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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
BRIG 1T BITS.

ELECTRICITY will never take the place of
hanging Christmas stockings Binghanton Re
publican
WIBBLE-What was the score in the foot ball
gamer
Wabble-Two broken legs, seven black eyes.
ana thirty-five teeth.-TeTre HGute Express.
OLD GESTLEMAN-I don't know what to make
OF the coming generation.
one OF the Coming Generation-Well, you
can make me your son-in-law if you want to
The EDock.
GRowLING is as natural to some people as
eatlng. When st. Peter stops them at the gate
70 examine their passports they will be certain
70 hutIer something about red tape.-Ptild
phid Inquirer.
get the weakest minded, most ignorant men pos
Side Tor the jury, and then speak of trying the
poor unfortunate by jury of his peers.-Bos-
Book FIEND-I have here?
Nlctlm-DO You see that door?
Flend-Yes, excellent fit, isn't it? Now, this
deiDEta Inquirer
SERVANr-Boy wants to see you, mum.
Mistress-Has he got bill in his handy
mo, num-
We'll, then, he's got one in his pocket. Send
MIN away. y YenoVines NeUs.
HARRY-And, dearest, do you think of me all
the day long?
Dearest-f did, Harry; but the DAYS are
getting longer now, and, of course-well, you
Know that that must make some difference. -
Boston Transcript.
- 1ELLowLY-It seems strange to me, Brownly,
tnat Whitley always enjoys the most perfect
health and yet takes no exercise.
roTnly-Nothing strange about it at all
Whitley is too lazy TO catch any disease
Boston Courier.
DISSATISFIED starr believe Boston is the
hn 81 IN, -, TT..sA
enter.
Manager-What makes you think so?
Dissatisfied Star-Bscause we have played to
SO many light houses there.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
PATERFAMILIAs from the head of the stairs at
q. m. )-Fanny, will you ask that young man
TO step into the hail a moment?
Young Man (timidly )-W-well, sir?
i Just wanted to ask you where you wanted
your trunk put when it comes. ''-LnWrence
AmericIH.
FIRST SrRANGER-Yes, l believe firmly in the
influence of heredty. Take my own case for
instance. All my ancestors for generations
have been men of letters or have been con-
nected with literature in some way.
Second Stranger-And you follow in their
footsteps?
First Stranger-Yes, j am book agent.
Amertca.
ALoNzo-What's the matter, old chap? You
don't seem in very good humor.
Algernon-l should think not. Look at the
box of cigars Augustus has sent me for Christ
mas.
Alonzo-You ought not to feel bad over that
Algernon-Iwould not ordinarily, but It's the
same box | sent him when he won bet from
me last week. america.
SMALL BoY-Say, dad, wshIyou'd get me
bicycle.
Old Man-Can't afford it, my SON. Rent too
high, coal too dear. Besides don't want you
to break your neck
well, then, a tricycle.
Cant do it. But Ill tell you what YOU can
have. When winter comes I'll try and get Won
a nice long icicle."
The youngster is pacified Toronto Grip.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
Lincoln Before a Jury.

