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4 ©)f|scrmng3Jclws Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. SATURDAY, PEdMBKS 17. ih7. Registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. The Morning News Is publish* 1 *! every day in !e year, and i wn and to subscribers in the rir jj, K newsdealers and carrier*, on tbelr own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 lor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morxiko News, by mail, one month, (! 00: three month*, $2 50; six months, $5 i; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by matt, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, ft 00: six months. $4 Of one year. $g 00. • The Moemng News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and "Saturdays, three mouths, *1 125; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mad, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, ft 2f>. Suhscrintlons payable in advance. Hemlt by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur tency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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Special Notices—Last Notice State and County Taxes, 1887; as to Bills Against British Steamship Elsie; as to Steamship Lake Nepigon; as to Bids for Furnishing pity Badges. Avcnox Sale - Mules, by J. McLaughlin & Son. Turkeys axd Chickexs—John Lyons & Cos. Holiday <>.■**—L. A8.8.M. H. Christmas Goods— Wm. G. Cooper. To the Public—lß. KrouskolT's Mammoth Mil iioery House. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Kale; Found; Lost; Photographic; Miscella neous. # Secretary Whitney, Gov. Taylor, of Ten nessee, and Hon Frank Hurd, of Ohio, are among those who are claimed to have ex pressed themselves in favor of holding the Democratic National Convention in New x Mr. Randall is not engaged in aiding tbo Republicans in placing themselves in op|K>- Kition to tariff reform. What ho is trying to do is to prevent the Democrats from lift ing unnecessary taxation from the people’s ■liouMqrs. It in thought in Washington that if the Georgia delegation in Congress will unite in recommending Col. Chits. C. Jones, of .Augusta, for the Mexican mission, his chances for appointment will he good. The del' gation could not unite upon a better man. The representatives of the Republican clubs of the country, now assembled in New York, will probably chat soijie light on the choice of that party for President, but the choice of the people will lie indi cated later on, and it will not lie that ex pressed by the Republicans. M. Carnot is the youngest of the four Presidents which tho French republic has Lad during its sixteen years of existence. M. Thiers was 74 when elected, Gen. Mac Mahon 6ft, M. Gravy 04, and M. Carnot 50. If he only proves to be the best as well as the youngest the French people will have cause for rejoicing. Boston is making a bid for the Democratic Convention, but she has too much jesthet- Icism to make a very strong effort for it. It would not be good form to appear mix ious. If Boston should get it, what in the world would she do when the assembled representatives of the Democracy gave way to a little enthusiasm? The regular proposition to abolish secret sessions in the tSenate has again been mudu. It doesn’t apiioar as if there were such a thing as a secret session, for the business transacted in those sessions is in substance telegraphed by reporters to all parts of the country. There is always somebody to give an accurate account of what was said and dono. Don Piatt, who used to be prominent in Washington newspaper circles, is not over powered with the responsibilities of his gov ernment position, which is that of post muster in an Ohio village, at a salary of SlO a year. Col. Piatt, however, Ir said to own the prettiest house in Ohio, and the time that he doesn’t devote to liis post ofHee is partly occupied in writing tariff articles. * W. p v . Crerner, a member of the English Parliament, in a speech before the Conven tion of the Federation of Labor in Balti more on Wednesday, expressed surpriso that there were so few workingmen in Con gress. Before coming to this country be thought that at least 100 Congressmen were laboring men. Lawyers and millionaires appear to have a monopoly of the places in Congress. The lawyers doubtless think they have to work pretty hard for what they get, and the millionaires ai-e certain that it re quires a good deal of time aud labor to keep what they have got. Seeking a Popular Candidate There are indications that the faction in | the Republican party that is opposed to ! nominating Mr. Blaine again is growing j stronger. The number of prominent Re publicans who openly express doubts of his ability to lead his party to success in 1888 jis steadily increasing. They say, and with truth, that he has done nothing since his de ! feat in 1884 to increase his popularity, and j that as a matter of fact he is not more pop ular now tlian lie was then. The Republi | can jiarty has no new issue, and the country is not dissatisfied with Mr. Cleveland's a 1 ministration. What chance, therefore, thev ask, has Mr. Blaine of being elected if he is nominated. The Republican party must depend for success upon the popularity of its candidate. Mr. Blaine's popularity, it has been shown, is not sufficient. Has the Republican party any other candidate whose popularity is greater than that of Blaine's? Home of the anti-Blaineites say yes, and they name Sheridan, the General of the army. But are they not mistaken? It is true that Gen. Sheridan is a sort of