The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, January 26, 1891, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2 IS THE GIFT NEGLECTED ! DOES IMAGINATION DULL BEFORE ENLIGK. ENMENT? The Que tion Discuseed Affirmatively. The Idea Advanced That Push, Thrift and Enterprise Displace It. No Time for It in This Age of Bus tle-People’s Minds Trained to Art fulness- Education Directed to Ends Which Defeat It-How It was Re garded by the Ancients. Macon, Ga., Jan. 2L—Does imagination dull iefora enlightenment! Does it die out as people became more civilized! It is a disputed question. I heard it discussed the other night by a party of men and woman, and the tone of the discussi. n was decidedly in the affirm ative. It was resdved that peace, quiet, good will amongst neighbors ad easy life con duce to healthy imagination. No peraon who is barred from these can cultivate the faculty. Now, it was contended that the world of invention and labor, ever pressing around, crowds these condi tions down. There is no jieace, no quiet, no good will or easy life. It is com petition, rivalry and hard living. There can be no peace when the busy world is surging around as it is; there is no quiet wheu the engines of the thousands of enter prises are started, there is no good will where neighbors have to trample each other down to keep on foot themselves; there is no easy life when tie thoughts of every man are turned against everybody to save himself. Instead of cultivating a gift, people divert it by improving their art. ill ness to enable them to stand against their fellow-man. PLENTY TIME THEN. Before the war, when the world rocked along easily, and people lived slowly, they cultivated their finer sensibilities. They had time to let their imaginations run and play. The whole aim was not then togaiu ? Minor over your neighbors by amassing ortunes in a little while. It was not the idea nor the desire of any to grow rich at the expense of others. It was not a teach ing then (hat the youth should learn to uss their wealth to more atid more enrich them selves by oppressing, if occasion required, the poor or the helpless. It was a day when the poor might, in a way, cultivate their finer gifts. Merit was then, as it was in Solon’s time, the standard by wblo'n men were measured. Ail of Croesus’ wealth did not win him wisdom, nor greatue-s nor goodness. And when bis merit wai neighed in the scales with that of a poor, but able subject, the Grecian philosopher found the Lydian King wanting. Those were days of civilization, and to all intents answerable. It was thought that the world had attained its inline ce, and that those days wopld be recorded as forming the most enlightened period of the world. But how doee it compare with the enlight enment of this day! It is said that the world becomes more and more civilized. Certain it is, that people know more. There are more inventions, more thrift, more enterprise, less dreaming, and less time for study; not so much opportunity for careful research, and less preparation. It was once the case when all employes in almost any branch of labor had to show certificates, diplomas, eto., of competency. Especially was this trtie in the old coun tries. It is not so bow ;or if so, to a limited exteut. Toe world is too busy. Every body is afraid somebody else is getting ahead of them. They cannot sit down and devote a life to one thing. TENDENCY 18 TO DISPATCH. Dickens wrote “Copperfleld” in twelve mouths, Bellamy ground out "Looking Backward” iu a mouth. The whole tendency is toward dispatch in all things. People teach that wealth hides a multitude of faults. If the young will accumulate they may afford to be less learned, less capable, less friendly, less humans. It is a doctrine, well received, that people sharpen their wits, improve their reason and curb their imagination. They argue that the imagi nation of Virgil, Homer, Milton, Shake speare, Byron, Moore, Soott and others will keep the world a-going. There is, at this particular time, greater need for men of dispatch. Men of fair minds, fairer ideas of business, full of vim, push and a hanker ing for power. It was argued that the finer sensibilities, gifts, talents, are out of place in this age. Men are not to be so effeminate any more. HOW IT ONCE WAS. In the south, long ago, people lived slow. They knew low. They had imaginations, and they allowed them to run. Barring the sweet singers of our own dear state, suph as Lanier and Hayne, men eminent in af fairs of state h ive cultivated their imagina tions. Chief Justice Bleckley of the supreme court and Geu. Henry R. Jack-on have written lines which will outlive them, and the immortal Stephens found time to "dab ble in poetry.” Times, it is said, are changing, though. They are becoming moro enlightened. More new industries arc begun, and more new in ventions have been set on foot. It is get ting down to business. People are waking up. They are beginning to hustle. There is less time for culture; more for scheming. Less communication with neighbors; more pinching and screwing to hoard, to avoid oppression. The day seems to be passed wheu men’s minds’ and abilities are put against each other. The question now is, which is the most artful, the most ready, the quickest and shrewdes ? The cultiva tion of softer senses is not ii keeping with the age. They are discouraged, and even held by some in contempt. Bouiebodv once remarked of Whittier, seeing him in an im pecunious condition, if be had made as good shoes as ho had made fine poetry he would be among the wealthiest men. And yet a glance over the past, when people were not so enlightened, reveals