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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, K. A. M.;
Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.: Stock
hcilders Southwestern Railroad Company; Sa
vannah Volunteer Guards Battalion; The
Mutual Co-operative Association; Savannah
Tribe No 4, I. O. R. M.
Special Notices—Dividend Skidaway Shell
Road Company ; Notice to Truckers, Thomas B.
Ashford. Inventor; As to Crews of Norwegian
Barks Gumare. Admiral, Pisco, Swedish Bark
Orskar, Italian Bark Albo, an i Austrian Bark
Gloria; Three Box Beds Carts for Sale at
A'.tick's; Election for Officers, First Regiment
Georgia Cavalry; The Title Guarantee and Loan
Company; Some Items Named on Page 3, John
J. Reily.
Amusements—Robert Downing at the Theater,
Jan. 17 and 18.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The man, Thomas Link, who killed him
self and his wife in New York the other
day, made the mistake which is very
common in such cases: he didn’t kill him
self first.
The visit of Cardinal Gibbons to this city
is a very interesting event. He is the high
est dignitary of the Catholio church in this
country, and has been spoken of as the
probable successor of Pope Leo XIII.
Philadelphia newspapers say that they
cap discern the hand of Senator Quay in
the political alTairs of the late Congress
man Kelley's district. Q lav has his favor
ite for Mr. Kelley’s successor, and he pro
poses that he shall be elected. He is indeed
the republican boss.
In referring to Foraker, our esteemed
contemporaries should now put an “ex”
before “governor.” The ex-governor will
have plenty of time to prepare a speech
presenting Senator Sherman’s name to the
text national republican convention, and at
the same time, directing particular atten
tion to the popularity of some other candi
date.
Some democrats in Missouri have stated
lately that Senator Vest would under no
circumstances accept a re-election. One of
them is reported to have gone so far a° to
say that he had seen a letter from the sen
ator to that effect. The fact is that Senator
Vest expects to succeed himself, and if he
doesn’t Missouri democrats will have made
a mistake.
United States Marshal Mizell, of Florida,
should get Mr. Edmunds to defend him if
his official conduct is brought to the atten
tion of the senate. Mr. Edmunds doesn’t
seem to object to defending republicans,
even when the evidence against them is con
vincing. He apparently doesn’t object to
fraud when it helps the Republican or is
intended to injure the Democratic party.
Ex-Secretary Whitney would make a
strong presidential candidate for 1832, and
it is among the possibilities that the demo
crats will nominate him. He doesn’t seem
to be trying to secure the nomination, how
ever. He said the other day that in all
probability nothing could prevent the re
nomination of Mr. Cleveland, who is
even more popular with the masses than in
1888.
The House republicans had better take to
heart the warning which Mr. Carlisle gave
them the other day. He said that the next
House would probably be democratic, and
that in such an event the republicans might
have to lie throttled by the rules which they
now want to force upon the democrats.
Then, in all probability, -Mr. Reed would
violently denounce his own rules. Hadn’t
he better go a little slow;
The friends of Mrs. Maybrick, who was
convicted in Loudon on the charge of pois
oning her husband, have not despaired of
securing a pard m for her. It wa3 an
nounced a few days ago that new evidence
In the case has bean discovered, and Mrs.
Mayb 'iek's attorneys in N w Y”ork confirm
the statement, but do not say what the evi
dence is. The London Maybrick Society is
actively at work to secure her pardon.
A lineman in New York has had two
pounds of his blood transferred into the
veins of a young lady who w as rendered in
sensible by gas, and whoa*? only chance of
recovery was in > uch a transfusion. The
name of the lineman is Amos A. Line dn.
The young la ly became conscious soon after
the blood was forced into her veins, but she
is still in a critical conditi on. Forhaps here
is the foumla'ion for a romance iu real life.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has left Lon
don for Australia, but before leaving she
turned loose her wrath upon newspaper
reporters, and particularly th jse of the
feminine gender, who, she sail, examined
her costumes, and wrote indecent articles
about them. It is not that Mrs.
Potter is especially sensitive to uncompli
mentary remarks about her costumes, since
she depends more upon them than upon
ac:;ng for success.
The Hcaie Market Argument.
