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INDEX TO NEW -ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Stockholders United Hydraulic
Cotton Press t!o.; Jasper Mutual I/>an Associa
tion ; Savannah Lodge No. 2892, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices —To Water Takers; State
and County Taxes, 1887.
Auction Sales—Barroom Fixtures and Good
Will, by I. D. Laßoehe's Sons.
Railroad Schedule—East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad.
Bisque Dolls—Jas. S. Silva A Son.
Changes, Etc.—W. D. Simkins A Cos.
Mammoth Toy and Holiday Goods House--
Platshek's.
Lamp Trimming i, Etc.—At Shaffer’s Drug
Store.
Holiday Goo? At Solomons A Co.'s.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Lost; Miscellaneous.
Dr. Parker sails for London to-morrow.
While in this country he showed himself to
be an adept in advertising dodges.
Slugger Sullivan writes homo that ho is
being dined in London by dukes and mar
quises. Boston has every reason to lie
proud of the recognition being accorded the
representative of her aristocracy.
“Jersey justice” will have to quicken her
pace, or “Brooklyn justice” will supersede
her. The other day in Brooklyn a man was
arrested, tried and sentenced to the peniten
tiary within twelve hours after he had com
mitted an offense.
Georgia, according to report, furnishes
three applicants for the Mexican mission,
Gen. Young, Judge Tompkins and Col.
Charles C. Jones, but it is said that Gen.
Bragg, “who loved Cleveland for the
euemies he made,” will get the plum.
The New York Herald is pleased with the
appointment of Mr. Lamar to the Supreme
bench. It says that the objection that he is
a Southern man is no objection at all, and
that his nativity forms the best reason for
his appointment. “We want,” it says, “a
distinctively Southern Judge in this court.”
The Republicans have decided to go to
Chicago again to select their candidate for
President That city possesses some ad
vantages for great conventions which no
other city dope. A strong pressure is being
brought to bear in favor of New York as
the place for holding the Democratic Con
vention. ______ __
Mr. Chamberlain, who is the central figure
of the Fisheries Commission, lounges easily
in his chair at the meetings, and uses his
heavy gold-rimmed eye-glasses almost con
tinually. He generally takes the initiative
in the discussions for the English side.
When he landed in this country he is said to
have filled with admiration and envy the
breasts of the New Yorkers who run on
dress.
In addition to his views on the public
debt question given in yesterday’s dispatches
the message of Gov. Lee to the Virginia
Legislature contains the following im
portant recommendations: An increased
appropriation for the lunatic asylujns, and
particularly for that occupied by colored
inmates; the introduction in the schools of
industrial and manual training, and finan
cial aid for the soldiers’ home. Gov. Lee is
a progressive man and au able chief
executive.
The Fisheries Commission is taking its
ease in ita deliberations. It holds two ses
sions a week, on Tuesday and Saturday, and
the intervals are leisurely devoted by the
members individually to the study of argu
ments advanced at former meetings. The
room in which the Commissioners meet is
on the second floor of the Btate, War and
Navy building, and is luxuriantly furnished
in every respect. It is said to be the most
sumptuous apartment the government has
ever furnished.
The opening Tuesday of the new Cancer
Hospital in New York adds another to the
list of public institutions erected in that
city by citiaens of wealth. This last charity
is due to the munificence of Gen. Cullom
and Mr. and Mi's. John Jacob Astor. It
seems that New York millionaires are giving
the city every imaginable institution that
will conduce to the pleasure or health of the
public. They are greatly to be commended,
and yet it is not to be expected that they
will carry their wealth with them to another
world, and it is just as well that they use it
here for good purposes.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun, the beautiful
actress, must be quite a fascinating woman.
A couple of years ago it was said that she
was about to be married to Mr. Frederick
Winston, who at that time had just been
appointed Minister to Russia. She failed to
marry Mr. Winston for some reason
or other and soon afterward her en
gagement to Senator Hearst’s sin
was announced. Young Hearst’s
jmrents objected to the match, and again
Miss Calhoun was a free woman. Now it
seems she has made up with her first love,
and if there are no more mishaps she will
soon be Mi's. Winston.
Since the death of her husband Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher has become a news
paper correspondent. Mrs. Beecher is a
very talented woman, though the retire
ment in which she lived during her
husband's life-tkne prevented the public
from placing the proper estimate upon her
abilities. She was said to have given up
every selfish ambition, though having it in
her power to make a lasting impression
upon the world, in order to promote the in
terests of her husband. She is an example
of unselfish devotion, and it is hoped that
her entrance into the literary world has not
been so long deferred as to blunt her unusual
powers. Her letters are sensible, pointed
and wed-written.
Trying to Raise a False Issue.
In its comments on the President’s mes
sage the Philadelphia Press exclaims with
apparent exultation; “A thousand thanks
to President Cleveland for tho liold, manly
and unequivocal avowal of his extreme free
trade purpose.” The Press, it is safe to
say, is not so thankful as it pretends to be.
Indeed it is pretty certain that it is not
thankful at all. If it were, it would not lie
so unfair as to give a false interpretation to
the message. The Press, however, wants
to create the impression that the message is
an out and out i>lea for free trade, because
it hopes that such an impression will arouse
a feeling of apprehension in the minds of
those who are interested in or dependent
upon industrial interests.
Its course in this matter is the one that is
being taken by all the protection journals,
but it is doubtful if they are successful in
accomplishing their purpose. The people
have heard this tariff question discussed
too much to be alarmed, or even made un
easy, by the extreme assertions of the pro
tection organs.
