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THURSDAY, MARCH 80. 188*^
A strong movement is evidently under
way to bring out Mr. Tilden &s the next
Democratic Presidential standard bearer.
In the opinion of a good many of our
contemporaries, too, the sage of Gramer
cy Park has the inside track.
Speculators have deliberately gotten
up a corner in peanuts in Boston, and in
consequence prices have advanced from
$1 to $2 per bushel. Now the small boy
wants the* Massachusetts Legislature to
pass an act prohibiting corners under
heavy penalties.
So Franklin J. Moses, Republican
Governor of South Carolina, has been
arrested in New York for wholesale
fraud and swindling. And it is to turn
over the government of that State once
more to the tender mercies of the party
of which he is a representative that the
administration is now devoting its ener
gies.
It is noted as a matter worthy of con
sideration that while Sergeant Mason s
wife and baby are receiving in contribu
tions from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred dollars a day, Guiteau’s daily
income has run down to less than ten
dollars. This amount comes from
the sale of his photographs and auto
graphs.
Three men are now busily engaged in
the assay office in Wall street, New
York, pack’ng for shipment to the
Philadelphia mint #30,000,000 in gold
bullion. Tae bullion is in blocks about
the size of an ordinary brick. Shipments
are made about twice a week,and $5,000,-
000 are sent at a time. The treasure
now being packed was received during
the past year in the shape of foreign gold
coin.
Last week 11,361 immigrants arrived
at Castle Garden, an increase of 3,563
over the corresponding week last year.
It is stated that m >?t of them are farm
laborers, and they readily find employ
ment. as the demand for such labor in
the Western States anda also in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is
very gredt. T-ie immigration Supcrin
tendent says - “We have no difficulty
in placing all new arrivals who know
anything at all of agricultural pursuit?.”
It is beginning to be remarked as that
among all the accounts of dinners and
other social entertainments at the White
House, the name of Senator Mahone is
never mentioned. He does not appear
from newspaper accounts to have been
present even on the occasion of tfce
grand State dinner given to Grant. It
can not be possible that after “Mahone
Virginia” has rendered such valuable
services to the Republican party, Arthur
would deliberately snub him. Still, it
looks very much that way.
There are indications of another break
down in the star route cases. The coun
gel for Brady, Dorsey and others have
made a motion to quash the indictments
on the ground that the law did not per
mit them to be drawn and presented as
they were. It is well said that if this i3
true it shows that the law has been
steadily disregarded or misunderstood in
dealing with these caae3. Where the re
iponsibility rests is another question. If
laws can be unearthed by the defense
that neutralize all the efforts of the
prosecution, it is a bad showing. Cer
tainly if anything ia to be done a sound
policy should be developed and the
prosecution made on a basis that will
stand. The difficulty now discovered is
that the Judge did not instruct the grand
jury as to the finding of the indictments.
A severe hail storm played havoc at
Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity last
Monday. It reached from five miles
east to five miles west of that city, and
the hail stones, many of them as large a?
walnuts, fell with incredible force and
rapidity. Many buildings in the city
were seriously injured, and hot bed?,
green houses and skylights gave way
like egg shells. Persons exposed and
unable to reach shelter were badly bruised
about the head, and horses in many in
stances became frantic and ran away.
The street car* and railroad coaches ail
suffered more or less damage to the win
dows. A heavy rain followed, com
pleting the destruction. In many cases
where skylights had been broken valua
ble goods were exposed to the weather.
The loss in the city alone is estimated at
|25,000.
Thfrattempt now in progress to secute
from the Congressional Committees on
Education a report favorable to an ap
propriation of $15,000,000 per year for
ten years for educational purposes in the
South, is seconded by arguments show
ing the ignorance of the colored popula
tion, and the inability of this section, in
its present condition, to raise a sufficient
sum by local taxation. If the appro
priation could be made in a proper man
ner, the outlay might be considered wise.
“But,” as the Bridgeport Farmer re
di*s, “if, as is probable under the
present circumstances, the appropriation
should be so made as to place the schools
of the South directly under Federal
supervision and control, the benefits
would be overbalanced by the evi l re
sults. The educational system would
become a political machine, and would
be placed under the control of the
Mahones and the Feltons. Education
of the ignorant would very soon become
a secondary object of the annual appro
priation. But still worse, it would estab
lish a precedent for the overthrow of the
State educational system of the North,
of which the politicians would not be
slow to take advantage.”
It is considered as very evident that
the heats of summer will overtake Con
gress before its adjournment. It is said
that at least one hundred speeches a.e to
be delivered in the House on the tariff
commission bill if unlimited discussion
is allowed. If that bill shall be defeated
a revision of the tariff will be insisted
upon with sufficient pertinacity to com
pel another long discussion. Of course,
the large appropriation bills must be
considered and passed, and as this
Congress is quite as talkative as
any of its predecessors, each of these b*Us
requires much time. It is said
that the Appropriations Committee are
ready with their bills, the delay
being in the House and not in the com
mittee room. This is pleasant informa
tion as the failure of that committee to
supply the bills has invariably been
urged by the dilatory House a* an ex
cuse for its sluggishness. But there are
other and equally important measures
pending *n the House, and if Congress is
to get away from Washington with none
of these bills considered, it must needs
be very remiss in its duties. As Con
gress usually want to Keep their seats,
and must “make a record” in order to do
ao there is hope that something more
than the introduction of bills and the
m >kin g of speeches will be accom
plished before mid
Rev. Felton, D.D.—His Speeeh.
According to previous announcement
Reverend William H. Felton, D.D.,
delivered an address in this city
last night, ostensibly on the political
issues of the day. A good audience as
sembled to hear him, many doubtless
from curiosity and many others in the
hope of hearing him descant learnedly
upon the history, principles, etc.,
of the two great parties of the
country, so that they might clearly
understand the teachings of those
parties, and be the better enabled
hereafter (to express it biblically) to give
a reason for the faith that is in them.
