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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 ;i, 1800.
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INDEX TO MEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O
O. F.; The Merchants and Mechanics' Loan and
Building Association.
Special Notices— Savannah Rifle Associa
tion; Special Notice, L. C. Strong; Turtle Soup
and Faust Beer at Chas. F. Graham’s Mer
chants' Exchange.
Steamship Schedule.— Baltimore Steam
ship Company; General Transatlantic Com
pany.
Educational —Davis School, Winston, N. C.
Houses Put Up on Easy Terms— Chas. P.
Rossignol, Broker and Agent of De Soto Invest
ment Company.
Fish and Oysters —M. M. Sullivan & Son.
Consignments to Arrive— A. Ehrlich <6
Bro.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
THE TRADE REVIEW.
For years, on the opening of each suc
ceeding season, there has been presented
evidence of a large increase in Savannah’s
business Heretofore this increase has been
due to the natural growth of Savannah’s
tributary territory, a better understanding
of her commercial advantages, and tho
gradual enlargement of hor two great rail
road systems. These things will continue to
contribute to her growth and prosperity,
and, in addition to them, there are others,
which have recently come into existence,
that will make the business year of 1890-91
more notable than any preceding one in her
history.
Since tbe last trade review of the Morn
ing Xkws there have been built three new
and important railroads to Savannah, or to
connect with her railroad systems. They
are the Alabama Midland, the Savannah
and Western, aud the Savannah, Americu3
and Montgomery. These railroads have
already brought hundreds of buyers to
Savannah and increased her trade greatly.
But the number of buyers and the amount
of trade which these new railroads will
contribute to her markets when the crops
now in the fields tributary to them are
harvested will be many times larger. The
people will have money then and they will
seek Savannah to supply their wants.
The advanced condition of the cotton crop
justifies the opinion that the business season
■will open early and with great activity.
The people are already thinking, probably,
of what they will buy with the fruits of
their labor. They are scanning the columns
of the Morning News to see who are the
live and progressive business men of Savan
nah and what they are offering for sale.
There is a large and lucrative trade to be
secured from the territory which the new
railroads have made tributary to Savan
nah, as well as from the territory which has
heretofore been tributary to her. If our
merchants are wise they will not neglect the
only proper method of getting this trade.
That method is liberal advertising.
The Morning News proposes to make a
special effort to reach every buyer in the
new field that has been opened by Savan
nah’s enterprise. The agents of the Morn
ing News are traveling through the coun
try, and the people are taking the paper
just as rapidly as the mail facilities which
are being established permit them to.
ft is proposed to send a copy of the trade
review to each subscriber to the Weekly
News, as well as to each subscriber to the
daily, thus giving advertisers the benefit of
both editions at a little more than the usual
price of one.
An advertisement in a newspaper is an in
vitation to buyers to call. It virtually says,
"When you are in town please call on us.
We have all these things to show you.”
The annual review will contain the usual
resume of the business of the city for the
last year. It will be sent to thousands of
people who are interested in Savannah’s
welfare and prosperity.
The Trade Review edition will be issued
Sept. 4. Space in its columns can be ob
tained upon application to the business
office.
The accouuts of their journeys which the
Italian oriucos of the reigning house are
compelled to write ought to make royal
reading.
Superintendent Porter hat obeyed the
mandate of the bosses, aud will have the
final count of the census ready by tds end
of next week. Kiorn thli it appears that
the republicans Intend to pass a reappor
tioume t bill this session. Tbe prospects for
a republioui victory In tbe present districts
are uot vcrv bright, and they c nr.it upon
gaming among tbe proposed new mein ers
in t )<> republican suites t J offset possible
losses rise where.
South Carolina’s CocvAntion.
The straightout aem crats a:.d the Till—
; manite* of South Carolina will meet, in con
vention at the capital of that stare to-day to
] decide ti e import .nt question whether the
1 d-legates to the regular state democratic
convention, which meets in September,
shall be chosen bv conventions or primaries.
The Tillmamtes are in favor of conven
tions, and the straightout demo
crats insist upon priinarie-. The
Tillmanites havo a large majority of the
delegates to the convention which meets to
day, and they will dictate, therefore, the
raotnods by which the delegates to the
September convention shall b chosen. It
is considered cortaiu that they w ill decide
in favor of conventions. If, however,
they should consent to the hold
ing of primaries it would lie
because th y want to avoid
all danger < t a split in tho party. They
c )uld well afford to yield to the de-ire of
the straight-iu’ democrats, because the
Tillmamtes could carry at least three
fourths of the county primaries.
If primaries should ba ordered there would
bo another bitter campaign in all tho
counties in the state, and to avoid
such a campaign tho Tillmanites may de
cide against them. Indeed, it is not im
prob ible that they may decide not to have
a September convention. A great many of
the delegates to the convention t -day either
have been, or will be, elected to the Septem
ber convention, and tho Tillnanites may
take the ground that the people having
already indicated their preference as be
tween the Tillman candidates and tho
straigh out candidates there is no good
reason why tho convention already in ses
sion should not nominate the ticket.
