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THIS ISSUE
—CONTAINS
TWELVE PAGES.
JNDKX TO UW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—The Chatham Manufacturing
Company.
Military Order—Sjecial Order Republican
Blues.
Special Notices—A Live Man, Townsend;
Key West Cigars, 8. Selig; The Georgia Loan
and Trust Company; “4H.50 on Savanuah
Carriage and Wagon Company; Natural Causes,
The Robinson's Steam Printing Company; No
tice, The Louisa Porter Home for the Friend’
less; Dr. T. F. Roberson's Absence; The South
ern Electropoise Company; Georgia State Loan
aud Building Association; G. T. Steinacber,
Practical Builder; Oil Finish, Empire Steam
Laundry.
Amusements—Grand Picnic of Teutonia Lodge
No. 7, K. of P., Tuesday. July 89; First Grand
Basket Picnic at Wilmington Island Aug. 5.
Unparalleled Bargains—Morrison, Foye &
Cos.
Rice Planters—Savannah Carriage <6 Wagon
Company.
A Range—Norton & Hanley.
Baskets—Strauss Bros.
Pianos, Organs, Etc:—Ludden A Bates 8.
M. H.
Legal Sale—Chatham Sheriff’s Sale.
Bricks for Salk—F. G. Bell, Business Office,
Morning News.
Educational—Southern Female (Cox) Col
lege, LaGrange, Ga.
“Onyx Stocking ’—Jackson, Metzger A Cos.
Buy Y'our Goods—At Savannah Plumbing
Company.
The Slaughter Sale—At Kohler’s.
Something About Fall Millinery—Krous
koff's Millinery Establishment.
The Arduous Task of Stock Taking is Over
—At Altmayer's.
Do You Want a Good Stove?—James Doug
lass.
Pricks Reduced—Savannah Furniture Com
pany.
The Tyree Road Sold—Davis Bros.
Silence is Golden—M. Sternberg A Bro.
Rain Coats, Etc.—Gutman's.
Gossip—Gustave Eckstein A Cos.
FrRNiTURE-The A. J. Miller Company.
Grand Bargain Sale—Miiius A Cos.
Monday and Tuesday—At C. Gray A Son's.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
8ale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
An extraordinary wager has just been
■won by Marcus Meyer, the theatrical man
ager, who bet SI,OOO and a dinner that he
would leave San Francisco on July 7 and be
in Paris by noon on July 34. He reached
London considerably ahead of time, and the
other party, knowing that Meyer could
easily reach Paris within the time, admitted
that he bad lost. Mr. Meyer covered 6,050
miles in sixteen days, four hours and twenty
minutes, but of that time he lost four days
and nine hours by being delayed en route.
The same distance was traversed by Citizen
George Francis Traiu iu less time, so that
he still holds the championship long and
short distance globe trotting belt.
Apropos of Mr. Blaine’s advocacy of a
reciprocal policy with the South American
states for the purpose of increasing our
commerce with those countries, comes the
report of United States Consul General
Severance, at Honolulu, showing that the
extension of the reciprocity treaty between
this country and Hawaii has resulted in
renewed activity in the various depart
ments of business there. The stimulating
influence has been noticeable in an increase
in agricultural products and generally im
proved commercial relations with the
United States, making the past year one of
marked prosperity. This furnishes one of
the best arguments in favor of Mr. Blame’s
plan. But his party so abhors the idea of
baying and selling abroad that it would
surround the country with a Chinese wall
of custom houses. Yet, curiously enough,
that prejudica is relinquished in the case of
Hawaii. Why? Because some of the tariff
barons have large interests on the islands.
They must fled a market for their Hawaiian
goods here, and they naturally want to be
protected— against the tariff—in this in
itanee. So, under the guise of reciprocity
k ,bey enjoy the bo efi *of free trade. Cu-
W ’kb* protectionists, these.
Col. Lester acd the First District
Representative Lester was turrrised a
few days ago, while attending to his dutiee
in Washington, to learn that there was
some opposition to his renominution. He
could hardly believe that tuch was the
case. He bad received no hint that his
constituents in any part cf his district
were dissatisfied with his work in congress,
or with the stand be had taken upon im
portant public question*, fin the eontr try,
he had every reason to believs that they
fully approved all that he had dr r.e and
were grntified that he had been so riiccoss
ful in securing legnlation upon Foal mat
ters. And be has b en remarkably x-ful.
None of his predecessors did moie for the
First district than he has, if as much. In
deed, he has made an extraordinary record
during the short time he has been in con
gress—a record that fully justifies the opin
ion that his usefulness would niciease with
every year of service and that it would he
wise to return him as often as he would con
sent to be re-elected.
Having done so well, and having given
entire satisfaction, it is strange that there
should he opposition to his renomination.
