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Meetinos—Pulaski Loan Association; Golden
Rule Lodge No. 12.1. O. O. F.; All of the Odd
Fellows, Thursday, to Lay the Corner stone of
Hall.
Bpecial Noncks—State and County Taxes
1889; The Title Guarantee and Loan Company
Of Savannah; A Grand Victory for the Wheeler
&Wi son Manufacturing Company; As to tills
Against British Steamships Venice and Cairn
gorm; As to Crews of British) Steamship Wssb
in_tou City and German Steamship Helvetia;
Venison. Celery, etc., at Joyce's CoiJ Storage;
Huyler's Confections at Butler's Pharmacy;
Notioeof Dissolution Strauss Printing Company.
Amusements-" Held by the Enemy, ’’ at the
Theater Oct. 11 and 12; Second Annual Hop of
the Young America Social Club.
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Last year 23,000 women were assessed as
voters in Boston. This year only 1,673 bare
been assessed The Boston female seems to
be becoming sarnfiol with her sex.
The accoutre of the visit of the Three
Americas delegates to Boston contain no
reference to John L. Sullivan. The dis
tinguish and B- stonian was probably spirited
away upon that occasion. This seems to be
bis usual c nditlon.
To-morrow night citizens of New York,
irrespective of party, will meet in Cooper’s
hall to pay tribute to the memory of the
late Samuel S. Cox. Mr. Cleveland will
preside at the meeting, and distinguished
men from different states are expected to be
present. Mr. Cox made very few enemies
and a great many friends in life.
The St. Louis Hepublic denies that the
newly appointed pos.master at Bethany,
Mo., is a democrat. It says his name is
Prentiss, aud that he is the same Prentiss
who was captured at Shiloh. It thinks
that the surprise at Shiloh w ould be noth
ing to that iu Missouri if a democratic post
master should be appointed in that state.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett met with
a painful and perhaps a serious accident
while driving iu England the other day.
The pony attached to her cart shied, the
cart was upset, and Mrs. Burnett was
thrown to the ground. She fell upon her
head, and was rendered unconscious for
awhile. A Lond n physician attends her.
The correctness of ihe information which
English newspapers obtain concerni g
Arne ican affairs is sometimes astonishing,
as chef-Bowing from the Liverpool Daily
fbst willi-how: “Arnarried woman, named
Hamilton, has been sente oed to two years’
imprisonment for fraudulent issue of Lou
isiana state bonds to the amount of several
millions of dollars.”
At 10 o’clock to-morrow morning, the
corner-stone of the new W orld building in
New York will be laid, and Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer, the proprietor of the World, has
issued invitations to people iu all parts of
the couutry to witness the ceremonies, at
the conclusion of which a luncheon wili be
served at the Astor house. The building
will be a magnificent one, and it will fur
nish aditionsl evidence of the prosperity of
Mr. Pulitzer’s newspaper.
It is said that Mr. Blait.e is going to ar
range for the delegates to the Three Amer
icas congress to make a tour of the south in
January, and that au outline of the tour
will be given in a faw days. This may or
may not be true. Mr. Blaine may hive
concluded that bis personal interests would
not be served by keeping the delegates out
of the south, but probably the samo reason
that induoed him to exolude the south from
the present tv nr will prevent him from
arranging a special southern tour.
Our dispatches announced the other day
that ex-Coogressman Glover, of Missouri,
w ould be a candidate for the United States
Senate against Mr. Vest. An interesting
fact which may have some connection with
Mr. Glover’s candidacy Is that his wife has
reoently fallen heir to $1,000,000. Mrs.
Glover like- \\ ashingto.n society life very
mach.and sue would he particularly pleased
to re-enter it as the wife of a senator. It
‘is said that sbe is willing to be very liberal
in providing funds for her husband’s cam
pa gu expenses.
Pro’ ably s >me people were rather amused
the other day when they read that Mr.
Smith, of Decatur county, had introduced
a bill in the legislature to pay f >r the skins
of foxes ad wild oat* captured in the state.
Mr. Smith explains that the object of his
bill is to protect pigs, lambs and poultry,
and thus to save m >ney to the pe pie. He
says that in L >wer Georgia fixes kill and
•at numbers of pigs, lambs and chickens,
and that in Decat ir county wild cats com
mit frequent depredations ot this kind.
There are people in some Darts of Georgia
who nj y n taing better than a fox c. as ,
and who keep pics* of fine fox and igs. They
suouid c nne t > Lower Georgia aud help to
exterminate the fox.
Constitut’onal Prohibition.
The prohibitionists were overwhelmingly
defeated in Conuecticu' on Mo day. The
state to i upon a constitutional amend
ment probibring the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liqu rs. The result showed
about three votes to one against it. Neither
the prohibitionists nor the anti-prohibition- j
ists made a very thorough canvass.
There seemed to be a quite gen
eral agreement among the leaders '
of each side that the people ,
undented the issue, and that additi ual
discussion of it would not change many
votes. Ex-Gov. St. John, formerly of j
Kansas, was the most popular speaker on ]
the prohibition side, but as he addressed
himself almost whol y to republicans, and
as they do not have a very profound regard
for him, it is thought he did not do the
prohibition cau-e much good.
