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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
Suicides Bore Hotel Clerks

Suicides are very ordinary things that come
under the observation of hotel clerks" said
Billy Ormes of the Southern to st. Louis Re-
public man. During my brief experience as a
clerk have seen no less than ten suicides
They have become so common OF late tnat they
no longer excite my nerves. ! first went into
the hotel business at Omaha. The second night
was on watch one of the most popular guests
of the hotel walked quietly up to the desk, con-
versed intelligently with me for few minutes.
and then pulled out his pistol aud shot himself
through the heart.
"0f course thatexcited me somewhat But
the next night several of the guests were sit
ting in the rotunda telling ghost stories. Sud
denly an apparition hoated quietly across the
corridor that attracted the attention of us all.
We stopped talking for a minute, when all OF
sudden, man jumped out of the third-story
corridor and landed in a heap right in our
midst Wasn't that strange?
"The following week went to work for an
other house. The first night there the waterman
came into the office about midnight, leading one
of the walters, who had tried to end his life by
Severing his jugular VEIN He lived until the
following day, when he died. A month later
one of my most intimate friends came espe-
cially from Chicago to pay me a visit. The
second day he was in the house he got on q
spree which lasted week, and wound up by
going TO the happy hunting grounds by the
morphine route
''All of these happened within six months
after had started in the hotel business and
began to think that was Jonah to the bust
ness. But soon discovered that my experience
was not any more strange nor startling thar
those met with by other hotel clerks"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
The TnrrAv Bill.

A determined effort is being made TO get
the House 10 take up for consideration
the Torrey bankruptcy bill The interest
in the bill is general and the sentiment APP
pears to be in favor of IL. 1t is as fair
bill of the kind probably as could be drawn.
The committee that has it in charge has
heard all the objections 70 it that have been
made and has given proper attention to
those which appeared rsas Onable. IL is un-
derstood that about all Of the congressman
who have made themselves acquainted with
its provisions are satisfied with it, and are
willing to support il. II it can be got before
the House, therefore, it is pretty certain to
pass that body.
The country has been without a bank
ruptcy law for more than ten years. The
last bankruptcy law was repealed because
il permitted of too long delays in the settle -
msnt Of insolvent estates and because the
opportunities of the officers who admins
tered the Law for making exorbitant fees
were too great. The Torrey bill ia not open
to such objections.
A good bankruptcy law would be helpful
to all parts OF the country. The merchants
and manufacturers of the east, for instance
are not so liberal now as they would be if
there were such a law, in granting credits
to the merchants of the south and west, be-
cause there are so many difficulties in the
way of having their claims settled in cases
of insolvency. The laws governing the col
lection Of debts in one state are different
from those of another. and it often happens
that the least meritorious claims stand the
best chance of being paid If there were
bankruptcy law honest merchants would
find much less difficulty than they now do
in getting credit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
Anothsr Gould Story.

The fund OF Gould stories seems inexheusti-
BILE, says the New York Press When David
Dudley Field became Mr. Gould's lawyer the
great 6nancier sent him a retaining fee of
$4,000 for personal services and asked only
that Mr.. Field should not take any case against
him. 1t was busy year ana cases were numer-
GUS. When the Ere railway cases were called
Mr.. Gould was blandly informed that the re-
tainer did not cover any corporation whatever;
it only retained Mr.. Field for Mr.. Gould indi-
vduslly. The law firm felt at perfect liberty to
take case against him as president of the Erie
railway a director, though they could not
professionally act against him as an individual.
Mr.. Gould then retained" them in behalf OF all
the corporations in which he was interested,
and the corporation treasury in many cases
feels to this day the draft made upon it, Mr.
Gould was the officer on trial, but his interest
in the corporation was so large that he felt the
cost In every instance. In one year the bills Of
David Dudley Fields firm growing OUT of suits
in which MIR. Gould was interested we're little
more than 1922 900. Il speak from knowledge
directly from the books, " said Alan P. Smidt,
who has had long practice at the bar since
THAT reminds me of the difference between
the two men, rejoiued another lawyer. II
had to take an acknowledgement in a case in
Gould was too busy, and he sent word asking
me to come down to the office and take the
acknowledgment. replied that had ONCE
hours and did not care to leave for the con-
venience OF any one else for the ordinary fee.
The next morning he came up and signed and
went out. It was only few hours later that
a messen ger came with q note from Fisk, ask
ing If it would be convenient for me to take
dinner with him that afternoon and at what
hour, and would 1t be Just as easy for me to
execute the papers after dinner. IL was. We
had charming, pleasant dinner, went TO the
theater afterward, and I returned with the
papers duly signed and witnessed" There are
many men who to this day underestimate Fisk.
Gould did n0f
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
The rramp. E,iozsd the JOKE.