Many others still doubtless expected to
hear a regular political sermon, and this
class must have largely predominated,
for had they really been in a church the
assemblage could hardly have been more
orderly. From the beginning nearly to
the end of his disc' urse the speaker was
listened to in almost solemn silence, and
when every now and then some
enthusiastic brother wouid rash
ly disturb the solemnity of
the occasion by a thought'ess rapping
upon the floor with his cane, he was in
stantly awed again into quietude, and
soon the monotonous sound of the
reverend gentleman’s voice alone broke
uponjhe stillness of the scene. The oc
casion was indeed, for the most part, so
solemn and churchlike that had the rev
erend speaker invited any one of
the brethren present to conclude the ser
vices witn an appropriate prayer, or had
he called upon the congregation to unite
with him in singing the long-metre dox.
ology, no astonishment whateyer could
have been felt.
It may, therefore, readily be imagined
how great and universal was the disap
pointmeat experienced. The reverend
gentleman neither preached a sermon in
which he deduced moral lessons from
the corrupt state of our politics, nor did
he utter a warning, based upon his per
sonal experience, against tae snares and
pitfalls which beset the path of the
youthful and innocent politician. He did
cot even deliver an instructive
lecture upon the political principles
which form the corner-stone of the re
public. He spoke Feltonism pure and
simple, and confined himself to the
enunciation of the heterogenous doctrines
which, after much labor and travail, the
Feltonite caucus lately assembled in At
lanta strung together and dignified by
the name of platform. A glance at this
instrument, therefore, will give a very
fair idea of his discourse.
This platform, pronunciamento, or by
whatever name it may be called, begins
by naively declaring, first of all, that nei
ther the Demcratic nor the Republican
party as at present organized is ac
ceptable to the disciples of Feltonism.
It then declare? in favor of certain ac
knowledged Democratic principles, such
as honesty in meeting all obligations,
public and private, the political freedom
of all citizens and their enjoyment of all
political rights. It then, however, pro
ceeds to advocate certain well known
Republican ideas, such as the supremacy
of the Federal over State governments,
and the right of the General Govern
ment to exercise paternal supervision over
the education of the embryo citi
zens of any State. In other words,
it is simply a conglomeration of
ideas gathered from the oft-enunciated
principles of both the Democratic and
Republican parties—a political streak of
fat and streak of lean, as it were. Or,
to express it more dignifiedly, and after
the manner of St. Paul, at whose feet
Dr Fe.ton has, it is to be imagined, been
reared—even as that eminent apostle was
himself brought up at the feet of Gama
liel—the reverend Doctor and hi? follow
ers desire “to be all things to all men.”
Without intending any disrespect to
the cloth, we cannot resist the impres
sion that in formulating this Democrati
co Republican platform, the reverend
gentleman who was the leading and
moving spirit of the Atlanta caucus
was actuated by selfish motives rather
thau from a de ire to purify our politics.
We, therefore, cannot but think that had
the preamble to the Feltonite Atlanta
platform read, “Whereas we have aban
doned all hope of securing any office
whatever under either the Democratic
or Republican party, as at present organ
ized, therefore be it resolved, etc.,” it
would have more honestly and truth
fully contained the real views and ideas
of its framers. Nevertheless we opice
that the voters of Georgia will
have no difficulty in seeing through
the design? of the promoters of
this new movement, and we predict now
its woful failure. Democrats will none
of it, not only because they are too
firmly wedded to the teachings of the
old party with which they have so long
been identified, but, as citizens, they have
seen Georgia flourish and prosper under
Democratic rule, and, like wise and pru
dent men, they propose to “let well
enough alone.” Neither will straight
out Republicans give the movement
their indo:sement, as it invites them to
a dish of exceedingly tough crow, since
its platform declares their par
ty unworthy of trust, and be
sides enunciates certain principles
to which they have eyer displayed bit
ter antagonism. Mr. Felton and his fol
lowers then, having the support of
neither Democrats nor Republicans, will
be in the position of the unfortunate in
dividual, who, refusing to occupy either
of two stools offered him, fell down be
tween them, and was forced to extricate
himself, as best he might, from his em
barrassing predicament.
It may be accepted as an axiom, which
is being freshly exemplified by the sure
disintegration now going on in the ranks
of the Mahoneites of Virginia, that there
can exist but two great parties in this
Union. Dr. Felton will, therefore, find
that, even should he secure the influence
of Mr. Arthur and his entire administra
tion, it would prove powerless to 6ave
him from the defeat and future political
oblivion to which he and his followers
are destined.
The Norfolk Virginian wants
Democracy to enter the next Presidential
campaign on the fair and square plat
form of opposition to protective tariff,
and believes that under that sign it will
conquer. It says: “In 1840 the British
protectionists were just as confident as
the American protectionists are to day of
their ability to coerce or buy the people
into silence on the subject of tariff tax
reduction, but they met with a crushing
defeat. The Democracy cannot longer
afford to occupy a negative position on
this issue. It has to assume an aggres
give front, and those Democrats who are
protectionists will have to unite them
selves with the party of protection.”
Brick Court, to the London Temple, It has
been decided, most yield to the spirit of the
age. Daring the coming long vacation the
chamber of Blackrtone (that in which he
wrote his “Commentaries”) and the cham -
ber of Goldsmith (that in which he died)
will be polled down, and before the coming
year the contractor will have begun his work
of covering the site with a new edifice. In
the ease of the Goldsmith house, it is said
ite architecture will be adhered to in the
sew building.
Lighting the Savannah River.
We have frequently, heretofore, called
attention in these columns to the great
importance to this port, as well as to the
commerce of the country, of having the
channel from Tybee to this city properly
lighted. About a year ago the General
Government made an appropriation of
$60,000 for this purpose, and though
considerable correspondence has been
kept up between our city authorities and
the government on the subject, so far
notiiing practical has resulted, and
none of the lights have as yet been
erected.
