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4 CkHlorningllctos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. VKDMi'DAY, DE< I'.MBKB 7, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ~~Tbe Morning News Is published every day in he year and is served to subscribers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers, ou their own a • count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 tor six months and *lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, J 1 00; three months, $2 00; six mouths, $5 00; ene year. S2O 00. The Mornino News, by man , six times a week (without Punday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday’s, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $6 00 The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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Special Notices— Job Printer Wanted: Tin keys and Chickens, John Lyons & Cos .; Grand Turkey Shooting Match; State and County Taxes, 1887. Wholesale Grocers —G. Davis & Son. Jewelry, Etc.—Theus Bros. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steanship Cos. Boned Turkey— A. M. &. C. W. West. Amusements— “ Evangeline” at the Theatre. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— Sundries, by D. R. Kennedy, To Everybody— Lovell & Lattimore. Peanuts— C. M. Gilbert & Cos. Legal Notice— Demands Against Estato. Jugs— A. Ehrlich & Bro. Oranges— A. Ehrlich & Bro. The President’! message is short, but to the point. The Republicans are baiting their books for Senator Riddleberger by making him conspicuous on committees. Gen. Sheridan appears to have a small Pi-esidential boom. Ho had better handle it carefully or he will discover that it is a bomb. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, does not think the present session of Congress will last until midsummer. He seriously objects to its prolongation to that extent. During the fever epidemic at Tampa, the Journal was issued regularly. When an employe succumbed to the disease it was not the signal for all to quit, but for a fresh display of courage on the part of those who were well. Great interest centres in the trial of Thomas Wool folk, now going on in Macon. The slaughter of Woolfolk’s family was one of the moat horrible on record, and the evi dence against the young man cannot be easily overcome. Judge Henry B. Tompkins, of Atlanta, Gen. Pierce M. B. Young, of Cartersville, Ga., and Mr. A. M. Collyar, of Tennessee, are being pressed by their friends for the Mexican Mission. They are all good men, but the chances of all of them are not first class. Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, counsel for the Mormons who want Utah admitted to the Union as a State, says that the Terri tory’s admission would go far towards de stroying polygamy. Congress will not be apt to regard the matter iu this light. What is there to prevent Utah, as a State, from amending any constitution that she may adopt i Some of the leading Republicans in Vir ginia express the opinion that Mahone will not got the empty honor of being put for ward by his party for Senator. A few of them are said to have already commenced an active canvass to defeat that end, but it is generally thought that most of the Re publican members committed themselves to the “little boss” during the campaign. Ma hone is an object of contempt to Virginia Democrats, and he seems to be losing his grip, so to speak, on the affections of the Republicans. Congressman Townsend, of Illinois, says he recently met in Now York a gentleman who had been making a quiet canvass for funds to prosecute the preliminary Republi can campaign next year. The gentleman assured him that one-half the merchants, bonkers and others whom he approached upon the subject asked if the money was to be expended in Mr. Blaine’s interest. They said they would not contribute a penny. The evidence of Mr. Blaine’s weakness with th* people is accumulating, but neverthe less the Republicans, it is believed, will nominate him. The Message. The President’s message will lie read with surprise and approval—surprise because of the radical difference between it and previous papers of the same character, and a pprovnl because on account of thisdiffer j ence it calls attention all tbe more strongly to the one subject that in importance over shadows all others. The President deals only with the finan cial matters of the government. He calls attention to the steady increase of ihe sur plus, the amountof which,it is estimated,will reach $140,(X)0,000 by the end of the present fiscal year, and he discusses the various suggestions which have been made for get ting rid of it. The conclusion he reaches is that the only legitimate way of dealing with the surplus is to reduce the revenues so that they will amount to no more than are necessary to meet the needs of the gov ernment economically administered. He points out the danger to the financial and industrial interests of the country which is threatened by the withdrawal from circula tion of so large a part of the currency, and he comments on the harm which might be done by the Secretary of the Treasurj' in distributing millions cf dollars of the sur plus, by purchasing unmatured bonds—the only legitimate way at present in which the surplus can be distributed outside of the regular appropriations—in compliance with a demand for relief in an apparent financial emergency. He presents the two plans for reducing the revenues—the repeal of the internal revenue and the reduction of the duties 4 n imports—and discusses their merits at length. He shows that there is no particu lar demand for the repeal of the internal revenue taxes, because these taxes do not increase the price of the necessities of life. The people who use whisky and tobacco are perfectly satisfied with the present prices of these articles. In fact, it would be better for the people if the