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4 Clic Porning Hctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FHICAY, UKC'EJIBER 2:5, 1887. Registtmed at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in lie year, ami is serv ed to subscribers in the tity, t.y newsdealers and carriers, on tbeir own ac count, at 26 cent* a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, $1 00: three months, $2 00; six months, $o 00; cne year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 (X); six mouths, $4 00 one yea: - , $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and 'Saturdays, thrdS months, $1 26: six months. $2 60; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, bj/ mail, one year, 52 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Kemit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency Rent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Fetters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, da” Advertising rates made known on anpilcation. The Morning News in the City. On and after Jan. 1, ISBB, the Morning News will begin, on its own account, the City Delivery of its Daily Morning Issue. The City Delivery will be in charge of a competent Superintendent, and will be un der the direct supervision of the Business Office. The delivery in those parts of the City , distant from the Publication Office will be made by wagon, and thus place the paper in the hands of subscribers at the earliest moment after leaving the press. The City Delivery of the Morning Hews will be os efficient as mrney and experience can make it, aud nothing will be left undone to have the service unexceptional. None but competent carriers will be employed, and every attention will be given to make the delivery satisfactory to the readers of the Morning News in whatever part of the City they may reside. The tern * for the Daily, delivered every day, in any part of the City, are as follows: For one week 25c For two weeks 50c For one month .$ 1 00 For three months 2 50 For six months 5 00 For twelve months 30 00 All subscriptions payable in advance, and no paper will be delivered beyond the time paid for. Special attention will be given to Weekly and Monthly Subscriptions, and subscribers can make arrangements, if they desire, to pay subscriptions at their resi dences, avoiding the inconvenience of call ing at the Business Office. 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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