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INDEX TO NEW ADYiSRTISIJHUNTS.
Special Notices —To the Bondholders of the
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway;
To Holders of Amencus, Preston and Lumpkin
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Saturday, March 18,1833— Appel & Schaul.
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Hotel— The Westminster Hotel, New York.
Financial —City of Milledgoville Bonds for
Bale, G. W. Caraker. Mayor.
Amusements—Grau's Opera Company, at
Theater March 20.
Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship
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Financial—Report of the Condition of the
Merchants'National Bank at Savannah, Ga.
Special Notice— Charles A. Conklin Manu
facturing Company.
Our Links of Neckwear— Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Railroad Schedule— Central Railroad of
Georgia.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Yarned; E nplvyrneat Wanted; For Rent; For
lata; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The change In the pension commissioner
ship from Kauri to a vacancy is acceptable.
Nobody is better than Raum.
The semi-centennial of the Jasper Greens
was an event worthy of being celebrated,
and it was fittingly celebrated.
Edward Parker Deacon is due to arrive
in New York in a day or two. Then we
•hall have a revival of the Cannes scandal
on this side of the water.
The naming of boy babies after Mr.
Cleveland has begun. The first one so
named is the son of John Nowackl, a
Polish-American citizen of Buffalo, N. Y.
The boy was born on inauguration day,
while the Cleveland administration was
being induoted into office. Permission to
name the boy after Mr. Cleveland was
asked by telegraph, and was promptly
granted, the President saying that he was
■ure the boy oould not fall to be a true and
loyal democrat.
New York reporters ere on the lookout
for Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree, formerly of
Texas, now of London. It Is ourrently
rumored that the remarkable oolonel is in
New York oity, but is keeping himself oare
fully ooneealed from the newspaper men.
It will be recalled that Col. Ochiltree was
In some manner Intimately oonneoted with
the famous Borrowe-Drayton affair of some
months ago, and that his version of the
trouble has never been exploited in print
to any extent That U why the reporters
are after him.
It has been found out by the Denver
banks that recently offered to exchange
with the United States treasury fl ,000,000
in gold for a like amount of ourrenoy, that
they are in danger of losing money by the
operation. There is some hitch about the
question of weight, whether the treasury
will aocept current weight or demand the
standard weight A dispatch says it has
been found that, if standard weight should
be demanded, the banks will quit losers to
the amount of $2,12000r more; that there it
adepreciatlon of sll on every $5,000.
Now, truly, has the winter of our disoon
tent been made glorious summer by the
whirligig of time. Even Col. Elliott F.
Ehepard bat dined an ex-commander of
confederate forces and oommended bis
views on the extension of the navy. If
Col. Shepard will now interest himself in
the conversion of his otherwise excellent
newspaper to the belief that the war be
tween the states is forever ended, and that
the south is never in the saddle in the spirit
of *6l, we may yet see the Mail and
Express, the louia State liegister and the
New York Advertiser without side arms
and a bloody shirt.
The engrossing clerks of the last ooogress
must have been a remarkably careless cet
of employes. They wrote names in wrong
places in the sundry civil bill, thereby turn
ing over the world’s fair appropriation to
people to whom it did not belong and left
off ciphers in the engraving and printing
appropriation, so that the item is a dead
letter. Those two remarkable and inex
cusable errors have oome out within ten
days after the adjourment of congress and
there is nothing to suggest that other errors
as gross and inexcusable may not follow. It
would oppear that while the last adminis
tration bad the services of plenty of editors
t was'.lacking In competent proof readers
knd copy holders.
The Carlyle Harris Case.
The case of Carlyle W. Harris, who was
tried in a New York city court for the
murder of his wife, Helen Potts. and con
victed, and who ha, just been deniei anew
trial, has more than a local importance for
the reason that he was o nvicted on cir
cumstant.al evidence alone. It is alleged
tba’ It has only one parallel in the history
of American jurisprudence, namely, the
case of John White Webster, who was a
chemist in Boston, and who murdered Dr.
Parkman in 1849. But the evidence in the
case of Webster was much stronger than
wa-the evidence in that of Harris. Dr.
Parkman visited Prof. Webster in his
laboratory for the purpose of collecting
a bilL In a moment of passion
Webster killed Parkman and tried to
destroy the evidence of his crime by burn
ing the remains in his laboratory furnace.
A set of false teeth of Park man's was not
destroyed. They wore found in the ashes
of the furnace and identified. Webster’s
arrest and conviction followed. The case
was a notable one, and is often referred to
in criminal practice.
