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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19
savannah, Ga.
BIG BARGAINS

In Family Horses, Buggies etc., Pony and
Buggy TO correspond. Also Cash Registers
Safes and Fixtures for fine grocery.
FINNS AUCTION ROOM,
so Broughton street
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO SUPERIOR COURT JU-
RORs.

All petit jurors are hereby discharged
from Monday morning to Tuesday
morning, subject to further notice
BY order of His Honor Judge Falligant
JAMES X. K. P. CARR,
Clerk s. c. G. C.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19
ELECTION.

ONCE Clerk of Council, Savannah, July fe
1895 An election to fill the vacancies caused
by the resignation OF City Physician w H
Jennings, OF the First District and CITY
PLY sleian NJ. Y Corbin, OF the Second District.
Win be held at the next regular meeting OF
Council, July %, 1896. All applications must
be handed into this of1ice before o'clock o. IA.
Of the day OF election. A n MANUCY,
Clerk of Council.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19

SPECIAL NOTICE.
We are building three nice
twO-stOry houses on Hab-
ersham street, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, we
will rent for $3.50 each.
All modern cOnveniences.
Ready October 1.
JOHN L. ARCHER q 90.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06
THE COURIER.

proper. decent kind Of q candidate. IL
We have got to have one Of his kind"
Mr.. Cleveland's secretary OF agri-
culture did not elaborate on the presi-
dental prospects Of our own B-Bry-
an. Mr.. Morton Is not fond OF giving
his distinguished consideration to his
juggling neighbor.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

Sockdolager Dundy has once more re-
turned to Omaha ard taken his seat
on the throne. He has wrapped him.
self In the majestic robes Of ONCE. and
Diminishing all thought Of the golden
shores OF Japan and the dainty women
Of China. settled himself down to the
gracious task OF making judicial
spectacle Of himself. China and Japan
are lucky nations.
Private advices from Washington
contain the assurance that President
Cleveland did not intend any dispar-
agement of the Honorable Richard
Suave Berlin In his veto Of the river
and harbor bill. Mr.. Berlin has done
a great work In making the Missouri
river navigable. and drinkable and
beautiful. and the grateful Omahans.
as they glide In their canoes through
the limptd waters Of the Missouri,
never tire Of singing anthems to the
glory Of Dick.
The browning Of the car was more
disastrous than the cyclone at st.
Louis Because the second Nicolas in
sisted on bringing Sixteenth century
traditions down to the threshold of the
Twentieth century. and would crown
himself with a 100000 crown. with
medieval pomp. In the old home OF
Dolgcrouki and the Boyars, four thou
sand people must be trampled to death.
The scene at Moscow was more ter
rible than those awful affairs In the
streets Of Paris during and just prior
to the French revolution. These
teeming myriads of All the Russias.
In their gala attire of parti-colored
vestures. are as much in the bonds Of
darkness as were the French peasants
in the days of Jacquerie. and this
imposing coronation Of the car, but
seals the confirmation and perpetual
ton OF their bondage. The Kremlin
occupies the foreground of the scene.
but Siberia stretches iilimitably away
behind" No recent event In Russia
has brought out the Indebtedness of
the people Of that country as the mag
nificent coronation of the car. and
the dreadful loss of life on the day
Of the peasants banquet was just the
sort Of CHASTITY spectacle one might ex-
pect at such a celebration in the land
of Peter the Great.
There is a marked difference between
Russia and the United States. On the
4th Of March next Major Mckinley or
some other good man will become the
president of 5000. 900 people. the head
of a nation and government greater
than that of Russia, and the ceremony
will be so simple that 1t will be but a
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

