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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20

1t is bad policy to wash harness with soap,
as the potash Injuries the leather. If the har
ness becomes rusty, rub off the dirt as well
as possible with a soft brush and apply a
dressing of grain black, followed with oil or
tallow, which will fasten the color and make
the leather pliable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
Cable Notes.

The loss by the burning of the new theater
at Altarad Hungary is estimated at 10000
forms.
The secretary of the British embassy at
Teheran and a native escort have been at
tackled on the Turcoman Steppes. Eleven of
the escort were killed and nine wounded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
THE TIPPECANOE.

and Great Loss Expected
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WINAMAc, Feb. 19.-The Tippecanoe river
is one foot higher this morning than it has
ever been known at this place. The ice is
very heavy and still on top OF the water, and
has raised up against the bottoms of several
bridges If it should break at this stage OF
water it will certainly take out all the
bridges near here, including the P, C.. & ST.
L. railroad bridge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
A Proposition to Parcel Out the Surplus
Revenue.

WASHINGTON, Feb 19-The joint resolu-
ton offered in the House by Mr.. Skinner. to
provide for an equitable distribution of the
surplus money in the United States Treas
ury, sets forth in the preamble that the
amount ofreveDue now being collected is
greatly in excess of the needs of the country,
and declares it expedent to repeal all internal
taxes except those on liquors, and directs
that all surplus, after redemption of bonds
due, be divided among the States, to be APP
for schools and churches, and that 800, 0O0,-
900 from the surplus now in the treasury be
so divided among the States, according to
population on the LIST of July next.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20

SUPERIOR to Emmett, greater than Murphy
thai talented and handsome young actor, VIM
g. Scanlon. Grand Opera house, commencing
Mohdly, Feb. 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
COUNTING UP THE LOSSES.
concluded from First Page.

is twenty-three inches on Four-mile bar there
is fifteen feet in the channel near the pump
ing-house
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
The Tariff Bin in Jeopardy.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-230 A. M.-The Re-
publican senators will caucus this morning
to determine upon a line of ac-
ton. The Senate bill is in great
jeopardy. Senators Cameron, of Pennsylva-
MIA; Mitchell, Miller, of California; Van
Wyck and ingalls, will vote against the bill
as 1t now stands, but the caucus action to-
day may change them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Homage to the Dead.

OF the great sons of Georgia who have
passed away none have deserved greater
homage to their earthly relics than he
whose departure now evOkes the grief of
Georgia and the regret of all familiar
with the story of his wonderful career.
The preparations making for the Obse-
quies of Gov. Stephens are elaborate, and
the cOncOurse at his funeral gives promise
of being the largest ever gathered at the
burial of any Georgian. 1t may safely be
assumed that few who can attend will be
absent. The representative men Of the
various cities, towns and counties of the
State have been invited to attend, and there
are thousands of citizens who will gladly
travel many miles to join in hOnOring the
mortal remains of him for whom all so
sincerely lament. The memorial meeting
at the capital will be the occasion for
tributes to the memory of the great
Georgian by those who best knew his
powers and measured his worth.
In the homage to be rendered to the
dead, Savannah will share with a readi-
ness and warmth the greater for her re-
cent association with the great but sim
pie statesman who was but recently her
honOred guest.
The mass meeting called by His Honor
Mayor Lester and the Board of Aldermen
will afford opportunity for fitting recOg-
milton on the part of the community of
the great loss Georgia has sustained,
and we doubt not will be largely attended
by our citizens in general, for he to whom
they are called to do honor was ever a man
of the people. In the military pageant
at the capital the citizen soldiery of the
Forest City will largely participate, and
all Ofus who cannot be at the ObsequIes
in person will be there in spirit, as can
also be said of the people of the State at
large, for he loved Georgia living, and
Georgia mOurns him dead.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
The Rudder in Hand.

