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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.:
Georgia Tent No. 15!, L O. R.; German Friendly
Society; Calanthe Lodge No. 28, K. P.
Special Notices—To StocEholders South
western railroad; Imported China at Schreiner's;
Independent Presbyterian Church.
Legal Notice— As to Right of Savannah
Street and Rural Resort Railroad.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steamship
Company; Ocean Steamship Company.
Rolling Them Oct— Salomon Cohen.
Kstill's News Depot— William Estill.
Corn Eyes, Etc.— T. J. Davis & Jo.
Holiday Goods— A. J. Miller & Cos.
Auction Sale— Executor's Sale of Personal
Property by C. H. Dorsett.
Cheap Colcmn Advertisements—Help Want
ed: Photography: Miscellaneous.
As was seen from yesterday's dispatches,
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain’s gold-rimmed
spectacles will spend the Christmas holidays
with the Governor General of Canada.
The Philadelphia Press is quoting from a
few Southern protection papers to show
that the President’s message is unpopular
in the South. That is a very singular way
of getting at Southern public opinipn on
the question.
William Smith, a negro living in Brook
lyn, attempted burglary a short time ago,
and on Friday was up before the Recorder.
On his trial he feigned insanity, but it failed
to save him from fifteen years in Sing Sing.
The insanity dodge is getting so common
that it doesn’t work well.
“Gath,” who has returned from a trip to
Europe, is of the opinion that the govern
ment telegraph system in England is the
best in the world, and that our system is
fifty years behind the age. “Gath” may lie
right in this instance, but as a general rule
his opinions on any subject are not worth
quoting.
A New England school teacher put a list
of nouns on the blackboard with written di
rection to add “s or es” to make the plural.
One little fellow looked at the list a long
time and then said sadly, when asked if his
lesson was prepared: “No’m. I can’t add
sores to those words afid make them mean
more than one. ”
Notwithstanding the favorable and al
most phenomenal light in which Gov.
Foraker modestly plated his abilities before
the Ohio public, it turns out that his vote was
7,470 less than that cast for the highest candi
date on the ticket, and 5,410 less than the
next lowest. Can it be true that Ohio is be
ginning to estimate Foraker at his true
Value?
A Washington paper says: “It would be
amusing, if it were not contemptible, to ob
serve the affectionate and considerate
manner in which the Senate Republicans
are paying court to Mr. Riddleberger.”
For four years they took no notice of him,
and he no doubt felt the sting occasioned
thereby. He now has an opportunity for
revenge, and it is not probable that he is so
forgiving as to let it pass.
Judge Wallace, of the United States Cir
cuit Court for New York, has before him a
•ix-million suit. The case grows out of the
negotiation of bonds of the defunct
New York, Boston and Montreal
Railroad Company, the plaintiff being
Henry L. Bischoffsheim, of London and the
Banque Franoo-Egyptienne, and a long list
of defendants includes the bankers
Brown & Seligmau. The argument will
probably consume five weeks.
The statistics of Southern Congressional
elections are again being used by some Re
publican papers to show that there is not
a free ballot and a fair count in the South.
If these papers will take the trouble to in
vestigate the matter, they will find that the
light votes cast are owing mainly to the
death of the Republican party in the South.
The negroes are becoming more and more
Indifferent to politics, and there are not
enough white Republicans to make a re
spectable showing.
(Jen. Weaver, who was the Greenback can
didate for President, and is now a Congress
man from lowa, says the President’s mes
age will carry his Stato.for the Democrats,
and gives the reason for his opinion. At
the late election the Republicans had only
1,000 majority over the Democratic and Un
ion Labor voters. The Labor voters are
tariff reformers to a man, and thousands of
Ilepublican farmers are on the same line.
These elements, Mr. Weaver thinks, will
surely carry the State for the Democrats.
The companies that are at work on the
problem of heating cars without the use of
stoves cannot complete their work too soon.
Anew system has just been adopted by the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road. It
consists in conveying steam from the engine
tluough the cal's, and is said to have proved
successful at a temperature of 'IS' degrees
below zero, the result of the test being tliat
a temperature of SO” degrees above was
maintained in the cars, and this with the
ventilators open. The Chicago papers
*leak confidently of the scheme.
A Washington siiecial says tliat Senator
elect Barbour will be an addition to the
ranks of wealthy Senators. Senator Brown,
of Georgia, he says, is worth <4,000,000,
made in real estate and coal mining; Hears t,
of California, is quoted at <4,000,000; Pal
mer, the same; Sawyer, $:$,0<i0,000; Payne,
$*.000,000: Don Cameron, <4,000,000; Plumb,
several millions; John Sherman, $1,500,000.
The following are Shpposed to lie worth a
m liion or more: Stock bridge, Stewart,
P -k, Bowen and Kustis. There is said to
L scarcely a poor man in the Senate.
The Troubles of Loan Companies.
The companies of New York, Philadel
phia and other large Northern cities which
are engaged in loaning money in Southern
and Western States at a high rate of inter
est, are meeting with some trouble in get
ting their money back. They ought to
have known that farmers cannot pay the
exorbitant rates of interest which they
demand. A man who is in great
need of money will agree to pay almost any
rate of interest, and will give a mortgage
on his land to secure the payment of princi
pal and interest He will also submit to
almost any conditions which the money
lender may ask, hoping that by some means
he will be able to meet his obligations when
they become due. In most cases, however,
ho hasn’t the money to pay either the mort
gage or the interest on it when pay-day
arrives. He must, therefore, involve him
self still further in debt or lose his land.