Under the circumstances the conclusion is
irresistabie that there is a masked move
ment to defeat him—a movement that is not
based upon hostility to him, or a want of
confidence in liis ability to represent the
district or a doubt of his faithful
ness in the discharge of bis
duties. If the alliance is opposed to
him it has not treated him frankly and
fairly, because it has cot asked him w hether
or not ho approves its platform. He has
been left under the impression that not a
voice would be raised against his renomi
nation.
It should be borne in mind that Col.
Lester did not ask for the nomination two
years ago. He was net a candidate. He
gave up his law business at the request of
the people of the district. It would,
therefore, be a conspicuous act of in
justice, in view of the service he has
rendered and the record he has made, to re
fuse him a second term, particularly us it
has been the custom in the district to accord
to its representative a second term. When
the people of the district think the matter
over carefully it can hardly be probable
that they will be influenced into doing some
thing they will regret, and which will not
be for their benefit.
Work of the Republican League.
The National republican league, whoso
headquarters are at 202 Fifth avenue, New
York, is busily at work organizing sub
leagues in the south ns well as m the north.
In the New York Tribune the other day it
was stated that quite a number of sub
leagues had been organized in Florida, and
that the republicans in that state were very
enthusiastic and were buiily engaged in
organizing other sub-leagues.
It is announced that ihe executive com
mittee of the national league will hold its
semi-annual meeting in Saratoga sometime
during the month of August. For the
benefit of this committee, inf rrnation re
specting the number and strength of the
sub-leagues in each state is hieing collected.
The other day, in Washington, ex-Gov.
Warnioth, of Louisiana, is reported to have
said that if the force bill became a law he
would undertake to carry four congressional
districts in Louisiana for the republicans.
He knows the power which returning boards
have, and the methods employed by them
to defeat the will of the majority. He and
other republican leaders intend, doubtless,
to have the force bill returning boards, if the
force bill should become a law, and
the sub-leagues work together. The
sub-leagues will he used as instruments
to drum up the black voters aud induce
them by threats and premises to vote the
republican ticket. That will be done to
make a showing of republican strength. If
the republicans do not have a majority in
congressional districts which they think
they ought to carry, the returning boards,
in all probability, will throw out enough
democratic votes for one technical reason
or another to give the district to the repub
licans. This, doubtless, is the republican
programme, and democrats should see to it
that it is not carried out successfully.
But how can the democrats protect them
selves iu a campaign of this kind? There
is only one way to do it, and that is by
organizing white democratic sub-leagues,
and putting at the head of them men in
whom the greatest confidence is placed.
These democratic sub-leagues would be
useful in many ways, but principally in
getting white voters to the polls. If the
democrats take as much interest iu
bringing about a democratic success as
they ought to there is not much, if any,
danger that the republicans will get any
more congressmen from the south than they
have at present, even though the force bill
should become a law. The republicans in
the south are showing a greater amount of
activity in political matters now than they
have heretofore. Their activity necessi
tates additional activity on the part of the
democrats. Democratic indifference may
cost the Democratic party more than it can
afford to lose.
Lend it a Helping Hand.
The Macon and Atlantic railroad has
asked the city council for rights of
way in tho city. It is sincerely to be hoped
that what it has asked for tho city can
grant. It is certain that the city will deal
with it in a very liberal spirit.
Of course the railroad understands that
the council has to consult public sentiment
in matters of this kind, but it has nothing
to fear from public sentiment if it asks only
for what is reasonable. The council can bo
depended upon to do as much for the Macon
and Atlantic as it did for the South Bound,
provided it can.
Savannah wauts all the railroads she can
get—the more the better. She is now
moving steadily ahead in tho pa: h of pros
perity. Her growth is solid aud perma
nent. If her present promise of prosperity
is fulfilled, she will have a wonderful
increase in wealth and population within
the next five years.
A Canadian paper has been making a
comparative analysis of the public debts of
the United States and the Dominion, from
1867, inclusive, which shows a state of af
fairs not likely to be particularly pleasing
to the Canadians. In 1867 the debt of the
United States was thirty-three times and
the interest thirty-nmo times that of Can
ada; in 1889 the debt of this country was
only four times that of Canada, and the
interest three and one-third times greater.
In the first year named the debt was about
$62 fer each of the population, and that of
Canada $22. In 1889 the debt of this
country was reduced to about sl6 per bead,
while tbut of tbe other country was in
creased to $47. Newfoundlander* will ttiere
fore see that they could gain nothing by
annexation to Canada except a share iu the
burden of a very large debt.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
The Behring Eea Difficulty.
It is evident that the Behring sea diffi
culty is a serious one. There is nothing
encouraging in the correspondence re
lating t > it which was publi>hed a day or
two ago. No progress whatever has Deen
made toward settling it since the present
administration came into power. Mr. Bay
ard, who was Secretary of State in Mr.
Cleveland’s administration, was in a fair
way of effecting a settlement of it when he
retired from office. Whether he would
have succeeded or not is a question concern
ing which there is, of course, a difference of
opinion. Secretary Blaine s friends say that
he would not, because after Mr. Blaine took
hold of the ma’ter the Marquis of Salisbury,
at the dictation of Canada, changed his
p sition. It seems that Mr. Blaine followed
pretty closely the policy marked out by Mr.
