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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings —Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15, F. A.
M.; Savannah Mutual Loan Association; Com
mittee of Arrangements Jasper Monument Un
veiling; Stockholders Central Railroad and
Banking Cos.
Special Notices —Seeds for Early Planting at
Kieffer's Drug, Paint aud Seed House; Notice
to Water Takers; As to Crews of Br. Steamship
Dorset, and Swedish Bark Olof (lias; Dividend
Ontral Railroad and Banking Cos.: tTiatham
Real Estate and improvement Cos.: Notice of
Dissolution, Hohenstein A Maceaw: A I.ong
Felt Want Supplied, .1. O. Penton. Manager.
Ami-rementr— Lecture of President Henry E.
Shepherd, of Charleston College.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale;
Boarding; Miscellaneous.
Xmas Hoods— L. C. Strong.
Our Message— L. &. B. S. M. H.
Self-Raising Buckwheat — Hecker’s.
Xmas Presents—T. P. Bond & Cos.
Bananas— A. H. Champion.
Clothing, Furnishings, Etc.—A. Falk & Son.
Publications—Florida Farmers' Alliance.
Medical— Benson's Plasters.
Mr. Cleveland wants Congress to use the
pnming-knife.
The amount of the surplus warrants the
liberal use of the pruning-knife presented
to Congress by Mr. Cleveland.
It will 1* news for Southerners to hear
from Congressman Brower, of North Caro
lina, that “Cleveland’s popularity was
g, ally lessened 1 y his trip South.”
Hon. James D. Porter has written n letter
in v, liicb he uses such language as to satisfy
the public that he intends to be a candidate
for United States Senator from Tennessee.
Jacksonville’s politicians, after a great
deal of lat>or, have produced a municipal
ticket which doesn't seem to please any
body. Either the framers of it lacked skill
oi- they couldn’t get hold of the right kind of
material.
The Rahway murder is still ft dense mys
tery, and the conjectures that the papers
y-t Indulge in concerning it throw no light
upon it. At this season the New York
papers should be able to get hold of some
thing fresher.
It is not an easy task to make up the
committees of the House, but Mr. Carlisle
thinks he will be able to do the work before
the holiday recess. When the committees
are announced there will be a good many
disappointed Congressmen and a few happy
ones.
The new President of France is a man of
peace, and it is significant of a universal de
sire for peace among the nations of the Old
World that expressions of gratification
come from all the great powers regarding
the peaceful solution of the French crisis.
The declaration on the part of France that
she is for peace the is death-knell of Gen.
Boulanger’s ambition.
The stockholders in New York of the
Keely Motor Company are in a state of ex
citement as to whether Mr. Keely shall
impart his secret to a “custodian appointed
by the court to receive the same.” Mr.
Keely himself has not been heard from on
the point, but it is likely that he will be the
sole custodian of his secret a while longer.
He has been custodian of it so long that ho
has a friendly feeling for it and doesn’t
want to part with it.
The Herald has found a captain of a New
York steamer who says that on his trip to
New York last week the Gulf stream was
running backward. The Herald says that
“this extraordinary reversal of the most
powerful of ocean currents was due to the
great anti-cyclone of high atmospheric
pressure which was hovering over our At
lantic ctfltsts at the close of last week.” Of
course it was. Let the Herald alone for
knowing all about the back-action motions
Of the Gulf stream.
A Secret that Wasn’t Kept.
The measures which were taken this year
the contents of the President’s mes
sage secret until the document was read in
Congress, failed to accomplish that object.
The character of the message was known nt
least two days before it was sent to Con
gress. Several New York papers on Mon
day morning stated that it would deal only
with financial matters and the tariff, and
one of them pretended to give an outline of
the President’s argument in favor of tariff
reduction.
The Tribune, however, tells a rather re
markable story. It says that it
was reported in Wall street on Monday
that copies of portions of the
message were being shown about the
street, and that inquiries tended to confirm
the report. The story was that a Washing
ton stenographer, to whom a large part of
the message had been diotated in order that
he might make a clear copy of that part in
typewriting, had made an extra copy for
himself which he sold to a Wall street specu
lator.
It is alleged that the speculator hoped to
glean something from the message that
would guide him in his speculations. If that
were his object he was doubtless disap
pointed. The message does not seem to
have influenced the stock or grain market
to any noticeable extent one way or the
other.
The newspapers are always anxious to
get a copy of the message before it is made
public, and some of them have succeeded
on several occasions. There is no particular
news in the massage, and it is doubtful if
one-tenth of the readers of a newspaper
which publishes it takes the trouble to read
it at all. But to publish the message before
it is given to the public is regarded as a
stroke of enterprise, and the paper that
succeeds in doing so gets a big advertise
ment.
Th greatest care is exercised by the cus
todians of the message to prevent the con
tents from becoming known until the seal
of secrecy is removed. When the document
is given to the Public Printer that officer
permits only the compositors in whom he
has the most implicit confidence to put it in
type. He keeps it under his eye all the
time and when the needed number of impres
sions is taken the type are distributed and
the original copy returned. It is a difficult
matter, however, to keep anything a
secret that is intrusted to half a dozen or
more people.