We understand the matter to stand at
present substantially as follows : Twelve
sites in all are required for the iron
lighthouses proposed to be erected, and
which it has been decided will light up
the channel sufficiently to meet all
the requirements of commerce. Of these,
seven have already been secured,
but for the remaining five negotiations
have not yet been successfully com
pleted. The obstacle in the way is that
the owners of two of these sites, which
are on Elba Island, on the Georgia side
of the river, demand $2,000 for ten
acres—five acres being requisite for each
site —while the owners of the other three
on Jones’ Island, on the South
Carolina side, ask for the land required
of them $1,500. These prices, the gov
ernment considers exorbitant, it arguing
that the land as it now stands is practi
cally valueless, and the fact that it can
be utilized iu the way proposed does not
enhance its value to anything like the
figures placed on it by its owners. It
therefore offers what it considers a good
price, but still it is a price so far below
the demands of the owners that the par
ties in interest have been unable to arrive
at any agreement.
While the owners of the desired sites
are, we think, inclined to set entirely too
high a value upon their property, there
is no doubt that the government is
equally as inclined to go too much to
the opposite extreme. True, the land
selected as sites for the proposed light
houses is, at present, of no practical
value for any other purpose, yet it does
not follow that it may not, at some
future time, become valuable. In
the memory of many of our in
habitants, Elba Island has been
under cultivation. Circumstances may
arise which will enable it to be success
fully cultivated hereafter, and this, of
course, give3 its soil an intrinsic value.
Whether there is auy possibility of that
portion of Jones’ Island selected for the
location of these lights ever be
ing utilized in the same way
or not we cannot state, but it should be
borne in mind that the very demand for
it by the government for the purpose in
dicated certainly gives it an enhanced
value, and this in connection with the
great benefits which would be secured to
commerce, and therefore to the general
public, should induce the government
to make as liberal an offer as possible.
On the other hand this last mentioned
fact should also be considered by the
landowners, and they should besides
consider that the portion of this land
desired by the government is at present
valueless, and that even if their property
should ever prove valuable as planta
tions, the parcel required for the light
houses is so small that its non cultivation
wou’d never be noticed. Tt-.-si matters
should induce them also to be as liberal
as possible, and make them satisfied with
a fair remuneration.
In a matter of this importance it is
greatly to bs desired that both parties in
interest may consider calmly, and in a
spirit of justice, all the points of the
case, and arrive at a speedy settlement
of all differences between them. Still,
if these differences cannot be adjusted,
it is clearly necessary that some means
or other should be adopted which will se
cure us the needed lights.
Two plans for this have been suggest
ed both of which are feasible. In the
first place, the erection of these lights,
being a matter of public necessity as
well as interest gives the two States in
whose territory the proposed sites are
located power, under the right of
eminent domain, to appoint appraisers
and condemn the land for the purpose
for whic‘- it is desired, paying therefor
the value at which it may be officially
appraised. This plan, however, could
not be carried into effect until the Legis
lature of the two States assembled and
passed acts authorizing the condemna
tion, and as the Legislature of Georgia
does not meet until next winter, and that
of S?uth Carolina until about eighteen
months hence, it is evident that
before this could be done too
much time would elapse. And as, in
the meantime, the present appropriation
would lapse, additional delay would be
occasioned through the government hav
ing to wait for further action by Con
gress on the subject.
The second plan suggested is undoubt
edly the better, ana it is that the pro
posed iron lighthouses be constructed
upon suitable foundations and placed in
the water close to the banks, about low
water maik. This would remove them
from the land altogether, while they
would offer no obstruction to naviga
tion, and if, in future, the necessary
sites could reasonably be obtained, they
might easily be removed to a more
permanent and substantial location. In
this way the channel could certainly be
lighted, and the present appropriation
for that purposebe made available.
It is evident, however, that neither of
these plans should be adopted except in
case of absolute necessity, and it is to be
hoped that satisfactory arrangements for
giving us good, permanent and substan
tial lights on the river may speedily be
concluded. It would be well for our
citizens to appoint a committee to visit
Washington to endeavor to induce the
government to make as liberal an offer as
possible for the required land, and also
to induce the land owners to meet the
government in the same spirit. Certain
it is this important matter should be
consummated at a? early a date as possi
ble,for, as we have said,the benefits which
will enure therefrom both to our port anl
to the commerce of the country are incal
culable.
Alluding to the recent rally in the New
York stock market, on the strength of
Jay Gould’s $53,000,000, a correspon
dent, who *is watching things on “the
street” writes that this would be a good
time for the boys to sell out, but they
can't. The “other fellows” have been
too badly hurt lately and are afraid to
venture in again, lest the market be
suddenly given a downward tendency by
its manipulators and they would be
again “squeezed.” Besides this, the mar
ket is not steady enough, and any at
tempt to unload causes it to sag. It is
thought, however, that it will grow
stronger by and by, and after awhile a
new relay of outsiders will come in to
buy at high prices and then get cleaned
out as they always do. Then will be
the'time for the big guns who rallied the
market to unload, but whcther Gould
will be able to work off his $53,000,000
or not remains to be seen.
Before dancln your feet In good
order by using German Corn Remover. 35c.
Bold by druggists,
Strikes and the Tariff.
The Boston Poet notes the fact that
the spirit of the striker is abroad in the
land and bodes no good to labor or capi
tal, and that history has shown that
strikes, in a majority of cases, have been
ineffectual to accomplish their purpose.
In England, in some cases, they have
been successful in raising wages and
reducing the hours of labor, but, accord
ing to good authority, a much larger
number have failed. It has also been
noted that strikes for a rise of wages
frequently succeed, but strikes to pre
vent a fall commonly fail. The reason
a signed for this is, that the demand for
higher wages comes in prosperous times,
when profits are good and can bear a
reduction; whereas, the lowering of
wages by employers very rarely comes,
except in times of depression, when
there is more labor upon the market than
demand for its products.
In England, in early times, preven
tion against strikes was attempted bg
legislation. Latterly it has been aban
doned, for the immense number ot trades
unions, allied by common sympathy, has
made them a powerful force, and too
much so to encourage efforts at coercion.
In this country the right to strike has
been recognized, unless it interferes with
existing contracts, but even here no man
nor body can take from others the right
to work and to enjoy the results of his
own choice and industry. Ihe public
sympathy is justly awakened in behalf
of laboring men when they are oppressed
or their wages aie unduly reduced, but
when violence is used or conspiracies are
formed to deter men willing to work
from pursuing their occupations wrong is
done, and all ground for pity is mis
placed. Every man must be left free to
contract and to labor on whatsoever
terms he chooses, and whoever resists
this is a pubi'C enemy.
