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Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga.
SUNDAY, NOV. IS, 1801.
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THIS ISSUE
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TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —The Savannah Choral Society;
Citizens' Sanitary Association.
Special Notices— The Bazar of St. Stepnen’s
Parish; You are Invited, A. Schmidt; Gold Fill
ings, Etc., Savannah Dental Plate Company;
As to Crews of British Steamships Zanzibar and
Roseville; The Chinese Restaurant Changes
Hands; Real Estate and Brokerage. Wm. F.
Blois A Cos ; What’s What, The Savannah Car
riage and Wagon Company; Notice to the
Trade, Schroder & Cassen’s Bottling Works;
R. H. Jones, Real Estate, Huyler's Candles at
Solomons & Co.’s Two Drug Stores; Dressed
for Sunday. Turkeys at Jas. J. Joyce'*; First
Grand Masquerade Ball of the 8. T. and S. Club
at Armory Hall Not. 26; Empire Steam Laun
dry; State and County Taxes, 1821; Savannah
Steam Laundry; The Faust Beer, Geo. Meyer;
“Did You Notice That," Barbour A Bros.; Look
at These Low Prioes, Estate S. W. Branch;
Tinning, Etc., E. C. Pacetti; Another Week,
Falk Clothing Cos.
Capes— D. Hogan.
Prices Talk— James Douglass.
Good Health— Henry Solomon A Son.
Special Sale op Stamped Linens— At Gut
man's.
The Buzz op Business— C. Gray A Bon.
Great Cut Price Sale—At Eckstein A Co’s,
Clothing, Etc.— Dryfus Bros.
Monday is a Remindeb— B. H. Levy A Bra
“He Never Came Back’’— A. R. Altmayer A
Cos.
Mothers ! Mothers!— Altmayer’s Boys’ Cloth
ing Sale.
Medical— Swift’s SpeclHc.
Facts vs. Figures— Appel A Schaul.
Great Out Price Sale— Morrison, Foye A Cos.
Notice— Appel A Schaul.
The Globe Specialties— At the Globe Shoe
Store.
Oranges— A. Ehrlich A Bro.
“He Who Does the Best," Etc.—Savannah
Carriage and Wagon Company.
Note the Reduction— The A. J. Miller Com
pany.
New Goods— Norton A Hanley.
Why Supper the Pangs— L- AB.S.M. H.
We Are Always in Line— Engel A Roths
child.
Preserves— J. S. Tyson, Jr., A Cos.
High Class Goods—FalK Clothing Company,
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Clerk Squire's chargei against William
A. Camp, manager of the New York clear
ing house, have not been sustained. A
committee investigated them and reported
that there was no ground for loss of confi
dence in Mr. Camp.
After the manner of all usurpers one of
the first official acts of Dictator Fonseca
was to muzzle the press of Brazil com
pletely. More plainly than anything else
that act alone shows that the dictator is en
gaged in an enterprise that cannot bear the
light of reason nor withstand the results of
justice. For success It depends wholly upon
the effects of ignorance aud fear combined
with ambition and greed. Such a cause
cannot long survive in this enlightened age
of progress.
Intelligence from Harrisburg states that
the official returns of the late Pennsylvania
election os computed at tbe state depart
ment shows the following result: For
Auditor Ueueral—Gregg, 414.583; Wright,
356,431; Hague, 18,511; scattering, 236. For
State Treasurer—Morrison, 412,094; Til
den, 358,617; Drayton, 18,429; scattering,
236. Constitutional Convention—For, 173,-
813; against, 420,598. That reference to
“scattering” probably refers to tbe late but
not greatly lamented so-oalled "People’s
party.
Just now Gotham is glorying In a female
bruiser bearing the chipper and picturesque
patronymic of Miss Hattie Leslie. Encased
In glove-fitting tights she "weighed in” at
200 avoirdupois aud proceeded to baste a
light-weight Bowery pugilist until she
made him very weary. Alter she had been
awarded the light the spectators said they
could observe nothing wrong with her con
dition except that she was blowing like a
western hurricane. Sport like that may be
the intellectual product of advanced civili
zation aud enlightenment. But it doesn’t
look that way from this distance.
Atlanta’s Prohibition Campaign.
The campaign in Atlanta In behalf of
prohibition is stirring up a good deal of bad
blood. Already it has been marked by two
very serious assaults and it is only a few
weeks old. If it continues as it has begun
it will be marked by many instances of
violence, and a feeling of bitterness between
the opposing factions will be aroused that
will be a long time in disappearing.
Epithets, threats and abuse wiil not make
converts to prohibition. They may excite
the applause of an unthinking and sympa
thetic audience, but to gain the approval
of friends is not the purpose of a prohibition
campaign. The purpose is to make con
verts, and they can be made only by argu
ments and appeals which convince the mind
and touch the heart.
Hard and bitter words provoke opposi
tion. They make enemies instead of friends.
Those who are conservative or indifferent
are aroused into activity by a campaign of
abuse, and they generally array themselves
on the side of those who are attaoked. There
are now more aotive opponents to prohibi
tion in Atlanta, probably, than there were
before tbe assaults upon two of the leading
prohibition workers.
