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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
Cotton Harvesting.

The Nashville Banner thinks that the
negrO's right hand is the best cotton ma
chine ever invented. Not so. Both the
negr0's hands beat it Just one hundred
per cent. The Banner man has evidently
never seen one of our Georgia brag cotton
pickers at work. There is a negro
preacher in Houston county who can
easily pick 700 pounds per day in good
cotton. He walks on his knees, having
shoes made to fit them, and gathers the
cotton with both hands.
Some seventy years ago it was thought
impossible for a man to pick 100 pounds
Of cotton per day. The boy who first ac-
complished this feat in Georgia after
wards became a General and one of the
ablest lawyers and best citizens in the
State. Two hundred pounds is pretty
good average days picking even now
with the improved cOttons of the present.
While the negro is undoubtedly the best
cotton picker yet invented he is an expen-
sive one. He is also very often a con-
trary and troublesome one. When he
works smoothly and regularly he gets
about one-fifth the value of bale of cot
ton for picking it, and very often he gets
almost third for this trihing but very
necessary service.
There is part of the colored population
that lives exclusively by picking cotton
in the autumn, picking berries in the
spring and summer, and picking up things
that are found around loose between sea-
sons. Few regular farm laborers will
pick cotton, and it is to free the planters
from the class above named that the cot
ton picking machine is needed. Let Mr..
Mason hurry up. The people do not wish
to class his invention with the Kelly mo-
tor. but they will not have any faith in it
unless they see it at work.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Capital punishment is inflicted IN
civilized communities for the purpose of
Kidding society OF certain classes of Grim
inals. and in order to deter men from
committing crime. To deter men from
violating the law by means Of the terrible
example set forth in the execution of a
criminal it is not by any means necessary
that they should see the sentence of the
law carried out. 1t is enough that they
should know that it has been done, and
the air Of mystery attending private
execution is no doubt tenfold more i'm
pressive for good than an execution and
its surrounding scenes to which the public
is indiscriminately admitted.
Public executions are looked upon by
a majority OF those who attend them as
free shows. People who have unbridled
curiosity or brutal instincts sometimes
travel many miles TO see fellow creature
suffer for his misdeeds. Sometimes the
bIunders Of drunken or incompetent
officials. whose excitement is aggravated
bv the presence Of an immense cOncOurse
of people. cause the doomed wretch IN
necessary suffering, and sometimes he is
q
cites the pity and sympathy Of large
number Of the witnesses. He is looked
upon as a martyr or a hero, and the law
which Justly exacts Of him his life is con-
demned.
Only few days ago a man in New Or
leans who had just seen two murderers
launched into eternity, and who had in
/ 1 Foss a rio nf
rope by which one of them was suspended,
committed an unproyoked murder. What
revolving spectacle was that IN New
York recently when the murderer JEFF
ferson, by a powerful effort, broke the
thongs that bound his hands and tore the
black cap from his face, revealing his ter
| rible cOuntenance and protruding eyes.
Capital punishment is sanctioned by
/ both divine and human laws. 1t is not
/ only right but necessary, and it should be
| carried out in a private, orderly and SOL
emn manner. Sheriffs should be held
responsible, and be punished by fine OF
/ otherwise for bIunders committed on such
/ occasions. The criminal classes should
/ be taught that the vioIator of the law will
not 90 unwhipt Of justice; but they should
/ not have reason to believe that, in case
/ they should not be able to escape the pen.
atty Of the law, they would appear before
an immense eoncourse Of people in the
leading role Of grand tragedy. In what
ever manner the doomed man NAV play
his part-whether he confesses his crime
/ or stubbornly asserts his innocence, OF
claims that he is about to step from the
/ gallows to the glories of eternity-it is not
often that the proper effect is produced or
| the spectators.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
Lamar on Butler.

