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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

IL seems that the prodigal sons Of
modern European noblemen never eat
husks With the swine. They have learned
the trick Of getting situations az walters
IN Pittsburg hash houses, and hence
they get the boat tho market affords.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

II seems like the elopement season has
no end. IN GUNNER people elope IN order,
probably, 20 create coolness with their
relatives and friends, and In winter they
olopo probably in order that the exercise
may make them warm.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

Female suffrage has won a bloodloss
victory in S. Louis. The city attorney
has rendered an opinion 10 fhe effect that
women VINO own property are entitled 10
vote On the saloon license question.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

Registered at The Poet O1ce in SacdenGh as
.po0ad CLaSs Mail Matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

EOR RENT, that desirable resldence por,h
Il west corner Bull and CASTOR: po.sess'n.
given Oct. LIST next; reasonable rent. q "a
DORSETT. 56 Bay street. " H.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

SONS ecotohmrn ln Me Loeb L0mond dis
lrift rcerntlg saw larEr hall % nre descend
from tao clouds. nnd thurp followed what ap.
pehfcd ~ De hn earthquake shock.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

TTO LET, an extra fine DWELLING co----
Il New Houston and Abercorn streets M mug agf
ern Improvements, SERVANTS rooms. and '', o".
pile stable accommodations. Apnlv 70 '1 ~
s. W. corner of Bay and Aber'
corn streets. Apor-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

TOR RENT. that desirable Residence -
y venlent to business, northwest corne. u,
Pine ana Ann streets. Apply to b. GRAEFES
or W. SWOLL, ESQ. ''iee's
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

TOR RENT, that deslrable res,denoo -.
a Jonee street; three stories on bnsecollIA
WIN modern improvements. Apply 10 StI'
ONION COHEN, corner Bay and Mont yomo--
streets, or ON above premises. 9''eIy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

nor RENT.-The very desirable Office q
l. Bay streot, Tilted up for, and Originally 40
cupted by, Andrew Low 4 Co., will ba rentss
IN parts az may be desired at low rates: also
three warehouses on River rect under ahov,,
office. Address WA. l. WAKELEE' p y
box 2S4, Savannah. Ga. "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

MONDAy.AUGUsT II, 1885.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17

WANTED.-Young man and n-;.-----
ch nnl very quietmind their own Sienb 1lle
family 10 rent house from Oct WIN win small
H. /. E., this office. 'or one year.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
The Cost Of Grants Funeral.

"The cost of General Grants funeral
has been greatly overestimated," Cen
eral Perry said in his Office on Cover
nor's Island. II have heard it said
that the total amount will be $4,000,
while am told that even 100000 has
been guessed at.
"The bill for the governments share
in the expenses has been sent to me
and by me forwarded to Washington.
This bill does not include the cost of
transportation of the body of General
Grant from Mount MacGregOr to New
York, together with the funeral train.
That was present from the railroad
company.
Neither does the bill include the
cost of keeping the body of General
Grant in state in the City Hall in New
York nor in Albany. The cost of all
the lying in state in New York city
whatever that may be, will be borne by
the municipal government.
"The total amount will be less than
$4,000. The largest item in the bill is
$1,000 for carriage hire. When it is re
membered that New York, Jersey City
and Brooklyn were called on to con
tribute carriges at the usual rates fol
carriage hire this amount will not be
considered large. The bill is itemized
at is not believed" added Genera
Perry, THAT the bill will be questioned
or changed at Washington, because i
seems a reasonable charge"
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
Periodicals..

