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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
Discoveries of Gold.

The Geographic dispatches continue to
bring reports of discoveries Of gold de-
posits. II only small proportion of these
new discoveries pan out" there should
within "a short time be no dearth of the
precious metal Even Boston now has,
or viii have almost at once. a gold mine
Gold has been discovered in somerville,
Boston suburb, and il is believed the
deposit viii prove to be quite rich Ores
taken from it have assayed S2i2 per ton
in gold and silver. Work has been begun
in the development of the deposit
Following this comes the announce
ment Of a discovery of gold twenty miles
from Chattanooga. Specimens from this
deposit gave l43 grains OF gold to the ton
Of ore. Just prior to the Chattanooga dis
covery. gold was found in paying quaint
ties at Hehin. Ala, and at Villa Rica, in
this state Gold deposits have also been
recently discovered in New York state.
In North Carolina only few weeks ago
several large nuggets Of almost pure gold
We're found in Cabarrus county since
which time gold mining has been pushed
in the vicinity.
1t would almost appear that the United
States are literally on a golden basis; that
deposits of the precious metal underlie a
large proportion of the country. Gold is
being discovered in sections where its
presence was probably not suspected, and
improved methods Of mining are making
profitable many deposits that under the old
methods could not be made to pay ex-
penses. Years ago the production of gold
in Georgia was deemed of sufficient i'm
portance 10 warrant the establishment of
a mint in this state. 1t is worthy of re-
mark that some of the most promising of
the recent discoveries have been in the
territory from which the Georgia mint
drew its supplies. 1t is also true that in
recent years not few of the Georgia
mines have been worked at a greater
profit than is generally known It is.
however, hardly probable that the gold
production in the Appalachian territory
win grow to such proportion as to call for
the re-establishing of a mint near at hand.
In the old days the matter of transporting
gold was a serious one, hence the demand
for the mint as near to the mines as pos
sibIe
The current activity in the search
for gold, and the success of the gold
seekers has important bearing on the
politics of the country Largely increased
productions Of gold would assist in settling
the silver question, and with that question
out of the way, it is conceded by business
men Of all sections that an era of great
prosperity would set in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
bright BITS.

-Jinks-Do you suppose a man with a
family can live on a dollar a day and be
a Christian?
Blinks-Of course. He can't afford to
be anything else.-New York Weekly
Mr.. Overtime (of Cincinnati. on his
wedding journey)-Wa,ter. you may
bring US ham and eggs for two.
Mrs OVerrhine-Im not going to let
my darling boy be extravagant. One ham
will do for both of US, waiter. I'm not
very hungry.-Leslie's Weekly.
-Fogg: My wife couldn't make head or
tail out of that play last night.
Bass: Women are not quick in such mat
tiers. Their intelligence doesn't seem
Fogg: Well, I don't know about that.
Next day she was able to tell me what
every woman in the audience had on
Boston Transcript
Excuse me, but are you Cab the
Gossip, of the New York Sunday
sergnch?
Wei. I have bit Of gossip for you. I
You? Really? (taking out her note
book) Give me the whole story"
1T IS very simple l was Du Maurier
typewriter. Bazaar
Boston culture sometimes crops out
where one wouldn't most expect it. In a
popular restaurant the other day, where
the prices are moderate and the waiter
girls pretty. middle-aged business man,
well dressed and of genteel appearances,
beckoned TO a waitress, pointed to some
open windows and said loudly:
Cant you shut down one o. them win
ders?"
Whereupon the girl called to the head
waiter:
''This gentleman wishes to know if you
won't please close one of those WINDOWS"
Boston Transcript
He; / don't known the idea of using
so much secular music in our church. Did
you notice the selection the organist play
ed last Sunday?
She: No. What was it?
He: l don't know the name of it, but it
is something I have frequently heard t
sacred concerts.-Harlem Life.
Romantic Miss: Have there not been
moments in your experience when life
seemed full of unsatisfied wants?
Mr. Hardhead: Yes. that's sol
Romantic Miss: At such times I always
fly to music for relief, What do you do.
Mr.. Hardhead?
Mr. Hardhead: 1 Observation-Disclosures
Sunday Herald.
The potentate plainly asitated. my
| courers." said he in angry tones to his
minister of war Inform me that all is
| in readiness to squelch the rebels who have
| dared to question our authority and yet l
| md you delaying the advance If
| thought there We're any treachery-"
Have patience oh brother of the sun
| ter, in the tone of one who was sure of
! his ground I'VE are but waiting for them
| to get out set of postage stamps, which
| we Will rush in and seize and by the sale
of them pay the whole expense of the
war"
Verify" said the admiring monarch
thou hast a head like tack"-Indiana-
polls Journal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

