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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
PERSONAL.

John Jacob Astor modestly responds to
the new salutation of Colonel" which mill
itary distinction has come TO him with his
appointment a an aide on Gov-elect
MOrton'S personal STAFF. Mr.. AStor Is not
the first of the family, however, to have
the title of colonel, for his late uncle, John
Jacob, had it. and in 1862 was in the field
with the army of the Potomac for time.
An equestrian statue of Gen. L. 5.
Grant will be erected on the plaza on
Bedford avenue in front of the beautiful
Union League Club house in New York
city. The committee having the matter
in charge has entered into a contract
win the sculptor, william OrdMay fSr-
fridge, and the statue VIII be unveiled
about Oct l next. 1t will be of bronze,
and will be cast at Chicopee, Mass.
MILFORD Woodruff, president of the
Mormon church, has for years cultivated
a farm of forty acres with no other Ia
Dor than that of his own hands and those
of his own family. His wife and daugh-
tiers raise chickens, preserve fruit and
calves and do general farm work. EX-
cept tea, coffee, sugar and groceries the
farm has produced nearly everything the
family has needed to live on
Mr.. Blair. NJ. c.. from New Hampshire,
will not be a member of the next con-
gress. His educational bill has made him
famous, and during his term of service
he has presented more petitions for pro-
hibtiOn, for Womans suffrage, education
and in favor of missionaries than probably
any other five men put together. He has
always Deen a SlaunCn advocate OF pro-
hibltion in the district and has been the
mainstay of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union i'm congress-.
Vice-Admiral Brine, who has just re-
tired from active service in the British
navy has had a distinguished career
Nearly half a century ago he was engaged
in the war with China, and in the suppress
sion of piracy in Chinese waters. Suisse
quently he was engaged in similar war
fare on the east coast Of Africa. He went
to Mandalay on diplomatic service. and.
and Nautical Assessor, ne has of late
years fought his battles In the law cOtirts
rather than at sea.
During the eleven years that the late
William T. Walters of Baltimore gave
annual exhibitions Of his gallery of pic
lures for charity, over $4,000 was taken
in and handed over to the poor of Balti-
more. Whenever Mr. Walters himself in
vited a party of friends to see the pictures
during an exhibition, he would always
send his check to the fund for the number
of admission tickets. Last year he paid
for nearly 800 tickets of admission to his
own gallery. These annual exhibitions
are to be continued.
Congressman Lon Livingston. who rem
resents the Fifth congressional district
but about whom perhaps more is known
try, is said to have branched out as A
dude" at Washington. says the Macon
Telegraph. According to the diSpatchas
published in a friendly paper he appeared
on the floor of the House the other day
in a blonde wig and a jm-swinger coat
OF the latest bell shaped cut. Give him
rings on his fingers and bells on his toes
and one of Judge Newsom's sunhowers
for a boutonniere and-"there YOU are.
there you are, there you arei'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

The recent visit of Gov. Mckinley has
sent a story going the rounds which may
or may not be true says the Cincinnati
Gazette 1t is said that during the gov
ernors recent southern trip he strangely
impressed a bell boy, who afterward gave
vent to his feelings thus:
81 tell yo', Marse Bob, dose statesmen
is moughty funny people. An dey has
curious ways, 4 tell 70. Now, dar's Gen.
Bragg. Wen 1 takes a cyard up to the
ginrals room, an de ginral he don't want
to see de genfman what's name on de
cyard, he jus tars dat cyard in flinders
an kicks me outer de room an says: Yo'
- fool niggar, yo' what yO' mean in
sultn' me wild dat cyard? YO' think 1
want vase my time wild dat ejut2 Yo'
git down stairs, yo' blank, blankety blank,
an tell dat man to 20 to de debbil
But we'en | takes a cyard up to Ma
jah AIcI<inleys room, and de majah he
don't want to see de genlman wat SEN
hit he JUS look at dat cyard outen de
co neh his eye, an de he don't touch dat
cydrd. but he JUS take me Outen de CORY
dore, and he look al dat cyard once mo-
but he keep his finger off-an' he say to
me: Boy, yo jus take dat cyard down
stahs, back to de genlman, an yo' tell
him Majah Mckinley am not in his room
at dis present time An he glib me a
quartah TO luck. oh. ] tell yo', Marse
Bob, dat Majah Mckinley, he moughty
trooful man. an he wouldn't tell a lie
70 muffin, no, sah'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
The Bootblaok Booms His Town.

