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ALI HANDS WE'RE LOADED.
Nut the Man who Had Four Fours and an
Acc Rakod in the Pot.

Four travelling men from various parts
of the state and Q resident Of Scranton sat
down 10 friendly game of draw the other
night. writes q correspondent from Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania. Some of them we're
going to leave Scranton on the o'clock
train, and it was agreed all around that
the game should end at midnight, no
matter who might be ahead at that
hour. The ante was 5 cents, just enough
to make the game interesting, and 10
cents was the limit. The banker gave
each player 10 5-cent and 10 l0-cent chips.
and for an hour the game was about as
monotonous as poker could very we'll be.
Then someone proposed a Jackpot. and
from that time on there was more fun. The
banker then established kitty" into
which he soon deposited enough to pay for
a round of something, and the game
got livelier and livelier all the while,
and the kitty" kept collecting funds to
nay for more rounds. BY II o'clock the
party was very jolly. A little after that
hour the fun became general and it WASH I
long after that before something unusual
happened with the cards. The hands
we're dealt around, and no one was able
to open the jack pot. There was dollar
ia the pot then, and, after the cards had
been dealt the third time, nobody had
enough 10 open IL WIN. Inc result Was
the same At the end of the sixth deal,
when the pot contained 81. 1t was so big
pot then that every body watched 1t, and
the papers were thrown around for the
seventh deal. Then the man at the left
of the dealer opened the pot. and. to the
amusement of all. every player came in
In answer to the question, How many
cards will you have, sirp" from tue dealer
I the man who had opened the pot. said:
''Give me one."
'Ssme here" said the next one.
Ditto" exclaimed the third
me, toe" the fourth remarked.
That's all want" the dealer said. Al
he hleped himself to one card. Nov
make your bets. gentlemen.
The first player bet the limit. the mex
raised him ten. and they all stayed in
He made 1t good and went them ten bet
ter, and the second man raised 1t, and tn
other three raised him. 1t was gettin,
decidedly interesting. but the men Mt tn
left of the dealer covered all the raise
and came back at them with ten cent
better. In this way they kept bettin
and borrowing chips from one anotne
, 1888-11-29
Yale Kickers win.

NEW YonK, Nov. 24.-Yae won the
foot ball game with Princeton at the Polo
grounds this afternoon. by q score of 10
20 nothing. About $4,000 people were
present, the great majority being Yale
sympathizers. But, the fall back of the
Yales kicked two goals, ore in each half.
Each of these achievements aroused the
widest enthusiasm on the grand stand,
bleaching boards and on the stages about
the field,
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A Literary Gem.

As an alliterative ingenuity the follow
ing excerpt is worth perusing: Persons
who patronize papers should pay promptly
for the pecuniary prospects of the press
possesses peculiar power in pushing for.
ward public prosperity. IL the
printer is paid promptly, aud his
pocket. book kept plethoric by prompt
prying patrons, be puts his pen to his
paper in peace; his paragraphs are more
pointed; he paints his pictures of passing
events in pleasing colors. and the perusal
of his paper is q pleasure to the people.
Paste this piece of proverbial philosophy
in SOME place where all persons can per-
caiye IL
, 1888-11-29
Rusinosa llisaster.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. "a. - William
Larzelere Il Sons, Wholesale dealers in for.
eign fruits and fancy groceries, have AS
signed; liabilities between $4,000 and
$50, 900; nominal assets, e75, 900 TO $780,
UO0
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A Ten Milo Tussle.

NEW YoRK, Nov. 24.--W. q. Young
won the ten-mile run for the championship
of America under the rules of the National
Amateur Athletic Association at the Man
haitian clubs grounds to day. The wind
was heavy and the track bad Young q
time was 81 minutes z 3-5 seconds. s. 7.
Freeth was second in SO minutes seconds.
The ten.mile record was not broken. but
Young increased the one-hour record from
40 miles no yards to 10 miles 9O5 yards.
, 1888-11-29
Dinereut Here, p.rdner.,

BELvIDERE, N. j., Nov. "a. The cold
snap wrought great destruction in the Del
aware and Pequest valleys. Thousands of
bushels of apples were frozen, and hund.
reds of dollars worth of celery was de.
stroyed. Acres of celery on the great Pc
quest meadows are frozen and rendered
yaluelesa
, 1888-11-29
Murdered tho MarshaI.

