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MOXDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1888.
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Miscellaneous.
There is a “well-defined rumor” in Wash
ington that Mr. Cleveland will send to con
gress this week a special message on the
civil service. This probably would check
the hilarity of some republican statesmen.
Nevada’s total vote was less than 13,000
in the recent election, but she has two re
publicans in the United States Senate.
Why should republican organs talk about
southern congressmen being elected by
small votes?
The New York Tribune is repeating its
version of how Congressman Elliott, of
South Carolina, was elected in 1884. Col.
Elliott was elected because he received a
majority of the votes cast. So much cannot
be said of President-elect Harrison.
Judge Thomas Settle, United States
judge for Florida, who dropped dead of
neuralgia of the heart in North Carolina
several days ago, was supposed to lie work
ing up a boom for himself as attorney gen
eral of General Harrison’s cabinet. He was
appointed to the bench by President Hayes.
Senator Palmer is reported as having
said that he would not go into the noxt
cabinet if the salary were $500,000 a year
and if there were nothing to do. Senator
Palmer’s name may be stricken from the
cabinet slates. Gen. Harrison will ex
perience no difficulty in finding republicans
who are willing and anxious to enter the
political family.
The Philadelphia News doesn’t want Gen.
Harrison to call an extra session of con
gress. It does not think there is such a
crisis of affairs as to call for such action,
and it believes that every extra session that
has been called in the past century has re
sulted disastrously to the party calling it.
Very likely the second objection will be
noticed more generally by republicans thuu
the first.
William F. Dries man has instituted suit,
at El Paso, Tex., against the government
for the recovery of $293, as a reward for
aiding in the capture of Mr. Jefferson Davis
at the close of the war. It is claimed at
the treasury department that the amount
was paid to the administrators of bis estate
in Massachusttes, he having gone to Cali
fornia and it being supposed that he was
dead. Driestnan was not in a hurry to get
the money.
Some days ago the Morning News in
vited the shrieking Chicago Tribune to pro
test as vigorously as possible against a
southern ballot box stuffer when it could
put its finger on one. The Tribune says in
answer: “The southern ballot-box stuffer
in some respects resembles the Irishman’s
flea; when you put your finger on him, he
isn’t there.” This is a virtual admission that
there are no southern ballot-box stuffors.
Having confessed this much, why doesn’t
the Tribune, shut up ?
A Washington special to one of the re
publican organs announces that at the
meeting of the republican national commit
tee the other day a great mass of evidence
of fraud in the recent southern elections
was presented, and the committee decided
to begin prosecutions at once, in the federal
courts, of all persons implicated by the evi
dence. This is a trick that won’t work.
Nearly all the fraud, both north aud south,
was committed by the republicans, and that
fact can’t bejiiddon by republican bluff.
The committee on sanitation and hygiene
of the Georgia legislature has recently
given considerable attention to the discus
sion of t'ue yoliow fever epidemic at Jackson
ville and other points in Florida, anil a bill
will be introduced providing for a state
board of health, consisting of five physi
cians in good standing, who would have
c harge of the quarantine regulations of the
state, but whose authority would not clash
with that of the local boards. Dr. Hiins,
the representative from Lincoln county, is
preparing the bill.
The Birmingham Tragedy.
Birmingham, Ala., was the scene of a
dreadful tragedy Saturday night. There
is a sheriff there who isn’t afraid to do his
duty in the face of a mob tent on violating
the law. He has taught Birmingham’s citi
zens that lynch law cannot be enforced in
that city with safety. The lesson was a
terrible one, and will not soon be forgotten,
either in Birmingham or other parts of the
count ry.
Of those who attempted to take the law
into their own hands, nine are dead, four
are dying, and about thirty are wounded.
It is a source of regret that any lives were
lost in behalf of such a despicable creature
as Hawes, who, it is quite certain, murdered
his wife and daughter, and it may be two
daughters, but when he was in the charge
of the officers of the law, the law ought to
have been permitted to take its courso.
If the reports are correct, no blame at
taches to the sheriff. He did but his duty.
He warned the mob that the prisoner would
te defended. Indeed, he warned it several
times, and did not order the guards to fire
until it was close to the jail. The dead and
wounded are the victims of their own rash
ness and lawlessness.
Lynchings have become quite common
lately in all parts of the country. Unless
such lawless proceedings are checked roob
violence will destroy all respect for law,
and innocent men will become the victims
of the irresponsible, thoughtless and
malicious persons of a community. Not
long ago an innocent man was lynched in a
city of this state. The safety of society is
in the law, and it is the duty of every good
citizen to see that the law is upheld and to
help enforce it.
The Growing South.
The development of the resources of the
south is going on steadily. Millions of dol
lars are being invested in iron and coal
lands, and furnaces and factories of various
kinds are being erected. The demand for
real estate in some of the towns in the min
eral section is not as great as it was a year
or two ago, but the investments in solid
business enterprises are much larger thau
ever before.
A day or two ago a party of capitalists
from New England visited Alabama and
bought thousands of acres of iron and
coal lands in DeKalb county in that state.
