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Meetings— Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O.
F.; Republican Blues; German Volunteers.
Special Notices— New Pharmacy Law, 11. R.
Slack. Jr., Secretary State Board of Pharmacy;
As to Bills Against British Steamships Norfolk,
Newnham and Acuba, and Norwegian Steam
ship Marie; As to Crew of British Steamshipß
Venice and Alceste; Buist Peas and Beans, E.
J. Kieffer; The Lite Residence of J. Seckinger
at Eden for Sale; Fresh Killed Turkeys, L.
Putzel; Card of the Christian Workers of the
Georgia Infirmary; Ayers' Almond Meal,
Butler's Pharmacy.
Railroad ScHEnui.ES—Central Railroad of
Georgia; Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way.
Auction Sales— Sale of Damaged Dry Goods,
by J. McLaughlin & Son; A Down-Town Resi
dence, by C. H. Dorsett,
amusements— Grand Gala Day at Tybee
Thursday, Nov. 2S, R. E. Cobb, Superintendent
Savannah and Tybee Railway.
Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship
Company, General Transatlantic Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Gen. Lew Wallace, of literary fame, has
turned invontor, and will lake out a patent
for a steel railroad crosstie which will
“revolutionize railroad construction if it
proves successful.” A great mauy other
inventions have been made which would
have revolutionized things if they had been
successful
The presidential family will have a very
quiet time Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Harri
son isn’t going to give her husband a very
big dinner, and only a few friends will be
invited to share what she gives him. The
I’rosident probably realizes the fitness of
this. He doesn’t see much to be thankful
for, in a political sense.
Senator William E. Chandler sailed for
home the other day, after having speut sev
eral weeks in Europe. His health is re
ported to be much improved, and no doubt
he will paw the ground, so to s;ieak, more
vioiously than ever when he talks about his
hobby again. New Hampshire is repre
sented in the United States Senate by two
cranks.
It is not probable that Mr. Cleveland is
acting in a double-faced manner with re
gard to the Ohio seuatorship, and yet some
newspapers assert positively that he is try
ing to secure Mr. Brice’s election, while
others say equally positively that he is
working for ex-Congressman Frank Hurd.
Very likely the facts are that Mr. Cleve
land would like for Mr. Brice to be elected,
but is not meddling.
George Alfred Townsend (“Gath”) is dis
posed to defend republicans if there is any
pretext for doing so, and the fact that he
has “soured” on the President, so to speak,
is the more significant on that account. Iu
one of bis recent letters ho says that the
November elections put to rest the Prosi
dent's chance of being re-nominated, and
adds: “It would be hard to find anybody to
whom he has given actual satisfaction, un
less it might be some earnest pastors of
Presbyterian churches, and, possibly, Mr.
Wanamaker.” Mr. Townsend is a great
admirer of Mr. Blaine, and his words may
possibly be taken by other Blaineites as a
signal to open fire upon the President.
Mr. Joseph E. Brown, Jr., son of the sena
tor, has very sensible views with respect to
the south. Speaking of the south the other
day to a New York newspaper reporter, he
said: "I have read a great deal of nonsense
about the new south. I don’t know
where that place is located. There is no
more new south than there is anew east or
anew west. The south has adapted itself
to the new order of things just as the bal
ance of the country has. The old south is
good enough for every true and patriotic
citizen of the country.” He then invited
tbe reporter to come to Goorgia, where he
would show him more iron in two counties
than he could find in the entire state of
Pennsylvania, and enough coal to smelt it.
Speaking of hie politics, he said: “I am a
democrat, and that is what all good south
erners are.”
Some days ago the Minneapolis Journal
propounded by letter the following ques
tions to leading public men: 1. How far is
the use of money in politics justifiable? 2.
Do you believe that the integrity of politics
has been injured by the enormous expendi
ture of money in recent political cam
paigns? 3. If so, what, in your judgment,
are the best methods to adopt in remedying
the evil? Senator Suerman received one of
tho letters, and this was bis auswertoit:
“I could not give you a satisfactory answer
to your questions without greater detail
than I have now time to give.” The sena
tor has let pass a splendid opportunity to
give Geu. Alger a dig in the ribs for buying
aorae of his colored delegates to the last
republican mtional convention. If ho had
taken advantage of it, his answer would
have beoa hardly loss interesting than can
did ausweis from Quay and Dudley.
The Frcgy etc In Montana.
It is noVrrohab!- that there wi’l be per
sons ip Washington asking to be sworn in
as seuatjjifr from Montana when c- ngress
meets. ||r ntana'i; legislature has met, but
it bng not organized, and the prospect that
it will organize very soon is not at all prom
ising. The demo; rats of the House have
organized in one and the republican
members tf that body in another. The
Senate has not organized at ail, because the
democrats have not entered the Senate
chamber, and there can be no organization
without them.
