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ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
CARLISLE'S LETTER 6TIBS UP
SENATOR PUO3.
A Denial That the Free Coinage Men
Bave Any Deelre to Abandon the
Vital Issue of Tariff Reform—Exper
iences of the Cleveland Campaign
Recalled.
Washington, Nov. 27.—Senator Pugh
of Alabama has written a communication
to the Washington Post in which he says
the letter of Senator John G. Carlisle in
answer to the letter of Congressman John
D. Warner on the subject of the qualifica
tions of Hon. Roger Q. Mills for the speak
ership cannot be permitted to circulate as
truth without denial and correction. Sena-
tor Pugh says:
My su l purpose is to correct the following re
markable statement: "Why shall we, on the
eve of a great national contest, when victory is
almost within our grasp, abandon or 1 .pore the
vital issues upon which we are united and
waste our strength in fruitless controversy
among ourselves over a question which can be
better adjusted after it lias been determined
what part of their own earnings the people
will be permuted to keep. The hrst
duty of the Democratic party and all
who sympathize with it, is to change the laws
under which the earnings of the people are to
be taken away from them by unjust taxation
for private purpos*s, and whoever proposes to
postpone the performanc of this duty in order
to inaugurate war among ourselves upon the
pllver question or any other question is not a
wise counselor, and would not make a safe
leader.”
Cleveland's experience.
I well remember what was generally conceded
In 1688. the last year of President Cleveland’s
administration, that he had so ably and wisely
and honestly administered the government as
to leave the Republican party without a for
midab.e or meritorious issue in the presidential
election of tnat year, when some wise counselors
and safe leaders (in their own estimation; I do
pot intimate that the senator was oue of them)
Induced President Cleveland to throw away all
the jewels in bis administration and challenge
the Republican party to battle on the single,
paramount and all-absorbing issue of
tariff reform on a formula furnished in Pregi
xjent Cleveland's message and the Mills bill.
•Tnis was done by wise counsel and safe leader-
Ithlp "on the eve of a great national contest,
'when victory was almost within our grasp.” Is
jit unwise aud unsafe to suggest among our
selves that something had better be learned
,from experience? When a child gets burned he
will not go back into the same lire.
SENATOR Pl-CJH'a DENIAL.
What I wish to deny moet emphatically is the
senator's statement that any democrat in the
'United States who supports free coinage of
Silver has expressed any desire. Intention or
.purpose to abandon or ignore the vital issue of
tariff reform.
All that the friends of silver demand is what
Abe Democratic party in every national conven
tion has done without a single exception, keep
Taxation and the currency together as co-ordi
nate and coequal subjects of remedial legisla
tion. Neither tariff reform nor financial re
form has ever been ignored nor abandoned, nor
one subordinated to the other in any demo
cratic platform during the life time
of the party. The power of monopoly
secured to the manufacturers by a protective
tariff like the McKinley law to regulate prices is
not as great, oertainly no greater, man the
power of monopoly secured to the money
lender and purchaser of property, productions
nd labor under the gold standard of currency
Contracted to the amount of one metal.
ATTITUDE OF THE SILVER MEN.
The friends of sliver have always acted on the
defensive. They never inaugurated any war.
The representation of gold struck down silver
in 1873, and when it was partially restored iu
1878 by meager coinage merciless war was re
newed to destroy it in 1888, and in 1890
tne McKinley bill and the free coin
age bill and infamous force bill went
band in hand to the Senate in one of the most
memorable parliamentary struggles recorded
in history, aud the world knows that the gov
ernment and country and Democratic party
■were rescued from the most perilous oonse
queuoes of the passage of the force bill by the
Invincible courage and fidelity of advocates and
supporters of free silver coinage. If tne friends
Of silver are to be classed as unwiße counselors
and unsafe leaders because they Insist that the
silver issue shall not be ‘abandoned or ignored’
in the contest of 1892, but that it shall go hand
in hand and receive the same treatment
with all the other Issues made
in the democratic platform, especially when
they are so classed and condemned at the in
stance and in the interest of those democrats
who throttled the free coinage bill in the last
House of Representatives, all the friends of
Silver have to say is that they are aocustomed
to such classification, and hope to be able
to persevere in vindication of their convictions
Jua integrity. As democrats aud friends of
ree coinage they protest against being retired
from the councils of the Democratic party be
cause they are unwilling to allow a corporal's
§uard of gold representatives to
ictate to the friends of silver and silence
aud postpone them in their just demands until
the veto power can be put in the hands of a
democrat for four years, to be exercised against
any adjustment of the silver question except
on a formula to be furnished by “wise counsel
ors and safe leaders,” to be found only iu the
neighborhood of Wall street.
BYLVANIA SIFTINGS.
A Marriage—The Beauty of the Town
Voted a Coke.
; Byi.vAnia, Ga., Not. 27.— Miss Charity
Waters, daughter of George W. Waters
who lives near this place, was married last
night to Walter Parker of Woodoiiff.in this
(County.
There are 117 pupils in attendance at the
Sylvania Academy, the largest that has
*>ver been known In the fall of the year.
.Under the management of Prof. John C.
