Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25

1t is not altogether impossible that
Spain viii 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.
The President and several OF his politi-
cal staff officers have just made another
visit to New York. The underground
wires don't appear to be working very
well over there at the present time.
Temperance ideas must he gaining to
am astonishing extent in Washington, for
it seems that even the President himself
has to run over to Philadelphia or New
York occasionally after a cup of tea.
It's said that a good square liquor guz-
zIer can fall down the stairs or get run
over by an omnibus and never be the
worse OF, but that be cannot Hrestle sue
cessiully with an attack of pneumonia.
Is vindication by the Republican party
to be despised and trodden under foot by
rebellious Democratic House, Surely
the great and good Ohio Congressman, J..
Warren Keifer, could be guilty of no
wrong.
A Republican journal says eX-President
Hayes persistently avoids interviews, and
refuses to talk with anyone on political
subjects. Can this be an instance in
which cowardice is manufactured by con-
sciencef
A correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle
suggests as a model Presidential ticket
the names of Gen. John A. Logan and
Henry Ward Beecher. Is the reverend
old gentleman actually on the ragged
edge of a political boom?
Memphis thinks she can get a supply OF
genuine Mississippi river water for about
5000, 900. When we consider the immense
surplus of corn whisky on hand in that
section Of the country this enormous out
lay for water looks like throwing away
money.
An item has been going the rounds to
the effect that the mother of the late
President Garfield has been twice mar
ried since the death of his father, and that
her present name is not generally known.
This statement probably originated with
Gath OF Eli Perkins.
tits a matter Of regret to many people
that st. Valentines day is not to be for
gotten this year. The styles of the fayors,
however, are to be changed, and instead
of perforated paper there Will be beautiful
designs painted on pulls and miniature
pillows. The comic cards viii be the
same as of yOre.
The Philadelphia Press, ultra Republi-
can. doesn't want to be misunderstood on
the Fitz John Porter business. 1t favOrs
doing him Justice and fully generating
him from the wrongs done him in the heat
of the war. 1t is cheerful to note th,t the
Press aligns itself right along with the
Confederate Brigadiers in Congress.
The Nashville World says that last
Sunday Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher
preached from the same text that Rev.
John ". Hammer, ST., preached from when
Bishop Pierce was ordained at Columbus,
and that DR.. Hammers sermon was far
superior to Beeeher's. Now, who viii
deny that advertising has been very profit
able to Mr. Beecher?
1t would evidently be unjust to say that
Senator Call, Of Florida, Is at the bottom
of a dynamite conspiracy against the
peace Of the country, but it is fearful to
contemplate what would be the result Of
the establishment at Washington of
grand national college Of medicine, with
a faculty made up OF allOpathic, homeO-
Dathic and eclectic physicians.
It's likely the proposed expedition for
the relief of Lieut.. Greely's party will get
organized and ready to start to the Arctic
regions next fall, or just about the time 1t
is too late to have any chance OF getting
within thousand miles Of him. 1t is
extremely problematical if any member
of his ships crew is now alive, and relief
to accomplish anything should leave the
United States early in the summer.
The passage OF the resolution of Judge
Holman, OF Indiana, through the House
Of Representatives, forfeiting the I'M
earned railroad land grants, almost de-
cides the New York Sun to renew the Hol-
man boom. If Judge Holman really has
anv Presidential aspirations he had bet
ter sue out an injunction against tie San
at once. as it seems to have fatality for
killing of every political candidate it sup
ports. One killing from that source ought
to be enough for Judge Holman
The French Academy of Medicine re-
Gently offered a prize Of $4,000 for cure
for dipbtberia. Among the contestants
were a glass maker, a machinist, an iron
founder. a hotel keeper, a Justice of the
Peace, a lawyers wife and the better half
of a horse doctor. Among the remedies
proposed was the beating Of the patient
until the membrane should be expelled,
and his exposure to scarlatina as eoun-
ter irritant. Quite a number wanted the
money paid over to them as condition
urecedent to the disclosure Of
their valuable secrets. The contest was
such as to recall tho old quotation that
tsfools rush in where angels fear to tread.'
No rnfaHible remedy was presented and
the prize was not awarded.