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Special Notices —Special Schedule of Coast lane Railroad for To-Day; Notice to Water Takers; as to Pills Against Russian Bark Preciosa; Prescriptions Prepared by a Compe tent Pharmacist, at Heidt’s; To the Public, the G. M. Heidt Company; Savannah and Tvbee Railway Schedule: Important Announcement by C. H Porsett, Real Estate Dealer. New Sopth Stove—Cornwell A Chipraan. Auction Sales —Books, by J. McLaughlin & Spn; Three Valuable Lots, Attracfive Sale of Lots, by C. H. Dorsett. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. ! Cheap Column Aovertisements Help , Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; lor Bale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Some of the fashionable young ladies of New York have taken to playing foot ball. This is much less dangerous than tampering with the pig puzzle. Mr. Murat Halstead’s newspaper chickens seem to be coming home to roost. Hal lead doesn’t seem to bo the kind of man who would make e. s iccessful diplomat. Now the highwaymen have appeared in Pennsylvania. White Caps, barn burners, masked plunderers of houses, highwaymen —where is Pennsylvania’s boasted civiliza tion 1 Some of the esteemed contemporaries have remarked that Mr. Blaine b >b up serenely iu the late appointments. So he does. The fact is that Mr. Blaine’s hand is visible in most of the appointments to date. Senator Quay i3 represented as being very much amused at the developments with re gard to the Pniiadelphia postotSce. If his man is not appointed, the amusement will give way to wrath. He is no doubt putting in his best work while he laughs. Bethany Sunday school, in Philadelphia, has become somewhat famous throughout the country since Teacher Wanamaker was made Postmaster Genera! iu return for col lecting about SIOO,OOO to help Chairman Quay and Col. Dudley capture the "fl at v. n Perhaps the highest price ever paid for a postage stamp was paid in London the other day. The stomp was an unused 4-ceat Brit ish Guinea one, and 1250 was paid for it. Mr. Henry I.abouchere says the dealer who made the purchase was probably commis sioned by some customer of exceptional wealth and Idiocy. Very likely Mr. Labmi chere is i Ight. Now what is President Harrison going to do for Editor Charles Em ry Smith, of the Philadelphia Press? And what is he going to give Editor Elliott F. Shepard, of the New York Mail and Express? He i.as re warded two of the four lead.ng bloody shirt editors. The ot er two should not be for gotten, and it would be proper to remem ber ex-Sena*or Chandler aud Gov. Foraker, wouldn't it? C 1. Thomas Ochiltree hoped to get tho Mexican mis ioa. There is very little reason to doubt that Col. Ochiltree would have withstood the eff.es of th) seductive pulque and the other Mex ican drinks about as well as any < ther man in tho country, and he could have told some very go >1 j jkes, ut per haps Mr. Ryan will attend to the duties of the office better. Rome of the Mexicans, Ris stated, have become considerably excised because of an alleged discovery that if a m. la ein <he boundary line between the United Htates and Mexico were correc ed several Mexican towns would be within the limit of the United States. There is no occasiou for ex citement. li t' ere is a ml-take the people of this country probably will not attempt to correct it. They are not anxious to bother with Mexican towns. Please observe that the south’s boom goes right along booming. It was started some ten or fifteen years ago, and it shows no in dication of halting. It boomed through several republican administrations, it beomed louder than ever through a demo cratic ad i istration, aud the advent of another republican administration has not injuriously affected it. It is a wonderful boom, and the people of the north would do well to keep tueir eyes upon It. Tbe committee appointed at the business men’s meeting yesterday afternoon to con sider the proposition of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad will meet this morning at 10 o’clock at the room of the board of trade. It is highly impor tant that every man interested in Savan nah’s prosperity should be present. The action has come. If tbe proposi tion referred to is not accepted, other steps must be taken at once for building another tailroad leading wait from this city. Time for Action. If the business men and property holders of this city do not realize the importance of : having another railroad connection with tiie southwestern part of this state, it is : time they did. Savannah's cotton receipts j this year will he 40,000 or 50,000 bales less than thev were last, and the receipts of Brunswick and the Virginia ports will show an increase over those of last year. There is no intention of course on the part of those who control tbe roads which Savannah now has to injure her, but they consider their own interests before those of Savan ah, and if Savannah suffe. s they are not troubled particularly. It has been said that work was stopped on the Savannah and Western because the h stile attitude of the legislature interfered with financial arrangements that had about been perfected. That may have been the case, but, in the light of sub equent events, it looks as if the Richmond Termi nal objected to the building of that road because it would hurt the business of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. The fact that Brunswick and the Virginia p jrts have gained in their cotton r.eeiptg seems to justify the sus icion that business that belongs to Savannah has been sent to those ports in order to help the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road. Whatever the facts may be it is evident that the Richmond Terminal combination has been of no benefit to Savannah. Sa vannah has lost business since the combina tion was made. An opportunity now presents itself to the busmest men and property holders of Savan nah to secure a railroad that will counter act the effect of the railroads which are now pulling business away from her. Will they take advantage of it ? If they do not they ought not to com plain when they feel tbe effects of the influences which are now working against Savannah. 