Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-12

lnIul6tefcN. IS very tACtltcHt piC'1.i'-'N
Of hydrophobia.
The exciting rumor was sent out from
Baltimore that Theresa Sturlata has gone
to New York to prepare herself TO he an
opera singer Probably she could make
more money in the museum.
A bill has been introduced in the Massa-
chusetts legislature to purchase some
1000 patent ballot-box to be used IN all
state elections. 1t l. supposed the maker
mas agreed to warrant them TO keep the
Republicans inpower
The Republicans are already preparing
for the fight this fall in Indiana. They
will probably consider silver dollars
legal tender for votes, but it is hard to tell
how they viii do without Dorsey to put
them where they viii count.
Civil Service reform advocates will be
glad ID know that Senator Pendleton, Of
Ohio. does not step down and ont until
the ith of March, 1850. The country
couldn't afford to lose the services of
such man all of "a sudden.
some of the most interested parties in
the extra session of the Texas Legisla-
ture are the makers of wire-nippers. If
an effective plan IS adopted to stop tine
fence war, the demand for these lnstru-
ments viii be greatly reduced.
Tt is alleged that to Hon. Il. B. Payne
belongs the honor of introducing the oil
barrel in politics. The ease with which
he slipped into Pendleton's Senatorial
shoes raises a suspicion that the path to
the coveted honor was pretty well oiled.
There are said to be over a quarter of
million names now on the rolls OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic, aud 1t Is
expected soon to reach three hundred
thousand. a good many subordinate en-
campments are being formed in the South.
George washington. alias John Demo-
biga, the lunatic who was confined IN the
Cleveland Infrmary some weeks ago for
ANNOYING Miss Molly Garfield with offers
of marriage. has escaped. 1t is to he
hoped he viii not resume his attentions.
In Balttmore Wednesday, a respectable
looking nan hailing from South Carolina,
betrayed every indication of being lun-
attic. He stated that he was pursued
everywhere he went by enemies, and
acted so strangely that he was elected
from one Of The hotels.
The New York Sun says that Hon. Ros-
well p. Flower isa flower that fades not.
There are thirty Lemocratic newspapers
i'm New York state booming him for the
Presidency. Let the san take him up
and he will fade as candidate as rapidly
as Holman faded.
The colored man and brother has at
last been recognized in ohio. Samuel
lewis. of Cincinnati, IS The dark horse
that has lust received the appointment as
Engrossing Clerk of the Lamccratic
House of REPRESENTATIVES in that State.
Can it be that the standard Company ailed
tho track ,,1, ,,-l.il-I-l -----
a Republican paper says: WANTED,
something that will kick Samuel J. Ran
dali out of the Democratic party without
leaving too big a hole" As Randall is
the leader of a Democratic committee
that will look well after the hole the Re-
publican officials want to make in the
Treasury, the notice seems to advertise
very natural want.
While Boston was holding grand ban
u
the sixty-eighth anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans. the latter city took no
notice of the day other than the closing of
the banks, because it was legal holiday.
The people Of that city are probably too
busy talking about the Cotton Exposition
to think about a little skirmlsh that took
place on the outskirts Of the town so long
ago as 1915.
Every American citizen is an elector,
but few of them get any great honors on
that account when travelling abroad.
They can see how much they have lost by
ignorance when they read that the editor
of London Truth, while recently travelling
in Germany, registered his name as
"Henrv Labouchere, elector, of Mid
dlesex," and he was treated with the
honors due a prince. An electOr is a 4
grand dignitary in Germany.
A hostile critic, speaking of Henry B. |
PAYNE. who lately secured the CAUCUS |
nomination for Senator over Senator PEN |
dleton. saws: He will be 70 years old |
when he takes his seat. He was bern in |
New York and has lived in Cleveland /
since 1884. He was a member of the Flee |
toraI Commission. In Washington he is |
looked upon as an amiable man whose /
mental vigOr is largely exhausted, but |
whose wealth is inexhaustible."
The reliable Washington correspondent |
of the Augusta Chronicle and C0nStitu- /
tjoDaIisf saws that Senator Butler, of I
south Carolina, who was at his home in 4
Edgefeld during the late cold weather,
reported. on his return to Washington,
that s'everv goat in Edgefeld had his
horns frozen of" The weather was
pretty cold in this city, but it was evil
IDENTIFY much colder in Edgeield. We
take it that the goats survived.
The rumor has begun to gain ground
that Col. Fred. Dent Grant is billed to
sueeeed Hon. William Walter Phelps as
Congressman from the MOrristewn. New
Jersey. district. The latter gentleman is
said to be determined to retire at the end
of his present term, and will bequeath
the Mace to Col. Grant, hoping thereby
to obtain the Grant influence in behalf Of
his own aspirations, which are aimed at
no lesser mark than the Presidency.
A Boston juvenile paper has been sue
eassfully prosecuted for illegal use Of the
mails in sending out circulars announc-
ing gift distribution scheme for new
subscribers. The proprietors claimed that
they strictly followed the plan of the
National Republican, which paper belongs
to Assistant Postmaster General HattOn. ]
The plea was unavailing, as the doctrine
that swhat is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander'' was net considered appn-
cable in their case.