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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
John Roach's scoop.

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To the disgust of the rest of the ship
builders, "Uncle John" Roach walked of
with the entire bundle in the matter OF
cruisers. The Cramps seemed to be the
worst cut up Charley declaring that the
Chicago could not be honestly built Tor
the money bid by Roach, which was only
$3.50. 900, when the estimate by the Advls-
DRY Board was 81 900. Cramps old OF
$1,0S0,000, both declared, was as low as
the work could be done and leave small
RrOfit. Their bid was lower than any
other except Roach's. With the letting
of the contracts the season for scandalOus
reports opens. 1t is rumored that one
cause Of the dissatisfaction is the VloIa-
ton of the understanding, by the terms OF
which the work was to be DIVIDED roun0
at fair profit The story goes that each
of the leading contractors was 10 pa very
near the estimates, which were the UNIT
allowed by the department, and that but
minor differences were to be made.
Just variation enough was to be observed
TO distribute the work, and to make 1t
agreeable to Roach he was TO be allowed
to walk off with the big cruiser, while the
Cramps and the Harlan n Holllngs-
worth Companies were each 10 nave one
of the sister ships. the Boston and Alta
lanta. In order to give popularity to
this scheme in the West, they wanted the
Dolphin. the dispatch boat, to 90 to the
Mississippi valley. fit is true that there
was some such understanding, Roach
went back on it,. Whether there was an
agreement of that sort or not will
probably never be known now. If there
was any, to just what extent it took
definite shape, is another conundrum.
However, Roach has quietly pOcketed
the entire appropriation of 81, 10000
Pussy and Jones were out OF the deal, at
any rate, having declined to bid
1t was insisted in some quarters that
Roach, having his own rolling mills with
the plant to make his own steel instead of
having to buy it, accounted Tor the bid.
Cramp, however, says there is nothing in
this, for he can go to the leading steel
works Of the country to-day and buy the
material as cheap as Roach can make it,.
If this be true, it is difficult to see how
this cuts any figure in the matter, and the
statement that Roach would build the
ships at cost for the profit in the material
has no weight.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Mr. Robert p. Porter keeps on writing
letters to the New York Tribune from
England in which he gives a mischievous-
" one-sided view OF the labor condition
in that country. Why doesn't he 90 a.
figuring in Germany or France, so that
we may see how protection works in
iuXtaposition with free trade? The sutfi-
cient answer to his labOred work Is that
the condition of labOring men in England
is more tOlerable than elsewhere in Eu-
rope. Whatever may be the faults of the
English system of taxation, even in the
ewes Of prOtechOnists, they connOt say
that it has made the condition of the
laborer more desperate, or that it has
failed to sustain and to strengthen the
most remarkable aggregation of manu-
featuring industries to be found anywhere
on the globe
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
a Druggists story.

