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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

Boston and Providence are now regu-
larly connected by telephone. On the
opening day experimental connections
We're made between Providence and
Weston, fifteen miles beyond Boston,
and afterwards the lines were connected
with Haverhill, Mass, one hundred
miles distant, and with Springfield,
Mass, one hundred and fifty miles dis
tant, by the route the wire follows, and
conversation was freely carried on with
those cities. The length of the line
from the Boston Exchange to the Provi-
dence Exchange is about fifty miles.
The number of poles is sixteen hundred
and sixty-six. beside several house-top
fixtures and five hundred and thirty-fVe
feet of cable. The poles vary from forty
to seventy feet in height. The poles and
cross-arms are calculated to carry forty
nine wires. The line was opened for
business with eight wires, to run which
122, 613 pounds of wires have been used.
The line, it is said, is to be extended
from Providence TO New York as rapidly
as possible.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

Political FAME.-General Morgan,
of Alabama, in his last speech in the
Senate. spoke of the people who helped
Mr. Hayes to the vote of Louisiana in
1876 as having their names p~erpetuated
on the pay rolls of a grateful country,
and further on compared them to para
sites. He mentioned several of them by
name, including Mrs. Agnes jerks, who
was sitting in the gallery at the time.
The fair and fiery Agnes was as much
incensed for being called a parasite" as
Daniel O'Connell's fshwoman was
when he call her a parallelogram. She
posts the Alabama Senator as an econo-
mist of the truth, as a maligner of the
good or a lover of treason, and as a para
site himself, and winds up by telling
him if she was a man he would quickly
retract his eplthet. Where's Captain
enks of the horse marines?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

The New York World distinctly ar
raigns Secretary of the Treasury Win
dom for completely in certain gigantic
frauds connected with the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad swindle, by which so
many people were financially wrecked.
About 800, O00, 900 of stock was issued
in that project, a very large proportion
of which went into the hands of its pro
moters, without the payment of a dollar
therefor. At this period Mr.. Window
was a member of Congress, and assisted
in the scheme by his vote. In an in
junction suit, now on trial in New York,
it is ID developed that Mr.. Window claims
ownership of two thousand shares of that
stock, of the par value of 500 each
and that he nor any other person ever
paid a cent for them. And the World
thinks the presumption is overpowering
THAT he got them by such services as
were to be expected from a Representa-
tive in Congress to a corporation in
which he had intimate personal and
large moneyed interests. We shall await
with interest to see what explanation the
Secretary has to make.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

DIVISION OF SPOMs.-An eminent
Massachusetts, jurist, at n time a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, the late Benjamin r.
Curtis, upon one occasion, in an opinion,
laid down the rule that a compact be-
tween parties of different political prin-
ciples for the purpose of dividing public
offices, was not less than a factious con
spiracy. He said such a compact "is a
factious conspiracy to violate a public
trust, and as such criminal not only in
morals, but in the law of the land"
This opinion, from such excellent
authority, recognized as having no
superior in the annals of American juris-
prudence, is commended to the con-
sideration of the two Massachusetts
Senators and of their party associates in
the Senate.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
Color in Politics.