popular hero in the North, but it is not generally be lieved by his admirers that he has the qual ities it is necessary that a President shall possess. He is a soldier and nothing else. He would lie at a loss to know how to deal with the many complicated and important qmwtions of statesmanship which would be forced upon his attention as President. The people want a man for President who would not be the mere creature of any clique of politicians who might succeed in getting his confidence. Even many good Republicans would think twice lief ore voting for Gen. Sheridan for fear that he would be led into doings things which would be hurt ful to the business interests of the country. Those who think of Gen. Sheridan as a Presidential candidate do so not because they think he would make a good President, but because they think he is sufficiently popular to be elected. Personal popularity, however, unaccomj<anied by other qualities which are deemed necessary, is not sufficient to insure a Presidential candidate’s election. It is doubtful if Gen. Sheridan could poll as big a vote as Mr. Blaine and it Ls certain that he is far from being as well equipped for the discharge of the duties of the Presidential office as Mr. Blaine. There are influences at work which may produce very marked changes in Republi can sentiment with respect to Mr. Blaine within the next two or three months, but as yet his chances of getting the nomination, in comparison with those of auv other can didate, are about as ten to one. Labor Organizations. The Knights of Labor appear to be losing their grip. Their General Master Work man, Mr. Powderly, is very ill at his old home in Scranton, Pa, and his enemies are sowing the seeds of dissension in the order. Charges have been present* "that there has been a misuse of the funds of the order to the extent of several thousands of dollars, and it looks as if there would have to be an investigation. There may be nothing in them, and they may be simply trumpe lup by men who are scheming to oust the Pow derly faction and get control of the order. It is certain that there is a growing indiffer ence in acme localities to the welfare of the order among the Knights, and that large numbers of them have ceased to have any active connection with it. In the meantime the organization known as tbe Federation of Imlxir, whose repre sentatives are now holding a convention in Baltimore, is growing stronger daily. It has some featur s which commend them selves to skilled workers as well as laborers, and it is conducted on a much more liberal and economical basis. Trades unions are fostered and secret instructions and circu lars are not countenanced. The assessment does not amount to more than a cent a week for each member, and even that is not regularly collected. The Federation of Labor is becoming, if it is not already, the leading labor organization of the coun try- The Colleges and the Tariff. The President’s message pleases the col lege presidents. The World has solicited opinions from a number of them, and the great majority of those who have responded praise it. Asa rule college presidents and professors do not believe in protection. Their teachings are against it, because the theory of it cannot be logically sustained President Eliot, of Harvard College, says that the message “is sound ecoiv mically, sagacious politically and thoroughly pa triotic.” President Barnard, of Columbia college, says that it is “a stntosmanlike document which is destined to stand as a landmark in our political history.” He also says that ho does not know “whether more to admire the profound wisdom of its views or the compact logic with which they are en forced.” President Mcßryde, of tho Uni versity of South Carolina, says that “it has struck the key note of practical tariff re form.” President London, of Union Col lege, says that tho President is right “in de manding that the tax on tobacco and whi ky be retained.” President Bascorn, of Williams College, says that "it is wise and timely,” and Prof. Caldwell, of Cornell University, says that he indorses the Presi dent’s views and recommendations. These are sufficient to show that the sentiment of the colleges is strongly in favor of the Presi dent’s position on the tariff, and if the col leges favor it is it not safe to say that tho educated sentiment of tho country favors it? Since it is evident that tbe labor vote will return to the Democrats next year, the Re publicans have discovered that the George movement was a very smell affair, anyhow. A good deal of significance is to bo attached to tho following, from the Philadelphia Press: “If it is true, as Henry George asserts, that somebody has been misrepre senting his political party, it should teach him not to leave his jiarty lying around loose. It Isn’t so big but that he could carry it with him in his trousers’pocket.” This ls not the way tho IVess talked a little while ago, and it is not the way the New York Tribune talked. The latest phase of ex-Senator Jones’ un fortunate case is that he hits been requested to leave by to-day the home of Detectivo O'Neil, where he was said to have been taken to keep him from the hotel corridors, and that his continued refusal to do any thing to aid himself has exhausted the patience of his friends. It seems difficult to get at the true status of Senator Jones’ case, but in its best light it is a deplorable one. Irving Hall, one of New York's jwlitical organizations, was reported the other day to have disbanded, but the rumor was with out foundation in fact. It might as well have been true, so far as any apparent good that Irving Hall u doing is concerned. