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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
An Honest Farmer Robs himself.
From the Arkansa,o TraueIer.

IFVHt IItt -ifhITISLItU IFuCCLsf.
An old farmer in Indiana wanted to sell
his farm for fancy price, and after throw
ing number of deceased eggs into sink
hole, circulated the report that he had
found fine supply of natural gas. A Chi
cago man cane along and the farmer eager
with the consciousness of guilt, sold the
farm for little more than it was worth as
agricultural land. The Chicago man dug
in the sink hole, and has been rewarded by
finding the richest gas deposit in the state
When last heard from the honest farmer
VISA butting his head against a tree.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

If one may trust the highly colored pic
lures drawn by a certain class of newspaper
writers, the fashionable woman is about as
much given to brandy and soda as the
bohemian actor or tue fast club man. With
all due allowance for the desire to make
copy" which besets the correspondent for
out of town papers, it ought not TO be as
sumed that if one larky young matron
orders champagne cocktail instead of ice
cream and cake that therefore all stylish
young women are in a fair way to become
habitual drinkers or ultimate drunkerds. In
point of fact, the most mlschievous pranks
of the most unconventional girl are as likely
as not to stand for something entirely diff
ferent from that which the newspaper cor
respondents take them to mean.
If handsome Chloe looks at him with Il
laughing challenge in her merry eyes W hlle
she assures him that she went into a restau-
rant with her brother and called for a
whisky sour, as the natural consequence of
which she was in the course of two minutes
loudly demanding of that brother that he
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
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Wedding invitations and cards printed or
engraved at the shortest notice and in the
atest styles. We carry an extensive and
well selected stock of fine papers, envelopes
and cards especially for such orders. Sam
pies sent on application. MORNING NEWS
Printing House. Savannah. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

The National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution is an organization
almost unknown to the average newspaper
reader. Nevertheless, such a society exists,
and has branches in every state in the union.
Col. William Seward Webb. son of the old
time New York journalist of that name,
who married the youngest daughter of
w. IL Vanderbilt, is the president of
the organization. He is to take his
family abroad early in March for a long
stay, and intends before going to give a
great dinner to the presidents, vice presi-
dents, and other leading members of the
state societies, to the number, perhaps, of
500. Col. Webb's ample fortune will per-
init him TO give a gorgeous banquet, and
the responses so far received from the invi-
tations indicate that the attendance will
be large. Among the distinguished
men who will be present are: Gen. Crook,
president of the Illinois society; President
Ledyard of the Michigan Central railroad,
president of the Michigan society; Gov.
English of Indiana, Bishop Nicely of Hi
noiS, Gov. Merriam of Minnesota, Capt.
lingham of Vermont, Gen. Gordon
of Georgia, Gov. Green Of New
Jersey, ex-President r. B. HAYES
of Ohio. Gov. Robert L. Taylor of Ten
nessee, Gov. Buckner of Kentucky, Chaun-
cey M. Depew, Gen. A. S. Webb. LIE Grand
b. Cannon, Pierrepont Morgan, Col. Ethan
Allen, and Judge Arnoux of New York
city, the Rev. Timothy Dwight of Yale
college, chaplain Of the society; Jonathan
Trumbull and Maj. J. G. Kinney of Con.
necticut, Gen. Peck of Vermont.
Adjt. Gen. Stryker of New Jer
sey; and Maj. Goldsmith Barnard West of
Alabama, Secretary Of War Proctor; Sena-
tor Edmunds, and Gen. Schoiield are also
expected to be among Col Webb's guests
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

women who knows Anna Dickinson
we'll says that she seems to possess the secret
of eternal youth. If you did not know
her you would find it impossible to tell her
age. In figures she is below medium hight
and slender, though she gives you the i'm
PRESTON of being strongly made Her
eyes are gray and large, her complexion is
clear and dark, her mouth is set in firm
lines, and her hair is short, brown and curl
ing. Her expression is one of force and
power.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

Celia Logan has been ill all winter anc
has been obliged to give up the editorshi
of BeJord'S Magazine. It is only quit
recently that the doctors have given an,
hope of the genial, clever writer's recovery
1t viii DO some time before she is able t
resume her work. a fact to be regretted by
those who have enjoyed the trenchant per
strokes of the Logan sisters, Olive an
Celia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
THE FEMININE WORLD.

