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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
sarannah.s Post Office Needs.

savannah ) GOSJ OIllCt -N6c-aS-
/ The interview with Mr. Lamar published
/ in the MORNING NEWS yesterday shows
/ that Savannah is entitled TO much more
/ liberal treatment with respect to her post
/ office than she gets. Although the most
/ important commercial city on the South
/ Atlantic coast she is shown but little more
consideration than if she We're a tifth-rate
city with no business and no promising fu-
! ture. She has a smaller force in her post
office 20 handle ler mails and fewer carriers
than any other city Of her size and import
ance in the country.
Postmaster Lamar has called attention TO
the needs of the Savannah post office more
than once, and there is no reason 10 doubt
that the Post Office Department is well in
formed with regard to them. While there is
no disposition on the part of Savannah
people to complain they are not disposed TO
have their claims ignored, particularly
when they see that the demands of other
and less deserving cities are granted.
The desire Of the Postmaster General to
make the post office service self-sustaining
is a very commendabe one, but, as the gov
eminent is not hard pressed for money, the
people here see no reason why they should
suffer Inconvenience and embarrassments
simply that the Post Office Department
may make a good showing.
A great many of the complaints sent to
the department are so trivial that they are
not entitled TO consideration. Republican
politicians in the West, for instance whose
friends have lost places in the mail service,
are trying to make it appear that the ser
vice is mismanaged, and that it is being run
wholly as political machine, and without
any regard to efficiency OF course their
object is not to bring about an improvement
in the service, but to bring the administra-
ton into disrepute. Such is not the pur-
pose in Savannah. The complaints which
Postmaster Lamar makes are well founded.
His clerical force and the number of his letter
carriers should be increased. The increase
in both is demaned by the growing work Of
the post office in this city, and should be
granted without unnecessary delay.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
What Allied Him.
From the Nelo York World

From the Nei0 YORK World.
A prominent uptown doctor has been repeat
eddy noticed of late in attendance on the Occu-
pant of a fashionable flat house. The latter is a
millionaire who retired from business some time
ago, after many years of activity, and mmed-
lately became i'll, as so many old people do
from a sudden change of habits. The patient
complained of a peculiar roaring in his ears
every morning and evening. which was attended
now and then with strange clicking noise.
The quinine he had been taking was Immediately
reduced in quantity, but the buzzng and click
ing in his ears continued. At lasts the doctor
was becoming convinced that the quiniue he
used was uncommonly strong or the patient S
head uncommonly cranky, when it was discov-
cred that the tenant of the fiat below had just
bought 800 music box, which played twenty
four tunes and ran for an hour The tunes
couldn't be heard through the sick mans floor
but the hum of the powerful springs and the
click of the cylinders as the tune was changed
had scared him into a big DOCTORS bill :.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

Here are two Democratic papers saving
some improbable things. when Mr.. Til
den wrote his letter of declination to the
Cincinnati Convention in 1892 says the
Washington Post, 'he undoubtedly ex-
pected to be nominated without serious
opposition; but, to his surprise and disgust,
the convention took him at his word" IL is
probably as certain as anything of the sort
can be that, but for Mr. Tilden's letter, he
would have been renominated on the first
ballot, perhaps, by reclamation. Nothing
but his determination not to accept pre-
vented such action. In the light of this
fact, it is strange that the Philadelphia
Times should say: at is true Mr.. Tilden
sent letter of declination to the Demo-
cratic Convention of 1880, but it is also
true that he wrote the letter only after it
was clearly ascertained that he could not be
nominated" There are some people who
Will never forgive Mr.. Tilden for not march
ing to Washington at the head of young
army and forcibly taking possession of the
Presidency in the face OF Congressional
action in 1871
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
The Coming Of Age Feast of a Fine
Old English Gentleman.
From the Manchester Courier


