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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
A BLOW TO FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
The Washington Territory Too Pure for
the Average Male Votes.

The Washington Territory Too Pure for
the Average Male Votes.
Washington Territory has recently es-
tablished woman suffrage, says the Los
Angeles Express. 1t is a fine, thriving
Territory, with a we'll settled and good
population, not at all like some Terri
tories, where life is rough and society un-
developed. The society of Washington is
based on the family, as in old cOmmuni-
ties. The population exceeds 100000.
largely engaged in agriculture, and or
derly and enterprising. There has been
no general election since woman suffrage
was established; but there have
been some municipal elections,
and the music was pretty live
ly. At Seattle, the largest town in
the Territory, the ministers and temper
ance people put out law-and-Order ticket,
with view to reform in those particu-
lars where women take a deeper reforma-
tory interest than men. The men set up in
opposition ticket protesting to represent
business interests, and whipped the
women, doubtless because they outnum-
bered them. Out of about $50 registered
women over 600 voted the law-and-Order
ticket, paying no attention to the wishes
of their spOuses.
The experiment has of course killed
woman suffrage as dead as Queen Anne
in every State and Territory where it is
not already established. The women
were not ds0rderly; on the contrary, we
are told that the balloting proceeded
everywhere in the most respectable and
dignified fashion; the women were treated
as though they had been at church; for
the most part they deposited their ballots
quietly and quietly went back home. But
that is not the point at all. The objection
is their utter intractabiIlty. The men
are not going to have their wives
voting law-and-order officers over
their heads, closing their saloons
and other places of resort, and generally
so ordering that man will have to spend
his leisure time with his wife and family
for want of other places. The men have
the power, and they know that they can
keep it so long as they do not allow the
women to vote, and they will see about it.
The excuse offered heretofore for woman
suffrage has been that the women would
not vote all one way any more than men
do; but that pretense has played out.
The delicious delusiOn that every wife
would vote exactly as her husband bade
her has fled, never to return. The era of
woman suffrage, we fear, is ended.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08

total valuation Of real and personal property
IN the county is Sl,755, ,0O0-a decrease Of some
100000, OccaslOned by a lower valuation
placed upon railroad property by the Comp
trOlier and the fire of last year Centre
street, FernaDdina. The tax levy for county
purposes Is as follows: County tax proper,
1 mills; school tax, mills; interest and sink
ing fund, l mill; road tax, = mill, total
s1Z mills; State tax proper, mills; school
tax. mill. total mills-totaI
county and state, 12l5 mills. Last year the
State levy was mills, county mills-tOtal
Il mills, showing a reduction in 1884 of ~
mills or 81 50 per $1,000.
Sanford Journal: Mr.. J. o. Fries. VINO has
been surveying the lands around Fort Reed
lately, informs US that the old subdivision Of
sections there Is based upon wrong principles,
and Is, therefore. erroneous and likely to
cause good many lawsuits. The rules laid
down for the subdivision of sections have been
dlsregarded, and the subdivisions maze ac-
cOrdlng to agreement among the old settlers
lt Is yet possible to adjust these DISCREPANCIES
a the witness trees are still standing, so that
tAe corners can be identified. But if the
matter be neglected until these evidences
shall have disappeared. confusion and endless
litigation Will result. Surveyor Fries further
states that Mr. +. X. Traffurd once SURVEYED
parts Of the lands around Fort Reed correctly,
but his surveys were OF very small portion
OF the lands, and were not accepted by several
parties interested.
Fernandina Mirror: The store Of J. +. Med
daugh was broken into on Thursday evening
last, about s:3O O'Clock. and would have been
robbed but for the prompt action OF some Of
our young men Mr.. Rabb, the manager of
Palmer BrO.'s drug store, sleeps over the store,
which adjOins the building occupied by Mr..
Meddaugh. He vas in the act of retiring
when he heard an unusual sound. as of break
ing glass. On looking out of his window he
saw somebody entering at the rear window Of
MeddaUgh's store. He Immediately went for
assistance, finding number of young men in
Stei's billiard room. Sentinels were posted
both IN the rear and front Of the store
and the burglar commanded TO come out. He
came out and was arrested. He proved TO be
a cOlored man named jim Long. When ar
rested he said that he had other accOmplices-
George Bryant and Lewis Jackson. Long
was carried to jail and the other two men
were arrested.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
FIRES LEAP AND ROAR.
MOLINO LUMRER MILLS NEAR
PENSACOLA BURNED.

