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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-13

Some Of the able Republican journals
are over jealous in defending the record
Of candidate Blaine. They dwell with
great emphasis on 'shis great pub
lie services" and they make the broadcast
assertions as to his moral and political
integrity, evidently hoping that their very
audacity will carry conviction without
making it necessary to exhibit the record.
In a recent editorial the st. Louis Globe
Democrat prints this gushing tribute to
James G. Blaine: "Sueh attempts as have
been made to belittle Mr.. Blaine's pOliti-
cal career have come signally short Of
their purpose. he is too well known 10
the country and has taken leading part
in too many stirring and vital events to
suffer any damage from the discussion OF
his course as a legislator and a statesman.
His friends can safely claim for him that
he has never cast a vote which he need
regret or excuse, and never made speech
for which he has any cause to ask an in
dulgent form of criticism. 1t has been his
rare good fortune to be consistently right
on all the great questions of the last thirty
years. The closest scrutiny cannot dis
close a weak or false spot in his record as
a frank, loyal and courageous supporter
Of those principles and policies which ex-
perience has shown to be the true stay
and hope of popular government. He has
always been the champion Of the wrOnged
and poor. and the advocate of such meas
ures only as have have tended to insure
Justice, promote progress and increase
the national prosperity and happiness.
The more the facts are examined in this
respect the better it is for him, as well as
for the party which he has served so long
ard faithfully
The Globe Democrat has not always
been such a defender of the character OF
the Republican nominee. Only a little
over three months ago, being just before
the Republican National Convention, 1t
took different view Of this man. Here
is what it then had to say editOrially about
him: ''Mr. Blaine is an unclean man,
and the people will not have him. He
stands sef-cOnvicted of prOstituting the
high offices he has held to build up
private fortune, of cOhabiting with cor
ruption for dishonest money. His record
would damn him."
This last opinion expressed the senti-
ments Of a large majority Of the leading
Republican papers. But after Mr.. Blaine
became the nominee Of their party by
the most notorious bribery and corrupt
combinations that were ever resorted TO
in a political convention, some of them
have returned to their wallow in the
mire," and accuse themselves incident
ally of having been liars and traducers.
A good many Of these papers refuse to
stoop to this depth even at the bidding Of
the party managers, and the evidence Is
overwhelming that the estimate Of Blaine
made by the Globe-DemOcrdt last May is
the correct one.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-13

A report went over the wires Saturday
night from here, says an indianapolis
special, that in answer to the following
question: eff the Chicago Convention had
placed your name at The head of the ticket
don't you think that you would have Gen
Buffers suppOrtr Gov. Hendricks had
replied:
81 know it Every warmly; know it.''
This appeared in the New York and
other Eastern papers. Your correspond
ent asked the Governor if it was true, and
he emphaticalIY denied it. A third party
who was present reports the conversation
as follows:
did you ever hear, Mr.. Hendricks,
that Gen. Butler would have supported
the Democratic party in the event of your
nomination?'
81 have been so informed" was the eX-
act language Of his reply, not with
warmth, but IN spirit Of doubt. What
purports to be the report was, perhaps,
not written for As hours after the CONVEX.
satiOn, and evidently Mr.. Hendricks did
not revise the notes.
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LORD ARERCRoNrBIE,s Valet.
His Attachment Against the Bogus
NObIeman's Property not Vacated.

