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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1888.
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Proctor’s Last Essays.
A series of popular scientific articles, bv
the late Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the emi
nent astronomer and author, will appear in
• tbe Morning News on the dates announced
below.
The article in this series upon “Plagues
and Pestilence” was received only the week
before the author’s death, and was written
apropos of the yellow fever in Florida.
Indeed, the whole serin; is Prof. Proctor’s
last popular scientific work for newspaper
publication.
They are expected to attract great atten
tion throughout the whole country, and will
prove a valuable addition to scientific loro
which no one can well a fiord to lose. They
were obtainable by the Morning News
only on account of its prominence in the
world of journalism, and have an especial
Interest for the newspaper readers of the
southeast.
These articles, six in number, are upon
the following t >pics:
1. Fcr September 23.
Plague and Pestilence
2. For September 30.
Learning the Stars.
8. For October 7.
Oub Two Brains.
4. For October 14.
Famous Comets.
5. For October 21.
Are Men Advancing!
6. For October 28.
Great Telescopes.
There is probably some truth in tbe
rumor that too much profane language is
Indulged in on the streets of Savannah,
where it may be heard by ladies.
Mr. Walt Whitman, who is sometimes
railed the “good gray poet,” says he thinks
William Cullen Bryant is America's great
est poet. What's his opinion of Walt Whit
man?
Of course every democrat in Savannah
wants Cleveland and Thurman to be elected.
A contribution on their part to the demo
cratic campaign fund would help to elect
them.
A young lady asks the New York Herald
to give her the name of a good cooking
school, and the Herald advises her to get
married. A post graduate course, so to
Break.
The New Y< rk Mail and Ksrpress thinks
that nothing could induce Mr. Blaine to ac
c“pt a cabinet ]s)sition under the next ad
ministration. Mr. Cleveland is certainly
not going to offer him one.
Blaine had his Bnrchard in 1884, and he
failed to get elected. This year Harrison
has his Blaine, end he will fail likewise to
sit in the presidential chair. In the mean
time the horseshoe still hangs over the front
door of Mr. Cleveland’s house.
The discussion of the question “Is Mar
riage a Failure?” will probably cause an in
crease in the number of marriages. Neither
women nor men are devoid of curiosity,
and when they become thoroughly inter
ested in the discussion they may man yin
order to solve the question.
The Cunurd steamship K.truria made last
June the quickest trip o:i record between
Queenstown and New York, but the other
day she finished a trip Which beats her own
record by five minutes. She covered the
distance betwreu the two points in six
days, two hours and fifty minutes.
Tbe New York Tribune says: "Indiana
can be depended on.” Yes, it can. You
bet, or words to that effect. The returns in
1884 showed that it could he depended on
then for 6,000 democratic majority, and
there is little room for doubt that It may he
depended on this fall for a greater majority
In the same direction.
James Edward Bedell, the New York
young man who was arrested the other dny
on a charge if swindling on an extensive
scale, is said to enjoy the notoriety into
which his arrest and the disclosures incident
thereto have brought him. The evidence
against James Edward is strong enough to
send him to tbe penitentiary, and when he
goes there he will be forgotten by the pub
lic. He doee well to enjoy himself while he
can.
The action of Gov. Gordon in suspending
the payment of state taxes in Richmond
county until the legislature meets and
takes official action in the matter will l>e
approved by the people of Georgia. Au
gusta has sustained a recent loss of prop
erty, by reason of the floods, the magnitude
of which is, perhaps, unprecedented iu that
city. Ibe people need all tbe money they
can rake together to tide them over their
losses, and no doubt the legislature will
agree with the governor that they should
lie relieved from the payment of these taxes
at tiu Lima.
Mr. Kilgore, of Texas.
By reason of his position of acting chair
man of the House committee on enrolled
bills, Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, has recently
become quite a prominent figure before the
| country. When the Chinese exclusion bill
h id been passed by both branches of con
i' gross, and the enrollment committee had
i gotten through with it, it was Mr. Kilgore’s
! duty to deli vor it to the President. The usual
time consumed in getting enrolled bills to
the President is from three to ten days, and
i Mr. Kilgore saw no reason why he should
go to the white house with the Chinese ex
elusion bill any sooner than with any other.
He objected very seriously to rushing in
that direction immediately, and as if he
were running a foot race with someone of
j the sporting members. Such action did
not comport with his idea of congressional
dignity. Besides, Texas was not urging
him to take the bill to the President. Texas
can get along even if tbe Chinese are not
excluded from this country. So Sir. Kil
gore decided to wait till it was convenient
for him to hand in the bill. His decision
caused the California members much uu
easiness, and they urged him to go
without a minute’s delay. They seemed
to think that if lie did not, the entire popu
lation of China would be dumped into San
Francisco before the bill became a law. Mr.
Kilgore smiled a smile which has passed
into history, and said he would do his duty.
He took the bill to the President two days
af or it had been enroll and, and, strange to
relate, California was not ruined in tbe.
meant me.