Carlyle Harris prescribed quinine for a
cold from which his wife was suffering and
obtained the drug for her. It is alleged
that for the quinine he substituted mor
phine, from the effects of which his wife
died. He had been recently married to her.
and in support of the charge brought
against him it was alleged that he wanted
to get rid of her in order to marry a wealthy
girl to whom he had become an acceptable
suitor.
Tne trial attracted a great deal of atten
tion. The verdict of guilty did not give
general satisfaction, the belief of many
being that the evidence did not justify the
verdict—that there was room for doubt.
The case was taken to the supreme oourt
and then to the court of appeals, both of the
higher tribunals affirming the finding of the
jury. The decision of the oourt of appeals
was written by Justioe Gray and is said to
be a remarkably able legal document.
A motion for anew trial was then made
before Recorder Smythe, who tried the
oase. The basis of the motion was newly
discovered evidence, the evidence being that
Helen Potts was in the habit of taking mor
phine. The motion having been overruled,
as stated in the Morning News dispatches,
there is nothing in the way of the execution
of the sentence.
There is room, of course, for doubt as to
whether Harris is guilty. It is not im
probable that ho would not have been con
victed if he had possessed a good character.
He is a man of considerable ability and re
spectable family, but tba evidence showed
that he was utterly without conscience in
his relations with women.
It has been charged that the newspapers
convicted him. They have boon against
him, but it is not true that they are respon
sible for his conviction. Clear-beaded
judges have passed upon the evidence
and they have deolared it to be
sufficient to justify the verdict that
was found against him. While it
is true that many newspapers in their efforts
to present sensational articles make state
ments not warranted by' the facts, stili only
the facts, as a general thing, get before a
jury.
May Week Celebration.
If the merchants will subscribe with their
accustomed liberality to the May week
fund, a programme for the oelebration can
be arranged that will give entire satisfac
tion to visitors and be creditable to the oity.
Before the actual work of preparing for a
festival Is entered upon, however, it ghould
be fully understood that the managers of
the undertaking cau do nothing unlesi they
are provided with nuney. The seleotion of
a manages and the appointment of commit
tees will avail nothing without the business
men are willing to subscribe liberally to a
festival fund.
The oboice of Capt. Purse as director and
manager is a good one. lie is not a man
who believes in doing things by halves. He
will be anxious, very naturally, to have a
festival that will be oreditable to the city
and add something to his reputation as a
leader in such matters. If the festival
should not come up to expectations ho would
be orltioited. The fact that he had to work
with insufficient funds would not be taken
into account.
There 1* no doubt that the amount of money
needed to make the festival a suooees can be
obtained. It la true that suooesslve disasters
and the demands of the oharltable institu
tions have made the town feel poor, but the
people will respond in thia matter if they
can feel assured that a programme will be
prepared that will attract and please visi
tors. On that point, however, they ought
to have no doubt. Capt. Purse means a
satisfactory festival or none at all.
Republican newspapers hint at the possi
bility of legal proceedings being instituted
against .Senator Roach, of North Dakota,
for that alleged defalcation twelve or fifteen
years ago. Tbs bank which Mr. Roach, as
cashier, is said to have victimized was a
national institution. Had there been a case
against him at the time he left Washington
it is not reasonable to suppose that the bank
authorities would have allowed him to go
soot free. Tbat would have made them ac
complices with him in the orime. At the
same time. Senator Roaoh owes bis con
stituents and the public at large a statement
of hie connection with the bank and bis
leaving Washtngton for the west. Suoh
stories cannot be treated as cofnmon polit
ical yarns deserve to be.
Another prize ring murder has occurred,
this time In Michigan. Suoh homicides
have ceased to be novelties. During the
last twelve months, probably a dozen men
have been killed in prize Qghte. Still
prize-fights are permitted by law In a num
ber of the states, provided the contestants
wear 5-ounce gloves. Even at the present
time the newspapers are printing column
upon column concerning negotiations be
tween Corbett and Mitchell looking to a
contest to he ended only when one of the
men shall have been beaten Into insensibil
ity, if not killed. California has set her
sister states a good example in prohibiting
ring fighting under any circumstanoes
within her borders, and the other states
should not be slow in following her lead.
The people of Auguata, Me., ore In favor
of removing the remains of Mr. Blaine to
that oity from Washington. Should the
removal be made, the people of Maine pur
pose erecting a suitable monument to the
deceased statesman. There is some opposi
tion to the removal on the ground that Mr.
Blaine being a national ebaraoter—‘'belong
ing to the country"—his remains should rest
at the national capital. But it would seem
better that he should sleep in Maine, where
his resting place would ba fittingly marked.
