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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
The Administrator LabOring for
the Disgrace Of Its Own House.
hold
NashuiNe Amertcan.

The administration cackles every time
it finds a new rascal who has had some
of the star ring money, as if it were re-
ioiced that there was star ring for it to
ferret out. Really we can see no occa.
sion in these exposures for anything but
tears of modification from the admins
tration, such as father would shed on
finding his child guilty of evil practices.
An honest man would certainly go to
the bottom, even for his child's sake;
but he would not be found cackling
about it, as if one should say See
how honest / am, how jealous in
pursuit of villainy. At best the admin.
istration is but laboring for the disgrace
of its own household. This is right, but
we do not see and cannot approve un-
seemly exultation. Poor Dorsey was
close political akin to the President. In
fact, they were thick as thieves until the
administration saw an opportunity to
make reputation out of friend in
distress. 1t would have pleased
us to have seen Mr.. Garfield bear the
knife and stab like Brutus, but also we
should have been pleased to see some
natural tears shed over the friend by the
man who slew the guilty part of him.
We would have liked to have seen the
President in tears at the bedside of poor
Dorsey. Was he not wounded in your
service, James 1t is all inexpressibly
sad. and not very credltable to the adj
ministration, that it thus see'as even to
rejoice that its own family thus furnish
it means for the demonstration of its zeal
in pursuit of thieves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
A Surprising Historian.

The following extracts from an article
in the Capitol on Badeaus alleged his
tory, reflect, says General Boynton, the
opinion Of many army men here;
ITO readers of Charles O'Malley, who
have fingered with delight over the glow
ing pages where the excitement of war
is portrayed in the high field of ideal
creation, the book by General Badeau
will be particularly welcomed Linked
to history by the fondness of a few iden-
tical dates, entwined with the names
of great men by the rapture of its
adulation. endeared to Two hundred and
six admirers of General Grant by the ex-
plosiYe qualities of its gush, this volume
of war romance cannot fail to take.
Badeau will not find single author of
record or reliable hearsay to justify his
statements of the relative numbers of the
two opposing armies, and the only smart
thing in the book is the fallacious deduc-
lions from things that are made to appear
as facts from lack of explanation. AS
an instance, the reader is led to suppose
that Lee surrendered 80, 200 men or more
at Appomattox. The fact is that 5000
muskets were in line, and the rest were
teamsters and such employees, with
thousands of men on the muster
rolls who were not at Appomatox.
The surrender was made by rolls, and
the stragglers VINO escaped and went to
Johnston's army were not assigned to
duty there because of that fact. All the
whisky and administration corruption
that has smirched Grants fame will not
do him as much harm as this romantic
rigmarole of falsehood and ignorance.
Where the history ends and romance be-
gins it is impossible to tell.
General Badeau says that Stonewall
Jackson fought Siegel, when, in fact, the
doughty Dutch hero met Breckenridge,
and was not in the vicinity of the alleged
battle until long after Stonewall's death. !"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A letter in the Boston Globe tells about
Colorado doctor whose idea was that
insane persons should be treated just as
if they were sane. To demonstrate the
correctness of his theory he and his wife
started private asylum at a rural resort
not far from Denver. They had three
patients to experiment with, one young
girl inclined to melancholia, and another
big negro inclined to all sorts of eccen.
tricities. The patients were allowed to
wander around the institution at will,
and within few days rather upset the
doctors theory. The girl followed the
bent of her inclinations by drowning
herself, and the negro followed his by
beating the doctor and his wife half to
death. The surviving patient was re-
moved, and while the doctor was await
ing another chance to test his theory, he
went crazy himself He evidently had
not far to go.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The Cincinnati Times Star thinks that
there is TO be a revival of canals, and
that the traffic of the future will be
largely carried by water. There have
never been more canal enterprises on
hand than just at present First in i'm
portance is the Panama canal; then
comes Corinth canal, to cut across the
isthmus of Corinth and shorten the dis
lance to Congtantinople; the Cape Cod
canal to shorten the distance around the
cape; the Baltimore canal, to cut across
Delaware and save the voyage down the
Chesapeake; the Hennepen canal, and
the proposed canal through Florida,
which would shorten the voyage from
New Orleans to New York and Liver
pool several hundred miles.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
Practical Reconciliation.