Secretary J. Seedless Morton. high
priest Of the inner temple Of simon
pure democracy. has emerged from the
recesses Of ofiiciai reticence. and. to
use colloquialism. thrown up the
sponge. He recognizes the belligerant
rights Of the free silver democrats,
and admits that 50 far as the Chicago
convention Ii concerned. the old liners
are well started down the toboggan
slide. In an interview in q Chicago
paper Mo. Morton comedies the silver
wing Of the party q majority Of 100
or more, and expects them to nominate
. ticket and frame q platform which
win be directly contrary to the policy
Of the present administration.
The silver sentiment IL universal all
over the west" continued the secre-
tary, "and 1t is growing. So many
trimmers think IT is going to win that
they are jumping that way. There IL
no hope Of electing gold candidates
anywhere in the west, and right there
In San Francisco. where they have
more than $1oO.oo0.OOo Of gold coin in
the vaults Of their banks, where de-
posits are paid In gold by specific con-
tract. and where greenbacks have new
er been good enough for them. the
people are crying for 5O-cent silver dol
lars. California is not silver-produ-
cling country. II is a gold-producing
country, and it Is extraordinary that
the people Of that state should prefer
silver money to gold. They are WILL
Ing that silver miner in Colorado
shall get the same amount Of good
out of so cents worth Of silver that
q gold miner in their own state gets
for 100 cents Of gold. The gold miner
may work all day and the silver miner
half day and both will get the same
wages IL the is to 1 policy is carried
out, and yet the Californians seem to
be crazy for it. received two anony-
nous letters while / was in San Fran.
cisco warning me that must shut up
or leave the country. I had given an
interview to the newspapers, in which
had stated that the wheat and the
fruit. the oranges and the figs, and the
apricots Of California were being
shipped to the outside world In large
quantities. and that the people who
bought them demanded the best. They
would accept nothing but wheat and
fruit Of the most superior quality. and
suggested that the people Of Cali
fornia should insist upon having the
most superior money that existed in
exchange, and that was gold dollars.
The next morning I got two letters
telling me that they didn't want any
gold bugs out in that country, and
that l would have to get right out or
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

taHe tue cOuSeQuenceB.
Mr.. Morton was asked for his opin-
ion as to the probable nominee OF the
convention. He said: The candidate
ought TO be OF the "B" brand-one Of
the busy bees-Bland, Boies or Bryan.
Boies Is a good fellow. He is a nice.
pleasant. genial gentleman. but l have
not known him since he was q demo-
crat. He was one Of the best republi-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

cans in Iowa until a short time ago.
and he hasn't been in the democratic
party long enough to be weaned. l
think he was a convert to tariff re-
form, or else he split OF with the anti
prohibition wing of the party. He
crossed the gulf on some sort of a mar
row plank. and would make a very
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

economy there is one fact that should
rot be lost sight of. The city is pay
ing $1,000 a month. an exorbitant price.
for electric lights. out of an empty
treasury.
The gratifying announcement is
made that the Honorable Erraticus
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06

take the consequences"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
IT'S STEPCHILDRET.

Like Napoleon, Washington had two
stepchi dren, BOY and girl, an !, as
in Napoleon's case, the love between
him and them was as close AMI warm
as if he had been their father in the
flesh
As Eugene de Beauhdrnnis became
Napoleon's aid, Young John Parhe
Gusts served Washington in like ca
pacitv. At the siege of Yorktown
Young Gusts contracted camp fever,
and died of it, at the age OF twenty
seven. Young as he was, lie LETT q
widow, Eleanor Calvert, descendant
Of Lord Baltimore; son, George
Washington Parke GUSTS, baby
daughter, Nellie, who, with the boy,
was adopted by.Washington, and two
elder daughters, Eliza and Martha,
who became the wives of Thomas Law
and Thomas Peter. Four children by
father of twenty-seven was not al
extraordinary record in those days.
Washington's other stepchild died
even Younger than the young Custls,
whose death at Yorktown saddened
the hour of victory. She was named
Martha for her mother, and died
young, in 1775.
1t thus happened that, after the
wars close lett some opportunity Tor
domestic life, Washington had about
him no young people except his adopt
ed grandchildren, 4. W. z. and Nelly
Gusts. And the girl was easily hi
fav orite.
Nelly Custis was girl of singular
grace and beauty, and would not have
needed the high position OF her family
to support her position as belle
in Virginia. Her face was mobile an(
expressive rather than regular, and
alone among the ladies' of her day, he
portraits show her as girl like thos
Of to-day. She was thoroughly mo
ern in appearance. She married law
renee Lewis, Wa.hington'S favorlt
nephew.
fact. that Martha Gusts, Mrs Wash
ineton's granddaughter, named rs
three daughters Columbia. Amer'c
and Britannia Wellington.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
Frs CURIOUS FALSE TEETH.