Eventually, however, he must lose his land,
because he cannot make out of it enough to
meet the incumbrance upon it.
In this State a good many of these loan
company mortgages have been foreclosed,
and where it has been shown that unlawful
interest has been charged the companies
have been able to get judgments for only
what appeared to be lawfully' due them. A
great many farmers, however, prefer to
lose their land than to shield themselves be
hind the unlawful contracts which they
fully understood when they made them.
In the West, particularly in Kansas, the
loan companies have suffered severely. It
Is estimated that in Southern Kansas there
is as much as $100,000,000 due to loan com
panies, about all of which is secured by
mortgages on alleged farms and improved
town property. If the mortgages were fore
closed not half that amount proliably could
be realized. It is said that the agents of
the companies were so anxious to make
their fees that they did not
tako the trouble to examine the
titles of property offered to them
as security and not infrequently the mort
gaged property was not worth half the
amount loaned upon it. There are reported
to be well authenticated cases in Kansas
where men have made small fortunes in im
proving town property and then mortgaging
it for at least twice its value.
It seems, therefore, that the loan com
panies have not been so fortunate as their
high rates of interest would seem to indi
cate. It is quite certain that some of them
have lost a great deal of money.
Asa rule, the man w’ho has first-class se
curity can always get, money, when it is to
lie hail, at the prevailing rate of interest.
Those who haven’t good security must pay
interest in proportion to the risk that is
taken.
Kissane’s Remarkable Career.
The case of Wiiiiam Kissane, which at
tracted so much attention throughout the
country’ last spring, has been brought to a
close in the Recorder's Court of New York
by a dismission of the indictment against
him, it being found impossible to procure
evidence of witnesses. The charge on
which Kissane was arrested thirty years
ago was that of forging checks for a large
amount on New York banks. He was
brought to trial and the jury disagreed.
Again his case came up, but was not
disposed of, and his attorney suc
ceeded in having it taken to an
other court. Kissane became a fugitive
from justice, and his subsequent career pre
sents one of the most astounding records of
crime and achievements ever made in this
country. When he vanished from New
York he joined Walker's Nicaragua fili
bustering expedition, and was appointed
Commissary and Quartermaster General
under Walker. He got into trouble with
the filibusters and deserted. He reached the
sloop-of-war St. Mary’s, a ragged, unkempt
man, clad only in a linen duster. He gave
his name as W. K. Rogers. He was taken
on board and landed in San Francisco,
w’here ho remained in concealment for
some time, when he went to British
Columbia and soon got rich. In 1860 he
went to Washoe, where he cleared $300,000
in mining. The manner in which he was
discovered after thirty years is interesting.
One of the crimes charged against him was
the burning of a factory in which Glen.
Darr was interested, and for which the Gen
eral swore vengeance on him. Going to
San Francisco one day, the General sud
denly encountered Kissane, rich and honored,
and going under the assumed name of W.
K. Rogers. The General accosted him, but
be acted his part well, and when later on
“W. K. Rogers’ ” record was unfolded,
there was a profound sensation
in California society. Kissane had
been wonderfully successful in
California, amassing a large fortune, and
commanding a high position in the best
society, being related by marriage to some
of the most influential families on the Pacific
slope. Throughout the thirty years of his
life after his flight from New York, he was
hunted by men who sought to bring down
vengeance upon him, but fortune always
seemed to favor him. Kidney C. Burton,
whom Kissane had defrauded, was one of
these men, and ho gave up his business and
spent $59,000 in the endeavor to hunt him
down. Just as he thought justice was about
to overtake Kissane he died suddenly after
drinking a glass of whisky which was sup
posed to contain poison. Kissane’s luck has
followed him to the present time, and he is
now free from all danger of arrest.
The army of cranks seems to increase,
and now and then someone in its ranks at
tracts nn ire than a passing notice. A man
named Warren wrote a letter in the New
York Sun tho other day, asking everybody
in the country to send him lc., in order that
he might acquire a fortune. This novel ex
pedient reminded the Sun of an incident in
the life of John Jacob Astor. “A ragged
beggar,” it says, “called upon Mr. Astor
one day at his office and asked him for
alms. Mr. Astor refused to give him any
thing. The begger persisted in his appeal;
the millionaire was firm in his refusal. The
beggar became pertinacious, and sjmke of
his hunger as he stood in his rags. Finally,
in turning to leave the office, he put in what
he regarded as a clincher, by saying: ‘Re
member. Mr. Astor, that though you are a
millionaire and I am a beggar, you are
driving out a brother, for we are brothers
all the same, as children, of Adam and the
Almighty!’ ‘Ay, ay! Hold a minute,’cried
Mr. Astor, as he pricked up his ears, put his
hand in his pocket, and took out a cent.
‘That is so; wo are all brothers. Now, my
brother, I give you this cent, and if you get
all your other brothers and sisters to give
you as much you will be a richer man than
lam.’”
The Philadelphia Press is engaged in an
earnest effort to give aid and comfort to
Mr. Randal. So are other Republican
journals. Mr. Raudail got very little com
fort from the President’s message.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1887.
