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Morning Newr. Building* Savannah. Ga.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887.
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Special Notice— Tho Annual Feast for the
P->or of Christ Church.
Jacob Sharp is enjoying himself at his
country residence. One of the papers re
ports him as turning his attention to busi
ness matters. Does this mean "that he is
gett ng his bus ness matters straight pre
paratory to skipping to Canada?
Speaker Carlisle was accosted by a re
porter Saturday with the question: “How
are you enjoying your holiday ;'' “My holi
day;' 1 he answered interrogatively. “Why,
lam just, beginning my work. There is no
holiday for me now, and my hardest task
will consume the holidays." The Speaker
said the committees would certainly be an
nounced on the re-assembling of Congress.
To his intimate friends, Postmaster Gen
era! Vilas is said to make no secret of his
reluctance to give up his work in the Post
Office Department. He has mastered its
details as few. if any, of his predecessors
did, and very naturally feels proud of his
successful management. Ho is counted,
next to Mr. Whitney, the ablest business
man iu the Cabinet. Doubtless ho will
make as good a record in the Interior De
partment as he has made in that of the
Post Office.
■ A change of 1,000 votes, iu favor of the
Republicans, in New York, and of a few
more iu New Jersey, would bave turned
the scales iu the last Presidential elec!ion.
* ‘ls it possible,” says the New Y ork Trib a 11 e.
“that the events of the post three years
have uot produced such a change?" Yes, it
is possible that more than a thousand
voters have determined to vote ditforently at
the next Presidential election, but they are
Itepubl cans who have determined to vote
for Mr. Cleveland.
“The next President will be nomin Hted at
Bt. Louis,” says the St. Loui- Republican.
The pi-ess of New York, Chicago and Bos
ton have made that identical remark, with
the unimportant substitution of “New
York." “Chicago" or “Boston,” as the case
may be, for “St. Louis.” Is it expected that
Congress will provide for four Presidents?
Senator Butler has introduced a bill looking
to the election of two Vic -Presidents—ani
the Senator would fit admirably for one of
them—but the country has not beard of
any proposed Increase in the number of
Presidents. Mr. Cleveland .seems to be able
to do everything necessary to be done.
Two articles of historic value are reported
to have been found within the past few
days. One is the Enfield rifle with
which Boston Corbett claims to have shot
aud killed Wilkes Booth. Since Corbett
was placed iu the insane asylum of Kansas,
his effects have been sold, aud among them
V as his rifle, which was bought by a Grand
Army post at Concordia, Kan., and will lie
kept as a relic. The other is the
fiddle owned aud played upon by George
Washington. It is the make of Jacobus
Etelner, and is nearly 300 years old. The
fittingß are new, but the old case is intact,
aud the tone is soft ani sweet. Mr. Go rgo
Gemunder, of New York, bought it a week
ago ;f a descendant of Washington. Some
people might call it a violin, but that do
peuds largely on who plays it. Under Wash
iugton's manipulation, it was, doubtless, a
fiddle, as his fame as a violinist has never
reached the public ear.
Wir’en Huntingdon Street.
The resolution of Alderman Duncan to
widen Huntingdon street between Abercorn
and li ray ton streets should receive prompt
attention and favorable action from the
City Council. The Committee on Streets
and 1 Ames is now considering it, and its re
port is looked for with a great deal of in
terest.
The street can be widened now at a com
paratively small expense. The longer tbe
proposed improvement is delayed the more
it will cost, because land in that locality is
steadily increasing in value.
Huntingdon street is quite narrow between
the points named in Alderman Duncan’s
resolution. Ttuf reason is that the Savan
nah Hospital, when it was erected over
seventy years ago, was almost a mile from
the built up portion of the city. Tiiore was
a great common and a forest of pines l>e
tween it aud what was then the town.
When Huntingdon street was laid out, many
years after the hospital was located, no no
tice was taken of the fact that the hospital
encroached upon it to a very considerable
extent. It was probably considered that
the encroachment was a matter of no im
portance, as no one thought, perhaps, that
the city would be built out that far, and
there wore good reasons for thinking that
it would not grow in that direction.
These reasons were that thore was an oxten
sive swamp in the vicinity, and there were
two cemeteries almost adjoining the hos
pital grounds.
It is impossible to tell, however, in what
direction a city will grow, and those who
managed this city’s affairs half a century
ago were as much mistaken in that res|iect
as tbo authorities of other cities have been
witli respect to the same question. Within
the last ten years the locality which in the
early days was regarded as the least attract
ive and promising ot all the localities about
the city for the erection of dwellings has be
come the most popular, aud it is now the
site of very many of the city's hand
somest rosidenc s.
Of course if those who located Hunting
don street could have peered into the future
they would not have made such a serious
mistake. The mistake was made, however,
and the time has come to correct it as far as
it is possible to do so. The proposition is to
take a strip twenty-three feet wide from
tile lots opposite the hospital and add it to
tho street. The hospital is not only a very
handsome structure, but it is a noble charity.
Its benefactions at home and übroad are
well known, and although managed by a
private corporation it is in all essential
particulars a public institution. Its doors
are never closed to the sick, and those who
are penniless are as certain of careful and
skillful treatment as are those who are able
to command every luxury.