VickSburg (MiSs.) Herald, Aug. 8.
In the course of his brief speech to the
friends and neighbOrs who called upon
him the evening he returned to his home.
Senator Lamar, after describing the Demo-
cratic Convention at Chicago as the
grandest assemblage of representative
men ever witnessed in this or any other
country, paid a passing compliment to
Ben Butler, as follows: ''There was one
remarkable and dramatic scene there.
Gen. Buffers friends had heralded his
coming, backed by sucn an array of
strength among the working men and
other elements of popularity as to claim
for him the nomination of the great ma
tiOnal party there assembled. Gen. Butler
did come, and was honOred with place
on the Platform Committee. His was the
only dissenting voice to the final report of
that committee. He presented platform
of his own, meritorious in many respects,
and sustained it with speech in
which he took occasion to say
that he offered it in behalf of one
million and a half of voting la.
borers whom he would turn over to the
Democracy if the convention would but
honor him by its adoption, accompanying
his braZen and impudent proposition with
a threat that dire disaster would ineYita-
bly, follow its rejection. Butler failed to
say who had authorized him to make such
a bold and defiant offer, or who had put
the cause of all the laboring classes in
his keeping, but closed his menace by
saying that if the convention did not, In
effect, kneel to him, he hoped God would
help them, as he could not. He said But
ler's proposition had its parallel in Holy
Writ. Like distinguished prOgenitor of
his on certain occasion, he sought to
take the convention into a high mountain,
and after displaying the glory of his do
miniOn and power, to tender it all to the
Democracy if they would fall down and
worship him. The convention said, as
the Savior did, Get behind me, SATAN
and spurned his offers and threats with
the contempt they so richly deserved. In
fact, his following was so small that his
name was not proposed for nomination"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
A Sahara swlndling scheme.

- ~~S'tN+SfN $1,000
A parallel to the Port Breton affair was
tried to-day before the Paris court. Two
enterpr1sing gentlemen, M. Menier, who
seems to be a journalist, and NJ. Allie
mand, described as a banker, conceived
some time ago the ingenious idea of turn
ing the dry but fertile soil of the Sahara
to profitable uses. This was to be done
by means of artesian wells and artificial
GASES. The capital to be subscribed was
400, 600 francs, half Of which was handed
over to the founders in return tor the idea
and for lands which had been purchased
from Arab chiefs. In order to stimulate
the cooperation of capitalists, two news
papers were founded, the France Poplt-
ldtre, at Paris, and the Sahara, in Africa.
The judicial authorities had their atten-
ton called to this strange enterprise, and
came to the conclusion that NM. Menier
and Allemand were swindling the inves-
tors who had been inveigled into the bust.
ness, Allemand at once took to flight,
and Menier, who was tried to-day, was
condemned to two years. Imprisonment
and fine of 500 francs. Allemand was
condemned, by default, to five years i'm
prisonment and a fine of 1000 francs,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
BUTLERs PROGRAMME.
What Private Letter is Said to Have
Contained.

What Private Letter is Said to Have
Contained.
A gentleman Of Albany, N. Y, says a
special to the Philadelphia Press, says he
has seen a letter from Butler to ga man
known all over the nation" whose name
he will not make pu@g, in which the
General makes known ct8plans. He says:
''To begin with, ;ButlerSksss hi s friend, in
language too ferVent anpAplain to be mis-
understood, that he is going to make a
desperate fight in the States of New York
and Massachusetts. The canvass will be
carried into every township in each of the
States mentioned, and an organized effort
made for votes that has never been sur
passed by either of the two great parties
now before the public. Butler insists that
Gen. West must be nominated on the
ticket with him for Vice President, and he
promises a platform of his own that will
scatter many votes from the Republican
and Democratic parties and centralize all
disaffected elements under the Butler
banner.
"He is very precise and emphatic in
telling his friend to explain to the leaders
of a certain organization thai there is to
be no CANNON, and that there will be
$1,000 900 sunk in the campaign in this
State alone. The substance of the re-
mainder of the letter / cannot mention,
but | can say that it is instructive read
ing, ahd proves that Ben Butler has not
gone into dotage yet, nor has he forgotten
a single point necessary to practical sue
cess in practical politics."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
one Lost Umbrella Found.

dF0INy dFgU8, -dWg' o
A rare case of honesty or awakened
conscience was made apparent in Sara
toga yesterday. In 1874 guest at the
United States Hotel missed a silk um-
brella from his room and demanded salts
faction at the desk, which he obtained in
cash-$4. After ten years. lapse he came
back to the desk and returned the money,
saying that 'sthe umbrella was taken by
mistake by FRIEND"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
The Right to Change.

