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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Meetings— Stockholders Reppard Iron Com
pany.
Special Notices—letter from Mme. Rive-
King; As to Crew of Danish Bark Bertha;
Christmas Trees, Wm. Scheihing; As to Post
ponement of Departure of Steamer St. Nicholas;
< liristinas at Thunderbolt, M. J. Doyle, P. T.
P. C.
Cotton Reed Oil Wasted —Southern Cotton
( >i) Cos.
A Word of Warning— Hecker's Self Raising
Hour.
Kstii-l’s News Depot— Wm. Estill, Proprietor.
Cutlery—Palmer Bros.
Steamship Scuedcle*—Ocean Steamship Cos.;
Baltimore Steamship Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; For Sale; Personal; Strayed or Stolen;
Raffle; Photography; Miscellaneous.
Legal Notice— Demands against Milton S.
Hamlet’s Fatale.
Coffee—C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
Last Chance— L. &B.S.M. H.
( hriktmah Periodicals—Kstill's News Depot.
Wish All a Merrv Christmas—Cohen’s, Bar
nard and Broughton Streets.
Col. Nicholas Smith lias not yet been
called on to act as best man at another wed
ding.
Congressman Clements has gone to Ken
tucky to see his Christmas present, which
is said to be a chip off the old block.
Gen. Butler expects to prove that Parson
Downs is an innocent man. The General
expected to be Piesident, but his exuda
tions didn’t materialize.
Senator Riddleberger continues to cut his
tohaoco from the plugs of his brother Re
publicans. He hud better cut deep and long
while he has the chance.
Evidence accumulates that Mr. Frank
Hutton’s chief ambition just now is to lift
Mr. Blaine's scalp. Mr. Hatton had better
learn to eat crow. Ho will probably have
that diet before long.
Mr. Sam. Randall has been appointed to a
lucrative position in Kentucky, and Mr.
Watterson is pleased thereat. It is proper
to say that this is not Mr. Warn J. Randall,
but a former resident of Louisville.
Several people have lately concluded that
the faith cure does not cure. It may tie
that they were wanting in faith, or that
miracles are not performed in this day. In
stead of deliating the question, it would lie
well in case of serious illness to send for a
physiciau.
The ehromo business no longer draws
trade, and a Louisville merchant has
thought of an enlargement on It. He offers
to give a Christmas turkey to every person
who will buy sl2 worth Of goods from him.
Whether ho will be successful or not must
depend somewhat oil the size of the turkey.
Plymouth church received this year about
$28,000 pew rent. Since Mr. Beecher’s
death the trustees have feared a falling off
in receipts from this source, and have been
actively engaged in an effort to sell the pews
privately nt the present ligures. They have
about succeeded, aud the regulur public sale
will not take place.
The “overworked, hollow-eyed and ex
pectant officials" in the New York custom
bouse liave asked Jfairchild to let
them celebrate Christmas ou Monday in
stead of Sunday. Christmas is a legal hol
iday, aud the officials don’t understand how
to make a holiday out. of Sunday. Is this
because the saloons are closed on that day,
or because they are religiously inclined t
The Fish Commissioner, who accepted his
office without any salary whatever, is likely
to be one of the best paid officers of the
government. A bill is pending which fixes
his compensation at $5,000. It is even pro
posed to pay the widow of Prof. Baird
$50,0(10. The professor was Fish Commis
sioner a great many years without any
ualary. The government is getting liberal.
Marriage and Divorce Laws.
Henanir Dolph’s joint resolution, propos
ing a constitutional amendment on the '••ub
jeet of marriage and divorce, may not
command a great deal of attention from
this Congress. Indeed, it may not get a
strong grasp upon the Congressional mind
for several Congresses, but if it is judiciously
and forcibly urged, session after session,
the probabilities are that it will be passed
within a very few years. It required thir
teen years to get Congress to pass the inter
state commerce law. and Senator Blair's
educational bill has already been discussed
eight years. Horae of the best measures
ever passed by Congress were those which
were considered many years before being
finally acted upon.
The feeling is now against giving Con
gress power to legislate on marriage and
divorce, although it is apparent to thinking
men that the best interests of society would
be subserved by doing so. The States don’t
want to surrender any of their powers and
privileges, and there is a very strong senti
ment against any legislation which encour
ages centralization. The divorce evil is be
coming so great, however, that the Htates
and the opponents of centralization will be
willing, at no very distant day, to make con
cessions to check it
The divorce laws of no two States are
alike. The difference in these laws of the
various States, the conflicting decisions un
der them and the ignorance with regard to
them make it possible to palm off fraudu
leat divorces upon unsuspecting people, and
to secure legal divorces with comparitive
ease. A few days ago the New York Sun
devoted eight or ten columns to exposing
the methods employed to obtain bogus
divorces. From the facts which it pre
senter) it is Clear that hundreds, and per
haps thousands, of people are bigamists in
fa>’t, though they are not aware of having
violated any law. They were deceived into
believing that they were legally divorced.
There are so many laws bearing upon di
vorce, and the general belief is so strong
that in many of the .States a divorce can be
obtained without any trouble, and for al
most any cause, that bogus divorce lawyers
have little difficulty in finding dupes.
In some of the courts of some of the Htates,
genuine divorces are obtained altogether
too easily. Men and women not in
frequently find themselves divorced
who are not aware that divorce
proceedings bad lieen begun against them.
