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YACHTS.
The Rage for the Acquisition of Them.

The Rage for the Acquisition of Them.
The tendency toward luxury in the up
per ten thousand is notably exemplified,
says a New York letter, in the rage for the
acquisition Of yachts. Ten years ago the
mania for sailing in ones own craft was
confined largely to business men of sport
ing prOclivities; now the yacht has be-
come as much part of the household fur
niture as the family carriage. When the
AstOrs and Goelets followed Mr.. Tilden
and Jay Gould in the sailor business
everybody said that yachting was the
proper thing for ''Ieading American
families" The new AstOr Yacht
Nourmahal is a model of safety COM
bined with swiftness, and her appoint
ments, when completed, are calculated to
breed enyious feelings among the "effete
and pampered" aristocracy Of Europe
Mr., Tilden has not been able 10 take a
trip in his yacht as yet this summer, but
proposes to take a cOastwise voyage to
Nahant the last of this month--if his
physicians will allow him to do so The
old gentleman is decidedly intirm, and
devotes what strength he has to business
rather than politics. Everything turns to
gold under his hands, and his friends are
not little anxious to know what he plO-
noses to do with the $4,000, 900 or $50, GOO
600 which he has accumulated during his
eoxautx wars of bachelor life
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LIGHT AT wICoMIco RIVER. MD.


Washington, Aug 9-The Lighthouse Board
gives notice that on and after Aug IS, 1884 a
fixed white light of the 5th order will be
shown from the lighthouse recently erected at
the end OF Great Shoals Monte Bay, to mark
the entrance to Swash Channel entrance to
NlcomlcO River, Maryland. The apparatus
lights the entire horizon, and the focal plane
Is 80 feet above mean sea level. The light
should be seen, in clear weather, from the
deck Of = vessel Is feet above the sea, H.
nautical miles. The structure is a square
frame building painted white, situated on five
screw piles and surmOunted by red lantern,
roof and piles brown.
The approximate position of the lighthouse.
as taken from the charts of the Coast and
GeodetIc Survey. is as follows: Lat 80 u (42)
y, Ion IS 81 (53) W.
Magnetic bearings and distances from
prominent objects are as follows: Clay Island
lighthouse. ESE = L. AS nautical miles:
Long Point. NNE a f, $ nautical mile: Win
gate Point. SW "a w, IA nautical miles.
A fog bell, struck by machinery. will be
sounded, giving one blow at intervals Of Is
seconds, during thick and foggy weather.
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Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail-
way, Aug ll-s9 bales cotton, Is cars lumber,
l3 cars wood, ! car cattle, ! car flour. L4l4
bbls rosln, 3l9 bbs spirits turDentine, 6 bbls
onions. 10 bales hides, 4 bales wool, and mdse
Per Central Railroad. Aug liz bales cot
ton. Il bbls rOsin, bbls spirits turpentine. 900
sacks corn, 1874 watermelons, pa pkgs fruit
200 bbls grits, 1870 kegs beer, I35 bbls iour, 100
bbls lime, % boxes tobacco. 81 pkgs furniture.
40 bbls bacon, 43 cases liquors, "a bales hemp,
3 bales rags, 20 hf bbls beer, q bbls whisky, 10
sacks oats, u cases hardware. 10 cases shoes,
rolls leather. L tierces hams, b Is apples 5
stoves, casks bottles, bales hides, 3 bales
plaids, bdls rods, bars iron, , cases empty
cans, casks bottles, box machinery, piano,
l glass sign, box sausage, ! box wax, l box
vans, lot goods, l engine and fixtures, 10
cars lumber, cars iron, l car machinery.
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ALBANY EXPRESS

