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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-21

England's Purchase of American Stocks
LONDON, May 20.-The Pail MaU Ga
zette says: ''The English bought last week
more American stocks than IN the whole
twelve months preYious.v
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rwo CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.

PITTsBURG, PA, May 20.-The Republi-
cans to-day nominated Gen. James T.
Negley for Congress from the Twenty
second district, and Hon. T. NJ. Bayne
from the Twenty-third district.
MR.. EUsTIs SUCCEEDS MR.. JONAS,
BATON ROUGE, La, May 2O.-The Legis-
lature to-day elected James B. Eustis
United States Senator to succeed Benz.
+. Jonas.
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WATERFOWL, \. Y, May 20.-The
Democrats of the Second district of Jeffer
son county to-day adopted resolutions
eulOgizing Tilden, and instructing the
delegates to the State Convention for
Flower
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

p. T. BARNUM is going abroad in October
NEAL Dow, the temperance rcformer is
eighty years old
GENERAL DfAz win probably be the next
president of the Mexican republic
TIE Earl of Buckingham, aged ninety
years, is the oldest peer of the British realm.
COLONEL II. G. INGERsOLL is said to have
lost something like 100000 in New Mexico
mines.
HENRY WARD BEECHER is going to trough
it, in the Rocky mountains during July and
August
WILLIAM A. CLARKE. president of the
bank of Rhode Island, is the oldest bank Off
Ger in the United States
POSTMASTER CoGGEsHALL, of New Bed
ford, Mass, has completed half century Of
service as postmaster in that town.
THE bullet that killed General Warren at
the battle of Bunker Hill is in the possession
of William H. Montague of Boston
Ex-SENAToR SIMON CAMERON recently
reached home after II long soiouln in the
South. His health is much improved.
THE Duke of Westminster, whose wealth
is estimated at 3200,000,0O0, averages two per
cent. interest on the whole sum yearly.
ROSCOE CoNKLING has brought suit against
the Commercial Manufacturing company, of
New y ork, for $4,000 for legal services dur
ing 1SS2 and 1883.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS cyesight is failing
rapidly, and it is feared that he may become
blind, more especially az he objects to any
mode of treatment.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, seldom partakes
of food at the family table. He suffers much
from dyspepsia, and has the little that he eats
and he eats only TO unexpectedly prepared
and served i'll his private room.
THE queen of Tahiti, Whose mysterious and
hurried journey through this country amonth
or so ago attracted considerable attention, is
now in Paris, but intends to leave there short
ly in order to spend considerable time i'll Ger
many.
IT is related that Representatives George
ID. Wise, of Virginia and Townshcnd of
Illinois, and Senator German, of Maryland,
We're once pages i'll Congress, along with the
actor Stuart Robson; and German was after
ward president of the National Baseball club.
SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, speaker of
the British house, of commons although called
young man" in political circles has passed
his ifty-fourth birthday. Grcenvile was the
youngest speaker of the house of commons,
having been but twenty nine when he assumed
the chair
WILLIAM NJ. GwIN, bett7r known as
| Duke" Gwin, who was United States Sena-
tor from California for couple Of terms in
the last generation, is well preserved octo-
genalisn living quietly at Washington. He
has not entered the Senate chamber since his
! term expired in lSGl
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His Evil Eye.