“The nation" can hardly be depended upon
to provide suitable mausoleums and monu
ments to national characters. Take the
case of (jon. Grant, for instance.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. MARCH 18,1893
Tho Atlanta PoetmasterehlD.
There is an interesting controversy over
the Atlanta postmastership. It is rather
difficult to get at the facts of it because the
reports bearing upon it that have appeared
in publio prints are as different as the
• sources from which they emanate.
It is admitted that there are three candi
i dates, namely. Fox, Couper and lientz. it
is understood tnat Couper has the support
of Senator Gordon, who ssems to have the
ear of the Presidout. Atian ais in Repre
sentative Livingston's district and he claims
the right, by custom, to name the Atlanta
postmaster. Mr. Livingston, however, was
a Hill man prior to the meeting of
the Chicago convention, and. It is under
stood, has not a great deal of influence with
the administration, benator Colquitt also
was a Hill man, and his influence, it Is al
leged, is not great at the white bouse.
It is probable, however, that the asser
tions that the President feels more kindly
toward those who favored bis nomination
thau those who opposed it does him injus
tice. He is on record as saying that there
would be no discrimination against those
who did not favor his nomination.
Mr. Livingston seems to think, if reports
do not do him injustice, that Henator Gor
don seeks tc control ail the presidential ap
pointments In the state. He asserts that he
does not desire the appointment of a per
sonal friend aa postmaster at Atlanta, but
aims to have appointed the man the people
of that city prefer.
But whom do they prefer* Senator Gor
don, although he does not reside in Atlanta,
is as well qualified to speak on that question
as Mr. Livingston. He has a pretty thorough
acquaintance with the Atlanta people.
In the meantime a movement has been
started in Atlanta to have the question of
the popularity of the candidates tested by
ballot. It is understood that Messrs. Fox
and Kents favor the movement, and Mr.
Couper opposes it. That, would seem to in
dicate that Mr. Couper is not oertain that a
majority of the people prefer him, but
thinks he stands the best chance of getting
the office if no ballot is taken. In the mean
time the President has asked the Postmaster
General to inquire into the merits of the
controversy.
Georgia appears to be attracting more at
tention in Washington just now than any
other state. A good many of her citizens
ore applicants for office, and they seem In
clined to insist upon having what they ask
for. Georgia gave Mr. Cleveland a big
democratic majority and sho is entitled to
a good deal of consideration. It is worthy
of notice, however, that those who rendered
Mr. Cleveland the most service in his cam
paign for the nomination are not the ones
who are not the most persistent in seeking
offices.
Georgia’s Farmers.
The census bulletin just issued, relative to
the ownership of farms and to farm in
cumbrances in Georgia, shows that
of the farms 58.10 per oent. are hired
and 41.90 per cent, are owned by those
who cultivated them. In other words, of
every 100 farmers about fifty-sight hire
their farms and about forty-two own their
farms.
Of the farms owned only 1 per cent, are
mortgaged and 41 per cent, are unincum
bered. This, It must be admitted, is a re
markably good showing. It is doubtful if
in any other state so small a percentage of
the farms owned by those who cultivate
them are free from mortgages. If we are
not mistaken a very large proportion of the
farms in the western states, Kansas for in
stance, are incumbered. In fact, in some
of the counties of that state an unincum
bered farm is an exception.
One of the reasons why there are so many
farmers in Georgia who hire the farms they
cultivate is thatmauy of the big plantations
have been divided up into small farms, and
rented on shares, or at a stipulated price, to
colored men. In many instances these
small farms contain only a few aores. In
the course of time a large percentage of
them will b owned by those who cultivate
them. All thiugs considered, Georgia
farmers are in a fairly prosperous condi
tion. They are not overburdened with debt
and their ontlook for the future is encour
aging.
There is a likelihood that the Columbian
year will witness one of the most extensive
railroad strikes on record. Railroad men
seem to fear it. In a recent interview an
officer of one of the great railway systems
said: "There are a good many signs to in
dicate that a large number of railroads will
be tied up about the first of May uuless they
yield to the demands that will be made
upon them by their employes. The pro
fessional labor agitators Bee in the world’s
fair an opportunity to force the railroads to
make terms and they have been indus
triously spreading that idea among all
classes of railway employes. They know
that all of the principal trunk lines running
into Chicago will have their bands full car
rying passengers to the fair, and would be
likely to make many concessions in order to
prevent a strike.” This official thinks it
will be the poiioy of the big systems to en
deavor to force strikes before May 1, if any
are to ocour, so that they may know what
they will have to depend upon.
