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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
A SNEF ZINC SCENE.
The Effect on Mary Anderson OF
Her IngOmaT's Insect Powder.
NetU York Merc1trv.


Probably one of the meanest stage
tricks that was ever played was played
on Mary Anderson. 1t will be remem-
bered that in the play of 'Ingomar"
Parthenia and the barbarian have several
love scenes, where they lop on each other
and hug some-that is, not too much
hugging, but just hugging enough. In
g0mar wears huge fur garment, made
of lions skin, or something. One day he
noticed that the moths were getting into
it, and he told his servant
to see about the moths, and drive
them out. The servant got
some insect powder and blowed the hair
of the garment full of it, and scrubbed
the inside of it with benzine. Ingomar
put it on just before he went on the
stage, and thought it didn't smell Just
right, but he had no time to inquire into
it. He had not got fairly in his position
before Parthenia came out on hop,
skip and jump, and threw herself all
over him. She got one lung full of
insect powder and the other full
of benzine, and as she said "Wilt
always love me, Ingomar ?" she
dropped her head over his shoulder
and said in an aside: ''For the love of
heaven, what have you been drinking2"
and then she sneezed couple of times.
Ingomar held her up the best he could.
considering that his nose was full of in
sect powder, and he answered, 81 will"
and then he said to her quietly: "Dam-
f1no what it is that smells So" They
went on with the play between sneezes,
and when the curtain went down she
told Ingomar to go out and shake him
self, and he did,. 1t was noticed in the
next act that Ingomar had linen buster
on, and Mary snoZe no more.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
A Bad Old Party.
Colonel Forney says, in his hearty,
CHEEKY way, in last weeks Progress:

Colonel Forney says, in his hearty,
CHEEKY way, in last weeks Progress:
''The Democrats are the natural gov
ernors of this democratic country. The
Republicans are the offspring of one of
the exceptional intervals of evil; the pa
renthesis of parties natural, but wholly
unnecessary is the grammar of Ameri-
can history. The mere fact that the Re-
publicans claim to have saved the repub-
lie from the rebellion, and yet are
whipped out of their majority IN one
third of the Union, and hold only a bare
selvage in the other portion, shows that
they are not only intruders, but incom-
petents. They have all the advantage of
money, place, plumber and craft,
and thew barely save their dis
tance. Why? Because they lack the
chief expediem of sincerity. They
have no confidence in themselves, and
nobody has any confidence in them.
That is the secret of their suicide. 1t
would be monstrous if it were otherwise.
The Democrats are as naturally the
masters of this continent as real peoples
are the makers of real constitutions. The
Republicans, or Wings, or Federalists
are as spasmodic as contsgion born of
bad times, bad weather, accidents and
war, and as locally temporary; while the
Democrats are the growth of history,
health, reason and the harmony of things.
The Republicans or Wings of the United
States, like the Tories of England and
the Imperialists of France, never win
save by expedients or the calamities of
their adversaries. The Democrats of
the United States, like the Lib
erals of England, the people of
Ireland, the Radicals of France, are the
great body of the State, the popular
sentiment, the foundation and the super
structure of the whole national edi1ce;
frequently obscured and overcome, and
sometimes mistaken. but in the end the
supreme power and ultimate dictator.
Life is not more eternal; death is not
more absolute than Democracy. We
trace this stern axiom in the whole pre-
sent phase of humanity. The Democracy
are the productive poor, the toiling mas
ses, the impulsive, generous. frequently
laundering multitude, but always edu
eating each other, helping each other.
forever correcting their own errors and
chastising those who deceive them"
1t certainly is not moral force which
keeps the Republican party in power,
nor is it actual numerical strength, be-
cause the party is in a minority 1t does
not represent the advocates of republi.
can form of government, because its
leaders sympathies are with oligarchy.
They have control of the government;
they detained it under false pretenses;
they retained it in 1876. when it was
lost to them at the polls, by robbery;
they hold it to-day because, during
twenty years, they have multiplied the
plumber, increased the patronage and are
ready at all times to follow John Sher-
mans prescription to beat the Demo
cratic party. Anything, Mr.. Sherman
says, sis justiiable in morals and law
to do that. A desperate party that to
have control of our government.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
POSTAL FINANCES BY STATES.
which Yield a Revenue and Which
Cost Money 10 Serve.