Sir Watkin Williams Wynn was born April 49,
mo. When he became of age an entertain
ment was given, when the following was the
bill of fare: Thirty bullocks, ditto roasted
whole, 80 hogs, so calves, so sheep, IS lambs, 20
pigs, 80 Guinea fowls. 81 turkeys, capons. 25
pea fowls, 300 chickens $50 fowls, 96 ducklings
AZ rabbits, 10 snipes, l leveret, bucks 42i
pounds of salmon, 30 brace of tench, 40 brace
of carp, 43 fishes, 90 dozen trout 108 founders
1903 Holsters, 10 quarts of shrimps, 200 cray
fish, go barrels of pickles of picked oysters.
hogshead of rock oysters, 90 quarts of oysters
for sauce, 166 hams, 100 tongues, 125 plum pud-
dngs, 10S apple pies, 30 beef pies, 81 rice pud-
dngs, venison pies 60 raised pies 80 tarts 30
pieces of pastry. "a pounds of cake, so savory
cakes, 30 sweetmeat cakes, ~ backs of bacon,
IA ice creams, $4,000 eggs, $50 gallons of milk,
90 quarts of cream. 80 bushels of potatoes, 5000
asparagus, go bottles of French beans 30 dishes
Of green peas, II cucumbers, 20 hogsheads of
ale, 100 dozen of ale.
Three coaches full of cooks were sent from
London on this occasion. 1t is thought there
were at least 1900 people at dinner in Sir
Watkins Park all at the same time. The motto
in the kitchen at Wynnstay was then, Waste
not, want not. y
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

John Fler, Gen. Grants old coachman,
wants Congress TO give him a pension. He
finds il a hard matter, however, TO estAb-
lish his claim. He was in the Union army.
and says that from exposure during the war
be Is d physical wreck, but That the two
doctors upon whom he relied 10 substantiate
his statement airs dead. Formerly he was
very well on, bat lately he has lost al bis
property. he H. 10 years old and has
steven children, who certainly ought " be
able ~ keep him out Of the poor house,
wbere b. says be must 81 unless tue pension
4 granted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
Prayer of the Breton Fishers.


Lord of the sea, the sunshine and the gale
God of the hroOding ocean and the storm.
Father of those who brave the treacherous main !.
The sea is mighty, and our boats are small!
Calm is the sea to-day, the sunlight free;
Fair is the tapping wind that fills the sail;
Lord ere we go, we trust our all to thee
Thy sea is mighty and our boats are small.
When the safe stiffness creeps upon the wave
When the white moonlight cheers the silent
night
Guard Us lest danger Turk beneath the calm;
Thy sea is mighty, and our boats are small.
When the wild hurricane uplifts its voice,
And cold embracing pillows threaten us,
II thou should'st slumber we are pOwerless;
Thy sea is mighty, and our boats are small.
Bread giver to the crying fatherless
Husband of widowed.wOmen left to mourn!
Our alive leave them; On! protect them, Lord .
Thy sea is mighty, and our boats are small.
l. O. MILLER.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

For years there has BEEN controversy be
tween the United States and Texes over the
boundary line of Texas, along the Red
river. The upper part Of the river is formed
by the conjunction Of two large branches.
and the question in dispute is, which Of
these two branches is the boundary A
large body Of land, which each party 10 the
dispute wants, lies between the two streams
The matter is 10 be settled by commission
TO consist Of one lawyer, appointed by
the President, one appointed by the Cover
nor OF Texas, and the Chief Justice Of some
State, agreed on by the President and
Governor
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
What He Was Paid For.
Ftom the Me1n York Il.ih,lne