But Mr. Kilgore is not known only for
his action in this matter. He seems to have
taken the place of Mr. Holman,
of Indiana, in the House, and to
have become the great objector of that
body. There is hardly anything worth
objecting to but what Mr. Kilgore objects
to it. He objects to a pension for Mrs.
Sheridan and to an appropriation for the
yellow fever sufferers with equal ability
and unction, and probably bis name appears
in the Congressional Record as often as
that of anybody else, although he very
rarely, if ever, makes a speech. Evidently
he thinks that his constituents sent him to
congress to object, and ho is doing their
will. As be was renominated by acclama
tion the other day, it would seem that his
district regards his services as being in the
highest degree satisfactory.
Altogether, Mr. Kilgore has become one
of the most unique studies iu modern poli
tics. He thinks he has a sphere, and he is
filling it to the best of his ability. No
doubt some of liis objections are well made,
and it may be that Texas has done the
country a good turn by renominating him.
Distinguished Ohioans.
Ohio is now celebrating the one hundreth
anniversary of her first permanent settle
ment. One hundred years ago it was known
as the Northwest Territory, and the name,
Ohio, was not adopted till 17149. It was ad
mitted into the utii.n as a state in 1803 In
tbe intervening time between her first per
manent settlement and the present celebra
tion, Ohio has developed her agricultural,
manufacturing and other resources, and
now takes rank as one < f the foremost states
of the union. Tbecentennial celebration at
Columbus is marked by a display of ber
varied products.
A remarkable feature of Ohio’s history is
the long list of distinguished men it has
furnished to the country. There are Salmon
P. Chase and Morrison R. Waite, ex-chief
justices of the United States; ex President
Grant, and ex-Vice-President Hendricks;
Phillip H. Sheridan, late general of the
army, and Gen. \V. T. Sherman; Senators
Sherman, Allison, and Plumb; Congress
man S. S. Cox, Associate Justice Stanley
Matthews, and W. 1). Howells, the novelist.
From tbe time of Gen. Grant’s first elec
tion as President, the President or Vice
President has been at some time a citizen,
by birth or adoption, of Ohio, and there are
any number of public men from that state
who firmly behove that presidential light
ning ought to strike them.
But there is no greater Ohioan, nor
American, than Allen Granberry Thurman,
who was born in Virginia, but who has
lived nearly all of his life in the state of
presidential candidates. And in its centen
nial year, Ohio will furnish the successful
candidate for Vice President—a man who
is almost as old as the state itself, and who
has learned wisdom with every year of his
matured life.
The iruth About Fernandina.
The truth about Fernandina is out at last,
and the mystery surrounding the sickness
of the soldiers front Gainesville who went
to that city is solved. Tho authorities, who
so persistently denied the reports of its ex
istence in Fernandina, have at last satisfied
themselves that yellow fever prevails in
that city. Their di lay in coining to the
conclusion that the dreaded disease had
made its appearance has, however, caused
a number of people of Gainesville to
lose their lives, and has doubt
less permitted the germs of the disease to bo
scattered over hitherto healthy localities.
Probably the physicians who treated sus
picious cases early in the month did not
know yellow fever when they saw it. If
so, their want of knowledge wits most un
fortunate. There seems to bo no means of
stopping the fever from spreading except a
strict quarantine against it wh raver it ap
peal’s. Even then, as in the case of Fer
nandina, if p.iysioia is cannot recognize
the fever when it breaks out, and the
authorities deny its existence, healthy
places are likely to be infected before they
can guard against its introduction.
So far Savannah aud other coast cities of
Georgia have kept the disease away from
them, but the Fernandina outbreak demon
strates that, they cannot be too vigilant in
their efforts to enforce a rigid quarantine
against infected or suspected localities.
The democrats of the House say that
body can adjourn on three days’ notice. Of
course it can. It hns passed a tariff bill
which, if it becomes a law, will benefit the
people, and it has kept up with its business
pretty well. What prevents an adjourn
ment is the vacillating jiolioy of the Senate
republicans on the tariff question. For a
numbar of weeks they have Ijeen going to
report a lull "in ton days,” but they haveu’t
reported oue yet, and tbe likelihood is that
they won’t. Why doesn't the Senate pass
the Mills bill and let Congress adjourn?
Ex-Congressman Morrison was defeated
for re-election from Illinois two years ago
by Congressman Jehu Baker, and now he
proposes to see if he can’t have his revenge.
He is not himself the democratic candidate,
but he is doing all in his power for demo
cratic success, and his friends are made to
feel that Mr. Baker’s defeat In the coming
election will be the next best thing to elect
ing Mr. Morrison. They have the best
wishe; of the democrats of other states, aud
that ought to encourage them.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1888.
No Free Trade Crusade.
