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Our Texas Leuer.
Editor Gazette:
It is a fact, a melancholy one,
that nearly all the towns and cities
of Texas at this time, are filled to
oveflowing with tramps, and adven
turers of every description. More
than this, there are thousands of
young men from “old States,” Some
of them worthy objects of charity,
who are out of money and employ
ment and reduced almost to starva
tion and beggary. Why is this?
Because many of them came here
under the flattering delusion
they would at least have no dif
ficulty in obtaining a clerkship at a
reasonable salary, but most of them
are only too glad to be able to sac
rifice their whole time, and labor for
their board and lodging. And we
would say to those, who coming here
to have an easy time, that it would
be expedient for them to remain at
home. And to those who are young,
and have no friends to assist them
and who are yet tied to their “ma
ma’s apron strings” it would be far
better for them to remain at home,
where their fathers and mothers can
guide and direct them. But a
young man who leaves home, and
who when passing along the street
“home! sweet home” had better
“pack up” and depart* for Texas is
no place for such a young man.
Every town and city, especially along
the lines of the railroads, are alarm
ingly overstocked with what are
known as professional men.
But a man who comes with a deter
mination to stay, (and not get a little
home sick and return) and will work
can succeed in Texas. One of the
young men who left Georgia for this
state is working on a farm and he is
well pleased. He is “plucky” and
will at the end be successful if it is
possible for a young man of energy
to succeed. But for professionals
the city of Dallas has her share.
She lias between forty and one hun
dred lawyers, and physicians in pro
portion, and as for teachers, preach
ers, and clerks, they are “as thick as
autumnal leaves that strew the
brooks of Vallambrosa.” Under
such circumstances we should deem
ourself a very unwise counsellor were
we to advise any of this class to
come to this country at this time,
unless they bring sufficient means to
defray their expenses for at least two
years. But Mr. A. P. B. is an ex
ception to this, as he is now running
as messenger on Texas and Central
road. He will of course be sucsess
ful for a man to experience hard
times or at least a more palpable
taste of hard times than to find him
self in anew country, destitute of
money and out of employment. If a
young man comes to this country
for an easy job it would be advisable
to bring enough to purchase an “or
gan monkey and dog” for he will
have to do something. The sort of
men Texas needs are men of stout
hearts and toughened sinews and
with means sufficient to run small
farms, and with the will to go to
work, not minding the disadvantages
for a while. To all such the rich so l
wiil yield plenty, and when hoary age
conies, like the patriaeh of old they
can lie down to rest with the happy
consciousness that they have be
queathed an honorable inheritance to
their offspring. Our climate is superb,
our soil is of unsurpassed fertility,
and our farmers are the most pros
perous men in Texas. J. E. 8.
Our lrVnsliingtoi* Letter
Washington D. C., Nov. 12.
The openly aggressive attitude of
Coukling an(l the demise of Senator.
Morton, are two events which are
destined to exert an important bear
ing upon the contest between the
President and the Republicans of
the Senate. Yesterday a member
of the Administration, speaking
about Conkling’s recent pronuncia<*
mento in the colloquail form of an
interview, characterized it as “bold
and aggressive, and that it must be
met in the same spirit.” He did not,
however, evince much belief that it
would be thus effectively treated,
and rather deplored the sentimen
tality which may apply to the pious
walks of a Christian life—such for
giveness or forbearance as receiving
a smite on one cheek and turning
the other for a similar application
THO.YI ASTON, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1877.
et cetera—but which is mighty in
convenient as applied to politics. In
plain English, the proposition lias
resolved itself into a question wheth
er Con kling slmll destroy the Ad
ministration or the Administration
destroy Conkling. The stately
Senator from New York has his war
paint on, and brandishing his po
litical tomahawk, much to the sat
isfaction of other Republican Sena
tors, who think that they also have
a cause of war and aie ready to fol
low such a splendid leadership. • On
Saturday the Republican Senators
held a caucus, practically of war.
Although intimitations of other sub
jeets under consideration were given
out the matter of the nominations
before the Senate what course to
pursue with regard to them, was the
principal topic, and gave rise to
some very free expressions of opin
ion respecting the Administration.
