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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Col. Fred. Conkling, the only man
who enjoys the full personal confidence
of his royal peacock brother Roscoe
though they are politically opposed
has been in Albany ever since Milud
concluded to make his pyrotechnic dis
play which came off last Monday. Col.
Conkling says Roscoe will be disap-
pointed at Albany" He continues:
ga careful canvass of the Assembly
convinces me that the anti Grant Re-
publicans will refuse to go into caucus,
and will combine against the caucus
nominees. There are seven Democrats
and twenty-five Republicans in the State
Senate. Thirteen of the Republicans
will refuse to go into caucus.
In the House are forty-six Demo
Gratis, one Independent and eighty-one
Republicans. A majority of these, from
my observation, will stay out of caucus.
The result will be that the caucus nomi-
nees, Conkling and Plat, will be de-
feated, and the anti Grant Republicans
will combine with the Democrats and
elect, in Conkling's and Piatt's places, an
independent Republican and Democrat
| am confident this will be the result.
Never was a body of men firmer in con-
nection and more resolute in purpose
than the antiGrant Republicans.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21
Anecdotes Of a Bull Dog.

The northern section of this city, says
Baltimore special was thrown into the
widest state of excitement by the terri
BILE attack on number of persons by an
Infatuated bull dog, suffering from by.
drophobia. For some time past Mr..
James E. Epply, who resides on the
northern boundary of the city, has been
the owner of two of these dangerous
beasts, and has kept them confined in
the rear yard attached to his residence.
This afternoon one of the dogs Zero.
ciously attacked the other, and, while
they were engaged in a desperate fight,
colored girl belonging to the house
went to the back door to endeavor to
separate them, but no sooner did
she make her appearance than
one of them, frothing at the
mouth, seized her by the left
leg, and tore a great piece of flesh
from the calf of the limb. Stricken
with terror and pain, the girl screamed
for help, and Mr.. William Thompson,
who was passing at the time, came to
her assistance and fired at the animal
through the fence with revolver. The
ball missed its mark, and MIR. Thompson
then climbed to the top of the fence to
secure better aim for his next shot.
No sooner did the maddened beast see
him than it leaped for his throat, and,
getting a savage hold, together they fell
off the fence into the street. Mr..
Thompson, who is powerful man,
fought desperately, and finally succeeded
in getting away from the animal, but
not until his coat and shirt were torn
from him and he was severely bitten in
the throat and breast.
The dog then ran madly down Mary
land avenue, and his next victim was q
child named Eddie Simm, son of one OF
our leading dry goods merchants. Dash
ing at the boy, the dog threw him down
and bit and tore the flesh from dozen
parts of his body. Painting and bleed.
ing, the child was picked up and carried
to his fathers residence close by. A
crowd had by this time gathered in pur.
suit of the dog, but he was not finally
disposed of, although dozen shots were
fired at him, several of which wounded
him, until he had severely bitten col
ored boy named Richard Franklin, dis.
lance of i've or six squares from where
the Infatuated beast had started on his
bloodthirsty flight.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21
Immfrration 10 fhe sonfh.

VIM. a. Pope, the General Passenger
and transportation Agent of the Asso-
ciated Railways of Virginia and the
Carolinas, seems to be meeting with sue
cess in turning German immigration to-
wards the South. He has organized a
bureau of immigration and sent an agent
to Europe. AS result, within the past
thirty days he has brought into the coun-
try 500 immigrants, which number will be
increased to 1000 by the end of the
present month. He is locating these
immigrants along the lines of the rail
ways with which he is connected where
ever they can find employment or com
Portable homes. Up to the present time
two hundred and twenty of these immi-
grants have been landed at Salisbury,
n. c.. as central point. where they are
looked after by the State immigration
Bureau until they have secured employ
ment or selected homes for themselves,
in which they have found no trouble as
yet, being promptly employed and well
coined by the farmers, to whom they
seem to give entire satisfaction.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