Mr Nathaniel McKay, of New York, has
j recently contributed some very remarkable
articles to tbe republican organs, showing,
! according to his statements, the pitiable
I condition of workingmen in “free trade
: England.” Mr. McKay’s articles are, of
course, from the high protection standpoint,
and they are intended to show to what con
dition, in his opinion, the workingmen of
this country would be reduced if we should
rdopt free trade. They are intended for
campaign documents.
Mr. McKay, however, makes the very
great mistake of supposing that any poli
tical party is trying to bring about free
trade in this country. There are men here
and there who advocate free trade, aud all
of them are not in the Democratic party;
nor is their number large; but the move
ment in that direction, if it is entitled to
the dignity of being called a move
ment, will have no bearing on
the tariff policy of tbe country.
Neither party wants free trade. The
tariff reduction of about 7 per c-nt. pro
posed by the Mills bill is very far from
being free trade, and it seems to meet with
:be approval of a good many republicans.
Mr. McKay’s assertion, therefore, that the
democrats would establish free trade and
injure the workingmen is pure drivel. Tbe
democrats have u very lively appreciation
of their duty to the workingmen.
Since Mr. McKay’s articles appeared, it
has come to light that President Cleveland,
for good, and sufficient reasons, vetoed a bill
for Mr McKay’s relief some time ago.
Does *his explain why he is attempting to
inyii o the President’s chances of election by
deliberately assuming positions with regard
to the Mills hill which he must kuow are
not tenable, and by miking statements with
regard to de.noc atic intentions which he
must know will not bear investigation? If
it does, it places Mr. McKay in a very un
enviable light before the public.
Teacher of Agriculture Wanted.
Queensland, a British colony in Australia,
wants an instructor in agriculture. She
wants him to be an American, and to teach
the American system of agriculture. The
colonial secretary has written to Commis
sioner Col man, at Washington, to that ef
fect, and has offered on the part of his gov
ermeut to pay such an instructor a yearly
salary of £750, or about $3,600, and his
traveling expenses.
Already quite a number of people have
expressed their willingness to accept the
position, and since the press is giving consid
erable attention to the matter, many others
will probably follow their example.
Ihe cost of food and clothing in Queens
land is less than in the United States, and a
good house may be rented in Brisbane, the
capital of the colony, for about SSOO a year,
while servants may be hired at about $2 50
a week each. The climate is so healthful
that Queensland has long been a resort for
invalids. While the summers are hot, the
thermometer frequently going up to 100’ in
the shade, the atmosphere is dry, and the
heat is tempered by the sea brt sze.
Commissioner Colman ought to recom
mend a southern man for the appointment,
for the very simple and satisfactory reason
that the products of the land are about the
same a; those of lands in this section. Cot
ton, sugar cane and tobacco are cultivated,
and wheat and other cereals may be grown.
Among the fruits which, it is said, may be
grown to perfection are the orange, lemoD,
banana, citron, pineapple, fig grape,peach,
apple and pear.
If any southern agriculturist has an
ambition to hold office in a foreign country,
let him notify Commissioner Colman. As
there are already a good many applicants,
however, and as only one can be successful,
those who want to instruct the farmers of
Queensland how to cultivate the ground
had better wait for official appointment
before dropping their work in this country.
A man named Smith, confined in the jail
in Birmingham, Ala., for murder, is said to
be a “remarkable actor." Some months
ago he feigned insanity, and carried out the
deception so well that he was about to be
committed to the insane asylum, when he
confessed that he was shamming. The
other day dee]) groans wore heard to come
from his cell, and when the warden made
an investigation, he found that Smith was
apparently in convulsions, saying he had
taken poison. Medical aid was summoned,
but in tbe meantime the prisoner ceased to
speak, and appeared to be dying in great
agony. When tho physicians proposed to
give him a strong emetic, he suddenly got
well. Probably tne next piece of acting lie
does will be oar in which there can be no
shamming, and in which tho suggestion of
the strongest emetic will not bring him
around.
Tbe esteemed New York Graphic is not
pleased because the Morning News has
referred to it as a mugwump newspaper.
The mugwump press of New York is not
to be sneez ’d at. There is the very able
New York Times, and there is tho excellent
Jlarpcn' Weekly. and there is the keen
witt.d /■.veiling J’osl. There may bo others
not row recalled to mind, but the point is
that they are all vet y fine newspapers, and
a person can got a grout deal of edification
from reading them. And yet the Ornithic
has tho best of reasoi s for not caring to bo
cla sod with them,viz., it is a fine democratic
journal, and stands by bot h the national
and the state candidates. There is nothing
better in this world than a soundly demo
cratic aud well edited newspaper, and the
Graphic is both.
The President is a brave man, and in no
way Is his bravery more strikingly mani
fested than in his promptness in taking tho
back track when he discovers that lie is in
the wrong. Some time ago he sent to the
Senate the appointment of John Fitzpatrick
as United States marshal for the eastern
district of Loui-iana. After he had done
so, it was represented to him that Fitpatrick
was not tbe right sort of a man for the posi
tion. He gave the matter close utt ’htion,
and when convinced that the appointment
was not a good one, he withdrew Mr. F.tz
patrick’s name from consideration by tbe
Senate. It requires an honn<t as well as a
brave man to acknowledge a mistake and
try to remedy it.