TTONt Tue AfetC YORK ITlDltnP,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The story of the LITTLE
boy who picked up pin in front of the wealthy
merchant and was rewarded for his industry ~
81, 30 clerkship, Is now rather eclipsed by n
recent incident In Postmaster General Diciin
sons career. 1t happened after he had been an.
pointed by the President and before ne had beer
confirmed by he Senate, during which period
his status at the Post Office Department wa q
rather doubtful. One afternoon late he was
about 10 step into the side entrance when tbe
zsalous doorkeeper interposed:
TOO late"
But, my man, / have important business in.
side" So
"Aro you a member OF Congresss"
mo"
Have you an order from a MEMBER
Gait got ga, then, t.,o Iate.r
Well, when can get INF"
Dunno
Who can tell"
Dunno. Move on. now
u was tben that Mr. Dickinson retired and en-.
tered the building by another door. The door.
hsrfirr iu tiae meantime pursued the even tenor
y bis ways, satisfied that b. had done The rigbt
0AnR and finQlcated the authority 81 The Post.
muster General, Not long aftefsard be was
lAiNplaaF1. however. ~ receive an order ~ call
~ ine nes fOFfnasteF General who had 10 lie
nisantlfpe been confirmed bg tue senate His
ast',nishpsni may n Deiter upAHns1 fiiAn De-
bcrli=1 ubeD ~ c0uff yut.1 ~ Dieklnson. fhs
~ nee rlirfl ttosFt, proved uaaeHaflfn0us
qi9p eefs ahfihiaR ~ yeiW slseDilfesy
y ~. bg 40, b1i d nigld hays baff ~
fefilfgf ~ fiIifa siass peslHIaatsf AnsNef
-. 'gi's siieF as that's shat fgufe pad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

The Forum for March will, il is said, con
tam a curious study Of newspapers, wherein
IL will be shown what proportions u their
space are given ~ religion, crime, literature,
art, sport, the markets and editorial. The
article ~ based on a study n the large
dailies Of New York Boston, Philadelphia
Cincinnati, Chicago aud 81 Louis, aud Is
the work " q New York journalist The
space GiYeD 10 crime aud scandal by the
Cincinnati papeIs will prebably put those
departments 10 the Lead ~ tle papep "
that cliy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

The other day a correspondent of the New
York Tribune suggested that as Mr.. Blaine
had withdrawn, the Republicans must nomi-
nate Maine man. He thought Congress.
however, says that nothing could induce
him 10 accept. This sort Of talk does very
well for men like Gen. Sheridan and Mr..
George w. Childs, but it borders on the
ludicrous, coming from a small politician
like Boutelle.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
The Republican Candidates.

From he Neio Y0rI: Herald tInd)
The Republican candidates for the Presidency
are altogether too numerous to mention.
Nearly every prominent member of that party
regards himself specially appointed by Provi-
dence to save the Union. They are all terribly
afraid, however. that the people will fly in the
face of Providence ana relegate them to the
political garnet where the wicked cease from
trouhling
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

The Rev. William P. Evans, of Baltimore,
does not object to pretty and stylish dress
ing. In sermon the other day he said
dress was primarily intended to serve the
purpose of modesty, and secondarily to keep
people warm, but the fact that nature
covers the rose with moss and the tree with
foliage shows that it is no sin to dress
prettily. Many people will agree with Mr.
Evans
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

La Crosse and Rush Centre, in Rush
county, Kan, for eight years have each been
contending that it is the county seat. Rush
Centre appears to be the legal capital, but
the county documents are at La Crosse,
whose citizens refuse to give them up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

A Chicago paper announces that while
Mr.. Blaine is going eastward ex-Mayor
Carter Harrison, of that city, is going west
ward, and in this way the world is kept
from toppling over. If this is true Messrs.
Blaine and Harrison had better remain
where they are, for they not could do the
people any better service at homa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

There was a rumor in New York the other
day that Slugger Sullivan had been shot
while passing along the streets of London.
The rumor was unfounded, and Sullivan is
able TO make jelly out of the man who
started It.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
Minister Phelps Popularity.

