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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
REPORT OF ATTORNEY MOSS.
'"SS lhVestisating Committees
Should Have More Power

New York, Dec. A.-Frank Moss. chief
counsel to the special committee of the as
sembiy, which for weeks has been holding
an Investigation of officers and depart
hehts OF this city tonight, made public
his report as counsel.
Mr.. Moss deals extensively with some of
the testimony given before the commit
tee, particularly that of Richard Croker.
and devotes much attention to the inves-
ugation so far as it related to the special
city departments.
Inc thlrd part of his report deals with
"eontemDts." It mentions Richard Crok-
er John f. Carroll, Andrew Freedman,
James A. Mahoney, Asa Bird Gardiner,
Sias b. butcher and Peter Nostrand, as
having refused to answer pertinent Ques-
tions and refers these cases to the Legis-
lature for action
In another part of his report, Mr. Moss
says:
Our belief that the success of the in
VestiSation was imperative for the proper
presentation of great charter defects at the
time when they could be proven and when
it was most likely they could be rene
died, held us to this most trying task I'M
der these adverse conditions of difficulty
and criticism. Such labor should never be
undertaken again without such an amend
ment of the laws as would give to an in
vestigating committee the power to uphold
the dignity of the Legislature
which it represents. The law should
be SO amended as to empower
legislative committees to perform
their work between sessions and
they should be given all powers of a
court of record to enforce attendance and
to punish contempt committed in their
presence or against their authority. We
believe that they should also he empow-
cred to proceed like a court of record
against those who refuse to answer prop
er and pertinent questions
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rled off this great race with his celebrated
horse Ormaudc, ridden, as was Ben dor,
by the late Fred Archer Although the
Duke had entered horses for every Derby
without Interruption since the victory Of
Ormonde, yet 1t was not until recently that
he won II again with Flying Fox.
The Duke was "a born builder. He en-
ployed his leisure moments during his ia
theirs last Illness in devlsing plans for the
construction Of his great country seat an
Eaton In It's present form. His father had
scarcely been laid to rest before he set to
work to tear down the entire place. as il
then existed, and 10 reconstruct in its
stead the present ornate $4,000 900 pile.
Despite mis- immense wealth, the Duke
was often shabby dressed The following
story Is lold in this connections
Eaton Is not far from Hawarden Cas-
tie, and prior TO Mr., Gladstone's CONVEX
sion to home rule In 1886, he was on
terms Of great intimacy with the Duke IL
was about the time of the dynamite scare.
when Hawarden Castle was closely guard
ed by both the London and county police
that one of these guardians of the law
caught sight of shabbily dressed man
wandering about the grounds. Convinced
that he had found dynamiter, the police
man pounced upon the Duke. seized him
by the collar and demanded TO know his
business.
II am friend or MIR. Gladstone-I m
the Duke of Westminster" stammered the
astonished man.
Come along with me, will your
chuckled the policeman, hustling his cap
tive in no gentle manner up 10 the cas-
tie, ''and tell that tale up yonder."
Fortunately Mr.. Gladstone himself hap
pened to come along, and, catching sight
of the predicament of the Duke ordered
his instant release, the crestfallen police
a.I.t N tf,ats..
upon an apology
A large famlly-now allied to the British
throne by the marriage of his fourth
daugh hitter. Lady Margaret, 10 Prince Adolf
phus Of Teck brother Of the Duchess Of
York-has grown up around The Duke.
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came one of the chief promoters OF the
proposed Salt Lake and Los Angeles Rail-
road, ana also one Of the builders of the
enormous and beautiful saltair bathing
pavilion in the Great Salt Lake. Several
times he was at the gateway 10 great
wealth from investments in mines. vet az
no time did he rehnquish his priesthood
TO become a miner. Beginning with 1871,
he was the official editor of the church or
gan. the Deseret News Of the present day
ana the founder of still surviving and
influential paper known as the Juvenile
Instructor Yet he did not convert him
self into an editor. AS a missionary he
became translator and student OF Ian
guages, and throughout his many years
scholarly tendencies have adhered to him.
Yet he Is priest before he Is a scholar.
and he leaves the translating OF the Book
OF Mormon to others.
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Anecdotes Illustrating His Cbarac-
ter and His Methods.