PhilddeIDhfd Record tI7ld. Dent.)
There is a most industrious rummaging OF
old newspaper files in order to convict public
men of having said something five or ten
years ago different from what they think and
say to- day. The sticklers for foolish con-
sstency, that "hobgobin Of little minds, y in
sst that man has no right to change his
mind on political issues. OF course with those
who have no minds the thing is out OF the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
0mtirura zartitrnirn.
Uatirura EsrmPOira.
BAD BLOOD.
SCROEULOUS.
INHERITED.
CONTAGIOUS.

TN 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on my
Il body until my breast was one mass of cor
ruption. Some of these Ulcers were not less
than one and one-half inches in diameter, the
edges rough, ragged and seemingly dead, the
cavity open to the bone and filled with often
sive matter. Everything known to the medi-
cal faculty was tried in vain. Gradually the
bone itself because diseased, and then the
suffering began in earnest. Bone Ulcers began
to take the place of those hitherto on the sur
face. | became mere wreck. For months
at a time could not get my hands to my head
because Of extreme soreness. Could not turn
in bed. Knew not what it was to be an hour
even free from pain. Had reason to look upon
life itself as curse. In the summer of 1880,
after ten years of this wretched existence, i
began to use the CUTICURA REMEDIES, and
after two years. persistent use of them the last
Ulcer has healed. The dread disease has sue
cumbed. All over the breast where was once
a mass of corruption is now a healthy skin.
My weight has increased from I23 to I56
pounds, and the good work is still going on, |
feel myself a new man, and all through the
CUTICURA REMEDIES.
JAMES T., RICHARDSON.
Custom House. New Orleans,
Sworn to before United States Commissioner
j. Id. CRAWFORD.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
CURRENT COMMENT.
Blaine and Jones old Plan.


The unprotected coal miners of Pennsyl
vania demand living wages for mining the
are in progress and others are imminent. But
the bosses are expected to beat the strikers
BY the old plan-the way formerly adopted
by Chairman Jones and Mr.. Blaine-the en-
plOyment of cheap imported labor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Com. Garrison viii not be poor man
nv any means when his affairs are settled.
IT viii be remembered that he made an
assignment month or so ago on account
Of money embarrassments. The schedule
xrhieh his assignee has filed shows that
ne debts and liabilities amount to $1,471,-
99s az. his nominal assets to 81, 697, 1923 IS.
and his actual assets to S3,974,s1s 80. He
win have about $2,JOO,OOO after all his
aebts are paid, even at the present prices
- sa.orrrffipS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
TO CLEANSE THE RL0oD

OF Scrofulous. Inherited &Ad Contagious HUI
of human suffering, to clear the Skin of Dis
figuring Blotehes, Itching Tortures, Huniliat-
ing Eruptions, and Loathsome Sores caused
by Inherited SceOfula, to purify and beautify
the Skin, and restore the Hair so that no trace
of disease remain, CUTICURA REsOLvENT,
the new Blood Purifier, and CUTIcURA and
CUTICURA SOAP, the great Skin Cures and
Reanfifiers. are infallihIn
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
SODA allatrr. ctr.
MIKE T. DURHAM.

MANUFACTURER and Bother OF Belfast
WI Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Soda. Sarsapa-
rilla and Mineral Waters generally, is now
prepared TO supply any demand. NV goods.
Delng prepared from chemically pure water
and extracts, defy competition. Having annie
facilities for filling country orders, / only ask
q trial from those doing business out Of town TO,
demonstrate what can do in shipping prompt.
". Syrups of all kinds furnished. Orders
from physicians for highly charged SiphoEy
for sick patients nlled at any hour of the daT
or night.
Day-Factory, ITO and 1I2 Broughton stress
Night-Residence sc Eroughton street.
Soda stands using fountains will save rnaaav
BY ordering from me-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
About Buffers Record.