Facts for the Curious.
The report of the Superintendent of the
Dead Letter Office for the year ending June
30, 1 St-7, contains a good many facte that
will interest people who are inclined to
gather information of an unusual order,
and for statisticians who philosophize on
figures. For instance, Mr. Edward Atkin
son might take the statement that these
letters were misdirected, partially addressed
and unaddressed to the number of 497,107,
and attempt to show from it, in
comparison with former reports that
carelessness is on the increase or
decrease, as the figures may indicate, in the
country, or he might in the same manner
endeavor to show by the reception of 110,-
554 letters containing money and stamps
whether insanity is on the increase or de
cline. A useful hint may be obtained when
it is considered that there wore received 69,-
978 letters and parcels containing unmaila
ble matter, and that the number of letters
held for postage was 128,510. There
were also received 21,868 letters containing
drafts, notes, money orders, postal notes
and other evidences of monetary value;
31,230 containing receipts, paid notes, etc.,
where failure to corue to hand may be used
by unscrupulous persons in some instances
for obtaining a second payment on the part
of debtors, and several million containing
nothing of value, but many of which
were no doubt of much importance
to the senders. Of the letters
received 35,250 contained photographs,
which figures show an interesting state of
affairs; and 21,504 bore fictitious addresses,
going to indicate that a good many people
have a facetious turn of mind. A reasona
ble per cent, of letters and packages was re
turned to the senders, delivered on receipt
of postage, or correctly addressed and for
warded, but the bulk will never reach their
intended destinations.
There is, therefore, a large accumulation
of articles in the Dead Letter Office, and
they are to be sold at auction, the sale be
ginning to-day. The list contain-i almost
everything that is, or is erroneously sup
posed to be, mailable. Toys, underwear,
cheap ornaments, infants’ clothing, silk and
linen liandkerchiefs, gloves, trimmings, old
clothes, cheap picture \ music and Christ
mas and New Year cards and valentines,
seem to predominate. There are innumer
able miscellaneous articles; something like
2,000 books and a considerable amount of
jewelry is named in the iist. The terms are
cash on delivery, and probably the only
cheap auction sale that is held is about
to begin.
The Opposition to Mr. Blaine.
Although Mr. Blaine seems to be the
favorite with his party for President, it is
not out of the range of possibility that he
will not get the nomination. There is a per
sistent effort being made to place the honor
elsewhere, and although it may not be very
widespread, it may amount to something.
This opposition is, apparently, not
crystallzing around any particular
candidate but is an expression
of disapproval of Mr. Blaine and his methods
and of a desire to see a better man put for
ward. If it could unite on some available
person it would stand a better chance of
success, but the prospect for concert of
action is not at this time very flattering.
Senator Sherman does not seem to be able
to concentrate the anti-Blaine sentiment in
his favor, and it would be difficult to
name any one who could. Until some
thing of the kind is done, the movement
will not amount to much. Its sympathizers,
however, are getting in some very good
work against Mr. Blaine, who, it must be
admitted, is quite vulnerable to attack.
Here are three papers, the Portland Press,
the Trov Telegram and Philadelphia bul
letin, representing as many important
States, that are strongly opposing his
nomination. The loss of Maine
would not count for a great deal in
the matter of votes, but if the Press could
make a show of any considerable opposition
in Mr. Blaine’s own State, the effect would
be somewhat disastrous to his hopes. The
Republican party, says the Press, “will not
tolerate any coquetry with doctrines that
they beliove inimical to the liest interests of
the nation for the purpose of catching
votes.” In New York and Pennsylvania a
defection sufficient to give the delegations
from those States to someone else would
be a very serious blow. The Telegram
says “there are thousands of Republicans
who stand ready to explain why Mr. Blaine
will not be nominated,'’ and the Bulletin
says that a great many Republicans voted
against him in 1884, and a great many more
would vote against him in 1888. Others of
tiie Republican press are ridiculing his
schema of landing in San Francisco a few
days previous to the assembling of the con
vention, and making a run through the
country in order to attract votes.
They declare that it will fall
flat. Gen. Grant, they say, after
having traveled around the world and re
ceived greater honors than any man from
this country has ever received, tried the
same plan, and came home just in time to
be defeated.
So far as the Democrats are concerned,
they would probably be pleased to have Mr.
Blaine receive the nomination, anti, unless
some unexpected change of sentiment
takes place, they stand in a fair
way to be accommodated. Their pros
pects of success are very good against
any candidate the Republicans may
nominate, but they would derive great satis
faction from giving the “Plumed Knight”
another drubbing.
Although his enemies have severely criti
cised Mr. Cleveland on his pension record,
the report from the Pension Bureau for the
fiscal year 1887 shows that he will be able to
go liefore the soldier element next year with
good prospects of securing their indorse
ment. A year ago there were on the rolls
365,788 pensioners of all kinds; to-day there
are 416,648, and the increase keeps up at the
rate of 2,000 a month; 1887 has shown the
best record over known with regard to num
ber. Comparing Mr. Cleveland’s record
with that of any other President, it appears
that he not only is not unfavorably disposed
toward pensions, but has signed more pen
sion bills than any one of his predecessors.
The statement is also made that 1888 will
exceed any previous year in the number of
pensions granted. These are facts that will
be very hard to overcome when the Repub
licans begin their attempt to place Mr.
