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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

A house built to Withstand tomatoes
so the Minnesota Tribune says-is that OF
a banker. the wealthiest man in Osakls,
MINI. All the corners are acute angles,
and the sides sink back into other angles,
Giving this architectural freak the con-
tour of a star, From the highest point OF
the roof the cutters sink suddenly, max
inc Great depressiOns. This angulaIlty
was. it is said, inspired by the banker
wife. who lives in constant dFeau ol
storms. The corners were mace Yer!
sharp. to split tOrnadoes. The cellar
walls are Of unusual thickness, and the
timbers of the structure are anchored IN
them. so that the house may not be blown
down without taking up the foundations.
All the weather boarding is put on IN
Oblique lines.
BISHOP WINGFIELD told the General
Episcopal Convention at Philadelphia
that very few Of the eighty millionaires
of san Francisco are disposed to DO any
thing for the cause of religion. Ihere are
40 Of American birth. Is Irish, jews .
Germans. 4 English, and l French. only
one is a member of Protestant churcn:
Flood occasionally gives few thousand
dollars to the poor, and, oil those VINO nay {
died, only James Lick has lett worthy
monument. The Bishop quoted from
living as generally misers, rascals or
fools, and the dead as having few OF them
gone with the poor to heaven, but as haY-
ing rather ''gone to meet Dives where the
climate is oppressive and the water IS
scarce.p
THE announcement IN cable dispatches
that the German military authorities have
decided to at once increase the artillery
arm from its present force of $40 batter
les to $50, thereby doubling it, NAV be
taken c0olly in the Fatherland, but 1t
sounds rather startling here in America
We have in our whole country, which IS
not only enormously larger than Germa-
ny, but contains much greater popuia-
ton, only sixty regular batteries, while
only ten of these are light or mounted bat
teries, the rest serving at heavy guns IN
harbOr forts. We did not even have ten
mounted regular army batteries a year
ago. Germany quietly adds $40 more to
the $40 she already has. The new move
is due probably to the discovery that
France has more available field batteries
than she has; and the German war budget
is still capable, apparently, Of expansion.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

PLATsHEK's New variety Store.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
BRIGHT BITS.

SIGN of an early fall-a bar of soap on
the cellar stairs.-DdnUitte Sun.
A WOMAN in Canada is so fond of sar-
dimes that she eats a large can-a-da.
TIE manager who is shrewd is good for
sonnathinp but this cannot be SAID OF the
husband who is shrewed.-DdRUtte Sun.
TIE most amusing thing we know OF is
IN watch a man with wig try to scratch
his head in church.-Sdturddy AmeftcdR'
IF the Wisconsin Legislature had been
in the State capitol when its ROOF Tell IN
the other day, there would nave Deeh
good many damaged eyes ana noses
HANLAN, the oarsman, called upon
Ben Butler last Friday. ms Iell0W nan
Ian likes to loiter around men VINO nave
had their boats sawed.-Phuadetphta
Press.
..WoRTH makes the man, and want of
If the fellow" The great question now,
when sDeaking of an eligible candidate
for matrimony, is: GLOW much is he
wOrth?"
MISUNDERSTANDING the testimony OF
the Bible, Mr.. Beecher says he does not
believe in Adams fall. He is more gen.
erous to Adam than many other people
have been to Beecher.
0DoN'T 90 too much on show, my son."
remarked Mrs. Yeast to her boy. "The
drum-maior OF band, to be sure, is very
attractive. but he doesn't furnish any OF
the music Y0Rkers Statesman.
A SCIENTIFIC WRITER says the Amerl-
can of to-day is not the bilious man OF
fifty years ago. Nothing startling about
that. The bilious man OF htty years ago
could hardly be expected to live so long.
A FABLE: The landlord of a summer
resort was once set upon in lonely place
~ hffrbx rnhhar- \
as the landlord made known his business,
the highwayman extended the usual cour-
teses to the trade and they parted friends.
A sKY-LIGHT: The sun. The wOman's
cause: Because. A tough time: RoughS
on a spree. A dose Of salts: Several sail
ors sleeping. The bird of freedom: An
escaped iail-bird. Generally on the mend
ing hand: The thimble.-BOSt0R courier.
"IHAvE my OPINION of a man who tries
to beat a street railroad company out OF
his fare" said the man who was coming
down town the other day, "and never
try to do it except when | am short OF con-
tributiOn box change on sunday MORN
ing.-SyTdcUSe Herald.
A NORTHERN exchange says: |'The
Sheriff of New Orleans astonished the
frost-bitten Chicagoans the other day by
appearing in their town wearing white
duck pantaloons." He would have aston
ished them still more if he had appeared
without pantaloons, and there is no use
in making a row about the white duck.
A FOND Cincinnati father tells OF his
14-year-old boy who was presented with a
trumpet, with which he was greatly
infatuated. All day the boy footed away
delightedly, and at bedtime. when his
grandmother told him to put the trumpet
down and saw his prayers, the little fellow
said ooh, no, I'll tell you what let's do,
gran'ma, you pray and I'll keep on blow
g."-SduWddy Night.
AN AUTUMN REVERIE.-
How dear to the chap is the fair pleasant
weather.
Whose summer vacation has put HIM in
debt,
And whose clothes, all too gauzy for chilly No
VemDer,
Must last him another months salary yet
-PhfIddeLphid CAL.
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4 Medium in Court.

