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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-01

RICE.-The market continues steady, with
a fair inquiry. The sales were 30 barrels at
unchanged prices. Below viii be found the
official quotations by the Board Of Trade:
FAIR ----...-- -...-.---.--..-0 t9lt4
GOOu -----.---- 51sgy5s2
We quote;
Rough
Country lots --.......... -....--... 90tGi 20
Tide water .-.-.-.-....-. --..-....... ! 25(1l 40
NAVAL STORES.-The market for spirits
turpentine was weak amt irregular, with only
a moderate inquiry. The sales for the day
were Isl barrels. The official report Of the
market by the Board of Trade was as fol-
lows: The market opened firm at 29lac. for
regulars. with sales of % barrels. At I p.
m. il was irregular at 29l5CG3Oc. for regulars.
Sales 81 barrels. IL closed at p. m. firm at
2gl 80. for regulars. Sales - barrels. Resins
The market was quiet and easier, The sales
for the day being 1900 barrels. The official
report of the market by the Board of Trade
was as follows: The market opened firm for
pales, and nominal for all other grades. at
the following quotations: X - Is, NJ - 62i ,,
y S. l2l9, window glass 50 so, water white
81 80. At ! p. IN. it was unchanged. 1t
closed at 4 p N. firm, at the following quota
tions: A, Il. ID and Z 81 III, + 81 .. q
81 80. II 81 45. / 81 62lS, X s. Is, NJ s. G2l >,
y So l253, window glass s. 50, water white
s. IS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-01
Good News for Florida Travellers.
New Montgomery Route !!
Georgia and Florida Inland
Steamboat Company.
No Heat! No Dust but delightful sail along
the PICTURESQUE SEA ISLANDS, in
Guiding the charming resorts of
Montgomery and Fernandina.
PERFECT DAYLIGHT SERVICE

a TLIlF EJI DAY LIGHT SERVICE!
FAVE Savannah every Tuesday, Thurs
~ day and Saturday.-City and Suburban
KY, Anderson Street Depot at A. NJ, stand
ard time; leave Montgomery,
BY STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS,
$40 A. NJ; arrive Fernandina, JPN: arrive
Jacksonville, f. q j. Il. r., Z 80 Pm.
From Savannah for Darien, Brunswick. Fer
nandina and way landings
STEAMER DAVID CLARK
From foot Lincoln street every Monday and
Thursday at4P.M.
All first-class tickets on Montgomery route
include meals; baggage checked through.
For regular and special excursion tickets to
all points in Florida. Cuba Mexico. etc. APP
ply to LEvE Il ALDEN cor Bull and BRYAN Sta
brunswick passengers either way will be
transferred at st. SimOn's by steamer Ruby.
j. n. HARTMAN. Manager
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
A Battlefield Bought for Gold.

A very interesting event of con-
siderable importance, historically
speaking, will come off at Num-
fordsville, KY, on the 18th instant.
1t is no less than the unyeiling of a
monument weighing thirty tons 1t
is eight feet square at the base, six
feet square at the top and twenty
FIVE feet high, cut in one piece, OF
white oolitic stone, near Bowling
Green, KY. The monument is al
ready in position and bears the fol-
lowing inscription:
South 420, west 900, poles dis
tant, is the place of the sacrifice of
Colonel Robert A. Smith and part
of his regiment, the Tenth Missis-
sippi, on September IA, 1862"
James Smith, of Glasgow, Scot
land, some time ago bought the bat
tle-field of Mumfordsville. with the
view of erecting a suitable monu-
ment to the memory of his brother,
Colonel Robert A. Smith Mr..
Smith is millionaire and was heart
lily in sympathy with those who
fought for the lost cause. In 1861
he bought the uniforms, guns,
horses and trappings for equip
ping battery of artillery, which he
through the blockade to
Jackson, Mississippi, where it join
ed the Tenth Mississippi Regiment.
He arrived:in n. Y. yesterday with
a number of friends and relatives,
who will Immediately proceed to
Mumfordsville and pitch tents on
the battlefield. They will remain
there until the arrangements for un-
yelling the monument are COM
pleted
The monument is located on a
hill near the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, and is in the centre
of an enclosure fifty feet square,
around which a handsome coping
has been set. Within the enclosure
there are to be erected six other
monuments. one in memory of the
dead of each of the regiments that
took part in the engagement. Cap
tain James W. Fite viii superintend
the removal of the remains of the
Confederate soldiers who were bur-
led after the battle of Mumfordsville
to the new cemetry. The headstones
which will be placed over their
graves are four feet high and one
and one-half feet wide, and will each
bear the following inscription
''In memory of the dead of the
Tenth Mississippi Regiment, who
fell in the battle of Mumfordsville,
KY, on September IA, 1862 Erect
ed by their grateful State. ."-Nash-
rifle American.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Graded Snakes.