THE NORTHWESTERN LUMBER Our.
LooK.-The Northeastern Lum6ernaGH
and Manufacturer, in its weekly review
of the market and prospects in the Mis-.
sissippi Valley, says: ''The floods in the
Mississippi during the last week have
amounted to an embargo on lumber II
is hard to tell just where so much lum.
Der has gone to as the reported ship.
ments of last week indicate was sold.
Handling lumber on the Mississippi is
almost impossible, and only such lum-
Der as is regarded unsafe is being moved,
and none sold. Great damage has been
done already to lumber yards along the
river as well as mills, booms, etc., by
the floods. These things are adding to
the cost of lumber this year, and also
reducing slightly the amount to be cut,
both of which strengthen the market.
From reports it is thought that nearly
all the lumber held on the Missouri
river will be lost, and several million on
the Mississippi, beside the large quantity
of logs which have been and are being
carried away"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Madam L. J. Velasquez, editress of the
North and South american, paper de.
voted to the interests of the Spanish
American republics, passed through this
city yesterday en- route for Havana and
Honduras, via Cedar Keys. Madam V.
is well known throughout the country as
lady who has labored continuously fol
the advancement of Central American
interests, especially those of Nicaragua,
and it has been said of her that were she
a man she would long since have been the
head of prosperous government, com
prising the States of the Isthmus. She
has completed arrangements for the estab
lishment of an agricultural college in Nj
caragua, and ST. 900 worth of machinery
and implements are now on their way tC
that country. This important movement
will be not only of benefit to its farming
interests, but will be the means of adj
vancing the cause of general public edu
cation. Almost the entire trade of this
productive country now goes to Europe,
and Mad. Velasquez purposes to turn il
in the direction of the Southern ports Of
the United States, where it legitimately
belongs
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

The Car of Russia has. curiously
enough, asked General Ignatief to or
ganize a new Cabinet to take the place
of the more liberal body, whose mem
bers, including Gen. LOris Melikoff, have
resigned. Ignatieff is believer in any
thing but a constitutional government,
and he has made himself obnoxious to
Bismarck. He is a most accomplished
diplomatist, shrewd, sharp and at home
in intrigues. He made the treaty with
China by which Russia acquired the vast
valley of the Amoor, and MautchOurin,
and played leading part in giving the
Gar control of Khiva and Bokhara.
Ignatieff will favor reactionary courses,
which will only increase the probable
ties of the assassination of the Car,
who can not trust his cooks and bakers
and butchers The prospect of Rep
resentative Assembly" is not very good.
but the Nihilist Executive Committee at
St. Petersburg keeps making the de-
mand for land redistribution, diminu-
ton of taxes, non-interference of off
Gals and police with communal af-
fairs, and for a rural Assembly com.
posed of deputies elected by the peas
ants, who shall vote in the affairs Of the
nation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

SCHILLER's WoRKs.-We have receiv-
ed from the publisher, Ig. Kohler, OIL
Arch street, Philadelphia, part first of
the first American edition of the works
of the great Schiller. This edition is
edited by DR.. Charles J. Hempel, Ger
man scholar, and translator himself of
many of Schiller's poems. 1t consists of
twenty-four volumes, at % cents vol
ume, on handsome paper, finely printed,
and illustrated by the best German ar
lists No more worthy labor has been
entered on by any scholar or publisher
than this of bringing the works of Ger
many's second, if not her first-ranking
genius, to the attention of the American
public in cheap form. The entire book
can be procured of the publishers in one
or two volumes, at prices ranging from
81 80 to $1S, 1882 pages, with fifty-six
full page illustrations, containing trans
lations by Coleridge, Bulwer and other
laborers i'll this field, who have produced
worthy translations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21
ord Roscne,s Inconsistencies.

