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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

1t is announced that Congressman Will
lam Walter Phelps has made discovery of
a worry important character, and from what
the newspapers print concerning it, there is
some reason to believe the announcement.
Mr. Phelps discovery is this: the Southern
representatives in Congress have reached
the point where they demand equal atten-
ton with the North from the appropriation
committees. Congressman Phelps is very
much shocked at this, but it is hoped that
he will recover. The North and West owe
great deal of their prosperity to Congress
sional appropriations for those sections,
while the South has taken & back scat.
That she pays her part Of the taxes Mr..
Phelps will hardly deny; that she is en-
titled to as much consideration rs any other
section is an equally incentrovsrsible fact
1t is n good thing Tor the South that she is
demanding justice in this respect, and it
may be stated for Mr. Phelps benefit that
the hostility Of men of his party will not
prevent her from getting it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
Ia This the Republican Plan .

In letter to Mr.. James E. Frazier, of
Virginia, Gov. Foraker, of Ohio, states
what he thinks should be the plan of Re-
publican campaign. He says: 81 think in
the next contest we can safely leave a num-
Der of Northern States to take care of them
selves, and give our attention to the South.
l believe we should carry the war into
Africa"
Some weeks ago, in a confidential circular
sent out in the interest OF Senator Sherman,
ex-senator Malone, of Virginia, expressed
substantially the same opinion. He severely
criticised Mr.. Blaine for giving Virginia
the go-by in 1884, and said that his State
and other Southern States were good mis-
sionary ground for the Republicans
Gov. Foraker is, ostensibly at least, one of
Senator Shermans friends. SO is Malone.
What inference is to be drawn from the
agreement of opinion on the part of these
lieutenants of Sherman9 1t is PLATA enough.
Sherman, if he is nominated, proposes to
make strong effort to carry several South
ern States.
The Democrats would like to see this plan
adopted because it would give them a
clearer field in the doubtful Northern and
Western States and at the same time they
could keep an eye on the South.
The Republicans, of course, would not
expect to carry many Southern States.
Probably the Virginias, North Carolina and
Tennessee are all they would contend for.
At one time they had, or professed to have,
strong hopes of carrying Louisiana, but the
opinion may be hazarded that, owing to
late events unnecessary to mention, they
have abandoned that hope. Could they
carry any one or all of the other States
namedf 1t is quite safe to say they could
not.
Four years of Democratic rule have i'm
pressed the South with the idea that four
more will be very good thing for her
But suppose Senator Sherman is not nomi-
mated, what then3 1t is probable that in
any event big effort to carry certain
Southern States will be made The Repub-
licans profess to believe they could win
with the tariff as an issue, but they are not
going to risk it.
There may be Democrats in the South who
are not in full accord with their party on
the tariff, but there will be no detection
worth mentioning.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
How Calico Got It's Name,
From Smiths Researcher.


The derivation of this word is very interest
ing, as of such an ancient date is its origin
Mrs Leopowens says in her Travels in India
that in the year 1883 just ten months and two
days after leaving the port at Lisbon Vasco da
Cana landed on the coast of Melabar at Calicut,
or more properly Kale Rhoda, "City of the
Black Goddess" Calcut was at that period not
only very ancient seaport, but an extensive
territory, which, stretching along the western
coast of Southern India, reached from Bombay
and the adjacent islands to Cape Comorin. It
was at an early period famous for its weav-
ing and dyeng of cotton cloth that its name
became identified with the manufactured fabric
whence the name calico 1t is now generally
admitted that this ingenious art originated in
India in remote ages, and from that country
found its way to Egypt,
1t was not until the middle of the seventeenth
century that calico printing was introduced into
Europe. A knowledge of the art was acquired
by some of the servants Of the Dutch East India
Company and carried to Holland, whence it was
introduced in London i'll the year 1916 1t is sur
prisng for grown-up children as well as orr
young folks, to learn that "Plny as early as the
first century mentions in his natural history
that there existed in Egypt wonderful method
of dying white cloth" Calico cannot be de-
spised when it boasts of such antiquity. The
shoddy make up of the present day may look
down with contempt upon the calico dress. but
what kind of lineage has it?" the calico can
proudly ask
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

How Rextord Won His Spurs.
From The judge,


Rexford was downcast. On leaving college
he had felt called to the fine arts but as his
father had mortgaged even the COW to effect
a graduation, ne boy concluded TO 20 to work
for Sugar. Light Weight & Co., groccrs
As be sat In tho counting room, looking, boy
like, at pictures OF spice factories and tomato
can machines he realized that he would soon
be rolling barrels down cellar or holding the
horse on delivery wagon to save the cost of q
hitching post.
AS his employerihpproache BEDFORD lnadver-
emily started the old college air. 1--WE never
drink"
"Ahl temperate young man at last" cried
Mr., Lightweight, as if relieved. Instead of
counting toothpicks or jerking nails out of
empty flour barrels, yon may take desk in my
private office and attend to the European cor
respondence."
Half an hour later Rexford's legs might have
been seen dangling from a Russia leather COW
cred stool. Mr.. Light Weights pretty daughter
had Just gone, not altogether disappointed at
not finding papa, and the young man was hum
ming an air-"We never drink behind the BARI
On what trifes hang human destinies!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