A long, lanky countryman recent
ly entered the editorial rooms, and
announcing himselfas from Shouse-
town, said:
4 druv up here this morning and
about six miles out of town / saw
snake lying IN the road that | bet
was five feet longT
The editor briefly iotted down
lager beer" and looked inquiringly
at his visitor.
p" Don't you believe it2 I'll bet it
was over six feet" exclaimed the
man from Shousetown.
The editor wrote ." sour mash ION
slip and resumed attention.
+" It's fact. | amt lying. 1t
wouldn't be away from the truth if
| said seven feet" continued the
stranger, excitedly."
Rye" was briefly jotted down
with a word of comment
Ten feet ten feet You wooden
headed ink-potl ! There, are you going
to believe that ?"
" Certainly" replied the editor as
he scratched off " Bourbon" Here,
my friend, is a snake card. You
will notice under five feet, they are
lager beer snakes. By the foot they
go from sour mash, old rye and
bourbon up to Diamond alley whis-
key. That's the highest grade, and
is only used for sea serpents. Good
dav.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
The Grass Tree.

Down in Australia, that great Is
land where the Creator seems to have
planted the seed of many of His
wonders to be found in the vegetable
kingdom, grows a tree that is little
heard of by the outside world, but
which is of inestimable value to the
native, who depends more upon the
productions of nature for exis-
tence and happiness than upon
the creations of art and science. 1t
is the grass tree. 1t is of small
growth, being hardly more than a
shrub. At the top are tufts of foli-
age resembling palms, from the cen
ter of which a long slender spike
shoots out covered with flowers of
varied and beautiful hues, The
base of the leaves of this tree furnish
the native with food, it being very
palatable when roasted. The sap of
the tree is balsamic exudation,
which when exposed to the air be-
comes hard and dry. This is one
of natures best tonics for dysentery,
diar-hea and other intestinal mala-
dies it is also used by the natives
for healing wounds, which it does
very quickly and when it is mixed
with alluvial soil, if forms a very
tenacious cement, which is used for
caulking canoes.-HeaIh and Home.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Lime Kiln Club Dust.

"Gemlem, dar am sartin tings dat
it am well to bar in mind, . said the
old man, as he slowly uncoiled hin-
self and stood up.
De man who boasts dat ne can't
be convinced by argument hahn
wuth de trubble o. knocking
down.
"De man who fatters hisself upon
alius speakin' his mind am de werrv
pusson who kicks hardest when crit
ercised.
"A shillin in money am mo- to be
desired dan dollars WORT oh
credit.
1t am much easier to spoil a boy
OBJ ten dan it am to reform a man OBJ
fo'ty.
A man WORT a millyon dollars
may be friendless. Yew kin buy
praise and hattery, but true frien'-
ship seldom scars higher dan de POI
mans cabin.
De man who sees muffin good IN
de world aroun' him can't have
much good in hisself. f."-Deirot Free
Press
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
A CanibaI Snake.

