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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
Personal.

The dedication Of the monument which
has been erected 10 the memory of Mar
shall Canrobert at Salnt-Cere, France, will
take place on Oct. 8. Gen. Billot. the min
ister Of war, viii preside at the ceremony.
Washable, chief Of the Shoshones. has
been invited TO be a special agent at the
festival of mountain and plain soon to be
held at Denver WaSh1b1e IS now 81 years
old, and for two generations he has ruled
the Shoshones. He has always been a
friend of the white man.
Miss Stella F. jenkins, Kansas City
school teacher, has been made minister
Of the Friends church of that city. Her
mother, Mrs. Frances c. jenkins, has
been a minister Of the church for forty-five
years, and her sister has also occupied
pulpit in Richmond, Ind.
French journals record the death. at
the age Of s. years of the well-known
painter, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who, in his
later days, OBLIGATED directeur de PEcOle
de Dessin des Arts Decoratfs, and, apart
from the distinguished positions his works
obtained in the salons, was much beloved
teacher.
Prof. F. E. Gurley of Danville, Ill, for
several years state geologist has made
one of the finest private collections of fos-
sis in the world. His house is not hg
enough to accommodate his specimens,
and he is now Offering them for sale. They
must be kept together, however. He will
not part with them on any other Terms.
The Glasgow, KY, Times tells of ne
gro who lives near Savoyard, Metcalfe
county, who is only Il years old, but has
already mastered the common school rud-
iments of education and is away up in al
zebra, geometry, astronomy, calculus and
other higher branches He is a lightning
calculator and a marvel in many respects
His name is J. r. Thompson.
The stump of the tree to which Israel
Putnam was once tied in the French and
Indian war is still standing in the little
village of Crown Point town in the
upper part of New York 1t was in the
course of a skirmish near Wood Greek, at
the time of the French invasion in August,
175S that he was captured by the Indians
and tied to this tree. While the flames
were soaring his flesh he was saved by
Capt. Molang. a French officer, who rush
ed through the crowd, scattered the fire
brands, cuffed aud upbraided the Indians
and released their victim. Putnam was
taken to Montreal and presently freed by
exchange
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
The Sewage outlet.

We have no doubt that a very consider
able difference of opinion will crop out
when the question whether the new house
drainage system shall provide for dis
charging the sewage into the river, imme-
diately in front of. or just below, the city
or for carrying it to some point several
miles distant shall come up. 1t is under
stood that Col. Warnings plans contain
data showing the cost of each Of the out
let's. The cost of the drainage system
would be greater of course If it should be
decided to construct drain several miles
in length in order to deposit the sewage a
long distance from the city.
We have already stated that we can see
but one objection to having the outlet on
the river front, and that is not avery Sc
rious one. It is that by some means, of
which we now have no suspicion, our
present water supply may be cut off, or
so reduced as to be wholly inadequate to
our needs We have every reason to be-
lieve, however, that our artesian wells will
give us an ample water supply for many
years and if the city should grow beyond
the capacity of the present wells we could
easily sink others.
But if the artesian supply should be cut
off it would not be a difficult engineering
feat to carry the sewage through pipe
so far down the river that it would not
contaminate the water in the vicinity of
the old water works.
Col Warng declares that the sewage, if
discharged in the river in front of the city,
would not be offensive or dangerous to the
city's health. He has made a thorough
study of the disposal of sewage and his
opinion can be relied upon as being cor
rect If, therefore, the city council should
decide in favor of making the river in front
OF the city the receptacle of the sewage
we do not think it would make a mistake.
No decision will be arrived at in the mat
ter, however, before it is known what the
difference in the cost of a nearby and a
far away outlet is. If it Is only matter
of a few thousand dollars council may
make a concession to the sentiment in ia
vor Of keeping the sewage out of the river,
but the probabilities are, however, that it
will appear that it is a great many thou
sands of dollars.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
The Passing of the constab1es.