Langston this has grown to be one of the
nest a hoo s in the country.
A oake was voted oif last night at the
residence of Mrs. George B. Douglas in
Bylvania for the most popular young lady
In our village. The beauty and chivalry of
the town were out, and the voting was
lively and exciting.
Miss Jessie Dell received the highest num
ber of votes and was awarded the oake.
{This is a compliment worthily bestowed
upon one of the most attractive young
ladies in this soction of the state. Mims
Nellie May Redding, a lovely young school
girl of Bylvania Institute, reoetved the next
highest number of votes. The object of the
entertainment was to raise money for the
purpose of buying a baptismal font for the
Episcopal church.
BAXLEY BRIEF3.
'Thanksgiving Services—The Piedmont
Baptist Association.
Baxley, Ga., Nov. 27. —Thanksgiving
services were held in the court house here
Thursday. Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the weather there was a good attendance.
The exercises consisted of prayer, songs aud
scripture reading, scripture quota!ions aud
abort speeches.
Rev. G. A. Blount of Walthourville was
present aud made quite an interesting talk.
A union meeting of the Piedmont Baptist
Association convened at the Baptist churoh
here to-day, to be in session three days.
Rev. J. G. Gibson, secretary and treasurer
of the state mission board. Dr. G. A. Nun
nally, president of Mercer University, and
several other visiting noted divines are ex
pected.
Mclntosh Superior Court.
Darien, Ga., Nov. 27.—McIntosh super
ior court adjourned to-night.
Joe Simmons got three years in the peni
tentiary.
Sam Whaley, Charles Jackson and Aus
tin Butler go for three years.
Andrew Golding was sentenced to three
yeot;s in the penitentiary for larceny.
Shot in the Band.
Summer, Ga., Nov. 27.— About dark yes
terday Elzie Smith, about 10 years old, was
trying to hide a small pistol under the steDs
of the Smith house when it was discharged,
the ball passing through the palm of right
the bar.d, inflicting a painful wound. The
boy knew the pistol was loaded.
An Extended Popularity. Brown’s Bron
chial. Troches have for many years been the
most popular article in use for relieving Coughs
aud Throat troubles.—Ad.
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
New Companies Formed— A ppolnt
ments by the Governor.
Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 27.—Article*
of incorporation of new companies have
been filed with the secretary of state as
follows:
The Oak Terrace Improvement Company
of South Jacks rnville, capital stock $65,000,
which is authorized to grow, sell and buy
all sorts of fruits and produce, to build and
| lease cottage and hotels, and to operate
boats for profit on the St. Johus river.
The Argyle Phosphate Company of Fort
tV hi to, Columbia county,t capital stock
$ 100,000, the officers of which are all citi
zens of Pensacola.
The DeLand Manufacturing Company,
capital stock 150,000, which will manu
facture artificial ice and operate a general
machine and repair shop.
Gov. Fleming has appointed G. C. War- I
rea of Tampa to be notary public for the
state at large, Richard A. Lord of Tampa to
be notary public for Hillsborough county,
D. C. Campbell of Pensacola to be notary
public for the state at large, G. A. Collins of
Switzerland to be justh-e of the peace in
St, Juhos county, J. J. Joaes of Arredondo
to be constable of Alachua county, T. B.
McAuley of Perry to be justice of the peace
in Taylor county. B. F. Jackson of White
Springs to be notary public for the state at
large, and C. A. Reguter of jasper to be
county surveyor of Hamilton county.
A VERDICT FOR $25,000.
Mrs. Sarah A. Foxworth Wins Her
Suit Against the F. O. and P.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 27.— Last
Tuesday in the circuit court, before Judge
Young and a jury, the case of Mrs. Sarah
A. Foxworth against the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad was put on trial
and was given to the jury at 11 o’clock a.
ni. to-day. This is an action brought by
the widow of the late Rev. Foxworth for
$50,000 damages for the killing of her hus
band by a train on the railroad,at Callahan
about a year ago. Mr. Foxworth was
crossing the railroad while a
train was approaching, with an umbrella
hoisted between him and the locomotive to
shield off the rain which was falling. A
number of witnesses were examiued and
able arguments wore made on both sides of
the question and Judge Young charged the
jury at length to-day and a verdict for
$25,000 was rendered. Many attorneys and
railroad men evinced much interest in the
suit and watched its progress from begin
ning to end.
KEY WEST GETS THE CUP.
The Ocala and Orlando Companies
Ruled Out.
Orlando, Fla., Nov. 27.— The prizes
were awarded in tbe firemen’s race yester
day morning. Protective Hose No. 2 of
Ocala, was ruled out because they hod ten
men in their team, while the rules only
allow nine. Mechanic Hose No. 2 of Or
lando, was also ruled out because one of tbe
couplings was not made according to the
rule, aud as St. Augustine, Sanford aud
Orlando No. 1 'bad all failed on couplings,
this left the choice between the Key West
companies. Tbe first prize, a fine
silver cup, was awarded to
Enterprise Hose No. 2. Tho second prize, a
smaller cup, to Tiger Hose No. 3.