The narrow street, while it may not lessen
the usefulness of the hospital at present,
may do so to a very considerable extent in
the near future. Tall buildings may be
erected upon the opposite lots, thus pre
venting in some degree the free entrance of
sunlight and the southern breeze into the
building. Of course if tall buildings are
erected on tho southern side of the street
they will, when it-is widened, obstruct the
raj's of the sun and the breeze, but not to
such an extent as if the street remains as
narrow us at present.
The Aldermen now have an opportunity to
widen the street, and if they fail to do so
they will mako as great a mistake as did
their predecessors who laid it out.
Washington Elopements.
There appears to be a mania among the
young women of Washington for eloping.
There bave beyn three eiopements from that
city lately which have attracted a great
deal of attention on account of the promi
nence of the young women concerned in
them.
The first one was that of Miss Susanne
Bancroft, the grand-daughter of the famous
historian, and Mr. Carroll. There does uot
appear to have been any reason why
these young p ople should have ellpel.
Miss Bancroft, it is true, was
engaged to a Frenchman, but if sho didn't
love him, her grandfather, to whom she
alone owed obedience, would not have urged
her to marry him. She was old ei ough
to know her own miud about the matter,
being somewhere between 35 an 1 :>l) years of
age. Th: man she married is several years
younger than she is, but there could have
been no objection to him on any other
ground.
The next young woman to attract atten
tion by ru ning away to Baltimore and
getting married was Miss Milbourne, an
other society favorite. Nobody knows why
she concluded to take the course she did un
less it was that her father did not regard her
choice, Mr. Berry Wall, with favor. Mr.
Wall, however, belongs to a good family,
and his mother has plenty of money. Now
that he has a wife to support he will proba
bly (-case to lead the dudes in the matter of
dress.
The third elopement that stirred Wash
ington society to its profoundest depths
was that of pretty Miss Bessie Hillyer and
Mr. Buckly, a young bank clerk. Miss
Hillyer’s parents wanted her to marry Mr.
Trenhobn, a sterling young fellow, the son
of the Comptroller of the Treasury, and she
had agreed to do so. She became fascinated
with young B ickly, however, and they
went over to Baltimore and united their
lives. Washington society is now wonder
ing who will figure in the next elopement.
Elopements, like suicides, appear to come
in bunches.
Not to be outdone in generosity by its
contemporary, the Graphic, the New York
Tribune also presents a number pf Christ
mas presents to prominent public men. To
Mr. Cleveland it gives “a remedy for a bad
chill which he caught the other day, from
Paris, off a damp ocean cable, and called a
ehill-Blaine with a large B;" to Mr. Gar
land, “something he does not covet, but
which the people say he richly merits—the
additional portfolio of Secretary of the Ex
terior;” to Mr. Carlisle, “a cruel, remorse l
less gag, one warranted to fit the fine,
sensitive mouth of Brother Samuel J.
Randall;" to Col. Fellows, “something nice
in gold—a golden opportunity of disappoint
ing his foes and delighting his friendsto
George William Curtis, “a mitten kuit by
the star-eyed goddess of Civil Service
Reform in recognition of the ease and grace
with which be had condoned the insults
offered her during the year.” The Tribune
is a bright paper. What a pity it can’t
always be pleasant and witty, if sarcastic,
instead of so often dipping its pen in vitriol
and maliguiDg the South!
The New York Sun dees not remember
any post Christmas season where there was
as much charitable and benevolent foiling
as has been shown this time. It. might have
added that neither does it remember any
Christinas day that was accompanied by so
much ciime and loss of life.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887.
The Old Cemetery Election.
The people of this city will have an oppor
tunity early next, month to decide whether
the old cemetery on South Broad street shall
remain pi its present dilapidated and neg
lected condition or shall be improved in ac
cordance with the plans ahead j' made public
by the city and county authorities. There
are a few people doubtless who are sincerely
opposed, to proposed improvements for sen
timental reasons, but if will think a
moment they cannot fail to see
that even from their standpoint
their opposition is against their own inter
ests. If the present effort to make the old
cemetery an attractive spot fails the
agitation for its improvement will continue,
and in a short time will result not only in
removing its walls aud tombs, but in util
izing it for streets and building purposes.
Each year, us death removes those who
huve members of their families buried
there, the opposition to improving it will
become weaker until in a few years it will
disappear altogether. It will then be
utilized in whatever way appears at the
time to be most advantageous, without anj'
regard to sentiment. Will it not be wiser,
therefore, even for tho sentimentalists to
join hands with those who are only in
fluenced by a desire to promote the best in
terests ot the city, and carrj - out the plans
of the couuty and citj' authorities.
These plans command general approval.
Tho ashes of the unremoved dead will ba
the subject of tender care. Instead of re
l>osing in a place overgrown with weeds aud
briars, thej’ will rest in a beautiful and well
kept park. A court house and a citj' hall
will be erected in the park in tho course of
time, but they will only add to its attract
iveness. No streets will be opened through
it, but trees and shrubbery aud walks will
mako it a place where quiet and rest will i>e
sought and found.