The consequence is that people seek divorces
who have no grounds for them. They be
come tired of the marriage yoke, or of
those to whom they are married, and as the
divorce court offers them the means of se
curing the lilierty they desire, they apply
to it.
The suffering, misery and crime which
can be properly charged to the divorce laws
can hardly be overestimated. The number
of homes which are broken up by them in
the course of a year, in different parts of
the country, must be very large. At the
present rate at which divorces are increas
ing, it will not be long before a very large
]>ereentage of people in all grades of society
will have figured in the divorce courts.
There is another reason why Congress
should legislate on marring) and divorce.
It is that if Utah is admitted Congress will
no longer have power to suppress iwlygamy
there, and that institution will flourish in
the new State without anything to restrain
it. The Mormon: pretend that they will
abolish it, but they are not to tie trusted.
If the constitution is amended in accord
ance with Senator Dolph’s resolution, po
lygamy will bo impossible and divorce will
be brought within healthy limits. The
divorce laws will be few in r umber, and
they will apply to the whole country. It
will be possible to obtain a divorce only for
a good cause, and there will be no such
thing as a bogus divorce. While, therefore,
there is much to tie said against Senator
Dolph’s resolution, there is more to be said
for it.
The Plumb-Butler Episode.
Senator Plumb said in a debate a day or
two ago that (Senator Butler of South Caro
lina, either asssumed to he a public censor,
or was a common scold. Tlio occasion of
this exhibition of temper on the part of Mr.
Plumb, was Mr. Butler’s criticism of the at
tacks which Mr. Plumb, Mr. Stewart, Mr.
Sherman, Mr. Teller and other Republican
Senators made upon the House and the Pres
ident’s message. Mr. Plumb said that the
President's message was all humbug, that
there was no surplus that need cause uneas
iness, aud that if there were the Houso was
not doing its duty by adjourning over the
holidays. He further said that if the Pres
ident hadn’t vetoed the river and harbor
bill, arid the dependent pension bill last
Congress there would not uow be any sur
plus.
Mr. Butler intimated that Mr. Plumb and
the other Republican Senators were playing
tho part of hypocrites, and that they were
simply making a disgusting exhibition of
themselves. Was he not right ? What ob
ject did Mr. Plumb hope tc attain except to
give a false impression to the country? Mr.
Plumb criticised the President for vetoing
the river and harbor bill, when, as a matter
of fact, he himself voted against that bill
and exerted himself to the utmost to defeat
it.
Mr. Butler may have failed in courtesy,
but he was close to the truth, and if he were
not as courteous as he should have been, he
is excusable, for it was difficult for him to
keep bis tongue civil and quiet in the pres
ence of so much affectation and hypocrisy.
The Marquis de Mores married the daugh
ter of a rich Wall street banker, and im
mediately formed such an attachment for
America that he determined to remain in
this country and furnish the people with
cheap beef. Accordingly he went to Kan
sas, after having interested a number of
wealthy New Yorkers with him, and estab
lished the Western Dressed Beef Company,
out of which he got a good deal of glory and
very little money. He did not understand
that there was really a difference between a
nickel and a S2O bill, and in due course of
time this country, represented by a Sheriff,
formed a reciprocal attachment for him.
In tho failure of the concern, no suspicion is
east upon his honesty, although
he used the company’s credit to
the amount of alxmt $50,000,
when the limit was $7,000. For some time
there were rather strained relations lie tween
him and his partners, who say he is simply
no manager, but his honesty is not to be
questioned. This is only one of the enter
prises founded and foundered in tho United
Htates by the Marquis, who has now gone to
India to shoot tigers.
Congressman Moffatt, of Michigan, whose
death was announced in our dispatches
yesterday, was 4(5 yeais of age, and was
serving Ills second term. His sickness began
with a carbuncle on his chin. Several days
before his death typhoid lever developed.
TIIF. MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1887.
To# Much Law Making.
The people of South Carolina are some
what stirred up over the prospect that the
Legislature will call a conrtitutional con
vention. The upper branch of that body
has adopted a resolution to call one. and
there is a probability that the lower branch
will adopt it.
There does not appear to be any jjrgent
demand for anew constitution. The chief
reasons tor calling one are that it will pro
vide for taking a census and for giving the
counties better governments. It is alleged
that there is already ample provision for
a census, aud that the county governments
are not so bad that they need to be tinkered
by a constitutional convention.
In nearly all the Htates there Is too much
of a disposition to change the organic law.
and too much legislation. A constitution
is scarcely given a fair trial before there is
a demand for anew one. Whenever the
jieople find that their Ktate and county
affairs are not being administered to suit
them they begin an agitation in favor of a
new constitution. They do not carefully
inquire whether the things of which they
complain are not due to the way the laws
are administered. They conclude at once
that the fault is with the laws, and not with
those who administer them. When they
get anew constitution they almost immedi
ately perceive that they have not got wbat
they were clamoring for, and in a little
while another constitutional convention is
called.
A constitutional convention costs money,
and a good deal of it. Huch a convention
seldom finishes the work intrusted to it
quickly. It fritters away its time until it
makes a pretty heavy drain upon the Htate
treasury, and its work, when finished,
seldom gives general satisfaction.
There are occasions when a State's con
stitution ought to be changed, but these oc
casions do not arise every ten or fifteen
years. IVhen a Htate has grown immensely
in wealth ana population, and when many
new industries have been established within
its limits, there may be good reasons for
amending its constitution, or even for
adopting anew one; but frequent changes
of its organic law can hardly promote its
prosperity or the happiness of its jieople.