They formed a company with capital
amounting to $10,000,000 to develop the
lands and erect furnaces. They expect to
begin operations early next spring, and
within a few months after they have per
fected their preparations they will employ
hundreds of men, and will still further
demonstrate Alabama’s capacity as an iron
producing state.
This new company is only one of a num
ber that has made large investments in tho
south within the last year. Every company
of the kind is followed by others. Small
industries spring into life close to the largo
ones, and all kinds of business thrive in con
nection with them.
The prospects of the south were never so
bright as at present. There is, it is true,
some depression in localities among the
farmers, and the small merchants who are
dependent upon them are suffering, but the
reasons for this condition of affairs are well
understood. The depression is not likely to
continue long, and it is not improbable that
at the end of another season it will have
disappeared altogether.
The south is rich in resources, and capi
talists are taking advantage of the oppor
tunities which she offers. It is safe to pre
dict that there will be m ire northern
capital invested in thesauth within the next
twelve months than in any previous period
of the same length. It is to be regretted
that southern men have not the means to
take advantage of the opportunities which
northern capitalists are improving.
The Direct Tax Bill.
The republican congressmen appear to te
determined to pass thedirect tax bill, which
refunds to the states that paid it about $15,-
000,000. They would not be so anxious to
pass this bill if the great bulk of the money
did not go to northern states. In view of the
fact that the northern states get about SBO,-
000,000 annually in pensions, while tho south
era states get practically nothing of the pen
sion appropriations,it would seem as if they
ought not to be so eager to got the $15,000,-
000 in question, particularly when there is
a grave doubt whether tho bill which ap
propriates it is constitutional.
If this direct tax is refunded, it ought to
te returned to the people who paid it, but
there is no,probability of that being done,
because it is about impossible to find out
who paid it. Those who paid it are not the
ones who are urging the refunding of it.
There is reason for thinking that there is an
immense lobby behind tho bill, and a very
large part of the money, if the Bill becomes
a law, will go into the pockets of lobbyists.
Some of the states, and perhaps all of them,
have agreed to give a certain per cent, of
the amount refunded to those who have
been engaged in working the bill through
congress. I hus tho people’s money is squan
dered.
But if the direct tax is refunded, should
not the cotton tax, which was collected to
the amoant of $(kS,000,000, also be? The
cotton tax would come to the south and
would, to a limited extent, offset the hun
dreds of millions of public money which ate
being distributed in tho north. There is
certainly as much justice in the south’s
claim to the cotton tax as to the north’s
claim to tho direct tax.
“Old Hutch” says it’s nobody’s business
how much he lost by his two absconding
clerks, and that he is able t > bear the loss.
One of the Chicago newspapers reports,
however, that he feels the loss very keenly.
It says he went into a barber shop soon af
terward and asked to te shaved for ten
cents. The barter declined, saying his
chargo was fifteen cents, whereupon “Old
Hutch” became very angry, aud sought a
10-cents shop. Probably the old fellow hns
concluded to make good the loss by econo
mizing at the barter’s.
Gen. Harrison will te asked to appoint
Mr. Anthony Opp as postmaster at Friend
ship, Ind., and lie will hardly te able to re
fuse. Mr. Opp, until a few days ago, was
a widower with thirteen children. Now he
has married a widow with sixteen
children. He is wealthy, but nothing ex
cept a village poatmostership would enable
him to support twenty-nine children, and
Gen. Harrison, doubtless, will regard the
matter in that light.
The Indiana republicans, it is said, are |
wondering if there will te enough offices
for Gen. Harrison to give each of tbim
one. There won’t te if Harrison enforces
the civil service laws.
There ore fourteen different towns and
cities in the United States named Augusta,
and there is nevor a .lay t at fr. ight and
mail matter Is not going wrong. i
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 10; 1888.
Georgia’s Public Schools.
The state press, so far as it has spoken on
the subject, is nearly unanimously in favor
of an increase of the public school fund of
Georgia. It recognizes that, while the pub
lic school system is very good, there is not
enough money available to keep opeu tho
schools more than three months in the year,
when, to secure anything like satisfactory
results,they ought to be kept open at least six
months. More than that, the state school
commissioner is not able to provide for the
teaching of tho higher branches, and, in
consequence, the more capable and expe
rienced teachers are not found in the public
schools of this state.
Another thing which causes the state
press to favor an increase of the fund is
that parents who cannot afford to send
their children to tho high schools and acad
emies beyond the three months in which
the tuition is paid chiefly from tho state
fund are leaving Georgia fer other states,
where greater inducements are offered in
public schools. This is a very weighty con
sideration, and one that cannot fail to have
its effect upon members of the present legis
lature when they come to decide ho w they aro
going to vote on Senator Hall’s bill to in
crease the fund. It is not possible to say
just how many people leave Georgia annu
ally on account of our defective free
schools, but the number probably is consid
erable, and it would be much grfater were
it not for the excellent public schools main
tained by several cities and fijjew towns of
the state. It is certain, however, that very
few people, if any, nre attracted to Georgia
by hor public schools.
