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Spbcial Notices— New Year’s at Thunderbolt;
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John Lyons & Cos.
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In a few days the paragraph headed “The
Distinguished Dead of 1887,” will make its
appearance.
Congressman Martin, of Texas, is still
scouring the country, it is said, for the man
who said he blew out the gas.
If the right ticket is nominated, it doesn’t
make much difference in what city the
Democratic National Convention meets.
Can it be true that the Fisheries Commis
sion took a recess in order to study the
Ejuestion as to whether the codfish salts the
ocean or the ocean salts the codfish?
The friends of Gov. Gray, of Indiana, are
said to be working quietly and systemat
ically to huve him nominated for Vico Presi
dent on the next Democratic ticket. If
Gov. Gray can carry his own State, he is
the man for whom tbo Democrats are look
ing.
Among the delicacies on the President’s
dinner table Christmas was a watermelon,
if was sent by Fish Commissioner Black
ford, of New York, and bad been preserved
by freezing. The President and wife are
said to have enjoyed it very much. Was it
a Georgia melon ?
Anew political party has been started by
a woman, Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman. It
adopts the name of the party started some
time ago in California. The platform of
the “American” party is not yet given.
Mrs. Chapman will probably meet and nomi
nate herself for President.
Gen. Chalmers, the Mississippi Demo
crat ic-Independent-Repu bliean- Labor poli
tician, may not be much of a success as an
office holder, but he hits the nail on the
head in speaking of the farmers. He says:
“The best farmer i* the man who produces
everything possible at home.”
Mrs. Cleveland sent some flowers to Mr.
t’oreoran oh his Kith birthday, and accom
panied them with a three line note. The
Ret was of such transcendent imi>ortanoe as
to be announced in some of the pajiers with
glaring headlines. Even the position of
“first lady of the land” has its ills.
Mr. Medill, of the Chicago Tribune,
hasn’t changed his views on the ■ tariff, but
has imparted to a correspondent the infor
mation that, right or wrong, high tariff or
low tariff, he will “be for the Republican
hominee for President." Of course he will.
Did anybody every say he would not?
Prof. Rossiter W. Raymond, chairman of
the sub-committee having in hand the selec
tion of a permanent pastor of Plymouth
church. Is quoted as saying his committee
will not be in a hurry about finding a man
for the fiosition, and Dr. Lyman Abbott,
temporary pastor, will probably act for a
year to come. The impression prevails in
tome quarters that Dr. Abbott will event
ually become the permanent pastor.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has gained an
other literary victory. The north Ameri
can Pevietv, which has not published a
poem since it printed that of Robort Buch
snan, seventeen years ago, lias accepted
one. “A Plea,” from the pen of Mrs.
YVUcox, who thereby gets quite an ad
vertisement for her literary tqlont. Do
any of the papers know how much it will
k ' x * t l ‘r to got the advertisement printed?
A Republican Dark Horse.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, of Penn
sylvania, doesn’t thiuk much of tho Presi
dential boom that has been started in the in
terest of liis colleague, Senator Don Cam
eron. He says that the boom is confined to
Pittsburg, and that it doesn’t seem to have
reached very large proportions even in that
city, where the Cameron influence is over
shadowing.
No feeling of jealousy induces Senator
Quay to speak lightly of Senator Cameron’s
boom, but he is such an ardent admirer of
the .Maine statesman that he cannot admit
that there is a possibility that auy other
man will be nominated for President by his
party. Ho is just as confident now as ho
was in 1884 that Biaine will be nominated
and elected, and the fact that Blaine was
beaten in 1884 does not seem to weaken his
confidence in Blaine’s success in 1888.
But some of the Republican leaders are
not as certain as Senator Quay is about tho
advisability of nominating Blaine. They
are inclined to think that his nomination
would be followed by a crushing defeat,
and. therefore, they have lieen canvassing
their available material for a candidate
who, in their opinion, has a better prospect
for success than Blaine. They have been
discussing Senator Cameron, hence the lit
tle boom in his interest.
There is something to be said in Senator
Cameron’s behalf. He is not a loud-mouthed
politician, and is a long way from being a
demagogue. He is not a great man, nor
perhaps a statesman of the highest type.
Ho is a good business man, a good political
manager and has plenty of good common
sense. The position he took in the
matter of confirming the appointments
of President Cleveland has raised him
considerably in the estimation of the lead
ers of his party. A good many of the Re
publican Senators advised that the Presi
dent’s nominations should not be confirmed
in order that Republicans might continue
in office. Senator Cameron said that no
greater mistake could tie made, because
any Republican who remained in office
would be useless os a party worker. Con
firm every reputable nomination, ho said,
and the ousted Republicans will work to
get back into office. His advice was ac
cepted, and the Republican party has a
good many workers who, if they had re
mained in office, would have been a dead
weight upon the party.
A little boom for Senator Cameron, how
ever, doesn’t mean that his party is likely
to choose him for its candidate. Other lead
ers have booms that are much bigger than
his, but he may be considered as one of the
dark horses, though, from present indica
tions, the chance for a dark horse is hardly
worth considering.
The Fruit Bra tdy Tax.