The Funniest Thing in New York-Is
the Drink Habit Gaining Among
Women?-A War Story Items
Anent Women Preachers, Artists
and Writers.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

ONE of the hospitals in Berlir, Germany ny
has ALREADY refused the applications o. ~ ~
nS2 who have come there 70 study 1ns
R ny I'an+nod of treatment, on the ground
t hofi It IS impractca0le to instruct success
f fn the large number Of those who desire
to, 49, 1he method. Already 300 foreign
doctors have arrived there for the Purpose 1 u
informing themselves regarding III" 'e"'0
rnent.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
Foreign.

TH1RTY-Two miners were drowned by the
flooding of the Breux pit at Vienna, Aus
tria.
THE failure is announced of Messrs.
Oostendorp & Co., bankers OF Antwerp, pei
erium whose liabilities are estimated at
s.. 500 OOO Their assets are said to consist
largely of land in the Argentine Republic.
RAILWAY traffic was delayed in England
by a heavy snowfall.
Mr., PARNELL issued a manifesto to the
Irish people giving his reasons why ne snouIo
continue in the leadership OF the Irish party.
THE damage caused by the floods in Ger
MANY is enormous Aqueducts, bridges,
streets and squares have been destroyed, and
hundreds of shopkeepers ruined
A ROYAL decree of amnesty has been pro-
mulgated in Italy.
FIVE of the six Irish members of Parlia-
rnent now in this country issued manifesto
at Chicago declaring that Mr.. Parneu must
ratira as leader of the Home Rule Party.
LORD WENLocK has been appointed Gov
ernor Of the Madras Qndia) Presidency, vice
Lord Connemara.
AN English war vessel has gone to the New
Hebrides to punish the natives for an act OF
cannibalism, two men, an English trader ana
his son, having been killed and eaten on one
of the islands
THE wife of Major Gregg, an Instructor
in the Sandhurst Royal Military Co1ege'
Berkshire, England, suddenly became insane
and murdered her mother. The de1nenUed
woman then took her own life.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

ticable to adopt the metric system of weight
and measure in commercial intercourse be-
weeu the United States and other American
republics, as recommended by the Interna-
tional American Congress
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has ap-
pointed Fleming Bignon Special Assistant
United States District Attorney for Southern
Georgia.
THE annual report of the Secretary of the
Navy has been submitted 70 the President
THE annual report of the Civil Service
Commission just made public. shows that
the classified service has grown so as to in
clude over 10000 people.
THE annual report of the Secretary OF the
Interior. summarizing the work of that De-
oartment for the year has been made pub
tic.
REPUBLICAN Senators in caucus agreed co
press the Force bill 70 speedy passage.
THE sebt statement issued shows an in
crease i'm the Public Debt in the month OF
November, amounting 70 90, I5O, ols ne
surplus in the Treasury aggregates 500. 44,
620 as ainst $61, Stt3, U33 unonUn ago. de-
crease of IS, 75S, 408.
GENERAL MILES spent half hour with
the Secretary of the Interior in discussing
the Indian situation. Upon leaving the Sec
retarv's office. in answer to inquiries, he said
that the Sioux continued to be much excited
and that he feared an outbreak. He SAID ne
regarded the situation as alarming.
THE President has directed the removal
from Office OF Joseph Fl. Wilson, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District OF
! Texas on the ground OF neglect OF duty and
inattention to the public interests.
THE Fifty-frst Congress reassemblec
to take up again for three months the
labors of legislation left unfinished at tne
| end of the long session on OCTOBER L. 1neL'
was an unusually full attendance in boil
| branches.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
South and w est.