The peculiarly square amt clumsy
look Of Waehiugton's jaw in the StuarS
norsrait and other late pictures OF hum
makes him look. very unlike the Tll9nT-
faceA and rather handsome man SHOWN
in his earlier portraits.
This curious appearance was due 10
his false teeth.
The science o, dentistry is only a
hundred years old, aud at the hr5t
false teeth we're not only very expen-
sive but extremely imperfect. The
first dentist wac ever practlced IN
America was LIE Mar, visitor with
the French army in the Revolution.
though before that time jewelers. had
made few sets OF false teeth, aud, OF
course, physicians had extracted moi
ars whose usefulness was outiived.
Washington's teeth were made by
john Greenwood, OF New York, the
first American dentist, who carved a
complete set OF teeth out OF sea. horse
iyorv III 1791. The work cf makin2
the teeth occupied long time, ano
thev were fastened into the mouth
MOI bv the familiar principle OF sac
ton, but by complicated ana lnSeni
ons arrangement Of springs nnd band'
! O. stee', which partly filled the hou'p %
and male the lips bulge out particu
lariv the lower one.
The processes OF dentistry improv
,pr somewhat, Greenwood made Hn
other set of teeth for Washington II
I795, and the portraits OF him painte' s'
grim grim appearance abOat the lips whicl
strawberries the most familiar por
trait Of the first President, though l,
some Of his portraits he is represent
el as ne looked-with no teeth at al
in his mouth.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21

George Washington WAS at one time
the Grand Master oi Alexandria
Lodge No. %, F. AMI 4. NJ, which is
now known by mis- name as Washing
ton Ledge; and his chamber clock IS
still preserved in its rooms, with his
hands forever pointing to twenty min
utes past 10, which was the time at
which, on December *, 1899, Wash =
inoton died at Mount Vernon.
Other interesting relics o! Washing
ton rs Mason are the apron and sash
which he wore when he laii the south
east cornerstone Of the Federal Capt.
tol in 1898. These insignia, which
are kept sealed behind glass to escape
the relic hunters, were embroidered
by the hands of the Marquiso dc La
tayette, .the "Fairly Fair, the wife OF
the magnanimous French officer who
took such interest in the Americ IN
cause. 1t may be addel that fairly
fair" in this connection didn't mean
exactly what it would now, but was in
tended to be doubly emphatic.
Here, in the lodge rooms in Alexan
dria. are also exhibited by the MasOns
of to-day other Washington relics
most interesting of which perhaps ar
the field compasses he used in survey
inc Buta far greater store of relic
was destroyed utterly il the FIR
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21

scarcely less wild trappers or squatters
upon his Lordship's domain. Wash,
ineton had been selected by the old
nobJeman because Of his belief IN the
Youths ability to cope with these e!e-
ments, and the young surveyor lett
his home on the banks OF the Potomac
early in 174S, just after the compile
ton OF his sixteenth year, his only
companion being George William
Fairfax, nephew OF old Lord Thomas
Whether these boys erected the build
inz or found it already in place his
tory does not state, bat weli-adthentl'
Gated tradition says that they built it
themselves. That they used it for an
Office, kept their instruments there
and slept in the upper room, there is
ample proof. Here, during ell the
summer OF 174S, when not actively
engaged in the field, they were busy
with their Office work or IN defining
bounds for the settlers.
The old hut has, in the memory OF
the present generation, done duty as
n "milk house" for farmers. Of the
dense copse of trees which Howe says
shaded the spring, only q tall and
sturdy elm remains. On hill not
far away is "Soldier's Rest another
log cabin-itself of historic Interest
also. for in it lived Daniel Morgan,
the rough teamster who afterward be-
came Washngton's right hand IN the
War for Independence Morgan, the
hero of Quebec and Saratoga, and tne
man who destroyed Tarleton at the
Covpens and checked tha tide OF
British victories. Morgan was con
snicuous figure in all the rough'and-
trmble fights that gave the little town
of Berryville the name OF Battletown'
by which it was known for 100 years,
and after these encounters ne would
90 and sit on the rocks down by the
old Washington cabin while his wife
would bathe his bruised and cut hca(
in the cooling waters OF the spring
and bind up his bloody wounds.
1t seems almost pity that this ol'
cabln should be allowed to crumbs
away in tho Virginia pasture heI'
where it has stood for 145 years. Th
GREAT elm tree looks as if it was goo'
FOR a thousand years yet, while tn
rock and the spring will be there TO
eyermore, but sun and wind and raj
have made sad ravages in the hut tha
sheltered the youthful Washington
= The nresent owner of the cabin is q
G, Gaines, of Berryville. New Yor
Tribune,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
FIFTY-F FOURTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE.