The public school fund, which is now
about $500,000, ought to te increased to
$1,500,000. Texas provides more than that;
Virginia provides about $1,300,000, West
Virginia about $1,200,000, Connecticut
about $1,700,000, Massachusets about
$0,000,000, Illinois about $0,000,000, Penn
sylvania about $10,000,000, New York about
$12,000,000 and Ohio about $13,000,000.
Alabama recently has increased her fund
considerably.
One of the state weeklies was led to re
mark the othor day that there were more
illiterate people in Georgia than in any
other state. This might not bo borne out
by the figuros, but it illustrates the nature
of the comment that may te caused by
Georgia’s want of public school advantages.
Such talk will not help the state, and the
legislature should put a stop to it by passing
the Hall bill, or some similar measure. J
Georgia Fairs.
There has been quite a number of fairs in
Georgia this year—some largo and some
small ones. The state fair at Macon, the
fairs at Home and Athens, the exposition
at Columbus and the exposition now in
progress at Augusta are the most notable.
The exposition at Columbus closed Dec. 1.
Perhaps it became as near being a pecuniary
success as any fair ever held in Georgia.
There was a good attendance every day,
tho exhibit was excellent, and the special
features were well arranged. Thousands of
people who visited Columbus went away
with pleasant a-sociations connected with
that city, aud with favorable impressions
of the city’s thrift and energy.
Tho Augusta exposition will close on Dec.
15, and Georgians and others who desire to
inspect a most admirable and very exten
sive collection of Georgia products should
attend it if they have not already. Augusta
was fortunate in having her exposition
when she did. The fearful floods which
swept over that city, a few weeks before
the exposition, did great damage, and were
calculated to tea set back to her progress.
As soon as the flood subsided, however, the
I>eople resumed their efforts to make the
exposition what it ought to be, and they
succeeded so well that people of all sections
of tho country were forced to admire their
energy, pluck and determination, and it was
demonstrated that disasters could not keep
Augusta from pushing aboad. The exposi
tion may not tea financial success, in the
sense that tho receipts are as great its or
grea'er than the expenses—few expositions
are—but it will eventually prove successful
in bringing new citizens and increased capi
tal to Augusta.
There will te no more fairs in Georgia
this year, but next fall the people ought to
unite in making the state fair in Macon an
exhibition worth}' of the state.
A drummer doing business for a Boston
house was very highly prized by an Atchi
son, Kan., young lady, who valued him at
$1,000,000. She met him several years ago,
and they lost no time in falling in 1 ve with
each other. The father of tho young lady,
however, seriously objected to their mar
riage, and used every argument he could
think of to prevent it—and, as he is a law
yer, it is probable that bethought of a good
many. All others having failed to have
auy effect upon the girl, he offered hor
SIOO,OOO if she would not nnrry tho drum
mer. The offer was declined, with the
statement that $1,000,000 could not cause
her to change hor mind. The other day the
couple eloped and were married. That
$1,000,000 young man ought to prove that
the estimate placed upon him was rot too
high-
When a man accumulates so much prop
erty that he doesn’t know where it is located
or in what it consists, bo may very well be
said to belong to tho class which makes pos
sible the communism of combined woalth
and capital. Mr. I’. T. ltarnum, the circus
manager, is such a person. The other night
he had occasion to go up a (light of stairs
in a house in Bridgeport, Conn. The ascent
was made with some difficulty, and when
Mr. Barnuin reached the top ho said to the
occupant of the house: “Tell your landlord
that if ho doesn’t put balusters on that
stairway, some old follow will get a bad
fall.” Tho house was one of the many which
Mr. Barnum owns.
A striking instance of a young boy rising
from abject poverty to aflluonco has come
to light in Now York, whore all kinds of
marvelous things happen every dny. The
boy was a particularly bright one, and he
was taken in charge by the society for the
prevention of cruelty to children so as to
prevent his parents, who were given
to much drinking, from starving
him. A wealthy gentleman saw and took
a fancy to him, adopted and educated him.
The other day the gentleman died, and left
bis property to his wife and the boy, the
share of the last named boing nearly $2,-
000,000.
The Now York World invited democrats
who voted against Mr. Cleveland to explain
why they did so, and it says it has received
a large numter of letters, and will publish
them soon. No doubt a good many demo
crats voted agaiust Mr. Cleveland, and, on
the other hand, a good many republicans
voted for him. It was the same in 1884.
It does not prove anything, except that
tl.ero are always.dissaUsficd members of all
parties. |
CURRENT COMMENT.
Then They Would Scatter.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.)
U Gov. Foraker is unable to drive the White
Caps out of Ohio by other means, cuppose he
should try the effect of his oratory upon them?
Pneumonia in the West.
From the Kansas City Times (Dem .)
The fact cannot be denied that pneumonia is
more prevalent and fatal to-day than formerly,
and it ought to be possible to discover the
cause. It can hardly be due to any deteriora
tion in the climate, or to any decay of physical
development. The changes in dress may have
had something to do with it, as well as the
changes in customs and habits.