IF can free this case from technicalties,
and get It properly swung TO the jury. III win
II, >" Abraham Lincoln used 70 say when conf
dent Of the justice Of the cause he represented.
he was weak in defending wrong case, for he
was mentally and morally too honest to explain
away the bad points OF cause by ingenious
sOphistry, says writer in the Youths Com
DdntoH- Instead Of attempting 70 bolster up
such cause he abandoned IL. Once be aban-
doned a case in open court, being convinced
that II was unjust A less faStidiOus lawyer
TOOK Mr. L ncOll's place and won the case.
Mr.. HeTndon. in his Life Of Lincoln" tells
story which EXHIBITS his ability in getting a
case he believed in properly swung to the
jury"
4 pension agent named Wright secured for
the widow OF a revolutionary soldier a pension
OF 500. of which he retained One-lalf as his fee
Inc penslOner, a crippled Old woman. hObOled
into LincOln's office and told her story II
stirred Lincoln up; he brought suit against the
agent. and on tue day Of the trial he said:
! am going to skin Wright, and get that
money back"
He did so. The old woman told her story TO
the jury. Lincoln, in his plea, drew picture
OF the hardShips OF Valley Forge. describing the
soldiers as creeping barefoOred over the ice,
and m .rking their tracks By their bleeding feet
Then he cOntrasted thu hardships the soldiers
endured for their country with the hardened
action of the agent in fleeing the old woman of
one-half of her pension.
He was merciless; the members of the jury
were IN tears, ana the agent wTithed in his seat
under the castigatinn Of Lincoln's denunciation.
The jury returned verdict in her favor for the
tull amount, aud Lincoln made no charge for
his services.
His notes for the argument were unique.
mo contract. Not professional services
unreasonable charZe. Money retained by de-
PENDANT not given by plaintiff. Revolutionary
war. Describe Valley Forge privations. Ice
soldiers bleeding feet. PLAINTIFFS husband
Soldiers leaving for army. Skin defendant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

There are very few congressman who
think that this session Of congress will be a
quiet and harmonious one. All the Indic1-
tons are that much OF it viii be taken up
with the most bitter sectional contest that
the country has witnessed for many years.
A few days ago it was thought that the
republicans would propose rules for the
government Of the House that would take
from the minority pretty nearly all the
power 1t possessed under the rules in force
in the last congress, and it was determined
by the democrats to resist their adoption.
Now there is a strong impression that no
rules will be adopted, but that business will
be done under general parliamentary law,
and that the republicans will depend upon
the partisan rulings Of the speaker for such
advantages as they may need to secure the
partisan legislation they have in view.
But whether any rules are adopted or not,
it is certain that there are going TO be
lively times in congress pretty soon after
the holiday recess. The republicans intend
to pass a federal election law if possible,
and the democrats intend that they shall
not. Unless the republicans greatly in
crease their majority by unseating demo-
Gratis and filing their places with republic an
contestants, they cannot pass. in all proba-
bility, any bill to which the democrats pre-
sent united opposition, because they will
not be able TO geta quorum. Although the
republicans have bare quorum, it is not
one time in hundred that all their MEM
bers are present. The democrats, therefore,
can break the quorum and prevent the
transaction Of business by simply refusing
to vote
1t is intimated that the speaker mas under
consideration the advisability of exercising
the power of determining the question
whether there is a quorum present without
reference to what the roll call may show
A proceeding of that kind would be UMPIRE
cedented, and would be very generally con-
demned. The speaker, however, is a man
who generally follows his own judgment
and, as he is venturesome, he may under
take to exercise powers never exercised by
any preceding speaker
If a sectional debate once gets started, it
will last, doubtless, for weeks Both sides
are prepared for it, aud the republicans
appear to be anxious for it. If there
should be such a debate public business
would suffer, and vast interests, like those
of the river and harbor, would be neglected.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The Chicago Inter-Ocedn thus defines a
so-called race war: ut is war in which
black men are slaughtered and white men
write all about it, and call on the governors
for the military to keep them from killing
the black women and children" Wrong.
1t is generally an outbreak caused by ill
feeling engeudered among the black people
toward the whites by such newspapers as
the Chicago Inter- Ocean, or by resistance
on the part of the blacks to the enforcement
of the law, the blacks having previously
been encouraged by northern demagogues
and fanatics to assert themselves" The
outbreak having been brought about, the
northern republican press proceeds to make
out of it as much political capital as posi-
BILE
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
Hunting for tha Lvnchers.