Asa rule too much is attempted in State
constitutions. They should be brief instru
ments containing only general directions.
Everything else that is necessary for the
government of the people should be left to
the Legislature, and that body should confine
itself as closely as possibls to passing gener
al laws. County Commissioners anti munic
ipal Councils should have authority to deal
with purely local matters.
The dispatches say that Congressmen read
the report of the Kilrain-Smith fight with
lively interest. The Courier-Journal says;
“Even the largest man in the House, and the
man who has the least to say. Congressman
Barnes, of Georgia, wabbled through the
north door, and had no sooner got inside
before he greeted his colleague, Norwood,
with: ‘Did you read the account of the
prize fight!’ ‘Yes,’ responded Mr. Nor
wood, every word of it.’” Perhaps the
reason Congressmen were so deeply inter
ested in the fight was that they are expect
ing to have some lively fights of their own
about eight months hence. Their fights,
however, will not be confined to a ring.
They will cover whole districts.
The fraudulent divorce business flourishes
in New York. The Sun has been showing
how the public is imposed on by the divorce
agencies in that city. In many instances
the so-called divorces are forged, a few are
obtained in other States, notably Pennsyl
vania, and frequently husband and wife are
prevailed on to accept wbat is termed a
deed of separation, amounting to nothing in
law. The consequence is that many couples
imagine themselves divorced when in re
ality they are not It' New York would
emulate the example of Houth Carolina in
the matter of divorces, much of this trouble
would be averted and the divorce agents
would find their occupations gone.
The 500 Republicans who assembled in
Indianapolis last Tuesday did not show any
decided preference for Mr. Blame. It is not
easy to see bow they could. Blaine made
some severe strictures on Indiana justice,
or rather lack of justice, in 1885, and be
sides Indiana has herself a man whom she
wants to run next year. Ex-Senator Ben
Harrison has teen out of a job long enough
to satisfy the very reasonable cravings for
rest, and accordingly his henchmen were on
the ground and made matters quite lively.
The ex-Benator may be a very nice man,
but Indiana won’t be likely to name J,he
Republican candidate next year.
Congressman Carlton thinks the Georgia
press has not fully stated his position on the
tariff. He is a strong advocate of tariff re
form, and is in favor of taking the tax off
the necessaries of .life first of all; but he
also favors a repeal of the internal revenue,
because the necessity of that tax no longer
exists, and the measure is therefore unjust
and exacting. He says he and his constitu
ents also object to the tax because of the
manner and methoils of its collection, the
machinery therefor being oppressive and ob
noxious to the people. Does Mr. Carlton
want free whisky ?
Nude figures are very offensive to Mr.
Comstock and others, who are probably
right in calling for a reform in this line of
art; but while the proposed innovation
would make the sculptors happy, it would
be rather costly to the public to have to
keep their feminine figures properly clad ac
cording to the latest fashions. The seal skin
sacque would probably remain in style for
several seasons, but such things as the high
hat and the beaded ornament are apt to fall
into iunocuous desuetude.
It is feared that Boston will spend the
holidays iu sulking. A London letter says
the Prince of \Vales and his set are furious
because publicity has been given to tho
Prince’s visit to Sullivan’s boxing exhibition.
It was expressly stipulated, says the letter,
that this show-off before royalty was to be
kept secret. Bostonians can't conceive how
the Prince of Wales can be unwilling to
receive with open arms the prince of slug
gers. _____
The Thirteenth Senatorial district of Geor
gia is already stirred up by political excite
ment. Three candidates for Senator are in
the field, and the papers there have been for
some months past putting fuel uuder the
caldron. It is full early to bring politics to
a head. Can’t the press and jxilitieians let
the suffering people alone*
Senator Faulkner thinks he can afford to
bo generous with Mr. Lucas aud is seeking
to allay that gentleman’s disappointment by
having his expenses in Washington paid by
the government. Mr. Lucas’ expenses
amounted to about $2,000, and consist of
hotel bills, railroad faro, lawyer’s fees and
the printing of briefs.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Sherman Ahead in Ohio.
From the Cleveland Plaindealer <Dern.)
Tber>- is a bitter war going on in this Con
gressional District be:, w. e i the Blaine and Sher
man factions over the question of delegates to
the next National Republican Convention.
Hod. Amos Townsend is the leading Sherman
man in Cleveland, and his chances of being
elected one of the delegates seem to be ex
tremely bright.
Ovation to the Hon. Jake.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
The Hon. Jake Kilrain has done better than
was expected of bim by a not oversanguine
country. On bis return borne he will be greeted
with a reception such as Benjamin Franklin,
Henry Ward Beecher. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
KUhu B. Washburue. and other comparatively
eminent Americans may have dreamed of in
their time, but never’ experienced. Appa
rently they were not really representative
Americans.
Shattering an Old Sentimentalism.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal iDetn.)
Poetess Wilcox is right. Why should a poet
ess tly to nature rather than live in town, where
she can order a can of oysters at any moment*
if she wants birds, there are the sparrows. If
she wants trees, there are the shade-trees. If
she wants brooks, she can go to the bath-room
and turn ou the water. The murmur in the sup
ply pipe is often louder than the brook's. The
shade-t rees may lie decorated with attractive
show-bills, unknown to the country woodland.
The sparrows make as much noise as the most
exacting poetess could require. What we want
is town p.je.ts and poetesses, lex Mrs. Wilcox
keep her ideas before the people.
BRIGHT BITS.
