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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28
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to a man, found in Jim Key a big, deep
chested brown horse. with a sleek coat,
tapering legs and proudly arched neck.
The most notable things about him were
his eyes, which beamed with the mild
light of watchful intelligence, and his ears,
which quivered to the modulations of his
trainers voice like a delicate piece of
mechanism.
No one looking at Jim Key could doubt
his patrician birth. AS a matter of fact,
his mother was a full-blooded Arabian
mare and his father a Kentucky Hamble-
tonian. Early in life he fell into the hands
of William Key, whose influence over
horses is esteemed nothing short of super
natural by the members of his race
throughout the south. There was time
in his early colthood when he could troC
a mile in three minutes, and bade fair,
with training, TO achieve rank among the
fastest trotters in the country. But Will
liam Key had higher designs for him than
that.
His intellectuals was too good to be
throwed away racing" explained William
Key, slipping a lump of sugar between
Jim's flexible, velvety lips. Now, jim.
yo' is a pow'ful sma't hoss I know, but
what is yo' politics? Is yo' republican,
Jim shook mis- handsome, unhaltered head
and blew the foam through his lips with
an air of disgust He repeated these dem
onstrations when asked If he were pro-
hibitioniSt, a populist or a socialist. But
to the question, Are you a Democrat
he replied by nodding his head repeatedly
and uttering a series of delighted whin-
MES.
William Key asked him who was mayor
of Greater New York, and the horse pick
ed out a sign bearing the name of Robert
A. Van Wyck from among many similar
signs bearing all manner of names.
A series of letter boxes had been ar
ranged some of them bearing letters adj
dressed to well-kuown people. Jim was
commanded to take from box 10 letter
addressed TO Mr.. T. c. Plat. He did so,
and was preparing to file it under the let
ter "P'' in a roll top desk, which he had
thrown open with his muzzle, when he
dropped the letter. and, in paving for IT.
thrust it beyond his reach. He had better
luck with letter TO Mr.. Croker-possibiy
because of his political sympathies-whieh
he filed under the letter C.
Next came the performance with the
cash register 1t was shown beyond per-
adventure that he could distinguish vari-
Gus pieces of money, from a cent to a dol
lar bill; could ring up any amount desg-
mated on the machine, using his muzzle
to depress the proper key, and could
make change" as quickly and skillfuily
as any cashier.
With a pencil gripped between his teeth
he scrawled Jim on a slate when told 10
write his name Last of all, he plunged
his head into a glass bucket filled with
water holding his breath until he had
picked up from the bottom of it a silver
dollar.
Jim, who has never visited New York
before, will be exhibited here shortly I'M
der the auspices of the humane society,
which regards him as a valuable and
beautiful object lesson of the effects OF
kindness to animals.
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Constvvise Exnorts.