The Philadelphia Ledger, writing of the
meetings of the late Mr.. Moody held in
that city in 1876, relates this incident
Mr.. Moody found a moral lazaretto on
the sands at the foot of the Lake Shore
drive. 1t was worse than five points in
New York, or st. Giles in London. Crime
was a matter of course. 1t was settled by
bad women and worse men.
He won tile children first then started
to reform the men and women. One day
he was emptying jug of whisky into tie
gutter, when the owner of the whisky and
twenty others surrounded him and threat
ened his life He knelt and prayed fer
vently for his life and ended by leading
his assailants to his mission, where the
owner of the whisky became a teacher.
President Lincoln made his only Sunday
School address at Mr.. Moody's Chicago
Sunday School, and the 100o urchlns
cheered wildly when the President told
them they were in the right place. Sixty
of those boys were among the first to
volunteer when the President issued his
first call for troops few months later.
Meeting with Mr.. Sankey.
Mr.. Moody went to Indianapolis to Y.
M c. A. convention in 1871. He was drag
ging a prayer meeting along, under the
deadening influence of a man who was
leading the singing. Mr. Sankey came
in. Some one knew him. There was a call
for him to handle the music. He pulled
the meeting out of the dumps.
where do you live?" asked Mr.. Moody
Of Mr.. Sankey at the end.
TN Newcastle, Pa"
81 want you" epf
What for?"
ITO help me in my work in Chicago
II can't leave my business, said ME-.
Sankey in a plea.
You must l have been looking for you
for eight years. You must give up your
business and come TO Chicago with me-
Mr.. Sankey went. His singing shocked
a good many of the preachers, but it car
ried the day.
British Isles at Edinburgh, and concluded
the work in 1875 by the remarkable thirOy
DAYS meeting in London. There had never
been anything like 1t in Scotland or Eng
land. Conservatism melted in the pres
ence of enthusiasm. Criticism changed to
ardent admiration. Prof Drummond
wrote that Scotland would not be what it
is to-day had il missed the year of Moody
and Sankey. There are to-day in all parts
of the United Kingdom buildings institu-
lions and philanthropies which bear their
names.
Plan of His Sermons.
Mr.. Moody's plan Of getting up sermons
was original and Is now In use by many
The vasis OF each sermon was a big en-
velope labeled Repentance" Faith"
Peter" "Zacchaeus," The Elder son.
Into this envelope he put cuttings from
papers, extracts from books. Illustrations
and incidents. scraps OF all kinds, more
or less connected with the subject. When
the process had been going on for some
time he would go through the mass Of ac-
emulation, rejecting some, laying h0ld
OF more. and weaving n into a connected
whole. or this he took a few j0ttings la q
large hand 10 pulpit or platform. The
process OF looking through the envelope
Was constantly repeated. 80 that points
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777-a~7INa~-5------~
THE CABALIsTIC COST MARK.
The OId-Time Puzzle Marks on Mer-
chnndise Failing Into Disuse.

From the New York Tribune
Among the old time features which are
disappearing from the city stores because
Of the modern methods is the cabalistic
cost mark which the merchants once
thought as Indispensable as the counter
over which he sold his wares The man
who started a business for himself de-
voted many hours before he made his first
display of wares to making up cost
mark. This had to be unlike any other
mark, and was. In some instances, COM
posed Of ten hieroglyphics, often of trans
posed figures, and more often of a word
or Two, the letters Of which could be used
to express figures A large wholesale con-
Germ In New York used the mark God
save US and made up the tenth figure
with a cross. Through this business house
the pious cost mark became known all
over the country. Clerks from the estab-
lishment entered the mercantile field on
their own account and took the cost mark
with them, and within few years 1t was
IN use In nearly every state in the Union.
Another cost mark which found many
admirers was Make profit" and this was
only a trihe more popular than Quick
trade" Johnny Miles" served as a sign
as well as a cost mark for one concern.
and one sentimental Irishman who opend
a linen store in New York in the days
when Niblo's Garden was away up town
chose as his cost mark my Bridget, o.
When the campaign of 1860 was at It's
hight an ardent Republican in Boston, In
whose store a cost mark was IN use that
had been invented by his grandfather,
marked all his goods over in order to use
the mark abe must win" and this mark
remained in use for many years after
ABE" had won the fight against Doug
las Breckenridge and Bell, who were all
candidates against Lincoln. About that
time the cost mark hit Douglas" was
invented, and that and Republican are
still in use In places where plain figures
have not superseded the puzzle marks. A
large dry goods house, which had the pa
tronage OF hundreds of pack, basket and
wagon peddlers, used as a cost mark the
words, "Revoch Gilt" a Yiddish phrase.
which means profit tells" and the trans
lation was also used by the same con-
Germ.
These marks we're useful" said the
manager of one of the large New York
dry good stores, when houses had an
asking and a taking price. In those
days a man behind the counter had to
know what the goods cost to put on the
shelf so that he could regulate himself
accordingly. An offer 10 split the differ
ence' when one price was asked and an
othered offered could be entertained then.
and statesmen were often compelled to
shade prices. We will do this for YOU
and It's the last we have of the lot or
we want 10 make a customer or YOU
were among the reasons given for COM
ing down on prices: but all the time the
salesman had the cost mark before him.
and knew that he was on the safe side
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
FEELING IN CUBA is BETTER.
SPEECH OF GEN. WOOD HAS REAs-
SURED THE PEOPLE.

