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INDEX ~TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting —Catholic Library Association.
Special Notices— Chatham County Election
Notice; To the Members of Wesley Methodist
Church, Mrs. J. K. P. Carr: Turkeys, John Lyons
Cos.; Turkeys, L. Putzel; Felt Hats at Jau
don’s.
Amusements—Marie Prescott and R. D Mc
lesnat the Theatre; Pool Tournament, Chas.
Kolsborn & Bro.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Auction Sales— Cotton Screws, Property on
the White Bluff Shell Road, by L D. Laßoche's
Pons; the Butler Plantation, Sundries, by J. Mc-
Laughlin & Son; Groceries, Stoves, etc., by C.
H. Dorsett.
Christmas Magazines— At Estill's News De
pot.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Miscellaneous.
Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick
Works—Edward D. White & Cos.
Publications —A New Book of Stories, by
Joel Chandler Harris.
Jacksonville, Fla., is all torn up over the
charter muddle. If Legislatures made fewer
mistakes the people would growl less about
paying the expenses of them.
It is alleged that Don M. Dickinson hopes
to land himself in the United States Senate,
and expects that his friend, Mr. Vilas, will
reach the Vice Presidency about the same
time. For so young a man Mr. Dickinson
has great hopes and expectations.
The Prohibitionists having decided to
hold their convention during the first week
in June, will likely be the first party in the
field next year. They will not, however,
head the column in the matter of returns,
which is, after all, the chief consideration.
The New York Star asserts that the party
of engineers which left that city on Wednes
day on the Hondo to make a final survey
of the canal route across Nicaragua, intend
to survey a canal route across the Isthmus
of Panama. What the Star is mostly in
need of is an editor.
An effort is being made to secure the ap
pointment of Judge Cooley to the vacant
seat on the United States Supreme bench,
but it will hardly succeed. Judge Cooley is
a very fine lawyer and jurist, but he is
needed on the Interstate Commission, and
Mr. Lamar will, doubtless, deal out sound
law from the bench.
Amos Cummings, one of the Congressmen
from New York city, and a frequent con
tributor to the columns of the Morning
News, proposes to write a weekly letter
from the national capital. If he will only
tel) all he finds out respecting the weaknesses
of his brother Congressmen, his letter will
be spicy and in great demand.
A citizen of Baltimore has prepared a bill
to be submitted to the next Maryland Leg
islature, making it obligatory on every
qualified citizen to vote at every general
election, under penalty of a fine of $5 and
costs. It would be interesting to know
whether this bill is Supported by the reform
element in Baltimore or the ring crowd.
The Georgia Company is now ready for
business with two lawyers to see that it
doesn’t get into trouble. There is some de
sire to see what the stock of the new com
pany will be held at on the market. If it
can be sold at 30c. on the dollar the mem
bers of the syndicate will make a good
thing out of their purchase of the Georgia
Central railroad stock.
Assistant District Attorney Fellows says
that he was somewhat surprised at the de
cision of the Court of Appeals in the Sharp
case. A good many other lawyers were.
It seems that the evidence which was im
properly admitted in the trial court was
very carefully considered in the District
Attorney’s office before it was offei-ed, and
the conclusion was reached that it was legal
evidence. It is believed that there is enough
evidenoe to convict Sharp without that
which the Court of Appeals says is inad
missible, and Mr. Fellows says that Sharp
will be tried again next month. It is doubt
ful if another verdict is ever obtained
against him.
It is stated that the commission which has
spent several months and many thousands
of dollars investigating the affairs of the
Pacific railroads cannot agree upon a report.
The chairman of the commission is ex-Gov.
Pattison, of Pennsylvania. It is said that
it is his wish to force the roads to a rigid ac
txmnting and an immediate settlement
with the government, and that the other
two members of the commission want to
let bygones be bygones and to fund the
indebtedness of the roads to the government
into long-time bonds bearing a low rate of
interest. There isn’t much doubt that the
railroads will come out ahead, whatever the
result may be. The government stands a
very poor chance of getting all that the
Pacific roads owe it.
Col. Nicholas Smith, who married Horace
Greeley’s daughter and failed to provide for
her, has long been called the handsomest
man in the world, but not until recently has
be put his personal beauty to practical pur
pose. He charged a Brooklyn man who is 07
years old, and who married a 19-year-old
Kentucky belle, SIBO for acting as his
groomsman, and claims that his (Smith’s)
services were worth the money, presumably
inasmuch as his fine appearance greatly en
hanced the interest of the occasion. Does
this open tip anew industry in this country ?
The chief impediment would be that there
are not many men who would be willing to
hire professionals for the purpose at SIBO
apiece, though, perhaps, as in the case of
Col. Smith, the price would be made de
pendent on the amount of beauty possessed
by the professional.
Rivor and Harbor Appropriations.
Representative Norwood, in an interview
in the Morning News yesterday, states
that in his opinion the appropntion for
Savannah harbor in the next river and har
bor bill will be larger than the last one,
but that it will not be twice as large. Ho
gives two reasons for this opinion. One is
that the Democrats will be as economical as
possible in making appropriations this win
ter, because they want, to go before the
j>eop!e in the next Presidential campaign
with a record for economy, and the other is
that the members from districts which re
ceive very little direct benefit from the
river and harbor bill will oppose it with the
hope of making political capital for them
selves.
