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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
THE TELEGRAPH WAR.

Argument in the Suit Retween the Wes-
tern Union and Baltimore and Ohio.
Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States Supreme Court, and Judges Bond
and Morris, in equity, says Baltimore
special OF the 10Th inst. to the Philadel-
phis Times. to-day heard the petition of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. Gen. Swayne, of New York.
and eX-AttOrneY General Charles J. NJ i.
Gwinn, of Baltimore, appeared for the
western Union, and William +. Frick
ana John Is. COwan for the Baltimore
ana ONO. The litigation involves the
right OF the Western Union Telegraph
company To use the wires along all the
lines Oi the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company and its branches.
The bill recites that the Western Trnio,,
. Telegraph Company, by cAhtracts made
with the Baltimore and Ohio RaiIroed
Company. June Is. 1858, and September
y, 1855, was granted the irreyocable rigbt
to construct, between Baltimore and
Wheeling. along the line of the railroad
4 telegraph line, with the right to erect
stations along the route.
The Baltimore aud Ohio answers that
the Western Union Telegraph Company
had no lawful right to operate telegraph
lines in Virginia and West Virginia and
no power to make a lease to the American
Telegraph Company, to which the Balti-
more and Ohio Company never assented,
and that the subsequent assignment to
the Western Telegraph Company and the
lease to the Western Union Telegraph
Company, OF Baltimore, were equally in
valid. Arguments will be continued daily
tor about ten days.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
NEAR-SIGHTED SCHOOL chill
DREN.
Alarming Prevalence of MyOpia, Due to
Bad Arrangements Generally

Alarming Prevalence of Myopia, Due to
Bad Arrangements Generally.
A. NJ. Spangler, of the Board Of Educa-
ton, has examined 76 of the city's public
schools, says the Philadelphia Times. and
in report prepared by him of his inves-
legations says that IA per cent. of the
girls and 81 per cent. of the boys in the
secondary schools are near-sighted. while
in the primary schools per cent. of girls
and per cent. of the boys are afflicted
in the same manner. The causes Of the
lnfirmity are set forth at great length in
the report. Mr.. Spangler finds that in 95
per cent. of the schools he visited the
seating is wretchedly bad. He found i'm
the front rooms of school houses children
shielding their eyes with states, books and
desk-lids from the glare that came through
the blIndless windows. Where this was
prevented by shades or pinned-up news
papers dim twilight pervaded the front
rooms. In the rear the gas had to be
lighted.
Another cause Of the prevalence of myo-
pla was the location Of blackbOards. In
the schools examined all the boards in
front OF the children were hung between
two windows. "And as a consequence, ,,
says Mr.. Spangler, "a knowledge of what
was written on them could only be learned
Dy :he children by straining OF the
vision that could not but have been hurt
iul in the extreme" The remainder Of
the boards were hung on one side, neces-
Stating a change of position whenever
the children had to consult them. In
ninety-fve per cent. of the school rooms
Mr.. Spangler found that the only means
OF ventilation was by opening doors and
windows.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
DYNAMITE IN HIS BAGGAGE.

An Enterprising Florida Tourist in tle
Laws Grasp for Carrying Explosives
on Passenger Trains.
w. n. Hunt, who lives in the oil couu-
try, says a Buffalo, n. Y, special of the
10th inst, to the Boston Globe, will be
tried before United States Commissioner
Fairchild, Saturday, on a charge of car
rying dynamite on n passenger train.
The offense is punishable by a fine of from
$1,000 to $1,000. InPe nnsylyania a special
State law makes it punishable with impri-
sonment. 1t appears that on Thursday
a satchel, checked from Bradford TO
Olean. burst open at the latter place and
curious looking powder ran out, which.
on investigation, proved to be dynamite.
detective b. j. WilmOth Immediately set
about tracing the owner.
lie found III the satchel a photograph OF
Frank Severance, of Bradford. who went
South with a party last Decer Der. No
one called for the incendiarv baggage
either Friday or Saturday On Saturday
the officer learned that w. N, Hunt. a
TREND Of Severance, had lust come
through from Florida, and the ownership
OF the satchel was laid at his door. Hunt
was found to be in Friendship. n. Y and
Dy a telegram was induced to 90 to Olean
~ tAAO hACtln tiliie tle OlnceF went 10 Buffalo
and secured warrant for the arrest from
the United states Commissioner and ar
rested him at Olean. After some hest
fancy he acknowledged his guilt. He said
that he and John Blackmar, Of Bolivar,
took to Florida a quantity of dynamite,
thinking that it could be used in clearing
stumps from new land, but upon their ar
rival they found territory so cheap that
the explosive could not be profitabiy en-
ployed. With singular frugality and
some hardihOOd Hunt checked the satchel
back to Bradford, and subsequently, to
Olean, where its contents were discovered.
In order to make sure of the nature of the
compound, a dynamite cartridge taken
from the bag was exploded under a stump
and did great execution. There were 40
pounds of dynamite in the bag.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
THE MEXICAN TREATY.
Memorial which DiscIOses Some of Its
Objectionable Features.


