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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW YORK CITY has 1926 butchers, bakers
and grocers, where there are 10000 liquor
dealers.
IT Is said that in the best circles of English
society flowers constitute the only gifts" al
lowabIe in the 'cOtilliOn.' and that costly
fayors are denounced as vulgar show"
IL recent suit in Glasgow of a tenant
against his landlord for damages arising from
defective drainage, the Judge AIDE an order
in favor of the plaintiff for payment of the
medical expenses incurred.
THE Texas Courier Record Of Medicine says
that certain elderly colored women have "a
habit of chewing pins as a solace for trouble -
The occasional swallowing OF one OF them
does not appear to be attended with danger.
THE monks of Castegovnizza, under whose
chapel the coffin of the Count Of Chambord
was placed, have received from the Counts
widow several sets of black velvet YES tments
finely embroidered with silver.
s'WILL you have an orange or a fig?" in
quired DR.. jackson of a fine little boy some
what under the weather. "a fig" answered
the child, with alacrity. NO fever there,
said the doctor, "Or he would certainly have
said an orange"
THE Gazette HedicdIe depAIgerie calls at
tention to a great number of facts which APP
pear to show that cider drinkers are not
troubled Win stone. ana lDat patients having
this affection are either cured or greatly re-
lIeved by that beverage.
DURING the past ten years the government
has expended nearly $7O.OOO,OOO in caring for
the Indians. The total number of Indians
attached to agencies is only 246,000, and of
these 60, 900 in Indian Territory, 200 in Wis
cousin and 5000 in New York, are supposed to
be at least partially self-supporting.
A LITTLE BOY was buried in Meridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the hearse in
the funeral procession walked his pony with
il saddle draped with Grape. Strangers even
looked with mOistened eyes upon the little
fellows pet upon which he had been often
seen to ride through the streets but little
while ago.
DIR. GROSS is quoted in the Philadelph
Clinical Record as saying that if the brain il
penetrated by ball, the rule to let 1t alone is
an exceedingly bad one; investigation has
shown that the brain can be handled to con-
siderable extent with impunity. and there is
great future for operations within the era
NAL cavity"
METAIRE, the most fashionable cemetery in
New Orleans, was race course few years
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
KETFERs POLITICAL DEATH.
The Ex-Speaker's Hopes of Further
Public Life Sadly Discouraged.


Public Life Sadly Discouraged.
A letter to the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, from Springfield, the home of
Gen. Keifer, contains the following pas
sage: "The failure of the investigating
committee in the Keifer-Bovnton eXami-
nation to sustain Gen. Keifer in his
charges has produced a profound sensa-
ton in this city and throughout the Eighth
Congressional district. The general opin-
ion seems to be that this will be the last
straw which will break Keifer's back,
politically, and that he cannot by any
possible means get a denomination for
Congress. KeifeT's most intimate friends
admit that his charges against BOynton
were grave mistake, and the whole in
Yestigation an unfortunate affair. 1t is
significant fact that he has no apOlOgists
in this matter.
Concerning the candidacy of the ex-
Speaker for another term in Congress,
there can be no longer any doubt. His
transmission of testimony, favorable to
himself only, in the investigation, to
prominent and influential members of the
district, proves this. There is not the
least chance of Keifer's nomination. I'm
popular from the start, he has injured
himself by one foolish act after another
until now his nomination is impossible.
Coming to his district for denomination
after being concerned in two investiga-
tiOns, in one of which the committee
unanimously reported against him for ne
potism, and in the other of which his
charges against Gen. BoyntOn were found
not to be sustained the eX-Speaker is
labOring under too heavy a load. A prom
inent Republican said: Certainly Keifer
will try to bull the thing through again.
He will fight desperately to retain his
seat in Congress. He is quietly working
up his chances in the new counties of the
district. 1t is no use, however. If he
narrowly escaped defeat in the old dis
trict, with all the prestige accruing from
his elevation to the Speakership, how can
he succeed now, with two adverse re-
ports from investigating committees to
contend against, and no hearty support
from the press of the districtl'
"Keifer has been mentioned as dele
gate to the Chicago National Republican
Convention, but the writer found strong
undercurrent even against that. There
can be no doubt that Keifer has all along
regarded himself as an available candi-
date for the Presidency, and as a possible
dark horse who may win the prize, as did
Garfield and Hayes. There is very little
doubt that if Keifer went to Chicago he
would go with some such idea as this"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
Extending the Pension List.

