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It is with great satisfaction we announce the forthcoming publication in our columns of a powerful, new and dramatic serial gfcory entitled “Jezebel’s Friends," from the pen of Miss Dora Russell, known universally as the author of “Footprints in the Snow,” admittedly one of the m at succe-sful nov els of this generation. Miss Russell's sto rie* have never yet failed to suit the popu lar taste for wholesomo fiction remote with sensation and incident. Her long list of works testifies to the fecundity of her imag ination ; the excellence of her stories to her splendid powers as a novelist; and the re gard in which she is held by her readers to the strength of the spell v-nich she has cast over their minds. Anew novel by Mi s Russell is looked forward to as an intellect ual treat by thousands who have road her previous works, and are wishful to make the acquaintance of more. F>r a descrip tion of the story and date of its appearance see adver;iseincut in another column. Col McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, says in aa interview that Mr. Cleveland nftay be the democratic candidate in 18ft.’. Fnch a thing is not impossible. For the “greatest living statesman,” and the "leader of his party,” Mr. Blaiue seems to occupy jußt now a very undignified posi tion. Instead of waiting for a cabinet office to seek him, he has entered into a ■cramble for the office. Steve Brodie, who has achieved notoriety by jumping from bridges in New York, wants to make the leap from the bridge at Genesee falls, where Sam Patch lost his life. Stephen will jump into eternity the first thing he knows. Gov. Foraker transmitted his message to the legislature the other day, and among other things he said; “Honest elections will not hurt anybody who is honest.” That was Chairman Quay’s opi ion when he used money to buy votes in New York, Indiana, and several other states. Gen. Harrison probably will have the appointment of an additional cabinet officer —that of Commissioner of Agriculture. The bill making that office.! cabinet one is being considered by the conference committee of the two houses of congress, and concurrent action is generally expected. Ihe House recently passed a bill cutting down the fees of pension ageuts, ad the other day Col. Dudley appeared before a Senate committee in the interest of the agents. The pension sharks ought to be driven out of the country, hut they won't be as long as there is a republican Senate. Dr. Mc-Glynn seems to ijo about at the end of his row. He speaks to very’ small audiences, the Anti-Poverty Society has collapsed, and the Union Labor party is to more. As he was an advocate (for reve nue) of Gen. Harrison’s election, however, he may get some sort of a plum after a while. Dr. McOlynn’s course has not boon a very gratifying one to his friends sincohe kicked himself out of the Catholio church. Mr. Edison received a highly prized pres ent the other day. It consisted of several wax cylinders on which a speech by Mr. Gladstone and messages from Sir Morell McKenzie, Sir John Fowler, the Earl of Mcatb, Lord Rowton and others had been recorded in order that they might be re predueed by the improved phonograph. These distinguished Englishmen took pleas ure in joining iu the tribute to Mr. Edi son's geuius. A petition has b eu li ed in the supreme court of South Carol na, for a mandamus to compel the chairman of the county com missioners of York county to tu-u over to the Charleston, Cincinnati uuJ Chicago Itailr ad Company the bonds issued by Broad River township to tho company. Such bonds were recently declared worth ies! by the supreme court, but an invali dating act was passed by the legislature. Chairman Whitesides refuses to deliver the bonds until tha court has decided the bear ing and effect of the act. The issues in volved are likely to.be settled very.soon. Republican Methods Exposed. Since tho success of their party in No vember the icpublicau leaders have been pointing out the necessity for purer election methods. Even Gea. Harrison, in a brief I address on New Years’ day, said that the great need of the present time in this coun try was honesty in elections. Are the re publican leaders sincere in professing to ho anxious to purify the ballot? There are i strong reasons for thinking they are not, i but, like the thief who cries “stop thief ’ to divert attention from himself, they are | demanding purer election methods in order that, their own corrupt election practices may not be discovered. The Voice, a prohibition