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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
Weather Indications.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
IEsToN, D. c., March l7.-Indications for
Saturday:
In the South Atlantic States, local rains
and slightly warmer, partly cloudy weather
and lower barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, east to
south winds, warmer, generally cloudy
weather and rain, and lower barometer.
10 the Gulf States, local rains and partly
cloudy weather, southerlY winds shifting to
westerly and northerly, in the western por-
tion falling followed by rising barometer,
aud In the eastern portion a slight rise in
temperature, and in the western portion
slightly cooler weather.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rain,
followed by partly cloudy weather, winds
shifting to southwest and northwest, rising
temperature and falling followed by rising
barometer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
BRITAIN'S REALM.
The Conservatives and the OIOIure-
Bradlaugh's C1Rstftuents - The
Home Rule League-SIaVerY In
BorneO.

LONDON, March 1.-THE meeting of Con-
servstive members of Parliament at the
Carleton Club to-day, to consider the clo-
ture resolutions, was private. 1t is under
stood that Sir Stafford Northcote expressed
desire to oppose the cloture to the utmost,
his willingness to vote for Mr.. Marriott's g
amendment to the proposed Parliamentary
rules, providing that no rules shall be salts
factory which will enable a bare msiority
to close the debate, and his desire to con-
clude the discussion before Easter Those
present heartily coincided with his views
The Conservative leaders incidentally laid
stress on the necessity Of dealing with the
utmost caution with matters relating to Ire.
land.
meeting OF the electors of Northamp-
ton has approved Bradlaugh's conduct in
the House of Commons, and passed resolu-
tions authorizing the executive of the Lib
eral aud Radical Union to sign petition to
the House praying that he be heard at the
bar in support of its claim of the right to be
represented in the House by the speeches
and vote of It's duly elected member.
In the House of Commons this evening
the motion of Mr.. Gorst CONSERVATIVE,
praying that the Queen revoke or alter so
much Of the charter of the British North
Borneo Association as gives implied sanction
to slavery, was rejected by a vote of
125 to g.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Forty-two well developed cases OF small
pox are at Norfolk, Va.
Mary Anne Herman died at Louisville. a
few nights ago, aged fifty-four years She
had not tasted food since January 81, and
refused water for fifteen days.
It is reported that General Predergast has
resigned the Captain Generalship of Cuba
because of dssentions between Liberals
and Conservatives on the island.
The Irish Times says a meeting was to be
convened in Dublin yesterday for the pur-
pose OF considering a resolution for dis
solving the Home Rule League.
The committee of twenty-five of the
French Chamber of Deputies, appointed to
examine NJ. Boysett's proposal for abolish
ing the concordat, is, with the exception of
two OF It's members, opposed to the measure.
The execution of DR.. Lamson has been
fixed for April 4th. It is stated that the
Treasury authorities have received informa-
tion leading them strongly to suspect that
DR.. LamsJn is guilty of other serious
crimes.
Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, pub
fishes song of thanksgiving for the
Queens escape at the hands of Maclean
which will be sung to music in London and
throughout the colonies on the anniversary
An apparently well-fouuded rumor is cir
culating in Washington to the effect that
Police Commissioners Stephen B. French will
he appointed Collector of the port of New
York in the place Of Judge Robertson, who
is to be cared for, however, in some other
way.
D. A. Mcdonald brought to Halifax,
N. s, from gold claim belonging to him
in Car bou, Halifax county, a bar of gold
weighing one hundred ounces, made up of
findings on the claim. The claim was at
once purchased for $4,000 by Adams &
DeCamps, of New York.
In Southeastern Arkansas agents sent to
examine the state of affairs report that from
Tripp's Station to Arkansas City the water
is five to fifty feet deep, and the journey
can only be made by boat. All along the
route colored people were seen quartered
in lofts of houses, with water running
swiftly through the main rooms, while cats,
dogs and hogs gathered on the roofs, and
the cattle that had escaped drowning were
standing upon narrow strips of dry ground
or quartered upon RATS not far distant.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
SOUTH BETHLEHEM.
The Terrible State of Affairs In the
Plsgue stricken Town.

