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Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23
ap19 If THOMAS FORSYTH.
 Hack, Express and Truck Licenses.


 HEADQUARTERS POLICE DEPARTMENT
 New Haven, April 19 1881. YHNHE attention of owners and drivers of Hacks, 1 Express Wagons and Trucks is called to the fol- lowing section of city ordinance
 Section l. No hack other vehicle, whether on wheels or runners, drawn by animal power shall be used employed to convey any person from place to place in said city, for hre and baggage wagon press wagon, cart dray truck other vehicle wheth- CT on wheels or runners, shall be used or emplo ed to convey any baggage, goods, Wares merchandise, freight materials fIom place to nla2e asid city for hire, unless in accordance with these inances nor unless under authority of and pursuant to, H. cense such vehicle and for each dr1ver thereof provided in this ordinance and in the ordinance concerning licenses and permits
 Sec 2. Tn ordinance shall not apply to horse csrs or substitutes therefor runners, in use by any Sec. 8 The Chief of Police of said city shsn upon due application, issue Hcense provided the or of any suitable vehicle to employ the same hack cart, dray, truck, baggage waxon, express persons property from place to place in said city for hire classifying such vehicle and signaing it's such license.
 Sec 4. Said Chief shall in like manner license such owner and one or more other to be the driver of each vehicle, on being sati fled that such persons discreet, temperate and honest.
 Sec 5. Said Chief may in like manner grant licen- usual amount 0 travel, for a period not exceeding two weeks to and drivers of suitable vehicles for hire, designating on such license the time for which it Is granted and the place places at which such vehicle may stand to wait for passengers best to accommodate the public and least to incom- mode ir rdividuals.
 rec 6. Such licenses shall be numbered, and the number of each driver shall be the same as that of the vehicle which he s to drive
 Sec 2. Every such vehicle shall have the number of such License in guI in the Arabic character not less than one inch in size, with light figures dark ground, dark figures liant ground at all times fastened or painted the outside and each side of the vehicle. in manner approved by said Chief and so as to be distinctly and easily by passengers in the street
 Sec g. Every ehicle for carrying passengers for hire shall at all times have conspicuousls posted the inside, in manner approved by said Chief and so as to be easily seen and read by passengers card containing the of the owner, the number of the license and tariff of the rates of such vehicle
 Sec 9. Every such driver shall all times when employed, or seeking employment for such vehicle, wear the number of his license conspicuousy on his person. in a manner directed by said Chief and he sbal give to any requiring it, his and num- ber and the name and residence of the owner of the vehicle which he drives and exhibit a tariff of fares prescribed therefor. CHAS WEBSTER.
 ap20 At Chief of Police.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23

The city of Buffalo shares generously in the return of prosperity. It has sold It's 4 per cent bonds at handsome premium, and wakes to find its stock in the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia railroad, which few wears apo was considered dear at 15 cents, worth 100 cents on the dollar, or $7oo, ,oOo. The road, with it's narrowg gauge connections, has been sold to syndicate composed of New York and Philadelphia capitalists for S4.s5o ooo AS late as 1876 the corporation was bankrupt and running behind at the rate of $1O0, GOO annually.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23
No. 2l7 State Street
 Is the place to buy your

Stoves and RefrigeratOrs. Tin Roofing, Gas Fitting, Plumb ing and General Jobbing
 A full line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods.
 The best 8 and 4 ply Rubber Hose at low price.
 Repairs for Boynton's and other Ranges and Stoves.
 ap22 J. N. GARLOCK.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23

A colony apparently worth living in has been planned in Aurora county, southern Dakota, described as perfect garden spot, and center for grand influence for good in the territory The colonists agree to help each other all they can, reasonably and cor d1ally, to abstain from the use and sale of in- toxicating liquors or from conveying their property for that purpose, to set apart five acres out of every eighty of land for general educational purposes, and to settle their diff ferences without going to law, by arbitration among themselves Several thousand acres of land have already been taken up, and the colonists are going immediately to work The advantage of such colony to families going from the East is very great, for they pre- serve their social habits and traditions, avoid the isolation which is the bane of so many western settlers and are assured at the out set of neighbors who are intent with them upon preserving good order and Christian morality as the prime conditions of their so- ciety.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Special efforts are being made for the suc- cess of the meeting of the Mississippi Valley cotton planters association at Memphis May 9. Delegates are invited from all the cot ton States and from various manufactories of this country and England interested in agri- culture or cotton manufacture. It is pro- posed to make the Memphis gathering a means for awakening popular interest in the exposition at Atlanta in October.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23

selves in a proper manner. They have a church and regular preaching, and some 300 families are regular attendants. The explor- CT found them, besides, hospitable. They are quiet and undemonstrative, and hope to become rich. Quite number, from small beginning, have become independent, and some comparatively wealthy.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23

