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Official Organ of City of Americui.
Official Organ of Sumter County
Official Organ of Schloy County.
Official Organ of Webster County
The Official Nailer
tire also PnblUhei
i this papci
1'lection Contest.
Notice that the contest for the Or
dinary’s office was served by the coun
sel of contestant on the opposition
Thursday, and action therewith
nectcd will be began ia live daje, which
will he about Tuesday tilth instant
Gen. Hancock has declined iu act a.
chief marshal at Cleveland’s inaugura
tion, and Gen. McClellan lias been in
vited to take the place.
The New York Tribune lias received
a postal card asking its editor to ad
mit, for the sake of argument that the
country in safe-
“Saint* and Sinners,” a new play by
Henry Jonos, one of the authors of the
“Silver King,” has been bought by
the Madison Square theatre. 1
said to be a new version of tho
of Wakefield.**
It is stated that Senator Bayard
so anxioas for Mr. Pendleton to have
place in the cabinet, that ho has pro
posed to Mr. Cleveland to givo the
Ohio Senator the preference over him
self. He thinks it would be eminently
proper that the author of the civil ser
vice reform act should have n hand in
its execution.
A Circular.
It was stated the last issue of the
Rxfubucak that in a mori extended no
tice would be given the circular of the
State School Commissioner Gnstavus
J. Orr. We cannot now do justice to
the circular. It has been sent however
to all the jndges of the superior courts
throughout the state, the grand juries
of the respective counties, the county
and the various county school com
missioners and city superintendents so
that it will be brought before'so many
competent jurisdictions. It will doubt
less have a great deal of weight in the
direction intended. The bill before the
legislature to tax property of the state
one tenth of one per cent will yield
294,879.07. The school fund then
wonld swell to 778,512.18. It is to te
hoped that the various authorities who
receipt of this able and concise
circular will hold up the hands of our
able Georgia State School Commis
sioner Orr in which esse Georgia wi'l
take rank in the matter of school facil
ities with the foremost states. The
importance of this is apparent when
the statistics show that there are 128,-
000 white persons in the state over ten
years of age who cannot write their
names and 392,000 colored of the i
age making a* total of 520,000,
third of the entiie population.
WAHINGTON LETTER.
A Correspondent of the Chicago In
ter-Ocean, writing from New Orleans
concerning woman’s walk in the Expo
sition, pays the following fine and well
deserved compliment to Southern
Senator Vance ilatly contradicted
Gen. Sherman’s statements about Mr.
Davis' correspondence with himself, in
the debate on Tuesday, lie denied any
attempt to treat for peace separately
for North Carolina, and indeed all of
Sherman’s assertions regarding him
self. He denied that any such paper 8
were captured, or ever written, as those
described by Sherman aR having been
taken from “the palace” at Raleigh.
His speech was most damaging to
Sherman.
The managers of the Confederate
Soldier’s Home in Richmond report
that they have received altogether $30,-
(’00, have purchased a house, and that
it few inmates are already being cared
for. It is hoped that more money will
I>e obtained soon and the facilities of
the home very much increased.
Harper’s Magazine for February
an unusually interesting Number,
beautifully illustrated. Tbe Frontis
piece is an engraving by King from F.
S. Church’s painting, “Tho Mermaid
and Sea-wolf.” The illustrated articles
embrace * wide variety of subjects—
interesting to the student of history, of
biography, of science, and ot art, as
well as to the general reader.
The Democrats of the North Caroli
na Legislature have nominated Hon.
V». B. Vance for re-election as United
States Senator, and the Republicans of
Kansas have renominated Ingalls.—
The withdrawal of L. W. Russell
candidate for Senator from New York
is believed to strengthen Mr. Evarts
his contest vs. Levi P. Morton.
Miss Maggie Sullivan a charming
young lady of Atlanta, last Monday,
lost her balance while skating and
Htruck the floor of the rink with such
for.-* as to produce concussion of the
brail. She died of her injury on Fri
day night.