There is no doubt o great deal of truth
in what Mr. Norwood says, but the friends
in Congress of rivers anil harbors ought to
be able to do more for the great public in
terests which they represent than what he
seems to think they can. It requires very
persistent and skillful work to get anything
from Congress, and that is the kind of work
which the jieople who are interested in
rivers and harbors expect from their repre
sentatives.
The last river and harbor bill did not be
come a law, as Mr. Norwood points out,
through the failure to get it to the Presi
dent in time for his signature. If the
friends of the bill had been a little more,
energetic it might not have failed, although
it is difficult to place the blame just where
it belongs. The failure of the bill, however,
has resulted in an immense amount of dam
age to river and harbor improvements. It
will take a very large part of the next
river and harbor appropriations to restore
these improvements to the condition in
which they were when work on them ceased
for want of money to continue it.
The Democratic party may want to have
a record for economy, but it will find it dif
ficult to convince the country that it is
economy to permit public improvements to
be abandoned for a year or more, although
the Treasury is so full of money tnat it is a
problem to know what to do with it. If
the Treasury were empty, the country
poor, and taxes high, the people
would not grumble if their
rivers and harbors, upon which to a large
extent their commerce depends, were not
improved as fast as they would like to have
them, but they have no sympathy with
denmgogisin—for it is demagogism to
lock up hundreds of millions of dollars in
the Treasury, and let public works go to
ruin and great commercial interests suffer
for no other reason than to ire* able to say
that the expenses of running the government
have been small. Economy does not consist
in small expenditures, but in spending
money judiciously, and getting all that can
be obtained for it.
If Savannah harbor does not get more
than double the amount it received in the
last river and harbor bill, work on the im
provements to secure either the twenty-two
foot or the twenty-eight foot channel will
not proceed very rapid!y. In fact, the
amount which Mr. Norwood thinks the
harbor will get in the next bill will not be
more than enough to complete the improve
ment for the twenty-two foot channel.
The people interested directly in the im
provement of rivers and harbors are alto
gether too timid iu making known to Con
gress their wishes. If they were a little
more aggressive and persistent more atten
tion would be paid to their wants and wishes.
President Grevy’s Resignation.
I’ijpsident Grevy resigned yesterday and
it is safe to say that a great many of those
who were prominent in forcing him to re
sign will be sorry for their action before
another President is elected. It will
require both wisdom and moderation
to guide France safely out of the
troubles in which she is at present involved,
and French politicians and statesmen, how
ever much ability they may possess, are not
noted for moderation. Some of the factions
of the Republicans seized upon the Wilson
scandal to compel President Grevy to
resign. They alleged that it was neces
sary to purify the government,
though it was apparent to those who studied
the situation that they were controlled by
an altogether different motive.
The question who shall succeed M.
Grevy is a very serious one. No one of the
factions of the Republicans is strong enough
to elect his successor. There will have to be
combinations and compromises, and these
will cause delay, and delay is full of danger.
The republic has enemies, and strong ones.
Avery strong element in the Chambers
would like to see the republic overthrown,
and doubtless its secret agents are already
at work. The people are greatly excited,
and it will be difficult to enforce the law
against the mobs which are liable to gather
at any hour.
M. do Freycinet was the favorite in the
second ballot taken yesterday, but he may
not be able to secure the necessary ma
jority. It is believed that the elec
tion of either M. Ferry or M. do Frey
cinet would give great satisfaction in Ger
many, but it is far from certain that either
of them could insure to France a stable
government.
M. Grevy is 74 years old. When he was
35 he vvas elected Vice President of the
National Assembly and member of the Par
liamentary Committee of Justice. When Na
poleon 111. became Emperor he retired to
private life. In 1868 he was the acknowl
edged leader of the French bar, and was
elected to the National Assembly.
In 1876 lie was elected Presi
dent of the Chamber of Deputies,
and in 1879 he was chosen President of the
Republic, to succeed Marshal Mac Million.
In 1885 he was re-elected for another term
of seven years. He has had a busy and
rather remarkable career. While not a
brilliant man, he is an able one, and was a
much safor President than his successor is
likely to be.
The Boston Journal, a Republican paper,
perhaps inadvertently paid u glowing tribute
to the Democratic administration the other
day when it expressed its satisfaction with
“the running of factories of all kinds on fuM
time,’’ the “immense volume of general
business,” “increased railway earnings,”
good reports from the chief trade centres,
and “no menacing or disturbing influences
in the money or stock markets.”
A book-keeper in a New York wire fac
tory has merely to glance at broadsides of
figures, row after row. to declare the result
instantly. He doesn’t know how he does it,
which is about the only part of the story
the public will believe.
The New York Republicans gave every
encouragement to the lalior movement in
the hope that it would capture Democratic
votes. The Tribune patted Henry George
and Dr. McGlynn on the back, and wished
them God-speed.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1887.
No Tariff Measure Framed.
It is about certain that the Democratic
leaders have done nothing toward giving
shape to a measure for reducing the tariff.
