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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
The Lost Books of the Bible

A correspondent writes to the New
York Sun as follows: "Mr. III. w. Tur-
ner says the appearance of the revised
edition of the New Testament reminds
him that he heard long ago of lost Cos
pei to the Hebrews. If Mr.. Turner will
only take the trouble to read the Bible
over carefully he will find therein proof
that twenty three books of it have been
lost, a few of which | will name for his
information:
''In the Book of Numbers, xxi, IA, &C.
ours the following reference: Where
fore it is said in the Book
of the Wars of the Lord. Now,
where is that book2 Lost. In the
third Book of Kings it is recorded that
Solomon wrote 5000 proverbs. There
are not more than 500 in the present
Bible; the rest are lost. In the same
Book it is mentioned that he wrote 105
Canticles. There is not the half of
that number in the present Bible.
Then we find an allusion to the
Book of Nathan the Prophet There
is no such book; it is lost. In Chroni-
Giles we read that the acts of David are
written in the Book of Samuel, the Seer,
and Nathan, the Prophet. There is no
such Book; it is lost There was an
Epistle of ST. Paul to the Colossans; it
is lost. St Paul wrote five Epistles to
the Corinthians, we have only two of
them; the rest are lost. Altogether,
twenty-three Books of the Bible have
been lost-twenty from the Old tesla
ment and three from the New"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
A Small Farmer.

Mr. Zettler is a thrifty small farmer of
bingham county-cultivates little
over fifty acres of land with one horse,
and although he partially failed in his
crop last year, has never yet been re,
duced to the necessity of buying corn
He never lets the grass get the advantage
of him, but while it is yet very young,
seizes upon the first good dry weather
to destroy it with the harrow, which he
finds superior to all other implements for
that purpose. He thinks his section of
the country is as good as any other, and
as he likes it he thinks his two boys will
like it also. For these reasons he has
bought lands for them in his own neigh
borhood, while the lands are low in
price, satisfied that in ten years they will
be much higher. He is not in favor of
immigration, because he thinks the
Georgia boys will in few years need all
the vacant lands in the State. We should
state that he has been a farmer ever
since he came out of the Confederate
army-has never bought sack of guano
in his life, but makes all the compost he
can on his own place.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
AN INTERESTING DECISION.
"The,' Instead of sHls'' vitiates a
Deed.
Baltimore Sam

Judge Gilmor, in the Superior Court,
Saturday, rendered an important opinion
in an attachment case. Turnbull, Sweet
& Co., o. Brehme, Straus & Kahn, and
large number of other creditors of
Geo. Hexter, issued an attachment and
seized q stock of goods which had been
assigned by Hexter in a deed of trust.
The case was argued in opposition to a
motion by the defendants, Hexter &
Glass, to quash the attachment by Mr..
Isidor Rayner. who, with Colonel
Charles Marshall, represented the credi-
tors The points relied upon by the
creditors were that the deed of trust
was void upon two grounds
First, that the grantor (Hexter)
in the deed had said that
he conveyed "all the property, real and
personal" instead of ''all has property,
real and PERSONAL" that all the property,
without saying whose property. meant
nothing at all. The second point was
that Jacob Glass. a former partner of
Hexter, had failed to sign the deed; that
the deed exacting releases to Hexter
that therefore his failure to sign it vitiat-
ed it. At the conclusion of Mr.. Ray
ner's argument the court said that it did
not desire any further argument from
the plaintiff, and that it was satisfied
that the deed was void upon both of the
grounds taken by the creditors counsel,
and therefore overruled the motion of
the defendants to quash The amount
of the claims of the creditors is about
$4,000.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

ANOTHER LEAK DISCOVERED. - A
Washington dispatch says the star service
investigating commission on Wednes-
day discovered another instance of what
they regard as gross extravaganza in the
expenditures for mail service in the
Southwest, and have submitted recon-
mendation, which when carried into
effect by an order that will shortly be
issued by Postmaster General James,
will, in the judgment of the postal au'
thorities, result in an additional saving
of 800, 900 per annum without in any
degree crippling the postal service. The
dispatch says President Garfield, in
view of the highly satisfactory progress
already made 10y the commission in the
line of discovering opportunities to cut
off useless contracts and the Diet, c.ion of
the methods by which such contracts
were oil tanned, remains undisIurbed by
criticisms of his approval of the per
sonnet of the commission, and expresses
himself as more than ever determined to
sustain the Attorney General and Post
master General in their untrammeled
conduct of the entire investigation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