Cleveland m the false position of opposing
pensions.
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, is overhauling
some of the abuses existing in the Woman’s
Reformatory, one of which abuses is that
of tying up girls by the wrists and whipping
them on the bare back. Tho press will
please note that this cruel treatment is prac
ticed in Indiana, and in the meantime Gov.
Gray will make bay for ’BB if he continues
his reforms.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Can’t Believe it.
Fiow the Xew York Herald find.)
Yes, the pavements in New York streets are
in a wretched condition, but when acorrespond
ent writes that be was made seasick while driv
ing up Broadway we have our doubt*.
He Hasn’t, Eh?
Prom the Baltimore American (Rep.)
If Hon. Henry O. Turner, of Georgia, lie ap
pointed once more chairman of the Committee
on Elections, Sir. Elliott, of South Carolina,
may have a bad quarter of an hour in his con
test with Smalls Turner did not hesitate, as an
act of justice, to report against Frank Hurd,
and vet Elliott has not hail as good a case as
Smalls.
Blaine and Cleveland.
Prom the Xew York Star (Dem),
Blaine stands for our present prolonged war
tariff taxes. Cleveland con ’emits them. Cleve
land demands that our suicidal taxes on im
ported raw mabrials shull be atiancloned.
Blaine declares they shall be continued. Cleve
land would give more income to our wage
earners by dropping our worst taxes. Blaine
contends that those same taxes shall even be
increased. Cleveland tells his countrymen that
because American labor earns and gets the
highest wages in the world, therefore American
machinery-made products have shown the least
labor cost in the world; and, therefore, with
free raw materials, American machinery-made
products can defy all competition, no matter
whence it comes. Blaine argues that only low
wages can insure low labor cost in the product.
BRIGHT BITS.
Of all the pictures that hang on memory’s
wall, that on the back of a borrowed $5-green
back is most rare. -.Veto Orleans Picayune.
Men who wait for luck to make them rich are
generally compelled to leave the settling of their
funeral expenses to their relatives Baltimore
American.
The brain of an elephant is somewhat larger
than that of a tnan, but the trunk of an ele
phant Is considerably smaller than that of a
woman.— Lowell Courier.
A struggling editor in Carroll, la., has tum
bled on to a fortune of $12,500 by tbe demise of
a relative in Germany. Such kindly remem
brance mitigates tbe stings of death .—Omaha
Bee.
Smith—Why are you always so silent in the
society of a young lady, Brown?
Brown—Because it is not good form for two
to talk at the same time.— Binghamton Repub
lican.
A family named Cleve in Germany has hung
on to a certain government postal clerkship for
2JO years. It is remarkable how some people
will ‘cleave” to a good thing when they once
get a grip on it.—Xew York World.
The Boston Herald calls Prince Ferdinand, of
Bulgaria, a ‘‘cry baby.” If Ferdinand does not
like the expression lie can obtain satisfaction
by applying to John L. Sullivan. Westminster
Aquarium, London, England.—. Yen: York World.
A lady teacher of music in Ontario county
inserted her professional card in one of the
county newspapers. It teas seen by an old
lover in Chicago, who at once hunted her up,
explained his absence of a quarter of a century
and married her. It pays to advertise.— Elmira
Advertiser.
Church was over, and, as usual, a company of
women were standing about the doorway talk
ing and laughing, though probably not concern
ing the sermon Soon a young man acquainted
with the group approached, saying; “Aren't
you ever going home? Y'ou are blocking up the
way like Baalain s ass.”
"You are wrong there, ’ replied a young lady
with a toss of the head “It was the angels
who blocked the way and the ass made a fuss
about it.”— Boston Times.
A clergyman in a rural parish was remem
bered at Thanksgiving with a monster turkey,
one of the kind that hang at the door of the
markets Thanksgiving tune. The family was
small, and meal after meal that turkey “bobbea
up serenely." At last one day the minister's
young boy manifested a prodigious; appetite.
Again and aguin lie passed tiis plate, until his
father aud mother became alarmed and asked
him what he was eating so much for With his
mouth full of turkey he answered: “Father, I
mean you shau t have to say grace over that old
turkey again.”— Concord (X. U.) .Monitor.
A Dearborn farmer was trying to hire some
of the numerous loafers around the Central
Mai-set to go out to his place and husk corn,
and he finally found one who had interest enough
to ask;
“What wages?”
“I'll give you $2 per week and board. - '
“Is the coru in the barn or out in the field?”
“Out in tbe field, but I'll set up a tent and
stove, and lay down anew Brussels carpet for
you.”
“Do you have pie and pudding every meal?”
“Oh, yes."
“Can I sleep iu the parlor bedroom?"
“Certainly."
“Any cider to drink?”
“Plentj’ of it. Will you come?”
“Y e-a, I guess so. Say, how far is it to
church?”
“Three miles, but I'll take you in the buggy.”
“No, you won't ! That settles it! I’ve got a
lame back and it hurts me to ride. I've got to
be where I can find a church by walking a
couple of blocks. Might hand me 10c for con
suming my valuable time.”— Pet]-oil Free Press.
PERSONAL.