There is not so much heard about spir-
itualism. mediums and materlalzed splr-
its now as there was few years ago. The
exposure of a good many of the shrewd
iugrlers who gathered a rich harvest
from that numerous class of people VINO
are always ready to be gulled by every
kind of humbug about put an end to the
materialized medium craze. A rather
interesting trial took place in New YORK
last Monday. the result Of which was an
nounced in our dispatches yesterday
which grew out Of the exposure OF an al
legged medium.
John and Robert Tice, brothers, ana
jewellers in Fulton street, New YORK,
sued the editor Of Mind and Matter,
paper published in Philadelphia in the
interest of Spiritualism, for S5O,0OO ior
libel. The facts which led to the SUIT
were that a year or so ago Alfred H.
James, an alleged medium, promised 10
materialize at a seance which he adVer-
tised TO give in Everett Hall. As be was
about TO enter his cabinet to begin the
performance, the Tice brothers seized
him. and took from under the
back Of his coat a silk gown, eight SILK
scarfs of different cOlOrs, false mus
tache. silk stockings, two pairs OF slip
pers and a lot of other toggery. The me-
dunn didn't materialize that night and
the Tice brothers and some others united
in publicly proclaiming the fraudulent
character Of James. The Mind and Natter
came to James rescue, and attacked the
Tice brothers yenOmOusly and bitterly
In the libel suit some funny testimony
was given. James admitted the hndInS
of the tOggery under his coat, and by way
of explanation said that he only followed
the instructions of the controlling spirit
.'The spirit argued" he said, THAT
if it had to make garments
as well as forms, the medium
would be worn out. The spirits use any
material lying about to clothe them
selves" The jury didn't believe in spir-
its and mediums, and James story made
no impression on them. They gave the
Tice brothers a judgment for 5000 each'
which is probably more than the editor
and proprietor of Mind and Matter Will
get out of his paper in year, now that
the Undertaking. business doesn't -four
ish like it once did. There are, however,
plenty of people who still believe in such
fellows as James. The editor of Mind and
Matter testified that he did not believe
James to be a fraud, and it is probable
that the lOng-haired readers OF his paper
entertain the same belief.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
A NEW WAY TO BUY VOTES.
A Boston Nominee "Takes the Cake


A few days before the election, a willy
nominee made a round of visits. In near
ly every place, as related by the Boston
Herdld, after treating the by-standers and
refusing to take any change out of 81
bill, he turned the conversation to stained
glass. He extolled its beauty, and point
ed out exactly how it might be introduced
to give an air of elegance to the particU-
lar premises. "But L can't afford it," the
proprietor would say, or something to that
effect. ''YOu shall have it, and 1t shan't
cost you a cent" the worker would
eXclaim, quite impulsWely, as though
expressing sudden and gener-
Gus thought. "Pll send a man
around in the morning" He kept his
word in every instance, to all appear
ances, though not with literal eXactness.
The window was made gorgeous with
transparent and varied cOloring, but this
was done by FASTING colored paper over
the panes already in, instead of intro
ducing genuine stained glass. The jobs
were neatly and cheaply executed, but
the latter quality was not discovered by
the benefciaries until after they had
voted in payment. The windows of the
saloons are described as making pedes-
trian feel as though passing a succession
of cathedralS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
The color Lime in schools.