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: Senator Brown,
of Georgia, in the course of his speech
on the 14th, referring to the claim con-
stantly set up by the Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives and stump
speakers generally that the entire mass
of colored voters belong to their party,
demonstrated that according to the
census statistics and the election returns
the colored people, if this claim was
conceded, constitute at least one-fourth
of the Republican party. Mr.. Brown
then very %pertinently put the question,
What do you do for the colored
people?" He then showed that in a
practical point of view the Republi-
can party does nothing for the
colored people. Its orators shed
crocodile tears over the imaginary
woes of the colored people, but they
have invariably refused any substan-
tial recognition of their services. Mr..
Brown showed that of the 100. 900 or
more Federal offices in the United States
scarcely one hundred, and they Of the
most insignificant character, had been
bestowed upon the colored men. Yet If
it was not for the colored voters the Re-
publican party would be a perpetual in
significant fraction of the voting popula-
ton of nearly half the States of the
Union, and could not command a ma
jority under any probable condition of
circumstances in such States as New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
without which they would be left far
behind in all national election contests.
Senator Brown might have called atten-
ton to the recent action Of the repre-
sentative men of the colored Republi-
cans of Maryland in proclaiming to the
world the manner in which they had
been treated by the managers of the par
ty which their votes alone makes any
way formidable. But almost at the
moment MIR. Brown was putting
his question a striking example of
what the Republicans don't and
won't do for their colored sup
porters was being exhibited in another
part of the city. A colored politician
ITOm new IOTk, WIN ptlIoIHl6u cASC
tive service on the stump in that State
during the last campaign, and who had
found a vacancy for a Waterman in one
of the departments, went to one of the
Republican Congressman from New
York and requested his influence to pro-
cure him the place. The Congressman
evinced the utmost Indifference, and,
when urged by the man who had helped
Il elect him, retOrted by telling him to
go to a certain warm place which all hui
mainly is anxious to avoid. The colored
citizen went away sadly, and convinced,
as others have been before him, that
honeyed words are not always the fore
runner of deeds"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
General Socialist Congress in Zurich.

The programme of a General Socialist
Congress to be held in Zurich on Sep
TENDER ?, and the following days, has
been received from Brussels. Among
the subjects to be discussed are the fol
lowing: rs a federation of the Social
lists forces possible, and on what basis
must it rest?" "Is it desirable in any
country to establish an inquiry and help
giving Office for workmen out of en-
ployment and the Socialist victims of
bourgeois persecution?" what eco
nOmical or political laws must be upheld
or adopted in the event of the Socialists
coming into power?" A manifesto is to
be published in all languages, in which
it viii be explained to the people what
their rulers and what the Socialists de-
sire. and what are the means by which
they may be rescued from modern
slavery.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

WHAT REPUBLICAN SENATORS think
PRTvATELY.-The Washington CORE
spondent Of the New York Herald, who,
since the deadlock in the Senate has
been going on, has always expressed a
friendly feeling for Senator Malone and
his cause, gives to the Herald in his
Thursdays letter the following candid
statement of what Republican Senators
privately think of Malone. The CORE:
sDondent says: Privately, Republican
Senators very generally confess that they
wish their new ally, General Malone,
were a broader man than he is. They
discover very few traces of statesman
ship in him, and they do not take very
kindly to the kind of politics Malone
appears to them to know best. In fact,
a good many Of them are secretly sick of
Malone and his R~iddleberger and wish
they had intrusted the making of q
Southern alliance to somebody else than
the shrewd Mr.. Gorham. of California. +"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

THE INDIANS AND THEIR LAWYERS
Last fall six Sioux Indians belonging to
Spotted Tails tribe were arrested on a
charge of murder and confined IN a Da-
kota prison. The old chief helped to
arrest the alleged offenders, but at tie
same time headed a subscription list,
which he passed around among the
Brules, to raise money enough to secure
a lawyer to defend the young fellows,
who were, as he thought, falsely &C
cused. A total of 1892 35 was raised
and forwarded to the Great Father, who
engaged counsel. Intelligence has just
been received at the Interior Department
that the trial has been had and the In
dams acquitted. The Brule Sioux will
undoubtedly enter civilization with a
profound respect for lawyers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

THE PRESIDENT WILL BE PRESIDENT.
A prominent Republican journalist of
New Jersey, editor Of one of the most
influential party organs in that State, had
a long talk with the President Saturday
on the subject of the nomination of Judge
Robertson. This editor informed a Wash
ington Star reporter that the Presidents
backbone was as stiff as a bar of from"
that he is determined not to yield an
inch in the Robertson case; that the
President said he had not sought any
contest with his party leaders, but as it
had been forced upon him he thought it
the best policy to have the question as TO
whether the Executive or the legislative
department is to control nominations
settled at the beginning of his admins
t%ratiOn; that the President was deter
mined to recognize all the elements of
his party, and that be had recognized tie
two factions in New York with the view
of restoring harmony; that he would not
withdraw Robertson nor would he ac-
cept compromise in any shape or form.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

