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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Savannah Bank aud Trust
panv.
Special Notices—The Retail Department Sa
vannah Steam Bakery; Sullivan’s Christmas
Gift to the Orphans; Apples, J. S. Collins & Cos.;
Found, at Lindsay & Morgan's.
Lecture—Lecture on Pope Leo XIII.
Auction Sale —Furniture, Stoves, etc., by J.
McLaughlin & Son.
Confectionery, Etc.— At Shaffer's Drug
Store.
Knabe Pianos—Davis Bros.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements—For Rent;
For Sale; Photography; Miscellaneous.
Prof. Levasseur estimates the population
of the world at 1,483,000,000. It is doubtful
if anybody will attempt seriously to dispute
his figures.
The Atlanta anti-Prohibitionists have got
rid of prohiAi-to \ and have a $1,500 liquor
lioense, and tVI h- / are not happy. Is it
possible to sats></ them!
—i—— ,-asT* . - -- ...I ■-i
There were advoca • of free wool long
before Mr. Cleveland ! time. Mr. Lincoln,
Mr. Sumner •l Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe were amon; the number. They got
what they wanted.
Representative Hemphill, of South Caro
lina, says that “this administration makes
one proud of our form of government.”
Mr. Hemphill expresses the thought that is
in the mind of every genuine American.
The Grand Army of the Republic has in
creased from 60,634 in 1880 to 372,674 in
1887. The effort to make it a political or
ganization for the good of the Republican
party increases in vigor as the Army in
creases in numbers.
Stripes will be the fashion for several
seasons to come with the Louisville dude
who was this week sentenced for forgery to
six years in the penitentiary. This is one
fashion that it is hoped his brother dudes
wont have to adopt.
The term of Senator George, of Missis
sippi, is drawing to a close, and the indica
tions are that he will be opposed by Gov.
Lowry and Lieut. Gov. Simms, both of
whom are anxious to succeed him. Lowry
and Simms are Georgians by birth.
Old sea captains will now be taking the
great floating raft from Nova Scotia for
another sea monster, and the tales of the
mighty leviathan will in due season fill
tome of the papers. No sea monster yet in
vented can begin to compare with this one.
The Smith-Kilrain prize fight is said to
have created more comment among Con
gressmen than the President’s message.
Messrs. Blount and Breckinridge were proba
bly more interested than any other mem
bers. Senators Butler, Sawyer, Cull and
Edmunds also read the accounts with a
great deal of interest.
Senator Ingalls says that Congress ought
to establish anew executive department to
be known as the Department of Groceries,
and that at its head should be a mei n her of
the Cabinet, who should lie officially styled
Secretary of Pork and Molasses. The occa
sion of the Senator’s sarcastic outbreak
was the reception of lettere urging him to
push the bill to prevent the adulteration of
lard.
Dr. Mary AValker looms up again. Her
name is on the invalid pension list, and she
wants her pension increased. When she
and her eye-glasses, natty cane, chinchilla
overcoat and striped trousers were search
ing for Chairman Matson the other day,
they were taken for i f Washington dude.
Dr. Walker’s pension is probably not large
enough to keep her supplied with all the
of the species for which sue
Vat, taken.
The Tariff Reformers' Bill.
The impression appears to be quite strong
that the main features of n tariff measure
have been agreed upon by leading tariff
reformers, and (hat the Ways and Means
Committee will report it to the House sub
stantially us it receives it. The bill, it is
said, provides for a reduction of customs
duties to tho amount of $<12,000,000, and of
the tobacco tax to the amount of $25,000,000.
It is estimated that the lowering of duties
on certain articles which are included in
the bill will increase importations to some
extent, so that the actual reduction that
will be effected in customs revenues will bo
about $-50,000,000.
The entire reduction, therefore, will be
| about $7.5,000,000. Thero will still remain
j a small surplus to meet any emergency that
j may arise in the financial affaire of the
government. Of tho $50,000,000 reduction
in the revenues from customs at least $40,-
000,000 will be in duties on manufactures
and $10,000,000 in duties on raw materials.
It is understood that a special effort will be
made to remove inequalities in the tariff
rates, and to cut down the highest rates now
imposed. Where it can be done to advan
tage specific will be substituted for ad
valorem rates. Wool, coal, salt, lumber
aud vegetables will go on the free list. Of
course these are only brief outlines of the
bill, and it is not absolutely certain that
they are correct, as the bill has not ls-en
made public. All that is known about it is
furnished by one or two persons who assert
that they have correct information with
regard to it.
No tariff bill can be pushed through the
House hurriedly, and no bill is likely to be
reported by the AVays and Means Commit
tee that will not bo subjected to many
changes. When it is positively known what
the provisions of the bill which will be re
ported to the House are, a powerful lobby
will doubtless undertake to undo a great
deal of the work which cost the tariff re
! form leaders much tiipe and trouble.
A Floridian s Boston Experience.