1 If they are half as public spirited as they ought to be, and as their best interests require them to be, they will refuse to be bottled up by anv railroad combination. They will utilize the oppor tunities which now present themselves to secure new railroad outlets and hold the trade which naturally belongs to them against all efforts to divert It to ether places. Sentimental Politics. The nominations of Robert T. Lincoln to the position of minister to Engl.nd, the most important diplomatic office in the gift of the administration, and of Col. Fred Grant to the Au ’rian mission, seem to in dicate that the President is largely con trolled by sentiment iu the disti ibution of the best of tiie offices. When the fact is remembered that Walker Blaine has been given a lucrative office, that Russell Harri son is looming up as a man of considerable importance, a id th it the President’s grand father was a Pr sident, the remark made by one of the Washington correspondents, that this a imlnistrat; n threaten <1 to ho one of great men’s sons and grand ons, does not appear to bo so very far out of the way. Nobody appeals to have been found who thinks that the appointment of Col. Fred Grant is a good one, and it is quite certain that he would not have been thought of for any office if he were not a son of Gen. Grant. He rendered no services to his party during tbe last campaign, and his career has not been such as to recommend him for a place requiring tact and ability. There is nothing to be said agtynst Mr. Lincoln personally. He is an honest man and his record is spotless. In all things he aims to do what is right. There is no doubt, however, that he owes his appointment to the fact that he is the son of Abraham Lin coln. He possesses fair ability and ho may represent this country in England credit able, but he will make no such impression as Motley Lowell aud Phelps did. He Is not fitted to shine in a social or any other way, and doubtless he has the good sense not to attempt anything outside of tbe line of his duties. It is doubtful if Mr. Lincoln ever sought au office. Ho was surprised when he was offered the Secretaryship of War, and would have declined it if he had followed his own inclination in the matter. It is quite certain that he did not ask for the English mission. He is a modest man, and is happier when engaged in the practice of his profession than when discharging the duties of a groat office. Doubtless he under stands fully that to sentiment, rather than his qualifications, he owes the honors which have been bestowed upon him. Whero Florida * Visitors Wont. No doubt the mild winter had a great deal to do with the light travel to Florida this year. Hundreds who are accustomed to seek a war mer climate during the winter months have remained at home. It must be admitted, however, that the epidemi. in portions of Florida last simmer has not been without its influence in keeping winter visitors out of the sta e. A groat many of those who usually go to Fieri ia went to tho south of Franca and to tho B iria aas aud Bermud \s. A r sident of Pittsburg, who reached New York from the West Indies the other day, said to one of the reporters of a newspaper of that city that the number of visitors to these islan .s this year was very great—many thousands more tha i in a.y previous year. Every steamer, he said, carried about all the passengers it could accommodate. ‘"'The rush to the Bermudas aud Bahamas sho s that the winter iravol southward is about as great a9 it ever was, but that owing to the cause referred to Florida did not got her usual share of it. Sue will get it next season, however, because the reason that kept visitors away this year will not then exist. Toe attractions of Florida are steadily in creasing. New railroads are Leiug built so that every i art of the state can be quioLly reached, and everywhere first class hotels are to be found. Florida’s boom will doubt less be greater than ever next season. Postmaster General Wanaumker is not an nr ent admirer of the New York Times, aud the reason probably is th t the Timet is not an ardent ad ulrer of Mr. Wana maker. It has said some cutting things eon erniug the way in which he came to be appointed Postmaster General, and Mr. Wanamakor has had it excluded from the reading room of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Philadelphia. He has also withdrawn from it the official edvertise ment announcing the departure of foreign mails from New York. This seems to be a very small business, but there was no parti cular reason why the people should have expected better things of Mr. Wanainaker. When you come to think of it, Mr. Cleve land and his party haven't done much fish ing during tlieir trip to Florida aud Cuba. If they have fished at all, tho fact has not I been noted. What was the object of their I trip i , THE MORNING NEWS} SATURDAY, MARCH 30,1889. Angry