Of course the straightout democrats
would oppose such action. They still have
a hope that they will be able to defeat Till
man, and if to-day’s convention should
nominate a ticket they, in all probability,
would elect delegates to the September con
vention and nominate a ticket. They would
have the advantage of having acted regu
larly, and that would assist them at the
election.
However, from present appearances, there
is no way in which Tillman can be beaten.
His adherents will not nominate a ticket
at the convention to-day unless they are
satisfied that it is for tbeir interest to do so.
They are fully as shrewd as their opponents,
and they are not likely to make a serious
mistake.
It is expected that to-day’s convention
will be a notable one. The interest in it is
not confined to the state. It may be an
orderly convention, but the indications are
that it will not be. The feeling between
the contending fictions is so bitter that it
will be almost impossible to prevent scenes
of great disorder.
Cauital Punishment.
That Gen. N. M. Curtis should denounce
execution by electricity as erut-1 is nothing
strange. He was tbe author of the bill to
abolish capital punishment introduced iu
the New York legislating- last winter. The
bill was defeated, principally because it was
alleged to have been promoted by a certain
electric company which was opposed to
having its apparatus used to execute
murderers under the new law in New York
state. It is natural that Gen. Curtis should
oppose electrical executions; he is opposed
to executions of any kind. He declares
that the advocates of the abolition of the
death penalty havo been inspired with new
hope. “Nut only will New York abolish
capital punishment,” he said recently, "but
my correspondence from other States shows
every probability that other states will fol
low suit at an early day.”
Gen. Curtis and his followers say that it
is wise to punish murderers in such a way
that if possible deterrent influence is brought
to bear on the community at large, so that
the murderers are not encouraged. That
can he done, they think, by imprisonment
much better than by the death penalty.
Let us see if this is true. Rhode Island
abolished capital punishment in 1853, ex
cepting where a life prisoner kills a prison
official or fellow convict. An investigation
made recently shows that the substitution
of life sentences for the death penalty has
been followed by an increase in the number
of murders. Maine has had different laws,
with differing results. From 1834 to
187fi capital punishment was practically
abolished by making it the discretionary
duty of the governor to order an executi >n.
In 1876 the death penalty was altogether
abolished, and in 1883 it was restored,
murders having increased.
In the two states in which the death
penalty was abolished imprisonment for
life did not have a “deterrent influence” so
far as murder was concerned, aud in one of
these states it became necessary to return
to capital punish me it to check that crime.
To abolish capital punishment, therefore,
would be to encourage murder.
The editor of the Baltimore American
has been looking over a copy of the esti
mates of the cost for carrying the mails in
England, and he finds that $4,000,000 is ap
propriated for that purpose. “England
does not subsidize, she only pa vs for carry
ing the mails,” he says, sarcastically. And
while he does not say so plainly, he would
lead his readers to believe that an appropri
ation for carrying the mails is only another
way of subsidizing without calling it subsi
dizing. The United States makes appro
priations for the same purpose. Do we
call it a subsidy? The governments pay for
carrying the mails just as they would for
any other service peformed for them by the
steamship companies. But a subsidy is a
different thing. It is the payment of public
money as a premium to a private enterprise.
An extraordinary feat in photography
was achieved in Massachusetts, where a
Boston man secured a fine negative of a
dynamite blast, in which 350 pounds of
I dynamite were used. This was an unusual ly
j large blast, and the risk ruu by the pboto
i grapher aud the quickness of the operation
! may be infer . and from the statemjnt “that
| he moved himself and his camera out of the
way just as a boulder, weighing several
tous, was about to land dangerously near
him.” The feat was as remarkable as it was
daring.
The report that an electric light man
suffered a shock of 2,000 volts, like the one
j which killed Kommler, and live* to tell
it, seems to complicate matters about the
theories of tho lorce required at electrical
execution* to kill instantly. But the cir
cumstance* attending thin accident show
that the mau receiv -1 only a part of the
current, beeau* < of the imperfect connec
tion. Hal he received its full force
there i* no doubt that he would have
beeu kdle t instantly.
Politician* will hardly cr-slit the state
ment of the c*uu> bureau that the produc
tion of different varieties of slate* i* cou
-11 eti to twelve state*.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1890.
What are the Peculiar Methods ?
A letter dated Atlanta, Aug. 9. and signed
*‘H. W.,” which was published in the New
York Sun Aug. 11, and in which an effort
is made to give soma account of the political
situation in this state, contains the a*ser
ti n that a compromise has been made in
:h First congressional district which will
p rhaps secure the return of Mr. Lester to
c ingress. The following is aa extract
I from it;
If a prophet could have foretold six
months ago the present political s.tuatton
! in Georgia, he would have been set down as
a crazy man or a fool. The old ring, which
has iieid a w hip-land over the state since
war times, was never more confident than
! at the b -ginni goft ie year, and yet the
summer is cot gone, with six of the ten
| present congressmen run out of their seats,
and but two of the re naim ;g f >ur renomi.
j bated after a fight to the death. The Sa
vannah district has made a co nprucniso,
and will, p reaps, leturn Mr. Lester, for
the good reason that a political squabble
would uncover the peculiar matnoas they
use in that latitude. If Mr. Cr.sp succeeds
fcimseif he will owe his seat to the same
state of ! real affair', and they know exactly
what power it gives them in a congressional
district convention.
