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Saturday's Special Prices at Heidt's; Salt, Sa
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Queen Victoria is said to be partial to
men. She gives eight “levees” for them
during a season, and only two “drawing
rooms” are held for women.
A Louisville wheelman rode 152 Jsj miles
the other day on a bioyolo. What would
his record have been had he been running
an errand for his mother-in-law?
Gen. Legitime, Hayti’s oxilod ruler, will
write a book soon, in which he will trace the
history of the political events leading to his
downfall. It is seldom that a man ever has
the heart to do this.
It is “narrowing things down” when the
punctilious officers in the quoen’s court re
fuse to admit a lady guest because her dress
is not made decollete or her train is not of
the prescribed length.
The Indiana Germans will celebrate Oct.
6 at Evansville, the anniversary of tne land
ing of the first German immigrants in
America. It will boa grand affair, and one
of considerable note in Indiana.
Is Col. Nor then, the democratic nominee
for governor, going to make any speeches
this fall? There is no reason why ho should
do so. He bos no opponent, and, besides,
he did a groat deal of talking before he was
nominate 1.
It is said that the Bible is oftener quoted
from in congress than any other book.
Well, what is there strange about this? Is
not the Bible full of wisdom, and are not
congressman as much in need of wisdom as
other people?
Savannah means to have a million bales
of cotton this year. It would be well for
New Orleans to look to her laurels as the
chief commercial city of the South. Sa
vannah is reaching out after that position,
and she may get it.
The Southern Alliance Farmer has
opened Its guns on Gov. Gordon. At present
it doesn’t look as if their caliber were heavy
enough to knock him out. The fact is, tbe
governor seems to have a pretty strong sud
port from alliaDcemen.
The United States senator who has the
most prolific brain is John T. Morgan, of
Alabama. He not only talks more than any
other senator, and talks well, but he does a
vast amount of writing for the magazines.
In the September number of two of them he
has articles on live subjects, and they are
very good articles.
Henry George is pushing his single-tax
idea. It seams to be a pretty hard idea to
understand. Statistician Atkinson of Bos
ton wrestled with it a good long while and,
according to Mr. George, did not then fully
comprehend it. Perhaps Mr. Goorgo has
invented a method for making the compre
hension of it easy.
Murat Halstead, one of the foremost of
the republican editors, is afraid that the
force bill will do liis party a great deal of
harm in the fall elections. He therefore
tells the republicans that they cannot make
that bill an issue at the polls, because the
republican masses have not demanded it.
It is true the republican masses have not
demanded it, but the bloody shirt leaders of
the Republican party have made that party
responsible for it. In tbe campaigns this
fall the republicans will have to defend it,
and, as the great majority of them seethe
folly of it, their defense will be a very weak
one. It is high time the Republican party
wo* forced to take a back seat.
Explaining Vermont's Vote.
The republican papers are trying to cx
i plain why the republican vo;e in Ver
mont, at the state election this year, was
jso remarkably light. They understand, of
| course, that some explanation is needed,
because never before has the republican
majority in that state been so small. It is
; doubtful if it will reae i 13,000. The aver
age republican majority is ah >ut 24,000,
and at the last gubernatorial election it was
over 28,000. It has i ever before, in any
year, fallen below 20,000.
Some of tne republican organs say that
this was our off year, and that the republi
cans, being sure of carrying tne state, aid
not take as tunch interest in tne election as
tney have been accustomed to, and others
say that a good many republicans were uot
pleased at the outcome of the heated con
test for the gubernatorial nomination.
It is quite clear that uo one of these ex
planations is satisfactory. There have been
I many other off years in politics, and in
those years there was no such apathy
among the republicans as there was this,
and there have been in other years heated
contests for the party honors, but those con
tests bad no effect upon the republican ma
jority at the subsequent elections.
The explanation of the remarkable falling
off in the republican vote must be looked
for outside of those given by the republican
papers. It is quite safe to say that there is
widespread dissatisfaction among Vermont
republicans with the course pursued by the
republican raaj jrity in the present congress.
They have watched tho arbitrary and dicta
torial course of Speaker Reed, and have not
approved it. They have studied the Mc-
Kinley tariff bill and have seen
that It increases the burdens
of the farmers—burdens which have
caused hundreds of Vermout farms to be
abandoned. They have watched the course
of their party with respect to the force bill,
and have condemned it. They do not see
that there is any more reason for ala v to
get the blacks of the south to the polls to
vote the republican ticket than there is for
a law to compel those republicans in Ver
mont to vote who do not choose to do so.
The truth is that republicans in all parts
of the country are losing confidence in their
party and respect for it. They see that it
is a party for those who are rich and want
to get still richer by moans of protected
monopolies, and not for those who are poor
and s!niggling for a living. They are be
ginning to understand that it is not the
friend of tbs fnrmors. notwithstanding that
it pretends that it is.
The failure of the Vermont republicans
to give their ticket their usual majority
seriously alarms Hpeaker Reed, who is well
aware that republican apathy in the Green
Mountain Stato indicates republican apathy
in Muiue. And he has good reason to bo
alarmed. His district is a close one. If
a very small percentage of the republican
voters should remain away from the polls
he would he defeated. If he should fail to
be re-elected his public career would be
ended forever. His defeat would be such a
condemnation of his course as spenker as
would compel his retirement to private
life.
