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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
He MaItzed No More.
Giiih0ley's EtchiHgS.
4 So.


''lmOgenc. waltz no mOre!'
The ball was at its height. \ thousand
rays of brilliant light danced from the
polished pendants of glass chandeliers,
Illuminated with \ 1 gas at 81 80 per
thousand. upon the terpsichOrean reVelers.
Winding in and out amid the sinuOus
intricacies of the racquet" Marco Booze
Harris had whirlcd in glad rapture with
his darling afiianced, ImOgene Mcintosh,
for full fifteen minutes by his four dollar
watch, when he stopped suddenly and
gave utterance to- the chilling words
above, whose sternness pierced her heart
like a knife and drove all the flush of en-
jOyment from her fair face.
''Why, what aileth thee, star of my eX-
istence: Art suffering pain? Tell me, !
beseech thee, dearest Marco, why thou
backed up against the wall and refuseth
tOmOve:' and Imogene looked at him with
an appealing expression that would have
melted the most adamantine will.
press me not. oh. Imogene. for my rea-
sons; for God knows l would fain keep
the terrible secret locked within NV aching
breastw wildly calculated Booze Harris,
and he stood erect like soldier on guard,
and Rugged the frescoed wall of the pala-
tial Mcintosh parlOr.
The sweet strains Of music still pealed
forth; the gay walters passed and re-
passed the couple; and yet they wiss not
the nll3rlty. MS mlnd being HNed upon
the cause of his agony, and hers being Oc-
cupied with wonder at his strange ac-
tiOns.
Marco, since | have been engaged to
thee l have never known one unhappy
moment until now. As an ice-cream pro-
ducer thou hast been a success. Thou
hast paralyzed me with operas twice a
week, Royalty generous hast thou been
with me in the oyster and the quail-on-
toast line! Caramels, jewelry, buggy
rides, and, in fact, everything a maiden
could desire, have been shOwered upon
me in lavish prOfusiOn by thy hands! All!
/ can truly say that l considered thee the
very ideal of a man; but if thou hast not
confidence enough in thy promised bride
to tell her what's proving upon thy mind
and caused thee to waltz no more we
part here, sir, and forever; f-O-r-e-v-e-r -
and Miss Mcintosh broke down with Il
storm of sObs.
'Oh, God, cannot lose thee thusn
call heaven TO witness that | would have
saved thee this, but rather than have thee
doubt me I'll tell thee. cen though my
tongue palsies in articulating the infor-
nation"
Marco gave one last frenzied and des-
pairing glance around the room, and with
brain reeling, he glued himself closer to
the wall and Numbered:
s-ImOgene, l waltz no more because l
have ruptured my suspenders and there
is no back strap on my pantS.'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Modern Trunk-HandIing.

Modern Improvement in the handling of
trunks has to a large extent done away
with the trade of the fierce and muscular
'baggage smasher,' whose Vengeful and
destructive skill has caused more female
heaTtaches than Cupid himself. Patent
baggage carts, baggage elevators and
new-fangied. baggage trucks have so
lightened the labor of transportation that
a traveller no longer considers it necessary
to look out at every change to see if his
garments are safe in their places or
scattered over the platform or baggage
car floor. 4 box full of gold bricks could
scarcely be watched with more care than
a trunk is looked after by the big rail-
way companies in these days of
travel. The destination of every
one of the 1900 pieces of baggage which
goes out of the Broad street station, Phil
adelphia, daily. is recorded in a book, and
every time it changes cars a receipt is
taken by the train baggage master and
sent back to the Philadelphia offices. If,
for instance, in a journey from Philadel-
phia to New Orleans the trunk changes
cars ten times, ten receipts, showing
whose hands il passed through, and who
delivered TO the passenger and received
the check, are taken and returned to the
men who started il on its voyage. a
trunk which left Broad street station a
year ago can be traced by the receipts
here through all its routes and through
whose hands il passed, to its destination.
Thus it happens that of the 100000 sent
out last year not a single trunk was lost.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Accidents ON the Rail.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. pa col
lisiOn occurred on the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad this morning about
o'clock at COaling. Ala, between the
south bound New Orleans express train
and north bound freight train. Some
reports state the number of killed as four
and several as severely injured. Coaling
Is ten miles south of Birmingham. The
accident was caused by an open switch.
is now learned that the collision was
caused by freight train running on the
schedule of a passenger train instead of
by an open switch as was first stated.
Both engines were demolished and the
baggage, express and smoking cars of the
passenger train were badly wrecked. The
first news of the accident was exaggerat-
ed. 4 porter had his leg broken, but no
one else was seriously hurt.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
BRAwNs sBATTLEwITBCAPTTa1
ApprehensiOns of an Encounter with the
Iron Mountain Strikers.


MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Nov. PA dis
patch from Iron Mountain says: 'sThere
has been no violence as yet attempted by
the striking miners at the Chaplin and
Ludington mines of the Menominee COM
pany, but the officers have secretly sent
for more police, and it is stated that Gov.
Begole has been asked to forward a COM
pany of militia as soon as possible
The strikers have forced all the
employees to Join their ranks. and
stopped the pumps Tuesday night, which
will cause the mines to fill
with water. The fires are now out and
the water is gaining rapidly. Pinkerton's
men are guarding the machinery. Sew
eral shots were fired Tuesday night by
unknown parties, which threw the women
into Mysteries and caused general alarm.
The strikers number 800, and they have
posted notices warning others to keep
away from the mines. They have de-
manded full pay without deduction of
board bills or store accounts, but the
company refuse to accede to their terms.
NEW ORK, Nov. 22.-The strike of the
cigar Box Makers Union still continues
without change. The cigar manufacturing
firm of JOsephs g. Co. has been obliged to
suspend business on account of the strike,
ana TWO other firms have been obliged to
suspend, large number of their hands
not being able to obtain a sufficient sup
ply of cigar boxes.
BOSTON, Nov. 22.-The recent strike of
some bottOmers in j. 0. Wilson & Co.'s
shoe factory at Natick has resulted in
general strike, all the lasters and machine
men leaving shop to-day.
MONTREAL, Nov. pa further INSTALL
ment of operatives in the Grand Trunk
Railway shops has been temporarily dis.
charged. One foundry has given notice
OF % per cent. reduction in the wages of
moulders, and the men have accepted the
reduction
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
BLAIR AND PUGH IN AUGUSTA.
Messrs. Estes, Phinizy and Walsh Tes-
tify Concerning Southern Industries.

Messrs. Estes, Phinizy and Walsh Tes-
tify Concerning Southern Industries.
AUGUSTA, GA, Nov. Ex-senator Blair
and Pugh, Subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor, ar
rived in this city from Atlanta this even
ing and will take testimony here.
Charles Estes, President of the King
Mill, Charles S. Phinizy, President of the
Augusta Factory, and Patrick Walsh.
editor of the Chronicle and Constitutional
tSt, testified before the Senate sub-Com-
mittee on Education and Labor tonight.
Messrs. Estes and Phinizy said
that they did not need protec-
tion for their goods. They were
willing that the industries that needed
protection should be protected by tariff,
and while they did not want protection
for their own products they preferred to
enjoy the protection which the tariff
affords. Mr.. Walsh said that it was the
duty Of the government to protect Ameri-
can labor and products against the labor
and products Of other countries that
come into competition with them. He
claimed that the Southern cotton fac
tories did not compensate their labor
sufficiently, and that the larger portion of
the profits should go to the help rather than
to the stockholders. He said that there
had not been an equitable division of the
profits between labor and capital, which
accounted for the large dividends paid to
stockholders in the Southern cotton fac
tories. The committee adjourned at II
O'Clock to meet at 8 O'Clock tomorrow
morning
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23

