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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
Col Iamnnt,s Mission.

WASHINGTON, Jan. lit is asserted with
great emphasis by Democrats that special
messenger from Mr.. Observation-Disclosures
to be Col. Lamont-came to Washington last
week with Instructions to inform leading
Democratic statesmen and politicians that
while the fitness, claims and qualifications OF
a number of Democrats for places in the Cabl-
net have been caDvassed, and, to some eX-
tent, informally considered, nothing like a
definite conclusion has been formed
in regard to any man; and
that before deciding on. or seriously cOnsid-
ering the appointment of anybody, Mr.. Cleve-
land desires personally to meet and consult
with all the leading Democrats in Congress as
well as with other prominent members OF the
party throughout the country. 1t is under
stsod that Che conferences are to take place
in the latter part of this month. 1t is also as
serted that the name of William c. Whitney
has not been considered at Albany in cOnnec-
ton with the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
and that some attention has been given to the
claims of Congressman Dorsheimer, "the boz
som friend'i of Mr. Cleveland, who, it Is I'M
derstoOd, is ambitious to succeed Mr.. McCul-
lOch. Some of Ex-senator Melon AIDS
friends think that an Indiana man will be
placed at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment, and that his name will be Joseph E..
Mcdonald,
In several of the states constructed by the
Washington Cabinet makers, the name of
Senator PendletOn has been substituted for
that Of Senator Bayard for Secretary of
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
THE NEGRO EXHIBIT.
Register Bruce Pays it a high COmpIi
ment-No Color Line Drawn.


ment-NO Color Line Drawn.
''What is the status of the colored PEG
pies exhibit at the New Orleans EXPOSE
tion?' inquired a Washington Post re-
porter of ex-senator b. X. Bruce, Regis
ter of the Treasury, who has justreturnet
from New Orleans.
cit is simply astonishing" was the re
ply, ''and is splendid example of the III
dustrial and aesthetic progress made by
the negro race in this country since the
war. Many eminent writers in
different reviews have contend
ed that the negro race has been at a
standstill since the war, industrially
and 8stheticallv. The most practical
refutatiOn of this statement is contained
in the colored peoples exhibit at New
Orleans"
''What is the character of this exhibit %
cit comprises every branch of COM
merce, industry and art. The cOlOred
people of Mississippi, Louisiana, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio,
Virginia, New York and New Jersey have
eXcelled themselves in their EXHIBITS.
Owing to the great difficulty in obtaining
display cases great numbers Of these
exhibits are not yet unpacked from the
boxes.
owe have some 1000 feet reserved for
our display, and propose adding an art
gallery for works of art by colored artists
A colOred artist by the name of O'Tanner
of Philadelphia, has sent a large paint
ing, which is valued at $4,000, and which
has been pronounced a genuine work OF
art by artist examiners
Chow about the District of Columbia
display.'
cit is most creditable, and great merit
is due the commissioner, Mr.. Cromwell
for his effective arrangement of the ex.
hibit."
els color line drawn?"
''No, sir, and that is a great feature OF
the exposition. The cOlored people are
treated like the whites, and there certain.
ly can be no complaint that discrimina-
ton is shown"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

