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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
Cholera and Fever.

The gratifying announcement was made
iu our dispa tches yesterday that all dan
ger from yellow fever at Pensacola had
disappeared, and that the refugees could
safely return 10 their homes. II is even
questioned whether there has been any
yellow fever there this season. Two cases
We're reported. and it has been satisfac-
tOrily determined that one of them was
not the dreaded disease. IL was impossi-
BILE to make a thorough examination of
the other case. The fact that
no other cases have appeared, although ten
days have elapsed since the announcement
of the appearance Of the fever, is satisfac-
tory evidence that the city is not infected,
and pretty good evidence that mistake
was made as to the character of the two
cases that were reported.
At Brunswick the situation is reassur-
ing. The case of Surgeon Branham is
the only one that has occurred there, and
there seems to be no doubt that he con
tracted the disease at the quarantine
station. If the city were in
fected there would have been
other cases before this. The health of
the city is excellent and there is no sick
ness that causes the least unea siness. 1t
is pretty safe to say, therefore, that there
will be no more cases of yellow fever at
Brunswick this year. The precautions
that have been taken in Surgeon Bran
hams case are so complete that they
about preclude the possibility of the
spread of the disease from that case.
Fear of the cholera in New York from
the infected passengers of the steamer
Karamania no longer exists. The quar-
antine officer at that port, DR.. Jenkins,
has announced that there is no reason for
apprehension from the cholera brought
on that vessel. Those afflicted with the
disease at the cholera hospital on Swim
burne Island are recovering, and DR.
Jenkins thinks all traces of the disease
have been destroyed.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that no more
cases of cholera or yellow fever will be
heard of in this Countrywide financial
situation gives the people enough to worry
about without the addition of those
dreaded diseases.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
The snnnt.,nrinnnne pill.

There can bc mo- reasonable objection %
the piu 20 repeal the sherman silver law
introduced into the Senate Friday by
( Senator voorhees,, the chairman Of the
finance committee II is the committees
bin and that fact will have weight In the
Senate. There is attached to it pro
vision asserting that it is the policy Of
| the United States 10 continue the use of
both gold and silver as standard money,
/ and TO coin both gold and silver into
/ money Of equal interest and interchange
! able values. In other words, it is declared
/ to be the policy of the United States TO
| establish bimetallism as soon as it can be
| done without ieopardizing any interest.
! A substitute was introduced by Senator
Vest on behalf of the minority Of the
same committee providing for the repeal
Of the Sherman silver law and for the
free coinage of silver at an increased
ratio
The Senate now has the silver ques-
ton squarely before it, and if it has any
regard for the wishes of the people and
the interests of the country it will get
ready TO vote on the Voorhees, repeal bill
by the time the House is ready TO vote on
the Wilson repeal bill. 1t has been in
session nearly two weeks and has virtu-
ually done nothing more than it ought to
have done a week or more ago. It
does not seem to realize how
great the necessity for prompt action is.
business is coming to a standstill in the
west because there is no money with
which to move the wheat crop, and the
south is earnestly asking how the cotton
crop is TO be marketed, there being no
money obtainable for that purpose. F'inan-
cial institutions are failing, business men
are making assignments, factories are
closing and railroads are going into the
hands of receivers, all because there is a
currency famine-a famine brought about
by bad legislation, resulting in a loss of
confidence, and yet congress, that has
the power to restore confidence and
cause money to be plentiful consumes
precious time in endless talk to which few
listen and by which fewer still are in
fuenced in any degree. What the people
want is action, not talk. They want that
done which they believe will restore
business activity and prosperity They
believe that the repeal of the Sherman
silver law will do that. They have no OBJ
lection to the free coinage of silver at
ratio that will keep silver currency on a
parity with gold currency, but they do
not believe that congress can agee upon
ratio Immediately, and therefore they
insist upon having the only relief possible
at once.
The House was more than a week get
ting the question of repeating the Sher-
man silver law before 1t, and the Senate
was nearly two weeks. If thequestion of
new ratio between gold and silver is to
be settled it may be month or even two
months before result is reached, and
when it is reached it may not be of
nature to restore confidence. Let the
Senate pass the Voorhees, repeal bill, and
the House the Wilson repeal bill quickly
They are so much alike that the adoption
by both houses of either would be &C
ceptable to the people and would put an
end to the currency famine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
A Suggestion From the GALLERY

The stage has furnished many amusing
anecdotes, and has in many instances served
to bring out the latent humor of the masses,
says Harper's Bazaar One of these told of
the Actor Taillade, illustrates the aptness of
the gallery god in the hour of need. 1t seems
that Taillade was acting in some forgotten
piece with an abnormally ponderous actress,
Mile Suzanne Lagris by name, whom he was
supposed in one of the s Genes to carry of
half fainting on his back. But his arms were
too short to embrace the well-developed fig
ure of Mile Lagris, noting which one of the
gods, taking pity on the superhuman eff
forts of his favorite actor, shouted out
Make two journeys of it!'
Another story which shows this same apt
itude has been told as having happened in a
concert hall not far from London. An in
competent vocalist having endeavored to
sing the song, For goodness sake, don't say
| told you" was promptly hit with a missile
in the shape of a small cabbage by one of the
audience in the gallery.
Who threw THAR" he howled angrily
1T was me-" cried a voice from thegallery
but for goodness sake, don't say l told
you"
This brought down the house, and the sing
er retired, followed by a clapping of hands
which his own merits never could have
evoked
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
An Indiana Story.