The rout further argues with great
good sense that the present unhealthy
condition of things existing between
some of our manufacturing corporations
and their operatives is fairly traceable to
the workings of the present tariff. It
remarks that the increase of strikes has
been very marked since it, the tariff, went
into effect, and are the natural outcome
from a high protective tariff. The plain
reason of this is that bounties at first
give manufacturers large profits. This
others are quick to see and to avail them
selves of by going into the same busi
ness. Soon the supply of goods exceeds
the demand, causing a glut in the mar
ket. Then, in order to pay stockholders
their dividends, the price of labor has to
be reduced, the loss falling ultimately on
the employes. All this happens in the
midst of the cry of the necessity of pro
tecting home labor, though all the pro
tection which the laborer gets is a re
duction of wages. If he protests, mil’s
are shut down and the same clamorers
for protection to home industry send
abroad for foreign laborers to take the
place of our citizens who are tnrown out
of employment.
In this connection, our Boston contem.
porary also calls the attention of Con
gress to another important matter. It
says: “The striking spirit is very con
tagious and liable to lead to breaches of
the peace, besides cn'ailing suffering
upon large numbers of innocent people.
A strange paralysis seems to have over
taken that body with respect to the
present odious tariff. Why is this? All
agree that revision is needful, and that
it is high time that war measures should
be materially modified. It can only be
accounted for by supposing that too
many Congressmen or friends behind
them are personally reaping too large
profits to permit any changes to be made.
But the tendency to strikes ought to be
a warning to them, and enlightened self
interest, if no higher motive, lead to
tariff reform before widespread mischief
shall enforce attention to the subject."
Col. Isaac W. Avery, Secretary of the
Executive Department of the State, is
in the city on business connected with
the improvement of our river and har
bor, to the importance of which the
whole commonwealth appears to bs
alive. The Colonel is accompanied by
his wife, and intends extending his trip
to Florida before he turns his face home
ward.
It is not necessary to say that he is the
author of “The History of Georgia,”
recently published, and which has been
so favorably received, but we allude to
this fact because of remarks made on*
the work by a well known journalist—
George Alfred Townsend —at the break
fast given in New Orleans last month to
the Southern Press Association. Mr.
Townsend said in effect that “Avery’s
History of Georgia” was a most valuable
work; just such an one as every Southern
State should have written about it, in
order that the history of the cauees which
led to the civil conflict might be
fully understood; record? of wbat
was done by each Southern State during
the long years of the war, the politics of
those States during the time that they
were shut out from the world, and the
stoiy of their military occupation, restor
ation to the Union and reconstruction, all
should be carefully preserved. The
years since the happening of these
events had passed by so quickly, and
they were so crowded with startling
occurrences, that it is even now impossi
ble to comprehend their magnitude un
less they have been condensed into
history.
New York Herald.-. “The opposition
to the old-fashioned, or, as it is called, the
Bourbon element in Democratic politics
in Georgia, has assumed the very practi
cal form of an address to the ‘people’ of
the State, signed by some responsible
gentlemen, and of a call for a State con
vention next June. The address is in
many respects a political curiosity. It is
a mixture of Whigism, Democracy and
modern Republicanism, demanding pro
tection for home industry, gold and
silver as the money of the consti
tution, and the ‘biggest kind of an ap
propriation.’ One sentence is worth
quoting. It reads: ‘We believe that it
is no longer patriotic to bs partisan, but
that, as the two parties now powerful in
the country are at issue on no govern
mental principles, it is wise for the peo
pie, who aspire to fraternal relations co
existent with the country, to bury sec
tional strife and to elevate politics to the
consideration of those material questions
in which the whole country is vitally in
terested, and to this end it is especial
wisdom for our immediate people to
select political agencies competent by
liberality on principle to offer such a
policy to the entire people.’ ”
Gracious! The coalitionists or Fel
tonites, or whatever they are, must have
sent to New York and employed William
M. Evarts to grind out that last sen
tence. At any rate, if they did not, the
ex-Secretary will have to look to his
laurels, for he undoubtedly has a for
midable rival in the Empire State of the
Sunny South.
John Sherburn died in Wheelock, CaleJ
donia county, Vt., the other day, after hav
ing been confined to his bed for forty-three
years. In 1839 he fell from his horse and
Injured his spine in such manner that re
covery waa impossible. His digestive or
gans were sound and his general health
good most of the time.
If you wish peaceful dumber at night, in
spite of cough or sore throat, take a dose of
Brown’s Iron Bitters before going to bed.
It is very soothing and refreshing. Try R.
GENERAL NOTE*.
The Tennessee Democratic State Commit
tee has been called by tta Chairman to meet
In Nashville on Tuesday, April 4, “to con
sider each matters as may be deemed ad
visable.”
A clicular is said to have been sent to all
the clergymen In New England asking them
to preach on fast days upon the sanctity of
marriage and the present state of the di
vorce laws.
Wisconsin papers predict that Insanity
will soon cease to be a legal cause for di
vorce In that State, as the bill repealing the
law has passed the Assembly and been or
dered to a third reading in the Senate.
That the Grangers are still alive in the
West Is shown by their ownership of ninety
public halls in Michigan, ranging In cost
from #2OO to #3,000. These are used for the
meetings of the Gn ages and rented out for
other purposes.
The London correspondent of the Chris
tian Union eayß it Is like listening to a beau
tiful song to hear Mr. Gladstone speak.
Hts voice Is musical in cadence as well as
tone. Btrange to relate, the Tories prefer
Wagner’s most advanced melodies.
The following cheerful notice has recent
ly been hung up, neatly framed, In the bed
rooms of an Euellsh hotel: “In case of
the death of a visitor the hotel charge, in
addition to that for damage to linen, etc.,
and cleansing room, will be five guineas.”
The recent reported discovery of many
miles of dead fish on the banks of New
foundland Is corroborated by several more
sea captains. The theory suggested by
6ome of them to account for the finding of
the fish is that they were killed by subaque
ous volcanic disturbances.