There is no abatement In the dangerous
and inexcusable practice Of carrying con-
cealed weapons. The laws prohibiting 1t
and the utterances of the press and the
pulpit against it have had apparently no
effect upon it.
In many parts of the country the pocket
pistol is deemed almost as necessary as the
pOcketknife. Those who carry pistols
say, in defense Of the practice, that a pis-
tOI is necessary for self-defense. 1t would
be difficult to find any one who habitually
carries a pistol. who would admit that he
has any intention of using it unless at
tackled.
1t is fact well worth noticing, how
ever, that in fatal personal difficulties
those injured or killed are armed. In the
accounts of homicides and assaults with
deadly weapons daily reported in the
press it would be difficult TO find an
instance where an unarmed man
was harmed. or course, those who are
shot accidentally, or are attacked by ruff
fans made crazy by whisky, are excluded
from this statement. An unarmed man
need have no fear that he will be shot if
he should happen to get into a quarrel.
A great majority Of the personal difficult
ties which are attended with fatal results
would amount to little or nothing if it
were not for this practice of carrying
concealed weapons.
In the recent fatal afiray at New Or
leans there would have been no violence
if the two prominent State officials who
visited the Office of a scurrilOus paper, tor
the purpose OfdiscOvering the author of an
article. had not carried concealed wea-
pOns. If the version Of the survivor of
the two officials is correct, the original
intention was not to commit violent act.
The violence was due to the fact that all
the parties were armed.
How to put an end to the pistol carry
ing practice is a problem that is not easily
solved. The laws are stringent enough.
The difficulty is to get the laws enforced.
Courts and juries do not do their duty as
cOnscientiOusly as they ought, and they
will not do it until public sentiment
/ cOmpels them.
The thing to be done, therefore, it seems,
is to educate public sentiment against
carrying concealed weapons. The prac-
tice ought TO be made OdiOus. If the
women would use their influence against
it they could accomplish much. They
ought % discOuntenance il in every pos
sible way, not only because it is wrong
but because it Is the source OF much sOr-
row and suffering to them. They are not
participants in bloody encounters, but
those dear TO them as their own lives are
the victims Of such encounters. Let the
woman of the land take firm stand
against the pistol pocket evil and they
will do more to abolish it than the law
has done
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
Frightening Prospects Of the Expo


The financial condition of the New Or
leans Exposition is not so discouraging as
some of the correspondents have made it
appear. There is no probability that an
appeal will be made to Congress for help,
and there doesn't seem to be much doubt
that every cent needed to keep the expo
sition going will be speedily raised, if, in
deed, it has not been raised already. A
fact that does not appear to be generally
known is that 200 of the exhibitors sub
scribed $1,000 each, making a sum Of
5000, 900, which they offered to the man
agement to help tide over existing diff
hculties. The offer, however, was declined,
as the indications were that the people Of
New Orleans would provide all the money
necessary.
There is no doubt that the exposition,
from an industrial standpoint, is the
greatest the world has ever seen. In every
department, except that of art, it is far
ahead of the Centennial Exposition, and
it is probable that it would have sur
passed the art feature of the centennial
if there had been a longer time for prepa-
ration.
Distractions have been thrown in the
way of the expOsItiOn's success OF which
the public knows very little. At the outset
good many crOakers at New Orleans
predicted failure, and they want their
prediction verified. Some Of these crOak-
ers are influential because Of their wealth
and position, and their attitude has made
| others lukewarm. There are a good many
who would like to see the exposition fail
because they don't like the Director Gen
eral. They are jealous of his prominence,
and would join heartily in any movement
to pull him down. Again, the New Or
| leans people have been accustomed to do
| things in a conservative sort of way, and
to take few chances unless they saw large
returns. The immensely OF the eXpOsi-
ton startled them, and many held back TOR
| fear that the demands upon them would be
| greater than they would like to meet.
| These are only a few of the things with
which the management has had to con-
! tend at home.
At last, however, the prospect begins
to look cheering. In a very short time
everything will be in order. The season
| Of bad weather has already past, and be-
fore many days New Orleans will have
| more visitors than she can comfortably
entertain. The certainty of success,
which is now apparent, has closed the
mouths of the grumblers, and their in
difference is being changed to enthusiasm
The South should keep steadily in view
the fact that the exposition is a Southern
enterprise, and that it's success will be a
triumph for the South. The NOrth-in
fact, the civilized world-regards it as a
Southern undertaking, and will give
whatever credit arises from it to the
South. The Southern people, therefore,
cannot afford to neglect it. Every person
in the South who can afford it ought to
visit the exposition, not only for the
benefit to be derived from what IS to be
seen there, but also to help it along.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
AROUT WOMAN.

