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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
COOKING BY PROXY.
How Housewives May Provide for Fami
lies at Small Effort.

There are now in Philadelphia perhaps
dozen caterers who make a business of
supplying families with cooked food at
their houses at a stipulated sum per
week. In New York the custom of living
in flats, in which people desire to do away
with the heat and smell of cooking, has
fOstered this business to such an extent
that company has been formed which
supplies between two and three hundred
families with meals, using heated wagons
to convey the food from place to place.
The Philadelphia caterer, who operates
most extensively in this way, lives on
Addison street, At present he has about
fifty families on his list of customers, and
the number frequently runs up to 100 dur
ing the winter season. In the summer
the number is smaller, owing to so many
people spending that period at the sea-
shore and mountain resorts. The fami-
lies supplied are, as a rule, rich and fash
iOnable, and profess to be well satisfied
with the service. After it is cooked, each
separate dish is placed in a tightly
closed vessel, which is in turn put in a
kettle of boiling water. The whole meal
is carried to the house in a
large tin case. At each residence the
range is usually at the service of the ca
terer, who takes with him boy to place
the food upon the table. An hour or so
dltGl p1C l4Cebt bAlC Nlo4ASS etlS ACAAONNW ~
the caterer,
A breakfast, lunch and o'clock dinner
are generally preferred. In the morning
a quantity of bread and butter sufficient
to last for the day are supplied, The
menu is varied each day as much as pos
sible. For breakfast there are fish, chops,
eggs in various styles, potatoes, mushes,
hot rolls, and cakes, tea, coffee and cho-
colate. At dinner soup is always served,
followed by a roast accompanied by three
kinds of vegetables, an entree and des-
sert, including ices, cake, pie, fruits in
season and coffee. AS to the character of
the meals, the customers say that they
are superior in quality and style of prepa-
ration to those of the average hotel or
boarding house.
The prices, of course, vary with the kind
and quantity of food. The charge is
usually six dollars a week for an indI-
yidnal, although this price is increased
to seven, eight and nine dollars when
fine dinners are demanded. Walters are
also furnished to attend the entire meal
at an extra cost of two dollars a week.
Families of four are served for twenty
dollars per week, and the price increases
or diminishes at about the same ratio,
according to the number in the family.
The business is steadily on the increase,
and promises to assume large proportions
when its advantages become generally
known and appreciated. Most of the
caterers are colOred people,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
4 Mad Engineer.

Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph.
A stal Ting event happened at an early
hour this morning in connection with the
mail train from Brest, which is due in
Paris at 4:5Q O'Clock. While proceeding
at full speed the passengers observed the
brakes to be put on with such suddenness
that fears were entertained that a coils
ion was imminent, especially as the spot
at which the train was drawn up was in
utter darkness. Upon the guard reaching
the engine he found the stOker endeavOr-
ing to Overpower the driver, who had evil
IDENTIFY lost his reason. After blocking the
line the guard joined the stoker, and sue
ceeded in securing the unfortunate man,
but not until after he had offered a despe-
rate resistance. The locomotive was then
put in motion, the nearest station was
reached without further misadventure,
and the driver was placed in custody.
The train ultimately arrived in Paris after
two hours DELAY.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Cotton Fires on Sbipboard

