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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
The Spring valley Outrage.

With such a governor as Illinois has we
are not surprised that such an outrage
as that reported from Spring Valley is
possible in that state. We question
whether an outrage Of that sort would
be even thought possible in another state.
What are the circumstances They are.
In brief. that the Italians employed in the
Spring Valley coal mines have decided
that negroes shall not work in those mines
and that neither they nor their families
shall reside IN the town OF Spring Val
ley. According TO our dispatches yester-
day they not only notified the negro fam
lies that they must leave the town at once.
but under the lead Of the mayor of the
town they forced them out Of their houses,
transportation on the cars to Chicago be-
ing furnished them. The negro miners
were not present TO look after the inter
ests Of their families, they having been
driven to the woods by the armed italians,
some Of them having been seriously, If
not fatally wounded.
Why is it that no protection against
such an outrage was provided by the
sheriff Of the county? If the sheriff was
not able TO handle the mob, why did he
not notify the governor and call for assis-
lance? The governor knew. of course.
what was being done at Spring Valley,
because he had been reliably informed of
the state Of affairs there. He said, how
ever. that he would do nothing for the
protection Of the negro families. who were
F.of 1rft
sheriff notified him that he was unable
20 make himself master of the situation.
But should not the fact that the sheriff
was doing nothing to prevent the out
rage have aroused in his mind a suspi-
cion that that official was not doing his
duty?
The negroes in the south sometimes think
they have reasons to complain of the
treatment they receive, but we are conf
dent that in no southern state would
either foreigners or natives be permitted
to drive law-abiding negro families from
their homes. The authorities in no south
ern state would permit such a thing.
The Italians at Spring Valley are doing
just about as they please. They apparent
ly run the town. They couldn't dominate
it more completely if they owned it, They
respect no law that doesn't suit them.
The negroes of Chicago propose 10 help
the negroes of Spring Valley. They have
already taken steps to do so. We may
witness the spectacle of an armed body
of negroes going to Spring Valley with
out authority from anybody to give the
protection to the people of their
race which the authorities re-
fuse to give them. What a commen-
tary that would be on the administration
of the laws in the great state of Illinois,
The governor of that state already has
record of which no good man would be
proud. He seems to be in fair way of
making it still more unenviable.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
The Persistent Mnn.

About twenty of us got off the east
bound train at Elmer Junction TO take
the train over to Washburn, says the De
troit Free Press, and though we had been
told that We would have to wait two
hours it wasn't over ten minutes before
one of the crowd went to the little of
fee where the agent was at work on his
books and asked how long before the
sOuth-bOund train came along. The agent
answered him and hung out a sign read
ing:
1.-THE south-bound train is due at 4:30.
THAT is the first train due.
at arrives at Washburn at 6:10
at will probably be on time.
II can't hurry it up any.
II am not a bad man, but should any
person persist in annoying me after read
ing the above"
All of us read the sign, and is was sat
isfactory to all but a tall, stoop-shouI-
dered individual who read 1t aloud twice
over to himself and was evidently puz-
zled. He finally knocked on the door of
the office, and when the agent put his
head out the tall man said:
You have left sunthin' off your sign
out here
The agent glared at him and retreatad.
and the tall man got piece of paper and
a pencil and wrote and put up this sign
under the other:
Il am a peaceful man.
But l can't be bluffed
II persisted, and the kuss didn't do a
blamed thing"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
DIdn't Remember the Ione. Parl..

Don't you remember" he began. as he
sat down beside an acquaintance in a
Woodward avenue car. don't you remem-
Der OF my being in your Office some time
in March2"
I distinctly remember it," was the re-
ply, says the Detroit Free Press.
You dO2 That's lucky. Don't YOU also
remember Of my telling you that day that
man named Jones had threatened 10 as
sault me2'
NO, 10 not
But wait a bit When entered your
Office YOU were talking with a man with
red nose about a horse"
EXactly-Wanted 10 sell me a horse"
i stood by the window while he talked
70 you for several minutes"
IS. think you did"
when the red-nOsed man left men
toned the fact that it was showing"
Yes"
And then I spoke TO you about the
man Jones-how he had threatened TO
Must have been in some other office.
II is all new TO me about Jones"
But l am sure IL was IN your Office"
persisted the other. II called in the fore
noon"
You had just come back from chica-
Yes
And I said that Jones"
No-not a word about JONES'
We'll, then, what did l say?"
when the red-nosed man went out you
asked me if could lend you SO"
Il said couldn't
And was that aU2"
That was all. except that you tried
three or four other men on the same
moor; al! We're short. You are surely mis-
taken about Jones. Your object in com
ing up into our building was to borrow
so: You must have gone into some other
oulldinS with your story about Jones You
nave certainly gotten the two objects
mixed up. Can't you recall whether
you"
But the Jones man was there no longer
he had flushed up like a man hit in the
eye with tomato, and gone out on tho
rear platform to figure up how the mix-up
could have occurred
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
Effect of Calamity Howling.
Springfield Mass) Republican Qnd).