Views of the Message.
The comments on the President's message
show that it gives very general satisfac
tion to the Democrats, and creates some
alarm among the Republicans. The Re
publicans pretend to think that the Presi
dent has made a mistake in giving so much
attention to the tariff anti they ridicule liis
tariff arguments. There could be no better
evidence than the way they received the
message that they are afraid that it will
seriously interfere with their scheme.
What is their scheme? As far as can be
ascertained it is to prevent Mr. Randall and
his few followers from joining heartily
with the Democratic party to effect
a reduction of the revenues. “While
they see the necessity for such a re
duction they don’t want the Demo
crats to have the credit of effecting it. They
would like to say how the reduction shall be
made, and reap whatever credit there is to
be obtained from it. They would not mind
seeing the country on the verge of financial
troubles in order to assert that the only way
such troubles can be prevented is to put
their party in control of the government.
They understand very well that if the
Democrats in Congress are united, a tariff
reduction bill will be passed, and that it
will have the assistance of a few Republi
can votes in both branches of Congress. It
is not to be wondered at, therefore, that
they are doing what they can to create a
sentiment against the message. What they
say about it, however, will not have much
effect. The people have read it for them
selves, and have doubtless made up their
min ’s that it is a common sense document
and that its arguments in favor of reducing
the revenues, by cutting down tho duties on
imports, are unanswerable.
It is saitl that Mr. Randall is pleased with
the statesmanlike and conciliatory tone
which Mr. Carlisle has displayed in his in
terviews with him regarding the tariff. If
this is tho case Mr. Randall may help along,
rather than obstruct tariff legislation. If
this proves to be correct a tariff reduction
bill may be sent to the Senate from tho
House nt a very early day.
Gen. Alexander’s Report.
The annual report of President Alexan
der, the President of the Central Railroad
and Banking; Company, must be very grati
fying to the company’s stockholders. It
shows that the company is in a very pros
perous condition, and that the prospect is
that it will continue to be so. The Finan
cial Chronicle, which is regarded as
authority in railroad matters, speaking of
the report, says: •
“Only a glance at it suffices to show that
the expectations entertained with regal'd to
the administration of Gen. Alexander have
not been disappointed. Not since 188)2,
when Gen. Alexander for a brief period oc
cupied the office of President, have we had
such a clear and detailed account of the
aflairs of the property. ”
* * * * * * a
“IV ith reference to the capitalization, Gen.
Alexander finds that the amount of bonds
is practically only $15,101 per mile and the
stock (only $7,500,000 altogether) $5,034 per
mile, making together $30,485 —a very low
figure indeed. As regards the late year’s
earnings, tho company, after paying
charges, 8 per cent, dividends and $115,000
in sinking funds, had remaining a balance
of $158,075. All of which shows not only
that the property is being wisely managod,
but that it is in a prosperous condition.”
Brooklyn is ranking rapid strides in build
ing. Commissioner Platt’s report for the
year ending Dec. 1, 1887, shows that 4,340
buildings were erected during that time, at
an estimated cost of $19,983,414. During
tho preceding twelve months the number
was 4,001 and the estimated cost $19,473,473.
Of the buildings erected in 1887, 1,409 are
private residences, 481 tenement houses, 55
factories, 147 workshops, 131 storage sheds,
363 stables, 30 storehouses, 7 school houses
and 21 churches. Brooklyn has for some
time been objecting to being called New
York’s “little sister.” and her rapid growth
makes the term inappropriate.
Tho Chicago Tribune says the South is
not solid. “North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia,” it says, “are likely to go
Republican.” Illinois, Michigan, Massa
chusetts, California, Oregon, aud ono or
two others are just as likely to go Demo
cratic. There Js cold comfort in the Trib
une's claims.
THE MORNING NEWS: TIII'USDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1887.
Mr. Blount and Mr. Breckinridge.
The personal encounter between Mr.
Blount, of Georgia, and Mr. Breckinridge,
of Kentucky, during the Democratic caucus
the other day, particulars of which were
printed at the time, is the theme of a good
deal o/ comment by the papers. Tho affair
is regretted, but admiration for the manner
in which both gentlemen subsequently
acted is expressed. Mr. Blount's prompt
action in recalling Mr. Breckinridge
and apologizing, is particularly com
mended, and shows him to be a man who
has not only the courage to defend himself
when necessary, but the manhood to make
the amende honorable when he sees that he
is in the wrong.