His Attachment Against the Bogus
NObIeman's Property not Vacated.
Judge Brown, yesterday IN the City
Court, Chambers, says the New York
World of Sept. 9, denied the motion to
vacate an attachment which had been
procured against the property of Walter
Adams Mayhem, otherwise known as
''Lord Abercrombie," in a suit brought by
Charles Singer, his valet, to recover
salary. In May Singer was employed as
waiter at the Manhattan Beach Hotel,
and there met Lord Abercrombie,' -
who has recently figured so promi-
nently at Long Branch, Sheepshead
Bay and other places. The bogus
Lord employed him as valet at 800 per
month besides his board. Mr.. May
heW lived at the Manhattan Beach Hotel
from MAY 81 to June 26, and directed his
valet to call and address him as ''My
Lord" June 26 he was elected from the
hotel and then came to this city accom-
panied by Mr.. Singer. On July l the
"Lordn sent his valet to Harland's livery
stable, at Sheepshead Bay, to bring his
harness to the city, and when Singer re-
turned the lord" coulQN0pt be found.
He then brought suit in II sity Court to
recover his salary and oCSAned an at
tachment against the Lords" property
In asking to have the attachment vacated
the Lord" declared that he was engaged
in the mercantile business at No. 500
Broadway and that he had goods worth
$4,000. He said that he came here with
the intention Of making this city his per-
manent residence, and that he lives here
with his family.
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ANY ordinary efforts to colonize anti
Mormons in Utah would result in failure
to effect anything. The Mormons are
spending immense sums every year in
sustaining hundreds of missionary immi-
grant agents in different parts of the
world. On Wednesday, of this week, the
steamer Wyoming, from Liverpool, landed
500 Mormon converts in New York. There
is hardly State in the Union in which
their missionaries are not at work.
If an attempt were made to Overpower
the Mormons in Utah by sending voters
into the Territory, the Mormons could
very hopefully adopt the same tactics.
They could not only get several thousand
recruits every year, but IN case it should
be necessary, they could easily call in
several thousand old Mormons from the
adjoining States and Territories.
Our wisest statesmen may continue to
scratch their heads over the Mormon
question. 1t still lacks a great deal OF
being settled.
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MURDERED BY HIS WIFE.
How Attorney General johnson, of Lii
IBERIA, was Killed.

IBERIA, was Killed.
Henry W. johnson, c0lOred, the Attor-
ney General of Liberia, it has just been
learned by his son at Rochester, N. l.,
was murdered in Monrovia, Liberia, by
his wife on Feb. Is last. johnson was one
of the most prominent members of the
Government Cabinet of Liberia, and had
occupied his post as Attorney General
since 1868. He was born in Vermont,
March u, 1922, and later removed to Ca
nandaigua, in New York, where he became
widely known as a vigorous champion of
his race. He Travelled quite extensively
and lectured in behalf of the emancipa-
tion of the negroes. He was, moreover,
gifted in the way of OratOry and was a
stirring speaker. He studied law in Ca
nandaigua, and in 1866 went to Liberia in
the interest of the New Jersey Colonial
ton Society. Here his talents were quick
~ appreciated, and ten years later he
obtained a Cabinet appointment. His
wife. who accompanied him to Africa,
died, and he took a second, and
upon her death, third wife. The last,
Hester Simpson, was 80 years old, and
continual disagreements came between
the two. She Boosted that she married
him only for his money. Her unfaithful-
ness enraged the old man, and it was dur
ing a scene resulting from one of her es-
eapades that she attacked him, an almost
helpless cripple from paralysis, and in
ficted frightful injuries which resulted in
his death. The woman was tried at two
different terms of court, convicted, and
sentenced to life imprisonment. There
was great indignation against her, and it
was only by the most determined effort
of her lawyers that she escaped the gal
lows. Jehnson's two daughters by his
first wife live in Monrovia, Mrs. I. n.
Willin, wife of the Minister of the Inte-
rior of the Liberian Government, and
Mrs. II. W. Witherspoon, wife of promi-
nent resident of Monrovia. Their brother,
Henry NJ. johnson, of Rochester, will
go to Liberia to take charge of
the affairs of his father and to
look after his coffee plantation of 1,5O0
acres, valued at $4,000. Young John
son is very bright and well educated.
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PERSONAL.

