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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

1t is stated that there IS now a larger
amount of gold in the United States
Treasury than was ever known before
$173, 0O0, 900 in gold, besides $50, 0O0, 600
in silver. This enormous quantity of
treasure is partly the product of own
mines, and partly the consideration for
our excess of exports sent abroad. We
are still sending abroad an excess of
exports over imports, and as long
as this continues we shall receive
gold in return, and, at the same
time, keep at home the product Of
our own mines. 1t is remarked as
strange that this coin, both gold
and silver, remains in the Treasury and
does not go into circulation. If it is
paid out it returns almost Immediately.
This is due to the popular preference
for the coed paper money which consti-
tutes the bulk of our circulation. These
paper notes, both greenbacks and nation
al bank bills. are just as good as gold in
point of value, and. being far more con-
venient for handling and carrying, are
preferred to the metal money.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The glass works at st. Goblain, Chau-
ny, Grey, and Mountchucon, in France,
and Mannheim and Stolberg, in Ger
many, have produced plain white and
silver plates varying in weight from 500
to 1 900 pounds. Some of the mirrors
for the new grand opera house at Paris
are forty five by fifty two feet. They
also make glass tiles, pressed in imita-
tiou of the clay article these tiles are
used for roofing. and are moulded in
such q shape that they can be laid along
side of one another, making tight fitting
joints without any cement or mortar.
Another article produced in large guam
titles at these works is glass flooring,
made OF flags CT slabs Of rough cast glass;
pavements of glass intended for carriage
ways are likewise made in the same style
as the slabs,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Seldom does a blockade of legislative
business cause greater inconvenience than
does the pending one in the Senate. The
q. S. Supreme Court, two or three Dis
trict Courts, and a number of important
custom houses and post offices are very
severely embarrassed by the attempt of
the Republican Senators to carry out the
bargain with Malone. But, as usual,
the public interest is a secondary con
sideration with the Republicans. After
having adjusted their party affairs to the
satisfaction Of Readjuster Malone, they
may proceed TO tie public business, for
the transaction of whicl the extra session
was called. Until such adjustment, they
have, by caucus decree, prohibited ali
public business.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
AMERICAN JUTE.
How Commissioner LIE Due Hopes
to Save sIO.OOO,O 600 10 the COun-
try.
Washington Post.


The Department of Agriculture is hap
Ply over the receipt of a magnificent
sample of American jute fibre prepared
by mechanical process from green stems
grown in Virginia. 1t satisfactorily
solves the problem that has engaged the
attention of the department for over ten
years, and establishes the fact that
India jute can be successfully and
profltably grown upon Ameri-
can soil. In the language of the
Commissioner, General lie Due, it is
''our declaration of independence from
India in the matter of jute, and mean
an annual saving to this country of $10,-
600, 900 and over" The prepared fibre,
now on exhibition at the department, is
pronounced equal in all respects to any
foreign fibre. 1t is largely used in the
manufacture of gunny bags, paper, ropes,
carpets, baggings and oil cloths. 1t will
be impossible to glut the market with
the fibre. as its use is so diversified and
essential.
The plant a be successfully grown in
any section south of New York, and it
is believed, farther to the north. For
several years it has been raised in the
Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia. To
clean and prepare by hand the fibre for
market is a shiny and profitless business,
and the American laborer in this work
could not compete with the women,
children and other cheap labor
of the East Indies. A machine to do
the work was essential to make the cul-
can soil. The Commissioner is sat
isfed that such a machine has been in
vented. The inventors and p~atentees
are Martin Dennis and Albert Angel, of
Newark, N. J.. They intend to operate
the machine this season at some point on
the James river. The Government Of
Calcutta has a standing offer of G5, 900
reward to the inventor of a successful
iute cleaning machine, and it is believed
that the American inventors named will
secure the handsome prize.
The department is distributing a large
quantity of jute seed throughout the
Southern States. 1t is planted in the
spring and harvested in the fall. The
yield of fibre is about $500 pounds to
the acre, and the market quotation for
the prepared article is 123 cents per
pound. General LIE Due is convinced
that the acreage of jute planting
this season will be very laege,
and that the planters will realize hand
somely on their crops. For years iute
has been to India now a great source of
wealth, and there is no reason why it
should not be an equal source of wealth
to the United States. 1t will suppress
the foreign monopoly, annually saving
millions of dollars to the country, and,
at the same time, incite u capitalists 10
establish new manufactures and indus
tries that will give employment to thou
sands of laborers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The Methodists of the United States
number 3, 521, 600, and are divided into
fifteen organizations, though the great
bulk of the membership is included in
the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist
Episcopal South and the African Metho-
dist Episcopal. The division between
the first two was made in 1845, on the
slavery question, and the last was sepa-
rated ON the color line in 1916. The
Methodist Protestant is the outcome of a
struggle in the Methodist Episcopal on
the question of lay representation and
abolition of the presiding eldership, and
does not differ on other points with the
parent body. The Evangelical Associa
ton is a German Methodist body, with
its chief membership in Pennsylvania.
The American Wesleyan connection was
formed in 1842 by Methodist Abolition
lists, who wished to take a religious stand
against slavery. The Free Methodist is
a church formed in 1850 by those who
believed hat Methodism was getting too
worldly and the Primitive Methodist is
the result of similar though earlier de-
parture. The negro Methodists also have
several separate sects. The general
Methodist feeling is hat a union of most
Of these churches might now be effected.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