D. M. Ferry <k Co., Soedsmen, of
Detroit, Mich., have kindly sent
their seed annnal for 1885. It is <
<>f the most artistic publications e
issued by any’ seed house. It has been
very carefully revised, and is
valuable than ever before. The Flower
Heed Department is especially valuable,
us they have taken the utmost care tc
insure correctness as regards names,
classifications, descriptions and cul
tural directions. Their facilities for
iilling, promptly and satisfactorily, all
orders entrusted to them are unsurpas-
i ed by any bouse in the country; and
their long established reputation i
absolute guarantee as to the quality of
seeds used. Their seed annual is sent
free on application.
“I have been pleased and surprised
by the manage and executive ability of
the Southern women whom I have met
Tho loss of heads of families and of
fortune* during and after the war
developed power that lay latent iu these
women and brought oat some admira
ble characters. They are quick to ob-
•ve, well posted on public affairs, up
the literature of the present and
whatever is usually taught to
women, ami make good housekeepers
large scale. In social qualifica
tion r they excel Northern women on
account of the ready warmth and hear
tiness of the Southern temperament.—
The conversation at table rnns from
book to book, music to art, politics to
theology, carefully avoiding all incen
diary allusions, and to hear of the gen
eral attendance on scientific lectures
might easily believe oneself iu the
Hub.”
In duo course of time our Northern
friends will begin to ffnd out that tho
South is not altogether covered with
Cimmerian darkness,
promising
missionary field for the propagation of
milk and water religion and the paste
diamond “cnlohaw,” the distribution
of which gives unnecessary employ-
mentto so mauy of the male and fe
male philanthropists of the “Hub.
The Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist centennial issne(to which
have heretofore alluded) will be
most interesting sheet, particularly to
Georgiaus. It will include a fac aim-
ine hundred years ago, with a brief his
tory of the paper during its honorable
career of a century. Illustrations will
embellish the text. A sketch of the
history of the .State of Georgia from
1785 to 1885 will also be given em
bracing all the salient points of inter-
l its annals, a brief biographical
list of its Governors, Senators and oth-
distinguished sons, and a concise
chronological statement of its growth
territory and population. Coming
to the present, tho centennial edition
will make fully known the State of
Georgia as she now is. It will be pub
lished early in March, and will be the
largest issue ever printed by any n
paper in the State.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D.C., Jan. 17,1885.
The past week has been an unusual
busy one with Congress.
The boose has passed tho Reagan
bill. Only a few votes were cast
against it. It is not probable the bill
may pass the senate as most of the
Senators are thought to favor the
Cullom bill, which creates a commis
sion rather than the House bill.
It Is probable the Cullom bill will
pass although no one as yet knows.
Many very exhaustive arguments
have been made on both sides. Sen
ator Brown, of Georgia, made a very
strong argument against the house
bill.
He handled the subject In his usual
forcible way, looking at the practical
side of it and his speech is looked
here as ene of the most sensible made
on the question.
The French spoliations bill passed
the house during the last week.
The Chinese indemnity fund meas
ure also passed the house.
President Arthur has not yet set
day for visiting the New Orleans Ex
position.
Moody the great Evangelist Is hen-
lecturing. He will probably remain
here three or four days longer. His
houses are packed at every meeting.
Mr. Randall has reported two ap
propriation bills to-day (Saturday.)
On motion the morning hour was dis
pensed with and the appropriation
bills were taken up.
Madam Rhea appeared hero the
other night for the first time in h.
new play, The American Countess, in
which she has a very strong part
Madam Rhea certainly has a very
strong company for hersupport. Some
very curioas facts were brought to
light here to-day in a newspaper arti
cle. It was stated that at the fnneial
of a Congressman, who had lately
died, that there were kid gloves, bo-
quets, and other fancy articles pur
chased which were paid for by the
appropriation made by Congress to
defray the funeral expenses.
Preparations continue to go on for
the inauguration. The great question
here now is: ‘‘Are you going to the
inaugural ball?”