The article in the MORNING News on
Tuesday relative to the causes of fires
in cotton on shipboard, appears to
have attracted considerable attention.
No conclusion, Of course, was stated
respecting the origin Of these fires.
There is, in fact, no explanation of
them that IS wholly satisfactory. There
are a number Of theories which APP
pear reasonable. We gave several of
them i'm our Tuesdays article. The facts
to support them, however, are wanting.
The impression is strong among those
who have given this subject great deal
of attention, that sparks from pipes or
cigars are the chief cause Of these fires.
Dangerous as the habit of smoking is
where cotton is being handled, it is by no
means uncommon. Captains look upon
their vessels as their home, and they chafe
under any restrictions upon their habits
or pleasures. If they smoke while their
vessels are being loaded, it is to be eX-
pected that those under their command
will do the same thing. The Central Rail-
road Company are so keenly alive to dan
ger from this source that during the cot
ton season no vessel whose Captain
smokes on shipbOard, or who permits
his crew to smoke on shipbOard, while
taking in a cargo of cotton, Is allowed TO
remain at their wharves. The caution
exercised is not greater than the danger
iustifes. Another precautiOn taken by the
Central Company is that coal is burned
in the engine which is used as pusher
on the wharves. There would be danger
from sparks if wood were burned. 1t
is suggested that parlor matches may be
one Of the causes of cotton fires. Negro
labOrers have habit OF
using their hair as a receptacle
for matches. 1t is not difficult, it is said,
to find matches in the hair of negroes en-
ploved about cotton warehouses, presses
and cotton ships. There is no reason why
matches thus carried should not drop
among the cotton and, in some instances,
become ignited. 1t would be well to i'm
press upon negroes who have the handling
of cotton the Importance Of either keep
ing their matches in metallic match box,
or not carrying them at all.
In putting cotton on shipboard the bales
are dropped quite distance into the
lower hold. Is it not possible that the
bands of the bales striking, sparks are
thrown out. and fires in cotton started in
that way? In the opinion Of some this
theory of the cause of cotton fires is re-
garded as reasonable. AS it is well nigh
impossible to get facts to sustain any of
the theories, the only safe plan is to
act as if each of the theories were the
true theory, and in that way cotton fires
may be prevented.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
sherman,s Resolution.

The resolution Of Senator Sherman, IN
troduced in the Senate on Wednesday,
authorizing an investigation Of the Dan
vile, Va, riot. and the disturbance III
Copiah county, Mississippi, seems 10 IN
dictate that the Republicans lntehd 10 pa!
a Good deal Of attention to what is known
90 the .soutrage business" in the ap-
preaching Presidential contest. 1t was
thought that the Republicans had worked
this phase of politics for all it was worth,
but it appears that in the opinion OF >ena-
tor sherman they have not. They are
certainly welcome to all they can make
out Of the Danville affair. Ii has been IN
vestigated and reInvestigated, and the
tenor Of all the reports is that 1t was an
unpremeditated riot. The Copiah county
matter has been given much more proInl-
nence than it deserves. 1t has been
brought into national politics, not for the
purg0se Of getting at the truth, for that Is
known: not for the purpose OF securing
anv one Justice, because if anybody Is en-
titled to redress it can only be obtaiheu III
the state courts. but it has been brought
forward for the purpose of creating the
innrassion i'm the North that there is no
noliticaI freedom in the South, and that
the country cannot safely be entrusted to
the control oC any other than the Republic
can party until that freedom Is secured.
The ingenuity with which the resolution
is drawn shows this. Senator sherman
was not satisfied with merely asking Tor
an Investigation into the two cases cited.
He utilized his opportunity to give a par
tisan statement of the cases, knowing
that it would be telegraphed all over the
country. The North ought to have
enough of this outrage business by this
time. The alleged outraees have been
investigated time and again, and 1t mas
always been shown that the statements
which led to the Investigations were eXag-
gerations. There are political troubles IN
Northern States as there are in the South
ern. but nobody thinks OF calling on Con-
gress to investigate them. The most OF
the political troubles in the South are the
result of bitter political contests, and
not the result Of a determination to de-
prive a political organization Of the right
Of suffrage. If the trouble which occurred
in New Orleans last December, where
three men were killed at the polls, had
been between Democrats and Republicans.
il would have been construed by the Ma
tional Republican leaders and organs as
an organized attempt to intimidate Re
/ publican voters. 1t is certain that an i'll
/ vestigatiOn of the DanvIlle and COpiat
county affairs will develop nothing more
than is already known, but it will afford
Sherman and other Republican Senators
an opportunity to make speeches which
they hope will help the Republican party
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