A little boy being reproved on Sunday morn
ing for having a dirrv face retorted; “Well, I
wored dm face to Sun'ay ’cod, anyhow.’’—
Charlottesvillel Fa.) Chronicle.
Ate icher writes; “What will you charge to
publish an advertisement of a high school four
inches long:'' A high school four inches long
must lie such a curiosity that people will go ana
see it without any advertising. Exchange.
A writer in a November magazine asks; “Are
the lower animals approaching man?"’ Some
of the lower animals have frequently ap
proached Isiys in the vicinity of orchards, and
no doubt they would also approach man if he
were on the same errand as the boys.—Norris
town Herald.
Jones (meeting Smith, with whom he was out
the night before)—lia, me boy! Get home all
right*
Smith i gloomily)—Yes, but my wife wouldn’t
speak to me.
Jones (enviously)—Lucky fellow! Mine did.—
Boston Courier.
Judge (some years bence>- The sentence of the
com i is t let you lie bam sued for twenty years.
Anarchist—Thanks. Judge. Ig > mit the next
steamer.
Judge I have not finished, sir. You are to be
banished to a prohibition State. (Prisoner
faints.) — Omaha World.
Miss Blanche—Have you made any conquests
this summer?
Miss Lilliau Oh. yes: Mr. Jones proposed the
day lief ore we came away.
Miss Blanche—Doesn’t he pop the question in
th“ most aw kward manner imaginable?
They meet as strangers. —From Life.
Friend—Why. Wheeler, what a state you’re
in! Had an accidentr
Bicycler—Yes. slightly. In that race against
time yesterday I broke my machine, my head,
two fingers, a rib
F.—Hold on. for heaven’s sake! Was there
anything you didn’t break*
B. (sadly)—Yes, the record!— Tid Bits.
“I hear. Colonel, that your son is about to
take a vacation.”
“Yes. He has worked so long and steadily
in that he needs rest, and will take a
run to Canada.”
“He will, eh* Excuse me ”
“What's your hurry?”
“1 have some money iu the bank.” —Lincoln
Journal.
A tall Missourian called at the district
school, and, eyeing the teacher, sternly said:
"My boy Henry tells me you whipped him last
evening.”
“Yes," assented the teacher, edging toward
the door, “but lie deserved it, I assure you."
“And he says you used a rawhide on him?”
“Yes. sir, but ”
“And you slapped him with your hands as
well?”
“I did, but I assure you ”
“Assure nothin . Let me give you a pointer.
When von have to punish that boy use a club;
he doesn’t care a darn for rawhides,"— Nebraska
State Journal.
PERSONAL
Acoust Belmont won $21,000 with eight
horses this year.
Mh. Phelps, the American Minister to En
fjlaml, says the finest scenery he has found in
jlreat Britain is in the valley of the Dee.
The railroad train used by the Czar in his
travels is the same as was formerly used oy
Napoleon 111. It consists of twenty tars.
The contract for the erection ofjthe Hendricks
Monument at Indianapolis will be let Jan. 1, all
but -3.000 of the £2b,000 subscribed for the fund
having been raised.
According to the new city directory of Hart
ford, Conn., “Mark Twain, author.” and "Sam
uel L. Clements, author,” both live at No. 351
Farmington avenue. The Hartford Times re
marks: “Really, these Twain are one flesh.”
The very breathing, moving image of Mrs.
James Brown Potter got into a New York street
car Saturday at Fourteenth street and demurely
sat down. She was dressed magnificently, am'
her sea-green plush wrap, which reached to her
feet and was trimmed with splendid black fur.
caught at once the eye of every woman in the
ear. The owner's )>eaeby face, bright brown
eye, aristocratic nose and generally handsome
features were equally attractive to her mascu
line fellow passengers. Everybody has seen
people who draw while apparently deprecating
admiration. Things soon began to get uncom
fortable for the wearer of the sea green plush.
Women whispered to each other, men nudged
their elbows and finally a deaf man next to the
driver said in a distinctly loud voice: "James
Brown's trotter, you say y I didn't know' Brown
had a trotter.” Whereupon the fair unknown
stopped the ear in desperation, dived into a
florist's on Broadway, near Twenty-third street,
and gave an order for flowers to be sent to a
well known society leader, no other than herself.
F. W. Hoi.ix. who was abroad last summer,
tells of an incident at Moscow where he came in
contact with police regulations. Two letters
which were addressed to him were opened by
the police before they were delivered to him.
A copy of the Century magazine for July,
which had been sent to him by a friend, had the
article on Count Tolstoi and all the advert isc
meets trtm Oat. Being at a loss to undent and
what possible objection there could be to the
advertisements, Mr. llolls introduced himself at
police headquarters as an American traveler,
an<l mad" inquiry as to why his magaziue had
been mutilated. With the hope of gaining the
good graces of the official. Mr. Holls ventured to
suggest that there were numerous soap advertise
ments in the pai>er. and t hat he could under
stand from his observation that the importation
of soap might lie as dangerous as an equal
amount of dynamite. The humor of his sugges
tion was euttrely lost on the officer, and it was
with some difficulty that Mr. Holls persuaded
him that no offense was meant. The officer
then gave the information that the police ob
jection to the advertisements was that they con
taiued announcements of “irreligious becks.”
Any book is termed irreligious that is not of the
strictest orthodox Russian faith. Police sur
veilhance is extended to newspapers as well as
to magazines. Newspapers are not delivered tq
subscribers until twenty-four hours after their
arrival, and frequently have entire columns ob
literated with printer's ink by reason of the
censor's decision that news articles about Russia
are daugerous to the government.