The President simply points out that
there is now a much larger revenue than is
needed, and. that the business interests of
the cotuftrv demand that it shall be re
duced. He advises that the reduction lie
made by lifting some of the burdens from
the necessities of life, and to do this the
duties on certain imports must be lowered.
Can an "avowal of extreme free trade pur
poses” bo tortured out of this advice? The
protection organs will insist that it can, be
cause it suits their purpose to do so.
The prominence which the President has
g. veil the tariff issue will make it the lead
ing one in the approaching Presidential
contest unless Congress during the present
session reduces the revenues to the extent
of the surplus, and even inthatevent it will
figure prominently in the canvass. Tho
people, therefoie, should inform themselves
carefully respecting the positions of tho two
parties with regard to it. They should not
ixrmit themselves to he deceived by phrases
and catch words.
The clean cut issue is this: Tho revenue
must be reduced. That, both parties admit.
How shall it bo reduced ? The protection
ists say by making whisky and tobacco
free, or substantially so. The tariff re
formers say by reducing the duties on cer
tain imports, and thus making the necessi
ties of life cheaper.
The President agrees with the tariff re
formers, and the people will say that he is
right when they have a chance.
Waring’s Sewerage System Criticised.
The Engineering and Building Record
and Sanitary Engineer of Nov. 20 con
tains a communication from the well known
sanitary engineer, Rudolph Hering, in
which he discusses Col. George E. Waring’s
system of sewerage in Memphis, and in
which he quite conclusively demonstrates,
though not intending to do so, as Dr. Falli
gant’s articles appeared almost simultane
ously in the Morning News, that Dr. Falli
gant’s view in regard to city sew
erage is that which has been
proven by experience throughout this
country and Europe to be the best. He
gives the essential features of the Waring
system, and points out what he terms its
novelties, viz.: Strict exclusion of all rain
water.; use of automatic flush-tanks on
every lateral; practical abolishment of
manholes; house drains limited to a diam
eter of four inches, and lateral sewers lim
ited mainly to six inches, and sums
jip by saying that “that what was
new cannot be called good, and that
what was good cannot be called new.”
Mr. Hering says experience has proven
that there is no reason why rain water from
houses and yards should not go into the
sewers to flush them; that there is no neces
sity for flush tanks; that the manholes which
Col. Waring so strenuously opposed, and
which were afterward inserted by the
authorities, were found necessary, owing to
the stoppage in the pipes and the conse
quent tearing up of tho sewer; that a diam
eter of six inches is the only safe minimum
for the main house drain, owing to the en
trance of rubbish, and that eight-inch pipe
will hereafter lie used in tho sewerage sys
tem instead of Col. Waring’s six-incli.
Mr. Hering, however, gives Col. Waring
credit for having suggested the system of
small drainage pipes in lieu of the old large
sewers when the system was but little
known in America, and for his sagacity
and courage in giving to Memphis the bene
fits of his plan, which, though not perfect,
proved of great advantage tq that fever
stricken city.
The article of Mr. Hering and the study
of the subject of drainage by small pijies
which it invites are worthy of the special
attention of our city’s authorities. The
plan of small drainage pipes means the sav
ing as a whole of thousands of dollars, and
individually of hundreds, to the tax payers.
A Detroit special says that the sons of
ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, who have
been in that city trying to get their father
to go to Florida, have given up all
hope of being able to do so and have gone
to their respective homes and left him to
follow at his own sweet will. He says that
he will meve when he feels like it, and it is
thought he will feel like it when the next
Presidential campaign grows warm. He
couldn’t do a wiser thing, if his mind is in
need of employment, than to go to Jackson
ville and help straighten out the municipal
muddle in that city.
It is doubtful if any of the Speakers of
Congress have lieen more popular than Mr.
Carlisle. He is so anxious to be just and
impartial, that some of his party friends
sometimes complain that he does not give
his party such advantages as he could with
out being unfair to the opposition. When
he closes his present term, he will have
served as long as Blaine, Colfax and Ma
con. Henry Clay and Andrew Stevenson
each served eight years, and it may be that
Mr. Carlisle will also occupy the Speaker’s
chair for that length of time.
Mr. W. T. Dumas, a graduate of Emory
College, and for a year or so past a young
school teacher in the town of Monticello,
Ga., is contributing to the press some very
good specimens of poetry, the best of which
was called “The Dinner Horn,” published
last spring. If Mr. Dumas is not spoiled by
too much praise, he may by application de
velop into somewhat of a poet, provided he
prefers communing with the Muses to teach
ing a village school.
Tbe New York Herald says the Macon
Sunday Times, to be started Dec. 10 by
Messrs. Edwards & Lamar, will pay SIOO
to the heirs of each subscriber who dies by
accident. In other words, these gentlemen
will conduct an accident insurance business
and fling in achromo toevery policy-holder.
The developments of the movement will he
watched with interest.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER fl, 1887.
River and Harbor Appropriations.
The New York papers have begun talking
about a big appropriation for the harbor of
t hat city. The Herald has a lengthy article
showing that the increased draft of the
great ocean steamships makes the deepening
of the harbor channel a necessity. Many
of the steamships now have to wait for high
water to go up to the city.
There is no reason why New York harbor
shouldn’t have all the improvements which
money can provide. Her commerce is im
mense, and fully justifies the big appropria
tions which Congress makes for it. But it
is rather remarkable that the New York
papers, as a rule, are opposed to the river
and harbor bill. They continue their at
tacks upon it from the lieginmng to the end
of a session of Congress. If it had not been
for their host ility it is probable that the
last river and harbor bill would not have
failed to reach the President in time to re
ceive his signature.