It is said that Mr. Randall and the other
protection Democrats in Congress intend to
insist upon the repeal of the tax on fruit
brandy. It would be interesting to know
why they want this tax repealed. The liquors
distilled from apples and grapes are very
strong and much more injurious than those
distilled from grain. From a temperance
standpoint, therefore, the repeal of the fruit
brandy tax would not be advisable. But
would it be advisable from other stand
points? It certainly would not.
The repeal of the fruit brandy tax, while
tho tax on spirits distilled from grain re
mains, would give the producers of fruit
brandies a tremendous advantage. It would
be equal to giving Yhem a large bounty on
every gallon they produced. The produc
tion would be greatly stimulated. Indeed
there would not be grapes and apples enough
in the country to meet the demand for
them. What would be the result? The
fruit brandy distillers would resort to grain,
and spies and detectives would bo necessary
to prevent frauds upon the revenue.
But why should the tax on fruit brandy
be repealed while that on whisky is retained ?
The producer of apples and grapes should
have no special advantage over the pro
ducer of grain.
Neither the grain nor fruit growers are
asking for tho repeal of the taxes oil liquors.
The repeal of these taxes could not benefit
them, although the repeal of the fruit
brandy tax alone would benefit fruit grow
ers. It really looks as if the proposition to
repeal the fruit brandy tax were proposed
by the protectionists as a starting point for
repealing all internal revenue taxes, be
cause the repeal of that tax would bring
about a condition of affaire that would
make the repeal of the whisky tax neces
sary. The protectiouists are shrewd, but it
is doubtful if they are shrewd enough to
catch the tariff reformers in their fruit
brandy trap.
Onw se Attacks.
Some of Mr. Lamar’s advocates are using
rather intemperate language in his behalf.
It is very natural that they should, but it is
a question whether in doing so they are
acting wisely.
What is the purpose of the Republican
Senators who are opposing Mr. lamar’s
nomination? Clearly to arouse a contro
versy. They don’t care anything about
what the South thinks of their course, be
cause their party has nothing to gain in the
South, but they do care a great deal about
what the North thinks of it. There is no
doubt that their party intends to use the
bloody shirt issue in the Presidential cam
paign next year for all that it is worth, and
they propose to get some material for it out
of the nomination of Mr. Lamar.
The chances are that they don’t care
whether Mr. Lamar is confirmed or not.
They will try to make the Northern people
believe that the South is aiming to capture
the government, and it is to their interest
to get up as big a controversy as possible
over Mr. Lamars nomination. If he is
confirmed they will insist that they tried to
prevent the coafirrnation, and will charge
the Democrats with filling all the important
places of the government with ex-Confed
eratos, and if he is not confirmed they will
claim the credit for defeating him.
If it were not for the hope of gaining a
party advantage it is probable that there
would be virtually no opposition to Mr.
Lamar. His fitness for the position of a
Justice of the Supreme Court is fully recog
nized, and his popularity with the Senators
is conceded. As the opposition to Mr.
Lamar is a part of a plan for carrying tho
next Presidential election it is difficult to see
how his chances are to bo improved by at
tacks upon those who are opposing him
Such attacks furnish the Republicans addi
tional material for campaign purposes next
year. It is hardly wise, therefore, to assist
in promoting a controversy which cannot
help Mr. Lamar, and which may do the
Democratic party a groat ileal of damage.
The enthusiasm over Mr. Gladstone on
his journey through England en route to
Italy Is an evidence that the great com
moner is almost aa big a man as Slugger
Bui h van.
THE MORNING NEYVS: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1887.
A Mistaken Judge.
Every once in a while the Tribune catches
a Southern Democrat in New York who is
a protectionist, and this Southern Democrat
is pretty certain to tell the Trilmne that the
South is for protection. Tho Tribune ran
across Judge W. A. Millilceri, of Nashville,
at one of the New York hotels a day or two
ago, and that gentleman talked about the
tariff in a way that made the Tribune
happy.
According to the Tribune Judge Milliken
is a leading Tenuesseo lawyer and knows
all about the South that is worth knowing.
The truth probably is that ho knows some
thing al iout the opinions of a few men who
think as he does about tho tariff, aud they
are perhaps all in Nashville, or its vicinity.
Tne South is a very big section of country
—much bigger thau Judge Miliikeu seems to
think it is—aud the opinions of a few manu
facturers in and about Nashville are very
different from those entertained by the
great majority of the Southern peoplo.
fore Judge Miliikeu undertakes to speakror
the South on any question he ought to bo
sure he knows what he is talking about.
The protection element in the South is
remarkably small. There are spots
where there are protectionists, who are
such, not because they believe that protec
tion is a good thing for the whole country,
but because they believe it puts a few dol
lars into their pockets. The interests of
the South are almost wholly agricultural,
and the farmers, and those who are depend
ent upon them, do not believe that they re
ceive any benefits from protection. There
is no reason why they should believe so.
There are a couple of special agricultural
interests which are believed to be beuefi Ad
by protection, but it is doubtful if they are
to the extent to which they are thought to
be. The farmers, however, know that pro
tection imposes a very heavy tax upon
them.
If Judge Millikin will take the trouble to
find out what the tariff views of Southern
members of Congress are he will be sur
prised to find that he can count
all of them who are protection
ists on his fingers. If the South
were in favor of protection Southern Con
gressmen would also favor it. If they did
not represent the sentiments of their con
stituents they would be retired from public
life very quickly.