Bay ard, deeming it both wise and satisfac
tory. But that policy was not satisfactory
to the Canadians, because had it been sgreed
to by England they would hava been pre
vented virtually from taking seals in
Behring sea. The Marquis of Salisbury,
therefore, shifted his position in accordance
with the demands of Canada.
In an interview on Friday, at his home
in Wilmington, Del., Mr. Bayard said that
he did not want to talk about the Behring
sea difficulty, because he could not do so
freely. He said, however, that he regarded
it as a very grave one, and expressed the
wish that the country was well out of it.
The gravity of the situation is apparent.
Correspondence has reached a point beyond
which it can hardly go unless Mr. Blaine
retires from the office of Secretary of State
or the Marquis of Salisbury resigns. In
view of the fact that Mr. Blaine has pretty
plainly charged the English minister with
knowingly stating that which is not true,
the latter could not continue the corre
spondence without the loss of self-respect.
A conflict betw’een our revenue cutters
and British cruisers in Behring sea might
bring about war between the two countries.
Some time ago the Secretary of the Treas
ury, acting under a statute, gave orders to
the commanders of our revenue cutters in
that sea to seize all vessels taking seals
without the authority of this government
to do so. IV hen the formal protest of the
British government against seizing vessels
carrying the British flag was received,
toge her with a not.fication that seizure
would be resisted by British cruisers, an
officer of this government was sent to
Alaska, presumably with new orders for
our revenue cutters. What those orders
are the public has not yet been informed,
but a fair inference is that they are such as
will prevent ncollision between our revenue
cutters and British cruisers.
But what is to be done? If no seizures are
made of Canadian vessels engaged in taking
seals the Canadians will continue their un
lawful acts. They will increase their seal
ing fleet and piactically will have gained
their point.
Of course this government will not con
sent to be beaten in that way, but just what
course it will adopt to protect its rights is
not now apparent. Neither this country,
nor Great Britain wants war, but as there
is not much apparently to be hoped for
from diplomacy, war may have to be re
sorted to before a settlement is reached.
Arbitration has been suggested, but neither
government as yet has shown any great
willingness to accept it.
Walter Le Conte Stevens.
It will be very gratifying to the many
friends of Prof. Walter Le Conte Stevens
in this city and state to know that bis
progress in the cause of science is of the
most encouraging kind. Savannahians will
remember Prof. Stevens as instructor for
several years in this city in different de
partments of science. The field, however,
was too small for a man of his ability,
and he wisely decided to make New York
his home. He soon became well known
through his contributions to prominent
scientific journals. At the solicitation of
publishers he has revised a number of text
books of science, and is himself an author
of scientific works. His recent papers have
been favorably noticed by the leading
scientific journals of Europe, and have been
reproduced in several languages. For one
article alone he has had the degree of fellow
of the Hoyal Microscopical Society of Great
Britain conferred upon him.
Still pushing on in the great field of
science, he has recently gone abroad, where
he will, in the home of science, spend two
years in study and research. Most of his
time will be spent at Strasb lrg and Berlin.
Prof. Stevens is on his father’s side de
cendel from a long line of English writers,
aud from his mother’s branch of the house
hold (Le Conte) he seems to have inherited
that love of science which has given such a
word-wido reputation to his uncles, Drs.
Joseph and John Le Conte of California.
There is probably no better known in
structor and lecturer on scie .tide subjects
in this country, and tho slate of Georgia
justly feels proud of her son.
Out of evil may come good, and who
knows that tho war in Central America
may not result in stimulating trade rela
tions between the United States and the five
republics. The total value of our imports
from Central America for the year 1889
amounted to $5,414,019, in proportion as fol
lows: From Guatemala, $2,346,685; Nica
ragua, $1,747,246; Salvador, $1,662,162;
Costa Rica, $1,442,365; Honduras, $1,215,501.
On the other baud, our exports amounted
only to $4,146,511, so that the balance of
trade is two to one against the United
States. The establishment of a federal gov
ernment on a firm basis would certainly in
crease our trade relations to the benefit of
both countries, and it is, therefore, to the
interest of the United States to see peace
restored between Salvador and Guatemala.
Our greatest interest lies in Nicaragua,
where the ship canal is being constructed
under American auspices with American
money. This alone gives the United States
a great stake in the future of Central
America, and makes it highly important
that amicable relations should exist between
all concerned.
The trouble in Salvador seems to be
caused by a four-cornered fight between
aspiring politicians who want to gratify
their selfish ambition for the direction of
affairs in the little republic. Gen. Ezeta,
who is in control of the government and the
military, is trying keep Dr. Rafael Ayalla,
who was recently elected, out of the presi
dency. Gen. Moran, who also aspires to
that office, is trying to do the same thing.