When tho old cemetery is improved the
property in the vicinitj' of it will undergo
a marked change. Its value will increase
at once. The section between the cemeterj'
and East Broad s reet will become much
more desirable as a place of residence than
it Is because whatever objection able features
it now has will be removed. New and better
houses will be built there. In fact, the 1m
provement of the old cemetery will have a
beneficial influence for quit? a distance all
around it.
If tlie vote next month is in favor.of im
proving the cemetery tho city and county
buildings will all be close together in the
course of a year or two. That will be a
great advantage to those who have business
witli tho citj' and county. The truth is the
reasons for improving the cemetery lot are
numerous and strong, while those against
it are few aud weak.
Kicking Against a Bad System
Some of the cigar manufacturers in New
York have decided to return next year to
the tenement house system of making ci
gars. By agreement between the manufac
turers and the cigar makers, entered into
last January, this sj-stem was given up and
all the work concentrated in the factories,
but the manufacturers claim that thej* have
not made any money since that time, and
that they must go back to tenement
houses or retire from the business.
The cigannakers say it is true tho manu
facturers have not made much money
lately, but it is not because the tenement
houses have been abolished, but because
bunch-making machines have been so ex
teusivelj’ introduced as to flood the market
with cheap and inferior cigars, and in con
sequence manufacturers in other cities,
where a better cheap article is sent out,
have taken much of their trade. On the
better grade, fcliej’ say, there has boon uo
loss, and if the manufacturers were to com
pete w’ith each other iu quality' and not in
price they would And themselves much
better off at the end of t e year.
The cigarmakers announce their determi
nation to strike if the tenement house sys
tem is re-established. They have calk'd a
meeting for this week to devise meaus to
combat the movement, and a committee
to be appointed for the purpose wi 1 report
tbe con .ition of affairs to the International
Cigarmakers’ Union, which will doubtless
declare the threatened strike justifiable, and
in that event their entire resources, in which
is included a cash reserve of nearl y SIOO,OOO
will be made avail ble in aiding the strikers.
The movement of the manufacturers is
one which they might well in the interest
of humanity forego. Notwithstanding the
statement made by their attorney that the
tenement house system had been in opera
tion before the war and was shown to be
harmless, there can be no doubt that it is one
which caimot be too strongly condemned.
It sav>s tho vitality of the work people,
and the fact that under it whole families
| live in an atmosphere of tobacco day and
night, and are rarely able to get the least
bit of fresh air, is in itself sufficient evi
dence of its deadline*. Children brought
up under such conditions will And existence
a burden and have their lives shortened.
The system amounts to cruelty, aud if a
general strike attends its re-establishment,
the sympathies of the public will be with
the cigarmakers.
Nina Van Zandt is quoted as saying she
bitterly regrets that she did not carry out
an alleged plau of blowing up the jail that
held the late Chicago Anarchists and
thereby releasing Spies. She says the
“murder" of Parsons was • “the most
diabolical of them all. Think of it; a man
believing himself innocent, gives himself
up to the authorities and is murdered by
them! Parsons should have been saved,
and could havo been saved if his case had
been properly managed. It was different
with my husband. Nothing could have
saved him but one thing, and I was a fool
not to do as I intended and should have done
—that was to blow up the jail!" Miss Vau
Zandt uoos not seem to grasp the fact that
in blowing up the jail, she would also have
blown up “her husband.” Women don’t
always go into these minute details.
George Washington Minis is reputed to be
the oldest man in Arkansas. He has lived
for thirty yean near Vau Buren, aud those
who know his consistent Christian life and
entire honesty do not in the least doubt that
he is as old as he says. He is quite vigorous,
and a few days ago rode twenty miles to
draw his pension for services in the war of
1813. His home is not far from the late
Peter Meukius, who died uot long ago at
the age of 115 years.
The temperance question promises to give
the Republican Senators some trouble. Mr.
Albert Griffin, of Kansas, President of the
Anti-Mali on Republican l/eague, is in Wash
ington for the purpose of working up a bill
proli biting the manufacture and sule of
whisky in the District of Columbia. If
such a bill is introduced there will lie some
lively skirmishing on the part of Republi
cans to catch votes from both its advocates
and opponents.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Why They Don’t Go Home.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer {Dem.)
There is many a Congressman left in Wash
ington to reflect upon the beauties of the Inter
state commerce law.
Can t Be Held Responsible.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
What If Ben Butler did vote the Democratic
ticket at tlie late city election? Y’ou cannot
make the party responsible for it.
Tbe Cause of the Earthquake.
From the Few York Graphic (Ind.)
The earthquake shocks in New England are
probably the reverberations of C’hauneey De
pew’s speech that poked fun at the Puritans.
Still Laughing.
From the Few York Herald (ft id.)
Sensible people all over the country are laugh
ing at Blaine's famous five chew manifesto, and
as a consequence the perennial candidate is as
nervous as a bobtail horse in fly time.
Hear! Hear!
From the Philadelphia Press (Pep.)
