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So Senator Sherman thinks that he has
put his anti-trust bill in sucli shape a3
would make it effective, does he? The sen
ator is a republican. He must mean that it
would be effective in aiding the trusts,
which contribute liberally to republican
campaign funds.
Mr. Balfour isn’t going to marry the
beautiful, accomplished and wealthy young
lady to whom he was engaged, but the fault
is not his. The youug lady wanted some
one for a husband who would give more of
his time to her and less to politics. She
ought to be able to find such a person.
If Col. Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle,
attends the Georgia press convention in
Savannah next week, he will doubtless want
to have the members photographed as a
body. Col. Walsh is a fine-looking gentle
man, and the other fine-looking gentlemen
always vote for his motions, which, by the
way, never fail to pass unanimously.
The President persistently declines to re
move United States Marshal Mi/.-il, of
Florida, for having a jury in a political
case packed in favor of the republicans. If
Mizoll had packed the jury m favor of the
democrats the President would have lost
no time in removing him. Was Mizell ap
pointed to do partisan republican work?
Some state institutions in Pennsylvania
are in a very bad way, if reports are cor
rect. The prefect of the Pennsylvania
blind asylum is under arrest upon very
grave charges as to the treatment of in
mates, and the managers of the Eastern
penitentiary are charged with treating con
victs most brutally. There is no doubt of
it —Pennsylvania needs to bo reformed.
The Covington Star insists that Col. Liv
ingston is not an avowed candidate for
governor. This is quite true, so far as a
public avowal is concerned. But has not
the colonel disclosed to bis personal friends
that he is a candidate? There is an impres
sion that he is in the race and that he hopes
to be the winner. Well, he has as good a
right to aspire to the governorship as uny
body else.
The Athens Banner, it is stated, intends
to take very little part in the congressional
contest of the Eighth district, notwith
stauding a citizen of Athens, Capt. Carlton,
will be a candidate for renoiniuation.
Won’t it injure Capt. Carlton’s chances a
good doal for his home pajier to blow neither
cold nor hot upon him? He has heretofore
been able to command the willing support
of the people and press of Athens.
A southern club was permanently organ
ised at Princeton college n few night ago.
E. B. B ixter, of Georgia, was elected presi
dent; R. B. Snowden, of Tennessee, and E.
A. Poe, of Maryland, vice presidents; J. 11.
fciealey, of Texas, secretary; \V. A. Guild,
<d Tennessee, assistant secretary, and J. N.
Brennan, of Kentucky, treasurer. The
executive committee is composed of Baxter
an 11\ inizy, of Georgia; Cooper and Lind
sey, of Teatiosse.
Nashville was l.*ft out of the itinerary of
tto; pun-Amonoan tourUu, but ho believes
that Mm pau Aiiiericau* will pay her a visit,
uevertlielc.L lbe Wanhiugtnn corposjiomj
ont ut Nashville new*pa|<er called on Sec
reUry blame tu ,i„ r .lay to talk about
the i jilt tor. Mr. Itlain* lohl him thal the
tour mouRI U lucom plate uuleM Nash rills
ww ‘* v) *lted, ai l ti o rurre,)oudsot folt
juuifl <t in warring that Nashville would
b An itinerary tnat ho. e,
i,i (t J| X* ii , 'it 111’ li i I* ’.ir v. • oil
, , ,>ll4/1;, llA'U
•rt *oi:l4 he vRJj “Ha.-t*. It out
The Cotton Bagging Tare Issue.
At the meeting of the representatives of
1 the alliances of the cotton states in At
lanta on Wednesday, it was decided to con
tinue the use of cotton bagging as a cover
ing for cotton bales, and cotton farmers
were urged to insist that the tare upon cot
ton covered bales should be sixteen
1 pounds. The tare on jute covered
calei is twnty-fcur pounds, and that
1 is the tare, as a general thing, on bales
: whatever their covering is. As cotton bag
ging is much lighter than jute bagging, it
would bo but justice to n ake the tare on
cotton covered bales 10 pounds.
Have the oliioncemen exhausted diolo
j macy in their efforts to get foreign markets
. to fix too tare at sixteen pound-! It is true
that they brought the matter before
the cotton exchanges of this country, and
' these exchanges replied, in effect, that they
I would gladly adopt the sixteen pounds tare
for c.U< n covered bales if the exchanges in
Europe could be induced to adopt it. Their
| position was, and is, that as Europe is the
i controlling market the proposed change
1 must be made there before it can be suc
cessfully made here.
The alliancom n propose to force the
change by holding cotton in warehouses
until the exporte: s cf cotton signify their
willingness to a lopt it. As the ailiancemen
clearly have justice on their side, would it
not bo advisable for them to sugg st a
conference between the exchanges of this
country and those of Europe, through repre
sentatives selecied by each! If the proper
steps were taken the proposed change could
bo brought about, doubtless, without fric
tion, or loss to anybody.
If the suggestions of the allianoemen are
carried into effect cotton farmers will bo
put to a good deal of inconvenience and ex
pense, because tie cotton ea mot bo store!
in warehouses and kept there for any length
of time except at c onsidorabla cost to the
owners of it.