The Misses Bayard did not see visitors Wed
nesday. They will not be at home on Wednes
days until Jan. 4,1888 r
M. Grevy's age is a disputed matter, and the
ex-President himself does not know. One author
ity says he was born in 1818, another in 1807, and
Vaperau gives 1820.
“Mr. Blaine, 'says Mr. Frank Hatton, “is the
best advertiser in the world. If I were going to
start a show, I should secure his services as ad
vance agent ut any cost.”
Oscar Wilde's baby is the itnageof its beauti
ful mother. Mis. Wilde's reception dresses are
always designed by her husband, hut she ob
jects to his taste in bonnets.
Assistant Postmaster General and Mrs.
Stevenson are housekeeping in the residence
lately occupied by Senator and Mrs. Pugh, 1,513
Rhode Island avenue, Washington.
Constantinopolis Goodell, Jr., a young stu
dent of Princeton with a proclivity for foot bail,
is the nephew and namesake of Constant inopo
lis Goodell, Sr., who was the first white Ameri
can child born hi the Sultan's capital.
Gov. FoRAKgR of Ohio, says that President
Cleveland's message is"ioo trifling and insignifi
cant to merit consideration.” One would think
that Foraker wasspeuking of his own Presideu
tial boom ratherthan the most interesting state
paper of recent years.
The Secretary of War and Mr*. Endieott en
tertained Hon. Joseph Chamberlain and Sir
Charles Tupper at dinner Wednesday evening.
Covers were laid for fourteen. The centre piece
was a great silver bowl, a family heirloom,
filled with bonsilene rose buds.
Lady BcRiiETT-douTrs denies that she has any
intention of visiting America, and adds that she
is afraid that a journey to this country would
probably be made unpleasant by newspaper
comments. At a recent wedding the venerable
old lady wore a cloak entirely made of ostrich
feathers.
Mas. Lamar received the congratulations of
many friends Wednesday in a happy frame of
mind. She believes the Secretary will enjoy the
duties of Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, aud wishes of all things that he would
retire with her for a fortnight's seclusion in her
quiet home in Macon, Ga.
Hon. George Bancroft, the historian, gave a
reception from 8 to 0 Thursday afternoon, iu
honor of his granddaughter. Miss Bliss, who
made her debut upon the occasion. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Carroll arrived from Baltimore,
where they have been for a fortnight past, and
were present, the latter assisting Mr. Bancroft
in receiving.
Miss Eunice Tomlin, of Jaelcßon. Tend., is
said to lie the most fearless rider to hounds in
the Southwest. At a recent cross-country hunt
she distanced all the men and took the fences
and ditches with such ease aud grace that those
who hud joined in the sport held hack in admira
tion to watch her as her spirited horse lifted her
over all obstructions and brought her in the
winner of the chase.
Justice Grey is one of the most interesting
men on the Supreme Court Bench. He is bright
at repartee, a good raconteur, ami he is a genial
host. He is fond of French novels, and is said
to read from six to ten of these a week. His
singular-looking house on the comer of Six
teenth and I streets is rapidly nearing comple
tion. As Justice Grey is a bachelor, Washing
ton gossips are wondering why he has built so
pretentious a mansion. The report that he is
engaged to Miss Van Vechten, of Albany, is said
to be unfounded.
The “Carnot*” are in one respect like the
three generations of the Mendelssohns. When
Abraham Mendelssohn was a young man he
was spoken of as tbe son of “the great Mendels
sohn/' meaning Moses Mendelssohn: and when
he was an old man he was renowned as the
father of "the great Mendelssohn,” meaning
Felix Mendelssohn, tho composer. So when La
zaro Hypolyte Carnot was a young man he was
famed as the son of the illustrious Carnot, the
organizer of victory; and now he will be more
widely known as the father of the distinguished
Badl-Cornol, President of tho Fronch Republic.
A Daughter of Liszt.
From Adolf Houxsaye's Pari* Letter.
Some Interest ha* been excited by the appear
ance of a young lady who claims to be a daugh
ter of Uszt. Her mother, she says, was and is
a menitHr of one of the reigning families of Eu
rope: indeed, one of the most eminent royalties.
Her birth was kept a secret. of course, to avoid
scandal and she was brought up in ignorance of
her parentage, t-the was.however, treated al
most like a young princess. When Liszt died
she was visited one night secretly by the royal
iadv in question, who first obtained from her an
oath of secrecy, and then told her the story of
her birth. The young lady still conceals the
name of her mother, who is living, but feels un
der no obligation to keen the oath so far as her
dead father is concerned. She is a handsome
girl, with Liszt s of features and with an
apparently native talent for music. She has
received a handsome fortune front her mother,
and so will not be ilejieiiiient upon her own ex
ertions for a living, but her euthusiasm for
music is so great that she will give a series of
public piano forte recitals, and perhaps make a
concert tour of the world.
The Baby and the Soidiers.
From the Chicago he dyer.
Hough and ready the troopers ride,
Great bearded men with swords by side;
They have ridden long they have ridden hard,
They are travel stained and battle-scarred;
The hard ground shakes with their mart ial tramp
And course is the laugh of the men of the camp.
They reach a spot where a mother stands,
With a baby clapping its little hands,
laughing aloud at the gallant sight
Of the mounted soldiers fresh from the fight.
The Captain laughs out: “I'll give you tnis,
A handful of gold, your baby to kiss.’’
