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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A. M.;
Magnolia Encampment No. 1, 1. 0. O. F.; Gol
den Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.; Savannah
Yacht Club; The Equitable Loan and Building
Association; Savannah Eloral and Art Associa
tion.
Special Notices- A Card from C. G. Petter
son. Master Russian Bark Navigator; as to
■Crews of Russian Barks Navigator and Follux;
Btraw Hats, at Jaudon's.
Steamship Sohidples— Ocean Steamship
Company; General Transatlantic Company.
Spencerian Steel Pens—lvison, Bhikeman
A Cos., New York.
Cheap Coi.cmn Advertisements— Help Want -
ed; Employmei t Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Strayed; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Mr. Randall’s tariff bill is still resting iu
a pigeon hole.
The New York Tribune charges that
Democrats who desert Mr. Randall are false
to their trusts. One of the strong points of
Democracy is that it is the enemy of trusts.
Senator Sherman will have to open his
barrel. The South Carolina Republicans
want Lincoln, and it will take a good-sized
bid to keep them from voting for him.
Does Senator Sherman think he could offer
tM!
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, will have
to fight for a re-election. Gen. Atkins, who
is Commissioner of Indian Affairs, thinks
the Senator has a surplus of Senatorial
honors and proposes to make an effort to
get his place.
Seven State elections occur this year
prior to the Presidential election. That of
Rhode Island occurs to-day; Louisiana,
April IT; Alabama, Aug. G, Arkansas,
Pept. 3: Vermont, Sept. 4; Maine, Sept.
10; Georgia. Oct 3.
The Republicans in the Keituckv Legis
lature are troubled liecau.se Gov. Buckner
refuses to sign all the hills that are passed.
This is all right. It is better that the Re
public ms should be troubled now than that
the State should Is* troubled later on.
Johnson square will soon present a much
more attractive appearance than ever be
fore in its history. The city should take
steps t < prevent the gra - from being de
rtroved by those who are disp ,se l to make
portions of th • square a 1 ailng p'm>,
The Republicans of Pennsylvania are
declaring fi r Senator Cameron for a fourth
term. The Senator may decline the Presi
dency. but not a Senator hip. So long as
Pen ( sylv&nia is to lie retires nted by a Re
publican. tbe Democrats hope Senator Cam
ev**-. wU bo re-elected.
Congressman Yost, of Virginia, thinks
his Stat■ is Republican when the people
feme an opportunity to express themselves.
The people expressed themselves very fully
last fall, but the State didn’t go Repub
lican. On the contrary, Mahone was very
effectually snowed under.
Here is another item going to show that
there is a “revolt against Cleveland” among
the New Jersey Demo rats. Every Demo
cratic As-e nblymv.i in that State, except
Messrs. McDermott and Mulvey, wants Mr.
Cleveland re-nominated. The revolt is not
a very serious one, it seems.
Congressman William Walter Phelps’
magnificent mansion in New Jersey was
destroyed by fire the other day. It was
noted lor its fi e architecture, and was
va’tied anywhere between $150,000 and
#300,000. The apartments were fitted up
luxuriously. Tlie building and contents
were insured.
It is asserted that tbe Mugwump* are
very much disappointed tn President Cleve
land's course with regard to civil service
reform. If this is true it is tie, ause the
Mugwumjis don't be ievo in civil service
reform. Mr. Cleveland is the only Presi
dent the country has ever had who has
boldly supported this reform.
Mr. Roswell P. Flower visited the White
House w liilo he was in Washington last
week, a. and the correspondents say lie met
Mrs. Cleveland for the first time. Hi was
captivated by her charms, and the next day
the dispatches said ho could find no opposi
tton among Democrats t Mr. Cleveland.
Editor Dana, of the Sun, ought to visit the
White House.
The millionaire lawyer Marsh, of New
York, who announces hitnself a firm le
llaver in spiritualism, and who has deeded
a great deal of his property to a woman
named Diss Debar, who pretends to be a
medium, and who declares that the shades
of the great painters of the past paint pic
t'mes at her command, is certainly out of
his mind and ought to be fit ed into an in
sane usyluir
Inconsistent Protectionists.
The report of the minority of the Ways
and Means Committee on the Mills tariff
bill is a weak effort to influence pu lie sen
rftnent against the bill. A good deal of it
is devoted to an attack on the majority of
the committee. The minority seem to think
that thej'ought to have been entrusted with
the work of framing the bill, and pretend
to believe that they were not fairly treated
because they were not virtually entrusted
with the management of it. If they had
been jiermitted to have their way there
would have been no bill reported. They
would have opened the doors of the com
mittee room and invited all who wanted to
say anything about the tariff to express
their views. The result would have been
confusion. The representatives of the va
rious interests would have occupied the
committee’s time until the end of the ses
sion, and then they would not have thought
that they had been given a fair hearing.
Tbe majority did the only thing tiiat was
jxvssible under the circumstances. They
framed a bill and it has been reported to
the House. Whatever faults it may have
will be fully explained in the committee of
the whole House, and every interest will
have an opportunity to be fully heard
thereon.