During the ceremonies at the New
York Academy of Music on the evening
of Decoration day. Major General
Doubleday met Bishop Stevens, of South
Carolina. General Doubleday, in his
speech, stated that twenty years ago be
aimed the first gun fired in the war at
the Confederate cause-referring to Fort
Sumter; and that twenty years ago
Bishop Stevens, then in command of
Stevens battery, Charleston harbor,
aimed the first gun of the war
against the United States, waving
over the Star Of the West,
which came with reinforcements
to Fort Sumter, and that he offered him
his hand as a token of the reconciliation
between the North and the South, as ex-
emplified in his appearance at the acade-
nv to do honor to the Union dead. The
audience, at the request of the presiding
officer, Major General Sickles, rose en-
masse and ratified the contract by enthu.
siastic applause This is an episode of
practical reconciliation and illustrates
that the country at heart is tired and
weary and disguised with the sectional
ism and bitterness that has been so long
kept alive by political charlatans for sell
fish and ignoble purposes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

Sir Anthony Musgrove, Governor of
Jamaica, is in New York on business.
He says Jamaica is very greatly in need
of Americans and American ideas. to
stir the people up. The British Govern
ment has over 20, 900 acres of good land
for sale, which has reverted to it on &C
count of the failure of the owners to pay
rent. Musgroye says these lands viii
be offered to Americans al low rates.
There is plenty of negro labor to hire at
from twenty-five to fifty cents day, but
the negroes are very lazy, and it is diff
cult to get them to do any work, although
they have abundant opportunities. Mus.
grove says Jamaica wants an American
who knows how to keep flrst-class
hotel The CoIrter-J0urnGt suggests
that perhaps Conkling. Platt, Gorham
and Chandler might be induced to try
their fortunes on the island.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

It seems that in the negotiations for
the transfer of the ashes of William Penn
from their resting place in England to
the great city which he founded in
America no account was taken of the
trustees of the cemetery in which they
have rested for 1853 years. After the
consent of his surviving lineal descend
ants had been obtained it was supposed
that there was no other person in exist
ence who could interpose any legal OBJ
stacle to the proposed removal. Mayor
and Councils of Philadelphia, the Penn
sylvania Historical Society and the State
Legislature united in a request to the
English descendants of Penn to permit
the people Of Pennsylvania to pay this
posthumous honor to their illustrious
ancestor. Gov. Hoyt requested Mr..
George Leib Harrison, wealthy citizen
of Philadelphia, who was about to sail
for Europe, to act for the State govern
ment, and to do whatever might be
necessary to secure the object in view.
Mr.. Harrison is now on his way across
the ocean, but it is not likely that he
will succeed in his mission. Under date
of June 4, Mr.. r. Littleboy, one of the
trustees of the burial ground in Buck
ingbamshire, in which Penn is buried,
writes to the London Times that no APP
plication has been made to the board of
trustees for the removal of the remains,
and that if such a request were made it
would not be entertained 1t is to be
presumed that without the consent of
the legal custodians of the cemetery the
grave of Penn cannot be disturbed, and
it is said that Penn and his last wife
were buried side by side in the family
lot, and that there is no record by which
the one grave can be identified from the
other.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
Agreed on One Point.

Whatever may be the gripings and
troubles of the Republican party-how
ever many fragments into which it may
be violently rent, and however iercely
It's leaders may denounce and oppose
each other-all are agreed on one point,
aud that is the encouragement of Malone
to dissolve the "solid South" On this
question the triumphant Garfield and
Blame can cordially shake hands with
the defeated Conkling and Plat. Re-
publicans never lose sight of the '1oaves
and fishes, and however absorbing the
deadly feud among themselves, they
can always unite against any other party
which endangers their game of plumber.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
A Pretty Tea Party.

Gath writes: "Conkling's dispatch to
Malone was one of his cunning signs of
timidity. There is little que lion but
that IN the interest of himself and not
of the Republican party, he opened ne
gotiations with Malone even before the
Presidential elections, to get control of
the Senate and have vast swoop of pa
tronage throughout the country, whether
the President should be Democrat or a
Republican. The Camerons were in
thorough sympathy with this scheme, and
Gorham was the principal agent to carry
it out. 1t resulted in the precipitation
of an issue before the Senate at the
special session which the President did
not intend nor the country desire.
The Republicans Of the North who
have any sense are opposed to splitting
up the South by corrupting it. The
policy of Conkling and Malone was to
split the South, not by chastened and
altered sensibility and reflection, but by
scattering the loaves and the fishes of the
United States into the South, so as to
make scramble, and out of the scram-
BILE possibly break up the Democracy.
This would only be another version of
the carpet.bag campaign, whose emissa-
RES were sent into the South to take
possession of the Southern State govern.
ments, and by their corrupting influence
divide the people. The scheme has failed
ANONYMOUSLY Malone is planted on
the disgraceful platform of cheating the
State creditors, and he dare not say the
simple word that he is Republican. He
wants to say he is something else and get
Republicans to support him."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