The exporters cannot adopt the sixteen
pounds taro unless that t ire is recognized
by the exchanges of Europe. The differ
ence between that tare and the recogniz 'd
taro is eight pounds, which means about
75 cents a bale. That is more than the
profit of the exporters. The exchanges of
Europe last season refused to recognize the
sixteen pounds tare because they were not
aware of the extent to which cottou bagging
would be used. They thought that
very little of it would be used,
and hence they objected to
the introduction of another tare. They are
now aware, however, that co ton bagging
is coming into general use, and it is highly
probable that if another effort was made
they would concede the sixteen pounds tare.
At least, is it not the better plan to place
the matter squarely before the exchanges of
this country and Europe before resorting to
the forcing process? A little diplomacy at
this juncture might bring about an under
standing that will be satisfactory to all
parties. It will bo time enough to resort to
the forcing plan when the other fails.
Open the Doors in These Cases.
The Senate ought to consider the nomi
rations of Judge Swayne and Marshal
Mizell with open doors. Senator Call has
asked that they bo considered in open ses
sion. It would be interesting to hear what
Hoar, Cbandjer and other republicans have
to say in debase of the partisan course of
these officials. They certainly cannot de
fend the letter pf Marshal Mizell in which
he told his deputy to send the names of
tried and truo republicans to the commis
sioner, who is charged with the duty of
selecting men for jurors without regard to
their politics. .
The wholeJcountry would’be [deeply in
terested in the debate that woufd take place
on Swayne’s and Mizell’s nominations if
they were considered with opon doors. A
great flood of light would be thrown on
republican methods in the south. The
country would learn something of outrages
which the republican press has steadily
kept in the background.
A refusal to consider the nominations of
Swayue and Mizell with open doors will
amount to an admission that the republican
senators dornot dare to have the act3 and
records of the men their party puts into
office in the south publicly reviewed. Sen
ator Call’s demand for an o;>en session is
equivalent to a'challenge to the republicans
to discuss the causes of the recant political
disturbances in Florida. Do they dare to
accept the challenge?
“Since the north seems determined to
force northern civilization upon the south,”
says the Louisville Courier-Journal,
“southern newspapers may be excused for
examining with much care the boasted
civilization as Illustrated in the daily re
ports of crimes.” Then the Courier-Journal
gives a day’s record of crimes in the Dorth,
showing that two men in Minnesota made
a brutal assault upon a Presbyterian min
ister; that a prominent merchaut and a
minister of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., had a
fight in the minister’s church; that a farmer
killed a storekeeper in Kansas and was
lynched, and crime) against public decency
were exposed in the Pennsylvania blind
asylum. It might have added that at
about the same time a colored “voodoo”
doctor was practicing his so-called art upon
some of the more prominent women of
Chester, l’a. Thanks, kind northern neigh
bors, we don’t want your kind of civiliza
tion. It wouldn’t fit.
Last Tuesday was Mr. Cleveland’s birth
day, and some of the schools in New York
had a “Cleveland day.” The New York
’limes speaks of the exercises at one of them
as follows: "After the pupils had assem
bled in the main room and the school ses
sion had been opened in the customary man
ner yesterday, one of the little girls ad
vanced to the main aisle and road a concise
biography of Mr. Cleveland, and this was
followed by the recital of exoarpts from his
speeches, public letters, and messages to
congress.”
The Now York Tribune says: “If there
are districts in the south where 500 voters
would unite, under the L dge bill, to ask
for the appointment of federal officers ut
elections, does not that indicate that toe
law is needed?” No; you understand very
well that it does not. it would be an easy
matter to get 500 colored voio-s to sign a
petition to hang the editor of the Tribune,
but would that iudicate that the Tribune'*
editor deserves to be hung;
At a meeting of democratic leaders in
Peiinsylvituia politics the other day it was
found that Mr. ('leveland was the unani
mous choice for President in 1 H'.i'. Unless
there is a very pro it change, there will be
practically uo opposition to Mr. Cleveland
I when the <Jefiiocrat.c convention meets;
| and it 111*1 not I h doubted that be will
I make a better race tb :n be did in la**.
K..ur yo-ii 1 * of re:iul'llc.uimt will luuku the
I poopio , earn t h In n.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1890.
A Senator Who is Needed.
It is to be regretted that Sen .tor Joseph
E. Brown has not been Well enoutrh to
occupy hi3 seat ia the Senate since this con
gress has been in session. It is sincerely to
be hoped, however, that his health will be
so much improved that he will be able to
attend to his senatorial duties before the
hills in which Givannah is particularly
interested are considored by the Senate.
These are the river and harbor bill, the
tanfr bill and t he bill to i r crease the appro
priation for Savannah’s public buildings.
The people of Savannah lave not forgotten
Senator Brown’s services in their bshalf,
and as he has always proved equal to any
emergency they have learned to place a
great deal of dependence in him whe.i they
have had anything pending in the Senate
of great importance.