The Due d'Aosta, brother of King Hum
bert, is declared to be Il jettatore, or pos
SCISSOR of the evil eye. When he first
wished to marry the Duchesse de la Cis-
tcrna his negotiations were unsuccessful,
and N. Cassnis, president of the cham
Der, who acted for him, blew out his
brains With pistol. Some time after the
Due again tried his luck with the lady
and her family, and, being accepted, he
rode beside her carriage on a public occa-
sion, when his stecd threw him and so
much alarmed her horses that they
plunged and rearc/ and a catastrophe
was with diflicu'/ / averted. When the
due subsequentlyhwas on his way 10 Stu
piniggi, royal lnting lodge near Turin,
where the marriage was to take place, the
Conte de Castiglone, one of his suite, fell
dead from his horse, struck down by APP
poplcxy. And when the princely pair set
out on their wedding journey balcony
filled with spectators fell, and several
persons were seriously injured. while, to
crown all, at the moment when they set
foot on a steamboat, the boiler burst and
killed n ma jority of the passengers. The
eve must be rather an inconvenience to
him, to say the least.-San Francisco Ar
gOHdW.
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"You've got some nice wood over there
in your yard, " said seedy looking tramp
to an Austin avenue lady.
"Yes," said the lady of the house.
81 would like to carry it in for you, "
said he
My husband intends to carry it in "
she replied.
"Wcll, said the tramp, 81 will carry
it in and pie it up nice if you will give
me my breakfast.
At this offer the lady consented, and
the tramp went to work.
After he had carried in a couple of
armfuls the lady stepped to the door and
found him sitting on the pile with his
claws on his knees and his face buried
in his hands
"What is the matter o. said she.
sob, lady" said he, looking up, 81
am so weak, for have had nothing to
cat since day before yesterday" and he
again covered his face with his hands.
This seemed to rouse the ladys sympathy
and she went in and soon returned with
an excellent breakfast. After he had
swept everything from the board
he arose and said: Thanks, my
SOOu luNlN, lOI tlliS ulllptdOuS lc'
past. Now let me give you this
advice: Never again let your sympathy
get away with your discretion. I'm off
Ia, ta" and he walked majestically out
the front gate. The tramp had gone but
a short distance when he became deadly
sick. He seated himself on curbstone,
and a few moments later having two OF
three violent spasmodic contractions o
the stomach, he lost his ill-gottcn break
last Indeed his stomach would have
followed suit had it not been thoroughly
dovotailcd to his diaphragm. lie believed
| that he was poisoned, and he became
very much alarmed. AS soon as he
regained strength enough to get to hi
feet he slowly rctraced his steps anC
found the lady standing in the from
door.
madam, " he said in piteous tones
my breakfast did not stay on my stom
ach, believe I'm poisoned.
That is not to be wondered at, " sale
she 81 suspected your little game, hav
ing been caught once before in the sam
way, so prepared myself forit by dosin!
your coffee with tartar emetic. Now lie
me give you little advice: Never again
let your rascality get away with you
breakfast. TO beat a dead-bcat beat
everything. Ia, tau and she shut tn
door in his face. The tramp .starte,
sorrowfully down the street, wondering
no doubt, where and how he could get
breakfast that would stay with him.
Telus .SifttngS
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The Man at ,he window.

You would have said rs you looked
him over that he was a man of fiery tenn
per, and that it would take over two
" sass words" to make HIM peel off his
coat and sail in for victory or DEATH but
you would have been sadly mistaken. He
was writing away in his ledger swhen a
man came in, showed his gas bill into
the window, and said:
"Is this where they knock man down
and rob him?'
The man at the window smiled.
" Because. it's no more nor less than
highway robbery to send me a bill like
that! Twelve dollars for gas for Janu.
airy, and the meanest kind Of gas at
thatm
The smile continued.
"Why people will stand such outrag
eous treatment is a puzzle to me-" con
tinucd the man, as he flung his money il
after the bill. never burned six dol
lars worth of gas last month, and III
swear to it,"
The rebate was deducted, change
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PRINCE LEOPOLD.
Death of Queen Victoria's Young
est Son in a Fit.
Dying in French Watering Pace-.-
Sketch Of His Career.

