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4 ®k|ponung lottos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. MONDAY. DECEMBER SO. ISB7. Registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. Tb<‘ Morning News hi published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, he newsdealers and carrier*, on their own ae count, at 25 rents a week $1 00 a month, $5 UO for fix months and $lO 00 for one year. The VoftMNO News, by mail, one month, $1 00: three months, $2 50: aix mouths, $5 OJ; ere year. $lO 00. The Morniwo News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $8 00. Tbe Morning News. Tri-Weekly Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and 'Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. Tbe Weekly News by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscript ions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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None but competent carriers will be employed, and every attention will bo given to make the delivery satisfactory to the readers of the Morning News in whatever part of the City they may reside. Tbe terms for the Daily, delivered evgry day, in any part of the City, are as follows: For one week 2fic For two weeks Mo For one month $ 1 00 For three months. - 250 For six months 5 00 For twelve months ... 10 00 AH 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 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, L O. O. F.; Calanthe Lodge No 28, K. P. • Special Notices —Closing of City Offices; As to Applications for “Theatre Parties” Tickets to the Mendelssohn Concerts; As to Extra Train on City and Suburban Railway; Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. Amusements— Miss Louise Balfe In “Dagmar” at the Theatre. SmcRBAN Schedi-le— Coast Line Railroad. Cheap Colton Advertisements—Fur Rent; Strayed or Stolen; Miscellaneous. As was expected, Senator Sherman denies ■ that he has withdrawn from the contest for the Republican nomination next year. What is the matter with the Peru (Ind.) postmasters!)ip* It pays $2,000 a year, and yet nobody has applied for it. Are the peo- ; pleof the Hoosier State not haukering after office any longer! Senator John Sherman still pretends to think his chances for being President are excellent, but he will eventually have to confess that no man who calls Florida the least progressive of the Southern States cau hope to govern this great and glorious Re public. Senator Don Cameron is being brought forward for the Presidency by some of his Philadelphia admirers. If Pennsylvania wants a Cameron to occupy the White House, what’s the matter with ex-Senator Simon Cameron? He is very old, but his sou Don can’t begin to conqisre with him in l)prd common sense and political judgment. The report of New York’s Secretary of State for the past year shows a small in crease of crime and a considerable increase in convictions in that State. Crime is apt to grow with population, and altogether the report is not discouraging. Crime is rampant in Pennsylvania to a greater ex tent, perhaps, than in any other of the great States. _______________ Tammany Hall’s attitude towards Mr. Cleveland is very different now from what ft was four years ago. Then it was antag onizing him with great vigor; now it i3 among the foremost of those who approve and uphold his actions. This shows that Tammany HaU is patriotic enough to lay aside private prejudices for the general pub lic welfare. “I noticed one thing about the House while Mr. Blount was speaking, and that was that it was quiet, giving him the com pliment of attention, and this the House rarely accords,” says a Washington cor respondent. Col. Blount is the kind of man to command attention. When he speaks, he says something worth listening to, and when there is no occasion to speak, he keeps silent. Congress needs more members like Mr. Blount. That the best thing Georgians can do is to remain in Georgia is an oft-told truth, and those Georgians who have moved to Kansas no doubt realizjd its force during last week’s terrible blizzard* in their adopted home. There are some pretty cold days in this State, and everybody is not amassing a fortune, but fos an all-round good place to live in, the Empire State of the South is ahead of anything between this and the North Pole. The Jacksonville News-Herald wants the entire press of the South to unite in a sys tematic effort to induce the United States Geological Survey to make a thorough in vestigation into the mineral deposits of tin Southern States. It says the Survey lias heretofore confined its efforts in the main to developing the West,. This is probably true, and it is equally true that the South, which pays hor proportionat e |irt of money for carrying on thhswork. lias not received her port of the benefits. The recent Pied mont Exposition was an eye-opener to people iio did not know how rioh the South ii in mnucluk. Results of the Wool Tariff. The manufacturers of woolen goods in this country are finding it more difficult each year to compote with the European manufacturers of the same kind of goods. In New England quite a number of the woolen mills have been closed, and there is not much doubt that others will have to be closed if tbe tariff on wool is not abolished or greatly reduced. A prominont manufacturer in Hartford, Conn., said a few days ago that he was not a free trader by any means, but that he was in full sympathy with the views expressed by the President in his message. Free wool, ha said, would benefit wool growers in this country more than it wouli harm them be cause, as a general thing, the amount which they jay for woolen goods, above what they would have to pay if wool were ad mitted free, is greater than tbe amount which they receive for their wool above what they would receive if there were no duty upon it. The