LEMARs, Ia. Nov. 24.-City Marshal
George Hamilton was shot and instantly
killed this morning by John Gaynor. aged
%. Gaynor and three companions were
out for u lark. All we're intoxicated and
the marshal undertook to arrest them.
GAynor fled the town, but has been cap.
tured
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FINDI.Ay, Ohio. Nov. PA fire this
morning destroyed three four-story brick
blocks. Loss 800 900. insurance $50, 900.
A safe in Rhue Bros building was open,
and $500 in money was taken by burglars,
who are supposed to have set the building
on fra.
, 1888-11-29

Ozark, In Ianey county, Mrs, Amanda
Truitt killed two of her young children
with hatchet and then cut her throat
with butcher knife. No details are
given, but it is supposed the unfortunate
woman was demented
, 1888-11-29

McStreet--For gracious sake, old boy.
what are you going to do with that old
campaign helmet?
Van Avenue-Why, won hat from
Job Lott ON election, an his is what he
sent me.
, 1888-11-29
Death by Dynamite.

TRoy, N. Y, Nov. 24.-By an explosion
of dynamite at Thompson's Mills, near
Schuylerville, Saratoga county, this after
noon, six men were blown up. Two we're
killed and the other four rendered uncon-
aCiOna
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Died at Troy.

TRoy, N. Y, Nov. 24.--Com modore
Cicero Price of the United States navy,
died here this evening Of pneumonia. He
was nearly SO years of age. His eldest
daughter, Lille, is now duchess of Mar-
hOrO.
, 1888-11-29

Edith--So YOU and Tom were finally
married. Nell?
Nell--Yes; but we're not happy.
Edith-What! Not happy? Why
ho y. that?
New. didn't marry each other.
, 1888-11-29
whipped as Newcastle.

WILMINGTON, Del. Nov. 24.-Three
white and one negro convicts we're whipped
at Newcastle this morning for larceny ann
burglary. They took from five to twenty
lashes each, lightly laid.
, 1888-11-29
Americans In Mexico.

NUEvO LAREDO, Nov PA hundred
and fifty Americans passed through here
to-day en- route tor the City of Mexico.
, 1888-11-29
Killed Her children,

special from Ozark, Missouri, reportss
horrible tragedy twenty miles south of
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Postal Appropriations.

WAsHINsToN, Nov. 24.--The post.
m aster. general to-day submitted to the
secretary of the treasury the estimates for
the fiscal year ending Jnns 80, 1889. They
aggregate 866. .8l2, ,O73 as against 860, $780,
23S appropriation for the present fiscal
year. The revenues of the department for
= --"- araino .Tune 80, 1880, are
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strauss HOnorsd.

CONsTANTINOPLE, Nov. "A banquet
wa, .,ven last evening at Yiidig ClOzk IN
honor of Mr.. Strauss. American minister
, 1888-11-29
..Ciyil Service Reform"

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--C. w. Vickery,
superintendent Of the third division of the
railway mail service with headquarters in
the request of the postal authorities and
will be succeeded on next Monday by
Eugene Darlington. superintendent of the
mails at Baltimore. General Superin-
tendent Bancroft said to-day that there
were no charges IN his office against Wick
cry, who has been in the superintendency
since 1880. at which time he was promoted
to the position from the ranks. With the
exception of the superintendents at San
Francisco and Chicago none of the nine
Vickery has been in the service twenty.one
years.
, 1888-11-29
Held NV the Banks.

New York. Nov. 24--rhe banks now
hold $l2,l44.475 in excess Of the % per
cent rule.
, 1888-11-29
FISHING FOR FUN.
The President-Elect Emulating
His Predecessors Example.
MOUNT HARRISON IN IDAHO.
It is so Called in Honor OF the Nations
Distinguished Son. --Grover's
Reform Policy.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. "a The president
elect took half holiday this afternoon,
and the weather being pleasant, went fish
ing. The party comprised only General
Harrison and his old friend. r. s. Mckee.
under the guidance Of Samuel Hanway,
an experienced sportsman, who is familiar
with all the good fishing grounds up and
down White river. The party left the city
about II 80, driving north along the river
three miles. They had remarkable good
luck, for on their return home at 4:30
they exhibited . string Of twenty
Ave fat and shining handsome black
bass. They were all very proud of their
catch. but the general could not be pre-
vailed upon to tell how many were cap
tured on his hook. as they had agreed to
pool the result of the afternoons sport.
From another source. however, it is
learned that the president elect was the
luckiest fisherman In the party, as his
catch exceeded that of the other gentlemen.
Several of the largest bass on the string
were left at the Harrison residence, the re-
mainder Messrs. Mckee and Hanway dis
tributed among their friends.
Today's mail brought photograph from
Albion, Idaho. of high peak in Cassia
county which was recently named Mount
Harrison. The ceremony of Christening
the mountain, the accompanying letter ex-
plains, took place last evening, when Frank
Roberts and j. o. Gardner of Albion
climbed to the top Of the mountain, ten
thousand feet above the sea, and there
erected an octagon tower or altar some
twenty feet high, on the top of which they
lumbia" and other national songs. Mount
Harrison is the highest point in Cassia
county its twin, looming up nearly as
high, has long borne the name Of Mount
Independence
, 1888-11-29
A CURIOUS SEA PRODUCT.
A Funny Little Newspaper CAPTAIN Mich
OILS Prints ou His Vessel.