A well dressed man was walking along
jefferson avenue. when a bootblack tack
led him, says the DetPoit Free Press.
Shine, sir?'' asked the boy.
"How much?' inquired the gentleman,
noticing that the yOungster was a bright
little fellow who might prove interest
ing.
Ten cents
Isn't that double price?"
You don't live here, do you?''
No"
That's what l thought"
What difference does that make?"
Five cents difference" grinned the boy.
But you have no right to charge stran-
gers more than other people,"
That's the rule of the business"
What do you have such a rule for?"
ITO encourage immigration.
The words came so hard TO the boy that
the gentleman laughed al him.
'How. does that encourage immigra-
tion?" he said.
Dead easy. You see. this is the finest
town on earth, and when d gent like you
walks around with a ten-cent shine on his
feet he feels so good that he wants to buy
the biggest house and lot he can find and
settle down right away. See?"
The gentleman saw ten cents worth.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
DC south 70 Help Feea the west.

II seems remarkable that the south
should ship corn to the west to feed
the starving people OF Nebraska. and yet
that is what il is proposed TO do A
suggestion has been made in Baltimore
that the south shall assist the suffering
Nebraskans by sending them corn, and
the vice president Of the Southern railway
announces that that railway will gather
up contributions OF corn along its lines
free of charge and transfer them to
roads leading 10 the west.
For years and years prior TO this year
the south had been buying corn, oats
and meat from the west. The impression
was quite general that the south could
not produce food crops sufficient to sup
ply her wants-that owing 20 her soil
and climate she found only cotton, sugar,
tobacco and fruits profitable. This move
ment to send corn to Nebraska will cor
rect this impression. and teach the world
that the south can live within her own
borders.
The south has plenty Of corn for her
own needs this year and some 10 spare.
And it will not be long before she will
be able to supply her own demand for
meat. Her farmers are growing wiser.
and are beginning 10 see advantages
of growing food crops as well as cotton.
They are keeping their money at home
instead of sending it to the west for hay,
oats, corn and bacon and they are more
prosperous for doing so. With cotton
al cents d pound they would have been
almost as badly off as the suffering
Nebraskans if they had continued plant
ing nothing but cotton.
The diversified system of farming that
has been growing steadily in favor in
the south for the last three or four years
has been of almost inestimable benefit
TO the southern people. Within a very
few years more the south will produce
enough beef for her wants as well as
enough corn. bacon and hay. She will
be independent of other sections of the
country so far as food supplies are con-
cerned and her cotton and her mineral
resources and factories will make her
exceedingly prosperous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

The. Tennessee election returns for the
ofhce Of governor will be canvassed by the
legislature. On the face of the returns
Evans. rep, has majority of about 7OO
The democrats, however, charge that in
many republican districts the law reouir-
ing the payment of a poll tax as a pre-
requisite to voting was totally ignored,
hence there is a possibility that the repub-
hcan majority will be overcome. The
chances that Evans will be denied the cleo
ton, however, hardly amount to more than
a possibility The evidence all seems to be
in his favor, and the temper of the people
is decidedly against hair splitting upon
technicalities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

At midnight of Monday next. Dec. 81, the
Mckinley bill will breathe its last. Its
last schedule, that of woolens, will expire
with the old year. and a better schedule
viii become effective with the New Year.
The rate on wooden goods is considerably
reduced by the new bill, and the effect
viii be gratefully felt by consumers when
they go to buy. Indeed, the effect has to
a certain extent been felt already, in re-
auctions made in anticipation of the new
law. Under the democratic bill manufac-
turers are given free wool, hence they
will be able to make better and cheaper
wooden goods than before and thus be bet
ter able to compete with importations.
There will be sharp competition, of course,
all Of which will be of benefit to the great
majority who must buy. Cheapened coats
and cheapened blankets-not cheap
in the sense of poor and eommon-win be
demoeracy's New Years gifts to the peo-
pie.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
Some Christmas Reflections.

