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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
Clifton Breckenridge and the Duello

Clifton Breckenridge of Arkansas. whom
President Cleveland has just appointed min
lister to Russia once declined to fight duel
on the ground that he was then studying for
the Presbyterian ministry said James d.
Allen Of Texas to the st. Louis Republic.
The incident took place over twenty years
ago. when Breckenridge was a young man at
tending Washington and Lee University in
Virginia. Breckenridge was a leader of one
faction of a college literary society and his
following was composed largely of young
hentuckians. The other faction. which was
made up Of fiery young Texans was headed
by VIII Prather, who is now lawyer of
Texas The debates on momentous questions
among these young cOllegians we're carried on
with all the fiery vigor and earnestness of
their southern natures
One debate. in which the two Factions be-
came nightly wrought up. resulted in Young
Prather sending challenge to young Breck-
lnridge to night duel An elaborate cor
reSpOndence was carried on for several DAYS
and the situation seemed to lie growing quite
serious. Everything pointed to settlement
according to the latest revised rules of the
code of honah that obtained IN those DAYS
Finally the matter was settled with
out any Young blood being spilled when
young Breckenridge refused to fight a duel
Civ as the reason for his refusal the fact
thai ne was a theological student. Opinion
seemed to be general that it would be entirely
inconsistent for a student of Christs teach
lngs to fight duel, and there the matter was
dropped. -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

When matters of momentous govern.
mental policy are discussed by the Senate,
it is well enough that the proceedings
should be kept secret II would never
have done for England to have known
what was said in the Senate about the
Boring sea matter, or for China TO have
known what was said about the Chinese
treaty, before this governments policy
with regard TO those matters was settled.
But there is no reason why the Senate
should go into star chamber session when
ever there is postmaster to be confirmed.
representative Richards of Ohio has in
troduced bill in the House 10 provide
that every session Of a legislative body
Of the national congress" shall be open
to the public. The bill includes execu-
tive sessions Of the Senate and meetings
OF conference committees. Amended so
as TO except executive sessions Of the
Senate at which the foreign policy of the
government is under consideration, the
passage Of the bin would probably be
Etep in the rightdirection.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

Patrick Murphy was one of the bravest
privates in the confederate army. Once
he was detailed on scout duty at an i'm
portant iuncture. After an absence from
camp of number of hours Patrick came
in. What news of the enemy?" asked
the commander. THE enemy is ad-
vancin', sorr," was the reply. Instantly
'boots and saddles" was sounded and the
troops got ready for hot fight After a
wait of several hours, no enemy appear
ing, Patrick was sent for by the COM
mander. II thought you said the enemy
was Advancing" he Numbered. HE is,
sorr; he is advancin' from us, sOrr
And that is about the way it is with the
popuhstic enemy at the present iuncture;
he is "advancin' from US" about as fast as
an adverse popular sentiment can make
him go.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

Several months ago Brazil elected
new president, to succeed Peixoto, whom
the rcvolutonist admirals, DaGama and
Mello, accused of trying to establish a
military despotism. But, according to a
recent Flo cable, there appears to be a
good deal of doubt that the president
elect Moracs, will ever succeed to the
presidency 1t is SAID Peixoto is adopting
every means to perpetuate himself in
power. He defes congress, refuses TO
promulgate the laws it passes, and substi-
tutes his own will in place Of law. 1t is
believed he will arrest Moraes upon some
pretext and throw him into prison. He is
backed by the army and can do whatever
he pleases. There is a movement on foot
in congress to impeach him, but, through
fear Of him, the movement may come to
nothing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
The Negro North and South.
From The Philadelphia Record den

10III VII0 T HIIUUJIUIIIW ItUNVIU IIIUIITT
Prof.. Washington, himself a cOlored man
declares IN the Christian Register that ANY
colored man with common sense, a reasona-
pie eduction and business ability can take
eluOJ IN cash and 20 into any southern com
nunty ana IN five years be worth 5000. lie
does no. meet with that stern. relentless
competition that he encounters when he butts
up against the northern yankee. The black
man can sooner conquer southern prejudice
thau nOfthen competition The truth GoIbt-
less Us. IS the professor intimates, that the
question Of the colored mans advancement
IN inc south is in some degree one OF skill,
training and business capacity-as it largely
Is IN the north. When men possessed of
these qualifications shall have had opportu-
mites 70 develop them the race line Will lose
an potency either as veXing political Ques-
ton or as an excuse for would be social re.
formers TO exploit their humanitariauisms
before the public eye.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1894.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

The New York board of health's chem
list has discovered that the bacilli of
diphtheria may live in and be transmit
ted by cheese. Experiments made with
samples from suspicious lot Of cheese
demonstrated the presence of the bacilli.
Further experiments proved that they
were alive and vicious Guinea pigs in
oculated with cultures grown from the
specimens taken from the cheese devel-
oped dIphtheria and died oft in a short
while. The chemist thinks the farmer
who supplied TO the creamery the milk
from which the cheese was made had
fatal case Of diphtheria IN his family at
the time, and that the person who did
the milking visited the sick room and
thus carried the germs TO the milk This
is the first instance in which the germs
of a contagious disease have been found
in cheese, the chemist says
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
Turner in North Georgia.

