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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
Freak Of IN Insane Woman.

5i{41le 9'gn IN - Mercury
A5ou. q year and half ago q lady 81
this county was committed 30 The asylum
I.n this village. At tLat time she was in
apparent perfect physical health, weigh
ing in the neighborhood of 140 pounds.
A few days after her incarceration in the
asylum she developed a melancholy
mood, and during the entire eighteen
months which she has been there she has
not spoken a word to a person or par
taken of a mouthful of food. In the
meantime the officials have kept her alive
by injecting into her stomach liquid
food in the shape of soup, beef tea, oat
meal, etc, but she gradually wasted away
under the treatment until, when placed
on the scales few days ago, she weigh.
ed but 81 pounds.
On Wednesday morning last she sur
prised the officers by suddenly sitting up
in bed and eXclaiming, "Give me some
thing to eat; l am hungry" She was
furnished with food, of which she par.
took with great relish, and during the
past two days her appetite has been pro-
digious, while she has kept up a CON
stant stream of conversation. She saws
that she was perfectly conscious during
the entire eighteen months of her silence.
but cannot explain the cause of her re
fusal to speak or partake of food. Her
husband called upon her last week and
had long conversation with her, the
first time since she became demented
that he had heard sound from her lips,
although he had visited the asylum
weekly. She is now apparently sane.
and when she RECEIVERS her strength will
be discharged.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
GEORGIA PRESS CONVENTION
Second Days PrOceediDgs-EIect
of Omcers-A special Meeting TO be
Held In Atlanta I'm OctOber-The e
Next Regular Meeting Fixed at
Au2usta-OGf for NRshville-A New
Masonic Lodge In Savannah.

ROME, GA, May 12.-The second days
session Of the Georgia Press Association
was devoted to amending the bylaws, the
election Of officers and general business.
The following officers were elected:
j. H. Estill, President; G. W. Hancock,
First Vice President; j. w. Burke, Second
Vice President; F. V. Evans, Correspond
ing Secretary: II. w. j. Ham, Recording
Secretary; s. r. Weston, Treasurer.
An invitation was extended by the man
sgement to visist the International Cotton
Exposition, and resolution passed TO hold
a special session in Atlanta on October 9th.
The next regular meeting will be held in
Augusta. The association adjourned at 2
O'Clock. During the morning the members
were taken in carriages to all
points of interest, after which there
was a fine military display by the Rome
Light Guards. In the afternoon there was
an excursion down the Coosa river, and at
night a banquet given by the ladies. The
association accepted an invitation to visit
Nashville, and about 60 ladies and gentle
men will leave on Friday morning by special
train for that city.
Grand Master Wright has granted dis
pensation for a new Masonic Lodge in Sa
vannah, to be known as Landrum Lodge.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
CHICAGO REEKING WITH FILTH.
FrightfuI Mortality Among Chill
dren Twenty Per Cent. OF the
People Sick.

CHICAGO, May SIN an editorial arti-
Gle on the sanitary condition of this city,
the Daily Neaos says: 1.-The death rate of
Chicago is greater now than it has been
at any time for many years past The
health of the city is worse than 1t has
been for many years. The NOR
tality among children is simply
frightful, while grown people are suf-
fering and dying from lung and bowel
complaints in every section of the city.
Our drinking water is unfit for use; it is
breeding disease that may not develop
in day, or a week, or a month, but
which will surely develop in time. Our
streets and alleys are reeking with filth.
Our sewerage system is incomplete and
imperfect. What threatens to be wet
and sickly summer is approaching, and
we are not doing anything to prepare
the city for it. A few scavengers are
employed here and there, merely as a
matter of form, to scrape the dirt off the
business streets, but this is merely child s
play"
The Times publishes to-day statements
of number of physicians in different
parts of the city, from which it appears
that fully 90 per cent. of the population
is sick or complaining of not being well.
The recent pollution of the lake water
is given as the chief cause of this state
of affairs; but another fruitful source of
ill-health is found IN the fact that for
five months the ground and the winters
accumulation of filth have been frozen
from two to five feet deep, and as the
ground thaws in the spring sunshine the
atmosphere becomes tainted with vapors
arising from the decomposed matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
Dangers In Bringing Up Children.
Syc,a,,,oJ c..sfo.