Per steamship Tallahassee for New York
tiers. 1O5 bales domestics and yarns, bbls
pitch, 1,479 bbls rosin, 375 bbls spirits tur-
pentine 1908 feet lumber, 800 bbls cotton
fruit, Dbl vegetables, 349 crates vegeta-
bles, 104 pkgs mdse, $50 tons pig iron 10
bales sweepings, AZ cases cigars, 7 bbls
Per steamship Essex for Baltimore, $50
bales upland cotton, 204 barrels rosin, 20
casks turpentine, 712 barrels oranges, 81
barrels vegetables, 50 cases can goods, u
casks clay, S81 sacks clay, S46 packages
merchandise, 346 bales hides and wool, So
packages domestics and yarns, % bales
ssWe,eapnings, % bales linters, 60 barrels tar,
IA 422 feet lumber.
Per schooner Island City, for Baltimore
SIT, 323 feet p. p. lumber.-DiXOn, Mitchell
& Co.
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a COUNTRY OF NAPHTHA.
Picture of the Dreary Surround
ing of Balxu.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Probably there is no spot on earth
where more highly infammable matter
lies exposed to such terrible confagrations
as that just reported from Baku than in
the district lying just beyond that town
on the shores of the Caspian Everything
seems saturated with petroleum; the very
air one breathes is laden with a greasy
odor, and the waters of the bay are cover
ed with an iridescent sheen which at night
may be set on fire with most weird effect.
Not only is black naphtha TO be seen in
monster fountains playing from the very
earth, but which naphtha flows of itself in
places and short way off are the natural
gas vents over which the natives do their
cooking without coal, and which once fed
the sacred Zoroastrain fires. No wonder
that the ancient Persians looked on this as
holy ground where the eternal heaven
fed flames of life burst forth in sacred
buildings, the remains of which are still
eXtant and have recently been no longer
except from curiosity, and the modern Per-
sian or Parsee of Bombay and Gujerat
kindles the oil shipped to him from Ba-
toum without a sigh for a vanished belief
When the late shah of Persia visited Ba-
kuit was necessary to import a number of
priests for the occasion that ne might
witness the portion of the Persian empire
that had been wrested from it by Peter
the Great a specimen of the worship that
his predecessors had all but stamped out
in The portion they had conquered and re-
tanned For less distinguished visitors to
see there is only a ruined tower, from the
top of which flare natural jets, through
iron gas pipes, and a number of cells with
affairs for the once sacred fire and some
ancient inscriptions.
With this exception, there is little pic
turesque or attractive in the neighborhood
of Baku-a name corrupted from the Per-
sian Bad-kuh or Bad-hill-which excels in
dreariness and griminess the worst of our
black country" at home. Here our eli
mate does tempt the grass to grow and
beautify all spots left long enough alone
by man; but there the arid soil is scorched
and winnowed by the southern sun and
fiery breeze, till even round the houses
of the managers it is almost impossible to
induce vegetation. Most of the wells are
situated several miles from Baku, to the
one manufacturing suburb Of whch-well
styled the Black Town-the crude brown
liquid is conveyed In pipes through which
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Account of the Disaster to Savan-
nah Bark sophia Exaggerated.
Schooner Roger Moore TO BE lowed
to Wilmington, n. C.-GerInan Bark
JacObine to BE Hauled ON "a Rail-
way-Exports of Naval stores.
Capt. Petersen of the Savannah bark
Sophia has telegraphed to her owner, Mr.
James Foley, that the Geographic account
of his vessel being disabled before enter
ing Halifax, was exaggerated. He says
that a few sails and two spars We're lost
and he had some trouble with the crew.
which caused him to take a tug to tow
into harbor. eor f
The schooner Roger Moore of Whining
ton, N c., Capt John Miller, which ar
rived here last Sunday night dismasted
will be towed to Wilmington, for repairs.
If the weather permits she will leave to-
day, in tow of the tug VIM. F. McCauley.
The German bark Jacobine frSm Apa-
lachicola for Havre, with a cargo of lum-
Der, which put in here leaking several
weeks ago, viii be repaired. Her cargo
had been discharged and yesterday an at
tempt was made to haul her out on Will
links marine railway, but the tide was
not high enough 10 admit her bow on the
run" Ballast was placed in the vessels
stern yesterday afternoon in order to raise
the bow, and another attempt win be
made to haul her out.
The British steamship buckingham from
New York, which was chartered to arrive
here oct. %, consigned to Strachan & Co.,
to load cotton for Genoa, arrived below
yesterday. She did not come to the city.
The reported arrival at Tybee, Friday
night, of the schooner Mary B. Baird,
from Philadelphia, was an error.
The schooner Margaret A. May, which
arrived at Tybee Friday night and came
to the city yesterday, had cargo of coal
from Baltimore, consigned to c. H. Dixon
6; Co.
The Boston Post of Thursday says:
capt. Savage of steamer City of Macon,
which left here yesterday for New York
and Savannah, has run across his full
share of bad luck recently as on the pre-
watch worth $780, overheard, and on the
inward trip the steamer picked up the
Centurion buoy in her propeller and car
red il to Lewis wharf where it was eX-
tricated by a diver and lies in the dock,
the lighthouse department having not as
vet taken it from the bottom and replac-
ing ii in its proper station
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Receipts Mt Railroads.

Per Central of Georgia railway. Nov. o.
1882 bales cotton, 743 barrels rosin, 232
barrels spirits, 200 tons pig iron, 431 pack
ages merchandise, 1871 bales domestics.
45 cars lumber, / car flour, 5 cars cross
ties cars wood, l car lime, car fresh
meat. l car lard.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular rail-
road Nov. 27.-S2S bales cotton; 594 barrels
rosin, IT'S casks spirits, 2 cars cotton seed
II cars wood, 2 cars merchandise, l car
lumber, 2 cars slaves 1 car jugs, 2 cars
perishables, l car sewer pipe, 1 car tobac-
co.
I'll, 1O3 barrels rosin, 448 casks spirits. Al
cars lumber, cars wood, / car stoves. 4
cars corn, l car meal, / car ties, 2 cars
lard, l car bran / car domestic. l car oil
2 cars hay, l car coal.
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Bullets and Their BiIIets.

