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MrriNOß—Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O.
F.; Armenia Lodge No, 193d, G. 17. O O F.
Special Notices— Roll of Honor Savnnn&h
Academy; Don't Forget to Pall on Rowland &
Myers; Notice of Election for Captaiu and
Second Lieutenant of Georgia Hussars; Sher
wood's Dancin - Academy at Masonic Temple;
Notice as to I)r. C. N. Brandt's Absence.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Railroad Schedules— Savannah. Florida and
Western Railway; Central Railroad.
At Private Sale— Roses, Bulbs, Etc., by C.
H. Dor ett.
Auction - Sales—Dwelling, Elegant Marble
Statuary, by R. H. Tatem.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland should go to Phil
adelphia when she gets back to this country.
Nobody is in a hurry in Philadelphia.
Republican organs remark almost every
day, in a would-be sarcastic way, that Mr.
Cleveland is writing a great many letters
to societies, political and otherwise. Per
haps he is, but not too many. The burden
of his letters is tariff reform—and that is
why the republican organs object to their
number.
It is stated that Mrs. Parnell is again very
much in need of money. She refuses, how
ever, to appeal to the public, although, it is
ssi 1, she is destitute of the actual necessities
of life. There must be some mistake about
this, as Mrs. Parnell has a distinguished
son living in Ireland, and a well-to-do one
living in Georgia.
Rumors flaw thick and fast over Wash
ington the other day that President Harri
son was dead. When they reached Private
Secretary Halford, he promptly denied
them. He said that the President was eat
ing three sq lare meals a day, and, besides,
was attending to a good many ottice-seeker-.
Tne private secretary might not be able to
deny so flatly aru nor that the President
was dead politically, so far as a second term
Wins concerned.
In a divorce suit now going on in New
York a rather curious and interesting fact
has been brought out. Mr. James Block
ford stated that his wife, the defendant,
had rev aled one of his business secrets to
her brother, who is a dentist, and, as the
secret was a process by which amalgam for
filling the teeth was manufacture i at very
low cost, and as Mrs. Blockford’s brother
has been using it ever since, the husband
has been cut out of a good deal of money.
The New York Tribune sneaks of the
•‘ingenious contrivances by which colore 1
people iu Virginia are deprived of their
right to vote,” but it u'terly fails to men
tion the sly scuemes by which colored
people voted the republican state ticket in
West Virginia with >ut being residents of
the s ate, or the shameful in ithods by which
republican manufacturers in the north bull
dozed their employes iuto voting for Har
rison, or the disgraceful use of money at
elections by Quay and his lieutenants.
By the time Mrs. J. Ellen Foster’s new
fangled temperance society had been in ex
istence three days, it had had three differ
ent names, and at 4ia third christening the
■word ‘‘non-partisan” was lugged in. Con
sider! ig that Mrs. Foster was a stump
speaker for the republicans last fail, that
she withdrew trom the old and established
the new temperance organization because
the old refused to be partisan in polities,
and that her hu-band is holding an office
under President Harrison, it may not be
very unjust to suspect that the new temper
ance organization is a woman’s republican
club in disguise.
Dom Pedro, Brazil’s ex-omperor, is writ
ing the history of his life and reign, but the
Ixvok will uot be published until after his
death. He says that he has been silent upon
the subject of the recent revolution ia Bra
zil, because neither remonstrance nor dis
cussion would do good. Being asked if he
would return to B azil if elected president,
he sard: ‘‘With all my heart. No matter
whether as e nperor, president or private
citizen, 1 woul 1 gladly return to die among
tny people.” It wou and be a remarkable thing
if the Brazilians should elect the ex-omperor
president, but such an event ig within the
bounds of possibility.
Northern newspapers and politicians are
decidedly opposed to the emigration of
southern blacks, and as for the northern
blacks some of them meet every few days
to protest against their breture i leaving the
l aou'li. Of course the people who are most
" F re allv interested iu emigration s homes,
such as Beuator B itlor’s, for instance, are
the southern whites and blacks It is hardly
probable that Senator Butler’s scheme will
amount to much, but if there are any blacks
who want to leave tne south, and if south
ern wnitee are willing for them to go, there
doesn't seem to be much occasion for north
ern people to interfere.
Sanitary Work.
The work of out: log this and every other
southern citv ii a thorough sanitary con
dition should bo begu i at once. Sime
sanitary work has bs> i done in this city
this winter, bit a great deal r'tiiias to be
done The removing of rubbiih fr om the
streets is not so mu: i needed as the clean
ing of the closet* of residences wmeh havn
no connection with so wers. Not very long
ago it was asserted by promine it physi
cians that the u isa litary condition of the
closets in one locality was the cause of
several cases of fever in that locality.
Doubtless tnero ar • many closets in differ
ent parts of the city that *h uld be at
tends! to immediately. Warm weather is
not far away, and when it comes it will be
ton late to do the kind of work that ought
to be di a* now.
