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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The twelfth annual session OF Sherwood's
Dancing Academy, at Masonic Tenn pie, will re-
opon SATURDAY AFTERNOON. Oct. 10, at 8
o'clock, with Misses and Masters class, and on
MONDAY EVENING. Oct. 81, at O'Clock with
Ladies' and Gentlemen's class. Misses and
Masters class will be continued every TUES.
DAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY AFTER
mems class every MONDAY and FRIDAY
EVENINGS at o'clock. For terms, ETC., call
at hall or send for circular Address
]. B, SHERWOOD, Masonic Temple.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
CHATHAM ASSEMBLY NO. 1876, ROYAL
SOCIETY OF GOOD FELLOWS.
THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL LOAN AssO-
CATION

The thirty -ninth regular monthly meeting of
this association (series b will be held at S
O'Clock THIS Tuesday, EVENING at the office
of the secretary, in the court house.
NJ. ]. SOLOMONS, President.
WIN. D. Harden Secretary
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
A PERSISTENT RUMoR.

The rumor of actual hostilities between
the German and United States vessels at
Samoa, with the result of sinking our vessel,
seems to be a survival or echo of the previous
indefinite report which came to the surface
at Kiel. The source of these stories is such
as to give them little credibility, and ex-
cept for the obstinate repetition and amplf-
cation of the report, there is no reason for
giving it much attention.
Indeed, upon examination, the form in
which the rumors come out discredit them.
If there has been any fighting at Samoa it
may be taken as certain that the vessel
which took the news away from the island,
would not leave before the fight was finished.
If that report has reached Germany, how
comes it that the people who knew that
there had been fighting last week, did not
know its result until this week? 1t looks
much more as if some German purveyor of
sensations is making up the story piece
meal, and getting all that ne can out of it
until authentic news arrives.
OF course if such an event has taken place
it means war. A war at present would be
very disadvantageous to this country; but
it would not be half so damaging to our
position among the nations as to tamely
submit to such an act of overt hostility.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Well neighbors, kindly got there, in spite o. the
Eastern crowd,
An they'll hear to your Uncle Jerry eff he don't
talk so very loud;
An every rustlin' corn stalk an every cabbage
blue
Will be glad o. the new Department, an proud o.
the Badger tew.
In agricultoor, neighbors hits alwuz the safest
plan
To go by your past experience, an do the best ye
can;
But seein' IS this here Department is all new
an strange
Ye must give the old man a decent show till he
kindly gifts his range.
Ez near as can calcylate, the thing this country
needs
More'n anythin' else is good full craps, witch
argyhes lots o. seeds.
So I'll hire secretary man and make him write
around
Among We all to find what ye want, an the natur'
o. your ground.
Theys lots o. money to spend fer ships. an rivers
and harbors, tu-
III undertake to git the farmers some before I'm
thru:
So send me list o. the seeds ye want an the
newest farmin' tools,
An we'll see ef the folks in the great Northwest
are only passel o. fools.
Some feller says thet he is public comforter who
makes
Two blades o. grass grow stead o. one, but thet
ain'tno great shakes
Eff 1 don't coax out Ave fer one an make 1t grow
ranker N, higher
Tim ever you see II grow afore, my name amt
, Jeremiah.
--New York Euenina Sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
TRANSPARENT EvAsIoNs.

