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THE DOINGS OP WOMEN FOLK.
Women Physicians Abroad- Women
Actors and Artists at Home.
New York, Dec. 20.—There are just
ixty women who have taken medical diplo
mas entitling them to enter their names on
ho British register of duly qualified medi
al practitioners. Of these two are dead
ind seventeen have gone to India, leaving
inly forty-one in Great Britain. Of the
'orty-one, twenty-one are engaged as lec
urers or instructors in the London and
Edinburgh medical colleges for women or
is medical officers to hospitals, dispensaries
r other institutions, leaving only twentv
vho depend solely on private practice.
These facts were brought to my notice dur
ng an afternoon at the London Medical
College for Women, and they indicate that
the field for the professional woman is under
less thorough cultivation abroad than in
(America.
And yet English women physicians have
;aken high degrees at the universities.
Miss Ramsay’s Cambridge successes made
ler famous, but she did no more than Miss
Sle anora Fleury, who was’sent up ter the
Condon Medical College for the m’dical
•lamination of the Royal University of
Ireland and who took the highest position
f all the candidates entered, no male stu
lent approaching her record to a degree
ihat would entitle him to le ranked in the
lame class. One large hospital in Loudon
s under the care of and
three other hospitals and six dispensaries
ire managed wholly or in part by women.
The granting of the first medical posts in
the civil service to women was the work of
the late Postmaster-General Fawcett, a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, one of the most successful women
physicians of England and said to be the
pn!y woman physicAn who is able to ex
act fess as high as those demanded by the
most successful men. Mr. Fawcett ap
pointed Dr. Edith Shove medical officer for
the statf of the general postoffico.
and appointed three women as medical
superintendents to the London, Liverpool
ind Manchester postoffices. The North
London Collegiate School for girls has a
woman as its resident physician, and so has
the Girl’s School at Sheffield. A woman is
Use medical examiner for the life insurance
ind annuity fund for the general postoffice
And yet women with whom I talked on the
mbject did not rate women’s chances in
medicine very high. They said that with
i few notable exceptions it was a life and
death struggle for a woman to build up a
practice. The bulwarks of conservatism
itood fast against the innovation, and the
young graduates were flocking to India as
medical missionaries, superintendents of
Hospitals and Zenana physicians, in answer
to a very real demand, and aided generously
by the fund established by the Countess of
Dufferin. The Lady Dufferiu hospital, at
Calcutta; the Kama Hospital, at Bombay;
tha Maternity Hospital, at Lahore; the
Medical College, at Madras; the Victoria
Hospital, at Madras; tbo hospital at Luck
now, a dispensary at Poona, and numbers
of other colonial institutions are now offi
cered, some wholly, some in part by women,
thus affording "an outlet for the ta'eat
which England seems in no haste to employ
at home.
THE QUESTION IS RAISED PERIODICALLY,
why do women go upon the stage’ A com
plete answer would seem to be afforded by
such a career as that of Lilia Yuue. Miss
Vane is Miss Lively off the stage, and Lilia
Lively is the proper title of the young
woman who supported Clara Morris last
season and who is now doing leading business
in William Gillette’s play,“ A Legal Wreck,”
from the Madison square theater. Miss
Vane has had the pens of Joe Howard, Jr.,
and Nym Crinkle dipped in glowing ink to
picture the bright promise of her career.
Bhe is an exceptionally pretty young
woman and as good as she is sweet laced,
but many women equally beautiful, equally
lovely in character and a great deal more
clever, have heard the bowlings of a very
hungry wolf at tLe door because they didn’t
have Lilia Vane’s common sense in choosing
a career which gives with lavish generosity
to a woman.
Miss Vane’s mother was a southern
woman who had a plantation and was rich
in slaves. The war made her poor. She
came north and sent Lilia to the Mount St.
Vincent Academy, which graduated Miss
Morosini, the original coachman’s bride.
Lilia did not like to study and to say the
truth did not succeed in learning a great
deal. The memory of Mount St. Vincent
which she cherishes with the greatest pleas
ure is that of an evening when Richard
Henry Stoddard gave a stereopticon lec
ture and she led a group of lively damsels
who t iok advantage of the darkness to pelt
him with —in schoolgirl language, spitballs.
Lilia decided before she w ent to school to
go upon the stage as soon as her mother
considered her educated, and she made her
debut in a minor pari in “The Professor.”
In those days she and her mother boarded
in Brooklyn, and the recollection is still
cherished of the perfect cheerfulness with
which sue divided her S2O a week salary,
paying the board bill for the two of them
as regularly as the day came round, deny
ing herself every small luxury or innocent
dissipation to keep her mother comfortable.
Bbe never indulged in naughty late suppers
with gilded youtu who admired her, but the
click of her latch key after the play was
over was as regular as the absence of the
bridge and the uncertalnlties of the ferries
permitted. Bread and butter, raw onions
for a soporitlc and she was in bed. She dis
liked the talk of men at little theatrical
parties to which she was invited so thor
oughly that she finally refused all invita
tions, and her joy was as innocent and as
.unfeigned as that of a 10-year-old over a
simple ring with a little diamond in it which
some unknown 'individual threw her one
night in a bunch of flowers. Pretty, good
little Lilia Vane. But she was not very
clever. She never studied her parts anil
she could not read an ordinary novel with
out miscalling simple words. She made a
curious piece of work of a passage from
Zola —not one of his bad books—w: rich some
one asked .her to read aloud one evening.
She made her own home drosses-precious
few she had —and her theatrical gowns.