lie orEauization of q messens ser-bOy ser
rl. IS Icing agitaJed In Jacksonville.
n So Louis Baseball Club will play at
.l.-0lsiile on Monday and Tuesday next
T.e-teamer HancoN goes to Cedar Key 20
--. .r .asnecti0u with the Transit Railroad,
contract.
I.e standard time has beer adopted in the
. schools. and the clocks ia an the school
-.- in Jacksonville were set back yester-
'ac--2uVilie's Council is having lively
-- The bones Of contention at the last
l- were the enforcement Of the sunday
-N. tlc annual appropriations and the cleo
@ NJ Fire Chief. No conclusion was
~ ou the last two questions. The old
..lalcc governing business on sunday con-
-- u operation without amendment.
nan about - years old. clean shaven,
build and Of gcntlemanly appearance,
.I.tel ar Jacksonville on Thursday OF last
...k ami registered at the ~. Johns House.
-H- -I- Cousins. y. J." Wednesday morning
Ta- found dead ia bed with bullet wound
- relst and pistol iying by his side. lt
Nt- aa uumistakeable ease of suicide. In
a-- which he left living on the table near
IS .-.le. he hequeathed 70 b. K. Lane.
a C the hotel, his money. gold watch.
-- charm. cun buttons all his wearing
r-el and his trunk and valise- In an uid
at pocket were S235 in bills, and
tae trunk 81 81. Among the ef-
was rubber stamp bearing
t Udrls ~QctOber 6. lSS}. Value asked
.-- u1t eiven.' pocket scales. a brass Ameri-
r Express Company's badge No. 9ji. In
, ..trcrs Cousins expressed the belief that
l..l who arrived in the city on the afternoon
rre tle suicide were detectives who were
--llnE him. He appeared perfectly rational
a.lc ln tHe city. and the cause for
r -uiciie 9. "a mystery. Some incline TO
le belief that his fear Of detectives
e resuit Cf some dishonesty while en-
CO in an express Office. The general I'M
..--.l is that Cousins is not the mans real
--e. aul that impression Is strengthened
tIc fact that when the undertaken went
trunk Co get clothing In which to bury
-e iuuul small pieces carefully cut out Of
.e various articles. which had the appearance
-as.a- heen taken 0ut IN order 10 remove a
- The name was 2lso erased from the
-aa- an4 in the bottom Of the trunk was
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Plans for EconomizIng space.

"Ofall the plans for ecOnomiZing space"
said "a patent lawyer, ''the man who just
left this office evolved the funniest. He
had a drawing of a sleeping car that he
wished me to get patented for him. He
thought it was a good thing, and would
hit the railroad managers hard because
it nearly doubled the number of berths in
a car. ! saw right away that the beds
were ridiculously short. l asked their
length. -Four feet and a half he replied,
'and that's plenty long enough. A care
full investigation has proved to me that
there is really no use III a bed being as long
as the person in it. Not one man in fifty
ever sleeps Strengthened out, and women
invariably draw up their knees, so that they
don't require more than a 4-fOot bed. 1t
is discovery of this fact as to sleeping
that l wish to protect by the patent. /
should stick up in each compartment a
printed notice explaining that the middle
of the car is much safer than the sides,
and, therefore, the closer their legs are
hauled in toward the centre partition,
where their heads are TO be, the less they
are liable to be hurt by collision" The
lawyer did not take the case. He also de-
clined that of man who wanted to patent
spring bottom for coffins, the idea being
that, if people were so generally ready to
buy easy couches for their bedrooms, they
would be still more desirOus of comfort in
their graves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
RAIN CAUSES A FLOOD.
Heavy Damage Entailed to Property i
Illinois and Missouri.

Heavy Damage Entailed to Property in
Illinois and Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. pa heavy rain yes
terday in Southeast Missouri overlooked
Mckenzie creek, which runs through
Reynolds county, and at Piedmont several
small houses and other property were
swept away. and two women and three
children are reported drowned. The loss
at Piedmont is about $4,000. Paradise
coal mine, one mile north Of Piedmont, is
flooded to a depth of foot, and also the
railway track running from the mine to
the town is flooded. At Centralia the
rain fell very heavily. streets were flooded
and cellars filled. The water is in many
places so deep that people cannot leave
their houses.
The rainfall yesterday extended over a
large portion of Southern Illinois. The
streams in the vicinity of Mt. Vernon
rose over their banks, and the crops in the
low lands were greatly damaged. Trains
on the Louisville and Nashville Airline
Roads are delayed by the washouts, and
two or three of them have stopped en-
tirely. Fears are felt for party of duck
hunters who left Mt. Vernon Sunday. The
country surrounding DuquOin is flooded,
and bridges have been swept away in
every direction. A large, double culvert,
three miles north on the Illinois Central
Railroad, has been washed out.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Row Sic Reformed Him.


