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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
The Rattler's Awful Eye.

have genuine snake story to tell says a
letter in the Pomona Progress, and 1 can
vouch for the truth of my statements AS 1
was several miles out in the country, riding
horseback from Pomona to Etiwanda, last
Saturday morning, 1 saw a iack-rabbit stand
ing stlll only few feet from the road.
drove up close to the animal, which still re-
fused to Scamper away On the contrary the
rabbit stood or sat transfixed to the spot
though making constant nervous, shudder-
ing motion, as If anxious to get away, but at
the same time being held to the spot. -
was surprised that the rabbit did not flee
at the approach of myself and horse, and
when looked u little sharper l saw a large
rattlesnake cOiled up under some bushes his
head uplifted about six feet from the rabbit
l shall never forget the scene. The rabbit
was looking with indescribable eagerness
straight at the slowly approaching snake and
needed nothing else. 1 diSmounted, and
Selling long stick, by force pushed the rab-
bit away, when the snake instantly swelled
with rage and sOundedits rattles. 1 wounded
tne snake ana then despatched II. The rab-
bit for second or two seemed benumbed, and
was hardly capable of motion, That was
over quickly and the animal hoped away.
Now; this is no doubt pure case Of snake
charming. There are many who refuse to be
Heve in such things. / have always had my
doubts about some OF the alleged charming
powers OF the reptiles, but to one who Is
familiar with eyes of rattlesnakes II does not
seem unreasonable that they have such
power. II you will examine the eye of one
when he is cold in DEATH you will perceive
that 1t has an extremely malignant and ter
rible expression. When he Is alive and ex-
cited. l know of nothing in all nature of so
dreadful appearance as the eye OF ga rattle
snake. 1t is enough to strike with terror
more than birds and little animals. l have
on several occasions examined the eve OF a
rattlesnake closely with strong glasses, and
feel with llforce what state, and will tell
you that there ore few men on the face Of the
earth who can look upon an angered rattle
snake through good glass-bringing him
apparently within a foot or two of the eye
and stand 1t more than moment
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

Comments on the Victoria Disaster.
The sinking Of the British battle ship
Victoria Of the coast OF Syria last Thurs
day by the Camperdowu, q sister ship o.
the Mediterranean squadron. is the subject
Of great deal Of comment as DO the sue
cess of the present style Of naval archi-
texture Some naval officers 20 SO far as
to say Che Victoria disaster shows the
usclessuess Of such battle ships as the
Victoria was, except for BON harding. II
q great WAR vessel. they say can be sunk
so quickly and easily by a ram attached
To "a much Loss powerful vessel. what is the
use of building such vessels. few
have expressed the opinion that the
sinking of the Victoria marks a new de-
parture in naval architecture, just as the
appearance of the Monitor during the
civil war marked the disappearance of
wooden naval vessels.
u is also apparent that vessels of the
style of the Victoria are not now in as
much favor as they We're when the con
struction Of them was first undertaken
They are necessarily top-heavy because
"a great deal Of their. armor and all of
their ponderous guns are much above the
water line. The consequence is that in
case Of a serious accident they are likely
to turn over as the Victoria did
The damage wrought by the Camper
downs ram will have the effect of
strengthening the position of those of our
naval officers who have always held that
the BUILDING of immense battle ships is a
mistake They advise the construction
of almost wholly submerged torpedo
rams, and insist that for defense they
would prove much more effective. 1t is
true the Camperdown suffered serious
damage in her collision with the Victoria,
but she is not such a vessel as the advo-
Gates of torpedo rams advocate.
Judging from the discussion going on at
present, congress will make a very care
full investigation of the alleged defects of
great battle ships before authorizing the
building of any more of them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