A Massachusetts correspondent
sends to Nature the following brief
history of a snakes meal off anoth-
er about his equal in bulk: Some
years since | was amused at the
conduct of a small triangular-headed
snake about ten inches long that |
encountered in a road, who coiled
himself and struck at me as If to
dispute my progress. He was a
pretty little fellow, gray spotted,
and | picked him up and carried
him home, deposited him in small
fish globe with sand and stones in
the bottom. Here he lived content
edly for several months without eat
ing anything, although frequently
tempted with various insects and
other food. After three months or
so my neighbor's children brought
ia a small black snake, shorter but
rather larger in diameter than my
pet, and We decided to place the two
together. Scarcely had the new
conner touched the sand than my
pet glided rapidly around the sides
of the globe and struck him with
his fangs Just behind the head.
The black snake dropped apparent
ly lifeless, the other retained his hold
with his jaws, and winding his tail
closely about midway up the body,
stretched himself out and his prey
at the same time, till he seemed to
dislocate his vertebra We could
hear the black snake crack. An
hour or so later | found he had be-
gun to swallow him, having already
got the head fairly inside his jaws.
| called my family and neighbors,
and we watched the process for sew
eral hours. He coiled the lower
part of his body around his prey at
the distance of an inch or two from
his jaws so tightly that 1t seemed
almost to cut it in two, and then ap-
peared to curl himself together and
force the portion between the coil
and his jaw down his throat. When
that portion was injected he took a
fresh hold lower down and repeated
the action. The black snake disap-
peared quite rapidly, until the
amount swallowed distended and
stiffened the other so that he could
not hold it with a coil. After this
the process was slow and tedious,
apparently being mainly carried on
by alternate retractions of the jaws.
and it took nearly half an hour to
dispose of the last inch, which was
of course very small. Finally he
succeeded, and lay stretched out a
singular looking specimen his out
line destroyed by the CONFUSION of
the reptile he had swallowed, which
could plainly be traced through his
distended skin. He lay quiet for
several days and apparently digested
the greater portion of it. | never fed
him again, and finally turned him
loose, his parting salute being a
vicious attack upon my boot.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Facial Freaks.

We have it on the authority of DR..
Karl Muller that in his boyhood he
knew a man who, Janus-like, had
two totally different faces, one side
laughing and the other crying. NAT
urally," he says, a. dreaded this
strange double-face, with its oneside
smooth, plump, comely, like girls
cheek while the other was all scar
red by the smallpox. This side Of
the face denoted churlishness, and
while the other bore a smile, this
BODIED mischief"
The same authority is also respon-
sible for the following story 81 was
once sitting in cool underground
saloon at Leipsic, while without peo-
pie were ready to die from the heat,
when q new guest entered and took
seat opposite to me. The sweat
rolled in great drops down his face,
and he was kept busy with his
handkerchief, until at last he found
relief in the exclamation:
Fearfuliy hotl"
I watched him attentively as he
called for cool drink, for | expect
ed every moment he would fall from
his chair in a fit of apoplexy. The
man must have noticed that l.. was
observing him, for he turned toward
me suddenly, saying:
" | am a curious sort Of person, am
| not 2"
"Why?" | asked.
Because / perspire only on my
right side" lie responded.
And so it was. His right cheek
and the right half of his forehead
were as hot as fire, while the left side
Of his face bore not trace of per-
spiration. | had never seen the like
and in my astonishment was about
to enter into conversation with him
regarding his physiological phe-
nOrnenon, when his neighbor on the
left broke in with the remark
Then we are opposites and
counterparts of each other, for l
perspire only on the left side.
So the pair took seats opposite
each other, and shook hands like
two men who had just found each
other half
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
A Great Flood in China.

The steamer San Patio arrived
here last evening, bringing advices
from Hong Kong to the 14th ulti-
mo and from Yokohama to the Both
ultimo. Information has reached
Canton of frightful inundation
in the province of Kiangsee. The
news is dated at King-Tax. the chief
centre of the pottery manufacture
and one of the four great markets OF
the Empire. The floods lasted four
days and the entire country was
submerged to the depth ofsixty feet.
Whole towns were swept
away.
1t is believed that fully 10000
persons perished. 1t is feared that
a pestilence will follow. Cholera
has broke out at Annoy. The num-
Der of deaths is not given. 1t has
been declared to be an infected
port.
The province of Kiangsee is an
important district in southeastern
China nearly due north of Canton
and running parallel with the coast
but over 200 miles inland. 1t has a
population of about 25,000,000.
The province is mostly mountainous
but is traversed in its centre by the
Kan-Kiang river, tributary of the
Yang-tse-Kian. The Kan-Kiang in
its northern or lower portion wi
dens into the lake of Po-Yang, one
of the largest inland bodies of Wa
ter in the Celestial Empire, with a
length of so miles and width in
places of 40 miles.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
The Women of Arabia.

