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4 C|e Wonting |li tos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MOXDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1888. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; lix months, $5 00; one year, $lO (XI. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months $4 00; one year. $8 00. The Mornino News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters ana telegrams should oe addressed “Morning News." Savannah, Ga. 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Index to new advertisements. Meetings— Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. A. M.; He Kalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; West End Democratic Club; German Friendly Society; Calanthe Lodge No. 28, K. P. Special Notices— Pouchong Party for Benefit of Episcopal Orphans’ Home on Monday; As to Bills Against British Steamship Southwold; As to Crew of British Steamship Titanic; 2,000 Bunches Bananas, L. Putzel; Election for Di rectors Merchants' National Bank of Savannah. Proposai.s—For Dredging in Mosquito Inlet, 8. C. What Shall I Give Him for Christmas ?—B. If. Levy & Bro. Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship Company; General Transatlantic Company. Legal Notice— Application for Appointment of Partitioners. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; 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. __ BAKING POWDER. pgPRICE^ CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions ot homes for more than a quarter of a century. It is used by the United States Government, la. dorsed by the heads of the Great Univereities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOOTS. CLOTHING. Gentlemen’s Outfitting. 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