Very few of tho-e who have appeared be
| tore tb w ays and means c mmittee. since
i that committee his bad the tariff under
| consideration, have excited as much inter
| ,-st by their remarks as Mr. Alexander J.
i Weddburn of Alexan iria, Va., on Satur
day. Mr. TVeddburn rep;e-e.t“d the Vir
ginia State Graageat and the national grange.
He, th refore, spoke f r the farmers. He
said that the farmers ought to have as great
benefits from the tariff as the manufactur
e's. It was evident to him, however, that
they did nit. The manufacturers git rich,
while the farmers had a hard ti ne t j make
a living. He declared that he had listened
for several days to what the manufactur
ers, who appeared before the c mitnittoe,
said, and the imnressioa made upon him
was that, with the exception of two or
three, they all. Waited to bs clothed with
additional power to rob the farmers.
Mr. Weddburu expressed the opinion that
the only way the farmer could be placed
upon an equal footing with the protected
manufacturer would be to distribute the
surplus in tbo treasury among the farmers
in the shape of bounties. When asked if
be did not think that the protective system
created a homo market which was of incal
culable benefit to tha farmers, he declared
that he was uuable tnappraciata the al
v ant ages of the home market of which the
protectionists spoke so eloquently. He
administered a sort of knock-down argu
ment to the protectionists when be said that
New England was full of factories, and
there, if anywhere, the farmer should
prosper, if the home market theory was a
sound one. But wnat was the fact I The
farms in New England were baiug aban
doned. Land there that once commanded
a high price per acre could now be bought
for less than it originally cost to fence it.
Thousands and thou-ands of acres in Ver
mont and Massachusetts were allowed to
grow up in briars and under; rush. Farm
buildings and fences wore falling into
decay. Why was t nisi Was it not because
the farmers could not make a living whore
onco they had done so, and, that too, before
there was one-tenth as many factories as
there were now *
The protectionists of the ways and means
committee bad nothing to say to these facts.
If the home market wid sustain the farmer
anywhere, it ought to in New England,
where the factories are. Farmers are de
serting Newt England, however. Lat Sen
ator Cullom, who receutly had an article in
the Forum showing what a blessing the
protective is to the farmer, explain
why the home market doesn’t sustain the
New England farmers.
England Criticised.
The feeling in Europe toward England
for her peremptory way of dealing with
Portugal fn the matter of the African
provinces, which each claims, is by no
means friendly. It may be that Portugal
was in the wrong, but if she was, that fact
would have bee i shown if her requost for
an arbitration had been agreed to. Eng
land, knowing her own strength and Portu
gal’s weakness, refused the request, and
forced Portugal to yield to her demands.
It seems to be admitted that England has
made a precedent in this affair that may be
the occasion of trouble in the not very
distant future. There was no occasion for
great haste in having the question deter
mined whether Portugal’s claims to t e
Shire region, which includes the Shire
valley and the highlands between Lake
Nyassa and the Kuo river, and Mashona
land, have any foundation. From the ac
counts wnich have appeared in the public
prints the conclusion is that Portugal
undertook .jto gain possession of a
very rich region of country by unfair
means. Doubtless England was particularly
aggrieved because Portugese soldiers
compelled Chiefs of Africa to haul down
the British flag and raise that of Portugal,
but being so much better able to enforce
her claims thau Portugal, she could have
afforded to have taken a course that would
have been less humiliatiug to the latter
power.
Of course the people of Portugal are
greatly excited, particularly in Lisbon.
But what can they do? They have insulted
the British minister and thrown stones at
his house, but their government has had to
apologize for these acts. They would have
been wiser if they had borne their humilia
tion in silence.
A London cablegram stated the other day
that Mr. Parnell had quoted from Stone
wall Jackson in saying, “There are times
when the insignificance of tho accuser is
lost in the magnitude of the accusation.”
A contemporary says that the quotation is
not from Stonewall Jackson, but from the
great Irish orator, Henry Grattan, who, in
the House of Commons in 1800, replied to a
personal attack by Mr. Corry, aud said:
“On any other occasion I should think my
self justifiable in treating with silent con
tempt anything which might fall from that
honorable member, but there are times
when the insignificance of the accuser is
lost in the magni ude of the aceusati m.”
These words led to a duel between Grattan
and Corry, in which the latter was wounded
in tha arin; but the two afterward became
fast friends.