Prince Leopold the Duke of Albany the
fourth and youngest son of Queen Victoria,
died suddenly in fit at : o'clock, \. NJ, at
Cannes, France, whittier he had gone a few
days previously for the benefit of his
health. He had been looking in fine
health, and died as he was on the
point of starting for Darmstadt to at
tend the wedding of his niece. the Princess
Victoria, of Hesse. Queen Victoria was pro
fOundly affected on receiving the news of her
sons death. Earl Granville. foreign sccre-
tary of state, announced the death in the
house of lords, and gave notice that he would
move an address of coincidence to the queen
and Prince Ieopold's wife, the Duchess of Al
bany. Similar action was taken by the Mar
quis of harrington secretary of war, in the
house of commons.
Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert,
Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron
Arl,ow, was the eighth, and next to the
youngest, child of Queen Victoria. He was
born on April Z, lS53. Daring much of his
lifche was in precarious health, and when about
leaving the university at Oxford for Wind
Sor to pass the Christmas holidays during the
last term he was i'll such feeble condition
that he had to be carried from the station tc
the carriage in which he was to be conveyed
to the castle On July 20. 1874 the queen
asked parliament for a grant for his support
he having just previously attained his ma
jority An annual grant of $4,000 was
voted, but there was some opposition in the
house of commons aud n large open ali
demonstration against it. Prince Leopold
was a knight of the garter and the
holder of several other honorary orders.
The prince had Il better reputation than either
of the other males of the royal family. He
is high in Masonry, was president of the
Oxford branch Of the England Temperance
society and expressed a desire to take holy
orders. He wished much to do this. but the
queen opposed his desire, fearing that in the
princes weak state of health he would dc
himself harm by undertaking any mental on
physical labor. The prince was also distin-
guishcd for a love Of literary pursuits in
which he was quite unlike the most of hi.
family. He was the author of two books
Travels in Italy, and the "Poarizaton OF
Light In May, 1850. the prince arrived al
Quebec on visit to his sister, the Princes.
Louise. He journeyed westward as far a,
Milwaukee, taking the Chicago convention er
route. On May "A, 1881, the queen raised til,
prince to the peerage with the triple title OF
Duke of Albany Earl Of Clarence and Barol
Arklow, and on June 20 he took his seat il
the house of lords He was married to the
Princess Helena Fredrica Augusta, fotutl
daughter of Prince Victor Prince of Wal
deck Pyrmont on April q. 1852 They hav,
one child, Princess Alice. born February %
1888. Princess Helena is now twenty-five,
years of age
Queen Victoria has had eight children anC
has lost two
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

MARK TWAIN is dramatizing his story,
'Ihe Prince and the Pauper.'
MISS ELLEN TERRY, who is Henry
lrving's leading support, is said to get 81 900
a week.
SIMS REEVES. the English tenor proposes
t. mako an American tour, rs a close to his
artistic career.
PECK, the author of the Bad Boy" stories,
receives percentage from the receipts of the
drama of that name.
THE opera company engaged by Townsend
Percy for the Spanish Fort, New Orleans, will
play there twenty weeks,
RIsToRI's repertory for America consists of
Medea, Lady Macbeth Marie Antoinettc,
Elizabeth and Marie Stuart.
WILL c. COwPEI and Lucian G. Chahn
of the Buffalo Express, have jointly written
a play on the Fedora order
Carries of Florence, where Anna Dons, IA
Danish singer, recently made her debut in
opera, find in her another Christine Nilsson
Miss JENNIE YOUNG is winning in London
much kindly appreciation of her cOnccrt-lcc-
lures, especially those on Burns and Long
fellow"
ALLISON and George Rignold have takon
the international theatre, London. and will
make a speciality Of American plays and
players.
EDWIN BooTH'S new home in Boston will
not be finished until late in the spring, and
as the actor spends his summers at Newport
he Will not occupy it until fail.
NILE. NEVADA, the piima donna. achieved
a brilliant success on making her debut at the
Theatre des Italiens in Paris recently The
audience was large and distinguished.
JOACHIM, tho violnist, viii direct the per
foTnances of some of the more important
works of Johann Sebastian Bach al the un
yelling of Bach's statue at Eiscnach in June
Io 10 .I,,, ~
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made, and the man at the window passed
it out with thank you.
eyes, it's robbery" muttcred the
other, "and I'll be hanged if l can't lick
any three gas-mcn in Detroitln
He expected reply, but none was
given. The smile faded out TO some OK
tent, but perhaps that was because the
pen made blot on the ledger.
The next conner was a short, fat woman
with an eye full of birthstone, and you
could see that she was aching for riot.
Can l have my pocket picked in
hcre?"
He smiled.
"And robbed of the bread which my
fatherless children arc crying for2"
He nodded.
"And swindled out of money that |
have had to work for like slave2"
'Yes'm."
"Ohl thought sol Here is my gas
bill. 1t is over six dollarsr'
He nodded.
''Do you hear mc-over six dollars!"
He heard.
"And | didn't have but one burner
going, and that was shut off for four
straight nights And | can bring twenty
witnesses to swear that the gas was 81
poor that | couldn't read the accounts of
the flood in my newspaper"
He brushed up his hair and glanced
out of the window.
"I'll never pay it! Every one of my
neghbors has advised me to stand law
suit tirstm
lie drummcd on the desk with his
fingers.
But I will pay it this one time, as
my sister is sick and l don't want the
lawyers kicking in the doors and climb
ing through the windows"
He held out his hand.
But another time I'll law YOU'LL
law you from Halifax to Havcrstraw be-
fore I'll pay! There's the money!"
He made change, whistling softly to
himself, and as she put the bill in her
pocket she snapped OUT
" Even a grave robber ought to have a
little conscicnce'
But he didn't hear her He was figur-
ING at the ledger again. Detroit Free
Press
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Slams Floating Capital.

