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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
AN INTERESTING FIND.
Important Discoveries Made In Mounds
Near New York City.

important Discoveries Made In Mounds
Near New York City.
Alexander Crawford Chenowith, OF
lnwood, civil engineer on the Croton
Aqueduct and an amateur arch@ologist,
began examining several well-defined
mounds in the fields opposite his house
on the Kings Bridge road near Inwood
street about the middle of last winter.
He found two flint arrow-heads and
some thin, fiat stones which had evil
iently been cut by human hands. Three
weeks ago he dug into the mound, and
three and half feet underground came
upon skeleton surrounded with broken
bits of pottery. He sent descrip ption
Of the mound, the skeleton and the pot
terry to Prof. f. w. Putnam, head of the
Harvard archaeological department, who
Immediately wrote him that his discov-
sry was of the utmost Importance.
Mr.. Chenowith went ahead with his
excavations, and has achieved some re-
markable results. He has removed
from the mound six well-preserved
skeletons, almost half a bushel of broken
pottery, and many curious stone imple-
nents. He has also located graves con-
tanning seventeen more skeletons, which
ne will take up in the next week or two.
Each grave that Mr.. Chenowith has
opened is about three and half feet
leep and cut at least two feet into the
rock. Every skeleton was on its back.
The arms were stretched to their full
length, and the hands were crossed.
Most of the skeletons are about six feet
tall. One of them was tremendous
,ellow of at least seven feet five or six.
The shape of every skull, as we'll as the
articles found in the grave with it, indi-
.ates. Mr., Chenowitb thinks, that it
must have belonged to an Indian of ages
igo The forehead is invariably low,
The chin protuberant, and the nose Ro-
nan. Hardly tooth is missing from
either jaw. The mound from which tho
skeletons are taken is about twenty-five
feet high and one hundred feet in dame
tern. Y. Letter.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
One Dollar Per Year.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRESS.
What the Different States are Doing In
the Interests Of Women.


the Interests of Women.
The recent past has been frightful in
Legislation that concerns women.
The Massachusetts, Legislation has
made it possible for married woman
who is minor to relinquish her dover,
and to ALLEVIATE her homestead rights.
The New Jersey Assembly passed
bill making it unnecessary for married
women to take a separate acknowledge
ment from their husbands in any con-
veyance. The separate acknowledge
ment has hitherto provided that tho
wife should be questioned apart from
her husband to make sure that she gave
her consent to the conveyance, and was
not acting under compulsion from him.
In the New Jersey Senate bill was
passed providing that a husbands real
estate sold under judgment shall be re-
lieved of the wife's Aower. Heretofore
a wife could hold her dover rights in all
cases. They could only be taken from
her by her own act. Now she will lose her
dover when property is sold under judg-
ment. The debts which made this sale
necessary may have been contracted
against her entreaty and protest, but all
the same she will lose her dover.
In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court
has given decision in regard to the
property of married women and their
right to make will.
Though such important interests OF
women are concerned, neither the Leg
islatures nor the courts have single
woman as a member to represent the
woman's point of view in the matter.
Is it not evident that women, like all
other classes, need to have voice in
legislation?-Lucy Stone, in Woman's
Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
POLITICS IN CUBA.
The Watchword of the Common People OF
the Island is Annexation.