Maj. William Hancock Clark, who shot
another member of the Southern Society of
New York the other day, is sail to be a
nephew of the late Gan. Hancock. He is
not a major by courtesy, but won his title
by service iu the confederate army. He
used to be a republican, and a republican
President gave him an office in New York,
but when Mr. Cleveland was elected he pro
fessed to be a democrat, and tried to keep
his £rip®tlpon his office. He was bouuced,
however, but found comfort in an office
under the citv government.
IP : ——
There is a sentiment among congressmen
in favor of holding the proposed
world’s fair in 1593 in-tead of
1892. How to do this without losing
the |intimental advantage of cele
brating the actual anniversary of the dis
covery-of America is a questiou which has
taxed their ingenuity, but they think
they have solved it. Their plan is
to mark the day of Columbis’ landing by
laying the corner-stone of tho main build
ing. The numerical strength of those who
favor the plan is probably not great.
Rev. J. W. Johnson, of Huntington, IV.
Va., died a few days ago from injuries
sustained while being initiated as a member
of a secret o-der. It was !fi>cessary for him
to desc?nd by means of a rope suspended
from the ceiling of tho lodge room into a
pit thirteen feet deep. Several other ap
plicants for membership had just done so,
but when Mr. Johnson's time came the
rope broke, and he fell into the pit. At
first his in j uries did not appear to be seri
ous, but he steadily grew worse. The secret
society should abolish the pit business.
TIIF, MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1800.
The Race Question In Consrrees
It is expecte 1 that Senator Butler will
address tne S-na e to-morrow on his biil
providing government aid for those of the
1 blacks ia the south who want to emigrate
j to other s-.-cti ns of the oun ry, or to
[ foreign countries. Tbe senator has long
been of the opinion that the south would
j advance much more rapidly in wealth and
J population if she could get rid of some of
her black citizens. His idea is teat white
people will n t se-k homes in the south to
any con-iderable extent as long as nearly
all tne manual labor is performed
by the blacks. If a considerable per
centage of the blacks should leave
the south and seek homes in the north, the
race problem would be in a fa r way of
being solved. White people would settle in
tbe south, and thus meet the want that
would be created by the migration of the
blacks. The color line would become less
marked, and the fear of negro domination
in localities in which the blacks are now
largely in the majority would disappear.
Of course the senator doe* not proposo to
force t. e blacks to quit their present homes.
His purpose gees no further than to aid
thoso who want to find homes eisewaere.
It is worthy of notice that Senator Mor
gan's proportion to scud s mie of the sur
plus black population of the south to the
upper Congo country, meets with the ap
proval of the King of Belgium and those
of the Brussels merchants, who are inter
ested with him in the Cougo Free State.
They believe that colonies of America a
blacks could do more to open up that
country than any other people.
11 is noticeable that the republic m press
is extremeiy hostile to Senator Butler’s bill.
Why should it be? It is not proposed to
interfere in any way with the rights of the
blacks, or to coerce them into taking any
course that is not agreeable to them. W hat
the republican press is afraid of is that the
blacks will emigrate to the northern states
in greater numbers than would ba agree
able to the northern whites. The northern
whites are not anxious to have any more
blacks among them.
The republican press wants the blacks to
remain where they are, and it proposes to
solve the race problem in the south in a
way that it could not be solved in the north
if there were a large black population there.
There is not much probability that Senator
Butler’s bill will pass, or, if it should, that
any considerable number of blacks would
take advantage of it to leave the siu li.
The blacks are in tbo south to stay, and the
south must deal with tbo race questiou,
with the understanding that they are, ad
that the north is disposed to increase the
difficulties of dealing with it.
The Collectorship.
The question of the colleotorship of this
port under this administration was virt
ually settled yesterday by the nomination
of Mr. Tomlinson F. Johnson. The people
of this city would have been gratified if
Collector Wheaton had been permitted to
serve out bis term. He has discharged his
duties faithfully and efficiently, and will go
out of office with an excellent record.