This is a very unhappy condition of
affairs for the new state. Such a condi
tion would not now exist, probably, if the
President bad not acted with such haste in
taking the final step admitting Montana as
a state. He knew that a very important
election case was pending before the terri
torial court, and that if the territory were
admitted before the case was decided the
case would have to be transferred to the su
preme court of the new state, and that very
grave complications would likely follow. It
has been charged, whether truthfully or
cot, it is impossible to say, that he issued
the proclamation admitting Montana very
hurriedly, and that the purpose of the
ha> to was to give the republicans of the leg
islature an advantage in organizing that
body in order that they might have the
selection of the two United States senators.
Doubtless the part the President has taken
in the matter will indirectly be the subject
of investigation, as it begins to look as if
the trouble in Montana would eventually
be inquired into by congress.
The entire difficulty is over the vote in
one election district in Silver Bow county.
The county canvassers gave the district
to the democrats. The democratic major
ity in that district gave the democrats a
majority in the county, and a majority in
the county gave them a majority of the
legislature on joint ballot. The state board
of canvassers, composed of republicans,
threw out the vote of the disputed district
on a technicality, which act gave Silver
Bow county to the republicans, thus making
the legislature republican on joint ballot.
The governor declared that certificates
from the county clerks should be the test of
membership iu the legislature, and the re
publicans hold that only those who have
certificates from the state board of canvass
ers are members. Thus the matter stands,
and thus it is likely to stand until a way to
break the deadlock is found. The demo
crats will hardly retreat from the position
they have taken, because they are confident
that the throwing out of the votes of the
disputed district in Silver Bow county was
a scheme arranged to secure the election of
republican United States senators.
The republicans have a record for throw
ing out votes when the majority is against
them. They secured the presidency for Mr.
Hayes in that way. It will be rather sur
prising if the democrats of Montana submit
to the returning board methods, of which
the great fraud of 1876 is the most con
spicuous illustration.
Abandoned Farms.
There are thousands of abandoned farms
in New England. In New Hampshire and
Vermont particularly, there are in some
localities thousands of acres of unoccupied
contiguous lauds, which were ouce very
productive farms, but which are now
abaudonod. On some of these lands there
are good farm buildings, though, ns a gen
eral thing, they are very much out of re
pair. The prices at which the lands can be
obtained are very low, ranging from )L to
$4 per acre.
The reason so many farms have been
abandoned is that the young men of No w
England have gone to the west, where they
have purchased much richer lauds, and
where, they have been led to believe, farm
ing pays better. The old homesteads have
been permitted to go to ruin.
The commissioner of agriculture of Ver
mont is making an effort to induce Swedes
to come to this country and settle upon the
abandoned lands In that state, and it is
assorted that be is meeting with a fair
measure of success. Vermont has great
advantages for dairy farming, and the
annual amount of her dairy products is
very large.
It seems somewhat remarkable that farms
in any part of this country, particularly iu
those parts which are comparatively uear
the great marketsof Boston and New York,
should ever be without tenants. Doubtless
there are tens of thousands of people en
gaged iu agricultural pursuits in England,
France, Germany, Sweden and other Eu
ropean countries, who do not have half the
chance of making a living that they would
have on the abandoned lauds in the New
England states.
A great many immigrants are settling
upon these lands, and it would not be sur
prising if, within the next half century,
the abandoned farms should all be occupied
again, and should be far more productive
than they have ever yet been. A close ob
server of the changes that are
taking place in the character of the
population of New England said
recently that the typical yankee was
rapidly disappearing, and that his place
was being taken by the foreign immigrant.
Of course the children of these foreigners
will be good citizens and will be thoroughly
American in every respect, but they will
differ greatly from the descendants of those
who made New England from a wilder
ness.
A telegram from Wheeling, W. Va., says
that the stories of bloody buttles in that
state between the Hatfield and the McCoy
crowds are fabrications. Maj. J. C. An
derson has been traveling in the part of the
state lately where the warfare is said to
have been waged, and ho says that the only
basis for the stories is that two whisky
dealers got into a fight with each other.
Enterprising space writers hastened to pic
ture a bloody feud, instead of a very ordi
nary street-fight. “No more peaceful lo
cality exists in the U nited States than the
locality referred to,” said the major, “and
the publications were base slanders on a
law-abiding penple. These peuny-a-liners
at Huntington, Charleston and other points,
who are imposing on the eastern press,
ought to be exposed. There are no recent
outbreaks in the Hatfield-McCoy war; in
fact, it is ended.”
Ex-Senator Platt has concluded to stop
his silly talk about the world’s fair iu 1892
being converted into a hugo political ma
chine if held in New York. This may be
stated with confidence, since Mr. Piatt has
subscribed SIO,OOO to the guarantee fund for
that city. ,
The NiivMXk' Herald says that both
southern and northern hit-heads should be
suppressed. That sounds very well, but
whore is the Herald going to begin?
Doesn’t it think that it had better begin at
home?
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2fi, 1889
Congressman Barnes’ Views.