sOne of the stock events accompanying in
auguration, as duly reported in connection
with the last ceremony, was the act of turn
ing back the hands of the Senate clock, per-
formed by doorkeeper of that body, in or
der to permit the transaction of some de-
layed business Introductory to the inaugu-
ration. This, in connection with some other
legislative idiosyncrasies, is display of the
belief of our statesmen that constitutional
requirements are met by violating them
and preventing any record of the violation.
Under the Constitution, the term of Con-
gress ends at noon on the 4th of March. 1t
is not very vital matter to transgress the
constitutional limit ten or fifteen minutes;
but it is getting to be vital matter that
Legislators set the example of violating the
rule by an evasion which is open and purely
formal. Everyone knew when the Senate
clock had been set back that its five minutes
to twelve meant five minutes past twelve;
but because the record of time had been
falsifed in the presence of the Senate and
the public it was deemed regular.
A more grave development OF the same
theory is the habit of transacting legislative
business so as to avoid record of the fact
that no quorum is present. The constitu-
tional requirement of quorum for the
transaction of legislative business was not
an idle and speculative one. 1t was put
there for the vital purpose of securing full
and intelligent action. Yet it has got to be
the common custom for Legislative bodies
to go on taking action by UiUa voce votes,
when no quorum is present, and calling it
legitimate, because the absence of quorum
is not put on the official record. This is
practically the tactics of the ostrich, which
imagines itself hid when it gets its head
under the sand.
Men who have sworn to uphold the Con-
stitution, and who make the laws, should
set the example of obeying both, instead of
the example of evading both by the most
transparent devices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR
Issued by the Inter-state Commissions, Con
cerning Some Amendments.

Issued by the Interstate Commission, Con-
cerning Some Amendments.
WASHINGTON, March S.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission to-day issued an i'm
portant circular pertaining to the interstate
commerce act of March 2, 1889. In it attention
is called to the fact that an advance in rates
shown upon joint tariffs is forbidden, Except
after ten days notice to the commission" and
a reduction in such rates is also forbidden "ex-
cept after three days notice to the COM
mission" The time in each case is to be COM
puted from the day when the notice Of advance
or reduction reaches the Office Of the commlS-
sion In Washington. The circular continues:
"The transportation of passengers or frelght
over continuous lines or routes operated py
through billing, necessarily implies the exist,
ence Of Joint tariffs. ALI joint tariffs now nieo
in the office of the commission will be under
stood as remaining in force until due notice OF
advance or reduction is given. When no otheI
tariff is filed the rates on traffic are understood
to be the sum of the local rates OF the lndl-
vidual roads.
at is therefore now an indictable offense for
any carrier to participate in the reception OF
compensation above or below the established
rate for the transportation of any joint trafnc
whatsoever. This provision operates to pre-
vent discrimination among shippers, and in
case of its violation proof can readily be made"
Another provision requires the commission
TO execute and enforce the provisions of the
act, and makes it the duty of any District At
torney of the United States, upon the request
of the commission, to institute and prosecute
all necessary proceedings for that purpose.
The rule heretofore existed, which requires ten
days public notice of any advance in the rates
established by individual carriers. is enlarged
by adding the following provision:
reductions in such published rates. fares,
or charges shall only only be made after three
days previous public notice, to be given in the
same manner that notice of an advance in
rates must be given"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
THE RIVAL COURTS.

The last act of the comedy drama arising
out OF the pugilistic exhibition between the
contending forces on Sunday law enforce
ment took place at the Police Court yester-
day. From the preliminary stage, inSwhich
the ardor of the disputants over the enforce
ment of the Sabbath led them to punching
each others heads on q week day, down to
the point where one of the prosecuting wit
nesses pointed out the wrong man as the
Law and Order agent who committed the
assault, there have been plenty of funny
aspects, as we'll as serious ones, in this case.
But there has hardly been anything more
purely comic than the spectacle of the
Police Justice reviewing the judicial de-
liverances of Common Pleas No. 2, and
emphatically reversing them, so far as his
own Jurisdiction can CO.
If the opinion, ruling or statement of the
police justice is intended to overset legal
rulings of the Common Pleas bench on the
methods of arrest used in this case, we can
leave that question to be fought out be-
tween the judicial authorities, with pro-
found trust that the Supreme Court will not
be called upon to intervene. If it is in
tended, as appears from its tone, to deny
any attempt at unfairness on the part of the
police justice, it remains to be remarked
that the prolonged statements as to what he
did in the case fail to explain away one i'm
portant fact. That is, that the prisoners
were put into a patrol wagon for the pur-
pose of carrying them two squares, taken to
the police station, and there refused the
privilege of depositing bail, which is ac-
corded the ward hustlers whose bibulous
tendencies bring them into durance vile, or
the gilded youth who may be SO unlucky as
to be caught in a raided faro bank As
Judge Whites remarks applied TO these
methods, the lower courts reversal of the
upper courts remarks have the humorous
quality of leaving matters about where it
found them.
As to the case itself, the evidence, though
contradictory, was sufficient to make out a
pretty good case of disorderly conduct
against both parties, and to justify heavier
fine on both than was imposed on one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
HENRI HIMSELF AGAIN.