Those who made the asseulta were ot
course in the wrong, and they ought to be
punished as severely as the law will permit.
If they had a grievance the way to obtain
redrees in a peaceable manner was open to
them. They chose, however, to seek redress
in their own way, and must suffer the con
sequences.
But the fact cannot be overlooked that
tbe provocation came from the prohibition
ists. There was no good reason why they
should have resorted to personalities. They
could have done much more for the prohibi
tion cause by presenting the benefits of pro
hibition, and. if denials became necessary,
they should bare made them in language
that would not have provoked violence.
A campaign in behalf of prohibition
Should be carried on with earnestness and
vigor, but it should be kept within proper
bounds. The people engaged in it, taken as
a whole, ore somewhat different from those
who conduct a political campaign. Minis
ters and women participate actively in it,
and the aim is to raise the moral standard
of the people by eliminating the saloon.
Whatever is done, therefore, by those ad
vocating the prohibition cause, that tends
to provoke violence hurts that cause.
Borne of tbe Atlanta prohibition leaders
appear to bet abusively aggressive. They
should not forget that the liquor business is
a legal one, cud that those who are engaged
in it have rights which should be respected.
Liquor dealers who comply with the law
should be treated as law-abiding citizens.
The campaign for prohibition should he con
ducted on a high plane. A campaign so
conducted is much more likely to be suc
cessful than one that is chiefly remarkable
for personalities and broken heads.
The Harbor Improvement Movement.
Capt. Purse and his assistants are meet
ing with gratifying success in the west in
getting indorsements of the movement look
ing to the immediate deepening ot Savan
nah harbor to twenty-six feet. The trade
bodies of the cities they have visited and
the conventions they have attended have
given them a cordial welcome, and have
promptly adopted resolutions commending
the movement and asking congress to give
it favorable consideration. By the time
congress meets there will be a strong public
sentiment in the west aud south in favor of
proseoutiug continuously aud vigorously
the work of deepening Savannah harbor to
twenty-six feet. It looks, in fact, as if the
sentiment would be so strong that congress
would hnndly take the responsibility of dis
regarding it.
The people of the west understand how
Importantpeeper water at Savannah would
be to them. At present their products
reach foreign markets by way of the port
of New Ycirk, and they receive the imported
articles they need through that port. To
most of them Savannah is much nearer,
and, therefore, it would be highly advanta
geous to them to make her their seaport.
Deeper water at Savannah would be of
incalculable benefit to a very large part of
the south. Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Tennessee aud other southern states now
find a seaboard outlet at this port, and their
interest in Savannah harbor will bo in
creased in proportion as her harbor is deep
ened.
The deeper harbor movement has been
conducted thus far skillfullyand successfully.
If it continues to grow in popularity, aud
it certainly will, there is no reason to
doubt that it will command the approval
of congress, and that within a very few
years Savannah will have a 26-foot channel
to the sea.
A Deceived Health Officer.
There are sea captains who will take the
rißk of carrying an infections disease into a
city and thus putting thousands of lives ia
peril rather than have their ships detained a
few days at quarantine. Astoamer arrived
at the New York quarantine last Thursday
from a Brazilian port on which persons had
died of yellow fever during the voyage. One
of those who died was the steamer’s doctor.
At the quarantine station not a word was
said about yellow fever. The only person
who was willing to speak positively about
the matter was locked in the
mail room. It is asserted that
he had been locked up to prevent hint from
telling of the fever cases. He had nursod
those who had died on the ship and he knew
all about the disease fro m which they had
suffered. The health officer was told by
the steamer’s officials that four men had
died of malarial fever.
At this season of the year there is no
danger of yellow fellow getting a foothold
in New York, but it is probable that the
officers who concealed the presence of an
Infectious disease on the steamer in Novem
ber would have done so In July or August.
Concealing auy information relative to an
infectious disease on shipboard should be
made au offense punishable by a severe
penalty. There are ship captains who de
serve to be taught a lesson.
Aocording to a recent cable dispatch from
Italy a paper at Rome called the
Italia has just published an article
in which the writer says that he un
derstands that "the United Btates govern
ment has recognized the responsibility of
tbe federal government for a breach of
internatioaal law in the New Orleans lynch
ing affair, aud that the only questiou that
now remains to be settled is the amount of
the indemnity to be paid by the United
States government to the friends of the
Italian citizens who lost their lives
through the violence of the New
Orleans mob.” Therein the paper
is probably us much mistaken as it was in
its former opinion that the United States
would quickly submit to being bled by the
crafty RutUni at the very first thi’eat of
war,
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
One Way to Settle the Trouble
The business men of this city know very
little of the cau‘ee of tha trouble between
the Richmond and Danville and the Savan
nah, Americus and Montgomery railroads,
but they do know that it is driving away
from Savannah business that Daturally be
longs to her. They are not so much inter
ested in the trouble as they are in its speedy
settlement. They regard It as a hardship
that they should be the victims of a traffic
fight between two rival railroads. They
have a right to protest, and do protest,
against a condition of affairs which is
hurtful to their interests.