finer. wools are not grown in this country to any considerable extent and a very large amount of the coarser wools is imported. Asa rule the price of wool lu this country Is about 10c. a pound higher than it is in Europe. This tremendous ad vantage in favor of the woolen manufac turers of Europe cannot tie very well over come by the woolen manufacturers of this country. It is true that an effort is made to protect the woolen manufacturers of this country by a duty on woolen goods, but the effort is not wholly successful Last year the value of the woolen goods imported was over $40,000,000. From this it appears that our home manu facturers of woolen goods are not only not able to supply their home market, but they are shut out of all foreign markets. They cannot send their goods to eit her Canada or South America because the European manu facturers can undersell them. If American manufacturers could get the raw material at the same prices at which the European manufacturers get it they would bo able to supply their home market, and eotrpete successfully with European manufacturers in foreign markets. The re sult would be that the manufacture of woolen goods in this country would greatly increase. There would lie employment for many thousands more workmen than at present, and their wages would be about what they are now. It is true that rather better wages is paid in this country than in Europe, but the difference is not so great that the advantage which it gives the European manufacturer could not bo over come. It is not improbable that the wool grower would get about the same prices for his wool that he does now, because if this coun try became a free buyer in the marfets of the world, the prices of wool would undoubt edly advance, and even if they did not he would still be better off without the tariff because of the lower prices at which he would be able to purchase necessary woolen articles. It is quite certain that the wool tar iff is ruining the woolen manufacturing industry of this country. The woolen manufacturers are demanding relief of some kind. Thous ands of operatives have been thrown out of employment lately. Isn't the wool tariff rather costly protection? Investments in the South. The country has lately heard a good deal about anarchism, communism aud social ism, but it is gratifying that these isms do not flourish to any great extent in the South. The labor troubles and the doings of tbe An archists are almost wholly connected with other sections. No doubt this state of affairs has been an embarrassment to busi ness in the sections where it existed. Chicago must have suffered when public interest was fixed on the trial anl execution of the bomb-throwers, and private homes were not alone in their uneasiness lest some method of reveuge should be attempted hv the friends of the condemned men. The labor strikes in New York, Philadelphia and other large cities have injured both employers and em ployes, and have produced a very unsettled feeling in business, in addition to bringing want and suffering to thousands of working men and inconvenience to the wealthier classes. What is the moral of this? Simply that men having money to invest had bettor put it in the South, where they will not be troubled with strikes and dynamite. It is not likely that such a condition of things as exists in the North and West will ever exist in the South. There may be some outcrop pings of it, but tne different classes hero have too much to bind them together to afford anarchism much encouragement. Besides, the South presents a tempting field for investment. It has been said so often aud so tamely as to become a mere figure of speech that the South is the garden spot of the world, but we venture to repeat it with the hope that its significance will lie more deeply studied. The South is being built up, and her growth is creating astonishment, but she can stand to grow faster. There are vast possibilities waiting to be taken ad vantage of by men of means aud energy, and it is gratifying that this fact is gradu ally becoming recognized. Thu has been good weather to talk aliout overshoes, and the New York Sun has been discussing that subject in its usual interest ing way. It says a tremendous responsi bility rests upon the overshoe makers, as the health and life of millions of people de pend directly on the honesty of the product which they manufacture and sell. Shoddy, rotten overshoes, it says, mean wet feet, fever and congestion, acute rheumatism, pneumonia hud il uth, and yet it is well nigh impossible to procure for love or money in the open market a pair of sound, honest, rubber overshoes, the entire manufactured product being confined to a cheap article tlint is made for sale, not for use, and yielils to the weather like pasteboard. The treach erous humbugs crack and yawn and split open, aud every crevice, big or little, is largo enough for death to creep iu. The Sun declares (hat this is no joke. If what it says Is true, the matter certainly does not call for very great mirth. —. . ■ ■ • , ■ The New York Graphic's Christmas troe contains some very appropriate presents. Grover Cleveland is presented with the White Honse for 1888; James O. Blaino is given au elephant in the shape of the Re publican party, or the Republican party is given an elephant in the shape of James G. Blaine, it is hard to tell which; Samuel J. RandaU is presented Moth a hobby .horse labelled “Protection,” and J. B. Foraker has a dired-bare garment dyed in blood. Mr. Chamlierlain’s 'present is a big fish, Mr. Gould’s is a globe, and Mr. Dana’s a bottle of vitriol. Ingersoll’s Is the only inap propriate gift. lieing an angel; but it may lie that the angel hails from the lower legions. John Sherman gets nothing. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1887. Ohio and Sectionalism. The fact that sectionalism seems to have a stronger hold in Ohio than In any Stiitd is significant. It suggests several things. One is that Ohio is very much be hind the times, and another is that the well tieing of the Republican party in that State is dependent to a great degree upon keejAig alive the animosities of the past. There is cause to believe that both of these conclu sions have some foundation. That the peo ple of Ohio can be influenced bv the glaring misstatements of Foraker, Sherman and some of the Republican papers is proof that they nro either a very ignorant set of people, or are- allowing themselves to be led by the nose by a group of politicians whom they know to lie wrong. The war came to an end some twenty-three years ago, and the bloody shirt has almost censed to beau effective weapon in political campaigns; but here is a State saying by Her vote that the war is still going on, a;.d that it is the duty of the people of Ohio to hate the South and to save the Union by voting the Republican ticket. Were the bloody shirt not worth a considerable num lier of votes to the Republican party it would be laid aside. The truth is that when sectionalism in Ohio flies, the Republican party there will receive a shock that will go a long way to ward placing it in the same coffin with the bloody shirt Foraker and Sherman know this, and they ding to the bitter past with the tenacity of a bull dog. New York is in striking contrast to Ohio. Col. John R. Fellows, who was recently elected to one of the most important offices in New York city, was an officer in the Co nfederate army; and yet even tho Tribune , one of the most partisan of the Republican papers, did not allude to the fact during the cam[iaign, because there was no polit ical capital to be made out of it. New York is the most progressive of the North ern States, and t*o better evidence- of her liberality can be given thau her refusal to accept, malicious falsehoods for the truth, and to resurrect the past. When a well known Georgian preached a reunited coun try in New York he received the greatest ovation of the day; when another weU known Georgian preached the same doctrine in Ohio, the Re publican leaders and press heaped upon him nil manner of personal abuse. It is true tlif t the first of these speeches was made at a time when there was no political excite ment, but the fact that Gov. Gordon went on his mission of peace to Ohio, ami not to New York, shows that he was needed more in the one State than in the other. The spectacle may be termed Ohio is a State of too great possibilities to” be looking beck twenty years. It is high time the light was dawning upon her, and that she was taking her position with other liberal and progressive States. Where Reform is Needed. The hardships suffered by the sewing women in New York have lately been brought prominently before the public by the newspapers. A state of affairs has been presented which ought to appeal so forci bly to the better impulses of employers as to bring about some relief for these poorly paid and hard working toilers whose earn ings barely enable them to ek e out an existence. The woman who, for a mere pittance, plies her needle all day, and even late into the night, finds tbe path of honest toil a thorny one, and her experience is ren dered more bitter by the reflection that while her .skill with tbe needle is bringing her only a mite, it is adding many dollars to her employer's puise. The term “white slave,” as applied to her, expresses very well the condition of the class of workers to which she belongs. On the other hand, take the picture of opulence and ease presented in the da.ly lives of the rich men of New York, who have their magnificent houses, their famous picture galleries, their private yachts, Iheir stables of fast hones and their luxurios of every description, and whose chief occupation, in many instances, Is to find a way of spending their prinoe'y incomes. Here Is an example: An unmarried man with a yearly income rang ing from $20,000 to $30,000 has no business at all, but devotes his intellect entirely to devising means of spending the money that flows in upon him. His apartments consist of several elegantly furnished rooms, a fortune is annually squandered on dress, and every pleasure that money can com mand is brought within his grasp. This man’s income is not an uncommon one. There are those who could buy him out many times. It is true that the money so lavishly spent helps the toilers by afford ing them occupation, but it is too often the case that the middle-man gets the great portion of the benefit from it by utilizing the skill and genius of wage-workers with out adequately remunerating them. The Tallajioosa Journal accuses the New York Herald wrongfully in saying that that paper has entered upon a general war on the prosperous cities of the new South. “Two weeks ago,” says the Journal, “it opened fire on Birmingham, Ala., and tho South in general, followed by an attack ou Tallapoosa, and, we learn, is preparing ar ticles on all the leading progressive cities of this section.” Whether tho Herald was right or wrong in its forecast of Talla poosa’s future is a question that time alone will settle. It is quite certain, however, that that paper is an 1 has beoti one of tbe mast liberal to the South that is published outside of this section. It is liberal in its political views, and has repeatedly shown its interest in Southern progress. In short, it is one of the best friends the South has. Cnn’t the Street and Lane Committee strain a point and coutinue the proposedas pha t paving on Bull street from State street to the Park; If the sidewalks were widened to the standard width, and grass parkings made so as to reduce the carriage way to twenty-five or thirty feet, the work would not cost the city a very largo sum. It would give Savannah an avenue in