A letter from Arabia says: All
the bravest men steal their wives,
but there are some who do not.
Their method is a little different.
OF a calm, moonlight highland a
moonlight in the tropics is far more
beautiful than here-you may see
an Arab sitting before the tent of
his inamorata picking a stringed
instrument something like our ban
10 and singing g song of nis own
composition. This is his courtship.
They are the most musical people
in the world. The courtship only
lasts a week or two. If the girl is
obstinate he goes elsewhere
to win another girl by his songs and
music. Sometimes the fathers make
the match; but always the girl is the
obedient,slave. Her religion, her
people, her national instincts, the
traditions of her ancestors, all teach
her to be the slave of her husband.
The power of life and death is in his
hands, and she bows before his opin-
ions with the most implicit obedi-
ence. 1t is only when the fair-faced
Frank comes, with his glib talk Of
woman's highest duties and gran
der sphere, with his winning man.
ner, with his marked respect, so fiat
tering to a woman's soul, that she
leaves her husband forsakes the
teachings of her childhood, gives up
home and friends, and risks death
itself TO repose in his arms.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Home Influence.

In a religious meeting recently, a
speaker said that if a child went
wrong, it was because the home life
of the parents was not what it ought
to be, and the sentiment seemed to
meet with very general approval
We do not know what these people
proposed to do with the declaration
that the sins of the parents are visit
ed upon the children even to the
fourth generation. But whatever
they may do with it they viii have
a very difficult job on hand to get
rid of the laws of heredity, as seen
by all of US every day of cur lives.
If the child could be made all that it
ought to be simply by training, the
animal would also be largely indie
pendent of its parentage, and the
problem of breeding would be very
much simplified. The child is SUBJ
ject to the laws of heredity. As the
father and mother look into the eyes
of their babe they have no idea. and
can have none, as to what they can
make of the child, for they do not
know what he has inherited, and
must wait for time to develop it.
Perhaps it has inherited from some
where away back in the line of an
cestry a passion or appetite which
the best influence in the world can
not wholly curb. As rule good
home influence will be modifying
in such cases, but not always. A
doctrine such as we have annnounc-
Cd as coming from a speaker. is cal
culated to do harm. 1t teaches that
all the parent has to do is to live a
correct life before his child. That is
not all, though it is important. The
parent needs to be familiar with the
characteristics of his ancestry. and if
there are any marked weaknesses IN
it, it is against these weaknesses that
he should do all he can to gnard his
child. Tell the child frankly what
those weaknesses were, and explain
to him what his danger is from
them. Very many wrecks Of life.
and in families, too, that have the
most exemplary heads. are caused
because ofinherited weakness which
the child might have guarded against
If he had known it had a treacher-
Gus enemy within itself.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
The Worship of Gold.

The worship of gold can be shown
to have descended to US from sun
worship, which, in some form or 9TH
er, has been almost universal. In
plain words, men took to collecting
gold and making gold trinkets,
charms, and amulets, because gold
was of the same color, and possibly
of the same divine material, as the
sun. The sacredness of gold seems
indicated by Pindar, who, invoking
THETA, the mythical mother of the
sun god, exclaims, Through thee it
is that mortals esteem mighty gold
above all things elsep Originating
thus in the most absurd superstition
the supposed likeness Of the yellow
metal to the color of the sun gods
face, the value of gold has prevailed
over the world for so many ages that
it has become hereditary passion
and because of the value thus set on
it, and for no other reason, gold has
long been the highest metallic me-
dunn of exchange. Mr.. Robert
Brown, f. S. A., in his learned and
interesting treatise, The Myth of
Kirke." remarks "The links be-
tween gold and solar divinities are
endless, and the circumstance sup
piled a natural basis for the COM
mercial value of the metal" Else
where the same writer observes
The bright solar diyinities are, of
course, rich in gold, a metal origin
ally owing its Importance to its yell
low (sun) color, which made it at
once semi-sacred and symbolic long
ere it received an artificial CONNER
cial value
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

After the Concord School of Phi
losophy gets through discussing
Emerson it might add something
to human knowledge if it would dis
cuss this subject, viz: Why is it
that when two young men and two
young ladies who are drifting toward
affection ate acquaintance set out for
a walk in pairs within speaking
of each other the young lady behind
feels herself in duty bound to speak
to the young man in front considers
it equally her duty to.spsak to the
young man behind and why. if the
young men should change partners
this peculiarity would still be OBJ
served +? 1t is strange that this should
be SO, but it is so, and perhaps the
Concord School Of Philosophy can
can tell rs why it is so if it will de-
vote its powerful mind to it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
RARE OLD BEN.
ON the BROOKLYN Eagle.

