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Join Triplett, Editor and Manager.
■Saturday, January 28, 1893.
Who will succeed Lunar?
. They are paying 35 cents a picc
Tor strawberries in Now York.
The polUicipha will now be figuring
on Ur. Lunar’s successor.
England is just now engaged in a
bit of dictating to the Khedive of
Egypt. , '
Congress adjourned on Tuesday as
a mark of respect to the late Justice
Lamar.
Will the American women follow
Paris io adopting the hoopskirt again?
Very likely.
The charter of the Louisiana lottery
expires this year. A good thing fi r
tbe country.
The Central road, it is now' said,
will be eold by order of the United
States court.
Ss,.
The matt important features of the
patent on. the telephone will expire in
March. H-e-I-I-o.
The autopsy ot Gen. Butler showed
that the brain was four ounces heavier
than that of Daniel Webster.
mayor McLtonounb Rare Ui“ otr
city council a plain talk wheu they
were sworn in the other day. His
remarks would serve as a model for
other m.tyors in Georgia. Here is an
extract: \ . -
Municipal government is a busi
ness matter pure and simple and to
inject into it political partisanship
and bigotry is to prove false to the
sacred obligations which we have this
day' assumed. I expect this city
government t> .place itself upon a
higher plane. r .
"I do not desire, nor do I intend,
to make a special crusade against any
class of dlizaiss, but all shall be made
to respect and obey the laws regard
less ef their creed, race, color, or pro’-
vions condition. All places of vice
and crime ehall be carefully and per
sistently ferreted out and broken up.
so far as it is io my power and that of
oar police department The keeping
open of barrooms and eetliog of liquor
or other intoxicants on Sunday must
and shall cease, and to accomplish
this I shall use such means at my
command as the continued, frequent,
covered, and sneaking violations of
the law jollify. Let offenders against
the ordinance take warning, for when
brought before the police court and
convicted they need not expect and
shall not receive any mercy.
There is a mystery ahout Mr. Blaine’s
ilia ess. The doctors iotinuie that
they will explain after his death.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans this
year will be very brilliant. Already
parties are being mado up all over the
country to attend.
And now the Ryan case goes to the
supreme court. If Judge Clarke is re
versed Ryan will go back to jail. The
end is not in sight.
The death of Bishop Brooks, of Bos.
loo, removes one of the most distin
guished divines fiom earth. He was a
broad, liberal man.
Milan and Natal a have made up
and all Servia rejoices. They are,
again, loyal, as well as royal, lovers.
Ring down the curtain.
It looks like the anti-option bill
would become a law. It so the New
York cotton exchange and other
similar organizations throughout the
coentry will get a black eye
The members oi the supreme court
will come from Wtshington, beaded
by Chief Justice Fuller, to attend
the funeral of the late Justice Lamar.
He will be buried at Miiledgeville.
The flag earned by Pizarropnd his
followers during the conquest ol Pe
ru wiil be a notable object in the Ven.
ezuelan exhibit ac the World’s fair.
The sword ol Cortez will be exhibited
from Mexico.
The annex to the Alcazar, one of
Mr. Flagler’s Si. Augustine hotels, was
destroyed by Are yesterday morning.
Loss $75,000. The property was ful\
ly insured. The fire was caused by
electric wires.
The Board of Trade Dinner.
Arrangements have been completed
with Messrs. Watson & Powers for
the banquet of the board of trade to
be given there on the night of Feb. 8.
Plates will be set for 175 guests at
cost of 812 per plate, or a total of
$2,100. There are'about 125 mem?
bers of the board oi trade, so that
there will remain fifty seats for in<
vited guests
A full orchestra has been engaged,
and ioaddithn there will be singing
between etch speech by a quartet
composed of Messrs. Frank E. Rebar
er, Willard N. Smith, Julian Walker,
and William Blois, or by members of
it.
The tables will be decorated with
eight large set pieces illustrative of
southern industry. One,for Instance,
of candy will represent a turpentine
still iu operation; another a cotton
press, and so forth.—Savannah Press.
Declared Off.
The field of the newspaper is con
stantly enlarging. The latest New
York kick develops as follows:
MIDDLE—FREUND—The engage’
ment of Miss Eva Freund to Mr.
Simon M. Middle has been declared
off.