A great many of Secretary Bayard's ap-
pointments were severely criticised, and he
lost good deal of his popularity on account
of them The appointment of Minis ter
Phelps was criticised with especial harsh =
ness. 1t was said that he had not been long
enough in politics; that he came from the
wrong State and that he was too small for
the position. The objection that he was
from Vermont is not worth noticing, and
the others have been overthrown by Mr.
Phelps record. He is one of the most popu-
lar representatives this country has ever
sent to the Court of ST. James He has
carefully refrained from having anything
to do with local political differences in En-
gland, and is respected by Liberals Home
Rulers, Liberal Unionists and Tories. He
is favorite with the Queen His quiet
matter-of-fact ways please her, and it is
said he is more frequently invited to Wind
sor Castle than any other foreign represen-
tative He is highly regarded by the Am
bassadors from the European powers He
is a man Of scholarly attainments and of
strong, practical sense
Minister Phelps has been very successful
in his work. 1t was owing to his efforts
that the commission to settle the fisheries
dispute was provided for, and his presenta-
ton of the case induced the English Foreign
Office TO make concessions asked for by the
United States. 1t was through him that
the treaty Of extradition, which, it is under
stood, was defeated in the Senate by reason
of an amendment to it by Senator Sherman,
yyae a oraad unou in oudou Tho roIae;,.,,.
between the two countries are to-day upon
a thoroughly harmonious basis.
1t seems that Mr. Bayard was fully JUST
fed in selecting Mr. Phelps for this import
ant mission, and it will probably appear
upon cons Iteration. that most Of his appoint
ments are equally as satisfactory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

NIT suicide the other day, but failed This
does not speak well for female doctors. If
they can't kill themselves they are hardly
prepared to attend other people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

1t appears that Beecher medals have not
had great sale. Shortly after the great
preachers death, Mr.. James F. Smith was
employed to make large number of them.
1t was expected that more than enough
could be sold to pay him. This expectation
was not, realized, and he brought suit in
Brooklyn court some time ago and on Sat
urday obtained a Judgment for the balance
dine him
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

Mr.. Boutelle says if he were, like Mr..
Hale, in the Senate, he would gladly resign
his seat there to enable Mr.. Blaine to re-en-
ter political life at once. 1t does very well
for Boutelle to talk about resigning some
thing he hasn't, and probably never will
hava
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

Ex-senator Simon Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, declares for Conkling for President
Cameron is one among the famous BOG and
Conkling is another.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
CURRENT COMMENT.
Would Do Very We'll.

From the Nstc York Grophic IndD
How would Chauncey VI. Depew dor" says
an eminent Republican contemporary He
would do as well as anybody eise. Pint him on
the party altar and let him sizzle.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
The Line Must be Drawn.

From the Netr O1lecns PicdyHne (Deml
A man in good standing has been caught at
burglary in Selma. That is very disgusting.
Men in good standing rob States, cities and
banks. and are thought well Of, but they make
themselves too low down when they tackle
grocery stores.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
Can't Write Like Mayor Hewitt.

From the Nelr York Press (Rep)
Congressman Amos J. Cummings is talked of
as the Democratic candidate for Mayor TO sue
coed Mayor He aitt Well Mr.. Cummings can
write letters, but he will have TO rise up early
and sit UP late and eat the bread of sorrow
before he can write such letters as Mayor Hewitt
xV1sitas
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
The Morning News in the City.

All subscriptions payable in advance, and
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Inconvenience of calling at the Business
Office
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

A farmer in Chester, Pa. has struck
upon a novel expedisnt for getting rid OF
crows He was greatly annoyed by them,
and all the usual means 10 drive them away
permanently having failed, be took a half.
psck Of corn and soaked IL thoroughly in
whisky, then scattered IL where they con
gregated They ate IL, but did not q away.
The farmer approached, but sti1 they re
nlained. They were drunk and couldn't
ny. This would be- a very good recipe.
probably, for getting rid n tbe p~sts, but
Tor the fact that the whisky would b. opt
~ lnt0Kicste morn farmers than crows.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

The Republicans have become very 90
ious about NJ cleyelands bonn They
warn the President not " take Il ~ Florida
With BIN, ~ ap alligator Uigbt deyogr b.
The alligator would base ~ tsile d iD
broken dose, ~ " asssk u - ~ w "
fBailos af oEe ggiD.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21

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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-06
Nuggets Of Foreign News.