Florida business men, when they visit
Boston, should be very careful not to loan
money without security to strangers. Tues
day’s Boston Globe says that Mr. Edward
Pigron, of Windsor, Fla., was very cleverly
relieved of $7OO in that city on Thursday of
last week by a shrewd swindler, who pre
tended that ho was to be a follow traveler
of Mr. Pigron’s to Florida. It seems that
Mr. Pigron was at the wharf of the Savan
nah steamer waiting for the vessel to sail,
, when a handsome and well dressed man
asked him if he was going to Florida.
On receiving an affirmative answer
he said that he was going then also and
was accompanied by his mother and sister,
who were already on board the steamer.
He represented himself to be a wealthy man,
who had retired from business, and who
felt well able to enjoy the winter in the
Land of Flowers. He and Mr. Pigron be
came quite friendly, and as it was an hour
or more ire fore the time announced for the
steamer’s departure they decided to take a
stroll along one of the principal streets
of the city. As they were
about to return the stranger
pretended to remember suddenly that a
note of his was due that day. He believed,
he said, that he could pay it and reach the
steamer in time. He put his hand in his
pocket ns if to assure himself that his purse
was there, when he declared, with every
appearance of vexation, that he had left
Ids money with his mother. He asked Mr.
Pigron if he couldn’t lend him $7OO for half
an hour, as he would not be absent
more than that, and said that
he would make good the loan as soon as he
could get bis purse. Mr. Pigron hesitated a
moment because, doubtless, he had heard
of the bunco men, but he was so certain
that he knew an honest man from a thief
that he banded over the money. Then he
went to the wharf of the steamer to wait
for his new acquaintance. That individual
hasn’t been seen there yet. Mr. Pig
ron saw the Savannah steamer sail away,
but his heart was not made light by the ap
pearance of the man who got his money.
When ho visits Boston again it is probable
that he will keep a tighter g. ip on his cash.
War in a Club.
The Nineteenth Century Club of New
York is attracting a great deal more atten
tion just now than it ever has before in its
rather brief existence. It is composed of
people who hold all sorts of opinions on all
sorts of subjects, and it meets once every
three weeks to hear pajiers read on topics
which are supposed to l>e closely connected
with the welfare of the human race. Its
President is Mr. Courtlandt Palmer,
a man of many millions, who char
acterized the hanging of the Chicago
Anarchists as'-‘judicial murder.” A week
or two ago Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the Pitts
burg iron manufacturer and millionaire,
read a paper before the club in which he
took occasion to criticise Mr. Palmer’s opin
ions relative to the hanging of the Anarch
ists, and Mr. Palmer got very mad about
it, and said that Mr. Carnegie was
lacking in courtesy because Mr. Car
negie attacked him when he was
acting as the presiding officer of the even
ing and. therefore, couldn’t defend himself.
Then Mr. Carnegie got mad and resigned
his position as Vice President of the club.
This little trouble between the two million
aires caused a good deal of talk, especially
as it was all ou aecouut of the hanging of
some bomb throwers.
Mr. Palmer thought he had his club in
good sha]>e again when another Vice Presi
dent, Judge Barrett, who presided at the
trial of Jacob Sharp, the bribor of the
boodlers, resigned. Judge Barrett said that
he couldn’t, as a Judge, appear to consent
to Mr. Palmer’s notions about the Chicago
Anarchists, and, perhaps, nine-tenths of the
peaple who give any thoughtto his reasons
for resigning will approve his course.
Others have resigned, and it is not im
probable that Mr. Palmer will in a little
while find himself President of a club large
ly composed of Anarchists, Socialists,
atheists, agnostics and cranks. In view of
this probable outcome of a club, to the
building up of which Mr. Palmer says he
has given some of the best years of his life,
it is not to be wondered at that he is a little
out of temper.
The Cincinnati papers contain the super
fluous announcement that Gov. Forakar is
violently and unalterably opposed to Mr.
Lamar'B confirmation. Furthermore, ho
will never vote for any man for President
who helps to confirm him. A half dozen
Republican Senators are about to lose any
chance they may have had of ever being
President.
Senator Sherman thinks the New York
Republicans are too timid. They are. They
don’t vote often enough to overcome the
Democratic majority, but their timidity is
one of the few points in their favor.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1887.
Abolishing Santa Claus.
A good many New York people, accord
ing to one of tho new tampers of that city,
have declared themselves in favor of mu
lling Santa Claus out of thecountry. Among
them it is rather surprising to find the Rev.
John Hal), D. D.
The country is not yet ready to be rid of
Santa Claus, and if the question of his
going or staying were put to vote the
majority in favor of his staying would be a
large one. Who would be allowed to vote
on the proposed expulsion, if it
were decided to take a ballot? Is thero
to be a property or educational qualification,
and will women and all people under 21 lie
debarred from the privilege of putting in
their votes? Tho ballot should not be re
stricted in any sense. The crusty old bach
elors (who will, of course, put in a black
ball), the wealthy man of family, the hard
working husband, the lonely widow who
finds it hard to make both ends meet, the
fickle young bean who dotes on the gentler
sex, the old grandsire who recalls the past
in the youngsters whom he bounces on his
knee, the children—yes, the children —
should have a voice in this important
matter. The suffrage should be universal;
and when the mighty number of votes is
counted, no manipulation of returning
boards should be permitted to alter the ver
dict of the people, big and little, that Santa
Claus lie invited to remain.
