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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
TIMELY PRECAUTIONS.
The Military Guard at the Jail
strengthened Calling Guns In
Readiness.

A Washington special to the Balti-
more Sun, dated Sunday evening, says:
"The four companies of artillery, two
from Fortress Monroe and two from Fort
McHenry, which arrived here last night,
are quartered at the arsenal, though from
them the guard at the Jail has been
strengthened. There is a very general
impression that there was no necessity
for this increase of the military guard,
and that Guiteau never stood in any
danger of swift justice, the guard there
having been already sufficiently strong
to protect him. There have been no
signs of any organized movement to take
him out of jail All the talk of that
kind has been in other cities General
Crocker, the warden of the jail, says he
never had any fear of an attack on the
Jail, and that with his own force of
guards he could defend the Jail against
all comers He does not object to the
military guard, but says in his opinion
there is not now, has not been or will
not be any necessity for it,
yesterday afternoon General Sher-
man, with General Il. B. Ayres, Com
manding Washington Barracks, (arse-
naD, General Mitchell and other military
men, visited the Jail (where Guteau is
confined), with a view of selecting the
most eligible positions for posting pick
cts and troops to resist any attack which
may be made by mob. The result was
the establishment of several posts. There
are on duty in and about the Jail eighty
soldiers from the arsenal, General
Ayres this morning received a rein
forcement of four companies from Fort
ress Monroe, which, with Light Battery
A and Batteries B, G., ID and II, second
artillery, are Immediately under his or
ders. Beside these the marines at the
headquarters of the corps, and at the
navy yard are held in readiness, and in
case of a riot within half an hour 1900
men can be massed at the Jail, not
counting the Light Infantry, National
Rifles and Union Veteran Corps, of the
District militia Should there be ne
cessity to protect the Jail, in place of
field pieces the Light Battery will use
four Gatling guns, each equal in firing
to about a regiment Of men"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
NGToN, D. C., August 31.-lndlcations Ior
Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly CLOUDY
weather, occasional rains, easterlY "inos'
becoming variable, stationary temperature
stationary or lower pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, fair "easn-
er, southerly veering to westerly winds,
stationary or lower temperature and pres
sure.
In the East Gulf States, fair weather, Winos
mostly southeasterly, stationary temperA-
ture aud pressure.
In the West Gulf States, partly CLOUDY
weather, local rains, stationary Temperature
and pressure.
T In tennessee and the Ohio valley, ano tne
ioo"er io5N, Lake region, partly cloudy WeseDsr'
local rains, winds mostly southwesterly,
srs.lonarY sn.d or lower temperature and pres
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
GONE TO THE BOTTOM.
Fearful Wreck in the South Seas.

CAPETowN, August 3l-The Union mail
steamer Tenton, with two hundred souls on
board, including her passengers and crew,
has been wrecked near Quon Point. Only
twenty-seven persons were saved in the
steamers boats. The British corvette Dido
has proceeded to the scene of the wreck.
The Tenton arrived at Ca2etown from Eng
land on Monday, landed some and embark
ed other passengers and proceeded on her
voyage to Algoa Bay and other places.
QuOin Point is near Algoa Bay and is the
mail steamer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

Another dress was of cream collored silk
muslin, embroidered with blue forget me-nots
in natural color over su rah silk. The arrange
ment Of the dress was very much the sa1es
that is there were three founces (embroidereoD
in front, and draped back. but the bodice
was round and belted in with velvet. and the
white Neapolitan hat had brim half turned
up and faced with blue velvet and magnin-
cent cream colored ostrich plume.
A very handsome dress was of black satin,
covered with fiounces of black Spanish lace
The bodice was covered with knOtted nchu
with profuse and effective trimming of Span
ish lace and feathers.
The fourth dress was ''too too" to quote the
"esthetes - 1t was all shirring It was white
linen camhric trimmed r.itb Genoa lace THE
sleeves were shirred from the top downwards;
the tablier was mass of shirring, and an inn
mense pink bow of soft silk ornamented the
back OF the skirt. The hat was a shirred mus
lin, lined with pink and trimmed with daisies.
JENNY IrrsE
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