The minority comment upon such points
in tbe bill as they think will excite preju
dice against it, and they especially appeal
to the farmers to oppose it. They make a
great mistake if they think the farmers are
against it. No doubt some of the wool pro
ducers object to free wool, but the great
majority of them will be benefited rather
than injured by that provision of the hill,
because woolen goods of ail kinds will be
cheaper, and the amount they will save in
the clothing they buy-will be greater than
the amount they will lose on ttie wool they
sell.
It is rather remarkable that the protec
tionists should make such a fight against
free wool. It is said a great many of the
woolen mills of the country are idle, and
have been for a long time. Freo wool will
put all these mills in operation, and cause
othors to be built at once. Years ago, when
it was proposed to put hides on the free
list, there was the same sort of opposition
that there is now to putting wool on the
freelist. The result of making hides freo,
however, was to stimulate the shoe manu
facturing industry to such an extent that
this country now competes with the world
in the manufacture of shoes.
The minority also insist that the reduc
tion of the duty on steel rails from sl7 to
sll per ton will ruin our steel rail indus
try. It is difficult to see bow such a thing
is possible. American manufacturers are
now offering steel rails at s3l per ton.
Steel rails manufactured in Europe cannot
bo laid down in this country for le*s than
f“N per ton, and with a duty of sll they
cannot lie sold for less than $39 per ton.
The American manufacturer, therefore,
will still have a margin of $8 per ton
above his present selling price.
The minority do not see what sense there
is in permitting the cotton planter to have
cheajier cotton ties and bagging. They are
afraid that the manufacturers of cotton ties
in this country will lie driven out of busi
ness. There is not the least dauger of that.
The cotton tie manufacturer may not make
as big profits as he now does, but he will
hold the market and make money.
Is it not rather remarkable that the
minority should insist on a duty on wool,
although such a duty forces the woolen
mills to remain idle, an lat the same time
demand that the cotton planters
shall ]>ay a tax on cotton ties
for the benefit of two or three
cotton tie manufacturers? This minority
of the Ways and Means Committee are a
lot of rathe inconsistent protectionists.
Every day strengthens the impression
that the Mills hill will pass the House. The
prospect is that by May 1 the Democratic
party will have fulfilled its promise to the
people to reform the tariff.
Colored Men as Jurors.
The colored men who recently mot in
convention in Georgia adopted a resolution
demanding a larger roprosenta’ion of their
raco on juries. The reason upon which
this resolution is based is not very clear.
White men are not anxious to do jury duty.
The majority of them avoid it whenever
they can. There are some who have no
objection to it became it enables them to
earn n few dollars, and there are others
who never shirk any of the duties which
devolve upon tbom ns citizens. It is quite
safe to soy, however, that nbout all white
men would be glad if they were wholly re
lieved of jury duty.
Why, then, are the colored men so anxious
to gerou juries? Do they think that the
position of jurymen increases their import
ance! If they do they are greatly mistaken.
An ignorant juryman is an object of con
tempt. His fellow jurymen have no respect
for him and the public ridicules him.
Colored men should not demand to beput
into the jury box until they are fitted to
discharge the duties of a juryman. Some
are fitted, hut the percentage of them who
are is small. There are too many ignorant
jurymen now. If the proportion were in
creased verdicts would command much less
respect than they do.
Colored men will lie admitted into the i
jury Vox in greater numbers when they are 1
qualified to go there. The thing for them
to do, therefore, is to prepare themselves
for their duties as citizens. Let them edu
cate themselves and increase their worldly
po-seisions. In proportion as they become !
pro[ierty holders their self respect will in
crease, and as that increases they will look
at things differently from w hat they now do.
Thomas Davis, of Illinois, is a man of his
word. Seven years ago bo was arrested by
Constable Waldrop on a charge of robbery,
convicted and sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary. He made a vow that as
soon as li<* was released he would kill Wal
drop. His term ended the other day, and
he went to Waldrop’s house at night, called
him to the door and fatally shot him. Judgo
Lynch will preside at Davis’ trial if he is
caught.
Senator Leland HI an ford, of California,
is amu hi need as a Republican Presidential
candidate, and it is said he will go to Chi
cago with a solid Pacific slope delegation
pledged to him. The list of Republican
candidates is not decreasing. K r every
statesman who declines there are two who
turn a willing ear to the music of the Presi
and ntial l***.
A New York man has discovered per
pctu'il motion —that is, he says lie his. It
was thought in this section that (Georgia
held ail these discoverers, but it treiiis she
does not. Well, lew that go. Geo gia is
still able to poll about the biggest Demo
cratic majority of any Stab* in tho country,
and that is distinction enough this year
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888.
Mr. Randall's Record.
It is stated on the authority of Senator
Frye that Mr. Randall is holding back the
appropriation bills in order to defeat the
Mills bill. Can it be po-sible that he would
be guilty of a trick of that, kind! Failing
to defeat his party by fair means, would he
report to unfair ones?
