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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVEIITLSEMENT&
Meetings— The Southern Mutual Roan Asso
ciation ; Ancient Randrnark Lodge No. 231, F. &
A. M.; Hebrew Benevolent Society.
Special Notices— Metropolitan Savings and
Roan Cos.; Agents British Bark Siberia, Straehan
A' Cos.; As to Crew of Spanish Steamship Puer
toriquena; Tribute to American Tiauos; Savan
nah Volunteer Guards Club.
Steamship Schedixe— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Bank Statement -Merchants National.
Cheap Colton Advertisements Help
Wanted; For Sale; Raffle; Rost; Personal; Pho
tography : Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales— Sundries, by D. R. Kennedy;
Ranges, Stoves, etc., by Marshall A Mcßeod.
Publications Colman’s Rural World;
Christmas Periodicals, at EstiU’s News Depot.
Great Rush This Week— At Cohen's Bargain
House.
For Butfton, Etc.—Steamer Pope Catlin.
Mr. Henry George seems to have been
eompletely knocked out in tho late elections.
Prof. Orr’s death removes from the ranks
of the promoters of education in Georgia
one of its best and ablest men.
It is on record that Mr. Sullivan is “very
proud of Wales.” The Prince’s opinion of
Sullivan has not yet been given.
If any gentleman of prominence has not
been interviewed concerning the President’s
message, let him step forward and express
himself.
With the exception of the Widow Butler,
pretty much the whole realm of politics has
given its opinion of the President’s message.
Perhaps tho New York Sun will interview
Gen. Butler.
President Cleveland’s message was not
needed to bring forth Mr. Blaine as a Re
publican candidate, but it will help to ac
complish that result, and that is another
good point al>out the message.
Senator Stanford has prepared a bill, it is
said, which, if it becomes a law, will deny
citizenship in this country to all foreigners
until they have lived here twenty-one years.
It Is safe to say that no such law will be
enacted by this Congress.
Mr. Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati, should
compose himself. There is no probability
that Ohio will go Democratic as long as
Sherman nnd Foraker and the Commercial
ifazelte retain their power of convincing
the people there that the war is still raging.
The New York papers contain interviews
with Henry George, who says he will not be
a candidate for President on the Labor
ticket next year, but he wants his party to
assume anew name and then enter the
Held. Suggestions as to the name are now
in order.
A Washington correspondent says Secre
tary Bayard’s hair is silvering a little, but
he never looked better in his life, and that
all the talk about his being in a mental and
physical decline originates with people who
are constantly trying to misrepresent his
official acts.
The people of Jacksonville would doubt
less like to do their duty to-day with re
spect to the composite and Pope tickets, but
do they know exactly what their duty is?
If they listen to their local directors of pub
lic opinion they will be as hope'ewly mud
dled as their municipal politics is.
The New York Star says that Mr. Fitch,
the only Republican Congressman from
that city, is virtually in accord with Presi
dent Cleveland on the tariff. He is in fuvor
of a revision of the tariff, and will vote to
readiust it to the changed conditions of man
ufacture and trade that now exist. His
sentiments, says the Star, are those of the
great majority of intelligent business men
and manufacturers in New York State and
city. And yet the Ruudall organs say that
Mr. Randall is indispensable in carrying
New York for the Democrats next year.
Monopolies Fa vored.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about to get into trouble on account of its
alleged failure to comply with the State
law preventing discrimination against ship
pers. One oil refining company of Phila
delphia is reported to be about to bring a
suit against the company for $500,000 for
damages, the complaint being that advanta
ges were given to other oil shippers in the
shape of rebates.
If this suit should be decided against the
company no doubt others by different
parties would be brought, and the company
would find itself in an exceediiujly unpleas
ant position. The law prohibiting dis
crimination was intended to meet an evil
that was reaching vast proportions, viz.,the
monopoly evil. The individuals and com
panies favored by the transportation lines
were getting control of the busiuess in
which they were engaged, and were threat
ening to prevent comjietition. The people
saw the danger to which they were exposod
and went to the Legislature for protec
tion. The existing law was enacted, but it
seems that it has not accomplished the ob
ject for which it was intended.
It is stated that the President of the Penn
sylvaniu company is in favor of abolishing
all rebates, and living up to the law strictly,
but that there are others in the company
who want to continue the rebates. It is
possible that those who favor the rebates
are interested in other companies which
profit by them.
One business man cannot compete with
another who pars only about half the regu
lar transportation rates. If railroads, there
fore. are disposed to make discriminations
they can ruin many industrial interests
while building up others. That they ought
not to be permit ted todo anything of the kind
is too apparent to need the support of an
argument. Discrimination does not benefit
consumers. It only benefits the producer
who has the advantage of it. Eventually
the favored shippers must get all the busi
ness, and when they have it in their own
bands they are certain to demand tbe prices
which monopolies only are able to com
mand. It is understood that the Standard
Oil Company is the monopoly that has been
especially favored by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company.
George and McGlynr..
Very little about Henry George and Dr.
McGlynn finds its way into the public
prints now-a-days. They’ and their doings
have ceased to be of as much importance as
they were just prior to the November elec
tions. It is doubtful if they ever again oc
cupy as large a share of public attention as
they once did.