GAINESVILLE.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Savannah to
Jacksonville.
Passengers for Brunswick via Jesup take
this train, arriving at Brunswick at GAS A. N ,
Passengers for Macon take this train. ar
irving at Macon at 1900 a. m.
Passengers for FernGndina, Waldo, Gaines
vile, Palatka, Cedar Key, Ocala, Wildwood.
Leesburg and all stations on Florida Railway
ana Navigation Company and Florida South
ern Railway take this train.
Passengers for Madison, Monticello Talta-
hassee and all Middle Florida points take
this train.
Connection at jacksonville d ally Sun.
days excepted) for Green Cove Springs, st.
Augustine, Palatka, Enterprise, Sanford and
all landings on st. Johns River.
Connecting a. Albany daily with pas
eenger trains both ways On Southwestern
Railroad 70 and from Macon, Eufaula, Mont
gomery, Mobile, New Orleans, etc.
Connection 1T Savannah daily with Charles
ton and Savannah Railway for all points
North and East.
Connecting at Savannah daily with Centrat
Railroad for points W est and Northwest
through tickets sold and sleeping car berth
accommodations secured at Bren's Ticket
once No. Y Bull street, and at the Compa-
ny's Depot, foot of Liberty street.
A restaurant has been opened in the sta
ton at Waycross, anG abundant time will be-
allowed for meals by ali passenger trains.
JAS. l.. TAYLOR,
Gen' Pass. Agent.
Il. q. FLEMING, superintendent.
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NAVAL STORMS.

tine. 24s Cd.
LONDON, Aug. II, 400 D. m.-Spirits tur-
pentine easy; spot, 23s Cd; August and Sep
tember delivery, 23s cd: September to Decem-
Der, 24s; January 10 April, 25s.
NEW YORK. Aug. IL, nOOn.-Spirits turpen-
tine dull at 3ld3l15c. Resin dull at 81 20 al 25.
500 D. m.-Spirits turpentine steady, slG
3lJSc. Resin steady az 81 2OGl ..
CHARLESTON. Aug. ll.-SpiriIs turpentine
dull: 2Sc bid. Rosin quiet; strained and good
strained, 81 025z.
WILMINGTON. Aug. ll.-Splrlts tnrpentine
firm at 2s1zc. Rosin dull; strained s'1sci gooo
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GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.D.C,

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT SCHOOLS
open Sept. II, 1884. Terms. $500 per annum.
Apply TO PRESIDENT OF GEORGETOWN
COLLEGE, d. G.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, lectures open
Sept. p, 1884. Terms, $500 per annum. Ap-
ply TO j. w. II, LOVEJOY, NJ. D., Dean,
800 18th street n. W., Washington, d, G.
LAW DEPARTMENT, lectures open Oct.
!, 1854. Terms. $50 per annum. Apply to S.
NJ. 1EATMAN, cor. 9th and streets, n ,
W., Washington, ID. &.
JAMES a. DOONAN. 81. PRESIDENT
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Augusta Female Seminary,
sTAUNTON, VA.
Miss MARY ]. BALDWIN. PRINCIPAL.

Opens September J, closes june, 1856.
UNSURPASSED in its location, in its
u buildings and grounds, in its general APP
pointn ents and sanitary arrangen ents. It's
full corps OF superior and experienced teach
ers, its unrivaled advantages in Music, Mod
ern Languages, Elocution, Fine Arts, Physi-
cal Culture, and instruction in the Theory
and Practice of Bookkeeping. The successful
happiness. Its opposition to extravaganza; :
its standard of solid scholarship. For full
particulars apply to the Principal for cata-
lOgues.
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RURNETT,s COCAINE.

Promotes the Growth of the Hair,
And renders it dark and glossy. 1t holds,
in liquid form, large proportion of de
Odorized CoCOANUT OIL, prepared eX-
pressly for this purpose. No other COM
pound possesses the peculiar properties
which so exactly suit the various condi-
tons Of the human hair,
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GOurationaI.
Georgia Military Academy,
SAVANNAH, GA.
GnuratinnnI.

INCORPORATED and governed by Board
4 OF trustees. A full and able corps of Pro-
lessons. Location unsurpassed for beauty
and healthfulness. Discipline equal to that of
the best schools of the country. a separate
Preparatory Department.
The fall session begins Oct. 8.
Catalogues can be procured at the News
Office, city, or of
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Merchants and Miners Transports.
ton Company.
FOR BALTIMORE.

