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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
Senator Hammond's Tax Bill.

The tax bill OF Senator Hammond, pend
ing in the Florida legislature, is regarded
with much favor. 1t appears to be an ex-
cellent bill, and it certainly is in the line of
reform. Everybody who has had anything
to do with Florida lands knows how unsat-
iSfactory the present system of assessing
and collecting land taxes in that state is.
One is never certain that he has paid the
taxes on the land to which he has title.
and he is always afraid that he will some
day find that his land has been sold for
taxes, notwithstanding the fact that he has
paid his taxes regularly. And those who
hold lands by tax deeds feel that their titles
are OF the most unsubstantial kind.
Senator Hammond's bill will not cure all
the defects in the land taxing system, but if
it should become law there would be a far
better condition of affairs, SO far as lands
are concerned, than there is at present.
Land on which taxes are not paid will be
forfeited to the state after a certain period,
and those who purchase it will get a title
from the state. The time-fve years-in
which lands forfeited to the state may be
redeemed is plenty long enough.
1t is highly important that Florida should
have satisfactory system for assessing and
collecting taxes on land. The discovery of
phosphates over large section Of the state
makes it necessary that there should be GER
tsinty with respect to the titles of lands
heretofore considered to bs of little or no
value.
Senator Hammond's bill may be improved
in some respects, but if it isn't changed, and
is passed, it will be productive of much
better results than the present law on the
same subject.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
LEGAL SALES.
CHATHAM sHERIFF's SALE,


/ NDER and by virtue of fl. ia. issuad an,
- or the Superior Court of Chnths,n
county in favor of WILLIAM H MAY for -.
OF WILLIAM Z. MAY vs.. ALVIN n. NITIFp
and WILLIAM HONE security said 4 -
transferred to CHARLES p. C0NNERY. / have
ieVled upon the following described properly a
the property OF ALVIN n. MILLER to Me a
All that tract or parcel of land living ana h.
ing in the county of Chatham, state of I;aore,;o
known as the MOdena plantation. contain7r--,
eight hundred acres. more or less bOundsJ -
the west by lands of William Zeigler tk1o,,, -.
Springfield pialtation), and on an ofhar 80,
cy river and marsh: the said land and Urennjsss
being the same sold as the property OF LANES
RUSSELL By the Sheriff of Chatham coI,r+
oy virtue OF mortgage fl. ia issued out Of ~,
honorable the Superior Court of the count,,
OF Cnatham IN favor of MARY A. MARTIN ~
JAMES RUSSELL, and transferred NV CO..
MARY A. MARTIN to STEPHEN r. ROM
and purchased by said STEPHEN b. ROND a.
SAID Sheriff. sale aud conveyed to him nv ~
SAID Snerin OF Chatham county, deed dated
tlrst OF May, 1887. together with all and sin0Isr
the houses, outhouses, buildings gardens. iiher
ties, privileges, easements, bereditarnaD+
rights, members and appurtenapces Whstso'
ever thereunto belonging or in any wise annsT-
tanning. "PPeE'
Will offer the said above described nroDa-r,
for sale at public outcry before the fo,rt
House door of Chatham county, in the citv -
Savannah. on the FIRST TUESDAY IN JiTNT r
1881, during the legal hours Of sale. to satlsfy
said fl. ia. ~ ''''i'iJ
Terms cash, purchaser paying for titles
JOHN T. ROMAN,
Sheriff @. Co Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

When the New York Herald does not
make bold and sudden political ''flop"-
why. then it's very bad year for flops.
This time the announcement is printed in
type as bold and black as thundercloud.
1t states that ]. G. Blaine is "Our Candi-
date" just what he is sour Candidate
for is not fully disclosed But the editor
proceeds to assign reasons, among which he
alludes in fervent phraseology to "the man
who attends to business and our honor, and
who does not go incorporating about the
country, telling old rebels they were quite
right, calling them confederates, and not
daring to say we were federRls." What all
this may be intended to imply is not alto
gether clear. Nor is it by any means GER
tain how soon the vacillating Herald may
repent of its energy, blow over to some
other point of the compass and adopt an
other candidate. Nevertheless it's a curious
sort of a spectacle to watch.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
NATURAL FRUIT FLENQRs.
Untimely Interruption.