When she begged George Fawcett Rowe for
the part of Little Emily in “David Copper
field,” nobody believed that she could take
it; and indeed after she bad her words let
ter perfect she asked somebody what the
play was all about and who Little Emily
was, for sho had never read the story. In
her ignorance she got the dresses for the
role all wrong, and the manager made her
do them over. But her beauty and her
grace carried her through, and her S4O a
week was a very acoepta le addition to the
family income. She went south. S e went
to Canada, but in whatever latitude she al
ways wrote to her mother every week and
always saut her money home. She enjoyed
her stage work, but she did not like to
change plays, it was such a task to learn a
new part and she would not and did not
study. Everybody liked tho bright-eyed,
chatty, companionable creature and she
had and has now hosts of friends. She is
not more than 26 or 27 years old, she has
succeeded, she earns a good salary. She is
a lovelv creature, happy hearted and whole
some, but not a genms, and it doesn’t take
geniuses to do well on the boards. The
dramatic art will do wonders for an ordi
narily graceful, teachable girl, especially if
she be as pu:e a girl as Miss Vane, not to
be spoiled by its temptations.
HOME OK THE GIRLS WHO STUDY
art in the city are now and then reduced to
queer shifts for a living. Tney do any
work, all sorts ot work by day, to earn the
wherewithal! to pay for tuition m tho art
classes in the evening. Two of the most
successful bonk agents are young women
who cherish dreams of getting one day their
pictures bung in tne academy. One nmlhe ic
maiden whom you would uever suspect of it
paints with the lifs class of the Gotham
Art Society on the strength of hard cash re
ceived for designing posters for Daly’s
theater. The aspirations of those girls are
oflan pathetic compared with the destined
realisation. There we< one who routed an
unfurnisbed room ami lUel it up with two
choirs and some drawing boards. Hhe
washed her lm*e nud her stockings in her
hand beam, and she a aiked tbs lUnU try
ing to sell plaques and menu cards at the
stores. What she ate it would be hard tell
ing. How she slept I happen to know. She
stretched the drawing boards from one
chair to the other, put her cloak over her
and;a cushion under her head and lay down
on the not altogether flowery be i ot ease.
She struggled two years, drawing faith
fully every evening and turning out clever
work, which her teachers commended, but
which did not sell. Then she hail a fit of
illness, and when she recovered she got a
place ns cloak model in a dry goods house.
The art ambitions were starved out of her.
So it is with a good many of them. Others
who have a little money backing persevere,
and their studios are the most deliciously
pretty bachelor rooms in town. A girl who
sets up for herself is always a delightful
person to go to sea. Her rooms are all
dainty scraps and suggestive bits. There
are grasses looped with scarlet ribbons, wild
flowers flung against old panels, little
sketches, bric-a-brac, all kinds of textile
fragments making drapery of everything.
Above all there is tie piquant girl hostess
who does the honors and makes you feel
that even in these days of chaperones, a
girl’s best protection is girl. E. P. H.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN EUROPE.
Henry George Discusses the Socialis
tic Phases of Current Politics in
England.
New York, Dec. 29. —Henry George sat
in his office yesterday afternoon and gave
his impression of questions social and poli
tical in England. Mr. George is evidently
under the charm that London has for most
intellectual men, but he is not under tho
social spell of the British metropolis, as bis
associations were almost exclusively with
men of his own radical type.
“Is the land question likely to get into the
realm of practical politics in Great Britain
within the next ten years?” he was as..ed.
“it is already a practical question,” said
Mr. George, quickly, “and it will be an
issue in the next general parliamentary
election, unless a European war, or some
other unseen great event intervenes to
cause delay."
“You do not seriously mean that the
question of placing all taxes on land values
will be submitted to the British electors
within four years?”
“Tne question will not take that radical
form. The taxation of ground rents will be
the first step in England, just as free-trade
must be the first step here. All sorts of ad
vanced thinkers in England, however, are
turning toward the single tax as a solution
of social and political problems. Even the
socialists, who, by the way, seem to mo
weaker than they were at my last visit to
England, are declaring in tavor of this
idea.”
“Could Gladstone lead such a canvass?”
“A leader is what tney need. I think Mr.
Gladstone feels that the question is too
great for him to handle at his advanced are.
He will be content if he can bring about
some settlement of the Irish parliament
question. I don’t know whether Mr. Glad
stone has given much attention to the single
tax, but I Know that members of his fam
ily have. Mr. Gladstone’s most insignifi
cant utterance hearing upon this question
was his remark that the Thames embank
ment had been built with the money of the
whole people, but that the benefits of the
work had gone largely to tbo landlords of
London.”
Which is most likely to be settled first,
the Irish land questions or the question of
a parliament in Dublin?”
“It is difficult to prophesy what turn the
discussion of theses matters will take. Of
course the land question is at the bottom of
Ir.sh discontent, and the Gladstonian oppo
sition to the bill to extend the Ashbourne
act for the purchuse of Irish holdings is a
great step in advance. It has o[>ened the
mouths of the liberals ad they denounce
the landlords as undeserving of any such
payment as that proposed in t is measure.
The discussion that this now attitude of tne
Gladstonians has precipitated in England is
not unlike the freo trade discussion brought
out by Mr. Cleveland’s very moder ate as
sault upon the protective tariff. Radical
democrats all over the country have been
emboldened to denounce protection as bad
per sc and extreme liberals in England have
been led into denunciation of landlords as
such.”
“ What is the strength of the single tax
men in tue present parliament?”
“I cannot gi ve exact figures. There are
a few out and out advocaiesof imposing all
taxes on land values and a good many, I
fancy, who, like Trevelyan, favor the tax
ing of ground rents. Lord Compton, who is
heir to an earldom, and as such one would
think a conservative on the land question,
ran for parliament on the latter issue.
William Saunders, recently on M. P., is a
radical as I am. J. C. Durant and Angus
Sutherland, the former recently iu the
House of Commons and the latter now rep
resenting one of the Crofter districts, are
single tax men.”
“Then the laud question as a national
issue is likely to attain prominence in Eng
land before it comes up here?”
“The battle for free trade must first be
fought here. That is educational, if you
remove taxes from imports, where shall
you lay taxes? That question is out of the
way in England, and they
aro one step in advance of us.
Our people are quicker th in the English,
however. Of course the social conditions
are vastly better here than in Great Britaiu.