They have undoubtedly discussed the tariff
question from all possible standpoints, and
have agreed that a reduction in the reve
nues must be made. They have also found
out that the Republicans will oppose reduc
tion unless they are permitted to dictate the
terms upon which they will consent to it.
As Republican dictation is not on the Demo
cratic programme the hostility of the Re
publican side of Congress to any tariff
measure which the Democrats may propose,
may be looked for.
The question of the most importance is
this: How many Democrats dan Sir. Ran
dall carry with him to the Republican side
when the fight for tariff reduction begins?
It is admitted, of course, that Mr. Raudall
will be found in his old position so far as
the tariff is concerned. If he cannot in
fluence any’ Democrats to join him his al
liance with the Republicans will not be suffi
cient to obstruct tariff reform legislation.
Home of the protection Democrats a few
days ago expressed the opinion that they
had been making a mistake in opposing a
reduction of the tariff, and that their record
on that question in this Congress would be
quite different from that of previous Con
gresses. If they do not again change their
minds, a tariff reform measure will be car
ried with their aid.
Mr. Carlisle will 1* re-elected Speaker,
and on him will devolve the responsibility
of dealing with Mr. Randall. He will cer
tainly refuse to attempt to discipline Mr.
Randall, unless ho becomes thoroughly sat
isfic'd that the good of the party requires
him to do so. He refuses, however, to talk
about Mr. Randall’s case, or to express an
opinion with regard to the proper course
that should be adopted with regard to him.
He thinks that if he is elected Speaker, it
will lie time enough then to decide upon his
course with respect to Mr. Randaii. His
position is undoubtedly the right one. If
he should not be elected Speaker, it would
be embarrassing for him to know that he
had acted as if he were certain to be elected.
Attention has been quite widely drawn to
the statement that Mr. Carlisle, in the last
Congress, did not announce the committees
until a month after the meeting of Con
gress. Mr. Carlisle explains the delay satis
factorily. If he becomes Speaker of the
present Congress he will bo ready to an
nounce the committees in a very little
w hile after Congress meets. If Mr. Randall
will consent to act with his party on the
tariff question it is about certain that he
will be made Chairman of the Appropria
tions Committee again.
A Burdensome Decision.
There are a-good many cranks in Wash
ington, and all of them are not outside of
the departments of the government. One
of them is in the Post Office Department,
and he has rendered a decision that is giving
a great deal of trouble to business men in all
parts of the country. The decision in ques
tion changes the rules relating to the trans
mission of second, third, and fourth-class
matter through the mails. According to it
matter of these classes which contains labels
and business cards, or any other printed in*
structions, directions or advertisements, ex
cept the simple name and address of the
parties for whom it is intended, cannot
legally pass through the mails. Asa
consequence a great deal that is now
received through the mails looks
as if it had met with a
misfortune of some sort, the objectionable
cards or labels having been either scratched
out or covered with paper pasted over them.
The words “attorney,” “printer,” “grocer,”
etc., and also cuts of buildings are forced
into hiding by the new order. The decision
wifi cost business men who have on hand
large quantities of envelopes and wrappers,
which have cards and pictorial illustrations
upon them, a very large sura. It is quite
safe to say that stationery that will have to
be destroyed will amount to many liun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
If the objectionable printing and
illustrations are marked out or covered the
stationery can still be used, but what busi
ness man will care to send letters and papers
through the mails in coverings which look
as if they had been gathered from the
sweepings of his office f
It is to be regretted that it is stated that
Georgia is the home of the author of this
unjust construction of the postal laws—a
construction that is productive of great loss
and annoyance.
The Philadelphia Ledger complains that
15,000 children are unalile to enter the
schools in that city owing to lack of room,
and says that they ought to lie provided for
even if it involves an increase of taxation.
The Record throws some light on the sub
ject when it says that the Board of Educa
tion asked for $‘237,000 for repair and altera
tion of school buildings, but the Finance
Committee of the Council cut down the
allowance to $120,000. “This,” says the
Record, “is the usual see-saw which has re
sulted in the deplorable inefficiency that
keeps children out of school for lack of room,
and by imperfect sanitation sickens others
who go to school.” Philadelphia seems to
be in sad plight with regard to her schools.
If the Council is afraid to take steps look
ing to an increase of revenue, it might try
the experiment of reducing expenses in
other departments of the city goyernmejit.'
A Pensacola man, M. P. Hickey, a friend
of Senator Jones, is in Detroit and is trying
to get the Senator to return to Florida. If
lie continues stubborn, it is said that legal
proceedings will be begun to have him
declared insane. There are doctors rea y,
it is alleged, to give the proper certificates
that he is not in his right mind. The Sena
tor says that if his friends will let him alone
he will complete the business which brought
him to Detroit within a year, aud that then
he will quietly leave the city.
The New York World calls attention to
the fact that there are in New York and
Brooklyn thirty-six opportunities for a fire
panic every Sunday. The Boarl of Fire
Underwriters publishes a list of that num
ber of churches that are liable to be burned
down at any time ou account of defective
heating apparatus. This is a matter for
gravo consideration. Church-goers are
quite as mnch entitled to protection as
theatre-goers, and if the matter stands as
described by the board, it cannot be too
soon remedied.