Another friend Of mine. says a writer in
the Louisville Courier-Journal, told me a
story the other day Of the real white caps
the genuine Southern Indiana article
Il had an uncle said this gentleman, who
lived on his farm in Harrison county. One
day he found two men, a woman a young child
and baby occupying a deserted wooden
cabin on his farm The men were brothers
the woman was the wife of one OF them and
these were their two children. NV uncle
wanted hands on his farm and pitied the poor
creatures, for the deserted cabin was falling
to pieces and the poor vagabOnds who had
taken shelter in 1t were hungry and ragged,
80 he gave them work to do. Presently came
representatives, OF the, white cap body asking
MIN TO Join them. AS an induce
Look here, those two men you
have taken to work for you are robbing you
every day. Join us, and we will keep them in
order for you How do you know that they
rob me-? asked my uncle. They were only
hiding in that cabin because we had chased
them from another place. said the regulator
My uncle refused point blank to Join the
well, and he could never find out that thew
stole anything of his. But he did find out
that the white caps had been chasing them
from place to place, all on account OF some
little theft one of them had been driven to by
hunger long time before. Until they had
fortunately stumbled upon a protector they
had been unable to earn an honest living any
where"
All of which suggests the question, How
would earn an honest living IL the white caps
would let them, and who never have the good
fortune to meet one brave, good hearted man
to protect them?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
The Proposition of a Macon Bank

The Macon Telegraph thinks the Amer
lean National Bank of that city has a
plan by which the cotton crop can be
moved without great deal of trouble
The plan is this: The American Ma
tional Bank will accept cotton at the
market price for any debt due it. The
Telegraph is of the opinion that if
other banks in the south will adopt this
plan the problem of moving the cotton
crop will be practical iy solved.
We don't see how the Telegraph
reaches the opinion it holds How is the
cotton grower to get currency for his cot
ton by the plan of the
American National Bank? Those
who owe money to thebanks, that is, those
who are directly interested in moving the
cotton, are factors. They could turn
over cotton to the banks in settlement of
their obligations if they could get it, but
how are they to getit2 Currency is need
ed to pay for picking and ginning the cot
ton, and to pay the railroads for carrying
it TO market OF the vast number of PEG
pie interested in one way and another,
in the movementof cotton, only a few owe
the banks anything.
The plan suggested offers a way for the
banks to get what is due them, but it does
not supply the much needed currency; at
least it does not if we understand it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
The Banks and the Crops.
From the New-York Times Dem

AOiil INC new 4 OEk lIuSS Np0ul's)
II the banks in the south refuse to advance
the money TO move the ne W cotton crop, the
planters and factors OF TIA region ought to
inquire the reason why tney refuse. They
VIII be told that the banks have no money;
that they are in the the same condition as the
banks of the north as the banks of the whole
country. Their cotton cannot be brought for
ward TO market, the new wheat OF the north
west cannot be brought TO market, there is no
market for the product Of the New-Engl land
mills, and the industries Of the whole country
are approaching a standstill. The cotton
planters, therefore. are not the only ones
VINO suffer because the banks cannot supply
money to move the crop" They are suffer
ers in common with the people of the north.
WIZ they make common cause with the mer-
chants and manufacturers OF the northern
states and demand OF congress the remedy
Tor the troubles that affiict themi
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MEErING-Citizens' Sanitary Association;
Congregation Bnai Birth Jacob.
SPECIAL NOTGCES-An Acrostic as to lie
Panic Cigars. Skaters Pharmacy; Steam
Cracker and Bread Bakery for Rent Rossig
mol s. MAIN; Dr.. Paige to be absent till Oct.
/ Special Notice, J. p. Lee; General Insut
ance Agent John Z. Rowland; More Praise
for the Hagey Institute; Dissolution, Jones s.
Langla; Modern Built Houses to Rent. Solo
mon 81 Son; John 1. Stoddards Residence 10
Rent j. f. Fulton & Son; Real Estate Dealer
VIM, J. Miscally, Jr; Desirable Residence
for Rent, Peter T. Foye.
SPECIAL DRIVES THIS WEEK-At Eek
stems.
COME INTo CAMP-B H. Levy 6 Bro
CRATES AND MAErELs-James Douglass.
FLY TEMPUs FUGIT-B. H. Levy g. Bro
INFALLIBLE HANDICAP systemic. D.
Rowe.
EDUCATIoNAL-Virgin Military Institute,
Lexington, Va.
OFFERS OF REAL EsTATE-Edw w. Brown
s. Co., Real Estate Dealers and Auctioneers.
A DOLLAR Wakefield
WE ARE SELLING THEM-Falk Clothing
Company.
SHOES THAT LOOK WELI-Byck Bros.
DO Your SHOPPING NOw-At Gutman's.
CHEAR COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-H Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
The Effect of phantom Money.