One Of the Objectionable features of the
Mexican treaty, pending before the Sen.
ate, says Washington special of the 18th
inst. to the Philadelphia Press, was dis.
closed this morning, when Sentor Farley,
OF California, presented a memorial from
the Trinidad and San Jose Silver Mining
company, Of Mexico, which has its head
quarters at San Francisco. This me-
moral calls the attention of the Senate to
tne 1aet that the proposed treaty legalizes
clalins claims 0l MeXIean citizens, decided ad-
JOINT Claims Commission. but forever
Oars claims decided against American
cltlZens by the same tribunal.
Inc memorial sets forth that the COM
pany has just and valid ground aOainst
the Republic of Mexico for DAMAGES for
the interruption of mining operations and
forced abandonment of mining properties
and mines in Mexico to the amount of
SoZO,OOO; that this claim was duly sub
mltted to the United States and Mexico
joint Claims Commission; that the case
was duly tried, and that the Mexican gov
ernment submitted certain defensive
evidence against the claims of the me-
mOrialists.
1t further sets forth the commission dis
agreed upon the claim, and that il was
afterwards referred to the umpire of the
commission, who, upon the evidence sub
mltted by Mexico, decided the case
against the memOrialsts. The memorial
alleges that the evidence submitted by
Mexico was unlawfully procured. was
false and fraudulent; that the witnesses
who testified to the same committed per
jury and were subOrned by the Mexican
authorities, and that the decision and dis
missal of this claim by the umpire were
obtained through and by means of said
perjured evidence.
The memorial further sets forth that a
treaty Is now pending in the Senate,
through which the Mexican government
Is seeking to free itself from and to evade
the responsibility of paying said claim.
II Is alieged that this treaty faVOFs Mex
leo 10 the exclusion of Americans whose
claims nave been dismissed and rejected
by similar false testimony. Also that the
treaty sets aside awards against Mexico
IN faVor of citizens of the United States
alleged by Mexico TO have been obtained
Dy false testimony, and directs a new
trIal OF those cases before a new commits
sion, but makes no provision so far as the
memorlallsts know, setting aside iudg
ments of dismissal of claims of American
clpzens which were procured bv false
testimony or granting them a new trial.
The memOrialists therefore prav that
the Senate will amend the treaty to grant
citizens of the United States equal rights
10 those granted to citizens of Mexico
The memorial was referred to the Com
mlttee on Foreign Relations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
INDIANS STARVING
Deplorable Condition of Those at the
Poplar Greek and Wolf Point Agen-