Savannah harbor is not, ot course, as
important as that of New York, but it is
the most important one on the South At
lantic coast. An immense territory is de
pendent upon it for an outlet for its pro
ductions. The ships which frequent it carry
away about a sixth of the entire cotton
crop, the largest part of the naval stores
produced in the country, an immense
quantity of lumber, rice and other articles
of merchandise. It needs great improve
ments, and it needs them quickly. While
the appropriations for New York harbor
have been very large, those for Savannah
harbor have been very small.
Is>t the New York papers join with those
of other parts of the country during the
present Congress in iMivoeating ample ap
propriations for rivers and harbors. An
earnest effort on the part of the pres in fa
vor of ample appropriations for meritorious
public works can hardly fail in securing a
river and harbor bill that wifi give general
satisfaction.
A Surplus Distributor.
Senator Ingalls is trying to earn the title
of the “great surplus distributor.” He
doesn’t want the revenues reduced for two
reason:;. First, because the people do not
feel the taxes they no w pay, and, second,
because ways can lie found to use all the
surplus which there is at present or may be
in the future.
He thinks that the government should
establish a great big training shod for
teachers, and should not only bear all their
expenses while they are being educated, but
should send them, like missionaries, to those
parts of the country where ignorance is so
dense that the people do not appreciate
teachers, and should support them while
they are letting the light of intelligence
into darkful minds.
The Senator would build big gun factories
and manufacture guns enough to guard
every approach to our shores. The fact
that there is a committee of eminent for
eigners in this country trying to arrange
for the settlement of all international dis
putes by arbitration doesn’t seem to have
made any impression upon him.
He would set masons and carpenters at
work constructing, in towns in which they
are needed, post office buildings and court
houses. He does not believe the government
ought to hire buildings when it has the
money to build them and he thinks it ought
to do business on its own premises.
The Senator could certainly distribute all
the surplus in the Treasury very quickly,
and all there is likely to be there for some
time to come if he were given an oppor
tunity. The probabilities are, however,
that before educating teachers, or manufac
turing guns, or erecting public buildings he
would give a pension to all the men who
eidisted in the Union armies, who are living
and to the families of those who are dead.
Having done that he would have no further
occasion to bother about the surplus. There
would be none. All things considered it is
probably the wiser plan to get rid of the
surplus by reducing the taxes.
Vitriol seems to be the favorite weapon
of women who wish to avenge any fancied
or real wrong inflicted upon them. The
other day, in Reading, Pa., Howard Potter
was endeavoring to demonstrate to Miss
Maggie Lloyd that their engagement had
better come to an end, as he was too young
to marry, and as his parents desired him
to free himself from any understand
ing looking to marriage. Miss Lloyd
excused herself for a minute, saying she
felt weak and would go to her room and
get some brandy which she kept there for
illness. Returning with a glass filled with
a dark liquid, she offered it to Potter, who
declined what he supposed to be brandy.
‘•Then,” exclaimed Miss * Lloyd excitedly,
“take it in this way,” throwing the contents
of the glass in his face. The young man
dosed his eyes in time to save them, but his
face will be disfigured for life. “I felt,” he
says, “as if hot coals were clinging to my
face and eating it to the blood.” The action
of Miss Lloyd seems to have been a purely
vicious display of temper, caused by her
disappointment in having the engagement
broken. The law should reach such cases.
It is understood that the New York Press
will not favor the renomination of Mr.
Blaine The T ribune of Wednesday has a
cablegram from Paris, saying that while
Mr. Blaine has maintained in Europe a dis
creet silence about the Presidency, it is not
to lie denied that all those who hold inti
mate relations with him have, in some way,
gained the impression that he does not ex
pect his name to go before the nominating
convention. “No one, however,” it says,
“has been authorized to make such a state
ment,” and the rejrorts of recent alleged in
terviews with him are declared to be fabri
cations. The Tribune goes on to state that
Mr. Blaine is in glorious and robust health,
from all of which the public will form the
opinion that the Maine statesman is prepar
ing to scoop in the nomination of his party.
In reference to the threatened trouble at
the coming annual meeting of the Keely
Motor Company, Mr. Charles B. Collier,
the attorney of the company, says; ‘There
is no personal antagonism existing among
the stockholders, nor any serious question
or difference at issue. A few gentlemen
have been and are very eager that Mr.
Keely shall immediately impart his ‘secrets’
to someone, and in their eagerness to have
this done they assume that it can be done in
a half hour’s time.” Can’t he impart what
he knows, Mr. Collier, in much less than
half au hour! Many of his motor stock
holders would like him to make an effort to
do so.
A Boston jury has decided that cigars are
a drug. In that city a druggist was ar
rested for violating the Sunday law by sell
ing cigars, and in the trial his attorney
claimed that cigars came withiir the faction
of the law relating to drugs and medicines.
The jury decided that the attorney was
right, and Boston druggists are rejoicing.
CURRENT COMMENT.
But Nobody Believes Them.
From the Washington Post (Deni.)
To believe Republican arguments against tar
iff reform, one would be compelled to believe
that the Deuftcratic party, which owes its
strength to the votes of workingmen to a greater
extent than any other party in this country ever
did, is an organization whose chief aim is the
destniction of our industries and the consequent
breaking down of wages.
For Penny Postage.
From the New York Herald (Tnd ).
