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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
Proposed War on the English Spar

row.
The English sDar-pw has It's friends in
this country, bI. they are n,s very nu ner-
Gus, and S,cre- airy Rusk, @f tie agricul-
tural department Of the government, is not
one of them. He has recently had printed
a book Of 400 pages, written by the
ornIthologis5 and assistant ornithologist #
his department in which tae English spar
row is held up to the country as a curse,
and in which several methods for its eK-
termination are given. This report has
Uncle Jerry's unqualfei indorse-
ment, OF he would not have
had it printed and circulated. II
sets forth that the sparrow il question de-
stroys fruits, particularly apples, grapes,
cherries, raspberrie5 and trawberries; mai
treats and kills song birds aad other harm
less birds that should not to b9 maltreated
or killed; constructs its nest where it is not
wanted, keeps people from sleeping in the
early morning, aid defaces cor Iices, be-
smrches p azza5, and, in short, makes it
self general nuisance The report also
sets fort that If something is not
done quickly to extermi ate this pest the
government will, in a few years, have
to undertake the determination of IT,
The report further says that by concerted
action at this time, and by taking advan-
tage Of the sparrow's gregarious habits,
much might be done with little o. no
expenditure of money, and it seeks to en-
courage tie people in this work Of extermina-
ton by suggesting that the sparrow, being
a seed and grain eater, is an excellent article
of food
In the light Of these statements it will not
do to stop to inquire if Secretary Rusk's
antipathy to this sparrow grows out of the
fact that it is called E lgi,h, or if he is try
ing to twist the tail of the British lion,
SO to speak, or if he would be more
friendly to the little bird if it were called
an Irish sparrow. The duty of the people
seems to be to enter at once upon the work
OF ex ermination, in order that the country
may not be Overrul WITH English sparrows,
as Australia is with rabbits. But the spar
row has been here a jod many years, hav-
Ing been introduced thirty eight years az }
by some cheerful idiot, and as it multiplies
with remarkable rapidity, it has made the
proposed work of determination a very diff
lcult one With Secretary Rusk to direct
the work, however, we probably may hope
for good results, and possibly another
feather will be placed in tae cap of the Har-
rison administration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
A Spanish Cigarette.

Charles ?. LumBliS in hmsricd.
Mia, come roll me a cigarette,
Just as you used to long ago
In the far, sweet days when first met
My darkeyed fate il New Mexico.
Do you remember those days, Chiquite,
Here is a huSkl and the stranger pale
Your fathers nerders brought to your feet
Dripping with red, from the Dead Man;
Trail?
Now just pinch of the tGn1Gyn-
How it ftavOrs the poorest weed!
A coal for the hghting-good! Ali sta!
All, youth it is Tat is lie indeed!
Aud how you won him to life again,
Bending over with infinite eyes
LiSpng the tongue of your sunny Spain,
Tanning his forehead with sOftest sighss
Deeper hurt in his heart there lay
Than where the Apache arrows pried-
Twas a fair-hared playmate, far away,
With blue eyes traitors ald lips That lied,
had letter from her tonight
John, / tCds tCrOng' 'TCdS girls mis-
tdte'
And time has hombIed my heart to lorite
o. IoUe! come back for our old loUe'S
Sake'St"
Go? Do you think would go, mi for?
With love like yours shall | hoard regret?
And our barefoot babes around the door?
No! Then a kiss and--a cigarette.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
SAVANNAH OF TO-DAY.
The Morning News Annual Trade Reyiew-
a Few Pointers in Relation Thereto.