Sixth Auditor Ella flor the Post Office
Department. has submitted his report
to the Postmaster General, showing
the receipts and expenditures by States
Those States showing an excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures and the amount
of the same are: Maine, $54, 642 II /;
Massachusetts,, 1913. O91 Sc; Rhode ISL
and, 1928, 345 81; Connecticut. $164,.
577 81; New York, 1901, 475 43; New
jersey, sos, 234 06; Pennsylvania, 1868,
403 So; Delaware, $14, $50 81; Michigan,
1892, 81 21; Illinois, 1924, 4SS 81; Wis
consin, $4S, 701 50; Alaska, 1882 Ga.
The States showing an excess of expendi-
lures and the amount thereof are as
follows: Vermont, 5000 40; Maryland,
$29, 0S4 So; Virginia. 1920, 800 SO; West
Virginia, $27, 1928 II; North Carolina.
$164, 44S rs; South Carolina, 81. 461 81;
Georgia, $238, 902 II; Florida, $685.
LAG 20; Ohio, $506. 576 o. Indiana,
$43, 1876 70; Iowa, 81, 654 or; Missouri.
1906, 429 II; Kentucky, $135, S16 SO;
Tennessee, $90,111 81; Alabama, $217,-
69S 80; Mississippi, 1926, 905 03; Louis
lana, $165 1852 10; Arkansas. $540, 1909 81;
Texas, $749, 23S GA; California, $780,
708 "a; Oregon, $243, 400 "a; Minnesota,
$s7, 731 10; Kansas, $346, 100 SO; Ne
braska, $543. S52 SO; Nevada, $780,
432 40; Colorado, $500, 767 Al; Utah,
1920, 115 so; New Mexico, $3.50, 1904 "a;
Washington, 49,, zoos Is; Dakota, $193,-
or rs: Arizona, 1897, 342 IS; Wyoming,
1920, 027 90; Montana, $232, 97S 81 Dis
trict of Columbia, $61, 1S9 n. This state
meut is most interesting. 1t will be seen
that of the New England States all save
Vermont pay profit to the government,
and she is within 5000 40 of paying her
own expenses. OF the Middle States all
pay large excuses into the Treasury. OF
the Western States, but Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin turn an excess
into the Treasury, while of the Territories
Alaska alone, of them all, yields revenue
to the government. The District deficit
of $61, 1S9 " this year, as compared with
deficit of $44 957 40 last year, shows an
increase of SIC, 232 %.
The total receipts this year from all
sources by the Post Office Department
are $36, 1876, 1877 81, as compared with
$32, 1874. 846 % of the previous year,
showing an excess this year over last of
SO 961, 449 95. The total expenditures
this year are $39, 251, 736 46, as COM
pared with $36, 088. 220 81 of the previ-
Gus year, being an excess of So, 163, SIG
95. The saving this year over last is
therefore $798, 1873. The difference be-
tween expenditures and receipts this
year shows that the Post Office Depart
ment Is within $2.466, 1873 40 of being
on paying basis.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
Holy MOhammedan City.