The above brief advertising notice
appeared in a New York journal
Thursday. The announcement
the date at which people come into
the world and go out ol it, when they
are engaged and when they get mar
ried or divorced, is a usual newspaper
item. The announcement of broken
engagements may sometimes prove a
little embarrassing; bnt if it should
become customary it would save a
great deal of laborious explanation:—
Ex.
, majority vote to take favorable
tories o> .Ok'ahoma, Utah aud New
Mexico, but left Arizona in the cold.
This result was not atiaioed until after
prolonged discussion. The evurus
was called in pursurar.ee of a request
signed by Senator Dubois and several
and was devoted entirely to a discus
sion of the proposition to admit these
territories to statehood.
In the meantime the appropriation
bills, which have .the right of way, will
begin to make their appearance, and
will command the attention ofihe sen
ate. Ii will thus be seen that the
chances for discussion of the bills to
admit these territories is very slim,
and the. eastern senators who gave
their a^s-nt.to the caucus program
very leluctaully, have no hesitancy in
saying that no action will btf taken
during this session ot congress wbats
ever. . Oa the other hand, the friends
Ofubb bad a cloae oall in .dt? [
livering Georgii’s vole in time- The
correspondent of the Constitution, E.
\V. B., the. relers to the delivery of
the important package:
‘Dick Grubb reached here to night
just in lime to save his »cxlp. Under
the Uw at midnight on the fourth
Monday in January, after e presiden
tial election, the time upoD which the
result of the various (tales in the vote others of the northwestern senators,
ot the presidential election, - shall be
delivered to the vice president, ex
pires.
‘But Dick Grubb just arrived here
in time. He reached Washington
to-night at 10 o'clock. He hatf wired
The Constitution correspondent dur
ing the day the time he would arrive
and special arrangements had been
made by The Constitution with Vice
President Morton to receive the vole
at his house before midnight. Mr.
Grubb arrived at 10 o'clock. He
was accompanied by Geutr.il PTM.
B. Young. They were driven from
the depot to the vice president’s resi
dence on Soott Circle. The carriage
was driven on a dead run and created
a sensation, as it passed along the,
streets.
When Mr. Grubb entered On vice
president and bis private secretary
were awaiting them in the library.
He had prepared the receipt for Mr.
Grubb, and npon examination ef hie
credentials and finding the sealed
envelope containing the returns
laboled properly he-signed the receipt
and resented ifw the Georgia mea
senger, at the same time congratulat
ing him that he bad arrived within
the time prescribed bylaw.
“I am glad yon are on time,” raid
the - vice president “Your papers
are entirely proper. In those from
several other states there have been
errors. It is well that there are none
in youra.”
In explaining the matter to The
Constitution correspondent to-night
Mr. Grnbb said:
’I was not in Atlanta when the
electon met. They honored me by
electing me messenger President
Flynt wrote me that it was only nec
essary that I should deliver the vote
by the 8th oi February. Thus not
knowing the Uw myself, and pri
aurning ha did, I made no baste to
come, though I could have left home
ten days ago. I was in Atlanta two
days, no one there seemed to know
anytbiog about the Uw. I am glad,
however, that I got in on time and
that everything has turned out a’l
right. Though a little late, Georgia'i
vote is all right and and will be just
as well counted as though it bad been
here last week."
Washington, Jan. 24 —The repub I WASHINGTON, JaS- 24.—Washing-.
Han aucm this afltrnocn decided by | ton was expecting the death of Justice
Lamar, - so that it is not surprising
tion upon the admission of the tern- that the question of his successor is
ol the territories clami that the repub- democrat. The President, if he could
beans stand committed to a lavorabie
vote, regardless of whether it comes
up.tb's session of dunog the next con
frere.. 1,.-- '■ •
The House has already passed bills
for the admission of New Mexico and
Arizona, but no action has been taken
on Utah, Ot ttjese umioncs it is
claimed that one only,'' Oklahoma, is
probably republican, but the republi
can senators fay they will insist upon
their admission regardless of pohuc*
for the reason that they will never ad
vance or become improved unul, they
are given statehood and that their ion
provement wijl enhance the condition
of other new states in the west. Toerc
was a quorum present at all umes dur
ing the two hours of the caucus.
A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N.
V., stales “that the indications are that
the ice crop this year on the Hudson
river will be the largest and finest ever
gathered, and will probably reach
000,000 loos.