A FIRE in Powers's dry goods building at
ST. Paul, Mimi. caused $50, 900 damage
BELL & REsrUs's private bank at Du-
luth Mimi, has suspended. The deposlts
are about 10000, the capl1al olo"'o0o' 0nu
the surplus SlOO OOO.
THE boiler of John H. Ackers & Co.'S
staaro sawrnill at Scotland, Worth County,
"a exploded. killing three men and lnJur-
inc four others. The killed are Augustus
Stinson, of Angelica, Wis; Thomas sam
mons and Adolphus Mcmillan
JAMES I. PUGH was elected United States
Senator by the Alaoama Legislature W. '
coed himself.
AT Svlacauga. Ala, William B. Hunter,
editor of the Bee shot and killed Town
Marshal Mokerson. The latter arrested Ine
editor while with party OF friends Gnarg-
ing him with disorderly conduct: hunter
was discharged Next DAY Ine M ar 1n+t a.
tackled the editor with a stick and tne laC1ef
defended himself with revolver
THE Annapolis (Md) Naval Academy
team defeated the West Point Military
Academy eleven at football on the campus
at West Point.
SOME of the Indians of the Northwest are
still dancing. but there are no signs u I'LL
outbreak.
THE control of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal has been secured by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad.
THE University of Virginia footbal team
defeated the Trinity College team OF North
Carolina for the championship OF the ooutn
at Richmond, Va. by a score Of ten 10 Jour-
EVERY coal miner in the Birmingham,
ALA J district, 5000 in all, threw Gown MS
pick the other evening, and the most extern
! sive strike of its kind ever known IN I oae
| South began 1t was probable that |u'Ooo
| men would be thrown out OF Work.
FREEMAN B. CROKER, President OF the
Board of Public Works of Denver, and one
of Colorado's most prominent c1tlzens' com
mitted suicide because criticism or his puonc
actions had deranged his mind.
ROBERT LEEDS and jeremiah Hitchcock
were fatally injured in a railr DAD collision at
J Cherokee Iowa.
The Brazilian naval officers visited Anna
polls (Md) Naval Academy and were enter,
tanned at dinner by Secretary Tracy.
THE Indians at the Pine Ridge Agency are
drifting into the inaccessible Bad Lands.
THOMAS G. JONES was inaugurated Cover
nor of Alabarua, at Montgomery, TO succeed
Thomas Seay.
THE First National Bank of Texarkana
Texas has suspended. This is the oldes
banking institution in the city.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
Washington.

THE total population of the country as
verified by the Census Bureau, is 62,622,2o
ADMIRAL. DA SI.vEIRA and his staff OF the
Brazilian squadron left New York and ar
rived in Washington. The officers and men
on board the Brazilian ships are suffering
seriously from the cold.
ALL the Executive Departments or tne
Government and the offices of the City GoV,
eminent were closed Thanksgiving Day, ana
mercantile business was generally suspended
The President, accompanied by Mrs. Harri-
son. DR.. Scott, Mrs. Dimmick and Mrs VIZ,
Jams, the wife of General Williams ATTENDED
divine services After the service the party
returned to the White House ana aIe
Thanksgiving dinner
THE President appointed Henry M Gracey'
of Massachusetts,, to be Marshal OF the Con
sular Court of the United States a1 roo
Chow, China.
THE militia force of the United states
AGGREGATES 100, 400 men, as shown oy an
Official report presented to Secretary
Proctor by Captain D. NJ. Taylor
The President officially received Rear ,5 al
miral da Silveira and his officers OF the bra
lillian Navy and gave them luncheon. II
! the evening a social reception took place al
| the White House.
SECRETARY WINDOW has written lette
to Secretary Blaine stating that 1t Is lihprac
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
In the House.

1sr DAY.-Speaker Reed announced tnaS
the House of Representatives would come "
order forthwith and begin the second session
Of the Fiftyfrst Congress The Ptes gems
tary of the Treasury asked for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to purchase gas SD. ouoSs
Mr., Coleman introduced bill approprlat-
ing 5000 900 to repair and build the F 4evees
on the Mississippi River. .Messrs. Flower
and Cummings introduced resolutions
in Congress designed to SECURE a. ne"
census enumeration in New York CITY
Mr.. Dockery offered resolution Tor an Ia,
vestigatio1. of the allegations that t"eave
Senators and fifteen Representatives, more
or less were pecuniarily interested i IN
pool" which bought and held silver y, ou a1lon
Dending the silver legislation OF last session
-Four bills to provide for free ana un-
limited coinage of silver were introduces.
ID DAY.-The morning was taken up ny
Mr. Wheeler, who discussed for an hour Un ne
reference of Virginia claim to the CourI 10, ~
Claims The Pension Appropriation H Td
Wastaken up during the afternoon as regu 4itl
business. The House voted to conSi 1I 5n {
Convripht bill. Mr.. Frank lntroouceo d
ReappOrtlonmenJ Dill.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.


