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Meetings—Solomon's l.odge No. 1, F. and A.
M.: Southern Star Castle No. 7, K. G -E.; St.
Andrew's Society; Savannah Rifle Association.
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Jam s Manning. Superintendent; Notice to
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pany.
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Sale; Loet: Found; Personal: Miscellaneous.
If summer resort advertisements are re
liable ex-Presidont Cleveland and Mrs.
Cleveland have made up their minds to
spend the present summer at about a dozen
different places. However, there is plenty
of time for the distinguished couple to
change their minds with respect to eleven of
them. ~ • * *
Edward Crawford, the bank messenger
who stole $-11,000 in New York city a few
years ago and fled to Honduras, is still in
that country, though under arrest. The
statement that he had been brought to this
country was a mistake. The detectives thus
far have been unable to get transportation
for him.
The Maine judges have no more respect
for the decisions of the United States su
preme court than Speaker Reed has for par
liamentary precedents. They are overrui
ng the “original package” decision when
ever they have a chance to do so. Speaker
Reed’s example is having a bad influence
upon the people of his state.
Senators say that they do not intend to
pass the McKinley bill in the shape it is in at
present, or in the shape it is likely to be in
when it gets through the House. The sena
ators have ideas of their own about the
tariff and they propose to engraft them on
the bill It will be well along in the sum
mer before it will be known what sort of a
tariff bill will be passed.
Is there going to be coolness between the
Emperor of Germany and the Czar of Rus
sia? It looks so just now. The German
emperor wants to substitute the German
language for the French in future inter
course with the czar, and the latter doesn’t
approve of the proposed change. Perhaps
they might compromise on the English lan
guage, which is rapidly becoming the
language of the whole civilized world.
Representative Butterworth spoke his
mind freely on Tuesday about the McKinley
bill. He is one of the brainiest republicans
in congress. He declared that the reason he
said' just w hat he thought was that he had
no further political aspirations. Did he
mean to express the opinion that other re
publicans aro helping to pass a tariff bill
which they think is not a wise measure, be
cause they hope that it will help to
strengthen theiz party? It would seem so.
The House and the Senate are by no
means of the same mind with respect to the
kind of a pension bill that this congress
ought to pass. The Senate passed a de
pendent bill and the House substituted for
it a service bill. The Senate now refuses to
accept the substitute. Perhaps before an
agreement is reached enough congressmen
may come to the conclusion that too much
money is being wasted m pensions to pre
vent any pension legislation by this con
gress
At last reliable news of the physical con
dition of Richard Croker, the Tammany
chief, now in Germany, has been received.
He is a very sick man, and unless he has
absolute freedom from all mental exertion
he will not recover. His physician, Sani
tatsrath Wilbelmi, says that he is suffering
from pleuritic exudation, accompanied with
cerebral neurasthenia. This disease is prob
ably unknown to the other Tammany chiefs,
but its name is sufficient to make them stand
in terror of it.
1 he first man on the federal side wounded
during the civil war has just Keen granted a
pension of S2O per month. His name is
John Swearer. As it required a quarter of
a century to identify him, and in view of
the distinction he enjoys, it cannot be said
that bis pension is an exorbitant one.
Speaker Reed and Pure Elections.
A fair inference from Speaker Heed’s
Pittsburg speech is that he doesn't want
puro elections. He said in that speech that
the Republican party Wanted authority to
register, count and certify ita own vote.
W ith that authority it could keep itself in
power. The bills providing for a federal
election law virtually give it that authority,
because if any one of them should
becomo a law the election officers
would be republicans. It is well under
stood, of course, that the republicans do not
expect that the election law they purpose to
pass would be enforced in the north. They
intend that it should operate only in the
south. That is the reason that each of
the bills that has been introduced
provides that the law can become opera
tive only on the petition of a certain num
ber of voters of a county or congressional
district. The republicans know that
there wifi be no sucQ petitions in the north,
but they propose to have ignorant black
voters get up such petitions in the south,
thus placing congressional and national
elections in the southern states in the bands
of agents of their party.
Nobody hears of any effort being made in
Maine in behalf of purer elections. There
is no sentiment in that state iD favor of the
Australian ballot system. Why is this?
Are not voters in that state corrupted by
the tens of thousands !
A correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from Lewiston, Me., says that at
every important election from 20 to 25 per
cent of the voters are purchased. In
Speaker Reed’s district, particularly, the
purchase of voters is open and
shameless. The names of the purchasa
ble voters are placed upon a list,
together with the amount that must be paid
each voter. These purchasable voters are
then divided into squads and placed under
the supervision of local political leaders.
The amount of money required to secure
their votes is made known to those who
have charge of the campaign funds, and it
is furnished on election day.
It is asserted by the correspondent of the
Times that Mr. Reed could not be elected
without money, and it is fair to presume
that Mr. Reed knows that he owes his elec
tion to the corrupt use of money.