Love with a Long Primer L.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dem.)
The negroes of the south are nearly all
farmers. They raise cotton, sugar and rice.
The republicans love them so well that they are
going to remove the protective duties from
sugar and rice which the negro sells and triple
the tax on the cotton ties that he has to buy.
Then they will go right on as before spelling
their Love for him with a capital L.
Unfair and Absurd.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.)
If Nevada is not a pocket state it is hard to
tell what name to give it. The total vote for
President at the late election was but 12.278, as
against 12,796 in 1881 and 18,345 in 18S0. The
censns of 1880 showed the population of the
state to be but 62,266, and the shrinkage in the
vote since that time indicates a population of
about 40.000, or less than that of an average
Pennsylvania county. To give 40,000 people one
representative and two senators in Congress is
an unfair and absurd discrimination against the
states and communities that are really popu
lated.
BRIGHT BITS.
Bostonian—So you live out west?
Western Man—Yes, sir.
“Well, you haven't got much to blow about. - '
“Haven't, eh? How about our cyclones? ’ —
Texas Siftings.
Wellesley Sophomore to Yasser ditto—ldo
think your class yell is just too lovely for any
thing! How did you get it up? Vassar sopho
more—O, we were having a meeting for that
purpose and a mouse caine gliding out of Its
Hole. The yell was a kind of a spontaneous
affair;— Burlington Free Press.
An Observant Boy.—“ Hold on. sis,” ex
claimed one of the little Rambo hoys, as he
paused at the door. “Don't go into the house.
The minister U making a call.”
“How do you know?” inquired his little sister.
“Can't yon hear ma talking? She’s got her
Sunday voice on.”— Chica o Tribune.
Young Husband (in the theater, to his wife)—
Excuse me, dear, I want to go out aud see a
man.
Wife —Sit down, George. I've got baby's
nursing botlle with me, with some liquor in it,
and you can see a man right here without dis
turbing all these people.—Texas Siftings.
Experienced Tramp. Hello, we’re in luck.
I hear a husband and wife quarreling in this
house. I’ll wait until he comes out.
Fresh Tramp What good'll that do?
Experienced Tramp—l’ll tell him I’m a wan
derer over the face of the earth because I can t
live with my wife, and he'll give me a dollar.—
Philadelphia Record.
“I was at the wedding at the church last
evening. Miss Lighthead. Allow me to con
gftttulate you on your elegant appearance as a
ridesmaid. You were ‘robed in ecstacy divine,’
I suppose.”
“That's about as much as you men know, Mr.
Tould—l wore a robe of white silk mull and
point lace.” —Springfield Republican.
Hf. had a bad memory and a variegated fe
male acquaintance, and when he raised lii3 hat
and said in his courtliest tones,“l think we have
met before,” sh • answered:
“Well, I should think so, considering you were
in the next cell to me, aud I sent a policeman
out w ith my bangle to pop for our fines, aud
never heard another word from you.”— Sydney
(Australia ) Bulletin.
Dakota Lady (about to give a grand ball)—
Well, thank gtyodness, John r my list of invita
tions is completed at last.
Dakota Husband- Have you included young
Sawbones? He’s a likely fellow, anil we ought
to pay him some attention, being a newcomer.
Dakota Lady—Why, no; he had escaped me
entirtly. I’m glad you mentioned him, John.
He seems to he a desirable parti in every way.
and beside we shall probably need a surgeon be
fore morning. —Detroit Fee Press.
PERSONAL,
Capt Boycott now lives in the quiet vil
lags of Flixton, Suffolk, as agent of Sir Hugh
Adair.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spun, has become
fascinated with the American game of poker
At her house in Pariß she holds poker parties
which are exciting enough to satisfly even an
Arizona cowboy.
Henry IV. of France, indulged in H’s and K's
sent by letter. A bundle of lis iove epistles
was sold in I'aris last week, and a great many
thousands of osculatory salutations were evi
dently east around promiscuously by the merry
monarch in his time.
Emperor William has had the imperial crown
of Germany so altered as to make it an exact
counterpart of the one worn by Charlemagne
Still there is a feeling that the crown of’his
father and grandfather should be good enough
for the present Emperor.
On his recent tour to the Midlands. Mr. Glad
stone stopped three minutes at Wellington, and
in that time, it is gravely recorded, he received
two addresses, made a speech, ate lunch, and
was “busily occupied during the remainder ot
his stay” in hand shaking.
L. Follenpf.r, a Roumanian who keeps a
lodging house in Kansas City, has received an
tbentic information that he ir. one of two heirs
to an estate of $7,000,000 left by an uncle in
Roumania. Kollender was so overjoyed by his
good luck that he went on a big spree, took
morphine to induce sleep, and was only saved
by hard work and a stomach-pump from miss
ing his fortune.
A search for an ancestor of Gen. Boulanger
by Charles Benoist has produced a Gen. Bou
langer, henceforth to te styled Boulanger [.