A Duel on Top of "A Train at Fuii Speed.
A Louisville (Ky.) special says: Two
men are now laid up at their board
ing house on East Jefferson street
suffering from the effects of wounds in
tiicted with bowie knives in duel fought
on top of a freight train running at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. The names
of the men are George Jackson and James
Wilson. conductor and brakeman respect
lively on the Lexington division OF the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
jackson was coming west with MS
freight train when he got into difficulty
with his rear brakeman. Jim Wilson. The
row occurred in the caboOse over WO-
man. The men were about to come TO
blows, when a proposition was made TO
fight duel on the top of the cabOose with
bowie knives. with which both men were
armed. No sooner was the proposition
made than it was accepted, and, drawing
their weapons, the men climbed 10 the
top of the car. The other employees on the
train gathered around to witness the
deadly conflict.
The train was whirling along at the rate
of thirty miles an hour between Chris
tiansburg ana Eminence when the men
announced themselves ready FOR the Dat-
tie. With their knives raised high IN the
air they rushed upon each other and
closed in. Slash went the ghttering wea-
pOns, right and left, through the heavy
wearing apparel and into the flesh OF the
combatants. Blood trickled from the knife
blades and despatched the roof of the car.
1t was apparently a combat to the death.
Still neither man showed signs of mortal
wOunding. The train sped along and the
engineer kept a close lookout ahead, little
dreaming of the-terriic fight going on be-
hind him.
The warning signal of low bridge was
sounded, and for a few moments the duel
lists separated and bugged close to the
roof of the car. WhiZ went the train
through the bridge. Almost instantly the
men were on their feet and at it again.
jackson received slash across the
breast, causing u frighttul wound, but,
Notwithstanding the wound, he seemed to
| fight all the harder.
He rushed upon his antagonist with the
| ferocity ola tiger, and would have buried
| his bowie to the hilt in Wilson's body,
| had it not been for the train just at that
moment flying around a curve, causing a
| lurch and the throwing down of Jackson.
He was on his feet again, however. in an
| instant, when the train men, not desiring
| to be witnesses to a murder, put stop
to further proceedings. Both men were
! badly hurt, but the wound in JacksOn's
breast is the most serious, and is cOnsid-
| cred dangerous.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
AN EXCHANGE LIMITATION"

Sad Experience of Mr.. Parrott-He
"saw" the Members and They Saw
Him.
NJ. j. Parrot, of the firm Of Inman,
Swami & Co., who was elected member
of the Cotton Exchange on Monday, says
the New York Tribune of Jan. IA, was
''initated in due and ancient form" yes
terday by special dispensation of the roll
licking members, the leaders being John
r. Wenman, Jr., 5. 7. Hubbard and
Elisha Forsyth. From the time he filed
his application for membership he has
been ''vlctim of circumstances, and
Yesterday he declared that he would
rather be initiated In the Sons of Malta
or take the entire thirty-three Masonic
degrees than again go through the form
of joining the Cotton Exchange. His
first proposition to a friend on the EX-
change was for ''points," and since then
the friend has literally acquiesced, each
point being given over a glass of wine.
MIR. PARROT was first informed that it
would be well to ''see" the Committee on
Applications, and a bottle of wine
was drunk; then he was to ''see"
some of the managers, at the eX-
pense of another bottle of wine !;
then when his name came before the EX-
change I0r acUlOn ne was ADVISED 10 see 2
the members, and he took them out in
platoons. He uttered his thanktulness
when he saw his name posted as elected
on Monday. When he entered the EX-
change yesterday his reception was most
hearty. Wet and tightly-rOlled towels
were thrown at him, he was blindfOlded
with wet towels, and conducted several
times around the room on "Spanlsh
walk" and afterward was made to run
several circuits. After a while he APP
peaed to the floor committee for prOtec-
ton, but they had 'just gone to lunch"
Then he attempted to escape through the
doorway, and was hustled back by the
guards and made to 90 through the last
part of the degree" This was to be led
around the room several times blind
folded, over tables and capsized chairs.
1t was explained to him as the trough
and rugged path" which was to teach
him that life was full of toll, Instructions
and hardships, and that man, like the
market and this winters thermometer,
was a series OF ups and downs. When
his eyes were unbound he found that his
silk hat was unfit for st. Patrick's day
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
BRIGHT BITS.