THE CABINET wise Washington
letter writer says that while it is what
might be called a good working Cabinet,
there are no strong elements in it tc tie
to in case the wal on thed administration
is relentless. WINDOWS ambition is to
make as creditable a record in the Treas
ury as Secretary Sherman, and he cares
little for what is going on in a political
sense. Neither Hunt nor Lincoln can
be called politicians, and have but one
following. while MacVeagh has abso-
lutely none. James is looked upon as a
kind Of spy for Conkling, while Kirk
wood is an easy-going old granny, who
can see through a grindstone if there is
a good-sized hole in it. 1t is a fair Cabi-
net for dress parade, but for active ser
vice in a war it sizes up prodigiously
small. Hence the chance in its make up
will depend upon whether or not the ad-
ministration is to have peace. If Conk.
ling makes the music lively, MacVeagh
and James will certainly be thrown over
board for more experienced and warmer
friends of the President and his Pre-
mier."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The old fiction that the Republican
party cares nothing for offices but every
thing for the best interest of the coun
try, is being exploded. 1t cannot long
withstand the present situation-Wash-
inaton crowded with Office seekers. the
President and Cabinet overwhelmed with
the applications of hungry workers"
for Offices, the Senate in a deadlock
caused by a determined attempt to Gust
two OF three Democratic officials, and
the whole party 'by the ears" over the
distribution of tine "spoils." As the
Buffalo Courier Dem says, what poses
now before the American people az the
great Republican party is simply huge,
hypertrophied stomach-an exaggerated
digestive apparatus-intent only On the
seizure and absorption Of political spoils
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

MANUFACTURING Boom IN THE SOUTH.
"A government officer who has been
engaged in experimenting and directing
river and harbor improvements in the
South for some years past said to a
Washington Star reporter on Tuesday
that during a tour through five or six of
the Southern States, from which he has
just returned, he met several parties
from the North looking out locations
for cotton mills in the South; that he
met, among others, a father and son,
large owners Of factories at Fall River,
Mass, who said they intended to remove
their machinery to the South and build
a large cotton manufactury at some
eligible point in that section. This Off
Ger states that numbers of Northern
men have visited and examined the canal
in the Tennessee river, constructed by
the government, which would supply
water power for scores of factories.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Ex SENATOR HILLS DAUGHTER d.
voRcED.-On Monday last, in the Equity
Court of the District of Columbia, Judge
Wylie made a decree divorcing Anna
Hill Bowles. daughter of Joshua Hill, OF
Georgia, from her husband, John Bowles.
and placed the custody of the children
in charge of Joshua Hill, as guardian.
The parties to this suit were married in
Madison, Ca December 10, 1867, and
went to Washington city to reside in
Nav. 1874, and the wife charges that the
husband was p;;,,i;ltY of cruelty, neglect,
misconduct, and finally. cesertlon- Inc
decree restores to the complainant her
maiden name.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
General Garibaldfs declaration {


General GaribaldI's declaration that
assassination Is the secret whereby the
ultimate triumph of the revolution is to
be secured, and that the assassins are
the true precursors of the reign of the
future social republic, has been hailed
with delight BY the Communists Of the
Continent. At Client a Socialist orator,
after eulogizing the murderer of the
Gar, declares that the King OF the Bel
gians ought to share his fate. Among
those who ought, in n Rochefort's
phrase, to be 'nitro-glycerined. accord
ing to the new gospel of the social repub-
lie, are included all authorities from st.
Petersburg to Washington.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
Nothing new under dc sur!

