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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
GBORCIqA AND o
~ o FLORIDA.

- Mss settlers. that are taking a lively m
crest in the development OF chat section
The Swedish Lutheran Church of Brook
lyn has purchased forty acres Of muck
land there and has sent Charles W. An
dersou TO improve 1t. They VIII put in sew
eral acres of tomatoes this year while in
dividual members of che church will put
in the rest Of the land not occupied by the
church Last year there was less than
twenty-five acres in cultivation. This year
there win be over 200 acres Mr.. Ander-
son has just purchased the lumber and
other material to build a tramway one
and one-half miles in length. to deliver the
products a the depot. The colony has
during the summer set out many acres of
citrus trees and pineapples. The settlers
that are going there are of the best class.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
lac black tea from finding its way Inlo

the black tea from finding its way into
the precious golden mixture.
The planter worked day and night until
he had fifty pounds of the golden tips and
was blind as bat. He sacrificed his eye
sight to his ambition The news of the
fifty pounds of wonderful golden tea got
to London, as news of commercial import
always does, and there was hot rivalry
among the tea brokers to get possession
of the new mixture. In London tea can
be sold to brokers only at auction, and
the general public is excluded from the
sales, only brokers being admitted, This
insures a proper valuation, as the competi-
ton between the brokers is very close
When this particular tea was put up t
seemed as if the bidding would never cease
and it did not until the wonderful product
was sold al $40 pound, or $1,000 for the
ffty-pound lot. Considering that the like
of it would probably never again be OBJ
tainable, do not think the price was eX-
travagant, as was shown when the tea
was retai.ed. II was sold to connoisseurs
in all parts of the world, and in each III
stance at a handsome profit. The Indian
planter received a handsome sum from his
brokers, though millions would have been
scant consolation to him in his sightIesS
condition.
Il do not think any of the tea came to
America. The highest price paid for tea
in this country SO far as I remember, was
$50 a pound. This tea was the product oil
a Ceylon plantation, and was peculiar IN
that it had been so cultivated that con-
siderable portion of each leaf had the goi-
den color, so much so that the mixture
resulting was a beautiful black and gold.
1t was undoubtedly of fine flavor as l
can attest. for l was so fortunate as to
taste some of H. Americans are becoming
gre ~ drinLaf~- Int the
Irish are still the heaviest tea consumers
In the world"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
GOLDEN-TIP TEA.

1t Cost $40 "a Pound at Auction, and
b Ruined the Eyesight OF the Grow
er.
From the 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
Tea at $40 pound Is a luxury rot
many families could afford as steady
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
FOR SALE.


SALE OF GOVERNMENT HORSES
mules, lumber, pipe and condemned stores,
at Jacksonville, Fla, commencing Mon
day, Nov. 81 1898, and con-
tinulng daily thereafter until the
property is sold, will offer at public sale
600 head of horses and mules, about 10000
feet of pipe, assorted sizes, and miscela-
neous lot of lumber and stores, the prop
erty of the United States. The horses and
mules are no longer required for military
service and have been ordered sold. Sale
win take place daily between the hours
of 9 a. M and p. M, from the old corral,
plant of the Michigan Lumber Company,
Eighth street and Railroad avenue, jack
sonviIle, Fla. Terms of sale cash. Prop
erty must be removed as paid for. Noble
H. Creager. major and quartermaster U.
s. Volunteers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20

The decoration of the imperial Aus
TRAN order Of the Iron Crown has been
conferred by Emperor Francis Josenb
upon a. j. Osthelmor. Austro-Hungariin
consul In Philadelphia With the decora.
ton goes The rank OF knighthood.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20

-Leschetizky, the greatest piano teach
er on the European continent, charges Is
per lesson and governs his pupils with
iron-clad rules. one of these is thai tho
fee named must be put in an envelope
and laid on the piano by the pupil imme-
diateiy on entering the room.
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
PAY YOUR WAR TAXES.
Take Care of the Pennies, the Dollars
 Will Result.

