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Newspaper Page Text4 C|c p&rning Morning Building, Savannah, Ga. "" fMDAYi JAM %H\ IO * " '• '• Reffiatcred & t.lt &tu: office Sir :nn it. The MofcNiKO Ns*s is puoiis'. l•' T '•>’ • year, au j* •* rved to suoscr.oers in the cit>, fct cent* a wefc, £1 X a moatu, OU for iux ID noth? and $lO 00 for on?* > ear iSuttKiif'J New*, by cob month. £ 00: thiv-- month*. 'O. sue month* & a); OOt* year. 810 05. , _ . fha MoufiM News, by mail. sir time* a wvi {without Sun-iav uisue . *hme months, S.X; tIT QiODtPA. jC , cot year $8 30. The Me xi o News. Tri-Weekly, Monday*. Wednesdays and . r.ds vs. or Tuesday*. Yr.ur*- diiys and isaturdavs, three mont-ia. sl-5; six months. $> V>; o' e year, *5 no. The SrxDAT News, by mmi. oo year. CS 00. The W: rely News, by wsatl. on* year. $1 3V. Subscriptions payable in advacy Remit by poscai orfer check or itrr i tetter Cur rruc> sect by :nai. at risk of m ■ ■ lers. Hettere and telegrams shout'- oe addressed "iIoHHiKO News." Savannah. Os. Advertising rates made known on application. The Mooning News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the t*per can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Parr Row. 6. P Rowell 4 Cos.. 10 Spruce street YT. W. Sharp 4 C0..21 Park Row Frank Kierna.n 4 Cos.. 152 Broadway. Pai-cht 4 Cos., .7 Park Plane. J. W. Thompson. 39 Park Row. American Newspaper Pi bljshkrs Association, Potter Building. PHILADEIPHIA- N W. Aver 4 Son. Times Building. BOSTON- B. R. Niles. 256 Washington street. Pettenuill 4 Cos., !0 State sti-eeL CHICAGO- Loru 4 Thomas. 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— Edwin Aides Compant, 06 West T'ourth street. NEW HAVEN— Tax H. P. Hcbbaro Company, 25 Elm street BE LOUIS— Ksuion Chksman 4 Cos., 1127 Pine street ATLANTA- Mohntno News Bureau, Whitehall street MACON— Daily Telegraph Office. 597 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ABVEKTiOtm Meetings—The Jasper Mutual Loan Associa tion. Special Notices Notice to Pulaski Council, No. 153. K. A.; Valuable Suburban Property for Sale, J. Y. Bro kg, 135 Bay Street, Hotel — PeSoto, Savannah. <la. Fine Goons for Gentlemen's Wear—At JatFais. Educational—Oglethorpe Seminary, Savau np.h, Ga. Look Opt—A. S. Thomas. Coal ano Wood— P. R. Thomas. Medical— BrndfleM's Female Regulator Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. If congressmen have introduced all of the pension bills they are going to, suppose they foot up the total amount these hills, if made laws, would take out of the treasury annually. They could get a very good idea of liow much less than nothing the treasury ■would contain in a few years. Gen. Powell Clavtou is in Washington, trying to make capital for the republicans out of the assassination of his brother in Arkansas last t ear. Ever since John It. Clayton was murdered, it seetns to have been the main desire of Powell Clayton to get p litical capital out of that crime. Tennessee is waking up on the question of better roads. A road congress will meet in Nashvillo next August. It is to be hoped that any recommendations it may make to the legislature will receive better treat ment than was accorded to those of the Georgia road congress by the legislature of this state. The fellows who annually kill the Dela ware peach crop, as far as they can do so on paper, are again at work. They say that if the “cold snap” doos not come very soon, the peach trees will Lie in bloom, and then good-by to the prospects of a big crop. Unfortunately, there seems to be a good deal of foundation for their apprehensions. Gilbert and Sullivan’s new comic opera, the “Gondoliers,” was produced in New York a few nights ago to a large audience. The company is said to have boon unsatis factory, and, the New York press statos, it did not do justice to Sir Arthur Sullivan’s music or to Mr. Gilbert’s witty lines. By the end of the first act the opera itself was voted a success. It is stated that Senator Ingalls is prepar ing a speech upon the race problem, and that he will deliver it next week. Accord ing to repor.s, he will give the southern white people particular tits for allowing such occurrences as the Barnwell lynching, but will deny that the colored people are capable of self-government or are able to compete with the whites. The fact is that a good many colored people have gono to the senator's state in the last five or ten years. Capt. Henry E. Mellville, who for seven teen years has been superintendent of the city ice-boats in Philadelphia, shows that the chances of considerable cold weather for the winter are not bad. He does this by giving the dates for the last eighteen winteiS upon which t.ie Delaware river was first sufficiently obstructed by ice to war rant the ice boats being placed in sorvice. Some of these dates areas follows: 1870, Jan. 3; 1883, Jan. 4; 1885, Jan. 10; 1874, Jan. 15. Miss Ellen Bayard, the youngest daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard, is goiug to marry a foreign nobleman. He is neither Eng lish, French, German, nor Italian, however, but Swedish. His name is Loweuhaupt. He is a count, and was formerly an attache of the Swedish legation at Washington. He is 35 years old, and for some months has been studying practical mechanics in Do ver, Del. Evidently he is an improvement upon most of tue titled foreigners who have been picked up by American girls in the last year or two. Speaker Reed is determined to ride rough sbod over the strong democratic minority. Ho was elected speaker chiefly because he was an extreme partisan, and because he could be depended upon to give all possible aid to nefarious republican schemes; but ho may find that, with such men as