davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily gazette., 1881-08-31

DIR. ROGERS worm SYRUP I'm
|sahtiy destroys WORMS.
The daily gazette., 1881-08-31

BAKERS PAIN PANAUEA crrsl
pain In Man or Beast. .
The daily gazette., 1881-08-31

THE LATEST AND MOST WONDER-
FUL INVENTION!
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
The Wreck of the Coalition.

One of the tasks which the admins
tration set itself when it started out a
few months ago was the disruption of
the ''solid South" and the bringing
about of Republican domination in one
OF more Southern States through the aid
of the shibboleth of "a free ballot and a
fair count, " backed by the promise of a
division of spoils between the Radical
leaders and the Independents" that
might aid them. The Radical organs
put up peans of thanksgiving at the ap-
proaching deliverance of the Old
Dominion from the yoke of the
''Bourbons," and other communities
were singled out as choice vineyards in
which the gospel of the new order of
things might be preached.
The scheme promised amazingly well
till the main elements for its success, the
Southern Republicans, began to apply
the logic of the bird in the hand and
those in the bush. Self-1nterest is strong
with mankind, but probably strongest
with the professional politician, and the
Virginia Republicans have not been so
delighted with the roseate promises of
the "solid South" splitters as to fly in
the face of the good things at hand. AS
they stood they had good showing for
the substance, and they preferred not to
grasp at shadows.
The action of the Virginia Republican
Central Committee in deposing Lewis
has been forecast for some time past and
brings about the utter collapse, to which
the coalition scheme was destined from
its inception. United, the Republicans
and Readjusters might have taxed the
vigilance and activity of the honest men
of Virginia to defeat their ends. Sepa-
rate and hostile as they now are, they
can demonstrate nothing further than
that there is no special reason why either
should exist.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

From all that can be seen the factions
at Albany seem to be able to do little
else than comply with the mandates Of
the statute, prescribing the duties of the
| joint convention. Day after day they
meet, ballot and adjourn, relieving the
monotony, at times, by washing dirty
linen-to the discontinue of the wing
attacked, the amusement of the specta-
tors and the disgust of the country.
The purpose of the stalwarts is plain,
and their programme tolerably open.
They are ''solidp for their bosses, and
are resolved to show fight while fight
can be made.
The halfbreeds, on the contrary, seem
to have but one feeling in common, and
that is hatred of Conkllng and delight at
his downfall. Twice have they had it in
their power to elect Depew by uniting
on him, and yet when he lacked but ten
votes of the required number more than
ten were thrown away in scattering COM
plimentary ballots for local favorites.
Whether the charges of Bradley and
Tuthill are parts of conspiracy or not,
the fact is evident that Depew wants
more votes, and that he does not get
them would seem to argue that there are
strong objections to the man, or that the
figures of his agents or advocates do not
suit the merchantable element that has
not yet been secured.
Yesterday clever Republican plot
was nipped in the bud, and an important
move was made by the Democrats. Had
Cornell been permitted to pass his judg
ment on the result of the ballot, as he
had purposed to do, the illustrious VIM.
A. Wheeler would probably have
donned Conkling's mantle. By counting
the votes for Jacobs as void-presuma-
bly, because he is a State Senator-this
result would have been arrived at.
The selection of Clarkson n. Potter
prevents any such pickering on the part
of Cornell. and the determination to sub
NIT all pairs to the judgment of COM
mittee, and to vote as unit for final
adjournment, are strategic moves that
cannot but have some effect upon the
deadlock As things stand now an cleo
ton is likely to result soon or a final ad-
journment will shortly be had.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

1t would be difficult probably, says
the Boston Post, to prove a charge of
direct bribery against President Garfield,
but he seems to have been infected with
the political traders idea that the way to
convince men was not by appealing to
their conscience and understanding, but
to their personal interests. We must in
fer from the tenor of John l. Daven-
ports letter to Mr.. Strahan, that he was
ready to buy with an Office a
friend of Conkling, thus weakening the
latter's reserve, if it came to test Of
strength. Davenport was acting as Gar
fields agent to peddle about for services
of various kinds his principals "consid-
Grafton" the same merchandise which
Dittenhoefer was pledging before the
recent Presidential election. The plane
of action is a low one from the chief to
the subaltern in all this business. The
standing of public morality has sunk SC
low that men in high place will do,
almost before the eyes of the world,
what, in days when consciences were
more tender, would forfeit mans claim
upon the confidence of his constituency.
whether that covered the whole country
or only a small town.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
WINDOWS Bonus to the Brokers.