PHILADELPHIA, March IA semi official
statement from South Bethlehem yesterday
protested that the reports of the prevalence
Of small pox there had been greatly exag-
gerated facts, but to days dispatches report
one hundred and fifty cases in eighty-fve
houses. Disinfectants are being used by the
Wholesale. All the barber shops are closed.
Five pudding furnaces and the rolling mill
have stopped for want of men, not that
so many of the men are sick, but
because many men, living in infected
houses are qusrantined. The quarantine is
enforced by Bethlehem on the opposite side
OF the Lehigh river. Citizens not already
quarantined In their houses are leaving the
town or sending their families away. Nearly
every student in the Lahigh University and
Bishops Thorpe Fem4le Seminary has left.
No mail matter is allowed to leave the in
tec,ed district. The health officers have
been given police power. Two hospitals
have been equipped and are rapidly filling.
The disease is now reported in Bethlehem,
where four cases appeared to-day.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
The Prnteetire Policy.

Journals that have been bowling about
protection from American industries will
do well to read the following facts, which
have been compiled by the Vincenncs
Qnd Ntios::
Very few persons realize the enormous
tax they are compelled to pay in conse
quence of this so called protective policy
of the United States
From statistics within our reach we
find that the people of the United States
use about $4,000, 600 of blankets
annually. The duty on these blankets,
if imported, amounts to about 86 per
cent. of what they would cost free Of
duty.
Hence in buying blanket nearly half
we pay for it is tax. In other words we
pay each year SO 762. 66S for blankets
and s.. .247, ,312 to the manufacturers as
tax. which we would not have to pay
were there no duty.
On this amount of taxes the government
in 1879 got 81 233, that being the amount
Of duty collected on imported blankets.
Again in the matter of cotton fabrics.
The home productions for cotton fab
RIGS for 1879 is put down by a good sta
tistician at $3.50, 600. .000
Allowing that competition reduces this
one-third, we still find that the American
people pay to the manufacturers $751;
500, 1000.
The government now gets a revenue
of sc. .577, 900 on the cotton goods i'm
ported.
Thus it goes all the way through.
From the same source from which the
above figures come we learn that the
people pay TO the manufacturers of
wooden goods every year 1924 $4,000.
= The government gets SIG, 1858 $50 as
tariff on this class of goods, which the
consumers also pay.
Cn pig iron we pay Pennsylvania
manufacturers a tax of $40. los sos year
ly; to the government only $613, ,032.
On steel rails we pay an animal tax of
$13, ,994 $40, of which the government
gets $72. 649.
Thus on these four or five classes of
goods the people of the United States
pay a tax of $3.50. .13S, ,O64 each year, be
ing nearly half what they pay for the
articles themselves. while of this sum
the government gets but little over 1884,
OOO, 600.
And why pay this stupendous tax ?
1t is the farmer and laboring man,
every person who buys plow or har-
row. or implement with iron in it; every
person who buys a yard of calico or
muslin, q coat or hat, every man who
sells bushel of grain, or sends a drove
of hogs to market, pays a part of it IN
the increased rate of freight he has to
pay.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

went crash through the window of the barber
shop next door, while still another unceremo-
niously entered the law Office Of Judge f. F.
Lawson at the rate Of mile minute and was
killed stone dead by the blow against the wall
Mr.. Polhin also had ST arrested, but the Solici-
tor. not thinking that sufficient proof could be
had, dismissed the prosecution"
With reference to the atrocious murder Of
the old man Hicks, in Gwinnett county, bv
revenue raiders. the Lawrenceville Herald
says: I'VE have Just learned of an outrageous
murder committed in this county on Tuesday
morning by band of men claiming to be reve-
nue. offers, for which. as we understand the
facts. there is no semblauce Of excuse or justi-
cation. II seems that jackson ]. Hicks, an old
man. supposed to be between sixty and seventy
years OF sge, lately put up little stillhouse on
Red Llnd creek, about four miles southwest of
Lawrenceville. On Monday night a psrft-of
men came into town on the train and proceeded
out to the locality of the stillhouse About sun
up on Tuesday morning they found the old
man at the still house. and when he discovered
them he started back to his residence about
three hundred yards distant. The revenue men
followed. and just as the old man got in the
yard and was walking along with his hands in
his pockets, he was shot down by one OF the
men in the presence of his wife The ball is
suppe ed to have passed through his heart as
he fell dead on the spot They then shot at a
sixteen-year-old boy. who had Just started 70
feed the horse and had pan Of meal in his
hand. When he was shot at he threw up his
hands like he was shot and run They pur
sued him and cqught him and beat him over
the head They left carrying the boy with
them The party went in the direction of At
lanta, and It is supposed they carried him
there. These are the facts as we learn them
| from reliable parties
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
PrOpelling Street Cars by Air.