In view of the fact that the winter has
been remarkably warm, our citizons will
; be anxious as the summer months approach
j about the health of the city. If they can
| feel certain that there are no disease-breed -
! mg places within the city’s limits, their
confidence in the continued good health of
the city will be made much stronger than
it would be otherwise. Confidence is in
itself a preventive of sickness, because
cheerful pe -pie are much less liable to be
attacked by disease than those who are
anxious and worried. Between now and
warm weather every closet in toe city
should be so treated as to remove from it
every element of danger.
The county commissioners, with com
mendable zeal, are draining the low places
in the vicinity of the city. They hive a
a largo force of convicts at work in the
near-by swamps, and before the spring
months have passed there will be few, if
any, places close to the city where water
will remain on the surface long after a rain
storm. With cleau closets and good drain
age there need not be much fear of serious
sickness.
The press of this country nutl Europe con
tinues to call attention to the steady pro
gress which cholera is making in Asia. It
is raging in Mesopotamia, and has bien for
mouths. Tue latest report is that it is
spreading in Asiatic Turkey, aud there are
apprehensions that it will get int;o Europe
by way of the Caspian or the Black sia, or
through Syria. If it should reaco Europe
it would be pretty certain to make
its appearance in this country
unless extraordinary precautions were
taken to prevent its introduction.
Although quarantine may keep it out, our
sole reliance should n it he placid upon that.
Our citios should be kept so clean that
neither cholera nor any other disease would
find them a congenial abidi g place.
The Louisiana Bond Frauds.
The trial of Maurice J. Hart, on the
charge of aiding Maj. E. A. Burke, ex
treasurer of Louisiana, to steal $(1)0,000
worth of bonds of the state, resulted, ac
cording to our dispatches, iu a verdict of
acquittal. The jury rendered a verdict
without leaving the jury box. This verdict
was not a surprise to those acquainted with
the testimony. The state failed to
•how that Hart knew that the
bonds which he received from Burke
were stoleu. It was brought out
that other brokers had sold bonds
for Burke. Hart, however, sold more th in
any other one. But that fact was not suffi
cient to justify the conclusion that he knew
thai Burke came by the bonds in an unlaw
ful manner. Hart has al ways borne a good
reputation among business men of New
Orleans, and it was hardly probable, there
fore, that a jury would convict him unless
it had satisfac'ory evidence of his guilt,
however strong the impression might be
that he was guilty.
It is now stated that an effort is to be
made to get Barko fr >m Honduras. It is
thought to be probable that the legislature
at its approaching session will offer a big
reward for him, aad will also take steps t)
induce the Honduras authorities to give him
up. It would uot l>e surprising, hjwever,
if nobody was ever convicted for Burke’s
crimes. The state will lose nothing by his
criminal acts unless tha legislature under
takes to make good the bonds which he em
bezzled aud sold. Those who hold the bonds
are the onos who are out of pock et.
The arrival of Nellie Bly in New York
at the end of her journey around the world
has excited general newspiper comment,
some of which is quite interesting. The
Philadelphia Bulletin says, for instance:
“It is likely that in a few years the time for
the trip will be cut down so much that the
experiment will ba forgotten. Whensteam
ers like the City of Paris are placed, as
they eventually will be, in tha Pacific ser
vice the time loetween Asia and America
will be reduced at least a weak. When tue
great railroad, 5,0'J0 miles long, which the
government of the czar has just ordereu to
be built across Asia, from Russia to the
Pacific ocean, is completed, two or three
weeks more will be cut off the schedule.
‘Miss Nellie Bly’ will not beau old woman
when she will be able to g > round the world
iu fifty days if she cares again to be whirled
round the globe by fast trains and fast
ships.” The Nashville American remarks
that Mrs. James R. Polk, who required
nearly thirty days to go from Nashville to
Washington when her husbmJ was to be
inaugurated President, has lived to see the
day when the world could be girdled in a
little more than twice thirty days.
The late Senator Rid ileberger had a
pretty quick temper, and when he became
angry he was not unwilling t> go to the
“field of honor,” so-called. Oue thing that
is being recalled in connection with him is
that he had two engagements for duels for
the same day. At 8 o’clock a. m. he met
Editor Bierne just outside Richmond.
Shots were exchanged, nobody hurt, honor
was satisfied, aud Mr. Riddleberg-r croised
over into an adjoining field to exchange a
few shots with George D. Wise, one of the
best marksman iu Virginia; but a heavy
rain delayed the duel, and gave the police
time to interfere.
Mrs. Cora May Morris, of Wentworth,
N. C., will hardly be found guilty of killing
her husband with chloroform. The evideuce
thus far addu od seems to bo pretty strung
against her, and the jury may become con
vinced to a man that sho "removed” the
late Mr. Morris, but there is one very g >od
reason why she will not be convicted, and
that is that North Caroliuiaus think she is
too pretty to be haiigei. or sent to the peni
tentiary. Au old citizon of Wentworth
express 's the general sentiment of the place
wnen he says: “Guilty or not guilty, no
North Carolinian would ever convict such
u pretty woman.”
Senator Quay is said to he vexed with
President Harrison for something or other—
probably something connected with the dis
tribution of spoils. The question is, how is
the senator going to punish him?
TIIE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1890.
Florida’s United States Court.