The MORNING NEWS Annual Trade Re
view, containing a complete and compre-
hensive statement of the business of Savan-
nah. will be issued early in September.
The year ending Sept. l, 1899, will be a
memorable one il the history of Savannah,
and the MORNING NEWS proposes to give
the widest publicity to what Savannah has
done, is doing, and proposes to do in the
near future There is no better way in
which the outside world can be informed of
what is going on in a community than
through the columns of its newspapers.
The MORNING NEWS in its forthcoming
Trade Review win show by facts and
figures that Savannah is oue Of the most
progressive and healthy cities In the union,
and that her citizens, judging from what
they have done during the last year, are
fully alive 70 the greatness Of her future.
They have proven by the various local inn
provements they have made, and by the
active interest they have manifested in
railroads projected for her benefit, that
they are not afraid TO invest their money
within her limits. They have demonstrated
beyond all doubt that they have confidence
in her great natural advantages, and that
they believe that her deep water harbor
and her great railroad systems will, in u
few years. make her the greatest seaport
city in the south.
The MORNING News will, in its Trade
Review, present to the world Savannah OF
to-day" IN a resume of what has hereto
fore appeared in its columns. The review
will be in such shape that, at q
glance, it will be seen what has
been accomplished during the year
The Trade Review will contain articles
showing the business of the city during tue
year and present indisputable facts whic..
promise a steadily increasing prosperity.
1t will establish the fact that there is no
healthier city in the south and none more
pleasant in which to live and do business
either in summer or winter. 1t will
prove by figures that Savannah il
without a rival on the South Atlantic
coast, and that by their acts her citizens
show that they are satisfied that she is
only at the beginning of her commercial
greatness.
The Trade Review will be printed in the
usual form, and will be newspaper which
those who feel a pride in their city will
take pleasure in sending to their friends.
1t will afford business men an opportun-
ity of saying something about their business
and themselves. 1t is hoped that in size, as
well as in other respects, it will sur. ass
every previous edition. That, however
depends entirely upon the orders it re-
ceives from advertisers.
1t is desired to distribute $4,000 copies,
and that number will be distributed, if the
response of the business men is as prompt
and liberal as ne have reason to believe 1t
will be.
Orders for advertising or for copies of
the paper can be handed in at the business
Office, or, if desired, they will be called for
by the canvassers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
The Bloody Shirt Again in Service

The Bloody Shirt Again in Service.
When northern republican holds up his
hands in horror, and INDUCES in his usual
remarks about the colored vote in the south
being suppress ed, it should not be taken for
granted that he is really Mortified, or that
any qualified voter in the south is deprived
of the privilege of voting. The history of
the Republican party does not ow that it
is opposed to bulldozing and other unfair
methods in elections, when such methods
would help that party. On the contrary,
distances in which elections in the north have
been unfairly carried for the republicans
are quite numerous. In some of the north
ern states there is rarely an important
election in which the republicans do not
buy up many of the floating voters, and
resort to bulldozing and intimidation to in-
fuence their employees.
The Republican party is not as good as it
processes to be, and when it raises it's voice
against alleged suppression of votes by
southern democrats, it generally has a
partisan purpose in view. The bloody shirt
is likely to be waved at a lively rate for
=
he republicans have a majority in the
Fifty-hrst congress, and they want a pre-
text for passing law placing congressional
elections under government control. In
other words they want national returning
boards appointed, so that the returns in the
southern states may be manipulated in the
Interest of the Republican party
Tho h1opIx CHI tatr 1
is already being waved with both hands by
republicans in some quarters, and it is
significant that such exhibitions are accom-
panied by an appeal to congress to take
congressional elections out of the hands of
the states
The republicans cannot secure the
"ass,ge of such a law as they want without
making the strongest kind of al effort L.
is extremely doubtful if they can succeed
IN their purpose at all
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Secretary Noble was too shrewed a poll
tician to accept tire whItewashing report Of
the COMMITTEES that was appointed 10 inves-
t.gate the pension Office. The committee
proposed to compare the number OF PEN
sions rerated during last December, when
Mr. Black was commissioner, with the num-
Der reratsd in the month Of Nav last, under
Corporal Tanners management. Doubt
less the month which showed the greatest
number of reratings during Mr.. Backs
term ives selected, aud even under tn Sc
circumstances it appeared that the number
under Corporal Tanner was a sixth greIter
than under Mr.. Black.
But Secretary Noble understood very
we'll what the country would think of such
a report as the committee proposed to
make. and so be gave it instructions to leJ
Mr.. BlacGs management alone, aud coafine
itself TO a thorough investigation OF what
Corporal Tanner had done
1t is by no means certain that the com
mittee will follow the Secretary's instruc-
tions. They are republicans, and will look
out for the interests Of the Republican
party. Their attempt to make a white
washing report shows that. 1t is believed
that ii the exact truth about Corporal Tan
ner's management of the pension Office
could be obtained and published, tue Presi-
dent would be forced to ask for his resigna-
ton.
The committee may do the work assigned
it more thoroughly than it at first intended,
bat if it does, its report need not be looked
for until after the fall elections. The com
mittee says that it will not be ready to re
port for several weeks That probablj
means some time next November. Cor
poral Tanner will have to go, and the Presi
dent cannot do wiser thing than to invite
him to 90 as soon as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