F1Fry-F1psT DAY.-The House spent inc
greater par, Of the day in consideration Ol
District of Columbia matters. IN the au'i
noon the debate on the bond bill was resnn
ed. Concurrence was Oppos Dy 81 '7HtT
Hill. Lacy and Burton. Messrs j. Atlllohu
and Ogden spoke in its favor recess W"'
taken at ). 30 to o'clock. and the eFeilno
session was deyo.ed to debate.
FIrrY-sEcoND DAY.--The House spent an,
other dav in the discussion of the silver pohh
hin The feature Of the day was the speech
Of Mr.. McCleary. of Minnesota. VINO us5' ~
illustrate his remarks the charts previously
emnloye by Mr.. Towne. from his own Sta'T'
and by them sought to refute the ar -MIneh'S
in favor Of free silver made by Mr.. to"n',
Nessrs Doliver, Brosius and Bfunn aso OPP
posed the bill. Mcssrs. McAlllan, b1ueE
Underwood and Cox spoke in favor ol lree
coinage.
F1Fry-rurRD DAY.-Aftcr n ten day de-
bate the House, by a vote of 80 10 l5o IN
committee Of the whole rejected the NAT;
free-coinago amendment TO the bona Lln an"
reported the bill to the House with reconI-
menda ion to nOn-cOncur ana insist on 'le
House bill Propositions were offered u"r-
ing the dav to concur with amendments a'
follows: To coin the American silver product
for the retention Of the seignioraye Dy tnc
government. and to open the minta TO tho
free coinage of silver at the ratio OF - : TO !
when Germany and France should ha''
agreed upon a similar action. All were de'
fcated 10y large majorties.
FIF1Y-sixru DAY.-The majority iSainst
silver in tie House when the final vote was
taken on concurrence in the senate free
coinage am ndment. was larger than lh COM
mittee Of the whole. On Thu sday the me-
u5a to concur was dcfra'ed by l90 to ~, d
majority Of no. To-day it wa beaten ~
2l5 to 90. majority Of l25 An aia'!s's o,
the vote shows that lSl Republicans anu 81
So Dem cra,s. 25 Republicans and Popuiisl9
for concurrence. Ex-Speaker Crisp present
ed the clcsi argument for the silver men
and was replied to by Mr.. Turner, a pemo- Demo
cratic colleague from Georgia. in two houT
spec h. Mr.. Dalz=ll. of Pennsylvania. clrs''
in behalf OF he Republicans.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21

ton was in his day the richest Amer
lean. 1t would be difficult to prove
this. and doubtless the statement is an
exacgeration, such as the common
country tale that Washington could
"s5and and jump twenty-five feet 1t
is needless to say that no such record
OF his prowess in this line has come
down to us.
It used also to be said that Washing
ton had once thrown @ dollar across
the Potomac. Mr.. Evarts's witty com
ment that ga dollar would 60 further
in those days, you know" Is we'll re-
membered.
Washington was moi, however, the
man to throw away g dollar. lie was
precise, careful and methodlca'. In
youth he was, and expected to remain,
comparatively poor as he was a younger
son, and the family followed the Erg-
lish cutoms Of pTimogeniture-so far,
at least, as concerned the family estate,
Mount Vernon, which was left to Lau-
renee Washington. Lawrence died in
1852, and his infant daughter shortly
afterward, leaving the estate to George.
His marriage with the wealthy
widow of John Parke Custis brought
/ him more wealth, and his investments
IN Western lands were also shrewd and
profitable.
But, though an exact end capable
business man, Washington was no mig
gard. He entertained lavishly. Il
was by his advice that the largest room
in the White House was designed fol
q state dining-rOom. Washington
never occupied the house, and his sue
cessors have found the room much to'
large, even for state dinners. Th'
dining-room i'll Mount Vernon. de
signed by Washington, IS also nue.
the largest in the house.
1t is generally known that Washing
ton received no pay for his services II
the Revolution. Congress voted hin
$500 e month, but he never accepted
it, charging only his actual expenses
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
HIS LOVE AFFAIRS.