A Crazy Woman’s Work.
St. Louis is just now being treated to a
religious sensation. Mrs. Maria B. Wood
worth, a noted evangelist, has pitclioa her
tent on a prominent ave iuo in the city and
is working wonders in the way of making
oonverts. Hor mootings are attended by
thousands, and during her services hun
dred* become entranced and fall about on
the ground in an unconsious condition.
They are totally oblivious to the surround
ings, their pulsee are so faint that they can
not be felt, and their flesh is cold and
clammy.
It is said that the victims, lying in these
trances, present all the ghastliness of death.
While they receive the attention of the
cooler convorts, others ruu about ovor the
tent shouting and praying and throwing
tbeir hands up over their heads in u way
that is almost terrifying.
Those services within the last two weeks
caused so much excitement that two
eminent physicians, experts in insanity and
neurology, were attracted to tho tent.
After viewing the scenes there tboy ques
tioned the woman evangelist, and ttiey de
clare that she is Insane with strong hypno
atic powers. They believe that she Is
dangerous. Not ouly will the nervous pros
trations injure the health of the oonverts,
bnt the physicians apprehend that the
injuries they receive will bo hereditary.
Whether Mrs. Woodworth’s religion is
houest or not, does not appear to
be a consideration with the St. Louis
people. They have joined in a petition to
the mayor to put a 6top to the woman’s
work, and the chances are ttpit she will have
to seek other fields. It may be enough to
state that Mrs. Wocxiworth is the same per
sou who created so much excitement all
ovor the country while in Oakland, Cal., by
prophesying great earthquakes and tidal
waves which would destroy the large cities.
The Marquis de Leuville has a great deal
of trouble on account of the gentle and
beautiful Mrs. Losiia. It Is said that he
went from London to Boulogne to fight a
duel with a reporter of a French paper last
Thursday. The reporter called on the
marquis and insisted on knowing all about
his affair with Mrs. Leslie, and when the
marquis refused to bo questioned the re
porter used very abusive lauguago to him.
Dueling is to be coudomned, but it is prob
able that the world would not grieve a
great deal if the one the marquis and the re
porter have arranged should end fatally to
both of thorn.
There doesn’t seem to be much use for
the democrats to discuss the tariff bill any
further. The republicans have made up
their minds to pass it in pretty nearly the
shape it is. The democrats, however, have
succeeded in showing that it is almost
wholly in the interest of the monopolies,
and the people ought to be able to vote in
telligently with regard to it this fall.
The people of this city are quite anxious
to see the projected electric railroad in op
eration in this city. It is predicted that it
will be a powerful agent in building up the
southern part of the town. It will certainly
have the effect of lessoning cruelty to
dumb animals.
The Samoans do not seem to take kindly
to the arrangement for their government,
which was fixed up by the parties to the
treaty of Berlin. If the Samoaus were
permitted to have their own way in their
I affairs thoy would be a great deal better
satisfied.
This business year will witucss an im
mense amount of building iu Savannah.
Savannahians can find no better place in
which to invest their capital than this.
Many new enterprises are certain to be
started in Savannah very soon.
THE MORNING NEfl'S: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1890.
Discrimination Against the South.
Hpeaker Reed, in his Portland speech, a
syno[i* of which was published in our dis
patches yesterday, said, in defense of the
force bill, that the democrats of the south
not only would uot permit the blacks in the
south to vote, thus depriving the republican
party of fifteen or twe ity members of the
House of Representatives, to which it
was justly entitled, but, also, that they
sought to dominate the entire country. Of
course Speaker Reed knew when he made
this statement that it was not true. The
southern democrats respect the election
laws awgreatly as do the northern repub
licans. The republican leaders pretend that
the blacks in the south do not go to the
polls and vote the rep iblicun tic :et because
they are prevented from doing so. They
might as weil say that the thousands of re
publicans in Vermont, who did not vote at
the election in that state the other day,
were kept away from the poll* by the demo
crats.
But that the democrats of tho south wish
to dominate the country, or to have any
greater voice in the national affairs than it
is their right to have, is not true. Asa mat
ter of fact the section they represent is
being continually discriminated against by
the republican majority in congress. Only
last Thursday, as stated in our dispatches
yesterday, the Senate voted to put biudir.g
twine, immense quantities of which are
used by the wheat-growing farmers of the
west, on the free list, and refused to put
jute, or jute bagging so largely consumed
by the farmers of the south as a covering
for cotton, cn the free list. With free jute
and free jute bagging there never could
be another jute bagging trust, and the cot
ton growing tarmers of the south would
always bo a->sured of a cheap covering for
their cotton.
Why was it that the Senate refused to tho
farmers of the south what it so freely ac
corded to the farmers of the west? If the
southern democrats dominated the country,
as Speaker Reed says they wish to do, the
south would bo protected against discrimi
nation, and there would be no discrimina
tion against the north.
The New York Central Strike.
One of the members of tho New York
state board of mediation and arbitration
was asked a day or two ago whether or not
the strike on the New York Central and
Hudson River railroads was ended. It is
reported that lie smiled very significantly
and answered that although the Knights of
Labor had not declared the strike off. it
was about as completely ended as it wus
possible for it to be.