It would ba interring to know what the
“jieculiar methods” are to which the wri’or
of the letter refers. It is doubtful if he him
self knows. It looks very much ns if he did
not want to admit that Mr. Lester and Mr.
Crisp are popular with their constituents,
who want to keep thorn in congress, and. in
order to account for their probable renomi
nation, asserts that there was a compro
mise, which was assented to because it was
feared that a “political squabble would un
cover the peculiar methods” used in this
part of the state.
If there are any “peculiar methods” em
ployed iu either Representative Lester’s dis
trict or Representative Crisp’s, the fact is
kept remarkably quiet, so quiet that only
the writer of the Atlanta letter appears to
have heard of it. Representative Crisp
does not appear to have auv opposition
worth noticing, and the op
position to Representative Lester
was so mild that he had no difficulty
in over oming it. He simply went among
the people and talked with them. No
“peculiar methods” were used by him or
by anybody in his behalf so far as kuown.
He explained his views on public matters
in a perfectly straightforward way, ad
his constituents were satisfied. If other
statements in “H. W.’s” letters are not more
nearly correct than those which refer to
this congressional district, they are not
very reliable.
Young Men in Politics.
Several years ago Thomas Veracity
Cooper, ex-chairman of the republican
state committee of Pennsylvania, and one
of Quay’* lieutenants, wrote a book which
he’dedicated to the proposition that all
Atnorican citizons should tafee an interest
in public affairs. This idea is strongly em
phasized in a nowspaper article by ei-
United States Senator Thomas C.
Platt of New York, which was
published a few days ago.
Mr. Platt very pertinently remarks that
the very men who complain mast of faction
domination and corruption in high places
seldom attend the primaries, and often re
frain from voting at regular elections.
Whatever may be thought of this criticism,
coming from a professional politician, its
justness cannot be doubled. Why Rhoulda
man condemn what he makes no effort to
correct? As long as good men stay
away from the polls bad men will remain
in control of politics. This is as plain as
two and two make four.
To the young men Mr. Platt assigm the
task of purifying politics by a political
reform of existing conditions that are
unsatisfactory. "My advice,” says he, “to
all young men is, take up the study of
politics as early as possible and familiarize
yourself with all important public questiom.
Do not stop there. Make up your mind to
which party your convictions lead you, and
then do all you can to strengthen the hands
of that organization.” While Mr. Platt’s
article is free from all partisan bias it
is curious to note—it may be a mere coinci
dence or the conviction of long practice and
experience in politics—that, like Speak; r
Reed, Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son and other republican leaders, he appeals
to the young men to exert more influence in
public affairs. Is this because older heads are
too settled in their political convictions, and
that younger men are more easily led and
proselyted?
Englishmen and foreigners in general are
likely to gain a false impression of Ameri
cans from the story of a young New Yorker
who hired a whole hotel in London for the
purpose of giving a dinner to another New
Yarker. The guests included a judge of
the supreme court of New York, and the
women who did the dancing wero hired
from the music halls. The orgie that fol
lowed is described as singularly disreputa
ble aud disgraceful. Conduct like that
brings Americans into disrepute abroad,
but the action of this particular set should
not be regarded as typical of America.
Such doings would not be tolerated in this
country, and the only regret is that the
names of tbe drunken crowd were not given
that they might feel the disgrace they have
brought on themselves.
The New York Age (Afro- American) is
astonished because the Matthew Stanley
Quay Club of Philadelphia, a colored or
ganization, has denounced the force bill.
“Great Scott!” exclaims the Age, “can the
action of this club indicate that the Hon.
Matthew S. Quay, a United States senator
in congress from the state of Pennsylvania,
will vote against the federal elections bill
when it is put upon its passage in the Sen
ate? The action hath that seeming.”
Maybe. But there can be no mistake about
the attitude of the club iu the matter. It
proves that the intelligent colored people
know that the infamous measure will not
benefit their race in the slightest, an and they
are, therefore, opposed to it.
Mr. Blaine has not takon the public into
his confidence in regard to the trouole be
tween Salvador and Guatemala any more
than he did in the Bearing sea matter while
negotiations were pending. It now appears
that United States Minister Mizaer has
been heard from, not once, but a great
many times, that, in fact, he and tbe de
partment in Washington are negotiating
tor peace between tb two countries. It
somuls did to hear of Blaine in the role of
peacemaker.
In cour.ection with the death of Cardinal
Newman the fact is recalled that he won
the author of that beautiful hymn begin
ning:
Lead kindly light
A und th' encircling gloom.
He wrote it while on hi* way home from
afar cwintry. Hi* memory will cxiti iue
( long to have a place io the heart* of mill-
J ions of people.
PVRROJf tL
Senator Plumb is said to be fonder of cham
pagne than any other man in congress.
Secretary Tracy’s hair has turned from an
iron gray to a snow- white in the last twelve
months.
