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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
The Exchange Mass Meeting.

The mass meeting at the city exchange at
noon to-day, which the mayor has called Ill
the interests of Savannah harbor, ought to
be well attended by business men. Our
dispatches yesterday respecting the pur-
poses of the river and harbor committee
were not very encouraging, so far as secur-
ing a recognition of the 2S-foot improve
ment is concerned. but there ought to
be no effort spared to secure an
appropriation for that Improvement, so
| long as there is the least chance of getting
it. 1t is only by persistent and skillful work
that reasonable appropriations for river
and harbor appropriations are obtained, and
| those rivers and harborS fare the best for
which the hardest work is done.
II Savannah stands in the background
waiting for congress to do her justice, she
will never get what her commercial i'm
portance entities her to. Her claims will
be virtually ignored, while these of other
places having less merit. being pressed
with a determination that stops at nothing
| short of success, will be granted.
In view of the stand which the commit
tee has taken with respect to new projects
it will be very difficult to get an appropria-
ton for the 2S-foot Improvement. There is
nothing like trying, however. IL nothing
can be obtained in the House, perhaps
something can in the Senate.
1t seems that the river and harbor COM
mittee is willing to give Savannah harbor
$4,000 for dredging. Would it not be ad-
visable to make an effort to have this sum,
or any other which the river and harbor
bill may carry for Savannah harbor, ap-
propriated for the 2S-foot Improvement
The important thing now is to get that i'm
provement recognized The longer recog-
milton of it is delayed the more difficult it
will be to obtain it. If 10000, or any other
amount. could.be obtained for it this year,
there would be no difficulty in getting a
reasonable appropriation next year.
The river and harbor committee did not
accord the Savannah harbor fair treatment
in the last river and harbor bill. If it had
not been for Senator Browns efforts in the
Senate the appropriation, in all probability,
would have been only $4,000, instead of
$500 Since Savannah was treated with
Indifference last year, perhaps the river and
harbor committee could be induced tc
recognize the 2S-foo5 improvement this
year, even though it should not make any
greater appropriation for it than it would
for dredging
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

At the closing session of the New Jersey
Sanitary Association, the other day, DIR. j.
c. Bayles defended himself against the
charges of improper treatment Of the case
of Prof Proctor last summer. When Prof
Proctor's case was diagnosed and thought to
be yellow fever, DR.. Bayles had the patient
removed to hospital, although at the time
a heavy rain was falling. Some of the
newspapers held that the disease was not
yellow fever, but bilious fever, and that
Prof. Proctor's death was caused by being
removed. DIR. Bayles said that his course
was indicated by the best professional
opinion, and that this was backed up only
the other day by an admission of Dr.
Mitchell, of Jacksonville, Fla, that he knew
when, where and under what circumstances
Prof. Proctor had been exposed to yellow
fever contagion just before he started north.
This, he said, completely answered the
newspapers, whose chief argument had been
that Prof. Proctor had never got within
range Of the contagion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
A Clever Woman,

From an EngIishWoman in america
Once, while travelling in the west, she was
obliged to take seat in one crowded car, while
her friends entered the next.
Her neighbor in the seat was disagreeable
looking fellow, whose features showed an alarm
ing amount of low cunning. promising actual
knevery. In spite of the Enelishwoman's dis
trust of him she fell asleep, and was awakened
by feeling her companion Withdrawing his hand
from her pocket.
Her first impulse was to raise an alarm, her
second to ascertain the extent of her loss. 1t
proved that the thief had only succeeded in tax
ing her baggage checks. and, as his ticket was
marked Chicago" the lady resolved to wait
until they reached that place also her destina-
ton.
The train ran into the station at Chicago the
| pickpocket made his way to the door and the
lady walked beside him. A baggage express
| messenger was passing by the car and the LAZY
| stopped him.
This gentleman has the CHI cks for my bag
gage" she said, pointing to the thief.
The messenger turned to the man who, aston
| ishe1 at the suddenness with which the tables
had been turned, hastily produced the checks
and disappeared in the crowd.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Chairman Matthew Quay is expected to
visit Gen. Harrison at about the same time
Mr. Morton does. A Washington dispatch
says: Next to Mr.. Morton, it is said that
Gen. Harrison feels that Mr.. Quay's views
or wishes should be considered, and it is
said that it has been his determination to
confer with both of them before communi-
eating with other leading representatives of
the party IN the east, who will probably be
called to indianapolis very soon." Is it
possible that, after all the talk about Gen.
Harrison being bis own cabinet maker, he
is going to let the contract to Morton and
Ouayf
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Dr. Nathan r. Gorter, of Baltimore, is
suing Mr.. Robert Garrett for $4,000 for
professional services re dered during Mr.
CARROTS trip abroad He says he attended
his patient eight months, and that he sub
mi tied his bill TO two eminent Baltimore
physicians, both of whom pronounced it
reasonable. When he submitted il to Mr.
CARROTS representative, however, it was
pronounced unreasonable, and payment
was refused; and that is why the suit was
hrouQht
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
The Slanderers Injured.