President Barrillos of Guatemala, who has
designs on Salvador, has espoused the cause
of Ayalla. Each lias its followers, and a
war of extermination between factions has
begun. Tho end of it will be probably that
Salvador will pass out of existence like
Poland. Surrounded as It is by Honduras,
Guatemala and Nicaragua, each of them
will take a slice of it like Russia, Germany
aud Austria did iu the case of Poland, and
tbere'il beau eud to trouble aud Salvador.
PERSONAL.
Lord Randolph Churchill says that an out- :
door Ii e suits him particularly well—better
than does parliamentary confln-meat. Accord
ingly he is devoting himself to racing. It is j
said that he is coming hare sb rtly to fish and
hunt bear.
The Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand is
exceedingly wealthy, and is valeted to perfec
tion, but he cannot be said to be a handsome
person. He lias a short body, with very long
limb-, a small bead perched on a long neck, and
a prodigious nose.
Bowling Bowser, the newly appointed United
States consul to Sierra Leone, is a very intelli
gent colore 1 man and resided for a number of
years on the west coast of Africa. Since 1973
ho iias resided in Hartford. Conn., carrying on
a hotel barber shop. *
Lewis P. Walters of Phoenixville, Pa, who
has been appointed to succeed S. Davis Page
as Assistant Treasurer of the United States at
Philadelphia, is known as the “original Harri
son man. " ihe first to break from the Pennsyl
vania delegation at Chicago.
Lord Tollemache, au English gentleman now
lying ill. is distinguished iu three ways—he is
the owner of Mr. Gladstone's London house, he
has twelve children (eleven sons and one daugh
ter.. and it was on Ms country estate that silos
in Eng aud were first made with success.
LOCAL HUMOR.
Airy costume in the Tvbee surf is costume
ary.
Congress shouli remove the juty from cotton
bagging.
In the game of life infancy may be regarded
as the crib age.
Many of our contemporaries speak of “The
Kreutzer Sonata” as a naughty book; but we
think “Robert Elsniere” is knottier.
Skunks.”—The word “Chicago” means
skunk This being the case, why should we
continue to slander a great. American animal by
saying that Chicago's inhabitants are mostly
hogs';
Ambiguous Praise.—Bryan Street Restaura
teur—How's that steak? Puity good for a
quarter, eh ?
Hungry Customer (trying to cut it)—Bully:
(continues sawingi.
Doodie McFig (playing dominosi—Aha! I’ve
got ahead at last:
Tybee Beach—You don't say! Congratulate
you, old boy! I suppose now you will throw
away that brick you have been carrying in your
hat all this time.
Mr. Yamacraw—Miss Priscilla, you are a first
rate mirror.
Mi-s Priscilla Pulaski (blushingly)—La: Mr.
Yamacraw. why? because 1 am so truthful?
Mr. Yamacraw—No; because you are such a
good looking lass.
Miss Priscilla—O. Mr. Yamacraw: and am I
then to regard you as an ad-mirror?
His name was “Hogsfl.-sh . “ Though a young
man of many engaging qualities of course no
self respecting girl could have anything to do
with a man of such au atrocious name, and he
was practically ostracised.
“Alas'' he said to himself dolefully, “I seem
to have the pla. ue!”
By act of legislature hit name was changed
to “Bacon,” and he speedily became the most
popular of favorites.
"Aha 'he said to himself gleefully, “T now
seem to be cured!”
It Was Not Mr. Jocose. The Yamacraw
Young Mens' Christian Association had sent
out numerous invitations to attend a lecture by
Mr. .locos . the celebrated humorist. Every
seat was occupied when a sever iy solemn gen
tleman in clerical black advanced upon the
platform. The lecturer's general apiiearance
was so absurdly incongruous, that it ca ,sed a
preliminary titter through the audience, which
settled itself comfortably ior ah hour or two of
rare amusement.
The lecturer began—“l adies and gentlemen,
from far-off China, and from benighted Africa
comes to us loud calls for more missionaries.
In the sup—”
Here a shri -k of laughter interrupted the
speaker, and it was several seconds before he
resum. and.
“In the supreme moment of their need, the
faithful men whom we have already sent, and
who are now broiling—”
“Ha! ha! ha'” roared the delighted audience.
With an ap arentiy well-assumed air of sur
prise the lecturer paused until the laughter aud
applause subsided, and then proceeded:
“Who are now broiling beneath tropical suns.
I appeal to you as Christian people if it is
too ”
At this point the audience fairly went wild;
screams of merriment mingled with clapping of
hands and stamping of feet.
The lecturer seemed bewildered, but as soon
as he could make himself heard resumed his
discourse:
“I ask you if it is too much to expect of us
that we—
At this point the president of the association,
out of breath and mopping his benevolent face
with bis handkerchief, came forward upon the
platform.
"Ladies and gentlemen,” he interrupted,
“excuse me for being a little late, having been
detained. Mr. Joccse was prevented from
being with us this evening, but I have the
pleasure of introducing to you the Rev. Mr.