Ex-Congressman Hernando D. Money, of
Mississippi is a somewhat disappointed man.
He was six years in Congress, and retired at
the opening of the Cleveland administration. It
was a sort of half understood thing ttiat he was
to have something nice from the incoming
President. Indeed, the Mississippi delegation
unanimously presented his name to Mr. Cleve
land as a lit man for the place of postmaster
I lenerai, and Senator Lamar went on rr, Albany
to advocate his friend's name before the incom
ing ex 'eutive. That was I he first time Mr,
Cleveland had e\er seen the long-haired states
man from the Southwest, and he took a great
liking to him. It was the beginning of the po
litical fortune which is likely to land him in the
cosy, comfortable chair on the bench of the Su
preme Court. He stayed three
Gays with the President elect, and
when he left Albany after honestly
and manfully urging Mr. Money's appointment,
the last answer he received from Ml ~Cleveland,
as b- Stood main the steps of the Governor's
Mansion at Alliany and said good-hv, was the
famous quotation from the courtship of Miles
Standish, “Why don't you speak for yourself,
Johnt Not long afterward lie vaaadvised that
he himself, without solicitation or suggestion
from any one, had lwen chosen for u place in
the Cabinet. He at first declined to accept the
place, but Mr. Money heard of the mutter and
manfully urged Mr. Lamar hot to refuse because
of auy |>ersoiial amt friendly feeling toward
him. And that is how Mr. lfernaudoD. Money
was disappointed, and how Lucius y. C. Lamar
became a Cabinet officer. I
Queen Victoria’s Scotch Friend.
From Modern Society.
That the present Lord Fife ibetter known as
Macduff i is her majesty's cherished pet is a se
cret to no one. This was shown in the most
marked manner some years age. A cer
tain American heiress desired greatly to go to a
court hall, and yet she bail not been presented.
The difficulty appeared quite insurmountable.
The Prince of Wales, when appealed to by the
fair foreigner, avowed he could do nothing by
direct influence, but would make it a personal
favor with the late Marquis of Hertford. •bo
was then the lord Chamlierlain. The noble
Marquis did his best, but failed, and sent the
following letter to Marlborough House: "I have
done my liest to meet the wishes of your royal
highness as regards the invitation to lie sent to
.Mrs. and Miss for the state ball to be given
on the ,b it have failed utterly 111 my at
tempt. If your royal highness would care to
speak to Lord Macduff on the subject it might
)<erlia|>s Ije arrang. d." The Prince took the
(lint, and in twenty-four hours the invitation ar
rived at the ladies' hotel iu Albemarle street, to
the great satisfaction of the ladies and the
amusement of the he r apparent who had thus
stumbled on an imperium in imperio.
A Chance Meeting.
from the Ro/rfon Globe.
How shall I look at him, how shall I meet him?
Can I lie dignified, can I be cold /
What shall the words be wherewith I shall greet
hun/
Has he forgotten the sweet days of old?
Not for the bliss that was mine for a season.
Not for the wealth that the wide world
contains.
Would I allow him to guess the one reason
Why one weak woman uu wedded remains.
How can I look at him: how can I hear him
Kpeaking words commonplace, civil and few?
How still my heart s beating when I draw near
hint.
How my emotions completely subdue?
Why must my lot bear this heavy sorrow?
Why has my life been so lonely and drear?
Why must I wearily dread each to-morrow?
Tiring so quickly of each passing year.
One woman's heartache is not worth the meas
uring;
One woman’s sorrow is trivial and small;
One woman's happiness not worth the treasur
ing;
One woman's heart is not thought of at all.
A Californian who ctuck to the Truth.
from the Chicago Tribune.
"Then you are an old ( alifornia miner,’’! said
to a man who was talking very loud as we sat
in the office of a Dead wood hotel.
"Yes. sir; yes, sir; one of the Argonauts, sir.
Always lived in California till 1 came here to
look after my interest in the Homestake mine,
sir."
"Were you one of the '49-ers?"
"No. sir, I wasn't I didn't reach California
till 1850.”
Ahl I should think that was near enough so
you could stretch it a little and say you got
there in 49."
"I could if 1 wanted to make a liar of myself,
but I don't sir! I'm a man of my word, sir, and
even if I was going to lie I wouldn't lie about a
little thing like that!”
I was somewhat crestfallen, and after he had
stepped out suggested to the proprietor of the
hotel that the Californian was the first from
mat State of his age that 1 ever met who did
not claim that lie reached there in ’49.
“When did he tell you he went there?” asked
the proprietor.
"In 1850 He said he wouldn't lie ahout it for
worlds—it does me good to see a Californian at
last who can tell the truth on that point.”
"Yes; well, you haven't seen one yet. To my
certain knowledge the first time that old fellow
struck California was in <l7, when he came down
froln Vancouver Island, where he went three or
four years before to avoid the draft.”
Probably the Most Beautiful Dinner
Ever Given.
From the boston Herald.