Each of these gentleman has attained
deserved prominence in the national coun
cils. Mr. Blount has an experience of four
teen years in Congress, and is one of the
best members of the House, industrious,
careful and honest. As chairman of the
Committee on Post Offices, he has been an
unconquerable foe to subsidy hunters, who
liang around the lobbies and infest the gal
leries. His influence in Washington is sec
ond to that of no member of the Georgia
delegation, and he has been placed along
side the strongest men at the capitol. In
his own district he is regarded with great
admiration, and applicants for office desire
no stronger backing than a word in their
behalf from him. He adapts himself to his
suiroundings, and always seems
to be in the right place. His knack of re
membering faces and names has no doubt
won him many votes in his election con
tests, and he is said by his personal friends
to know the Christian name of every white
voter in the Sixth district. It is a fact that
he rarely addresses one of his constituents
as “Mr.” He is a good worker in politics.
For a long time he had the opposition of his
home paper, but he never alluded to it, and
his silence after a while was the occasion of
standing jokes at the expense of the paper.
Mr. Breckinridge is a quiet, earnest man,
a close student, and was one of the best
members of the last Ways and Means Com
mittee.
One of the humorous outgrowths of the
little affair between those gentlemen is that
the Republicans, who, like .Satan, are
always on the alert, are suggesting that a
resolution be introduced providing for a
hall in the basement of the Capitol, where
Democratic contests for the Doorkeepership
may hereafter be conducted according to
Marquis of Queensberry rules.
The Silver Dollar.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in his an
nual report, extracts from which we publish
in our dispatches this morning, calls atten
tion to the advisability of discontinuing the
coinage of the silver dollar for the present
at least, and he supports his position by ar
guments which ap]*nr to be convincing.
It is true that the government has suc
ceeded in getting a good deal of silver into
circulation in the shape of certificates, and
will be able to distribute a great deal more.
The dollars themselves are to a very great
extent stored in the Treo-ury. The people
don’t want them, and would be glad if cer
tificates of small denominations were sub
stituted for the greater part of those in cir
culation.
Tho certificates are acceptable because
they pass freely, and the public is confident
that the government will always redeem
them at their face value, although there is
no pledge that it will do so. If the silver
itself, instead of the certificates, were in cir
culation there would be constant danger of
a refusal to accept it except at its bullion
value. A silver dollar is now only worth
75 cents, and in the shape of bullion that is
all that can be obtained for it.
The Secretary points out that the time is
not distant when the government will have
more silver on hand than it will know what
to do with. In settling its obligations it
pays out such money as the people like best,
and in paying their dues to the government
the people offer the money which they like
the least. The people won’t accept silver
freely, and they pay it to the government
whenever they can. The consequence is
that the government is accumulating a vast
amount of silver money t*yond that held
against outstanding certificates, and beyond
any possible demand on the part of the peo
ple. The Secretary says that this excess “is
absolutely useless for any purpose, and is,
in fact, a menace to the silver which the
people hold and also to the United State*
notes ard national bank notes, to the whole
circulating medium, except gold.” It is not
probable, however, that tho silverites will
heed anything the Secretary says about
silver. They would rather have the silver
coinage increased than decreased.
A recent number of the London l For Id
says that the Queen is profoundly depressed
on both public and private grounds bv the
condition of the German Crown Prince.
Prince William, who would succeed to the
throne in the event of the Crown Prince’s
death, is on bad terms with his mother, on
whom the hopes and ambitions of the Queen
are centered, and is said to be hostile to
everything cherished by her, to hate En
glish methods and liberal principles, and
to be narrowed in his views of politics, re
ligion and society. It is stated that there
is no government in the world, except Rus
sia, where the personal efiaraeter of the
ruler counts for so much in the conduct of
affairs as in the German empire, and the
accession of Prince William would be re
garded with anxiety, and even dismay, by
the Liberals of Germany.
The custom of electing to the Senate
speculators who have so much private busi
ness to attend to that they can’t look after
their public duties sometimes causes embar
rassments. The Republicans of the Senate
are apt to think so. They will stand very
much in need of Senator Jones, of Nevada,
this session, by- reason of the narrow mar
gin of their majority, but Mr. Jones has
not yet put in an appearance, and unless he
improves on his past record it will be some
time before he does. He is rarely seen in
his seat. Why Nevada submits to such
misrepresentation can 1* explained only on
the ground that the Senator is more gener
ous with his money than with his time.
Some of the New Orleans people want
neither Gov. McEnery nor Gen. Nicholls
nominated for Governor of Louisiana.
They believe that neither could poll the full
Democratic vote, because both have bitter
enemies who would not give up their per
sonal antipathies for the g<xid of the party,
aud while they would take no active part
in the defeat of an obnoxious nominee, they
would virtually oppose him by abstaining
from voting. Experience has shown that
fuctional fights among Democrats in the
South generally end with the nomination.
An industrious Maine boy recently sold
over twenty pounds of lead to an Augusta
junk dealer. It was rifle balls which he had
dug from the embankment back of the
State militia practice targets.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Reducing the Tariff.
From the W ashington Post Dem.)
Democratic work is what the country has a
right to expect at the hands of a Democratic
House of Representatives.
Wherefore of the Whyness.
From the St. Lou it Republican (Dem.)
Senator Frye is a Blaine man. He doesn’t,
want any magnetic politicians snooping around
after his seat in the Senate.
A Sign of the Times.