Prosy, the well known agent of the foreign
missionary society. ”
And the lecturer then proceeded, amid a
silence that could be felt.
BRIGHT BITS.
Accidental—A Fact.—
H ■ wooed and his love was nigh.
He sat on a spindle legged chair.
She plumped right down in his lap.
For a second she weighed a whole ton.
And the chair was built for only one.
Two shrieks and a groan rent the air.
And both of them heuid something “drap.”
It was wood and the seat was too high.
He wooed and his love was nigh.
But he felt himself sick unto death.
He knew he had sulit his new pants.
As well as broken the chair.
And he heard her dad's foot on the stair
Drawing nearer and nearer each breath
Throuch the window he sprang, his last
chance.
And to his love nevermore he went Digh.
—if. Louis Republic.
Essentiality of Coin.—
Salvation’s free to all. they say;
Yet one is on the rack.
If, when the sexton comes his way,
He finds of coin a lack.
Washington Post.
“Of whom di I you take French lessons?”
“O, of a very dear teacher. I assure you; the
definite article alone cost me s4o ."—Hiegende
Blatter.
Undoubtedly the Last.—Jones—Who is that
striking-looking man over there? Seems like a
popular sort of chap.
Brown—Mistake: He's the last man we fel
lows will have anything to do with.
Jon ’B—Extraordinary!
Brown (easily)—Not at all; he's the under
taker.— Texas Siftings.
Long Experience.—New Y’ork Editor—Want
a place on our staff, eh? What experience have
you had?
Applicant—Twenty years on Philadelphia pa
pel's. sir.
Editor—Ah. I see. John!
John (office boy)—Y'es, sir.
Editor—Ask the agricultural editor if he needs
an assistant.—. Ye- York Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Dollars to Doughnuts.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.X
We guarantee that a certain critic named
Blaine is having a far better time at Bar Har
bor than McKinley and his bill are having in
Washington.
Must Clear His Skirts.
From the Terre Haute Gazette (Bern.).
This Raum scandal must not be permitted to
die. He must clear his skirts or step down and
out. No dishonest man should be permitted to
disburse $200,000,000 of public currency.
Natural Gas on the Free List.
FYom the Chicago Herald (Ind.).
Somebody should jog Mr. VcKinley, and call
his attention to a scheme of eastern capitalists
to import natural gas from Canada. His tariff
bill inadvertently leaves nat ral gas on the free
I list, and a co npany iu Buffalo is about to take
advantage of this fact by piping gas across the
line in Canada.
Sneak Journalism.
From the Chicago Keics (Ind.).
Some sneak correspondent has been prying
into the domestic arrangements of the white
house in order to make out a case of unseemly
| thrift against the wife of the President. This
(sneak corn sp. n lent says: ‘‘Col. Cook, who
bandies ad the ('resident's funds, both official
and private, refuses to give any particulars
about tile ex|ieusss of the executive mansion.
But some of the tradesmen an: more communl
i catlve." Then a great ileal of twaddle follow*.
. the purpose of which Is to show that Mrs llarrl
-1 son bus mean Ideas about her housekeepiug ar
raugemeots. Tills sort of sneak reporting. it
the work of a man. ought to be rewarded by a
little vigorous handling from some mi! • relative
of the lady who presides at the white boast.
The Difference.
Maj. Ford H. Rogers tells au amusing anec
dote of the late Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, says the
Detroit Tribune. The general was addressing
a Sunday school convention. One of the speak
ers had reminded the children that it was Wash
ington s birthday.
“Children,“ said Gen. Fisk, "you all know
that Washington was a general. Perhaps you
Know that I ara also a general. Now. can any
oDe tell what was the difference between Gen.
Washington and myself? ’
“I Know, sir.” piped a small boy in the back
part of tbe room.
“Well, what was the difference?” said Gen.
Fisk, smiling at tbe boy’s eagerness.
“George Washington couldn t tell a lie. sir.”
cr ed the boy in exultant tones. Streams of
laughter followed, in which the general joined
as heartily as the rest.
A Night in an Elevator.
I don’t believe there are twenty-five elevators
iu all London, says a Paris letter to the Phila
delphia Press. Many of the large hotels, like
the Temp e. expect guests to walk up four so
rie3. Oa the otnur hand, in Paris tne elevator
is becoming epidemic. But such elevators'
They ar ■ hydraulic elevators, and are run with
out an elevator boy. As water is dear in Paris
they run at a snail's piee.S unetmies they stand
st ill between two floors and refusi for
an hour Tney were laughing over in toe Amer
ican quarter, by tho arch of triumph, to-day,
and when I asked them what it was all about
they said:
' Why, haven't you heard? It's too good.
Several American young ladies and their escorts
came home from Minister Reid's reception last
night, got stuck in the elevator between the
third and fourth floors, and staid there until
daylight.”
’’But why didn't the elevator boy come to
their rescue ?”