A widow in Japan who Is willing to think
of matrimony wears her hair tied and
twisted around a long shell hairpin placed
horizontally across the back of the head.
But when a widow firmly resolves never to
change her name again, she cuts off her
hair short on her neck and combs it back
without any part.
A new begging trick In New York, which
seems to pay well, is this: A weak, hungry
looklng man goes along a prominent street
until he sees an old crust, and then grabs it
up and pretends to eat ravenously. A
sympathetic citizen gives him money to get
something to eat. Some frauds make as
much as ten dollars a day In ihls way.
The latest in special journalism Is a month
ly published at Joliet, 111., called the Na
tional Detective. The paper keeps up with
all the aliases of the professional thieves
and pickpockets, and also the synonyms for
the different names of these gentry. It 6
advertising columns are ornamented with
pictures of handcuffs, padiuck?, and all the
latest devices used by professional thief
takers.
The decision of the French Government
that a French Ciystal Palace shall be reared
upon a portion of the park of Bt. Cloud is
universally applauded. The proposed works
will involve the removal of the melancholy
rutus of the old palace and the restoration
of the famous grounds. It Is also Intended
that classes for Instruction In various
branches of knowledge shall be Instituted
in the ntw palace for the people.
A jeweler in Hoboken has for sale a
watch which was presented to General
Anthony Wayne by the Marquis de Lifay*
ette, st Fredericksburg, Va , in 1781. Thp
case bears the Inscription “Au Souvenir
Lafayette, a son cher ami, Wayne, General
de l’armee Federale, Fredericksburg, Va ,
le 5 June, 1781.” This watch was owned by
a daughter of General Wayne, who died at
Moorestown, N. J.
“I feel a genuine respect for every donkey
I meet,” says that recent apostle of evolu
tion, Grant Allen, “when I remember that
It was the mere accident of an opposable
thumb that gave my ancestors a start over
his In the race for the inheritance of the
earth toward the very close of the tertiary
period.” Af’ir reading that no sane man
can en’ertalu the slightest doubt that Grant
was actually a descendant of a donkey.
Among some autographs sold recently In
London were these at the price? named:
Queen El’zibeth’s, #l6; Charles Dickens’,
#l2; Franklin’s, #24; Garrick’s, (relating to
his power to mfrutc King George 111 ,) #27;
Dr. Johnson’s, #l2; Lord Nelson’s, (a letter
to Lady Hamilton), #43; Pope’s, #35, and
Prior’s, a (a letter), #6B. The gem of the
collection was the autograph manuscript of
Thackeray’s “Chronicle of the Drum,”
which fetched #ICO
About three weeks ago a Salvation Army
procession at Basingstok, in England, was
riotously Interrupted. Several members of
the army, of both sexes, and their known
sympathizers, were severely beaten and
rolled Into a muddy stream of water that
passes the town. Two Magistrate? who had
tried to protect the army were h'oted at
and threatened, and were obliged to take
refuge In the resldenc • of another Magis
trate near the scene of the riot.
Eagan, “the Terror,” of Troy, N. Y , re
fuses to accept Sullivan’s offer for #125 to
stand up before him for four rounds In a
glove fight. The “Terror” says he wants to
fight with bare knuckles according to the
rules of the London prize ring, and he won’t
put on the gloves. A challenge has been
Issued on behalf of C. W. Hadley, the col
ored pugilist, against Eagan, for #5OO a side.
George Rooke, the middle weight cham
pion, now joins the list of those who want
to get whipped by Sullivan. Rooke says he
will fight the champion for #5,000 a side.
Philadelphia papers report an Increased
demand for dwelling houses in that city this
spring, both from those who desire to rent
and those who desire to buy, and that there
has been a consequent Increase of rents of
fully 20 per cent, oyer last year. One of the
papers say? that one of the immediate
causes of this advance Is the prospective
curtailing of building operations on account
of the advance In the cost of building mate
rial and the proposed demand for higher
wages on the part of the mechanics and
laborers.
The Bicycling World, of Boston, is shortly
to publish a bicycle club directory, and has
requested secretaries to furnish as 60on as
possible the following information: Name
and location of club; when formed; how
often and on what evening of week and
day of month the regular meeting is held;
time of official elections, and whether
annual or semi annual; number of active
members; how many belong to the L. A
W ; estimated number of unattached riders;
and the secretary’s name and address In
full. Club? wl 1 please advise their secretary
to respond.
The bay window question is again before
a Philadelphia court. A builder put up
such a window In the second story of a
house and pleads that, as its base is sixteen
feet above the sidewalk, it is not a nuisance.
Oa the other side, It Is contended that any
encroachment on a highway for private uses
is a public nuisance, and that the streets
were laid out, not for the sole purpose of
affording means of moving from one place
to another, but to afford light and air for
the benefit of the general public, and that
the air above is just as much a part of the
highway as the ground Itself. The court
reserved its decision.
A horrible murder occurred In the town
of Dedham, ten miles from Boston, last Fri
day night. John Sullivan, aged thirty-five,
who is an operative in one of the mills there
and who has been considered a steady man
in comfortable circumstances, quarrelled
with his wife Bridget, aged fifty, In their
home. He had been drinking slightly, and
as the dispute heightened he became en
raged, and, seizing a razor, savagely at
tacked his wife with it, cutting a deep gash
in her throat, severing the jugular vein and
carotid artery and inflicting other wounds.
The woman, despite her terrible and fatal
Injuries, rushed wildly from the house Into
the street, followed by her husband
brandishing the razor and Inflicting at every
step ghastly cuts with the weapon
about her head and shoulders. She got
away from him for a short distance and ran
to the house of a neighbor, but while en
deavoring to obtain an entrance was over
taken and seized by the hair by her husband,
who immediately renewed bis attack. The
woman then started and ran again, the hus
band following, still clutching her hair and
slashing at her with the razor. The horrible
ebase was then v -enacted until the woman
had again reached her own doorway, where
she fell dead. Sullivan, seeing what he had
done, attempted to kill himself, gashing
himself terribly with the razor, but not in
fl cting fatal Injuries. He was shortly after
ward secured by the police and lodged In
jail. He seemed quiet enough after his
Incarceration, but was reticent when spoken
to of the crime. The creates great
excitement In the town.
