous cows. Mußh and Milk. From the Brooklyn .Standard-Union. Ob, The flavor sweet and rare, Of the simple farmer fare— Mush and milk the wholesome dlet Of the life so pure and quiet! Clear the realm of table show! Get thee hence, Delinonieo Out, ye modern viands flat, Ala this and ala that. Give me now a table bright With its bowls so clean and white, Glittering spoons in hands so manful. Milk so luscious by the panful. Oh, The fields of golden maize’ Oh. the halcyon autumn days! Nibblers pale in rustling silk, What know ye of mush and milk! Once again in foreign lands, O'er mv howl I clasp my bunds, Giving thanks that, as of yore. Mush and milk I taste once more. Oh, the rosy cheeks it gave! Oh, the arms so strong and brave! Mush aud milk has raised the latest Of the nations aud the greatest. An Original Wedding Service. From the Indianapolis Journal. An old-time resident of the pleasant city of Madison relates a story that has a flavor of originality, tine of the early Judges of Madison, Dawson lllackmore, was called upon shortly after his election to perform a marriage cere mony at a private residence. The notice was brief, and the Judge prepared for the event by studying the marriage ceremony in the Metho dist Book of Discipline. Feariug to trust his memory, he placed the book in hi, pocket to refer to if necessary. When the bridal party ap peared before him he had forgotten every word of tne ceremony, and feeling In his coat p. cket for the book found it was gone. A local wag bad removed it. But the Judge was equal to the occasion. Assuming an unusual degree of Judicial dignity he said: "Hold up your right hands! you and each of you do solemnly swear you will perform the duties of husband and wife to the best of your abilities, so help you God 'I I pronounce you man aud wife.” She Stoops to Concur. From the Chicago Tribune. There is a girl in Michigan 6 feet 9 inches tall, and when her lover stands on his tiptoes and pleads for a kiss she stoops to concur. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Petrified pieces of an Indian’s ribs, taken from a skeleton, have been found .lying partly exposed in the sand on rtnake river, opposite Lyons's Ferry, W. T. “Fairmount,” in Leavenworth, Kan., has an orchard containing 437 acres, with 50.000 apple trees. This is claimed to be the largest apple orchard in the United States. Eight ifsiployks of the nickers' depart ment of the Philadelphia ’oint were discharged the io her < a hecaus * cha coal marks were found in bars ol silver whicn they had made. H. C. 0. Benjamin, a colored man who has been granted j>ennisßion to practice law at Los Angeles, is reported to be the first member of his race admitted to the California, bar. Complaint is made in Detroit that the course of studies in the local High School is of too se vere* a standard, and that the Institution is little els** than an adjunct to the State University. Gov. Luck gave it as his opinion, based on in vestigation, that a majority of the girls at the Adrian Industrial School went to the bad by fr .quenting skating rinks and the Salvation Army. The old Keystone mine at Saltsburg, on Mo nongahela river, has l>een abandoned, the coal having been worked out. It is considered the historic pit of the Monongahela valley, coal having been mined there over a century ago. One of the most successful bill collectors of Chicago makes mauv a difficult collection by pretending to be deaf, and making the delin quent yell his reason for uot paying at the top of his voice, so that it is heard by every one iu the vicinity. Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, has decided to send squads of his soldiers to Zulu land and South America. Some of his forces have already reached Jerusalem, and the st reets of the Holy* city resound with their “ameus ' and the jingle of their tambourines. In November, 1754, the grand jury of Fairfax, Va., indicted Daniel French, of that county, for “tending of seconds.'* The act referred to was the raising ol a, second crop of tobacco in one year, which was theu used aseir rency,and only a prescribed quantity could be raised. Counterfeit silver dollars made of cast iron, heavily plated with silver, are in circula tion in the vicinity of Creston, lowa. They are such a perfect substitute that even acid will not affect them, and they can only be detected bv the ring. The dates they bear are mostly 1884. Forty-five years ago there wasn't a postage stamp in the United States, but in the last twelvemonths the people of this country haw individually and severally put them tongues out, 1.968,341,000 times to moisten the postage stamps for the billions of letters and millions