prices of them were much higher than they are, if higher prices would tend to re strict their use. The conclusion which the President reaches is that the reduction of the revenues should be effected by a reduc tion of the duties on imports, and he enters into an elaborate argument to show that this reduction can be made without detriment to the interests of manufacturers or working men. He wishes to be distinctly understood that he is not discussing pro tection and free trade theories, but simply urging a reduction of tbe tariff, and seeks to make it very clear that in making the re duction the interests of the manufacturer and the working man should be kept steadi ly in view. It is apparent, however, that he has but little sympathy with the assertion which the advocates of protection continually make, viz., that all the industries of the country are infant industries, and, there fore, must be assisted. With the aid of pluck, energy, skill and wonderful natural advantages, the time has come, he thinks, when our industries should be able to take care of themselves to a much greater extent than they did when they were, in fact, in fant industries. In speaking of the wages of our working men the President calls attention to the fact that the number of them who, it is asserted, are benefited by protection is small compared to the whole number of workingmen in the country, and argues that it is a question, when the increased cost of living due to protection is taken into consideration, whether they jar.-, benefited at all by a high protective tariff. The plea which the President makes for a reduction of the tariff is a strong one, and can hardly be without its effect upon Con gress. The financial affairs of the country should receive the attention of that body before any other important question is con sidered. There is not a member of either House who does not know that the last Congress made a grave mistake in not reducing the revenues, and if this Congress delays making the reduction until the coun try is iu the midst of financial troubles, it will deserve and receive the censure of the entire country. Speaker Carlisle, in his remnrks before the Democratic caucus, spoke of the great re sponsibility that rests upon the Democratic party at the present time, and his plea for a united Democracy was not a mere formal >ne. It was made with a full realization of the fact that without Democratic hurinony there eau be no reduction of taxation, and a firm belief that a failure to reduce taxes would be followed by financial disasters, and that such disasters would jeopardize the success of the Democratic party in the next national campaign. A Chance for Immigrant Agents. The colored people are leaving Beaufort and Hampton counties, South Carolina, in large numbers. They are seeking new homes in Arkansas. They have been led to believe by labor agents that they can make a better living in that State. The colored people who went to Kansas a few years ago from different parts of the South were very much disappointed. Those who are going to Arkansas will be lucky if their experi ence is not similar to that of the Kansas immigrants. If the labor agents are anxious for colored immigrants they should come to Savannah. They ought to be able to gather up a good many here. There are hundreds of colored people in this city who do not seem to have steady employment, and who apparently don’t want it. They are to be found on the street corners at all times of the day, and the stoops in Yamacraw and at the Old Fort are filled with them when the sunshine is inviting. It will be quite a serious question before long how this surplus colored population is to be supported. There is, of course, more work in the city than there ever was before in its history, but the number of colored people who aro attracted here by the at tractions of the city, is simply enormous. Many come, and few, if any, go away. If Arkansas immigration agents have any in ducements to offer, they cannot find a bettor field in which to offer them than in parts of this city. There is no disposition to find fault with the colored people who are here, but they can hardly fail to see that they are crowding each other, and that, in consequence, the demand for their services is not quite as brisk as it was. There are too many idlers, and as these idlers look as if they had plenty to eat, they must be something of a burden to both the white and thrifty colored people. South Carolina, which was the first State to secede trom the Union, has just succeeded in getting a Legislature to pension disabled Confederate soldiers. A good many of the members, who imagined that they belonged to the family of “watch dogs of the Treas ury,” objected to the measure. It is an un grateful State that will not look after her disabled soldiers. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1887. The Nominations. Tiie nomination of Mr. Lamar to the va cant place on the Supreme Court bench, and the nominations of Mr. Vilas and Mr. Dick inson, tho former to the Secretaryship of the Interior, and the latter to the Postmas ter Generalship, were sent to the Senate yes terday. 