It is now evident that the Labor party
doesn’t count for as much as it was thought
it would, and politicians in their political
calculations do not regard it as a very great
factor in the Presidential problem.
Henry George says that there is a chance
that the Labor party will not have a Presi
dential candidate, because of the cost of
conducting a political campaign. If the
leaders are very urgent, however, an inde
pendent ticket may be placed in the field.
It is plain that Henry George doesn’t
want to spend any money on the Labor
party, and that his confidence in its success
is not as strong as it w as. It is probable
that he will drop politics for the present.
There is a little sympathy cropping out
hero and there for Dr. McGlynn. He is
stranded, as it were, and is not certain about
the course to pursue. The enthusiasm over
the Anti-Poverty Society is dying out, and
the George movement is virtually dead. It
is believed that the doctor wants to get
back into the Roman Catholic Church. He
would be happier there than anywhere else.
It is noticed that lately he has been very
careful not to say anything that was out of
harmony with the teachings of the church,
and be has almost wholly dropped politics
and turnod his attention to religious mat
ters. It is probable that he realizes he made
a great mistake and would now like to cor
rect it.
The Paper City.
The Morning News has inquiries con
cerning the Tallapoosa Land and Mining
Company, from parties who invested in it,
and who are alarmed at statements which
are being printed with regard to it.
It is always safe for those who invest in
such schemes to do so with the same idea
with which they purchase a lottery ticket,
namely, that they may draw a prize, but
that the chances are they won’t. A flaming
advertisement or even a very resjieotable
list of officers is not always a guarantee that
the scheme is one in which money
can bo invested with a cer
tainty that it is all that it purports to be,
especially if the headquarters of its pro
jectors is so located that it is not an easy
matter for those invited to invest in it to
find out the truth about it and those erf
gaged in promoting it.
Asa rule men who have a good thing
keep it. It is hardly probable, however,
that those whose names are connected with
the “Tallapoosa” scheme would bo parties
to a wrong, and it is due to them that they
be regarded as honest and having honest
purposes until a thorough investigation by
those who have put their money in it proves
it to lie otherwise.
The Rev. Dr. Parker has sailed for
Europe. He was given a graceful send-off
by Plymouth church, whoso membership
turned out in considerable numbers to see
him depart, and to leave with him some to
ken of their esteem. One pretty young
lady .the granddaughter of the late Thur
low Weed, wanted to give him a parting
kiss. “May I net?” she asked Mrs. Parker.
The good lady smiled; the Doctor was suf
fused with blushes. He glanced bashfully
about him, as if looking for some means of
escape, and finding none, met his fate like a
man. The young lady kissed Mrs. Parker
twico, to balance the account.
The Rev. James J. Curran, director of
tlfc Catholic Protectory, at Arlington, N.
J., thinks that ho can cure hydrophobia,
and he wants to know why our physicians
“cannot once In a while descend to what
they call unprofessional practice to save
life?" The fact is if the doctors should de
scend from unprofessional practice every
time a crank or a quack thinks he has dis
covered a certain remedy for an incurable
disease he would be down from the profes
sional plane about all the time. The Rev.
Mr. Curran says that he cured a man Who
had hydrophobia by putting him in a vapor
bath. Perhaps he did.
Senator-elect Barbour, of Virginia, is 88
years old, and, for one of hit ago, has re
cently done some v ery remarkable political
work. He served in the Virginia Legisla
ture four sessions, his first term beginning
wuen he was 27. Ho has also served in the
lower branch of Congress, but since 1883 his
talents have found employment in managing
the State campaigns.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887.
Looking Back Three Years.
The assertion of Mr. Blaine and the pro
tection organs that the President’s message
is a free trade manifesto is rather amusing
when its tariff recommendations are com
pared with those made by Mr. Arthur, the
last Republican President.
In both 1882 and 1884 Mr. Arthur recont
inondcd the repeal of ail tbe internal reve
nue taxes except that on distilled spirits,
and such reductions of the customs duties as
could lie judiciously effected, and his Sec
retary of the Treasury, Mr. Folger, said
that the duties on articles used or con
sumed by those who are least able to bear
the burden of taxation should be reduced.
The last Republican administration clear
ly favored the reduction of the duties on
the necessaries of life, and it did so when
there was still millions of outstanding bonds
that were subject to call. No protection
editor then frothed at the mouth, as it were,
and asserted that the administration was
running the country in the direction of free
trade.
The difference between the recommenda
tions of Mr. Cleveland and those of Mr.
Arthur relative to the reduction of the
revenues is not very great. The former be
lieves that in making the reduction only
the taxes on the necessities of life should lie
touched, while the latter advised that both
the internal and tariff taxes should be re
duced.
When Mr. Arthur advised a reduction of
the tariff the surplus was not a matter of
much importance because there were ma
tured bonds to the purchase of which it
could be applied. Now, however, the sur
plus is a very important matter. It is so
great that it threatens to bring about finan
cial troubles. In 18813 the Republicans ad
mitted that the tariff ought to be reduced,
and appointed a commission to gather in
formation upon which to base a tariff bill
A bill was passed but it was framed in tbe
interest of all the great monopolies which
are fostered by protection.