The colored brother may yet cause the
Harrison administration considerable trou-
BILE. Disgruntled colored men are trying
get Cheatham, the only colored member
of congress, to act independently whoa the
time comes for organizing the House. A
petition requesting him to do so was clrcu-
lated in Washington the other day by two
colored men named Gussam and George,
and it received numerous signatures.
George lives in South Carolina. H. pays
taxes on property given in at valuation
of sos, 600 He doesn't love the President.
Gussam claims to have been an original Har-
rison man. and now he wisaes that he
had not been.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS

MEETNGs-CalantheL Lodge No. p, K. P; De
Kalb Lodge No. Q, l. o. o. f.; German Friendly
Society; Magnolia Encampment No. l. l. o.
OF
SPECIAL NOTICES Seeds for Fall Planting, g.
NJ. Heidi Co.; Those Lots Near Southover.
W. G. Woodfin; Goes Right to the Spot" John
j. Rely, Importer and Specialist; A Retail
Grocery House Wanted Salesman; A Lad
Wanted by Retail Grocery House; CONNECTIONS.
John J Reilly, Importer and Specialist.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES Ocean Steamship
Company; General Transatlantic Company
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS 80 II lp
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
Yes. Yes; and Becoming More So.

FROM Ule LeuCeftUOTpt fiHteS-
Queer world this! A lawyer and an editor
stood on street corner in an Ohio town and
saw man murdered in cold blood. The muir
derer is a rich man and after committing the
deed he said to the lawyer and editor: Here
is a thousand dollars for each OF you, defend
me before the court and the people for the crime
nave committed. They took the money and
defended MIN in their own way and
according to their own profession-the
editor through his paper and the lawyer
through his mouth. The murderer thrOu h
heir Joint efforts was acquitted. But see the
ditference-mark the result. The people said
The editor is a scoundrel ami dii so for pay.
Lo! we will stop his paper and no longer
patronize hum. The paper was stopped-the
editor ruined financially and re iuced to
pauper But of tle lawyer the people said:
He is an able man, deeply learned in the law,
and deserves great credit for having obtained
the acquitta of a man guilty OF murder. We
SllI give him our law business AID pay big
fees" They mad chin Judge, and as such ne
sent his partner the ed tor, to tae workhouse,
and said he was a bad man. and should not
only be deprived OF tue means of living. but
punished.
We don't indorse the act of an editor in labor
ing for what is wrong or against what is right
tor money-but how about the lawyer?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
Murder Will Out.