Statesmen. Some of New York’s statesmen are in a very bad humor. They think there has been a deliberate attempt by McAllister’s 403 to snub them. The New York legisla ture appropriated $245,000 to assist in making the centennial celebration, which is to take place iu New York city the last of next month, a success. A committee of members was appointed to help make the arrangements for tbe celebration, oae of the features of which is to be an immense parade and another is to be a ball, at which a quadrille is to be danced by those who are descended directiy from revolu tionary heroes. Mr. McAllister is the gen eral manager of the ball, and appears to have the direction of the celebration. Since preparations for the celebration began, McAllister's 400 have bee.; k pt before the public in one wav and another in connec tion with it. Tho public has obtained the impression that they are to get all the fun and glory out of it, a.id that all the satisfac tion the crowd will h ave will be to pay the hills. A member of the legislative committee a ked the McAllister committee the other day what provision had been made for free tickets for the members of the leg slature and the families of the National Guard to sats along the line of the parade. A M 'Allister committeeman, thinking that the managers of the celebration, having ob tained an appropriation from the state, had no further use for the members of tbe legis lature, said that if they and their families wanted to see the parade they could stand on the sidewalks and look at it just as other ordinary people would. This remark being conveyed to the legis lators raised a storm. The senators at once passed a bill setting apart the most desirable loca ioa on Fifth avenue for the members of the legislature and their sisters and cousins and aunts, and appropriating SI,OOO to erect seats for their accommoda tion. The feeling ran so high that it seemed probable at one time that the act making the appropriation for the celebration would be repealed. When the committee of the 4 0 heard of tho ac tion of the Senate it made haste to an nounce that the legislators would be given all tho free tickets they wanted. Peace was restored for tbe present, but trouble 13 likely to break out at any time. There appears to be a bitter feeling against the 400 springing up in New York. A member of the legislature has a bill which he proposes to introduce into that body incorporating them and granting them certain privileges. Mr. M Allister Is not proving himself to be a very good gen eral in thus exposing his followers to at tack. The Jute Bagging Trust. The jute bagging trust, it is stated, ex pects to make a great deal of money the coming season. It did not make as much last s. ason as it expected to, although the price of jute bagging was advanced to ex tortionate figures. There were one cr two things which prevented its expectations from being realized. One was that it failed to buy up the supply of jute butts, and another was that the sale of jute bagging was somewhat decreased by that of other kinds of bagging which wei e manufactured in the attempt to find au acceptable substi tute. This year, however, it is reported that the trust has purchased nearly the entire available supply of jute butts, and, realiz ing that by the season of IS9O-’9l pine straw bagging factories will bo able to turn out sufficient quantities of pine straw bazging to render it impracticable to reorganize tbe trust, it intends to use its advantages for all they are worth. If recent state ments are correct, there are only five mills which are not in this year’s combination, and four of these are comparatively small concerns, while the fifth, which is of considerable importance, is not disposed to fight the combination, although it will not join it. It is also stated that pine straw bagging is not altogether satisfactory as a substitute, and that even if it were, it could not be manufactured ex tensively enough the coming season to in terfere materially with the sale of jute bagging. It is possible, however, that the trust will not be more successful than it was last season. If the price of jute bagging is placed as hi zh as it was then, the farmers will again resort to all sorts of expedients to avoid buying it. Beftdes, the pine straw bagging mills will certainly be able to turn out as much of their product as they did last season. They qjjght to turn out much more, as they will begin operations much earlier. President Harrison seems to be in a very good humor, notwithstanding the office seekers are trying to worry tho life out of him. He perpetrated a joke the other day. Congressman Grosvenor introduced to him Mr. Childs, of Ohio, who wants to be pub lic printer, and with the customary Ohio modesty Mr. Childs said that if appointed he would conduct the offi -e satisfactorily and would not be pie Iged to any one. At this point the Pro idem is said to have in terjected, “And yet you waut me to pledge niyse.f to a Child,’’ and he luighd long a :d loud. A poor joke and a most diabolic 1 pun. The President will please relapse into stern dignity. The governor of Pennsylvania has been assaulted by a retired United States army officer named Ames. The trouble grew out of the inaugural parade. Jlaj. Ames thought that Gov. Beaver did not treat him ju.tly, and he pulled his nose. The north ern contemporaries will lie good enough to remember that Msj. Ames is not a southern man. If he was they would have something t > say about “barbarism” in the south. \V hen Senator Blackburn pulled ex-Senalor