A CHASTITY SPECTACLE.-Mrs Eliza
beth Faber, of Philadelphia, was called
out of town about a month ago to attend
her mother who was quite sick at Penns-
grove, N. j. She remained with her I'M
til Monday last, when she died. Re
turning to the city, to get her husband
and sister to accompany her back to
Pennsgrove, Mrs. Faber entered her
home to find her husband dead in bed.
The body was very much decomposed,
which indicated that life had been extinct
for several days. The cause of death has
not been ascertained.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
The following ladies hold 10

The following ladies hold positions as
bank officers in this country: Mrs. N. G.
Williams is President of the State
National Bank, Raleigh, n. c.; Miss Jen-
ME Coombs is cashier of Brown &
Coombs' Bank. at NJ ddleville Mich. /;
Miss Sarah f. Dick fills the same office
IN the First National Bank of Hunting
ton, Ind, and Miss Annie NJ. King signs
as cashier of the banking house of Sprin-
ger & Noyes, at White Cloud, Kn. Mrs
VI. II. COwden carries on a banking bust
ness in her own name at Forrest Hill, Cali
sornia.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Manchester Market.

LONDON, August 3l.-The Manchester
Guardian, in its commercial article to-day,
says: "The msu@uvres In the Liverpool
cotton market are being watched with in
terest. The point upon which all accounts
agree is that of 400, 900 bales for the August
and September deliveries, sold in the spring
months by the bears Somewhat over
200, 600 bales have been rendered and taken
up, and the rest will have to be provided or
settled for before the close of September.
The point OF interest is at what time these
outstanding engagements will be closed, as
hereafter it is expected that the price of
cotton will decline more or less rapidly"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Some years ago President Garfield

Some years ago President Garfield
said, in an address:
"The great danger which threatens
this country is that our sovereign may
be dethroned or destroyed by corruption.
In any monarchy of the world, if the
sovereign be slain or become lunatic, it
is easy to put another in his place, for
the sovereign is person. But our sove-
reign is the whole body of voters. If
you kill, or corrupt, or render lunatic
our sovereign, there is no successor, no
regent, to take his place. The source of
our sovereigns supreme danger-the
point where his life is vulnerabe-is at
the ballot box, where his will is declared,
and if we cannot stand by that cradle of
our sovereign's heir apparent and pro
tect it to the uttermost against all assas-
sins and assailants, we have no govern
ment and no safety for the future"
These words may be placed among the
memorabilia of the President, should he
die or live. The "great danger" to
which he so earnestly refers is a present
danger to the voters of the United States.
There is no safety, in truth, with a cor
rupted universal suffrage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

A LONG ISLAND MYSTERY. Joseph
Richie, while out cunning Saturday
evening, near Freeport, Long Island,
found the remains of a young woman in
swamp. The body was severed at the
waist, and the separated portions lay
few feet apart. Neither portion had on
any article of clothing, but each was
wrapped in copies of the New York
Herald of 18th INST. The remains were
considerably decomposed. An inquest
was to have been held Sunday, at which
it was hoped some facts would be ascer-
tanned in relation to the horrible mys-
terry. -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

For some years we have been regular
ly informed by Republican organs that
so long as the South remains solidly
Democratic, Democratic success in gen
eral elections is impossible. Yet the Re-
publican managers are energetically
faboring to divide the South, and.
according to their organs assertion, to
assure the choice of Democratic Presi-
dent in 1884. So desirous are they of
breaking Southern solidity that they
have even formed coalitions with the
Virginia debt repudiators, the North
Carolina liquor distlllers and dealers, and
the Mississippi Greenbackers. But it is,
perhaps, as idle to look for consistency
as for honesty in Republican politics.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Peasant RelIef Russta.