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1887. Keely’s New Force. There are a good many Keeiy motor stock holders in different ports of the country whose admiration for Mr. Keely's genius has doubtless become less demonstrative since he announced that he was not now try ing to utilize his "etheric" and “vaporic” forces, but was getting in his work on “vibratoryfsympathy.” It is doubtful if any more people can be found to invest money in Mr. Keely's inventions. Mr. Keeiy may not know much about either new or old forces, but he understands human nature quite well. He pretended to have a secret which was worth millions. He declared that he had discovered a force which would become the motive power of the world, that it could be generated with out expense, and that the only trouble he had was getting it under control. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people gave up their money willingjy to help him got the mastery of the alleged marvelous force. Some were afraid that all tbe stock would be taken be fore they got what they wanted of it. The secrecy that was maintained seemed to fasci nate them. Of course they expected to be compensated. Their dreams doubtless were disturbed by thoughts of the millions of money which would fill their coffers when success should crown Keely’s efforts. They were never tired of telling of the strong generators and other machintA which the great alleged inventor had constructed to control tbe wonderful force. After ten years of trial the patience of the stockholders was exhausted. No more believers in the discovery could lie found, the treasury of the Keeiy company became empty, and then Mr. Keeiy an nounced that he had abandoned the effort to control the force and was working at something that had sympathy in it. If there are any who sympathize with him in the direction which his genius has now taken he would be glad, doubtless, if they would show it by taking some shares of stock. 1820, 1823, or 1825? There is some discussion in the public prints respecting the age of Mr. Lamar, Sec retary of the Interior. It grows out of tbe assertion of some of the Republican papers that he is too old to be appointed a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that Lan man’s Dictionary of Congress gives the year of Mr. Lamar’s birth as 1830. It further asserts that the information upon which this statement was based was obtained from Mr. Lamar when he entered Congress in 1857. Ben: Perley Poore, in theCongressiona! Directory which was issued in 1873, the year Mr. Lamar re-entered Con gress, gives the year of Mr. Lamar’s birth as 1835. To an inquiry of the Morning News, a very old and highly respected citi zen of Putnam county, this State, who knows all about Mr. Lamar’s family,writes: “L. Q. C. Lamar was born in 1823, at the house of John Lamar, his grandfather. The house is the old family liomestead, and is two and one-half miles from Dennis station. His grandfather died Aug. 3, 1833, and L, Q. C. Lamar was then only 10. years old. It was the first funeral that he ever attended. His grand father at the time of his death was 04 years old.” If there are still doubts about the year of Mr. Umar's birth they could be removed by an appeal to Mr. Lamar or by a glance at the old family Bible. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s remark that the South has found out her mistake in sup posing that slavery was necessary to her civilization causes the New York Herald to say: “Such remarks by ex-Confederate soldiers have a tendency to dampen the ardor of men like Foraker and Blaine. The thought that the Southerners are glad now that they didn’t succeed is a! most as dis agreeable as seasickness to the bloody shirt brigade.” It would be impossible to find in the South any large number of former slave-owners who would lie willing to re establish slavery. If the question of re establishing it were put to a vote its oppo nents would carry the election by an over whelming majority. The late Judge War ner, of the Georgia Supreme Court, used to say: “You have never yet heard me say I was glad slavery was abolished, and you never will.” It is believed that he kept his word, but he was not in accord with the spirit of tho times. The Judge was not a native Georgian, but he was a fine jurist. He came from some Northern or Western State. Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, has intro duced a bill providing for the repeal of that section of the Revised Statutes which reads “no person who has served in any capacity in the military, naval or civil service of the so-called Confederate States, or of either of the States in insurrection during the lute rebellion, shall be appointed to any position in the army of the United States.” It is high time for this law to be repealed, and it is not very creditable that it has been al lowed to remain in force up to this time. Aside from its injustice, it is very curiously worded. The use of the word “Confederate” is all the evidence wo have showing that it is not the great and glorious “rebellion” of 1775-81 that is referred to. The lately appointed Postmaster General, Mr. Dickinson, is not only a terror to people who don’t want to pay their debts, but he is also a terror to Republicans who have already held office quite long enough under a Democratic administration. The New York Tribune, is authority for the assertion that under his administra tion the “offensive partisan,” who is a Re publican, will stand a much better