Last year a Catholic colony was
PLANTED in Minnesota. 1t did not meet.
however, with much success, the set
Tiers suffering greatly from the severity
of the winter. The plan, however, of
Catholic colonies has not been aban-
doned, but it has been determined to
find a new field for them. Bishop
S~paulding, Of Illinois, who has been
travelling through the country looking
for a suitable location, thinks he has
found it in Arkansas. The country
there is fertile, the climate mild and
moderate. Accordingly 200, 600 acres
viii be purchased in the State and a
colony, mainly from Chicago, estab-
lished. It is probable that if those per
sons looking for sites for colonies in this
country would examine the South a lit
tie more thoroughly, they would find it,
as Bishop Spaulding and Tom Hughes
have done, the very place they are look
ing for.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

Col. Forney. in the last issue of the
Progress, says of the new administrations;
''Under the hard and heartless rule of re-
newed punishment of the South, forced
upon Mr.. Garfield by Conkling and Lo-
gan, the whole people of that section are
massed into hostility to an administra-
ton that came into power on the noisiest
pledges of Cancellation. They were in
suited ny the public recognition of al
avowed recreant and repudiator, and a
revival of all manner of false charges
against themselves, and so complete is
the new crusade on the South that the
colored people among them are freshly
affronted by the inability of the Repub-
lican leaders to reward them with a
small share of the Federal Offices"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
The Land Rentals and Drink Bills
Of Great Britain and ireland.

From the British excise returns it ap-
pears that the total consumption in
Great Britain and Ireland of beer, wine
and alcoholic liquors during the year
1880 amounted to the enormous sum Of
e122, 27o ,275 sterling; or, in American
currency, more than $511, 900, 900. A
comparison of what is paid for the year
ly rent of land and what is paid for Ii.
quors of all kinds-beer being more than
one-half of the whole-gives some re.
markably suggestive figures. According
to Mr.. Card, the average rent Of
agricultural land in Great Brit
ain-that is to say, in England,
Scotland and Wslef-is thirty shil-
lings. or six dollars per acre. In Ireland
il appears from the government returns
t o be about fifteen shillings. or three
dollars per acre. The total annual rent
of 80, 101, 909 acres returned as cultivable
land in Great Britain amounts to about
forty-eight million pounds sterling, or
two hundred and forty million dollars.
The total amount spent in drink during
the same period was, in round numbers,
OAC nuuOICQ duQ Hall q AAAllAOu VI
pounds sterling, or a little over five
hundred million dollars, which is more
than double the sum paid for the
rent of all the arabic land under
cultivation. In Ireland, which is
almost entirely agricultural, the rental
paid until the troubles began there on
10, 357, $50 acres of land was eleven mil
lion five hundred and eighteen thousand
three hundred and ninety two pounds
sterling, or rather over ffty-seven mil
lion dollars; while the sum paid for
intoxicating liquors was thirteen mil
lion eight hundred and twenty-three
thousand one hundred and two pounds
sterling, or ffty-six million one
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
AN excess over the entire rental
of land in that country of twelve mil
lion dollars. The fact thus stands con-
spicuously out that Il half the money
spent in drink in Great Britain would
pay the rent of all the farms under cul-
tivation there, and that the drink bill Of
Ireland would more than pay the rent
of all the cultiyable land in Ireland. AS
a comparison between the amount of
liquor drank in the two sections of what
is officially styled The United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland" the
difference is largely ia favor of ireland.
But in either case, these official returns
present hard facts which temperance
associations will not fail to seize upon.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
The Pennsylvania Assembly has adont.

