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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
A WAR NARRATIVE.
A Story that May be CIassed Remark
able if True"


able if True"
The Philadelphia Press tells how a bar
rel Of whisky saved Washington from cap
ture by Confederates:
The story has often been told, but / do
not know that it was ever verified. Mont
gomery Blair told it to me himself year
or two before he died. We ofWashington
can never forget the threatening days in
July, 1864, when the city was defenseless,
and a large force of Confederates under
Early and Breckenridge was not ten miles
from the capital. No one denies now that
the COnfederates could have marched in
and taken Washington almost umimped-
ed. The Sixth Corps of the army of the
Potomac was en- route to defend the city,
but it was not quick enough.
The enemy was halted at Silver Springs,
the country residence Of the elder Blair,
and very near the residence of Mont
gOmery Blair. Upon the approach OF the
army the families OF both fled to Wash
ington. The Confederate officers searched
the houses and found in the cellar OF
Frank p. Blair's house a barrel of
whisky. This did the business. Nearly
all the officers became DRINK of this
whisky and many of the men were in a
like condition. Such an Orgie was never
known. The dresses of the ladies were
taken possession Of, and in them the
officers masqueraded and held jollifica-
ton the whole night long, falling into a
drunken slumber i'm the morning, and
unable to do any work whatever. Early
and Breckenridge, riding up in the morn
ing saw the situation and merely said:
" It is too late" and so Washington was
saved
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
BLUE WITH A GOLD STAR.
The Flag of the international African
Association Recognized as Dominating
the Country of the River Congo.

The Flag of the International African
Association Recognized as Dominating
the Country of the River Congo.
The action of the Senate In recognizing
the African International Association.
says Washington special to the Detroit
Free Press, practically admits into the
sisterhOOd of nations a vaguely defined
but immense territory in the valley of the
river Congo, Africa. The association has
adopted for its flag golden star in a field
of blue. The President of the association
is the King of the Belgians. not in his
royal but in his private character. Being
formed for colonlzing purposes, its agents
have proceeded after the method of viii
liam Penn, and have concluded ninety
two separate treaties with the narive
chiefs. The territory thus ceded borders
on the Congo and tributary rivers, and has
an extent of nearly 1000 miles. There
are twenty-five stations, trading-pOsts or
settlements. One is named after Grant
one after King Leopold; another after his
daughter Stephanie, and another after
Stanley, the discOYerer of the river. The
famous American explorer described it as
navigable for steamers more than half the
distance across the African continent.
Altogether the African International
Association controls the outlet for 900. 900
square miles offertile territory and 4O, OO0,-
600 OF people-mainly savages, but still
yielding valuable trade and commerce.
and becoming every day of more impor-
lance. They are colonies much like those
which first ventured upon the shores of
the United States.
The principal question determined Dy
the Senate was as to the recognition of
States while in the early process of
development, the territory being coded by
native chiefs to private citizens. Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, made a most elabO-
rate review of the case, citing the case Of
Liberia as a nation established by the
people of the United States with but little
assistance from the government. He re-
lated how Henry Clay and others organ
lied the American Colonization Society
and the result, the establishment of a free
republic in Liberia with a constitution
modelled after our own, and under the
control of the negro race. Its area is
IA 800 square miles, its population is about
100000 souls, its commerce is valuable,
its government is successful and its peO-
pie are prosperous.
Portugal has made some show of claim
ing sovereignty to the mouth Of the Congo.
Her pretensiOns have been discOunte-
nanced by Great Britain and by France.
The association will probably be able to
hold its own against Portugal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
JERUSALEM FOR THE POPE.
RumOrs About Proposed Holy State
in Palestine

