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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-15
ACONFEDERATE BOND.
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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-15
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facilities .oT improving the vorag
mes and ladies, u"t only
practical knor.eJg, al.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22
General Alexander ON the Cole Char


The argument of General E. P. Alex
auder against that feature of the pro
posed charter of the Cincinnati and
Georgia Railroad, which comedies to the
Cole syndicate the right to use certain
portions of existing tracks on payment
of the damages assessed, is remarkable
for its candor and logical good sense. A
fair minded legislator cannot fail to see
its force and justice.
General Alexander puts himself
STRAIGHT at the start and relieves himself
of anv supposed hostility to the projected
competition with his own road. In sup
porting his plea, that the property of the
Georgia Road should not be confiscated,
he does the Legislature and the people a
service in drawing attention to the re-
markable latitude allowed the syndicate,
OF rather its representatives, the corpo-
rators of the new road, in the
matter of stock. General Alexander
puts this feature in such
light that if it is suffered to remain IN
the charter the force of his argument can
only be overcome by actual, literal com
pliance with the terms of the charter in
the premises.
II Gen. Alexander's argument does not
secure to the Georgia Road due protec
ton of its vested rights it should, al
least, procure for the Cole charter a
larger measure of attention in the Senate
than it appears to have received at the
hands of the House.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

Census Bulletin No. 245. just issued,
contains the preliminary report of Spe-
cial Agent W. L. Rowland, upon the salt
manufacture of the United States. The
number of establishments for the pro-
duction of salt has decreased from S99 IN
1860 to 264 in $780, During the same
period the amount of salt produced has
increased from 12,771, 1913 bushels to
%, 800, 29S bushels, showing that the salt
industry is now carried on by larger
establishments, requiring more capital and
producing proportionally a larger amount
of salt The following amounts Of salt
were produced by solar evaporation;
SSS. 96S bushels, from sea or bay water;
ga, 1853 from inland lakes or natural
deposits, and 2,99S, 900 from sub
terranean brines. By artificial heat
from subterranean brines the following
amounts were produced; by kettle or pan
process, S,S53 S21; by steam evaporation
process, 1,615,351. There is capital of
s., 225, TAO invested in the industry; the
greatest number of hands employed at
any time during the year was 5,O65.
Number of wells $780, kettles 9,347; pans
1854; settlers 661; grainers 533; total
value of materials used during the year
$2.OO5, 57s Michigan leads in the pro-
duction of salt, having produced 1873 500
bushels by solar evaporation, 1904, $50
bushels by the kettle and pan processes,
and 1O,177 sos bushels by the steam
evaporation process. New York is next
on the list with nearly 1000, 900 bushels,
and Ohio and West Virginia next, with
nearly 5000. 900 bushels each.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

Leo Hartmann. the Russian Nihilist, re-
turned to New York from Canada We'd
nesday afternoon, and as secretly and
Unexpectedly as he betook himself from
here to Canadian soil short time since.
he states in a letter to the New York
Herald that he has determined to stand
his trial for extradition, and for that pur-
pose has returned to the United States,
where he will remain to allow of the
Russian Government taking such steps
as it laiely instituted before the French
Government He expresses himself as
convinced that the United States will not
deliver him to the Russian haDgman;
but, logged and watched as he has be
lieved himself to be by Russian spies
since his arrival here. he has decided to
bring the matter to a crisis and settle it
definitely by making a stand at once and
fighting the matter out by appeal to the
courts if he is arrested, on an ex-
tradition warrant As already stated
by telegraph, Hartmann appeared in the
Superior Court Clerks Office at New
York Thursday morning, and, renounc-
ing his allegiance to the Emperor of
Russia. filed declaration of his intention
to become a citizen of the United States.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22
The War Cloud In Europe.

The New York World sees indications
of the outbreak of war in Europe. The
German military postal service has just
been modified, and there is perhaps no
other department of the military service
which there would be less need for
modifying in time of peace. General
Fare, the French Minister Of War, has
asked the Bishops to appoint chaplains
to several regiments, when under the
existing law there can be no army chap
lains except in time of war. France and
Turkey are on very unfriendly terms.
Italy does not go to war with the French
Republic over its African policy merely
because she is not in position to do so
to advantage. Gambetta has just been
delivering his annual Chauvinistic
speech about the provisional and tenn
rorary nature of the separation OF
Alsace-Lorraine from France.
The French are solemnly discussing
the possible necessity, when next they
90 to war, of Selling Switzerland to
secure the strategic advantage OF its ter
ritory; whereupon the Swiss have taken
to advocating the occupation of Upper
Savoy in France whenever the explosion
takes place. "All the conditions" the
World. concludes, favor the regular war
which should fall due this year or next
Americans can, from practical and
business-like standpoint, contemplate
the situation with perfect equanimity,
for a European war, however lamentable
from a humanitarian point of view,
means an increased demand for our
meats and breadstuffs, and when the
conflict has been brought to close, an
immensely increased emigration from
Europe to the United States"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22
Railroad Observation-Disclosures