The fact that he does not demand pure
elections in any of his public utteraoces is
pretty good evidence that he does not dare
to make any such demand. He confines
himself to demanding that the black vote in
the south shall be counted for the Repub
lican party. Perhaps if the Republican
party were to use the means for getting
the black voters in the south to vote the
republican ticket that are used to get a
majority for Mr. Reed in his district, a
much larger republican vote would be
polled in the south.
It has been stated frequently, and the
statement is true, that the black vote in the
south is small because the blacks do not
care to vote unless it is made worth their
while to do so. It is noticeable that in local
political contests, where there is money
paid for votes, the black vote is a larger one.
The black voters, and white ones also, are
very susceptible to such influences as are
used in Speaker Reed’s district to secure a
republican majority. Why doesn’t Speaker
Reed advise the use in the south of the
means employed in his district to win re
publican victories, instead of insisting upon
a federal election law ? Does he hope l’or
better results from partisan returning
boards than from the corrupt, use of money*
The Sub-Treasury Plan.
The advocates of the sub-treasury plan
for the relief of the farmers are having a
bearing bef ore the ways and means com
mittee. It seems to be the purpose of the com
mittee to investigate the plan thoroughly.
That certainly ought to be its purpose, for
farmers are more iu need of legislative as
sistance than any other class of people.
Nearly all legislation is against them—not
directly, of course, but indirectly. The
protective tariff system imposes immense
burdens upon them, and it is strange
that they do not direct their
efforts toward reducing these burdens in
stead of advocating a relief plan that is of
extremely doubtful practicability. With
their umted help the Democratic party
could give the country a tariff system that
would afford great relief to all classes.
If the farmers were against such tariff
legislation as the McKinley bill, neither
that bill nor any similar one would become
a law. A bill would bo passed, however,
that would give the farmers more relief
than they could get in any other way.
According to our Washington dispatches
the alliance iu this state is going into poli
tics. Alliance congressional candidates are
to be nominated in all the districts except
Mr. Lester’s, Mr. Crisp’s and Mr. Turner’s.
No alliance candidate would stand any
chance of defeating my one of those three
congressmen, aud therefore it would be folly
to make nominations In opposition to them.
If the alliance nominates candidates in the
other districts the congressional campaign
will be an interesting one.
Col. Shepard, the editor of the New York
Mail and Express, in a little talk to the
congregation of the Episcopal church in
Williamsburg, N. Y., last Sunday, told the
people it was a sin to ride to church. Ev
erybody should walk, he said, and people
who lived too far away from a church to
walk to it should either move closer to the
church or have the church moved closer to
them. This advice is similar to a sugges
tion advanced by a minister in this city.
The pulpit was too high, and, as it could
not be lowered without violating the pro
visions of a will by which the church en
joyed a very handsome income, he sug
gested that the floor of the church be raised.
The woman who were elected recently to
the municipal offices of the city of Olathe,
Kan., having become disgusted with
office-holding, have resigned. They
were elected originally as a joke,
but concluded to see what
they could do in the way of running the
city government. They got along well
enough until they began to inaugurate
some much needed reforms, and then the
kicking of the mon made life a burden to
them. The women of Olathe will not seek
office soon again. They have found out
that the people of the place are not so anx
ious for reforms as they are to do as they
please.
Idols are not on tke free list. The Now
York Metropolitan Museum imported a little
one, worth about ad jllar, from Now Zea
land. It was a Maori idol, and wa3 some
thing of a curiosity. The duty on it, how
ever, was so high that tbo museum con
cluded to permit it to be sent back to the
place from whence it earn Perhaps Mr.
McKinley could be induced to put Maori
idols on the free list. There is no infant
idol industry iu this country and is not
likely to be.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1890.
The Richmond Terminal's Ambition.
It looks very much as if the Richmond
Terminal Company’s ambition is to control
more miles of railroad than any other rail
road system in the country. For several
days there has been a report in New York
and Baltimore that the Terminal was try
ing to buy a controlling interest in the Bal
timore and Ohi> railroad. Mr. Richard
Lauderbacb, the Richmond Terminal’s New
York attorney, has been in Baltimore try
ing to find out whether a majority of the
Baltimore and Ohio stock could be pur
c. ased for anything near what the Rich
mond Terminal would be willing to pay.
The largest holders of the Baltimore and
Ohio stock are the city of Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University, and the Garretts.
There is quite a strong sentiment among
the people of Baltimore that that city
should sell its stock, for the reason that it
was never intended that the city should be
a permanent holder of it. Johns Hopkins
University would gladly dispose of its
stock, probably, if it could get what it
thinks the stock is worth. The stock has
not been paying dividends for
a year or more, and the university has suf
fered considerably for want of means to
carry on its different departments. It is
not Known whether the Garretts would sell
all of their stock, or any part of it It is
probable, however, that the question
whether they would or not depends upon
whether or not they were offered their
price.