Although the synonsii of the speech of
Sen it r Pasco, of Florida, on feleral con
trol f electlois, w ;ich was te'.eg'uehed
from Washington over the country, did not
sh iw that he male any refers ics to the
partisan acts of the fflcials of the Unite 1
States court for the northern district of
Florida, in connection with the alleg'd
election frau Is in that state, he dilmake
such a referenc.', and a very strong one,
as appeals from the full report
of his speech in the Congressional
Herord. The senator did not
go into the details of those acts, for the
reas in that the acts will be Inquired into by
the Senate, the nominations of the officials
to the positions they now hold being before
that body f>r c mfimiation. In speaking of
the United Status court at Jacksonville, he
eailei attention to the letter witten by Mar
shal Mizell to a citizen of Volusia county,
directing the citizen in question to males
out a “list of fifty or sixty names of true
and tried republicans” for jurors in
the United States court, uni to forward
the same to the clerk, Mr. Walter. The
senator said: “At the beginning of the court
it was charged by counsel representing
some of the dofenda its that a grand jury
had been improperly formed under the im
partial jury law, in which twenty-two out
of twenty-three grand juror3 were republi
cans. It was charged that that jury was
purposely mode partisan by the action of
the officers of the court, who, in violation
of law, did not select the jury without
regard to party affiliations. Tho effort
made before the dis rict judge to have that
matter investigated failed. Subsequently,
when the circuit judge came there, an 1 the
point was again raised in another case by
plea, the court said the matter must be in
quired into, and the district attorney was
obliged to join issue upon the
plea. Issue was joined, aud iu bring
ing out the testimony on that issue
a letter from the marshal was read an and
offered in evidence, Mr. Walter, the clerk,
a republican, took no pains to answer tho
letter, nor did he inquire why these naiuis
were sent to him, but entered them upon the
jury list in tho exact order iu which they
came through this correspondence, but the
judge refused even to all iw the letter to be
received in evidence; he ruled that the
clerk was not connected with it. Tho letter
was written by the marshal. The list was
sent back by the clerk. The clerk did not
write back to tne corresp indent to know
why those names hal been seat on, but
simply accepted the n, and yet was uot con
nected with the marshal's lettor, and the
partisan jury was sustained. By methods
of which this is only a sample a erand
jury, comprising twenty-two republicans
out of twenty-three grand jurors, was
organized, and a great many indictments
found against the people of my state by this
partisan jury.”
This statement cannot be successfully
denied, and it is not possible to see how the
Senate can consistently confirm the nomi
nations of the federal court officials of the
northern Florida district. Jt it does con
firm them it will say, in effect, that it ap
proves tha partisan acts of these officials,
and that the law may be violated with
impunity in cases in which the personal
liberty of democrats is involved, provided
the republicans can gain a political advant
age thereby, or gratify their partisan hate.
Let us see if the Senate wili place itself on
record as approving such aots.
A Preposterous Statement.
Kvr-ry now and then some republican
jumps up, cracks his heels together, and de
clares that the Republican party alone
brought about the abolition of slavery.
Those who make such a statement don’t ex
pect intelligent and well-informed people
to believe it. They don’t believe it them
selves. In fact, they know that it is absurd
and untrue, but it answers the purposes for
which it was made, viz.: to deceive ignorant
white people iu the north aud colored peo
ple in the south.
Probably Senator Ingalls understands
this quite as well as anybody else, and yet
he said in his speech on the race problem
the other day: “Politically, the colore 1
people are affiliated with the victors in the
late civil war.” Here we have the plain in
ference that the union army was composed
entirely of republicans, and that the aboli
tion of slavoqv, which was one of the re
sults of the war, was, therefore, solely the
work of republicans.
Senator Ingalls knows very well that
there were almost as many democrats as
republicans in the union army. He knows
that Gen. Grant, who, it is claimed, did
more than any one else to achieve victory
for the union side, voted for Buchanan for
Preiidont in 1856, and was a democrat until
the Republican party nominated him for
President. He knows that Gen. Logan was
sent to the Illinois legislature as a demo
crat several times before the war, was a
presidential elwt,or on the Buchanan and
Breckinridge ticket in 1856, was elected to
congress as a democrat in 1858, aud voted
for Stephen A. Douglas for Presi
dent in 1860. He knows that
prominent union generals like Hancock and
McClellan were democrats to the day of
their death, but he has so little regard for
the truth that he refers to the Republican
party as the victors iu the late civil war,
just as if all the republicans had fought on
one side, and ail of the democrats on the
other. It will strike the public that a mau
who deliberately makes such a statement as
that of Senat r lugalls is not fit ed to take
part in the attempt to settle the race prob
lem,
Mr. Blaine has a very warm admirer in
Col. Pride of Idaho. Indeed, so greatly
does Col. Pride admire Mr. Blaine, and so
loudly does he sing his praises, that he is
known throughout the territory as
“Blaine.” It seems that the Col. has a
young friend whom he wants appointed to
a consulship, and he was not slo w in im
parting to Mr. Blaine the fact of his
(Pride’s) love for him (the secretary). Said
he: “I ask this appointment as a personal
favor. I have been a Blaine tuaa for
years. lam so good a friend of yours that
on one occasion, when a man coupled your
name with an opprobrious epithet, I knocked
him down aud kicked him. Now I want to
know if you will stand by rao as I have
stood by you.” Mr. Blaine lau ghei. He
said that tbe argument was a good one, and
Col* Pride went his way rejoicing iu the
belief that the appointment would bo
made.
