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, 1881-12-28

New York, Dec. 22nd-The United
States Senate has confirmed the appoint
ment OF ex-senator Howe as Postmaster
General, aud Mr.. Prescott as Special En-
voy to the Southern Republics. Mr.. Ban
croft Davis has qualified himself for the
post OF Assistant Secretary of State.
General Turr expresses his belief that
American opinion will ultimately favor the
Panama Canal.
The Italian Senate has conferred the
suffrage upon all persons who are able to
read and write.
New York, Dec. 23.-Telegraphic des.
patches state thai the Russian organ
"Nord" Brussels, has declared that all the
powers must guarantee the neutral1tv of
the Panama Canal, otherwise it viii ba
notifications,
New York, Dec. 24th-Englisb news
states that the Tory politicians are using
the london Lord Mayors fund for the
relief OF distressed Irish Landlords as an
instrument for alta cking Mr.. Gladstone.
Numerous petitions are being brought
forward for the pardon Ofelection bribers.
Tho death is announced of Mr.. GrenvilfSs
Murray.
Tho fall in rentes is said to be due to
the uncertainty Of the Government with
regard TO their conversion and the selling
out of shares by small holders.
New York, 24th
Flour 3' brl. st. Lawrence brand, $500
Meal best B~randywine, y brl. $50. to 1.
New Seasons Pork perbrl $173.
Heavy Mess Pork y brl. Sl64.
Smear Crystals y ID Y to II.
Fair to good refining y II u to ]
English Islands MolasSeS ~ gal, IS to 44s
Exchange, New Yor6 y London, 4792.
London oath
Demerara Crystals GI IS. 0d.
Sugar Muscovado y VT. I'll is. Cd
Clayed Havanna, M. -. < IS ID
at0At.
DemeraIa Rum p gallon, %. Al.
Trinidad Cocoa Y cvt. Ga Us. Cd.
ConSois. $50 to9
Bank of England Rate Of Di'count5 p..t
Liverpool Cotton Mildling Upllnl p Il dS
TO +.
3 per cent. Ren;esi u Paris, Fos. 81,
, 1881-12-28
T'Ae sTiala Prop" rty Defonce
associations.
(HTOm tie Times. J

The Property Defence Association is
now entering on the second year Of its
Struggle on behalf OF law and order in Ire
land. Ii may be, therefore, OF some gone
lai puoHc interest, taking into COlSidera-
tlon the purposes for which the association
was formed, to see how it has been success
tai Ill carrying ont It's objects during the
past Y months. Tie association was
formed Immediately after the Boycott ex-
peditl0n tor the purpose OF meeting that
social conspiracy OF which Captain Boy
colt was the first victim in the words OF
It's published programme, to uphold the
rISntS OF property against organized com
binatlon to defraul, and to sustain freedom
OF contract and liberty OF action" 1t in
cludeS among LIS members men Of different
religious and political opinions, and its
assistance is given to all requiring it, IT.
respective OF creed or party. In fact, it is,
Dothln principle and practice, non-political
and non-sectarian. The present desperate
state OF the country is the sole care Of the
association. 1t is a fact that one Of the
first to ask help from the association and
derive advantage from its assistance was
a member OtHer MajeSty'S present Govern
ment. For the last year the committee
has met continuously every week III Dublin
- nv VII III AOiefAo1
whether landlord, tenant-farmer, shopkeep-
er, labourer, ~artizan, or other person, who
may have been aggrieyed or molested by
the action of the Land League; and while
in no deserving case has assistance been
refused, in almost every instance complete
success has been obtained. Among the
members OF this committee are the Earl
OF Courtown (chairman), the Marquis of
Ormonde, the Earl of Meath, the Earl of
Carysfort, the Earl of Rosse, Lord Ardi-
laun, the Right Hon. Henry Bruen, Colo
mel King Hartman lord Lieutenant Of the
county Roscommon), Mr.. A. Kavanagh
(Lord-Lieutenant Of the county Carlow,
Sir George Colthurst, Sir E. Hutchinson,
Colonel Tottenham, Captain Somerset
Maxwell, and other gentlemen of position
in the country.
The committee decides in what cases the
assistance of the association is necessary.
and sees that assistance is carried out In
the most efficient and economical manner.
The accounts are audited by professional
auditors, and a statement giving a list of
the subscriptions and every item of the
expenditure is laid before a h~alf-yearly
meeting of subscribers, subscriptions being
, 1881-12-28
L E L Z G r A M S !.
ST.. THOMAS STATION

