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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27

country watched the race with breathless
interest, as it had been extensively adver-
tiSed by the press, and the telegraph at
tended It's progress along the river at every
point. AT ali the principal cities
Natchez, Vicksburg, Helena and Memphis
people from many miles were presenG TO
see the racers pass, and the time Of passing
was cabled to Europe. When Cairo was
reached the race was virtually ended, nut
the Lee proceeded to st. Louis, arriving
there in three DAYS eighteen hours and
fourteen minutes from the time she left
New Orleans, beating by thirty
three minutes the previous record
OF the Natchez. The latter steamer
had run into a fog and grounded be-
tween Memphis aud Cairo, which delayed
her more than six hours. 1t is said that
10000 people crowded tho wharf, the win
dows and the houSetops to welcome the Lee
on her arrival at st. Louis Capt Cannon
was rendered banquet by the business mon
OF the city, and was generally honlZed
while he remained here
ii was estimated That more than $l,000,-
600 changed hands on the result of the
great race. Many of the bets were with
drawn. however, on the ground that the
Lee had been assisted the first 100 miles OF
the trip by the power of the Frank Par
goud added to her own, and many steam
Don't men have ever since regarded the
Natchez as the fastest boat of the two, but
think she was outgeneraled i'll the race by
the Lee. There was so much ayerse com
men5 afterward by the press that there has
been no attempt since to repeat such per
formance
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CALIFORNIA IS SAFE.
Editor Hearst Says 1t Will Give Cleve-
land 800 Majority.
From the Nep York Star.


w. r. Hearst, proprietor and editor of
the San Francisco Examiner, arrived in
this city last evening, accompanied by his
business manager, L. w. Townsend, and
II. d. Bigelow, who will reinforce the pO-
litical staff of the Etcd 1liner in the east.
Mr. Heart comes here to consult with his
father, Senator George Hearst, in regard to
California politics and to assist the demo-
cratic national committee In organizing the
California campaign.
Before we left California we made a
careful survey of our local political situa
ton and | am confident that our state will
give Cleveland and Thurman q majority of
at least 800 votes, a change of about Il, 900
votes since 1884" said Mr.. Hearst to a re-
porter last evening.
"On what grounds do you base this be-
liefp' asked the reporter.
There are many influences at work that
favor democratic success. Blaine, in 1884,
was the strongest man in America his
personal and political following and inhu-
ence in California we're immense. The dem
ocratic party was handicapped i'll that cam
paign with standard-bearer unknown in
California
"Four years have changed this. Mr..
Cleveland's official course has gained the re-
spect and confluence OF our people. He has
gone farther the direction Of restricting
Chinese immigration than Mr.. Blaine had
ever advocated.
Harrison, on the other hand, is very I'M
popular. His record on the Chinese and la
Dor questions will swing California into the
triumphant democratic column i'll Novem-
ber"
"How does the tariff question affect the
people of California;"
when it was first sprung, and the re-
| publicans set up the howl OF free trade, it
alarmed people. This fear is rapidly van
ishing. The people of California begin to
see that the slight reduction proposed by
the Mills bill-whlch reduction is directly
in the line of the recommendation of sue
cessive republican presidents, republican
senator's and republican secretaries Of the
treasury-iS in no degree a free trade meas
ure They admit that free lumber will ma
terially assist tho thouands of settlers that
monthly flock to California. They know
that free tinware will heip enormously in
tho development of our enormous canning
industries Free salt hurts no ono in Cali
fornia, and benefits all. Free wool will
benefit both wool grower and wool manu-
facturer by increasing the range of our
wooden manufacture. Personally, | be-
lieve that free wool will give California
looms control of the wooden trade of the
Pacific coast and the adjoining territories
Free dye stufPs is another step in the same
direction.
"You may tell the democrats of New
York through the columns of the STAR"
he add d, that they may count on the cleo
toral votes of California this year"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27
THE WOMAN AND THE RATHER
A Husbands Life Saved by the Hero
ism of His Wife.
From the Kingston Freeman.