Kairwan, which has now been oc-
cupied by the French troops, much to
the disgust of all Islam, possesses many
famous mosques, but the one which
towers in importance above all others,
not only in respect of its great dOmes
and cupolas and the spaciousness of its
courtyard, wherein the faithful chant
their prayers at the setting of the sun,
but also for the extraordinary incrusta-
ton of sanctity which circumstances and
tradition have fixed upon it, is the
mosque of Djama-el-K eber. MOhammed
could not be buried there, for the reason
that his body could not lie in two places
at once, and Mecca had been chosen for
his final resting place (and herein let it
be remarked that the popular story that
the Prophets coffin being suspended
between heaven and earth by means
of gigantic loadstone is
romance and absurdity). The
Mussulmans, although apt to be blinded
by religious fanaticism, were not oblivi-
Gus to this fact, and knew perfectly well
that if the body of Allah's arch famen
rested in Mecca 1t could not possibly be
utilized for the almost equally holy CITY
of Kairwan. They, however, determin-
ed that they should have, at least, the
body of the barber who had the honor to
shave, shampoo, and pare the nails of
Mohammed; so, accordingly, the BARRIERS
ashes lie in the interior of the Mosque of
Diana Ell Keber, and form a shrine which
receives annually the worship and vene-
ration of several millions of tolerably
reasonable human beings. The mosque
contains one other curiosity of immense
value-namely, hair of the Prophets
beard.
The Prophet must have had a singularly
prolific beard, as there is scarcely a
mosque of any pretensions in the East
which does not contain at least one of
these sacred capillaries. Whether the
traveller enters the great Musjids of All
medabad, of Agra, of Delhi, or Lahore,
or the splendid mosques of Cairo, Con-
stantinople or North Africa the turbaned
attendants will produce, for his edifca-
ton and his backsheesh, either hair or
a slipper which belonged at one time to
the Prophet, or they may invite him to
gaze on a piece of the original Koran, or
an enormous imprint OF the Prophets
foot upon some solid piece of rock or
marble. The Prophet, however, could
have had few BARRIERS, whatever the
wealth of his possessions in beard, slippers
and Koran manuscripts may have been;
and, therefore, Kairwan's most cele-
brated mosque contains, in the BARRIERS
tomb, an object of veneration which has
few equals in any other part of the great
Mohammedan world.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
Consumption Cured.

BALTIMORE, Nd, February 18th, 1881.
Upon the recommendation of friend I
tried Browns Iron Bitters as tonic and
restorative for my daughter, whom 1 was
thoroughly convinced was fast wasting away
in consumption. Having lost three daugh-
tiers by the terrible disease, under the care
of eminent physicians. i was 10th to believe
that anything could arrest the progress of
the disease; but to my surprise, before my
daughter had taken one bottle Of Browns
quite restored to her former health. A fifth
daughter began to show signs Of consump-
ton, and when the physician was consulted
he quickly said, "Tonics were required ~
And when informed that the elder sister was
taking Browns Iron Bitters, responded,
ssThat is a good tonic; take it.n
ADoRAM PHELPs, Of AskeY q Phelps.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

The embellishments by Capt. Howgate
of the funds appropriated by Congress
for the Signal Service Bureau, now foot
up, as far as discovered, $3.50, 900, and
it is believed that additional misappro
priations will be brought to light. There
have been already four indictments
found against Capt. Howgate, and the
grand jury is soon expected to present
fifth Indictment. During the palmy
days Of Capt Howgate, when he main
tanned two expensive establishments in
Washington, kept hunting box in the
mountains, sailed his own private yacht
on the Potomac, and fitted out Arctic
expeditions, with no legitimate income
beyond the salary of his lineal rank in
the army, no one ever seemed to think
that there was anything out of the way
in his princely expenditures. Now it is
very easy to see whose money was max
ing the mare go,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
Secretary KirkwOOd's Report.

The annual report of the Secretary of
the Interior, which was made public
Tuesday, is largely devoted to fresh
discussion Of the Indian question" He
strongly recommends that liberal provis-
ion be made by Congress for teaching
the Indian youth our language; that upon
Just terms to the Indians the number and
area of the existing reservations be great
" reduced; that on such reservations as
are not well adapted to farming without
irrigation efforts be made to teach the
Indians to become herdsmen instead of
endeavoring to try to make them farm
ers; that the Indians titles to the reduced
reservations be individualized and thor
oughly protected by law, and that the
more civilized reservation Indians be
encouraged to abandon their tribal rela-
tons by setting up experimental forms
of local government among them as near
ly alike as may be to the system of
county government prevailing in the
States or Territories in which the reser-
vations are respectively located. Secre-
tary Kirkwood appeals to Congress to
make liberal appropriations to sup
port the Indian school at Carlisle,
and for continuing the instruction of as
many pupils as practicable at the Hamp-
ton Normal School.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
The Trial of Gufteau