It was evident that Conkling. Ed
munds, Cameron, and other Sena
tors of that standard of importance,
were really for war ; and those of
lesser consequence, (except numeri
cally speaking, when it comes to Lie
common level, the ballot,) were not
indisposed to unite. At present there
is every ind’cation to perfect unity
of action upon all measures.
To meet this tide of opposition,
which was fully expected, the ad
ministration depended upon the late
Senator Morton, His large expe
rience in public affairs, his skill and
ability as a debater, and his popu
larity m the Senate, all conduced to
his success as the leader of the Ad
ministration forces. It was believ
ed, and rightly so too, that he could
master on his side at least a major
ity of the Rcpuplicans, who, with
the Democrats disposed to support
the nomination of good men to office,
v ould haya completely fraustrated
the efforts of the opposing faction.
The death of Senator Morton, tliere
:’ore is more than an ordinary loss.
His removal from the scene of con
test for political ascendency leaves
the administration without a charm
pion in the Senate. Stanley Mat
thews has already repeatedly shown
himself unequal to the
ties of the hour. The veteran Sena
tors, who have pronounced them"
selves hostile to the President, are
waiting with guns pointed for Mat
thews, or Hoar, or any one else who
may undertake to stand up in the
way of the hostile purposes, in order
to show by summary example what
them in their determination to make
the administration pay the penal
ty of indifference to their wishes,
and what they regard as the inter
ests of the Republican party, Mor
ton was the only man who could
have baffled their purposes. How
the] Administrations to recover a foot
hold in the Senate remains to be seen.
In looking oyer the list of Repub
lican Senators, there ia not o e of
any importance who can now be rec
oned on. Blaine who has been co
quetting with the Administration
ever since his first hasty onset in
March last, might be considered as
in good training to take Morton’s
place, but his impaired health will
prevent any aedye pare in the de
liberations of the Senate for some
weeks if not months. It is cetaui
that terms with Blaine than any one
else of weight, as he has some months
been an object of repeated favors,
and having accepted them, could do
no less thunto reciprocate.
Ttius far in building up an Ad
ministration party in tne Senate,
the fates have been inauspicious. If
this state of affairs continues, the
Pressdent will find himself bound
band and foot, with the officers un
der his authority filled by men hos
tile to his interests, and the Senate
an insurmountable obstacle to their
removal. The friends of the Presi
dent, since the serious turn affairs
have taken, have been in frequent
consultation as to the most expe
dient'way to meet this imergency. As
the Democrats have alrerdy indica
ted their willingness not to antgo
nize the President in matters of a
non partisan character, they may be
relied upon possibily to co-operate
with four or five modern Republican
Senators who, it is believed, will be
ready to take up the President’s
cause, in so far as not to vote with
the opposing faction of the party,
and perhaps to essay a defence of his
course. A division in the Republi
can ranks, if it can be effected, is
now considered a matter of impera
tive necessity, and if succeeded in,
will soon break down the opposi
tion. The Democrats in the mean
time will be able to hold the balance
of power.
The effect of the elections upon
the Administration has not, accord
ing to their own statements, been
discouraging. It is claimed that the
campaigns were fought under most
unfavorable circumstances. “That
there were factional contests, local
issues, independent candidates,
struggling “rings” and everything
else, not excluding a general apathy
which operated unfavorably to the
interests of the Republican party;
and yet when the results become
known officially, and compared with
everything else*, the defeat in some
St ites and successes in others do not
go to prove anything. ’ This sort of
reasoning is all very considering,
and it must be admitted the results
ure not so bad as they might have
been, but to expect to hold the par
ty together, or to add to its perma
nent strength, without the cohesive
agency of a judicious application of
patronage, is to expect more than
the mass of American citizens are
able to understand 'or appreciate.
Judging from information received
here from influential and observing
people in different parts of tne coun
try, the people still generally sus
tain the President, whilst the polit
icans do not ; but popular sport will
amount to naught, unless very soon
placed under the direction oi compe
tent leaders.
The exasperation of tiie Republi
can managers will doubtless compel
the Administration to do something
—either to abandon all abstract and
absurd attention to the first princi
ples of political self-preservation,
which is to distribute officers amongst
those who will exercise them in their
support and strengthen their hands,
or to throw their power away upon
persons who are without the first el
ements of usefulness, and who will
bring upon themselves, the Admin
istration, and the party sure destruc
tion. Whether the war upon the
Administration will begin now, or
will be dcfcired until the regular
sessian, remains to be seen. The
disposition of Conkling, however, is
to begin at once by taking up the
nominations which are most distaste
ful and to ventilate the President
thoroughly through them.