The fact is the strike was a failure from
tho vory beginning. The great majority of
tho knights employed on tho two Vnuder
bilt roads did not approve it, and those who
took part in the strike did so at the com
mand of their leaders, and uot because thoy
felt they had a grievance. .
The investigation that has thus far been
made by the state board of arbitration is by
no means favorable to the leaders of the
knights. The strike was ordered because a
number of employes who are knights had
been discharged. The evidence goes to show
that most, if not all, of them, were dis
charged because they failed to give satis
faction In some respect. There has been a
total failure to show they were discharged
because they were Knights of Labor.
One of those discharged is Master W ork
man Loo. He it was who ordered the strike.
H* was vehement in his assertion that there
wus no causo for his discharge, and yet the
testimony before the board of arbitration
was that he had said to the superintendent
of the Vanderbilt roads, that tho Vander
bilts were putting too much water in their
stocks, and that he proposed to have some
of their money. It is not exactly clear
what ho meant, but there is no doubt that
he is an agitator of small mental caliber,
and is disposed to make troublo wherover
he may be. There was certainly good cause
for discharging him.
Powderly comes out of the strike with a
pretty badly battered reputation. He was
thought to be ati honest and level-headed
leader. He may be that, but there are few
now who believe he is. His correspondence
with Master Workman Lee, which found
its way somehow into print, shows him to
be wholly unworthy of the confidence
that has been placed in him, or else an ex
tremely dangerous man to ocoupy such a
position of responsibility and power as he
does. He coolly talked about schemes for
tying up all the railroads in tho country in
1892, the Presidential year, aud 1893, the
world’s fair year, with the view of
giving employes full control of the roads.
Honest knights, mon who want to do only
what is right, must regard these utter
ances of Mr. Powderly with feolings akin
to alarm, because they suggest a condition
of affairs that borders ou anarchy. Mr.
Powderly has lost the position in tho esti
mation of the people ho once held, and he
can never regain it. The sooner the
knights depose him from the leadership,
the better it will be for tbeir interests.
Representative Cannou, who disgraced
himself the otner day, by using language in
the House that was indecent, stands a
pretty good ohaace of being beaten. The
best element of the republicans of his dis
trict say that they want a clean-mouthed
r.ian to represent them in congress. Can
nou is confronted by a revolt in his own
party and strong democratic opposition. If
he should be dofoated nobody would regret
It. He would be served as he deserved.
The shot that Representative Kennedy
fired at Senator Quay, not ouly hit tks
mark it was aimed at, but it seems also to
have disturbed the entire republican catnp,
judging from the commotion caused among
the republicans. It was a better shot than
any that the democrats have fired at the
republicans, and probably did more damage.
When republicans begin to fight among
themselves it is safe to conclude that their
day of power is nearly over.
Senator Jones of Arkansas says that the
agitation over tho force bill greatly in
creased the democratic vote in the election
held in that state the oiher day. It seems to
have had about the 6aine effect in republi
can Vermont. If it should defeat Speaker
Reed's ro-olection to congress he wouid
think the election bill is indeed a force bill.
The authorities of New York express the
opinion that there are 200,000 more people
in that city than Supt. Porter’s census gives
it. They have asked him to order a recount.
He is satisfied that the count wus correct,
and it is not probable he will comply with
the request.
Many Savannahians did not know how
much progress their city had made during
the lost busiuess year until they read the
Mußniko News’ Trade Review yesterday.
They wore surprised to find that Savant ah
had grown so much iu everything tnat goes
to make up a prosperous city.
PERSONAL.
Von Moltke enters his 91st year on Oct 28.
Mas. Abram S. Hewitt h-ads an ass ciation
in New York to enabe women to study law.
Hannibal Hamlin, with a rare regard for
posterity, has kept no d.ary of eighty one years'
expern nre.
Dm Belle Smith, the resident physician at
the woman's prison in Sherborn, Mas-., is only
23 years of age.
Emperor William offered to make Lord
Sal.sburyn Knight of the [liars Eagle, but the
offer was declined.
It took twenty four trunks to contain tbe
noces-ary articles for Mrs Harrison’s trip from
Cape May Point to Crcsson*.
Ex President Legitime of Hayti, who is now
in Paris, is busy writing up a history of the
events which led to his downfall.
Frederick H. Hassam. the antiquarian, of
New York, is to make ex-president Cleveland a
pres nt of Daniel Webster's rod ana reel.
Rev. Dr. Pentecost will sail on Faturday
for E.igla r d and tbence to India, where he
will inaugurate a novel missionary work.
Sister Hose Gertrude, the young English
nurse, fin is life unpleasant at the leper station
in Honolulu, and sh- w ill return to England.
“The Dairy Farm, " painted by Paulus Pot
ter, which belonged to the late Duke of Somer
set, has been bought by Aguew of London for
*,.30,150.
Samuel Slater first spun cotton by power
machinery in this country 100 years ago at
Pawtui ket. A celebration will be hold there on
Sept. 29.
William Steinway is mentioned as a candi
date for tbe mayor of New York in the interest
of harmony. No sounds have been heard yet
from Cblckering.
