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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
A New Harbor Projected.

The report that Jay Gould and other CAPT.
talists propose to deepen the bar at the
mouth of the Brazos and make channel
up that river very naturally excites great
atteation in Texas, and particularly in Gal
weston. The Brazos enters the gulf about
forty miles southwest of Galveston, and
drains large secticn of fertile country. At
high water it is navigable for steamboats,
for about $50 miles.
Nothing is definitely known about the
scheme of Mr.. Gould and his associates,
assuming that there is such a scheme as
above Indicated, beyond the fact that large
purchases of land about the mouth of the
Brazos have been made, and that in some
instances the prices paid were very high
1t is almost impossible at present to buy
land in that vicinity on any reasonable
terms. The impression has got abroad that
Mr. Gould intends to make the mouth of
the Brazos the Gulf terminus of his Mis-
souri, Pacific system. If he does that locality
will have great boom, and the holders of
the land VIII have a chance to engage in
real estate speculation on a very large scale
Galveston is, of course, greatly stirred up
over this report, and with very good rea-
son. With good harbor and deep water
at the mouth of the Brazos she would be in
danger of losing much of her commercial
Importance. Although she has been irving
to get deep water i'll her harbor
for years, and millions of dollars has been
spent by the government to accomplish that
object, she is still inapproachable by deep
draught vessels. Indeed, it is 10y no means
certain that her harbor can ever be made
to accommodate the large vessels which are
now required by the demands of commerce.
The Missouri Pacific has vast western con
nections, and if it seeks an outlet on the
seaboard at the mouth of the Brazos much
of the traffic that now goes to Galveston
will go there. Such prospec; is certainly
not pleasant one for that city to contem-
plate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

1t seems to be understood that at the
meeting of the Railroad Commission of this
State on March Is, All effort will be made
to readju and reduce the railroad passenger
rate The rate is now Be a mile, and the
impression is that it will be reduced to
! 2lfc.
The people will, of course, offer no objec-
ton to reduction, though, as far as any
public information is concerned, they have
not asked it. Whether or not the railroads
will oppose it is matter uDon which they
have not yet been heard. The probability
is that some viii oppose it and Others will
Offer no objection to it.
Heretofore reductions in passenger and
traffic rates have originated with the com
mission, but, in this instance, the proposed
reduction was suggested by the action of the
Western and Atlantic. Some time ago that
road reduced its passenger rate half cent
a mile, and asked the commission to recog-
nize the reduction. II, therefore, the other
roads are not in sympathy with the move
ment for lower rate, they can hardly blame
the commission for it. The Western and
Atlantic inaugurated it, and is, therefore,
responsible for it, and is entitled to what
ever credit attaches to it.
AS railroads do not voluntarily make
concessions from which they do not
hope to receive benefits that will
fully compensate them for what they CON
cede, il is fair to conclude that the Western
and Atlantic expects that the reduced rate
will result in such an increase of business
that it will be gamer by the reduction
If this is the expectation of that road and
1t is a very reasonable one, then there is no
reason to think that the other great roads
of the State willy object TO a reduction
They have the same reason to expect in
creased business from reduced rate that
the Western and Atlantic has.
When the rate was reduced to Sc some of
the roads thought they would suffer seri-
Gus falling off in their passenger receipts,
but they were mistaken. The great increase
in the number Of passengers more
than compensated for the reduction in the
rate.
OF course there is a limit below which the
rate cannot be reduced without loss The
railroad officials are better able to Judge
where that limit is than those unacquainted
with railroad management can possibly be,
and in fixing rates the commission must, to
a great extent, rely upon their Judgment.
In view of the step that the Western and
Atlantic has taken, however, it is fair to
presume that so far as the trunk lines are
concerned a reduction will be beneficial to
them as well as to the people
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
BRIGHT BITS.