On Oct. ! the South Carolina whisky
dispensary constabulary will pass out of
existence; and it will be one Of the best
riddances that ever came to a boss-rid-
den state. The constabulary did more
TO make the dispensary system unpopu-
lar than every other feature connected
with it, There are unquesuonably some
good points about the law, but there was
no redeeming feature about the constabu-
larry system as organized by TillmaH and
maintained by his successors. The So
called 'ruggedness" of the man Tilman
was probably reflected in the character
Of the constabulary which he organized
to uphold his pet project and force an un-
welcome law upon the towns and cities.
He wanted men who could and would
shoot, and shoot upon slight provocation,
and he got them. Upon this point it is not
out of place to quote the Columbia Regis
ter which has been a thick and thin sup
porter of the reform movement" in the
state. The Register says: 1.-The constab-
ulary were armed by the state, and in
many instances were reckless men, who
had little regard for human life, especial
ly when they felt that if convicted of
killing a man they would Immediately re-
ceive a pardon. In this belief they were
not wrong, as the familiar history of the
past few years viii show" It win be re-
called that one of the dspensary con-
stables, a notorious character named
Bladon, or something like that. killed a
man in cold blood, was convicted and SEN
fenced 80 the penitentiary for a long term,
and was pardOned by Gov Tillman before
he had reached the penitentiary gates.
Continuing, the Register says: ION the
slightest provocation and without any
cause whatever they would often use their
pistols. Such a class Of people were
a menace to the peace and happiness of
the inhabitants. In many cases they were
legalized desperadoes, ready to shoot and
kill on the shortest notice. Gov.
Tillman once said the men he wanted for
constables must be tough and afraid of
nothing on earth. AS a rule that class
of men were obtained to do the work"
The history of the dispensary constabu-
larry is a story of outrage and scandal
written in blood: and often the blood
came from the veins of some of the best
men in the state. The Darlington riot
will be recalled. In that riot Frank Nor
ment, as fine and promising a young man
as the state ever produced, was shot down
as if he were a dog by the constabulary,
and not one of the murderers was ever
punished for the crime And there are
a hundred other bloody instances which
might be recalled. 1t is not to be won
dered at that the dispensary became in
tensey hated, with such officials to back
it up.
Gov. Ellerbee has done well to issue
the order which will wipe the dispensary
constabulary out of existence. He win
now depend upon the local authorities to
enforce the dispensary law, and it would
be riskng nothing to predict that 1t will
be better observed now than ever before.
The dispensary now stands a chance of a
trial upon its merits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

j. L. Molloy in New York Ledger.
A gun is heard at the dead of night,
Life boat, readyv
And every man to the signal true
Fights for place in the eager crew;
Now lads steady!'
First a glance at the shuddering foam,
Now look at the loving home,
Then together, with bated breath
They launch their boat in the gulf of
death.
over the breakers wild,
Little they reck of weather,
But tear their way
Thro' the binding spray,
Hear the skipper cheer, and say,
up with her, lads, and lift her
All together"
They see the ship in a sudden FASH
Sinking ever;
And grip their oars with a deeper breath
Now or neveri
Fifty strokes and they'rs at her side,
If they 1--we in the boiling tide,
If they last thro' the awful strife;
All, my lads, it's race for life!
over the breakers wild,
Little they reek of weather,
But tear their way
Thro' the binding spray,
Hear the skipper cheer, and say,
up with her lads, and lift her
All together!
And loving hearts are on the shore
Hoping, fearing
Till over the sea there comes a cheer,
Then the click of the oars you hear
Homeward steering.
Meier a thought of the danger past,
Now the lads are on land at last,
What's a storm to a gallant crew
who race for life, and who win it, too?
over the breakers wild,
Little they reck of weather,
But tear their way
Thro the binding spray,
Hear the skipper cheer, and say,
"Up with her. lads, and lift her
All together!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

The North Carolina state administration
is considering a proposition from a syn
dictate of northern capitalists to lease the
whole state penitentiary institution, con-
victs farms and all, for term of years
1t is said that for the last six months
or so the penitentiary has been steadily
failing to earn its running expenses, and
that the administration is anxious to get
it off its hands before the taxpayers be-
gin to kick too vigorously because of the
deficits. The state owns five plantations,
on which the convicts are worked. For
several years, under democratic adminis-
tration, the penitenuary establishment
was self-supporting and even proft-earn-
ing but since the present republican-pop-
ulist administration has had the man
agement Of things the penitentiary has
been going from bad to worse. The rea-
son is, no doubt, to be found in the man
agement of the institution. 1t is said that
ignorant white men, and still more ig-
norant negroes, have been given Offices
in the penitentiary system in payment for
political services. They are VIGOROUSLY
Incompetent according to the Raleigh cor
respondent of the New York Post; still
the administration cannot or will not get
rid of them. 1t has even been made
part Of the terms submitted by the adj
ministrauon to the northern syndicate
that these negro and populist officials
shall be retained by the lessees. To this
the prospective Iessees are demurring
How long will it take North Carolina to
return to the realization of the fact that
if she wants brains competency and hon
esty in her government, she must look
to the democratic party?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
Court Day in Early kansas.