We question if it should l>e a matter for con
gratulation that our.postal service is self-sus
taining until we have penny postage. Every
advance that has been made toward cheap post
age has proved in the result a pecuniary gain to
the Treasury. With so large a surplus the
country would not grudge the spending a few
millions in the experiment of penny postage.
How Very Kind!
From the Philadelvhia Press (Rep.)
Secretary Lamar's appointment to the Su
preme bench is no doubt entirely satisfactory
to the South, and will le acquiesced in by the
North because nothing better was to l>e ex
pected. President Cleveland was hound to meet
the wishes of the Southern wing of his party in
filling this vacancy on the Supreme bench, from
which it had been so long denied, ami in- < ould
hardly have found a typical and representative
Southern Democrat less objectionable to the
North than Mr. l^ainar.
Seating the Senators.
From the New York Sun ( Dem).
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is accused
of embezzling and appropriating to his own uses
anil purposes one of the choicest seats on tbe
Democratic side of the Senate chamber. Now
that the Senate is divided about equally between
the two parties, the problem of seating the
members is greatly simplified There are Re
publicans enough to fill the chairs east of the
central aisle, and Democrats enough to occupy
all of the desks west of that frontier. This dis
position of the members, with Riddleberger pa
trolling the middle aisle, would exactly express
the political situation in the Senate as it is at
present.
But w estward the course of empire takes its
way.
BRIGHT BITS.
Brer Pulitzer will likely buy a horse pistol
and Brer Dana a new' cat before the trouble is
ended. — Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Ht. John remarks that the Prohibitionists
will go into the next Presidential campaign
with ardent spirits.— Orange City Times.
The triumph of the Atlanta whisky “wets"
gives an encouraging outlook to uext summer's
crop of Georgia snake stories.— Cincinnati
Com me rcial- Qazr t te.
A mountain may have its summit covered
with snow and have none at its foot. Men
should be like mountains in this respect -have
cool heads and warm teet.—Norristown Herald.
Bride (exchanging bridal costume for travel
ing suit)—Did I appear nervous at all during
the ceremonv, Clara?
Bridemaid (envious) —A little at first, dear,
but not after George had said “yes ."—Harper's
Bazar.
Timid young suitor who has won consent of
papa—And now may I ask you, sir, whether—
ah—whether your daughter has any domestic
accomplishments?
Papa (sarcastically)—Yes, sir; she sometimes
knits her brows.—AT. O. Times-Democrat.
“Mamma," said a Boston young lady, “is it
proper that Clarence should kiss me before we
are married?"
“Certainly; you are engaged to him, and, be
sides. if you care to have him kiss you,
Penelope, you had better let him do it now."—
Tid-Bits.
In Chicago. The lady is leaning on the arm
of an elegant and wealthy young man, aud
leading her little daughter by the hand.
Little Daughter—On, ma. ma, look there! See
t hat gentleman on the other side. Don't you
know him?
Ma—N no, my dear.
L. D.—Why mamma! hfc was papa last year.
—Town Topics.
Mr. Beldar's wife had eloped the day
before.
“My dear fellow," saidDunton, “lam heartily
sorry for you."
“You've heard of it, then, have you?"
“What, of your wile's elopement? Why, its
all over town."
“Oh, then you didn't hear about her carrying
off mv new' silk umbrella?"— Chicago News.
PERSONAL.
Speaker Cabi.isle was 52 last September.
Gov. Bioos, of Delaware, owns eleven farms
and has made a fortune from them.
Theodore Cramp, of the great, ship building
firm, has gone to Austria on a business errand.
The Prince of Naples, who has just come of
age, is pronounced to be the most accomplished
(Sown Prince in Europe.
“Son in Law" Wilson's mania was to found
newspapers, none of which ever paid. It is said
that he annually lost about $150,000 by* them.
M. E. Ingalls, of Cincinnati, carries an insur
ance of $300,000 on his life, the largest sum car
ried, it is said, by any resident of Porkopoiis.
Congressman George West, of Ballston, is
said to be the shortest in stature of our national
legislators. He is by no means short in his
bank account, however.
President of the Senate Ingalls was born
in Middleton, Mass., December 29, 1833. He
graduated from Williams College when only 18,
leaving a good record, both as a painstaking
student and as a ready debater.
Gen. Sheridan has been elected President of
the Army and Navy German Club of Washington.
Sheridan is as skilful in leading a german as he
is in leading a cavalry charge. This is as it
should lie. The ideal soldier can dance and
fight equally weh.
In writing of his youth to an autograph col
lector Gen. Lew Wallace says: “1 fear you
wouldn't have called me a good hoy, as I hunted,
fished and ran wild generally until I was 18, and
then I became a student, and that is the course
I would lay down for every life.”
Rosa Bonhecr is now an elderly woman, but
she has her youthful enthusiasm for her art and
for animals. Her home in the village of By, on
the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, is a
veritable menagerie. Among her pets are two
lions that she bought to use as models.
Mme. Janacscrkk. the actress, has instructed
her lawyers to bring suit for S2S,(XX) damages
against the proprietor of the Parker House,
Newport. The suit is the result of an accident
w. icn happened to Mme. Sanauschek while she
was a guest at the Parker House last summer.
The Prince of Wales has received a present of
a table nearly ten feet in circumference made
out of the hide of a rhinoceros killed in the re
cent Kilimanjaro expedition. The top of the
table, which is beautifully polished and quite
unique in design, is partially supported by horns
nearly twenty inches in length.