The travelling man who always Sun
days" in Kansas City when in the vicini-
ty. because his best girl lives here, was in
a cheerful frame of mind and told all the
stories he knew, says the Kansas City
Times. one of them is, perhaps, worthy
of record:
Last Wednesday," said he, Il was in
little town down in Kansas. l took lunch
at the only restaurant in the town. l or
dered a dish of strawberries, and the wal
ter brought me a heaping plate of them.
Fine berries, they were, too. 1 was sur
prised at the liberal quantity served, and
said So"
Cheapest thing we've got" said the
waiter.
"When l got ready to eat them, looked
around for the powdered sugar. The wal
ter came to me and said: Want powder
ed sugar. I said | did and he went away
and came back with a little powder gun,
such as they fire insect powder out Of
from which he squirted sugar over and
into the berries
Powdered sugars mighty high, said
he an berries be mighty cheap. We gen
orally sugar the berries ourselves when
they ask for sugar,
That's a new one on me- says l.
We'll, the boss is mighty close says
the waiter an has got to cut corners to
make a Twin. Some hogs used ter come in
here and put two spoonfuls of sugar on
plate of berries, an so he thinks up this
scheme
The powder gun has its advantage when
device, because it squlrts the sugar into
the crevices and puts some sugar on
every berry instead of all the sugar on the
top berries.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
The 3ic,cIist and the she'll Roads.

The BicycIist and the she'll Roads.
Ben Franklin illustrated the necessity
for taking care Of little things by his
moral OF the man who was killed for the
want Of horseshoe nail For the want
Of the nail. the horse was lost and for the
want or his horse. the rider was lost. be-
ing overtaken and killed by an enemy.
There is no danger Ct such a dreadful
fate 20 one who meets with a mlshap on
one Of our highways. but when a bicyclist
has his tire puncturcd or cut by an oyster
shell. in the fullness and sharpness Of its
youth. three or four miles out on the shell
road. he feels THAI he would like to turn
the tables on those who put the shells
there. and do something violent to them
The shell road companies charge . cents
per cycle for using their roadways, and
they SHOULD see to it that
their patrons not only get
the worth Of their nickels, but
also that they are not damaged in person
OF in pocket so far as the company can
prevent IT. Instead of doing this. however,
the managers of the shell roads scatter.
or caused to be scattered, live oyster shells
over the roads. and the most careful rider
discovers when far away from his base,
that his tire has been punctured, and ne
has 20 foot it back to town trundling his
bike.
There are laws against scattering tacks
and other similarly dangerous articles on
roads. and there should be one to prevent
shell road companies from putting on their
roads that most dangerous implement of
destruction. the live oyster shell. It would
pay the shell road companies to provide
right ana left-hand bicycle roadway on
their roads and keep them in good order
for bicyclsts, or have a crusher to rem
der the shells harmless to bicycles and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
Hofes Praised.

