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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meeting Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Party >f Chatham County.
Special Notices- Brush Electric Light and
Power Company Dividend; A Card of Thanks
from the ladies of the Port Society- Seed Rice
For Pale. W. (1. Morrell; Faust Beer, George
Meyer; Send Your Orders For Christmas Tur
keys, Isaac Roos & Cos.; Savannah Steam Laun
dry; An Elegant layout at Joyce's; Game,
Poultry, Etc . at .Joyce's; Big 4 Prize Raffle, at
Pigman’s; Window Shades, Mayer Bros.; Stock
holders of Central Railroad Welcome, by L. &
B. K. M. H.; Festival iu Aid of Catholic Church
at Waycross; Odor Cases, Etc , at Strong’s
Drug Store; Good Clean Peanuts, at Town
send's: Sleeping Cars Between Savannah and
Jacksonville via Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway: Holiday Goods, A. N. O'Keefe & Cos.;
Some Clinchers, Strauss Printing ('ornpany; For
Coroner, C. P. Rossignol; Bear Meat, Etc., at
Logan's; I*ast State and County Tax Notice;
Christmas Gifts. E. M. Conner; The Investi
gating Committee's Report on Chas. P, Gra
ham's Fried Oysters.
Amusements Lavina Shannon at the Theater;
Annual Charity Ball of the Industrial Relief So
ciety; Second Annual Hop of the Young Amer
ica Social Club; Fifth Annual Ball of the Mystic
Social Club; Christmas Grand (Jala Day at
Thunderbolt; Keene at the Theater.
Holiday Goods—A. Falk & Son.
Holiday Goods Mme. Deabouillons.
Useful Holiday Presents Crohan &
Booner.
Delays are Dangerous— At Silva's.
Still the Sensation— Lindsay & Morgan.
Christmas Presents— At LaFars.
Free Concert— By Davis Bros'. Orchestra,
Read— What Dumas Says.
Christmas Novelties— A J. Miller A Cos.
Tremendous Slaughter in Prices -Morrison,
Foye & Cos.
Kf/'amikr Preparations— For Sale by All
Druggists.
Holiday Goods— A. R. Altmayer A Cos.
The Old Favorites— L. A 8., 8. M. H.
Toox Like Hot Cakes—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For R*nt; Lost;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
Col. Dudley's favorite song just now is,
“Do they miss me at homo—do they miss
mef*
The question which interests the Indiana
demo rats and a good many other demo-*
crats seems to be, “Did Sellers sell out?”
Some day, perhaps, the American eagle
will spread her wings over both Canada and
Mexico, but it will be a good many years
before the spreading act is begun.
The old barracks are being rapidly
leveled to the ground, and nobody seems to
he shedding tears over the fact. It will be
a great day for Savannah when the big
hotel is opened on the barracks sit a.
At last accounts Mr. Harrison and Mr.
Morton w re waiting for Mr. Quay to join
them in Indianapolis, but Mr. Quay did
not seem disposed to go. It is highly prob
able the.t Mr. Quay prefers to have the
loan of Mr. Harrison's ear when no one
else b around.
The Boston women have celebrated the
victory they gained in the school election
in that city. ” hey held a jollification moot
ing, and there was much cheering, and the
women are said to have been brimful
enthusiam, but it is not stated that any of
them were brimful of anything else.
Mr. Kyrle Hellew has not abandoned the
id<*a of chastising Mr. Pierre Lorillard for
putting upon him recently a social slight.
He announces that he is still on the war
path, and that he will whip Mr. Lorillard
ou sight. Bellew is said to an unusually
handsome fellow. He had better go a little
slow, or his beauty may be spoiled.
The Georgia House voted about $500,000
for education at one whack the other day,
and the Senate is more than likely to cou
eur iu the action, Georgia wants the world
to know that she is interested in education.
Jf people are thinking of coining to this
state, they ne4*d not stand back for fear the
educational advantages will not be satis
factory.
Mr. John Jacob Astor, ofNew York, has
made already several magufleent gifts to
the cancer hospital in that city; but recently
h • ignified his intention of giving about
$K> 1,000 more to it, to be used in erecting a
pavilion where men exclusively may be
treated. Mr. Aftor is plentifully supplied
"Mi the world’s good*, and he seoms deter
mined that his name should l>e remembered
after he is dead.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, hus shown his
indifference to tradition by appointing a
woman as his private secretary. Oth*T
senators have appointed their nephews and
son*, but uo one has previously appointed a
woman. The woman, in this instanoe
li -waver, is the senator’* wife, so that if
t here is a littlo flirtation carried o i bet ween
toe senator and bis secretary, nobody can
object. Mrs. Heagan*.i pay is $0 * day.
The Direct Tax BUI.
The question, will the President veto the
direct tax bill? is Heinz quite generally
discussed in the public prints. It is about
certain that he will have the opportunity to
do so. The bill passed the Senate very nearly
a J r ear ago by a vote of 48 to 10, and it
passed the House with amendments last
week by a vote of 178 to 00. There is not
much, if any, doubt that the Senate will
agree to the ameudmeuts.
Those who voted against the bill, both in
the Senate and House, were democrats. A
good many democrats, however, voted for
it. The fact that so many democrats voted
for it encourages the belief that if the
President should veto it, there would not
be much trouble in passing it over his veto.
The bill provides for taking about $10,000,-
000 out of the treasury, and distributing it
among the States which paid it. Nearly all
of it, of course, would go to the northern
states. New York, for instance, would get
$2,213,000. Even Dakota would get $3,241.
The argument advanced in favor of ti e
bill is that some of the States paid the
direct tax. and others did not, and that it is
only fair that all the states should bo placed
upon an equal footing with respect to it.
That con be done, it is declared, only by
returning the tax to those which paid it.