men of imagination who will live on forever. Iu ancieut Greece music and poetry were cultivated with close application. The an cients ascribed Wonderful effects to them. Polybius, a grave aud serious historian, at tributes the extreme difference between the two nations of Arcadia—the one infinitely beloved and esteemed for the elegance of their manners, their benevolent inclina tions, humanity to strangers, and piety to the gods; the other, on the contrary, gen erally repr -ached and hated for their ma lignity, brutality and irreligion. Continu ing, be says: “1 mean, the true and genuine arts, industri usly cultivated by the one and absolutely neglected by the other nation.” SOCRATES POSSESSES IT. Socrates himself was not ashamed of learning to play on the lyre and enjoying the other arts. Thom stoclcs, however oth erw sc esteemed, was thoug it deficient in polite accomplishments, because ac an en tertainment he could not touch tho lyre aud engage iu the other arts as the rest of the company. Ic&oiance in this re-pect was deem and a defect, a id rkill did honor to the greatest moil. Bpam uandas was piaised for his great imaginative geuius. Platj, the most g.ave philosopher of antiquity, con sidered a knowledge of tho arts not as Simple amusements, but as essential. All that ever endeared the tyrant Dionysius to the Syracusans was his high so se of the arts of imagination. Otherwi ehe was hated and despised. In his intervals of leisure he loved to unbend in the conversations of persons of wit, aud in the study of music and poe ry. Tula is the wise reflection which his son, Dionysius the Younger, mads at Corinth: Piliu of Macedon being at tale with him, spoke of the odes and tragedies his father left iebind with an air of raillery ad contempt, and seemed to be under some difficulty to comprehend at wha: time of his iiie he had leisure for such compositions.” Dionysius smartly a,d witiiy replied: "Thedifficulty is very great indeed! Why, he composed them at th me hours which you and 1, and ail infinity of others, who have so high an opinion of our selves. pass in driuking and other diver sions ” Julius Oar and Emperor Augu-tus ! cultivated their imagi ations aud composed ! tragedies. Lucullus intended to have wr t i ten the memoirs of bis mihtarv actions in verse. The comedies of Terence were attributed to Ladius and Scipio, inlb great captains, especiallv- the latter: and that re port, which generally prevaned at Rome, was so far from lessening their reputation, that it added to the general esteem m which i they were held. It is well known that Car dinal Richelieu, in the mi Ist of bis import ant duties, not only co nposed dramatic nieces, but piqued himself on his excellence in that tale.t. THE WAY IT IS TO-DAY. That haughty spirit < f P.iillip of Mac edon, in lep oaching his s>n Alexander, who was applauded for siugi g at an enter tainment, controls tiie minds of men at this day. He asked his son if he was not ashamed to siag so well. Alexander the Great had a taste for tha whole circle of arts. He knew the value and usefulness of them. Music, pai .ting, poetry, in fact, every offspring of the imagination flourished iu his reign. They found iu him a skillful judge and a generous patr n, who was able to distinguish and reward merit where.er displayed. A celebrated English writer, upon visit ing America some years ago, was quick to observe that Americans live too fast. They do not nmtjre. They are content to have a smattering of a thing. The field of in dustry is so broad, and it is apparently so easy to pass from one to another, that men do not follow the lent of their minds if they meet the slightest obstructions. It is ob served that the more thrifty people became the less tender they are. Enterprise and push, it was argued, supersed, or displace genuine culture, and as the world gains the one it loses the other. TH EKE 18 NO INCENTIVE. While imagination is a gift, a talent of the highest order, there is nothing to be gained Dy a cultivation of it in this age; hence the tendency to smother it and sub ordinate it to other branches of the mind. Conceptions are the material of imagina tion, says Upbam; they bave been com pared to shameless stones, as they exist in the quarry, which a common builder may put iulo a rude dwelling, but which cannot be used iu the con struction of palaoeg and temples only by architectural rent us. This rude off >rt of the common builder uiay be con sidered a just representation of this mental property existing among nearly all man kind; while the architectural genius which oreatee palaces and temples Is the sublime imagination of poets, painters, musicians and orators. None is rvady to say, enough palaoes and temples have been made by the hands of mail. Is it ad lttod that enough have been made by the minds of men! Z. D. R. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. What One of Wall Street's Bankers Has to Bay About It. New Yoke, Jan. 24. —The past week’s business at the stock exchange, says Henry Clews, has been dull and languid, and the prices of stocks bave been weak and yield ing. The realizing of the previous week by some of the larger operators has not been followed by a disposition to buylnazaii; and, although there are a good many hold ers who still cliag to holdings which show good urcfi s, yet the preponderant disposi tion at the moment is to dispose of "long” stocks. There seems to be no general lack of confidence in the current range of prices; but, on the other hand, there is an aWmce of any new stimulus to buying, and the “bull’'side are occupying a Micawberiah attitude, waiting for something to turn up. Moreover, the position of the silver ques tion in congress has a decided tendency to hold business in suspense. Perhaps this fac tor it to some extent made to do service for other less obvious causes of luaotivity; but it is nevertheless felt that to much depeuds upon what is to be the future quality and quantity of our currency, that the decision of this question must have a very important bearing on the status of all securities whioh do not distinctly rest on a gold basis of pay ment. Wall street has not yet ventured to discount the probable determination of this problem, either one way or another. The purport of such information as is forthcom ing suggests a probability that it will be found impossible to get a majority in the House not only for free coinage, hut for any important departures from the silver law of last sum mer. All reports as to the disposition of President Harrison convey positive ass ur ance that be will veto any measure that would have the effect of further increasing the silver circulation, whether in the form of ooia or its paper representatives. This understood attitude of the President may have the effect of inducing sums to vote for more silver who waut to please their con stituents, yet are really opposed to that policy; but’all the symptoms seem to indi cate that it will be far from possible to pass any bill by a two-thirds majority of both bouses. The craze s’ago of the question seems to have culminated. The more sober aud better informed judgment on these questions of the eastern states is rapidly gaining ground; and if New York bankers and merchants were to make their united voice heard in public protest, the result would be quiokiy apparout iu a positive revulsion of sentiment which would make it Impossible to get any new silver legislation during the present session of congress. Still, so long as the question remaius un settled, there is room for doubt; and that doubt rests upon Wall street at the moment, with very depressing effort. It is not alone, however, the sliver question that holds business in suspense. I'bere are other ques tions of large importance pending before congress, on Welch there are spirited differences of opinion; and these add t> the disp sition to defer operations until the national legislature adjourns—always the ardent wish of Wall street in January. Money continues to accumulate in the banka From the interior movement, the banks gained during the week #3,000,000 not, and from the sub-treasurv #6111,000, making a total gain of #3.600,000. The in crease of government expenditures and the changes iu tariff, which take effect under recent laws, will cause a sharp depletion of the cash in the treasury, and correspond ingly benefit the banks, and that effect will be more or less permanent. Making fortunes. What Enterprising Pennsyl vanla Maids Id in the West. Beaver Falls, Jail. 25. —Miss Angie Graham, who, iu company with a young sister, Miss Nellie, left Beaver ceuuty some five years ago for the tar west, is now at her old home in Economy township on a visit. Five years ago next spring she and her sis ter determined to try their fortunes in the west. Their father was a well-to-do farmer, but it was simply u desire to be i .dependent that the indies took the step, and their suc cess shows what will and piuck can do. Taking with them a few clothes, some books and a small sum of money over and above their actual expenses, they started. Arriving at Juiesburg, Col., they each pre empted a quart r Bection of laud and settled down. Six mouths in the year they farmed, doing much of the work of ploughing, sowing, aud reaping themselves. The re main! ,g six months they taught school They now have a clear title to their land, which ha- stea lily increa ed in value. The government is surveying the true- in which their farms are located f r the purp se of irrigation, which whe i accomplished, will make this land among the most valuable In this country. Miss Angie has long had a desire to visit Palestine and t..e Holy Land, and will do so before returning to tha west. A Burial at Sylvauia. Sylvania, Ga., Jan. 25.—Mrs. C. B. Cranston of this place di >d at ; he Arlingt in hotel at Augu-ta, Ga., Tuesday, and her re mains were buried here Thursday. TTTE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1891. FRIEND OF A CONVICT. GILLETTE AND HIS WIFE SEPARATE FOR A BTRANGE CALSK Her Devotion to a Criminal—The Odd Sequel to a Case Which Got Gov. Larrabee in Trouble —The Young Man’s Ingratitude—Though Frovon Worthless and Base, He Is Given a Home by the Lady, Causing the Rupture. from the Philadelphia Prefix. Des Moines. l a., Jan. 23. -Ex-Congress man F. H. Gillette and wife of this city have separated, and the intimate fnends of each feel pretty certain that Cheater Turney has been the chief cause of their trouble. Turney was convicted several years ago for larceny, and sentenced to a long term io state prison. There were about fourteen different counts and a conviction and sen tence on each one. The young man's father was in the war when the son was born, and bad never returned. It was supposed that he was dead, and after waiting several years, dur ing which no word was received from him, Mrs. Turney married a man named Mc- Glone, who proved to be cruel, intemperate and worthless, and a separation followed. The mother retained the cuAody of Chester. There is no reason to doubt, however, that the sentence to a long term of years in penitentiary was out of all proportion to the offense committed, and was a grievous outrage. Charges of collusion between the public prosecutor and the attorney appointed to defend the young culprit, by which