Chandler's nose, they said auch a thing might tie expected of Blackourn, as he was a southern man. What about Ames ? Republicans who a w grumbling because the President does not make nominations fast enough to suit them might find con solation iu the fact that President Harrison is going ahead faster than Mr. Cleveland did From March 4 to April 2, ISi., Mr Cleveland sent to the Senate 170 nomina tions. President Harrison sent iu his ‘2tX)lh nomination several days ago. If he keeps up at this rate, his record of removals aud appointments will not be altogether unsat isfactory to the spoilsmen. A Philadelphia lawyer named Charles B. Collier is authority for the statement that Mr. John W. Keely, of Keely motor fame, has found the “missing link” needed to make the vibratory resonator and the electric generative evaporator work with the desired success. No doubt the stock holders in tho company will be delighted to hoar this. If Mr. Keely lives long enough —say a thousand years—he will probably make a grand success of his motor. CURRENT comment. As Dead as a Door Nail. From the Boston Globe < Deni.) Another attempt is being made in the south to revive the old Whig party. But whiggery U too dead to be revived by anything short of Ga briel’s trumpet. The Diplomatic Appointments. Fro * the iVet/i York World (Dem.) The appointments, as a whole, cannot but be disappointing. Reminiscences seem to have bad more weight in Gen. Harrison's mind than per sonal ability or party service. Kindness in Disguise. From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) Harr son Shows hi' kin lness ot heart by nom inating for foreign missions several men who, a ter reading the press opinions of tbomseives, will be glad to get out of the country. Wonderful Republican Candor. Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rev.) When the Senate confirms Fred Grant and out Eugene Schuyler it affords evidence that its theories as to the qualifications for diplomatic services are constructed on a fearful and wonderful plan, BRIGHT BITS. Indiana min who now go to Washington feel so much at home there tr at they insist on call ing the Goddess of Liberty by Ler first name.— Chicago News. The “piano to be sold by a lady with four carved legs" has been outdone. We read to day of an order given for “one lady’s prime saddle for a tall, slim lady, all fiver hog skin aud perfectly plain. “-London Globe. Fond Mother (proudly)—Yes, Johnnie won the reading prize in school. Come here, Johnnie, and tell Mrs. Brown how you won the prize. Johnny—Oh, I took it hands down. Billy >v affles got It for readin’ good, but I clayed marbles for it an’ won it .—Harper's Bazar. Washingtonian—There goes Congressman H He's the only politician in Washington to whom Dr. Mary walker won't speak. Visitor—Why won't sue speak to him? Washingtonian —Why, at one of the white house receptions, when he was a trifle tipsy, he asked her what she did to prevent her trousers bagging at the knees.— Burlington Free Pi ess. Mr. De Style —Why. my dear. I'm glad to see you so composed. When I left this morning you were weeping and walling and tearing your hair because Fido was sick. Mrs. De Style—Well, you see, just after you left Mrs. Tipton came in and told me that dogs of Fido’s breed were going out of fashion, so I dried my tears and kicked him out. —New York Weekly. A Kentucky gentleman, who recently came to Washington to consult with his member of congress about an office under the new ad ministration, was asked yoster lay by a gentle man from Boston whether it is really true that the people of Kentucky are so very’ bibulous. ‘ Bibulous!" said the Kentuckian. “Bibulous Bibles iu the whole state."— Washington Post. The New York boy is not precisely a child of the devil, but for malicious mischief he is hard to beat. One of them was overheard Initiating a strange boy from the lawless south into the mysteries of New York life. “Winter is the best time to throw stones at windows," said the New York boy. “Why is winter the best time?" asked the un sophisticated youth from the south. "Because, you see. the houses have double windows, and you cau break two panes w ith one throw, ana you can only get one licking just the same as if you had only broken one pane." —Texas Siftings. Teacher— What is accent? First pupil— Emphasis or stress on a particu lar syllable. Teacher—Correct. Ls there more than one kind? Second pupil—Yes, sir; primary and second ary accent. Teaclier—ln the word “execution" where does the secondary accent or stress fall? Third pupil—On the first syllable. Teacber—Right. Where does the crimary ac cent or stress fall? Fourth pupil (who hasn't studied the lesson) —On the neck. — Chicago Tribune. Hard at Work.—Visitor (at Washington)— You are the new Secretary of Agriculture, I believe? * Tne New Secretary—Yes; what can I do for you? Visitor—l thought that, since I was here, I might get s *ine beans. Tee New Secretary—'Yes, sir. Here's a pack age, sir. Plant 'em in furrows three feet deep, and—no. that's the direction for saplings. These must be sown under glass and transplanted in June, or—no, come to think, that's for toma toes. Well, I haven't my with me; but you can read the directions yourself.— Puck. A Bad Mixture—A doctor told a woman who was sutTeriug from a sore throat that she should prepare a drink composed of honey and vinegar, iu the proportion of two parts of honey to one of vinegar. When th© doctor made his next visit he asked the patient how she liked the drink. “Bad, doctor, very bad. It was fearfully sour." “Not if you foil, wed my directions. Two parts of honey to one of vinegar cannot be very sour,” replied the doctor, tas ing the beverage, which h© found to be very sour indeed. “How did you mak-i this drink ?" he asked. "Just as you told me. I mixed up 20 cents worth of honey with two quarts of vinegar for 10 ceuts."