chance of being kicked out than the “offensive partisan” who is a Democrat. Mr. Dickin son has some qualities that fit him for a Democratic Postmaster General. There is danger in the green postage stamp. A woman who was employed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing died a day or two ago in Washington from tho effects of poison in tho ink used in printing greenbacks. The green ink used in printing greenbacks is the same as the ink used in printing the 2 cent green postage stamp. It would be advisable to dampen the muci lage on the gi een stamps some other way, than by placing the stamps on the tongue. “The scenes of shame and degradation around tho police station in this city make one wonder how long this senseless farce of prohibition is to be tolerated,” says the Pawtucket (R. I.) Record. This is the regu lation anti-prohibition howl, with a little more than the usual amount of desperation mixed with it. The Record man wants to be able to get his drinks with more regu larity and without doing so much dodging around after them. The third and fourth class postmasters, now in session in Washington, will have an opport unity of shaking tho hand of a ttiut cittss President. PRESS COMMENTS. The Noise Startled Him. From the Richmond Die;iatrh (Deni.) If Gen. Mahones hearing is at all acme he has doubtless by this time beard himself drop. Wants the Explanation Explained. From the Philadelphia Prett (Rep.) Gen. Roswell Pettibone Flower has explained his position on the tariff. Now. as soon as he explains his explanltion we shall know just where Mr. Flower stands. The Great Funeral Procession. From the New York Herald (Ind.) The Republican National Convention to be hel i at Chicago. Ls it* Well, Chicago has a good nose for sensations, and has secured the HQM funeral procession of tue century. Already Largely Represented. From the Chicago Nercs (Derr,.) If the delegates sent to Congress from No Man's Land wore to be admitted to a seat in that body there would soon come another knock on the door, and in would step a duly accredited delegate elected by those mysterious people dwelling in Parts Unknown. Knows How to "Regulate.” From the Springfield Republican (Ind.) William E. Chandler has proposed a bill to regulate Congressional elections in South Caro lina, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana. He may be considered something of au expert with regard to elections in Southern States by those who recall some of the details regarding the national election of 1876. BRIGHT BITS. She (to George who is taking her out for a ride and whose horse has balked)—Don't be an noyed, George; have patience and he will move on presently. He—Patience, my dear! Why, I am paying to- this measly animal by the hour. —New Folk Sun. She— And you don't like big dogs, Mr. De Garmo* He—No, I can't say I have very much love for them. She—But they have such large hearts. He—lt isn't their hearts I object to; it’s their mouths.—Pack. A young man who lobked as if he might have come straight from East St Louis stood in front of a harbor shop on Dearborn street yesterday morning and slowly spelled out the words of a sign: "‘Loots blacked inside.” “Gosh! "he ex claimed, “what's the use of blackin' boots on the inside. ” —Chicago Tribune. Getting Around the Law—A hotel porter, after carrying a gentleman's trunks to his room, puts out his hand in a manner which left no doubt iti the traveler's mind as to the former's intentions. “I thought the rules of this hotel forbade your accepting tips.” "Yes, but there is no rule against your giving any."—Paris Fig. aro. Ax old woman unable to read, on receiving a letter from an absent son. asked a friend to read it to her. The writing was so bad that the friend, hardly able to make it out, read stam meringly: "Dear mot—mother, I—ta—take"— w hereupon the old woman cried out, gleefully: “It’s from dear Jamie, sure enough. He always stuttered!"— New York Ledger. Landlady (who has been reading the morning Paper)— “AH tbe European {lowers congratulate ranee on having safely passed the crisis, ex cept Turkey. Turkey has about disappeared from the politics of Europe." Old Boarder—•'Humph: It has entirely disap peared from your table, ma'm. Haven't seen one for years ."—Texas Siftings. In the \Va*ting room—First Gentleman in Waiting—ln the pictures of Father Time he is always represented as a nude old party. He should have a cloak and a long train. Second Gentleman In Waiting—Well? Fir-t Gentleman —And the train should be con structed of a locomotive and passenger cars. These are always behind Time.— Bulletin. Robinson—That's a fine dog you have, Dumley, Do you want to sell him ? Dumley—l’ll sell him for $.50. Robinson—Ls he intelligent ? Dumley (with emphasis)--Intelligent t Why that dog knows as much as I do. Rooms! >nYou don't say soj Well, I'll give you 25c. for him, Domlev.— New York Sun. “Yes," he said, "I retired from business six months ago. I had made an ample fortune in the hardware line, and I thought that I had earned rest and—" Just then a messenger boy opened the door, and said: “St. Paul off five points.” "Great Scott!" shouted the retired business man. "Another ten thousand gone.”—Fuck. A Work or Charity -Fond Mother—Emily, what hare you in that basket! 