How simple are the workings OF our
system of Democratic government! lHe
great commonwealth of Georgia, by the
death of its Chief Magistrate, becomes
for n few hours rulerless, and then by the
enactment of a simple ceremony the ma
cbinerv Of government is fitted with the
needed piece, and the system IS again
complete and performs its wonted work.
Yesterday morning, in accordance with
the plain and simple requirements of the
organic law of the commonwealth, Hon.
James s. Boynton, President of the SEN
ate, took the oath prescribed for the Exec
utive of the State and assumed the duties
of the high Office, which he will continue
to discharge until aduly elected successor
to our late distinguished Chief Magistrate
shall have been chosen.
The trust has devOlyed upon one worthy
TO receive it. A true type of the sturdy,
resolute, practical Georgian, James
Stoddard BOyntOn has demonstrated MS
fitness for the several distinctions he has
received at the hands of the people. IL
has been his fortune to have been so
placed that he becomes the trustee OF the
highest interests of the commonwealth.
Though apparently a mere lOcun teneRs,
he WILDE actually as much the Executive
for the time he may hold the office as if
he had been the unanimous choice of the
people Of Georgia.
The special duty with which he has
been charged he has promptly performed.
His proclamation has been issued calling
for the election of a Governor on April
oath. Next, the General Assembly will
be called in extra session on May 9th to
canvass the returns and declare the result
of said election.
When the last solemn tribute shall
have been paid to the illustrious and
venerated dead, it will then become the
people of the State to take thought as to
the gubernatOrial succession. For the
present the interests of the common
wealth are in competent and trusty
hands.
Governor BOynton has called about him
the representative men of the State, and is
bearing himself with dignity, courtesy
and case amid his manifold duties and
engagements. In his brief control of af-
fdirs we are assured that he will have the
hearty cooperation. of his subOrdinates
and the confidence of Georgia.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

In trenchant editorial article the st.
Louis Republican traverses the allega-
tions which Mr.. Frank Wilkeson has
brought against the Jews Of the South,
and denies the truth Of them in toto.
ssThe truth is" says the Republican, ''the
Jews Of the South are not very numerous,
and do not differ in their methods of doing
business with planters from other traders.
They supply planters where they engage
in trade in that quarter exactly as other
merchants do, and are neither more nor
less exacting, for the obvious reason that
they could not sell goods at all if they
were. Kline out of every ten merchants,
however, who supply plantations are to the
manner-born, and are governed by the
same laws Of self-interest which prevail
everywhere" The Republican classes
Dir. Wilkeson among travelling political
philosophers, who do not know one negro
from another any more than they know
one mule from another, and who might
meet the same man and talk with him a
dozen different times in the day without
once doubling that they had consulted a
dozen OF the colored race.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

An Outburst of feeling was evoked by
the closing sentence Of an address deliv-
cred by Gen. JubaI A. Early before the
association of the Maryland Line in Bal
timOre, on the evening of Washington's
Birthday, and by the spirit in which it
was received. 81 trust" said Gen. Early,
''that.every faithful soldier of the Army
of Northern Virginia is ready to exclaim
with me: IF ever disOwn, repudiate or
apologize for the cause for which Lee
fought and Jackson died, let the light
nings of Heaven blast me, and the scOrn
of all good men and true women be my
pOrtiOnp" The Baltimore Sun remarks
that at this sentiment ''the hall rOared
with wild cheers, which, coming largely
from his former comrades in arms, re-
minded the nearer of that inarticulate
battle cry with which the COnfederates
were wont to advance to the charge a
score of years ago."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

not poor, I am rich in spiritual gifts, F." and
he went to prison clarifying in his martyr
dom.
In abiding to the difficulties Of rising
authors James Russell Lowell, in a le-
cent lecture, mentioned the reflections by
publishers Of ."Vanity Fair" Carlyle's
French Revolution and the Rejected
Addresses, He might have added pei
ham, to the list, for it was once on the
point of being returned TO Bulwer. And
of more recent date there is the case OF
'sVice Versa" which was rejected by at
least one, if not by two publishers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Some Questions Asked and An
SXered.