Tho evils’of private ownership of land are
more glaring there than here. Then, too,
any radical movement in England has an
advantage over a like movement here by
reason of the absence of constitutional
checks and balances. Their system of a
cabinet responsible to a majority in the
House of Commons, and going out of office
with the loss of that majority’s support, is
vastly better than our system of a cabinet
independent of legislative control. Our
forefathers in making the constitution im
proved on the English system as they found
it, but they made acast-iro i systom of their
own, while England,untrammeled by a writ
ten constitution, has expanded her syßtetn
in accordance with her needs. Other free
peoples have imitated her rather thnn us.”
“But ministerial responsibility stands as
a buffer between the crown and the people,
does it not ?”
“Undoubtedly; most Englishmen that I
know do not trouble them elves about the
crown. B. adlaugh and a few other* de
nounce the cost of maintaining royalty, and
a good many of the queen’s loyal subjects
speak of her in unpleasant terms, but dur
ing her lifetime tho question of a republic
is not likely to become a burning one. My
English friends declare that they have to
all intents and purp >-es as good a republic
us ours, and it is not to be denied that their
legislative system is more democratic than
our own. When the Prince of Wales as
cends the throne, republicanism may raise
its bead ”
“What is the feeling toward the House of
Lords ?”
“Its unnopularity is increasing and in
time it will be abolished. Of course the
taxes of land up to the rental value would
doom the House of l/irds, fora poor nobility
is absurd. The lords might oppose any radi
cal movement toward the single tax, as
they would recognize that iu such a co iffict
they were in the last ditch, but tue end
would be inevitable.”
“What could be substituted for the House
of Lords?”
“Nothing: modern thought looks to a sin
gle legislative house.”
“What of socialism and anarchy in Ixm
dour
“Neither is strong, and some that call
themselves socialists do notkuow what they
are. I hail a few anarchLts at the great
1-ainbeth Bath meeting that I addressed.
Some of them asked mu why 1 hud con
demned the ‘Chicago Martvi-*?' 1 replied
that not I, but a court in Illinois hail con
demned them. 1 hail merely objected to
the demand that thane men should be ac
knowledged os martyrs to the cause of
labor. 1 condemned violence iu countriee
situated as the United Stales and England,
and declared that the |smple are oppressed
in such countries only by raison of their
ign >rancM The halt was Ailed with work
| iny men, but my reply was received with a
| t . under of cheer a"
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1888.
“What is the attitude of the English peo
ple toward the relations of Canada and the
United States?”
“I suppose the mass of Englishmen take
pride in the territori il greatness of the em
pire, but the men with whom I associated
are, like myself, citizens of the world, with
warm affections for both countries. The
English liberals are warm friends of the
United States. I was received as if I had
been a fellow countryman. Perhaps the
asperities of English travelers in this’ coun
try are only natural. An Englishman feels
his backbone rise when he gets to a foreign
country.”
“What of Mr. Parnell’s leadership?”
“I think it will continue. I heard him
speak and his health seemed excellent. He
has gotten withiu reach of land nationaliza
tion, and t e Irish Darly is heading more
and more in that direction.”
E. N. Vallandigham.
WHBN MATT QUAY WAS A BOY.
How He Introduced a Goose into
School and Traded Knives with
Harry White.
From the New York Sun.
Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 27.—“ There
never was a sharper, more mischievous
schemer, as a boy, than Matt Quay,” said a
resident of Western Pennsylvania, who was
a schoolmate in Indiana county of the now
famous statesman and politician. “He
was continu -lly doing things that no other
boy would ever think of. I especially recall
one of his pranks that was as bold as it was
original.
“There was a green is tho rear of the
school house where we weut to school, and
Matt had a seat near a window that over
looked the groan. Oeh it summer after
noon a flock of geese wore pasturing on the
green. Matt sat at tho open window, look
ing at them plucking away at tho grass as
only a flock of geese can pluck, when a
brilliant Idea took possession of him. He had
a half-eaten apple in his desk and a ball of
kite string. Biting a big piece off the apple,
he qu etly tied it to one end of his string
and, edging up to the window, gave the bit
of apple a quick jerk and sent it several feet
on the grass. One of the geese saw the
tempting morsel, and, waddling over to
where it lay on the grass, gulped it down,
and indicated its satisfaction by two or
three self-congratulatory cackles.
“Iu swallowi ig the apple the goose had
.also engulfed a foot or so of Matt Quay’s
kite string, and Matt an once proceeded to
complete the scheme he had planned by
hauling the goose, hand over hand, off of
the green and up the side of the school
house, in spite of the idiotic bird’s frantic
struggles to get away. The goose was
pulled in at the window in a twi ikling, and
the next second was flopping and waddling
here and there about the school room,
trailing and twisting the kites string about
the legs of a score of surprised and
frightened scholars, and squawking at the
top of its lungs.
“When the scholars recovered from their
surprise and took in the situation, a roar
that almost raised the roof went up from
their combined throats. The goose was
finally penned up in one corner and caught
by scholars and teacher, the string cut off,
and the bird dumped out of the window.
Matt Quay was bidden to the teacher’s plat
form to receive punishment for his wild
breach of decorum.
“It was the practice in those days for
school teachers to renew their stock cf
switches, of which they made liberal use,
by sending out such or such a scholar to
cut the gads as the supply ran low. The
day before Matt Quay’s goose episode, Matt
bad been dispatched as the rod collector,
and he had brought in a bundle of nice,
long, slender gads that made tbo teacher’s
eye glisten. Matt was the first boy they
were used on, and the scholars noticed t.iat
the first whack the teacher gave with one
of the swit hes broke it is a dozti pieces.
This seemed to be gratifying to the teacher,
as he apparently regarded the thorough
breaking of the rod as evidence of the
telling force of his blow. He splintered
four switches over Matt’s back, and
from the way Matt squirmed and
yelled we thought they had surely cut
deep, but when ho walked back to his seat
there was a queer grin on his fac<- end not a
trace of tears, and he sat down with a wink
and a grimace that we knew meant a
good deal. We found out later what it
meant. W h6n Matt collected the rods for
the teacher the day before, he had con-id
ei ed the possibilities of their being first
brought into use on himself, and he had
taken liis jackknife aud neatly run the
blade around and around each switch,
from butt to tip, making the incisions a
few inches ap.irt and deep enough to so
weaken tue gads that the first blow would
break them into splinters and destroy the
force of the blow. The teacher didn’t
discover the trick, and Matt’s flogging was
as harmless to him as the tickle of a fl v■.