1t is a. mistake to suppose that the in
auguration of Republican rule is gall and
wormwood to all good Democrats Some
there are, no doubt, who take it to heart,
aud bewail the triumph of hateful princi-
pies and the loss of the Offices, but to Demo-
Gratis of the Hon. Henri Watterson's stamp,
defeat brings compensation in the shape
of freedom to stand up on the opposition
bench and jeer and criticise and condemn
the Government as he pleases.
The buoyant best friend of the Star-Eyed
Goddess of Reform-by the way, the Star
Eyed lady, has had a long rest-has already
flashed her sword in the spring sunlight
which makes Kentucky glorious. Chevalier
Watterson has no longer to mind his p's
and q's as he elects the burning thoughts
that throng and throb within his brain.
The stout gentleman who. from the remote
throne OF the White House, impended like
a ten-ton weight attached to slender cord
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

TRAVELLERS over the Pennsylvania Central
have long been amused by the sign Cleveland
and Frank on a building near the Newark, N.
J.. station. ''Take Harrlson's Tonic" is legend
which can be seen from the car windows as the
train leaves Philadelphia.
NOAH BRooKs and William D. Howells are
among the few well-known writers who have
learned to manipulate the typewriting ma
chine. Mr.. Brooks, who has been used to
debating his literary productions to a stem
ographer, now sits down to his typewriter and
plays on the keys as he composes. He finds
that this process saves great deal of time
Mr. WINDOW is the oldest member of the
new Cabinet being very nearly So years of age.
Mr.. Miller is the youngest member, not having
reached his 4Sth year. Mr.. Blaine and Mr.
Rusk are about the same age. SO. Mr.. Proctor
is 5S and Mr. Tracy 60. Next to Mr. Miller, the
youngest man in the Cabinet, is MI. Wana-
maker who is not quite S. The average age
of the members Of Harrison's Cabinet is 81
years. The Oldest who ever entered a Cabinet
was Lewis Cass, who became Buchanan's Sec
retary of State at 70. Alexander Hamilton was
the youngest of all Cabinet officers.
THERE was one curious circumstance in con-
nectioG with the ceremonies in the United
States Senate on Monday morning which seems
to have escaped mention heretofore. While
the prayer was being delivered the President,
General Harrison, the Justices. Senators,
diplomats, and in fact everybody on the floor,
from page to the President pro TEN of the
Senate, stood revereutly erect excepting Secre-
tary Bayard. All through the prayer he sat
with his head upon his hand as though sunk in
areverie and unconscious of what was going on
around him. His failure to rise was most
marked and astonishing circumstance.
LORD HARRINGTON and Lord Randolnh
Churchill do not seem to be losing much sleep
over the Tfmes-Pigott 6asco, for both have been
amusing themselves during the last week at
the roulette tables of Monte Carlo Each
CANDLES in the same manner as he plays at
politics. Harrington, cautious, conservative,
pays down a few louis at a time, playing a slow.
game Impetuous Lord Randolph plunges on
small scale, paying down 10000 francs at a turn
and borrowing more when his change gets low.
By the way, Lord Randolph seems suddenly to
have grown tired of the turf Though but
recent accession, he has advertised his horses
for sale. This, however, may indicate that he
is going to try a different breed. for his pres
ent string has not been conspicuously success
full.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09