Rufe Connell is bound to briog
Whigham to the iront, and to keep
it there, in addition to phosphates,
and other valuable minerals, he has
recently discovered a most valuable
deposit and in inexhaustible quanti
ties, for making cement.
The types yesterday made us say
that both Mr. Hill'and Mr. Murphy,
the two New York senators, declared
that they will antagonize Mr. Cleves
land. The reverse is what we intend
ed to say, "that they declare they will
not antagonize the president.
Death is reaping a rich harvest of
prominent men. Within a few days
Batter, Brooks, Hayes and Lamar
have joined the silent majority. Mr.
Blaine still lingers on the buek.
The messenger, in all probability,
will soon beckon him away also.
Paris, with Worth to back the
edict, has decreed that crinotin? shall
be worn again. London is kicking
at it, and American women are watch-
ing the outcome of the straggle. In
the end the world, as it usually does,
will follow the lead of giddy Paris.
London Truth hopes that the recent
experiment ol shipping oranges direct
from Florida to England will prove
successful, because "the fruit is of ex
ceptionally fine quality and cqnal, if
notanpenor, to any of the many varie
ties we now have in our own market."
■ ~ The Constitution says: "The ratal
justices of tbo peace who have not
received their commissioners tip (o
date arc becoming impatient. One
of them writes: “I-might have or
dered six lynching, and divorced a
dozen couples by this time—if I had
only had the law for it.”
Judge Waxem’s Proverbs.
When a man’s patriotism gits to be
over a yard wide and all wool, there's
an offis somers in site. .
Some farmers bain’t got no better
sense than to think they kin improve
their crops by top dessin’ with poli
ticks.
It is a good deal harder fer a onest
statesman to stay pore than to git
rich.
The Amerikin eagel lays eggs all
over the world.
Polliticks and law is party much
the same in ail iangwidges.
Mighty few congressmen has got
any backbone to spare.
Government offices is a pore invest
ment.
Hen polliticks is mostly fuss and
fethera.—Detroit Free Press.
Justice Lamar Dead.
Macon, Jan, 23.—-Justice Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar.died here
at 8:50 o’clock to-night. It is a ter
rible shock to the community. His
death was sudden in the extreme, tor
although hi has been ailiog for some
time, Justice Lamar appeared to be
gradually gaining in health. He came
from Washington to Macon about
month ago and has been visiting at the
residence of W. fi. Vugia, in Yine-
vihe, a suburb ot this city.
The death of Justice Lamar is pe
culiarly sad and unfortunate. Harri
son will doubtless promptly fill the va
cancy with a republican.
,
. America’s Position.
Although Rome will always be the
capital of the Catholic church, it is ap
parent to even the most careless ob
server that America will, within the
next century, occupy g more impor
tant position with regard 10 the church
than any country bas since the days oi
St. Peter himselL. It is possible that
in the course of time a pope may oven
be chosen in this country, although it
is not likely for a long time.—Pitts
burg Post. *
The Augusta Chronicle says:
We have frequently commended a
canning factory for ibis section. A
factory in Frederick county, Mary-
land, this season put up 4,000,000
cos of core, beans, etc. This is the ““S™ «> mea. «, xuu re-
largest individual concern in the world * um a ud then had the
* uses the yield of about 4,000
The Constitution has found the
meanest man in Georgia. It says:,
The meanest man has been found—
bnt we will not say in Georgia. He
gave a load of wool to a poor widow,
then hired a negro to steal it, and re-
negro arrested for theft and sent to
the chain gang for two years.
- Gordon’s Tribute to Lamar.
After the announcement had been
made by Senator Walthall, ot Miasis-
sippi, in the senate on Tuesday, that
Justice Lamar was dead Senator Gor
don of Georgia said:
"Mr. President, this is not the oc
exsion for any extended remarks in
reierence to the distinguished deed,
but I do feel impelled to say that
Georgia especially sympathizes with
her sister state ot Mississippi in the
deep sense of the loss we have snstain
cd. Justice Lamar’s life began
Georgia and his distinguished ances
try make a part of her history.
‘‘Around his name is early man
hood were clustered the hopes ot onr
people, and they have naturally fol
lowed his career with the deep inter
est that would attach to a career so
lustrous, to brilliant, so exceptionally
beneficial to his country. As a mother
weeps so Georgia weeps at the death
ot this great man.