the con victions were facilitated for the purpose of multiplying the fees, were openiy made. Tbs attorney allowed the day of appeal to pais, and then Chester's mother took the case in band, and her persistency made the case a sensational one. She enlisted many churches and societies, and finally got into a bitter quarrel with Gov. Larrabee. MRS. GILLETTE'S FRIENDSHIP. Among the women who first become in terested in the case was Mrs. F. H. Gillette. Mrs. Turney was originally a New Yorker, and at one time was well known t > Cathar ine Beecher. The latter had also known Chester in his youth, ad among the files of the exchequer office is an eloquent appeal from her to Gov. Larrabee, urging the boy’s pardon. Mrs. Gillette is a relative of the Beechers, and fortified with this high indorsement of young Turney’s early career she gave her energlie and her enthusiasm to the common cause against the governor. The oose gained so much publicity, and so many inquiries poured into the governor’s office, asking for tha other side, that Gov. Larrabee was finally goaded into tho print ing of a pamphlet, detailing the situational it was understood by him. THE GOVERNOR SUED. This pamphlet was made up almost ex clusively of document* on file in his office, and one of them purp: rted to obarge Mrs. Turney with bigamy, that she had married McOlone while Turney, her first husband, was alive. This so enraged Mrs. Turney that she procured the indictment of the governor for oriminal libel. He was tried twioe and finally acquitted. One of bis last official acts was the granting of a pardon to the young oonvict, conditional upon his future good behavior and abstinence from intoxicating liquors. Wheu Chester Turney came from a con vict's cell he was takon Into tbs Gillette home and put at work la the office of the lowa Tribune, of whioh Mr. Gillette is joiut proprietor with that noted green backer, ex-Congresamaa James B. Weaver. The young man wan taken directly in charge by Mn. Gillette. She seemed determined to make something of him. He proved to be wortiilen about the office, and the other employee soon began to make It uncomfortable for him. He alao refused to share his earnings with his destitute mother, who had borne such great sacrifices for him, and in this be was encouraged by Mrs. Gillette. The s m's ingratitude nearly made a ma niac of his mother. Her imporuunlties un doubtedly became very unpleasant and, finally, Mrs. Gillette and Chester caused yer to be arraigned before the county com missioners of insanity. But she w’ns ad judged sane, largely on the testimony of Gillette himself, who had begun to tire of the spectacle his wife was making of her self in her blind devotion to Turney. Turney was diecharged from the printing office end, finally, Mr. Gillette ordered the young man away from the house. STANDING BY THE BOY. This act precipitated a climax. The wife insisted that if Turney had to go the hus band must go, too, and as the residence in town was in her name Mr. Gillette packed his (trip, and took up his abode on his farm at Valley Junction, from whence he daily drives to his office. L. B. Abdiel, a local merchant, has been appointed trustee, and a division of the property is being arranged for. Mrs. Gil lette is a woman from 40 to 45 years old. She is of medium hight, of trim figure, her hair is somewhat streaked with gray, but her face is young as a girl’s. In the literary and social circles of Des Moines she has ranked as a star, and In politics she has been a potent force. Her husband undoubt edly owes bis election to congress in 1878 to her tact, energy and zeal in his behalf. The greenback movement was then in its eai ly stages, aud Gillette was its Moses in the district. He secured the democratic in dorsement for cengress after a bitter fight. But many prominent aud influential work ers were disposed to oppose him. Mrs. Gil lette went among there, and conquered them in detail. The breath of scandal has never touched her name. Mr. Gillette is a brother of the actor and author of that name, and both he and bis wife formerly came from Connecticut. They have two daughters. One married a wealthy Connecticut mill owner named Nichols; the other is a girl of 13. They have also an adopted son. BEDS OF ALL NATIONS. Different Slumber Couches Used by the Various Races. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. In the tropics men sleep in hammocks or upon mats of grass. The East Indian un rolls his light, portable charpoy or mattress, which in the morning is again rolled to gether and carried away by him. The Japanese lie upon matting with a stiff, uncomfortable wooden neck rest. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elab orately carved, and supporting only mats or coverlids. A peculiarity of the German bed is Its shortness; besides that, it frequently con sists in sort of a large down pillow or upper mattress,which spread ; over the person and usually answers the purpose of all the other bed-olothing combined. In England the old four-posted bedstead iu all the pride of the nation, but the iron or brass bedstead is fast becoming universal. The English beds are the largest beds in the world. Tho ancient Greeks or Homans had their bed supported on frames, but not flat like ours. Tiie Egyptian* had a couch of a peculiar shape, m re like an old-fashioned easy chair, with hollow back and seat. ORANGE P.iRK POINTERS. Tho New Hotel—Frcet Every Morning for a VV eek. Orange Park, Fla., Jan. 25.