“Ma t was always looking for a dicker of
some kind when wo were boys, and he
never traded u knife, a handful of marbles,
or anything else that ho didn’t stick the boy
he traded with, no matter how much the
advantage seamed to lie with the latter in
tho preliminary negotiations. I romember
his great knife trade with Harry White,
who is now president judge of this district.
Matt had a jackknife once that was the
particular envy of Harry White, who had
made all aorts of offers to Matt for a trade,
one of which included a knife that he
owned, a half dozen marbles, a ball of twine
and a tin squirt gun. But Matt didn’t
think the dicker was worth enough to him.
and he wouldn’t trade. One day, though,
much to the surprise and joy of ’Harry, he
mot the latter and said ho guessed they
might, get up a trade.
“‘I haven’t got my knife with me,
though,’ said Matt, ‘and if we strike a bar
gain you’ll have to go after it.’
“ ‘All right,’ said Hairy; ‘what boot do
you want? 1
“ ‘Well, if you’ll give me your knife, tho
marbles, the twine, anil the squirtgun, aud
throw in that horse-hair fish hue of yours.
I’ll trado,” said Matt.
“‘ I’ll do it,,’ exclaimed Harry, and he
handed over ail the articles. ‘Where’ll Igo
after your knife?’
“Matt stowed Harry’s knife and the
other things iu bis pocket and said:
“ ‘Go up to the tannery. I was fooling
arouud there this morning and dropped my
knife in the vat. Mo and some of the boys
fished two hours for it and couldn’t find It.
But it’s in there. Go up, and maybe you
can get it.’
“Harry kicked, but there wasn’t any use.
He never found Matt's knife, and it’s in
that vat yet, for all I know.”
UNDER GREAT TEMPTATION.
Men Who Might Have Stolen Thous
ands of Dollars.
New York, Dec. 29.—“ Don’t write me
up as a scoundrel,” pitifully asked Receiv
ing Teller John H. Stopferd, of the Nine
teenth Ward Bank, at the Tombe yester
day. “I haven’t atolen 150,000 and $60,000,
as did Eno, Scott And Deßaun. I could
just as well as not have taken $40,000 out
of the safe on a Saturday afternoon and
the bank officials wouldn’t have been any
the wiser until Monday morning, by which
time I could have been safe in Canada. I
only stole a little over 11,700, so let up on on
unfortunate mau who has ftiuued under
gl oat temptation.”
Teller Stopford has for three years hand
led thousands of dollars every day at a sal
ary of $22 per week, on which he has had
to support a wife and four children, the
oldest being 14 years old and the youngest
three. Htopford has been connected with
banks for the past fifteen years. He began
at the foot of the ladder, his first em
ployment being as a measengM in
the Metropolitan bank, from which
place he went to a similar
tswitlon in the National bank.
Three years ago lie came well recom
mended by the two letter I sinks to the
Nineteen ward batik, at Fifty-seventh street
and Third avenue lie was llrst employed
as a clerk at a salary of S7OO a year, and
his deportment was such that within a year
be was promoted l the position of receiv
ing te'ier, with an inert nv of 9400 j early,
bwplord dr auk, but never to eiMse.
He began his stealings on Dec. 22. 1886,
when he put SBO in his pocket which a
woman deposited. Stopford says that after
doing so he felt miserable for days, thinking
any moment a detective would enter to ar
rest him. But as weeks went on and the
defalcation had not been discovered, Step
ford determined to refund the money he
bad stolen. He endeavored to save, but he
save that was a hard thiag to do with a
family of growing children to bring up.
He found that he couldn’t pay it
back. He remained honest, however,
until Feb. 20, 1888, an interval of a.-
most fourteen months from the first larceny.
Then he took S3O. His pilferings began in
earnest eight days later. The lowest amount
he took was $35 and the highest S2OO. The
last larceny was on Dec. 10 last. A. I).
Asehmcad, of Third a.enue and Eighty
fourth street, made a deposit of $l5O, which
Stopford took. On Dec. 17 Mr. Aschmead
made another deposit. This time Stopford
was away from his desk and one of the
clerks acted in his place, and iu making the
last entry in the ledger discovered that the
previous deposit had not been entered.
The attention of Samuel H. Rathbone,
president of the bank, was called to it.
Mr. Rathbone thought it a mistake, and
called Stopford’s attention to it when he
appeared. Instead of explaining it to the
president’s satisfaction, the paying toller
reeled against a desk aud bowed his head in
shame. He broke down and confessed all.
He had kept entries in a note book of the
money he hail stolon, and they aggregated
$1,705. President Rathbone immediately
brought the disgraced receiving teJier to the
American Surety Company, at No. 100
Broadway. They had given bonds for him
in February last for SIO,OOO, and since that
day Stopford has been under the surveil
lance of detectives connected with the com
pany. They refrained from arresting him,
however, as Stopford said he had friends
who would probably put up the money and
save biin from disgrace.
Neither the bang officials nor the surety
company bad any desire to have him
punished. It is said that a relative of Stop
ford’s, who is in Wall street, was appealed
to, but his answer Vico President 110..ry D.
Lyman, of the surety company, describes
as very freezing. That settled it, and Stop
ford was made a prisoner yesterday and
arraigned at the Tombs.
“I’m guilty.” he said to Clerk McGowan,
and Justice O’Reilly held liim in $1,500 bail
to await the action of the grand jury.
Stopford, who is 39 years old, says he
never gambled, and all the money he stole
went to his wife and children. He said to
a World reporter: “I never complained to
Mr. Rathbone of the smallness of my salary
and I’m sure bo would have raised it if I
had asked him. I had intended to do so,
but after I began stealing, I didu’t have tho
nerve to do it My wife and children will
suffer more from this than I."