4 These nominations were not unexpected. It has boon understood for months that Mr. Lamar was the President’s choice for Su preme Court Justice, and a very good choice he is. Mr. Lamar may not be as familiar with precedents as many other lawyers, but he is thoroughly familiar with tho princi ples of the law, and is a man of comprehen sive mind and liberal views. When in the Senate he was re garded as one of the ablest members of that body. At the head of the Department of the Interior he has increased his reputation as a statesman, and there is no reason to doubt that on the Supreme Court bench he will rank with the most distinguished of those who have held places in that tribunal. There is probably a little opposition to his confirmation, but it is not sufficiently strong to cause either Mr. Lamar or his friends un easiness. Mr. Vilas will have a broader field for his energies as Secretary of the Interior than he has as Postmaster General. If he does as well as Mr. Lainar has there will be no occasion to find fault with him. It is said that he has effected some very excellent re forms in the Post Office Department, and there is not much doubt that he has made a good Postmaster General. Perhaps he will be fortunate enough to be equally as satis factory in his new position. Nobody kuows, of course, whether Mr. Dickinson has administrative ability or not. Ho has a fine reputation as a lawyer and has health and youth to aid him. It is not often that so young a man reaches so high a position at a single bound, as it were. Although always taking an active part in politics, he has never before accepted an office of any importance. He takes charge rf a department that is well organized and is running smoothly, and if he fails it will be his own fault. But there is no proba bility that ho will fail. Prohibition Constitutional. The opponents of prohibition got no satis faction from the United States Supreme Court. They thought they could have pro hibition laws declared unconstitutional. If they had succeeded the prohibition fight would have come to an end at once. A couple of cases in which the constitu tionality of the Kansas prohibition law was questioned was decided by the Supremo Court on Monday. A synopsis of the de cision appeared in our dispatches yesterday. The Anti-Prohibitionists asked that the law be declared unconstitutional because it limited the rights of a citizen and because it destroyed a citizens’ property without offer ing him any compensation for his loss. The restriction of a citizen’s liberty, it was explained, consisted in preventing him from manufacturing whisky or beer for himself or any one else, and the destruction of property consisted in rendering a brew ery valueless. The court said that it had always been held that the State had a right to determine what was injurous to its citizens, and to place restrictions ujxm that which was damaging to them or hurtful to public morals. There was no question that intoxi cants were harmful because tho abuse of them was productive of pauperism and crime. With regard to distilleries and breweries the State has the right to abate them as nuisances. The ownership of the property remains unchanged, but the State has the right to say that it shall not be used for purposes which it regards as harmful. The constitutionality of prohibition legis lation being upheld by the highest court in the country, it is not improbable that pro hibition will become more popular than ever. The new men in tho present Senate are Messrs. Pasco, of Florida, Farwell, of Illinois, Turpie, of Indiana, Stockbridge, of Michigan, Davis, of Minnesota,Chandler, of New Hampshire, Blodgett, of New Jersey, Hiscock, of New York, Q ay, of Pennsylvania, Bate, of Tennessee, Daniel, of Virginia, Faulkner, of West Virginia, and Reagan, of Texa i. Messrs. Hearst, of California, and Paddock, of Nebraska, who are also counted among the new members, have previously served in the Senate. Of the above, three, Messrs. Farwell, Davis and Hiscock, were born in tho State of New York, and one, Mr. Pasco, was born in Lon don. Of the dozen new Senators, six are natives of the States they represent. In the House there are of course a great many new members. Messrs. Gr.mes, Stewart and Carlton, of Georgia, are.uatives ot this | State. Indiana seems to be prolific in masters of parliamentary invective. Since Senator Ben Hill’s death, Senator V’oorhees has had the reputation among Democrats of inter jecting the most irritating questions Into his speeches and of tearing to shreds the arguments of his opponents. Mr. Blaine pronounced him “the hardest hitter among tbe opposition,” and Mr. Conkling and Mr. Edmunds admitted his strength as an “all round” debater, while Mr. Ingalls attacked him with more caution than he generally displays in pouncing upon a victim. But the new Senator from Indiana, Mr. Turpie, is said to tower over him intellectually, and to equal any member of the Senate in vitriolic oratory. The most pronounced advocate of prohi bition among the Republican leaders is Senator Frye, of Maine, and should that party declare openly for it, Mr. Frye would be the proper man for them to nominate for President. He says that his party will be compelled before long to favor the total suppression of the liquor traffic or to disin tegrate. The Senator in his younger days did not object to taking a drink now and then, but he became convinced that the use of whisky was a curse to the people, and has since advocated prohibition. Should Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, be renominated and re-elected, his length of service, including his new term, would be eleven years and six months. His oppo nents are trying to use this against him, but his friends may point to New Jersey and New York for precedents of long ser vice. Gov. Williamson, of New Jersey, served twelve years, and Gov. George Clin ton, of New York, served eighteen yoars. ; Rotation in office is a very good thing when tho man who comes in is superior to the man who goes out. It is claimed by the local paper that in Martha’s Vineyard, a county in Massa chusetts. neither crime nor criminals exist, and that the people dwell in peace; the jail is useless and policemen are unknown. This is a wonderful state of affairs—too wonder ful to last. CURRENT COMMENT. An American Prerogative. From the 11 ashington Post ( Deni .) The richest public benefaction of the holiday season is the great American privilege ot abus ing Congress. Why He Wouldn't Run Well. From, the Few York Times. (Inel.) Critical athletes declare that Foraker wouldn’t make a good run either at the head or the tail of a ticket, because he keeps bis mouth open too much. _ Another Ohio Idea. From the Sew York World (Deni). A writer to the Cincinnati Commercial-Ga zette occupies a column and a half in trying to persuade the Republican leaders to abandon the State of New York in the campaign of 1888. It takes an Ohio man to originate startling enter prises. Something' to His Credit. From the Sew York World i Demi Let it be said to t he credit of the new President of France that he proposes to drop the first sec tion of his name at once, and see if he cannot manage the Presidency without a hyphen. He will be known hereafter as President Carnot. This feature of his administration meets our hearty approval. BRIGHT BITS. First Old Maid—Sarah! Sarah! Second Old Maid—What do you want? “There’s a burglar in the house.” “Tell him if he ain’t already married I’ll take him.”