The Atlanta Constitution is piling up
lot of statistics showing the depreciation
in values OF property in Georgia within
the last few years, which are very dis
couraging 10 any one contemplating in
Vestments in that state. The COnstitu-
ton claims that there was a falling off
in the taxable values of property in Geor-
gia last year of over SIS 900, 900. and pre-
diets that the loss this year viii be $780,
100000 more. In other words, as COM
pared with the tax returns of 1898, there
has been a loss in the value of taxable
property in Georgia amounting 10 more
than $4,000 600" If the Constitution is
right. Georgia is growing poorer at the
rate Of about II per cent. in two years.
which Is not the sort OF record the capt.
talists who look for returns on their in
vestments are attracted by. What makes
the showing Tor Georgia worse, and sug
gests the Inference that maybe the boom
has broken in Georgia and permanent
reaction set IN, Is the fact that from 1891
to 1893, including the latter year, the in
crease In the valuation Of property in
Georgia was over S50,O0o,OO0 and this in
crease mad been steady for several years,
until. according To the Constitution, the
break came IN 1873
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
Personal.

a bust Of Charles Sumner. made by
me colored woman sculptor, ElmOndia
tLStWsls' VIII be one q The attractive ex-
ianta exposition.
WILLIAM Stuart Symington, Jr.. Of Bal
l.llofe' Who has been elected professor
~ Lae romance languages at Amherst,
spent nve summers IN Paris studying
H4eAch literature and philolOgy
Mrs. Tompkins Of Washington has
10y lroH shopping task. She has 10 buy
10Y ,.y lhing that the nine justices Of the
SeL5i f eiile court can possibly want Tor the
III professional work.
Sir James Stephen. father Of the
80 pr James Fitzjames stephen, once
Slii4hea cigar and because II was 50
generous never smoked another. This
ract IS stated in Mr.. Leslie Stephens
most Interesting life Of his brother.
Hall Gaines favorite work hour Is
LUSH he sits perfectly still In one OF
~ DIG chairs, that were Rossetus, until
~ nds composed all nc means to use.
m men ne orders a light and swiftly writes
OUT MS work as he has memCrized IL.
The Rev. DR.. L. l. Townsend, the
csleptated Methodist divine and pastor
OF the Mt. Vernon Place church in Balti-
more, has rendered his resignation, to
TAKE effect at the end Of the present con-
ference year Mr.. Townsend will leave the
literary work, as has been his desire for
some time past Mr.. Townsend went to
Baltimore from Boston.
John H. ParneH, brother Of the IA
NOUS nome rule leader, recently elected
70 parliament from south Meath, was
formerly a resident Of the south. After
the death Of Charles Stewart Mr.. Par
nel moved from Georgia and took pos
session OF the family estate, at Avon
dale, wherein is located The Meeting
OF the Waters" celebrated by Moore.
with his American experience as a guide
the new owner has built up novel and
profitable industry, in which he has little
or no competition. The estate now sup
pies large per cent. OF the umbrella
handles used in the United States, the
furze bushes which abound in that sec
ton being utilized for that purpose.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
A nehnfnhIe ane.tinn.

The recent massacre OF a dozen or more
English missionaries and the maltreat-
ment Of a number OF American mission
aries al Kucheng. China. suggest the
question whether the results obtained from
missionary work in that country are a
sufficient compensation for the lives that
are sacrificed and the money that is ex-
pended in the work. II must not be for
gotten that this Kucheng affair Is not the
only one Of the kind. There have been
many such outrages within the last quar-
ter Of century. some Of them being at
tended by circumstances Of revolving bar
barity. We have not the figures showing
how many missionaries have been maim-
Cd. tortured and killed IN China since 1870.
but the number runs up into the hundreds.
And what has been accomplished? No
doubt The good people who support the
missionaries are satisfied that a great
work has been done. but if we could get
at the exact truth it would probably ap-
pear that very few Chinese have been
genuinely converted TO the Christian re-
ligion. The number. II is pretty safe to
say. would not be sufficient to run a first
class Chinese laundry. The average China
man cannot comprehend the Christian re-
ligion. and it is question whether the
majority Of Cinnamon who profess to do so
are not mistaken.
There are not wanting good Christian
people who think more good could be
done with the money spent on foreign mis-
sions by using it among heathens and pow
erty-stricSen Christians at home. There
are hundreds of thousands of people in this
land Of ours who are actually in need of
bread They are to be found in every
town. The home missions, while conduct
ed by earnest men and women. do only
a very limited amount of the work that
needs TO be done. 1t would be much bet
ter TO keep the missionaries. men and
women. at home. and also the money it
costs to support them. This country is
a sufficiently large missionary field 10 af-
ford employment for all the surplus cash
and brains in the Christian churches. The
sending Of missionaries TO NEEDLE with the
religions of other countries is a waste Of
money and human energy.
England and this country will make a
greater show of demanding reparation for
the Kucheng outrage. but what can they
accomplish? They can get an apology
from the Chinese government. a promise
that such outrages will not be permitted
and probably some compensation for tho
families Of the sufferers, but what will
the apology and promises be worth? They
viii not be sincere.
The Chinese are hostile TO the mission
aries and would not tolerate them if they
were strong enough to drive them out
Of the country. The missionaries are
permitted TO remain not because they are
wanted, but because they have back of
them the military power of their respec-
tive governments. Under such circum-
stances their work is not likely to amount
TO much
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
The Penitentiary Investigation.
Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun Oem.).

