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FRIIUY, MARCH 31, 1882.
The low by the late Are in Richmond
will, it is estimated, amount to $500,000.
The insurance foots up nearly $300,000.
Among the noticeable features of the
immigration movement at Castle Garden
last week was the number of Italians
who landed. Upwards of 3,000 of that
nationality have arrived in the past three
weeks.
The Kentucky Legislature is consid
ering a railroad commission bill. The
commission is to have no absolute power
over rates, but is authorized to prosecute
all persons or corporations violating any
of the laws relating to railroads. Ex
tortion is defined and the punishment for
it is fixed, with an increasing fine for
each repetition of the offense.
It seems that the Mormons are already
devising ways and means to retain as
many offices as possible in Utah, not
withstanding the anti-polygamy bilL It
is stated that all polygamists holding po
sitions which are filled by appointment
when vacancies occur are resigning in
order that other Mormons who do not
practice the twin relic may slip into the
vacant places.
Setting aside the sentence of the court
martial in the Whittaker case, and the
dismissing him from the Military Acad
emy because of deficiency in his studies,
certain’y has the appearance of trickery.
It looks as if this plan was adopted to
satisfy justice, and yet to endeavor to do
away with the disgrace which sustaining
the sentenc e of the court would necessa
rily have fas'ened upon him.
Representative Fulkerson, from the
Ninth district of Virginia, has written a
letter in regard to the appointment of
John G. Watts as Marshal for the West
em district of Virginia. Colonel Ful
kerson, although the Representative in
Congress of the district from which this
appointment was made, freely concedes
that he was not consulted about it, and
that it "WuS made upon the sole recom
mendation of General Mahone,” as “all
Federal appointments in Virginia are.
State Senator R. B. Wilcox, of Vii*
ginia, lives in the Petersburg district,
and it is said that he is an aspirant for
Congress. This is considered the true
reason why he so recently announced a
change in his poUtLcal sentiments and
declared that he henceforth intended to
act with the national Republicans. But
it Beems that even his abandonment of
his former Democratic principles will
not save him. His district is largely
Republican and has always been, and
the original members of that party are
already beginning to assert that they have
claims upon the district superior to any
which any galvanized Republican can
put forward.
The returns of the slave population of
the province of Rio Janeiro have been
made up to the 30th of June, 1881. On
the 30th of September, 1873, when the
special registration closed, there were
301,169 slaves in the province, which
number was increased by 30,423 after
wards brought into the province, increas
ing the total of registration to 333,592.
This number, however, had become re
duced to 276,195 on the 30th of June,
1881, by 46,374 deaths and 11,023 eman
cipations, the decrease in seven and
three quarter years being 57.397, or
nearly 21 per cent. Of the 276,195,
117,251 were from tea to twenty one
years of age, 149,099 of twenty one to
sixty, and 9,845 over sixty; 203,037 were
engaged on farm work.
The tariff commission bill, which pass
ed the Senate last Tuesday by a decided
majority, evidently intends to give the
protectionists as much time as
possible to prepare for their doom.
It provides for a commission of
nine members to be appointed
by the President and confirmed by the
Senate, who are to receive as compensa
tion for their services $lO per day when
actually employed, and traveling and
other necessary expenses. They are to
investigate all the various questions re
lating to the agricultural, commercial,
mercantile, manufacturing, mining and
industrial interests of the United States,
so far as the same may be necessary to
the establishment of a judicious tariff,
or revision of the existing tariff and the
existing system of internal revenue laws
upon a scale of justice to all interests,
and are to report to Congress from time
to time, and to make a final report not
later than the first Monday in January,
1883.
We suggest as a first class Republican
ticket in 1884. the following: For Presi
dent, Charles J. Guiteau, of Illinoi". For
Vice President, ex Governor Franklin
J. Mo6es, of South Carolina. Both these
parties are prominent and pronounced
Republicans. The head of the ticket has
proven himself an adept in revolution
izing administrations for the benefit
of his party; and the well known indi
vidual offered for the second place has,
besides his distinguished services for his
party in South Carolina, shown himself
to be one of the most adroit finan
ciers on record. Both have claims which
should not be ignored.
N. B.—Of course it is understood that
in case Gaiteau is hung before the con
vention meets Moses should have the
first place. There will be no difficulty
whatever in finding in Republican ranks
any quantity of kindred spirits who
could be brought forward for the Vice
Presidency, and whose claims upon the
gratitude of the party should be recog
nized. There’s Belknap, for instance.
We deaire to call-special attention to
a communication elsewhere published
this morning on the above subject. Our
correspondent complains bitterly, and
apparently with good reason, of the in
adequate facilities offered vegetable
growers in our sister State for getting
their produce to market with necessary
dispatch. As he well saye, vegetables
will not keep as will flour and bacon,
and when delayed on the way, they
arrive in market either greatly damaged
or wholly unfit for use. In either case
the truck grower is subjected to loss,
and so serious has the matter become
unless different arrangements can
be made, raising early vegetables for the
Northern market must be entirely
abandoned in the section of Florida
about Lake City, from which point our
correspondent’s letter is written.
The officers and agents of our Ocean
Steamship line, the Florida Central and
of the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railways are appealed to to do all in their
power to remedy this evil, and we trust
the appeal will be heeded. Certainly it
would if**™ to be to the interest of their
lines to do so, for with vegetable ship
ments North cut off from this section
of country, their business must, neces
sarily be more or leas affected.
