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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

PREDICTING RELAND's FREEDOM. =
The Rev. George w. Pepper, Metho
dist clergyman of Northern Ohio, lee
tured at Cooper Institute last night upon
Ireland and England. He predicted that
before a white hair appeared on the head
of Parnell the Irish flag would be hailed
in American ports Englishmen had
said that in case of Irish independence
all Protestants would be driven from
Ireland. Irishmen would rather have a
Protestant Parliament in Ireland than
a Parliament of Irish Catholics in
England. A priest had told him that
he would rather sit by the side of a
Methodist minister IN Parliament in
Dublin than by the side of the Pope of
Rome in the Parliament of England.
Lord John Russell once said that if
England did not do justice to Ireland
her sun would set forever.
As Mr.. Pepper closed, Mr.. ODonovan
Rosa alluded to the late attempt to
blow up the Mansion House, in London,
and said that he did not wish the death
of any people, but that if the whole of
England were blown up he did not be-
lieve that an Irishman here would go to
the expense of Grape on his hat.-N r
Sun. 1871.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The English physicians have been in
vestigating the subject of high heeled
shoes and pronounce them the most
dangerous invention of the nineteenth
century-far more deadly than dynamite
or nitro glycerine. Not to mention
sprained ankles and laceration of the in
ternal and external ligaments of the
ankle, which they so often produce, they
are responsible also, the M. D. s say, for
many spinal diseases. diseases of the
lungs, and a hundred other maladies
The London Lancet indorses these medi-
cal views. 1t is said that the Peruvian
ladies are so convinced of the truth of
these assertions that they are actually
giving up high heeled shoes. The fact
that Paris has given these shoes up may
persuade our ladies to abandon them,
but the advice Of all the physicians in
the world certainly would not, if they
were still the fashion.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
ANOTHER POLITICAL BODY.
Preliminary Organization Ofthe Cen.
trail State Association.
Woshi7lqtoa1 Post.

Pursuant to a published call, about
twenty-five gentlemen assembled at $40
Eleventh street Thursday night The
meeting organized by electing j. W.
Starr, Chairman, and B. F. Chase, Sec
rotary The char stated the object
of the meeting to be the forma
ton of a Central Association of
States. A discussion arose as to wheth-
er it was expedient to effect perma-
nent organization now or defer the
matter for a week or so. Mr.. Bradshaw
favored immediate action. If he I'M
derstood the object of this organization,
it was to root out every Democrat in
every department of the government.
Such good work could not be COM
menced too soon. Judge A. A. Free
man would defer the matter until there
was a fuller representation. He had
heard much of self constituted bodies of
late. and he did not want to have
that charge lodged against this or
ganization. By a vote of IA to 10 the
association decided to organize. and
the old constitution of the Central State
Association was adopted, with the proviso
that each State Association have three
delegates. A discussion sprang up as to
whether the district clubs should be rep
resented. The sentiment was largely
against it, though Mr.. NJ: Tremble made
a spirited fight for it. In this connec-
ton Mr., Almon Morpheus Clapp re-
marked that he regarded the district
as a political nonentity. Without elect
inc permanent officers, the meeting ad-
io1rned to meet at the same place on
March 81.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

Garston, the English town which has
suddenly come into prominence as a
prospective rival of Liverpool in the cot
ton trade, is situated on the MerseY, at a
railroad junction. Although the whole
township contains only 7,S4O people, the
town already boasts of docks and manu-
facturers. 1t is only five miles southeast
of Liverpool The. latter city has not
yet given any evidence of alarm, nor has
it yet reduced its excessive port charges,
which are the cause of the proposed
detection of the cotton trade to Garston.
Perhaps these things will come in time.
One cotton cargo has already been I'M
loaded at the last named place with
satisfactory results, and others will
follow, especially since Garston has
been so warmly recommended by the
Bolton spinners.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