The report is that the Richmond Terminal,
or a syndicate of which Mr. John Inman fs
the head, would pay SIOO a share for a con
trolling interest, but that $175 a share is
asked. It is quite certain that nobody would
give that price for the stock. The holders
of it will have to be content with a much
lower price if they really want to dispose
of it. *
There is a rumor that if the Richmond
Terminal does not buy the stock Mr. John
Inman and a party of friends may do so.
It is probable, however, that there is not
much foundation for this rumor. Mr.
Inman, when questioned, said that nothing
had yet been done in the matter. None of
the stock had been purchased, and the im
pression gained from Mr. Inman's talk is
that the Richmond Terminal will not make
an effort to get control of the stock unless
those who hold the bulk of it are willing to
accept for it much less than they are now
asking. The addition of the Baltimore and
Ohio would make the Richmond Terminal
an immense system.
Coming Home.
What is the matter with the President's
foreign ministers ? Every once in a while
one of them unexpectedly returns home.
A few weeks ago Mr. Adams, minister to
Brazil, left his post of duty and is now a
candidate for congress in the district repre
sented by the late Mr. Randall On Mon
day Mr. Palmer, minister to Spain, re
turned. He is now on his way to
Michigan and says that he does not
expect to return to Spain. A few weeks
ago his niece died, and it seems hi3 ambition
died at the same time. He bad about made
up his mind to become a candidate for the
nomination of his party for governor, but
ho has abandoned that idea. He has adopted
a 3-year-old Spanish boy, and ha proposes
to devote the remainder of his life to edu
cating him.
The President is not having much luck
with his ministers abroad. It would not
be at all surprising if Whitelaw Reid, min
ister to France, and Robert Lincoln, minis
ter England, should resign before the end
of this administration. Neither of them
seems to be very wall satisfied. They have
had all the honor which their respective
places can confer upon them, and now they
would rather be in their own country at
tending to their business affairs.
It is a question whether this country
could not get along just about as well with
out ministers in other countries. It is in
telegraphic communication with all the
other leading governments of the world,and
the mails are carried with great rapidity.
When it is necessary to have a representa
tive in the capital of another country one
can be sent there to transact the immediate
business in hand. Past mails and cables
have lessened the usefulness and importance
of ministers e broad, and it is not improb
able that in the near future the services of
such officials will be dispensed with.
Senator Quay, chairman of the national
executive republican committee, did not
succeed in having a meeting of the commit
tee on Monday as he expected. The reason
the meeting was postponed, Mr. Quay says,
was that the members of the committee
could not be present. As tbo purpose of
the moeting was to consider methods for
raising money for the congressional cam
paign it seems rather remarkable that the
members of the committee took so little
interest in it. Is Mr. Quay losing the con
fidence of the leaders of his party? Per
haps they want him to explain the charges
which have been brought against him.
Senator Ingalls explains the charge of
plagiarism made against him by the Kan
sas City Times, by saying that thirty years
ago he began to study the French lan -
guage without a master, ana that among
other extracts be found the one be is ac
cused of having appropriated and given to
the world as his own. He put it into his
scrap book. He did not know who the
author of it was, but he knew it was good,
and he used it when a favorable opportu
nity for doing so presented itself. Mr. In
galls pleads guilty and throws himself on
the mercy of the public.
It is asserted that the Clan-na-Gael is
making its influence felt iu tbo Joliet state
prison, where those who were convicted of
murdering Dr. Cronin are confined. The
story is that the prison officials have been
trying to have the punishment of the con
victed men mitigated, and also that the
convicted men are permitted to do pretty
much as they please, and are fed as well as
if they were only guests of the prison of
ficials. It is probable that the reports have
ittle or no foundation, and were started
with the view of creating a sensation.
The virtual failure of the pan-American
congress appears to have caused profound
joy iu England. The English aro particu
larly pleased that the effort to bring about
reciprocal trade between this country and
the Central and South American states was
not successful. England has a grip on
Central and South American trade, and she
does not regard with favor anything that
threatens to break it. The McKinley bill
will help her to tighten it.
Young Paris mashers are now said to wear
colored shirts—pink, blue or red—in the even
ing. They are displayed with the regular low
cut evening waistcoats, and to heighten the
contrast they are fastened by large jet studs.
The demand for such shirts is already so great
that they cannot be made fast enough. The
young Prince of Naples introduced the fashion.
PERSONAL
Loris* Abbema. a French paintsr. sears male
attire, and is very much of a dandy
OorsT Munster, the German ambassador at
Pans, is the author of a cook book.
George M. Stores, son of the late Emery
Sluts of Chicago, has been sent to the New
York state lunatic asylum at Poughkeepsie.
