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way for match between Jack Daly and John Hughes, to be decided before the National Sporting Club of London, Eng iaI Joe io Dopovan tlrie III Wel1lsnn SelR1lesmpeT writer of pugilism, died recently as the result of a severe cold which developed into pneumonia.
 Jimmy Lawlor has returned to this city, after spending several weeks in New York. Lawlor tried hard. to secure a match with some of the champions of sailing.
 James Farrell, late partner of Alex Greggains, states that he has never had any financial difficulties with the .pugilist tween them, which good feeling MT. Far rell wishes will be lasting.
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most recent of these affairs was last Wednesday evening, when Captain A w. Pickard. Sergeants w. R. Clark, F. A. Brady. D. F. Howe. Corporal W. H. Car penter. Chief Musician George ". Farrar. J. $. Carpenter, W. J.. McQuade and J. w. Shotthofer, all of Company B, First New York Infantry, sat at the generous table of Colonel Mortimer, where Mrs. Mortimer presided as the hostess. After dinner all the pleasant places in the par Tor were occupied, and an impromptu concert was enjoyed, the instruments em- ployed being the piano, guitar. mandolin and banjo. Among those present of the military, two were Journalists. one was an artist, and other professions were rep resented.
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Special Revenue Tax.

All persons who are liable to the special internal revenue tax should take out cer- tificates before the Collectors office closes at noon tomorrow, or they will be liable posed upon rectifiers, dealers in liquors, wholesale and retail, dealers in oleomar- garine, brewers, manufacturers of filled commercial brokers, proprietors of the aters, museums or other places of amuse- ment CT shows or exhibitions for money, proprietors of bowling alleys and billiard saloons and all manufacturers or dealers in tobacco and cigars.
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CONFEsSEs HIS GUILT.
Quartermaster Sergeant Young Acknowledges That He Is
 Low Thief.

Quartermaster Sergeant Young of the Twentieth Kansas yesterday confessed to Colonel Funston that the charges of theft brought against him under the sixtieth article of war were true to the last detail. By order from headquar- ters he was yesterday afternoon con- veyed to the Presidio and there con- fined under a strong guard
 For time yesterday the commissary department questioned the possibility
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CORBETT AND Mccoy. Sam Fitzpatrick Writes That Much Interest Is Being Taken in
 

Sam Fitzpatrick, the manager of Jack Daly, in a letter to the sporting editor of The Call, says that the sports of New York have commenced to take quite an interest in the Corbett and Mccoy fight, which Is yet some time off The noted trainer of pugilsts also states that there are quite a number of good judges of prizefighters who believe Corbett will
 meet more than his match in Mccoy. Fitzpatrick Is negotiating with Dr. Ord
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Soldiers Entertaind.

Colonel and Mrs. Harry Mortimer, 2o3o Pierce street, have been unremitting in their hospitality to the volunteers at Camp Merritt and the Presdio. At least once a week since the troops began to arrive in San Francisco a dinner party has been given to the young soldiers. The
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cent booze was taken in, the broken win dows patched with boards, and Meinheer Weinhold, seated at the top of a dray- load of his bar fixtures, left the camp of the belligerents, leaving white-winged peace to take his place.
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Special Revenue Tax.

Collector Lynch has received a decision from Washington to the effect that 1t Is not obligatory to put the tax stamp on the bottle where it will be destroyed by the removal of the cork It may be placed on any conspicuous part of the bottle, but must be cancelled with the date and initials of the person affix- ing.
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the reports of company commanders. medical and other officers thereon as to whether dis ability was incurred in line of duty or not in line of duty, every possible means will be em- ployed to harmonze the reports before for warding the papers to these headquarters. By command of
 BRIGADIER GENERAL MILLER.
 -, First Lieutenant Third Artil- lery, Acting AdJutant General.
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Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, Writes About the Prospects of American
 Trade in the Orient.
 Tn Next Sundays Call.
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 Next Transport.

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nues, Market and East streets. They
 were given a royal send off all along the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-18
That Settled It.