Vice President and Mrs. Levi P. Morton
havejeft their country place at Rhinebeck for a
vi.it to friends in New port.
Mr,. Theodore Irving, the founder of the
order qf King’s Daughters, is the widow of a
nephew of Washington Irving.
Bismarck s wife is expert with the needle and
i* famous as a cook She is also remarkable for
her simp e piety and ! er charities.
State Senator Brown of New York says that
if no one else does so he will introduce a bill in
the next legislature for the aboiilimof cap.tal
pun .-ament.
"It may come to that pass,’’ says the New
Vork World, “where Chicago will have to ac
cept the services of Sp a :er Reed as director
general of the fair.
Lady Cn -rc-hill. formerly Miss Jennie Jer
ome of New York, wife of Lord Randolph
Churchill, lias given birth to a son, the thir l
since her marriage in 1874.
James Fraiser was excused from jury duty
at Philadelpuia tho other day on the ground
that he was over 75 years of ago and bad
shaken bauds with Lafayette.
Maxwell Evarts, son of Senator Evarts. who
has be-n appointed ass -rant United States dis
trict attorney at New York city, is a graduate
of Yale cliss 011884. a lit years of age.
Chaplain - Charles Parks of the Vermont,
the first Roman Catholic chaplain appointed
in the navy, ha3 receiv’d ordirs to prepire
for detacumeut. He will be ordered to Phila
delphia.
The Duchess of Albany paid what is con
sidered a high compliment to Tennyson last
Wednesday. It was the poet's birthday, and
she made a visit ot congratulation to him. He
was born in 1809.
John Erhardt. who died in Brooklyn Wednes
day, was the oldest customs inspector in the
country, having entered the service long before
the war H > was the father of Collector Er
hardt of New York.
W. J. Vadkrwikelstein. who introduced into
Australia the rabbits which have been for years
the pest and despair of that vast country is
still living in Melbourne, broken-hearted and
weary of life, because of the anguish which that
great nus axe has brought him.
Senator Gorman is said to be the handsomest
man in the United states Senate He is a
Presbyterian, and one of the few members of
the upper House who pay sufficient respect to
the chaplain's prayer to be present when it is
uttered. He has been nicknamed "Cardinal.”
Roscoe Conklixg and Francis Kernan were
both residents of Utica, and both United States
senators at the same time. Aaron Burr and
Rufus King (both of the city of New York) and
Charles E. i ludley and William L. Aiarcy iboth
from the city of Albany > were earlier examples
of the election of two United States senators
residents in the same city.
Miss Virginia Schley, daughter of the com
mander of the flagsjip Laltimore. is shortly to
marry Ralph Montague Stuart Wortley, a scion
ot one of the oldest English families in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, w.io is in the employ
ot the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany, at Portsmouth, Ya.. and who will soon
become a naturalized American citizen.
BRIG H 1’ BtTo.
If theie is anything under the Fky at sight
of which the Rous weep it is to sea w Oman try
ing to do up a package,—Rant's Horn.
George Washington wore a No. It boot. It
is hardly necessary to stato that he g t there
with both of them.—Terre Haute Express.
The average lie has to walk on crutches
within a week. You have never yet seen the
truth in a drug store trying to buy an artificial
limb.— Milwaukee Sews.
A sheriff seized a western college for debt
some time azo, and an inventory led to tbe dis
covery that the assel s consisted of a first-class
yell —Binghamton Leader.
It may bo said usually of the hapDiest of
them tnat before they are married he tollows
ner around, and after they are married she fol
lows him around,— Atchison Gl be.
Brown (throwing down his paper)—l wonder
why in tho world they call these miserable
South Amern an squabblet revolutions?
Withers—Because they are generally over in
one round, I suppose. —Boston Post.
Magistrate (to prisoner) Have you any
visible means of suport. Uncle Rastus?
Uncle Rastus—Sah?
Magi-trate—What do you do for a living?
Uncle Rastus—o, now I understand yo', sah
De ole ’ooman takes in washm’, yo’ honab, —
Harper's Bazar.
At the White House—Caller—How do you
do, Mr President? I’m very glad to see you.
The President -Your face is very familiar, but
I really can't place you.
Caller—O, I don't ask you to place me, sir;
merely called to offer my respects, sir.— Dry
Goods Chronicle.
“I THtNk that man must be a jockey,” re
marked Mrs. Hojack, indicating a passer by
"What makes you think that?" asked Hojack,
somewhat surprised.
"He has a hoarse voice."
“T tat s so. I noticed he had a horse laugh,
too.” —Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A Wise Wife—When I want a little extra
money from my husband, said the humorist's
wife. I always get him to read me his column of
jokes.
What then?
Why. 1 laugh most heartily at them, of course,
and the rest is easy. —Boston Courier.
Gladys-Macd, aged 10—Grammar, how y'
spell beistly.
Grandma—B EASILY, darling, but it's
not a nice word for my pet to use.
Gladys Maud—Well, 1 don’t care. I’ve got to
write to inammer and popper, 'n I want to tell
’em about the weather.