If is pretty clear that Judge Milliken is a
man who gives his own opi lions as the
opinions of his section. That sort of
egotism is hardly excusable because it is
very misleading. YY T hen the Judge goes to
New York again he ought to bear in mind
that a very large part of the South is not
included in Nashville’s limits.
Rabbi Rubenstein recently delivered in
Chattanooga a lecture on “True Religious
Spirit.” Its diction was said to be exquisite
and its style strikingly epigrammatic. It
was such an unusual production as to cause
tho Knoxville Tribune to pay particular
attention to it, and now that paper quotes
liberally from an essay by Ralph YValdo
Emerson on “YY’orship,” running portions
of Rabbi Rubenstein’s lecture in a parallel
column, and the similarity is so remark
able that some people might thiuk some
body concerned was a p agiarist. The
Tribune is charitably disposed toward the
rabbi, as is shown in tho questions, “YY'as
Emerson a literary thief? Did he steal one
of his essays from a Chattanooga lecturer?”
Of coarse if there was any plagiarism, it
must have been on the part of Emerson.
Are we to have another sensation border
ing on the Hawthorne-Benet affair?
Judge Jehu Baker, who defeated Mr.
Morrison for Congress, seems to know a
good deal about the South. In con versa
tion the other day he said the stretch of
••ountry from Georgia to Pennsylvania, in
cluding Y'irginia aud the Caroliuas, is unex
celled in any quarter of the world for health,
productiveness, soenery aud general desira
bility as a place of residence, and unequaled
except by a part of France. The people, he
says, are big and manly—no better in the
world—and forcibly remind him of those of
his own State in features, speech and man
ners, and in convictions on many questions.
Judge Baker expressed delight at the gener
ous hospitality of Southerners. Look out.
Judge, that you don’t forget those things
when a fierce sectional debate comes on in
the House, or when you take the stump for
the next Republican candidate for Presi
dent. ,
The statement of several Republican
journals that President Cleveland will
shortly send to Congress a supplementary
message, in which he will modify his po
sition on tho tariff, is too absurd to bo for a
moment entertained. It is bused on the
idea that he has lieen “scared Auto a partial
abandonment of his position. YY’hatever
else the Republicans may say about the
President, he doesn’t “scare," and even if
he were the sort of roan who is afraid of his
own shadow, be would have no occasion to
modify or retract anything contained in his
message.
Strange as it may seem, tasting products
of food fora living is carried ou extensively
in this country. At first glance, this man
ner of making money’ strikes one as being
easy and pk-asant, but no doubt the men
who adopt it as an occiqintion soon sicken
of it, and their palates lose their acuteness.
Even if confined to the most pleasant tasting
articles of food, the continual practice must
soon lose its charms. A butter taster re
tains the sensitiveness of his taste by eating
an immense, mealy apple every morning
before breakfast.
Mr. E. Berry YY’all doesn't think that be
cause he is married, be will stop setting the
fashion for imitative young men. When
he apiK-ored in public the other day with a
peculiar cane, so constructed as to do service
both us a enue and a cigarette holder, tho
idea was at once taken up by som thing
like a hundred young men, ns was shown by
the orders received by tho mauufacVurer for
counterparts of tho wonderful Berry YY’all
cigarette cane. “What fools these mortals
be.”
The clearing of #58,000 in cash in a two
weeks’ exposition is very good for Atlanta,
but that is what she claims to have douo
during the Piedmont Exposition, and she
proposes to do better next year. A good
deal of this profit came from farmers, and
there are many people who believe the ex
position management rather gave agricul
ture a back seat. Unless this impression is
corrected, the at tendance next year will
probably foot up smaller.
The ranks of the Knights of Ixibor are
being thinned out, A year ago the organ
ization contained 7:13,000 members; iu July,
51)0,(100; in October, 300,000, and now the
figures are said to have dropped to 300,000.
The objects tor which the order was organ
ized are unobjectionable, but the manner in
which it has lieen conducted has not always
met with popular approval.
CURRENT COMMENT.
His Other Name is Barkis.
From the Philadelphia Fret* (Hep.)
Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, will take second
place on tho Democratic ticket if it is offered to
him. Voorhees is a Democrat and his other
name Is I3u.rkls.
A Discordant Tnought.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
Even in the midst of this glad holiday season
the thought will intrude unbidden that Lord
Tennyson may be getting ready to write some
kind ot a New-Year ode.
Good Prospects Ahead for Young Men.
From the Lnulmille Courier-Journal (Them.)
Three million women in the United Slates are
working tor wages. The man ivho cannot marry
rich may at least secure a wife whose wages
will make Ids home a happy one.
Adds Pest to Enjoyment.
From the St. Louie Republican (Dcm.)
It adds new zest to the season's enjoyment to
reflect that before another Christmas, Grover
Cleveland will have been re-elected, and the
party of dead issues buried with its dead.
The c ame Old Chestnut.
From the Few York Herald (Ind.)
• Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, may. possibly
visit the St. Paul carnival this winter and pose
as the ice statue. His manner is said to bo so
chilly that when his friends speak to him icicles
form on their chins.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Western man man named Pettis swallowed
his false teeth last week, and can’t sit down
without biting himself internally.— Life.