FRANCES FOLSOM'S PASTOR, TOO.
A Harrison Clergyman Who Kas a
Very High Opinion of the Presi
dent’s Wife.
From the New York Sun.
Indianapolis, Dec. 27.—The Rev. Dr.
McLeod, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church of this city, who has been fre
quently mentioned in the newspaper* for
his intimacy with the Harrison family, aud
for the deep interest ho took in the election
ol Gen. Harrison, has been almost as inti
mately related to tue Cleveland family, or
to Mrs. Cleveland. Dr. McLeod was for
merly pastor of a church in Buffalo, and
one of tbo duties—one of the pleasantest
duties, he puts it—that fall to his lot there
was tua. of admitting to membership in
the church Frances Folsom, then a girl
about 16 yea”s of age.
“The incident,” he said the other day,
“has always bean one of the brightest in
my recollection on tie, cunt, of the fact, that
on that day there were only two candidates
for admission, one the beautiful young girl,
aud the other a man at least 70’years old,
gray-liaireJ, long-bearded, aDd beat with
years. He had been a Quaker, and I remem
ber that be had to be baptized. I forget
wiiether Miss Folsom was baptized then or
not, but the contrast between the two per
sons as they stood up together was s >
striking that I have always remembered
it. Miss Folsom theu was one of the most
beautiful young women I have ever known,
and a true, good woman besides. She
promised to develop into a woman of unu
sual culture, refinement and grace, and I
think the promise has been fully mai -
tained. Mr. Cleveland then was only a:>
ordinary office lawyer, and Miss Folsom, it
was said, was engaged to a young man in
Buffalo.
“Although I believe I voted for Cleveland
both time) he ran in Buffalo, I op
posed him this fall; but I don’t want it to
be supposed that I did so on personal
grounds. To mo the saddest thing about
tie whole campaign has been the dragging
in, after the election was over, of these out
rageous stories i,of Mr. Cleveland’s treat
ment of his wife. I cannot understand how
his friends have permitted themselves to go
into denials of things that nob idy has ever
believed. Ido not think it is true that they
had the slightest influence in the election,
or that they were circulated to any extent
throughout the country. For myself, I not
only do not believe a word of
them, but I never heard them talked of
except in the vaguest way atiout the time
of the St. Louis convention, until they
were brought into print through the action
of those supposed to be friends of Mr.
Cleveland. It does not seem possible to me
that any one can suppose them to have any
fouudation in fact. Mr. Cleveland is not
that sort of a man, and Mrs. Cleveland is
not a woman that even the most brutal
man would abuse. A denial of such stories
merely gives them a seriousness that they
do not deserve.”
CLEVELAND AND HARRISON.
Letters Passing Between the Families
of the Incoming and Outgoing Presi
dents.
from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Washington, Dec. 24.—President Cleve
land and President-elect Harrison huve,
since the election, been dignified aud
friendly. It will be remembered that a
short time after the e ection the beautiful
mistress of the white house, .Mrs. Cleveland,
wrote a letter to Mrs. Harrison, and gave
the future mistress of the executive mansion
a pressing invitation that when sue,
with her husband, came to Wash
ington, she spend the days preceding the
inaugui ation as her gue t. After it was a
certainty that Mr. Harr.son had beon
elected, President Cleveland wrote a letter
to his successful opponent, extending to
him congratulations on ttie result of the
election which would make him the Presi
dent’s successor. This naturally and
properly brought forth a pleasant reply
trom the future President. Since that time
a very pleasant correspondence has teen
carried on between the two distinguished
men. Some of Mr. Harrison’s letters have
be. n in the nature of inquiries regarding
the daily routine of the office, together w ith
many other things which Gen. Harrison
would naturally desire to bo informed upon.
Mrs. Harrison has also been in weekly
correspondence with Mrs. Cleveland
with reference to many household
affairs, which a woman of Mrs. Harri
son’s domestic thoughtfulness and cire
would deem important to know. It is said
by those who seem to speak from knowl
edge of oast changes of wnito hou-e occu
pants, that more friendly relationship with
the outgoing and .incoming families never
existed.
The two secretaries, though they have
never met personally, except for a tew
minutes ut the Hoarier capital a year ago
last fall, have exchanged letters, Col.
1 ainont having written at some length to
his sucoeasor, Mr. Halford, upon the sub
ject of the minor details of the office, Uport
the whole, there has linen a great deal of
■nail matter panned to and fro within the
post mont h from Ills white bounj end the
unpretentious Delaware street residence of
Gen. Harrison at InrinuinpoliH.
Ms Knoons’s book on Australia bas given
birth to anew wen] Iu tin- aasemtiijr bouse at
Mstuourue, It Is Fi uudw.lt/."
A WHITE CAP WITH NINE LIVES
Five Bullets Fall to Kill Him and He
May Recover.
New Albany, Ixd., Dec. 27.—A visit on
Dec. 24 to Marietta, Crawford county, In
diana, gave the correspondent an oppor
tunity to look upon a most remarkable case
of tenacity to life. An account has been
published of the aMuction from New Al
bany on Dec. 17 of Miss Lillie Davis, of
Marietta, Crawford county, by William L.
Gregory, of the same town, and
who is under indictment for being
a White Cap, the young woman’s father,
Georse W. Davis, being his bondsman in
SI,OOO for his appearance to answer at
Leavenworth in the Crawford county cir
cuit court on Jan. 26, as well as his bonds
man in S2OO as postmaster at Marietta
(West Fork postoffice). The girl, who is
only 17 years old, charges that Gregory,
under pretense that her brother, William
Davis, was seriously ill at the Farmers’
hotel in this city, induced her to leave the
residence of M. M. Scott, a merchant of
New Albany, to accompany him to
the hotel, and that he drugged
her and took her to Louis
ville to the Commercial ho
tel, where, registering her as his wife, and
under her insensible condition, he accom
plished her ruin. Her father on the 10th
inst. at Marietta shot Gregory five times—
twice in the abdomen, twice under the left
shoulder blade, and once in the shoulder.