The nomination of Mr. Johnson was not
a surprise. The President could not have
nominated any other republican who would
have been as acceptable. Mr. Johnson was
Mr. Wheaton’s predecessor, and there
was never any fault found with
his management of his office. His
official career was a creditable one in every
respect. He is a Georgian, and a member
of one of Georgia’s oldett and most dis
tinguished families. Having large interests
in the city, no doubt he will make the cus
tom bouse contribute as much as it can
legitimately towards the city’s prosperity.
It is not probable that there will be any
opposition to his confirmation.
Republican organs are not commenting
upon aud parading the following crime,
which occurred in Chicago a few days ago:
A colored man named George Jordan gave
a street car conductor a 31 bill out of which
to take his fare. The conductor handed
him back three quarters aud two dimes, but
the negro, after examining the quarters,
returned oae of them, saying it was not
good, whereupon the conductor gave him in
exchange for it twenty-five coppers. “Are
you trying to make a monkey of ms?” ex
claimed the now infuriated negro; “I am
no chump,” and with that he struck the
conductor in the face. The conductor
stepped to tbo rear platform, and as he did
so the negro shot and killed him. Now,
suppose a southern white man had killed a
southern negro under like circumstances,
how much space would the northern repub
lican organs have given to the crime?
When would we have heard the last of it?
Whenever a negro is murdered in the south
by a white man, the news does not carrv
sorrow, but joy, to the hearts of some
norftiern republican editors. They care
nothing for the colored people themselves;
they are always delighted at the chance to
make political ca; ital for their party.
Thomas T. Fortune, who edits a news
paper in New York, and who has for some
time been quite prominent in colored circles,
wants tbe convention of colored men, which
conveues in Chicago to-day, to adopt the
word Afro-American in speaking of mem
bers of his race. At present, he says, the
race has not a name descriptive of it which
comma ids a capital letter in the newspapers.
He objects with equal emphasis to "ne
groes,” “colored people,” "blacks” and
“darkies.” The press and people will prob
ably object to Afro-American, because, if
for no other reason, it is too long. Some
colored people may object to the first part
of it.
A northern man has an invention which
will not have a heavy sale, and for which
the adult male population of tbe country
will not thank him. It is a time lock, and
it registers the exact time the front door is
openod at night. Thus, if a belated husband
should come home at 4 o’clock a. m. aud
sneak upstairs, uuconscious that the time
lock was attached to his door, it would be
useless for him to remark innocently at the
breakfast table that the straightening out
of “thoso books” kept him up until 12
o’clock. The inventor of the time lock is a
genius, but if he wants to become wealthy
he'should employ his talents in some other
direction.
James Frazier is making a great deal of
money pretending to cure diseases in Bos
ton. He professes to believe that all fleshly
ills are due to evil spirits in the body, and
he explodes fire-crackers to frighten the
spirits away. After that he “magnetizes”
tho tea which the patients driDk, and “mes
merizes” the sidew-alks upon which they
walk. He tells them to beware of the
snakes, which, he says, are always in the
air. Patients flock to hinrhu great num
bers. And this in Boston, the city of cul
ture!
CURRENT COMMENT.
News About Miss Anderson.
From the .Yew Fort Herald (Ind.h
Vie* Mar Anderson has abandoned the static;
she has mi le an en-A;eru‘*tit to play in New
York ir*xt autumn: she is still seriously ill: sae
takes long w alks every day aud never looked in
I*2 ler i eaitb: she is en_-atei and will shortly
to mar. ie-,1; s e us not engaged, but proposes to
ejter a convent.
Poor showing.
From th* Lcmsrille Courier-Journal (Dem.i.
The Harrison administration was in power
dnrmg I-n morn .s of lae calendar year ISB9.
The deereax-of tne public debt for the year
was. in round numbers, 981,009,000, against *391.-
OOO.Uklin 1-VC and |119,uu0.000 in 1887. Th re
ha* been no rednetin of taxation, but. on the
e ntrarc. a steady inctva-e iu the amount of
revenue c4l -cted. Even without liu* assistance,
of a republican con .ress the enemies of the
surplus were able to make their work very
noticeable; ami they are only just beginning to
warm up to the task before them.
No Cause for Alarm.
From the Houston (Tex.) Post (Deni. 1.