Congress lias now been in session
about four weeks, and has not yet
accomplishop any portion of the bus
iness for which it was called togeth
er. The Army Bill which has been
under consideration for several days
is still remote from completion. The
effort to still further reduce the nu
mercial strength of the military pow
er promises success so far as the
House is concerned. The action
of last Saturday practically reduces
it to twenty thousand men which
was about the number on the rolls
on the first of the present month.
The number of enlisted men in the
army on November Ist, 1877, (taken
from the latest return received,) is
as follows: Cavalry, 7,951: artillery,
2,313; infantry, 8,901; engineers,
198; ordnance, 310; Indian scouts,
552; miscellaneous, 1,611 —total, 21-
902. Number of men on extra and
diuly duty, 3,976. (This does not
include TOO iti Signal Corps.)
It is not probable that the Senate
wft 1 , agree to this reduction, but will
insist upon the army remaining at its
existing strength. Should the House
again insist upov its own bill, the
army will be put in a w°"'sc dilemma
than it now finds itself The officers
and men have already served fain
months without pay. Many who
have families dependent upon them,
have been compelled to submit to a
heavy “shave” on their pay rolls,
all of which is no credit to the gov
ernment as a matter of keeping
faith.
Notwithstanding the fact that
hothing has yet been done by Con
gress, the subject of adjournment is
again agitating the Congressional
mind. It is now proposed to get
away by Nov. 26th, so as to draw
mileage, and get home for Thanks
giving Day. The regular session
will begin December 3d, which will
afford ample oppoituuity for mem
bers east of the Mississippi to return
in time to be present at the opening.
K.
Our l*iiihi<lcli>liia Letter
Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1877.
How was the election out your way?
Here it was the tamest affair tlie
Quaker city oyer saw. In the first
place the Labor Party had 25,000
votes pledged. They managed to
cast out 5,000. In the second place
The Republicons were sure ot 10,-
000 majority, but Go,ooo of them
staid at home, and the Democrats
went under the string with about
two thousand majority. Then the.
Labor men laughed at their own de
feat. The democrats got mad be
cause they did not have a bigger ma
jority and the Republicans' smiled
quietly in their sleeves, to think
how nicely they had licked them
selves; altogether it was the best na
ture and election I ever saw, aud the
result seemed to please everybody.
The only persons who feel sore over
it are a few politicians who were
counting ou lining their pockets a
little more warmly this winter —but
then the day of political huckstering
is over, and no one cares whether
they like the present condition of
affairs or not. Tlnoughout the
state the same good feeling prevails;
and, taken all in all, the election
has had almost salutary effect.
Curious Tittle incidents are found
in the criminal annals of eyery great
city, and some of them are well wor
thy of preservation. A patrolman
in passing hack of a grocery store
one night last week, noticed a win
dow open, and while standing there
in the dakness, wondering whether
to wake up the proprietor, who lived
in the second story, or close up the
shop himself, he was surprised to see
a orate of eggs handed out of the
window, and hear a voice ejaculate,
“take them, quick. ’* The police
mau responded “all right,” in low
tones, and, putting the crate down
on the pavement, slyly crawle
through the window, and, as he ex
pected, collurd a thief. The offen
der was considerably amazed to find
that he had passed his plunder di
rectly into the hands of a guardian
of the peace, and gave himself up
without a struggle. It has since
been found that the prisoner was
connected with several other robber
ies, some of which were very heavy,
and he will probably receive full pun
iskment.
Weeden, the prize tighter, will
probably be remembered by many
who have watched the course of Jer
sey justice. He was a principal in
the contest with Walker last tear
when Walker was killed, and L was
alleged that Wcedcn took an unfair
advantage of him. The latter was
arrested, tried and convicted, lie
was seat to the State prison at Tre.i
ton, New Jersey, but it was not long
before lie began to show signs of ill
health, and last Wednesday lie died.
It is supposed that his disease was
consumption, evidently superinduc
ed by the confinement within pri-ou
walls.