CABIN PASSAGE. .sI5 90
SEGOAD CABIN. IL %
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frrE.-TGe market continues steady and
rrea- remain unchanged. There was only a
Moderate demand. The sales for the day
were 81 barrels. Appended are the official
rra-4tI0us Of the Board of Trade:
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1t Is Terrible

To have a wife or husband with a bad
breath. This may be avoided by using
SozodNnt. 1t is agreeable to the taste,
fragrant and healthful. 1t confers COM
fort onus users, and prevents the aff1ic-
ton Of Unpleasant breath.
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ST. JOHNS COLLEGE,
FORDHAM. n. Y.

~
FINDER the direction of Jesuit Fathers.
= affords every facility for the best CLASH
cal, scientific and commercial education
Terms, board and tuition per year. $500. Stu
dles VIII be resumed Sept. 3, 1884. For further
particulars apply to
REV. 7. +. DEAL.Y. s. i President
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Gurprntiite Goods.

WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
DLANTS. BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT
orders at Davis Bros. corner Bull and York
streets. Telephone call 40.
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FrrASrIaL.-The money market Is tight
ami loans are hard to obtain on the best cOlIat-
rr.L Domestic ENcnauEe-BIuks and bankers
are YG.u- sight drafts at per cent. pre-
MUM. amt selling at per cent. pre-
MUM. sterling EXChauge-Afarket nOmi-
III. and scarce, sixty day bills, COM
ua-s.ll. s. ,1g4 81; ninety days, prime, 81 $50
lrss. French franks. s. 243s; Swiss franks,
nominal.
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lch are sgl1s per cent. higher.
were oi,o00 shares, the market
ne iouOWlug quotations:
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strained, 81 O215. Tar duh at 81 90. Crude tur-
y Hnsle 81 StSsaay; hard, 81 OO yellow dip and
RTCE.
ssSSt1 H1LhsfON, Aug. ll.-Nothing doing; fair,
'1sS%Szac; good, SIC: prime. 53z0G6c.
so NV ORLEANS, Aug. I1.-Market firm I:
NEW YORK, Aug. Ii.-Market ouiet and
s sffeeady lair, 5ssgSSzc; good, 53zG6c; prime
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RatIrnaDH.
Charleston & Savannah RV. Co,

SAVANNAH, GA, July 10, 1884.
ON and after SUNDAY, July 13 the fol-
" lowing schedule Will be in effect IAN
trains of this road are run by Central 1907
Meridian time, which is 56 minutes slower
than Savannah timel:
Trains 43 and AZ wait indefinitely at sa-
vannah for connection with S., +. & w. R'y.
Xo1sfhar0Ss6
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Georgia Military Academy
SAVANNAH.

MAJ.B. BURGESS. Superintendent.
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NOTICE TO AfARINERs

Washington, Aug 9-The Lighthouse Board
has given orders for the building OF pier and
| IRON tower at SaybrOOk Breakwater at the
/ mouth OF Connecticut River.
The Board is informed that the electric
| light apparatus intended for the He'll Gate
| lighthouse has been shipped from Cleveland.
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Central & Southwestern R. Rs.

AL trains OF thissystem are run by Standard
l9o) Meridian time, which is Sc minutes slower
than time kept by City.l
SAVANNAH, GA, Aug. 0, 1884
ON and after SUNDAY. Aug. 10, 1884. pas
~ senger trains on The Central and South
western Railroads and branches viii run as
follows: -
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.