LONDON, August 31.-A telegram from
st. Petersburg says: "It is officially an
nounced that at the end of September,
twenty delegates, representing the various
Russian provinces, will be summoned to
present their views to q Council of State on
the regulation OF the peasant migration.
The government declares itself desirous of
promoting migration when necessitated by
real distress, and Of assisting sufferers to ac-
quire fresh land"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

The manufacture of artificial ice
promises to be one of the great Southern
industries of the future. The New
Orleans Ice Factory Company can now
produce 45,0 900 tons per annum, and
they can deliver to consumers blocks of
one hundred pounds or more of fine ice.
1t is claimed that manufactured ice is
superior to Northern ice, and it is
Furnished so cheaply that it controls
the New Orleans market against North
ern ice
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Florida Affairs.

Our Archer correspondent August sgtb
writes: MIR. J. J. Nixon while driving for deer
IN Levy county, last Friday, killed fifty rattle
suakes-three old ones and forty-seven young
ones-ah on the same day. Mr.. George Tyson
Killed tWenty-six, aud they say it was not a
good day for snakes either"
Aessrs- Alexander and William Bruce, from
Ne" 1ealand' have arrived in Florida, as heirs
70 participate in the distribution of the we'll
known "Fortes Purchase" tract Of land 20
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

from Honolulu reports the island of Hilo,
Sandwich Islands, in danger of being over
whelmed by lava from the volcano of Mauna
LOa. The lava was moving at the rate Of
sixteenth of a mile daily, and was slowly
advancing on Hilo, which would shortly be
overwhelmed. Great CONSERVATION pre-
vailed, and the people were fleeing from the
approaching destruction.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
New York RenubIIcana.

New YORK, August 31.-A call for a
State Convention was issued by the Repub-
lican Executive Committee to-day. 1t
states that the Republican State Conven-
tion will be held in the city of New York
on Wednesday, the 5th of October, for the
purpose of nominating candidates for State
offices, and for the transaction of other
appropriate business. Thos. G. Platt sue
ceeds Gen. Arthur as Chairman of the Ex-
ecutiVe Committee
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
SINGULAR FATALITY.
An Iowa Family Insane from Grief

DUBUQUE, August 3l.-A family has be-
come insane in this county through grief
and death. Mary McMahon, the daughter
of an Irishman, entered a convent two
weeks ago and became insane She was
sent to the asylum for treatment. Her
mother visited her and also became insane.
The daughter died last Monday, which so
affected the mother that she died to day.
The remains of the mother aud daughter
were sent home for burial. On arriving at
Farley, near which place the McMahOns
lived, son and daughter at home became
insane at the sight of their mother and sis
ter coming home dead, and the father is
now stricken with grief bordering on
insanity
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

The debt of Great Britain does not de-
crease materially. In the last quarter of
a century it has diminished less than
$500, 900, 600, but needless wars in the
meantime have added $500, 900. 900 to it,
Gladstone thinks $500. 900, 900 will be
paid in the next twenty-five years, but
how can be tell what complications and
disasters may supervene during that pc
riOd.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

Alluding to the drought now prevail
ing in the West, the Cincinnati Times
Star says: PAINTING fiocks stand upon
the sun scorched hills, hungering for
pastures green, and the parched corn
fields stretch their yellow blades toward
the skies in silent appeals for rain. The
whole country is land of burning sun
shine and glare and clouds OF dust, like
the deserts of the East.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
The liverpool Cotton Corner.

PRESTON, August 31.-There is a strong
feeling shere that short time should gen
orally be resorted TO in the cotton trade to
checkmate the action of the ring of Liver
pool brokers, who are keeping the price OF
cotton a penny a pound higher than it
should be. The trade is uuremunerative,
many mills working at a loss.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Preparing for the Apaches.