How hard military service in Germany bears upon certain class is indicated by the case of Philip Wenzel of Steinbach, who has been sentenced to death for murdering his betrothed. Philip could not hope to marry the girl for several years because he had to complete his term of military service first, and when she determined to remove with friends to another city, the fear of losing her and the forebodings of jealousy caused him to take her into the garden behind her house and shoot at her until she was dead.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-23

A young man residing in Keene Kissed his sweetheart behind a large screen.
 He made too much noise
 And was heard by some boys Who informed the girls pa,-which was mean
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14
Spanish Claims Against the United
States

We find the following in Frank Leslie $
Illustrated Newspaper Of this week: cit
is said that the Spanish Government has
lately made peremptory demand upon
the State Department for the settlement
of long standing $4,000, 600 claim, the
validity of which our government recog-
nized as long ago as 1916. The claim in
question was for depredations by an
American filibuster expedition upon the
then Spanish territory of East Florida,
for which the United States Govern
ment was in some sense response
bic. BY treaty in the year 1919
we agreed to indemnify Spain
and her subjects for the destruction
of property, provided the land should be
ceded to our government. Instead of
keeping faith, the United States. some
years after, merely paid war valuation
for some of the property, refused to
allow interest or damages, and assumed
a position of Indifference which no
amount of prodding seems to have dis
turbed until the recent peremptorY de-
mand was made. 1t Is alleged that under
the treaty before referred 10, and so far
ignored by us, Spain has even the right
to take possession of several hundred
miles of the sea coast and land bor-
dering thereon IN the State of Florida,
or, if it suited her better, she could
make reprisal upon the few American
ships which sail the seas. However this
may be-, it is quite apparent that the
Spanish Government regards its claims
as well founded, for it has secured the
services of Hon. Stanley Matthews, of
Ohio, and others, as counsel for the
claimants, yet residing in Florida. and
has instructed them to say plainly
to the American Government that
if the just compensation is
not forthcoming there will be q
movement made toward reprisal. If the
facts in the case are as here represented,
it is certainly high time that something
definite should be done towards the ad-
justment of the controversy. We can
not afford to repudiate our treaty obliga-
tions any more than we can afford to
repudiate our public debt, and if we
honestly owe Spain the money herein
referred to, or any part of 1t, we should
pay it at once and escape the atfronts
row so conspicuously-not to say de-
servedly-put upon us.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14

There is no abatement in the attempt
of the anti Grant Republican press to
''brace up" Garfield for the inevitable
war with Conkling over the ''spoils." 1t
is very plain that these papers are fully
aware of the malleability of Mr.. Garfield,
and of the absolute necessity of inces-
SAINT Suffering of his backbone, as the
only means of preventing his surrender
to Conkling before the battle is fairly
begun. Hence, we find the Cincinnati
Commercial saying: Its impossible to
run the administration so as to please
Conkling. He has too many little ways
that are important to him, and too many
enmities and hates aud sneers and preju
dices. His great ability is conceded, but
his impracticability is still greater. If
Garfield had forty years Of Presidential
life before him it would take him the
whole time to reward Conkling's friends
and punish his enemies. 1t is not worth
while to spend four years in efforts that
must be Intellectual"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14
INYITING IMMIGRATION.
Organization OF the Southern Land
and Immigration COMPANY



The Legislature of 1873 granted char
ter to General w. T. Wofford, Hon.
Martin ]. Crawford, B. f. Lockett, I. j.
Holderness, Wade s. Cochran, Campbell
Wallace and others. constituting them q
body corporate under the name and style
of the Southern Land and Immigration
Company-the capital stock to be one
million dollars, with shares st five hun
dred dollars each, and permitting organi-
zation when two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars of said capital stock has been
subscribed, and ten per cent. paid in
bond or lawful money. The company,
under the charter, has banking privileges,
can loan and borrow money, give and
take security, with full power to buy and
sell land-stockholders only to be liable
for amount of his stock. 1t provides
further that the principal office shall be
in Atlanta, with power to appoint agen-
cies all over the State. 1t is very libe-
raj charter Last week General Wof-
ford came to the city with the object IN
view of looking into the organization OF
a company under this charter. lie says
the time is now at hand when our people
will be able to get immigration and that
they ought TO be prepared for 1t. Thou
sands of people all over the State have
land for sale, and thousands of people
from other States and places want to puT-
chase the land. The only thing needed
is proper company that will invite these
immigrants to our State, and then be
able to sell them good farms at mode.
rate price. without any fear Of litigation
over the titles.
1t is the intention of General Wofford,
we learn from him, to open books of
subscription under this charter at an ear
ly day in this city. Parties then can
subscribe either land or money, and when
the amount is subscribed required under
the charter an organization will be made,
and the business of the company pro
coed. Georgia is, to day, very much in
reed of just such company. No one
can calculate the amount of good that
can be done to our State if proper com
pany OF this kind is put into operation in
the State.
We hope, therefore, that when General
Wofford opens his books for subscrip-
tons that he will meet with success, and
that the people all over the State will
subscribe literally in land or money.
Notice will be given of the time and
place when the books are ready. In the
meantime, parties who want further IN
formation on the subject can address
General William T. WOfford, Cass Sta
ton, Ca, and he will take pleasure in
giving full particulars about the proposed
company.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14

