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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. <£ A.
M.; Stockholders Savannah Bank and Trust Cos.;
St. Andrew's Society; Confederate Veterans’
Association.
Special Notices— last Notice State and
County Taxes; To Houskeepers, Geo. V. Hecker
& Cos.
Amusements— Boston Dime Museum, Brough
ton street.
Winter Companions— Geo. V. Hecker Cos.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos.
For Blupton, Etc.— Steamer Pope Catlin.
Publications— The LaGrange Graphic.
BBeautiful Holiday Presents-.M Emil A.
Schwarz's.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted: Employuieut Wanted; For Bent; For
Sale; Lost; Found; Miscellaneous.
Senator Sherman is reported as saying
that the administration of Mr. Cleveland
“merely swims along.” Senator Sherman’s
Presidential boom seems to have sunk.
The complaint is being made that there is
too much local legislation in South Caro
lina. The complaint is no doubt well
grounded. Georgia has experienced its ills
in Legislatures that remained in session to
the utmost limit.
Senator Wade Hampton had to introduce
himself to some of his intimate friends the
other day. This was because he had shaved
off his side whiskers. He retains the heavy
gray moustache. It will be hard to think
of Senator Hampton minus his side whis
kers.
Higgins will soon cease to be an issue.
He was once President of the Maryland
Senate, and it is not improbable that he is
ambitious to occupy that position again.
But what will the Republicans and Mug
wumps do, when he is gone, for something
to criticise?
The Boston municipal campaign, which
has just closed victoriously for the Demo
crats, developed at the last a literary ele
ment. The gifted Boston politicians poured
forth in verse the reasons why their several
candidates ought to be elected. As is usual,
the Labor ticket was almost out of the
race.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, led the opposition
to allowing the privileges of the floor to Mr.
Chase, the delegate from “No Man’s Land.”
He said he did not know Cimarron was yet
recognized as a Territory. The vote against
Mr. Chase was overwhelming, but that is
not an indication that the petition of these
people will be disregarded.
The Charleston munici]>al election, which
resulted in a victory for the Democrats over
the Independents, is the occasion of a good
deal of quiet rejoicing in Charleston. The
result, it is believed, was the ttest that could
have been reached, and even the Independ
ents, when their soreness wears off, will
doubtless be reconciled to defeat.
A queer advertisement got into tfce Macon
Telegraph yesterday. It was to the effect
that a marriage between parties of bigh
social standing in Macon had been post
poned, by reason of the fact that the in
tended groom was detained as a juror on an
important case pending in the Superior
Court, presumably that of Tom Woolfolk.
It is safe to say that one member of thut
jury was in favor of losing no time in ren
dering a verdict
Rev. Mr. Berry’s letter to his church, de
claring his intention of remaining in En
gland, must have been a very tantalizing
document. It covered considerable ground
liefore coming to the point, and the natural
deductions to be made from hearing it read
were, first, that they did not know whether
he would remain; second, that he woultl not
remain; third, that he would remain. The
decisive words came with a suddenness that
must have been jierilous to people with
heart disease. Mr. Berry understands the
art of producing dramatic effects.
Providing for Campaign Material.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, in
tends, doubtless, to distinguish himself in
the Senate as a bitter partisan. He is far
from being the highest type of a politician.
His connection with the great fraud of 1876
made him notorious, but did not show him
to le the possessor of qualities which com
mand the adnii ration of the people. As Sec
retary of the Navy he was noted for the
amount of money his department spent
without having anything to show for it. In
the Senate he will increase his reputation,
no doubt, as a promoter of strife and dis
cord.
He has marked the beginning of his Sen
atorial career by the introduction of a bill
which is a reflection upon the integrity of
four Southern States. He virtually says
that it is impossible to get a free ballot and
a fair count in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Florida and South Carolina without the aid
of Federal officials, and he, therefore, asks
Congress to make regulations and provide
officers for the holding of Congressional
elections in those States.
Of course Mr. Chatidlor knows that Con
gress will not pass any such bill. The bill
will give the Republican Congressmen a
chance, however, to make speeches attack
ing the South. The speeches will be printed
in the Congressional Record at the expense
of the government, and will then Ite distrib
uted as campaign material.
It is evident that the Republican party
intends to conduct its canvass for President
next year on bloody shirt linos. It will
talk about the tariff a little where it thinks
the protection doctrine will be well received,
but it will depend for success chiefly upon
its attacks upon the South.
It is remarkable that tjie Republican
party makes no attempt to collect evidence
showing that the colored vote in the
South is suppressed. It contents itself with
asserting that it is suppressed, and when
pressed for facts supporting the assertion
it points to the small Republican vote in
the Southern States. Is it afraid that if it
should make an investigation it would not
find the condition of affairs as it has alleged
it to be? If the colored vote is really sup
pressed it would not be difficult to show
that it is, and the country would be much
more likely to believe what an im
partial commission would say with
regard to the matter, after a very thorough
investigation, than the assertions of Sena
tors Chandler, Hoar and Sherman.
