davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
A Season of Storms.

Cyclones, tempests, floods of rain
these are the accounts from all quarters.
A cyclone struck the Solomon valley, in
Kansas, on Thursday evening, which
destroyed everything in its path-stone
houses, as well as those built of timber
A number of lives were lost. The
meteor went careering through the val
ley for miles. its shape like funnel, the
small end downward, and whirl-
ing as such strange, roaring
cloud masses do, sweeping everything
before it, and sometimes bending
over forward at its top or larger
part, and darting out large jets of cleo
trio cloud substance. The damage to
houses and crops is heavy. Cloud bursts,
or water avalanches, have deluged large
sections of Pennsylvania and Virginia,
flooding the rivers, sweeping away
houses, and doing much damage to mills
and other property At Pittsburg be-
tween five and six inches of rain fell in
a single Storm and Block Island reports
two such rain storms there during the
last six or seven days. Our Southern
exchanges are full of accounts
of tornadoes and similar weather
phenomena, some of which Frustrated
trees and houses. One narrator says
he could walk mile on the PROSTATE
trees" In the Upper Missouri, in Da-
kota, where the ruin by great ice gorges
occurred in April, sweeping away so
much property along wide Tract of
hundred miles, there is still quantity
of unmelted ice reported among the
debris. Many farms are said to be com
pletely ruined by the piles of sand spread
over them. Our dispatches this morning
bring accounts of terrific storms in Iowa
and Texas, by which great damage was
done to property and several persons
were killed. The season has been re-
msrkable for the frequent occurrence
of storms and cyclones in all sections of
the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

The STAR ROUTE FRAUDs.-A Wash
ington dispatch says: ut is said that one
of the persons interested in the star route
contracts is member of the new grand
jury. This may interfere somewhat
with the plans of the government prose
cutors. 1t is said that, despite asser.
tons to the contrary, there is IN absence
of harmony among those interested on
the government side of these cases. The
public abuse of government officials en-
gagged in the star route Investigations by
persons alleged to be interested either
for themselves or their friends in the
contracts has become very violent, and
it is apprehended that personal col.
lislons may grow out of the matter be-
fore it is done with. The feeling is
undoubtedly very bitter, particularly
among those who claim that the SUBJ
scriptions which they made to the Re.
publican campaign fund, from money
made out of star route contracts. helped
materially to put the present administra-
ton in power. 1t is affirmed that the
detectives who are working up the cases
for the government have not yet gathered
sufficient evidence to insure the indict-
ment of any one, although the detectives
themselves do not admit this. AS here
tofore intimated, the general impression
is that even if indictments are found
now, the Attorney General will not be
anxious to press the cases to trial until
after the summer is over.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
Financial Feat for Ohio.

The Ohio and other journals are prais-
ing Governor Foster to the skies for hav
ing succeeded in floating the State debt
of $4,00O, 900 at fraction less than four
per cent, and while he is to wear the
achievement as feather in his cap" (the
feather, no doubt. which renominated
him for GOVERNOR, it is declared that no
State ever before succeeded in so favora-
bic refunding scheme, and that the fact
places the credit of Ohio above that of
any other State in the Union. The
memories of these Ohio gentlemen are
conveniently very short At a time
when capital is so abundant and cheap
that men are actually throwing it away
on the widest imaginable schemes,
anxious to lend it at any price to respon-
sible parties, and on the very heel of
hundreds Of millions let out by the gov
eminent at per cent, the financial
executive genius of Ohio has effected
loan of 4,00O,O00 to the great State OF
Ohio, whose ''bonds, like her men, are
so much in request, Cleveland Leader
at little less than per cent And this
has placed her credit above that of any
other State in the Union, and, of course,
next to that of Uncle Sam.
That was, indeed, very respectable
transaction-for the Republican Govern
or of Ohio big thing. But what would
these able fnanciers think if we should
tell them of a Southern State that, hav-
ing refused to recognize some millions
of bogus bonds fraudulently issued in
her name-for which refusal her people
were outrageously abused by the press
of Ohio, New York and all Yankee land
afterwards in a time of stringency
and heavy financial pressure, and, in the
midst of all this abuse, issued her bonds
for more than million of dollars, and
sold them to Northern men at four per
cent. Perhaps few men in the North
still remember the "baby bonds" of the
State of Georgia three years ago.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Final RQno~f