— Boston Post. The Cincinnati Graphic, an excellent illus trated paper, has been obliged to suspend. The owner lost some $40,000 printing an illustrated impel- in a town where the people can’t see through the smoke.— Omaha World. “What kind of a game is this you are trying to work?” asked the Judge, detecting one of the prisoner's friends engaged in packing the jury box. “The panel game 1” cried a voice in the au dience.— Judge. “I see that Washington City dealers are lay ing in large quantities of corkscrews,” remarked Mrs. Snaggs. “What do you suppose they are for?” “Ob,” replied Snaggs, “they are getting ready to open Congress. ” — Pit-tsburg Chronicle. Omaha Boy—O, ma, does that passenger train carry A narchists ? Ma—Why, no, of course not. “But it’s a red flag on behind. ' “Thai is simply a danger signal ” “O, I s’pose the cars have stoves in ’em.”— Omaha World. “Mrs. Gewgaw must lie a woman who suffers great distress,” remarked Mr. Pert, as he ob served the lady in question exhibiting a very profuse array of jewelry. "Sue hasn't that reputation, sir,” replied Mr. Oracle; “why do you infer so?” "Merely from the way she rings her hands," was the response.— Yonkers Gazette. At a Restaurant: Irate Customer—Waiter, look here; this isn’t a beefsteak; it’s a paving stone, I call it. Waiter hurries up and courteously remarks: “Oh, we thought we might safely offer it to monsieur.” “How so?” “Because monsieur has such a splendid set of teeth.”— La Gaulois. Young Mr. Softy's cousin had been thinking for some time. “Charley,” she said, “you are a college grad uate, aren’t you?” “Ya’as,” he replied complacently. Then she fell to thinking again. "At what college did you graduate, Charley?” “Yale College, Maude.” More thinking. “A penny for your thoughts, Maude,” said Mr. Softy, who always lias money in his pocket. “I was wondering, Charley,” she replied, “if Yale College isn’t rather an inferior educational institution."— Texas Siftings. Omaha Man—l wish to secure your influence in favor of having the Presidential conventions meet in Omaha. Washington Statesman—Have you good hotel aceom modal ions ? “Plenty and to spare.” “Good board?” “Omaha is the very centre of the food supply of the nation; everything in abundance.” “Good air?” “Fresh from the Rockies.” “How’s the water?” “Not fit to drink." "Well, we’ll come."—Omaha World, PERSONAL. Miss Ethel, Sprague, it is saic, will begin her dramatic career on the stage of the Boston Mu seum. The wife of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is in poor health and will spend the winter in Aiken, S. C. Chari.es Carrot ;., of Maryland, and his bride, Historian Bancroft’s granddaughter, will soon sail for Europe. Gen. Butler has become a pronounced cold water advocate. He will present Colby Uni versity with a handsome fountain. Mr. Bright, after a season of grand sport on the Tweed, has returned to Rochdale. The ven erable orator is a keen angler and enjoys the sport immensely. Mr. Ruskin realized £I,OOO from his books last year. The great critic's mind may be shaky upon minor things, but in the matter of s. and. it is level as a well appointed Lillian! table. Dwight L. Moody is now in the West with a view to knocking a little religion into the heathen. Had Mr. Moody always stuck to Chi cago there might have been no Anarchist execu tions. Bishop Taylor, now in Africa, refuses abso solutely to touch the appropriation for his sal ary made by the Methodist church. He is will ing to use money appropriated for his work, but wants nothing for himself. Mrs. I.ovise Chandler Moci-ton has received the library of the dead poet. Philip Bourke Marston, left as a token of friendship to her. She was a valued friend of ihe blind poet, and one of his staunch admirers. William Florence, the actor, affectionately known as 'Billy," has dropped into poetry and it is feared that the disease will grow on him. He contracted it at Pasadena. Southern Cali fornia. We did not think Bardwell would do it. John L. Murray, of Westport, Conn.,' once worked side by side as a tailor w ith Andy John son. Had he continued to work beside him while Andy was enforcing his policy it might have kept the man from Tennessee nearer to his seam. Lord Mayor de Keyser. of London, holds the rank and precedence of an English Earl during his year of office, and in case of the sovereign's death he would he called to the Privy Council pending the proclamation of the new monarch. Miss May Merrill has been admitted to the bar of Sedgwick county, Kan., and Mrs. Bitten (lender and .Mrs. Fanny O'Linn have been licensed to practice law iii Dawes county, Neb. The last named ladies are the first women to be admitted to the bar in Nebraska, Mr. Labouohere writes: "King Leopold, of Belgium, is notoriously one of the most alian doned profligates that ever sat on a throne, and a worthy descendant in this respeetbf the Dukes of Saxe-fobiirg-Gothn, who were among the most brutal miscreants ever known in Ger many.’' Sbnator Ingalls is a very ready writer, and his vocabulary