If there had been doubt of the
benefits to accrue to the health of the
city from the drainage and water i'm,
provements made during the last several
years, Health Officer Brunners compare
tive mortality statement, published in the
MORNING News yesterday, would have
dispelled that doubt During last year
the ratio Of deaths among the white people
per 600 of white popula ton was but little
over one-half as great as was the ratio of
deaths in 1872, while the death rate
among the colored people decreased from
ass in 1879 to All in 1892 The figures for
1872, it viii be borne in mind, include only
the deaths of persons buried within the
city limits. Had arecord ofdeaths where
the bodies were shipped away been kept,
as is done now, the decrease would be
shown TO be much greater. This improve
ment Of the public health is undoubtedly
due to improved sanitary conditions, and
proves that the money expended for such
improvements has been well placed. 1t is
notable, and affords ground for considera-
Bile speculation upon the domestic life Of
the blacks, that the death rate among
them was last year more than twice as
great as among the whites As the two
races We're served rthe same water and
breathed the same air, and there was pre-
valent in the city no disease peculiar to
the blacks, the disorepancyin death rates
can hardly be ascribed to anything but dis
regard for the ordinary rules of health by
the black people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

Among fhe guests "a The Leland during she
last week. Says she Chicago Tribune. was an
old Frzzly Teuncsseean who was nightly The
central figure % a circle OF story tellcrs. and
the following is one Of the best Of the lot; u
seems thar "a short time after the war there
was an attempt 20 divide the county In which
Memphis is situatei-Sh eIhv-and the attempt
% create "a substantial majority was so dos
pcr0te that 70 became necessary 20 send 20
Memphis for a few thousands az dollars Tor
JudiCiOus distribution. This cOld-storage
fund was put In my charge, said the old fel-
low, and IL was not long before j had en-
gagged suitable quarters at the Maxwell house.
ana had stocked a smoking room with some
good cigars and barrel OF Robertson county
whisky had at that time one OF the pref
TEST and cunningest Scotch terriers that
had ever been brought to this country, for
Whlch 1 mad paid 800 Pretty soon after
/ opened up an honorable legislator
from West Tennessee strOlled into my
sitting room, took drink and lighted
cigar; and then remarked that while IA did
not make much difference to him. still he
had about made up his mind 20 vote for the
division OF Shelby county At this l began
to size him up. when the terrier jumped into
chair close by the legislator and held out
his paw The honorable member at once saw
the nice points OF the animal and said he
would give or do anything for such a dog. 1
lust said to him quietly to vote against the
division of Shelby county and he should have
that dog or one Just like II. The bargain was
closed in a minute. The transaction gave me
an idea: ! could promise dogs for votes and
carry back the money Well, to make long
story short, had thirty-odd callers who were
little dubious as to how they should vote on
the Shelby county division bill and as they
all tancied my terrier promised the dog, or
one like it, to each who should vote right
on said bill, taking care to explain pleasantly
which was the right side. Well, the bill
came up for final action in due time and the
division party was beaten by very large
majority. l returned at once to Memphis
with nearly as much money as l had taken
away, to the great surprise of those who had
collected it, and explained matters by stating
that had paid out no money for votes, but
that l owed thirty-fOIr dogs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
Florida Railway Schedules.

In another column of this issue we pub
lish a letter from Mariana, Fla, com
planning of the railway schedules be
tween this city and that section of Flori-
da. We have called attention a number
of times to the railway schedules be-
tween this city and portions of Florida,
showing that the effect of them is to cause
a loss Of trade to Savannah. The writer
of the letter to which we call attention
says the merchants of Mariana have to
place their orders elsewhere than in Sa-
vannah on account of the delay in getting
the merchandise they order.
Does not the Savannah, Florida and
Western stand in its own light in this
matter3 If our correspondent is right, a
vast amount of freight that ought to go
over that road from Savannah to places
in Florida is lost to it. The merchandise
the merchants need is purchased in New
Orleans and reaches its destination over
roads other than the Savannah, Florida
and Western.
Savannah is the natural market for a
very large section of Florida, and yet she
loses much of the trade of that section,
because her railroad into Florida does
not afford satisfactory shipping facilities
Our correspondent says that the time by
rail between Townsville and Mariana
is nearly nine hours, and yet the distance
is only about eighty miles. A schedule
like that is sufficient the ruin the trade of
any place, and must be exceedingly hurt
full to the business of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Davis.