New York, June 19.-Revenue re- quired for the conquest of Spain will come in large part from the people of the country Already the price of tea has been advanced in consequence of the tariff of 10 cents pound on all grades imported. This is the only import tax charged in this bill The liquor tax also goes into immediate effect upon the passage of the law and will mean smaller glasses of beer and a serious curtailment in the retailing of that popular luxury by the measure. Most of the other provisions of the law will not go into effect before July l. Then stamps will be required on packages of tobacco and of mixed flour, on telegraph messages, bank checks. drafts, bills of exchange and many other legal and commercial papers. Then the average citizen will begin to discover where he comes in. On go- ing to the postoffice to send a money order, in addition to the charge for the order will have to be paid cents on all sums under $100 and cents per S100 for all additional sums. Express companies will not be able to relieve this, as they, too, will require affixlng of stamps to their orders in the same proportion.
 The law imposes a tax of 1 cent message on telegraphic communlcation. General Eckert, president or the Western Union Telegraph company. said that it had not been decided
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
and larger sums in increasing propor- tiOn, the larger his estate.
MILLIONS OF HOPPERs.
North Dakota. Is Overrun With the
 Winged Pests.

Fessenden, N. D., June 19-We!ls,
 Eddy and Foster counties are all torn up over the discovery of myriads of grasshoppers in the fields. The last few warm days have matched them out by the millions Where they have appeared and are old enough to do any damage they have eaten away patches in the grain, some places measuring from one to forty acres, leaving the ground as bare as street. The county
 commissioners in the different cOun- ties have taken the matter in hand and
 are exerting every possible effort to exterminate the parasites.
 The Northern Pacific railway has agreed to haul kerosene oil and dis tribute it free of charge along its Jamestown Northern branch, where the hoppers are worst. This oil is placed in a pan about 120 feet long, which is mounted on light frame on runners. Over this frame is stretched canvas, which is saturated with kero- sene. The hopper dose," as it is called is drawn over the ground where the hoppers are and they jump into the "doser." The oil kills them.
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
CUBAN PILOT STORY.
Everything as We Expected in Harbor
 of Santiago.

Key West, June 19.-Q:20 p. m.)- Juan Santons, a. Cuban pilot who ar rived here this morning on board an American warship, reports that he en- tered Santiago de Cuba and found there Spanish garrison of 15 ,00O men
 He adds that the vessels of Admiral Cerveras fleet lying at that port are the armored cruisers Cristobal Colon
 Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo, two small cruisers, two torpedo boats, the Reina Mercedes, which has been stripped of her guns for the purpose of using them to reinforce the land bat teries. The masts of the sunken col Her Merrimac are visible above the water. The pilot further says that the Spanish war vessels are fully manned, but that the crews were dis couraged and disappointed. He thinks that Moro castle is the only fort not silenced by Rear Admiral Sampson.
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

] states sub-treasury said that, as he un- derstood the law, it was not the inten- t1on of congress to impose taxes upon
 the public for telegrams, telephone ] messages or parlor car tickets, but upon the corporations dealing in these things. on the principle that they en- joyed special privileges under the laws. In addition to these. when person rents house he must pay 25 cents tax for years lease 50 cents for a three years lease and $1 for more than three years. If he buys his house his ! broker must charge him for a tax of 50 cents for every $500 the property cost. If he places a mortgage on the house, he must pay 25 cents tax up to $1,500 and 25 cents more for every additional $500 of mortgage.
 If he is in business and decides to turn his concern into stock company he must pay 5 cents per hundred dol |2 cents per hundred dollars on trans fers. If he dabbles in transactions in any of the mercantile exchanges, his broker will charge him for the tax of 1 cent for every hundred dollars
 
 from worry his patent medicines bear ing special government stamps, will cost him from to 10 cents more bot tie, although the stamps cost consid- erably less than these figures. If in despair he flies abroad he must pay a tax of S1 on a ticket costing $30 or less, and S5 tax for ticket over s30 in price. If he gives power of attorney to a real estate agent to look out for his property while he is gone and col feet the rents, it will cost him 25 cents.
 If he gets out policy of insurance on his life he has to pay s cents per hundred dollars. If he dies and leaves his property to anybody except his widow, the government deducts 75 cents per hundred dollars from his children's inheritance, and $5 per hundred dollars from the inheritance of any person not a relative, on estates of over S10,000 and less than $25, ,000,
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
LEAK IN THE BLOCKADE,
The Purisima Conception Will Fool
 Around Once Too Often