Eastern people have hitherto thought
chiefly of Wyoming Territory as vast
cattle field but, from the latest advices,
this estimate will have to be seriously
modified. The deposits of gold and sill
yer in the mountains of the Territory
are more important than has been sup
posed, two great belts of petroleum have
already been found, and the Cheyenne
Leader of declares that the soda
lakes lately discovered will supply
the glass factories of the whole country
for century. With all these attractions
and incentives to profitable industry it
is no wonder that Wyoming is growing
as fast as the Leader says it is. The
ranches" however, are far from being
as profitable as they once were, the bust
ness of cattle raising having been some
what overdOne.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The dawn of better civilization is
visible, and Arkansas is entitled to the
credit for it. The Legislature of that
State has passed a bill making dirks,
Bowie knives and pistols contraband
goods, not to be carried or dealt in,
excepting only such arms as are used in
the army and navy of the United States.
This may be carrying prohibitorY legis-
lation to an unwaIrantable and i'm
practicable excess, but it discloses a
healthful change of sentiment, and in a
quarter where it was least looked for.
The more it spreads the better for the
country,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

AN APPEAL FOR HOMEOPATHIC
HOSPITAL. than twelve hundred
citizens of Philadelphia, many of them
representative men and leading tax
payers, have united in petitioning the
Legislature for aid for the homeopathic
hospital of that city. They urge it upon
the ground that the hospital has been
supported for ten years by private effort;
that it has been open to patients from all
parts of the State; that it is now made
quate to the wants of those who prefer
this treatment; that the State has pur-
sued liberal policy towards other hos
pitfalls, but has never made any cores
ponding appropriation for this school of
medicine, and that it represents so large
a proportion of the taxpaying commu
nifty that it has just claim to an equi-
table share of the public appropriations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
Savannah, March "a, 1881.

"Myra," Empress Eugene; "Zeno-
bia," Lady Jersey; "Berengaria, Hon.
Mrs. Norton; "Agrippina," Queen Hor-
tense; "Adriana Neuchatel," Lady
Burdett- Coutts; THE Neuchatels." the
Rothschilds Colonel Albert" prince
Florestan), Napoleon Ill. Lord Roe.
hampton" Lord Palmerston; "Lord
Montfort." the late Lord Hartford
'Lord Rawchester," Earl Granville;
Earl of Beaurnaris," the late Earl of
Derby; "Mr. BERTHE Tremaine," Lord
Houghton; Count of Ferrol," Prince
Bismarck; "Endymion," the Author;
nigel Penruddock," Cardinal Manning;
"Mr. Ferrars," Rt. Hon. G. Rose;
George Waldersham," G. Smythe; Job
Thornberry," Richard Golden; "Mr.
Vigo," Mr.. Poole; MIR. Yorrocks." Mr..
Miner Gibson; "Hortensuis," Sir w. v.
Harcourt; "Sidney Wilton" Sidney
Herbert; "Mr. ST. Barbe," Thackeray;
''Mr. Gushey, Dickens; "Topsy Turvy, "
Vanity Fair; "Scaramouch, Punch.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

Secretary Blaine has In view project
to unite all the Central and South Ameri-
can Republics to ''resist European inter
ference" AS nearly all the railroads
which have been built in those republics
are the fruitage of European capital, it
is to be hoped that Mr.. Blaine's con.
federacY does not mean the exclusion of
further capital from that source. This
is the only way Europe has been Inter
ferlng," and the people do not seem to
object to that kind.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
The Suicide Mania in New Orleans.