DANIEL OCoSSELL, n religious fanatic,
committed suicide at Ansonia, Conn, Dy
cutting his throat.
FRANK OATMAN and Cliff Beatley, nine
and eleven years old respectively. were
struck and killed by train near Sandy ddI-
y. Y, on a recent afternoon.
" FULLY $4,000 people went TO Eastern
Park. Brooklyn n. Y, and sa" ale o5a'
Princeton at football by a score OF - 70 y;
A crowded stand containing 20O people fell
during the progress of the game and many
persons were seriously hurt
JOHN GERHARD, his wife and their Two
children were instantly killed by the tram
known as the 'sNyack Flyer" at Closter, y.
j. Gerhard was cigarmaker or Cioster-
GEORGE DICKEY, clerk of the New ham
phire Legislature, has forwarded ms re-
signation TO Governor Goodeil
THE firm OF B. K. Jamison & Co.. banh
ers and brokers, of Philadelphia, Fenn''
made an assignment to Samuei u: 1nolhP
son. The firm, which IS tnlrty-nVe years
old has liabilities OF S5OOOOO.
Asa carriage containing James McNabb,
his sister-in-law. Mrs McNabb and her six
months-old infant was passing tnrou2n Tue
gorge in the mountains at Bounh brooh; ~
J.. the horse became frightened ana dasneu
down the narrow driveway, upsettlng the
carriage and dragging it over the embank-
ment to the rocks below. The chlld was III
stantv killed and Mrs. McNaDo receives
fatal in iuries Mr.. MCNabb had one OF MS
IeoS broken. besides receiving internal IN
juries
THE last rites over the remains of the late
Mr.. August Belmont, of New ork, were
performed in the chapel which the deceased
erected in memory of his daughter at New
port, 4. l.
The new steel steam lighthouse tender
built for the United States Treasury Depart
1nent, was successfully launched al Ne"
York City.
| The Deposits Bank at Indiana, Penn, has
! closed its doors. The extent OF the failure
| is unknown.
THE Bessemer plant of the Bethlehem
| PENN Iron Company has shut down Tor al
! indefinite time. Twelve hundred men are
| thrown out of employment.
THE A. Campbell Manufacturing Com
panv cotton yarns, at Manayunk, Penn.
| was damaged by fire to the extent OF s5OO,
| 600 One fireman was killed ana Ihref
others were injured by falling walls.
The Secretary of the Navy has made
contract with E. w. Bliss & Company, o
BROOKLYN, n Y, for the manufacture or pre-
iectiles for the service. A contract has bee
| given the firm amounting to Sl2o,OOO 10 ID
Stall a plant such as is needed.
LYTTLETON LONG, brother of Colone
Chaile Long, the African explorer, was al
rested in New York City for forging checs
belonging to Jacob d. Nordhnger 10 tn
amount of $40, 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
F1FTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

1sT DAY.-The opening proceedings IN tne
Senators were sworn and chose their seats,
Mr.. Warren drawing the short term closing
March 3. 1898, and Mr.. Carey the long one
ending March g. 1895. There was tn, the
usual large crowd in the galleries, but t ne:
contained few persons of distinction. Inc
Presidents Message was read and referred
on motion of Mr.. Sherman the Senate
ID DAY.-The Senate, by a vote Of forty
one TO thirty, took up the Federal Electlon
bill. The bill took first place as unfinished
business" Several bills for the free coinage
of silver were introduced. Mr.: Sherman
introduced a bill providing that the present
tariff act should not be construed TO repeal
or impair the stipulations contained III 'ne
reciprocity treaty with Hawaii.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12
BLOWN FROM A GUN.
The Crime and Punishment Oh an
Afghan Governor.

The Jellalabad correspondent of Lahore
india journal reports that Mira Abdul
Samad Khan, Governor of Chapior In the
Jellalabad province, was executed by being
blown from gun, for numbering Mira
abdul Shakur Khan. civil munsiff of Jellala-
bad. The execution took place OUTSIDE th h
Sherpore gate on October z, IN the
presence of all the garrison of Cabul: Inc
murder was committed about September ID,
after evening prayer in the mosque N ha inc
village of Khusbgumbat, the vlc1ln PENS 1hs
stabbed in the stomach by a servant OF Ine
culprit. The following day the latter ar
rested many of the villagers on the charge
of having committed the murder ouG tne
other inhabitants of the place reported 1ne
real facts of the case by letter to the Ameeri
who had Samad Khan arrested, tried ana
executed within a few days 1he motNe
for the crime IS said to have been tnat
Shakur Khan had recently written to the
Ameer reporting that Samad Khan mad mis-
appropriated large sum of public money.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

Women clerks are invading even the
heart of the city of London. In large
financial house in Gracechurch street
staff Of female clerks has been engaged,
and the managers are delighted with the
success of the experiment.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

Avoid German woman VINO was recently
killed in st. Paul, MINI, by an electrlc sLLee
81 xss found to have $35, 900 IN paper
rI,nna~ Concealed about her person, and ne
relatives in this country.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

There is some prospect that New York
will have State park in the Adlron'
dacks.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

THE new last mall train running between
Chicago and New York will make the distance
of OPS miles in tweaty-four hours.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-11-21
MoRrcAcEsALE.