There NAV be a few localities in the
North where negro children are permitted
to attend schools for white children.
These localities probably are where there
are not enough negroes to justify the es-
adjustment OF negro schools. About
everywhere in the North, however, the
hostility to mixed schools is as great as
it is in the South. The frequent attempts
which the negroes make to force tHeiI
children into schools set apart for white
children are resisted by the school au-
thorities. who are sustained by the courts.
Last spring prominent negroes in wash
ington undertook TO override the rule
which separates the schools and failed.
Tbeir undertaking aroused a feeling Of
INDIGNATION all ever the city, and pretty
thoroughly convinced them that even
in the national capital, where public
sentiment is as liberal as anywhere IN the
country. mixed schools would not be toll
Grated. \ case was argued IN the Su-
preme Court Of New Jersey last Monday
which involves this mixed school issue.
A negro clergyman named Pierce, who
lives in Burlington, in that state, applied
some months ago to the school trustees OF
the town to have his children admitted to
a white school. The ground OF his apph-
cation was that the school for white chill
dreu was nearer his residence than that
for negro children. HIS application was
denied. and he appealed to the Supreme
Court. The decision is looked for with
great interest in New Jersey, where the
=. hac
a good deal Of trouble. There is little
doubt that Malone contributed to his own
overthrow by having the Readjuster Nir-
ginia Governor appoint negro to the
position Of Trustee Of white schools
in Richmond. That act aroused a
bitter feeling against Malone and solidi-
fed the opposition to him. 1t made the
color line a leading issue in the late can
vass. and drove many Of his white sup
pOrters away from him. 1t is astonlsh-
ing that so astute a politician as Mahone
was not shrewd enough TO see that the
white people Of Virginia would never sub
NIT 60 mixed schools. The appointment
Of the negro trustee was a step in that
direction. and both races so understood
it. We do not undertake to say what
public sentiment in this matter in the
next quarter, or half, century will be,
but We know that the hostility to mixed
schools IS as marked to-day as it was
dozen years ago. Here in the South the
white people are willing to be taxed to
afford the negro children educational adj
vantages equal to those Of white children,
but they are not willing, and there are no
indications that they ever will be willing,
that their children shall sit in the same
school houses and recite in the same
classes with negro children. The negroes
Will advance their own interests by Civ
Ing this fact the broadcast recognition.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
The Naval stores Convention.

The Convention of Naval Stores Manu-
Gacturers, which was heidi in this city yes
terdav. was we'll attended, and was made
UP of representative men. The occasion
OF the convention was the unsatisfactory
condition of the naval stores business.
For several months there has been very
general desire among the manufacturers
to meet and talk over business prospects,
and. if possible. secure harmony of action
in bringing about reduction in the
prices paid for certain kinds of labor.
1t Is conceded that there is little,
if any, profit in manufacturing
naval stores at present prices, and that a
reduction i'm the cost of production IS alb
soluteIv necessary. Over-prOduction may
have something to do with the prevailing
low prices. but the amount produced can
not be regulated with any certainty, be-
cause of the difficulty of reaching any
agreement among the manufacturers
for that purpose. In the present cOndi-
ton of affairs the only thing to be done is
10 reduce the cost of production. That
the manufacturers recognize, and IN con-
ventiou yesterday they adopted the scale
Of prices advised by the naval stores fac
tors of this city in their circular issued
on the 22d of last month. They also ap-
pointed a committee to find out if there
was not a chance 10 make little saving
in the matter of freight-weights, and in
the handling of their goods after passing
into the possession of the factors.
The manufacturers have done about
all they can do, and if the
reforms they propose to inaugurate donOt
bring them the needed relief, some of
them at least will be forced to stop manu-
featuring until more active demand for
their goods brings about an improvement
i'm the market.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
Thc Ynmncraw Fire Limits.