Mr. Car lisle a .and Mr. Crisp to lead the minority, ho can’t give those schemes enough aid to in sure their success. Mr. Rood as speaker doesn’t reflect credit upon the country, or upon himself, or anybody, or anything else. The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that the south’s candidate for Vice President on the democratic ticket, in 1833 v.i:l lie Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. The Inquirer doesn’t know what it is talking about. Fitzhugh Bee would be a great improvement upon Mr. Morton as Vice President, and so would hundreds of other southern gentlemen who might he named, but the sou h understands very well that no one from this Section will l>e placed u:on the ticket. The auimosi ti> s of the war haven’t been smothered to a sufficient extent in the north to make such thing advisable. Marshal Mizell’s Instructions. The ins - rue;i ms which Mar hal Mittll. of Florida, gave L:s de uty at DcLind, in the matter of sebeting .ur. rs t > serve in the Unite 1 Status court of that state, ar* very interesting reading. The marshal told l.is deputy to s :;d to the clerk if the court Ia “list of fif yor sixty na.i os of tr.ol and true republicans.” Doubties - the marshal had in view the cases m wmea democrats are charged with ballot-box frauds. The infe-eiee from his instruc tions is that he did not desire honest and capable men for jurors so much its he wanted renobli ans. And why did he want re: .ilnicat sr Did i. > tlnn.; that demo crats could not bo trusted t o try demoo. at-s charged with crime against the ball ot-b x, or was it his purp-.se to do all in his power to secure the convicti on of the accused parties, withetit regard to the question whether they were guilty or innocent? It certainly looks as if it wore his purpose to use h.s power to convict toe def ndaat<. A day or two ago Senator Voor'uees in troduced a resolution into tae United States Senate, which was adopted, requiring the conduct of the United States distr.ct at torney for Indiana to be investigated. It was alleged that the district attorney had shielded Col. Dudley, who is notorious on account of the “blocks of five” letter, from arrest when he was in Indianapolis the other day. Would it not tie advl-able for Senator Voorhees to introduce another resolution, having f r its obj et the investi gation of the Florida marshal l It may be that the marshal did not n t without in structions from Washington when he directed his deputy to summon ouly repub licans for jurors. If it is the purpose of this administration to use the courts for political purposes, the country ought to know it. When a United States district attorney shields from ai rest a man against whom a grave political charge is pending, and a United States marshal orders ouly republicans to be selected for jurors in a United States court m w hich thee f are pending cases against democrats fortrauds on the ballot-box, it is not difficult to re ich the conclusion that the Republican party w ill not stop at any thing to accomplish its purposes. It L said that when the letter of Marshal Mizell to hi., deputy, giving instructions relative to selecting jurors, was read lu court the other day both democrats and re publicans showed a great deal of indigna tion at its disclosures And well tbey might be indignant, for it was well calculated to make them think that there is very little chance for democrats to got justice in the federal courts in cases in which political matters are involved. Let Marshal Mizell be investigated by all means. Let us have the truth with respect to the action of the Florida, as well as the Indiana, official. Tha Councll’a Liberal Offer. The proposition which the city council has made to the owners of ground lots is certainly a very liberal one. It is certainly far more liberal than it was generally thought it would be. Indeed, it might be questioned whether the council has not made a greater sacrifice of the city’s interests than there was any necessity for making in its anxiety to get the ground lot question settled. It is reasonably certain that the courts will havo to decide whether or not the lots are taxable. If they should decide in the city’s favor, the owners of the lots would pay the balance due on them, doubtless, aud take their deeds. Thoy would not care to be without their titles when there was no advantage in being so. If half of the lot owners should accept the proposition aud get 30 per cent, reduc tion, the city would be out of pocket a good m iny thousand dollars without gaining anything, except that it would get a part of the money due it a little sooner than it would otherwise, but it would get it at a very considerable sacrifice. If it were probable that all, or even a majority, would accept the proposition, the wisdom of the council’s action might be conceded; but there is no such probability. There is bttund to be a suit on the question of the right of the city to tax the lots, and the disposition of the lot owners will be, doubtless, to wait the issue of it. The ques tion is, would it not have paid the city to wait tho issue of it? Unless lot owners are very confident that tho lots are not tax able, they will not be slow in taking ad vantage of the council’s offer. As an instance of how the northern re publican press misrepresents the state of feelings between Mr. Cleveland and Gov. Hill, the following is to the point: The New York Tribune of Wednesday said that Mr. Cleveland had declined an invitation to attend the dinner on Jan. 8 of the Businoss Men’s Democratic Club at the Hoffman house because Gov. Hill would bo present. Gov. Hill was riot present. He had sent a letter expressing his regrets for his inability