The New York Star has information thnt
it has been agreed informally by the Senate
elections committee that the Montana sena
torial contest shall be remanded back to the
people, both democratic aud republican
members of it agreeing that tbe certificates
of neither set of senators are regul ir. If
his should be done, Gov. Toole would ap
point the senators, who would act uutil a
choice was made by the legislature.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Borne Comfort For Foraker.
From the Clev* lan'i Plain Dealer (Dem.\
Thf* announcement that the administration is
as cxl toward Foralcer as it is towards Du Iley
oughtn’t to diwconrasre Foriker much. It is a
pretty sure indication that the la.r officers of
tne fed* ral government will never be permitted
to bother him.
Ingalls' Generous Proposition.
From the St. Louie Republic ( Dent. ).
When every nearro in the south votes the re
publican ticket Ingalls declares he will be atis
ti •i. and w i'-n this has .* on for aw ile, if
anything is eft of civilization iu that section,
he will tj** willing to sit down and the
• race problem” with the whites.
Did Adam Have the Grip?
From t*e TV I I m ina ton ( .V. C.) Star (Dent.)
Tne Philadelphia Ledjer quotes Milton as
evidence that the grip is no modern disease,
but that Adam had it, quoting:
“—for Adam at the news
Jleart-strucK with c<illinj gripe."
The Tjedatr should remember that was about
the time Adam had b** n eatin< more than was
healthy of stolen apples, which didn't
with him.
Colored People and the Tariff.
From the Boston (i'obe (Den.)
One of the things about tho tariff is
that its most solid support comes from the
people who are the 1-ast protected, and the
most heavily taxed in proportion to their
means. Not one of the colored m m has a word
to say against it, but w iicu of them is making
morie* out of it? What provision haa ever
been made under it for their benefit, or could
be? Where do the interests of waiters, barbers,
or porters, or .janitors, or those of plantation
hands, come in on the schedules*
PERSON A u.
A portrait of John Wesley has been hung up
in Lincoln college, Oxford, of which he was tt
me nber. It should not be forgotten that Wes
ley lived and died a clergyman of theCuurch of
England. •
Mas. Alexander McVxigb Miller, who lives
near Alderson. in Greenbrier county, West Vir
ginia. is sai 1 to draw au annual salary of ? .00>)
from a New York weekly paper for stories and
other literary work.
Miss Kennedy, a San Francisco school ma'am
who was dismissed b\ the school comm ttee in
ihSi without any assigned cause, has been rein
stated by a decision the supreme court, with
for pay in the interval.
Secretary Husk turns his back upon ail the
fashionable dissipations of r ,e capital. He per
sistently re uses to touch cards, and ee, or the
wine bottle, and is determined to resist tempta
tion so long as he is a cabinet officer.
"The Evil That Men Do by Kdgar Fawcett" is
the legend to be found on a recently published
novel. Tne lack of punctuation may be re
sponsible for the peculiarity of the title, but
perhaps Fawcett refers to his Boston critics.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado and Senator
Vest of Missouri are much depressed by the fact
that Senator Pettigrew of haKota has already
acquired a reputation m Washington as the
most brilliant and aggressive poker player iu
the Senate.
Oscar S. Straus, who was Mr. Cleveland's
minister to the Sublime Porte, lectured the
otuer night at Stein way ha 1 for the benefit of
the children of th*- Hebrew orphan asylum. Mr.
Straus is one of tho most popular Hebrews in
New York.
Vice President Morton's every day lunch,
winch he takes in tho Senate restaurant, is a
howl of bread and milk, accompanied occa
sionally by a bottle of beer. Senator Edmunds,
who is one of th * good livers of the Senate,
usually flavors his lunch with a pint of cham
pagne.
At New York Tuesday evening two ex-con
federate officers visited the widow of Gen.Urant
and were cordially r ceived. One of the visitors
was Gen. John S. Mosbv, the noted cavalrv offi
cer under (Jen. Dee, aud the other Gen. Cadmus
Wilcox. The pair met accidentally on a street
car. and in conversation discovered that their
destinations were the same.
James McWhorter Whistler, who is about
to visit tho states after an absence of thirty
years, wears elongated curls brushed back
behind his ears. He is a lank-built, prominent
chinned man of eccentric manner, with a rat
tail mustache, an 1 was born in Massachusetts
some five and fifty years back, but resides in
Lond n, where he is reckoned amoug the ‘‘char
acters.-'
James <*. Blaise, Jr., who has been appointed
clerk of the committee on foreign affairs *f the
House of Representatives, has been educated
fur the position by a few inglorious weeks as a
newspaper reporter, by close attention to the
billiard cue an l by a few months of service as a
locomotive fireman. He is well fitted, therefore,
to wear a dress-suit in the evening and draw a
salary of $;!,190 a year.