RumOrs About Proposed Holy State
in Palestine.
A few days age an emissary, travelling
incOgnito, of Herr Bismarck, says a Rome
letter to the Paris GdulOis, arrived here
and stopped at the residence of NJ. de
Schloezer, the Prussian Ambassador to
the Pope. The emissary was subsequent
ly received at the Vatican and then at
once returned to Germany. The Catholic
papers made a note of these proceedings,
giving it to be understood that the affair
was concerning the Pope's departure,
without, however, entering into fuller de-
tails. To-day it is rumored that the ennis
sary had come to inform Leo XIII. that
Germany, in case his Holiness would
leave Rome, would see to it that Jerusa-
lem would be coded to him IN entire Sow
ereignty, to there definitely establish the
holy seat. 1t is not stated what the
POpe's reply was, but there is every rea-
son to believe that the Pope would never
consent to leave Rome without intention
of returning; that he might seek tenn
pOrary asylum outside of Italy, but never
new capital.
AS such an asylum it is objected that
Jerusalem is too far from the centre of
Catholic countries; that the Pope would
find himself relegated to the borders Of
Mahometan, Orthodox Greek and Budd-
hist religions, and that he has already de-
clared for place of sOjourn nearer Rome.
/ England offers him Malta, and other hos
| pitable powers places at about an equal
| distance, thus: Austria, a town in Tyrol /;
/ the Principally of Monaco, its own capt.
! tall France, it is said, the Hyeres Islands.
etc.
The question Of Jerusalem as the new
capital has already been raised several
! times. and the cradle Of Christianity
would certainly be more worthy of re-
ceivinG the holy seat than any other city.
Should the Pope be induced to fix his per-
manent residence there, several questions
would arise. Would the Ottoman Empire
cede Jerusalem to the Pope ? Would it
be sustained in its resistance by Euro
pean power? Would, for example, Russia
allow the centre ofCatholicity to be trans
ferred so near to her borders? These re.
Elections naturally occur to CathoIG5 aud
Italians, who regard the Papacy as the
source of Italy's greatness. Those who
only consider the difficulties of the mo-
ment and see an opportunity of getting
lid of them, would be delighted with the
success of the project attributed to Herr
Bismarck-the departure of the Pope tc
| Jerusalem.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
HEARTH AND HOME.
BY 5. b. sTEBBIHs.

Out Of the NOISE and ont OF the strife,
To the hearth 20 calm and bright,
The men come home TO women who wait
In the lreside's happy light.
For hearth and home is the dearest place
To men and women who love:
4 nd 81 len peace is there a bless ng floats
From cur Fathers home above.
The tender kiss, and the baby's coo,
Then gladdens the tired heart;
The care and glare Of the busy day,
Like wearIeOn.e dreams depart.
The sou 5 joy shines in the loving smile
That welcomes the dear one home;
Nife's world Is in its =helterIrg walls,
In cot or meath palace dome.
oh. God OF love. guard ever such homes,
All over our beautiful and!
Let quiet hearth- life's guidance be
To mansions not made with hands.
For hearth and home Is the dearest place
To men and women who love;
A nd when peace is there b. s. ing floats
From our Fathers home above.
-DsmOrest's Monthly
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
PALNIISTRY
The Latest Craze in New YOrk-Great
Belief in AstrOlOGy.

The popular amusement in fashionable
circles just now is palmistry.
In almostevery parlor of our
well-knoWn society people may
be found a handbook ON this science.
Ten years ago it was almost impossible to
get any reliable work in English on this
branch of astrolOgy, as l suppose palms.
try may be said to be; but since that time
it has become so much the fashion to
study the hand with reference to the lines
which intersect each other, that any
number of books have sprung up in
answer to the demand, most of them being
free translations and adaptations of the
famous works by DesbarrOlles and
d'Arpentigny. By glancing into one of
| these books, which, by the by, is a transla-
ton made by Miss C., of New York,
am informed that after few hours study
| shall not only be able to find QUO myself
individually but shall in future be able by
scrutiniZing the hands of nv friends.and
acquaintance, the form of their fingers,
the size and form of the phalanges upon
which grow the nails, and the greater or
less development of the finger joints, to
know all facts concerning the past, pre-
sent and future of all those sufficiently
unwaTy to submit their hands to my
scientific inspection. Fortunately all the
sC-called students of chirognOmy do not
entirely agree regarding the meaning of
the lines and marks upon the hands of
their victims, so there is always a chance.
in case ones hand proves disappointing
under one palmist, to appeal to another.
This is, to say the least, encouraging,
! and suggests lOOp-hOle for any malaprO-
| pos reading of mysterious lines and bifur-
cations. But this is not the only remedy
in case the palmist fail to please his
client, who in all confidence appeals to
him for a character. Palmistry is so con-
venient a science, and, moreover,
so adaptable, that you have
only, in case the reading of your
right hands prove disappointing, to
express it either audibly or in the pre-
sence of half-skillful apostle Of palmistic
science by the expression of your cOun-
tenance and you will be made happy by a
totally different Interpretation of the left.
1t is reserved for the nineteenth century
and for the reigning sirens of Madison
and Fifth avenues to furnish chirOmancy
with its most fascinating converts, and it
is really quite absurd, on making an
afternoon call, to have ones hands seized
violently by the fair hostess. who persists
in drawing off her visitors gloves and
then and therereVealing to her, by the aid
of this mysterious knowledge, not only
her past and present omissions and com
missions, as set forth in a tell-tale hand,
but all sorts of direful and mysterious
prophecies for the future
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
Mercury and Potash