Judging from the expressions of opin-
ion heard within the last two days rela-
tive to the manner in which Christmas
is celebrated in this city a reform would
be gladly welcomed. The rowdylsm that
cropped out, the damage done the public
squares and the risk to which property
was exposed from fireworks have ere
ated public sentiment in favor of put
ting some wholesome restrictions upon
the Christmas celebration.
The fire insurance companies think
they can trace one or two fires. which
caused considerable damage. to Christ
mas fire rockets, or fire crackers. If they
can do so they propose holding the city
responsible for whatever damage was
done. 1t is a wonder that such a care
less handling of fireworks did not cause
heavy fire losses.
And look at the condition of the squares
How unsightly they are. 1t will cost n
good deal to restore them to their former
condition.
The viciousness that cropped out
among the young roughs was appalling.
1t is fortunate there were not some seri-
GUS crimes committed.
The city authorities seem to forget that
Savannah is no longer a village She is
a city with vast property interests at
stake and with a population that re-
uuires restraint. While the city has
changed, the policy that guides the city
fathers in matters that pertain to Christ
mas appears TO have remained as in the
| past Regulations are needed that are
\ in keeping with the new conditions. 1t
! is to be hoped that the next council viii
keep the next Christmas celebration with
in proper bounds.
The political outlook both around and in
! Tammany Hall. New York, is decidedly
squally at present. The Lexow people have
raised a storm outside, and EX-R PISS Gro
ker has produced a squat inside. 1t is
now feared that the Croker Cochran dis
} pute viii lead to a fisticuff or a plying of
the horsewhip. Mr. Croker appears to be
saturated with anger. He has grudye
against cci tain other thigh toned fellows
besides Cochran. also, it seems, and prom
ises that tefcre long some OF them shall
go over backwards" Whatever may be
the outcome. it is quite certain that New
York is at present enjoying a series o6pi-
quaint sensations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
Just What wanted >,
From the Inaenendent.

IRON tite Independent.
GIandpapa looked at his fine new chair.
On the twenty-sixth of December,
Saving: Santa Claus is so good to me!
He never fails to remember:
But my Old armchair is the one for me:'
(And he settled himself in it nicelyO
Il hope he won't mind if ] cling TO it;
For it fits my back precisely"
Papa came home that very night,
He had plowed his way through the
snow,
And the Christmas twinkle had left his
eye,
And his step was tired and slow.
Warming for him his slippers lay
The lovely embroidered-in-gold ones.
That had hung on the Christmas tree last
night
But he slipped his feet in the old ones.
And when dear little BIartory's bedtime
came,
On the parlor rug they found her.
The long, dark lashes a-droop on her
cheeks,
And her Christmas toys around her.
Neglected Angclique's waxen nose
The lire had melted completely:
But her precious rag-doll Hannah Jane.
ON her breast was resting sweetly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
Sherman's Attack on Pullman.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican 0nd )

Senator Sherman appears to have a
special personal grievance against Pull
mans Palace Car Company. He aston
legislation for the company at the hight
of the Chicago riots last July, and now he
moves an amendment to the pooling bill
He would compel these cars to provide
safes free of charge for the valuables Of
passengers; limit the charge for lower
berths. to not more than half q cent a
mile, for upper berths to not more than
third of a cent a mile and for a seat in
ORA wing room cars TO not more than one
half cent 6 mile. If this sort of Ieeis-
lation is all right, why not consider the
vents Of people who cannot, unlike Mr.,
sherman ride in palace cars, and so fix
fc by federal statute2
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
The County Elections.