ss1x to-day already walks tomorrow" said
Coleridge, all Of which goes TO show that the
poet like some of the rest OF us, reached nome
occasionally about midnight. = philadelphia
can.
"YEs," said the man, ''I'm glad my neigh
boris son has had the good luck to be appoint
ed a cadet at West Point. I'd rather he'd
have been sent to State prison for thirty years.
But anything to get rid of him. l congratu-
late him-and myself
PROF. SKEAT notes in the London Academy
that in HOyt and Wards CyclOpedia Of Prac-
teal Quotations there is at least one when mas
found its way, with comieal effect, INTO
strange company. The words OF Pistol IN
Henry v; ". i.-'Trailst thou the pulls
SAINT pike"-are given under the head OF
Angling"
Now, darling one :" he softly cried,
IT'S Christmas eve. and ere 90
fain would take my promised bride
And kiss her meath the mistletoe
On details of what next occurred
His recoilectiOu's somewhat dun,
But from his hints it is inferred
Her fathers missile toe kissed him.
-Bismdrc6 Tribune.
oAH!" said the nice young man with bangs,
as the little boy let him in the other evening:
''Ah, my little man, is your sister at home
''Yes. she's home, but she amt expecting
YOU" "And how do YOU know she isn't eN-
pecting me?'' "'Cause ! heard her tell ma
that you're too mean to hire horse ana
Sleigh and she didn't expect to see sign OF
you while the snow lasted" The little boy Is
now sadedSt when he sits.-NiddIetoten iran
script.
PHILADELPHIA cal: Jones-"Hello, Doc
tor: been awavY' DoctOr-"'Yes; just been
down to Louisville. Was sent for by the
friends of young actress" Jones-"lndeeo
What was the matterg" DOctor-"She IS a
debutante, ana made herself sick playing
! heavy parts like Julia and Adrienne." Jones
-"Oh, yes; know. She is one of the thirty
! or forty Kentucky girls who are going to
! eclipse Mary Anderson Well, how did you
| leave herr" DOctor-"'When l left she was
convalescing; but her audience is still in a
critical condition."
| WHILE a New Yorker was nosing around
/ Birmingham, Ala, in search of a coal or iron
/ mine at bargain native aecOsted him with a
1 request for 10 cents, and added: "Only yester-
! d&v owned a coal mine worth $40, 600" And
| why don't yOu own it to-day?' because q
man got me drunk and coaXed me to trade II
for an old mule" And how will 10 cents help
you:" "Why. l want il to buy whisky TO get
/ him drunk enough to trade back for blind
/ dog and an old shotgun. Stranger, don't let
me lose $50, 900 for the want of 10 cents" He
| got It, Wall Street N6lCS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

WANTED, by young man, a situation il,
w an office, cotton or naval stores hons.
permaneney an object rather than salary
highest references; security if required. AZ
dress ALIQUIS, care News Office
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
For SaIr.
Lost.
Boaroina,

I OST, on night of the 2lst, one Georgia ius-
/ 4 sar Fatigue Cap. The finder will be paid
81 bv leaving same at LAFAR'S Hat Store.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

WANTED, a good cook. Apply at 50 South
w Broad street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

WANTED, nurse for infant; must sleen n
w house. Apply l5S Liberty street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

DOBERTS HOUSE, Is Abercorn street.
II Parties desiring, pleasant and permanent
home and irst-class accommodations at very
moderate rates; gas and bath: table board.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Let These Things be Considered

Thousands of men die every day who
could be saved. Prejudice is mainly to
blame for this loss of life. If it were be-
lieyed that the sum ofdisease may certain
ly be reduced by physic, much would be
gained. And yet the proposition is very
simple; if you take out daily more i'm
purities than is daily generated. you will
soon be rid of impurities. The effect OF
this wise practice is soon seen in Bilious,
Liver and Kidney troubles. But it is
equally of value in head and brain affec-
tions, in Pleurisy, Pneumonia, ApopleXy
and Paralysis.
In chronic and acute rheumatism, and
in all affections of the bowels, this prin-
ciple soon relieves and cures, when the
medicine used is Brandreth's Pills.
Yes, when all other means and medi-
cine have failed to relieve from pain,
these pills have cured. by taking inn
purities from the bowels and blood, and
thousands of men and women now place
Brandreth's Pills among the blessings Of
mankind.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

w ANTED, two first-class white barriers
w at SO West Bay street, Jacksonyi1e
Fla. Address p. o. Box S72.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
People Who Make buttons.