Tbe cold wave is never cold enough to kill the
fruit that grows on the Christmas tree. The
wondrous crop which year by year enriches
those verdant boughs is as unfailing, as imper
vious to frost and snow as the tender affections
that nourish and rear it.
BRIGHT BITS.
Everybody is more or less pious these dajs.
Pumpkin pi ous, we mean.— Dansvillc Breeze,
Too cold for ice cream and uo sleighing. The
young man who can't save money now never
can. Albany Journal.
It san ill-wind that blows nobody good,’’
said the Thanksgiving turkey, as a cyclone
whirled him from under the farmer’s uplifted
hatchet into the next county.— Tid-Bits.
A French philosopher asserts that “He is
the happiest who makes tbe greatest number
happy.’’ and the French philosepher is right, if,
wjtn the most of mankind, he ihinks that the
greatest number is No. I. Journal of Educa
tion.
Passenger (on southern railroad)—What train
is this, conductor? Conductor—lt is called the
Great Northern Limited. Passenger—Why
"limited?’’ Conductor- Because it only runs a
limited number of miles an horn - . Tickets,
please.— The Epoch.
“Tell the truth, love, and shame the devil,”
said an attorney's wife to him the other day
when she had him in a tight place.
"My dear." suid he, reproachfully, “would
you have your only husband do an unprofess
ional act?”— Washington Critic.
“Blaisklv, why don’t you do something for
your cold? The fumes of sulphur inhaled from
a hot shovel will cure it instantly.”
“Bascomb, I’m uot so silly as tha t. I'll die
before 1 11 inhale burning brimstone.’'
"Blaisely, I believe that you will."—Philadel
phia Call.
"Uncle Janus," said a city young lady, who
was spending a few days iu the country, "is
that cmeken by the gate a Brahmin?”
"No,” replied Uncle .lames, “he’s a Leghorn.”
“Why, certainly, to be sure?” said the young
lady. “How stupid of me! I can see the horns
on his ankies.”— Boston Budget.
Gentleman (to bartender)— Tliis cocktail isn't
quite up to the mark, old man; but we can't
have everything to please us in this world, so
here's loosing at you. (He goes to breakfast.)
Same Gentleman at breakfast)-Poor entice
again, my dear. Take it away. Iflcaa’thave
good coffee 1 don't want any. —Epoch.
Fond Mamma—How is it young Mr. Kiev don't
ask you to go out riding? " 1 saw him out with
Miss Pert to-day.
Daughter l'm>uiv I can’t tell. I praised his
horse; said I heard he was a good driver and
all that, while Miss Pert < mly spoxe to him once.
Fond Mamma —What did she say then?
Daughter—She asked him if he could drive
with one hand.— Omaha World.
Might have done better—“No, sir,” said a
pompous little merchant, “I can't he trifled
with. I know the world; I've been through it.”
"Yes, 1 suppose so," said the traveling man to
whom these remarks were addressed.
"I’m a self-made man; entirely self-made.
What do you think of that, sir?”
“It strike.-, me that you might have done a
good deal better to let out the contract.—Mer
chant Traveler
The parish clerk was told to give out the
notice, “On Sunday next the service in this
church will be hel in the afternoon, and on the
following Sund .y it will be held iu the morning,
and so on a.teinalely until further notice.”
What he actually did give out was as follows:
“Ou Sunday next the m rning service in this
church will Le held in the afternoon, and on the
following Sunday tbe afternoon service will be
held in the morning, aud so on to all eternitj-.”
—Temple Bar.
A gentleman crossing Broadway near Cort
land street, while getting out of the way of a
heavy truck, dropped something, and immedi
ately began an anxious search for it.
“Must have lost his watch,” said a passer by,
joining in the search.
Another concluded it was his pocket book, still
another imagined valuable papers, and finally
quite a crowd had collected,aud ail were eagerly
groping in the mud.
"Ah, here it is!" said the gentleman, fetching
a sigh of relief as he picked it up. It was a
half-smoked cigar.
"That cigar cost me 10e.,” said the gentle
man.
Then the silence became so great that the rour
of the street could be plainly beard.— Few York
Suit.
PERSONAL.
Little respect has been paid to M. Grevy in
his fall Here, for example, is a paragraph
from “Le Figaro": “The tears that the old Ju
rassic crocodile shed iu the lap of M. f’lemen
oe-au will be historic. If Senator Alfred Naquet,
the chemist, could only cyrstallize one of them,
the crown diamonds would lose all their pres
tige. It would be the end of the Regent. We
wo Id band down to future gem rations ‘Grevy’a
tear.' It would be worth a great deal one of
these days."
Qeorge Alfred Townsend gives the follow
ing sketch of Sir George Jl. Pullman: “He is a
rather portly man, square-shouldered, with
something or the appearance of a French mili
tary officer, but of a more amiable, civil expres
sion; lie wears a goatee which is now a little
gray, like his hair, it was twenty eight years
ago when he first lay down iu a sleeping car
and, being badly rattled about and unable to
sleep, began to wonder if this continent would
not some day sustoiu a comfortable system of
nigh* cars. ’’ He has quit wondering about this
matter.