self by attacking the actress with extraordi-
nary vigor and a vocabulary of abuse that
astonished everybody. Here is a small
piece of this chaste criticism:
AS for Perdita the delineation of the sweet
girlish rusticity and roseate warmth of love,
which crown the character of this delicious
creation OF Shakespeare, is as far beyond Mary
Anderson as the constellation of Hercules is
beyond the dead and dinky moon You might
as well talk of the versatility of marlinspike
or the protean quality of chunk of red
granite. 1t is as sensible to assert that Mary
Anderson is twins or triplets as to assert that
she is versatile.
Miss Anderson agent states that the at
tack was evoked by his refusal to furnish
the editor of the Globe Democrat with more
than the usual number of free tickets. 1t
is not pleasant nor is it easy to believe that
this explanation is correct. Doubtless the
Globe Democrat will have some other reasons
to show for its critics comminatory
language.
But supposing that dramatic criticism in
newspapers were to be conducted generally
on free ticket basis, what glorious thing
it would be for the imbeciles and incapa-
bles that are now all too numerous
behind the footlights! AT present
these dramatic humbugs are constant
ly being shown up to the public
in their true colors. Some OF them are
killed each year by outspoken criticism,
and the path of the pretender on the stage
is daily growing more precarious. But if
the critics of the newspapers could be
muzzled or Modified by gifts of free seats
the situation would be vastly different A
regular tariff of exchange might be set up
between the actors and the critics. So
many seats for so many sentences of praise.
The enterprising advance agent would no
longer boast of his stars diamonds, her pri-
vate car, her Worth dresses, or her litho-
graphs, when he invaded the editorial rooms
but simply whisper into the editorial ear:
''Three rows of seats in the parquet dear
boy !" and think no more about the coming
criticism.
But the days of free seats in exchange for
free pufery are past, fortunately for good
actors, good plays and decent journalism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
DEATHS OF A DAY.
John Ericsson.

NEW YORK, March S.-John Ericsson the great
engineer, who gained worldwide reputation as
the inventor and builder of the Monitor, died at
his home, % Beach street. this city, late last
night of cystitis. Mr.. Ericsson had been ILL for
a week when physician was called in, but ow-
ing to his advanced age he failed to rally. John
Ericsson was born in the province of Wermeland
Sweden, in 1905 After having been u cadet i'm the
engineers. he entered the navy as ensign in 1S23
was employed in surveys in Northern Sweden
and rose to the rank of captain. In 1896, by per-
mission, he went to England, hoping to intro
ducc his invention of flame engine,'' which
should work independently of steam. This was
substantially the same as the ''caloric en-
ghe,' which he afterward perfected:
but owing to the circumstances under
which it was tried, it proved unsuccessful
MIR. Ericsson will be known in history from his
connection with what is called the ';Monitor,i
system for the construction of vessels of war
This consists in placing the armament of the
vessel in revolving turret impregnabe to shot
and capable of delivering fire in every direction
among others by Captain Cowper Coles, of the
British navy, about 1856 but Mr.. Theodore RI
Timby had patented 1t in America some ten years
earlier. Ericsson does not claim the idea but only
placing the revolving turret upon hull itself i'm
pregnable to shot. Early in the American Civil
War Ericsson built, in 100 days. for the United
States Government, the first vessel of this class
end to the work of the Confederate ironclad Mer-
rimac, which had the day before easily destroved
two of the finest frigates in the Union NAVY
Several other vessels of this order embodyi1f
structed under the supervision of Ericsson. After
the close of the Civil War he gave his attention to
the construction of engines IN which heat mot in
the form Of steam, should be the motive power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
THE BOODLERS THWARTED.
Their Attempt to Buy Up tho Canadian
Parliament Proves a Boomerang.

Their Attempt to Buy Up tho Canadian
Parliament Proves a Boomerang.
MONTREAL, March s.-Tbere, seems TO be no
doubt of the existence of ''boodlers' bribery
fund" in this city for the purpose of attempt
ing to defeat the bill introduced into Parlia-
ment by Prof. Weldon, which provides for the
extradition of criminals to the United States.
The exposure of the scheme, however, has only
given an impetus to the general opinion
throughout the Dominion and in Montreal
particularly that something should be done to
get rid of Uncle Sans thieves. Expressions of
Indignation we're heard on all sides to-day that
the boodlers and thieves should have had the
:temerity to attempt to pollute Parliament
with their methods.
John G. Emo, who is now at the Windsor
Hotel, is the organizer of the scheme, though
he calmly says the bill does not apply to him.
He intended to 60 to Ottawa this morning
after holding conference last night with the
boodlers here, but changed his mind when he
read the exposure in the Gazette. Instead he
sent several deipatches TO the capital and re-
manned in the hotel all day.
keenan,, Dempsey ct al are in wrathy
mood, and any attempt to interview them
would be attended with disastrous consequen-
ces. The boodlers are holding council of war
tonight in "Boodlers' Corner" 1t is not known
who is receiving the contributions nor
whether any have been used or IL they
will all be returned. Judges, lawyers
politicians and merchants roundly de-
Crown Prosecutor has begun an investigation
in the hope of obtaining evidence upon which
to send the wouldbe bribers to the penitentiary
upon the charge of conspiracy. The evening
papers severely excoriate the boodlers and the
scheme.
There is no doubt that the bill will pass. It
will be read the second time on Monday. The
boodlers have dug their own graves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
EDITORIAL AMBITIONS.

