The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Samuel Holmes Mather, prominent bust
ness man Of Cleveland, who recently died in
that city at the age OF 81 years. was descend
ant OF Increase and Cotton Mather the dis
tlnguished theologtans Of the early Massa-
chusetts days.
DR.. Resent thai, a prominent physician Of
Hebrew extraction, resident in Cincinnati
wants the Ohio legislature to pass law abol-
lShlng the rite OF circumcision. The bill
which he has drawn up denounoes the Abra-
hamio rite as cruel and unnecessary, and says
that IL IS Incompatible with the advanced civ
1l1zation of the age. The doctor says that no
religion can practice cruelty to children and
hope to be protected in 1t by the law. He
proposes severe penalty for the pTacticng
of this rite, the violator to be prose cuted
under the law prohibiting cruelty TO children.
Mrs. Lily Buckner Belknap, the daughter
Of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner first soldier
In the Mexican war and later a confederate
ofncer, has Just been buried at Louisville
She was regularly enlisted In the confederate
army when she was child years old. and as
the pet and the darling of the company to
which she belonged. Her mime was on the
roll, and she responded to it with the other
soldiers whenever she could be present. At
the close OF the exercises the bugler stepped
to the head of the grave and sounded taps
the call to rest that IS always blown over
soldiers grave
The magnitude of the business done by the
Kansas City stock yards on the twenty-seyen
acres of land known as The Bottoms may
be judged from the fact that the annual sal
airy list to pay less than 800 men who act S
buyers is more than 81 900 900. Each of the
eight packing houses has two or three special
cattle buyers TO whom large salaries are
paid, and the sums received by the agents Of
commission houses are more than the major
ity OF professional men earn, says the New
York Post. The big houses pay their special
men from 5000 to $4,000 year. The latter
is considered to be only a proper equivalent
Tor the services OF one man who confines
his purchases to sheep. Fifty of the buyers
II Is said, receive more money each year
than the governor of Kansas, whose
compensation is So, L0) The exchange build
ing where buyers and dealers meet is an i'm
menSe rambling structure, din " in appear
ance, dimly lighted, and roughly equipped
Here a host of men, made up OF stockmen
and buyers, swarm about looking like a
country auction. Most of them are clad in
big overcoats and wear old slo 1eh hats and
top boots, and the man without a buggy whip
is an exception. One OF the characters of the
place Is Jack Coughlin, who can guess the
weight OF beast and compute net and gross
prices so accurately that he boasts he never
needs the scales or pencil and paper to figure
out his bargains
Did you ever notice the effect of mems &C.
cupat1on upon their countenance? ?" said
Henry P. Chase, OF Wilmington, Del. to a
group at the Shoreham, of which a Washing
ton Post reporter was member. Now this
hotel is at this time about half full of con-
gressmen and senators and politicians. and
the other half are business men in attendance
upon this National Board of Trade can
pick out the business man or the politician
every time. The politicians face is restless:
he is either all attention or looks awfullv
bored, where there is placidity of express
sion on the successful business mans face.
One is dependent on men s likes and dislikes
and tickle opinions, and the other is independ-
ent. Then again they dress differently.
Albert coat IN t SNs'eS whole n9F soa Prince ot
trade gang. might enunerate half dozen
other little differences. But say, without ap-
pearing to be inquisitive, let s lust move over
you can tell. That fellow talking is a banker
or broker or merchant of some kind
his AUDITORS sided over in undesigning
fashion, and the first words heard were: Il
won 7 vote for that bill If the party whip
cracks from now till doomsday. IdonSt care
what 1t will do for the party as whole, or for
your constituents, or yours, l know 1t viii
seriously cripple" And the wise phrenolo
gist saw that 1t was best to stop the smiles
by leading the way to the little room with a
large mirror and a long mahogany rail
IL Is said that the veteran newspaper man
Col. Frank A. Burr, who died recently at
Camden, n. j., was brought up by the In
dams, and did not know word OF the mother
tongue until he had attained the age of IA
While he was an infant a band of Chippewas
raided his fathers house in Michigan muir
dered all the family except his mother, and
carried him OF. He was adopted by q child
less squaw. Col Burr never told his most in
innate friends how 1t was that he came
TO return to civilization. He was onlv rs
years old when he first saw his mother to
know her Before his nth year he had mas
tered the English language and having a phe-
nomenal memory he soon acquired a good ed
ucation. but II is said he never quite over
came the nomadlc tastes acquired in his
youth, and to the day Of his death retained a
restless desire Of change. He was a soldier
surveyor railway engineer, steam boat nilot
theatrical manager and newspaper inter
viewer by turns. enator Cameron. Of Penn.
sylyauia said OF him that ne couli 4emen-
Der an interview or a conversation for a
month, and at Will reproduce it verbatim.