It has 1 een pointed out a hundred times
in the press of th j South that the colored
voters do not go to the polls as generally as
they did when the carpet-baggers had con
trol of the governments of the Southern
States, because they are not urged to do so
as they were then, and also because no
s]tecial inducements are offered them to
vote. They are satisfied that the Demo
cratic party will treat them as fairly as
the Republican party ever did, and
they, therefore, see no reason why
they should bother themselves about
voting. As their condition improves they
will see other reasons for voting than those
which in the past controlled them, and they
will then vote with an understanding of the
questions decided by the ballot.
Of course the Republican leaders are
greatly disappointed because the colored
voters will not rally in support of the Re
publican ticket as they once did, and their
disappointment is all the greater because
they know that the smallness of the colored
vote is due to apathy and not to suppres
sion.
The Title to the Barracks Lot.
The report which the United States Dis
trict Attorney for this district has made
relative to the barracks lot will
require considerable work on the part, of the
Attorney General to determine whether the
title is satisfactory to the government or
not. The District Attorney has reported all
the facts —his whole duty in the case—and it
now remains for the Attorney General to
say what more, if anything, is to be done.
The protest of Mayor Lester against the
sale of the property to the government will
doubtless lxi found to lie the main oltstruc
tion to securing a satisfactory title. It
seems that Representative Norwood pro
poses to ask authority from Congress to con
demn Mayor Lester’s interest in the prop
erty if his interest cannot be obtained in
any other way.
If it is proposed to condemn property why
not condemn a site that would give general
satisfaction; There is a great deal of opposi
tion to the barracks site because it is so fur
away from the business part of the town,
and because it is believed that if that lot is
taken for a public building it will be a very
long while before a hotel is built.
The stand taken by Mayor Lester with re
spect to the sale of the barracks lot to the
government, is in the interest of the hotel
project. He knows that the government
can obtain another site, and one that will be
more satisfactory to the people. He knows
also that it would be about impossible to
obtain another site for a hotel that would be
so generally approved as the barracks lot,
and that if that lot were sold it would lie a
good while before an effort would lie made
to find another site. The settlement of the
complications growing out oftho desire of
the government and the hotel projectors for
the same site, will be waited for with con
siderable interest.
No Sympathy With Thieves.
There appears to be a chance for Henry
S Ives to see the inside of a penitentiary.
He failed for $15,000,000, and gnined con
siderable notoriety thereby, but he will not
be quite as distinguished as that other
Napoleon of finance, Ferdinand Ward, until
he has worn the striped garments of a con
vict.
Young Mr. Ives was rather surprised
when he was arrested for forgery. He
thought that only civil suits would be
brought against him. His mistake may
cost him his liberty, because if lie is guilty
of the crime with which ho is charged, and
had any suspicion that he was to bo proso
cuted criminally, he might now be in
Canada.
If Mr. Ives is really a forger he need ex
pect no mercy from court or jury. The
public is getting just as tired of the gentle
manly thief who robs a batik in his official
capacity, or who betrays the trust rejtosed
in him, as it is of the vulgar thief who does
his deeds of wickedness under the friendly
cover of the night.
Harper, the Cincinnati banker who
wrecked the Fidelity Bank, is already in
the penitentiary. His tears and the tears of
his wife did not soften the hearts of the
jury. If Mr. Ives is guilty of forging, as
alleged, a draft for SUK),<X)O, he will jump
his $40,000 bond nnd get away to Canada
as quickly as possible if he doesn’t want to
joiu Ward in Bing Bing.
The Republican papers are giving Mr.
Higgins a parting lick or two—not the
regulation postage stamp lick, however.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1887.
Mr. Berry and Plymouth Church.
The refusal of Rev. Charles A. Berry, of
England, to accept the pastorate of Ply
mouth church was not entirely unexpected,
since some inklings of it had been given
through the press, but it was nevertheless
somewhat of a surprise, for there are not
many clergymen who would decline a call
to fill the pulpit made famous by Mr.
Beecher. Plymouth church is a rather un
pretentious structure, so far as architecture
goes, but it has a very prominent place in
the religious world.
Mr. Beecher’s long and brilliant pastorate
was the means of building it up in an extra
ordinary degree. Its reputation js not con
fined to this country. A call from
Plymouth is a distinction which would
gratify the pride of the most eminent
preachers. In addition, the membership is
very wealthy, and from a pecuniary point
of view the position is one of great desira
bility.
When the church went to England for a
pastor, notico was served that there
was no one on this side of the Atlantic who
could satisfactorily fill the place made va
cant by Mr. Beecher’s death. Of the preach
ers who have preached trial sermons Mr.
Berry was the most acceptable, and it was
thought that in calling him the loss to the
church had been in a groat measure re
paired. His declination makes a second
choice more difficult, perhaps, than the first,
for, after looking over the clergymen in this
country and England, he alone seems to
have been thought capable of giving satis
faction.