— The flag is now flying ov<r the new hotel. Saturday morning was the first morning without frost for more than a week. Mr. Styles hat bought the Judge May place. S me trouble has sprung up in regard to the incorp ration of the park, now, after more tbau tifteeu years elapsing, all think ing it was au incorporated town. A BIGGER WRITE HOUSE NSKAED* The Lack of Sincerity on tha Part of Senators and f epresentatlvee. The need of an enlarged white hooae, says the Tribune’t Washington correspond ent, was clearly shown the other evening at the diplomatic reception given by the President. This wes a card reception con fined almoet strictly to the officials in Washington, yet such a crowd was brought out as to choke the passage-ways leading to the rec -ption rooms almost to suffoca tion. It Wj| a polite crowd. There was no pushing or burry, but in the jam the ladies must have suffered great discomfort. One or two came near famiing. Fifteen min utes after the President came down the hall si ays were completely blocked. To go from the main e trance through from the room where the President received took at least an hour. As there was no exit for the parting guests, when the recettion was about naif over the already choked passage ways were subjected to ad ltional pressure through the meeting of the incomi g and the outgoing peopla Although the recep tion s< a* over at 10:45 o’clock, it was not P ssible to empty the house much before 1 o’clock. The present plan, introduced by Senator Stanford, f r extending Uie white bouse to the right and to the left, will probably be approved by congress. Sena tors and members have had such effective objertjlessous, through their personal at tendance at the white house, of its restric tions that they are ready now, without re gard to party, to vote the odd million nec essary for the extension. The white house wouid have been extended long ago if it h and been possible for the members in charge of the subject to agree upon some plan. For a long time there was a party in con gress favoring the construction of a home for the President out on some of the outly ing hills. latterly this plan has given way, and now the extension of the house where it is is the project which will be carried out. INDORSEMENT OF SENATORS. What is the effect of the indorsement of the senators of the United States for a high office? There is much deception in politics, but in nothing is there more shown than in the so-called indorsement of applicants for office. Senators bave bsen known to sign petitions aud glowing euiog es in the interest of some politician in their district and then to write privately to the appointing power requesting him to pay no attention to their written requests. The laok of sincerity in the average written indorsement is such tnat neither the President nor the chiefs of deportments pay any attention to them unless the sena tor oalls in person and ad Is his verbal as surance to the first demand. It is a common thing for an official with the appointing power to send word to a senator or member to ask him if he really wants such and such a place. In other words: "Is the letter winch you have writteu upon this subject a lie or not?” A friend of the President gave me the other day an amusing instance of this lack of sincerity and the consequences which followed. A prominent statesman, who has at various times criticised with groat freedom the President, sent to him last spring an application for a local appoiit uient in hi* state. The candidate for the place was eulogized to the skies us a man of most heroic virtuet and the most extraor dinary talent. If one-half of what he said about him had been true he would have been a prodigy never before seen on earth, and consequently a prize for any govern ment to obtain. The President, who it apparently familiar with this class of polit ical literature, when he came to consider the question, asked the statesman If he reallv wanted the man appointed. "Most decidedly not,” was his reply. "I think he is one of tho worst ruffians in my neighborhood. There may be greater scoundrels, but I have never seen one. I only gave him that letter because I was obliged to." ASKING A FAVOR. Several months rolled ou and the states man called at the white house for the pur pose of asking some great favor. While he was eloquently presenting his case he might have noticed a satirical twinkle in tha Presi dent’s eye. This expression, I bave no doubt, the statesman credited to the oddness of the temperament of the President, and does not now understand why the l’resideut did not appear to take more in terest in his argument. The fact was, how ever, that morning a letter had been teceired at the white house from che disap pointed candidate. It inclosed a letter from the statesman, in which the latter denounced the President for refusiiig to consider bie application for the appointmeut, and wound up with a nourishing declaration that this was only "another instance of the President’s base treachery and ingratitude to his party friends.” It is an apparent rule in politics at Wash ington tha: any President shall be praised by his party associates only so far as he gives without hesitation everything that is asked of him. Let him give ninety-nine appointments and refuse the one-hundredth and he will encounter as vigorous an enemy as if he had refused them all. There does not appear to beany give and tike between the politicians and the President. I know of one particular instance, where the Presi dent had found in a certain western state an old army friend, a man of high character, whom he wished to ap point to a local office in that state. Through a desire to be courteous be sent word to the senator of the state that he h ped that such an appointment would be agreeable to him. Tne response was the rude and brusque one, that if the President Knew more a out who should be app tinted ii his state to go ahead, but that be (the senator) washed his hands of the whole matter. Underneath this was the defiant note or thr eat that if such a name should come to the Senate it would bo objected to and rejected through senatorial courtesy. But what becomes of tho real courtesy of ordinary life, when men who are continu ally grasping for favors take them ns their native right without a thought of thanks, aud bave no courtesy toward the one who has giveu them what they require? SOME OLD-TIMH GAMBLING. Games Which Thsd Stevens and A'ec. McClure Flayed. From the Few York Sun. Washington, Jan. 19.