It is expected that the river and harbor
bill will carry a pretty large appropriation
for the new proj ft for improving Savannah
harbor. If it does not an effort will be
made in the Senate to have the appropria
tion increased to an amount in keeping with
the growing importance of Savannah’s
commerce. If Senator Brown were present
in the Senate confidence ia the succoss of
such an effort would be very strong. There
is reason to lielieve, however, that tho
House will do what is right in the matter.
Still, there would be satisfactirn in the
assurance that Senator Brown would be at
his post when tho river and harbir bill
reached the Senate.
It is not probable that he will be in pub
lic life very much longer. His term expires
'n March of next year.and he stated recently
that his public c ire-r w ould eud nt t.nat
time if his life was spared till then.
His career has be'.a a remarkable one. He
has won fortune and form, nnd has been
successful Iu al no.st everything he has
undertaken. There have been things in his
public life that have beau severely criti
cised, hut there have been many more that
have commauded the approval and praise
of his fellow citizens. The announcement
of his resumption of his Senatorial duties
would be received with pleasure.
A Lost Opportunity.
Mr. Newton, who says that he is the
agent of the Newport (R. I.) Drainage
Company, mourns the loss of ail opportunity
to make $200,000. Such a loss as that must
have a very depressing effa t upon him.
He still has hopes, however, of recovering a
portion of the money which he expected to
make. He has sued the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company
for $1200,000, and as juries are kinder to
these who sue railroa s than to raiiroads,
he stands a pretty good chance of realizing
his hopes.
Mr. Newton had been examining the
Okefinokee swamp with the view of making
a bid for it. He was on his way to Atlanta
hi deposit his bid. At Jesup he expected to
take a train on the East Tennessee road.
Unfortunately fer him the train he ex
pected to take, and the only one which
would have enabled him to reach Atlanta
in time to deposit his bid within the time
prescribed by tho advertisement, did not
stop at Jesup. He hadn’t enough money to
take another route to Atlanta, and so he
lost his opportunity to make a fortune.
He says that he intended to bid 27 cents
per acre, and that at that price his share of
what his company would have made would
have been $200,000. The bid for the swamp
that was accepted was 20V,' cents. Of course
Mr. Newtou will have some trouble In
proving that if his company had secured
the swamp ho would have made the amount
of money which he claims he would. If he
would have made anywhere near that sum
tho purchasers of the swamp may congratu
late themselves on haviug a very good thing.
It is probable that Mr. Newton intended
to bid 27 cents per acre, but how is he going
to make a jury believe that such was his
intention? It will be argued that the story
of the twenty-seven cents bid was an after
thought. It may be, however, that he told
someone before knowing that tho success
ful bid was cents that he intended to
bid twenty-seven cents. In order that
there may be no more lost opportunities it
would be well for the East Tennessee Com
pany not to fail to stop its trains in future
at Jesup. Just now Georgia is full of op
portunities for making fortunes, and some
of them may be lost if the traius are not
run according to schedule.
Probing tho Botten Spot3.
The trialsand investigations that are now
going on in Now York and the arrests that
are being made there are not calculate 1 to
impress one with the idea that the officials
of that city are honest. The sheriff of the
county is being tried for conspiring to get a
divorce by. fraudalent means, wardens of
the prisons and deputy sheriffs are
being arrested for accepting bribes, and
a committee of the state S.-nate is making
an investigation that is putting some of
tho officials in a very unenviable position.
It has been a good while since the ex
posure of the Tweed ring, and it is prob
able that the alarm caused by it died out
long ago. The rascals have been having
everything pretty much their own way,
from present indications, for the last few
years. What is needed is a thorough over
hauling of all the departments in the city.
The longer such an overhauling is delayed
the bolder aud stronger the rascals become.
Unfortunately, when the rascals are
caught they are not punished as severely as
they ought to be. The moral tone of Now
York is too low. Only two or three of the
aldermen who were bnbad to grant tho
Broadway surface railroad right of way
were sent to the penitentiary. The district
attorney said he could not convict the
others. He did not say why, but the pre
sumption was that juries would not do their
duty. It would bo well to spend in New
York some of the mouev that is used for
converting heathens. Missionary work is
certainly needed there.
Col. A. Ia Harris, batter known as
"Fatty” Harris, hasdeserted the Republican
party of Georgia. He says: "There is no
Republican party in Georgia. There is a
small, close corporation of a lew negroes
i aud white man who keep up just enough or
; gauizatlon to send themselves as delegates
| to republican national conventions and to
j keep themselves in office." Harris seems to
j have a pretty correct idea of Georgia repub
licanism. lie can’t lo >k back up m bis
political record with much satisfaction,
but possibly be has not sinned beyond re
demption.
When one comes to think of it, it is ox
| catxliagly appropriate for W. W. Dudley
I to ttp|*ar b -fore the House elections corn
1 millet* iu behalf of (Ue republicans who
! have brought contests against deuioi ratio
copy main no. Those republicans know that
I they were fairly defeated, but t cy depend
I upon a republican House to seat tto in, and
I wbo uouid Metre uppropriß'cl) stuck f j*
I them !ulo “iiiocki-ofti'ive" u aJi -) ?
