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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The story of the accidental killing of lit
tie Paul johnson, told in our local col
umns yesterday morning. is one 70 appeal
TO the heart and the interest Of every pa
rent in Savannah. The little boy went
out bright and cheerful, with a few
friends OF his age, and in an hour or two
was brought back to his widowed moth
er's door a corpse, the victim of the care
less handling of firearms by a child of
about his own age The fact which should
strike parents with force Is that nearly ev-
cry boy in the city is liable to a similar
fate, as things are going. The informa-
ton is that every afternoon the fields and
strips of woods in the suburbs are filled
with young boys, 10 to Is years old. armed
with shotguns and pistols shooting at
birds, targets, etc, and occasionally driv-
ing a load Of shot into one another.
1t ought to be unnecessary to tell pa
rents that boys of such years are incom-
petent to be entrusted with firearms, yet
1t seems that a great many of the chill
dren 80 out with shotguns and revolvers
with parental consent, to the danger to
life and limb of other children and the
adults who may be working in the fields
or driving along the roads where the
young Nimrods may take notion to dis
charge their pieces.
The children, by the way, are not the
only persons who make too free and care
less use Of firearms. It has not been more
than three weeks since the old colored
man. Robert Jefferson, was killed by
chance bullet from the pistol of a white
man named Hinson, who was firing at
target placed in such a position that the
bullets flew across a cultivated field. In
the case of the killing of jefferson, as in
that of the killing of the little boy John
son, there was no malice and no murder;
the tragedies were accidental; but the
poor victims are dead, and nothing worse
would have happened to them if their lives
had been sought
There is too much carrying of danger
Gus weapons. and too careless handling
and dscharging them. Children should
not be permitted to have guns to play
with. If parents will not deny them the
dangerous toys, the authorities in the in
terest of the public safety, should take
hand in the matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
Personal.

Olive schreiners heath is causing anx-
iety to her London friends.
Gen. Sir Blndon Blood, n command OF
the British army on the northwestern
frontier, is an Irlshman, IS years old:
Harriet Prescott spoford is slowly re-
covering from an illness Of four months
at her home on Deer Isle, near Newbury-
port, Mass.
"A statue to Cauovas del Castillo,
Spaius murdered premier. is to be erected
at Madrid, the authorities Of that city hav-
ing unanimously decided TO thus honor his
memory.
F. w. Woodhouse Of Albury, Surrey,
England. who is now 80 years of age, is
the only survivor of the twelve apostles
chosen by Edward Irving when he organ
lzed the Catholic Apostolic church.
-Lese majestic has sent young engineer
of Llengnitz, in Snesia, TO jail for six
months. He expressed his opinion of
Kaiser Wilhelm at the dinner table, and
his loyal mother-in-law at once denounced
him to the police.
Mrs Livermore is a believer in CO.
operative Housekeeping, and holds that a
saving of from u to 40 per cent. in pur-
chases could be made by a combination
of twenty-five families. II The bills of fare
were prepared by one set of cooks another
large saving would result.
Miss Frances Goodwin of New Castle,
Ind, a sculptress who recently completed
a bust of the late Schuyler Colfax. Vice
President under Grant, is in Washington
arranging for the placing of the bust in
IN he FNar rod
for its reception. The bust is said 10 be
an excellent piece Of work.
Although President Faure's life has
several times been attempted, and is
known to be threatened at the present mo-
ment by the anarchists, yet he declined
to permit any members of the French po-
lice or Partisan detective force to accom-
pany him to st. Petersburg, declaring
that it would constitute a slur cast upon
the hospitality of the car and of the Mus
covite nation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
Thought 1t was a Bird.

A story is told of Glasgow bailie whose
knowledge of natural history was limited,
says London Answers. One day, when
on the bench, the following case came be-
fore him.
A man who had squirrel, on going to
the country for a short time, left the
squirrel in charge of a neighbor The
neighbor when attending to the animal,
accidentally left the door of it's cage open,
and without being seen, it made it's es-
cape.
On his return the owner of the squirrel
was very angry at the man for his care
lessness, and brought an action against
him demanding compensation for the loss
of his pet.
The bailie heard both parties and then
gave the following as his decision. He
said to the neighbor:
Nae doot We did wrang to open the cage
door, but'-turning to the pursuer-" We
was wrang, tae, for We should haze clippet
the beasts wings"
ITS a quadruped, yer honorr said the
man.
"Quadruped here or quadruped there, If
We had clippit its wings it couldna hae
flown ava. l dismiss the case"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