to attend, and that letter was in the hands of the committee when the Tribune's state ment was made. The republican organs are so anxious for Mr. Cleveland and Gov. H 11 to be at daggers’ points that they rep resent them as being so at the deliberate sacrifice of truth. Speaking of Senator Chandler’s proposed amendment to the constitution, providing that if any state shall fail to enact or to enforce laws against murder and other felo nies, congress may provide for punishing those crimes in such states, the Cleveland Plain Dealer says: “It would be but one step more to tuo total abolition of state jurisdiction over crime, a id then but a small stride to the wiping out of state organiza tion aid the reduction of states to prov inces, governed from Washington.” But what does Chandler care for that ! He is full of spleen, and it is impossible for him to be conservative, sensi. le, and patriotic. It is a great pity the New Hampshire legis lature inflicted him upon the country for four y r ears more. A most remarkable caso of abnormal fattening is reported from Chicago. Tuo months ago a Gorr.mu named Veramen Vennau began to take on flesh about the abdomen very rapidiy—so rapidly, in fact, that he became alarmed, and did everything he could to reduce his weight, but the fatty growth could not be checked, and fiually T his wife, becoming disgusted, left him. Tipping the scales at more than 300 pounds, he was helpless, and he remained alone in the house, without food, five days, at the end of which time he was discovered, and was taken to a hospital. The attending physician say’s ho never before saw or heard of such a case. It is thought that the patient will certainly die in a day or two. Our dispatches yesterday indicated that there are some United States court officials in Florida who ought to be kicked out without a moment’s delay. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. If>9o. Where Pailot Re'orm Is Needed. It is somewhat remarkable that the re pubicac newspapers, which have so niu"h to -ay abiut t:.- ntinnlalioaof voters ar.d ball tbox frau U m th > s j'n, seldom or never a lade to these things as existing in the norto. It i- a notorious fact, however, that free an 1 pure elections are aim >st unknown in ths northern states. (iov. Hill, of New York, in his me—-age lo the legi-iat ure of that state t. 9 otoer dav, while opposing the Australian bailot reform system, admitted that there was great need of ballot reform cf s -mo kind. Among other things, he sa. i: “Oar laws do not reach two great evils which attend our elections—intimidation and corruption. These fl >iiri-ih uncaecked, bringing o stain upon our state, rendering our elections a mockery, and threatening even the integrity and existence of our poll ical institutions. It is indeed a sa l allegation w.ich is made and not denied, that in some parts of our state at the recent presidential election, cor ruption was so unrestrained tnat toe scene at the jsoils resembled a:i auction more than an elec.ion, and that in other places intimi dation was so prevalent and undi-guised, particularly at some of our manufacturing centers, that employes were virtually driven to the polls, and actually instructed by their employers as to what tickets they should vots.” Gov. Hill spoke of course only for New York, t.ut what is true of that state in the matter of ele tioas, is true of the other northern states. In view of the fact that there is not a free and pure ballot in the north, it would soeiu as if the republican newspapers would let the south alone for awhile and devote their efforts to reform ing the ballot in their own section. Asa general thing the Republican party has a large corruption fund at elections, and it does not hesitate to use it freely in the doubtful states. That it intimidates voters is notorious. Gov. Hill says that employes are instructed how to vote, and are driven to the polls. He wouid hardly make a stateniont like that in a state paper unless ho were certain of its truth. The picture he presents is certainly a dark one, and one that is well calculated to excite fears for tho future of the country. But, notwithstanding tho great evils which attend elections in the north, the eminent republican leaders in Washington are not bothering themselves about the election there. B / intimidation and the free use of money their party man ages to get more than its share of the votes there, a.d they are therefore chiefly con cerned as to how they cau drive the blacks in tho south to the poles with republican tickets in their bands. The south will willingly accept any kind of ballot reform that promises good results, but she doesn’t want the returning boards which the republicans in congress are pre paring. Thoy are instruments of corruption, and the most potent means ever adopted for keeping a party in power. Tho history of them in Louisiana, when that state was under republican rule, is sufficient to satisfy any one that they are intended to defeat tho will of tho people. Judge Kelley’s Death. Hon. William D. Ivelley, at the time of his death was, aud for many years had been, one of the most conspieuoui members of congress. He was a mem ber of the House for twenty nine years, and, until his health failed, was very conscientious in tho discharge of his congressional duties. Ho was not a great man, but a useful one. He possessed much more than ordinary ability, and was re garded as one ot tho leading protectionists of the country. He was a very firm believer in the protective system, and his best speeches in congress were those in support of it. He possossod a magnificent voice, and when he addressed the House he received respectful attention. Owing to