Mr.. Isaac G. Chapman, hruggist, New
burg, n. Y, writes us: II have for the
past ten years sold several gross of Dr.
William HALLS Balsam for the Lungs.
can say of it what l cannot say of any
DINER medicine, | have never heard a
customer speak OF ii but to praise its Yir-
tues in the highest manner. / have re-
commended it in great many cases OF
Whoopilg Cough with the happiest effects.
| have used it in my own family for many
years; in fact, always have bottle in the
medicine closet"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Now and then we are told that sam
Randall has bagged sundry Southern
congressman, who will support him in his
race for the Speakership. The Republi-
can papers. with but few exceptions, sup
port the distinguished Pennsylvania
with a degree OF heartiness and Vlgor
that is as magnanimOus as 1t Is sincere.
They know that while in other respects
Mr.. Randall is not their ideal of presid-
ing officer for the Lower House
Of Congress. he is as firm an ally Of the
'.barons" as any Republican they could
have.
Mr.. Randall has posed for long time
as an apostle Of reform, and, indeed, as
Chairman Of the House Committee on APP
preparations, made a creditable record.
But when the precious tariff came to be
disturbed. Mr.. Randall was not cOnspicu-
Gus in his chosen role. The juggle that
was put through the last Congress by the
agency of a conference committee, in Mr..
RandalPs Judgment, should be re-
garded as "fnality" in the
matter of the reform OF
taxation. Accordingly, inasmuch as
the Republicans cannot control the elec-
ton to the Speakership, they are a unit
for Randall.
What any Southern Democrat can see
in Randall to fit him for the position it is
difficult to imagine. True, he is good
parliamentarian, but he is as quick to
accord favors to the opposition as to his
party associates when the interests of the
privileged classes are at stake.
The whole question of the Speaker
ship resolves itself to this: Has the
Democratic party any policy upon the is
sue Of the reform of taxation or does it
agree with its opponents as Mr.. Randall
does:' fit has no policy distinct from
that of the "grand old party and the
battle of ~ is to be fought without ref
ence to taxation, then Mr.. Randall is the
best man that can be selected
as Speaker. But if the Democrats
propose to abide by the pledges they have
repeatedly made to the people, then Mr..
Randall is not fit for the position, and a
| representative Democrat must be chosen.
The issue is a plain one, it cannot be
evaded. and Mr.. Randall is on the wrong
side of it,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Senator Hale thus describes the enough
as-good-as-a-feast sort of prosperity they
have down in Maine: 'While none are
very rich, we have no paupers. The poor
system is next to a nonentity in Maine.
Everybody is Industrious, and although
we might seem not to have the richest
soil, we keep our people in the State, and
you may go from house to house and you
will find no complaint The census tells
different story, for Maine has lost a Con-
gresham, and it follows that more peo-
pie have left the State than have come into
it within the last decade, Besides there
are as many poor houses in Maine as else
where, and they are not empty by any
means.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The Ross family sorrow still lives in a
home on Walnut lane, Germantown. The
ninth anniversary of the disappearance of
little Charlie Ross has just been passed in
that stricken home by Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
and 16-year-Old boy-Charlie's brother
who sat on the porch all day looking for
their lost one and dreaming of his return.
Mr.. Ross spends all his leisure time an
swering letters and following up clews.
Although all efforts to trace the boy have
been fruitless, his zeal is unabated. Every
year he gets piles of letters about lost
children, and this correspondence indi-
Gates that many other families must be
suffering like his. The ROSES have a
deep-seated belief that Charlie will return
to them sometime, and be made known to
them as their lost child. They regularly
observe the anniversary of the abduction
and sit on the porch and wait and hope.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Rather Rough on Arthur.

Boston HeFUtU Una. Hep.J.
President Arthur has no doubt done
better than was expected of him, but it is
premature TO call his administration a
success a little more OF the Hatton and
i 5aTs SGSg poodneed by many Of lis
commendaDle actions. A reformed
sportsman needs to be as careful of his
reputation as a reformed gambler or
drunkard
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
How to Make 1t Go.

The New York Sun of this morning
saws: ain a word, the Republican party
appears to be getting ready to 90 in 1882
This is true enough, and only one thing
can stand in the way OF its going, and
than that of turning the raacals out.n
If we next year formulate the issues SO
plainly that every voter can comprehend
them. there ought not to be, and there
probably will not be, any doubt Of our
Cnnaacc
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

A correspondent thus describes Ken
lucky girls of the Blue Grass region;
Ewes softly bright, lips like OK heart cher
ries, fading away into the soft cheek like
the hearts blood Of a strawberry into
luscious cream, chin fashioned as the
apple that Paris gave to Venus, brow of
Juno. bust of Hebe, the sea nymph's
pearIy ear, the wood nymph's springy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The best tonic medicine-one that is not
composed mostly of alcohol or whisky-is
to be Notwithstanding and will absolutely
kill all desire for whisky and other intOXi-
cants. 1t has been thoroughly tested and
proven itself in every instance a never
failing cure for dyspepsia, Indigestion,
biliOusness, weakness, debility, overwOrk,
rheumatism, neuralgia, cOnsumptive dis
ease, liver complaints, kidney troubles,
etc.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Buffers Boom.

