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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
The Fertillzer ouestion.


It is the almost universally accepted
theory, whether correct OF not, that farm
ing cannot be successfully conducted in
the South Atlantic States without the use
Of commercial fertilizers. This, coupled
with the fact that heretofore these ferti-
lizeTs have cost the farmer more than
they were worth to him, has been the
main cause OF the slow development Of
the agricultural interests in many sec
tons and Of their actual retrOgression IN
others.
When a ton OF ordinary superphosphate
il bought on credit, transported to the
farm and put in the drill the average cost
to the farmer is fifty dollars, or . per
cent. more than the average price Of
bale Of cotton. The demand for cheaper
fertilizers viii no doubt be met before
many years. Good brands can now be
bought at the factories in large lots at nom
$50 to $50 a ton cash, according 10 quality
1t is likely that in a very few years the
bulk Of the manufacturing Of fertilizers
will be done very near the immense phos-
phate beds Of the South Carolina and
Georgia coast. With improved facilities
for handling. the phosphate rocks can be
raised and delivered to the mills as
cheaply as coal can be mined and sold, at
say 81 to s. per ton. The chemicals and
manipulation ought not 10 cost more
than SO per ton for high grade tertii-
izer. This, Of course, would require
everything to be bought IN large quanti-
ties from first hands for cash, and the
best Of machinery AMI facilities. Allow
ing for reasonable profits, the fertilizer
mills Of the future viii most probably be
able to sell acid phOsphates at So TO SO,
and super-phOsphates at from SIS to SO
per ton for cash. This would enable
farmers living within an average Of
twenty miles Of the mills to have the fer
tiIizers put in the ground at from $24 to
So per ton. or One-half what it now costs
them under the credit system and with
the factories nearly a thousand miles from
their fields.
The phosphate rock alone now costs
the manufacturers Of Charleston about
SO per ton. and those Of Baltimore about
SO. This item and the disadvantages Of
the credit system. the want Of improved
facilities for manufacturing and handling
the materials and the return freights, are
sufficient TO bring the cost Of commercial
fertilizers pretty nearly up TO what they
are sold at now. Think OF it-One-half
Of the millions that are now annually
paid for fertilizers in the South Atlantic
states going to the items Of extortionate
cost Of the phosphate rock. unnecessary
frelghts, and the risks involved in the
credit system. The moral is obvious.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
BETWEEN BLAINE AND DEEP
WATER


The Distressing Quandary in Which the
SANITY, but Partisan, Edmunds
Stands.
With the thermometer steadily at 100 or
thereabouts in the shade, says a Wash
ington special to the New York World,
political talk during the last forty-eight
hours has not been very lively. The posi-
ton Of Senator Edmunds is one, however,
that interests the gossips perhaps more
than any other topic. Edmunds has al
ways been a thick-and-thin partisan. He
has never bOlted his ticket. To so do
would he political suicide in Vermont.
While he was the idol Of the Independents,
be has never in his life made an indepen-
dent move outside the party ma
chine. He is the answering sup
porter OF every Republican admins
tratiOn. He was close to Grant as his
right hand. He even stomached
Hayes and ruled him with rod OF iron.
He stood up to Garfield, and Arthur
leaned upon Edmunds as his first and
best friend. Edmunds is now confronted
with a dose OF medicine from which his
trained political stomach turns. Blaine
is his aYowed enemy and has not hesi-
tated to show his enmity. Early and
late, in public and private, Blaine has
never done anything but antagonize
Edmunds and declare his contempt for
his cold, hypOcritical character. Now
Edmunds, who never yet has left his
party standard, hesitates. The Republic
can leaders here are delighted at Ed
munds' quandary and are trying to smoke
him out. They put him at the head
of the speakers the other day at the
Blaine and Logan ratification meeting,
but the Vermont Senator declined
to come on account of sickness. This
sickness was simple nausea from his at
tempting to swallow Blaine too early. He
has since said that he prepared speech
for the occasion, but the candidate of the
Independents could not bring himself to
deliver it. No one doubts, however. that
Edmunds will get around in line before
the campaign is very old, but he will have
to do all the work of reconciliation. He
will never be able to make terms with
Blaine, who openly prefers his enmity to
his friendship. AS for John Logan, he
dislikes Edmunds cordially. He said the
other day that no one need worry about
Edmunds' position. He never ran against
his own interests and would work hard
enough for the ticket if the National Com
mittee should direct him to fall in line.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
BRIGHT BITS.

