Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-30

! IuStraIeu Dy remark of the sexton.
tE which is extensively quoted among
work fur our livin', now-a-davs. .
that worthy was overheard saving.
''Time was when the church was
open for few hours on Sunday
and was closed all the rest of the week.
! Now, it's open longer every week day
than it used to be on Sunday, and me and
my assistants don't have a burned min
ute to ourselves" Another familiar
popular quotation is. statement that
more persons now attend the afternoon
| services ON Sunday than attended the
morning services at Calvary during the
| regime OF DR.. Satterlee's predecessor. If
/ the tree is to be known by its fruits. the
/ nigh church tendencies and less learning
of DIR. Satterlee are of more spiritual
worth than the evangelical eruditiOn of
DIR. Washburn.
/ What a farce the custom recurring a
married woman to accompany parties of
pleasure composed of young men and
maidens in order to ''matrOnizev them
/ was funnily illustrated the other day. A
| girl who is to be one of the brides of the
! April weddings was asked by a cOmpan-
ion of her own age, which is under 20, to
''matronIze" an excursion which is to
take place soon after she returns from
her bridal tour. Such an excursion con-
!
rome would be highly improper. but a
month from now Mrs. - viii be quite
capable of ''matrOnizing'' any number of
men and women half as old
again as she is, and parties conducted
under her auspices will be quite as CONNIE
! IL fdut as if her silver wedding. in place
OF its primeval predecessor, had been
celebrated in the meantime. A custom
that is so reduced to an absurdity. one
I V4rfI
hOnOred in the breach than in the Observ-
! ance.
1t Is perhaps only question of time
when paragraph something like the fol-
lowing will appear in one of the local
papers here:
"A boy was run over by bobtail car in
Fourteenth street, yesterday, and one of
the wheels passing over his left leg sever
ed it just below the knee. He would
doubtless have bled to death had not Miss
Flora McFlimsy, of Madison square. so
skillfully bandaged the stump that when
he was carried to the New York Hospital
the surgeons there found that they had
but little to do. The young lady tied the
bandages with a grace that has long
rendered her the observed of all
observers when dancing the german"
Some thirty ladies, more or less, of the
type of the heroine of 'ENOthing to Wear.o
have attended lectures by DR.. Morton
during the past penitential season similar
to those given under the auspices of the
society, "First Aid to the Injured" to
policemen and the general public. Bur-
| dening his fair and fashionable hearers as
little as possible with anatomical details,
DIR. Morton, in the most practical manner,
has told them what to do in the event of
somebody being injured when no physi-
clan was near. How to treat sprain,
or burn, as well as how to stop the
bleeding which follows the severance of
an artery, is taught by him so plainly
that his thirty auditors walk the streets
almost in hope that some casualty will
happen in their presence which will give
them an opportunity to display their skill.
1t will not, therefore, be long
before one of their number viii
have her presence of mind and surgi-
cal skill embalmed in print, as in
the foregoing suppositious paragraph.
The Nineteenth Century Club grows in
popularity every week. Last Tuesday
Mr.. Julian HawthOrne's utterances on
"A NoyeP' were listened to by an audi
ence that embraced the best people in
town. The Glee Club and orchestra were
heard before the lecturer and afterward.
George Riddle and Lawrence Barrett. the
actor, gave recitatiOns, and Edgar Faw-
cett read clever little poem satiriZing
novels. The club has a definite position
now and bids fair to become the most
popular in town.
The Brooklyn bridge is nearly COM
pleted. 1t is IA magnificent structure and
really looks as though it might be worth
half OF the many millions that have been
spent on it. We have waited fourteen
years to see the thing finished, and are at
last to be gratitied. 1t will probably be
thrown open to the public in few
months. 1t seems to me that the bridge
fO hr1. No
although people here deny it. When
it is finished people can scamper
across from the City Hall in this
city to the City Hall in BROOKLYN,
where it now takes the greater portion of
an hour. Rents in Brooklyn are about
twO-thirds. cheaper than they are in New
York, and, of course, every man who can
afford to live in house of his own will do
so in preference to squeezing himself into
one of the narrow flats up town. Thus il
seems to me that large portion of our
people Will be taken away from us over
into the sister city. Brooklyn is in great
glee over the approaching completion of
its pet structure, and no wonder, for it
will bring great many millions of dol
lars into their town which would other
wise never get there.
The Irish question is becoming as i'm
portant in America as the Eastern cues
tlon was for long time in England. l
think | am uttering the convictions of the
vast majority of New Workers when saw
that we are entirely sick and disguised
with that portion of our Irish population
which is active in promoting the cause of
Ireland against the English. No man
can view the treatment of Ireland by
England with any feeling other than that
of indignation. The terrible suffering and
hardships which the Irish peasantry are
subjected to by the grasping landlords is
reality that belonged rather to the Mid
die Ages than the nineteenth century.
and the brutal treatment of many of the
Irish subjects by England predisposes all
fair minded men in Ireland's favor. When
the Irish party, through their agents. at
tempt to drag America into the strife and
make ur country an enemy to England,
they are going too far. just now prepara-
tions on the grandeSt scale are being
made for the reception of Mr.. Parnel. who
is shortly expected. Parnell is undues-
tiOnably the foremost man in the Irish
party, and it is to him that the people
look for relief. But he does not now
hold the position that he held a
year ago in public estimation, His
conduct, to put it mildly, is open to sus-
piciOn. The question which everybody
asks now is-"How much did Mr..
Parnell know about the outrages of the
Murder League~ He certainly wrote to
blAe1nh On 1AAlCllChu paper u6Tc III New
York, which had sent lots of funds to the
Murder League for its constant co-opera-
tion and constant support" and was on
intimate terms with the Dublin CORE
spondent of that paper, through whom the
funds were given to the Murder League.
When it is taken into consideration
that this paper preached murder
from the very start and urged Irishmen
to do the very deed which subsequently
resulted in the Phoenix Park murders, it
will be seen that Mr.. Parnell is placed in
a position, which, to put it mildly, is sus-
picious. Again, Mr.. Parnell's own asso-
ciates have, in several instances, been
convicted of uttering incendiary and mur-
derous speeches, and urging people on to
acts of violence and crime. How tar is
Mr.. Parnell responsible for the action of
his associates and supporters? He comes
to America for money. There is no doubt
about that. There is also little doubt that
he will get all that he really needs, for the
Irish people, though somewhat erratic and
prone to be led by demagogues, are patri-
Otic and generous to the last degree.
HALL-HAYNEs.
A Readjuster Seated.
PETERSBURG, VA, March CT. j.
Jarratt, Readjuster Mayor=elect of this
city, entered upon the discharge of his