Loud talking in public places is vulgar,
especially on the part Of women, and more
especially when the matters talked about are
OF private and personal nature.
The Kansas City Star reports that a very
pretty young lady was lately conversing with a
young gentleman in q street car, and pitched
her voice SO high that none of the passengers
could help hearing every word.
This is my birthday" she said. Every one
was interested, the speakers escort in partic-
ular.
rs that so?" said he.
Guess how old"
Il can't"
Shall have to tell you? Well, it's my -"
Twenty-fourth," ba We'd the conductor as he
opened the door. The passengers all knew that
1t could not be true, but the youog lady was
annoyed and perhaps angry. At all events, her
fellow travellers heard nothingimore from her.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
CHATHAM sHERIFF's SALE.

I NDER- and by virtue of mortgage fl ia
- issued out of Chatham Superior Court in
favor OF GERMAN H. HUNT vs. MIRIAM
LILIENTHAL, L have levied upon the follow
ing described property of the defendant to
wit: "
Those two certain lots or parcels of land sjtu-
ate, lying and being in the city of Savannah
State Of Georgia, and county of Chatham
known and designated on the plan of
said city as lots number one and two
Pulaski ward, containing each a frontaee
on Liberty street of sixty (60) feet and a den3b
Of one hundred feet 400 to a lane south of said
street. subject each to a ground rent pavabla
N quafterly payments to the mayor and alder.
men of the city of Savannah
And l will offer the said above described
property of the defendant for sale at public ont
cry before the court house door of Chatham
county, in the city Of Savannah, on the FIRST
TUESDAY IN JUNE, 1891. during the legal
hours of sale, to satisfy said mortgage f. IA,
Terms cash; purchasers paying for titles
JOHN T. ROMAN,
Sheriff G. Co Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

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1t Wasn't Higginson.

There were dozen people in the postofflcs
corridor yesterday noon, says the Detroit Free
Press, when a young woman suddenly turned
on a middle-aged man with:
Why, Mr.. Higginson, how do you do, and
how are al the family? l saw IN TIE papers
that your wife was getting divorce on the
ground of cruelty, but 1 couldn't believe it
Tell me all about it,"
fou-you are mistaken" he managed to
reply, after two or three efforts.
i1"Oh can't be-" she artlessly replied
But you are. My name is not Higginson
and my wife has not applied for divorce"
Dear, dear me- But you have followed me
all over the streets for more than two hours,
and finally trailed me in here, and all the time
l was saying to myself; That's MIR. HiggnSon,
whose wife is getting divorce because be is so
ugy-tempered she can't live with him. and he
wants to tell me all about it,, l beg your par
DON"
There was no need of it, however, as he was
making grand skip for the street before she
got to the end of her story.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
The wicked Partnern Plea.