The result of the election in Connecticut
being about the same as that of similar
elections in New Hampshire, Mas achusetts,
Rhode Isla. and and Pennsylvania, this year,
and in Texas and Tennessee last jear. must
bo regarded as showing that the people are
pretty generally opposed to constitutional
prohibition. The majority in Connecticut
agaii st the constitutional amendment
method was larger than that in any of the
other states named in iroportion to the
number of votes cast, and that fact
may be construed by the opponents of pro
hibition to mean that the prohibition cause
is losing ground. Such a construction,
however, there is reason to believe would
be erroneous. Prohibition by means of
local option appears to be as popular as
evor, and where that method is favored the
cause of prohibition is making progress.
There re two strong arguments against
consti’utiona! prohibition. One of them is
that it is impossible to enforce prohibition
in those parts of a state which adopts it
in which public sentiment is against it. The
other is that it requires an organized party,
and that those who get control of the party
seek to use it to accomplish personal aud
selfish ends rather than to promote the
cause of prohibition.
It is not improbable that other states will
have coustituti mul prohibition elections,
but if they do, there is ,not much prospect
that the prohibitionists will ca;ry them.
The prohibitionists, however enthusiastic
they may be, will discover in the very near
future that constitutional prohibition is not
popular, and is not likely to be, and they
will aban ion it aid adopt s mie other
method to accomplish the object they have
in view.
An Editor Attacking a Reformer.
Editor Hatton, of the Washington Post,
doesn’t have a great deal of friendship for
the cowboy commissioner of the civil
service, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. Ever
since Mr. Roosevelt has occupied the office
of commissioner Editor Hitton has been
firing hot shot at civil service reform, civil
service reformers, and the civil service
commissioners. Commissioner Roosevelt
has felt it his duty to defend
the commission, aid although he
has shown a good deal of pluck and has
made a pretty gallant fight, it must be ad
mitted tuat if he mul talked les; he might
be in a little better position. He is full of
enthusiasm, and is an earnest believer in
civil service reform, but he sometimes
permits his tongue to run awny with his
judgment, and thus gives Editor Hatton a
ctiance to deal him some pretty heavy
blows
On Saturday the Washing*on Post pub
lis ed a lengthy article in which it charged
that a clerk iu the office of the civil service
commissioners purloined the civil servico
qu stions and sold them, and t. at ho after
ward was prom fled. It also charged that
the ciyjl service laws were violated by the
commissioners because they appointed and
promoted clerki iu their own office without
examination.
Mr. Roosevelt, in answer, declared that
the alleged wrong-doing occurred before he
and Commissioner Thompson were ap
pointed. He may be right about that, but
if the charges the Post makes aro true, they
will weaken confidence in eivii service ro
form and dampen the enthusiasm of its
best friends. Commissioner Roosevelt
should have the charges investigated, so
that the public may know the extent of the
w rong-doi.ig, if any, and who is responsible
for it. He should have kept out of the
new papers until he c uld have expressed
himself in a way that would have protected
civil service reform. There is no doubt that
the country favors the reform, and it will
become firmly osta'dished if it is not de
stroyed by the mistakes of its friends.
It is stated that Gen. Chalmers has for
warded to the Mississippi state republican
executive committee a letter of withdrawal
from the race for governor. His ostensible
reason for withdrawing is that the white
people of Mississippi do not give him a re
spoctful hearing—though wliat he probably
meant was that they do not givo him a
he iring at all. Why should they go to his
meetings! He went back on them, and
they are under no obligations to him. Kis
real reason for withdrawing, however, is
that the objects of his candidacy have been
accomplished. He has been brought into
promineucs as the leader of the republicans
cf Mississippi and as tbo probable dispenser
of federal patronage in that state, and he
has give i an impetus to his contest for the
seat of the democratic congressman in his
district. Chalmers is a bad egg, and it is
possible that even the republicans won’t
stand by him.
Attorney-General Miller is said to be very
much amused at the story that he has sold
his Indianap lis property iu the expectation
of being appointed to the supreme court
bench. He says that several real estate
agents have been after the property, but
that he has no desire to sell it. He explains
the situation by telling the very old story
of the young man who said ho came very
near getting married, and who, being asked
to explain, said: “Well, you see, I asked a
girl to run ry me, ami she said, ’Excuse
me,’ and I, like a big fool, excused her. ’’
Probably this explains inaitors very fuUy,
but Mr. Milier neglects to say whether the
young man m the case was intended to rep
resent the real estate agents who wanted to
buy the Indianapolis property, or the At
totney-Geueral who proposed for the
supreme court vacancy.
Ex-Senator Pal.uer, who is now minister
to Spain, has got himself into a box. Mr.
Palmer contracted with an architect named
Fie ning for the construction of a house in
Washington. The hquse was to cost $40,-
000, but b store it was finished it cost $85,000.
Mr. Palmer carried the matter imo the
courts, charging that Fleming had fraudu
lently conspired with another architect to
o naiii large sums of money from him. The
case was dead <1 again,t lho minister, and
Fleming is going to briug suit for defama
tion of character.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889.
Moving Fouth.
In our dispatches a day or two ago the
statement was made that one of the largest
c tton manufacturing companies of New
England was moving its plant to Texas.