The expeetant attitude of some of the
leading editors of Republican organs is the
subject of wide comment. 1t is asserted
that Whitelaw Reid expects to go as Minis
ter to London, irrespective of the Intima-
tions that have already been heard from
abroad that the postprandial abilities of
ChaunceY NJ. Depew would make him per-
soma grdtd to the nobility and aristoeracy.
Colonel Elliot f. Shepard thinks the
sunny cline of Italy would suit him, while
Joseph Medill is willing to officially in
spect the pleasures of Paris, and John C..
New those of Vienna. To hold the Iron
Chancellor in check, who is better fitted
than Field Marshal Murat Halstead? ?
An envious cotemporarY asks, in view Of
these possibilities, "Who will run the Re
publican organs of this great nation?" But
that question is a recommendation rather
than an objection. With these eminent
journalists safely out of the country the
organs may be run as newspapers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
THE CABINET HOUSE HUNTING.
Only Wanamaker and Blaine Have as Yet
Secured Washington Residences.

Only Wanamaker and Blaine Have as Yet
Secured Washington Residences.
Special Telegram to The DlsDatch.
WASHINGTON, March 8-Final steps were
taken to-day in the purchase of the residence
of ex-Secretary Whitney by the agents of Post
master General Wanamaker. 1t is situated on
street, just off Farragut square, and has al
ways been considered one of the most desirable
homes in the city for the residence of high
official 1t was the residence of the late Secre-
tary Frelinghuysen, from whose heirs 1t was
purchased by Mr.. Whitney and extensively re-
modelled. one of the changes being the con-
struction of the great ball room which has
gained a national reputation through the bril-
liant assemblies which gathered there during
the occupancy of the house by the Whitneys,
and which it is expected will continue to make
the place famous with Mr.. Wanamaker as host.
Mr.. Whitney paid about $4,000 for the prop
erty, and it is understood that Mr.. Wanamaker
gave 900 for it, though in this case portion
of the furnishing of the house went with it.
Mr.. Waaamaker will move into his new home
in few days.
All the members of the new Cabinet are yet
stopping at hotels. The old Seward house will
not be ready for the occupany of Mr.. Blaine
for several months. Mr.. Window had sold his
elegant mansion on Scott Circle, and he, with
Tracy, Noble, Proctor Miller and Rusk are
still house-hunting. Vice President Morton
will soon move into his splendid house on
Scott Circle, which is now in the hands of the
managers of an art exhibition for the benefit
of the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
RECOGNIZE THE IMPROVEMENT

The fact that few, even of the opposition
press, have found occasion to speak i'll of
President Harrison's inaugural is credited
by the Democratic Philadelphia Times
partly to the inoffensiveness of the docu-
ment, but more to 'the patriotism, honor
and courtesy of the Democratic and indie
pendent press" From which the Times
goes on to express the expectation that in
this administration ''there will be no repe-
tition of that indecent lying and carping
and base Misrepresentation that SO widely
characterized the opposition to Mr.. Cleve-
land" Our cotemporary should turn its
memory back to the administrations of
Grant and Lincoln, and instead of the
above scoldIng, recognize the gain in the
intelligence of our politics which is shown
by the fact that the opposition nowadays,
whether Republican or Democratic, has lit
tie of the scurlllity and intemperance that
attacked these great men. 1t will not do to
claim that the progress has been made en-
tirely by one party.