In May, 1733. when the council of the general
commons desired a provisional commander of
the city seventy-four of the seventy-live mem
bers voted for Citizen Boulanger. He was a
friend of Robespierre, but he was finally ar
rested and condemned to bo guillotined as
“Boulanger, aged 37, journeyman jeweler, gen
eral of brigade.”
Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle are in possession
of their handsome house on K street, Washing
ton. where they will reside this season. Mr.
Logan Carlisle, who was in New York during
the late campaign, is with his parents for the
winter. Mrs. Carlisle will not begin her days at
home until January, when she anticipates en
tertaining extensively Miss Alice Berry,
daughter of Col. Altert Berry, of Newport, Ky.,
and Miss Mary Queen ot Covington will be with
Mrs. Carlisle during the congressional season.
Miss Queen was with Sirs. Carlisle two years
ago, and made many friends in society.
Thk.rk wifi he a rush of afternoon teas in
Washington between Christmas and Now Year’s
to celebrate the coining out of the debulantes.
Among the < arliest to make their maiden bows
will b the two youngest daughters of 31 r.
Preston, the Haytian minister; Miss Wilson,
tho daughter of Col. .1. M Wilson; Miss Thomp
son, daughter of Representative Thompson of
California, and Miss Howard, daughter of Sir
Henry and Mrs. Howard aid grand daughter of
the late (} urge Riggs, banker. Miss Howard
was presented at court last spring, and is spend
ing 11 e winter here with her mother and sisters
id the Itiggs family residence. Miss Nellie
Bayard and iiss Garland will make their debut
at New Year's.
There are some Interesting references to
lending statesmen in Principal Tulloch's account
of the marriage of the lute Prince Leopold, vide
Mrs. Oliphaut s memoir. “Air. Gladstone
looked like a pale prophet. There was a tunny
eont rast tet wren Ids uniform and his thoughtful
face.” “Mr. Chamberlain, a dapper-looking,
by no means formidable-like radical, with his
glass stuck in his eye, and his uniform, seemed
somcwlmt out of place. I wonder if he was
thinking how grand It would te for the radicals
to sack the whole concern!” “John Morley is
very pleasant, and as little like an atheist and
radical as jxissihle; rather likeadissentlng min
ister.” “1/ord Iddeslelgli very much changed.
That brat, Lord R. Churchill, has, I fear, boon
too much for him.”
The late W. Bede Dailey of Sidney was the
acting colonial secretary who suggested and
canted out the sending of Australian troops to
aid England in Egypt. Mr. Fronde met him a
year or two ago, and thus describes him: “He
was a short, thick vet man of fifty or there
shouts, with strong neck, large head, a clear,
steady eye, and finely shaped mouth and chin.
* • * The directions which
I heard him giving were quiet but distinct; no
words wasted, but the thing meant clearlv said.
He was evidently a strong man, but perhaps
generally an indolent one, who might not think
it worth while to exert himself except on ex
traordinary occasions, * • * He
was a Roman Catholic of the high cultivated
and liberal tyi eof which Cardinal Manning is
the chief living represent a; ivo Ho had read
largely, was a line Italian scholar, a collector of
pictures, an architect—in short, a man at all
points,”
A BABY PRAYS FOR MRS. CLEVE
LAND.
Mrs. Cleveland’s Letter to His Mother.
From the Few York Sun.
Washington', Dec. G.—lt seems that not only
in Washington, but throughout the country, the
children have a warm spot in their young hearts
for Mrs. Cleveland. The latest evidence of this
tender regard comes from Charleston, S. C.,
where a little sunny-haired youngster of Ed
ward A. Oldham, the southern journalist and
writer, offers nightly at his mother's knee a
"tiny prayer'’ for the wife of the President.
The incident is described by Mrs. Oldham in a
letter not long since received at the white house,
and which reads as follows:
.Vrs. Grover Cleveland:
Dear Madam—You are rightly and deservedly
accustomed to the homage and compliments of
our proud nation, and are, no doubt, surfeited
with both; but if you will pardon a mother’s
conceit I want to send you a compliment, than
which no higher can be paid you.
Our first and only baby, Edward, a bright,
handsome little Presbyterian, is very much in
love with a large picture of you that hangs on
our chamber wall, just over the mantel. He
will gaze at it for some time in rapt|adiniration,
listening to anything told him about the "pitty
lady.” He is not quite 3 years old and cannot
talk very plainly. He speaks of you as ‘‘Miss
Tevy,” which Is the bast he can do at present.
Not long ago he was saying his little prayers,
about which duty he seems quite serious and
devout, and when he had finished with ‘‘Dod
bess papa and mamma.” he looked up at me
with a bright smile aads said, “Dod bess Miss
Tevy, too!” This was whouy his own thought,
and since then it has formed an important
clause in his devotions. Is it not sweet to know
that from lips of such purity and innocence
your name is wafted on baby prayers to heaven?
Yours sincerely.
MUroaret Andrews Oldham.
To this letter Jigs. Cleveland responded as
follows;
aiy hear Mrs, Oldham: Your kind letter has
given me much pleasure, and I want to thank
you and tell you how keenly I appreciate the
compliment of your taby boy.