FOCLTRY.-M2rket fully stocked: demand
poor. EGGs-The market Is IN fun supply; de-
maul fair. BCTTER-GOOd demand; not much
coming IN. PEAEUTs-Ample stock; demand
usll. SYRUP-GeOrg1a ana Florida in mod
crate supply, and Ia lair demand. SUGAR
georgia and Florida quiet; very little being
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CRAFTSMANSHIP COMPANY
FOR
new YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.
no Now YORK,

TO NEW YORK.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. E. II. DAaGErT,
SUNDAY, Aug. 10. at 500 A. NJ.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. F. KEMPToN, TUES
DAY, Aug. u, at 1880 A. N.
TALLAHASSEE, Captain w. H. FIsHEF,
FRIDAY, Aug. Is, at 1880 Pm.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. K. S. NIcKER-
SON, SUNDAY, Aug. II, at 500 P. M.
OHATTAHOOCHEE,Cap Capt. E.H.DAGaETr,
TUESDAY, Aug. 10, at 100 P. NJ.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. f. KEMPToN, FRI
DAY, Aug. p, at 500 AN.
TO PHILADELPE1TA.
These steamers do not carry passengers
JUNIATA. Capt. H. C. DAGaETT, sATUR-
DAY, Aug. 9, at 80 A. N.
DESSOUG, Capt. f. SMITH, SATURDAY,
Aug. l6, at 1900 Pm.
Through bills OF lading given to Eastern and
Northwestern points and to ports of the United
Kingdom and the Continent.
For freight or passage apply to
G. NJ. SORREL, Agent,
City Exchange Building.
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stois only at ,Jesup ard Blacfshear. BetEgesn
Waycross ana Jacksonville stops only at EfSlk-
Chattahoochee etops only at Dupont. yal-
dosta, Quitman, Th0masvile and an regular
stations between Townsville and Chstts-
hoochee.
Passengers for Brunswick take this train
arriving at Brunswick via b. < ". R'yl az
/ Pm. =
Passengers for Fernandina take this train.
Close connection at Jacksonville daily fSun.
day excepted) for Green Cove Springs. al.
Augustine, Palatka, Enterprise, Sanford ard
all landings on st. Johns river.
Passengers for Pensacola Mobile. New
Orleans, Texas, and trans Mississippi points
make close connections at Chaftahoochee
daily with trains of Pensacola and Atlantic
Railroad, arriving at Pensacola at lI:4g d. M.
Mobile at 4:45 am, New Orleans at 9:45 a. M
Pullman buffet and sleeping cars Savannah
to Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans.
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Port Royal and augusta

Charleston junction with trains to all points
North and East via Richmond and all rail
line; by the 1856 a m train to all points North
via Richmond
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Passengers for Beaufort by train 4s arrive
there at 1885 a. m. and can return same day
leaving at 2:25 p. m. and arriving Savannah
6:42 p. m.
A hrst-class Dining Car Is now located in
Savannah, instead of being run on the line .as
formerly, adording passengers a fine meal at
Conductors.
Pullman Palace Sleepers Through from Sa
vannah to Washington and New York on
trains 43 and AZ.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations and all
other information, apply TO William Bren,
Ticket agent, u Bun street, and at Charles
ton and Savannah RailW ny Ticket Office at
Savannah. Florida and Western Railway De-
pot. g. s. GADSDEN, Sup'ts
q. @. BnYLsrON, G.P.A.
J. W. CRAIG Master Transportation
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MEMORANDA

steamer George NJ Bird, StrObhar. Dobov
B BaT and Satilla River landings-John +
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1910 N Lv Macon -. Lv ZOO p m AGO q N
l1:1S m Ar. Atlanta. Ar II 20 p m TAO m
No. IS. From Fort VaLJeg. No. 81.
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Chr SeIorning 9eF5.
Tuesday. AUGUST IL. 1854:
0uu1urrrial.
s,vANNAH MARKET.

" sIT 4 Ga, Aug. H. ISL p P, As
CerroN.-There wss nothing oo'"S The saIes
we're reduced &C. for al gras i,,,,- tlg we're
for the day were bales Ine io, ~ ,ba Cotton
the ofieial closing quotations Oh '"e
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NAVAL ~TOREs.-The market for spirits tur-
r.arr.ue was very quiet. There was nothing
f l- The official report by the Board OF
Trs.ia was IS follows: The market opened
f~m 90 zsi.c- for regulars. At I y. m. 10
was firm go 1,l SO. for regulars. It closed at
T.. uarket was quiet, but hrm and I'M
changed. The sales Tor the day were $40
barrels The official report by the Board Of
Trade was as follows: The market opened
frn 40 the following quotations: a, b, G, ID
qrH 81 U.s.. + 81 OIt4, q 81 1919. II ST 35. /
SIZE. * s. lzls. n s. 63JE, y s. 1919, window
glass s. 62lz. At p. m. IL WAS firm and
Unchanged. and remained so TO tile close.
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3 J.; BURGESS. .......... Superintendent.
EDWARD CANTWELL, LIB,
(HarVard) Professor