The Watchword of the Common People OF
the Island is Annexation.
Manuel Romero, a wealthy Cuban,
had something to say about the polit-
cal agitation in his native land.
''The situation in Cuba" he said, sis
not thoroughly understood in this coun-
try. The agitation now discussed by
the American press has threatened for
years to wipe out the Spanish rule in
Cuba, though it has been in a milder
form. The sentiment in Cuba has been
revolutionary in the extreme, although
hidden below the surface through fear.
believe the time is now at hand when
the Cubans will demand either home
rule or annexation to the United States.
Among the masses there is only one
opinion. The watchword Of the people
is annexation. At political meetings
and public demons trations this feeling
Is obvious to the initiated. The COM
mon people of Cuba, with practically
no exceptions, want to be cared for by
the United States. Nothing short
of annexation will suit them
now. They know more about this
country than your people know
Of Cuba. They are aware that all
men are free and prosperous here, and
the contrast to their oppressed condition
is not pleasing. Should autonomy pre-
vail as the outcome of the present stir
the masses would remain quiet for only
short while. Then the annexation
cry will be taken up with renewed
energy.
'On the other hand another party is
working for home rule, and there is posi-
lively no consanguinity between the
masses and the classes. The latter are
descendants of the old Spanish grandees.
They have the pure Castilian blood,
which has distinguished itself in history
by always making trouble. These Cuban
aristocrats are as wealthy as they are
proud, consequently they are a power.
They are Cuban-born and antagonistic
to the Spanish political rule which maps
out their lives so far as politics is con-
cerned. That non-residents should run
their government is more than their
pride can stand, and the classes are as
enthusiastic for autonomy as the masses
for annexation. While the movement
of the classes is imbued with more or
less selfish motives, home rule would be
big public improvement over the pres.
ent state of affairs. Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
NOTES ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Rev. L. G. JORDAN, the colored orator,
says: "You Northern men make big
fuss because they won't let the negro
vote down South; now If l should say to
you, Your wife isn't as intelligent as
am, why, you would kick me out of the
house, and yet that is virtually what
you say yourselves when you will not
allow her to vote"
WHERE woman suffrage obtains, wom-
en- vote intelligently and safely, and it
does not appear that their place is sole
ly at home, any more than that the
farmer should never leave his farm, the
mechanic his shop, the teacher his desk,
the clergyman his study, or the profess
sional man his Office, for the purpose of
expressing his wishes and opinions at
the ballot-box x-Hon Thos. w. Palmer.
The battle for woman's right to intel
lectual culture was long ago fought and
won. We have found that there is no
learning, no mental discipline, no depth
and breadth of touch with the worlds
best thought; which is good for man
that is not also aud equally good for \
| woman; that education does not make
one sex effeminate or the other mascu-
| line, but tends to render men more
manly and women more womanly.-Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser.
THE man who considers that the home
! tduties of woman are inferior to the poll
ical work of man must be either
bachelor or blind. The very highest
qualities Of the heart and intellect may
be exercised by mother, sister or an
elder daughter, in watching over the
physical, mental and moral growth of
| the children in her care. Heroic pa
thence, and vigilance that never tires,
an adaptation of means to the end, .
careful study Of individual traits, keen
psychological insight, may find ample
room for exercise within the four walls
of even humble home.-Exchange.
Women are more and more forging
ahead in authorship, and it is astonish-
ing to note the large percentage Of man.
uscripts sent to the magazines written
by feminine pens. l was talking on this
point to magazine editor few days
ago, and he said: Fully two-thirds Of
our manuscripts during the past year
came from women, and their work was
of higher grade than ever before. OF
course, there is an endless amount Of
trash, but really think have begun
to look more to women than to men Of
late for actual good work, and women
are becoming more versatile in their
writing."-E. w. Box, in Boston Jour
nal.
No WOMAN is properly equipped to
train and develop children who has not
informed herself upon just those sub
. jects TO which the advocates of womAn's
rights cali her attention. AID the chill
, dren whose mother besides knowing
, how to care for their bodies, has broad
, culture embracing knowledge Of all
public questions bearing upon the purity
and well-being Of the home. are indeed
fortunate. know of many such homes
presided over by such women-women
| incomparably superior to those who
''have all the rights they want" and
who know nothing Of and take no in
: terest in the great reforms which are
. moving the -sd.-Genersl Wm- +
Singleton
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
A TEXAS "REMINISCENCES.
How Things wcro Managed In the Early
Days of the Lone Star State.

