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T2S SAVHHAH HI3UIL "pUBLIBHEDEVERY SATURDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO., ST. JULIAN STREET. N. K. CORNER MARKET SQUARE. Subscription Rates. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.) Bone Year, W » Six Months, 75 Three Months, 60 sent to any per ton in the United Statet -without extra charge. Remittances must be made by Poeta) Note, Money Order, Registered Letter, or Express. J. H. DKVEAUX, Manager. R. W. WHITE, Solicitor. SfMP-ThlH paper in not responsible for, nor doealt necessarily endorse, the sentiments ex pressed in published communications. let ters should be addressed to the TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Rbgistkred Afcf Second-clash mattkk at the Savannah Post Office. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1887. BI . ■■ ■ ! As Prof. Pbter H, Qlark, is to succeed Prof. W. H. Council ns frincipal of the State Normal and ndustrial School at Huntsville, Ala. Ohio will lone its most prom inent colored Democrat. Well, Mr. Clark has not been a success as a politician, and the change will m doubt be the best for him.— Cleve land Gazette. The fact that “every intelligent r man in Georgia” mayor may not ' approve, does not mould the edito ! rial opinions of this paper. We I think for ourselves. —P eopl es’ t Choice, Macon. Intelligent colored men don’t care what the Peoples’ Choice 1 “think.” What they object to is that that paper should dare to speak for the Negro race when it attempts Ito bolster up the advocates of I Glenn’s infernal monstrosity. The Peoples’ Choice of Macon says in its issue of September 2 : I “Ab a Negro we regret the discußßionß | which operate to keep us eternally before ! the people, a bone of perpetual contention. We want to be let alone. We recognize our many shortcomings and are hard at work trying to make ourselves better men. more intelligent and worthy citizens. Though suffering much we do not complain. We accept it as inevitable and are content to , take it and make the most of it, God help and deliver us from such utterances. The Neg>o does tcomplain. He accepts no injustice as inevitable and he is not content. He is very discontented on account ;of the wrongs heaped upon him in Georgia and other Souhtern States. The P eople’s Choice should under stand that the Negro will never be until he can enjoy all the rights of a citizen under the laws of the land. The P. C. should re move to Montgomery, Alabama, it Would be popular .vith (he highly mdf’al citizens of that city who made Editor Dukes fly for his life. . The recent article of the Tribune ip which attention was called to tli< attitude Os the Peoples Choice ol Macon towards the Glenn’s villian pus bill now pending before the peltate has stirred up the editor of jjhat paper somewhat. He is* BO ibadlv stirred that he has lost his seemingly altogether. Wr viaYe reread the article to which |ixceptions were taken, and are I nore convinced than before that | be Choice’s article is intended to j incourage the promoters of the | bain gang bill offered by Glenn, | it least it will have that effect. W<* 310 not intend to have any wrangle 3 vith the Choice. As a paper that J ave for its highest aim the eleva -1 ion of the colored race, the Tri bune has called attention tc. the angerous utterances of the Choict m s it is said to be a “colored news (l aper” run by a colored man, Hnv ‘■l ig done this much its duty is (J| tided io that matter. It is to b<- n oped that our Macon contemporarv ttj ill see its error before it be too J te to repent. S ' —► ♦ ai MURDER MOST FOUL. Igi|r B body O1 a young worn -n whs | jJund near Burnside on the ci’y iH id Suburban Railroad on Wednes | j»y last, in the very last stages ot tcompositiou. From the condition | | f b* body it is very evident that | e was the victim vs a most foul Ojd bloody murder. The coroners . elicit no evidence of h B ’tive nature pointing to the j the woman or the per- . ■ h ra^or crime. The body is I t7 Wo ml r * u PP t *‘*< l 'o lie that of a L Thompson who lived on Harris y| ? ot » an(J who Hed from her home a month ago on nceounl.of, of her husband. An old broken musket was found near < the body and it Is evident that the I crime was committed with it as the I murdered womans skull is badly i fractured. < An ugly feature connected with the murder is the attempt of the < daily press to create an impression i that the crime was committed by some poor Negro from the single fact that the blows were inflicted by a ‘.