swered.
HAwKINsyII.LE. GA, Feb. 2.-EditOr
Morning Neeos: VIII you please answer
the following questions for my Informal
ton: Why was Cleopatra's monument
called needle, and is it not now IN the
museum at New York? What is the
depth OF the Atlantic one mile on the coast
of Savannah Where did the PeruYtans
whom Columbus found in South America
come from? Where does Columbus re-
mains, also Gen. Oglethorpe's, now rest!
By answering the above questions you
will greatly oblige an old subscriber.
w. Fl. REYNOLDS.
We answer the above queries from our
correspondent seriatim as follows:
There were two obelisks of rose colored
syenite covered with hieroglyphlcs, which
marked the site of the city OF Alexandra
for nearly two thousand years. The best au-
thorities say they were originally erected
at HeliOpolis, whence they were removed 10
Alexandria during the reign OF Cleopatra,
and hence designated Cleopatra's needles.
One of these needles or monuments was
presented by the Khedive to the British
Government and now adorns the banK OF
the Thames at London. The other was
presented by the Khedive and now stands
in Central Park. New York city.
AS to the depth of the Atlantic
ocean one mile from Savannah harbor,
our correspondent is informed that the
bar of Tybee stretches some six or sew
en- miles from Tybee, and the depth of
water varies. Three miles from Tybee 1t
is q feet deep. About nine miles the
depth is about So fathoms, and it gradu-
ally deepens until the Gulf Stream is
reached.
The Peruvians which Columbus found
in Peru, when he discovered the mouth of
the Orinoco river in 1893, were natives of
the country, like the Indians of North
America. Their legends say they were
the children of the sun.
Columbus remains lie buried in the
Cathedral at Havana, Cuba. He died at
Valladolid, in poverty, at the age of 20.
His remains were carried to Seville, from
thence to San Domingo, and finally, in
1916, were inferred at the Cathedral of
Havana, where they now rest.
The remains Of Gen. OglethOrpe repose
in London in the churchyard of st. James,
Westminster, where his family mansion
was situated. Our correspondent will find
a succinct and brief history of the career
of the illustrious founder of Georgia in the
Sesqui-C Centennial edition of the Savannah
MORNING NEWS, recently published on
the occasion of the celebration of that
event in Savannah.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

From the foundation of the government
until 1861 the United States paid in PEN
sions the sum of $50, $50, S59 60. Since
that time up to the 1st Of January Of this
year, the enormous sum of 1862, al, 17O 81
has been paid out for pensions. The
largest sum heretofore paid out in any
one year was in 1SsO-namely: 7,24O,-
go IA, but last year the appropriations
for pensions were S6S, 49,, 3O6, and for the
year 1885 ending June 80 the apprOpria-
ton was 500, 100000. The same enormous
sum has been appropriated at this session
of Congress for next year. The pensions
are now double the interest ON the national
debt. The claim agents have got in their
work ON the taxpayers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Where's ELI Perkins ?

Napoleon said, and Greek had said 1t
long before: s1Set lie on its legs; the
truth will never overtake it," Our es-
teemed contemporary, the Sun, is pub
fishing a series of papers on the South
ern problem, whatever that may be.
These are signed by Mr.. Frank Wilke-
son. upon whose invisible shoulders the
San calmly throws the responsibility OF
the curious assertions which it publishes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Settling the Slate.
Missouri Republican { Dem.

NiSSOurt Rel1uOEtcdN IDe"t'J'
Sam RandalPs goose is pretty well
cooked. The FOrty-eighth Congress will
have to organize on the tariff issue. Car
Isle will guide the deliberations of the
House. Morrison lead it to the right sort
of tariff legislation as Chairman of the
WAYS and Means Committee, while Ran
dali will be assigned to the mission for
which he is best fitted as Chairman Of the
Appropriations Committee. There will
be a great reduction of taxes, and Randall
will find big job in curtailing the ap-
preparations so as to keep the govern
mental expenditures within the limits OF
the reduced revenue. That is a work
which he.is more competent to perform
than any other man in the country, and
it is the best of good luck that the De-
mocracy can spare him from the chair.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The New York Star announces that a
delegation Of the historic 1906" who won
their bronze medals by voting persistently
for Grant at the Chicago Republican Con-
ventiOn, called upon Commissioner Raum
recently to discuss the timeliness and pro-
priety Of organizing permanent assOcia-
ton, 10 be the nucleus Of a rehabilitated
stalwart party. Are we to infer that
Grant is still on deck with eyes White
HOuseWardi
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Political Ofenses.