bis failing powers ho had uot taken a prom inent part in the business of the House for a number of years. He will, however, be greatly missed in that body. Another View of It. In the December number of the New England and Vale Review, Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, lias an article which con tains somo new ideas in connection with the prohibition question. One of them, ex pressed in his words, is this: “An absolute necessity in a city like New York, with its hundreds of thous inds of homeless board ing-house or lodging-house population, is something of the nature of saloons—places where on© can pass an hour or an evening in comfort and not in solitude. It is a dis grace to our civilization that the sole pro vision which it makes for this necessity is a drinking-shop. But so it is, and as long as it is so, the drinking shop will not go.” It is probable that the earnest advocates of prohibition, in their anxiety to do away with the drinking salqpn, have never thought of the need of those in every city in the country who have no home comforts, and no social life except that which they find iu the saloon, for a re3ort of some kind. Dr. Bacon says: “Doubtless it is a small matter to the malignant philanthropist and destructive reformer what becomes of these hundreds of thousands when ho has locked them out of the saloons with his pro hibitory law—let them sit on the curb stones. But it matters very seriously to them, and to the rest of us.” Dr. Bacon, when he speaks or writes, always suggests somethiug that affords food for thought. His idea that the saloon ren ders a service that must be provided for in some other way before the saloon can be closed is worthy the careful consideration of prohib tionists. The Senate committee on military affairs has reported favorably the bill to provide for the office of Assistant Secretary of War, and it is probable that the President will soon be confronted with the duty of ap pointing someone to the proposed office. Asa matter of fact, however, the appoint ment of such an officer was authorized by an act approved Aug. 5, 1883, but the stipulated salary was only $3,500 a year, aud no appointment was ever made, be cause, according to ex-Secretary Eudicott, no suitable person could be found who would do the required work for so little pay. The present bill makes the salary $4,500 a year. The rumor that Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson is going to resign has not created much of a sonsation. Mr. Clarkson was put into bis present position to distrib ute the second-class postmasterships amopg republicans as rapidly as possible. He has attended strictly to that business, while Postmaster General Wanamaker has been posing as a civil service reformer. Having cut off the heads of nearly all democratic postmasters of the see,ond-class, his retire ment would boa matter of no particular moment to the spoilsmen. Almost anybody could attend to the other work of tho office, in the opinion of republicans. CURRENT COMMENT. Cure for the Grippe. From the Philadtlohint Prtss ; Roll. ‘ .rip- e really a bail cold. itli lets of iroagi na: a ! L Keepimiet, res. and don't worry, and the grippe wiil do no harm. Whisky ar.d Republican Politicians. hr. ’A the Si. LsjuU hepu /7ie i Drm. i. -'G/liter 11. \i li, t > atFHM extent r.r-'li ri : • -vhi-iky and n-gre quest: ‘iL Wlus ky j-. not entirely responsible f r negro disturb ances ’I -tin politic:; may have > jinetbing to do with thoai. If there wore no Republican par:;, :negrn tnigat have more sense even when ho is <fr .ink. Look Out, Mr. Reed. From ihe Phiia'telplii'i Times (/ad.l. It is not unusual for the speaker to favor his own side at ths expense of the c.ppos -ion, within r-xsooabir discretion, i.rit he usually t *kes pains to c inceal His partiality. Mr R ed is evidently much impressed with the impor tance of ’As p SMtion. and is disposed not only to be * ’boss ■ the House, but to b- recognized as s ich 1 : - fte small and Gsjcjm.ij >ri y tuat he uis '.j5...-ain hi ll aud wlfcii 2f-o;i;visi tion led wth great sagacity an and courage, may prove dangerouE. Let Ua Eleot Postmasters. From the Boston tllobe (Dem.). Take all this postoffioe patronage away from congressmen, and leave it to the whole liody of citizens to say. by the Australian ballot, who snail sene them in sui>->rm.ending the col lect ion and and livery of their iiLi; s. and it will be the most practical piece of civil seivicc re form yet attempted. Moreover, it will be democ-atie civil service reform, for it will take abo it O.OiiO feJeral offices away from partisan control, and hand them over to the direct con trol of the people. BRIO IT BITS. “TnATman’sa geDius. He started a pistol factory anil invented anew cannon.” “That's nothing. I know a man ivho started a bucket shop and made a barrel." — Munseti's Weekly. First Man § excitedly)—Our boarding-house is afire: Second Man (calmly)—Come. then, hurry up. ami perhaps we nnybeableto get something hot —Judy. IVickwire—Did you take your wife to see tho sale-blowers last night? Figg-1 s iould say I didn't. You see, I keep my money locked up in the safe at home.—Terre lloute Expiess. Jones—See that little man across the street? Sinitn Yes. What of him? Jones—Well, he is familiar with all the sharps. S iiith— A detective, hey? Jones—O, no, only a musician.—Boston Budget . Artist—You seemed to be very humble in the presence of that man. You acted as if you were afraid of him. You're not usually so deferential. Journalist—Hush, he might hear you. That’s the comp 'Sitor who sets up my work.