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4 C|e |lttos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. 188 7. Registered at the Post OJTIcc In Savannah. MoRMxn New* Ik published every <lay in Ifcr year, and is served to subscriber* i the city, tv newsdealers and carvieis. on their own ac count, at 25 cents a neck, $1 (10 a month, $5 00 lor six months and flO 00 for one year. The Morning News by mail, one month, |1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; ODe veer. $lO 00. The Morning News, hv mart, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, times months. $2 00; six months, $f 00 one year, $8 00. The Mousing News. Tri-Weeklv, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturday?, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered latter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. 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Auction Sale—House and Lot near 8., F. & W. Ry, by C. H. Doraett. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos. Steinway Pianos —Schreiner's Music Store. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted ; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. 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. BAKUN U PU WJJhlt. wEf©77?^\ PU RE jppßicrs CREAM j*AKIKj 1 ► Its superior excellence proven In millions ot orrttw for more than a quarter of a century It is 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. i ■ .—ii. i ——i— > 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