The Clevelands, at Marion, are so much
sought after by visitors and curiosity seekers
that the tenants of the adjoining cottage
have put a placard out: “Next door is the
place.”
Mrs. Laura J. Eisenbuth, the democratic
candidate for superintendent of education in
North Dakota, was for eleven years a teacher
in the lowa public schools, and is about 32 years
of age
Sir Charles Tupper, high commissioner for
Canada. Is interested in a scheme of railway
and steamship service which is expected to
carry a passenger from Chicago to London in
seven days.
Gen. W. H. Enochs, who defeated Grosvenor
and Thompson for the republican congressional
nomination in tho Twoifth Ohio district, is said
to have been tue youngest brigadier in the
union army.
Miss Flora Wax of Boston, daughter of a
florist in that city, has just obtained the first
prize and medal in the Vienna conservatory,
and has already entered ujhtu hor career as un
opera singer.
James McGregor, a London shipowner, has
just erected a brouzo protecting rail to inclose
the grave of ‘’Rob Boy" MacGregor, who was
buried in tbe kirkyard at Balquhidder, Perth
shire, over 150 years ago.
Captain W. D. Anderson of Toronto, has
rescued during his life time sixty-nine people
from drowning. He will be recommended by
the Duke of Connaught as a fit recipient of tbe
Albert medal, tin- highest honor given iu Eng
land for saving life.
Rev. Dr. Wayland, who has been called the
Chauncey Depew of Philadelphia in the matter
of after dinner speaking, is 6 feet 1M inches in
bight, has a dark complexion and heavy eye
brows. His physical appearance is much like
that of Abraham Lincoln.
George F Root, who wrote several battle
songs that were universally popular during the
civil war. celebrated his TOth birthday in Chicago
last Saturday. Dr. Root, who is a native of
Sheffield, Mass., first became widely known by
his “Hazel Dell” and “Rosalie, the Prairie
Flower.”
BRIGHT BITS.
A Pair Full.—
Tho moon rose full at eleven o’clock
And sailed o’er tower and hall;
But he was that full at tho Belt-same time
He couldn't rise at all.
—Philadelphia Time t.
Tommy—Pop, what is m-ant by "mean time?"
Mr. Por,sonny—That's the sort of time a man
has when h endeavors to prove to his wife that
summering two weeks in August means bank
ruptoy. —Jeweler's Circular.
His Dying Injunction.—"My son." said the
dying bunco man, "I guess you can’t do better
lhan to follow the motto of your poor old dad:
'Whomsoever you find to do, do him with ali
your might ’ "—Terre Haute Express.
“I wisiiall workmen were like these matches,"
said Mr, Benedict, hunting for the paregoric at
2 a m.
“Why?” inquired his spouse.
“Because they won’t strike.” —Lawrence
American.
"I was introduced to Gen. Greely awhile ago,
but I’m inclined to think someone was per
sonating him.”
“Why?"
“I asked him if it was going to rain and he
said he di in’t know.”— NewYork Sun.
He—Ethel, I'm ashamed of you! I saw that
beastly foreigner kissing you repeatedly. Why
didn’t you tell him to stop?
Bhe—l couldn't, dear.
He—Couldn’t! What do you mean?
She—l can't speak his language. —Judge.
"You Know," said the pastor to the newly
married pair, “it is the wife’s duty to obey
her husband and follow him wherever he may
go.”
"I won't do it,” pouted the bride.
“You won’t?”
“How can you expect me? He's a letter-car
rier. —Philadelphia I'i mes.
O Woman! Woman!—“Why am I afraid of
mice?” asked ttie Vassar girl. “Because they
are very dangerous beasts. I know of a mouie
that knocked a man down and bit his leg off ”
“H’m!" said Chappie, desirous of changing
the subject. “How do you like Stevenson?'”
"Not at all. He's too imaginative. I’m a
regular Howells realist.”—.Ye ic York Sun.
“Chemistry is a wonderful factor in civiliza
tion. They m ike everything out of chemicals,
now—whisky, beer and ”
“By the way, that reminds ms I saw a proof
of it to-day. A man took a quart of common
beer in a common tin measure.”
"Well?’’
“He actually turned it into a butter kettle.”—
Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Norton inquired eagerly of Lord Pan
mure, after the queen had pinned a medal on
the breast of bravo Sir Thomas Troubridge, the
Crimean hero:
"Was the queen touched?"
“Bless my soul, no!" was tbe reply. “She
had a brass railing before her. and uo one coul 1
touch her.”
Mrs. Norton explained:
"I mean, was she moved?"
“Moved ” returned Lor l Panmure, with wil
ful stolidity, “she had no occasion to move.”
Ladies' Pictorial.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Women as Enumerators.
From the Boston Olobe (Demi.
It is suggested that women should be em
ployed as census enumerators hereafter They
would probably do the work for nothing, just
for tbe fuu of asking their neighbors personal
questions.
Tho Political Sky Lurid.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.).
The lurid red glare over the greater part of
the republican newspaper sky in the direction
of Arkansas is the reflection from the frantic
waving f the bloody shirt. It is being used to
blow wind into the dead embers of the force
bill.
A Hard Year Ahead of Us.
From the Chicago Tribune (Hep.).