They Believe Now That Cuba VIII
BE Made Independent within n
Reasonable Time-Induence Has
Been Brought TO Bear in Favor OF
Alleged Dishonest Customs Ap-
praisers-WOOd says They Must BE
punished If Guilty.
Havana, Dec. 24.-The events of the last
few days have had a great effect on Gu
ban politics.
The circumstances attending the arrival
Of Gen. Wood and the departure of Gen.
Brooke, taken with the speech of the for
rer at the farewell banquet to the lat
ter. in which the intentions of the United
states government were restated, have
satisfied the Cubans that Cuba will GER
tsinly be independent within a reasona-
HE time.
More than this the arrival and public
ard private 'utterances of Horatio Rubens
have Increased the restful feeling that
now apparently exists among all classes.
Mr.. Rubens has, without doubt, consid-
cradle influence. Wherever he goes he is
cbeered by the people; his room at the
hotel is thronged with Cuban officials seek
ing an interview, and altogether he is re-
aarded somewhat in the light Of an oracle.
Every influence is being brought to bear
n stop the proceedings against the Gus
ION house appraisers now under arrest on
charges of fraud.
The Judges, the Supreme Court. fiscal
and many other important officials are re-
iated to the persons under suspicion Gen.
Wood says That if the appraisers are guilty
they must be published, no matter who is
hurt. If their relationship to the judges
is such as to disqualify the latter from
giving them an impartial trial. a judge or
Judges from some other province will be
assigned to try them.
Gen Wood declares that If judges de-
cline to perform their duties they viii be
inpeached in Cuba, just as they would be
anywhere else.
The Patria. commenting upon Gen.
Woods remarks at the farewell dinner to
Gen Brooke, says:
1T was a most satisfactory speech, with
a pleasing military simplicity. Obviously
the United States government intends to
fulfill the terms of the joint resolution,
and Gen. Wood is the man selected as the
instrument for this task
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THE DUKE OF WEsTMINsTER.
Was Reputed to He the Richest Man
I'm Great Britain

The Duke of Westminster, whose death
in London was reported in the dispatches
of Dec. %, was the wealthiest Englishman,
and was said to be the wealthiest land
owner in the world.
His fortune was often estimated at 5000
100000. but more conservative estimates
put it at $1O0.0OOOOO. Compared with this
may be mentioned the fortune of John d.
Rockefeller, considered the wealthiest
American. who is said to be worth $3.50.
100000. The richest man in The world Is
said to be Alfred Belt the diamond mag
nate of Kimberley. South Africa. whose
wealth is sometimes estimated as high as
81 900, 100000 Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese
statesman, is reputed TO be worth $500,
100000.
As ground landlord of the greater part of
The city of Westminster. which is a part
of London, the Duke had tremendous
rent roll Within a comparatively small
area in the West End of London are clus-
tered the town houses of peers, members
of Parliament and the leaders of financial
and social circles. Every year the prov
inces and the distant parts of the empire
send a constantly swelling stream OF resi-
dents in the London season, for which
streets upon streets of modern dwellings
barely afford accommodation
The value of the Westminster property.
including Belgravia and Grosvenor Square
as the leases fall must inevitably be en-
HANGED to an almost fabulous amount As
il was, the Dukes income placed
him on level with the sover-
eigns of Europe. so far as regards the alb
soute enjoyment of personal property.
The ancestor who laid the foundation of
this enormous wealth was Sir Thomas
Grosvenor, the third baronet in a fam
lily which traces its descent from a lie
Grosvenor. who settled In England with
william the Conqueror.
The late Duke succeeded his father as
the third Marquis in 1863. He had sat In
the House of Commons many years and
formed close political associations with
Mr.. Gladstone, who added the title of the
dukedom TO the family in 1877. But this po-
litical friendship did not stand the strain
Of the home rule division and the Duke
was one OF the Liberal-Unionist peers
whose immense Influence was thrown into
the scale against their former leader.
Leaving politics aside. the Duke devoted
himself 10 the administration OF his vast
estates. Apart from his London property,
his country estates brought him IN a year
Is rental income OF $4,000. They lie chiefly
IN chesire and Flint He collected many
pictures and other treasures Of arr.
on the turf the Dukes cOlOrn were pop
ular and four times he carried or the Der.
BY. lie won Il the fret time 70 years ago
with Ben dor. Next he won a Two years
later with Shoioyer IN 1855 he again car
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
CAPITALIST. PRIEST, EDITOR.
The Many-sidedness of the RicheIieu
of the Mormon Church.
From Ainslee's Magazine.