In view of the fact that the last Republi
can administration ail vised a reductio . of the
tariff, does it not seetn to be a little strange
that all tbe protection organs of that party
are now saying that the President’s message
is a free trade paper? Republicans fre
quently find short memories convenient.
A Word About the Streets.
A gentleman who recently returned from
Washington expressed himself as delighted
with that city. Its smooth streets, magnif
icent shade trees and beautiful residences
make a charming picture which he will be
a long while in forgetting. He, however,
expressed the opinion that so far as hand
some streets are concerned this city could,
at a moderate cost, be made to equal
Washington.
In Washington the principal avenues are
very wide, and their whole width is needed
because of the largo amount of driving
upon them, but in this city wide drive
ways are not needed upon any of the streets
except those given up almost wholly to
commerce.
The gentlemen in question has been think
ing over our street paving problem since
his return, and is satisfied that
the suggestion of the Morning
News, viz. : That a roadway about twenty
feet wide in each of our wide streets should be
daved, and that the remainder of the street,
either on the sides or in the centre, should
be properly graded and planted in grass, is
an excellent one, anil ought tc be adopted
at once.
If the suggestion is adopted the work
ought to be done in a systematic manner,
and under the direction of a competent,
though not expensive engineer. In connec
tion with street paving the work of putting
down sewers for house drainage purposes
and of keeping the city clean might be car
ried on. To attend to all of these things
would occupy the time of an engineer pretty
fully.
If these suggested improvements were
made Savannah’s attractions would be
greatly increased. Her population would
grow more rapidly and her wealthy citi
zens would not l>e so anxious to seek North
ern summer resorts as soon as the cotton
season is over. The Council will earn the
good will of the entire city by giving these
suggestions, with respect to street paving
and sewerage, early and careful considera
tion.
“Gail Hamilton” has decided that she
would rather join Mr. Blaine’s family in
Europe than spend the winter in Florida,
and accordingly she is on her way to the
Old World. Miss Dodge has for a lung time
been an inmate of Mr. Blaine’s home, and
being a woman of keen perception and of
unusual aptitude for political work, she has
frequently acted as one of the trusted lieuten
ants of the “Maine statesman” in his con
tests. If some political trick is evolved out
of the coming consultations between these
two remarkably sharp people, it will not be
a matter of surprise to those who under
stand the love that each has for political
intrigue.
A special from Washington says that
Chicago will also secure the Democratic
National Convention. The national com
mittee will meet in Washington early in
January, and New York will make a strong
pull for the convention, but it is considered
reasonably certain that Chicago will be suc
cessful. It looks as if 1884 were going to be
repeated alt around, except that Blaine will
meet with a much more decisive defeat at
the polls.
It seems early to begin to talk about de
feating Congressmen lor the next election,
but the regular biennial movement against
Congressman Tom Reed, of Maine, is
assuming shape. This time, however, the
opposition to him comes from Republicans,
No doubt there are a good many Republi
cans in Reed’s district who are tired of
waiting for his shoes, but there is none who
could fill them.
Gov. Lee’s suggestions relative to the
solution of the Virginia debt problem arc
said to meet with the hearty approval of
his party. The Republicans have had little
to say on the subject, but if anything can
be mado for them out of the message of the
Governor, little Mr. Muhone will, doubtless,
be heard from through some medium
before tbe Legislature adjourns.
The Boston papers devote nearly a half
column of flaming headline to announcing
that Mr. Sullivnu shook hands with the
Prince of Wales. It is but just to add that
they gave almost as much prominence to
the local campaign there, but Sullivan is
evidently a sortiowhat bigger issue than
either O’Brien or Hart.
Of the seventy-six United States Senators,
sixty are lawyers, and of 335 members of
the House, 213 are of the same profession.
Either the legal profession pays very poorly,
or the ambition to serve one’s country is
stronger uraong lawyers than among those
of other professions or of any occupation.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Truth from Louisville.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.)
If the New York un had net gone off and
flocked with Ben Butler in 'B4, to help Blaine, it
might now have more influence in Presidential
matters.
A Good Man for Plymouth.
From the Net!) York Graphic (/tut)
Dr. Parker's talk about Gladstone made n
pleasant impression. It is evident that Glad
stone would be just the man for the Plymouth
church pulpit could he be persuaded to think of
it. And Dr. Parker might not be a bad Prime
Minister
Just the Size of It.
From the Providence Journal (Rep.)
Mr. Blaine is in favor of distributing any sur
plus that may be created by the continuance of
tbe internal revenue tax among tlie States of
the Union. The results of a similarexjieriinent
in the early history of the country were about
as disastrous and mischievous as anything that
could be conceived. All such nostrums as that
are for the infancy of political economy. To
impose taxes for the purpose of giving them
away is pure folly.
BRIGHT BITS.
We know of one girl in Lowell who admits
she is an Anna kissed.—For Populi.
No philosopher ever philosophized more
truly than he who said 'poverty sharpens.”
Even a razor would not be sharp were it not
strapped.— Binghamton Republican.
“Papa," asked little Bobby MoSwilligen.