From the New York Press.
A statistician informs me that in the
Mexican war it took a soldiers weight of
lead to kill or disable him. In the late
civil war it took a ton and in the Franco
Prussian war a ton and half. Men who
are up in such things say that If we went
to war now it would take two tons and
a half to kill a soldier, basing their esti-
mates on the improved arms which ena-
BILE the carrier to pump out cartridges IN
the most reckless manner. With the old
muZzleloader a soldier aimed and fired.
with the modern repeating rifle he fires
without taking aim, wasting much ammu-
milton. To shoot a soldier in the toe is
to retire him. He will get to cover Just
as quickly as If he were shot through the
heart The killed and wounded in the
war of secession on both sides numbered
about 243,000 If the statisticians are right
4SG,0O0,0O0 pounds of lead were used.
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shinpine Memornndn.

Shields, Nov. 26,-Sailed. steamer Ben
Clune QB), Savannah; Orisono. Savannah.
Madeira, Nov 2l.-Sailed steamer Glen
isle, from Villa Real for Charleston.
Cape Henry Va. Nov 27.-Passed in.
schooner Rillie S. Derby Taylor, Charles
ton.
Jacksonville Fla. Nov. 27.-Entered,
steamer Comanche. Pennington New York,
and cleared on return: bark Union DAM,
Svarrer, Durbau, Africa; schooner Isaac
n. Kerlin, Steelman, New York
Fernandina, Fla. Nov. 7-Sailed.
schooner Almeda Wiley, Dodge, New
York.
Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 27.-Arrived. banks
Nenezuela (Norl, Jensen, Cape Town; SUI
marlide (Nor) Elligsen, Rio Janeiro; schr
Micosta, Matanzas.
sailed-bark Yner (NoD, Erickson, Bue-
nos Ayres.
Cleared-schooner John f. Kranz, Mac
Donald Boston.
Charleston, S. c., Nov. 27.-Arrived.
steamers Delaware, ingram. Boston; Am
phitrte Q3p, Molony, Huelva; Castle Ven
try (Brl, Horstield. Barry.
Sailed-Stcamer Charing Cross (Br),
Mills. Barcelona and Genoa.
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The English use of "Nigger.'
From Leslie's Weekly.

FROM IeSle' 5 weekly.
-Nicely-observing persons who have been
reading THE Christian" must have MOTTO
ed that when Mr.. Caine finds occasion TO
say niger" he says niger right OUT
brutally, with no suggestion of apology in
the way of quotation marks-as if mig
ger" were simply and only term descrip-
tive and as fnnocently inoffensive as par
son or actress.
Some may suppose that this departure
by the standard of good American usage
is due to the able editing of Mr.. Chevaller'
who we have been told, revised y ne
Christians" slang that no inaccurate Yul-
garisms might mar its perfect realism
Such a theory would do Mr.. Game an m
justice. Strange as it may seem, Niger
as he uses it, without quotation marks
is not slang at all, but is simply the Or
binary English way of describing a per-
son of color Doubters are referred to so
eminently proper "A writer as Mrs. EWING
and her charming little story of Jan OF
the Windmill" in which niger appears
frequently in the same matter-ot-cou
way, after a fashion not a little shocking
to the American sense of kindly proprley.
This obtuse Inconsistencies that there
are persons of color in the book-reading
world who may vince at finding them
selves thus described as niggers, as If that
were what everybody themselves includ-
ed admitted them to be, Is really quite
Engiish-typcallys English. 1t lacks the
excuse of traditions of race coptemPt
which one might find for it in southern
writer, while ii contrasts curiously Win
that absence of color prejudice in England
of which so much is made. And probably
1t is not a case of color prejudice but only
a case of not knowing when one is oneh-
siVe, which is the English of 1t.
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Foreign Exports.