We have before us copy of the final
report of the directors of this railroad
for the seventeen months ending Febru-
airy 29th, $780, Messrs. Jones and Flew
ellen seem to have closed up the States
interest in the road as well and rapidly
as practicable. but we find in the report
that they were not able to effect full
settlement with purchasing company,
on account of a claim by the latter,
under the deed of Governor Colquitt, to
property the directors thought not con-
veyed under the law. In explanation of
this the directors state that the purchas-
ing company, among other things,
claim $6,925 of the currency, or
old two per cent. bonds of the
city of Macon, which had been received
for freights and passage before the road
was purchased by them, and also $291 so
received from the city or interest on the
above. The city bills as currency had to
a large extent become uncurrent, and an
arrangement was made with the city
authorities by which most. if not all, of
its bills held by the road were sealed up,
and interest thereupon paid till fundable
in new city bonds. Soon after the fund
ing commenced. the Treasurer, G. J.
Wilson, was directed to fund so much of
said city currency as was fundable, and
to sell the bonds so received and any re-
naming currency, and pay the proceeds
into the States treasury. This the Trea-
surer was notified not to do by James NJ.
Edwards, Superintendent and General
Manager of the road under the pur-
chasing company"
The directors further state that as
Treasurer Wilson refused to comply
with their order, and the Superintendent
and General Manager declines to with
draw the claim of his company to the
said city currency, they (the directors)
have refused to pay just claim of said
company, amounting to $1,766 80. for
passenger tickets sold on account of the
Macon and Brunswick Road while being
operated by the authority of the State,
and which have been redeemed by the
purchasers since the road went into their
possession.
In consequence of this refusal on the
part of the directors, the company also
refuses to pay admitted claims
against it, amounting to 1851 so,
on account of sundry items"
According to this showing of the dTec-
tors, it appears that the claim of the
purchasing company to the currency
bills and bonds of the city of Macon
alluded to, has prevented about $1,000
from going into the State Treasury,
which the directors confidently believe
rightful!y belong to the State under the
law. This is a matter for the Legisla-
ture to inquire into, and since the report
is extant and explicit on the subject, of
course Gov. Colquitt will call the atten-
ton of that body to the matter as soon
as opportunity will permit.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

SLAVERY IN LIBERIA. A letter from
Bishop Penick, of the Protestant Epis,
copal Church Mission to Liberia, con-
taius the remarkable information that
slavery is tolerated in Liberia. Although
the Constitution and legislation of that
Republic would seem to forbid it, yet,
says the Bishop. the fact that slavery
exists is notorious, and every official
knows il. The slave holders are not the
former slaves from the United States,
but the aborigines, the native Africans.
The Bishop says of Liberia 81 don't
believe there is town within its limits
that has not visits from natives accom-
panied by their slaves daily. In fact,
much of the produce brought for sale in
the Liberian ports is brought on the
heads of native slaves. l don't make
this statement in any spirit of complaint
against Liberian laws or government,
but simply as fact. Any missionary
or white trader will testify to its truth.
fulness."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

Secretary Window, in an interview
with a Republican paper of his own
State, says: THE relations of the Cabi-
net are most harmonious, and have been
such from the beginning of the present
administration. There is not, nor has
there been, the slightest jar or discord.
but all moves pleasantly and without
friction General Garfield is most EN-.
phatically President in every sense of
the word, and each and every head of
department attends-and is expected to
attend-striclly to the business of that
department, and to that alone. My in.
formation and my belief is that Mr..
Blaine was in no way responsible for the
nomination of Mr.. Robertson. lam not
aware that there is any issue between
the President and Mr. Conkling. Presi-
dent Garfield, in the exercise of his con
stItutional right, nominated a Collector
of the Port of New York, and the SEN
ate almost unanimously - confirmed
that nomination. How there can now
be any issue growing out of that subject
am unable to perceive"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
Lost Opportunity.

