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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
A PiscatoriaI Disappointment.

Not many years ago the German carp
was a fad Newspapers and magazines
sung the fsh's praises. The wonderful
carp offered possibilities for improving
the menu of every dinner table in the land.
Every man who pleased to do so might
have fish course at dinner. II he could
not afford meat he could dine on the delec-
table German carp and never notice the
lack. The fad spread from one end of the
country to the other. Almost everybody
who had little plot of ground with a
water supply near at hand went to work
to build a fish pond, and to stock the
ponds with carp. Visions of baked carp,
and roast carp, and carp chowder, and
planked carp. and carp in the thousand
and one ways that the artists of the kitch-
en- are capable of cooking fish, spurred
the enthusiasts in their work. And there
were also dreams of market wagons laden
with the fish on the way to a waiting and
eager market.
That was the expectation The reaIiza-
tion is quite different. This latter condi-
ton is illustrated pointedly in the action
recently taken by the Maryland Game and
Fish Protective Association. If its wishes
and plans prevail, the carp will be exter
minated from the waters of the state
within short time. The fish has not
only been found as poor food as swims
but to be an unmitigated nuisance besides.
lie Is finned and gilled hog, and buzz
card, and sioth, and cannibaI. and a lot
Of other disreptutable things, with all of
the bad qualities of the several things
mentioned, and others, and none of their
good qualities. To degree the carp occu-
pies in the waters the position that the
English sparrow does in the air. He is
no good himself, but he chases away or
Kills species of his kind that are good.
The carp is glutton, with taste for the
eggs of every species of fish that swims
including his own family Mrs. Carp has
to keep up incessant warfare upon her
own spouse to keep him from devouring
ms own progeny. She is very successful.
however and the family increases with
great rapidity. When Mrs. Carp has beat
en- the old man away from her own nest.
she will join him in raid upon a neigh
boring nest, and fight with him over who
shall have the most of the spawn for din
ner.
The carp ponds that dotted the topogra-
ply of the country several years ago have
gone to ruin. Their stocks, however. did
not go the same way. They got into the
lakes, streams and rivers, and have been
playing havoc with their superiors ever
since. The Maryland game association is
of the opinion that the carp is inimical to
everything else that swims, and that but
for the carp in the fresh waters of the
state, the fishing would be as good now
as it used to be in the days that the grey
whiskered fishermen delight to tell about.
The Maryland association purposes inter
esting the United States fish commission
in the work of exterminating the carp. If
we remember rightly, the commission was
one of the chief propagators of the carp
fad. If that is true, it really ought to
help undo the misfortune that has been
occaSioned
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
silence Was Heard.

IN a well-known bank in Edinburgh the
clerks are presided over by a rather i'm
petuous manager. whose violent fits OF
temper very often dominate his reason,
says Parsons Weekly. For instance. the
other day he was wiring into one of them
about his bad work
Look here, Jones'" he Numbered. "tbis
wont do These figures are a perfect dis
grace to a clerkl l could get an Office how
TO make better figures than those. ana I
tell you wont have it! Now. look at that
FIVE, it looks just like three. What 40
you mean, sir, by making such beastiy
igures2 Explain?
Ter beg your pardon, sir" Suggested
the trembling clerk, his heart futtering
terribly butter, well. you see. sir. h
is a three"
"A three?' roared the manager. "v-hv
1t looks just like a fvev'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Southern Const Defenses.