The attention of the whole country has
been drawn to the series of editorial articles
in Frank LeSlie'S Illustrated Newspaper
in which the effort was made to elevate
President Harrison at the expense of Score
tary Blaine. There can be no doubt that
the President has seen them, and il would
be difficult to make anybody believe that
Russell B. Harrison, the Presidents son, has
not read them. The editors and proprietors
Of the paper are J. Arkell and Russell B.
Harrison. The articles have either been re-
published or referred to and commented
upon in about every prominent paper in the
country.
But, strange as it may seem, Mr.. Arkell
states that he alone is responsible for them.
and that neither the President nor his 500
was in any way authority for them. This
statement presents a very interesting condi-
ton of affairs. II neither the President nor
his son approved Of them why didn't the
sou prevent them from being publishedl
He certainly had authority to do So There
were three of them, and as the second was
published q week after the first, and the
third two weeks after the first, there was
ample time in which to call a halt.
The only conclusion that the publication
of the second and third articles was not
prevented that is admissible is that
they were entirely satisfactory to
the President, and had it not been
for the fact that the republican press began
to show signs Of displeasure and indicate
with considerable emphasis that such arti-
oles in paper virtually under the
control Of the President would do the Presi-
dent great deal more harm than good, it
is probable that Wicked Partner" Arkell
would never have come forward with such
a ridiculous statement as that by which he
attempts to shield the President.
The articles have not had the effect which
the plotters intended. Blaine has not been
driven into making statement with respect
to his intentions relative to the presidential
nomination, and the presidents prospects
for denomination have not been improved.
In fact, the friends OF the President and
those Of Blaine are further apart than they
were before the articles were published.
And it looks as if there were a chance for
an interesting quarrel among republican
leaders. The brightest and shrewdest of
them are in sympathy with Blaine, and they
regard such bungling attempt as that of
Harrison and Arkell to make Blaine reveal
his purpose as an insult to his intelligence.
And the wicked partner" plea put forth
by Arkell is not satisfactory to them. 1t is
not in accordance with common sense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

Attempts on the part of Italy to draw oil
the European powers into her dissatisfied
condition by an appeal to them to make
united complaint against the United States
for alleged Entertainment of foreign immi-
grants are likely to prove of no avail. Eu-
ropean immigrants must know something
Of the laws and customs of this country If
they are sufficiently intelligent to be de-
sirable accessions to our population. II they
do not know that much it is their duty to
themselves to acquire such important in
formation before leaving their respective
native countries. When they get fair
superficial knowledge of our laws the most
ordinary common sense must teach them
that we do not accord to foreigners greater
advantages than are afforded our own citi-
zens. Nor can We allow them exceptional
facilities for crime. Knowing these things
they are under no obligation whatever to
come here unless they are perfectly satisfied
with the laws and customs of the country.
Their remedy against any possibility of dis
satisfaction lies in staying away. Such a
course cannot fail to prove satisfactory to
all parties concerned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
CONSTARLES SALE

I NDER and by virtue of an attachment is
- sued ny Justice NauEhtin, Justice of toe
Peace, for the Third G. NJ District of Chatham
County returnable to July. 1891. term CITY Court
OF Savannah, in favor of NJ. FERST'S SONS a
COMPANY against D. POPE, I have
TINS day levied upon the following
property: Property levied on. All
that stock of groceries, liquors. to.
baccos and cigars now contained in that certain
storehonse on the southeast corner of Waldburg
and Burroughs streets, in the City of Savannah,
Chatham County and State of Georgia as per
Inventory now in my hands. and under and BY
virtue OF an order granted by the Honorable
William D. Harden, judge of the City Court of
Savannah, on May Sth, 1891 will sell the same
at the SAID Storehouse on WEDNESDAY the
10th day of May, 1891, brtween the hours of 10
A. NJ. and p NJ, to satisfy said attachment.
Terms cash,
HENRY WFTHERHORN.
Constable C. c.. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

Not often do we hear of tragedy in real
life more pathetically sad than the recent
suicide Of little Minnie Whitaker in Indian
apolis. Although but little over Is years
Of age she had fallen from the proprieties
Of life. but could not endure the humiliat.
ing consequences it involved. Yet there
was something even in her weakness that
positively approached heroism. For her
father had lately been sentenced to the
penitentiary for felony and the poor,
but singularly beautiful child had sold her
future happiness only that che might at
tempt to secure bis release with the pro-
ceeds. When she found that her desperate
expedient was a failure she put an end 70
her life with poison. II is a touching ex.
smplinoatiou OF hlial devotion such a. Is
very rarely seen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