Mr. Berry’s decision could not have been
made from selfish motives, for the pastorate
he has refused to give up does not give him
the same degree of prominence that
Plymouth would have given him, and
probably the pay is not as good. The home
influence doubtless had much to do in bring
ing about the decision, and the plea made
by members of his congregation and by lead
ers in English national life that his services
were indispensable in the struggle between
religion and irreligion in England appealed
to his sense of patriotism; and while his re
fusal is deplored by Plymouth church, it
redounds to his credit. The same qualities
that would make hint a desirable pastor here
are needed at home, and the general disap
pointment in religious circles ought to be
allayed by the reflection that his acceptance
would likely have occasioned suffering to
the cause in England. Plymouth can no
doubt find an acceptable pastor in this
country.
The Acquittal oi M. Wilson.
The dismissal of the charges agaflist M. Wil
son would seem to indicate either that there
was no foundation for them, and that they
were trumped up for the purpose of attack
ing M. Grevy and getting him out of office,
or that it was tacitly understood that if M.
Grevy would resign the charges against
M. Wilson would not be pressed. If M.
Wilson were guilty he should have been
punished. To excuse him was to put a pre
mium on crime. Why should M. Wilson be
excused while other criminals are punished?
If he were not guilty the fact should have
been publicly stated in order that the im
pression might not prevail that there is one
law for the rich and another for the poor.
The truth appears to be that France is
drifting toward a jtoint where little respect
will be paid to law. President Carnot has
already threatened to resign because of the
efforts to obstruct him in his work of form
ing a Cabinet. In fact, it was this threat
alone which induced M. Tirard, the present
Prime Minister, to proceed with the work of
completing a Ministry.
The prediction is freely made that the
Carnot government will not last a month,
and there is some foundation for it. The
Deputies may find some satisfaction in up
setting governments, but they must recog
nize that every time the government is
changed the less the respect for it is, and
that finally the only government that can
be maintained will be one not erected by
peaceable means nor based upon common
consent.
The new Congressional Directory, with
its autobiographical sketches of the Sena
tors and Representatives, furnishes some
very good reading. The memo's generally
make prominent their war records when
they have any worth speaking of. Mr.
Burnett, of Massachusetts, makes much ado
about the fact that he “married the only
child of James Russell Lowell.” Gen.
Weaver, the lowa Greenback Congressman,
declares himself a Democrat. Senator
Brown, of Georgia, takes more than a half
page to exploit his political career. He
writes that he was “a secessionist in 1860,”
but during the war he “opposed the policy
of President Davis on the conscript act,”
and adds that in 1808 he was defeated as a
Republican candidate for the Senate,
“which was the only defeat of his life;”
that in every instance where he has been a
candidate before the people he lias been suc
cessful. “A fine commentary on public de
votion to principle,” says the Baltimore
Herald , “for Brown has belonged to all
political parties and has been true to none.”
The Herald deals rather roughly with the
Georgia Senator.
Before his departure last Saturday, Dr.
Parker was asked by a reporter how he was
pleased with his visit to America, “But
for one cruel misinterpretation of my ac
tions,” he said, “I should have been entirely
delighted with it. It was cruel,” ho added,
and his eyes welled up as he spoke, “but
that is over now. Only the memory of it
embitters. T hank God, my conduct has
been understood rightly, and this morning
good Plymouth—the church of my dearest
friend that was —has coine to mo to wish
me Godspeed. I bear away with rue the
kindliest recollections of this land, and of
the hospitality and the friendliness of its
its people. lam amazed at its wealth an and
enterprise and energy. What the future
has itt store for it I cannot sav, but its dos
tiny must necessarily be something grand.”
The editors who so mereilossly criticise 1 Dr.
Parker doubtless felt a little ashamed of
themselves when they heard hrfw his “eyes
welled up” when about to depart for his
native land.
Mur it Halstead is said to become excited
when speaking of the third party men who
embarrass the Republicans. “They are a
gang of nlleged Prohibitionists," ho says,
“who are engaged in a nefarious business.”
As one of the results of their business is to
help the Democrats get good men into
office, and to shelve the wicked Republi
cans, it would be difficult to discover
wherein it is very iniquitous.
There is a story afloat that the reason M.
Ferry was not hurt by the assassin s bullet,
was that he wore a shirt of mail under
neath his waistcoat, and that the bullet
from the assassin's pistol flattened itself
against it. This is a very interesting story,
but is it true?
CURRENT COMMENT.
Given a Full Course.
From the New York Herald ( Ind.)
The Blaine boom, which suffered from general
debility a while ago, has I wen given a full course
of massage, treatments, and is said to be show
ing signs of life.
Going Berrying.
From the Baltimore American (Bern.)
Plymouth church, when it goes ‘‘berrying’’
again, will probably confine its energies to the
home product. English berries. like inaccessi
ble grapes, have an acid flavor, which will here
after depreciate their value.