In the early days of Kansas says the
Kansas City Journal, when the state was
divided into nine districts instead of TWEEN
ty-nine. Judge William Brown presided
over the Ninth judicial district which
took in all the territory from Marion
county to Colorado on the west, and the
Indian Territory on the south The
judges district was bigger than the state
of Massachusetts,, and, besides calling for
several thousand miles of travel by stage
every year, embraced some wild and
wooly territory. When he arrived at
Medicine Lodge to hold his first term he
found each juryman with a belt fun Of
cartridges encircling his waist, and at
least one large IA slung from his hip.
The itigants and spectators were attired
IN the same manner, and to Judge Brown
who is emphatically a man of peace, the
prospect seemed uncomfortably warlike
He mildly suggested to the sheriff that
he persuade the crowd to lay aside their
arms during the sitting of the court. The
sheriff, well-known character by the
name of Reuben Lake, was noted for his
plain speaking and profanity
Now, sheriff" said the judge, with
mild look through his spectacles, Il wish
you would suggest to these gentlemen
who are jurors, and others who have bust
ness in court, that it would perhaps be
better if they would remove their pistols
temporarily. Be careful not to say any
thing that might Offend sheriff, but just
make a nice, polite request, you know"
All right, judge said Reube. III do
just as you say" and, jumping upon
chair, he shouted: "Hear We, hear We,
the honorable district court of Barber
county is now in session. All of you
blank blanks who have any business in
this court will take off them guns, pile
EN- up back there by the door and come
to the 'front.'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
The Hopeful oalce seeker.

He was impecunious, but hopeful, as
ofice-seekers Usually are, says the Wash
ington Post, and the consciousness that
a wealthy brother in his western home
could be appealed to in time of need made
his hope the stronger. For some time pre-
cedng the following incident, however, he
had not heard from his brother, and his
finances were at a low ebb. So hearing
that the congressman from his district,
who had been in the city for a short time,
was about to return home, he thought it
advisable to send back a hint He met
the congressman in front of an uptown
hotel and, during the conversation, said:
when you reach home you'll see my
brother, WON'T you2'
The congressman said he would.
'Well," continued the office-seeker, 81
want you to tell him that I'm pretty hard
up back here and if he wants to give
me a little help now is his time"
The legislator was giving the office-seek-
er every assurance that he would deliver
the message. when a mutual acquaintance
joined the party and suggested that they
adjourn to the bar. The trio seated them
selves at table, and the newcomer or
dered a round of drinks, which was fol-
lowed by another from the congressman.
Under the mellowing influence of the rye
essence, the office-seeker began to see
thlnSS IN more roSeaCe llSht. lie turn
ed to the congressman and said
when you get back home just tell my
brother that you saw me and that I'm
getting along all right. Tell him, though
that ia like to hear from him"
The congressman promised to deliver
the message as it had been revised, and
the waiter was set to work again. Two
more rounds were disposed of, and the
ofiice-seeker leaned over confidentially to
tho congressman and said.
SHAY jus tell that - brother o. mine
when you shee him that's anything he
wants he can draw on me-"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
When Gen. Howard Went Hungry

Gen. o. o. Howard" said Gen. David
S. Stanley to the Boston Herald, was
ever a religious, conscientious man, with
a deep-seated impulse to raise up and ben
eft the colored man. I well remember a
story about him, illustrating his want of
knowledge of the negro character, as it
emerged from serfdom. After the war,
Gen. Howard was the head of the Freed
mems bureau, and went TO Richmond, &C.
companied by United States senator,
who was also interested in the great work
the bureau had been designed to prepare.
AT dinner time they were taken into
the dining room of the man in charge,
and the colored walters were called up
and introduced.
Boys, said the man in charge, this
is Gen. Howard, who is doing so much
for the colored men of the south. See
that he gets a good dinner quickly. Take
care of him.
" Oh yes, they replied, Gen. Howard?
We all knows bout him. He's our Moses.
He's takin' care of us
The other tables were occupied by I'M
important young officers, who, not know
ing Gen. Howard. or not standing in awe
of his strong religious views, began to
curse the walters violently, and abused
them for 6not waiting on them more
promptly.
1.-The outcome of it all was that the IN
important young officers were waited upon
and got their dinners at once. Gen. How
ard did not fare well at all, and, after
waiting a full hour left the dining room
as hungry as when he entered it.
In great indignation, the United States
senator who accompanied the general
strobe up to a group of walters and thun-
dered:
what do you mean by treating Gen.
Howard so?
why, boss was the reply, dem other
gemmens give us a dollar apiece before
dinner commenced
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
The Fate of spain.
From the Columbia Is g. State Den

From the Columbia 6 @. State Dem).
1t really seems as if a nemesis had over
taken Spain for her long indulgence in
misrule and oppression. She is losing the
last of her possessions abroad; her people
are impoverished at home. The prospect
is very dark for the former mistress of
the western world There will soon be
none so poor as do her reverence"
All governments should be warned by her
fate our own among the number; for
whenever men, or bodies of men, abuse
the God-given privilege of ruling, they
will in the end be shorn OF power and
humbled into the dust
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

