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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
A Radical Islander Refuted.

A staple lie of the Radical press is the
charge that the colored people of the
South are subjected to merciless oppres-
sion and persecution by the whites
Colonel Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Times, during his recent Southern trip,
certainly did not find much "persecu-
ton, judging from the following extract
from one of his letters about Southern
affairs:
"Here every channel of industry is
open to him Che black MANI. The white
and black mechanic are on equal foot
ing; the prejudices of race have no ex
istence save when there is a struggle for
the domination of the spoiler over prop
erty, and he legislates and fills positions
for which he is fitted not only with the
sympathy but often by the votes OF the
whites. saw score of colored police
men on the streets of New Orleans serv-
ing under Democratic Mayor, but 1t
would cost Mayor Stokley his last hope
of election if he were to put the sable
policemen on Chestnut street. saw
black men sitting on the Demo
cratic side of Southern Legislatures.
but no Republican district in
Philadelphia or Pennsylvania has
ventured to nominate one of the seventy
five hundred colored voters of the city,
or one of the thrice that number in the
State, for any legislative position, either
State or municipal. saw the colored
man mingled with the Democratic or
CARNATIONS in the South, but no one
could sit in the councils of the League
or the Union Club or march in mixed
ranks with the invincibles or Young Re-
publicans in Philadelphia. saw him
have free access to every channel of me-
chanical industry in the South, but
he is relentlessly excluded from the
organized mechanical pursuits of Re-
publican Philadelphia.
If the North must assume the
task of elevating the black man to equal
power regardless of fitness, let it begin
by giving him in Philadelphia, PennsyI-
vania, New York and other Republican
States, the same industrial equality and
political promotion that the less educated
blacks of the South now enjoy with the
cordial sympathy of the Southern whites.
see the same colored leader lex Senator
Revels). who was excluded from the
forum of the Academy of Music, when
Republican Senator, solely because OF
his race, now at the head of colored
college that is sustained entirely by the
Democratic State Government of Mis-
sissippi, and he holds his high commits
sion from the same authority, while Re
publican Pennsylvania has no such
temple of learning for the black man. .
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
A Very Quiet Baby.
london Telearaph

Children in arms generally enjoy ex-
emption from customs duties, and even
the octroi officials stationed at the "bar-
riers" of French and Italian cities, fiscal
martinets though they be, are wont to
allow these innocent creatures to pass
them free of duty. There are, however,
exceptions to every rule. Only the other
day, among the passengers in an omnibus
undergoing the usual inspection at the
Porta Garibaldi of Milan was rudy
checked wet nurse, bearing on her lap
an infantile treasure, carefully swaddled,
its youthful lineaments hidden from
view by thick white lace veil. 1t
seemed baby of excellent conduct, by
no means addicted to infurlate screaming,
or even to the complacent gurgling
affected by some infants. but wrapped
in a profound and noiseless slumber.
THAT is a remarkably quiet child of
yours" observed the searching official
to the nurse. Eyes, indeed it is,
dear little angel, " rejoined the latter; cit
hardly ever cries, the sweet poppet, and
when it does whimper little, l can
quiet it in a moment with lump of
sugar" "It must be quite a treasure, ]"
replied he of the octroi; "just step
down-there's a good woman-and
bring it into my Office. will you; /
should like to have look at it, being a
family man myself" The nurse grew
pale; she had, however, no valid excuse
for noncompliance with the request, so
she descended from the omnibus and
followed the fatherly official to his
bureau, where, strange and sad to tell,
the extraordinary placidity of her infan-
tile. charge was speedily accounted for
by the discovery that it consists of four
teen pounds of fine bologna sausage,
neatly packed up in the snow white
robes of guileless babyhood.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