AN appropriate name for the living skeleton
would be ''Brudder BOnes-"-Boston Courier.
Rosa attacks Phean. 1t remains to be
seen whether in this case the pen is mIghtieT
than the dirk.-Grdphic.
81 UNDERSTAND, Mr.. Einstein, your son
Marcus Is stage struck" "SLage struck! All,
no. he was yust run Offer himself nit dray.'
-Brooklyn Eagle
THE blue hens chickens who are counting
upon succeeding Senator Bayard, seem to be
counting themselves before they are quite
Observation-Disclosures american.
WALT WHITMAN says President Cleveland
has good supply of "Old-fashiOned horse
sense" In that case stable government is
assuTed.-Ne9C orleans PicdyUae.
a DEMOCRATIC ORGAN SLOPES that 1885 viii
be an improvement ON 1854" 1t can't help
but be. A Democratic President will not be
elected in lSS5.- NOrFiStO1CB Herald.
IT is said that James Russell Lowell is
nearly a much English as American. This
is a mistake. AS Mr.. Lowell came from BOs-
ton he IS more English than American.
AFTER little Houston boy, whose family
were to move away next day, had concluded
his evening prayer, he said: Good bye, God,
tomorrow We are all going of on the rail-
road. "-TeedS SittiR0s.
A SOUTHERN EDITOR asserts that all angels
are blondes, gentleman who married a
hght-haired woman with a sultry temper
says that he is pretty confident that all blondes
are not angels.--NOrTtSt01Cn HeTdJd.
EUPHEMIsTIC.- Colonel-'Pve never met
with smarter drill than yourself Sergeant,
or one more thoroughly up to all his duties,
but you've one most Objectionable habit, and
that Is your constant use of bad language and
swearing at the men. Sergeant-"Sr, per-
maps / am a little sarcashtic n'-PuRch.
How should he know: "You don't seem as
friendly to that Boston girl as you were?'
NO. We were out riding the other even
ing, and put my arm around her and told
her | loved her" Ibid she refuse yOuY'
mo, not exactly. She looked at me over her
eyeglas ses and remarked: "Mr. Jones. do
you know what a protOplasm is?o what
did you saw" "Say?" replied Mr.. JONES'
with deep disgust. ''What could l say:
never was in Boston,"
Az AUTHORS MODESTY.-
A critic conned book deserving praise
"Quotatlons from the Poets was its name |;
Therein contained were sOnnets, songs and
lays
From writers who have long been known to
fame.
Il here present my friends" the author said,
with rarest gems, the choicest and the
best"
And, 10, as carefully the critic read
lie saw the authors name led all the rest!
-Ne10 York Journal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

Mr.. Moody goes from Richmond 10
Washington to preach. He will have to
proclaim Gen. Sherman a Christian gem
tIeman before he can convert certain Re
publican Senators. Mr.. Moody does not
appear TO care much to take in the politi-
clans. however. 1t is too hard to make
than stick
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
A Sow sort of seYen Up.

bUFttItVtvIt 2 Teo Z Fcoo'
ssNo, don't allow card playing in my
house,v said Popinjay, 'but, in spite o.
me. the girls will have little game o.
seven up about every night"
Show is that?" inquired BlObsOn, in a
puzzled tone.
"Why," rejOined POpinjay, "there are
four of them, and they generally have
three fellows up with them until 1880
O'Clock.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

What Mrs. Lockwood really needs just
now is an electoral commission Of fifteen
members-eight of her own selection.
such a commission might throw out all
the electoral votes and all the popular
votes except the one cast for Mrs. L. in
Indiana. This appears to be the only
feasible nlau
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

The American exiles appear to have de-
mOralized bank employees in Canada.
Hardly a week passes that some Canadian
bank does not report the absconding of
some trusted clerk or official. If Canada
makes a defaulters' asylum Of herself
she may expect to get full returns for her
hospitality in the examples taught as well
as i'm filthy lucre.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
nnn1r EInht oil:


HOME LIGHT OIL.
CAFE, brilliant. economical, ID %
- pl0de! 1t stands $50 degree
COlOrless as spring water, oHor
not crust the wick. The quaItEe O.
same. The unprecedented uefa
sales of Home Light last season Over
without a single just complaint q
its popularity. II you have never u
Light OIL, we ask you give 2
and compare with any other bTana'
does not require q special Dur1f'
only by the following: l.. G. strong,
Perry street lane; Il. II. Ia.em ,
and Liberty streets; y. S. SWder ]
DraytOn streets: u. y. Ham. DRY
York street lane; John L0rca. NV
and jefferson streets; Barbour b'
Houston and Barnard streets. "A
HANLEY, Sole Agent, corner
President and York streets.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
Gen. sherman's Mares Nest.