The new edition of the democratic cam
paign book is out, and it contains the
President’s letter of acceptance. The first
edition was exhausted some time ago, and
250,000 orders were put on file till the new
edition could be printed. The people ap
pear to be clamorous for campaign litera
ture of the democratic sort.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood doesn’t expect to
get very many votes for President, and it
is probably a matter < f indifference to her
whether she does or not. Hho is having a
fine time going around the country aud
making the other women torn green with
envy when they see her new bonnets.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Comparison.
From the New York Herald (Tnd.)
To warn the workingmen of this country to
vote against free wool because it will reduce
wages, is a good deai like begging them not to
eat roast beef for fear it will give them the
gout.
David Is a Good Politician.
From the New York Graphic (['em. )
Speaking to the farmers at Eimira yesterday,
Gov. Hill alluded to lightning rod and patent
right swindlers, and said: ‘‘To avoid being
swindled, you should let your wives do your
bargaining for you.” That is good advice, and
let us hope the governor will presently take it
to himself.
Gen. Collins’ Speeches.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.)
Tbe speech made by Gen. Collins at Albany
in the campaign of !SB4 is pretty generally eon
ceded to have turned to Cleveland the tide that
subsequently led to victory. The speech mu le
by Gen. Collins at the Cooper institute in New
York Thursday night will probably have as
powerful an effect, although it was not neces
sary to turn the tide this time.
Made a Good Thing of It.
From the Sew York Star ( Pem.)
It is quite clear that Harrison's services
against the strikers in is 77 cannot be considered
disinterested, even by his most ardent admirers.
He received, it appears, SI,OOO for one week's
service, besides pay as captain of infantry at
the rate of $l5O per month. He also, us the
records show, pruliteu to the extent of $21,000
by his services as railroad receiver. No wonder
he was on the side of the wealthy companies
and against their dollar-a-day men.
BRIGHT BITS.
Citizen—What are you doing with that man?
Policeman—l've just arrested him.
Citizen—But he's as deaf as a post.
Policeman—He'll get his hearing before the
magistrate.— Harpers’ Bazar,
Wire—What is the matter, John. You are
the mostlmpatient man I ever saw.
Husband istruggling to button his shirt)—l
can’t find this dinged button bole.
Wife (placidly i Have you looked under the
bureau for it?— Harpers’ Bazar.
“Every ties I enter your office,” said Alpha
to Omega, "I find you poring over the Congres
sional Record Why don’t you read some other
paper for a change?”
‘ The Congres i mat Record," replied Omega,
“contains no baseball news.” Norristown
Herald.
Jovial BarHtxoß Well. Charlie, my boy, I
hear you are going abroad this fall?
Young Anglomaniac Vans, 1 expect to go—
er—l shall spend most of my time in 1 /union,
yer know.
J. B.—To acquire the language, I suppose
, Harpers' Bazar
A Kentuckian who returned home from a
visit to Philadelphia a week ago told his friends
that he tasted anew beverage while in the
Quaker City. From his description of the fluid,
it Is believed that a practical joker persuaded
him to swallow a glass of water, by telling him
that it was a “milkshake.”- -Norristown Herald.
American— How is business in England now,
Mr. Jokely?
Mr. Jokely- Very depressed, indeed. My busi
ness is particularly dull.
American—lndeed! By the way, what line are
you in.
Mr. Jokely lam an editor of London Punch.
—Lowell Courier.
A Dinner Spoiled—Old Mrs Bently—What
makes y'e so late to dinner, Josiah?
old Mr. Benlv I've been to the ball game,
an’ ] sot on the blrachin' boards fer two hours,
au’ there was nothin’ but goose eggs.
Old Mrs. Bentiv (with vex tlom Now. Josiah
Bently. I ho)w to goodness ye haven’t gone an’
ett goose eggs an' spiled yer dinner!— Phillip
H. Welch , in the Epoch.
‘ Old Gent (severely) I (ind, sir, that you have
boon calling on my daughter almost every even
ing.
Abasned Youth—Y-e-s, sir.
‘And she declares that you are not engaged
to her and have uo( even proposed. I demand,
sir—l immediately demand—the object of your
intentions.
‘The the fact is. sir. the evenings have been
mighty coolish lately and the stoves in my
boarding house are not up yet ."—Philadelphia
Record.
Ir was getting late when the girl sril shyly:
"You look worried about something, Mr. Hark
inton?”
"I am. ' lie replied; "I have in mv pocket a
850.000 package of government bonds which I
foolishly forgot to deposit to day, and- and
aside from that I—l love you so devotedly.
Miss Schermerhorn, I am afraid to learn inv
fate.”