UNREST IN WESTINGHOUSE Snow
don, Washington correspondent of
the Richmond Dispatch, says: The de-
gree of unrest, uncertainty. and anxiety
about the departments now equals, if it
does not exceed, that which is usually
apparent at the change of an administra.
ton. Nobody seems to feel secure of
the position he holds, and, consequently,
takes little interest in the work he is DO
ing-and, indeed, but little work is be-
ing done in any of them except that in
connection with the numerous investiga-
tons now in progress; these are being
prosecuted vigorously. and with results
by no means satisfactory to the parties
under investigation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
The Western Locust Plague-RepOrt
OF the Commission Of EntomolO-

The Western Locust Plague-Rep0rt
OF the Commission Of Ent0molO-
gists.
In Dakota, Montana, and the neigh
boring British possessions, there extends
for many hundreds of miles nameless
mountain region. 1t is covered with
scanty bunch grass. Here is the breed
ing place of the countless swarms of
locusts which have become such plague
to the far Northwest, and which have
devastated the farms as far south as
Kansas. Fifty million dollars worth of
property is the estimated direct and in
direct damage inflicted by the locusts
in 1874. This. however, was an excep-
tional year. Generally the loss is less,
but still very great The destruction at
times has been so widespread that Con-
gress, yielding to the opportunities of
some of the Western Representatives,
appointed commission to investigate
the subject. That commission, consist
ing of the eminent entomologists, A. S.
Packard, G. V. Riley and one other, has
just made its report The expenses of
the commission amounted to some $45.
600. Its report will be very interesting
to naturalists. Whether farmers, in
whose interest it has been prepared, will
derive much consolation from it is alto
gether doubtful
The commission, after long and pa
tent investigation, virtually acknowl-
edges that there is no effectual remedy.
The young locusts may be destroyed. it
says, by burning over the area in which
they may be found, or by blowing them
under so deeply that they cannot break
their way through to the surface. These
inefficient remedies have been in use for
many years, so that the practical farmer
has anticipated the scientist. As the
commission was appointed by Congress
it makes its report to the govern
ment, and in discussing what aid can
be given, outside of that which the far
mers themselves can afford, comes to
the conclusion that the locust plague
might be mitigated by broad systems of
irrigation in the arid lands which are
their breeding places, and by judicious
burning of the bunch grasses, etc. 1t is
TO be feared, considering the enormous
area covered by these pests, that no eff
forts in the direction suggested, even
though helped by a government subsidy,
would be so successful as to justify the
cost. So the Western farmers will have
to fight for their crops with their own
field hands, and by burning over and
blowing under, and digging bitches, and
by occasional irrigation where water is
accessible, do the best they can to get
partial relief from their scourge.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
DiscOuraging to Truck Farmers.

We allude to the dispatch to Colonel
Haines from Mr.. G. d. Owens, in New
York, dated June 9th, and published in
our columns yesterday. The rejection
of eight hundred packages by the con-
signees on the statement, market glut-
ted" is rather a serious matter for the
truck farmers of the South, and is calcu.
lated to discourage an industry upon
which much hope has recently been built
for the future. OF course the rejected
packages were not a total loss, but the
fact of glutted market sufficiently indi-
Gates the serious loss to the truck farm
ers who shipped them. And now what
should they do about it2 In answer to
this question it may be remarked that
nothing can be done to recover the losses
of the past, but some things might be
suggested as a means of avoiding
such disasters in the future. What
were our truck farmers thinking about
when they sent shipload after shipload
of perishable green truck into the same
market, and that toward the close of the
season for extreme Southern shipments
of many of the articles? Such course
will subject them to losses in the best of
seasons and markets. 1t seems to US
that such produce should be distributed
among the large cities of the North,
which could easily be done by a little
cooperation among the truck farmers
and proper understanding with the ship
ping agencies. There would seem to be
sufficient population in the North and
West to consume all the early fruits and
vegetables the South will be likely to
produce, and if we fail of remuneration
in the traffic, the fault must be attribut
ed to our want of knowledge of the con-
dItion of the markets, or of facilities for
proper distribution of our products.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
Tit for Tat.