Thero is no reason why Christmas should
be made dull by ejecting Santa Claus from
our homes. Tho charms of Feb. 14 and May
1 have in great measure departed because
St. Valentine and the Queen of Alay have
lieen quarantined in many localities, but the
line must bo drawn at this last and most
iniquitous movement. To rob the children
of their delightful superstition about Christ
ina-, aud prevent them from hanging their
stockings where Santa Claus will be sure to
see them when he comes down the chimney,
would be an act of cruelty that is not to be
tolerated. Dr. Hall and his sympathizers
must be given to understand that they are
in a hopeless minority, and that tho world
is Weak enough without taking from it one
of its redeeming charms. No one is so poor
but that he can invest a small part of his
earnings in the wares of Santa Claus, and
no heart is so hard but that it beats in re
sponse to the joys of the children at Christ
mas time.
A Remarkable Faction Fight.
The remarkable campaign in Louisiana
for the Democratic Guoernatorial nomina
tion is presenting some bloody features. It
would have been surprising had it closed
without the loss of a few lives. AVithin the
last few days several people in different
parishes have been shot to death in political
quarrels. As the feeling between the con
tending factions grows more bitter each day
it is not improbable that tiiere will be other
victims of the contest.
A majority of the parishes have held their
primary elections, and it isini]x>ssihle to de
termine whether Nicholls or McEnery has
the majority of the delegates already
elected. Each claims it, and it will not be
possible to discover which is mistaken until
the nominating convention meets.
The fight for the New Orleans delegates
is a lively one. The ward leaders are pretty
evenly divided between the two factions,
and extraordinary efforts are being made to
induce every Democrat to go to the polls.
There have been some extraordinary po
litical campaigns in Louisiana, but none
more so than the one now in progress.
There is not much probability that the fac
tions will ever be in complete harmony
again on State issues, lieeause the line which
sei arato < them is too clearly drawn. They
will continue the struggle for the
control of the State, and as
the white Republican element is so small
as to be hardly worth considering, it is not
improbable that they will finully divide tho
negro vote between their. AYhether one of
the factions will at some future date har
monize with the Republicans in nutional
affairs is a question that has doubtless sug
gested itself to a good many of the thinking
men of the State.
The waltz was 100 years old last Tuesday.
It was born on a Vienna stage, and Vince li
no Alartini was its father. Martini com
posed at t hat time an opera which was pre
ferred to the works of his rival, Alozart, and
it contained a waltz, known then by the
name of “Deutsche.” The opera itself is
not very highly praised, but when, with a
few introductory bars, it broke into the
swaying, rythmic melody of the waltz, and
the actors began to glide around tho stage
in unison with its time, the audience gave
way to the wildest excitement. The next
day Vienna rang with praises of the waltz,
and it soon became tho rage throughout
Europe. In America it was met by fierce
opposition, but its popularity has never
waned from that day to this. The crusades
that were conducted against it in some
quarters acted rather as an impetus to the
introduction of the most graceful of all
round dances.
A bill recently introduced in Congress
covers a very pretty romance. During the
war a young officer was put under arrest
for some trivial offense, tried and acquitted,
but at the conclusion of tho trial was de
tained until the order for his release ar
rived. Before i*. came, ho received a tele
gram stating that his affianced and her
father,' who would arrive in a few hours,
wanted him to meet them. Ho asked per
missi nto do so, but it was not granted.
He determined to go without permission.
On his return he found the order for his re
lease awaiting him, but he was immediately
re-arrested for disobedience, tried and dis
missed from tho service. The girl and her
father, on learning the facts, stood by him,
and his marriage took place at once. He is
now asking Congress to wipe out tho stain
on his name.
An alleged member of the English Par
liament says that the chief object of Joseph
Chamberlain's visit, to this country “is to
evolve from a brief study of our institutions
a scheme of local government, which, while
pretending to sai isfy the claims of Irish
men. shall pave tho way for Mr. Cliamber
lain’s succession to Mr. Gladstone in the
leadership of the reunited Liberals.” If this
alleged member of Parliament knows what
he is talking about, what hope is there for a
settlement of the fishery question
.Senator Butler is determined to have a
special committee appointed in order that
he may have a committee chairmanship
and a clerk. Having given up the idea of
a special committee to look after the inter
ests of the proposed postal telegraph he
now suggests that a committee ho appointed
to discover whether the live half civilized
Indian tribes should he admitted to the
privileges of citizenship. The (Senator will
doubtless finally .succeed in getting what be
wants.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Rapidly Advancing.
