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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

The rain Monday night, accord
ing to newspaper report was gem
eral throughoutth the whole country
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
For Rent.

If you want to rent a farm ap-
ply to w. s. Laden.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Call at d. j. Hughes and see
those pretty Capes he has just
received. He will make them to
you at astonishing low prices.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

j. j. Craig, the jovial Centre
vile drummer,w was here to see our
merchants last Saturday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Quite number of gypsies are
camping in the vicinity of town.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Mrs. J. d. .McDougal arrived
home Monday from a visit to Mis-
sissppi.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

II. 9. Prewitt won the prize
clock at Laden q Blounts.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
stoves, Ranges and Furniture.

DR.. j. G. Motley was over from
Bethel this week.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

If you are hunting bargains,
patronize the merchants who ad-
vertise.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Under the Jarvis fee bill our
last Circuit Court only cost our
county S1,460.76.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

DR.. j, o. Irwin has been indis-
posed for the past week.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

b. Newcomb came down from
Flat Gap Tuesday, remaining over
until Wednesday on business.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Mrs. Ike Grigg is visiting her
son and daughter at JIG. Walkers
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

ID. NJ. Gillespie, of Henderson,
was in town Friday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

B. f. Green, of Lowryyille, was
on our streets Monday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
Thomas Tidwell, of the 3rd dis
trict, is quite sick with dropsy.
Willard f. Fraley, Of Hamburg,
was on our streets Monday.

L. Nj. Harbert, of Morris Chapel
was in the city Tuesday and made
the Courier office a call.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
l. aden X
Blourlt

Cheap Rates to Arkansas
and Texas.
On August 18th, Sept. 9TH and
Dist, and Oct. 9Th and 10Th, the
Cotton Belt Route will sell round
trip tickets from st. Louis, Cairo
and Memphis, to all points in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, at
one fare for the round trip, plus
$500. This is an excellent OPP.
portunity for homeseekers to Sc
cure a good location. For full
particulars as to rates, ETC., and
free copies of handsomely illus
trated pamphlets regarding the
Great Southwest write TO
Fred H. Jones, d. p. A.,
or Memphis, Tenn.
L. w. LaBaume, G. P. & 7. a.
st. Louis, No.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Do you want a bargain in Drugs9
You can get it at McDouga's.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
LOCAL ITEMS.
Keep your eyes on the Courier.

Horace Hinkle and wife went to
Nashville Monday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

There is no question about D..
j. Hughes shoe trade. It's get
ting to be immense. Good shoes
will sell. Call for the John Kel-
ley's.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Imperial Crepe paper at Nc
Douglas.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Fresh pure drugs, medicine,
paints. oil varnish, etc, at Bar
lows.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

The prettiest Dress Pattern
Goods in town is at d. j. Hughes,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15

Like magic, the new brick on
main street is being reared.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
NOT FRIENDS OF SILVER.

In a speech before the bimetallic con-
vention at Topeka on Tuesday ex-senator
John Martin declared that free silver was
only surface issue and that deep down
beneath it were the real issues which the
silver party would be called upon to solve.
In the next breath he declared for the
government ownership of railroads and
limited at other procedures which have
come to be regarded as the socialistic pro-
gramme, pure and simple.
At Boston on Monday George f. Wash>
burn, member of the Populist national COM
mittee, issued an address to the PopuIist
party, in the course of which he said: I'VE
united with the silver forces in the recent
campaign-not because we believe free
coinage of silver is the solution of the
financial problem, but because it would
better existing conditions, would meet
with the least resistance and would become
the entering wedge for our main issue, viz:
Full legal tender paper money, issued and
regulated by the government alone. We do
not stand for redemption money, but for a
scientific dollar, kept inpariable by proper
regulation of the money volume"
At dozen different places since the last
election. leaders of the Populist party have
uttered the same sentiments. In fact, they
have lost no opportunity since election is
over to furnish substantial evidence that
the Republican charge was true and that
the Populist party is not friend to silver.
But what does the Republican siIverite,
who believes in sound money and is not
fiat greenbacker, think of the company into
which he has fallen? How do those KAN
sas Republicans who assisted in carrying
the state for Bryan and Populism enjoy
Senator Martins declaration that silver is
only a surface issue? Are they satisfied
to be led over into the camp of the
socialist?
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
Currency Redemption.