LippincOtt's Magazine for September
is light and amusing, as number is
sued in dog-days should be. "On this
Side" is brought to conclusion, which
is satisfactory in all respects except
that of leaving no more to come.
81. Nicholas for September has long
and varied table of contents, one of the
most attractive features of which is a
fanciful tale by Frank r. Stockton, en-
titled The Battle of the Third Cous-
ms" "a Great Financial Scheme y
by Sophie SWEET, is very funny story
with very good moral.
Harper's Magazine for September is
one of the strongest and most attrac-
tive numbers ever issued. First of all,
General Horace POrter's Reminis-
cences of General Grant," will COM
mand the readers attention. The arti-
Gle, which is of considerable length, is
full of personal and characteristic an
ecdotes, hitherto unpublished.
OF greatest public interest among
the contents of the September Century
are General Grants article on "The
Seige of Vicksburg :" the forcible from
tispiece portrait, after a photograph
taken when General Grant was presi-
dent with which is given a facsimile
of his first signature on the army
pay accounts as General Retired ~
and n communication from General
Grant, dated Mt. McGregor. June 22d
which is printed with Memoranda or
the Civil War;" and in which he with
draws what was said by him in the
Century of last February in regard tC
the conduct of f"Gen. Lew Wallace anC
Gen. McCook at Shiloh" An editOria
in Topics of the Time," explains why
Gen. Grants article on Vicksburg il
printed without illustrations, and alsC
that the subject will be resumed, will
pictures, at another time.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
The British Dilemma.

Mr.. Parnell concisely stated the sit
uation which to-day faces the English
statesmen of all parties: Ireland
must either be granted home rule or
must be made crown colony" I'm
der the new franchise the Parnellites
in the next Parliament will number
from seventy to eighty members, or
about One-eighth of the whole house.
Their leader has declared that this
large and compact force will labor to
prevent the Commons from doing any
thing unless they grant their demands.
There can be no question that, as he
said, the result would be that the Eng
lish would find it impossible to legis-
late. In the present Parliament the
followers of Mr.. Parnell seldom ex-
ceeded thirty-fve. The Liberal plu-
rality over the Conservatives when the
Gladstone ministry took Office was one
hundred, and yet the Irish leader was
able to overthrow the Government.
In the next Parliament he will be able
to turn one Ministry out after another,
and thus make an efficient and consis-
tent government out of the question.
The suggestion frequently made that
the Irish votes shall not count is about
as practicable as the offer of the thin
and witty duelist to allow his bulky
antagonist to chalk off a space upon
his person equal in width to his own,
and that any shot outside the lines
should not be cOnsidereda a test. When
a Conservative ministry, for example,
proposes some measure upon which its
whole policy depends, the Liberals op-
pose it and the Parnellites vote with
the opposition, and the bill fails to be-
come law. The Conservative leaders
might still, it is true, continue to hold
Office and draw their salaries, but they
would no longer be a Government, if a
government means something which
governs. If the English people were
still determined that there should not
be an Irish Parliament, they would be
compelled to deprive Ireland of all
representation in their own and govern
the island as they govern India or the
Mauritius. Even in that case Mr..
Parnell says that he believes that pres
sure of Irish public opinion upon the
royal governor and his officials would
make even such despotic government
more bearable than is the rule of the
British Parliament.-BaLt Sun.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
Tea and Coffee.

The american Grocer calls on figures
to show that the people of the United
States, as a nation, are learning to
drink less tea and more coffee as the
years are gliding by. The Grocer com
putes the present annual average con-
sumption, per capita, of tea at 1.16
pounds, and of coffee at 9.46 pounds.
In 1881 the figures were; tea, 1.54
pounds; coffee, 823 pounds; and the
use oftea seems to have been steadily
diminishing and the use of coffee steadi-
ly increasing since that time. Why is
this? The GrOcer's answer is:
Because the coffee trade has taken
pains to secure the distribution of the
bean in a roasted rather than a green
state, and this added to the competition
of rival dealers and the portable coffee
mill has resulted in enabling consumers
to make more uniform infusion than
when the beans were roasted at home
in skillet or frying pan. In the South,
where five years ago scarcely any roast
ed coffee was sold, it is fast displacing
the raw beam"
This reason will, of course, be more
appreciated in rural than in urban dis
tricts. Domestic coffee roasting has
long ago become a forgotten art in
nearly all homes in the larger towns.
More recent is the memory of roasting
rye, wheat, bran and other substitutes
for coffee when the price of the real
article climbed out of the reach of poor
people during the civil war.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
Clairvoyants.

