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TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Forsyth Social Club; Ground Rent
It Owners; Armenia Lodge No. 1930, G. U O.
of O, F.
Special Notices—Good Plumbing, P. H.Kier
nan; Mules for Sale, John E. Dowling; Atten
tion. Townsend: Am I Correct? A. Hanley;
What it Means, Robinson Steam Printing .Com
pany; New Houses, Title Guarantee and Loan
Company; Notice to Superior Court Jurors;
How to Get Rich, Deposit in Dime Savings Bank;
Faust Beer, John i yons & Cos.; Faust Beer at
Custom House Shades; Faust Beer, S. AV.
Branch, grocer; Quality is King, Merit Wins,
Empire Steam Laundry; Faust Beer, James Mc-
Grath & Cos.; Chatham Dime Savings Bank; Sa
yannah Steam Laundry; Teacher of Music, Mrs
C. E, Everett; Bargains in Shoes at Tuberdy’s.
New Black Dress Goods for Srlng—At Gut
man's.
Stoves and Ranges—Jas. Douglass.
Architecture—R. W. ShoppelL Architect
New York.
Finest Stock of Dry Goods—Eckstein & Cos.
“Quality is Kino"—Salomon Cohen.
Hot, Cold, Dry, Wet—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Complete Stock of Latest Novelties—
Milius & Cos.
Medical—Dr. Schenck’s Preparations.
Hotels—Huntsville Hotel, Huntsville, Ala.
“The Day AVe Celebrate’’—At A. R. Alt-
JMliyer & Co's.
Fine Dress Goods and Silks Our Specialty
—Morrison, Foye & Cos.
The Sterling Pianos—L. &B.S.M. H,
Melenais—C. Gray & Son.
S3OO Piano for $250 —Davis Bros.
Whew!—Dryfus Bros.
Amusements —* ‘Harbor Lights” at the Thea
ter, March 13 and 14; The Savannah Floral and
Art Exhibition, Monday Evening, April 21;
Grand Amateur Sparring Tournament at the
Theater Tuesday, March 18.
Wholesale Dealers is Plumbing Goods—Sa
vannah Plumbing Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Found; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Morning News has obtained at con
siderable expense a series of ten illustrated
articles on architecture. They will illus
trate and describe residences of moderate
cost. Those who contemplate building
homes will find them full of interest The
first of the series will be published next
Sunday, and one will be published each
succeeding Sunday until the list is ex
hausted.
The people of New York took notice of
the first anniversary of President Harrison’s
inauguration. They did so by electing
democrats to municipal offices in a majority
of the towns.
The democrats of Tennessee don’t appear
to be taking enthusiastically to Mr. Jere
Baxter’s candidacy for governor. So far as
beard from, Mi'. Baxter is the only enthu
siast upon that subject.
Two men out in Nebraska exchanged
■wives, recently, with the same off-banded
ness that they would swap knives. Presi
dent Thu.ston, c f the republican national
ltagu*'. should hasten back to Nebraska,
and give t e state the civilizing effects of
his presence.
Young Lincoln, who died the other day
in London, was named Abraham, but he
was familiarly known as “Jack.” “Abra
ham is t' o long,” said his father on one
occa ion; “we will call him Jack, - ’ and Jack
it was to the day of his death. It is a little
singular, however, that it never occurred
to Minister Lincoln that “Abe” is about as
short as “Jack.”
A few wo ks ago nearly every newspaper
In the country was asking *. )me Ruf q,
question HS this: “Is this hist summon or
next spring?" Hiuce the spring season
minus spring weather, set in, they mu re-’
marking that we are having a goxl deal of
•winur this spring, and tnre can be
doubt that in a few day* some of them will
chide winter for “lingering t , Ula ,
spring. The Chine* i government is ai,j
to * been ia .ved by them things when
It rlitmOif prohibited uewtpspers m China.
Has tho Court Been Sounded?
When Mr. Pendleton, of AVest Virgina,
1 was unseated a few days ago it was state l
that he would at one- appeal to th coa-ts
, to test the constitutional right of the
speaker to count a quorum, A quorum
| consists of 180 members, au l only 102 v te l
on the motion by which he was deprived of
of his seat. Although a quorum did not
vote there was a quorum in the House, and
the speaker ordered to be counted enough
of .those present and not voting to
make a quorum. The democrats hold
that tbi9 exercise cf power by the
spenker is not constitutional, and the repub
licans, prior to the present cingress, held
the same view.
Mr. Pendleton has not yet begun his suit,
and he has not decided whether he will sue
for hts salary, or begin a quo warranto pro
ceeding requiring the speaker to show cause
why he prevents him from exorcising the
privileges of a member. In either kind of
a suit the issue would be the right of the
speaker to count a quorum.