SuperstitiOus people will be alarmed
by the eclipse Of the sun which happens
on the last day of this year. According
to ''Mother SYMPTOMS prophecy" the
world will come to an end in 1881, and
these two circumstances are not reassur-
ing to the timid people who consult as
trologers. Still, sensible people have no
cause for alarm, as the various ecIpses
that have hitherto occurred have not Sc
riously damaged this world, and the
next eclipse is not likely to. Besides,
the so-called Mother Symptoms prophe-
cy," for which an antiquity of nearly
four hundred years was claimed, has
been shown to have been written in the
present century; and. to use Hiberni-
cism, it chiefly foretells what had already
taken place up to the time Of its COM
position.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

MENTAL CANTANKERosITY. - Two
eminent men Of one of the Cambridge
colleges were one day taking a walk in
their delicious grove. They had an argu-
ment, in which one of the men could not,
or would not, do justice to any view that
conflicted with his own. II tell you
what it is, my friend" at last said his
opponent, sthe fact is that you have got
twist in your mind" The man OF
twisted mind has since become very IA
NOUS, but many of his friends consider
that the twist is very palpable 1t was a
favorite saying of Leasing, the philoso-
pher, which his biographers call upon
US to admire exceedingly, that if
the truth were offered him on the one
hand and the search after truth on
the other hand, he would prefer to
search. Now here is case of 'the
twist" l humbly think that this is a
case of mental cantankerosity. If truth
were worth the searching for, it might
be supposed that it would be worth the
having. All those who have followed
the Socratic dialogues of search know
the great and peculiar charm of this
method of investigation. Still. truth is
the first thing necessary, and the second
thing necessary, and the third thing nee
essary; and the man who could have
talked this way must have been cantank-
erous. at least to the extent of not caring
for the truth, an opinion which seems to
gain ground the more one understands
Leasing. - london SOcisty.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

MEMPHIS LOOKING UP.-The A0a-
laHehe says: ga railway four hundred
and fifty miles in length, from Kansas
City to Memphis, cuts off six hundred
miles of bad navigation by way of the
Missouri river, and four hundred miles
of the same sort of navigation by way of
the Mississippi river. More than that.
This Kansas City and Memphis Railway
is but fifty miles longer than the railway
from Kansas City to st. Louis. Grain
and meats landed at st. Louis are four
hundred miles further from the Gulf
ports than when landed at Memphis.
From st. Louis to Memphis river navi-
cation meets with distractions in the
shape of ice and shallow channels.
Memphis is at the head of uninterrupted
river navigation. Under these geographi-
cal conditions. how long win it be before
Memphis is the great shipping port for
Western products on the Mississippi
riverl And how long will it be before
the great railroad magnates see the
point?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

NEW INDUSTRIES AT New ORLEANS.
Among other new industries starting up
in New Orleans is a new cotton mill, tO
cost about $3.50, 900, with 5000 spindles,
O. carders and 800 looms, to give EN-.
plovr,e-. = 900 hands; new ice facto-
~, to cos something ike $3.50, 900, and
to give employUel- 10 about 10 hands,
turning out IS, COO tons of ice annually
and . new baggiug factory. with $780,
CO. Vi capital, to give employment to
about 200 hands. Here are three enter
prises requiring 100000 capital, that
when completed viii give employment
to upwards Of 600 persons, and distrib-
ute 100000 yearly in the shape Of
wages, and the Piedyune. from which
this information is obtained, says there
is a far prospect of the building of an
other large cotton mill there.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

The attention of the farmers through,
out the country, particularly in the
West, is being directed to the injury in.
flieted upon them by the high tariff.
They are shown that while they are
obliged to pay roundly for the ''protec
ton" extended to manufacturers, their
own interests are. practically, not PRO
tected" at all, and cannot be, since no
foreign producers can compete with
them. These facts are likely to prove
most effective in the Western States
where the Republican strength is great
1t is eminently probable that before
many years elapse, the Republican mana
gers will heartily regret having commit
ted their party SO positively to the prin.
ciple of protection.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
A New Plan TO Provide for General
tsrant.