The knowledge of his earnest little prayer has
touched me deeply, and the remembrance that
my name goes daily on baby lips to our Heavenly
Father in prayer wflf help me in many an hour
of pe-plexity and discouragement.
That this dear child ttiay grow up to be in his
manhood, as he is in his childhood, your joy
and comfort, is the best wish I could express
for one who has had so kindly a thought for me.
Sinoerely, Frances F. Cleveland.
Morrison Might Have Been a Beer
Drummer.
From the Chicago News.
Among a party of friends in Washington the
other evening Commissioner William R. Morri
son told a good story on himself. He said that
in the campaign of 1885, while he wa3 a candi
date for the United States Senate to succeed
Logan, the democrats down in a close district
ear his home persuaded a popular and wealttiy
brewer to accept a nomination to the Illinois
legislature. The German, whose name was
Mayer, did not want to run, lor, if he was
elected, his duties at Springfield would keep
him away from his business. But the demo
cratic leaders persuaded him that on the first
day of the session the House would elect a
speaker, on the second day a United States
senator, and on the third day pass a low license
bill and adjourn for good. With this expecta
tion, Mr. Alyer accepted the nomination, and
was elected. On Jan. Ihe went to Spriugfieid,
with no baggage but an extra pair of
socks, which he carried in bis pocket,
and told the folks that he would not
lie away more than a week. The House was
six weeks in electing a speaker, then spent four
months trying to elect a senator, and finally
defeated Morrison, who, the German thought,
bad a sure thing. Then his low license bill was
buried in a committee room and a high license
bill reported. Mr. Mayer was very much dis
: listed with his legislative experience, and de
clared that he would not repeat it for thousands
of do lars. “Dose bolities,” he said to Morri
son, “is mean pizness an’ I don’t want no more
of it. Here I vas for six monds wid my
brewery going all to dose devils, an’ mine frau
writing to me every day: ‘William, vy vas you
not come home?’ I tells you. Bills Morrisons,
vat I ticks. You vas vasting your time mid
lose bolitics.au’ you makes nottings at all.
You vas a boor man an’ youse got no monneys
not so much as would set you up mid a saloon.
You yust guwit dose bolities an’ come mid me.
’ vi'l •rive vou den dollars a day to drum dose
beer of mine.”
Morrison thinks he might have improved his
finances if he had accepted the offer.
Unguarded Tongues.
Tongues unguarded throw disaster
Right and left for tongues run wild;
Cutting deep, dividing fond hearts,
Turning parents from a child ;
Pleadings cannot stay their mischiefs;
Tears cannot assuage each wound;
Sorrow hovers o'er the places
Where unguarded tongues are found.
I have seen the laugh of childhood
Checked by some foreboding tone;
For hard words of constant chiding
Wear like droppings on a stone.
Fed by frowns, the child of nature
Dons a sullen, moody air;
Innocence gives place to boldness,
Joyfulness to grim despair.
I have seen the cheek of girlhood
Blanch beneath a thoughtless word,
While a rush of bitter anguish
All unsought the young heart stirred;
Visions of a faithless lover
Trusted while the trust proved vain—
These cold w ords of careless meanings
Quito aroused to fresh, deep pain.
I have seen the oyes of old age
Under tears grow dim and blurred—
Tears that gathered fast by tauntings,
Or by some unfeeling word.
Sa l indeed to see the aged
Hurried to their graves by woe.
But they whisper very often
“We are burdens, well we know."
Oh, how keen a wedge is driven
In fond hearts by words that sting—
Words that ever stand out boldly.
Though years pass and changes ring!
Unkind words are better banished
From the lips of old and young;
Each should learn and heed tho motto:
“Set a guard against thy tongue,"
Ministers in Congress.
Four of five preachers were running for con
gress this year, says Maj. Stofer in the St. Louis
Republic, but the chances ure that only two of
the aspiring parsons will be members of tlie
next House—Mr. Owens of Indiana and Mr.
Lester of Virginia. The former is of the Con
gregational faith, and next March will enter
upon his third term. The latter will be anew
member. He is a hardshell Baptist. Parson
McKinney of New Hampshire, who failed to be
re-elected on Nov. IS, is a umversalist preacher.
Parson Steele was nominated for congress by
the democrats up in Pennsylvania, hut the
wicked republicans prevailed so against, him
that he will not help to legislate during the
next two years. Parson Owen of Indiana is a
meek little man, who doesn't have much to
sav in congress, but Parson Lester of Virginia,
when he comes into the House, is going to lie
iieard. Indeed it is said that he has such a
powerful voice that there will be no shutting
him off when he takes a notion to talk.