The tournament next year will be held in
St. Augustine.
The Island City boys left to-night on the
fast mail train, taking all the honors of the
tournament aud the good wishes of our
citizens, ahd they are deserved.
Man is often deceived in the age of a
woman by her gray hair. Ladies, you can
appear young and prevent this gravness by
using Hall’s Hair Eenewer. — Ad.
ORLANDO ETCHINGS.
The Town Filling Up With People.
Paving the Streets.
Orlando, Fla., Nov. 27.—Orlando is
filling up with people and everything is in
a flourishing condition. Empty dwellings
are hard to find and more people continue
to come.
Tbe work of paving the streets is going
on and both Pine street and Orange avenue
are now being benefited.
The brick walls of tbe new court house
are beginning to show themselves.
Hon. W. L. Palmer aud C and. W. R. Anno
ore candidates for mayor before the next
city election.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
rooms bave been fitted with new carpet.
Jailed for Abduction.
Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 27.—John Yal
verton, an ex-police officer of this city, for
whom a reward of SIOO has been offered for
several weeks, was arrested and jailed last
night charged with running off with a 15-
year-old girL The prisoner will lie given a
hearing before County Judge. Brooks to
morrow.
A Circuit Court Clerk Dead.
Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 27.—F. E. DeLa
Rua, who for forty-sin years has been clerk
of the circuit court of this couuty, died
about 3 o'clock this morning of senility. He
was 80 years of age. and one of the old
landmarks of this oitv, having been born
here.
Hooked by a Cow.
Blackshear, Ga., Nov. 27.—Mrs. C. J.
Roberts went into her cow lot late this
afternoon and was attacked by a cow,
which caught and carried her on her horns
until her husband and Mr. Dykes rescued
her. She suffered frightful injuries, but
her recovery is hoped for.
Peace Again Reigns.
Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 27.—The diffi
culty between J. E. Dart and VV. F. Penni
inan has been adjusted by the intervention
of friends. The settlement was secured by
an exchange of correspondence containing
mutual explanations and withdrawals.
Philadelphia’s Bell Club.
Jacksonville. Fla., Nov. 27. Tho
Philadelphia Base Ball Club has secured
the Jacksonville grounds for the winter.
Coughs and colds kept off by taking Sim
mons Liver Regulator to regulate the system.
Ad.
A Wonderful Animal.
They were talking about the wonderful in
stinct of animals in general and of dogs in par
ticular, says the Detroit Free Press, when a man
living on Sixth street said:
“I s’pose some ot you remember that bob
taileJ brindle dog 1 us djo own? 1 gave him
away half a dozen different times, but he
always turned up again. It was in the Detroit
Free Press how 1 gave him toa man in Cheboy
gßn nnd he blindfolded him and took him up
there on the cars, and yet he came back within
two weeks.”
Three or four of the crowd expressed their
surprise, and the Sixth street man was en
couraged to continue:
"lie came back from Chicago, Cincinnati and
Buffalo, and 1 finally gave him to a man woo
was going to the Sandwich islands. I felt pretty
sure I had seen tne la-t of that dog, but in
exactly three months from the day he left I
found him on the front doorstep ”
“Was he taken to the Sandwich Islands?”
asked one.
“He was, as I afterward found out "
“Good lands, man, but you don’t pretend to
say he found his way back from there!"
“I certainly do.”
“Do you know where those islands are?”
”1 do.”
‘‘Do you know that your dog would have had
to swim a distance of several thousand miles to
reach the nearest land?”
”1 do. and it's right here I want to say that,
wtiile that ere dog wasn't worth powder to
blow him up as a traveler on dry land, he was
the all-flredest animal to swin that ever stood
on legs! That's just why I wauted to get rid
of him—the infei nal idiot always thought he
was born for a lisu instead of a dog, and I lift (
to keep the cellar full ot water for him to plav
in I”
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1891.
BOUND TO HAVE A BOOM.
THE BALANCE OF IRADI HEAVILY
IN OUR FAVOR.
Money Plentiful All Over the Country
and More Coming In Every Day—The
Crop Movement Enormous, Eut
Speculation Not Active—Cotton Still
Bolling: In.
New York, Nov. 27. —The business fail
ures last week, as reported to R. G. Dun &
Cos., number for the United States 237 and
for Canada 58, a total of 295 against 285
last week. Dun’s review says;
“A week broken by a holiday has shown
the usual characteristics, weak speculation,
active retail trade and moderate
wholesale business. But the great
factors which go to make national
prosperity are unaltered. Money is in ample
supply. The industries are fairly employed.
Crops are moving with freedom, and in
wonderful quantities, and the exports are
remarkably heavy. No failures occur of a
character to cause apprehension, and the
feeling of confidence at all commercial
centers is strong. Even the approaching
session of congress gives rise to little
apprehension, as it is felt that the opposing
parties will have to act cautiously in view
of the coming general election. There ere
signs that distribution of products to con
sumers is improving. Southern cities re
port better; Savannah alone reports the
present trade light, and money no easier,
but the prospects bright.
SPECULATION NOT ACTIVE.