Il Washington dispatch says: Com
ment has been extended on the spirit of
some PORTIONS of Mr.. Conkling's letter of
SnstiOn, in which he goes back, as
The saying is, very decidedly on his own
record He has always been an open and
Incorporating supporter of the cen.
tralization of power at Washington, and
an opponent and reviler of the doctrine
of State sovereignty, yet in his pleading
for the sOundness of his present position
and against the attitude of the President,
he plants himself against Capitalization
and in favor of State sovereignty. Mr..
Conkling does not, in his present posi-
ton, command the appreciation of many
of those who have heretofore been his
friends and supporters, and expressions
of indifference as to his future have not
been infrequent among them. If he
should fail to make his point this time
the probability is that it will be long
time before he could get back to the Off
cial rank in politics which he has just
surrendered, if ever. Many staunch Re-
publicans not of his stripe say this is a
splendid opportunity, which should not
be lost, to destroy the very head and
front of the arrogant Senatorial cabal. u
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

All the major planets of the solar sys-
tenn, except Uranus, are now morning
stars, as viewed from the earth. A few
weeks hence they will light up the morn
ing sky as brilliantly as they recently did
the evening armament, and will make
even a grander display. On the 18th of
this month the moon will be with Venus,
Saturn and Jupiter, two days before she
eclipses the sun. Early next month We
nus will be at her greatest brilliancy, and
near to Saturn on the morning of the 9th,
while thirteen days later she will be
punched with Jupiter and Neptune, and
Mars will shine above them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Such returns of the new British cen
sus as have come in show that the IN
crease in population of the country in
the past decade has been almost wholly
urban, the agricultural portion of the
island showing decrease. Most of the
returns from Scotland are already in,
and they make the following showing
Glasgow, 900, 2S9, increase 16 per cent. ;
Edinburg, 225, 435, increase 30 per cent. ;
Dundee, 40. 463, increase Is per cent.
Aberdeen, 1O5, 1S1, increase 20 per cent
The second class towns have grown
much more rapidly, their rate of in
crease ranging from 81 to 125 per cent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Even England is beginning to express
no little uneasiness at the wholesale
emigration of the industrial classes to
this country. The latest mails bring us
reports of meetings in various parts of
the country at which this subject was
freely discussed. This constant drain of
the bone and muscle was deprecated
earnestly enough, but no one seemed to
have any remedy for it. At one of these
meetings, one of the speakers said
that for years past emigration from the
British islands had been going on at the
rate of 10000 per annum. "This was
sad, no doubt" he went on to observe,
"but it was also necessity, as many
English industries had been lately dying
out, notably the watch trade in Clerken-
well, where very few workmen had during
the last three years done full days
work." Another speaker sapiently re-
marked that, "as the tide of emigration
this season had set in with greater force
than ever, he would like to see govern
ment regulate, but not encourage it, as
when the country in time of war requlr-
ed men, few, if any, eficients were to be
found in the country" 1t is tribute to
the common sense and intelligence of the
emigrating class, however, that they
have other views than to stay in coun-
tries where they are likely to be needed
simply as food for gunpowder at the call
of ''the man on horseback" If there
were fewer ''wars" in European coun-
tries, possibly there would be less ankle
ty on the part of their people to get be-
yond their jurisdiction. Anyhow, it is
about time that this plan for keeping
these people at home had a fair trial.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

A little newspaper published on the
United States flagship Trenton, entitled
the Trenton Herald, says that Miss Clara
Louise Kellogg visited the ship while at
Villefrance, France, and for the amuse.
ment of the officers and crew sang a
number of familiar home songs, accom-
panying herself on the banjo. The &C
count says that Down on the Suwan-
nee River" was better than dozen
Italian cavatinas, and the way she han
died the banjo and sang "The Yallar
Gal Dressed in Blue" would have made
Sam Devere pause.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