This state of affairs recalls the investi-
cation conducted when Gen. John b. Cor
don was governor. The lessees then were
convicted of serious charges, and sub
derstood that if the state had at that
time been able to take charge of the ar
my of convicts, Gov. Gordon would have
promptly declared the lease forfeited.
But the state could have made no proVi-
sion at the moment for the Judgement of
the convicts, and there were no funds
available for use. The present lease has
several years vet to run, but there is
very good evidence that there is fragrant
violation of the law in the various camps
1t is an important duty, deVolved solely
upon the executive, but no one will doubt
that Gov. Atkinson will be fully equal to
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
.Hard Timesv at TaIbotton.

From Talbotton (Ga.) New Era Dem)
A creamery, an oil mill, free schools
and a brick yard, all established in a
town like TalbOtton In the past ninety
days, is, we are told, no evidence of bet
ter times either at present or prospective
Possibly it would require the establish
ment of two each of the above and an
assortment of half a dozen cotton mills.
the payment of all outstanding debts, and
a fat bank account to everybody's credit
to make better times To confess that
the times are improving would DESTROY
the silverites arguments, and such a
confession cannot be made, you know.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Senator German has been to see Sec
rotary Lamont. The secretary is known
as the politician of the administration.
The visit of the Maryland senator to him,
therefore, is full of meaning. 1t may be,
INDEED, that the administration democrats
in Maryland have something that the SEN
ator wants. and that he is ready to give
something in exchange for it. Senator
German is a sound money man, and prob
ably called the attention of Secretary
Lamont to what he could do in behalf of
sound money, and what the administration
democrats in Maryland could do toward
the election Of the German state ticket.
The President of the United States and
the governor Of Florida will present a
striking contrast upon their visit TO the
Atlanta exposition. The President has de-
clined the tender Of a military escort;
the governor has invited a regiment 10
escort him. The President will make his
trip unheralded: the governor viii be pre-
coded on his rounds by full military
band
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

1t is too bad about Senator Stewart. He
hurt his knee the other day. and has been
confined 10 his room ever since In the
meantime the people have had to worry
along without the daily explanation Of
why the market price of silver remains
about the same as before. notwithstand-
ing the prices Of cotton and wheat have
gone up. However, as soon as the senator
gets out, he promises to make up for lost
time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

It is better that the shooting OF the col
ored boy by Miss Flagler. in Washington
should be fully investigated by the grand
jury. The charge has been made that
her vindication by the coroner's jury was
procured irregularly and by sharp prac-
tiee, and nothing but the fullest investi-
cation can counterfeit the stigma of that
charge. Furthermore. the verdict of a
coroner's jury is not conclusive as to ones
innocence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Somebody the other day sent Police Com
missioner Roosevelt of New York an in
bomb. 1t was merely a dry suggestion
that maybe the sawdust game Mr.. Roose-
welt is playing will after a while lead
to an explosion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
Why 1t Cannot Live.
From the Columbia Is. O. State Dem.

10III VIIu OUIuIIIDId %. u STATE (Dem.).
The dispensary law cannot live in South
Carolina. 1t has in IT too much that is
offensive to the great body of the people
porting to suppress an evil, in the inter-
est Of morality, it does violence to rights
winch, in all the life of the state, have
been held above the touch of the legisla-
ture or the courts
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
lNDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

AIeeting-Zerubbabel Lodge No. Is. F.
& A. NJ
Special Notices-Coal Oil Johnny Soap;
yellow Rose Tobacco; To Uniformed
Members German Volunteers; Notice to
City Court Jurors.
Auction Sales-Handsome Parlor Suits
Etc. by J. Mclaughlin q Son.
Said Adam 10 Eve. Madam, I'm Adam
b H Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedule-American Line;
Red Star Line; Baltimore Steamship
Company.
Financial-R. b. sperry & Co, Dealers
in Southern Securities. Baltimore Nd.
Hop at Hotel Tybee To
night: Family Excursion; Third Annual
Excursion From Savannah to the Noun
tain per f. c. and =. Railroad.
A Few Cents Saved on Little Things
Adds to Your outing Funds-Appel &
Schaul.
Sixty Women Out Of Every Hundred in
Savannah Went to-Adler's.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