Massachusetts responsibility is getting
some hard lessons of the folly of pooh
pooling an investigation, instead of re-
dressing the abuses unearthed. Butler is
growing day by day, and bids fair to add
the hide of another Republican candidate
to his stock of tanned skins.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Through the agency of Billy Malone,
the duty on iron ore has been raised from
% to - cents. Billy imagines that by
this means he can carry the irOn-prO-
ducing counties Of Virginia. By the way,
has Governor Cameron drawn his check
vet for that 81, 600, payable to the Pennsyl-
Nania Republican state Committee:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The model of the statue of General
Robert Z. Lee, which is to be erected in
New Orleans, arrived at New York Tues
day by steamship, where it will be east in
bronze. The entire monument will be
eleven feet high. The statue, represent
ing the General in full uniform. with his
arms folded, win be sixteen feet in height,
and will stand on a DOric column ninety
i've feet high. The name of Tivoli Square,
where the monument is TO be placed, will
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

. Representative Holman, of Indiana,
challenges his Democratic brethren to
read him out of the party by declaring in
the North American ReUielr that "a pow
erfuI motive for increased expenditure Is
found IN the vicious practice, so long toll
Grated. of creating and employing public
patronage as a reward for partisan SER
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Gratuitous Counsel.


A leading newspaper in giving advice
about the trade dollar says, 1.-the best thing
for the poor man to do is to leave the coin
severely alone" The poor man usually
has to leave all kinds of dollars severely
alOnp
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

sherman, the present Governor of Iowa,
had plurality of 1871 votes when he
was elected in 1881, and he is again the
candidate Of his party this year. Repub-
lieans are not asking for bets that he will
half his former plurality this year.
In fact. a great many of them are doubt
full as to whether he will pull through at
III
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

A bill providing for Ministry of Scotch
Affairs has been introduced in the British
ommons. The head of this department
will be a Cabinet Minister. The salary,
it is proposed, Will be $4,000 per annum.
Either Lord ROsebery, or Mr.. Baxter, a
scotch Radical member of Parliament,
will be appointed to the new post, prob
ably Dir. Baxter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The New York World having sounded Il
trumpet blast of harmony anent the
Peoples Railway project, which it sus-
meets is scheme to raise ''sOap' for
Indiana. the Hon. John c. New, in the
indianapolis Journal. remarks that the
scheme will not draw enough money to
GRITTY a nrecinct.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
SWEET SPRINGS
MONROE COUNTY. WEST YIRGI

THIS old established Summer Resof
he omen for the accommodation OF %
June *. 1883. All the appointments are
class. Attached to the hotel is an exis
livery. a fine band of music for lawn a3
room. Also, Express, Telegraph am
Office in the hotel. Board per day w
week SIS, per month $50. For iq IIG 9
ticulars apply to JOHN L. VI sd a.l
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
side shows Not in Favor.

The failure of this third party (Chal-
mers) movement in Mississippi, coinci-
dent with the decline of MahOne's power
i'll Virginia, shows that there is no more
room for a third party in the South than
there is in the North,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Doubting Thomas Kinsella.


bTUUA98t LFVFe I47tIN'I
''Turn the rascals out" is very good
shibboleth, but if that were all that were
necessary the rascals would have been
turned out long ago. The trouble is that
the country continually asks, when the
rascals are turned out, what will the fell
lows do who are turned ins 1t is a ques-
ton so pertinent that the country will
keep on asking 1t until if is answered,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Governor Lowry, OF Mississippi, refuses
IN call an extra session of the Legislature
Of that state TO consider the question of
Ievees. He says the business Is not OF
sufficient Importance 10 justify the eN-
pense of anticipating the extra session,
which meets a few months hence.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Labouchere, in London Truth, endorses
Chamberlain's Radical programme,
which he declares opportune. Says the
Radical editor:
mir. Chamberlain, as the representa-
tive of the Radicals in the Cabinet, has
nailed his cOlOrs to the mast. He has de-
clared himself in favor of the electoral
districts, manhood suffrage. and payment
of members. These three things are alb
solutely necessary if Democracy is to
prevail. With a Parliament elected under
these conditions, we shall be able to rem
der the country good service, The dura-
ton of ParliamentS will be shortened; the
hereditary upper House Will be abolished;
the Established Church will be disestab-
lished and disendOwed; economy would be-
come the rule in the public service: those
who can best bear the burden will have
to provide for the national expenditures;
and legislation based upon sound views
in regard to the relation of land to its
ownership VIII be inaugurated. | do not
know when ] have read a speech which
gave me more satisfaction than that Of
Mr.. Chamberlain. 1t is clear. practical,
drastic and radical. That he may not
only be an important member of a Cabinet,
but become its leader when Mr.. Glad
stone withdraws, must be the ardent de-
sire of every Radical"
The indications point to "Our joe as
Mr.. Chamberlain is called by the Bir-
minghamites, as the coming man. He is
almost as big man now as the Prince of
Wales. president Chamberlain would
sound Just as we'll as Edward VII"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
PithilY Put.