The New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press calls attention to a remarka
ble series of misfortunes that since March
1 have befallen a group of men who have
been Intimate friends from childhood, and
each of whom is a journalist: "(Jen. Thomas
L. James was nearly strangled to death by
a gargle which went to hig lungs, inducing
pneumonia. About that time Gen. James’
early and life-loDg friend, Carroll E.
Smith, editor of the Syracuse Journal, fell,
reoeiviog severe wounds and narrowly es
caping fracture of the skull. A day or two
later Henry O. K. Tucker, another of tbla
band of Intimates and editor of the Troy
I‘rest, fell and broke his arm. E. Prentiss
Bailey, an intimate from the time of bibs
aud tuckers, and the editor of the Utioa
Observer, was prostrated by an attack of
sciatica, and the Hon. John M. Francis, the
dean of his profession in the state of New
York, was so smitten with ill health that
he was obliged to flee to Florida."
Another foreign "oount" with a propen
sity for a plurality of wives has come to
grief in New Yore. He has been sent to
Blackwell’s Island to ‘’do time." The
“count,” a victim of untoward circum
stances In his own oountry, had been serv
ing a* a waiter in a restaurant, during
which time he had suooeeded in winning
the hearts and purses of several
susceptible women, only to aban
don them—the women, not the
pursee. Those “fake” counts have been eo
frequently exposed that it seems it should
be almost impossible for them to impose
upon anybody. But womankind is nat
urally credulous when a suave and hand
some yoijcg man talks of lovo and marriage.
PERSONAL.
When Secretary Herbert, of the navy depart
ment. was a youngster he was often spoken of
ai that "big-headed iutie boy."
Dr. Lapponl the pope's newly-appointed
physician. insLtsthat bis he lines* must have
more rest if he would retain his vitality.
Attorney General Oi.net it a member of
tne Boston Athletic Association, atul has the
reputation of being one ot the best tennis play
era in the country.
Ex-Senator Henry L. Daw as of Massachu
setts, who has just retired from the political
arena, was never on a minority side in congress,
either in tne House or Senate.
Andeietx, Ferry and Floquet are said to bit
terly hate each other, although they are
brothers-in law, husbands of granddaughters
of the Charlotte of Goethe's "Werther. ’
Tiburcb Fran(jcev:!.le. the judge intrusted
with the Panama prosecutions, is 40 years old,
end has a brilliant reputation outside legal cir
cles. especially in Latinist, hie translations ot
Cicero teing highly t sieemed.
All tba stationery and other articles used in
the office of the Japanese consul general in New
Yor are sent over frm Japan The consul
general, Hisashi Bhlmamura. talks English so
well that he needs no interpreter.
M. CavAOiNAc.wbo is looked on as possibly the
coming president or the French republic, is sai l
to be of Indisputable and proudly acknowledged
Irish deseeut. He is descended from the Kara
naghs. who were Kings of i einiuei.
Lord Ennibmork, a British nobleman about
27 years old, who bas lately been in Wyoming,
killed a number of grizzly nears there, and was
recently reported in pursuit of the name game
in Southern California. He is called a "dead
shot," and has killed lions and tigers in Africa
and India.
Although Verdi has declined to be a marquis,
he already enjoys a good many other honors
He is a commander of the Legion of Honor, a
member of the Academic des Beaux Arts, has
the grand cross of the Russian order of St.
Stanislaus, is a grand officer of the Or :rr of the
Crown of Italy, posses*"* the Order of Osmania
and the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph.
James Whitcomb Rilsy, the Hoosier poet,
was Intended for a lawyer by his father, but he
abandoned B.aoEstone for a patent medicine
wagon, the proprietor of wbioa employed him
to advertise the business with songs, banjo mu
sic and roadside sign*. Mr. Huey was very
clever with a paint-brush, and had achieved a
modest reputation as a house painter before he
undertook this kindred occupation.
Mr. Gladstone is accounted an abstemious
man In the matter of Indulgence in wines, yet
his daily allowance is a respectable one from an
American point of view. For luncheon he drinks
two glasses of white wine and one of port, and
for dinner he invariably has claret and port.
The port he sips with the cheese and dessert of
his dinner, dispensing with coffee, which keeps
him awake. When he dines out he drinks about
three glasses of champagne. This is a mild
allowance, as compared with that of Pitt and
other "4-bottle” prime ministers, but, like Mer
cutio's wound, ’twill serve.
BRIGHT BITS.