Front the, Philadelphia TimestDem.)
With two Chiuaineu to hang for wife-murder,
what wretch dare intimate that the Celestial is
not becoming civilized?
Information Wanted.
From the Baltimore American I Rep.)
We wonder if the editor of the New York
(hrrphir is a married Ilian' In an editorial he
says: “Marriage in this State is too easy and
divorce too difficult.”
If It Is Read at All.
From the Few York Press (Rep.)
The big newspapers that get out whole books
-on Sunday will soon Is- able to dispense with
their daily issues altogether. It will take all the
week to read tho Sunday |>aper, If it is read at all.
No Offense Meant.
From the Few York Tribune (Rep.l
Alayor Hewitt is in a state of mind because
somebody is reported to have made mention of
"the old woman in the Mayor’s office.’’ Our
worthy Chief Magistrate must know that if any
such language was used it was meant in the
purest possible Pickwickian sense.
BRIGHT BITS.
College football teams have been doing a
rushing business this fall.- Burlington Free
Press.
France hardly gets over its trouble with
Grevy than something turns up with its Goblet.
—Buffalo Times.
Moses Graham, of Texas, was run down and
trampled upon by a herd of cattle the other day.
A sort of Moses among the bull rushes, as it
wei e.-Tid-Bits.
When neuralgia comes feeling around, aud
you have a tooth that begins to reel as though
a spring chicken was digging away at its roots,
it is time to pullet out.—American Artisan.
Now in working slippers neatly.
Girls preiiare for Christmas day;
By and by they'll work them fleetly
In a more emphatic way.
—Boston Budget.
Mr. Borely Bore-Bore (pausing at the door)—
Ab, beg pardon, you have your hat and cane, I
see. I will pall again.
Busy Editor (eagerly)—No, indeed, my dear
fellow, don't think of it. Do come in and sit
down; I ara just going out.— Brooklyn Eagle.
A voi-NG man who was examined for an ap
pointment as a department clerk came across
the question, “What, States and Territories
would you cross in going from New York to the
Pacific coast?” Ho didn’t know, and so he
wrote: “None. I would go around by Cape
Horn.”— Exchange.
The announcement from Washington that the
latest fashion among the girls is a hair album
filled with strands from the heads of their gen
tlemen friends, is followed by another which
says there are twenty-seven red headed mem
bers of Congress. So the chances are that the
album of the season is to boa book which will
be red Few York Star.
Little Johnnie lEoston boy who has been
permitted to see his first baby brother)—Are
you going to keep it, mamma?
Mamma—Yes, Johnnie, won't you be glad?
Johnnie (wiping his spectacles dubiously)—l
fear, mamma. I cannot welcome it with the af
fection of a brother as long as it has that ab
surdly florid complexion. I have heard almond
meal recommended. Have we some about the
premises?— Chicago Tribune.
They tell a story in Chicago of Wagner and
an American composer, who paid him a v.sit
during the latter years of his life—at least the
American composer, whose name may have
been Jenkins, tells it.
“I embrace thee.” cried AA’agner, “as the
AVagner of America.”
“Ah,” cried the American, not to be outdone
either in conceit or courtesy. “I embrace thee as
tne Jenkins of Europe.”— tidbits.
The Absence of Miracles.—“No,” said the
skeptic, “1 don't believe half of the stories in
the Bible about people being struck dead for
tbeir sins, or anything of the kind.”
“What stories do you mean?”
"Why, about Ananias being struck dead, for
instance. How is it that the lightning don't
strike people dead for lying now-a-days?”
“Because thero v. oulif have to be a continuous
thunderstorm to uo it.”— Lincoln Journal.
Editor MobniiAi Paper—l see the temper
ance cause is exciting much interest. We are
short of editorial. Can't you give us a good
article upholding the movement and describing
the vast lieneflis which would result to humanity
from the removal of the mm curse?
Pub Editor—l am afraid I can tdo the subject
justice just now. It's past midnight and I have
been writing so long that I'm completely fagged
out.
Editor-—Well, let’s go and get another nip.
That'll brighter, you up .—Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
Congressman O’Neill. of Pennsyleania, has
been in public life for nearly a quarter of a cen
tury, amt claims that he has never allowed a
letter to remain unanswered for more than
forty-eight hours.
Ex-Commissioner and Mrs. Sparks wiU re
main in Washington until June, when they
will go abroad with tbeir young daughter, who,
after traveling with them on the continent, will
be placed at school in Paris for a year.
Sherman men are now asserting that the elec
tion of James P. Foster to the Presidency of the
National Republican League is an admission on
the part of their opponents that the Blaine
"boom” needs a good deal of Fostering care.
News comes from Washington to the effect
that Secretaries Bayard and Whitney have been
urging Attorney General Garland to buy anew
hat this season. Their efforts are in vain.
Garland is like the Old Guard—he never sur
renders.