? Mr.. Peter Cooper. of New York, is a
venerable joker. He ran for President
in 1876, and did not get an electoral
vote, and since then ne has been anus
ing himself in sundry and divers ways.
Some one-and it is credited to this old
gentleman of joking proclivities-has
started new plan for the maintenance
of INDECENT ex Presidents. Certainly
the first one to be cared for is General
propositions have of late been made.
The new plan comprehends the organi-
cation of company, to be known as the
United States Guardian Company, hav-
log power to issue stock ''in amount
not less than 100000, nor more
than 1 900, 600 shares of one cent each"
and, having placed the stock on the
market, the use Of the proceeds arising
from its sale Tin the employment and
maintenance of not less than ZOO Italian
street musicians, between the ages Of
four and twelve years, whose duty it
shall be to solicit aims in foreign cities
for the benefit of INDECENT ex-Presidents
of the United States" OF this PROPOSE
ton an exchange says: cit is hard to
decide which of the two conspicuously
excellent features of this plan is the best
that which provides for the deportation
of at least 1 1000 Italian street musicians,
or that which casts the burden Of sup
porting the INDECENT ex-Presidents upon
foreigners; but it is certain that plan
combining two such signal merits ought
to be adopted on sight. With most
becoming modestY, Mr.. Cooper makes
this suggestion over the obviously as,
sumed signature, Whisky Ring Dick. :"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

Petersburg (Vd.) IadeT-Appeal December %.
Night before last two gentlemen took
rooms at Jarratt's HOtel-One of them
from Washington and the other from
New York. They were strangers to each
other. but both desired to be awak ened
in time for the fast train for the North,
which reaches Petersburg between three
and four o'clock, and it happened that
they were assigned to adjoining rooms.
At the appointed hour the hotel messen-
ger raped at the door of the gentleman
from Washington to arouse him. The
occupant of the room, evidently more
asleep than awake, taking the messenger
for an intruder, jumped from bed, dash.
ed at him with pitcher in hand, and chas-
ed him from the floor. Returning the gen,
tleman by mistake entered the apartment
of the New Yorker, who was dressing,
and whom he also took to be an intruder.
A contest of strength ensued, during
which the pitcher was broken to pieces
and both gentlemen slightly injured. The
New Yorker escaped from his room and
called for help, while the gent eman
from Washington-master of the situa-
tion-locked himself inside. Help was
soon obtained in the person of some gen.
tlemen in the hotel and one or two police
officers, and the gentleman from Wash.
ington was persuaded to open the door
and 90 to his own room. He soon after
seemed TO awaken as from dream, APP
pearing entirely ignorant of what he bad
Gone. Like gentleman he apologized
to the New Yorker for his conduct, and
both went North together on the train.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06


A lustY Granger arrived in Chicago
Christmas, and, feeling uncomfortable in
that epigastric region, dropped into one
of Chaplin s. Cores wet goods restau.
rants and called for something substan.
tial for the inner man. he peremptorily
declined cocktail, gin-sling, brandy
smash, schnapps, lager, ale, or wine, as he
was a teetotaler and total abstinence man.
He believed with Horace Greeley that
alcohol in all its forms and decoctions
was no better than cold pizen. He
wanted nothing stronger than bowl Of
milk with his bread and meat. The
young -man-in his shirt-sleeves proceeded
to obey orders, and placed 70.
fore the stalwsrt agricultural prohibit
ZIONIST bowl of egg-nog of the Tom
and Jerry variety. The Granger eat his
sandwich and drank his milk" with
great apparent satisfaction and gusto;
when he had finished the bowl he called
for some more of the tactical fluid, and
quaffed it. smacking his lips. Then
turning to the bartender, he inquired
where they got that kind of milk, as it
was the best he had ever drank, and he
wanted to buy a cow of the breed that
furnished it, for his place down in San
gamo county. before he returned home,
and he did not care how much the
heifer mout cost, as he was bound to
have that sort of milk for his family use.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