‘ arcasm, But a Good Idea.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.)
The President lias been so successful in pleas
ing the English people with his message that
the Queen ought to call upon him to write her
next siwech for tier when Parliament assembles
—especially the Irish sections.
How They Hate Burchard.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
The recent meeting between President Cleve
land and Rev. R. R. R. Burchard will survive as
an historical episode. Which is to say, it will
endure as the only instance on record in which
the creature was demonstrably greater than its
creator. •
BRIGHT BITS.
The carpenter is an unreasonable fellow. He
objects to plain board, and yet he doesn’t like a
board until it is planed. —Pansville Breeze.
An angler giving an account of a trip to
Canada speaks of ‘a fight w ith a salmon.” We
prefer peas with salmon.— Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Poor White (taking a fistful of change from
contribution bor)—Thank-ee, deacon. ’F I’d a
known yer paid folks for cornin’ I’d a b’en here
afore. Tia-Bits.
From the strange thrill that goes through
Jones’ arm when ne puts it ’round his darling's
waist, he imagines that she must wear an “elec
tric corset."—Puck.
It is singular that, nothwithstanding the great
variety in the bill of fare at club dinners, there
are some men that always want a little game
after the dinner is over.—Boston Bulletin.
An ExcnANOE thinks a girl can be safely
judged by her mind. Then, we suppose, when
a girl's mind is made up it is safe to bet that the
girUs the same as her mind.— Yonkers States
man.
Boy (to bald-headed parent)—Papa, I wish I
had,hair like yours.
‘‘Why, Freddy?”
“Because I wouldn't have to brush it.— New
York Star.
How is it yon have so many young men call
on you?” asked a jealous girl.
“Because,” was the reply, “father has the
gout in one foot and t lie rheumatism in the other;
besides, w r e don’t keep a deg .—Judge.
A wealthy old gentleman of this city, 105
years of age, has used tobacco for ninety-four
years. His heirs think that if he had never
touched tobacco he might have been dead long
ago. They look upon the weed as hurtful.—
Puck.
First Arcola man— What is your opinion of
Anarchy ?
Second Arcola man—lt’s just the thing.
I’m a base ball player, and rub myself with it
every night to take out the soreness.— Arcola
Record.
Mme. Patti sends "word to her American
friends that she loves them all and longs to re
turn to them—“they are so enthusiastic.” This
is the first authoritative announcement that
Patti contemplates another farewell tour in this
country.— New York World.
“Here’s a piece in the paper about an
Indianapolis woman whose voice can be heard a
mile,” said Mrs. Slasher to her husband.
"Well, dear, don't be jealous. You may not
be much on a mile dash, but ‘ your staying
qualities are unsurpassed.”— Washington
Critic.
“It seems that young Hurley is quite a lion in
society now?”
"The adored of the adorers.”
“What’s the cause of it? I see nothing particu
larly attractive about him.”
“He struck a vein of coal on his farm the
other day.”— Nebraska State Journal.
“Never marry a widower,” was the advice of
a young matron to a friend.
“But you married one. Why?”
“It’s bad enough to have to hear about your
husband’s mother's cooking, but to have his
first wife’s biscuits thrown in your face every
morning is simply unbearable.”— Tid-Bitx.
Jessie’s teacher gave her pupils a party to
which “little brother” was invited. He ate
heartily of ice cream and cake, and was found
reposing on the bench in the porch, while the
outer children were at play in the yard. When
asked why he didn’t join them, he exclaimed:
“Oh, I can’t play, my pants choke me so!”
New York Star.
PERSONAL.
Joseph Chamberlain is considered to bear a
striking resemblance to Edwin Booth. *
The Crown Prince or Oermany objected to
paying 75c. and $1 25 apiece for the lunch of
several of his suite at a restaurant near San
Remo, and denounced the restaurant keeper as
a robber
Gen. Anson G. McCook smokes the strongest
kind of cigars. Gen. Sherman indulges in wliat
is called “a dry smoke,” that is, he chews a
cigar before lighting it, and even goes on chew
ing after he begins to smoke.
Robert Schroeder, who has 500 acres in
Franklin county. New York, devoted to hop cul
ture. Is said to be the leading hop grower of the
world. He has thirty men at work cutting poles
for use in his hop Helds, and expects to obtain
200,000 poles during the winter.
Chauncey M Depew does not seem to think
that W. K. Vanderbilt is goihg to India, or to
make a trip around the world in his yacht. He
believes that Mr. Vanderbilt will return home in
the spring, after a winter spent in cruising In
the Mediterranean and the Bosphorus.
Elder Evans, the well-known Shaker leader,
is a man of extremely simple tastes. When
visiting an artist's studio recently he was invited
to remain to tea. He agreed to do so if his
hostess could furnish him with brown
breail and hot water. This was all he wanted for
supper.
