Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-16

she has been gone several months; don't
know what has become Of her. SAID her fore
woman; she got some hideous disease on her
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away Making further inquiries found that
the woman had died in q pauper,s cot at Belle
vue Hospital"
The Cornell University crew, which left here
TO bring back from foreign shores all the honor
that oarsmen can win, viii receive a cool greet
ing from athletes on their return. The opin-
ion prevails here that the Americans have
done too much LOADING, and taken too little
exercise.
Politics begins to show its diminished head
again in New York city. A movement is in
progress TO form third Democratic organiza-
ton in this city. 1t will be antagonistic to
Tammany Hall and the regular county De-
mocracy. 1t is scarcely necessary to say that
the Republicans foster this movement in every
possible way, ard look for it to secure for them
the local elections this fall. and the assured
control of the entire State in the next Guber-
Material contest. The State Democracy is not
in high feather this year.
Leo Hartman, the Nihilist, hobs up serenely
in letter to the Herald this morning, and gives
some new and important features of the war
between the Nihilists and the Car. He says
that he is followed by a MAINTAINED Traghain
who has sought to involve him in every kind of
trouble. but so far without avail There is no
belief that Hartman will be delivered to the
Russian authorities by the Federal Govern
eXtradition.
Encouraged by the cool weather the theatres
of the city have begun to open their doors. as
yet nothing of good dramatic calibre has been
presented, and the amusement season gives no
Indication of prosperity or failure in the rather
bucolc audiences that sparsely fill the open
houses
Over in Newark. eight miles from New York,
the city authorities being afraid to remove q
poor man who was suffering from small pox
fenced him into an open lot and let him die
there. The Chinese could scarcely do worse
than that
The railroad men have finally come to an
agreement, and the new schedule for certain
kinds Of freight is to take effect on the 22d of
August. People who took advantage of the
low rates during the war can now gloat over
the less forehanded. During the prevalence Of
the railroad war there was an enormous falling
off in the business of the canals, whereby the
canal boatmen became the sufferers. This
class of men numbers some eighty-five thou
sand. Perhaps their misfortune Is the ad-
vance guard Of the panic that Mr. Thompson
talked about to the bankers. At least they re-
gard it so beyond doubt
A theatrical manager we'll known in Savan-
nah and in the South died in a station house
gambling. His name-Charles E. Furbish-will
be remembered by many. 1t was under his
management that the first attractions of
Divorce" Article AZ" and 1.-The Two Or
phanS, appeared in the South.
Camp meeting season is now in full blast A
camp meeting now a-days in this region is the
most important social epoch of the Methodist
faith. Down at Cedar Grove the other day
there were over sixty thousand visitors. Five
thousand went to meeting, the other fifty five
thousand went into the surf. Out at Chautau-
qua there are some fifty thousand people in
the tents. AT Sing Sing there are some seven
or eight thousand more. The best furnished
tent has the widest flap.
The drift of homeward travel from the sum-
mer resorts is beginning to be felt in the city
The hotels are crowded and the means of local
TRANSFORMATION are being tested by the nUmher
of visitors Many Of them came here under
the influence of the reduced rates Of rail-
road fare that have prevailed so long.
Ross RAYMOND