— l exas Siftings. PERSO i'AU Senator Vance has onlv one eye now, but his friends say that he sees the funny side of things as well as ever. Mrs. IxANotry's physician has ordered her to discontinue tbe use of all wines, coffees or other stimulating drinks. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has set sail for her English home She does not expect to visit this country again for several years. Mme. Mutseo, the pretty young wife of the Japanese minister, can now speak our language almost as fluently as a 3-year-old child. Robert Downing, the actor, who does "Spar tacus" to the intense delight of the ga lenes, is down with a serious throat trouble. liis dates for three weeks have been canceled. Mr. and Mrs. Chanler will sail for Europe the second week iu May to pass the summer on the comment. Mrs. Chanler expects t • gather material for several stones in Venice, Naples and Rome. Oscar Wilde recently called on a lady who ha l just received a lot of Japanese screens. “You have come just in time." she said, “to help me arrange them." "Oh, don't arrange them," he replied, “let them occur!" George Francis Train says the country is full of tramps, aud “we are on the eve of a great civil war. >iy warning t lat it was coming has not leen heeded, so I will get out of the swim and speak no more." 'This latter fact would seem to indicate peace. Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes advises young men not to smok becam e it is liable to injure trie ig it, to rend r the nerves unsteady, to en feeble the wiil and to enslave the nature to an imperious habi likely to stand in the way of a duty to l>e performed." Senator and Mrs. Hearst have purchased ex-Secretary Fairchild's Washington residence and will make it one of the most attractive homes m the capital. Amongth * improvements which they contemplate is the addition of a ball room 200x150 feet iu size. liooßii A. Pryor is a wonderful man. He could not be ca led handsome, but he has one of those strongly marked faces which seem to be inseparable from our primi-ive Ide. Take men hue Judge Jerry Black, Simon t'amerou, “Extra" Billy Smith of Virginia. Roger A. Pryor, and a number of other familiar names, and in ihe lines of their faces you can almost distinguish the struggle which created this nation. G ?n. Pryor has in his min 1 and heart all the lovely characteristics of the great race from which lie sprung. Robert Patterson Kane, the only surviving brother of the late Dr Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer, is living in Philadelp ia, at th • age of 55. He is a tall, spare man with grav hair and mustache. His wife is a daughter of labar. Her slaters mar ried Eckley B. Coze, Brlntoa Coxe and John Cadwalalur, respectively, all millionaires and well known men. Mr. R.ne Is connected with Col. I’e Lancey Kano of New York, and thus to the A tors In his younger davs In* was an active democrat and spoke for Breckinridge dur ing tho exciting campaign of lHtiO. Rev. Dr. Soott. President Harrison's father in law. k<*eps stea iilv at. w >rk at his desk in tho pension office. Ills daughters aud th’* President himself have asked him to resign his posit on, but he refuses to live in idlen***. Shortly aftur the election Mrs. Harrison wrote to her father as ing hi m to quit work and live at t , whit bouse. Her husband also wrote to I>r Scott cordially supporting his wife’s request but the old gentle nan sturdily refused the tempts tion. and said that he had been so long used to the routine of his office that he could not give it up. His companions in the pension bureau say that his habits aud manner have not changed at all since last November. Peculiar in medicinal merit and wonder ful cures—-Hood’s Harsaparilla. Now is the time to tuke it, for now it will do the most good. A Model Husband. From the Binghamton Republican. Brown—l made my wife a handsome present the other day. Smith—Did you, indeed? Brown, you area model husband. Brown—Well, you se, I am one of those men who regard a woman just as human as a man. She can't do herselt full justice unless she has a chance. Smith—Of course not. But what did you give your wife? Brown—You see, we had been getting our washing done out. but it cost 50 cents a week,so 1 made her a present of a wash tub. More Corruption. From the Philadelphia Record. Mr. Hayseed fwho went to the inauguration')— I tell you what. Marier, I’ve been thinkiu* a good deal lately, and the more I think on it the more I’m sure that this ere government is gettin’ ter be a sink of corruption—nothin’ but l>oolß and trusts and conspiracies to rob the people. Marier-La. me! The high officials ain’t in it, are they? r Mr. Hay seed—l'm 'fraid they are, Marier. You kn w they’ve got a weather bureau dowu to Washington, witu wires runnin’ all over the country to manage the weat .er by electric ty or something. Well. Marer, 1 couldn’t s.v ear to it, but hang me if don’t believe that Weather Director General Greely was in some son. of a pool with the umbrella dealers. A Born Orator. From the Chicago $ etc*. One Kentucky gentleman meets another Kentucky gentle lan, and they addr s* <me another with that solemn earnestness which is a characteristic of southern high life: “Good morning, sah. Hope