Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-24


bride.
Ingerson is going to Galveston soon to
lecture. If he fails to ind h GREATER
in Texas. he will be more confirmed than
ever in his unbelief.
Notwithstanding the dreadful suspense
that exists all over the country, the great
New York dauies fail to announce whether
Or not Mrs. Langtry has ever found her
doggie.
New York has sent a large delegation
ofgamblers and confidence men 10 Florida
for the season. and il VIII stand the
Floridians well in hand u keep sharp
lookout for them.
Texas is not to be outdone by Kentucky
or any other state. 1t has its ''own poet
actress" in the person Of Miss Florence
Gerald. who is making her first tour of
the Lone star cities.
THE country schools are not 80 good as
they were thirty years ago" says Gov.
Waller. OF Connecticut. The birch for
ests of that state have been almost de-
stroyed by the nutmeg factories.
The state Of Texas is not without icon
oclasts. 1t is charged that big Foot
Wallace who recently died alone in his
cabin in Atascosa county, was the origl-
natOr Of the fence cutting mania.
The Onondaga Indians in New York
annually perform the ceremony Of burn
ing the white dog. Every white commu-
nifty ought to devote one day in the year
to tne destruction Of the yellow cur.
The retrogression OF some OF the West
ern Indians is becoming alarming. Old
Crow, prominent Sioux Chief, has sub
scribed for a Montana newspaper. Con
gress should investigate this matter.
party of Philadelphia Shylocks are
sueing the township Of Halle for $4,000
worth Of bonds and nearly one thousand
witnesses have been summoned in the
case. The suit will evidently cost more
than 10 Will come to.
Progress is the word in Washington.
Justice Gray. Of the United States SUI
preme Court is organizing series Of
small judicial dinner parties. 1t IS not
proposed, however, TO extend the invita-
lions to ordinary Justices of the Peace.
The New York Herald says that m.
Grevy, President Of the Republic Of
France, lacks the foibles necessary to
make a great man." and the French
punsters pronounce his name Gravy, but
despite both these drawbacks he survives.
Miss Annie Higbee, of FJatbush, L. l.,
who might. could, would or should have
been Mrs. Walter Vaughan, is getting
pretty well advertised. Probably she in
tends to compete for a situation in dime
museum or 90 on the stage and become
rival of Emma Abbott
In homicidal progress the Northern
States seem TO be leaving the Southwest
far behind In Allegheny county, Penn
sylyauia. alone there have been one
hundred murder cases during the past
six years. And yet some Of the Pennsyl-
vania newspapers are the most bitter in
their denunciations of lawIessness in the
South.
A Texas contemporary appears to be
somewhat alarmed at the probability that
the penalty for fence cutting will not be
fixed by the Legislature at over five years
in the penitentiary. 1t should remember
that the old saw, catching before hang
ing" is Of higher dignity in practice than
any statute Of the Lone Star or any other
State.
The preservation of the Adirondack for
est continues to be a leading topic of dis
cussi0n in New York State. The cOntin-
uation of the water supply Of a large scope
Of country is thought to be threatened by
the destruction Of timber in the AdirOn-
dack region by the woOdcutters and lum-
bermen. The details of the question as to
the preservation OF this forest are almost
as complicated as the fence cutting
problem in Texas.
The New York Herald is publishing
series Of interviews with leading manu-
facturers i'm Pittsburg and other places,
which show that scores of them are hay-
ing their eyes opened to the evils Of the
high protective tariff, which almost en-
tirely confines the trade of the United
States 10 its own territory. 1t is predicted
that many years will not elapse before the
strongest advocates of tariff reform.
The true reason Of the decline Of the
silk industry in England is said to be be-
cause the silk which is grown or pro-
duced in the raw state elsewhere can not
be successfully manufactured in England
so as to compete with the silk-prOducing
countries Il is said that England will
eventually lose her cotton trade, as she
has her silk trade, and for the same rea-
sons. The manufacture of cotton goods
is bound 10 be concentrated, at no very
distant day. in the cOtton-producing
countries.
The New Orleans Ilmes-Democrat is adj
yocating the establishment of an iron ship
building ward at Mobile, and asserts that
pig iron can be manufactured in Alabama
some SC per ton cheaper than in any other
State i'm the Union. Alabama appears to
have unsurpassed advantages Tor the eco
uOmicaI manufacture of iron, but she can
never get the capital to properly develop
her resources, while she is handicapped
by the monopolists Of the East, who are
under the protection of the present exor-
bitant tariff.
The Flatbush, L. l., mock marriage case
comes before the country again, this time
in the shape Of suit by Miss Higbee, who
still claims to be Mrs. Vaughan, for di-
voree from hammock and table," for the
legal term. sfrOm bed and board" can
hardly apply in this case. 1t is stated
that the pert little wOuld-be grass-widOw
is not at all heart-brokeR by the events of
the last few months, but still goes into
society. and is often seen skating in Pros
pect Park. Young Vaughan is deter
mined to fight the case to the end, and is
especially against paying any alimony or
counsel fees to the fair libellant.
The efforts TO establish disabled Con-
federate Soldiers Home at Richmond, Va,
are attracting much attention. 1t APP
pears now that the State will probably
lend its aid to the cause, and bill has
been introduced into the Legislature to
that effect. After the lapse Of nearly
twenty years, only a comparatively small |
number Of needy Confederate veterans sur |
give. but home should be established for
Them in every Southern State. The Federal |
Government properly provides for the sup
oort of its disabled veterans, and the day /
has at last come when the following Of
snch a humane example viii not be con-
sidered an evidence Of disioyalty en- the
part Of the South. /