A Loss of 100000 with Only $40, 900
Insurance-Gen. Clusters Widow and
Brave Editress Endangered in a
New York Tenement-2, 900 Tons of
Ice Reduced to Water.
PENSACOLA, FLA, Sept. THE Mo-
limo Lumber Mills, p miles from Pensa-
cola, were burned at O'Clock this morn
ing. They belonged to the estate of D. f.
Sullivan, except one-quarter, which was
willed by Mr.. Sullivan to NJ. L. Davis.
The latter had $4,000 insurance, bnt
there was none on the other portion. The
loss is about 100000 The Louisville and
Nashville Railroad furnished a special
train TO carry steam engine, which
saved millions of feet of lumber stacked
in the yard.
ALL CLEVELAND THREATENED.
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. IA great con-
hagration is raging here on the flats. The
entire fire department is in service and
kilograms have been sent to Akron,
Youngstown, Painesville, Erie, Sandusky
and Toledo for assistance. The origin of
the fire is unknown. Incendiarism Is
suspected by some, but the most probable
theory is that some sparks from a tugbOat
set fire early in the evening to pile of
shavings, from which the flames
sPIedu unCi HOOuS, FeFTy ~ CO.'S
extensive lumber yard was ablaze.
The fire continued to spread, defying
all the efforts of the firemen. The
lumber yards of Potter. Birdsall e. Co.,
and G. G.. King and the Variety Iron
Works were also consumed. At 10 O'Clock
the fire threatened to become still more
extensive. About ten acres of frame
buildings and lumber yards were aflame
at one time, and large clouds of smoke
thipklV st5lddpd with bIa zinc oindorS uUoro
blown for miles by the changing wind,
causing intense apprehension that fires
would be kindled in every direction and
large portion Of the city be laid waste.
LIVELY TIMES IN A TENEMENT.
NEW YORK, Sept. Fire broke out
this morning in the apartment house
owned by r. Stuyvesant at No. 144 East
Eighteenth street. The smoke and flames
aroused the occupants and they made a
hasty exist into an adjoining house.
The fire broke out in an air shaft, / t is
supposed, from lighted cigar thrown
carelessly there, and shot up the shaft to
the roof. Eight families residing in the
house escaped unharmed. Among the
occupants were Mrs. Gen. Custer and
Miss Glider, editress of the Critic. The
latter lived on the top floor with her
mother, who is 80 years old. She carried
the latter over the roof of the burning
building to that of the adjoining one and
thence to the street. The fire caused
damage of about $1,000.
ICE MELTED BY FIRE.
= RICHMOND, VA, Sept. Fire this at
ternoOn destroyed the J. G. Smith Ice
COmpany's buildings, with 1000 tons Office,
Henry MetZger's cooper shops and a large
quantity of wood and coal in Charles h.
Pages yard. The total loss is estimated
at $50 COO
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
PLEAsONTON's BLUE GLASS.
Some Exhibitions of the Theory to b,
Made at the PennsyIVania State Fair

Some Exhibitions of the Theory to be
Made at the Pennsylvania State Fair.
The blue glass theory, says the Phila-
delphia Times, still lives, grown, it is
said, to be a theory no more. While a
thousand scientists from different parts of
the world are firing off their little pet
theories about everything in the heavens
above and the earth beneath, the mild
Gen. A. j. PleasOntOn, with his blue
CLASSY eyes shaded by his brOad-brimmed
high hat, takes his accustomed cOnstitu-
tiOnal down Spruce street in the early
morning, serene in the consciousness
that as many practical results have fol-
lowed his idea as any outside the
realm of mechanical science that the big
scientific congress now in session has to
deal with. Though so many forms of the
application of electricity are disclosed at
the exhibition in progress, Gen. Pleasan-
ton thinks his little blue-glass wrinkle has
as many valuable electric kinks in it as
the Edison light, for instance, and will
prove as valuable to mankind. All the
good that comes from his combination of
blue and sunlights he believes results
from electricity.
The theory of Gen. Pleasanton's will be
actively revived at the approaching State
Fair, where there has been a building
erected in which he proposes to exhibit
some animals developed under the fnflu-
ence Of his ideas of light and color. He
will exhibit three-year-Old colt, fifteen
and three-quarter hands high, beauti-
fully developed in form, which is said to
equal IN all respects the best five-year-
old horse. Its dam is a halcsister of
Parole, both coming from bennington,
Col. Aristides Welsh's horse, whose
stallion, Alarm, was this colts sire. IL
was born and reared under blue glass, in
hot and dry atmosphere, intended to be
as like that of Arabia as possible. Some
young cows will be shown that are three
years old and have already had three
calves; also some pigs that under blue
glass have had three lltters in ten months.
Gen. Pleasonton is himself fine illustra-
ton Of his theory. Though now over 76
years old, he is active and spry, his eye is
keen and bright and he is altogether more
like man of 40.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
REPUBLICAN REVERSES.
WESTERN sTRONGHOLDs GOING
BACK ON THE PARTY.