At the time of the Halifax Commits.
sion's award, it was freely charged that
the American member had been de-
ceived by the Canadians. but no proof
was forthcoming. Prof. Kinds recent
revelations confirm the charge and prove
that the award was excessive, but the
money has been paid and the return of
any portion is exceedingly problematical.
The benefit of the revelations is likely
to be confined to the Lesson they afford
that tits never wise to accept he statistics
Of an interested party.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06


Monday morning train for Montgomery
at 6:25 A. NJ
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
The One Hundred Wives

The One Hundred Wives company il
having some rather exciting experiences
around the country. The other night
in Cincinnati, man rose wildly from
his seat, and denounced the play as q
heartless and unjust attack upon the un.
fortunate Mormons. The whole audi
ence sprang to their feet, and there was
almost panic in the house. The
stranger, who proved to be Mr.. Wal
tiers, of Ogden, Utah, was with some di
f1culty elected, but it was some time
before quiet could be restored sufficiently
to allow the piece to progress.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

A census enumerator in Alabama
found an old colored woman one hun
bred and fourteen years of age. She
was very proud of it, and to try her
ideas of age, he said: cold lady, you
must have heard the Roman empire
when it fell. ~ don't 'xactly member
de circumstance you spoke of now, but
heard mighty rumbling noise de year
de stars fell, and spect it must been
dat. Things was constant fallin' dat
year, and if it fell in old North Carolina
you bet your bottom rag, honey, ! was
IarB
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
Corn for Enal.

There are localities in the West and
Northwest where scarcity of fuel has
forced people to burn corn again this
winter. The frequent recurrence OF the
fuel famine in those places leads a cor
respondent of the st. Paul Pioneer Press
to suggest what he calls practical solu-
ton of the problem. Coal cannot be
found, and the use of wood will soon
exhaust the available supply of that
article. Corn is the only substitute, and
must be the fuel of the future. For
stoves it is superior to any other sub
stance, hard coal alone excepted, and it
is cheaper than anything that is likely
to be used for fuel. Two or three acres
of corn will afford an ordinary family a
years supply of fuel; and this writer
alleges that the same corn sold in the mar
ket, and the proceeds turned into either
wood or coal, will not begin to do it. OF
course, he speaks of the far Northern
prairies. Corn may be used in either a
wood or coal stove without any change
Of CRATES, and makes a steady, hot fire,
which can be regulated as readily as a
coal fire. Two bushels of corn in the
ear, it is estimated, will keep comforta-
be fire the coolest day in winter. Re
gardipg the squeamishness about burning
an article that is used for food, the
writer says pointedly: 81 would sooner
have an acre of corn that can be replaced
in a single year, than to burn an acre of
timber that takes years to replace, even
on the score of sentiment. There is
common sense in this. If it is cheaper
for people on the fertile prairies to raise
their fuel, as they do their food, and
save what little timber they have for
other purposes, sentimental squeamish-
ness should not deter them from doing
so. More cooked food is daily thrown
away than would feed the hungry poor,
and it is done without conjunction.
While there can be no excuse for this
wastefulness, there is good reason for
burning corn when it is of more value as
fuel than the proceeds would be if used
in the purchase Of wood or coal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

A LARGE UNDERTAKING. Col. Alber
Ordway is engaged in the compilation of
a general index of the journals Of Con-
gress for the first twenty years Of its
history. 1t is a synOptical subject index
of all public business transacted by Con-
gress in those years, with reference to the
debates, documents and statistics con-
nected Herewith. The magnitude of the
work may be realized in view of Colonel
Ordway's statement that these records
are contained in about two thousand
volumes of documents from journals
and debates
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

To be head man at great English
school pays. The head of the Elton
school receives $96, 900 annually, and
the head of the Harrow school $50, 600,
whilst those of Westminster, Win.
chester, Rugby, Charter House, and
Merchant Taylors are worth from
So, 900 to 5000 a year, including the
spacious abodes attached to them. The
heads of colleges receive much less, the
highest being $4,000. The Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge. receives
that sum. Who will say that scholar
ship dees not meet sometimes with its
reward ?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
Guilty Of wrong.