A Republican exchange says: “If the
1,200 Republicans who were waiting to cast
their ballots in Norfolk, Va., when the polls
closed there last month, had been allowed
to vote, that 426 Democratic majority in
the Statu would have been turned into a
Republican majority of 774.” Procrastina
tion is a very bad thing. If 10,000 voters
had been left waiting when the polls closed,
the result would not have been diffeiou.*
CURRENT COMMENT.
Probably True.
From the Baltimore Herald (Rep.)
Jake Sharp will Dever be convicted again.
Under the rulings of the New York Supreme
Court he is as good as acquitted now.
Lamar’s Tact.
From the Philadelohia Record !Dem.)
Secretary Lamar's report is full of tact in that
it completely answers ex-Land Commissioner
Sparks without seeming to answer him.
The Transposition of Two Vowels.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
Property holders in some parts of Texas are
complaining of rhe taxes. This is one of the
vicissitudes of living in a State where the mere
transposition of two vowels makes taxes out of
Texas.
An Independent Opinion.
From the Sew York Herald (Tnd.)
A correspondent discusses in the Commercial
Advertiser some of the reasons why baldheaded
men are bald. He omits, however, tbe main
reason, which is that they have no hair on the
top of their heads.
BRIGHT BITS.
Should pigs that run at large on the streets be
considered public pen shuuners J— Cleveland
Sun.
“The Canadian papers are calling Mr. Cham
berlain a Jonah He ought theu to lie able to
get on the inside of this tUh question. —Boston
Post.
Gkrster has lost her voice, sure enough, but
if it is ever found it will be easy to identify it.
There is no other of the same pattern.—Phila
delphia Press.
“1 see the dude has got into the latest edition
of Weiister’s Dictionary.”
“Has he ? Well, hurry, then, and slam the
covers down " — Ch icago Sews.
The Brooklyn Ragle claims that President
Cleveland will live iu Brooklyn. We violate no
confidence iu stating that Mr. Cleveland will
live for five years longer in Washington.—De
troit Free Press.
Hakdbhips or Housekeeping—l'm going to
leave, mum!
“What for ? lam sure I have done all the
work myself, in order to keep a girl.”
“Well, mum, ther work's not done to suit
me:"—Puck.
Start-lino.—He (rapturously)— And now that's
all settled darling. What kind of an engage
ment ring would you like?
She—Oh, gold this time. I hope, dearest, I'm
quite sick of wearing imitation engagement
rings. Tableau! -Punch.
Omaha Wife— What under the sun are you
doing?
Husband -Trying to tie this string around my
finger.
‘'Why, I did not ask you to do any errand.”
“No. This string is to remind me that I have
nothing to remember to-day.— Omaha World.
Hvphocondriac— l am feeling very blue this
morning.
Doctor—What's the matter?
“Every time I feel my nose it hurts me.”
“But you are not obliged to tee! your nose.”
“But how can I tell whether it hurts unless I
feel it.”— brum the German, in Texas Siftings.
“So you are to be married?”
“Yes. and to the nicest girl in the world! Char
ley, she's worth a million!”
“You don't say so! Harry, I congratulate
you, old boy!”
“Yes, she'sworth a million of such girls as one
sees in society.”
“Oh,” Charley murmurs as he goes off:
“Poor devil, how I pity him '."—Boston Tran
script.
“Now, Bobby,” said his mother, “you are
tired and sleepy. So say your prayers and jump
into bed.”
“Ma,” remarked Bobby, as he assumed the
devotional attitude, “if it wasn't for one thing,
I don't b’lieve I’d say any prayers to-night.”
“What is it, Bobby?”
“I wouldn't like to go to bed without asking
God to take care of my rabbits.”— Texas
Siftings.
Such an affable man! I was glad we had met.
For he made a short hour most pleasant;
He spoke in a way I shall never forget
On questions concerning the present.
His opinions they suited my own to a TANARUS;
I regretted that hour's brief durance.
Then my coat by the button he took, and,
said he:
“Are you carrying any insurance?”
—Puck.
First Wood Sawyer—This 'er is a hard, hard
world, no chance for employment at all. How
I’d like to knock off and go duck hunting like I
did when 1 was a boy.
Second Wood Sawyer—You must be crazy.
“Crazy because I want to go duck hunting?”
“Clean daft. In Maryland, where I just came
from, duck hunting is a regular trade, and men
are mid so much a head for all they kill. I have
been a duck hunter for six years.”
‘' What on earth arc ve doin' out here?”
“I came here to saw wood for a Pest.”— Omaha
World.
PERSONAL.
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, cost the
British taxpayers $3,250 for his "Garter.”
Hon. B. F. Shively, of Indiana, said to be the
youngest member of the House of Representa
tives, is for a government telegraph.
Millionaire Carnegie advises young busi
ness men to shun three things. First, liquor
drinking; second, speculation; third, endorsa
tion.
Ex-Land Commissioner Sparks’ friends are
in doubt whether to vindicate him by running
him as a candidate for Congress or for Gov
ernor of Illinois.
The House of Representatives to assemble in
Washington next Monday will, for the first time
since reconstruction times, be without a single
colored member.