NEVER cry over spilled milk. It is easier to
buy some chalk and make some more.
NATURALLY enough the bulls thrive on
good crops" The bears are not herbiyor-
ous.-L0eCeH Courier.
No NATTER how pretty or young a widow
is, she ALWAYS looks as If she had lost some
thing.-Y0nkers Gazsfte.
The New York Journal thinks that cats
ought to be provided with pound. The best
pound for them is pound Of arsenic.-Bur-
tiHgf0n Free Press.
ssYES, my boy" said Mr.. MalaprOp to his
son. s.animals that eat meat are carbOnifer-
Gus, while those like ourselves, that eat both
flesh and vegetables, are amphibiOus. San
francisco Hdep.
"OH.v exclaimed Miss Gushington, looking
at the portrait. ..HOw natural those eyes arei
They look as tn 3ugh they were aliYew .Yes,"
replied Charles, sit is a LIES eyes, picture,
you w.r-B0st0R Transcript.
Now are the wild. weird songs Of night
Borne to us through the open lattices,
And wake us up in sore alright
Some are cats and some are catesses.
Sc. Paul Herald.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
Two Infant Fratricides.

William Fennell, his wife and three
children, aged respectively 3, and Z
wears. live near Tarheel, n. c., and their
farm borders on the Cape Fear river. Mrs.
Fennell left home On Tuesday, and as she
went gave some fruit to each of the chill
dren, who were playing. To the youngest
she gave the largest piece, which led to a
quarrel among the youngsters. The two
elder children seized the favorite, dragged
him to the bank Of the river, pounded his
brains out with a stone and threw his
body into the river. At first they denied
knowing what had become of their
brother. but afterwards confessed and the
body was recovered.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
A Cruel Shock.


Dressed for church she stood before the
mirror admiring herself, and mentally OBJ
served that she never had appeared more
lovely. The candid critic, however, would
have declared that her figure was not in
just proportion, for she was very tall and
thin and her height seemed greater than
it actually was in consequence of bunch
of ostrich plumes that floated in snowy
masses over her hat.
''Yes, l know l am handsome" she said,
'but l can't help it," and turning to go
out, caught sight of her little brother
standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing there, BobT' she
asked, sharply.
Looking at you, Fannie" returned the
artless child.
"What do you want to be staring at me
for?"
"Cause yeu look just like a long ham
died feather duster."
And sitting all alone in church that
morning she wondered how she would
feel if Bob got the measles and died.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
THE HERITAGE OF WOE.

Misery, shame and agony often bequeathed as
a sole legacy to children by parents, is me-
elected scrofula. To cleanse the blood Of
this hereditary poison, and thus remove the
most prolific cause of human suffering, to
clear the skin of disfguring humors. itching
fortunes, humiliating eFuptiOns and loath-
some sores caused by it, to purify and beau
tify the skin, and restore the hair so that no
trace of the disease remains, CUTICURA RE-
SOLVENT, the new blood purifier, diuretic and
aperient, and CUTICURA and CUTICURA SOAR,
the great skin cures and beautifers, are in
fallihle
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
2Monru to goail.
CLFMFNT SAUSSy. Noney Rroker
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For Catalogue, address
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
1t Was DecOllete.

ssThe price on that,o said clerk, pick
ing up a remnant of silk, sis quite decol-
Iete.''
sWhatf, said the startled customer.
'sThe price is quite decOllete," l said.
"YOung man, do you know what decol-
lete means?'
s'Yes, madam, / do"
'sWelI, 1 think you are mistaken
''Oh, no, am not"
"What does il meanw
at means cut low, and that's what's
the matter with the price on that piece Of
tOOds -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

WI
A beautiful Promise stood in the hotel
entreSol hopping its brow. you seem ex-
hausteds' said a Settee. ''Exhaustedi l
guess you don't know me. Not muchl
Pm just getting warmed up to my work.
Pm willing to bet can do more hard work
between now and election day than any
body. "Do you never rest?" ''Oh, yes;
right after election I'll 90 to sleep, and
you won't see me again for four years."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
CURTIS HOUSE. GRIFFIN, GA.