1 “Oj, some flowers, and jellies and sweetmeats and things." "Are you going on a charitable mission, like a good Christian girl? If so, you might call at Williamson's house, where all the members of the family are sick and destitute, and they are very worthy people.” “Oh. no, I'm not going there. I want to take a few little presents to the murderer up at the jail. He is such an exquisitely interesting young man.” —Lincoln Journal. PERSONAL. Thf, salary of Mr. Spencer as President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is $25,000 a year. Charles Carroll, of Maryland, and his bride. Historian Bancroft's granddaughter, will sail for Europe in a few days. The {minting of Gen. Sheridan, given by Mr. O. W. ChlUls to West Point, has been placed on view l at the War Department in Washington. Miss Kate Field has been delighting the Cali fornians with her literary and musical enter tainments. She will spend Christmas in the East. Congressman Scott spent $50,000 in enter taining last season in Washington, and lie pro poses to drop a similar amount this season. He deserves well of his caterer. Mr. I.abouchkre graciously remarks that the royal family of England treat the ex-Empress Eugenie kindly only because they hope to be re membered largely in her will. There are nine Harvard graduates in the Fiftieth Congress. They are Senators Hoar and Pasco and Representatives Hayden, Long, Perry, Adorns, Lodge, Burnett and Belmont. Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope will spend the winter at Rome, and return to England in the early summer. He has not spent a winter nortli of tho Alps for nearly forty years. Oliver O. Boutwell, of Troy, N. Y., is DO rears of age and is actively engaged in business, He is as vigorous as a man in the prime of life. He jumps off a street-car with the agility of a boy. Prof. Tyndall says be agrees with Mr. Froude in thinking that to men of the requisite quali ties, which include sympathy, justice ana iron firmness, it would bo an easy task to govern Ireland. Mims Grace Matthews, daughter of Justice Stanley Matthews, will spend the winter at Princeton, N. J., keeping house for her brother, who is preparing to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian church. The weather throughout the country lias resolutely refused to he predicted, so to speak, this season. Gen. Greely is, naturally, very much annoyed. He should obtain writs to make every delinquent cold wave show cause why it did not arrive on time. The authorship of the poem “If I Should Die To-Night," attributed to Mr. Beecher for years, has heen traced to Miss Belle E. Smith, a former student, and at present a teacher at Tabor Col lege, at Tabor, la. It first appeared in the Chris tian Union, June 8, 1873. George Francis Train is editing the fly sheet of The Weekly Record, of Sussex, N. B. He shows the same economy in the use of the definite article anil the same fondness for a star cato style of expression which have heretofore marked his journalistic efforts. Congressman Martin, of Texas, who succeeds Senator Reagan in the House, is uncompromis ing in his opposition to the civil service law, "It’s a humbug.” he declares. “I believe in the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils." Mr. Martin is tho man who blew out the gas in his hotel room. Louis Judson Swinburne, of Albany, who died the other day at Colorado Springs, during his freshman year at Yale wrote an essay on “William Hlark's Novels," which Mr. Black, in n personal letter to the young man. declared to lie i lie most Just and discriminating analysis of his works that had been printed. Elihu Vedder. whose work is sometimes siKiken of as t he liest imagine! ive art of modern times, has a brow and eves like those of Haw thorne, though the artist is fair while the romancer was dark. Tbe forehead is broad and thoughtful, the eyes are intelligent, frank und kindly, hut the mouth and chin are those of a very matter-of-fact man, M. Clemenceau, now a prominent figure in French politics, resided in New York for years immediately after our civil war. M. Clemeheeau taught French ina school at Greenwich. Conn., und after obtaining the consent of his father in France, who was a man of means, he married one of his pupil*. Miss Mary E. Clenimer, the ceremony o, fn< performed by Mr, A. Oakey I Hall, the Mayor of New York. | PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S LIFE SAVED An Attempt to Kill Him at His In auguration Frustrated. From the IVashinyton Post. The sudden death of Oapt. S. S. Blackford has called to mind the incident of the second in admiration of President Lincoln, when the Captain, who was then a member of the Capitol police force, probably saved the President's life. It was just as the Presidential party passed to the platform in front of the Capitol. The line of the police was a double one. and solid, and as those were critical days and there had been rumors of attempts to attack the President, the strictest orders had been issued that no one shoald be allowed to pass out of the east door of the rotunda except those rightfully in the procession. After a portion of the pro cession hail passed out. a man who behaved in a very excited manner brok" through the line of police near the door an t rushed for the plat form. Mr. Blackford sprang from his place and seized the man, and, in spite of his desperate struggles to escape and his declarat ion that he had a right to go upon the platform, held him until the doors were closed. Then others came to his assistance, and the man was put outside the lines. The remainder of the procession then passed out and the inauguration took place without interruption. Very little was thought of the incident until after the assassination of Lincoln, when the de scriptions of John Wilkes Booth that were pub lished led Mr Blackford to suspect that the man whom he had stopped