Republican organs are bestowing a
vast amount of swashy commentator
upon Mr.. Secretary Window for what is
called his brilliant refunding operations
That be dared to take course that he
was not warranted to select by any
authority of law, excited some surprise
and may beget the admiration of people
who look merely at the surface of such
performances
The very fact that he has succeeded,
on his own personal responsibility, in
borrowing money at 81 per cent. shows
that the government, under authority of
Congress, could have gotten all that was
wanted at per cent His success has
indicated the wisdom of the vetoed
funding bill, and, as matter of fact, is
far more pleasing to the capitalists, who
have pocketed the extra half cent on the
dollar, than to the people, out of whose
earnings it has come.
Hayes, in stating his cooked up OBJ
jections to the funding bill, confessed
his sympathy with Wall street. Win
dom, in deliberately giving a good share
of the peoples money as bonus, treads
in his footsteps, and Garfield, in per-
hitting his most responsible subordinate
to act without warrant of law in dis
posing of what did not belong to him J.,
skaters the belief that people were be.
ginning to entertain in his honesty of
purpose and conservative views.
Doubtless the Republican majority in
Congress, should there be one when that
body convenes. will promptly ratify
WINDOWS action. A party that has
given away millions in lands and money
will not be likely to stop long when the
mere bagatelle of a half cent on the dollar
is concerned. But whether the bonus 10
allowed or not, it will stand, all the same,
in the catalogue with Belknap's post;
leadership surplus and Dorsey's and
Brady's steals. Their money was made
under color of law. WINDOWS liberality
has no warrant save Garfield's tolerance.
The fact that the inducements, though
small, cause the brokers to jump at the
bonds, alone persuades the unthInking
that Window has made coup.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

In view of the Mexican railway booms.
engineered by Grant, Gould, Palmer,
Sullivan and others. the possibilities of
which have been the themes of the press
for months past, it is interesting and in
structive to note what, perhaps, the
foremost American publicist has to say
of their probable value as investments.
At dinner at the Revenue Reform
Club, of Brooklyn, a few days since,
Hon. David A Welles took occasion to
say that no good could ever come of the
projected system of railroads to Mexico
on account of the barrier of high tariff
between Mexico and the United States.
The principal products of Mexico are,
he said, taxed above so per cent. for adj
mission into this country, and it is the
same thing the other way. Under these
circumstances it was absurd to say that
the projected railroads, if built, can ever
pay. There were only two things which
the gentlemen who are putting their
money in these enterprises can do to save
themselves. One was to become free
traders and have the tariff abrogated.
The other and the more likely one was
to annex Mexico to the United States.
The tariff is virtually Chinese wall
of prohibition. 1t is quite manifest that
the jobbers, who are running the roads,
would have considerable difficulty in
bringing about a reciprocity treaty be-
tween the two republics. They have
not gone into the business, however,
with their eyes shut, and once they get
their rails down, and their lines working,
they will not be slow to have the other
alternative suggested by Mr.. Welles
adopted.
The Mexican President and Congress
are liberal and progressive, no doubt,
but if they do not find ere long that the
concessions and subventions" are prac-
teal hypothecations of the republic they
will disappoint the hopes of the shrewd
fellows, who have dazzled them with
their pictures of the railway future of
Mexico.
With the fate or consequences of these
ventures the United States just now have
nothing to do. 1t may not be long,
however, when they may be called upon
to enforce the conditions of their con-
struction. When that time arrives,
doubtless, our people we'll know what to
do
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

