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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
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MEETINGS Oglethorpe Lodge No. I, I. o. o.
r; Alpine Lodge Of Perfection No. 1, A. and a.
P. S. NJ; Georgia Huss&rs; Savannah Cadets;
Savannah Lodge No. 1853, K. Of H; German
American Mutual Loan and Building Associa-
tion; Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 81. F. and
A. n; Excelsior Lodge No, s. K. P.
SPECIAL HoTICEs-Dividend No. 81. Augusta
and Savannah Railroad; Notice 10 Jurors City
Court; Lecture at Park New-Church; AS to
crew OF British Steamship Cairngorm; Venture
TO say, J. ]. Reilly; As TO Bills Agiast British
Steamship Holyrood; Notice of Dissolution,
Ohlander Bros; Bananas and Coacoanuts, j. S.
Collins & Co; A Good Combination Horse for
sale, Chss. F. Graham.
AUCTION SALEs-Household Furniture Fine
Horse. Buggy and Harness By LaRoche &
Mclaughlin; Administrators Sale, Commits
sioners Sale for Partition. Forty-one Building
Lots. Valuable City Property, by / D. La
Roche & Son; Horses and Mules, by R. h.
Tatem-
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULEs-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
KSABE LEADS TIE WoRLD-Davis Bros
CHEAP coLUlcs ADvrRTIsENEyTs-Help want
ed; employment wanted; for rent; for sale;
lost; personal; miscellaneous.
LEGAL EoTIoEs-Citations from the Clerk of
Court Of Ordinary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
An Awful Time With an Oyster.
From the Chicnno Times.

Last night fat man, wearing low-necked
shirt with rundown collar three sizes too
large for him, sat down to a table in Clark
street restaurant and called for a plate OF raw
oysters. He got them cold and Juicy right off
the Ice, and harpooning fat one with his fork
ne lifted it toward his mouth. But the slippery
shiny, chilly blvalve dropped off the fork before
reaching lts destination, caromed on the fat
mans chin, and then slid down inside of his
shirt and nestled on his breast
No one saw the incident. The obese gent him
self didn't see it, but he felt that something had
happened and that he had arrived at a crisis in
his life. A panied, startled expression rested
for a moment on his face; then with a low,
plaintive wall of heart-breaking agony, he half
rose from his chair and clapped his hand on his
stomach. He struck the oyster, but that GOV
creature was one of the most alert and agile of
its species. 1t at once changed its base on feel
ing the pressure and SHE'D upward and across
the TAT mans wide expanse of palpitating
bosom, leaving a trail of arctic frigidity in its
wake, and took up new quarters in his left
armpit.
With wild howl of anguish the unhannv
proprietor of the oyster leaped two feet in the
air, uttered another yell like a MIDWEST In
dian and commenced to work his arm after the
manner of bagpipe musician. The oyster got
excited and started again on its travels but was
apparently unable to select permanent loca-
ton. After making several blind rushes it
halted for moment under a short rib near the
spine to catch its second wind.
The unfortunate fat man was now in a state
Of mind bordering on insanity. He kicked over
his chair, yelled and swore. grabbed himself in
front and behind and on both sides, rolled up
his eyes, frothed at the mouth and spun around
like top. But the slippery bivalve was now
thoroughly ratified and scooted here and there
like streak of CREASED lightning, taking
great pains not to travel over the same ground
twice.
He's got fit" screamed wild-eyed man
making a rush for the door, with napkin
tucked under his chin.
Its either that or he's afire inside of his
Clothes said another pale-faced diner, edgine
away from the sufferer.
For mercy's sake take him off, somebody:
I'm dying!" walled the stricken man, as be
threw up both hands and sat down heavily or
the floor.
When the victim of misplaced refresh
ments struck the floor the oyster shot out OF
the back OF his neck like a bullet, hit the
ceiling with quashy PUNK and then fell
back and hung limp and lifeless from the chan
delier.
The fat mans physician says the patient will
recover from his attack of nervous prostratior
in a few days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
Medicine That Turns the Hair Dark
From the London Times

Dr. Prentiss, in the Therapeutic Gazette of
this year, has related a remarkable Occurrences
following the of jaborandi The patient
was a woman, age r. who had snow white hair
for twenty years. For the symptoms of begin
ming uraemla, due to contracted kidney twenty
or thirty minims of extract of iaborandi was
prescribed several times daily
The drug was taken from October, 1886 to
February, 1888. During the autumn of 1887 the
eyebrows were becoming darker, and the hair
of the head became also darker in patches.
This continued until the patches of hair were
quite dark contrasting with the patches of
snow-white hair. The hair did not universally
change before her death. In 1873! Dr. Prentiss
had published another case of, kidney disease,
pyelonephrtis, treated with pilocarpne The
hair of the patient, a lady aged 25, changed
from blonde to black under the influence of the
drug. The piocarpine was administered hypo-
dermically (one-sixth of q grain) TWENTY-FIVE
times in the course of two months; the dose was
then increased. In one month after beginning
the treatment the hair changed from a light
blonde to chestnut brown; four months later
it was almost pure black 1t is satisfac-
tory to find that eight years afterward the hair
is again a dark brown.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
M Ground Rent Lots