you are well, sail. Whar havrj you been this morning?" “I have just come f’oin the coat house, sah: Sen’tor Black bunn has been making a speech—the finest speech I have heard since the war. He is a bawn awter, sah—a bawn awter." “Excuse me. sah, but what do you rneau by a ‘bawn awter?' ’’ “A bawn awter? Don’t you know what a bawn awter is? Why, sah, you and I would say, ‘two and two make foV but a bawn awter wouldn’t say that; a bawn awter would say; When, in the course of human events, it becomes nec'sa' or expedient to coalesce two integers and two other integers, the result—l declare it boldly and with nt feah or favah— the result, by a simple arithmetical calculation termed addition, is ro’!' That’s a bawn awter, sah." A Home-Made -Scare. From St, Nicholas. Carl was a Jolly little fellow. With eyes of blue and curls of yellow, * And rosy cheeks, and iust the chin To hold a pretty dimple in. He found niinself alone one day. And wondered what 't was best to play While his mamma remained away. Pencil and paper soon he saw. And seized them both. Said he: “I’ll draw An oger like the one so grum Poor Jack heard growling Tee-fo-fum.' First, here’s his foreheaufull of bumps. And then his nose with three big humps. And then two ears of ’norm jus size. And theu two dreadful staring eyes, And then a mouth from ear to ear. With long, sharp, teeth like tusks." But here The artist, with eyes opened wide In fright, gazed ou his work and cried. “Maiuma. mamma come, please, do, I’m very lonely without you; And oh! mamma, I’m so afraid Of this old oger that I’ve made." Disappointed Ochiltree. From the Graphic. Col. Tom Ochiltree's friends are wondering when he will come back to his old haunts in New York. His face is tni-sed from the Hoffman house cafe and the theaters. It has been kn >wn for sorm* time tha: tne colonel uas aspirations to serve his country as minister to Mexico. The story comes from Washington that his ambi t.cn has been checked and thwarted. Tue colomd had his name p-esented, ' o I am told, by a number of United Suites senators, headed by Senator Jones of Nevada, who called in a body on President Harrison. The President told them that he had already se ected a statesman for t at position, but said he would be pleased to send the fiery Texan to Alaska, as governor of that territory. The party went away think ing it wa*s a p etty good joke to suggest that the red-hot and rtki headed i-taresnnn of the Lone Star state shou.d be sent to the ice terri tory. The colonel did not see the joke. lain told that he turned his eyes upward to the senate chamber ceiling, when they told him of the offer, and declared with the emphasis and iltetion for which he is noted that he would pre fer New Yoi k in the heat of summer to cooling his heels on the ice-covered hills of Alaska. It woul n't do to print all that he said, cut it is enough to say that such language as he used is not found in choice Sunday-school books. A Battle Between Trout. From the Somerset Democrat. At the foot of the Brush mountain, near Bell wood, in the famous Logan spring of David Hensley, while performing their routine of Sunday work, Mrs. John Henshey nd several oth ers of the family were eve-witnesses to a fight which may sound like a fish story, nevertheless it is true. At the head of this large fountain they no ticed an unusual disturbance in the water. Going nearer they observed a number of beau tiful trout swimming to and fro, making a great commotion. While getting a good view of the encounter all except two aispersed. which w re about one foot in length, and whose spotted sides glistened in the pure, clear water. In an instant the larger but less active one bounced upon the smaller, seizing it by the back and clinging to it like a bloodhound. The next mo ment the smaller one, whisking and twirling itself almost out of the water, secured its free dom. when in turn it grappied the large one. Biting each other in the side, head, back and tail, the fight continued for twenty minutes, causing the blood to flow freely from their wounds ho as to darken the water. Mrs. Hensuey, seeing that death would he the result, ran for a hay rake and securing one, she parted them. But to her great surprise they rushed together again. Another heavy blow from th rnw-p. striking both seemingly dead, ended the fight. benator Palmer and the Bull. (From the Herald.) Detroit, Mich., March 27,—An eastern poli tician who recently .visited Senator Thomas W. Palmer at his farndUs farm out on Woodward avenue, has written back here telling a good story on the new minister which seems to be apropos considering that he is going to Spain. After showing his friend the sights of the farm, Senator Palmer said, acc ruling to his chroni cler: “Let’s go and see the bull. He's royally bred and don't kick either." “We went i to the barnyard." the story con tinues. “There was thd curly headed old palri areh looking like a warrior out of employment. ‘Well, old fellow,’ playfully remarked the Sena tor, and then, without notice or warning, began one of t;;e liveliest stern chases 1 ever say. I thought for r. mo nent there would lie a vacancy in the United St ites Senate, but t senator ran hke a whitehead, making a flying leap—assisted by the b dl—over a dry goods boxtu.it provi dence or the hired man hid placed in the corner of the bnrnvard to serve as a breastwork in tais critical emergency. “The bull charged the fort time and again, while the senator yelled f r reinforcements or a Springfield rifle. He was finally fi-*h *d ov r t <o fm.ice. a id