Bismarck has alrealy two aw-retaries helping
him to prepare his ■■ Reminiscences.” One of
them is the assistant doctor Of Schweninger.
Ex President Clevelanb is expected to
spend most of the month of Jur.a in Blooming
ton, lU., the L'ueat of the Hoe. A. E. Stevenson.
Philip Bright, youngett son of the late
John Bright, has left the ranks of the libsral
unionists and allied tihntftllf .with the horns
rul rs.
Mrs. Kendal says in .ljltir, book. “Praraatie
Opinion,” that she is, the TftSHty-eccond child
of her parent a an 1 madekfit first appearance
on the stage in her 3d year, jf “
Mare Twain says he sseY*. quit smoking. It
was when be began to write “Roughing It,” and
it took him three weeks to write three chapters.
He resumed smoking and fintshed the book in
three months.
Richard E. Brewer, the oldest man in Ohio,
died Wednesday at Birmi'ugUaifi. aged 108 years.
He was a prudent man aH the** rears, yet hast
ened his death at last hydulggiidfcntly dancing
at his own birthday party May 1.
A Swiss cobbler uamstl Bpruaserni has re
turned to bis native cad ton, the possessor of
millions which he made as m dealer in leather
and bides in the ArgentiUß .Republic, where he
spent sixteen years. Re is now building an
orphan asylum Dear his oM liome. The Swiss
cobbler is not a halfsouled than by any means.
Hon. Mrs. Watkins left Swansea in her 109th
year, says a Bristol paper printed in 1789, for
London, for the express ptiri>ose of seeing Mrs.
Siddons. She sa vlier act nine times, and dur
ing her stay she mounted to the whispering
gallery, at St. Paul's. She >etiirned to Glamor
ganshire accompanied by three of her grand
children.
Countess Tolstoi mikes hektograph copies
of her husband's books that are under ban in
Russia and thus circulates them in the mail.
Sue has nine living children, the oldest a
daughter, aged IS, wno sympathizes with her
lather's doctrines and often helps him in his
work with the poor. The whole family speak
English perfectly.
B. F. Plummer of Indianapolis bas invented a
process for curing moat in warm weather with
out the use of ice, and has applied for a patent.
He claims that he can cure meat ready for
smoking in thirty days, and that he uses noth
ing but natural agencies. The pork packersare
very much interested in the matter, and sur
prising results are promised.
A Michigander, whose sister has just died in
Indiana, has filed against her estate the queerest
bill on record. One item is $35 for board cover
ing a time when she was visiting him. Another
is $5 a day for services when he was visiting
her. He also brings in a charge for railroad
fare to and from bur funeral, and for 50 cents
an hour for services while he was attending the
same.
The new German chancellor is a descendant
of one of the oldest Italian families, Caprivi, a
branch of the houses of Caprara and Monte
cuculi. In the thirteenth century the name
was spelled Capriu, and In the fifteenth cen
tury the family emigrated to Steirmark and
Hungary. In the sixteenth century several
members of it distinguished themselves in the
Turkish wars.
BRIGHT BITS.
Don’t ask for kisses; kissing has
A more presumptuous savor.
Than bodily to embrace the lass;
For “Missing goes by favor.”
—Philadelphia Press.
If man is made of dust, McGinty’s name must
be mud by this time.— Puck.
Forward Watch- Eight bells and all's well.
Seasick Old Lady—He wouldn't say so if he
knew how badly I tell.-Life.
That emblem of domestic happiness—the par
lor carpet—will soon be tlung to the breeze and
the man of the house will be asked to beat it if
he can .—Chicago Globe.
Judge—How do you earn a living?
Italian Prisoner Meraisa tabaco.
“You raise tobacco?”
“Yessa. Me raisa Hm from de gutta."— Texas
Siftings.
Saleslady—For a garden hat, madam, the
one you are trying on is hardly large enough.
Now this would be much better.
Customer—Oh, no. That wouldn’t do at all,
Our garden is very small.— Boston Beacon.
“Why don’t you ask the guests if they will
have some?” asked Mrs. Gazzam of her hus
band, who was handing the pastry around in
silence.
“Because we never speak as we pass pie.”—
Judge.
“Confound it, anyhow,” said the mother-in
law joke when the Angel Gabriel blew his horn.
“This is the seventeen million, five hundred and
twenty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty
seventh time I have been resurrected.”—Wash
ington Post.
Mr. Oldbuck— Woman, you have disgraced
me! Do you hear? Disgraced me!
His Young Wife—Why, dear, I am sure that
it was only an innocent chat we had. I was not
flirting, indeed I was not.
Mr. Oldbuck—Oh, I don’t mind your flirting.
You are built that way. But you told that
young sprig I was your father.—Terre Haute
Express.