‘•Sir, it was my fortune to know
him and love him. It io tiuTfortune
of Georgia to have given to this uoioc
the man who has just passed away
with an immortal glory around his
name and with the blessing of his en
tire conntiymen of every section to
follow him.”
Speaking ot eduction and com
mon schools in Pennsylvania the
Philadelphia Record has this chunk
of solid wisdom:
"The State has gone to the limit of
propriety in offering to all the chib,
dren within its boundaries free in
struction in tbe rudimentary and
essential branches of eduction.
Where tbe duty of the State ends the
duty of the parents or guardians
begins. Tbe attempt to enact' laws
to make education compulsory is a
stretch of benevolent authority into
a domain where the State has no right
nor reason tor interference.’’
The Augusta Chronicle correctly
voice the sense of (he country, in the
following paragraph:
Oae ol tbe lessons which was most
thoroughly taught at the last election,
was that this country has enongb of
Federal interference at elections,
is safe to say there will ba ho 1
musing of deputy United States mar
shals at the poUs, and each state wfll
be left free to conduct iu own elec-
tions, as wu intended under the con
stitution, and without which under
standing it would Jiave been impossi
ble to have organised this union of
stole.'-
already under discussion. It seems
likely that his (successor will be a
democrat, and it w probable that be
wM l>e Circuit Judge Howell E
Jackson, of Nashville, Teun. Presi
dent Han ison, it is stated, wants to
fill the vacancy and will, nominate
democrat it he thinks a republican
would not be confirmed. President
Cleveland would, of course, appoint a
democrat. President Harrison will
wait until next month, and probably
until week after next, before decid
ing wbat he pill do. Meanwhile he
will endeavor to' ascertain through
his friends iu the senate whether any
republican could be confirmed as Mr..
Lamar’s successor. If he is encour
aged to believe that a republican
might be confirmed he will nominate
a republican. This ia unlikely in tbe
three short weeks which will then
remain. If not he will nomitate a
State Commissioner Bradwell has 13*
sued instructions to the boards of
couniy commissioners touching the Representative Joseph H. O’Neal of
Washington, Jan. 25.—A brave I who witnessed the recent municipal
fight for pension reform was made by .election in Savannah according to the
make.the appointment directly, with-,
out consulting the senate, would prob
ably appoint Attorney General Mil-
ler or Secretary Tracy, who are both
ambitions to sit on the supreme
bench, but not Secretary Noble, who
has a like ambition but n not popular
with the President.
Brief in Mississippi”
Jackson, January 24,—The an
nouncement here, last night of the
death of Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, of this
state, judge of the supreme court of
tbe United~Stite.s, has caused the pro
foundest sorrow here among the peo
ple whom he loved and for whom he
labored. —.
-His death is regarded as a cal ynity
to the south and to the nation. The
confidant and friend of Jefferson Da
vis, the defender of his chancter an?
motives, the representative of the libs
eral and progressive elemeut of the
whole south,he was the idol of the
people and the Chevalier Bayard ot
the Mississippi democracy.
The lion is dead. Mississippi
mourns and the nation is bereft of one
other broadest and best statesmen.
Quarantine Raised. .
Washington, Jan. 23.—The quar
antine on the white house,
has been practically removed,
little Marthena Harrison has en
tirely recovered from her illness and
to day the healt£ officer took from
tho^ntronce to the private part oi the
mansion the cards warning persons
that scarlet foyer existed within, the
4 ueektf limit for their display hav
ing expired. The mansion will not,
however, bo opened to the .general
public until the physicians are sure
that all danger of infection is removed.
Who Knows of the Sword ?
HoodRtveb, Ore., Jan. Jo.—
Editor Constitution: I' have in my
possession a sword I picked up at the
battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862. Ii 1
can find the owner, whose name is on
the blade, I will take pleasure in re
turning the sword to him. The lol-
Iowing is the inscription on the blade:
Ihds. O. Hynes, Co. K, 17th Reg.,
Ga., Vols.”
The bltde has gathered some rmt,
and I am not sore that it is “Ga ”—
it may he "La.” lor Louisiana vol
unteers.”
S. F. Blythe,
Late private in 22d Ohio Infantry
Vols.
Cleveland Shocked.