TVIIT VI0 .1IIdIIIL JOUIudI IDtU.I.
The friends Of Mr.. Turner are at work Tor
him while he Is at his post at Washington.
vass says that he has forty votes pledged
to him IN the second. Third and Eleventh
districts. aud that they are men running for
the legislature IN counties that viii surely so
democratic. There are several counties in
these districts said the gentleman, that
are for Mai Bacon, but the chances are that
the counties indicated win elect populists to
the legislature. Then, again, Mr.. Turner has
many friends in North Georgia, and we ex-
poet to get large vote there. Mr. Turner'S
friends too are for him sure enough. and Will
stand by MIN unLIl Lhe last ballol is had.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
Agitation THAT May Increase.

1t is apparent that the agitation caused
by the decision of Mgr. Satolli, uphold
ing the pastoral letter of Bishop Waiter
son of the Columbus (O) district, in
which a severe blow was dealt the liquor
business, is not to die out as suddenly as
it was begun. While it is true that the
decision has only local application, the
meaning of it are broad enough to include
every diocese in the country. In fact,
there is quite general impression that it
states the position of the Catholic
church in respect to the liquor business
in this country.
If any one of the other bishops should
take the position in respect to that bust
ness that Bishop Watterson has ne would
be sustained by Mgr. Satoli and there
are grounds for thinking that some of
them will.
A very large proportion Of the liquor
dealers are Catholics. In some localities
the wholesale and retail liquor trade is
almost wholly in their hands. They re-
gard the denunciation of the trade by the
head of the church in this country as a
very serious matter. They are good
Catholics and are generous contributors
to the church, and they do not Ike to
feel that the business they are engaged
in and which they regard as respectable
is condemned by an authority they re-
spect.
It looks as if the agitation would be
continued until a more definite
understanding is reached relative to
the position of those engaged in the
liquor business in respect to the church.
Thus far all that Mgr. Satolli has said in
regard to his decision leaves the impress
sion that he did not act hastily ana that
he will maintain with firmness the posi-
ton he has taken.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
The Atlanta Exposition.

1t is settled that Atlanta will have for
her exposition 5000 900 from the govern
meut for a government building and ex-
hibit. That amount will 90 a long way
toward providing a very great attraction
Work on the exposition grounds has
been begun, and will be pushed forward
vigorously until everything is ready for
the exhibits
year is ample time for preparing the
grounds, erecting the buildings and plac-
ing the exhibits. There Is no longer any
doubt that the exposition will be in every
respect creditable to the south. While it
will be southern exposition, the exhibits
will not be confined to the products of the
south. They will be from all parts of
this country and foreign countries. Stiu,
the main purpose is to draw attention to
the south, and III that respect the exposi-
ton is timely. Just now attention
is more than ever directed toward
the south. The impression among CAPT
talists is that the southern states offer a
better field for Investments than any
other section of the country. The move
ment recently started in New York to en-
courage home-seekers TO settle in the
south and capital TO invest in enterprises
in the southern states is meeting with
favor This movement will have gained
great Roadway by the time the Atlanta
exposition is opened, and the exposition
therefore will assist in showing the world
what advantages the south offers to those
who wish to improve their material con
dition
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
The Summer Engagement Ring.

The girl in the white duck suit was sitting
on the piazza of the hotel waiting for the girl
in the fuzzy gown to teke a stroll across the
lawn, says the Detroit Free Press She
hadn't long to wait, and he girl in the fluffy
gown came out looking radiant
My " exclaimed the White Duck; how
nice and cool you look.
Thanks, responded Fluff, land I feel lust
like l Look and she patted her tlounces and
furbelows anectionately, as women are won't
to do
The White Duck during this performance
saw something
Oh, she said, with a little scream where
did you ever get that ring."
That" said Fluff, laying her hand out be.
fore her and contemplating IL carefully
That Why, that is my engagement ring .
That can be- contended the White
Duck.
And why not:"
NOBODY ever heard Of a cluster Cor an en-
gagement ring e."
Wen, they viii hear Of it now, for this is
an engagement ring"
Why didn you select a solitaire?"
Flun shrugged her shoulders prettily.
Because she twittered "itisnt that kind
or an engagement. This is a summer en-
gagement ring, and nothing but a cluster
would be appropriately emblemauc."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

Colorado, since the advent of populism
and Waite. is running a neck and-neck
race with Kansas for the blue ribbon as
the champion producer of cranks and
crankiness. The Tarsney trial, now
going on at Colorado Springs, has already
added to Waite's reputation for crank
mess and developed cranky Judge who
will try half dozen cranks for treating
another crank to coat of tar and feath-
erS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
Ths Georgia silver Plank.

