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4 CbrP antinglJflus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, BBCIMBEH 8,188 T. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. *'’The Morning New* is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, 85 00 for sis months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning New*, by matt, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $0 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 Oil The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $8 00. The Weekly News by mad, one year. $1 4>. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur tenev sent by mail at risk of senders. 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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. 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This week only, your choice of our fine Plush Wraps, satin quilted linings, fur and plush trimmed, regular price $25 to $35, this week only, down to sl7 50. BOYS'CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. *3OQ Boys' Wool *‘Kiekabout” Suits, extra pair Pants and Polo (’ap. in checks, stripes, plaids, etc., Norfolk style, prioe for this week only $3 50, worth 85. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. We have every conceivable idea in Plaids, Stripes, etc. Every winsome plaid and stripe newness is here. Special .'or this week only, 50 pieces Dress Goods. Combination lot Plaids, Stripes, etc.. 38c.: regular price 50c. and 75c. 500 pieces Dress Silk, in black and solid colors, Bill run them t his week at au advance of 5 per cent, above cost. SHOE DEPARTMENT. f 36 dozen Children’s Kid and Pebble Goat Spring Heel Button Shoes.'sizes 1 5 to 8, 7(5c., worth sl. 250 pairs Youths’ all solid School Shoes, but ton and low solar tips, $1 25, worth Si 75. fW-Mail orders receive careful and prompt at tention. A. If ALTMAYER & co.. 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