From the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
During the last three months govern
ment notes to the amount of only $4,000 =
600 were redeemed in gold, an average of
So. .OOO. 900 per annum. The amount redea ~
ed during the fiscal year of 1896 was Sl59
100000, and in 1895 it was Sli7.6OOOOO. This
shows how little ground there is for the
chatter about the governments going out
of the banking business The silver
purchasing act was not a stroke of wise
craftsmanship, but it is evident that The
treasury notes issued in payment for pur
chases of silver have played little part in
depicting the gold reserve. This act was
passed an July IA, 1885, but not a dollar of
the notes in question was presented for
redemption until the fiscal year 1892, and
then the amount was only s., 500 600. In the
succeeding year $f7,0O0,000 was thus pr.
sented. Much the same is true of the
greenbacks. Only 81. 100000 in these notes
was redeemed during 1891 and 1892 COM
bined. In 1893 over 100000 in greenbacks.
was presented for redemption. Il was dur
Ing that fiscal year that government rel
Ceipts exceeded expenditures by onl,,
81 100000 In 1874. when the treasury a.
ticit reached s1O.0COO0O, the amount of
greenbacks and treasury notes presently
for redemption was sS5,OOOOO0.
The talk about currency reform being
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
The Unspoken speech.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
The appearance in print of Governor Alt.
geld's farewell address, which he did not
deliver recalls a similar occurrence in
Cory, Pa, couple of years ago. A big
Fourth of July celebration had been
planned and several speakers of national
reputation were invited to deliver ad-
dresses. The editor of the local daily had
fixed matters So that the presiding officer
would call upon him for few remarks"
1t is needless to say that these few re-
marks, which occupied three columns.
were put into type long before the event.
full day and were held in reserve for good
position on the first page.
The Fourth came, there was big attend
ance and the oratory was in full blast,
when sudden thunder shower scattered
the crowd and brought the exercises to an
abrupt close. The editors speech was shut
out. A few minutes later the Daily
Screamer made its appearance, containing
nothing about the exercises excepting
the speech which was not delivered 1t
was prefaced by this modest explanation:
Our eloquent fellow townsman, the editor
of this paper. if called upon, would have
responded as follows:"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
FOR SECRETARY OF
OF

It seems to be pretty well understood
that Senator Sherman is to go into Pres
ident McKinleys cabinet as secretary of
state. The dispatches say positively that
he has been offered the portfolio and that
he has accepted.
In making this selection-if he has made
it-dr Mckinley has shown his usual eX-
ceIlent judgment. and his choice will be
heartily approved by the intelligent judg
mont of the country. Mr.. Sherman would
make careful. cool headed premier. He
is a man of excellent sense. has had large
experience in public life and would bring
to the office ample equipment of the high
est order for the delicate duties devolving
upon him. The country may be sure that
it will not be involved in any difficulty or
placed in any false position through blum
ders in the state department with Mr..
Sherman at the helm.
In all of his forty-two years of public
life the Ohio senator has proven himself
a patriot who ever had the best welfare
of his country at heart and has shown
craftsmanship of the highest order. And
it is not to be doubted that his admins
tration of the state department would re-
fleet as much luster upon his career as
any of his brilliant services in the past.
Mr.. Mckinley and the whole country are
to be congratulated If John Sherman be-
comes secretary of state in the next ad-
ministration.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
LAST YEARS FIRE LOSSES