The cruelty done to children by some
parents, as well as by teachers, is indis-
cribable. Children are held to be of the
same temperament, of the same adapta-
bility to learn as their parents and teach
ers; yet the boy who cannot learn his
lessons as quickly as another is thrashed,
or he is degraded in some way. Grown
people forget the intense misery to which
children are thus exposed. The child's
horizon is so limited that he sees no rem
edy to his woes, and his sorrow absorbs
his whole little being.
Fathers, provoke not your children
to wrath, lest they be discouraged. If
the life of a child be embittered, the
result is shyness and secret aversion.
Even a child feels itself wronged, and a
sense of bitterness is implanted in its
heart. We can never think without
pity of parent who lost promising
son by death, and was haunted through
life by his parental severity. My boy"
he said to friend FUSED to think me
cruel, and he had too much reason to do
so; but he did not know how / loved
him at the bottom of my heart, and now
it is too later
We often think when we hear of
parents beating their children, that they
should rather be inficting the punish.
ment upon themselves. They have been
the means of bringing into being the in
heritors Of their own moral nature. The
child does not make his own temper,
nor has any control while a child over
its directions. If parents have conferred
an irritable temper on the child, it is a
duty on their part to exercise self con-
troll, forbearance and patience, so that
the influence of daily life may, in the
course of time, correct and modify the
defects of its birth.
But the "child's will must be brOkenp
There is no greater fallacy than this.
Will forms the foundation of character
Without strength of will there will be
no strength of purpose. What is neces-
sary is not to break the child's will, but
to educate it in proper directions. and
this is not to be done through the agency
of force or fear. A thousand instances
might be cited in proof of this state
ment.
When the parent or teacher relies
chiefly upon pain for controlling the
child's will, the child insensibly asso-
ciates duty and obedience with fear and
terror And when you have thus asso-
ciated command over the will of others
with pain, you have done all that you
could to lay the foundation of a bad
character-a bad son, bad husband,
bad father, a bad neighbor and bad
citizen.
When Euffordius, of Cologne, heard
great cly issuing from school house he
opened the door, entered, and rushed up
like lion, and raising his staff against
the teacher and his assailant, delivered
the boy from their hands. "What are
you doing tyrant?" he said. "You are
placed here to teach, not to kill schol-
ars"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
JOHN DILLON.
The Present Central Figure of Irish
Agitation.

Mr.. John Dillon is the immediate cen
trail figure of the Irish agitation. He is
the son of the late John Blake Dillon, a
Dublin counsellor at law, who was one
of the founders of the Irish Nation
newspaper. After the failure of the re-.
belliOn of 1848 the elder Dillon came to
New York, where for few years he
practiced law, and then returned to Ire
land, where he shortly after died. He
was close friend of John Mitchell. and
one of the most active spirits in the re-
bellion of '48 John Dillon the younger,
and his brother Charles Dillon, well
known Dublin physician, are active
members of the more advanced
branch of the Irish Home Rule
party that affiliated with the
obstructionists. Both brothers took an
active part in the election of John Mitch
ell for TipperarY, whose dual election
was declared invalid by the law officers
of the Crown. John Dillon was edu-
Gated at the Catholic University of Dub
lin, and is licentiate of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons in Ireland. AT the gen.
eral election last year he was elected to
Parliament from Carlow county, in the
place of Mr.. E. d. Gray, without oppo-
sitiOn, his colleague being Mr.. Patrick
j. Smith. Mr.. Dillon is the most init
mate personal and political friend of
the Irish leader, Charles Stewart Par
nell, and accompanied Parnell in his
visit to this country last year. The agi-
tators arrived in New York on the I'd of
January, and travelled extensively
throughout the country until the Parlia-
menta"Y elections on the resignation of
the Beaconsfeld Ministry called them
home The speech-making during this
American tour fell for the most part to
Parnell, but Dillon occasionally showed
his power as an orator. In an address be-
fore the Ancient Order of Hibernians at
the assembly building in Nashville on the
18th of May, 1880. Dillon argured in favor
of the objects and purposes of the Land
League, holding that it presented the
only practical way of utilizing the rich
lands of Ireland, that could be made to
support so per cent. more of the present
population in small holdings, instead of
being allowed to remain the large do
mains and parks of individual owners.
By its operation, he urged, sobriety and
good citizenship would be encouraged
and peace and plenty prevail everywhere
throughout Ireland. Mr.. Dillon was one
of the defendants in the suits of the
English Government against the leaders
of the Land League, begun on the 28th
of December last, and was also one of
the most vigorous of the Parliamentary
"obstructionists. He is tall but not
robust looking gentleman, apparently
about forty, but actually only thirty
years of age. He is an ideal picture of
the melancholy Dane" his scanty black
moustache and fringe of beard adding to
the seriousness of his pallid and sad,
handsome ewes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
A New Flying Machine.
Charlotte(N. Cl Observer.