A story is told of very popular cavalry
officer, says Tit-Bits. He was being tried
for drunkenness, and among other wit
nesses was his Irish soldier-servant. The
court, anxious to give the officer every
chance, put several questions to this Wit
ness with view to eliciting any facts rhat
might be in his masters favor. When The
Irishman said that his master. on coins
to bed, had expressed a wish to be called
early the court was distinctly pleased.
A man who gave special instructjons ~
be called early could not-they argued ia
themselves-have been drunk Hoping Ia
get favorable particulars, they put a fur
Their question.
And why did Maj. - wish to he
called early?"
Then, Faith! an he tould me II was
because he was to be Queen of the Nav >,
came the answer.
That settled it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-18

The rich gold deposits of the Klondike.
which have .occasioned such a sensation.
are known as placer deposits; that is. the
gold is found in free dust, mixed with
gravel. The process of extracting the
gold consists merely in separating The
gravel and the gold dust by washing or
''panning." Gold does not grow" or 9th
erwise come into existence in such de-
posits 1t first exists in quartz and mug
gets, and by the action of glaciers
streams or other agencies is ground into
dust and drifted to the placer pockets
or deposits When the Klondike placer
discoveries were first made the old gold
hunters and the scientists expressed the
opinion that it was probably only a mat
ter of time when the mother lode" from
which the dust found had come, would be
discovered, and they believed it would be
found very rich.
few days ago reports were received
from the Klondil1e country leading to the
belief that the mother lode" has been
discovered, and that expectations with re-
gard to it will probably be realized. ut is
alleged that quartz which will assay as
much as 100000 to the ton has been taken
out near the base of a mountain peak
known as THE Dome" at the source of
Ell Dorado creek. The deposit was found
some thirty feet below the surface, Under
muck and alluvium deposit. This, it is
believed, is but one vein of the mother
lode" and that others will come to light
in the near future
The reputed richness of the quartz, of
course, is still a matter of doubt, but when
it is borne in mind that in some of the
placer deposits of the Klondike the yield
has been from $40 to 500 to the pan, it
does not tax reason to believe that the
source of the supply is very rich indeed.
If the deposits should prove very ex-
tensive, and as valuable as has been re-
ported-or only half as valuable-it is evil
dent that the movement to the gold fields
would be greatly augmented, and 1t is
possible that the operations on the depos-
its during the next few years would have
marked effect in the markets for the pre-
cious metals.
The newly discovered deposits however,
are not so readily available as the placer
deposits which are now being laid under
contribution. To extract gold from quartz
necessitates the use of more or less heavy
machinery. AT present there is no means,
or only very crude means, of transporta-
ton to the gold fields. However, should
the earlier reports of the rich find be veri-
fed il is assured that human ingenuity
would devise some means of getting the
gold out. With gold, glittering gold. in
sight, the mind of man does not admit
that there are insurmountable obstacles to
securing it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-18

Mayor Quincy of Boston has inaugu-
rated a new departure in municipal gov
ernment-a departure, it seems to us,
based upon sound business sense. He has
what he calls an advisory committee to
assist him in determining the ways and
means by which the business Of the city
can be encouraged and the welfare and
happiness Of the people promoted.
This committee is composed of seven
business men, one Of them being president
of the Chamber of Commerce, another
president Of the Real Estate Exchange,
and others occupying places of importance
in the business world. The committee Is
not political one in any sense, and polit-
ical questions are not considered by 1t.
Although Mayor Quincy is a Democrat
foursof his advisory committee are Repub-
leans and three are Democrats. Their
political beliefs, however. are Of no I'M
portance whatever.
This committee meets with the Mayor
at stated periods and they discuss such
matters as pertain to the welfare of the
city. Through the committee the Mayor
finds out what is going on in the city's
business circles and how the city can best
serve business interests. The aim of the
Mayor is, besides getting data to aid him
in administering the affairs of the munic-
ipality, to gain the support of the people
for his administration and bring about
harmony among all classes for the city s
good
This new departure of Mayor Quincy
In municipal administration could be fol-
lowed in some other cities with profit. 1t
promises much better results than the
management of a half dozen more or less
small politicians, who meet in secret and
whose chief aim is to get some pickings
for themselves or to find a place at the
public crib for their fathers, brothers or
friends
The people, either by parties or clubs,
have an idea that they rule AS matter
of fact, they are too often used by plotting
politicians to pull chestnuts out of the fire
| for themselves. If there had been such a
committee ip this city as Mayor Quincy
! has IL is pretty safe to say the city would
not now be governed practically by com
missions nor would the street railway
company have got so much from the city
for so little in promises. If cities gen.
orally should adopt Mayor Quincy's ad-
visory committee idea, back room eau
cuses of politicians and ward heelers
would have much less influence in munich
pal affairs
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Personal.