“As for the bonds, Mr. Harkinton.” replied
the girl, with a business air, “papa has a safe in
the house, and regarding the -the other mat
ter, why—why. 1 think so many of us are apt
to borrow trouble, Mr. llarkinton."— New York
Sun.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Fred Grant loves the military, and is
still at West Point, were she has spent the en
tire summer.
Alexander Dumas is said to be engaged on a
new comedy, in which he will satirize the journ
alistic world.
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine has purchased an
overcoat. This is believed to indicate an ex
tremely long and hard winter.
Louise Michel, the Parisian anarchist, is laid
up from overwork. This nppears to be rather
an incredible story, but it goes.
The Princess of Wales is more than ever dis
carding laces, satins and furbelows in public
places. Sue dresses with studied simplicity.
One of Hie members of the incoming class at,
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. N.
Y.. is Dau Rice, Jr., son of the noted circus
star.
Miss Adele Grant is at Lenox, and looks
more beautiful than ever. As she is in mourn
ing, sire takes no part in the gay-ties that are
now so numerous in that resort.
Capt. Robert Tarr of Gloucester is a candi
date for the nomination for the Massachusetts
Senate, and threatens to remain in the field till
the close of the polls There is no doubt Tarr
will stick.
Wilkie Collins lias a row of pigeon holes
Attache !to his and sk, and in each lie keeps a
story. One is a love story, another humorous,
another mysterious, etc., and he works on each
according to his mood.
To the list of actresses who have become
British peeresses must now be added the name
of the comic opera actress, Miss Edith Brandon,
whose hustianu lias just succeeded to the ancient
earidom of Berkeley. Her husband, wiio served
for a time m the royai navy, is 21 years of age,
and married her about a year ago.
Dh. Willard Parker, at whose private hos
pital ITot. i’roctor died, looks very much
younger man he is. He is slender, of medium
liiglit, wears a bung and a closely clipped iron
gray mustache. lie lias succeeded to the large
and lucrative practice of his father, and is fast
achieving fame as an expert practitioner.
Prince Henri d’Orleans is much pleased
with his reception iu this country, and (lads
America.’] society charming. With somewnat
conservative pi idleness lie says our women are
more like the French in vivacity and style than
any he has ever met. But he frankly admits
there are more beautiful faces here than in any
country in the world.
The chief characteristic of the literary style
of tho late Richard A. I’roctor was its clearness.
Whatever lie sai 1 could he easily remembered.
In 1873, when he delivered his first popular lec
ture on asl ronomy, ho was reported by u news
pni>er reporter to the extent of two columns
without 100 irking of a single note Prof.
Proctor aiierward complimented the reporter
on the accuracy of his work.
Historian Bancroft visited Mrs. Polk at
Nashville. Teuu., not long ago ami borrowed
the late President's state paper*. He returned
them t>* her a few days ago with a note, in
which he said: **l hope my life will he spared to
complete tuy history to the close of your hus
hand rx administration. That wi'd ciow niy life
work. i am encased with a corps of t>|e
writers and clerks and I believe will be able to
accomplish the task.”
Which Oen Edward Mcibok was choeen as a
delegate to represent Jctferson county m the
Kansas legislature, the miners considered it a
question of personal pride that their representa
tive should cut. as 'hi* a swath" as any of the
members from tie river district. Tt was the
duty of Me hour to array him as became his
station and the dignity of the vast aud glorious
county h • represented. In those days raiment
was a very tr.rtingconsideration. but the ward
rots* of the pioneer was not considered elaborate
enough for so great a personage as the delegate
from t hopddo.i Rockies. So an inventory was
ordered, an i after a two weeks’ ride all over
the t> rritory, the committ *a brought in a ls>: tlo
grocn ove-. oat, with a satin lapel. a plug ha’ of
the last century aud a pair of very dilapidated
trousers, a straw tailor was found to pat eh
the last; and at the proper time Gun. McCook
wins .satisfactorily arrayed, and clad in his
bottle-green coat, his plug hat polished and
glossy, and his new trousers, lie was accom
panied out of tow n by an escort of 1(K) picked
inen, and in royal at via start 'd upon his long
iournev to the capital.
FASHION’S N .W DO Q.
Spitz from Belgium to Take the Place
of Pugs from Japan.
From the London Figaro.
There is auew dog ou the horizon, and from
his description he is almost certain to reach us
here. In fashion lately we have been going in
for the foreigner. The fox terrier has become
almost too common. Japanese pugs are too
stupid. French poodles are not obe seriously
considered. There remain the Dachshund and
the Danish mastiff, neither of them quite satis
factory.
'l'iie iew dog hails from the low countries and
is not so much a novelty as a revival. He has
been rediscovered by the accident of the exhi
bition at Brussels. Dogs were to be an attrac
tion there, and the great desideratum was to be
patriotic and, if possible, local. Of course, the
nilk carrying dogs would be collected in great
fore.*, and it seemed as if Flanders would have
little else in the canine world to rely upon.
rii*n it was remembered that generations ago,
when railways were scarce in the land, there
was a little black terrier called a spitz, largely
used on the canal boats that then carried on the
commerce, and. indeed, the traffic of the low
countries. His chief qualities—almost legendary
were that he was death on rats and unap
proachable as a watch dog. He was a clever
little fellow, too, vivacious and attached. But
railways had driven him out.