What promises to be another disas
trous strike has just begun in this
city. Several thousand weavers,
employed in up-town mills, have
quit work on account of a reduction
in their wages, and it is feared that
others will soon follow. The sums
received by the men were so small
that it is no wonder they became
dissatisfied; the biggest amount paid
was $35 a month, and the lowest sll
The average is said to have been
from $22 to S2B a mouth. These are
slim incomes on which to supper; a
family, and yet thousands are mak
ing no more at other trades. The
oil ly ray of hope is that while the
men could not find employment at
any price a year or two ago, all the
mills have now plenty of orders, and
all can keep running.
Carl Fostelle.
Our C hicago Lelier.
Chicago, Nov. 12, 1877.
A solemn effort is now making to
weed out the Chicago bar, which is
overrun with shysters, jack-lawyers,
and disreputables of all kinds. Where
a man is regularly a member of the
bar, it is hard to get the Judges to
shut him out, for it is difficult to
get proof of dishonest conduct.
There are however, a number of peo
pie who never were admitted to prac
tice, and'thoso the Bar Association
and the courts are engaged in mak
ing war upon. The present State
law’requires all admission to the bar
to be by the Supremo Court, and its
requirements are at present quite ri
gid. Asa class, these bogus lawyers
confine themselves to the divorce bus
iness and the Criminal Court chiefly
the latter. Their sole object is to
get all their clients have, and then
sell them out ; to take a conveyance
of the defendant’s lands or chattels,
in order that they may not fall into
the hands of the law, and then per*
csisfc in holding on to them, no mat
re 1 : whether the accused are convic
ted or Not Jong ago a
man got into wne trouble—was
charged with receiving stoVcu goods,
tie called iti the aid of a lawyer, who
advised bun to transfer his property
to him. He did so. “Now.” said
the lawyer, “do you plead guilty. I
have made an arrangement with the
State's Attorney and Judge that vou
are to be let off with a montli in
jail.” He pleaded guilty, and much
to his amazement, got two years in
State’s Prison. “It is a mistake.”
said the lawyer ; “the Judge forgot
but that will be remedied before it is
time for you to go down.” The
man lived in hopetili the day when)lie
was routed out of jail and marched
off to Joliet Then the lawyer at
tempted to take possession of his
goods and chattels. The wife ob
jected, and threatened to raise a ri
ot. “Well.” said the lawyer, “let
us talk it over. Your husband is
gone for about two years, and you
are entitled to a divorce anyway.
Suppose we live together.” She ac
cepted the arrangement, apparently
the best thing she could do, and they
live in comfort, while the husband
is cutting stone, or making barrels
The Fire Department of this city
is trying an experiment with its tel
egraph wires. Instead of carrying
them on poles, it is putting them un
derground, comfortably stowed away
in iron pipe, it costs about four
times as much as the ordinary way,
but the wires last infiinitely longer,
are freer from accident, and do not
disfigure the streets. At present
each of the main streets has a net
work of wires running along, it which
are in the way of the firemen when
they try to use their hook and ladder
apparatus, and the cutting of which
plays the mischief with telegraphic
communication. The fire-alarm sys
tem of this city is a very perfect one
and much of its freedom from big
blazes is due thereto.
From a local point of view, the
chief event of the week was the elec
tion, in which, however, there was
little to interest an outsider. Only
County officers were voted for in Illi
nois, and no general importance at
tached to the contest. In this city
the Republican ticket was successful
owing in great part to the fact that
its leading candidate was exception
ally good, and that the Democracy
had nominated a couple of men who
were offensive to the community.
To the surprise of nearly all, the So
cialists|polled over six thousand vot
es, which indicates that the strength
of this disorganizing element is quite
respectable. They are extremists,
who disbelieve in the recognition of
property rights, and want the State
to step in and do a little equalizing
between man and man—leading up
the poor and leading down the rich
—until they meet upon a common
plane. The followers of this party
are drawn, with hardly ail exception,
from foreign nationalities—Polish,
Bohemian, and German. The only
Americans are leaders. The Green
back ticket polled less than a thou
sand votes. The general public sen
timent out here, on the question of
running in debt, was plainly shown
by the defeat of a proposition to is
sue Court House bonds, and of an
appropriation for the completion of
the new State House.