‘musket,” and as alleged by the press white men always own more improved arms The position taken cannot be too severely con demned. If the murderer is a white man as it is not improbable that he is, suspicion has been witndrawn from him. The murderer should be hunted down, but it is a crime against society to confine the hunt to one class of people on such a flimsy pretext as stated wbove. LOUISIANA AND LOUISIANIANS NO. 2. A considerable part of my last letter was taken up with former Savannahians now respected and very usefu l citizens of this Gulf State. I spoke particularly of Gainey and Ward and of the fami ly of the former. Since then I have met Mrs. Ward, a Creole lady, of verv refine I appearance and a Catholic; h« (Ire ties are of French extraction and French are almost always of the Wi stern church. The Wards at tha ’ aju »i ion of their brother Samuel, at Atlanta Univer sity in June last, paid Georgia a visit on that occasion. Samuel Ward is < xpected in the city soon to begin his life work. What and who are Creoles? This question has for a long time been a puzzle to me; for y >u know Creoles are white and colored—and even in many cases very black. My former idea of the Creole propar imagined them to be a product of French and Indian nationality. A second idea very soon after I reached Louisiana and had compared the white Louisanians with the fair mul ittoes of Georgia, the former losing by the comparison, imagined all the Anglo Saxons, (with a very few exceptions) of this State to be Creoles, as there was so very much of color in them and features not very dissimilar from Georgia mulat toes of the first mixture. But you can better imagine than by telling you my surprise when I was sitting in church and aeard a distinguished divine, whose color was only ;• shade more somber than my coat say "you renn-mber that I am a Creole. Myself formed theorie were by that one sentence dashed to the ground. I g ve up in utter disgust my philosophizing on “what is a Creole,” Walking out upon the levees I accosted a fellow-citizen of thor oughly Haineric persuasion in the very chastest English I could com maud and from the tdeepy counte nance <d the person I addressed I had exnected a civil reply .in th-- we'l known broken gibberish o King .James' English, so long heard and connected with our race. Tlii person addressed c »mmunica ed m\ sentiment to an elder and a third person wliV thereupon began such a jarring and clanging of the French and Spanish tongues coupled with such violent ges'ares that 1 imag ined these ‘Creoles” of the first water and it might not be unwise for the English speaker to quickly pass on. From all of these circum stances I conclude, aid I think rightly, a “Creole” is a nitive h-»m nt this St te and who spe<k- tin- French language regardh-SB of his color or ptevious condition Caniu the principal business (our I»»:v street) divides the citv into two parts, in one part French is almost universally spoken, even little col ored boys Walking along the street (or banket, for thats the Word side walk) are heard pleasantly ch I'ting away glibly in French.' On the other side of Canal street English is the tongue. THE PEOPLE. The population of this State more than that of any other State is exceedingly heterog uenus and Mew Orleans, like New York might be called a Cosmopolitan citv. The names of streets and places and customs, through the English pre d ruinate, yet run in a French g (Hive. The city and the customs c- rtainly rem in true to the first pattern. In these respects one is c distantly reminded of the un vr t «• n customs and habits of the people of G eatain who although conquer- ed by the Romans driven to the fastnesses of Scotland and Wales by the Vandal Saxons and Danes and though almost wiped out as an original race yet hav€ even through their conquerors preserved many of their names and customs. The stiffness of the unadulterated American is tempered by the ex cellent suavty and “bonhomie” of the French; and so one is met warmly and made easy and at home in a strangi land. Many things strike a Georgian as strange and some of their customs throw them way ahead of Georgia—while a greater number throw them behind Georgia—For good breeding and common intercourse as between the races, Louisiana is ahead of any State. The races meet one another cordially and friendly (I speak not politically) and to my best remem brance, cannot think of once hear ing a white man answering a de cent 100 ing colored man or woman ‘ yes or no.” Invariably each race answers the other “yes sir or no sir” In the street cars are no distinction and when a colored lady enters and the car is crowded white men rise and tender her a seat and she never deposits her fare in the box but hand it to the nearest man and he either white or black changes her money deposits the exact fare and returns the change. This is as un varying as the hws of the Medes and Persians “that changeth not.” In Railroad cars whatever you pay for you get, Pullman or any other coach. The morning I arrived here I was amused by the novel sight of seeing a colored woman in a crow ded car (excursion I presume) seat ed between two white men. I then thought of the farce, deceit and shame Georgians are practising in ill treating well dressed and in telligent colored people while the whole world and the South even is keeping a pace with the age—while Georgia like the old man from the ! country going to town whose wheel ' had broken in two on the journey ’ instead of getting it mended and taking his apples to town sat by the wayside ‘‘a cussing and afoaming” ! forgetful that bis apples were daily 1 becoming more rotten, detestable ' and unsalable. 1 Morse. FROM THE ARTESIAN GITY. ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PROF" W. L. WALKER, TO THE TEACHERS OF DOUGHERTY COUNTY. AUGUST 12. Ladies and Gentlemen : Il is a fact of huge importance that, the colored teachers of Georgia as a body are among the foremost in the educational reformers respecting this section of the country and that to-night we meet, upon the soil of that State made h-flowed by the footsteps of old Jas. Oglethorpe in 1733, and could that philanthropic Englishman join us to mght and behold a State teeming with exhaustions mineral and resources with hroad and fertile 1.-nds rich in their agricultural productions a happy indus try pervading its bo ders, stimulated and cnergiz d by an efficient system of government well lubricat' d and opera ting after the manner of the most civilized and prosperous nations upon the globe and cou d he but behold this teeming host of 1 1-2 millions of human souls in the enjoyment of domestic trail qulity, and the pursuit of happiness, a d yet essaying to promote the gen eral welfare of such a host with an Etna of illiteracy swung to the wheels of her civic institutions with an illiter ate produciion of 52041600 jof the whole population with a voting popula tion of whom 50 per cent, are illiterates and with our resources taxed to educate one half million children approximate ly, surely that distinguished philanthro pist would acqu'e»ee with us in pres enting ‘National aid to education,” as the mo-t suitable subject for our pres ent consideration - When I call to mind the fact that all sections of our country are not agreed as to the nation al method of dispelling this illiteracy which haunt us on every side; and when I remember that the corridors of our law making depar ments have been frequented with Executive messages upon this subject, and with cogent pe titi -ns f om educational and legislative convrntiot-8 with the approval of news papers endorsement, and see that these petitions have m-til rec ntly, only fur nished o nsions f r inactivity and I 'S’itude. 1 am professionally impressed with the magnitude of my’ task so c m p-ehi'nsive, so fir reaching so import ant The bash . f our AmeFlcan institutions ought t> be founded upon the intelligence and integrity of her citizens; and thoroughly imbued with this idea that intelligenc" and integrity ought to he at the foundation of ail Continued on iird CATARRH m an Chronic Cases, Alaska Blood Purifier should bo used in connection with Alaska Catarrh Compound. There are hundreds of medicines on the market that claim to eure this loathsome and distressing diseases catarrh, yet strange to say there is no record of a single chronic case having been cured in your city by any doctor or remedies except by the*Great and True Alaska Catarrh Treatment. If others can cure, why don’t they Alaska have cured hundred, and even the chronic growlers acknowledged that the Alas ka medicines have true merit. Following are a ftw teat: Cured of chronic catarrh by (Alaska, Jas C. Ray, Bavh, Ga, Cured of ulcerative catarrh by Alaska, h W Baugh tr, Savannah, Ga Cured of chronic catarrh by Alaska. C W Hakpbr, savh. Ga Cured of chronic catarrh by Alaska. T F Lyons, Savannah, Ga. Cured of catarrh by Alaska. Chab P a bi land, savannah, Ga Ask your friend will Alaska cure. purifier sl, Compound 50 cents, an inhaling tube with each bottle of compqsnd Free Alaska Compound Co, Lynn, Mass. ENGIES . Most economical and durable. Cheapest n the market, quality considered. The CEL EBRATED Farquhar saw mills and ENGINES and STANDARD IMPLEMENTS GENERALLY. Send for catalogue. AB FARQUHAR, Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pa These Prices Smoked Shoulder,4, 5,6, 7 and 8 cents. Smoked Hams, 5, 6 7, and 8 cents. Sugars, 5,5 i 6, and 61-2 CCD ts Flour, bbl. 3.50, 4.00, 4.50 and 5.00. Tobacco, lb. 18, 20, 25, 27 and 1-2 and 30 cents. All other goods in proper® tion. Now is the time for cash customers. M. J. DOYLE. (tain aj If i iff lisi* ol R. B. REPPARD. M. ALBERTSON. YELLOW PINE LUMBER FOR SALE AT wholesale and Retail, Planed or Rough. REPPARD & Co East Broad and Taylor streets, in 8 F & Ry. yard. J E. HAMLET DE A LER in Beef. Veal and Mutton, Miry, Tegetalilfis ad Frail! of all kiDds is Ssasoi, Also, Full Line of GROCERIES and family supplies, Cor. Habersham & < harlton Sts ESTABLISHED 185 The Old Reliable House of JAMES HART i BRO, Wholesale and Hein I Deniers i tmti rum tittriiii, MBS, IM upas, M w IM. 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The cheapesiPlace to get Tour PICTURES Aud all sizes of Frames made to or der, is at A. HELLER. Masonic Temple, Whitaker Street ABRAM L MONGIN, dealer in Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits, Confectionaries, Etc. CORNERDUFFi and BURROUGHS STREETS A fresh supply articles always on hand at reasonable prices. The patiuu a-e of the pub ic is r< spectfuiiv solicit ed. WM. SCHEIIIING DEALER IN Fine Family hw Liters cte., Cor. Liberty >»nd l)r »v hm Street*. Savannah Ga. I’RATT 8 Am UAL Oil —Safest aud best. CHARLES BACKMAN, ra .Li- -■■”” S —k *,, "v ’ • —s Corner Congress &, Bull Streets. (Second Floor.) SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. . Teh nhoiie Cal) No. 100, n red da • lor nigh-. Ex rm-tine 'fee h (h e De.'* leach. exiiactH.g Tteth .nd Artifi'ial i Teeth a Bpecia ty. Fin, qu iiitv of T oth jP'Wdi r and T< "th Bruslos lor gait. EK.MS CASH.