George @. Cannon, who plays Richelieu
to Lorenzo Shows Louis XIII IN the Nor
mon Church, has had Inducements and
practical persausions sufficient 10 lead any
one who was less permeated with his re-
ligion to abandon the difficulties into
which his religion was constantly throw
ing him. and to undertake the life OF the
ordinary man Of the word. But he has
chung to his clerical post and executed his
elaborate clerical duties without pause and
without alteration. In ISL, when ne was
"a years of age. Mr.. Cannon was made
director in the railroad built by the Nor
mons from Salt Lake city to Ogden. In
the same year he was appointed TO SINH
lar post in the big Zion Cooperative Mer-
camille Institute that Brigham Young
founded and which does an annual bust
ness al the present time amounting TO over
100000 In the latter part of the eighties
and the early part Of the nineties he be-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
DUBOIS TALKS OF SILVER.
Believes Continuation of BOer War
VIII Help the Cause.

Will Help the Cause.
Chicago. Dec. Aft the war in the
Transvaal continues for two or three
months longer, the cause of silver will
have been won,' said Former United
States Senator Dubois of Idaho, one Of
the Silver Republican leaders, who was in
Chicago to-day.
The short time it has been in prog
ress." continued Mr.. Dubois, has furnish
ed proof of the contentious Of the friends
of silver that there is not enough gold in
the world to form the basis of the worlds
money, and if the war continues the length
OF time l have indicated the truth of this
will have become too apparent for success
full contravention.
Il believe the Transvaal war will be a
mighty influence in the campaign of next
year in this country, and that the object
lesson will convince the people of this
country that it is not safe to place on gold
the entire burden of the monetary volume
Of the world.
II may be interesting TO observe that
the panic in New York was simultaneous
with the passage of the House gold stand
ard Dill. Now, if panic had followed the
passage of a silver free coinage bill, the
wise men and the press of the land would
nave attributed Ii to the passage of the
bill -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
GREAT KENTUcKY FUTURITY.
Number of Colts and FiIIies Named
Largest Since 1898.

Lexington. KY. Dec. A.-secretary Hor-
ace Wilson, of the Kentucky Breeders
Association. announces the second pay
ments in the $4,000 Kentucky Futurity for
foals of 1899 have been made on S43 colts
and flies out of a possible 1903, which is
the largest number since 1893
This is the tenth futurity, and it has
become the leading colt trotting stake in
the world. The entries come from twenty
eight states and Canada, and represent the
cream of the American breeding farms
Kentucky names 344; New York, 101;
Massachusetts, 40; Illinois, A. Pennsylva-
mia, 80; Ohio, So; California, 30; Montana,
q; Wisconsin. 81; Michigan, II; Iowa, A.;
Tennessee. 10; Texas, 10; New Jersey.
Kansas and Georgia, 10 each; Missouri, 81;
Canada, 8; West Virginia, s; Nebraska, s.;
Alabama, 5; New Hampshire, 5; Delaware,
s; Rhode Island. 3; Maine, 2; Connecticut,
Vermont and Virginia and Utah, l each.
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DEATH OF col. 5. r.. TOMBSTONE.
Was Well known Confederate
officer During Civil War.