SANTA FE, N. M, August Ex-Governor
Sheldon has issued an address announcing
his intention to organize and arm indepen-
dent companies in the exposed territory, so
that in the event of an outbreak a strong
force can be modified to act in coDjunc-
tion with the military for aggressive as well
as defensive operations. This policy will
certainly prevent such a raid as recently
occurred.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Virginia Jourua,,st Dead.

ley, veteran journalist, died at his home
in New Kent county, Va, last night, aged
seventy three. The deceased was a native
of Buckingham county, Va. He was asso-
ciated in the editorial management of the
Richmond Wing, and was greatly interested
IN fish culture.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
of the Torpede,s Victims.

NEWPORT, August 31-The funeral of
Lieutenant Commander Edes and Lieuten-
ant Spalding was solemnized yesterday af-
ternoon, and was attended by the officers
and marines from the training fleet and by
the officers and class at the torpedo station.
WAsHINGToN, August 3l.-The Secretary
Of the Navy has appointed board of in
quiry on the torpedo explosion at Newport.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Grant Wasn,s There.

LONG BRANCH, August 31.-Gen. Grant
requests the announcement that there is no
truth in the publication to the effect that he
has attended a consultation at the Vice
Presidents house. He says he knows of
no conferences haviAg been held. He has
seen Gen. Arthur but once since the Presi-
dent was shot.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

st. JoHN's, N. F., August 3l.--Late ad-
vices from Labrador speak discOuraginglY of
the fishery operations on the northern pOr
tion of the coast. At some places the pros
poets are very gloomy. At Esquimaux Bay
the worst apprehenstons prevailed. Starva-
tion is feared during the coming winter.
The government has been appealed to for
assistance.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
MutiIaGed COtnS

WASHINGTON, August 31.-The Secretary
Of the Treasury has decided that there is no
law authorizing the redemption Of any
United States coins on account of their hav-
ing been mutilated. Such coins will, how
ever, be purchased as bullion by the U nited
States minis
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

Everything in Paris is hdtte nouUeaute, al
though in reality there is no such thing as nov
city, and the same old design or fabric reap
pear, at regular intervals with the exactitude
or certain diSeaSeS-SmaIl-po or scarlet fever
At a fashionable dress-makers the other day
lady asked to have shapes of basques submit
ted to her that she might choose from them
One was brought. This is the model of one
had made in Paris four years ago." she ex-
claimed, rather rcontemptuously. "Ah Madame,
it was the fault OF your good taste that you
selected one that has had such long life re-
piled the clever Partisan.
But though the Partisan designers and mo-
disfes are stimulated by the constant demands
from America, particularly for novelties -
they know too well the limitations of the dress
makers and millnerS' art to suppose they can
satisfy them upon any legitimate basis.
Originality is genius, and is a flower of rare
growth. 1t cannot be forced to bloom every
borrow their resources from tricks, from
exaggerations, from extravagances; and this
they have done until fashion, in its succession
OF grotesque and idiotic abSurdities, has
become sort of Punch and Judy show, which
attracts the crowd but has no interest for per
sons of sense and intelligence. These changes are
generally meaningless, and simply involve a
fresh waste or time and money. An original
idea, as before remarked, is rare, and, even if
it is absurd, has some interest, and is therefore
entitled to a certain amount of consideration
This is the merit of the ''esthetic" idea. 1t is
too exquisitely absurd, you know" but it is
different, and therefore strikes that large
class who want to be continually excited and
struck by novelty, and who find that the cur
rent slang in regard to it not only stands for
brains, but sometimes actually passes for
them.
The difficulty about good and fitting style
of dress, is that it is not striking, and it has
elements of permanence. These qualities do
not meet the wants Of the throngs of raree-
show admirers, who must have the cap and
bells in some form or other-sOmetimes as a
hoop, sometimes as a Grecian bend.
sometimes as a fiat bonnet tilted
low over the nose, sometimes as a hat with
brim turned high in the air. At one time every
woman follower is set wild with desire for an
India shawl that must cost anywhere from five
to fifteen hundred dollars. The next year the
most chic thing is to cut Rp these shawls
and make an ugly garment of them, with enoT-
nous sleeves only suitable for a giantess. called
the dolman.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
A TALK WITH THE GREAT WORTH.