Opinion is divided as to whether tbo
President will sign the bill. Thet e are lome
pretty good reasoi s for thinking that
he will not, on the ground that it is not con
stitutional, and also because the direct tax
belongs to a period of the country’s history
in which many things were done
that did not bear equally upon all
the states. For instance, a few years after
the direct tax was levied a tax was placed
upon cottfi, which did not bear equally
upon all Tne states. The cotton tax took
$08,000,000 out of the pockets of the farmers
of the south. If the direct tax is returned,
why should not the cotton tax be?
The southern states are certainly in far
greater need of the cotton tax than the
northern states are of the direct tax. The
states of the south are comparatively |>oor,
while those of the north are rich; and.
besides the northern states have about
$80,000,000 distributed among them an
nually in pensions, a very considerable part
of which the south has to pay.
The north is strong, and will of course do
what she pleases. Not only does she get
nearly all the money that i9 dis
tributed from the treasury, but
she shapes legislation so as to
confer special benefits upon her poople.
The tariff bill, which the Senate is now
considering, is a sectional measure, and is
almost wholly in the interest of northern
manufacturers and against the southern
farmers. The effort that was made tne
other day by Senators Vest, Harris. Vance
and Berry to have the tax on cotton ties re
duced was defeated by the republican sen
ators.
The President has always acted upon his
own judgment in public matters, and he
will undoubtedly do so in the case of the
direct tax bill. The fact that the bill will
likely be passed over bis veto, if he should
veto it, will not influence his action in tho
least.
The Annexation Question.
Congressman Buttorworth’s joint resolu
tion providing for tho appointment of com
missioners to conduct negotiations f r the
annexation of Canada, has given new life
to the discussion of tho Canadian annex
ation questiou.
There is not much probability that the
resolution will receive favorable consider
ation. The number of those in this country
who want Canada annexed to the United
States is not largo, aud they are
not aggressive. Indeed, the weight of
public sentiment on this side of the
Canadian border is that this country
ha? all the territory it needs. Any
way, there is no such anxiety among the
people of the United States for annexation
as would lead them to pay England for tho
loss of Canada, or even to assume Canada’s
debt.
There would, of course, seme benefits
accrue to this country from annexation.
One of them would bo free trade between
tho two countries just as there is now trot*
trade between the states of the union, and
another would be tho settlement of the
fisheries dispute. Canada would cease to
boa refuge for a certain ciass of American
criminals, and a gateway fo* Cbinamo.i to
enter this country in violation of the
Chin-so immigration law.
But all these benefits can be obtained
without political union. They can be se
cured by treaties and commercial union,
and there are good reasons for thinking
that commercial is preferable to political
union. It will be time enough to talk o.
annexation when Canada makes advances
As she has more to gain by it than tMs
country, it would be advisable to let ho
suggest it.
Tne indications are that she is n t think
ing so much of annexation as independ
ence. Her growth in population is about a
rapid as that of this country, aud her lead
ing men would much rather take th *
chances for reaching places of power and
influence in Canada as an independent
nation than as apart of the United States.
Mr. James T. Strauahan is called the
‘father of Brooklyn,” aud a banquet in his
honor was given in that < ity the other day.
In the speech he made, he advocated the
consolidation of New York and Brooklyn.
He said the people of the two cities were of
the same sort, and had the same social and
business interes s, and under the circum
stances he could not understand why one
municipal government would not serve
them Letter than two. Mr. Stranahan will
hardly live to see his idea put into execu
tion. Brooklyn has a notion that she will
be as big as New York one of these days,
and she is opposed to “annexation.”
Boston has all sorts of societies, one of
which is the Society of Psychical Research,
which had a meeting the other night to
hear the report of the committee on med
iuinistic phenomena. Some very remarka
ble dreams wore related by the committee,
but none more remarkable than the follow
ing: A gentleman, while on his way to the
Gettysburg cemetery dedication, was pux
sled to know what he would say if ho were
called cm to make a speech. While think
ing over the matter, ho fell a deep, and
dreamed the oration that Mr. Lincoln sub
sequently delivered.
A certain class of thieves in New York
seem to make a good dual of money. Two
men were arrested in that city the other
day, and they pleaded guilty to stealing
from the hallways of fashionable resi
dences. Within a very short time they suc
ceeded in getting posxossion ol about SSOO
worth of overcoats, and no doubt a good
many of their robberies were not traced. They
thought the business sufficiently remunera
tive to warrant t e taking of the risk of
arrest a .and conviction.
The Time for Action.
It is admitted, of course, that Savannah
intends to continue her efforts to secure
deeper water in her harbor, but is it her
purpose to insist upon tho 28-foot improve
ment, or to accept the 20-foot improvement
suggested by tho chief of engineers? This
question ought to bo decided at once. If
thoro is no probability of getting an appro
priation for the 28-foot improvement from
this Congress, or the next, would it not be
advisable to have it understood without
delay that a 26-foot channel to the sea will
bo accept aide, s * that our senators and rep
resentatives in Congross can take tho neces
sary steps immediately to secure an appro
priation in the pending river aud barber
bill for a 26-foot improvement?
Our friends in congress can do nothing
until they understand what will bo accepta
ble to us. Would it not be the proper
course to consult with them as to tho advisa
bility of insisting upon an appropriation
for the 28-foot improvement? They are in
a position to know what is best to be done,
and if they advise the abandonment of the
28-foot improvement in favor of a 26-foot
one, it would, doubtless, be wise to follow
their advice. A 20-foot channel would not
give us tbo depth of water wo want
in our harbor, but perhaps, when that
depth is obtained,congress will be willing to
authorize the 28-foot improvement, if it bo
shown that tho commerce of the port abso
lutely demands it.
The thing to bo done now is to decide
whether a 26-foot improvement will be ac
ceptable, and no time should bo lost in
doing so. The river and harbor bill will
soon be reported to the House. If nothing
can be done for Savannah harbor in the
House a strong effort in its behalf will have
to be made in the Senate. Savannah hafbor
has always been well treated in the Senate,
owing chiefly to the efforts of that indefati
gable worker, Senator Brown, and no doubt
he will do all that can lie done for it in tho
preseat instance.