PRoPosED New PRIME MERIDIAN
The Imperial Academy of Science al
st. Petersburg has Endorsed the sug
gestion made some time ago by Sanford
Fleming, late Chief Engineer of the
Canada Pacific Railway, regarding the
establishment of new prime meridian
for the world. $50 degrees from Green
wich, and the adoption of a standard
time of reckoning, The English and
Scottish astronomers royal, to whom the
suggestions were also submitted, gave
unfavorable opinions. inclining to the
Greenwich meridian as too firmly estab-
lished By long usage to be deserted with
propriety.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14
legitimate Effect of MOngreIIsm.

The state of society infhe Hawaiian
Islands is anomalous. Just such a mix
tdfe Of distinct races and sihzation ex-
lists nowhere else. The total population
islsomewhat less than 6e.oOO, Of whom
about [. 00O are Chinese 900 are from
other foreign countries. and the rest,
40, 900, are natives. There are 1000
males and "a, 900 females. This dispro-
portion-ef the sexes, due to the fact that
few Chinese women come, is one cause
of the frightful moral degradation of the
inhabitants. Curiously enough, China
men in Hawaii seem to exercise con-
trolling influence on, the customs and
manners of the people, although they
are in minority, and have brought
with them all the vicious practices pre-
vailing in Asia. including polyandry.
The true nature of the average Celestial,
which in the United States is repressed
by the force OF public sentiment, shows
itself in Hawaii, and is destructive of
virtue and decencY. The Hawaiian
Chinese are grossly immoral, the so
called higher class as well as the lower
class. The weather. of them, who live
in fine houses and marry the pick
of the women-natives and foreign-by
their practices set an example which is
degrading and demoralizing TO society,
high and low. 1t is said that not over
tenth of them live respectfully. The ma
tive men have adopted polyandry to
some extent, and the women seem to &C
cept it willingly. Domestic instincts are
thus destroyed, all ideas of sacredness
are eliminated from the family relation,
and heathenism is permeating the whole
population. AS the Chinese population
increases-and it is growing rapidly
now-the social condition will become
worse and worse. 1t is fortunate that
we in America will probably escape the
necessity of fighting the Asiatic plague
here at home
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14

The farewell words of the Duke of
Cambridge to the troops who were en-
barking from London for the Transvaal,
conveyed to the soldiers the wish of the
Queen that they should make mild
use of their victories in South Africa. !"
This is equivalent to an official declare
ton that the Beers are not to be treated
with any unnecessary severity when they
shall be overcome-a result that must
follow. This policy of the British Gov
eminent will, undoubtedly, give general
satisfaction, for the reason that there is
great deal of sympathy felt for the Beers
of Transvaal, growing out of the hard
ships their ancestors sustained in build
ing up and maintaining their homes
After all the suffering of these people it
would be cruel for power as strong as
England to crush them and deprive
them of property that has at last become
valuable.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14

THE Crown JEWELS OF FRANCE. -
After many abortive attempts to dispose
of the regalia of France the government
has at last brought in bill to provide
for the appropriation of these relics of
the monarchy. The jewels are TO be
divided into three lots. The first class,
compromising such ornaments as are
distinctively accepted as mere works of
art and have no determinate market
value outside of their settings or their
association, are to be distributed for ex-
hibition among the different public
museums. The second class. or rough
or uncut stones and stones of no COM
mercial value, will be placed in the
cabinets Of mineralogy. The third class,
the ordinary jewels. will be sold, the
proceeds to be applied to the formation
of fund for the purchase of works of
art for the museums.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14
ZERO'S HISTORY.
The Accident by which Degrees were
Conferred on the Weather.