The New York Journal of Commerce
announces that fire insurance losses in the
United States and Canada during the cal
endar year 1896 amounted to Sis. .655. 500. or
S4i 200 less than in 1885, and $l2 $50 go less
than in 1894. The great fires of the wear
were at Cripple Creek with loss amounting
TO R,OOO,0OO: ontonagon, loss 81. $50, 900: Phil
adelphia, loss, $4,000, and Chicago. loss
A2OoOoo. Generally speaking. 1886 covered
d period of high rates and light losses, and
the underwriting interests start upon the
business of the new year in good financial
condition and with feeling of hopefulness
for the future.
insurance experience of earlier days led
TO the opinion. which has crystaIlized into
nearly professional dogma, that, on the
average, fire losses decrease or increase in
close proportion to the contraction or ex-
pansion of average business prosperity
Measured by this standard the important
decrease noted in the losses of 1896. COM
pared with those for the twelve-month pre-
ceding, is suggestive OF some Improvement
in mercantile conditions considered in the
aggregate. If that be not a remarkahIe
deduction, then either the preventive and
protective organization of the insurance
has advanced nearly to perfection
or the world is growing less careless and
more honest.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
Tp
Bar. j pm Pre-. rw'th'r
Stations.
WINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

The New York World has been making a
test OF the temperance sentiment among
the men who compose the electoral college.
Each was asked TO state whether or not
he had any objections TO the use of wine
on the presidents table at the White
House
Up to date replies have been received
from 1s9 OF the electors, and of these 1S7
declared for the use of wine II the presi-
dent desired it, while fifty-three objected.
In the prohibition states of Iowa and Kan
sas hut two out of thirteen responses were
opposed TO the use of the beverage, and
from Maine and Vermont, two other pro-
hibition states, came no objection at all.
Kentucky. the home of the cocktail and
high ball. furnished eight answers ana
five Of them were opposed TO wine
The only president since washingtons
time who had nerve enough TO carry his
Temperance principles into the White House
was Rutherford B. Hayes. though it is
pretty well understood that wine was BAN
ished from the presidential table more in
Difference to the wishes of Mrs. Hayes than
because of the rigid temperance views of
the president. Major Mckinley is said to
be a total abstainer, but it does not follow
that he will Danish wine from the White
House table. He will probably feel about
IT as the preacher did when sympathetic
but somewhat profane citizen OF his town
put his name down for $500 toward the
church debt with the remark, IT'S a id
good cause and / am glad to help it." A
Mortified bystander demanded to know of
the preacher why he did not rebuke such
profanity. and received the response: This
is no time TO reform the sinful.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
The Envoy to Utopia.

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. Edward Oliver wolcott, a sem
ator in congress- sailed for Europe last
Saturday on one of the most remarkable
foreign missions ever intrusted to an Amer
lean. There must be considerable merri-
ment in his own bosom as he sits in the
smoking room and contemplates his func-
tions; and large parties must be already
gathering on the English coast to wait
for his arrival. II am going to Europe -
said Mr.. Wolcott with the full knoWl-
edge and consent of Major Mckinley, in
the hope of promoting international bimet-
allism." No doubt Major Mckinley he
iieves that the voyage will do the senator
good, however little good 1t may do inter-
national bimetallism. But the senator ex-
pressly denies that he is Commissioned to
act rs the representative of the (nexb
administration The only official char
acter l acknowledge he said, with a dig
nif:ed candor appropriate to the subject.
rs derived from the Republican senatorial
caucus committee, whose envoy 1 am"
The envoy is going to meet as many .'bi-
metallists' as he can, and talk to them:
and very nice talker he is. handsome
witty, and of impressive size even for so
extraordinary an envoy as the envoy of
the Republican senate caucus committee
must be.
am not sansulne OF success" con-
tinued Senator Wolcott, who doesn't mean
TO lay up any unnecessary disappointment
for the interesting enthusiasts who de-
scribe themselves as international bimet-
allists. But he will try. 1t it all anybody
could do under the circumstances
Senator Wolcott's excursions as an envoy
will take him to England and the Con-
tinent, but not TO the spots where an en-
voy of a senate caucus committee might
hope to find genuine and hopeful inter-
est in international bimetallism. He has
no guide book to Utopia or to the land
east of the sun and west of the moon.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
The Morey Letter Forgery.