The late fire, which at one time threat
ened one-half the city with destruction,
called attention to the great danger at
tached to building an entire section Of the
city in wood. and a general desire was
expressed that some method should be de-
vised to guard against it. To this end a
fire ordinance was introduced at the last
meeting of the Council, placing the whole
of Yamacraw in the ''brick ZOne," and
also extending the fire ordinance over
other parts of the city. 1t was found,
however. that large part Of the burnt
district was owned by people in very
moderate circumstances, who would be
unable to rebuild, if brick buildings
were insisted upon, and that they
would. therefore. be compelled to sell
the sites of their old homes. As COM
promise. a substitute was introduced by
Alderman Thomas last night. 1t reduces
to a great extent the danger of con-
tlagration i'm the event OF fire. 1t pro-
vides that the ''brick zone" shall be from
Indian street, north to the river.
The property within these limits,
is mostly owned by corporations,
or citizens who can afford to put up brick
houses, thus affording protection to the
rice mills. cotton presses and wharf ware
houses. The remaining portion Of the
burnt district can be rebuilt OF wood, If
the owners desire, under certain reshic-
tions. such as prohibiting houses from
being too close together. This ordinance
was prepared previous to the meeting of
the citizens Of Yamacraw on Tuesday
night. but from the report of the proceed
inys on that occasion it appears to be in
keeping with what they ask, viz, an ordi-
nance which will not be oppressive.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

The jacksonville Times Union yester-
dav published some interesting infOrma-
ton relative to the Florida sea island cot
ton crop ofthe present year. The informa-
ton was furnished by correspondents who
live in the counties which produce the
cotton. The principal counties are Ala
chua, Levy and Columbia. Marion was a
large producer, but now more attention
is given there to the orange growing bust
ness. The reports show thaG exclusive OF
Marion there was an increased acreage
amounting to about 10 per cent, but in
GLIDING Marion the increase is only about
A. per cent. The crop will be about 80
per cent. less than that of last year. Fully
50 per cent. OF the crop has been har-
vested and 90 per cent. of it has been
ginned and shipped. The amount of
Florida's crop last year was 1904 bales.
According to the Times JajOR'S figures
the crop this year will hardly reach
1900 bales.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
won,tLet Butler Up.

LNtc090 ITtOHUt IIteI'I'
Some of the Democrats hated the prince
of demagogues and did what they could
openly and above board to beat him, but
they only numbered a few hundred all
told, and for every one of these there were
ten foolish. weak-minded Republicans
who were captured by the antics, swagger
and gasconade of the old slanderer, and
voted for him. He lies when he asserts
that che had the hearts and best wishes Of
the majority of the people," for thousands
who gave him their votes despised him,
but for partisan reasons supported him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
GIctbtn9.

THE PLEASURE ONE TAKES IN THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING WELL DRESS
ED Is WONDERFUL. TO BE SURE THAT
HIS CLOTHES FIT WELL AND ARE MADE
UP IN THE BEST MANNER POSSIBLE, AS
WELL AS BEING CUT IN THE LATEST
STYLE, ALL TEND TO INCREASE HIS
PLEASURE, WE AIM TO DO THIS IN ALL
CASES, AND WE CONGRATULATE OUR
SELVES THAT WE HAVE HAD SOME Sue
CESS. OUR CLOTHING Is BOUGHT OF THE
LEADING AND BEST HOUSES IN THE COUN-
TRY, AS WELL AS OUR HATS AND FUR
NISHING GOODS, AND WE ARE CONSCIOUS
OF THE FACT THAT WE SELL THEM AT
THE LOWEST PRICES.
OUR AIM IN BUSINESS Is TO BE SECOND
TO NONE, BUT TO BE LEADERS IN STYLE
AND FIT, AS WELL AS IN LOW PRICES.
WE HAVE CLOTHING IN ALL STYLES.
SHADES AND PRICES. HATS IN ALL THE
LATEST sHAPEs-sOFT AND STIFF. UN-
DERwEAR AND FURNISHING GOODS IN
VARIETY. ''KING OF SHIRTS" LAUN-
DRIED AND UNLAUNDRIED.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
CURRENT COMMENT.
Things Have Changed.

NelC OFE SUI lDeHt.Is
If in 1880 Gen. Arthur had been nOml-
mated for President everybody would have
thought the convention had lost its senses.
But things have changed very much since
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

some Of our exchanges have devoted
considerable space Of late to discussing
the nude i'm art. In view Of the short
crops and hard times in many parts Of the
country, "a more important question Is the
one that threatens TO bring before our
faces the nude i'm nature.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

WONsT0n I'M 7lsE IIIl1L. 1telI.I.
Gen. Sherman is man of such salient
characteristics that he narrowly escapes
being a crank, or at least an eccentric.
The General prIdes himself on his vim
and metaphysical ability. His mind is
of a discursive character, but prone to
deal in generalization. 1t is doubtful If
he mas the strong sagacity OfGen. Grant.
His character is good, but his misery
brother has more true ability and eXecu-
tive talent than ten Tecumsehs.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