Nows came to this city that Gregory had
died on the morning of the 17th at 6 o’clock,
and this report was published in the New
Albany and Louisville papers and was con
firmed by a statement made by Davis on
the morning of the 21st, when he arrived in
this city.
“The report of Gregory’s death was dis
puted on the 23d, and to confirm it, or get
at the facts in tbe case, the correspondent
visited Marietta on the 24th. He found
Gregory still alive, notwithstanding the
dreadful character of his wounds. The two
wounds in the abdomen are straight
through just below the navel. Tbe two
wounds under the loft shoulder-blade are
supposed to have passed through the left
lung. The wounded man was in an insensi
ble condition, but his surgeons had hope of
his recovery.
George W. Davis, who inflicted the
wounds, is a well-to-do blacksmith and
farmer, and had been one of Gregory’s best
friends. Gregory’s tenacity to life is extra
ordinary, Ins surgeons hoping that be may
though it would seem that the ab
dominal wounds are necessarily fatal.
THE CONFEDERACY’S GREAT SEAL.
Presented to the State of South Caro
lina by Col. Earle of Washington.
From the New York Sun.
Columbia, Dec. 27.—The state of South
Carolina was presented to-day, through
Secretary of State J. Q. Marshall, with the
great seal of the confederate states of
America. The seal is presented by Col.
William E. Earle of Washington. Tiie
great seal, which, as finally adopted by the
confederate states, was designed by Thomas
J. Semmes, the > a confederate senator
from Louisiana, was made in England and
reached here just before tbe close of the
war. At the evacuation of Richmond,
the feal was overlooked. It was subse
quently found and turned over to Col. John
T. Pickett of Washington, who sent it to
England, had several copies made, and
some years I d.er presented Col. Earle with
tbe seal which he has now given to this
state. The seal is of polished bronze, and is
three inches in diameter. On one side is an
equestrieu statue of Washington copied
Iroro the statue in the state house grounds
at Riehmo and. The only inmription upon
the seal is tbe following: “The Confeder
ate States of America, 22J February, 1862
—Deo Vindicere.”
In his letter of transmittal, Col. Earlo
says: “However meu may diffor as to the
policy and principles up >n which our coun
try is or should be governed, those who
passed through the ordeal of danger and
privation, who fought and lost, will cherish
with pride the memory of tbe heroic endur
ance and manhood with which tae struggle
was upheld and maintained.”
The seal will be kept in a handsome glass
covered case in the office of the Secretary
of State.
Russia's Great Novelist.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Count Tolstoi is a man of 60, with iron
gray hair, sunburned countenance, plenti
fully furnished with gray beard and mus
tache. His hair ii parted down the middle
and is thick and full. His brow, furrowed
with tho ploughshare of thought, is broad
and massive; his eyes, small and piercing,
gleam out beneat.i bushy brows. His nose,
large and prominent, has full and express
ive nostrils. The features are so strongly
marked that once seen they cannot soon be
forgotten. He is rather above the average
hight, and his three-score years have not
bowed his stature. But he is no longer as
robust as he was. He looks somewhat
shrunken and worn, as if time and the ever
burning fire within were making iuroads on
what was once a stout and stalwart form.
Count Tolstoi dresses not ala moujik,
hut not as a count. He wears a coarse, dark
blouse, buttoned up the breast aud fast
ened round the waist with a leathern girdle.
Collars, cuffs aud such frippery he eschews.
His trousers are as those of other men. On
his head he wears a soft, weather-beaten
brimless hat, and whenever he walks abroad
lie cari ies a stout staff. The costume of the
disciple is like to that of his master. Sim
plicity in dress is a distinctive note of the
Tolstoiaii gospel—one among the mnuy
points in which it resembles the Quakers.
A Skipping Rope that Plays Tunes.
A novelty for children in the form of a
skipping rope which plays tunes while it is
being used has been introduced There is a
small music box fixed at the end of one of
the handles of the rope, and tbe turning of
the rope puts it at once in action. The
idea is pretty, and the price of the rope is
said to be very moderate. It is to be hoped,
however, that the box is not of a delicate
i onstitutioii.
KAINIT.
An(i-Nono|)ol] lainit.
If you wish to pay high
prices forever for Kaiait, then
buy from the “Sole Agents of
the Great Kainit Trust,” but
if you want to beat this mo
nopoly, then buy from us.
We are “Independent Deal
ers,” and propose to remain
so.
BALDWIN FERTILIZER C 0„
SAVANNAH, GA.
STOVES.
Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1888.
Messrs. Thomas, Robert*, Stevenson (t/Co. i
Obnt*—Tiio Uau/.w Door Kant?*) you put up In
my achool room a month ago. has done Its work
beautifully. Kor hak ing pastry. I have Dover
wen it* equal. Cake* and bread require little,
or no attention, and roaal quickly with
verv little lona in wtrigiit.
l or the Ni/.e of the rauge the ninall amount of
coal lined In marvelouH. Jn fact, ] think it too
good not to be thoroughly known. Yours truly,
Baham T. Koiiich,
Principal Philadelphia Cooking School.—
FOB BALK BY ——
Cornwell & Chipman,
167 BROUGHTON ST,
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
LAWRENCE.—The friends and acquaintance
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lawrence, Mr. and
Mrs. James Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. John Strobart,
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of
the former at his residence on Montgomery
street, third door south of Huntington street,
at 3 o’clock TO-DAY, 31st inst.
TANT.—Tbe friends and relatives of Mrs
Sarah M. Tant, James E. Tant, Sr., Jamos E.
Tant. Jr., Mrs. Fannie A. Thomas and Mrs.
Sarah E. Parker are invited to attend thy f U .
neral of Mrs. Sarah M. Tant from her Jate
residence. No. 7 McDonough Btreet, THIS
MORNING at 10:30 o’clock.
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODGE IYO. ’ l. O oTfT~
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock, sun time.
Election of oflicers for the ensuing term.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of R. M. HICKS, N. G.
John Riley. Secretary
CALANTHE LODGE MO. *B, K. OF P.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will >trv
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING.
at 8 o’clock. B 9m
Election of officers.