But who is to take the necessary steps to
find out whether or not tho 26-foot sugges
tion of the chief of ongiueers shall be ac
cepted? There ought to be among our citi
zens some who have a sufficient amount of
public spirit to do so. It would not be diffi
cult to get the necessary expression of pub
lic sentiment. One energetic man conld
accomplish that very quickly. Action by
the trades bodies aud the city council is all
chat is necessary.
Of course Savannah will not be content
with tho present 22-foot channel. He:
commerce .s now greatly obstructed for
want of deeper water. Whether the 28-
foot improvement is insisted upon, or it is
decided to accept a 20-foot one, every in
fluence that can be obtained %
should bo brought to bear upon
congress to secure an appropriation for it.
The whole of this state and Florida, Middle
and Northern Alabhma, Birming
br.m, Memphis and Kansas City are
interested in having deeper water in Savan
nah harbor because freig .is from all the ter
ritory namod are seeking an outlet at this
port,aud deeper water would insure cheaper
freight rates. All the towns, therefore, in
the territory interested should, through
public mo tings, or thoir trade and munici
pal organizations, urge their representa
tives m congress to assist in securing fail
treatment for Savannah harb r in tho river
and harbor bill. The Georgia lejisl tture
should pass a resolution instructing the
congressional delegation from this stato to
give special attention to Savannah harbor.
Unless those interested in this harbor look
afier its interests, it will hi neghcted, and
he money it should have will bo given to
important harbors.
The Caucus System.
The present aldermen would render the
city a service if they should abolish
the star chamber method of transacting the
public business. The caucus system, ns
they call it, is not a healthy one, and is in
no way beneficial to the public. On the
contrary, it enables indiv.dual aldermen to
avoid responsibilities that they would have
to bear if all the discussions of the council
were carried on with open doors.
If the chairman of each committee knew
that the bills he approved, the men ho em
ployed, the contracts ho made and all hi -
other official acts would bj scrutinized by
the public, he would l>e more watchful
probably in discharging his duties. An
official who feels that the eye of the public
is upon him is apt to boa little more care
ful of the public iutorests than when his
ofii ial acts are discuued with closed doors,
and the responsibility for them is shared
with his follow official .
The caucus system may not b3 intended to
cover up anything the public snould not
know, but where individual responsibili y is
removed, it is not improbable that some
things do exist that are rather expensive to
the city, an 1 which would not exist if all
public matters were discussed and passed
up n in a public manner.
The aldermen are public servants, and
why should not the public know exactly
what each oue of them does i Why should
the matters in which the public is in
terested be settled in caucus, and the public
bo permitted to know only the conclusions
reached i Surely no alderman is afraid to
have it known what position he takes upon
any question, and be ought not to hesitato
to speak hi 9 mind freely upon auy subject
connected with the city’s affairs.
Would it not be advisable to require each
candidate for alderman in the approaching
election to pledge himself not to favor the
caucus system in the event of his election'
Let political clubs take this suggestion
under advisement.
It must make genial Mr. “Sunset” Cox
feel jarticularly happy to receive the ex
pression of gratitude from Dakotans for his
. (Tort to have that territory admitted as a
state at this session. The telegraph lines
have been kept hot conveying to him such
ex pros ions lately, and enthusiastic demo
crats of North Dakota doclaro that they are
goiug?to have the new state named Sunset a: id
the capital named Coxville, and that if Mr.
Cox will move there they will send him to
tho Uuited States Senate—that is, if the
republicans don’t outvote them. Mr. Cox
is said to know more about Dakota than all
the encyclopedias combined.
Senator Iliddleberger, ot Virginia, may
be the worse for senatorial toa sometimes,
but on such oc&sions his wits do not desert
him entirely. The other day, when a
brother republican was trying to prevent
him from offering a resolution for the re
organization of the Senate ou Jan. 1 next,
he wanted to know if the republican thought
he was drunk. He received an evasive
answer, and said: “I may be or I
may be excited, but 1 never get into a fight ,
with a woman, as the president of the Sen
ate has. 1 ’ He alluded, of course, to the con
troversy between Mr. Ingalls and Mrs.
Whitney, in which Ingalls showed a want
of refinement, to say the least.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1888.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Very Good Idea.
From the Washington Pott (Dem.)
If Gov. Foraker is unable to enpe with the
“White Caps'' of Ohio, he had better let out
the job to Sheriff Smith, of Birmingham.
Tired of Riddleberger.
From the Philadeljthia ledger (Rep.)
Senator Riddleberger has fortunately only a
few months more in which to disgrace himself
in the United States Senate. What he may do
after his term expires is of less consequence, as
he will then lie a private citizen, retired for
ever, probably, from public life.
Sectional Legislation.
From the New York World (Dem.)
The republican senators show their love for
the southern negroes by voting to keep up the
tux on cotton tics with which the small planters
as well as the large ones bale their crop for
market. Am! all to “protect” a Pennsylvania
industry that is not vet b >ru!
An Outrageous Bill.
From the New York Times (Ind.)
The bill for “refunding''tho direct taxes col-
Iccted under the law of August, 1801, is about
as Lad a piece of legislation as lobbyists, local
greed, partisan spirit and cowardice combined
could contrive. It is not to be doubted that it
will j)H*>s the Senate when it goes hack there on
account of the amendment adopted in tho
I louse on Wednesday.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Good many of the cashiers who are settling
in Canada are those who have neglected to do
any settling over hero— Wall Street News.
Reason for joy— “Ah!'' explained the mat
ter-of fact man joyfully, as he saw the heading
in the newspaper. “Trials of Authors," “so
they’ve arrested some of those confounded
poets at last, have they? Wouldn’t I like to be
on the jury.”— Harper's Bazar.