Gf.n. Mclves, a well-known character in New
York, has served under many flags. He was a
soldier for the British East India Company, the
Southern Confederacy, the Argentine Republic,
the Cretan, Japanese, Egpytian and Turkish
Governments. He was also in the Franco-
Prusso War as a French staff officer.
Queen Victoria personally wanted Sir Ed
ward Male! transferred from Berlin to Paris,
but Prince Bismarck wanted to keep him at the
German capital, and the imperial family used
their influence to that end. However, the Queen
will presently mark her regard for Sir Edward
by having him raised to the jieerage.
D. R. Lot: re, of the Toledo Made, who has
made himself famous under the uom de plume
of ‘‘Petroleum V Nasby,” is in wretched health.
He suffers terribly from dyspepsia. He is now
about sixty years of age, and is said to be worth
half a inilhon dollars. He would doubtless give
his whole fortune for anew stomach.
Mss. Giij.iuan, of Bridgeport, onn., who at
tacked an eseayed lion after the great menagerie
fli-e and who has agreed to travel with "the
greatest show on earth,” baa received an offer
of marriage from a Western ranchman. Her
devotion to her cow doubtless suggested the
possibility that she would be very faithful to a
cowboy.
Don M. Dickinson, the new Postmaster Gen
eral. is described as u terror to the rich Detroit
ers who are in the habit of forgetting to pay
their bills. He has a list of these people in his
office, and has so familiarized nimsolf with
their resources that they pay bills as soon as
they know that he has been intrusted with their
collection. ,
Capt. Mulford Rich is one of the bravest of
Cape Cod surfmen. He is now 85 years of age
and has followed his heroic calling fifty-three
years. Among his medals is one presented him
by the Massachusetts Humane Society for his
exertions in rescuing twenty-one persons from
Hie wreck of the ship Franklin off Wellfleet
Beach March 1, 1849.
The Queen Regent of Spain is gaining a great
hold on the affection of her subjects, and is said
to be a wonderful woman, charming in manner
and possessing great, administrative ability. It
Is claimed by many that she will rank as one of
the great women sovereigns of history. Some
may doubt all this from the fact that she cannot
keep the baby King quiet in public.
Fitting: Shoes on Women.
From the Merchant Traveler.
“Once in a while,” says a shoe salesman. ‘I
have customers— Udies—whom it takes mean
hour or more to serve. They'll want to look at
all the shoes there are in the place, and to try
on a great many. J had one this morning; she
put on several shoes, and each time she would
stand on both sides of her foot and twist it
around into all sorts of shapes, and insist that
the leuther ought to be perfectly smooth in
every part. When she got tired of pulling shoes
on and off she took a pair. They fitted her ex
actly, though she wasn't satisfied. She thought
that when she subjected her feet to such con
tortions that they almost doubled upthe leather
above the instep and wrinkled too much. Men
are easy to fit.
M. Quad's Warm-Hearted Greeting:.
Detroit Correspondent Pittsburg Dispatch.
C. 11. Lewis, the “M. Quad” of the Detroit
Free Press , is now in the South writing letters
for his paper. According to all accounts he has
been royally reee.ved, but on Friday last, at
Gufaula, Ala., he met with an unexpected recep
tion at the hands of a man who walked four
teen miles to see him. Some years ago this
caller wrote M. Quad a letter and the humorist
held the writer up to public ridicule in the col
umns of his pat**r. The Southerner had not
forgotten it and in the exuberance of his joy at
meeting M. Quad took off his coat and folded
the newspaper man to hD breast. Then he laid
Quad on the floor and tramped on him. After
otherwise toying with the distinguished humor
ist t ill weary, the assailant was arrested and
later raid a fine of $4.
The same evening Lewis delivered a discourse
upon the signs of the times, and said it made
his heart swell with Joy to witness the warm
hearted greeting tendered Northern men by
their Southern brothers.
Her Singing:.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat*
Her voice rose like the rising lark,
And soared into the skies;
To me the stars left heaven dark,
And gathered in her eyes.
The trembling air in music broke,
A ml quivered into bells;
The mocking-bird in envy woke;
The sea despised its shells.
The rippling wavelet softly flows,
And whispers to the shore;
The perfume of a sleeping rose
Seems sweeter than before.
A breeze drinks up the fairy sound,
And sighs it through the air;
1 saw a star slide to the ground,
The better still to hear.
So silvery soft it seemed to me,
So tremulously sv 4et.
I longed to fall upon my knee
And worship at her feet.
Bethought ’t would l>e a happy thing
No more a sound to hear.
|so t hose melodious tones might ring
Forever in my ear.
He Hasn't Been Born.
Font the Boston Courier.
“And as for marriage,” Blousabella observed
thoughtfully, poking the toe of her neat boot
with her umbrella, and looking abstractly at the
two policemen who were sheltering themselves
from the rain in the doorway of the Old South,
“1 don’t see why mamma need bother about me.
I mean to marrv when the right man comes
along—provided ho asks me."
“And the right man ?" the editor repeated in
terrogatively.
“O, the right man would have to be one to
suit me. Or course he must be good looking,
and clever, and refined, and manly, and well
off, and good natured, and of good family.
Every girl insists on these {things.
“Good heavens!” murmured the editor, “how
do ordinary men ever get wives if all girls in
sist on these things?'*
“But there are three other qualifications,"
Blousabella continued serenely, "that I insist
upon. He must le an Episcopalian and a
homeopathist, and lovs lap dogs. And just for
this mamma says I am difficult to suit.*
“O, not at all," the editor assured her. "Not
difficult, only characteristically and beautifully
feminine. Did you ever advertise,*my dear?"