The notice of the wedding of prominent
gambler last week contained this significant
paragraph: mo cards.
a PoETIc SERVANT -Poet-Put my writing
table into order, want to go to work.
Servant Ia few minutes later)Pegasus is
saddled. -Bertiher UH.
BOBBY thoughtfully)-Pa?
Father Grasciblyj-Ia as ya'as, what is it?
Bobby-Do you think I'll he as cross as you
are when grow up?--Ierds SJtulgS.
KENTUCKY SCHOOL TEACHER ito infant Glass;
Yes, dear children, the camel can go seven days
without water.
Glass lin chorus)-Is that all.-Ne,o York Sun.
Mainland so you are not going to marry
young Softly?
Erhel-No, can't marry him. never could
write pretty capital ), and so il would be
hard for me to write my name.-DetrOh Free
Press
A YOUNG LADY at Heyworth, H., has made a
crazy quilt with y, 082 pieces in it, and its dol
lars to doughnuts that her husband-if she ever
has one-will have to pir his coat tails 10 his
trousers for want Of single patch. Mtnnedp-
oils Tribune.
against this Lent business tooth and toenail.
Good Lady (horrilled)-You must be
heathen
Bad Man-No, I'm not; I'm a butcher
Washington critic.
A PRIEST is called in to see a poor old hack
man who is on his deathbed The priest (sol-
EMMY Have you been in the habit of going to
church
The hackman lfaintly)-No; but (his face
brlghteningl I've driven lots of people there
Truth.
WHISKY is fearful stuff" young man, he
said, warningy
Some Of il is, sir responded the young
man, rendering his bottle; out just try nip at
that. tn make your hair curl.
Good said the old man, smacking his lips
-Ne;o York. sur.
CAPT. HOFFMAN, Well. I'm surprised TO see
YOU here; had no idea you were interested in
this wedding.
Mis- Firtioy-Neither am |; but you see I'm
going to get married myself next week. I'm
up III the lines, bat i'm rather rusty in the bust
ness, you know.-PUck.
"How do you like our pastor;''
Much indeed. Like good wine, he improves
with age"
Yes, and his sermons are also like good
wine"
"Why?n
They are extra d~y. Lincoln Journal.
Mrs. LA TRoAB (of Baltimore, with infinite
pride i'll her cookl-Erince is going to give us
treat tonight. He promises terrapin Sou6te
for your benefit
Miss Barbe tencer (of Dakota)-Iow entranc-
ing! I've always so longed to see a real South
ern darkey in a real Southern dance.-Iid- Bits
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
Senatorial Joke.

When Senator Hoar got the Senate the other
day 10 arrange for unique celebration OF
Washington's birthday by having President pro
tempore Ingalls, read Washington's farewell nd.
dress, Ingalls, got his bright son to copy the ad.
dress for him on type writer and proceeded to
read it over the next morning in his committee
room. While he was right in the midst of il
Senator Henderson. Senator Palmer and others
of the Senate wits walked solemnly in and
gravely informed him that they were a delega.
ton representing the Senate, who had been sent
to beg him TO relinguish the purpose which il
was understood he had adopted, TO make a fare
well address to the Senate on the coming
Wednesday preparatory to retiring from public
life. senator Ingalls,. who has as keen a sense
Of humor as any of them, gravely responded
that as a candidate for the Presidency, whose
name had been iavoraoly mentioned in more
than one newspaper outside Of his own State he
felt that IL would be but proper and becoming
for him to retire to the shades of private life
until the voice Of the people should call him
forth again. The curtain falls here, l think, for
they all began TO smile.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
Mr.. Cleveland's Opponents.