-fcU Iofh SUM-
If we are going to help the Southern
States in educational matters, the way is
to give them money and let them spend it
Themselves
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Pension Commissioner Dudley is conf
dent that the checks and safeguards
which have been placed about the pay
ment of pensions during his occupation
of the office have resulted in a saving
sufficient to pay the whole expense Of the
office. 1t is cheerful to learn that Uncle
sam has snyed ANYTHING. from the sharks.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

There is no good reason for continuing
national debt payments at the rate of
Sl37. 900. 900 a year, or even $4,000, 900, as
called for by the requirements ofthe sink
ing fund. There are but $336,OO0,0OO of
bonds now subject to call. a payment
of $42, 100000 a year would just exhaust
this amount when the $3.50, 600 AZ per
cents fall due in 1891, but even this speed
is not necessary. The $737 100000 As do
not become payable until 1907. An annual
payment of $4,000, 00Oa year would suffice
to pay off all the other bonds by the time
these 4 per cents are brought within
reach. There is no sound argument for
a more rapid liquidation of the debt than
this, while there are many strong reasons
against il.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

senator Cullom, Of Illinois, would not
object to taking second place on the Ma
tional Republican ticket with Blaine at
the head. As the senior Senator from Il
Iinois has filed caveat on the nominal
tion for first place. the Junior Senator
-sbOuIl Ice more modest.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Malarial fever, Ague and Biliousness
will leave every neighborhood as soon as
hop bitters arrive.
"My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop
bitters. Editor OSl0egO San.
Keep the kidneys healthy with hop Bit
tiers and you need not fear sickness.
Ice water is rendered harmless and
more refreshing and reYiYing with hop
bitters in each draught.
The yigor of youth for the aged and in-
firm in hop bitters,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
ORKNEY SPRINGS,

SHtHdHuUdiA NV"I''1 -
THIS pleasant summer resort 81. s,,u I
the mountains, at an elevator, +
feet above the level of the sea W. ~
graphic communication with the n, w
good livery, and splendid music VI" Edr ]
from June ], 1889. to October ~. IW
etc, apply for circulars. 90.
j. n. WOODW ARD, III
NAV l. 1899. For Orkney Sprps
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

salt Lake Mormons are sueing the Ed
muuJs-bfH Commissioners for damages,
much t8 the Indignation Of the Gentiles,
and very likely to the awakening people
10 tine necessity of using stones, now that
they won't come down out of the tree for
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Make a Note of 1t.

" U07ttIlyIOW Z V6t,
The tact that the Republican news
papers have elected a Speaker will not
prevent the Democrats from going through
the motions of an election, as a mere mat
ter of form
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Charles De Kay, who is looked on by
many as the coming American poet, Is
a descendant of Joseph ROdman Drake,
author of the "Culprit Fay and Is a
brother-in-law of R.WatsOn Glider. editor
of the Century. The De Rays are of
Hno,tnnnf descent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
Gnuratinnal.
Augusta FemaleSem
STANTON, VA.
MISS MARY ]. BALDWIN. PriD.