■Washington, Dec. 9.—The most elegant of the
long list of brilliant entertainments given in
honor of the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain was the
dinner tendered him by Secretary and Mrs. Whit
ney. The arrangements for the table, for what
may aptly be termed a white and gold dinner,
were in the perfection of taste. The heavy
white damask was strayed with the most delicate
tracery of fern leaves. Down the centre of the
table was a broad, elegan! scarf of cream white
satin richly embroidered in gold and fringed at
either end. In the middle of this was a large,
curiously-shaped bowl of smooth frosted glass,
on which in relief were vines and flowers in
gold. This was heaped with Puritan roses and
maiden’s hair fern. At either end of the scarf
in tall French cahdelabra were wax candles
under globes of gold lace finished about tha
edge with a fringe of white silk.
Beyond these again were small epergnes of
gold, holding peppermint drops and pink and
white bonbon*. The cut-glass decanters were
in circular stands of gold, with an open work
pattern of grapes and vine leaves encircling
them. The individual salt cellars, oyster forks
and knives used at dessert were of gold. The
finger bowls were of Bohemian glass in crim
son, blue and gold, and rested upon doylies of
fine white linen, on which, embroidered in white
siiK and outlined in gold, were floral designs.
In the deep recess window of the dining-room
was a tall stand of ebony and gold, filled with
growing ferns of all varieties. Upon the wall
above the buffet liaDgs the famous piece of
tapestry, worked in figures and designs typical
of the progress of the human race from the
time of the creation to the flood, and worked in
one of the convents on the Continent in 1525.
Not Encouraging to China Painters.
From the China Decorator.
“You say the price of this beautiful hand
painted dinner set is $175?”
“Yes, madam."
“And the price of the plain set of the same
ware is sl7l. Only $4 difference?”
"Yes, madam."
“Then, how can that lie real hand-painting?
Surely it must cost more than $ 1 to decorate a
set like that. The figures are exquisite."
Both dinner sets were of Limoges ware. They
were displayed in a Broadway crockery house.
The decorated set had delicate figures traced on
each of the hundred or more pieces.
"I assure you, madam, that it is genuine
hand-painting," he replied. "The slight dif
ference in price does not arise from the cheap
ness of the painting. It comes from the high
ness of the tariff.”
“Well, I thought so," said the lady. “I've
done some iiainting on china, and I know such
beautiful work as that could never be had for $1
a set.”
“Just as I thought, too," said the dealer,when
the lady had gone. "She is one of them.”
“One of wliat?"
“The women with the china decorating craze.
I told a little fib about the tariff, or, rather,
stretched the meaning. It is our tariff on cus
tomers and uot the customs tariff that makes
the small difference in price. We charge within
Ia trifling amount of as much for plain Limoges
| and other high grade chinas as we do for the
richly decorated sets, simply to keep the plain
sets out of the reach of persons,principally wom
en, by the way, who otherwise would buy
them and make their own hand painted decora
tions. Few persons can tell real art work from
daubs on chiua any more than they can on can
vas. If we gave the china-decorating cranks a
chance we'd soon have the market flooded with
real Limoges ware hand-paiuted by home tal -
ent. By making the plain setsalmost as expen
sive as the imported hand-painted sets we shut
out these amateurs. This course is pursued by
the trade generally."
Oerster’s Loss of Voice.
Interview with Patti in Few York Herald.
Mme. Patti, after au exchange of compli
ments with the Herald'* envoy, expressed deep
regret at learning of Mme. Gerster's misfor
tune.
When asked how it happened that so young a
singer as Mme. Gerster should lose her vocal
powers so early, Mme. Patti replied with geu
uine sincerity.'
“It is not for me to say what I think about it,
for it is a rather delicate matter for me to speak
of."
“But,” said the correspondent, “it is now a
subject of public comment. There can be no
harm in saying what you think of the matter.”
After a moment's hesitation Mme. Patti said:
“You know mere arc only a few singers who
have brought children into the world and who
have l>eeri able to retain their vocal powers.
Grisi did, for one. I know; but it is always at a
risk. When Mme. Gerster’s first child wan born
there were no unfortunate results, but I think
the birth of her second child has had its effects
and impaired her voice.”
"Do yoi think," asked the correspondent,
"Mine. Gerster can ever regain her voice?"
"No," she said, “I do not. I don’t believe hers
can ever he restored.”
“What Is all this I bear," said the correspond
ent. “about t’ampanini’s voice being impaired?
Is it because he is getting Ola?”
"Yes,” said Mme. Patti. “Campaninl is grow
ing old, and it is quite natural that his voice
should change somewhat."
"How does It happen, Mute. Patti, that your
voice retains all its strength and sweetness?
You have been siuging longer than Campaninl
has."
"I take excellent care of myself," she re
plied.
“What shall we do if all our favorites are going
to vanish?" asked the Herald representative.
“Mme. Nilsson’s voice is as good as ever," re
plied Mme Patti, “only she prefers not to sing.
Then 1 bear Mile. Arnoldsou, who Is young and
pretty, has a remarkably sweet voice.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A needle, which ran into the foot of George
Davidson, of Mitchell, Canada, nine years ago,
has worked its way up to his thigh, where it is
giving him a good "deal of pain.
Ax ihweHie i/xxjmotive has just been con
structed at a Paris foundry. Its builder pre
dicts that it will realize an approximate speed
of 93 miles an hour. A trial trip is to be made
in the near future.
Probably $250,000 has been sunk in the sink
ing of gas wells in Kentucky, yet not a foot of
natural gas is being utilized in the Mate save at
the Brandenburg Salt Works, where it has been
doing good service for twenty-two years.
In London during the seventeenth century,
when the population was only 1,000,009, the
mortality rate amounted to 44 to every 1,000,
while now. with a population of nearly 5,000,000,
the mortality only amounts to 91 for every 1,000.