Nothing new under the sum- A cor
respondent of the London Truth says, in
reference to the fifteen puzzle" which
last year created so great a sensation in
the United States, that it may be found
worked out and the principle of the
various arrangements lucidlY explained
in Hutton's "Recreations of Mathemsti-
cal Science" which was published more
than fifty years ago. The writer adds:
$50 far from being any new discovery.
the Hindoos, Chinese and Egyptians are
said to have been acquainted with these
arrangements at q very early period,
attributing powers of divination to such
squares-the square of sixteen figures
tine fifteen puzzle) being assigned or
consecrated to Jupiter. The Oldest
writing extant in reference to this mathe-
NAUTICAL curiosity is a MS. of the six
teenth century, now in the Paris Biblio-
theque."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
Az All SUMHER SESSION PROBABLE.

AN ALI SUMMER SESSION PROBABLE.
"A Republican Senator was asked by a
Washington Star reporter, on Tuesday,
what would be done in the event that
the Senate should be left without a quo
rum He replied that he did not be-
Iieve this would occur, as many Of the
pairs wers made upon the condition that
the Senator remaining here might vote
to make a quorum. But, he added, if
Senators enough should pair and go
home to leave the Senate without a quo
rum. tlat the Republicans would leave
here Senators enough 70 watch proceed
ings and adjourn from day to Gay; and
be supposed the Democrats would do
likewise. In any event, he believed the
session would continue through the sum-
mer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

From a table just prepared by the
Census Bureau showing the distribution
of the population of the United States in
elevation above the level Of the sea, it
appears that nearly one fifth of the in
habitants live below 100 feet. e., along
the immediate seaboard and in the
swaIlpy and alluyial regions &c the
South: more than two ifths belos3 500
feet; more than thr~ee-fOurths below 1000
feet. while 81 per cent. live below 1000
feet. The mean elevation of the popu-
iation above the sea is about ZOO feel.
The mean elevation of the surface of the
United States is estimated at 1900 feet.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
1t is said that the first cotton seed mill

1t is said that the first cotton seed mill
was erected at the South in 1869, and
that now there are ifty-one In operation.
There are exported to Europe annually
about 100, 900 barrels of oil, which
doubtless m back to us, part at least,
as olive oil. 1t is also used in soap,
white oils, stearine, and for hundreds of
purposes. The cotton seed cake is a
capital cattle food, and made into proper
shape is a splendid fertilizer. Its COM
parative value as attested by the State
chemist of Georgia is $37 so a ton and
it can be sold for $22 to $25 a ton. An
ordinary fertilizer that has a commercial
value of $37 is sold at $50 to $40 a ton.
1t is admitted that a ton of cotton seed
yields 80 gallons of oil at 80 cents
$11 so. 1t yields about SIS so worth of
cake and ST so worth of lint. 1t costs
about $40 for the seed and $6 so for
working, barreling, ETC., making $40 so
cost on a yield of $18 so, or a net profit
of 50 a ton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Orson Shepard, of Tonawanda, N. Y,
received $50, 900 in railroad bonds. His
wife saw him put them into the safe
which held all his valuable documents.
He died four days afterward. The ad-
ministrator of the estate had the safe
broken open, the capitalist not having
revealed the combination, but could not
find the bonds. Every drawer was re-
moved and every bundle of papers exam.
ined I'VE and over, but in vain. 1t was
deemed clear that the treasure had been
stolen. Everybody who had been near
the safe after it was opened was sus-
pected. Detectives were employed and
the whole town was excited. A reporter
of the Buffalo Courier went to Tonawan-
da to write up the case. He examined
the compartments of the safe critically.
One of the drawers had a thicker bottom
than seemed necessary. He pried it up
and found the missing $50, 900 in a Sc
cret receptacle.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The terms of peace offered by Chill to
her fallen enemy, Peru, are harsh and
crushing. The war indemnity is of such
magnitude that Peru, now owing Eng
land alone over 5000, 900, 900, cannot pay
it, and the territorial cessions place her at
the mercy of Chill, who will garrison
the country. The Peruvian Govern
ment, under Galderon, presides over a
country given up to rapine and mob
rule. and, perhaps, the best thing that
could happen would be for Chill to an
mex the whole republic and give it law
and order. Chill has been the most pro-
gressive of the South American repub-
lies, and is well calculated to take the
leadership of a confederation of Peru.
Bolivia and Chill, or to unite all three in
one republic. 1t would be to their mu-
tual advantage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Discomfort seems to be general and
profound in Canada, and most of it
arises from a feeling of government OPP
preston. 1--WE are governed too much"
is q phrase of common use now by Cana.
dian newspapers and speakers. Siren
uous efforts have for years been made to
induce immigration, but the gain in this
direction has been far more than bal
anced by emigration. There~are tracts
upon tracts of good land %unoccupied in
the Dominion, yet there is an exodus of
farmers to the United States. The To-
ronto Globe gives the following reason:
cit cannot be c~oncealed-it is no use
in concealing the truth-that many of
our people think the American republic
better than our Dominion, because it is
a republican country. It has g charm
for them. AS the poor American slaves
used to watch the northern star when
signing for liberty prior to 1860, and
wendell their way by %circuitous routes to
Canada, so the people of Europe and
many of our people are attracted by the
fame, the glory, the free intercourse, as
they think-the free life of the great re-
public"
Such expressions are not confined to
the Mackenzie party, which is out of
power, but are to be found also in Jour-
mails nominally supporting the present
Ottawa Government.
1t is no wonder that Canadians an
not get rid of a longing for a simpler
form OF government, when we consider
that their oficeholders, besides beng
u~nreasonably numerous and overpaid,
are exempt from income taxation, while
the mechanic, clerk, or anybody else
out of official position is taxed on all his
income over $500 a year. The Governor
General, with a salary of $3.50, 900 and
numerous allowances, is free from the
grip that therefore tightens itself all the
more on the poor mans earnings. With
a population of less than the State of
New York, Canada has seven local Gov
ernors, Lieutenant Governors, Cabinets
and Legislatures, besides the general
government. Looking across the line
from such a condition of affairs, Can
adams naturally see little in our politics
that by contrast is not good.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The western portion of our country
has suffered the past winter. Such snow
blockades and intense cold have not pre-
viously been witnessed there in this
generation. The severe weather began
early. and it continues late. Last week
closed off with a sharp sleet and snow
storm in Iowa and other regions out
West. In Wisconsin the wheat crop
has been injured 90 per cent. And the
~lateness of the season, with unusual
floods, have cut short the spring plough
ing and sowing in a number of the States.
The result will probably be a decrease
this year of one-fourth in the entire
wheat crop of the West.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