P2CSCNAU
Senate* sold ifo?
a few <toor trot* Ifty own
injnou. Hr hn4 >o|y boijgt.* aud fciaie
it from iFfcyC'USei ar a boarding housfc. J
J' H.v Du;: the Irish has
arrive-1 at; usovee, after hi* SaßHl|lri().
He *ai<] it had bean vary
having bet rr eotmbuied to ihw ruii
cause.
. i warm ktag of (ganda, who has accepted
chr: 'tiaoltjw tb- 1 mau who u ed to a ftw
wire* lefore break fasT && Vbd
then. jßth irtgytfoißlfed a nmih*r
aries. RF rMV>iruUfa* giv•-■cAiluftfci#
booat in Africa. ™ -
The recent death of Samuel B. Washburn
leaves William B. Washburn the only surviv or
of B~ven brothefjnrbn grew noon their father's
firm m.Livtdv rs,; Me., a id made the family
ra.n** krtfitYfc tfa nigh* >ut the country* Wiliam
P. Wricibwrf K etrrtf the Failed States sena
tors mm ’smmmr <
Edw.am TVitrpit Hat.e, in the comfce of a
sermon in New York last
Sunday, inaigfrd ' rfc*t the humblest manual
laborer, e]uaU£,ttiUi bis brother-man whose
career abuuuds with the hfoliesl achievements
of the intellect, has a right t > ami ought to re
gard
Dr. Gr.oiioß W. Gbf.en of Green Bay. Wi3-,
ha* reoeivetf a letter from the pension office, in
which the st stern ah t is made that his grand
father, J4*ph 4?r*en of Muneie, the
youngest soldier wto enlisted au, the rvolu
tionAiV war. He was Um Fewfft?, and
enßated in August. 177*9, $2 'years
of a£e.
In thk coußftK of Theodore Roosevelt's re
marks to the Harvard students the other night
on public life as a career he observed: ( “It is
not ou y sad, but It is altogether pitiable and
contemptible to see a young man content him
f with L ooming a clubs, an nu
tbonty *n the race track, or, pefdhance, even
a potential lead roC tho Four Huivirkd*' '*
P ANABOKKC K VJU-MATIIaAKA
A bba> a wardhana B ldira-**- Aayasu n
data Mu iiyarc dape Tilfirt iiaufo Ralema
hatmeya is the name of a rmgaie-o penile man
who has been appointed by Qu-Ou Victoria to a
seat iu the legislative council of the Island of
Ceylon. Anti oiiental courtesy demand® tnat
the full patronymic should be used whenever
there is occasion to address a native dignitary.
The young Emperor of C hina is displaying a
good deal of vigor as a reformer. He is in
quiring into every department of his govern
ment aud is issuing orders for the removal of
abuses. He recently published a decree re
quiring periodical returns relating to the
strength of the arm} - , in order to prevent
officers from drawing jav for troops which did
not exist. He has also aljolished a large number
of unnecessary government places in the
provinces. He has attacked the Pekin police
lor their negligence, ar.d has ordered the
provinces to reform their police services.
Altogether he bids fair to be a progressive and
•‘nlightenod potentate. Meanwhile he is at odds
with Lis mother and his new wives. %
Says a Washington correspondent: “People
with curious memories may recall that Repre
sentative William Henry Harrison Cowles of
North Carolina acquired a reputation for one
day only as the solitary democrat who refused
to vote for ex-Speak r Carlisle for speaker at
the opening of congress. It is interesting to
learn that Cowles lias been in a congressional
Coventry ever since. Democratic members
seated uear him by the operation of the lottery
of places have gradually got away from him by
taking the seats of other democrats who have
been sick or have been turned out, while their
places have been taken by the new republican
representatives, so that now Cowles, away off
in the southeastern corner of the democratic
side, is surrounded by republicans."
BRIGHT BlTo.
He—Has your father ever said anything to
indicate how he iikes me?
bhe He has. And 1 tkiink he prefers you
roasted, judging from his conversation. —Terre
Haute jtLxiiress.
Doctor— Take cereal food for breakfast, my
dear sir: it will help you wonderfully.
Patient (next morning)—Barkeep, gimme a
little old rye. Must follow doctor’s orders.—
Minneapolis Journal,
Mumba—Say, when two trains collide they
call it a telescope, don’t they?
Dumley—Yes: why?
Mumby—Not dug, only I was wondering why
they didn't call it a collideoscope.— Lawrence
1 merican.
If Heaven had a high board fence round it
you'd see dozens of pesky sinners trying to
climb in on each other’s shoulders way down in
the far corner while the gatekeeper s attention
was held by a tingle dead-head in front.—Ash
land Press,
Tenant—The windows in your house shut so
badly that my hair blows about ray head. You
must really have something done to them.
Landlord —I don’t see the necessity of that.
It would bo much simpler for you to have your
haircut.— Flieyeude Platter.
“And how did you like the services at our
church last evening?”
‘‘There! So it was a religious service? I
couldn’t have told whether it was a religious
service, or a graDd opera. I’m awfully near
sighted, you know.”— Poston Transcript .
“What piece are they going to sing next,
sir?” asked Kollo at the church on Sunday
morning.