FROM the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
The past three months should have CON
WINGED every one thatlaw-made mOneyis sure
soon or late to end in ruin In 1879 this coun-
try had in round numbers $500 coo 900 of paper
and silver in circulation, resting for its gold
value on treasury gold reserve of S120 O00,
OOO. To-day II has in paper and silver 81 .23S,-
100000 resting on Sl03, 100000 of gold In
nutshell this is the whole difficulty. This
lack OF support to an expanded currency has
bred distrust distrust led to q contraction of
withdrawal of deposits in coin and currency.
this withdrawal led to boarding, boarding led
TO premium on currency, and this premium
has brought business TO a StandStin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
Directing to Every Means of Relief

ODJSSNAA6 W A1NbAy AA0dn6 O1 EN6l1GIs
The bill introduced into the Senate by
Senator Voorhees,. permitting the national
banks to issue currency up to the face
value of their deposited bonds, is a good
one. What reasonable objection can
there be to itl If it should become law
it would permit an increase in the volume
of the currency of about Sl9,OO0OOO.
That amount would relieve the financial
situation greatly.
Before the bill was introduced it was
thought there would be no opposition to
it, and that it would be passed by both
houses quickly. 1t has not made
any progress in the Senate,
and is not likely to get through that body
very soon. When it was called up for con-
sideration, Senator Coclxrell of Missouri,
objected. He doesn't approve of national
banks, and he and those who think as he
does, will occupy days, probably, in tell
ing the few people who will listen to
them why they don't approve them. Sena-
Tor Cockrell and some other senator's
should be made to understand in
some way that the country must
have relief from financial distress, or
there will be far more financial disasters
than there have been. They do not seem
to be able to see beyond their own little
prejudices and narrow opinions
Nineteen millions of additional cur
rency at this time might save millions of
dollars to the south Unless money can be
obtained to move the cotton crop the
price of cotton is going to be very low,
and the people in the cotton states will be
the losers. 1t is pity there are not
more broad-gauge statesmen in congress
at this time.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
The Little Rainmaker.
James Whltcomb Riley.

"Scurious like" said the tree toad,
I've twittered for rain all day;
got up soon
And hollered till noon.
But the sun il blaZed away
Till just climbed down in a crawiSh hole
Weary at heart and sick at soul
"DOZed away for an hour,
And tackled the thing again;
And / sung and sung
Til knowed my lung
Was Just about to give in,
And then, thinks l, il it don't rain now,
There's nothin' in singin' anyhow
"Once in a while some farmer
Would come drivin past
And he d hear my cry,
And stop and sigh
Till just laid back at last,
And hollered rain till thought nv throat
Would burst wide open at every motel
"And fetched her. oh fetched herl
Cause a little while ago,
AS kinder sit with one eye shut,
And asingin' soft and low,
A voice dropped down on my fevered brain.
Sayin', If you'll Just hush II rain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
Some Facts About Coneressmen.

A little biennial publication that could
If it would, boast distinguished staff of
contributors, will shortly be issued from
Washington. 1t is the official congress-
ional directory, and it is an open secret
that every senator and representative
contributes to it to the extent of a short
sketch of himself The sketches are, of
course, written in the third person and
have kind of far away style of express
sion calculated to impress the reader with
the idea that the history of each statesman
there recorded is from the pen of some
appreciative constituent. But everybody
knows how that is.
The forthcoming directory will not
differ in character from its predecessors;
nevertheless, some interesting changes
have been made 10 the life sketches of
the old members, and some new matter
has been introduced. For instance, Sen
ator "Dan" Voorhees,, of Indiana, has re-
vised the condensed history of himself
for the purpose of explaining why he was
not member of the Forty-third congress
he was victim to Horace Greeley.
He began his congressional life with the
Thirty congress and ran along
smoothly to the Forty-second; then twas
defeated for the Fortythird congress by
reason of the nomination of Horace Gree
ley as the democratic candidate for the
presidency"
Among the new members, the most
unique sketch is furnished by George
Washington Murray, who represents
Gen" Bob Smalls' old district, the Sew
enth South Carolina. Murray is black,
but he sings four and five syllable words
along with the best of them. "Emanci-
patton found him." says the directory,
"bereft of both parents, thrown upon the
rugged shores of early emancipation, af-
ter cruel and dehumanizing war had
deprived the population of almost all of
the finer sensibilities of human sympathy
and philanthropy, he entered upon the
fierce combat then in progress in an i'm
poverished section for the Indispensable
bread of life" After that kind of a be-
ginning, it is not strange that Murray
landed in Washington.
The new directory will show that the
west is not yet old enough to produce its
own statesmen; most of the senator's and
representatives from the other side of
the Rockies are eastern men and foreign
ers. Georgia, by the way, has four sons
in the Senate and twelve in the House.
The transplanted Georgians in the Senate
are Pugh. of Alabama, and George, of
Mississippi, OF Representatives, Georgia
furnishes two to Texas two to Alabama,
and one to Florida, and borrows
one representative from Florida, one
from Kentucky and one from North
Carolina.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
s.President Rupee,, still Falling.
Frnm the Raltimore Snn LnemN-