It is a fact that the appropriation bills
are further behind than they have ever l>e
fore been at this stage of the session. Per
haps Mr. Randall, who is chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, can explain
why this is so. If he cannot the conclusion
is irresistible that he intends to call up the
appropriation bills just at the time the
House is ready to consider the tariff bill,
and thus prevent its consideration at this
session. The appropriation bills have the
right of way, as it were, under the rules.
The New York Times takes occasion to
call attention to some features of Mr. Ran
dall’s political career. He is a politician
pure and simple. He has no other occupa
tion and no profession. For thirty years
he has lived off his earnings as an office
holder. For twenty-five years he has been
a member of Congress, and in that time has
drawn $U!o,000 in salary, besides some
thousands of dollars in mileage. He does
not live iu his district, and does not even
live in tbe city which he represents. He
pays no taxes there except 50c. poll tax
every two years. His district is what is
called a shoe-string district—that is, it is
arranged with the object of making it
Democratic.
The Republicans have had control of
Pennsylvania for many years, but they
have never disturbed Mr. Randall’s district,
although they could easily change its lines
so as to make it Republican. This shows
that they regard Mr. Randall as of more
value to tueni than any Republican coul 1
possibly be. Is it not about time that tne
Democratic leaders were inquiring whether
Mr. Randall is not •corking in the interest
of the Republican party rather than in that
of the party with which he affiliates *
The Right Man.
Mrs. Frank Leslie announces that she
will never marry again—unless the right
man should come along. As she says she
receives an average of two offers of mar
riage a day, ttie right man will probably
come along after awhile. Two offers a day
is 7: Hi a year, and if Mrs. lans lie continues
to lie solicited in wedlock at this rate she
ought to find the right man after awhile.
Mrs. Leslie has not established a sort of
personal matrimonial bureau, with the sign
hung outside, “Offers of marriage received
and promptly answered.” According to
her own statement she is more popular than
most women because her occupation draws
her into contact with men of science, litera
ture and art, as well as of practical affairs
and society. This is rather a modest state
ment. There are many other women who
are thrown in contact with such men, and
yet they don’t receive 730 offers of marriage
a year. Mrs. Leslie evidently possesses
some charm peculiar to herself. It may be
that her reputed beauty and wealth are the
attractions, and yet there are women
equally as handsome and quite as wealthy
who do not refuse two offers a day.
This matter of answering numerous suit
ors would seem to exact a good deal of Mrs.
Leslie’s valuable time, but it does not, for
the reason that she has the same answer
ready for all of them—except the right man
It is printed, and all she has to do is to
enclose it in an envelope, direct and seal it,
put her woman’s tongue to a green postage
stamp, and in a short while the mau has his
refusal, which is so kindly expressed that he
eau hardly resort to expletives. In
it she says as a starter that ail offer of mar
riage is always a compliment, after which
she speaks of her life, so perfectly rounded,
with the days of charming art work and
earnest endeavor, and the evenings crowded
with pleasure and amusement, and grace
fully glides into the statement that she will
not re marry unless the name offered hor
bo niched higher in the temple of fame
than that loft her by her husband—in other
words, until the right man conies along.
Thanking him for the honor done her, she
begs to subscribe herself what she will
probably be to the end, his friend.
The right man is somewhere in the uni
verse. Mrs. Leslie doesn’t know exactly
where he is, but she lias adopted the liest
method of finding out—she has advertised
that she is waiting for him. Let the offers
continue to flow in, and, if necessary, let
them bo quadrupled.
In the Doubtful Column.
The Democratic State Committee of Illi
nois met in Chicago the other day. and the
fact was brought out that the Democrats
have strong hopes of carrying tha State
next fall. The Republican majority, they
say, has lieen steadily decreasing for years,
and that in the next election a sufficient
number of Republicans will become Demo
crats or Prohibitionists to enable tho
Democrats to carry the State.
The tariff will be the main issue in the
election. Mr. Blaine was very quick to
answer tho President's message, and to
place his party in the p isitio.i of accepting
the issue made therein. Ho thought it
would lie one on which the Republicans
had the best chance of winning. It seems,
however, that he did not understand the
extent to which the tariff reform sentiment
bad spread. Iti Illinois the Democrats have
cause to hope that they will gain the votes
of a largo number of farmers who have
learned that a protective tariff imposes
hardships upon them that they are not
able to bear.
It would not be wise for Democrats to
count confidently on success i.* Illinois,
although Democratic victory there is pos
sible. It is quite evident that the Republi
cans will make a vigorous fight to hold the
State.
It is encouraging, however, to see signs
of Democratic activity in the States which
are regarded as R •publican. Rut the brunt
of the battle will tn in the really doubtful
States as heretofore.
The Washington correspondents of several
Georgia papers are trying to correct tho
statement now in circulation that the late
Chief Justice Waite’s estate is valued at.
S*JOO,UOO. The Constitution says the Chief
Justice loft only a $“,400 house in Washing
ton and a SSOO insurance policy. The Au
gusta Chronicle says lie left a $24,000 house
and a £5,000 poll* v. A meeting of the cor
respondents to adjust their differences
would n t Ih* out of order.