"It was one of those French elevators that the
passenger adjusts himself, and they were all
ignorant as to how to stop or go ahead. ”
English as She Is Spoke Abroad.
I had an experience all my own in Lock &
Company's hat store, in St. James street,
London, says Julien Ralph in Harper's Weekly.
Tho aged proprietor displays ancient helmets
and caps in his window, w hich is kept scrupu
lously dusty. Noting this. I said, “This must
be a very old store, indeed."
“Store?" said the man.“ It's no store at ail;
it's ash op. sir. I call a store a place for the
sale of a miscellaneous lot of goods: but this is
a shop, sir. You ought to be more careful in
your use of terms."
If that was rudeness—and I do not know how
great he considered his provocation—it was the
only rudeness 1 experienced from any shop
keeper. But 1 learned from that incident not to
say store. And before I left London I had
swelled my index expurgatorius to the ext nt
that I seldom used toe following words: Guess;
yes, sir: glass (fortumbler), railroad, horse car
cents, fix, store or pad of paper. “Block of
paper," they said when lat last got them to
understand that I wanted a pad. “Guess" and
“Ax” are pure Americanisms, and are to be
used or not as you want to attract curious at
tention or avoid it; but the most difficult thing
for ma iy Americans in England was to avoid
saying “sir” to a s. ranger wno addressed
tnem or to an old gentleman. “Yes. sir." and
"no. sir.” over there are the verbal insignia of a
servant.
Her First Caller.
Some years ago Amelia Simpson, says
the Detroit Free Press, a maiden
lady of mature years, moved into a New Eng
land village to take possession of a small prop
erty that had heea left her by a deceased uncle.
Miss Simpson was a city spinster, and it hap
pened that wt.ile moving into her new home she
made some deri ive remarks about the village,
which remarks reached the ears of the villagers.
It was be; ore the days of boycotting, but the
spirit of that method existed, and so unanimous
were the feelings excited against the newcomer
ti.at not a bjiil in the village called upon her.
The lady herself wa; uucouscious that she
had offended, and made severai advances in the
direction of forming an acquaintance with her
neighbors, but was met, with cool non-recogni
tion every time.
Then she withdrew' herself from any com
munication with the people, bought all supplies
at the iieignboriug town and lived alone with a
female servant for a store of years. At the end
of that time she was takeu very ill A doctor
was summoned fiom a distance by her faithful
attenda-.t, and he soon knew tuat all remedies
were useless, and it only remained for him to
tell poor Miss Simpson that her earthly pil
grimage was nearly over. This he did iD his
own way. H was a doctor of the old school,
and he approached the subject courteously.
‘■Madam,'’ he said, in a grave, deliberate
voice, “I have done all that I possibly cau do in
your case to insure return of health, but with
out avail It only remains for me to inform you
that death has called.”
Poor Miss Simpson raised herself on her pillow
with a smile of satis, action
“Show him up,” she said, with shining eyes.
I have lived in this inhospitable place for
twenty years, and he is the first caller I ever
had.”
And she sank back with a peaceful look on
her composed feaLures.
Quick to Take a Hint.
Yesterday afternoon a tall, slim man. wear
ing a faded Greeley hat and well enveloped in a
linen duster of ancient date, says the Detroit
Free Press, entered the AVoodbridge street
station and said to the sergeant:
“I just came in on the train. Look at me
and see if I resemble Captain Kidd or Charley
Ross.”
"I can t see that you do,” replied the sar
geant.
"But people are all looking at me and grinn
ing. nything wrong in my dress *”
"Well, that—that duster is a little off per
haps.”
"Oh! it's the duster. People don’t wear ’em
any more, eh
"Not that style and color.”
"I see. I’m a little ancient."
"A trifle.”
“Well, off she comes. I bought it in this town
six years ago. The man warranted it to me as
a combination of duster, hammock, flying jib,
liver pad, bed blanket, burglar alarm, life pre
server, and certificate of moral character, and
it has pulled me through a steamboat explosion,
two railroad smash-ups, a hotel fire and half a
dozen free tights Kinder hale to go back on
on her. but style is style. If the style has
changed, then I’ve got to change with it. ’
He pulled it off, rolled it into a bundle, and
lai i it on a chair and said:
“Give it to some poor and disconsolate man
some one who hasn't a sensitive soul. It has
kept out the flies, warded off the moths and
saved me from rattlesnakes and mad dogs, but
the t ime has come when we must part. When
1 strike Detroit and hear a boy call out 'ls that
thing alive?' I know he means me and that
duster. When I go up street and a man calls
out 'Schooner ahoy!' I know he meant that
duster and me. When I get into a car and see
the women look me over and then hitch away.
I know they are wondering which of us is who,
and whether it will bite or not. I’m too sensi
tive by half, but I can t help it. I leave her in
your bauds. Good-by.”
To an Old Apple Tree.
Coates Kinney in Harper's Magazine.