News from Russia nowadays consists
principally of accounts of plots and
counterplots. A short time ago twenty
one students were arrested in conspirs-
tors lodgings on the confines of St. Pc
tersburg, female student of medicine
being found among them in female attire.
The police learned of the conspiracy
from carpenter on the adjoining prem
ises. An officer was detailed to hide
under a bed in the room where they
met, while other policemen were
concealed near by, ready to
rush in at a given signal, the sound of a
pistol shot. After lying hidden for six
hours, the officer heard the Nihilists per-
fecting a plot to shoot the Car. Five of
them voluntarily offered to accomplish
the deed. A choice was about 10 be
made when the officer suddenly jumped
out of his hiding place. fred into the air
and declared to the twentY-one conspira-
tors present, who had not recovered
from their surprise, that he would kill
the first who moved. At the same time
the police rushed in and arrested the
whole company.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
The Star Route PrOsecutiOns-A
Probable Change of Venue.

A Washington special to the Balti-
more Sun says: "It is given out that
there is some disposition to have the
trials of the star route men who may be
indicted take place in some other city
than Washington, on account of the in
fuences which it is apprehended may be
brought to bear in their favor at this
point, but to do this the indictments
must be brought elsewhere. 1t is said
that the programme of the prosecution
IN the star route cases has been materi-
ally modified, and principally through
the suggestion of the President At
first the idea was to bring in wholesale
indictments of all parties known or re-
ported to be concerned in the frauds,
with the idea that some of them
would turn States evidence, and
in this way more facts could be obtained
and more convict .ons secured The
President had his attention directed to
the fact that in the famous whisky trials
during the Grant administration most of
the indictments obtained through States
evidence failed, while convictions were
secured on indictments based upon the
plain record evidence He considered it
better and more in accord with the
principles Of justice that indict-
ments should only be asked upon.
testimony deemed sufficient to
convict. The President could very
readily understand that it was one thing
to make grand flourish by bringing in
indictments by the wholesale and an
other to secure the ultimate punishment
of the real criminals, if there are any.
Attorney General MacVeagh is said to
be of the same opinion as the President,
and to hold that it is better to 90 slow in
this matter, to have complete and con-
vincing testimony, before asking the
grand jury TO indict In making his
remarks, therefore, to Mr.. Dorsey,
he must have been very certain of
the ground he stood upon. This policy
determined upon by the administration
is no doubt wise and just, and accounts
for the delay, which has been rather irk-
some to the enthusiastic and over zeal
Gus reformers here. who want every one
indicted who ever had anything to do
with star route contracts, from ex-Post-
master General Key down. AS the June
term of the Criminal Court commenced
TO day, the government he's now oppor-
tunity, if so disposed, to lay whatever
proofs it has accumulated before the
grand turV."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
What Shall Be Done with It?


Anent the ownership of the two thous.
and dollars which Bradley swears that
Sessions gave him, on the understanding
that he should vote for Depew, but which
his virtue compelled him to disgorge, the
Albany E0ening Times relates the fol-
lowing apt anecdote:
Many years ago there was famous
robber in Ireland named Franey, who,
for 'rasOns' of his own, went about in
various DISCUSSES. Once when attired in
the garb of a peasant, he called at road
side inn and ordered dinner. Just as he
was seated at the table group of young
students. who had been out fishing, came
in nearly famished, but were informed
by the landlord that he could give them
nothing, as his scanty larder was only
sufficient to feed the peasant. Piqued at
this, they began to play tricks on the
countryman; among others, that of send
ing the servant to him with a valuable
gold watch, and the request that
he would tell them the time of day.
Paddy quietly took the timepiece and
laid it on the other side of the table, with
the remark that he would tell them
'prisintly. When he had finished his
meal he arose, took up the watch. ap-
preached the youths, drew pistol from
his pocket, and, as he pointed it at them
one after another desired to know who
the owner was. Not receiving any an
swer, he said, as he deposited it in his
fob. Faith, its me jewty to kape it til |
find the owner.
u -
lars? AS the money will likely go a
begging for an owner, and is now in
custody of the Comptroller, we suggest
that that official be directed to draw his
warrant for it to the order of U. s.
Grant. The great traveller would not
decline the money. and it would defray
his hotel room in Mexico, or at least
supply him with cigars for a year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