DeplorabIe Condition of Those at the
Poplar Greek and Wolf Point Agen-
eies.
The Fort Buford correspondent Of the
st. Paul Mimi Pioneer Press saws:
''The condition Of the Indians at the Pop
lar Creek and Wolf Point agencies is so
deplorable that unless speedy relief is
afforded many Of them will die from star
vation. The allowance is 50 meagre that
it is not sufficient to keep them alive.
Heretofore game has been plentiful along
the Missouri and Mills rivers, and the IN
dians were able. with the little assist
aHce they received from the government
to live with comparative comfort: but now
the game is all destroyed, and the Indians
must either be fed by the government or
starve. OF the 5000 dogs in the possession
of Indians at Wolf Point one year ago.
not one is now left. Many Of the ponies
have also been eaten, and many more have
been traded off for food. Much the same
state OF things exists at the Poplar Creek
Agency. 1t Is a common thing TO see
mothers Of Young girls going about after
ni2htiall Offering them to any one who
will furnish them with the means Of keep
ing themselves from starvation. Mr.. Snv-
der, the agent, IS doing everything in his
lbNGl It it44Eht tutI tlNlIeSS. NllL MS
supplies are so limited that he can do but
little.
Men who were strong and vigorous a
few months ago are so reduced by hunger
that they are scarcely able to walk. and
women and children are gaumt and hol-
low-eyed from starvation. One small
scoop of flour each week and a few pounds
of beef each mOutu are issued to each per-
son, and they are 50 hungry that they eat
it all in day or two. Several of them
have been found dead between their lodges
and the agency, being so reduced 10y hun
ger as to be unable to resist the recent
terribly cold weather. SuccOr should be
provided and speedily if they are to be
rescued from q terrible fate.
Three hundred tons Of hay cut for the
public animals at Fort BufOrd bv the
troops were burned by an incendiary on
the night of February >, leaving the post
almost entirely without hay. The deed
was prompted, no doubt, by a desire on
the part of some one to sell hay 10 the gov
prumauf at lior prfenc
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
PREsIDENTIAL POsrMAsTERs
The Act of 1888 Not to Reduce Their
Salaries Below Their Former Com
missions.

The Act of 1888 Not to Reduce Their
Salaries Below Their Former Com
missions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Attorney
General has rendered an opinion in regard
to the construction of the act of March 3,
1888, relative to the readjustment of post
masters salaries. He holds that in ali
cases in which it appears from the bien-
nial readjustment of salaries of postmas-
ters of the third, fourth or fifth class that
they received 10 per cent. or more less
than they would have received in commits
sions under the act of 1854, thev are
now entitled, under the act of March
3, 1888, to the difference between what
was paid them and what they
would have received as commissions
under the act of 1854. He also holds that
it was not the intention of Congress by
the acts of 1864 and 1866 to dispense with
biennial readjustment. 1t follows tnat
claimants under the act of March 3, 1888
must show that the acts subsequent to
1854 deprived him of 10 per cent. or more
OF what he would have received if those
statutes had not been enacted, and he had
been compensated on the basis of the act
of 1854. This opinion of the Attorney
General is in harmony with the cOnstruc.
ton given to these statutes by the de-
O1rfmQOt
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
SENATOR sAwYER's WEALTH
How PIucky Young Mau Got Rich in
Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin.
Senator Philetus Sawyer, the lumber
man, who helps to represent Wisconsin
in the United States Senate, says a Wash
ingtOn letter to the Philadelphia Record.
is worth just about $3.96O, 600. This is the
climax of story which that rolly-polly
Senator told the other day. II had gath
cred together S2,2O0," he said, ''at my
home in New York, when / was 80 wears
old, by the hardest sort of hard work The
tendency OF young men in 1S47, when |
reckoned up my capital and found that
had, as L have said. little more than
$4,000, was Westward. So | set out for
Wisconsin to make my fortune. l fig
ured pretty closely on the expenses
west, and came to the con-
clusion that 500 would just carry me
through. So put 81, 100 in gold in a belt
which wrapped around my body and put
the remaining 800 in my wallet. Count
ing the money in my wallet over again
just before | started l found however.
that had but 500 outside my belt. | did
not want to take off my belt again, so |
turned to my brother, then in better cir
cumstances than myself, and asked him
to loan me 81 to make up my travelling
fund. This he did very willingly. Outin
Wisconsin prOspered from the first, and
after awhile became rich. Not long ago
l met my brother in New York. He has
not succeeded as well as l, and lust at that
time he was very anxious to raise 81 200
in order to meet some pressing OBJ
legation. He spoke to me about it, and
gave him the money. Later l sent him an
other check for 5000. That puzzled him.
Don't you remember said, "a loan you
made me just before l left for the West IN
1917? No. he said, 4 DON'T well,
replied, you made me loan of 81, which
was just what 1 needed. Now. every
dollar of my original capital has brought
me in $1,SOO. L simply return you what
you loaned me, with its increase Il wish
L had loaned you few more dollars said
my brother" So you see that the rotund
Brer Tarrypin, of Wisconsin, is a four
millionaire. He uses his money wisely if
not well. He is always adding to it. But
he does give very good dinners.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
TIMELY WASHINGTON TOPICS
Hilarity and Mirth at the Blackburn
Serenade