The Anti-Chinese Bill*
Since the passage of this bill by both
houses of Congress by a decisive vote It
has attracted more attention and discus
sion than before it was placed in the
bands of the President. The reason of
this is that now that it is perhaps on the
eve of becoming a law, public opinion is
inclined to consider the step carefully
before it is too late. In other words,
apprehension is generally being aroused
le3t in prohibiting the immigration and
naturalization of Chinese —thereby plac
ing the Mongolians in a different position
from all other nations —a serious blow
may be struck at what has always been
regarded as one of the most Important
principles underlying the republic, viz:
that this is a country where representa
tives of all nations may find political
freedom, and enjoy to the utmost pro
tection for life and property, and in the
pursuit of happiness.
While this bill was under discussion,
we, on more than one occasion, express
ed disapproval over its sweeping pro
visions. Not only is it, to our mind, in
the nature of a violation of treaty obliga
tions, but it is certainly opposed, at least,
to the spirit if not the actual letter of the
organic law of the R public. When the
Constitution declares that Congress
shall have power “to establish an uni
form rule of naturalization,” it clearly
never intended that such rule should be
so entirely ununiform as to provide for
the naturalization of all other
foreigners except Chinese. Nor is
this all, but most certainly when
it is so specifically declared
in the fifteenth amendment to the Con
stitution that “the right of citizens to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States, or by any State, on
account of race, color or previous condi
tion of servitude,” it is clearly manifest
that the spirit of that instrument is op
posed to anything like race discrimina
tion. Indeed, it has been but very few
years since the halls of Congress were
made daily to resound with exceedingly
high-flown rhetorical flourishes on this
very subject, and no opportunity was
spared to convince the world that we were
the most sympathizing, generous and
virtuous of all the nations and countries
of the globe. Now, however, because
of a hue and cry raised in one section of
the country against the Chinese, and by
the very men who formerly were so
blatant in denouncing race discrimina
tions in the South, all these bombastic
and highly virtuous expressions of
sympathy for the poor and oppressed of
the earth must be regarded simply as
words uttered only for effect, and what
has heretofore been boasted of as one of
the most commendable principles of our
system of government, is to be finally
discarded.
As serious as may be the consequences
of this Chinese proscription in the fu
ture, however, in so far as it may affect
all kinds of foreign immigration and
citizenship in the United States, this is
not by any means the most serious
aspect of the case. The objections to
the bill which we have cited are some
what sentimental, but.whatisof far more
importance in these days, there is a de
cidedly practical view of the question to
be taken. Our trade with China amounts
to many hundreds of million dollars per
annum, and to secure this trade we have,
in common with other countries, put
forward strenuous exertions. Now we
propose to try and bold on to this valua
ble Chinese commerce, yet we deliber
ately insult the whoie Chinese nation by
telling it that while we extend cordial
invitations to other peoples of the earth
to come in and partake freely of the rich
feast of universal liberty and happiness
which we have prepared, the
Chinese alone are not wanted,
and will be excluded. It is
not tc be presumed that this will
commend us to the good will of the Ce
lestial Empire, or that it will incline that
eovernuuiEt to listen favorably to our
friendly overtures when we are solicit
ing its trade. To the contrary, other and
rival nations for the same trade will hold
this out against us, and, m consequence,
the Chinese Government will naturally
come to look upon the American people
as pre eminently the enemies of its
people, and will take great pleasure in
retaliating upon us in every way possi
ble, for the discourtesy and actual insult
with which we propose to treat them.
It is not to be expected that they will be
willing to treat with us as friends when
we wish to secure favors from them,
and yet, when such favors are granted,
return them only with snubbing.
These are important matters to be
considered in connection with this
measure, though it is hardly to be
expected that Mr. Arthur will veto the
bill in face of the large majority in Con
gress by which it was passed. Should
he do so, however, while he would no
doubt excite against him a storm of in
dignation from the San f rancisco sand
lot orators, we believe that he would re
ceive general commendation for his
nerve from the common sense and con
servative element of his fellow citizens.
American Citizen* in British
Prisons.
Latest advices from Great Britain indi
cate that there is some probability that
certain American citizens arrested in Ire
land under the coercion act, and now in
British prisons, will soon be brought to
trial. It seems, however, that in arriving
at this determination the British Gov
ernment is not actuated so much by the
demands of justice, or the requests of
the American Minister to the Court of
SL James,but because it is seriously em
barrassed by the number of prisoner* in
its hands. We read that seven hundred
and ninety-four persons have been ar
rested since the passing of the protective
act up to the end of February, and on
the first of this month there were offici
ally reported five hundred and eighty
seven persons in Drison and untried,
while since that time others have been
arrested. Many Liberals as well as Con
servatives are demanding bow long the
“suspects’’ are to be kept in prison, and
are clamoring for their release. More
over, it is said, a determined attempt
will be made to send seventy or seventy
five followers of Mr. Parnell to Par
liament at the next election, and
the government realizes that nothing
more effective could be done to aid this
formidable design than by detaining
these six hundred untried prisoners.
Besides, it is now conceded that coercion
hts proved in every respect s failure,
and there i little expectation that the
Ministry will propose to repeat the ex
periment of the bill passed in March,
1881, when it expires next September.
The act has not accomplished what was
expected and promised, and the method
of its execution in the hands of the
Irish executive has been harsh and arbi
trary in the extreme.
The Pall Mall GatetU, ably discussing
this subject, ssys that “when Mr.