“what is a railroad pool?"
“A railroad pool. Johnny,” replied McSwilli
geu, “is where they water the stock.”— Boston
Btulget.
Henri—Jules and Alphonse quarrelled and
fought a duel yesterday, but fortunately neither
was injured.
■Maxime--What was there between them ?
Henri—Fifty paces.— Tid-Bits.
A man named Killer is under arrest for mur
der and will be tried shortly. Any man bearing
such a name is more to bajpitied than blamed,
and the jury should recommend his discharge,
but that the name lie sentenced and hung.—
Boston Budget.
Lately the country has had the “Oil Trust,”
tbe “Sugar Trust,” and the le-ad Trust,''but
that familiar standby, “No Trust,” continues to
do business at the old stand, and turns away
more trade in a week than all the oi her trusts
will get m a yyar —.Sou Francisco Alta.
“Charley." said a young wife, “is there real
ly any Such person as tbe fool killer’"
“Oh, T guess not; I don't know,” said Charley,
who was reading the morning paper. *
“Well, Charley, all 1 wanted to say is, please
don't go out after dark any more until you find
out."— Washington Critic.
It poured for weeks together.
'Twas the dolefulest of weather,
Yet in her eyes there beamed a happy light;
And I pondered well the reason
Of her smile in such a season
Till she said, “I see a rain beau every night
Harper's Bazar.
Here’s a box addressed to you,” said the wife
of a prominent man. "I don't think you'd
better open it, though. ' What shall we do with
it! - ’ “I'll tell you; we'll take it out and get the
hired girl to open it. She has lit the fire with
kerosene three times this week, and I don't
think that dynamite will hurt her.— Washington
Critic.
A miser for whom a man had just performed
a service grudgingly asked, “And what's the
charge?”
“Not a cent.” was the unexpected reply.
“Not a cent?" repeated the miser, overjoyed.
“Why, really, I’m—”
“No, not a cent,” Interrupted the other; “two
dollars.”— Somerville Journal.
Little things sometimes accomplish great
results. A Lansing organ boy fell asleep last
Sunday and thereby kept a whole church choir
as silentas the grave. The organist fingered the
keys, but nary a sound came forth, and the
preacher, whose wits are keener than a curb
stone broker's, promptly and devoutly ex
claimed. “Let us pray!”— Detroit Fetes.
“I think a bath daily would be beneficial in
your case,’’ said the physician to Plodgers, the
valetudinarian.
“Well, I don't know, doctor,” replied Plodg
ers, in a feeble voice. “I took a bath a year or
two ago. I felt better for awhile, but it wasn't
long before I was as bad as ever, and 1 have
been growing worse ever since.’’—Sf. Louis
Magazine.
In a Chicago
(after looking at negative)—Not a single hair is
shown on the head.
Photographer—No, for you are entirely bald.
Customer—Yes, 1 know that; but I intended
to have my picture taken with a good crop of
hair.
What difference does that
make ?
Customer—Makes a great deal of difference. I
am the manufacturer of the celebrated Never
Fail Hair Restorer.—? Arkansatv Traveler.
“Bit, Mr. Superintendent, you will admit, 1
suppose, that your street cars are outrageously
cold?"
“Well* yes; in winter they arc pretty cold, of
course, but you ought to be willing to take a
reasonable view of the matter."
“Reasonaoie view?”
“Why, certainly. Now, if you should put a
thermometer in our cars and leave it there the
year round, you would find that with the 110°
above zero in the summer, and the 10° below
in the winter, we strike a pretty good average
in the entire year.”— Chicago Met vs.
PERSONAL.
Bret Haute is said to be making from $7,000
to SIO,OOO a year in London.
Nina Van Zandt indignantly denies that she
has money. But she still insists that she had
matrimony.
Mrs. Alexander Brown, of Baltimore, Md.,
gave a supper party in honor of Mrs. James
Brown Potter Thursday evening. Prominent
society people of Baltimore were present.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings: “The seasons
are made by the heart, I hold, and not by out
door beat or cold.” And yet we advise Ella not
to venture out without her wraps ami rubbers
during the approaching snow-storms. A warm
heart is a good thing theoretically, but a seal
skin sack is not be sneezed at in winter.
Ex -Senator Camden has presented tbe Cam
den Guards, of Marion county. West Virginia,
wit'll a large and handsome double silk (lag,
costing near a hundred dollars. The Senator
has extended an invitation to the company to
visit him at his home in Parkersburg early in
the spring and partake of his hospitality, which
invitation has been unanimously accepted by
the Guards.
Mrs. Cleveland owns three dogs, one at Oak
View and two at the White House. They were
given to her by personal friends. The last
comer is a handsome St. Bernard recently pre
sented to Mrs. Cleveland by her college chum.
Miss Kingston!. He is tall, heavy and hand
somely colored in white and brown. His new
owner has named him “K,” in honor of the
donor. Mi's. Cleveland allows no one to give K
a bite to eat, but feeds him regularly herself. K
and his mistress have become inse|>ai'able, and
Hector is entirely cut out by the new pet,
In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock-Craik was,
says the London Daily News, remarkably
methodical. Though many of her works ap
peared in periodicals, she would never under
any circumstances consent to a beginning of
publication before the work was entirely out of
her hand, and what is very singular, she is said
through the whole course of her forty years'
labors never to have begun writing anything
which she did not carry straight through, and it
is believed that she has not left behind a single
line of unfinished work intended for publication.
she ever wrote with a view
to publication has been published.