which every citizen would f<>el a pride. Bull street’s beautiful little squares and rows of stately trees make it one of tho handsomest streets in the country. It is hal’d to tell which paper is the more enthusiastic for Mr. Blaine, Mr. Whitelaw Reid’s Tribune or Mr. Patrick Ford’s Irish World. It seems impossible to anyone to transcend the ‘sudden enthusiasm of the Tribune for the “man from Maine,” but that is Mr. Patrick Ford is trying to do. These gentlemen should lie careful to get "a free ballot and a tair count” in this contest, aud may tue best man win. Circuit Judges iu New York receive sala ries ranging from $7,000 to SIO,OOO a year. They probably do uo more and no better work than Georgia Superior Court. Judges, who get only $2,000. Judge’s salaries in this State ought to be made au issue in next summer’s legislative campaign. CURRENT COMMENT. For the Enemies He Has Made. From the Cleveland Plaindealer (Rem.) President Cleveland is stronger before the people to-day for tbe enemies he has made. No New Thing. From the yew York Herald ( Ind .) They say that natural gas has been discovered in Chicago. Natural gas 1 Why, why, they have enjoyed that luxury for twenty-five yeai-s, haven’t they? They Couldn’t be Fooled. From the .Veto York Press (Rep.) Tbe story that cancer is caused by an excess of sugar in the sy-t**m comes suspiciously near the time for tbe holiday boom in the candy market. Children should not let the old folks fool them with any suck stuff as that. Advice to a Bloody-Shlrt Organ. From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.) We do not expect to me auv improvement in tbe tone of the editorials in the St Louis irlohe- Democrat until the editor ha* gone through a searching and thorough course of treatment for liver complaint. Take some anti bilious pills. Joe. Hope Springs Up Eternal From the Sew York Star (Pew.) The statement that Senator Shennan has about given up all hope of obtaining the Presi dentiai nomination' from the Republicans is creditable to his good sense. Inn is not probable. An Ohio Republican is not tbe kind of man to give up reaching f r anything he can see. A man's reac. - oukl be beyond his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for? BRIGHT BITS. Ox seeing a bouse being whitewashed, a small bay of 3 wanted to know if it was going to be shaved.— EnAange. “W* and. n’t care for the rain." said one Balti more girl to another as she raised an umbrella; “we re n- ither sugar nor salt.” •'So.” refilled the other; “but we’re lasses."— Harper" Bazar. “Whim is your tome?" asked a man of a dis consolate looking stranger. “J haven't any borne at present,” was tho reply. “My wife’s mother is making her a visit."— So mere. Ur. Journal. , Teaches— Mr Bagster. can you give a prac tical instance of the virtue of self-denial? Bags:* r~ Y**s. sir; a man can hear a snake story iruhp.it ringing In something about whisky.— Burlington Free Press, St, Pacl Miss , claims to have spent sll.- OCYVXVi in building this year Minneapolis, which held her claim back to see what Bt. F&ul had to stay, spent $11,000,500, as nearly as can be estimated. —Pittsburg Chronicle. “Yogß bill has been running a long time,’’ in sinuatingly remarked the butcher to Slopay the other morning.’’ “That's bod." remarked Slopay, sympathet ically, “why don’t you let it walk?"— Washing ton Critic. A little Cass a vest k girl came home from church greatly troubled over the bottomless pit. After awhile she cheered up, saying: “I didn’t think of it before, but if the bottom of .the pit is out I could get out on tbe other side, couldn’t I?” — Detroit Tribune. < day Julia Ward Howe was introduced to Sitting Bull by thit full name, and the gentle man remarked. “How,” with his usual urbanity. "Ah:’’said Mrs. Howe, with quick apprehen sion. “The gentleman has heard of me, J see. He is really a very intelligent aborigine.”— Judge. . “You seem to be enjoying yourself, Bobby,” remarked one of tbe guests at a dinner party. "Yes.” asserted Bobby, with his mouth full. “lain leakin' the most of it, ’cause alter pa an ma give a big dinner like this it's always cold pickin’ for the next thirty days.”— Harper's Bazar. “Wose, deah. tell me—ah—did you make a mem > wandiun of the -ah—wemark I made to you when I was here befoah? “No, Charley, I didn't.” “That's dweadful. cause, don’t yer know, 1 cawn't wecollect myself w hether I pwoposed to you or Claw a. — Whitehall Times. Lady (to husband)—You don’t tell ms, John, that eleven cities were overflown, and millions of people left homeless and starving ? Husbaud—Yes, in China. Lady (disappointed)—Oh, in China. Interest ing matters of that kind always happen such a provokingly long distance away:—.Yew York Sun. Joints—You seem to be always miserable. Smith —So I am. Life has no pleasures for me. “What is the matter?” “Anxiety about my future robs me of one half of present joy. and remorse for mv past life get® away with the ’other half.”—' Texas S / tings. • Johnnie, a bright boy of 6 years, while being fixed up for school, observing his little overcoat much the worse for wear, and having more mended places than he admired, turned quickly to his mother and asked: "Ma, is pa rich?" “Yes. very rich, Johnnie; he is worth two millions and a half.” “What in. ma?” "Oh, he values you at one million, me at one milli n. and baby at half a million." Johnnie, after thinking a moment, said: “Ma, tell papa to sell the baby and buy us some clothes.”