1t is now learned that DIR. Daniel As
bury's flying machine will be given lis
finishing touches within one week. Fol-
two years DR.. Asbury, with the aid OF
a skilled mechanic, has been engaged in
perfecting his idea. So far as can be
gathered from the description of those
who have enjoyed the privilege of view
ing its construction about the following
idea is given of it: The invention reverts
to first principles for its basis. Nature
furnishes the model, and the birds of the
air are robbed of the secret of their mo-
tive power for this purpose. The body
of the invention is in shape something
between boat and the body of bird.
The wings are made of canvas and con.
structed in imitation of a birds wing.
They measure thirty feet from tip to tip.
They are made to operate not by work
ing the arms. as is supposed,
but by ingenious machinery to
which pedal is attached and which is
worked by the foot like sewing ma
chine. This is only used when it is de-
sired to ascend. AS soon as a proper
altitude is reached the Topping of the
wings is dispensed with, and the wings
being extended on a level, the bird
machine, with the aid of propeIlers on the
sides, sails through the air any distance
desired. The machine is nicely balanced,
and if it is desired to descend, all that is
necessary is to throw little extra weight
forward to give the beak the proper in
cline downward, and the object is at
tanned. Dr. Ashbury's reputation as an
inventor is established by his method OF
curing tobacco, extensively in use in this
State and in Virginia, and leads to hope
that his latest idea may be a success.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
TO WHAT WILL ITLEAD +?
THE TUNISIAN MUDDLE THICK
ENING.
st. HiIaire,s Discrimination Review
ed-The Porte Invoking the Powers
and Striving to ssert It's Dignity
The Terms of the French Dictates
"A Warning 10 the Beys

LONDON, May 12-The Times Paris cor
respondent states that the government will
to-day make a statement in both houses in
relation to Tunis, which will be intended
also to reassure Europe. The correspondent
foreshadows this statement as follows:
"The treaty which is to be imposed will
respect the existing treaties between
the Bey and foreign powers and stipulate
for better financial system and for regu-
lar and satisfactory judicial administration.
Military operations will not be actively
pushed, though the occupation will proba-
bly, be prolonged for some time, IL the Bey
persists in his refusal to negotiate"
TUNIs, May 12.-The Bey will send by the
Italian steamer leaving here tonight, dis
patch to the powers pointing to the increas
ed dangers entailed by the unexpected ad-
vance of the French, and requesting the
powers to take measures to induce the
French government to define its intentions
and state its complaints against him.
M. Roustan, the French Consul, has noti-
fed the Bey that if the Turkish ships of war
arrive at GOletta, the French troops will
Immediately occupy Tunis,
LONDON, MAY 12.-The Paris cores
pondent of the Times says: cit is doubt
whether France will tolerate even the dis
paJcn OF lufki6n commissioner to the
Tunisian or Tripolitan frontier, as the sole
object and result would be to create agita-
tion, which would retard the settlement of
the question"
The Pal Mall Gazette, in leading article
this afternoon, says: ''The circular of NJ.
Barthelmy st. Hilaire, the French Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, relative to the Tunis
expedition, confirms the worst suspicious
which the enemies of France have enter
tanned in regard to the insincerity of the
diplomatic assurance with which she began
the Tunisian campaign. France entered
upon thepath of conquest and of annexation.
She used the pretext of suppressing border
raids to cover premeditated aggression upon
the territory of her neighbor. The annexa-
tion of Tunis endangers no British interest
Our sole ground of coercion is the effect it
will have on the fortunes of the French
public and the peace of the continent.
From both points of view the policy of
France appears most unfortunate, and may
easily lead to deplorable results"
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
Times saye: "The Sultan thinks his rights
are being violated and his prestige lowered
before the Mohammedan world by the inva-
sion of Tunis, and is very anxious to do
something that at least would conceal his
weakness, hence his sending Shiek .ffer to
Tunis as an ImDerial COmmisaioner
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13