Thr Baroness Burdett-Coutts and other phil
anthropic persons in London are about to estab
lish. it is said, a scheme to provide workshops
furnished with sewing machines where poor
seamstresses can go and have the use of the
machine at a very low charge.
A singular accident occurred recently in one
of the silver mines at Freiburg, Germany.
While two miners were engaged iu boring, they
struck a subterranean basin of water, from
which a jet was thrown up in such abundance
ami such force that both men could not escape
quick enough, and were drowned.
A Do. Barnado in Fdlnburg is devoting him
self to the work of securing homes in Canada
for destitute boys and girls in his own country.
He has already started a tow n on a tract of 4,700
acres of land in Manitoba, which he calls Vic
toria Regina, and will populate it with young
emigrants. It is to be ruu on the system of an
industrial farm.
A man living near York Pa., started to move
the other day, and loaded ail his household
effects upon a wagon. He had not proceeded
far with the load before it caught tire and furni
ture, bedding and wagon were totally destroyed
in the middle of the road. The fire is supposed
to have caught from a pipe which one of the
men on the wagon was smoking.
While bogus dynamite bombs and cartridges
have been quite the fashion lately, two genuine
articles came to light early in Ihe week, one in
Mount pleasant, Pa . and the other in Toledo.
O. The latter had been placed in front of the
residence of General Manager Ferris, of the
Toledo and Ohio Central railroad, and when dis
covered was lighted and ready to explode.
A Philadelphia grocer who had three bams
stolen from hi* store wrote and pasted up a
paper which read as follows: "I know who stole
the three hams from in front of my store. They
are worthless to any one but myself. If re
turned in twenty-four hours, no arrest." When
his clerk opened the store the next moruing the
hams hung outside. They were made of saw
dust and were only for show.
Southern Japan possesses a Bishop, 32
European missioners, 50 catechists. 13 Nuns of
the Holy Child Jesus, and 14 Sisters of St. Paul
of Chartres. The mission comprises 16 dis
tricts, 87 Christian settlements, 41 churches or
chapels, a seminary w ith 12 pupils. 19 schools
with 008 pupils, 6 ornhanages, 7 girls’ schools
and 3 pharmacies; 1667 baptisms, of which 989
are adults, have been administered during
1885-86.
An old woman who has just died at San An
tonia, Zacatecas, Is said to have had quite a ro
mantic history. It is said that formerly she
(sirsued the unlawful avocation of a highway
robber. She used to mount on horseback and
stop the stage, pistol in hand, and several times
succeeded in robbing the passengers. She al
ways eluded justice, but lately, when railroads
were built in the State, she abandoned her un
lawful calling and retired to private life.
Jack McCloy, the noted Niagara Falls guide,
accomplished another of his daring feats last
week by removing an advertising sign on one
of the small islands above the falls, which the
Reservation Commission has long wished re
moved. McCloy crept through the water that
was rushing along at a twenty-five mile rat*
w ith the aid of a spike and rope to the island.
It is stated that Jack wili be presented with a
medal for saving the lives of several persons by
the government.
One of the peculiarities of the natives of South
Africa is their aversion to the use of water for
external purpose diming dry weather, especially
when tney are in perspiration. They avoid
bathing except during heavy rains, when they
take advantage of the opportunity for purposes
of bodily cleanliness. Their reasons for so doing
are that frequentablutiocw debilitate the system
and render it incapable of withstanding the local
climate and that very frequently baths are fol
lowed by malarial fever or cutaneous eruptions
over the joints.
Col. Zeb Ward, of Little Rock, Ark., v ho has
been Warden of three State Penitentiaries, de
clares that he was the last man to pay for a
negro slave in this country, and that was the re
sult of a suit brought against him a few years
ago by a woman slave whom he wished to set
free, but who remained with him during a long
dispute in the courts regarding her ownership.
She sued for remuneration for six years’ ser
vice after the emancipation act and gained a
verdict. Colonel Ward says that in making out
the draft for the amount found he worded it:
"To pay for the last negro that will ever be paid
for in this country.”
There is an exhibition of sewing machines
at the Royal Aquarium, London, where En
glish, American and German sew-ing machines
are being shown. It is the first exhibition of the
kind, but will lie repeated, it is said, in Boston,
Mass., and subsequently in Paris. There are
sixty-nine patents shown, ami they include
maiiy novelties. A specimen of the first sewing
machine ever made, reproduced from the orig
inal specifications of Thomas Saint, of London,
an inventor of the last century, is there, and
with it are exhibited modern machines sewing
at the rate of 2,000 stitches a minute. The low
est-priced one is $1 37 and the highest $250.
When I. C. Libby was 18 years old he lived on
his father’s farm near Troy, Me., and was sidk
and lame. One day a sheep buyer bought
lambs of his father at $3 apiece. The boy
thought that if the buyer could make money at
that he could do better, for he could buy lambs
for $2 50. So he borrowed SIOO of his father
and Utiliz'd off on foot buying lambs. In five
mouths he cleared SSOO and laid the foundation
of the big cattle business that has given him
the title of the "Maine Cattle King.” His four
sous are learning the same business, but they
have a better start than their father had. The
other day he handed bis youngest son, aged 14,
SI,OOO and sent him to buy stock.