In our dispatches yesterday it was inti
mated that the republicans were anxious
for Mr. Pendleton to appeal to the courts,
because they had no doubt that the final re
sult would be in their favor. A republican
is qu ted as saying that his party would not
have unseated Mr. Pendleton without a
vote showing a quorum if it had not been
satisfied that the supreme court would sus
tain it
Can it be possible that a majority of the
supreme court have already < xpressed opin
ions oil the issue to be raised in the Pendle
ton case? It is true that nearly all the
justices are republicans, but they stand
very high in the estimation of men of both
political parties. It would require very
positive statements from men of known in
tegrity to convince the public that any one
of the justices had bean approached on the
issue involved in the unseating of Mr. Pen
dleton.
There are republicans, of course, who
will pretend that the justices have been
sounded in this matter, and they will do so
with the view of preventing Mr. Pendleton
from going into the courts, and also to
create the impression that the Republican
party takes no important step in the dark.
Neither Mr. Pendleton nor the democrats
of the House, however, should pay the least
attention to the intimations that the views
of a majority of the justices ou the question
of the right of the speaker to count a quo
rum were known to the republicans before
the revolutionary course of the speaker was
determined upon. If they believe they are
in the right they should go ahead. Mr.
Pendleton should bring his suit at once, and
the democrats should give him all the
moral and financial support of which he
mav stand in need.
If the truth were known it would appear
probably that the republicans are not so anx
ious as they seem to be to have the speak
er’s right to count a quorum tested. They
are anxious rather that it shall not be
tested, and it is probable that by pretend
ing otherwise they hope to keep the issue
out of the courts.
Cob Livingston’s Warehouse Plan.
In a recent interview Col . Livingston, the
president of the farmers’ alliance in this
state, outlined a plan for federal aid to
farmers which is virtually that which is
contained in a bill introduced into the Sen
ate by Senator Vance a few days ago, and
to which attention has been called by the
Morning News. It is in effect that the
government shall establish ware
houses in each county producing
annually crops worth not less than $5J0,000,
and shall receive into these
warehouses the crops of the farmers, who
shall receive 80 per cent, of the market
value of them in treasury notes, and shall
have the privilege of selling the whole, or
any part, of them at any time they may
desire to4° so, paying back the money they
have received as their sales are made. Col.
Livingston is of the opinion that this plan
for aiding the farmers would be worth a
thousaud times more to them than any re
form that might be made in the tariff.
This plan for aiding the farmers is so im
mense in its proportions that the average
man is hardly able to comprehend it fully
unless it is very carefully and fully ex
plained. Col. Livingston proposes to travel
over the state and explain it to the farmers,
at the same time calling their attention to
the importance of supporting for congress
only those candidates who will pledge them
selves to support It, or something like it, in
congress.
The Morning NEAVSis certainly in favor
of extending help to the farmers in any
legitimate and proper way in which they
can be helped. At first thought it does
not appear that this warehouse plan is a
practical one. Col. Livingston, however,
may be able to show that it is. In his tour
through the state ho will come into contact
with a great many very intelligent men,
who will ask him searching ques
tions with respect to it. They
will not willingly admit that
it promises them more relief for their pres
ent burdens than tariff reform, but doubt
less they are ready to listen and be con
vinced.
Col. Livingston thinks that if the whisky
product can be kept in bonded warehouses
the cotton crop, or the wheat or corn crop,
can also. His illustration is not a happy
one, however, for the reason that the con
ditions attending the production and
ownership of whiskv are altogether differ
ent from those attending production and
ownership of cotton and other crops. Col.
Livingston also thinks that the warehouse
plan will put an end to speculation in farm
products. The reasoning by which he
reaches that conclusion is not entirely sat
isfactory. There are years when specula
tion is beneficial to the farmers, particu
larly cotton farmers. If it had not been
for speculation in cotton futures the prices
of cotton this year would have been doubt
less considerably below those which have
prevailed. The result of Col. Livingston’s
tour through the state will be looked for
with considerable interest.
Our dispatches announced the other day
that another battle had been fought be
tween France’s Bengalese troops and a de
tachment ot the troops of the King of Da
homey, and that a number of captives were
taken by the Dahomians: but they failed to
record the interesting fact that among
those killed were a number of female war
rh rs of the Dabomian king. These female
soldiers are called Aiuaz ms, and they are
recruited in n remarkable manner. If a
wife is unfaithful to her husband she Is
made to perform military service, and if a
1 Uf.lmnd becomes tired of his wife, or if his
wife has a Ind temper, or fails to 1 ear
children, lie gives her to the king, and, if
she is physically qualified, she is made an
Ainas m. Twenty -four years ago a French
man cstimtu-d the number of Amaz ms at
I,'VX), But they have since iuurmssel, and in
1880 their number was said tv be 0,00(1.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH ft. 1890 —TWELVE PAGES.
Hopeful New York.
A great many New Yorkers, who appear
i to have a contract for doing all the tu.kmg
jforiLeir city, pretend to be!iuve that New
York will finally get the fair. Their opin
' ion is based upon the be ief that before long
I Chicago will be willing to admit that she
j cannot ra;se money enough to make the
fair a success.
There is a pretty strong probability that
they will be disappointed. Chicago has
satisfied the committee of the House which
has charge of the fair bill that she
has the necessary financial resources,
and if the committee is satisfied there
will be no difficulty in getting
congress to enact the necessary legislation.