The newspapers OF the silverites are
teemlE with praise Of Gov. Boies Of Iowa.
lie is their candidate for the democratic
nomination for President. They declare
he is a great and good man. He may be
a good man. but We have grave doubts
Of his greatness.
In The Iowa state democratic conven-
tion he offered a resolution 10 the effect
that if our m-nts should he thrown open
TO the free coinage Of silver at the ratio
of 16 to ]. and ii was found that the gold
and silver dollar could not be maintained
on parity AT that ratio. the Iowa democ-
racy would assist in establishing new
ratio 10y which such parity could be
maintained.
The Iowa democrats questioned Gov.
Boies' wisdom by voting down his prop
osition. They had doubts OF his wisdom
and lacked sufficient confidence in him to
follow him. Gov. Boies. by his resolu-
tiou, virtually admitted that geld and s.l-
Yer cannot De maintained on parity at
the ratio Of Is to /. He said in effect.
however. let us experiment with free sill
yer coinage. knowing fun well that the
experiment he proposed would cause pan
les, business disasters and ruin such as
the country has never yet seen.
No Intelligent man needs to experiment
TO find out whether silver could be main
tanned on parity with gold If the
coinage of silver were made unlimited at
the ratio Of 16 TO !. There have been
many similar experiments. and the results
OF them are accessible to all
II Gov. Boics' utterances and propo-
sitions in respect to silver show him to
be a great man. then the country is full
Of great men. but they are not the kind
of great men the people are willing to
trust
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
One of the Shortest strikes.

y X Van Winkle. genera sUperinten-
dent OF the Big BOur, once made the quick
est settlement OF a Dig strike on record
said the old timer 10 the indianapolis
journal 1t was al Springfield, o.,
mink The men. or great portion Of
them, had gone OuJ. and an effort was
made 20 get the others 10 strike. Van
Wrinkle arrived and found the town PA
car led with notices that there was TO be
a mass meeting Of railroad men AT GER
tam nall 20 take some action on the strike
ne sag tnat he would attend the meet
ing Inc men were inclined 10 oe tur-
Du-ent, and an attempt was made 70 per-
sud1e MIN not 10 60 But at the noGr set
ne presented himself at the door OF the
informed him that he could noc come in.
That's "a railroad mans meeting. isn't
II, jack asked Van Wrinkle. VINO knows
nearly every man on the system by his
nrst name.
:. That's what is it,
Well, I'm a railroad man, and want
'' Can't DO it. Van. The boys would OBJ
e You don't dispute my being a railroad
man 10 your
oh, no; you are a railrOader AL right;
Dut not the kind we want at this meeting"
A.. JACK, ! tel you Wnat you DO. You 20
In and tell the boys that l am out here
and want 20 come IN. / don't think many
OF them viii object
The doorkeeper went inside, and in a
lew minutes returned and invited Van
Wrinkle into the hall As soon as he was
past the door a yell that shook the build
ing went up. Before there We're any de-
lroerations. Van Winkle was called on for
speech. He got on the platform and
talked TO a lot Of men he used 10 do
yard work with, pointed out 10 them the
mistake they were making, and assured
them that he would see that any just
grievance they had would be righted a.
once. When he had finished he was asked
to retire, and as he left the room more
than half the men walked out with him,
remarking: What Van says is GOOD
enough for US In an hours time the
strike was at an end, and all the men
were at their places. Van Wrinkle inves-
ranged matters satisfactorily to all con-
1aa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