The epidemic of suicide which has
been sweeping over the country seems to
have struck New Orleans, and the result
is four deliberate cases of felo de Sc,
and several unsuccessful attempts
within the space of eight days.
In three of these cases the
methods employed were almost pre-
cisely similar, the pistol being the weap
on used, and all shooting themselves in
the head. Two of the parties placed
the muzzle of the pistols in their mouths
and fired, while the other selected the
temple. A young man named
Fitzgerald took his life by pistol shot,
giving no sign of his intention and leaving
no clue as to the cause for his rash act
He had eaten his breakfast, played with
and kissed his children, spoken pleas
antly to his wife, and then walking into
his parlor, instantly shot himself. A
day or two afterwards man named
Bots asked his wife to prepare him a
cup of coffee, which he drank and rel
ished, played awhile with his children,
chatted with his wife, and then retiring
to his room, fired the fatal shot, leaving
no word to explain his act.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
The EuglIsb Land Question.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson, In the preface
to a recent pamphlet, gives some rather
startling figures in proof Of the impos-
sibility for England to escape speedy
settlement of the land question. 1t is,
in his opinion, graver and more urgent
matter than the slavery question was to
the United States in 1860, and radical
change in the land tenure can scarcely
be brought about without a sweeping
social revolution. According to the
New Domesday Book" of 1974-1S75,
as analysed by Mr.. Arthur Arnold, NJ
P, out of 72,117, 766 acres, comprising
the total acreage of Great Britain, ex-
elusive of the metropolis, 1903. 165
acres, or little more than one-fifth, are
divided into 1 .593 separate landed estates,
held by 525 Dukes, Marquises, Earls,
Viscounts aud Barons, who together con
stitute the House of Peers-the Parlia-
mentary body, in other words, which is
radically opposed to any reform of the
land tenure. These estates yield an
annual rental of $6O,0O0.0OO Yet
these figures do not tell the whole
of the startling tale, for special trust
estates and the estates of peeresses are
not included in the Domesday Book
compilation. The sources from which
many of these titles are derived are more
than questionable, and the tenures are of
a kind which not even the court of Bur
nah would to day venture to grant. Mr..
Arnold reaches the conclusion that more
than four-fifths of the land in Great
Britain is held by about seven thousand
persons, while at least 100000 acres
are held by those who are life tenants
under an entail or other settlement which
prevents the sale or distribution of
the land. 1t is this which is the griev-
ance and the main source of the impov-
erishment of the English and Irish ten
ant farmers. 1t prevents the land from
being fully developed and thoroughly
titled, and reduces both the rental value
and the market value of agricultural
property 1t is Mr.. Atkinson's opinion
that the present time, when food can be
got so cheaply from this country, is the
best time possible for England to deal
with the land question.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
Cause of the Civil War in AndOrra.

The gambling table has caused trouble
before, but seldom revolutions. Rou-
lette or no roulette, however, has just
produced a civil outbreak in the little
State of Andorra, the Oldest republic in
the world The people of Andorra are
divided politically into two factions-the
Progressionists and the Conservatives.
The latter want things to go on as of
yore; the former want partic-
ularly in the form of roulette. A French
gambling firm having promised to pay
Andorra annually an immense sum of
money if it were allowed the privilege of
setting up roulette tables, the
Progressionists seized the offer
and the necessary permission was
granted. The result has been civil
war, the two factions arming themselves
for the fray The Conservatives were
successful, but in the meanwhile France
interfered, declaring that a war in
Andorra was injurious to French inter.
ests. A new election was ordered. In
this the supporters of roulette again tri-
umphed. Such is the situation at pres
ent Whether the affair will produce
international trouble and drag France
into new difficulties it cannot yet be
determined, but it is probable that Gam.
BETA and Grevy will be able to steer the
bark of the republic away from the rocks
that threaten it in the Pyrenees.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
152 BROUGHTON STREET.
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
The People of Panama Unfriendly
to DeLesseps' Canal.