is a mixture of Carlyle, Addison and the best of the classics, interspersed with the characteristic phrases of Western life. He thinks by steam, and his brain works like the wheel of a dynamo, striking off intellectual sparks at every turn. He gives yon anew idea with every word, and every word tells. His sentences are a series of surprises. Senator Eyarts’ house in Washington used to be full of young girls. His daughters have all married off except Miss Mary Evarts, who remains at home. .Miss Evarts is anxious to retire from active social life, as she finds the round of gayeties at the capital something of a bore, but her father will not permit her to go iuto seclusion. He takes great interest in her toilets, and complains that she does not pur chase enough evening dresses to please him. It is so seldom that the father of a young woman in society makes such a complaint that Senator Evarts stands almost alone in this matter. Anthony Joseph is the name of the Repre sentative that the Territory of New Mexico will have in this Congress. In the southern part of the Terrltoiy he calls himselt and is known as Antonio Josepho, for in that section the Mexi can voters most do congregate. Up where the Americans and Germans east their ballots, he has his election posters printed in big letters as Anthony Joseph. He is a Democrat, anil makes a speech occasionally. He had a hot fight for his place last fall, and some of the boys said ho was no good, hud no influence in Washington, and ought to be bounced. Anthony thought he would make a si>eech in reply to tiiese attacks, and lie did it one day- in Santa Fe. “They tell you, 1 ' said he to the crowd of listening Mexicans and cowboys, “that I am incapable of repre sealing this Ten itory in Congress. Why. since I have tieen in Congress 1 introduced 108 bills and resolutions, four of which passed the House and one passed the (Senate. ’’ "Yes," shouted a wicked listener, "and that single one was vetoed by tue I'residoMt ” MR. PETTIS’ FALSE TEETH. He Wanted the Doctors to Cut Him Open and Look for Them. From the New York Sun. Oil City. Pa., hoc. 3.—Mr. Walter Pettis, a prominent citizen of Sinelairsville, is the vic tim of an odd incident that has created a great deal of amusement in this section. In attempt ing to eat an apple the other day he discovered that ids false teeth were missing. He at once concluded that he had swallowed them, He said to his wife that he could feel them in his stomach, and hr. Stevens was summoned in much haste. The doctor made a careful diag nosis and was at a loss to know how a large plate, covering the entire upper jaw, and this tilled with teeth, could pass in o the stomach and Mr. Pettis not be aware of it at the time. Dr. Stevens said some soothing words to his patient, and advised him to not think much about the teeth, and withdrew. Mr. Pettis did not believe this treatment heroic enough for such an extraordinary case as his, and, taking his wife with him, boarded the first train for Buffalo, where he could con sult an eminent surgeon. Dr. Stevens, in the meantime, telegraphed to Buffalo to tie sure the teeth were in the man from Sinelairsville before cutting him open. Two or three Buffalo doctors examined Mr. Pettis, and were unable to locate the hard substance which he assured them was slowly killing him. Mr. Pettis was of the opinion that he should he cut open without delay, as he knew it would come to this sooner or later. At this juncture a telegram was received from Dr. Stevens back at Sinelairsville that the plate, with all the teeth intact, had been found between Mr. Pettis' house and his barn. In re ply to a crowd of grinning neighbors, who met Mr. Pettis at the depot on his return, he said: “I suppose you fellows are awfully tickled, but you are not tickled half as much as I am, and dou't you forget it.” The Lawyer Floored. The Boston Herald tells this story of Mr. N. J. Brndlee, who was the Citizens’ candidate for Mayor there: “There is a lawyer in this town who, not long ago, undertook to make out Mr. Bradlee a rather obscure sort of a man, but his success in this effort was not such to encourage a repetition of it. The lawyer was acting as counsel in a suit in which the value of a certain estate was the question at issue. The party to whom the lawyer's clieut was opposed had sum moned Mr. Bradlee as an expert on the value of real estate in Boston, and the opposing lawyer, not being acquainted with Mr. Bradlee. under took to counteract the effect of his testimony. In the cross-examination the questions and answers were somewhat as follows: “What did you say your business was, Mr. Bradlee?” Itegan the lawyer. “Well, I have charge of a good many trusts, m stly real estate,” said Mr. Bradlee. ‘‘How much real estate have you ever had charge of at one time?” “Weil, I don't think I can say exactly.” "But how much should you guess?” “I couldn't even guess.” ‘‘Well, sir, would you say it was $5,000 worth?” ‘T should put it as high as that, certainly.” “Would you put it as high as $10,000?” “Yes.” “Fifteen thousand?” “Yes.” “Twenty-five thousand?” "Yes.” “Fifty thousand?” "Yes.” “A hundred thousand?” “Yes.” “Five hundred thousand?” “Yes.” “A million?” “Yes.” “WeU, how many millions?” roared the as tonished lawyer, who only now began to dis cover t hat he had caught a Tartar. “Well,” said Mr. Bradlee, very coolly, “I told you at the start I couldn’t say, but, since you insist on it, I will roughly estimate it at, say $100.1X10,000.” “You may stand down!” said the flabber gasted attorney, who was very soon non-suited. “On the whole, m view of the experience of this bantering lawyer, w e wouldn't advise any body to undertake to question Mr. Bradlee’s business experience or capacity.” One cf Mrs. Cleveland’s Predecessors in the White House. From the Utica Observer. Washington Dec. 2.