1t is obvious that if the plans Of those who
organized secession had not miscarrled, they
would not now be described as cOnsprators.
Ii is small business, therefore, for Senators
to wrangle over words which borrow their
whole significance from the fortuitOus results
of war. and which merely affirm in an often
siye way the notorious failure of the attempt
to break up the Union. We should add, IN
all the evidence thus far before the world. he
seems to have been reluctant rather than
eager to precipitate the rupture. and to have
held aloOf for some time from the active
measures taken to give effect to Southern
discomfort by organizing a separate govern
ment. As to the famous discovery which
Gen. Sherman believes himself to have made
in a private letter, this may be coarsely desig-
naten as q mare's nest.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
Errors of the Heart and Head



Whether there is a lack of mental balance
about Gen. sherman we do not know. We
know that he is a good soldier; that he made
one of the most brilliant campaigns of the
war: that he baflled Hood and brought Gen.
Johnston to surrender. We know, also, as
shown by overwhelming testimony, that he
was in error in charging Wade Hampton with
the burning of Columbia, and tits fair infer
ence that he may be equally in error in his
charge against jefferson Davis. In any event,
If is no concern of the Senate,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

The Secretary Of the New York state
Board Of Health has examined a sample
Of alleged buckwheat flour which did not
contain particle Of buekwheat, but con-
tanned a large proportion Of gypsum and
other injurious substances.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

A jury in Maine last week fixed the
value Of a dog, which had been killed by
the owners neighbor, at $50. That is
what the owner swOre the dog was worth.
He forgot that he owned such a valuable
canine, however, when he returned his
prOpprtv for taxation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

The news comes from far of Australia
that. the people there are indignant over
the annexation Of part of New Guinea
by Germany. 1t seems like everybody IN
the world is determined TO have voice
in this matter except the Guinea negroes
themselves
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

A Republican paper says the Demo
cratic party is fast becoming the party
of prohibition in Kansas and the West.
What troubles the Republicans most,
however. is that the Democrats are pre-
pairing TO prohibit so much Republican
rascality. not only in the West, but all
over the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

Unjust and oppressive taxation contin-
ues in Mexico. While many Of the luxu-
ries Of the rich are comparatively free,
PLAYING cards. which are considered
among the necessaries of life by the masses
of the people, are made to pay stamp
tax of 80 per cent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

Capt. Eads has published neat pam
phlef containing the arguments in favor
OF his proposed Tehuantepec ship rail-
way. He estimates the net annual profits
Of his company when the road Is IN OPP
Grafton at 14IE per cent. There can be
little doubt that money invested in this
enterprise viii pay at least as well as
KeeIv motor stock.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

TIE New jersey railroads running to
New York have combined to raise freight
rates on milk, and formed ''milk pool
The milkmen will not be allowed to get
any of the benefits Of the pool. They will
have to use the pump or gather at the
river" as heretofore.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

A Pennsylvania jaIler has caught Abe
Buzzard's photograph and he will kindly
furnish copies of it to hero worshipers
and detectives who want to keep out Of
the way Of the notorious outlaw, for the
low price Of So each.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

Petitions do not appear to be as value
less III New York as many suppose. The
Morton men accuse the Evarts men Of
having canvassers the liberal price of SO
per hundred for getting signatures. Nor
toms men are indignant that attempts
should be made to influence the Legisla-
ture by any less noted signatures than
those of Spinner, New or Wyman.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

The Albany NeirS may not be endowed
with tie gift OF prophecy, but it has good
Judgment and sound common sense. 1t
SAYS: savannah is destined to become
wealthy and prosperous beyond precedent
under the benifcent dispensatiOn OF the
tariff reform era. When Congress strikes
the letters from the limbs of trade, Savan-
nah will feel in all her business arteries
the impulse Of new and more prosper
ous life "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16

The cheap cabs have been running in
New York just one year, and their own
ers are said to be highly gratified on ac-
count of the profits realized while the
public continues to be delighted.