organ published in Now York, in an article entitled “A Crime Uncovered” makes some startling disclosures. It places some of the republi can leaders in a very unenviable position. It calls them “receivers of stolen property and abettors of robbers,” aid it produces ovideuce to support the charges it brings against them. The Voice has a large circulation among prohibitionists in New York state, and dur ing the Presidential campaign did very effective work for the prohibition cause. The republican leaders desired to create the impression among the prohibitionists that their organ and leaders w r ere quietly work ing in the interest of the Democratic party, in order to influence those of them who were republicans, and tho most of them were converts from the Republican party, to vote tho republican ticket. The Voice charges that Mr. Quay, the chairman of the national republican cam paign committee, Mr. Clarkson, its vioe chairman,*aud Col. Dudley, its treasurer, purchased from employes of the Voice copies of its mailing list,; that the list was stolen, and that Messrs. Quay, Clarkson and Dudley knew it was stolen; that they paid a considerable sum of money for it, and promised to provide one of the thieves with u lucrative office, and tried to get another of the thieves to remain in the service of the tVi ice in order to secure further i formation which the Republican party wanted. The mailing list of the Voice was utilized in this way: Tho Voice, with copies of democratic campaign documents, was mailed to the Voice’s subscribers. The effect was, of course, to create the impres sion among the prohibitionists that the Voice and the prohibition leaders had sold out to the Democratic party. It was hoped that the indignation which would thus be aroused among the prohibitionists would lead them to vote the republican ticket. The Voice, in commenting | upon the act of Messrs. Quay, Clarkson and Dudley, says: One of the saddest revelations of political scoundrelism ever made in this country is revealed in full on our first page. Read th Re confessions of our disnonest, employes who stole aud sold our mailing list and other property to tho national republican committee for so much cash and the promi-e of office—sold it after revealing to them that the property wos st len. The machinery of tho Republican party is in the hands of as corrupt a gang of poli ticians as ever manipulated a party to its destruction. Bribery, the buying and sell ing of votes, deception, lying, treachery, stealing are resorted to in the must un blushing manner. The men guilty of this crime have the great republican machine behind them. I'hev are intrenched behind tho party’s im mense wealth. Were they common Bowery “/ence” men, receivers of stolen property, these leaders of the great “party of moral ideas” w mid go to the penitentiary for this crime! But they stand for their party, and that party, and the administration they put in power, would not have the courage to see them punished. After the revelation which the Voice makes, can any one doubt that the charges against Col. Dudley relative to the pur chase of the floating voters of Indiana are true? In tho face of this revelation what a spectacle of monumental cheek and hypoc risy is that presented by John Sherman and William E. Chandler in the Senate when offering bills, aimed at the south, to secure a purer ballot! Would it not be more in keeping with justice aud common sense to enact laws to remedy the corrupt practices of which the Republican party is guilty, t ban to attempt to correct alleged ballot-box evils in the south, of the exist ence of which there is no evidence? Regia ter. It seems rather remarkable that those who are entitlod to vote should have to bo urged to qualify themselves for doing so, and yet such is the case. The city election occurs within a very few days, and not one half of those who are entitled to cast a bal lot in it has registered. Do those who have not registered feel no interest in the elec tion ? Are they indifferent about the result of it? They must certainly desire that the city shall have a good government, and it is their duty to do what they can toward selecting good men to mauage municipal affairs. Every citizon, whatever his position, and however small tiis property interest in the city may be, must he anxious to have tho city governed by the best men that can bo secured to perform that duty. Too many voters put off registering from dny to day until it is too late to do so, and then, if those they favor are not elected, they complain