Petitions are being presented to Con-
gress asking that every soldier and sailor
who served in the civil war and received
an honorable discharge be granted pen
sion of eight dollars a month. The last
petition was presented by Senator Hoar,
and contained 5000 names. This is very
big scheme. If it were successful it
would relieve the Treasury of a good deal
of its surplus. Why a man should receive
pension who is not suffering from a dis
| ability of anv kind is one of the questions
that the petitioners would, perhaps, find
1t difficult to answer satisfactorily.
Even Mr.. HOar, who presented
the petition would be puzzled
to furnish a reason why strong and
healthy men should be pensioned by the
government. OF course, there is no wish
on the part of anybody to increase the
pauper class. The tendency of this
scheme, however, would be to do that. 1t
is not probable that the soldiers and
sailors started this movement for pensions
for healthy men. The pension agents are
entitled to the credit. They have made
millions of dollars out of other pension
schemes, and they are now hungry for
another chance at the Treasury.
Republican statesmen seem ready
and willing to help them. When
the blank petitions which they
sent out come back, filled with names,
they have no difficulty in getting them
presented to Congress by members of in
luence. The only hope Of saving the
Treasury from being bankrupted is that
the control of the government Will pass
to the Democrats. The fear of losing the
soldier vote is sufficient to induce the Re-
publican party to favor every pension
scheme the pension agents may devise.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
The Observation-Disclosures in Danger

The Warning-COnstitutiOn in Danger.
Editor Morning NelUs: Your article
headed "Bayard's Warning" is both
suggestive and to the point at this time,
considering the Presidential election just
ahead. Mr.. Rayard is reported to have
said: 'The unbridled law of a Congress
sional majority has been substituted for
the constitution"
To the observer of national legislation
there is too much truth in the statements.
From the hour when VIM. II. Seward
said ''there was a higher law than the
constitution" OR the open and bold asser-
tion of Thad. Stevens in the infamous
days of reconstruction, when the Federal
constitution was being shamelessly raped
for sectional purposes and ends, declared
''that we were legislating outside Of the
constitution From that time to the
present there has been a loose idea of
constitutional restrictions and obligations.
The end is not yet, unless there is a re-
action for the better. What the country
now needs is a President who dares to
know and do his duty; to Support, MAN.
tain and defend the constitution" Those
are not idle or meaningless words: they
were put in for a positive purpose, to hold
in check sectional or partisan legislation.
We now want a President who under
stands the spirit and meaning of the con-
stitution, a man of Andrew Jackson's
frmness, with the clear head of a Madi-
son. Mr.. Bayard would be a good man to
put in the Presidential chair. He is the
man for the present time, in my opinion.
But, Mr.. Editor, that your readers may
know something of the opinions of the
greatest Georgian that ever filled public
positions, / give few extracts from the
writings Of Gov. Troup. He says:
"Violations Of the constitution admit of
no degrees, and l would abstain from fol-
lowing the North'' How truly and justly
he read Northern sentiment fifty years
ago.
''You cannot compromise a power or
principle of the constitution. If you
could, it would soon be different thing
both from what it is and from what it was
intended"
''The only constitutional remedy for I'M
constitutional laws, is the ballot-bOX."
Let us make the issue in the coming cam
paign.
''If we make voluntary concession of
what you have no right to claim, it will
only afford you a preteXt, in the future,
to ask MORE"
Such are few of the views of Gov.
Troup, and greater and purer statesman
Georgia never had. AS to ofiice-hunters
he said:
sour political morality will never be
pure as long as offices are sought with
avidity and Importantly"
st. Paul could not improve on that
truth. r. NJ. o.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