rom the BROOKLYN Eagle.
Rare old Ben, with the bias eye,
Rare ana tough, and extremely sly
Busy all day, and up all night,
Free of speech, and quick in fight
Up to snuff with your guileless tricks,
The hold of your high hat full of bricks,
Scoffed and hated and feared of men,
Rare old Ben
Rare and no gravy.
Rare old Ben of the bunting mill,
Running for Office, time to kill;
Inde-democrat republican
Anti-monopoly- -workingman-
Labor-reformer-communist-
High-license prohibitionist-
Greenbacker-all things to all men,
Rare old Ben
Rare, and turned over.
Rare old Ben of the sandy craw,
General, Governor, man oflaw;
Red in his buttonhole blooms the rose,
Red the blood in his bad eye glows;
When he is ready to fight or talk,
Some man is going to "holler" or walk,
b for Bunting, Butler, and Ben
Rare old Ben
Rare, but not too rare.
R j. Bmdette.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Polite Highwaymen.

MINNEApoLIs, Mimi, September
1S.-A party of northern Pacific
Railroad tourists from California,
gentleman and two ladies, who ar
rived here, report that while driving
through the Yellowstone National
Park in Montana one day last week
they were halted by armed masked
robbers five miles from the Upper
Geyser, and robbed of their money,
watches and other valuables, but
escaped personal injury. One OF the
outlaws, a picturesque brigand nam
ed Gentleman Jep," took a ring
from the finger of one of the ladies
and kissed her hand and returned
the ring.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

was stopped by fit of coughing,
the consequence of black pipe,
which Mr.. Sykes had relighted and
was putting vigorously in her face.
you don't object to smoking,
nowadays, Katie" l said a little
mischievously. But l was sorry a
moment afterward, when l saw the
scarlet mount into her cheek.
We remained only long enough to
partake of slight repast of crack
ers and milk, and Katie turned
away her head as Mr.. Sykes pocket
ed the bank bill l handed him, with
a gruff (:
"All's fish that comes to my netl''
Poor KatieI L knew how mortifi-
ed she was, but l did not wish to
witness her discontinue.
| have not seen my first love
since
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24
Mangied by Rats.

LYNNPoRT, September 1S.-On
Tuesday evening Perry Long and
his wife, of Jacksonville, Lehigh
county, were at neighbors house,
leaving their infant and servant at
home. The child was asleep in the
cradle and the servant in an sdjoin-
ing room, when suddenly the child
screamed. The servant rushed into
the room and found that lot of
rats had attacked the little one.
They had eaten the one finger nearly
off and lacerated the hand seriously
in several other places. The child
was also bitten in the face and
breast, and nearly died from loss Of
blood.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

when married Florence Silon, out
in Chicago, l was as heart-whole a
young gentleman as the United
States could afford. Florence was
not, perhaps, SO radiently pretty as
Kate Dallas had been, but she had
one of those pure faces which make
a man feel better and holier only for
looking into its sweet lineaments !;
and, moreover, Florence didn't OBJ
iect to cigar smoke, and had a way
of being satisfied with whatever of
ferings l laid at her feet, whether
they were tea roses or white violets.
And when l saw Florence Silon sit
ting opposite me as my wife, / could
not regret the abrupt termination of
my first engagement, although l
still remember Kate Dallas golden
hair and limpid eyes, and wonder
within myself what luckless cavalier
was the present object of her pretty
despotism,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

A vigorous old fellow who had
lately buried his fourth wife was ac-
costed by an acquaintance who, un-
aware of his bereavement, asked:
{" How is your wife, Cap'n Norris q
To which the captain replied, With
a perfectly grave face, WAL, to
ye the trewth, I'm kinder
wives Just now.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

The elephant Emperor, only two
inches less in stature than Jumbo,
has been sold by auction in England
for $500.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

The Boston girl is consider
ed accomplished when she can
sneeze without dropping off her eye
glasses.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-24

"Dress does not make the man."
but it makes the woman-supreme-
ly happy.