“Speculation during the past week has
not been active, but a corner at Chicago
has put up corn for immediate belivery ti
points and pork is 250 higher; oats ligand
wheat %, while cotton and sugar are heavy.
The receipts of cotton exceed those of the
same week last year by 50,000 bales, and the
exports by 92,000 bales larger. Wheat
receipst at the west continue at the rate of
more than 8,000,000 b .zhels for the
full week, and the exports have been 1,300,-
000 bushels of wheat alone from the At
lantic seaboard for three days of the present
week. Corn is coming forward fairly, and
after November a sharp decline in the price
is expected. Oil and coffee show no con
siderable change. The volume of specula
tion in most lines is fortunately so restricted
that legitimate business and the movement
of products are not at present embarrassed.
THE GREAT INDUSTRIES.
“In the great industries the outlook is im
proved. There is a better demand for iron,
and the sales of pig are liberal, with as
tonishing steadiness in prices, considering
the enormous output. Some Virginia iron
is offered very low, and sl6 at
Providence, for No. 1, is quoted. Bar is in
better demand, orders having been placed
for many thousand cars, requiring each six
to eight tons of manufactured iron. Plates
are in fair demand, but structural iron is a
little weaker and Bteel billets are at the
lowest price ever recorded ($26). On the
whole, there are evidences of enormous eon
sumption already, nearly equal to the pro
duction, with the prospects of an increase
next year. The Erie has just placed 20,000
tons of steel rails.
“Tne market for woolen goods distinctly
improves with colder weather,though some
holders make slight concessions on old
stocks. Cotton goods are fairly active,
though print cloths accumulate.
MONEY EASY.
“Money is comparatively oasy and col
lections generally are fair.
“The treasury has taken in but $500,000
more than it has disbursed, against an issue
of SBOO,OOO new ire isury uotes.
“The oxportsof products in four weeks nt
New York have exceeded lost year’s
by $71,461,482 in value, indicating
an aggregato for the month probably ex
ceeding $95,000,000, and at the same time
there is a decrease of 10 per cent, in the
value of tbe imports. There is certain to
be a very large balauce payable on the mer
chandise account hy Europe, and much
anxiety appears in seme quarters as
to how the straiD abroad will be
met, but thus far there are no signs of real
trouble except in speculative quarters. It
is to be remembered also that this country
is at present unusually independent of for
eign disasters or disturbances.
“Stocks are in bettor demand, the aver
age of prices having risen about 75 cents
per share within the week.”
Health brings happiness. Take Simmons
Liver Regulator for stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles.— Ad.
THE SUICIDE CLUB’S JOKE.
German Philosophy and American Hu
mor Responsible for the Legend.
From the New York Herald.
Outside is the bustling life of a modern
yankee town, that makes commonplaoe
things like shoes and sewing machines by
the annual millions. Inside is a Baa led
floor, a low, smoke-stained ceiling, an old
fashioned, well-blacked stove of the hour
glass waist variety, a scant furnished bar, a
row newspaper-littered tables, and two old
Germans with white hair, which stands
straight up from their wrinkled foreheads,
as if tho thatch of each old poll rose aghast
at the reflection of itself in the ether.
On a bright day when the windows are
open and the sunlight and the hum of the
commonplace busy life of the yankee town
pour into it it may seem as cheerfully un
interesting as any other little German beer
saloon. But on a dark day, lise that on
which I visited it last week, when there Is
no sound but the drops of rain outside and
none within but the low rumble of heavy
South German consonants crossing the bar
on the two sides of which the two white
headed old fellows stand talking, I am pre
pared to believe with a goodly portion of the
people of Bridgeport that this was the origi
nal meeting place of the world-famous
suicide club, the room where in ghastly
mirth they drew their charter providing
against too easy modes of death.and laugh
ing. rattled the dice, alloting each his day
of doom.
For a good portion of Bridgeport believes
that there wus some sort of a jesting tryst
made with death here in this low coiled
room—No. 583 Main street is the exact
location, and that fate, working iu the
curious, devious ways which are fate’s own,
made each of the jesters thereafter nolens
nolens keep the compact.
It is a cruel belief sometimes—when for
instance a man’s children hold it. Charlie
Henss, the letter carrier, did not heed the
ma 1 wags of toe town who still keep up the
jest aud wtio conferred on him the honor of
membership, till he went homo one night
and was met by his children with the teariul
query: “Papa, must you kill y >ur3ell ? Are
you a member of the’ Suicide Club?” And
when a inau’s children do not believe it,
the fact that other people do may make the
belief equally cruel. For when John Kopp
was found hanging in his cellar at No. 10
Evarts’ court, the other day, aud the story
was started that the turn of another
member of the suicide Club had corns, it
was his children who tearfully admitted to
Coroner Doten that, while their father was
not a member of tho club, he had in self
destruction followed '.ho example of two of
his brothers and a brother-in-law. So the
merry jest of the Bridgeport wags opened
the door of the Kopp family closot aud
showed four skeletons rattliug there instead
of one.
So much for some of the outcroppings of
the mingled vein of tragedy aud farce
wherein the antiquarian iu search of the fin
de siecle manners and customs of New Eng
land townsfolk will some day find a rich
but queerly assorted yield of legendary lore.