Ex-Councilman Leonard, of Rahway, N. J.,
received last week au ambrotype picture which
had been taken from the body of bis brother in
law. George Fields, who was killed at the battle
of Chanceilorsville, by an Alabamian, who had
the ambrotype in his possession ever since. It
w’as a picture of the dead soldier's wife and
daughter
The man who first used the torpedo in naval
warfare died a few days ago in Georgetown, D.
C. Francis Elgar Shepperd came of an old
North Carolina family, was educated at the An
napolis Naval School, and at the outbreak of
the war entered the Confederate navy. Just
twenty-five years ago ibis month Shepperd tdew
up the United States gunboat Cairo on the Mis
sissippi by means of an old-fashioned torpedo.
Capt. Shepperd watched the explosion from the
bank of the river, and declared that torpedo
warfare was cowardly. He never again set a
torpedo.
The majority of people credit President
Cleveland with originating the phrase "a public
office is a public trust.” This belief is sir uni
versal that there was quite a fluttering in the
office of I)r. Tindall. Secretary to the District
Commissioners in Washington, over a discovery
made last. Saturday. On page forty
two of o pamphlet containing the minutes of
the school boa.d lor the years 1875k-'SO, in a dis
cussion on the eligibility of women for the posi
tion of trustees, owurs the famous campaign
phrase, differing not a particle from that used
by Sir. Cleveland. Everybody at the district
offices Is wondering how that school report fell
into the President's hands.
Mu. Bancroft, the historian, does not believe
in befriending tho enemy. The correspondent
of leading New York newspaper, No. !, called
at the redder.ee in Washington of the historian
on Tuesday night, to get in advance a copy ot
Mr. Bancroft's letter to Whit tier, congratulating
him on his 8 :th birthday. The historian being
out at the time, the correspondent left his card,
with the request that the coveted document
might be sent down to tus office. When Mr
Bancroft came in his private secretary informed
him of the correspondent's call and presented
the correspondent's card. The ldstoriati looked
at the card and, reflecting for a moment, in
quired of the private secretary which of the
leading New York pupers if was that printed
some disagreeable things about him tho other
day The private secretary replied that it was
leading newspajier N'o l "very well, then."
Haid tiie historian, "write out a copy of this let
ter aud deliver it to leading New York news
paper No. 2. It lias the liest r ght to my favor,
file paper that treats me unfairly need not ex
pect imp favors at my hands.” And so news
paper No. 1 was "Hcoojted.”
Mrs. Whitney's pet bobby last year was
floral deeoratioD. Tne amount she spent in this
direction was very large Her dinuer tables
were marvels of fl.iral elegance, and her florists
w ere under orders o s nd her the very finest
and rarest blossoms without regutd to cost. As
she set the fashion everybody else bought flow
e.rs lavishly The Misses Davis, of Boston, for
instance, who occupied the house which Mrs
G n. Ila z-u built, al the eovner of Sixteenth
and K streets, thought nothing of spending
Sl.'lOd lor the floral decorations which made
their home literally a bower of roses during an
afternoou's reception lasi winter. Tills year,
however. Mrs. Whitney's taste runs toward
candy. The huge bouquets which were former
ly laid al tbe plate of each guest, have given
away to a few inode.t bu Is. while the guest's
souvenir fat a handsome box of bonbons. The
lined costly novelties in this line are eagerly
purchased by Mrs Whitney, and (he caudles
are. of course, jx-rfect lon. All t Ids is. of course,
r>a<i for thf* florist*. but, a well known candy
nmniifoA*: urer who has come from New
xork U tiie gamer thereby.
QUEER STORIES IN COURTS.
The Reminiscences of an Old-Time
Country . awyer in the South.
From the Few Orleans Picayune.
I remember very well the first ease I had to
defend. My client had “tuck a hog." My
father left me to make my own beginning, and
to wrestle with justice alone. I said: “Jim,
when you are called, plead not guilty, and ask
for trial by jury. ’’
"Yes, sah,” said Jim.
When Jim was cttlled he stood up, and the
clerk read in his stereotyped way the indicts
ment, ending, “contrary to the form and stat
ute," and asked: “Whereof are you guilty or
not guilty."
"Sah?” said Jim.
“Read it over,” said the Judge; and over
again it was accordingly read, and to the same
concluding interrogation Jim again responded,
“sah?"'
“See here, you,” said the Judge, “he is asking
you if you took that hog or not.”
And to my horror, Jim scratched his head
and, with a confiding smile, said: “Yes. sah,
Jedge, I tuck de hog," and so ended my first
lesson.
I once had a suit before a dignified country
Justice for the price of a horse which was
sequestered. The defendant was a negro wom
an, who set up that the purchaser had paid her
the horse for work. This being so, my client
would lose his priviiiges as vender. She took the
stand and swore out her case. The matter was
desperate. However, I would try.
“Susan, when your uncle paid for this horse
did he put the bridle into your hands?"
‘ Sah, he did.”