The reasons give i fordoing so were that
c tton could be obtained for $6 a bale less
in the south than in New England, and that
a cotton factory could be operated more
cheaply Fn the south than in the north.
Southern newspapers have for years been
pointing out the a lvantag sof the south
for the manufacture of cottoa goods, and
have predicted that before many years
more cottoa would bsonsumed in southern
than northern cotton mills. It begins to
look as if this pro liction would be proved
to be true sooner than was expected. Tne
number of cotton mills in the south is in
creasing very rapidly. The building of a
mill in any locality is certain to be followed
by others. Ail the southern mills which
are properly managed pay largo dividends—
larger than the northern mills—and this
fact is directing attention to catton manu
facturing in the south.
Io would not be surprising if Savannah
shcu.d have a half-dozen cotton mills within
the next three or four years. If the one
that will Le completed within the next six
months is as successful as there is reason to
believe it will be, others will be built very
soon. There is plenty of money seeking
profitable investment, and there wili be no
hesitation in putting in in cotton mills when
confidence in the profitableness of that ki..d
of property is thoroughly established.
C imparatively few people know that vast
amoun'.c of southern pig irua find a market
in Pennsylvania. In fact, they do not
kno.v anything about the extent of the
manufacture of iron iu the south. They
will bo surprised, therefore, when they be
gin to hear of Pennsylvania iron manu
facturers moving their plants to Tennessee
and Alabama. There is a great deal of
northern capital now invested in
iron mining and manufacturing enterprises
in the south, but the am iunt is s nail com
pared to what it will be within a very few
years. Eventually the south will manu
facture the greater part of the iron and
cotton goods neco sary to supply the de
mands of this country. Tne iron and cotton
manufacturers of the north sea this, and
hence they are beginning to move their
plants to tha south.
Separate Cara for Whites and Blacks.
The interstate commerca commission de
cided some time ago that railroad companies
had no right to discriminate between classes
on accouut of color or sex by giving one
better accommodations than tha other for
the samo money, but that thay might sepa
rate white from colored people, or set apart
special cars for ladies, provided equal
accommodations wore given all who had
first-class tickets. The first of the “Jim
crow” c Bes to cjme before the commis
sion was that of William H. Councill
against the Westorn and Atlantic railroad.
Councill lived in Alabama at the time, an I,
besides being a minister of the African
Methodist church, was principal of the
Colored Normal and Industrial School of
Alabama. He had occasion to visit soveral
of the neighboring states, aud while coming
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, over the
Western and Atlantic road, he was ejected
from the car set aside for white people. He
made complaint to the commission, and in
its argument the railroad compa ly, while
admitting that it had no r:ght to discrimin
ate between passengers who held first-class
tickets, contended that it could separate the
whites from the blacks, and could prevent
men of either color, uuaccompanied by
women, from occupying seats in tne cars
provided for white women.
The commission decidod that it was both
the right and the duty of railroad com
panies to make such reasonable regulations
as would secure order and promote the
comfort of pass >ng-’,- s< and in it-, report the
following occurred: “In tha exercise of
this right, and the performance of this duty,
carriers have established rules providing
separate cars for ladies, and for gentlemen
accompanied by ladies, a.id their right to
make such rules as to sexes is nowhere
questioned. A man, white or colored,
excluded from the ladies’ car by such a
rule could hardly claim successfully, under
the act to regulate com nerce, that
he had been subjected to unjust dis
crimination and unreasonable prej
udice or disadvantage.” The commission
referred to the fact tuat in Pennsylvania,
where separate seats for whites and blacks
are provi led, a colored woman refused to
occupy the seat to wnich she was assigned,
and, being put off the train, took the
matter into the courts, and the supreme
court of Pennsylvania declared the sepa
ration of white and colored people to be "a
subject of sound regulation to secure order,
promote comfort, preserve pe ice, and main
tain the rights of both carriers and pas
sengers.” It also cited a case In Illinois,
where the supreme court decided that
public carriers had no right to discriminate
between passengers oa account of
color “until they do furni-h
separate seat* equal in comfort
aud safety to those furnished to other
travelers,” the obvious meaning of this, the
commission said, being that to furnish sep
arate seats, equal in comfort aud safety,
was not unjust d* crimination. The com
mission also sail: “These interpretations
of the laws arc in conformity with the
decision of Justice Woods, late of the
United States supreme court, denying to
the children of colored parents in Louis
iana, under the laws of that state, the right
to ‘attend the same public school* as those
iu which the white children are educated.’
In this case Justice Wo ds said, ’Equality
of rights does not necessarily imply identity
of rights.’ ”
Blakely Hall, writing about Mary Ander
son, says that th* fact tuat she is on the
and; amatic -tage is an impenetrable barrier to
any social recognition for her in America,
and that the extent of her social success iu
this country has been an occasional reception
by a woman’s society at some such place as
Delinonico's. In England it is quite differ
ent. There she is received and pe ted by
the best society. Miss Anderson certainly
deserves better treatment at the hands of
Americans. She is one of the faw people
who have really elevated j the stage, and she
is a good, gifted aud beautiful woman. There
are so many unworthy people on the stage
nowadays, however, that one can hardly be
blamed for drawing the liue against all
actors and actresses, though seme of them
have just cause to complain at sucu action.