An Unpleasant Experience.
From the New York Herald's Washington
Special.
Mr. and Mrs. Belden Noble, nee Yulee, who
were married last Wednesday, had a startling
experience in the fire which totally destroyed
the residence “Rosemount," on the Hare wood
road, where they were spending their honey
moon, and which they had leased for four
months.
They were awakened by the crackling of the
flames, and escaped from the house wrapped up
in such clothes as they could hast fly pick up.
Mr. Noble endeavored to save some or the
house belongings and things in their trunks, but
Mrs. Noble lost nearly all her wedding presents,
including many valuable diamond ornaments,
and the groom s wedding gift, a pearl necklace,
worth fully $5,000.
Only one servant remained at the place at
night, ami he and Mr. Noble could save few
valuables before the fire reached its great head
way.
Mr. and Mrs. Noble are now at the Noble
family residence, on Massachusetts avenue,
where they will remain for the present. They
were supposed to have gone North on their
bridal trip. Mr. Noble intends to fit himself for
the duties of a clergyman of the Church of
England.
Cheek Which Should Win a Bakery.
From the New York Star.
Going up town the other evening on a Broad
way car a reporter stood on the front platform
enjoying a flagrant Havana he had recently
fallen heir to. Several men stood beside him.
The car was crowded by a gay throng return
ing from the theatre. Suddenly a smooth-faced,
rosy-cheeked young man remarked to his com
panion, a huge fellow’ of Sullivan like build:
"By Jove, 1 wish 1 had a good cigar.*’ The
other offered to get him one. The first speaker
objected. "I don't want to leave the car; lam
in a hurry,** he said. The giant said he would
not have to leave the car, and before the candi
date for a smoke could object his friend said to
the driver:
"Say, old man, got any cigars in your
clothes?” "Naw,” was the surly and laconic
answer of that astoni hed individual.
He then oj>ened the door and addressed the
same question to the man sitting by it, and re
ceived the same response. He closed the door
and looked rather discouraged. It was evident
that both were somewhat under the influence of
red-eye.
He of the red cheeks sighed sadly, “It’s no
use,*' but this merely stimulated the big fellow,
who suddenly opened the door again and said;
in the blandest and most persuasive of tones,
"Has any gentleman on this car a cigar that he
can spare?” The passengers appeared dazed at
his audacity. Some were for having him put
off the car, others shouted, “Shut that door."
the ladies tittered, but the questioner stood in
the doorway wearing an inquiring smile and
sublimely unconscious of any impropriety until
at last one of the passengers went through his
pockets, discovered some weeds, and holding out
a couple said, “Yes, here are some and you've
earned them.”
The big fellow took them with thanks and,
turning to his friend said, "Here's your cigar,
my boy; you'll never get left while you travel
with me.”
The little man with the rosy cheeks intimated
that he might wear diamonds or bracelets if he
did.
She Needed Just Such a Brother.
New York Cor. Jackson ville News-Herald ,
I was eating dinner the other evening in a
well-known restaurant up town. At a neighbor
ing table a young lady tnat I know slightly was
sitting with her brother, a college fellow about
20 years of age, and a big, splendid, right
minded fellow. He was treating his lovely sister
with the same eloquent politeness he would
have employed with a sweetheart, though he
did not watch her so closely as he might nave
had such been the case. 1 caught a side view of
each of them from where they sat. and I was
very much surprised to observe that the girl
was flirting with a man who sat at a table back
of the brother. I was shocked, and began to
wouder if no New York girl was above such
cheap immorality. What made it worse was
the fact that I recognized the man who was
presuming so much as a notorious gambler. I
felt that 1 had no right to say a word, and of
course 1 did not, though I was very angry at the
false innocence that decent girls afreet some
times. When the gambler had finished his din
ner he went to the desk and wrote something
on a slip of paper. Then he called the w aiter
who was serving the two young people and
handl'd the paper to him with some verbal
directions and a large fee. He then left the
restaurant. Immediately I heard the young
fellow ask his sister to excuse him a moment,
and then left ths room.
1 had a table by the window, and I looked out.
The gambler was standing on the side walk,look
ing in. Presently he was confronted by the sis
ter's brother. There was just one word said by
each of them, and then the gambler was struck
two blows in the face that could be heard in the
restaurant. He staggered back, anti then,
gathering himself together, made a rush. Once
more he was struck a resounding blow, and
this time he fell backward and stayed w’here he
fell.
The lad then came back to the room. His
face was flushed, but he took his chair and said
some light thing to his sister, who had heard
not hing. He spoke to the waiter in an under
tone, and the g&mhler'R message to the girl was
handed him. He put this in his pocket, and
the little episode wa & over.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Port Huron (Mich.) church is rented out
during the week for dancing, gymnastic exhibi
tions and roller skating.
A merchant of Merrill, Wis., has adopted a
novel and successful method of advertising. He
took his old white cow, plastered her over from
head to heels with advertisements, and set her
at large in the streets of the towm.
Keeper Judson, of the Stratford lighthouse
near Bridgeport, Conn., has a cocker spaniel
dog that has become an expert fish catcher. He
took up the sport of bis ow n notion, and pur
sues it regularly and enthusiastically. The other
day he carried to his master a 2^6- pound
A notable horse di<*i the other day at Gir
ard, l*a. The animal was 37 years old, and in
his younger days was driven continuously for
ten years as carrier of the mails between Girard
and Lock-port, traveling during the time 10.000
miles each year, and never failing to be on time
for duty. *
At the fair held in Philadelphia by the ladies
of Grace church there was a silk plush quilt,
valued at SIOO, and the friends of Mrs. Blaine
and Mrs. Cleveland entered into a contest a< to
which of the two should become the owner.