+ rom the Chicago Times-Herald
NhCh the old New York Truth at the
nelght OF the Garfield campaisn printed the
Hhorey letter in fac simile it was believed
'nat the document was genuine and friends
Vi the ONO candidate feared that his posi-
@ tioiI on the chinese question therein ex-
pressed would lose the Pacific states and
cost him the presidency. At first no one
outside the candidates circle of intimate
associates and friends doubted the authen-
Ilclty OF the letter; the general public be-
heVed 1t genuine. Then somebody noticed
that Garfield's signature was misspelled.
ana the letter was instantly denounced as a
forgery and very clumsy forgery at that.
IL was urged that man of Garfield's edu-
cd'ioh' culture and refinement under no
circumstances would misspeIl his own name
~ ieaFlhS out the IL, as the Morey letter
did. The friends of Garfield hailed the dis
covery of the error in spelling with delight
ana claimed that the forger who had clev-
cry initiated Gartield's penmanship had
ofeFreached himself and betrayed the forg-
cry Dy writing the signature ~ A. Gar
teiu' rms argument is fallacious The
iorser did his work too well and failed sim
ply because he was more familiar with
VI IarEeId signature than the public was
vi. NdFIleid very often misspelled his own
name when writing hurriedly. 1 have i'm
my possession two letters written by him
aiter his inauguration. and in both his
name is spelled GARFIELD" President Gar
neid wrote running. business hand and
made the 'i' with a single downward
stroke Very often the ink failed to flow
as soon as the pen struck the paper and
therefore the latter part of the ''i' became
the ilrst stroke of the 'e' which followed
It. here was case in which a crook failed
py oeing too successful. He initiated the
signature to a dot
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
MISSOURI POINTS.

The announcement that new paper,
making the fifth one, is soon to be started
in Warrensburg by former editor of the
Odessa Moon, calls forth an expression of
fear from the Clinton Democrat lest the
Moon man may get down to his last quar-
ter in Warrensburg journalism.
bill to which Assemblyman Cock. of
Henry county, will devote special atten-
tion at the present session of the legisla-
ture will, if enacted, make life insurance
policies non-forfeitable after two pay
ments.
The project for an electric street car line
in Nevada seems likely TO become a reality
soon, the present hope of its promoters
being that work on construction will begin
as soon as the middle Of next MONTH
Major Mitchell, of Nevada, has received a
letter under London date from his son
and daughter, Harry and Leola, who are
travelling abroad with Il theatrical COM
pany. They are likely to visit South Africa
before returning TO America.
Howard county will be put to an expense
of not less than $4,000 in replacing and re-
pairing the bridges damaged by the heavy
rains of two weeks ago.
go
The Marmaduke brothers, Colonels d. w.
and Vincent have become so heavily in
terested in Cripple Creek mining enter
prises that they are likely to become per-
manent residents of Colorado the coming
spring.
An Osceola man. Thomas NJ. johnson, has
been for a number of years collecting ma
terial for the publication of a work on the
life and writings of Thomas Taylor. the
Platonist. Mr.. johnson would be particu-
larly grateful to anyone who would fur
nish him any letters. manuscripts or in
formation OF any character bearing upon
his subject.
The war on dancing recently inaugurated
by the Carrollton preachers has already
resulted in the disbanding of the leading
organization of the disciples of Terpsichore
in that town.
Rosa Pearle" is soon to leave Sedalia for
Chicago. where she will engage in literary
work on one of the leading literary and
society journals in that city. The publica
tion of her paper in Sedalia will be contin
ued, under the supervision of Miss Alice
Dugan, who is at present associate editor.
Editor McQuitty. of the Rocheport Com
merciai, is said TO be slated for a berth In
the pen as usher and mail clerk.
There have been sold since election. It is
said, through the local markets of the
three towns Of Peirce City, Sarcoxie and
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
Disease Germs I'm ,IiIl,.

From the New York Advertiser
Very little doubt exists that milk nc
gathered and distributed not only in the
great Cities but in small towns is a favor;te
vehicle for the dissemination of disease
germs. In addition to the normal maIadies
of cattle, such as pleuro- pneumonia and
tuberculosis, it may carry the germs that
attack humanity-those of typhoid fever.
diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. The
water with which the rascally milk pro-
ducer or dealer washes out his cans flor
half filling them with milk may coutai,
any of these disorders in posse; he NAV
manipulate the milk with dirty hands or
store it in infected places and bring his
wares to market to spread disease and
death.
How milk inspection is to prevent the
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
Ingalls,. "Opportunity.,