He was a stout well-formed, grizzly looking
man, with form som what bent by age. but with
the keen, clear eye that so frequently distin-
suishes the pioneer. He sat beneath the plea .
ant !ade of a cottonwood grove in a SUBURBAN
village, about q year ago, chattering with a
Denver NelcS man about the early days and the
history of Colorado First. IN telL you a
strange bit of personal history" he SAID, land
if you should ever use it l don't want the names
published" The promise was given, and the
soldier and pioneer proceeded:
1t was G strange Illustration of the old saving
that murder will out. Some time prior to 1859
there a stout, active young man running as
a brakeman ON the Delaware and Lackawanna
railway, He was at would NOWADAYS be
called an athlete. He could turn somersaults
from one freight car to another, and one morn
ing when he was found lying dead by the side
of the track it was surmised at in some of his
gymnastlc teatS he mad fallen from the car and
Oeen killed So it seemed to all of uS for al.
though there were some peculiar marks on ii n
for a man who had bee hit by the cars there
was absolutely nothing on which o charge of
murder could be placed against any one. But
his old mother, VINO grieved eS ecially for the
loss of her boy, absolutely reie ted the idea of
accident, and always insisted that he had been
foullY murdered.
Time passed on and in 60 l crossed the
plains and subse uently enlisted in the old
First regiment You remember we were a long
time at Camp Weld, just tliS side of Denver,
and while there | became acquainted with one
of the men who seemed to take strange fancy
to me. He was an ugly. vicious, brutal kind of
a fellow, who was frequently in the guard
house-one of thosa hard characters who driftel
across the plains in SO aud TO- and were only
too glad to enter the army as a means of salts
fyins their propensity for plumber. l tried to
shake him off, out it was no use, and while |
always treated him in friendly manner | dis
trusted him aud was constantly on my guard
''One day he proposed that we 10 INFO some
kind of scheme which was little better than
robbery, which would nave led on to crime |
very quietly declined, but ne being consi lerablv
Il der The influence of liquor insisted uJoI my
joining him, add finally began to boast of what
ne had done, and concluded by saying: Why
| once got away with a man down on the Lacka-
wanna road, and no one ever suspected that
killed him.
And that mans name was Elias -
said, rising to my feet and looking him in the
eye.
- For Gods sake, how do you know he ex
claimed, with strange look of terror coming
over him.
- He was my brother -in-law,' replied; and
now you know who am and where | am from :
l added as he left me and started across The
parade ground.
Il at once went to the officer Of the day to
secure his arrest, but when we came to look for
him he had disappeared. He was never seen in
tue regiment again. but D afterwards learned
that he had been killed-'died with his boots
on, as we used to say in those days"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
Persistency of Stage Struck Women


The persstency of people, and more especially
OF women who want 70 20 upon the stage, IS
one OF the bugbearS of managers peculiarly
audacIous experielcs with an aspiranL was I'M
dcrSoue by Denman Thomps n Just before his
season at the AcaIemy closed. He happened to be
standing in the lobby shortly before tue matinee,
Wnen a resOlute looking wO nan o. uncertain
age went up TO him. and began with this out
burst: i want to 20 on the stage. I'm school
teacher, but I'm tired Of teaching. Now, you
won I get cross will you? Some managers
nave been to act 50 mad. I'm gong in to see
your SHOW, aud then III see you afterward and
tell you which OF the parts think l can play
best. Now, you're not mad, are you? No!
Wei. then, you miglt give pass. Some of
Tue managers wouldn't, but you look real good
natured. When l tell you which part like best,
We can talA about the paw" MIR. Thompson
ventured to suggest that the members of his
company had been with him some years, and it
would scarcely be fair to displace one for a
stranger. The amazing reply ne received was:
On, they re acquainted and easily get
something else to do, but I'm a stranger and
ought 10 have q chance" After that perform
ance Mr., Thompson skipped out by back way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Mayor Filter of Philadelphia, takes the
refusal of the President to accept his invita-
ii n to spend few days with him at At
lantic City very much to heart. He DOESN'T
understand why he should accept Blalne's
invitation to visit Bar Harbor and refuse
his, especially as he, as we'll as Blaine, was
a candidate for the nomin alton for presi-
de before the Chicago convention.
Probably Mayor Filter doesn't realize the
fact that his candidacy was good deal of
q Joke
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

The Presidents French cook, Mime. Pelo-
nard, threatens to sue him 70 her wages.
She claims that she was emp eyed by him
until next fall. Recently sac was notified
that her services were no longer needed in
the white house kitchen, as the Harriso S,
SCOTS and McKees were away from WASH
ington for the summer. The spectacle of
the President of the United States being
sued in a case of this kind would be quite
remarkable
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
The Oneida Community.