All sealskin garments have gone up 25 per
ceut The crop of apples in New England is a
failure There are no peaches in Delaware.
There is a shortage in tbe peanut crop, and paw
paws are selling at 5 cents apiece. This is going
to be a hard season on ail of us.
Will need Be Thanked?
From the Few York Herald ( Ind).
When tho House of Representatives adjourns
it is the custom to move a vote of thanks to the
speaker tue motion coming from the leader of
tue oppos.tiou. Speculation is rife as to which
democrat will move the vote in honor of Mr
Reed. Wo would respectfully suggest that the
duty be waived by the ueinocrats and devolve
upon Mr. Cannon of Illinois. No member has
better reasons for thanking the sneaker.
After all, the best way to know tha real
merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla is to try it
yourself. Be sure to get Hood’s.— Adv.
Ho Directory.
A good story is told on Judy* H. G. Struve,
one of the prominent citizens of B?attle. says
the Boston Pj*t. While the great fire was rag
ing be rushed up into his offl e to save some of
his most valuable books It U well known that
he had aorumulatea a vast amount of m* erial
which he proposed working up into abLtorj of
Washington. This material and some ot bis
j books were very precious to him. So as the
fir * came sleeping down toward his office he
rushed upstairs and began to select the books
most valuable “Ah, this one I will save. So .
I guess this one is more valuable. ‘ Thus he
hesitated, and among his u any bonks, all of
which were dear to bim, he was unable to de
| cide which one to save. Just then the cries of
firemen were raised, apd the judge was urged
to come down and save his life Being thor
oughly alarmed and still undecided he turned
and grabbed the first book in reacu and rushed
out of the building. Reaching the pavement he
found he had saved—the city directory.
A Clam at Low Water.
“As Paris once said to Helen," Cardinal
Bemis, who happened to be leaning out of a
north window of his hotel, called this morning
to Lake-Front Leland. who happened to he
leaning out of the south window of his hotel,
"this beautiful weather makes me feel like a
clam at high water." Since the cardinal’s re
cent European trip be has, upon frequent occa
sions, betrayed a rich knowledge of tfce lore of
the ancient classics. And in mentioning the
name of Troy’s lah-de-dab warrior he has never
failed to testify to his acquaintance with the
French language by pronouncing it "Paree."
“I don’t know who Pare-was. " Mr. Leland
called in response. "But if he said that he was
no fisherman." Mr. Leland has been spending a
few we-ks on the Atlantic coast, and he has
picked up a little extra learning hit use f.
"He wasn't, eti?" queried the cardinal.
"Not a little bit. If he had been he would
have said, ‘Happy a-; a clam at low water,’ for
that's when a clam’s happy. - '
"Why is he happy at iow water?" the cardinal,
ev r thirsty for more knowledge, asued.
"Because," Mr Leland. as he turned to leave
the window, replied, "at low water a clam can
open his mouth and spit."
Excessive tcientlflc Zsal.
“These August meteors,” remarked Mr.
Jonsbv, in the Pittsburg Dis atch, lay.ug down
his knife and fork, "generally seem to come
from the constellation of Perseus."
"And they are always more numerous be
tween the hours of 1 and 4in the morn ing," sug
gested Mrs. Johnsby, pouring out anoiner cup
of tea
I was talking, my dear, I was about to say
that on the nights of Aug. 10, 11 and IS-—"
"I know you were, my love, but [ know some
thing about it, too. Thesj meteoric show
era "
"I think, my darling. I have studied the sub
ject a little more thoroughly, perhaps, than you
have. On the nights of "
“Of course, dearest, I know that. The mete
ors are supposed to b;*- ’’
“Mrs. Johnsby, where have you acquired so
much astronomical knowledge, mav 1 ask?"
“Permit me to inquire. Mr. Johnsby, if you
think you know everything?"
“I know you can't hill a total eclipso from a
rainbow, madam ”
"And I know you haven't changed your socks
for six weeks, Sam Johnsby."
“I don’t wear false teeth, you insulting fe
male."
“And I don’t squint, you lean old codfish."
Mr. John by dodged a brisk meteoric shower
f chicken bones, egg shells and melon rinds
that seemed to proceed from an angry woman
at the other end of the t iblo. He rose iu great
wrath.put his wife's fac*-* in total eclipse by plast
ering it all over with cold mush,aud the interest
ing scientific conversation between the affec
tionate Mr. and Mrs. Johnsby was ended.
A Dumb Pugilist.
“Get on to the jay. Wonder who he is?"
“Don't know. Ha looks fresh, don't he? Just
tap him one aud see if he has any lighting blood
in him."
“I'll do it. Watch me."
Jimmy Hogan i one of the toughest young
men in Williamsburg, says the Pittsburg
Leader. lie is an amateur scrapper and was
spoiling for a fight. So when ho called Patrick's
attention to the quiet looking stranger who had
meekly walked into the Bowery saloon late
Thursday night the latter scented sport. Hence
his advice to his friend to see whether the
stranger wouid fight.
Hogan walked coolly past the stranger who
was leaning awkwardly against the bar, ware -
ing a party playing cards at one of the tables.
He brushed against him, aud finally pushed him
rather ruddy aside. The meek-looking stranger
said nothing, but rnovod to the other side of the
table.