"Hit doan do," said Uncle Eben, “ter take
too much 'count ob de fac' dat cr man looks
good natured. De crocodile hub be broades'
grin on record. Washington Star.
Hicks —Stiggings and his wife, they tell me,
never speak to each other
Wicks—So? Wbat splendid whist partners
they must make.— Boston Transcript.
Few Do —“I wi*h my income was like the
golden rule, Sllmkins J’
"Yes :• Why?"
"Then I couldn’t live up to it. K. <t Co.'s
Monthly.
English as She is Spoke.—Mhs Wabash—But
when >e are married, count, mamma will live
with us, won't she?
Count Parici—O, yes, she won t.— B., K. db
Co.'s Monthly.
Trotter—Women have very little apprecia
tion of anything that is really funny.
Barlow—l don’t know about that—look at
Cholly de Void. He seems to be very popular
with some.— Vogue.
In Boston.— Tourist— l'd like a conveyance
this afteruoon at 4 o'clock.
Liveryman—Yee. sir. Do you mean a vehicle
or a blank legal form for the conveyance of real
estate.— Harper's Bazar.
Patkrbv— Did you hear the news? Got a
baby at our house. They say it s the very
image of me.
Synnek—l wouldn't mind. He may outgrow
it. — Button Transcript.
Foiled— “ Neat dodge that of Hawkins’,
wasn't it?”
“Like enough; but what did he do?”
"Why, hi* grandmother left all her money to
found a home for incurables, and Hawkins took
to drink. Puck.
For “really elegant” English, It would be
difficult to surpass the following from the pea
of a reporter of the Providence Journal: “At
the close of the speech the company empha
sized their appreciation of the sentimenta by
resort to mauual and pedal agitation.”
Police Maoistrate— Tha complaining wlt
nes* charges that you stood him up against the
side of a house, flattened his nose, blackened
his eye, knocked his front teeth loose, tore hie
clothes and used shocking and violent lan
guage toward him because he couldn’t pay his
milk bill.
Milkman—lt warn’t because he didn’t pay It,
y'r honor. He told me I’d have to chalk It down
awhile longer.— Chicago Tribune.
Likely to Git Even —Old Friend—What be
oame of that beautiful full-length portrait of
yourself and your first husband ?
Mr*. Twotlmes—lt is hidden away up garret.
My second husband has neyer seen it yet. I'm
keeping ft for a surprise.
"A surprise'” ,
"Yes. If he ever again gives ms a 10-oent
bottle of perfumery for a Christinas present.
I’ll give that painting for a New Year's pres
ent.”— Bew York Weekly.
OURRBNT COMMENT.
Strikes Are Industrial Ware.
From the Kew York Press (Reo.).
A strike is industrial war. Labor should be as
reluctant to Inaugurate it as nations are to ap
peal to the arbitrament of the sword. Hail road
employes would do well to heed these truths at
this time.
Senator Bill's Ambition.
From the Nets York World (DemX
It is said Senator Hill contemplates aaplring
to the presidency without the aid of a machine.
Wall, ho could riot make a worse job of it than
ha did when all of the political machinery in
the slate of New York waa at his back.
One of the Dangers of Office-Seeking.
From the Philadelphia Record (liem .),
The theft of the new hat belonging to Mr
Ruokerof lieorgla, while he was pressing his
political o alma upon the attention of the Presl
dent in the white bouse, suggests that a uew
peril awaits the offloe-seeker who may visit
Washington.
What, a Congressional Junket?
From the Cincinnati Knquirer IDemX
If Claus Spreckel sdoas not miss the measure
of his mark the senatorial commi slon will not
be the only body of the Fifty third congress
tbat goes to the Sandwich Islands this spring.
Measures are already working to carry over an
unofficial pleasure party of some forty mem
bers rrom both houses. Let us hope that they
will hare a good time.
Reed Should Take Him In Hand.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Maine man who refuted to accept the
mayoralty of Portland because he entertained
doubt* as to the "accuracy ef the election re
turns” evidently know* nothing of “practical
politics. “ As expounded by that eminent
statesman, Thomas K Reed, victory Is the ob
jective of eviry pertisan, intermediate consid
erations being not worth thinking about.
Inexperienced politicians often have very droll
opinions.
Chairman Voorbees.
From the Philadelphia Record (Pent.).