The county elections are at hand. They
will be held on the first Wednesday in
January which occurs next week, on the
second day of the month. The cleo
lions will be held under the old laws.
The new registration law goes into effect
on the first Monday in January. which
this year falls on the seventh day of the
month, and five days after the county
elections. The people are tolerably IA
miliar with the old rules of elections.
hence they will not be troubled about
voting under an innovation.
In a great many of the counties the pop
ulists will make strenuous efforts to
capture the offices. They should be met
by the democrats, with stronger efforts,
to prevent them from doing any such
thing. The populists are well organized,
and. flushed with their showing at the
polls in November. they will make a
fight it will take pluck and numbers to
overcome. The populists want the county
offices In their business. A great many
of the Offices carry a certain amount
Of influence in elections that the populists
nope 10 turn ~ AAANii wv eiAAN hlAetSt e.
They are raising the cry, Turn the ras-
Gals outr' The democrats should see to
it that they keep the rascals out"
The future of populism in Georgia de-
ponds in a great measure upon the
county elections OF next Wednesday. If
the democrats turn out and administer
good trouncing at the polls to these
allies of republicanism. the latter will
be Inundated and their power consider
ably hurt. The effect would reach to
the consent election for congressman in
the Tenth destrict. and beyond that to
the next general election.
There should be no delinquent demo-
Gratis at the county elections. The cleo
tons are important. both in the matter
of assuring good county governments and
in influencing the greater elections to
follow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

The presence of a cat aboard the aban-
doned bark Talisman, picked up a few
days ago off Montank, may save the owner
a neat sum of money. 1t has been held by
both the British and American courts of
admiralty that a vessel is not abandoned
while living animal remains aboard The
difference in salvage allowed when assis-
tance is rendered a. crew in distress and
when an abandoned craft is picked up is
considerable; and it win probably be held
in court that the rescuing tug merely rem
dered assistance to the one cat crew of the
Talisnan.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
How he FIRST Heard of Kerosene.

The topic of conversation among a
group of men who had met in the office
Of a well known Worcester merchant
and real estate owner, was the electric
light, and, of course, comparisons of its
Illuminating power with that of other
kinds Of artificial lighting were made.
says the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette. There
were men present who remembered the
days, or rather nights, when their moth
ers did the family sewing and mending
by the light of a tallow candle. and their
fathers did the chores in the barn by the
light of a whale-oil lamp placed within
a tin lantern with holes punched in it.
The old-time fluid and camphene lights,
were recalled, and finally almost every
enc had a word 10 say of the days when
kerosene oil was a new introduction and
great novelty. Tho merchant and real
estate owner distinctly remembered his
first information OF the new OIL He was
then boy, living on the old homes tead
at "a considerable distance from little
village, itself a remote corner of WOrceS-
ter county. One day his father went to
the village store on errands for himself
and neighbors. Returning home he had
great stories 10 tell to his wife and neigh
bors OF a wonderful light he had seen
that day at the store, and most wonderful
of all, the light came from carrot seed
oil. Ii was news to all that carrot seed
contained any considerable amount of
oil, and there was Il vast amount of spec
ulation for a day or so in that little
neighborhood as to the probable cost of
the oil and where the supply came from.
But the villagers presently learned that
the new light came from an oil called kerr
OSene. and not carrot seed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
LincoIn's Joks on Seward.