The Americans, as a general thing,
are of the opinion that they are ex-
tremely intelligent, and the German
Americans claim to be much more so.
When the latter sit around table and
absorb beer into their systems, they
are very severe at the Americans for
the encouragement given to Spiritual
ism in this country. And yet the Ger
man Americans themselves must give
considerable encouragement to sOOth-
sayers and clairvOyants, to jndge by
the advertisements we read in the
German-American newspapers.
SoOthsaying is an industry by which
as much money can be made as by
brewing beer, if the seer goes at it in
the right way. 1t is a mistake to sup
pose that a prophet always is without
honor in his own country. If he fur
nishes the kind of prophecies the peo-
pie need, he can do big business, and
have all the honor he needs for home
consumption and some left over for
local trade.
When Il soothsayer, as is frequently
the case, does not know what to say
he can get off a nOn-committal sort
of prediction that will fit any emer-
gency that can possibly arise.
The ancient soothsayers had this
down fine. When Cresus applied tC
them for some reliable prophecies
about his campaign, the oracles said
without any hesitation: "Wher
Cr0sus crosses the Halys river a vas
kingdom will be destroyed"
Cr9sus, thinking he had a SURE
thing of it, crossed the Hays river
and, sure enough, a vast kingdom wa!
destroyed, just as the oracles had pre-
dicted, but unfortunately it happened
to be his own. The oracle who under
stands the business never need make
any mistakes.
People love dearly to be humbugged
1t is one of their most cherished rights
guaranteed them by the Magma Charti
and the Bill of Rights. The magician
of the Orient get in their little worl
pretty much in the same way as do tht
medicine men of the Sioux.
The Romans, even in the days o
their highest civilization, believed il
sOothsayers, and if the augurs gave al
unfavorable prediction, the battle wa
postponed until Il more convenient sea
son.
The ancient German was as supersti
tious as little child, being no bette
in that respect than the negro of tn
present day. But the modern German
is above all such foOlishness? Ish do
so? What does this and similar ad
vertisements mean in the columns 0
the local German papers,
Lima Tirol, the celebrated Munic
sOothsayer and clairvoyant, may b
consulted at No. 1000 on such an,
such and such a street."
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
An Era Of Conquest and Coloni-
zatiOn.

The governments of Europe seem to
be nearly all engaged at this time in
schemes Of conquest and colonization.
A restless and unsatisfed thirst is mani
tested for other lands than their own, a
desire to plant their flag in remote seas,
to take possession of islands inhabited
by savage or semi-savage races, or to
seize and hold by force of arms wide
stretches Of territory occupied by weak
er peoples. From the poles to the
equator no region is safe from their in
truding footsteps. The changes in the
map of the world are already surprising.
1.-The the dark continent" which Liv-
ingstOne and Stanley, Burton. Speke
and Baker, Chaille Long, and a num-
Der of hardy German and Portuguese
explorers penetrated and crossed at diff
terent points, is now in process of being
opened to white settlers, to commerce
and civilization. 1t is already being
parceled out. A Congo free state COW
ering territory larger than Europe,
has been allotted to Belgium. France
gets another slice of this newly opened
African domain, Germany another,
and she is seizing also islands in the
Pacific. Along the coast line Portugal
and England have settlements more OF
less thriving. France has taken Tunis,
a small slice of Madagascar, and the
whole of Tonquin and AMMAN. Italy
has established herself at Massowa, on
the Red sea, and is looking forward tc
the time when she can claim Tripoli
Spain covets Morocco, while Russia is
stretching her huge length across the
whole of Turkestan, and is preparing
when the occasion serves, to capture
Herat, and through that mountain
gateway open the road to India.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The theatrical business was badly
cut up last season by dime shows and
skating Kinks. What the effect will be
on the coming season remains to be
seen. The managers of several play
houses have refused rental to dime
shows, so that in many cities and towns
the old regulation price of admission
will prevail. Theatre-goers, however
will not be willing to pay the old
prices, after having been entertained
with fairly good performances at prices
of admission ranging from 10 to ~
cents, and these managers who sticA
for rs cents for a reserved seat VIII DC
likely TO be confronted every evening
by an array of empty benches.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

Smallpox still continues its ravages
in Montreal with all indications point
ing to its travelling southwark as cold
weather comes on. There is no doubt
whatever but that the violence and
spread of the disease is directly trace
able to the ignorant French Canadians
who persistently refuse to be vaccina-
ted, although there have been many
cases and deaths among the better
classes in Montreal.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
WHOLE NO. l,577.
Peaches in New England.