a wel-known Santa Fe business man
-A- hne business and was making
money rapidly. but was an inveterate
s-la.ar. Every night would find him
away --1m his wife at faro table. The
L-th-NltlCd woman saw where the
-.-li- was. and one night after supper
asked her husband to 90 with her into
-----er room. There was dfarO table, a
lt. and stacks OF chips.
N'H. said she, 4 have $4,000 be-
l- 70 me in my own right. When
want % gamble come here"
ne was thuuderstruck. and swOre he
l never gamble again.
Se. You can afford to lose very
money. What IhaYe you can win.
-1At You 20 promise me that you Will
play faro except here"
ne rromised; and that faro LAYOUT has
-- used for the last i've months. With
r--l she has won from him. dealing her
~, she has paid $3.50 for a buggy and
--il a pretty little brick cottage which
little over 81, 900.
tQia her to put the whole arrange
--t in her trunk last week." said the re-
--Ale1 gambler, that / was tired of
---oling. / shall never touch another
lle correspondent happened to look
~ q gambling room the other night, a
hours after he had heard this story.
--si ie vas big game Of faro going on,
~, az one corner Of the table, his face
-s.ea with the gambling excitement
,t-ns nls chips and losing steadily, sal
r-S,-..h -.Ah whom his wife thought she had
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
KING ALFONSO'S VISITORS
10000 PEOPLE WITNESS HIS
LANDING AT VALENCIA,
No Insult offered to the Guest-Guns
Booming Afoat and AshOre-Peasant
Girls Present Him with Fruits and
Flowers-A Round of Receptions.

No Insult offered to the Guest-Guns
booming AfiOat and AshOre-Peasant
Girls Present Him with Fruits and
Flowers-A Round of Receptions.
MADRID, Nov. 22.-Ten thousand peo-
pie gathered at Valencia to witness the
landing of the Prince, greeting him with
loud cheers, while the men-of-war in the
harbor and the batteries on shore fired sa
lutes. Gen. Blanco, Count Won Salms
Sonnewalde, the German Ambassador at
Madrid, Aides-de-camp of the Emperor of
Germany and King Alfonso, the Civil
Governor of the Province of Valencia.
and other persons of distinction received
the Crown Prince at the landing point.
The receptiol took place in a tent. which
was tastefully decorated with the Ger
man and Spanish colors. When the
Crown Prince left the marquee twelve
peasant girls approached and presented
him with baskets Of fruits and flowers.
the Prince receiving the party. He then
drove TO the town. Troops lined the route
along which the visitor passed. He pro-
ceeded to the palace of the Captain Cen
eral OF Valencia, which was placed at his
disposal during his stay in the city. On
"ioHtih5 oHSlc IuTIuef OLucldl reception
was held. The Crown Prince subse-
quently proceeded to the Alemenda prone
made, where he witnessed a parade of
troops. On his return to the palace
he had another reception. Afterward he
appeared on the balcony, before which
there was great crowd who loudly
cheered him. Later in the day the Prince
drove through the streets of the city imam
open carriage. He visited the cathedral,
museum and other edifces. Everywhere
the Prince went he was saluted by the
loyal acclamations of the people. In the
evening he attended gala performance
In his honor at the theatre. He afterwards
left for Madrid, where he will arrive FRI
day afternoon.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Origin of the Word Mississippi

HdgdSt1e OF american History.
The Mississippi is good instance of
the variations through which some names
have passed. Its original spelling, and
the nearest approach to the Algonquin
word, 1.-THE father of waters" is Meche
Sebe, spelling still commonly used by
the Louisiana Creoles. Tonti suggested
Niche Sepe, which is somewhat
nearer to the present spelling. Father
Laval still further modernized it into
Michispi, which another father, Labatt,
softened into Misispi, the first specimen
of the present spelling. The only changes
since have been to overload the word with
consOnants. Marquette added the first
and some other explorer the second IS"
making it Mississippi, and so it remains in
France to this day, with only one ''p."
The man who added the other has never
been discovered, but he must have been
an American, for at the time Of the pur-
chase of Louisiana the name was generaI-
ly spelled in the colony with single ''p.,'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
FRANCO-CHINEsE AFFAIRS.
War Preparations Still Progressing but
no Fighting Done.