A systematic effort is to be made in South
Carolina to bring TO justice those WI o
lynched the eight negro prisoners at Barn
well last Saturday. Leading colorei men,
it is understood. will meet in Columbia
to-day to decide upon plan for the disco7-
cry and arrest Of the lynchers, and they
will have the active sympathy Of great
majority Of the most prominent white
people. The Barnwell lynching was one of
the greatest Outrages ever perpetrated in
South Carolina, or any other state, and
there is a general fesling that no efforts
| should be spared TO punish the per
petrators of 1t. The governors reward
Of 500 for the arrest and conviction Of
| each one of the lynchers will stimulate
search for them, but it alone will not be
sufficient 10 bring about their arrest. The
active corporation of the people with the
officers of t1e law is necessary.
The whites are as deeply interested in
having those who took part in the Barnwell
outrage punished as the blacks. If outrages
of that kind are tolerated, it will not be
long before crimes of violence will occur 50
frequently in South Carolina that there
will be a feeling that there is no
security for life there. Lynching com
mIttees will undertake to do the work that
the courts ought to do, and as aresult there
will be deadly feuds in communities all
over the state, and murders will occur with
startling frequency.
The governor of this state has offered
reward for the arrest of the black desperate
Brewer, who caused the trouble at Jesup.
He ought also to offer rewards for those
who attacked the Jesup Jail and killed two
prisoners confined there. There was no
more excuse for numbering the Jesup
prisoners than there was for numbering
those who were confined in the Barnwell
Jail. The fact that black Desperate killed
two white men, and seriously wounded two
Others, was no justification for taking the
lives of prisoners confined in jail.
The failure of courts and juries to do
their duty is no excuse for lynch law.
Courts and juries are no better and no worse
than the people. and where there is
healthy public sentiment against crimes of
violence the punishment of criminals is
swift and certain. Instead of resorting to
unlawful means, therefore, to check crime,
the effort should be to create healthier
public sentiment
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
Really Quite Careless.
From the Buffalo Express.


A West Side church is in process of renova.
ton, and the pastor is daily engaged in raising
funds to pay the expense. One means the
pastor takes for that purpose is to call on his
parishioners and ask for subscriptions. In one
case the good man approached the front door
of a parishioner's house, rang the bell the door
opened and little girl appeared.
Pastor-Good afternoon, my child. Is your
mother at home?
Little girl-No sir; mamma is downtown.
Pastor-Will she be back soon?
Little grill guess so.
Pastor-Then will come in and wait few
minutes. Pastor enters and takes a seat in the
parlor. Being DESTROYS of knowing what kind
of house his people provide for their families,
the clergyman looked about him and soon dis
covered pair of feet protruding from under a
curtain a little further optical investigation
satisfied him that the feet belonged to the little
girls mother. By-and-by the child appears
again, and said that she thought her mamma
would not return for an hour or two. We'll :
says the pastor, Il will not wait; but my child.
be kind enough to tell your mother the next
time she goes down town to take her feet with
her
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The st. Louis Globe Democrat has this to
say about ex-Congressman Whitthorne, of
Tennessee: "He has been in one or other
branch of congress for the past eighteen
years, during the greater part of the time
in the House, and as a leading member of
the naval committee of the latter body he
gained some celebrity by his attacks on re-
publican management of the affairs of the
navy department, and by his interest in
and knowledge of the matters with which
his committee concerned itself. Tennessee
has had few ADLER men in congress in recent
years than Mr. Whltthorne, and none more
earnest, honest, and courageous" Gen.
Whitthorne's health broke down some time
ago, and he came to Savannah in the hope
of regaining it. He is now at the Savannah
hospital, and his friends will be gratified to
know that he is improving. He is a re
markably able man. and the people of Ten
nesSee have high regard for him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

Several weeks ago the MORNING NEWS
published the statement of an Ohio man,
then on visit to Savannah, that when Mr..
Calvin S. Brice went into the law business in
Lima both he and his partner were repub-
licans, and that the flip of coin decide d
that he should become democrat SO as to
popularize the firm. A letter written by
Fred D. Mussey, of the Cincinnati Com
merctdJ Gazette, some time ago, and
recently made public, contains the same
statement, and says: '"Gov. Foster often
has told the story on him." If the story is
true, Col. Brice probably thanks his lucky
stars that it fell to his lot to be a democrat.
He has been a good one, and if he was not
one from principle he has had plenty of
OPPORTUNITIES to change.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
He'd Scoop a Little.
From the EaN street Ne1ns.