Roonn O. Mills, of Texas, who is attracting
a good deal of attention at present as the
prospective chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of tile Fiftieth Congress, is one of
the boldest politicians in the country. He is
constitutionally opposed to dodging any ques
tion ill which the people ure interested, lie is a
fighter from the headwaters of Bilter creek. He
holds that a public man should have views on
every public question and express them freely.
In tuis way he plunged into I lie middle of tile
prohibition campaign in Texas last summer,
when the other members of the Congressional
delegation wore laboring earnestly to avoid the
issue. Mills can pour out rhetorical thunder
bolts by the hour. His eloquence is fervid aud his
voice luxuriant. He is nt ais best in a fight. He
approaches the contest tike the flagship of ail
Admiral, and while he I* in action there is not,
n sinew of bis bodr at rest. If Mills and Kan
dall grapple over the tariff question, there wifi
be such a fight as was never seen lu tbe House
liefore. Mills is nearly six feet high, and is
about 55 yeai-s old. His hair and droopiug
moustache are white. His eyes are gray-blue,
and flash and glitter, while under the influence
of intellectual excitement. He is a mortal e:i"-
my of prohibition, or any sjiecies of sumptuary
law, and believes that when the citizen Is de
prived of responsibility to care for himself true
lilierty ends. He is an absolute teetotaler, end
was a member in good standing of the Metho
dist church South until the ministers of that de
nomination in Texas took the political platforms
to preach prohibition. Thomas Jefferson is
Mill's political idol; he did not like Tilden,
and was an advocate of the uoniinatiou of Thur
man for Fresideut iu !S2t
HE COULD HANDLE HIMSELF.
A Muscular Drayman is Woefully De
ceived by a Lab De Daw Dude.
/•'mm the Philadelphia Press.
A muscular drayman was belaboring a dray
horse at Front and Market streets on Monday
in the endeavor to make the animal drag a
heavily loaded truck up the hill. A young man
with a two story collar, an overcoat that was
shorter than the coat under it and a wondrous
l>air of checked trousers stopiied on the corner,
and for a moment gazed with languid air on the
man and the horse, stepping to the street he
said with a most abominable drawl and an
affectation of an English accent, "I say, me
man, you shouldn’t lieat that horse in that man
ner. It's positively cruel you know. I shall cer
tainly call a bobby."
The draymau turned his bead, gave a con
temptuous glance at the speaker and cut the
straining animal more cruelly than before. "I
say, me man,” continued the dude, "you’ll
have to stop it, you know; you’ll have to stop
it.”
The drayman turned aguin. “If you don’t git
away from here,” he cried, ‘Til paste you in
tne nose. Go on, now, or I'll give it to you
good.”
The languid young man said not a word. He
drew off ids gloves, put them in his pocket and
buttoned up his coat. "I say," he began, but
the drayman, dropping his whip, aimed a
swinging blow at the speaker, which cut the
words short. Mr. Dude countered, led again
with his left, got there, and then followed with
a vicious upper-cut with his right, which caught
the drayman on the jaw and knocked him
nearly under the horse’s feet.
The dude simply unbuttoned his coat, put on
his gloves and walked off before the astonished
drayman came to.
"That fellow don’t look as if he could fight a
mosquito," said a bystander, and I was as much
surprised os the teamster.
WALKING WITH A BROKEN LEG.
Judge Massey Rebukes the Inhuman
Treatment of a Prisoner.
From the Few York Press.
A case of almost inhuman cruelty on the part
of the police of the Congress street station was
publicly rebuked by Judge Massey in Brooklyn
Thursday. George Cartwright, a sailor on the
steamship Royal Prince, lying in the Erie Basin,
while on shore Wednesday hecame intoxicated,
and while going through Columbia street fell
and broke his Teg. Officer Keyiaber arrested
him and took him to the station house, where it
was first, learned that his limb was broken.
Ambulance Surgeon Sheppard was summoned
and dressed the limb, but said that the Long
Island Hospital was crowded, and that the man
had better be allowed to remain in the station
house and be taken to court in the patrol wagon
in the morning, as he had to answer to a charge
of intoxication.
Thursday morning the man was compelled by
the police to walk several blocks to Justice Mas
sey’s Court, where he was arraigned before the
Justice, who said it was au outrage, and that
the man might become a cripple for life owing
to his treatment. He immediately discharged
Cartwright, and ordered his removal to St.
Peter’s Hospital.
Sex aad Bravery.
From the Boston Transcript.