UUkIIS HUUSE, URIFFINs Ca.
DERSONS wishing summer board will find
il a comfortable home with Mrs. NJ. K. Cur
tbs, at the Curtis House, Griffin, Ca. House
new and commodious; rooms nicely furnished;
rates from $50 to $25 per month. Children and
servants half price.
NEW YORK CITY Families and single
N persons visiting the North during the
summer. several large and nicely furnished
rooms available; transient or permanently;
frst-class board and appointments. Address
MRS. b. II. KELLER, III East 18th street.
BOARDING IN THE CoUNTRY.-Boar
ID can be obtained in private family dur
ing the summer months, at moderate rates,
by day, week or month. MRS. NJ. M.
COOPER, Brighton. S. c., four miles from
Stokes Landing, Savannah river.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
Entire and Absolute Success.

Major John G. Whitner, of Atlanta, well
and favorably known all over the United
States as a General Insurance Agent,
says: 81 used this remedy before the war
on large plantation in a great number
of cases, dIGcdgs 1Cith absolute success"
Treatise on the Health and Happiness
of Woman mailed free.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Box 3, Atlanta. Ga.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
0mttrmra Elrmrnirn.
@DIZN0cH lczMA21

A S Spring Medicine, Blood Purifier,
"A Diuretic and Aperient, no other so-called
blood purifier or sarsaparilla compound is for
a moment to be compared with the CUTICURA
REsOLyENT. 1t combines four great proper
ties in one medicine, acting at once upon the
digestive organs, blood, kidneys and bowels.
For those who wake with Sick Headache,
Furred Tongue, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Tor
pidity of the Liver. Constipation, Piles, High
cOlOred Urine, Infamed Kidneys, Feverish
Symptoms, and other cOngested conditions
requiring a speedy, gentle and safe aperient
and diuretie, nothing in medicine can pos
sihlu anmal il
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
Ohio DESIGNATING Her "Idea.'


The Indiana men, while steering clear of
the troublesome aGverb ''Only,n committed
the party, both by platform ana candidate, to
a tariff reduction policy, while Ohio reiter-
ated its views on wool and vehemently voted
down a free trade plank proposed by dele
gate. The outcome of the Ohio convention
seems. however. to be more favorable to Nc
Donald or Cleveland than 10 stricter type OF
''the Ohio idea" like Payne or Hoadly. as the
machine was badly damaged in the election OF
delegates at lar-se to Chicago.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

The patriotism of the Irish Nationalist
viii likely be put to the test. II they volun-
tarily pay a taxof two pence in the pound
to give their members Of Parliament sal
aries. they will be worthy Of liberty. Men
Of all countries are constitutionally OPP
posed to paying taxes until five minutes
before the Sherifss time to interview them
on the subject arrives.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Tom Ochiltree has been getting a good
deal Of credit for epigrammatic wisdom
by appropriating Gen. Dick Taylor's old
expression about "a tropical fertility Of
promise and a Sahara sterility Of per-
formance,v and embellishing it with his
own profane trade mark. Ochiltree, how
ever, has improved on Taylor by prae-
ticing what is alluded TO in the phrase
ortotad
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Some OF the Southern papers are pro
testing against any attempt to get up
Butler boom in the Democratic party.
The next thing we know some Of them
win actually protest against Blaine
boom in the Democratic party. some
papers can't keep from being funny.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
IHAn SALT RHEuM