IV k suppose that a laity who has a little
daughter named “Pearl” would be mother of
pearl. Chicago papers please steal. —Drake's
Magazine.
It is very well claimed for the man who went
to sleep at a switch that “his vigilance never
flagged.” That’s what wrecked the train.—Bur
lington Free Press.
A correspondent asks ‘ ‘lf it is realty true
that Job was troubled with toils.” T .ere can
be no doubt that he was if be had them.—Bing
hamton Republican .
Miss Waldo (of Boston)—Have you ever read
Kant, Mr. Wabash?
Mr. Wabash lof Chicago)—Er—excuse me,
Miss Waldo, but do you wean "Don't?”— New
York Sun.
Mr. Ginn, of Clinton, Mont., wants his name
changed. If he would go to Italy and become
an opera singer, he would And bis name changed
to Jinuinwiski. before he returned home.—
Drake's Magazine.
A Pole named llentzlst- , zski recently settled
a few miles from Binghamton. From the jagged i
appearance of bis name we should take him to 1
be a section of a barbed wire fence, rather tnan I
a pole. —Forristown Herald.
The woman suffrage people are gradually
acquiring all the rignts enjoyed by the male sex.
A woman in New York State has been sent to
jail for illegal voting—just the same as if she ha.l
been a man. Aud yet she is not happy.—For
ristown Herald.
Artist (who is spending a month in the coun
try i My dear Miss Purpleblossom, you are so
beautiful 1 Would you not like me to do you in
oil?
Miss Purpleblossom—Do you take me for a
sardine?— Burlington Free Press. 9
“So come what may. I'll lift my eyes and cry;
‘I bide—l bide my time,’ ’’ says I-.lla Wheeler
Wilcox. “Dat’s Huffin'," said old Uncle Snow.
“I buyed my time jess befo’ de wah; an’ if I’d
waited six muns l could had it for nuffln’, sure’s
yer bobn.”— Fete Orleans Picayune.
A Kentucky woman who has sever, sons, all
bom on Sunday, has petitioned Gov. Buckner
for a pension. She says in her letter that she
“never herd of seven lioys all bean born on Sun
day " aud she thinks that such an unexampled
feat of maternity should be properly rewarded.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Hotel Waiter—You are late for lunch, sir.
Eminent Physician -Yes, I had to finish my
magazine article on “The Law's of Health" so as
to get it into the next mail. YVhat have you
to-day?
"Hot rolls; clams, plum pudding, apple dump
lings, mipce pie and fruit cake "
“Bring ’em all.”— Omaha World.
Questions of political economy will stray into
tho most serious moments of voting life. “Don’t
you think, Evelina dear, that you—er need a lit
tle—er protection?" “Possibly, George. But I
don’t know as I am in favor of quite so much
‘raw material f “ And then he picked up his
hat and went out into the damp fog of a relent
less world . Hartford Past.
PERSONAL.
Pbkmurnt Cleveland is an author. He once
compiled the American Herd Book, for which
he received S6O.
George William Curtis thinks tber; should
be a profcssoafbf science in every university.
Mi-. Curtis is not a candidate for the professor
ship.
ranoroft, the historian, always writes under
a high moral sense of duty. He wants every
sentence to embody a fact or a true and noble
sentiment.
Levi P. Morton, ex-Minister to France, will
erect an eight-story apartment house at. the
corner of Fifteenth and H streets, Washington,
to cost over $3)0,000.
Grew will write and publish a book about
his care ras the President of tli * French Re
public. The French people will now regret
that they forced him out of uplee.
Rev Thomas Magenms, pastor of St. Thomas'
Catholic church, of Jamaica) Plains, w ill serve
as chaplain at the inauguration of Mayor O'Brien
in Boston on the first Monday of January, ISSN.
Rob Wolff, stir, of the late Mr. Auguste
Wolff, senior of the celebrated piano manufac
tory of i’lcyel, WoifT A Cos.. Paris, lias arrived
ni Sew Orleans, accompanied by Count de Gag
net, These gentlemen are on a long pleasure
tour through the United States and i anada.
Jay Gould is reported to huve said recently
that the speculators have made a platthing of
his health tor years, ami that he c, ulu shake
Wall street to its foundations by si nply stand
ing on the stejis of the Stock Exchange building,
striking his forehead with his hand and giving
a groan or two.
Senator and Mrs. Cameron entertained a
company at dinner in Washington Monday
evening to meet Senator and Mrs. Quay, of
Pennsylvania. The other guests were Senator
aud Mrs. Sherman, Senator- and Mrs. Vest,
Senator and Mrs. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Hitt,
Miss Cameron and Mr. Ferguson, member of
Parliament,
John G. Whittier has sent out a circular
letter, saying that he gratefully acknowledges
the kind tokens of remembrance which have
reached him on his birthday. The number of
them has proved so unexpectedly large that be
finds himself utterly uuable to answer them in
detail. He can ouly tender to his friends,
kuownland unknow n Ins heartiest thanks for
all wh eh they hava do .o to make his evening of
lire brighter and happier.
