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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
A Very Wicked Story.
From the Ls,oiston Journal.

From the Leiciston Journal
When Minister Thomas re-entered Portland
society with a beautiful Swedish wife there was
a general sensation, and the story tellers as
well as the gossips of a less imaginative turn,
found an abundance of material for their en-
ployment
The story goes that at home breakfast one
morning before Mrs. Thomas had acquired
much English, an awkward servant spilled some
coffee on the minister's coat.
That's - pretty piece Of work. ex-
claimed the minister.
What did you say then. my dear?" Mrs
Thomas innocently asked, in Swedish.
Il said this is a very fine cup of coffee, -
blandly replied her husband, in the same Ian
guage
That very evening Mr. and Mrs. Thomas at
tended q brilliant party. With a laudable wish
to compliment the refreshments and at the
same time honor the English language by ex-
pressing her sentiments in q. it, the beautiful
Swede exclaimed, sweetiy, after sip of fra
grant Mocha, That's - pretty piece OF
WORK.
Who do you suppose was 50 wicked as to in
vent that story:
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"9ood Morning, Your Lordah p
From the Le,ciston Journal.

FROM me LSCIStOgl y ouFFlfL.
William w. Thomas, Jr., when in town, almost
invariably walks. Quite often his handsome
swedish wife companies him. They tell a
frs rate story of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, which,
think. has never be ~ il print
one bright morning soon after Mr. Thomas
arrived from Sweden with his bride she was
Walking down Congress street with him. They
CHANGED to meet one OF Mr.. Thomas many
intimate friends. blunt bluff, hearty old fell
low. who cares more for cordially than for the
tormalities of etiquette On seeing his old
friend, William, this genial gentleman, with a
flourish of the hand sang out:
How y're, Bill = and then passed on.
Now, Mrs. Thomas had been i'll America only
q few days and could understand out few
English words at bes., to say nothing of such
off-hand expressions as this. Not recognizing
/ tse- aceeltsas anythin9rshe had ever heard in
the greetings of the Swedish court. she was
naturally a little curious and asked her hus-
band for translation.
What did the gentleman sayi' she asked in
her native tongue.
He said, Good morning, your lordship, 8"
was the eX-minister's prompt rely.
sweet smile of satisfaction passed over the
wife's fac as she walked on by her husband 8
side, apparently much pleased at the honor in
which her husband was held by his neighbors
at home
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John Bright's Repartee.
From the Ne,r York Truth.

A good story of the late John Bright is told
by Justin Mccarthy. 1t was probably about
1888 when Mr.. Bright returned to his place in
the House after a long aud tedious attack OF
brain fever. Everyone, of course, greeted the
great liberal Quaker with cordially, and Bright
made brilliant speech thanking them, and de-
claring himself quite recovered from his serious
indiSposition. Lord Grantham, bitter parti-
san tory of the old school, replying to the speech,
said: MY lords and gentlemen. l feel sure that
the late illness OF the honorable gentleman,
who has just sat down, is direct punishment
for the wanton wickedness he has been guilty of
softening of the brain, it was something very
much like it" With characteristic Quaker
simplicity Mr.. Bright replied: My lords and
gentlemen, think that even providence, in its
omnipotence, could not have afflicted the noble
lord with such thing as softening of the
brain -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The United States consul at Dresden is
not likely to be removed by President Har-
rison. He wasn't removed by President
Cleveland, or by President Arthur, Gar
field or Hayes. Nobody seems to know or
care what political party he belongs to, but
it is very well known that he is Senator
Don Csmeron's man" He was appointed
by President Grant, at old Gen. Simon
Cameron's request. Gen. Cameron ex-
planned to bis brother senators that be
didn't know anything about the politics Of
the appointee, but that he had been a school
mate OF Don's. and that he was Don.
friend. The nomination was confirmed
without further questioning. The appointee
has since held on under both republican and
democratic administrations HIS name 10
Davis, aud be was born in Virginia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
Late Advjces.
Fron the YOUTHS Comnanif

From Inc YOUTHS COmpdnion.
A middle-aged colored woman, who occasion
ally worked for lady in an eastern city, one
day Informed her employer That she could not
do any more work for her, as she intended
"gittin' mahied.'
'Indeedr' exclaimed the lady. so you are
going 10 be married?'
Yes IN, | is, 70 sartain.
We'll, l hope, Rosa, that you have given the
matter careful considerations
"Yes'm."
Finding her in receptive mood, the lady
thought it an excellent time to give some ad.
vice on the subject OF matrimony, and she i'm
proved the occasion Rosa listened patiently,
and then said:
''DaJ's So lady, OATS so! l tell yo' dis gittin'
mahied amt no trifiin' business. Use been
mahied TO times already myself, lady, en-
knows dat " at you done say is solemn fac
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