Members of sister Lodges cordially
invited. Nilw
D. S. GREENBAUM, C. C.
W. Falconer, K. R. and S.
SAVANNAH KIFLE ASSOCIATION.
Savannah, Ga„ Dec. 31, 1888.
The Association will meet at Greenwich Park
TO-MORROW (Tuesday, Ist prox.,)at 12 M, for
annual (prize) ride contest.
Cars will leave West Broad at 11 a, m. An
oyster roast will be provided.
CAPT. J. W. McALPIN, President.
Jno. M. Bryan, Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advert isements inserted under “Special
Notices” will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
NOTICE. ~ ~~~~ ~
All bills against the British steamship
NEDJED must be presented at our office be
fore 12 o’clock noon THIS DAY, Dec. 31, 1888, or
payment will be debarred.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD, Agents.
FIRST VOLUNTEER REGIMENT OF
GEORGIA.
Savannah, Dec. St, 1888.
The interest coupons on tbe bonds of the
First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, due Jan
uary 1, 1889, will be paid on presentation at tbe
Southern Bank of tbe State of Georgia.
GEORGE A. MERCER,
Colonel Ist Vol. Regt. of Georgia.
NOTICE.
Augusta and Savannah Railroad, 1
Savannah. Ga.. Dec. 81, 1888. (
The annual election for seven Directors of the
Augusta and Savannah Railroad will be held on
MONDAY, January 7, 1889, at the banking
house of Chas. H. Olmstead & Cos., between the
hours of 10 and 12 o'clock.
W. 8. LAWTON, President,
ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS.
Central R. R. and Banking Cos. of Georgia, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. sth, 1888. (
An election for thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of this Company for the ensuing
year will be held at the Banking House in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the seventh day of January,
1889, between tbe hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and
2 o’clock p. m. Stockholders and their families
will be passed free over the Company’s road to
attend the election from the 4th to the 7th
January, inclusive, and bo passed free return
ing from the 7th to the 10th January, inclusive,
on presentation of their stock certificates to
the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
RAFFLE NOTICE.
The Grand Raffle at Pike's Pharmacy, corner
South Broad and Jefferson streets, will take
place MONDAY, Dec. 31, at Bp. m. All chances
not paid for will be sold.
NOTICE.
The Coupons of the MARIETTA AND NORTH
GEORGIA RAILWAY, maturing Ist JANU
ARY, 1889, will be paid at the office of A. L.
Hartridge, No. 106 Bay street, Battersby’s
Building.
SINGING
Is one of the best accomplishments tor a lady
or gentleman, and our young people can attain
this art by attending Prof. J. W. BEARDS
LEE’S class, which will commence its next
term of lessons on MONDAY, Dec. 31, at 8 p. m.,
in the lecture Room of Trinity Church.
NOTICE.
The Merchants' Nat’l Bank of Savahnah, 1
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 9. 1888. f
The annual election for Directors of this Bank
will beheld at the Banking House on TUES
DAY, Jan. 8, 1889, between the hours of 12 and
1 o'clock. THOS. GADSDEN. Cashier.
FOR ORDINARY. "
To mg Friends and Fellow Citizen's of Chat
• ham County:
■--
I respectfully announce myself as a candidate
for re-election to the offloe of ORDINARY of
Chatham County at the election to be held on
the 2nd day of JANUARY next, and kindly
solicit your votes and influence.
HAMPTON!,. FERRILL.
NOTICE.
Office OniEF or Police, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 19, 1888. I
The following order is hereby published for
the information of ail concerned:
Oeneral Order No. 1;
I. The ordinances of the city forbid the firing
of guns, pistols and other firearms anywhere
and at any time within the corporate limits.
11. The firing of sky rockets, wheel rockets,
Roman candles, serpents, firecrackers and other
fireworks, or of any other articles or thing con
taining gunpowder, fulminating powder or
other explosive or detonating substance, and
tbe making of bonfires, except in the extended
portion of Forsyth place, and in tbe public
sqares of the city south of Liberty street, and
tiieu only five days before and ten diva after
Christmas day and tbe Fourth dav of July in
each and every year, is also positively prohibited
by the ordinances of the city.
111. Tbe members of the police department
nre hereby ordered to arrest all persons found
violating these ordinances, and to be unusually
vigilant during the approaching holidays in
cheesing prompt y all improper irregularities
anil disorders detrimental to good order, and to
the proper protection of life and property. .
JOHN GREEN, Chief of Police.
FOR COUNTY SHERIFF.
To my Fellow-< ili/.i-iis.
Gentlemen: Being thankful for your support
and votes in the past. I bog to announce myself
ns a candidate for re-election to the office of
COUNTY SHERIFF, and most respectfully
solicit your Influence and votes at the pl.-ction
U> bo held on WEDNESDAY, January 2d, 1889.
Respectfully,
JOHN T. ROWAN.
FOR CORONER.
To the Voters of Chatham County.
I am a candidate for re-election to the office
or
C O R O N E R,
At the election on JANUARY 2, 18S9, and re
spectfully ask your support.
W. D. DIXON.
■FECIAL NOTICE.
City of Savannah, i
Orru e City Maksaiial Dec. 18th. IMA. (
Notice is hereby given to all parties intern.led
In City Lot Ground Hunts that uu the FltiHT
TUESDAY IN JANUARY. 1889. I will advertise
for sub-all lots In arrears The effect of the
viiie wlil vest n fee simple title In tbe purchasers.
The lota will tie * .Id without reserve to the
highest ao-l best bidder
ROBY J. WADE, City Marshal.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
Fellow Citizens: lam a candidate for re
election to the office of Tax Collector, at the
election to be held on JANUARY 2d, 1889, and
respectfully solicit your support.
james j. McGowan.
FOR ORDINARY.
I respectfully announce to my friends and tha
voters of Chatham county that I will be a can
didate for ORDINARY at the election to be held
on JANUARY 2d, and will be grateful for your
votes and support. P. J. O’CONNOR.