— Phila delphia Inquirer. A Wet Blanket. Noisy Man (on railroad train, going west)—Yes, siree. Bob. The place for the world's fair of 18J2 is Chicago, and don't you forget it ’ Quiet Man (in seat behind, as conductor enters) —Conductor, does this train stop at Chicago ? -Yen: York Weekly. Wick wire—Now there’s Kigg, for instance. He has no id a of the value of money. Wabsley—Why, I thought Figg was a little close, if anything. Wiekwire—Yes, that's just what I said. A nickel looks as big to him as a cart-wheel.— Terre Haute Express. QcKvrno —Gesner is the bravest man I ever knew. Mi st r markable man. Curtis—l don’t know that. Never discov ered it. Quovedo—Well, he is. Why. he went into a store to buy his wife a present, and actuully talked back to the saleslady. —Pniladelplua Inquirer. Always Employer—Benevolent person (to tramp)—What do you usually do in winter time? Tramp -Wait for summer. Benevolent Person—And what do you do when summer comes? Tramp (resignedly)—Begin to wait for winter. Drake's Magazine. Something of an Experimf.nt.— Patient- Doctor, l don’t believe that medicine is doing m any good. Doctor—You haven’t tried it long enough to see the effect yet. “W hat effect ought it to have ?” “Um—ah—well—er—l haven’t tried it long enough on you to know just yet.’’—Tune. “Business is mighty dull,” groaned the pro prietor of the lunch-counter as he dusted the pies and gave the doughnuts their morning bath. "I could have sivorn it,” observed a customer, grimly. "Wiiy?” demanded the luuch-eounter man. “Well. I noticed when 1 bit iuto this sandwich that you could not make both ends meat.” Ame , ica. The Complications of Modern Society.— Clara—l thought you had decided that every thing was over between you and Harry, aud yet you’ve been sitting there for over an hour, thiuning of him. Maud (dejectedly)—Well, I can't make up mv mind whether it would be better to sue him for breach of promise, or to make up with him, marry, and then sue for divorce and alimony.— Drake's Magazine. PERSONAL. The sisters of Charles Dickens put a wreath on his tomb in Westminster Abbey every Christ mas. Edward H. Ripley has the entire manage ment of the Aster estate, aud receives for his services $23,000 a year. Mr. Toole, the English comedian, will sail for Australia February 21, and expects to re turn by way of the United states The Duchess of Marlborough has taken SGO.OOO more from the Hatnersley estate in New York to support her ducal attaemnent. Prince Bismarck received 600 telegrams of New Year congratulations from different parts of Germany and from foreign countries. Prince Kawana-Nakoa, nephew of KiDg Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands, has entered the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England. Dr. Randolph B. Carmichael of Fredericks burg, Va., has been appointed assistant physician of the Post Graduate Medical Hospital of New York. Prof. Huxley’s son is visiting his cousin, Mrs. Frederick Whitridge of New York, and thinks some of starting a school for boys in that city on the English plan. Charles H. Hack ley, a wealthy lntnberman of Muskegon, Mica., bas given that place a pub lic library costing $125.00 , and now adds $15,- 000 for a soldiers’ monument. When Parnell wants diversion from his troubles, he runs a scroll saw. The late George H. Boker, the Philadelphia poet, used to amuse himself with a lathe for working in metal. Hon. Roswell P. Flower is the best enter tainer in Washington this season. Mr. Flower is t ue padishah of hosts. His dinners are gol den spots on the pages of congressional life. When the Prince of Wales paid a vi-it re cently to Lord and Lady Brooke at Easton Lodge, Duumrure. nothing but vegetables were used as table decollations. Not a flo .ver was in sight. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt paid the nian agers of Barasate andj/ Übopt $3, 00 to allow ihe musicians to play t'AFdirjguosis two hours. Tueunauagor. said they would have received that much had the players given a concert. Henry R. Pierson, late chancellor of the University of New York, who died in .Albany New Years d.v., uas one of tlje famous 31F> wno stood bit for the r nomination of Gen. Grant In 13d). In 1331 he became a tariff reformer and voted for Cleveland. Speaker Reed has a few peculiar habits. He is a strong believer iu the restful mental effects of good fiction. He always carries a novel in his pocket, aud in moments of leisure reads a few pages. He finds that he is thus enabled to overcome the weariness of wind which his exacting duties beget. The Shah of Persia’s recent visit to Europe Ims been very b nefieial to his subjects. Whether iie has grown wise in his old age or is anxious to appear progressive, the fact remains that be is doing a rest deal for the improve ment of the sanitary and moral condition of Teheran. He is iutr ducing sewerage into the city, and has broken up what are known in this part of the world as "dives." It js stud that lladjl Ilas-eiu GhoolvKban, ex minister to the United Slates, has greatly assisted the shah in the* reforms. For SOZOIP )N T ail ladies cry, And gentlemen, or high or low. For nothing else that they can buy Will give the mouth its freshest glow— Will keep the mouth so sweet and white. And make tho breath a sweet delight. Objected to the Puff. From tue „\ eio York Tribune. bicrcle. on which women as well as mea I po sriruiin? about has brought : trouhie i.it * a senator’s family and mal dicti ns 1 on at !e tst ha.f a dozen new&pant'rs. It hap- I pen*d a few evenings ago. m tne l.brary, w en j the senator and his wife were looking over the I evening marl, including "home papers.” They j fca-1 become absorbed in home news, and the ! silence was uninterrupted for some minutes, I save by the rustic of papers. Suddenly, how ever. the -dence was broker. very much broken, by an exclamation, rising almost to a shriek, from .Mrs. Blank. “Great heavens! O. the liorrid wretch!” *’Ani her murder m Chicago?