Mrs. Cleveland maintained the lead until Satur
day evening, when the Blaine forces rallied and
secured the victory,
“Van,” the favorite shepherd dog of the late
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, lived for years at
the Peekskill residence, the pet dog of the fami
ly. This beautiful animal, with his shaggy coat,
liquid, laughing brown eyes and the sunniest
kind of a dog disposition, left the Beecher man
sion soon after his master's death to live with a
kind-hearted neighboring family. Nothing will
induce the dog to return to his former home
since the master left it.
Mrs. Agnes Steihr and her niece, Mrs. Anna
Beuchs, of Newark, N. J., are engaged in a legal
war for the possession of an old family Bible.
Mrs. Steihr had the book for nineteen years and
Mrs. Beuchs borrowed it. Mrs. Steihr wanted
it again, and her niece asserted that tffae owned
it, alleging that her grandmother gave it to her.
Replevin suits followed from eacL side, and now
the case is in a fair way to get to the Supreme
Court before it is settled.
The taxpayers of Worcester, Mass., feel sore.
They have long lieen making an effort to get
the Old South church off the city common and
the City Council determined to remove it. By
a recent award it has lieen decided that the city
must pay the parish $148,400 damages before
the objectionable structure can be taken away.
The common was donated 200 yeats ago for pub
lic and “meeting house purposes” ana a church
has been upon it since 1719.
A few weeks ago some excavations at Pom
peii brought to light a set of surgical instru
ments. many of which resemble instruments in
use at the present day. Some dayi later four
beautiful silver urns of fair size were found,
also four smaller vessels, eight open vases, four
cups ornamented with leaves and figures of ani
mals, and a very beautiful statue of Jupiter
seated on a throne. Beside those silver objects,
several gold ornaments, such as rings, ear
rings, etc., were also found.
The house occupied by the son and daughter
of Gen. Robert E. I>ee, at Lexington. Va., was
built bv the General after the war, and is a plain
brick structure with a vine-bung porch. Inside,
the house is very homelike and comfortable. Its
walls are hung with family portraits, many of
them very old, and one from the brush or Sir
Godfrey Kneller. Gen Custis Lee, who is pres
ident of the Washington and Lee University,
has his study here, although he spends a large
part of his time in the university, the grounds
of which adjoin his.
H. H. Davis, of Morriston, has just completed
a tombstone bearing an inscription a little out
of the common order of such things. The stone
was ordered by A . D. Salmon, and was put up
in the Sccasunna burying ground last week.
The inscription reads: “In memory of Charles
H. Salmon, who was born Sept. 10, 1858 He
grew-, waxed strong and developed into a noble
son and loving brother. He came to his death
on the 12th of October, 1884, by the hand of a
careless drug clerk and two excited doctors at
12 o’clock at night in Kansas City."
Rev. Father Hkinan, pastor of St. Joseph's
German Catholic church iu East Mauch Chuuk,
Pa, has declared war on bustles. He brands
them as unsightly, as a production of vanity
and altogether immoral. He further asserts
that unless the women of his congregation, old
and young, abandon that offensive article, he
will not give them ecclesiastical attentions and
will turn them from the chnrdh. On Sunday
last he preached sermons in German and
English against immorality in general, direct
ing his words particularly to the women of the
period. His remarks created a big sensation
among the congregation and left quite an im
pression.
The dispatch from New South Wales announc
ing the victory in the sculling match there of
Mr. Beach came over 12,000 miles and cost $2.47
a word to send. It passed through several
cholera infected districts without being quaran
tined, am! after being "relaid," or given a fresh
start half a dozen times, arrived in Philadelphia
a few* minutes after it had been sent. The dis
patch originated at Sydney, then it went to
Adelaide, from there struck North, directly
across Australia to Port Darw in; there it dived
into the ocean and took in Singapore,
Penang, Madras and Bombay, passing
through telegraph stations run by operators
of every degree of black and shade of yellow,
many of whom do not know who Beach is. In
some places the wires are strung on palm trees,
then again they go through sandy deserts and
under the feet of caravans. Some of the people
among whom the message passed were baking
in a sun as hot as Philadelphia’s hottest August,
and others were shivering in November ulsters.
The news did not stop to spread itself among
the worshippers of Buddha, over whose temples
it passed, but dashed northward to the more
hardy and athletic believers in Christ. From
Bombay the electric fluid went to Aden, through
the Red sea. skirted the Suez canal to Port Said,
back to Alexandria, through the Mediterranean
to Bona, in Algeria, by cable to Marseilles and
then on to London. Its route thereafter be
came more commonplace, for an every-day sub-
Atlantic cable brought it to the United States.
One of the brightest men that ever attended
Harvard College was Sumner Paine, son of
Henry W. Paine, a leading lawyer of Boston.
Paine always lead his class at the college, as he
had done before at the Boston lot in school,
without much study or effort. It was during
the war, and just before the battle of Gettys
burg, that one of the professors of the college,
who was much disliked bv the students by rea
son of his arrogant manner, was about to lie
married. The evening of the wedding Paine
headed a band of students who, just as the pro
fessor was about to go to the house of the
bride, at which the wedding was to take place,
locked him in his room and prevented him from
lieiug on hand at the appointed time, in con
sequence of which the wedding cere
mony was postponed. Through a window
the professor recognized Paine among
his tormentors, and the next day preferred
charges against him. The faculty were loth to
discipline Paine, as they admired the young
man and his ability, and partook to a great ex
tent of the students’ dislike for the Professor.