As for the vein itself, I find In it evidence
of tho existence of not one but three suicide
clubs, one or which was formed in jest and
never exercised its pirty rights, one which
did exercise its charter rights, if it had any,
but which left no actual proof of its exist
ence, and one the existence of which grew,
strangely enough, out of the belief in the
existence of the llrst two entertained by
some bankrupt French speculators, who,
when they applied for membership, were,
with true yankee enterprise, promptly ac
commodated by tbe formation of a clnb for
tbe especial purpose of admitting them.
This is the club to which “Charlie” Hones’
children believed be belonged.
THE FOUNDER TALKS.
The founder of tbe original Bridgeport
Suicide Club, the o e which never exercised
its charter rights, told the story of it quite
unreservedly when a pledge wav given him
that bis present usefulness would not Le de
stroyed by the publication of his name.
That usefulness is exercised as professor of a
graceful act whose witn-sses would shriek
and flee at the thought that their instructor
was ever even in jest, the propagator of the
cult of self-destruction.
“The club,” said this man, “was formed
among tbe employes of she tool room of the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine works
six years ago. It grew out of my joking
Philip Fuukhouse. a German employed
there, about the lack of sand displayed by
his countrymen. Tne occasion was the at
tempted child murder and suicide of a Ger
man on the east side, whose name I have
forgotten. I badgered Fhilip about tbe lack
of courage in his countrymen, who fell to
cutting themselves and their families when
in the least downhearted, and he answered
me bacE that the Hermans had as much
‘sand’ as the yankees. ‘Well, then,’ I said
in joke, ‘let us have suicides that have some
sense about them. Let us form a club, each
member of which will kill himself when
bis turn comes without any fuss or bother.’
He, also joking, took me up, and we agreed
to form the club. All that I remember of
its rules is that its membership was to be
twenty-five in number, and that no new
members were to be admitted until vacancies
were occasioned according to the rules. A
number of the men in the toolroom joined.
A few days afterward I met Tom Woods, a
reporter of one of the capers here, who
asked me, according ti his custom, if there
was anything new at the works. I told him
of the joke about the Suicide Club. He pub
lished it and shortly afterward told me that
the story had been copied into every news
paper in Connecticut and was traveling all
over the country. Then we dropped tbe
joke, and I never heard of any member of
our organization taking advantage of our
charter rights.”
Such was the bold, brief story of the orig
inal Suicide Club-a seed of a factory joke
spirited into a semblance of fact througn a
dearth of news in a factory town papier,
and thenoe sown broadcast by means of
those active brain cultivators, the exchange
editor’s shears, till none shall know till the
last day in what fields it fell or what har
vest was reaped of it.
Seemingly the harvest in the home field
was quick and plenteous in its return, for
if in that low-ceiled, floor-sanded room at
584 Main street another suicide club did not
meet, those who did meat there exercised at
least tbe chief right of membership.
THE CHARTER BECOMES OPERATIVE.
It is three years next February since the
second suicide club, the “Suioide Club at
Kinzie’s”—for John Kiuzie then kept the
saloon —began to be talked about. On the
morning of the third day of that month in
18S7 it was told in Bridgeport that Victor
Heisterhagea, who himself had been keeping
a saloon around tbe corner iu Gold street,
but was better known as a musician, had
gone down in bis oellar and shot himself.
Then it*was remarked by another frequenter
of the place: “Why, that’s oue of those
follows who was always talking about the
Suicide Club they had.”
Then the story began to grow that the
charter of the Bridgeport Suicide Club was
beginning to be operative. Centuries would
have been required in a sleepy old world
community or in a stagnant New England
village for the legend that Bridgeport put
forth off -hand. It was said that the crowd
who met at Kinzie’s had over a game of
curds organized a Suicide Club, that
the offioers had been elected, the
allotment of turns made, tbe
rules drawn, and that Viet >r Heis
turhngen had been the first to be called
upon. Bridgeport, in fact, turned out a
legend as quickly as it might a sewing ma
chine. Some scoffed, some sDoke of circum
stances which looked like retribution, but
there were the facts. Victor had been a
frequenter of the crowd at Kinzie’s, who
were always joking about the Suicide Club.
Aud Victor was dead, having left a note to
bis landlady who lived next door, which
ran or limped in this fashion:
“Katie, you done it. Now i going to take
me life and you all the fault of it good bye
and may you have 10 times the trouble that
I bad.”
Gossip said that it was for love of Katie
that Victor put the 32-caliber rim firing re
volver to his right temple. Katie said that
it was because she had refused to lend Vic
tor money to carry on his failing saloon
business. So he was buried, at his request,
iu his military blouse, which was all he had
left of his handsome uniform, which he
had worn for ten years when stationed on
Governor’s Island, and gossip waited for the
next break in the circle at Kmzie’s.