Justice Patterson, of the supreme court
Of New York, has appointed Mr.. Cleveland
a commissioner of estimate and assessment
in the matter Of the High Park bridge in
that state. Three commissioners were TO
be appointed, and there were 200 applicants.
Mr.. Cleveland, however, was not one Of
them. The pay is 81 day for each day on
which work is done. The ex-President is
now private citizen, aud 10 has shown
that he is willing TO assume the duties Of
one. II he makes as good a citizen as he
did President, be will be a success in that
capacity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

amply Goes duty for both. She is one Of the
most courageous women alive aud once saved
the life of favorite cat by herself biting mad
dog al the tail. She delights in nothing so much
as startling people, and once sent hotel full Of
dowagers into fits by telling them the secret Of
her plentiful supply OF exotics was her habit Of
going round the cemetery every morning and
snatching them from the tombs. There are
endless stories about the sayings and doings of
her ladyship; and she does all she knows to
foster character for eccentricity.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

l. has been more than three months since
the law providing for executions by cleo
tricitv went into force in New York, and
yet nobody has been executed under the
new method. Vicious people are not anx-
ious to be the first victim of the law. No
murderer has been sente lced to death since
Jan. l. Did You ever reflect thai if hang
ing hal been kept in force several people
would probably have been executed in New
York during the last three mo1thsa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

John Washington, a 14-year-old West
Virginia boy, is evidently descendant Of
the father of his country. He had a habit
of riding on locomotive operated by a
coal company in that state, aad the con-
ductor put him off frequently. Finally he
told the conductor that the uext time he
put him OF, he would kill him. He was
put off again, and he put his threat into
execution. He could not depart from the
truth
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The country is waiting anxiously TO see
If Mr.. Blaine is going to give ex Senator
Riddleberger the consulate for which be
has applied. Mr.. Riddlsperger thinks that
his appointment would be sop to the Irish
element, but the probability is that Mr..
Blaine will conclude that MIR. Riddleberger
is not the kind of a sop that will help the
Republican party with the Irish.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
The Poor Man

From he NetC York World (Denl)
President Harrison is so used up by his first
months encounter with the hungry horde of
office-seekers that he is already in need of va
cation. The poor man said yesterday that he
had just received 100 congressman and other
off1ce-brokers or Office beggars, and could not
remember what one Of them wanted"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
Fighting a Combination.

The Farmers Alliance of this state has
declared war on the jute bagging combina-
ton. and the indications are that it will be
a war that will not cease until the combina-
ton agrees to charge only fair prices for
jute bagging. or the jute bagging industry
is seriously crippled.
The cotton planters were at the mercy Of
the jute bagging combination last season,
and tEev were virtually robbed of hundreds
of thousands of dollars. They see very
clearly that the combination intends to
rob them again this season. They purpose
to protect themselves, and they have begun
their preparations to do so.
The planters are willing that the jute
bagging manufacturers shall make a fair
profit and it is probable that they would
not combine to defend themselves if they
were required to pay for jute bagging
prices that yielded little more than a fair
profit, but they have made up their minds
that they cannot stand being robbed again,
and that they can fight the jute oagging
combination successfully if they go about
it in the right way and are ulited IN their
action.
1t may cost them more this year to resist
the exactions Of the combination than to
yield 70 them, but they argue, and rightly,
that if they make no resistance to the com
bination they will remain in its power from
year TO year, and the combination, made
bold by its success, will steadily increase
its prices until it will take from the planter
all the profits of his crop. 1t is wiser
thar.afOra 10 itfIa fA ID
stitute for jute bagging this season than to
pay the prices of the jute bagging combi-
nation, and in this way encourage the in
vention of substitutes, with the hope that
one may be found that will eventually
drive jute bagging out of the market as
covering for cotton.
There is every reason to believe that such
improvements will be made in the manu-
faeture of pine straw bagging that it will,
in the near future, be sold at prices with
which the jute bagging manu- acturers can
not compete. Even now it can be manu-
featured so as to be sold profitably at prices
lower than those at which jute bagging
was offered during rart of last season.
Several pine straw factories are now pro-
jected, and experiments are in progress
which will soon determine whether or not
the manufacture Of pine straw goods is to
become a great southern industry. If the
experiments are successful the jute bagging
manufacturers will have cause to regret
their greedy policy, but the south will re-
j5ice, not only because of her release from
the grasp of a c3mbinition which seems de-
termined to nave the last nickel of its vic
TINS, but, also, because of the establish
ment within her limits of a new source of
wealth.
Necessity is the mother of invention, aud
the present necessity of the cotton planters
is causing the different fibers to be found in
the south to be carefully examined and
tested. 1t may be that one will be found
that is more valuable than pine straw is
proving itself to be, and that will render
tie planters wholly independent of jute
bagging.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