The Savannah, Americus and Montgom
ery road has been virtually cut off from
this city by the action cf the Richmond and
Danville. The splendid business of the
territory tributary to it which has been
coming here is being diverted to other cities.
If the tronble between the two roads con
tinues very long Savannah is certain to lose
a large amount of trade.
And there is no certainty wfcei the
trouble will end. If a peace is patched up
it may not last a great while. One or the
other of the roads is pretty certain to be
come dissatisfied and insist upon other con
cessions.
It is about time for Savannah’s business
men to find out some way for protecting
themselves. They cannot afford to be at
the mercy of fighting ra.lr -ads. If they
content themselves with simply oomplain
ing and protesting their business will
gradually drift away from them.
One way to protect themselves is to en
courage the building of the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery road into Sa
vannah. If that road was built to this oity
Savannah business men would be in no dan
ger of losing the trade of the territory
tributary to it.
The Savannah Construction Company
could do a great deal toward inducing it to
extend its line here. If that oompany
should build terminal facilities for the South
Bound railroad at Columbia and Savan
nah It would not only benefit itself,
but it would encourage the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery and other
roads to build into Savannah. It has here
an eligible site for freight warehouses and
a passenger depot. The Macon and Atlan
tic might even be induced to build to a junc
tion with the South Bound. It could then
come into the city on the South Bound’s
track.
And it would not cost the construction
company a great deal to extend the tracks
of the Sou9h Bound Into and build depots and
warehouses at Columbia and Savannah, It is
estimated that $250,000 would be sufficient.
This is a matter that the Savannah Con
struction Company ought to take into se
rious consideration. It has the opportunity
of doing something that would help the
city greatly. It could do nothing that
would contribute more to Savannah’s pros
perity than to help bring the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery and the Maoou
and Atlantio within her limits.
Gov. Fleming on Top.
The deoision of the Florida supreme oourt
to the effect that the secretary of state must
affix tbe seal of bis office to the appointment
of Mr. Davidson as United States senator
marks another step in the Davidson-Call
contest, and must be very gratifying to
Gov. Fleming. The governor was of the
opinion that Mr. Call was not eleoted United
States senator, and he appointed Mr. David
son to that position. The secretary of state
declined to affix the soal of his offloe to the
appointment, aud the attorney general de
clined to bring a mandamus suit to
compel him to do so. The gov
ernor, however, refused to accept the action
of these officials as finally settling tbe ques
tion whether or not the seal of the secretary
of state was to be fixed to the appointment
of Mr. Davidson. He secured the services
of an attorney and had the question brought
before the supreme court, and that tribunal
sustained him. No doubt the secretary of
state and the attorney general were sincere
in the position which they took, out they
were mistaken.
As far as credentials are concerned Mr.
Davidson is now better equipped for the
contest in the Senate than Mr. Call. Ho
has au appointment properly certified. Mr.
Call has no certificate of election. He has,
however, a certified copy of the proceedings
of the legislature.
The deoision of the supreme court does not
touoh upon the merits of the contest, and,
therefore, will have no influenoa with the
Senate. It only settles one thing, aud that
is that when the governor makes an ap
pointment it is the duty of the secretary of
state to affix the soal of his office to it, if it
is an appointment which requires the seal.
The difference between the governor aud
the secretary of state and attorney general
lias attracted a good deal of attention In
Florida, and the triumph of the governor
will be regarded as au additional evidence
of his sagacity aud will tend to in .Tease his
popularity.
Superstitious people will now have a
phenomenal coincidence associated with the
denouement of a somewhat romantic crime
in New York to marvel over with impres
sive awe for the next six months. At the
town of Troy one Charles Fietz makes
strange disclosures tending to prove that
his wife was recently engaged in an
attempt to poijjn him for $2,003 life
insurance which she had surrepti
tiously placed upon his life and to
be free to elopa with a milkman of
an adjoining town. But while Fietz was
expiring by slow degrees she had a sudden
attack of typhoid fever from which she
died two weeks ago. Now the whole story
comes out through letters whioh Mrs. Fietz
had received from a "Mrs. IL Monkeeth,”
of New York city, with whom she was
negotiating for the poison. Some cf it had
already been supplied. Since her death
Fietz has t een gradually recovering. This
turn of affairs has the effect of sustaining
the theory of slow poison. Quick retribu
tion and all the elements of the finest ideal of
poetic justice that ever appeared in the most
hysterical novel are found here by the im
aginative mind. Therefore the morbidly
superstitious and romantic may make the
most of it.
More and more emphatically the Chinese
ere trying to make plain their desire to ban
ish all “outside barbarians” from the Celes
tial empire. Apparently they are de
termined to convey that understanding to
tbe foreign residents if they have to pound
it into them with clubs aud blunderbusses.
Now what are we going to do about itt
That’s the question.
Again are the mighty Emperors Alec
and Bill snarling at each other like a pair
of petulant school boys excited over tbe iu
trioacies of a game of marbles. It is a sort
of did-and-didn’t quarrel and they have
both malignantly turned tbeir respective
, imperial backs upon one another. . _
PERSONAL.