“Y'ou mean. Kollo,” said Mr. Holliday, “what
selection. Peace. Hollo, is something unknown
among church choirs/’— Boston Transcript.
“W hy, Mr. Brownstudy. lam afraid you have
hurt your foot, you limp so.”
“O, not at all; the fact is that day after to
morrow is my wife’s birth lay, and I have these
lftst eight days been wearing^ a pebble in my
boot so as not to forget it, you know.”—Flie
ge title Blatter.
Watts—l suppose your wife is like most
women—never a.luiits that she makes a mis
take.
Wickwire—O. she occasionally asserts that
she made a mistake marrying me. But 6he
never admits that outside the family. Terre
Haute Express.
Bummer—Couldn't yer gimme the price of a
drink, boss? I'm chilled through.
Parrott (stiffly)—No; not one cent of my
money goes for liquor!
Bummer—Credit, eh! go together, then,
to de saloon where yer have such a pull as that !
Texas Siftings.
“Weld, my dear madam, and how are you to
day?”
*•(>, doctor, 1 have terrible pains all over my
whole body, and it seems impossible to breathe.
< if course, 1 can’t sleep at all, and I haven’t a
particle of appetite.”
“But otherwise you feel all right, don’t you?”
Fliegende Blatter.
Stranoer—Fine monument you’ve got there,
sir.
Citizen—Yes; that's in memory of my pet
game cock.
Stranger—Who's the little stone for?
Citizen i/pn't dead sure, but I bdieve one of
my wives occui4jes tLfct UN&Mty.—Judge.
Mrs. Gadabout—What eort of person is Mrs.
Mild man, who has moved the next house to
you?
Mrs. Chatter jtfhifik niuctiof her. Be
j ween yojd and ltiejl think *sie is jhixt door to an
idiot. ' u u
Mrs,Gadabout (innocently)—l think so, too,
my dear. *’ —A nnycica. * _ • f
It WofMfrndkxrM VV A k*—Charge *92—Can I
have this put on my account here?
Mr. Tick- Very sorry, sir. but We don't know
Xou
t’hargit fste^’.ierel—Put this
<l<>\vnftr me, \fm*n4w me I believe?
Mr. we do, sir.
i Sorry wo c.ift'fc rtfccjßßn® >auie you.— Yale
Record.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It Looks That Way.
Froyi tkc Philadelphia Times ( Tnd.\
\t tM fat tflo irtufrsiUp roll is expanding it
will xo<m apjTar doubtfhl whether any soldiers
either were killed in the Jgie war or have died
since its close.
A DaatfeifpUJß BUL
Freon the PhUnetrtphia h*i rrd (DemX
Ttbe ele<’tioYi bill Infrbducert by Representative
Jxetge of ManfUicUusett**, in the Hons** of itepre
smitativa*. would, if adopted, be more danger’
• us. bfcaiiMi more insidious. than the acheme of
Hoar to bring all elections for members
c >ngre>4 ttWttr Crimp fete control of Hie
federal government.
/ilnfcfUb' QUher Voftslpn EUL
* From the Arm Yhrlt f\%rm ilk-m.).
Tt would tie far clieaper and better for the
ivot.opgu' \f* hire atu- idanis for the dimem
Um*u or otherwise dl-ih)ed soldier*. In such
< aar the w'efau* veu. luv> o |y receive •Xpert
hut the wuiiuii wold stop with their
d'-ath it a fw- iUt'iui Imtisii iipo.i me-renarv
manages ih< year 1 aill tied I<*\ouu sobm-iV
*v id j ws o • the p to. on JWt ia4 p>rnuMnsiit.i> out
of Uivniatnuiooini puarket. Tn*# would involve I
* luf . <• Uiiirfv,/#* I <"*utur/
w t.hdi ;<*u*t.r tag;.* • W OK Tv dOLuditf, l
“Old Hutch’s” Overcoat.
“I was introduced to ’Old Hutch' in Chicago
the other day.” said a New England roan in the
Ebbitt lobby, says the Washington Star. “He
is a typical yankee of the extremist sort, and
you remember he was originally from Vermont.
He frame, and in good flesh would
turn 300.
"Stingy f’
“1 guess; at least he has that reputation. You
he was held up last year by footpads,
and, although he is worth a few millions, they
° l vXi? ot cents for their bold undertaking.”
*ay he dresses shaboily.”
1 nere is usually some hayseed under his
collar, but I heard a good story about his get
ting anew coot. His son one day upbraided
him on his coarse clothing, and urged him to
get anew overcoat like his own, which, though
it cost SIOO. he assured his sire was made to
order for S4O. Tne old man yielded, and the
son sent word to the tailor if his father came in
to make the price $ 4and he would pav the
balance himself. Tne SIOO coat was soon on
the old man's back, and the next day on the
board of trade a broker inquired if he was uot
B®ttmg rather extravagant in hi3 dress.
* That's a fine coat you have on. 1 would be
W ““MT t 0 I’®!' for one just like it.’
"'You may have it,’ quickly responded the
king of the pit, thinking only of the sls profit,
and. suiting the action to the word, peeled his
covering as quick as a country sucker could
shuck a nubbin.
