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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
ROwdyism at the Court House.

Is it not about time the au-
thorities put a stop to the row.
dyism that takes place at the
court house among those who areseeking
an advantage in the payment of poll taxes ?
1t seems to us it is. and we believe all
good citizens agree with us. A day or two
ago it was said that the door leading to
the tax collectors Office was broken, and
it is reported that yesterday the gates that
protect the entrance to the court house
were badly damaged.
Not only is the county's property in
jured but lives of people are imperilled.
According to the story of yesterdays
demonstrations knives and pistols were
drawn and threats made. This is a pretty
state of affairs to take place daily around
the temple of justice.
Whose duty is it to put a stop to these
disgraeeful scenes? We are not prepared
to say. but we are absolutely certain that
it is the duty of some of the authorities.
1t would be an easy matter to enforce or
der. A plan could be easily prepared by
which the taxes could be paid without
such demonstrations of violence as have
been witnessed during the last few days
a plan that would be as fair for one fac
ton as the other. The cause of the vio-
lence is the effort of one faction to get an
advantage of the other. -
The situation becomes worse daily. II
would not be surprising if someone were
killed before the registration is ended
Then the authorities will be blamed fol-
permitting a state of affairs that is botE
inexcusable and disgraceful
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

Junior" Brainham, of the Wyoming
seminary at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
dragged from his bed on freezing cold
night recently and held under pump for
three or four minutes by a party of
masked hazers. He suffered tortures from
the cold-the water froze as it was
pumped on his head-but he kept up his
pluck. When his tormentors had finished
with him they started to run away. But
before they escaped Brainham managed to
recognize Senior" Rockwell as the leader
OF the party. The next day he met Rock
well and thrashed him soundly; mashed
his nose, cut his lip. blackened both of his
eyes and loosened one or two teeth And
now Brainham is the lion of the college,
even Rockwell joining in the expression of
admiration of his pluck.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
The South the American Section.

Z The percentage OF citizens OF foreign pa
I rentage IS much smaller in the south than
+ in any other section Of the country. BY
+ foreign parentage is meant those persons
who are OF foreign birth or whose fathers
or mothers or both were born abroad.
The Interior Department has just issued
Z a census bulletin which shows that at the
taking OF the census in 1880 there were
2o.676.046 persons in this country OF foreign
parentage. This was about % per cent. Of
the whole population.
In the west the percentage Of citizens OF
foreign born parentage is far the largest.
In 1s90 1t was. in South Dakota, nearly 70
per cent. Of the entire population and in
Minnesota about IS per cent. In Wiscon-
sin it was a per cent, in Utah 70
per cent. in South Dakota 60 per cent
and in Illinois so per cent.
In the New England and Middle States
the percentage is also large. In New York
in 1890 it was about 50 per cent. and in New
Jersey Massachusetts and Connecticut
about 50 per cent. The foregoing are only
samples from the eastern and western
states
In the southern states the foreign paren-
tage element is remarkably small. In
North Carolina. for instance. it was in 1890
only one seventh of / per cent and in
South Carolina only a little more than IL
per cent. In Georgia it was LIS per cent.
and in Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi
less than 3 per cent. In Tennessee and
Arkansas it was about per cent.
There has never been much for
eign immigration to the south and
it does not look as if there would
be in the near future. unless a spec
ial effort is made to secure it. The most OF
the immigrants who are now seeking the
south are from the northern states and the
majority of them are of American paren-
tage. Within the past year or two quite
a number of foreigners have settled in
Florida. and few in Georgia. Nearly all
the foreign parentage people in the south
are in the cities.
OF the citizens of foreign parentage
nearly 100000 are Germans. about 5000 900
are Irish. nearly 100000 are Eng
lish. more than 100000 are Scotch
and Welsh, 100000 are swedes and Nor
wegians and about 100000 are Russians.
There are citizens of foreign born paren-
tage of other nationalities than those men,
toned, but the number credited to any one
of these other nationalities is not large.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

DR.. Chauncey NJ. Depew as a discoverer
beats Senior Juan Ponce de Leon out of
hand. DR.. Depew has discovered the foun-
tain of eternal youth; at least in so far as
Florida, or in the Adirondacks, but in Dr.
Depew's heart. Addressing an assemblage
of young women and young men a few
days ago DR.. Depew said: Il haven't
grown and hour older in forty years,
because I love the girls as well now
as I did then" And there you have
it. Love for the girls bubbles and
sparkles in the fountain in the IA
nous bon wants heart, and he remains
forever youthful because of that love.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
Freight Rates in Different Countries.