From the Kingston Freeman.
On portions of the somber Shawangunk
mountains, miles away from settlements, and
where luscious huckleberries grow, rattle
snakes have been found for many years past,
and this summer they seem to be more nu-
merous than usual in two or three locali-
ties. The Shawangunk RATHER is gamy
snake, and rarely, if ever, turns tail even in
the face of desperate odds. During the past
two weeks huckleberry pickers report haV-
ing had some lively encounters, though no
| body has been seriously hurt Occasionally
| RATHER will crawl to village and make
itself at home in somebody's door yard.
An instance of this kind occurred a
day or two ago in the hamlet of
Accord, which is situated at the base of
the Shawangunk mountain and in close
| proximity to the Delaware and Hudson
| canal. Charles Walker lives in Accord and
when he saw an odd colored Shiny thing
near his dooryard he made an Investigation,
and it was near being the death of him.
| The Intruder was RATHER of the most
venoinous kind to be found in the NOM
taIns, and it soon made Mr.. Walker under
stand that it would not give an inch, and
that it would fight to the very death. The
reptile was all ready to spring at Mr.
Walker when he saw his great peril, and it
was tho work of an instant to pick up
club that happened to be handy at his feet
and to hit the snake vigorous whack over
the head as it sprang toward him. The blow
stunned the RATHER for second or two
and then it cooled itself and sprang twice at
the man who had made it feel the weight
of heavy cudgel. Both times Mr.. Walker
escaped from being bitten by tho fangs.
All this time Mrs. Walker was in the
house. AS it fortunately happened, she
stopped her household duties for moment
to take a LOOK up and down the road"
when she saw the desperate position of her
husband. Some women would have
screamed, and later on would have run to
a neighbours for help or tainted, but Mr.
Walker hasn't got that kind of a helpmate
In an instant she saw that what had to be
done must be done quickly, and then she
Sou ried into the kitchen, where her hus-
bands trusty shotgun was in its customary
place, already loaded and ready to be fired.
In a jiffy it was in Mrs Walkers hand.
and in another jiffy there was a
puff of smoke bright fash, and
a ringing report and a dead snake lay
stretched at her husbands feet. Then Mrs.
Walker did scream just little, and her
good man told her what brave little body
she was and how much good sense and
timely presence of mi d she had exhibited.
Other people have congratulated Mrs.
Walker, and now she laughingly says that
she fails to see that she did anything for
people to make fuss over. Nevertheless
she saved her husbands life, it is fair to pre-
suIne and there is no doubt whatever about
the fact that the snake was one Of the larg-
est seen in Accord in years.
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HE LOVED THE OLD FLAG.
Gath Tells q Now Yarn About Mr.
Davis.
Fron Az Cfncinnnti Enqutrer.