Those maimed limbs plead thy story;
The wounds upon thy body speak tor thee;
Thou art a veteran soldier scarred with glory,
My brave old apple tree!
Oft' ast tbou borne up under
Onset of storming wind and shot of hail;
And once a sworn lunge of assailant thunder
Slashed down thy barken mail.
Old age, disease and battle
Have scathed and crooked and crippled all thy
form;
And thy Briarean bare arm and clash and rattle,
Tost in the wintry storm.
I seem to feel thee shiver,
As on tby nakedness bangs rags of snow;
May charitable spring, the gracious giver.
O’er thee her mantle throw!
She will; and sunshine spilling
From blue skies tbou again shalt drink as wine.
And feel afresh the rush of young blood thrill
iug
Through that old heart of thine.
For in the season duly
Each year there rises youth's perennial power
Within thee, and thou theu rejoicest newly
In robes of leaf and dower.
Aye, though thy years are many.
And sorrows heavy, yet from winter's gloom
Tnou isuest. with the young tree*, glad as any,
As quick of green and bloom.
The bluebird's warble mellow
Returns like memory and calls thy name,
And, ns first love, the oriole's plumage yellow
Burns through tby shade like flame.
Thou quiver'st in the aunny
JuDe mornings to the welcoming of song,
And bees about their business of the honey
Whisper thee all day long
Thus thou art hie t and blessaat -
Thy grace of blossoms fruiting into gold;
And thus. In touch with nature, tbou possesaost
The art of growing old.
Ocn. Busan** receives a salary of $15,000 a
year at retired general of the army, with noth
ing to do, and a good active clerk to help him.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Robkrt Pingey, a good farmer near Marshall.
Pa., hurt his finger with a ruaty hay fork the
other day and died Wednesday of blood poison
ing.
“Lightning loves hemlock," and if you are in
a wood daring a thunder storm make for the
beech tree as soon as possible. Don’t stand
under the hemlock.
The average pay of a London policeman is
08V 4 cents a day. After serving on the force
for twenty one years his old age is made luxu
rious by a pension of 45 cents a day.
A recent book, whose deceptiveness would be
likely to mislead the religiously inclined, is
entitled * ‘Conversion and Redemption.*’ It is a
government contribution to financial literature.
Paris gossips declare that one of the regular
physicians who was most conspicuous in ridi
culing Dr. Brown Sequard's “elixir" has
been cured of paralysis by its administration,
and is now as zealous an a ivocate of Sequard
as he was previously a scoffer.
The newest and most select c ub about Lon
don is the Two Pius Club, composed chiefly of
Punch's young men, with the addition of a few
persons like Sir Charles R .ssell and Lord Rose
bery. Tue two pins iu question come from the
names of Dick Turpin and John Gilpin.
The capitalization of the European rail
ways is about C10.’,000 per mile, or 814,932.500,-
CCO in all. while the value of the other railways
of the world anouuts to 813,1.600,000, or
about 8 r d,40) a mile. Hence the total capital
invested in railways throughout the world may
be estimated at 574.100,000.
Many parents are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but a
Scotch gentleman estimated his two daughters*
value at even a higher rate than this, bequeath
ing to • ac.i her weight in £1 notes. The elder
seems to have be‘>n slimmer than her sister, for
she got only £51.200, wnile the younger received
£57.344.
Nineteen years ago a Gratiot (Micb.) farmer
refused to let his daughter go to a candy pull.
She went, though, and remained away. Last
wee < she drove up to her father’s door, lifted
out her eleven children, coolly took ofT her
wra ,sand astonished her father by declaring
that she had concluded to return and stay
home, and hereafter be an obedient daughter.
A passion for balloon ascensions was among
the many peculiarities possessed by a young
business man wno died in Winsha, Conn., a few
davs ago. He made ascensi >ns all over the
state and undertook a voyage from St. Louis to
New York, but after a journey of two mites he
landed in the woo s. if he succeeded in this
trip he had planned to make an air voyage
across the Atlantic.
Frank E. Patterson, one of the executors of
the Patterson estate at Manayunk, recenty
found an old brass cannon among the debris of
the storeroom that had been used in the Mexi
can war and .sent home by the late Gen. Robert
Puttersou as a trophy of hi3 v.ctory at Natural
Ridge, >n the way from Vera Cruz to the City
of Mexico. This old relic wdl be presented to
the historical society at an early date.
Some statistics from summer resorts shows
that the New England coast receives the greatest
number of city visitors in the summer, 536
prominent persons visiting it, while 39s go to
the interior; the same number g to Pennsyl
vaaia. Maryland and D daware. 210 to the south
shore of Long Island, 232 to the north shore of
the sound. 2)1 to the Hudson river. 118 to the
Jersey coast and sixty eight to the north shore
of Long Island.
A young WOMAN in Parkersburg, W. Va.,
recently advertised for a husband and received
numerous answers, to the writers of one of
whien—a St. Louis man—-she became engaged.