The apprehension evinced by Gov.
Mitchell Of Florida, in his call for a south
ern states harbor defense convention is
not without reason. From day to day
there is talk, either in Washington or else
where, of the possibility of war with
Spain, aud it has not been a great while
since there was serious speculation as 10
the probability of war with England. We
are peaceful people, but we are not
immuned from war. Trouble with some
foreign country may come sooner than
anybody now dreams Of. Gen. Bradley r.
Johnson expressed himself the other day
to the effect that the prospects for an
alteration with Spain shortly after the
Inauguration of Mckinley were good; that
be called good"
Are we prepared for war, even with
Spain? The question carries its own an
swer. Our navy is probably better than
Spains, and if it We're possible for our
ships to corner those of the Spanlards,
the war would no doubt be soon over. But
no such thing could be done. Meantime
we have hundreds of miles of sea coast,
and many rich and populous port cities
absolutely unprotected. Especially is
this the case with regard to the South At
lantic coast, which would be the section
the Spaniards would first turn their atten-
ton to in the event of trouble. New York
is the only port on the Atlantic that is
even fairly We'll defended, while the ports
of the south are practically without de-
lenses. A little something is being done
at Pensacola in the way Of preparing de-
fensive works. But even if the works
were highly efficient, Pensacola is neither
a great port nor a great city. New Or
leans, Jacksonville Savannah, Charles
ton, Wilmington and Norfolk, are great
maritime cities. each more or less open
to attack by strong enemy. Each is
capable of being made impregnable but at
present each would be comparatively
soft mark for a strong fleet under COM
petent direction. The cities would be COM
PEELED to depend for defense upon crude
and hurriedly constructed torpedo works,
and might be placed under contribution
ny al SuelAy before the American navy
could be brought to the rescue.
1t is gratifying to know that a start has
been made upon the important work of
providing harbor defenses. Contracts are
now being let, under authority of con-
gress, for certain work at a number of
the ports. BY letting the contracts now,
the Secretary of War hopes to be able to
secure from congress the appropriations
that are needed. Congress, however, has
not of late years been fully alive to the
importance of coast and harbor defense
works. 1t has been the hardest matter
in the world to secure appropriations
large enough to preserve the old forts
from decay, much less to build modern
ones and arm them with improved high
power guns. Any movement, therefore.
that has for its object the screwing of
congress up to the sticking point in the
matter of appropriations for coast and
harbor defenses, is a movement i'm the
right direction. The sooner the seaports
are provided with proper defenses, the
better 1t will be for the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Clinton Lodge, No. "a, F. and
A. NJ: Savannah Tribe, No. 4. Imp. O..
r. NJ.
Special Notices-Receivers Sale of
Kohler's Stock, c. f. Law, Receiver.
Many Men of Many Minds-Falk Cloth
ing Company.
Children's Hose-B. H. Levy & 30.
Carpets Cheap+Daniel Hogan.
Cottolene-N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Stoves, Furniture Carpets. Bicycles
Lindsay & Morgan.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Medical-Hoods Pills; Dufy's Malt
Whisky.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted For Rent:
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The Macon Telegraph, which is daily
reporting the senatorial timber market,
and commenting on the logs that are Of
fered at the Kimball house timber-boon.
giving some description Of the knots.
windshakes and other flaws in the small
and crooked logs offered, has the infor-
nation that "the Turner log will be on
the market to-day. The Telegraph saws
of this piece Of timber: "Thls is a. log Of
full size, straight and entirely free from
knots, rot or windshakes, and contains
strictly highgrade timber. 1t would be
altogether to the credit Of the legislature
and the state to have this piece of senato-
rial timber utilized"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Speculation is now rife as to what bust
ness the members of the Cleveland ad-
ministration will turn their attention to
after the Inauguration of Mai. Mckinley.
A Washington dispatch says Secretary
Herbert is expected to retire shortly from
the navy department to accept an appoint
ment to the bench of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia. Another dis
patch from the same city bears the more
interesting rumor, that President Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle will form a
copartnership for the practice of law in
the city of New York, under the firm
name of Cleveland & Carlisle Another
report is to the effect that great bust
ness concern has a standing offer to Sec
rotary Carlisle of $4,000 year to take
charge of it's legal affairs. Postmaster
General Wilson, according to the stories.
is to go on the bench of the federal Judi
ciary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
To Dish the DemOcratss
Springfield CMass) Republican Qnd.)

Gov-elect Pingree of Michigan reports
that Mckinley agrees with him regarding
trusts and corporations. "He knows that
something has got to be DONE and he
knows as well as anybody that they are
rotten to the core. -" thus speaks Pingree
after his pilgrimage to Canton. Disraell
once "dished" the English wings by adopt
ing their radical programme; can it be
that Mckinley and Hanna propose to
dish" the democrats on the trust and
plutocracy issue2 1t would be the wisest
thing they could do.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

A romantic story OF sudden transition
from poverty 70 affiuence comes from
Lockport-on-the-canal, N. Y. Richard
Fikey' aged rs, had been laborer on the
canal Tor several years. He asserted that
ne mad seen better days, and was in dis
grace with his family because ne had
peeh wild boy at college. But nobody
believed him. few days ago. however
lawyer sent for Pilkey and told him that
a relative who had just died. had left him
sz'oVaoO and gave him a fat check as +,
starter on the inheritance. Pnkey imme.
diately resigned his Sls a month lob. and
LEFT to take charge Of his estates.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