General Badeau is an obsequious adj
mirer of General Grant. For twelve
years past he has held the pleasant and
lucrative position Of Consul General at
London, and has been for some time
engaged in writing a biography of
General Grant. In his letter to Sena-
tor Jones, Grant says he desired
that Badeau Should be kept
where his Office would support him until
he finished some work he is engaged up
on, meaning, no doubt, his biography.
President Garfield, not recognizing any
obligation on the part of the govern
ment to support Grants biographer dur
ing his literary labors, did not continue
him in his London consulate. This
neglect on the part of President Garfield
Gen. Grant says "was very distasteful
to me-" How very modestl How be-
coming an ex- President of the United
States
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Quite a serious fight broke out in
Washington the other day between Com
missioner LeDuc, of the Agricultural
Department. and DR.. Riley, head of the
chronological Commission, about some
dried bugs and caterpillars. LeDuc
waited on the Attorney General with a
complaint that Riley had stolen certain
bugs that rightfully and properly be-
longed to his department, and he called
on him to prosecute the entomologist for
grand larceny. There was great deal
of laughter at the capital over this bug
war, but fortunately the two angry off,
cials were quoted without the scandal of
prosecution.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

On May gath convention will assem-
BILE at Davenport, Iowa. to consider the
question of the construction of the
Hennepin canal, which is to give water
communication between the Mississippi
valley and the lakes. Nearly all the
towns in the Northwest will send dele
gates to tbs convention. 1t is likely
that there will be considerable opposi-
ton to the canal. The Keokuk, Iowa,
delegates have already issued protest
against the canal, declaring that they
will oppose the construction by the
government of an artificial water course
from the Mississippi valley until it has
thoroughly improved the natural outlet,
the Mississippi. Copies of this protest
have been forwarded to the other towns
in the Northwest, requesting them to
side with Keokuk in opposing any
resolutions indorsing the canal. The st.
Louis and other Missouri delegates will
probably do SO.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21
Let 'em r. i. p.

A WIDE AWAKE CITY.-Omaha, Neb.
is wide-awake Western city, and has
already become the largest manufactur.
ing point on the Missouri river. In 1875
the combined business and manufactures
of the city amounted to $4,000, 600,
whilst in 1880 they were upwards of
$45, 600, 900 of which upwards of SIS, 000,-
coo were manufactures. This year it is
expected the trade and manufactures of
Omaha will reach $50. 900, Goo 1t is
claimed that Nebraska is growing like a
weed in population and property, and
that Omaha, despite this fine exhibit. has
scarcely begun to grow.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21
Educational.
Harvard University.
Instruction In Political Sciences.

THE following regular courses Of study are
l. open, without examination, to competent
students not candidates for degree. The fees
are in no case less than $50 nor more than $3.50
a year. Figures in q denote the number OF
exercises per week.
CONSTITUTIONAL HISToRY.-I. Constitu.
tional Government In England and the United
States. (2). III Constitutional and Political His.
tory of the U. s. to 1850. (3). III. Forms of Gov.
eminent and Political Constitutions since 1889.
(2). POLITICAL ECONOMY. Mills Princi
pies of Political Economy; Financial Legisla-
tion Of the u. 5. (3). III. Cairnes' Principles OF
Political Economy; Citizens Essays in Finance.
90. III. Public Finance. u. LEGALSCIENCE.
4 Jurisprudence; Austin. ~. IL. Constitu.
tional Law of the u. &. ~. III. Public Interna-
tional Law and History of Modern Treaties.
(s). w. Roman Law; Institutes of Gaius and
Justinian. 81. v. The Roman Law OF Inherit
ance "a. vi. The Legal Institutions Of the
Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans. 90
The next Academic year begins September %,
1881. For further information address T. w.
TAUSEIG, Secretary, Cambridge, Mass.
apll-M&W4w&thenT Th&S6w
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

Under present circumstances, it is not
marvellous that whatever knowledge Of
Garfeld's treachery to Sherman previous
to and in the Chicago Convention is in
possession of the Conkling-Grant fac
ton, is being placed before the public.
The term of the present administration
will be anything but pleasant time to
its leading members. Its enemies in its
own party are not men who forget or
forgive quickly or easily, or who neglect
any offensive opportunity. Mr.. Blaine
may not unreasonably expect to see his
rather unsavory record paraded in the
Observation-Disclosures Republican organs.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

lScri5ner's Monthly has been arranging,
during more than q year past, for an
illustrated article on Saint audens' Far
rsgut monument, which was to have
been unveiled in Madison square. New
York, yesterday. The postponement
of the unwilling till the 25th instant
gives the magazine five days start. The
article, which includes a sketch of the
sculptors life, will be accompanied by
four illustrations, one of them full
page engraving, by Cole, of the statue.
The same number of iScri6ner's will have
an engraving, by Fred. Juengling, of
Saint Gaudens' medallion of Bastien Le-
maze.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