The mysterious dead fish recently seen
floating in the North Atlantic are pronounced
by Professor Baird to be “tile fish”—a new
species found by the United States Fish
Commission in “Incredible” auantitles along
the eastern edge of the Gulf stream. The
Professor thinks the dead flsh were killed by
the recent severe storm along the sou h
coast of New England.
Th Dead Restored to Life.
Any one desiring to have restored to their
normal or natural condition those organs of
life whose functions have become Impaired
from excessive gluttony, Intemperance or
otherwise, will find health, strength and
vigor In Brown’s Iron Bitters. here the
weaknees 1? of an exhaustive or debilitating
nature, it removes ail lifeless feeling ana
qaickly awakens to new activity.— Herald.
A large assortment of children’s suits for
sale at net coet at Levy’s.—Adv.
IN KEKORIAM.
Col.' William Tappan Thompson.
Jacksonville Timet.
The Savannah Keys of Saturday appears in
the full newspaper m6urnintt costume of re
versed column rules, and contains a highly in
teresting memorial and biographical sketch of
Its late senior editor. Colonel William Tappan
Thompson, who. as already announced in our
pages, died on Friday evening last, after an
illness which had been prolonged several
months. As this sketch is the completest and
best that is likely to appear, we shall sum
marize its facts, and quote the tender and ap
preciative tribute which his associates pay to
the dead journalist. * • * * * * •
He died in the fullness of years, after a tedious
illness which was known to be hopeless from
the start; and our brief sketch of his long and
honorable life may fittingly close with the elo
quent tribute with which that in the News
begins.
Tallahassee Floridian.
Colonel W. T. Thompson, so well known as a
Southern journalist, died in Savannah on Fri
day evening last, in the 70th year of his age.
Colonel Thompson was born at Ravenna, in
what has since been known as the Western
Reserve of Ohio. Early in life he entered a
printing office in Philadelphia, and later, per
haps m 1830 or 1831, wlren he was still a youth,
he emigrated to Florida and commenced the
study of law in this city with James D. West
cott, Jr., father of the present Judge of that
name, then Secretary or the Territory Dur
ing his residence here he occasionally assisted
in the Floridian office. It was after he left
Florida, in 1835, that his newspaper career may
be said to have commenced, for in that year
he unit 3d with Judge A. B. Longstreet, author
of the “Georgia Scenes,” in publishing the
Augusta States Bights Sentinel. On the break
ing out of the Florida war he returned as a
member of an Augusta company, and served
during the campaigns of 1835-36. In 1836, after
his Indian war experience, he established the
Augusta Mirror, which was afterwards merged
into the Family Companion and published at
Uacon. Later he moved to Madison, Ga., and
took charge of the Miscellany, through the col
umns of which he gave to the world “Major
Jones’ Courtship” in a series of letters, which
were afterwards printed in book form, and se
cured for their author a wide reputation. We
are surprise i to learn from the News that Col.
Thompson obtained little profit from the ex
tensive sale of that humorous work. We will
not follow him through his journalistic and
literary career. His latest and most perma
nent entei prme was the establishment in 1850
of the Savannah Mousing News, with which
paper his name has been associated from that
time up to the day of his death. A just tribute
to his memory appears in the News of Satur
day.
Galveston News.
The vet 'ran editor, William Tappan Thomp
son. died at his residenc?, in Bavannah, Ga.,
on the night of the ?lth of March. Mr. Thomp
son was the founder of the Savannah Mobnino
News, and its editor for nearly a third of a
century. He was not a native of Sa
vannah, rs recorded in “Hart’s Manual
of American Litsrature;” but it is not
strange that even Mr. Hart, usually so exact,
should have erred in this matter, for never was
more loyal son born to a proud mother than
was he to the Brete of his adoption. His long
residence, earnest and unti. ing labors, intima* 3
and endeai.ng relations closely identified him
with Georgia and her be tin* erests. Mr. Thomp
son we? brought prominently into notice by the
publication of “Major Jones’ Courtship,” which
first appeared about thirty-eight yeau a?o in
the Southern Mucellany , pu bushed in Madison,
Ga. The rich vein of humor which runs
through the work has won for it a permanent
place in Ametican literature The
title of Major was a familiar appellation be
stowed on the author of “Major Jones” by
admiring friends, to whom he had in
troduced his hero; the title of Colonel
was his under a commission from Governor
Brown. Colonel Thompson was never an
office-seeker, and had no ambition for political
honors, though ft active and effective politi
cal writer in every camppign for a third of a
centu'y, during the whole of which period he
was thoroughly familiar with the parties,
politiciaos and politics of the whole country.
***** He wps chosen without
his asking or his agency, a member of
the Constitutional Convention of his State,
which assembled in 1871, and was one of its
most useful and patriotic membeia. He was
several times recognized by honorable appoint
ment from the Executive of Georgia, but
would never accept any position that would
Interfere with his o’uties as editor-in-chief of
the Savannah Morning News, to which he was
wedded with a love bordering on devotion
Colonel Thompson wes happy in his domestic
relations, his wife being the heroine of Major
Jones’ Courtship. Col. Thompson’s life was
long and arduous; he had nearly reached
his three score and ten yeai a He was a true
man, a firm and faithful friend and has left a
vacancy which will not be filled He worked
faithfully and acceptably, but never for the
accumulation of wealth. Colonel Thompson
was a genial graceful writer, and made valua
ble contributions to Southern literature. To
Colonel Estill, the proprietor of the paper he
served so long and so ably, and who is now
using his great facilities for sustaining and en
couraging Southern authorship, will, perhaps
be delegated the grateful tesk of gathering in
lasting form the works of his colaborer.
Eatonton Chronicle.
The Savannah Morning News, of the 25th
Inst , comes to us clad in the habiliment of
mouiaing for that distinguished journalist,
who was the founder of the Naws over thirty
years ago. Colonel Thompson was a success
ful and pungent writer and won for himself
fame in the literary world. He was born in
Ohio, 31st August, 1812, and died on the even
ing of tne C4th inst.