The new editorial influences of the re
organized New York EUeni11g Post would
seem to be pretty much thrown into the
anti-Conkling scale. Ex-senator Schurz,
as editor, is now able TO retort with in
terest to the sneer that ex-senator Conk-
ling cast at him at the close of the last
session of Congress by describing him as
one who stood in the "ashes of his own
ambition" The editor is enjoying the
sweetness of seasoned vengeance, at
lacking his assaiIant with brilliant.
bitter, polished and poisoned shafts
that cannot fail to hit and hurt
One of the quietest bits of sarcasm
is where the editor tells the ex-senator
that his retirement from public life will
do him good; that che will find leisure
carefully to study those questions and
problems of public interest the solution
of which is the principal business of
statesmen; and he will enjoy that study,
for in his peculiar career he must have
keenly felt that the absorbing business
of providing for his friends and of
keeping the machine in order left him no
time for careful inquiry into those vast
and various interests which, as Senator
from the State of New York, he was
called upon to represent"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
An Awful Tragedy.

A member of railroad surveying par
ty, writing from Acambara, Mexico, to
the Philadelphia Times, thus describes
an awful tragedy in their camp: "Our
party was composed of Mr.. Filley, in
charge of our branch; Foster. who had
the transit Martin, the level Jones
and myself, 'topographers, and DR..
Sackrider, taking lines on the slopes
The doctor had been compelled to leave
home and his practice, being the victim
of certain prosecutions His troubles so
worked on his mind that he be-
came crazy. He imagined that we
were in league with his enemies and
were trying to ruin him. For some time
past we all noticed little things which
made us agree that he was slightly un-
balanced. Our suspicious were con-
firmed in a horrible way. On Friday
morning | awoke at half-pas five, and
the first thing | saw was the doctor, with
one of the largest pistols pointed at and
within foot of Martins head. heard
him say: Where is that diary of mine
which you got from the hacienda last
EVENING"
Martin seemed to grasp the situation
and said, All right, l will get it for you,
intending TO get hold of the pistol. But
he was not quick enough. The doctor
fired, and Martin, who was on his knees,
fell forward, with his head all shattered.
The doctor then turned to our side of
the tent, going at the same time toward
the door. Before he reached it he
cooked his pistol, fired and fatally
wounded Jones, my bed-mate, lying
alongside of me. He then ran out and
ten feet from the tent turned and fired
at me. Fortunately the bullet missed
me, making hole in the tent just above
my head. The bullet that MORALLY
wounded Jones also made a hole
through my blue shirt The doctor
then fired fourth shot through the tent
for anyone it would hit. One of our
men by this time had managed to get
his gun, and called out, Shoot him!
shoot him. He knelt down by the door
of the tent and shot the mailman
through the heart"
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fictitious

GTATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY
- To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of JOHN X. WEST, JAMES G..
WEST, MILO HATCH, WILLIAM d. NAPLES,
ROBERT B. REPPARD and HENRY C. GUN
NlN6HAM. all of said State and county re-
spectfully shows:
That they have associated themselves
together for the purpose of forming corpora
ton, to be composed of your petitioners and
such other persons as they may associate with
them, for the purpose of carrying on the
manufacture ana safe OF daanoS Phosphates
and Fertilizers of any and all descriptions, and
the ingredients of each and all OF them. That
the corporate name by which your petitioners
propose to be known is THE PLANTERS
propose to employ is the sum Of Fifty Thou
sand Dollars ($50000) of which ten per centum
40 per cent? to wit: the sum of FIvesThousand
Dollars: has been auctually paid in, said capt.
tai stock to be divided into shares of One Hun
dred Dollars ($l00) each. That the place of
business of said corporation win ne the county
of Chatham, state of Georgia, and that said
corporation proposes to purchase supplies and
sell the products of their manufacture and
stock in trade at such places as may prove
most convenient and advantageous.
wherefore your petitioners pray that they
and their associates and successors may be in
corporated for the term of twenty years, with
the privilege of renewal at the end of that
time, under the name and style of THE
PLANTERS GUANO COMPANY and that the
said corporation may be empowered to in
crease its capital stock, whenever it may see
flt, to any sum not exceeding One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($1t0,O0n; to sue and be
sued; to have and use q common seal; to con-
tract and be contracted with; to make bylaws
binding on its own members not inconsistent
with the laws of this State and of the United
States; to hold such property, real and per
sonal, as is necessary to the purposes of its
organization; and to sell and make proper
titles to the same at pleasure; and generally to
do all such acts as are necessary to the legiti-
mate exercise of its purpose, and to exercise
all the rights and privileges incident and be-
longing to corporations under the laws of this
State. And your petitioners will ever pray,
etc CUNNINGHAM & LAYTON,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
49,, Petition fled in Office and recorded
SEAL May 18th, 1881.
- JAMES K P. CARR,
my21-SSt Deputy Clerk S. Q. Q. G.
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The ALBANY Dead Lock.

AS will be seen by our Albany dis
patch, the Senatorial deadlock still
''drags its slow length along" with no
present indication of speedy termina-
ton. ConkIing and Platt gain no
strength, while Depew's vote ran up
yesterday to fifty-four. This may per.
haps be attributed to the fact that by the
bribery investigation the half-breeds
have discovered that money is to be
made by voting for Depew. 1t is re-
ported in Washington that the Demo-
Gratis and Conklingites have struck hands
upon proposition to adjourn the Legis-
lature by Saturday, at least The half
breeds will fight this with desperate
energy, of course. but it is scarcely to
be supposed that they will be enabled to
prevent the consummation of the at
tempt. One thing only is certain. and
that is that Conkling's chances with the
present Legislature are hopeless.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

There is to be combined movement
on the polar regions this year, no less
than seven expeditions being in the
course of preparation. The first will be
on the Rodgers. formerly known as the
Mary and Helen, which will leave San
Francisco in a few weeks, and coast
along Alaska in search of the Jeanette
The steamer Alliance will, at the same
time, cruise in search of the missing YES
sci between Greenland, Iceland and the
coast of Norway. Lieutenant Greeley, in
the steamer Proteus, will be shortly con-
veyed to the Arctic regions, where he
will begin voyage to the pole by land.
Besides these, the Corwin, Capt. Hoop
er, the Walladon, the Vigilant and the
st. Paul, not to mention Dutch vessel,
viii also be sailing this fall in the north
ern regions in search of new lands and
continents.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

Proposed AntI-RepubIican COmbina-
tiOn TO Organize the Next House
of Representatives.
There is talk already in Washington
about an anti-Republican combination
to organize the next House of Repre-
sentatives. 1t is stated that while ex-
Speaker Randall is very active in the
organization movement. he does not
expect to be the opposition candidate for
Speaker. That honor is reserved for
Ladd. of Maine, who has been q Demo
crst for years, and is acceptable to the
Greenbackers It is said that all the
Democrats elected to the next House
are willing to support Ladd for
Speaker, and the combination pro-
poses to give the Greenbackers either
the Clerk or Sergesnt-stArms and the
control of important committees. Laid
and the Greenbackers undertake to carry
Frye's district in Maine, made vacant by
the election of Frye to the Senate, and
the Democrats propose to carry MOrton's
district in New York city. Should
the Republicans lose these two districts,
they would be in the minority, but then
the two Readjuster members from Yir
GINA are doubtful. The Democrats
claim that if they carry Virginia next
fall. both the Readjusters will vote with
them in the organization of the House.
Active operations looking to the organi-
cation of the House in December have
been going on for some time, and the
parties are so close that it will depend
upon Rev. ]. Hyatt Smith. of Brooklyn,
and the two Readjusters of Virginia.
The Greenback leaders say that their
members will vote to help their party.
The indications are that warm contest
will take place over the organization, and
it is now said that Conkling will have
a voice in it; that if he is beaten for re-
election as Senator, he will have friends
in the House who will prevent the ad-
ministration from controlling the or
ganiZation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