Amateur Photographer (who has been show
ing some of his nttemps at portraiture) I
h old like to take your littlo girl, if you wouldn’t
inind.
i.utle girl < who has seen the specimens)—Oh,
no, Mauiniv,don't let him take me—l'll be good.
Moonshine.
He lain proud. 1 assure you, to make the
acquaintance of a lady whose fame is so wide
spread.
>ue—Oh, 1 ain quite an insignificant person,
believe me.
lie—No, upon my honor, I've heard of you
since the year one!— Buffalo Cour.er.
Elderly spinster (to dry goods clerk)— l'll
look at some stockin’s, Mister.
Clerk—Stockings, inum? Yes, mum. Some
thing for yourself?
Elclerlv spinster (scanning him over her spec
tacles-Sariain, young man, d'ye think I’m
ou) in' stocuin s for the neighborhood?— The
Epoch.
Anarchist's wifi: Did you blow oop dot
gourt house oop alruatty to night?
Great Anarchist- Naw; I too tired vas to carry
dot dynamite bomb.
“Vat makes you so direil?"
“I go to dot meeting off dose Anarchists con
spirators und I got tired to my death init dose
long speeches." Philadelphia Record
Kittv (just up from a long “illness to friend
calling upon hen-I'm crazy to get out to see
the styles. I haven't a thing to wear that's lit
to lie seen.
Clara I'll go shopping with you. I know
just what to get Grandma died since you've
been sick, you kuow. aud I’ve got the giddiest
mourning trousst an out.— Epoch.
She I can only be a sister to you, Henry.
lie (with repressed emotion)—How old are
you?
She (curiously)- Twenty, last October.
He—Well, you can't be a sister to me. I've
got a sister at home who was twenty last
lujrust, and you see that sort of relationship
won’t work Try something else.— Washington
Post
Obedient Boy— Mamma, may I speak?
“You know that you must not talk at table."
“.'•'.ay I not say just one thing?"
“No, my boy. When papa has read his paper
you may speak."
(Papa reads through his paper and says
kindly) "Now, child, what is it?”
"1 only wanted to say teat tho water pipe in
the bathroom had burst."— Fiiegende Blatter.
Willis Popinjay— Sis, what is meant by “un
conscious humor?"
Angelina Popinjay—l can't give you an exact
definition of it. Willie, but I can give you an ex
ample.
Willie Well, give us an example.
Angelina When pa came into the room
whuema was trying to nail up that bracket
yesterday and said’ “Well, what are you driv
ing at now?’'—Burlington Free Press.
It is related by the cultured Eugene Field
that when the venerable Jacob Levy lay upon
his death-bed he was approached by a friend
who sought to cheer him by uohling out vain
encouragements and specious promises.
“Jacob," said the friend, “bow foolish of you
to talk of dying! Why, 1 never saw you lo k
ing so well in ail my life betore. Brace up—
you'll li e t > be ICO years old."
“Mine friend,” answered the invalid, impress
ively. “you make u m siakes ven you tings 1
live so long. Dor Lord isn't going der take rue
.it 100 veu he can get me at 76."—Rochester
Union.
PERSONAL.
President Cleveland an l Cardinal Gibbons
will tak** part in tho celebration of tbe centen
nial of Georgetown next February. Tbe exer
cises will continue three days.
Mrs. Harrison has not yet arrived at tho un
enviable distinction which generally appertains
to prominent women in this country. No tobac
conist or soapmaker lias yet used her picture to
advertise his wares.
Mrs. Rebecca E. Rop.krtson, who died re
cently in New York, provided by her will a fund
of $500,000 fc-r the establishment of a home that
w ill enable poor families to enjoy summer out
ings. This is sensible aud practical charity.
The mother of Clara Louisa Kelloggstra
kosch, who always appears in a box when her
daughter warbles n the stage, is nearly as
youthful iu her face aud ways as she was at tin
time of the birth of the cautatrice, 48years ago.
Rev. William Right, aa eccentric English
clergyman, lias left bis fortune to found a col
lege for young women, in which the pupils
shall get up early in tbe morning, take c >ld
baths and attrrtd “quarterly couversaziones in
which two-thirds of the persons present shall
lie single men.”
Mrs. Mona Cairo, who has become known in
connection with the question of tho law of mar
riage, has finished anew novel, which, under
the title, "The Wing of Azrael.” will >e issued
early in ISBl*. Mrs Calrd has already published
two novels psoudonymously. "Whom Nature
Leadeth" and “One That W.n3." “The Wing
of Azrael." though not polemical, deals indi
rectly w ith the question raised in tbe recent
"marriage" corresjKmdence.
Fiueno* te'l me, says a writer in the New
York Star, that Mrs. Langtry s terribly worried
over the fact that crow's feet have begun to ao
pcar under her beautiful eyes ami that t here are
other indications that her charms are beginning
to fade When it is remembered that the Lily
was a mature woman before she want on the
stage, this will not he wondered at. she if np
ting stout now. and rather matronly; besides,
late hours aud the innumerable mild and other
dissipations incident to the theatrical profes
sion, will tell on even the most charming com
plexion and the most robust constitution m
time.
KEfivomxEss is said to be a characteristic of
Chief Justice Fuller. He seems to find it im
possible to sit still upon the bench. His hands
are constantly in motion at oue thing or the
other. Often he takes a scrap of paper and
folds and refolds it into a thousand shapes; or
he turns over the pages of a book without look
ing st them. Hut as a usual thing be is pulling
at his mustache like a nervous graduate on
commencement day. first his left liand twists
and pulls a little at Ins left hirsute; and then
the right, not to be outdone in caressing, per
forms a like office for the long gray hairs on
the other side of the nervous niau's mouth.