Days of the Lone Star State.
While the Texas veterans were hold
ing q reunion in Austin not long ago,
each other for many years were talking
about the early history Of Texas. and
how much better things were managed
in those days than they are now.
Among tho incidents of by-gone days
was murder trial which took place in
the days of the Republic of Texas, not
long after the battle of San Jacinto. A
man was brought before tho court
charged with having murdered neigh
Dor, the father Of a large family. The
murderer himself was an unmarried
man. The presiding Judge, having read
the Indictment told the prisoner to
stand up, and said to him:
"Bill Jones, you have not acted right
in this matter. You have deprived a
good woman Of her husband and made
orphans Of her children. If turn you
loose will you marry the widow and sup
port the family of the deceased?"
The prisoner said he was more than
willing to do so. In fact he had shot
her husband in order that he could do
that very thing.
The widow had 10 objection except
that she wanted little more time to
'sx up for the occasion. She, however,
that she was ready, and the
ige pronounced the happy couple man
~ wife without any delay.-Texas
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The Princess of Wales was offered
recently $1,000 by an American maga'
zine for 100 words.
1T is said that Bismarck was once
orered 81 word for all that he might
contribute to an American magazine.
William ID. Howells recently re-
marked to friend that he considered
foreign travel detrimental to the career
of an American novelist.
Lord Acton is considered the most
learned man in England. He is Ro-
man Catholic, and in addition to his
barony has baronetcy. His library
contains no less than 100, 900 volumes.
The late Armand de Pontmartin was
scathing critic of the realistic" novel
writer's, and used to say he hoped to die
before M. Zola should be admitted to
the Academy. He had his wish.
General Grant says in his memoirs
that ne wasn't in the sword-play that
mar writers have described as having
taken place between himself and Gener-
al Lee, at Appomattox, but the story is
an interesting one and he always en-
joyed it.
-Wilkie Collins is said to have re-
marked shortly before his death: "After
more than thirty years study of the art,
consider Walter Scott to be the great
est of all novelists, and The Antigua
ry" is, as think, the most perfect of all
novels"
joaquin Miller is described as q
square-built, sharp-featured man of
weird appearance, with broad, bald
forehead, and suffers his tangled name
of hair to fall carelessly on his should
ers. He affects semi-clerical style Of
get-up and says abrupt things in hol-
low voice.
james Payn, the English novelist
has written about forty novels and every
word of the manuscript is in his own
handwriting. He will have nothing to
do with stenographers and typewriters.
He sleeps ten hours out of the twenty
four, spending the remainder in reading
and writing.
According to Mr. Gladstone in the
Nineteenth Century, the publications Of
every kind received during the year at
the British Museum number about 40, 900,
which require, by the writer's estimates,
a mile of new shelf room every two
years.
Mrs. Frank Leslie occasionally
wears brilliant badge, 1.-The Order OF
Bolivar" 1t is star-like in design; OBJ
long, nearly the width of silver dollar,
but rather longer. 1t is made of highly
Furnished gold, and is studded thickly
with count tless diamonds. On the front
side is portrait in enamel of Bolivar,
the liberator of South America; on the
other side the arms of Venezuela. The
order was presented to Mrs. Leslie by
the President of Venezuela 'for pro-
noting the cause of art and literature"
Among the more conspicuous writers
Who have, more or less, completely
dropped the pen names under which
;hey became best known to the reading
public are: Annie Hector, "Mrs. Alex.
inder;" Mrs. e. i. Terhune, "Marion
Harland;" Henry Harland, 'Sidney
Luska;" Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark
Twain;" Frederick Jessup Stimson, u.
5. of Dale;" Mrs. Margaret Angles Hun
yerford, 1.-THE Duchess" Louisa de la
Rame, "Ouida;" Mrs. d. G. Croly, "Jen'
aie June;" Ada Ellen Bayly, EDNA
Lyall," and Donald G.. Mitchell, "Ik
Marvel"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
NEW NAVAL SHIPS.
The Style of Vessels Needed for ene United
States Navy.