Il was fated that Washington, like
Napoleon, was to lie the victim OF
more than one disappointment N love.
Fverv ore knows how attentive he
was to'Mary Phillipsc, OF the good, old
Vestchester family whose house IS
now the City Hall Of Ionker|, during
a stay in New York, but there was
Virginian love affair considerably ear
her.
His first love was the charming Sal
" Cary, one of that aristocratlc n
cinia family of Carys, OF which Mrs.
Rurton harrison Constance Cary is
in our day q member. TO her he
wrote love poems, anonymous, printed
in the Virginia Gazette, ANA other
love poems, not anonymOu7, sent to
her in manuscript. These rhymes de-
scribed his "poor, restless heart,
pierc'd by Cupid's Cart and made
use of the other rhymes o: dove,
"love," and "a5ove,' not unfamiliar
in every age. With her, too, he
danced at the festivals o: St. Tamma-
nv. the titular saint OF the Colonies
But Miss Cary would not listen to
the suit of the long-legged frontiers,
man, and married instead his dearest
friend and woods companion, George
William Fairfax, and went to live al
Belyoir, the Fairfax seat. When pfet'
tv Sally Fairfax died in England.
rears afterMard. hor Yirginian hsirs
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
As A COLONEL.

In 17G0 Captain George Mercer
wrote TO friend description OF the
personal appearance of Colonel
George Washington, late Commancer
of the Virginia Provincial troops,
which ran as follows: "Je may be
described as being straight as an
Indian, measuring six feet two lncnes
in his stockings, and weighing 173
pounds. His frame is padded with
well developed muscles, indicating
great strength. His bones and joints
are large, as are his feet and hands.
He is wide shouldtre3, bat bas not a
deep or rouud chest; Is neat walsted'
but is broad across the hips, ard has
rather long legs and arms. His head
is well shaped, though not large, but
is gracefully poised on superb neck
A large and straight, rather than Il
prominent nose, blue-2ray penetrating
ives, which are widely separated, and
,verhung by q heavy brow. HIS lace
is long rather than bread, with hlgn,
round cheek bones, and terminates III
good firm chin. lie has Gear
though rather q colorless pale skin,
which burns with the sun. 4 pleasing
benevolent though 81 commanding
rountenance, dark brown hair, which
he wears in queue. His mOuth IS
large and generally frml y closed, but
which from time to time dlscioses
some defective teeth. His features
ire regular and placed with all the
muscles of his face under perfect con-
trol, though flexible. aud expressive
of deep feeling when moved by
emotions. In conversation he looks
you full in the face, is deliberate
deferential and engaging. His voice
is agreeable rather than strong Hl:
demeanor at al times composed an(
dignifed. His movements sn(
gestures are graceful, his walk ma
jestic, an he is splendid horseman.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
LAST SCENE OF ALL.

Mr.. George Ticknor, who wrote
"The History OF Spanish Literature"
and "Lifc OF Prescott" remembered
distinctly the death OF Washington.
He says in his diary;
"There never was more striking
or spontaneous tribute paid to man
than was paid in Boston when the
news came of Washington's death.
1t was on December IA, 1893, lit
tie before noon, and Mr.. Ticknor says:
'T often heard persons say at the time
that one could know how far the news
had spread, by the closing OF the
shops. Each man, when he beard that
Washin gton was dead, shut his store,
as a matter of course, without CONSUL
tation, and in two hours all business
was stopped. -,
"My father came home and could
not speak, he was so overcome. My
mother was alarmed to see him in such
a state, till he recovered enough to
tell her the sad news. For some time
every one, even the children, wore
Grape on the arm. No boy could go
into the street without it. | wore 1t,
though only eight years old. "
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21

found some of Washington's love let
ters, and these have been kept unpub-
lished ever since.
Until the war, however, Mrs. Sally
and her husband continued to live IN
the Colonies. Five years after Wash.
in3ton's courtship OF her, when he had
become famous in frontier warfare,
he met at Mr.. Chamberlayne'S house
on the Pamunkey River, the Widow
Custis, whom he afterward married.
OF course, thc Belvoir ladies saw q
great deal OF the mistress OF Mount
Vernon, and Virginia gossip, which
takes the harmless form OF tradition,
has it that Mistress Martha Washing
ton never lorgave Mistress Sally Fair
fax for having been her husbands first
sweetheart. She was intensely human,
was Mistress Martha.