of news p qers, periodicals and j>areels that are carried and delivered by the government. Extensive preparations are being made by the Presbyterian Board of Indian Schools to educate the Indians of Arizona. At Tucson they are building an SB,OOO school house. Fifty acres of land have been bought on the Santa Cruz river, where the young Indians will be in structed in fanning, and another building to cost $6,000 will soon lie erected, where 150 pupils can be accommodated. William K. Vanderbilt has been one of the largest purchasers of the late King of Bavaria's effects. lie has helped himself to the works of art, and chosen a whole suite of royal furniture, besides offering a large price for one of the royal residences, but at that trade the govern ment rebelled and told Mr. American there was a limit to even its greed. What the buyer of all this luxury intends to do with it is nobody's affair, but it seems that having more sjiare cash than he knows what to do with, is a mighty good thing for bankrupt Bavaria. The truste s of Wellesley College bave se lected for president of the institution Miss Helen A. Shafer, to fill the vacancy caused by the mar ri ge of Alice E. Freeman. MBs Shafer is a col lege-bred woman, having obtained the Master 8 Degree at Oberlin. For several years after grad uation she was associated with Prof. Harris and other well known educators in the St. Louis scLnxds. This is her eleventh vear at Wellesley Colie e. she having been called to the Chair of Mathematics in 1878. One of the Harvard pro fesssors recently said of her that, ho did not know that a woman could gain such proficiency in mathematics until he had studied the work of Prof. Shafer. In personal appearance she is slight and graceful. Just how the use of tobacco was regarded in New England in the early days two laws show. One was made at Harvard soon after the foun dation of the institution and read: “No scholars shall take tobacco unless permitted by the President, with the consent of their parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private man ner." The other is in the old Massachusetts colony laws, aud prescribes the punishment for any one “who shall smoke tobacco within twenty poles of any house, or who shall take tobacco in any inn or common victualing house, except in a private room, so as that neither the innster of said house nor any other guest shall take offense thereat." In the recent election in New York State, Miss Griffin, of the Third Oswego district, was chosen as School Commissioner, over two competitors, both male. She is a practical teacher, and a graduate of the State Normal school at Oswego. Quite a number of women candidates for School Commissioner were, nominated in different parts of the State, but Miss Griffin only was elected. The law in New Y’ork gives women a vot * at school elections, and makes them eligible to offices on school boards, In many count r y dis tricts wotiuii atlehd school meetings, which are now held iu August, and several have le**n chosen on school boards. The office of School Commissioner embraces a considerable territory, aud usually eighty to 100 schools. It, requires the entire time of the person holding it to dis charge its duties properly, visiting schools, hear ing examinations and granting certificates to teachers. Geoffrey Hawley, the handsome young lead ing juvenile actor of Joseph Jefferson's com pany, has a strong literary talent in addition to Ins marked gifts as an actor. For several years he has been writing verse that steadily im proved in quality, and it is now learned that he will shortly bring out a long skit in rhyme alout celebrated people of the stage. The volume will lx* illustrated by Matt Morgan in colors, and will probably be published t>y Brentano Brothers. The, author's full name is Geoffrey Hawley Chapman, and he has recently fallen heir to a large fortune. But the fact doesn't at all ’cssen his desire to continue on the stage or to retain his present position in the company of Mr. JHferson, whose skill as an actor and lovable character as a man have greatly endeared him to all the members of his organization. Mr. Jefferson, by the way, will continue to play for only t,vvo weeks more, and will then go to his Southern plantation for the cold mouths, resuming his travels in the early spring. Talking about his coming visit to the South, and the hostile attitude of the colored people toward him, Evangelist Moody says that the trouble down South w ben he was there was due to the negroes more than to the whites. Al though usually there the whites worship in one building, and the blacks in another, still, at t: Moody meetings all were