On the 9Th the First Corps, commanded
by Gen. Reynolds, was reviewed by the
President on a beautiful plain at the north
q Potomac Creek about eight miles from
Rockers headquarters, says writer in
the Century. We rode thither in an ambu-
lance over a rough corduroy road; and.
as We passed over some of the more dim.
cult portions of the jolting way, the ambu-
lance driver, who sat well in 'front.' occa-
sionally let fly volley of Suppressed oaths
at his wild team of six mules. Finally Mir.
Lincoln, leaning forward. touched the man
on the shoulder. and said
copalian?"
The man, greatly startled, looked around
and replied:
No MT. President; am a Methodist
Well said Lincoln It Thought Won
must be an Episcopalian. because Won
swear just like Gov. Seward, who is a
churchwarden."
Ihe driver swore no more.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
The Treasury Situation.
From the. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph DemO

1t has been said that should this con-
gress fail to afford the treasury relief
Cleveland viii call together the renubli-
can congress whose term begins March
next in extra session. We believe he
ought to do this, and that he will do ii.
With the treasury receipts something
like 100000 short of its expenditures
each month, and with a constant raid on
the sold reserve going on, there is really
nothing else for him to do. The failure
or refusal of the democratic congress to
act will not prove that action is not nee
essary, but only that that congress. be-
cause of its divisions, its want Of a def
mite programme, was unable to act The
President Will be justified in using the
readiest means TO bring to an end the
dis tress of the treasury and the rssult-
ing distress of the business community.
The question is not a political one strictly
speaking, and in dealing with it his first
duty is with the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
Populism and MeKinleyism.
From the PhiladeIphia Record Dem !.

The populist free coinage newspapers.
having commented adversely on a para
graph in Secretary Norton's annual re-
port in favor of sterling currency. the
secretary pointedly asks: is it under
stood that free coinage will be ike the
protective tariff-be so adjusted as to
raise the price of all the farmer sells and
lower the price of all he has to buzz"
This is about the general Understanding
among the mass of free silverites: and,
probably, nothing could undeceive them
short of an actual experiment of the eff
fects of the get-rich-quick device, such
as they had, for example, under McKin-
leyism, with its patent artificial eggs
and countless other benehcent fruits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

1t is said Mr.. Andrew Carnegie will
make an effort to have refunded to his
steel company the amount of the fine
levied upon the company by the govern
ment some time ago for defective armor-
plate The plate was reported to fall be-
low the highest standard that could be
manufactured, hence the fine. At the same
time it was admitted to be above the min
imum requirements of the contract; and it
was used. Mr.. Carnegie contends that if it
was good enough to be used it was good
enough to be paid for
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

Chicago is Jealous. Chicago wishes the
government to build a navy on the lakes
and give her a great naval headquarters
II the government were to go into the
Nicaragua canal business. Chicago fears
there might spring up a demand for a
greater ocean navy and naval station in
the south as defenses to the canal, to the
detriment and delay of the lake navy
scheme; therefore there is opposition in
Chicago to the canal scheme.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

1.-THE race war now on in Brooks county.
Ca, is a discouraging illustration of the
state of standardization that prevails in
that neighborhood, says the PHILADELPHIA
Press. Only few weeks ago Agent John
son reported that a systematic starving to
death of infant children by their parents
for life insurance money had been going
on at Harrisburg, the capital of the state
Of Pennsylvania. OF what is that dis
couraging illustration" pray? So far as
we have seen. the Philadelphia Press has
not characterized it at all 1t is presumed,
therefore, that it is perfectly in keeping
with the high state of civilization that
they enjoy in Pennsylvania.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Alliance Lodge. K. of H.;
Georgia Council No. >, r. & S. NJ; Tam
many Club.
Special Notices-For New Year Presents,
at Gardners; Large Two-Story Building
for Rent John Feeley's Sons; Dividend
No 10. Germania Bank; For New Years.
VIM. G. Cooper.
Cold, Frosty Morning-Appel &
Schaul.
Here's a Quarter-B. H. Levy & Bro.
The Greatest Sale Ever Known in Sa-
vannah Starts To-day-Falk Clothing
Company.
Steamship Observation-Disclosures Steam
ship Company; Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
The Orient Oil stove-wests China Pal
ace.
The Sale-Falk Clothing Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.