DON’T BE DECEIVED.
Ask for ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR, a
safe and reliable medicine, and take no other.
I have introduced Da. B. F. ULMER’S LIVER
CORRECTOR In my practice, and find that it
gives general satisfaction. The best evidence
of the estimation in which it is held is the fact
that persons trying it onoe Invariably return
for another bottle, recommending it at the
same time to their friends.
G. A. PENNY, M. D„ Cedar Key, Fla.
I have found ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR
to act like a charm in torpid liver, etc.
D. O. C. HEERY. M. D„ Atlanta, Ga.
ELECTION NOTICE.
City of Savannah, I
Office Clerk of Council, V
Dec. 27, 188 L )
At the first regular meeting to be held in Jan
uary, that is to say. on WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9
1880, council will open bids and select the follow
ing contracts for the year 1889:
City Printer.
For furnishing bread for prisoners at Police
Barracks.
Ordinance. Dec. 26, 1888:
Sec. 2. All bids for contracts stated above
must bo filed with the Clerk of Council at or be
fore 2 o'clock p. m. on the Monday preceding t he
day of election, which bids must be accompanied
with the names of sureties or bondsmen, who
will lie required to qualify before a notary pub
lic or other officer, such qualification to accom
pany the bid. No bid will receive the consider
ation of the council unless filed in accordance
with the provisions recited above.
By order of council.
FRANK E. REBARER.
Clerk of Council.
ELECTION NOTICE.
City of Savannah, l
Office Clerk of Coi-ncit, V
Dec. 27, 1888. )
At the first regular meeting to be held In Jan
uary, that is to say on WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9,
1889, Council will elect, for the term of two
years, the following officers:
Salary
per
annum. Bond.
Clerk of Council... SI,BOO SIO,OOO
City Treasurer .7.:. 2.400 50,000
City Marshal 1,500 5,000
Chief of Police 2,000 4,000
City Surveyor (and shall per
form the duties of inspector
of dry culture 2,000 2,000
Harbor Master, and to furnish
his deputy whenever required 1,500 2,000
Clerk or the Market 800 2,000
Corporation Attorney 1,500
Messenger of Council 600 500
Keeper of Laurel Grove Ceme
tery 1,000 1,000
Keeper of City Dispensary 1,000 2,000
Assistant Keeper of City Dis
pensary 900
Keeper Forsythe Place 900 500
Keeper Pest House 450 500
Fifteen measurers and inspect
ors of timber and lumber Fees 500
Twelve inspectors naval stores,
and as such to take out a li
cense each year Fees 2,000
Health officer, fees and 1,500
Five port, wardens Fees 500
Four weighers of hay Fees 500
Chimney contractor, E. D Fees 500
Chimney contractor, W. D Fees 500
Chief Fireman 1,800 2,000
Assistant Chief Fireman 450 ....
Superintendent and Engineer
Waterworks 1,500 5,000
Superintendent of Scavenger
Department 1,200 2,000
Two City Physicians, eacn one
to keep a horse and buggy at
his own expense 1,000 ....
Ordinance, Dec. 20, 1888:
Sec. 2. All applicants for city officers must
file with the Clerk of Council, at or before 2
o'clock p. m. on the Monday preceding the day
of election, their several applications for those
positions requiring bonds, the names of the
bondsmen (two in all cases) must accompany
the application. No application will receive tbe
consideration of Council unless filed in accord
ance with the provisions of this ordinance.
By order of Council.
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
The Board of Registration and Election Mana
gers hereby give notice that tue books for the
registration of voters at the election for Mayor
and Aldermen of tbe Citv of Savannah, to be
held TUESDAY, January 15th. 1889, will be
opened on MONDAY, December 81st, 1888.
The Managers for each district will att*nd at
the places designated below from 9 o'clock a. m.
to 2 r. m., every day (except Sundays), and on
Saturdays from 6 o'clock p. m. to 8 p. m.
For the FIRST MILITIA DISTRICT, extend
ing from the western corporate limits of the
city to the middle of Montgomery street. Place
for Registration, Justice Folliard's office. No.
West Broad street.
Managers Thomas A. FOlliard, R. C. Fetzer,
E. W. O'Connor.
For the SECOND MILITIA DISTRICT, from
the middle of Montgomery to the middle of
Barnard streets. Place for Registration, Dr. B.
F. Sheftall’s office. N. W. corner Jefferson and
Liberty streets.
Managers -M. S. Baker, E. J. Kieffer, W. H.
Prendergast.
For the THIRD MILITIA DISTRICT, from
tho middle of Barnard to the middle of Aber
corn streets. Place for Registration, L. C.
Strong's drug store. No. 67 Bull street.
Managers—L. C. Strong, J. W. Mclntyre, F. J.
Ruckert. .
For the FOURTH MILITIA DISTRICT, from
the middle of Aliercorn to the eastern corporate
limitß of the city. Place for Registration. Jus
tice Elsinger’s office, No. 36 Price street, corner
President.
Managers—S. Elsinger, La ween ce Dunn,
Thomas Clarke. „
JAMES W. McINTYRE,
Secretary of the Board of Registration and
Election Managers.
AMUBKMENTB.
MASONIC TEMPLE
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 2, 1889.
Grand Concert
-BY THE-
Rutgers College Glee Club Quartette.
The most select affair of the season. Admls
mission 50c.; reserved seats 75c. Seats on ssie
at Davy Bros.'.
1 88 Q .
PAT FALLON
VS.
CLAYMORE.
RUNNING TROTTING MATCH
Pony. Bull and Foot Rices to follow.
Sue Morning News to-morrow.
JOSEPH F. DOYLE. Manager.
A LAKOE BLOCK
GOOD PINE LAND
WANTED.
Send nil psrlioulars to W II LAIRD. Equita
ble Building. Broadway, New York.
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MERCHANTS, manufacturer*, mere bank'*.
corporation*, and all othuie lu need
printing, lltbograotim:*. and I lank bo* a* can
have their urdei* prompily fill**! at moderate
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HOUSE. 9 Whitaker Mreet.