ST.. THOMAS STATION
New York, 81 Dec.-A WASHINGTON
paper publishes a despatch from ST.
Petersburg, which reports that the ''Jean-
nette" was crushed in the ice on the eleventh
Of June. Captain Delong and twenty-five
ofthe crew reached the mouth of the Lena
in a pitiable condition on September 10Th.
The Chimes" in an editorial expresses
the opinion that the hxity in the proce-
dure of the Guiteau trial is unequalled.
The loss is reported of the Bristol stea1-
er Bath City, Seventeen of the crew
lave arrived in Liverpool.
London Dec. 21st-The stock of sugar
at the four home ports on the 18th inst.
was $4,000 tons as against 100000 tons
for the corresponding period last year.
, 1881-12-28

We beg to remind those Of our
readers who may have the right to
a vote for the Colonial Council, and
have not yet claimed it, that the
time for their doing this will expire
on Saturday. Forms of application
may be had at the respective Court
houses.
, 1881-12-28
Passengers Arrived.

Per schr Active from ST. Thomas, Dec.
24.-Elizabeth Mackins, Felicia Ann Tho
mas, Jacob Horsford.
Per schr Vigilant from ST. Thomas, Dec.
25.-Ferdinand Paulsen, j. nj. Fidanque
and B. ID. F~inanque.
, 1881-12-28
BekjendtgjoEelse

gp FOLGE de imellem de paagj@l-
~ dcnde Regieringer trutne Over
enskomster kunne de dansk yestin-
dislike Postkontoirer fra den 1ste
Januar 1892 udstede Postanyisnln-
ger til Udbetaling i Frankrig, ltalien
90 Tydskland, og udbetalc %indgaaen-
de Postanyisninger fra de npvnte
Lande, udstedte siden 1ste Januar
1882. Paa dansk %vestindiske Side
bes0rges Udvexlingen at Graendse-
postkontoiret st. Thomas.
Ingen Anvisning, der udstedos
dansk Vestindien, maa lydc paa ct
Store Bel0b end 500 Francs, at udbe-
tales i Frankrig eller I%talien, og 400
Reichsmark, at udbetales Tydsk-
land. For Anvisninger til Odbe-
falling her, er Maximumsbel0bet, i
Frankrig og Italien $4,000, /
Tydskland Kroner 800. DE sidst-
navnte, paa Kronem0nt lydende
Anvisninger udbetalcs her cfter For
holdet 81 pr. Is Kroner.
neutrality-suspicious. mdbetales CT
ter f0lgende Forhold:
iDansk vestndien: 81 Cents pr. Ere. der skal udhetalos
" GO Cents pr Reichsmark, der skal
udbetales TydsblGnd.
1Frankrs; - ~udbetaIes dansk yes
i11talien: Fress "a centimes pr 81 dor sAal indien-
iTydskland 12 Reichsm. 70 Fl. II. 26B
Portoen for Udstedelsen f0rud-
betales i Dansk Vestindien med 5
Cents pr. IS eller derunder, dog like
under 10 Cents.
Gouvernementet for de Dansk Vestindiske Ger, St Thomas
den lode December 1881.
G. II. d
Cart H0tteRSeR.
, 1881-12-28
TRANSLATION.
Publication.
Carl H0ttcRseR.

- N accordance with agreements
- made between the Governments
concerned, the Post-ofices in the
Danish West India Islands are from
, 1881-12-28

NEW ADVERTISE NTS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
A Mysterious Disease.

The papers every once in while con-
.ain reports of mysterious diseases. We
do not remember, however, to have seen
more startling report of this character
than that contained in special telegram
from Ottawa. Ontario, of the date of
April 10th. The telegram is as follows;
"Advices have been received to day
from British Columbia, stating that a
strange and terrible disease has broken
out among the Cinnamon employed on
the Canadian Pacific Railway works, in
that province The case of a Chinese
cook at place known as Big Tunnel
will serve to illustrate the phases of the
strange malady. He sat down, apparent
ly perfectly well, to eat his dinner.
His feet began to swell, and
the swelling extended itself up his
legs and body, reaching the
vital parts in about ten minutes, causing
his abdomen aud chest to expand to most
unnatural proportions, and he tumbled
down dead, all in less than fifteen minutes
from the time the disease attacked his
feet. In this way these people are dying
in dozens, and already more than one
hundred have thus been carried off.
This condition of things is causing alarm
among the whites. In some instances
the foremen are reported to have fed
from the scene of the ravages of the
mysterious disease, and it would not be
strange if the Chinese should become
panic stricken. The provincial press is
asking the government for an investiga.
ton of the disease, which is spreading
terror among the wOrkmen."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
The Uses and Value Of Cotton Seed
Meal
Nsi0 York Cotton.