David Macferron, who has been treas
urer of Allegheny City, Pa, for over forty
years, talks of resigning.
Rev. w. A. Spencer, corresponding sec
rotary of the Methodist Episcopal Board
of Missions, has Travelled 60O,00O miles in
the last twelve years. His journeys are
made in the course of his regular work
for the board. His home is in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ann Eyre Hely, though almost
unknown outside the professional nursing
circles in England, shares with Florence
Nightingale the distinction of being one
of the nursing pioneers. She Joined Miss
Nightingale in the Crimea in 1854.
DIR. Samuel Harris, who is i'll in a St.
Louis hospital, was the commander of the
Confederate irchclad Arkansas when it
made the famous trip down the Yazoo to
Vicksburg. On this trip Capt. Harris ran
his boat by the fleet Of gunboats com
manded by FarFagut and Porter receiving
broadsides which killed nearly his entire
crew.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-18
Dissatisfied with Her Name.

That colored folks have a forid taste in
nomenclature is well known, says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. The finer the
name, the more certain the duslxy mother
is of bestowing it on her offspring. Nancy
and Betsy have had their day, and in their
stead appear Lillian, Gladys. Stella and
Mabel However, it sometimes happens
that the owner of an uncommon name is
not pleased to be thus singled out from the
vulgar herd of Johns and James. An IN
town housekeeper has a washerwoman
with the queer Christian name of Damsel
and 1t once occurred TO her to ask nor
Madonna of the Tubs for whom. or what.
she had been called. In reply to the oues-
lion the washlady replied: "'Twas a fren'
OF meh nav gimme that entitle-an' a
mighty ugly one it is, I mus say. But
I've got worse names than that" she add
ed, gloomily; inch full names Oueen viz
toria Damsel Jones'"
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AUniversaI Accent.

People who are under the impression that
accent betrays not only the nationality
but provmcialism as well will perhaps be
somewhat disallusioned, says the Chicago
Tribune. by reading the following incl
dent
The experience is that of Chicago wom-
an who made a trip to New York a short
while ago. Up TO the time of her visit
to the Eastern metropolis she supposed
that she spoke fairly good English She
read none but the best authors, and as her
friends were all numbered among the
cultured people, there seemed no reason
why she should not couch her sentiments
in pure, subs tantial Anglo-Saxon. Neither
did she affect an accent. At least she
was not aware that she did. After arriv-
ing in New York, however she learned
that she not only had an accent, but that
it was a many-sided affair that was truly
perpleXing.
She attended a reception one evening
where literary and aesthetic people pre-
dominated. The first person she talked
to was man with a bushy red beard and
gold eyeglasses.
Il am so glad, madam" he said, in the
course of the conversation, ito know that
you are from my town. That Boston ac-
cent is bound to betray the speaker where
ever it may be heard"
nc C4liCd5O WOiiidH udSneQ MIN one
keen glance, then seeing he was in earnest,
she said:
L fear you have made a mistake; 1 am
from Chicago"
Soon after she began talking to an ell
derby woman.
You are from Georgia, of course said
the otner woman. 81 can always tell a
Georgian anywhere. There is nobody on
earth who pronounces as and us like a
person born and bred in that state"
ana again was the Chicago woman fore
cd TO proclaim the city of her nativity.
Later a young man commented on her
accent From Nova Scotia, of course. -
ne said pleasantly. 81 hail from there my
SELF and it's pleasure to see some one
VINO speaks as they do at home. The
minute you pronounced my name 1 knew
you were from my part of the country
NOBODY else could say it with just that
accent" Again she gasped out something
about Chicago.
I've been lonesome and out Of place to-
night he said Nobody here from my
section of the globe You're the first peT-
son We met all evening that halls from
west of the Rocky mountains. The minute
l heard you speak I said: Here's a wo-
man from the Far West We never lose
our accent, it seems, wherever we may
60"
Just before the reception ended the
SudNe young man VINO stood at her side
leaned forward and said:
I'm drive over to see you some day, il
you don't mind"
You'll do what?'
Drive over to see you. I'll wager we
don't live more than ten miles apart Ny
home is in Robinson, w. Va, and yoJ
cannot live far away An accent such as
yours and mine is never heard outside Of
our immediate vicinity"
Thew We're on their WaV home a
you'll be apt to have a caller to-mor
row." said her cousin THAT young doc
tor from Montreal is anxious TO know vol
better. He feels confident that you belone
to his city. He says he was attracted by
your accent from the very first. He.
homesick and would like to talk to som'
one from his native town. l didn't tel
him any different. You"
But the young woman gasped Chicago
and tainted.
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Had No use for Diamonds.