The opinion OF Chief Justice Bleckley in
TIE case Of the Augusta factory VS.. the
city OF Augusta, the full text Of which is
published in another column this morning,
appears TO sustain fully the opinions of City
Attorney Adams that the ground rent lots
are taxable.
In the Augusta factory case the city OF
Augusta agreed with the owners of the
factory that It would limit its taxing power
with respect to csrsaia property OF the
factory. This agreement was made in
1855. Sometime ago Augusta declined
70 ABIDE By this agreement, and
the factory owners applied for
injunction to restrain tAe city from collect
ing taxes levied in violation of the agree
menr. The judge WHO hsard the case
declined 10 grant the injunction, and the
factory owners took an appeal to the
supreme court. That court held, as appears
from the opinion of the chief justics, that
the judgment of the lower court was right;
that Augusta never had the power to ma Ike
contract TO exempt property from taxa
ton; that the forbsaring to exercise the
taxing power with respect to any prop
erty is of doubtful validity, and that if Au-
gusta ever had the power to grant exemp-
tons from tsxations and had exercised it,
the contracts thus made had been declared
null and void by the constitution of 1877.
According to this decision the forbearing
to tax the ground rent lots was without
authority even il there was a contract not
to tax them unless the city had authority
from the state to make such contract.
Aud if there was a contract and it was
authorized by the state the contract was
rendered null and void by the constitution
of 1877.
1t seems that prior to 1877 ordinances
granting exemptions from taxation were
allowable, but such ordinances not author
lied by the state were not legal. In the
case of the ground rent lots, however, it
has not yet BEEN shown that the city ever
passed an ordinance exempting them, and
if it did pass such an ordinance the .ordi-
nance was not binding unless authorized by
the state. But assuming that such an
ordinance was passed, and that the state,
by special act, authorized it, the constitu-
ton of 1877 nullified it. If the decision of
Justice Bleckley is understood the ground
rent lots are taxable, and the city has no
authority to forbear taxing them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Charles A. Turner. known in New York
as 'Iceman" Turner, from the fact that he
used to peddle ice, was elected to congress
last Saturday from the Sixth district of
that city, by very decisive majority, to
succeed Frank T. Fitzgerald, resigned
Speaking of Mr.. Turner the other day, the
Philadelphia Press said that he was a rat
tle-brained, loud-mouthed professional labor
reformer, who had the dangerous advant-
age OF possessing some education. This
seems to be a curious statement for a
north&n newspaper to make in view of
the fact that northern newspapers, as a
rule. contend that the solution of the race
problem in the south is the education of
the colored people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

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None Of Our Business.

From the Nashville american (Dem.)
The New York IForli says that the United
states is interested in the establishment of re-
puolics throughout the world" In what wav
II Is not easy to perceive. The United States is.
or should be. interested solely in attending to
IT'S own business. It is matter for pride and
qualification that the success of the great Amer
lean republic has fostered the spirit of republi-
canlsm in other countries, but otherwise it is a
matter OF no concern to us as a nation
what may be the form of government under
which other peoples choose to live,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Maj. Mckinley says that it is all right; he
has nothing to regret, he can now dine with
his wife and rest from care. In fact one
might.think, from his words, that he is
glad Mr.. Reed beat him for the speakership.
But he isn't. Not bit of it. Mr.. Mckinley
is angry, and he is angry with Senator
Quay, to whom he attributes his defeat.
Quay will probably hear from him one of
these days, and then he may wish that he
had kept clear of the speakership race. He
will also hear from Mr.. Carson of Penn.
sylvania. who was defeated by Quay's
candidate for clerk of the House. Mr..
Carson doesn't pretend to be satisfied, but,
on the contrary, he speaks right OUT. and
says that Senator Quay had no business to
interfere in the election of House officers,
and probably great many people will con-
cede that he is right.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
Prospect of Partisan Legislation