Seven old wooden warehouses ut Steinward,
Germany, containing cotton, rice, sugar and
saltpeter valued at 1000, 900 marks, were
destroyed by fire. Six persons persisted in
the flames. The spectacle was q grand one.
Twenty thousand persons watched the flames.
Most OF the property was nsured in England.
Five thousand cases of champagne and o
large quantity ofcandles were also destroyed.
The official report of the worlds harvest
shows that the wheat crop in Italy, France,
Great Britain and Russian Podolia is from
20 to 90 per rent below the average, and in
Austria, Hungary, Southeastern Europe and
Egypt from 20 to 80 per cent above the
average. The barley crop in Great Britain,
fcient from 10 to Is per cent. In Germany
there is On average crop, and in Moldavia
the crop is % per cent above the average.
The Cossack expedition to Thibet, under
command of Gen. Prejevalsky, of the Russian
army, is exciting O great deal of suspicion in
London as to the real motives actuating the
car iii ordering it. Ostensibly the expedition
is sent out for the purpose of exploration,
but it is suspected that it's real object is that
Of checking certain English movements and
preventing the inauguration Of others on the
Thibet n Bokharan borders. The ex-
ploration theory has been made plausible by
giving the expedition q scientific character,
in it's accompanying corps of engineers,
biologists, ETC., but the fact that the govern
ment subscribed "a 900 roubles toward the
expenses of the expedition, as well as furnish
ing it with an escort bearing a much closer
resemblance to an army Of invasion than an
ordinary body guard, strengthens tho belief
that offensive tactics are expected to be en-
ployed much more frequently than defensive
ones.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-06

The other day at South Beach, s.
i, a young man in q bathing suit
was requested BY q young lady, a
stranger to him, to take q year-old
baby out into the water and give
him q bath. The obliging young fell
low did SO, but when he came back to
the beach the young woman had dis
appeared. The young mai endeav-
ored to get somebody to hold the in
sfant while he dressed, but 4 one
would do 90. AT length he sat down
on the beach where the Infants
clothes had been laid and dressed il
himself. Then he tried to have the
bathing4hOuse keeper take charge 81
ft while he dressed, buthe was equally
unsuccessful III this. becoming des-
perate, be took the child into his
bathing house while he dressed him
.seKs one 81 The bathskeepers stood
the outside ~ see TINT he did not
1eare il there. He came out with BE
fancy bathing sufft ina strap II ons
fund ana the baby on his arnl, and
sfarted lor the train. Whenlastseen
bs ~ boarsIing the fsrTybpat
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-06


The London Lancet says: Many
people do not know how easily they
can protect themselves and their
childrenagainst the bites of gnats
and other insects. Weak carbolic
acid sponged on the skin and hair,
and in some cases the clothing, will
drive away the whole tribe. "a great
many children and not a few adults
are tormented throughout the whole
summer by minuteenemies. Weknow
persons who are afrhid ofpicnics and
even Of their own gardens on this ac-
count. Clothing is an imperfect pro-
tection, for we have e D child
whose foot and ankle had been stung
through the stocking so seriously
that for days she could not wear a,
leather shoe. All this can be averted,
according to ourexperience, and hat
we believe ofmany Others, by carbolic'
acid judiciously used. The safest
plan is to keep o solution of the acid.
The solution should not contain
more than six or seven per cent, and
it may be added to- water until the
latter smells strongly. This may
readily and with perfect safety be APP
piled Withsa sponge. We have no
doubt thai horses and cattle coq51
be protected In the same way from
the flies which sometimes nearly;
madden them.