annonneed that we had seen all that was to be seen. “Ou our way in he casually dropped the re mark that it would not be necessary to recall the episode on our return to Washington, but I only smiled." Hard *3 imes Outside. From the New York Tribune. One day this week a wag in the treasury de partment was talking with several of his demo cratic friends, when a republican congressman passed along tne corri ;or, having in tow three ve.y tail, lean-looking men from his district. “See tb'-se fellows, there.” sai l the wag. pointing to t e party, “they want places in the departments You looked just m lank and hungry four years ago when you struck town, and 1 reckon 1 IH, too; and as we have been quite comfortable for fom vears, and ail of us have fattened up considerably, I cannot help lidukiug Oi a little episode t >at happened one Sunday morning in the penitentiary of my state. Tne comparison is rather rank, boys, but all the same 1 mud tell \ou the yarn. It was a mild day in February, and sitting over against tie stone wall were twenty-five or thirty negro convicts. They were chatting and smoking, and enjoying the warm sunlight. Fat and sleek, with warm prison clothes on, they hadn’t a care in the world. Pretty soon the big iron gate swung open, and in came a couple or deputy sheriffs bringing to prison a half do/.eu of thi* thinnest-looking negroes you ever laid eyes on. They hail on uLh-water jeans trousers and thin clothing generally. They had lain in county jails all winter, and looked utterly miser able As they possed through the yard there was complete silence among the colored con victs runged against the wall. One big, burly follow, who had eyed the procession closely, said to hIH fello* prisoners: “ ‘Mus be hard time* on de outside.’ “If many more lean f Hows come nosin' around this department I will come to the con clusion, too. that there have been hard times on the outside." Sufferers from 4’oaths, More Throat, etc,, should try "Brown's Bronchial Troches," a simple but sure remedy. Bold only in boxes Price 25 cts. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are 623 newspapers and periodicals published in foreign languages in this republic. Fully 200 persons in Fairfield county, Con necticut, are engaged in trapping skunks for their skms. Miss Braddon has written over fifty novels in which she nas giv-n the world of fiction, it is said, more than 500 characters. The Prussian minister of war at a recent re ception to the emperor surprised his guest with mus.c furnished by an orchestra made up of army officers. The King of Sweden, on his 60th birthday, offered a prize to be contested for by all th* geometricians of the w >rld. Poincarre, a mem ber of the French Academy of Sciences, won .t. There is a superstition among miners that every ten years rich diggings will be discovered somewhere. The record so far i<: California, 1819; Pike's Peak, 1859; Nevada, 1869; Leadville, 1879. Carriage Manufacturers are predicting that in the not distant future wooden wheels will be done away with, and steel wheels substituted on account of the increasing scarcity of lumber for wheels. The herdic coaches in general use in many parts of this country, and especially in Wash ington. have just been introduced in London, and are proving popular as a substitute for the hansoms. Out near San Diego, in California, where th* re is much coarse sand rock, covered by a thin of soil, the experiment is being tried o ’ blasting holes into which to plant shade and fruit trees. A French manufacturing firm has brought out anew fabric made of the fibre of ramie, and called ramie linen, that is said to combine the qualities of linen and silk, with double the strength of linen. Continental swindlers are palming off ut>on British agriculturists great bargains in clover seed that has been treated with sulphur fumes to give it a bright and new look, but that is really old and wort hless. Ernest Hull of Lyme, Conn., caught a big striped bass off shore in a novel way. The fish was floating on the waves, seemingly benumbed with the cold. Mr. Hull thrust an oar into its gills and towed it ashore. It weighed pounds. Thirty-eight years ago Mrs. Frank Burnett, of Minden. Mich., lost a pail of butter in the well. A few days ago it was determined to dig the well deeper, and quite an amount o J the but ter was found. It is white, but still solid, and the butter flavor is plainly discernible. Miss Elizabeth Rockfeller, who was mar ried the other day to Charles A. Strong, received $500,000 from her father as a wedding gift. Her husband is preparing for the Baptist ministry, ad when he gets a call can feel independent of the people whose duty will be to esti m ate his salary. JOSEPH F. Young, of Augusta, is the owner of one of the smallest dogs in Maine. Ho is a cross between a ratter and a spaniel, both his parents have been extremely diminutive. Though now 4 months old the little canine weighs but twenty-four ounces, and is lost in the pocket of an ordinary overcoat. The amount of bullion held at the close of last week by the Bank of England, the Bank of France and the Imperial Bank of Germany, the three leading banks of Europe, was $471,642,260 gold and $324,829,655 silver, a total of $796,471.