A Republican editor writes to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press that the quarrel over division in
Dakota may lead to the election of a Democratic
delegate to Congress next year.
The President of the French Republic has the
exclusive right of the shooting in the Marly
Forest, near Paris. Grevy's last bag contained
seven roebuck, 230 pheasants, forty rabbits and
one rat.
When Miss Adelaide Detchon returns to
America, prettily blushing under a giant load
of Old World honors, she "'ill live chiefly at her
old home at Hartford, Conn., whore her father
is a well known physician.
The most youthful prisoner in the peniten
tiary at Chester, 111.. is a little child who was
born there tw o months ago. her parents being
behind the bars for arson. When their sentence
expires she will lx nearly a grown woman.
S. O. llackley, of Anderson, Ky„ an old
soldier, preserves os a relic of war times a little
paper of quinine which a doctor gave him on the
battle-field of Camden, N. C , twenty-four years
ago, when the precious drug was worth SSOO
an ounce.
Hon. B. F. Jones, Chairman of the Republi
can National Committee, in an interview that
appears in Wednesday's Pittsburg Commercial.
Gazette, says that he does not lielieve Mr. Blaine
entertains the slightest desire or intention to be
nominated for the Presidency next year. Mr.
Jones said he did not wish to be considered as
making a definitive or authoritative statement;
but he itased his conclusions upon what Mr.
Blaine had voluntarily said to him w hen he was
his guest a year ago, at the time he came to
Pittsburg in the Beaver campaign. Mr. Blaine
had stated substantially the same views the dav
before he sailed for Europe in conversation with
Mr. Jones at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The case of Riddleberger, who looms up as
of importance to them again, is giving the Re
publicans more annoyance than they are willing
to confess. He is a strange man, given at times
to an individual lino of action, and more than
ever ail OJiect of apprehension to his party as
sociates, since his final break with Mahone.
There is probably no warrant for the talk that
he is likely to ally himself with the Democrats
during the remainder of his term. But that he
w ill exercise any power he may tind himself in
possession of, to the discomfiture of certain of
his Republican associates in the Senate, may
with entire safety lie assumed. He likes neither
Mr. F.dmimds nor Mr. Sherman, aud this leads
to the conclusion that Mr. Ingalls will continue
to till the Vice President's chair. How Mr. In
galls. with bis taste and talent for a wrangle,
has managed as he has done, to escape a col
lision with the Virginia Senator is one of the
strangest of things.
Gen, Spinola, of New York city, will have a
new story to tell among his colleagues at the
national capital. In the closing days of the
last local campaign Gen. Spinola addressed his
fellow citizens' at Second avenue and Twenty
forth streot from a truck, on tbe merits of the
respect ive candidates on the local tickets. Speak
iug of the candidates for District Attorney he
said; “The United Democratic candidate for
District Attorney is John R. Fellows. He is a
life-long Democrat, has had nearly twenty years
experience in the District Attorney's office. Is a
close student, has a well equip;*-,! and analyt
ical niiml for criminal law and its application.
You should all vote for such a candidate.
Whom Lave the Republicans placed against
him? Nicoll. the tailor. Would you vote
against such a man ns Fellows for Nicoll, the
tailor, and a cheap Bowery tailor at that?” One
half the audience saw the point made by the
Tammany wag, and the other naif believed what
he said. The result watt the Kama.
WM. JONES AND MRS CLEVELAND.
A Peace Man is Struck with Admira
tion of the President's Wife.
Boston, Not. 29.—William Jones, Secretary
of the Peace Society, is a member of
the peace delegation which is now in this coun
try. He called on Mrs. Cleveland a few days
ago with a letter of introduction from Miss
Frances E Willard, and this is what he says in
a letter to a friend in this city about the inter
view:
"My reception waa most gratifying. There
is a charm of manner, a perfect simplicity, and
w inning smile which place you quite at ease at
once with ‘the queen of tiO.OOO.OW of free peo
ple.’ She alluded to Miss Willard as a dear
friend of hers, with whose work she is much in
sympathy. When I told her that, on Miss Wil
lard’s invitation, it was my intention to ad
dress at Nashville, Tenn., the National Con
vention of women on the subject of peace and
good will, and hoped I might be permitted to
say there that tho highest lady in the land
was in sympathy wilh their great obiects,
the promotion of temperance and of
peace, she assured me of her earnest
sympathy with them in their labors. She
also evinced great interest in some brief
allusions to my own personal experiences, in
times of peace and of war, in Europe, in
stancing herself the condition to which the
peasantry of Italy are reduced by war taxation,
as observed by herself during her sojourn there.
My promise to send her my pamphlet of ‘ltaly
and Militarism,’ was responded to with pleasure.
Throughout the interview Mrs. Cleveland im
pressed me as being a woman of noble aspira
tions, far above the mere love of position or of
display. Her sympathy with suffering evinced
in tier feeling allusions to Nashville aud tho
South, where I was going, in reference to which
she oliserved. ‘There you will find they know
something of war in its reality,’ showed an
earnest desire on her part for the establishment
of righteous and humane national relations in
place of the miseries of war. The position of
influence she occupies, I ventured gently to re
mind her, afforded a vantage ground for speak
ing a fitting word in season which might prove
of incalculable bles-ingto her own people and
to the world at large. ’ ”
A Marvelous Canary Bird.