A ton of meal contains thirty eight
pounds of potash and fifty six pounds Of
phosphoric acid, with seventy eight
pounds of nitrogen; it is thus rich
enough in these elements to be useful as
a manure, for which purpose, indeed, it
is extensively used in the South. But,
being so rich food, it cannot be given
to animals, except in small quantities.
Two pounds are quite enough for COW
that is milking; calf should not have
more than two to four ounces; pigs will
not thrive on it al all, as it is too rich for
them, except when given in small guam
titles mixed with bran Stops or cut
roots. Horses do we'll on it, if given
two pounds daily with corn meal; two
pounds of it equal ten pounds of
oats. But, if fed TOO abundantly, the
bowels are made very costive and the
kidneys are affected. This is doubtless
on account of its highly heterogeneous
nature, as the waste nitrogen is elimi-
mated from the system through the kid
neys, and they are too actively excited
by very rich food. The next i'll effect is
an infam matory condition of the system,
and in cows there is danger of garget,
and horses suffer from irritation of the
skin, sore mouth, and hide-bound. 1t
is as though a man were fed on extract
of beef, rich pastry, and such food only
When used judiciously and with a
knowledge of its character and value it
is the cheapest lat its present price,
thirty dollars a tom and one of the most
useful foods we have. Being rich in
nitrogen aud oil, it should be used with
food rich in stalch, as potatoes and
roots. One pound of cotton seed meal
mixed with half peck of boiled pota-
toes and mashed together would make
good feed fer fattening pig or milk
ing cow, but the pig should have corn or
bran for the second daily feed One
pound of cotton seed meal we consider
equal to two pounds Of corn meal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29

THE COMING CAMPAIGN IN OHIo.-A
Columbus (Ohio) dispatch to the New
York Times states that in his speech at
the meeting few nights ago, Chairman
Nash, of the Republican State Executive
Committee, clearly intimsted that if
Ohio was to be carried this fall, it would
require the work of every Republican to
bring it about; that it would not do 10
assume that success was sure, and that
General Garfeld's majority of $1,000
could not be wiped out. He warned the
Republican party that every effort would
be required to maintain Republican su-
premacy in the State, and that indica-
tons already showed that the Democrats
were preparing for a most vigorous cam
paign. In speaking Of the outlook to-
day. leading Republican said: "Gov.
Foster will win a greater victory if he
carries the State by 5000 this fall than
he did two years ago, when his majority
over Gen. Ewing was over 1900"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29

A Mr.. Coburn, writing to the Kansas
Farmer, expresses some practical ideas
on the dog question in quaint and face
tious style. He says:
81 am not aware of having anywhere
expressed myself in favor of taxing dogs
or having the Legislature interfere with
them. l am in favor of killing the dogs!
That put in practice would settle the
whole question in twenty-four hours,
rid the State of an abominable nuisance
that costs us millions of dollars annual
ly to maintain, and would cause wool to
be so abundant that economical farmers
like myself and ten thousand others,
who for fifteen years have
been arrayed in purple and fine cotton
ade, could have for Sunday suit of all
wool jeans and some warm socks. The
sheep raiser who expects the Legislature
to protect him from dogs might about
as consistently demand legislation to
cure him of the itch. believe that in
wool growing as in all other human en-
terprises, the gods help those who help
themselves, and have no patience with
the shepherd who sits around and
whines because the law doesn't protect
his mutton. The average Kansas or
Missouri dog is law proof. Twenty-Five
cents worth of strychnine judiciously
used by each breeder will give more and
better protection than all the taxation
and all the legislatures in America are
likely to give in the next fifteen years
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
Price of Land in the South.