‘ That day there was a $25 net loss in the
Hutch’ family, but the old man never knew it.”
Hang the Bell on Him.
The Now York Sun gets off the following:
“It beats all how things have changed in Ne
braska in the last few years," said the man in
the gray ulster, as he compared his watch with
the depot clock, and found they agreed.
“In wbat respect?” asked the man with a sore
throat.
“Well, take it in the matter of bravado, for
instance. Five or six years ago I was in a bank
in one of the towns out there, when a cnap
came in. 9hoved a revolver at the cashier’s nose
and demanded and got $4,000 which was lying
around. He nodded good-bye to me as he went
out. and nobody thought of shooting at him
until he was riding away.”
“And bow is it now?”
“Well, I was in tbe same bank again one day
last week. In walked a chap with a pistol in
his hand and demanded the money in sight.
The cashier waited to make an entry, stepped
to a glass to brush his hair, and then came
around the railing and hopped on to the despe
rado and hammered him until I begged him as
a personal favor to let up. ”
’And then he let up?"
“Yes, but very reluctantly.”
"And then ihe desperado presented you with
a stiver-mounted revolver as a token oil grati
tude?"
"He did; but how on earth did you ’’
“And he begged the cashier’s pardon, and ex
plained that his mother in Massachusetts was
dying and he wanted money to go to her?"
"That’s it, that’s it; but how did you get the
particulars?”
“And then you raised a purse of $75. and sent
the man oil to see his mother die?”
“I did. I did; but who told you all this?”
“And the man is cow one of the leading mer
chants of Scottsboro?”
“He is, but tell me how you got things so
straight? Did the cashier tell you?”
"O, no; thestoryisan old lie of my own in
vention! I remember now that you were in
Denver and heard me tell it to a crowd in a
hotel. You have simply stolen it and are using
it 03 your own.”
“Just my luck,” sighd the mm in the gray
ulster, as he arranged his sachet for a pillow.
“If I get to sleep some of you please wake me
up about 10:50 o’clock.”
The Auctioneer’s Gift.
From the Yankee Blade.
The auctioneer leaped on a chair, and bold and
loud and clear.
He poured his cataract of words, just like an
auctioneer.
An auction sale of furniture, where some hard
mortgagee
Was bound to get his money back and pay his
lawyer's fee.
A humorist of wide renown, this doughty auc
tioneer.
His joking raised the loud guffaw, aDd brought
the answering jeer.
He scattered round his jests like rain, on the
unjust and the just:
Sam Sleeman suid he' ‘laffod so much ho thought
that he would bust.”.
He knocked down bureaus, beds, and stoves,
and clocks, and chandeliers.
And a grand piano, which he swore would “last
a thousand years;"
He rattled out the crockery, and sold the silver
ware;
At last they passed him up to sell a little baby's
chair.
“How much? how much? come, make a bid; is
all your money spent?”
And then a cheap, facetious wag came up and
bid, “One cent.”
Just then a sad-faced woman, who stood in
silence there,
Broke down and cried, “My baby’s chair I My
poor dead baby’s chair 1”
“Here, madam, take your baby’s chair,” said
the softened auctioneer.
“I know its value ail too well, my baby died
last year;
Andi. the owner of the chair, our friend, the
mortgagee
Objects to this proceeding, let him send the bill
to me!”
Gone was the tone of raillery; the humorist
auctioneer
Turned shamefaced from his audience, to brush
away a tear;
The laughing crowd was awed and still, no tear
less eye was there
When the weeping woman reached and took
her little baby’s chair.
S. W. I'oss.
Too Much For the Barkeeper.
If there is one thing that “Al” Vail, the well
known barkeeper, is prouder of than his good
looks, says tho Cincinnati Timet-Star, it is his
knowledge of all species of mixed drinks and
his ability in getting them up in good style.
A few days ago a stranger wearing a title, a
glass diamond and a rosy headlight glow upon
his nose stepped up to the bar and said:
“Give ine some fortunatus ala Franchise
with a dash bourgeoite a fortiori.”
Eh? Ah, yes,” replied Al. "Willyou-ahem!
—take it hot or cold?”
"Cold?” queried the stranger contemptu
ously. “Who ever heard of the like? if that’s
all you know about the drink I’ll take some
thing else. Fix me up some cum grano salis
with a bete noir on the outside.”
Y-yes. sir,”said Vail promptly, but weakly;
“I’ll have it ready in a moment. You want a
grain of—wbat did you say?”
“Aw. bosh! I said nothing about a grain of
anything. Don’t you know what cum grano
salis is? bet it go. Give me an ego sum homo,
will you, and he lively. I’m in a hurry.”
"Accommodate you in a jiffy,” murmured Al,
getting red in the face. “Give ine an egg. Billv
(to the under barkeeper). Let’s see. An egg and
one horn—what in thunder do you want beside
the egg, stranger?”
"Egg the devil! I said ego sum homo, and
said it plainly. Great heavens! where’s the
barkeeper of t his place? I can’t fool around
with an ignorant apprentice."