Hod. George L. Barnes, who represents
the Tenth Georgia district in congress, has
written a very at-Ie and interesting letter,
giving his views upon some of the most im
portant quftsti ms that will, in all proba
bility, come before this congress. The let
ter was published in the Augusta Chronicle
last Sunday. As is well known, Maj.
Barnes is one of the most indefatigable and
conscientious workers in the Georgia dele
gation, and can always bed >pendel upon to
look out for the interests of his state and
section. Savannah expects from him very
valuable assistance in getting such an ap
propriation for her harb_>r as her great and
growing commerce demands.
Maj. Barnet is sound on the tariff ques
tion. He realizes f jlly that the high pro
tective tariff insisted upon by the Repub
lican party is hurtful to Georgia and ail
the other southern states. Indeed, he is
fully convinced that the best interests of
the entire country require that the tariff
shall bo reformed in accordance with the
tariff policy of the Democratic party, and
he is hopeful that tariff reform concessions
may be wrung even from a republican con
gress and a republican administration.
Maj. Barnes has evidently given the silver
question a good deal of thought. He may
be classed with those who are in favor of
free coinago of silver. The Morning News
does not agree wit h him on tois question;
and neither do a very large number of the
clearest-hexded democrats of the country.
In view of the attitude which other com
mercial countries maintain with regard to
silver money, this country would be in
danger of having a depreciated stiver cur
rency if she were to adopt the view enter
tained by Maj. Barnes aud those who agree
with him. However, the silver question is
not a party one, and Maj. Barnes is in no
danger of antagonizing his party by favor
ing free coinage of that metal.
Maj. Barnes can be depended on to stand
in the way of federal interference in local
affairs. If the republicans attempt to enact
a law putting congressional elections in the
control of the federal authorities, they will
find in him a very earnest opponent.
The Pettue-Bouthworth Tragedy.
All of the New York newspapers have
given a great deal of Space to the shooting
of Stephen Pettus by Mrs. Hannah South
worth, in that city, an acccunt of which
was published in the Morning News on
last Saturday. Pettus was a native of Ten
nessee, about 45 years old, and possessed
remarkable business ability. Ho went to
New York a poor man, and at the time of
his death was estimated to be worth
$1,000,000. Mrs. Southworth belongs to a
Kentucky family of good social standing,
and is a widow of about 34 years of age.
Her husband was the son of a banker of
Syracuse, N. Y.
The day after the tragedy only Mrs.
Soutiiworth's story was published, and the
impression it created was that she had been
outrageously wronged by Pettus, and that
she had shot him to gratify her desire for re
venge. Indeed, her story was well calcu
lated to make the public believe that Pettus
deserved his fate, and that his case was one
that presented no extenuating circum
stances.
Subsequently the dead man’s lawyers
told his story, and also presented some facts
in his behalf which they knew of their own
knowledge. From this story it appears that
the relations between Pettus and Mrs.
Southworth, in the beginning of their in
timacy, were entirely satisfactory to both
parties. They were based upon consent.
There was no deception practiced and no
force used. The intimacy began five years
ago, aud continued several years. Fiually
Pettus determined to bring it to
an end, because ho had never en
tertained any affection for the woman.
Than trouble began. Mrs. Southworth
resented Pettus’ indifference and determined
to make life a burden to him, and this she
seems to have done very effectually.
Although he gave her a great deal of money
she was not satisfied, and persistently pur
sued him with the demand that he should
“right the wrong” which he had done her.
Being a married man toe oily thing he
could do was to give her money. Pettus’
friends say that ho refused to give her as
much as she wanted and that she killed him
for that reason.
It would be unfair to express an opinion
as to which story is correct until all the
facts have been brought out at the coroner’s
inquest. The m >st charitable opinion is
that Mrs. Southworth was very much in
love with Pettus and that his indifference to
her unsettled her mind.
There is no reason to doubt that Pettus
was not the moral man that ho appeared to
the public to bo. To a certain extent he
seems to have had a dual character. In the
opinion of his business associates and
acquaintances he was incapable of stepping
aside from the strict path of rectitudo, and
in all business matters he doubtless was the
soul of honor, but he appears to have been
guided by a low stmdardof morality in his
relations with the other sex. With reference
to Mrs. Southworth, it is not easy to under
stand how she, a widow, having a great
deal of knoweledge of the world, could
have had such an experience as she claims
to have had wholly against her will.
The illness of Mr. Jefferson Davis has
revived the discussion of the question
whether or not tho United States flag
would be placed at half mast over the war
department in the event of his death. Such
a mark of respect has always been shown
deceased ex-cabinet officers, and when Mr.
Thompson, who was Secretary of the
Interior under Buchanan, and who after
ward joined tho southern confederacy, died
a few years ago, the flag was raised over
that department. A howl at once went up
among republicans who wanted to work the
bloody shirt racket against the Cleveland
administration, hut Mr. Cleveland remained
tranquil, knowing that the proper thing
had been done. The war department
refused to say what would be done in the
evont of Mr. Davis' death, but it seems to
be tho general outside opinion that the flag
would not be raised, as Mr. Davis has never
had his disabilities removed.