* gasped the startled senator, a* his e;e caught the name at the t<p of the i aj>er that his wife s.emed to be fairly devouring w ith excited eyes. **Noir.\vhy will you read toe details, when you know ” "Detail.-. It's just too bai: You must, you shall do something to stop such outrages,” bro ;o in his wif-, s:iil intent on her paper, and paying no to his appeal to spare herse.f the details of "another murder.” **\Vhy. my dear. >ou a e beside yourself. What can I do? Who i- it?” he asked, reaching out hi, hand for the paper. “Who is it? A man. of course! An awfully horrid man. too!” she exclaimed. “There! Read for yourself! You must take some steps at once to stop such outrages?” handing tue paper to her husband, as she sank hack into her chair, really overcome by excitement^ “But where?” asked the senator, groping for the headlines of “another murder,” and begin ning to wonder if his wife was in her right mind. ‘Tve looked the whole pag* over, ad there isn’t a single mu rder on it. My dear, are you ” “Are you crazy? Who said a word about a murder 0 ’ she interrupted, with much spirit, now sitting up very erect, an t a am excited. There it is! Read:” and she pointed to the headlines: “THE BICYCLE IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES.” Th m lie read the following, while the silence became ominous: ‘’Mrs. Senator Blank may be seen every fine dav on her bicycle spiuning about Washington, with her baby strapp don in front. Though she is one of the best horsewomen, and formerly rode a great dea', now the bicycle Las sup planted the horse, and she careers about the streets in dasoiug style.” ‘ And is that ail, mv dear?” asked he, cheer fully, seeing his wife's distressed face, but at the same time convuls *d with suppressed laughter. “Why. I wouldn't ” “But you must! You must see him! Ask him what he means!” “See whom?” asked her husband, wondering if she had in her mind any tnought of legal re dress. “I don't know whom to see.'* ”V\ hy, the man who wrote it and sent it all oer the country! Think of your eon -diluents! 'Careering about the streets,’ indeed! On a bicycle, with my baby, aud i have n't a baby! But that s just as near the truth as the news papers get, anyhow! Never on a bicycle in my Hje! It's .till over ti e west by this time, too. ’ ou see it s copied, aud you know very well it has be* nin half a dozen papers in our own state. Your constituents will think I cut a pretty figure ” “And 1 really think you would, my dear, if you would try a bicycle. Honestly now, you wouldn t look badly.” snid her husband, no longer trying to restrain his laughter. "But the baby—our 10-ye tr-oid boy—would be a little awkward, and rather a big baby to strap on in front.” ‘*o, it’s very amusing, no doubt, to you. But 1 think it is simply outrageous, and if you don't see tnat man I will send for him, and at least give him a piece of my mind.” “What man? Now, my dear, how do you know that man is not a woman? It’s my opinion that the writer is a woman. Sounds to me more like a woman. ‘Dashing style,’ and ‘career 1 seem more womanly, now don't they?” “Womanly! Why there isn’t anything womanly about it. That is what is 60 horrid. ‘Careering about on a bicycle 1 womanly!” Mrs. Blank’s tones were brimming over with scorn and indignation, ‘‘Well, if you insist, l will try to see her, fori am perfectly certain the writer of the obnox ious puff—it is a puff, my dear, for riding a bicycle is quite an accomplishment.” “I don’t see why you jump to the conclusion that the writer is a young woman. At any rate, it wouldn't do for you to ” “O, my dear. I’d rather see the young woman and talk to her than that you should be so annoyed,” quickly put in the senator. “Well, you need be in no great hurry about it. I will make inquiries first, to make certain the writer is—is not a woman,’ 1 replied Mrs. Blank, firmly. “All right, 1 answered her husband, resuming his paper. “I’ll tali: to her any time, and. as you say. such outrages must be stopped.” All mention of the bicycle is carefully avoided in the senator’s family now. As for the young woman, she is never mentioned either. It Astonished the Bull-Dogr. From the Washington Post . There are a pair of youngsters who live out beyond Mount Pleasant, aud com * in to school during the week. Their constant companion is a handsome liver-colored pointer, a spirited animal, whos* coura e is constantly getting him into trouble with bigger dogs. At one house, which the boys pass every day, is a half bred bull dog. It has b en constantly attaching the p inter, which, after a brave but ineffectual resistance, is invariably put to flight, much to the humiliation of its little masters, and the evident delight of the boy who acts as seemd for the bull. Last week affairs took anew turn. The boys’ uncle came down from Andover Theological Seminary to spend the holidays. He was a great favorite with his nephews, and entered with hearty spirit into all their innocent sports and pleasures. To him they bore their griev ance. He examined the pointer's torn and lacerated ears. •‘Hum! Boys, it is wicked to fight dogs, and I can hardly see my wav to encourage you, but it is plainly cruelty to animals to allow Fetch to be chewed up in this way. Have you got a fine, three-cornered file?” They hail, and they fetched it. The divinity student then p oceeded to cut off six inches of an old broomstick handle, and got a couple of feet of cord. He took Fetch and the boys up in the barn loft. Fetch was then gagged with the broom handle, and Tom held him on his back while