She wag a young thing— or rather she wished
people to tnink she was—and this, as she
listened to an air that had great though tem
porary popularity many j-ears before, was
what she said:
“Ah, that strain! how well I recall it, asso
ciated as it is with some of the pleasantest days
of my childhood!”
He was a horrid brute of a man, and as he
located the same air in the dim abysm of tha
past, this was wbat he said:
"Indeed: indeed!” Here he paused, then
drawled. “What a phenomenal memory you
must have!”
And deponent further saith not.— Christian
at Work.
There is an elderly lady in Cass avenue who
is rich but penutious. At one of the recent
notable theatrical events at the Detroit opera
house she went early in order to secure a good
seat. She was the first person to present her
self at the gallery door. As the crowd began to
arrive she held on to the door knob.
“I guess lam sure to get a front seat,” she
remarked to a gentleman behind her.
“It looks that way,” he said.
For half an hour she stood there and never
once relinquished her grasp on the door knob.
At 7:30 o'clock the door was unbolted and
opened. The old lady had calculated on its
opening in. but it proved otherwise, and to her
const rnation she found herself pushed behind
the door wnile the crowd entered. It was not
until ttie last person had rushed in that she was
released from her uncomfortable position.
Grasping and adjusting her false hair she ran
up the stairway, shaking her umbrella at the
man at the door.
“1 want a front seat,” she said.
“They are all taken, -oia'am.’’
“But I was the first one at the door.”
“Well, you are the lqkt one up-stairs.”
“I insist on having seat.”
“I couldn't accomm<jjfate you, ma'am, unless
someone will vacate his seat.”
The old lady fumed, but to no purpose, and
finally took a seat on tie seventh row, reciting
her grievances between the acts in & loud tone
of voice to her nejghbors.— Detroit Free Press.
CURRBNT COMMENT.
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Call’# Fight.
From the Philaefe'phia Press (Rep.).
Senator Call of Florida will have a hard fight
for re-election. The other fellows se ;m to have
the call.
Young But Not Foolish.
From the Washington Post (Rep.).
West Virginia is now referred to as “the
young Pennsylvania.!’! When it comes to put
ting up Keystone republican majorities West
Virginia is very “young.”
Beating the Record,
From the Philadelphia Times ( Ind.).
It looks somewhat though George Frantic
Train would beat the record on fast traveling
around the world. The eminent crank's speed
has been perceptibly accelerated by the pro
petling power of his chin.
Careless Senators.
From the Commercial Advertiser (Dem.).
The United States senators are earning their
salaries. Never was there a body ot statesmen
who appreciated so thoroughly that while it is
the duty of the directors of a private corpora
tion to save the money of the stockholders who
have elected them, it is the duty of the direc
tors of a public corporation to spend the money
of the stockholders who have elected them.
For constipation, biliousness and kidney
affections remember bitnitions Liver Regu
lator—Adu.
A Repentant Runaway.
When the 6:30 o'clock Illinois Central train
from the east pulled Into the depot on Tuesday
evening, says the Dubuque Timet, a young man
and smaunt-d hastily and rushed into the ticket
office. He was nervous and apparently terribly
excited.
“My God!" be said. “I have here a ticket to
San Francisco. I left Cniengo this morning,
where my wife is. I have been taken very sick
on tbe road and must return to Chicago on the
first train."
'•Very well." replied the agent, "you can go
back at 10:90 o'clock.”
■'Yes, but my baggage is on tbe train out
there, replied the liitie man, fairly dancing
with excitement.
The agent took his checks and got his three
large trunks taken out of tbe baggage car. The
train pulled out and leit the sick maa running
about the depot in a terribly excited condition.
"I don’t believe you are very sick," said the
agent, laughingly. I believe you are running
away from your wife.”
"My God, how did you guess it?" was the as
tonishing answer. "That's just the case. I left
my wife in Chicago this morning with a note
stating that I had gone to San Francisco, and
she would never see me again. I bought mv
tic-et," and here he exhibited a through pass
age to San Francisco, "but I got to thinking it
over on the train, anti when I got to Dubuque I
couldn't stand it any longer.”
The repentant runaway thee registered, took
a room in the depot hotel, rushed up stairs,
then down ag tin, paid for his room, and started
for the telegraph ( flice. He sent three tele
grams in rapid succession to his wife asking
her to nieet him at the depot in Chicazo. Wnen
tbe 10:30 o'clock train for tbe east pulled out he
was on board, mourning because he had re
ceived no answer to his messages.
His autograph on the hotel register Is nearly
illegible. As near as can be made out it is “L.
Henrotin, Chicago."
Couldn’t Find the Right Word.
A typical Missourian appeared at the Tremont
house the other afternoon, says the Minneapolis
Tribune, and asked for a room. He said his
name was John Wakely. About 5 o'clock he
approached tbe clerk's desk and said:
“Guess I'll remain, 'cause I'm kinder tired."