The disaster to the steamer Scholten in the
English Channel is said to have been made more
dreadful by the wild shrieks of the women. No
doubt the report is accurate. The shrieks of
women are, perhaps, to be expected on occa
sions of peril and disaster where they are pres
ent in considerable numbers. And yet there is
an impression, gained upon three or four occa
sions of public disaster, that rather the most
strenuous demonstrations of terror at such times
are made by men, and this impression is con
firmed by the observations of a gentleman who
has been the master of a steamer, and who, on
several occasions, has been present during
panics on board vessels, who says that
on all those occasions the women were
easily quieted if some cool-headed
man would talk to them. "If the men could be
kept cool,” this gentleman says, “the women
could be. The worst time I ever had on such an
occasion was with a clergyman from Maine,
who, during a panic on the steamer once when
we had struck another boat, but sustained
scarcely any damage, rushed about shouting:
‘The wrath of the Lord is unon us!’ Of course,
he scared the rest of the people, including the
women, into a frenzy. I got him one side and
cowed him into quietness, but I am afraid that
I had to use a little profanity to do it. When I
got him out of the way it was easy enough to
calm the rest of the passengers. On another
occasion of panic, when the passengers were
buckling on life-preservers, I beard cries of dis
tress from a woman I went to her and found
that her trouble rose from the difficulty she. had
in fastening a life-preserver on her male escort.
She had got it around him hut did not know how
to fasten it to his back, and was screaming for
fear he might drown, in consequence. She
begged me to show her how to fasten it 1 said:
‘I will,’ and took the life-preserver from around
the man's body and buckled it around hers.”
We recall a certain crazy theatrical panic where
there was no difficulty in persuading all the
ladies in the vicinity to keep their seats. Some
male acquaintances on the same occasion dis
tinguished themselves by jumping clear over
the heads of the orchestra upon the stage and
making a frenzied exit. We would not infer
from these experiences that women are neces
sarily braver than men. Their tendency, on the
contrary, is to depend upon men in such emer
gency. But when the male coward bellows and
runs the thoroughly frightened woman gener
ally faints or trembles and moans.
Proselyting- Under Difficulties.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The Mormon elders are having considerable
trouble in proselyting in Alabama. Shotguns
and bloodhounds are the principal draw hacks to
the work of the church. They frequently make
converts, but great trouble is experienced in
taking the fruit of their label's with them.
When o-e of the elders with a convert under
each arm is running through the underbrush
toward the nearest railroad station to have half
a dozen bloodhounds suddenly come tearing
along after him on the run makes it very dis
couraging work. The native Alabama blood
hound with its mouth o|ien is almost enough to
dishearten a missionary working for the true
religion, to say nothing of a laborer for a re
ligion which is a little shaky on its pins, like the
Mormon variety.
When an old. bald-headed Mormon missionary
has worked two hours to bag a nice moss of
Alabama converts, it is calculated to discourage
him to go across the county line only about four
feet in advance of a bloodhound.
One night last week two of the most zealous
workers the church has in Alabama were tarred
and feathered. Before they fully recovered from
the depressing effects of this, tney were chased
up a tree by the bloodhounds, and forced to
stay there all night. As they sat there on a
limb of a tree, with the damp, Gulf night wind
blowing through their feathers, one of them
said: “Brother Mower, the glorious cause of
the Latter Day Saints in Alabama appeal's to lie
languishing." “Somewhat, Brother Masters,”
replied the other. "If I had a rock to heave at
that infernal bloodhound with the red eyes ttiat
is trying to gnaw the tree down, the outlook
would improve.”
While the dogs that had been on during the
night were retiring and before the day dogs
took their positions the two elders tiad time to
slide down the tree, hastily read a notice pinned
to the trunk informing them that they would lie
shot if found in the county after twenty-four
hours, and then skin up the next tree just as the
other set of dogs came up oil the run. They
managed to make one tree a day for about a
week, when the dogs tired out anil gave them a
chance to depart for n pew field of labor.
The time has arrived when a man who can
run under 2:1:% can name his own salary at
the headquarters of the Mormon church in Ala
bama.
Don’t Mention It.
From the New York Graphic.
Were her eyes gray or blue?
I dare not say.
How could X judge of their soft, lucent ray?
I only know she looked at me the way
That angels look
When mortals pray.
Was her voice proud or kind?
I do not know.
It whispered to me as I turned to go;
And stole into my heart’s recesses so
I thought it sweet,
And soft and low.
Was her hair gold or brown?
I cannot tell.
Its clustered glory wrought on me a spell.
While dreamy eyes beneath her lashes fell
In tenderness
I knew full well.
Were her feet small—or large?
'Hb—whisper low—
She owned a pair of munbnr nines, you know,
Broad at the heel and spreading at the toe;
Don’t niention if—
-1 loved her so 1
’ There has been a complete reconciliation
between the Empress Eugenie and Prince Victor
Bonaparte," says London Troth. "The Empress
visited Brussels the other day, and her young
relative met her at the station, dined and break
fasted with her at the Hotel Bellevue, and
escorted her tothe new picture galleries. Prince
\ ictor is to visit the Ktupresg at Amsterdam,
and he will come to England to be present at tbe
reinterment of the coffins of the lato Emperor
napoleon and his son at Faruborouxh."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mas. Collier, daugher of I’rof. Huxley and
wife of John Collier, the artist, died in London
recently. She herself had remarkable talent
as an artist. Her first picture, "The sins of the
Fathers,” was favorably placed in the Royal
Academy in 1879. She was also an exhibitor in
188], showing, in addition to * subject-picture,
a full length portrait of her sister, Miss Nellie
Iluxley. In another year her picture “By the
Tideless Midland Sea,” was one of the chief at
tractions of the Grosvenor gallery, where Mrs.