The people of this country have no rea-
son to complain of excessive freight rates
of railroads if the statement contained in
the annual report of the interstate COM
merce commission, of the freight rates of
other countries is correct, and there is no
reason to doubt that it is. In Great Brit
ain, where the government has no interest
in railroads. the cost of freight carriage is
ESQ cents per ton per mile. In Germany
where the roads are operated by the gov
eminent. the rate is 1.64 per ton per mile
In France, where the roads are operated
by the government, the rate is 2.20 per ton
per mile. In this country the rate per ton
per mile is only cent. In no other coun-
try are the freight rates so low as in this.
That being the case it is difficult to see
what the people would gain if the populist
doctrine of government ownership of rail-
roads should be adopted.
on this question of the government
management of railroads the interstate
commerce commission says that such man
agement. in a majority of cases, has not
been found to be advantageous. from the
calls attention to the fact that in this
country several of the states have under
taken to own and manage railroads, and
that they have not found the undertaking
at all satisfactory.
In the matter of passenger rates this
country has no advantage over o her coun-
tries, the rates being about the same as
Sc
but the service in some respects in this
country is superior to that in any other.
All things considered the people of this
country have little to complain of in re-
spect to their railroads. Indeed, they have
not so much to complain of as the people
of the European country that has the best
railroad service and the lowest rates, for
their is no country that has better rail-
road service than this, and none in which
| the freight rates are so low.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

The farmers of Burlington county. New
Jersey, will hold a mass meeting on Fri
day next to discuss and discover if they
can why farm help is so scarce. They
cannot understand how it is that they
cannot obtain labor on their farms while
in the cities there are so many people who
are applying to charity societies for aid
and processing to be unable to obtain en-
ployment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

Along the Canadian border of Maine
there reside number of eminently re-
spected protectionists who have just cause
to complain against the new tariff bill
1t has almost ruined the trade, which
they followed with profit for thirty
years or more. These honest folks mere
ly brought into the United States from
Canada without the knowledge of the
American custom house people such goods
as had high tariff on them-diamonds,
silks, laces, brandy, Holland gin, Can
adian saw logs, and the like-which they
were able to dispose of at a good profit
because of the protection" given them
by the tariff law. The new law is rather
discouraging to smugglers but these good
Maine folks keep up the business and vote
the republican ticket in the hope that
their friends Reed, Mckinley and others
will give them better protection" again
shortly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

EASTERN OFFICE. q Park Rev. New
York City, c. S. Faulkner. Manager.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
AFTER DINNER ORATORS.
Most Engiishmcn Arc Failures as Such; but
ColeridS6 Was y Shining Exception.

Most Engfishmcn Arc Failures is Such; but
Coleride0 Was = Shining Exception.
Lord Colcridge had q record as the
best English after dinner speaker who
ever came to America AS rule, tho
Englishman does not shine postpran-
daily in comparison with the average
American Of tho Same grade in law,
politics, literature, the drama or jour-
nalism. Host of them. in fact, are dire
failures Coleridge and Irving are the
shining exceptions. Sergeant Ballan-
tyne, who came with q great flourish Of
trumpets and was received with much
cordiality by his professional brethren.
was the worst that we ever had to en-
aure. Martin Farduhar Upper was in
sufferably dull Toole, the comedian,
who was considered funny on the other
side, was lugubrious here. It took sew
eral seasons to break in Wilson Barrett.
Lord Aberdeen is genial, but prosy
Dickens was the best man who pre-
coded Coleridge. but to the present gefi-
Grafton Of diners he is only tradition
and does not count. Sir Richard Web
ster, fancy, would have shown him
self good second to Lord Coleridge,
but his visit here was short, and very
few had the pleasure of hearing him. !
had that pleasure here as well as in
and he certainly has remark
able facility of expression, combined
with a fine vocabulary, keen sense of
hulnor and q thorough knowledge Of
humaD nature CQlaridpa however I
repeat, took the palm and has worn it
in the memory Of friends whom he met
here to this day. Chicago Inter Ocean
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
WILD BILL A SOLID MAN.
The Body Of the Famous Desperate Had
Turned to Stone.