Mrs. Poindexter Dunn, of Arkansas, has re
turned to Wasdnglon, leaving her htisliand,
Representative Dunn, at Los Angeles, where he
went for his health. The Washington Critic
says that little Admi Dunn, who is only and
years old, has won quite a name and fame
in the City of the Angels as a musician. She
played twice in the Opera House on the violin
to the delight and woirier of an immense audi
ence. Five huudred children were engaged in
the concert.
United States Senator Farwell, of Chicago,
is described as I lie [Missessor of a magnificent
physique, with a bright and laughing eye. Ho
Is both brainy and wealthy, having made a for
tune recently in building the Texas State Hou e,
the pay for which ho received mostly in land.
It took two hundred miles of fencing to inclose
bis estate, and he lias cattle by the tens of l lion •
sands upon the ranch. His wife is with him in
Washington, and is Doled for her charitable
work. Miss Farwell is not in society this win
ter, and it is reported that she will lie married
shortly to the son of Mr. Winston, our cx-Min
istor to Persia. Senator Farwell, it will lx: re
membered, takes the seat of Gen. John A. Lo
giu.
“Thomas Nelson Page’s visit to Vanderbilt
t’niver-ily will serve heucetorth.” says the
Nashville American, “to mark anew era in nnr
civilization. Asa literary event, it was the
most remarkable oreurreiice in Southern history.
It was, iiertiaiw. the first time that ever a litera
ry man received such a poDular demonstration
in the South. Our people taw hung upon the
lipa of imp-issioued orators; they have huzzaed
themselves hoarse ever renowned warriors; but
no such ovatiou was ever lief ore accorded a lit
erary man. With no adventitious circumstances
he won the applause, aroused the enthusiasm
and received the homage which have heretofore
been given ouly to oriUiaut speakers and suc
eo sful soldiers. The lime, the occasion and the
place, were einineutly appropriate. Nor was
fortune less happy in her choice of ibe man. A
true Virginian, a genuine son of the old South
and at the same time in hearty sympathy and
Cerfeet accord with the new South and its
reader views and mftier aspirations, Thomas
Nelson Page aw akens hope aud arouses cxpcola
ttous beyond those of any other Southern
writer.”
, A QUEER AMBIIXON.
A Rich Girl Who Married a Consump
tive to Gain Social Freedom.
San Francisco Hisixitcli to Chicago Herald.
The death at the littlo town of Mayfield, near
the Stanford University, of a young and con
sumptive printer uauied Frank McKee, com
pletes a curious story of a rich young girl's folly.
Seven years ago Abram Brown, of Oakland,
died, leaving property to his only daughter,
Frankie, valued at S.V),UOO. She attained her
majority a little over a year ago. arid then as
sumed control of the property, which brought
iu an annual income, of about $5,000. She took
a trip to Highland Springs, and there a
lively widow persuaded her that she
ought to become a Widow herself
in order to enjoy the social freedom
that an unmarried woman can never hope to
gain. Full of the project, she returned to Oak
land. and formed the acquaintance of ('apt.
and Mrs. K. M. Apgar. To them she confided
her longing for social emancipation. She de
clared sue was bound to become a widow, and
thought if she coul 1 marry some man who was
on hit death-bed it w ould be about the rignt
thing. Apgar agreed that if she was determined
to marry, and for the purpose stated, it would
ne advisable to have the tning settled with as
little publicity as possible. He accordingly in
troduced this peculiar young woman 10 Dr.
Dupuy. Dr. Dupuy declared that he knew of
Just tuo man to suit Miss Brown's wish in the
liersou of a poor printer named Frank McKee,
who had a beautiful ease of consumption and
w ho could not possibly live more tnan a month.
Miss Brown tnought that she had found just
the uiau she wanted and agreed to look at tbe
subject. On tbe following day she and Apgar
went to the office of l)r. Dupuy, where the medi
cal man exhibited his consumptive. Miss Brown
looked him over with a critical eye, thumped Ids
chest vigorously, and made him cough several
times for the purpose of ascertaining if the in
vestment was a safe one. She finally concluded
that she would take the chances ot his living.
.McKee consented to uiurry the girl for a money
consideration, and the i>air were wedded by
Justice Mood They did not depart together.
It had been agreed that the husband should go
and die by himself. The wife gave him SIOO be
fore tue ceremony took pla.e. and agreed to
pay Dr. Dupuy SIOO with which to defray tbe
ex ...... ~s of a comfortable death-bed for her
husband.
failed to keep his promise, however,
and strangely insisted on living. In fact, he
grew alarmingly healthy. He met bis wife a
lew mouths after and got. some money from
her. Dupuv received a liberal commission, and
it is charged that Apgar got a fee. Finally
.Mrs. McKee refused tb lie bled any more and de
parted for the East. The story leaked out and
created a great sensatiou in Oakland. McKee
followed her to Indiana, but she refused to sec
him. She then departed this fall for Europe,
and is said to be In Carlsbad. Another curious
feature of the affair is that Apgar died on the
same day as McKee.
THEiBUSTLE IN A NEW ROLE.
The Way in Which it Saved a Young
Lady’s aiife.
F>-om the Haywards (Cat.) Journal.