From Springfield Mass Republican Und1.
The silver plank in the Georgia democratic
platform is a much more harmless utterance
than several republican conventions have
been guilty Of. There is no IS to ratio called
for andno demand that the United States go
1t alone in the attempt to renonetize silver
The plank is an indefinite sort of a, silver
platform to please such a free coinage shouter
as the Atlanta Constitution.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09
Evidences Of Original Sin.
From the Pittsburg Post Dem

The difficulties that have appeared in re-
forming the tariff bill, instead of bearing
witness to the Justice and expedlency Of pro
lection, are its strongest condemnation The
sugar trust and sugar bounty tell the whole
story Give TO particular interests bounties
running into millions. and they will spend
millions TO retain them. This is not democ-
racy or republicansm. II is human nature
And so we see that the blight of MCkinleyism
mas fallen on democrats elected TO reform and
repeal it, Their pockets were too strong for
their principles. The lesson is as old as the
pvprlaSfinp hills
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

The prohibitionists of South Carolina
cannot be very much edited by the turn
taken in the whisky fight in that state.
The prohibitionists supported the dispen-
sary law as prohibition measure. They
hoped to see the traftic, if not suppressed,
at least confined within very narrow
bounds and managed by an absolutely
reliable head. But it appears that so
far from there being any restriction Of the
trade, Gov. Tillmau proposes TO knock in
the heads Of the whisky barrels and in
stitute rate war that would make
whisky freer than it has been for thirty
or forty years. The whisky interest of
the country. in such contest, would be
in sympathy with the individual saloon
keepers, and long draw-out and maud
lin fight would be likely to result.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

Ouida writes in reference to the exclusion
OF her novels from the Aston library. together
with the works OF Fielding and Smollett. Il
am gratihed 10 he accommodated with
tlelding and Smollett. IL is lamentable
that such bigotry should exist"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

The Oglethorpe Echo hears it reported
that "only four minister's in the North
Georgia conference will support Atkinson
for governor, but vote for Hines instead -"
Methodist ministers, of course, are the
kind referred to. But the report is not
worthy of belief; indeed, it is hardly
worthy of attention, There are no more
patriotic people in the country than the
preachers, as they have proved both in
war and in peace, and it would be a
libel upon them to say they would vote
against the states best interests because
a preacher was not nominated for gov
ernor by the Democratic party.
Somebody has just discovered that
there is an income tax in the United
States, and that it exists in Massachu-
sets, where almost any kind Of q legal
freak may be found by porting over the
ancient Statutes Of that commonwealth
In defining personal estate for the pur-
pose Of taxation, the Massachusetts, law
includes as such $50 much Of the income
from a profession, trade or employment
as exceeds the sum of $1,000 year: but
no income shall be taxed which is derived
from property subject TO taxation"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

The first arrivals of the new rice crop
were placed on the market in New Or
leans on Monday, and their sale marked
the opening of the new rice season. There
was, because of the shortness of last sea
sons crop, but triiing stock carried
over into the new season. The New Or
leans Picayune regards the season as
having opened under the most favorable
auspices, because stocks everywhere are
known to be reduced to the lowest notch,
and because the production Of this season
will not be excessive. The demand for
rice this season, it is expected, will be
better than it was last, because the coun-
try is in better shape now than it was a
year ago Another thing that may affect
the price Of rice is the war between Japan
and China. Should the war be continued
for any length of time the price of foreign
rice would advance materially, which
would have a favorable effect upon the
price of the domestic product
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

Great Britain cautioned all of her sub
iects, Immediately upon Japan's declara-
ton of war against China, that the ship
ment or transportation of articles contra
band of war to either country must be at
the risk of the shipper or transporter.
Nevertheless, certain English firms are
sending east the prescribed articles, but
in a manner to get some other govern
ment, aud not Great Britain, into trouble.
Two fast British vessels, having aboard
munitions of war, sailed from London on
Monday under the Spanish flag. They
viii be turned over to the Japanese gov
eminent somewhere at sea, if they escape
the Chinese navy, and will be retitted as
cruisers upon reaching Japan. At both
London and Liverpool a number of
English ships are said to be loading war
goods for both Japan and China, but in
each instance the ships fly the Spanish or
Portuguese flag. John Bull recognizes
the rights of the belligerents but is will
ing to risk his own money and somebody
else's government for the sake of trade.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-09

EASTERN OFFICE, % Park Ro~, New
York City C. S FAULKNER. Manager.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-30
A MESSAGE FROM the DEAD ?
Note Purporting to Be from a Ship
wrecked Man Found.
Picked Up in Bottle on Staten
Island Beach.