Tho Body Of the Famous Desperate Had
Turned to Stone.
TIE climate of Colorado is so exceed
inSly dry in the greater portion Of tho
state that ordinary objects, such as po-
tatoes, vegetables of various sorts and
even small animals; petrify when COW
cred with sand. Tho body of Wild Bill,
the famous desperate, is today solid
stone. He was buried in sandy coun-
try near Telluride, and about four years
ago his friends decided to put up a mon-
ument to his memory. They went out
to his grave, which is in tho open
prairie, and one of tho party, an old
scout, was taken along to exactly locate
where he was buried The sand had
shifted and blown in great heaps as it
does all through that county, and the
scout had good deal of difficulty III
absolutely locating the spot. Finally he
struck mound that he said had Wild
Bill under it
Owing to the uncertainty Of the stu;
alton and his hesitancy, the party de.
Gded to dig down and see whether he
was right. Presently tho spade ran into
rock-;; scarce thing in that country.
They shoveled all around it, and soon
revealed the petrified image of Wild
Bill, as perfect as the day he died, with
not trace OF decomposition. Even the
clothes and shoes were turned to stone
Some Of tie parties wanted to take the
body up for the purposes of exhibition.
But one Of Bills old pals, Shorty Jake,
as lie was called, remarked that the first
man who tried to do SO would find a bed
in tho hole that Bill filled. So the idea
was !. D, ndoned. Washington Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
FAMILY HANDWRITING.
Experts Say Ali OF . Generation Have the
Same Characteristics.

Experts Say Ali OF . Generation lave the
Same Characteristics.
Experts in handwriting say that all
the people Of single generation write
alike, and it is well known that most
French handwriting has strong family
likeness to the eyes of others than
Frenchmen. Nearly all Cinnamon Of
the wasbhouse class look alike to super
fetal observers, and persons unaccus-
toned to colored persons find difficulty
In distinguishing one from another.
It needs. however, a comparison Of
two or three family photograph albums
Of 20 or 30 years ago to convince men
and women of today that there are strik-
ing superficial likenesses running
through Americans of a given genera
tion. All these old albums show curious
resemblances, chiefly perhaps of dress
and face, but sufficiently striking for
one family album at first glance to be
taken for another. AS page after page
of each is turned over there is tho same
succession of men, women and children
in full figure, sitting, standing, posed
in groups Of two or three, with hats,
without hats, draped in shawls, and
manifestly dressed In their best for the
occasion.
The photographers of those days
chose, for reasons Of their own, to make
full length pictures, and as they were
unusually small costume counted for q
great deal and helped to intensity the
general likeness running the whole gen.
Grafton. Press
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
MARKED ALIKE.