From the PHILADELPHIA Record (DeBl.)
1t has been rather the fashion of late years in
this country to scanlaze our public men, and
MIR. Cleveland has probably been as harshly
treated in this regard almost any public
character of the day. But he has not suffered
men, Whatever odiun and disgrace may have
been evolved from the heap of rotting scandals
which has been SO industriously stirred up must
be imputed to his detEactors and to those-less
vicious in intent, but equally so in fact-who
have given credence and currency to some of
the basest ISLANDERS that were ever devised to
wreck the happiness of a faithful and loving
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

The North Georgia Conference, held re-
Gently in Milledgevills, took the right view
OF the public school question. 1t passed
resolution expressing sympathy with the
movement to extend the public school term
to six months. WIN the South Georgia
Conference take similar action? The
Methodist preachers of Georgia, mingling
as they do with the people Of the cities and
towns and of the country. have an excellent
opportunity of finding out the public needs,
and their opinions are entitled to great
deal of respect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
Civilization in Montana.
Eron AZ Nam Ynrk HernLd

The civilization of Montana is of high order,
as shown by these rules displayed in a hotel
Gests will leve thar weepins SOS they'll not go
off in the rite.
No fitin or shutiu allowed in the bed rumes.
accordingly,
Emmy gest who isn't satisfied with these roofs
must mosey or stand the consequences
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
UNFOLDING Sheriff Smith.

From the Nelo York World (Den.)
Sheriff Smith of Birmingham. Ala, is an off,
clal TO be commended He had committed to
his keeping awretched brute, who was accused
OF the murder of wife and child. A mob as
saulted the jail on Saturday night with the in
tentlon OF lynching the accused. The sheriff
as In duty bound. defended his jail, and as a
sad consequence, Birmingham is in mourning.
A little more of this sort of spirit and the peo-
pie who organize TO set law aside and commit
murder to crafty community hatred will be
more careful The lesson is timely one.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

1t is somewhat amusi to notice with
what gravity the republican organs assert
that the people Of Texas are opposed to
cutting that state into four parts, and that
what the country needs is the admission of
four or five territories. Texas would make
four democratic states, you see, and nearly
all of the territories would be republican.
Republicans hardly ever allow their opln-
ions 10 stand in the way OF politics.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

The washerwomen of Richmond, Va, are
becoming quite too heightened for anything
The following advertisement appeared In
one of the Richmond newspapers the other
day: "A washlady, moving in the very
best colored society, desires position in a
fashionable family with full possession Of
the back building and privilege of daughter
taxing music and French" tt INK what
wages the ''washladies" must receive to
support themselves and families, and pay a
French teacher and a music teacher by
washing for single family. Geswhi!iklns
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

A New York cartoonist is of the opinion
that if Mr.. Blaine is allowed to go into the
Harrison cabinet, he will walk off with it
If he is not allowed to go in he will tear it
down II this view is the correct one, Gen.
Harrison's term of Office will be one of trials
and tribulations
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Kane coached a good deal in England before he
helped introduce this expensive quadrupedal
sport to New Workers. II was said that his
health demanded constant exercise in the open
air He has been a favorite leader of the ger
man in fashionable society here, and is
descended from the old Kane family who used
to own good slice of New York. He is agree
ably short of so years of age.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