We don't believe history has chronicled a
more singular escape from death than occurred
in Redwood eattyon last week, The male sex
who are an unfeeling lot, takeu altogether, have
severely criticised bustles, which are a most im
portant part of the female wardrobe, hu: after
reading this thrilling episode should "forever
hold their peace," A handsome young lady of
sweet 17 arrived from Arison? a couple of weeks
ago. and spent a yery pleasant visit with friends
iu the above canyon. One evening when the
head of the family was away the milking
uaturally fell on the female portion of the
household. The Arizona fair one atnnee offered
to do her share, but tbe aunt protested. Tne
protest was of no avail, however, and shortly
afterward she started tor tbe eomtl, pail in
hand, a typical Maud Muller. Tne young
lady was just in the act of milking
when a ferocious bull spied her, and at once
started on the warpath It was a critical posi
tion, and. as the bull came charging at her with
lowered horns and blood in his eye, tne young
lady quietly dropped on the ground, face down
ward, and lay as still as death. This manoeuvre
was something new for the bull, and he was for
a moment uonpiussed, but be soon recovered
from his surprise and made for the prostrate
maiden, and uad it not been for that bustle the
young lady uever would have lived to tell this
exching exp irience. The bull gored that ten
derly fr.uned air castle called a bustle until it
gave way, and he retired with the trophy. The
aunt saw the charge and was about to run in,
when tbe brave girl called out to keep back or
else bolh would be killed. As it turned out, the
bull, after discovering the bustle, concluded
that he had made a slight mistake, and retired
from the battle. Had the young lady started to
rim the bull would very likely soon have over
taken anu killed her. Hereafter all youug ladies
should have an extra bustle in reserve when
they go into the country and play the milkmaid
act.
A Kentucky Story.
From the Chicago Sews.
'Twas a gentleman's game.
And me and the major
Sat into the same
Just to pass away time.
For we cared not a dime
For the wager.
There was one at the board
Amazingly silly, ,
But he seeaned to be stored
With a plenty of stuff
For a good game o' bluff.
Did this gillie.
He was one o' that kind
That told by bis action
The state of his mind,
Sq we kuowed by his look
Every hand that he took
To a fraction.
When it came to his (flay
An’ we both hud appraised him.
He reckoned he'd stay,
But wo kuowed he was cooked
By the way that he looked,
So we raised him.
Waal, he tilted us back,
And me an’ the major
Set iu a whole stack
Just to learn the young fool
That it wa’n’t a good rule
For to wager.
Then he reached for the pot
As ho looked in our faces
Aud said: "Tell ye what,
You waul to look gruff
When ye’r aping to bluff
With four aces.”
Tantalized Bourbons.
FYoni the. Washington Critu;.
Lost Wedne (lav morning Fi st Assistant
Postmas'er General tevensou, Col. Nick Bell,
Superintendent of Foreign Mails, ami
Rogers, mend er of Congress from Arkansas,
started up to Somerset, Va.. to attend t te wed
ding of Consul General Turner, St Tbomas, W.
1.. and all went well till they reached Bra idy
Station, six miles north or Culpepper. They
were gazing at the Virginia scenery and talking
polities, when the train slowed up and the con
ductor yelled:
“Brandy!”
T e three Democratic statesmen jumped up.
“What's tbatr” said Gen. Stevenson, trying to
be calm.
“Hist! Listen!" whispered Judge Rogers,
with repressed emotion and h‘s hand pi his ear.
"Ho said brandy, didn’t he?” asked Col. Bell,
eagerly.
"Brandy!” yelled the brakeman at the other
end of the ear, and the Democratic statesmen’
with a combined and fervent ‘‘Thauk heaven!’,
piled out over each other on to the platform and
into the station.
“Where is it?” asked Col. Bell, excitedly,
when they found the station agent, *
“Where’s what?” said tip- agent.
“Brandy, of course,” replied the Colonel em
phatically.
"This is It,’’ said tbc agent, politely.
"What?” said Col. Bell, looking around.
“This; this is Brandy station.” asserted the
agent positively; and the three statesmen looked
at the agent and at each other, then sadly llled
back into the cor.
A Big Opal or a Big Stone.
Fro in the .Xetr York Trihunt.
Col. "Pat” Donau, the sclutiiluut genius of
Devil’s Lake, lias heeiicoruscatinzin New York
for a week. He carries In his pocket an uncut gi m
which he says has made all the great jewelers
oi New York from Tiffany down groan with
envy. It is an opal, and in its unfinished state.
Donun says it is second only in size and value .o
the one owned by the Czar of Russia and worn
by the Kin press. It is larger than a hen’s egg,
and wheu cut It may still be as large ns a pul
let’s egg. If the cutting should lie accomplished
on this stone without ihe discovery of flaws it
would he worth $10,00(1 to $00,OX). Of rours
Its value is now speculative, it was found in
Spanish Honduras, where Col. Douuu lias a
grout from the government. In connection with
(ten. Thomas L Rosser, of Confederate famt
They are working a gold inino there and inn
dentally tinding opals.
An Article in a uewspnper the other day was
called "A Novel Railroad.” We have travel 1
on it. It is the railroad on which a train b y
drops forty -seven soiled novels of the gulutle
Library senes on the passenger’s lap before ae
travels leu mdes—DruA.e s Magazine.
ITEMB OF INTEREST.
Hunters claim to have seen a snake 60 feet
loug in lake Koshkonong, Win.
There are said to be only four horses in Alas
ka, three at Juneau aud one a. Sitka.