"He won’t fight," Sulllivan whispered to Ho
gan a few' minutes later. "Hit him harder?"
By thifi time several others were interested
in the matter and were intently watching the
>utcome. Hogan walked pist the stranger and
:nt him a terifnc punoa in the side. He was
sorry for it afterward.
Without a word the stranger shot out his left
hand, caught Mr. Hogan under the ear and
knocked him in a heap. The young man
wanted a tight and he had it. The opening was
not propitious, but Hogan had grit. He came
to time in good shape and started in. lie didn't
get far. The stranger .‘earned to use both bands
and feet at the same time. The way in which
he used up the would-be pugilist was a surprise
to all.
Three times Hogan went down and then the
the men clinched. When the bartender rushed
out to stop the row his services were not needed.
The stranger had picked up Hogan, dropped
him, then picked him up again and hurle .1 him
into the street.
Friends took him home and reported last
night thar he would be out of the house noxt
week. One eye was blacked, his nose was
broken aud his back t-adly sprained.
The meek-looking stranger, through Sullivan,
invited the crowd to drink. His name was
John C’lare, just arrived from Ireland. He is a
cousin of the jocular Mr. Sullivan, who put up
the job on his young fri nd Hogan. Clare knew
nothing of it. and as he is deaf and dumb
thought he was in danger and fought under the
impression. Hogan has sworn vengeance on
Sullivan when he gets out.
Saved the Duty but Lo3t the Goods.
There is anew way of smuggling goods over
here from Europe, says the Chicago Herald .
All you have to do is to let someone else carry
them for you. You may never sse the goods
again, but it eases your conscience and .
Here is something that happened to a gentle
man just returned from a summer trip. He
does not live in Chicago. He may live in Mil
waukee. He made several purchases aud sent
them to this country with all due respect to the
government. Iu his final packing be disc w
ered quite au assortment of gloves and some
other trinkets that he had purchased, for the
ladies of his family had been overlooked. He
put them in his sachel. When nearing New
York he remarked to a gentlemau whose ac
quaintance he had made that he had some
goods in his possession that gave every evidence
of belonging to a lady. Tnere were no more
than would be allowed, but in putting them in
his sachel it did not occur to him that he had no
lady w ith hirn. The gentleman, a very agree
aoie man from “Pittsburg, traveling with his
wife," said:
“I will fix that for you. I will put them in
my w ife's sachel.**
Ho did so The inspector came aboard and
only just glanced at the contents of the sachel
belonging to the man-not from Chicago
When he came to the baggage of the man from
Pittsburg he said:
"Have you any dutiable goods?"
The man from Pittsburg said: "No. I don't
think I have."
"Have you any goods that don't belong to
you?"
The man from Pittsburg hesitated. Finally
remembering the hatchet and cherry tree story’
he said:
"Well, I have a few gloves and other
things."
Theglovesand "other tbiDgs" were inspected
The man from -not Chicago—had no respect
for a hatchet-cherry-tree man then and
walked a wav. As the steamer arrived he gave
the curiosity from Pittsburg his hotel address
in Now Yorx and also received the address of
the hotel to be honored by honesty The next
morning he called upon the man willing to help
him out of his ddemma to thank him, pay the
expenses incurred by honesty, and gt the
"things" purchased for his wife. The agreeable
man from Pittsburg and his wife were not num
bered among the guests of the hotel. Now
this man from—not Chicago—is wondering how
that inspector came to ask the man—whe could
not tell a lio—if ho had any goods not belonging
to himself and wife, 6 *
Snatched 1 rem the Grave.
In his testimonial attesting the virtues of
Radam’s Microbe Killer, Mr. M. C. Batter,
well and popularly known from his connec
tion with the Queen aud Crescent ftailread
presents a picture of the result of blood
poisoning winch cannot but have its weight
with eveuly balanced minds. Blood poison
ing comes to the sufferer ii such an insidi
ous shape thut it is oDly discovered when
under ordinary circumstances, it is too late
to combat it. According to his well-authen
ticsted statement. Mr. Battey was veritably
snatched from the grave by Radam’e Mi
crobe Killer, and hence gives to the world
ins taith in it as a cure for blood poisoning
while others toll of it as having cured them
of consumption and kindred diseases
For sale by Butler’* Pharmacy. -Adv.
BAKING POWDER. \
Actual Figures
‘‘Official Reports*
Baking Powders. c “^:. s A ;tT’’
Cleveland’s Superior. 5i •vißighent.
(pure cream of tartar powder.) (ammosted powder J
nhlo Food Commission 12.80 11.80
PI. J. Dairy Com. (average ... 13.54 13.31
Canadian Government Report 12.57 11,35
U. S. Government Report 12.58 12.71
Average: 12.87 12.30
Cleveland’s *§B£ Highest.
Cleveland’s Superior Baking Powder is by thee Official
Reports four, and one-half per cent, stronger than tie highest
ammoniated baking powder ; fifteen per cent, stronger than
the next highest pure cream of tartar powder, and Lrjy-two per
cent, stronger than the highest alum powder.
*The powder next to Cleveland’s in strength was fond to contain
ammonia. Ammonia and alum powders, no matter what their srength, are to
be avoided, as their continued use will injure the health.
items of interest.