According to a dispatch from Sparta
which is the home of Gov. Northen and
other prominent members Of tho farmers
alliance. that organization will strongly
oppose the proposed legislative appro-
priation of 100000 for suita-
bic exhibition of the states resources
at the forthcoming Columbian expo
sition in Chicago. Considered as an adver-
tisement to induce immigration no element
of Georgia industry could be more benefited
by such an exhibition of the advantages we
offer the stranger who comes among us to
invest his money than would the farmers
If they do oppose the appropriation they
will certainly 90 so against their own best
Snfarests
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

Playwright Hoyt could have been little
less than blindly intoxicated when be made
his ''bad break" by violently denouncing a
local minister from the stage in Omaha the
other night. Since the minister had only
charged that Hoyt and his company were
seen drunk in Pullman car approaching
the Nebraska metropolis there is nothing in
the conduct of the actor to show that the
minister's statements were not perfectly
true in every particular. AS the Hoyt COM
pany was playing "The Texas Steer" how
ever, Mr.. Hoyt may merely have intended
TO exhibit to the audience some Of the pc.
culiar typical characteristics Of the brute.
Consensus Of Omaha public opinion seems
10 be largely in favor Of the verdict that be
~as highly successful IA giving a very re-
Hisiie PRESERVATION, whether that was his in
entloa Or lot.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

There was something peculiarly sad about
the recent suicide of young lady in Mis-
souri, from the humiliation consequent upon
q criminal assault. Rather than be sub
jected to the trying ordeal of recounting the
circumstances in court. young Mrs. Miller
killed herself at her husbands house at
Sweet Springs. If ever a felon deserved
hanging the negro who treated her SO bru-
tally was the man. Yet he jauntlly denied
his guilt to the last. Still he had the su-
perlative audacity to treat the whole mat
ter as a joke and go upon the scaffold
laughing. When man is so destitute OF
all human emotion as that sort of conduct
implies the sooner he is swung out Of this
world the better for the condition of the
world
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12
Tho Girl Sunra


You just ought to have beard her" he ex-
claimed, according to the Chicago Post.
Who's that?" asked the other man.
IL don't know her name, but she is one of
those amateur actresses.
well, what did she do?"
I'VE were having a rehearsal of Broken
Bones up at the club. She came from some
dramatic institution or other TO help the boys
out and did not know that-wel won't tell
you his name-a way-up actor was going TO be
present to coach us or course, ne was intro.
duced to her and then she began 90 ask him
questions. / believe IL must have been the first
time she had ever talked to live actor. she
asked him all about everything until he was
clean worn out, and when she capped the climax
by asking him to tell her how to become great
actress like Mrs. Carter and Sarah Bernhardt
we all saw he had blood in his eyes -
What did he tell herr"
HE looked at her benignly, put his hand on
her shoulder in a fatherly sort OF way-he's not
easy as anything if you only have the secret.
Mrs. James Brown Potter once offered me her
Cleopatra jewels If I'd tell her. but wouldn't
Now you are a very nice little girl; I like yonr
style. and if you'll promise to let me be ycSir
manager when you get great I'll tell you the
secret"
"She promised quicker than lightning. Then
he put both hands on her shoulders, looked into
her young blue eyes and SAID: Swear swear
like trooper swear till you're black in the
face Only swear. That's all. and If you do it
III guarantee that you will be greater actress
than Fanny Davenport
The girl believed every word of it, and
thanked him profusely. rhsn the rehearsal
began. and all Of US watched 10 see what she
would do. IL was plain during the first act
that she was nerving herself 10 a great effort Of
some kind, and her face was lighted up by the
glow OF determination. just as We were about
20 20 on for the second act she came out OF ner
dressing room. walked directly up % tho sta q
manager, and In low, trembling voice, faid
Mr.. stage Manager, tuis dress doesn't 1T me
and won't wear IL. So there. by d--nl' And
then"
What happened them"
she went back to her dressing room and had
q good cry
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