Zero" on the common thermometer,
like the fanciful names of the constella-
tions, is curious instance of the way
wise mems errors are made immortal by
becoming popular. 1t may be worth
while to say that the word itself (zero)
comes to US through the Spanish from
the Arabic, and means empty, hence
nothing. In expressions like 100 degrees
Fair, the abbreviation Fair. stands
for Fahrenheit, Prussian merchant of
Dantzic, on the Baltic sea. His full
name was Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.
From boy he was close observer of
Nature, and when only nineteen years
old, in the remarkable cold winter of
1909, he experimental by putting snow
and salt together and noticed that it pro-
duced a degree of cold equal to the cold
est day of the year. And that day was
the coolest day the oldest inhabitant
could remember Gabriel was the more
struck with the coincidence of his little
scientific discovery, and hastily conclud.
ed that he had found the lowest degree
of temperature in the world, either nat
ural or artificial He called the degree
zero, and constructed a thermOm-
eter, or rude weather-glass with q
scale graduating up from zero to boiling
point, which he numbered 2f2, and the
freezing point 32-because, as he
thought, mercury contracted the thirty
second of its volume on being cooled
down from the temperature of freezing
water to zero; and expanded 180th on
beiag heated from the freezing to the
boiling point.
Time showed that this arrangement,
instead of being truly scientific, was as
arbitrary as the division of the Bible into
verses and chapters, and that these two
points no more represented the real ex-
tremes of temperature than from Dan
to Beersheba" expressed the exact ex-
tremes of Palestine.
But Fahrenheit's thermometer had
been widely adopted with its inconven-
ient scale, and none thought of any bet
ter until his name became an authority,
for Fahrenheit finally abandoned trade
and gave himself up to science.
The three countries which use Fab
renheit are England, Holland and Ameri.
ca Russia and Germany use RaumeI's
thermometer, in which the boiling point
is counted 80 degrees above the freezing
pOlHJ. CIduCS uSee INC CCutiSi ad0 1ACA-
mometer, so-called because it marks the
boiling point 100 degrees from freezing
point. On many accounts the centigrade
system is the best, and the triumph of
convenience will be attained when zero
is made the freezing point, and when the
boiling point is put 100 or 1000 degrees
from it, and all the subdivisions are
fixed decimally.
If Fahrenheit had done this at first, or
even if he had made this one of his many
Improvements after the public had
adopted his error, the luck of oppor-
tunity, which was really his, would have
secured to his invention the patronage of
the world.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14
A Brave Little Boy.

The recent destructive tenement house
FIRE in New York, by which so many
lives were lost, was scene of youthful
heroism that challenges our admiration.
The fire had started on the ground floor
under the stairway-that is, in the fire.
place of the chimney-and almost at once
climbed the stairway and shot up through
the scuttle, rising ten or twelve feet
above the roof. The narrow alley was
full of sitting smoke, which soon en-
veloped the surrounding houses and fill
ed the street in front The police and
firemen could see little, but could hear
women screaming in the trap. The fire.
men, half choked with smoke, got lad
ders against the front of the build
ing. All of the inmates who had not
been stifed already were at the
windows crying for help. McKenna,
the currier, living ON the third floor,
was away at his work. His wife was
absent, and the four children were in
the room eating their breakfast when the
alarm of fire was raised. Charles, the
oldest boy, hastily opened the door and
saw that the stairway was furnace be
low and above the hall He returned to
the room and fastened the door securely
to keep out fire and smoke, then, picking
up his baby sister in his arms, he climbed
out of the window to the fire escape and
descended TO the balcony on the second
floor. Standing on that balcony he
shouted to crowd of men who were on
the roof of a shed in the yard opposite
to catch the child and tossed her to them.
She fell unframed into the arms of
longshoreman, who carried her into his
own house and gave her to his wife.
Hold on, boys" young McKenna
said, as he saw his sister carried away,
1--WE got two more"
In few moments he again appeared
on the balcony with his three year-old
brother Hugh, whom he threw to the
men on the roof of the shed. They
caught him unhurt. Charles had the
greatest difficulty with his brother James,
nine years old, who refused to leave the
room. He got him to the window, but
the boy would not jump, telling his
brother that he would certainly be killed
on the tagging below. His brother
finally went to the back of the room, ran
towards him Unexpectedly, lifted him in
his arms and dropped him to the crowd
below. He was not in the least hurt.
Charles then got on the fire escape,
around which the flames were flying,
and lowered himself to the lowest
balcony, from which he jumped into the
yard, landing on his feet uninjured, save
for scorched hands.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-14

The San Francisco AItG has been max.
ing a computation of what Kearneyism
has cost California. There has been a
decrease of $83, 600, 600 in banking CAPT
tai, the improvements of property have
been checked, the number of depositors
in the savings banks has fallen off, the
loans of the banks have been less this
year than the repayment by borrowers.
there is no new railroad building in the
State, and the home capitalists are trans
ferring their business to New York
California is the only State that is not
sharing In the general prosperity of the
country.