1t is not easy to find genuine Demo
cratic newspaper that expresses hostility 10
/ Mr. Cleveand's denomination, and if there
/ are prominent Democratic Congressman
| who think it would be advisable for the
! Democratic party to nominate some other
man they are careful not to express their
! opinions publicly. The Republican papers,
| however, have no difficulty in discovering
! among Democrats a great deal of opposition
| to Mr.. Cleveland's nomination. Can it be
/ that prominent Democrats talk more freely
to the representatives of Republican than to
d mocrdtic newspapers, or are the Repub-
lican newspapers, without any substantial
foundation, trying to create the impression
that there is great deal of opposition to
Mr.. Cleveland, with the hope of defeating
his denomination?
The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press IS continually sending
dispatches to his paper in which he declares
that Mr.. Cleveland has no friends, that if
the leading Democrats in Washington have
their way he viii not be renominated, and
that it is quite generally admitted by them
that, if nominated, he cou6 not carry
either New York or Indiana
This sort of stuff may please the readers
of the Press, who doub less are about all
Republicans, and who would like nothing
better than to see the Democratic party
nominate some other man than Mr.. Cleve-
land, because they are about satisfied that
his nomination means his reelection. In
fact, the Republicans at present appear to
he much more anxious to prevent Mr..
Cleveland's denomination than they are
about the choice of candidate for their
own party. They probably argue that it
doesn't make much difference who their
candidate is if Mr.. Cleveland is renomi-
mated, because their candidate cannot be
elected. Their aim, therefore is to get Mr..
Cleveland out of the way
An illustration of the unreliable and
worthless stuff which the Press correspond
ent sends to his paper is his statement that
the leading Democrats of Indiana say that
Mr.. Cleveland could not carry that State.
1t is doubtful if any well informed Demo-
crat ever made a statement of that kind.
Mr.. John c. New, ex- Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, and at present editor of the
Indianapolis Journal, Republican
paper, says that it is doubt
full if the Republicans car carry that State
even if they nominate their strongest man
Mr.. Cleveland, he says, is steadily growing
more popular there. and only by nominating
a man popular in Indiana, and by the hard
est work can they carry it, if, in fact, they
can carry it at all
What Mr.. New says is certainly entitled
= II. 4 q. A.
Press correspondent, who never dares to
make any Democrat of prominence re-
sponsible for IFS nonsense.
At present there is no reason to doubt
that Mr.. Cleveland will be renominated
without any effort on his part, and without
any exhibition Of opposition t. him. New
York will demand his denomination, a ID if
he is the party's choice it is quite certain
that he will carry both New York and In
diana
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
How He Knew.

From the Detroit Free Press.
~ should like to complain, sah,' he said at
the Gratiot avenue station yesterday.
"A bout whatfn
"Ize been workin' fur a lady, sah.'
'Wellg'
An she won't pay me what she owes me,
sab"
Have you asked for e"
Yes. sab.
"And she won't pay"
mo, sab"
Then she's no lady"
so, yes she ar, sab"
GLOW do you know"
"Kase when went up dar an axked her fur
de money she stood right Off an used de awful.
est biggest words you cher heard "
Did she say that owing to the disquietude of
the compendium she would absquatulate Won
into the torrd regions further than pigeon
could perambulate in six months before she'd
prognosticate "copper""
she did! She did OATS 'zatly what she
said, word fur word, an didn't Kit my breff
fur hull mint. Yes sab, she's a regular lady.
an lie fraid 10 go back dar again
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
A Regular Boy.
From st. Nicholas.

from 81. 4NtChOtuS.
He was not at all particular
To keep the perpendicular,
While walking, for he either skipped or jumped
He stood upon his head awhile,
And when he went to bed awhile,
He dove among the pillows, which he thumpec
He never could keep still bit;
The lockers on thought i'll of it,
He balanced on his ear the kitchen broom;
And did some neat trapezirg,
Which was wonderfully pleasing,
On every peg in Grandpa's harness-roo
From absolute inanity,
The cat approached insanity
To see him slide the bansterS so rash;
But once Oh that mahogany,
While trying TO toboggan, he
Upset his calculations with a crash.
And since that sad disaster
He has gone about in plaster
Not of Paris, like nice Italian toy;
But the kind the doctor uses
When the bumps and cuts and bruises
Overcome a little regular live boy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

How Queen Victoria Satisfied Her Gu
riosity on the Subject.