The Pennsylvania Assembly has adopt
ed an amendment to the constitution to
be submitted to the popular vote, closing
all liquor saloons. 1t has now been dis
covered that in case the amendment is
adopted, it viii cut the revenues of the
State short $500, 900, which sun will
have to be raised by direct taxation.
This discovery has given the prohibition
movement in the keystone" State a
very serious black eye.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

How THE DEAD LOCK AFFECTS THE
TNpIAN BUREAU.-The continuance of
the dead lock in the Senate leaves the In
dian Bureau in an unfortunate condition
There are several important agencies
vacant, and a large amount Of property
is in the hands of persons not under
bond. This arises out of the fact that.
under the law, an Indian agent does not
hold over until his successor takes charge.
but his official tenure ceases with his
term. The acting Commissioner of In
dian Affairs himself has an appointment
as chief clerk only, Mr.. Trowbridge,
who has been i'll for several months,
being still Commissioner.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

A towboat left st. Louis for New Or
leans Friday with a fleet of barges a T
rying 322, 9O4 bushels of grain, sggregat-
ing 9,125.. tons. To transport the same
amount by railroad, the st. Louis Re
publican claims, would require thirty To-
comotiYes and six hundred cars.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
2eo BOYS AND YOUTHS SUITS
NORBY, NEAT, NICE.

This is what I cam say of the Goods ] selected
this season for my Spring and Summer trade, am.
it Is what everybody says who saw them. Co nc
and look at my stock Of CLOTHING, PAre
SHIRTS and NEcKWEAR, and you will b ardIv IA
able to resist the temptation to buy soy nc az -
prices are lower than you can form ar idea Of ord
my Clothing is equal to custom maj
oaM0,.A MITCHELL,
ap5tf Lvone, Rlock
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

THERE is a delicate something that attracts
Il you, like lilac blossoms or spring violets-
the new tinted paper of the JOURNAL. Then
a fine art effect dawns like the day upon you.
and you eXclaim: 1T is new, beautiful type!
All, how beautiful We knew you would say
so when you saw that picture, or group OF cuts
OF the great Leeds Festival. That little poem
Just suits Decoration Day. , and has no hate
In 1t. Thought you would like it. Mrs. Cleve-
lands story just the thing for this spring of
floods, aud continued like a strain of music
almost as good as the sweet singing or the
other lady OF the same name at Easter. "Har-
monlcS"-they are the fine notes on the violin
above the bridge, and they fairly sing down
the column. Ole Bulls favorite fiddle and the
reason why he made a hit on three strings is
very good. Robin a Dare was the way a
young man understood it, but you will see his
mistake; but make none yourself Mime. Bern.
hardts lovely dresses, lust too sweet for any
thing, !" ike our girl readers. minor Chords
how they do play: Curious Things in Music"
Maltbran and Thalberg, Texas Star" love
song, The Moth Eaten Garment" and the
Tabernacle Broidery Work. These side
or the great New York Musical Festival. You
will now know all about it, and can go. Mr..
Cleveland then talks to us about the Mardi
Gras In New Orleans, the Confederate braves
restoring the heart union of old, and about
musical events that he has seen. Home Musi-
cal Mention, Semi Tones, and then Music in
Savannah, aud il your children's names are
not in there you must have forgotten to send
the man tickets. An Here is the MUSIC, a
duplicate of the a COO lot or ~ 1900 pages lost at
sea, which kept the Journal back so late in
April. La Crux Roja, Happy Hour Waltz, and
the grand Decoration Day hymn Cover
Them Over with Beautiful Flowers''-just in
time for our Memorial Day, April goth. Then
Southern Music, Business, and iUhGt you lUere
looking for in advertisements.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
Aetr Aarertisetaeuts.
SOUTHERN
MUSICALJOURNAL
The Only Musical Publication
in the South, and the very
Best of All.
APRIL NUMBER OUT AT LAST!

As good fish in the sea as ever were caught,
and as good music in the JOURNAL as il
the steamship United States hadn't
sunk with a load of ours. This is not
poetry. but a solemn fact. Mr..
Longfellow and Mr.. Tenny-
son tried to say it, but it
had 20 be done In
prose. We neUer,
that's, hardly
eVeT, jest.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
for gFnt.