Lakewood, N. J„ Jan. 24.—Pres
ident elect Cleveland was greatly
shacked this morning when he learned
of the sodden death of Associate
Justice Lamar. Mr. Cleveiaed was
not aware of the fact thatJuatioe
Lamar had been serionsiy ill, and he
could luudly credit the news, which
wu first brought to him by a reporf-
Both Mr. Cleveland and
Secretary Bayard, who. is at Lake-
wood, expressed deep sorrow at the
sadden end of the statesman. Mr.
Cleveland said he could net now ray
whether or not he would bs able to
attend the funeral.
The Boston Herald has never had
a good opinion of Tammany, but tem
pera its judgment with mercy when re
minded, of the fact that Tammany runs
the New York City government and
that the city’s z ]•> per cent bonds
"have become the highest standard ol
security iu ihe civilized world.”
Sunday at tha Fair.
Washington, Jan. 24 —Tha
honte committee on the world’s Co
lombian exposition wrestled for two
boon this morning with tbe Sunday
opening proposition and when it. ad
journed to attend the meeting of the
boose neither the Sunday openers nor
the Sunday closers had secured a
decided advantage. The result of the
meeting, however, was not satisfactory
to Chairman Dnrborow, nor 'was
very promising of success in his et
forts to have congress retcipd its ac
tion closing the gates on Sunday.
The Cordele Cordelean has this bit
of Georgia editorial philosophy:
"Editors and preachers arealike
in that they look after the public
welfare, and are in torn pounded by
the public for so doing. A great
difference exists, however, in the
character of . the ponnding. The
preacher is built up and strengthened
while the editor is knocked down and
shattered. Be a preacher, yonng
- Natural Gas Giving Out.
An ueforaeen aod very serious mis
fortune has befallen some of the towns
in Western Ohio. It is the exhaust
ion of their supply of natural gas. In
some sections towns have been found
ed just upon this supply of natural
foel, and with this withdrawn they have
little left to insure their future welfare.
The Cmcionati Tribune says: "Tbe
decline in ihe supply of natural gas
throughout the western portion of the
state is almost a calamity, and, as the
decline is likely to be permanent, the
effects cannot be forseen.”
new rule about the study of history
the public schools. As a matter of in
terest to teachers, parents aud pupils,
we append the toUoving circular on
the t-ubjeci:
To the Ciunty School Commission
ers of Georgia: History,'by direction
of the sta*e board of education, his
been made a put of the curricu’um oi
the common schools.- It is, therefore,
my du’y to give the county boards of
edup it on, through you, the following
instructions: .
i. -The prescription of history is
now p'accd upon the same basts as
arithmetic, geography or aoy ot the
branches heretofore recognized as the
legal branches. 4 .
It is limited to elemental histo
ry of the United, S a'es and of the
state of Georgia. I^
3 It is made mandatory on the part
ot the county boards to prescribe what
history of the United States and ot the
State of Georgia shall be used in the
common schools In their respective
counties; and on the part of the cotins
ty school commissioners to see that no
other histories of tbe Uoited states
and of the state ot Georgia than those
prescribed shall he used in the schools
4. Circular No. >8, issued from this
department September r4,189a, is to
be'your guide in the selection of pre
scription of textbooks, with the excep
tion of that part relative to the pre
scription ol history, which Is from this
date eliminated therefrom.
5. Hereafter ail examinations will
embrace history—elementary history
of the United States and of. the state
of Georgia—and toe syllabus for use
in the county teachers’ institute will
embrace history in the program of ex
ercises.
County school commissioners wily
place these instructions before their
county boards, in order that the pro
per action may be taken.
S. D, Bradwell,
State School Commissioner.
Massachussetts this morning and he
carried the majority of the subcora
Constitution:
"A gentleman who was introduced
as Edouin Fabrikofl, of Savannah,
mittee on pension: of the committee on made some entertaining comments on
For the first time in thirteen years,
says tbe New York Recorder, the
Sound is frozen beyond the Bridge
port Light, and thousands of people
each day visit the veteran lighthouse
keeper, Captain Adolphus McNeill,
who has been keeper since the estab
lishmcnt of the light, forty one years
ago. Bicyclists and owners of horses
aod sleighs ride out to the light, a dis
tance of more than a mile.
Lakewood, N. J.. Jan. 24.—Presi
dent-elect Cleveland and ex-Secreta-
ry of State Thomas F. Bayard spent
several hours this morning iu cabinet
making at the Cleveland cottage,
after which they joined Mrs. .Cleve
land and Mrs. Bayard in a 2honrs
sleigh ride. It was expected that ex-
8ecretary Whitney would join the
party this afternoon, but he did not
arrive.