One thousand tickets will probably
be printed. The admission to the ball
will be five dollars each. Commit
tees have been appointed to take
charge of all the details and no effort
will be spared to make it the grand
est inaugural America has ever wit
nessed, and it should be.
Sherman-Davis matters, which was
discussed in the Senate the other day,
has caused much comment here, and
It is generally admitted by all that
General Sherman gained nothing by
the controversy.
Senator Lamar made a very frank
and honorable speech In which he
spoke of “his friend,” Jeff Davis. The
discussion was caused by the intro
duction of a resolution, by Senator
Rowley, calling for the papers filed
by General Sherman in the war de
partment, relative to the controversy
between Mr. Davis and himself in
which Sherman was proven to be
wrong iu all of his statements. Some
of his remarks referring to the course
of Senators Brown and Vance during
the rebellion, thev hntu zx><xic nj>eecn-
es defending their positions during
the war of the rebellion.
On the second day of the discussion
the galleries were packed almost to
suffocation. It was expected that
tut would occur between Senators
Lamar and Ingalls, or Senators Vest
and Ingalls. Neither of these gentle
men, however, made any remarks,
It is not at all probable that an ex
tra session of Congress wUl de held ex
cept by the Senate which will be for
the purpose of ratifying Grover
Cleveland's nominations for Cabinet
and other positions. W. G. B.
Impressed with a deep conviction
that an urgent exigency has arisen in
the kistory of the Temperance Cause,
a large number of persons in all parts
of the land have expressed the opinion
that a new organization of the temper
ance forces should be effected^ on th<
broad basis to converse and give direc
tion to this important reform. For
this purpose, after extensive consulta
tion» a meeting was held, in Boeton
Jan. 1,1885, at which “A National
League, (non-partisan and non-secta
rian,) for the suppression of the Liq
uor Traffic,” was organized, under
whose direction we now address tie
public.
A great contest is upon us. A dire
and barbarous foe seeks to throttle the
Republic, and no weak, donbtfnl or one
sided measure will suffice. Tbe times
call for oombin*tion, on a broad basis
of unity.
History abonnds in instanoes of tbe
usurpation and tyranny of oligarchies
which were overthrown only by tbe
uprising of tbe people. A formidable
institution familiarly called the Liquor
Traffic, exerts a dominant, deadly in
fluence in American Society. Its ty-
ranizing power is felt in politics and
legislation, in coarts and juries, in
trade and finance, in literature and
science, in schools and colleges, in so
cial and religions life. An oligarchy
of nearly two hundred thousand men,
engaged in tbe sale of intoxicants,pre
sume to claim tbe responsibilities and
privileges of government over fifty
millions of people. How far it baa
succeeded in exercising its fatal away
is only too palpable in the evidences of
wretchedness, crime and rain all around
The Constitution reports that on
Tuesday Capt. Nelms and Col. Towers
arrived iu Atlanta with 44 penitentiary
convicts, brought from the camp of B.
G. Lockett dr Co-, in Dougherty coun
ty. The reason tor this movement was
that the Governor last year removed
William Lockett from the superintend-
nco of tho Chattahoochee camp of Be
G. Lockett A: Co., and the Legislative
committee on the Penitentiary approv
ed this action and recommended that
Mr. Lockett lie not allowed to boss any
more convicts in Georgia; notwithstand
ing which, he was placed in charge of
the camp‘in Dougherty. The reason
for his removal was his alleged harsh
treatment of convicts. The Governor
has ordered the camp in Dongherty to
be abolished, and the convicts taken
thence to be transferred to the Chatta
hoochee camp of Lockett <fc Co.
Southern Cultivator.
We are in receipt of the January
number of this sterling Agricultural
Journal. It has been changed in form,
being made more compact—magazine
size—and can be bandied with greater
satisfaction and preserved in better
oondition than the old form.
This issue numbers over seventy pa
ges, and in quantity ia ahead of any ag
ricultural publication that comes to
our office, while in quality it ii
only journal of its kind that is folly
adapted to the needs of our Southern
farmers. The very best Southern tal
ent is employed in its columns. The
“Thoughts for the Month,” and the
“Inquiry Department,” are alone worth
the subscription price. The paper has
pages for special departments of farm
work, and they are fall and interesting.