A young Englishman who knew Mrs. James
Brown Potter in London was in Boston. Mass.,
when that lady made her debut in .New York.
Wishing to show his appreciation of her success
the Englishman went to a telegraph office and
wrote out a warm congratulatory dispatch. Iu
paying tor the telegram he had occasion to take
a rail of bills amount ing to SSO from his pock-t.
He left the office hurriedly, and on reaching his
hotel f mnd that he bad lost the roll of bills at
the telegraph office. He has neverobtained anv
trace of his money. He is convinced that .Mrs.
Potter received no more costly congratulation
than his own polite telegram.
At the conclusion of an article in the Epoch
on ‘ President Cleveland s Private Secretary."
E. G. Bunnell says: "Business'men who bave
met Mr. Lainont since he has been in bis present
office, have made offers to him of employment
that would lie regarded by most men as 100
tempting to be refused. He has declined them
all. Money could not purchase ttie devqjion
that he yields. It is not mere lip and hand ser
vice. He is happy in his work and modestly
confident of his usefulness to the President and
the party he represents. So long as Mr. Cleve
land is an occupant of the White House Mr.
Ijmiont will be his private secretary”
Congressman H. F. Finley represents a Ken
tucky mountain dlstrct. He never won a
doctor's degree, for he never had a day's regu
lar schooling. He grew up in the rough life and
surroundings of an interior village id the foot of
the hills, and picked up here and there what
little learning he could There must hnv;e been
Some Innate talent about the man. for he got to
be a lawyer, and has served his people us a
judge of their courts aud as a member of the
legislature. None of the culture and mind
width that travel and education give dot's he
possess, hut he has beeu found trustworthy
wherever liis neighliors have sent. him.
Joseph H. Manley, often spoken of as “Joe"
Mauley, the former Postmaster at Augusta, and
known as one of the faithful supporters of Mr.
Blaine, was in New York for a week iu attend
ance on the Republican Club Convention. Mr.
Manley met with mi accident in his youth by
which his spine was Injured. It gives him a
slight appearance of stutitedriess His shout,
ders are as broad as John L. HulllvaiFs, tut his
stature ha* been foreshortened He is a good
natured, earnest man. full of sensible Ideas.
He Juts it .son just entering upon his majority.
In linking about him the otuer day In-said:
"My youngster is at col|i-g. nntl is all ho .ml up
In the sport of oothall. t rather Ilk-it that lie
should take such an interest m t e sport. Toe j
fact is, i like l tie game of l oot Sul l lie-cause it is j
democratic. It brings the nllliooei-s-.n
down to the level with the poorest. „oy ... comae.
on an issue of muscle, quick perception, xk ll
and physical exert . There ..re no class dl -
Unction-- on the t-- ehill tieid. There every fel
low ll for himself uml his side
BACK TO THE LOVE.
A Divorce Couple Remarried After
Seventeen Years Separation.
A Louisville special to the Philadelphia Press,
Dec. 25, says: While Mayor Warder, of .Jeffer
sonville, was still in bed at 0 a. m. yesterday, he
was called upon to marry Richard McDaniel and
Amanda Downs, and without raising his head
from his pillow went through the ceremony.
Thirty -two years ago McDaniel was a prosper
ous youne mere ant of .Jeffersonville, and Miss
Amanda white w-asa ladle They were married.
Fifteen years later the huslxmd was persuaded
to invest some money in a faro bank. He neg
lected his w ife and his business, and finally be
came addicted to drink. While her husband
was absent on a protracted spree
Mrs. McDaniel secured a divorce. McDaniel
read the notice in an Indianapolis paper
the next day. lie returned to Jeffersonville,
sold out his business, placed the proceeds in
bank and disappeared. Although he had nearly
SIOO,OOO he took only a few hundred with him.
When he had been gone a year an administra
tor for I.L estate was appointed, and it lias con
stantly increased in value through the years of
bis absence. Meanwhile, Mrs. McDaniel's sister,
Mrs. Downs, died, and Mrs. McDaniel, in order
to care for the children, married the husband.
Fourteen years they lived together happily.
Tw o years ago Downs died, ami tbe whole care
of the tamily was thrown upon the wife. Last
Saturday at the post office she came face to
face with her first husband, whom she had not
seen for seventeen years. They recognized each
ot her at once and the old affection returned.
McDaniel's large property was turned over to
him a few days before they met.
The Ladlsa’ Window.
From the New York Sun.
The postmaster of one of t be three great cities
that practically compose New- York was spoken
to by the father of a modest young g.rl, but a
little inclined toward rebellion because forbid
den to correspond with a young man of her ac
quaintance. The parents, seeing no more let
ters come to the house, supposed their daughter
was all obedience, but she had confessed that
she was still exchanging letters.
"Well," said the postmaster, “there, it is
again—that Satanic ladies' window. You do
not begin to appreciate the harm it does. But
what can wedoy There must be a window, call
it w hat you will, w here meu and women, and
bovs and girls having no permanent addresscan
call for letters addressed simply in the care of
the Post Office. It is necessary and good that
the convenience be kept up, my dear sir.