The Prince of Naples, who is making a tour
around the world, is a reserved, rather stilt
young fellow of 20, whose naturally delicate
constitution has not been improved br constant
application to his studies, unrelieved by any
atnletic recreation whatever. His tastes are
those of a scholar and boo worm, his favorite
hobby being the collection of medals, eoi< sand
old anus, lie fulfills his military duties as
rigi lly and punctually as a German, and rarely
shows surprise or expresses ids feelings.
BRIGHT BITS.
“How nu> you like the Wagner operas
Clara?”
“I enjoyed them immensely. The person
back of you who always hums opera gets left
when it conies to Wagner.”— Chicago Herald
An exchanok announces that Brazilian men
of-war are oa the fence. That doesn't seem to
be exactly the right sort of si lie for a navy.
The next thing we ' ill near is that the army is
all at sea.— Baltimore American.
He I am thinking of embracing a literary
life.
She—l do not doubt that the life will be a
very happy one if you—if you should treat it
the way you spoke of .—Terre Unite Express.
Mb. Mr lpi tuny—Good mornin', sor; an' how
far is it to Pliaynixville?
Hay seed—lt’s a good ways. Who do you want
to see there ?
Mr. Mulpheny—Sure it's mysilf I want to see
there.— Harper's Weekly.
J. Cass— l believe miners are more deserving
of pity than any other class of workers.
Bab Oon —How so?
“They are most always ‘down in the mouth.'
an' the rest of the time they are out of their
mines.'’— Time.
Exasperated Wipe-I want you to have that
dog of ours snot. He aunoys people with his
growling.
Husband—That’s no good reason for shoot
ing him. If it was, you wouldn’t stand much
Show for your life.—Texas Siftings.
What a beautiful tribute was that paid to a
departed citizen of a western town! The editor
of a local paper wrote taat "J was an honest
man; he was a truthful man; he was one of the
best trout iishermen iu this section. "—Kearney
Enterprise.
Ted—l hear Mrs. Beilair is married again.
Isu’t it rataer soon after her first husband’s
death ?
Ned—yes, but there were extenuating dircum
sfauces. Her second husband was the under
taker who buried her first.— Epoch.
American’Bov (looking up from his school
book)—l’ap i, 1 cant understand the difference
’tw een a republic and an absolute monarchy.
Papa (who has just been a witness in a mur
der case, and has endured a three hours' cross
examination)—There ain't any.— New York
Weekly.
Minnie—What made you speak to that poor
beggar so sharply? Perhaps she was really de
serving of help,
Mamie—Maybe she was, but she interrupted
me just as 1 was having a good cry over the
poor girl in my novel dying on a rich man's
doorstep. —Terre Haute Express.
iMPKor.NE— Here is a book published as by
Washington Frotlilngham aud Charlemagne
Tower—Frothiugham wrote the book ami Tow er
paid the bdls.
Poetieus —By Jove: 1 wonder if Rothschild or
Vanderbilt would collaborate with me on a
book of poems l—Puck.
"Fahewf.i.u dearest,” she sighed as she lay
against tae lapel of his double-braastcd coat;
“anil, George, you may kiss me once o i mv
forehead ere you go.” “Thanks, Angelina,”
thoughtfully murmured the young man. “but
the last time 1 kissed a girl on the forehead I
got a bang in the mouth.” A moment latter he
left the h m e, looking as if he ha l been eating
marsh-mallows.— Harvard Lampoon.
His Part op It.— I There wnz a big man en’ a
little man agoiu’ 'long the pike together. The
big man, he didn't say much, but the little fel
ler, he jis' kep’ a talkin’.
By'm-by the little man up and says:
“Did you know, pa duer, thet me en’ you
know and everything in the world?” says he.
“Ye*sir,“saysthe big an, right quick, “I
does. You know- everything in the world hut
thet you're a darn gubbin' little fool, en’ 1
know thet.”— Detroit Free Press.
Grattan’s Belfast Gioger Ale, established 1825,
is the finest imported from Ireland. The dis
tinctive feature of this ale is its fine delicate
flavor of pure ginger. Linpman Bros, and U.
Bavin’s Estate, Agents, Savannah, Ga.
Partners In Misery.
Front he Chicago Tribune.
The two desperate men ran against one another
when at th* very brink of the deep, swift
stream. They stopped and eyed each other
with su pieion.
tixt~ r>ut wa y. sir'"' shouted one of them.
*>\ by do you seek to prevent ine from putting
an end to a useless life?*’
4 * 4^u * of tn way yourself!" yelled the other,
“louare hindering me from terminating a
miserabl * existence!"
4 'Who are you?"
*T am the inventor of anew snow plow."
‘And I m the owner of a toboggan slid-*!"
They fell on each other's shoulders and wept,
and then went and drowned their sorrows in
the strong wat rs of a consolation bazar around
the corner.
He Pali Halt
From the Detroit Free P ess.
A bill collector came down the stairway of a
Griswold street block the other day with a
bloody no>e. the collar ripped off his coat, his
bat gone, and his shirt-front torn out. and when
asked to explain his condition he said: ‘‘l had
a bill for against a man up there."
‘‘And he wouldn’t pay and you went for him?"