There is little cause for aiarm in the various
schemes proposed by republican politicians for
the oppression of the south. Time was when
the b i-m -ss nua of the north and east paid
vary little attention to southern matters. They
wera not int-rested in its progress or retrogres
sion. aud viewed its despoilment under the
reconstruction regime with indifference. But
times have changed iu the last decade. Millions
upon millions of northern and eastern capital
have been invested in somkern enterprises, and
tnose sections are now faking a great interest
in southern affairs. Any legislation that would
tend to check southern progress will meet with
stubborn opposition in the commercial centers
of the north.
BRIGHT 31TS.
C’nr ration reduces the human body to a little
paper of ashes which a postage stamp will carry
any di tance within the bounds of the country.
Stingy people can congratulate them-elves on
the e onumical rates of travel in store for their
remains.— Martha's Vineyard Jterald .
Hf lam awfully sorry, Ms; Marjorie, but
y or lips wer •so near the temptation —forgive
me, I promise never to do so again.
She (tearfully anxious)—Never again?
He (contritely)—Never.
She iwitn conviction not born of experience)
— Th ii I am afraid we cannot be friends.’’—
Scranton Cricket.
Geiting at Ills Record.—Bank President —I
like young Stylo and I would like to make him
ca-luer. but his character—
Director—Not bid, I hope?
“I know absolutely nothing about it one way
or the other.”
“Couldn't you persuade him to run for some
petty political office?”— Time.
Matilda—Mr. Jinks, what is all this talk about
high license I sea so much about?
Mr. Jinks— Why. they- want to put the license
up to SSOO.
81 50 * bought that licenses were only about
“What kind of licenses?”
“Why. marria e licenses.”
A dollar and a half was expended.”— Times.
Mohk Very Slack.—Mrs. Suburb (to tramp)
—You soy you came from New York. Why
didn’t you stay there, where you are known, in
stead of tramping through the couutry.
Tramp— Please, mum, I can't get work at my
trade there.
"That's very strange. What is your trade?"
"I’m a builder of monuments to great men,
mum.”—Aeto York Weekly.
She—Charlie, you know you promised me
something handsome on my birthday.
He—Yes, I know.
She—Wei, 1 saw a diamond breastpin yester
day In a shop window that was perfectly
heavenly.
He—Perfectly heavenly, was it? Say, Fanny,
don’t you have any earthly wishes? Do you
think of nothing but heavenly things?—Texas
Siftings.
Benney—Mr. Sloat, will you give your daugh
ter to me iu marriage?
Mr. Sloat—Well, well, I see that you don't
know my daughter as yet.
Benney—(astonished)—Wh-what to you mean,
sir?
Mr. Sloat—lf you had been thoroughly ac
quainted with her. you would have said: Will
you give me to your daughter in marriage.—
Kearney Enterprise.
An Excuse that Excused.—Miss Elder—Why
were you not at my birthday reception yester
day. Mr. Smithers? Didn't you receive your
card?
Mr Smithers—Yes, but I mislaid it.
Miss Elder—But didn't you remember the
date?
Mr. Smithers (without malice)—l thought I
did until I heard a genileman say that you were
not born yesterday.— Life.
“I have here,” said the drummer, “some
thing entirely new in cigarettes. This brand
Retail Dealer—Chestnuts! I've heard that
from every salesman who comes in.
"Yes. but I happen to be telling the truth.
Here is something new in cigarettes. Never
been oa the market before.”
“Hum. What is it?”
'’Tobacco.''— Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Got it!'' he called out to a friend as he
limped up Michigan avenue.
“Ha! I knew you’d have it. Begin with a
chill?"
“No.”
“Back ache?”
“No.”
“Pains in the head?"
“No.”
“Then it can’t be the grip."
“Ob, no. I’ve got my back pension—almost
$1,300.” — Detroit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
The Duchess d'Uzek is training an original
Christy minstrel corps of her own for publ c
appearance iu Paris. The duchess is a patron
of horse races and other outdoor sports.
George W. Childs has latelya lded 320 clocks
to the number he had on hand, and he is. now
the possessor of over I,lootick-tack timepieces,
which he keeps in a room set aside for the pur
pose. Whiie Bonner runs to horse, Childs
banks his all on clock.
Ex-Gov. Ames of Massachusetts will spend
the winter in Florida aud next summer in
Europe. His political ambitions are not dead.