There was a dog show in a southern
town several years ago. and a New York
man carried a lot of settlers and pointers
down to compete, says the New York Sun.
The dogs were the best on exhibition, and
the New Yorker provided a pedigree for
each of them as long as his arm. He
knew how to handle Them and they took
most of the prizes.
Two of the local sportsmen took fan
cy to one of the dogs, and in the end paid
a large price for it-about $500, it was
thought by their friends But they would
never tell what the sum was. The pointer
was sent from place to place in the hope
that it would take prizes, as the New
Yorker had represented it to be one of the
finest animals in the country, but 1T never
came in for so much as highly COM
mended" Within a few months 1t died
without leaving so much as a puppy to
mourn at its grave in the turnip patch.
Nobody could find out what had been
paid for the dog. Some months afterward
one of the purchasers was at Niagara with
a friend who had been waiting for a
chance to get the information. Each had
taken many cocktails and finding the roar
of the river burden, they wandered away
from it and sat down on a log. The
friend thought his time had come. He
put his arm affectionately on the other
shoulder. and steadied him.
"Say, Frank old man." he said, what
did you and Eustace give for that dog,
anyhow"
The other rose to his feet with determi-
nation.
"Well, john" he said. 'I may be full,
but I'm hanged If I'm drunk enough to
tell you that"
And none knows yet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
A Ooh Loty Lxnchinr.

We shall watch with a good deal Of in
terest for the comments of the northern
papers on the Job lot" lynching at Yer
saiIles, Indiana, reported In our dispatch
es yesterday. Whenever a negro is lynch
ed in the south the northern papers print
an account of it with scare head lines and
then, in their editorial columns, bewail
the uncivllized condition Of the southern
people. Let US see what they will say
about this lynching of five alleged burg
lars in Indiana.
And tho fact must not be overlooked
that there was no positive evidence that
all of the five men were guilty of the
crimes with which they were charged.
The victims Of the mob's vengeance we're
taken from their cells and choked to death
on the supposition that all of them were,
TO a greater or less extent, concerned in
numerous robberles which had been COM
mitted in Southern Indiana within the
last few months While all of those who
were lynched may have been bad men
and deserved the fate which overlook
them, it is not certain that they were gull
ty of the crimes for which they suffered
an ignomnious death.
AS matter of fact the citizens took the
law into their own hands because they
became tired Of waiting for the officers
of the law and the courts to put an end
to the robbories or bring about the pun
ishment of those who committed them.
The Law having failed to give them the
protection 10 which they considered them
selves entitled, they determined to try the
effect of lynch law.
We feel safe in saying that the north
ern people are no greater respecters of the
law than the southern people. They are
as quick to resort to violent means to pun
ish those who are persistent in the com
mission Of crime as the people of the
south, and it seems strange that they re-
fuse to recognize that such is the case.
They do what they condemn the south
ern people for doing and at the same time
pretend that they have a greater respect
for the law than the southern people have.
Their hypocrisy in this respect is so ap-
parent that we cannot help wondering
that they are not ashamed of 1t.
If the north had the black population
of the south and as many assaults on
white women were committed by black
brutes as there are in the south, there
would be many more lynchings in the
north than there are in the south. The
northerners have no greater respect for
the law than the southerners That this
is true is shown by the lynchings which
occur in the north for which there is, as
a rule, less provocaton than for those
which occur in the south. We do not APP
prove Of lynch law; in fact we never miss
an opportunity to condemn it, but We do
object to the course of the northern pa
pers which pass over in silence mob vio-
lence committed at the north. and con-
denim such violence and comment upon it
in an offensive manner when committed
in the SOUTH
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
The Bars Let Down.