Grandma—Oh, very well, pet.—. Veto York
Tribune.
Smith (observing a crowd around an am
bulance across Broadway)—Been an accident
over there?'
Brown -Yes; man hurt very badly. Run over,
or something.
“Anybody know who the man is?”
“Oh, yes. lie’s Dr Smarty, author of the
book. How to Avoid Street Accidents.’”—
Texas Siftings.
The American Rifle Team.—Biggs—l didn't
know that Bismarck cared much for Americans,
buthe seeu.s to have acted very cordially to
ward a party who called on him a short time
ago.
Boggs Who were they ?
Biggs—The paper gives their names—Diehl,
Eiscubauer, Hoopfier, Koeroer, Mahrenholz,
Walschmidt, Splitdorf, Mass— -
Boggs—O, I guess Bismarck likes the yankees
well enough.—Puck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Familiar Features.
Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch ( Ind. Pep.\
"Withheld for revision" is now almost as
prominent a feature in the Congr ossiVn tl /record
as that other familiar and enlivening phrase
“Loud and continued applause.”
Somewhere Between.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (DemA
Roswell F. Flower of New York estimates
that the nest House of Representatives will
have a democratic majority of thirty. That is
very modest If Czar Reed's pet measures
carry it will havo a democratic majority of
100.
Unci > J erry.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.\
Nothing lias lately come from Uncle Jerry
Rusk on the blessings to farmers of the high
tariff. Possibly Uncle Jerry thinks that the
drought has so cut off crops that the farmer
will be less depressed this year than usual, and
that further tariff writing is unnecessary The
less the American farmer raises, the better off
he is.
Not Too Big? for His Clothes.
From the Chicago Mail (Dem.\
According to 8 ipt Porter the population of
the United States is just about 61,0,1,00t>, which
will disappoint some jieople who like to think
that Uncle Sara it the biggest fellow that ever
was. But there is aconsolation to be found in
the thought that it is the stllv little hoy who
aches to he as big a* his dad and the wise old
lad who wisues he was a boy again.
Indian* Diet lire along the line of Umatilla
river, i ireg n, complain of fishermen who catch
hundred* of trout and carry away only enough
tor a meal, the rest are left to rot oil the banks.
■ ■ ■ ■
Chapter 1: Wean, tired, n > appetite.
Chapter Too* Ho *i Kiifsi’ipariliH
Cba;'t *r 3; Htroug, cheerful, buiigry.~-
Adv.
F Wasn’t I xtravagant
Cautious people are sometime* ton cautious, I
says the St. Paul Pioneer- pi ess. The story of a
man who considered seriously for a week
whether it w ,uld be wise for him to pay SSO)
for a lot and, after deciding i. the affirmative. I
learnel from the real estate man iu a more care
fui conversa-ion that it was $. 0) p r front foot, j
is a case in point.
Ale v days ago a stranger while passing a
haberdasher's store, was attrseted ny a display
of shirts, which were further di-tinguishel by a
placard on which was printed the legend:
“I'hese are 75 cents.” It happened that in the
same case were a few silk umbrellas, which
command about $8 eac i on a pl-a-ant day, with
a slight tendency t > rise if clouds gather The
pedestrian gazed ’ong aryl earnestly into tbe
window; then he wandered away, only to retu-n
soon and gaze again This was re I suited several
times. Finally h : entered tne store and asked
to look at toe umbre las. One was brought out
and lie opened and exa nin-d It with the utmos
care. It seemed to suit bim exactly and h -
turnedtothe proprietor and remarked: ‘ I'll
give you an even (V) cents for it.” Tne pro
prietor evidently didn't think he understood
aright, for he leaned forward ani said:
"What?" T e etrauger a am informed him,
'Til give you an eve iCOceatsfortheumbrelia.’’
The propr.etor was dazed. Then be began to
recover.
"How mnch do you think it costs?” he in
quired.
"Seventy.five cents.”
“And have you been debating a’.! this time
whether you would give that amount for a silk
urnbrt 11a?"
The stranger said he had.
The proprietor led him gently but ffr nlv to
the door. "My friend.” he said tenderly, “you
are too far from home and you'd better scoot
bef, re some hungry t a * hor.-e gets a chanc * to
nibble at you an i mak, s a tuneralofyou before
the mistake is discovered.”
Certified that He Was Sober.
An episode growing out of the ban ;uet given
at the Palmer house to the world’s fair commis
sioners was given publicity at a dinner in that
hostelry this noon by an observer, says the
Chicago Herald. "I had myself be n a partici
pant at tho festive board,” tbe historian began,
and had just obtains t my key from the clerk to
go to my room—it was a o’clock a. m.—wnen I
noticed walking nervously back and
forth in front of thi room cl rk, and Irom the
frequent glances tie gave that functionary I
knew he w anted to speak to him. Eaves-drop
ping is not tny practice, but I knew something
odd was in the wind and I forgave myself in ad
vance for feigning to read a paper on the desk
within hearing distance. When the last of the
banqueters, who by reason of the late hour
were unable to get trains or street cars home,
had registered and departed for his room he
walked tip to the clerk and said, with con
siderable stammering:
‘ ‘jiy dear sir, i w.oti you would do me a fa
vor. You see it is very late and I can’t get a
car home. If 1 should take a cab I couldn’t
get there inside of an hour, and as I have an
appointment for an early hour in the morning,
it would be foolish to go home. But if I stay
here I am afraid my wiie will think I am full.