Of courso {Senator Sherman denies that
he may retire from the Presidential field.
Ho says he would not notice the report but
for the fact that it was printed in the New
York Tribune. He is not displeased with
the selection of delegates in Ohio. In fact
he is “profoundly content” with the action
taken. {Sherman is not a retiring states
man.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It May Spread.
From the Houston Post (Dem.)
A small spec on the Republican horizon looks
like "Maine anyhow.”
How He Begins the Day.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
About the first thin*? Senator Caraeron does
every morning when he comes out is to deny
th** report in some Isunocratie |>aper that he is
running for President. He does it quite regu
larly every w***k day, and he must feel very
grateful when Sunday comes and he can have a
day off.
No Denial Necessary.
From the Philadelphia Times (Demi)
It was not necessary for Mr. Sherman to deny
that he was going 10 withdraw from the Presi
dential race. Anybody who knows Mr. Sher
man should have known that the story was a
iie without the detiai. while those who did not
know him would l>e justified in not believiug it
on general principles.
Will Help the Workingmen.
From the Mew York Herald Kind.)
We say, therefore, unhesitatingly to our cor
respondent. and to all other workingmen, that
the Mills bill means prosj>erity for them, and
they ought to demand its passage. And as our
correspondent is employed in a woolen mill we
w ill and for him that the most important and
beneficent part of the bill is that which makes
wool duty free. No branch of American manu
factures has been so depressed as the woolen
Industry. Free wool will set it on its feet and
give it at once life and vigor.
BRIGHT BITS.
Occasionally a post office clerk licks so many
stamps that he learns to speak Gum Arabic,
and the knowledge sticks to him, too. — Shoe and
Leather lit porter.
“I will and devise," says the millionaire, and
when he is dead his heirs devise ways to circum
vent his will. It is almost enough to discourage
a man from trying to be a millionaire.—Texas
Siftings.
“I want a strong man fer the place. What
was your last occupation?"
“I was a carver of spring chickens in a dow*n
town restaurant.”
"Take off your coat and go to work at once.”
Boston Gazette.
Doctor Why, the skin's all worn off your
tongue. How did that happen ?”
Patient—-From hard work, sor.
Doctor—lmpossible. Are you a sword-swal
lower ?
Patient—No, Pm a labor agitator.— Judge.
Miss Giddy (at a progressive euchre party V
Just look at me, Mr. Lavisher, with this horrid
fool's can for a booby prize. 1 know I look iike
a fright.
Mr. Lavisher (never lost for a compliment)—
O, not at all. It's becoming. Just suits your
style of beauty. -Jwtge.
Reporter (to servant)—ls Mr. John Sher
man in?
Servant—He is in. son*, hut he is that sick he
can't spake.
Reporter—What was the cause of his illness?
Servant -Somebody suggested his name for
Vice President. -New York Sun.
Well, how is this, my dear sir?” inquired the
local practitioner. "You sent me a letter stat
ing that you had been attacked by smallpox,
and I find you suffering from rheumatism."
‘•Well, you see. doctor, it's like this,” said the
patient, "There wasn't a soul in the house who
could spell rheumatism.”— Banger Commercial.
Omaha Man From Dakota, eh? Shaking of
Dakota reminds me of a blizzard I
Dakota Man tin. ha! Wasn’t it funny?
"Funny? The blizzard was ”
"I should say so! Nearly laughed myself into
fits over it."
"Laughed over a blizzard! What blizzard?”
"The one in New York, of course.”— Omaha
World.
Mrs. Savezrten Riche (in fur store, to sales
man) I w ant to look at a pair of furnalias.
Salesman (doubtfully)—l don't think I know
what j-m mean, madam.
Mrs. .Savezrien hiche—-One of my friends has
bought a pair of horses and a sleigh, and she
said sin; got tie jwiraphernalia to go with it, and
I want a j*air. too.
Salesman (face reddening)—We are all out of
them to-day, madam.— Judge.
Pompoch Old Teacher (to class in sacred his
torv)- What weapon did Samson use to kill the
Philistines?
No one remembers.
Pompous Old Teacher (who believes in sug-
Spting answers, touching his chin)—What is
us?
Bright Boy (who takes the hint and remem
bers it all now)- The jawbone of an ass, sir.
Firms, in which pompous old teacher and
bright boy are principals.— Judge.
"Hello, old man, where are you going!”
‘*T> Albany.”
"Why are you taking so much reading mat
ter along? You have enough to start a news
stand."
"Nothing of the sort. These are only copies
of the current magazines, and. as I am*not par
ticularly interested in new soaps, sewing ma
chines, infants' foods, patent medicines, type
writers. corsets, photograpnic outfits, seed cat
alogues or invalid chairs, the chances are that
the mere reading matter won't occupy my time
till we reach Yonkers.”— Fuck.
PERSONAL.
Rev. T DeWitt Talmaoe is a great walker,
and thinks nothing of an early morning spin of
eight or nine miles into the suburbs, topped off
with a brisk run of halt a mile.