1t is well known that the New York
Tribune is no friend of the South, and
that it is heartily in sympathy with
those stalwarts of the Conkling-Daw
Frye stripe who delight II dwelling on
what they are pleased to call "the pow
erty stricken South" When, therefore,
that paper speaks of the Southern States
being objects of congratulation on their
future prospects, we may be sure that
there is really something in the state
ment
In recent article on the ''price of
land IN the South" our New York stall
wart contemporary tenders its congratu-
lations on the reported general increase
of the selling prices of lands in this sec
ton, and remarks that the improvement
means a great deal more than figures
alone can express. 1t says: Land is
not purchased down South at fancy
prices for investment and allowed to lie
idle while waiting for rising market
When it changes hands the reason is that
some one needs more ground to cult
vate, and when prices increase the mean
ing is not only that the demand is
active, but that the quantity IN the mar
ket is not great. Back of this is the fact
that if land is in large demand large
number of planters and farmers must
either have saved money enough to in
crease their borders or have learned how
to work a larger quantity of ground with
the men and money that once were ex-
pended on smaller estates. Perhaps the
increase of the class of small farmers
has contributed to the rise. If it has the
South is in luck in more ways than one,
for there was time when the men who
now manage small farms and show the
South cotton is not the only profitable
crop to raise could scarcely find room or
federation. With land in active demand
and her manufacturing enterprises all
succeeding the South is indeed in luck. "
This admission Of Southern prosperity
from our New York contemporary is
exceedingly significant. 1t shows that
while Northern South haters delight to
dwell upon the poverty of the South for
the purpose of exciting prejudice against
our section, and thereby, if possible. re-
tardlng our growth and consequent i'm
portance, they no more believe what
they say than when they retail their oft
refuted SANDERS about Southern out.
RACES. That the South is prospecting
is fact which even they cannot
wholly conceal, and while it doubtless
grieves them to the heart, they are
forced to admit that, if she is but true to
herself, wealth and political power
is her certain portion. In the meantime
the Southern people can accept with sat
isfaction the Tri51t1ae's congratulations,
and determine, more than ever, to de
velop their resources, keep their money
at home and get rich as speedily as pos
sible.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
More Star Route swindIe Returns,


Star route swindle returns are coming
in from the back counties. The Cincin-
natl Commercial gives the details OF some
typical cases in Ohio. One Is that from
Athens to Pomeroy, distance of about
twenty-eight miles. The Commercial
says:
There were several bidders-one as
high as s., 500 a year, and the lowest
was 5000 year. The service was worth
more than 5000, and a Mr.. Foster, OF
Athens, who was next to lowest, pro-
posed to do the work for 81 300 year.
The 5000 fellow got it, and turned out
to be one Zimri Mcdonald, who is a
hanger-on around the office OF the Post
master General He hired man to
carry the mail, agreeing to pay 81 400 a
year, or to make loss OF sou year.
Then at a time that must have been
duly understood by others interested.
he threw it downfall is, abandoned
the contract. Here was a vacancy,
and that was what was wanted. That
was what the 5000 bid was put in for.
The law required that the next highest
bidder, Mr. Foster, of Athens, whose
bid was 81 900, should be notified. 1t
was the duty of Mr.. Brady, Second As
sistant Postmaster General, to have him
notified. Nothing of the kind was done.
The matter was attended to in stealthY
manner, and the first thing known about
it Colonel A. E. Boone had the contract
at 81. 500 a year-or $4,000 more than
Zimri Mcdonald bid for it. Now this
is a transaction that bears all the char
acteristic marks of rascality. There was
the irresponsible tool of the schemers
who put in the 5000 bid, about fifty per
cent lower than any one was expected
to go. He got the job, of course, and
abandoned it according to agreement,
no doubt, and Colonel Boone stepped in
and got something more than twice as
much as the job was worth, leaving
So, 900 a year ct least profit to be divided
and applied to all good works.
'But we have something more modern
for the consideration of Postmaster Gen
eral James-sOmething that has hap
pened since he was in Office. A daily
mail has been carried between Marietta
and GAINESVILLE, and the cost of the ser
vice has been s.. 600 a year. Quite re-
Gently an arrangement has been made,
for which there is no necessity, to double
the service between McConnellsVille and
GAINESVILLE, or the upper end of the
SO. 900 route. 1t will crafty the Post
master General to ascertain, as he may
by reference to the books. that Col. A.
E. Boone, contractor at 81 500 year
between Athens and Pomeroy, has agreed
to have the double service performed be-
tween GAINESVILLE and McConnellsYille
upon his responsibility, for the annual
sum paid of $12 000-or an increase of
IS, 600 The country seems to be full
of these swindles, and it is the duty of
all good citizens to hunt them up and
scratch them out Instead of two million
deficiency on q fige million appropria-
ton, as we had last year, there should
be a two.miilion surplus"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
The Commissioner of Internal Re,