Per Norwegian bark Josva for Naples
2,6l0 barrels rosin valued at $3.50 26. and
1000 cases spirits turpentine, 10000 gal
Ions valued at 81, 672. 14.-Cargo by S. p
Shotter Company.
Per Austrian bark Mazuranic, for Genoa
800 casks spirits turpentine, valued at
Sl,SlO, and 2.5l0 barrels rosin. valued at S.
O33.-Cargo by Paterson, Downing & Co
Per British bark Bodrhyddan, for Odes-
sa.-2,0O barrels rosin, valued at $685.
Cargo by S. z. ShOtter COmnanN.
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a SMART HORSE.
He Is a Kentucky Democrat, visiting
New York


From the New York Journal.
There is a horse in town that can spen
Greater New York; and the name of its
mayor-elect. than can ring up sales on a
cash register and count out the correct
change and that can write his own name.
which is Jim.
jim Key is the full name of this accom-
plished animal The surname he derives
from his trainer, guide, philosopher and
friend, William Key, an old southern dar-
key, whose thatcn of snowy fleece frames
face that shines like we'll polished
cooking range. They are great chums
this pair In all of their years of asso-
citation the two-legged Key never lifted
whip, and the four-iegged Key never lift
ed a hoof, in anger.
A private exhibition of Jim KEYS ac-
complishmcnts was given yesterday by A.
K. Rogers of Moutrose Park, South
Orange, N. ]. The visitors, horse lovers
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a settlement. while many justices Of the
peace ask no questions, SO long as they
are assured of their fee. 10 Is often Inc
case that poor laborer who. from force
OF circumstances. has become involved in
debt suddenly finds his weekly salary IL
legally garnisheed, and. in order 10 secure
a few dollars with which TO buy the nee
essaries Of life, is forced to make settle
ment which he can ill-affOrd al the time,
but which might, later, be voluntarily
forthcoming. In this way those whom
the law intends to exempt are really not
exempt and the law is, therefore, rem
dered practically imperative.
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vessels CIen1cd Yesterday.

Steamship Kansas City, Fisher, New
York.-Ocean Steamship Company.
steamship Essex, Billups Baltimore
j. j. CaTolan, Agent.
Bark Bodrhyddan B), Davies, Odessa
Dahl & Andersen.
Bark Ban Mazuranic (AusO. Berrettni,
Genes. -Strachan & Co.
Bark JosVa (Nor), Ommundsen, Maple
Dahl & Andersen.
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Get Rid OF
Rheumatism!

There is only way to get rid of Rheumatism 1t is I'M
disputed that it blood disease but it an obstinate
one that the many blood tonic the have no effect
upon It, because the disease is beyond their reach S. S.
s the only remedy that Rheumatism as it is real
blood Remedy and made all deep seated blood diseases
which are beyond the reach of other remedies
A few years ago with innammatorv Rbeuma-
tism, which, though mild
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

Passengers per steamship Tallahassee
for New York on Saturday: A. M Barbee,
A. c. Whiting, G. II. GRADES, c. l.. Rus
sell, Martin Gibbons
Passengers per steamship Essex for Bal
timore--P. Belsinger, Mrs. Moynelo, DR.. J.
Frank Perry, j. b. Kemper, Frank Kra-
ger.
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
vessels Arrived Yesterday.

Steamship buckingham (BD, Leighton.
New York. Below waiting.-Strachan &
Co.
u. S. Wisteria, Brown, on cruise.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

First quarter, LIST, hours So minutes,
morning; fun moon, 9th, hours, II min
utes. morning; last quarter, nth, hours,
% minutes, morning; new moon. 24th 8
hours, Al minutes. morning; first quarter,
30th, hours, IS minutes, evening.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

That was Tor weeks unable to walk /
tried several prominent physicians but
was unable to get the slightest relief; the
pain spread over my entire body. and for
six months l suffered agony. I tried
many patent medicines but none relieved
me. then decided to try S. S. s., but
before allowing me to take it. my guard
ian, who was a chemist, analyzed the
medicine, and pronounced it free from
potash and mercury. l felt so much
better after taking two bottles, that L
continued the remedy, and in two months
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

An ingenious Frenchman has patented
an article which he terms "a hot ana
cylinder pierced with three small openings
at its upper part, and inclosing for WIN
ter use a combustible carbon cylinder OF
impregnated with solution of sal am
monac. To start up the works in VIII
ter time the carbon cylinder is lighted am i
placed in the holder; the other cyllhutts ger
paper tube is then fixed over both. ~
summer. the chemically saturated W a4
produces sufficient cold to keep the nan"
cool while using the pen.
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went to Sen Yesterday.