—A well-dressed man, with the general air of a bon vivant, who may be seen walking from the capitol down Pennsylvania avenue on almost any day when congress is in session, is recog nized by scores of prominent people as Maj. Crump, a man who is more familiar with the gamblers of America, past and present, than a y man now living. On Christ mast dav the major was 68 years of age. He was born iu Prov idence, R. L, aud educated in the hardware business. His passion for short cards, how ever, soon led him to desist from the pro saic business of selling hatchets and hinges, and he found his way to New York, a-i a dealer iu a faro bank, during Buchanan's adminis ration. Thence he drifted to Washington and became a friend of Ned Pendleton. When the war broke out he found his sympathies were with the southern side. He became a major in the cm fedora e service, but he soon snowed his preference for the faro lay-out over the arduous duties of a soldier in the field, and did a land office business in Augusta, Ga., during the last years < f the war as a faro banker, where he was worth #200,000 in confederate money the day Lee surrendered. I renewed my acq laintance with the major yesterday at the Arling'on. Tie was the some Admirable Crichton I knew thirty years ago. He invited me to dine at Cham berlain's. Sipping our coffee, Maj. Crump bagau: "I was an assistant in Ned Pendleton’s game, which was frequented by Albert Pike, Thaddous Stevens, Senator Green of Missouri, Herbert of California, Jerry Me- Kibb n and James A. Bayard, the courtly father of Mr. Cleveland’s Sec. etary of State, and the ‘dne old Arkansas gentleman’ , in Albert Pike’s poem. “I was present the night Sergeant S. Prentiss, the whig representative in con gress from Mississippi, who was then at the zenith of bis fame as the foremost whig orator in the lad, plajed his great faro game and lost his fortune In a single night. He came in about midnight, fleshed with wine, fr m a din er at which Henry -hay was one of the guests. As he took bis seat in front of the green baize he said: “ * I f“el as if I could win the stars from heaven to-night’ His stake was a *I.OUO bllL He boat ht *SOO worth of chips. The play began between 12 and 1 o'clock in the morning. He playeJ at first with marvel ous luck. At the first deal Prentiss was winner of *5,000. At t 1 e next deal he caHed the turn with an ace, trey and denes in the box, ‘ace-trey’ for *I,OOO. He picked up *5,000. The other players now cashed in their chips and watched the duel between the dealer and Prentiss. He played with changing luck, but at 3 o’clock in the morning was *40,000 ahead. The luck then turned. The fickle goddess ceased to favor tbs congressman aid sided with the dealer. Prentiss lost heavily until at daylight his *I,OOO stake and his *40,000 of winnings had disappeared, and he was in debt to the bank *36,000. Then and there a conveyancer was sent for, aud the Mississippi orator deeded to Ned Pendleton four valuable warehouses which he owned at Vicksburg on the ba ;ks of the Mis sissippi, and whioh were worth at least *40,000. Pendleton was satisfied with his winnings. But before six months had elapsed the warehouses and the land on which they s’ood were washed away by a spring freshet which overflowed the 'banks of the great father of wa ers. “The next year Prentiss removed to New Orleans, where he successfully practiced law, but died soon afterward from the effects of swallowing a piece of a broken caam pagne glass at a symposium at the St. Charles hotel. "There never was another plunger at a faro table who equaled Prentiss in his desperate play. Edward Wolcott, the sena tor from Colorado, comes nearest to him in later days, for it was Wolcott who won *13,000 at Monmouth Park on the races and lost it in the same day at Phil Daly’s Penn sylvania Club.” UNCOVERED A MAMMOTH GAVE. Workmen Blast the Cover Off of a Mysterloue Opening in a Cliff. Con.vkllsvii.lk, Pa., Jan. 25.—C0l “Andy” Stewart has • hole on his Stewart township farm which threatens to become famous. The hole is yet a mystery. Its dimansions and extent are unknown, but, nevertheless, there is enoug h of it to excite no little interest in the vicinity, and in the county as well. The discoverer of this mys terious c ivern is William S. Kelly, a con tractor, who is operating a stone quarrv on Col Stewart’s farm. A few days ago Peter Martin and John Cox, under the direction of Kelly, shot off a blast iu the base of the cliff from which the stone is taken. When the smoke from the blast was cleared away and the work men went to the cliff to,examine the work of the blast they found a largo piece of rook, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet thick, had been ft rn out of the base of the cliff, revealing the ope ing to a cave or chasm so deep and dark that they could not see the bottom of it. With fear and amazement the men stood around the oavern’s mouth, not daring to venture near it. At last John Cox