Hor. Lons E McC-omas is ill at the residence
of his fatber-in-iaw, C. W. Humrichouse, near
Wiiliaßispo: t. Ml.
Bierc.p Morrill of the Method is’, church is
serioaaiy ill with an abdominal abscess at the
Wesley hospital, Chicago-
Mr. Fassett will te the principal political
orator at tha Ohio Republican League banquet
to be held at Columbus Feb. 12.
Mas. GiDto.R W. Marsh, the wife of the fugi
tive Keystone bank president, and family have
moved from the Ridley Park residence to New
York.
Carteb Harris editor of the Chicago
Time*, will abolish the editorial “we"’ and sub
stitute the drat person singular In the expres
sion of opinions.
The Woman’s Press Club ot New York gave
a reception, Monday evening, in honor of Mrs.
Frank Leslie- Wilde. Her husband being ill was
unable to attend
Winfred a Stearns, a graduate of Amherst
and son of Presidt-nt Stearns, bag taken charge
of tbe printing office and instruction in print
ing in Atlanta University.
Ex Senator Inn alls always refuses cigars on
the third round. He only takes one to use Im
mediately. A Kan-as piper says his favorite
tipple is soda pop out of a bottle.
QuMn Am el is it Portugal is a tall and
stately young woman, with more of the queen
in her bearing than many royal ladles possess.
She is 26 years old and a daughter of the Comte
de Paris., “
Rev. Howard MacQurart, who is now pastor
of a Universalist chsreh in Sagisaw, Mich., Is to
lecture next week in Columbus, 0., on “Heresy
nnd Heretics.” After the holidays he will lect
ure in Tieinont Temple, Boston.
A Scotch expert named Amos Clarke says
the only bona fide Shetland pony he has seen
in this country is to be found in St. Louis
TnnuS-Wds of sot-A.I-d “ShetUes,” he says, are
crosses between the Irish and the true Shetland
ponies.
Ruvrs Hatch amused the Chicago people by
making is a daily- practice, during his mount
visit to the world’s fair city, to go out on the
walk in front of his notel after breakfast and
feed tbe birds that were pioking up a precarious
living t “ ji*.
JvDogCQUKnTS' v, the Tens congressman,
recently replied to a tirade of abuse from an
embittered.eonatitßi-nt by throwing his arms
around the man's ut -fcsud exglhiming: “Whar's
the nearest gfelery - ’ This was too much for
the constituent.
From his dark hair and moustache and
swarthy face George Gould might be taken for
a Spaniard. He li is always been noted for a
spruceßoss of attire that is goring place, as he
grovJgnjßeaji*, to a neglect fflfcdreas, such as
AmSMs the iMserigerj on thlwrrench steam
ship La TourofnA w'lloh left New York city
Saturday. De Cuverille of the
French warship Naade, which recently left
these waters, and Senor Claudio Viouno, presi
dent-elect of the Chilean republic under the Pal
maceda administration.
Thxodobe Tilton resides permanently in
Paris. He has prettily appointed ohambers
upon the Isle of St. Louis, almost under the
shadow of Notre Dame, and opposite to his
his windows, upon the other side of the river,
is the old houße where Abelard and Heloise are
said to have lived and loved.
Charles Davenport of Boston is the man
who built the first modern steam railroad car.
He is a hale old man of 79. The first cars in
America built with an aisle running lengthwise
and with doors at tbe ends instead of at the
sides were constructed by him in 1836 for the
Eastern railroad of Massachusetts.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes states that the
original of the ancient worthy whom ha immor
talized in “The L(ist Leaf," who wore the “old
three-cornered hat,” "the breaches—and all
thatf* and at whom the then j*®ing poet used
to “sil and grin," was Maj. 'l hqtqp.s Melville, the
paternal grandfather of the late Herman Mel
ville, the author.
BRIGHT BITS.
Jack—l’m in an awful dilemma.
Dick—Engaged to two girls, I suppose.
"No; to one.’’— Brooklyn late.
Himlta his typewriter!—Whet would you
do if you were to lose your eyes?
Miss Keyes -Use the letter 1—
New York Child <*>n gettinWrer first glimpse
of the Eiffel tower in ' )h, mamma!
When FreiaOb people buil i 4* is they put up the
oleTatQ£ first .--Uood -Nnear i
“War there much go about the play last
night?”
"Ncflkut there #is about the Biljience at the
end oTtli-! first aqL*— llurper'e b-lZiir.
"How astomshino that your parrot can re
member such long words."
"Not at all. It is quite natural for a parrot
to use words of polly-syllables.”— Baltimore
American.
The people shout, tho bands Ml play,
And louder every minute,
The bass drum nqs all thingslith way;
ThO ear drum isn’t “in it.!' j 1
— mieulelphia Press.
Unused to Course Dinners. —Mr. Flaxseed
(sampling the first course) —By,ginger, mother!
This here Tarbul dee Hoot we're h'earn so much
abont ain't nothin’ more nor less than soup,
b'ltoeh'. '—Puck. j !