loudly about placing unfit men in places of responsibility. They should not permit themselves to have any such ground for complaint. They should register and vote, and then they can find fault with better graco if the officials elected aro not satisfactory to them. The election occurs next Tuesday, and tho regis tration books will bo closed to morrow night. It seetns probable that Senator McPtaer sou, of New Jersey, will be re-elected, and that Senator Keunn will be returned from West Virginia. In these states the demo cratic legislative majorities are smell, no tably so in West Virginia, where tho demo crats have been made to realize the impor tance of acting ns ti unit, and where they have agreed to submit to caucus decisions ou all subjects of imp rtaneo. Iu each state the republicans are making a deter mined effort to capture the senatorship. There seems to be a streak of good hard sense running through the Cleveland family. President Cleveland has made the rn -t busiuess-like President in the history of tho country, and now it is announced that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is going to Florida soon, w here lately she has bought !an J up on which to build a winter residence. Miss Cleveland is qui.e right ingoing away from Now York during February and March, and she decided wisuly when she selected Florida as a place for a winter home. Is the United Stales d-nug missionary work in Turkey? Minister Strauss reports that he lias obtaiued permission from the grand vizier for the Bible house of Con stantinople to print in Turkish .Ti.OOO Bible trarts, constating of the PiuFms, tho Prov erbs, tho four Gospels >nd tho Acts. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 1889. Too Many Elections. There is a movement in Maine to change the tune of holding state elections from September to November. In presidential years tho Maine people think they have too many elections. They have their election for congressmen and state officers in Sep tember, and their election for President in November. Two important elections com ing so near together interrupt business to too great an exteul aud have a demoralizing effect. The governor, however, opposes tha pro posed change. In his message, sent to the legislature the other day. he proposed that all the states should agree ' lect congress men on tho second Tuesday in October. He say 9 that if Maine were to put off her con gressional elections until November tho people would be deprived of the privilege of hearing discussions of many public ques tions, because tho wea' V r in October la too cold for outdoor meeting , and there are few halls in tho state larg ■ enough to ac commodate political gatherings. It is quite safe to say that the other states will not agree to the Maine governor's proposition. They have elections about as ofioii now as they want them. Several states within the last three or four years have changed tho time for holding con gressional elections from October to Novem ber. The Maine governor seems to forget that the people of New Hampshire, Vermont and Northern New York make no complaint against holding congressional or other elec tions in November, and their climate differs very little from that of the greater part of Maine. Besides, the people of Maine vote for President in November and that state polls nbout as large a vote in November as in September. The Maine governor’s reasons against tho proposed change do not appear to bo good ones, and it would not bo surprising if the legislature should lake no notice of hi ; suggestion rela tive to alt the states voting for congressmen in October. The truth is that elections occur too often in nearly all the states, in this state, for instance, there have been elections of one kind aud another over since tho state elec tion in October. It requires considerable time to register and to vote, and unless there are exciting issues a good many voters don't bothar themselves about elections. Any movement in favor of fewer elections iu almost any state would meet with a great deal tf encouragement. Protecting Cot. Dudley. It looks as if tho Senate doesn’t intend to confirm the nomination of Salomon Clay pool for district attorney of 1 Liliana. Gen. Harrison’s home organ, the Indianapolis Akims, says that the office ought to remain vacant until Gen. Harrison is inaugurated. That journal doesn’t want a democrat to occupy the office even for a few weeks, and why? Doubtless because it doesn’t want Col. Dudley, tho allege 1 writer of the letter advising the purchase of Indiana