pro duced a rope 126 feet long. He tied a lantern to the end of It and let it down the entire length and still found no bottom. The lantern swung on the rope like a pendulum. Another rope was tied to the first one, and down went the lantern fifteen or twenty feet more, when the light went out. They made another trial aud found the bottom nearly 200 feet below the sur face. For abeut the first fifty feet the sides were only six feet wide, when suddenly they opened out to a large room of circular form aud some thirty feet in diamoter. The sidee and base of the oave are composed of light-colored rock, resembling marble, which glistened in the light of the lantern. The intelligence of the discovery was by this time widespread in the community, and a large crowd of people soon collected at the scene. Col. Stewart himself was ne of the curious observers. He examined the cave as best he could, and finally offered any one present *SO to descend on a rope to the bottom and explore it. None present was daring enough to make the attempt, and thus far the seorets of the cavern are unknown. MEDICAL. Dyspepsia Makes the lives of many people miserable, causing distress after eating, sour stomach, sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite, a faint, “all gone” feeling, had taste, coated _ . tongue, and Irregularity of ™ I Str©SS the bowels. Dyspepsia does After not get well of itself. It —a, requires careful attention, bating an( j a rem edy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently. It tones the stomach, regulates the diges tion, creates a good ap- Ssrk j petite, banishes headache, u ” and refreshes the mind. HeadaChO “ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I had but little appetite, and what I did eat u par *. distressed me, or did mo h little Eood ' Atter eating 1 RUrn would have a faint or tired, all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten anything. My trouble was aggravated by my business, painting. Last ! spring I took Hood’s Bar- 90UT i saparilla, which did me an StOlTOach immense amount of good. It gave me an appetite, and my food relished and satisfied the craving I had previously experienced.” Georgb A. Page, Watertown, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, gl; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD <fc CO., Apothecaries,Lowell, Mass. iOO Doses One Dollar SPECIAL NOTICES. BOfi'T GIVE UP l.\ DEePAIFL Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy in DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR It is a faultless vegetable preparation, and indorsed by prominent medical men. Silver medal and diploma awarded over com petitors. Prepared by B. F. ULMER M. D., Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. Prioo, *1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists, FRIED <& HICKS Have the Finest RESTAURANT IX THE CITY. If you want to enjoy a GOOD MEAL Call and see us. FINEST COOKS IN THE SOUTH Open Day and Night. DON’T PAY RENT When you can own a nonie by paying monthly for it. Apply in person or by postal card for Revised List of Real Estate Offerings. C. H. DORSETT, Real Estate Dealer. FUNERAL INVITATIONS. VOI.LM SR.—The relatives and frl nds of Mr. and M s. Johk V ollmab are request -d to attend toe funeral of the form r from his late resi dence, SSL; Stewart street, at 10 o'clock THIS MORNING. LYONS —The relatives and friends of Mr. Damkl J. Lyons,and f his mother. Mrs. Eliz abeth Lyons, are resiectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former from his late resi dence, N >. Hit* Gordon street, at 3 o'clock THIS A TERKOoS. MEETINGS. BE KALB LODGE AO. 9. I. O. O. F. A regular meetine will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows’ new bull line. The Initiatory Degree will be conferred. Members of other lodges ana visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. By order ot C. H. CARSON, Jr., N. G. Johh Rilzt. Secretary. CALAMUS LODGE NO. 28, K. OF P. The regular meeting of the Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock. gfZfM A prompt attendance of the mem bers is requested. Chas. A. Fleming, C. C. J. E- Freeman, K. of R and S. C.tIYBKSITY CLUB OF SAVA.WAH. A regular meeting of the University Club of Sa vannah will be held at the Odd Fellows’ Hall (2nd floor), corner Barnard and State streets, at 8:15 p. m. MONDAY, Jan. 26. An adireas will he de livered by Dk. M. L. Boyd. By order of JOHN SCREVEN, President. W. S. Clay. Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. Ob and after Feb. 1, 1890, the bruit of meas urement of all advertising in tAe Morxixq Nsws fill be agate, or at the rata of *1 40 an inch for the firtt insertion. ASSESSMENT OF NEW IMPROVE. MEATS, ETC. City ox Savaxxah, 1 Office City Treasures. V January 15, 1891 | Notice Is hereby given that the book contain ing the assessment and valuation of improve ments erected during the year 1890, and of real estate, whether Improved or not, within the real estate taxable limits of the city of Savan nah not heretofore assessed and valued for taxation, is now on file in this office for the in spect on of taxpayers. Objections thereto, if any there be, must be made within twenty days from the date of this notice, otherwise the assessment and valuation shall be final, aud shall form the basis of taxa tion for the year 1891 as to said property. Objections must b in writing, addressed to the committee on assessments, and left with the clerk of council. CHAS. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. HKIDT’S, CONGRESS AND WHITAKER STREETS. 25c. Ib. Marshmallows to-day. Pure Candy—think or it! 25c. Mixture—popular because superior, Ssc. Mixture—good as any at 50. 