“Did he say: “My niece, I eternally give you
old Bill?”
“Dem’s de very words, sah."
“But, Susan, didn't your uncle forget then to
put a blue ribbon on the bridle?"
“Indeed he didn't, sah. I'se got dat ribbon
now.”
Much to Susan’s surprise the Justice brand
ished his stick and made her “get out.”
Once during a trial Judge R looked up
suddenly and said to the Sheriff: “Mr. D ,
there are thirteen men on that jury."
Mr. D , after counting with his finger, cor
roborated the Judge. The clerk was ordered to
call the jury. He did so, and there were but
twelve responses. Then the Judge, Sheriff and
Clerk held a conference, the result of which was
that the jurors stood up in answer to their
unities. Presently two individuals arose to
gether—one white, the other a negro. The
former had his summons as a juror; the latter
had been subpoenaed as a witness.
“Come here,” said the Judge, "and show me
your subpoena."
Sam advanced close up to his honor and stuck
out his tongue for inspection! As soon as the
laugh subsided the Judge said, kindly: "Sam,
you ueed calomel and or course can't stay on
the jury.”
Sam was nonplussed at another explosion
from the audience.
On another occasion I was defending a negro
for a serious offense. The jury was composed
entirely of negroes. After the argument closed
the court adjourned for dinner. As the jury
filed into the court room after dinner for in
structions, looking at the complexion of the
twelve, and In the presence of the Sheriff and
clerk, I said jocularly to a negro man, a brother
of the accused, standing by: "There’s a good
crowd for two bits apiece"
Imagine my feelings when he replied, quite
innocently: "Oh. I dun gin ’em a dollar round,
'cepting that valler rascal; he wants five.”
#Wtieu I took him aside and informed him of
the possible consequences of his liberality, be
hastened to depart. The “yaller rascal,” sure
enough, showed his resentment and hung the
jury; but only for awhile, the “dollar’round”
told at last.
What the Small Sister Saw.
From Fuck.
I saw him slip on the ring,
And 1 beard him whisper and say ;
“You must, not wear it where people can see
For a yearand a day.”
They didn't know that 1 saw—
It was after our Christmas play—
And she was a milkmaid, aDd he was a beau;
I Queen of the May,
But I saw them behind the screen;
And I knew why they wished to stay;
And I quietly peeked around the edge
Oh, wasn't it gay 1
0
And now for a year at least
I shall have my own little way; ->
I shall feast on bonbons and caramels,
O sister May:
You will never complain of me
If I bappeu to disobey;
And If he doesn’t want the engagement known—
Well, candy's pay.
It's uncommonly nice for me:
And uncommonly nice for May—
For he'll work for his bride—aud for me beside—
For a year and a day I
Ella Wheeler on Some Transcendental
Topics.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1. Men are more enthusiastic and ready to
espouse the cause of woman than her sister
women are.
2. Women, when their interest is finally won,
are more lasting in their friendships.
3. There is an instinctive rivalry between
women which, until it is overcome by the bonds
of sympathy, ie a bar to true, unselfish friend
ship.
4. There is an instinctive attraction between
men and women which is a bar to safe and un
selfish friendship.
5. Men expect more in return for their favors
than women do.
6. Meu are far more agreeable to approach in
any matter requiring courtesy and politeness.
7. Women are far safer and more reliable
friends in the long ruu.
8. The friendship of men noticeably decreases
after a woman marries.
!. The friendship of women noticeably
strengthens after a woman marries.
10. .V good and efficient man is a better friend
I and adviser than a weak woman.
11. A good and eflicien . woman is a better
friend and adviser than a weak man.
12. The,re is no rule which governs the matter.
An Incident in the Southern Boom.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The Colonel had left Birmingham without be
ing able to get within twenty feet of the general
delivery window of the post office, owing to the
crowd of colored people, and when wo got over
to Anniston and found it still worse, he went out
doors and sat down on a dry goods box and
spent an hour in reflection. By and by ho
brightened up and made a bee line for a print
ing office, and inside of another hour a boy was
going about the street and banding out to every
colored person he met a dodger reading: "Don't
I miss it! Prof. Elba and his celebrated spotted
cundurango will arrive at the depot at 3 p. m.
this afternoon. Only one ever brought to this
country. Colored people can see it without
| charge.’’ At 2o'clock I went with .be Colouel
|to the post office There wasn't a colored per
son within a Mock of it, and the post master was
, almost in a doze. At 8 o'clock he went dow~n to
the depot, and there were TOO or soo. colored
I people waiting around to see. the spotted cun
durango. "How much did it cost you ?” I
asked, as lie sat down on a barrel to ’read his
letters. “Only 70e.," he replied, "mid I got
twenty-two letters which had been trying to find
me for three weeks.
What He Is in Congress For.
From the Pittsburg Post.