The rise and fall of peach raising in
New England has always been an in
teresting chapter in fruit culture. and
1t becomes still more so in view of re.
cent developments. Middle-aged peo-
pie who were reared in the lower half
OF New England can remember when
peach orchards were both common and
productive in all that region. Indeed.
forty years ago the fruit was so abun-
dant IN the farming regions around
Hartford that tie local market was
oVer-stocked and farmers often "fed if
out" to their swine. Even further
north, in the Connecticut Valley. at
that period peaches of fine quality were
produced in abundance. But gradually
some mysterious disease swept through
the orchards, and the trees either died
or bore no fruit that was worth eating
AT last the native peach almost disap-
peared from New England, and that
region became dependent upon Della
ware. But just as the Yankees had
concluded that it was hopeless for them
TO think OF raising the fruit, they were
surprised to find that peach trees were
beginning to thrive again, and for some
years past they have been growing in
productiveness, until now one NAV
find almost as large and good Connec-
ticut peaches in the Hartford market
as in 1910, and it looks as though they
might before long become as common
as in the old days. The interesting
question now is whether the renais-
sance of New England peach is to
prove permanent, or whether in the
course of a few years it will suffer an
other decline.-Ne,0 York Evening Post
Ind
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

A BAD QUARTER.-" What's yer
look so black for dis ebenin', Miss Ma
tildy2" asked Sam Johnsing as he es-
corted Matilda Snowfall, Mrs. Yergers
colored cook, to prayer meeting a few
nights ago.
"Tse got good cause ter look dis
pondent. Dis mawnin' 1 KEEP back q
quarter from de market money"
81 spose yer conscience trubbles
yer"
"Tain't dat"
"What am de cause of yer pertur
bashuns?"
"De quarters got a hole in hit, anC
/ can't buy muffin wild hit, so 1 reckon
l mout as we'll drap hit in de hat wher
Parson Whangdoodle Baxter takes NJ
dc collecshun ter convert de Souf Sci
Islanders"
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

From the Scientific american we learn
that we are to have novel and cheap
sewing machine, consisting of pair of
handles pivoted like a pair of scissors,
but carrying needle, shuttle, and feed
motion, forming a complete sewing ma
chine. By working the handles with
the fingers the cloth is sewed with the
lock stitch in a very effective manner.
These sewing machines are to be sup
piled by the million at popular prices,
say five dollars.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The vote in Democratic counties in
Texas on local option prohibition shows
a disaffection in the Democracy which
has alarmed the leaders of the party.
The split will reach not only into the
state and legislative elections, but into
the congressional and senatorial cleo
tiOns also.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

One of the most melancholy specta
cles in the world is a human being
shattered and broken down by the use
of ardent spirits. But the dilapidatiOn
may be repaired, the human ruin
strengthened and restored to perfect
soundness by a course of that most
pawerful of all vegetable invigOrants,
DR.. Walkers Vinegar Bitters.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

Lord Tennyson gers $1,000 a year as
poet laurete. John L. Sullivan got
$5,7S4.6O for fifteen minutes work in
the ring. Financially there is a heap
of difference between genius and mus
Gle
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
An Enternrising. Reliable House

James p HOffecker can always be relied upon,
not only to carry in stock the best of everything,
but to secure the Agency for such articles ashave
well-knOwn merit and are popular with the peo-
pie, thereby sustaining the reputation of being
always enterprising, and ever reliable. Having
secured the Agency for the celebrated Dr. King
New Discovery for Consumption, will sell 1t on
every affection of Throat, Lungs and Chest, and
to show our confidence, we invite you to call and
get a Trial Bottle Free.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

Professional politicians are in the
main not friendly to prohibitory laws.
A glass of grog or segar will often
purchase a vote that large sum of
money could not buy. 1t bribes the
voters goodwill and friendship; ap-
prOaches him on the blind side, as it
were, and leads him a willing captive.
While saloons are licensed, treating
and drinking will be fashionable, and
they afford the best hunting ground
for professional politicians.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