Forster brought in his coercion bill he
said: ‘We shall act in the full clear light
of public opinion, and under the eyes of
a Parliament of a free and constitutional
country; a Parliament not slow to criti
cise and punish the conduct of those of
its servants who transgress their powers. ’
Now, we should like to know on how
many of these seven hundred and ninety
four arrests the ‘full clear light of public
opinion,’ or any full clear light
at all. has been cast; on bow
many of them Parliament has
had its free and constitutional
eyes fixed. Of course, in the case of
such conspicuo us suspects as Mr. Par
nell and Mr. Dillon there has been criti
cism enough; but how has Parliament
shown that it cither knows or cares any
thing about the remaining seven hundred
and ninety-two untried prisoners?”
Commenting on these remarks of
the Gazette the Philadelphia Record says:
“Though there has been no chance for
criticism or investigation, yet one must
be very incredulous to think there has
been no injustice done, or that no one of
this large number of arrested persons is
unreasonably suspected. Parliament
was led to believe that the arrest of a
handful of village miscreants would
do all that was needed. What we see
is not a handful but a large body of meD
to be counted by hundreds, who, so
far from being all village miscreants, in
elude members of Parliament, town
councillors, guardians and substantial
farmers. Nevertheless, the object of
all this has proved an ignominious fail
ure; with the coercion act in full swing,
the criminals are also left in full swing.”
The Gazette declares that if there had
been no coercion act, and the Irish ex
ecutive had done originally what it was
obliged to do notwithstanding the coer
cion act—namely, appoint magistrates
with special powers, larger discretion
and more abundant police force—the
state of Limerick and Clare would have
been much better than it is to day. The
Gazette concludes that the government
will be “well advised to begin about this
time to think of an Irish amnesty.”
Lighting Our River.
We have received the following letter
relating to the above subject, in which
90 much general interest is being felt.
We publish it with pleasure, as it is very
necessary that all difficulties in the way
of a consummation of this important
work may be fully understood, to the
end that they maybe removed as speedi
ly as possible:
Savannah, March 30, 1882. —Editor
Morning Neus: Referring to your arti
e’e in th:9 moraine's News concerning
the lighting of the river, I desire to make
a statement which, in reference to two
of the light house sites, at least, will
place the blame of the delay where it be
longs. The price asked for the two sites
was considered reasonable by the gov
erament officer, and ihe purchase agreed
upon. Titles were made out in Septem
ber last, signed and forwarded to the en
gineer in Charleston, who acknowledged
receipt of same. Delay followed, caused,
as he stated, by the proper examin-ition
of the titles which were, at least, pro
nounced unexceptionable. More delay
followed and still more. Letters passed
between the owners and both Charleston
and Washington, and finally seven
months after the bills had been signed
notice comes that the bills cannot
be found, and a request that others be
drawn up, signed and forwarded. This
the owner declined, very naturally, to do,
unless the money be deposited in the
hands of some government officer in Sa
vannah, to whom the titles would be de
livered upon payment of san*. This
proposition wrs declined by the gov
erament; and so the matter stands.
It appears to me that it wou'd be
an easy matter for the government to
erect beacon lights in the water, as
you euggest, similar to the F g Island
light, o* what would be -*ier and
cheaper, as the government is so poor,
would be to place buoys lighted with
gas (as is done in some places at the
North) all the way up from the bar.
These gas buoys burn three months with
out attention, J believe, and could all be
placed within a week.
Respectfully yours,
John Stoddard.
6ENERU KOTEI.
Parents at Fall River have been detected
in issuing forged school cards misrepresent
ing the ages of their young children, so as
to keep the little ones at work full time in
the mills.
The importation of eggs into Great Bri
tain last year was 750,000,000, or about two
dc?u for each man, woman and child in
the country, ‘their coney value was oyer
110,000.000.
M, Rouxeaud, the husband of Madame
Nilsson, died, it Is said, intestate. That
part of Madame Nilsson’s fortune, there
fore, which was deposited in the bank in his
name wii), according to law, be divided with
her husband’s family.
A recent treatise on plate skows how cu
riously slow people were to take to forks
Tbu* the Duchesse of Tourraine possessed
in 139 nine doaen sliver spoons, but only
one fork. Thomas Coryat tried on his re
turn to England from Italy In 1608 to Intro
duce general use of forks, and got the
sobriquet of “Furclfer.”
The Bheriff of Dallas county, lowa, wears
shabby clothes, and Is insignificant in ap
pearance. He had occasion to take a portly,
well dressed prisoner to the penitentiary.
The convict, when they came into the war
den’s office, coolly remarked, "Here’s a
man for you/’and handed over the Sheriff
to be locked up. The trick was not suc
cessful, yet the Bheri£f bad to submit to de
tention until bis Identity could be estab
lished.
The Portland (Me.) Argue says: “Mr.
Longfellow was born in a wooden house,
now standing, on the corner of Hancock
and Fore streets. It, was not here, however,
that Mr. Longfellow spent bis boyhood, for
bla father soon after Henry’s bir’h removed
to the brick house on Congress street, next
to the Preble House, built by Gen. Pelir
Wadsworth, maternal grandfather of the
poet. This house was the first erected In
Portland of wholly brick wal’s ”
The Canadian Government has pursued
the Pullman Palace Car Company until It
has decided that the pompacy must pay
duty upon all stationery, car repairs and
other dutiable gords brought Into Canada
from the United States. This question was
brought to the attention of the government
by discharged conductors, who ought now
to feel that they have obtained sufficient re
venge. If the company Is called upon to
set'le for all Its arrears of customs slnee it
has been in operation in Canada it will have
a large bill to pay.