From the Philadelphia I‘rex* (Rep.)
The demand for pennies and other small coin
is still greater than the supply. This would
seem to indicate that the people are beginning
to take care of the pennies and let the dollars
take care of themselves.
Work Required for Everything.
From the Birmingham Herald (Dem.)
Though the Democracy has New York and the
solid South, nine more electoral votes are re
quired to elect a President. These votes are to
be obtained from States that are doubtful, and
the Democracy has no time for horse play or
monkey-shines.
How the Customer Feels About It.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
Polite salesman (who has just disposed of set
of furniture on installment plan to confiding
customer) —Here is an agreement which you
sign, merely as a matter of form, you know.
We keep it locked in our safe for your protec
tion. Put your name just above that dotted
line.
Confiding customer (signing document, by
which he places everything he has except his
immortal soul at the disposal of the furniture
company)—Thank you, sir. With pleasure.
BRIGHT BITS.
Only a little “s" divides the speculator and the
peculator.— The Earth.
London mobs want to act on the square, but
the police won't let them. — Detroit free Press.
Speaking of the coal business, let us keep
cool. It is quite easy and much cheaper.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
The man who undertook to read the last
census through has concluded to wait for the
revised edition of 1890and take anew start.—
Puck.
When a mad sees a foot ball match for the
first time he thinks it is two base ball teams
having their inning w ith the umpire.— Yonkers
Statesman.
Cruises never was called upon to act for a
season as financial manager of a national opera
company. That is why he is known to history
as a man of some means.— Chicago Tribune.
Miss Garrett, sister of the ex-President of
the Baltimore and < )hio railroad, is about to dis
pose of her stock in the line. In other words,
Miss Garrett is about to become a cellar.— Ohio
State Journal.
Satan, if he takes any concern in mundane
affairs, would doubtless feel much gratified at
witnessing a marked falling off in the receipts
of the American Board for the coming year.—
Christian at Work.
“It takes longer for a man to find out man
than any other creature that is made," says u
philosopher. Not so, my half baked friend. It
takes longer for a man to tiud out a woman.—
Somerville Journal.
After the dinner given to Mr. Roswell Smith
Ml Frank R. Stockton remarked carelessly:
“We were seven hours at the table.” Now,
three meals a day at that rate would be all that
any man ought to expect.— Epoch.
Every once in a long, long while some con
science-stricken wretch returns to the govern
ment $25 which he stole from it three years ago.
The $5,000 which he stole last year he keeps as a
reward for his honesty.— Burdette.
The quickest way- of doing a thing isn't always
the best or most satisfactory way. A gas leak,
for instance, is easiest discovered by going in
search of it with a lighted lamp, but very few
people care to try that method more than once.
—Boston Transcript.
“Mary,” said a lady to her maid, “I am going
to take the train to-morrow morning at 6
o'clock.”
“All right, ma'am.”
“Yes. And I shall want you, consequently, to
wake me up at 5 o'clock."
“Yes'm. Btit— l spose—”
“What do you suppose, Mary?"
“I s’pose you’ll ring the liell for me. ma'am,
about a quarter to five, so's I'll be sure to be
awake to call you at live, ma'amf'— Youth's
Companion.
PERSONAL.
The new President of the French republic is
near-sighted.
John G. Whittier will celebrate his eightieth
birthday ou Dec. 17.
Mr. Powdkrly says he will start for Ireland
about the last of May.
The wife of Senator Ingalls is a hard political
student, despite the cares of a large and grow
ing family.
Sunset Cox is now the only Democratic mem
ber of the House who participated in the Demo
cratic caucus of 1856.
Edgar Allan Poe. of Baltimore, is a member
of the Freshman class at the College of New
Jersey in Princeton.
Russian Minister Struve was warmly Wel
comed on his return to Washington. He Is one
of the most popular diplomats at the capital.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, is said to be
dissatisfied and restless. His loving subjects
are not as loving as loving subjects ought to
be.
Ezekiel Peabody, of Ipswich, Mass., who will
be a centenarian in June next, was the oldest
man in the State to vote at the polls. He voted
the Republican ticket.
Mils. Roscoe Conklino is having a large brass
cross made at Utica, N. Y., as a memorial of her
brother. Gov. Horatio Seymour The cross will
be placed in Calvary Church, Utica.
John Shaeffer. a farmer living on the
Meadows, near Newark, N. .1., has lost five
children from diphtheria within eleven days
The parents are prostrate from grief.
Senator Hawley s bride is receiving atten
tion from the pens of Washington correspond
ents. It is solemnly announced that she went
shopping a few days ago and chose a dressing
gown for her husband.
\V. S. Gilbert finds a piece of blotting paper
by his side a great help when he is writing comic
operas. This is not for blotting his manuscripts,
but lor drawing pictures on. These are carica
tures, and oftener the sketch suggests a quaint
thought than a thought suggests the sketch.
Mrs. Cleveland just now is leading a very
quiet life in anticipation of the winter's festivi
ties. She drives out daily, but spends most of
her time with her mother and sees few friends.