The mahooany reading desk and pulpit chair
used by the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in
Plymouth church from 1850 to UJtis are now pre
served in the house of a PeekskiU gentleman.
The red upholstery of the arm chair is soiled
and worn where the famous minister's head so
often rubbed against it during the most thrilling
years in the history of his church.
Congressman Farquhar, of Buffalo, says: “I
shall introduce a bill at the earliest opportunity
providing for the repeal of the unjust and dis
criminating tax now levied on commercial
travelers. There was no reason for the imposi
tion of this tax and the operation of the law
demonstrates it to be an | unwarrantable burden
upon a class of men who earn every dollar they
receive.”
Ex-Conobessman Gabe Bouck, who declined
the invitation to the President's banquet in Mil
waukee, with the gruff and unconventional
words “no apology,” regards New York city as
all that is bad. He is swarthy, but smooth
faced. and tiis little black eyes lists 1 to glare with
mighty anger when his views were combated
in Congress. He wore the quaintest of clothes
and smoked incessantly by the big fireplace.
The late George A. Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn.,
President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company,
was left fatherless when he was 13 years or age.
He gave li;s share of his father’s pn>perty to bis
brothers and sisters, and at 1H became a porter
and errand boy in a cloihiag store ala salary of
s‘iu a year lie boarded with his employer and
slept at the store. During the first year he
spent but Lie. out of his salary. He never in
Ills life smoked a cigar nor drank a drop of wine
or liquor. He died the richest man in Stamford.
Secretary Bayard and Attorney General
Garland occupied the same i*w Sunday in
Epiphany church. Mr. Bayard is a regular at
teuumit. Mr. Garland is quite a stranger at the
Epiphany. Sunday the two Cabitiei officers
listened to a semi-political sermon. Dr. Giesy de
claring in one sentence that while the people's
money was being hoarded up in the National
Treasury, hunger and want prevailed through
out the land. He then went on to relate several
personal experiences with persons in search of
work, and advocated the lib rul expenditure of
the public money for public improvements, and
to furnish employment to the poor ami needy.
One more story about Jenny IJnd: One of
her kind acts was to go ..till sing to the inmates
of the Home tor Incurables, L.iidon. She knew
that it would ease their pain and please tin m to
listen to her glorious voice. Her daughters used
to sing. too. But after a time these days of pe
riodical visiting got known, and people lieganto
go just to listen. The gifted songstress noticed
first one am mgst the audience and then another
who looked neither sick nor afflicted. She de
termined at length to pit a stop to it. So, one
day, seeing a number ot seats occupied by visit
ors where the afflicted ought to be sitting, she
turned to an official and said: “Mr. , I came
to amuse those who are suffering, and not to
give a concert. 1 am sorry to say that 1 must
decline to proceed until my audience consists
only of such." So those who had tried to im
pose upon goodness hud to beat un ignominious
exit. .
OH, SHE WAS A TERROR.
The Man Who Wanted Protection from
His Wife.
I'Yom the San Francisco Chronicle.
It was in the Mayor’s private office, and the
Mayor’s private secretary sat in solitary
grandeur. There entered a short, pinehed-face
man about five feet four inches. He was kind of
lame all over. He seemed to have an ache in
each hone and each ache took its turn to let
him have it, and he had it. Mr. Moulder looked
up, and a pitying expressing came over his
face.
"What is the matter, my friend.”
“I aui, sir,” began the visitor, ina tone so
lachrymose that it would have made the Lotta
fountain burst into tears —so lachrymose that it
was almost funny—“l am, sir, a humble,
modest, unassuming man. I have no aim in life
but to do kindness and keep out of mischief, but
I am compelled to come to you for protection.”
"For protection? From what?”
“From my wife, sir!”
“What? What does she do?”
“Sir, she is terrible; #he is awful."
“How? What does she do?”
“She beats me, sir; beats me.”
“Often?”
“All the time; all the time.”
“What for?"
“Nothing. I never do nothing to her?”
“What in thunder's the matter with her?"
“It's cussedness, sir, cussedness. If I make
the least mistake she bastes me; and when I
succeed in being positively harmless she falls
down stairs or smashes something, and she
bastes me for that."
“Well, you know the old story of Pat and
Bridget?”
“No, sir.”
“Bridget used to lick Pat. you know, and
when his friends remonstrated against his
standing it, he said: ‘lt does her good and it
doesn't hurt me.’ ”
"No, sir. The cases are not exactly parallel.
It does her a deal of good, but it does hurt me:
it does me a deal of harm.”
“Why don’t you try a bit of beating on her
yourseif?"
“I can’t, sir. I can’t. I And I have too much
heart and she has too much muscle.”
“Well, have her arrested and punished for
cruelty to animals." *
“I daren’t, sir, I daren't.”
“Why?”
“I did that once. I had her arrested."
“Well.”
“She’s a woman of property, and she
took her deeds down to the Court, and—and—
and—”
“What did she do then?”
“She bailed herself out, and when she got
me home, Lord! how she basted the life out of
me.”