1t is hardly to be supposed that the
letter of Gen. Grant to Senator Jones,
of Nevada, backing up Conkling and
grossly assailing the President, was
written for publication. If it was so
intended, it will certainly be regarded
as betraying weaker point in Grants
character than had previously
been disclosed. Could anything be more
grossly impertinent than his espousal of
Conkling's quarrel or his attacks upon
the President, because he had failed to
appoint his personal friends and parti-
sans to officer The letter shows that
Grant is as unfit for an ex-President as
he was for President-that he is as desti-
tute of dignity in retirement as he was
of ability or integrity when in office.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

There is a growing suspicion that
Postmaster General James is an aspirant
for the Republican Presidential nomina-
ton in 1884, and that his star route reve
lations are merely means to that end
and intended to secure for him what he,
a stalwart, could not otherwise secure,
viz, the support of the Independents.
sshalf-breeds," civil service reformers,
etc. etc. The suspicion is likely to
Grow unless he very soon extends the
range Of his star route movements and
attacks the managers, instead of only a
few tools, of the star route ring, and
when self interest is generally believed
TO be the sole motive of a "reformer, "
his ambition is usually shelved by the
people.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

How THE POPE ACCEPTS THE PETER
PENCE.-Last Easter Monday the same
rich English lady who was wont to pre-
sent the Pope every year with Peters
pence to the amount of Els, 900, in re-
turn for his blessing, again appeared in
the Vatican to make her customary
offering, when she was told that the
Pope could not receive her till next day.
The pious lady thereupon left with a
VOW never again to trespass upon the
Pope's indulgence.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

CRADLE SONG.-We are indebted to
the publishers, Messrs. Phillips Il Crew,
Atlanta, Ca, for a copy of Alfredo
Barili's Cradle Song" arranged for the
piano. The Christian Inder says: "This
quiet, dainty, poetical little Cradle
Song will be welcomed by all whose
taste in music is pure, who abominate
the sensational, and who feel that dew
drop distilled from the very heart Of
melody is worth an ocean of ranting,
unmusical phrases, aud of rhapsodic,
meaningless sound.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

IMMENSE INCREASE OF EMIGRATION
FROM GERMAN PoRTs. The North Ger
man LIovd, in view of the excessive de
mand for passages to America, have de
cided to place nineteen steamers on its
list for the present month, to master the
traffic on its transatlantic lines. OF
these ten are destined for New York,
seven for Baltimore and one each fol-
Brazil and the Platte.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

The Illinois people along the Missis-
sippi river are claiming that the recent
food has carried away from them and
deposited elsewhere. fifteen thousand
acres of land worth forty dollars an acre,
or sixty thousand dollars for the whole.
If this estray Illinois land could only be,
and doubtless some of it has been, spread
over the Louisiana lowlands, the flood
would have its uses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

The burying ground of the republic
has few sadder stories than that which
is recorded upon the new tombstone
which has just been raised above the re-
mains of our two departed statesmen.
Special diagram as given in the Courier
,T0nrn0L:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

A successful test of an improved tele-
phone for long distances was made the
other day between Philadelphia and
New York. a distance of 104 miles.
The improved instrument is said to in
crease very much the clearness of the
sound
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

They have been dOctOring their wine
dreadfully in France lately. A new dis
covery is that of NJ. Poisson, of the Bo
tanical Society, that the flowers of the
bassia tree, which grows in India, will
make quite reasonable wine whom dried.
tn 5s51 months Old
>y5.v1J aai=s at baSsia leaves
have al-c417 been imported into Paris
q IS suggested .Lat inc French wine crop
year viii c9nata -eat5 be large, not
-- 'ing the deEasts-ioRs Of the
l4vilCEer-.