HetUUStDntU AeCOT0, lOIn.
A test of the Mekarski compressed all
motor for driving street cars was made yes
terdav In the D3uphin street depot of the
Germantown Passenger Railway Company
The motor is French patent, and CONTROL.
ed In this country by Col. John E. Gowen,
who has undertaken to demonstrate the
feasibility OF running cars on the streets OF
Philadelphia upon this new plan. There
were present to witness Yesterdays test, be-
sides oilcers of che road, Captain Clipper
ton, the British Consul at this port; Vice
Consul Geo. Crump, John Lucas, Thos F.
Thompson, VIM. Anspacb, Geo. Fl. Richard
SOD, Major VIM. Greiner and others. The
car fitted up for the test was improperly con.
structed for developing the full over of the
motor, as the battery of eyllnders was placed
In one end OF the car irs'ead OF being dis
tributed underneath. Consequently much
valuable space was lost, and the battery con.
tained only seventy cubic feet OF air instead
Of 100 as designed. The object of the test.
however, was attained In showing that the
motor had sufficient power to drive heavi-
lY loaded car over the tracks. With the
battery charged with air compressed to 45O
pounds to the square inch the car made
several trips up and down in the depot. but
did not venture out on the street "a the
tracks had not been prepared for 1t. 81 will
be several weeks yet before thorough tests
for efficiency can be- made, and IL these
result satisfactorily tests for economy will
be made with cars constructed on an an
proved model. It is claimed that cars pro-
PEELED by this system can be run at a cost of
cents per mile, or one-half what horse
power costs.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
BURIED ALIVE.
Horrible Fate of Five Boys I'm Mis-
souri,.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, March 17.-YesterdaY a
party of boys, aged from eighteen to seven
teen years, all belonging to well to dc
families, to amuse themselves dug a tunnel
in hillside on the outskirts of the city.
They worked in reliefs. Five were left by
their companions at o'clock. When the
others returned at 5 O'Clock the tunnel was
found to have caved in upon the workers,
and the whole five were dead when extri-
Gated. The tunnel, which was dug ten feet
into the hill, was several feet wide aud had
no supports overhead.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
CRUSHED ON THE RAILS.
An Escaped Negro Convict EIangIed
in South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, March ia colored convict,
sentenced at the Laurens court to
the penitentiary for one year, for
burglary and larceny, escaped from
Pringle's phosphate works on the
Ashley river last Thursday, and this
morning a passenger train on the South
Carolina Railroad ran over him near Fort
Motto, cutting his head off and otherwise
mutilating his body. His shackles were still
on when discovered by the engineer. He
was lying face down between the rails, and
is supposed to have been already dead.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
THE LAWRENCE STRIKERS.
Further Trouble Feared Great Ex-
element.

LAWRENCE, MASS, March 17-The strike
of the ring spinners in the Pacific Mills is
increasing. To-day, after they had received
their pay, thirty five of those employed in
the lower Pacific Mills left the mills, stop
ping seventY-eight frames. They allege as
the cause that the Pacific authorities ordered
the boarding house keepers not to board the
strikers from the upper mill. Matters
are at fever heat. general strike in the
other departments is feared. The entire
cotton spinning force of the Central Pacific
Mill has struck, stopping three thousand
three hundred spindles. A meeting of
the strikers had at Early Hall was addressed
by Hector Mccoy, editor of the Catholic
Herald. Great excitement prevails.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