At last the jury in the Guiteau MUIR
der case has been completed, and the
trial may be regarded as fairly under
way. Owing to the fact that number
of witnesses have been summoned, many
of them from considerable distance, it
may be several days yet before the end
is reached and a verdict rendered. Still
it cannot be very long now before the
result is known.
1t must be apparent to even a casual
observer that from the conduct and bear
ing of the assassin since his trial began he
is very fearful of the result. He has, from
the first, tried very hard and labOriously
10 counterfeit insanity, and he has, no
doubt, received all due coaching in this
respect from his counsel. His efforts,
however, have so far been exceeding
ly fimsy and strained His denying
with seeming indignation the charge OF
insanity, his pretended differences with
his counsels, his card to his "brother
lawyers" in the United States to volun-
teer for his defense, and his steadily de-
claring all the time that he was not guilty,
both because he was merely an in
spired instrument in the hands of the
Lord TO remove" the President, and
because it was not this bullet-he being
''no marksman" killed Mr.. Gar
field. but that the death of the latter
was the result of malpractice, are
all indirectly assumed for a purpose-tO
create the popular impression that he is
a lunatic. In our opinion, if the assassin
was crazy at all, he was probably only
frenzied by a desire to obtain q lucrative
office at the hands of the President, and
because he failed to do so he determined
10 have his revenge by murder. If this
opinion is correct, and such little mat
ter as disappointment in Office seeking
can make a man mailman, then he is a
dangerous character which the world
will get along much Better without. Elk
Governor Wise said of old John Brown:
That sort of a crazy man ought to be
hung, and we believe the civilized world
echoes this sentiment in regard to
Guiteau.
But we have no idea that Guiteau is in
the slightest degree insane. He believed
that by shooting Mr.. Garfield he would
acquire an infamous notoriety, such as
that created by the ambitious youth who
fired the Ephesian dome, and he believed
that such q large faction of the Repub-
lican party North would applaud him
for the deed, and that he would
escape punishment We shall soon
see whether or not his calculations
were well founded. In the meantime, it
is impossible to resist the opinion that
even as he insists that the Lord selected
him as a creature to remove" Garfield
for the good of the country, so the Lord
will also select the laws of the United
States as the proper medium by which
he should be removed from earth by
strong rope for the good of society.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

ROBBERY OF $40,0 IN GOLD FROM A
PRIVATE SAFR.-Some time since, Jesse
Baldwin, a very wealthy but eccentric
citizen, who lives near Youngstown,
Ohio, took seventeen thousand dollars in
bonds to the Treasury Department in
Washington, and demanded gold for
them. He brought the money home and
deposited it in safe under his hallway,
with other large sums in gold. Tuesday
morning five burglars entered the house,
blew open the safe and carried off be-
tween thirty and forty thousand dollars
in gold. They also stole Baldwin's two
horses and carriage and fed. Baldwin's
son-in-law pursued them, and run
ming fire resulted. Nobody was wound
ed, and the robbers escaped with the
plumber,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

1t is believed that the scheme for the
annexation Of Canada to the United
States is growing in popular favor in the
Dominion. especially in the West and
in Manitoba and British Columbia. The
people of this country, however, evil
IDENTIFY have not given the subject due
consideration, and it is questionable if
they approve of Canadian annexation at
present. 1t is something which will Ger.
tainlY be a live question in the future,
and it is within the range Of probability
that within the next thirty or forty years
several new States will be carved out of
Her Majesty's North American territory
and be incorporated In the American
Union
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Mr.. Sidney Dillon is about to build a
residence on Fifth avenue, New York,
the apparent object of which is to throw
all the other magnificent residences of
the metropolis entirely into the shade.
The Dillon mansion, it is believed, will
be the costliest and most elegant private
dwelling in the world.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