AMI Smith, the Superintendent Of the
Senate document room, is man with a
memory, as his position requires that no
shall be. The other day he was handed a
note from Senator Edmunds, tating that a
constituent wanted a list of people who put
in claims FOR dGmageS under the French
spoliation treaty growing out Of the war of
1872 The Senator was very anxious to
furnish his cons fluent with tie list, bat did
no, know where TO find it, As soon as
Smith lad read the note he said, you
will find the LIST in executive document No
ITO, Forty-hsst Congress. second session"
1t will be noticed that Smith forgot to men,
ton the page. He might also have saved
Senator E1munds some trouble by naming
tie applicants.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGS alanthe Lodge No. 28, X. of p;
peKalb Lodge No. O. l. o. o. F.; Zerubbabel
Lodge No IS, F. A. M; Teutonia Division
No. 8, X. of p; Teutonia Lodge No. z,
X. of P; Road Commissioners; Savannah Turn
verein; German Friendly Society; DuGuesclin
Division No. l, U. r. X. of P; Workingmen's
Benevolent Association; German Volunteers.
SPECIAL NoTICEs-Notice to Water Takers;
Prof p NJ Whitman, Graduate Optcian;
Melons, S. S. Collins & Co.
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULEs-Baltimore Steamship
Co; Ocean Steamship Co.
PIcNIC-Anderson Street Sunday School Pic
mic to Tybee on Tuesday.
AUCTION SALEs-Sundries, by ]. Mclaughlin
& Son.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEaENTs-Help
Wanted Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

The political pot is not boiling very
fiorcoly in Georgia, but the situation is be-
coming interesting With regard to the
Govcrnorship there is absolutely no excite
ment, it being conceded on all hands that
Gov. Gordon will succeed himself. No one
has been suggested as an opposing candi-
date. The Governor has made an excellent
officer, and he is very popular with the
people. If, therefore, he asks a second term,
as he doubtless will, there will be no one to
oppose him.
The crop of legislative candidates has not
matured, and yet the number of people
who have expressed willingness to serve
the public at 80 much per diem is not small.
Georgia needs strong Legislature, as some
matters of very great Importance are to be
considered
OF the ten Congressman from this State,
it seems settled that six will be renominated
without opposition. These are Messrs Tur-
ner, Of the Second district; Crisp, of the
Third; Grimes, of the Fourth; Stewart, of
the Fifth; Blount, of the Sixth, and Barnes,
of the Tenth.
In the First district Col. Norwood. Capt
Gordon and ex-Congressman Nichols are
engaged in very lively contest for the
nomination. and although the convention
is close at hand, it is impossible to predict
with any degree Of certainty who will
get it.
In the Seventh there are three candidates
--Messrs. Clements, Reese and Branham,
the last two Of whom think Mr.. Clements
J, ON Ia,
victory over DR.. FELTON,. If Mr. Reese or
Judge Branham should be nominated, by
combining their strength, or otherwise, the
district would be well represented, but if
Mr. Clements Is returned, there will be no
ground for general grumbling.
In the Eighth district, DR.. Carlton may
have some opposition. No candidate against
him has been announced, but it is whispered
around that Col. Samuel Barnett will enter
the race.
There is a rumored change in the situa-
ton in the Ninth district Col Gambler and
Judge Lester are still battling against each
other, the friends of each claiming about
equal strength for their favorites, while
the Rev. Thaddeus Pickett, of Cherokee
county, threatens to shy his castor in tho
ring, not as a candidate for nomination,
but as an independent candidate for cleo
ton. Like most Independents, Mr.. Pickett
asserts that he is a true Democrat; but if he
once gets well started on the in
dependent road, he is likely to pull
upin the Republican camp. The wisest
thing he can do is to submit his candidacy
70 and abide by the action of the nomi-
mating convention. If he runs as an indie
pendent he will be defeated, no doubt. Col
Gambler won his spurs when he defeated
Hon. Emory Speer, and he would find it
much easier to defeat Mr.. Pickett; and
Judge Lester, if nominated, would "knock
out" the reverend gentleman with more or
less ease. 1t is too early to say who will get
the nomination
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
Take Down the Fences.