practical joke was played upon Charley
Pearson Of the Coleman house, says the New
York Journal The free lunch had run bit
low about dusk and noble turkey was brought
10 and placed the table in all the glorious
garniture of Jellied cranberries, celery and
oysters. Charley was leaning against the bar
when party or well-known actors came into
the cafe. With them were two rather rough .
snd-resdy looking men in long listers and six
hats.
Have drink" said Charley. "No have
one with u.s." said the leader of the party.
The bowls we're filed and the good liquor dis
Pretty fine turkey that" said the some
man
Yes" said Charley.
1T would make q meal for two men,
observed the actor.
Why, no two men could eat that turkey. "
said Charley.
BET you the wine that two Of this party can
clean it upl" said the actor.
Charley ''szed up" the crowd The two men
In long listers and silk hats hadn't said word;
but they looked all right. "Done" said
Charley.
The actor said, pitch in. boys and ordered
the drinks The men in the ulsters and hats
vaded into the turkey,
The white meat and trimmings disappeared
In jffy and another round of drinks came
along The two strangers demolished the
walkers, and the crowd began to laugh,
while Charley stood staring at the two
hungry men in astonishment too deep for
utterance. In less than five minutes bare
and bony skeleton was all that was left of the
gallant fowl.
We'll, boys said the actor, give me those
hats and coats. Here's cigar. You needn t
wait for the wine"
The two strangers Invested themselves of the
coats and hats and stood forth as two I'M
kempt, ragged trsmps. Thank you, boss ~
said the two men, as they slouched out of the
cafe amid perfect storm Of laughter
Charley bought the wine and made a vain eff
fort 70 pledge the crowd to secrecy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The four murderers whose sentences were
committed by Gov. Brown, of Maryland i,
day before yesterday we're all boys, and
were under sentence. with four men, TO be
hanged to-day, all for the same murder.
Their crime was the brutal killing of DIR.
Hill at Chestertown. During their confne-
ment IN Jail this group of murderers has
been the object of much interest on account
of their apparent disregard Of death They
cared nothing for the hereafter, aud spent
the greater part of their time in singing
songs and cracking jokes with each other.
Through the extraordinary leniency Of the
jailer. three days previous 70 the day
fixed for their execution all eight of the
condemned we're permitted the liberty OF the
jail yard, in which workmen wore then
building the gallows on which they were to
die. But the sight of the grewsome timbers
did not check their exubereut flow of ami
NAL spirits, and after the younger Of the
murderers had grown tired of a game OF
leap frog they got together some Of the gal
lows timbers and made a see-saw, on which
they rode and jumped, the while laughing
and playing. Whether their conduct was
prompted by sublime philosophy or total
depravity may be an open question; but in
ssmuch as their crime was so brutal, the
depravity theory seems 10 be the stronger.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Observation-Disclosures Commandery No. :, K
T.; Mass Meeting of Citizens at Masonic Hall;
Mass Meeting OF Citizens at Turner Hall;
Tammany.
SPECIAL NorIcEs-Diyidend Skidsway Shell
Road Company; The Jersey Dairy, G. A. Giooes'
Proprietor; Greek Society Ermes; Notice as to
Swedish Bark Mannheim and Norwegian Bark
Racehorse; Garden Seeds, Solomons Co.;
Lots for Three Hundred Dollars, q. h. Dorset
Dividend Savannah Steam Bakery Company;
DIR. J. G. FARRELL
LoEB's SANITARY UNDERwEAR-B- H. Levy &
Bro.
CBMDREN's KILT SUITs-Appel & Schaul.
LADIES SIDE SADDLEs-Neidlinger Rabun.
LEGAL NoTIcEs-Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors Estate of John Feeley, Deceased.
WE ISAUGURArKD YEsTERDAY-Falk Clothing
Company.
AUCTION SALES Contents Of Millinery and
Fancy Store by ]. II. Oppenhem & Son.
CHEAp column ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wanted; Employment Wautei; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost; Personal; Miscellspeous-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
BRIGHT BITS.
"MY love is like, the red, rod rose,"
sing. You ask rue why, fair duerlst
Because, sweetheart, like Jacqueminots,
You ere infinitely dearest Puck