It is true that Mr. Medill, the editor of the
Chicago Tribune, says that Chicago cannot
raise the amount of money i ceded for the
fair, but it is probable that he intended to
le understood that New York, and other
cities which nave extensive trade relations
with Chicago, would be asked to lend her a
helping hand. There are committees now
at work soliciting subscriptions from rail
roads and manufacturers in different parts
of the c ountry, and there is no and übt that
they will succeed in raising a very large
sum.
A Chicago man stated in Philadelphia a
few days ago that a European syndicate,
which included some of the wealthiest
bankers of England and France, was ready
to take a controlling interest in the fair if
it were made a stock concern. He said
that a representative of the Rothchilds was
now in this country for the purpose of
purchasing the stock. The syndicate, he
said, was satisfied that the fair would be a
pftying institution, and was anxious there
fore to invest in it. Although one of the
Rothschilds is in this country, it is probable
that there is no truth in the foregoing
story.
It is certain that Chicago isn’t going to
give up her hold upon the fair if she can
help doing so. She will make extraordinary
exertions to provide the amount of money
that is needed, and if she fails to get it she
will go to congress for help. Before it will
be clearly known whether she is able to
meet the financial responsibility see has
assumed the preparations for the fair will
be far advanced, atid if it then becomes
apparent that the fair will to a failure
without government aid, congress, to save
the national honor, will vote her all the
money she wants. There is every proba
bility, therefore, that the fair will be in
Chicago.
Oklahoma for the Blacks.
Avery interesting state of affairs exists
with regard to Oklahoma. A plan is on
foot to place that territory in the complete
control of colored people. It originated in
Graham county, Kansas, last year, where a
secret society, called the First Grand Inde
pendent Brotherhood, was organized, its
members being colored men, its object be
ing the advancement of the colored race
and the future control of Oklahoma by that
race. The oath which the members take
biuds them to oppose the white race,
and pledges them to politically aid people of
negro blood, and to assist each other in the
courts as against the whites.
But little importance nan attached to the
movement at first, buttit has spread until
similar societies have been organized in
seven cities of Kansas and in three towns
of Oklahoma, and in the meantime there
has been a pretty steady flow of emigra
tion to Oklahoma, until now the population
of that territory is said to be composed of
about 25,000 whites and 15,000 or 20,000
blacks. By the first of August next the
colored leaders expect the black population
to be not less than 40,000, and they are tak
ing steps to have every office filled by col
ored men. E. C. McCabe of Kansas
is an applicant for the territorial
governorship, and he is backed by such
c lored men as Bruce, Pinchback and
Lynch. In case he cannot get the governor
ship, he is supposed to be willing to accept
the secretaryship of the territory, and if he
is not appointed to either office, there will,
it is said, he a political uprising among the
colored people of the northern states against
the Republican party. McCabe is the only
negro ever elected to a state office in the
north. Be was elected state auditor of
Kansas, but fell behind his party ticket
20,000 votes in that republican stronghold.
President Harrison does not know what to
do iti the matter. If he appoints McCabe,
the white inhabitants of Oklahoma will
bo highly indignant. One of them,
a former lowa republican, said a
few days ago that ho would not give
5 cents for Mr. McCabe’s life if he were
appointed governor, and that the colored
people would have to fight before they cap
tured Oklahoma. Besides displeasing these
people by the appointment, the President
would displease thousands of white reuub
licans all over the country; and, ou the
other hand, the threat of the colored people,
in case McCabe is not appointed, is ever
before him. It is strictly a republican af
fair, however, and the democrats can afford
to stand off and watch matters.
Oklahoma may furnish material for a
great deal of discussion before long. If the
colored people should gain absolute control
of its all airs they would have an oppor
tunity of showing how they could govern
themselves. The scheme may be blown
higher than a kite in a few months, but just
now it seems to be worth while to keep an
eye upon it.
A Specimen Contest.
There is no doubt that most of the con
tested election cases from the south aro not
genuine contests. The contestants are re
publicans, and there is good ground for be
lieving that they began contests not because
they had any grounds for doing so, but be
cause they believed the republican majority
would seat them without regard to the evi
dence, provided they could make out some
sort of a case. The other day Mr. Cate of
Arkansas was unseated, although it was
shown that he had a clear majority over
his opponent of 1,000.
Gen. Chalmers of Mississippi is contesting
the seat of Representative Morgan of that
state. The elections committee was ready
to hear argument the other day, and Mr.
Morgan said that he was willing to concede
to Chalmers every vote he claimed, and to
strike out every one of his own votes that
was contested, and also to let the committee
decide the contest at once. Uis propo
sition was so fair that even the
republicans of the committee could not see
how to avoid accepting it. Mr. Chalmers
objected, however, for the reason that Mr.
