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■ ni. ~v- ra! zz ■nit* a;o. Tae delay
a- iu* •: -vtc*- manufacturers of tne
-- ■•■ _ . fter ir bad been contracte l
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-- tae papier will not make
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w ,ii r . As it is presented
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• n .. ht well be proud of.
; on c m- to the South
a- .* vr in tn- East. The South
übr ad and prosperity at
•ire putiMDi in tne depart
at- f > t-nincton may now begin to
-v *: r ■i- -*t _s. Vv* alking will be
ry _ ;in a week or two.
ii at is rending in tbe appoint
hurry n w. He evidently in
■ - ' .* -an- -a. for the Senate the
• i- : tb-time of tae oxtra session.
■ t h' IL-tu LUcan • fficials afWa-h
-- - r :yir._' carriages : r *r the u->
i*7 rttn* nts th-y rejected to pr >
a- i”-- in wnieh to haul out tae
■c- • f th- kTMnd oW party.
%at>rs are wise in their
i • -rr r. Thy propose to pass
* ill permit toe manufacture
'at. -ut prohibit the sale of
ir c. usumptkm witiun the
a r t racial who sp<-aks his
- - -r 1 his duty fear
" w :tn tbf- disreputa
iiuramersand thuirs are
• *_e better elements of
- njuretl out that a r
then beinu made it
mdent over sixty years
a- i’* it of th * government
i *- rntte will doubtless
•• r r=. - jat ine end of the present
It ' - iery much as if the Deputy
' • T v.r. failed to ?*;rve the subpeena
B -k .J k. -as she left Ludlow
• ■ i will r -v take h- r place behind
~r- n bars. The trood of the
.nrrv ms to be extended to the
<ue.
Ji:Van Zandt f --el- very about
- hi* f*e *n treated in Paris.
French rabble is hostile to
*•-.r jally citizens of the
* Th • erv is for protection
-.cm products, beginning
. . i winding un witn poor ine. v
r - * • •a- witty as she is gifted.
T l trm- 1 of secession appears to be
.g a pretty tirui hold in British
Anivr ca. The idea in Nova Scotia is
" t• become a separate Brit
pr- vince. having no dependence on
■ a n;on of Canada. It remains to
w v h r Her Majesty’s govern
r.t w . . to such an arrange
ment.
TANARUS„ .r ia taM- at the Confederate
-•**!<*•-f B zar at Baltimore will be in
, -• of Mr-. Edgeworth Bird, of 40 Nit.
V "in place. Co*.tri!-utions from the
- 5 uthern "tales are being sent in
.and a considerable fund will
i --be r- aDz and, which will enable
tv to relieve miioli want and suf
isg am *ng the ex-Coufederate veterans.
-®4 many'ta: -| r U itsalooi
. - fron. selling liquor to habitual
t. *. iris, but it is not very well settled
woonstittntM a habitual drunkard. A
M.arv I that any p r
- *a frequ -n’lv and periodicaHy gets
. k is a haoitual drunkard, acd it is
r* . . red that be shall be drunk any
.r. n irat-r of whether once,
t* r tlir**r times a week or month.
Tl* '< t tbinjf per&aps that the tte
•;* -a’ ~>nat' has had to do during the
x’ru - -t u was- to make sonK- eaow of
* -to'-.'itr.g and protect!dv tbe Treasury
r*; nst junketers. Fortunately for the
. it will be able to adjourn in a few
art* i • -rpone the consideration of
su' * an uopi* asant subject until next
vs or. It will be very bad on the would
inkcteTS, however, to have to stay at
u ;it their own expense all summer.
Tne I':. Had Mbia Record has this to say
in reference to the liftie district which
hM I ft aft the<Hep al of Mr. Ran
ti-Ai in Philadelphia: ‘While* the Repu!-
lican- in the Legislature are gerrymand
er! g i>- :-i w;ratic districts in the interior
of the ."tate in order to keep Mr. Boyle
and other prominent Democrats out of
C agrees, they manifest a t?nder soiici
'• i.rUr>.-tof Mr. [Undill. Ho
otiior [> mocrat in the country is the ob
t Of his political Opponents.
TL> il publican leaiiers of Pennsylvania
evtknUy believe that the member from
th Ta rl district is of great use to them.
n;y would gerrymander the whole State
to btni-h ftvni a Democrat
wtcm they fear.”
Agreeable Surprises.
Cleveland has the satisfac
tion of knowing that in proportion to the
time that he has been in cflTce he has
given the country quite as many sur
prises as any of his predecessors. He
has done nothing, however, should
have occasioned any great surprise.
He has simply attempted to do his duty
and keep his promises. Tne Let that he
has undertaken to keep his promises is
the reason, perhaps, that his acts are re
garded as surpriaine.
Before he was inaugurated he said that
ho believed in gfvfl service reform, and
that he would enforce the civil service
law. There were very few. doubtless,
who thought that he meant exactly what
he said, and it was not generally believed
tnat he would adhere so closely to the
spirit of the law. that about all of those
holdintr places in the departments at
Washington would be allowed to retain
their places. It seems, however, that he
did mean what be said, and that for the
hr t time, since the civil service reform
agitation a sincere effort is to be
made to improve the civil service.