JOHN MCCULLOUGH has returned from
Carlsbad and will begin his season at Mil
Waukee next week.
Ben: PERLEY PooRE, as the lifelong friend
of Henry b. Anthony, received by viii from
the late Senator the Charles sumner silver
pitcher and cup and $500 in money, making
Poore less poor than he was.
CLARK MILLS, much talked Of as a sculptor
and now dead, left a large estate. over which
his relatives are at law. Clark Mills, Jr., de-
clares that Mrs. Susan Il. Mills, VINO wants
the widows third, was not legally his fathers
wife.
GEN. T. ROMERO VARGAS, a Mexican Sena-
| tor, and also an officer in the army, informed
a st. Louis reporter the other day that the al
legged conspiracy against Gen. Dlaz was OF IN
| significant consequence, and the danger was
all over.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN is another one Of the
amendment dodgers. The old Carthagenian
was as mad as a wet hen because women ped
| died ballots at the polls. He was so stirred
| up that he refused to vote at all on the amend
| ment. He lodged after the sty lie Of candidate
| Blaine.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is said to have
| a greater number Of houses awaiting his oc-
| cupatlOn than any other American. lie has
ore in Fifth avenue and another IN Fort
Washington, and rooms at the Herald office.
| His Newport villa is always in readiness,
and he has also a fine establishment in Paris.
GEORGE MOORE. the author of "a Modern
| Lover" in a forthcoming novel leaves the
| world of fashion for the world theatrical. The
new story is said to be concerned with the
| fortunes of a travelling company Of actors and
| of a woman who throws in her lot with the
| leading member Of the company.
EDWARD J. GAY, who is to run as the Dem
| ocratic candidate for Congress in the Third
| Louisiana, with Mr.. Kellogg as his probable
| competitor, is the owner of 10 sugar plan
| tatiOns. He is a native of Liberty. Va, about
| "A years, and singularly crippled, both arms
| having been rendered useless by gunshot
| wound.
Miss GRACE P. ECRNIss, the young woman
| of Bergen Point, whom some utterly incOnsid-
crate burglar shot the other night, is recover
| ing and soon will be up and about. The fair
critic of the much abused press said to a jour
nalistic visitor on Tuesday: "Oh, the papers
| do make such an awful lot of little bit of a
| thing"
MRS. CHARLES J. FOLGER, who died eight
| years ago, like her husband was born at Nan
| tucket, and her maiden name was Susan
Worth. She was married to Judge Folger
when she was fresh from school and quite
young, was thoroughly domestic, never in
| unison with her husbands political ambitions
was endeared to hosts of friends, and though
changing her name to Folger, always retained
her worth
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w ANTED, by an energetic yonn,- -
w ploymeht Of some kind in the a ~ en-
from to 10 O'Clock; best OF reference enings
dress o., this office. H1es' Ad-
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zIarkrr'n Gomtr.
BuIWer LyttOn's Bridge,
Where it Touches the Shores and the
Great Columns Ia Midstream.

"What a beautiful bridge between old age
and childhood is religion. How intuitively
the child begins with prayer and worship on
entering life, and how intuitiyely, on quitting
life, the old man turns back to prayer and
worship, putting himself again side by side
with the infant" remarks Sir E. BulWer Lyt-
ton, in his 'Strange Story"
Yes, but between its distant abutments the
bridge of life has many high and awful arches,
through which the wild waters dash and roar
in wrath and desolation. Prayer and worship
alone do not sustain these. Natures solid
rocks must lie mistaken beneath, and human
art and skill must rear and soidify the struc-
ture overhead. Gods will is best exemplfied
In the laws He has made for the creatures
whom He has placed under their control
Neither the child's trustful '0ur Father"
nor the old mans Forget me not in the midst
of mine infTmities," will alter this by the
weight of a single grain.
Science and art first then faith and prayer
is the order of Heaven ITSELF Divinity heals
through its agents, and those agents are the
ments of prophets or seers. Is life burden
to you? Does time drag? Is your power to
cope with life's problem and duties weakened?
You are not well. Your blood is sluggish and
tainted, perhapS; or some important Orga is
torpid or overwOrked. This fact may have
taken the form of dyspepsia, rheumatism,
govt malaria, pains in the stomach, chronic
headache, or any of a dozen other ills. PAR
X ER'S TONIC will invigorate you, as fresh
air invigOrates those who have been shut M
IN damp. fetid cells. 1t is powerful, pure de-
licious, scientific. safe-the keystone of the
central arch Of the bridge of life.
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NJ ANTED. by young man. who - - -,
w rous Of gaining a knowledge ~ uesi.
BUSINESS and who is familiar with Cotton O me
pentlne and produce ciphers, posif'o ~ = llr-
evening after : o'clock; writes go S1on ~ The
and rapid hand; best of References plain
Address AMBITION. News OfIiee given.
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Che sguruing STEMS.

wHTTAKER STREET. SAVANNAH, GA.
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BIaine's Friends Disappointed Because
He nodQed the Issue.