Mr.. Worth has returned from Wildbad, and
IN long chat with him yesterday he showed
clearly enough the estimate he puts upon
passing fashions The very straight tie-backs
which are this season the rage in London, di-
viding the hOnors with the shirred bolster cases
styled "esthetic." Mr.. Worth characterizes as
the Praise God -Barebones' style of dress, and
the bandanna handkerchief as Folly in red
and yellow"
He remarked very sensibly that there was no
use in attempting uniformity in modes; that
the true idea of dress was for each one to adapt
her clothing to her means and her individuali-
ty; that this was what the best class of women
were working towards now so that their dress
became at once more original and more useful
and permanent The majority, he remarked,
while making constant demand for variety and
change. really fell back, like flock of sheep,
upon the same thing, and wore it irrespective
of its adaptability to circumstances or person
atty
Dress, however, he rightly said, could never
become matter of fixed law any more than
furniture or any other human belonging.
Taste is matter of growth, development,
education and opportunity, and dress must be
as various as the people who wear it. There
will always be some who will have the rich
and the elaborate, Away some who viii find
what they admire in the fussy and the COM
monplace, and others who with refined in
stinctS and cultivated tastes, are able to select
for themselves out of the abundant resources
what is best suited to their wants and means
Mr.. Worth thought the rage for novelty
sometimes led to the use of the most insult
able materials-as plush, for example, which
he characterized as outrageousy unit for
dresses and especially for bonnets. Yet plush
he remarked, is being manufactured in i'm
mensey large quantities for autumn trade
and its use more or less will be forced upon
leading houses by their customers. He was
very guarded respecting the incoming autumn
styles, saying that it waa too early to predict
with any certainty what would and what would
not be the leading ideas; that he had hardly
yet begun to think about the matter, but be-
that WOHId haVa
aud that many ladies would return to plain
rich fabrics and single colors
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
what the Macon saw.

NEW YORK, August 31-The steamship
City of Macon, from Savannah, arrived yes
terday. She reports that on August 28th,
forty miles southwest of Frying Pan Shoals,
she passed the schooner Pride of the East
dismasted and abandoned,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

Eliza Pinkston announces that she is de-
sirous of marrying ga smart, educated
and industrious man." tits to befeared
that Honest John Sherman hasn't done
his whole duty by this noble Republican
girl.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

LONDON, August 31.-It is announced
that in the approaching Consistory at the
Vatican Monsigneur Friphel, well known
for his hostility to the French Government,
will be nominated Cardinal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

Better than galysnic battery and doc
tor besides is bottle OF Sc. Jacobs Oil, the
Great German Remedy for rheumatism.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01

ASK druggists for "Rough on Rats" 1t
clears cut rats, mice, bed bugs, reaches,
vermin, dies, ants, insects. 15c. per box.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
The st. Leaer stakes.

LONDON, August 9l-The betting on the
race for the st. Leger stakes is now 2 to l
against Iroquois, to against st. Louis, 9
to l against Geologist, and IL to L against
Limestin. Iroquois had good exercise to-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
A DeIuge In England.

LONDON, August 3l.-The weather con-
tinues bad. The rainfall. around Darling
ton is estimated at $50 tons per acre in
eighteen hours.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
FOundDrOwned.


ALBANY, August 3I.-Dr. Harris s. Fell
lows, who has been missing since Monday
last, was found drowned to-day.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
BOARDING HOUSE.

BEG to inform the citizens of Savannah that
4 have leased the residence No. 50 Brough-
ton street (nearly opposite the 'MarshalA
House), and have thoroughly renovated,
painted and refurnished it, and am prepared
TO accommodate regular hoarders. Special
terms made for families. MISS III. FARLEY.