Fro::: fAe Portland (Oe.) Aetna
It was recently learned that George Horn, tie
veteran drummer, who served as a musician
with Gen. Sberraan during the recent un
pleasantness. liad a wonderful canary bird, and
a reporter called at bis residence to see and
hear it. Tl)o proud owner of the feathered
musician conducted the reporter to a sunny
room, where the bird was confined in a small
cage.
Mr. Horn at once began to whistle the old
German waits tune, "Buy a Broom." After
listening a moment, the canary, who seemed a
little shy and bashful before a stranger, exe
cuted two bars of the pleasant old tune and
then stopped as though nervous.
”1 guess he is diffident about performing be
fore anyone with whom he is not acquainted,"
said Mr. Horn, "and we will therefore retire to
the next room. ”
After the room occupied by the bird was
vacated Mr. Horn again whistled "Buy a
Broom," and the bashful bird heal’d it and re
peated four bars as distinctly and clearly as
though it was played on a cornet or piccolo by
a skilled musician. The only halt he made was
on the last note. This portion of the tune was
repeated several times to the delight of the
listeners by the miniature musician.
“The bird," said Mr. Horn, "is twelve months
old. and it has taken about nine months to
teach him to sing what you have just heard.
My little 10-year-oTd daughter, Ella, and myself
teach him by means of this instrument." It
was a xylophone which Mr. Horn pointed to,
and he seized the sticks and rendered finely
several airs on it for the edification of his
visitors.
Continuing, Mr. Horn said: "The bird sings
in the key of D and goes up one note above the
high C, It takes a good singer to reach this
same note, and I believe Adelina Patti and the
great Jenny Lind are the only ones I ever heard
who could do so with ease. I have been a drum
mer with bauds and orchestras all my life and
know whereof I speak. I think the reason the
bird falters on the last note is because it is too
low for the register of his voice."
Was It a Plesiosaurus ?
Prom the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Siorx City, la., Nov. 22.—While workmen
were engaged in digging a cistern at the farm
of Mr. D. H. Talbot, just outside the city limits,
on Saturday, they came across a mass of
strange-looking bones at a depth of about three
feet from the surface. They gathered up about
a patent bucketfull before the thought occurred
to them to have the discovery investigated. Mr
Talbot, whose 1 fe is entirely devoted at present
t i scientific research, was notified by telephone,
and yesterday went out to the farm in company
withj. C. Hoskins, the representative of the
Sioux City Scientific Association. A thorough
exhumation and careful examination was
made.
The gentlemen had the remains laid in their
respective places as nearly as possible, which
showed that the remains were those of some
kind of an animal of the reptile species. Mr.
Hoskins states that in his judgment it was a
plesiosaurus, a reptile of the cretaceous period.
This specimen was about 20 feet long, being a
very large ope. He said that during the cre
taceous age the plesiosaurus was an inhabitant
of this country, which was then nothing more
than a huge swamp. They lived by prey. It is
unfortunate the workmen broke the bead of thp
remains of this animal. However, a part of
the jaw was secured. This contains the teeth,
which are about 1 inch to ! % inches long. They
are coated black, and still reiain the gloss. Mr.
Hoskins says that the animal must have died
while in a fight, as the neck bones show that the
neck was broken. The remains were found in a
side hill, which properly would make it a depth
of about 300 feet below the surface of the earth.
Women in the Sleeping Car.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
It is one of the inscrutable mysteries of life
why the slowest and most "pernickity’’ and
most selfish of women generally obtains pos
session of the dressing room first, and holds it
until the patience of every other woman in the
car is about exhausted. Regardless of the com
fort of others she washes, and pow ders, and
puts up her hair, and lets out her bangs and
brushes her teeth, and manicures her nails, and
arranges her collar and cuffs, and all the rest of
it with the calm deliberation of one who has
nothing to do but loaf, and the whole day tie
fore her to do it, while her suffering sisters are
waiting—waiting with unkempt hair, and grow
ing ire, her painful and selfish slowness. From
all these, and the many minor miseries of a
sleeping car, women pray to be delivered—
though, by the way, they should do something
more effective than praying. If nothing better
could be devised in the way of accommodations,
one great improvement could be easily put iuto
practice, and that is to have a car for women to
themselves. That alone would reduce the dis
agreeables of night travel very considerably,
Sixty Thousand Useless Words.
From the Buffalo Courier.
“There is no man living," said a public school
teacher the other day, "that knows every one of
t he 75,000 words in Webster'sUuabridged Diction
ary, nor half, nor a third of them. Nor is there a
man that could defiue them If he were asked.
Shakespeare, who had the richest vocabulary
used by any Englishman, employed ouly 10,000
words. Milton could pick out from 8,000, but
the average man, a graduate from one of the
great universities, rarely has a vocabulary of
more than 3,000 or 4,000 words. Right here in
Buffalo there are Americans born and bred who
contrive to express all their wants and opinions
in 3XI words, and in the rural districts the
knowledge of 150 or 200 words is sufficient to
carry a nian through the world. So the una
bridged dictionary is cluttered up with 00,000
or more technical or obsolete words that you
never hear in ordinary conversation or see in or
dinary books aud newspapers.