riosity on the Subject.
From The liverpool Mercury.
The Queen has taken great care that all her
daughters shall have fine pearl necklaces for
their shapely necks She has looked after them
in that respect from their very babyhood. One
Of her first purchases after the birth of each
has been two or three pearls of which jewel the
Queen is very fond. and every year until their
marriage she has added pearl or two to the
stock, until the necklace she required was ready.
In this quiet, economical way she has been abr
to make up a rope of pearls for each of the
Princesses, and those who have seen the neck
laces at court Will bear me out in saying that
the Queen S daughters are, so far as Ne iris go,
Wen supplied with jewelry. Thereby hangs a
tale Tor which the correspondent can vouch.
Some years ago her Majesty bought from
wellknown London pearl merchant three very
beautiful pearls the united cost of which was
not far short of $500. Four hundred and eighty
pounds is the exact sum mentioned. They
pleased royalty greatly and we're paid for with
out demur \ little while after the purchase
had been made the merchant was surprised to
receive letter from lady at court saying:
The Queen wants very much to know whether
pearls viii burn The reply to this somewhat
startling scientific inquiry was an assurance
that If her Majesty wished to oxygenize pearls
Tor her amusement she would find that they
would burn in an ordinary fire.
i his re1Oinder produced the secret. The Queen
had placed her pearls on her writing desk in a
piece OF he tissue paper which jewelers. use.
As she Yves writing one morning she used the
tissue paper to wipe her pen and threw it into
the fire. The pearls, all unobserved, went with
1t. The ashes of the CRATE were searched for
them in vain. They had been destroyed so
utterly as to leave no trace. The Queen with
her own hand had cast three splendid Jewels
worth more than the average income of her
middle class Subjects into the blaze. Pearls
have not since been kept on the royal writing
table.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
Two Republicans Lock Horns

Ex-Gov. Bullock and the New Y ork Press
are engaged in quite a spirited discussion of
the question whether Southern Republicans,
and particularly Georgia Republicans, are
defrauded of their rights.
The Press declares that they are, and it
wants that alleged fact brought promi-
nently into the coming Presidential contest.
THE Republican party" it says, "made
the negroes voters, and it is the bounden
duty of that party to see that they are not
defrauded of their franchise In the opin-
ion of the Press, it may do very well for ex-
Gov. Bullock to declare that the negro vote
is not suppressed in Georgia, but the 'cod
facts" do not bear him out. The cold
facts may be summed up in the statement
that ''all the members of Congress in the
State of Georgia are elected by 10000 less
votes than are polled in one Congressional
district in the North
Ex-Gov. Bullock thinks the "cold facts
point the other way, and that the Republi-
cans are accorded the same rights as the
Democrats in Georgia. There is no intimi-
dalton, and no shotgun policy" Re-
lieved from the prejudice that his political
action is controlled by alien influences, the
negro voter has become an important ee-
ment in local contests, where his vote is
kindly solicited by the Democrats If the
Republican National Convention discards
the race issue, he will become, the ex-Gov-
enor thinks, an important element in
national contests.
1t is worthy of note that two ex-carpet-
bag Governors have lately given the
"bloody shirt" policy a backset One of
them is ex-Gov Bullock The other is ex-
Gov, Warmoth, of Louisiana, who, in his
present canvass for the Governorship of that
State, is boldly advocating white supre-
macy. Do not these facts indicate a ten
dency on the part of the Republicans to ad-
init what is very evident to others, viz, ,
that the negroes of the South are dropping
out OF politics Of their own accord!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