Some republicans who held office under
President Arthur. and who have been rein
stated by President Harrison, say that they
find their offices in excellent condition.
Under Mr.. Cleveland's administration
officials were required to attend to the
governments business
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

Jersey cattle do not seem to be in as
great demand as formerly. At sale in
New York the other day 70 head brought
only $3.50, an average of a little more than
s6S a head. One lot Of twenty-four brought
an average of $50 each. The mild-eyed
Jersey may not command as high a price as
formerly, but she will continue to be about
the best butter cow that there is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
The New York Postoface.

From the Mem York Times Uad1
II change was to be made it was for the
purpose of putting the postof1ce into politics
again, and the man TO be put in charge OF it
should be practical politician. Mr.. Van Colt
is just the kind # man that is wanted in the
place. He has been a boy himself; he has
been district leader and knows how to run the
machine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

Frank n. Wicker. who was collector at
Key West under President Arthur, is in
Washington, trying to get President Harri-
son to put him back into Office. Mr. Wicker
is probably very good man. Its observed
that the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune handled him in a rough
manner.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
Il is to be Hoped So.
From the 81. LOUIS Republic Dem,

From the ST. Louis Republic CDenl.)
Are we on the brink of a Jefersonian recon
structionf In no year since Thomas Jefferson
died has there been s. general, 50 hearty and
reyerential tribute pad 70 MS memory aud his
political teachings as in this year of grace. This
Is a sign OF the times that is full of encourage
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

W. L. Glessner, Esq. editor e the Ameri-
Gus Recorder and chairman OF the commit
tee # arrangements in Charge f the pro-
posed excursion OF the Georgia Press Asso-
citation, is now in the wes- Attending to
matters connected with the trip. The Kan
sas City Times has the following 10 say
about the excursion: The Georgia Press
Association, numbering between fifty and
sixty members, are making arrangements
to visit Kansas City abou. the first week in
June. The editors of the diffe 'ent Georgia
papers have read 50 much about Kansas
City and her wonderful growth that they
want TO see with their own eyes the city
that is taking such hold on the commerce
of the southern states. Kansas City is daily
sending TO the south train loads Of fresh
meats end packing house products, to say
nothing of the corn, wheat and flour that
is consumed in that section. In return
Georgia sends here cotton seed oil, iron and
lumber in considerable quantities. The
editors will travel in special train over
the Georgia Central and Memphis route,
and will on arrival here inspect the stock
yards, packing houses, terminal facilities,
public buildings, cable lines, manufactures,
etc. From here they will make trip to
Topeka, returning home by way of st.
Louis. The question of their entertain
ment will be taken up at an early meeting
of the Commercial Club
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The Washington dispatches announce that
the offlceseekers are beginning to go home.
They have remained long enough, however,
20 wear the President out.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The republican organs know very well
that the appointment Of Mr.. Van Colt as
postmaster at New York, in place Of Mr..
Pearson, will not be popular one among
business men, regardless Of party, and they
are trying TO trump up excuses for the
Pres dent. One Of them says that criti-
cisms of the appointment will be dulled by
the facts that Mr.. Pearson was not removed,
and that he is seriously ill. AS for the first
statement, the important point is that Mr..
Pearson was not reappoiuted, and as for the
second, Mr.. Pearson himself SAIL the other
day that he was In excellent health. In the
absence of argument, the republican or
gans are trying to withdraw public atten-
ton from the only fact worth considering
in connection with the matter, viz, that
business methods will have TO give way for
machine politics in the most important post
office in the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
Yes, indeed.