' A remarkable old woman, Mrs.
Ann Catherine Sharp, died in Phila
delphiaa few days ago. She lacked
but one year of Iwing as old 11 the
United States. She lived on a farm,
and as a .girl had. aervfcd milk to
George Washington. She wa
soldier’s' widow, and at the time of her
death wu the oldest pensioner on the
rolls.—Ex.
The Phtlad .-Iphia Record rays:
The telephone patents are rapidly
expiiiog, and the business will sooc be
common property, with many rivals in
the field. The outcome will scarcely
be an era of free speech by wire; but
the country is likely to get somewhat
closer to that basis—a fact which will
bring unalloyed satisfaction to many
business interests.
An exchange.prints the fallowing:
“The 4th of March will bring about a
coincidence never existing before.
President Harrison and his successor
.will exactly change places. Now Mr.
Harrison is President and Mr. Cleve
land is the only living ex-president
Then Mr. Cleveland.wiU ba President
and Mr. Harrison the only living ex-
president .
• It now tarns oat that the state had
810,000 is the broken Americas bank.
Your Uncle Bob Hardeman is bn the
grounds to protect the state’s interest.
The'state is, under the law, a pre
ferred creditor.
Justice Lemar’s Funeral.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 25.—The funeral
of the late Justice Lamar will take
place io this city at noon Friday. The
local bar will meet in the superior
court room at 9:30 o’clock Friday
morning to bear-eulogies on the de
ceased, which will be delivered by sev
eral prominent lawyers of this and oth
er cities. The pall-bearers will be Al
dermen Smith aod Pearson, represent
ing the city council, A. O. Bacon ’ and
Washington Dessau from the bar, F.
S. Wilson and W. R. Rogers of the
board of trade, with R. H. Plant and
T. D. Tinsley from the city at large,
together with a long list of honorary
pall-beareis from the bar of the state.
More Justice and Less Law-
There is gettiog to be too much
foolishness about the courts anyway.
Smart lawyers are continually taking
advantage of the law to shield open
Violators oi the law, and judges per
mit it. A lot ot sensible men, who
don’t know a mandamus from
nebular hypothesis, should be elected
judges, with instructions to laugh at
the shystering practitioners when
they tried to shield “well known
criminals.” A tittle more justice and
a little less law is needed in the crim.
inal courts of the country.—Kansas
City Star.
A Graceful Act-
Mr. Cleveland is nearly always sure
to do the right thing. His action in
leaving his comfortable winter retreat
and undertaking the long and disa
greeable journey to the West to at
tend Ex-President Hayes’ funeral has
woq praises from the whole country.
Even the most bitter partisan republi
can papers are obliged to confess that
it was a gracetul act.-—Boston Herald.
Colquitt Convalescent.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 23.—Senator
Golquitt has fully recovered the power
of locomotion! To-day he received
a party ot friends in his parlor. Hia
wife has also fully recovered her
health. The sens' r has engaged a
private car to convey him to Wash
ington for the inauguration ceremo
nies. He will be in attendance npon
the extra session of the senate.
.pproprialtons with him.
radical amendments to the existing
law were oflered by Mr. O’Neil and
carried by a psrty vote, which, if
adopted by congress, would save $40,
000,000 or more to. the government
and solve the problem of raising more
revenue to keep the treasury afloat.
The amendments deal in the main
with the abase which has gr jwn any
der tbe republican pension bill A11800
and proposes to reduce the payment
under that act. . , ; V -
The most sweeping amendment pro'
Tides that no person shall rejeivp a
pension under the act of 1890 nnlest
wholly disabled from manual labor, or
unless he can show that his annnal*in-
Cpme isless than $600. This will knock
off the whole army of pensioners hold
ing high salaried offices under thejted-
eral,state and municipal governments,
and also persons earning a liberal in
come in private buuness. unless their
total disability justifies them in re
ceiving a large pennon to pay for
care and treatment.
More Souvenir Coins.
The.prospects are good for another
issue of world’s fair souvenir coins, to
be dispensed to the public -at fancy
prices. Accordin; t-> the Washing
ton Post, when Mrs. Potter Palmer,
president of the women's department
of the fair, was before the senate sub
committee on appropriations in advo
cacy of the additional $93,000 desired
for the board of lady managers, she
suggested that $10 000 of the sum be
given in souvenir coins, and tbe sug
gestion apparently met with the favor
of the committee. It is the iotentioo
to have the coins of the value of 25
cents each, making 40,000 quartets.