An attempt was made to procure some for
the show. It proved that there was plenty of
life in the old breed still. There are yet barges
and canal boats in Holland, and they had spitz
still on board. Avery good show was got to
gether. The spitz became popular, and we
shall, no doubt, soon see him bore
A Woman’s B.uff.
From the Detroit Free Press.
After two or three days of weary search a
Canadian named Williams, liviug near St,
Thomas, located his eloping wife here in Detroit.
She had run away with the hired man, and they
were boarding with a family on Champlain
street. An officer went with the husband to in
terview the faithless one, rather expect iug
trouble, but there was none. The visitors were
ushered into the sitting room, and the wife rose
and calmly asked:
“Whom did yon wish to nee, gentlemen?"
“Mary. I've copse for you," replied the hus
band. “Why did you run away from me and
the children? Where's that scoundrel of a
Pete?"
“Mary? Mary ; Haven’t you mode a mistake,
sir?" she queried.
“Come, Mary, none of that," he answered,
"You got to go back with roe."
“Sir. what means this language?” she de-.
manded. “Officer, did you bring this man here
to insult me?"
“He says you are his wife."
“Of course she is."
“His wife! I never set eyes on him before!
He is either drunk or crazy! '
"Not my wife!" he shouted. “Haven't w r e
lived together eighteen years? Didn't you and
Pete skip from home ten days ago? Haven't
you got two children waiting for you to come
back? And haven't I come to waltz you
home and pound Pete within an inch of his
life?"
“I must demaud your protection," she said
to the officer. “This has goqg too far already.
Tiie man must be crazy."
“I want her arrested," said the husband.
“Try it at your peril!" she replied. “My hus
band wii! demand ample satisfaction for this
outrage."
“You must be mistaken," said the officer.
“No. I hain’t."
“Hut 1 guess you are, and we will go."
“You • name and the number of your badge,
please?" asked the woman. and when they were
given, she wrote them down and bowed the offi
cer out. The husband went, too, but vigorously
contended that no mistake nad been made. Two
hours later he returned to the house to make
another effort, but the wife had disappeared,
leaving behind her a note which read:
“To the Police—Please use the old man gently.
He is very soft on top of the head. Yours truly,
Pete and I."
Superstitions About Insects.
Ft urn the New York Oravhic.
The koran says all flies shall perish save one,
the bee fly.
It is regarded as a death warning in Germany
to hear a cricket’s cry.
The Tapuya Indians in South America say the
devil assumes the form of a fly.
Rain is. In some parts of our own country, ex
peeted to follow unusually loud chirping of
crickets.
Fees are sometimes regarded as furnishing
prognostications of the weather and even or
other events.
Spaniards, in the sixteenth century, believed
that spiders indicated gold where they were
found in abundance.
Although a sacred insect among the Egyp
tians, the beetle receives but little notice in folk
lore. It is unlucky in England to kill one.
In Germany it is said to indicate good luck to
have a spider spring his web downward toward
you but bad luck wnen he.rises toward you.
The grasshopper is a sufficiently unwelcome
visitant of hints If in this country, but in Ger
many his presence is further said to announce
strange guests.
A \> elsii tradition says bees came from Para
dise, leaving the garden w’hen man fell, but
with God's blessing, so that wax is necessary in
the eelebraliou of the mass.
The ancients generally maintained that
was a close connection Ijetween bees and the
soul. Porphyry speaks of “those souls which
the ancients called bees."
It is said t hat upon the backs of the seven
year locust there sometimes appear marks like
a letter of the alphabet. When this looks like a
W it is thought that war is imminent.
German tribes regarded stag beetles as dia
bolic, and a:l beetles are detested in Ireland,
more especially a bronze variety known as
“gooldie." It js believed that to see a beetle
will bring on a rainstorm the next day.
There are said to !>e no spiders in Ireland, nor
will spiders spin their web in an Irish oak nor
on a cedar roof. A spider is said to have saved
Mohammed from liis pursuers by spinning its
web across a cave where he sought refuge. The
same is said of David in the cave of Adullam.
Ryes That See.
From the Youth's Companion.
Several years ago a member of a firm of glass
manufacturers was traveling through the west.
While on a railway which skirts the shores of a
great inland lake, he observed that the plate
glass in the window s of the Pullman oar was
marked with mysterious figures, undefined iu
shape, but of a singular airy and delicate light
uess. On Inquiry, he learned that the marks
were made by the sand, which was blown
against the windows from the beach as the car
passed.
Upon returning home he began a series of ex
periments in directing a shower of fine sand
against the surface of glass iu various shapes.