Orvil E. Babcock, who was Grants
private secretary when Grant was Presi-
dent, has been promoted lately to be Lieu
tenant Colonel. His nomination is now
pending before the Senate Committee on
Military Affairs. Gen. John Mcdonald,
who went TO prison in 1876 for his cOnnec-
ton with the whisky ring, has gone to
Washington to defeat the confirmation Of
his old chum. Mcdonald has filed charges
against BabcOck with the Senate Com
mittee, and to sustain them has
produced the originals of letters
which he received from him during
whisky ring times. "Let no guilty man
escape" is what Grant said with respect
to the whisky ring thieves, but it would
not be surprising if he helped to shield
Babcock from the charges made against
him. Mcdonald, it seems, intends to
make the situation unpleasant for Bah
cock. Why shouldn't he?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
TULDEN's GYMNASTICS.
Reminisces of the John Quincy Adams
and Crawford Campaign.

Reminisces of the John Quincy Adams
and Crawford Campaign.
There is some quiet laughter, says the
Washington correspondent of the Angus
ia Chronicle and COnStituti0ndliSt, at the
last Tilden interview, which is credited to
Mr. Frank Richardson, of the Baltimore
San. Mr.. Tilden's arm and leg exercise
is almost ludIcrous. Some of the boys
say that John Bigelow put up a job on
the interviewer by having electric at
tachments to his patrons limbs; but of
course this is joke. To show you how
history repeats itself, look at Parton's
''Life of Andrew jackson" and read how
VIM. II. Crawford, of Georgia, was
nursed for the Presidential nomination
when about in the same physical condi-
ton that Mr.. Tilden is. He had to stamp
his name to pages and put his finger on
it. He was driven up and down Penn
sylvania avenue on exhibition. He was
nominated sure enough, but defeated by
John Quincy Adams. When the first flush
of disappointment was over, he bore his
ilI-fOrtuns nobly and philOsOphically. 1t
is true that he had not been cheated out
of the Presidency before, and the analogy
does not hold good all the way through;
but there are some striking resemblances
between him and Mr.. Tilden for the de-
tails of which must refer the reader to
the histories of the time
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

A strong advocate of the Blair educa-
ton bill was Gen. Williams, of Kentucky.
His speech in support of it, day or two
before the bill passed, was one of the best
Of the long debate. 1t was stamped with
sincerity, and every sentence indicated
that the Senator felt deeply the truth Of
what he said When a wrong is to be
righted, an act of generosity or philan-
thrOpy to be done, or a helping
hand to be extended to an unfOrtu-
nate individual or a struggling race,
E. E. Williams can be depended on.
His heart responds to the call of humanity
for aid as quickly as his mind understands
its needs. II he had not been fully salts
fed Of the constitutionality of the Blair
bill he would have been strongly inclined
to support it if he thought it would help
TO elevate men and women and make
them better and happier. He is a philan-
thropist and statesman rather than a
politician.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
HALF MAN, HALF WOMAN.
A HOnstrOsity Which, Although Umpire
possessing, Can Dance Divinely.