The President also aaid that ha intended
to sive the country an economical govern
ment. Is he not maxing efforts in that
direction? Almost his ffrst official act.
after taking possession of the White
House, was to reduce the force employed
there. His example was immediately fol-
I wed by the tm-mbers of the Cabinet. In
several of the departments commissioners
have been appointed to investigate the
methods of transacting business, and re
p rt whether a reduction of force can be
mad? without injury to the service.
Doubtless when the reports r.re made it
will oe found that there are
hundreds, and, perhaps, thou-ands,
of employes in the departments
whose are not needed.
Under Republican administrations horses
and carriages were purchased with the
people’s money, and kept at pu lie ex
panse. for the use of the leading officials
of the departments. The Treasury De
partment. for instance, had a half dozen
htrses and as many carriages, and the
Interior Department was almost as well
supplied. It was somewhat or a surprise,
of course, when the horses and carriages
were ordered to be sold and the money
turned into the Treasury.
The greatest surprises, however, which
the country has received have been in
the appointments. Neither in the Ca v
inet places, the loreisrn missions nor in
important office* does the President
appear to have recomized "tates or sec
tions. He has simply appointed those
who have appeared to him to be qualified
for the places for which they were se
lected. Petitions, recommendations and
requests do not seem to have counted for
a great deal. In many, if not most, in
stance* those who had tne least support
were in getting wnat they de
sired.
It must be admitted that the appoint
ments tiros far are very good ones. They
show that the President's aim is to get
good, reliable and capable men in the
service of the country. Of course there
is a good deal of grumbling, but the grum
blers are not those who are not seeking
office. They are the unsuccessful cffice
seekturs. Sigrs of dissatisfaction among
the people are wanting. They appear to
like the surprises which the President Is
giv log them.
An “Cu republican” llopulilican State
While there is no doubt that little
lih'jda Island i'and Urovidence Planta
tions) is a Republican State trom a parti
san point of view, the question has often
been raised in an unautboritative kind ot
way. whether it has a republican form of
government as contemplated by the con
stitution of tne United States.
Tne late Democratic convention in that
State ha* made this question an issue in
the gubernatorial campaign.
Under the constitution of the State a
largo number of citizens of foreign birth
art disfranchised in State elections, a!-
though they are possessed of inteliurence
and permanent interest in the country,
and have every reasonable qualification
of voters. They are shut out by the
provision tnat they shall not vote
unless they own real estate, an
unreasonable provision, especially when
it is considered how scarce real estate is
in Rhode Island. Native citizens are re
quired to own a certain amount ot prop
erty, personal or real, before they are al
lowed to vote.
While this discrimination against for
eign born citizens is contrary to the
spirit, if not tbe letter of the constitution,
and affords the Democrats a fine subject
for discussion and criticism, there is no
hope that it will have much influence in
the approaching election. The nar
row, hide-bound Republicans of Rnode
Island have deliberately preserved this
unjust provision for many years, and
the}' will retain it in their constitution
until forced by Congress or the Supreme
Court to strike it out. The very fact that
it disfranchises several thousand Demo
crats is the very thing that will make
them fight the harder for it.
Hon. Evan P. Howell.
The news of the appointment of Hon.
Evan P. Howell, of Atlanta, as Consul at
Manchester, England, will be received
with pleasure by his friends throughout
this and adjoining States. Capt. Howell is
fitted by natural ability and culture to fill
such an important office with credit. His
rank as a lawyer, editor and citizen, and
his attainments are wch as will at once
give him a high position in the field of
service which hd will occupy. His ad
mirers, who are accustomed tp enjoy his
genial company when they visit Atlanta,
will sadly miss him, however. They will
almost regret that he has been chosen to
serve his country abroad.
Some'writer has classed Mohammed as
a civil service reformer. The K>>ran
says: “A ruler who appoints any man
to an office when there is In his dominions
another man better qualified for it sins
against God and against the State.” The
Turkish rulers of modern times are not
true followers of Mohammed in this
matter. The corrupt methods of the
officials of that countfy make them no
torious tbe world over.
Ex-President Arthur had a large num
ber of full-length cabinet-sized photo
granfrs taken last week to be given to tbe
members o! his Cabinet and other particu
lar friends. Although the weather was
somewhat mihl the country will be grati
fied to know that the ex-President bad on
his fine fur-hned overcoafc when he stepped
-before the camera.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1885.
What Chatham County Needs.
For several years tfce important work
of cutting a canal through the series of
swamps in this county which extend
from the ridge, which i3 followed by the
Tnunderbolt road, to the Vernon river,
has been going on. The ridge referred to
divides the waters which flow northward
and eastward into the savannah and
.Warsaw rivers from taose which flow
southward into tne Vernon and other ri
vers in that direction. This work was
soon after the epidemic
of 1*76 with object of
improving the health of Savannah
by draining the outlying swamps, vfnat
could be accomplished by such work had
been previously demonstrated by the
drainage of the M : Uen swamp, a morass
which had long been an obstruction to the
progress of the city in a southeasterly
direction. The reclamation of this swamp
not-ooly gave to the city a valuable tract
of land upon now stands some of
its handsomest private residences, but
was productive-of excellent results from
a sanitary point of view.