Are dangerous even when administered
by directions and under the eye Of good
physician, and when put up in nOstrums,
often by incompetent persons, are apt TO
produce evil consequences. Be careful of
these poisonous mixtures or you may re-
greet it. SwIFT'S SPECIFIC is not only
preferable to these dangerous compounds
in the treatment of Blood and Skin dis
eases, but eliminates the poison Of Mer-
ing up the organism and forcing out the
poison through the pores of the skin.
Treatise ON Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
0attEE Gara.
AN APPEAL FOR
Improved Cattle Cars.

THE United States law to protect animals
i during the transportation by rail pro-
vldes that when they are carried in cars
in which they can be fed, watered and
have rest, its requirement that animals shall
be unlOaded every % hours, and then have
rest Of hours, shall not apply to animals in
such cars. The law prevents starvation and
too long confinement in cars so FAR AS IT Is
0BEYED by the Railroad Companies and its
existence and enforcement are of the first
necessity while the common stock cars are
used, but the reloadIng at the stopping places
Is attended with much cruelty, 1t being natu-
rally hard to get the poor creatures back into
cars, where they have already so suffered,
without blows, or worse.
To meet this want of an improved car the
American Humane Association offered prize
OF five thousand dollars (S5,000) for such a car
in 1880, to stimulate the inventive ability of
the country. One of its conditions was that
the patents on the approved car should be
given to the Association, that the car might
be offered to the railroad companies by il free
from charges of royalty.
But the owners of the best inventions de-
cided not to compete for the prize, thinking
that their cars would prove more valuable to
them than the $780, Accordingly, the prize
could not be awarded. The offer, however
caused the construction of cars WHICH MEET
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW, and the
trustees of the fund take this way of making
known the fact to Officers. Directors and
Stockholders OF Railroad Companies, and to
all humane people whose hearts have been
touched by the atrocities of this traffic.
C0t0 D1eddks hare been QfCeD to the PERSONS
and companies named below. The names are
given in the order thai the several cars were
examined:
a. c. MATHER, Chicago, Illinois.
W. stuart HUNTER, Belleville, Canada.
J. NJ. LINCOLN, Providence, Rhode Island.
M0NTGOMERY PALACE CAR COMPANY, New
York City.
BURTON STOCK CAR COMPANY, Boston, Mas
s3chusetts.
THOMAS CLARK, Truro, Nova Scotia.
JOHN W. STREET, Chicago, Illinois.
50 long as the common car used. the
words of senator Mcpherson, of New jersey,
wilt continue true: 81 declare the live stock
traffic to be one long and uninterrupted line
of suffering from the West to the East" The
sanitary objections are also of the graVest
character.
The great success Of refrigerator ears is
lessening the number of animals transported
alive; but there must always remain such
traffic in them as to make the improved car
permanent necessity.
To avoid al misrepresentation on the sub
ject, we add that neither the Association or
any of its officers have pecuniary interest
in any o; the ears above named.
EDWIN ] EE BROWN T,.ustaoc ~
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
BURNETT'S COCAINE

Has Received Universal Endorsement.
No other preparation possesses such re-
markable properties for embellishing and
strengthening the hair and rendering it
dark and glossy. 1t cures badness and
eradicates dandruff.
BURNETT FLAV0RING EXTRACTS are
the best,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
He Does Not Need to Go After His
Money,

In reply to an inquiry of reporter. Mr..
G. Goldsmith one of our best known jew
ish citizens), did you ever win anything
before: He replied: Oh, yes! now and
then. 1 once won s., $50 in German lot +.
terry, and have won small sums at odd
times in the Louisiana State Lottery
Will you visit New Orleans for the pur-
pose of collecting your money (aluding
to SIS, 200, the one-ffth of the capital prize
Ia the Lottery, on Tuesday, March II, on
ticket No. 14,467). MOI we have deposit-
ed the ticket with the Columbus Miss.
Insurance and Banking Company for col
lection. 1t is sure enough. The draft
was promptly honored.-Ertract from the
Columbus AiSs.) Dispatch, March IA,
1884
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
So You will Find.