The dispatches have already announced
that the Elections Committee reported ia
vorably to Mr.. Pest in the Worthington-
Post contest from the Tenth Illinois dis
trict This report shows the spirit of fair
ness by which the committee is actuated.
Mr.. Post, who is a Republican, received a
majority in his district of - votes The
margin was so close that his opponent de
cided to contest the election i'll the hope of
discovering evidence to change the result.
The Democratic committee, after carefully
investigating the matter, decided that Mr..
Post was fairly elected by slightly more than
20 najoritv. Does anyone suppose that Re
publican Elections Committee would have
laid aside partisanship and made a report
unfavorable to Republican,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Another of Edgar Allen Poes old sweet
hearts has just died. This one lived in Rich
mond, Va. The sweethearts of great men
who were much older than Poe have not all
died yet and it will doubtless be many years
before those of Poe become extinct. 1t is
wonderful how many youthful love affairs
are attributed to noted men who are dead
Apparently every girl they ever looked at
became impressed afterward with the idea
that they were smitten with her charms.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has long since
ceased to wait for offices to come to him.
When he wants one he lets tn fact be
known and goes TO work to satisfy his am
bition. Just now he is after the Vice Pres
idential nomination. He thinks Mr.. Glove
land will be renominated by reclamation,
and he would like to be OH the ticket with
him. With regard to the report that the
President has signified desire to have him
accept the second place, he has nothing to
say. Perhaps it is as well that he is silent,
for If the truth were told it would probably
be found that Mr.. Cleveland has expressed
no such wish
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

A year or two ago the Ohio Legislature
raised the salary OF the Governor of that
State to an amount sufficient to enable him
to live in proper style, but that of the Lieu
tenant Governor was overlooked or ignored
This officer, 1t seems, gets only $500 year.
The present Leg stature is trying to increase
it to $500, but some of the Republicans OPP
pose the increase, not because they don't
think it should be made, but because that
officer has lately shown some political indie
pendence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
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Goes Straight to the Heart.

From The K1ns08 City Times tDem.)
Here is the Chicago Daily Neus, which asserts
that Gov. Martin, OF Kansas, has ruined his
chances for reelection by using have saw in
one of his messages. Nonsense. We don't be
lieve the Governor ever used the expression, and
if he did it wouldn't hurt him ten votes Have
saw Is not strictly grammatical but it goes
straight to the great, throbbing heart of the
people in a close political contest with almost
pathetic tenderness
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Brooks, alias Maxwell, the murderer,
who is awaiting death in st. Louis, is said
to smoke seventy or eighty cigarettes day.
A visitor who was interested in the report
asked him if there was any truth in it, mo,
indeed" said Brooks, Il am very mode
rate smoker. ! smoke only once a day
from 7:3O a. m. TO $50 p. m" The I'M
happy man is evidently trying to commit
suicide before his death sentence is exc
cuted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Trinity church, in New York, is coming
in for good deal of talk just now This is
because it is said to be sinking. 1t was
erected upon sand, and its immense weight
has caused it to settle. The edifce which
occupied the present site in 1889 had to be
torn down because it settled too much. The
Trinity people, in building church, should
have borne in mind that scriptural injunc-
ton to the effect that house built on the
sand will fall
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
Classic and Queenly Figures.
krom the Boston Globe.

A lady, to meet the requirements Of what
artists call "a classic figure" should be 5 feet
4A inches tall, 81 inches bust. "a inches waist.
3 inches from armpit to waist
and should have long arms and neck. queen
ly woman, to be wei proportional, should be /
feet inches tall 81 inches bust, 26i6 inches
waist, 50 inches hips, 1iJ6 inches around the
upper arm, and ela inches around the wrist,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Mr.. James f. Legate, an ex-member Of
the Kansas Legislature, is engineering a
movement TO send Ingalls, delegates to Chi
cago from that State. There also appears
n be an anti-Gngals element III the State,
and this element is working against the
Senator. Who would have thought that
Ingalls, had his eye on the White Housed
Republican politicians, however, are not to
be trusted. They are continually reaching
out after that winch they ought not to
have and can never get.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

London is trying to get Snowman Bar
mum to take his show there. Several CAPT.
talists in that city have offered to erect
there building for him. For some time he
has been talking of leaving America
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
More SlanderS.
Erom the Chicnnn Nelrs

From the Chicago NeIrs Ond)
Georgia paper asserts that the President,
during his recent Southern trip, kissed large
number of babies at WaycrOss. Now the Re
publicans are claiming that he did it to make
himself solid with the voters from Wayback.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Speaker Cole, of the New York Legisla
ture, is threatened with typhoid fever, the
result of drinking Albany water. During
his illness he is the guest of Gov. Hill.
When the Speaker gets well he will proba-
bly, let Albany water alone