Morgan would still have had 0,500 major
ity. Mr. Chalmers asked for time to get up
now evidence, and it would not le sur
prising if it would be granted him. Indeed,
it is not improbable that he will lie given
Mr. Morgan’s sent. This House seems capa
ble of committing any sort of outrage upon
sou hern democrat*.
The grave accusation g ><h forth that Joaquin
MUlur cannot spell correctly.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Anew ilh -tratios of an old proverb was
afforded by an Augusta. Me., man, the other
day He was at work on the ice aad proudly
remarked: ‘Tve worked 22 years oa the ice, and
have never been in the drain vet.* As i,e said
tins be el raigiuene 1 hi ml If up a little more,
threw his head hack, bis feet flew out from
under him and away he went into the canal.
A rule which pysicians say is a good one to
determine the normal weight of man is as fol
lows: A man should weigh just as many kilo
grams as he measures centimeters in bight after
deducting one meter. A man who measures in
, ht 1 meter 80 centimeters i3 feet 11 inches)
should weigh Hi kilograms, or about lflOpounds.
Tne rule is both ingenious and approx.mately
correct.
Burial reform in England contemplates the
prohibition of leaden and other solidly-con
structed coffins, the effect of which is thought
to retard complete decomp sition, and so pro
long the p.-i'io 1 during which the dead are not
on.v ipstti tically objectionable, but are an indis
putable source of daugertothe living. It is pro
posed to use wickerwork or papier mache re
ceptacles.
Indian Pete left Susanvilie, Cal., a few days
ago, to hunt deer. He shot one on Piute
Meadows and tracked it for some distance till
it dropiie t dead. As soon as he got in sight ot
his prize he was faced bv two lions, who had
jumped his property, p, te killed one dead and
wounded the o.her, which showed fight and
tore his . lothing to shreds before he could get a
final shot.
io-day the United States is paying as interest
on the public debt $35,000,000. In contrast with
n,v ( . S Av? ranc9 l ,avs annual'y in interest, $258,-
ooo,000; Great Britain. *130,000,000; Austna-
Hungai v. $121,000,000; Italy. $lO ’,000,000; Rus
sia. $220,0d),000, and Spaii., $56,000,000. Prussia
alone of the German states pays $44,000,000, and
( anadn, w ith but one-tweifih of the population
of tins country, pays nearly one-third as much
annually in interest, sld,ooujx)o.
A 14-year-old boy living at Hookstown, Pa.,
went to a trap he had set for a fox and found a
btg wildcat In it. Johnny attempted to kill the
animal with a club, but it sprang at him with
such force that it broke the chain, by which the
trap wus anchored and lauded square with its
lore paws on the boy ’s cheat, tearing the clotn
lng away and sinking its claws in the little fel
low s flesh. The boy stood his ground and
Killed the animal with a club.
A 9-year-old boy was i laying in a yard at
Surry Court House, Virginia, one afternoon,
when he heard the dogs after a deer. Running
to the wood-house, tho boy took an ax and
started across the field to intercept the deer,
which he did. The dogs had nearly broken it
down, so it was not running very fast. The
boy knocked it down with the ax and killed it.
Running back to the house, he told of it, and
sent out after it. It was a nice buck, with
seven prongs.
At Mumbles Head, Wai.es, a crowd awaited
at the church the arrival of a bridal party.
After a long delay the bridegroom's friends
went to the house of the bride to see why she
did not come. They were warned off, and found
that tne briJe’s parents, being opposed to the
match, nad, after she was dressed for the cere
mony, locked her in lier room, while one of the
family mounted guard at the door ami threat
ened to shoot any one who approached. The
wedding was postponed.
According to an article in the current num
ber of the Forum, in Eastern Nebraska and
Kansas and Western lowa and Missouri there
were more large farms twenty years ago than
there are to-day. There appears to be nothing
in the new west to justify wnat has been said
about the decline of the small farmer, it is the
big tanner that has and. dined. It may be said,
almost without qualities' ion, that all industri
°-Vi S ', capable and honest farmers in the west
till their own farms. What few’ tenants there
are are lazy, dishonest and incapable as a class.
The recent calamity by the bursting cf the
dam at Walnut grove, on the Hassayampa, in
Arizona, recalls to the Washington Post a story
in regard to that stream. "The Hassayampa is
almost entirely dry a portion of the year, there
being only an occasional hole of stagnant water.
Some official of the fish commission,with a view
of stocking tho stream, wrote to inquire wbut
species of fish were desired, lie was answered
that the question had not been definitely settled,
but that the last fish seen in that vicinity was
working itself up the b and of the stream with a
canteen around its Heck looking for water.”
Remarkable electrical phenomena are
witnessed at the new observatory on the
steep and isolated Santis, in northern Switzer
land. Thunder storms are extrem ly frequent;
thus in June and July last year only three davs
were without them Asa rule, thunderpeals
from midday till evening. The noise is short,
partly owing to shortness of flashes and partly
to the small amount of echo. Tne thunder
storms come on quite suddenly, in a clear sky.
One of the surest indications of their approach
is the bristling of the observer’s hair. During
bail storms ti.e iron rods of the house give a
hissing sound, associated with luminous effects.