Smiles the mother: “A kiss can't !>e sold,
But gladly he'll kiss a soldier bold."
He lifts up the nabe with a manly grace,
And covers with kisses its smiling face,
Its rosy cheeks, and its dimpled charms,
And it crows with delight in the soldier's arms.
“Not all for the Captain" the soldiers call;
“The baby, we know, has a kiss for all."
To the soldiers' breasts the baby is pressed
By the strong, rough men, and by turns caressed;
And louder it laughs, and the mother fair
Smiles with mute jcy as the kisses they share.
“Just such a kiss," cries one trooper grim,
“When I left my boy 1 gave to him;"
“And just such a kiss on the parting day
I gave to my girl as asleep she lay."
Such were the words of the soldiers brave,
And their eyes were moist as the kiss they gave.
Origin of ‘‘Chestnut."
From the Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Joseph Jefferson is responsible for the
latest explanation of the word “chestnut." He
attributes the introduction of the word in its
slang sense to Mr. William Warren, the veteran
comedian of Boston.
"There is a melodrama,'" Mr. Jefferson said to
a Press reporter, “but little known to the pres
ent generation, writteu by William Dillon, and
called ‘The Broken Sword.' There were two
characters iu it, one a ‘(.’apt. Zavier,' and the
other the Comedy part of ’Pablo.' The Captain
is a sort of Baron Munchausen, and in telling of
bis exploits, says: ‘I entered the woods of
Collaway, when suddenly from the thick boughs
of a cork tree —Pablo interrupts him with the
words: “A chestnut, Captaiu; a chestnut.’
‘Bah!' replies the Captain. ‘Booby, I say a cork
tree'."
“‘A chestnut,' reiterates Pablo. ‘I should
know as well as you, having heard you tell the
tale these twenty-seven times.' William Warren,
who had often played the part of Pablo, was at
a ‘stag' dinner two years ago, when one of the
gentlemen present told a story of doubtful age
and ’originality. ‘A chestnut,' murmered Mr.
Warren, quoting from the play, ‘I have heard
you tell the tale these twenty-s wen times.' The
application of the Hues pleased the rest of the
table, and when the party broke up each helped
to spread the story and Mr. Warren's commen
tary ‘And that, concluded Mr. Jefferson, ‘is
what I really believe to be the origin of the
word chestnut.'"
Good Talkers in Congress.
From the New Yor w Graphic.
Now that the flood gates of Congressional
oratory are about to be opened upon t lie eoun
try let us see who are the good talkers among
the old members.
Take the Senate. For genuine out and out
rip roaring oratory, Joe Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, is at the head of the class. When he
speaks he festoons the Senate with flowery gar
lands, and when be has finished you have for
gotten what be said.
Blackburn will have a rival in Daniel, of Vir
ginia, when the black-eyed, one-legged states
man gets started, and Joe will have to look to
his laurels in an oratorical tussle with him.
Senator Beck. Joe's colleague, is the exact
antipodes cf the flowery Kentuckian. If he had
to state that three and three marie half a dozen
he would do it just in that way. He is one of
the best equipped debaters in the Semite, and
never speaks except when thoroughly informed
about the subject he is to consider.
For a good, pathetic, heart-stirring speech,
Dan Voorhees cannot be equaled.
For dry law discussions that clear the galler
ies, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, Pugh, of
Alabama, and George, of Mississippi, are the
champions of t he floor.
Frye, of Maine, talks as though the words
were driven from his mouth bv the piston of a
steam engine.
The richness that has crept into the coffers of
Eugene Hale since his marriage seems to have
dried up t he springs of really interesting talking
that used to make him a favorite in the House
of Representatives.
Blair, of New’ Hampshire, orates like an old
time town crier
Dawes, of Massachusetts, has a voice like
Reagan, of Texas —a big trumpet sounding the
words and keeping the ears strained to distin
guish what he is talking about.
John J. Ingalls ought to have a place in the
list of speakers. He has a good deal of vitriol
iu his oratorical composition, but when he gets
upon his feet he always has something interest
ing to say, even if it be a little impregnated with
bitterness, and no one is more attentively
listened to than the literary looking Senator
from Kansas.
Little John C. Spooner, from W iseonsin,
sprang into the ranks of the Senate's orators
before he was a month iu his place.
Spooner's equal in size, George Vest, of Mis
souri, is a bigger, though not better talker, and
with Dick Coke, of Texas, makes the driest and
most profound of constitutional arguments.
Our own Evarts lias uot much of the orator
about him, if we except his long, lean fore
finger, which is the sole weapon or offense and
defense in his flights into the regions of Con
gressional discussion.
Tom Bowen, of Colorado, and Don Cameron,
of Pei nsylvania, do not make many speeches,
but in all that constitutes a well equipped states
man they-get there all the same.
Ad ventures With the Folding Bed.
From the Chicago Tribune .
A remarkable ad venture with a folding bed
occured a few uights ago to a young man con
nected with a leading dry goods house of the
city. The young man referred to lives on the
North Side, and manifests, occasionally, much
conviviality of disposition. He hail been mani
festing such quality one evening week before
lasi. and when he went home was in a balmy
and beaming mood. He hit the keyhole some
how’, and went up stairs to his room. His fold
ing bed he recognized as the place in which he
was accustomed to sleep, and he recollected
that something had to be done with
the article to make it r.ady for oc
cupancy. He grappled with it. The
next morning the chambermaid entering the
room was surprised to see that the folding bed
had not been occupied, though it had been
pulled down. She did the usual sweeping and
brushing, and then seized the l>ed to lift it back
to its place. Then she dropped it and began a
series of blood-curdling screams which as
sembled the household. She said there was a
body under the lied. It was lifted and the
body was there, sure enough. It was the Ixxly
of Mr. , and he was sleeping like a lamb.