When it became known last fall that
republican president had been elected, and
that the republicans had obtained control
of the House, some of tine organs and leaders
of that party declared that the result would
be that the republicans would enjoy another
long lease of power, and one of the plans
suggested to make sure that they would was
the disfranchisement of colored voters, by
which the representation of the south In the
electoral college would be greatly reduced
They did not Ibelieve, however, that this
would insure republican congress in the
future, and they therefore abandoned it,
urged the passage of federal election law,
or, in other words, they wanted republican
returning boards appointed in the congress
sional districts.
The advocates of a federal election law
are making good deal of noise 1t has
been announced that federal election bill
will be introduced into the House. Mr. Houk,
of Tennessee, is said to have prepared it,
and recent dispatch states that Mr.. Lodge,
of Massachusetts,, will champion it in the
House. Mr.. Lodge has developed into a
very extreme partisan, and it would not be
very surprising if he should lend himself
to the scheme.
OF course the purpose Of such bill is to
secure more republican congressman from
the south, but if it should be introduced
there is very little probability that it would
be passed. The majority of the republicans
is not large enough to enable them to pass
it. But federal election law would not be
satisfactory to the constituents of quite q
number of republican congressman. They
are already beginning to let their opposition
to it be known, and it is very probable that
enough republicans would vote against it tc
defeat it, If it should reach vote,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Mrs. Cassidy, of st. Louis, may be very
glad to see her husband again, but she ia
very sorry to lose the money she would
have received if he had not returned. Mr..
Cassidy's name was placed on the pension
rolls good many years ago, and check
for s2,lOO had just besn made out in his
favor when he suddenly disappeared, leav-
ing it uncollected. His wife couldn't get
the money, as the law required an absence
OF seven years as basis for the presumpt-
I've widows claim. Mr.. Cassidy remained
away seven years and six mouths, and the
other morning, when Mrs. Cassidy went to
Sne door in answer to ring of the bell, ex-
pecnng postman to hand her a letter with
tne check, she saw instead the long lost
easAdy, who seems to have had very
definite idea when the check would arrive.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
No Fire.Proof Buildings.

The Boston fire demonstrated quite salts
factorily that there are no fre-proof build
ings in any of our cities. There are a great
many buildings which are called fire-proof,
but they are so only to limited extent.
These alleged fire. proof bull dings. as a gem
eral thing, contain SO many windows that
only comparatively small part of their
walls are solid masonary, and these win
dows are not protected by heavy iron shut
ters. hebuildings are filed with combusti-
BILE materials. When a fire once gets fairly
started it melts the windows and attacks
the combustible materials within. The
buildings generally have great deal of
woodwork inside, and it is not long after a
fire gets under Roadway inside of them be-
fore they are a great furnace The walls.
particularly if they are of granite, readily
yield to the intense heat, and in an incredi-
bly, short time the buildings are heaps of
ruins.
In Boston, the buildings in the business
district are as substantial and as nearly fire.
proof as are the business houses in any other
city in the country. In the fire the other
day, however. and also in the great fire of
1872, these massive structures of brick and
stone crumbled almost as soon as the flames
reached them.
1t is possible, of course, to construct fire.
proof buildings, or at least buildings that
will resist any ordinary fire, but they must
not be constructed of stone, and they must
not have floors and beams and window
frames of wood. The walls must
be of brick, the beams of steel
or iron. and the floors of
steel or brick. Doubtless there will be a
greater effort, in consequence of the great
fires that have occurred this year, to make
buildings intended to contain hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of merchandise
fire-proof. And perhaps greater precau-
tions will be taken against fire.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

The other day the country was told that
Mr.. Cleveland and Gov. Hill were at logger
heads because, while President, Mr.. Ceve-
land brought upon Hill pecuniary loss by
driving the cattlemen from the lands of
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians The
governor was said to have owned cattle
there. This story does not seem to have
satisfied all of the republican organs, how
ever, and one Of them has started another
1t is that Gov. Hill was interested to the
extent of $1,000 in mining property in the
west, that a bill was passed by congress S
which would have increased the value of the
governors interest to 81, 900, and that when
Mr.. Cleveland learned that G ov. Hill would
be benefited, he vetoed the bill This story
is about as unlikely as the other. If re-
publican organs are determined to make
these two distinguished democats appear to
be deadly enemies, why don't they invent a
more plausible reason for the enmitya
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Some northern newspapers criticise Gov.
Richardson. of South Carolina, quite
severely for what he said in his recent mes
sage in favor OF equal railway accommoda-
lions for whites and blacks, and the separa-
ton of the races while travelling These
newspapers very conveniently forget that
the interstate railway commission has taken
the same position. and so has the United
States supreme court. They also neglect to
state that the white people of the north
don't get sandwiched between blacks to any
considerable extent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Mr.. Cleveland has recently been offered
six times as much for soak View his
suburban residence near Washington, as he
gave for it, but he said that the place was
not for sale. This leads some of the news
papers to remark that he expects to reside
in Washington again in an official capacity.
OF course he can't help seeing that the peo-
pie want him back in the white house.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