nAILY instruction in Commercial and
II Constitutional Law, Lectures. Mock
Courts, jury Trials. Degrees conferred. Law
students other than cadets wear no uniform
and exempt from military discipline. Nine
months tuition, $50. For further particulars
address as above
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sWARTHMORE COLLEGE

FOR BOTH SEXES.
FINDER care of members of the Religious
- Society of Friends. Thirty minutes from
Broad street station. Full College Courses
Classical, Scientific and Literary. Also a
Preparatory School. Location unsurpassed
for healthfulness. Extensive grounds; new
and costly buildings and apparatus. Acade-
mic year commences 9th month Sept 9th
1884. Apply early to insure admission. For
catalogue and full particulars, Address
EDWARD II. MAGILL. A. M, President.
SWarthmOre. delaware Co. Pa
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TUESDAY. Anpnst ID ]

ARRIVED AT TYBEE YESTERDAY.
p Steamship Tallahassee. Askins, New York
6 NJ SOrrel.
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ARRIVED UP FROM QUARANTINE YES.
TERDAY
Bark Ella (Br), Jones, to load for Cork for
orders-AleX Sprtmt & Son,
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Shtpptnu 9n1r,linrnrr.

MINIATURE ALMANAC-THIs DAY:
Sun RISES rsa
sur SETs 90
HisE WATxB at TT PULASKI .II:17Ax ll:4PN
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University of Virginia.

The SIxty-frst session of this institution will
open October /. 1881. Thorough instruction
in Literary, Scientific and Professional De-
pdrtments, including Lar, Medicine, En0i-
neerin0 and A gricuJtitre For information APP
ply to DIR. JAMES F. HARRISON, Chairman
of Faculty, p. o., University of Va.
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THE steamships Of this Company are ap-
Il pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti-
more as follows, city time:
JOHNS HOPKINS, Captain MARCH,
MONDAY, Aug. Is, at 4:3O ,. N.
VIM. CRANE, Captain TAYLOR, SATUR-
DAY, Aug. %, at $3.50 A. N.
VIM. LAWRENCE, Captain HOOPER.
MONDAY, Sept. l, at 800 P. NJ.
And from Baltimore for Savannah on same
days as above at 4P. NJ.
Through bills lading gwen to all points
West, al the manufacturing towns in New
England, and to Liverpool and Bremen.
Through passenger tickets issued to Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago, and all points West and
Northwest.
JAS. B. WEST & CO., Agents,
ia Raw street
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savannah. Florida & Weston RI.
ovv4.
EhU -. -

,ob AZ u trains Of this road are run hv Centre,
tbsr IserIolan Time which lie 80 minutes slower
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FAsT nan.