1t seems that they have not yet learned
In some parts Of Florida, that the ma
tional government has control of the
financial policy of the country. and that
the recent election settled that policy for
at least four years. They are going TO
hold municipal. election in Ocala shortly,
and the News Of that city says the cur
rency question will be the supreme is
sue in the municipal campaign. Presum-
ably the free silver candidates propose
TO open the mints of Ocala to silver on
equal terms with gold, at the ratio Of
l6 to ], without waiting for the consent
Of any other town.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The Augusta Chronicle gives editorial
prominence to the fact that Mr.. C. d.
Lane. a California mine owner and mill
ionaire, Is anxious to pay Mr. Bryan's
expenses If he will keep up the silver agi-
tation for four years. Mr.. Lane is so
anxious to have the people educated"
that he is willing to pay the cost of II.
His philanthropy will be appreciated by
the people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina
serves notice upon Mr.. Bryan that he need
not hope for populist endorsement in the
event of his candidacy for the presidency
four years hence, unless he repudiates the
name of democrat and declares himself
squarely populist, or something else
meaning precisely the same thing. But
ler's paper, the Caucasian, of Raleigh
says: 1--WE take the liberty of serving no.
tice on Mr.. Bryan that if he desires to
head the reform forces of the people S
party in the next fight, he must do so
under some other name than that of dem
ocrat. We are done with them now and
forever, and also with any man who seeks
to lead the people hereafter" under that
party name. This is richness, coming from
the boss fusionist of the recent cam
pagn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
weyIer's Campaign.
From the Columbia Cs.sc) state Il

For ten months Weyler has been beat
ing Maceo with great personal ease by
sticking yaii-colored pins into a war
map. Admonished- by the home govern
ment he is nov going to try to achieve
the same result by sticking them into
Maceo himself AS this perforation is to
be performed in the inaccessible strong
holds Of unnamable mountains. 1t may
not prove. as easeful as the other, but it
will be decidedly more interesting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record, a protege of the late
James G. Blaine, says that Chauncey M.
Depew, Whitelaw Reid and Andrew d.
White are active candidates for the port
folio of Secretary of State in Maj. Nc
Kinley's cabinet. If Boss Plat has any
say-so in the matter, Mr.. Reid will not
get the place. Mr.. Reds paper, the
Tribune, has been fighting Plat without
gloves for a long time, and the "easy
boss would not hesitate to retaliate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Reward for Eminent Services.

A number of very ordinary politicians
are being mentioned for places in Nc
Kinleys cabinet, but of course they will
get nothing more than the advertising the
newspapers thus give them. This will be
the reward for their eminent services dur
ing the campaign, and they will have to
lie content with it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
A Foolish Habit.
columbus (Ga) Enqulrer-sun Dem.

The will OF the late Gen. Joseph ]. Tor
rance Of Chicago shows that he was pos
sessed of only $65OOOO. While he was alive
he was estimated to be worth at least
100000, and some placed as high as &c.,
100000. BY the foolish habit of exagger-
aung the wealth of the rich, much has
been added to the discomfort of the
masses of the American people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Among the many other things we have
20 be thankful for this November is the
fact that there is no Gov. Pennoyer in
Office, to set apart a Thanksgiving day
differing in date from the one designated
by the President of the United States, and
to make his proclamation a ladel with
which to fling mud on the President.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Chicago dispatch tells of the forma-
tion in that city of the Southern Devel-
opment Company, whose object is to
"make garden spot of a tract of 100000
acres of land in Southern Alabama. We
be pardoned for mentioning that there is
room in the south for other southern de-
velopment companies. In fact. the whole
south is dotted with spots that are just
awaiting the touch of progressive incom-
ers to become blooming and fruitful gar
dens
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

A ray of light breaks through the dark
and lowering, albeit sllver-liued. cloud
about Tom Watson's head. He has al
ready been nominated as the populist can
didate for the presidency in 1900. And
o. happlnessl-the nomination comes from
Maine the home Of sewan. The Maine
Populist, edited by Chairman Bateman.
has nailed the name OF Watson to its
masthead.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
As 1t Looks From a instance.
From the Augusta Chronicle pem)