"Benson's CapcIne Porous Plasters are
in the highest degree reliable" says DIR.
Kakoff, Of New York. 25c.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27

IT is going to be hard for any modern city
to acquire the civilization Of ancient Rome.
She had eight eiTcRses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
HOW MEN ARE INTERVIEWED.

Roscoe COnkling's Little Speech-Col.
EngersOlPs VOIHbility-Mr- Wander
bits Familiarity-Mr. GOuId's Pithy
Sentenees-Gen. Grant not a Silent
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05

brought to me by consumptlVe young
chap who lives near by. be wished
me to remove the fat that he might rem
der it, and use it as a cure for his NAL
adv, and, as l said before, just as was
doing SO in walked my best customer!
You never saw madden man in all
your life. He wouldn't give me a
chance to explain, but after swearing
enough to make that boys hair stand
on end he rushed out, saying that he
would have me lynched.
s.Isn't that a rather novel cure Tor
consumption"
s.WelI, / don't know. | have killed
dogs for half-a-dozen who have con-
su1nption; but there is a man up town.
somewhere who makes dog oil whole
sale.n
Further inquiry revealed the fact
that the manufacture of dog oil may
now be numbered among Detroit's de-
funct industries. The dogs from which
the oil was extracted were procured at
the dog-pound after having been
drowned When the fat had been taken
out, it and the canine carcasses were
steamed and pressed, and, as a result,
Lyman w. Blakely, manufacturer, op-
tanned, as he described it. 'ta transpar-
ent oil almost as clear as water, and
sweet to the taste. He received only
three dollars. per gallon for,the oil and
found it did not pay, although this
amount was supplemented with small
sum paid by q fertilizer company. for
the flesh, bones and hide, The pur-
chasers of the oil were veterinary sur
geons, who usedit in compromising lini-
nents, and people suffering from throat
and lung diseases, especially consump-
tives, who are usually willing to use
any and all remedies suggested 1t is
entirely unknown in the pharmacies,
and why It has gained even the moiety
of popularity it enjoys ittwould be
bard to say. Detroit TINES.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05
RingWornl.

One of the medical names of this all
ment is herpes circiesata, which is near
w the same as our familiar term. They
each refer to the way in which it moves
like a creeping circle, a ring constant
" charging itself outward from its
center
The disease is caused by parasitic
plant microscopic OF course-lodging
on the skin and then getting down into
it's substance. Tt then propagates its
kind. Each new brood develops a lit
tie further from the center of the circle.
The first Things noticed are an itching,
a burning, q slight redness. These are
soon followed by small number of
yesicles minute elevations filled with
a watery fluid. Some of these yesicles
are constantly drying up while others
are forming.
Among other animals, sheep are sub
iect to this ailment The plant, or its
spores (seeds), may adhere to the wool
in spite of the washing, and the disease
may be thus communicated to persons
employed in wooden mills. 1t is now
believed thatmany of the contagious
diseases are due to microscopic
plants, but these do not take root and
grow and ripen their spores unless they
find eongenial soil. The congenial
soil for ringworms is a low state of the
human system. Mill girls are peculiar
ly exposed, because they are seldom in
vigorous health.
The ringworm may be upon the body
or upon the head. In the latter case
its appearance is different, and it bears
a somewhat different medical name
herpes tonsUranS. The latter term is
from a Latin word signifying to shave.
Yet whether on the body or head, it is
the same disease, and due to the same
parasite. ON the head it works down to.
the hair bulb, and there plants itself.
The hair loses its vitality, and is easily
broken off. The eyebrows. and lashes
may wholly drop out. The patches are
circular. They show epuls;ye-looking
sores, with red, raw appearance.
Some have crust-like formation. The
slight discharge from the vesieles mats
the surrounding hair. Both varieties
are contagious. Children with ring
worms should not be allowed to play
with other children.
Or. Weir, Professor of Dermatology
in the Philadelphia Medical and Chirur-
gical College, who has been long ex-
perimenting on curative applications
for the disease we repeat it for the
benefit of the medical profession says
he has never known the eleate of cop
per to fail in a single case. The gener-
al health usually needs invigorating.
Kottlt's COMPANION.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05
Our Young Readers.
BOY AND MAN.