He Dodged the Issue.
It was not until late on the night of
Aug. 9, says a Washington special to the
New York Times, that word was received
here that Mr.. Blaine had lodged the pro-
hibition question when he went to the
polls Monday, and it was not until the
report was confirmed that his warmest
friends believed it. ''That is not Ike
Blaine" said one of mis- most ardent ad-
herents, when the dispatch came last
night, sfand don't believe it. be is not
the man to dodge such matter after the
pledges he has made to the Prohlbltlon-
ists.'' Mr.. Blaine's failure to vote Tor the
prohibition amendment in Maine, ana MS
speech declaring prohibition to be locaI
issue. are more talked about in pontlcal
circles than the result of the election.
The latter was expected, but the lodging
was a surprise, Conversation with poll
ticians shows the general opinion 10
be that Mr.. Blaine's action was
the result of a deliberate calculation
as to whether he had better displease the
Prohibitionists or the Germans OF ONO,
Wisconsin and other states OF the west
That be believed it safer to offend the FRO
hibitiOnists than the Western Germans
and the liquor men everywhere nobody
here doubts. 1t is known that the Blame
managers have been seriously troubled
about the condition of things in the West,
particularly in Ohio, and that much more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have come to them
from that section than they have been
willing to admit. The Prohibitionists are
not considered by the Republicans as so
numerous or so dangerous as the Germans,
and it is argued that Blaine might better
break faith with the temperance people,
after having secured their help IN carry
ing Maine. than add to the discomfort of
the Germans by voting for prohibition.
That Mr.. Blaine's course will have the
effect of bringing the Germans into line is
doubted by all but the most feryent OF his
partisans, while everybody here believes
that it places an effectual block in the
way of any Republican proselytism among
the temperance voters.
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whom you saw commit the ASSAULT" Con-
stabIe-s.Shure. yer Honor. he was small,
Insignificant crathur-about yer own sizes
yer Honorw
BUTLEB-''Do you print election ticketsf"
Printer-sYes, sir: we turn them out by the
Million" Butler-"Goodl 1 want two"
Printer 1.-Two million2" Butler-''Two
tickets; one for me and one for Dana.
PHILADELPHIA can.
Mr.. SMITH ito Mrs. Parvenu, who has been
telling him about her new house,: Il sup
pose you will have dumb walters IN the
houses" Mrs Pho, shan't. had Gear
cook in the house once and vowed then new
er to have another crippled servant. "-Lge'
THEY had been quarrehng about his next
summers clothes. She wanted MN 10 ha.e
his light suit cleaned up for 1855, and ne want
ed a heavier suit. whats the use OF nghtlng
abont this?' he said finally. Il may be IN the
cemetery next summer" Il think" she re-
piled, ''you will need your summer clothes
wherever you may be. "-Grdphfc.
LANDLADY.-"Oh, Mrs. Smart. I want to
tell YOU about my new bOarder! He's the life
of the table; and he's got such taste, too !.
lie draws beautiful little notices sand deco
rates things with them. Let me see. what
was that he put on the butter plate? Oh, yes
-tNOblesse ObligeY-French or German or
something or other. You don't know now
pretty it lOOkedn'-BOStOR TrdnscriDt.
THE excessive heat in Paris has destroyed
ali ideas of decorum even among the mem
day an advocate presented himself at the
court house in a black cravat and white pan
falcons. But the dignity of the court was
equal to the occasion. ''Sir,' severely SAID the
President, "the court invites you to put your
trousers round your neck and your craYat on
your legs"
A HEADsToNE at Portland, Ore, Is adorned
with the following epitaph:
Beneath this stone our baby lies,
1t neither cries nor hollers.
1t lived but one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars"
AND now the maid with seal skin sacque
Doth view the clouds and smile.
She knows the days will soon come bacque
When she can sling on style.
st. Paul Herald.
"wHY this sadness, Henry?" she asked
across the cosy tea table the other evening.
Nellie, prepare yourself to hear bad news; I,
"W-what is it?" Il" "Oh, Henry y
81 have failedm NO" eyes, indeed
For how much?" "For S5O,OOO." "Oh! I'm
so glad. glad, glad! am, of course, a pre-
ferred creditor for at least $4,000 of it, and
now Wen have home of our own, and wei
furnish it in the cosiest manner, and ma shau
come and live with us, and-and-oh! what a
dear good husband you are!-WaH Street
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BRIGHT BITS.

NEVER startle the girl who Is in love. It's
dangerous to brighten people who have atfec-
lions of the Naturalization Star.
s'WHAT spectacle" exclaimed Vermont
man. as he saw a lot Of Boston schoolmaams
together.-Bur1ia0tO Free Press.
DIR. HAMMOND declares that mutton eating
,stas one heaIthfuI and beautiful. The dogs
OF Georgia ought to look well.-Ne'0 Orleans
PicdyHRe.
WIEN an officer is dismissed from the army
he il said to be cashlered. When cashier Is
dismissed from bank he is generally onlcered'
Same thing, only different.
JUDeE-swhat sort Of man, now, was il
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JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY.
What the Editor and Poet Thinks o
the Situation.