Collier also exhibited some very charming child
portraits.
The position of medicine man to a band of
Indians at Bay Centre, on Shoalwater Bay. in
Oregon, is about being vacated, and a competi
tive examination was at last accounts being
held for a successor. The examination was
unique and in accordance with the laws of the
tribe, which provide that the candidate who
dances for one week, night and day, without
giving out, and succeeds in the meantime in
finding some object, which lias been previously
hidden, is chosen. He is forthwith declared the
medicine man, and the "healing business'’ is
turned over to him. When last heard from the
candidates had liean tripping for four days, and
several were almost exhausted.
Ax atmospheric phenomenon was observed
in San Francisco the other evening, and is re
ferred to by the Chronicle. About 11 o'clock c
thin band of light, of the consistency of a cloud,
and extending across the zenith from east to
west, was seen skirting the heavens. The sky
was almost perfectly elear aud there was uo
fog. At first it appeared like a thin baud, but
gradually expanded until it was about two feet
wide. The light emitted from it was consider
able. It continued to be visible for about an
hour, and, after Hashing like an aurora, flnally
disappeared. During the continuance of the
phenomenon an electric disturbance was pro
duced and many of the telephone wires failed
to work.
Ax engagement slate is one of the things
which the very English girl finds it necessary to
have on her desk. They are framed in many
symbolic ways, for all the ancient devices in
vented for inkstands are brought out and used
for them. For instance, one of them is im
bedded in a tangle of carved netting and has
two lawn-tennis raeqnets crossed above it, and
a tiny inkstand concealed in a ball, which lies
in a racquet in front of it. The engagement
“slate.” be it understood, is really a card, with
blanks for each day in the week. A porcelain
tablet would be much more convenient, and as
it cou id be cleaned, would enable one to keep a
record for a fortnight without any trouble, but
the card is the proper thing.
In a little basin of the Alps, 7,708 feet above
sea-level and five miles from the end of the
great Aletsch glacier, is the unique little lake
known as the Marjalen sea. This Is fed by moun
tain streamlets, its waters being held back by the
ice of the great glacier itself An English geol
ogist mentions having seen it in 1858 as a body of
water :)00 yards wide and three times as long,
with a maximum depth of ninety-seven feet.
But the next day it had vanished. The ice-flam
had yielded sufficiently to allow the pent-up
water to escape beneath the glacier and plunge
into the valley below, devastating the fields,
and considerably raising the level of the Rhone.
These discharges take place at irregular inter
vals, though reputed to occur every seven years.
The latest outbreak was in September last, since
which it has been proposed to lessen future
damages by providing an artificial outlet to re
duce the lake's capacity one-half.
Southern* Women are growing independent,
The New Orleans Times-Democrat says: The
custom of women In attending the theatre in
groups of three or more without an escort is
even more general this winter than ever before.
It is a very sensible and proper sort of indepen
dence, for it has always seemed rather hard to
debar the sex from visiting either opera or play
simply because no man happened to be availa
ble at the moment. It is still a bit awkward
and embarrassing, for on enteringa public place
every one present has a way of staring over
one’s shoulder as though hunting up a missing
man, but if the courageous individual be full of
pluck this is soon overcome. Then, there is
strength in numbers. No one thinks of ven
turing out with less than two companions,
which set iat rest any scruples on the score of
personal protection. To many there is no
pleasure equal to theatre-going, and a prejudice
will soon be Lived down that Is based on such
narrow limitations.
An ix’STAxce of the remarkable coolness
and audacity of a thief, though perhaps not an
uncommon one, is worth relating. One day a
Liverpool “stalk V—a man capable of doing mis
chief of any kind for a trifle—having watched
his opportunity, took up a coat that hung out
side a pawnbroker's shop Flinging it over his
arm, and carrying it into the shop as if intend
ing to make a purchase, he offered it for sale.
Not recognizing his own property, the pawn
broker bought the coat. But even this did not
sat sfy the thief. He handled some silk hand
kerchiefs, and in choosing one remarked care
lessly: "Take pay for this out of the money for
the coat.” “But I have given you the money,”
indig-antly answered the paivnoroker. “Oh no,
you haven't,” said the thief. A warm alterca
tion ensued. In vain the shopman protested
that he had paid the money; and at last the
thief went out in search of an officer to settle
the dispute, taking with hitn some silver
spoons, several silk handkerchiefs, as well as
the silk handkerchief in question, which in
his excitement the broker had forgotten.
Ax - American, who at one time resided in
Berlin, relates a characteristic incident about
the Crown Prince of Germany, whose kindly
disposition is well-known among his own people.