LONDON, March 17.-In Mincing Lane
during the past week the markets were in
active. There were large stocks and prices
were weak. The lowness of Burmah rice
led to some speculative demand. With an
increased supply of coloury and plantation
Ceylon coffee quotations ia many cases re-
ceded 2s to B.. per hundred. Fine bold Costa
Rica, of the new crop, sold up to 95s.
per hundred weight. The imports were
large. Sugar was fairly steady. Numerous
cargoes of foreign continue unsold. Crys.
talliZed West india has fallen 306 pence per
hundred weight. Low brown is unchanged.
The yield OF beet sugar In Germany and
Austria IN 1SSl-'S2 exceeds that of any
former season. China tea Is unaltered. In
dian was irregular. Pepper was firmer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY. MARCH IS, 1882.

tute for Mr.. Carlisle's bill, amending the
internal revenue laws. In the substitute
the provision reducing the tax on distilled
spirits to so cents a gallon is omitted.
The penalty on warehouse bonds is
doubled, in all cases, up to 10000
barrels, when the bond shall be $2OO,O
and in no case shall the penalty on any
warehouse bond exceed 5000, 900. The time
during which spirits may remain in bond is
extended indefinitely. The Internal Reve-
nue. Commissioner is authorized to establish
bonded warehouses in any district at his
discretion as to the number. Sections 5 to
10 inclusive OF the Carlisle bill are en-
bodied entire in the new bill. The provis-
ion for a tsx of one dollar and half on
foreign brandy and distilled spirits, and on
all cordials and bitters containing spirits, Is
stricken out.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

Mr.. Lyman Seeds, of Dunkirk, N. r.,
says: 81 want everybody to know that
Browns Iron Bltters has cured me Of a
complication of disorders that affected my
general health to such an extent that was
unable to do any work. My principal
troubles was poor digestion, painful urina-
tion, and weak lungs. Ihaye been restored
to perfect health. .
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
A Case for COnkIing,

ST. LOUIS, March 17.-Rosco Conkling
has been engaged to make the presentation
before the United States Supreme Court of
the case of Charles F. King, the notorious
murderer Of this city. The matter will
come up at the October term of the court,
and involves the question whether the law
under which King was tried and convicted
is not eg DOst fIctO.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
SAVANNAH RIVER AND HARBoR.

The following is the full text of the bill in
troduced in the Senate by Senator Brown and
referred to the Commerce COMMITTEES of thai
body
'Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the United States of America
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. the
amount estimated for by the Engineers De
partment, be, and the same is hereby, appro
prlated for the year ending June thirtieth
eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the i'm
provement Of the Savannah river and harbor
from the city of Savannah to the bar at Tybee
Island, to be expended there in accordance
with the plan recommended by the Engineer's
Department for the clearing of the channel to
the depth of twenty two feet" PoroHAc.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
Cotton Futures in New York.

NEW YORK, March II The Posts cotton
report says: Future deliveries opened l0C
lower, and lost after the first call another 9
to 3-10O. Then commenced an advance,
which brought prices up to Yesterdays clos.
ing quotations, but as offers were greatly
increased they fell again to 8-100, and
IL 43, June IL 66 and 10 81, July at IL 81 and
II SO. August at IL 80, namely s-100 lower
than Yesterday at the closinq.1
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

LONDON, March IS "A leading weekly
grain circular says: "The grain markets
were firmer. Wheat was dearer in all
positions. The spot markets were dearer,
and large business was done. Cargoes off
coast are held for shilling advance. Spot
wheat was Id. to 21. dearer Corn was
strong and ID. to 3d. better. To-day there
vas an average attendance. The tone was
firm, and there vas healthy consumptive
demand, Wheat advanced Id to I'd. Corn
advanced %. to 81. and was In fair request.
Flour was unchanged
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
Germany, Austria aud the Pam
aIaVIsGa

LONDON, March IA dispatch from
Berlin to the Times says: "There seems to
be a decided determination on the part of
Germany and Austria to reply with facts
to the Panslavist tendencies of Russia
Such a fact was the speedy recognition of
Servia's elevation to the rank of kingdom,
and the formal incorporation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina with Austria would be a second
significant answer to the Panslavists."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

LONDON, March 17.-Herr Ruff, of Prus.
STA, writes to the Jewish World saying that
the decisions of the s.. Petersburg commits
sion on the Jewish question In favor of com
pelling the Jews to quit the rural districts
ETC., although ostenslbly aimed at the pre-
vention of persecution, will have the i'm
mediate effect Of depriving a million people
of their homes and rendering their life un-
bearable.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

Epitaph hunters may be glad to know
that rich reward awaits the enterprising
seaFcher in the lonely mountain gulches OF
Colorado. The following specimens will
serve to illustrate the prevailing sentiment
Of these last tributes:
He had sand in his craw,
But was slow on the draw,
SO we p!suted hini'out in the dew
which is equivalent to saying that it is essen
tial TO be quick as well as brave. Another
inscription thus accounts for tragedy IN
which q man shot his wife and then killed
himself in dismal gulch near Del Norte;
1.-TWO poor tenderfeet~eouldn't stand the
altitude,u
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
Greece and the Powers.