New York, Dec. 2.-Col. Samuel r.
tombstone died at his home in East
Orange, N. J., of paralysis to-day.
He was born in Fairfax county. Virginia
in 1888. He was civil engineer by pro-
fession. He was descendant of George
tombstone, who is said to have written the
resolution introduced by Patrick Henry,
which led to his Liberty or death" speech
When the Civil War broke out Col
tombstone was on a train bound for the
West. When the news that Sumter had
been fired on was learned in the car, john
stone jumped up and pulled the bell cord
and stopped the train. He alighted from
the train and hurried back to Virginia.
where he raised a company and Joined the
Confederate service. He was with Gen.
Lee during most of his campaigns and at
the surrender to Grant was colonel.
After the close of the war he was con-
nected with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, the Ohio and Missouri and for the
last thirteen years was with the Erie. He
retired from active duty three years ago
although retained by the company in an
advisory capacity
The funeral services will be held at East
Orange on Tuesday The body will be TAX
en- to Virginia for interment.
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STORM SWEPT JERSEY COAST.
Gale Blew Fifty Miles an Hour and
Caused Much Damage.

Caused Much Damage.
New York. Dec. 24.-The storm to-day
did considerable damage along the Jersey
coast, about Staten Island and along the
water front generally The tides We're
the highest of the season and the gale
oiew fifty miles an hour at times.
From Long Branch to the Highlands the
waves swept up high and carried every
ming before them. AT Normandie the
sea broke through to the river, inundai-
'ng large portion OF the country.
The Jersey Central tracks were washed
cut and all traffic was stopped between
Long Branch and Matteawan. A number
Oh oulkheads were broken through and
soine of the cottages are in danger. A
lour-masted schooner off Galilee, about
I"o miles from shore, kept in the face
OF heavy gale and all the afternoon
we life saving crews watched her from
.ne beach. Up to nightfall she had man
ased TO outride the gale.
considerable damage was done by the
S.orm on Staten Island, particularly At
iompkinsville. The roof of a three-storv
building was blown down and a number OF
Sllal craft were beached and partly
smashed.
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Queer Method Provided by the Goe-
bel Law to Determine a Contest.
From Lac NeW York Times.

From the New York Times.
Washington, Dec 22.-Attention has been
directed by a Kentucky Republican to
certain provision of the Kentucky cleo
ton law, made by Goebel, who contests
Taylor's right to be Governor. These may
explain any apparent hesitation on the
part of the Goebefites to Try the expert
ment of a contest before the Legislature.
The law provides strange plan for de-
Gliding a contest. When contest is to be
made for Governor or lieutenant governor
a board must be formed. The Senate is to
select, by lot, three of its members, and
the House. is to select, also by lot, eight
of its members. OF the eleven so chosen
seven are TO have the power TO act. In
making the selection, the names of all
the senators and all the Representatives
in the Legislature are 10 be written on
separate slips of paper, which are TO he
rolled in balls and paced in box, from
which, after the contents have been well
shaken the names. are TO be drawn. The
persons whose names are drawn shall be
the election board to determine who is 10
be Governor or lieutenant governor
The lottery thus provided for may turn
out TO be unfortunate for the Goebelites
and they are not quite sure thai they
would do well TO run any risk with it,
might be ali Democrats. or Il might be
entirely Republican If ii were all Demo-
cratic, the Goebelites would not be sure
of q decision i'm their favor, because an the
Democrats are not GoebeI Democrats. II
ID were all Republican there is no chance
that It would decide the case in Goebel's
favor.
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BURIAL OF NAMES VICTIMS.
Site at Arlington Chosen for Their
Last Resting Place.

Washington, Dec. 24.-Assistant Secre-
tary Allen of the navy department, who
has charge of the preliminary arrange
ments for interring the remains of the
Names dead at Arlington next Thursday,
has selected as a site for their last resting
place, a beautiful grassy knoll, just this
side OF where the Santiago dead lie bur-
led. Capt. Sigsbee will nave charge of
the arrangements on the day of burial,
and Chaplain Chadwick, who was on the
Maine when she was blown up, will per-
form the funeral rites at the reinterment.
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Veterans VIII Act as Escort.

Newport News, Va, Dec. 24-The Army
and Navy Veterans of the Spanish War
under Col. John c. Baker of the Second
Virginia. and Capt. C. c. Berkely of the
Fourth Immunes, will meet the remains
of the Names dead on their arrival and
will escort them to the funeral train. All
the volunteers from this city, Hampton
Phoebus and vicinity, and a number of
regulars will be on hand when the Texas
drops anchor off the city.