3 weird story of Two Men Whose Singular
Wounds Were the Same.
IT am not believer in ghosts, REIN
carnations OF the supernatural in any
shape, but / had q singular experience
somo years ago which have never been
able to account for satisfactorily, said
J. P. Lacroix Of Montreal.
81 was second mate Of merchant ship
in 1882. Among the crew was tough
customer named Lander, always in
trouble. He had frightfui scar, ex-
tending from brow to chin, the result
of dock fight. He had bullet wound
which had taken away the lobe of his
right ear, besides peculiar protuber::
ance like q wen ON his forehead. I
would take my oath there was not an
other man alive marked just like him.
At the end of that voyage Lander killed
his wife and cut his own throat. He
severed the windpipe, but he recovered.
The wound in his throat healed, but
left hole, which he had to cevef with
his hand when he spoke. He broathed
through asilver tube. He was tried and
convicted, and happening to be in port
I was present at the hanging and saw
the body buried.
''In 1890 I was ON the gold coast of
Africa. Ashore one day / camo across q
man bossing gang of negro laborers.
His form seemed strangely familiar, and
I started with surprise when I saw him
place his hand over his throat whe1i
giving some orders. Going closer, saw
tho scar, tho wen, the lobeless ear, the
hole in the throat, the silver tube and
every feature and characteristic of o
man saw hanged and buried. got
into conversation with him. Ho said
his aamo was DAIMLER. He was unable
to tell how he cainB by the wound in
his throat, car and face. He said he
must have had q long illness. He re-
membered being in hospital, he said,
but it was like dream, ard he had no
recollection Of his life before that.
''He said he remembered, while still
i'll, taking long voyage-he didn't
know where from-until he had landed
where I met him. He told me my face
looked like one he had seen i'll a dream,
but ho knew he had never seen mo be-
fore. How do account for it? I don't
try to. l ann only telling the facts. I
don't know whether DAIMLER was Lander
come to life again or reincarnation of
him. Maybe Lander's neck was not
broken and some scientific chap lad
Eeen experimenting Gil him with bat
terry. All know is that 10 two men
could possibly be marked in exactly the
same way. If it was Lander, he was
greatly benefited by the change, as on
inquiry I found that he bore splendid
reputation as a quiet, law abiding, peace
able citizen. Chicago Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
THEY ARE DEAD.


Thcro was q man who never told q lio-- q !.
Dut he's dead
Never said II was wet whom the weather was
Never said
He'd caught fsh whom he hadn't caught one,
Never said he'd donc something that he hadn't
done,
Never scoiled hla wife. and never got mad
And wouldn't believe that the world was 20
bad,
A respccter Of men. a defender Of woman.
Who believed the divine. aud In that which
was human.
syeck rs Moses--hc never was understood,
And the poor man died OF being too good.
And he's dead.
There was woman who never had gossiped ~
Bit Isl
She's dead, too
Who hated oil scandal. nor listened to,it:
She believed in mankind, took care OF her cat,
Always turned q deaf ear to this story or that.
Never scoldcd her husband-she .nevcr bad
one;
No slugGard was che, but rose with tho sun.
Never whispered III meeting. didn't care for
bonnet
Or all Of tho feathers that one could put on IT;
Never sat with the choir nor sang the wrong
note;
Expressed no desire to lecture or vote.
For tho poor soul WAS deaf AZ post-also
dumb.
You might have called forstor, and she
wouldn't have come.
And she's dead.
-Jcannette 10 Flamboy In Outlook.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
A FAT MANS DEED.
Story of a Tragic Scene ON a Brooklyn Trol
ley Car Which Might Be True.

Story of a Tragic Scene ON Brooklyn Troll
ley Car Which Might Be True.
A very stout cid Brooklyn gentleman
squeezed himself past two women on q
Putnam avenue car and wedged in be-
tween one Of them and q man at the
other end of the seat The ct was such
tight one that the women held their
breaths and assumed a pancake appear.
ance. At the corner where the car turns
into Putnam avenue the fat man turned
like big turret and put up chubby
finger. The car stopped.
Putnam avenue; Grand avenue and
Fulton streetp' shouted the conductor.
The fat man settled back and resum-
ed reading q newspaper, which he had
dropped in his lap.
WANT to get out herep'' asked the
conductor, with his hand ON the bells
rope.
The fat man shook his head There
was an angry twang Of the cord, and
the trolley began to whiz
At Nostrand avenue the chubby fin.
ger went up again. The car stopped.
Nobody moved. Then the man who rings
up the fares got angry.
''See here" he exclaimed after he
had climbed along the step on the side
Of the car Until he was opposite the
fat man, what do you mean by telling
me to stop for when you don't want to
get off?'
Why" responded the mountain Of
flesh as coolly as such mass Of adipose
could be cool, 1.-THE car jolts so that
couldn't read this paragraph, which is
slightly blurred. merely wanted to
have the car stand still until had fin
ished it. That's all. Now, if you can
go along slowly without jolting, will
be able to get along very nicely, but if
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
THE OLD GENERALS SCHEME.