Htnesville Gazette.
Colonel William T. Thompson, the veteran
editor of the Morning News, died last Friday.
Colonel Thompson was one of the oldest jour
nalists in the country, and an author of
national reputation.
Catarrh
CATARRH
Sanford’s Radical Care,
A Balsamic Distillation of
Witch Hazel, American Pine*
Canada Fir, Marigold,
Clover Blossoms, &c.
A single doee instantly relieves the most vio
lent Sneesing or Head Colds, clears the head
as by magic,stops Watery Discharges from the
Nose and Eyes, prevents Ringing Noises In the
Head, cures Nervous Headache and subdues
Chills and Fever. In Chronic Catarrh it cleanses
the nasal passages of foul mucus, restores the
senses of smell, taste and hearing when affec
ted, frees throat and bronchial tubes of offen
sive matter, sweetens and purifies the breath,
stops the cough and arrests the progress of
Catarrh towards Consumption.
One bottle Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal
Solvent and Sanford’s Inhaler, all In one pack
age, of all druggists, for $L Ask for Sanford’s
Radical Cure.
Weeks & Potter, Boston, Mass.
coups’ Instant Relief
• For P®*® ®nd 'Weakness
■s3b °* the Lun * s > Liver, Kid
ltbeu
X \ JUirL and Dyspepsia, In GOL
LINS’ VOLTAIC ELEC
hr TRIO PLASTERS. Only
STE&* 25c. Sold everywhere.
palt
maltHlers
A NOURISHING FOOD
i WHICH OVERCOMES
Deep-Seated Coughs, Bronchitis, Dyspep*
•is, Wasting of the Kidneys, Bright*
Disease, Dropsy, Emaciation, and Mentali
Physical and Nervous Debility. *
* Indorsed by the beet Phyeleiane. /
gHintral ttatrr.
Apollinaris
"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.”
British Medical Journal.
“ Exceptionally favoured. Pure
and agreeable. A great boon to con
tinental travellers
New York Medical Record.
ANNUAL SALE, 10 MILLIONS.
fl/all Groctrs, Druggists, and Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWABE OF IMITATIONS.
NATIVE MINERAL WATER.
ROCKBBIDGE, VA.,
ALUM WATER.
Cares Dyspepsia,
Indigestion,
Torpid Liver,
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY,
SKIN DISEASES. SCROFULA. CHRON
IC PNEUMONIA. ETC.
It is a powerful alterative tonic and is ANTI
MALARIAL in its effects. Read certifi
cates from Eminent Physicians
in our pamphlets.
NO ARTIFICIAL GASES OR SALTS.
BOTTLED in its natural state, direct from
the Springs, which are beautifully located
In Rockbridge county, Va., and are open for
the reception of visitors from June 1 to Octo
ber 1 each year; capacity 1,000 guests.
For sale wholesale and retail by O. BUTLER,
SOLOMON'S & CO. and UUPMAN BROS,
IPry
HEADQUARTERS!
LACES! EI1R0I1BIIRS!
CAMBRICS,
MULLS,
N AINSOOKS.
%
Plain, Figured & Dotted Swisses
EMBROIDERY SILKS.
Tie CeleLratefl Lonsdale CaiLrics
We offer at 12 l-2c. by the yard or piece.
DAVID WEISBEIN & CO.
sam-
all climates and pronounced Perfect in Gut, Cure, a Flavor,
Every ham guaranteed. Ask your Grocer for Magnolias.
McFERRAN. SHALLCROSS & CO.. LOUISVILLE, KT
furniture ana (Carpets,
& LINDSAY,
DEALERS IN
Furniture, Carnets & Molstery Goads,
COMPRISING full lines of SATIN DAMASKS, COTEHNES, PERBIAN TAPESTRIES, PLAIN
SATINS. BOURETTE TAPESTRIES, JAVA CLOTH. ALL WOOL TERRIEB, PLUSHEB
and FURNITURE GIMPS.
LACE CURTAINS. SWIBB. FRENCH GUIPURE, NOTTINGHAM and LENO.
A full line of CARPETS in all grades.
Just received, 500 rolls TONG SING STRAW MATTINGS, which we offer at very low prices.
50 new and elegant designs of WINDOW SHADES, comprising the Princess Royal, Cardinal,
Transparent, Lambrequed, etc. HARTSHORN’S SELF-ACTING SHADE ROLLERS. No Cords
or Brackets, does not get out of order.
WALNUT CHAMBER SUITS, PARLOR FURNITURE, MAHOGANY WHATNOT, DINING
ROOM FURNITURE, Fine WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, CENTRE and LIBRARY TABLES,
Wood and Marble Top WARDROBES, BOOK CASES, SIDEBOARDS and EXTENSION TABLES.
Agents for the NATIONAL WIRE SPRING. In any case where this spring does not give
satisfaction we will refund the money. We call especial attention to our extensive lines of
WALL PAPERS. Also, receiving a large shipment of REFRIGERATORS, comprising the fol
liwing brands; Domestic, Upright, Saratoga, Niagara, Empress, the Queen Anne. Victoria, Ice
Queen, Snow Flake and Solid Ash, at very low prices. BABY CARRIAGES in all styles and
varieties, of the very best makes, lower than the lowest.
(Smews.
153 BAY ST. IT. P. BOND. I 155 BAY ST.
9,090 Bushels Maryland White Corn.
CARGO SCHOONER HATTIE E. GILES.
500 bushels Clay and Speckled Peas, 15 cars Western White
Corn, 20 cars Western Mixed Corn, 15 cars Western Mixed
Oats, 80,000 pounds Wheat Bran, Virginia and Tennessee
Peanuts, Apples. Onions, Florida Oranges, 100 sacks Beal Irish
Potatoes, 2,000 hales Western and Northern Hay.
Water fitters.
PURE WATER
—is—
Conducive to Health.
IS THE BEST.
ALSO, A FEW
Mb’s Filters & Coolers
COMBINED.
FOR BALK A*T
StoYe & Hardware House
—or—
CORIACK HOPKINS,
SAYANNAH, GEORGIA. ,
SBMittfrq goods.