my love is Ike the red, rcd rose"
| sing. You ask rue why, fair duerstf
Because, sweetheart, like Jacqueminots,
You are infinitely dearest PUCK
My said the visitor, as he lifted Willie up
in the air You are solid" r.
Yes" said Willie proudly. There isn't any
thing plated about me-"-HGrper's Bazdr
M1peE- Thsre,s a~-rrSsttty-zood second hand
bicycle have in mind
Yabsley-Seems like if had a wheel in my
head it would be q new one .-Hlddnapoiis
Journal.
ONE OF THE ExcEPTIoNs.-e tell you. Mar
bury, you :c;an'tget something for nothing in
20, 1 don't know. How about measles.'
BrookIyr Life -t
SHE-Dudes haven't more than half sense
Mr. Sappy--Aw. Miss Navy. are there no ex.
ceptions:
Brooklyn Eagle.
The EDIToR-Take chair Miss Bostin.
Miss Bostin with roll of manuscriptl-Thank
you, l will not take the chair, but shall be
glad to occupy IL while read you my poem on
icicles.-TerGS SIfttnGs. -
Mrs. HARRJs--Poor Mrs Swift. suppose she
is heartbroSen over her husbands felopement
with the cook. e.. .s-
Mrs. Pepper--Well, 1 don't see why; Ihesrd
her say she was a miserable cook -Inter
Ocean.
FIRST BoY-That there coal combine works
bully.
Second Boy How
First Boy-Makes coal 80 high-priced that
pop carries it in himself, cause I'd scatter it.
Good NeUs. = ..S .-
A NEW WORD, "hyieDriltin.'' has been coined
in Boston to describes a rece ption given by the
ladies OF a camera club. 1t IS not word that
anybody would sit up late at nignt TO admire
but 1t is as good ast'enthuGe' aud better than
''electrlcution'. Chict+0o Tribune. .
HICKs-You can do toe re rainder of your
holiday shopping aIone and follow your viii.
Mrs, Hicks / haven't tried .tofmpose my will
GA you. ~, r'rs'-
Hicks-Ner, YOU have; that part of It which
says: Buy these presents. '-Net0 York Herald
WARpEE. $50 You got rid Of your pastor?
Elder-Sps; ne was good man, but he was
too dry IN his preaching, always giving us a
history of-tha Jews. l3ut we don't like our new
pastor very much. either.
What's the matter with him."
well. he breaches with tears in his voice
nearly all the time; emotion of the purest kind
but too much of it,"
IT see; the old pastor was too historical, and
the new one is too hysterical."-Ne,o York
Obse1UeT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

Mr.. Cleveland will nowprobably devote
himself to cabinet building in earnest, in
the comparative solitude of Lakewood. He
has received quite a lot Of unlimited assist.
ance in the work, much Of which will be
disregarded and much more of which will
be given close attention. For the discus
sion Of the possibilities that has been
going on for some time has brought out the
strength or weakness of the available cabi-
net timber. and Mr.. Cleveland is not man
to disregard honest efforts to assist him by
furnishing reliable estimates of the ability
Of the gentlemen mentioned in connection
with cabinet offices, and OF their standing
in public opinion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

Several farmers in Berks county. Penn
sylvania, have determined to do a little
combining and trust forming Cor their own
account. They have read of the coal COM
bine, the petroleum combine and Others OF
the kind, and really they cannot see why
they may not apply the same system to the
things they have to sell. Recently they
tried it on milk and succeeded in raising the
price on two or three milk routes as much
as cents quart Now they are about to
try it on potatoes, and have got about :, zoo
bushels represented in the combine. And
they are good deal more confident OF sue
cess than ever New York or Chicago ope-
rator was when be had millions of bushels
of corn or wheat in a corner.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
Deaths Protest.