A friend of ex-Treasurer Burke, of Louis
iana, said tue other day; “If Bu**ke took
the bonds for bis own use, heaven only
knows w. ere t oy are, for he has not got a
oeut now." When the bond sensation was
first made public it was stated that Maj.
Burke would be personally responsible for
the amount lost.
CURRSNT COMMENT.
Was Probably Willing to Pay.
From the Chicago Inter Ge*an (Rep.\
A Georgia man was fined si) for kissing his
niece. Had he waite-l til. Christmas time his
niece would have kissed him.
Solid Progress.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.).
The number ot cotton mills in the south has
more than trebled since l>8). and the consump
tion of raw cotton has increa-e1253 percent.
This is one of the best tacts in the record of the
south's development.
Keep It Up.
From the Nashville American (Dem.\
The Democratic parly conducted an educa
tional campaign last fail, but they began the
work too late. Every community ought to
hare a democrutio reform c üb, and every state
a league of democratic clubs. Keep up' a per
manent organization aud educate the masses.
Strang* Bedfellows.
Prom the Raleigh .Veins and Observer (Dem
Toe republican-darkys in Virginia are follow
ing Maoonewho did t ie execution in the Crater,
where so many negroes perished; and in
Mississippi their leader is Gen. James
R. Chalmers, who massacred the negro
troops in Fort Pillow Politics makes
Strang® bedfellows, and the whirligig of
time brings its revenges. We can imagine
nothing more distasteful than to be in the boots
of Billy Mahone or cf Gen. C* aimers. But if
their position be unendurable, what can the
northern republicans who so fiercely denounced
the brutality of Chalmers, find to correct their
own nausea?
BRIGHT BITo.
There are few society belles who have not a
record of conquests made with the assistance
of smokeless powder. There is nothing new
under the sun.— Washington Capital.
A Non Seijuiter.—Proud Mother—O, John,
the baby can walk.
Cruel Father—Gaod! He can walk the floor
with himself at night, then.— Detroit News.
Some of the dally papers are commenting on
the ai paarance in active life of lady burglars.
This is no novelty, however. Only a few years
ago almost every lady you met regularly held
up a train.— Baltimore American.
While everything else has taken a step for
ward in the last decade, the manner of putting
up a stove remains the same. The tools are
those used fifty years ago—an ax, a crowbar,
a hundred cuss words and a crushed foot.—De
troit Free Press.
P.EAssrniNa.—Guest (angrily)—Confound your
awkwardness! You’ve spilt half that soup
down my back.
Waiter at restaurant (heartily)—Don’t mind
it, sir. I’ll bring some more. less you, there’s
plenty of soup. —Chicago Tribune.
Mas. surface (to Tommy, who had stolen a
jar of preserves)—My boy, I know you are
sorry. 1 see it iu your face.
Tommy (meditativelyi—Yes. mamma, I am.
There was a bigger jar ou the shelf that I
couldn't roach. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
Young Snifkins passed his sister the paper,
remarking; “Here’s something that may in
terest you so long as you have determined to
ride a bicycle.”
“What is it?”
“The fall fashions." —Washington Capital.
An Interruption. —“ Sixteen years ago. ray
fri 'nds. vociferated t*ie fiery socialist orator,
with flushing eye aud gleaming nose, “I left
England and came to this country ”
'■Thank the Lord!" exclaimed a devout En
glishman in the audience with much leeling.—
Chicago Tribune.
McCrackle -Didn’t you tell me that Maddox
belonged to the better element of society?
McCorklo—Yes.
“Well, I’ve seen him coming out of gambling
places several times."
“Vesj he goes there to bet. That’s what I
said."—-Veto York Bun.
Youno Lady (in great store)—Let me see a
bonnet suitable for au old lady.
Salesgirl—For your mother?
Young lAdy—No; for myself, si don’t expect
to get tne change from inv purchase until i‘m
old enough to boa gramlmot her, so I shah be
prepared.— (Veic Yoik Deraid.
' Besnie—Mamma, do people really buy
baldos ?
Mamma—Of course, child; of course. Run
out now and play.
Be. n a (in a brown study)—Then why is it,
mamma, that poor people buy more of ’em than
anybody else?— Chicago Tribune.
East as Swiumin’.—Bayville visitor—l would
like to fcnt you to teach me to sail a boat.
Boatman—Sail a boat? Why, It’s as asy as
swimmin’. Jest grasp the main sheet with one
hand, an' the tiller with the other, au’ if a flaw
strikes, ease up or bring er to, an’ loose the
halyard-; but I.ok out for the gaff and boom,
or the hull ttiing’ll be in the water, an' y’ll be
upsotsure. Jump right in an’ try* it; but, re
member, whatever ye do, don’t jibe:—.Veto
York Weekly.
Sudden Chanol of Subject.— Mr. Smallptirse
(who has ca efulfy figured up the cost of two
theater tickets and the street-car fare i—Do you
enjoy the drama, Miss Gehall?