o sweet and strange, what time gay morning
steals
Over the misty flats, and gently stirs
Bee laden lines and pendulous abeles
To brush the w-bespaDgled gossamers
From meadow grasses and beneath black
frs,
In limpid streamlets or translucent lakes,
To battle amid dim heron-haunted brakes
o sweet and sumptuous at heieht of noon,
Languid to lie on scented summer lawns
Famed by faint breezes of the breathless June,
To watch the timorous and trooping fawns,
Dappled like tenderest clouds in early
dawns,
Forth from their ferny covert glide to drink,
And cool 1.-the limbs beside the rivers brink
o strange and sad, ere daylight disappears,
To hear the creakiDg of the homeward
vain.
Drawn by its yoke of tardy- y-pacing steers.
Meath honeysuckle hedge and tangled
lane,
To breathe faint scent of roses on the wane
By cottage doors, and watch the mellowing
sky
Fade into saffron hues insensibly.
John AddinQtO7t SVnlondS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13

should not the cotton manufacturers
move in the same direction 1t may be
accepted as certain that this field of en-
terprise will not remain unoccupied long.
The South is now attracting the atten-
tion of the whole world. The progress
which she has made, as shown by the
census since 1870, has attracted wide at
tention and excited great admiration
Capital and emigration have, in
measure, avoided the South, and
her mines have remained unde-
veloped and her lands uncultivated.
The world, however, is beginning to
realize how great her riches and her
resources are. Unless all indications
fail, the next census will contain facts
far more surprising than the last. 1t
will be shown that the South has lost
her purely agricultural character, and
that her fields furnish the world not only
with cotton, but, also, that her factories
supply very large portion of the manu-
factured goods which the worlds
markets demand.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Opening at an Advance and Closing
at a Decline.

NEW YORK, May II The stock market
opened at an advance of to 2 per cent,
the latter for Alton and Terre Haute, and
In the early dealings prices rose 4 to ~
per cent, Hannibal and st. Joe preferred,
Alton and Terre Haute common, and Rock
Island leading the upward movement. At
the first board there was decline Of { to
~ per cent, the latter in Hannibal and St.
Joe preferred, which was followed by an
advance of 4 to Pa per cent, Hannibal
and st. Joe common leading, and later by a
reaction OF 4 to ] a per cent.
Dnring the afternoon speculation became
strong and an advance Of from to 21s per
cent. took place, in which Wabash Pacific,
Texas Pacific aud Metropolitan Elevated
were most prominent, but in the final sale
the market became weak and closed at a
decline of from 4 to per cent. from the
highest point of The day. Missouri Pacific
sold down TO AZ per cent. and recovered 2
per cent. Sales aggregated 443, 800 shares.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
Ohoosing Death BEFORE Disgrace.

New YORK, May ia Toronto special
says: "The determined attempt at suicide,
made In the city jail night before last by
j. A. R. Gauthren, an ex Confederate Off
Ger, has created a notable stir. and many
Southerners who are stopping at the hotels
here have visited the prison to make
inquiries after the unfortunate man.
The shameful character of the charge made
against him, that of stealing $l5,000 worth
of jewelry during an auction sale, preyed
upon his mind to such a degree that
he chose death rather than the disgrace
which awaited him. A self inflicted wound
in his throat was dressed by the doctor, and
there are homes OF his recoYerY.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13

Editor Hawley has succeeded, after
sixty days of earnest wrestling, in con-
vincing Senator Hawley that Gorham
must not be elected Secretary of the
Senate. AS Riddleberger's case isn't
likely to come before the Senate for an
other sixty days, it is reasonable to hope
that Editor Hawley will be able to con-
vince Senator Hawley that an ex- Con.
federate Democratic repudiationist must
not be elected Sergeant at. Arms. Editor
Hawley is doing good work, and he
will get Senator Hawley straight vet.
Give him time!-PAiza. Times (Irad.l
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
The Mississi ppi River Improvement
Commission.