A New York Representative is re-
ported as saying, on returning from a
Washington visit:
II saw General Garfield once, but had
not the cheek to go agein. The man is
being killed by offlce-seekers, and it
would almost look az if there was an in
tention to kill him by the persistence
with which they crowd him down on
thoroughly selfish errands; It is a
monstrous thing that the President of
the United States, who is looked to for
wisdom and decision in the great ques.
lions of the time. should be made a mere
door-mat and dish-washer of ten thou
sand people besieging him for office"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The Peabody Institute in Baltimore
holds about $3.50. goo of Tennessee's
bonds. The recent settlement by the
Tennessee Legislature wiz give the in
stitute about s46s, 900 in new bonds,
making an addition to its income of
about $4,000 to Help the good cause of
education.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Tecumseh Sherman does not seem to
ne very good authority in military mat.
tiers. His Cincinnati speech, with refer;
ence to Pittsburgh Landing and Shiloh,
is pronounced by Union veterans to be
absolutely alse.-Go~rtsrAJ0NrEG
1t will be remembered that Gen. sher-
man, in his account Of the burning of
Columbia, was a little loose in his state
ment of facts.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

Some weeks ago a New Jersey shoe
manufacturer proposed to hire the con-
victs in the South Carolina State Peni-
Tertiary, paying for them at the rate of
forty cents a day. and employing them
exclusively within the limits of the peni-
Tertiary grounds, SO that they could be
properly cared for. He stipulated that
he should have at least two hundred to
start with. The offer was no accepted
by the PenitentiaFy Board. The con
tractor is now willing to take one hun
dred convicts to begin with, and his
proposition is likely to be accepted.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The special Washington correspondent
Of the Charleston Neps and Courier
states in q dispatch to that paper that
during the Hil-MahOne wal In the Sen
ale on Wednesday, Don Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, appeared on the floor of
that body very much intoxicated, and
wanted 10 assault Mr.. Hill because the
latter said that bully Malone couldn't
bully him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

The State census of Mississippi, which
was taken simultaneously with the Fed
eral census, shows nearly the same pop
u~lation, the variation being only a few
thousand. The total number of electors
in the State are 24O. 727. divided as fol.
lows: Whites, 11O, 113; colored, 130,607
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

After having passed sleepless nights
owing to the horrible noise made BY a
Cochin China cock in a neighboring
garden, Carlyle interviewed the proprie-
tor Of the fowl and expostulated. The
owner, a woman, did not think Mr.. Car
lyle mad much cause for complaint-the
cock only crew three or four times in
the night. "Eh, but woman" said the
unfortunate philosopher, eff you only
knew what l suffer waiting for him to
crOWl"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15

General Wickham, the most prominent
Republican in Virginia, says if the Re
publican Senators continue TO fondle
Repudiator Malone, he viii stump the
State for the debt-payiDg Democrats.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
Gor 4fnf.

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Tybee Island, near the 1b5ea6ie hous :
W. H, FLEETWOOD, IS Iba @aaFf App7 \
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