A number of ladies in Senatorial and Repre
sentative life, not to speak of the ladies of resi
dent official and unofficial life, have expressed
a desire to eall to extend the compliments of
the approaching season. It. may be possible
tliut sue will arrange to be at home to her inti
mate personal friends, but she still adheres to
her determination not to begin her drawing
rooms until after the New Year's receptions.
Algernon S. Sullivan, whose death in New
Y'ork was noticed in the dispatches of the Morn
ing News, was born in Madison, Ind., in JB‘J7,
where his father was a practicing lawyer. His
parents were both Virginians, ami removed to
Indiana early in the settlement of that State.
His father was Jeremiah Sullivan, und was one
of the first Judges of the Supreme Court of In
diana. It was lie who selected the name of the
capital of the State. Algernon was educated at
Miami University, Oxford. 0.. and after gradu
ating from that, institution studied law in Ills
father's office. For a short time after lieing ad
mitted to the bar he practised at Madison. It
was while there that he gained his first experi
ence as a public speaker. He stumped the State
in advoeat-y of the public school system, and at
once won a reputation as an orator. Relieving
that the State was not developed enough he re
moved in ISIS, when he had just reached his
majority, to Cincinnati, and there married Miss
Groesbeek. She lived but a few months,
however. He was one of the com
mittee of the City Council to invite
Kossuth to visit that city. He soon won a posi
tion in the front rank of the legal profession,
standing foremost among such men as Chief
Justice Waite, Alien G. Thorni in and Stanley
Matthews In 1857 he married Miss Hamm, uni.
of Virginia, and two yours lai r removed to New
Y'ork. Ho was for a while imdertermined
whether to be settled there or ill Boston, but
finally selected New Y'ork. believing that it
would eventually be the metrojmlis of this conn
try. At the out break of the war he was retained
by the Confederate go'eminent, in connection
with Janies T. Brody, to defend the men who
were captured on the privateer Savannah, and
who were to lie tried on u charge of piracy.
There wus much excitement at that time, ami
as Mr. 'Sullivan was known to lie n very strong
State's Rights and anti-war Democrat, his
friends urged him not to go into court and ur
gue the ease, as it was believed there whs a plot
to shoot him should he apjiear. He decided that
his duty to his clients demanded his presence
and argue I the case. He was Public Adminis
trator of New Y’ork for a number of years, re
signing but a few years ago. He left a widow
and one sou.
MR. CLEVELAND'S CITIZENSHIP.
His Name Strlcke i from the Buffalo
Tax List Because of Nou-Residence.
From the .Vein York W’arl l.
Buffalo, Dec. s.— The questi on of the Presi
dent's citizenship is (irmly settled in the minds
of Buffalo's assessors at least. “We took Grover
Cleveland's name off the list last April," said
Assessor Nicholas Mock to-day, “after Wilson S.
Bissell had shown us a letter from him. We had
him assessed for $5,000 worth of personal prop
erty, and he paid his tax in 1885. Lasj year Mr.
Bissell came before the hoard and told us that
Mr. Cleveland was no longer a resident of
Buffalo. Then he produced the letter, which
was dated at the White House and signed Grover
Cleveland. In it Jlr. Cleveland claimed that he
was not at that time a resident of this city, and,
furthermore, never intended to be again,"
“Are you positive he made that last state
ment v” asked the correspondent.
“1 am." replied the Assessor. “We did not
doubt the word of the President of the United
States and so we took his tax off.
The correspondent went from the Assessor's
office to the rooms in the Weed block where
Wilson S. Bissell sits at President Cleveland’s
old desk. Mr. Bissell had just lit a cigarette
and appeared interested in the matter of Mr.
Cleveland's letter.
"I recall the receipt of such a letter," he said,
“and I read it to the assessors. Mr. Cleveland
wrote that he was not a resident of Buffalo, an *
upon that ground he wanted the assessment re
moved. Ho said he was improperly assessed, as
he was not a resident of the city."
"Assessor Mock tells me that the letter con
tained Mr. Cleveland’s declaration that he never
intended to live in Buffalo again,” said the cor
respondent.
“I do not recall anything said as to his future
intentions." replied Mr. Bissell cautiously.
"Will you let me see the letter!-" Mr. Bissell
shook his head gravely and looked at the desk.
The cigarette hail gone out and it was swept
upon the floor. “1 don't consider it quite the
right thing," came the answer slowly, “to dis
play Mr. Cleveland s correspondence. You
would not show a private letter, would you?"
FORTUNE FOR GLADSTONE.
A Belief That He is Well Remembered
in Lord Wolverton’s Will.
From the Manchester Guardian.
It is rumored that Jlr. Gladstone benefits
considerably under Lord Wolverton's will. Lord
Wulverton Was enormously rich. His successor
in the peerage is amply provided for, and noth
ing is more likely than that he has left some
substantial portion of his wealth in a quarter
where his affection, veneration and friendship
had so long been given.