Cincinnati women have turned out to
sweep the streets. After enduring the dust
In dry weather and slop when it rains for
many years they seem to have finally
decided that the city department of
public works does not intend to do any
street cleaning. and they have no alterna-
tive but to do the sweeping themselves or
get their skirts thoroughly bedraggled every
time they go out Cincinnati certainly must
be lovely town to live in-with broom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-12

According to the deliberate conclusion of
special committee appointed by the New
York presbytery to examine into the writ
ings of the Rev. DR.. Charles G. Briggs. the
famous theologian who presldes over de-
partment in the Union Theological Semi
nary of New York, that gentleman
has been adjudged subject to trial
on the charge of heresy, based upon
his statement in a recent address that
the English Bible. being a translation from
the Hebrew, Arabic and Greek originals,
could not well be reliably inspired
What the committee particularly con-
temned was the doctors statement that mo
such claim is found in the Bible itself or in
any of the creeds of christendom, and the
text of the Bible IN which these languages
have been handed down has shared the fort
unes OF other texts of literature We find
there are errors of transmission. There is
nothing divine in the text, IN its letters
words or clauses, and we force our way
through the language and the letter, the
grammar and the style, to the inner sub
stance of the thought. for there, If at all, we
shall find God"
uooAhS OfCA AupIlou dS 10 L00
authenticity Of the Scripture DR.. Briggs
further said: 81 shall venture to affirm that,
SO far as l can see, there are errors in the
Scriptures that no one has been able to ex-
plain away, and the theory that they were
not in the original text is sheer assumption,
upon which no mind can rest with certainty.
If such errors destroy the authority of the
Bible it is already destroyed for historians"
Because of these strongly skeptical ut
terances even the most loyal friends of the
learned divine are disposed to take rather a
hopeless view of his prospects for being sus-
tanned or acquitted by any theological
body before which he may be tried. Few
of the statements of modern theologians of
the most advanced type have been quite so
radical as those upon which DR.. Briggs is to
be arraigned before the doctrinal dignitaries
of his church.
Although the doctor is very brilliant
man and may have been unusually useful
to his denomination, still recantation of
such assertions ould be essential to his re-
tenJion as an expounder Of an orthodox
faith.
In one so prominent absolute orthodoxy is
doubly essential, because of the conspicuous
example it would constitute.
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OUR NEW YORK OFFICE.

Mr.. ]. ]. FLYNz. General Advertising Agent
of the MORNING NEWS Office % Park Row,
New York. All advertising business outside OF
the state Of Georgia, Florida and South Caro-
lima vii be managed by him.
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Possibilities.
Rududrd KiplinO,

hutgdU htptDIg,
Ay, lay him meath the Simla pine
A fortnight, fully, to be missed
Behold! we lose our fourth at whist,
A chair is vacant where we dine.
His place forgets him; other men
Have bought his ponies, guns and traps;
His fortune is the Great Perhaps,
And that cool rest-house down the glen.
Whence he shall hear, as spirits may,
Our mundane revel on the hight,
Shall watch each flashing rickshaw light
Sweep on to dinners, dance and play.
Kenmore shall WOO him to the ball
With lighted rooms and braying band,
And he shall hear and understand
Dream Faces" better than us all
For. think you, as the vapors flee
Across Sanjaolie after rain,
His soul may climb the hill again
To each old field of victory
Uunseen, whom women held so dear
The strong mans yearning to his kind
Shall shake, at most. the window blind,
Or dull while the cardroom's cheer.
Yet may he meet with many friend
Shrewd shadows, lingering long unseen
Among us, when God save the Queen
Shows even extras have an end.
And when we leave the heated room.
And when at 4 o'clocx the lights expire,
the crew shall gather round the fire
And mock our laughter in the gloom.
Talk as we talked, aud they, ere death
Then wanly dance in ghostly Sc
With ghosts of tunes for melodies,
And vanish at the mornings breath.