Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-05

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!. II. ESTILL. savannah ga
Paris is ceasing to be a French city. IL
has become cosmopolitan. and is distinct
N French only in the suburbs. The
French. however. are beginning to under
stand how to make foreigners pay Tor the
privilege of crowding them out Of the cen
fire of tine city.
we have several pretty old military
companies in the south, but none as old
MS the Ancient and HOnOrably Artillery
C.mu,pv Of Boston. now on visit to New
York. ID was chartered i'm 1858, only
seven Years after the founding Of Boston
ana is. therefore. 20 years old.
The Deadly Beetle Buster is an in
vartfouthat should be in the hands Of every
n.u-akcouer who Is plagued with black
beetles. To draws the beetles from their
holes and puts an end to their career with
rromptnc-s that is admirable. Its name
alone should insure the inventor for
tune.
Ex-senator Kellogg. who is indicted for
STAR route crookedness. says that ne Is
e.4oFtnItfV fH
..-.4t fine matter of his mind before he be-
eIu- his career a. member Of the House.
M is probable. however, that he would
prefer to have the trial indefinitely post
poued.
There Will DE plenty of gaiety in Wash
ineton next winter, bat it will be gaiety
with "a purpose. Arthur will strive To
make friends by lavish entertainments at
the White House. Other Presidential
a-piraut- viii have headquarters, and
strive to strengthen themselves with those
who viii have influence in shaping the
nominating conventions.
The demand for 2-cent postage stamps
has been far larger than was expected.
. Iu TO- the present time the Post Office De
partmeut has not been able to supply the
demand. ON Tuesday the New York
POST Office alone made a requisition for
I0.OOO.u1O of 2-cent stamps. 1t seems as
If everybody had taken to writing letters
because Of the reduction in postage.
1t is hardly probable, Judging from re-
cent utterances of Congressman, that the
next Congress will repeal the compulsory
features of the silver coinage act. The
storage capacity for silver dollars in the
Treasury is about exhausted, but. then,
other vaults can be built. There is some
consolation i'm the Thought that no condi-
lion of affairs can exist where the de-
maud for specie will exceed the supply.
The New York Herald doesn't propose
t5 be Snubbed and set down upon by the
uewsJealers. II has undertaken To or
eauiz. 81 service of its own. 1t will estab-
Ii,h news stands all over the cities Of New
York. Brooklyn and Jersey City. where
ali tle morning papers of New York viii
Pee sold at their advertised price. II looks
as ir the fight ON the HerdH 10y the news
dealers would cost the newsdealers more
cham r. would cost the Hsrald.
There 81, considerable speculation. based
uua statement of an ESquimauX, named
Hams Christian. whether Lieutenant
Greedy is alive. The report reached the
London Times from the Upernavik cor
r.-lCudeut of "a Copenhagen journal that
Lieutenant Greely had been murdered 10y
mutmous members Of his party. The re-
ror. g., NOT generally credited. Ii is pro-
IabI. that nothing will be heard of
Greedy until "a relicteXpedition goes north
next summer.
The Philadelphia Press SAYS that a
painful rumor is ahoat in Washington
that Mr.. Uattou. First Assistant Post
master General. Is To DE cVicted-that Is.
--ri.Ead OUT of his office. The Press has
never felt kindly TO IIatton since that
official asserted that James. when Post
master General, put the department To
tho expense OF an extra daily mail from
Philadelphia 90 Washington in order TO
-1t the Pres, to the national capital be-
fore tle View York papers.
Two raper,-one the leading Demo
criie aud tine other the leading Repub-
If.3u paper. Of Cmcinuati-have each con-
triuuted $500 to maintain the purity of
the ballot-uoN in that city next
Tuesday. the day of election.
IF what congressman BUtterworth and
COX said ou the floor Of tie House last
winter about baIl0t-bON stufing in Gin
.-uratl is true. the Sl.OoO Of the Cinciu-
uati newspapers will not De sufficient 60
raEecare Of the ballot-boXes in one ward.
There has been a good deal of talk 10
.H.sr..t that forgers have been engaged
ru raising the new postal notes. This
t4II, seems to have been based on magma
tfsu rather than ON facts. Mr.. Brooks.
Chief OF the secret Service, says there Is
-a truth in the talk. In an interview
ldal 9r two ago he said: IF one note
had been raised the detectives of the
secret service would have been promptly
notified. They cannot be successfully
raised uy filing the punch-mark made
f.. the postmaster, with piece Of the
note punched ON another figure. ANY
postmaster who is 81 verdant as To DE
hoodwinked 10y that procedure, should be
discharged from the service. \ piece
Iu- inserted would Dee detected by
simply running the fingers over it. 80 a
. blind man ought To- detect the fraud
Describing Judge Blacks power in the
r-. Of language. Hon. II. p. Laird in his
recent euIogy said: AS an advocate, dis
rrtluf and essayist in certain depart
-I.at- of literature, he surpassed all other
living mon who use the English language.
Ills ruwer of utterance in natural, Gle
aat ara strong language has no standard
of comparison other than that of the i'm
mortal creations OF shakespeare. His
d.etfau hlJ an the majesty and solemn
armdeuI of the loftiest tragic poetry.
combined with the precision and point of
tic aculest logic. His thoughts took
form in great aud swelling pillows of COM
rae- ideas. suave and metrical, never
sinking Co the plane of common place, and
never ri-iu. above the level of common
sense. His sentences were unpublished
luH54n. fresh quarried from the mine.
with marvellous fitness wrought into the
chain 1f his discourse"
Water mmiues in Southern cities have
been frequent this fall. In Nashville the
water works gave out, and water COM
rurudad n GOOD price, since July there