65 and 90c. for 6-Tb boxes Candy, 28c. for 40c. Chocolate Creams, 25c. for Pore Rock Candy. 10c. for Uum Dr ips. 56c. Lubin's Ext-acta, a specialty. 25 and 50c. Desirable Hair Brushes. 10c. Tooth Brushes, Chamois. 10c. Artesian Soap, Spongos. 10c. H's Celebrated Cough Drops. Prescriptions filled by Competent Pharma cist. _P.eliable Drugs, Fancy Articles, Fresh Seeds. “WHO WANTS MONHYT "Uncle Adam," at SO Jefferson street, corner Congress street lane, will loan you liberally an any “Personal" property. Call, or communi cate by mail. Open 7a.m.t09 p. m. ADAM STRAUSS, Manager. GOOD PINE WOOD. $4 per cord delivered j $l5O at Vernon Park. JNO. E. DOWLING. Telephone 392. BEEF Extracts and juices seem now to be quite the thing for convalescing GRIP SUFFERERS. In addition to these assortments we have a full line of Extracts of Malt. Ask your physician about them. at BUTLER'S PHARMACY, Cor. Bull and Congress. UK. T. F. ROBERSON, ~ DENTIST. ODD FELLOWS BUILDING Corner Barnard and Slato Streets. DR. M. SCHWAB dk SON, GRADUATE OPTICIANS, No. 2S Bull Street, Savannah, Ga. If your eyes are not properly fitted with eye glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity •>f fitting them with glasses which will correct any visual imperfection fiat may exist, or can b • corrected by scientific means As specialists we have fitted ourselves by a practical course of study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Buckiin’s School of Optics, New York. We are practical opticians, aud make our own goods. New lenses put in old frames while you wait. Oculists’ prescriptions a specialty, and carefully tilled. No charge for examination. A O W IS THE TIME TO BUY REAL ESTATE, BEFORE THE ACTIVITY OF SPRING COMMENCES. THOSE DESIRING TO PURCHASE RESIDENCES, LOTS, it FARMS, or ACREAGE PROPERTY For sub-dividing should get my revised list of Real Estate offerings. SELLERS Who desire their property listed should at once send in description, as the present edition will be largely distributed. C. H. DORSETT. Real Estate Dealer. N. II—I am now preparing plats for a most attractive s iburban sale. Investors will do well to wait for this sale. VACCINE POINTS, FRESH AND RELIABLE. ROWLINSKI, Pharmacist, Corner Broughton and Drayton streets. Telephone 4G5. BEER. D RINK S. GUCKBNBHIMIIK * SONS AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATE" Just One Night, Monday, Jan.. First appearance in the South of th, Leaders in Farce Cos cdy, EVANS and HOE - , In the seventh year of their great succei A PARLOR MATO, Surrounded by the most delightful comnai„f comedy players in Amei ca, includlVa the three SISTERS LEVEf. Beat at Butler' Jan. 24th. ifaAt Attraction—Clemenceau Case, Janf. SAVANN AH THEATp' ONE NIGHT ONLY, Tuesday, Jan. 27tk. William Flerons’ original New York Standard Theater Version of The Clemeneean Case. MISS LAURA BEGGAR AS “IZA” Seats at Butler’s Jan. 24. Next attraction Stewart Robson Jan. 28andt). SAVANNAH THEATER Engagement* for two evenings, Wednesday *d Thursday, Ja 1. 2ft and 29, and special mat! nee Thursday afternoon, of the comedian STUART ROBSOf and company of players, under the directha WILLIAM R. HAYDEN. Wednesday evening, Jan. 28. Bronson Howafl’* success of the century, THE HENRIETTA, Mr. Robson as Bertie, the Lamb. THURSDAY MATINEE SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Mr. Robson as Tony Lumpkin, Thursday evening, Jan. 29. last night of Mr. Bbb son and THE HENRIETTA. Admission sl. 50 and 25 cents. ReserVi seats 25 ceDts extra. Matinee pr.ces $1 and 50 cents. Seats at Butler's Jan. 26. Next attracthn Field's Minstrels, Jan. 30 and 31. AFAJE for the benefit of ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH Will be Inaugurated TO-NIGHT AT 7 O’CLOCK IN THE CHURCH BASEMENT. Hot Supper served at Reasonable Rates. Everybody Invited. BANKS. ioi. I 1 ) Wwto. mV. MUTanV! 2 President. Vioe President. JA3. H. HUNTER, Cashier. SAVANNAH HANK 4 TRUST Co.| Savings Dep’t ALLOWS 4% Deposits of SI and Upward Recited. Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly. DIRECTORS: BJof.ph D, Weed, of J. D. Weed St Cos. jpoHN C. Rowland, Capitalist. C. A. Rcrrzs, Exchange ami Insurance. John L. Hakdxz, Capitalist. Ft. G. Erwin, of Ohianolm, Erwin & dußlgaon. Edward Karow. of Strauss & Cos. Isaac G. Haas, General Broker. M. Y. Maolnttbz, of M. I. S D. L Maclntyre. John Lyons, of John Lyons & Cos. Waltkr Osnsy. of Paterson, Downing & 00. D. C. Bacon, Lumber. MACHINERY. \lcl)onough £ Ballantyne^ IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths, MANUFACTURERS OF STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES, VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS. \ GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the simplest and most effective on the market; Gullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the best in the market. All orders promptly attended to. Send for Price List. PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING. lagoTALTiT WM-183J PRINTING AND BINDING. BLAfltf BOOKS. Establishment fully furnished with all necessary TOOLS and MACHINERY, PAPERS and MATERIALS. Compe tent Workmen. Established Repute, tion for Good Work. Additional or der* solicited. Estimates furnished. 03# BAY STREET. GEO. N NICHOLS. FOR SALK. ONEMILLION Good Average Brick FOB SALE! Ask for prices and freight rates f. o. b. or de livered at destination. * . SPARKS, SOLOMONS CO., Macon, Ga PRINTING. TO COUNTY OFFICERS.—Books and Blanks required by county officers for the use of the couris. or for office use, supplied to ord> rby the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE,* Whitaker street. Savannah.