Serenade.
The serenade in honor Of Senator-elect
Blackburn, says the New York Sl,,'s
Washington correspondent, was mon
ster of an affair, the crowd swelling from
where it started at the Riggs House until
when it reached the old National, it is
estimated that 5000 persons blocked
Pennsylvania avenue. This is one of the
historic hotels of the city. 1t was the
home of Henry Clay during much of his
public life, and he died in it. Alexander
II. Stephens and many other celebrities
have lived in the rambling old red brick
mouse. Mr. Blackburn, of course, could
receive congratulations nowhere else.
The Marine band begun with "Mv Old
Kentucky Home" about O'Clock in the
evening. and, with slight digressions to
Garry Me Back to Old Virginny,'' kept
II up assiduOusly until some time the next
morning.
Mr.. Blackburn, surrounded by Ken
tuckians in various stages of ecstatic de-
light, appeared on the balcony of the hO-
tel, and after listening to a cOngratula-
tory address, followed by a storm of hur-
rahs, eXclamatiOns like go it, joel"
''Here we are, old fellowl' - and similar
terms of familiar endearment, made his
speech.
Then ''My Old Kentucky Home" rOared
and surged above everything, the musi-
clans blowing and pounding with rare en-
ergy. Mr.. Blackburn's speech was not in
the least like Boston oratOrv. Itimpressed
the kentuckians something like the best
performances Of Mary Anderson and Fox
hall. The throng howled with delight
over it, and demanded ''My Old Kentucky
Home of the band for the fourteenth
time.
Then was read q letter from Mr.. Car
Isle. He had accepted some time before
an engagement to dine at Justice Fields
with the President and other distinguished
persons, in honor of Mr.. David Dudley
Fields birthday, and could not break his
engagement. A letter from John w.
Daniel, of Virginia, was next read. uuon
which the crowd demanded Garry Me
Back to Old Virginny' of the Marine
band, on peril of their lives. The band re-
sponded nobly. Next was supper, and
punch, and speeches. 1t was about 8
O'Clock before the town went to bed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
HONIEsICK SOLDIERS.
How Men Died During the War for Want
of a Sight of Home


of Sight of Home
A Washington letter to the Philadelphia
Record gives the following interview.
''Do you know that many soldiers died of
hOmesickness during the late warp said
an eX-Federal Colonel. eyes, sir: tbey
called it nOstalgia-that's the medical
term for homesickness. Men died appar-
emily without a cause-nOt from fright:
homesIckness was the cause in nine cases
out OF ten. / remember that at one time
l was in charge of depot at Louisville.
anywhere 10000 cOnvalescents were wait
ing Tor strength to go to the front. l no.
uced tnat many of them grew worse in
stead OF better. 1t puzzled the sur
geOnS. 1t was not due to a raIanso.
it was not the old disease at ali II
did not seem to be new disease. |
looked into 1t little and then / told the
surgeon that | thought it was nothing but
nostalgia. | had chance to prove that I
was right. One of these sick we'll men
came TO me the next day. Colonel he
said, i want leave of absence for a dav
or Two. want to go home and see my
foIks. l am pining away for a sight of
my old home. l believe | shall die if |
don't CO. On inqUiring / found that his
nome was right across in Indiana and
that he had an idea that he could see the
smoke rising from its chimney. He had
not been home for several years, and he
was fretting away in sight of that
smoke. L was not supposed to let
any Of my cOnValescents 90 any,
where except to the front, but | de-
termined to try an experiment with this
sallow, peaked-face young man. We'll,
SIT l said, how long will you be gomez
rms is friday he replied; Il will be
back on Monday NO. said; you can
stay until Friday of next week. 9AII
right he said, looking better already. On
the next Friday he returned a new man.
Pm all right again, Colonel he half
shouted when he saw me; pm ready to
go to the front at once. l went home.
saw my mother and father and my sisters
and brothers, had some good home food
and some good home sleep, and fought
an my battles over again down at the
village lst0re. That was all that |
wanted 1t was a fact. He had been
cured o. Nostalgia
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
WORK OF THE COMMITTEES.
What Bills They viii Report This Week
and The ProbabIe Action on Them