voters, prosecuted. There is no fault to lie found with Mr. Claypool. He is a lawyer in good standing, and represents the Indian ipolis committee of i>ne hundred citizens whose object is to prevent illegal voting. T.ie republican Sen ators declared they would not confirm the nomination of Leon Bailey for district at torney because he hal abused Gen. Harrison during the campaign, and the President withdrew it. No such charge can be made against Mr. Claypool. He is on the best of terms w.tli Gen. Harrison. A refusal to confirm his nomination can be regarded in no other light than an admission that there is so much truth iu tho charges against Col. Dudley that the republicans are afraid to have them legally investigated. U"hat a marvel of corruption and hypocrisy tho Republican party is! On new year’s day Gen. Harrison declared that he wanted above all things a pure ballot. Why then does he not favor an investigation of the charges against Col. Dudley? It is quite cheeky in Mr. Stephen B. Elkins to aspire toa place in Gen. Harrison’s cabinet, since it was u derstood very well during the campaign that he was in a de gree indifferent to republican success. But it is the quintessence of cheek for Mr. Elkins to aspire to be the southern member of the cabinet. He has a good deal of pro perty in West Virginia, and spends a part of tho year in that state, but he would be a sorry representative of either West Vir ginia, or the south. If Geu. Harrison is going to select as one of his advisers a man from the south, let him at least name one who is iu no sense a oar pet-bagger. When Geu. Harrison was in the Senate, he voted several times against restriction of Chinese immigration. Not only that, but. he was iu favor of making voters of China men in this country. Vet the Pacific states gave him their electoral votes, but now the same states object very strongly to Senator Hoar for tha cabinet, n his record on the Cuiuese question is no worse than (ion. Harrison’s. Having accepted Gen. Harrison a id his record, the people of tho Pacific coast cannot consistently object to Senator Hoar. Both Senators Chandler and Shermau are trying to place congressional elections un der federal control, an i have introduced bills into the Senate for that purpose. The bill introduced by .Senator Bherinan pro vides for federal returning boards, to be appointed by tne President. Under Gen. Harrison, of course, the returning boards would lie republican. Tho cry of the re publican is, “We care not who cast the votes if only wo are all iweJ to count them.” The Washington cor espondeut of the New York Times says that Senator Brown, of Georgia, who vtas in the Senate the other day for the Hi st time in several weeks, voted with the republicans iu favor of certain clauses in the republican tariff bill, and that he did not take tho trouble to explain hit unwillingness to go with his party oti the tariff, nor was any question put to him by either side. It is very well understood that Senator Brown is a protectionist. Gen. Black, the commissioner of pensions, is a special target for the venom of the re i publican editors. It is to lie inferred from this that Gen. Black is a statesman. Those Byes. 1 irj • ts it wi-.... 1 am tempted to ,1., it. J-u.-t a ki- Ly Mu’; r.-e Id what ligul v, jhe view it* If her temper slm and | ri,e i should certu.uk me it. Shall 1 try) Is t J am tempted t . do it. Ah' those mi-sctiievouf eyes! One would tliiin, itutt bey knew it, All my doubt uow sue sl/Iw, Llular i. u-' i through ttl Shull 1 fry? Is It v isit 1 am tempted to do it! BRIGHT bits. Presidentelect Harrison's pathway is strewn with flowers—-forget me no in,—Life. No contributions to the “Is-Marriaare-a-Fail ure” discusaion Lave yet arrived from Salt Lake City.-- Puck The fellow that beats th#* weighing machine islUe tho Arabs -he “silently steal* a weigh." —boston bulletin. The dog catcher is certainly not of a religious turn of mind, but he is certainly a devout muz zleman.— Harper % bazar. It is one of the peculiarities o* things in gen eral that the freshest men generally tell the stalest stories.— banyor (. o vwrclal. Only poor men write book* on "How to Get Rich." The rich men themselves will not give the snap away. —New Orleans Picayune. “Decline of Alcohol" beads an article in a temperance column. We'll bet it wasn't the free-lunch fiend who declined it.— Dansville breeze. Many a young man who succeeds in making a splendid matrimonial match shows what a pure stroke of luck it was when he comes to match trimming for his v.if a.