The New York World says: "Conk-
ling missed the greatest opportunity of
his life when he failed to make the
speech that would have made Tllden
President; that he has lived to be kicked
by Hayes, which must be very hard.
There is a tide in the affairs of men"
which may be taken at the flood" but
how few discern that flood. The man
who claims to have elected two Presi.
dents, who declined the chief seat on the
Supreme Bench, turned the Democrats
out of the Legislature of New
York, and marched off to the national
Senate with the Republican party of that
State in his pocket, did not seem to have
common sense decorum enough to hold
the little seat he had so nlOdestly chosen.
Surely, ''there is a divinity that shapes
our ends"-an avenging Nemesis, brood
ing over moral and intellectual prostitu-
ton, swift on the wing to execute retri-
butive Justice
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
The Ereaf PnZZIe.

The great Republican puzzle of the
age is the Bradley Sessions bribery case,
suddenly sprung upon the New York
Legislature by the Conklingites to de-
feat the election of Depew by the other
wing of the Republican party. The
leading organs of both wings seem sore
ly puzzled by the peculiar features of
the case, and are pouring out the walls
of their wrath upon Sessions for being
such a blunderer as to be caught in his
attempt to Tribe an honorable member of
the New York Legislature, and upon
Bradley, for attempting at SO criti-
cal juncture, to fix upon
another honorable member the indelible
stain of damning crime One of the
pecuEiGrities of the case is that Bradley
aud Sessions were intimate friends" up
to the time of the alleged attempt at
bribery, and the circumstances attending
the paying over of the money to Brad
ley, taken in connection with his subse-
qdent conduct in the matter, indicate
that either there was a conspiracy be
tween the two friends" or Bradley
occupied the incredible position of lying
in wait to betray his friend.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

1t seems that the attempt to naturalize
camels in Texas and New Mexico was
not, after all, an utter failure. The
camels used for carrying freight across
the California desert, did not, for some
reason, prove profitable, and they were
turned loose on the ella and Salt river
bottoms. There they lived and bred,
until now, it is said, they roam the lower
ella plains in large numbers, giving the
Louisiana Citizen ground for the belief
that they "will continue to increase in
numbers, until drove of wild camels
will become as common on the western
plains of Arizona as buffalo now are on
the plains east of the Rocky Noun
tains.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
REVOLUTION THREATENED.
The Anta-JewIsh Riots I'm Russia
War on the Wealthy-The russian
N&bIes EInisralfng.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.

Fuller European advices regarding the
excuses against the Jews in Southern
Russia throw a very different and far
more ominous light on those outbreaks
than that in which the first dispatches
made them appear. They were not so
much prompted by religious fanaticism
directed against the Jews as the first
symptoms of violent uprising of the
oppressed Russian people against the
governing classes aud the wealthy. The
millions worth of property destroyed
and hundreds of people killed in Kew,
Elizabethgrad, Gotta and other places,
made victims among all classes and
religions. Nor is it an insignifi-
cant fact that for long time
nothing was done by the authori-
ties to suppress the riots. Kew is
a fortified place, for instance, with
a garrison of 20, 900 men, and yet not a
step was taken during the first two days
to restore order. When the command
ing General, Drentelen, finally did inter-
fere, it was because number of boxes
had been found addressed to the larger
cities of the empire, filed with procla-
nations and threatening the owners of
factories and merchants, no matter what
property and death. In printing Office
ten persons were arrested who had been
discovered mailing these proclamations
to the aristocracy of Kew. Lists were
also found of all the houses of the aris-
tocrats, and of all the Weather Chris.
tian families in Kew. Those murder
Gus vandals even doomed to destruction
the Kew University and seminaries.
When the French nobility saw the
reign of the guillotine approaching they
emigrated by thousands. The Russian
nobility of the mob-ruled cities is fol-
lowing the historical example as fast as
circumstances will permit. The greatest
difficulty is to sell out to provide the
necessary funds, for who wants to buy
near the volcano that may at any mo-
ment break out? Another ominous fea-
ture that accompanies these butcheries
and plunderings of the Jews in the cities
is the appearance among the country
population of the implacable Jacques, of
rural French fame. All over Russia the
peasants have assumed a tone
toward the mobiles and officials that
plainly foretells the things that are to
come. Pitchforks, scythes, axes, etc.,
are no longer regarded as innocent in
struments of rural labor, but as weapons
that must, in default of better sort, do
the Necessary work of blood-letting for
the nation Meanwhile it must not be
supposed that the government is alto
gether opposed to reform. 1t has but
the other day inaugurated most impor-
tant reform, which is nothing less than
to exchange again the present uniform
of the Russian army, which is modelled
on that of the West European nations,
for the old Russian style, with its ugly
and uncomfortable boots, breeches and
long tailed coats.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