The successor the Cuyler Swamp canal,
by which thousands of acres of valuable
land have been reclaimed, and the health
of the country adjoining improved, clearly
demonstrates the value of systematic
and intelligent drainage. It should be a
convincing argument in favor of confin
ing the system of drainage so wisely be
gun.
To do this great work properly it is ne
cessary that a good topographical map of
the county should be made by competent
engineers. This map for other public
purposes should also embrace all roads,
bridges, public works and private hold
ings. With such a map a’system of
county improvements could be devised
and carried -out which would result in
the rapid development of the agri
cultural re-ources of the county, improve
it- health fulness, and iu that way aid iu
building up savannah. With the adja
cent country peopled with healthy and
industrious farmers, and made accessible
to the city by good roads, our manufac
turing industries and mercantile enter
prises would increase, and this increase
would be followed by rapid growth in
population.
The farmers would patronize the me
chanic and merchant, and they in turn
wonld be buyers of the products of the
farmer. Although the number ot small
farms in this county has increased con
siderably during the past ten years, the
farms, as ret. comprise but a very small
fraction of the county's cuitivatable land.
With the county properly drained from
the Savannah to the Little Ogeechee, and
the public roads put in good order, there
will be a large, healthy boom in the coun
ts farming interest.
The city wiil not then be so dependent
for its prosperity upon ils commercial in
terests as it is now. Good drainage aDd
good roads will and for the county what
the reclamation ot Millen swamp and the
opening of streets has done for Savannah.
The Russian Mission.
The appointment of Gen. Lawton to
the Russian mission was unexpected.
He was prominently mentioned for a place
in the Cabinet, and at one time the pros
pect that he would be a member of the
President’s official household was very
promising. After the selection of the
Cabinet it was not thought that Gen.
Lawton would have any connection with
the government, and this belief was
strengthened when Georgia was given an
important foreign appointment.
It seems, however that the President
thought so highly of Gen. Lawton that he
insisted upon having his services.
The country will be ably represented at
St. Petersburg. Gen. Lawton is a gentle
man of ability and culture- acd of varied
and extensive attainments. He has seen
a great deal of the world, and bis attrac
tive and polished manners distinguish
him wherever he may be. Had he been se
lected for the Cabinet he would have w*on
distinction there doubtless, and if an op
portunity presents itself there is every
reason to expect that he will win distinc
tion as a diplomatist.
The Russian mission, always impor
tant. promises to be particularly impor
tant within a very short time. If the
threatened war between Russia and Eng
land should occur, it might involve the
whole of Europe. In that event this
country would need a very man as
its representative at tit. Petersburg.
The President has complimented Savan
nah, not because be desired to favor this
city or because her favored citizens were
more highly recommended than citizens
of other sections of the country, but be
cause he found here the men who were
capable of filling the positions he wanted
filled, and who would reflect credit upon
his administration.
Excu.-e<l but Not Rel'emletl.
Under the title ot “ilorning,” the
Charleston and Courier has the fol
lowing to say about the practice of eras
ing or altering the classification marks of
rosin:
Buyer—“ls this 4 K’ rosin?”’
Seller (aloud)— •* Yes; (sot to xoce) in a
horn.*’
Tau short dialogue may not correctly
represent the origin of the term “horning”
in the naval stores trade, but it does cor
rectly intimate its nature and its object.
It is intended to deceive the buyer. It is
a change of the inspector’s classification
marks with intent to make the goods
pass as better t>a*n they really are, at
least for better than the inspector says
they are. It is gratifying that the
trade in Wilmington and Charleston
indiguantly deny the charge that the
practice prevails in these two markets.
It was hoped that savannah would have
been able to an equally explicit
denial, but the trade there simply enters
a plea in confession and a* oidanc n They
acknowledge that the practice prevails,
but say it is in compliance with orders
from purchasers in York and Chi-
cago.
This is all wrong. If their statement
is true it acqutas them of the charge of
defrauding the purchaser., bat convicts
them of heipfag tne purchasers to de
fraud other people, for which they have
not even the poor excuse that they are
paid for it. Even granting that the
inspector’s mark be too low' and the
raised mark a correct description of the
qualify of the rosin, this fact merely
mitigates the moral guilt of the act, and
does not justify it. The right way is to
take legal measures to compel the inspec
tor to affix the proper mark to the goods,
and to reach, as scon as practicable, a
uniform classification. Honesty is the
best policy in naval stores as in every
other branch of business, and it will be a
bad day for Savannah when buyers in the
great naval sto||s markets of "the world
recognize rfcrvaunah *‘K*s” as of no better
grade than “Ps” from other ports.
Savannah enjoys the distinction of being
the greatest *9.vaV storoa finikct in the
world, and she ought to see to it that no
practices are countenanced that cannot
be defended. It is admitted that the prac
tice of erasing and eaanging classifica
tion marks prevails here. It is not de
fended, but iivexcosed and tolerated be
cause some New York buyers
encourage it. The question which
presents itself is. shall the good name oi
this market be damaged in order to assist
some New York dealers in a kind ot busi
ness that is condemned by the New erk
Naval stores Exchange? The question
ought to be answered emphatically in the
negative.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Room for Retrenchment.
trill z*ion _VVt a Da* .)