A Mexican correspondent says that the
skill of the natives in making little figures
In clay Is astonishing. They are by nature
artists* and sculptors. They will produce
your own portrait for yon in pottery, cloth
or wax—a bust or a bas-relief—with a fidel
ity which is remarkable. To "see yourself
as ethers iep you,” you have but to aay to
one of these Indiars that you desire your
“counterfeit presentment,” and he will pro
duce It in % style which, If not fluttering,
will at least be faithful. It cultivated,
what might not this talent, which in fact
smonnts to genius, produce?
Public spirited and charitable ladies of
Syracuse kept up a “friendly inn” for the
benefit of strangers and the poor fer seven
years, but have been compelled to succumb
at last. One of them thus explains the
failure : “Us competition with othr tem
perance eating houses, where tobacco is
sold, but not liquors, has diminished its re
ceipts a great deal. We have also lost a
revenue by the operations of the Bureau of
Labor and Charities, which has stopped
beggine. Formerly we sold tickets to fami
lies to be given to spplicants for alms. That
is now done away wiih.”
The strike in the great Pacific mills, at
Lawrence, still continues. By the closing
of the worsted mill the number of people
out of employment has been Increased eo
that there are now fully five thousand out,
which is one-etghth of the entire population
of the city. The beads of the manufactur
ing corporation have treated this strike with
a degree of Indifference that excites com
ment. But the reason may be surmised.
They have a large rock of manufactured
goods on hand, and there Is a desire to bring
out some new styles of woolens, to do which
it will be necessary to put In new machinery.
The strike will afford them an excellent op
portunity to do this.
A week ago the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of
London, was so 111 with gout as to be unable
to appear In his pulpit. “To mv own
grievous disappointment,” he wrote in a let
ter read by one of hla assistants, *my old
disorder has come upon me like an armed
man and laid me low. I cannot walk, or
even stand, and the pain renders it difficult
for me to think consecutively upon any
subject. I entreat you to prey that thfe
affliction may be quickly sanctified to ms,
and that it msy be quickly removed. lam
cheerfully hopeful that it is not so fierce an
attack as others which I have suffered, and
that I shall speedily be among you. Mean
while to you all I wish joy, and myself pa
tience.”
Monday last was another red letter day
at Castle Garden, the emigrant arrivals ex
ceeding four thousand, which is the heaviest
importation for any day this month. Super
intendent Jackson says the class of emi
grants arriving Just now, as a general thing,
have sufficient means to supply their wants
until they can obtain work ; many of them
come with a liberal supply of money and go
directly West, where they will purchase
farms. Germany, he thinks, will show the
largest proportionate increase of any conti
nental country this season. Thus far this
year, <t Is gratifying to know there have
been few pauper arrivals, and the number
asking aid from the Commissioners of Emi
gration to-day is much smaller than at any
time heretofore.
That unknown but costly quantity of
steel, Iron, stone and brick, the Brooklyn
bridge, on which somewhere between #13,-
000,000 and $15,000,000 has already been ex
pended, is now pronounced Insecure by
General Newton. In a report just made to
the Chief Engineer of the United Btates
Army he says that its insecurity arises from
the insufficiency of the original estimates
and from the “disposition to accommodate
to the verge of prudence the pressure of
the locomotive interest.” The trustees are
asking an appropriation from the New York
Legislature of $1,850,000 more; but In view
of the scientific doubts expressed as to its
character and that the Supreme Court of
the United States will eive an opinion in
October on the point of obstruction to the
navigation of the East river, and that this
decision may involve the removal of the
bridge, it Is thought that the Legislature
will delay making any further appropriations
this session for the completion of the
structure.
The New York Herald is down on the en
core. It says : “When a man sells a bushel
of potatoes over which the purchaser be
comes enthusiastic does he feel called upon
to supply another bushel without extra
charge? Not he. Why, then, should an
actor or singer be compelled to give double
meafure of whatever he gives well ? An
intelligent audience will applaud whatever
Is pardcula-ly well dote, but the applause
does not always mean that repetition Is de
marded. At some performances, how
ever, and notably at concerts, there appears
a class of people who, determined to get all
they can for their money, encore everybody
and everything, and turn into exacting
trickery a cuttora that once signified honor
able regard for deserving artists. Well may
the singer of experience pray to be deliv
ered from his friend*, If every one whose
name appears on a programme with him is
to be dragged two or three times before the
curtain to go through the moMons of an art
of which they know nothing.”
A war of races has been begun in New
York. The correspondent from that city of
the Philadelphia Ledger, write* under da’e
of the 27th in6t.: “At the Tombs Police
Court this afteruoon, Ah Moon, a laundry
man, was brought before Justice Smith to
answer a charge of firing a pistol at a crowd
of white ruffians, who last night attacked
the Chinese quarter In Pell street, in force,
with the dec'ared Intention of ‘cleaning
them out.’ The prisoner admitted firing
the pistoi, but explained that It was In self
defense, and, moreover, It was loaded only
with blank cartridge, ‘just to frighten them ’
One Chinaman, named Lee Sing, was felled
senseless to the sidewalk. The police offi
cers of the precinct where the disturbance
occurred corroborated these statements,
and Ah Moon accordingly waa discharged.
There were some twenty Celestials in court
watching the result, and when their coun
tryman was released they manifested their
satisfaction by crowding around him, keep
ing up for awhile a tremendous chatter, but
what it was all about of course nobody could
tell. It does not appear that the slightest
effort was made bv the authorities to bring
to justice the ruffians that, assaulted them,
though one, Timothy Abbott, of No. 56
East Broadway, was subsequently ca; tured
and sent to the penitentiary for three
months.
IN HEMORIAM.
Tbe Late Colonel William Tappan
Thompson.