About the time that Daniel Drew began his
Wall street career he was up in the country one
time to visit some friends and two farmers
called upon him to decide case. One had sold
the other five bushels of wheat, and proposed
top of measure with a stick. The other OBJ
jected, and Uncle Daniel was asked to decide
Well, legally speaking, a bushel is only a
bushel," he answered.
And can the measure be swept OFF,
81 think it eau"
What within
well, if l was selling wheat should proba-
bly, use half the head of flour barrel"
(which edge of it,"
Gentlemen, that is point l cannot now
decide on sighed the old man. IF was sell
ing to widow or a preacher | am certain that
l should sweep the measure with a straight
edge. but if | was selling TO a man Who
pastures his cows in the road and his pigs in
his neighbours corn, I'm afraid should use the
circular side, and scoop a little to boot.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
Not So Popular Now.
from the Ney York Trfb,,,,e

Senator Ingalls, tells story on his brother
DR.. Ingalls,, who is at the head OF an educationa
institute in Missouri. DR.. Ingalls, has puzzled
the community of which he is a member by re-
naming in a lonely state of single blessedness;
not only puzzled, but, in some degree offended.
for the doctor is a most agreeable man, and
there are IN the community some very agree
able women. The matter was discussed at
many sewing circles, and finally one old maid
volunteered to convey the sense of the commli.
nifty on the subject to the offender. When she
called on the doctor she put the question rather
bluntly:
doctor" she said, the ladies are very
anxious to know why you have never married
in these many years you have been among us. -
MADAM" said DR.. Ingalls,, with all the
suavity of manner which he could muster up
for the occasion, you may inform the ladies
that at least it has not been for lack of oppor-
tunity.''
And it is said that the doctor is not nearly so
popular now among the ladies of his acquaint-
ance as he was before the inquiry was instituted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETIHes-Solomon's Lodge. No. /, F.
and A. NJ; Germania Savings Bank
The Workman's and Traders Loan and
Building Association; Mutual Gas Light
Company; Haupt Lodge, No. So, L o. o. f.;
Republican Blues; Excelsior Loan and Saw
ings Company; German Volunteers.
SPECIAL NoTIcEs-As TO Bills Against British
Steamship Devonshire; Dr. J. n. Wells, Dem
tist Manufacturing Site and Valuable Lots For
Sale, @. H Dorset, Real Estate Dealer; State
Specific Taxes, 1870; The Bazaar Building for
Sale; Notice of Co-partnership, O'Connor and
OByrne
AMUsEMENTs-Arthur Rehan's Company at
the Theater, Jan. and L.
MEDIcAL-Dr. Pierce's Preparations; Liebig
Companys Extract of Meat.
HoTELs-Hotel Cordova, ST. Augustine, Fla.
AUCTION Observation-Disclosures Sale, c. II.
Dorsett.
STEAMSHIP ScHEpULE-Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS 49, Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that
Judge Emory Speer is dabbling in politics
to greAter extent than is becoming in q
United States judge 1t says: Unless the
stories of Judge Speer's operations are
greatly exaggerated, he has descended to
the smallest kind of tricks in his dickerirg
for patronage for favorites,s ami is lending
anything but dignity to his position. Aud
yet they say he hopes some time to be ar
pointed a justice of the supreme court of
the United States" A Washington CORE
spondent says that Judge Speer's activity
on this line would defeat his aspirations for
the supreme bench, even if there should be
another vacancy during the Harrison ad :
ministration. Perhaps the stories are
greatly exaggerated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The Louisville Courier-JourndL thinks
that the southern race problem is becoming
less serious each year. This is contrary to
the general opinion, but the Courier-Jour-
nal makes very good showing in supper t
of the statement 1t points to the fact that
the colored population Of the south is gradu-
ally decreasing. Before the war; it saws,
"South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi
were the richest of all southern states.
Therefore they owned the most slaves. and
the negroes outnumbered the whites in each
of the three. In Mississippi and South
Carolina the proportion between the two
races has varied scarcely fraction for sew
eral censuses. In Louisiana the whites are
gaining; there the negroes were $50 per
cent. in 1860. The whites are undoubtedly
now in a majority in that state. In Geor-
gia, Alabama. North Carolina, Arkansas,
and Tennessee the proportion of the whites
is slowly gaining upon that of the negroes;
in Florida and Texas very rapidly" And
so on through the list of southern states. A
very thoughtful gentleman EXPRESSED to
the MORNING NEWS the other day the
opinion that 400 years hence there would be
no negroes in this country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