“Pleased to have you.” rattled the clerk.
“What’s the name? Wakely. Oh, yes: give
you No. 561—front room with bath; southern
exposure. You can get dinner at 6."
The fellow stood like a bronze statue for a
few moments anil then tookaevairopposite the
counter. At 6 o’clock another clerk came on
watch, and YVakely went to him, saying:
“My name is YVakely. Guess I’ll remain.”
“Thank you, Mr. Wakely. Let’s see. 561, best
room on that Hour, if not in the house. Just
make yourself at home here.”
The mau seemed dumfounded at something,
and Le returned to his chair directly opposite
the register. When the night clerk appeared at
11 o’clock the Missourian almost ran to the
counter.
"I'm glad they've got anew boy,” he said,
“I'm what they call 561, and I want to remain.
Do you understand?"
"Certainly, Mr. Wakely. lam going to eat
my luncheon now. but if I can do anything for
you after that don’t hesitate to call upon me.
Be pleased to serve you, sir."
The strange guest,"after glaring at the clerk,
returned to his chair, where re did not move
until 2&. m. Then he was disturbed by a couple
of late boisterous traveling men.
"We've had enough fun,” spoke one of the
drummers. “We might as well retire and—”
Here the man from Missouri jumped about
two feet in the air, yelling to the clerk: “Retire!
That’s the durned word I've been trying to say
sinco yesterday noon. I guess I’ll retire."
A Thankful Parson.
From Harper's IMagazine*
A pious parson good and true
Was crossing o'er the se s,
When suddenly there fiercely blew
A wild and sweeping breeze.
He feared tbe storm the snip would wreck,
His heart was sore afraid,
He sought the captain on the deck
And tound him undismayed.
The captain saw his awful fear,
And led him up to where
The servant of tue Lord could heap
The sailors loudly swear.
“You clearly see,” the captain said,
“if danger hovered nigh.
They'd all be on the r kuees instead,
And asking grace to die.”
The parson felt his words were true,
And when the skies grew fair
He marveled how the sailors knew
Just when to pray or swear.
But when the seas which wildly flowed
Had ceased to plunge and spout,
Unto himseif he said: “it showed
They know what they're about,'*
But later on another storm
Came fiercer than before, A
Tbe parson heard with wild alarm t
The ocean's angry roar.
He sought the deck in awful dread
To near the sailors get,
He listened—then he oowed his head—
“ Thank God, they’re swearing yet.”
. Divorce Court Stories.
The Pennsylvania labor report for 1839 in its
divorce chapter, says the New York Press,
treats of the peculiar kinds of cruelty practiced
by 45,731 husbands against their wives and 8,122
wives against their husbands. One woman was
granted a divorce because her husband persisted
in coming home at 10 o’clock at night and keep
ing her awake talking. This she called mental
cruelty, and the court agreed with her. An
other woman secured a divorce because her
husband cut off her bangs by force, and still an
other because her spouse refused to cut his toe
nails. One wife's feelings were lacer
ated to the point of legal separa
tion because her husband would not wash
himself, thus causing her great mental
aDgnish. Some of tne cases of cruelty prac
ticed by wives upon their husbands were equally
heartrending. One wife cruelly refused to sew
on her husbani’s buttons, a witness testifying
to have seen him with but one button on his
vest To add to his anguish ahd the sympathy
of the court this cruel wife restrained her lov
ing husband from going to fires at night. An
other wife charged her husband with being no
man at all, which so wrung bis heartstrings
that nothing short of a divorce would allay his
anguish. A wife who pulled her husband out
of bed by his whiskers was adjudged by the
court fit only to travel in single Harness unless
she could find another man who didn't mind
having his whiskers pulled. A wife who
weighed 190 pounds broke her husband’s ribs
with a stove lid, and another lost her husband
because she cruelly and maliciously beat him
with her bustle.
He Gave Thom the Shake.
Senor D. Salvador Canedo, the Mexican min
ister to London, who has been at the Palmer for
a week, says the Chicago Tribune, was in a
peck of trouble yesterday afternoon. He left
the city at 3 o’clock. At 2:30 he appeared in
the hotel office to bid the clerks farewell. But
the person who had been acting as his interpre
t r had gone away and there was no one to
talk tor him. As time passed and the interpre
ter did not return, the diplomate became ner
vous. He is possessed of the courtesy charac
teristic of hi? race, and the thought of leaving
the hotel without saying a few words to the
clerks who had been so kind was not a pleasant
one. He ran from one end of the ong counters
to the other, not knowing what to do. His per
plexity was so manifest that the clerks had
trouble suppressing their laughter.
Presently the Mexican took a dictionary from
his valise and began to run over the pages.
After a few moments he jammed the book back
into his grin and ran over to Mr. Cunningham,
the room "clerk. He approached with both
hands out and the clerk clasped them and said
“good-by.”