“Was she punished?”
“Oh, no.”
“How was that?”
“Well, sir, before the trial came off she honey
fuggled me, an’ I couldn't go down and appear
against her. But I want protection—l want pro
tection."
“My friend, I’m sorry; but I guess the only
thing you can do is to go home and take your
basting.”
WARNER WENT KITING.
Remarkable Conduct of a Tree Which
He Was Converting Into Firewood.
From the New York Sun.
Bridgewater, Dec. 11.— Horace Warner, a
farmer, met with a strange accident one day
recently. A large oak tree stood on a high
bluff on his farm overlooking the Housatonic.
The heavy rains washed the soil away around it,
and one day the top became too heavy for the
roots to hold up and it fell over away from the
river. Mr. Warner found it lying upon the
ground, and as coal is high he determined to
cut it up for his fireplace.
He began at the top and lopped off some of
the smaller limbs and brush. Then he mounted
the trunk and cut away on a larger limb. He
had just severed it when he was astonished to
find himself flying through the air directly over
the river. The tree, relieved of its weight, had
sprung back into its original position, and Mr.
Warner went with it. He fell into the icy
waters of the Housatonic and managed to
reach the bank with nothing more than a severe
wetting. What he mourns over is the loss of
as fine an ax as ever was swung on a handle.
It followed him into the river, but where it fell
Mr. Warner was too much occupied to see.
Two Southern Humorists at the Au
thors’ Readings In New York.
From the New York Tribune.
Mr. Richard Malcolm Johnston, whose Geor
gian tales have become deservedly popular, was
received with curiosity and heard with evident
rleasure. Ido not vouch for the truth of it. but
have been told that Mr. Johnston is morbidly
modest about these inimitable stories and that
it was with the greatest difficulty that his
friends finally induced him to give them to the
world. Even now it is said that he occasionally
becomes possessed w ith the notion that they are
mere trash and are making a laughing stock of
him, and he insists on settling up with his pub
lishers and having them recalled as fast as pos
sible. The reception which an audience of such
culture as the one he faced recently gave him
ought to be enough to drive such notions out
of his head if he has them. “The Early Ma
jority of Mr. Thomas Watts” is the work of ex
ceptional talent. Its pictures are thoroughly
funny, and the remarkable thing about this, as
about all his stories, is fheir delicate setting. He
presents the most amusing scenes in languago
that suggests the grace and beauty of Washing
ton Irving. He has the pleasing faculty of pre
senting incidents familiar to every one who
looks back upon his own childhood in a way
that is irresistibly comical. Mr. Johnston is a
strikingly handsome man, and a typical South
erner in appearance. He is tall and slender in
figure. His hair is silver white, and a large
moustache of the same color adorns his face.
His long straight nose and slightly hollow
cheeks are peculiar in their shape to the Sunny
South.
It was a Southern author, too, who immedi
ately succeeded Mr. Johnston, and he also won
the admiration of the audience. Mr. Thomas
Nelson Page, of Virginia, is yet a young man,
but he has shown himself capable of excellent
work. He road the Christmas scene in “Unc’
Edinburgh's Drowndin’,” and Mr. Page’s dialect
was, as it should have been from a native Vir
ginian, simply' perfect. There is as much differ
ence between the dialect of Houston street and
that of a Southern “Jimtown” as there is be
tween the lingo of a street brat and
that of a Fifth avenue dude. To
that portion of his audience which has
never been south of Mason and Dix
on's line, the perfect music of Mr. Page's dialect
was a revelation. Northern people who derive
what notions they have of the true negro tongue
and character from minstrel shows and mu
latto cooks do the colored race of the South
great injustice. Their voices are mellower than
a Moor’s. Even in conversation it rises and
falls like the music of a chant, and they often
possess the noblest traits of character. Mr.
Page's hero told his simple tale of devotion to
his dashing young master in a strain that
touched every heart and yet he brought out
the amusing weakness of the negro with that
fidelity to nature which distinguishes the gen
uine artist. He was warmly applauded as he
well deserved to be.
Rest.
Toll out. ye bells! sound midnight through the
air;
Tick out men's lives, now groaning under care;
Wear out great Time with clashes everywhere—
I wait, yea long, for rest.
Strive on, stop not, ye finger marks of woe;
Haste ye, ye shades! Oh! let the sunlight go:
Wing past, ye hours, life is too sad and slow
1 wait, yea long, for rest.
Bud forth, ye flowers, let spring and summer
die;
Bend down, ye sheaves, let autumn, too, go by;
Cold blow, ye winds, another winter's nigh
I wait, yea long, for rest.
Rest cometh not, rest is not for the young;
Rest liveth not, it lies the grave among;
Rest comes to age. so yonder death-bells sung—
I wait, yea long, for rest.
Rest cometh not with worldly joy and mirth;
Rest cometh not until the soul's new birth;
Rest cometh not until we die to earth—
Then cometh rest indeed.