Mr.. Chase said to a painter who
wanted to picture the Cabinet as it ap-
peared when listening to the reading of
the emancipation proclamation: Lin
coins proclamation, indeedl You ought
to have seen him when he called the
Cabinet together to resd it to us. What
did he do but read several chapters of
Artemus Ward to us for half an hour,
and at the end of that time he slapped
the book together and drew out his
proclamation and read it, Isn't that
solemn? Paint the Cabinet assembled
to discuss the most momentous question
of the age and the President sitting
among them reading Artemus Wards
NONSENSE
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
SUMMER BOARD.

DARTIE5 who desire a quiet retreat, good
4 board, fine water and picturesque scenery
during the heated term, can secure this by APP
plying to Mrs. A NJ. JONES, Chatham, Pittsyl-
vania county, Va. Location accessible to
depot. Terms $50 per month. No extra
charges except for washing je10 4t
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
Brazil.



The richest tribute that Brazil pays to
the world is found in its vast number of
cinchona or quinine trees, which crowd
the banks of the great river Amazon for
hundreds of miles from its source. The
republic of Peru has, until lately, enjoy
ed the greater part of this quinine traffic.
But the supply in Peru is becoming ex-
hausted, and the adventurous ozark"
hunters cross the Brazilian frontier and
penetrate far into the unknown depths
of that dark country and rob the forests
of their rich produce.
The coffee crop of Brazil has declined
in quantity to an alarming extent during
the last decade. This may be justly at.
tributed to the agitation of the slavery
question lately, for Brazil also has her
abolitionists, who are moving heaven
and earth to destroy slavery in its every
form.
The province of the northern portion
of the empire favor free labor. those of
the southern limits, where the greatest
coffee plantations exist, favor slavery,
and seem determined to retain 1t, for the
planters hold that its existence is neces-
sary to the prosperity Of the empire.
Thus the struggle between the two fac
tons is daily becoming more bitter and
deadly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

WANTED. Pianos and Organs 10 -
w repair. Rates reasonable tune AMI
instruments. T. B. TURNER i34 sSsts hand.
between Bull and Whitaker SITS. I da sF9f y:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

Here is a pretty go. Ben. Perley
Poore says in a recent dispatch to the
Boston Journal,
The Washington daily papers, for
some time past, have contained adver-
tisements Offering TO obtain places in the
departments at prices varying from 500
10 5000. The attention of the head of a
department being called to the matter he
directed a detective to investigate it, and
it has been ascertained that one lady
lobbyist made nearly, if not quite, s.. 900
last winter, by obtaining the signatures
of Congressman to applications for places
by persons represented by her to be her
relatives, but who, in fact, paid her fer
the places thus obtained. Ia one in
stance the dismissal of lady clerk was
obtained on the complaint that she had
denounced the administration, and a
Young girl was put in the vacant place,
whose friends paid 5000 in cash the day
that her appointment was signed.
That statement presents a topic for the
robust consideration of civil service re-
form clubs. 1t suggests the great i'm
portance of adopting the British system
ia our civil service.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11

BIG SUTT.-Suit was entered in the
Philadelphia Orphans Court, few days
ago, against the estate of Judge Asa
Packer, for 81 900, 900, in behalf of the
estates of Hammet, Noble & Co. Judge
Packer and the firm named built the
Lehigh Railroad, and the suit has grown
out of unsettled accounts between them
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
General Frisbie Obtained on Tuesdal

General Frisbie obtained on Tuesday
a railway concession from the Mexican
Government deemed to be the most valu
able yet granted. 1t connects with the
Southern Pacific on the Rio Grande. and
comes to Mexico City, with branches to
the Gulf and the Pacific. Major Francis
Degrees signed On the same day an i'm
portant contract for railroad from La
redo to the City of Mexico, skirting the
Gulf and extending to the Pacific. This
concession, like General Frisbie's, is
completed by the authority granted by
Congress, requiring no further action by
that body.
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