There is room for cutting lowa in the offices.
Secretary McCulloch's remark was that a
contractor who would undertake to perform
the Treasury business for 75 per cent, of what
it now costs t&c government, would reap a
iiaiKitoine profit.
The President's Generosity.
Xetc York World {Dem.)
Delaware get* the Premiership, the Secre
tary of Stst**; Vermont the English Mission,
an! little Maryland the French Mission. The
President, coming from the greitest itaie in
the t'rion, seems specially generat* to the
smallest States, aud he has" not begrudged
tnem the largest honor? in rfie Republic.
Justice to the Brigadiers.
RuiLind 17.' Herakl [ R'P .I
As an earnest ra tical Republican, as an ex-
Union soklier. the wri'er is frank to say that
tbe Southern men who are to-day the most
progressive statesmen of their section, who
..re disposed to educate he negro ami to
frown-on the race prejudice which would rob
h:m of his civil riEfits, are the Confederate
Brigadiers.
What Shock# John Roach.
Philatleiphi'i Record „Z>e .i
The shock to Mr. Reach's system on ihscov
ering that he n<> longer owns aod ccChtrcd- the
government at Washing' nn must be a tremen
dous one. He irniet f*ei ao a man would feel
who sh c.!d lied out. after concluding an
elaborate auo lmturtant calculation, that
revolution had invaded the multiplication
table, and twu and two no longer made four.
BRIGHT SITS.
‘•Rextemser t::e pohter,” said tbe hotel
highwayman to the parting guest. *T shall.”
said the other; "it was wone than the ale.”
—Esehange,
Professor (reading —“Enter Mephisto!”
Turning to Mr. €.. who has just come in;,
"Good morning.” (General collapse .—Co~
< %tnbia dpeci :i >r.
A banana peel and roller-skate resemble
each other in one respect: They both cause
th*-fall of the just and u: j-s ? without any
discrimination. — Ntv; York J■ - *-r?u l.
A Rochester clergyman startled his con
gregation last Sut. ...S' n ght 1/ asking. "I?
the devil a succcas-'* The explanation offered
is taut the preacher was a new-comer to Ro
chester.
A Ta }£ it any max said the other day that
“etevehvm! must cither ilsfc or cut bait.” He
does not seem to be doing any great amount
of bait-cutting, s • the presumption is that he
intends to fish.— Texas Sifting*.
IN a £ash*onoble novel the author saw:
“Lady EmLoa trembled, grew pule, and im
me'Lately fainted." The printer, putting
“p”instead of “I” rendered it: "The ladv
grew pate, and immediately painted.— Londo’n,
SUuvi'irJ.
FofJG—“lirowrangton is having a hard time
of it. He ioe-t his leg. you know, a vear or
two ajrr. and now be has had to have his foot
amputated.” Fender-on —“> Hope 'twa-n't
the toot on the other leg; that would be very
serious.” — £o*t a Transcript.
••"Will you join me in a smoke?” asked
•Jon **6.
“Certainly. I'm accommodating,” replied
Brown.
* Now. then,” said Br *wn, ‘‘the next thing
is tbe cigars. Have you got any :"—Oil City
Rlittard.
Reason? for reaction: “Is it true, Nellie,
that you are going to give np your lessons in
china decoration and learn to wesh and iron?
How can you think of doing anything so hor
ridly common -” “Yes, it :s really true. I
thought it would astonish yon.” “But why
do y > •' “W ell. y.,n kaow how hard it
is to g>- •.-dtetory work done at the laun
dry. ano—m ther’s growing old.’ —3’eto York
Mail and Eiprcts.
The Peasant and the Dog.—A Peasant
who was Awak*--: iat midnight by the Bark
ing of D>c under Ins Window, threw up the
Nash and called out: “How. now—wiat is the
danger?” “There is none.” “Then why do
you Bark and Disturb my Slumbers?” "For
the same Reason that you j lay the Fiddle
and keep me Awake—for Self-Amusement.”
Moral: '‘- hen the Piauo next door becomes
Unbearable, buy your boy a Drum.— Detroit
Free Prr*x,
Ax expressive language: “The Chinese have
got a very expressive language.” said Tom
Benton, of Houston, one morning after break
fast. “'t hat i? there expressive about it?”
asked his mother-in-law. who is an incessant
talker. “Take the word *ken.’for instance.”
“H hat does ‘ken’ mean?” “ft means several
things. In the tir-t place it means a fero;Je
mouth. Another meaning of *ken* is a gate.
In short any’hing tnat is everlastingly open
ing and siiulting is called ‘ken/ '-'—Tc-ras
Sifting.
reiWONAL.
Ex Secretary and Mrs. Lincoln still re
main iu Wr. hiogion.
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
is ehordy to be oreateu a Duke.
/J. BttADPORr*. aged S2, has not missed a day
in carrying t::e mail from Lenoir, Tenn., to
Hartford. N. C., in seventy years.