When Tom was boy 1t was often said
That he never wanted to go to bed:
And he really appeared to take delight
In running about the streets at night.
All! much too long would have been the day,
And weary enough he'd have been or play,
Ii this very wide-awake little chap
Had not extended his morning nap.
He'd sit up with the owls, and with eyes as
bright
AS theirs, OH ever so late atinights @
But no one had chance to remark
That Thomas ever arose with the lark.
'' Early TO bed and earlylto rise So
Will make man healthy, wealthy and wise"
Was an od-fashioned notion, Thomas said, =
And well enough for a sleepy-head.
But as Tom grew older he left the owls,
And initiated domestic fowls
BY going to bed, oh, not as he used
But as soensas the chickens began TO roost, @
And he had no patience, I've heard them say,
With those who wanted to sleep all day,
For he was around ard out-of-dQprs
In the early morning doing his chores.
2 And that is the way we turn about
From youth to age, there isn't doubt;
And the very things that we once despised
Become the things that are highly priced.
And il when your young you take delight
& In being up with the owls all night, ID
When you are old you'll think it absurd
Tocopy the ways of so dull bird
Josephine Pollard, in Hdrpef'sz Young PEG
IIg.~ t='sE'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Theodore Tilton is living quietly in
Paris. attending to his literary work
N. Y Times.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, ex-clerk
of the House of Representatives retired
date of his first election.
The Boston Public Library is to re-
ceive $50, 900 from the estate of Arthur
Schofeld, Notwithstanding there is a
flaw in his will. Boston Herald.
will Carleton, the writer of farm
ballads, is said to be worth $4,000,
There's no danger Of his going "0ver
the Hills to the Poor House. - Chicago
journal. H 3a
Mr.. George A. Post, Representative
in Congress from the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania District, is but twenty-nine years
of age, and is the Youngest member Of
Congress. Philaoe!pRiG Press.
Asa Barker, of Lynn, Mass, sui
cided the other night. He was the head
and front of the concert-giying Barker
family of a quarter of 8 century ago.
He hung himself in the woods while
respondent. = Boston Post.
Washington Irving once said to a
lady: don be anxious about the ed
ucation of your daughters; they will do
very well; don't teach them SO many,
things: teach them one thing. = .sfWhat
is that, Mr.. 1rYing?''s she asked.
s'Teach them,9 he said, to beieasily
p.eased.' 163 ait=3s - f:.sl s5
james Converse, of Chill, N. Y,
and Miss Mary Chatterton, Of Roehes-
ter, We're married in the large show
window Of "a Rochester clothing ,estab-
lishment recently. Alarge number Of
wedding presents We're displayed in the
window previous to the ceremony. The
whole affair was an advertising scheme,
presents included, but it paid the young
couple, the gifts being very useful.
Many Rochester firms contributed. M
r Post! ttil
The late Joseph Swift, of Philadel-
phia, left a fortune Of about 81, 100000
and among his legacies was one of S.
900 to his daughter Mary, widow of the
and an annuity of 81, 500 to Horace &.
Browne. from whom Mrs. Thorne was
divorced. The bulk of the remainder
Of the estate goes to Mrs. Thorne's chill
dren by both her marriages, and to her
sister, Mrs. Emily Balch, and her chill
dren. Philadelphia Record.
Colonel John, Hay, who was Presi-
dent Linco1n's private secretary, testi-
fes that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. had no
assistance in the preparation Of his
speeches and addresses. For instance,
Mr.. Lincoln. on his way from Washing
ton to Gettysburg, composed his famous
address at the latter place and put it on
paper while on the train. After arriV-
ing there he.reyised and perfected what
is now generally regarded as master
piece of English composition and Amer
lean oratorY. Chicago Herald.