From the Cfncinndti ENQUIRER.
When | was at Cape May, and printed a
sketch of Mr.. Campbell, from there, in your
columns, that old gentleman, who was in
the cabinet of Franklin Pierce, desired me
not to print an anecdote concerning JetFer-
son Davis, of which have since seen men
ton made, and consider, therefore, that
some other parsonage has put it on paper.
AS nearly as l can recollect the story, it
was this: Mr.. Campbell, being a young
member of Pierce's cabinet had much adj
mlration for Mr.. Davis, who was then in
the most athletic time of his hte. In 1861
MIR. Davis was returning from sWest Point,
where he had been as visitor, or some
thing, and he stopped at the Continental
hotel, Philadelphia. He was in haste at the
time Mr.. Campbell called, and his baggage
was being demanded to go to tine train.
Campbell wanted peace and not war to be
the issue of the presidential election, and he
had gone to sec Davis with the idea of
exercising some influence over the mind of
that worthy.
In the campaign of 1856, when there was
great imminence of of Fremont's election,
Campbell says that he exercised every
power the government could give him to
carry Pennsylvania for Buchanan, whom
he did not like. He saw the satanic spirit
of the leading pro-slavery element in its
determination to punish Fremont, who was
born in South Carolina, for having aban-
doned the slavery faith.
When. in 1860 Mr.. Campbell found Mr..
Davis at the Continental hotel, Davis was
under the impre sion that Pennsylvania
was going to eject the democratic electoral
ticket. the supporters of Douglas and
Breckenridge in that state had made
fusion electoral ticket, and Davis thought
that this union of democrats would again
prevail over the republicans. Mr.. Camp
bell said to him:
Davis, you are mistaken. Lincoln is
going TO be elected. He will carry this
state by at least 20, 900 majority. Buchanan
has taken away our best support and en-
bittered our old Northern tier of Demo
cratic counties. The fusion ticket cannot
be elected. Lincoln is going to have Penn
sylvania- Depend upon it, Davis. | have
never deceived you in these matters"
NO" said Davis, and that is why what
you tell me makes its impression. You
always have been correct in your predic-
tions concerning Pennsylvania"
"Now, Davis" said Mr.. Campbell, "let
me ask you whet you are going to do!
Submit, Davisl If you in the southern
states will submit and let Lincoln be in
augurated, pledge you my word that in
four years more Pennsylvania will reverse
this verdict"
The cab was at tho door and the baggage
ready. Davis took Campbelrs hand, and
his eyes filled with tears.
81 love that fag," said Davis. my
father bled for it."
He went away, and that was the last Mr..
Campbell ever saw of him.
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THE POOL OF BETHESDA.
1t Has Been Discovered at Last With
Reasonable Certainty.
From the Pau Man Gazette.

From the Pau Man Gazette.
eve have generally an announcement to
make, but not often of so much Importance
ms that of this day, 1t is the discovery of
the Pool of Bethesda" So writes Walter
Besant in the Quarterly Statement issued
by the Palestine exploration fund He is
jubilant, as all Palestine enthusiasts are
likely to be, that vexed question in re-
gard to a site is apparently settled for
ever
Bethesda is mentioned only by the fourth
evangelist. In the fifth chapter of his Cos
pei, John says: "Now there is at Jerusa-
iem by the sheep market Tor gate) pool
which is called i'll the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches." The word
translated ''pool" in the authorized version
is given by some authorities as swimming
bath" and the phrase pool by the sheep
market is possibly better rendered sheep
pool" Eusebius explains the occasional
red color of the water of this sheep pool'
rs being trace of the carcasses of sheep
washed in it before sacrifice; hence the
name. There were according to the evan
geist, five porches, or porticoes, around
the pool. These, Dr. Geikie thinks, charity
built for the accommodation of sufferers. Il
seems to us, however, equally probable that
they formed part Of the original scheme
for the bath. Five porGcoes would seem
to imply "a peutagonal structure; but this
Is by no means essential. A rectangular
pool with n portico on every side, divided
by one across the middle, would answer the
description. "Bothes!a" "a Hebrew name
which was very probably invented by st.
john may mean either house Of mercy"
or "the place of pouring forth" (of water).
At the northeast of modern Jerusalem,
close to st. Stephens gat', stauds the church
of St Anne. At the tine of the Crimean
war il was ruined mosque, but when
tho French came Into pos cs,ion of il they
restored the church and LANDED IL over TO
the Algerian monks. II is near this church
of ST. Anne, and in connec Jon with exra-
vations made around IT,, that the real pool
of Bethesda has Gently been discovered
Nv Herr Conrad Schcli. There is u court
yard to tho northwest Of the church, which
leads through .ewly opened passage into
another courtyard some 80 feet square. At
the north of this latter courtyard there was
at one time q sulail church. Beneath the
floor Of this sometime church are vaults,
and through the floor Of these vaults els
tern is reached, cut into the rock to depth
of 30 feet. This ciStern is a portion of the
original Pool of Bethesda. There is still
water in it, but it is difficult tosay whence
it comes. This, in brief, is Herr Schck's
cavations have been made, and he has
prosecuted more extended inquiries A
twin pool has been discovered. Further
examination will bring more details to
light; but it may now fairly be assumed
that the two pools, tanks, or cisterns thus
discov red really constituted the Pool of
Bethesda, "Eaving five porches,n whore
Christ healed the paralytic of eight and
thirty years standing.
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The Elephants at Large in Munich