Government Employees Greatly u seour-
aged by the News from the ,yiIds-
COnkling GIOating Over the DIscOm-
future of His Old AlIies-CuIpabiIity
of the Estate Association" Scheme.
WASHINGTON, Sept. The officers
and clerks appointed from some of the
Western States, particularly Ohio, Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, are receiving letters
daily from relatives and friends at home.
These letters are a great surprise to
many who receive them, and are causing
a marked dependency among Republ-
cans in the government service. Private
information thus received is rapidly dis
seminated throughout the departments,
and has already created a strong impress
sion in the minds of many that Ohio,
Wisconsin and Michigan are really
doubtful States. Not a few OF the Federal
employees have come to the conclusion that
Cleveland's election is altogether prOba-
bic. This growing feeling in the Federal
service is Interfering seriously with the
collection OF campaign money by the Re-
publican Finance Committee. The anti
Blaine news coming from various States,
instead of arOusing Republicans in the
civil service and inducing them to con-
tribute literally, is in reality causing
apathy among them. This Is a somewhat
remarkable phase of the campaign.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
BLAINE's BROTHER.
The Story of Bis Life in Oregon-An U
fortunate Citizen.

The recent letter in the New York World
concerning Neil Gellespie Blaine was read
with interest in st. Louis, where this long
lost brother of James G. Blaine has been
living under the name of NJ. G. Lane for
the last five years, teaching in the public
schools most of the time, occasionally eX-
hOrting at Baptist meetings. addressing
teachers institutes" delivering temper
ance lectures, etc. Says the Salem, Or.
letter to the New York World: A few times
he has "gone on drunks," but pretty uni
fOrmly he has kept sober. His worst fault
has been borrowing money and promising
payment 'On the honor of a gentleman, >,
promise he has seldom kept. He has
sometimes drawn drafts on his illustrious
brother, few of the first of which were
paid, but they were soon returned protest
ed. The then Sheriff of this county, a Mr..
Ramsby, was persuaded to cash one Of
these drafts for $3.50, which James G. re-
fused to pay, and Mr.. Ramsby paid the
protest fees and lost his $50 besides less
an Indian pony Lane had worth $20 Rev,
Mr.. Nesbitt, a cOntiding Baptist minister.
now Of California, who was here last
year, was victimized for $40 in the shape
of loan. Similar victims, known and
unknown, are numerous. In one reported
instance money given him by a woman
elocutionist to bring to Salem-the
proceeds of a public reading-failed
to arrive. This is said to have
been collected of him under stress,
as he was leaving mere. Lane, or Blaine,
lived a hand-tO-mOuth existence here,
telling the while that he was a half
brother of James G.. Blaine and pointing
to his prominent nose as prOOfof his state
ment. He was accustomed to say that
their mothers first husband was a Lane
and that she was widow when she mar
ried Blaine. When James G. was nomi-
mated at Chicago he told a few persons
that his name was not Lane, but was
Blaine, and that he was the Oldest and
full brother Of James G, Blaine. One of
the State officers got him a pass East and
he went from here about six weeks ago,
saying he was going to see his brother
and make speeches IN his behalf 1t is
said he registered as Blaine after leaving
here. He left a wife and family here,
where they now are. The oldest boy,
some 16 or Is years of age, is employed in
the Salem FIGURING Mills here. and is the
mainstay of the family during his fathers
absence. These are facts known to the
here. Of his former career
nothing was known here. The Georgia
rumOr mentioned by your st. Louis cores
pondent is either mistake or occurred
further back than reported. He was here
two years ago, and has not been from here
for some five years
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
OPPOSING STEEL NAILS.
The Amalgamated Association Trying
BOycOtting and Inciting a Strike.