— Boston Glob?. “All I have to say,” observed the hard featured passenger, bringing his fist down em phatically on liis knee and talking loudly while the car was filling up, “is that when 1 have bought my ticket and paid for it and taken my seat in the car, that seat is mine, and there isn’t any obligation resting ou me, morally, legally or otherwise to get up and give it to any woman on the glolie. A healthy woman can stand up in a crowded car just as well as i can There is no reason under the sun why I- here. Miss, take my seat; 1 had not noticed that any ladies were standing up. Confound you,” he exclaimed, glaring fiercely at the men about him, “are there no gentlemen among you? Don't you see these ladies have no seat sV'—Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL. M. Gtirw saw twelve Cabinets, with 120 Min isters, serve under him while he was Presideut of France. James H. Johnson, of Pittsburg, has sued James O. Flower, a dentist, for $20,000 damages. Two years ago Flower pulled Johnson's tooth and broke his jaw at the same time. The vie tim has spent $2 000 in doctor’s bills since then, aud is a confirmed invalid yet. Jay Gort.D never smoked hut one cigar in his life. It made him so ill that he never tried all ot her. It seems bard that many a man who loves good cigars can't afford to buy them, while Jay Gould, who could have tbe (Inns! weeds in the world without seriously impairing his income, has uo taste for tobacco. Congressman Martin, of Texas, Is devoting his time at present to denving that he blew out the gas in his room at Willard's. He should not feel so sore about the matter. No one believes that a Congressman, no matter where ho is from, is not well acquainted with gas in all its various applications to men’s affairs. The wife of Don M. Dickinson, the ngw Post, master General, is a handsome woman, tall, with auburn hair, clear complexion and large dar< eyes. She has always been very popular iu Detroit, and has been a prominent "figure in the social life of that city. She is extremely affable amt his both tact and dignity. She is considerably younger than her husband. In September. 1811 (says the Hartford Cour ant). John (J. Whittier wrote to Henry W. I/ing fellow urging him to accept tbe nomination for Congress which Mr. Whittier bad the disposal of. “Our friends," he yvrote, “think they could throw- for thee 1,000 more votes than for any other man.” Mr. Longfedow said "No”; but there was Whittier going around with slates in his pocket, just as the boys do now. Messrs. O'Connor and Estnonde, the Irish m libbers of Parliament, have lwen ocouped in making a number of calls aliout Washington oh [e-rsoiis to whom they have letters of introduc tion, and also on a timelier whom thev desire to meet before returning home. They w ont from Washington to New York city, where thev will determine their future plans. Their visit to Washington just finished out a week, and was a very pleasant and agreeable experience of t heir trip. They wore the guests of the committee representing the Irish-American societies ur ing their stay, and both of the visitors express their appreciation of the hospitality shown them at the capital. They were given a" fare well reception at the residence of Mr. Morris Murphy, on I street. “Bishop” Oberly, of the civil service com mission, has shocked the senses of some of the believers in the F&tonian theory by speaking of the retirement of Col. Eugene Higgins as fol lows: “If un.v other jie.rsou at the head of any other bureau or division of the government should have made so few removals as Higgins has made in tbe appointment division, he would have provoked a revolution lathe Democratic party. No oUlcer of the government has show n a greater respect for tin* letter and spirit of the civil service law than Mr. Higgins. During his term of office not only has be peisonally refused to consider propositions to remove clerks iu other branches for political reasons, but be has retained tne force in ins own office almost in tuut, just ns he found it when be entered the office.” That Old Slouched Hat. ' From the Sew York Sun. Attorney-General Garland still refuses to shake that old hat. He wore it when be first came to Washington as a Senator, ami the top coat he brought from Arkansas at the same time has lieeu taken dowu from the hook again for anoilm.- winter's service. But tbecoat is all right. It does cot fit him and never did. It is too wide across the shoulders, and hangs like a shirt on a beau pole. It is not much the worse for wear, but the hat is in a condition of ad vanced decay. The braid on the brim is badly worn and shows a fringe, and there are several small holes in the creases in the crown. A law ought to be passed by Congress placing it on the retired list, for it is totally disabled. Gar land is by no means penurious. He is a gener ous man. and his purse is always re-idy to open at every appeal for charity, but his negligence in dress is a serious matter. Whitney and Bayard have talked to him about it several times, but he always savs that he likes old clothes better than new aud wasn't cut out for a dandV. jf.. A Belle’s Littls Joke. From the Sew York Sun. They are telling in-one circle of fashiouahle so ciety a story of a jolly young millionaire widow. An admirer at a hall, after puzzling himself over the twinkle of one of her eyes, while its mate was demurely expressionless, asked for an explanation of the phenomenon "And tyhich eye do you admire?” she said. "H-b-hard to tell.” he stammered. "The one w-w with the denjureness sort of mashes a fel low; d-d don't you kuow, ami the one witli the twinkle sets b-h-hiui ablaze with its flashes. It's a choice bet vixt, two—two—m-mighty g-good things, you know." "on me wnole w hich one do you prefer?" "Wa-wa-well, I think the demure one." “I am so glad. Ttolphy, to hear you say that,"' ami the widow beamed rapturously into his face, "because the eye is a glass one, and 1 am sometimes afraid it disfigures me.” This revelation lost, her a lover. But she will hardly miss him from the gang, and she cer tainly had fun with him while he lasted. No Longer lao.ated. From the Sew York Sun. It is rather interesting to observe with what solicitude the Republican Senators watch after the