Miss Gehall—Ot, very much; bnt T become en
tirely worn out every time I go. You see, the
piay is seldom over before half-past ten, and
then it takes fully an hour to get supper at
‘Del s,’ and alter that comes the long ride
home, and the bactrmen do poke so, you know.
Mr. Smallptirse—Um— er— What do you think
of Browning? —New York Weekly.
PERSONAL
The Empress Augusta gave S2O) to the fund
for the relief of the sufferers by the Antwerp
explosion.
James Russell Lowell is going back to his
old Cambri ge home, "Elmwood,” in a few days
to at?y, he says, until he dies.
Theophile Landreau, the discoverer of the
immense beds of guano in Peru, is living in
comparative poverty in Lima.
Alma Tadema is described as the least im-
f losing object in his studio. He looks and is a
ittle over 50. He Is sh rt and strongly built,
aud most energetic in his movements.
Amelie Rives Chanler, who has been in
Europe for six months, will not return to this
country before next year. She expects to pass
at least a mouth in the interior of Spain.
Congressman O'Neill of Boston, against
whom John L. Suliivan expects to run, says he
wifi give the slugger the first complete wallop
ing tnat he ever got if he enters the field against
him.
Speaking of his separation from Lawrence
Barrett and his future plans, Edwin Booth says:
“We are both young men, and there is no tell
ing what may happen.” He is now a little
over 56.
For the first time in the history of the Yale
law school, an Italian is among the students.
Ilis name i3 Sig. Paul Russo, and he has been
employed as court interpreter in New Haven
for several years.
Lest** iB. Faulkner, who gets seven years
for wrecking theTjatioiiiU Bank at Dan*vibe, X.
Y , is SO years of age, and a graduate of Yale.
H has a fine war record, with the brevet rank
of a brigadier general. •
A statue of Walthor Yon der Vogelweide,
tlie minue-singer of the twelfth century, was
uuvrileij on 9ept. 12 at. Roueu, In t ut Tyrol,
where he ia supposed by soma to have been
born. It Is a colosaal statue.
After ntsTßoriNO a vury large number of
letters, Mr. Glad tone has selected tiO.UOO for
preservation, and has built for them a fire
proof room. Wheu bis biographer comes to
overhaul them he will find his work half done
in advance.
Kkv. F.dward C. Town* of Washington, with
whom Mr I lepew had dealings in connection
with his centennial oration which have le l to a
suit ft r $2,500 is preparing to give in New York
two courses of twelve lectures each on “Great
Steps of English Culture," and “Electricity and
Life.”
Mrs. Francks Hodgson Burnett’s youngest
boy is the original of her famous character of
’’Little Lord Fauntleroy." Her eldest son is
described as “outdoing in ctissedness any five
boys in his neighborhood.” His mother has not
written him up yet, though site has often been
obliged to "turn him down.”
Senator Sherman hai a finely stocked library
of standard books, but he practices the theory
of Gladstone: “Never read a book till it is a
year old.” He bu all valuable and rate books
on finance, and informs biinseif of their con
t ids. lie knows tne history of prices, and has
a theory of his own about what creates values.
Prince Albert of Monaco, who lately suc
ceeded ,o the principality of the little island, is
about to try married life a second time. The
lady he has now chosen is the daughter of M.
Michael Heme, aud was married to the Due de
Richelieu, 1875. Curiously enough, his grand
father married the heiress of the Duchy of
Martrin, so that the proposed alliance will con
nect for the first time the families of the two
great cardinals who played such an important
part in the history of France.
Say, maiden, with the raven hair.
So boautitul and lithe and tall.
With eyes so bright and checks so fair.
Why let your teeth destroy it all?
For thev ore dark, and feel the want
Or a *u/t brush and SOZUDONT.
GOV. HILL’S FAMILY.
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His Father, Mother, Brothers, and Sis
ters—David's Rapid Rise.
From the New York Times.
Much curiosity has been manifested with re
gard to the family history of Got. David B.
Hill, of which very little is known. Tne follow
ing scrapn cf information have been obtained
from a life-long acquaintance of the governor s
family;
The family lived ip a small house surrounded
by a quarter acre of ground about eighteen
miles from Elmira. Toe governor’s parents
did not own the property, but he bought it for
them after he began to rise in the world. His
father was a carpenter, and earned a modest
living by doing such jobs as the neighborhood
ottered, and occasionally by building boats.
His mother, who came of a good family, was
a woman of plain appearance, but more than
ordinary intelligence She was a very strict
•Methodist, and sober to the verge of severity in
the matter of dress. She never wore anything
but the plainest kind of material, without
drapery or trimmings of any kind, and the only
offset to her sober garb was a plain white
neckerchief. The old lady die lof consumption
before her son achieved political distinction.
David was by common convent devoted to his
mother, andduring her last illness rode eighteen
miles from his law office in Elmira every even
ing to sit by her bedside.
There were two other sons aud two daughters.
One of the sons is a physician, living at present
somewhere in Missouri. The other was known
in the neighborhood as a strange man. He
rarely visited his parents' home, and bis name
was seldom mentioned in the family circle. The
daughters are both dead. “Poily," the elder,
married a well-to-do farmer much older than
herself, and did not live long after her marriage.