Lixusey Mrsr, the veteran door keeper for
the Secretary of the Navv. has served hi that
capacity for llfiy-sev. n years, instead of iifty
three. He was appointed under President
Adams’ administration.
Mrs. Van Bokkelen, wife of the rector of
Trinity Church, the leading Episcopal com
munion in Buffalo, is reported to have lain
since January m ar unconscious state, not
having in that time partaken of food of any
kind.
HaruTaka Yot'KURA, who lately took the
medals for the best . --ay and examination in
the American Veterinary College of New
York, is going to Japan to’show his country
men that a horse, like a man, may sometimes
survive medical treatment.
Jotham Johnson, of Durham. Me., is six
months more than 100 year* old, and is more
active thin life boy, wiio is only 73. The old
man is proud that he voted for Grover Cleve
land life November, and shvs he shall take
pleasure in doing it again in lisS.
„Mrs. Phelps, wife of the new Minister to
England, is a very handsome woman, a little
above medium height. >he is quite fond of
society, and has a small fortune of about |30,-
000, which was paid to her by one of her hus
band’s clients who knew Mr. Phelps’ faculty
of spending money. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps are
1 at present in mounting for an only son. who
died but summer. This son ‘was about :J5
yea. 6 of age. a civil engiueer. and was meet
ing with groat succea* in his business. They
have one daughter, who is married and lives
in .New York.
Henry T. Bi.ake, First Lieutenant V. s.
R. Mnow an comm ana of the Guthrie. U. s!
R. M., at Baltimore, has been promoted to the
rank of Captain. Capt. Blake is an extraor
dinary man. but owing to hus extreme mod
esty is not known much outside of those with
whom lie has come m personal contact. When
quite a yoncg tn in he enlisted as a seaman tir
the Paraguay expedition, which was consid
ered at the tune as one of the greatest daring
and hazard. When the Harriet bane was
ordered to Charleston to relieve the forts
Capt. Blake, then a seaman, had the honor of
firing the first gun fired from a shin in the
ereat civil war. So gallantly did no bear
himself that at the close of Dio war ho held
the rank of Ensign. ueiu
Ket. Reginald Barker, Gordon’s most in
timate friend, relates how he made the c
quaintance of the hero of Khartoum at
Lausanne. ‘’For some days I dfd not know
his name, and even after I did it.lid not occur
to me that he might be the famous ‘Chinese’
Gordon. One day he invited me to his room
1 noticed some strange <locuments on the
table. ‘You have l*een in Palestine, and know
Arabic,’ he said; ‘look at those paper* I
took several and glanced at Diem, but soon
laid them down, remarking that T know very
little Arabic. *Tbey are death wamauts,’he
said. I was so startled that I exclaimed
‘float h warrants'! Why. who are you 0 ’
‘Don’t you know <■*•.?* he answered, Thave
been Governor General of the Soudan, and
still nominally retain the position, but noth
ing now remains for me but-to sigu these, i
.p <pera—ihdt will oed it.’ ” i
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Fendjdeh is accurately written and pro
nounced PuDjdeh, and means “live village**
Only about leO cans of snails are imported
annually. Outside of a few French restau
rants, there is no demand for them.
Aoorr a hundred marriages between Chris
tian Chinese couples are reported as haying
taken place in the San Franctsco ilisci'-c
Chapel.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of >an
Francisco has raise 3 $<3,000 towards an episco
pal residence, and hope soon
cient for a house for lishop r v. witfr.
At the last official reception given by Presi
dent Grevy of France some jouag fashion
ables. who thought to introduce scarlet
ti<s for evening dress, were summarily ejecteu
from the Elysee palace.
Asa rather singular coincidence the recent
session of the Arizona Legislature wac-or
sranized on Jao. 13 for the thirteenth tatne in
Arizona. It adjourned on the ISth, and had
during its session 13 fights. There was a tie
politically in each branch, as well as in matri
mony and bachelorhood.
Several American telegraph operators
have recently been offered good positions to
go to Siam to wort on the now telegraph lines
of that country. The pay is 5150 a month with
free outward’transportation. The Siamese
Government, after a cart fa 1 study, decided to
adopt the American telegraph alphabet and
in''.r3*ects rather than the Continental or
European method and pattern.
The amenities of journalism were illustra
ted the other day by a conversation between an
editor who had just resigned his position and
one who remains upon a Boston daily. Said
the former: “I’m going to give np newspaper
work. It doesn't pay me. I’m going into
business now to see if I can’t make some
money.” “Well,” retorted the other with
suspicions suavity, “I trust your efforts will,
as heretofore, meet with the success they de
serve.”
California red wood was introduced in
England last year, the imports being 81,000
cubic feet. It is very suitable for furni r ure,
inside house finishing and the best joiners'
work, besides many other purposes. S> far,
two cargoes of this remarkable wood have
beta landed in Scotlandi where it has met
with ready sale and has been highly appreci
ated bv contractors, builders, cabinet makers
and other consumers. The price realized was
ssl CM per thousand feet, board measure, and
the cargoesjwere carried a distance of about
15,000 miles.