Mr.. Thomas G. Shearman said in an
article not long ago that Trinity church. in
New York, was worth S150,000,0O0 The
Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix says in the Church
man that it isn't. 'sThe income Of $780,
100000 at 5 per cent, he says, "would
be 81, 100000. Our property is managed on
strict business principles and with tae
earnest desire to make it available to the
fullest extent for the purpose of our trust,
but the entire income from that property
for the year ending July 81, 1899, hardly, if
at all, exceeded $5S0,0OO. The difference
between S5S0,000 and S7,50O,00O may be
taken as fair expression of the difference
between the value of the property of our
parish as fancifully estimated and its actual
value for practical purposes" church
that derives an annual income of more
than half a million dollars from its property
is in very good financial condition. 1t is to
be hoped that its spiritual condition is
equally as satisfactory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
One Word.
From BlqcklCOOI's Nronzi1

From BiackUood's Magazine.
Write me an epic, " the warrior said
Victory, valor, and glory we'd"
'''Prithee, ballad, - exclaimed the knight
"Prowess, adventure, and faith unite.
AN ode to freedom" the patriot cried
Liberty won and wrong defed.
Give me drama, " the scholar asked
The inner world in the outer masked
Frame me a sonnet, the artist prayed
Power and passion in harmony played"
"Sing me a lyric the maiden sighed
"A lark-note waking the morning wide"
Nay, all too long said the busy age,
Write me line instead of a page"
The swift years spoke, the poet heard,
Your poem write in single word"
He looked in the maiden's glowing eyes,
A moment glanced at the starlit skies;
From the lights below to the lights above.
And wrote the one-word poem-Love.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

Mr. c. g. Lancaster ought to be pretty
good authority in the matter of Mr. Ran
dalps health, because he is his son-in-law.
He said the other day that the stories that
Mr.. Randall was dangerously i'll were wild
exaggerations; that if the distinguished
patient had placed himself under the care
of physician when his disorder first APP
peared, he would be well to-day, and that,
as 1t is, with proper care, he would soon be
in his seat in the House. The country will
need Mr.. Randalrs services very much
when the republicans try to get federal
election law through the House.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The President may not be able to bag a
duck every time he fires a gun, but he
seems to be a very good shot when it
comes to pigs. The story that he killed
a Virginia negroes pig while duck hunting
the other day, mistaking it for a raccoon,
has been denied, but, nevertheless, there is
reason for believing that it is true. The
man who owned the pig is named Gilbert
Wooten. He hasn't stated that the pig is
alive, but, on the contrary, he seems to be
mourning the loss of something or other.
Isn't it very remarkable thing that the
people have elevated to the presidency
man who doesn't know pig when he sees
one?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02

The Memphis Avalanche combats ex-
Senator Bruce's statement that the supply
of colored labor in the south exceeds the de-
mand. 1t says: "We do not believe there
is single negro man or woman in the
south to-day who is able to work or who
wants work, and yet who cannot obtain it, +"
1t is certain that there are numbers of col
ored idlers in the south-idlers not from
necessity, but from choice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
Catches It on All sides.


y
Some republican journals speak spitefully of
their President, and leading republican polti-
Clans everywhere, though carefully 81 lent ia
public, in private conversation use very harsh
words about AIr. Harrison. Ihereupon we
notice some democratic journals pick their flints
and take shot at the poor fellow Iso. and
declare hopefully that Mr.. Harrison and his
party are going to pieces