Albany Netcs ana advertiser.
The fourth recommendation Of the Rail-
road Commission, in their late advisory
report to the Governor, reads as follows:
"The mode Of Publishing their action, as to
economy and efficiency, is left to the discre-
ton OF the Commission"
In explanation Of this recommendation,
the Commission further on in their report
say as IN publication: "This speaks for
itself. We can greatly reduce It's expense
and increase its efficiency and adaptation.
Why advertise petty change on the Hart
well branch in the Savannah, Columbus and
Albany papers, at 8 cost Of over fifty dol
lars. The bill on this subject is substan-
TALLY in accord with our views. A slight
change OF form would suffice, viz : to re-
peal the present mode (instezd OF declaring
1t not obligatory and substitute, "The Com
missioners are authorized to adopt such
modes Of publication as IN their judgment
the public welfare and the rights of railroads
and citizens affected may require"
Now this recommendation, aided by the
above Illustration, sounds equitable and fair
enough But let us analyze it 8 little fur
Their The act Of October 14th, 1879, Great
ing the Commission, provides for the publ
cation OF all their orders and schedules in
some public newspaper published In the
cities Of Atlanta, Augusta. Albany, Rome,
Savannah, Macon and Columbus II would
require no very strained construction Of the
very general terms employed by the
Commission, in the above recon-
meudatioD, to construe It into q
virtual repeal OF so much Of the
act Of 1879 as requires publication in the
papers Published st the several points
named in the act. Certainly none that 8
board that has shown so grasping q dispo-
sitiOn for additional power and authority
would hesitate TO adopt. The words en-
ployed in the above recommendation ap-
pear 70 Us sufficiently broad and general to
sustain such q construction And how easy
it would be for a corrupt board OF Commis-
sioners to hold such an act ia terr0rem over
the papers published st these important
points, and thus, In s manner, silence ur
subsidiEe the press Of the State in their
interests, need only be limited.
We do not charge the present Railroad
Commission with entertaining any such de-
signs. It is, in fast, not very probable that
they themselves, In this recommendation,
fully appreciate the extent to which the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

English capital is finding its way with
great liberality into Western land enter
prises Of various kinds. The latest is
the purchase by syndicate headed by
Close Bros. of tract of land sixty miles
square along the line of the St. Paul
and Omaha, thirty miles east of Sioux
City, Nebraska Contracts have already
been made for the construction Of one
hundred and sixty houses, and the colo
nists who are 10 occupy them are to be
sent out as soon as these are we'll under
way. They are to consist chiefly of
farmers, who propose to solve the
troublesome question of American com
petition by turning American agricul
turists themselves. There are many
similar English and Scotch colonies,
established within the two or three years
past, in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and it is understood that, eschewing the
lofty ideals of the Rugby CTennessee)
experiment, they are all doing well
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

A writer in a continental newspaper
calls attention to the burden that rests
upon European nations. The discon-
tent prevailing in continental countries
he attributes to ''miliiarism. Vast
standing armies, supported by oonscrip-
ton, which imposes upon every son Of
the country military service, are driving
the best part Of the people into emigra-
ton. The money required to maintain
these armies is swelling the national
debts beyond the possibility of industry
to redeem them AS a consequence, this
writer shows that America, without a
standing army. is paying its national
debt snd growing richer every day. His
remedy is 10 abolish armies, save the
enormous sums wasted upon cannon and
musketry and equipments, and apply It
10 the comfort. the education and The
happiness Of the people.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

The Boston Herald comedies that the
success of the South in establishing pay
ing cotton manufactures appears to be
making more Roadway than some of the
New England publicis,s and capitalists
have been willing to admit was possible
The Herald then cites a number of relia-
bic figures which leads il to this conclu-
sion, and adds: There is every reason
why a decided advantage should exist in
the South. except in the existence of a
lsboring class accustomed to the work,
ard perhaps some climatic, educational
snd social influences. But in the long
run labor is sure to find its market, and
the cotton staple is undoubtedly to be
largely manufactured where il is grown.
But, as the industry advances, it will be
found that New England money and
brains are IN it, as they are in pretty
much everything else that is adding to
the development and welfare of the
country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22
Those Internal Machines.