Next fall, it is said, he will contest ‘'Rising Sun
Stove Polish" Morse’s congressioual seat. It is
estimated that Ames can obtain the seat for
$50,000.
President lIARRtsoN plays billiards oftener
than did any of his immediate predecessors.
When he entered the white house he played a
very poor game, but by practising with Elijah
Halford he has improved iu his manipulation of
the cue. He now- makes au easy carrorn shot
with considerable accuracy.
Robert Bagnall of St. Louis is tho possessor
of a valuable nug onco worn by Pope Pius IX.
It has an exquisite emerald setting, surrounded
by twenty-six pearls, twenty-six diamonds, and
numerous smaller stones. Tne ring was bought
in Rome at a sale of personal effects, held in
accordance with the pope's directions before
his death.
Mrs. Potter, Mrs* Langtry and Mrs. O'Sul
livan Dimpfrel have given up t heir efforts to
el vate the Amerieau stage, and Maude Banks
has become her father's private secretary. Miss
Letitia Aldrich, niece of Senator Stewart of
Nevada, rusues into the breach on the Wash
ington state, and will endeavor to raise the
tone of tue drama.
It is related that when Mr. Calvin S. Brice
went to college he found it hard work to pay
his necessary expenses. Tho D. K. E. fraternity
was the swell one of the college. A number of
the boys saw- that Brice was a brainy fellow-,
aud his name was proposed. He was black
balled by a young aristocrat, but tho otner
members told the latter that unless he voted
for Brice he would be expelled himself. Brice
was admitted.
Prof. Bischoff, the organist of a Congrega
tional church in Washington, has been blind
from his childhood. All the new music that
comes out is read to him by his secretary, one
reading being sufficient to fix an ordinary piece
of music in his mind, although au Intricate
piece of composition someti ties requires sev
eral readings. He also finds the grapbophone
useful in committing music to memory, or in
composing, for he does considerable original
work. The professor has been for many years
a successful teacher of both vocal and instru
mental music.
Postmaster General Wanamaker was once
proprietor and editor of a newspaper. When
he was ! 8 years old he started au amateur jour
nal ia Philadelphia. He obtained 10U subscrib
ers at ihe start, and when the journal passed
away a year later its circulation had somewhat
increased. The sheet had advertisements, edi
torials and poems, all of which were the work
of ttie proprietor. Mr. Wanamaker says that
he has never had since so proud a moment as
when he deliver and the llrst uamber of his news
paper to the 100 infatuated subscribers—not
even when be obtained a cabinet position at the
rather tough price of $400,000.
“I cannot praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla half
enough,” says a mother whose son, almost
blind with scrofula, was cured by this med
icine.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Swiss federal government has proposed
to the Bwiss councils t > celebrate the 600th anni
versary of the to md&tion of fhe cnfe<i
eration on Aug 1. u by cant >n il fetes, and
on the following day by a great federal fete at
Berne.
England probably is the only great power
wh*ch can point to a decrease in the total
strength of its mi itary establishment during
the past twelve months. The British army is
l*ss numerous by about 1,000 men than it was a
year ag j.
There is a considerable amount of suppressed
agitation among the trade guilds in Moscow and
other Russian industrial centers; but the arbi
trary powers exercised by the police, and tne
means possessed by large employers of labor
are likely to prevent open strikes. *
Cambridge University, thanks to the gener
ous gift of Mr. Newall, is to be enriched by the
possession of a big telesc pe, which will be
erected not far from the observatory, in a field
belonging to Sr. .John's college, and will be
called henceforth the “Newaii telescope.”
An international congress of commercial
travelers recently held in Brussels to celebrate
the lOSth anniversary of the Society of Cora
mere.al Travelers in Belgium, voted in principle
the desirability of an international federati n,
based on neutrality, of ail commercial travelers'
societies.
It seems that the cholera is no respecter of
the wishes of enterprising literary entrepre
neurs. At any rate, it has seriously interfered
with the projects of Mr. Rider Haggard, who
was being dis.oatched to the east by the ame
combination wnjch set Mr. Louis Stevenson
cruising in the South seas.
The oldest living criminal in the United
States is John Mount of Covington. Ky. He
was a good one in his days. He i$ now nearly
90 years of age, and fitly six years of his
life have been spent in various penitentiaries
in the United States. He has committed almost
every crime except that of muraer. He is liv
ing a very secluded life at present, and seldom
gees on the streets.