The result was the discovery of the sand blast,
by which the most delicate figures are outlined
upon glass with exquisite lightness and ac
curacy.
The discovery of a process of engraving was
due to a similar keenness of Right, and readiness
in using a hint. Prince Uupert, a quick-witted,
scientific man. who lived in an unscientific age.
once stopiied at a forge while hunting to have
Ids horse shod, and laid his damp gun upon a
bench while ho waited, until the blacksmith
should have finished his work.
When he took up the gut. he observed that a
piece of white paper on the bench bore in line
dotted lines the name of the maker which was
cut in the metal. On this hint he evolved the
process of etching on copper known as Mezzo
tint.
The Sweetest Eyes.
Jf. A. Dennison in the Critic.
Which are the sweetest eyes to you?
The brown, where tire and Isngilor meet,
The sunny, laughing eyes of blue.
Or black, with glances shy and fleet?
Or opaline, with changeful hue,
Or gray, where mind with beauty vies,
Or violet, so soft and true—
Tell me, which are the sweetest eyes?
My darling bent her suuny head.
Her radiant face seemed half divine,
"The sweetest eyes to me,” 1 said,
“Are those thiit look wilh love in mine."
For Life.
From the Youths' Companion.
Little Bobby, whose mother believes in cau
tioning herchildren against the consequence#
of foolish acta, has often said to him:
“If you get before toe train, or rail into the
water, you may tie k illed; and when one is dead
it is for a long time.”
One day Bobby, while walking with bis uncle,
took pains to keep at a aufe illstance from the
shore of the river.
“If I should fall In. I should be drowned," ho
exclaimed; ' and wlien you re drowned, you’re
dead, and when you’re dead. It’s for life!"
In Case of t mergency.
From the \ehraska State Journal.
“So you want board and lodging here?"
“Yes, sir,”
“What Is your profession?"
“I am a physician, and at present acting
coroner."
"That so? Well, so long as you are acting
coroner. I’ll board you for notuing."
“For what reason?"
“My wife bus Just bought a gasoline stove."
Economy and strength are peculiar to
Hool’s Sarsaparilla, the only medicine of
which "100 Doses One Dollar" is true.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A carrier-pigeon loft has been established
at the United States training station, New
port. The birds are tD be used in the naval
service.
Italians are employed on city work at Sioux
City, la., and, in reply to au objection raised,
the contractors aver a shortage of American
laborers.
Two anacondas that somehow or other got
into the hold of the barkentineEmma R. Smith,
while 6he lay at a Brazilian port, completely rid
that vessel of rats.
The curio dealers of Kioto, Japan, have de
cided to open a show room near the Kitanc
Temple, where “no article will be admitted that
is less than 1,000 years old."
A fair damsel at Elk Point ate twenty ears of
corn for supper one day last week and went to
camp meeting in the evening. That's the so rt
of girls they have in Dakota.
It has been estimated that during a lifetime
of three score years and ten the blood of a
human being travels 4,392,400 miles and that his
heart beats 2,518,348,000 times.
A Chicago man has devised a pair of boots
whose wooden soles hold a small automatic
press, with which the user's name and local
habitation can be printed all over the side
walks.
The stuffed skin of a black pony which be
longed to the Queen of Spain makes a novel
hobby horse for the little king. In the portrait
of his majesty the riding horse is a prominent
feature.
The widow and daughters of old Dr. Wheaton
of Binghamton w'ere attired at his funeral in
white dresses and wore bouquets of flowers,
while the remains lay on the sofa, covered by a
many-colored robe.
A gold certificate for SSOO, bearing the fol
lowing inscription, was received at the Albany
custom house the other day: “When I became
of age I had six of these. This is the last. Rum
and whisky. Dartney."
The Arkansas City (Kan.) Traveler is author
ity for the statement that an army of ants of
tha red species marched into Bilverdale towu
ahip recently. The insects covered a space
40 yards long and 8 feet w ide.
Southern women are said to have t aken the
lead of their sex in money making in New York.
The head of the richest flrrn of dressmakers is a
southern woman, and women of southern birth
come to the front in other directions.
James Murray of Salem, Mass., was a tee
totaler until he decided to drink because his
mother wouldn't stop drinking, and is now a
wreck at the hospital, with ugly wounds made
by the mother whose example he followed.
Sidney M. Hinman, aged 18 years, started
from Gravesend Bay, N. Y., Saturday morning,
in a 7-foot dory for Boston. The boat is made
of cedar, and is equipped with a small mainsail
and jib. He expects to reach Boston in two
weeks.
A French traveler in French Guiana says
there are in Upper Guiana fifteen Indian trib s,
forming a group of at least 20.000 persons, who
are not mere uomada. but are sedentary in their
habits, and have attained a certain degree of
civilization.
A hotel waiter in Cincinnati, who stole from
a guest, hid the money in his “turn-down" col
lar. He was suspected of the theft, and, w’hile
being conducted to the station house, the officer
noticed a greenback protruding from the novel
hiding place.