There is a pretty well grounded sus-
piciOn arising that the internal machine
business with which Great Britain under
took to excite and alarm the world was
a solemn humbug. In the first place,
men who enter into a conspiracy to blow
up vessels on the ocean do not advertise
their names or their purpose. The
British Government suddenly dropped
the subject. and thorough investiga-
ton by our government failed to dis
cover a single clue to the shipment of
the dynamite machines from this coun
try or to the persons who were alleged
to be concerned in it. All these facts
tend to show that the affair was false
alarm. Whether the trick was devised
by British detective agents, who wanted
to impress their government with the
necessity of keeping them under pay, or
the scheme Of a few Irishmen to brighten
and demoralize England, is not yet
known. But the truth will probably
come out after awhile. Meantime peo-
pie contemplating trips across the ocean
need not give them up for fear of being
hOisted into the next world with Irish
dynamite.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22
The New Comet.


The new comet is now visible to the
naked eye and may be seen any evening
when the sky is clear with low, clear
horizon from eight to half-past nine
o'clock. 1t is to be looked for in the
same region of the heavens as that in
which its predecessor of June exhibited
itself in the northwest. At nine o'clock
in the evening its position will be a little
north of northwest, about fifteen degrees
or one hour above the horizon and a
little more than the same distance be-
low and to the right of Merak,
the star which forms the lower
northern corner of the bowl of the dip
per. BY looking carefully at this point
the observer will see two tolerablv
bright stars close together with no other
one very near them. The one to the
right, being the lower and more north
ern one, is the very body he is in search
of-the comet. It's head is easily enough
distinguished, being as bright as one of
the minor stars in the dipper; but it will
take close and careful observation to
bring into view the dim and tenuous tail
of the new visitant. Good eyes will see
it without much difficulty, but others
will require the aid of an opera glass
and then resort must be had to the trick
of astronomers of fixing the vision a
little to one side, or above the object
rather than directly on it. By observing
these rules it will be seen that from the
right hand star of the pair below and
to the north of the bowl of the dipper
spreads a filmy appendage which marks
it as the comet. The tail is
upward and to the right, BY examin-
ing the dipper, it will be seen that the
two stars in the handle nearest to the
bowl and the two stars forming the
upper left hand corner and the lower
right hand corner are in the same right
line. PrOlong this line downward and
to the right, and il will pass through the
comet. Like the comet of June, in re-
volving round the north star, it dips
| slightly below the northern horizon to
reappear in the north northeast, and it
may be found again in that quarter
about four o'clock in the morning if the
| light of the gibbous moon now in its last
| quarter is not so brilliant as to quench it.
| In few days the moon will be out of
| sight at four o'clock in the morning, and
then the comet will be seen to better ad
vantage, and also what is a more glorious
sight than the comet itself-lhe eastern
sky glowing with the splendOr of four
planets, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Sa
turn, the brilliant first magnitude stars
| Capella Aldebaran, Castor and PolluX.
with the Pleiades shining family near
the zenith, and the majestic Orion well
above The horizon still pursuing the still
reireating bul. with no hope of ever over
/ taking him. The astronomical deScrip-
ton of the new comet gives it head
I 1850 miles in diameter. tail ., 200, 600
miles in length. and its distance from the
sun 81 0O0. 600 miles. 1t will continue
to grow brighter for several days, but
will never appear as brilliant as the
| comet of June.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

The New York sun alludes to naval
junketing parties in government vessels
in these terms:
This particular method OF indirect
stealing is one of the many vices fastened
on the public service by Grantism, and
adopted as part of the Republican creed.
Before Grantism had demOralized the de-
partmenis no Cabinet officer would have
dared to take a public vessel for his per.
sonal convenience. On one occasion
when Mr.. Cobb was Secretary of the
Treasury. he arranged q pleasure party
on board the revenue cutter Harriet
Lane for an excursion down the Pcto-
mac. When the fact came to Mr..
Buchsnsn's knowledge he at once sent
for Mr. Cobb and inquired by what au-
thority he had used the cutter. The
Secretary made a poor excuse; he was
required to pay the expenses Of his ex-
cursion."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

Mr.. Smith. the general manager Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, says that
the road to Yorktown will be completed
in time to carry passengers to the cen
tennial. All Of the bridges and nearly
all Of the heavy work on the line have
already been completed, or soon will be.
The road viii be finished, Mr.. Smith
says. TO Newport News at the same time.
Cars viii he run through from Louisville
and Cincinnati direct to Yorktown. For
some time serious doubts have been en-
tertsined about the ability Of the road
70 complete the new lines in time for the
centennial, but Mr.. Smith is now salts
fed that there will be no obstacle in the
way Of accomplishing that objsct This
viii tend 70 make the celebration a great
er success, and wss really the greatest
drawback TO the project anticipated.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