From the New York World Dem).
The meeting at West Point of the widow of
Gen. Grant and the widow of Jefferson Davis
is not matter of high Importance but it is
an incident of much sentimental significance
Both Grant and Davis were educated at West
Point. 1t IS an evidence Of the healing infiu
ence OF time that Mrs. Davis should visit
West Point at all 1t is almost matter OF
course that Mrs Grant should so there They
might both be there without having per
sonal meeting. But 1t is wen that they did
meet, and the fact Will always be a pleasant
incident TO remember. There was really no
reason why they should not meet. There is
no longer any bitterness between the peoples
whom the husbands of these two aging wo-
men led in hostile conflict The contest was
terrible ana desperate, but the conclusion Of
1t was decisive. There is now no bitterness
anywhere except the calculated bitterness Of
politicians and that no longer serves them
for honor or votes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
A Grocery Oracle.
S. w. Fosg in yankee Blade.

y w. ross III L dQR66 bIaOe.
With jollygy an gogerfy an rifentick he
raStles,
An he grabs the cyclopedy an'lheT slings it
fair an fiat,
An he rips up all the sciences an filings EN-
roun' in paSsels
For the reservOry of wisdom spouts from
just beneath his hat
He knows the presidents messages from
Washington to Grover,
An the congressional report lies packed in
side his brain,
An the eighteen-ninety census he can say the
hull thing over,
An then Jest turn IL BACKYARD an say II
once again
An we ali gether roun to git the drippin's OF
his knowledge
An we drink it in an like It, oil an young
an great an small,
Tain't no good to so to high school or to waste
four years at college,
Or to take the country paper, for Sam Pick
ering knows it all.
Oh, I've heerd Daniel Webster, an he spouted
like good 'un,
An the rippin' rOarin, ravin's OF the slam
bang Rufus Choate,
But for undiluted elerkunce an intellectual
pudd'n,
Sam Pickering at Blancom's store Jest
getherS in my vote.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
Tho Rupee Knocked Out.

Our contemporary, the Atlanta COnsti-
tuition, must have been somewhat sur
prised when it received the announcement
in the regular press dispatches that the
Indian government had closed its minis to
the free. coinage of silver 1t has been
only a little while since it said the Indian
rupee had 'never depreciatedn-t it
was ''as good rs gold" IL also said that
it enabled the English trader to buy
dollars worth of cotton in India for Ga
cents and the Indian producer to get san
equivalent of more than 81 in gold for the
commodity that the American producer is
compelled TO sell for Ga cents" Now why
did the Indiaa government stop the free
coinage Of this remarkable rupee2 Ac-
cording to the Constitution the Indian
farmers were making good thing out of it
and it was doing wonders for the English
traders. Under the circumstances it
would seem as if neither the English gov
enmentnor the Indian government would
desire to have tho free coinage of such a
remarkable rupee stopped.
But the free coinage of it has been
stopped, and whyl The Constitution
ought to tell its readers, because they
have been told so much about the remark
able rupee, that they must be anxious 10
know.
The MORNING News said some time ago
that the rupee had Deprecated and that
the free coinage of il had brought India
TO the verge Of ruin. And this same rupee
has caused England to lose a vast amount
of India's trade. The wonder is that the
minis of India were not closed to free
coinage some time ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
New York Office 20 Park Row.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MnrrNe-Golden Rule Lodge No l2a L o.

MEETING-Golden Rule Lodge No 122 1. O..
OF
SPECIAL NOTICEs-As to Bills against Nor
wegian Bark Rimfaxe; Tax Returns for
Chatham County, Jno. r. Dillon, Receiver
Tax Returns; Grammar School Exhibition, w.
H. Baker, Principal; Graduation Exercises.
w. H, Baker, Superintendent; Have You
Been Initiated Into Smoking lie PINTO Cigars:
Another Surprise, Geo. Schwarz; Dividend
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company.
MuITARY-Order No. n. Georgia Hussars.
BECAUsE-Falk Clothing Company,
AS WE SAY-B. H. Levy & Bro
KEEP COOL, KEEP COArFoRTABLE-Appel s.
Schaul.
MINERAL WATERs-Livingstons Phar-
macy.
AUCTION SALE-Splcndid Chance to Secure
a Home by l. D. and r. d. LaRoche
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
The Taxation of Churches,
From the Brooklyn Eagle Dem.)