Ben. Butler has let one fine cat out
oftbe wallet duriugthe heat ofthe Massa-
ehusetts campaign. He has exposed the
enormous profits made in the manufac-
ure of shoes. Those who are interested
iu Southern manufactures might take the
one anl Ink into this matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

Ex-senator Eaton, of Connecticut, 1t
seems. is an anxious and working candi-
date for Speaker. 1t was known that he
had an ambition in that direction, but 1t
was not thought he was making any ell
fort for the place. 1t was understood that
ne looked upon himself as the dark horse,
and thought that if neither Carlisle, Ran
dali nor Cox could get the nomination, the
party might put him in the Speakers
chair as the best thing they could do. 1t
is now asserted that he has been rObbing
Cox of his strength, and has actually cap
tured seven of COx's New York votes. No
one would have suspected the ex-senator
Of doing such quiet political work.
There is slight conflict of testimony
at Boston. Governor Butler openly
charged that one cause of his defeat was
the tampering with the engineer and ma
chinery of a certain printing office so he
couldn't get his tickets in time. Now the
printer comes up and says he did get them
at the hour agreed on. One thing is GER
tain-there is a prevaricatiOn out. No
doubt Buffers defeat was not so much
caused by want Of tickets as lack of
enough suffrage singers to go through
the ceremony of putting them in the bal
lot boxes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

4 New York paper is considerably eX-
crciSad over the celebration Of the four
huuGredih anniversary Of the birth Of
Martin Luther. and refers to him as a
,.sot." III history can he relied on, he
really appears TO have ''sot'' down on a
great deal OF humbuggery and supersti-
tfn0 I'm his time.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

The Republicans Of New York city are
already at work effecting a thorough reOr-
ANIMATION Of their party, and are enroll
ing the names Of ali who will pledge them
selves % vote for their Presidential cleo
tors in 1874. They vii have their recruit
ing agents actively at work during the
next u months, and no doubt they will
have a considerable fund from which to
nay bounties TO new volunteers. The
Democrats ought TO take notice that only
q better organization and more systematic
management Of the campaign can secure
the victory to them next year beyond a
rcradventure.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

Toe Democratic Executive Committee
az Massachusetts, has issued an address
couEratulating the party. ON coming so
near 70 gaining the victory in State
where the average Republican majority
has been heretofore over $4,000. 1t says
the result Of the election was not defeat,
but a repulse, and was caused by cor
rupt use OF money in the cities. 1t Is a
remarkably patriotic and encouraging
document, and gives ground for hope that
Massachusetts viii join the right column
in 1854. A change Of only $500 votes is
needed. even with as full vote as that in
fha recent election.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
Looking at the Bright Side

bOaf.W I7Ost IUtHt.Is
We are ready to join hands in any pro
per movement for the defeat of the Philis-
tines. but we prefer the sling of David to
the splendid suicide of Samson. As an
important member ofthe Democratic giant
the Post objects to being inside when the
ReDubIican temDle Is pulled down.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
What One PAPER Sees.

Ndskgifle 1HerfcdD lDe1e.).
This paper has manifestly seen-because
it is confessed in the pretended letter
that the party in all parts of the country
is uniting on the sold ticket as the sure
road to success.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

The latest news from Madagascar con-
firms the accounts of the murder Of the
Prime Minister. who was the husband Of
the Queen. and the strangling Of the late
ENJOYS % Europe and America. A cabi-
net crisis in that island Is something more
than little swelling around and re-
-r.urtra.n ur two
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

The most anxious men in Washington
lust now are those who are candidates for
she minor places In the House. There is
quite . crowd II candidates for Sergeant
alarms. Postmaster. DoOrkeeper and
other places They worry the members
more than the candidates for the Offices
of speaker and Clerk. Now is the time to
60 the work. however, and get their
friends pledge. When the time 10 elect
comes &c viii be too late.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15

THE Atlanta Deputy Marshals claim TO
have caught the patriarch Of the North
Geor- in moonshiners. His name is Laza-
rus strickland. and he can neither read
toothless gums. and acknowledges that hs
j. guilty of Illicit distiIlins, retailing,
wh0lesaIiug. carrying raw material, and
c0ncealiuE mountain dew" He went
oil o. Jail in a good humor. as if his getting
cauElt was q fine Joke