Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-21


when De sass that the Democratic party
au.ht to give "a GOOD share Of it, attention
fa the f.rf-itln- ri iapsed land grants
I-fssa77 that Murat Hals,e.d Is booked
rs Minister ~ Turkey. Having failed Q"
eo1vin-. auvboG5 that the Eads jettie--
at -r,a mouth ofthe Mississippi, are fall
ure. he probably wants 70 2et oAl q lh'
country.
The only way TO stop tbe enormous and
continual increase in the pension pay
uept- is te get clear of the surplus IN iAf
Treasury. As long as there i surplus
Congress. viii be urged TO pass laws H.
rreaziug pensions
Whoever thinks that Chandler intends
to take back seat because he was de-
feat-d I'm New Hampshire, viii make 90
mistake. IL isn't modest. and one defeat
isn't ACCEPTED as hint tHat the people do
not desire his services.
The striking operators who have been
taken back by the companies intend To
take care " those Ofthe women who struck
and were not taken back. This Is credit
all q. and id is to DE hoped that they VIII
mot grow weary Of the good work.
The farmer. or the coast counties Vi
Georgia boast Of their melon patches, and
tba farmers or the mountain counties say
their aupIe orchards bring them from $50
20 $500 per acre. The farmers Of both
sections ought 10 De pretty we'll satisfied
Thomas Murphy complains that Presi-
dent Arthur has never invited him o.
dinner. although he claims 10 have made
Arthur President. The fact that Murphy
sets up such a claim Is evidence that he Is
not the kind Of a man 20 De entertained at
the White House.
Col. Ilges has been dismissed from the
army for duplicating his pay accounts
Re ought 10 have followed MAJOR NickeT-
sons example. and kept out Of the way
until the trouble blew over. The War
Department probably would not have
made much Of an effort to find him.
The faIk Is that the Postal Telegraph
Company viii transmit messages 10 any
mart of the country at the uniform rate OF
on,. cent word. This Is pleasant talk.
but is IL reliable: II aill be well 70 wait
and SEE what the company does in the
way or reducing rates before iadGlginS
i'm congratulations.
Governor Foster estimates that it will
reol!fre "a quarter Of million Of dollars 10
carry Ohio for the Republicans. Where
j. the money to come from, The star
route contractors viii hardly stand an
rfv-fH -a on
mission won't allow the department
clerks 60 De assessed.
The brotherhood of photographers are
not gushing over the Knights Of Labor as
much as they were some weeks ago. The
KNIGHTS did not unlock their strong box.
and the Brotherhood therefore charge
them with having caused the failure Of
the strike. The strike not only failed, but
produced bad feeling between two strong
BabOr organizations.
Congressman Evins, Of South Carolina,
thinks that the fayefite in the South pr
the Democratic Presidential nomination
is Mcdonald. He likes Randalli but
doesn't think he is the man the Democrats
want for Speaker. The tariff question, he
thinks, will come up next winter, and the
Democratic party cannot afford 20 have a
man in the Speakers chair who is not in
full sympathy with the party on that
question.
An imaginative newspaper cores
pondeut saws that one OF the objects Of the
Presidents risit in the Northwest is 70
look over the ground in connection with
a scheme 10 annex British Columbia To
this country. The correspondent says II
Is reported that the President is interested
in the acquisition Of that territory. All
Of this does for a sensational newspaper
article. but it is not expected that sensi-
bic people will believe it.
stories Of miraculous cures continue to
be reported. The latest comes from BOs-
ton. A girl who had been a cripple for
eight years, after a prayer to "Our Lady
Of Perpetual Help" suddenly recovered
the use Of her limbs. OF course there are
very few VINO will believe that there was
ANYTHING miraculous in the Gaze. They Will
insist that II there was such a case the
cure can be accounted for without resort
ing 20 supernatural causes.
The Dawson Journal says that DR..
Jones, in trying to kill the caterpiilars.
killed his cotton. He used a pound of
arsenic 10 forty gallons Of water, and
wherever the poison touched Il left his
cotton looking as if a fire had swept
through the field. We think the Amefi-
Gus Republican represented Col. Hawkins.
Of that county, as using and recommend
inc the same remedy. II is now in orde
10 hear the report Of that gentleman.
The IeyeI-headsd grand jurors Of Doug
las county have shown how to correct the
evil Of undertaking property in giving it
in for taxes. They examined the tax books
and found that more than three hundred
persons had made dishonest returns.
whereup0n they proceeded 70 assess the
property at its true value, increasing the
value Of one mans property over nine
thousand dollars. OF course, the reas-
sessed gentlemen will be angry about IT,
but the county guardians Of the public
welfare should stand firm.
It seems that the ship railway enter (
urise Of our time is not a new idea or a
new enterprise. \ correspondent Of the
Pail Mall gazette resurrects the fact that
IN the year IT'S vessels OF war were trans
,,orted across hills and valleys, distance
Of fourteen miles, to assist at the siege Of
FrederickshaH, where Charles the Twelfth
lost his life. The engineer Of this ship
railway was Emanuel Swedenborg, one Of
the most remarkable men the world has
Droduced. He was one Of the greatest Of
lheolOgians, mathematlcians ana scien-
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