In the most aggravated form for eight years.
No kind of treatment, medicine or doctors
did nee any permanent good. My friends in
Maiden know how / suffered. When / began
to use the CUTICURA REMEDIES my limbs
were so raw and tender that l could not bear
my weight on them without the skin cracking
and bleeding, and was obliged to go about on
crutches. Used the CUTICURA REMEDIES five
months, and was completely and permanently
cured. MRS. S. A. BROWN, Maiden. Mass.
References: Any citizen of Maiden, Mass.
COPPER C0LORED.
have been afflicted with troublesome skin
disease, covering almost completely the up
per part of my body, causing my skin to as
rubbed of like dandruff. and at times causing
intOlerable itching and the most intense suffer-
ing. l have used blood purifiers, pills and
other advertised remedies, but experienced
no relief until procured the CUTICURA RENE
DIES, which, although used carelessly and ir-
regularly, cured me, allaying that terrible
itching, and restoring my skin to its natural
color. | am willing to make affidavit to the
truth Of this statement.
Milan, Mich. S. G. BUXTON.
Sold by all druggists. CUTICURA, so cents;
RESOLvENT. 81; SOAP, rs cents. POTTER
DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
Send for chow TO Cure Skin Diseases
- a DIV For Infantile and Birth HUI
Dad mOrs and Skin Bemishes use
Cuticura Soap, a deliciOusly perfumed Skin
Beautiier, and Toilet, Bath and Nursery
Sanative.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

New York has been enjoying a conven-
ton of deaf mutes during the past week,
which was entirely free from swearing
and scrambling and tumultuOus ap-
plause. 1t discussed only educational
and scientific questions, and adjourned
without even nominating b. f. Butler or
Laura Bridgeman for President. Three
cheers for the deaf mutes. There ought
to be more people like them in the land.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Itnow appears that Neal Dow has not
actually departed from the National Pro
hibitiou parry, but is going to try TO get
the convention, which meets in Pittsburg
ON July %. to nominate Blaine. Neal Dow
is a genius without doubt, but all the
one-borse nominations ought TO be divided
between Butler and Pomeroy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
No Loud Cali for Randall.


The banner Of the samuel j. Randall club,
Of Philadelphia" is already displayed from
the front of one of the Chicago hotels. There
are several PhiladelDhans who want Mr..
Randall for President. but the Democracy
generally Is not making any very loud call Tor
Inn
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Uncle Joseph Medill has taken the vial
Of his wrath from over the Southern
people and is emptying it all over George
William Curtis and his voluminous and
HETEROGENEOUS record. 1t is well.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

A New York court has settled the Yexed
question as to whether a bOarder has a
right to 90 to bed with his boots on, in
favor OF the boarder. The court no doubt
took into consideration what the boarder
had 10 suffer when trying to masticate the
spring chicken, and decided the case ac-
cording to the principle Of general aver
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
propopala.
PROPOSALS.
ALAcHUA COUNTY COURT HOUSE
AT GAINESVILLE, FLA.


GAINESVILLE, May 20, 1884. }
- County Clerks office, in the city of Games
vile, Fla, until June 81, 1884, for furnishing
of all material and labor required in the
erection, construction and completion of a
court house In the city Of Gainesville for the
county of Alachua. according to plans and
specifications for the same by H. J. Campbell,
Architect and Civil Engineer, of Palatka, Fla.
Plans and specifications can be seen in the
Clerks Office. An early date for completion
of said building will be one consideration for
the Board.
All proposals must be accompanied By
certified bond in the sum of $1,000 that the
bidder or bidders will give good and salts
factory bond if awarded the contract. No bids
will be considered unless accompanied by such
a bond. The contractor will be paid in month
ly estimates as the work progresses, and in
accordance with the statute laws Of the State
of Florida, chapter 342l, No. 8, section 2, Act
of 1883. All bids must be in the regular form
of proposals. The Board reserve the right 70
reject any ard all bids.
All bids and communications should be ad
dressed to j. A. CARLISLE, Clerk Circuit
Court, Gainesville, Fla.
Bids must be Endorsed on their cover "Bids
for building court house for Alachua county,
Fla" j. A. CARLISLE,
Clerk Circuit Court and County Auditor.
The time for receiving bids for above
building is extended to August 4, 1884. The
building material can be delivered within 100
feet of building.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Lord AbercrOmby, a sprig OF British
nobility, has been creating quite a sensa-
ti0n at Sheepshead Bay. After his iden-
tity and pedigree had been doubted and
then established in the jockey cluD, tyvofe-
males had a quarrel over him in the hotel
dining-room. He seems to be a darling
little dude.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
CURRENT COMMENT.
Some Platform Dodges.