Now if I tell her lam not, she won’t believe
uie; but if you will write on this card—handing
the clerk a pasteboard from the desk box—
that I am not, then I can stay here and it will
be all rignt wben I show her toe card.
'I he clerk appreciated the situation and
writing on the card: ’June 27,3890. This is to
cirtify that was not intox cated
wnen he registered at the Palmer House this
m arning,'gave it to the distinguished guest
afraid-0.-h.s wife and sent him to a room.”
Da Ash Cuke ‘Smack.
Prom the Chicago Herald.
When de waggiii is stalled in the hillside rut,
An' de flei’s kivered wid winter s snows.
Wen de squ'el is crackin' de b:g fat nut—
Dat's de time for settin’ an' toastin’ yo' toes;
But, soon ez you hyers de chatterin' crows.
An' de ha’r ’gins ter drap f'um de roaa mule’s
back.
Wen de tnornia' glories an’ dock weeds grow—
Dat's de time for ash cake and buttermilk
smack.
Wen de barker is stripped an’ de back lorgs
cut.
An’ de icicles hang f’um de tip uv yo nose,
W’en de gobbler’s too cole ter : obble an’ strut—
Dat's de time for settin’ and toastin’ yo’ toes;
But soon ez de win’ f'um de southwes’ blows,
-An' de bay filly prance in Iron’ uv de rack,
An’ you byers that tune uv de cradles an' hose—
Dat's tie time for ash cake an' buttermilk
smack.
Wen de corn ain’t nothin' nut nubbins an'
smut,
An’ de crows come back kaze de creek's all
froze.
Wen de north win’ fin's all de cracks in da
hut—
Dat’s de time fer settin’and toastin' yo’ tors;
But soon ez de rain f’um de May cloud po’s
An’ you hyer in de lowgroun' de plougnwhip
crack.
An’ de bullfrog sing an’ de old folks dose—
Dat's de time for ash cake and buttermilk
smack.
All tings in der season—fer winter, 1 knows
Dat sde time fer soilin' and toastin' yo’ toes;
But long in de dorg days—dis is er fac'—
Dat’s de time for ash cake an’ buttermilk
smack.
A South Carolina Census.
The following, 6ays the Washington Star, is
an extract from a letter received from a special
agent of the United States census, detailed to
get data for the fish and fisheries of South Caro
lina:
”1 must tell you how I worked B . 1 got
there late on Friday evening and found every
body mum asau oyster. I was in despair un il
at last I heard a man playing a Addle in one of
the stores. I went in at once, and after loafing
around awhile asked to see the fiddle. When I
got it I drew the bow over the strings, said it
was a good oue, and handed it back; but they
saw I could play and insist ;d I should try, so I
took off my coat and sailed in. From that
moment my stock went up. In an hour I had
half the folks in town in the store,
the proprietor was doing a rushing busi
ness, and so was I. I finally put down
the fiddle aud addrested the crowd, told them
my business, and said that though I was willing
to play for them I must attend to my work first,
and invited ail who were engaged in fishing to
walk up snd sign tbe pledge. Nothing was too
good for me. They wanted to fill me up on
beer, and I bad more cigars than I could smoke.
They refused to let me set ’em up a single time,
and wben I wanted to leave town they begged
me to stay, or, if I would go, to caw back and
locate. Tuey hunted up all tho men I wanted
and brought them to me or took me to them in
a buggy. I was treated like a prince. One poor
devil (colored) refused to answer my questions,
and one of my enthusiastic assistants cracked
him on the head with a beer bottle, so that he
had to be carried from tbe field in a disabled
condition.
‘ Well. I had a time, but I got everybody there
was to get.”
F.ocky Mountain Kata.
"For ten years one of the peculiar characters
found in Leadville was Rocky Mountain Kate,
says the Chicago Tribune. No one seems to
know her name, and if she ever gave people to
understand that she possessed any other name
than Rocky Mountain Kate they have long sinca
forgotten it. Rocky Mountain Kate is some
times called Puss in Boots, because she incases
her pedal extremities iu cowhide boots many
sizes too large for her. She has amassed a for
tune, and her rents in Leadville alone bring her
an income of SI,OOO per month, besides a larg;
amount of real estate in Denver, which is of great
value. Sue is very frugal, indeed, misorly, in her
manner of living: she seldom buys anv food or
clothing, but her meals are the remains from the
tables of her neighbors.and her clothing tbe cast
off garments of charitable Leadville ladies.
Rocky Mountain Kate's occupation is working
by the day—housecleaning an 1 the line and it
is needless to say that her already large fortune
is not decreasing. The report at present in
Leadville is that Rocky Mountain Kate contem
plates perpetuating her name by using her
fortune to build a church. Thus far she has
used noneof her hard-earned mo: ey for charit
able enterprises, but doubtless with the endow
ment of her church she will allow her conscie nee
to remain at peace with all the world. Rocky
Mountain Kate is a queer looking individual,
with her garments, which show plainly that
they were made for somebody else, her old
gingham bonnet and her cowhide boots.”