on inauguration day was no other than Booth himself. Further inquiry proved that Booth had been seen in the crowd in the rotunda on that day. and the description given by those who witnessed Mr. Blackford’s seizure of him completed the identification. Subsequent disclosures led to the belief that it was Booth's intention to shoot President Lin coln while taking the oath of office or delivering his inaugural, and that he was only frustrated by the bravery and promptness to act of Mr. Blackford. STRAWBERRIES sl2 A QUART. Delicacies to Adorn a Rich Man’s Table at dis Christmas Dinner. “If a man has plenty of money he can have with his Christmas dinner all the midsummer fruits.” This was said to a reporter of the New York Mail and Exjiress recently by an up town fruit merchant. “Next week,” he continued, "if you will step into our store and forget that this is the month of December, you will think it summer time and that you have made a mis take in putting on your overcoat. One fruit we have now is strawberries. They are hothouse grown, of course, but very fine. They sell at sl2 a quart. It seems almost like eating money, does it not > We shall be able to sell all we can buy at Christmas. Another delicacy is hothouse grapes. The Barbrosa grapes are in the market now. They sell for $4 a pound. Next month ths black Hamburgs come in. They will be worth $5 a pound. “Hothouse tomatoes sell for $1 a pound. Cu cumbers, also hothouse grown, are worth 50c. each. California peaches are selling at $2 a dozer. Some choice pears for the holiday fes tivities are worth $3 a dozen. Asparagus can be bought for s]|a smail bunch. Tangerine and mandarin aranges sell at $1 25 a dozen. Grape fruit is worth $1 a dozen, plums are selling at $1 50 a dozen. “Christmas is the time for nuts. The variety in the market now is very large. Filiberts are selling at 75c. a pound. Pecan nuts, polished, arc worth 40c. a pound. Hickory nuts and En glish walnuts are plentiful. Of the Spanish nuts the Barcelona is the most popular at this season; they sell at 50c a pound. Brazil nuts are also in demand. The leechee, a Chinese nut, is selling at $1 25 a pound.” Washing the Children. From the Arkansan’ Traveler. The girl was washed without the least trouble. When called by her mother, she put her doll on a chair and submitted herself to the operation. Not a word of complaint escaped her, and upon being released, her bright face beaming with the glow of good humor, she took up her doll and resumed her play. "Come here, Tom," said the mother. “Oh, wait till I untangle this old string.” “No, come right now.’ “Can't you wait a minit?” “You had plenty of time to untangle your string while I was w ashing Alice.” “It wasn’t tangled then.” “Well, come on, and you can untangle it after I have washed you. Come on, I tell you. What are you looking forf” “My pi&ce ofiron. ’ “You don’t want that rusty thing.” “Yes I do, it’s my gun.” , “Come on here, I tell you. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Alice didn’t do that way. If I eome after you I’ll make you move. What are you trying to do now!” “Puttin my horseshoe in my box.” “Throw-that old horseshoe down, you good for nothing thing. Come here to me, sir.” “You’ll Kurt me.” “No, I won't." “And won’t you rub hard?” “No.” “That old-water’s cold." “No, it isn’t. It’s as warm and nice as it can be.” "It’ll take too long.” “No, it won’t take but a few minutes,” He approached his mother and she took him on her lap. “What are you trying to do?” she asked. “Wanter git down a minit. Want to put my can in the box.” "Never mind that old oyster can. You are making as many preparations as if you were going on a long journey.” “What’s a journey?” “A trip.” King Faro. From the Galveston News, A teacheryn the Sunday school Had tau ght her scholars few The truth which scholars ought to kn Who read the Bible through. But on the day herein set down Anew one had come in— A little lad, with keen bright eyes, And innocent of sin. The teacher asked them all around Such questions as she thought Would tit their minds and bring abou The object that she sought. They knew of Adam and his sin, Of Paul and Peter, too, Of Jacob, Joseph, David, Saul, And him his brother slew. And then the teacher asked her class If any one could tell, Who Pharoah was. “Of Course,” she said, “You know that very well.” But, strange to say, no hand arose, And silence, with a blow, Had struck the class and not a one The answer seemed to know. At last the new boy's hand went up— “ Well, who was Pharoab, la' 1 ?” The teacher smiled - the new boy said: “ ’Twas him that busted dad!” He Had Never Heard This Story. From the New York Herald. That picturesque personality, Brain Stoker, gives an amusing comment upon his efforts to attract an audience to hear him speak about President Lincoln. Bram was there, and we be lieve Henry Irving was in the seats. But there was no audience. New York is a queer place. The laws, cus toms, whims of cities do not apply here. Some years ago Brick Pomeroy printed a sulphurous newspajier out West, con signing the soul of Lincoln every Saturday morning to eternal lire. Brick printed a good many papers and earned heaps of money. Finally he thought he would come to New York, and one of his triends sought the advice of the late Horace Greeley as to the propriety of the move. “Well,” said Greeley, “Brick makes money because he lives in Wisconsin, among those red hot Democrats who like to be told every week that old Abe is roasting in eternal tires. 