Trading in the senatorship at Atlanta
is freely talked about. 1t is said that
Mr.. duBignon has a following in the
legislature backing Mr. Clay, who, if
successful. promises to help duBignon to
get Bacon's place in 1900. This is a long
lock ahead and there may be difficulty
in delivering the goods. Has Clay be-
come a "sounC money man?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Why is it that we no longer see in the
columns of the esteemed silver organs of
this state the assertion that an ounce of
silver will always purchase a bushel of
wheat? Have they discovered that the
assertion is not true or is it that they
think it would not be advisable to repeat
it now that an ounce of silver is worth
65 cents and bushel of wheat 80 cents?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

"Col Josiah Patterson is one of those
sturdy and lifeful sprouts that sometimes
break through the crevices and assures
of political expediency," says the Mem
phis Commercial-AppeaL. Such tribute
paid to a solid gold advocate by silver
organ is notable. Nevertheless, there is
room for the fear that Col Patterson has
sprouted this season just in time to be
nipped by the frost.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

From the Nashville American.
On rainy days 1 take my pipe an set
Upon the perch an dream thar by the
hour;
The raindrops, PATTERN downward, seem
to get
The fowls to praisin' for the gentle
shower!
Upon the fence the partridge stands up
right
An slides his whistle-shuttle through
the haze;
An, circlin', chimley-swallers sink from
sight.
On rainy days.
All sounds rise low an meller, like the
tone
OF preachers readin' of the ritual, while
a peterbird swings on limb alone,
An geese acrost the woodslot slowly file
UP from the kitchen, on the air a-swim
My daughters voice comes in a song of
An then my soul floats heavenward on
the hymn,
On rainy days.
Will T. Hale
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Next Election in Georgia.
From the Macon News Dem.).

The next election on the programme is
a purely Georgia affair. 1t involves
grave issue. Shall the state of Georgia
have capable jurists or slick politicians
on the supreme bench?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Mai Mckinley is having all sorts of
honors thrust upon him. The Brooklyn
board of aldermen have changed the name
of Adams avenue in that city to Mckinley
avenue
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The Indiana congressmen-elect have hit
upon a scheme TO save themselves annoy
ance from candidates seeking appoint
ments to postmastershlps. They will
make recommendations only after an
election has been held by the patrons Of
the offices to be filed and then they will
recommend the candidate who has re-
ceived the majority Of votes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Joseph T. McCullagh. editor OF the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, is reported to be
seriously III. 1t was Editor McCullagh
who described editorial ability as the fac
ulty to tell where h. would break loose
next. and have reporter there to write
II up'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Maj. Mckinley has had his measure
taken for a new hat. The dispatch Civ
ing the information fails to tell from
whom he won if
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The New York police board has broken
through the color line for the first time,
and appointed a colored man special
policeman. Heretofore police boards Of
New York have declined to invest colored
men with the power to arrest. Southern
cities have employed colored men on their
police forces for years. For long time
a colored man was one of the lieutenants
of police of Charleston; and he made a
very good reliable and efficient officer.
So far as is known to the contrary, he is
still occupying the position.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

The Augusta Chronicle asks HAS Clay
become a sound money MANI" 1t
wouldn't be surprising if he has. He is
credited with having a right smart lot
of common sense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
LOWELL INGRAlNS---

All wool, through and through. cboica
patterns and very rich coloring. The hest
Ingrains in America, and a line we bave
handled for nearly a quarter of a centn1
ry. We guarantee everything about these
goods and at dollar a yard thew are
cheap but for this week the price, made
and laid, is NO
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-08-26
'.THE CAIisES OF DISCOyTEyTn

In another part of this paper we pub
lish a bold, candid and scorching edi-
torial under this caption, which APP
peared in the New York World Of re-
cent date, that will be edifying and
entertaining to our readers II patron
age be the true test, the World is not
only the wealthiest, but the most popu-
lar and influential Democratic news.
paper in the country. 1t will be seen
that the World directly charges that
the present unfortunate agitation that
convulses the United States, and which
may end in unparalleled distress and
disaster, is wholly due to the perfidy
OF the Administration and 10 ''the con
slant growth of corporate and pluto
cratic influence at Washington" No
indictment of the President and his
copartners IN running the Government
in any Republican journal has been
so savage and %scathing, and being
Democratic testimony of the most un
assailable character it will have to go
into the record without challenge. In
the present disrupted condition OF the
Democratic party, when the frantic
factions are rending each other with
the frenzy of the mad tigress fighting
for her cubs, we are bound to get the
facts that make up the true genesis of
Jul national disappointment ana woes
from the Democrats themselves.