Equal to the Occasion.
There lived some years ago in Western Penn
sylvania an old preacher. Father West by name,
whose genial humor and general kindliness of
heart had greatly endeared him to the people of
bis district, says Harper's Magazine. He was
a particular favorite with the young folks mat
ruuonniiv Inclined, and his opportunities io
"tie the knot” were numerous. On one occa
sion he found upon bis arrival ut a certain town
several couples awaiting his blessing Tne old
man win tired and wished to make abort work
of the job "Stand up,” be began. ‘ and jolu
band* " Which, being done, be rattled torough
a marriage service that, like himself. was orig
inal. 'There." he said,wnen it was finished, "y
can go; ye're man and wife, ev rv one o' ye.
Two of the couples hesitated ani fin l"
made it apparent that in the *uoden ’ lining
tuey had b-oone confuse I and taken the hands
of the wrong person. The old preacher'a eye
twinkled as betook in tbe situation, but be in
siantiy straightened up, and with a wave of bis
band dispersed them I inarr ej ye ad,” hi
said, "sort yourselve*."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A rzn tree recently cut down in Snohomish
county. Oregon, was 3A) feet long and 12 feet in
diameter.
The second int *rnationil congress of be
lievers in cremation will soon meet in Berlin.
The first congr ss of sixteen delegates took
place in Dresden in 1876.
The only attendants at the funeral of Jere
miah Miller of North mountain, Cumberland
county, who attempted to kill his wife and then
killed him-elr, were the reporters—who acted as
pastor, pall bearers ani grave diggers.
A trek in Nashville caught fire from an
electric w re. One limb was burned entirely
off. A policeman threw water on the burnin :
limb with a hose, and when the w ater struck the
fire he experienced a severe electric shock.
Mrs. John Garred of L oni b ed ta death in
her sleep the oiher night. Her condition >n
not known by her husban 1 until he was awak
ened by the olood whicn was Mowing from her
leg. The veins nad broken by tbe force of tLe
life current, aid she was dead in fifteen min
utes.
The place to send old stamps is the Aisle des
Biliodes, Lode, SwitEerlaad. In 18S8 this asylum
rece ve i over 3,009,030 stamps, of which the best
the end Iren assorted an and so and for (240 to dealers
and c'Rectors, wuiie t< e otners were used for
decorative purposes, rooms being papered with
them.
Six years ago Fred McConnell, aged 13, of
Washington, Pa., saw a circus performer eat
glass and it so pleased him he determined to
learn to do it. The first atte npt made him
sick, hut since then he has experienced no ill
effect, tuough he is no taller than a boy oi 8 or
10 years.
Montana leads all other st ites and territo
ries n tne va.ue o. its ru neral output, altnouga
a very small j rjportiou of its unues are b ing
worked, l’he mineral produced in 1889 was
$43,000,000. and over half this amount, or
over (-2.000.00 J, was produced in Butte alone.
This output is increasing a it je time.
According to the returns of the Dominion
immigration department, n> less than 811,210
immigrants from foreign lands settle iin the
Dominion between Che years 1881 and 1883, yet
the year book just received by the federal gov
er. meut only claims an increase of 730,04 ti in
the Dominion population siuca 1881. There is
too much emigration to this country for the
Dominion to grow very fast.
A Bangor mare after leaving the hayfleld
was returned to the stable in a decidedly snap
pish mood, and the first thing she did was to
i a.ch her 3-months old filly’s nose in her mouth
and tear the flesh entirely from it. Fourteen
stitches w-re taken in the wound, but the flesh
died and has been cut away. The colt was a
valuable one and its owner’s hopes of its getting
the first pr.z ■ at the Bangor fair are gone.
A woman in New York, who has been ruined
by drink, gains a precarious living by boarding
and taking care of fourteen old blind people.
Mornings she leads them to their places, where
they sit for caarity and peddle small articles,
anil evenings she fetches them home one by
ouo She supplies the n with their meals and
gives them a certain rude comfort. As she is
careful to keep her proteges within the law, she
is not interfered witn oy tae police.
A will made by Freder c . the Great in 1741
during the first Silesian war, was printed in the
first volume of 'The War of Frederick the
Great,” just pub.ished in Germany. It reads as
follows: "I am only king sj Ion; as I . ra free.
If they kill me I wish my body to he burnt in
Roman fasbi >n and my ashes to ue incloseu m
an urn at Rheinsherg. In this case Knoblesdorf
ibis architect) shall C'n.truct a monument for
me like that of Horace at Tusculum.”
Miss Anna Baton, of Port Huron, wanted to
get a passport to go homo to Fc Und for a
visit. Mr. Blaine said he couldn’t give her one,
as she was not a citizen of his. The lady went
thereupon before a circuit judge, renounced
allegiance to everything save Uncle bam, and
was made a full and complete citizen. She will
now write Mr. Blaine. Children who came to
tnis country before they were 18 yeirso.'d.
without their parents, can take out full papers
on becomiug of ago.