Death clasps our lives, stealeth them carefully;
Rest guards our souls now lying peacefully,
Closeth our lips, which murmur tliunkfully—
‘'Now have we rest indeed.”
—Anon.
The New Senator from Florida.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Senator I’asco, of Florida, the successor of
the eccentric Jones from the land of flowers,
is one of those whom there is much desire to
see. Much of this curiosity is occasioned be
cause of tile long and desperate struggle in the
Florida legislature I n't ween the friends of ex-
Unv. Bloxham and Gov. Perry, when, to settle
the controversy, Mr. l’asco, then Sjieuker of the
lower House, was run in as a dark horse and
won tlie stakes.
One of the striking characteristics of the
newly elected Senator is his extreme modesty.
He could put to shame upon this point the most
bashful or girls. He is small in stature, and
lias t he appearance more of a typical Louisiana
creole than nn Englishman by birth. The Sen
ator is older than he app-ors. He does not look
to be over 40, when m fmit he Is post SO. lie
was born in England, but came to this country
with his pareuUi at an early age. and lived until
lie bail finished bis education In Massachusetts.
Just before the breaking out of the war he
went to Florida, where he has lived since.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A German has invented and manufactured a
paper which resists both fire and water.
Win i.e a well was being dug on the farm of
Andrew Sisson, near Swan Creek, 111 , the work
men dug up u petrified orange. It was found
over forty feet below the surface.
A solid lump op coal, containing 87 cubic feet
and weighing 6,851 pounds, was exhibited at the
Texas State Fair recently held at Dallas. It was
the largest block of coal ever taken from a mine
in the United States.
The English church receives in tithes about
$20,000,000 a year. Of this amount $5,000,000 is
expended in schools, hospitals, church build
ings, etc., and the remaining $15,000,000 goes to
pay the salaries of the clergy.
A subscriber for the Tupelo (Miss.) Journal
writes to that paper to inquire whether there
are any “mule-footed" hogs in Lee county. He
says there was formerly a breed in the county
that bore that name, because they had unsplit
hoofs like mules.
All the training schools for nurses in Phila
delphia are free. This is one profession for
women that is not overcrowded and where
women can earn good whges. The chief quali
fications are good health, good temper, general
intelligence and a fair common school educa
tion.
Thomas Randall, of Buffalo, owes his life to
the habit of wearing celluloid collars. In a
quarrel which he had with a lalmrer named Mc-
Nerney the latter drew a knife and made a
lunge at Randall’s neck, but the collar broke the
force of the blow and he escaped with slight
injuries.
The ladies are having their old gold watch
chains, which are no longer worn, made into
bracelets hy having the ends brought together
and passed through a ring on the looped end.
Pendants of whatever cost the wearer can af
ford, are hung on the loose ends so that the
ends cannot pass back again through the loop.
It is impossible to say at what date Mr. Glad
stone ceased to be a Tory; even he himself
admits that he does not know' exactly when the
change took place, all that he is aware of, being
that he gradually came to the knowledge that
he did not think like (he men among whom he
had taken his seat in the House; down to 1853
or 1854 he was probably still, in name at least,
a Tory.
The Scotch Established church gets £250,000
from taxes and laud and produce—tiends and
flars—it his £25,000 direct from the Imperial
Treasury (consolidated fundi and manses, glebes
and churches are valued at over £IOO,OO0 —a
total of fully £376,000 of national property held
for the benefit of a minority; with Disestablish
ment, the property would bo available for edu
cational and local purposes, benefiting all.
A Danbury Man recently found what he sup
posed w-as a mushroom, weighing ten ounces,
which he cooked and ate with a relish. Soon
after he felt a pain in his stomach, w hich, fail
ing to subside, alarmed him. A stomach pump
and other salutary methods wore applied and he
soon felt relieved. An exterior examination,
however, revealed a pin that had worked
through from his belt and was the cause of all
the trouble.
A San Francisco Justice of the Peace
formulated an oath for a Chinese witness like
the following: “I swear by the Chinese gods,
the foreigners’ god, the God of heaven and
earth, that if I am a liar in this case my head
will be cut off the same as a chicken’s head is
cut off, and that I will be drowned in the ocean
and never get back to China,” and while re
peating the oath the Chinaman held a cleaver in
fiis hand, with which he severed a chicken’s
head from the body when he had finished the
words.
Mrs. A. J. Cassatt has the reputation of
being the finest horsewoman in Philadelphia.
She is just now at Pau, in France, where she
frequently enjoys a run with the hounds. Mrs.
Cassatt is very fond of all out of-door sports,
and swims and rows as well as she rides. The
Misses Drexel, daughters of the late F. A.
Drexel, are also fine riders and may be seen
any morning by the early risers at Torresdale,
Pa., where they have their country home, tak
ing a spin across country- before breakfast.