Mrs. Cleveland always confines herself to
Apollmaris water at dinner and wears no hustle
when she goes to church. Who says this isn't a
reform administration with a big it?
W H ini) J. I). Gray of Maryland, have
been granted a patent for a clock which, when
once wound up. will run for years. The clock Is
absolutely noiseless when in operation.
Steiniak. the Russian Nihilist now living in
London, takes great interest in Mr. Neman's
articles on Russia at present running in the
Century. He considers them the fairest state
ment yet made by a foreigner regarding the
social and political affairs of his native country,
Richard L. Wootton, the partner and bosom
friend "i Kit Carson, the famous scout, has
been blind for eight years, cataracts having
formed on his eves. He has just undergone an
operation iu Chicago which has restored his
sight. Wootton is now ‘*2 years of age. He has
bad countless thrilling adventure* during his
long career. In 18.*2 he drove 14,000 head of
sheep i.tJOO miles overland to Cahforland und
untile over $40,000 by the venture. It took him
only 107 days to make the trip.
Morris F. Hamilton, the venerable Librari
an of the State Library at Trenton, N. J., was
noted a few years ago for his powerful voice.
He is a man of about 5 feet 5 inches, stocky
built, and could make himself heard for half a
block on the noisiest part of Broa i way. It used
to afford him n great deal f amusemeut to
shout at an acquaintance at uviistance and no
tKhi the amazement of passers by. Another
of his peculiarities was the wearing of bis over
coat unbuttoned ou the stormiest ami windiest
days in winter
Algernon Charles Hwtnbi’rne is such a shy
and sensitive plant that if a woman looks him
full in the eve he blushes as red as the wattles
On an indignant turkey gobbler. A gushing,
giddy maiden once got Kum Into a comer ana
made him recite a jMiem. and was so grateful
that she planted a rousing kiss on Algernon
Charles Swinburne's mouth. In attempting to
resist he leaned backward and smashed a large
vows into small bits, and several young men
added to bis discomfiture by saying they saw*
him trying to ling the girl.
William Ferguson, who now lives at Egypt,
Mass , was liorn in lfiO£,and is one of the last
survivors of the lusty and energetic stage
drivers who were prominent personages iu the
Bay State in the old days Indore the railroad
robbed them of their occupation. Daniel Web
ster was frequently a passenger in Ferguson's
coach w hen ihe famous statesman was on his
wrßy to Marshfield. Says Fergusou; “Webster
always rode inside the coach. He was good
company, and if lie hail two or three good
driuks in him was a greater talker. When he
got warmed up what a voice he had'”
Coi. John Dm hinvar Sphogkl, formerly Cap
tain of the Guard in leadville, is living quietly
in Philadelphia, devoting his time and Talent to
.journalism. He has never got over the habit of
calling a revolver a "gnu,' - and lie invariably
speaks of every group <f circumstances as the
"whole outfit." Col. Sprogel is engaged during
hfs leisure moments in translating the Bible into
mining dialect, so that It oan be better appre
ciated iti t lie f illip'. The history of the little
difficulty between Goliah and David, in w hich
David got the drop and did his man up, will be
the most Interesting study m the work.
Hassan Toolidor, of Wind City, Arlz., has
succeodiHl in t uning a blacksnake, and teaching
It a nmnlier of remarkable tricks. t the word
of command the snake will tie itself up in a
Turk's head knot and remain in that position
until released. Then It will staid straight up
on the end of its tail and hiss nu accompani
ment to a violin which its master plays. The
intelligent reptile sees to putting the chick* ntt
in their coop at night, and if one should happen
to be missing it w ill thresh around aud hiss in a
most alarming manner until Mr. Tpolidge's at
tention is attracted. Its favorite resting place
at night in iu one of Mr. TooUdge • U,g boots
A WOMAN OP TASTE.
How This Rare Faculty is Made a Sala
ble Commodity.
From the Chicago News.
“A woman of wonderful taste."
‘‘Remarkable taste. Sho makes her living
by it."
"How?"
“She sells it"
‘ Sells what:'"
"Her ta*te."
It was on the Illinois Central suburban train.
Tlie speakers were two men. The listener was
tired of looking at the frozen lake and the mel
ancholy gulls, and was willing to eavesdrop.
“How can taste be a salable fommodity?"
"It seems to me that it is rare enough to bring
a good price anywhere. But os to the charm
ing woman, I will tvll you how it came about.
She is a lady of very unusul refinement and
cultivation. She is not beautiful, ns you knew:
but she is always picturesque, and can eater a
company of young and pretty girls and yet win
all attention to herself by the 4Kquisitd repose
of her manners, by her poetical dresses and her
interesting conversation. Three year3 ago her
husband died She was heart-broken. For a
time her mind was unsettled. She had always
li\ed in luxury and awoke to a sudden realiza
tion, in addition to her other trouble, that she
was possessed of but a few hundred dollars. She
bad no trade and no profession. She had simply
sp*nt her life in cultivating her miml and man-
ners in a desultory way. An acquaintance with
Emerson and Gautier was not going to help her
to take care of her two children.