A former member of the Pall Mall Gazette's
staff has just returuFd to London from the
United States, after some seven months spent
in studying American journalism by the prac
tical process of earning his daily bread as a
working journalist, and tells the Gazette that he
has come back impressed with three great ideas :
“First, that the profession of journalist is
harder ia New York than it is in London
secondly, that the growth of trusts establishing
a monopoly of articles of necessity is the most
portentous peril that threatens American de
velopment, aud, thirdly, that the pope has far
more power in the slates than in any Catholic
couutry in the Old World.
Yesterday I saw a gentleman examining the
cones in the showcase of a Broadway store
says the New York Star, and he accidentally
touched a secret spring in the head of one of
the sticks. A little lid flew up. disclosing a
a mysterious recess. He thought at first he had
broken it. but the proprietor reassured him.
"it’s a patent stick from Germany,” he said*
"Here, let mo show you how it works,” and
taking the cane, be pushed up a slide and a
small candle popiied ud out of the a erture
Then be lifted a little iid and di-elosed some
wax match s. "This is a ‘darkness c me,’ ” he
added. If its owner is caught any where in the
dark, he can light up and see his’ way clearly
It’s just a lad. Maybe it will go.”
In regard to the subject of technical educa
tion. it may be of interest to note that, accord
ing to an official Berlin contemporary, Germany
has at present eight technical colleges ranking
parallel to the universities. A total of 4 821
persons (or 38! more than last year) are this
winter being benefited by the instruction given
at these institutions, and of this number 3 372
are matriculated students. Of the eight col
leges, Berlin, with 1.437 names, is bv far the
largest, Munich coming next with 844, and then
Karlsruhe, 524: Stuttgart, 463; Hanover. 420;
Dresden. 380; Darmstadt, 373; Brunswick, 241]
and Aachen. 21.5. Of a total of 757 names en
tered for "architecture” 435 fell to Berlin, while
Brunswick has only 13 and Aachen 23 in this di
vision.
Education in Corea is carried on tinder the
personal control of the king. In Seoul there is
a native university with American masters,
where the young nobles are educated at gov
ernment expense to fit them for official posi
tions. Every year the students come before his
majesty to undergo a most rigid examination
the king marking down esch slight mistake, or
even error in pronunciation. He then places
them in one of four grades—perfect, second
third and failure. When his majesty has de
cided, a courtier places on a salver a block of
wood iriseri lied with the special grade and
elevates it before the king, calling out the
result. The most successful pupils rece.ve
prizes in tUe shape of “rank''—i. e., a govern
ment post.
Some of the monasteries of Italy and France
sent curious inventions to the Paris exposition.
One, from a friar in Florence, was a watch but
the fourth of an inch in diameter, having three
ban is -minute, hour and second—besides au in
dicator which points out the day ot th • week,
month and y ar. A monastery in Brittany!
France, contributed a plain-looking mahogany
table, with an inlaid chess-board on its surface.
The inventor, or any one who desires, sets the
pieces f< r a game and sits a one on one side of
the board. He plays cautiously and the op
posite pieces move automatically, aud quite fre
quently come out the victor, no odds how
scientifically the player plays. There is no
mechanism apnarent b-neath the table top,
which seems to be a solid mahogany board.
Mr. Carlisle, as the democratic leader of
the House, expressed his intention to the Bos
ton Advertiser of resisting the passage of any
federal election bill to the end, although he is
ignorant of the form which will lie taken by the
bill which will he presented by the special com
mittee. “Hut Ido know,' he added, "that the
very principle of such a bill is to the highest
degree antagonistic to democratic Ideas. It
represents the very ideaagamst whichtbe Dem
ocratic party lias always been arrayed -the
centra iziug influences which have always been
advocated by the Republican |<arty. Such an
act as congress presuming to sat how the peo
ple of eucr, si SO- or district shall vole is an un
tireoi*ti nu and sue. (‘ongre-s m all the years of
its existence lias never dared to pass such a
measure os I understand is contemplated.”
There is danger in impure blood. Thera
is safety iu taking Hoods Hai sapHriJia. the
great blood purifier. ICO doses fl.—A'iv.
PERSONAL.
j Congressman Anderson of Kansas says that
] Jay Gould is the brightest man in America.
Minister Reid's portrait, by O. P. A. Healy,
will be exhibited in the Paris Salon this year.
Mrs. Henry Gladstone is an accomplished
linguist and violinist. She is a petite brunette
: and a vivacious talker.
Jons Swiston, the labor reformer, writes oc
-1 casionally from Europe that he is in good spirits
| and health and enjoying himself.
I Andrew Lang, the English critic, seriously
i discusses the probability of coning to this
country and making his permanent home in New
York.
Thomas B. Conwat, late charge d'affaires in
Mexico, has completed a novel, the scenes of
which are laid in the cities of Mexico and New
York.
Mrs, Langtry, a London correspondent
writes, is in poor health, and unless she should
undergo a radical change for the better she will
never be able to play again.