A time was set for the wedding, but before it
arrived the groom met with an accident by
which he lost a leg. But she was a woman of
her wor 1, and after his recovery they were mar
ried. sfcm recently wrote home tnat her Hus
band was engaged ;n steady employment and
was% good man.
Cardinal Parocchi has ordered all priests
who have no situation to leave Rome. This
hits thousands of poor men, who have kept
alive by r -ading masses for the dead, an article
that is often ordered by thousands in Rome,
and is well pai l for to the first recipient of the
order. He ofien sub-lets it for cheaper rates to
poor priests without employment. But the
number of these priests without office has so
increased in Rome that some measure had to
be taken to clear the city.
“There was never so great a scarcity of
beer kegs," reports the Milwaukee Sentinel.
"Every cooper in the city who makes them has
more orders than it is possible for him to fill.
The hot weather, principally, and the ‘original
package’ decisions are the cause of the great
demand which is urn le on the breweri-s. Tie
Schlitz Brewing Company a few days ag >
placed an ord r for 10,090 kegs in New Yor*c.
The Cincinnati cooperage establishm-nts have
been compelled to partly shut down owing to
the scarcity of staves."
On the day dedicated in the calendar to St.
Peter, the toe of the saint's statue, in front of
St. Peter's in Rome, was kissed by 81,000 per
sons. The statue, of bronze, was arrayed, as
usual on this festival, in gold embroidered papal
garments, and was crowned with the tiara.
Toward evening the pope appeared, carried in a
chair and surrounded by his court, to pay his
reverence to the saint, and remained for half an
hour, deep iu prayer, before the statue of his
first predecessor. The municipality presented
an artistically chased golden cup to his holiness
as a memorial this year as every year.
Pketty little Annie Holte, who, five years
ago, fitted down the dim,quiet hall of the Palm
er house. Chicago, as a chambermaid, has a
fortune of SIOO,OOO in cash awaiting her in St..
Paul. A year or two before she came to Chi
cago she ran away from a happy home in
Bavaria to follow her lover to America. But
her quest was sad and useless. Failing to find
him she lived awhile unhappily, with distant
kinsfolk in Minnesota, and then went out in the
world to work her own way. The fortune that
now comes to her through the sudden death of
an old aunt in Munich has made her suddenly
dear to the Minnesota relatives; but all trace of
her was lost when she left the Palmer house.
Henky Stearns, of Brockton, Mass., has en
tered suit against that city for $20,000. Stearns
was arrested last Wednesday afternoon for
being intoxicated and was locked up in the
town jail. Ttiat afternoon the big fire broke
out. which rapidly spread toward the prison.
In the excitement the prison r was overlooked
and left to himself. He came near being roasted
alive. Tne roof was blazing anti the falling
sparks set fire to his cell, but no one came to
his aid, although the frenzied man beat the
bars ands .risked frantically for help. His
clothing was taiint Are, when, with a leap of
desperation, he broke down the iron door and
fled through the flames and smoke to the outer
air. He claims the damages for his injuries,
which he says are temporary burnt; and perma
nent injury to his nervous system through the
great fright he was in.
An East Machias lady, says the Lewiston
(Me.) Jou nal, having noticed in our paper a
Farmington man’s account of the sun’s shining
on a part of his house that it, bad never touched
befoie, writes us of a similar phenomenon that
has come within her own observation. -‘My
father’s house," she says, ’‘faces the southeast.
Exactly opposite the front windows in the sit
ting-room are too doors, a kitchen door and a
closet door. When I was a child, in tne short
est days as the sun arose it camo squarely into
the room, shining on the kitchen door from the
window opposite tnat door. Now, in the short
est days, w-hen the sun rises it shines from the
window opposite the kitchen door on the closet
door, that is opposite the other window." The
lady is positive as to this change, and thinks
the “sun must have moved north’’ or the earth
have changed its relative position. Who will
explain?
It may have been because he had been steal
ing a ma rch on his friends and getting married
in a quiet, not to say surreptitious manner, says
the New York World, that the names of Col,
Charles H. Jones of St. Louis aud his bride
did n t appear ou the passenger list of the
steamship on which he sailed Wednesday from
this port for a honeymoon in Europe. There is
no law requiring a newly married man to add
“and wife ’ to his name on a hotel register. Col.
Jones is a prominent figure among Grover
Cleveland's proponents in the national democ
racy, and made the speech renominating Gro
ver at the Southern Society’s banquet last Feb
ruary. But he avoided all” congratulations on
the coup w hich deprived New York of one of
her fa,r widows and gave a St. Louis editor a
blushing helpmeet. Even the people at the
Murray Hill hotel, where Col. Jones and wife
have been since Saturday, didn't know when he
staru-d away yesterday morning for bis steamer
that he was initiating a wedding tour. Col.
Jones is a quiet, undemonstrative man who
once edited a weekly jon nal in this city, who
built up tne F orida newspaper which necarae
the.Timrs-Uiunn, and who is now at the helm of
the St Louis Republic.
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