“Sadie," the younger, wa-s the governor's
favorite sister, i-he never married. One night
she went to a party, took cold, and died of con
sumption within a year. Her death was a
severe blow to David. Toward the end cf her
life she exacted a promise from her father, who
was not a Christian, to kneel bv her body after
her death and pray. The old man kept the
promise, and on the Sunday followiug her death
joined the church and "gave liis experience.”
He said ids daughter had c inverted him, and he
would, therefore, live the life of a chris ian.
David, it is related, frequently endeavored to
persuade his father to give up work and spend
the remainder of his days in ease, but the old
man replied that he had always worked, and
ne wanted to be independent as long as he was
able to work. No he worke lon to the end. Thu
eud came about a week before David was in
augurated as lieutenant governor. According
to the manner of country people it is said by
rns neighbors that David's rise was too sudden
for the old man. It first dazßd him and then
kii.c i him. At a meeting hel 1 to give him “a
send-off ’ before he left Eimira for tue inaugur
ation the governor made a speech aid the out
man went to hear it. It was the first speech he
had ever heard David make, and the neighbors
say it was too much for hi ~ He w*ent home,
fell sick the same night, and died within a day
or two.
It is related that Davi 1 was never fond of the
girls, and tnis trait to him up to the
present time. He avoided their society and
never was known to attend a social gatnering
U> the neighborhood. It is also said of him that
when he was practicing law in Elmira ho would
’’/V , around a block to avoid meeting a woman
ot his acquaintance. The neighbors gave him
credit’ however, for inheriting his mother’s
intelligence and his father’s industry.
FUN WITH PEANUTS.
A Very Cheap and Simple Means of
Amusing the Little Folks.
From the Christian Union.
A bag of peanuts, somi woodeu toothpicks, a
box of pins and a sharp knife, two or three
tiny Chinese parasols, and pen and ink for
marking the faces, are ail the materials neces
sary. Those, with a little ingenuity, will make
a great variety of peanut people, and almost
every kind of animal. A iittle care and taste
in selecting the peanuts will soon show what
great adaptability there Is in them.
A thick, fat nut. with very little carve near
one end, will, with the aid of toothpicks for the
legs and runs for the arms, make the “fro *gy
who would a wooing go." Bits of soft dough
or putty stuck on to the ends of the toothpicks
will, if held in one position long enough—that
is, until it stiffens—make the feet solid and the
queer little creature able to stand alone. Plaster
of parts will do even better if it is to be had as
It hardens quickly, and will bold the doll lirmlv
in place on the cardooard or thin board used
for a foundation.
The pugilists are made in the same way: it Is
betier to fasten them securely to the foundation
before putting on the knobs of dough which
answer for a set of boxing gloves, as these are
rather heavy and the people are apt to topple
over if they are fastened on at first
A long, sii n peanut should be selected for
my lady" who goes abroad under tbe shelter
of a gaudy Chinese sunshade. A thr e-eornere l
hit of colored paper, stiff enougli to bold its
shape, may be used tor a bonnet by fastening
to the Head with a bit of glue or paste, while
tbe parasol is beld in place with tiny threads
and glue if reeded. A little experience will
show how to manage.
Select the largest and fattest peanut for a
boat, cut off about one-third, aud fasten se
curely to the foundation before arranging the
occupants. Another sunshade, a bit of blue
cloth tor a pennant, toothpicks for oars, and
you have a very amusing toy,
The “little pig who went to market" is easily
arranged, as is Little Red Riding Hood, or any
other character which chances to please the
little ones. One or two trials will show the
possibilities of these common materials, and
will prove most entertaining and amusing.
Cork is another material from which a great
variety of creatures may be manufactured A
griDning little darky fashioned out of a cham
pagne cork was made by my steward one time
on shipboard, and made no end of amusement.
Into the round, roly-p ly body were stuck arms
and legs cut off smaller pieces of cork and
secured to the body with sharpened toothpicks
The eyes, nose and mouth were painte.i red
making the little creature a frightful carica
ture, but amusing nevertheless.
The President Cracks a Joke.
From the New York Tribune.
A man may be President and enjoy a bon
mot, but he rarely makes one.
Abraham Lincoln proved that presidential
dignity and jocosity were not antagonistic, and
President Harrison follows nim, for he not only
laughs at a good joite, but also on occasion be
comes a jester. One of the times was the re
turn from Deer Park last Friday. It was the
day after the Blaine-McCormick wedding and
the newspaper accounts of tha ceremony had
been read by the various occupants of the car
Miss Margaret Blaine’s engagement to Mr.
Walter Damrosch was naturally- mentioned in
the conversation which followed.
President Harrison spoke warmly of Miss
Blaine, whom he had recently met at Bar Har
bor. He praised her as a sensible girl and a
woman of wit. The musical genius of Dam
rosch the father was mentioned by one of the
party. Someone who knew- the younger Dam
rosch spoke up quickly and said the son had the
father’s genius. This same gentleman said the
acquaintance was of longer st anding than the
paper* had quoted it; that Miss Blaine knew
Mr. Damrosch some time before tha Carnegie
coaching trip. In proof he said:
“Why,-Mr. Damrosch has been writing to Miss
Blaine over two years."