Ned and Uncle Jack went to work. Taking the file, Uncle Jack carefully put a razor edge on all of the dog's cutting teeth without touch ing the quick. When he finished you could split a hair on them. The dog whined some, but got along fairly well. “There,” said the embryo clergyman, “that is as good a piece of dent istry as old Sawlegs himself could do. Now. boys, if this don’t work I’ll fix up a bolus for the bull.” They saw the program and started down town next morning full of confidence. Fetch had been kept on soft food and cooked meat, so that the edge needn't be taken from his teeth. The bull dog was there on time, as saucy as ever. He came bouncing out with a big g-r-r-r r and made for the poiuter. The pointer was plucky. They came together. “Aha! my fine fellow!” thought the bull; “you are my meat this time. I might as well do you up now for the next three weeks.” He grabbed the pointer by the ear and the pointer got in on the shoulder. Then some thing happened, A piece of hide came out of the bull's shoulder, as if it had been snipped off with a pair of scissors. The hull gave a yelp aud backed off for an instant. Then he cam *in for a fresh hold and the pointer bit his fore leg half off. The mon grel had nearly enough, but he made one more rally and got his throat cut open. That settled him. He stuck his tail between his legs anil bolted. Since then Tom and Ned have paraded in front of that house half a dozen times with Fetch, but the bull can’t he coaxed iu front of the house, and his owner sit< sullenly on the railing, spits between his teeth, and mutters ominously: “Wait till I ketch ye alone.” A Story of the Frontier. Two notorious Indian desperadoes named Red Le: dall and Choctaw Pete, heavily loaded with •‘tanglefoot." took possession of the town ofTishwawa, L TANARUS., on Christmas day aud car ried things with a high hand. After nearly killing the town marsaal, when he tried to arrest them, the Indians emptied a drug store and tried to ride their horses into the hotel. \t this juncture a well-armed stranger rode up to tbe hotel and dismounted. Tue outlaws or dered him away, au l cut the halter of his horse The stranger remonstrated, whereupon Choctaw Pete covered him with his revolver and ordered Lendall to disarm him. As Len dall approached the stranger shot him through the heart A duel then occur ed between Pelo and the stranger, aud Pete was shot through the head and killed. The stranger offered to surrender, but the terrorized citizens ielt more like giving him a vote of thanks, and after eat ing his dinner he r ode leisurely away. He was supposed to be "Winchester Frank," the crack shot and renowned scout. An Arab Faying. From the Cenmry. Remember, three things come not back: The arrow seut upon its track— It will not swerve, it w ll not stay Its speed; it flies to wound or slay. The spoken word, so soon forgot By thee: hut it has perished not: In other hearts ’tis living still. And doing work for good or ill. And the lort opportunity, That cometh back uo more to thee. In vain thou weepest, in vain dost yearn, Those three will nevermore return. ITEMS OP INTEREST. Apropos of the epidemic of influenza, it is noted in Mature that the visitations of this dis order have generally been preceded bv a similar disease among horses. It is curious to observe that a distemper of this kind has been actually prevailing among horses in London for some time. Recent observations of the waters of Great Salt Like prove conclusively that the state ments ma le that no form of animal or plant life exists in rh * lake are erroneous. No fish or other larg form of animal life has been dis covered, but the presence of vegetable orgaa ism*> iu the lake may be considered a tact from tne abundance of animal existences. A gratifying ADDITION has just been mads to the number of Irish tenants who own the soil they cultivate. The Lari of Egmont has sold the whole of his large estate in Kilkenny and Tipperary for £250,000. The farmers are fortu iiute enough to get the land at the rate of fif teen years’ purchase. This is the largest single transac i_>n under tue Ashbourne act. It looks as if the nineteenth century would limp into the past without producing a single original invention. The telephone is said to be almost as old as the hills, and now some enter prising Egyptologists have discovered that the nickel-in tho-slot machine was in common use in the days of the Pnaraohs. Tois is a sad state of affairs, but we have still the consolation of knowing that the nineteenth century produced Ben Butler and Daniel McGinty. The Russian minister of communications has prepared a project, to be placed before the ministerial committee, for the excavation of the long-talked-of canal between the White sea and Lake Onega, which would thus establish water Communication with the other navigable rivers of the empire The length of the pro posed canal would lie 146 miles, 86 of which foi m a natural waterway, with a depth suffi cient for the passage of boats drawing ten feet. A strong and vigorous association of railroad employes is that of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. There are about 3),000 members in good standing, among them 3,000 conductors, 1,500 switchmen, 7 di vis on superintendents, 1 general superintendent, and 3 train master-. The sum of $85.0 oin disputed claims has-been paid out, and th * reserve fund amounts to $172,000. One-half of the members of the or ler belong iu New York state and Pennsyl vania. The result of the examination of 9,000 school children in various cities of America and Europe is that the average of pupils who have defec tive bearing is 26 per cent. Teachers are strongly urged to keep in