Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-04

IL is a-Pare circumstance for one to
drop a cigar STUB and a small boy not to
be near by to pick it up and 90 to smok-
ing it.
The Philadelphia Press is feeding Presi-
dent Arthur on tafTy with hearty good
viii. and that kind Of diet agrees with
him remarkably well.
sIugger sullivan, like the other great
men Of the land, has taken occasion TO
get his denial before the country that he
proposed to knock an OK down with ma
naked fist.
So far as we have noticed not a single
Georgia paper has made any Of ''our
fellow-citizens" a New Years present OF
nomination for the GovernorshIp to sue
ceed Mr.. Mcdaniel.
Appleiack is made so strong in Ken
lucky that it viii eat through wooden
barrels. and when imbibed, Will make the
consumer brave enough to wade through
a band Of forty wild cats.
The fact that the President does not ap-
pear to have any inclinations towards
matrimony, makes all the old maids IN
Washington, Philadelphia and New York
mad enough to tear his eyes out.
.sGen. Grant is greatly improved since |
his accident" says the Chicago Tribune. |
Just how the accident improves him IS /
not stated. but there may be a dark and /
mysterious meaning in the assertion.
Ifthe prohibition movement continues /
to gain strength for a year or two as 1t Is /
gaining at present, there will not be /
much demand for whisky by the time /
Randalrs plan. making whisky free, Is
adopted.
Hon. Sunset Cox is laying the founda- /
ton for an immense popularity with the /
letter-carriers. His proposition to give
them one months holiday every year on
fun pay VIII meet with their hearty in
dOrsement.
There can't be any doubt" saws the
Philadelphia Press. ''about there being a
hell for black Republicans. It's down
South" II good many of the white Re
publicans don't quit slandering the South,
they will tiud out there is a hereafter for
them also.
An exchange says besides the canary
birds raised in this country 10000 are
annually imported from Germany, and
that it costs $4,000. GOO annually to feed
those in America. This is undoubtedly
an overestimate, but they are nevertheless
dear little creatures.
The protectionists don't believe in the
old saving that competition is the life OF
trade" The are willing to give up the
unlimited markets of the world and en-
dure the stagnation caused by over pro-
duction. in order that they may the more
etFectualIy gouge American consumers.
1t might be a good idea for Gov. McDan-
ieI to accompany his message to the next
General Assembly with copy OF the
journal of the South Carolina Legisla-
ture recently closed. 1t might give our
law makers some ideas about limiting the
session to the forty days limited % IN our
constitution.
A Tennessee contemporary complains
tslls..ts the people Of tdat state pay Ft,VoO'0VO
40. orr,lm i. direct taxes to the Federal
Gover-Aent under the internal revenue
Tvs. There is very simple way for
them to get rid of the greater part Of this
burden. Let them just quit making and
drinking liquor, and the thing is done.
Ex-DoOrkeeper Brownlow says the
charges of corruption made against him
are, for the most part, ''mOnstrous, unbound
ed and deliberate lies" then he goes on to
admit that his wife, son, brOther-in-law
and partner were subordinates under him,
but says that they rendered full and salts
factory service. In that case ~full and
satisfactory service doubtless means the
punctual drawing of their salaries. He
ignores the colored brother, out of whose
pay he is reported to have kept back $3.50
year.
Dr. Benson, the Health Commissioner
at Baltimore, says that measles and
chicken-pox always follow an epidemic
of smallpox, and that these diseases make
a greater prOpOrti0nate havoc among
children in hospitals because the patients
are in an impoverished condition and have
not the powers Of endurance usual with
those whose parents are able to have them
treated at home. He claims that these
diseases in that city are not epidemic but
endemic. This seems to be a distinction
without much real difference.
A startling case of absence Of mind and
of body also has taken place in New
York. Leon CrOmsOn, a travelling sales
man of the diamond brokerage house of
Goldsmith & Kuhn. has forgotten to
come back and report To the firm the re-
suits or his last trip, which appears to be
unnecessarily prolonged. As he had about
$4,000 worth of gems with him when he
left. his employers would be much obliged
to any friend that will remind their agent
that they are still in business at the old
stand.
Now that the question has been settled
that Sergeant Mason is going into the
Dime Museum, instead Of the cobblers
trade, which he learned in prison, people
had as well 90 TO preparing for this
years crop. The scheme to form a CON-
binatiOn with the Sergeant and Guteau's
skeleton is not likely to succeed unles
they get a counterfeit of the latter me-
to order. 1t is evident now that Present
Arthur made a great mistake in p-uoh-
ing Mason, but it was an errc OIL the
heart, and nobody should rai- TO"
about it.
The losses by fire in the nllteo states
and Canada during .ae rast year have
exceeded s1O0 nosJOO, ana of this the in
e,-,-o,,,,o' - dnies have had to shoulder
: t - TTs6ed States alone about S54,0OO,-
90 1any of the companies have lost
'10uey, but the majority have held their
own, and some few have made a cOnsid-
cradle profit. The tariff of rates on many
classes of risks was considerably advanc-
ed about the beginning Of the past year,
and a stricter inspection and closer adj
herence TO the rules for writing policies
was required of agents.
Gen. Augustus Funk, who died some
time ago in New York, left TWO widows,
who have been for some time fighting over
his estate. He married the first wife in
then procured a divorce at
Salt Lake City, Utah, and married again
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