Mr. Gtaustone inherited a fortune, which for
a younger son was considerable, from his
father. Sir. John Gladstone, but the disastrous
year of railway speculation—lßls—did not leave
him scatheless. He then applied the remainder
of his fortune to clearing off some heavy iucom
brances on the Hawarden estate. In con
sideration of this assistance Sir Stephen Glynn
—who was unmarried—settled the Hawarden
property on 51re. Gladstone's eldest son and
secured to Jlr. Gladstone the enjoyments of Ha
warden Castle for his life.
A Curious Criminal Case.
From the Chicago News.
A remarkable prosecution, growing out of ex
cesses against the .lew-s at the city of Kojetein,
in Moravia, made the Criminal Court of Oimutz,
Austria, busy. The grown up daughter of one
Phillip Krybus, at Koletein, disappeared on
April 24 last. Some mischievous persons sug
gested the Jews might have killed the girl in
order to obtain the blood wanted for moistening
their Easter cake. One Jlathias Zapietul, a
notorious crook, told the crowd he had seen two
Jews dragging a girl to their temple on April
24, and when he went past the temple he had
distinctly heard the girl moaning. He also gave
a description of the instrument the Jews used
in sucking blood from the body of their victim.
These absurd assertions he boldly repeated under
oatu before tuo court. The women, Appollonia
Kouril. Anna Kalupka, Maria Kocian, and
Josephine Pospishil, said they had con
sulted the gospel of Saint John, and
found out, by the voluntary movements
performed by the book, that the Jews had cap
tured the girl, that she had been killed at the
house of Leopold WeiskofT, and that her body
had been hid under the temple. One Beran
told how he had seen the body of the mm-dered
girl. Infuriated by such tales, the populace
crowded into the Jews’ alley on Jlay 3, broke
the windows and demanded the immediate sur
render of the body of the gixl. The prompt
action of the police brought the latter a timely
relief. On the day following. May 4. the body
of Jlaria Krybus w as found in the river Morava,
and the doctors declared her death to have been
caused by drowning, no wound or any mark of
violence being found upon the body. The
girl having suffered fw>m a mental derange
ment, the doctors ascribed her death to suicide
induced by temporary insanity. In spite of the
clearness and positive form of the doctor's ver
dict, the populace refused belief in it, and con
tinued the attacks upon the Jews until May 7.
In consequence of these disturbances the above
named six instigators of the popular excesses
were criminally indicted and sentenced by the
Oimutz conrt.
They Never Stop.
From Tid-Bits.
It is this kind of a wife that makes men old
and gray before their time.
“william,” she says, after William is curled
snugly up under the blankets for the night, “did
you lock t he front door?"
“Yes," says William briefly.
"You’re sure you did?”
“Yes, sure.”
“And you slipped the bolt, too?"
“Yes."
“You know you forgot it once, and it gave
me such a turn when 1 found it out in the morn
ing. I didn’t get over it for a week. We haven't
much aoybody'd want to steal. I know, but I
don't want the little we have taken, for I—”
"I tell you I attended to the doors."
“Well, I hope so, for goodness’ sake. You at
tended to the basement door ?”
“\ r es. I tell you."
“Because if you hadn't you or I, one or the
other would have to get up and attend to it
now. I read to-day or "
“I don’t care what you read."
“It said that a man down on B street forgot
to —”
"I don't care If he did."
‘ And in the night a burglar walked right in
and ”
“I don't believe it."
“I’ve a notion to get up and see if you have
locked that door. You'rejsure ?”
"How many times have I got to tell you that
I did lock it?"
“Well, you thought you'd locked it that time
when you )e t it unlocked.”
“Will you be quiet?”
“1 don't care, Wil iam, you know yourself bow
ccreless you are, and—"
“See here. Mary Jane, this has got to end
right here.”
But it doesn't end there; and it doesn't for an
hour, and William arises in the morning with
the lines on his brow a little deeper, and the
hopeless, desperate look still in his face.
Regrst.
From the Itoxton Globe.
The moments are Hitting by so fast
Into the region of the past.
And I meant to have done so much to-day.
My guardian angel's reproachful eyes
Look at me out of tLe twilight skies,
Aud I fain would turn my face away.
The golden deeds that 1 might have done.
The golden crown that I might have won,
Alas, alas, for the "might have been!”
The moments are slipping away so fast
Into the shadows of the past,
And dark are the pages soiled with sin,
I chased the butterflies ’mid the flow’rs,
Thro’ sheen and sunlight, and glowing hours,
Over the Helds aud meadows fair.
I strayed away from the narrow path,
And someone else reaped the aftermath
While I was gathering flowers there.
My guardian angel’s reproachful eyes
Look at me out of the twilight skies.
And what if to-morrow never cornel
The moments are flitting awuv so fast,
What if. in sorrow and shame at last,
My hands be empty, my lips tie dumb!
Cauae and Effect.
From the New York Sun.