He is a tall, slender, raw-boned man, with
very nark hair anil mustache, ami has the repti
tat ion down in his country of being an exliorter,
the like of whom hasn't been produced this cen
tury in Virginia. When he gets warmed up, liis
voice can be heard for a quarter of a mile, more
or less, out in the open air. The \ irginia
preacher can till the vacuum made by the with
drawal of Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky,
from the House. Tho Kentuckian was educated
for the ministry, and has preached some, hut is
now of the legal profession. Mr. Taultiee has
the loudest and most resonant voice of any m in
now in congress, p* rliaps, and during the last
session it will be remembered ttiat flen. tiros
venor, of Ohio, said, when interrupted by Mr.
Taulbee: "1 cannot talk against a brass band,
neither can 1 talk against the voice of the gen
tleman from Kentucky.”
She Didn't Scare.
From the Detroit Free Prets.
‘‘Ray, fellers,” he remarked to a crowd in a
grocery the other evening, “I know how we can
ave some fun.”
Several parties asked him to explain, and he
said:
"My wife Is always telling how brave she is,
and what she'd do in an emergency, and I want
to take her down a peg. I believe she'd scare
like a cat. 1 want one of vou to go to the back
door and bo ugly and sassy and demand supper,
and see if she won’t fly out of the front.”
One of the crowd said he’d cheerfully go, and
go he did, while the others posted themselves in
front. By and by a woman came to the door,
looked up and down, and said to a boy who was
passing:
“Bubby, won’t you go over to the store and
tell my husband to come over?"
“Yes'm.”
“Needn’t hurry any, but just drop in If It’s
convenient.”
When the crowd came over they found the
volunteer lying on bis back in the rear yard,
unconscious and his uoso broken, and the wife
■aid:
‘‘He wanted supper and was ugly about it,
and so I laid him out with a tint-iron"
And an hour laler, when the poor man felt of
his nose and wanted to know who was to pay
damages, echo sadly answered, “Who?”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The members of a facetious jury at Livingston
Mont, were each fined $5 by the judge for
returning a verdict that “This jury ao hereby
agree to disagree. ”
About forty petrified bodies were recently re
covered from the Mike coal mine, in Japan.
They were those of workmen buried alive in
the mine several years ago.
LiQfoß dealers who give credit in Vermont
cannot legally collect the amount of their
bills. The courts have officially declared
whiskey not to be a persona grata in that state.
The liquor law is being so vigorously en
forced in Manchester, N. H., that dealers are
compelled to carry their stock in their pockets,
where it is safe, as the law does not admit of
the searching of a person.
Gen. John M. Palmer of Illinois estimates
that he traveled more than 7.000 miles and
made more than 100 speeches during the cam
paign for the governorship. Such work by a
man of 72 ought to have won, but it didn’t.
An assistant to a Connecticut plumber
poured a small quantity of water into a pot of
hot lead, in order to satisfy a doubt in his mind
as to what the effect would be. He wasn’t ser
iously injured, but is likely to carry a reminder
of the experiment to the grave with him.
The sale of the hull and fittings of the steamer
Great Eastern realized over £43,090, the copper
bringing £2,690; the gun metal, etc., £4,480;
brass, £3,980; lead, £4,185; outer iron plates,
£12,500; inner iron plates, beams and rivets,
£12,230; and anchors about £3OO. The breaking
up of the steamer will commence on Jan. 1, and
is expected to occupy a year.
What is thought to be the largest tumor ever
known to Pennsylvania physicians was removed
from Mrs. Hannah Littre, the wife of John
Littro of White Hall on Thanksgiving day. It
weighed 100 pounds when removed. After the
operation the lady weighed about ninety-five
pounds, or five pounds less than the weight of
the tumor itself. She is improving in health.
The costliest calves in the world are those
which have cost some lowans $20,000. Their
original worth was $45, but that was in 1877.
They have probably become beef long before
this, but the litigation over them will probably
outlast the century. The costs have accumu
lated until what was originally stubbornness has
now become a desperate fight to avoid a heavy
loss.
The Paris prefect of police, by a decree just
issued, forbids sandwich men and advertising
vans to appear on the principal boulevards, on
the ground that they obstruct traffic and
frighten horses. In the other streets fancy cos
tumes for sandwich men are prohibited, while
illuminated vans and advertising carts are to be
restricted in size, and are not to be drawn by
more than two horses.
A. B. Dolbear, a fur collector of Farmington,
Me,, during a recent hunting trip, obtained a
beautiful skin of the silver-gray fox. The speci
men is a handsome one and perfectly marked,
and has long silken hair. Skins of this species
are rare, Mr. Dolbear himself having obtained
only two or three dtirin - his long experience.
The fox was shot on the Sunday river in the
northern wilds of Maine.
The editor of a territorial weekly recently re
ceived a number of letters from his subscribers
urging him to publish his paper bi-weekly. He
dia so, but when they found that this meant
only once in every two we jks, they looked in
their dictionaries and decided that a semi
weekly was what they wanted. It is an inter
esting fact that while “bi weekly” means once
in two weeks, “tri-weekly” means three times a
week.
According to American Notes and Queries,
in one of the cellers of the Rathskeller at
Bremen, there are twelve large cases of wine,
each case containing “the celebrated ‘Rosen
wein,’ which was deposited there in 1624. One
case of tliis wine, containing 204 bottles, cost
500 rix dollars at that time. Taking all ex
penses into account and compounding the in
terest, a single glass, one-eighth of a bottle,
would cost about $300,000, or about S3OO a
drop.”