One practical step in the direction of
enforcing moderation in the use of in
toxicating liquors has been taken in the
passage by the Pennsylvania Legislature
of the bill which imposes a penalty of
$500 fine and ninety days imprisonment
upon any saloon keeper who allows his
customers to play pool. cards or any
other game for drinks Moderate drink
ers of social turn, who would otherwise
never have lost their equilibrium, have
many times been led to oyerindulgence
in The intoxicating cup through the per-
nicious custom of playing pool or cards
for drinks. Young men and youths will
escape great temptation by the enforce
ment of such a law.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
General James Longstreet, late United

General James Longstreet, late United
States Minister to Turkey, who is now
in New York, has been interviewed in
regard to the present condition of the
Ottoman empire. He considers it a
country without ruler" The men at
the head of affairs are not statesmen, and
show the evil results of education in the
harem by women who never read and
rarely go out. The great resources of
the country remain undevoloped, and
the energies of the working, indus
trious people are largely wasted. In
spite of the recent complications, Gen
eral Longstreet thinks there will be peace
in Europe for some time to come.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

When Jay Gould's American Cable
Company shall have completed the lay
ing of its two new cables, which have
already reached the middle.of the At
lantic, there viii be no less than eleven
cables from this country to Europe. The
New York Sun is of the opinion that
the business is being overdone and that
there are not enough messages sent to
support all of these companies. Rates
win certainly fall still further. Eight
years ago the rate by cable was 81 30 a
word, and the daily receipts of one COM
pany $4,000. Since then the messages
have increased seyen-fold, and yet the
receipts Of all the companies amount to
only s1s,O75.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
A Real Estate Boom in washington.

neal Estate Boom IN washington.
The real estate boom IN the west end
Of Washington, says correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, sis remarkable,
and lots are commanding almost fabu-
lous prices Capitalists in New York,
Boston and other cities are seeking in.
vestments here, and residences of the
most handsome and expensive character
are being erected all over the northwest
ern section of the city, some of them for
Senators, and others for persons of taste
and means from various sections of the
country. The splendid French flats
building, just finished near the Thomas
Circle, on Fourteenth street, by a
wealthy New Yorker, will soon be ex-
celled by magnificent hotel near Du.
pont Circle. 1t is daily occurrence for
permits to be taken out for private resi-
dences to cost from $4,000 upwards,
exclusive of the ground. Secretary
Blaine, who must expect TO live in
Washington for some time to come, took
out permit to-day for his magnificent
nov ANoiAChCC al Va MAS
sachusetts avenue and Twentieth street.
1t is to have a front of fifty-four feet,
and the cost of the building is
estimated at $48, 600. Washington
never presented a more lovely and
attractive appearance than it does
at present. The dense masses of beauti-
full shade trees which line the wide
streets and avenues FOR miles and miles,
often in double rows, and interlacing so
as to form continuous bower for way
farer and beast. the spacious terraced
plats in front of private residences, re-
dolent with the perfume of flowers and
green with the grass watered from the
spray of fountains, make it a splendid
city within a park, and the smooth
asphalt pavements afford the oppor-
tunity for such delicious and luxurious
driving as cannot be found anywhere
else in the world "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