"Snickeii, do you believe that brevity is the
soul of wit?”
"I think it must be, Hucker, for I know at
least one professional humorltt who is always
‘short.’ Brookbjn Life.
Relative— Well. I sincerely hope you will be
happy with him, ’Mandy. Is he a steady young
man?
Miss 'Mandy-Steady? My goodnessl Aunt
Judy, he’s been coming to see me for more
than eleven years. —Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. O’Toole— Faith, it’s my Tim that’s the
noble lad,
Mrs. O’Call—ls he, thin?
Mrs. O'Toole-He is that. There's ne’er a
boy In the whole ward can give the polace the
shhp as well as he can.— Yankee Blade.
Aunt Jane— That makes three weddings in
our family withiu a twelve-month? It will be
your turn next, Matilda!
Matilda—Oho I™ .
Aunt Jane—Well, the mo§t extraordinary
things happen souifttiHiea, jfou know I— Punch.
1
Tmt milkman took someJucatsfrom
The pr-iltts at his milk.
And with great joy he bought his wife
A nice new watered silk.
—Cloak Review.
Ruth Cleveland—Papa, how are the elec
tions going?
Grover—You see this dollar? It Is spinning
in the air. Which side will turn up when it
comes down?
Kuth—The side that Is On top.
Giover—Right. That is the side that will
win.
Ruth,—O ! —Minneapolis Journal.
He stood at tbe blackboard working very
hard over a problem. There was a large pro
tuberanoe on hie cheek, which might have been
caused by his tougue; but the teacher thought
otherwise. Laying his finger gently upon the
suspicious lump, Prof. Dlgge asked in penetrat
ing tones; "Quid eel hoet". Matthew Matics
was startled, but he did not lose his presence of
tnlnd. Shifting the bunch to his other cheek,
he looked the professor coolly id tbe faoe and
replied: "Hoc eet-quid."—Boston Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
They Ought to Trade.
Prom the Albany Times (Dem.).
In New York a hotel Is advertising for a
name; la Troy they are advertising for a ho
tel. !
Should Not Sneer at His Sire.
Prom the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.).
"Such Stuff as Drosins Are Mads Of” Is the
title of the first story of William Dean How
ells' son. It's all right as long os it Is not suoh
stuff as his father’s novels are mads of.
Deserve* to be Damaged.
From the Omaha World-Herald (Dem.).
Rudyard Kipling threatens suit upon Ameri
can publishers who pirated his writings, and
American readers are glad of it. No exactions
upon the publishers of such rot could be too se
vere.
Hustling for a Fresh Hold.
From the Hartford Times (Dem.).
The republicans are trying to shift the Issue
for next year. They seem to have g t quite
enough of McKinleyism and tariff, and John
Sherman now says the issue must be the silver
question. But "the silver question’’ has received
its quietus in Gbio, and the democrats will not
be likely to burn their fingers with It again. As
Roger Q. Mills says, the tariff question, started
by the republicans, must be by the democrats
kept to the front. Mr. Mills, bv- the way, seems
very likely to be the next speaker of tho House.
Avoldsd Unpleasant Argument.
“It's been pretty warm this week, hasn't It?”
remarked the thin mao with the prescription,
leaning up against the cluster in Wiifert’s drug
store last night, according to the Cincinnati
Commercial Gasette.
“Warm?'’ spat the fellow with the cigar,
“why, I thought it was cool! You don’t have
any hot weather around here, anyway.”
"We don t?" asked the druggist, interroga
tively, doubting.
"Nup. You ought to try a hot spell in Pratt
ville, .\ri. Have to tie a wet sponge over your
mouth when you go out In the middle of the
day, to keep the hot air from cracking the en
amel on your teeth and blistering your tongue.
It gets hot down there. I tell you.”
“But, laDd alive, man, if you had ever been In
Texan with the United Suites survey you
wouldn’t speak of a little thing like that,”
quietly whispered the pele customer from John
street. The summer I was there on duty there
were three ice houses burned down.”
"Catch from the neat of the sun?” asked the
druggist.
“Well, not exactly, for you see tne flames
broke out at the bottom. It was a clear case;
the ice had caught fire from spontaneous com
bustion ”
A deep silence rested over the group a few
moments, while all theeba-npions collected their
nerves. Then the commuter from Sedamsvilie,
who had just stopped in on his way down to the
train, remarked casually:
“I have seen a little hot weather myself in
my time, but the hottest I ever saw was in Mex
ioo. We had three Louisiana darkies with us
and they could stand a good deal of hot weath
er. One of tbe hottest days it became necessary
to have some outdoor work done, and these fel
lows, of course, were sent out to do it. Before
they started tbe chief of the workmen warned
them not to drink any cold water before going
out as it was dangerous. They hadn’t been out
side twenty minutes before we heard two or
three loud toots on a railroad whistle and the
whole party hopped up to see the train pass.
Put the chief looked up with a horrified face,
and crying ’I knew lti’ hurriedly picked up a
basket ana a shov 1 and broke for the door.
"Why, what was the matter?” asked the
crowd as the narrator paused to light his cigar,
nonchalantly.