Ella Wheeler Wfloor, In the Independent.
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, Q
man?
Why dost thou ever fee ia fear and cling
To my false rival, GfeS / do but bring
Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou
ban
And curse me? Since the forming of Gods
plan
! have not hurt or harmed mortal thing:
have bestowed sweet balm for every sting,
And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.
The wild, mad prayer for comfort, sent in
vain
To knock at the Indifferent heart of Life.
/, Death have answered. Kuowest thou not
tits he,
My cruel rival, who sends all thy pain,
And wears thy soul out in unmeaninK strife :
Why dost thou hold to him, then, stunning
met
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
History in the Schools.

The state board OF education at its meet
ing Tuesday made history a prescribed
study in the public schools. In future,
therefore, those applying for positions as
teachers will have to be examined in that
important branch Of study.
What text book shall be used? IL is appar-
ent that this question is very important one.
The county authorities Of each county nav g
the right to decide it. In some counties il
will be decided easily and In others very
probably it will not.
Uniformity in text books is greatly to be
desired-that is, text books in the elemen-
tary branches. The use of the same kind of
text books throughout the state would be
an advantage in many ways. IL parents
moved from one county to another they
would not then be under the necessity of
providing new text books for their children
and the children would not have to make
themselves acquainted with q new kind of
text book. In any county in which they
might make their home the school books
would seem like old friends.
And it might no advisable for the state tc
provide the text books at cost prices. Il
could do so at much less price thar
parents now have TO pay FOR them. 1t could
obtain them at wholesale prices and dis
pose of them at an advance sufficient tc
cover the cost OF handling them. 1t the
state selected the text books and furnished
them to the different counties there would
be not only uniformity in the books, hui
the school children would get better book,
at prices considerably below those they nov
| DaY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The dauntless pluck of the average yankee
skipper has been well illustrated by Capt.
Woodruff of the schooner Greenleaf John
son, from Darien, Ga, for New York Dec.
IL. The vessel arrived off Sandy Hook
on Wednesday Although it took nearly a
month to make the trip in the "dirtiest"
kind Of weather, it was made safely and
without assistance. On the trip the
schooner's boats were smashed. her decks
swept her sails split and blown away, but
still she struggled on. When her sails got
so torn and tattered by the tempest that
they became useless she would lie to and
her crew would patch them up. Once the
steamer Algonquin bore down on the little
vessel and offered to take her in tow. But
Capt Woodruff said heiguessed be was all
right; he was just fixing up a Bit He
might be little late in getting to New
York, but he would finally get there. AMI
he did. His vessels hull is still graceful,
but it is said her spArs and sails have lost
oil semblance Of their former symmetry.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY IS, 1895

Those persons and papers that have been
trying to detracs from Mr. Ward McAlIis-
ter's fame as a society man, and to pull
him down from his high position as the
leader of the One Hundred and Fifty, had
an object lesson in the recent Petriarchs'
ball. in New York, which, it is to be hoped.
will not be lost on them The New York
correspondent>of' the Philadelphia Press
says of the function generally, and
McAllister specially: 1.-The veteran never
looked letter or happier than when he led
the distinguished society leader. Mrs. Ed
ward S. Willing to the supper table, and be
had paying. him such homage as was his
due the Vanderbilts. those Of them who are
in society this winter, the Pierpont Nor
gans, the Rhinelanders, and nearly all of
those who are competent to enter the inner
shrine where the One Hundred ana Fifty
meet. Mr., McAllister pronounced this
second Of the Patriarchs' gatherings the
most brilliant social event he had ever
known in New York"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
Gearv,s Tariff Bill Idea.
FYom the Neto York Post (Endl.