The decision of Judge Cox of the su-
preme court of the District of Columbia
in the Woods case undoubtedly causes a
feeling of uneasiness among government
employees in the classified service.
They have been under the impression
that they could not be removed except for
cause. According to Judge Cox, the pow,
er of appointment carries with it the
power of removal, and the President can
remove any employe. whether he is in the
classified service or not, without giving
any reason for his action.
John G. Wood, the plaintiff in the case
in which Judge Cox rendered his decis-
ion, was a superintendent of mails at
Louisville. He was transferred by the
Postmaster General to a less desirable
office He brought suit to have himself
restored to the office Of superintendent Of
mails on the ground that his transfer
amounted TO a removal from office without
cause. The decision was against him.
Recently the President issued an order
that there should be no removals from
the classified service except for cause. If
this order is adhered to the employees In
the classified service are safe from dis
turbauce as long as they prove themselves
competent and attend to their duties, but
viii the order be adhered to? Thousands
of republicans are applicants for govern
ment positions, and behind them, support
ing them with all their influence, are many
of the most prominent politicians in the
republican party. Under the circum-
stances it would not be strange if the
Presidents order should be gradually ig-
nored.
ments should remove democratic en-
ployes and fill their places with republi-
cans, what course would the President pur-
sue? Would he ask for the resignation of
the cabinet officer. especially if the cabi-
net officer were supported by his party?
He might do so. but the chances are he
would hesitate a good while before act
ing
There is a strong sentiment in the re-
publican party against the civil service
law. The republicans want the offices,
and this decision of Judge Cox is going to
be the excuse for a strong demand on the
President for such an administration of
that law as will permit the removal
of a good many democratic employees and
the filling of the places thus made vacant
with republicans The decision of Judge
| Cox is a letting down of the bars which
| blocked the way to the field of official
| spells.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Nfeetings-The Hibernian Society; Lam
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Special Notices-Ship Notices, Agency of
the Antwerp Naval Stores Company;
School Boy Tobacco; Sole Agency for
Chase Bicycle Tires, r. d. & VIM. Latti-
more; Liquor Licenses; Ship Notice, Rich
ardson & Barnard. Agents DR.. Weichsel-
baum's Return TO Practice.
Odficial-City Ordinances.
Household Supplies-Leopold Adler.
Prices on All Summer Goods Cut to the
Quick-B. i. Levy & Bro.
Medical-Munyon' Cough cure; Cuticura
Remedies; Hoods pills; Woman's Friend;
Johann Hon's Genuine Malt Extract
Cheap Column Advertsements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; PERSONAL; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The Duke of Cambridge, father of the
present duke, says an exchange, was re.
markable for his habit of making loud
responses of his own invention to the ser.
vice in church.
Let US pray" said the clergyman.
"By all means" said the duke
The clergyman began the prayer fol-
rain.
mo good so long as the wind is in the
east"
"Zaccheus stood forth and said: Be
hold, Lord. the half of my lands l give ia
the poor"
TOO much, too much don't mind sub
scribing, but can't stand that"
While to two of the commandments
which need not be indicated the responses
were:
quite right, quite right-but very diff
cult sometimes" and mo, no! 1t was my
brother Ernest did that"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
Pensions Dcrange Finances.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).

The pension outgo during the quarter
ending Sept. 80 will be about $4O,OOO,OOO, or
at the rate of some $l6O. 900 900 for the year,
against $l41,O00.OOO last year. The outgo
may not be so large as at present indi-
Gated, but il seems clear that the aggre-
gate bounty to the ex-soldiers will be $780,
100000. This promises an increase of the
deficit with which the last fiscal year
closed. The higher tariff was meant to
discourage imports and will, no doubt do
so, with the result Of cutting off customs
revenue. At the present rate of receipts
the deficit next July will be S1l5,O00.000
even If pensions do not increase. But Gus
toms revenue may increase and the inter-
nal revenue almost certainly will increase.
Under the most favorable circumstances
the deficit on July l. 1888, The Journal of
commerce thinks. will be SCI, 10000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17


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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The Sixth congressional district of
South Carolina, which on Tuesday held
a primary election to nominate a success
or to Representative McLauriu. who has
been promoted to the Senate, was former
ly a stronghold of Tmmanism. OF the
several counties which constitute the
district there was not one of them but
could be depended upon four years ago
10 give 300 to coo majority in favor of the
Tilmanite side of any question In the
recent primary, however, the Tillmanite
candidate was able to poll only a few
more than 300 majority in the whole dis
trict.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

1t seems that the report to the effect
that Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was
on his way to Hawaii was an error. The
senator is in Florida catching hundred
pound tarpon wrestling with wildcats,
tanning alligators, pitching pennies to the
picaninnies, taking occasional long dis
lance shots at his political enemies in
Pennsylvania, and otherwise resting. The
senator is said TO have made the friend
ship of a wild raccoon, which he feeds
with fish, and to have acquired the habit
of humming that cheerful little tune, "All
Coons Look Alike 70 Me"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
Grain Shipments.