Munich Dispatch to the London Netos.
.sIt is astonishing that only three grown up
persons and child were killed by the acct
dent yesterday. About twenty persons
were severely hurt, while the number of
slight injuries is very large. Most of the
harm done was due to the fright of the
crowd, and not to the wildness of the ele-
plants. 1t was evident that the eight e!e-
plants were anxious to get out of the way
of the terrified people. The animals We're
frightened, whichever way they turned, by
shrieks and gesticulaions. Some people
attacked them with sticks and umbrellas.
A soldier who confronted them with
drawn sword was quietly lifted up by tho
trunk of one animal aud placed aside with
out being hurt. The elephants broke open
the great doors of the mint and went up
the broad stairs. They also destroyed the
doors of the court theater. When they had
reached the other end of the town, spread
ing confusion and terror wherever they
went, they could not find their way out of
the courtyard of a suburban theater al
demolished a small house in order to get
away. The first elephant put his foot through
the door, but the floor broke througn,
and he fell with his forelegs into the cellar.
The second followed him, and struggling
through, carried off the roof on his back.
Every bit of furniture of this house, in
GLIDING the stoves and tho doors and win
elephants were out of sight, and while the
chase after them was being carried on by
the cavalry, the lines of people formed
again, and the procession continued on its
way, but the slightest unexpected move
ment created alarm. At 2 o'clock every
thing was over. In the evening q grand
illumination took place, but few people
had the courage to witness it owing to the
rumor that one OF the elephants was still
concealed in the Englische Garten and
might make his appearance AZ any moment.
Two ladies were killed. One was trampled
to death, and the other died from
fright. The poor child was trampled TO
death, not by the animals, but by the
panic-stricken crowd. A gentleman who
was found dead has not yet been identified.
Herr Hagenbeck, the circus proprietor, had
warned the committee that the elephants
must be treated very carefully, and had
particularly objected to the snortng
dragon. The committee had over-ridden
the objections of the police to the elephants
being allowed in the procession. If the
Ludwig Strasse had not been one of the
broadcast streets of any city the disaster
might have assumed very different dimen-
slons. The tent containing the royal fam
lily was protected from the elephants by
line of light cavalry.
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women and their meanness about buying
theater tickets, but I'll be banged If any
woman ever lived is as mean as some men
who come here"
That's rather against the general opln-
ion.n
1T may be. Women give us most trouble,
may be, but great deal of it isn't their
fault. It's their conscientiousness and
nervousness They come to buy seats and
they know their husbands will kick like
fury and abuse them if they don't suit. They
are nervous abont it. A man comes, and if
he's going to take his wife, he don't care
much. He knows she'll have to take them,
and he'll tell her she ought to be glad to get
them. If he's taking somebody else-well,
l suppose its natural to be more particular.
I've got a best girl myself
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BATTLE OF THE BUSrLE.
Perhaps the Pannier VIII be an Issue in
Politics.


From the ChicdQo Tribune.
Perhaps the hustle will be an issue in this
campaign. Mrs. Cleveland has DISCARDED
it, and her immediate followers in Wash
ington are Initiating her example. Loyal
democratic ladies throughout the land will
be expected TO follow suit Republican
women demur, and thus the issue is joined
Would not the hustle make queer calu-
paign badge.
Just at present the pro-bustle women APP
pear 70 have the best Of il. The hustle is
not to 60. That is, not for many a v.
Mrs. Cleveland may toss ner hustle into the
attic Of the white house if shc likes, but
Chicago women, democrats aS well as re-
pubhcans, will cling 70 the pannier.
WHAT Discard the bustlef' exclaimed
Mime. Angely, the dressmaker, with a
Frenchy shrug of her shoulders. 30, no.
The hustle win stay with US for at least a
year yet. Then, think, it will GO"
would not dresses look ugly without the
improversV'
'Ye,, TT first; but we should soon become
accust nied TO them. Look at these, the
latest fashion plates. All have bustles, you
see, but they are much smaller right NJ the
waist. Not long since we made the dresses
extend in such manner rs to almost form
a right angle at the waist. But now they
slant down and not so far out. And another
thing you may notice. every dress here,n
turning the leaves as she spoke, "has a belt.
Not plain. but wide and in folds. Belts al
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27
THE GREATEST STEAMBOAT RACE.
More Than a Million Dollars Said to
Have Been Staked upon the Result