He had pulled the lied down on himself and had
gone to sleep perfectly satisfied, the legs of the
article of furniture holding it at a sufficient
height to prevent his suffocation. In his dazed
condition he had discovered the easiest way of
going to bed ever yet hit upon.
Still another story in w hich the folding bed
figured is reported from Ellis avenue. This par
ticular folding lied is ow ned by a lady on the
above named thoroughfare. One memorable
night in her life no sooner hail she fairly im
planted her head on the downy pillows than the
pesky contrivance began to close iu upon her.
Faster and faster it moved, and ail the stories
she had ever read of people being buried alive
flashed Through her mind. It was a moment of
supreme horror. But as the average woman at
sight of a mouse will summon to her aid a
woman'B only weapon—to-wit, her tongue- so
did the fair Ellis avenue sufferer bethink
her of that useful but oft unnily member,
and right lustily did she employ it., too, as her
neighbors can well and truly testify, and as her
husband might also, but for the fact that it was
lodge night, and his presence had been de
manded down town. Hearing a succession of
unearl hly shrieks, the more venturesome of the
aforesaid neighbors attempted to get into the
house, but not being professional housebreakers
their efforts were signally unsuccessful. Mean
while the screams and shrieks continued with
redoubled vehemence, aud it was not until one
of the neighbrs had called the police patrol, and
two of Chicago's preservers of the peace had
broken open the door aud invaded the premises,
and discovered the cause of so unseemly an out
break in a most respectable, quiet neighbor
hood, that, the poor woman was released from
her folding prison, and peace gradually settled
down upon the scene.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Daniel Lyons, of Walla Walla, W. TANARUS., found
partially buried in the sand on the Snake river
the skeleton of an Indian, some of the ribs of
which were thoroughly petrified.
Sam \. Rose, of Ashland. Wis.. commenced
suit a few days ago for divorce. Ilis attorney
went to Chicago to serve the papers on Mrs
Rose, and was surprised to learn that she
secured a divorce over a year ago wit bout the
knowledge of her husband and hail again mar
ried.
A solitary' highwayman held up a stage
coach near Agua Fria, Ari., the other day,
robbed the driver and the only male passenger,
and a few minutes later robbed a mine superin
tendent, who was driving with his wife. The
brigand was gallant, aud robbed none of the
women.
Assegai throwing is to be the popular amuse
ment in England next spring according to the
Court Journal. It is called “arrow-throwing.”
for short, and is said to have been int reduced
by persons returning from trips to Zululaud
and other places where it is practiced by the
natives.
A buzz saw broke while running at a high rate
of speed in Oorvellis, Ore., and a piece striking
William Buchanan in the arm just below the
shoulder-cut it off so quickly and easily that he
didn’t know he was hurt until he saw his arm
lying at his feet. Then he clasped the bleeding
stump and ran to a neighbor’s house.
The Natchez Democrat says that a pair of
shoes were built for a man who lives in Cata
houla parish, Louisiana, which, if they were to
be numbered, would be eighteen. It required
the best part of a calf skin for each one, and
ju-t twice as much of other material as is nec
essary to make a pair of ordinary shoes.
The other day five leading Indians of the Coeur
d’Alene tribe left Spokane for their reserva
tion with the latest improved threshing
machine and a handsome buggy. Each has
seventy acres of grain, which by this time is
harvested, and they were well dressed and drove
well-fed ponies. It is said that most of the
tribe are thus prosperous.
Kangaroo leather has become so decidedly
popular for shoes that 6,000 skius are received
and tauued in Newark alone each week. But
that means most of the skins used, for they go
all over the world from the Jersey tanneries.
One result is that kangaroo hunters in Australia
are making money. They get 70c. a pound for
skins, and some of them clear from $2,000 to
$5,000 a year.
Marie Roze addressed the pupils at the Royal
Academy of Music, at Liverpool, a few days ago,
after the Mayor had presented certificates to
those who had passed the examination for en
trance, and saia that no one better than an ar
tist Imew the value of early training, and that
in looking into the past of her life she recalled
with the greatest gratitude the efforts of those
who first moulded her voice.
The 12-year-old son of Charles Shong, of
Augusta, Wis., w ho was injured by being throw n
from a carnage against a barb-wire fence, will
be disfigured for life by his injuries. His mouth
was cut from ear to ear, a part of his tongue
torn off and left hanging to a barb, and a gash
cut from the mouth across the throat, within a
quarter of an inch of the jugular vein. His
arms and body were also badly cut.
Miss Marcßant, who is in Ireland in behalf of
a work for the assistance of Irish families of
the upper class who have fallen into poverty
through the disturbed state of the country,
writes to England that, during the past sixteen
months she has had to secure homes for thirty
nine children of from 2 to 14 years of age, lie
sides relieving many cases of sickness aud
destitution, and providing many with the means
of supporting themselves by needle work.