“All right,” answered the foreigner, “I shake
you."
The elerk smiled as though the guest had said
the correct thing and Senor Canedo then went
down the line, exclaiming each one as he shook
his hand, “All right, I shake you.”
Puppies and Sponge.
A boy had been presented with two lovely
little puppies, and, as the night was cold, he
put them in the kitchen to sleep. An hour or
two after that the cook, intent upon giving the
family hot rolls for breakfast next morning,
had set her “sponge" to rise; that is to say, she
had mixed the flour, yeast, and whatever else is
necessary, and put the ran containing the
mixture iu a warm corner by the range, savs
the Philadelphia Times. That is the end of
chapter one.
About 2 o’clock in the morning the father of
the family was awakened by str nge cries and
repeated thumps of some kind, ail coming, ap
parently from the kitchen. Of course he went
down to investigate, and when he had lighted
tho gas he saw the two puppies bobbing against
the ceiling just like toy balloons that ha.e been
released from the hand.
The voracious little beasts had devoured the
cook’s “sponge,” and the "rising” process had
gone on in their stomachs and turned them into
great, distended bags of gas.
Unless more care is given to the hair, the
coming man is liable to be a hairless ani
mal; hence to prevent the hair from falling
use Hall’s Hair Reaewer.— Adv,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The largest sheep ranch in the world ia in
the counties of Webb and Dimmett in Texas.
It contains as many at 400.000 acres and
generally pastures 800,00 u sheep
Probably the oldest train boy in the world ii
in active service on the Derby railroad, between
New Haven an t Birmingham, Conn. His name
is Henry Warren, and he is in his 83d year.
The largest fortuxe ever accumulated in
one of the learned professions is said to be that
of Sir William Gull, toe note! English physician
who died recently. Sir William left behind him
nearly s2.u<to,oJo, and the entire sum was earned
in the active practice of medicine.
The latest experiments made with carrier
pigeons in connection with various European
armies show that the normal velocity of the
carrier in calm weather and for a short dis
tance is about 1,210 yards a minute. With a
very strong wind in the direction of the flight a
bird has reached 1.960 yards a minute.
Charles Higgins of Mapleton, Me., who is
more than 87 years of age, has been in a
wood-choppers’ camp all winter, where ho held
up his end in hard work with the other young
fellows. Mr. Higgins' favorite breakfast is pie
and pork,with a dozen or so “flapjacks” thrown
in ; and to that simple and austere fare he at
tributes most of his present vigor.
In Westminster Abbey the other day one of
the solemn factotum* told me that a very
wealthy but very singular American gentleman
from Chicago named Eden offered to give him a
£5 note if he would clip off one of Henry VIII."s
mustaches for him. “What did you say to him?”
I asset!. "Wot did I soy?” echoed the man.
“Why, sir, the werry thought of such a hawful
think made me so hill that I couldn’t soy
nutbmk.”
The Empress of Austria is building herself a
magnificent Pompeian palac > at Corfu, which
will have cost nearly $2,500,000 by the time it is
ready for occupation. It is on a charming site
on top of a steep hill, and is being constructed
of marble brought from Carrara, while the in
terior is to be decoratei with the rarest woods.
The gardens will be laid out in terraces, with
fountains, and both the house and grounds are
to be illuminated by electricity. T ree hundred
men are now employed on the building opera
tions.
Two young Londoners have just returned
home after a year's walk around Europe. They
first walked to Dover, where they took the
Calais boat, thence proceeding along and near
the coast of France to Spain and Portugal, leav
ing Spain at Barcelona hy boat to Marseilles.
Then the route iay via Italy, Austria, Poland,
through Moscow and St. Petersburg to tbe
Baltic, which was crossed to Sweden, then Ger
many. Holland and Belgium, leaving Europe at
Osteod. A stick and a knapsack formed the
travelers' luggage.
TheMegaroee family of Mermaid avenue,
near Stensou Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadel
phia,have In their possession a rifle that was the
property of Francis Daniel i'astorius, a so a silk
dress over 100 years old, This dress was worn ’
by Miss Anna E. Bringhurst at a party given in
honor of Gen. Gorge Washington at “Stenton,”
the Logan residence, in the lower end of Ger
mantown. They also have the waffle irons
used to make the waffles at the above entertain
ment, and also the cap worn by Mrs. Tmpham,
who made the waffles.
One of the secrets of Stanley’s wonderful suc
cess must be his ability to consecrate all of his
energies, mental as well as physical, to the mat
ter in hand. For three years he was under a
tremendous bodily strain, and, once out of
“Darkest Africa,” he applied himself with
equal energy to the writing of the narrative of
his adventures, which he accomplished within a
remarkably short time. He isolated himself at
a small house in Cairo, and there worked from
early till late dictating from his voluminous
notebooks and arranging for the illustrations
and maps that will be in his work.