—1 noticed a remarkable instance of the ups and downs of Washington society in one of the street cars here yesterday. The car was crowded, and a number of young men, some of whom were extreme dudes, had seats. No ladies were standing except one col ored servant girl. At this moment a fine-look ing, gray-haired lady, richly dressed, entered the car. She was over the medium height, as straight as an arrow, and she had one of the kindest and most beautiful faces I have ever seen on an old woman. Every line of her face was refined, and thou h her thick hair was of a silvery white, her bright blue eyes were full of life. She w-ore mourning, and there was a crepe veil fastened to her bonnet. She stepped into the car, and, seeing there were no seats, she un assumingly caught hold of a strap and prepare! to stand. She did stand for two squares, and none of these Washington dudes rose to give her a seat until they were asked to do so by a gen tleman standing beside her. Still this lady was once mistress of the White House, and she presided over a part of the ad ministration which socially was as brilliant as any n our history. It was John Tyler’s daugh ter, who is now an inmate of the Millionaire Corcoran's home for old ladies, and who, not withstanding her reduced circumstances, is as fine a lady as lives in the world to-day. 1 recog nized her as she took her seat, and as she did so the contrast between now and nearly fifry years ago entered my mind. She was then as much feted and toadied as Mis. Cleveland is to-day. She must have been fully as beautiful as Mrs. Cleveland, and 1 doubt not the society columns were full of her doings and her dresses. Then street cars were unknown, and her brother John, “the handsomest man in Washington,” drove his four-in-hand. Now- John lives off his income as a Treasury Clerk, and his sister is dependent upon the benefactions of a million aire. Truly Dame Fortune cuts strange capers in this world of ours! Why Americana Die Young. From the Boston Courier. “You have a great country,” said an English man to an American; “I admit it. A grand country, vast in its territory and of boundless resources, but your climate cannot compare with that of England for salubrity.” “It cant?” “Certainly not.” “Why, pow, our climate is one of the principal things wc pride ourselves upon. We have all kinds to suit—frigid, temperate, torrid—and each possessed of a salubriousness equaled no where else in creation.” “But it is averred that Americans die early." “Die early?” “Yes, sir, and especially your business men.” “And don't you know the reason?” “ “It is found to tie in the nature of your cli mate, I presume.” "In the nature of our climate! No, sir. The reason Americans flip early is because they ain’t hogs, because they know when they've got enough. Public spirited, patriotic and unselfish, they die early, sir, to make room for the rising generation." His Summer Girl. From the Sew York Star. A rosebud she: This ball her first. Lived man so free Who ever durst Pluck thing so fair? An old fool I, In such a place. To ever try Win such a face For boutonniere. A dude was he, With bangs immense In seconds three To all intents He’d got there. Collar Characteristics. From the Manchester Courier. The linen collar exercises a subtle influence over men. For liiHtap.ee, there i a vast amount of clearly expressed character in collars; and all the human attributes that are illustrated by outward signs of negligence or studied care, slovenly untidiness or scrupulous neatness, strict cleanliness, primness, or self-conceit, tlnd ready exemplification in this tell-tale garment of the neck. Personal idiosyncrasies, too, are made prominently manifest: wo could all of us name several individuals, both in public and private life, concerning whom it might aptly he said, “By their collars ye shall know them.” Callings and avocations, even, have come in some instances to be similarly indicated, as witness the orthodox round comers of the coachman's infle ible collar, and, if the long bound from the care of horses to the cure of souls may lie pardoned, the equally uormal adjunct of the cloth ecclesiastic, “Haven't you had about enough of that free lunch i" asked a saloon keeper of a seedy indi vidual who hod eaten three-quarters of the lay out. “See here! you let a man alone when he Is doing something for the benefit of his fellow men.” “I don't exactly understand” “Ob, you don't? Well, I've seen this here same lunch for a week, and I want the next man who comes in to have something fresh.Jtt&e. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Titbac, a small town ih Pima county, Arizona, claims to be the oldest settlement in the United States. Its town records extend back to 1539. Ip West Florida tobacco can be grown equal to the finest Havana, why not try what South west Georgia can do on that line? Fifty cents per pound for a prime tobacca beats cotton at U@loc. The young sons of John Burdick, of Aledo, IIP, found thirty snake eggs and hatched them in the sun. The.y now have thirty little spotted adders, all as tame as kittens, which they feed on milk. The latest in church entertainments is a Shaker village fair. The ladies of an Albany (N. Y.) Methodist church originated it. All who are connected with its management dress in plain Shaker costume, wearing no jewelry or orna ments of any kind. Mrs. John Newman, of Jasper, Tex., heard her dogs baying the other evening, and going out of doors she found that they had driven a handsome buck deer into a corner of the fence near the house. Procuring an ax, she dealt the animal two powerful blows on the head and killed it. The discovery of water at Raton, N. M., by the sinking of an artesian well is hailed with delight by the settlers in that part of the Terri tory. It is now thought that water may be found on the Maxwell land grant, and if such should prove to be the case the land will be greatly increased in value. William Dunlap, of