Steamship Essex, Baltimore.
Steamship Tallahassee. New York.
Barkentine Edgenia QtaD, Venice.
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permanent for have touch of Rheuma
sm though many times exposed to damp cold
MISS ELEANOR NJ TIPPELL.
Bill Poweon Avenue, Philadelphia
Those who experiment with various so-caed rheumatic
cures do SO at their expense for the disease getting
frmer hold them all the while tits foolish to expect ni-
m or lotions to do good for the disease is in the blood
and of course reached by local applications
Swts Specific Is S. S. has made remarkable cures
OF Rheumatism 1t is the best blood remedy known and
forces 1T from the system. trial will prove that is the
proper remedy for the most obstinate S. S. S.
purely vegetable and the only blood remedy guaranteed to con-
tam no mercury, potash or other mineral
Books sent free by Swift Specific Co., Box Y Atlanta Ca
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SaVnnnnh AImnnne.

Sun rises to-day at 1900 and sets al 500.
High water at Tybee to-day 1912 a. m.
and 11:19 p. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later.
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Notice TO Mariners.

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters of YES
sells free of charge in United States hy-
Geographic office in custom house. Cap
ta!ns are requested to call at the office
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department
The time ball on Cotton Exchange drops
y m, 18th meridian time
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The schooner Roger Moore of Whining
ton, N. c., Capt. John Miller, which ar
rived here last Sunday night dismasted
will be towed to Wilmington, for repairs
If the weather permits she will leave to-
day. in tow of the tug VIM. F. McCauaey
The Somerset reporter., 1897-05-27
Minnesota Pines.

It is estimated that the area Of land
in northern Minnesota which has been
abandoned by the owners, after having
been denuded of its pine, will reach 2,
100000 acres. This is mostly in Lake,
Morrison and ST. Louis counties. Prof
). B. Green, of the experimental station
of the university of Minnesota, has been
studying the proposition of continuing
the growth of pine on these eut-cver
acres. He concludes that he way TO
attain the desired result is to prevent
forest fires. He also thinks that the old
forests can be made to grertly increase
their annual productiveness, as well as
to become continuously productive, if
they could be preserved from yearly
onslaught from wide.sweeping fires.
Minnesota, like other States, ia awaken
ing to the fact that fires have caused as
much waste of pine as perhaps have the
lumbermen, who have only had an eye to
the profit of cutting timber. 1t is TO be
hoped that the new-found zeal of the for
est preserver will not waste its energies
in talk and essay writing, but that some
thing will be doue to really prevent des-
truction by fire. A good beginning has
been made ia the fire warden law, and it
is to be devoutly wished that it may be
enforced with vigor to the verge of rig
or.-Northw estern Lumberman.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-05-27
The Maine Central's Finest.

Col F. E. Boothby believes in giving
his patrons of the great Maine Central
system a low rate, popular, Excursion
Train. The one personally conducted,
Tuesday, June ed leaving Portland S.45
A. M, 10 Niagara Falls, will be no excep-
ton. This is no doubt the best season
of the year to see the great New York in
her green state, for everything in the
fields and forests will be in Natures best
robes OF greenness. The White Noun
tains will be enchanting with their cool
breezes, the dinner at Fabyans, and forty
minutes to see old Mt. Washington. A
Matron will accompany the party. Pas
sengers from the East will have TO come
to Portland the night before, in order to
leave Tuesday morning, IS. Sleeping
car is booking FAST and the party is limit
ed to one hundred. Special rates at the
West End, Portland, hotels in Buffalo,
where the party will quarter, and go to
the Falls of Niagara the next day from
Niagara to Thousand Islands, down from
the St. Lawrence to Montreal, shooting
the rapids, Balmoral Hotel, there on to
Quebec. Tickets good for thirty days.
Write to Geo w. Thompson, Ticket
Agent Portland, for sleeping car berths.
This is a grand trip, and the rates are too
cheap to talk about but watch this paper,
and see posters in few days, giving full
rates and particulars.