It will interest some people in Atlanta
20 learn that the latest addition to the
boomers of the bicycle girl is a pistol
pocket, and that in that pocket is carried
a little ivory handled revolver. well cal
culated 10 make any kind of a puppy,
Washers included, get away from the
neighborhood in short order. Indeed, it
would not be safe for even a personal
devil to get too fresh.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
why Fight n shadow.

From Jacksonville Metropolis Oem).
Why argue against a third term for
cleveland, when he, perhaps, does not
want it?. He has never shown such aspi-
ration Say what you may, but Grover
CLEVELAND is about as good a President
as this country ever had. His democracy
is of the Simon pure article, too.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Senator Stewart is going 10 take the
editorship Of a weekly silver paper. The
information will be gladly received, pro-
vided the senator will conine his fulEni-
nations to his own sheet Nobody can be
compelled to take the paper.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

That Bland boom must have got stuck
in the mud somewhere on the road to
Pertle Springs. 1t did not show up at
the convention.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
A Hammer County.

Worth county is one of the banner coun-
ties of the state Tax Receiver Price of
that county announces that the tax re-
turns of the county this year exceed those
of last year nearly $4,000.
IT, as the silverites say, the shrinkage in
the tax returns, last year and this year,
in many counties in this state, is due to
the fact that our minis are not open to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver,
why is it there is no shrinkage in the
tax returns from Worth county? There
has been no great amount of building in
that county, nor has there been better
crops there than in some of the other
counties.
1t is true that Worth county is a pro-
gressive county. Home seekers are find
ing that out. She has received a good
many immigrants within the last year
or two. No other county has finer farming
lands nor better climate. The time is
not distant when every acre in the county
that is susceptible of cultivation will be
occupied. She is already becoming ia
nous for her fruits, and for corn and cot
ton she is hard to beat.
The fact that there is no slump in her
tax returns this year is a big advertise
ment for her. 1t is an announcement that
her people are not talking poverty and
hard times. 1t is a sure sign that they
are prosperous, progressive and content
ed. Home seekers like to settle among
such a people. Worth county has a splen-
did future. She has no big towns, but
she has any number of fine farms.
The length of time the South Carolina
constitutional convention will be in ses-
sion depends entirely upon the number of
conservative" delegates elected at the
state election next month. The Tillman-
ties will be in the majority. of course. If
the minority is large enough and brainy
enough to accomplish that end, the
chances are that the convention will be
kept in session for two months or more.
If the minority is small and weak, the
majority will merely talk long enough
to exhaust the appropriation, and then
ratify the instrument which Senator Till
man will take TO Columbia in his inside
pocket, and go home.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Demand certainly does not control the
supply of presidential candidates. Silver
may have something to do with it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Some Holiness" people at Tabor, Ia
are making arrangements for the world
70 come TO an end in about ten days. So
sudden 4 collapse, however. would not be
fair. The democratic tariff has not yet
been given a thorough and sufficient test.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08


The report is that Harvey, the Coin"
fakir, is going upon the stage. to play
the part Of the hero in melodrama en-
titled The Silver Lining" Presumably
the hero will kill off all of the rascals in
vowed in the Crime Of 1873" They will
probably attack him sixteen at time.
and he will snuff out their sixteen miser-
able lives with one shot, using silver bull
lets. The play will be in sixteen acts,
each one hour long, and during each act
the hero will make up the average Of
speaking sixteen words every second. The
heroine viii be the silver statue Of Ada
Kehan. which was exhibited at the worlds
fair. and the villain. with the phiz Of
John sherman. viii make frantic endeav-
ors 10 swallow her every time the hero
winks his eyes. In the last act the hero
will brain the villain with the iawbone Of
an ass. with which Harvey has been pro-
vided BY nature. Tie silver lnirgp II
the thing works right. win Dc on the In.
side q IIarycys pocket
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

Martinez Campos of Spain and Cuba
might do well TO secure the services Of II.
H Holmes Of Philadelphia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08

In the central and southern counties
an immense corn crop is already assured"
says the Georgia crop report, published
yesterday. That being the case it is worth
while TO remind the farmers that there
is in the west still talk of a scarcity of
beef cattle, ana of the further fact that
pork never goes begging for a market in
the south. 1t may be that the market price
of corn win fall a little. in consequence
Of the big crop. but there are other ways
to sell corn than in the grain-or in the
juice, either.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
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