To ere is co more curious sight than the
Brooklyn terminus of the great bridge at 6
o'clock in the afternoon. The cars are then
run at about a minute and a half headway,
as thev call it. by which they mean that cwo
cars are emptied on the Brooklyn side about
that hour in every minute and a half. The
passengers then 'descend a stairway to the
street, but notwithstanding the interval
of time named the procession of people i- un
broken during the rush of business. A con
stant stream of men and women, seven and
eight abreast. ito be seen descending-these
stairs.
The sale of Charles O'Conor's library only
realized 1 7,C0-0 or 18,000. Probably the books
cost five times the amount. But they were
old fashioned. There are new fashions in
law, it seems, as in spring bonnets. The
largest fee Charles O’Ccnor ever received
was his last. It was paid him by Referee
Ruggiee.on the partition and sale of ihe Jam el
estate, an 1 amounted to a cleao
, It came out of Nelson Chase's one-half
of that esxate. The other one-h3lf of that
estate goes to the French heirs, who were rep
resented by M arums de CLambrun and the
late Lev* s. ChatfieM.
•Judge Thomas J. of South Caro
lina, who has been acting a3 counsel for Gen.
II azen before the court martial, is. says the
Philadelphia Record, “a very queer fellow,
lit- is an elderly man, hut his hair mous
tache are still ‘jet b!*ck and ids eyes are as
niercing as ever. He is a mau of excellent
ability and good education, with a most re
mark- ble flow of words. He can talk for
three hours without stopmng for breath,
-enator Morgan,of Alabama, is the onlvother
man m Washington who can do this. Mackey
is a man of excellent family, too. and very
proud of it. One erf his near relatives was the
late Dr. Marion .->:nis, of New York, whose
memoir* Judge Mackey is compiling.”
•Judge J-amsb has had under consideration
in the District Court a; Washington the cases
of Cornwall and Cumberland agt. the st-eam
dredge, No. 7, owned in Jersey City, at work
on the Potomac flats, Mr. Nat. Wiison. for
the respondents, raised the question of juris
diction. claimiEg that a steam ilredge is not a
vessel within the jurisdiction of the admiralty
court. Mr. E. B. Briggs, for libedants. claims
that a steam dredge, which is merely a decked
scow, fitted up with dredging apparatus. i.
in every sense of the wor*L a vessel subject to
the admiralty jurisdiction of the United
States District Court. The court sustained
the point that the dredge is not a vessel with
in the jurisdiction of the court, and dismissed
the libels.
There is a curious method for making
horses lie down m the stable in nD old English
book, published in 17tV5. It said: “Whoever
ha- any concern with horses must know that
it is sometimes verv difficult to make them
lie down in the stable, for some of them will
stand night and day for several weeks, till
their legs swell and many disorders come on
them which are not easily got rid of.” A
dealer in bovses gives this simple method:
“When vou have a mind to make a horse He
down in the stable take a pieceof strong pack- *
thread or bag cord aid tie it as tight round
the horse's tail 3S possible, without breaking
the skin, and as near as you cna to the rump
bone: this will give him a jura in llte back
and he will be glad to change his posture to
get ease, and when he finds he cannot in any
other way procure it he will lie down, which '
he will find the most easy posture, and he 1
will, of course, take a liking to it.”
Bearing Union Pacific,
Wall Street
Iu case some of the railroads -ere*! of Omaha
arc anxious to publish and distribute pam
phlets for the benefit of tourists and land
lookers, but are stumped to select aa appro
priate title, we shall make no charge for anv
of the following:
“Running the Blockade; or, Stu-k in the
Snow Drifts.”
“Ten Miles in Twenty Days; or. a Winter
Ri 1 on the U. IV’
“Stalled; or, How We Bucked the Snow
Banks.”
“Our Circus; or, Twenty Locomotives De
railed.”
"Choiee Tit-Bits; or, the Cuss Words of
Snow-Bound Passengers.”
Artemus Ward on Foreigners.
San Francieco Ingle* ide.
I recollect a witty remark .of Artemus
Ward’s at a dinner party, when he visited this
city toward the end of the war. Among the
guests at the table was an English lady of
pronounced Southern sympathies. Artemus
Ward—or. as he was better known to his
friends. Charlie Brown—was m the middle of
a long tirade against the enemies of the
Union, for he was a loyal Northerner,
especially bitter was he against “those
foi e>‘ners,” for what he termed their
cowardly conduct toward the Union. As
he waxed more vehement the English ladv
grew redder and redder, and her fellow
guests glanced mischievously in her direction.
Suddenly Artemus stopped short. He real
ized rhat something was not exaotlv right.
Glancing suspiciously at the English lady, he
strove to discern her nationality. He real
ized that she was not an American. Then,
with that exquisite rafi’lament d'etprit which
stamped his character, he leaned over and
said, apologetically: “Mrs. S., when I—er—
spoke—er—of foreigners—l was referring
—only t-.- —to—negroes and Chinese.”
Sarsaparilla's Sympathy.
Detroit Free Fre*s.
Professor Sarsaparilla Hunter then offered
the following resolution:
“ Dead-red. Dat in dts strugglebetweeu Eng
land an’ de Arabs de sympathies of dis club
go out fur de latter.”
“You offer di, do you?” queried the Presi
dent, as he looked from the paper to Sarsa
parilla and back.