More Than a Million Dollars Said to
Have Been Staked upon the Result
Ffo,e the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
The greatest steamboat race that was ever
run in the world was that which occurred
Louis. between the Robert i. Lee and the
Natchez. The latter was built at Cincin-
natl, WAS commanded 10y Capt. T. 7. Leath-
ers, aid in jane of the above year made
the fastest time on record FROM New Orleans
to ST. LOUIS, rs miles, in 3 days 81 hours
and ~ minutes the Robert T. Les was
Lult at New Albany during the war, aud
was towed acro,s the river to the Kentucky
side 20 have her name painted on her wheel
house,, II matter chat was deemed prudent
in those exciting times She was COM
mauded by Capt. John W. Cannon, VINO
died at Frankfort, KY, III 1882.
There was great rivalry between the
boats, and when the Natchez made her
great run Capt. Cannon determined to beat
". He stripped the Lee for the race--rc-
moved all parts of hec upper works which
were calculated to catch the wind removed
all Raging and outfit that could be dis
pensed with 10 tighten her; engaged the
steamer Frank Pargoud TO precede her n
hundred miles up the river TO supply coal /;
arranged with cal yards TO have fuel
flats awaiting her in the middle of the
river at given points, TO be taken in tow
under way until the coal could be trans
ferred to the deck of tho Lee, and then to
be cut loose and float back. He refused all
business of every kind. and would receive
no passengers. The Natchez returned to
Now Oreans and received few hundred
tons OF freight and a few passeng ,rs, and
was advertised to leave for st. Louis on
June 30.
In the afternoon the r bert f. Leo backed
out from the l9vee, and Ave minutes later
the Natchez followed her. The whole
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27
MAN AT THE BOX OFFICE.
What He Thinks of Some Other
Men.
From the Ne1o York Graphic


From the Ne,o York Graphic
There are many different kinds of fellows,
but they all have sweeshearts. It great
blessing that God has filled this world with
such varied tastes, or some of us would get
badly left, No two persons see or think
alike, and so even the homeiest gets his
chance. The man in the box Office of a
theater knows more of the human nature
of pairs than anybody else. 1t is at that
little pigeon hole th1t the weaknesses of peo
pie come ont most visibly. A d one of them
sud TO me the o.her night wat | began
this paragraph with. A couple came to The
window; that is. tue lady st iod back while
the gentleman boldly approached the win
dow. He was taking her to the thea
ter, and she was moderately happy. He
asked for two tickets and put down a dol
lar.
"A dollar and half, please" said the man
at the box window.
He said not a word but put the tickets
down and took the dollar up. Then he half
turned to the lady and said with kind OF
faint query:
ats a dollar and half"
She smiled a kind OF disappointed smile
aud took his lbroffcred arm, and they trotted
off down the street,
"Well, that's rather mean for man, isn't
itr
"Meani That's nothing He may not
have intended to 90 to the theater, and he
may not have had the money with him.
But you shopld see some fellows that come
here. / have seen a couple come to the
window. The man would ask for couple
of seats. When led got them the woman
would take out her purse and pay for them
and the man would march up and prose It
them 70 thol dodTSeepeT just as il he was
giving his Girl a most expensive treat. l
tell You. th9y iolse about the peculisrities Of
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