W. D. Howells, in response to ex-Minister
Phelps’ article decrying contemporary litera
ture. declares that “in this new country, drunk
with prosperity and besotted, as it is, with ma
terial ideals, the literary s r andard is as high as
it ever was in the world, and that the literary
performance is of an excellence which is only
not conspicuous because it is so general.”
Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland (O.)
Leader, who died a few days ago, was a man
of intense partisanism and implacable hatred.
He never forgave nay holy who disagreed with
him, and never admitted that an opponent
could possess either honesty or virtue. He
lived for yeats in dread of the Catholic church.
He sincerely believed that the pope was schem
ing to secure control of the government of the
United States, and he affected to believe that a
designing Jesuit was bidden under every bush.
A few years ago his daughter, while living in
Europe, fell in love with a distinguished young
atbolic and married him. This came near
breaking the old gentleman's heart.
Harry Watkins, the veteran actor, is one of
the last survivors of that band of players who
acted with the elder Booth. He played "Othel
lo” to Booth's “iago,” and “lago,” to his
“Othello.” He also p ayed with Mrs. Mowatt,
Edwin Forrest and Macready. The old ntau
grows enthusiastic when recalling Junius Bru
tus Booth. "He was a born actor, but he added
study to his native g nius, and was one of the
greatest tragedians the world has ever seen.
The moment he stepped upon the stage he
threw off his own individuality entirely, and
became 'Richard,' ‘lago,’ “Othello,' 'Hamlet,’
‘Macbeth'—king, prince, tyrant, villain. We
shall never look upon his like again.” ekclaimed
Harry Watkins, and there was an unusual sad
ness in his voice.
From London Col. Eugene Field writes that
Oscar Wilde is certainly the most charming
conversationalist in all England, and if he is
practically eloquent upon any one subject, that
one subject is “reading in bed.” He said that
for years he had been addicted to this fascinat
ing habit; that he reads himself to sleep, and
that as soon as he wakes in the morning he
reaches for his book. “The habit grows on
me. Often I find myself disposed to lie abed all
day, reading. I read with amazing rapidity.
When I was a boy at school 1 was looked upon
as a prodigy by my associates, because, quite
frequently, I would, for a wager, read a three
volume novel In half an hour so closely as to be
able to give an accurate resume of the plot of
the story; by one hour's reading 1 was enabled
to give a fair narrative of the incidental scenes
and the most pertinent dialogue.”
BRIGHT BITS.
This i.ife is all a fleeting show, but, heaven
knows, it’s no circus.— Ashland Frets.
Before she marries a woman is content that
her lord should walk to the time of a wedding
march, but after the ceremony she insists on a
quick ctep.— Binghamton Republican.
Yeast—They raise some wonderful big beets
out in California, I'm told.
Crimsonb uk -Yes, but they don’t get into
the banks like they do in New York.— \onkers
Statesman.
Father Locke— My son, what rank do you
take in college?
Yale Locke (proudly)-Third in the batting
average and first in fielding.— Milford News
and Advertiser.
The Rev. Goodman—My friend, are you a
Christian?
Mr. Busyclerk—l try to be, but it's impossi
ble. There's a telephone in our office.—Bing
hamtan Republican
Barncm is bringing SK) ballet girls home from
London with him. Dancing girls usually have
bear arms and shoulders, but we didn't suppose
that would warrant putting them in a me
nagerie— Binghamton Republican.
Heading off the Servant Girl.—Sumway—
Here’s an interesting art cie on shot-proof steel
plates. Shall I read it to you, dear?
Mrs. Sumway—Yes. indee 1. I’d like to get a
dozen that Norah can’t break.— New York Sun.
Yabsley—Well, how are you to-day?
Mudge—O. as usual.
Yabsley—So? I am sorry to hear it.
Mudge—Why?
Yabsley—Because I haven't got a cent to loan
to-day.—Terre Haute Express.
Visitor—Tommy, I wish to ask you a few
questions in grammar.
Tommy—Yes, sir.
Visitor—lf I give you the sentence, "The pupil
loves his teacher,” what is that?
Tommy—Sarcasm.— Texas Siftings.
Mrs. Wickwire—Have you ever noticed how
much more graceful a woman is with her hands
than a man is?
Mr. Wickwire—Well, it is no particular credit
to her. She has to be. She hasn’t any pockets
to stick them into out of sight.— Terre Haute
Express.
First Lady—My eldest daughter Prudence
has had a proposal.
Second Lady—lndeed?
First Lady—Yes. and is to be married.
Second Lady—Then it is quite true that she
has lately been left a lot of money.— Boston
Courier.
Friend (in the lobby after “Gotterdam
merung”)—And how have you enjoyed Wagner
this afternoon, Miss Arpeggio?
Miss Arpeggio (an intense young woman, with
fervor)—Oh, I feel that I am beginning to ap
preciate him. My head aches harder than usual
to-day.— Exchange.
“That is all right,” he said, as he took up his
hat, “but I have got seventeen sisters already.
You are now down on the list as the eighteenth.