The fatal affray between Col. Goodloe
and Col. Swope, two Kentucky republicans,
grew out of one of “GatU’s” newspaper
articles. Seveu or eight years ago "Gath”
was in Lexington, Ky., and while there he
met Col. Swope, who took him to the ceme
tery and pointed out the graves of numerous
men who had been prominent. A good
many of the Goodloe family were buried
there, and Col. Swope gave “Gath” a some
what free talk about tho lives of some of
that family. When Col. Goodloe read
what “Gntli” wrote, he was indignant. Ill
feeling between him and Col. Swope was
the ro..ult, aud it was fanned into a flame
by one thiug and another as time passed,
until finally the two men became deadl>
enemies.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Right Man la the Right Place.
From the Mew York Times Und.).
It is fortunate for the people of the new state
of Montana that they el cted Mr. Toola for
governor, as he has the conscience and the
courauo to save it from tbe taint of fraud in the
treatment of election returns wuich republican
politicians have been tryi- i to put upon It.
A Novel Suggestion.
From the Washington Star (Rep.).
If the House of Representatives is as much
in doubt as it appears to be concerning tbe
choice of a speaker, why doesn't it advertise
for a competent man auJ make short work of
its trouble* Tnere is nothing in the constitu
tion that limits the speaker.snip to a member
of the House.
Very Good Reasons.
From the Sew York World (Dcm\
John Wanamaker ought never to have been
made Postmaster General. The reasons are
r asons of common decency. It was cot decent
I bat a man should get a rab.net office in return
for money contributed to a corruption fund. It
is not decent that a mar. whose business is to
carry on a large “mail shopping” tiaue, with
postmasters f..r agents, should have control of
the mails and the postmasters.
Democracy the Bulwark of Liberty.
Fiom the Little liock Gazetie ( Dem)
The Republican party is a party of strong
centralization tendencies. It labors to secure a
si rung government.in which the voice of tbe peo
ple cannot be often be .r J. The gradual change
irom the government of the people transmitted
by the fathers of t e republic cannot be
prevented except by the untiring, aggressive
opposition of the Democratic party, whose
birth followed the impulse of popular liberty,
which has ever stood as the lion in the path of
despotism.
BRIGHT BITS.
Prof. Bovesen thinks there is no country so
democratic as Norway. Guess the professor
never consulted the election returns from Mis
sissippi. —Morristown Herald,
“My goodness;" sai l she.
That’s hardly worth mentioning,” said her
spiteful neighbor, in her spiteful way.
And no v they uever speak as they pass by.—
Somerville Journal.
HE—Dearest, what is your real opinion of
me!
She—Don’t ask silly q; .rations. You will find
that out soon enough alter we are married.—
Terre Hauls Express.
Pkodlev— l hear you've been getting married.
Tooker—Yes.
Prodley—Wnom did you marry*
looker—Millie Jones, her mother, her step
father and two maiden aunts.— Harper's Bazar.
Salesman—That piece of goods will work up
into a serviceable dre,s if you don’t thmk the
pattern is too loud.
Purchaser—O, not at all. The lady I’m buy
ing it for is a deaf mute. — Binghampton
Leader,
Etiiel— o, papa, why did you invite that un
dertaker here!
Papa—Whom do you refer to, my dear?
Etnel—That solemn looking man talking with
mamma.
Papa—Why, that's Squibs, the professional
humorist.— Epoch.
Farmer Oatcake (at bank window)—l say, kin
you tell me—
Mr. Casnmore—Go to the next window if you
want any information.
Farmer Oatcake—Thunderation! I’d like to
know what you’ve got that sign "Teller” over
ver head for. anyway: —Puck.
Mr. Sm allpurse— i hack from wedding tour)
—Here we are, my dear, in our new home. If
you will look about the house and tell me what’s
wanted I’ll go out and get it.
Bride—(returning trim a tour of inspection)
—My love, we need a cook, a chambermaid,
and a butler.— Seui York Weekly.
At a Chicago Reception.— Mrs. Bullring—
Who is that little fellow who is attracting so
much attention out there?
Mrs. Wheaton—That s Ni pit ski, the wonderful
theosophist.
Mrs. Bullring—o,l do so hope you asked him
to bring tho instrument with him '.—Judge.
Wk'kwire—There are a heap of things a man
thinks ue knows unlil he has an occasion to air
his learning, and then he finds out that he is not
so smart alter ail.
Yabsley—What got you into that state of
mind?
Wick wire—My 10-year-old nephew has been at
my house for a week.—. Terre Haute Express.
Passencer (alighting from a cab) —What’s the
charge?
Cabman—One dollar.
Passenger—Well, that’s quite reasonable. I
knew by your face that you wouldn’t try to be
extortionate.
Cabman—Thankee. I knew by your face that
you'd be too mean to pay more than the legal
fare without a law suit.— Sew York Weekly.