“Yes, sah.” 1
“You sympathize widdo Arab, do yon?”
“Yes, sah,
“Anv per tickler reason?”
“A wtrry great reason, sah. De Arab-am
seeking to abolish slavery in England.”
There was a period of'silence so deep and
painful that Shindig Watkins blistered his heel
on the hot stove without realizing it. Brother
Ganincr finally said:
“Giveadaxn Jones an’ Pickles Smith will
take de professor to do aunty-room an’ rubde
back of his neck wid a cold brick. If dat (loan’
effect a cure we’ll send him, to de kliot asy
lum.”
The Professor acted like-oue who had been
knocked down by a brick house, and after tbt>
rubbing process above referred to had been
completed he explained that the resolution
.hid been draw* up bv a tin peddler, who had
vromisc*U**K ,* r*s*Hfe* para t^.p^oertit.
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OF GEORGIA SYSTEM.
FARE EDUCED!
SEW OBLEASS
EXPOSITION
—AXP—
R E T U It N ,
FRORfI S 2 1.55
—T0513.30,
$13.30,
Tickets Good for 15 Days.
Leaving Savannah Y>*Y DAY and on
ANY TBATN.
WMGrEiciM&lMMets
Are alao on sale to the Exposition.
FOR Rates, Sleeping Car Accommodation
and other information apply at Ticket
Office of Central Railroad. SO Bub street, sa
vannah, Ga. GEO. A. WHITEHEAD,
Gen. Passenger Acrt., Savannah, Ga.
J. C. SHAW. Ticket Agent,
20 Bull street. Savannah. Ga.
TO THE
m (MS EXFOSITIOS
!e Savanna!, Florida aaO
Western Railway
Willeeii Round Trip Tickets between Savan
nah and New Orleans,
COMMENCING MARCH 9,
For 515,30.
GOOD FOR 15 DATS.
FAST MAIL TRAIN leave* Savannah
7:01 a. jx. daily, arriving at New Ormans
at 7:45 the following morning.
Pullman Buffet Drawing Doom
Sleeping Cars without change from
Way cross to New Orleans in close
connection with same service on
above train from Savannah.
Tickets sold. Pullman Car accommodations
secured and information given at BREN’S
Ticket Office, 2i Bull street, and at the Pas
senger Sutsooc. foot of Liberty street.
gtcartUro.
/ *
And all Standard Brands of
. ' "
■'"l
Can be Had at Wholesale at
CUT PRICES.
groUtme.
Hay,fiats, Corn, Bran, etc
—ALSO—
A Choice Lot of M Proof Oats,
—AT—
G. 8. McALPIN’S,
A. B. HULL,
WAREHOUSEMAN* & COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
—DEALER IN’—
Hour, Hay, Corn, Oat*, Bran,
Peas, Feed Meal, Etc.
A CHOICE LOT
Seed Rye and Rost Proof Gats.
ALL AT BOTTOM PRICES.
Special inducements on Car-load Lots.
83 BAY STREET.
MARY ANN •
iß.dear to in any, tho’ theA>pero Puff's Cfffa- -
rc tA*se jftfet by nil . -. .-1
A Li a XK’ artf
towns can make Jrou to itsV Gteri *
pleasant work a- sure profit
STATE AGENT, care Morning
nah, Ga. ->ews,
ANTED —lf you want to sceThepZT
! ▼ collection of P; -. ire Frames
ox the new spnrg designs C *H at
First-class Crayoas ant Photar-anUA r 3 *
this establish meat. -HaaoiLy^,
\\ Ti, a cook an 1 bouse ~ * •
> > white or cokka J. Apoiv
corner Bollion and Bara.y-d s:s. “
W A ''l po-aition a.- help in
> I either in the city or countrv. v
A. W.. care Morn in. News. '
ANTED, two hands to wcriT~7*~~ •
▼ > malting. Apply to Miss DUFF iiHOt
street. * **
\ GOOD PRINTER WAETE D
xY good wages tojm efficient printer
other need apply; lSrant him to doc ; C 4 **
of a foreman in a first-class counts
where a great deal of fine job prince,
references require. J. w. CHae -A
Proprietor Gazette. Washington. g 2
AY NTE 3^ )a f i,n S horses:
yy ticn; York nexfVWaibev, S*
bie yard. xHO MAS F. < .LTiAreGS “ “ aßr “
\Y A^A £D a I competent nu^7^77^
♦ > lady with two children.
once G. TANARUS., Horning News office. "* ■*-
\T~ANTED, dwelling. pleasamh-
D with 4mj 5 sleeping rooms - if'sri- “r* s
lease for a term of years, p. o. Bos
AN TED— ~
ONE THOUSAND CEDAR
8 to 13 feet longp
Apply for f-rice List.
T). C. BACu.V a cq
for Hmt.
FOR RENT, parlor floor an.
Taylor street, corner Drayr. ” **>
FOR RBfsT. a nicely farms bed -
with piazza; aominer term*.
street.