Although large corps of engineers
and general employees are at present on
the isthmus, sent out from Paris by NJ
de Lesseps, nothing has been done to
wards the real development of work on
the canal, and nothing will be effected
until the arrival of heavy machinery
from Europe, expected there in the
course of a month or six weeks. But
the isthmian population is already sadly
disappointed. The golden harvest
which people in Panama and Aspinwall
so fondly anticipated will never be
reaped. The French party seems bent
on establishing everything to meet their
own requirements. Bakeries, shops for
the provision of meat and vegetables,
lodging houses and laundries are
being prepared in Panama; their
own boats and steam launches are in
process of construction, or already ply
ing to and from these shark frequented
waters; along the railway line buildings
are being run up for the use of the canal
engineers and their families, thus de-
priving the owners of the sadly decayed
residences in that neighborhood of all
prospect of tenants. This matter, it is
limited, will give rise to serious trouble,
as the property thus occupied is by no
means included in the canal concession,
and the railway authorities view with
natural disfavor any encroachment on
their rights, for it will be remembered
that the Panama railway bears no envia
BILE reputation for generosity. These
are, of course, minor matters, but among
the laborers and the trading classes have
excited already a feeling of animOsity
against the new corners.
1t is very possible that this feeling of
luminosity against the new corners" is
stirred up by interested parties-those
interested in the railroad, and perhaps
by agents of rival isthmus schemes The
Frenchmen will be very apt to be able to
take care of themselves without the in
tervention of the United States Govern
ment
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
Free Trade and Southern Manufac
tories.


Representative Emory Speer. replying
to the questions asked By the Philadel-
phis american Of representative South
ern men as to the condition of affairs
and public sentiment in the South, says,
with reference to the tariff:
"The need of the South is diversified
industries. The protective tariff is os-
tensibly to encourage American indus
tries, and yet here is the great American
industry of cotton manufacturing at the
South paralyzed in a measure because a
prohibitory duty will not permit South
ern man, who desires to embark his CAPT
tai in cotton manufacturing, to buy his
machinery where he can get it al Its true
market value. The import tax on
cotton machinery is virtually prohibito-
nv. The purchaser can buy the ma
chinery in England for half the price that
he is compelled TO pay in this country,
and here, therefore. is the spectacle of a
great industry, capable of the most per
feet and wonderful success in perhaps
ten States of the Union, which must
languish that the American manufac
turer of its implements may flourish.
This is no protection to American in
dustry, and yet measures that tend to the
repeal of this tax have had no hearing
before Democratic Congress, with its
party majority, as have said, from the
States which would be restored to opu-
lence by this legislation"
The point made by Mr.. Speer is one
which the protectionists fail to answer
If the South is to go on prosperously
with cotton manufacturing, her manu-
facturers must have cheaper machinery.
They are now taxed heavily to pay for
that machinery made in the North. The
tariff obstructs their interests, and they
must unite to have it very materially
modified. The South and West together
can secure a tariff for revenue only.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

New York has had great deal of
small -pox this year. 1t has been troubled
also with apeculiarly aggravating variety
of this disease, known as ''the travelling
smallpox, when the person, sick of it,
feels en- irresistible desire to run around
town and spread it. A man in the very
worst stage of smallpox, covered with
sores and delirious from fever, was ar
rested in q horse car, some days ago,
and scarcely day passes but similar
incident occurs. The newspapers charge
the health officers with responsibility for
this condition of affairs, and they seem
70 be right in it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

COTTON GROWING IN MISSISSIPPI
According to the census returns, Missis-
sippi produced in 1879 the largest
amount of cotton of any State in the
Union. 1t was a particularly prosper
Gus year for the Mississippi farmers,
whereas Texas, which usually heads the
cotton list, was very unfortunate, and
had its crop cut short several hundred
thousand bales The total acreage of
Mississippi was 2,O99,928, and the
product 922, $40 bales, or very nearly
half a bale an acre, splendid
testimony to the fertility of its soil.
This crop was the largest but one ever
raised in this State, the famous crop Of
1860, which exceeded it by 279. 567 bales
Only one-fifteenth of Mississippi, or 3,172
square miles. was cultivated in cotton in
1879, and yet its crop constituted one
sixth of the entire product of the United
States, and was worth SAG, 147 600, or
over $81 to every male in the State. A
pretty good showing for the Mississippi
and Yazoo bottoms as the promised land
of American cotton culture.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The manner of holding the opera
glass (says French journaD is point
to be studied and adapted to the style Of
beauty. A woman who has fine arms
will hold the glass with both hands; a
woman who has fine hands will take off
her gloves; woman who has long
neck will recline back on her chair, and
from tine to time let the glass rest
against her chin. yewelled opera glasses
hing into fashion. Soon we
shall hear that really cHso 49, - p"'
50, 600 for her fan ;$3, 600 for her hand
kerchief, and $4,000 for her operaglsss.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