-FeW LUFh IIeFUtu I4tLsIf
As Presidential candidate of course Ben
Butler will have to hear a great deal about
his cotton operations during the war and
some OF his claim operations since. The
scandal about the New Orleans spoons will
hardly be brought up, Gen. Butler has been
a widower, too. for many years, and perhaps
some clergyman will be found before the can
vas Is over TO brand him as a moral leper.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

gbe faith Of the editor Of the New York
S,,g in Butler is childlike in its simpli-
rifv. He says of bold Benjamin; HE
bas no scandals to obliterate, explain, or
avow and he win be the liveliest candi-
late in the field, with nothing to attend
- ~, the main business Of his canvass,
uninterrupted by any distractions suc en-
4 have bothered Cleveland and Blame"
A. Dana may be mistaken about TINS.
DorbtIess he win be as busy defending
pssler next week, as he was DEFENDING
Blaine last week.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
Bahino poiuOrr.
BrOok|yn's Great Chemist.
Bahimn aIomDrr.

"Ths analysis of Dr. Prices Cream
Baking owde nj Powder"
mixed ia the best
chemical proportions ne object be attained"
preparation favored and
article of food"
Baking superior Baking Powder
the following
contains Ammonia articles
unnecessary positively injurious.
of the
active article.
therefore efficient shown by ana
quantity biscuit dough
ingredients less free aka
neutrang the gastric
juice
gives lighter stated in Nos
respect Powder inferior
Baking Powder
respectfully yours
ELIAS I'll. hartley, B. S., NJ. d.,
Bkyn Lecturer Physiological and
Chemistry he Long Island College Hospital,
May %, 1884, College.
Do not take our Word for it. Let every OuSekeeper Prove IL
HEATED, THEN REMOVE
PRICE BAKING POWDER GO.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The receipts of the great Brooklyn
bridge for July netted about $4,000. This
would indicate an average of about $780,
600 year, or less than one per cent. of the
cost OF the structure. tits expected that the
bridge will pay better in the future, but
it may be that the ferries will so reduce
the fares that the bridge will never be-
come paying investment for the twin
cities unless the first cost be considered
as so much donated to the public, and no
interest on it be expected.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

In fact, the political caricature IN Amerl-
can politics bids fair to be laid away with the
bloody shirt, Nasby's letters and other played
judged in future more by what they have
actually done in public life than by any dis
torted and malevolent images of them which
NAV appear in the Illustrated papers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The New York Democrats boot at the
idea of Blaine carrying that State. 1t
seems TO be part OF the Republican tao
tics to have every Republican to boast on
any and every occasion that New York
may be safely counted for Blaine, and
they are playing that bluff game for all it
is worth. They brag that they have
bought up the Irish vote. The indica-
tions are that the Republican ticket in
New York will be showed under.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Heavy skirmishing is beginning in the
dove fields, and the slaughter OF the limo
cents viii soon be general in the South.
Thousands Of the tOothsOme birds will be
slain within the next few weeks. /.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Elk Gov. Hendricks and Senator Logan
met at Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York,
Thursday, and had a pleasant chat to-
gether. Neither one Of them put his hand
10 his hin uocEpt
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

1t would be much better for Gen. Butler
If he would turn one of his barrels over to
the Democratic campaign committee and
20 on his fishing excursion. There may
be a good deal of fun, however, in his pro
nosed side-show political business.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The Parisians now use dried orange
peeIs for kindIing wool. Many scayen-
gers make a living by collecting them
from the streets and drying them tor the
market.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

English agents are said to be looking
about over the United States for oppor-
tunIties to buy up the crop of fall apples,
O'DOnovan Rosa and his gang may now
have an opportunity to be avenged and
not be liable for a violation Of law or
comfy of nations. Let them persuade
the people to let the Britishers have all
the fall apples they want.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

I'm time of peace prepare for war; is
good motto, but the United States can
never prepare for war while William Z.
Chandler and his crowd manage its
boating business. The first step towards
preparation for war is to turn the rascals
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