On board the Associated Press dis patch boat Dispatch off Santiago, Sat urday, June IS, noon-,via Kingston. Jamaica, Sunday, June 19, 2 p. m.)- Three large cargoes of supplies are known to have run the blockade al- ready, and great quantities of food are smuggled to Havana by way of the Isle of Pines, Cienfuegcs and other ports on the southwest coast, having direct communication with the capital. It is understood, however, that nothing reaches Santiago from any of these points.
 The auxiliary cruisers Yankee and Yosemite are now scouting for the Spanish steamer Purisima Conception, which left Kingston on Thursday morning, flying the Spanish flag, with food and ammunition for Cuba.
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

whether the company would pay this
 tax or the general public. There arc
 75,000, 900 messages year sent by the
 Western Union and the Postal Tele-
 graph Cable companies, and this means
 a tax of $750,000 a year. It makes
 some difference to the company,
 therefore, who pays the tax The au-
 ditor of the Western Union said that
 there would be some difficulty getting
 the stamps for messages distributed to
 all the offices before July 1. There
 are used daily nearly 250,000 telegraph
 blanks by the two companies requiring
 that number of stamps There seems
 to be nothing in the law to determine
 whether the public or the company
 shall pay the tax and the presumption
 is that every sender of a 25scent mes sage will have to pay a cent more for a stamp, which the company will have purchased from the government
 In the case of telegraph companies, therefore, the government will depend upon the fidelity of the employees of the companies in refusing to accept tele- grams on and after July 1 without the 1-cenf stamp affixed. One-cent rev. enue stamps for the purpose will be sold by the revenue officers throughout tthe United States, and will be retailed doubtless at every telegraph office in the United States. In time the gov ernment will have stamped telegraph blanks printed for the use of the com panies, just as they will have stamped checks and check books printed for the
 use of the banks. No sworn state 1nent by the officers of the telegraph companies will be necessary, because the tax will already have been paid to the government when the stamps are purchased. The government will have l. to depend solely upon the fidelity of the telephone company officials, how ever, in. making out true statement of the number of taxable telephone messages.
 The, tax of 1 cent on telephone mes sages, as explained by Presloent Cut Her of the New York and New Jersey Telephone company today, applies only to messages for which the company re- ceives 15 cents or more. This ex- empts all the telephone messages in New York and Brooklyn, and only ap- plies to messages to Jersey City and long distance messages. No action has been taken by the directors of this company regarding the charge for this Itax. The expectation of the presi- dent is that the company will pay the Itax itself. The company omcials have to make sworn Statement to the
 number of messages. once month.
 The tax of ceptson each ticket for a ! seat in palace car or a berth in a
 sleeping car is to be paid by the com
 pany by the terms of the law, and it will have to paysfor the stamp.
 Maurice L. Muhleman of the United
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
Offering Every Indrcernent to the Spanish
 AdmiralS to Give Up Their Ships.
When the United States Adds the SDan- ish Navy to the Present Fleet, It
 Will Be Second to England's.

Washington, June 19.-(Special J. Drawing a Badger the ancient Scot tish pastime, does not seem to be "in it'' with the attempt to draw Admiral Camara out of his hole in Madrid The naval board gives not the slight est weight to the statement that Ca mara is to start in ten days with strong endorsements for Havana, for Porto Rioc, for Manila, or. for any other point that the fancy of the Spanish romancists may suggest.
 If the board and the army officials had been half as incredulous about the wild and impossible rumors in regard to escaping vessels of Cervera's San- tiago fleet, some valuable lives would have been saved at Fisherman's Point and the army of occupation would have reached Santiago and Guantanamo without the distress of anchoring four days in a tropical sea and in time to reinforce Sampson's gallant marines, and prevent the first setback of the war.
 But it is determined here that that Cadiz fleet must be added to the navy of the United States or sunk to the bottom of the ocean. The .Pelayo is looked upon as a particularly desirable battleship to carry the stars and stripes. So also is the Cristobal Colon of Cervera's imprisoned squadron. There are two of Montijo's vessels which Dewey sunk in Manila bay, which Chief Constructor Hichborn thinks might possibly es raised sIand added to our navy with benefit Be fore the war ends Spain is to cease to be a naval. power as completely as China has ceased to be, and her ener- gies will be confined in future to the mjsgovernment of her own peninsula.
 Efforts to force the Cadiz fleet to emerge from the protection of the Notifications of Cadiz will be redoubled from this time on. This is why the fleet cruiser St. Paul, with Sigsbee on deck, is understood to have been sent into Mediterranean waters to look af-
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
ARE DIGGING FOR THEIR DEAD
Inspection of the Notifications Shows That When American Gunners Shoot
 They Have Good Intentions.