CetesxyO, the exiled Zulu King. re-
emily LEsld to a correspondent Of the
.ondoai Morning Post at Capetown: "All
love is in ,Zululand; my heart is there,
where lies my fathers grave. lam heart
lex and weary with waiting. When
vii E6gandbe just and let me returnf
Do YOU think because am black man
cannot feeli70r suffer the less by this
oug, long and weary captivity2 Eng
and hss.giYea ERE Fransvaal back to the
3oers, Basutoland to the Basutos, SecO-
9ni is=FastoFed= t0=his people. and all
re freesbRt L How is it sol What
ave 1 done thar / should be so treatedf
When I fought against you it was to de-
end my country. l was taken prisoner,
nd felt that one stronger than l had
eaten me. and that power acknow-
dyed. But now you keep me here,
there ] am weary and sick at heart.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Henry Ward Beecher is sixty seven
years Of age, and is obviously growing
bid. He declined to accompany TO York
town the regiment Of which he is a chap
ain. No doubt the troubles through
which he has passed have made heavy
drains on his powers-they would have
killed many men outright-but the
Beechers are long lived. His father died
his eighiy-eighth year, having failed
mentally before his body gave way.
Cstharine is over eighty and Edward not
much under four score. Mrs. Stowe is
hearty seventy, and other children are
living.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

A dispute arose a short time ago be
tween John Jasper and James Casey,
two well known cOlored men of Norfolk
county, Va, in regard, it is said, to poll
tics. After considerable discussion a
mock duel was arranged, seconds were
chosen, and double barrelled shotguns
were selected as the weapons. On Mon
day the two men left for a place in Nor
folk county, where the duel was fought.
By mistake one Of the guns was loaded
and Jasper was killed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

The English Conservatives, under Lord
5alisbury's leadership, now contend that
he government should compensate the
Irish landlords for their losses from the
agitation in Ireland and the decisions Of
he land courts. 1t seems a curious posi-
Jon for party to take. The English
people have, generally, been willing that
IRISH landlords should be enriched by
he earnings of the Irish people, but the
proposition that the present deficiency
rom the Irish should be supplied by
axatoaz in England, is quite another
hing. Lord Salisbury, as a manager Of
party seems to have made a blunder.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

The punishment of the members of
the Tweed ring, and the escape Of the
members of the star route ring, are con-
trasted by the Albany Argus DemocraD,
as follows: The two facts explain the
policy of each party towards its own
rascals. Democracy destroys its pecula-
tors. Republicanism makes its Cabinets
and its courts the factors in a conspiracy
to aequit them"
The reason for this is very plain. In
the Democratic party the rascals are an
Insignificant minority, while in the party
of moral ideas they constitute the ma
jority. Majorities are apt to protect
themselves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Colonel Cameron, who has been elect
ed Governor of Virginia by a coali-
ton of Republicans and debt repudia-
tors, and over whose election the Repub-
lican party is rejoicing, once publicly
expressed himself as follows:
GAS to the full and final payment or
liquidation of the present enormous
national debt, he that knows the Ameri-
can people and their utter deficiency in
the high qualities of truth and integrity,
knows that such an expectation is but an
idiots dream. For ourselves, we shall
rejoice when the crash comes. 1t is a
debt contracted in the prosecution of an
infamous and unnecessary war"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Mrs. Moneys action against Baroness
Burdett Coutts is brought to obtain
about 500, 900 year for her son. She
relies, the Whitehall Rs5ieI0 says, upon
the clause in the Duchess Of st. Adams
will. which restricts an alien from inner
iting any portion of the property. The
fact that the Baroness husband IS now
q naturalized British subject does not,
it will be contended on the plaintiffs
behalf, bring him within the four cor
ners Of the viii, which IS very explicit
in its terms.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
in a case decided at Pittsburg, Monday
last, sustained the wholesome principle
that juror, to be competent, need not
of necessity be an ignorant man who
does not read the newspapers and forms
no opinion of what he reads. 1t is only
necessary for the juror to be able to de-
eide according to the evidence.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Pension Commissioner Dudley claims
that there is pension deficiency of $50,
100000 to be provided for by Congress,
and the claim moves the New York
Commercial Advertiser Republican, to
remark that if ''only one-half the shams
were removed from the pension rolls and
only those retained who were seriously
incapacitated from earning their bread,
the pension deficiency, instead of $780,
600, 900, would not foot up $4,000, if
that" Indications that the Republicans
contemplate a revision of the pension
system are increasing in number rapidly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18

Spain does not propose to be isolated
from the rest Of Europe any longer, so
bill has been introduced in the CorteS
providing for the construction of a tun-
mel through the Pyrenees to shorten the
distance between Madrid and Paris by
rail about sixty miles. If the money
can be obtained the tunnel will be con-
zfrucfed