There are very few men IN the Repub-
lican party to day, who have been so
severely scored by the Republican organs
as has George G. Gorhsm. Only year
ago, he was read out of the party for
having bolted the Republican State ticket
in California. Now, however, ke is to
be the Secretary of the Senate. This
valuable Office is given him as the reward
for having negotiated successfully with
Senator Malone, and thus secured to the
Republican party the committees of the
Senate
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The new prohibition law of Kansas is
meeting with the strongest opposition
from a quarter whence trouble was
probably least expected. The law abso-
lutely forbids the use of wine in the
sacrament, Furnishing the minister
who so administers the sacrament with
two years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary, and shutting up the church itself
as public nuisance, according to the
Interpretation of the Rev. DIR. Beatty,
rector of the Episcopal Church at Law
renee. Last Sunday that clergyman ad-
ministered the sacrament as usual, re-
CARELESS of the consequences, having pre-
viously announced to the congregation
his determination so to do. He said:
owe are willing to render unto
Caesar the things which are C8-
sar's, but we will still give to
God the things that are His. say,
as did Peter, Judge We whether we
should obey men rather than God Of
one thing you may be assured-we shall
never recognize for moment the at.
tempts of human legislation to destroy
the great sacrament of the Christian
church" 1t is probable that the
Rev. DR.. Beattys action viii be
initiated by other clergymen, and
the result is hard to predict. 1t will be
argued that the State cannot permit the
prohibition law to be openly violated by
clergYmen without arouslng storm Of
opposition from those to whom its en-
forcement is a pecuniary loss; and on
the other hand, that to c0nsign the Rev.
DIR. Beatty to prison and close his church
as nuisance would place sharp weapons
IN the hands of those who want to see
the new law hewn down root and branch.
Much of the most priced of old cera-
mics come from the West. The fac
tories are now tl1rnipC ont vary fine
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The Boston journal remarks of the
Southern negroes: Through sea of
slaughter they have kept steadfastly on
toward such light as they could see. .
The census has pretty completely de-
stroyed that ''sea of slaughter" idea of
our Republican contemporaries, and they
are beginning to abandon it. The Bos
ton Journal sticks to it, however, ex-
pressing the belief last fall that hardly
a negro remained on Southern soil TO tell
the horrible tale Of massacre.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

We are going to have heavy influx
of Italians this summer. There has
been heavy emigsstion from Italy for
many years, but most of II has gone
hitherto to South America. In the past
two years, however, it has turned toward
our shores. and now an association has
been organized to develop and assist
Italians anxious to settle in the United
States. Noportion Of the Union is bet
ter adapted to that class of immigrants
than Georgia and Florida.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

Malone is not the only man who has
been honored by 9 gift of flowers. Mr..
Hill has received, as a Washington
special says, 3 great many letters from
Virginia thanking him for smoking out
the little Readiuster, and the citizens of
Alexandria propose to present him with
a magnificent floral tribute as mark of
their gratitude.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

The great success of the French three
per cents, for which the subscriptions
amount to thirty or forty times the
amount of the loan, may assist in re-
straining the Republicans at the coming
extra session of Congress from passing a
81 per cent funding bill Ia response to
the demands of the national banks.