"O, those darkies had sneaked around to the
back porch aud disobeyed orders by taking a
drink, so the minute they got in the sun the in
tense heat began generating st am just as in
an engine boiler. About the time there was a
pressure of thirty or forty pounds on the noor
devils opened their mouths the shriek and the
escaping steam whistled, just like a railroad
engine, out of their mouths and noses. By the
time we got to them they had burst!”
"What was the basket and shovel for?”
“To gather up the scattered remains,” was
the solemn reply,as the Sedamsvllle man walked
out.
”1 don’t like to make trouble,” apologetically
said the John street man. “But if that fellow
had stayed here I’d have had to call him a
liar."
Difference Between Father and Son.
There is strife between a well-known resident
of Ravenswood and his 9-year-old son and heir.
Additional sadness is lent to the circumstance
of the strife, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
by th 9 fact that father and son had up to the
past few days been quite chummy.
The old gentle an had been known at odd
times on evenings when he was feeling good to
regale young hopeful with tall stories regard
ing his skill as an angler and the cold winters
and hot summers he had survived. Latterly,
too, the youngster had been permitted to hover
around when his dad was shaving, aud the com
bination was looked upon as a sort of Damon
and Pythias affair all around.
The end came la t Saturday morning when the
family was about to commence breakfast and
it all happened because of that boy’s inquiring
mind.
“Some oatmeal, papa," asked the mother.
“H-m, no, I think not, it’s too heating for my
blood.”
“Paw," said the boy, "ain’t that stuff you
took out of a bottle upstairs heating for your
blood?”
Just a simple little question like that, and tnat
worthy citizen knew what Shakespeare meant
when he said it was sharper than a serpent’s
tooth to have an inquiring child.
And after br-a fast the father and his boy
retired and communed awhile, and the old man
demonstrated to his Inquiring offspring a pre
viously unthought of though not new way of
heating tbe blood.
And now their relations are strained, if Indeed
the entente cordiate, whatever that is, is not
broken.
Crushing: a Wife.
It wss on a bridge train. He sat reading a
paper, says the New York World, and she was
looking out of the window. About midway of
the bridge she turned and said;
"George! George!’’
“Well?’
“I am nervons!”
"Yes.”
"George'.”
“Well?"
"If the structure should give way?"
“Yes."
“If the struoture should give way do you
realize what would happen?”
"Um!"
"Do you realize that every soul of us would
be precipitated Into the watery abyss below?
Do you realize it, George?”
"Yes."
“And if we were precipitated that not a soul
of us could by any possibility escape a grave
beneath the troubled ”
"Sayhe Interrupted as he folded up his
paper with a yawn, "don’t let me forget to
measure that hack window for a mosquito bar
as soon as we get home. The flies are begin
ning to thaw sut!"
"Now I Lay Mo Down to Sleep."
Eugene Field in Chicago News.
The flre upon the hearth is low,
And there is stillness everywhere;
Like troubled spirits here and there,
The firelight shadows fluttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from the further room
Comes; "Now I lay me down to sleep."
And, Bomehow, with that little prayer,
And that sweet treble in my ears,
My thought goes back to distant years,
Aud lingers with a dear one there.
And as 1 hear the child's amen,
My mother's faith comes back to me;
Crouched at her side I seem to be,
And mother holds my hands again.
O! for an hour in that dear place!
O! for the peace of that dear time!
O! for that childish trust sublime
O! for a glimpse at mother’s faoe!
Yet as the shadows round me creep,
I do not ream to be alone—
Sweet magic of that treble tone —
And "Now I lay me down to sleep.”
Particular About the Proprietors.
When there is any unusual event in an inte
rior town, says the Chicago Tribune, the hotel
keeper is forced to hire additional help for the
dining-room. This additional help is not al
ways selected on account of peculiar fitm-ss for
the job. He may have been driving spikes ia
railroad ties.
Not long ago a statue of Gen. Grant was un
veiled In Galena. The town was crowded and
so were the hotels. At the dinoer tablo of one
of the latter places there was anew waiter.
The guest in question had ordered several dishes
and had been informed as he named each that
“it was just out.’’
"Bring me some potatoes."
The new waiter went with the order and re
turned without the article asked for. Fearful
that the guest might get furious over repeated
statements of “just out" the new waiter said, as
he felt of his chin: “Mebboye know, s r, that
this is Ginral Grant day in Galeeny, and the
Glnral never ete ony praties, sor. aud it would
not do to hev’em. ys know, on this occasion.”
Happt Charley (just engaged)—O, my dar
ling, I want you to know my sister. lam sure
you will like her very much. You will find her
as different as can he from me.
Emily (gushing)—O, lam certain I shall be
very fond of her.—Detroit Free Press.
"I hear you fought a duel with Parker."
"I did."
"Weren’t you afraid to stand up before a
loaded pistol?”
“Not with Parker holding it. I’m insured in
his com; any."— Hamer's Bazar.
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ITEM3 CF INTEREST.
A Dakota paper tells the latest oorn story.
