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4 C|tpiornmg^th)s Mornintr News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, I)E('EMHF.I{ 15, IMT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Morning News is published every day in rhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 25 cents n week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Mobntno New*, by mail, one month, f] 00: three months, $0 SO; six months, $5 00; ore year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $1 (X) one year, $S 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 2j; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by moil, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, checlt or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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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,” BAKINGPO WDER. CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of Homes for more tbana quarter of a century. It is ised by the United States Government. In lorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as he Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Vice’s the only Baking Powder that does not ontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in 'ana. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. A. R. ALTMAYEB A CO." A. B. Altmayer & Cos. Our great sale of Ladies’ Plush Sacques, Wraps Cloth Raglans and Newmark ets has been a m a g n i fi c e nt and an .astound ing success every day for four weeks past & although the season has hard ly commenced for these goods we find our stock getting extremely low. llanan & Sod Gents’ Hand-Sewed Shoes $5. Gents’ Patent- Leather Dress Shoes U 98. ALTMAYER’S! CENTDItIi KID Gloves. 3-button Tan, 99c. 5-button Tan, SI 23. 5-buttou bl’k. $159. We ask of those who wish to avail themselves of the phe nomenal bargains in the above department to make their visit as early as possible. We par ticularly 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 antee our prices are much lower than any house in 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 our Northern buyers the golden opportunity of pur chasing goods at prices never before heard of. Holiday Goods of sound storting merit that are useful, artistic and ornamental. Elegant Plush Dressing Set s. Satin Med, Celluloid Comb. Brush and Mirror $1 !15. a lieautifulartieleandextreme ly cheap. A Lady's Walnut Writing Desk, 18 inches long and 12 widp, only 99c.; very cheap. A 14-itieh Indeztructible Doll, kid body, real hair and bisque Dead, just think, only 49c. A 27-inch Wax Doll, real hair, etc., the largest, prettiest and cheapest Doll in the city, only 75c. A 9-inch Glass Night Lamp, all complete, filled with XXX Cologne, only 850. Full lines of Toilet Cases, Ornuments, Fancy Boxes, articles of every de scription, an 6 all at prices that will attract economical people ana shrewd buyers Mail orders receive careful and prompt attention. Cr-'STORE OPEN UNTIL 8 P. M. CHIMNEYS. This is the Top of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. Allothers, similar are imitation Insist upontlie Exact Label and Tou lon Ssle Everywhere, made cnlv by GEO. A. MACBETH &. CO., Pittsburgh, Pa, POROUS PLASTERS. The market is flooded with nostrums of various sorts, ti the form of so-called “El* o trie” appliances and Poroiu Plasters that have no men beyond that of a mere chanieal support to the pa™ to which they are applied Avoid these nostrums and IlS * only Benson's T" B **! l et s in eases where out "a' c applications are desired, l"' 1 Lung and Chest Affections Rheumatism. Sciatica, Imi™. 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