LONDON, Nov. pa Paris dispatch
says that it is absolutely true that China
has informed France that if the French
forces attack Bacninh it will be consid-
cred cdSns belh. 1t is reported that the
French troops in Tonquin are suffering
from dysentery.
PARIS, Nov. 22.-The latest news from
TonQuin confirms the previous reports
that Sontay is powerfully fortified by the
Chinese.
Orders have been given at Toulon to
prepare two transports for service i'll case
OF necessity. The question of preparing
supplementary war material at Toulon is
being considered. The Governor of French
Cochin China has telegraphed to Admiral
Peyron, Minister of Marine and of the
Colonies, that all the French reinforce
ments and provisions landed at Hal Phong
have been fnrwa del to Hanoi, and that
the health of the troops is excellent. The
Governor had no special incident to COM
municate. He said that several gunboats
mad been lightened to enable them to
ascend the canals.
BERLIN, Nov. 22.-The Cologne Ga
zette'S correspondent at Berlin saws that
a note has been presented bv the Chinese
Government to the foreign diplomatic re-
presentatives at Pekin. The note is
couched in very decided tone, and iusti-
hes Marquis Tseng's attitude toward
France. China abandons none of her
rights, but declares that should France
violate them war will be inevitable, and
France will be responsible therefor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
Unhappy Marriages with Foreigners.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-Consul j. F..
Potter, Of Crefeld, Prussia, has sent re-
port to the State Department, which gives
some singular and startling suggestions
as to the result of marriages between
American girls and German mobiles. In
thirty-three marriages cited there has
not only not been happy union, but
either divorce or an abandonment has
speedily followed the wedding. He finds
the reason for this unhappy state of affairs
to be that the American wives have, IN
every instance, been brutally treated, and
in some cases absolute violence has been
used. The brides were expected to per-
form the most menial offices. In one
stance the husband, who is an officer IN
of rank in the German army, demanded
that his wife should perform duties
usually assigned to the humblest SER
want, and one thing she was ordered to do
was to clean her husbands boots. She
drew the line at this point, and fled from
her foreign home. She is now back in her
fathers residence, he being a railroad
magnate in Western State. Mr.. Pot
ter's report gives still further food for re-
Election to those ambitious for eXpatria-
tiOn.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
American Mummies.
na,.,a....ts. IN,

1t seems the Alaska Indians preserve
the bodies of their dead, but by very
different process from that used by the
ancient Egyptians. The corpse is bundled
up and put into recess where it does not
decay, but is dried or desiccated. Four of
these Alaskan mummies have been
secured-one for the Smithsonian Institu-
tlon and the other three for the Berlin
Academy. The bodies were wonderfully
preserved. A woman evidently over 100
years dead was in a state of almost
perfect preservation. The only prepara-
tion of the bodies seemed TO be the re-
mOval of the viscera. The remains were
then covered with skins and taken to
caves or rocky shelters where there was
no moisture. Some of these mummies
were supposed to be several hundred
years old. The Alaska Indians of to-day
bury their bodies like other people. I'm
like the ancient Egyptians, who embalmed
all their dead, these Indians made num-
mics only of those whom they wished par
ticularly to honor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
CUBA'S BAND OF BANDITS.
Contradictory Reports as to their wher

Contradictory Reports as to their Where
abouts and the Governments Action.
HAVANA, Nov. 22.-Day before yester-
day all the principal papers contained a
short notice to the effect that they had
been notified, through the Secretary of
the government, that the bandit Acquero
and his men had left the island. No ex-
plantations were given, and consequently
no one is astonished that tie most con-
Trajectory Iumors are abroad respecting
the peaceable departure of the gang
OF rutfians who for nearly a
year have been the terror of
the region where their depredations
were committed, the Royal and Civil
Guards having failed to capture them.
The rumOrs alluded to state ON one side
that Acquero and his band were pardOned
on condition OF their leaving the island,
to which others add that they received
from the government in order to get rid
of them a large sum of money, and
on the other side it is said that
AcquerO and his followers reached the
coast and succeeded in escaping to a
place outside of Cuba to meet the BOnae-
heas party. The latter supposition is the
least probable, and many believe that
there is some truth in both stories that
the government has exercised toward the
bandits a clemency which, in view of it's
objects, may prove to have been mis-
placed