NEW ORLEANS, May 12.-Mayor B. M.
RarIod, Judge Taylor, OF Indiana, and Pro-
fessor Mitchell, of Boston, members of the
Mississippi River Commission, arrived yes
terday evening by steamboat while the
other members of the commission, Gen. @.
A. Gilmore, Gen. c. B. Comstock, Major
Chas. r. Suter, Capt. Jas. B. Quinn and
Lieut.. s. Leach, all of the Engineer Corps
Of the United States Army, stopped at
Vicksburg. AT a session of the commission
held on board of the government boat Octa-
via, at Vicksburg, for the purpose of devising
plans for the disposition of the 500, 900 ap-
propriated by the last Congress for the i'm
proVement Of the Mississippi river, it was
decided that the channel at Plum Point, near
Osceola, Ark, and and the channel oppo-
Lake Providence, La, should be improved.
The commission discussed other works of
improvement, but no action was taken. The
meeting adjourned until some time In June,
the date net being determined upon.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13

LONDON, May 12.-Archbishop Croke has
written to- Mr.. Parnell, saying: "You are
tbe trusted and chosen leader not alone OF
the Irish Parliamentary party, but of the
Irish people, and recognize you
fully and faithfully as such. You state
that your abstention from voting cannot
influence the second reading of the land
bill. Its final acceptance or rejection can
not therefore arise until it has been dis
cussed in committee. Why take a step
which, while it can do no good, may split
the party and create q division you Will de-
nlore ?n
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13

A solid silver casket, weighing about
two pounds and half, and long in the
possession of the Disraeli family, was
tains a recent likeness (colored) of the
Earl. The casket was sent to Shufield
in order that it might be soldered and
then covered with a strong plate of
nickel silver. The latter preserves the
silver and renders it practically in.
destructible. The casket is devoid of
ornament On the lid is the following
inscription This oaskeG contains s. re-
cent likeness OF the late Right Honorable
Ear. 0f BeacOnsheld, April 1881. II
was placed between the inner and outer
boxes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
The Exodus from Europe.

LONDON, May 12-The Cunard Line
steamer Eleppo sailed yesterday from Liv-
erpool for New York direct with eight hun
dred Scandinavian emigrants and the Atlas,
of the same line, sailed for Boston with
about the same number. The Atlas will
take about two hundred more on board at
Queenstown. On the same line, the steam
er Bothnis, which will sail from Liverpool
for New York on Saturday, will take out
seven hundred or eight hundred emigrants,
and the Ssmaria will also sail from Liver
pool on Saturdays especially to take out
emigrants.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
LightniDg's Aim Becoming More
Accurate.
London Times.


In 1869 Herr Won Bezold inferred from
observation in Bavaria that there was an
increase from year to year in the number
of buildings struck by lightning. There
seemed to be also an increase in the
number of thunder storms, and this was
assigned as the cause. A little later, OBJ
servations 10y others in Saxony and
Schleswig- -Holstein also showed an in
crease in the number of houses struck,
but no comparison was made with the
number of thunder storms. Her Holtz
has lately made fuller inquiry on the
basis of data from all parts of Ger
many, and from Austria and Switzer-
land. In his brochure on the subject, he
publishes two tables, one to show the
increase or decrease of thunder storms
since 1854, since 1862 and since 1870 in
the different regions, the other the in
crease or decrease of lightning-risk esti-
mated from comparison of the number
of lightning strokes on houses with the
entire number of houses. 1t appears,
that while any increase in the number of
thunder storms is extremely small, and
there is in some cases even a decrease,
the lightning risk shows very large in
crease, and in no case a decrease.
Thus the increase of risk from
lightning must be regarded as not
due, unless in very slight meas
ure, to meteorological Influences.
This appears more distinctly in that the
increase of lightning-rlsk is proportion.
ally greater as the compared years are
further apart but it is not so with the
increase of thunder storms (Which, e. g.,
is less since 1854 than 1862. To explain
the increased risk by telluric changes,
Herr Holtz supposes the clearance of
forest land has to do with it; perhaps,
also, the increase of railways, both of
these bringing thunder storms more to
towns and villages Another probable
cause Is BE Increased lse OF metal in
house construction.