Andrew Houston of Wyoming, a prominent
ranchero of the Upper Platte valley, has issued
an odd challenge to the betting, fraternity of
the universe. He will wager his place and
st ck that in any "tat and hunting season within
three years, he will, unaided, kill fifty grizzly
l>ears in the Llk Mountain and Medicine Bow
ranges. Houston has always b en a mighty
hunter, but has lately sprung some bear siay
ing yarns which were doubted, hence his offer
to lay this big wager. He has caused copies of
the challenge to be posted in the rooms of sev
eral London clubs.
The University of Pennsylvania is about to
inauguraie anew system of instruction in-this
con itry by extending its courses of lectures
int> neighboring Pennsylvania towns. Tho
t-caeme now under consideration is essentially
as follows: Professors and lecturers of the
university staff will bo sent out to establish
courses of lectures on j opular and advanced
topics in all the larger towns and cities within
100 or miles of the city. Tne residents of
these localities will be encouraged in every way
to attend, instruction will bo given at a con
venient time, and the effect of the plan will be
to establish a score of branches of the univer
sity in all the country round.
C. P. Huntington, president of the Pacific
Improvement Company, has given to Cramp &
Sons the contract for building the largest mer
chant steamship ever constructed on the Dela
ware. She will be built for the Morgan steam
ship service between New Orleans and New
York, and will be 400 feet long, 48 feet beam
and 83 feet depth of hold, and will legister 4,500
tons gross. She will be an exclusive freight
boat, and will have triple expansion engines,
steel boilers, stnani ste ring gear, and will draw
only twenty-four feet of water. Her carrying
capacity will be larger than the Pacific mail
steamships City of Peking and City of Tokio,
built by the John Roach Company.
not quite as long, she will haye more beam and
depth of hold than those vessels.
Hank Reynolds of Cadillac, Mich., has a
trick horse which rivals the famous Dan Rice
horse or Forepaugh's tight rope walker. He is
master of twenty-one tricks, and among them
will open his door, walk out on an e evated
plank twenty feet and ba ck into his stall; climb
upon a scaffold, and “teeter,” and do it as
nicely as a school girl; go to the water tank,
wash his face aud wipe it on a towel; climb up
stairs and down; open and shut the barn door,
and back tho buggy out without a hitch or miss,
etc. Hank is not so bad-looking but that the
liorso will waltz up to him and imprint a loving
kiss upon his brow—not so tastefully, perhaps,
as a Cadillac girl would do it, but still a kiss;
and he does numerous other things a horse is
supposed to know nothing about. He is a fine,
powerful iron-gray, and his mas:er would trade
him for the rest of Cadillac, maybe, but for not
much less.
It Was an Off Day with Him.
Money was no object to him. says the San
Francisco Chronicle. He had plenty. lie owned
a beautiful place on the other side of the bay.
He had a viueyard, an orchard, stables, and all
sorts of luxuries. One day a few ago he
got upon a spree, as iniUioi aires will, and it
dawned upon him, when he was about his live
liest, that he wanted to put gas on his place.
He went up to the plumber's.
“I want gas.’* he said, “gas. Send a man
over to meet me at my place to-morrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock, and I*ll show him what 1 want.”
He kept up his little spree, so that wheu the
plumber's man met him next morning he was
still lively.
• Yes,” he said, “I want gas. Gas here all
over this garden, and I want the finest gasaliers
you've got put up in this stable, ami tnen I
want you to lay pipes all over this vineyard,
and put up lamp posts, because sometimes 1
want to cone down tiere in the middle of the
night and see the vines grow. Gas -gas—.”
The plumber looked around and measured
things.
“That will take 16,000 feet of pipe.” he
said.
“Don't care; 16,000,000 feet gas; 1 want gas
everywhere.”
“All right.” and the gasman measured all
over and went away. “I’ll be down Tuesday,”
he said.
Tuesday came. The millionaire was lounging
throu rh his orchard when a man appeared be
fore him.
“Good morning,'* said the mau.
“Good morning,” said the millionaire,
dubiously.