Chillicothe, Mo., had been ill for several weeks, and last Friday he felt sure that he would die before night, fie therefore called in his daughter and her be trothed. and had them married at his bedside. He gave the young couple his blessing, and in the evening he was dead. The Piute Indians of Nevada are just now en gaged in their annual rabbit hunt. It is their custom to form a circle ten or twelve miles in diameter and gradually contract it until large numbers of rabbits have been driven together in the centre. Then the slaughter begins, the little animals being killed in thousands. The population of Loudon and the amount of space to be patrolled have increased far more rapidly then the police force Its relative weakness is unfortunately well known to the roughs, and, what is worse, these natural ene mies of order have of iate begun to think that the police is no longer so sure of support, by public opinion and the Home Office as it was. Peter White is an Indian who lives in the forests near Terryville, Conn., and makes a living by hunting and fishing He claims own ership to the entire neighborhood, asserting that his fathers of the Pequot trib#never sur rendered their title. He says he will defend his rights with his gun, and has already killed three dogs which were set upon him. He is about the worst Indian outbreak New England has had since King Philip’s time. The great cottonwood frees in the swamps of Tennessee contain veins of clear, sparkling water, which tastes somewhat like unsweetened soda water and which spurts forth as if under gaseous pressure when a vein is punctured. It is said to be deliciously refreshing, and hunters are in the habit of carrying gimlets with which to pierce the veins when they are thirsty. It is a point of honor with them to plug up the ori fice when their thirst is satisfied, so that the next comer may not be disappointed. A fair in aid of the Home for the Destitute Blind was opened Tuesday in New York at the Brunswick. Eight large booths line one of the large parlors, presided over by ladies who are interested in the institution. Two tables are devoted entirely to articles made by inmates of the home. Brushes, basket-work, carving, and not only plain-sewed clothing, but complicated crochet work, bear witness to what the blind can be taught . Two booths, rich in fancy articles of all kinds, are presided over. George Dahn, aged 8 years, of Columbus, Ind., was bitten on the thumb by a large rat Sept. 1, that had been chased until mad. The wound bled a little, and whisky was used as an antidote. Nothing more was thought of the matter till two w eeks later, when the child’s lower limbs began to swell and became almost as large as his body. He was also thrown into spasms, and remained in this horrible condition until only a few days ago, suffering untold agony. He has had the best medical attention to be found here and is now recovering. His flesh, however, has wasted away till he is only a living skeleton and his veins bloodless. He is now slowly improving, and it is thought he may get well. Mitchelet says that a “woman ought to make herself up like a bouquet,” a touch of violet in her hair, a scent of rose upon her lips, a dash of wild olive on her hands and a bit of cherry blossom on her dress. Some of Hie newest dresses from Paris have come with bits of perfume in the pockets that smell like sanda: wood. It is an ancient custom to put scents in clothes. John McCullough bought a lovely gold-embroidered jacket from a Persian bazar in Paris. It gave a lasting odor to every trunk in which he packed it. One day he looked it over to find the origin of its enduring perfume, and found two lumps, one of musk and another, of ambergris, stitched into the lining. It was a very old garment and had belonged to a caliph of Bagdad. Haroun al Rasehid, or somebody away back in the “Arabian Nights.” When Gen. Lee, the President of the Missis sippi Agricultural College at Starkville, was asked the other day why it is so successful, he replied: "We have never lost sight of the pur pose for which we were founded. On the con trary, we have always steadily pursued it; or ganized as an agricultural college, we have al ways been one; everything we have done has been done with an eye looking to the improve ment of the agricultural community. We have taught practical farming, our experiments have been of a practical nature, and the farmer at first disposed to resent the insinuation that his children could be taught how to make land pro ductive better here than at home, has about come round, and now comes here hims if with his troubles. We get inquiries every day from farmers in regard to farm matters, all of which are promptly answered.” During a hailstorm at Mors, in Denmark, a few days ago. a flash of forked lightning—the only one occurring—struck a farm house, and, having demolished the chimney stack and made a wreck of the loft, descended into the living rooms on the ground floor below. Here its career appears to h ive been most extraordinary, all the plaster around doors and windows hav ing been torn down, and the bed curtains in the bedrooms rent to pieces. An old Dutch clock was smashed into atoms, but a canary and cage hanging a few inches from it were qnite un injured. The lightning also broke sixty win dows and all the mirrors in the house. On leav ing the rooms it passed clean through the door into the yard, where it killed a cat, two fowls and a pig, and then buried itself in the earth. In one or the rooms were two womra. both of whom were struck to the ground, but neither was injured. The cost of a single day of fog to the gas con sumers of London may be gathered from figures compiled .rom official sources. Wednesday was a day of dense and continuous fog, neces sitating the extensive use of gas, and on that day the quantity of gas supplied to London by the Gas Lignt and Coke Company