The sentiment regarding the young Duke of
Orleans as a martyr will lose some of its force
after the publication of a letter to him from the
French physician. Dr. Mare: “If you have the
honest desire to wear the uniform of the French
soldier aud share his meals, you can easily have
that distinction. You need only follow the ex
ample of Archduke John of Austria. Renounce
your privileges and claim to the throne. You
will then be the equal of every Frenchman.
You will then have the right to be proud of that
motto which serves as the inscription upon our
public monuments.”
A young electrician of Omaha has a very
ingenious way of killing rats. The rodent is
caught in an ordinary oval trap, the bottom of
which is covered witu tin. One wire, connected
witn a dynamo, is fastened to the tin lining of
the trap, and another is thrust Into the priso
ner's cell. The well-known propensity of a
caged rat to do battle asserts itself, and he
seizes the wire between his teeth. In doing so
he makes the mistake of his life. The circuit is
completed, his jaws close on the wire with a
death grip, and, without a squeak, and almost
without a quiver, he passes into a state of
eternal desuetude.
Light, we now learn, not only has sound, but
can be heard. A beam of sunlight is made to
pass through a prism, so as to produce the solar
spectrum. This is turned upon a disk contain
ing colored silk or wool, aud as the colored
lights of the spectrum fall upon it sounds are
given by the different parts of the spectrum,
and there is silence in other parts. For in
stance, if the green light flashes upon red
w orsted, loud sounds will be given. Only feeble
sounds are heard when the red and blue parts
of the rainbow fall upon the worsteds, and
other colors evoke no sound at all. Green silks
give sound best in red light, Every kind of ma
terial gives more or less sound iu different colors
aud no sound in others.
Articles of incorporation of the United
Shirt and Collar Company, composed of five
large Troy mills, have been filed with the sec
retary of state at Albany. The capital stock of
the company is §2,000,000, and the shares are
distributed among the members of the late
firms comprising the combination, in propor
tion to their interest. It is sad that the new
concern is not a trust nor a monopoly, and that
it will not result in a reduction of the prices of
labor nor an advance in the cost of shirts, col
lars or cuffs. The real object of the new con
cern is said to be to secure a uniformity of
prices. Each mill is to retain its own trade
marks. At present the united firms have offices
in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and
San Francisco.
Ten thousand dollars is now the highest re
corded price for a violin. The Alard Stradi
varius has passed from France to England for
that sum, to go into the collection of a Scotch
man. It is dated 1716. It is described in the
catalogue of the South Kensington exhibition
of 1872 as the only one in a condition of perfect
preservation. It was bought in 1760 by an
Italian amateur. Count Cozio di Salabue, after
whose death it was purchased in 1824 by a
famous collector, Luigi Tarisio. Tarisio hid it
away, refusing to let any one see it, till his
death in 1854. A year later it was purchased by
Vuillaume. Its condition of preservation led to
the belief that it had scarcely been played upon
during the whole 150 years of its existence
Vuillaume left it on his death to his son-in-law
Alard, who has just sold it.
The handsome gold link bracelet which the
Countess Pappenheim gave to her husband as a
souvenir of their engagement day, which oc
curred on Lord Crojnatie’s yacht last August
has never been taken off since it was put on by
her fair hands, and the count says it never will
The chain is a massive one, nearly as large as a
man's thumb, and has a beautiful uncut sap
phire on it. The date of the engagement and
tho name of the yacht are inscribed upon It.
The chain is very long, extending around the
count’s wrist twice, and is fastened by a golden
locket, iu which the sapphire is set. The count
wears it on his left wrist, and when the arm is
raised it is cleariy visible. He is fond of show
ing it to his friends, and always speaks touch
ingly of the romantic incident associated with
it. He ones said to a friend that he would rather
lose the arm than the souvenir on it.
An instance of the culture of New England
girls occurred in Worcester, Mass., a night or
two ago. when the new Worcester theater,
which has just been decorated by the well
known colorist, Prentice Treadwell, was thrown
open to the public. Mr. Treadwell has prac
tically revolutionized the interior decoration
of theaters in this country, and his work in the
Worcester theater attracted the attention of a
number of society women during the two or
three private views given of the interior before
the official opening night. The boxe3 were
occupied by state dignitaries aud a number of
New England society women. The latter had
studied the contrast of colors and had had
special gowns made for the occasion. The back
ground of the boxes is yellow. In one of the
boxes were two young women wearing blue
gowns; in another the shade was a peculiar
gray, which was brought out by the yellow
background, aud in a third the gowns of the
ladies was a pure white. A careful attention to
contrast of color was visible in the attire of the
’ women in ail six of the boxes. Such a thing
could not very well occur anywhere except iu
the vicinity of Boston.
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