Without enumeration of the excellen
cies of this magnificent journal, we
adviee each and every one not a sub
scriber, to send $1.50 to Jas, P. Har
rison ft Co., Atlanta, Ga., for a year’s
subscription, or if they prefer, we will
■end the Weekly Republican and The
Cultivator one year for $3.00.
Bible Work at the New Orleans
Exposition.
The American Bible Society has
cared the privilege of placing the
Scriptures in various language* on sale
and lor gratuitons distribution in the
main building ot the Cotton Centennial
Exposition at New Orleans. It has
been thought vary desirable to reach
not only the English speaking popula
tion, bat especially those who redd
Spanish, Portuges, German and
French languages. It is believed that
many persons from Mexico, Central
America, and South America may thus
be supplied with tbe word of life who
coold not easily be reached at any
other time or place.
This work will call for very consid
erable expense, which it is believed
many will be willing to aid the Society
meeting, by special and prompt con
tributions to its treasury. Such contri
butions are earnestly solicited.
Accomplished and skilled Prescrip
tion Gle^s at Dr. Eldridge’s Brag
Store, dLy nd night.
Soape! Soaps! Soaps
Try gome of the fine assortment o
Soaps at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store.
MI®* 8 Button Boots,
C*tvx» carter* Son.
To be Extended to Hawkinsrille
From a gentleman who was in
Americas Saturday we learn that the
rumor mentioned in these Columns a
few weeks sgo in regard to-the exten
sion of tbe A. P. & L. railroad to Haw-
kinsville in not without foundation.-—
H. Mj. ho wu informed by reliable
partiae, in a poaition to know, that ai
toon aa tba road ii completed to Lamp-
kin work will bo commenced) oa tin.
and and pnibed through to Hawkiao-
■rilla, ria Vienna—Ooolp VtntUca-
American Review.
"Whether we agree with Mr. lieecher
not, few men can speak or write
any subject of public interest with
great a certainty that everybody will
want to know what they say. In dis
cussing the question as to liow far m
isters may properly go in politics,
which he does in the North American
Review for February,—the great
preacher shows himself to advantage
perhaps all the more because it ii
matter that touches him personally
well as professionally. In the same
number of the Review, tie question,
“How shall the President lie Elected? 1
is ably treated by five happily chosen
writers, viz., two United States Sena
tors, Dawes and Vance; a college presi
dent, F. A. 1*. Barnard, of Colnmbia;a
New York lawyer, Roger A. Pryor;
a well-known journalist, William
Parcel!. The substantial agreement
of four of them on tbe same point
significant. Another notable article
in this unusually strong number ii
review of “Holmes’s Life of Emerson, 1
by the veteran historian George Ban
croft; and still another is an essay
Prof. C. A. koutig oa “Theories
gardingthe Sun Corona,” which
skillfully brings within popular com
prehension. The Rev. Dr. W. G. T.
Shedd defends tbe dogma “Endless
Panishment,” and Prof. G. Stanley
Hall writes on “New Departures
Education.”
The Rights of the Press.
In a recent libel suit in Rhode
land, tbe Chief Jnstioe laid down
law in his charge to the jury aa follows:
I think that a newspaper has a right
to comment upon and criticise in the
discharge of public duties. I think
that if the pnblishsrs discover what
they consider to be defects, they have
right to point them oat. If there ai
facts that suggest fault I think that
the public press has the right to criti
cise. If in the exercise of this free
dom of comment they act fairly i
honestly end meaning to do what
right, they cannot be held accountable.
It ia greet importance to the public
that the newspapers should have f* *
liberty. If there should be none
censure or to criticise, frauds would
grow more and more intolerable, to tbe
manifest peril of tbe public welfaxe^md
therefore you can see that tbe public
have a great interest in maintaining
the right of the press to freely and fair
ly criticise,
Nothing superior to that Blue Mot
tled and Turkish bath Soap. Ten
cases sold In two months. Enquire
at Hall’s Drug Store.