Ahe Amalgamated Association Trying
BOycOtting and Inciting Strike.
+ The steel nail question has begun to as
sumo serious aspect, says Wheeling
(W. Va.) special to the Philadelphia
Press. The Amalgamated Association is
out in a card to-day, in which it calls
upon all nail consumers to reject the steel
nail and leave it on the hands of the
manufacturer, 1t shows that the iron
nail, which was so useful a factor hither-
to in the nations progress, is cheaper,
better and in every way more suitable
tnan the steel nail, and denOunce the lat
ter as direct stab at organized labor. The
manufacturers have introduced it for the
sole purpose, the card claims, of breaking
down the Amalgamated Association and
forever subjugating iron trades unions.
If the steel nail is taken up by the mills
it will throw out boiler heaters, rollers
helpers, miners and labOrers to the num-
ber of $500, and put them upon an al
ready oYerstOcked labor market. There is
trouble ahead, and great anxiety is felt in
business circles here.
An effort is also in progress to get the
association to order strike by the steel
nail makers for an advance of 20 per cent.
A resolution has been adopted in the Sec
ond Amalgamated District, directing
nailers to make the demand, but the steel
nailers refuse, and the prospect of break
in the association is imminent. With
nails selling at 81 10 per keg, the nailers
in Belle Aire and also at Riverside, where
exclusively steel nails are made, will not
make demand for more money on the
ground of the low price of nails, and, also,
because they say steel nails are not harder
to cut than much of the iron formerly
used
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
THE PLENARY COUNCIL.
Archbishop Gibbons Explains It's Aims
in a Pastoral Letter.

Archbishop Gibbons Explains It's Aims
in Pastoral Letter.
BALTIMORE, Sept. IA pastoral letter
from Archbishop Gibbons was read in all
the churches of the archdiocese to-day
relating to the assembling of the Plenary
Council in November. The pastoral says:
every State and diocese of the Union
will be represented at the approaching
council by prelates and priests, and al
though they are descended from divers
nations and speak every European tongue,
they are all united by the bonds of
common faith and animated by a spirit of
fraternal charity. The object for which
this council is summoned, as you are we'll
aware, is not to formulate new dogmas of
faith, for only the doctrine we preach now
is the faith once delivered to the saints;
nor will our deliberations have any po-
litical significance to redress, no political
aspirations to crafty. The church of
God has no direct relations with politics.
Political intrigues form no part of her di-
vine mission. The kingdom Of Christ and
of his church is not of this world. She
renders to Caesar the things that are
C9sar's and to God the things that
are Gods. The enactment of salutary
laws for the promotion of pIety and sound
morals, the correction of abuses, the es-
tablishment, so far as practicable, of
greater uniformity in ecclesiastical dis
cipline, the development of the Christian
commonwealth, the quickening and
strengthening of the bonds of charity,
which should bind us all as members of
Christian family to our God and to eacn
other. These are the signal blessings at
which we aim in assembling together"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
COL. ELLswoRTHs zoUAvEs.
Their First Drill in the Nations Capt.
tai,

Their First Drill in the Nations Capt.
tai.
The Chicago zouaves, commanded By
Col. Ellsworth who was killed at the be-
ginning of the civil war;, says Ben: Per-
ley PoOre, came to Washington in August,
1860, after having been Hospitality enter
tanned at New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore. This corps, which numbered
seven officers and forty-tWo muskets. re-
volutionized the drill of the volunteer
military organizations of the country
Their uniform was loose scarlet trousers,
gaiter boots, and buff leather Ieggings, a
blue jacket trimmed with orange-colored
braid, and red cap with orange trim
mings; their scarlet blankets were rolled
on the top of their knapsacks. They
drilled as light infantry, and moved like
electric clocks. The entire drill lasted
nearly three hours, including stoppages
for rest, few moments each time, and,
performed under a scOrching
sun, on the hot sand, and comprising a
series OF vigorous exercises, the men
stood it well, and attended strictly to their
business. Two or three accidentally lost
their caps during the double-quick, and
took not the slightest notice of 10, either
at the time or when subsequently, when
the company came to a halt, comrade
placed the caps aWry upon the owners
heads. Most men would have adjusted
their head coverings to fit comfortably,
but they did not make the slightest effort
to touch them until the order came to
rest. The step of the Zouave was in itself
a popularity, and strongly sugges i've of
frequent pedestrian and gymnastic pre-
paratlOn. The dlminutiVe stature of the
nnn 0nd fhOir UpnOioinVa Il,
ing the allotted length of the step, gave to
it something of steady Looping movement,
but yet so firm and springy that it's effect
was most animated. Another feature in
the general excellence of the Zouaves was
noted in their method of handling their
arms, which, instead of the inanimate
and gingerly treatment so observable
even among finely drilled companies when
executing the manual, were grasped with
a nervous energy of action, and shifted
with spirit which was thrillingly sug-
gestlve of will, as well as the power, to
act. The visitors were quite bOyish in APP
pearance, and mostly of small stature,
falling even below the ordinary size of
short men in our cities. We doubt wheth-
er there was in the whole command per-
son above feet 10 inches in height; the
commander, Col. Ellsworth, was seeming
ly the shortest in the corps, a really Git
tie fellow" with a very youthful but self
possessed and firmly-marked counte-
nance. Indeed, absolute self-reliance and
d wild, insouciant air was the prevailing
expression of nearly every individual of
the corps. They were Hospitality enter
talned by the Washington Light Infantry,
and they visited Mount Vernon, their gal
liant commander little thinking, as they
passed Alexandria, that he would there
lose his life within a twelve-month.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
JUST FOR LUCK.
Why Young Lady Chased a Deformed
Man in st. Louis.