“One Sunday." the narrator says. “1 was at
tending one of the churches in which the royal
chaplains preach. In these there are scats
decorated with the royal arms and reserved for
the exclusive use of the royal family. The
church was crowded and many had to stand. I
was standing in the gallery just back of the
royal ’box,’ in which alone there were some
vacant seats. An old and plainly dressed
woman, who might have been a seamstress or a
laundress, came near me looking for a seat, and
finally, as it seemed from ignorance, went into
the royal inclosure and seated herself just back
of ’Unser Fritz' aud the Princess Victoria, An
aid or military attendant ut once made a move
as thougn lie were going to show the intruder
out. But the Prince, in the most quiet way,
touched him on the arm as a sign that ho should
remain seated. The charming thing about it
was the utter lack of auy effort to draw atten
tion to the kindly act. The poor old woman sat
to the end of the service with Ihe royal person
ages, and this shows the kindness of heart
which marks the man."
Gov. Hill is about to take lessons in horse
back riding. His private secretary, Col. Rice, is
an expert horseman, and the Governor has
finally yielded to his persuasions to accompany
him mornings in a canter over tho country. Tne
Colonel intents to ride at least au ho jr every
morning this winter in spite of wind, cold, bliz
zards, or storms. The Governor will not pledge
himself to any such heroic sacrifice of comfort,
but he has consented to ride on pleasant morn
ings until the weather becomes too cold for com
fort. The Albanians remcmlier that Gov. Tilden
was a skillful rider, and took much exercise on
a blooded black, which soon became as well
known in the surrounding country as its distin
guished master The only exercise which Gov.
takes is a walk twice a day to and from the
I .eeutnc Mansion and the Capitol, the distance
tails traversed b'-ing only about two miles.
Sometimes he lias a visitor nights who can piny
billiards, and w th him he will walk another two
miles around the table. He is not so alert in his
movements, and, generally speaking, is not in
so good trim physically as he. was some months
ago. say about the time the discovery wits made
that Cleveland’s friends had secured fully two
thirds of the Mate committee. Still. Gov. Hill
cannot be said to bo utterly depressed. Col.
Bacon, who was formerly in his law office at
Elmira, is authority for the staleuieut that the
Governor will never accept a l-enomination.
This would seem to indicate tliatt.be Governor
really contemplated opening a law office after
Dec. 81. 1888.
In London, at this very moment, lives one of
the brightest, the cleverest, the happiest of that
class known as the ‘average” woman. Sho is
pot young, not pretty, not fascinatin g, but sho
Is healthy, ambitious and wise. For ten years
this woman has not had a gonereus ltma'l ex
cept when invited to the house of friends, has
not known what a vacation was, or the "change
of air" nowadays considered s. • necessary to
well being, since tier properly was squandered
by a faithless agent a decade ago. She is a
cripple, walking with a crutch, and tons de
barred from many employments where a hobble
and a crutch uie disagreeable to employers,
She earns her food and shelter by cop ing
manuscripts—a most pie -arious business
Her ‘grub box" is oftener empty than full; she
cannot often afford butter uni Coffee; a go
cart has charms superior to her garret, She
tuke her empty box, the cheerio ts garret, the
widowed butter, the unmated coffee, not of ab
solute necMßlty, but of deliberate choice. She
earns ®l!i a month, and has no more. Out of
that pittance she buys her-always neat—
clothes, and subscribes to Mudl-'s. she pays
promptly her subscription to a literary club, as
also to a dramatic society, No great theatrical
event takes place, no famous "first night” that
she is not present, high up towards heaven, ttio
pit regions being too expensive tor h-r. She Is
thoroughly en rapport with every intellectual
ptilse of the times, knows scores of clever peo
ple, and is cordially invited to scores of pleas
ant houses She is really what may lie called a
tramp ’ in intellectual ways, hut those wavs
-mteliectual, aud she sjteaks the luuguagu of
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to avail themselves of the phe
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department to make their visit
as early as possible. We par
ticnlarly wish to bring to your
notice the fact that we have
the most extensive line ofßoys’
Clothing ever shown in this
city. We have everything
from the very cheapest to the
extreme finest, and we guar
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lower than any house iu the
State of Georgia. We invite
you specially to examine the
goods and prices here before
you make your purchases.
Boys’ good everyday Suits
$1 50 and upward. Boys’
neat Dress Suits $4 and up
ward.
We’ll sell the greater portion of our HOLI
DAY GOODS between now and Christmas. The
dullness in the money market has given oui
Northern buyers the golden opporl unity of pur
chasing goods at prices never before heard of.
Holiday froods of sound starling merit that art
useful, artistic aud ornamental. Elegant Plush
Dressing Sets, Satin liued, Celluloid Comb, Brush
and Mirror $1 95, a beautiful article and extreme
ly cheap. A Lady’s Walnut Writing Desk, ll
inches long and 12 wide, only 99c.; very cheap,
A 14-iuch Indestructible Doli, kid body/real hail
and bisque head, just think, ouly 49c. A 27-inch
Wax Doll, real hair, etc., the largest, prettiest
an<l cheapest Doll in the city, only 75c. A Odnoh
Glass Night Lamp, all complete, filled with XXX
Cologne, only 35c. Full lines of Toilet Cases,
Ornaments, Fancy Boxes, articles of every de
scription, and all at prices that will attract
economical people ands) *"ewd buyers. Mail
orders receive careful and prompt attention.
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