They will bear upon one side the head
of Queen Isabella of Spain, on the
other a picture of the woman’s build
ing at tbe fair, and will be known u
the "Isabella coin.” The price will
probably be not less than $1 each
more if the ladies conc'ude that the
revenue raised at that rate of taxiuon
upon curiosity hunters is not large
enough.—News.
The greatest scandal of the present
administration is the looting of the
treasury by pension agents who' were
aided by the servants of the people.
The first duty of Mr. Cleveland’s
commissioner of pensfocs will be. to
expose the'corruption, “profligacy and
crime oi the Rautn administration.—
St. Louis Republic
Latest dispatches say that Justice
Lamar will be buried in Macon.
Myeriager— I’m writing a new song.
Rosewood—Wbat's tbe name of ii?
Myeriager—Chicago.
Rosewood—Great Scott, man!. The
air must be something frightful,—‘De
troit Free Press.
A-prediction: Harrison will ap
point a republican to fill Justice La
mar’s place. And if may be Emory
Speer.
—^
Several Western and Pacific slope
states are having a hard time electing
a United States senator.
Mr. Bayard may take bis old place
in tbe cabinet-
Germany’s Cholera Epidemic.
Berlin, Jan, 25.—A dispatch from
Halle states thirteen new cases of
cholera and one death from the dis
ease are reported from the Neitleben
lunatic asylum.
At Troths, where the disease ap
peared yesterday, four new cases and
one dea'h occurred yesterday and
since this morning eight cases and
three deaths.
- A Dead Divine.
„ Boston, Jan. 23.—Bishop Phillip
Brooks died at 6:30 o’clock this morn
ing of pneumonia.
The’bishop died , of heart failure
brongfaron by a fit of coughing. His
death was entirely unexpected, fie
was taken ill Thursday with rare
throat but nothing serious showed
itself nntil last evening.
Two Thousand Conversions.
DesMoines, Ia., Jan. 23.—Nearly
two thousand conversions have re
sulted from the B. Fay Mill’s meet
ings here yesterday. More than one
thousand Sunday school children are
among the number. Business will be
suspended throughout the city Wed
nesday and the day will be devoted
to a revival meeting.
the election. He remarked for in
stance that the result of the munici
pal election forecasted the heavy fall
of snow which followed the d»y after.
He added that many politicians were
frostbitten. Tammany and the pul
pit pulled together. The election
machinery worked perfectly apd will
be sent to Chicago for Georgia’s
exhibit at the world's fair. Stanley’s
contingent from darkest Africa voted
early and often. The gentlemanly
ushera around the polls showed the
dark delegation every courtesy and
attention. The two factions vied
with each other in presenting them
with glass beads, red flannel and gew
gaws of more or leas intrinsic value."
Well,’Hardly. .
Discussing Mr., Lamar’s successor,
the Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Journal says:
“A meeting of Chicago lawyers has
suggested that' President Harrison
resign his chief magistracy and have
Vice-President Morton appoint him
to the Lamar vacancy.
‘Granting ail that the Chicagoans
say of the president’s ability,* an
insuperabundant obstacle to this
precedence lies in the fact that the
senate would never confirm his ap-
poinment.
“Several papers have mentioned*
Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, ass
probable successor to Justice Lamar.
This appointment, however, would
be impossible just now io the face of
probable investigation of his official
conduct, whether that investigation is
demanded by himself or pushed by
others."
How to K?ep a Husband at Home.
A woman furnishes a Boston paper
with the following recipe for keeping
a husband at home at night:
“Do not scold him because your
work has not gone all right. He
not to blame. He also ha3 cares.
Let there be—
“Two ounces of good nature and
cheerfulness.
“Two ounces of smiles and snnshine,
“Two ounces of laughter and mirth
“Two ounces, of daily gossip and
news,
“Mix this with five ounces of love,
“Two ounces of kisses*, with
“One pound old-fashioned courting.
“Throw in his pipe and daily paper
and you’ll have your husband at
home every night.”
Macon, Ga., January 24.—Presi
dent Carling assures the public that
he will have cars running on the Ma
con and Indian Spring railroad three
weeks from today.