great deal used to be heard about the
Oneida Community, aud nov and then
something is still said OF written about if,
but as matter of fact there is no such
social organization, nor has there been for
some years. 1t ceased to exist in 1881 the
New York legislature having abolished it
by special ac', but its disbandment was
only a question of time after the people OF
that state manifested decided opposition to
its free love ideas The declared object
OF the community was to make
home happy, and the members
Of it believed that there were two
nome spoilers" as they termed them. Ons
was marriage. and the other was death.
Of course they couldn't prevent death, but
they abolished marriage among themselves.
Numbering eighty-seven persons at first.
aud under the lead of the late John Hum
Phrey Noyes, they purchased forty acres OF
lard in the heart of the beautiful Oneida
valley, whore they he'd everything in com
mon, and where their manner of living
was In some respects to BE- admired; but
after discarding marriage, they fell into
Immoral habits, and that fact led to the
adjustment by law of the Organization.
. rep rter of New York newspape.
visited the Oneida valley the other dav and
talked with some of tne surviving members.
The Oneida Community, Limited has taken
the place of the former organization. 1t is
Joint stock company, whose object
IS to carry on general manufacturing and
agricultural business There are go stock
holders, and the capital is about 5000, OO).
About 60 acres OF land are cultivated, and
there Is a canning factory, silk fac
tory, and steel-trap work.. Tn,
value of silk manufactured there
last year was $4,000, and the
number of steel traps was 400, 1000. These
traps are of eight sizes, and are intended to
catch anything that may be caught in
traps, from mouse to bear. In the can
ming factory the product of 400 acres
planted in corn was canned, as was also
fruit OF various kinds. 1t is very evident
that a considera lie gain was ma lie to the
country when the Oneida Community, as a
social experiment, was abolished, and the
Oneida Community, Limited, as business
| enterprise, was established in its place.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

The New Jersey prohibitionists propose
to get control of the legislature of that
state by voting with the dominant party
in each county. They will try to get pro-
hIbition democrats nominated in demo-
cratic counties, and prohibition republicans
thet they will fad the politicians of both
parties prepared to defeat a scheme of th It
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Secretary Blaine is not a poor man by any
means His book, Twenty Years in Con-
gress, p" brought him fortune, a ID it is said
that he has mining properties in Colorado
that pay him big dividends. He would be
in no danger Of starving even if he should
take notion to resign his Office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

If the friends of the oyster bill continue &c
consent to amendments to it to satisfy
every one who has an interest in the cult
walton, catching and selling of oysters. 1t
won't be worth very much by the time it
becomes a law.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

1t is reported that Gen. Russell A. Alger
will be a candidate for commander-in-chie
of the Grand Army of the Republic. Be-
fore Gen. Warner was electe to tn It posi-
ton he had to agree not to accept a n>mi-
nation for a political Office Would Gen.
Alger agree not to accept a nomination for
Presidentl
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Supervisor Green, of Brooklyn, is q
member of the county republican commit
Zee, and he was supposed to be very in.
fuential politician. His friends who wanted
office put their cases III his hands, and he
was 50 greatly bothered that he became i'll
Now it is asserted that he has lost his mind.
Strict adherence by the administration tc
civil service reform would no doubt have
saved Mr.. Green.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

The south has more than passing inter
est in the congress, composed of representa-
tives of all American nations, which i, to
meet in Washington in October. There is
an immense market in South and Central
America for such goods as are manufac-
tured in southern factories The south
should take care to make Ler influence felt
in this congress
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

The summer jaunts of the cotton men
will soon be over. In week or two they
will begin to turn their faces homeward
The first bales Of the feecy staple are IN
and theirs viii soon begin to come by the
thousands
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

1t is alleged that Gen. Bollanger is think
ing very seriously Of taking refuge in the
United States from his enemies. If he is
wise he will not think too long. He may
not be able to start if he delays his depart
ure much longer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Whate'er besides your chance TO want
Meier fall short of SOZODONT
But keep it always in your sight,
a source Of beauty aud delight,
To cleanse your teeta ill with your smile
Ine most fastidicus you beguile.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

Nobody believes that a southern republ
can will be chosen speaker of the House.
In fact the Republican party is not disposed
to give a tirst-class office to any southern
man. The reason is that it is a sectional
party.