THE UNITED STATES AND SILVER -
The New York Times says lit is gen,
orally conceded in the European press,
even by those journals most favorable to
bimetalism, that when the Monetary
Congress reassembles it will be only for
short period and preparatory to a
speedy final adjournment. 1t is asserted
with confidence, however, that what the
conference could not do as a body some
of the principal countries engaged in it
will undertake to do by negotiation, and
in this connection it is intimated that
Mr.. Evarts has been intrusted with a
special mission, of which the 'rehabilita-
ton of silver shall be the chief object,
and in which possible commercial trea-
ties may be included"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF RAILROAD
COMMISSIONERS James Harding,
of St. Louis, Chairman OF the Executive
Committee of the National Convention
of Railroad Commissioners, has received
letter from w. L. Bragg, President of
the Alabama Railroad Commission, in
reference to selecting the time and place
for holding the next National Conven.
ton. The Alabama Commissioners, it
would appear, are anxious to have
the convention called as soon as
possible, and say that South
Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, New
Hampshire, Virginia, Connecticut, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio,
eleven States, have already signified
their approval of the movement. Gen.
Harding. as Chairman of the National
Executive Committee, has appointed
George NJ. Bogue, of Illinois, and George
nj. Woodruff. of Connecticut, to fill the
vacancies in that committee. The latter
will confer very soon as to the time and
place of holding the next National Con-
vention.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
The English Dredge at South Pass

A sufficient depth of water for naviga.
ton purposes is maintained at the South
Pass of the Mississippi now, not by the
jetties, but by a steam sucker. The
dredge puts down its steam sucker and
with prodigious force the mud rushes
into the vacuum chamber, which is
emptied into the boat until load is OBJ.
tanned. The 24-inch drawing pipe steam
dredge now working on Frazer river,
British Columbia, raises from three to six
tons of matter at each lift, and makes three
lifts in seven minutes. The machine must,
of course, be provided with a steam
boat. The draft pipe is lowered in the
water that is to be deepened. A steam
pipe runs from the boilers to the vacuum
chamber. "Eads," says the Chicago
Tribune, ''has adopted this British con-
trivance TO keep the South Pass dredged
out to such depth as will float ocean
steamers carrying in railroad steel and
takingout cotton and grain; but he is
not maintaining thirty feet of water in
the South Pass, for which he is paid by
the government, within six feet And
what depth he maintains is by the use of
the English dredge, and not by his jetty
system.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23


1t now seems that the coup detGt of
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria was sug-
gested and instigated by the European
powers. The Bulgarians were very proud
of self government, and somewhat re-
publican in their ideas and tendencies.
Austria and Germany were not pleased
at the independence shown by the Bull
gsrian Assembly, and suggested to the
Prince its dissolution. The course of
Prince Alexander is the same as that tried
by Louis Napoleon in France in 1851;
first, coup detat then ple5iscite. 1t
promises, however. not to succeed as
well as the conspiracy of the prisoner of
Ham. In the event of the Bulgarians
growing FESTIVE and revolutionary, the
powers have agreed that Austria shall
occupy the principally.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

The worst case of municipal indebted
ness on record is that of the town of
Elizabeth, n. j., which owes a debt of
s., 900, 600 on a total assessment of
$12, 200, 600. The United States District
Court of Trenton has just issued an or
der Of mandamus on the city authorities
of the town to place one-fifth of this
debt on the tax levy. This will necessi-
tate a tax of about IL per cent. The
Elizabethans have been authorized by
the Legislature of New Jersey to COM
promise their debt, but their creditors
refuse to agree to any terms. 1t is
probable that the city will be adjudged a
bankrupt and its finances turned over to
trustees to administer. As the courts
have decided that the personal property
of the citizens of Elizabeth can be seized
and sold to satisfy the judgments against
the city, it is needless to say that it is a
town which it is not desirable to move to,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