The Georgia, Southern and Florida
captumed the Cuba excursionists,
leaving here yesterday with six sleep
ers and two hundred passengers.
The World’s Champion Liar.
Johnson City, Tenjj., January 24.
—For fear of arrest J. W. Hyatns, tbe
world’s champion liar who, victimized
the press of the whole country by his
origin of the alleged BakersviUe lynch
ing riot, has skipped the town, leaving
his hotel in the lurch to the amount of
his beard while here.
It Has Ruined the Party.
Here is what the “sistering” say
about the election ot Martin to the
senate from Kansas:
Mrs. Lease said: “This is a death
b’ow to the people’s party, state and
national. It will drive 400,000 popu>
lists in the South back into the demo
cratic party, and in Kansas, as in the
north, thousands will return to thb re
publican party. Tudge Martin’s elec
tion killed our party aud that is all
there is to it.”
Mrs. Diggs said: “The people’s
party committed suicide in Kansas by
the election of John Martin to the
senate. Another victory may possibly
be gained in this state, b> fusion aod
bargaining, but it is a death b!ow to
the national organization.”
Keep cool, gals.
We take the following from the
Atlanta Journal: “There may yet be
a home founded in Georgia for the
aged and needy veterans of the war of
the confederacy. Colonel Lowndes
Calhoun has a plan in view whereby
the old soldiers may yet be given a
home. He was discussing the matter
yesterday with Dr. Amos Fox. “Sup
pose,” said the colonel, “we can sell
the home for $120,000. We could
then secure a tract of cheap land
somewhere and erect a small, com
fortable building suitable for a home,
for $20,000. This would leave us a
fund of $100,000, which would be
sufficient to maintain the home for at
least ten years. I think this plan will
be acceptable to the subscribers of the
fund.”
Mill 8 to be Reflected.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 24.—The leg
islature met at noon to-day to ballot
for United States senator. Roger
Q. Mills and T. L. Nugent, the third
party candidate for governor in the
lost campaign, were the only candi
dates. The ballot resulted: Mills 144,
Nugent 8.
Blaine Unconscious.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Dr. John
stone said to-day that Mr. Elaine’s
condition*was practically unchanged.
He past a restful night and has ap
parently lost no strength. Much of
the time he is in a state of unconsci*
ousness.
Governor AItgeld 111.
Spuing field, III., Jan. 23.—
Governor Altgeld was seized about
10 o’clock last night with a fit of vom
iting and was very much exhausted.
No one was allowed to see him. Hia
condition is regarded as very serious.
Qsn. Forrest’s Widow Dsad.
Memphis, Tknn., Job.* -23.—Mra.
Mary Forrest, the widow of Gen. N.
B. Forrest, one of the most famous
commanders of Ihe confederacy, died
yesterday.
Washington, Jab. 23 —Mr.
Blaine is quite feeble, but Dr. John
son says he does not consider him in
critical condition.
California will hereafter elect her
senators by popular -vote. v Other
states will likely follow her .example.
By agreement the Hatch bill will
be voted on next Tuesday. _
Republican rule will soon be at aa
end, for four years, at least,
The Augusta Chronicle has nearly
a column editorial advocating Gov*
ernor Northen for the position of
Secretary of Agriculture in Mr.
Cleveland’s cabinet Among other
things the Chronicle says:
“His high character and superior
qualifications eminently fit him for
the position. A man of liberal cul
ture and a farmer by profession, who
has devoted many years of his life to
agricultural pursuits, his selection
would be hailed with pleasure by the
farmers of the South and West
Governor Northen is in the prime of
life. He has the respect and confi
dence of all classes. His re election
Governor shows the esteem in
which he is held, in Georgia.”
Cleveland’s Cabinet
Lakewood, N. J, Jan. 25.—Pres
ident-elect Cleveland and ex BecreU-
ry Bayardd&t np nntil a late honr.
last night, and resumed their con*
ference this morning.
Jt is believed here that Chairman
Harrity is positively booked for the
postmaster generalship. He is ex
pected to visit Mr. Cleveland here.
E. C. Wall, of Wisconsin, will, it if
said, be tendered the secretaryship of
the interior.
I he Boston Globe says that tbe
people down in Georgia haven't had
so much fan snowballing before this
winter in 30 or 40 years. The minute
the oldest inhabitant begins to relate
his reminiscences of the last occasion
he is sure to_get one tu the neck. .
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