"Glad I'm through with it, laughed the
travelling man who has for years been
selling diamonds by sample or directly
from the stock which he carried about
his person." says the Detroit Free Press.
Great nervous strain" he continued.
Impossible to get over the dread of be-
ing robbed.
I've been followed for hundreds of
miles and kept on the alert for twenty
four hours a day, but the biggest scare
ever had was in that lower part of
Illinois known as Egypt. In hurrying to
catch a train 1 had placed a book of the
sparklers in my overcoat pocket and for
got all about them until l reached the ho-
tel at my next stopping place. They were
gone, and ! felt worse than any man who
has lost his all through speculation for
l was the victim of MY own carelessness.
[ recalled taking off my overcoat and sit
ting in the same seat for some time with
a man who looked and talked like a
countryman. But you can never tell, I
have a habit of drawing such people out.
more for my own entertainment than any
thing else, and 1 recalled his having told
me where he lived, but he might have
been fooling me.
Il telegraphed the house that L was
sick, for l was and then went in search
of the old farmer. / was surprised to
find him, and still more surprised to have
him hand me the book of diamonds as
soon as l had been made welcome
Didn't ever cackalate to see YOU
ag'in' he said, heartily; but I reckon
you was takin' them there shiney stones
home for the kids, er they mighter been
some kind of a keepsake. 1 was Jest 60
in to keep EN- a few months and then
'stribute EN- round mong the neighbors
children if YOU hadn showed up They
air purity, but they hain't no use but to
air purity, but they ahin't no use but to
look at
when I slipped 800 bill into his hand
on parting he looked as though he
thought 1 was crazy, and said if l ever
needed the money to let him know"
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THE MORNING NEWS TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1898.

What Is claimed by New York CORE
spondent to be the inside history of the
resignation of ex-Controler of the Cur
rency Trenholm from the presidency of the
American Surety Company may be con-
densed into few words thus: Boss"
Platts son is at the head of one great
surety company doing business in New
York; BOSS" Croker's friend is at the
head Of another big surety company do
ing business In the same territory. Though
the political influence of these two bosses
the business of Mr.. Trenholm's surety
company was being pulled away to the
surety companies in which the bosses are
directly or indirectly interested. Some of
the directors of Mr. Trenholm's company
thought it would be good business to play
a little politics also, but Mr.. Trenholm
objected, a split occurred and Mr.. Tren-
holm went out. There may or may not
be good ground for the story; it is given
for what it is worth.
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II dispatches from Madrid are reliable,
the recent riot in Havana was not, as all
legged, spontaneous exhibition of public
sentiment against autonomy, but the re-
suit of plot at Madrid, which had for its
object the overthrow of the sagasta minis
try, the elevation Of Don Carlos to the
throne of Spain, and the return of Gen
Weyler to Cuba. According to these dis
patches, 1t was thought that the return of
Gen. Weyler to Cuba would cause the
United States to intervene in Cuban Af-
fairs, which Intervention would bring
about national uprising in Spain, and
that the uprising would afford the Car
lists an opportunity to undertake to res
tore order and thus gain a position which
would enable them to make Don Carlos
king.
Exactly how much truth there is in this
statement of the situation is of course, I'M
known. 1t is apparent, however, that
Spain is not making much Roadway to-
wards establishing autonomy In Cuba. The
insurgents have refused to accept it and
the Spaniards in Cuba do not seem to be
enthusiastically in favor of it. Under the
III CHAAiSteAA lltGtc4OISs the OullOOk LOT
it is not encouraging.
In the meantime the pressure upon the
government of this country TO take some
decided step towards bringing the war in
Cuba to a close is growing stronger. The
diplomatic and consular bill will be taken
up for consideration in the House this
week, and it is. said that the friends of
Cuba in that body will make it the excuse
for a hot debate on the Cuban situation,
Notwithstanding the fact that the mana
gers of the House are very much opposed
to any discussion of that subject at this
time.
Ii is quite clear that Spain will have to
make great progress towards the pacif-
cation of Cuba in the very near future or
she will have foreign interference in the
Cuban trouble to deal with. Commercial
interests and humane considerations are
pressing for an early ending of the war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-18

1t looks as though the Schlatter opera
ton, extirpaton of the stomach, would be
come a fad with some of the advanced"
medical practitioners. Two operations of
the kind have been performed in this coun-
try within few days, one in st. Louis, and
the other in Milwaukee. In each case the
patient died. However, it may be held that
the patients, being afflicted with cancer
of the stomach. would have died anyhow.
One danger is that there will be an in
crease of diagnoses Of cancer of the stom-
ach