—bur liny ton Free Press. Twilltnoham—What are you eong to swear off on tills year, my boy? Wineiooker—l've thought it all over and con cluded th it giving up swearing off is the only thing that 1 can keep with any certainty. - Time. Nothing to Go By.—Mrs. Gab—What sort o’ folks are those new neighbor’s of yours? Mrs. Gad—Well, I've been watching their back yard for two weeks, but as they send their wash to a laundry. 1 can't tell anything about them.— New York Weekly. Tourist to stage driver in the Yellowstone re gion—Are there any wonderful curiosities to be seen in this region, driver ? Stage Driver—Wonderful curiosities! Well, I should say there were! Why, you drop a rock down that gorge, come back in three days and you can hear the echo .—DesMoines Register . PERSONAL. Lord Sackville, it is semi authoritatively an nounced, is to be sent as British minister to Turkey. J. B. Lucre y. the first < )hio delegate to come out for Harrison, already announces himself a candidate for internal revenue collector in his district. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone are accompalned on their Italian tour by their daughter, Mrs. Drew, who acts as her father's secretary, and whose husband is curate of Hawarden. Count Melchoir de Vogue* who has just been elected to the French Academy, is. accord ing to Pans 11 lust re. a member of the oldest and most distinguished French aristocracy. The Jhrihtmas present of the young King of Spain was a small pony, tin* harness for which is kept in the Spanish national colors. A tiny dog-cart, jiainted pure white, completed this present. Mrs. F. T. Frelinghitysen, widow of the late Secretary of State Frelinglmysen, is in a feeble condition at her homo in Newark, N. J., and her family have the gravest fears about the outcome of her illness. Miss ('andy, who is to marry the Duke of Newcastle—who, by the way. is no relation to the Duke of Necastle who comes to this coun try so often—is the daughter of an officer who o :ce served with the Kh dive's troops in Egypt. Cant . Candy was fatnil ary known as “Sugar.” and his magnificent uniforms made a sensation six years ago in Cairo, a city which is not easily astonished. On Jan. 22 the Rev. Dr. John W. Scott of Washington, father in-law of President-elect Harrison will be rt) years of age. His physician tells him that he has the vitality of an ordinary man ol 70, and ought to complete his century of 1 eif he takes care of himself. His grand father, John Scott, was quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania troops during the revolution, and bail a brother, Matthew Scott, who was at tho time captain in a Kentucky regiment. Matthew Scott was an ancestor of Mrs. Ruther ford B. Hayes, and after him the younger son of ex-President Ilaves is named. The Princess Mathildk, who has gathered around her aU the Bonapartist aud literary notabilities of Paris at her Sunday evening re ceptions for many years past, is debarred by failing health fro n resuming them on their wonted brilliant footing this winter. She will open her saloons as usual; but her invitations will bo limited to old and intimate friends, be longing for the most part to the world of art an l letters. The doctors disapprove of her stirring out-of-doors in the evening, but she means to make an exception in favor of M. Edmond de Goncourt, who is a particularly valued friend. Mr. Lock, the London upholsterer, was chosen by the Empress Frederick to refurnish tho palace of Charlottenburg, aud when Queen Victoria went to Berlin to visit her daughter they both went to see him at his office there. He showed them some hangings which dazzled them, a glorious, rich brocade of gold bullion and pink silk, that literally would “stand alone.” “Why, Mr. Loca,” said the queen in astonishment, "for whom can you have made such a divine material?” “For Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, your majesty." “All! then? you are, my dear.” said the queen, turning to her daughter; “such people as those can afford that sort of thing, don't you see?" What Is in a Name? From the Washington Post. One of the “general public” at the President's New Year's reception was named Decker, and ns he approached the President he told Col. Wilson in confidence that his name was such aa easy one that it could not be mistaken. “Happy to meet you, Mr. Cracker, " said the President. “Happy to meet you, Mr. Baker," said Mrs. Cleveland. "Mr. Backer,” murmured Mr. Bayard, doubt fully. “Happy to meet you, Mr. Black," said Mrs. Whitney, confidently. Weil Supplied Already. From the Chicago Tribune. “Any news in the paper this morning Sarnan tha?" inquired Mr. Chugwater, as he came down to breakfast. “Not much," replied his wife. “Seems to be hardly any—yes, here is a "Strange Story in Re gard to .'