Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17

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cion that "A similar state Of affairs exists
on others Of Tncle SANS cruisers
Governor Butler has earned the graft
tuda Of the taxpayers Of Massachusetts
bv saving them SjO0.O00 in the state levy
by a iudic1ous use Of the veto power. The
amount voted AZ first was S2,000.00O, but
has since been fixed ut Sl,j0O,oOo.
Tine fact that the Southern States will
have 3OG votes i'm the next Republican
convention is. doubtless, appreciated by
Mr.. Arthur. but the fact that the same
States will have l53 votes liz the electoral
college Is not so pleasant to contemplate.
The Harpers have retired Thos. Mast.
the caricaturist, on pension of $4,000 a
wear. These enterprisins publishers de-
serve well Of their country i'll shelving
the man who has done more 10 keep up
sectional hate than any dozen men IN the
country.
A number of Garfield Republicans, or
rather friends Of Mr.. Blaine, were smirch-
ed with the star route pitch, but thus
far none Of them have been called to ac-
count. There is a demand ia some quar-
tiers that the charity shown these worthless
BE explained.
SCHUYLER Colfax Is urged to permit the
use Of bis name by the Republicans for
the Governorship in Indiana, but declines
to do so. ColaX's devotion to the grand
old marty is truly cOmmendable, but it
must be remembered that he Is Chris
tian statesman.
The Fenian FIotiual Where is it: Is
it bounding over the pillows, oris 1t skim
ming along beneath the sea. It's gone, but
whereof Nobody seems to know anything
about it. As it carried away large
amount of kerosene. we may perhaps have
light on the subject before long.
Durbin Ward. the disappointed Demo-
cratic war horse. announced himself in the
convention as a candidate for the United
States SenatOrship from Ohio. If the
General is to have his hopes realized, his
friends should be doing some better fight
ing for Hoadly and the whole ticket than
they appear to be doing.
Roanoke College, located at Salem, Vir-
rinia. and founded in 1853, is one of the
most popular educational institutions Of
the South. 1t is gradually growing IN
wealth and Importance, and the Number
Of its students is. therefore, increasing.
With an able corps 81 professors and
under a management that is both liberal
and progressive. its future is very PrOmls-
ing.
The Times Democrat thinks the great
prOblem Is to reconcile the restrictions of
quarantine with the demands Of COM
merce. \ strict quarantine during
healthy summer finds many opponents
IN New Orleans. If case of fever should
reach the city, however, these chronic
grnmblers would be the first ones TO con-
denim the health authorities for not main
tanning a stricter quarantine.
Healy's triumph in Monaghan is sig
nificaut as showing the cooperation OF
Professionals and Catholics in the national
movement. Hitherto the government has
PLAYED one set OF religionists against the
other with pretty uniform success. Par
nell has shown repeatedly mis- ability as
leader. and the results of his labor in
Ulster stamp him as being as keen a
politician as he is a ciear-headed states
man.
A correspondent of the New York
Times. writing from Indianapolis, quotes
certain prominent HoOsier Democrats to
the effect that Mcdonald is not so popu-
lar i'm Indiana as he is represented. 1t IS
alleged that he has acted as attorney for
the driven well patentees and has incurred
the dislike Of the farmers in the northern
part of the State. According to the same
politicians the sold ticket is quite pop
ular in HoosierdOm.
1t was pretty well understood that the
Republican papers would make Judge
HoadIv out to be the worst man in the State
of Ohio. but it was never dreamed that
they would charge him with being any.
thing worse than a horse thief and liar.
1t seems. however, that they propose 10
stop at nothing. They now declare that
he is a tool of the Standard Oil Company.
OF course. after such a charge as that, 1t
is to be expected that he will immediately
withdraw from the canvass.
The Republican bosses do not seem to
he remarkably active this year. Grant
seems TO have withdrawn from the arena
of politics: Don Cameron il in Europe
for his health. and is content to let the
partv in Pennsylvania take care of itself;
COnkling is sulking; Dorsey is mad, and
has gone to his Colorado ranch; Logan is
arieved because he is not more generally
appreciated. and besides he is getting old;
Blaine is deYotfng himself to literature.
It's sort Of of year with the bosses.
our dispatches this morning state that
Saturday the New York Fruit Inspectors
seized a cargo Of 81, 900 melons brought to
that port by the Ocean Steamship
Company, on the ground that the melons
were rotten. If the melons are condemned
the truck farmers of this section will
suffer quite a serious loss. An inyesti-
cation should be had to show where the
blame belongs, not only for the purpose
Of locating the responsibility, but also OF
avoiding a similar loss in the future.
washington is the Mecca of cranks.
They turn up there at all times of the
wear. A day or two ago man all the
wav from California called at the Patent
Office TO take out patent on method of
his for producing rain. His plan is to go
mn TO a cold strata of air in balloon aRd
bring it down to a warmer current. He
said he thought he could render the des-
ert Of Sahara inhabitable so that the dis
contented people Of Ireland could be re-
moved there. He Is still trying to get
nafnuf On his method of producing rain,