Nelo orleans Times -Dea0cTdt.
Whether an offense is political depends
on the motives Of the offender, to be IN
ferred from the surrounding circum-
stances. If it is obviously an oppression
of political hatred or discomfort, and is
committed on political officer or agent,
either in revenge for political wrongs or
with the view Of bringing about politi-
cal change, it is political offense, how
ever atrocious, or repulsive, or futile.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The British Government has controlled
the telegraph wires for over ten years.
The increase in the number of messages
sent is remarkable. In 1S70-71 the total
number Of dispatches was only $3.50, III;
in 1SS1-S2 it had risen to 81, 345, S61. After
deducting about 6,OOO,O0O press and gov
eminent messages, it appears that the
average number Of private dispatches last
year was about three for every four per-
sons in the United Kingdom.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Poor Fellows.
R0stOn Star.

Many New Workers are thinking OF
moving their residences to Washington.
1t is the difference of living, more than the
difference in the climate, that decides
them. A man who is worth just about
million dollars there is styled a most
unhappy person, for the reason that while
he is expected to keep up he cannot do it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Alas for "Lop
Memphis AUGldnche.

The government has expended 81, 800, 600
in efforts to keep the irrepressible white
man out of the Indian Territory, and now
it is clear that Mr.. LO must go or assimi-
late himself with the new order of things.
Six great railways have stations near the
borders of this Territory, and when their
tracks are laid across it there will be
another great State.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
Poor Little Thing.

LOUISVILLE COurlef-J 0uTldt.
Among the alleged 'infant'' industries
looms up the Willimantic Linen Com
pany, which paid 80 per cent upon its
capital in 1881. This is a very lusty in
FAINT, but it says it can't walk yet and
must have some ''more subsidy" Poor
little thing! Only making profit OF
50 per cent, and yet complaining.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The recOllectiOns of star route witnesses
improve on second trial. One now re-
calls that John Dorsey informed him that
they had ''tixed up ring in Washington
and had an understanding with Brady"
Brady in the role of Rerdell could Won
drums tale unfold
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
CURRENT COMMENT.



Senator Van Wyck pretty clearly DEM
onstrated yesterday that the Department
of Justice is about as costly to the gov
eminent as the rascality was that it is
now prosecuting. There is nothing good
in the RpDublican party,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The people Of the Rochester New
York , district would have good reason to
be disguised with statesman Van VoOrhis
if they had not repudiated him in November
by am Overwhelming majority. Mr.. Green
leaf, Democrat, a soldier and gentle
man, will replace the moral exemplar of
the G.. o. p, who sinned so grievously
against the requirements of common de-
eency. How about plantation manners"
by the way:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
The Estimated Cost

Prof. Sumner makes this interesting
computation of what protection costs the
country in a single year. The capital in
vested in manufacturing in the United
States is 50, 79O, 900, 900; the wages paid out
in 1880 amounted to $94S, OOO,00O to 2,70O,-
600 hands (being at the rate of 81 II a
day); the materials used are valued at
3,4OO, OOO, 900, and the value of the pro-
duct $1,000, 100000. The average tariff
rate was 431z per cent; the value of the
product was, therefore, raised 1917 per
cent. This would make the real value of
the product 50, zoe, 100000. Since it is this
sum which, increased 431Z per cent,
would make $1,000, 100000, the country,
therefore, paid s., 800, 600, 900 for manufac-
lures which, but for the tariff, it could
have bought for SO, 200, 600, OOO-shOwing a
clear loss to consumers and of profit to
the manufacturers of $1,G00, 100000. If,
then, the country had paid all the wages
($94S, 600, OOO) outright and allowed the
workers to stand idle, and in addition to
this had paid to the manufacturers 10 per
cent. 1873, 900, 0O0) on their invested capt.
tai on condition of being released from
protective duties it would have saved
$373 600 600 by the transaction,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The ''dude'' is the very latest thing in
New York, and is to be seen around Del
mOnic0's. II is a 'cOyer coat" far below
which the tails Of the evening dress coat
depend, producing an effect indescTihably
IudicrOus.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