A warning for quick-tempered
young women. Day before yester
day a wedding party drew up at the
the church door. The groom step
ped up to the carriage to let out the
gorgeously caparisoned bride of the
future Her train was very long,
and he was doubtless nervous. For
some reason he stepped upon it, and
Siid!}- marred it of its fair i roportious.
Fiven at such an exciting moment,
with the altar in view, she could not
forget her dress, and she said, ‘ How
awkward you are"—said that, and
lojkcd something fur more serious.
He made no reply, reserving it for
another occasion. The procession
moved on up the aisle, and formed in
order due before the minister. The
ceremony began, and moved on with
great smoothness until it reached the
point where he was asked if he would
take her to be his wedded wife. Then
instead of niakhig the stereotyped
formal answer, he observed. “No,
you are too awkward for me,” Uns
der cover of the consternation caused
by this remark, he fled from the
church, took a-carnage, and depu
ted for home, leaving the young lady
to meditate on the folly of trains and
quick tempers.
The West is just now filled with
broken companies who have suffered
shipwreck on the road, and the
trunks of whose members aie held
as security in a score of hotels. A
communication comes in almost dai
ly from some afflicted brother, asks
ing for a small remittance to bring
him back to Chicago. One inanu
ger of a strolling troupe telegraphs
dismally from Lincoln. Nebraska,
for the stoutest kind of a pair of
boots, as he finds out it will be neces
sary fo: him to walk in. .Regular
performers and negro ministrels are
alike unfortunate, and the lecture
business seems to be about as bad.
In place of the hundreds of men and
women who are usually careering
around at this season, with much
thumbed maunscrip’s in their carpet
bags, but a dozen can be found, and
they are not making anything, with
perhaps one or two exceptions.
During the week the Lake has
been swept by two violent Northeas
ters, each of which has smashed nu
merous vessels, bat strangely enough
without the loss of a single life.
The other day the sandy shores north
and south of the city were covered
with lumber and shingles, the deck
loads of unlucky, while hero and
there son.e schooner lay high and
dry. The tendency of the Chicago
river to form a bar at its mouth is
temporarily counteracted by the coa
sivuction of piers which stretch far
out into the Lake, and which are
yearly < tended farther and farther.
One ros’dk of this is that it is much
harder to make the m-iuth of the liar
bor during a North wind, aV\d a ves
sel trying the experiment runs the
risk of going to pieces on the pier,
or drifting far south, and landing
on the beach. These seasons are the
harvest days of the poor who live
any where near the shore, and who
are able to accumulate tire wood
enough to run them through a good
part of the winter. These two storms
have put about thirty sailing craft
hors du combat, and that too at a
time when freights arc good, and ev
ery vessel is being pushed into the
service to send grain East, and bring
lumber here from the Michigan
ports. A year ago an effort was
made to open direct trade between
here and England, and some loads
of deals, grain, &., were sent over,
but the experiment did not prove to
be successful, and those who went
into it were bankrupted. It was fea
sible, but the vessels which could be
used had to be of small size to get
through the Welland Canal, and
could not compete with, the ocean
vessels sailing from Eastern ports.
Our Jlonlrenl better.
Montreal, Nov. Gth, 1877’
AN EARTHQUAKE
lasting a minute and a half, was felt
along the St. Lawrence Valley. Hap
pily no loss of life occurred, although
from all accounts, the shock was ver
y severe. In Montreal, the visitation
of a tremblement de terre always
awakens a convulsive tremor among
the inhabitants who are firm believers
in an ancient prophecy by a pious
Jesuit, that the island of Montreal
would before the termination of the
nineteenth century, be swallowed up
by a terrible earthquake. This pro
phency, no doubt, dates as far back
as IGG2, when Canada, then known
as La Nowvelle France, was visited
by an earthquake, which wrought
terrible devastation to life and prop
erty, The last “good shake” which
Montreal experienced was in 1870.
The earthquake of Sunday morning
last was heralded by a sound of dist>
ant rumbling of thunder, or of a
street car, uisturbing the stillness of
the early morning by its slow loco
motion/ The affair having occurred
at an early hour when the whole city
was wrapt in slumber, very few indi
viduals were seriously alarmed. Not
so, however, with Song Long, the
proprietor of a “Washee house” in
this city, who imagined that some
“Melican” man was endeavoring to
break into his house. Seizing a five
shooter, he rushed into the street,
crying “Uomee on, me shootee!”