The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has just decided, in case which
arose in the Fifth collection district of
North Carolina, that money in the Gus
tody of the government and belonging to
q citizen is not subject to levy and at
tachment under proceedings instituted
in a State court by creditors. 1t appears
that party accused of violating the in
ternal revenue laws in a number of
cases made a proposition to compromise
for a certain sum, which he deposited
with the department pending the nego-
tiations. The department, after due
consideration, declined to accept the
offer made, and the Collector of Internal
Revenue of the district was instructed
to return the money TO the party deposit
ing it. In the meantime mandate was
issued from a State court of North Caro-
lima, at the instance of certain creditors
Of the party aforesaid, forbidding the
Collector to deliver up the money The
Commissioner thereupon directed the
Collector to return the money to the de-
partment, from whence it was delivered
to the representative of the person to
whom it belonged. The view taken was
that the government was bound in good
faith to return money deposited under
such circumstances
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29

A STATEMENT FROM HEATH's BROTH
ER.-Mr Edward Heath, of New Or
leans. has made a statement in regard to
the alleged bad treatment of bis brother,
Charles Heath, who was held up in the
United States Senate by Mr. Dawes, of
Massachusetts,, as a Southern martyr.
According to Edward Heath, all the ale
cations which, under forced constluc-
ton, could be attributed to political
prejudice, occurred between 1867 and
i870. Mr.. Heath admits that his gin was
burned eight years ago through careless
ness of coJored laborers, and presents no
evidence whatever to show that the
burning in 1880 was in any way connec-
ted with politics. In fact, he admits
that he cannot say that politics had any
thing to do with 1t.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29
Indications Of Break In the Dead
lock.

On Tuesday last there was demand
made among the Presidents friends in
the Senate for caucus to consider the
present deadlock in the Senate. The
idea Of such caucus was bitterly opposed
by the stalwarts, as they feared that it
would result in an abandonment of the
present Republican position, and to this
they are violently opposed, because of
the fight which will inevitably follow in
Republican ranks over the Robertson and
other nominations. They failed to carry
their point, however, and the caucus was
ordered, and though the stalwarts are
busy with their efforts to prevent break
in the deadlock, Washington advices
state that the indications are that such a
break is near at hand.
A Washington special to the Baltimore
Gazette says that it is learned upon good
authority that the President, after the
ceremonies connected with the unwilling
of the Farragut statue last Monday, was
very emphatic in his demand that some
of the nominations should be acted upon
Immediately. The Western Senators
understand the importance of this, as
aside from the ordinary combinations
there are quite number of Indian agents
whose nominations are pending, and
therefore the usual supplies OF goods for
the Indians cannot be forwarded until
the vacancies are filed, and even then
the supplies can only be forwarded dur
ing the spring and early summer months,
when the water in the Western rivers is
high, and if postponed will have to be
wagoned hundreds of miles across the
country at great expense. This is only
one of the many inconvenience which
the bargain with Malone has been
brought about
The same correspondent writes the
Gazette: eff the deadlock is broken
there can be no question that there
will be music in the Republican
household. The Democrats can in
this afford to be an army OF OBJ
servation, and possibly will divide be-
tween the two contending factions.
They (the Democrats will have but little
to expect from the administration which
has appointed Stanley Matthews as Judge
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, William E. Chandler Solicitor
General, and then has furnished Frye
to traduce the South in set speech in
the Senate of the United States. Nor
can they forget that this new raid upon
the South, this TRADE of abuse and de-
nunciation, was given responsibility by
Mr.. Conkling in his great Cooper Insti-
tute speech during the last campaign, and
that he, Logan, Cameron and the bal
ance of his followers are the open and
avowed engineers of a more centralized
government under Grant"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-29

A Washington special says that party
of Boston gentlemen just arrived from a
tour in the Southern States speak very
encouragingly of the outlook in this
quarter of the country. They represent
that all is peace, with favorable crop in
dications. They were astonished at the
progress made in the manufacture OF
cotton and iron. They heard less OF
politics than usual, which they regarded
as very hopeful sign. The sound OF a
cotton spindle is more musical to the
cultured Boston ear than a disquisition
on the resolutions of 1898. They repre-
sent that Nashville is enjoying business
boom, with more building than ever and
real estate is stiff They spent some
time in Chattanooga, and think that will
eventually be the great city of the
South.