.me I'atti. Readers or the Siornin>! Jhiralyzer will be surprised to learn that th.s gift© 1 prima donna " “Samantha." interposed Mr. Chugwater, “b lore you become too deeply interested in that item ot news permit me to remind you that wo don't need any toilet soap. There aro seven kiuds iu the bom© already.” A Vote of Thanks. From the Youth's Companion. A village in Ne a- England came into possrs ion of n neat and nine encoded \vn ball, lie gift of public spirited citizens. Whencompl b* I. a meeting was neld to dedicate the new budd ing. Speeches wero made by p omir.ent citizens, and special reference was naturally u ale to the chief benefactor, and to those who had been most active iu forwarding the enterprise. One sp- aker mentioned the names of five or six of tiie>e cit>. *ns, and suggeste 1 that a vote of thanks be u*:> li-red then. T c> was done. A moment later a little wizen-face I ckl man arose in too hack part of the luili, and. in a sharp, penetrat.ng v ice. called: “Mr. Cheerinau? Mr. < heerman!” The speaker being recognized, he proceeded; “Ijit wanted to say that there's them ez haiut been mentioned, ez hez done ez much ez them ez hez." He Was Prepared. Frorn the Few York World. “So let t he, then.” T ,e speaker wa Armani de Dude, and he was addressing tne beautiful Gwendoliu Mo ll utT- . • 1 have stake! myall on tbe possibility of cal i g you my wile, my precious loved o , And b one pitilrst stro e you have dash and my * ret while f nd hopes to the uttermost depths of of the lat < oni *s, her* alter. L. call yo j mine would be t m*- tho qumte-sei.ee of eathly to work for you an i to 1 ivisti on you the wealth o' tnv overpowering adorat.on would have b**en the—the one anu only ambition of m\ life. You have made me to-nignt a reckl* sa and de spairing man: i u: befure 1 go out from your b l ived presence forever I (mould like t< • n.ao? one request. Willy u. oh' will you grant it*” “ •'hat is it, Mr de Dude?” “That you wi 1 never, never betray what I have just revea'ed to you of the deep aud tender feelings of my inmost heart." **< >!). cert uo y not. But wbj • “Because 1 iutend to propose to your sister to morrow." Idles Actor's Pearl Slippers. From ihc Philadelphia Timts. Mrs. Augu< Belmont ha* the fines? c L lection of sapphires in this covin try. though Mrs. Wiiliatu Aster is credited with j,o -• ss. hi tho finest single ods. When on of the younger Astors was married a dainty present was gr n her by her uncle, it was her wedding slippers; they were of white satin elaborately seeded with pearls, put in a white satin box, on tho iu*i<Je of which iu pale colors were “lady suppers" and on the outsido china astern. The sentiment was really very pretty, aud tlio work was most art sUcaliy done. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It the Faroe Islands there is a auperatition that seals cast off their skins every ninth month and assume the human shape. A prom isent citizen - of Fresno. Cab, has started a possum farm. He has procured a car load of the animals from Missouri. Mrs. Charles Crocker s Christmas gift to the children's hospital and training school for nurses in San Francisco was a check for $5,0c0. Four members of one family in Wellington county, Ontario, have been kiiled by falling trees in the same piece of forest within three months. The number of muscles in an elephant's trunk, according to London tiled cal authorities, is 33,122, and he has use for each and every one of them. A golden eagle, recently caught in a trnp near Chippewa fails, is said to have been the first of the species ever captured in Northern Wisconsin. A St. Joseph paper has a reporter on its staff who lias been shot twice, stabbed once, cut with a razor and iiit with a bludgeon, and yet is always on deck for business. Ji'doe Henry W. Taylor, who died at Cnnan daigua the other day at the age of 03, was for years the oldest living graduate of Vale college, having been a member of the class of 1816. Canterbury. N. H., has a Quaker church that was built in 1792 and has not been shingled since that time. The shingles then put on the roof were of heart pine, and were fastened on with wooden pegs. A grizzly bear that weighed 1,700 pounds was killed at Big Horn Basin, Wyoming Terri tory. a short time ago. One hundred and nine shots were tired from nine rides before the brute was killed. A Michigan