interests of Mr. Riddleberger. Last session be was an Isbmaelite. He always sat alone. He wandered down to the lunch room and t-x>k a seat at a solitary table every day. The other Senators would take a look at him and go by. If he had asked them to ta-e a bite with him they, in all prooability, would have recollected other engagements. Riddleberger says pub licly that the only one of the Republicans who had eveu invited n|ji to enter the door of his home was Senator Palmar, of Michigan. But now the atmosphere has changed. You never see the . enator Horn Virginia alone. Some R•- publican Senator is always chatting with him. He has received invitations to dine at their houses. Some of them have introduced him to their wives, although he has been in Washing ton four years without a presentation. He nasn’t lunched alone since the session opened, but always has one or two companions. Don Cameron has even invited him to join the poker party that meets at the mansion of the Senator from Pennsylvania on rainy days. Riddleberger seems to enjoy it. and the & via tors, now that they are gelling acquainted with aim, say he's an uncommonly good fel.ow. So much for the power of attraction in politics. Forever and a Day. FYom the Boston Glebe. “I love my love forever, Forever and a day.” I full of high endeavor. She but a frolic fay, We qpng this song together Long since in summer weather. This old time lovers' lay; "I love my love forever, Forever aud a day.' 1 ‘‘l love my love forever, Forever and a day." < Oh. she would fail me never. And X was befs for aye: ’Twas thus our irotn we plighted, 'Twas thus our heaven we sighted, Wneu life was in its May; "I love my love forever, Forever aud a day.' 1 ‘T love my love forever, Forever and a day." And yet we twain did sever, Each went a separate way. She swore her heart was breaking; I know that mine is aching E'en now, though I am gray. I love my love forever. She loved me for a day. How Congressmen Draw thslr Salaries From the A r eu> York Sun. One of the Clerks of the House, the other day, in talking about the habits of members in drawing their salaries, said that about one-half of them drew what was due them in advance every month. About one-Ihi- and of the entire number made checks against tue Sergeant-at- Arms, whenever they wanted money, as they would against a bank, and that official usually easues tnera, no matter whether any money is due thr! Congressman or not, but he usually west at they do not overdraw their annual salary. Several members let their salary ac cumulate until the end of the session, and then dgi witin a lump. John H. Ketcbam. Wi.ham L. Sc- tt. Adams, of Chicago, and Wilkins, of Ohio, invariably do this. Mr. Randall. who has nothing but his salary to live on, usually draws down to his margin. In the Senate, tue practice is similar. Mr. Cullom, who is a poor man, draws his salary at the end of each month. Mr. Edmunds generally leaves his until the end of the quarter and takes three mouths’ wages at a time. Mr. Sherman is one of the monthly payment Senators, but Mr. Payne leaves liis on depastt until he happens to need money, and then sends a page to the Clerk's office to hay -a check made out ior all that is due him. Mr. Hule has a similar habit. William Maxwell livarts gives checks against his salary to the real estate agent from whom he. rents his house, aud it takes it all. Don Cameron is very care less about his salary, and never seems to know how much is due him. He lets tha money aeeu mutate for several months, and then, when he wants funds makes a check regardless of the amouut due him. Mr. Stanford generally leave his until the end of the session, and then draws it all before he leaves Washington. When he arrives here for the winter he always deposits $50,000 to the ere lit of his wife at t tie bank of Kiggs & Cos., aud that carries the family tm ough the session. I xtraordinary Forgetfulness. From the Chicago Tribune. A paragraph has been going the rounds of the press of late purporting to boa truthful ac count of a remarkable ease of absent-minded ness. which made a young man forget his weil dlug-day. A prominent civil engineer in thiscity c till'd attention to this Hoatiug paragraph, yes terday, and said: "I know of a much more remarkable case. It was not absent-mindedness, however, but an illustration of the wonderful concentration of thought which is possible in great emergencies. Somewhere about ISST Ed. D. Mason, as istnnt engin er on the Wabash road, went to Buffalo to be married. The ceremony was [lerformed at 10 o'clock in the morning. While congeal illa tions were 1 icing extended, the newly-wedded Bened ct received a telegram from bis chief in Toledo informing him that an important truss bridge over a river on the line of the rood had been vurued, and must be rebuilt Immediately. The working plans c mid not be found, arid Mason was ordered home. “As the trains rau he could not reach Toledo before the next mofnlng. Taking a hasty adieu of the bride aud the wedding party, aud prom ising to return at 3 o'clock to partake of the wedding dinner, he hurrjeu to the office of an engineer well known to him. who at once placed the facilities of hfs office at Mason's dis uosal. By 11 o'clock he was hard at work. W ,en 3 o’clock came, feeling faint and weary, he walked down stairs mechanically, entered a neighbor ng restaurant that he had frequented before, refreshed himself with a sandwich ami a glass of beer, and returned to work. By fl o’clock he had duplicated the original plans of the bridge from memory, including exact meas urements and quantities, and telegraphed from Toledo. On this telegraphic plan the bridge builders instantly set, to work and fouud it Absolutely correct even to the minutest detail. It was a most astonishing feat. But. what is still mow astonishing Is the fact that from the moment Mason left his bride in the morning until he hail forwarded liis telegraphic report he never recalled the event of liis marriage. When be weut out for his lunch he might just as well have gone to the wedding dinner, as the distance was no greater, and excused himself without loss of time. But bis mind was so oc cupied In meeting the emergency that no thought of auythmg but the hurried bridge could gain entrance. “In later years Mason was a Colonel in the ar my, a prominent member of the American So ciety of Civil Engineers, and left us monuments to his skid the bridge over the Mississippi at Hannibal amithat over the Missouri at St. Jo seph. He died some fifteen years ago. His widow is still living, aud has in my presence corroborated, so far as she oould. Col Maspn s account of his wedding-day experience.’’ The occasional contributor dropped into the sa- cturn wearily. boat'd at the desk was a beetle-browed tramp printer. “Are you the mule editor*” softly inquired the visiting contribute. “Nay,” answered the apparition, poising a proof slip in his delicately discolored digits. “1 am the calf editor. Do you wish to be edited?” II tt.ihtnj.uii hatchet ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Germax chemtst has learned how to make a first-class brand of brandy from sawdust. Diamond pins jeweled both at point aud head, are now fashionable, worn thrust carelessly in the hair. It is an uncommon thing In our recent history to have all branc.ies of the Government in the control of one party Such a state of affairs has not existed at Washington for thirteen years. A San Antonio preaches paralysed a "loudly" dressed masher the other Sunday, who took the accustomed stand at the door and gazed at the girls. This preacher remarked: "Walk right in young man; she's over there in that corner winking at you.’’ Hera Paschke, a Berlin butcher, recently celebrated a curious “jubilee" — the slaughter of the 100,000 th in his establishment. He be gan budness in ISO 9. au I Dee. 2 wa ; able to kill the jubilee goose, a choice specimen specially fattened for the occasion. Dallas, Tex., does not object to tramps, but putsthem ;o good use. Dallas has made them build fifteen miles of turnpike road and grade many miles of public roa Is. and therefore, the town is disposed to receive the tramps very cor dially, and extend to them a shovel in one hand and a pick in the other. Recently a consignment of 19,870 boxes of rai-ius from Fresno, Cal., were shipped via the the Sunset route to New York. The weight of the consignment was 417,ft)0 poinds, and it occupied a special train of twenty cars. It wis the largest single shipment of freight ever made from California, and regular rates were paid. The Cesarean operation was successfully per formed at the Lying-in hospital of the Univers ity of Maryland. Baltimore. Wednesday last. The patient was a young colored woman. At last accounts both the mother and child were doing well. It is said that this is the second successful operation of this kind ever performed in hospital practice iu this country. One James Schrimsber has secured and taken to Missouri, says the Omaha Republican, one of the biggest prizes Nebrasl a ever gave. He has married and taken away Mrs. Jane Walden, nee Hickev, who tips the beam at 340 pouuds, and is Johnson county's biggest daughter. The groom is somewhat slender, and stands almost seven feet in height in his stockings. Two boys recently, in search of a rabbit, re moved the rear steps of St. Mary's church, in Kittanning, Pa. and found a bundle containing three gold watches, two gold chains, one silver watch, a dark lantern 'and a jimmy. Three years ago the articles were stolen and the thief sent to the penitentiry, but the property was never recovered Two of the watches belonged to Kittanning parties, and the third is thought to belong to a Brookville man. The Queen of Portugal wears the Paris life saver's medal because, in 1874. while bathing at Cascase with her sons Charles and Alfonso. 11 aud 9 respectively, she swam out to save her children from drowning. A large wave sud denly sdvpt the children ofit their feet, and their mother, in trying to rescue them, came near drowniug also, but they were seen by the lighthouse keeper, who dashed in and succeeded in getting them safely to land. Indications now point to the existence of a submarine volcaaic crater between the Canary i Islands and the coast of Portugal. From a I cable-laying steimer in 83° 25' north. 9° 54' ! west, the. water was found to measure 1,300 I fathoms under the bow and 800 under the stern, 1 showing the ship to be over the edge of a deep i depression in the ocean bottom. The well-known great inequalities in the lied of the sea of LislioD are thought to be duo to a sujiniarlLe chain of mountains. The combine o( lime manufacturers a* Hunt ingtoD. Ind., which had exisied for many years, and which went to pieces a few weeks ago. is to be reorganized with a capital of 810.0)0, and it will include all the manufacturers in the vicinity. The jsiol Is to be operated much after the manner of tbqfwliisky trust, and will practi cally control the dime output of Northern In diana. A number or new and improved kilns are to be erected at once, and crude oil will be substituted tor wood for fuel. The pool will employ about WO men. Frane Henry, of Crawfordsville, Ind., owns an English bulldog and two milch cows, and pasture not being convenient, the dog is their protector anil constant allendant. Through all kinds of weather he follows at their heels, re maining with them until they return at night. tYnen the cows are fed on corn, he, too. must have his ear, or he will jump up in the manger aud help himself from under the cow s noses. He eats the corn with as much relish, appa reutly, as do the cows, and thrives on the diet- A Paris octalist the other day went into the office of the Mayor of the Eleventh arrondisso raent aud asked to see the Register of Burns. He had just been made the happy father of a daughter. To the usual qiesti in as to the Dane of the coild he declar'd she was to be called "Egalite.'’ The Clerk said that by the law of therrench capital that nuns was ill -gal. A l.vely conversation en-tued. during which the Socialist declared be had taken a triple oath to the effect that if he had three daughters their names should lie. Liberte, Egalite. and Fraler niterespectively. Liberie had been born aud christened in the Provinces, and now Egalite had come. W. H. Benson, of Philadelphia, announces that he is about to found a Socialist church, the members of which will believe in God and a life hereaft r All members will be requested to takefihe following oath: "I hereby solemnly swear that I will not roll, cheat, strike, tell lies about, communicate disease to. nor injure iu anyway a fellow-member of this church. 1 also swear that I will drink distilled and fer mented liquors with great care and moderation. I also swear that I will not lend money to, nor borrow money from, a member of this church except a- a regular business transaction. I also swea4|that, as far as I am able, I will keep my body, clot les and dwelling iu a clean and healthy condition. I also swear that 1 will give to this church every year 1 per cent, of my in come. provided that said 1 per cent, is not more than SSO ' A press dispatch has announced that Gen. N. P. Banks had been appointed United States Marsha! nd interim for Massachusetts by Jus tice Gray of the Supreme Court. Gen. Banks has just finished his term as Marshal, but will continue to fill the office until bis successor qualifies. Gen. Batiks is at present in Washing ton, and as he wanders through the corridors of the capitol ho must feel pretty antiquated. Thirty years ago (Jen. Banks, then a slight boyish fellow from New England, was elecied (Speaker of the House after a memorable con test. Of all the men who served with him in that Congress, whether in the Senate or the House, only one man remains in public life, John Sliermau began his first term in Congress when Banks was elected Spe iker, and he is the only mat prominently In public life who was in Congress thirty years ago. Banks served also in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses. The Board of Trustees of the Wa sliington D. C. public schools in their annual report to the District Commissioners recommend in creased pay for the teachers, saying: “What ever ait ion may be taken in regard to the sys tem of annual increases, the board earnestly recommends a substantial increase in the sala ries of our teachers. Tue salary of messengers throughout the departments of the government, is fixed by Congress at ss(i) per annum: t iat of what are known ns assistant .messengers is $?vH) per annum, while the average salary of the cul tivated men and women who constitute the teachers of our public schools is limited to SO7O per annum, or only $lO per annum more tnau that of a laborer in the departments. All re sid • in the same community, aud subject to the same general conditions which regulate the cost of necessaries of life. That the average sala ries tuns allowed teachers is. In the city of Washington, barely adequate to the comforta ble ami decent support of a single person oeeii pjingthat position m life, and that it affords no possible margin for provisions fur sickness or old age, to say nothing of the maintenance of a family, must be apparent, not only to every citi zen nut to every temporary sojourner iu our midst.” Is the Arctic regions so greatly does fish pre ponderate over all other kinds of food that the people theke have often been grouped together under the name of iehthyopngi, or fish eaters; and there have been naturalists who have fol lowed this idea so far that they have been able to hscover a fishy type of physiognomy among them. Some of these people in the course of th'-ir lives prouably novei tasted any other kind of food! and as its peculiar richness in fat es pecially adapts it to their requirements of an easily digestible heat-giver, it is well that na ture has been so lavish in peopling the waters. So numerous are the individual members of the finny tribe that they may lie said to exist iu their myriads, thug forming a striking contrast to laud animals, wnich are comparatively scarce. This ahunduuce of ttsb arises from toe evenness of temperature of water os compared with land. Seaweeds grow luxuriantly in lati tudes where laud plants of any importance would be an impossiiiility. aud thus the primary requirements or a large population of animats are supplied. If It, w-re not fur t.tils s ’ppiy of seaweed t is not too much to say that I h -Arctic regions would be almosi uninhabited; but, thunks to the consequent abundance of fish, the Esquimaux and the riomoides extend themselves to within ten degrees of the pole, 1 BAKING FOfflUUk /^utuwlToSr^ PURS p?PWCfS CREAM JjAKlNj* "Si!?? PERFECT Its superior excellence proven in millions of omes for more than a quarter of a century It is sed by the United States Government. 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Hla the most perfect denti lrlce I have ever seen " From Hon. ( Iran. P. Johnson. Ex. I>b Gov. of Mo.—“Zonwelss cleaners the teeth thor oughly. la delicate. oonvonten', very pleasant,and have# no after taste, bom nr all dbugqiuts. Frloe, 35 cents. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N.T. For aale by LIPPMAN BROS., LlppmanM Block, Savannah. __ FOOD PRODUCTS. forest ij liis. are making an extra quality of GRIT? aud MEAL, and can recommend ft to ths trade as supeAor to any in this market. Would ba pleased to give special prices on application. We have on hand a obolce lot of EMPTY SACKS, which we are soiling cheap. BOND, HAYNES & ELTON