ctatcs NdFfs
Some naval men think We haye built
too few iron-clads; some that we have
built too few cruisers; some complain
because we have built but two torpedo
boats. 1t depends on the man. He who
like Mcclellan on shore would have
built forts, wants steel-clad ships. The
naval counterparts of dashing Phil
Sheridan want swift cruisers moderate
ly protected We can not build sue
cessfully what might be called an all
round war-ship. We must design ship
either to cruise around the world or to
stay about the home ports and protect
them. 1t does not require any great
technical knowledge of naval affairs to
understand that since we are so far from
possible enemies that their thick-clad
ships would have difficulty in reaching us
in condition to fight, and since we
could do the possible enemies greater
damage with swift cruisers of great en-
durance than with slow battle ships
(battle ships are necessarily Slow we
ought for the sake of place to build
many more cruisers than battle ships.
We best can defend ourselves by prepar-
ing to damage the enemy rather than
by preparing to act on the defensive.
Nevertheless, we need iron-clads to
meet iron-clads. 1t is because of these
considerations that of the new naval
ships built or provided for, IL are armor
clad and 81 but slightly protected. OF
the eleven, 3 are really battle ships, 5
are old monitors now to be remodeled,
is harbor-defense vessel, 1 is a nonde-
script invented by Hoosier, and is a
steel-clad ram.
The idea of partly submerging boat
is good one, and will be applied yet
where it is more needcd-that is to say,
in torpedo boats. The ordinary torpedo
boat is worthless outside of smooth wa
ter. England owns POT of them, and
not one was found available or even
hapitable during the naval maneuvers
last summer. Some daya smart Yankee
will devise a boat with an oval steel
clad deck that will be just awash The
deck will be so thick that rapid-fre pro-
! jectiles will glance from it, The boat
will be so large that it will have great
power, and its crew can live in comfort;
and yet it can approach the enemy al
most unseen because almost under wa
ter. That is the style Of a torpedo boat
for Secretary Tracy to keep in his eye
when bull ding the fleet he proposes -
| r. Spears in Chautauouan
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Swedes of Missouri have seven
Baptist churches in that State.
Hamilton, Ont, with population
Of IS, 900, has eight prosperous Methodist
churches.
Yale students are agitating the re-
vival of commons" where good board
at reasonable prices can be obtained.
-Forty-three OF the forty-nine
churches connected with the mission of
the American Board in Japan are self
supporting.
Mr.. Spurgeon's church received $40
new members on their baptism last year.
The total membership is now set down
as 1854.
-One-fourth of the Congregational
pulpits of Vermont are without perma-
nent supply; one-half of the population
is unchurched.
--Debt-paying societies are being Or
ganized in all Roman Catholic parishes
where debt rests upon the church, by
order of Archbishop Corrigan.
-Livings are still bought in the En-
glish church. Recently a young cler-
gyman bought one for $4,000, and as it
is almost sinecure, yielding an annual
income of 5000, it would appear that he
made pretty good investment in a
country where three per cent is consid-
cred good.
Mrs. Hettie Green, of Brooklyn,
v,bo 10 month about Gs0 mn 0On hoe On
dowed over one hundred churches and
established fifty schools. She says that
benevolent objects absorb large por-
tion of her income, and that her son
will continue the good work after she
is gone.
Contracts have been closed by which
new Methodist college, to be known
as the University of the Northwest,
will be erected in Sioux City, la. The
University is to have an endowment
fund of $300,000. Funds sufficient to
erect the buildings are at the command
of the board, Mr.. E. G. Peters alone
having given property valued at $780,
900.
During the past six years twenty
one new Swedish Lutheran churches
were erected in the Minnesota Valley
district of the Minnesota Conference of
the Augustana Synod. The sum thus
expended was upward of $40, 900, the
cost of the buildings ranging from 81, GOO
20 s700. In addition to these number
Of other churches made extensive i'm
provements and repairs during this
| tinnn
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29

wake. They followed 1t through the
swamp for half mile, when the laurels
gave way TO a more open growth. The
hunters had hardly stepped out into the
opening before they were confronted by
what they at first supposed was the
hog they were following; but they
quickly discovered it was another and a
smaller one. This one met them with
short, fierce snorts, and made rush
toward thcm. Each man sent bullet
into the advancing boar, and it fell to
the ground with ear-piercing squeals,
which death soon silenced.
The last squeal had scarcely ceased
when great crashing and swaying
among the laurels attracted the atten-
tion Of the hunters, and out of tho
thicket like a whirlwind rushed the big
boar they had first encountered. Salem
Grant was standing within four feet Of
the edge Of the swamp, and the boar
was upon him before he could avoid it.
He went down heavily full length on
the ground, and the boar, frothing at the
mouth and champing furiously, stood
astrido of him. Marks was afraid to
shoot for fear Of hitting Grant, but
something had to be done instantly to
save his companion from the boar's
tusks. Marks ran up and dealt the
boar tremendous kick under the jaw.
That saved Grant, for tho boar turned
| quickly and rushed at Marks, who
sprang 10 ono side. The boar's rush
carried him some distance by Marks
and as ho turned for another attack the
| hunter sent rife ball into his shoul-
der. The boar fell, but was up again in
a second, and charged Marks on three
legs the right fore-leg having been
broken by the bullet.
Marks says that as his gun was empty
when this savage rush was made by the
boar, he would certainly have fallen a
victim to its fury if Grant had not been
with him. Grant had regained his feet,
and as the boar, crippled as it was,
dashed toward Marks. the froth from Its
mouth now dyed with blood, he stepped
forward and with his hunting axe dealt
the dazed brute blow between the
eyes that would have felled an OK, but
1t had not the least effect on the wild
boar. This Intervention OF Grants
saved Marks, but it placed the former
in imminent peril. Before ho could
jump out of the infuriated animals way
the boar thrust one Of his tusks through
Grants trousers between the ankle and
the knee, and, with quick upward jerk
OF its head, tore the cloth open almost
to the hunters waist. Grant says he
could feel the cold rush of the boar's
tusk all the way up along his leg, but
the thrust had fortunately not boer
deep enough to enter the flesh.
In the rush of the wild hog from thu
thicket upon Grant, the latter's gun had
been thrown some distance from wher,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29