It may be goiog too far. and too fast, to as
sume tbat Senator Voorheas, as chairman of
the Senate nuance committee, will feel himself
authorized to run counter to tho declarations
of the democratic platform on the silver ques
tion. Mr Voorhees made haste to conform his
position on the tariff question to the poeltion
assumed by bis party. He would hardly feel
at liberty to nullify the will of the people, as
expressed at the November election, by oppos
ing the repeal of the ailver purchaie act. !t is
true tbat .Mr. Voorhees and four of his col
leagues on the flnauee committee—Messrs. Har
ris, Vance, Vest and Jones—have been advo
cates of free silver ooinage; but the situation
will be changed wtp n they shall be called upon
to formulate a financial policy for tbeir rarty
to ca.ry into effect pledges upon the strength
of which a democratic administration has been
plaoed in power. Their personal views must
give way to the more authoritative declaration
of the democratic platform.
He Knew tbe Story. *
“Suppoaio*,” Mid the upholstery dealer to ©
candidate for a vacant position, “that a lady
came in and asked you If you had any chaciile
curtains, what would you isay
The new man smiled a ghastly smile, says the
UT>noUt*rer Imagining the scene and drawing
a , breath he started m
‘‘Yea, mam," says n© t **we keep chenille cur
tains. Tnis way, please here's something
rather handsome. You don't like the pattern,
an. bomething in smaller? Ah. yea This way,
please. Brighter, eh? Yes, main. This way,
pleaae. There you are. A doorway. I see, and
with a littie red in it.
“As I understand you, then, you wish a srrall
ngure-chenille-with a-little red-in-it. How a
that? %S 50. Too high? Something cheaper, eh?
Witj a dado and wide aa possible. Bomething
for 91 00?
“As I understand you. tben.you wish a small
*che nllie “ hright-with-a-bit-of-red-in-it.
wide aud with a dado?
1 “Jg ® aear as I can coine to it.
* . °*, en °ugh individuality, eh? How s this
one? Not sufficiently forceful in its peusive-
D6hS, oh? Something to harmonize w.th a riage
£re?n ru K that your dog lies on. and combine
with the flare from ari open grate something
moody and thoughtful, eh? bomething sug
gestive or repose?
“As I understand you, then, you wish a small
flgure bright-with-a • bit of-red- £4 50-chenille
curtain for a doorway, and with a dado,
with a berry, sleepy, don’t wane-me-up-till
rnornmg sort of a style about it, to harmonize
with a pug-nosed pup a;id oo.iriagrat.on? Let us
start u 1 over again, mam.”
And the candidate got the job.
A Government That Rarn ties.
Postmaster General Bikb 11, says the Wash
ington Post, was given a surprise yesterday.
On Friday a local correspondent acoompained
a congressman to the postal department. The
latter wished to secure a list of the pro i Jential
offices m his state, with the salaries attached
and expirations of the terms of present in
cumbents. The newspaper man, being thor
oughly familiar with the wordings of the office,
rna ie out the list and gave it to Lis fnend. Oue
of the employes complained to the po>traaster
general, and the latter issued an order denying
access to suen imoririatioa in future. Being
told of it the correspondent repuirea to Mr.
BisseU's office and informed him that he in
tended to ger the information and publish it.
The latter replied that he had issued < r lers
against it and it oould not b. done. Yesterday
the correspondent showed him a copy of his
paper, published on Sunday, which contained
the list in full.
“Well,” said tbe Postmaster General, “some
clerk has been guilty of a plain violation of
orders. I can t s:aud that. He will be dis
missed, '
“It is not necessary.” was the response “You
must know, Mr. Postmanter General, that you
have no control over tee treasury department?”
'T’ertsinly,” replied Mr. Biased,
“Well, the sixth auditor of the treasury has
the name of every presidential postmaster on
T°u r He k® B their locations, their salaries
and the dates upon which tnair terms expire
He eutertains no oojectlon to giving the Infor
mation to any one who wishes it. This govern
merit ramifies a good deal."
©s,’ said toe high official, "I tree it does.*’
An Old-fashioned Maid.
She can oeel and boil potatoes, make a salad
of tomatoes, but she doesn't know a Latin noun
from Greek.
And so well she cooks a chicken that your ap
petite 'twould quicken, but she cannot teil
what's modern from antique.
She knows how to eet a table and make order
out of babel, but she doesn’t know Euripides
from Kant.
Oncost making pie X caught her— jove! an
expert must have taught her—but she doesn't
know true eloquence from rant.
She has a firm conviction one ought only to
read fletion, and she doesn’t care for science, not
a bit.
And the way she makes her bonnets sure is
worth a thousand sonnets, but she doesn’t jearn
for “culture.” net a whit.
She can make her wraps and dresses till a fel
low fast ooufesses that there’s not another
maiden half so sweet.
She’s immersed in home completely, whore
she keeps all things so neatly, but from Brown
ing not a lino can she repeat.