A Ten Thousand-Dollar Watch.
From the New Orleans News.
The death of -Mr. Alfred Denison removes a
well known figure from London society. He
was a younger brother of the celebrated George
Anthony Denison, Archdeacon of Taunton, aud
of Mr Speaker Denison, afterward Viscount
Oossington. Laxly Oossington presented her
brother-in-law with SIO,OOO for certain services.
This money Mr. Denison invested in •sumptuous
watch. Avery musical repeater of the best
workmanship was inclosed in a gold case liter
ally studded with jewels, and each jewel a
picked stone. The watch chain had a succession
of black pearls, and ik- signet was a scarahieus.
The worst of this costly whim was that the
owner scarcely dared w ear the watch for fear of
being robbed In the street, and could not leave
it at nome for fear of a burglary.
The Small Boy In High Clover.
From, the New York Evening Sun.
We’re livin' on the topped shelf.
We've everythin* from goose to grouse,
I haiu’t been licked for most a week,
’Cause we’ve got comp’ny’t our house.
When we’re alone my ms is strict.
An’ makes me Keep as still's a mouse,
But now I make a heap o’ noise.
'Cause we’ve comp’ny’t our house.
We've peach preserves an’ pumpkin pie.
An" jelly cakes three times a day,
An’ I’m havin' such a bully time
1 wish't our comp'ny come to stay.
Perhaps Anthony Comstock will soon bring
his guns to bear on the wearers of undressed
luds. —Fruvidenec Evening TtArgrum.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
North ebn capitalists are reported to be ne
gotiating for the purchase of Wallop's Island,
on the northeastern coast of Accomau county,
Virginia, where they propose to erect a number
of pleasure houses.
Field hands in China are paid sl2 per annum,
with food, straw shoes and free shaving. It
costs about $4 per year for clothes. A great
deal of Chinese land is divided up iuto farms of
one-sixth of an acre.
A Nashville business summary says building
in and around that city is very brisk. Plansand
contracts for new buildings for next year are
plentiful. News from surrounding towns within
thirty miles show that there is givat industrial
activity.
Recorder McCord, of the Probata Court in
Cincinnati, says that as a rule women are less
selfish than men. He comes to this conclusion
after reading 100 old wills. In which he found
many oases where the husband made provision
to cut off tbe widow's supplies in case she re
married ; and In his whole experience he has
read but one will of a married woman wherein
any such stipulation was made respecting her
husband.
John L. Murry, of Westport, Conu., now a
veteran of 87 years, is a tailor, aud remembers
well when he sat as a journeyman at the same
table with Andrew Johnson, w ho, he says, was
not a good tailor, although he did become
President of the Cnited States. Mr. Murry
relates with appreciation his experience in that
city in 1844. He was drawn on a jury, and lost
so much time that he afterward joined the
' olunteer Fire Department to escape jury duty.
Soon afterward occurred the great Broad street
fire, at which he received injuries that laid him
up for sixteen months.
The Buffalo Express says that this is the way a
countryman explained to a friend the use of the
new police patrol boxes of that city: “You see,”
he said, "the people in town here want a po
liceman sometimes, and, by gol I whenever they
did want one, or if there was a fight goto’ on
anywhere, the pol'cemen would all run away
and hide 'cause they don't want to arrest any
body. So they put these little iron boxes on the
corners and they put a policeman in each one of
them, so that he can’t run away, and then the
town folks all carry a key to the box is, and can
go aud find a policeman whenever they want
one.”
There was some interesting testimony about
partridges in a Hartford, Conn., court the other
day when H. H. Hewitt was charged with sell
ing partridges that had been snared. One of
the exhibits was a bird that had no signs of shot
about it, but had a mark about its neck just such
as a snare would make. One of the witnesses
swore that partridges died in a queer way. He
was out the other day and fired at two birds,
each of which was brought in by his dog, but
had no shot marks. Tbe birds fell when he
fired. Whether they were scared to death he
did not know. There was also testimony that
partridges were accustomed to dash themselves
against trees and break their necks or die of the
concussion. One gunner testified that when his
dog brought in a wounded bird, he (the gunner)
killed it by biting its neck. This evidence was
apparently intended to account for the ring
round the neck of the bird in court. The result
of the testimony was that Mr. Hewitt was dis
charged, the State not being able to beat that
sort of swearing.
They conduct their religion on business princi
ples in Chicago, according to this story of a par
son there: “I was in the office of one of my
parishioners.” said he. "He was a fair type of
the Chicago Christian, and I broached to him
the subject of a revival. He ran over his calen
dar with his pencil for several weeks ahead, and
then answered that I couldn’t coimt on him un
til after Dec. 1. He said he had to have his
stove put up in about a week. Then he had to
have anew winter overcoat, and about the mid
dle of November he had to go to the opera. He
said all this in a cool, business-like way, and
with no intention of being funny, for he has no
humor in him. I thought it was time for me to
appear in the role of missionary, and I said to
him, ‘But the Spirit says dow.’ ‘I can’t help
it,’ ho replied petulantly. ‘The Spirit must un
derstand the rales of commercial comity, aud
give me at least three days of grace.’ I don’t
think he meant any levity or play on the word;
but I confess that I was stumped!”