TJ'OR RENT, a floor of three n> r;
JL ond story, with : rinlege of ' a'a rr.*3
No. -£j Drayton, near Broughton au i B-i.li?
terms 115 per month. Apply at th
FOR REN P, desirable residence
Broad street, from May 1 prox. i-,,„7
ED. F, NEUFVILLE, 2 Commerctai I.
RENT, one store. 20x60. un je;
Hal!, on Macon street, next 'Joor
Henna <£ Welsh. Appiy to G. W.
MANY, 118 Bryan street.
RENT, premises No. 172 Libenv
four doors from Barnard; posse-f
April 1. Apply to C. C. TALtAFERho
West Bro*Q street.
yOP, RENT, furnished and unfcrEk*iiq|
U rooms. No. s2 svreet, secdk toaij r
west of Abercoru.
FOR RENT, large south rooms. furu:dsei
or unfurnisaed. App:v 126 Stnte'strefcf
near Whitaker.
fer js alt,
f'OR SALE, an established ar>d gro
cery and l.quor store in East savannah
with five j ears' .ease: dwelling and oathoo*
| on premises; reason for aeaimr owner wanfe
! to go North. Inquire 174 St. 3u:ian street. '
ipOR SALE, a corner let on Mid-ile Groaal
road, near the crossing of the SavannaH,
! Florida and Western Rail-way; a splend<
stand for ashore; term: easy.’ C. Hi
SETT, Real Estate Dealer.
IT'GR S*L£, Ceiiiirr. F-oonng.
boar<ling and Framing Laa.ber ta oath
firs; and second qualities, and at reasonably
prices. Also, a large lot of Boards xstC
ScaaMssg at $7 per feei. Also, a
stock of Shingles and Lat e. Lmaher yari,
next to Caetsei’e wood y&rd.
& CO.
plsmrt? tff
AAA 7/3KP at %per rent, terai^
CUauUv num for term of tsree to seec
years on city real estate: borrower to pay fori
papers. Apply to JOHN W. WILSON.over
southern Barrtt.
MONEY TO LOAN.—Liberal Loans made
on Diamonds, Gold and silver Watches,
•Jewelry, bjiverwarv Furniture. Carpets, j
HonseboW Goods, Wearing Apparel, jevmg
Machines, Clocks, Merchandise, Tvoh. iad<m I
aiimast anywiimr which a of aav rtte. at I
Licensed Pawnbroker House, isy G-mnsasl
street. g. MLULbEEG, MtatgK. I
N. B.—Highest prices paid for oki GokitM
Silver. w
Money to Loan.
YcurlYiead Unde Joe
3 Bis: Balls 1-0 Bro.-jghton st.
WILL lend you more monjfV on Diamonds,
Jewelry! and other pßsor.A property,
than an> other pawnbroker srfs the city. Hal
plenty ox money to loan.
T'^he 'drawing T
OF THE
LITTLE HAVANA
WILL TAKE PLACE
WEDNEDAY,
APRIL 1, 18S5.
WHOLE TICKETS,J2; HALVES,M.
15,TICKETS; 73£ PRIZES.
CAPITAL PRIZE. j
lev iLiie.
”fob"sale
—IN—
Lots of 50 Acres or Mere.
488 Acres of Lend,
one and one-uali mile* of
▼ * tended city limits in one body. Suitefcf/
for stock farm, fruits or truck fanning. Iy 3
pasture land, portions heavily wooded.
clay for crickmaking. S., F. and W. Jvaiiws/
runs through a portion of tract. Accessra*
by Vernoa shell Road, Middle Ground sa,
roads. Will be sold cheap and ou
easj tehms. Apply to
GEO. XV. LAMAR>|
Steam Sawmill for Salo-M
TUESDAY IX APRIL NEXT, at the
hour of sale, unless sooner disposed of ** IS
yate sale, “THE FLINT hi v EK STEA
SAWMILL,” situated in the townoi L*-]?!
bridge. Ga. The mill has two Engines.
iu good order, one a forty-horse and
eight-horse, four Cylinder Boikawf 1
each, with a lot of g6od Rubber BeßMS
ail necessary outfit, Capacitv. *B.'4* ie J
daily. Terms cadi. For particular*sp? I .'
MASTON O’NK AL, Esq., Bainbr.dyS <’*•
March 10,1S8£. „
___ (gocoa. _
PliilUps’lligestibie Cocoa
PHILLIPS’ COD LIVER OIL.
PEMBERTON’S WINE OF COCOA.
PHILLIPS’ MTLK OF
Just received flesh at
OSCEOLA BUTLER'S
glrtevinanj
TO OWNERS OF STOCK?—I tavr locf.W*
my Infirmary on Farm and Margam
streets, for the treatment <f SiCk and L#“*
Horses and Moles, where Ik an be founumu
or night. I will give myjfersonal attenw-'
to ail stock sent to me. Se i.-faction
teed. H. Y. FERRELL, j goat, Peterman
Surgeon.
"T parislu & >tr.
CHEAPEST 'VARIETY STORE
soId ad Strand lCc., wo th three
money. We have iuat r ceLcd W- ’ _
Pitchers, which we’offer 1 1 36c.
•nieeJM they cannot be* agfct
Wc. .r/titaX BBOS., ja *r -w
,u#*Jagg£&ofe