OILS Prints ON His Vessel.
The latest issue of that queer little news
paper, the Ocean Chronicle, has reached
the World. full of the sxvor of the sea and
the odd witticisms OF its editor This
unique publication bears date Of Septem-
Der 4. and was put to press at Rio Janeiro
when the ship Frank Pendeton dropped
letter that Captain 4. p. Nichols writes
mis- numerous friends and mails TO them at
the end of each voyage. This jolly old tar
has supplied his ship with a printing
press and an outfit of type. and in the te-
ious hours OF his long voyages amuses
himself by putting into print whatever OF
interest may happen from day to day. 1t
Is a little four-pa9e puper about foot
long by six or seven inches wide, with
three columns to the page, and divided into INTO
| news paragraphs, editorials and free
| adds" somewhat after the manner Of
daily newspapers.
| Capt Nichols is Maine man who has
sailed in all waters Of the globe and has
costs OF friends in every port. He is edi-
tor, proprietor. reporter, cOmpositor.
pressn,an and office boy OF his paper and
he fills each OF his manifold offices with
about equal skill. He announces in his
.ea on board his ship and remarks that 1t
is ''printed for pastime only and sent to
friend. as letter, therefore not open to
criticism. Terms, One Letter" And 20
it IL. Captain Nichols will gladly add the
oame of any friend 10 his subscription list
il he has the assurance that he will occa-
sionaly get letter in return. In the last
issue. under date OF July 4th, the captain
chronicled the death of Dennis the pig,
but in the just concluded voyage nothing
of 20 great Importance happened. The
little Chronicle is an odd bit Of journalism
aud any person may get sample copy by
writiug Capt. E. P. Nichols, Seafsport,
Ne. with the request TO the postmaster
hat the letter be forwarded to whatever
part Of the world the ship Frank Peudletor
may be found.
The corn.tisr ought never 10 be left o.
tn. toot ensemble Rochester Post.
After every election one side crows apt
-he other eats crow.-Philadelph In
qnirer.
I First Foreign Tourist livery homel
, man)-The American women are beauti
, full, but their voices are harsh.
4 Second Foreigner (handsome mani
. ] iced! thought their voices very sw
, 1888-11-29

First Foreign Tourist livery homely
full, but their voices are harsh.
Second Foreigner handsome MANI :
iced! thought their voices very sw !.
, 1888-11-29

The cornetist ought never 10 be left OF
tn. FOOT ensemble -Rochester Post.
After every election one sids crows and
-he other eats crow.-Philadelphia In
qnirer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
LAID BEFORE THE SENATE.
Some of the Papers Which Were Pre-
sented Yesterday.

Some of the Papers Which Were Pre-
sented Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Among the papers
presented to the Senate to-day were the
following:
A letter from Allen & Co., publishers, of
Augusta, Me, urging the necessity of the
issue of fractional currency. Mr. Frye,
who presented it, stated as a fact astound-
ing to him that this firm often received in
its business 81 900 day in postage stamps
in payment of fractions Of dollar.
BY Mr. Hale--A petition against any
change in the fishery treaties AMI in favor
of the rights of American fishermen under
existing treaties and legislation.
BY Mr.. NOorhees-A petition in favor of
the present tariff on lumber.
BY Mr.. Cullom-Several petitions of the
Illinois State Grange endorsing the inter
state commerce law, favoring government
ownership of telegraph lines. denouncing
gambling in futures, " fayorlng restriction
of immigration as proposed in the Reagan
bill, opposing the abolition of the whisky
and tobacco tax, and favoring the placing
Of salt, lumber, sugar, etc, on the free list
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following:
BY Mr.. Cullom-Amendment to his postal
telegraph bill.
by MI. bIdlr-lo encourage Une nOldlng
Of a national industrial exposition of arts,
mechanics and productions of the colored
race throughout the United States in At
lanta, Ga, in 1855 and 1889.
The bill appropriates 100000 TO be ex-
pended under the direction of Board OF
Commissioners to be appointed by the
President
By Mr. Vance-Appropriating $4,000 for
a monument to beerected in North Carolina
to the memory of Gen. William Lee David
son, who was killed at Cowan's Ford in the
revolutionary war.
By Mr.. Sherman-Appropriat $780,
900 10 reimburse depositors for losses sus-
taine! by the failure of the Freedman S
Savings and Trust Company, no part of the
money, however, to be paid to assignees of
dapOGiTorc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
BY Mr.. Dibble, of South Carolina
Placing iute on the free list