“ ‘And yet she is a woman of such wonderful
taste,' her friends would say sympathizingly
when she complained of having nothing to do.
These words were dung at her till she grew des
perate. One day she informed them that since
taste seemed to be her bept possession, she
should make a living out of it.' She had a very
large social acquaintance, aud she visited all of
her friends. What she said was:
“ ‘What are you going to wear thus spring, and
what shall you do to your house?' They didn't
exactly know. People very seldom do. She
said she would decide for tnein if they would
pay her for it. They were enchanted. ‘You'll
do it just right!' they all cried; ‘you know, dear,
you have such taste!’
“The charming woman made a tour of Chi
cago shops. Then she went to New York. She
visited the art exhibits. That year her friends
were dressed as they never had l>een before,
kverv one had a gown of the color and cut
which best suited her. Tiie hats were ravish
ing. The combinations of color in the cos
tumes were as original as they were beautiful.
Even the fat women were satisfied with them
selves. As for the houses, they looked very
much altered. Here and there she employed
the severest simplicity; again she used oriental
lavishness She pave character to each apart
ment- and truth compels me to say that she
spent a mint of money. She has had a (trow
ing; success from year to year. Beyond donbt,
she is one of the most successful business
women in Chicago, as well as one of the most
aesthetic.”
•/Kenwood.” shouted the conductor.
"(lood-by. if you want your house made
beautiful or your wife dressed like a Perisian
she is the woman for you,”
A Tennessee Merchant.
From, the Arkanmw Traveler.
A country store in Tennessee. The proprietor,
who is arranging seteral holts of highly-colored
calico, looks up, nods, and says:
“Conte in. Uncle Billy.”
Uncle Billy comes in and says:
“Boh, git airy newspaper lately?”
“Yes: got one yesterday."
“Read tne a few lines uv it, will you* I
wan ter know whut folks air doin' in the outen
the-wuy places uv the worT."
The merchant drops his work and reads to
Uncle Billy.
"all. Bob, b 1 eve I'll ride. T>idn’t have
nothin’purtieuler ter do ter day. an'l thought
1 and sarter sa'nter over an’ see what wuz gain’
L '' mme hav a haffer pound uv coffee.
\\ ill pay you fur hit one uv these days.”
I nele Hilly get3 his coffee and goes away.
The merchant returns to his work of arrange
iug his calico and has been engaged but a few
minutes when someone darkens the door.
"W'y, how are you, Uncle Redman?” says the
merchant. “Walk back.”
“Anything fresh, Bob?”
“No, nothin’ of interest,"
“Got airy paper?”
“Yes.”
“Well, read me a little outen it, ef you please
I hain't beam nothin' in so long that I’m gittin’
sorter rusty.”
The merchant gets his paper and during an
hour reads to Uncle Redman.
“Wall, Bob, I reckon I'd better mosey back.
Let me have bout a haffer hound uv coffee, an'
I’ll pay you fur it 'gin spring.”
Uncle Redman goes away. The merchant
begins to arrange his calico.
“Hello, Bob."
“Why, how are you, Uncle Miles? Cotne in
Sit down? What are all the boys doin'?”
•Wall. Abs gone ter mill, Tom an’ Hender
son air buntin' a plant bed, Lige is a-piddlin’
armin' greasin’ the gear, an’ one thing and
another. The women folks have gone a-visitin',
an’ I lowed that I'd come over an' see ef any
thing had happened lately. Got a paper. I
reckon?”
“Yes.”
“Wall, read ntc a little suthin'.”
Bob reads to the old man. listens to his wise
comment, and is about to return te his work,
when the old man says:
"Bob, put up 'bout a pound uv middlin’ good
good coffee. Pay you fur hit when I sell my
tohacker."
The old man goes away. From time to time
during the day old uncles come in. and at night
the merchant finds that he has sold $2 worth of
goods on credit, and that he has accomplished
in the entire course of the day, the work ot re
arranging the disorder which one woman
wrought In ten minutes early m the morning.
The Voice of Love.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Far away over the distant sea
1 hear a voice calling: **< >h, come to me."
A voice of a loved one—
In accents low
That touch my heart strings,
W ith love's Kentle blow,
(’an it be thee, oh, voioe of love?
That stirs my heart like a fluttering dove,
That makes me tremble
As you whisper low
Rivalling once more
Days so long ago.
Why have you come, oh, voioe unkind
To scatter the ashes of my love to the wind?
The days that have been
Are past and fled.
Why eomest thou now?
The roses are death
I plucked the leaves of each rose as it died.
Buried the memories with which they were tied,
Only thorns methougbt
Were left for me.
Why eomest thou now
From over the sea?
I have struggled against thee, oh. siren fair.
For thou art another Lorilie, combing thy hair—
To lure men on,
In accents low.
To whisper love to tho;
Then Kill with a blow.
Thus thou didst treat me in the long ago,
When 1 whispered my hope in accents low,
laughing to scorn
My honest love.
It was then you crushed ir,
Oh, faithless dove!
I have lived to forget thee; oh, voice o'er the
sea.