The clerk at that window in this office
is trying to lessen the harm of that window, and
what he is doing has my approval, but every
sucu effort is unwarranted in law. He says to
the girls and married women who give different
names to different, persons as their own names,
'You can have the letters for Sarah Stewart, hut
you must always lie Sarah Stewart after this if
you take them. You cannot come to morrow
and ask for letters for Sarah Watkins.’ He
does that, and he holds back lots of letters, but
he has no right to. In your relative's case, if
she is under age and her parents or guardian
ask us not to deliver letters to her. we can hold
them back or deliver them to her elders, but all
the women w ho are of age can keep on misusing
the government s service, and there is no law
ful way of stopping them."
The ladies' window also accomplishes good in
many cas-'s. Women are apt to make confidants
m the strangest quarters, and the consequence
is that the grizzled then at those windows hear
many queer things w.ieri the callers are few and
there is time to talk and to listen. One of these
confidences was that of a sail-visaged wife who
asked that her letters never on any account be
given to auy one else, ''because," she said, “they
bring me the only money that stands between
starvation and my children and me. My husband
does no work, but drinks up all I can earn w ith
ray needle, even collecting my earnings before I
can go to get them. My brother in the West
sends me what he can spare, and with that I
make up the rent and get food and clothing for
my little ones. Ido not want to desert my hus
oand, but he must never know of this extra
money that I get." Then there are the womenwho
are secretly engaged or eveu secretly married,
who tel the manat the ladies’ window all about
why they have taken the step, and what
terrible consequences would follow if it were
ever found out. "I tell you this, though I have
never told any one else," one of them explained,
"because I must tell someone. I hail to talk
to someone about it, and I come to you because
you are the one I get his letters from.” One
young woman on securing a regular weekly
’etter remarked one day to the clerk: “What a
jolly row there would be if ray folks knew I was
getting these letters. My sister has married a
Christian, and we are Jewish, you know. She
has been renounced by all my family, but she
and I keep each other posted every week, for
sho is my sister just the same, and all she did
was to marry the mah she was fond of, after
all.” Thus the ladies' window lends itself to
the he lit as well as to the weakest and the worst
impulses and motives, and thus, so far as any
one can foresee, it must continue to do as long
as post offices are public institutions.
One Thing- a Pug Dog is Good For.
fYOm the Chicago News.
“If you won’t use my name," said a boarder
at a Madison street hotel, “I'll tell you about a
little love affair tint is carried on at our house
bv means of a pug dog. The proprietor's
daughter, a pretty young lady, has a pug pup
that knows less than any dog I ever saw—why,
he, doesn't know enoug to chase his own tail.
Bui the young ladv thinks a great deal cf him,
or at least lets on that she does. One of the
clerks of the house Is anew young fellow,
rather good looking, and, notwithstanding lie is
a hotel clerk, modest and bashful. It is the
easiest thing in the world to see that he loves
the proprietor's daughter, and the next easiest
thing to see is that sneJoves him. But he is so
bashful he hardly dares to look at her, to say
nothing of telling her his passion, a id she, poor
thing, cannot speak of her love bectu e s’ e is a
Woman. We boarders have a good deal of fun
watching this couple. The young woman
has some important business in the office
whenever she knows ber clerk is on watch—she
has to have an envelope, or a pen, or a key, or
something that slm could ring for much easier
than she could come down for, but down she
comes, and every time with the pug in her arms.
When she eoines up to the counter she asks for
whatever she wants, and then, setting the pug
on the counter, she hugs and kisses him as if
he were the only creature on earth she cared a
snap for. It always takes tlm clerk an unnec
essari y long time to find what she pretends to
want , and when he has found it he turns his at
tention to the dog. He hugs the pug and strokes
him, and finally musters up courage enough to
kiss him on ids cold nose, pree sely where the
young woman's pretty lips had pressed. She
usually manages to kiss the dog again before
she goes, and then the clerk follows her with his
wistful eves unil she goes out of sight kissing
the nose'that, he has kissed. This thing is of
daily occurrence, and has been going on for
sometime. One of these days that clerk's pas
sion will get tlfe better of him, ami he will grab
the mistress of that dog in h;s arms and put a
kiss ou her lips that will burn into her very
soul, and he will be surprised almost out of his
wits to see how willingly she t ikes it. But then
the pug's occupation will be gone."
Anything to Get Out of the Service.
fiVom the Philadelphia Press, Dec. 31.
John Little, a young man ami a member of
the United States Engineer Corps stationed at
Willett’s Point, Long Island. N. Y., was yester
day an occupant of the criminal dock at the
Central Station. lie was charged with shop
lifting. Detective James H. Randall testified
that the defendant accosted him by name, in
the store of Straw bridge & Clothier, on Monday
afternoon, and requested a subsequent meeting.
When Randall l--ft the store In the evening Lit
tle banded bini a cigar and said that Randall
could make a 310 note by allowing him to work
the store. The detective informed him that if
he attempted to steal in that store he would lie
arrested. Little replied that he wanted to be
locked up. lie explained that be bad enlisted
in the engineer service for fivo years. He had
served two and a half years, and had become
tired of such life. Little said that if he could
lie convicted and sent to prison ho would lie dis
charged from the service. Yesterday he re
turned to the store, and was caught stealing a
neck scarf Ho was immediately arrested and
arraigned before Magistrate Smith.