NIOnstrOsity Which, Although Umpire
possessing, Can Dance Divinely.
A person who attracted much attention
from the fact that fine black mOustache
bloomed on the upper lip, while the body
was attired in female apparel, says the
New York World Of the 18th instant,
arrived at Castle Garden yesterday on the
steamer Elbe. A brother of the person
said SHE is my sister. She is a woman
from the waist down, but a man above.
His name is Frederick Ross, and he was
born in Dantzic, Prussia. Since the day
Fred @vas born he has never spoken a
word, nor can he understand
anything that is saiG to him.
He can hear, however, where
an ordinary person cannot, and has often
signifed to us that a person was APP
preaching whose footsteps we could not
hear for some minutes afterward." Fred
is a repulsive-lOOking being, with large,
bOny and horribly MANNED hands, while
his feet are exceedingly small and well
shaped. His mother, who accompanied
her two sons here, is a healthy, we'll
formed woman, and seems to admire her
unfortunate son. In Prussia Fred at
tanned fame for his graceful dancing, and
the ladies frequently overlooked his hOr-
rible defOrmity in order to dance with
him. The party are bound for Detroit,
where the father resides in good circum-
stances.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
Ross RAYMOND in PhiladeIphia.

The celebrated Ross Raymond is in
town, says a Philadelphia special. Ross
Raymond-poet, journalist, historian and
financier. Ross is pre-eminent as finan-
cier. Most of his exploits in this country
and in Europe are we'll known, but his
latest trick, while never before made
his career. He was in Paris dead broke.
He wished to get to Philadelphia, but had
no means of doing so. He determined to
obtain means, and to that end represented
himself as private secretary to the Khe-
dive and raised a comfortable sum. He
arrived here Tuesday. Tuesday evening
he met Mr.. A. II. Candy, of the Walnut
Street Theatre, on Walnut street, and
promised to visit the theatre. He failed
to do so, and has not been seen since.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

The students of the Kentucky Central
University, instead OF wasting their talents
at base ball, boating, ETC., have been eX-
ercising their intellects in the political
line. A moot Presidential Convention
was held Saturday, but the members OF
the body were by no means mute. There
was a stormy session of several hours.
Mcdonald led in the ballOting from the
jump, with Tilden and Bayard as
second and third choice. Finally McDon-
aid was unanimously nominated by ae-
climation for President, and Carlise for
Vice President. Tie platform called for
tariff for revenue only, and civil service
reform. Eight States were represented
among the students. The boys are pretty
solid on the great questions of the day,
and bad as politics are such frolics
are better than the reading of dime
novels.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
The Nations Wards.

4FWoIttttt6 lI|cFFtsTs
1t cannot he denied by fair minded men that
the education of the blacks in the Southern
States should not devOlve entire and unaded
upon the white tax payers of those States.
Disclaiming any purpose or desire TO APP
peal to sectional bias or feeling, the South
ern tax payers cannot forget that II was the
government which emancipated the blacks
and clothed them with the responsibilities of
citizenship and there left them, unqualified
for the dnfies and dignitY of citizenship.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
Two Points of View.

7
Some of the ore miners in Lehigh county
who are working for 65 cents day ought to
attend the Allentown Convention as samples
of the incidental protection which the tariff
gives to the wOrkingman. No $4,000 Congress
man, in his starched shirt, could talk down
one Of these 65-cent arguments. But the Con-
gressmen viii be heard, and the e-diggers
will not put in an appearance until NOVem-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
Our Fruit and Vegetable Market
Reports.

The MORNING News is now receiving,
by special contract, full reports of the
fruit and vegetable markets of the cities
of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore. These reports can be depend
ed on as reliable. We, therefore, take
pleasure in directing the attention of our
subscribers in the fruit and vegetable
producing districts of this State and Flor
ida to them. The MORNING NEWS spares
neither labor nor expense to supply the
wants of its readers as far as a newspa-
per can supply them. All Of the reports
indicate that the fruit and vegetable crop
this season will be large. The area planted
in melons is much greater than it was
last year The fruit and vegetable grow
ers will very naturally want to know
the daily condition of the markets in
which they are interested Of the principal
cities. They will find what they want in
the MORNING NEWS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
Smashing the Machines.