The thorns are the crown thou gavest me.
Yet voice of a loved one,
Yonr accent* low.
Still touch at my heart's strings
With love's geutle blow.
It's the same old love that once lured me on.
That bound me iu fetters too strong, too strong.
Oh, voice of my loved one,
Thou cafleet me home.
The past is forgotten;
Yea, I come; 1 come'
Society In New York City.
Prom an Interview with Mr Ward McAllister
in the Tribune.
There are only about 4(*> people in fashionable
New York society, if you go outside that
number you strike people who are either not at
ease in a ballroom, or else make other people
not at ease. Of course there are any number of
the nr st cultivated and highly respectable,
even distinguished, people onto te ot fashion
able society, When we give u large hall like
the last New Year's ball, for *<>o guests, we go
outside of the exclusive fashionable set and in
vite professional men, and store, lawyer, editors,
artists and the like. Bui the dav when fortunes
iidndtte l men to exclusive society has gone by.
Now with the rapid growth of ricnex million
aires are too common to receive much defer
ence -a fortune of a million is only respectable
jsiverty. So we have to draw social bounda
ries otr another basts; old connePllons, g.-ntl"
breeding, perfection In all the ac
complishments of a gentleman, elegant leisure,
and nn unstained private reputation count for
more than newly-gotten riches.
“1 think you are rather unjust to me, father,"
said a fast young man; "unnecessarily severe,
as it were. I haven't the advantages which you
enjoyed when you were young. ”
"What do you mean by that, sir?"
“Your father was poor, mu kno w,”— Puck,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
At Uppkr Sandusky, 0., a man 78 years old
has just been convicted of sheep stealing.
A party of six gentlemen, who propose to
make a tour of Europe on bicycles, sailed from
New York for the Old World the other day.
Fairfield Center, Me., is a village that must
be popular with book agents. There is not a
dog owned in the place, nor within a mile of it.
His friends say of William Shirley, of On
tario. that lie fought under Wellington at
Waterloo, that he walks two miles to church
each Sunday, and that he is 108 years old.
Mr. Lawson, of Marion, Ind.. began marrying
in 1882. an l now at the age of 75 has just mar
ried his seventh wife. None of the seven was
over 31 years old when she became Mrs. Dawson.
Among the Japanese engravings which are
now exhibited in London is one in which is
shown a little boy exposing his body to the at
tacks of mosquitoes, so that his parents may be
spared the bites.
Live Oak Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, at
Oakland, Cal., is said to he the richest lodge in
the world. It has over 300 members, and the
aggregate wealth runs high in the millions.
One of its members, who died recently, left the
lodge $300,000, and his widow, who died soon
after, w.lled it an additional SIOO,OOO
Several weeks ago the physicians of Marys
ville, Cal., assured .1. O. Cousins, of that place,
that he was undoubtedly afflicted with leprosy.
He said if that was so he didn’t w ant to live
longer, and, though carefully guarded by his
friends, he made five attempts to kill himself,
and at last succeeded with a bottie of lauda
num.
A Baltimore fip.m has a till-tapper in the
shape of a Maltese cat. When one of the firm
opened the money drawer on Tuesday morning
out jumped a cat belonging to him. From the
cash were missing a S2O note and two $1 notes,
and other notes were damaged bv the cat's
teeth. Tabby is accused of having appropriated
the money.
A Buffalo man, who draw's a pension for a
a wound received during Che war, is very con
scientious. About three days before the time
comes Around for time to draw his quarterly
allowance, his leg gets in very bad shape, and
so continues until a week after be has received
his money. At other times he walks as weß as
other people.
George Crowmax, a German farmer, who was
for fifteen years a preacher anti worked in the
vicinity of Armsburg, near Jackson, Mo., re
cently at the close ot one ot his meetings, be
came insane and raised a great row in the
church. Crowmau had been drinking hard
cider, and that, w'ilh excitement over ghost
stories, is said to have upset his reason.
A white Maltese cat, known as “Dottie, ”
belonging to Miss L. Danfield, of Reading, died
the other day. It was a feline curiosity, and
; its antics were of the most amusing kind. The
cat was a beauty, anti weighed twenty pounds.
It could play ball, roll marbles, turn somer
saults, perform on the trapeze, shake hands,
ring the breakfast bell, and leap through iron
hoops.
A big bone, which local physicians of Carson,
Nev., say is a portion of a leg of a man below
the knee, was recently found near Genoa, Nev.
it was 2 feet long, and at the point where it
joined the knee was 8 inches cross, or fine times
the usual size. If the man who owned the bone
was built in proportion he must have been about
25 feet high. An active search is being made
for the rest of the skeleton.
Song Birds being very scarce in Oregon, a
number of German citizens of Portland pro
pose to import from the Fatherland a number
of nightingales, skylarks, buiflnehes, chaf
finches, goldfinches, greenfinches, black and
gray thrushes, linnets, starlings and other sing
ing birds, in all between 600 and 700, which will
be turned loose on their arrival. A fund of
over SI,OOO has been raised to further the pro
ject.