"I don’t propose that you shall be convicted."
said the court, after hearing the testimony. “1
propose to notify your commanding officer.
Vim look like a clever fellow, and 1 guess you’ll
make n better soldier than thief.”
T2je Mistletoe.
When winter nights grow long,
.Ynd winds without blow cold,
We sit in a ring round the warm wood fire
And listen to stories old.
And we try to look grave (as maids should be).
When the men bring in boughs of the laurel
tree.
O, the laurel, the evergreen tree!
The poets have laurels, and why not we?
now pleasant, when night falls down
Anu hides the winter sun.
To se<‘ them come to the blazing fire,
And UUo ■ that their work is none;
Whilst many bring in, with a laugh or rhyme.
Green branches of holly for C. l istmas lime.
O, the body. the bright green Holly!
It tells, like a tongue, that the times are
jolly. - Harry I'oilnwalu
Tkkke are now in use ou American railroads
30.415 locomotives, 10,303 pas-euger cars, 8,835
liaggage ears. 845.914 freight ears. The total
cost of this rolling stock Is 8700,001),000. If made
no in one train would uab,wtt miles in length, or
stretch twice across the cont inent.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The revival of the old-fashioned molasses
candy, says a Boston man, is one of the im
provements in the business which helps to offset
the taste for the richer confections which are
furnished by thr Philadelphia and New York
stores that have branches iu Boston.
There are 1.200 railroads, operated by 500
corporations, under the operation of the inter
state commerce law. Up to this time about
110,(XXI books, papers, documents, showing
rates, fares and charges for trausiiortation and
contracts, agreements I n.ween the roads as to
interstate commerce, have been filed in the com
missioners’ office.
The great evangelist, Moody, has had re
markable success in Pittsburg. He has been
there three weeks, and it is estimated that 200,-
000 heard him preach. The result of his labor is
the conversion of 2,000 people. He will uext go
to Chicago, and from I here to Louisville, where
he is badly needed and where great prepara
tions are being made for his coming.
A newspaper correspondent reports that while
out hunting in the Moosehead Lake region,
Maim l , he came across a pair of liquor dealers
who carried on their business in a canoe. They
depended for patrouage on the laborers em
ployed iu building the ( auadian Pacific railroad,
anil did the most of their business on Sundays,
when the men were not at work.
Twenty-four years ago Jacob Franks, a
young Philadelphian, went to Central City,
Nev. He is a son of Cnpt. Franks, an old-time
Quaker city detective. For nearly a quarter of
a century ('apt. Franks heard nothing of his son.
Y'oung Franks prospered, however, and though
he failed to communicate with his father did
not forget him. Monday he reached Philadel
phia from the West with a little boy who called
old ('apt. Franks grandfather. Surely there
are strange meetings in this strange world of
ours.
A Vincennes (Ind.) Man says: “I was out by
myself one afternoon, and, going along through
the woods, I noticed a gum tree breathing. Tbe
top part of the tree would spread out until some
of the 1 mills nearly reached the ground, and
then they would go back again. I stood and
watched this proceeding for an hour, when I
went back to the camp and told the boys. We
all came back with an ax and cut it down, and,
if I ever told the truth in my life, wo found 127
'coons in that tree. It was the 'coons’ breathing
that made it spread out t he way it did.
Miss Kitty Kanocse, daughter of a wealthy
farmer of Stoughton, Wis., and granddaughter
of ex-Gov Taylor, took part the other evening
in an amateur,operatic entertainment and won
great applause. After the show was over, while
her father was waiting at one door for ber to
couie out, she skipped out by another way in
her stage dress aud rau off with her lover to be
married. The couple went in a buggy to a
neighboring town, roused a minister from bis
slumbers and were married standing up in the
buggy. The father arrived on the.scene just in
lime to hear the words pronounced that made
them man and wife.
At Columbia, Conn., the other day people
were surprised to see a cat chase a big rat out
of a house and tree it on a tall elm. The cat
kept on after the rat to tbe top of the tree,
and the rat ran out to the end of a thin, pliant
bough; then the rat turned toward the cat,
whisked its tail and teeth. The cat
tried twice to go out to the it, but, though the
distance was not more than two feet, the at
tempt was abandoned. The oat slid down into
the topmost crotch of the tree and lashed the
limbs with her tail The rat cocked its nose
defiantly toward the sky. The cat's owner
finally came out of the house with a shotgun.
T ie cat sat up briskly and watched the aim.
The piece cracked and tbe rat fell to the ground.
Instantly the cat s ramblpil down tlie tree,
picked vip the rat and ran off.
Georoe Campbell, au old darkey, was, on Dec.