welcome, and wits reserved for the blacks, but the <•< lored people insisted that he should refuse to pivucu unless the white people would throw aside their life long prejudices and allow them perfect equality as to scuts and positions in church services. The committees offered to divide the churches, al lowing the colored people one side and the whites the other half, but that would not do. They were bound to sit in the same seats with the whites, or not at all. “As I only stopped two or three days in a town." said Mr. Moody. “I could not stop and enter tuis fight of the races that has been going on for a cent ury. I went to preach the Gospel as an evangelist not as a reformer." President Washington was, perhaps, the best horseback rider of all the Presidents. He de lighted in hunting, and wore a hunting costume as loud as that of a steeplechase jockey. It consisted of a blue coat, scarlet w aistcoat, buck skin breeches and top boots. He had a velvet cap on his head, and a whip ii, hi* hand. He hunted three times a week at Mount Vernon, and his last hunt was taken when he was three years older than President Cleveland is now, aud during which he killed a stag which weighed 136 pounds. Washington was fond of his horses, and he had a pair of white chargers who, according to his grandson Oust is, had to be wrapped up in their nightclothes before they went to sleep, and hud their feet blacked, their mouthes washed and their teeth picked in the morning. Ho was a dude as to his equestrian costume, and he imports his riding habits, his saddles and his harness from England. One of the white horses above spoken of was an Ara bian, and this was his favorite saddle horse while he was President. He was just ns high as the Presidqnt’B oach horses, was full of fire and life, and Washington was accustomed to ride him beside his wife’s carriage during her drives, as President Cleveland intends to ride beside Mrs. Cleveland's phaeton when he has mastered the art equestrian. A most laughable comedy, “The Doctor,” Thoatro Friday. BAKING POWDER. ✓ — jjRPRICE^ Its superior excellence proven In mlttonsof ’omes for more Than a ouarterof a century. It it* Red by the United States Government. In orsed by the heads of the Great Universities as no Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. rice's the only Baking Powder that does not on tain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in ana PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NVW YORK. CHIOAOO. ST. LOTUS A. R. ALTMAYER * CO. 111 ALTMAYER & CO., jetrnr^ic Benefactors. mense stock of Holiday Goods. Will low prices move ’em? We’ll try. Here's one chance in a life time; $13,000 worth of Boys’ Tailor-made Clothing to select from. 5,000, genuine bargains in this department. Boys’ Tweed Suits ( knee pants), sizes 4-13, were $3, we ll sell this week for $1 50. Boys’ Cassimere Suits (knee pants), sizes 4-13, $2 75; were $5 50. i $7 50 Cheviot Suits down to $3 75. Visit us. You’ll buy Boys’ Clothing whether you need ’em or not. sl2 Combination Robes this week for $5 50. $25 ditto for $lO. S4O Combination Robes for $lO 48. 1,300 pairs Ladies’ Beauti ful Kid, pebble and straight goat, $3. Button Boots this week for $1 98. Phenomenal values. Visit us this week, it will pay you, and especially visit our second fl'xir. One of the many inducements on this floor is 1 lot Ladies’ Very Nobby Striped and Checked English Walking Jackets, with satin lined hood, very styl ish, this week, $5; positively worth SB. 1 R. ALTMAYER & CO., BROUGHTON —AND— BTJLL STREETS. CHIMNEYS. This is the Top of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney All others, similar are imitation, Insist uponthe Exact Label and c oa Sale Everywhere. Made drey tv GEO. A, MACBETH &. GO., Pittsburgh, Pa, MEDICAL,. Tutt’s Pills ifimiilates (lie torpid liver, strength n* tiledlgest Ive organs, regulates >* •uhclm. and ur unequaled us an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. in malarial districts their virtues ar Sidely recognized, as they possess pet ullar properties In freeing thesyste® trout that poison. Elegantly suga coated. Hose small. Price, iiScts. Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray St., New YorJj FEEBLF ■ mw lw liitJl povverliwt, neJEUdI htrength KamHHEXfIHHBKB decayed and wasted, may t* QUICKLY, CHLAPLY AND LASTINGLY CURED and paintesi method. x out til til > ljfr and Marital Power* with full featoratmu tost/.* and atfni'th utiaolutelv *'* awmtagdt It LFIINDEO, Adopted io a|| f*reneh and Germ** |lonplt*la, Bealed p* iicnlara for one stamp. Addrras, M. S. DU ITS, 174 FULTON STREET. MEW TOM* We’re overstock ed, we needroom to show our im-