The President had apparently paid small heed
tothe chattering unt.l this remark. He then
looked up gravely, but with a twinkle in his eye
and caid:
“Ah, musical notes, presumably."
The Pre*idencial Dilemma.
From the Chicago Herald.
It bothers me. and, by my soul!
I'm at a loss to fill that hole.
Tom. JDicic and Harry ail refuse
To place themselves in Tanner s shoes.
But, since I call the fact to mind.
He left no shoes when he resigned.
I feared they all would speak at once
But weeks are creeping into months.
And still no one is like to come
To fill the Tanner vacuum.
I wish I had a kith or kin
IVho had not yet been counted in—
A nephew, cousin, uncle, brother—
'Twould have been filled without this bother.
Has it3 Compensations.
From the Chicago Tribune.
“Before you lost your sight,” remarked the
sympathizing caller, "you were connected wita
a newspaper in some active capacity, were you
not?”
"1 was the exchange editor.”
“Doesn't the time pass drearily?”
Tae blind man mused a moment.
"I am not mistaken," he said, “in supposing
that the *3 shoe man still keeps his portrait in
all the papers?"
"He does.”
"The time passes pleasantly enough,” rejoined
the ex-exchange editor cheerfully. "Via uot at
all unhappy."
8* vs a London correspondent: "There are only
two courses now open to Boulanger. He must
either return to France in the avowed charac
ter of au enemy to the republic or retire per
manently from public life. If he do.s the
former bloodshed anl disorder will mark ins
patn; if he quietly submits to his overturow at
the polls his followers will consider him a w. sk
iing. He seems to be between Soylls and
Cnarybdls. The weakness of hU position is the
sane as that which pertains to nihilism. There
Is nothin: synthetical about nihilism and itju
UugerUm.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A company has been formed in Berlin to run
a line of steamships between Hamburg and
Mozambique. The vessels will St .p at Zanzibar
en route.
Mras Bruce, a wealthy New York lady, has
given $50,000 to the astronomical observatory
of Harvard, to be devoted to the purpose of a
telescope for celestial photography.
A pumpkin weighing 130 pounds took the
first prizy at the West Chester county fair a few
days ago On the closing of the exhibition it
was promptly purchased by a large New York
A woolen mill at Charlottesville, Va., has for
three successive years obtained the contract for
furnishing the cloth for the fall and winter
uniforms of the Philadelphia letter carriers—
between 800 and 900 men.
An umbrella-maker of Birmingham, England,
has perfected a transparent umbrella which
will allow the bearer to see what is directly in
front and escape being run into. It is a sensi
ble as well as uovel improvement.
The French government announces that so
far the American exhibitors at thn Pars exposi
tion have been awarded 53 grand prizt*. 19#
gold medals, 271 silver medals, 219 bronze medal*
and 221 honorable mentions, and the (hit is not
nearly completed.
A Mexican lion has boea sesn and heard by
various parties during the past three weeks in
the neighborhood of Alder Branch, Tex. A
grer.d hunt was organized by tbe farmers of
that section last Friday, but the beest eluded
all search, and still roams at large, to the terror
of many of the denizens of that section.
The smallest cornfield in the state of New
York, if not in the whole country, is in a tene
ment house window on South Fifth avenue. It
is in a soap box, and three or four good, thrifty
stalks are growing in it. People passing on the
elevated are greatly interested ia watching its
growth, and wondering when tbe crop will be
harvested and whether the folks will have a
busking bee.
Three members of the sophomore class of
Yale college were about to be expelled on
Thursday for hazing freshmen, when the class
came to their assistance in a body and prom
ised that if tlie sentence was not executed they
would refrain from hazing for the present. On
these conditions the faculty agre and to suspend
punishm mt until the next offense. The strain
on tue students in the meantime, however, is
something intense.
The coinage of gold dollars at the Philadel
phia mint is limited to 5,090 a year, and they are
put in the possession of the treasury to make
exact change in paying depositors of gold bull
ion. Application is being constantly made to
the superintendent of the mint for different
amounts ot this coin for the purpose of convert
ing them into charms or other articles of
personal adornment. But the superintendent
invariably declines to fill such orders.
Among the dishes served at the wedding
luncheon of one of the rich Chinamen of New
York the other day were the following: Broiled
tendon of ducks’ feet, with chicken liver and
sweetened lotus seed, served with watermelon
wine; stew ed goat tails with chestnuts, served
wltti hardshell crabs in garlic and Chinese
vinegar; pigeon boues fried to a crisp, then
broiled with bamboo-shoots and mushrooms,
and fried duck-,’ tongues, with imported ham
and sharks' fins, with cauliflower.
M. C’hristicz, the Servian minister to Berlin,
who has achieved an unenviable notoriety
through his complaisance in permitting his
wife, a beautiful Greek, to live in the most open
and flagrant manner with King Milan, has been
placed on the retired list. He has been shunned
by the representatives of the other continental
powers, who refused to receive him either
socially or diplomatically. In the meanwhile
his wife, Artemisia Chrlsticz, the daughter of
the sultan's millionaire architect, is now living
with the ex-king as irs wife at Carlsbad.