Americus Republican.
Wall, he Is dead, one who in the discharge of
life’s duties won jthe encomiums of all who
knew him—Colonel Wm. T. Thompson, editor
of the Savannah Morning N*ws. He was a
true type of tbe scholar and the gentleman,
and for long years he was a foremost man in
Georgia journalism, and tbe highest compli
ment that can be paid him is this, that he has
never written a line that he would wish now to
blot out—but his Influence and his words were
ever on the line of advanced and beautful
thoughts. He was an exponent of journalism
in its purity, and the maiden's cheeks never
blushed in reading an article of his,
but the hue of a subdued mellowing Influence
tinged with a beauty all of his writings
His pen ever flashed with reason, for his
character was that of a wise, noble and good
man. For thirty-two years he managed the
Savannah News, and he did it most success
fully. He was popular in our literature as an
humorist, and bis "Major Jones’ Courtship”
and other works have given him a reputation
world wide. But to-day he is dead, and to his
silent nome tho tears of many who knew him
in this life to love him will follow him, and
deep down in the hearts of all our people there
will ever remain for this noble man the fra
grance of the sweetest memories.
Sparta Ishmaelite.
Colonel W. T. Thompson, editor of the Sav
annah Mornino News and author of "Major
Jones’ Courtship,” is dead. He was one of the
ablest editors In the State.
Covington Star.
Colonel William Tappan Thompson, one of
tbe oldest editors and “Nestor of the Georgia
press,” died at his residence In Savannah, on
last Friday evening, after a painful illness of
three months, aged about 70 years.
***•**!•
But the great monuments to his facile and
brilliant pen are his literary works and his con
tinuous editorial management of the Bavannah
Morn iso News for nearly a third of a century.
These two are the solid pillars upon which his
fame will rest forever. They form a structure
scarcely equalled in architectural grandeur.and
one never surpassed In elegance and beauty of
finish. But his great work is finished. May
hia rest be peaceful and iweet. In the enjoy
ment of his reward.
Bumestnlle Gazette.
Colonel w. T. Thompson, the editor of the
Savannah News, died last Friday afternoon.
He Lad been ill some time. The pres*, not only
of Georgia, but all over the Union, will be
pained to hear of his death.
Walton Rexes and Vidette.
On the 24th Inst. Henry W. Longfellow, the
g-est poet, and Col. W. T. Thompson, the
veteran editor of the Savannah Daily News,
and author of "Major Jones’ Courtship.” both
died, thus extinguishing two of the brightest
literary lighta of this continent.
Warrenton dipper.
The Morning News cornea to us draped in
mourning for its late editor. Colonel William
T Thompson, whose death occurred at his
home in Savannah on Friday last, in the
seventieth year of his age Colonel Thompson
had been editor of the News for more than
thirty years, and belonged to that old school of
journalists of whom but few are left.
Spring Place Times
Colonel W. T. Thompson, the venerable and
able editor of the savannah Morning News,
died on the 24th instant. He was ths oldest
and one of the ablest editors in Georgia. In his
death Southern journalism loses one of ita
brightest ornaments. Democracy one of its
mott earnest advocates, and Georgia one of its
moot valuable citizens,
Jlaxekinnville News.
The Mornino News of Saturday ccmes to us
in mourning for the death of Colonel William
T. Thompson, late senior editor of that |>aper,
which occurred at his residence in Savannah,
Ga.. on the evening of the 24th inst. Colonel
Thompson was one among the oldest jour
nalists in the State, was an able and foi uible
writer, and as the author of "Major Jones’
Courtship" and other humorous sketches had
acquired a national reputation.
Thomasville Enterprise.
The announcement by telegraph of the
death of this well and widely known
gentleman carried a shock to many hearts
in Georgia and elsewhere He had lived
out his “three score years and ten," yet his
friends had fondly hoped that he might be
spared for many vears of usefulness in the
profession which he adorned. He was recog
nised as the s estor of Georgia journalism, but
hi* name and reputation were inseparably con
nected with the Mornino News. of Savannah,
with which he had been identified since I*Bo,
and which to day owes, in a large measure, ita
high standard of excellence and reliability to
the ability and sVill of Col. Thompson both as a
writer and as a manager of all the details con
nected with the successful conduct of a daily
paper. In private life he was a man of most
Eleasant and agreeable manner and of the
ighest character.
Jr sup Sentinel.
Last Friday Colonel William Tappan Thomp
son. chief editor of the Savannah News, de
parted this life after a lingering illness of sev
eral months. He was the founder of the N*ws.
and for thirty-two years had devoted his time
and abilitv to that excellent journal. He was
also the author of Msjor Jones’ Courtship,'
and a number of other popular works. Colonel
Thompson was in his seventieth year, and had
spent a long life of usefulness to his country.
In addition to the rare literary talent which be
possessed, he was a man of honor and Christ
ian integrity. In the death of Colonel Thomp
son Georgia has lost a most valuable dtlsen.
Waynesboro Herald.
This distinguished gentleman, the editor of
the Savannah Morning News, died on Friday
of last week at the ripe age of three score and
ten. Colonel Thompson had worn distinction
in the literary world, had lived the life of a use
ful patriot and citixen, and was beloved and re
spected as a thorough gentleman of the old
school. We have bten accustomed to rf i,
with much pleasure, the labors of h(s pen in
the editorial columns of the Nnws, and while
we did not have tne pleasure of a personal ac
quaintance, we felt a personal sorrow when the
news of his death waa received. A grand thing
it is for one, when life’s onerousduties have all
been met, to merit such a tnbute as appeared
in the Ngea of Saturday.