They have, by the way, lately returned from a
visit to the Roman Catholic missions among
the Indians, and were so pleased with the work
that they gave SIOO,OOO toward carrying it on.
Another man is going to try to raise im
ported pheasants in a Jersey preserve. The
last man who tried it was Mr. Lorillard, and the
first things his birds did was to raise themselves
over his fence and get themselves shot by Jersey
pot hunters in the neighborhood. Mr. Stuy
vesant, the new would-be pheasant raiser, has a
bigger place, it is understood, than Mr. Loril
lard’s, and may be able to shoot a few of his
own birds, but Mr. Lorillard’s experience was
that the only place they- refused to stay was the
home he had provided for them. His birds,
that cost him several dollars apiece, were shot
in all parts of Burlington county for a year
after he let them loose, except on his preserve
at Johnstown.
A doo at Ashmount, Mass., is establishing a
reputation for cordiality of manner and pure
benevolence. Whenever ajeustomer enters his
master’s shop he advances with dignity and
gravely puts up a paw to be shaken. Some
times a stranger will not understand this unique
welcome, and then the dog will look grieved
and again manifest his willingness to shake
hands. A singular incident is reported as show
ing that his kindness is extended to dogs as weil
as to his master's friends and customers. Not
long ago it was noticed that he disappeared
regularly for a short time after dinner. His
master, curious to know the cause, followed
him one day, and found that he went to a place
which was covered with bones picked clean.
Near by lava dog with an injured leg, who had
been provided with a dinner each day by his
benevolent friend.
Among the recent improvements at the White
House those made in the Blue Parlor are most
marked. The dingy, light-blue satin canvas
covering the furniture, to which attention was
drawn while the fall house-cleaning was in
operation, has been removed, and the divan,
sofas and chairs have been upholstered in blue
plush of a rich, but delicate shade, and the
woodwork has also lieen regilded, producing a
beautiful effect. The new covering on the
furniture harmonizes with the handsomely fres
coed walls and ceiling, and also with the newly
laid carpet. There is but one other change
necessary to render the furnishing of this now
historic room complete, and that is in the satin
canvas curtains which were made to match the
now discarded covering on the furniture, and
which should be replaced by material in keep
ing with the gorgeous surroundings.
The masher in Brooklyn is not so formidable
an institution as he is in New York, but he is
developing and although he is still held in com
parative subjection by remembrance of the
fact that Judge Walsh once fined one of his
species SSO, he occasionally finds it safe to re
sume his airs ot insolent familiarity in the pub
lic streets, or at matinees, or in the horse cars.
Most Brooklyn women, however, agree in de
claring that the shameless and persistent mash
er is still a stranger to the city, and that w hen
he appears at all he is probably an exotic. The
mild masher, of course, is equally impertinent
and perhaps a trifle more idiotic than his
brazen-faced hrother across the river, but he is
not so recklessly and conspicuously intrusive
and his unwelcome attentions are little more
than petty annoyances. Unfortunately the
masher is not tlio only male nuisance
in Brooklyn. A distaut and much more
offensive relative of bis is the unknown
ruffian who a few months ago made bis prac
tices, although not his personality, notorious by
muliciously soiling expenshe gowns with to
bacco juice in the neighborhood of Dr. Tal
mage’schurch. A few nights ago an equally
offensive and ruffianly, but much more practical
and dangerous individual made his appearance
on Fulton street. His victim was a young lady
who resides within easy walking distance of the
bridge. She had crossed from New York in a
bridge car between 7 and 8 o'clock in the even
ing. and was walking up Fulton street alonp, not
dreaming of insult and still less of violence on
that thoroughfare at so early an hour. I,ess
than half a block above Bands street she received
a sharp, stinging slap on the face. She turned,
surprised and frightened, and saw that her as
sailant was a well-dressed, gentlemanly looking
fellow. "1 beg your purdon, miss,’’ he said, “it
was a mistake.” ami he dar.ed off without
another word. A dozen men witnessed the as
sault, but the onty matt who took
apparent notice of it confined his attention
to the young indy and not to her assailant.
'•< ill, that was a terrible blow, nfiss; did it hurt
you ?” he said "Yes,” replied the still fright
ened and confused girl, and wishing to avoid
further notice she hurried away, wondering,
w hen she began to collect her senses, if the uian
who slapped her face really mistook her tor an
acquaintance and, if so, why he chose to greet
an acquaintance in so startling a fashion. She
.earned all aliout, it when she reached home, for
she then discovered that the fellow had stolen
from her ear a valuable earring. “Did I report
the occurrence to the police *” she said to the
Rambler, after he had heard her story: “No, of
course, I didn’t. That wouldn't bring hark my
earring, and beside I don't think you would fed
iniiu.v girls of your acqiuUutuiu e who wool ,cwi
to see their names in the newspapem in connec
tion with such an occurrence. lam glad enough
that notoriety hasn't been added to my frigid
and my loss, but 1 don't think I stall ever feel
sale again when 1 am out alone alter dark,”
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