“Well, he refused t pay an 1 said something
abou licking him. He offered me half the bul
to doit."
‘‘And you pitched in?"
“1 did. It was an account four years old, and
I thought it a good thing to even get half of it."
‘‘But where is the debtor?"
“0, he's up it airs. He gave me sl3 after I got
through, and then fainted away, but he will
Come to after awhile and go home in acarriage,
IT you will be so kind as to run over and tele
phone for the ambulance i’ll go up to the hos
pital and be patched up.'*
Ingersoll and the Administration.
From the New York Tribune.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has been in Washing
ton this week, but he has not called at the
executive mansion. Since the experience with
the republican national committee, when he
was denied the opportunity to advocate the
claims of Gres iani. Col. Ingersoll has not had
the active interest in government wnich he was
wont to display. Someone asked him, in one
of the capil'd corridors, a few days ago:
‘‘Have you been to the white hou-e recently?"
“No." he answered, in his deliberate, emphatic
way, *‘l do not believe I have seen Mr. Harrison
since his inauguration, nor since nis election, for
that matter."
" \ ou re not ‘out’ with the administration, are
you?"
‘ No—O. no. lam about in the position of the
woman at the revival meeting. S‘e sat there,
prim and demure, with iier [little handkerchief
folded iy> and lying in her lap. when someone
came up to her and said: ‘bister, do you love
Jesus?* bhe straightened up a little, and after
a minute replied: Well, that’s a rather strong
expression to use, but 1 can say this, I've got
nothing ag’in’ him.’ "
Judge Kelley's One Joke.
From the Washington Post.
The late Judge Kelley did not indulge a great
deal in humor His inclination was in the direc
tion of the most serf *us a id practical subjects,
and he found no time for joking. Yet he had
one joke which he us-*d on all occasions when
the opportunity afforded. To the newspaper
men whom he knew well he was always frank
and outspoken, depending upon their good
faith to present nis ideas and not his
exact words. Consequently when his feel
ings were stirred up in the course of an
interview, he would use the most forcible
language, sometimes liberally interspersed
wiih profanity. He would know at the
time that his language was too strong, but that
the experienced Washington correspondent
was not likely to take advantage of it. So he
would say at the close of an interview: ‘‘Re
member. my boy, and only print my ideas, not
my words, for I talk to you as a ge&tlemau,
an 1 not as a newspaper man." It was the
Joke in which the judge indulge i. Occasionally
he wool 1 spring it on some ten lerfoot corre
spondent, who would go snortiiig around the
Row ab >ut Kelley’s insult to journalism, only
to lie laughed at by the old veterans who haci
been ‘'insulted" by the same joke in 'OS.
The Stove in the Vtlag’e Store.
Mrs. K. A. Treat in Hardware.
When the twilight had deepneed to darkness
They gathered from far and near,
Old farmers who plodded the distance
As pilgrims their shrines to revere;
At the shabby ol i store at the "corners''
They met and then entered the door,
For the Mecca of all these old cronies
Was the stove in the old village store.
It wa guiltless of beauty or polish.
And its door was unskillfully hung.
But they made a glad circle around it.
And the genial warmth loosened each tongue:
And they talked of the crops and the weather.
Twin subjects to gossips most dear.
And the smoke from their pipes as it blended
Gave a tinge to the whole atmosphere.
Full many t :e tales they related.
And wondrous the yarns they spun.
And doubtful the facts thevstated,
And harm ess the wit anu the fun;
But if ever discussions grew heated
It was all without tumult or din.
And they gave their respectful attention
When a customer chanced to come in.
When the evening was spent and the hour
For the time of their parting had come,
They rapped from their pipes the warm ashes,
And reluctantly starte i lor home:
Agreeing to meet on t >e morrow
When the day, with its labor, was o'er,
For the Mecca of all the oid cronies
Was the stove in the old village store.
Too Big- a Dose.
From the New York Tribune.
With the publication of tue report of the At
torney General all of the annual reports of the
members ot the cabinet are “out.’’ All of them
have been published broadcast; some of them
widely read. The preparation of these reports
is a task that is dreaded by the heads of depart
ments. They have to watch each sentence in
the document to see that it is not susceptible of
two constructions, one of them possibly unde
sirable. After they have read over arid over
again the report, they develop a horror of it
that, can only be compared with tlie feeling of
the little boy who has surreptitiously obtained
possession of his big sister s box of candy. One
of the secretaries, speaking of the task which
he tui I accomplished, said a few days ago:
**l felt, before I had finished my report, like
the convicted murderer who had carefully*
studied an appeal for mercy which he was to
make before sentence was passed upon him
Tne speech was prepared by his attorn y, and
when it was read to him the criminal broke
down and sobbed aloud.
“ ‘That will certainly move the judge,* he said.
‘lt cannot fail to move him.*
“A day or two later the lawyer called to see
if the speech had been committed to memory
prop rly. The criminal looked somewhat dis
consolate.
“ ‘l don't think that is a very good speech.'
he said.
“‘Not good!’ said the attorney. ‘Why, you
cried when you first heard it.’
