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4 nlonungHclus Morning Newr. Building* Savannah. Ga. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ""~The Morning News is published every day in tfce year, and is served In subscribers in the city, fcv newsdealers and carrtere, on their own ae rcnnt, at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month. $5 00 for she months and $lO 00 for one year. ■The Morning News, by mail, one month, |1 00; three months, $2 DO; six mouths, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, bv mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, •2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $8 00. Tbo Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six tronrhs, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weeki V News by mail, one year. $1 25. Suliscriptions payable in advanee. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter Cur* imicv sent bv mail at risk of senders. 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None but competent carriers will be employed, and erery atteution will be given to make tbe delivery satisfactory to the readers of the Morning News in whatever part of the City they may reside. Tbe terms for the Daily, delivered every day, in any part of the City, are as follows: For one week 25c For two weeks shc For one month $ 1 00 For three months 2 50 For six months 5 00 For twelve months 10 00 All subscriptions payable in advance, and no paper will b? deu*,re:i beyond the time paid for. Speci il att intion 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. JjiDEX TO MW ADVERTISEMENT! Meetings— Solomon's Lodge. No. 1. F. and A. M.: Oglethorpe Lodge, No. 1, I. O. O. F. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. Harper's Periodicals— Harper Bros. For Bluffton, Etc.— Steamer Pope Catlin. New Year Sale— L. &8.8. M. H. A Swelled Head— Strauss Printing Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Employ ment Wanted; For Bent or Lease; Personal; Miscellaneous. Extraordinary Reductions Crohan & Dooner. 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. 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