The Catholic Review SAYS To tax church
property is to tax God" Wen, do we not
tax God when we use the sun, levy on the
clouds for rain, or on the earth for bread and
meet or on the sea for FISH? If to tax rich
churches and some are rich-is to tax God
what is it to tax the poor to support those
churches: Some would say TO tax the poor
was to tax Christ And so on to the end of
the chapter, Property is the thing to be tax
ed, the accumulated earnings of men under
good government; and the richer the proper
ty the more it should contribute to the gov
eminent which protects its accumulation and
secure tenure. Surely churches should ac
knowledge these privileges and blessings as
well as other institutions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
The birds sings its lay
When the morning air stirs,
But the hens less poetic
She cackleS hers.
Detroit Free Press.

-JOtIOlb II6c GTSSS,
Il see Inspector Dogberry, of the custom
house, has refused to let Digs, the crockery
importer, land"
ON what grOunds?"
said he was a Chinaman. "-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Whoever TO his 1O-year-old daughter)-Do
you know Fanny, that your governess is
Fanny-Tm so glad to get rid of the hateful
thing-I was afraid she was never going to
leave us. Whom is she going to marry?
Wfdower-Me.-Tamm Times.
Jasper-See how that little boy is looking
at the green apples on the tree. He has de-
signs on them. viii that man driving by in
the gig stop him:
Jumuppe-NO for that man who is driving
by in the gig has designson the boy He is
the village doctor AHarpefs Bazaar.
"Loak at me, maam," said the man who
was asking for something to eat. 'AtntI the
picture Of despair?'
Il don know anything about yer bein' a
picture she answered, CHANGING at the AK
but unless you re lin the wood-cut line you
can't get anything to eat here. Washington
Star.
Old Party-Thank you, Antoine; thank you
very much. All? do they allow tipping here?
Antoine Out m sier.
Old Party-And are the guests liberal?
Antoine-Non, m sier re ozzaire way
Old Party-Nery we'll Antoine, hero is
cent for you. do not wish to break the
rules-Harpers Weekly.
Yet another yarn about Oscar Wilde A
friend was visiting Mr., Wilde one day recent
" and found him hard at work cutting,
superiiuOus dialogue from his new play
Isn't it infamous, he asked. looking up
after a moment or two What right have /
to do this thing? Who am that l should
tamper with classio>'-LondOn Figaro.
newly arrived. Hibernian servant who had
been warned against admitting strangers to
the house, collared gas inspector and
shouted to her mistress; I've got wan av
thin thaves, mum, comm in wild his dark
lantern in broad daylight The frightened
official was released, but the master of the
house, when informed of the incident, drily
remarked that Bridget was not so far off in
her suspicious after all-Boston Commercial
Bulletin
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
Comes When Most Needed.

From the Macon (Ga) News Dem.)
A Savannah bank purchased exchange to
the amount OF $4,000 in single day last week
which represented truck products shipped
North. The margin j profit in these pro
ducts Is much great than in cotton, and
moreover, the money comes at time when it
is most needed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
The South and Immicration.

From the Baltimore American (Rep)
If the South expects or wants good and in
dustrious immigrants to settle within its bor-
ders it must 20 about the matter in the right
way. Nine-tenths, if not ninety-nine one
hundreths, of the immigrants who come TO
these shores come with through tickets for
the West sold to them on the other side of
the water. AS long as this continues few of
them will ever stop either in the East or in
the South Missionary work win have to be
done among the immigrants at the ports
from which they come before there will be
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

small tablet of carved wood, less than 10
inches long by wide. was sold at Christie's s.,
in London the other day for the enormous
sum OF SO $50. The carving represented Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden. and on the
frame were two small medallions showing the
devil triumphing and a slain lamb on an altar
transfXed with a dagger,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

The City of Brotherly Love has gone to
the rescue Of Uncle Sam in the emergency
of the Washington ice corner. A Phila-
delphia firm will erect a factory at Wash
ngton and supply the departments at'the
rate of 20 cents per 100 pounds There
must be reasonable profit in manufac-
turing ice at that figure, yet many cities
in the south are paying nearly four times
as much for the commodity because com
bines have destroyed competition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
cuucuRh REMEDIES.
FOR SKIN DISEASES
Doctor Recommends Cuticura Because IL
Has Never Failed TO Give
Good ResuIss
Cured In , Months, salt Rheum Of 20
Years Standing Where All Other
Remedies Failed.