The peace strength of the Gorman arn y
will, on and after Oct. 1, tons follows: Infantry,
538 battalions; cavalry, 46' squadrons: fled ar
tillery. 434 batterie-: foot artillery, 31 battalions;
pioneers, 20 battalions, and the train, 21 bat
tailous.
How many fountains did Sir Richard Wallace
erect in Paris* “I find,” says a correspondent,
“that there are no fewer than 91. and that the
elev nth arrondisseim n alone posseses eleven.
The fifteenth and seventeenth have ten, the
second and ninth only one. As to the other ar
roniisse nenis, tue number varies between two
and five.”
During all ages the sy-ange fashion of mutil
ating and ad rning the human ear has been
practiced, and has been in vogue all over the
world. It hits especially enjoyed great favor
among the Orientals, and by Persians, Baby
lonians, Lydians, Lybians and Carthagenians
the earring was worn as commonly by men as
by women.
“Sometimes,” writes a correspondent of a
trade paper, “I have had to make holes in steel
that was too hard to cut or file easily. Then I
make a mixture that will cut a hole. I mix one
ounce of sulphate of copper, quarrerof an ounce
of alum, half’ll teaspoonful of powdered salt, a
gill of vinegar and twenty drops of nitric acid.
This will make a hole.”
Rev. George Anderson, of Youngstown, was
a passenger on the City of New York, which
raced with the Teutonic from Live®too; lately.
He don't want any more steamship racing. He
says: “1 have male iny last trip on a racing
steamer. We left thirty minutes ahead of the
Teutonic, aud the speed maintained was terrific.
On Saturday night the heat wa- so oppressive
in the cabins everybody had to go on deck, and
it was found that the groat speed had over*
heated the machinery, but there was no check
until Sunday, when the passengers b came
alarmed, aud the groat engines were slowed
down t) allow the machinery to cool. If the
speed ha i been kept tip a few hours longer the
vessel with all on board would have gone to the
bottom.”
Among the numerous magnetic separators
which have lately been put before the public
one of the mo3t remarkable is that for the
extraction of iron from sea sand. It is stated
that ordinary sea van i contains from five to
seven per cent, of iron, enou vh, in fact, to give
a large excess over cost of extraction. The
machine is very simple, consisting of a cylinder,
whose surface is composed of e*ectro-iuagnets,
revolving on the inside of an endless canvas
beit. The sand is fed to the belt, and a sprav of
water separates the pai tides, the iron being
r tained by the powerful electro magnets, and
carried off on tne beit to a receptacle at the other
end, while the sand falls into the trough below,
it is claimed that the iron can thus be ex
tracted for about one-eighth of its value.
Little Sarah Jlicand of Manchester, New
Hampshire, has been missing sinoe Thursday
from the convent to which she was recently
taken by her father. It was the first absence
from the family circle for the mite of eight
years, and the home longing was already sor
row enough without the added burden of a for
gotten devotion She had been brought up to
expect a nightly parents’ benediction in a kiss,
and was given over to the care of the Sister
Superior by her father, who neglected to press
Die childish lips before he left her. He returned
to bis borne at Graniteville, R. L, and the baby
girl gave herself up to passionate grief. High
aud low the Sisters have looked, but no trace
has yet been found, and it 13 feared that the
child has drowned herself, her sensitive nature
having been cut to the quick by the parent's
thoughtlessness.
The question of the degree to which light
ning rods can be retied on to afford protection
has just been discussed before the London
Institution. Tbe ultimatum arrived at aeetns
to be that iu all cases ot steady strain in which
a charged cloud descending from the upper
regions of the air. or approaching from a dis
tance, might Inflict serious injury upon an
unprotected building, a well designed and
properly earthtormeeted lightning rod is an
absolute safeguard. In a case of “impulsive
rush” the rod may often be of use in bearing
the brunt of the discharge, though some
times the lightning will take no notice
whatever of it, striking tbs building and
altogether neglecting the rod: and it is evou
possible that a high rod might attract a de-truc
tive discharge, which otherwise would not have
occurred at all. Although, therefore, a lightning
rod is, in many cases, probably In a very large
jorsty, of the greatest service, it can not to de
pended upon as affording perfect immunity
from risk, and the assumption which has uni
versally been made by “tbe older electricians”
that damage by lightning is in itself conclusive
evidence of sue a imperfection in the conductor
is an unfounded one.
It is great sport to hunt coons in Connecti
cut when tbe moon is at full, and in every town
and hamlet east ot the Connecticut river are
from one to eight enthusiastic hunters, with
two or three dogs that are worth a little for
tune. as fortunes are estimated iu the country
There ts no other hunting dog in this state that
is so rare as a perfect coon dog—“a good coon
dog,” the hunters caliit. A goad ooon dor is
born, not made, and purity of any particular
strain in him is not at all essential. But he must
have a scent that is as keen as is tbe eye of a
falcon, au endurance that nothing can weary
and a pertinacity that is not to be baffled. No
other animal leaves so faiut and elusive a
trail as a coon does, and when, hard pro sod he
betakes himself into the wet swamp there is
not one dog in five that can follow his evanes
cent footsteps. A good coon dog is worth from
5-0 to 31OU in Connecticut at any time of the
year, and may not he bought for a dollar less
while a dog equally good at birds or foxes may
Hud no purchaser at sls or $25 The tost coon
dogs, some old hunters think, are obtained from
crossing u fox hound with a bird dog, or a fox
hound with a beagle, or even a fox hound with
a common shepherd dog or collie. But really
there is no trustworthy rule for breeding a No
1 coon dog: to is the product of nature herself
when the old lady is in a most happy and gener
ous mood.