In many points Banllok is more
Venetian than Venice itself, writes
traveller. In the queen of the Adriatic-
despite those 'bright streamlet veins"
about which modern poets make such
stir-one can walk through fully two
thirds Of the town without being indebted
to the traditional gondola at all. In the
Siamese Venice it is far otherwise. The
main street is the river, and there are no
side streets at all. Your opposite neigh
Dor lives upon the other bank, and be-
fore calling on him you have to call
boat. The native children play in the
water as they would play on land else
whore, and many of the houses moored
to posts by short cables of rattan, rise
and fall with the tide like anchored YES
sells. Indeed, with the exception of one
long struggling road running parallel
with the river along its left bank, the
land might just as well not be there at
all. The approach to this singular place
is as picturesque as itself. Far out at
sea you descry along the eastern horizon
a dim procession of purple shadows,
which, as you near them, resolve them
selves into bold rocky islets, with green
cumps of woOding scattered broadcast
over the dark red sternness Of their
gloomy cliffs and craggy ridge. One by
one they are left behind, and now there
begins to rise out of the
smooth sea, far away in front of
US, something that looks at first
| sight like an endless line of soldiers in
| battle array. These are the trees of the
/ Siamese coast. Soon the water all around
| us turns thick and soup-lile, wearing u
/ deep dye of vellOwish brown, which an
nounces more plainly than words that we
are approaching the mouth of the ''bcau-
tiful, the pca-soup cOlorcd river that
| flows by the town of Bankok All in a
moment the foul cr-colorcd stream and
! the low mud banks on either side, and
the long, dark, lcathery mangrOye leaves,
which culver like snakes tongues in the
rank, white fever-mist that curs up
through them from the rotting depths
below are transformed into a fairy land.
The broad, smooth river, now bright with
the silver sheen of the moonlight, now
fading into ghostly shadow, forms back.
ground worthy of Dante Here and there
amid the black masses of forests wrinkles
solitary point of fire, showing where
some Siamesc fisherman has built his lit
tie ucst of bamboo and dried grass amid
tins strange wilderness, which is neither
land nor water, but weird chaos Of
both. But these lights, and the shadowy
boats that fit past like phantoms evel
and anon, are the sole tokens of human
life in the depths of this grand and lonely
stiffness, unbroken save by the hollow
rush of the swift, dark current speeding
onward to the sea. BY day this mighty
Jungle would be simply foul and un
wholesome swamp; but by night it il
transformed into scene of enchantmen
through the magic of that friendly dark
ness which, like charity or a lawyers wig
covers a multitude of sins.
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At hotel in neighboring town re-
Gently there was quite a rumpus in a room
to which card party had retired. Be
fore the disturbance ceased three men
were Knocked scnseless, two tables and Il
mirror were broken, door smashed in,
and the fire department called out, while
all the guests filled the hall and the ladies
screamed murder. After it was all over
peaceful snorc was heard issuing from
an adjoining room. Some Of those pres
ent who had a curiosity to see who could
sleep through such noise, pounded on
the door until they extracted a sleepy
'Hello" and night-capped head soon
appeared at the door, and the voice at
tached inquired:
"Whats wanted ~
The situation was explained, and the
stranger replied:
Been a row, eh ? Well, don't mind
snch little affairs. was brought up in a
college town and boarded next door to a
theological seminary. Chicago Tribune.
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FLOOD SUFFERERS.
The Lower 1sisSissippi valley Flood
cd-nursiing OF the LeVces.