Now, George Leavenworth was not of
the class to which the Suicide Club was sup
posed to belong, but he was a frequenter of
Kinzie’t, which was near his mother’s house
in Chapel street. Ho was a newspaper man,
the brightest one, every one said then, and
many say now, in Bridgeport. He had
laughed and talked often at the stories about
the original Suicide Club, and there is little
doubt that he would have joined readily in
any discussion of the subject which was
started at a quiet German resort like
Kinzie’s, where tho philosophy of life, and
especially death, is gone into a good deal
more aud a good deal deeper than tkose who
puss by on the street, or drop in to allay a
sudden thirst are apt to imagine. Moreover,
he was just the one to have sought to find
a parallel in real life to Robert Louis
Stevenson’s fantastio story which bears
the same title as Bridgeport’s fantastic
legend.
One morning during the last presidential
campaign, Leavenworth' then night editor
of a morning paper, came at 7 o’clock to
Case’s hotel, on Bank street, and took a
room. At 10 o'clock he was called, but was
sleeping so heavily that he did not respond.
In the afternoon another and more persistent
attempt was made to arouse him. The win
dow shutters were opened and the light of
the autumn day —it was Get. 9, 1888—
streamed in on a laudanum vial aud a letter
beside his bed. The doctors worked over
him for three hours, but he could only be
aroused sufficiently to speak some inco
herent jargon. At night he died. The let
ter said that he was tired of life. His
friends knew that he had despaired of
breaking himself of the habit of drinking"
into winch he had fallen on account of a
disappointment in love.
The legend now went so far as to say that
George Leavenworth had told the whole
story of the Suicide Club to a friend before
he died, and the story got into print at good
space rates.
KINZIE HIMSELF THE THIRD.
Gossip waited with bated breath for an
other. Gossip was well rewardod and soon
rewarded.
John Kinzie himself was the other. Ho
had sold his saloon either on account of
Suicide Club association or because, moio
probably, of association with the death of
children whom he had lost there. He weut
to Europe, returned, went into the cheese
business, contracted a settled melancholy
and on Easter Monday morning—it was
April 22, 1889—went down into his cellar, as
Victor Heisterhagen had done, and sitting
on the floor palled the trigger of a rifle
with a string and shot himself dead through
the body.
With the death of the proprietor of the
Suicide Club’s meeting place one would
have suppose 1 that the legend would have
began to retire into the antiquity wfiheb
alone oan lend dignity toa legend. But no.
When William Maby, a letter carrier, out
his throat a year ago last January, the new
variation was taken on that he had left be
hind him iu the postoffice the fatal um
brella which each member had to carry in
the interval between his turn en 1 tte last
man’s.
Bui the veraoious chronicler must cast
Maby out from the membership of tho Kin
zio coterie. Tnere is more evidence, but
scarcely sufficient for the admission of Wen
dell Baum, the tailor, and William Melcke,
tho sign painter, und the only link to cou
nect Kopp, the latest addition to the num
ber, is that he was Baum’s brother-in-law.
So you may rest your elbows on the bar
or the tables of Kinzle’s and take your
draught of tbe liberal allowance of the
golden brew which K 1 axle’s successor gives,
w ithout fear of the presence of more than
three sprites at your shoulder, Heisterhag
en’s, Leavenworth’s and Kinzie’s.
And if you step next door into Pfau’s,
you may get, as I did, with a rambling con
firmation of the Suicide Club’s existence,
this bit of German philo ophy: “Veil,
some dakes de bisdol, some de rope, gome <le
boison, some vaits der turn —vots de dif
ference bow we get through* We must ged
through somehow or utter.”
A year ago last May a strange letter
found its way into the Bridgeport post
office. It was addressed to "Monsieur Le
President du Suicide Club, Bridgeport.”
The postmark was Caen. Beneath the
word Bridgeport had originally been tbe
further superscription “Augleterre.” This
bad been crossed out, au-1 the words “Try,
Bridgeport, Conn., U. 5..” substituted.
MR LOESER BECOMES PRESIDENT.
Letter Carrier Honss found it in his bin.
and savagely declared to Delivery Clerk
Billings that he would stand no more jok
ing about the Suicide Club, but would com
plain to the postmaster. “I put that in your
bin for delivery,” said Mr. Biilmgs in a
coldly official tone of voice. “It is your
duty to deliver it.”
“Oh, well. I’ll take it to Dan Loeser,’“re
plied the carrier, seeing the force of the
waggish clerk’s argument. So Daniel R.
Looser, a jolly watchmaker, who shakes
with laughter when you say Suicide Club to
him, became the president of the organiza
tion whose fame as a Bridgeport product is
only second to Barnum’s show. He tried
hard to put tbe honor of Partenheim. the
cigarmaker, whom he was accustomed to
regale with similar morccaux of mirth, out
Partenheim drove the carrier out of his shop
and Loeser opened the letter and thereby
accepted the office. The communication
was in French and ran:
“To the President of the Suicide Club, Bridge
port:
“Dear Sir— Having embarked in some specu
lations which have not proved successful, the
persons whose names follow desire to take part
in your honorable club. They are MM.
Auguste Marescal. Anatole Crombinard. Louis
Desbignes aud Edgard Simonneau. If you will
agree to our request and receive us in your
society you will confer a favor on us. If you
wish to answer, dear sir, please address your
correspondence to Anatole Crombinard,
No. 291 Boulevard des Capucines, Colrades,
France.