The United States is the largest consuming
country of raisins in the world and reliable
authorities estimate the consumption at about
2.000,000 boxes of about 20 pounds each, which
at an average of $2 per box shows an expendi
tiu'e of $4,000,000 per annum for one article in
the dried fruit line. Tile amount referred to
represents say 1,000,000 boxes of Valencia,
750.000 boxes California, 200,000 boxes Malaga
and 100,000 boxes Smyrna. The crop of tne
world for the present season is estimated in
round numbers at 6,500,000 boxes, about as
follows: Valencia, 8,000,000 boxes; Malaga,
60i>,000: California. 750.000, and Smyrna,
2,000.1X10 The shipments of Valencia raisins to
the United States to date are 500,000 boxes.
Instantaneous photography is no longer a
question to be determined by study and experi
ment, but has assumed the place of an accom
plished aud familiar fact. One of the most in
teresting achievements in this direction, as de
scribed In a London paper, originated in the
question as to whether the upper part of a
wheel of a vehicle when in motion travels faster
than the lower part. In determining this mat
ter liy instantaneous photography, the artist
took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en
route, and in this photograph, while the lower
ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the
ground are not perceptibly unsharpencil by the
motion, tbo tops of the upper spokes show an
augular motion corresponding to about ten de
grees. The photograph in this case most suc
cessfully expresses the fact that the wheel it
represents is in rapid motion.
Mrs. (5. P. Baiucy, wife of the editor of the
Utica (N. Y.) Observer, has invented a contriv
ance for the convenience and comfort of the
sick, which is very highly spoken of in the hos
pitals where it has been tried. Two iron sock
ets are attached firmly to theshlesof a bedstead
by screws, and into these arc fitted short, poles,
and between the [wles is susp -tided a horizontal
bnralso fit ted into clamps mid adjustable to any
height übove the imtient lying on the bed. From
this bar hang a pair of strong straps, with grips,
and these can lie moved from right to left at
will lly grasping those straps the sick man
can utilize the strength of his arms to lift him
self up, to change tils position, to turn over mid
to allow the bedding to be changed. There are
a variety of attaclimentsito the invention which
extend Its usefullness indefinitely. One
is a rest for the leg, in which a
broken limb can bo placed while it is being
dressed. It is only necessary to un
screw the sockets attached to the tsidstead and
change their location, to utilize this. Another
is a small table for medicine, book, anything a
patient wants, within immediate reach. An
other is a cut tain-rod, likely to be especially
serviceable, in hospital wards to avoid a draught,
to shut out the light, or to afford a degree of
privacy.
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137 BROUGHTON STREET.
LADIES' HANDKERCHIEFS.
*1 -11 DOZEN ladies’ White Hemstitched
■ iii' Linen Handkerchiefs, wide and narrow
hems, from 10c. to 75c. each.
500 dozen Ladies Colored Bordered Hem
stitched Linen Handkerchiefs, all different
styles, from 10c. to 75c. each,
150 dozen Ladies' Mourning Hemstitched Lin
en Handkerchiefs, very choice patterns, from
10c. to 75c. each.
75 dozen Ladies' White and Fancy Embroid
ered Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, exquisite
styles, from 25c. to 75c. each.
100 dozen Children s Colored Bordered Hem
stitched Linen Handkerchiefs, all new designs,
at lCc. each.
GENTLEMEN S HANDKERCHIEFS.
125 dozen Gentlemen's White Hemmed Linen
Handkerchiefs from 10c. to 35c. each.
200 dozen Gentlemen’s White Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs from 20c. to 75c. each.
175 dozen Gentlemen's Colored Bordered Fine
Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, all new de
signs, from 20c. to 50u. each.
WHITE SILK HANDKERCHIEFS.
100 dozen White Hemstitched Silk Handker
chiefs, wide and narrow hems, in pure and
cream whiter from 50c. to $1 50 each.
75 dozen Pure and Cream White Brocaded
Silk Handkerchiefs from 50c to $1 50.
COLORED SILK HANDKERCHIEFS.
500 dozen Fancy Colored Silk Handkerchiefs,
in all the latest designs and oeiorings, from 50c.
to $1 50 each.
Ladies' White Embroidered Aprons from f 1
to $2 each.
Ladies' Black and Colored Kid Gloves.
A full line of Pocketbooks from 10c. to $1
each.
A large assortment of Gentlemen's Neckwear,
comprising all the latest novelties, from 25c. to
$1 each.
Children’s Fancy Scarfs and Bows at 25c. each.
SILK UMBRELLAS.
Ladies' and Gentlemen’s Gloria Twilled and
Puritan Silk Umbrellas, in Gold, Silver, Oxided
mountings.
Ladies’ Mourning Umbrellas, in Puritan and
Gloria Silks.
HOSIERY, HOSIERY.
A full line of Ladies’ Unbleached Balbriggan
Hose, in all grades and sizes, from $3 to $9 INT
dozen.
Full lines Ladies’ Colored Cotton and Lisle
Hose.
Ladies’ Black Cotton, Lisle and Silk Hose
from 25c. to §1 50 a pair.
COLGATE’S EXTRACTS AND TOILET SOAPS.
We have just received a, complete assortment
of Colgate's Celebrated Extracts, Toilet Soaps,
Powder and.Vaselines.
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All others, similar are imitation
Insist uponthe Exact Label and Top'.
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MEDICAL,.
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them r.-gulur but leaves them in worm
condition tlmn before. The liver It
the the neat of trouble, and
THE REMEDY
must not on it. TiiU'n Liver Pill*
ilirvctlv on Mint ouulnjf a frt'<
flow of bile, without which, the bow
elaurc always ronstiputed. Price,
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