California is becoming interested in the
bill to cut that state into two parts, each to
be admitted as a state. A mass meeting at
Los Angeles was held the other day, and
resolutions were adopted demanding a
division. A good many of those who IA
vored the resolution probably were people
who don't hold public office, but who would
like 70.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Mrs. Langtry has been offered $4,000 by
publisher to write her memoirs, and she
thinks of accepting the offer. She might
get some interesting reading into the book
if she would tell all about Mr.. Langtry and
Freddy Gerhard.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Gen. Harrison is said to be experiencing
much trouble trying to satisfy the de-
mande of Ohio republicans for office. He
could satisfy them by dividing the best pay
ing offices among them, giving each of them
one. Ohio always was easily satisfied.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Col Lamonts new baby win be known
as Frances Cleveland Lamont. Mrs. Cleve-
land was asked to select the name, and for
a while she favored Marguerite; but finally
she concluded that Frances Cleveland was
the proper name, and Frances Cleve-
land it will be- Mrs. Cleveland and
Mrs. Lamont are quite happy over
the decision, and it is certain that little
frankie ought to be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

The political and social world is on the
tip-toe of expectation. 1t is rumored that
Attorney General Garland will wear a
swallow-t tail coat New Years. Until this is
settled, talk about the next administration
will possess little or no interest.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
What If Texas Were Republican,

From the PHILADELPHIA Press (Rep)
The members of congress from Texas are
practically unanimous against the division of
that state, and they represent the people down
there as strongly opposed to it. Texas is all
in the great future its wide territory is quite
likely to furnish more than one state. The need
OF the present is the prompt admission of the
territories whose population and growing i'm
portance entitle them to that consideration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Some Of the republican newspapers, in re-
ferring to the unfortunate affair in Biz
mingham, speak of lynching as being pecu-
liarly southern. If these newspapers
will refer to their files, they will discover
the error of such an assumption. Lynch
law-though why it is called law would
be hard TO explain-is resorted to too fire.
queatly all over the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

A pretty typewriter-of course she's
pretty-is suing a dude of lawyer in
Elizabeth, N. j., for s24 for composing the
speeches he made during the presidential
campaign. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that the young man who had to get a
female typewriter to compose his speeches
is q republican.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Some of the republicans are kicking Wig
orously because the civil service law is to
be extended to railway mail clerks These
are the republicans who believe that to the
victors belong the spoils; and their number
is very considerable.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Mayor-elect Grant, of New York, had a
fall the other day, and possible President
was in danger of being killed. He was en-
gagged in the lively. sport of fox hunting,
and his horse fell, throwing him to the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
CURRENT COMMENT.
Expert Testimony.

From the Chicago Herald (Dem.)
Walker Blaine has an article in one of the
December ma2azines entitled, Why Yves Har-
rison Elected:" The magazine would have
shown more enterprise had il secured an article
on the subject from Matt Quay, who handled
the no die and knows great deal more about
it than Walker Blaine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Nearly all of the northern newspapers as
sert that Georgia is greatly agitated be-
cause it was discovered that one of the dele
gates to the recent forestry congress in At
lanta was a negro. The Ohio delegate who
slept with him at the Markham house may
have become excited when the discovery
was made. but Georgia is serene.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Gen. Harrison's barber in Indianapolis is
reported as having thought for some years
that the general was a man of destiny.
Probably the barber was allowed to talk as
much as he pleased
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Now people are beginning to talk about
making two states out Of New York The
Syracuse Journal proposes seriously that
the five seaboard counties Of New York,
Queens, Kings, Suffolk and Richmond be
admitted as one state, and that the fifty-five
other counties be admitted as another.
There is one thing to be said in favor of the
proposition-it would forever stop the talk
about New York being the pivotal state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Mr.. Blaine and Gen. Malone might not
work together very we'll in the same cabi-
net. Better make study of that, Gen.
Harrison.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