Tins ia a sample of Russian descriptions of
the czar's recent railroad smash up: “Hut our
C’zar, our emperor, what a man. and what a
golden heart! All those saved testify how.
under a pouring rain, knee deep in the cold
mud, bleeding terribly from both arms and
hands, he helped personally to rescue the dying
and the wounded for over two hours, his col
ossa 1 strength doing him good service on that
day. They tell how be spoke words of consola
tion to those sufferers still alive, pledging his
word of honor to the dying to care for their
families as long as thev lived. \ priest was
fetched in a hurrv from an adjacent village, all
the survivors clamored loudly, a moss, a
thanksgiving service for tho escape of our
father, the czar.' ‘No,* cried the emperor, in a
thundering voice,‘the mass ter tho dead, first
of all, the prayers for the wounded.’ You
should have seen the whole august family fall
Ing upon their knees in the mud and praying
fervently for the dead and tho relief of the
wounded, before over giviug a thought of
thanks for their own escape, and praying for
the salvation of Russia, not for thoir own. ' 1
Hood's Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by ex
pelliug impurity from the blood, which is
the caiiso of the complaint* Give it a trial.
An Approaching Test of Beauty*.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Senator Joe Blackburn once said to Gen.
Buckner, iust before his race for governor, that
he wanted him to be elected more than any
thing els.* so that he might go officially to Wash
ington with Mrs. Buckner and show tbe people
of the country that he had a wife far more
beautiful than Mrs. Cleveland. Gov. and Mrs.
Buckner will go to Washington very soon, and
the verdict of the people then* will be awaited
with interest. Mrs. Buckner has suffered much
from ill teaith of late years, but she is the same
beautiful woman that charmed all when she
was the famous Virginia belle, Miss Delia Clai
borne. To be sure, her loveliness is more spirit
uelle than it was in her maiden days—chastened
by suffering but she is none the less attractive,
and 1* a type of southern womanhood that her
sisters and all are glad to have as their repre
sentative in Washington.
Mr. Depew’a Latest Joke.
From the New York Star.
“Have you heard Chauncey Depew’s latest ?”
asked a friend of me yesterday. “No? While
I whs having achat with tbe interesting invalid
on Thursday evening, a reporter, nervous from
suppressed excitement, was ushered in.
“ Is what the Star says about vour refusal of
the mission to England correct, Mr. Depew?’ he
inquired.
“ ‘Well, in fact, it hasn't been offered me yet,’
said the invalid.
“ ‘But suppose it were?’
“’Really, I don’t know, but I think not. I
fancy I could not got along very well w’ith roy
alty. for while there is no one who has more re
spect for kings and queens than I, still I imagine
they should l.e in their proper place.’
“ ‘And where is that sir ?' queried the visitor.
“Chauncey's mouth caught the peculiar stnile
he is said to have inherited from his maternal
ancestors, the Revolutionary Shermans, as he
replied:
“ ‘Why, in a pack of cards, along with the
knaves and aces, of course.’ ”
Where Harrison Was Born.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
Writers for the press throughout the country
are continually referring to South Bend, Ind..
as Geu. Harrison's birth place, whereas be was
born and reared at North Bend, O. The error
is easily acc -unted for from tne fact that South
Bend is a large and thriving town, well known
to the travelling public, and North Bend, a com
parutively obscure village, situated near Cin
cinnati. South Beud would be proud to count
the general as one of its sons, and doubtless the
honor would be considered mutual, but the In
diana town has no wish to deprive the Ohio
hamlet of any rightful distinction. The latest
store ufioat is in the snape of an interview with
an 80-year-old lady of Waterbury, Conn., who is
made to say that she was a school teacher at
South Bend in her earlier years, and cherish s
among her choicest memories recollections of
little Benny Harrison, one of her pupils. Either
the old lady's “memory" is too vivid or a care
less chronicler has placed her in a wrong light.
North Bend in South Ohio it is; not South Bend
in North Indiana.
The Eongof Songs.
From the Century.
I'm a man thet's fond o’ music.
An' w'en folks are not eround,
I kin make our old nccorjun
Squeak a mighty takin' sound;
An' thet banjer bangin' yander,
With its gentle plink. plank, plink,
Tyears to git plumb at the bottom
Of tho deepens* thoughts I think.
Does me heaps o' good on Sundays
'For' the pra'r at church is said,
Jes to stand an' hyear “Old Hunderd”
Soarin' for up overhead!
An' I most kin spy the augels
Loanin' 'erost the gate up thar,
When old Abrum Blacaburn's darter
Leads us iu "Sweet Your o’ Pra'r.”
But if you sh'u'd want to see me
Wen 1 hev my broades’ smile.
You must ketch me in the kitchen,
W’en the kittle s on the bile!
Fer I claim thar ain’t no warblin’
Ever riz on red birds’ wings
Thet kin holt a taller candle
To the song the kittle sings.
Seems ez ef my soul gits mcller
In the kittle r s first sweet note,
Till 1 fancy woddin' music
Screakin’ f’om the iron tli’oat.
Sech times, ef I squent my eyes up,
1 kin fahly 'pyear to see
Old man Abrum Blackburn’s darter
Smilin' thoo the steam at me!
Mrs. W hitney Silences Ingalls.
From the New York World.
Washington, Dec. 12. A characteristic story
is in circulation in clubdom hero with regard to
Senator Ingalls an<l his “bitter and vindictive”
sentiments toward the President. Purina (he
latter part of January President Cleveland gave
a dinner, at which a numlwr of senators,
among other and slinguished guests, were preseut.
Senator Ingalls was a uong thorn. It so hap
pened that when the party gathered around t lie
great table in the dining room, Senator Ingalls
found himself seated by the side of a well
known society lady. It was the third elaborate
dinner the senator had attended during the
week, and it is presumed that the pangs of dys
pepsia may have contributed to render him
more than usually ill-tempered and sarcistic.