Even, says the Litchfield Enquirer
Qnd. Rep. while Republicans witness
the fall of Conkling with delight, they
cannot but recollect the power for evil
there is left to him, and they shudder as
they think on the use he is like to make
of it. New York is the key of the po-
litical situation. In 1890 its vote de-
cided who should be President; in 1884
it is like to be again decisive. If Re-
publicanism destroys Conkling now,
cannot Conkling destroy Republicanism
them"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

Egypt is about to take a long stride
forward in civilization by the total
abolition of slavery. The Khedive has
so forcibly urged the matter upon the
Council of Ministers that it has been de-
termined that henceforth slave questions
are not to be dealt with by the police,
but by department specially created.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
Wealth of Our Southern Senators

w CAAtAA VI OOA
A prominent gentleman of Tennessee
recently gave the following summary of
the wealth of Senators from the South:
S "Joe Brown leads off with over mil
lion, possibly two of them. Ben Hill
can be set down as worth a quarter as
much easily. Both the South Carolina
Senators are in very moderate circum-
stances, and, like Ransom and Vance,
have been kept busy holding on to their
property that was so incumbered after
the war. Malone is worth certainly
$500, 600, most of it made in railroads.
Johnston is comfortable, but not rich
Pugh and Morgan have property and ex-
cellent practices, and. / suppose, have
easy pocketbooks. Jones and Call of
Florida are improving each year, but are
far from wealthy. George of Mississippi
is a thrifty man of business, owns
large plantations, works them economi-
cally, and clears about twenty thousand
dollars year, but Lamar is just his op-
posite, caring for nothing but the booky
and students side of life, and never
would be anything but poor man, I'M
less he got the benefit of a will, if he
lived to be thousand years old. Jonas,
of Louisiana, | understand, is moderately
well off, and has keen eye for specula-
ton. Garland and Walker are both
poor, because both resigned good fees at
the bar to come to the Senate They own
some property, not much, and could
easily increase it if allowed to remain at
home. Garland told me he made five
thousand dollars his third year of prac-
tice, and had been on the increase ever
since. have no doubt he could easily
clear twenty thousand dollars a year
if he devoted his time to it. Cockrell,
of Missouri, is extremely frugal and
careful, and is comfortably we'll off, but
l doubt if Vest will ever be rich, for he
is not lucky in his ventures and spends
great deal. Williams, of Kentucky, is
only comfortable, but Beck is bound to
be rich before long, for he has made
some fortunate ventures in land in the
Northwest, on the line of the new roads,
and that land is going to be immensely
valuable Maxey and Coke, of Texas,
are among the frugal brigade, and if
never rich, will always manage to be
comfortable, and that's about all they
want.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

Poor MEXICo.-Mexico has found the
urgent appeals of her great neighbor TO
open her lines and let in the railroad
boom. too hattering to resist, and she has
now incurred railroad responsibility of
800, 600, 000-no small sum for the Mexi-
can Republic, but infnitesimal COM
pared to what she will have to shoulder
before the Yankees are done with her.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

The Altoona Sun jabs thorn into the
flesh of Bismarck as follows: Liberty
is catching and immortal, while Bismarck
is mortal and will get caught himself
some day. The ultimate result will be
Republican Germany rather than Impe-
rial France"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPHY.-W Wash
ington City has set the example of lay
ing Geographic wires under ground, in
order to get rid of the ugly system of
poles incident to wires above ground.
The sewerage lines are made use of for
the telegraph wires, and the whole order
of telegraph wire supports in that city is
to be revolutionized as fast as the work
men can carry them through the sewers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

The estate of the late Frank Leslie,
;uvolving the right to publish several
valuable weekly and monthly papers and
magazines, has for several years been in
the hands of a receiver, Isaac w. Eng
land. of the New York san, who has
been managing the property for the
benefit of creditors. All the liabilities
of the estate have been recently paid up,
and the property and publication offices
turned over to Mrs. Leslie, who is the
principal heir