To this were attached the four names in
autograph and a notarial certificate to the
existence of their bearers.
There is some authority for the statement
that at the same saloon which Heisterhagen
kept a charter and by-laws of the organiza
tion were drawn and sent to the four un
fortunate speculators with permission to
join the club. But when M. Le President
Loeser is asked about the welfare of the
French branch of the Suicide
Club be replies, with an up
heaving train of chuckles: “Id va
all a cnoke—ah dose newsbaber vellows,
dey are velcome to cboin dot clup rigbd
avav.” The reference to the newspaper fel
lows is due to tbe fact that a local Sunday
paper in its issue succeeding Mr. Loueor’s
acceptance of the letter from France an
nounced him in all seriousness as the real
club’s actual president. Since then bis fame
has penetrated the interior of far Hungary,
aud only six weeks ago he received frum
there a letter of inquiry as to the rights and
duties appertaining to the membership of
the Bridgeport Suicide Club.
Such, then, is the whole story of the
famous society from top to bottom, from
center to circumference, in all its aspects.
Viewed from any of them, it is a Htrange
growth of Gormau top dressing on yankee
soil, aud as the shape of the legend grows
dimly fascinating through the years, and
the element of the great American joke is
gradually eliminates, it will make very de
licious dreaming for some Hawthorne of the
twenty-first century, aud be largely sold in
a volume of short stories.
A TRULY WHSTERN MARVEL.
An Indiana Man Delivered of the Skele
ton of a Fully Developed. Child.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Shelbyville. Ind., Nov. 24.—A most
remarkable freak of nature, which is
destined to rival all freaks heretofore re
ported, developed here Sunday. Thomas
Worland, aged 35 years, who has a wife
and three children, was himself delivered
of the skeleton of a fully developed child on
that day.
SJFrom his infancy Mr. Worland has suf
fered from a supposed tumor in his right
side, which of late has become alarmingly
large. Last Bunday Dr. Barnum of Manilla,
Ind., called in Drs. Eastman & Eastman of
Indianapolis aud Dr. J. R. Jenkins of this
city, who determined to remove the tumor
by a surgical operation. Accordingly they
cut into the cavity, and found a dermoidal
cyst of about Bx 4 inches, containing that
rare and curious specimen of abnormal
formation known as an incysted foetus. The
cyst was found to tie filled with the bones,
eto.,ofa fully developed foetal dceleton,
hair, vertebra;, clavicle, phalanges and a
part of the superior maxillary. The cyst
had attached itself to the intestines and
perforated them, and a part of the sebaceous
and osseous debris had passed off through
these openings.
The bones takon from tho cavity were
perfectly formed and shaped for proper ar
ticulation. After removing this foetal skel
eton the surgeons bisected the duodenum,
removed the ruptured portion and reat
tached the intestine.
Mr. Worland is now resting easy, with a
possibility of recovery, though the prospects
are against him.
Tte physicians performing the operation
pay that the skeleton found in this abdomi
nal dermoid cyst is tho remains of a fretus
formed and partially developed during the
psriod of fecundation. Dr. Jenkins says
that there is no such case recorded in the
books, but it is probable that the surviving
foetus was so much stronger than its twin
embryo that it enveloped it in the stronger
dermis. Mr. Worland is a prominent
farmer and well known in this country.
MEDICAL
SCROFULA
Is that impurity of the blood which produces
unsightly lumps or swellings In the neck;
which causes running sores on tho arms,
legs, or feet; which develops ulcers In the
. eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
i deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can
cerous growths, or “humors;” which,fasten
ing upon the lungs, causes consumption and
death. It is the most ancient of all diseases,
j and very few persons are entirely free from it.
"“CURED
By taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it lias accomplished,
has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar
I medicine for this disease. If you suffer from
scrofula, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
“ Every spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, my little boy,
three years old, being a terrible sufferer.
Last spring he was one mass of sores from
head to feet. We all took Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
and all have been cured of the scrofula. My
little boy is entirely free from sores, and all
four of my children look bright and healthy.”
W. B. Atherton, Passaic City, N. J.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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r CENTS gets the Sunday ssun ot the M 00.4
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DEATHS.”
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Price street, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
Mrs. I* W. Bhickman, daughter of Mrs. R. T.
Burch. Funeral notice later.
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On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of imu.
urrmsent of aO aieertisinj M Use Hoaaiso
News mI be agate, or at the rate of $1 *1
tru-A for the first riveerfioa. No Special Notice
inserted for lees than $1 00.
ASSIGN E L’S SALE
—OF—
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES.
I will offer to the public the stock of Choice
Family Groceries of
THE MUTUAL TRADING COMPANY
(Assigned).
These goods are all fresh and desirable, and
will be sold at
LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
F.verything in t’e grocery line is in stock and
roust be sold at once. Now is the time to buy
Christmas supplies, they are so cheap.
SAVE MONEY ! SAVE MONEY I
Two Horses and Delivery Wagons also
for sale cheap.