A now confidence game is being worked
on the negroes Of the south. Confidence
men. finding the northern field pretty well
worked, and having more trouble to sell
gold bricks to conhding backwoodsmen
than they used to, have turned to a new
pasture. They are now feeding upon the
ignorance, innocence and credulity of the
negroes 1t has not been as much as
year since a sharper from one Of the
northern states garnered comfortable
fortune by selling to southern negroes
an edition of the Bible in which the
prophets and the angels We're pictured
with black faces and kinky heads. 1t
costs about $50 to produce the books, and
they were sold on the installment plan
for Sl2, one-third cash and the balance in
monthly payments.
The negro angel Bible struck the race
in a tender spot. for if there is anything
that the average colored person dotes on
more than another, it is his religion. And
next to his religion comes his politics.
1t is upon the negro's political weakness
and his love of getting something for
nothing that this new swindler IS working.
In the regular course of events some
negro receives a pension. 1t sets all of
the negroes in the neighborhood to talk
ing. Presently there comes, from some
where. a sleek and voiuble pension agent
from Washington, sent down by the com
missioner" to make examinations and
take applications for pensions. He has
lot Of formidable looking papers, with
great red seals on them, to prove his
identity and authority. The sight of the
papers at once allays any doubts that
may have arisen with regard to him. He
tells the negroes that the great republi-
can party has arranged to pension every
colored soldier for the union, and their
wives and families. He lays great stress,
however, upon the necessity for secrecy
in the matter. asserting in the most pos
tive terms that if the white people OF
the south were to hear of it they would
make such a kick that President Cleve-
land would stop the pensions. He then
goes to work to examine every eX-
soldier among the negroes. or their wives,
and children, and mothers and grand
mothers if the soldier is dead, or the
whole lot of them if he finds them suffi-
GENTLY credulous. Applications, or what
purports to be applications. for pensions
are made out, and sealed with red seal
ing wax Your swindler knows how to
be dramatic and awe his victims
with red tape. The next movement, and
the object of the whole trick, is to col
lect money for registry, postage, sta
tionery and incidental expenses" Usu-
ally the fee is 81 for each application,
though the pension authorities at Wash
ington have discovered where IS has been
charged and collected. When one of the
bogus agents visits settlement he rarely
leaves until he has taken the applica-
tons of pretty nearly every negro in it.
| and it generally takes him no longer than
a day or two to do it. Then he skips
out, and is never heard from again by
his dupes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
4 Contingency.
n NVkE 7 \ n > NY
From the Baltimore Sun CDem1.

A majority of the democratic national
convention can adopt a platform, but
two-thirds are required to nominate a
candidate From these rules interesting
results may follow If the silverites are
form, that will not profit them if they
are not strong enough to nominate. The
sound money element are pretty certain
ton. AS they do not consider sound
money a matter to compromise, they will
be in a position to defeat bad nomina-
ton. They may, if they see fit, prevent
any nomination at all if the silverites
are bent on abandoning the traditional
sound money doctrine. This may cause
the latter to secede from the party.
which will be a great advantage to it.
Ii is the assumption of the name of dem
ocrat by people who are not democrats
that has been running the party for years
past.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
They Figured ON II.

He had been knocking on the kitchen
door for ten minutes, says the Detroit Free
Press, when the woman of the next house
on the left opened her side door and quer-
led:
Cant you see the house is empty?"
mo, ma'am," he replied. LAS / can on
ly see the outside of it l know nothing
about the inside. Then the house is va
cant?'
Yes, sir
Family moved out?"
yes"
Where did they move to?''
Il don't know"
Rather sudden, wasn't it,
''They went when they got ready, Y
suppose. Do you want TO rent?"
ooh, no."
"Bill collector?"
''Noap You see, ma am, [ called here on
Friday and asked for an old pair of shoes. i"
"Oh, you did.
The lady told me to call again and
she'd hunt me up pair. That's why I am
here"
We'll, theymoVed yesterday"
" es, they moved yesterday. They evil
IDENTIFY figured on it and found ii cheaper
to move ttnan TO give me the shoes, and so
they took fit. Perfectly correct. It's nor
what you earn but what you save which
makes q fat bank book
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

In all of the pictures printed of St. Louis
after the disaster there appears a torn
and disheveled mass of electric wires
When the buildings began to so down,
wires were broken and fell, being a men
ace to all persons who had to go into the
streets. The probabilities are that some
of the fires in East St. Louis were caused
by broken wires, and there is no way of
telling whether or not fatalities occurred
in the streets by people coming into con-
tact with the wires. Several years ago
in this city. it will be remembered, a man
ran at night against a wire broken down
by a storm, and was killed. one lesson
from the ST. Louis disaster would seem
to be, bury the wires
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
A Dialogue in the Night.