On  Notifications
 
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  battlefield. 
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Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
THE HEROES BETWEEN DECKS Theirs Is the Sense Of Duty Done
 Without the Glory.

While. we are shOwering unlimited , nraises on the gallant man who stood on | the bridge of the fated Merrimac, and on his companions who were at their
 perilous posts of duty on the upper deck-
 on that memorable morning in Santiago
 harbor. let us not forget the heroes 10 l the stoke hole" ss 1 If Lieutenant Hobson and his asscci-, | ates were brave. what is to be said or ! the sublime courage of the engineer whose hand was at the throttle and the
 iremen who shoveled coal into the blaz- | ing furnaces as the good ship sailed into I the jaws of death. Here were heroes. in l deed-heroes of song and story. ot | romance and rhyme. such as might iH- | spire poets to the loftiest flights and the l pen of the historian with glowing imas-
 cry.
 On the bridge stood the man who had
 played in the great lot .ery for the grand est prize of life. Whether he lost or won, enduring fame was his. Success meant the listing of his name on the roll of immortality along with those of Dew
 ey, Paul Jones. Decatur, Perry and Far ragut. What laurel wreath of ever lasting glory for one single act in the
 great drama of war;
 But down in the hold, twenty feet be- low the surface of the rolling pillows, ins
 ominous darkness relieved only by the light of flickering lamps no sounds save the drDne of the engine, the creaking Of the hull and the swash of the lashine
 waves came to tell aught of what was transpiring above. Nothing but the soul of valor to inspire such men! No place for them on flames eternal camping groundi Nothing but the self-same spirit of Jim Bludsoe to keep 'her nozzle to the bank" till all but himself were safe on shore
 The man with his hand upon the valve and his keen ear intent upon the warn ing, bells: the men, grimy, sweating. blackened, furiously piling coal into the neither knowing when the dread explos- ion would come that might send them. torn to fragments and scattered upon the four winds, to their fearful doom these were the real heroes Of the Mer- rimac.
 They knew there would be no lasting reward for them, TO glorious heritage they could transmit to their children no renown such would envelop the lead CTS at Thermopylae. at the Alamo or the cool and daring lieutenant on the bridge above them To them it was duty, plain and simple, humble and oh- scure, with the full knowledge that the.r reward must be the consciousness Of duty well performed. No substantial promotion. only f1eeting notoriety; no pointing to the way where glory waits
 All honor, we say, to the intrepid enei- neer and fireman of the Merrimac! Long may their memories be preserved bv their admfring countrymen! All honor to men whose only reward is the con sciousness of duty performedl
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
SIGNAL SERVICE RECRUITS.
Electricians and Telegraph Operators
 Needed by the Government.

New York, June 19.-Major B. B. Ives, commander of the state signal corps, and Captain Leigh of the Brook stoned captains in the United States volunteer signal corps, and have been authorized to receive recruits. They will receive applications to enlist men for the United States volunteer service at No. sol Dean street, Brooklyn, from to 10 D. m. every week day. Fifty men will be required from New York and fifty from Brooklyn borough. Two thirds of these are to be telegraph op- orators or electricians.
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
F :. HAWAII IN THE SENATE.
The Outlook Is Delay, Tedious Speeches
 and Then Victory.