When a girl trips by the average man on the
street, and the average man turns round to look
at her, the metaphysical man who happens to
notice the act wdl probably Hud oue or two rea
sons for the average man’s conduct. He won’t
have to consult the average man about it,
either, lie will probably find out by looking at
the girl. She is either pretty—and if unusu
ally pretty the metaphysical "man will be apt to
catch himself looking around, as well as the
average man—or she is picturesquely dressed.
May he she is both. In that case the average
man is sure to look uround. Tf the girl is neither
pretty nor attractively dressed, and •still the
average man turns to look, there is something
the matter with the average man or the girl, or
both.
Mailino Oi.krk—You’ll have to order some
paper for wrappers. We are almost entirely
out.
Publisher—Order nothing; don’t you know
the Conoretsional Record is about to resume
publication?— Oil Citu BUxzard.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
We send 1,000,000 barrels of apples every year
to foreign nations, and w r on’t take any “sass”
in return, cither.
Darwin s biography has had a great sale.
The entire edition of 4,000 lias been sold and
there is still a great demand for the work.
It is estimated that 36,675,000 yards of silk
ribbon, equivalent to about 22,700 miles, have
been made in Baterson, N. J., during the past
year.
Fox-hunters near Washington ran the fox
into town, and it dashed into a police station
and up stairs into the dormitory, where it was
captured.
A glass eater turned up at Keokuk, la., re
cently in the person of a young hoy. UpAl a
w’ager he devoured half a lamp chimney and
seemed to relish it as a sweet morsel.
A sparrow hopped on a pile of clams in an
Oxford (Pa.) restaurant the other day, and was
suddenly imprisoned by one of the bivalves,
which closed its shell together over the bird's
foot.
fflA train on the Michigan Central railway re
cently ran from Jackson to Jlichigan City, a
distance of 156 miles, in 171 minutes, making
several stops. This is reported to be the fastest
time ever made on the road.
A large white oak tree, owned by T. T. Hil
burne, at Vernon, Ala., is one of the botanical
curiosities of the State. Half of the foliage of
the tree is yellow all summer and autumn and
the other half is always a dark green.
Sebastian Nuller, a Swiss, 25 years old, 5
feet 8 inches tall, weighs a pound and a half
less than 200, can break a six-inch cobble-stone
with one blow of his fist. He is now giving ex
hibitions of his strength in New Haven.
The Philadelphia grand jury wants to have
the wife-t eaters of that city formed into a
chain-gang and set to sweep the streets. This
would be better than punishing the wdfe-beater
w ith a fine, which the wife generally has to pay
in the end.
Carrying out one of Senator Hoar’s ideas, the
Essex Club of Boston has suggested that the
public schools of Jlassachusetts devote a portion
of Dec. 17 to exercises in honor of John G.
Whittier, that day being the eightieth anniver
sary of his birth.
W. C. Van Horn, Vice President of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, said a few days ago that in
less than a mouth his road would have a connec
tion at Sault Ste. Jlarie that would tap our
Northwest, and be of immense advantage to the
Canadian Pacific.
Buffalo having taken her own census, claims
that she is now possessed of 230,284 souls, and
that her increase since 1885 is 27,466. This
is truly a remarkable showing, but it is in keep
ing with the great strides the city has made in
many other respects.
The late Jlaj. Mordecai, of North Carolina,
during an audience with the Czar of Ru-sia,
of a somowhat informal and conversational na
ture, used the address “Jfonsieur.” Having
carried the interview forward so far in French,
turning to Gen. JlcClellan, who stood near by,
Jlaj. Mordecai suddenly exclaimed, with a
mighty and deep Carolinian oath: “Ha! I
called the fellow ‘mister.’ ” The Czar thereupon
smiled, bowed, ami said with a civility that en
tered the Jlajor's bones like ice; “I speak En
glish qnite well enough, sir, to continue our in
terview in that language if you prefer it.”
The latest fad in social circles in Chicago is
news classes among young ladies. A large
party meets twice a week in the afternoon, and
the teacher, a lady of great culture, discusses
with them the news of the day. She takes a
newspaper, and, selecting matters of foreign
and domestic interest, discusses and explains
them in a most entertaining manner, the mem
bers of the class asking questions and making
comments and suggestions freely. !-a-t week
the chief topics were the execution of the An
archists, the illness of the Crow n Prince of Ger
many and its possible consequences, the scandal
in official circles in Paris, and the meeting of
the Fisheries Commission hi Washington.
A Missouri editor publishes the following,
headed “Important Correction”: “A story cir
culating around town this week by persons who
ought to be in better business, that while we
were attending the reception to Mr. and Jlrs.
Cleveland at Kansas City we got drunk and
stood on the street corner roaring like a colicky
elephant and making the assertion that we were
from Bitter Creek, and could lick any President
that ever looked througlsa collar, is absolutely
false. What we did do, audallwedid, was to
get drunk, try to pound a policeman who was
really much larger than he appeared, and pay
our fine the next morning. People who persist
in circulating scandalous stories with no
foundation about us will run up against some
thing which will hurt some day.”