From the PHILADELPHIA Times tTnd.)
From Pearson to Van Colt is evolution going
backwards in the management Of the New York
postoffice
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

Secretary Noble did not interfere too
soon when he told Commissioner of PEN
sions Tanner the other day that he must 60
slow in making removals. The patriotic
corporal has always had great deal to say
about the love Of the republicans for the
old soldiers, but he did not hesitate to de-
mand the resignation Of Gen. James b.
Colt, Of Connecticut, veteran who carries
the scars Of wounds received while fighting
for the union. Gen. Colt is democrat II
would seem that Commissioner Tanners
love for the old soldiers is confined to those
who are republicans
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The Chicago Hlter-OcedH not only OPP
poses what may just now be termed the
Florida idea, viz, that OF elscting Presi-
dents by popular vote, but it declares that
Mr. Cleveland did not receive %, 900 votes
more than President Harrison, and bases
this statement on reasoning after the
bloody shirt style. The fact Of Mr.. Cleve-
lands popular majority is a thorn in the
flesh Of the republican organs. You can't
allude TO it without having them jump on
you in full force. Thsy haven't succeeded
in wiping ous the official figures, however.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The fact that the President has declared
his intention Of running away from the
spoismen has caused ex-senator Endicott
TO speak concerning civil service reform.
He says: This is the only government
where there is scramble for Office. and
until the tenure is made secure and the
places filled with good men, the President
will be overburdened Lo1k at England.
There is a fres government and there the
men who desire to enter the employ Of the
government are tested thoroughly aud. if
found competent, are offered every induce
ment to stay in the service. Within the
lifetime Of the generations now being born
there will be in this country an army Of
officials 800, 900 strong. Thea the civil SER
vice will be necessity, and then the Presi-
dent viii have to be relieved Of the drddg
cry of appointments by heads of depart
ments and bureaus, because no one man will
be able to do the work. The reform would
not commence too soon If it were put into
operation at once"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

The Georgia State Sunday School Asso-
citation, Of which Mr.. r. B. Reppard, of Saw
annah, is president, will meet in Brunswick
May s to 10. inclusive, in its sixteenth an
nual convention. Reduced railroad fare
will be allowed to delegates. During the
exercises, it is expected that addresses will
be made by W. h. lowering, of Indiana,
Rev. Sam r. Jones. William Reynolds, presi-
dent of the International Sunday School
Association, Hon. A. s. Clay of Marietta,
Judge James A. Anderson of Atlanta and
Gov. Gordon. The address of welcome will
be delivered by Rev. Mr.. Golden, of Bruins
wick, and the responses by Messrs. Reynolds
and lowering. There are S29, 1886 children
in the Sunday schools of Georgia; outside
Of them there are nearly 250.O
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
Female Incendiaries

A good many women have been guilty
of the crime of incsndisrism lately. This
is rather extraordinary. AS a rule, men,
and not women, commit this crime. A few
weeks ago, in a number Of Pennsylvania
and Maryland counties which lie along the
dividing line Of these states, the people
were greatly excited by the frequent burn
ing Of barns. For quite while no clue to
the perpetrators Of the crimes could be OBJ
tanned. but, finally, four arrests wer Q
made, and three of those arrested were
women. Nobody but the detectives had
imagined that any of the criminals were
women, and the establishment was great,
not only IN the states named, but in other
parts Of the country. One Of the women
confess d that she had burned the barn Of
the friend who had cared for her since her
childhood, and the evidence against the
others is said to be strong.
The other day two young women were
arrested on the charge Of having committed
incendiarism in New Jersey towns They
made startling confession. 1t was that
they were responsible for fire in Plainfield,
for which young man is serving a term
in the penitentiary, and that they set fire
to building on the postoffice block in Sum-
NIT. In connection with the last named
crime they said they entered room
occupied by acquaintance; nobody but
sleeping child was In the room
in closet they found a bundle
of rags, and after pouring kerosene over
them, they applied matches to them. Then
they awaited results, and when the alarm
of fire was raised, they ran into the streets,
among the crowd, and noted the efforts
made to extinguish the fire. They are sus-
pected of having started 100000 fire else
wi ere
The foregoing are few Of the many in
stances of incendiarism committed by
women that have recently attracted atten-
ton. None Of these women have given any
reasons for their conduct, though one of them
said that she wanted to see big blaze. The
most charitable conclusion is that they are
not in their right minds. Unless they are
crazy, they certainly should be punished
To permit them to escape punishment would
encourage other women who like TO see a
"big blaze" to indulge in the costly amuse-
ment Of burning houses and barns