The case of M. Chauffat, a Frenchman, is at
tracting medical attention in London. On one
occasion last year he slept continuously for
thirteen days and a half, and, at the latest ad
vices from England, he was lying asleep at the
Alexandria Palace, having fallen into a sort of
trance six days before. His appearance is gen
erally normal, but at times his limbs are set in
uncommon rigidity. No respiration is percept
ible. and there is a constant twitching of his
eyelids.
Some idea may be had of the magnitude of
the London and Northwestern system of rail
roads in England from the fact that it has a
working capital of $522,000,000; that its annual
revenue is £52,000,000; that it carries annually
57,000,000 passengers and 35,000,000 tons of
freight, and that it employs 60,000 people. The
Pennsylvania system of this country carried
last year 35,786.769 passengers and 50,033.296
tons of freight. While the London and North
western has a larger capital and a larger in
come than any system or railroads in America,
it operates 0n1y;;,655 miles of road.
A Glade River (W. Va.) special says: About
four miles from this hamlet on Glade mountain
resides a family of coincidences. The father
and mother were married on Oct. 14; they have
had nine children, all of whom were born on
Oct. 11; five of the children are dead, and all
ceased to breathe on Oct. 14. The name of the
bead of the family is Joshua Franklin. He says
he was a confederate soldier, that he was cap
tured twice by theyankees, and that he lost two
brothers in the war. and that all four of the
mishaps or misfortunes of war occurred on the
memorable Oct, 14. In the neighborhood the
Franklin family is regarded with superstition,
and not a human being can be prevailed upon
to stay in the house or on the premises on Oct.
14.
Treasurer Buckley, who presides over the
box office of the Boston theater, says that the
biggest receipts at that theater this season
were taken hv the Howard Athenaeum com
pany. Nearly $3,000 were taken for one per
formance, the largest sum ever taken for a
single performance at regular prices in this
country, Dockstader playel to SIO,OOO during
his week’s stay in Boston. Thatcher, Primrose
A' West played to $13,000 in a single week in this
city. Next to minstrels and variety companies
come the stars. Fanny Davenport is the reign
ing satellite. She had a big reception and ilie
advance sale was large, and her receipts some
thing enormous. It takes n great many people
to fill the Boston theater, but when it is once
full the till at the box office contains a hand
some sum.
Twins, triplets and babies in fours and sixes
are apparently becoming startlingly common,
yet there is a lack of statistics in this country
to show whether or not they are more common
in proportion to the inorease in population Ihuu
they were some years ago.* A prominent phy
sician says there should be some record kept of
those multiplex visitations. In the old coun
tries, for instance, it lias been ascertained that
twins aro borne once out of ninety births, while
triplets are as one out of 8,889. This we can
scarcely believe. It does not seem possible that
twins are as frequent as one to ninety, but it has
been found to bo the case in census after census.
Just in the same way triplets seem to be more
numerous than one to 8,889, but that they are
not has been equally well proven. Here we
know what the birth-rate is compared to the
population, hut we can t tell whether wo have
as many double and triple births as they do in
the old country.
The question whether Americans are taller or
fairer or darker "complected” or thinner than
they were 100 years ago; whether they live
longer, are broader chested or can lift heavier
weights while they live, is for the present laid
aside in view of the important matter to be de
cided in New York before the last day of April
comes round. The immediate problem now
exercising the clerical urrnugeinent committee
of New V ork is, whether they ean get their con
gregations together at It o’clock in the morning
of Inaugural centennial day. A hundred years
ago there was no such question. Nine o'clock
came quite “fur along in the fore
noon,” and. doubtless, each worshiper had
done agood stlntof work before pacing seriously
down the church aisle to give thanks that the
ship of state was to have now its captain in
quite a regular way. If the clergy who dls
cussed the matter last Monday are to be taken
as ex|iert statisticians, confession would have to
be made that the modern American (Protest
ant) gets to his devotions about two hours late,
and that eleven, .rather than nine, meets his
idea of the fitting time to enter into devotional
or thanksgiving exercises. Yet the thirtieth of
April is next neighbor to May dav, and it is sun
up at 5 o’clock, four good hours to the church
time of the fathers. It Is not Dec. 31,
when the lagggard defers his appearance he
nmd the steeples of Brooklyn or Camden to the
eastward gszer until well nigh 7:80. The
thronged streets liefore daylight. In the neigh
borhood of the Catholic churches, show that
this body of religionists have no difficulty In
making early devotions. The clock of the time
next April centennial day ought to point
■)m rply to 9 o'clock a. m., If for no other reason
than to prove the Protestant oelebratrrs of the
inaugural day can get up as early as their great
grandfathers when there is any occasion tor It.
To defer the ceremonM to 11, as lias l>een aug
is to imply that th hods an*
indf**l Tim committee ifl to meet wgaim to
settle tho question.
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