The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-13
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| SENATOR EDMUHDs is very fond Of hort4 | ,
ure, aud finds pleasant summer recreatio,
working among the fruit trees at his hom1
| Burlington, Vt.
Mrs. DRIGGs and Mrs. Dease both claim
have brought about Senator ingalls, defeat. n
Kansas reform movement betrays sympromsl
/ the divided skirt craze
| THE third and last consignment, completin
the return of the 5000, GOD francs lent by TIL
Bank Of France to the Bank Of England in No
vemOer last. to tide over the temporary embar-
( rassment caused by the financial crisis was
landed at Boulogne yesterday morning. The
/ transfer Of the bullion has been attended by
| agent. in whose care the treasure was placed
I was accompanied between London and Paris
| by number Of detectives, armed. The money.
amounting 70 IS, 900 600 sterling, lent by Fracce
| to England, as a matter of fact, has remained
/ untouched in the state in which it was lent; but
| 1t was required oy the condition of the Bank OF
| England charter, TO be deposited in the vaults
Of the bank as a guarantee at the me when a
! considerable amount of gold in bar was with
| drawn to be converted into current money. The
| interest paid to the Bank Of France on the loan
amounts 10 562, 800 francs, or ks, 500 S112500l.
THERE has been some very high poker playing
in New York lately, says BlaKely Hall in the
Brooklyn Eagle, and the names of many men
\ of social prominence are linked with the stories
| of the game. The play has been going on
steadily for three weeks and curiously enorgh
all the heavy games have been played by day
| light. II would not do to give the names of the
players, as they are all family men and Their
| losses are their own business. Some of the
afternoon games in the famous restaurants and
clubs IN this city are far heavier in the amount
| of money lost and won than the historic con-
tests on the Mississippi steamboats, and the
| Denver gambling bells. Men who from pure
idleneSs sit down and play $25 limit for two or
three hours every afternoon in the week after
luncheon, and who throw OF the limit after
| playing an hour, If they happen to feel like it,
are apt to incur pretty stiff losses if luck runs
against them. In one game Of which have
personal kno Wedge a man who had lost a con-
siderable amount Of money insisted upon a
round of consolation" iackpots at the end of
the game. When his jack pot came around he
wanted it "sweetened" by $50 contributions in
steda of the usual ST chip-they were playing
$40 limit. There was good deal of dissatis-
faction at this proposition around the table,
but as he had lost heavily they accorded him
the courtesy of practically naming his own
game and reluctantly consented to the arrange
ment. TIE limit was taken off and. as there
were six mon playing, $500 was added to the pot
every time the cards went around. Five hands
were dealt before any one opened it. The heav-
lest loser then attempted staggering BLUM, but
he was called down, and the pot went, as ''con-
ISOLATION" pots usually do, TO the largest winner
at the table. This is only an illustration of one
days play, and while it does not rank with the
100000 poker games about which we read in
the papers, it was performance worth noting.
as it is only one case of the general run of what
are known as afternoon games
WE HAVE to fall back at last for the standard
of good manners and good morals not upon the
few, but upon the many, says a writer in the
New York Times. The masses of the people
are unduestionably more critical as to morality
than any exclusive circle; and as to the essen
ttalS-not the conventionalites-of good man
ners, they are to be found more securely among
the many than among the few. We have the
high authority of Bronson Howard for saying
that Bowery au hence is far quicker than a
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| anything really immoral in play. More than
one English nobleman has been forgiven in
American dfawing-rooms for conduct which
would have caused him, if known to be sum-
| marily elected from Rocky mountain mining
| camp. Howells. with his usual penetration, sc.
| lectS rough Californian as the man who
patrols the sleeping car to be the self-appointed
| protector OF the ladies. An unprotected
| girl may travel by rail from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and
| meet with less of real rudeness or unkindnass
tnan she might encounter in single evening,
even from her own sex, at some very exclusive
ball. The little social circles have their value;
| they furnish part Of the education and expe-
| rience in social life, Where they happen to be
| under the leadership of a really cultivated and
| high minded Woman-like the late Mrs. John
| Jacob Aston, for inst ince-they afford not
| merely a school Of department, but of life.
| Where they areas is quite as likely-under a
very different style of leadership, the results
| correspond. He despises me-" said Ben
| Johnson. because live In an alley. Tell him
| his soul lives in an alley" In all parts of the
| world there are women whose forms are COW
| cred with diamonds, but who still carry the
| habits of the alley in their souls. In the long
run, the safety of our national morals and
manners does not lie in any Of the little social
| circles, but in the average sense and breeding
1 OF the vast public from which those circles are
/ constantly recruited.
| SENATOR WALTHALL of Mississippi, says the
| New York San, who has been appointed one OF
the board of visitors to the annual examina.
tions at West Point next summer was once be.
| fore assigned to the same duty. The first time
he was appointed was while Jefferson Davis
| was in the Senate, about year before Missis-
| sippl seeded from the Union. st that time
| Mr.. Walthall was about 80 years of age He
had Just begun practicing law, and had no
| knowledge whatever of the duties Of a soldier
| or OF the science Of warfare He considered
that his youth and inexperience made him in.
capable Of performing the duties of member
| of the board of visitors, no matter how per-
funetory those duties might be, and he mod
eStly declined the honor. In speaking of this
incident last year when the President made pub,
lie the names Of the visitors, Senator Walthall
said: L would like to be Apo nted again some
| time, but don't want to go II any one else
| cares about going. When l was appointed on
the recommendation of Mr.. Davis there were go
many disunguished men in my state who were
better ntted to perform the duties that de-
chned. A year after that, however, l had
learned good deal about military
duties and was In command of q regiment Is
war record and yet no soldier north or south
has more brilliant one. He passed through
| all of the grades of a commissioned officer from
| q first lieutenant to major general, and at the
| time he received the commission to the last
| named Office he was the youngest officer of that
rank In either the northern or southern armies
| HIS division was made up of picked men, and il
| was often called upon to perform extraordinary
| dangerous service When Hoods army was
routed at the battle of Franklin and was forced
| to rapidly retreat from Tennessee into Missis.
| sppi and Alabrma Walthall's division was called
upon to act as the rear guard of the demoralized
| army. The duty Of the rear guard was
| to keep in check the pursuing union army until
the main portion of Hoods forces had reached
| place of safety. The preservation of the con.
| federate army depended upon the successful
| performance of this almost impossible task
| Walthall had $3.50 men only in his depleted
| division, but when 1t was known that he had
| said that every officer and soldier in Hoods
| once magnificent army knew that the retreat
| would be made secure or that WalthaIl would
die at the head of his command with his face to
| the enemy. The retreat was accomplished and
| Hoods army reached place of safety, but 1t
| was saved from annihilatlon by the bravery and
| skill OF that small body of men under the CON.
| mand of Walthal. In the early part of Janu.
| airy OF this year Gen. Schodeld and
Senator Walthall were introduced to each
| other. Senator Walthall said that il
ives the first time in twenty-sev years
| that he had been SO close to Gen. Schofeld
The previous time was when Hood had almost
| surrounded the union army under Schofeld OF
Columbia, on the Duck river, in Tennessee
| There was only a small opening, and there
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