Irwinton Southerner and Appeal.
Colonel William T. Thompson, editor of the
Savannah Morning News, died at his home in
Savannah on the evening of March 24th. after
a painful illness of several months. Colonel
Thompson was Georgia's oldest editor and
author, having entered his 70th year. He was
the author of “Major Jones’ Courtship," which
was his first book. He also wrote "Major Jones’
Travels,” “The Chronicles of Pineville,” and
"The Lire Indian.” which was said to be the
best American farce ever put on the stage; and
a dramatization of the "Vicar of Wakefield"
was also one of hla prodi’ollons He died as
he had lived—with a Christian's faith. And
thus has passed away a good and gifted man,
and one of Georgia’s purest Democrats.
Sander stHUe Mercury.
00l W. T. Thompson, the senior editor of
the Savannah News, died at his home on Fri
day night last. He was an aide writer, wield
lng a terse and vigorous pen, and has been
wearing ths editorial mantle longer than any
other writer in Georgia Ills death is a great
loss to the community, and we seriously
sympathize with those he leaven behind, and
honor hia memory. May he real In peace.
jfruu, <ftt.
J. b reedy!
still holda the field in lemons,
•
oranges,
pocoanuta,
vegetable*,
fruits,
raisins.
dried fruits of ail kinds In season, and just now
lu particular
lemnna,
lentous,
lemons,
lemons,
fancy groceries, fancy groceries
lemons,
lemons,
lemons,
lemons,
oniens,
potatoes,
mott’s sparkling champagne cider,
mott’s sparkling champagne cider,
peanuts,
peanuts.
headquarters always.
j. b. reedy,
grocer and importer
corner bay and whitaker streets.
LEM
Can Be Obtained in Any Quan
tity from
P. H. WARD & CO.,
BAVANNAH, GEORGIA
furniture,
Where Shall I Go
TO GET
GREATBARGAINS
TO
SOUTHERN
Furniture louse,
yy HERE you will find BEDROOM SUITS
and WINDOW SHADES, PARLOR SUITS,
MIBRORS and CHROMOS, CRADLES, CRIBS
and BABY CARRIAGES, BEDBTEADS and
MATTRESS EB, KITCHEN FURNITURE,
BTOVES, HOLLOW WARE and TINWARE.
S. HERMAN,
170 Broughton Street.
Stria
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS
A FULL assortment at the lowest prices.
BEANR, CUCUMBERS, TOMATO EB,
EGG PLANTS, NUTMEG MELONS, CORN,
PURE RATTLESNAKE WATERMELONS,
etc., etc. Parties purchasing in large quanti
ties will he offered special inducements.
J. GARDNER, Agent,
30(6 Bull street.
GENUINE RATTLESNAKE
WATERMELLON SEED.
Grown especially far ua from purest and
choicest stock At wholesale.
G. M. HEIDT & CO.,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets.
S
’W.A.a-Ba-Bixva
f
Opposite Pulaski Hoist.
FULL STOCK OF GARDEN SEEDS
AT WHOLESALE.
G, M. HEIDT & CO,
(CUampagßi.
MIiMM! MUMM! MUMM!
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
See that the corks are branded JULES MUMM
& CO.
I OFFER to my customers, and the public in
general, these really superior Dry and Ex
tra Dry Wines at lowest prices. These reliable
champagnes need only a trial from connois
seurs to be appreciated,
DRINK THE WINE AND NOT THE LABEL!
O. DEI. STULTS,
SOLE AGENT FOR 8 AVANNAH, GA.
Pineal 3#ater.
Apollinaris
•THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.”
British Medical Journal.
** Exceptionally favoured. Pure
nJ agreeable. A great boon to con
'Untal travellers .’*
Now York Medical Record.
ANNUAL SALE, 10 MILLIONS.
Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWABB OF IMITATIONS.
Saranack Mineral Spring Water
THE only water which possesses all the virtue
of the Saratoga and imported waters.
Cures Constipation, Debility, Indigestion and
Kidney Diseases. For sale wholesale and re
tail at
OSCEOLA BUTLER’S.
ftlttfler <AU.
GINGER ALE!
DIRECT IMPORTATION PER BRITISH BARK
HYPATIA.
25 Casks Cantrell St Cochrane's
GINGER ALE.
Now landing, and for sale low by
JAS. McGKATH & CO.
CIRCULAR NO. 21.
Omcx ox THic Railroad Commission, I
Atlanta, Ga., March 3, 1882. (
JAMES M. SMITH, )
CAMPBELL WALLACE, ) Commissioners.
L. N. TRAMMELL, J
ON AND AFTER APRIL Ist, 1882. the Rates
of Freight, transported by regular Passen
ger trains, must not exceed one and one half
the rates allowed by Commissioners “Stands rd
Tariff,” for first-cissy freight by ordinary
Freight trains; but a charge of 28 cento may
be made for any single shipment.
By order of the Board.
JAMES M. SMITH.
Chairman.
B. A, Bacon, Sec’y.
Wfrtr l?rotit0Ol.
Reaches.
A SMALL LOT OF
Dried Peaches!
-AT
-150. POUND!
For sale by
A. M. & C. W. WESff.
Bittere landeln
KARTOFFEL MEHL.
KOSCHER SAUSAGE.
KOSCHER BEEF.
KOSCHER FAT.
PEANUTS.
RAISINS.
MCHOUS LMG & BRO.
J W. BCHLEY. WM. SCHLEY,
Savannah. Ga. New York.