Edward Wilmot Blyden is perhaps the ablest
negro in the world. He can read the Koran in
Arabic, the Bible in Hebrew, Homer in Greek,
Virgil in Latin, Shakespeare in English, and
Dante in Italian. Though a native of the island
of St. Thomas, he was brought up in Monrovia,
Liberia, and there, by his unusual literary
ability, he has attracted attention to himself as
the champion of a negro civilization that shall
be coterminous with the limits of the Dark Con
tinent. Blyden controverts the idea of Win
wood Read that the natives in Africa will dis
appear before the whites, as the Indians did in
America. The climate will save them, and, in -
Steal] of being destroyed by the Europeans,
they will be civilized by the efforts now being
made to open Africa to commerce and settle
ment. To Blyden the Anglo-Saxon is hard of
heart and strong of will, while the negro is the
child of love and suffering. Blyden is a com
plete Know-Nothing, and his cry is “Africa for
the Africans.” He is likely to have few to op
pose him in this matter, for not even the chil
dren of Africans raised in America can be in
duced to remain there if they have the means
to get away.
The death of the Jewish poet, Kmma Laz
arus, takes from Hebrew and American liter
ature one who was not more devoted to
the Interests of her race than she was com
petent to take a high rank among the female
poets of the country. She has been cutoff in
the middle of her career, with her best work
yet to be done; but what she has already
accomplished, both in prose and verse, en
titles her to high distinction. The Jewish
Messenger says of her: “It is rarely that a
writer combines such vigorous and masterful
prose with such glowing and exquisite verse.
Her literary work was always clear-cut, and in
her impetuous mood each stirring phrase se ‘rued
coined from her soul.” She was as mod. st as
she was gifted, as eutbusiastic for humanity as
She was for her race, and Jews and Christians
alike deeply and sincerely mourn her loss as
one who blended the best elements so perfectly
in her life that she delighted and spiritually up
lifted all who knew her. Her first volume was
published in her 17th year, and her translations
and her original work were of a very high order.
It would lie well if her writings could be brought
together in a complete form. They are worthy
of such treatment.
The first statue of the poet Longfellow will be
erected in his birthplace, Portland, Me. The
sculptor to whom the commission was given by
a memorial association formed in Portland soon
after the poet s death, was Mr. Franklin Sim
mons, a native of Maine, who, unfortunately
for his art, has elect ed to spend the greater part
of his professional life in Italy. The clay model
which has Just been finished in Rome, will be
put in bronze within the next six months, and
the statue wall probably be unveiled in Portland
in the late spring. An account of the statue in
a very eulogistic vein, wiiich recently appeared
in the Paris American Register, contains the
following: “The poet is represented in a
sitting attitude, the light arm resting in
an easy position on the back of a richly
carved and ornamented chair, while the
other is thrown carelessly forward on his lap,
and loosely holding a mass of manuscript. The
ample folds of the cloak falling from t he shoul
ders sweep nrouud and cover the knees in a
manner that is at once natural and graceful as
an example of artistic composition. The space
bemsath the chair is broken by some st ray vol
umes that serve alike to fill a vacancy and to
form a suggestive adjunct of a minor nature
The head, leonine almost in the flowing locks so
characteristic of the man, is inclined slightly
forward in a thoughtful way. and is expressive
of modest and dignified Intellectuality as its
B revailing sentiment. The height of the figure
standing, would be 10 feet, and the pedestal
upon which it is to rest is to be 11 feet in eleva
tion.”
The movement to restore the Old Brick
church at Sroithfield, Va., which is supposed to
be the oldest church iu Virginia, has been suc
cessful, and the restoration is nearly complete.
This church was built in 1035. and was occupied
continuously for two centuries. Among other
contributions to the, restoration were 2,000
bricks which had formed the walls of the Bav
church, which, though of later date, was asso
ciated with tiie Old Brick church. These bricks
have passed through several hands since thev
were torn from the Bay church, having served
most of their time in a fanner's kitchen, while
part of them stood for a while as the walls of a
burying ground. Now they strengthen the
walls of the restored Old Brick Church. The
I™ .s Jl i ßt J’ ,u on rest red edifice
are. the fourth set. The first, put on in 1032
remained till 1787-10S years; In 1737 the second
set was put on and remained until 1821 (81 yearsl
when new ones were substituted for them.’
These remained until the present summer, when
they were removed, the church root having
fallen m. There will lie twenty-one stained glass
memorial windows In the church. On the side
■ hewn 9 m .! ht ' ch,lr E h on<> "'ll b" a memorial of
the Indian I rmcess Pocahontas, the Hist fruits'
of the gos|iel m \ irgima. The window innne
uialely opposite this one, on the nort i, side will
be a memorial of the Rev. Robert Hunt the
SIX < ' brißtian England to heathen’vir®
piiia, and the one immediately west of hi* will
Ear? oM3i2?i ( i'i l n r °, suih l arkpr ' °h <>f the
bar ! of Macclesfield Parker a mem Her of Wash
that dwtricu 1 ' the flrMt mei “k® r of Congress from
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