IL gives me pleasure TO recommend your CT
TIcURA RENEDiEs 70 all who are troubled with
the various forms OK skin diseases aud blood
poison. have prescribed your CurTCuRA on
several occasions and Il has never failed 60 give
had where all other re needles failed until / tried
your CUTICURA REMEDIES After using CuTI-
oURA, CUIiCURA Soar and CUTICURA REsoLvENr
the patient was sound and we'll She was
troubled With salt rheum and had been suf-
ferer for over twenty years. After beginning
the use OF CUTICURA REMEDIES she was cured
sound and well in three manths.
DR.. VI. X. JENKINS,
23s Houston street, Atlanta, Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

A Paris correspondent says that in win
dow in the Avenue de rOpera is exhibited
arge sized, full length photograph of a fat
habby-looking old man with eXpressionless
features and closed eyes, seated in an arm
chair besidea fire, and having carriage robe
thrown over his lap. The vacant counter
ance, the limp, corpulent figure, the aspect OF
old age without its venerable characteristIce
go TO make up a melancholy immage Of decay.
This is the latest likeness that has been taken
OF Ferdinand de Lesseps, the grand French
man '7whoSe portrait, set in the midst OF a
group OF countless children, used to be on
view In every prominent photographers win
dow some few years ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

The Columbia IS O. Register pays
Savannah the compliment of saying she
" can stand worst" than an earthquake
shock. Savannah has stood invasion,
,pestilence, fire and a dozen or so earth
waves, radiating possibly from Charles
ton, and is greater to-day than ever be-
fore. And she believes she could stand a
real hard shake, but dcvoutly hopes she
may be spared the experience
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

The search for nepotism in the depart
ments at Washington, to be carried on by
a congressional committee is not without
its humorous phase. The clerks in all the
departments have been provided with a
list of questions which they are required
10 answer for the information of the in
vestigating committee. These questions
make a bewildering maze of relationship,
turning on both affinity and consanguin-
ity The young lady clerk, for instance,
viii be asked to state on oath whether or
not there is in the service of the govern
ment any person who is to her great
grandfather, or greaU-grandmother, or
great-grandson, or great-granddaught
or great-uncle's son, or great-uncle's
daughter, or great-uncle's grandson, or
great-uncle's granddaughter, or any other
cousin of any degree If she succeeds in
getting through that dose of consanguin-
ity she will next take affinity, and declare
upon her honor that she has not any
grandson-in-law, or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
or randnephew-in-law, or grandniece-in-
law in any of the departments. Then she
will be required to say that there
Is no person In any of the de-
parJments bearing towards her
any of the following relationships:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, great-grand-
mother-in-law, great-grandson-in-law
Observation-Disclosures, great-uncle-
in-law, son-in-law of great-uncle, daugh-
ter-in-law of great-mcle, grandson-in-law
of great-uncle, granddaughter of great
uncle son-in-law of first cousin, daughter
in-law of first cousin, son-in-law OF nephew,
daughter-in-law of nephew, son-in-law of
niece, or daughter-in-aw of niece In the
southern states before the war it was
quite common for cousins to marry. In
that way families and fortunes were kept
intact. The offspring of many of such
marriages and intermarriages are in the
departments at Washington. To them
this sheet of questions win be a puzzle
beyond the power of solution
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

The republican league of New York,
which met in convention at Saratoga yes
terday, is early in the field-whether as
the bird or the worm remains to be seen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

A Raleigh dispatch says the organiza-
ton of the liquor dealers of North Caro-
lima into an association for mutual pro-
lection, as reported a day or two ago, was
brought about by the fear that the pro
hi6itionists will ondcavor to have the
South Carolina dispensary law brought
across the lorder. 1t is said that a move
ment is on foot to have the state democ-
racy insert in its next platform a demand
for the dispensary law. But that the de-
mocracy will hardly do.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28

Editor Gibson, of Augusta, missed his
consulate; but he has received an invita-
ton to attend Tammany Halls blowout
on the Fourth of July, which evens things
up somewhat. Gibson is now in the line
Of political distinction.