An English court that recently had to decide
whether a wild bird's egg was the private prop
erty of the man upon whose land it was laid,
after elaborate consi leration decided that it
was, and gave ju lgmeut for ill in favor of the
man whose seagull's egg had been taken by a
fisherman.
In Philadelphia a novel occupation of house
keeping for various families has been developed
recently. The professional housekeeper has a
number of houses upon her visiting list, an i
acts as manager to each establishment, having
direction of servants and the arrangement ot
the household routine.
A dagger eighteen iuebes long, of finest steel,
inlaid with blocks of gold engraved in Arabic
characters, was found lately by a herdsman in
Gillespie county, Texas, and is thought to be a
relic of the time of Cortez, and to have been
originally bought or capt ured from the Moors
by some grandee of Spain.
Two notable things are reported from Sara
toga. The first is that the ladies have discarded
f loves, whether walking, dancing or driving.
be next is that wine has almost disappeared
from the dinner tables of the great hotels.
Although 800 persons may be at the table, it
often happens that not a bottle of wine is in
sight.
Building blocks made of corncobs .form the
object of anew Italian patent. The cobs are
pressed by machinery into forms similar to
bricks, and held together by wire. They are
made water-tight by soaking with tar. These
molds are very hard and strong. Their weight
is less than one-third of that ot a hollow brick,
and they can never get damp.
One l>r. LaiTerty of Richmond has a habit of
lecturing for pastime, and w henever he does it
is sure to rain. So well understood has this be
come that after Prince George county had had
two months of drought he was sent for as a last
resort. He went, spoke, and the rains descended
for a space of eight days, and now the last
estate of those farmers is worse than the first.
The Superintendent of a New York street
railway company estimates the wear and tear
on horses as about SSO a year each. “Each car
hns on the average ten horses, so that horse
flesh worth SSOO is used up annually by each
car. On some of the longer lines as many as
150 cars are run, so that the total annual con
sumption of hordes would seem to be on these
roads $75,000.”
A question of age and residence was brought
up at the selectmen's office in Dexter, Me., on
the morning before the polls were opened. A
name was presented to be entered on the list.
Someone was called upon to vouch for the man
as being legally qualitied, the man himself not
being present. A young friend stepped forward,
and was asked it (be inan was Cl years of age;
the reply being in the affirmative, he was asked
why he was so positive, and answered. ’'Be
cause he is over 30." He was then asked if the
man bad a wife in town, and the young friend
replied. “No, but he is courting Miss , .”
The last answer satisfied the selectmen that the
man had a right to vote.
Juan Falcon, who had removed to Texas
from Mexico, was informed that his dead father
hail left him SI,BOO, but upon going to receive
it found that some mysterious “legal expenses"
had eaten up SI,OOO, and when he asked tor the
remaining SBOO, was told by the alcalde that an
approaching election made it necessary for him
to keep that till the exigencies of the campaign
were past. Asa naturalized American, he had
no remedy at law, so flung a hot Me of ink nt his
excellency’s head, w.-s arrested, tried au sen
tenced to two years' imprisonment. Inn broke
jail, and is now beck in the land of his adop
tion, much richer iu experience, though not in
pocket, than when he went seeking his inheri
tance.
The national lighthouse board and trustees of
the Brooklyn bridge are at sword’s points over
the question of the lighting of the greal bridge.
Navigators have complained that the llgh's are
dangerous and confusing, and the board sug
gesteil that the lights be changed so as to throw
their rays upon the inside of the bridge only.
This the trustees objected to on
the ground of decreasing the beauty
of the bridge, and intimated thdltho board bad
nothing wnatever to do with the matter. The
board contends that the law gives it jurisdiction
over lights on ail bridges crossing navigable
streams, in the general interests of safe naviga
tion. As the bridge trustees, however, refuse
to reeogtiize its autiionty. the board has finally
submitted the matter to the Uniied States At
torney General for such action as may be
deemed necessary.
An exchange notices as a wise precaution the
act of a Philadelphia physician, who, while
riding in a railroad car, gave one of his chil
dren a drink of water by spreading a clean
handkerchief oyer the top of the glass to pre
I vent the oontart of the child's lips with the
I tumbler. A still better expedient with the
same object in v|e nas often been resorted to
by the writer, says the Sanitary lnspestor, and
his children have been Instructed to practice the
same precaution w hen obliged to drink from a
mug or tumbler on the cars, steamboats or at
public drinking fountains. It cousisls in bring
ing the lower edge of the drinking cup beuenth
th--- lower lip, instead of letiittg it come iu con
tact with the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Teach th ■ children to stick their whole bill into
the cup when they take a drink un ler such cir
cumstances, for it avoids a real and considerable
danger of infection from certain contagious
diseases.
Who is there or great or wealthy,
Reft of the teeth once white and healthy.
That would not exchange right gladly
Heir for teeth he needs so sadly?
Use SOZODONT in time, ye sinners.
If you'd masticate your duutarm
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