Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-25
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The Greensboro Igu,e .IoUrHQi. the
C0trcQ ldceH<er the Americus Re
-grIer. the Dalton Arqps, the Amer
icu- Sumter EyuJiic0H. the Griffin
Ne,~s and the GAINESVILLE GOzette. IN
Gieorgia. the GreenyIlle AdcGc0te, in Ala
hama. and the Knoxville, Tennessee,
Iribonc. have all recently sent out MAN.
moth trade issues, Of which copies have
been received an this ofse. The Morn
GNG NEw- is pleased to SEE these evil
denccs of the prosperity Of its contempt
rarics. and % acknowledge the enterprIs-
ing spirit Of improvement they unmistak-
ably Indicate in the press Of the Interior
40 better evidence can be offered Of the
thrift and progress Of community than
the substantial support Of its representa-
tive journal. and reciprOcally that jour
nal can give no stronger proof Of its ap-
probation and wOrthiness than in warm,
! energetic and consistent advocacy Of the
common interfsts Of the community.
4 remarkable story is related in an
| Erie. Pennsylvania, special TO the New
/ York HcraId. respecting the finding OF
| long lost paper, upon which depends a
I WASH amount % lllbhfA a NV WINS
AGO. according to the story. Margaret
/ Gaunt, AGED 96 years, died at the above
named place. Just before she died she
/ wrote "A letter to "A nephew, named Ed
ward Gaunt. who resides in England, tell
! ing him 20 come to her home and take
| possession Of valuable family papers. 1t
seems that the papers which Mrs. Gaunt
/ had belonged 10 her great-great-great-
! Grandmother, who was burned
/ AT the stake during the reign of King
/ jaime II. because she had unwittingly
1 sheltered James Burton, who was a con-
| spirator in the Rye House plot The
name Of this three-times removed grand
mother was Elizabeth Gaunt, and il
seems that when the King discovered that
an innocent woman had been executed
/ he granted an annual money indemnity to
| Elizabeth Gaunrs family. This indemnity
was paid up 10 1916. when a branch of the
/ Gaunt family which had this paper came
/ 10 this country. The paper has been
| sought for over a century. The nephew.
! Edward Gaunt. arrived from England last
/ saturday and found the document III
question among the papers Of his deceased
aunt. The amount due the Gaunts is
| about s., 600 900. Granting that the story
is genuine, it is pretty certain that the
| English Government will never pay the
/ money the document calls for.
We shall soon come 10 believe that there
is very little in history that is true. We
/ thought that if there was one thing that
we could feel sure about it was that Co
lumbus discovered America. The New
York World, however, says that it ''seems
that even Columbus must 90. too. We
have grown so accustomed to revere him
as the discoverer Of this country that some
thine like a shock is felt at the attempt
now making by the ethnOlogists Of COpen-
haaeu To prove that the NOrsemen made
VOYAGES 10 this country centuries
before Columbus was born. And yet
these iconoclastic borrowers are max
ing out pretty clear case against
Columbus, who. it appears, was sort of
exploring plagairist and came across an
old Iceland manuscript Of the seventh
century which described this continent
and gave him his cue. Ii makes one lose
all respect for the man who performed the
celebrated egg trick to know that Euro
peans were sailing up and down this
coast and trading off beads for tobacco
about the time of COnstantin inc ""
We shall soon be asked 90 believe that
there is no truth in the story about George
Washington and the cherry tree. notwith-
standing the fact that the hatchet with
which the tree was cut is shown to those
who visit Mount Vernon.
The New York Times inks that the
surplus in the Federal Treasury is too
large. The Times will admit, however,
that its party refused to permit legIsla-
tion last winter that would have made a
very large reduction in the revenue.