Most people incline to the belief that
the Republican family is unhappy. The
Boston Herald gives the following in
side view of its affairs:
at is absurd to talk of the homoge-
neity, or even the harmony, except for
the purpose of carrying an election, OF
an organization that contains such di-
verse elements as those represented by
Blaine and MacVeagh, Conkling and
Curtis, Cameron and Schurz, James and
Brady, Hawley and Gorham, Hoar and
Dorsey, Wheeler and Arthur. 1t is not
merely difference in men. These names
stand for different ideas of character,
different ends in government, different
aims and methods of party management,
and utterly different views of the public
service and private duty"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

The campaign in North Carolina this
fall will be fought on the lines of whis
ky and anti-whisky. The people are to
decide at the coming election whether
the law passed at the last session of the
Legislature, making the sale of intoxi
eating liquors within the State penal
Offense, shall have effect or not. Promi-
nent men of both parties avow that its
adoption will be the ruin of each. Ex-
Senator MerrimOn, who wants to get
back to Washington, is strongly in favor
of the law.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23

The Washington Post of Tuesday says
$50 far as heard from no negotiations
for peace have yet been entered into at
Long Branch, or are at all likely to be.
1t is vaguely intimated that Secretary
Lincoln has gone on to mediate pre-
liminary treaty between Garfield and
Grant, but of what particular import
ance Grant can be as a factor in the ne
gotiations, it is difficult to see. What
ever influence he did possess he is rapid
ly getting rid of through an unfortunate
habit he has of putting his foot in it
whenever he opens his mouth"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
Garfield and Grant--No Friendly
MeefIuu af Long Branch.

The fact that President Garfield, with
his family, had gone to Long Branch.
where General Grant and family arrived
about the same time, gave rise to rumor
that an attempt was to be made by
mutual friends to bring about recon
Citation between the Conkling faction
and the President. Abiding to this
rumor, the Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sua says:
cit is scarcely necessary to remark
that in well-informed circles here no i'm
portance has been attached to the widely
circulated statements that there was TO
be an effort to bring about a reconcilia-
ton between the President and Mr.
Conkling during the visit of the former
to Long Branch, and that General Grant
was to act as the mediator. The question
most naturally suggested was, who was
first to reconcile the President and
General Grant? After the manner in
which General Grant has expressed him
self towards the President, it would be
inconsistent with the self.respect of the
latter to hold any confidential
communication with him. Mr.. Tom
Murphy, who was here last week
and at the White House, doubtless had
some talk with the President on the sub
iect of his relations with General Grant
and Senator CoDkling, and he was cred.
tied with inducing the President to go to
Long Branch for the purpose of meeting
General Grant. The fact is, the Presi-
dent had made his arrangements to go to
Long Branch before Mr. Murphy came
to Washington. 1t is understood that
there was suggestion made to the Presi-
dent to the effect that a meeting might
take place between him and Gen. Grant
at Long Branch, and the President
said if General Grant called on him he
would be received with courtesy, and all
proper consideration gwen to anything
he might have to say, but he intimated
that he did not think anything desirable
could come of an interview. The Presi
dent is understood to have communicated
to General Grant his view that the Gen
eral had misunderstood his position in
the interviews which they had at Mentor
aud at Washington, and naturally he has
more or less feeling on account of the
free criticism which the General
has passed upon him. 1t is of
course within the range of probability
that if the two should meet, what may
be called mutual misunderstanding
might be explained; but, so far as the
President is concerned, he appears to be
more resolute than ever in the determi-
nation to stand by the position which he
has assumed with reference to the power
of the Executive to make appointments
to office. Private kilograms from Long
Branch to day say the President received
but very few callers yesterday, and none
of them were friends of Gen. Grant or
Senator Conkling. Gen. Grant himself
was not expected at Long Branch before
Wednesday"