What purports to be farewell mes
sage from a castaway mariner was dis
covered by W. Il. Dupignac, of Port
Richmond. S. l., on the beach near the
Woods of Arden, on Saturday after
noon. The traditional bottle was the
vehicle In which the missive was fer
ried by wind and wave within reach OF
Il fellow mortal
Dupignac, Henry L. Sanderson, Thorn
as Sdnderson and a boy We're claiming
along the beach, until the approaching
tide rendered the pursuit Of the bivalvcs
useless, While atrolling along, Dupig-
nae noticed Il green object being tossed
about by the surf.
Selling II, he found it to he a pickle
bottle, and inside was "A scrap Of ma
Mia paper upon which this note was
scrawled with lead pencil:
Ship Rocked July 7th. 80 Plotting on 3 raft
For days have no hope any Body Finding these
message please notify my Wife Family AmeIl
Gopl Iy. vic & children YOUR FATHER.
The note Is remarkably Well preserved
and VAS legihie as though freshly writ
ten. MIR. Dupignuu handed II to an
Evening world" reporter To whom lie
told the story ut his ind No vessel is
named, and no place Wher. III" wreck
occurred Is mentioned. The Directory
gives no record of l4U First avenue as the
residence of NJ. Weber and no report of
his disappearance mas been made at Po-
lice HEADQUARTERS.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-30
BEAT HER PRESERvER.
Thrall Pulled Mrs. Tiedeman from
in Front of a Cable.Car.
Then She Whaled Him with Her
Parasol.
Moral: Don't Try TO Save Women
Who Have Rheumatic Arms.

Mrs. Eliza riedeman. respectable
business woman, VINO lives In her own
house at u.s. East one Hundred and
Thirty-fourth street, ana keeps IA candy
and ice cream store at 2296 Third avenue,
was arraigned IN Harlem Police Court
this morning charged with having dis
turbed the peace at one Hundred and
Twenty fifth street and Third avenue
at IL o'clock last night 10y striking po-
liceman with her parlsol.
Mrs Tedeman had just lett her store
for home. She started to cross the ave-
nue. OH the south side of one Hundred
and Twenty-iifth street to board an ~
train. The Third avenue and
one Hundred and Twenty-tfth street
cable lines cross each other at this
point, and ii is one of the busiest and
| most dangerous spots III Harlem. Mrs.
Tiedeman waited ON the west side of
the avenue to let Il coulh-bound car go
by. She then started across and stopped
Immediately in front OF 4 north-bound
car that was going at a smart gait. In
! order, with its own momentum, TO cross
one Hundred and Twenty-titth street
all cars must let go the grip at this
junction. Mrs. TieGeman was only
about three feet from the cable car
when Policeman Thrali, seeing ner dan
ger, grabbed her by the LETT arm and
pulled her back.
Mrs. Tedeman has rheumatism in the
left arm, ana the poliCeman's grip caused
her pain. The right arm, however, was
unimpaircl. The policeman, by way of
thanks tor his trouble. received "A sharp
rap on tho arm from Mrs. Tiedcman' $
parasol. She accompanied the rap with
some emphatic remarks. The woman
then started to cross again, but disdaIn-
ing the assistance of the policeman she
was again in danger of stCpptne in front
of the second ear, when Policeman Thrall
again tried t. stop her. Mrs. Tiedeman
became greatly excited, and for a second
time struck the policeman with her para
sol on the head and neck The policeman
called Policeman Miiey to his assistance,
and the TWO had all they could do to take
the woman to the station-housc. She was
promptly bailcd out by her husband.
This morning in court Mrs. Ticdcman
admitted that she might nave struck
the policeman.
II had rheuma tism." she said. land he
hurt me when he clutchcd me. | have
done business in Harlem Tor the last
| t~enty-four years. III I never met with
an accident
The Justice asked her IL it was not
better to be pu..ed away by a policeman
| than to be run over. Then he released
| her.
Mrs. Tedeman is short and stout
| and eminently respectable. She and
her husband have made u small for
tune in the Ice cream and candy bust