“Did you win your suit?”
“I did.”
“Easily?”
Quite so! Our judge is the most honest man
in tne world. The day before the decision I wrote
him a few lines begging him to accept a check
of 01 francs which I enclosed.”
“But it seems to me this was a proceeding
which mignt have rained your case. ”
"Quite so! Only I took care to sign my adver
sary's name to the check.”— Le Figaro.
PERSONAL.
George William Curtis has for twenty-eight
years received a salary of $25,000 a year from
the Harpers. He has been the literary guide
aud adviser of their entire business.
Prince Louis Napoleon, son of “Plon-Flon,”
and younger brother of Prince Victor, has re
ceived his commission as major in the Russian
army, and will go on duty in the Caucasus.
Alphonse Daudet’s novels have won a fort
une for him, hut his plays on the stage have
been failures, and his jealousy of Sardou’s suc
cess is set down by his critics to be intense.
Florence Maury at. the novelist, is stoutish,
thoughtful looking, and impetuous-mannered.
She has written in all some forty-seven novels,
and she believes in ghots. Bbe once owned a
newspaper and she still owns a lapdog, which
she carries about with her.
Gen. Alger and Corporal Tanner met at the
Fifth Avenue hotel yesterday. Their meeting
was accidental. Tanner had a long confab with
the commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.. and the
curiosity of the politicians was aroused to learn
what subjects were discussed.
Rev. Thomas K. Beechf.b, brother of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, is nearly 66 years of age.
He has been pastor of the Congregational
church at Elmira, N. Y., since he was 30 years
old. His wife is a woman possessing remarka
ble executive ability. She ia a granddaughter
of Noah Webster, the lexicographer.
Representative Reed, who wants to be
speaker of the House, is a great humorist. He
is fond of the theater, likes a good story, a
fine dinner and a well-flavored cigar. It has
been said that he is indolent, but his reputation
in this regard arises from his manner, which is
slow and unimpassioned. But he possesses the
faculty of doing a great deal of work in a quiet
way.
Robert Bonner scouts the idea that Sunol is
so high strung and nervous that he will not be
able to drive her in Central park. He says that
he was told the same thing regarding Dexter,
and afterward about Maud S. He never ex
perienced any difficulty in driving those ani
mals. aud has no fear of Sunol. Mr. Bonner
uses a peculiar kind of bridle, invented by Dr.
Hartman of Lancaster, Pa. He says that if he
cannot drive Sunol in Central park next year he
will present her to the turf editor of a New’
York newspaper. The turf editor referred to
hop Bthat Sir. Bonner is over-sanguine.
The late Lewis C. Cassidy, the famous Phila
delphia lawyer, always disliked to take cases
outside of Pennsylvania. He had a reputation
as wide as the country, and was much sought
after iu criminal cases Usually he declined to
take part in suits outside of the Keystone State,
and the only well-known instance in winch he
broke the rule wasm the Jennie Cramer murder
case at New Haven, Conn. He left that trial at
the dose of the prosecution, claiming that the
case should then be submitted to the jury, and
thus disagreeing with the other counsel. His
fee was reported at the time to have been
5i9,000. .
Senor Fonseca, the new President of Brazil,
is thus described by one who has known him
weli in South America: He is rather fair, and
his eyes are gray. lie is now 62 or 63 years of
age; his liair atid beard show a good deal of
gray. He is about 6 feet 10 inches high and
weighs about 168 pounds. He is portly and
altogether a man of fin • physique. He has a
well-developed forehead, wears a full beard,
and has a nose slightly inclined to the aquiline,
but aot at all prominent. His face is full, but
not florid. Though a lawyer, he has been a
planter and slaveholder. He was at one time
temporarily in charge of an American si fi 01.
He has two daughters, one of whom is married
to an Englishman and the other to an Ameri
can. His boys were educated at an American
school.
Pimples, boils and other humors are liable
to appear when the blood gets heated. To
cure them take Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Why They Parted.
From the If aehinaton Poet
Two sweethearts were very, vary fond of
each other and every summer evening in the
gl -omy twilight, which tney called the weddi g
tltn -of day ana night, they strolled in ecstatic
embrace to the leafy bower and sat and
watche 1 the little chirping birds fall to sleep;
sat soul to soul and dreamed again the sweet
and swoonful dreams widen love so oft hid
c mjured up before. Iu the winter evenings,
too, they sat, each folded to the other's breast
and gazed with rapture on the graceful f. ran
the curling smote assumed as rising from t'.e
open lire it floated lightly ere it lie 1 away to
mingle with the lleecy clouds. And as tuev aat
and dreamed they babbled of the bliss that
should possess their souls through all the end
leas ro >LB of eternity.
“I*, r *e are wed torerer and forever; aren't
we. tlnriin??” said the maid.
‘•’Forever and forever.” said the swain.
And then they had their lips together and in
one long, loving kiss drank deep of love's in
toxicating honey.
“O, sweet, sweet love,” they murmured low
in unison; for now, indeed, tney were
but ose.