WHEREAS, delarit has been made inthc pay
ment OF the m oney secured by a mortgage dat
ed the Tth day Of January A. ID. 1887, executed
byVictOr; S. E$teyr 'and.Jennie Estey of the
county OF DayisOn and Territory of Dakota, to
Hiram D. Upton of Manchester, New; Hamp-
shire, and whichlnortgage was recorded in. he
Dawson and Territory of Dakota, in book63 of
mortgages, on page 178 on the 8th day Of Janu-
,WHERFAs, on the 25th day of January 1887
said mortgage, with the note secured thereby,
was duly assigned bv the said mortgage to
J; p. Gilbert OF the county of Dawson in the
stat state Of South l.; Dakota PAX WHICH assgnment was
of the said county Of Dawson on the oath DAY
of October 1890 in book 13 OF mortgages Oh.
= WHEREAS; the amount claimed to be due up-
on said mortgage, at the date of this notice, is
the sum of eight hundred and thirty three $3.50
dollars and sixty seven al67l'cents (Ss33. 67) To-
the sum OF seventy five dollars attorneys fees
stipulated the said mortgage ii,
=, Now oWTHEREFoRE,. Notice. is hereby given
morgase nd duly sr recorded CO rs as foresad
and in pursuance of the statutes,iti' such cases
made and provided .Ythe said mortgage will be
ey fa aton
and county Of Dawson and state Of South Da-
tne sb sh aaX a ghs at 1912
gagged premises s'afe Situated in the county Of
DavisoIin the state of South Dakota, and are
described as follows, "to-wit: The northwest
quarter INV ~ of section fourteen (lD in
township, one hundred three QOS) north Of
range sixty t6O) west'5th p. MI, containing one
hundred sixty NG0) acres,by. o. s. government
survey thereof.
!: Dated at Mitchell, s. D., this goth day of
October, a, D, $780, -.
,s -. ,.7,i j.. E.sG1LBERT.
v.s-,,,,,, :. -.,, Assignee.
=: ~ ~ Attorney for Mortsagee.
=. :,g = SpERRY DWIGHT,
a. . - .... 80 Sheriff.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-11-21
"Aaarchy Run Mad. >,

t,oa.s. ~ Is 100 much to expect that JUS
elce can be-secnred in our courts"
The above expression is the editori.
al nttelance of man who at present
occupies judicial position in Dawson
county, but has recently been buried
un'el the votes of his fellow.citizens,
who during the campaign just closed
discovered his true character, his mar
roWness, not to say feebleness Of mind.
and his total pntitness for any position
OF. trust and responsibility. His ex.
preston, above quoted, IS. based on
the fact that Judge Haney, than
whom more honorable judge does
not sit on the bench in the state. saw
tit to exercise his discretion and dis.
charge grand Jury which had spent
two davs in dragnet investigation.
grounded in political spite, and had
accomplished nothing. but to prove
that one Of its own members had de-
liberately offered to sell his vote and
those of several of his relatives to
the highest bidder-a grand jury set
up for political purposes and a major
lty. Of whose members violated their
oaths daily by going direct from their
alterations into political caucus
at the independent headquarters, be-
traying therein to outsiders secrets
they were. sworn not to reveal-a
grand jury in which the animus of the
majority was so evident that it broke
out in profane denunciation Of GER
tain citizens in such loud tones as I'd
be heard outside. of the jury roomn-a
grand jury, one, Of whose Independent
members made his, boast that they
would j. llndict somebody or other if
they staid in session until the grass
grew again;-this is the body which
Judge Hisney saw fit in. his un-
doubted discration to discharge, with
the suggestion that any business which
it had in view could not suffer by
postponement. until the February
term. =, For this action Judge Haney's
honor as O. man and his integrity as a
judge are impugned and put in con-
rempt-for this action Judge Hsney is
denounced on the streets by one r. Q.
Warne as q, "hoodle judgep-for this
action Judge Haney is. censured by
certain mem bers of the grand jury on
the grounA that he has knocked them
out !! 81 winters i joh:
Ifsthis is not."anarchy run mad" a
civilized community meyer saw such
an exhibitia9a- :4A! And ,i we. mistake the
temper. Of 1.-THE; people Of Dawson
county. regardless Of. party lines, if
they .sympathize with or will counte.
nance in any degree the, course taken
by a little handful of, irresponsible,
independent: mischief-makers. since
the election went against them We
regret that it has seemed necessary to
pursue the matter thus s-faF, but justice
demanded that an ex-parte statement
of regent soceurEences should not be
allowed to go out. 8,