The effort of the British government to
hold the silver rupee up to 80 cents has failed
1t for weeks refused to sell India council
drafts at less than 30 cents. but it finally
weakened and sold at 300 cents. The result
has been bad. At the London Stock Elk
change yesterday rupee paper fell to 30. II is
question whether the price can be brought
again to 32 cents All the rupees in India
may be said to have shared in the decline If
the United States had free coinage of silver
dollars a dollar would fluctuate in value as
the rupee is now doing in India. One day it
would be worth - cents and the next it might
he 53. Business men hardly want that sort of
CURRENCY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
CURRENT COMMENT.
..The Time Has Come. "

From the New Orleans Picaune DEM.
The democracy is charged with great and
patriotic duty, and now it is time to redeem
its pledges for it is pledged to give the relief
Who viii unite the warning factions on the
silver question: Where are the men who
will shut their ears against the Establishments
Of Interested parties and time,serverS and
ngree on apolicy that will save the country
and the Democratic party? Let them stand
forth. The time has come.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

The Maharaiah of Kapurthala appears
TO be hardly more than an overgrown
boy, as full of life as the average young
ster on vacation. He is now at Chicago.
A day of two ago he tried the long-dis-
lance telephone between Chicago and
New York, and was so delighted that he
sang songs into the Chicago receiver and
danced an accompaniment to 'Boom-de-
ay' sung into the New York receiver by
a friend he had left behind him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

The directors Of the Northern Pacific
railroad that has just been put in the
hands Of receivers are likely to have a big
suit to defend. II is proposed to sue
them for SO, 900 for mismauagement,
involving breach of trust. II they are
guilty of any such chsrge they ought to
be made to suffer for it. Men who accept
direetorships of railroads and other cor
porations ought to be compelled to dis
charge their duties faithfully.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

To-day is general election day in
France. Something less than four hun
dred members of the chamber of deputies
viii be elected from among two thousand
candidates. The election viii be held by
what would be called congressional dis
tricts in this country. What the result
Will be in most of the districts is virtu-
ally known already, so that the election,
as a whole, is not likely to prove in the
least sensational In half dozen dis
trlets close contests are expected, but
however they may go, the political party
now III power will retain control Of the
government.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

Mr.. Dayton, the recently appointed
postmaster of New York, denies that
there is truth in a rumor current that he
will resign and make an effort to reach
the bench of the court of common pleas.
His resignation at this iuncture, he
thinks, would be unfair to the admins
tration, and he is too good a democrat to
embarrass the President "even to gain
the ermine-n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

Arthur Zimmerman, the long-legged
Jersey 'skeeter" champion wheelman of
the world, has been forced to protest
against receiving any more bicycles as
prizes. 1t is said that he has already q
barn full Of wheels, pianos, parlor furni-
ture, etc, down in New Jersey, and as he
cannot sell them and remain an amateur.
he IS put to it to provide storage room
for his prizes. He is now making a spe-
cialty of gold watches. One Of these DAYS
zimmerman can quit being an amateur
wheelman, sell out his stock Of prizes and
retire in af1uence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

If the worlds fair could run for six
months longer, with the assurance that
the attendance would be as good during
that time as it has been during the past
few weeks, the enterprise would pay out
of debt and show handsome profits. 1t is
now enjoying net revenue of about $50
600 day. DR.. Depew and other we'll
known men have expressed themselves as
in favor of keeping the show open until
next autumn. But the probabilities are
that it will be closed on the night of Oc-
tober 81, according to programme.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

1t appears that the new congressman
are doing about all of the spirited talking
on the silver question. Their newness
may account for their truculent spirit.
The older members have learned when to
talk and when to remain silent. Thenew
congressman, however, to paraphrase
Pope, rush in where angels fear to tread.