Then came the joys of speculation on their
future earthly bliss, and one by one the sweet
details were thorough y discussed. The lovers
were agreed on everything.
At last the blushing maiden hid her face upon
her lover s bosom. He had said:
‘And darling one, when we are old and gray
and have our little family about us ”
I< l n they had sat in silence aud timed their
to the rhythmic ticking of the tall,
old-fashioned clock—thoughts which were
lover-thoughts; thoughts made by love a single
thought—they spoke in timid accents of the
beauteous children that saould grace their
happy home.
‘And we will have them all immersed and
reared iu Christian faith,' - -aid she.
*‘\es; reared in Christian faith,”sail he, ‘‘but
not immersed, for I am Methodist, you know,
my dear.’’
Ob, yes,” sad she, “they all must be im
mersed, tor I am Baptist, you know.”
So there they split. They loosed their fond
embrace. Toey uccupiel two chairs, far, far
apart. Their voices lost the gentle murmur
ousness, their eyes the tender softness of true
love. They spoire no more of merging souls of
ecstacy, of endless hours of bliss. They glared
and yelled and called each other names. She
made an ugly face at him and poked her tongue
far out. He swore at her.
This was too much. She sternly ordered him
to leave the house.
He left.
They never met again.
The children they had fondly hoped would
smooth the rugged path of their declining years
are still unborn.
Reading Indiana Character.
One afternoon a number of us were sitting on
tne veranda of the tavern in a town in Indiana
says a writer in the New York Sun, when a
farmer drove up with some bags of apples to
sen It was plain enough to all that he was a
drinking man, and after looking him over the
major said:
“Human nature, when under the influence of
is a queer thing.”
‘Yes,” replied two or three, as in duty bound.
borne men, as they come under the in
fluence, break down and weep, while others be
come ugly and want to fight. I can read that
mans character like a book. Get him half
drunk, and be would fall to weeping.”
“I don't know about that,” replied one of the
crowd. I think he would be inclined to raise
a row.”
“Beg pardon, but I never yet made a mis
take, said the major.
“I think you have in this case.” protested the
other.
“I will prove, sir, that I have not.”
The farmer was already in the barroom and
had just taken a drink when the major entered,
nad a little talk on agricultural matters, and in
vited him to drink again.
Thanks. Don't keer ’f I do,” was the
answer, as he poured out and swallowed four
fingers of old rye.
Ho began to feel it right ofT. and commenced
bragging and boasting. He forgot his errati i
entirely, and, after wrangling with the landlord
tor a quarter of an hour, getting drunker all the
while, he came out on the veranda looking as
ugly as a bear with sore feet.
“Where in the blazes is that red headed, lop
shouldered old scarecrow who was asking me
about corn?” he demanded.
individual,” replied the major.
Oh, you are! Then I kin lick you with my
ear ‘Xt mned * ,ac}c! Sa >’. y° u insulted me!”
Oh, no, sir.”
ou anc * K°msr to lick you!”
>\ ith that he grabbed the major, chair and
all and flung both over the railing to the grouud
and was going after them to drives our man into
the ground when prevented. It took a consta
ble and two citizens to arrest him, and when he
had sobered up a little he tore out one wall of
the town lock-up and went home whooping like
an Indian.
How is it, ijiajor?” we asked of the character
reader as we got him to bed and rubbed lini
ment on his back and should rs.
“Well boys,” he faintly replied, “I don't
believe I was mistaken iu the man, but the
landlord must have given him the wrong stuff.
I thought at the time that it smelled like chain
lightning playing circus in an old bav-mow,
and now I believe it was. Do you find any
broken ribs sticking out?”
Let ua be Thankful.
From the Chicago Herald.
Thanksgiving Day will soon be here,
How thankful we should be.
We’ve ail been spared another year.
How thankful we should be.
But there are other blessings yet
Whose absence fills us with regret.
Which if we could in some way got.
How thankful we should be.
If women who attend the play.
How thankful we should be.
Would put their Eiffel hats away.
How thankful we should be.
If fate would condescend to choke
The joker with bis ancient joke
And the croaker with his chronic croak
How thankful wo 6hould be.
If tongues were all attached to brains
Hov- thankful we should be.
If “hogs” were barred from railway trains
How thankful we should be. ’
If fads and foibles were tabooed
If gum were not by ladies chewed,
If death would kindly steal the dude.
How thankful we should be.
But let us be to fate resigned.
How thankful we should be.
For Providence is good and kind.
How thankful we should be.
Tncre're many things which we regret
And wish were otherwise, and yet
If we a nice fat turkey' get
How thankful we should be.
A Week Too Late.
From the New York Sun.
A young man about 23 years of age. dressed
like a farmer, had his feet on the car seat in
front of him and was reading a novel, when one
of the boys went over to him and observed
*'l’ve just made a bet of $5 on you.”
‘‘On me? What is it?”