hat Ellis They VIII Report This Week
and the Probable Action on Them
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Representa
tive Dorsheimer, under the call of the
committees tomorrow for motions to sus-
pend the rules, intends to call up his
copyright bill for action.
EX-Speaker Keifer, of the Appropria-
tion Committee, will call up the military
academy bill Tuesday, and it is possible
that the House will continue cOnsidera-
ton Of the naval appropriation bill,
which is now pending, the following day.
The pleurO-pneumOnia bill, which is al
so pending in the committee of the whole.
1t is expected, will again be considered
this week.
The House viii probably observe Wash
ingtOn's birthday, and adjourn Thursday
until the following Monday.
The House COmmitteeOn Commerce eX.
pect to have prepared by the latter part
of the week a bill on the subject of the
regulation of Interstate commerce, and
it is probable that the bill to prevent eva.
siOns of the law prohibiting the impOrta-
ton of Chinese labOrers will be matured
this week by the Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
The unfinished business of the Senate
is the Mcpherson banking bill, cOnsidera-
tiOn Of which will probably occupy the
greater part of the legislative week.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
ELECTRIC LIGHT ON STEAM
CARS.
An Experiment Which Proves a suc


An Experiment Which Proves a Sue
cess.
After more than fOrtnighps working
without the slightest hitch of any kind.
says Nature, the experiment of the direct
electric lighting Of one of the District
Railway trains between KensingtOn and
Putney may, it is stated, be fairly looked
upon as distinct success. The fitting of
the Putney train is of rather hetefogen-
eOus character, being collection of plant
prOcurable without special manufacture
the whole consisting of launch boiler, a
small Williams three-cylinder steam en-
gine, running at 800 revolutions, and driv-
ing direct off its own shaft, Siemen's
shunt-wound dynamo supplying cur
rent for fifty Swan twenty candle power
incandescent lights. In addition there are
two water tanks and a oOal-box. the
whole being placed in separate van.
and this tentative arrangement has this
advantage-that by the removal of the
van 10 other lines more extended trials
can be made on longer trains. as in the
present case only thirty of the lamps are
employed for the actual service of the
train, the remaining twenty being kept
lighted IN the van itself. The effect on
the train is very brilliant, although the
arrangements are not what are ultimately
prOposed-namely, to place a small. high
speed engine and the dynamo on the ten
der and take steam from the locomotive
Itself, and so dispense with the attendant
now required in the sneciaI van
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
A BRAVE OLD SEA CAPTAIN.
Death of a Man Who Defied Pirate for
Days.

Death of Man Who Defied Pirate for
Days.
Henry King, one of the oldest sea Can
tains in the United States, says the New
York World, died on Thursday evening
at the residence of his son-in-law. DIR.
Middleton, in Camden, n. j., at the age
of ninety-four years. He went to sea on
a sailing vessel at the age of ten years.
and when twenty years old was made
master of the ship. He occupied that no.
sitiOn for more than half a century, and
in all that time lost but one vessel the
Mary Ann, of Philadelphia. That was
about twenty years ago, and although the
Captain was then over seventy years of
age he managed to save himself. while
several of his crew were drowned.
In 1921 when on voyage from Mobile
to Philadelphia he was taken prisoner bv
pirate, who wanted $4,000 in sDecie
that the Captain had on board, but the
latter took the precautiOn to conceal bis
treasure in barrels of pork, and although
the crew of the pirate submitted him to
the most agOnizlng tOrtures he refused to
reveal the hiding place and was at length
permitted to 20 on. A remarkable Doint
in his life is that for four generations there
was not a death of any of his relatives
until within the last two years. in which
time his wife and three grandchildren have
died
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-18
KING HuMBERT IN DANGER.

Assassins Attack a Train in which He
was Riding. but are Beaten OFF.
ROME, Feb. 1.-THE government has
received information from Civita Vecchia
that when train by which King Hum
bert was returning from a hunting trip
was between Montalto and Corneto four
men on the roadside fired at the carbiners
guarding the train. The latter fred six
shots at the assailants and wounded one
of them. He also seized and rendered
harmless bottle of gunpOwder, with
lighted fuse attached, which the mis-
creants had thrown aboard the train.
The men escaped