amounted to 103,fiti4,000 cubic feet, or 83,000,000 cubic feet in excess of the quantity sent out by the same company in tho corresponding day of last year. The above excess in the supply of goswou and represent the supply to a town of from 10,000 to 12,000 inhabitants for a whole year. In addi tion to the quantity supplied by the company mentioned, there were supplied by the other two Metropolitan Companies—the South Metropoli tan and Commercial—about 45,000.000 cubic feet, making a total consumption for London on a day of tog of nearly 150,000 000 cubic feet. Approximately the value of this gas was £41,- 00(1, of which cost from £7,000 to £B,OOO was directly due to the fog In 1888, on a day of similar fog, a great strain was put upon the companies. The expulsion of foreign Jews continues with increased rigor on the part, of the Russian authorities. From Nieolaieff 300 families have been expelled beyond the frontier during the last month. Their ease is peculiarly hard, see ing that the whole of these families have been domiciled in Russia for the last 20 to H 0 years. From three to eight days has been tho general limit of the official notices of expulsion. In a few cases only where the Jews had extensive business connections one month's notice has been vouchsafed. A large number of foreign Jews engaged in commerce in this city have taken alarm at the summary treatment, of their co-religionists at Nieolaieff, and are hurriedly winding up their business contracts. Auriter adds that no matter how long these jews have lieen domiciled in Russia on foreign passports, they are now being expelled without tne opti on of becoming Russian subjects. According to a paper published at ICharkoff large numbers of young Jewish women in Kremontschug and in several populous centres of the Taurida have recently adopted the orthodox faith, owing to extraordinary scarcity of marriageable Jews from emigration ami other causes. The newly converted Jewesses, it is stated, readily find Russian husbands Anthony Comstock should go ami arrest him self. It is now said that the top of bis head is entirely “uude.”— Boston UloUe. BAKING POWDER. V* E i 8 CREAM bsjj’ERFECT Its superior excellence proven In millions of )omes for more thana quarter of a century. Iti* sed bv the United States Government. In lorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as he Strongest, Purest and most Healthful Dr. Vice’s the only Baking Powder that does not ontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in 'aus. . FRICE BAKING POWDER CO. KWW TOME. CHICAI o. st. r/vu. A. R. ALTMAYER CO. WE’LL BE ready to wel come the house ful of the season from Monday till Saturday. Grentle m. e n’s &5 50 Hand-Sewed Shoes —down to — 00. We have looked over our list and provided full and plenty for all. We cannot itemize the vast array of wonderful bar gains to be found in this es tablishment, but we can pluck a few for your especial benefit, and if we don’t hit the mark here come around and see us, we certainly have an immense stock to select from. There is no idea so peculiar that we cau t hit it. “Altmayer's" DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. One case fast color Calicoes, regular price 5c., price while they last 2c. per yard One case ail wool Red Flannel, 22-inch, sold last week at 30c., this week 19c. BLANKET DEPARTMENT, One case 10-4 White Wool Blankets, fancy border, regular price $1 36, this week 99c. One case 12-4 white all wool Blank ets, reduced from $8 to $5 ; this week only. GENTS' FURNISHINGS. 50 dozen Gents' all wool Scarlet Undervests 75c'., regular price sl. CLOAK DEPARTMENT, 500 Children s Cloaks, in solid colors, plaids, checks, stripes, etc., with or without Hood, beautiful goods, price $2 75 to $5; worth double. Tuis week t nly, your choice of our fine Plush Wraps, satin quilted linings, fur and plush trimmed, regular price $25 to $35, this week onlv, down to sl7 50. BOYS’CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. 300 Boys’ Wool “Kickabout” Suits, extra pair Pants an J Polo Cap. In checks, stripes, plaids, etc., Norfolk style, price for this week only #3 50, worth $5. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. We have ever- conceivable idea in Plaids. Stripes, etc. Evb*y winsome nlaid and stripe newness is here. Special for this only. 50 pieces Dress Goods, Combination lot Plaids, Stripes* etc., 38a; regular price 50c. and 75c. 500 pieces Dress Silk, in black and solid colors will run them this week at an advance of 5 per cent, above cost. SHOE DEPARTMENT. ' 38 dozen Children’s Kid and Pebble Goat Spring Heel Button Shoes, sizes sto 8,75 c.. worth sl. 250 pairs Youths’ all solid School Shoes, but ton and low solar tips, $1 25, worth $1 75. ty Mail orders receive careful and prompt at tention. A. 11 ALTMAYER <fc CO.. BROUGHTON AND BULL STREBTS. I ZONWEISS CREAM. BnnBHBBBBBBM) FOR THE TEETH T* made from Neio Material*, contains no Acid* Hard Cfrii t or injurious matter It is Pub*, Rifined, Perfect. Nothing Lina It Evbr Known. From Senator urp in recommending Zonwelbs on account o* it® efficacy and purity.’* From Mrs. Gen. T.otran’s Pentlat, Pr< E. S. Carroll, Washington, I). C —"I have had Zonwelsa analyzed. If la the moat perfect denti frice I have ever Been.” From Hon. Chna. P. Johnson. IS** W* Got. of !Ylo.— ‘‘Zonwelss cleanses the teeth tuor* oughly. Is delicate, convenient, very pleasant, ac a leaves no after taste. Sold bt all dbuggist** Price, 35 centH. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y. For sale by LirPMAN BROS., Lippman’l Block, Savannah. . SEED OAT S. Rust Proof Oats, Seed Rye, APPLES, POTATOES, ONIONS. CABBAGES. , „„ TTrra And all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUTs By every steamer. 25 Cars Oats, 25 Cars Hay, 50 Cars Corn. GRITS, MEAL, CORN EYE BEAN, PEAS, and feed of all kinds. 165 BAY STREET. Warehouse in S., F. & W. R’y Yard. T. P. BOND & CO-