Washington, June 19.-The Ha- waiian question comes to the front again in the senate during the present week, but under somewhat different circumstances from those which at tended its presentation at the begin ming of the session. The purpose then, a it is now is to secure the annexa- tioH of the islands to the United Statee. but the effort at that time was to secure this result by means of a treaty, whereas the present course was through the instrumentality of a great result.
 On the first occasion the matter was considered in executive session, while now the doors are to be thrown open and the world invited. What the outcome of the question may be, or when a vote may be reached, no one will undertake to say positively. The leaders on both sides are full of prophecy, but there is sU much dis crepancy between their opinions as to render it necessary to discard them all.
 The, friends of annexation assert that there is no possible doubt of their ability to pass the resolution, and they gay they have forty-six senators, or one more than a quorum, pledged to remain in the senate until the question can be decided, while the opposing leaders declare that forty-eight sen ators have assured them they will vote to adjourn in preference to re- maining in session indefinitely for the consideration of the Hawaiian ques- ton.
 Supporters of the proposition ex- press confidence that action will be secured within ten days, while the op- position contends that it will be found to be impossible to secure vote dur ing the present session of congress.
 The advocates of annexation declare that they will not make any speeches, leaving the opponents to occupy all the time consumed by this means. The opposition say they are willing to make speeches if compelled to do so, but that if forced to do this, they in sist that the friends of the measure shall maintain a constant quorum in the chamber They also predict that the annexationists will find themselves compelled to participate in the pro- ceedings, as they expect to advance points which will demand refutation, or at least reply.
 In view of the general contradic- tory condition one can only base a prediction on general conditions. There is no doubt in the first place that the annexationists have majority in the senate if a vote can be reached. If a vote could be gotten now the result would be about fifty-four for annexa- tion to thirty-five against, in full senate. ~
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

ter Spanish colliers and harass Span ish merchantmen This is also why another flying squadron is being orga- nized. With Spain's entire navy cap tured or destroyed the subsequent pro- Iceedings will be easy. A thought that
 has not escaped the attention of our naval people is that should we succeed in capturing any considerable part Of
 Cervera's or Camara's squadrons, and |. if the effort to raise any. of the sunken vessels in Manila harb0r is successful, the United States by the, time our new ships now rapidly nearing completion are placed in commission. will have iemerged from the rank of fourth rate naval power to the second place, pass ing France in the power and efficiency
 of its navy, if not in the number of it's ships, and coming next to Great
 Britain, which overtops all.
 l In spite of the strict control exef- cised over official utterances the Ques- tion is being asked with much empha- ]! sis, Where are the Cuban insurgents all this time :" We hear of thousands of stands of arms being landed for
 their benefit, of aid given in other ways exceeding a thousand-fold that
 given by Dewey to Aguinaldo, but
 nothing of Gomez or Calixto Garcia, or
 any of the other leaders who were pre- pared, so the Cuban junta said, to drive i the Spaniards into the ocean without
 our assistance, if we would only sec6e~
 nize their wandering government.
 ! Evidently there are no Aguinaidos in the Cuban ranks, or. if they are there, they are very slow in making their presence felt. It is with rone- thing like a feeling oi rep1fsion that Washington witnesses the Cuban junta
 again passing around the hat and l imploring more contributions for the
 maintenance of the perfectly useless legation here Tte United States wtH
 settle this Cuban question without much regard to MT. Estrada Palma ans his associates H. CONQUEST CLARKE
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20
MONTIJO IS A COWARD.
Was First Ashore and Home When the
 Battle Ended.

Tacoma, Wash, June 19.-The ori- ent steamship Olympia, arriving today, brings China papers which accuse Ad- mlral MontijO of cowardice in the bat tie of Manila
 A special correspondent Of the Hong Kong Telegraph writes to his paper from Manila saying that the admiral did nothing more than flee from one vessel to the other during the engage ment. He was among the first ashore, and almost before the battle was over was at his country villa beyond the
Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

city. He had not even allowed his captains to know where the Cavite anchorage was mined, and this is given as the reason why some of the mines were exploded before the Amer ican ships approached them. They were exploded in order to give the Spanish vessels chance to cross the line.
 Col. Sanmiguel of the battery sui cided when he found that the supply of ammunition was not what it had been represented.