Why a Young Lady Chased Deformed
Man in st. Louis.
A novel spectacle was witnessed last
night, says the st. Louis Republican,
of Aug. % on Franklin avenue in
the neighborhOod Of Eighteenth street.
A young lady OF very prepossessing
appearance was running westward
at the top of her speed. Pedestrians
stopped and turned to see what was
the cause of her excitement. Some twenty
yards before her was a hunchback of
advanced years, and, as she neared that
individual, 1t became apparent that he
was the object of her pursuit. When she
was within five yards of him he espied
street-car going in his direction. He
suddenly jumped into the road and began
running through the mud with consider
able agility after the receding car. De-
termlned not to be banked the young
lady skipped through the mud after him.
She succeeded in overtaking the deformed
man just as he was stepping on the street.
car,and Immediately she was within arms
reach she slapped him heartily on the
hump that rose from between his should
ers. He turned astOnished, and she
blushed and looked embarrassed. ooh,
/ beg your pardon" she faltered. The
street-car bore the man away, and the
young lady, breathless, turned and re-
traced her steps. A reporter followed her
until she was met by a matronly lady,
who angrily exclaimed:
esther, what in the name of goodness
do you mean by such cOnduct?"
'Oh, mamma" returned the giddy
creature, sit was such splendid oppOr-
tunity to touch the hump for luck that 1
could not resist the temptation, and you
know have had no beau for three weeks"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08
AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION.
The Seizure of the Steamer Island
Belle by the Dominion Authorities.

| The Seizure of the Steamer Island
Belle by the Dominion Authorities.
The case of the seizure of the United
States steamer Island Belle, at Cara
noque, few days since, for infringement
of the coasting laws, says an Ottawa
special, has been laid before the Minister
of Customs, who promises to give it his
immediate attention. The coasting law
of the Dominion provides that all vessels
or boats employed in the transport of
goods or passengers from one Cana
dian port to another within the Do
minion shall be considered to be
engaged in the cOasting trade, and
clearly defines that none but British regis
tered vessels and boats wholly owned by
British subjects, and such other vessels or
boats as may be owned by subjects of
countries included in any treaty with
Great Britain by which the coasting trade
is mutually conceded, can lawfully be en-
gagged in such trade within the Dominion.
While it is admitted that the United
States authorities have, as matter of in
ternatlonal courtesy, allowed several
Canadian passenger steamers to carry
passengers from one American port to
another, the Dominion authorities hold
that as the case of the Island Belle was
an infraction of the law the Collector of
Customs had no other alternative than to
seize the vessel.
At this moment the Richelieu and On
tario Navigation Company are advertis-
ing their steamers to call at Clayton and
Alexandria Bay, twoAmerican ports with
out calling at Canadian ports. The Cana
dian steamers Ward and Hero, both ad-
VertIse to run between two or more ports
on the United States side of the st. Law
renee, which trips they have been making
regularly without interference. Those
interested in Canadian steamers plying
on the st. Lawrence are protesting
strongly against the action of the DOmin-
ion government in enforcing the letter of
the law, which, if a retaliatory policy is
adopted by the United States Govern
ment, must work disastrously to their in