Cathreine Bunsin, aged sixty-nine, was sen
tenced at the Liverpool Assizes, recently, to
seven years' penal servitude for stealing a pair
of drawers. The prisoner, on hearing the sen
tence, dropped like a person -hot, and was car
ried out by two wardens. A man named Dillay.
who had been once previously convicted, was
sentenced to five years' penal servitude for
fraudulently obtaining a shilling under the pre
tense that it was wanted for a charitable
object.
The schooner M. A. Boston recently brought
to Gloucester from Ia Have banks a most pecu
liar monster, unlike anything ever seen by
the oldest fisherman there. It was four feet
long and five inches thick; had one dorsal fin
extending the whole length of its back, and a
triaugular-sha|ed head, the lower jaw extend
ing two inches beyond the upper. Both jaws
are armed with very sharp teeth. The upper
jaw had three long prongs at the extreme tip.
This queer fish will be sent to the Smithsonian
Institute.
In the valleys of California grows a tall,
slender-stemmed liliaceous plant with purple
and white flower which played an important
part in the economy of the Spanish population
ami is still more or less used by the country
people. It is the well known auiole or soap
plant. It rises from a subterranean bull) which
Is egg-shaped iu form, two or three inches in
diameter, and enveloped in a thick coating of
black, matted, hairlike fibres. This bulb has
the detergent properties of soap, cleaning the
bauds or clothing quite as well and much more
pleasantly than the coarser kinds of soap.
A young Bostonian has written to several
prominent generals asking how they felt in
their first battles Gen. Sherman says that such
questions are hard to answer, Admiral Porter
says his first battle occurred when he was 12
years of age and that he did not feel much
afraid. (Jen. Pleasontou remarks that his first,
battle was iu Mexico in 1846, and that he felt
the sooner the enemy was thrashed tie* better
it w’ould be; while Gen. Averell says that the
battle of Bull Run, 1801, was his first, and that
when lie saw r the enemy he thought that a great
and useless crime was about to be committed.
Ik Congress show no greater liberality in
spending than the departments have shown in
asking, the surplus will not be greatly dimin
ished. The estimates of all the departments, if
granted without a penny of pruning, will only
exceed by a trifle less than $17,000,000 the ex
penditures of last year. This includes an in
crease of $22.0 M,OOO asked for by the War De
partment, showing that the estimates for some
of the other departments are considerably less
than last year. About $3,000,000 of the excess
asked for by the War Department is for coast
defenses. The balance of the $22,000,000 of
proposed increase is due to the estimates for
river and harbor improvements. It is evident
that the surplus problem will not be solved
without a radical reduction of the revenues.
When Englishmen as a rule in visit ing New
York are accustomed to speaking m terms of
greater or less sarcasm regarding America, it
isu't altogether uupleasant now’ and then to
find the country difficult to get away from. A
couple of months ago Capt. C. A. Tbimrn, of the
Second Lonriou Rifles, lauded in New York, in
tending to remain only a week or two. From
week to week he postponed his departure, but
his many American friends made life so pleas
ant for him that he couldn’t get away. Capt.
Thinim is one of the very few' English gentle
men who have made it a point in London to go
out of their way to extend great attentions to
Americans abroad, and accordingly the Cap
tain's reputation here has spread to an extent
t hat has led to the heaping of social honors
upon him in New York. He returns to England
very deeply impressed with the hospitality and
the general greatness of the New World, and
anxious to get back again at an early date.
A. Horned Hen that Weighs 230
Pounds.
From the Oil City Blizzard.
Walter Lewellin. of Durham, N. 0., has thh
greatest curiosity of the county in the shaj)e of
a Dominique hen, which possesses ou each side
of the head a horn, curled up like a ram's. A
few days ago the hen, which weighs 230 pounds.
Attacked a valuable horse aud gored it so terri
bly that the animal had to be killed. It has also
caused the death of a number of calves and
and pigs in the same manner. It laughs very
naturally and merrily when it gets a pig into a
tight place and commences to maul it, but is
kind to children and delights in trotting them
off to school on its back. This information we
get principally from a Philadelphia paper,
which makes mention of the hen and her horns.
We have taken the liberty, however, to interj>o
late, a statement or two which the paper either
accidentally overlooked or for some other rea
son neglected to mention. In referring to such
matters it is always best to let the reading pub
lic iiave the whole truth, and not simply a brief
and garbled statement, which may be produc
tive of misleading inferences.
Some people were talking about a young
married couple who recently solved the problem
‘"yjappiness by a divorce. “How fortunate
that they married," remarked an old club cynic.
"How so?" replied a lady.
" by, if they had not and had married
separably they might have made four people
unhappy instead of two ."—Philadelphia Press.
There is a King in the interior of Africa who
is evidently a Missouri Colonel in exile. He has
written a letter in which he alludes to rum aud
brandy as “those sweet and soothing medi
cines" At home here the Colonels are always
l?/, 5 alth ’ al,d the >’ *lway* take the African
Kiug s favorite prescription.—62. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
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you maki your purchases.
Boys’ good everyday Suits
$L 50 and upward. Boys’
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ward.
We’ll sell the greater portion of our HOLI
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Holiday Goods of sound sterling merit that are
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A 14-inch Indestructible Doll, kid body,"real hair
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