The man in the upper berth leaned over
its edge say the Eastern Argus, iammtnp
his frown firmly down on his brow. cried
in a harsh, coarse voice that was audibIa
above the rattle and rumble of the en-
CINE:
Hi! you down there. Are YOU ricbq"
'Heh?" calculated the man in the lower
berth, almost swallowing his Adams an
pie ''Whazzer mazzer?"
Il say, are you rich?"
Whats that. sir! Rich? What do Won
mean by waking me up in the middle Of
the night to ask me such a question as
that?'
Il want to know that's why"
well, then confound you l am rich
Now l hope your curiosity is satisfied and
you viii let me go to sleep.
VERY rich?"
millionaire, counfound you Now shut
up, and -"
We'll, then, why in torment don't Won
charter whole train to do your snoring
iy17 %
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
CuriOsities of Women.

Women pin from left to right, men from
right to left, says London Truth. Women
button from right to left, men from left
to right. Women stir from left to right
(their tea, for instance), men from right
to left.
Women seldom know the difference be-
tween right and a left Shoe and if n
housemaid brings up mans boots. she
win nine times out of ten place them 90
that the points will diverge.
Can these peculiarities be explained?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
No Chance for a silver victory.

If the free silverites should control the
Chicago convention they would count up
on carrying the silver mining states of
Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah
and Wyoming, which have only nineteen
electoral votes. But these are republican
states, and there is every probab ility
that they would cast their votes for
Mckinley on the doctrine of protection
as against a free silver democrat 1t is
observed that New York alone has more
electoral votes than all the silver mining
states. AS the free silver candidate
could not carry the solid south the loss
of such sound money states as New York
New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and
Indiana makes it a foregone certainty
that the nomination of a free silver can
didate on free silver platform at Chi
cage would be a piece of monumental and
suicidal fOlly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

Quite a number of tenement buildings
in New York are to be pulled down. Be
ing badly ventilated and unsanitary, they
are causing great deal of sickness and
many deaths. Hereafter all tenement
buildings will be built under Official di-
rection, and in a manner to preserve. not
only the health of the occupants, but that
Of the city as well.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

In announcing that Congressman Bailey
of Texas is to instruct Kentucky demo-
Gratis how to vote at the coming primary,
the Louisville Courier Journal says:
Young Mr.. Bailey of Texas is for free
silver. a bolt and bust" That is about
the size of it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

Tennessee was admitted to the union
100 years ago to-day. The centennial Of
the event will be celebrated in Nashville
to-day and tomorrow by appropriate ex-
ercises, including the dedication of the
great centennial exposition. which is to
be opened May |, 1897. and continue for
six months.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

The other day a bulletin reading: est.
Louis struck by a cyclone and wrecked"
was sent to London. On the bulletin
boards it appeared in this form: THE
steamship St. Louis has been wrecked
by a cyclone. one thousand lives lost"
1t probably never occurred to the En-
glishman who posted the bulletin that
there is in Missouri a city bearing the
same name as the steamship.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

The republican situation is now in a
nut shell. and these are the facts: Nc
Kinley is obliged to hold his tongue on
the silver question. as he cannot be
nominated without the aid of the silver
men. nor can any high tariff legislation be
passed without their aid.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

A Southern Society has been organized
in Chicago made up of former residents
of the southern states. It's objects will
be social and fraternal as are those of
the wen known Southern Society of New
York. The Chicago society win hold an
nual banquets and other social func-
inns
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

1t appears that there are 15S contested
seats at st. Louis, and the list is not yet
closed. There was a time when these
coptests We're interesting, because it was
thought likely that they held the balance
Of power. But that time seems to have
passed