No doubt the New York Worlds prize of
ticket to Europe to the person who makes
the closest guess as to the time in which
Nelly Bly, will go around the globe could
be won by almost any of the editors Of the
Georgia weekly press. These editors are
not going to compete, however. They are
SO busy now that they haven't time to fill
out the blank, and, besides, they have just
returned from the Paris exposition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

The friends of the late Prof. Sartelle, of
Massachusetts,. are asking themselves if he
committed suicide. The professor was a
prestidigitator. and he was tired of life
He recently gave an exhibition in Lynn,
and, loading trick gun, he requested one
Of the spectators to discharge it at him.
"Aim at my head" he said to the man.
just before giving the signal for him to
shoot. His request was complied with, and,
to the horror Of the spectators instead of
catching the bullet between his teeth, he
caught it in his head, and fell dead. He
hao played new trick on the audience.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
History VIII do Him Justice.
From the Ne,o orleans states (pem.l

fToDI use Nea0 Orleans States DENY
Some OF the republican papers are already
6etraying good deal of anxiety about the
nag being suspended at hslf-mast over the
war department in the event Of the death of
Hon Jefferson Davis, as it is customary in this
way TO show mark of respect for all ex-cabinet
onlcers lt Is matter Of very little conse-
quence whether the flag is half-mass or not
because history will show that Mr.. Davis was
one OF the aolest statesmen and Secretaries of
W ar That this country ever produced.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

During the ten months ended Oct. 81,
1889, there was decrease of more than
10O, 900 in the number of immigrants to this
country. The greatest decrease was In the
arrivals from Scandinavia, and the next
greatest from Italy. The immigration
from Great Britain and Ireland decreased
10000, and that from Germany 10000.
Hungary alone of the European CO untries
kept up last years record.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

II is gratifying that the blind preacher
Milburn was elected chaplain Of the House
yesterday. Three republicans joined the
democrats in voting for him. They pre-
ferred 10 favor a deserving man rather
than TO yield to the dictation of party.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
VIII He Be Fair?

From the Eeac York World CDem.)
Tbs republican majority in the House is not
large. and II is possible that there may be some
stormy times in the effort which is likely TO be
made 70 increase it. The fight is pretty certain
totake place over the adoption Of amended rules
ana MI Reed will have an early opportunity to
prove his fairness as well as his firmness as a
presiding officer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Mr.. Phelps, ex-minister TO England. has
contributed to the Forum an article on
divorces in this country. he thinks that
one of the parties to marry some one else,
and his remedy is to prohibit the re-mar-
rage Of divorced persons. He doesn't ap-
prove of federal divorce law, but wants
the states to enact uniform laws.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

A New York newspaper contains an arti-
Gle going to show that the south is gaining
on the west in industrial development. OF
course it is. Il is also gaining on the east
Ii is gaining on everything that hasn't a
very quick move
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
From the Boston Times.

Franklin Parke--I hear there is going to be
an organized movement this season against
decollete dresses
Beacon Street Well what of that?
Il think it may have some effect, don't your
mo, don't. No such movement could have
weight in a free country like this. The second
amendment to the constitution, you know. says
fringed.'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
CURRENT COMMENT.
No Fire-Proof Buildings.

From the PhilCdelDkid Inquirer (Rep).
The great f1re in Boston demonstrated once
more that nre-nroof buildings are fre-proof to
Gel tain limit Only, and that that limit is easily
reached. II showed that where there is a large
mass OF combustible contents on fire within or
q very hot fire raging without, the best built
structure will succnmb
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

The late Samuel Pettus, who was killed
by Mrs. Southworth, left an estate valued
at about 5000, 900. His lawyers have found
a will made by him in 1881, in which he
gives everything to his wife. 1t contains
no reference to Mrs. Southworth OF Rosa
Lloyd, the alleged victims of his designs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Throw physic to the dogs" and use An
gostura Bitters, for good digestion, and a
healthy appetite. Sole manufacturers, DIR. j.
G. B. Siegert & Sons. Ask your druggist.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

The engagement of Prince Victor Dhuleep-
Singh, of India, to Miss Turnlegeere. of
Fifth avenue, New York, is announced.
Miss Turnlegeere certainly ought to want
to change her name. but it is not apparent
that she is going to better it by becoming
Princess Dhuleep- Singh. She will get a
title, however, and probably under the cir
cumstances she can survive the name.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Throat Diseases commence with Cough,
Cold. or Sore Throat. "Brotcn's Bronchial
Troches'' give immediate relief. Sold only in
boxes. Price Is cents.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03

Here's to the genial bird. first fowl in rank;
May he never grow thinl" said Brother Frank