And so Charleston is leading Savannah
in the matter of grain shipments! We
never thought our railroad people would
be willing to be beaten by the railroads
terminating at Charleston in the matter
of grain shipments
In our dispatches yesterday it was stat
ed that two cargoes of grain have been
booked from Kansas City and st. Louis for
Liverpool by way of Charleston. This
enterprise on the part of Charleston and
Charleston's railroad ought to arouse our
merchants and railroad people to activity
in respect to grain shipments. We have
grain elevator, and foreign freights are
as low here as at Charleston. AS far as
facilities for handling grain are concern
ed Charleston has no advantage over Sa-
vannah. We see no reason. therefore,
why western grain should not be exported
through Savannah.
We have called attention to. this matter
several times not because wA think our
railroad arrangements do not thoroughly
understand the situation as far as their in
terests are concerned, but because we want
Savannah to have the benefit which the
grain business and the advertisement
growing out of that business would give
her. The shipment of large amount of
grain through Savannah would help her
in a number of ways. AS she depends al
most wholly upon her commerce her mer-
chants and railroads should leave no
means untried to increase her commerce.
We shall be greatly disappointed if cargoes
of grain are not shipped through this port
before many weeks
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

After a long and restful vacation the
President and members OF his cabinet re-
turned to Washington the other day, re-
freshed and invgorated, prepared in mind
and body TO take up the mighty affairs Of
state and dispose of them for the good
Of the country. Grand. gloom and pecu-
liar they filed into the cabinet room. filed
their chests with air, knitted their brows
and discussed the color of postage
stamps! After the arguments it was
agreed that red was too hashy a color for
government document, such as the post
ase stamp is, and it was ordered that the
i"o-eenters hereafter be printed in green.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

John L. Sullivan announces that he is
in earnest about running for mayor of
Boston. He will make the race upon reg
ular nomination papers, he says, and ex-
poets to poll 5000 10 1900 votes. His plat
form will be, no licensed gambling places,
no disorderly houses, and plenty of school
room and plenty of play room for the
children. Sullivan will not be elected, of
course. but there is nothing the matter
with his platform.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The Chicago police have received orders
to suppress anarchistic speeches in pub
lie places. With the memory OF the Hay
market outrage of 1856 still fresh in their
minds, the probabilities are that the po-
lice will not be slow TO carry out the or
der. Similar orders to the police of other
cities-New York, for instance-might
have good effect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

A day or two ago the story was printed
that Miss Sarah Randall, who had never
been in love, had died in Baltimore upon
the eve of her one hundred and third
year. 1t transpires that there was no
reason why she should not have lived an
other hundred years, or have died at all.
The New York World expresses the opin-
ion that "she never lived"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

Certain agitators in Chicago are in favor
of electing to city council men who have
not two shirts to their back, so that we
may get honest men, men who will not be
bribed.' What queer ideas they have in
Chicago, If the man with only one shirt
IS necessarily honest, then the man with
no shirt at all must be pretty near to per-
lection. Why should not Chicago insti-
tute the hg-leaf raiment test for alder
men2
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The governments postal cards are now
being manufactured in the south. All
along the line the south is proving that it
can better the north's prices on manufac-
tured articles
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
why Export Trade Comes south.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem).

in wheat and corn is something more
serious than the result of discrimination
by the railroad companies in favor of
southern ports. 1t is due to natural
advantages 1t is doubtful If the es-
tabnshment of ship canal from the lakes
TO tne seaboard would serve to recover 10
northern ports a preponderance which is
no longer made secure by a superiority of
facility. Trade follows the line of least
resistance. 1t gravitates southwark.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

A Washington dispatch says the admin
istration has not yet determined what
good thing it win give Bin" Pledger of
Georgia. 1t seems to be written down that
BIZ must have something fine. If il
is just the same to Mr.. Mckinley, the
gentleman from Georgia would like to be
made Assistant President
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

The Berliner Tageblatt says the talk
about the German government placing an
import duty on American raw cotton is
nonsense; that the German people cannot
get along without the American staple,
and the government knows it very well.
mo other country" says the Tageblatt,
''can replace the American cotton. Indian
cotton is poor has a short fiber and is not
fit to be used in many of our manufac-
lures. Egyptian cotton, to be sure, is
better than American short staple cotton.
but it is also much dearer, and there is
only a little of it. The Americans know
very well that we absolutely need their
cotton, and they would laugh in their
sleeves if Germany tried to put them down
by duty on cotton"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

From the Atlanta Journal Dem.)

In the state of Indiana last night,
mob lynched five men charged with burg
larry. This beats anything the south has
ever done. Men are not lynched down
here for burglary and they are not hung
five at a time. 1t shows that mob law is
not sectional. The spirits of lawlessness
is likely to break out anywhere and no
state or section cen afford TO lecture an
other upon It,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17
Foreigners Cause the Trouble.
From the Chicago Tlmes-Herald Qnd.).

The Washington Post whacks the nails
head in saying that when a sheriff. posse
can fire into a crowd of several hundred
Pennsylvania miners. without hitting an
American the public ought to get a fair
idea of one of the prime causes of labor
troubles in that state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

1t really begins TO look as If the south
would have to send missionaries to the
north to teach the deluded people of that
section that it is wicked to lynch helpless
prisoners.