Tub Northern Presbyterian church contributed
last year to its ministerial relief fund $118,830
cash.
Is the Atlantic coast cities the keeping of alli
gators as pets is the new est craze among the
fashionable people.
No sickly trammels confine art iu Wisconsin.
Among the, designs for a church window there
was one w ith three angels wearing bustles.
The range of guns, like the vision of tele>-
scopes, his been greatly lengthened out. Guns
that will throw a ball five miles have been in
vented.
An electric belt, containing a dozen electric
cells and a battery, for the use of firemen in
dark places, is to be tested by the New York
Fire Department.
Uncle Saw is a citizen of some public enter
prise. During the last fiscal ..year he has ex
pended $2,841,13# for sites, constructions of n ;w
buildings, and tue repair bf old (raes.
Baron Von Putkammer, said tp be a nephew
of the present German Minister of the Interior,
is employed in an Omaha restaurant. The
cause of liis expatriation is unknown.
An insane man jumped from a Burlington and
Missouri river train near Hastings, Nob., while
it was running at the rate of thirty miles an
hour recently, but escaped without injury.
Sarah Cooney, of Philadelphia, was put off a
street car heeaus ■ sic- didn't have a transfer
ticket, to which she w is entit ed. She sued the
company and obtaioe 1 a verdict of SOO dama
ges.
A goat with a red beard inhabits certain
islands of the, Grecian Archipelago It is said
to be found nowhere else in the world. A speci
men has recently been captured and sent to
Berlin.
A monster rattlesnake, which measured
nearly thirteen feet in length and was as large
around as a man’s body, was killed near Tahle
quah. I. TANARUS., a few days ago. It had twenty-four
rattles.
Another novo by Judge Tourgee, called
"Block Ice,” will appear in February, and about
the same time he will publish “Letters to a
King. ' treating of the relations of religion to
politics.
Chinamen are often not satisfied with this
oount-y. One day last week a thousand Chinamen
left San Fratidsco for the flowery kingdom.
Thwv han not found this the Eden they bad ex
pected to find it.
A Boston man. who Isa manufacturer of rasp
berry jam. says that no raspberries at all are
used in making it. What is used, it appears.are
tomatoes, gluccre aud hayseed and a little pre
pared raspberry flavor.
“No man,” says a prominent Philadelphia
pbysiciau who is an enthusiastic vegetar an.
■ who eats a pound of maecaronl daily, and tbe
balance of whose food is of a kind rod nature,
will ever become a druakarJ.”
A gentleman who has been investigating the
records in the I’rothonotary's office at Reading,
finds that 611 divorces were granted iu Berks
county between 1866 and 1886. It is estimated
that the number up to date is fully 800.
The wife of President Diaz, of Mexico, has
established in the City of Mexico a large
“Friendly Hume of the Workingwomen," at
which small children will be cared for during
the day while their mothers are at work.
A tree was cut in the Skookum valley, in
Washington Territory, that sealed 35,000 feet,
As $7 50 per 1,000 is the value of lumber there,
the tree was worth $232 50 It is said that the
lumber lands in that locality will average ten
such trees to the acre.
The school census of Lewiston, Me., shows
that the children of foreign parentage outnum
ber the native Americans more than two to one.
The uumber of pupils according to nation lity
is as follows; Fr.mch-Canadians, 2,767; Irish,
1,323; American, 2,008.
A yocvg owi, came flying over tbe buildings
on Graut avenue, in Garden City, Kan., the
other morning, and flew straight as an arrow at
a man standing on the corner. Wnen the bird
reached him the man threw up bis hands sud
denly and caught it as he would a ball.
According to the San Francisco Alta a
chureh organ in that city has been benefited
rather than injured by tbe accidental discharge
of a bullet into it. The Instrument was out of
order, but since receiving the bullet has pro
duced almost as good music as when new.
Workmen who were digging a ditch in Mont
gomery county, Indiana, struck a stratum of
earth resembling white clay, which turned black
on being exposed to the air. Pieces of it thrown
into the fire were found to bu. n fiercely. The
substance is supposed to be coal of the first
formation.
At Moore’s Hill, Ind., there occurred a most
. novel fight the other day. The contest was be
i tween a large Poland China boar and a
valuable but somewhat quarrelsome. Jersey
l cow. The hog came out victorious, kill ng the
cow by ‘■trikiug her in the abdomen with his
tusk and severing an artery.
A bean eating matc h betw een a fat man and
a lean man came off at a St. Louis hotel recent
ly. The contestants devoured eight pots of
Ivans each, then the slim man stopped, unable
to eat more. The fat man kept on, finished his
ninth pet and was declared the w inner. lie liad
eaten exactly nine pounds of beaus.
The Greek Chciic i at Sitka, Alaska, is one
of the wealthiest iu the world, its treasure con
sisting for the greater partin old painti igs if
the saints set in frames of go Id and silver. One
picture, a present from tbe Czar, is valued at
$400.0. The massive doois of the church are
heavily inlaid with the pr. eious metals.
C’Ai-r. Baeliiry, of New Bedford, is a particu
larly successful whale catcher, With his
steamer, the Orca, he has in three seasons
made a fortune. This year he killed 35 whales,
but he had room for the oil of 28 only, and e
gave two whales to another steamer. He
secured 2.80 U barrels of oil and 48,000 pounds of
bone.