"I—uni—don't seem to have heard of the
drink you mention, stranger," said Vail, sheep
ily, while his countenance took on the aspect of
the setting sun. "I thought I knew
"O. no douht you thought you were an
expert.” remarked the customer sarcastically.
“Ho, ho, ho! S'pose I’ll have to take some
thing plain it I deal with you. 1 reckon ycu
know how to fix me up a hunl soit in a little qui
mal y ponse, don’t you?”
"O. yes.” and Al smiled in a sickly fashion.
(Aside. "What tbe devil does he mean by
Molly’s pants?”} ‘ Billy, where's that bottle of
botirlioo ?”
"Bourbon?” shrieked the red-nosed man.
“Bourbon? Why, man, there’s no whisky goes
with that drink! Well, may I b■ carried away
on a stretcher if I’d ’a’ believed this! And in a
metropolitan saloon, too! Give me a plain
ipse dixit, will you?”
“Friend,” moaned Al, as he leaned over the
liar, while the perspiration rolled off bis brow,
"1 can't do it. We’ve plenty of ipeey, but there
ain’t a—— bit of dixit In the house.”
“Say. can you fix me a rara avis?”
”1 can’t," tearfully confessed the embar
rassed barkeeper. “I don't know how."
"And you call yourself a barkeeper?” said
the man with the glowing proboscis. “We i,
I've got nothing io say. Try to learn, young
man You may yet gain some Knowledge of
your business. Good-by—good-by."
It was not until two days afterward that the
crest-fallen dnuk-mlxer discovered that he had
been tne victim of a put-up job. and that he had
been trying to till orders for a lot of Frenen and
Latin phrase*. Then be repaired to tbe alley hi
the rear of the establisbiiigntand silently kicked f
bis corns against the curb stone.
Whence Comae the Name
Of HOZoDONTf It is derived from two
Greek words signifying "to preserve the I
teeth.” and Itda*srva He title, for there Is |
h n w btc j will .# uior* rnj-
UUy, mirmty and plm+nUy, Tim emmw
Ujitof hU'/* 1 JIMJt %T t* UfiitMntdt,i-.
ITEMS OF INTEREST:
It ik stated that four or more of tbe largest
school-book publishers have formed a combina
tion to monopolize, as far as possible, the manu
facture of school books and to raise prices.
There Is a negro man in Hickory Mountain,
N. C., who is the champion runner of the state.
He is a great rabbit hunter, and hunts without
do£ or gun, and can catch more rabbits by
outrunning them tnan anybody else can with
dogs.
The St. Petersburg journalists, Russian and
otherwise, who are admitted Cos court festivities,
have just sent a curious petition to the czar.
They asked to be allowed to wear on their dress
coats some small ornament with the Dame of
the paper they represent inscribed on it by
which they might be recognized as representa
tives of the press.
Capt. William Reed, who has been on the
police fore3 of Pittsburg, Pa., for forty-four
years, claims to be the oldest police officer in
the United States in point of service. He re
cently celebrated his ?oth birthday. Of tue
twenty-four policemen' who constituted Pitts
burg's force forty-four years ago Capt. Reed is
now the sole survivor.
In a suburban cemetery near Detroit are
three graves of husbands of the same woman,
all in a row, and a most remarkable and sug
gestive feature of the place is the three head
stones. The first to be buried received a very
handsome aud expensive stone; the second ex
hibits a considerable reduction, and the third is
a very cheap affair indeed.
William Martin, a pattern maker for the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
met a singular death at South Pittsburg, Tenn.
lie was in an intoxicated condition, and while
eating breakfast undertook to swallow a piece
°5 two inches wide and six inches long. It
stuch in his fcnroat and would neither go down
nor up, and before medical aid could be sum
moned Martin choked to death.
While a boy was cutting bananas from a
bunch hanging in front of a Burlington, Vt.,
grocery store, a large tarantula sprang at him,
striking him on the side of the neck. From the
n s . nuc * £ insect leaped into H barrel half
tiill of crackers. No one caring to meddle wtth
sucu an ugly customer, at the suggestion of a
policeman the barrel was dosed with kerosene,
and then carried into the street and set on fire.
A New Zealand paper, in its sporting col
umns, says: "The recent races at Heal of the
Bay, Akaroa, terminated in a somewhat sur
prising manner. The course lay across the
sands of the liay, and through some de ay the
last race was not run until the tide was well in,
with the result that the horses had to swim
some distance in the sea nefore the winning
post was reached. J. Duncan’s Spot, although
not the best pacer, managed to win by superior
natatorial powers.”
The champion fine hand writer of the world
is believed to be Mr. Kila Kitteridge, who resides
Belfast. He is 78 years old, but has written
the Lord’s prayer six times repeated on the
space covered by a silver 5-ceut piece, which is
at tiie rate of 3,600 words on a postal card, lie
has written tbe Lord's Prayer once on a space
of Sloths of an inch, and savs he will come
under a contract to put 39,000 words on a pos
tal card. Mr. Kitteridge does not use a micro
scope inwritiug, but one is needed to read what
he writes.