JAS. W. SCHLEY & CO.,
WHOLKSALE DEALKBB 1M
Hay, Grain and Provisions,
172 BAY STREET*, SAV ANNAH, GA.
GEORGIA AND CAROLINA RED RUST
PROOF OATS.
TV/ E call the attention of our country friends
TV to our large and assorted stocks of
CORN, HAY, OATS, BRAN, BACON. FLOUR,
FEEDS. All orders will receive immediate
attention. Inquiries promptly answered.
Itfatrr JtUm.
PURE WATER
—is—
Conducive to Health.
IS THE BEST.
ALSO, A FEW
Kedzie’s Filters k Coolers
COMBINED.
FOR SALE AT
Stove & Hardware House
—or—
COMACK HOPKINS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Sottmu.
4 2 d ~
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
Commonwealth
Distribution Cos.
In the City of Louisville, ob
FRIDAY, MARCH 31,1882.
These drawings occur monthly (Sundays
excepted) under provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of Kentucky
The United States Circuit Court on March 31
rendered the following decisions:
Ibt-THAT THE COMMONWEALTH DIS
TRIBUTION COMPANY 18 LEGAL.
2d—lTB DRAWINGS ARE FAIR.
N. B.—This company has now on hand a
large reserve fund. Read carefully the list of
prizes for the
M4RCH DRAWING,
}£[} v I 30,000
1 Prize 10,000
1 Prize 5 800
10 Prizes, 11,000 each 10 000
20 Piizes, 500 each 10,000
100 Prizes, 100 each 10,000
200 Prizes, Meaoh 10,000
800 Prizes, 80 each 18,000
1,000 Prizes, 10 each 10,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZKS.
I Prizes, 300 each 8,700
9 Prizes, 800 each 1,800
9 Prizes, 100 each 900
1,980 Prize* 112,400
Whole tiokefe, *2; Half Tickets, $1; 87 Tickets,
$6O; 55 Tickets, $lOO.
Remit Money or Bank Draft in Letter, or
send by Express. DON’T BEND BY REGIS
TERED LETTER OR POST OFFICE ORDER..
Orders of $5 and upward, by Express, can be
sent at our expense. Address all orders to R. M.
BOARDMAN, Courier-Journal Building. J,ouiB
- Ky„ or R. M. BOARDMAN, W 8 Broad
way, New York.
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ, Agent,
Cor. Bull and Broughton sts.. Savannah. Ga
ffiUUcmi (Saoflg.
LACE CAPS.
SOj 009 *5O, 50, SOj
VARIETIES 07
CHILDREN’S LACE CAPS!
—ALSO—
SUN BONNETS,
DRESSES, BIBS,
Sun Bonnets,
Fashionaole Millinery.
Zephyrs, Worsted, Grevels
STAMPING TO ORDER.
MRS. POWER,
l6B BROUGHTON STREET,
%ottls.
suns
First-Class Table Board
$0 PER WEEK.
ROOM AND BOARD
$8 PER WEEK.
TlBlt t mcmiMBLB.
BICE MULLS.
Kentucky Rice Drills,
RUBBER TUBES AND REPAIRS.
For sale by
PALMER BROS..
148 CONGRESS STREET, SAVANNAH.
yffltary yrtetg (food*.
ORIGINAL IN EMMII
AMBER TRIUMPH ACHIEVED!
Grand Spring Opening!
s
Wet’s Net Variety Store,
188 Brousliton Street,
UNIVERSALLY CONCEDED THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST
MILLINERY AND VARIETY GOODS
ESTABLISHMENT IN SAVANNAH.
PARASOLS A SPECIALTY !
MONDAY & TUESDAY, April 3 and 4.
t R. ALTJIAYER & CO.’S
OPENTINTG DAYS!
liprtei Trimied Hats &l onnets
Our Millinery Department this season will be very elaborate
and comprise the largest variety of Shapes, Stiles and Colors
seen in the city in many years. High novelties in every depart
ment will be displayed. FANS, PAKASOLS. Our favorite
brands of
KID eiOYES! KID GLOVES!
An elegant souvenir will be distributed on the occasion.
£ry foods.
HEADQUARTERS!
♦ ’
LiCESI EHI10IDEIIES!
CAMBRICS,
MULLS,
NTAINTSOOKS.
Plain, Figured Dotted Swisses
EMBROIDERY SILKS.
The Celebrated Lonsdale Caihrics
We offer at 12 l-2c. by the yard or piece.
DAVID WEISBEIN & CO.
loptlrg,
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
JEWELER AND DEALER IN
Waltham and Elgin Watches,
FINE GOLD JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
AGENT FOR THE PIONEER WATCH.
STERLING SILVERWARE. TRIPLE-PLATED WARE.
FRENCH AND AMERICAN CLOCKS, S GOLD-HEADED CANES.
STAB SPECTACLES, MANUFACTURER OF FLORIDA
GLASSES. JEWELRY.
SI BULL STREET, OPPOSITE SCREVEN HOUSE.
(Emtrtts.
153 BAY ST. IT. P. ROND. I 155 BAY ST.
9,090 Bushels Maryland White Born.
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 Real Irish
Potatoes, 2,000 bales Western and Northern Hay.
twtfj,
WANTED, competent dry^C^^V lls5 *:
Algo, competent packer*
rooms; steady positions, at w hole^
2_KCKBTE7N 4co>B
WANTED, two white bovs"~ir~T~]
Ewhange. ft GRI
Bar tender._a flrst-ciawfV. — s^-
wants a situation. One fht f J®'!