An investigation of the business meth.
DDS of the Brooklyn On. " Board OF
Education has been progressing for some
time. growing out of allegations that a
deficiency exists in their cash. The ap-
parent deficit was explained by the
board as only an apparent one, and due
to heavy purchases of books and school
supplies, the credits for which are not
yet available Tuesday it was found
that the safe of the board, which had
not been opened by the employees for
two days, had been rifed of large guam
titles of vouchers, account books and
other papers, apparently of no value to
any one but the board.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The seaside resorts, not satisfied with
prohibiting the Hebrews, propose to
Danish the children as well. At the Cliff
House, at TarrytoWn, n. Y, the sign
conspicuously declares, adults only
will be entertained" Several other no
tells in the vicinity have made similar an
nouncements, and a general warfare
against children seems to have been be-
gun by the hotel men. The proprietor
of the Cliff House is also an anti-Hebra.
list, refusing to lease his rooms to Jews.
tits probable that, in the course of time,
the seaside resorts will grow still more
particular, and demand a moral health
certificate from everybody calling for a
breakfast or a lunch.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The scheme for a great musical festi
val in New York next year, under the
direction of Theodore Thomas, has
already taken practical shape, and an ex-
perienced agent will be dispatched at
once to Europe to close engagements
with artists of celebrity. Subscriptions
to the guaranty fund have already reach
ed the sum of $50, 600. sufficient to in
sure the success of the undertaking, and
it is expected that the amount can easily
be raised to SIS, 900 or $1O0,O 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A number of the largest cotton houses
of Memphis, Tenn, have formed COM
pany for the purpose of building and
operating compress, elevator and ware
houses for cotton storage, and to that
end have purchased sixty acres of land
lying along the river front. These houses
represent three hundred thousand bales
of this years crop, and financially are
equal to any amount necessary to carry
out their object The enterprise is ex-
pected to be of considerable advantage
to Memphis. which is reaching out for
the cotton product of the Southwest.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A FATED FAMILY.-A special from
Little Rock, Arkansas, to the New Or
leans Times says "Some time since
John Reed, a man killer of Washington
county, was shot and killed by Deputy
Sheriff Balm Sorrell while resisting ar
rest. Deceased had killed three men.
Yesterday at Fayetteville, county seat of
Washington, Geo. i. Reed, brother of
the deceased, rode into town armed to
the teeth. and claimed he could whip
the best man in the State, and proposed
to run the town to suit himself. The
City Mar hal, VIII +. Stieman, armed
himself and attempted to arrest him a
desperate fight ensued. during which
Stieman killed Reed. Great excitement
prevails, and fears are felt that more
blood will be she'd"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

Many Republican newspapers in the
North have spoken favorably Of the Re-
adiuster nominations in Virginia, and
have advised the Virginia Republicans
to support the ticket. Among the
journals that have committed themselves
to the cause represented by Senator Ma
hone, and his followers, may be men,
toned the New York Times and Tribune,
the Philadelphia Press, the Boston Tran
script, Traveller and Herald, the Hart
ford Courant, the Providence Star and
the Buffalo Adeerbser,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A letter has just been published, writ
ten by Gen. j. NJ. SchofeId in Septem-
Der, 1880, and addressed to the Secretary
of the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, in which he claims for himself
most of the glory of the Nashville cam
paign, which resulted in the discontinue
of the Confederate General Hood, aud
which has heretofore been awarded TO
the late Gen. Geo. H. Thomas. In re-
gard to the battle of Franklin, one of the
bloodiest of the war, General Schofeld
says he fought it on his own volition to
save all his baggage and supplies, and
without even the knowledge of General
Thomas, who was in Nashville, fifty
miles away.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

FENCE OR No FENCE.-The farmers
of Randolph county, Ga, have been in
council and debate on the subject Of
fencing stock" instead of the farms.
and as but one speaker appeared in favor
of the old law on the subject, it is
pretty clear that the farmers of Ran
dolph are nearly unanimous for saving
the annual expense to the county of
$50, 900 for repairing old fences" to
say nothing of the waste of valuable
timber in constructing rail fencing
enough to connect "Cuthbert with the
City of Washington"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
FRArRrcrpE IN MAssAoHusErT:

FRATRICIpE IN MASSACHUSETTS,
Chas. D. Kidder, thirty five years old. a
well known resident of Springfield,
Mass, and travelling salesman for Bos.
ton dry goods house, was murdered at
10 o'clock Tuesday night by his half
brother, Dwight, aged seventeen.
Dwight became very angry two or three
DAYS ago because Charles said it was
gross carelessness of him to let their
sick father go out on the street, and the
brothers had since had words about it.
Tuesday night Dwight called at Charles
house, and asked him If he was ready to
take back his words. Charles told him
to 90 home, and tried to push him from
the door, when the boy drew pistol
and shot Charles dead through the
heart. The lad then ran away, but will
probably be caught.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
Rev. or Professor Swing, of Chicago,