mind the liability of existing impairment of hearing in backward children, and either give them nearer seats, wiih their best ear toward the desk, or teach them in separate da ses. All boxing of the ears of children should be stringently pro hibited. The newest hotel in London is to be opened during this month under the name of “The Al bemarle,” at the corner of Piccadilly and Albe marle street. In one respect the hostelry will be unique, for it is being fitted up inside entirely after the fashion ot an old French chateau, the massive oaken staircase being as much en suite as is the furniture. The whole ceiling of one room is formed of avast Rubens-like picture, which is probably the sole existing relic of the old house of the Duke of Albemarle. There have already been countless beauty shows and eating aud chinking and fasting and runuing matches, but a Belgian lady—one Mme. Boyd—has been arranging something quite novel in the way of a competitive gathering. She proposes to hold a contest, open to mem bers of her own sex only, in which the prize will be award *d to the competitor who is able, in the course of a given period, to talk the most rapidly. A jury will be appointed to decide wnica lady says most in the stated time. The human family to-day consists of about 1,450,<X)0,(X)0 individuals. In Asia, wh *re man was first planted, there are now about 800.000,- OX). on au average of 120 to the square mile. In Europe there are 320,0 0,000, averaging 100 to the square mile. In Africa there are 210,000,000. In America. North and South, there are 110,- 000,000 relatively thinly scattered and r cent. In the islands, large and small, probably 10,000,- 000. The extreme of the white and black are as • to 3, the remaining 700,000,000 being interme diate brown and tawny. The execution last month of a man for mur der in Andalusia, Spain, twenty-four hours after a reprieve had been actually signed by the queen and forwarded, has occasioned so much excitement in Spain that the government has drawn up a bill to give to a telegraph message in such coses the force of a formal written order. In this case the authorities charged with the execution were notified by telegrap i that the reprieve had leen signed and was then on its way, but they insisted that thev were power less to and lay the execution in the absence of formal documents. They do not intend to encourage the enter prise of foreigners in Sweden. Anew law pro vides that any foreigner who has not paid taxes for the c irrent year to the Swedish govern ment, who travels about the country, either on his own account or that of another, to sell for eign wares for future delivery, must, on onter tering the country, send a written declaration to the nearest collector of taxes, stating how long he intends to remain, and inclosing the sum of 100 kronor—upward of s27—for each month or part of a mouth which he intends to remain. The tax is exacted for the privilege of carrying on business. That a few Indians yet linger in New England appears now and then, as in the reports of agents concerning the Penobscot and Passama quoddy tribes of Maine, just submitted to the governor. The tribes number 920—tue Penob scots being much the smaller—and have cost the state this year something over Sift 000 They are not holding their own: during the year 27 Penobscots have died out of 383. and 22 Passamaquo tdys out of 537. It is said tha' the schools are well attended, and that the tribes are gradually improving under their influence The Penobscots raised 3.8 7 bushels of potatoes this year and 1,779 bushels of other crops, while their profits from trinkets sold to ‘summer visitors are not recorded. A unique EVENT was the reunion at Louis ville recently of three brothers who were sep arated fifty-one years, and had never met since. They are Thomas G., W. H., and A. B. EarL They were bom at Newark, N. J., in 1830 IS#> and 1836. Soon after tbe birth of the youngest their parents died and they were divided, each being sent to the home of a relative to be reared Now Thomas, the oldest, is the owner of several thousand acres of fine land near Lytton, on the Canadian Pacific railroad, in British Colurab a and is extensively engaged in fruit-growing a’ 8.. the second, is a well-to-do contractor*in Louisville. Both arc married. while W. H. is a bachelor, and fives near Paxton, 111. He has acquired a competency raising stock, and has retired from business. A large gathering of friends helped them celebrate tueir reunion at the home ot the Louisville brother. Is ax extertaixmext given at, a village in Illinois a f w nights ago a novel use of incandes cent lamps was made. Several young ladies gave a drill in military costume. Their helmets were surmounted with three incandescent lights, with red. white and blue globes, in cer tain parts of the drill the lamps were suddenly illuminated and the effect was striking. Tue mediis by which this was accomplished was ex tremely simile. A couverter was placed on the outside of the building in which the hall was located. The secondary wires ran under th floor to brass plates about throe inches square arranged in twos on the stage floor. From the lamps on tbe young ladies’ ho rnets concealed wires ran and iwn to little brass plates in the ne ds of the shoos. After concluding a series of evo lutions each lady would come to a aland in tin front of the stage and plant her heels firmly on the plate on the stage. The lights would tlasn up aud contribute greatly to the general effect. “Have you ever noticed,” 6ays a well-known Philadelphia lawyer, “what an almost magical effect music will have upon large bodies of men! Why. 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