One can stand the hot weather, the mos
auitoes and even the base ball news dur
ing the summer, with a little politics
thrown in. There is a great consolation
in the absence OF that great advocator Of
hnriznntaI reduction. the banana peel.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

1t is stated that our Uncle Samuel Til
den is getting his second wind, and will
be able to aid personally in the campaign.
There is probably no doubt that the Dem
ocratic National and State Committees
will avail themselves OF his cOunsels.
What Tilden dan't know about New York
poIitics is not worth knowing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The New York Herald is responsible
for the story that Blaine, when Speaker,
erawled out Of a window and passed
along the stone betting course of the cap
itol to another room-thence tOthe House,
where be announced the Chairman on
Appropriations which he had promised to
Gen. Butler. He crawled out Of the vim
dow to avoid Gen. Butler, who was watt
ing for him at the door to hold him to his
promise, which Blaine violated. Blaine
was not to be blamed much for this. Per-
haps Butler would have caused him ia
tai attack Of sunstroke.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

1t is to be feared the Mobile people were
too much concerned in the competitive
drill to exert themselves properly in the
recent election. Perhaps this accounts
for the Independent yictoryIn that city.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Old worn out fields not worth fencing
can be made worth Shopper acre in twenty
years. They should be planted with hick-
orv nuts in checks five feet apart. The
harvest OF hoop poles, ak handles, ETC.,
would begin earlier than one would
imagine. and would pay handsomely for
the labor and Investments.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Editor Dana, the prize campaign poet,
admires Gen. Butler more every day.
That s.eye in fine frenzy rolling is what
charms editor Dana.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The express lines appear to be doing a
light business. The warm weather and
financial depression are even affecting the
jug business in the prohibition counties.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

This appears to be an of year fer the
cotton worm, and planters have little rea-
son to fear that he will get in any very
effective work betor 1t.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Gen. Buffers delay has put him away
in the rear Of Pomeroy and st. John as
Presidential candidate. He forgot the
old maxim. to the effect that He that
dalIies is a bastard. and he that doubts is
damned.',
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Nobody has been kicked to death IN
Georgia for nearly a month. Is the 'hInd
foot Of the invaluable mule losing its cum
ufugs
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Farmers are urged to put up more dried
fruit The worms should not be allowed
to starye during the coming winter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Several towns in the Northwest are fol-
lowing the example Of Louisville in tab
booine Mother Hubbard dresses. Several
ladies at HilIsboro. H., have been ar
rested for wearing this costume on the
streets, on the ground that they were in
decentlv dressed. The relatives Of the
ladies propose to sue the town for dam
ages for false Imprisonment, and lively
fight on the subject may be expected.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

seven Chicago policemen have been sent
to the asylum this year. This is to Chi
Cages credit. In many cities the police
men are simply promoted when they ex-
hibit symptoms OF being unusually crazy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

A convention Of the Democratic party
of Georgia viii be held at the Capitol IN
Atlanta on Wednesday. Aug. ID. 1854, at Il
m, for the purpose Of nominating candi-
dates for Governor and State House OH
GERS, and to select the Democratic eandl-
dates for Presidential electors.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Chairman state Executive Committee.
Democratic papers viii please copy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
ADVERTISING.


]. c. GOODRICH, Northern Advertising
Manager Of DAILY MoRNTSG NEWs anu
WFTKT.Y NEWS. sun Building. New York.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

The preferred style for the white lawn
dresses is a round skirt with tucks and no
overskirt, tucked blouse or full Mother
Hubbard waist belted, and big bow and
ends in the back for sash drapeTy. This
style is pretty and popular for all kinds of
plain eolored wash-goods dresses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11

Boston is disturbed on the servant
girl question. 1t is said to be almost I'M
possible to get good servants in that city.
As soon as the girls get into service they
Get quite arist0cratie and put on more
airs than their mistresses. Servant girls
will soon be extinct everywhere. House
keepers will have TO offer extra premiums
for the improvement Of the dumb waiter.
1t is about the only thing in the shape Of
a servant that never puts on any airs.