Also, to reimburse depositors in the Freed
mans Savings and Trust Company
BY Mr. Houck, of Tenuessee--To preserve
the purity of the elective franchise and to
punish bribery and other offenSes against
free ballot.
Tho bill introduced by Mr.. Brectinridge
OF Kentucky, to omodify the internal revenue
system is the same which was introduced by
him in the last Congress relieving tobacco
planters from tax on sales of leaf tobacco
taxing stills making less than five bushels
of grain daily, only upon the actual pro-
duction, and relieving them from the neces-
sity of employing storekeepers and gaugers.
Several other postal telegraph bills were
introduced, and also bills to reduce letter
postage to lc. an ounce; affecting national
banks; authorizing the issue of coin certiti-
Gates; amending the Pacific railroad acts;
affecting the fisheries; prohibit
ing the warehousng Of distilled
spirits; regulating immigration; pension
bills, woman suffrage amendments; for the
purchase by the Treasury Of outstanding
bonds; for national quarantine; repeating
the duties on sugar and molasses; for the
eleventh census; extending the eight hour
law to letter carriers; prohibiting convict
labor on public works; for a uniform syS-
tenn of bankruptcy; repeating the civil ser
vice law; amending the civil service law; a;
for international arbitration tribunals; call
ing for information from about all of the
executive departments upon various topics ;
changing the time for the convening Of
Congress; authorizing the President to veto
single items in appropriation bills; for an
income tax. Nine hundred and two
public bills were introduced, covering
every conceivable subject of legislation.
Included in this number were bills
for public buildings in every State in the
Union and some of the Territories. Among
those in the South are the following:
BY Mr.. Davidson, of Florida, at Tallahas-
see; by Mr. Grimes, Of Georgia, at Colum-
bus Ga. by Mr.. Catchings, of Mississippi,
at Vicksburg, Miss. by Mr., Johnston, of
North Carolina, at Asheville. N. C.. by Mr..
Henderson. of North Carolina, at States
vile, n. G.; by Mr.. Bowden, of Virginia, at
Norfolk, Va; by Mr.. Brown, Of Virginia,
at Fredericksburg, Va; by Mr.. Yost, of
Virginia, at Staunton, Va. The House then
adjourned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
CARLISLE'S TASK.
The Result of His Work Will be An
nounced To-Day.

~
nounced To-Day.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Speaker Carlisle
expected to announce the House committees
to-day, but owing to the necessity for con-
sulting a few members whom be proposed
to reassign to other committees than those
upon which he had orig inally placed them,
and to the fact that some of them are not
present at the capital to-day, he was unable
TO carry out his intention He spent the
morning hours before the ascending of the
House to-day in his private room at work
on the committee lists, but he was so both
cred by members who had heard of his in
tention to change their assignment that be
was unable to make any appreciabe head
way in adding the finishing touches TO his
work. 1t is the present. expectation, how
ever, that the list will be finished tonight
and announced to the House tomorrow.
NO CHANGES IN THE CHAIRMANSHIPs.
The importantly of members will effect
no changes in the important chairman
ships. They will be filed as announced in
these dispatches. Two of them, that on
Education and that on Pacific Railroads,
because he had put Mr.. Gambler,
of Georgia, Who is opposed
to the Blair educational
bill, at the head of the first, and Mr.
Cultivate, of Ohio, who wants to put some
Pacific railroad legislation through, at the
head of the other. The New YORK delega-
tion was especially disgruntled. The
Speaker said again and again; "Ihave done
the best | could | had to place S25 men. l
could not give every man craftsmanship,
nor even the place he might most desire
lower down on the lists" The fact is, OF
course, that the Speaker had TO consider
as well the particular policy every commit
tee is expected to carry out.
MR. SCOTS DECLINATIoN.
William l.. Scott, who was selected at the
last moment to fill the place on the Ways
and Means Committee, which $. S. Cox had
at the last moment declined after once
promising that he would take it. He said
to-day that he told the Speaker some weeks
ago in most emphatic language that he did
not want a craftsmanship or a place on any
important committee, his health not per
mittiug him 10 work as he would like to.
But" he said, 'if the Speaker cannot get
anybody else for this place on the Ways
and Means Committee why that's different
matter. from which it is inferred that he
will remain on the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, who was se-
lected at the last moment to fill the place
which Mr.. Ryan, of Kansas had at the last
moment declined, will stay. BE is very
glad to get in.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
WAR TAXES.