Effective as mi Indian Extcrminators but
Too nIcrciless to Try.
IA good many years ago the Co.
manche Indians used to harry and an
noy tho people Of Texas by predatory
incursions, pretty much, fancy, as the
Scottish highlanders did their brethren
who dwelt in less mountainous regions, "
said Colonel ALT Mason Of the Lone
Star State. "The Comanches, too, had
exactly the Same purpose IN view that
animated the adherents of Rob Roy
the lifting Of cattle-and it would be
hard to say which made the greatest
success of the business, the sturdy free
boeters of Scotia or the copper hued
derizens Of the American plains. The
Texans of course resented to the ut
most this conduct of the redskins, and
many brave paid the death penalty
for trying to get away with horses or
COWS that did not belong to him.
''Many u poor settler, too, in trying to
save his little homestead, fell q victim
to the barbarous foe. Some unusually
cruel raids, III which number of white
women and little children We're butch
cred, about the year 1850, in William
son county, not far from the state CAPT
tai, caused the resentment of the people
to rise to a boiling pitch, and vengeance
was sworn against the whole tribe of
marauding red DEMONS. The affair was
SO ruthless in its atrocity that it came
very near being the cause of whole
sale slaughter Of the Indians, which
could have scarcely been justified
''The proposition came from one OF
the noted frontiersmen and Indian
fighters of that day, who has long since
crossed over the river, General Henders
son. The old man advanced it coolly
and could with difficulty be persuaded
to abandon it. It was to invite, under
the guise of pretended friendship and
reconciliation, all the Comanches that
could be assembled in great scope Of
surrounding country to big barbecue,
where there was to be eating and drink
ing galore and a general smoking OF the
Pipe of peace. 1t was to be q grand
feast, especially III the roast beef part
of the menu, said beef to be artistically
dressed with poison enough to kill every
son of gun Of an Indian that partook
Of it. Well, they wouldn't let the old
general carry out his scheme, and he
got very hot over it and to tho day Of
his death cursed the sentimental fools
that interfered with his plans for reduc-
Ing the Comanehe census ''.-Washing-
ton Post
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-09
QUEEN NcToRIA's CORONATION.
A Description of the Event as Seen by the
Fen,ous Dean Stanley.

A Description of the Event as Seen by the
Famous Dean Stanley.
The following concerning Dean STAN
ley's Wow CT the coronation of Queen
Victoria is taken from recently pub
ished life Of that remarkable man:
At 1890 another gun announced that
she was ct the abbey door, and in
about quarter Of an hour the process
sion appeared from under the organ,
advancing tip the purple approach to
the chancel, every one leaning over.
and in they came. First the great dukes,
struggling with their enormous trains,
then bishops, etc., and then the queen,
with her vast crimson train outspread
by eight ladies all in white, followed
by the great ladies of her court in enor-
nous crimson trains and the smaller
ladies with delicate sky blue trains trail
ing along the dark floor. When she
came within the full view of the gor-
geous abbey she paused as If for breath
and clasped her hands The orchestra
broke cut into the most tremendous
crash Of music l ever heard. II was
glad when they said unto me, Let us
go into the house Of tho Lord.
Every one literally gasped for breath
from the intense interest, and the fails
Of the gallery visibly trembled in ones
hands from the trembling of the specta-
tors. never saw anything like it.
Tears would have been a relief. Ono
felt that the queen must sink into the
earth under the tremendous awe. But
at last she moved on to her place by the
: altar, and, as heard from my cousin
who had place close Ly, threw herself
on her knees, buried her face in her
hands and evidently prayed fervently.
For the first part the silence was so
great that at my extreme point could
hear quite distinctly the tremulots but
articulate voice Of the archbishop. Aft;
erw5ard it was quite inaurlible The
great drawbacks were the feeble res
sponses to the service and the feebleness
Of the acclamation-hardly any at all
at the recognition and only tolerable
at the coronation. That was the crisis
of tho ceremony and the most striking
part. The very moment the crown touch
ed her head the guns went off, the
trumpets began and the shouts She was
perfectly immovable, like statue. The
Duchess Of Kent burst into tears, and
her lady had to put on her coronet for
her. Tho amounting was very beautiful
FROM tho cloth of gold. The homage also
from the magnificent cluster in the very
center.
It was take off, though necessary
one, suppose, that throughout her face
was turned away from the spectators
t>wsrd the altar. AL the movements