Well, in fact, she’s just a woman, gentle,
lovable and human, and her faults she is quite
willing to admit.
’Twere foolish to have tarried, so we went off
and were married, and I tell you I am mighty
glad of it.
A Case of Father and Son.
Sherman Hoar, who has been to congress, Is
still a young man. He was almost a boy, says
the Boston Herald, when he put up his first
shingle and began the practice of law In the city
of Waltham One afternoon he received in his
offioe a shrewd old irishman, who wished tore
tain him as counsel. The prospective client
went very carefully over all the details of his
case, and then wanted to know what his chances
of success would be.
The young lawyer assumed a very dignified
air, and said tnat he would look up the law of
the matter and be ready with an opinion at the
end of two or three days. This did not suit the
olient, who was impatient of any delay. He
urged that the lawyer should be ready to give
Ilia opinion at once.
“That is wholly impossible,” said Nherman.
‘There are several peculiar and unusual teat
ures in this case of yours. To be able to speak
intelligent ly, 1 shall have to take several days
to study the law and the authorities.”
Still the client continued to ask for an imme
diate opinion, and the young lawyer persist
ently refused to give one.
Finally the Irishman gave it up and started
to leave the office, but as he stood with one
hand unon the open door he turned and said:
“Bnure, Mister Hoar, an’ oouldn’t yer see yer
fayther this evening f”
The Litany of the Crinoline.
From the Dude.
From
tnischi l and
evli, from craft
and assault of the
devil autl from
otter traiiity
aDd fault,
vain
glory, bypo
riey.euvy and bate,the
deceits of the World, the
F.esh aud Old Sat—an from
tinful affections, from lightning
and ram, plague, pestilence,
famine, war, murder
and pain, from
hardness
of heart
and oonierupt
of Thy law deliv
er us safe as near
judgment we drawl
When in Time's trib
ulation when Death
draweth near, wheth
er high in success or low
fallen in fear—deliver u
then from ad evils and sins
—but at present Lord save us
from all Crinolines IPreserve all
who travel by sea or by land, and
leave usal least enough foot room
to stand. Have mercy upon all us des
olate men! Must hdenbe lost since
Eve’s fallen again? This apple is no
tempting serpentine meal. It is Eve s own
arrangement, a clear case of steal It is big
at the bottom and smalt at the top and the
woman inside goes kerflip
erty-flop! O, take aay.
Lord all me n sf rati ties
and stus, but first
remove front ug
these blank
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Electricity will be one of the interesting
features at the world’s fair In Chicago. The
mauasren have placed contracts for 4,500 arc
lights of 2.000 nominal candle power and for
80,000 incandescent lamps. In addition there
will be 10,000 lamps aa special exhibits. The
generators will be of 2,900 horse power, con
tracted, and 1 ,GOO horse power, donated. For
electrical fountains alone there will be an in
stallation of OuO horse power capacity. The ax
£reerate of the electric installation amounts to
19,500 horse power, with an aggregate boiler
the capacity of 18.000 horse power. With this
it is expected an elective total of 24,000 horse
power will be realized.
The latest theory of those who believe that
the Naronic is still afloat is that she is drifting
around in the giant eddy of the North Atlantic
system of currents called tbe Sargasso sea.
Derelict sailing vesshs, usually partly dis
masted hulks, drifting In this ser. are reported
sometimes at intervals of three months. It is
said that as tbe Naronic has not enough sail to
give her steerage way, she mar be slowly
swinging around the circle like a derelict. She
might 0.0 this a long timj without much iocon
veniencto her crew, a* she has many eatable
and drinkable things in her cargo. Among the
former are several crates of prize fowl that were
intended for the poultry show. If the White
Star line really believes that the Naronic is in
the Sargasso sea, it might not be unprofitable to
send a vessel out to find her.
One of the oppossums at the Central men
agerie was found dead in his cage the other
morning, says the New Y'ork Telegram. His
tan made a circle around his neck and was
cautrht between the wire meshes of the cage.
To Keeper MoGuiness, who found the animal
hanging like a little fur ball, it wan a clear case
of suicide. The opossums were in the cage
near that of the wildcats, aud one of these
animals was found lying dead ui on tbe floor of
its den. The cat had died during the night in
au unaccountable manner. It was thought
that lie had choked to death while attempting
to swallow a bone. Director Smith is quite
certain that the opossum committed suicide,
for its tail had first been coiled about its neck
and then thrust between the wire meshes and
caught by the weight of th* body. The bodies
will be stuffed and placed on exhibition in the
Museum of Natural History.