It says a farmer raised 1,000 bushels of popcorn
and stored it in a barn. The barn caught flre,
the corn be.an to pop. and filled a ten acre field.
An o)d mare in a neighboring pasture had de
fective eyesight, saw the corn, thougnt it was
snow, and lay down and froze to death.
W illiam 11., the new King of Wurtemberg, is
a man of simple domestic tastes, witb no liking
for the display and gayety that characterized
the court, while the late king was alive. But
Charlotte, the new queen, is only 27, and it may
be that s ie will influence the king to furnish
the people with entertainments The king s
daughter by his first wife, the Princess Pauline,
is the only child of the r >ya! pair, but by the
Salic law m force in Wurtemberg her sex for
bids her to inherit the throne.
Truth is often stranger than fiction. An old
soldier at Watei town, 8. D., left his faucet run
ning into an iron sink and went to bed. A cold
wave came down and froze the water as it fell
so that it tounded like bullets striking the iron
sink The soldier dreamed that it was a charge
of infantry, and took the sound for the rattle
cf musketry. While in a somnambulistic state
he charged bayonets out of the second story
window’ and fell on top of a column of water
from the artesian well. This tossed him up
twenty-five feet into the air, where the whole
column of water froze stiff, leaving him on top.
The neighbors were obliged to cut him down
with axes.
Much sympathy is felt for the young Pennsyl
vania sailor, Matt Pruyn, whose father, DuForest
Pruyn, the mate of the schooner Foster, was
drowned recently in Lalce Erie, off Port Col
borne. The b>y says ti;ai when his father fell
ov*irboard, in calm seas, his cries could be heard
for some time, but no boat was lowered and the
tujf towing the schoo er was not stooped for a
moment. The boy declares that tho sight of
his father going overboard and the heartlessness
of the crew of the Rchooner almost drove him
to suicide. Complaint was made at the Erie cus
tom house and an investigation will be ordered.
The lad, upon his arrival at Erie also found a
telegram saying that his mother was dying in
Centerv lie, Washington county, and he is in a
state bordering on distraction.
It is stated that one winter when the Ken
tucky legislature was in a dead lock and had
passed a sleepless night in session, the morn
ing found them iu an obstinate and ugly mood.
All efforts to adjourn were severely put down.
Soon after the breakfast hour arrived a member
from the big Sandy country went to one of the
fireplaces in the ancient hall and laid on the
hickory coals a piece of bacon that he had
found in a pocket sandwich. Tbe appetizing
odor gradually filled the room; the sizzling was
a cheerful sound suggesting home, ease and
comfort. The members began to stir con
fusedly in their chairs. Tr e hostile sides looked
at each other sheepishly and wistfully. They
couldn't help smiling, and at last broke into a
laugh. An adjournment was moved by several
and carried unanimously. They say politics is
swayed by phrases, but a bit of Kentucky bacon
did tho busiuess this time.
Fancy a woman of about 3) years of age, of
medium hight, dark brown fmir and black eyes
that pierce and sparkle. She is of full figure
and hurries along with of one
who has u mission to perform. She is dressed
in a light colored woolen dress and wears a
jaunty hat that sets off to advantage one of the
most perfect faces I liave ever teen—rounded
with soft pink and white', skin, two roguish
dimples, a perfect mouth, fsc lips and rows of
pertect teeth, milky whitf. Fancy such a
woman as that with a low'musical voice and
most gracious manners, you will have a pretty
fair idea of the late Horace Greeley’s only sur
viving daughter, Gabrlelle,now the wife of Rev.
Dr. Frank 0 Ciendenniu. Her days are spent in
doing good, in helping the weak, in nursing the
sick—a pretty Lady Bountiful, who never tires,
and who never tells of the good she is doing, so
quietly does she work. She greatly aids her
husband in his church work and is very devout.
Although she does not live in New York city
she spends much of her time there. Her life is
given up to life’s grand work of helping others.
The Chicago young lady who may desire to
put an adoring swaiu to the test might request
him to step into a Madison street grocery and
buy hor some strawberries. She might add
that he had better “hurry up,” or there will be
no b irriea to purchase. There the first crop of
Florida straw terries for this season are on ex
hibition. They look somewhat out of place,
like lambs in bleak December. Nestling in tiny
boxes, away from the sunlight and the suu
shine, it is positively cruel to expose them for
sale oa a drear November day. “Popu
lar tastes must be respected and
catered to,” said the manager to a re
porter for the Inter Ocean , “These little
Sint bo es sell at 75 cents—in the season, in
lay or thereabouts, you cfi buy strawberries
at sor 6 cents a Quart. It is another proof of
th 9 peculiarity of the people’s taste, this craze
after strawberries when they are rare and un -
common. Why. we cannot keep pace with the
demand, notwithstanding that the price seems
prohibitive. Those berries,’’ he explained, as
he handed a few tiny ones to the reporter, “are
almost flavorless. They are like precocious
children, the characteristic qualities of the
natural and seasonable berry are absent. Yet
people will buy them because they area rarity.’’