There was a slight panic Sunday afternoon
among the children in St. Peter's Sunday school.
Jersey City, and one child, Jlary Tuohey, age
13, of 32)4 Bright street, was injured. The
school is held in the basement of the church, at
Grand and Van Vorst streets. The children
were just about to be dismissed when the sexton
turned on more steam, causing a hissing sound
from one of the pipes in the rear of the room.
Some of the children became excited and fright
ened and made a rush for the door Jlary
Tuohey was knocked down and trampled upon
and is thought to be seriously injured. She was
sent home in a carriage and two physicians
\\ ere summoned to attend her. Some firemen
belonging to Truck Company No. 2. on the ot her
side of the street, saw the excited children run
ning out and iiastened over to the church. They
saw at once there was no danger and succeeded
in calming the children.
Occasional wisdom of the worldly kind among
Bohemians, is worthy of remark. Twelve years
ago a young reporter on the New \ r ork Tribune,
who was enabled to earn $lB a week, had an
opportunity to go West. In a few weeks he
came back, drifted about among his friends and
rais’d So.flOO, and went hack again. This sum
he invested in a cattle ranch up north of Chey
enne. A couple of days ago he turned up on
Broadway with a large aid violently developed
desire to illuminate the town. He is now wor h
a cool fWO.OCO, and he comes to New York
every winter to celebrate. Upon these occasions
he “blows in” several thousand dollars within
three or four months, and then he goes back to
Wyoming and watches his cattle for the bal
ance of the year. The business has its draw’-
backs, hut the ex-reporter declares with em
phasis that, on the whole, he wouldn’t exchange
it for life on a newspaper at $lB a week.
The strange word that is spelled differently
everywhere it is printed, and that describes a
tribe of Indians just removed from Canada to
Alaska, is really "Metlakahtla.” The Metla
kahtlans are a band of the Tsimsheans, or sav
ages of tlie west coast of British America. A
missionary named William Duncan found them
in a savage and cannibalistic state, and not only
converted them to Christianity, but taught
them to work, so that after a quarter of a cen
tury of his guidance they had established a vil
lage, a church, several stores and workshops,
a trading schooner, a fire and police depart
ment. aud many other of the institutions or civi
lization. They were more than self-supporting.
Duncan refused the Bishopric years ago, hut
more recently the Church of England sent a
Bishop to Metlakahtla, who proved a firebrand
in the community. He punched one or two
natives, and went about with a gun as if afraid
of his life. He insisted upon being called "My
Lord,” and the people, not liking any of this,
rebelled when lie sought to preempt a part of
their land for church uses. Neither the church
nor the government took compassion on the In
dians. and they left their village and came un
der our (lag in Alaska, the nearest point of
which is only a few miles from where they
were. William Duncan has been to this city
and to Washington, aud has friends in both
cities.
The cry of Are aroused the people of Web
berville, Mich., shortly before midnight recent
ly, and they rushed from their homes to find
the town lock-up in flames. It was a one-story
wooden structure standing alone in an open
square Above the crackling of the dames
cries were heard from an inmate of one of the
ceils. When the citizens arrived the doomed
man was seen fratically beating the liars of his
cell and crying for help. The people were pow
erless to rescue him, and in the presence or tli
crowd he slowly roasted to death. Some of (he
crowd made ineffectual attempts to rescue him.
but were driven away by the heat. The pale
face aud glaring eyes of the miserable
wretch were framed by the black, unyield
ing' bars of his cell door. Little by little be was
forced back, hut only when the bars became red
hot did he abandon ail hope of escape. The
horror of the situation proved such a frightful
mental strain on the prisoner that he became in
sane. Tearing his scorched clothing off, he
dashed himself against the bars and grabbed
the red-hot irons In the vain effort to escap .
An odor of burned flesh per’*dud the air and
made many of the people sick. Frantically
cursing the crowd for not helping him, the
roasting man rushed ipadlv around the narrow
mclosiire, while the spectators stood rooted bv
horror to the spot. Gradually his cries grew
weaker, and he was seen to sink to the floor and
soon all was over. The prisoner was Newhftl]
Tyler, AS years old. He had been jailed for
striking a hoy on the head. Tyler had been on
a spree, and the boy had annoyed him. lie fired
the prison, hoping that he would be released
thereby.
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One case fast color Calicoes, regular price
5c., price while they last 3c. per yard
One case all wool lied Flannel, 23-inch, sold
last week at 300., this week 19c.
BLANKET DEPARTMENT,
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border, regular price $1 25, this week 99c.
One case 12-4 white all wool Blank
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50 dozen Gents' all wool Scarlet Undervest!
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CLOAK DEPARTMENT,
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checks, stripes, etc., with or without Hood,
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This week only, your choice of our fine Plush
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Pants and Polo (’ap. in checks, stripes, plaids,
etc., Norfolk style, prioe for this week only
$3 50, worth 85.
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newness is here. Special .'or this week only, 50
pieces Dress Goods. Combination lot Plaids,
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500 pieces Dress Silk, in black and solid colors,
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