woman practiced w'ith a revolver until she could hit a suspender button at eight paces. Tiien there came a burglar into the house early one morning and she sent a bullet pinging through her husband’s left ear. According to the Fiji Shimpo there are twen ty cotton factories now in operation in Japan, with a total of 82,680 spindles. There are also twenty factories in process of establishment or extension, with an estimated capacity of 180,680 spindles. The Waterbury American kn ows of a blind boy who doesn’t seem to be much inconven ienced, so far as traveling goes, by his afflic tion. He has twice run away from home, and on one of his trips stole rides to New York and back to his home in Connecticut. Denver has invested 565,000 in a cable system for rapid transit, and has a road six and three tenths miles long, over which the fare is 5 cents. The speed in the residence sections is lim.ted to twelve miles an hour, and in the business por tions to eight and a half miles an hour. An editor out west put a love-letter he had written into the copy-box, and his editorial upon the proper observance of marital duties he sent to his love. The letter appeared in his paper, and he is chasing the compositors all over the country with a tomahawk in each hand. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Two Stories of Reported Lynchings— Negroes Turn Up Alive. From the Elberton (<?.) Star. To show the wrong and injustice of too harshly accusing a body of men of tiie offense of lynching, we have only to refer to a case that occurred in our own county of Elbert during the presidential election of 1876. A negro man named Henry Heard, who after wards figured very conspicuously in Georgia politics, was the leader of the Republican party in Elbert c unty, and rendered himself ex ceedingly obnoxious to the whites. After the polls had clo ed, and this negro started home, he was overtaken by a large body of white democrats and carried 1 1 Baker’s ferry, with the declared inten tion of drowning him in the same hole at Hillver’s Bluff in which it was reported that tno Wilkes county Regulators cast Tim Smith and John Coleman. The last news heard from Heard was t at his captors had started with him up the river, with the avowed intention of casting him into that stream. These tidings were brought by a responsible white man, who had joined the mob, but his heart grew faint and he turned back to prevent see ing the negro drowned. For more than five years the people of Elbert county accepted it as a set Jed fact that Henry H- ani had been lynched, not even I is own relations hearing a word from him. At the expiration of this time, to the sur prise of everyone, Heard turned up alive and well in Athens, Ga., where he was en gaged in editing a republican paper. It afterward transpired th it the party of men who took him ii charge exacted a solemn promise from Heard that he would leave the couutv and never again place foot upon the soil of Elbert. He was then carried across the river in a bateau and released without any violence having been done his person. He faithfully kept his promi e, and from that day to Jus has never bee i seen in Elbert county. There is another instance of reported lynching since the par equally as singu lar. An old n gro man, whose name we disremember, also became an organizer among the blacks, and he, too, was taken in hand and supposed to have been drowned in tue Savannah river. Years afterward, some gentlemen from this county had oc casion to go to New York, and there found toe old darky selling peanuts on the street and doing well. Like Henry Heard, he had been released with a s.leinn promise to “make himself scarce.” It is highly probable that the two leaders in the Broad river insurrection met a simi lar release, aid are now alive, and will some day make their v.hereahou s known. The white southerner is by lia ure brave, impulsive and kind-hearted, and while quick to vindicate the supremacy of bis race this resentment vanishes when he sees the object of his wrath helpless and at his mercy. Sherman’s Conflagration. From the Atlanta (Ga.) Jmirnla. Mr. Tom Corrigan said to a Journal re porter : “1 noticed in Friday’s Journal that Cor poral NJg Simpson is credited with saying that it was a remarkable fact that when Sherman’s torch was painting the town red, not a h .use wmch was occupied by Catho lics was iiur. ed. ” And he attri. utesjitto ihe fact of Sherman’s wife being a Catholic, ami he “reckoned that the general was lec tured at home,” etc., etc. Now, right here you may stick a pin, and remember that 1 was here myself when this town “c uilagraled” in honor of o.d “Cum;i,” and ulmough i nm verv young yet, so to speak, 1 can remember pretty s 'curntely he s cues and incidents of that time, and I think I am safe in saving that no other “o cup.e l” house was burned at the tune, exc.