It seems that the old story about Senator
Brown resigning on account of ill health
has been revived. 1t was left alone so long
that people began TO think Il was dead, but
is wasn't, it only slept. It will live as long
as Senator Brown remains in the Senate,
and will outlast a good many people who
thought il had been laid in the grave.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Col Dudley hasn't been to Indiana since
he wrote that circular letter about "blocks
of five.n He must be anxious to see his
home. his relatives and his friends.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

The newspaper correspondents seem de-
termined that Mrs. Folsom shall marry
again. Some months ago they had it ar
ranged that she was to become Mrs.
Bayard, and now they have settled on Mr..
Henry F. Merritt, United States consul at
Chemnitz, as her future husband Mrs.
Folsom denied the allegation in toe first in
stance, and she denies it now, but probably
that will make no difference with the cor
respondent who hasn't a very good nose for
news, but who must write about something.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Ex-Speaker ]. Warren Keifer has been
talking politics He says-but what diff
ference does it make what Keifer saysl
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12

Russell Harrison, son of the general, is
coming in for good deal of praise in con-
nection with the presidential campaign. Il
is said that he contributed some very ex-
cellent work to the republican cause. Yes,
it is understood that Chairman Quay sent
the young man west in search of Doodle,
and that good big lot of it was found
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-12
PERSONAL,

Ex-C CONGRESSMAN NJ. C. GEORGE of Portland,
Ore, is the latest discovered double of President
Harrison,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-29
eUATEMALA's BIRD OF LIBERTY.

ihe 0usyznI Is Pictured on Postage
stamps, but seldom Seen Alive.
'What do You call those birdsT' asked d
visitor to the store of well known dowr
town taxidormist, pointing TO couple OF
feathered creatures, bound separately in
paper, with the tails and heads protruding
and showing gorgeous pumage. They
were dried and ready for stufling Tho body
OF each, including the head, was perhaps
five inches long, but throwing the tail intd
| the measurement. either bird would have re
quired four foot tape to connect the point
of its beak with the tip of its longest tail
| feather One of the birds had two long
| feathers in its tail, and the other had tw o
| shorter ones; but nature, as If TO compensate
| for this disparity of plumage, had given the
| bird that wodld otherwise hive been clearly
at n disadvantage, IA third and middle feather
that was very long indeed. Crests adorned
| the heads, and white cotton had been stuffed
into tho eye cavities.
This" said tho dealer tenderly, taking
one of them up in his hand sis the quezzal,
or bird of liberty of Guatemala II is to DO
found only in a small portion of the country,
and is now very rarely seen at all. A gentle
man who was recently in Central America
managed to secure this pair, and left them
with me to be dressed and mounted, the
people down there being able only to dry and
preserve them. Quezzal is to Guatemala
what the eagle il to the United States of
America-its national bird. Its picture,
rather distorted, is stamped on many of
Guatemala's coins, and engraved on all the
postage stamps of that country. Whether it
took its name from the ancient capital OF
the Old metropolis was called after it, IL a
question not fully settled; but quezzal Is the
title of both. The quezzal has, as you must
perceive, great personal advantages over the
eagle even in its wild state, and we an all
familiar with the bedraggled appearance of
the Gagged eagle
"Now, the quezzal is never Gagged longer
than few hours. 1t is truly bird of
liberty, and it dies almost immediately when
captured. Its pride in its rear feathers is
evidently dearer than its love fc life. When
one of then accidentally gets soied or broken
the bird goes to its nest, sits down dies.
If it is caught in trap it is always found
dead, and when the young birds are taken
from the nest they die at once Occasionally
II quc22al has been captured, and in a few
seconds restored to liberty, but the contami
nation of the hand could not be removed
with the grasp, and it dropped lifecss to the
earth before it bad flown many yards. They
aro brought down for mercantile purposes, |
when the opportunity presents itself with |
cry small shot fired mt long range The |
luezZal builds round rooted nest, like the |
home of the wren, only instead of one hole |
there are two, directly opposite each other
fhus tho bird avoids the tail break ing neces-
iity of turning around to make its t, i. 1t
goes in at one side and out at the other and
he long feathers, which wave gently in the
lir, ut resting time are slowly and cautiously
lrawn after it,"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-29
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