From the Boston Herald.
To those who are inclined to question
whether ex-senator John ]. ingalls, Is n
master of English composition and an ex-
ceedingly brilliant and versatile man, we
commend the reading of the following
essay in poetry on his part. Its title is
OPPORTUNITY.
Master of human destinies am I;
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
wait
Cities and fields I walk; penetrate
Deserts and seas remote. and passing by
Hovel anu mart and palace. soon or late,
l knock, lunbidden, once on every gate.
If sleeping, wake; If feasting. rise before
l turn away: it is the hour of fate.
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire. and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hes
itate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore;
answer not, and return no more.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
And He's From Kansas. Too.

From the New York Sun.
1t is getting to be harder work every
year to keep a record of the great men
of the United States. so many are they
and so many more of them will be found
or lost every day of all the weeks to come.
Exhausted nature, being conservative
person. follows the precedents and cries
for relief. The weary statisticians. sitting
as collectors of permanent census of
notables. find it impossible to bring the
returns up to date. But once in a while
a name impresses Itself unforgetably upon
the memory. Once in n while a light
streams up too radiant not to be seen of
all men. Such is the name and such is
the light of Hon. William Hackney. of
Ohio. One of the leading minds in the
Western Popocracy has uttered the opin-
ion that the Hon. William Hackney is 1.-The
coming intellectual giant of Ohio" As the
coming intellectual giant of Ohio is still
making silver speeches. he has a long dis
tance to come yet, but the outlines of his
august form are already visible Coxey
has gone to make party of his own. and
the intellectual giant is just in time TO
take his place
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
A Song of PIatt and quay.

There's a man named Platt and another
named Quay.
And they own the earth. these two,
And the folks who happen to get in their
way,
Ta-roo, ra-loo
Are taught how giants with puppets play,
How 1t dazes one
To be hit by a ton
OF brick, ta-roo, ra-loo,
By ton of brick, to-rooi
They seek to run all under the sun
These men named Platt and Quay
They've but to wink, and their will is DONE
Ta-roo. ra-lay,
But II ever they clash won't there be some
fun
Won't the whiskers fly!
Oh my! oh my!
Won't the whiskers fly to-roo, ra-lay-
Won't the earth he all paved up, to-ray!
Cleveland Leader
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
THE INVESTIGATION F1Asco.

The action of the Missouri senate in de-
laying the investigation of the charges
against the police department of Kansas
City can be construed in no other way
than that the Democratic party is afraid
Of its record. The reconsideration of the
Lyons resolution was nothing but square
backdown, and can be regarded in no other
light.
Possibly Senator Lyons may have been
sincere in presenting the resolution, but it
is certain that his mind received great
light after consultation with his colleagues.
1t is not at all likely there will be any in
vestigation, or. if there is, it will be entirely
perfunetory and end in 'whitewash."
The excuse that the action of Tuesday
was too hasty' is so diaphanous that
anybody can see through it, and Mr. Ly-
ons' alacrity in ''bowing to the will Of
the majority looks very much as if he
were glad TO get out of the affair, after
posing on a high. moral plane for a brief
moment. The opinion of a prominent cit
izen of Kansas City that his course was
a piece of unalloyed buncombe seems well
founded.
However, 1t is not easy to see where the
Democratic party can be benefited by thus
declining TO investigate the serious charges
laid at the door of the police department
of this city. There are thousands of hon
est Democrats, not only in Kansas City.
but all over the state, who will condemn
such action as cowardly and as an effort
TO avoid the truth, to the end that the eff
ficiency of the bourbon machine in this
city may not be disturbed. Adding the
crime of attempted conceaIment to that of
notorious corruption will not benefit the
party responsible for it.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15

worst results is not specially clear To be
trustworthy it must be chemical or mi
croSccpic, and such examinations take
time. Absolute sanitary perfection cannot,
conceivably, be guaranteed to every can
under any known system; the only pro-
phylaxis that would be practicable would
be too general to be absolutely trust
worthy.
Ihis is the season for the diseases most
commonly spread by milk, and it Is gratify-
ing to learn that the health authorities are
beginning to bestir themselves on the SUBJ
iect.