One of the new menbere from Missouri is a
veritable "Jedge" Waxem of Wavbaek, not
over particular iu respect to niceties! but out for
all there is in it He is a friend of Morrison
and made the request of the latter to use hts in
fluence with Carlisle to get him a good commit
tee position. Morrison promised to beg for him,
and on meeting him a few days after, told him
of his interview with the S|-uker
“I put in a good word for you,” said Morri
son. "How would you like to be on the Com
mittee on Engrossed Bills?”
"What committee?"
“On engrossed bills.”
“Gross bills,” repeated the Missouri member.
"That’ll suit me exactly, Bill, for I’ve got three
or four pretty rank ones that I want to get
through myself.”
The BUI of Fare Startled Him.
From the Lewiston Journal.
On one of the islands of the Maine coast there
lived, several years ago, a man noted for his
miserly disposition. However that may be, he
became quite wealthy. One winter, during the
session of the Legislature, this person had oc
casion to visit Augusta. He stepped into a
restaurant for dinner, and a waiter spread be
fore him the printed bill of fore. The eyes of
the novice opened wide as he quickly added the
figures nt the right of the page, Indicating
prices; then, springing to his feet, he indig
nantly cried: "What! alt this to pay, and I
hain’t oat a mouthful yet?" The outcome we
are not told, hut on a subsequent visit the gen
tleman carrieda pail of victuals with him from
borne. .
A St. Paul Note of Minneapolis Society
From the. St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
At a swell party i u Minneapolis last, week the
bouillon was brought on in cup-like howls
They'retelling a good story about one of the
ladies who sat at the table glistening with dia
monds. When the waiter stood before her sbo
said, sweetly; "Thrvc lumps, please."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It costs the United States 82,000,000 a year to
carry on the war of 1812, even at this late date.
The largest cow in Dakota is reported from
Cass county. She stands six feet high at the
shoulders, and though thin in flesh, weighs 1,8.0
pounds.
Dr. Scbenerlin, of Berlin, has inoculated
dogs with tne newly discovered bacillus of can
cer. So far no cancer symptoms have been de
veloped,
A new sort of horae-raee recently took place.
The distance was a mile nnd a half. The horses
walked the first half-mile, trotted the second,
and ran the last,
Thomas Dunlap, who had a grocery store at
Reading. Pa., put a notice in the window that
William Rooster owed him $4.82, and he is now
being tried for libel.
A Hastings (Mich.) merchant has caught the
wish-bone craze, and is trading fifty-cent hand
kerchiefs for the wish-lxmes or turkey gobblers.
They are away up on the New York market.
American tramps are reported plenty in
Mexico. Tlio citizens of the sister Republic may
start a revolution to turn out the administrn
tion that so readily gave way in the Cutting
case.
The venerable John G. Whittier, the Quaker
poet, has a lingering fondness for the trade he
learned as a boy, that of shoe making. He care
fully examines" every portion of the shoes he
wears.
The United States has just sent a Christmas
present of 5,000 carp and gold fish to Mexico.
This shows a friendly feeling If we had a bone
to pick with Mexico the shad species would have
been the gift.
“The high price of coal in Vermont," says the
Boston Transcript, "has led one manufacturing
concern, w hich formerly used 130 tons a week to
try a mixture of sawdust ar.d soft coal. The re
sult is the reduction of their coal bill to twenty
five tons a week.”
Ip Gladstone belonged in this country we
should probably oleet him President as a wood
chopper. We should have wood choppers’ clubs
aud wood choppers' battalions, and every poli
tician would carry an ax to grind, just as he
does now.
A AYilkesbarre, Pi, woman on three dif
ferent occasions last week arose from her bed
and walked about town while asleep. On her
third walk she wandered to a cemetery, where
sue was found asleep the next morning and
almost frozen to death.
An example of economy was that of Iguatz
Freund in his Detroit store, who lighted the gas
jets one after another with a single match until
it burned bis fingers, and then dropped it into a
pile of cotton the result of which was a general
panic aud a damage of 81,500.
Farmer Liesman, who found a spring on his
farm near Holland, Mich., that will make hair
grow on most anything, has sold the cow and
calf on which ho had raised long whiskers to a
Chicago museum for 81,300. He will ship some
of the water to the animals each week.
One of the Indiana courts has decided that a
passenger has no right to swear in the cars in
that State. The decision will be a dead letter,
however, until it is supplemented with another
declaring that a passenger has no right to leave
the door standing open when he enters the car.
Lewis Henry Peterson, recently elected
Justice of the Peace in Plainfield, N. J., is a
good-looking negro, the second colored man
thus honored in the State. Mr. Peterson is 51
years of age, and his brother, Thomas Munday.
age 61, of Perth Amboy, is said to be the first
negro to cast his ballot in this country.
Mrs. Dr. O’Dell, of Paw Paw, Mich., didn't
notice that her handsome Maltese mouser was
in the oven when she closed th? stove doors and
left a rousing fire while she stepped over to the
neighbor's the other day. The cat was done to
a turn wbeu the lady returned and the odor of
baked eat clings around the premises still.