W it.rw. . 80.
apply. Address MORNING Nirenffif *d
THE new mode of dress cuttlnr- i,. -~
and correct; it elves beaiit" ti thl "i a W
never fails m a perfect fit fon ;
dences Address MISS TOOmfv at
Morning News, IUOHg V ca^
W ANTED, by a young lady a ~~
teach small children and take ' O6 *
them. Prefers to go in the count A t?'!
of references given and renuirwV , j
W*bT.™'
iBK w - A
Ty ANTED, a good cook, at 99 Bsy S tr„ 7"~
y V permanent place to a good m.n 4
ANTED, the public to know^th^T'
TXT ANTED, consumers of wood to
'I keep on hand a large stock
PINE and UQHTWOOD, cut or£
ders sent me by telephone, throne*- 0r
Wt •* office. Taylor and Em
wiU be promptly filled. R. B. CASSISA*
Sot Unit.
HP O HENT. one large, airy front men,
A second floor, furnished or unfurnSj?
Apply at 191 Broughton street ‘
pOR RENT, an excellent fuite of mrn,
SnXs££i. ,a '‘ am °°“*ZS
NEUFVILLE. Seal Fstate and lnsurL ’
Agent. 2 Commercial Building. ' ’
FOR RENT.store 162 Bryan street.from SUmk
Ist to October Ist, 1882. Jt J bOYTV
Market square. o i U,
Sot #aie7~
ROCK, WINE SAUCE,
TO-DAY at THE OFFICE, 113 Bay street, Wn
to Central Railroad Bank. T. M. Ray
U'OR SALE CHEAP, a gentle family HORSP
r Inquire at GEMUNDEN s '
Corner Whitaker and St, Julian streets.
STRAWBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES IT
ceived daily at GARDNER’S
Bull street,
Jj9OR SALE, Desirable Residence, No. 73 Gor
don street. £or terms apply at house.
SAVANNAH RIVER CYPRESS
OU,U"U SHINGLES for sale cheap
steamer ‘Alice Clark’s” wharf, foot of Ahw
corn street.
CAROLINA VEAL and SPRING L* MB, the
first and flnei of the season, to be had
this morning at DRAYTON A THOMAS’, Stall
44, Market.
T7VDR SALE, 39 Lots at a bargain, on Et
A Broad and near Anderson street An
ply to R. B, REPP ARP, No, 70 Bay street.
Lots, building lots.-a few hx*
Building Lots for sale, south of Andersoi
street, three minutes' walk from Raman!
Street Railroad, by S. F. KLINE,
KINDLINGS, OAK, PINE and
LIGHT WOOD. For sale by
BACON A BROOgg.
2!r. Walter.
NASAL CATARRH. Bronchitis, Inciplsst
Consumption, Throat Affections yield to
proper treatment For particuMrs call on 8
F. SALTER, M.D., Marshall House, SATUR
DAY, Ist.
hoarding,
SOUTH ROOMB and boarl can be had from
Ihe Ist of April at 140 Liberty street.
Jltwt Sgilroafls
SCHEDUIiE,
BCPERINTXNDKyT’S OFFICE S., S. A 8. R R. 1
Bavak>~ah, March 16, .ifra, f
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND
FRIDAYS.
OUTWARD. I INWARD.
LEAVE I ARRIVE 1 LEAVE I LEA VI
SAVAIOIAH | SAVANNAH | ISLE HOPE. [ MOKTOOM’T
6:25 p. u. I 8:38 A. u. | 8:10 a. k. i ?;.9s a. s.
Monday morning early train for Montgom
ery only at 6:25 A. H.
WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND SUN-
DAYS.
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE ISLE LEAVE
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH. OF HOPE. MO.vrC-'BT,
10:25 a. m. 8:38 a. u 8:10 a. m 7:35 ak.
*3:25 P. M. 1:20 p. u. 12:50 r. m. 12:15 r. u.
6:62 p. m, 6:08 p. m. 5:38 p. M. 5:03 p, .
•Sundays this is the last outward train
Saturday nights last train 7:10, Instead of 6:50.
* EDW. J. THOMAf.
Superintendent.
At.
Waltham Watches
w
GOLD MD SILVER CASE
an elegant assortment of
MIIOR, JElilll
-AND
SILVERWARE,
the lowest possible prices, at
M. STERNBERG’S,
24 BARNARD STREET.
ionics. _
FOOD UNITED WITH THE BEST REPARA
TIVE TONICS,
AROUD’S
FERRUGINOUS WINE,
WITH QUINQUINA AND ALL THE NUTRI
TIVE PRINCIPLES OF MEAT.
REGENERATOR OF THE BLOOD.
This preparation will be found
beneficial topersons suffering with Chlorosis,
Anemia, Amenorrhcea, and in all cases of nu
bility resulting from a vitiated state of tne
blood.
General Depot, J. FERRE, successor to
Aroud, 102 Rue Richelieu, Paris.
Messrs. E. FOUGERA A 00., Agents, No.
North William street, New York.
For sale in Savannah, Ga., by LIPPMAn
BROS. .
Parhicng, 4cT
j. w. tynTu^
Engineer and Machinist
SAVANNAH. GA.
Machine, Boiler and Smith Shops
COR. WEST BROAD AND INDIAN BTB.
All kinds of Machinery, Boilers, **••
and repaired. Steam rumps. Governors,
lectOPAiimd Steam and Water Fittings o
kinds for gala
OPIUM "1$ B m T woou£Y-
Atlanta. Ga. Reliable evidence gl* *
and to cured
Send for my book on the Habit un
ite Cure. Free.