'But if he comes to New York lie will find that not one man in a thousand cares whether Abe is roast ingor not." Brick came to New York, and the result justi fied Mr Greeley's judgment. Brain Stoker probably never hoard this story. The Washington Season. f'rom the Epoch. The “social season” at the White House will begin on New Year’s day. When it has begun it will be a brief one, for Ash Wednesday will close it, and that will crowd all the elaborate re ceptions and dinners into about six weeks. As there age three great receptions and as many dinners, Mrs. Cleveland will be obliged to take part in at least one formal “affair” once a week. If this does not prove too fatiguing she will resume her Saturday afternoon receptions to the public, and the country will again have opyiortuDities to read about the frantic struggles of 6,000 or fi.ooo women to Dass the doors, shake Mrs. Cleve land's hand and get safely out again iu the space of two hours. It is a formidable under taking, and everybody here knows it. But even iu Washington there are women who de clare that, having had the experience, having suffered irremediable damage to clothing, sub mitted to rude treatment from policemen and ruder language from “ladies” in the crowd as eager as themselves, they will venture it again at the first chance. i ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Rev. G. W. Field, of Bangor, went to Belfast, Me., recently to attend the funeral of a domestic who had been iu the families of his father and brother for a period of eighty years. A noval SIGHT witnessed near Mount Vernon, Me., last weekwas that of a men mowing on the ice. A portii >n of his farm is in swamp land, which is too wet to mow in summer, but by wuiting until it freezes lie is enabled to harvest a large crop of hay from it. A tree that was cut down in the Little Shookum valley, near Whatcan, W. T-, yielded 35.000 feet of lumber, which, at $7 50 per 1.000. makes the tree worth $202. The Whatcan Reveille s iys;h.it the timber lands in the county will average ten such t rees to an acre. While us iso stove blacking on her kitchen range the other day, Mrs. Margaret Twibcll, of Montpelier, Ind., got a small quantity of the polish in a cut on her hand, blood poisoning ensued, the hand swelled to great size, and it is thought that it will be necessary to ampu tate it. The city of Lecompton, Kan., which thirty years ago was one of the most promising towns in.the West, is to-day a striking example of a "busted boom.” Town lots that sold readily for SI,OOO each in 1854 cannot now be disposed of at SSO, and the $500,000 State House then under way is now a mass of mins. The French Academy, by its recent annual flistribution of “prizes of merit,” has proclaimed Jean Adolphe Delannoy, a Calais pilot, the most heroic of Frenchmen. He Jias risked his life twenty-one times in saving shipwreckisl crews, and is loaded with medals. He also wears the cross of the Legion of Honor. The first President's message telegraphed West was delivered by James K. Polk. The operator took forty-eight hours to perform the task. It was On that occasion that the Phila delphia operator was so delighted in reaching the signature that he added: “God and Liber ty,” and the papers printed it so. John Sheetz, of Reading, Pa., brought suit before the Aldermen to recover 10c. from a man named Wentzei. The case grew out of a dispute about the value of an appie butter jar, which Sheetz declared to be worth 10c., while in Went zel's opinion it was worth only Be. The Aider men gave judgment in favor of Sheetz for 10c. and heavy costs. Dave Johnson and Dawlin Sassinet, of Eliza beth City, N. C., had a grudge against Albin Satchwell, a neighbor, and, arming themselves, they went out to meet him. Encountering him on the street, they drew a line in the mud across the road and dared him to step over it. Satch well walked coolly on over the line and was shot down in his tracks. Aunt Hattie North, who recently died in Troy, Kan., was thought by those who knew her best to lie fully 117 years old. She was a colored woman, and remembered living in St. Louis when the city was a French trailing ]>ost, with very few houses. She often relatedincidents that occurred a full century ago, and, as she never knew how to read, it was thought that she spoke from actual experience. JabezHubd. a hermit near Clinton, had not changed his clothing or taken a bath for years until the health authorities descended upon his filthy hut the other day for the purpose of cleaning it. Once inside the door they laid hands on Jabez, stripped him of his clothes, gave him a thorough scrubbing at the pump and dressed him in anew suit. His brother threatens to sue the authorities for malicious trespass. St. Paul draws her water supply from con tiguous lakes, whereas Minneapolis gets hers from the Mississippi river. Gen. Washburn claims that ultimately ftiese cities must draw their water supply from Lake Superior, 100 miles away, but liigli enough to admit of a ready-flow The undertaking would not be as great as it would appear to be upon first thought, and has been deemed entirely feasible by competent engineers. % A gentleman living a short distance from Little Brown Creek, N. C., now comes to the front with the startling proposition that par tridges are an unfailing preventive of chills and fever. He says that he knows not of a single man, or a single member of any family, who has been attacked with chills when partridges have entered liberally into the diet of the house hold. He has inquired, but can find nobody who knows an exception to the rule. A Peoria, 111., girl who went to a ball the