At any rate the senator had Tory little that was
pleasant to say of any subject broached
by bis neighbors at table. He in
dulged in a number of disagreeable personal!
ties, and finally legan a tirade of abu-e of
President Cleveland, at whose dinner-table he
was then sitting. The Indy referred to was ex
tremely annoyed and did her best to let the
senator see it without being obtrusive. Tho
senator, however, appeared to lx* oblivious or
in Afferent to the feelings of the President's
guests who sat about him, and continued to
speak in disrespectful terms of his host. The
lady is possessed of remarkable tact: she is also
very patient, but this latter quality was well
nigh exhausted. Turning to senator Ingalls,
she said in her very sweetest tones “Senator,
when l invite you to dinner I shall certainly give
you the place of honor, on my right.” The
senator promptly expressed his appreciation of
this prospective courtesy, and was about to in
du ge in a more effusive compliment when his
fair neighbor interrupted him: ‘Because,
senator," said sho. “if I have you within earshot
l sha I be sure you are not saying .severe things
about me."
Tho Hilarious Loafer.
Asa reporter of tho New York Evening Sun
was walking through Madison Square he
observed a seeding looking individual seated on
one of the park benches laughing “fit to kill."
Realizing that there are too few jokes in this
world to let even a seedy looking man's wit
slip, the reporter stopped before the hilarious
lounger and asked;
“What's so funny?"
“Oh, nothing." returned 3he mirthful gentle
man. ‘Tin just laug dng with ghoulish glee,
that’s all. I teel good, stranger, I feel good."
“May I not participate in your joy," asked
the reporter, seating himself betide the other.
“Well, yes. I'll tell you about it if *you*want
to know. You see. when I was a boy I went to
school with another boy " hose nature wasquite
the reverse of mine. Ho was of an inquisitive
turn of mind and I wasn't. If I owned any tiling
in the way of a rubber or a top in the morning,
he'd own it before night, and I’d go home with
out a thing. Me always got th“ best of it ou a
swap. Well, it’s continued that way all through
life. He's got lions *s, and farms, and mort
gages. and stocks, and all that sort of thing,
and I ain’t got a red cent.”
“Ha. ha " laughed the reporter, sepulchrally.
“That’s deuced funny, isn't it? You are the
sort of man to look for jokes among the deatn
notices. I suppose?”
“No, I don't look for jokes anywhere. I see
'em about me every day without lookin' for
’em. But say, you don't get on to the point of
my joke. ”
“1 must confess I do not.”
“Well now look here. I’ve been to ■-e my
friend five times in this last year. The first
time he was nearly crazy because his big sto -k
stable and fifteen horses had been burned the
night before, and there wasn’t a cent of ii aur
ance. The second time I called he was hi his
wit*' ends because typhoid fever had broken
out in his best paying Mats, and, b’gosb, every
one of his tenants had given notice that they’ll
leave him. The third time 1 called he’d just
paid out SOO,OOO In bonds because the fellow ho
stood sponsor for had gone to Canada with $300,-
000. Tne fourth time I called he couldn't sleep
because St. Paul had cut a good-sized slice off
his income, and yesterday when 1 saw him
he was Himply wild over SIOO,OOO worth of
mortgages that he hasn't had a chance to ver
ify since he got them from his attorney. The
next tune 1 call <>n him he ll | Mi m thelunatic
asylum he will, and don't you forget it.
That's why I laugh. There he'll b-. a prisoner,
counting ids money over in his mind night and
das worried sick by it, b'gosth sot having one*
half tho fun I get out of the free air of heaven
without a cent of money or an inch of land to
my name. 1 toll you stranger, wealth In a
curse, ami poverty in a hlessin and l m laugh
ing just because I'm glad glad I ain't cursed
though -ahem if you could curse me with the
price of a cocut ail I'd thanks, your a gent.
And the hilarious lounger sauntered off in the
direction of a corner groggery.
Positively the txwt remedy ever discov
ered for all diseases of man and lieast that
can l>e reached by an external medical ap
plication is Rangum Root Liniment. One
trial will convince. Ran gum Root Med.
Cos., Nashville, Tenn. 50 cents per bottla. I
For sale by Lippiuan Bros., wholesale ,
agents.
ITEMS OF INTER 35T.
A Mr. Lee of Toronto, aged 50, took a notion
seven years ago not to talk any more, and the
first word uttered by him since that time was
spoken some days ago.
The total tenement population of New York
city now is from 1,100,000, or only about 500.000
less than the city's estimated population. There
are 82,£j0 tenements in the city.
A glove shop in Paris has the following: an
nouncement posted over the door: “Wanted,
small hands. Persons taking eight and a quar
ter size had better not come to this shop.”
Hadji Sulvmax Saha of Constantinople was
09 years of age when be took his last wife, and
he lived to be 132. He had sixty sons and
nine daughters, and seven wives, and survived
them all.
Arthur W. Murray of Chicago has two
wives. Thej r have been the “be6t of friends"
for a long while, but neither knew that the
other was also the wife of Murray until last
Saturday.
The prize of SSO, offered by American Notes
and Queries to the person guessing nearest
New’ York's plurality for President, was won by
Thomas H. White of Jacksonville. He guessed
14,033 for Mr. Harrison. Altogether 2,5? ti
guesses were received, divided as follows: Harri
son 1,323. Cleveland 1,243.
Telegraph operators, it seems, are develop
ing a disease of their own. One or two cases
recently occurred abroad, in which the finger
nails dropped off, one after another. The affec
tion is supposed to be due to the constant ham
mering and pushiug with th_‘ finger ends re
quired by the working of the telegraph instru
ment.
Anew process in the manufacture of steel,
which if successful will practically revolution
ize the manufacture, it is said, is now* being
perfeelc 1 by Hon. John W. Book waiter, of
Ohio. In eight to nine minutes, it is claimed,
pig iron can be converted into steel at a cost
less than by any other known process. The
new process, it is further claimed, is particu
larly well adapted to the manufacture of cast
ings.