“I've come to put that gas in for you.*’
“0, yes—of course—gas,” said the million
aire, but he showed very clearly he did not
quite understand. However, he did not wish
to give himself away. He looked up the road
and saw a team coming down.
“What's that team?” he asked.
“That's 6,000 feet of the pipe. There will be
10,000 more this afternoon.”
“That will beall right.”
The millionaire toox his hat off and mopped
his brow.
‘ Say come into the house and take a drink.”
They walked into the house. The millionaire
took the man into the dining-room, closed all
the doors, shut all the windows, and when he
had filled a glass of whisky he said:
“Say, what is all this business, anyway?”
“Why, don't you remember you ordered gas
to be put in the stable and orch ird aud ail over
the grounds—l6,loo feet of pipe?”
“Great Scott! When did 1 order all this?*’
“Saturday morniug.”
“Saturday! Say, old man. rats! Don't say
any more about it. Saturday was an off day
with me. All 1 want is a couple of gas-j ts in
the stable. Send that pipe back, and I'll
make it worth your while to say nothing.”
Singing All the Way.
From the yew York World.
In the farmhouse door grandmother stands,
With lovelit face and outstretched hands,
While up the road, with dying feet.
Conies little Marjie. flushed and sweet;
In through the gate she trips so gay,
Singing all the way, singing all the way.
“Gran'mft,'' she cries, “I never missed
One word in all the spelling list;
To-morrow I’ll be at the head.
An' teacher praised me when I read.
So I came home from school to-day
Singing all the way, singing all the way.”
Grandmother kissed the little one.
Then wistful watched the sinking sun.
Where, back of clouds and changing skies,
A wondrous city seemed to rise.
She's always glad, that woman gray—
Smgiug all the way, singing a,l the way.
Geohgb Horton.
How to Tell Man’s Nativity.
From the Galveston yews,
A discussion arose on board an Atlantic liner
a >hort time ago as to the citizenship of a gt*n
tleman at the other end of the saloon.
“He'san Englishman." said one; “I know bv
his head.”
“lies a Scotchman.” said another; *‘l
know by his complexion."
“He's a German.” said another; “Iknowbj
his heard.”
The young ladies thought he looked a little
Spanish. Here the conversation rested, but
so none of them said:
4 *T hare it,”said she: “he's an American; he's
got his legs on the table.”
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ACHE
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CLOTHINO.
■ i in—aniiwM
Long threatening comes at
last.
Take our word for it. we
will have winter yet; how
ever, “to make assurance
doubly sure,”
WE WILL SELL,
WE MUST SELL,
Oar liter U!
As winter is doubtful, but
spring is bound to come.
THE $$ MARK
is our beacon now. That is,
we are wholly engaged in
giving a dollar's worth for a
dollar.
Look at the Suits,
At the Overcoats,
At All Articles,
Tyry look at
ntllThe Prices
One says: “I’m no judge of
clothing, and wouldn’t know
whether your prices were
high or low.”
Niue ladies out of ten are
good judges of materials.
Bring your wife, mother, sis
ter, or an expert. We will
be satisfied with the verdict
Another says: “I always
leave it to you.”
You couldn't leave the
matter in better hands. You
will surely get a dollar’s
worth for your dollar.
This season has been and
is disastrous to the Clothing
trade, and a financial bless
ing to the buyer.
You can make money by
providing now for
NEXT WINTER.
8. E LEVY All
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QSjjjSSi
SALiCK.
LEU PERRINS’
SAUCE
(The Worcestershire) v
Imparts tJie most delicious taste and test to
EXTRACT SOUPS,
ofnLETTERfrom
a MEDICAL GEN- M GRAVIES,
TLEMAN at Mad- I; NI
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at WORCESTER, } H
May, ISSL g HOT&COID
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LEA * PERRINS- SEATS,
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palatable, as well
as the most whole- ii't..''ly"*! RAREBITS,
some sauce that is. “ i
made." N. &c.
Signature on every bottle of the genuine & original
JOHN DUNCAN’S SONS, NEW YORK.
GROCERIES.
w. D. CHAMTIOS.
APPLES,
GRAPES,
BEETS,
CARROTS,
TURNIPS,
ARRIVING THIS DAY AND FOR SALE BY
A. 11. CHAMPION'S SON
Successor to A. H. CH AMPION.
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TRUNKS.