The people of this county should carefully
consider tho question of the advisability of
adopting the stock law. There is no doubt
that the adoption of that law would bo Of
incalculable benefit to the county. If the
land could be titled without being enclosed
by fences the number of farmers would in
crease very rapidly, and thousands of acres
which are now unoccupied would be placed
under cultivation.
Those who oppose the adoption of the
stock law may be sincere in their opposi-
ton, but it is quite safe to say that many
of them are wholly influenced by selfish
motives. They don't want to provide pas
ture for their cattle on their own lands, and
they do want their cattle to feed upon the
lands of others.
Their cattle, however, would be much
more valuable if they were properly cared
for in an enclosed field. Tame grasses and
the right kind of attention would improve
their condition greatly, and in the case of
cows would improve and increase their milk
and butter product.
Remove the necessity for building and re-
pairing fences, and all that section between
Isle of Hope and Montgomery south, and to
the line of Effingharn county west would be
quickly covered with truck farms and
gardens. Of course the population would
increase in proportion as the number of
farms increased, and in a comparatively
few years the rural part Of the county
would undergo very marked change for
the better
At present the people of the country
have to depend to great extent upon the
city for certain kinds of supplies which the
country could easily produce, but if the
fences were abolished its dependence upon
the city for such things as can be grown
upon farms would wholly cease, and it
would not only supply the city market, but
would have a surplus for other markets.
1t is impossible to point out in a short ar
ticle all the benefits which would accrue to
both city and country by the adoption of the
stock law, but the most of them are appar-
ent to every intelligent person who gives
the matter conscientious consideration.
1t is true that much of the land would be
titled by colored men, but there is no rea-
son why they should not become successful
farmers. They cannot make farms
out of the unoccupied lands now because
they haven't the money to build fences, but
just as soon as the necessity for fences is
done away with hundreds of them will be
gin to till a few acres, and as they are able
they will increase their acreage until they
have valuable little farms Let the mo
fence" law be adopted in Chatham county
and the county's farming interests will at
once undergo marvellous development.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

A man was arrested in New York the
other day charged with burglary. Several
small steel saws were found on his person,
but the Judge decided that saws were not
burglars tools, so the prisoner was released.
In dlscharging him, however, the Judge
advised him to reform. In other words,
his decision was somewhat like the verdict
of the jury which read: 1--WE, the jury,
find the prisoner not guilty, but advise him
not to do so again.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

the last words she knelt down beside her basket.
as If accidentally, and raised her eyes pleadingly
to the loge in which the venerable Kaiser was
seated, who sought in vain to conceal his
emotion 1t was but momentary, and only the
initiated understood that Lucca had prevailed.
After the representation the Emperor sent
request for the cornfower bouquet, and the
hope of seeing her very soop again in Berlin.
On March % 1882, there appeared once more
the runaway favorite of Berlin, Pauline Lucca
IN Carmen, after a ten years absence from
the stage of the Roval Opera House.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

There is a rumor abroad that Postmaster
General Dickinson win resign, in order that
he may conduct the coming campaign on
the part Of the Democrats. The chief sig
nificance to be attached to this is that Mr..
Dickinson is accredited with the intention
of resigning his present office before he un-
dertakes the work in question. If he were
a Republican, under a Republican admins
tration, he would freeze to his office and get
in his work at the same time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

A good many Gresham emissaries are be-
ing sent out over the country, and they seem
to be getting in some effective work TO-. Il
linois' adopted son. If Gresham is nomi-
mated, the credit will be due TO Illinois.
She took him up after his State had repu
dated him, and all the strength his boom
has gathered may be traced to her influence.
The emissaries who are now working inn
rcrtant STATE delegations ike those of New
YORK and Pennsylvania are from Chicago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

Mr.. Blaine, whose latest talk for publica.
ton appeared Saturday, is represented as
being ''noticeably quiet and thoughtful
while speaking of Mr.. Conkling" No
doubt he was, and his thoughts were not
very pleasant ones, either, for if it had
not been for Mr.. Conkling he might now
be in the White House; aud il it we're not
for his treatment of Mr. Conkling, he would
have fewer enemies among the New York
stalwarts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
Mickles Make tho Muckle.
from tie Birminoham Herald.