Some people have fashion of confusing
excellent remedies with the large macs OF
"patent medicines" and In this they are
guilty Of a wrong. There are
some advertised remedies fully worth
one at least we know of-Eop Bitters.
The writer has had occasion to use the Bit
tiers in Just such a climate as we have most
of the year in Bay City, and has always
found them to be frst-class and reliable,
doing all that is claimed for them Tribune
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

Prince Bismarck has his own way of
managing the press. DR.. Busch, who
was recently his press secretary, having
stated that he had nothing to do with the
editing of the GreRzboteR and its late SEN
sational articles against the Jews and the
Saxon Government, DIR. Blum, the former
editor of the same journal, positively as
serts that DR.. Busch has had the abso.
lutte control of the political part of that
periodical since the beginning of 1879;
that DIR. Busch has never written or adj
mitted single article unless he knew il
to be agreeable TO the Chancellor, and
that for these services he has received,
and is in receipt of, fixed salary from
the funds at the personal disposal Of the
Chancellor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

1t seems that Conkling has borrowed
wisdom from Beeeher and is posing in
Washington as a great victim. The cor
respondents say that he refers to the re-
ports about himself and the Sprsgue
family with eloquent, and sometimes
fearful. indignation. He pleads "Not
guilty." with big capital n, and ap-
parently thinks that he has mission
20 perform as the defender of injured
fnnncenee
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

Governor Neil, of Idaho, in his mes
SAGE to the Legislature, says that poly
gamy is being rapidly introduced from
Utah. The statute is defective, as it is
found impossible to prove the ceremo-
mics. The Territory is in danger, and
Is becoming a second edition of Utah,
and he expresses the hope that the Legis-
Iature will adopt measures to crush out
the practice. The Governor is right
one Utah is more than enough in this
country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

FIfty.nine national banks, with AZ az,
gregate capital of $7,97s, 40, were or
ganized during the past year just closed.
Eleven banks, with an aggregate capital
of 81, GAG, 900, went out of business. and
three banks, with o capital of $700, 600,
went into bankruptcy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

The widow of the late Mark Hopkins
has an income of million year, and
her residence, one of the finest on Mob
Hill, San Francisco, is crowded with
works of art. She is noted, however, for
her closeness in bargaining. and
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the decorator, has
just sued her for disputed bill of
twelve thousand dollars.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
n SOU ERAD =,

DROF. SHERWOOD will give Fancy Dress
L and Masquerade Soiree at his Dancing
Academy on THURSDAY EVENING, January
9Th, at $50 O'Clock. Ladies' invitations and
gentlemen's tickets can be had by applying to
Prof. Sherwood and members of the class
jan4-3t
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
NOTICE.

THEREAFTER the Office of the undersigned
IL will be over the Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia. Entrances. on Bryan street.
next west of the door of the bank, and on
Drayton street by the stair next north of the
door of the bank on that street. m
WIN. s. BASINGER.
JANUARY ], 1881, jan1-6t
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06

TNHE undersigned have this day formed q
Il copartnership for the practice Of law
under the firm name Of CUNNINGHAM &
LAYTON. Office los Bay street
HENRY G. CUNNINGHAM
A. r. LAYTON. JR.
JANUARY LIST. 1881. jan1-et
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-06
MntlGes.
NOTTCE.

THE partnership heretofore existing under
L the name of JACKSON, LAYTON &
BASINGER is this day dissolved by mutual
consent Each of the undersigned will cen
tinue the practice Of law on his own account
HENRY r. JACKSON,
A. r. LAYTON.
WIN. s. BASINGER.
JANUIRY !, 1881. ian1 st