As he was speaking three boxes were wrapped
in paper. They were carried away by a gentle
man who was accompanied by u young lady
with a blue sparrow with pink eyes in h-r hat.
She-—the lady, not the sparrow-has probably
eaten the berries by this time.
The tea district in Water street Is hauntel
by a very odd sort of broken-down old man, says
the New York Commercial Advertiser. At first
sight h- impresses you one of those who have
joined the ranks or‘ a shabby genteel through
looking upon numerous liquors of various
colors too frequently. But upon closer exami
nation it is discovered that the ensanguined op
tic aud rubicund noso of him who stroileth in
alcoholic by-ways are missing, though upon all
other points the resemblance is perfect * Cow
per once referred to tea as a beverage that
cheered without inebriating, but the old man
in question is a striking exception to Mr. Cow
per's rule. Given a sufficient quantity of young
nyson or green tea, and he will develop
an attack of mixed feet that a pro
fessional absorber of hard liquor would have
difficulty in reproducing. He was once a tea
taster—one of those fellows who can tell the
growth, condition aud worth of a grade of tea
by sipping a spoonful of it. They never swal
low these samples, for in the course of a day
they mount up to a quart or so of the strongest
kind of tea, and are invariably expectorated.
The old man developed a fondness for the liquid
and took to swallowing his samples. One day
he had a fit of the nerves that scared everybody
out of the office and lost him his position. Since
then he has been going on tea-rackets witb great
regularity, and the quantity that ho can dispose
of at a sitting is astounding. His nervous sys
tem is a complete wreck, and from present ap
pearances it isn’t likely that he will live upon
the brokers' charity much longer.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY A SOS
THE BUZZ
OF
BUSINESS
WILL BE HEARD AT
GRAY'S!
ON ACCOUNT OF THAT 810
dress GOODS
SLAUGHTER SALE
We will commence TO
MORROW MORNING, Nov
16. Be sure and attend THT
SALE.
The New Arrivals are Silks
Crepe de Chine, Handker
chiefs. Choice Gloria Umbrel
las, Kid Gloves, French Bed
ford Cords, Hosiery, Jewelry
Wool Underwear, Etc., Etc. ’
Tho Place, 147 Broughton St.
C. GRAY & SIE
GROCERIES.
On Deck in a Raging Storm.
Lookout for a high old time in
THE TEA BUSINESS.
D, B. Lester Grocery Go.
Will sell for the next thirtv days one pound
of tbe celebrated “O’Dan'Tea” and a 250
book for 500.
D. B, LESTER GROCERY CO.
Has Just received a lot of choice California
Port and Sherry Wine at the low price of
$1 per gallon.
If you want a lot of choice Mixed Candy
from 10c a pound up, and a freeh supply of
Nuts, Dates, Raisins, Citron and Currants,
call on the
B. B. LESTER GROCERY CO.
SAN IT AR Y PLUMBING.
REMOVAL.
The Savannah Plumbing
Company has removed to cor
ner Drayton and Congress
streets, and is now prepared
to do work with its usual
rapidity and efficiency.
SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.
SUBDAY SCHEDULE.
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY
AND
COAST LINE RAILROAD CO.
The 8:00 p. m. train leaves from Second ave
nue and Whitaker st eet depot. All other trains
leave from Holton street depot for Bona venture,
Thunderbolt, and Isle of Hope, Montgomery,
and Beaulieu, city time.
For JBonaventure aud Thunderbolt—9:oo,lo:oo,
11:00 a,. m., 2:00,3:00,4:09,5:00, 0:00 and 0:30 p.
m.
For Isle of Hope—10:00, 11:00 a. m., *3:00,
6:30 p. in.
For Montgomery—lo:oo a. m,, *3:00 p. m.
Returning, leavj Montgomery 1:30 Am,
12:50. 3:10 p. m.
Returning, leave Isleof Hope 8:00a. m., 12:10,
1:05,3:10.6:40 p. in.
Returning, leave Thunderbolt 8:20, 10:00 a.m.,
12:30. 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30,6:00, 6:30 p m.
Arrive in Savannah 8:40. 10:20 a, m., 12:50,
1:40, 2:50,* 8:50, 4:50, 5:50, 6:20, 6:50 p. m.
**Seoond avenue and Whitaker street depot.
Trains for city leave Bonavanture cemetery
five minutes after leaving Thunderbolt.
Q. W. ALLEY. Supt-
VXUBTABLER FRDITs. ETC.
: PF.AFU- 1
BLACK EYE PEAS.
SPECKLED PEAS,
RED RUST PROOF TEXAS
SEED OATS,
SEED RYE,
Apples, Cabbage, Potatoes,
Onions, Lemons, Peanuts,
Turnips, Etc.
FLORIDA ORANGES,
HAY, GRAIN AND FEED,
IN CAR LOTS OR LESS.
W. D. SIM KINS.
INSURANCE.
CHARLES F. PRENDERGAST
(Successor to 11. li. Footman & Oo.J
FIRE, mm AND STORM INSURANCE,
106 BAY STREET,
(Next West of the Cotton Exohantre.l
Talephona Call No. 31 Savannah. Ga.