“I’ve bet $3 that you will suicide within a
week. Ive been watching you very closely for
the last half hour, and all signs indicate
melancholy and despondency. Have you
selected any particular line of killing yourself
—poison, the rope, drowning, or hanginn-’”
“Did you actua.ly bet $5?” anxiously asked
the young mau.
“I did.
“Pay if you lo3e?”
“I’ll have to.” •
"That's too bad. I wish I could have seen
you last week.”
"Why last week?"
“Because I then had the ager every day right
along—two cows were sick on my hands—my
girl had gone dead back on me, and I expected
a Windmill man was going to beat me out of
S4OO. 1 did kinder think of suicide.”
“But now?”
“All is changed. Cows got well—ager all
gone—gal has set the day for t ext Wednesday
and the windmill man is straiehter than a board'
Durn my bide if I hain’t going to try and live
5,000 years!”
She Didn’t See Niagara.
From the Youth's Companion.
The industry of an old lady in a western
bound railroad train greatly amused the other
passengers. On coming aboard at a small town
she hastily seated herself, and was making her
shining knitting needles fly on a half-finished
blue-and white stocking before the train had
left the station.
Seated at her husband's side she knitted on
and on. heedless of her surroundings and the
bits of charming scenery of which one could
get glimpses from the car windows. Just before
sunset the train came to the nlace where a fleet
ing view of Niagara Falls can be bad,
"Look, mother, look!” cried the husband of
the old la ly, as he threw up the car window.
W ith her ryes fixed steadily on the stocking
the old lady knitted on, while her husband
tugged at her sleeve and again cried:
“Look, mother, quick, or it'll be gone! Why
don’t you look? Pshaw! it’s gone, and mebbe
you’ll never have another chance to see Niagara
Falls! Why didn't you look?"
With her eyes fixed on the stocking the old
lady calmly replied:
“Just because 1 was turning the heel of this
stockin’, that's why. I never could turn a heel
neatly an" look about at the same time, an’ this
heel bad to be turned 1”
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
At the recent el• ction io Bsveriv, Mass., one
ballot was entirely blank, bm on Ujs bac,- of it
was written; “I want jto vefe the- = atr.3 as
Maurice Heaphy."
Thi Society for Prevention of CrHelty to Ani
mals in Switzf riand has resolved to banish cats
from th republic on tne ground tut*!, they are
killing off the birds.
Thibs is a women near Astoria, Ore., who
tas to hold up her hand and get permission
from her hnsband before she can go out. bne
is going to school to him.
Senator Frank Mistook is reported to be in
pocket over ftd.OK) by the rec-nt advance in
Tenness-e Coa: and Iron. Mr. Platt is reported
to have been his guiding star.
The artistic wealth of the Paris municipal
ity in paintings, sculpture, engravings, etc. .is
estimated at $2,501,000, outside of the great
treasures owned by the nation.
All attempts to rear buffaloes in captivity of
late years have proved unsuccessful. A baby
buffalo, born recently in Central park, New
York, died on Monday of rickets.
According to a London daily there are about
2>>J building associations, with over 609,0.0
members, in the Unite I Kingd im. Last year
the receipts were upward of $100,000,009.
Women have been admitted to the bar in all
the New England states except New Hampshire
and Vermont. Mrs. Ricker, a successful prac
titioner in Washington, has now asked permis
sion to practice law in New Hampshire.
A Chicago paper says that if another great
fire were to start in that city 10,000 men and
women would turn loose to commit robbery,
and that it would take it least three full regi
ments 10 bring them under subjection. Poor
Chicago!
Samuel Morse or Essex, Mass., has been hun
gry all the time for thirteen years. He drinks
three quarts of water per day and eats hearty
meals every hour. His age is 61 years and his
weight 135 pounds. His case is a puzzle to the
physic .ans.
Mbs. Callie L. French, a Cincinnati lady,
and wife of Capt. A. B. French, is the ouly
female steamboat pilot in America. She is
regularly licensed as a pilot from Vicksburg to
New Orleans and the Atehafalaya river aud its
tributaries.
L. C. Beecher of Woodbridge, Conn.,
planted a hill of pumpkins last spring. From
that hill he gathered seventeen pumpkins ag
gregating 686 pounds. He has soid t hem ail at
1 cent a pound. Gathering nearly $7 from one
hill beats anything the rich farming lands of
Kansas can show.
Foot ball arouses tremendous popular in
terest in England. When the London and Mid
lands fifteen went down to play the West of
England the other day, they were met by a
local band, a torchlight procession and the en
tire population of Weston-super-Mare, where
the game was played, London winning.
E. D. Sloan of Klamath Agency, found re
cently in a cremation mound on the Klamath
Indian reservation a Harrison badge of
the campaign of 1841. The “log cabin”
and profile view of Gen. Harrison show
quite piainly. Probably these Indians got
the badge from Gen. John C. Fremont's
party when they traveled through that country.