“‘I know I did,’ said the criminal, ‘but that
was before 1 had studie i it. Every time I have
bee i over it I have liked it less; and to tell you
the truth, I am so tired of it by this time, I
rea ly believe I would rather be hauged than
deliver it.’
“And that was about my attitude toward my
report before I had completed it,” said the sec
retary in conclusion.
An Object Lesson Sermon.
From the Denver Republican.
The author of ‘‘Reminiscenses of a Literary
and Clerical Life,’’ himself a clergyman, nar
rates an amusing anecdote which his reverend
grandfather used to tell about an ignorant
young couple in his parish. The old minister
had married them, but the marriage had
turned out to be ill-a ivised, and after a while
things came to a desperate pass.
The couple bad vast, undefined ideas of
w hat a re tor could do, and it entered into
their foolish min is that he might be able to
undo their unhappy marriage, bo they ask • and
hi.n whether he could take them into church
again and perform some service that would get
them free, as they had been before. The rector
meditated for a moment.
‘‘Yes,” he said, “1 think if you come to church
I can put you in the way of becoming unmar
ried. But it is a curious kind of business, and
instead of coming to the Itar, as before, you
will have to go into the belfry.”
The unfortunate pair readily asseuted, and at
an appointed hour went to the church, where
the r ctor marched them into the beifry.
“You see those two trestles,” he began. “The
husband will have to stand on one of them and
the wife on the other.”
With much won lerment the man and woman
followed his instructions
“Now each of you take a bellrope in your
hand.”
This was done.
“Now, then, tie the ropes round your necks
and jump off the treaties.”
“Good lack, sir!“ said one of them, “we should
be hanging ourselves!”
“Exactly,” said the minister, “that is just
what I mean. The only way in which you can
unmarry yourselves in church is by hanging
yourselves in the belfry.”
The young couple dropped the ropes in haste,
and the minister proceeded to give them a lec
ture upon mutual forbearance and affection, it
is to be hoped with good results.
Coughs and Hoarseness. —The irritation
which which induces coughing immediately re
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ITEMS OF IN T TEBEB7.
Web Wilder, a Kansas editor, asserts that
there were twenty men in the last legislature of
tuat state who were paid by the insurance com
panies Lor their votes and speeches.
Miss Mary Garrett is probably the wealth
iest spinster in the United States, but she has
not been so gener udy favored by nature as by
fort an*, and at the age o 37 still remains in
maiden meditation, heart whole and fancy free.
In the statistics of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United states there is an increase
ii the number of Sunday school scholars for the
ye .r 18Se-Bb, amounting nearly to 33,000. nearly
a quarter or the increase beiug in the diocese of
i euosylva.'iia.
At a masquerade ball in Hartford, Conn., the
door te.ider had a small rubber stamp with ini
tials and date. He stamped this on the palm of
the left hand of each rnau w o passed out. This
was his "check" for the evening, and it couldn't
be transferred.
These aie some of the things which made up
a New Jersey divorce case: The wife hit him
with a brick, threatened him with a knife, thre w
ice water over him while m bed. cut off his
mustache, obliged Him to eat in the dark, aud
cut six of his shins into strings.
Miss Susanna M. Dcn-kles of Newton, Mass.,
*aid to be the first woman to be bank treasurer
in the United States, with the help of a clerk,
handles s3o®tooo in money each year. In
the fifteen years of h-r experience she has but
twice taken in a counterfeit bill—in each case a
§lO one.
The longest freight train ever handled on
the Baltimore and Ohio, was brought Into
Grafton, W. V last week with one engine, in
charge of Engineer Mat Frazer, of Keyser.
There were ninety-eight freight cars and the
caboose, and the train was a few feet over a
mile long.
John W. Mack ay's friends aver that his
telegraph investments amount to about $11,000,-
000, principal y represented by the Postal Te.e
graph lin -s and the Mackay cables. I hey
nis * claim that he has been offered $19,000,000
cash for these interests, which, they add, are
not for sale.
Charles Villiers is now the oldest member
of the English House of Commons. He is 87
years old and has sac continuously for Wolver
hampton since 1835. He was associated with
Cob ieu and Bright in the reform agitation
O Gorman, Mahoae and Gla Istoue entered the
House before Villiers, but there have been
breaks in their service.
A mail bag was recently found in the old law
courts at Frankfort-ou-the-Main, Germany, con
taining 175 undelivered letters, dating back to
1585. ail m good state of preservation. A< soon
a> the next German mail comes in we will re
sume our interrupt** 1 series of letters from
‘ Pro Bono Publico,’’ "An Old Subscriber,"
"51 any Readers'' and others.
Dion Boucicault has written, translated, or
adapted 400 plays. "London Assurance,’’ his
first, has been also his best play. It was written
when he was only 18 year old. ‘‘Colleen
Hawn.’’ the most popular of his later plays,
was written in nine days, but the plot was
taken from Gerald Griffin's novel, "Trie
Collegians," it is said. Boucicault is now 70
years old.
Several remarkable pictures have recently
been discovered on a rock on the Rio Grande
in Texas. They were painted by the Indians,
and represent a series of battles between two
tribe-. Tne paintings are eight in number, and
the work shows evidence of a s willful hand.