A singular device has been brought out la
England, to-wit: An attachment for the applica
tion to gravestones, vaults, etc., for displaying
photographs, and tor holiday visiting, mournin!
or memorial cards, flowers or similar articles
Photographs of the deceased, or suitable mot
toes, are attached to a disc, revolving by means
of a button projecting from tbe face of the tn.
paratus at the back of the device, which is fixed
on to the headstone or vault The face of the
device is covered with a glazed aperture, behind
which the photographs appear successively as
Is revolved. A small lock-up box
with glazed front is also uttached to the
face of the disk, the said box being provided
with a longitudinal slit for the re
ception of visiting, memorial or mourn
mg cards, and with a sitade or canopy
or hinged sloping roof over the slit to prevent
the rain, snow, etc,, from entering the box
through the slit. Double vases are secured to
bracKets on the face of the device, the inner
vase being water-tight for the purpose of hold
ing cut flowers, the outer vase be ng perforated
to enable trailing plants to grow over the sides
and thus to mitigate the plainness of the tomb
stone. A hook is fixed just above the top of tbe
f. lßg ~P r tlle Purpose of nnnging a wreath upon
P eo P'f j n the world whose tastes
run to this kind of thing, and to such this new
device will bs acceptable.
Simmons Liver Regulator is a most excel
lent appetizing tonic.—(Sami. S. Pentz, Chap
to Bishop of North California Jdu.
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For O Id an&Y oang,
Tutt's Giver Pills act arkincHy on the
■hild. the delicate i'enale or inriruj
ld use, as upon tbe vigorous man.
;Itc tone to the st eak itiimaoh, ’ow
:Is, kidney* anti bludlvr. To fiese
•rgasis their strengtiieiinir qu allies
ire woudi-rrul, cuimiii; t belli c per.
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dress Col. C. J. WRIGHT, A. JL.Bupt.
Maupin’s University School,
ELLICOTT CITY. MD.
NINTH SESSION opens 18th Sepi. For terms
address CHAPMAN MAUItN.M A. Principal
Notre Dame of Maryland
Collegiate Institute for Young Lad/e.s and Pre
paratory School for little girls, conducted by
the School Sisters of Notre Dauje. E3IBLA P.
0., near Baltimore, Md.
122 and 124 W. Franklin St., Baltimore, Md.
Edgeworth Boarding anil Day School
for Young Ladies will reopei Thursday, Sep.
18th. 27th year. Mrs. 11. P. LSFEBVRE, Prin
cipal.
Commercial college of Kentucky university,
LEX IN Of ON, KV.
Tlighost Award at World's Exposition.
Book-keeping. Businrss, Sbort-haod. Trpa
' r ' Writing and Te!egrhj taught. lOOOSta
lints. 13 toucher*. 10,000 Graduate* iu Businc I **. Begin Aon
Addre-WILHtK U, SMITH, Freht, Lex ing toil, Kj
MORELAND PARK
MILITARY ACADEMY.
NEAR ATLANTA, GA
A Training School for Jloyg.
CHAS. M- ITEgL, Sup't,
HOME SCHOOL FOR IGIiSG LADIES
ATHENS, GA.
FULL PRIMARY, Intermediate, Academic
aud Senior Courses. Location beautiful
and healthful. Scholastic year ns Septem
ber 16th, 18!K). Madam* S. SOSNOWSKY.
Miss C. SOSNOWSKY, Associate Principals.
__Apply for circulars.
SAVAN NAH ACADEMY,
88 BULL STREET, MADISON SQUARE.
THE Savannah Academy opened TUESDAY,
Ist of October. Instruction given in an
cient and modern languages, mathematics aud
English. Special attention given to the Gram
mar School Department so that students may
enter business at an early a?e. Catalogues ob
tained at Davis Bros, or Savannah Academy,
Office hours 8 to 10 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m
JOHN TALIAFERRO,
Principal.
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE for Worn®!
Columbia, S. C., will open its session Oct.
Ist, 1800. The old Preston* Place, subsequent y
owned by Rev. 1), Stuart Dodge, of New Yorlf,
has been purchased for it by its founders, ana a
large and commodious building added to the
mansion. This institution includes the South
Carolina Presbyterian Institute, for Propaifi
tory and Academic instruction, and the South
Carolina College, for the higher education ot
women. For all its departments it has a faculty
of sixteen professors and teachers, un
excelled in ability and experience. Bix
of them are professors in the . State
University, whose lectures and instruc
tion will direct the education of tho young la
dies according to tbe method and standard oc
the University, and give them unsurpassed Ad
vantages in the way of higher education. Kuv.
Wm. R. Atkinson, Columbia S. C.
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Circular Saws and Mandrels.
Belt Hoots, Studs & Riwß
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