@~@fFNNNfe
According to recently published statis-
tics, there is a village situated near Paris
where from 5000 to 5000 people are en-
plOyed in making agate buttons alone: a
surprising number when it is considered
that in the year 1851 there were only G, 938
buttOn-makers, all told, in England, of
whom 1850 worked In one town. Pearl
buttons come principally from Vienna.
and shirt buttons from Birmingham, while
those made from glass are produced in
Bohemia. America manufactures goods
of this designation valued at from S., O00,-
600 to $1O,000,000 per anpum, but not at
such a cheap rate as Germany, which
runs FRANCE very close with novelties. In
Bohemia, it is said, the men engaged in
the glass button industry earn from Is.
Sd. to Is. Id, the women from 15d, to BOD
and the children sd, day of our mop ev
american wages are very much higher.
and consequently many of the kinds i'm,
ported from Europe could not probably he
made in the United States.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
ADVERTISING.

n9 Isl - = -, =. ;, a -ssT 2 90
TIE MORNISG NEWS is served IN tns C5tg y
news dealers at . cents per week. single
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Relieving Congressman.

1t occurs to us that. were Congressman rem
dered entirely powerless in the matter OF
office broking they would be better of, even
in q political sense. Some one or more must
be disappointed whenever an appointment IS
made. ii congressman could be rid of this
task they could and would give more time to
the proper and beneficial modes of popular
izing themselves, Their correspondence
would be immensely reduced, and their time
be more fully given to their real legislative
and representative labOrS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
CERTIFICATES or LIBERTY.
How Time has Erased Letters and SylIa-
bIes from the Great National DOcu-



Few people know that the original De-
claration OF Independence is kept in the
library Of the State Department. 1t is in
a cherry case and under glass. But the
doors are thrown open all day long and
strong rays Of light are eating up its ink
day by day. The Constitution is written
on parchment, The text of it is in hand
as fine as cOpper-plate and the ink of this
part can still be plainly read. The sigma
lures, however, are written in different
ink, and they are very fast disappearing
under the action of the light. The bold sig
nature of John A. Hancock is faded almost
entirely out. Only j, 0, h and an II re-
mains. Two lines of names are entirely re-
moved from the paper; not a vestige of
ink remains to show that names were
ever there. Ben Franklin's name is en-
tirely gone. Roger Sherman's name is
fast fading. l could not find the name of
Thomas Jefferson, and Elbridge Gerry has
lost its last syllable. Robert Morris, Ben
iamin Rush, Charles Carroll and John
Adams have been secured off by the light,
and only eleven names out Of the fifty odd
can be read without microscope.
just below the Constitution lies the
original of it in Jeferson's handwriting.
1t is on foOlscap paper, yellow with age,
and worn through where the manuscript
has been folded. The writing is fine and
close, and the whole Constitution occu-
pies but two pages. The ink is good, and
it remains as fresh as when ii left the
quill of Jefferson over one hundred years
ago. 1t is full of erasures and interlinea-
tions, some of which are in Franklin's
handwriting and others in the strong
script of John Adams,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

A STENOGRAPHER AND TYPE WRITER
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
BRIGHT BITS.

Buy thermometers now if you want to
make money. They are now down to 30, and
next summer will go up to 80.
A sTAGE-sTRUCK Dakota maiden writes to
a New York lady friend to send her a copy of
the acting edition of ''Skylark, or the Murder
of Venus"
SUBsCRIBER-No; "crazy as bedbug is
use. You should say, "Crazy as abedquilt. -
Philadelphia Gail.
SIS IT wrong to cheat lawyers" was re-
Gently very ably discussed by the members Of
q debating society. The conclusion arrived
at was, that it was not wrong, but impossible.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Funny View of 1t.

Aelc York EUenlng POST lHeI).I.
Democrats who have doubts about the
drawing power Of the old ticket
are developing a shyness about st.
Louis and are favoring Chicago or some other
city.which contains fewer possibilities OF dan
gerous spontaneous combustion. Ihere mas
never been ANYTHING in American politics fun
nier than the general attitude OF the Demo
cratic party toward Mr.. Tilden.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Protection in Germany.