ENoR RENT.-That fine store corner -
Lincoln streets, with capacions nsy and
t Se11s5; VIII ts6 6e , rented very low to a d eaq dEy
story of same building, with a D NO. n second
light sample room attached southern
off1ce OF Mr.. ]. B. RIPLEY, f8 RsaPpiy at the
apl2,2 -. 80. mys, IS, Is, JET, Is, q. jy15, ri AZ SSteeet
POoMs FOR RENT,
apS-s.Lu&Int Isl JONES STREET
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21

A GOOD COMMERCIAL NOTE
PAPER AT 75C. PER REAM. A
LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE
TRADE.
DAVIS BROS. & CO..
Stationers,
ap21-tf Bull and York SITS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
CIRCULAR NO. LIZ.

Yin EA ~ BVSR %
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION,
ATLANTA, ga, April IL, 1881.
1ST. The relations of the Waycross and Flori.
l da Railroad to the Commissioners stand
ard Freight Tariff are hereby made the same
as those of the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway, as published in Circular II.
I'd. The WaycrosS and Florida Railroad is
placed in Passenger Glass G.
Sd. The Commissioners classification of
freight, which took effect on all railroads in
Georgia on May 1st, 1850, is their present
classification, modified only by such changes
as have been published in their circulars since
that date, and copies of the same should be
kept co~nspicuously posted by the railroads at
each depot in the State.
JAMES M. SMITH,
Chairman.
R. A. BACON. Sec'y. ap21-Th4t
SAVANNAH, 21st April, 1881.
IN pursuance of an order from Isaac Beckett,
i Esq, Register in Bankruptcy, notice is
hereby given of a third general meeting of the
creditors Of the estate Of KETCHUM & HART
RIDGE, to be held in the city of Savannah, at
the office of said Register, on the 18th May,
1881, at 10 o'clock A NJ
ROBERT N. GOURDIN,
LOUIS 6. YOUNG.
ap2l&my2 Assignees.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-01
HARD TO ENDURE.

Young husbands very seldom aIlude to their first baby as ''birdie" That may do for the mother during courting time, but who ever heard of a squalling birdie ?--4ndreaos' Queen.
 ''No," said the prominent member of a Vermont parish, Jackson will never do for deacon. He hain't got the qualifications ! Why, darn 1t, Pye cheated him on horse trade myself. ."-Boston Post
 A Sunday school teacher read to his class that the Ethiopian eunuch went on his way rejoicing after Philip had talked with him, and then asked. "Why did he rejoice?" A boy answered, Because Philip was done a. tsachin' him."
 Had Lord Cornwallis known that one hun dred years hence the Americans at Yorktown were to be charged twenty-five cents for a three cent cigar. and ten dollars a day for board, he would have slept better the night of his surrender.-Neao Yoab Coname1ciGl Adgertiser
 ''My poor darlingl" he whispered tender ly drawing her toward him till her face was hidden against his fast beating heart. "What grief what pain1 But it is all over now. From to-day you have to forget it all-it is dream of long ago. With the name the re- membrance will be banished. You give me all your love, do you not ?" ''Yes, Vin," in low voice, ''it is all yours I am keeping
 
 his encircling arms and standing very up- right, ''there is no one in all the wide world for me to keep any back for. Father moth- er-both dead. A betrayed wife, and now 8 widow, who is there for me to care for, sav- ing you ?"
 story is told in Michigan about one of the members of the Detroit conference which is too good to keep. He was spending a day in the country, and was invited to dine. They had chicken for dinner, of course, much to the grief of a little boy in the house. hold, who had lost his favorite hen to pro- vide the feast. After dinner prayer was pro- posed, and while the preacher was praying a poor little lonesome chicken came running under the house crying for it's absent moth CT. The little boy could restrain himself no longer. He put his mouth down to hole in the floor and shouted: t'Peepy, peepy, didn't kill your mother. They killed her for that big preachef's dinner" The "Amen" was said very suddenly.