OPENS September 5th, closes Jui
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ings and grounds, in its general apPS9l
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rivaled advantages iB Music, Mougl
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tice Of Bookkeeping. The sueces .. N
made to secure health, comfort ~ ~
ness; its opposition to .eHtrqi,s ~ 17Ii n
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ticulars apply to the Principal loI -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Ne1C HdCeB Ne1rS.
1t would seem that those men who
claimed to be the nearest friends of Gar
field during his life are now most care
less of his memory.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
A Volume in a Line.

Springfield lAa8s.) Repu5licgi.
1t isn't often that the able editor makes
the heading to an article cover the whole
case, but it is done in the Charleston Is.
G. } NelCS and Courier, thus: ga Navy for
RpnairS ONLY,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

New York city leads the world in the
sale of flags. Orders are filled there from
all parts of the country and Europe. The
bunting for these flags is manufactured in
Massachusetts,, in factory belonging to
General Butler. He now sells the best
bunting in the world for about $40 piece,
while that imported, which is said to he
of an inferior quality, costs Sl4. Millions
of flags of all kinds, from those worth 30
cents a gross to those which cost as high
as 5000 piece, are sold in this country
annually. The cheapest are made Ofpaper
and the most costly of silk. The printed
cotton flags, which are sometimes six feet
in length, are printed on hand presses
much the same as newspapers were print
ed some years ago.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
An Apt Analogy,

Carnivorous animals, when in a morbid
condition, frequently devOur their own
young. 1t is a singular feature of the Re-
publican party that it constantly turns
upon its most distinguished members and
assails them with SAVAGE ferOcity.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Strawberry Hill is for sale. 1t was
made celebrated by its founder. Horace
Walpole, and by the delightful entertain
ments in our own day of the late Lady
Waldegrave. of which Eyarts, COnkling,
and other distinguished Americans have
formed part. 1t was first tenement, built
in 1893 by Lord Bradford's coachman.
1t was hired by COlley Cibber, who wrote
one of his worse plays there, and after
ward by the Bishop of Durham. Itpassed
next to the Marquis of CarnarvOn, after
ward Duke of Chandos, and on his death,
was taken by Mrs. CheneviX. WalpOle
was her successor. He erected his Gothic
castle. on which he and the friends of his
old age, the two Miss Berrys-whOm Sid
ney Smith invariably addressed as Dear
Berries''-have conferred fame.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch, the
leading independent Republican organ of
Western Pennsylvania, is not so surely
convinced of Republican harmony in
PENNSYLVANIA as Senator John Stewart
seems to he, It says: political harmony
is lovely thing in its proper place. But
to insure its permanence Senator Stewart
should not neglect TO point out some more
tangible evidences of conviction of sin
and conversion on the part Of the Stall
warts than are offered by the tactics of
the conciliatOry Field Marshal during the
mast winter"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The Chinese silk crop for 1884, accord
ing to the North China Herald of May %,
is not likely to be over $4,000 to $1,000
bales for export. This is loss of about
half the export crop, which it was
thought, from the seed laid down, would
reach 100000. The crop last year was
1900 bales, although a demand for more
might have led to an Outturn of 10000
bales more. The Chinese crop, owing to
the development of the European supply,
particularly in Italy, is OF less importance
than it once was, but the short crop this
year has already increased prices,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

All that is required Of the government
to get rid Of the trade dollar trouble Is To
exchange a piece OF silver Of ll2'2 grams
for another piece Of silver Of 420 grains.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

The short. truly Western way in which
the Chicago Tribune disposes of the ques-
ton of Latin and Greek at college; "Ntu-
dent life Is too short for antediluvian lin
..nistic LumhuwS."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Kate Chase Sprague has gone to Europe
for the summer. When she went there
before. as the wife of Governor Sprague-
she spent 100000 in one year. The
chances are that Katherine now wishes
She had saved some Off.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09

Butler thinks Arthur can unite the Re-
publfcans if anybody can. IF anybody"
would imply that Benjamin is not struck
with the idea that the q. O. .. will present
a solid front in 1881.