LACE CAPS.
50y 50; 50; 50; 50;
VARIETIES OF
*
CHILDRENS LACE CAPS!
—ALSO—
SUN BONNETS,
DRESSES, BIBS,
Sun Bonnets,
Fashionaole Millinery.
Zephyrs, WorstoHs, Grovels
STAMPING TO ORDER.
MRS. POWER,
l6B BROUGHTON BTREET.
EASTER EGG DYES!
—WILL—
I)ye Worsted, Ribbons, Feathers, Etc.
sc. EACH, 6 COLORS FOR 85c.
G.M. HETDT & CO., Druggists,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets.
T H u p t”e“c*"
them, but by returning to thuim’ 7
rewarded by owner. tblB °Oce
. *Patrd.
WANTED.— A young manwhnhT^^
perience In busineM
French andl Spanish. desire* a
not so much an object as einr!i,? 4 ” OD - 8K
give best references. ■ <g
’
I>AR TENDER.—A
wants a situation. One ts.. Dar , tend*
his business. Address
Morning News office. AIL,
WANTED, a flrst-clasT'feed^'fM
three revolution printing r, r ,L2 r * Ho.
sober, steady and competent Fo M
nent situation at 813 per
apply. Address MORNING NEW® oFns
THE new mode of dress **
and correct; it gives beautv*to * im J*
never fails in a perfect fit Tam-w* f°ns
dences. Address MISS TOORs-v &t bst
Morning News, wa " care a
WANTED, by ayouDg lady a^ifTT —-
teach small children and t B L-l U4tlo ° to
them. Prefers to go in the country i?* <*
of references given and required V?>l
““
a competent man. W. A. BUCH av jv 01 * to
Jacksonville, Fla. AhAhjo^*
TIT - ANTED, a good cook, at !W Bay stJTT "
v v permanent place to a good man *' 1
ANTED, the public to
Southern Stamp. Stencil and Se[w
w now connected with Telephone &L
PINE and LIOHTWOOD. cut or in ° A £
ders sent me bv telephone, through bow. 0 ’ 1
left at office. Taylor and East Broad
will be promptly filled, R, b. Casski^ 1
for
0 SENT Rooms, with board.
South Broad street. at m
T'O RENT, several desirable
1 without board, at 56 Barnard street,?
leans square. *
rX)R RENT, two suites of
A offices on Bryan street. Apply mv
NEUFVILLE, Real Estate andln Sil P’
Agent, 2 Commercial Building. Jr4Bt
FV>R RENT.store 162 Bryan street,from Mi**
Ist to October Ist, 1882. M. j
Market square. ’ •‘A
for SaleT
CAROLINA VEAL and PPRINgTaV!
first and finest of the season, to heS
this morning at DRAYTON & THOMAS’ *3
44, Market. ’ 148
21 Bull ■**?*• opposite the
' * House, for Photograph*. Ferro*™*
Copying and Frames. Headquarters for tfi
of Southern Scenery. J. N. Wilsos
UOR SALE, 30 Lots at a bargain, on Eu
A Broad and near Anderson street it
ply to R. B. REPPARD. No. 70 Bay street
rpHE CALIGRAPH—THE MODEL TYPt
WRITER, writes one to twenty copies at once,
in clear type, and THREE TIMES cs fas! u
Person can write. Call and see the mactia
at 64 Bay street, or address I.ock Bor 101.
T OTS. BUILDING LOTB.-A fetTchcb
A A Building Lots for sale, south of And***,
street, thrAs minutes' walk from Rernul
Street Railroad, by S. F. KUNE.
KINDLINGS. OAKrTiNF^J
LIGHTWOOD. For sale by
BACON A BEOOKB.
lottery.
f’pHE Forty-second Popular Drawing of th<
Commonwealth Distribution Company o!
Louisville, Ky„ will take place TO-MORROW
FRIDAY, March 31, 1882. Whole Tickek ft
Halves SI.
sr. J&rttn'.
TANARUS) HEUMATISM. Neuralgia. Kidney, Lint
XL and Bowel disorders successfully treated
at 85per month See DR. SALTER at Suj
shall House Saturday for further advice.
gjaatrt nfl.
SOUTH ROOMB and boar 3 can be hadfroa
fhe Ist of April at 140 Liberty street
ptttti tkilross;
SCHEDULE.
Superintendent's Office 8., 8. i 8. It It, I
Savannah, March 1-, .iff* f
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS AND
FRIDAYS.
OUTWARD. I INWARD.
LEAVE I ARRIVE 1 LEAVE I LiiVl
3A VANN AH I BAVANXAH | ISLE HOPE. I MOSTOOH'T
6:25 p. u. I 8:88 a. m | 8:10 a h • H
Monday morning early train for Momgoi
ery only at 8:25 a. k,
WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND SUN-
DAYS.
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE ISLI LKATO
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH. OF HOPE. MONTS’OI.
10:25 aM. 8:38 a m 8:10 a. m 7:35 A. I
*3:25 p. it. 1:20 p. M. 12:50 p. . 13-15 f. E
6:52 p. M, 6:OS p. M 5:38 p. M. -MB P. >■
•Sundays this is the last outward train.
Saturday nights last train 7:10, instead of 6:54
EDW. J. THOM At.
Superintendent
3g3trlg t &c.
Waltham Watches
~ u
GOLD m SILVER CASK.
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
DIMS, JEffELH
-AND
SILVERWARE,
the lowest possible prices, at
M. STERNBERG’S,
24 BARNARD STREET. _
iron Works.
Fiueiiz Iron lofi
We are now landing five hundred tons sup? rlor
quality of
ENGLISH PII! MI
CARGO of bark Gna, of our own direct®,
portation, and have also cn hana s
Choice Brands of Scotch and AmeriC j,
IKON, aU of which were purchased by us
the producers for cash. We desire to
tention to our unsurpassed facilities
manufacture of all descriptions of
IRON CASTINGS,
Sugar Hills and Pans.
“SS SMK. & **
WU. KEHOE & CO.,
SAVANNAH.
KEISLINC’S NURSEB y
WHITE BLUFF ROAD *!