John Boyle O'Reilly, editor and poet,
and Sigourney Butler, of Boston, who are
doing the susquehanna in canoes, says a
Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special of Sept. to
the New York Sun, arrived in this city
this morning. In talk with Mr.. O'Reilly
he expressed his belief in tie election of
Cleveland. When the question, Show
about ButlerT' was put to him, he said:
II like Butler. ] admire him for the
vigor of his originality. He would be
safer at the top than in climbing. 1t
would be worth the peoples while, think,
to try the experiment Of making him
President, but of course he cannot be
elected running as an Independent candi-
date. HIS vote in Massachusetts will be
very much smaller than is looked for, and
throughout the country it will be insig-
nifcantI
When asked if there would be much
lrish-American detection to Blaine, he
said:
II do not think so. Blaine represents
the opposite of an IrIshman's aspirations.
His conduct with reference to the sus-
poets was all-sufficient evidence that he
has very little respect for the Irish or the
Irish cause, and the Madigan circular,
with which / am convinced he was imme-
diately connected, is still further testi'
mOny in the same direction"
The canoeists are en- route to Havre de
Grace.
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INDEPENDENTS AT WORK.
Cheering News from the Republica
Masses-A Busy Committee.

Cheering News from the Republican
Masses-A Busy Committee.
Although most of the members of the
independent National Committee are
cooling themselves out of town, says the
New York Herald, the work goes steadily
forward at their headquarters in Nassau
street, and thousands of telling circulars
are being distributed among the country
Republicans, who, in ordinary circum-
stances, would 20 unenhghtened regard
ing the Republican objections to James
g. Blaine. Thousands of farmers take no
reading matter at all, and other thousands
read nothing but the little country week
lies, which carefully refrain from publish
ing ANYTHING adverse to the candidates.
To root out these people and supply them
with live information is a big task, but
the committee is gradually accomplishing
it, with results that are highly satisfac-
tory. Already they have the names of
over 10000 correspondents on their books
in New York State alone, many of whom
act as distributing agents for scores Of
voters, and encouraging words come
from all directions.
Mr.. Deming. who takes an active inter-
est in the work of the committee, was in
Boston yesterday comforting with the Mas
sachusetts committee and Mr.. K. H. BaW-
ker was in charge of the committee rooms.
A dozen clerks were busy mailing circu-
lars and letters. Four circulars are sent
out to each person whose name and adj
dress come to the cOmmittee-the address
adopted by the Independent conference,
the speech of the President, Mr.. Charles
r. Goldman; Carl Schurz's great Brooklyn
speech in German and English and a
statement concerning Mr.. Blaine's Little
Rock and Fort Smith shame. Some cir
culars pertaining to Mr.. Blaine's rela-
tions toward the Hooking Valley starving
miners and the relations of Blaine's
papers toward their printers are now in
press.
The Independent committee has picked
up the following straws from the can
Yass
A vote has been taken in the Stock Ex-
change from 100 Republican members.
Fifteen of them were for Blaine and IS
against him. Three-fourths of the latter
are for Cleveland straight out.
A Cleveland Hendricks Independent
Club has been formed in Mount Vernon,
and % per cent. Of all the Republican
voters in that village have enrolled their
names as members.
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What a Heavenly seraph" Confessed,


One of the Knickerbocker girls whom ]
met and liked is to be a bride in October
She is a philOsOphic little thing. no.
ticed that her to-be-husband was being
slowly, gently, but none the less surely,
let down from the heights of shadowy
sentiment to the sOlidities of human ac-
tuality. Do you follow me? Let me illus
trate my meaning. She waltzed one night
with the infatuated fellow, and on seating
her at my side, he whispered rapturously,
II really think you have wings on your
heels, you danced so lightly" 'ENot a
wing" she replied. 'SThe fact is, that l
had No. 2 shoes on No. 3 feet, and felt as
though / were stumping round on my
ankles. But just now my pet corn stings
through the numbness." "Ahw sighed
the persistently romantic chap, ''then the
wings extended inYisiblY from your Shout
ders, dear girl" "WeIl, it's safe to bet,"
the heavenly seraph responded, ''that if
any wings are attached to me they are
somewhere outside of my corset, for there
isn't room for half breath inside"
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w ANTED.-An elderly German -
w wishes situation in a German tfelnale
as general house servant. Inquire am ~ Y
West Broad street. at s6
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. ia.
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