WGsNln1f0n IO3T IUeIf.Js
Against the Democratic platform OF Repub-
lican Ohio may be Offset the Democratic plat
form Of Democratic Indiana. The one lodges
for protection, the other neither lodges nor is
il for prOtectiOn
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
HaneOek's Submissiveness.
rrrrg n


Gen. Hancock was in Philadelphia yester-
dav. ana his friends were said to be making
preparations to present his name to the Chi
cago Convention in the name of the Keystone
State The General is not candidate in the
sense Of pushing things. He is in a submissive
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

The Consul General OF the United States
to Japan is Gen. Thos. B. Van Buren,. He
was accused some time ago Of having
swindled the government, and be has
attempted TO get indicated and failed
He brought suit in the Consular Court
against Mr.. ThOs. II. Trjpler, who made
the accusation during some excitement
over local club election, for 5000 dam
ages. 1t will be remembered the charge
against Van Buren, was that he had bought
the consular building used by him for the
United States from the japanese Govern
ment for the sum of 1886, and that after
wards be collected 81 $50 a year from the
government as rent for it. On the recent
trial Of this case in the United States
Consular Court at Yokohama, before Min
lister Bingham, the charges were fully
sustained.
The land on which the consular build
ing stands had been set apart by the
japanese Government for consular use,
with the expressed stipulation that the
acquisition OF any part Of it by private
person would be illegal. Van Buren, in
violation OF this stipulation purchased
the property by collision with the local
officials, and made it pay him the very
handsome income Of over one hundred
per cent. per annum.
II this is not a clear case OF swindhng
the United States Government, it looks
very much like it. 1t seems as if Gen.
Badeau's plan Of Withholding fees was
paralIeled by the financiering Of Gen. Van
l. - old
TIE question now is, will the Consul Gen.
eral to Japan be requested to step down
and out, or will the affair be hushed up
on account Of the family name and con-
nections OF the distinguished delinquentE
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Hon. ABE Hewitt has been sending the
Sultan Of Turkey case OF American to-
bacco. This is what caused His Majesty
20 send Hewitt that gOld-fnished writing
cabinet.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

A girl graduate in Philadelphia won
prize for superior knowledge Of domestic
economy. The opinion is ventured that
when the girl marries she can get away
with 500 a week, and not half try. Do
nestle economy Of the schools is dan
rrprous study for girls.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

And now the coffin makers are going TO
form gigantic pool, and put up prices
100 per cent. Burial expenses are so
heavy already that few people can afford
10 die in this country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

Minister Lowell has become thoroughly
AngIicized. He has even affected a case
Of aristocratic govt. He viii have an at
tack Or genuine American go-out about
next March.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

The wife Of Ex-Governor Moses did not
desert him in his trouble, but has paid
back the money he procured by fraud, and
has secured his release from Jail. 1t does
look like guardian angels watch over very
had men sOmetimes
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

No mock battle will possess any inter-
est for the average citizen in the future
unless the militia use chewed wads. A
mock battle without any killed or wound
ed is considered a mock affair indeed
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

surely things are revoluting in Penn
svlyania. The Bay State Casket Company
has tailed because it failed TO get the con-
tract for burying the Butler boom.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30

A grand go-as-you-please walking
match is to divide the honors with the
Democratic Convention at Chicago next
week. The hackers Of the sold ticket"
have not vet entered our Uncle Samuel
rnr fhnf contest
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-30
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