Best Peerlem Note Paper, ten cents
per quire. Hudson’s Drug Store.
decJt£m.
AN ADDRESS
' PEOPLE OF THE EXITED STATES
ations with Mr. McLean were satisfac
tory; but the latter concluded that jour
nalism at present was paying better in
Cincinnatti than in New York. Mr.
thb axmnlEXT or the railroad c
MISSION' AND THB OBSTRUCTION
IT HAS WOmXKD TO THE
state’s KAILE9AD
INTEREST.
Only a united movement of the people
an overthrow this malignant despot-
sm. To combine, so far as possible,
all present efforts, and to create new
agencies for delivering society from the
evils which have proved inseparable
from the trade intoxicants, thisNation
al League has been formed. Its mem
bers do not think it wise to commit
the organization to any political party,
nor to form a new one. Aa a matter
of history, they remember that oligar
chies are usually overthrown by the
people and not by divided partizan ac
tion. The members of this Leagui
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Augusta Nsws,
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 23. 1884.—
IF. H. Moore, Esq., Augusta 6a.—
Dear Sir:—My absence from home bas
prevented an earlier reply to your let
ter of the 17th. The fact that Major
Wallace advieed his friends to invest
in the stocks of railroads in Georgia i»
convincing proof that he fails to real
ize what must be the ultimate result of
his own work. Major Wallace is a
very old man. It has been many years
since he had anything to do with the
management of railroads, and then at
a rime when the short links made phys
ical management easy, and the enor
mous rates charged made financial
management siaiplicity itself. He is,
my opinion, working under a dela-
»n, with no comprehensive idea of
the magnitude of the subject he is
dealing with, and I fear if unchecked
bis policy will destroy the railway
ty of the Btate,
their protection, even against reckless] Ho Could Tell by the Smell,
sacrifice. When these features aret A fcstidknr-Austin dude had his
considered no one will fail to see |owi half curled twice a week. The tonso-
this responsibility upon the manage-1 rial artist is not very, particular, so the
... J A£*d— T Burn said.* a
:: of this property deepens, and how
justifiable is my anxiety for it* safety >
I will be glad at ail rimes to inform
you
e glad i
i this subject,
a very respectfully yours,
W.G. Raoul, President.
Tliuosands Say So.
Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan.,
writes: “I never hesitate to recom
mend your Electric Bitters to my cus
tomers, they give entire satisfaction
and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bit
ters are the purest and beet medicine
W yon would be a little paitic
lar With those curling irons.Yon should
try them on a piece of paper first, and
see if they are not too hot. *
“I dont need to do that I can always
tell by tbe smell of the burnt bait
when tbe irons are two hot.”—Austin
Siftings.
known and will positively cure Kid
ney and Liver complaints. Purify
tho blood and regulate the bowels.
No fondly can afford to be without
them. They will save hundreds of
dollars in doctor’s bills every year
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Dr. E*
J. Eldridge.
true statement of*facts, and no good
business man can carsfnlly study the
therefore do not favor entangling
this form with partizan affiliations.—
They believe their purpose will be
soonest and best secured by keeping it
clear of all such embarrassments.
The work of the League must be
largely to create and intensify pnblic
sentiment, seeking to build it up from
the bottom line of trae reform. Intel
ligent convictions in tbe hearts of the
people, with God’s blessing afford the
only sure basis on which deliverance
from the alcohol eurse can be reasona
bly expected. To produce, strengthen
snd enliven such convictions will be a
large part of our work. The needed
legislation and enforcement of law will
soon follow. Public sentiment soon
shows itself in legislation. We propose
to builds the pyramid not from the
apex, but from the base.
This League also invokes and ex-'
pects to maintain the sanction of law,
what they arc willing to call a cru
sade against this great organized evil
so much to be dreaded iu the land.