7, 1885, from Orange county, Virginia, received
at the penitentiary to serve ten years for murder
in the second degree. Recently the following
petition was received by the Governor asking
for a pardon for the old convict: "As tbe shouts
of Virginia s liberty-loving children, as they
exult over tbe political death and burial of a
political tyrant and traitor, echo and die away
among the huts and the mountains of the great
Southwest: as the glad huzzas from the eastern
-bore are lost on the wild waves of the foaming
Atlantic: as the fires of patriotism burn and
glow with renewed splendor in the brain and
breast of every true Virginian, let the eye of thy
Excellency scan the enclosed petition ad let
thy great philanthropic heart lieat. in unison
with the feeling of thy htmihie petitioner. Hear
tbe prayer of this floor old uegro man, now
hoary and bent with age, sorely afflicted (with
only a bare possib.tity of his guilt); and now
while death, the great destroyer of us all. stands
whetting his scythe, in the name not only of
mercy, but of justice, let him go, that he may
die on the oid p'antatiou and tie buried near the
cabin of his fathers. And to this end your
humble friend, constituent aud petitioner will
ever pray, etc.”
There was an interesting suit in Adams, N.
Y„ recently. A wealthy lady, Mrs. Hannah
Perkins, an eccentric character, desired to out
shine, or at least to equal Miss Marietta Holly as
a writer. Miss Holly, by the way, is a native of
the same town. So. with this idea uppermost
Mrs. Perkins engaged Miss Jackman to write a
novel, that young lady having published a book
which had gi\ea her some reputation as an
authoress. The foundation of the story was to
be certain incident- in the life of Mrs. Perkins
and her family. Miss Jackman readily accepted
an offer of $1,500 to write t ie hook wh eh, when
published, was to pass as the work of Mrs. Per
kins and make her famous in the literary world.
The young lady began her task early in January
and conclud 'd it in May. Mrs Perkin-.,
however, refused to accept the manuscript or
to pay for it. Suit was therefore brou lit and
the contract proven. The defense tried to show
that the young lady claimed the work would
bring.sß,(XX). and that she agreed to write it,
giving the defendant one-half of that sum for
furnishing the incidents of her life for the plot.
A mass of contradictory evidence was taken,
many of the witnesses bring members of Mrs.
Perkins’ family. The manuscript was proven
to he of fair character, in shape for publication,
and as good as could be expected from a young
lady of Miss Jackman’s age and experience,
which were known to the defendant when she
made the barg in. The verdict was for the full
amount claimed, and the jury added Interest
from June, iSB6, making a judgment for $1,638.
A Chicago young man who wooed a girl and
became engaged to her, has had the pleasure of
going through his courtship a second time.
They were to lie married in a week, w hen the
young lady was taken violently ill, becoming
insensible. She continued in a partly comatose
condition for six weeks, when she suddenly re
covered her health and was us well as ever, ex
cept that she could not remember anything
connected with her past life. She could not re
call any locality where she had been, and did
not remember her sister, nor even her lover nor
any of her friends. She had been thoroughly
educated ai an Eastern college, but. singularly
enough, all her education, knowledge of events
and general informatl- n remained with her
unimpaired, although sh > e >ul 1 not remem
ber where she had learned the facts nor who
was with her at school. That was six months
ago. After awhile she began to go out again
into society, and It was necessary to introduce
her to old friends who had known her from
childhood. She was oven introduced to her
lover. He liegan his courtship all over again,
prospered in it as before, and the two are again
engaged to lie married, although the young
woman is sure she has known her affianced hus
band less than six months. She is as sprightly
and gay in society as she ever was, and shows
the same general information, but all her past
life has been blotted out. Two physicians of
New York, who make loss of memory a special
ty, have be n here treating the young woman
without success.
Many persons believe that under the presort
system of education young people are acquiring
a distate for mamral labor, and that there is,
consequently, danger that the trade and agri
cultural occupations will he deserted by all but
the most Inefficient classes of workmen. Much
of i lie experience of English and American io
eietv is in lavor of this view, and the tendencies
in Prance appear to lie in the same direction.
As in offset to wtiat may be said in favor of it,
the London Sp- rtntor directs attention to tlio
fa t. that no dislike of work, eveu of the
roughest character, has appeared among two
of hie best educated races. The Be,itch, who
have been (aught for 3i)o years, and are now
mere thoroughly trained than English na
tional schoolboys, show no disposition to
avoid labor, but are remarkable for per
si rent and fairly contented industry. The
Prussian peasants, who are us educated as the
English w ill lie twenty years hence, working ex
c. ‘dingly nurd, and in the oouutry, where their
holdings are t. eir own, shoe none of the resent
ment of their fate which is manifested in towns
in the form of Socialist a pirations. Gardeners
"ho ail over Great Britain i the best in
siructed of man :al laborers, w. ,-k, more espe
cially when work ig for themselves, with tiuus
u and diligence: t, it is a matter of constant ob
servation i hat a laborer who happens by any ac
cident to he a “bit of a scholar, can li de
iH-niled upon wneu work pres-p< and every man
H required. TUc people of Rome, who can read
in., 'rite, are far more diligent than Ibe Nea-
IKilitaus, who cannot: and the liest workmen in
Italy are tboiw who have passed through the
army anil' obtained what is practically an edu
catinn. There seems to he no reason why ft
should he otherwise.
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