1t all depends upon the point of view.
The magnificent palisades or the Hud-
son river are being disigured by contrac
tors blasting out rock. An admirer of
a big blast was detonated the other day.
Approaching the contractor with tears in
his voice he said: That was a beautiful
cliff you destroyed" yes" said Contrac-
tor Reilly, cts the finest paving rock in
the country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

Mr.. Bryan might do wen to keep his
weather eye upon George Fred Williams
OF Massachusetts. The Hon. George Fred
Is all sorts of smart politician, and Just
now he is looming magnfcently. In so
lar as the democracy of Massachusetts is
concerned, he appears to be the whole
thing. He cuts off heads, reads old dem
ocrats out Of the party. dictates the par
tvs committeeman, writes platforms and
otherwise runs the machine as suits him.
brooking no opposition from any source.
II will be remembered that he is the
original free silver man of down east
and 1t may count for lot later on to
have it said that he had the pluck to at
tack the gold-bug in it's lair Moreover,
the Hon. George Fred is man with an
ambition 1t would be just as wen for
MAJ Bryan to keep an eye on him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

A Chicago newspaper says the Luet-
CERT trial has ruined the sausage bus
mess in that city. Since the details of
the trial and pictures of the interior of
Luetgerts factory have been exploited in
the public prints to so great degree. the
public appetite for sausage has palled
Not even the assurance that Mrs. Luet-
CERT has been seen alive and well since
the alleged murder has served to reas-
sure the former sausage eaters. 1t is a
hard matter to restore confidence once
destroyed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Application for the
Passage Of a Bill to Extend Jurisdiction,
for Sanitary and Drainage Purposes, of
County Commissioners; Cooper House For
Rent; Ship Notice, Paterson, Downing &
Co; E. & w. Laundry; Ship Notices. Rich
ardson & Barnard, Conslgnees; Notice of
Application for Advertising Sales Under
Execution of City Court.
The Original Steel Shod School Shoes
Cell & Quint.
Amusements-M G. Fields Minstrels,
Matinee and Night.
Furniture, Carpets. Rugs, Mattings-
Leopold Adler
The New Neckwear-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Take a Look at Our Fall stock-Me-
tropolitan Clothing Company.
Railroad Schedule-Central of Georgia
Railway.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; American Line; Red Star Line;
Baltimore Steamship Line.
Oil And Gasoline-Savannah Oil and
Gasoline Delivery.
Medical-Carlsbad Sprudal Salt; Cuticu-
ra Remedies; Ayers Cathartic Pills;
Worlds Dispensary Preparations; S. s. s.. !;
Erie Medical Company; Castoria Wine of
Cardui; Blood Balm.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

Senator Elkins of West Virginia. who
Slipped" section % into the tariff bill, has
given out an interview upon the opinion
of the attorney general which killed the
section. The part of the interview which
is most interesting is one which illustrates
the honorable gentleman's code of moral
ethics, and possibly explains in part how
it comes about that he is a millionaire. 1t
will be remembered that the section was
slipped into the bill; nobody seemed to
know anything about it, Mr.. Dingley was
in the dark, and so was the speaker, and
other republican leaders. 1t transpires
upon investigation, that Senator Elkns
was the author of the section, and "slipp-
ed it in; and this is what he said about
the transaction: Il am not ashamed of the
part have played; i am proud of it, I
simply worked to succeed OF course. 1
was not going to tell those opposed to the
scheme all about it," According to the
senator from West Virginia, the end JUS
tilted the means. He was working to sue
coed" 1t mattered not to him whether the
majority of his own party. the whole of the
democratic party and the majority of the
people of the United States objected to
the scheme. If he could accomplish his
purpose by an underhand trick, deed in
the dark, it would be something TO be
proud Of. 1t is humiliating to know there
is in the Senate of the United States
man with any such idea of honorable deal
ing and craftsmanship.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

If there was, indeed, cannibalism at the
Greeley camp at Cape Sabine, the terrible
warning will not be needed by other Arctic
explorers; there will be as many adven-
turers ready to tempt the fates in the
frozen north as if the Greeley party had
made midsummer picnic tour in the
region of eternal ice. Horrors do not
freeze the spirit of adventure, but serve
rather to infiame it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
Notification Made Easy.
From the Pittsburg Post DENY.

The attorney generals opinion nullify-
ing section % of the Dingey tariff law
because after it had been enacted ii turn
ed out to be something only a limited num-
Der of people wanted and besides was not
good politics. should be sent to all the
law schools of the world as a specimen of
legal twisting by which provision of law
as plain and binding as language could
make II is declared void and imperative.
After this achievement there is not a law
on the statute books he cannot declare
void.