Speaking with a full knowledge of all the facts,
some girl has got to stop this oue-sided streak
of relationship pretty soon, or I will disown the
whole family.— Philadelphia Timts.
The yovno rector of St. Paul's, who enjoys
a good story, told the following one on himself
recently; it was just after service, and an old
gentleman caine into the robing room to find
the rector. Seeing the Rev. Mr. Ada ns stand
ing among the boys of the choir, he went up to
him and inquired innocently: “Sonny, can you
tell me who the preacher was this morning?”—
Buffalo Express.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Seven Tainted Democrats.
From the Providence Journal ( Dem .).
The action of Senator Eustis and bis seven
associates in the Democratic party in voting for
the confirmation of Collector Warmoth dees
something to relieve the administration from
the disgrace of appointing him and the ma
jority of the republican members in confirming
him, although, of course, the main responsi
bility rests upon the latter.
What weed r-roved.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
Mr. Speaker Reed takes up a large space in
the Earth American Review for March in en
deavoring to refute the argument which he
made in 1H75 in behalf of a constitutional
quorum. He only succeeds in demonstrating
that such men as he have no difficulty in con
forming their views upon any public question
to the personal or partisan interests of the hour.
Uncivilized Pennsylvania.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, (Dem.).
No state needs missionaries more than Penn
sylvania. unless it is Illinois. No state can show
a more degraded population than Is found in
certain sections of Pennsylvania. No state needs
more than Pennsylvania the civilizing influences
of Christianity. Let the good people of the
whole country see what can be done by united
effort to civilize, to humanize, to Americanize
the dark districts of Pennsylvania.
Unnecessary Trouble.
From the Neut York World (Dem.).
The republican leaders in congress accuse the
southern people of being unconverted rebels,
assassins aim barbarians whose local affairs
must be regulated and eontrollel from Wash
ington, ami than have the imp el,-no, to send a
band of Ijlimtiaf ‘‘spellbinders” down there to
convert them. Why should the republicans
take any trouble to elect congressmen ai the
south when Speaker Reed and ms followers can
steal seats at the rate of three a week?
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pean L arket.
From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
A reporter strolled into one of the big to
bacco warehouses on Front street yesterday
afternoon and watched the employes handle
the big hogsheads of tobacco. There were
hundreds of the heavy hogsheads, each filled
with 1,500 pounds of tobacco.
“How are the sales?” was asked of one of the
salesmen.
“Very fair,” said he. “but not so good as
they frequently are at this season of the year.
You see the workmen re-hooping the hogs
heads. Weil, they have to do that with all of
them.”
“Why?” was asked.
“Because,” replied he. “when the stock
comes into the warehouse it is hooped up so
close that it cannot b - gotten at by the buysr,
consequently in order that samples may be had
from the center of the stock we have to take
away t ie hoops and remove the staves of the
hogshead. Yes. it necessitates a great deal of
trouble, but then it must be doue.”
“Where do the poorer grades of stock go?”
“It is made into smoking tobacco and ex
ported. Near y all of our inferior grades of
stock are made into smoking tobacco and sent
to the continent.”
“Don’t homejconsume.s use inferior grades?”
“Oh, yes, but not so much so.”
Mobile's Trunk Mystery.
From the Mubile Register.
There was a sensation at the union depot the
other morning. On the Air-Line that comes in
at 11 o'clock was a thick-ribbed, iron-coruered,
old-fashioned chest. It was marked “A. Sein
furth, New York.”
The baggage car employes had their attention
especially drawn to it by a horrible odor, a d
when the train reached Atlanta they speedily
informed the officials tnere of the mysterious
trunk.
Within ten minutes after the train stopped
the iron-cornered chest was a sensation at the
depot,
Quite a crowd was gathered around it, discus
sing the probabilities—murder being the gen
erally accepted theory,
“It's a human body,” was the verdict of a
well-known undertaker. “I’ve handled 'em for
ten years, and I think I know one when the
odor is strong as that,”
This verdict was readily accepted, and the
interest hightened as the moments went by and
the crowd increased.
“It's a human body,’’ was the explanation
given to new comers as they halted with the
crowd. “Somebody’s been murdered and the
body’s in the trunk.”
“Murdered ”
“Body ”
“ shipped from New York.”
“In that trunk.”
And all such comment. The crowd was get
ting excited. The hotel registers were all ex
amined, and no such name as “Selnfurth” could
be found. When this was reported the theory
of murder was confirmed.
‘’Open it!” was the cry. “Open it!”
So thiswas finally done—a crowd ot (50 or 200
gathered around, watching the work in breath
less interest. The trunk was turned over on its
side, and a cold chisel and hammer brought.
The luck was broken off. As the iid was thrown
up it was seen that the tray had been taken
from the t unk. On top was a promiscuous as
sortment of clothing, flannel shirts, underwear,
two or three pairs of old pantaloons aud a coat
or two.
These articles were taken out carefully, one
at a time. Excitement was at fever heat. The
odor became stronger than ever as the clothes
on top were removed. Finally a bulky package
was reached, wrapped in a sheet. There were
two parts in the package.