TFOW UIe bTWITtyIuRt 11eTUtI.
An exchange has taken the trouble to figure
out the sum that may be accumulated from
small savings. 1t is truly said that about the
most discouraging condition in the world is that
OF the young and ambitious man who plods
along and at the end of each year has only his
living TO show for his labor. Small savings seem
Insignificant but they are not so.if. persisted in
for even a reasonable length Of time There is
nothing of novelty in the table of savings given
below, but it will open the eyes of many clerk
TO the possibilities before him, resulting from d
very simple method which many persons, un-
fortunately for their declining years, have not
thought it worth their while to adopt:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

Congressman McComas, who is a member
of the Republican committee appointed to
prepare a substitute to the Mills bill, thinks
the Democrats will have one majority in
favor of their bill. Well. that would be
good, safe majority. The vote, however,
will hardly be so close.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

The Providence Journal thinks "Presi-
dent Cleveland's failure to maintain civil
service 80 ON" will cause the Mugwumps
T. s,;",' II Judge Gresham, if he is nomi
nat,,.. aIy other candidate put forward
az Chicago. That is where the Journal is
mistaken. Mr.. Cleveland has improved the
civil service, and the Mugwumps will vote
for him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, it seems,
wants more home missionary work done.
In an address delivered by her at a mission
airy meeting in Philadelphia the other day,
she took strong ground in favor of such
work. Miss Cleveland is possessed of some
of the good, hard sense of her brother, the
President
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

Senator Sherman's friends want it dis
tinctly understood that ben" Butterworth
will not put him in nomination at Chicago.
That duty will be performed by that assist
ant "bloody shirt" politician, the Hon.
George Frisbie Hoar. Doubtless the Massa-
chusetts statesman is now rehearsing his
little speech Mr.. Hoar is great on rehear-
sails
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, is a
Is significant that he does not believe the
Chicago convention will nominate Mr..
Blaine Mr.. Scott may be wrong this time,
however. 1t is not expected of any man
that he hit the bulls eve every shot.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

The Pennsylvania Republican statesmen
are somewhat divided in their Presidential
preferences. Senator Quay is for Sherman,
Old man Simon Cameron is for Alger, while
nobody seems TO know anything about SEN
ator Don Cameron's references. Perhaps,
despite his protests, Senator Cameron pre-
fers himself, and is ''laying low" till the
opportune time arrives.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
A MALIGNANT Enarnv

The President has no bitterer nor more
malignant enemy than the Albany IN. "
Times. 1t does not hesitate to resort to all
sorts of unfair means to create prejudice
against him. In recent article, it said:
There is no Democrat of intelligence in
this county who does not comprehend the
true character of the canvass which has
been made for the denomination of Presi-
dent Cleveland. There is hardly one in the
country who has not read the story of
official pressure, of Executive orders, of
Federal Interference in even tho smallest
matters of State and county politics, a story
yet to be continued in various forms up to
the very moment when the final vote of the
convention necessary to register the formal
transfer has been cast and recorded"
Doesn't everybody know that the Presi-
dent hasn't made any effort to secure re-
nomination. Doesn't everybody know that
no effort has been necessarya Throughout
the length and breadth of the country the
Democratic masses have come together and
freely and gladly Endorsed the President
and his administrative acts. They have not
been influenced by officeholders or wire
workers, but have simply expressed their
convictions Such unanimous Endorsement
is unprecedented, but it is as merlted 1t is
the reward of an able, honest and success
full administration, and its value is increased
by the fact that it is spontaneous.
The Times, not satisfied with trying to
create the false impression that the PreSi-
dent will be renominated by the aid of party
machinery, processes to believe that the
delegates, when they meet in convention,
may refuse to obey the expressed wish of
the people on the ground that they were led
to indorse the President by administration
pressure. 1t says that "there will be many
quiet conferences where one man from
Texas, another from Kansas, a third from
New England and a group from New York
will feel that companionable touch of the
elbow that attracts condolences, and each
will tell the other of how things were man
aged in his State and his district, and what
the true feelings of the people are, and what
the chances of election are. 1t is in these
quiet conferences that the chance of wiser
party action yet lies The administration
pressure cannot be exercised there with such
irresistible force as in small districts or in
State committees"
Was there ever before such twaddle rs
this published in a newspaper watch pre-
tended to have any respect for itselfs The
Times is not ignorant. 1t is simply malig-
nant
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
Was It Unpatriotic?

From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Den1.)
1t was hardly patriotic of the new German
Minister to the Unit ID States to cross over to
Liverpool and take an English steamer for New
York. Are not the German lines good enough
for a PlenipotentiaryY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
The Question Bothers Them.

From the Pittsb,trg Dispatch (Rep)
Jackson was the last Democratic President
who served two full terms. Cleveland has some
times been compared 10 Jackson, but it
mains to be seen whether his proverbial good
luck will be equal to that of the hero of New
Orleans
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

John J. Jarrett is talking very freely
perhaps a trihe too freely. He has returned
to Pittsburg from visit 10 Washington,
where no went to fight the Mills bill, and
HIS wrath seems to have been aroused par
ticularly against Congressman Scott, of
whom he says: Scot is wicked, vicious
rascal, and unworthy of the trust placed in
him" Mr.. Scott has a habit of flaying
people when ho tackles them, and Jarretts
record is not so good that he can afford to
talk about him in that style.