One of the longest inter-town fights ever
known in Maine, was that over the construction
of the bridge across the Sebasticook river at
Peltoma Point, between the towns of Pittsfield
and Detroit. The m •vement for the building
of the bridge began in 1849. The former town
wanted it; the latter town opposed it. The
fight went on year after year. Every board of
county commissioners was drawn into it. Not
until 18K3. when the bridge was built, was the
war ended.
An interesting relic was received on
Monday at the navy department in Washing
ton. It wag a section, about three feet in
length, of oue of the timbers of the San Pablo,
one of the ships which composed the famous
Spanish armada, which sailed to conquer Eng
'and 350 years ago. The San Pablo was one of
the ship* which escaped. She was afterwards
renamed “Navio Soberano," and after several
cruises was wrecked on the coast near Santiago
de t üba, where tue bulk now lies buried in the
mud.
There is an old man in Chichester ville, in
the Catskills, who always speaks out in meet
ing. Recently a city divine preached in the lit
tle Methodist church of the village, and the old
man became so excited at one or two home
thrusts in the sermon which seemed to apply
to a certain “close" neighbor, that be got up
and shouted. “Tuat's right, youngster; hit 'em
again." Anil later on when the sermon ap
peared to come home to him, he cried out in
slentorian tones. “Hint's so, b'gosh. We're all
sinners, ev'ry durned oue of us.
A touching incident is reported in connection
with the recent wreck, near England, of the
Estrella de Chile. When it was thought that
the vessel wa doomed, an apprentice went be
low in a hurried manner. Afterward, when the
crew took to the rigging, most of them held on
w ith both hands, but the apprentice kept oue
hand to his b east “Have you got your money
there, youngster '" asked a sailor “No," re
plied the apprentice: “but I have the portraits
of my dear mother and sister.*' It was for
these*he had gone below In an hour of danger.
A Berkshire, England, farmer has just lost
a valuable cart colt from a most extraordinary
cause. The colt Lai for a long time suffered
very much from difficulty of breathing. An
operation having been performed on its throat
to no purpose, it was finally decided to have it
shot. On the carcass being cut up and the necr.
severed at the shoulders, to the great astonish
ment of those present, a fair-sized toad crawled
out of the opening in the w indpipe, and the ex
traordinary cause of the fH)or animal's suffer
ings became at once apparent. Tne t*ad was
almost ted when extricated, bttt gradually as
sumed its natural color.
A large army of men, women and children,
in Johnstown, Pa., gain a livelihood by picking
scraps of metal from the cinder heaps of the
iron and steel works in that city. The “cobble
pickers." as they are known, are generally aged
and feeble, and earn all the way from $lO to $lO
per month. With hoes and rakes they dig in
the cinders as they are dumped, and struggle
and push and wrangle for the possession of the
metal as it is uncovered. Each picker has hi
or her pile of •’cobbles,"and the iroucompany's
teams come around at intervals. Tbe driver
weighs each pile, gives the owner a voucher for
it, and takes the accumulated metul to the scrap
heaps to be melted again.
It is estimated there are now in Europe,
Asia, the United States and Canada about fifty
institutions for the education of feeble-minded
children. These all originated, says a western
writer, in the effort of Edward Seguin, a French
physician, who, exactly fifty years ago, gave up
a brilliant career and devoted himself to the
cure and restoration of tbeve unfortunates. He
discovered and taught that idiocy is not tue re
sult of deficiency of brain, nor of malformation
but is the result of au arrested development,
occurring at any stage before, at or after birth
In his own school h* succeeded in counteracting
this arrest of development and in restoring to
society about 75 per cent, of his pupils.
The supervisors of San Francisco are flooded
with petitions for cable road franchises. A cor
respondent writes that “the great success of the
new Powell street line, that crosses town and
then runs to the Cliff bouse and the ferries, has
stimulated other companies, and the city bids
fair soon to be gridlruued with cable roads. Ir
is unfortunate tor the citizens that all the old
cable companies obtained tneir valuible fran
chises without the condition that they ghoul i
provide for the all-night travel. The result is
that from 12:80 o'clock to 5:30 o’clock in the
morning no cable or horse railroads run cars
Thus the largo number of people who work ut
night are forced to walk home or wait until the
first morning car."
TnE champion STEEPLEJACK is probably Will
iam Green of London. He has repaired no
fewer than fifty-three towers and spires, includ
ing that of Sal sbury cathedral, 104 feet high:
Louth, Lincolnshire, 350 feet; Grantham, 82a
feet, and Whittleseu, Cambridgeshire, 280 foot.
He has also built or repaired over 550 chimney
stacks, the highest being 22) foet. He has been
in t ho employment cf the government as a diver.
After the Tiy bridge disaster be recovered ten
bodies of the ill fated passengers, and helped to
raise the engine and tender. < >nc of the hardest
pieces of work he ever had was on a big chim
ney at Seeley’s flour mill, Lincoln. This chim
ney was 280 feet high, with a diameter of 70 feet,
at the Stse and Bat the summit. It was 3fo i
6 inches out 9f tho perpendicular, but in nine
days Green and three assistants had set It to
rights by using screwjacks.
A Brussels lack merchant had received
from a Belgian, residing in Paris, an order for
a quantity of Malinos lace. The goods wore
carefully packed iu a lead coffin, which was
dispatched to the Paris address as containing a
corpse. The Paris merchant bad to wait so
long for the arrival of the “body” that he at
length complained to the manager of the North
ern railway, who informed him that the coffin
hail been detained at the frontier owing to tho
non-compliance with certain prescribed for
malities relating to the transmission of corpses
The merchant at once took the train to Quiev
rnin. dressed in solemn black and with a mourn
iug hand around his hat, and wearing an ex
prestdon of profound sadness. But in spite of
his emphatic protest against such an act of
desecration, the < fflcials insisted <>n opening
t lie cotltn. w hen the truth oame to light and the
ingenious smuggler wan taken Into custody.