This was carefully lifted out and the sheet
unwound. No signs of blood. Not a word was
spok n in the crowd. It was an enormous
Limburger cheese. The crowd scattered in
short order, the cheese was wrapped up again,
and replaced in the trunk, and the other clothes
piled in on top.
An hour la er the owner of the trunk ap
peared. He was an honest old German mechanic
on his wav to Mobile. -,e was fighting mad
when he discovered that his trunk had been
opened, and not at all pacified bv the explana
tion of why it was done. He left at 1:25 for
Mobile, and the mysterious trunk, tied securely
with a cotton rope, went with him.
Good Logic.
Much has been written of the luxury to be
found in bachelor apartments in New York,
says a letter from that city to the Buffalo Ex
press. But it struck me as anew phase of the
subject when I found a real estate agent, em
ployed by the Astors, seeking to regulate the
expenditure of this sort of tenantry. A young
fellow had set out to find quarters, and he chose
at length a suite of rooms in a fine Broadway
building.
“What is the rent of this flat?” he asked of
the agent.
“Twelve hundred a year for the four rooms,”
was the answer.
“Can I see it?"
The urbane representative of the Astors, who
had hitherto replied without raising hi-' eyes
from the newspaper, now look and up. Who is
the applicant? Has he good references? Can
he pay regularly?
"I am Mr. Blank, the stationer,’ is the confi
dent response of the inquirer, who feels that the
mere mention of h.s name and store ought to
carry the day.
But the agent shook his head as he re
sponded:
“I assure you that the apartments would not
suit you at all. The rent is far beyond your
means. I know just about what your income is.
This flat would use up half of it. You see that
wouldn't do at all.”
“But—but,” began the young man, rather
taken aback by this somewhat familiar mode of
estimating his financial s anding.
"No, no, I assure you that it won’t do at all.
Liston to reason. It is beyond your means. In
such fine rooms you would like to give dinners
and entertain so much that your vea' ’s income
would be gone by the end of nine mouths. Then
the owners of the l ouse, who have a perfect
mania for being for being paid promptly, would
come aloug and say to me: ‘What in tue devil
possessed you to take a t -nant like that?’ Then,
perhaps, Thomas will be asked to vacate this
office. You see it won’t do for either of us.”
Ihe applicant was mute with stupefaction,
but I thiun that he evidently deemed the logic
good, for he hired a flat at S6OO a year.
Merciful to the Apachea.
From the Chicago Tribune.
With Mr. Payne of Arizona is J. B. Shepard.
He is the champion Indian story-teller of the
west. Speaking ot Gen. Crook, he said. "I’ll
never forget when I fought beside Gen. Crook
in an Apache battle. We had been after the
redskins several days, aud one night wo sighted
a band at Crazy Jim’s Gulch. The general
etarted us on a run, and the way we sailed
after the Apaches was a caution. They stopped
and set fire to the prairie grass, hoping to head
us off, but we fooled them. When they saw
that they couldn't get away they rounded up
their ponies in a circ e aud stood in the center.
We skirmished around a bit and then sailed in.
Gen Crook had a heart like an ox. and said:
’Boys, just slay a few dozen of the warriors!
Don’t kill ah; just enough to let them know
that we are the people.’ ’Twas a sweltering
day and there wasn't a spot on the sun. After
throwing off our coats and rolling up
our trousers we opened fire. In a
few seconds the Apaches began to
m op. Taking advantage oi an open p.acs I led
a crowd right into the midst of the Indians.
Suddenly my pistol was hurled from my hand
and I had to work with an old sword. Being
pretty handy with the big knife I more than
held my own I had ju t laid out my tenth man
when I felt a touch on the elbow. The air was
so Ailed with Indian hair that you could not see
the sun, and I asked:
“ ‘Who is there?’
“ ‘Gen. Crook,’ was the reply.
“ ‘What is it, sir?’
“ ‘I wish to res. rain you,’ spoke the general.
"There is nothing i admire so much as a good
fighter—you know that. Jim, but when it comes
to turning this little spot on fhe prairie into a
slaughter-house, 1 kick.’
“Appreciating the fact that I had gone too
far, 1 withdrew; but from that day until now
Gen. Crook and I have been like two brothers.”
A Three Months’ Comedy.
From the Washington Post.
“Twas January when I met her;
For joys and griefs I am her debtor.
The question that was theu projKiunded
Brought answer which, like music, sounded:
I LOVE YOU.
In February, nothing weary,
I hastened to repeat the query,
Aud heard again, with tills- ecstatic,
Her warm reply, though less emphatic:
I lave you.
When by two months the year was older.
The flame had sunk into a smolder;
In March I gained the dear assurance
In weary accents of endurance:
1 love you.
Then April came—ah. time is fleeting,
’Twas on the first 1 made my greeting.
Alas’ bow shallow lajv emotion—
Alas! how swiftly flies devotion—
“ Really, Harry, you make me tired!”
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