It was necessary for the preservation of dis
cipline that some notice should be taken of the
matter, and much against their wishes they ex
pelled Paine, with the understanding that when
lie apologized he could be reinstated. Paine
was over-sensitive and keenly felt his disgrace.
He at once went to Gov. Andrew, who was an
old family friend, who gave him a commission
in a regiment at the front at Gettysburg. Paine
left for his post of duty at once, arrived at
Gettysburg the dav the fighting began, and fell
mortally wounded within a lew hours of his
arrival.
At one time the name of John Graham was
as familiar to New York ears as that of O’Conor
and Brady or Lord. His square, chunky figure,
his large head surmounted by a long, unique,
yellowish wig, his absolute independence, his
sturdy bearing, his power of incisive cross
examination—to whom were those not familiar*
in the celebrated McFarland-Richardson case
-Mr. Graham came into literal physical contest
with the District Attorney, Noah Davis, and it
required all the vigor ami determined energy
and judicial fearlessness of Recorder iiocket I
to prevent the absolute thrashing of the
one by the other in open court, packed
as it was with a dense throng of inter
ested witnesses. Years thereafter, when
the tidal wave of reform swept Noah Davis to
the bench of the Supreme Court and left him
there, and (.raham, as one of the leading coun
sel m the case of the people against William
M. t weed, was declared in contempt of court
Davis and Graham again came face to face the
one a stern magistrate, inflicting tine'and
threatening imprisonment, upon the bench the
as .fn £F'. ai'oloKi/ing and submitting,
as an officer of the court rebuked bv the nrosid
mg Justice. Since that time Mr. GraWs
of tbe h ,mv m „ r n?A"", heard in tbe court rooms
of the city, and his figure, once so familiar to
the streets, has been noticeably and ciZpieu
ously absent from his old haunts. Monday-lie
walked down Sixth avenue, his round hat pulled
far down over his eyes, tin- wig alone retaining
a sembiance even of the old time man, wif
VoCftte ,lnd j ur y magician. By a few
recognition was sought, but there was a total
absence of the old-time heartiness, and in fact
it almost seemed as though it were a ghost
st!nt! K SlloUtly uud ““impressed along thebusy
BAKING POWDER.
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Its superior excellence proven in millions of
homes for more than a quarter of a century. It it
used by the United States Government. In
dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as
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WE’LL BE
ready to wel
come the house
ful of the season
from Monday
till Saturday.
Grentle in e n’ss
S3 30
Hand Seweh Shoes
—DOWN TO—-
$4 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 yonr 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
can’t hit it.
fl|. 9 99
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-incb, sold
last week at 30c., t his week 19c.
BLANKET DEPARTMENT,
One case* 10-4 White Wool Blankets, fancy
border, regular price $1 25. this week 99c.
One case 12-1 white all wool dtf-pound Blank
ets, reduced from $8 to $5 ; this week only.
GENTS' FURNISHINGS.
50 dozen Gents’ all wool Scarlet Under vest*
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; w orth double.
This week only, your choice of our fine Plush
Wraps, satin quilted linings, fur and plush
trimmed, regular price $25 to $35, fciiis week
only, down to sl7 00.
BOVS'CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
:iOO Roys Wool “Kickabout” Suits, extra pair
Pants an i Polo Cap, iu chock.-, stripes, plaids,
etc., Norfolk style, price for this week only
$3 50, worth
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.
We have every cofcCrivable idea in Plaids,
Stripes, etc. Every winsome plaid and stripe
newness is here. Special for tnis we -k only, 50
pieces Drew Goods, Combination lot Plaids,
Strifes, etc.. 38c.; regular price 50c. anti 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.
r 35 dozen Children's Kid
and Pebble Goat Spring
i R ALTMAYER^^ n w SSs l " i “*
, MSO pairs Youths’ all
oc CO.. solid School Shoes, but
ton and low solar tips,
BROUGHTON AND $1 25, worth $1 Jo.
-, , ., t cTppvTs Egf-Mail orders recei*e
BULL STREETS. caro£ul and pronlp t at-
_
ZONAVEISS CREAM.
ZONW.I.t CAM
FOR THE TEETH
ft mrntfrom Weir Material*, contain* no AcuUi
Ham Grit, or injurious matter
It is Pcbs, Kifinep, PIEFECT.
Notiiimo Likb It Ever Known.
From Henotor roeershnll. — “I take pleas
rc in recommending Zouwciss on account o' it*
cfncacy and purity.”
From .lira. Gen. I.onan’s Dentist. Dr.
E. Ft. t'nrmll. Washington, I>. C.—”l have had
Zonwctss analyzed. It la tlic most perfect deal.*
trice 1 have ever seen.”
From Hon. thus, P. Johnson. Ex. T.t.
Gov. of Mo.--“Zonwe!as cleanses the teeth thor
oughly. Is delicate, convenient, very pleasant, and
leaves no after taßtc. Bonn nr ali. dblogists.
Price, 30 cents.
Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., K. T.
IThwipiiiwibih 'ii iiitmaw iw~
For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman’l
Block, Savannah.
FOOD PRODUCTS.
tat City ills.
W E are making an extra quality of GRITB
and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trade
as superior to any in this market. Would be
pleased to give special prices on application.
We have on hand a choice lot of EMPTY
SACKB, which we are selling cheap.
BOND, HAYNES & ELTO*