MEDICAL ITEM.-One cold day last
Winter, DIR. Perkins SoOnOver was sur
prised at seeing a child running around
in front of shanty, clothed with only
one brief garment. The mother hap
pened to come out to get some fine
wood just as the doctor was passing.
Madame" said DR.. SoOnOver very
politely, how can you let your child
be so exposed in such cold weather
Don't you see that his little body is
red all over from the cold2"
"That's not from the cold. He is
only broken out with the measels.
That's all, !" replied the mother.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

A woman can stand tight shoes or
tight lacing, but when her husband
gets tight in the head or the pocket
book that's the time she kicks.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
An Ana,usr uantaa-

Can anyone bring us a case of Kidney or Liver
Complaint that Electric Bitters will not speedily
cure2 We say they cannot, as thousands Of cases
recommending Electric Bitters will prove.
Brights Disease, Diabetes. Weak Back, or any
the blood, regulate the bowels and act direefiv on
the diseased parts. Every bottle Guaranteed.
For sale at oOc bottle by JAMES p. HoFFFcKFR.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The new postal cards just issued are
decided improvement upon their
predecessors. The paper is of better
finish and somewhat lighter in shade.
The ink used in printing is a reddish
brown, and the type is neat and at
tractive. In place of the conventional
Goddess of Liberty the stamp vignette
is a well-executed portrait of Jefferson.
This substitution has caused the name
Democratic postal card " to be ap-
piled to the new card-a designation
quite appropriate, in view of the fact
that it bears the physiognomy of the
founder of the Democratic party, and
was first issued under a Democratic
administratiOn-BdltimOre Sun.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The State Treasurer, as Trustee of
the School Fund, has made distribu-
ton of funds and has announced the
amounts. Sussex County districts each
receive $124.9O, and those districts
which failed to raise the $75 by taxation,
in 1888, receive $39. 80 additional. The
New Castle districts each receive $146.-
OF, and the Kent districts, S151.30.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

Hayne, the poet, exclaims "All
things must pass away" Probably
they must; but the cigarette nuisance
seems to be a very long time in pass
ing.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
RuoI,Ien,s Arnica saIve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises,
Sores Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains, COrns, and all Skin
Fruptions and positively cures Piles or no pay
required. II is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction, or money refunded. Price % cents per
box For sale by JAMES T. HoFFECKER.
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09
Mitigated AHiction.

The hesitancy of the wealthy men of
New York to contribute literally to the
Grant monument, is remarked by the
outside press, which is still of the
opinion that Gotham was not the
proper place in which to inter Gen.
Grant.
The rich men of New York, judging
by the quantity of Grape with which
their stores were draped, undoubtedly
regret the death of General Grant.
Nobody can look at the Grape and de-
eide otherwise, but when it comes to
defining the intensity of their grief in
dollars and cents, the hesitancy on the
part of the mourners becomes positive
ly painful.
A tame Indian once told a sympa-
thetic palo-face friend about the loss
of his horse; the pale-face expressed
considerable woe and even shed a tear
or so, saying in husky voice =
1 am very sorry for you my red
friend"
Pale-face, how much you sorry?"
asked the inquisitive Indian, extend
ing an itching palm.
Then the pale-face began to talk
about the weather, just as the wealthy
New Yorker does when the monument
committee calls on him, and endeavors
to sound the depths of his grief in dol
lars and cents.
In most well-regulated clothing
stores, there are two departments OF
mourning goods. One is 1.-THE heavy
bereavement department" and the
other is the mitigated afliction de-
partment" In New York there is only
one department, viz: the mitigated
afIliction department"
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The poor sufferer that has been dosing himself
with so-ealled TrOches and thereby upset his
stomach without curing the troublesome cough
Should take our advice and use at once DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup and get well,
Smyrna times., 1885-09-09

The United States harbors about
every nationality on the face of the
globe, but one would hardly expect
thatIccland would furnish us any immi-
grants. Nevertheless such is the case
Within few years a stream of immi-
grafton has set in from bleak and cold
Iceland to the northwestern territories,
and it is estimated that there are now
5000 or 5000 Icelanders resident in
Dakota and Montana or just over the
border. 1t is also shown by the last
census that a number of Greenlanders
have settled in the United States.