Queen Victoria, on her lofty pedes
tal in Victoria Square, waved her
sceptre for the first time, while Nel
son the old hero of mauy a naval en
counter, threatened to interview a
number of “cabbies” who furnish
a guard of honor for him year after
year.
The Fishery Commission in session
at Halifax, N. C., have completed
their arduous task of examining wit
iiysses relative to the Fishery qne*-
tion. Hon. Dwight Eo-t rand Mr.
Dana, counsel representing the Uni
ted JStates addressed the Commission
at great length. The final decision
in the matter not expected before the
end of November.
A Now T ork merchant, named
llearn last eek proved to be equal
to the o< usion of settling the affairs
of his deceased brother. It appears
that the firm of Hearns Roller & Cos.,
of Montreal, had only been in exis
tence eighteen months. During that
time the firm had jiuid the pro ini unis
on a life insurance policy for *i‘,ooo
for.Mr. Hearn, the partner.
Dn the decease of the latter, the es
tate was wound up, by Mr. Rolier,
who also cla’tmd the insurance mon
ey. r lbe decoded partner's brother
arrived from New and obtains
ing possession of the policies, depar
ted tor New York without more ado.
Endless litigation is likely to occur
before tne case will be finally settled.
NO. 48.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The disabilities of C. W. Fields of Yir
ginia have been removed,
A protest from forty-five national
banks in Boston against the passage of
the bill pending in the Senate, provid
ing for the remonetization of silver has
been made Also cue from several nation
al banks in Massachusetts.
E. C. M ado has been appointed col
lector of internal revenue for the third
district of Georgia (Augusta district),
vice Isham S. Fanuin, removed.
Mr. Mills presented the memorial of
the state grange of Texas asking that
the Commissioner of Agriculture Ihj
made a Cabinet officer.
The House committee on foreign af
fairs agreed to recommend an appropria
tion of #IOC,OOO for the representation
of tlie I nited States at the Paris expos”
itiou.
A concuirent resolution for the final
adjournment of the special session of
Congress to-day the 22d instant, was
agreed upon by the ways and means
committee.
Senator Paddock introduced a resolu
tion in the Senate asking for the ap
pointment of a commission to visit
rope for the purpose of studying and re
porting upon the forestry of foreign na
tions.
The House Judiciary Committee
has sent for the court records in the
case of Smalls, the colored member.
The Naval Deficiency Bill passed by
the House was reported to the Senate
by Mr. Sargent, from the committee on
appropriations without amendment, and
upon the recommendation of the com -
mittee it was unanimously passed.
Some exc> ement prevails in some lo*
ealities ? nong the negroes and there
seems to be a disposition to emigrate to
Liberia. There is a petition before Con
gross from a number of colored citizens
asking the appropriation of SIOO,OOO to
sea able, tin m to emigrate to Libci ia.
There has been a resolution introduce
ed by a Representation from .Missouri
asking for a repeal of the bankrupt law.
Also, a resolution asking for the con-
r*f *'
viding for a return to specie payments
without distuibing the industrial and
commercial interests of the country*
In all happy households the wife
is blind and tlie husband deaf— i. e.,
he refuses to hear the quick-tempered
criticism and she refuses to see the
unkind or ungenerous act
At a primary election in Bibb
county Messrs. C. J. Harris 11. A.
Nisbet and A. O. Bacon were nom
inated as the Democratic candidates
for the Legislature.
Wlieu Mayor llufT made a speech
in Macon at"a reception given him
the reporter for the Telegraph did
not report the speech of Mayor llufF
in full. Oh, no : the Telegraph nev
publbhes anything in fovor of A f -
lanta as the Capital.
Governor Williams, of Indiana, has
appointed the Hon. Daniel W. Voor
hes United States Senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Oli
ver P. Morton.
A special dispatch says:
“Another step toward the final
settlement of the vexed question of
the admission of colored children to
the public schools was taken to-day\
Mr. P. C. Parker, a prominent col
ored citizen sent his children to the
Southern school, but they were re
fused admission. The father then
consulted an attorney*, and on h:s ad
vice sent them back a second time,
when they were again refused. What
next will be done remains to be seen,
although it is generally’ understood
that Parker will make a thorough test
case of it before he lets the matter
drop. The case is before the school
I board.