If protectionism Is a good system Germany
is doing right in encouraging Germans to raise
their own pork. II it is a bad system Ger
many is hitting herself Trust Germany 10
manage her own business, and see the right
much sooner for being respected in her right,
and the policy that she chooses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

The Republicans are devoting nearly
all their talents to devising means to get
rid.of the urplus in the Treasury. They
could easily prevent the accumulation OF
any yexatious surplus until the Demo-
Gratis acquired sufficient power to about
stop the plundering of the Treasury,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

There is a strong probability that Con-
gress viii abolish the irOn-clad OATH ana
also do a little effective work towards the
reduction Of the iron-clad tarif-both war
measHres.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

Healthy public opinion demanded James
Nuts acquittal. but it does not c0nsti-
tute him hero. 1t is a deplOrable thing
for one to take human life, even when the
act is justifable.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Pennsylvania for Randall

The contests for delegates are generally per-
sonal conflicts, ana the delegation to the state
Convention, as well as delegates to the Nation
Randall for President,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

1t is not thought that the crop of candi-
dates in Georgia just terminating was
seriously cut of by the late freezes. The
cold day OF the candidates will come
about election time
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
soucII,s Militia Bill.

The claims of the militia are to be pre-
scented to this Congress with more vigor
than they were to the last Congress. The
friends of the militia are stronger than
they ever were, and very liberal appro-
priatiOn is expected. There is good
deal of opposition to doing anything for
the militia, but the arguments which
have been brought to bear on this oppo-
sitiOn promise TO overcome it. The
amount that Is now annually appropri-
ated for the militia of the whole country
! is 5000. 900. This sum was fixed IN 1908,
and has never been changed. There is
no provision in the existing law which
directs how the money shall be dis
tributed, and none that requires that
government property. in the possession
of militia, shall be accounted for. The
Senate Military Committee has reported
favorabIy SewelFs militia bill. 1t RENE
dies many of the defects of the exist
Ing law and makes an appropriation
Of 100000 to be distributed among the
militia of the States and Territories under
direction Of the Secretary of War. The
number of militia in each State entitled to
receive the benefits of the appropriation
is 800 officers and men for each Represen-
tatIve in Congress. The bill provides
that the Chief of Ordnance of the army
shall purchase whatever ordnance stores,
tents. ETC., are necessary. All property
| so purchased, however, remains the pro-
perry Of the government. and must be
annually accounted for by the Governors
of the States. If this bill becomes law it
will be a great improvement on the exist
ing law. In about every State there are
enough men enrolled to meet the require
ments Of the Sewell bill. The proposed
appropriatiOn will be ample, if made an
nually, to supply them with what they
want 10 perfect their equipment. The
plan outlined in the sewelI bill will give
the government an army of over 10000
men. which can be put in active service
very quickly in case of an emergency,
One of the most attractive" features
of dime museum in Syracuse, New
York. was Madame Burnetta, who was
advertised as the electric lady, and who
ever touched her received a severe shock.
The show was closed the other day on
account of financial troubles, and it came
to light that the mysterious power Of the
electric lady was derived from battery
concealed under the floor and communi-
eating with her by means of wire. The
local scientists of that city had spent
good deal Of time discussing the phenOme-
non, and now they are doubtless more
troubled on account of the exposure than
they were about the original mystery.
The electric woman has now gone to join
the living head and other wonderful hum
bugs, but there are plenty of other shock
ing curiosities left.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

1t is not altogether impossible that
Spain will become a republic at an early
day. and that King Alfonso will have to
step into the same boat, as it were, with
the Comte de Paris and Don Carlos.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
CuKRENT COMMENT.
Not Wholly in Vain.

PhiIddeLphid Record lIn0.l.
A Congress that restores to the people 2G,-
OO0. 600 acres of their lands will not have been
elected wholly in vain.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

The American newspapers are feeling
very sad Just now. Oscar Wilde has
written to a friend in Boston that lie Will
never forgive them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

Wrapping paper for the candy and drSg
stores will not be in demand for some
time. \ Baltimore patent medicine firm
has Just sent seventeen tons of almanacs
abroad over the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

One thing that is needed now is the es-
adjustment Of the whipping post for the
wretch that cries "fire" in theatres and
other public places when there is no fire.