A pamphlet has just teen published in Paris
in which it is attempted to show that the first
inventor of the phonograph was not Mr. Edison,
but a Frenchman, the late M. Charles Cros. On
April 80, 1877, he sent to t.,e Academy of
.Sciences, as the minutes of that body are said
to show, a sealed letter, the contents of which
may be found In the transactions of the academy
of Dec. 3 of the same year, when it was read at
the autiior’s request. Tae communication was
the description of an apparatus for registering
and reproducing sounds by means of asounding
plate, a needle, and a cylinder.
Dillinoer.svili.e, a small farming village ten
miles south of Allentown, Pa., is enjoying the
unusual spectacle of a young cat adopting her
self into a family cf young pigs. Levi Shelly,
a large farmer, is the owner of the cat, which
was so shy that the family was unable to make
friends with it. Last week a sow presented a
litter of ten pigs and ihe cat at once made
friends with the new family. Ever since then
pussy has been with them, taking nourishment
from the same source as the little porkers, and
apparently enjoying their society as much as if
she actually was one of them.
JoaquiN Miller says that “in Spokane Falls
at the Grand hotel I saw a little box with a few
dollars of change in it out on the end of the
counter in the midst of a dozen or two of the
daily papers from various places. No one, so
far as I ever saw, was iu charge of either the
p ipers or the money. Any man who wanted a
[iaper took it, tosse l his money into tlie box.
and took whatever change was his. I set this
down as an incontestable sign of prosperity
and—let us admit, as we bow our heads in hu
mility to the need of that portion of the Lord’s
prayer which says ’lead us not into tempta
tion’—of honesty, which is the first-born of
prosperity."
Apropos of the alarm which has been ex
pressed by business men, says the Wall Street
News, the director of the mint has prepared a
statement of the gol 1 and silver coin in the
United ijiates at pro.-ent, which shoes in round
numbers $t17.C03,000 in gold c -in, $310,000,000 in
silver dollars, and $76,000,000 in subsidiary
silver coin, besices $61,000,000 of gold bullion
held in the coffers of the treasury as security
for its equivalent in paper certificates. The
statement will show that American tourists in
Europe this year have drawn on their American
bankers nearly $70,000,000; in fact, the state
ment of the Bank of Fra- ee from Jan. 1, 1889
shows an increase of s63,ooo,ooo—almost the
amount exported from the United States.
The modes of execution in the different
countries, according to “X," in "American
Notes and Queries,” are: “In Austria, galiows,
public; Bavaria, guillotine, private; Belgium,
guillotine, public; Brunswick, ax, private;
China, sword or cord, public; Denmark’, guil
lotine, public; Ecuador, musket, public; France,
guillotine, public; Great Britiau, gallows, pri
vate; Hanover, guillotine, public; (Italy, capital
punishment abolished); Oldenburg, musket
public; Portugal, gall >ws, public; Prussia’,
sword, private; Russia, musket, gallows or
sword, public; Saxony, guillotine, private;
Spain, garrote, public; Switzerland, fifteen
cantons, sword, public; two cantons, guillotine,
public; two cantons, guillotine, private;
United States, other than New York, gallows,
mostly private.
A clergyman is the defeadant in an interest
ing divorce case that opened in Judge Tilley’s
court in Chicago on Wednesday. The complain
ing party is a handsome little w oman of slight
build. She said her husband had failed to sup
port her properly. She said she cherished the
idea of having a happy home, but ha did not
seem interested ttiat way at all. He would do
nothing but talk religion, she said. “He told
me,” she added, with a burst of tears, "that hi*
home was in heaven, and he was striving to lay
up treasures there. He wanted me to join the
church, and accused me of being irreligious, and
said I was opposed to hie church. I was never
opposed to religion, and in all mv trouble and
tria's 1 have tried to keep my heart right, but I
never could satisfy my husband.” Some of the
letters produced were affectionate, but they
were filled with religious exhortations to bis
wife to repent and flee from the wrath to come.
The pie-eatino match has long since, in this
match-making age, ceased to be a novelty. The
watermelon-eating match that strewed Steve
Brodie’s Bowery resort in New York with seeds
and glory some weens ago was no novelty in
the watermelon states of the south a generation
ago. Hog killing matches are said to he one of
the favorite forms of athletic sport among the
stock-yard aristocracy of Chicago. Walking
and running and swimming and skating
matches were made, for all we know, ia
Homer's time. Dreaming matches are in vogue
among the serious players of policy, many
of whom pay a stated weekly stipend
to some fat mulatto, whose slumbers
bring him in a comfortable living, and
whose relations with tbe blind Goddess of Lnet
are more or less intimate in tne minds of his
patrons The sheep-kdling match between
Henry O'Brieu. “champion of America," and
Henry Gaile, whose friends say he is champion
of England, opjns anew viata to easrern sports.
It drew au eater crowd to the Scliuetzen park
in Newark a day or two ago Two hundred and
ffft y dollars a side was supposed to tie the slake,
and after the loss for cnoice of places and pick
ot sheep, the sanguinary and Internecine strug
gle began to rage with savage energv. Each
man, with a helper, had ten sheep to kill. As
tills couid scare ely be considered one of t o
matches “male in heaven," the A meric in
eagle need not droop unnecessarily over the de
feat of O'Brien.
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