AN interesting manuscript is alleged to have
been discovered in the Treves Library. It is a
fragment of an old French poem, the author of
which, according to the notes at the bottom of
the te t, was no other lhan Richard Cißtir de
Lion. The title is “Sainte Nonna et son fils Saint
Devey,” and it was written during the King's
famous captivity in Germany, on his way from
the Holy Land, where the'bard Blonde! dis
covered him.
A young lady of Atchison had a very curious
experience recently. A young man of whom
she was very fond died several weeks ago, and
the other night, while sound asleep, she arose
from Iter bed, dressed, and went out to the
cemetery. When she awoke she was lying on
the young man's grave, and she was so fright
ened that she jumped the fence and ran to a
farm house in the vicinity. The farmer hitched
up a team and took the young woman to her
home.
Thomas Morrow killed a large black bear
with his good ax near Bad Axe, Mich., the other
day. The bear, who was taking his winter sleep
in a hollow loy, was awakened by the fuss
Thornes made in loading some logs near by, and
stuck Ills head out to see what was the matter.
Thomas happened to be looking that way and
to have his weapon in hand, so that the bear
didn't have time to draw ia his head before
he died, and probably never knew what hit
him,
Chicago has a thrifty street car conductor
who has been raising mushrooms in his cellar
and selling them to the several large hotels for
the past year. The man is a sturdy young Irish
man and he learned the trade of a'gardner in
Dublin. I-net March he raised four pounds daily
to every square foot of bed aud sold them at a
good price. He was seven years in solving the
climatic problem, but at last succeeded, and
now raises a product far superior to foreign
grown mushrooms.
F,. C. Culver, of Madrid, Pa., celebrated his
89th birthday, which occurred recently, by in
viting twenty-seven ladies and gentlemen of
Boone county, whose ages ranged from 79 to 95
years, the 95th anniversary of the oldest being
on that same day. A Hall was hired, in which
dinner was served, and about 800 people came to
see the old folks, who told stories of pioneer
days, and William Ketchmn. aged 88 years
sang a war song, and .Miss Mary Sturdevant
aged 95, sang a sacred song.
A syndicate proposes to build a winter bridge
across the river at Detroit, with three draws,
and to he torn down, so far as the superstruc
ture is concerned, at the opening of navigation
in the spring. A hill giving the necessary char
ter has already paused the Canadian Parliament
and Congress will be asked to have thu United
States engineers examine the scheme, and pass
on tiie question whether it would be an obstruc
tion to navigatoon or not. It has always been
a hard matter to get into Canada or out of it at
the Detroit straits.
Judoe Foster, of the Maine Supreme Court
who lives in Bethel. Me., was awakened by a
large crash in his kitchen the other night lie
hastily and scantily dressed and ran into the
kitchen, to And the dishes and other things dis
arranged and some broken. He looked around
to ascertain the cause of the trouble, and saw
the dog in one comer of the room trembling
with fear. Judge Foster immediately seized
him, administered a severe thrashing and then
retired to lied again. The next day, when the
Judge went down street everyone lie met asked
him if he felt or heard the earthquake last night
and on comparing time lie found it was pre
cisely the time the dog was whacked for up
setting things. 1
At Meadvidlc, on Sunday morning, a coop of
Antwerp carrier pigeons, sent there from Phila
delphia to make a flight the length of the State
were set free at 7 o'clock. In less than two
minutes nft"r gaining their freedom the I iriis
had taken their direction and started on their
long journey to tli-ir home in the "Quaker
City." A telegram received from Mr. Stein one
of the owners, sent from Philadelphia at 3:i"> p
m., stated that "Old Silver" amt rale other of
Mr. Stein's birds struck their loft at pj : *s
making the flight in live hour* and twenty five
minutes Four other birds arrived twenty
minutes later, while two were still on their wav
The rate of speed, even of the slowest, places
the lies! time ever made by an express train at
a considerable discount.
A F. McNkal, a well known citizen of Raw
son, Allen county, Ohio, died on March 26, after
a short illness, and now comes a strange story
connected with this fact, which is as fully au
thenticated as Ills death. Oil the night of Jail.
2s last he dreamed that he had died and gone to
heaven. In the dream the date of his death,
March 2H. a* firmly fixed ujion his mind. lii
the golden city of bis dream Mr. McNeal met
Mahlon povemnire. of Ada, an old acquaintance
and friend, and asked him when he hud left the
earth. Povemnire replied that lie had come to
the eternal world a week before. There were
other circiim-donc s in the dream equally is
strange, which so iinprtmaed McNeal that’the
next morning w hen lie nn-oke In his u mat good
health he reduced the detiilsto writing and put
the manuscript away In his desk, where Ids ife
found and read it with fear and trembling, hut
said nothing, although It made nn impression
on her maul which she could not efToee. On
Monday, March ‘-46. ScN'eui di.-d exactly ns indi
cated in the droam, while Poveumire bad pa sod
to the land of the unknown just a week before.
Mrs. McNeal is in possession of Hie manuscript
dated Jan. 98, and containing the siibetabce of
her husbands dream aa above route*
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