- 915. This compares with $485,325,940 gold and $.311,499,165 silver, a total of $796,825,105 same time a year ago, a decrease of $353,190. During 1888 England imported 811.410 barrels, containing 2.434,230 bushels of apples, from this country, in addition to thousands of tons brought from various parts of the continent. England is Daying ou' over $40,004,000 a year to foreign fruit growers, and more than $509,000,- OtM) yearly for imported food products, more than half of which, it is claimed, could be easily raised at home. All the staves used in this country are made in Indiana, Michigan, Northwes era lowa end Canada. Indiana turns out about 75,000,000, Michigan 600,000,000. Canada 200.000.000. and Northwestern Ohio mak-s a big third of all the staves used in the United States. In North western Ohio there are more staves made to day than over before. The business has been doubled within tha last ten years. A case of horse resurrection has come to light in Newburg, N. Y. A horse died, appar ently, on Thursday, and was buried beneath a pile of rubbish until an “equine undertaker" could be summoned to remove it to the bone factory. On Saturday removal was attempted. A rope was fastened to the animal, and ou the first pull it arose to its feat and frisked its tail. Now the equine is seen drawing garbage on the streets. Thohas Harris, a queer old recluse who re cently died intestate in China. St. Clair county. Michigan, leaving an estate of $25,000 or SIO,OOO. wnich may possibly escheat to the state, owDed a good farm hous >, but he kept his wool in the parior, his grain in the bed rooms, ami slept on a wagon box on the kitchen floor, using an old sail for a cover et and a couple of siie ipskins for a pil ow. Trie judge of probate is tryiug his best to Arid if Harris has any legal heirs, but with no success thus far. One of the American girls who was presented at the queen's drawing-room was so embar rassed that she made quite a faux pav. She wholly ignored the queen until after she had saluted the Princess of Wales, when she sud denly turned around and astonished her ma jesty by saying: “Oh. I beg your pardon madam," grabbed her royal hand, kissed it, and then hurried along the line. The queen, who is a terrible stickler about m atters of etiquette, at first looked aagry, then, catching a sight of the amused smile of the Princess of Wales, she burst into a pleasant laugh and sent the dis comfited debutante away with a few kindly words. Statistics gathered by the government show that in India tigers every year cause the death of nearly 2.000 human beings, and destroy about 20,000 cattle. The man-eating tiger, whose victim is more frequently a woman or a child, is a hi ist of peculiar habits: usually an aged tiger, no longer able to catch the deer or antelope, and, perhaps with his t-eth half worn out, dec inmconflict with the hoar or the buf falo. Ho therefore lies in wait, arniii the long grass by the path where girls ami old women return from drawing water at the stream or tank, o" passing from one hamlet to another, and if the last of them happens to lag behind alone, stopping to adjust Iter dress, or stooping to pick a thorn out of tier foot, the tiger leaps forth, seize her and carries her off, to feast on her mangle 1 flesh. It is seldom that this sneak ing and really cowardly savage beast will attack a man who carries anything like a weapon unless the man has provoked the combat. A bill for the better protection of life and property by night has been introduced into the British parliament. It proposes that if any one armed with a dangerous weapon or instrument enters or attempts to enter a dwelling house in the night with intent to commit a felony, he is to o guilty of felony; and, in additi m to any punishment to which he is now liable, he is to be liable to be sentenced to bep naudy whipped throe times. In the case of an otTeoder who is under 16 years of age, the number of strokes at each whipping must not exceed twenty five, and the instrument must be a birch rod In the case of any otner ma o offender the number of strokes at each whipping is allowed to go up to fifty. The court must, however, always specify in its sentence the number of strokes to be in Aided and the instru nent to be use 1, and no whipping is to take pi ice more than six months from the assage of the sent nice. For the pur poses of the measure the "night" is made to com in n e at 6oYlock in the evening and to last until 8 o'clock in the morning. Tax tide seems to have turned against Kba Hf® Abdullah, the succeasor of Moharamtd Ahmed in the title and office of mahdi. The defeat which he has suffered at the hands of Sonoussi, the Kordofan sheiu, who has always oppo-ed bis pretensions, will do tauch to de stroy his prestige, wmch, like tuat of his pred ecessor, depended on uniform success. The battle at Sin .n is not the only one in which the mahdi has met disaster from Henoiissi, but it is tiie one abo it wbic n the most definite accounts have been given. It Is evident tuat be can no longer ma ntuin his authority throughout the great province* southwest of Khartoum The suggestion at once occurs that with the division of his forces at Kordofan, in the operations around Suaklm, and in those ontfie Uptier Nile, near Emin Pasha's stations, he will be likely to withdraw his pressure agai st the lost. Unless Emin has already perished or been captured, the difficulties which Khalifa Abdullah is ex periencing within 200 miles of Khartoum must give ground for trusting that Emin's hardest time is over. The disintegration of the vast power that has been built up In Central Africa under the mahdi and hi* successor will perhaps now be in order. Ladies fake Angostura bitters generally when they feel low spirited. It brighteus them up. Dr. Siegert dt Hous, sole manu facturers. 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