-pt perha; s -one few w lieu ver > situat-d so near the bu-mes-s portion of the cr.y that it was impossible f or ttlum to e-cape the ravages of the great lire. 1 do ,’t call to mind a single instance of a dwelling house bong burned which was oeci ie iby anyone. Several unoccupied dwelling houses the owners and tena its o Which Lad refugued, were burned. Those fires occurred nightly for three or fourniguts be.ore the big bur mig, mid it was rumored t. at they were tired bv the lawless “s.rag glers” or “army ra s,” who hung on and followed the army on its march. As an evidence that the burning of thise bouses u authorized by “the powers that were,” Gen. S. cum, who occup ed Mr. E. E. Raws .n's house, ou South Pryor Areet, offer. and a reward for the inccndtur IBS. Gen. Sherman’s wife did not accompany bi n, “inan-ht g througu Gvoigia,” and t erefore could not have lectured him or > iterceded in liehalt of Cstuol.cs’ homes; a;.d even though it were a fret that she gave him h.s rders before he came south, as to liow b -h"ul 1 manage hi- faaiou. ter ritorial tori blight procession to the s a, lelaivcto C. h lie homes, ho certainly disregarded i e wittie-, wuen be and his f >.lowers surpassed the barbarity of the vandals m Rome, by destroying the convent in Columbia, S. C., which was at the Mine, they say, crowded witii nuns and young girls who had taken refuge within its walls. BAKING powder. _ FIS R E baking PERFECT Its superior excellence proven in million* of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It i-, used by the United States Government. In dorseri by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest., Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder doa* not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., XEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. CL.OTIILNG. 1889 E trust will be a bright and prosperous year for Savannah. We will endeavor to do our share in establishing this as one of the finest markets in the world, and we hope that to our efforts will be accorded the same kind approval as shown in the past. We thank our friends for their valued custom during the year just closed, and wish them all A HAPPY NEW YEAH. Respectfully, A. FALK & SONS. STOVES. THE PATES'i‘ HIRE GAUZE OVEN DOOF is the Latest Improvemf.ntonthe Ct produces Practical Results in Baking an Roasting never before attained in any Cooking Apparatus, and will IfiTohtioaisß ths Frazent Methods of Csokin, IT3 THEORT b, thnt, all Food Baked or Boasted, should eoolm n fresh nir freely admitted to the oven. Thinisdon >y discarding the close oven door heretofore used, an nbstitutine for it a door containing a shoot of Wir inure nearly as larfje as the door itself. Throug-h this Gauze Door th© air freel: •irculates, facilitating theprocessof cooking, ar. >roducing food that is unequalled in flavor and m rition,and actually cooked with less consumption c uel than in an oven with a closed door. It makes an enormous saving in tho weight of meai It also produces larger Loaves of Bread 'squires less attention from the cook, and promote ho health of tho family by tho 6UP£RIO& <4liA£lT T THE FOOD COOKED IS IT. „ OPINION OFAN EXPERT. MRR. Mary B. V\ klch. 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OVERCOATS AT— $lO, sl2, sls, $lB, S2O YOU SAVE sl, $1 20, $1 50, $1 80, $2, AND SO ON. The Same Way on Suits. MIND YOU these are merely illustrative prices. We can give you any priced goods you want—CHEAPER or HIGHER, as you will. TEN PER CENT, is a big thing when you put it in mortoy. Will you save it and be happy ? B. H. Lett & Bro. HARDW ARE, ETC. Mil Jilis. RODGERS AND RUSSELL CARVERS, in bets, in cases, in pairs. IVORY HANDLE KNIVES. CELLULOID HANDLE KNIVES. An elegant assortment of FINE POCKET KNIVES. SCISSORS in cases, and singly. FINE RAZORS at retail at lowest prices. Also a oomplo stock of BREECH-LOAPINff GUN’S. RIFLES. SPORTING GOODS, AMMI • NITION, HUNTING SUITS, SHOES, LEGGINs. Etc., Etc., for sale at lowest prices. Palmer ires 148 and 150 Congress St, Earanmh. _ SEED OATS. Georgia Rust Proof Oats, TEXAS RUST PROOF OATS, KANSAS RUST PROOF OATS KEYSTONE MIXED FEED. OUR OWN MIXED FEED FOR COW\ COTTON SEED MEAL Corn, Oats, Hay. Etc. T. J. 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