I
on AND AFTER SUNDAY. July ~
" lSsA Passenger Traina On us RAD w;ii
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-15
COMmUNICATIONS.
Cannon-FirfngO on the Green.
X1,o U,l;4a,, Of tho TarTpNrAr AEn TnupJEp.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
In the interest of the sick and suffering, /
wish to protest against further cannon-fring
within the city in the evening OF night. 1t
is bad enough in the day time, particularly
in hot weather when the windows are open
and the noise and shock has free entrance in
to the sick rooms There is never cannon
aiding within the city in summer, whether by
day or night, when the sufferings of the sick
are not increased by it, and perhaps most of
us can call to mind cases within our own
knowledge where death has been hasten
ed, if not actually caused by it.
l have had my attention called to this mat
ter ever since 1886, when young acquain-
tance just rallying from fever with strong
hopes of recovery, suffered relapse and died.
Her physician and parents believed the re-
lapse was caused by the cannon-fring on the
Fourth of July. Since my connection with
the Board of Health, I have known more of
the evil After each Fourth of July and
during political campaigns where cannon are
used, cases are reported to me where great
suffering has been caused, and several times
where death was believed to have been
due to it. My own belief is that there is rare
ly a salute fired on the Green which does not
hurry some one to the grave, and certain it is
that it always causes much misery. The
press has commented on the great mortality
in this city last week. How many deaths
were fastened by the cannonadlng in the
night of Last Friday, only the records of
eternity can show.
Now that both political parties have shown
their enthusiasm over the nominations, 1 hope
that public sentiment will demand that dur
ing this political campaign cannon-fring on
the Green, particularly after nightfall, be
prohibited. If this is to be the q aggressive
campaign" that enthusiastic politicians of
both sides are claInorous for, let the aggres-
ssxr he 1iPoofa1 N SUpl that its
chief effects will be felt on the healthy voters
of the opposite party rather than on sick and
suffering women and children.
VIM. II. BREWER.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-15
gr1e SnnrmaI atrd Courier
Tuesday, July 15, 1854.
lEPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
CLEvELAND,s RECORD.

Governor Cleveland has not very extern
sive record, which fact has its advantages,
as wellas its disadvantages. But what rec
ord he has got is not in all respects as fine
and clean as those who are t'howling" for
him would have us believe For instance,
look at the Hubert O. Thompson matter.
Mr.. Thompson is the commissioner of public
works in New York city. He was accused
of malfeasance and a legislative committee
was charged with investigating his official
conduct. The committee found the charges
were proved One thing among others
proved beyond dispute was that while he was
forbidden by law to contract for the purchase
of materials, or the performance of work to
the amount of one thousand dollars, without
public competition, he frequently gave out
on the same day to favored contractor sew
eral contracts of the same character, each
amounting to nearly one thousand dollars,
thus fraudulently evading the law. Cover
nor Cleveland was formally requested to re-
move this officer, as he had the power to do,
but he did not remove him nor take any
steps to that end, and this same Hubert O.
Thompson was at Chicago busi1y working
for the nomination of Cleveland.
There is not very much reform or E'uncom-
promising honesty about such business as
this. But whether such record as he has is
good or bad his nomination was queer pro-
ceeding. The Worce>ter Spy puts it we'll
when it says: A more grotesque travesty on
serious politics than the nomination of
Cleveland is scarcely possible. This great
party, seeking to control the government of
the United States, passes by its statesmen of
knowledge, experience and national reputa-
ton, its Bayard, Randall, Thurman, Hen
bricks and others of like standing, and
chooses for the greatest elective Office in the
world man of whom it is only known that
he is lawyer of respectable ability and mod
crate local practice, and of whom the coun-
try is invited to believe, on somewhat ques-
tionable evidence, that he is a very good
man and has done well in local Office His
opinions on any subject within the province
of the general government are absolutely un-
known. 1t is known, however, that he has
had no opportunity to make himself &C
quainted with the practical working of the
national system of government.
Perhaps the theory of those who nomin-
ated him is that what he doesn't know about
national affairs he can learn very quickly after
he is elected, if he should happen to be elect
ed. But it would not be safe performance
to put an apprentice in statecraft in the Pres
idential chair
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-15

his colleagues, in which he begged them to
slnuggle his "beans" into the cell. He meant
dynamite bombs. He intended to apply for
fresh trial, at which he would reveal i'm
portant facts concerning the organization of
the Anarchist conspiracy as well as the manu-
facture of explosives; but he would stipulate
that besides the examining judge, the presi-
dent of the tribunal, the director of police,
and the ambassador of Germany, should be
present as witnesses, as he would only make
his revelations in the presence of these per-
sons. Then, as soon as all should be assem-
bled, he would propose the alternative that
he should be liberated at once, or that he
would throw the bombs, 80 that no one
should escape alive.