Since the Republican party became
the minority political organization Of the
country in 1874, it has had the frequent
aid Of the political parsons, their aid
being made important by the fact that
their clerical character gave the appear
ance Of truthfulness to whatever false
hoods they chose 10 prOmulgate. Now.
the Ohio Republicans are undergoing an
experience Of somewhst similar charsc-
ter to that forced upon the Democracy
during the past decade. The temper
suce movement in that State is led by a
number Of Republican elergymen, and
the Republican managers are earnestly
engaged in deprecsting the "sdmixture
Of religion and politics For obvious
reasons. they did not discover the mex
pediency Of the sdmix,uge in past cam
raigns. but they discern il very clearly
ns~.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

There is great deal said about the
business boom in New York and the
rapidly advancing prices of real estate
there, but there are nevertheless pretty
strong surface indications that every
thing isn't so lovely as painted. The
sale of nearly five thousand lots of
ground for unpaid taxes looks, for
example, as though there was more de-
preston than the spectators are willing
IN admit
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

4 company has recently been formed
in Schuylkill county, Pa, whose plan
is as follows: Its agents will hunt up a
number Of unmarried men and women.
who will be charged a couple of dollars
to become members. After a class Of
]. 600 has been obtained the association
viii be in running order. Upon the
marriage Of q member all the other men,
bers viii be assessed according 10 the
size Of the certificates or policies they
hold As most Of them win hold 81, 900
policies the assessment viii be 81.
When sn pay up the sum is handed over
to the insured, less commissions for col
lection.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

terms they have employed might be carried.
But 1t Is not the improbabitY of its exercise,
but It's possibility, to which Lawmakers
must look In every act of legislation affect
Ing the rights Of the citizens, or those of
chartered corporations. That it should be
In the power of any board or body whatever
to muzzle the press, or any portion of 1t,
and to suppress the freest and fullest
investigation of any subject of q public
nature, Is proposition to which our
people are not yet prepared to submit.
Withholding the power removes the tempta-
ton to pervert 1t, and, as human nature Is
constituted, we know of no other safe rule
for the guidance of legislation.
Acquiring the Commission of any cor
rupt or sinister motive in this recommends
ton, 1t is not easy to perceive on what prin-
ciple such power over the publication
action OF their decree should be granted
them. They allege the great saving Of
expense to be affected thereby. But the act
of October IA, lS79-the charter Of the Com
mission-Drescribes certain modes of publ
cation that are known to everybody.
Why do away with these and sub
stitute the arbitrary dicta OF the
sufficient publication and notice of their
acts and DEGREES. Every lawyer knows that
"notice" Is most important point in law,
and that 1t must invariably be given strictly
In the terms of the law requiring it. 1t
would be preposterous to leave it to
Judge on the bench, say that such and such
acts amounted to notice to litigant, when
the law had not been literally complied with,
as 1t would to allow a Judge to prescribe
arbitrarily what should be sufficient notice.
The Commissioners in their zeal for the
acquisition of additional power, seem not to
have followed out their recommendations
TO their logical sequences.
The getting rid Of an Inconvenience, or
what may appear such to the Commission,
like that of the publication of their DEGREES
and orders in terms of the statute requiring
them, may to them appear desirable. But,
as In phYsic, the removal of q slight distem-
per frequently brings on q greater, so in
law, and the affairs OF men, needless de-
parture from settled and established forms
and rules OF procedure, sanctioned by au-
thority, vindicate themselves In the end by
the evils that follow in the train OF the inno-
walton. 1t is better that the law be knOiO'l,
than that 1t be right, and 1t lie, In our judg
ment, far better that even needless require
ments in the act, as to publication, be pre-
served, than that they be left In the breasts
OF the Commission to publish in such modes
and at such seasons as may appear to them
most fit and proper.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
after a careful review of the political
situation in Virginia, says that the result
of his inquiries among the Funder-
Democrats may be summed up in the
statement that they are sanguine of
carrying the State ticket and hopeful,
but by no means certain, of getting a
majority of the Legislature"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-22

So far as we have observed only one
Republican paper in the country openly
denounces the coalition with Malone
and the consequent degradation Of the
Republican party in Virginia That
paper is the ancient but honorable Phils
delphia North American Two Others
are still on the fence and may possibly
alight on the right side. viz: the Boston
Transcript and the New York E1eHfHg
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