Rev. or Professor Swing, of Chicago,
who runs some kind of nondescript
institution in that moral city, wants all
the vulgar, noEsensical portions of the
Old and New Testaments stricken out,
and Robert Ingersoll wants the whole
thing blotted out. Prof Swing and
Robert Ingerson agree pretty well with
the Russian NihilistS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The London Jockey Club is such a
highly aristocratic and genteel organiza-
ton that the owner of IrOquois, the
winner of the Derby, cannot become a
member, because he is engaged in
trade" This is rough on Mr.. Lorillard,
who considers himself quite an aristocrat
in this country. He has his consolation,
however. Being in the wholesale snuff
and tobacco trade, he can afford to turn
up his nose at the small fry retail deal
ers, as he doubtless does, and at all the
low consumers of the articles he supplies,
as well. This ought to make him happy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

a package was received in the New
York postoffice Saturday from London,
England, which contained four leases,
handsomely engrossed on large sheets of
parchment. They were sent to this
country for the signature of the party to
whom they were addressed, and were
intended to be returned to England. The
parchment documents, however, were
completely destroyed by the ravages of
rats on shipboard. The cost of engross-
ing the documents was so, and claim
for that amount has been made upon the
English Government.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

East st. Louis has been lighted by the
tower electric lamp system, the water
tower on the river, building over two
hundred feet high, being utilized for
this purpose. On this a light of 1000
candle power was fixed. The expert
ment was a success, lighting up the town
and the river for over a mile at cost of
So night
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The Cincinnati Gazette publishes a
carefully prepared article to prove that
Conkling is insane. The fact that he is
the first member Of the Republican party
who ever resigned a good Office without
having fair tail hold on a better one
goes far to subject him to the suspicion
of lunacy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The New York Times says that the
Republicans of Virginia ought not to
antagonize Malone, as they would by
doing so "only retard the progress of
the State towards that kind of civiliza-
ton that prevails at the North" But
pray is 'that kind of civilization" de.
sirable in the South2
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

NEW YORK FREEMAsoNs. - The
Grand Lodge Of New York met
on the 7th. inst. The report of ths
Grand Secretary showed an increase in
the last year of 1874 initiated, 1904
passed, and 9,577 raised, with GAO ap-
plications. Total increase, 1884, eE-
PEELED, 80; suspended, 10. Unafiliated
during the year for non payment Of
dnes, 4,029; restored to membership,
$50; total membership in good standing,
u, s67; deaths, 1856; receipts of the order
during the year, ssS. $50 50.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

General Grant arrived. at st. Louis on
the 9TH inst. from New Orleans. He
did not know how his badges came to
be in the hands of the two men arrested
at Texarcana. lie thought his Japanese
servant left them IN Chicago. He re-
fused to talk politics.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The Wilmington Star suggests the
celebration of the three hundredth an
niyersary of the settlement of Roanoke
Island, n. G., the Oldest English settle
ment on the continent. This event
occurs in June. 1884, the settlement OF
the island having been made in June,
1884. North Carolina is great on cele-
brations, and should its people determine
to go into the one suggested. there is no
doubt it would prove success,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

The richness of the Alaska gold mines
has been greatly exaggerated. The gold
is hard to get at, and does not exist in
the quantities reported, and the theories
about big nuggets are pronounced by
parties who have traversed the gold belt
as decidedly mythical.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A New York young woman twice at
tempted to drown herself; next she tried
to kill herself by biting vein; then she
took Paris green; at another time she
swallowed laudanum, later she tried to
throw herself from car Windows after
this, setting fire to her hair, she tried to
burn herself to death; then she made
several other unsuccessful attempts,
after which she was arrested while on
the way to the river to throw herself in.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

Gen. VIM. II. Payne is talked of as
the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Virginia Payne was Confederate
brigadier. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has a
large and influential support for the same
office
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

4 good looking old German with long
hair sat down, or rather up, in the bar
bers chair, and was asked whether he
would have his hair shingled. He re-
piled; "Mein Kott, mol want some
hair koot off. Wy woot you put yum
shingles on it pecauses'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

It is to be hoped the administration
viii include the Interior Department in
the localities to be investigated. There
is a fine field for strong drag net there.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

Malone has the warm support of Gen.
Grant, and he thinks he can induce that
chieftain to come to Virginia and make
a few speeches to the negroes
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-10

A California millionaire. who dozen
years ago was driving street car in San
Francisco, has just rented a cottage at
Newport for the season, paying rental OF
$4,000.