It mat have been noticed that the widow of
Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name
“V. Jefferson Davis.” Many persons doubtless
suppose she has added the name Jefferson to
her Christian name, Varina. But this is not the
proper explanation. V. is the abbreviation of
veuve, the French for widow, and it is the cus
tom in Louisiana, and perhaps in other parts of
the south, for widows to place that letter before
the Christian names of their deceased husbands.
V. Jefferson Davis simply means the widow of
Jefferson Davis.
A man died in Baltimore who had had the
unusual experience of having been buried alive
for three days. His name was Josiah W. Johns,
and at the time he was engaged with other la
borers in working an iron ore bank in Baltimore
county. The batik caved in, burying the men,
two of whom were dug out within a few hours.
After three days John was missed, and a searc 1
was made for him. He was finally dug out, and
strange to say, life was not extinct. Asa re
sult of his burial he contracted a cold, which in
the course of time developed into consumption,
which finally caused his death.
Emperor William has not prohibited dueling
in the German army, b(ft no duel is in future to
take place until there has been a thorough in
quiry into all the circumstances by two
colonels, who are to allbw an encounter only if
the n -evocation was a public assault, to which
an apology has been refused, or when an insult
has been offered to a lady who is a relation or
the lietnrothed of the challenger. Under no
circumstances, however, is a duel to be permit
ted when the quarrel has arisen out of a brawl
in a club room, coffee house, or any similar
place, when one of the parties has already been
“out" three times, or where one of the parties
is a married man with children.
An old convict, just released from the Au
burn penitentiary, boasts of the fact that he
was conducted to that institution by Grover
Cleveland. He was convicted of murder, and
sentenced to imprisonment for life at Buffalo in
1871. “Grover Cleveland was sheriff at the
time or my sentence,” he savs, “and instead of
seuding a deputy to Auburn with me he went
himself, saying that he had never been in the
statu prison, and wanted to improve the oppor
tunity. I believe I am the only man in the
world who has been escorted to prison by a
President of tbe United States. The veiy last
paper Mr. Cleveland signed bis name to at Al
bany as governor was my pardon, to take effect
March 5, 190, and here I am.”
An old soldier named Zimmermann has just
committed suicide at Versailles through grief
at having been compelled to leave the army
through age some little time ago. A London
paper editorially says: 'This is a rare case in
days when the military authorities experience
the utmost difficulty in inducing non-commis
sioned officers to remain at their posts; but the
Alsatian veteran had a real passion for the
service." He had fought in Italy in 1859, and
had taken part in ail the subsequent wars and
campaigns, and he was inconsolable at the
idea that his occupation was at last gone.
Zirnmermanu made do secret of his determina
tion to put an end to his days, aud, rising
noiselessly, so as not to disturb his wife, he
took down his revolver, which was hanging on
the wall of his bed-room, and sent a bullet
through his heart.
The question, was Browning a Jew? that has
been interesting English literary people, has
been investigated and decided in the negative
hy Dr. Furnivall, who says that “there is no
ground for supposing the presence of any
Jewish blood in the poet's veins. On the con
trary, on July 4, 1757, Thomas Browning, tbe
poet's great grandfather, had his fourth son
christened 'Christian.’ ” Dr. Furnivall con
cludes his statement as follows: "We may,
then, dismiss the Jewish notion and hold our
poet a genuine Anglo-Saxon, sprung from one
of the Bruniuga, the followers of a chieftain
Brim. Tue family may iiave been workingmen
or veomen before we hear of the innkeeper
Robert 1., who had a daughter. Elizabeth, in
1719. Our poet, Robert V., caine from that
class to which we owe Chaucer, Spenser
Shakespeare, Milton and almost all that is best
in England.”
I saw yesterday a book that some bibliophile
would go crazy over, says the New York Star.
It was a Bible, about eight inches long and five
wide, printed in Latin in 1610. The volume is
complete, having the family records, which
have been cut out; but the yellow pages, old
style of type and venerable covers plainly be
tray its great age. It belonged to a member o'
tha Brevoort family, a name well known in
Brooklyn, where the old homestead and vast
quantities of real estate are historic ground.
When tb-British held Long Island during the
rovolutoinary war the Brevoort mansion on Ful
tou street, near Bedford avenue, was occupied
as headquarters, and when a few years ago the
old house was demolished to make way for
modern buildings many of the oaken rafters
were found inscribed with the names aud coat
of-arms of the titled officers.
A writer on the New York Star, who at
tended a “blow out" of the Japanese club there,
afterward writing about it, said: I was Inter
ested In the difference in etiquette between
Japan and tl e Occident. Though there were a
hundred or more present, the rooms were as
silent almost as if they were deserted. Every
one taik-d in whispers to every one else. The
refreuhmeniH were nerved by waiters who were
silence einlxslied, aud every oriental who did
anything, said anything or beard anything ex
pressed bis pleasure by bowing from once to
three lime*, uutll the American eye wu* weary
w llli Ihe excessive courtesy. They even go so
far that wtAii r person ri'ndliiK r nw*pa|>er
turns U wmm to m*k a inner. Its tn&Uc* *
of Apology U) til wuluu mu i ill who
h mmt tb# or aws i tits turn, bow in rotumi,mm
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