Senator Brown Will Soon Make q
Speech on tie Subject.
WASHINGTON, Jan. An the Senate to-
day Mr. Brown Offered resolution declar-
ing that the practice of the government
was correct for the first three-quarters of a
century of its existence when it collected
the necessary revenues at ports or other
boundaries, by tariff except in the cese of
war or other great emergencies, when i'll
ternal or direct taxes were imposed, but
which were repealed as soon as the emer-
gency ceased. Also that the present interpsl
revenue laws we're enacted as a war meas
ure, and that it has now become the imper-
ative duty of Congress TO enact appropri-
ate legislation for their repeal at the earliest
day practicable. He asked that the resoli.
tion be laid ON the table, and said that next
Monday he would submit remarks on it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
CANADA'S FISHERIES.
The Probable Outcome of the Confer
ence at Washington.

The Probable Outcome of the Confer
ence at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1T is believed that
when the fisheries negotiators resume their
conference on Saturday the British repre-
sentatives will formally announce that they
are willing TO accept Secretary Bayard's
suggestion that the questions Of the CONNER
cial rights of American fishing vessels in
Canadian waters and of the three-mile limit
be submitted TO arbitration. Then as Il
matter of grace and not of right they will
concede us the rights we claim as to both
points pending the decision Of the arbitra-
tors, which might not be reached until
after tho next fishing season is
over. This would be satisfactory to the
American negotiators because they have no
doubt that any arbtrators that might be
selected would decide in their favor, and
they feel equally confident that the Senate
would ratify any convention or treaty that
might be concluded providing for the sub
mission of the matter to arbitration. The
British Commissioners and the Canadian
officials who accompany them have learned
great deal about the temper and purpose
of the people of the United
States on this question that they
did not know before they cams. They un-
derstand now that these two purely fish
questions must be disposed of before the
question of commercial reciprocity can be
considered, and that the surest way to
favorable treaty of commercial reciprocity
is by treaty respecting the fisheries which
will be favorable to its claims.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
Odell to be Defended.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.--The Secretary of
the Treasury has requested the Attorney
General 10 instruct the District Attorney
for the Eastern district of Virginia to insti-
tute criminal proceedings against persons
implicated in the recent attempted aSsassi-
nation of Light Keeper NJ. l.. Odell, Of Cape
Henry station. The department is informed
that this officer is being prosecuted on
political grounds, and will use its power TO
protect him in the performance Of his
dufieS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
ERIN's AGITATORS.
Messrs. O'Brien and Sullivan to be
Given Reception on Their Release.

Messrs. O'Brien and Sullivan to be
Given Reception on Their Release.
LONDON, Jan. 4-The Liberal Radical
Union has decided to give public reception
in London to Messrs O'Brien and Sullivan
after their release from Tullamore Jail.
NO INQUIRY TO BE MADE.
DUBLIN, Jan. 4.--The Viceroy has refused
to accede to the demand of the municipal
authorities of Limerick that the govern
ment institute an inquiry into the conduct
of the police on the occasion Of the demon
stration in that city in honor Of the Man
chester martyrs"
A meeting of the Gaelic Athletic Associa-
ton was held at Thurles to-day. The session
was stormy one. The Clericals defeated
the Fenian members on every vote, and the
latter we're so disgusted that they proposed
Mr.. Balfour as Secretary Of the association.
The session lasted eleven hours.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

Mr. Anderson's Propositions to Stiffen
Up the Law.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Mr. Anderson, of
Iowa, introduced bill to-day to amend the
interstate commerce act so as to include
within its scope all express, Pullman, sleep
ing or private cars; positively prohibiting
passes to other than employees on a road
amending the long and short haul clause, so
that it shall not be construed as authorizing
a carrier TO charge as much for n short
as for long haul; forbidding the removal
of any suit for damages by a corporation
defendant from State to the United States
Court compelling the production Of neces-
sary evidence, and adjudging guilty of mis-
demeanor any official who shall witlfully do
or cause to be done anything prohibited in