Congressman j. Floyd King, Of Louisiana
received a dispatch, dated at Rodney, Miss.
and signed +. l.. Whitney as follows:
"kempe levee gave way at Fab. This
makes the disaster complete, and the Missis-
sippi valley is one vast inland SEQ. This will
make the loss beyond calculation. to say
nothing of the loss OF life aud suffering OF the
people Congress must CONF to Our relief
and feed the people at once The lofts of our
giuhouses and floating RATS vii! he the only
place OF abode 1 believe the best mode OF
distributing the supplies is through the en-
gineer department in charge of river improve
mcnts. They have every appliauec necessary
and less waste and imposition woaid attend
their efforts | believe, The wire is down
from St Joseph
Representative King received other dis
patches, which represented that tine Mi'Sis-
sippi had broken over mOSt Oi the lcVCes, and
that Government aid was necessary to pre-
vent people from starving. A dispatch from
TrovNillc, La, said the country was entirely
submerged, and that people AID stock needed
immediate relief. Another dispatch which had
TO be sent from Rodney, Miss, said that Iensa-
Parish was entirely inundated; that ration'
would he required for "a, 900 destitute people
that feed for stock was necessary; that the
emergency was very great, ami that lmmed
ate relief was necessary. A dispatch from
Governor Mclnary was TO this eject
"Great distress. MerganzG, Scott and
Waterloo leyees gone, | have wired secretary
OF war for rarions. Same amount needed a,
in 1882, The laboring classes are in grea
distress
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shortening n Sentence.

Eminent Statesman-Ycs but am out
Of politics forever.
Workcr-Bill says you can easily get a
portion of the delegates.
eyes, but am out of politics."
''Jim says he will turn in his votes for
you"
eyes, but am out Of
'Mike estimates that you can get
half"
EYES, but am out"
"More than that"
"Yes but l am
cover half"
eyes, but I"
cake offers his votes"
eyes, but"
"And l will give you mine. That
makes your nomination sure. Will you
accept!'
eyes. "-Philadelphja Call.
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THE JOURNALISTIC JOKERS.
LAUGHABLE STORIES FOUND IN
OUR EXCHANGES.

All Anateur AstrOn Dnter- OrtcniI1g
"a %cntcncc-sscd 80 It-Fhc Neat
Bcatcn-T'hc Man ut the Vyinlotr.
"I see by the Transcript that the
comet has three tails" said the man on
the soap-box in the grocery store the
other night.
Well. don't know to what comet
the paper specially referred" said an
other member of the congregation, " but
four or five nights ago | saw a comet
with nineteen tails. You may look sur
prised, gentlemen, but l saw it. There
might have been more tails to it, but l
counted only nineteen. l saw it during
the late sleet while was standing on my
head near my front stoop. l have had
no desire to make a second observation.
-Middlet0UR IIapscriDt.
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Out of 80, 900, 900 mechanics, 5000, -,
900 are paupers in England and on the
continent.
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A SEwING-MACHISE has recently been in
tlodured which is worked by clock power; no
necessity for the use of the hands or feet
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(Contnpcd from last ,ceek.)
H3W Watch Gases are Made.

Imitation always follows successful
ar,i-ic, AMI imitation is one of the best
proofs of real honest merit; AMI th.;s il is
that the james Boss cold II'@ci Case has
its imi;ators, Buyers can always tell the
genuine by the trademark of d croru, from
which is suspended 4 pair Of -,,r - Mar.
scaic}. BE sure BOTH crOUH and -
sca!es are stamped in the cap of the watch
case. jewelers. are very cautious about en-
dorein- an articleunle>s they not only kaow
that it is good, but that the character Of
the manufacturers is such that the quality
q the goods viii be kcpt inlIy Up to staALad.
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This powder never varies. a marvel of
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in competition with the null
tit1de of low test, short weight, alum Or
phosI hate powders. Sold only in cans.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., LOG Wall
street, New York.
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SIXTY million pounds of copper are said to
have beel produced by the Lake Superior
copper mines last year.
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NEW li,j SSWlCE, Nj Jan. ?, lSNi.
tbs C'i case, No. tid1. known as the James Boss
Gold Watch Case, came Into my possession about 1855
IA, be IA IN since that time, and IL stll in good
condition The movements the one VIII! IA wasln the
case when bought ii, and its condition shows that
the ca.c nus really outworn the movement which -
llg ytlrut. MAHTIS A HOWELL,
~ Board IF Directors " Il II e ITdEs. Co.
Send stamp Keystone Watch Factories PhA-
dlphs Ia, r handsome Illustrated Pamphlet show how
samrs Boss and keystone Watch Eases Are made.
Ito be COntiuuedl 6