Leon Abbett’s golden number seems to be 3,
and this numeral or its multiple appears in all
the principal events of his life, says the New
York Times. He has had three degrees, a fact
not generally known. He was made a bachelor
of arts and a ma-ter of arts by the Philadelphia
hign scnool, from which he was graduated, and
a doctor of laws by Princeton College. He was
bora in Philadelphia in I*3o, was graduated
from the high school in 1353 and in 1883 he be
gan his public life as corporation counsel of the
city of Hoboken, and thirty years afrer that
time, almost to a month % he makes prof ably the
last important move in his life an J ta'nes his
seat as a supreme court justice in the year 1693.
He ran for governor in IBb3 and was elected by
a majority of 0,809. He was three times a mem
ber of tbe House of Assembly and eerved three
years in the state Senate. He wan three trnes
defeated for United States senator. When it
comes now to the multiple we find that he is 58
years old, began his legislative career in 1880. in
1876 was a delegate to the national c nvention
and in 168° defeated Gen. L. Burd Grubb by a
majority of 14,253.
It would seem that public demonstration so
far as the inauguration of a President is con
cerned could go no further than it has In recent
years. The inauguration ball especially ap
pears to have reached its zenth of glory. Hugh
Coyle of circus fame has a scheme, however
thai eolipses in scope anything in this line ever
dreamt of by tne most enthusiastic camp fol-
Mr. Coyle, like a true circus man and
disciple of the only Barnum. proposes a "stu-
Eendous aggregation" of inaugural balls to be
eld at the same time. The halt* will be held in
every big oity in the union—and. In fact, every
little city also that has spunk and patriotism
enough to come Into the arrangement—on the
night of March 4. and will start off sim
ultaneously on the same programme of dances.
To make this possible It is proposed to connect
all of the ball rooms with the great inaugura
tion ball room in Washington by wire, just as
electric clocks are now run on observatory
time. The managers of the Washington ball
would give the signal which would start
feet stepping to the same music. aDd half as
many swaying figures moving in tne mazy. It
might he a little early for Ban Francisco to get
into a dress suit, but no matter. We would all
have to make some sacrifices Another signal
could be given every time the Incoming admin
istration took a drink—eo 1.000.0J0 people could
“jlne” him. The powibilitlea of Mr. Coyle’s
idea are immense.
Thk deepest wells, says Bpare Momenta.
are artesian ones, so named from Artois, one of
the old provinces of France, where they long
were used, though It Is said that similar ones
existed from remote antiquity in China and
Egypt, and had been introduced into Italy be
fore they were known in France. The soil is
bored till a place is reached wnere water has ac
cumulated, when it is forced up by that which
stands at a higher level than itself, and it rises
to tbe surface, or even above it, as a fountain
Tne deepest boring in the world is at Speeren
berg. twenty miles south of Berlin, tnis well
being sunk for the r-uipos# of obtaining a sup.
ply of rock salt. A tore hole of 16 feat in diam
eter was carried down to the depth of 200 feet
where the salt bed began After a further
descent of 6SO feet, the bore was reduced
to 13 inches diameter, and then continued
till the extraordinary depth of 4,191
feet waa reached, without having
pierced through the salt deposit, which
has thus the enormous thickness of at least
3,007 feet The next in depth is that at the in
sane asylum in the town of St. Louis, .Mo 3-
84314 feet, which was stopped at that point, u
it produced only lime; then Watson's, known aa
the “deep well" at Titusville, Pa., 3,553 feet
which, however. Is dry. and produced nothing’
Then there is that at Louisville, in Kentucky'
which produces a plentiful supply, 2.086 feet in
depth; that at Passy, near I’aris, 1,923 feet
that at Kissengen, in Bavaria. 1.878J4 feet, and
the one at Gren lie. near Parts, celebrated for
its disasters and delays, which caused it to oc
cupy eight years in boring, 1633 to 1841; but it
gives TIO.OOO gallon* daily, the water riling
thirty-two feet above the surface, with a tem
perature of SlH° Fahrenheit. Petroleum or
natural gas wel s have been *unk to a depth of
4,750 feet at Pitwburg, Pa . and to a depth of
4.1u0 feet at Wheeling, W. Va.
Chicago Man (in art gallery)—H’m, now
what's that represent?
Guide-The flight into Egypt.
C. M.—Ha, ha! great scheme! Prophetio sort
of a thing, eh? TANARUS: Ink I’U go there mvseir in
the world’s fair year. Have to escape from my
relations, you know.— Kate rield'e Washing
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