other evening wearing a pair of new shoes, soon found herself in such agony that she went to the dressing room between dances and took them off. She hud hardly removed the shoes before her feet puffed up to such an astonishing size as to make it impossible to put the shoes on again. No others being obtainable, she was forced to pass the remainder of the evening without dancing, and eventually to go home in her stocking feet. Dr. Junker, of London, has received several letters from Emin Bey, the latest being dated Feb. 27. The negroes had murdered Grescke, the agent of the the Hamburg ivory firm of Mayer, and had burned the town of Wadelai, only fifteen huts remaining. Everything in the place was destroyed except arms and ammuni tion and some corn. Emin hoped to be able to re build the town in two months. The Lado and Nuggi stations had also been burned Emin reports, hewever, that he had gained the friend ship of several chiefs. The female compositors in a Boston job printing office refused to set type from the manuscript of Rev. Justin D. Fulton’s latest book on the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church. Their reason was “that the text was grossly indecent and immoral.” The firm sus tained its employes, and the reverend author threatens to bring suit for damages. Should this man succeed in getting his Ixiok published, the public cannot do better than let it alone. This is a noteworthy instance of the good that can he done by women who cultivate some use ful industry and do their missionary work as occasion offers. Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in prenatal influence. She says she was made a poet before she was bom by her mother’s devotion to “Lalla Rookh” at that period. She also lie lieves in min ors, and never [lasses one without looking into it. She says it is not vanity, but for reassurance that no disaster has overtaken bustle, plume or collar since her last meeting with herself. She always lias a mirror before her when writing. When she is brought up into a corner in composition, her swnl upward glance invariably falls on the little ptush framed reflection of herself, and immediately the idea, rhyme, word or title is speared upon her impatient pen. She always writes in a rocker, lower from the table than ordinary writers. Last Saturday Mrs. Langtry entered an East Twentieth street furniture store in New York. She moved about among the different articles of furniture and finally came to a rocking chair. Its chaste lines and general air of comfort satis fied even her fastidious taste, and after gazing upon it for a few moments she ordered it sent to his Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales. The chair which his royal highness is expected to occupy a few times before ascending the throne, is built after style of the old rockers used in this country ISO years ago. It is of solid mahogany, very strongly built aud broad. In fact, it is large enough for two For fear the mahogany seat might not be soft enough for his highness, the Lilv had some beautiful ruby plush cushions made. There only remained one thing more to do, and the chair would le fit for a prospective king. The msthetic tastes of l oyalty must he satisfied and for this purpose the chair was plentifully decorated with ribbons of dark navy blue, that lining the royal color The natural supposition would be that this was intended for a Christmas present but srtch is not the fact. It is meant as a re membrance of the Prince's birthday, which was Nov. U). Why Mrs. Langtry is so late in send ing tier offering no otto seems to know. For this slight testimonial of her lasting regard the Lily paid seventy-live of her hard earned American dollars Lieut. Gen. Sheiuuan is the only famous commander of the late war who has not caught fever. He has published little or nothing of his recollections of the war. and has discouraged others from doing so. His idea is that war recollections at twenty years ran are not worth much, that history bad better oe made out of contemporary i-ecorils and reports. He does all that he can to have these preserved and prepared for the use of the future historian. He carefully kept the originals or copies of tali letters, telegrams, orders, and so forth, sent or received by him during the war. Some of these were destroyed in the Chicago fire. But he does not regret this so much as he might, be cause it was the cause of his making a “find" of greater value than all his documents put together. When he came on to Washington, having determined to replace his lost treasures with copies if he could do no better, he was told that he might And in the attic of the White House some of the telegrams that President Lincoln had sent He weut up there himself, and by delving and digging got out of a mass of stuff a very large number of President Uncoln’s war telegrams, addressed not only to him lint to all the other Federal Generals. He had them removed at once to a safe place, and they ha- e been well cared for since. Tito future historian or the war will have Gen. Sheridan to thank for him >> ° f th<S ,J<wt of ttiß material laid U p for BAKING POWDER. pßpßlCfs CREAM ij&KlMj? Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes fot more than a quarter of a century jt is ised by the United States Government. In. iorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as he Strongest. Purest and most Healthful Dr .Vice’s the only Baking Powder that does not •ont ain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. 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