The dealers in liquors ask that they
may be left to tbe samo laws which
govern other trades. But when a man
sells an article the use of which takes
away the judgement of him who buys,
he must not expect to be left to tbe
laws which goTern other tradesmen,for
the State must interpose and insist no
on protecting those who are thus made
Is it said that a common business
and a common peril unite the dealers
in liquors with a bond wbicb makes
it sure that they will act as one? We
n ose to unite against them a hnn-
times as many men and women,
who believe that the liquor traffic
brings grievous calamities to the land.
We shall use every prudent and right
method to carryout oar purpose, and
ask all good people, men and women,of
all parties and creeds, to ioin us
such endeavors.
Daniel Dorchester,
Boston, President.
Albert H. Plumb,
Boston, Recording Secretary.
Mrs. J. Ellen Fputer,
Clinton, Iowa, General Secretary.
Joseph D. Weses,
Pittsburg, Pa., Treasurer.
sitnation and sav that my anxiety
not well founded.
I have as far as possible endeavored
to avoid controversies that would place
me in the position of being obliged to
state facts that might add to the de
preciation of the stoek of the company
already wrought by tbe commission,
hoping a change in the policy of the
State would enable ns to recover lost
ground and avert such a necessity;
but now that relief seems so remote, I
feel in doty bound to speak out when
occasion seems to invite it.
You put a very pertinent question
when yon ask if “the removal of the
restriction imposed by the commission
law will restore the value of the stock?”
An answer to this question
more than an expression of personal
opinion. It certainly could not re
store values at once. Rates cannot be
suddenly rednoed without harming the
roads as they have (lone, and when
once depressed snd the trade of the
country becomes adjusted to the new
basis, they cannot be suddenly advanc
ed without harming commerce by dis
turbing relative values: therefore, the
advance wonld of necessity be slow,
yet in rime a part of the old earning
power conld be restored, much of which
has been recklessly forced av?»y from
the roads without the ci>rre*pomling
benefits to the public being at all ado-
qnate, even if it wonld be honest to
offset the losses forced upon the owners
of the railroad property by the gains
secured to those who use that property
in their bnsiness.
Tbe depreciation in the market value
of the stock of railroads in Georgia,
has been mainly from two caused. First,
the forced redaction of the earnings ot
the roads, which really affects the in
trinsic valne of the stock; Becond, the
indisposition of prudent men to invest
in a property they see under the abso
lute control of persons net only not
the owner’s selection, bnt whose ap
pointments are political, and whose se
lection may at any time turn upon po-
lili—1 —piJiMMy, or bo made to re
quire a political obligation. This in
fluence, while preventing investments
in the stock, does not itself affect the
real worth. But limiting the demand,
it does, when the owner is forced by
necessity or influenced by choice to sell
it most be thrown upon a dead market,
and then this influence becomes the
most potent of all for depreciating the
market valne. So to restore the value
of railroad securities in Georgii
Having Her Own Way,
At a recent wedding in Newark,- N.
J., the bride made her promise to love
and obey the man beside her,and he in
turn vowed in tbe formal langnage of
tbe prayer book to cherish and protect
her, and then tbe Rev. Mr. Dopuy, an
Episcopal clergyman of that ciljr, di
rected the groom to place the ring upon
the bride’s finger. It slipped on easily
at firit, but the bride by bending her
finger, made it impossible for the groom
to press it past tbe second joint.. t He
pudeavored to pash the ping on all ibe
way, and as sho resisted then «U A
painful pause in tbs ceremony.
Dapuy supposed the ring was too
small, and proceeded with the service.
At the leception which followed the
bride was asked by a friend what
caused tbe delay when the ring was
produced. She irankly explained that
the wife of a jeweler had told her that
if she allowed the groom to slip the ring
over the second joint of her finger he
wonld rale her through life, whereas,
if it passed over only the first joint
id always have him nnder hen
She added that she resolved to
resort to this device to effect her supre
macy, because she was only eighteen
years old, while the groom waa forty,
had been married once, and, owing to
bis experience in matrimonial life,
would probably have things too much
his own way unless she enlisted the
fates on her side at the outset. The
Rev. Mr. Dupuy, who baptized the
young lady in her childhood and had
known her intimately since that time,
reproved her for desiring to rale hei
husband, and reminded her that,though
tbe ring had not passed over the sec
ond joint of her finger, she had never
theless promised to obey her sponse
She listened meekly, but afterward
told a confidential friend that the prom
iee to obey was r.ade with a
NOTICE-.