Tom Young, G. 0. 2. statesman, Ohio
man too, has said it: Il propose to trade
a Niger Representative for a whisky
bill" Shades of Lincoln! Sumner! Ste
phens! Can We sleepg
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

A sarcastic Boston journal remarks,
"AnOther bond call---this time it is in
Philadelphia. Burglars called for $780,
600 in bonds at the Guarantee Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, and got them. Let
us see. Guarantee trust'-that seems
secure enough. Safe deposit'--that also
seems all right. But what's in name p"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

Editor Reid, of the New York Tribune,
is occasionally refreshingly candid. Here
is his latest specimen offEankness: "Hav-
ing succeeded in sending the tariff and tax
bill to a conference committee which they
control, the Republicans have now re-
sumed resolutions for a decision of the
matter. They can no longer rest upon
the plea that Democratic speeches or
Democratic amendments, or Democratic
filibustering, have rendered the passage
ola tariff bill impossible. But the RESPONSE
bility for the moment rests with the Re-
publicans, and they have to show whether
they can agree upon measures which
ought to be. and can be passed."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

Ohio is losing her grip. Joseph Warren
Keifer, RObesOn's man Friday, won't play
puppet any longer TO the Admiral, for the
Admiral won't be on hand to pull the
strings.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The amount Of deposits and cash bal
ances in the jOint-stOck banks Of ireland
in June, 1882, was s3O,667, 900, an increase
Of more than two millions over the pre-
YiOus year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The constituents of Statesman White,
Of Kentucky, must feel proud of their
Representative. For a man with such an
averiOn to good old Bourbon Whites
antics in the House are frequently pUz-
zling.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

Malone and speer representing the mi
nOrity in the tariff conference. What are
the limits to cheek?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
M MS ofIice anpropriation bill ven

The post Office appropriation bill went
through the House, with the appropriation
Ter the fast mail service and that for the
compensation Of land grant railroads.
The time for the great change of substi-
tuting two cents for three as the ordinary
rate on letters is fixed at October /. Score
two points for Keifer, Robson &-CO., at
any rate.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

The barons had a close shave in the
Senate-32 to 81 was a considerable i'm
prOyement on s to :, but if that shining
Democrat, Mcpherson, had stood with his
associates the jugglers would have failed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

We hasten to acknowledge our profound
admiration Of the astounding candOr of
the BarOns' attorneys in the Senate. Fa-
Their Morrill, was sublime in his frankness.
He threatened to smash the combination
if VermOnt's precious wool was ignored.
Father Morrill, had the call and won.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

Immense icebergs and vast fields Of ice,
reaching from the Newfoundland banks to
a distance Of zoe miles east, and violent
westerly gales are met by all incoming
vessels from Europe. Some of the bergs
are said to be 200 feet high, which would
indicate submerged and invisible part
1.4OO feet deep. For hundreds of miles
the banks are lev.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

In the midst Of the stubborn attorneys
for special interests, Wood Pulp Miller's
estimation Of his disinterestedness ad-
vanced quite anumber Of points.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06

From a Parliamentary return it appears
that during the year ended Sept. 30, 1882,
there were 16,6O9 persons licensed as
brewers in Great Britain, and the amount
of license and beer duty paid was $43,-
COS, 400. One firm brewed no fewer than
1000. 900 barrels. and paid S1.S74,4S3 duty.