The stone was nearly covered with sand, but
the paint, a bright red, was appearently as
fresh as when first put on k
The latest novelty in the "pocket goods"
line is a pocket-knife case. It is made of soft
leather or cnamois skin, and is furnished with
a metal snap clasp at one end. It is designed
to keep a knife from rusting, and also t Keep
dust from getting into it. Like the popular
English kev chain, it is a foreign invention, and
is said to have first beeu used in Vienna, where
it is not considered good form to carrv a pen
knife loose.
The dedication of anew church in Whittier,
Cal., recently, elicited from the good poet In
whose h nor the town is named a letter, in
which this passage occurs: "I gee your town is
spoken of as an orthodox Quaker colony. I
hope there wi.l be no sectarian fence about
Whittier, but that good men. irrespective of
their creeds, will find a home there. Nothing
would be worse for it than to have the idea get
abroad that anything like intolerance and self
righteousness was its foundation."
Speaking of the long distances in this coun
try, an Englishman says: ‘‘The longest railroad
trip you can make in the United Kingdom is
about 000 miles, and they can no: realize that
there is a land where one can ride continuously
m one direction for a week or more. When a
local Liverpool man starts up to London, a five
b urs’ ride, his friends come to ihe depot to see
him off. aud make a great ado about his jour
noy. Ha is provided with baskets of lunch and
ali that sort of thing, while an American in the
next compartment has only had a comfortable
smoke and read liis paper when he reaches his
destination."
Henry Wood, a fanner near Beach City.
Stark county, Ohio, welcomed a plausible young
stranger, claiming to b a son ot a deceased
brother m ('alifornia. The new-comer liad the
famdy history quite pat, and was treated as one
of the family, furnished i;ood clothe-, 1 a ied a
good deal of money aud obtained a lucrative
situation. He courted and was engaged to a
daughter of Wood, as ha was supposed a cousin
The day before the marriage th - chance arrival
of an old friend of the California brother made
known that his only son had died several years
ago. The impostor flea, narrowly escaping
arrest. A likeness of the Wood family made his
deception easy.
When the new Union Trust Company build
ing, in Broadway, New York, just below Wa’l
street, is completed in April it will represent a
total expenditure of 82,209,000 It is buftt ou
four lots, extending tnrough to New street
The southernmost lots were purchase! from
the Parrish estate for $775,000 The same prop
erty was offered to Jay tiould a few years ago
for sllo.od. and the Parrish people, who ti tally
purchased it for sls ’,OOO, made $325,000 when
the property was resold. The northernmost
lots were purchas and from the United States
Express Company for $450,000, and r. Platt
tol Ia friend of his not tong ago that the prop
erty had cost the company $125,000. It will lie
seen that tne land on which the new building is
placed has cost $1,225,000. The building itself
will cost another $1,000,000.
The river Lys, on its entrance into Belgium,
dashes abruptly over a precipice and is lost to
sight for nearly half a mile. The Meuse also
lias a subterranean course extending to a
distance of six miles, while the river Dromme
in Normandy, on nearing the sea, plunges into
a hole 39 feet wide, known as the Pit of Soucy
from which it never reappears, except in the
form of new springs, which are supposed to
arise from the lost waters. In Derbyshire
England, there are two small streams called
the Hamps and the Manifold. Formed by the
union of several small springs, they flow in the
open air for a short distance and then turn im
close together under the face of a hill range
Here they have made for themselves a passage
through the solid earth, and for mil-a they
flow underground, each maintaining its own
complete individuality, until at length they re
emerge to the light by apertures only 15 yards
apart.
A Ceylon paper gives an account of the
finding of the largest cat's eye gem of which
there is any record by a digger at Galle, Ceylon
It weighs nearly seven pounds. The finder was
a moor man who had been very poor A few
months ago, however; his diggings for gems was
reward 'd by finding a caTs eye which he sold
for $5,000. Soon after he dug up another for
which he realized SIO,OOO, and then his run of
luck reached a climax when he unearthed
his large stone, which is described as of perfect
luster. He bad been offered £19,000 by a syndi
cate of local dealers, but has refused as he
declares he can cut the gem into forty stones
each of which will bring £I,OOO. A short time
ago he also found a larger ca‘s eye thantiiis
big one. but the ray was imperfect, so that it is
not more than one-quarter as valuable His
total finding in one-half year, at the lowest
estimate, will reach $150,000.
Adexanper R, Boteler was a conspicuous
figure in the L nited States congress before
the war, and in the Confederate congress dur
ing the war. He also served in the Confeder
a e army under Stonewall Jackson. Col. Bote
ler is the great grandson of Charles Wilson
Peale, the celebrated American historical
painter. He is now living in Sheperdstowu,
va . and although 70 years old, is still active
and vigorous, and interested in a claim of
- which tne 1> Arcy and Di iier families
have against the .govern m *nt of Chili for mili
tary stores furnished under contract to Gen
er-il Joso Carrara, provisional governor of
C.iili during the Chilian war of independence,
which these very stores helped to secure. The
whole story reads like a romance. General
Carrara was shot before the independence was
won, hut Henrv Didier was declared to be the
‘ Savior of Chili" on account of tae timely as
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