GEOBGIA—Wzbstzb County.
Notice la hereby given that thirty days af
ter the publication of this notice the adrer-
tiaementaof the Ordinary ot Webster coun
ty county, Georgia, will be publl-hed In the
Americas Recorder, a pa lie gazette pub
lished In Sumter county, Georgia,and of gen
eral dranlatioa la Webster county, instead
of tbe Bonn Republican.
W. H. COSBY, Ordinary W. C.
Jan. 21,1885
NOTICE.
{ Is hereby given that thirty days after the
publication of this notice the Sheriff’s Sales
thebUMTza Republican,
Sealed bids for track laying on the Amer
icas,Preston ft Lumpkin Railroad will be re
ceived at foe' Presidents office Americus,
Ga., until noon February. 10th, I8f5. Spec
ifications nnder which work is to be aono
will be furnished on request
8.H,. HAWKINS, President.
JOHN KELLY GOING SOUTH'
VE UP TnE DAILY “
“Mr. John Kelly is nearly well
now,” said Polioe Justice Gorman last
night. “He has been suffering from
indigestion all his life, and that waa
his greatest tronble recently. Daring
the last campaign he worked too hard,
and it made him ill. After Tammany
came oat for Cleveland and it was final
ly determined that he was to he sup
ported, there was a great amount of
work necessary to bring about his elec
tion. Mr. Kelly entered into this work
with heart and soul. He worked at
his office in Tammany Hall, and at
home, and had a great dread of char
ges that he had sold out. He had a
stenographer at his side most all the
time. The day before the election he
had a slight attack of vertigo at Tam
many Hall, bnt did not notice it very
much. He worked very hard to make
the last Democratic parade a successful
one, and he caught cold there also.
“After the election was over and the
excitement of the campaign bad pass
ed, he began to realize tbzt be was ill.
Three days later he pat himself under
the care of his physician, Dr. Ansten
Flint, Sr., who called in two others,
and by their oiders gave np all bad
ness and politics. Twelve or fifteen
yean ago he waa similarly troubled,
and was then compelled to take a three
yean’ vacation in Europe. His indi
gestion brought on loss of sleep, and he
was in a very bad way. He has not
been below fourteenth street since his
illness began, and I do not think he
has visited Tammany Hall either.
“I have seen him several times late-
ly, and be is now much better,
does not attend to any bnt private bu.
inma, and when I introduced the sub
ject of politics a few days ago he chang
ed the subnet. He receives very few
callers and does not even read the
newspapers. Hie wife is very prudent,
and carefully prevents anybodvor any
thing from disturbing him. Yon see
he waa bothered a great deal by friends
who wanted places for their friends
which be was often unable to give. He
goes oat driving every morning with
hie wife, and when they get into the
suburb# he gets out and walks three or
four miles. At noon be takes a horse
back ride for an hour or two, and then
remains at home for the rest of thedsy.
He retires about 9 p. m.
He will take a trip south very short
ly. He will probably be gone abont
two week*, and will be within two
days* rid# of New York.
“In this matter of the Star,
thought it hast to givo it up now, when
tbe paper was in a good financial con
dition, than to wait, with the possibil
ity of its loosing money. The negoti-
mast accomplish two things, a return
to just rates, which is a matter of time,
and a restoration of lost confidence,
which is not only a process of much
longer time, but of patience and proba
tion.
In order to begin tbe work of restor
ing lost confidsnce, we mast remove tbe
cause that bas produced the effect, and
the State mnst declare some fixed poli
cy of jnstice, and the conviction that
similar measures of slow confiscation
•ill not again be returned to, can only
be established by the test of time.
Laws giving security to property inilu-
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