ATHENS, March 17.-In the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday M. Tricoupis, President
OF the Council, on reading the programme
OF the new government, said the country
must be prepared for the coming changes
in the East, and that amicable relations
must be maintained with every country, es-
pecially with Turkey.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
The Torch In New Haven.

New HAVEN, March 17-E4rly this morn
ing Konold's gin distillery at Grapevine
Point was totally burned. Loss $35 .00O In
surauca 10000. An hour later, while the
engines were still busy at Konold's distil-
lery the Calvary Baptist Church was burned
OUT, causing loss of about $75, ,000 ID-
surAnce $47 $50. Both fires are supposed to
have been incendiarV.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
FatefuI waits rom the Oce.r

LONDON, March IA portion of boat
has been washed ashore on the coast of the
county Kerry, bearing the name Getty of
LondoD;" also some wreckage supposed to
which sailed from Pensacola on the 26th Of
October for Cardiff.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
FAILURE IN AUGUSTA.
stone * Co. Compelled to Assign.

AUGUSTA, GA, March 10. NJ Stone &
Co., cotton merchants, cotton gin manufac-
turers and guano dealers, made an assign
ment to day for the benefit of their creditors.
Their liabilities are about $40, 900 and their
nominal assets $50 .00O Among the assets
is the gin mandatory valued at $50 600.
They have preferred creditors TO the amount
OF about so COO.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
rrne nTeriI AIwara Wina.

There is constantly increasing demand fol-
Browns Iron Bitters. A druggist on Wash
iDgton street reports the sale Of twenty
three bottles the first month eiehty-six
bottles the secoR1 month, and l46 bottles
the third mouth and not one complaint or
failure TO give entire satisfaction as being
the very best health and life-giviDg medi-
cine In all the world.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
An Editor charged win ForserV

WATEsEKA, ILL March III. w. John
son, of Sheldon, editor of the Gazette, a
prominent Republican politician and an ap.
plicant for the Swedish Consulship, il
charged with having forged commercial pa
per to the extent of several thousand dol
lars, and has left the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
st. PatrIck,s Dsv Celebrations

WASHINGTON, March list. Patrick's
day was observed here by fine parade of
all the Irish societies. A general observ.
auce of the daV In a similar manner is re-
ported throughout the country. An excep-
Irishmen voted to expend for benevolent
objects the money that the street display
would cost.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

According to Lord Dessrt, Lord Harting-
ton wrote to Lord Spencer the other day to
consult him in the matter of pair of horses.
Toe latter, without reading the postscript,
forwarded the note to friend IN the Carl
ton, whom he considered qualified to decide
the questions asked by the Chief Secretary
for Iadia. The Tory, however, happening
to turn over the page, found to his infnite
entertainment, the following P. s.: "When
will this id government be outgn
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

DETROIT, March 17-More of the;rascali-
ties Of Adrian's deeamping Mayor, Thomas
j. Navin, are coming to light. Two mort
cages, one for 81, 900 and the other for ST.
060 on which the agent for the mortgage
attempted to collect the interest this morn
ing, are proved to have been forged by
Navin, who pretended to act as agent for
the mortgagor and thus succeeded in the
sWindle.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18
AngIo-Amerfean COpYrIght.

LONDON, March IL The Daily NeDs this
morning saya: 1.-THE suspension of the
negotiations in regard to a copyright treaty
between England and America is entirely
due to lack of common action among
American publishers"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

New YORK, March I7.-One hundred and
ninety-eight gentlemen attended the ban
quet of the Friendly Sons of st. Patrick at
Delmonico's tonight. Justice Davis pre-
sided, and the guest of the evening, General
Grant, sat on his right.