Every guest at the Antwerp banquet to Mr.
Stanley had received an admirably executed
commemorative tried'l in bronze. On one side
the arms of the city are surmounted by tl e
words "Stad Antwerpen;” on the reverse an oa
crown and the Congo star encircle the dedica
tion un F.nglish) "to Henry M. Stanley, April,
3890.” Between the oas leaves and the rim
there is just space for the inscription: "The
Municipal Council, the Royal Geographical So
ciety and the Chamber of Commerce of Ant
werp ”
A lady living in Henderson county, Ky„
whose husband died a short while since, did
something the other day the like of wnich is
rarely recorded. It teems that her husband
owed fo ne $l.O 0. most of which had either
been harr .'d try the statute of limitations or had
been liquidated by his act in taking benefit of
the bankrupt law. His widow lost no time in
collecting these evidences of indebtedness, and
borrowed $4,000 with which to ray them, mort
gaging the farm (which belmged to her aud on
which she lived) to raise the money. Checks
were sent to creditors in full.
It is generally understood that the hair
and nails grow faster in hot weather than in
cold, but perhaps few are aware that any tern
psrature can impart so great a stimulus to the
growth as Col. Pejevaisky, the Russian trav
eler. says the Central Asian heat did during his
journey in those regions in th- summer of 1889.
In June the ground and the air became so
excessively hot, so great, indeed, as to render
trave’ in the daytime impossible. Within a
fortnight after this oppressive weather began it
was n diced that the hair and beard of all tbe
party were growing with astonishing rapidity,
and, strangest of all. some youthful Cossacks!
whose faces were perfectly smooth, developed
respectable beards within the short space of
twenty days.
The Attorney General has decided that Gen.
Adam Badeau has no legal right to have bis
name on the retired list of the army, and, in
accordance with that decision, ihe President
and the Secretary of War have decided
to drop his name from the rolls of the
army at once. The Attorney General decided
that Gen. Badeau, in accepting a diplomatic
office, vacated his military office and put him
seif out of the army. The fact that his name
remained on the rolls has no significance. It is
simply evidence of a mistake of law in making
those roils. This case, adds the Attorney Gen
eral, is not governed by the act of 1875. which
provides “That every such officer (one who has
a leg or an arm permanently disabled) shall be
continued thereon,” because Gen. Badeau. as
the result of his statutory resignation, had been
out of the army and his place therein vacant
almost six years before the act of 1875 was
passed. This act did not operate to restore him
to the army.
Judge Jamieson’s resignation has led the
Chicago Trir.une to make some comparisons
between the salaries paid to the American and
the British judges. There is a wide disparity,
and on readiug over the list of magnificent
British salaries the conclusion is irresistible
that our own judges are underpaid, though
there may be a suspicion tnat the Englisa
judges are overpaid. The lord chancellor of
England gets $50,000 per annum while in office,
and when he go-s out with his party he gets
$25,000 per annum. Tne Irish lord chancellor
gets $4 i,OOO in and $20,000 per annum on going
out. Tnree lords of appeal -supreme court
judges—are paid $30,000 per annum. The lord
chief justice receives $40,000; the master of the
rolls, chief of thechancery division, (30,000; the
other chancery judges, $25,000 each. ’The
queen’s bench judges are paid $25,000 each.
The county judges get salaries ranging from
SB,OOO to S2O 000. The Irish judges are paid
M 7.500 to S-5,090 per annum, or more than
three times the salaries of our supreme court
judges.
It is said at the census office that the states
of Minnesota and Nebraska snow a phenomenal
increase in population. Tne postal card returns
indicate that the increase in each state will ap
proximate 600,000. The population of Colorado
is estimated at 400,000. tt was 194,327 in 1880.
thus showing tba: it has doubled during the
past ten years. Washington wifi probably show
a population of 350,000. Iu 3880 the territory
had i5,!16 inhabitants, so that the population
has more than quadrupled since the census of
that year. It is now considered a settled fact that
Illinois will take Ohio's place as the third state
m point of population. The enormous increase
in Chicago—nearly 600,000 in ten years has
contributed greatly to this result. The com
plete official count has been announced in
several eit.es Albany has 93,523 inhabitant
against 90.758 in 18*0 a gain of 315 per cent’
Troy has 00.605, against 7 6,747 in 1880—a gain of
6.80 percent .Atlanta, Ga.,shossan enormou
percentage of increase, the present populaii >o
b dug 85, 11. as against 37,409 in 1880-percent
age of increase. 75 13; Wilmington. Del 81 43,
agamst 42.478 m 1880—a percentage of iocrea •
of 44.63 A rough estimate of tbe populatiou of
the following States, let don th* p >tal card
r ports of the enumerai aas given out to
day: New V. rk. 5.998.642; Indians, 2,224,8*2;
Nebraska. 1.042,212; lowa, 1.458,330; Montana.
125.167 South Dakota. 333,942; North Dakot
181,600. ’
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