While fishing near Slaughter Beach, Del., a
few days ago, several young men of Milford
caught a veritable sea devil. It was nearly live
feet in length, two feet six inches in width, and
had an immense head. Large fins grew from
each side, while on its head grew a long, slender
fin. The latter appendage was used as a bait to
entice smaller fish when it buried itself in the
mud.
M. Worth, the noted Parisian dressmaker,
gave each one of his employes $lO to spend
during the last day of the Paris exposition, and
closed bis store at noon in order to allow his
people aa opportunity of expending their
money. This act cost him over $6,000, but it
was a small amount in comparison to the profits
he received from the foreign visitors to the ex
position.
A somewhat famous ejectment suit for a
piece of ground seven inches wide and thirty
feet long, situated in the village of Millersburg,
Berks county, Pennsylvania, has just been re
vived. Tne plaintiff is Jacob Moyer aud the de
fendant G. M. F. Rick. The land is worth per
haps $5, but several hundred have already been
spent in litigation. There has been a trial be
fore arbitrators, one in the courts of the county,
aud the case has been once to the supremo
court.
The Italian wine industry is in a most de
pressed state, owing to the quarrel with France.
Having laid themselves out to suit the French
demand, and adapted their wines for mixing up
with other sorts, the Italians find it difficult to
secure new markets. Oue great fault of the
wines is that they do not keep sound, and it is
now proposed that they should be distilled into
cognac or wine alcohol, which is much superior
to the alcohol made from potatoes, beet root or
molasses.
Last Jcly a well-dressed stranger entered the
First National bank in Chattanooga, and pur
chased one draft for $4 and two of $2 each, pay
ing for the same. The bank is now notified
that the $4 draft has turned up in New York a
$4,000 draft. It seems that the swindler went
to Philadelphia and purchased a soda fount hu
for $l,lOO, paying for the same with the raised
draft, and receiving $2,900 in exchange. The
draft was thrown out by tho New York corre
spondent of the Chattanooga bank as a forgery.
The work was so well done that it can hardly be
detected by an expert.
A Michigan exchange gives this advice to its
readers: “If a gray-haired woman of 50, in
moderately respectable attire,is put off the cars
in your town because she can’t pay her fare any
farther; if she immediately receives a telegram
urging her to come home on the next train
because her husband is dying, and if she tear
fully and desperately, in a plenty loud voice,
announces that she is going to walk home loo’
miles, you let her walk. Sue and her confeder
ate, who sends the telegram, have worked the
dying husband racket in half a dozen Michigan
towns at a net profit, it is a figured, of sls a
day.
It is proposeo to light the whole of the car
riages in the express trains running between
Liverpool and Manchester, on the Cheshire
Lines railway, with electricity, and an experi
mental train was run successfully last week.
The system adopted is Radcliffe’s. The dynamo
is placed in the guards van, and is driven by
friction gearing from the axles; an automatic
arrangement is fixed to enable the dynamo to
run always one way, but it is necessary for the
engine to be traveling at the rate of twenty
eight miles an hour before any current is
generated. Accumulators of eight hours’
capacity serve to illuminate the trains during
stoppages.
“It may not be generally known,” says the
Northwest Magazine, “that when exposed to
severe cold, a feeling of warmth is readily
created by repeatedly filling the lungs to their
utmost extent in the following manner: Throw
the shoulders well back and hold the bead well
up. Inflate the lungs slowly, the air entering
through the nose. When the lungs are com
pletely filled, bold the breath for ten seconds or
longer, and then expire it quickly through the
mouth. After repeating tne exercise while one
is chilly, a feeling of warmth will be felt over
the entire body, even in the feet and hands. It
is worth while practicing this exercise many
times each day. and especially when in the open
air. If the habit ever becomes universal, tnen
consumption and many other diseases will
rarely ever be heurd of. Not only while prac
ticing the breathing exercise must the clothing
be loose over the chest, hut beginners will do
well to remember, in having their clothes fitted,
to allow for the chest's permaneut expansion of
one, two and even three inches which will
follow.”
Accohptng to the Colonies and India, a dis
covery was recently made on a Fiji plantation,
which will probably provo valuable In all tropi
cal c ountries where the cultivation of bananas
is regarded as a settled industry. The banana
disease bad for some time been causing much
havoc on a plantation on Vanua Levu, aud it
appears that the discovery of an antidote was
due to an accidental occurrence. On a flat near
the seashore there Was a patch of bananas
much diseased, • and some time ago the sea
swept over it, and remained there for about an
hour. All the plants were killed as far as the
standing stems were concerned, but vigorous
young shoots came up freely from the roots,
and were not only quite free from disease, but
soon began to bear much larger bunches of
fruit than the older plants ever did. Upon not
ing this efTect the planters determined to try
the exper ment upon a number of badly dis
eased plants which the s-a had not reached.
They cut down the diseased plants, and. having
stirred the ground about them, poured from
one to four buckets of sea water over each.
The result was that, whijq the parent stems
withered, vigaitos jpung 1 shoots came freely
away. without'disease.
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