days failed to yield any trace of the
missing animals. Last fall deer hunt
ers In the wild and mountainous region
in the Ligonier valley, a few miles from
Laughlintown. discovered curious-look-
ing tracks in the snow. They lod into
q thicket Of laurels, where the dogs
routed out an immense hog. 1t charged
furiously upon the hunters, and was
shot and killed after severe struggle.
The hog was boar, and weighed over
three hundred pounds, although ayoung
animal Its tusks were three inches In
length. Subsequently three other pigs,
equally wild and savage were killed by
other hunters. The only way that the
presence of the wild hogs could be ac-
counted for was that they were the Off
springs OF George Kuhns' stray pigs,
which had chosen wild life among the
Ligonier mountains to domestic peace
fulness in village hog pen.
One day recently Lemon Marks,
Laughlintown hunter, who lastfall beat
all hunting records by bagging five deer
in one afternoon-two large bucks,
doe and two fawns-was out after foxes
in the mountains. He discovered tracks
in the snow that he knew must have
been made by one of the wild hogs OF
the Ligonier. He was not fitted up for
hog-hunting and returned home for his
rifle and dog. lie also induced Salem
Grant, another good hunter, to 60 with
him and help bag the wild hog. They
struck the track and followed 1t for two
miles, the dog not exhibiting much
anxiety to take 1t with rush. Sudden
ly the hog jumped out from thicket of
laurels, with tremendous snort He
faced his pursuers, his bristles erect on
his back. and his long white tusks glist-
ening on each side Of his ugly snout,
above which their curved points extend
ed. The dog was few steps ahead of
the hunters. The boar lowered his
head and began to champ and froth at
the mouth. He stood fully three feet
high, and an uglier-looking beast Marks
says he never saw in all his experience
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
RECEIVED HIM WITH A VICIOUS LUNG,

sEcEIvED HIM WITH VICIOUS LUNGE.
in the WOODS. The sight Of the boar
seemed to inspire the dog with reckless
rage, for no sprang at the hog as he
would have done at q stray old sow in
the garden. The boar received him
with a vicious lunge Of his big head,
which hurled the dog ten feet away,
.irred to the vitals by one Of the boar's
long tusks, and he soon died.
All this had occurred before either OF
the hunters recovered from his surprise
at the sudden appearance of the formid-
able beast After tossing the dog Of
TO die, the boar turned with savage
snort plunging back into the laurels,
and his course could be traced by the
breaking and cracking Of the bushes as
he rushed his way through them
Marks fred two shots after the veI
treating boar. and the two hunters
termined not to lose their E
pressed into the thicket and follo
rs rapidly as they could in the 3
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29

ITHISK the animus of this movement
for woman's freedom has been mistaken
largely, through the idea that it meant
competition between women and men
To my thought it simply means cooper
alton in the work of the world.-Mrs.
Zsrelda G. Wallace.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29

One hundred and ten thousand dol
lars have been appropriated by the book
committee froln the proceeds of the va
rious Book Concerns to the relief of su,
Derannuated ministers, widows and
orphans Of the Methodist church for the
current year.