A drunken laborer named John Davies, at
Dowlais, England, on his way home lay down
beside the railroad track so close to the rails
that a train coming along, the engine ran over
and cut off the heel of bis boot. When the train
stopped and backed up the man was still asleep,
and was indignant at being made to get up and
go home.
An English bankrupt having pleaded that his
failure was due to the default of the govern
ment of San Salvador in paying its obligations,
the consul of that country has published a card
announcing that his government has never sus- I
.pended payment, and has no obligations abroad
except a railroad loan, the interest upon which
is paid promptly.
The English Board of Trade has made a re
port in which it alleges that the number of
paupers in the country now are only 24.7 to the
1,000, while in 1870 there were 40 to the 1,000,
and that the total number has fallen from 900,-
000 to 697,000, while the population has increased
by 5,700,000. In London, it is alleged, there are
now only 21 paupers to the 1,000 inhabitants.
The rats have, during the last few months, so
annoyed the farmers near Washington, Pa., that
in many places "rat hunts” have been indulged
in. The most successful one has just ended
w ith a big supper at Lone Pine. W. C. Condit
was the captain of one of the sides hunting the
rats, and succeeded in killing 7,000. The other
side, with S. D. Miller as captain, got away with
5,462, making a total of 12.462.
Farmer Charles Dittrich, near Mount
Clemens, Mich., had a cow die last week in a
very remarkable way. The animal was fed,
milked as usual in the morning, driven out along
with the rest of the herd at the customary time
for water, and to all appearances was just as
well. His stock drink at a stream which runs
near the barn. The cattle wuded into the stream
and drank, and then all returned tint this par
ticular cow, which seemed to indulge longer
than the rest. After a sufficient lime had
elapsed one of the boyiTtvent to drive her out.
Sticks and stones made no impression upou the
creature, and finally the bov waded out and
toon her by the horns to lead her out,, when iie
discovered that she was stone dead and stand
ing up as natural as life.
P. T. Barncm was recently offered SI,OOO for
the services of one of his Trakene stallions by a
Providence gentleman who believed that a cross
between those handsome circus r ng horses and
an American roadster would produce a perfect
saddle horse. The offer was declined, however.
Mr. liaraura s manager believed that by once put
ting one of t he stallions into stud service it would
ruin him for trick purposes. The half dozen
stallions of this breed which have been with the
Barnum show for a half dozen years came from
the stable of the Emperor William of Germany.
They are used by him nnd his staff for saddle
horses, ami for no other purpose. A bond had
to be given when the horses were sold to Bar
num that they should never be used for
breeding purposes in Europe. ’They may Is: so
used here, however, aud probably will be in
time. Th" horses are of no merit in point of
speed, so far as is known, but they have
stamina, and are ns stylish horses as any ever
bred, having much tno same action aiid car
riage as the .Arabian.
The construction of another Alpine tunnel
through the Simplon, asarival of the successful
St. Gothard, lias for some time been talked
about, in Paris. It is estimated that the Simplou
tunnel would shorten the time between Paris
and Central aud Southern Italy by three hours
as compared with the St. Gottiard line, aud the
gain over the Mont C'enis route would be still
greater. According to the representations, the
length of the contemplated tunnel would he
about twelve miles, and the whole work could
be accomplished in from four to six years; it
would be the longest tunnel in the world, and
require extraordinary provisions for its suitable
ventilation, though this objest could be attained
it is believed, by means of a horizontal air shaft
above the crown of the tunnel and running its
entire length, connecting by a series of vertical
shafts with t he atmosphere above the mountain
Pumping engines would not only keep the air
constantly renewed, but would draw off the
water which otherwise woiil i steadily accumu
late in the tunnel. The cost of this work is esti
mated at about. $16,000,000.
Last Skptkmbkr, Just before tbo Volunteer
raced the Thistle for the cup, Gen. Paine was
standing one evening in the corridor of the
Hoffman House, in New York, when be was ap
proached by a big-framed, full-bearded, slouch
hatted individual, who announced himself ns
Col. So-and-So from Arkansas. “General," he
said, "we don't go much on boats down our
way, and never see salt water, but if you let the
Britishers take that cup, me if we don’t
shoo! you." And with that be turned on his
heel and was gone. And on that, same dav
there was a crowd of several hundred gathered
ID the rotunda of the Southern Hotel in St,
Louis, and a sweltering crowd it, was, for that
was wtiat they call a “yaller day" in the Missis
sippi vailey; and when the Western Union bul
letins announcing the Volunteer's lead, were
pos ed, men who never sniffed sea air, and
couldn t tell a tiller from a topmast, Hung their
hats high in air uud cheered until they were
hoarse. But they talk's]'just as learnedly
about "outpointing and o itfooting" aud • eat
ing to windward ’ as though they hud been
rocked in t he cradle of the deep" from earliest
infancy. It, does beat nil how salt folks get out
ou those big fresh water streams.
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