The number of telephones in use in the
United States is 341,670, and the gross income
from the same for the year 1886 was $11,150,000.
The expenses were $7,000,000, and tbe net earn
ings $1,150,000. The number of miles of wire is
128.231. Tbe subordinate telephone companies
obtain $26 81 net profit per subscriber after pay -
ing sl4 royalty to tbe parent company and all
expenses of tbe business.
The son of a king Is about to become a student
of the Medical College of Indiana. His name is
Alfred SI. Thompson, and he is a full blooded
Vey negro, known among his people as
“.llomora," a son of Dowanna, King of the Up
per lVrou country, and Sandymanda, Queen of
Jarbaeca. He is about 20 yearn old, very well
educated, having studied tor some years past in
the mission schools at cape Mount, Africa.
A statistician figuring upou eggsand chickens
has concluded that in eighteen of the States the
annual average product per dozen per hen is os
follows: Maine, 7.5; Massachusetts, 7.2: Coo’-
Bectlcut, 7.1; New Hampshire, 6.7; Rhode
Island, 6.4; Vermont. 59; Pennsylvania, 5.-. ( -
New York, 5.0; Indiana. 5.0; Tennessee, 4.7;
Kentucky. 4.0; lowa, 4.3: Ohio, 4.0; Illinois, 3.6;
North Carolina, 3.6; Alabama, 3.2; South Caro
lina, 3.1; Louisiana. 8.0.
A Minneapolis wholesale dealer In liquors
received an order for a cask of whisky, to lie
• sent to lowa. It was sent C. O. D., but from
some mistake of the express company the price
wan not collected. The. merchant was peremp
torily refused payment, the lowa man takin -
refuge In the prohibit iry law. Nevertneleas he
ordered a secood cask, which was duly sent aud
collude i for. The Minneapolis man, to get
oven with his lowa customer, had only sent him
water on his lust order.
At the village of Tolox, near Malaga. Spain,
a peculiar sect has been disturbed by the inter
ference of the authorities The chief tenet of
the believers is that every bind of covering of
the Itody Is displeasing to Ood. Why, if the
Creator had wanted man to bo covered He
would no doubt nave supplied him with u fu
or a coal of feathers, or scales, thev say. Man
lias no right to improve upon (JoJ's manage
ment of creation, and, therefore, both he uud
she should adept the dress worn by Adam and
Kve previous to the fall and adoption of too tig
leaf. But the police would not let them. They
were all very simple-minded ereami’ee, an t were
let off with a small tine after having been clothed
and promised not to go without clothes again!
A number of them were handed over to bypnol
tists for experimenting upon, and w ere found
excellent subjects. One of them being told to
perspire at once commenced covering herself
with copious sweat. Another was told t' .limb
a Steep hill, and immediately started climbing
upon the floor, making great exertions, and
finishing by getting literally out of breath. Be
ing told she had arrived on top and might re
pose a little stie api.it ted on the floor and too* a
long time to repose hsrselt after the exertion.
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Its superior excellence proven In millions ot
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red by the United States Government, ln
orsed by the heads of the Great Universities as
ie Strongest, Purest aud most Healthful. Dr.
doe's the only Baking Powder that does no
■ntain Amm< nia. lame or Aiura. Sold only :n
ans.
TRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
vtre- VORK CHICAGO. ST. LOUTS.
A. R. ALTMAYER * CO.
We Wish You All a Very
Merry Christmas.
We also wish to state that
the few lines of
lolidsA Goods,
Gent's Toilet Slippers, etc.,
that are left unsold, we will
close out at tremendous sac*
rifice. This will be a rare op
portunity for you to purchase
a useful and ornamental ai*tix
cle at a very trifling figure.
Respectfully Yours,
lUltmpr&Co.
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ZON WEISS CREAM.
- ■JWEWeiWfIIHi- Mimu— ian i
FOR THE TEETH
Te nopie from Nev&Mattrialt, containtno ScUtt.
Earn Grit, or injurioue mutter
It is Pub*, Defined. Pbrfect.
Nornixo Likb It Evib Known.
From Senator fogeeshnll.- “I take pleat
nre In recommending Zonweis* on account or ltt
efficacy and purity.”
From IWrt. Gen. T naan's Dentist. Dr.
K 8. Carroll, Washington,!) C.-"I have had
Zonwclss analyzed. It It the most perfect denti
frice I bate ever scon.”
From Hon. < linn. P. Johnion. Ex. T/t.
Gov. of .Mo. -"ZonwflsscleaDscathe teeth thor
oughly, la delicate, conventen', verv pleasant, and
leaves no after taste. Bonn by aii. dbcuoxsts-
Price, 35 cento.
Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St„ N. Y.
t ■mi—i —— i—MHi ■— nr-
Fcr sale by IJPPMAN BBOS., Lippmanl
Block, Savannah. _
FOOD PRODUCTS.
tot Citj ills.
■yiyT'E are making an extra quality of GBITS
and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trad*
as superior to any in this market. Would b
pleased to give special prices on application.
We have on hand a choice lot of EMPTY
SACKS, which we are selling cheap.
BOND, HAYNES & ELTON