The bulletin Internationale de V Electricite
states that the French government has con
tracted for the building of a submarine boat,
which, unlike the Uyumotc, recently tested at
Havre, is to be used for defensive rather than
offensive purposes, its object being the destruc
tion of submarine mines, and thus preiiaring
the way for the main vessels of a ti*et. It is to
lie cigar shaped, and is to l>e made of steel
placeso.l6 inch thick. Its total length will be
14.95 feet, and its diameter five feet four Inches,
lta crew will consist of two men, who will be
provided with air by stores of compressed
oxygen, permitting a stay of several hours be
neath the surface. The b*iat will be propelled
by a screw driveu by an Edison motor, the
current to which is to bo supplied by a Scau ,
aebieff primary lottery.
If your complaint is want of appetite, try
half wine gloat Angost ura Bitters Iwfore 1
meals. Dr. J. O. B. 81 gu t & Fons, de
manufacturers.
BAKING POWDER. ____
CREAM
&AXIN®
Niwdeß
Its superior excellence proven in millions of
homes for more than a quarter of a century- It
is used by the United States Government. In
dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as
the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr.
Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain
Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.,
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIB.
DRY GOODS^
Dsffi lolly Presents!
AT
tola 4 Dow's,
137 Broughton St.
CONSISTING OF
Ladies’ White and Colored Bordered Hem
stitched Handkerchiefs.
Ladies' White and Colored Embroidered
Handkerchiefs.
Gentlemen's Hemmed and Hemstitched
White Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs.
Gentlemen’s Colored Bordered Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs.
White and Colored Bordered Hemstitched
Silk Handkerchiefs.
Colored Brocaded Silk Handkerchiefs.
Gentlemen's Lined Kid Gloves, with fur tops.
Jouvin’s Kid Gloves, in Black and Colored.
Armstrong’s Spiral Spring Garters and Sus
penders.
Gentlemen’s and Boys' Neckwear.
Colgate's Toilet Soaps and Perfumery.
A large assortment of Puri
tauand Gloria Silk Umbrellas,
in 24 and 26 inches, with
Ebony, Oxidized and Gold
Mounted handles.
Wiai&Dnmf.
medical,
jmu^nwM
18 CALLED THE
Wonderful Chill and Fever Expellei
f cures the chills and fever, tones up the system
i ves ro appetite, bringing strength and health to tb
;ffercr.
BUOE*.
A MAN MUST BE VERY HARD TO SUIT
If he Is not satisfied with the James Means
$4 Shoos. Retailers who are up with the
times sell them in all parts of the U. S.
U Tou cannot afford to do wit tin uttlicm
Ip* JAMES MEANS'
MLs3^s4
wJSipf^SHOES.
S VERY
fbr the James c -best
Ait $2 Shoe for Bc>* MADE.
Shoes from our celebrated factory are sold by
the lxwt retailers throughout the united States,
and we will place them easily within your reach
in any State or Territory if you will send us a
postal can! JAMES MEANS A CO., 41 Lincoln
street, Boston, Mass.
Pull linos of the above Shoes for sale by ▲. 8.
NICHOLS, 128 Broughton street, Savannah.
DRUGS AND MKI >l< INKS.
PARK EXTENSION
DRUG STORE.
Try Compound Mutton Suet
with Vasaline.
F'AR superior to tho simple suet hitherto
used, and will lie found an excellent prepa
ration for Clumped Hands, Rough Skin, Hands
and Lips. It 1a also of markinl benefit in Burns.
Price 25c. packet. Prepared only by
M. JOHNSON,
DISPENSING CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST,
DRAYTON AND NEW HOUSTON STS.,
SAVANNAH, - Ct A.
lit MSXB: la; m ber!
A. S. BACON,
Ofilue and Planing Mill, Liberty and East Broad
strsrts
A FULL STOCK of DRESSED and EOUQH
LUMBER, I.ATHS, SHINGLES, etc., always
on hand. Estimate, tfven upon application ]
Prompt deli Terr Kusranteod. Telephone 117. J
GRAY A O’BRIEN.
BI& SALE!
II WEEK
—IN—
Dross Goods,
■mi
Blankets,
Ladies' Wraps,
LICE CUSS,
Boys’ Clotli
—AND—
Table Linens
CM I Hi.
SPORTING GOODS.
Hammerless and
Hammer Guos
Made to Order.
BEFORE buying elsewhere call and ex
amine my stock and get prices, as I have
just returned from the north, and have laid In
a very fine stock of GUNS, PISTOLS, FISHING
TACKLE and SPORTING GOODB of all kinds.
Agent for LAFLIN & RUNDS SCHAGHTI*
COKE POWDER, classed with the very best.
Shells loaded to order on short notice. Loading
shells a specialty.
G. S. McAlpin,
31 WHITAKER ST.
ORANGES.
Christmas Oranges.
W TE MAKE A SPECIALTY of fine Florida
v ▼ Oranges for holiday presents, and forward
to any part of the couutry. We receive our sup*
plies direct from
THE LEADING GROVES,
And can always guarantee uniform and high
grade fruit. Send in your orders early.
RAISINS in boxes, halves and quarters Pan
supply Mandarin and Taugarine oranges also.
W. D. Simkins & Cos.
BANANAS!
500 Bunches Extra Fine Yel
low Bananas Received
THIS HA.Y.
For sale at Savannah. Florida and Western Rail
way and store. Prices defy competition.
A. H. CHAMPION.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALK.
M arried man with js.noo can •fx-urp at
ready immediately) half interest in truck
farm and young grove; must superintend;
SI,OOO yearly guaranteed; references required.
Lock Box 15, I .
Newspaper For Sale
A GROWING NEWSPAPER, In a growing
Georgia town, healthy place and !*ap** r
now doing a fair business (’an bo Imughf at *
bargain. Hensons for selling given. Address
X. Y. Z., care Savannah Nows.
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