C. F. LAW, Assignee,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
British bark FLORA, Olsen master, will be
responsible for any debts contracted by the
crew of said vessel. STRACHAN & CO.,
Consignees.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that no blits contracted by crew
of the barkentine JOHN J. MARSH will be
paid by master or agents.
GEO. HARRISS & CO.,
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Savannah, Ga., Nov. 28, 1881.
THE JAPANESE MONKEYS
In our Bull street window can be seen plainly
with the naked eye, and in addition, the nioest
line of Japanese Bronzes and Porcelains, deoor
ated in solid gold, that has ever been in Savan
nah. These goods are new and fresh, just
from Tokio and inland towns of Japan.
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
Bull and Conorkss.
FOR RENT,
At Isle of Hope, a nice cottage and outbuild
ings with about forty (40) acres of farming
land. Possession given immediately. Apply to
WALTHOUR & RIVERS.
SLXLIVA.VS RESTAURANT,
HO and 112 Bryan Street.
Northern and western meats, game of all
kind* in season, Blue Point oysters and Little
Neck dams, lobsters, soft shell crabs and Span
ish mackerel by every steamer.
CANDIEB.
FINE MIXED, MIXED CHOCOLATES,
BUTTERCUPS.
CARAMELS, CREAM PEPPERMINTS,
OLD FASHIONED MOLASES,at
SOLOMONS & CO'S.,
29 Bull Street, 163 Congress Street,
AGENTS FOR HUYLER’S CANDIES.
AUSTIN n. MY Hits,
BROKER IN STOCKS AND BONDS,
114 Bryan Street,
Exeoutes orders on commission or buys out-
right. Correspondence invited.
FREID <& HICKS,
HEADQUARTERS.
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Headquarters,
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Headquarters,
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Open day and night.
Telephones 43. Nos. 9, 11 and 13 Market.
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“GOLDBRAU.”
The Ingredients used in the brewing of this
famous Lager Beer consist of the best grade
Canada Malt and Bohemian Hops, brewed by
the moßt approved scientific methods and puri
fied by a slow and low process of fermentation,
while long storage renders the same mellow,
fine flavored and thoroughly wholesome. Asa
refreshing, strength-giving beverage the Globe
Brewing Company's GOLDBRAU is unsur
passed. Served in barrels and bottles. Orders
address -d to
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Savannah Depot, 61 River street.
DON’T fail to get a copy of Sunday s Issue of
the Mohnin a Nnws. For sale at BIBHOP’S
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10c up and get in your g Ues3
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AM US EM E N fx ~ 3
SAVANNAH THEATER”
Two Nights and Saturday Matinee.
™turd!y and Nov. 27th and 28th
THE EMINENT TRAGEDIAN,
I MR. FREDERICKWAROE l~
And a Complete Company of Players.
FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MATINEE,
The Lion’s Mouth.
SATURDAY NIGHT,
The Mountebank.
Special Scenery! Superb Costumes'
Magnificent Acting! Comedy and Pathost
Laughter and Tears! 081
Sale of seats commences Wednesday morning
at Davis Music Co.’s. *
Next Attraction: "FAST MAIL,’’ Nov. 30.
SAVANNAH THEATER^
ONE NIGHT,
NOV. 30.
LINCOLN J. CARTER’S
GRAND SCENIC PRODUCTION
The Fast IViail
Ten Sets of Special Soenery. Flight of th
Fast Mail. Niagara Falls bv Moonlight, with
Boiling Mist. Practical Working Engine and
Fourteen Freight Cars with Illuminated Ca
boose. The Dago Dive. The Realistic River
Scene and Steamboat Explosion. The Police
Patrol and 100 Other Startling Effects.
Seats at Davis Music Cos.. Nov. 27.
Next attraction: “PRINCE AND PAUPER”
Dec. 2 and 8. 1
a festTvaiof cereT~
The ladies of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church
will open u festival os above at Odd Fellows’
Hall, commencing on Nov. 30, and continuing
until Saturday night, Dec. S.
Special features will be the Art Gallery, Old
Curiosity Shop, tables of fancy articles suitable
for Christmas presents. No raffling. Lunch
every morning from 11 till 2 o’clock. Refresh
ments served every afternoon and evening.
Dancing every night from 9 till 12.
Tuesday night, beginning at 8 o'clock, there
will be an exhibition of wax works, preceded by
an exercise with Indian clubs by Prof. Car
michael, of the Y. M. C. A.
The elevator will be running every evening.
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CAPITAL, $200,000
In connection with Its general banking busi
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h Per Cent Per tail
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poSitors of all classes are solicited. With an
obliging staff of offloers and conservative man
agement patrons aud those desiring to deposit
with It may be assured that their interests will
be carefully guarded.
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President. Vice President. 1
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY BLUN. 1
GEO. W. OWENS, Attorney at Law. '
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AMSON MOHR, of Mohr Bros.
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A. P. SOLOMON, of Henry Solomon & Sons.
G. M. RYALS.
IRVIN B. TIEDEM.AN. of Geo. W. TledemanA
Ilro. 1
A. C. HARMON, Broker and Commission Mer
chant.
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