Congressman Geary's plan of having q com
mittee prepare a new tariff bill and publish it
andinvite public discussion on it q month or more
before congress is called upon TO pass it, Ger
tainly has some merits. II is aboveboard and
straightforward, and departs from the historic
juggling OF a conference committee in cecret,
in the last hours of congress. out of which have
been born the mysteries and iniquities of the
last two tariffs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

A member Of the House committee on
pensions proposes, as a possible means Of
remedying pension frauds, to submit a
measure providing that the nsms1 of all
persons drawing pensions shall be publicly
posted in some conspicuous place in each
locality where there are pensioners. This
would enable the deserving pensioners TO
ascertain if any undeserving names were on
the list. And they would, very likely, be
quick 20 report any such cases that they
might discover.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The alleged baroness. Mrs. Blanc, who is
playing in New York theater in a roper
tory of, seven gowns" is having trouble
with the members OF her company. Some
OF them assert that they cannot possibly
snbsist solely on the sight Of seven gowns
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13
Editors and Offices.

From The Richmond Dispatch (Den'l.
Year by year the dignity and importance OF
the press increases There are editors who could
not be induced TO surrender their present posi-
lions for the presidency itself Wa doubt IL
James Gordon Bennett would take the preei-
deney u Il we're offered him, but we should be
distrusttnl OF either Watterson or Dana, he.
cause they have been tempted so often that we
FEAR their powers Of resistance may have been
somewhat Weakrurd
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

Now. then, we are in the swim again. in
no far as. the Mexican revolution is con-
cerned.. CARA has turned up and gone to
work in the chaparral. For some time both
Garza and the chaparral have been missed
IN the news dispatches. consequently there
was no spice in the stories. Had the corre-
spondents dropped out only Cara and gone
on writing about the chaparral it would
have been all right, but when they dis
carded both it was painful
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The lynching st Cotton Plant, Ark, re-
ported in yesterdays dispatches. was an
affair among colored people altogether. The
murderers we're black, their victims we're
black and the avengers we're black. The
lynching was enc of those cold blooded
affairs talked over beforehand and details
arranged openly and aboveboard. The news
papers published a notice of the contem-
plated lynching the day before it occurred
and said the irate colored avengers might,
instead Of hanging or shooting their vic
Tins. burn them at the stake. That much
OF the story, however, was probably fig
ment of a reporters Imagination. fired by a
desire to work the material at hand into the
most sensational story possible
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

A missionary, recently returned from the
wilds of Africa. where he lived many years
in security of person and property, visited
Omaha recently. And before he had been
there twenty-four hours he had been sand
bagged and robbed by the natives.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The city of Newport, KY, is more than
well provided with policemen, bu: owing to
circumstances they spend nearly all their
time watching and arresting each other.
The reason is. there are two police forces In
town, one run by a chief who refused to be
deposed by the mayor and the other run
by the mayors own chief
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

The report that the San Juan gold fields,
about which such marvellous yarns have
been printed. are "A fake Of the first water, 4"
is a little startling, especially when It is re-
menibered that the honorable Secretary Of
War, Stephen y. Elkins. was largely inter-
ested IN them. Lots OF people will be 10
irreverent as 10 inquire did Steve Elkins
UNLOAD before the revelations cameo The
New York Press says Mr. Eikins IL one Of
the shrewdest 6nauciers in this country
and IL destined 20 be one Of its richest men
before long. II this ia true II Is probable
that Elkins IL unloaded sbreNd fnanciers
are always unloedsd when the crash comes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13

Wilson S. Bissell, Of Buffalo. a former
law partner of Mr. Cleveland's, is being
talked of for a cabinet position. Should
both be and Lamont be called into the
cabinet-aud 1t is now regarded in certain
quarters, as certain that Lamont viii he
the coming cabinet would be the fourth in
which two Of the ministers were from New
York. Both johnson and Grant bad two
New York men in their cabinets, and in
cieveland's first cabinet, Manning and
Whitney were from New York.