Nelo York World lDeni.l.
The Republican people seem suddenly to
find out that they want Blaine. They shout
vote for him in colleges and cars. They in
struct delegates for him. In Pennsylvania
his name smashes the Cameron machine. In
New York IT runs the Arthur machine OFF the
track on to a switch. Everywhere it gives
custom houses and post offices black eve.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
CURRENT COMMENT
How Extremes Meet.

There is one point at least upon which the
distillers and the temperance reformers are
agreed-both are determined that the taxes
on whisky must not be removed. And for
the same reason, doubtless, that IS, that the
repeal of the tax would make whisky cheaper
and more nlentiful.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

Ifreports are true, Minister Sargent will
return to America and at once put on his
war paint He will not only have little
plain chat for the President and Secretary
Frelinghuysen. but he will be a delegate
to the Chicago Convention, and be pre-
pared to put in some effective work
AGAINST Arthur
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

A committee of social and scientific
wiseacres propose to offer prize of s., 00C
for the discovery Of a cheap, palatabIe,
notwithstanding beverage. 1t is sug-
gested that they try water and save their
money.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

u. LOUt0 IttUWVttCtI7t IItT1'I'
rs not a great crime he has committed,
and we are willing to believe he would have
hestated to use a government vessel for him.
self, vet after all is said the fact remains that
he has shown he is not the phenomenal model
of rectitude and prOpriety his admirers have
wanted the country to believe HIM. That is
all; but that Is enough to trouble Mr.. Edmunds
paf do
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

There seems to be no dOu BIT now that
Gen. Logan will have the support of the
large majority of the Illinois
delegates in the Republican Con-
vention. His friends claim that the oppO-
sition to him in the convention will be
from two Chicago districts, and that the
character Of the opposition will really
strengthen him. About all the General
can hope to do in the convention is to get
a complimentary vote from Illinois, and
as there is no earthly chance for him to
get the nomination, it is not probable that
he will meet with much opposition in his
own State. The colored voters in the
Cairo district stood up manfully for
Logan.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

The Louisville COurier-JOulndl an
nounced one day last week that leading
iron producer in Tennessee had made a
contract to furnish $2,OOO,OO0 worth of pig
iron at $40 30 to$l2 5Oper. ton. The Penn
sylvania iron men when interviewed on
the subject affected to laugh at the idea
of iron being made at any such price. AS
there seems to be no doubt as to the correct
ness OF the report, the smile of the Penn
sylvania men must be converted into a
case of the dry grins. Gray forge iron is
quoted at S14 per ton in Chattanooga in
open market. The South is able to sell
iron cheap and to make money on it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

Three New York NewtOns are now
occupying the attention of newspaper
readers. The Rev. r. H., the club
man, Isaac, and the millionaire, Julian
Newton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

The way the value of raw material in
creases when manufactured and manipu-
lated by monopolists is exemplified in the
case of sealskin sacques. The Alaska
seal hunters get 40 cents each for the
skins, the fur company gets $24 each for
them in London, and when made into
sacques they are worth from 5000 to $500
each.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

GOV. Ireland. of Texas, is not to have a
waIk-over in his campaign for renOmina-
ton by a good deal. His opponent will
be Lieut.. Gov. Martin, who in the last
election ran 10000 votes ahead Of the
ticket. Texas is by no means solid for
.sOuld Irelnnd"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

1t must not be forgotten just now that
the true Boston style is to call it the
''science of pugilsm." The word slug
ging is not only a vulgar Western term,
but one that it is not advisable to use for
the nrasant.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

Fears are entertained by few of the
revenue reformers that editor Dana will
be n free trader when he returns from
Mexico. Some people are always looking
out for bad luck.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

No one will deny the responsibility of
Mr.. Jonathan NOrcrOss' white Republic
can party. What it seems to be really
deficient i'm is voters.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

1t is stated that Gen. Logan Is the
chosen Iegatee Of the third term conspira-
tors. and that il is likely an offensive and
defensive treaty will be made between his
supporters and the Arthur men at the
Chicago Convention.