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VOLUME 111. Tie Carter?,Tills American. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. l‘i 81.1 HUD EVER! TUESDAY MORNING *r American Publishing Cos. CAUTERSVILLK, <UA, OPFIOEI i,, iir-, North-L:iM Canter of We t Main and Erwin Streets. All eominnnieations or letter, on busine etiould be addressed to AM Kill' AN RUBBISHING CO. OartsrHvllle, (■:. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: ()[,(• Year, Cash in Advance SI M) si v Months, ** u ’•a Three ** “ “ to M not paid in 4 months, $2.01) per year. Papers sent outside ot the County, 15 cents additional for postage. RATES (> E A l> V EKTJSIXG : i< ,r each Square ol 1 inch or less, lor the (1 rst insertion, $l.o(); each subsequent insertion, 60 rent>. Special contracts made lor larger space or longer time. All contract advertisements inu>.t lie paid quarterly. bocal Notices, 20 cents per line lor the first insertion, and 10 cents for each subsequent in fccrtion. Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes of Respect *ind Obituaries over six linos, 10 cents per line. All uersoual cards m Local Columns 23 ceuts per line. ""directory. COURT CALENDAR—CHEROKEE CIR CUIT. j.C. Pain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor General, , , _ ItartoM' <on lily Second Monday in January and July* i atoosa County—Second Monday in February and August Murray County—Thiid Monday in February and August. Cordon County—Fourth Monday in February and August. I ado. County—Third Monday in March and September. Whitfield County—Fiist Monday in Ajiril and October. BAItTOW COUNTY COURT. O. S. Tumlin, Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen. Geo. A. Howard, Clerk. J. G. Broughton, Bailiff. Quarterly Terms—First Monday in March, June, September and December. Monthly Term—First Monday in each month. JUSTICES COURTS. Times for holding Justices Courts in Hie dif ferent Militia Districts of Bartow county, Ga,: Cartersvillc— No. 822d Second Tuc- days, Adairsville “ 850t.1i Fourth Fridays, < assvillo ** 828th....seeoml Fridays, Kingston “ 9524..... First Fridays, Kiharlee “ 851 st.....Sec’nctSatui days, Ailatoona, * “ si9tli....Tliir4 Saturdays, Wolf Pen “ 1011st....fourth Saturdays, Stamp ('reck “ 9934 Third Saturdays, Si\th Distiict “ 93('ah... FourthSitturduys l'ine Log 827th.... First Saturdays. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. A. Howard, Ordinary. F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court. 11. W. Cobb, Treasurer. John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin, Deputy Sheriff. Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector. W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver. A*. M. Willingham, Coroner. I>. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor, Commissioners—S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore, A. Vincent, John 11. VVjkie, T. S. Hawkins. CITY OFFICERS. A. P. Wofford, Mayor. James D. Wilkcrson, Marshal. Geo. S. Cobb, Clerk. B. U. Mountcastle, Treasurer. Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. It. Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, VV. 11. Barron; Third Ward, John i.. Stover, Elihu Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron Collin^. STANDING COMMITTEES. Street—Collins, liudgms. Barron. Finance —Stover, Edwards, Wofford. Cemetery—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards. Public Hall—Hall. Wofford, Barron. Relief—Edwards, Barron, Harwell. CIIUKCH DIRECTORY. Methodist.— Pastor, Rev. J. B. Robins. Ser vices, every Sunday at 11. a. in , and 7:30, u. m. Travel meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30, a. in.; Jno. W. Akin, Snot. Young men’s prayer meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m. Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M. Daniel. Ser vices, every Sunday at 10:45, a. m. and 7:15, p. m. Prayer meeting,eyery Wednesday at 7:15, ]>. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30, a. in,; D. W. K. Peacock, Supt. Young men’s prayer meeting, every Sunday at 2, p. in. Ser vice of song, every Sunday at 3. p. m. Month ly conference, third Sundry ol each month at 3, p. m, Presbyterian.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith. Services, every first and third Sundays at 11, p. in. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9, a. m ; T W. Milner, Supt. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. m. Episcopal.—Church of the Ascension. Min ister in charge, Rev. W. R. McConnell. Ser vices. every feumiav, except third in each month, at 11, a. in. Sabbath School, every Sun day at 10. a. m. Proleßsional Cards. T. W. MUNICH. J. W. HARRIS, JR. | A II VHIHS, A(torucys-Al-Lav. Ottice over Howard’s Bank. Cartersville, Ga. JOHN H. WIKLK. DOUGLAS WIKLK. WIHIjK A WIKLK, AUorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents Olllces at Court House and on Main Street j al>ovo Erwin, Cartersville, Ga. KKOBLiE . JOHNMON, AHoriiey-at-Law, OOlee, West Side Public Square, C A UT £US VIL LE, G A. jjfcjT- Will practice in all the Courts. A. M. KOUTE. WALTER M. KYALS. FOITK & KV ALS, Aitoriieys-Al-liaw. WILT, PRACTICE IX AT.L THE COO RTS of tlt is stale. Prompt and faithtul at tention given to all bttsiness entrusted to us. Olttce, corner Main and lirwln Streets, up stairs. Cartersville, Ga. J. M. KEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. .LNEEL. IFJBL, FOAAEIt & SEEL, Ailriieys-A<-Lftw. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of ibis state. Litigated cases made a specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus iness entrusted to us. . oflice on Erwin Street, between Main and Market. Cartersville, Ga. JAMES B. HOSI ERS, Allomeyiit-LaH’ Office Up-Stairs, Bunk Block, Cartersville, Ga Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero kee and adjoining Circuits, and in the bu ineine Court. Prompt attention given to all business, Collections made a specialty. Hailroads. KENNESAW ROUTE! WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. The following time card in effect Sunday, ' Dec. 30,18H3: NORTH BOUND NO, 3-WESTERN EX PRESS—DaiIy. Leave Atlanta 7 > a. m. Arrive Marietta 8 20 ( artersville. 9 25 “ Kingston 9 52 “ I*alton it 21 “ < battanooga 100 p. in. No. 1 —FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m. Ariivc Marietta 3 27 *• Cartersvillc 4 29 “ Iml ton H 22 “ <%Attanooga 800 NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Atlanta 11 10 p.m. Arrive Marietta 12 39u. m. “ Carters ville 1 43 “ Dalton 3 41 “ Chattanooga. 515 Rome Kxpre.-s North —Daily, except Sunday. Leave Atlanta 1 05 p. rn. Arrive Marietta 3 00 Cartersvillc 0 03 Rome .. 720 No. ] carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New Orleans to Washington. No. II carries Pullman cars from Savannah to Chicago and Atlauta to Nashville. SOUTH ROUND. NO. 4—FAST EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m. Arri ve Dalton 9 33 ‘* Kingston II lti “ Cartersvillc 1142 “ Marietta 1240 p.m. Arrive Atlanta 145 NO. 2—SOUTH ERN EX PRESS. Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m. Arrive Dalton 4 30 “ Kingston . fi 02 “ (’artersville 0 31 “ M arietta 7 47 Arrive Atlanta 8 40 NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave ( battanooga 10 15 p. m. Arrive I>all.on 11 49 “ Cnrtersville 1 47 a. ni. “ Marietta 2 50 “ Atlanta 340 Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday. Leave Rome... . 8 30 a. m. Arrive Cartersville 9 45 “ Marietta 10 49 “ Atlanta 1145 No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis ville to Atlanta. No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta. B. Yv. WUENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt. R. A. AN DERsON, Superintendent. EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA. ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains on this road will rtlit as follows: GOINg WEST—Daily, Except Sunday. no. 1. no. 3. Leave Cartersvillc 950 a.m. 430 p.m. “ Stiles boro 10 02 4 42 “ Taylorsville 10 37 5 17 “ RockmarU 11 10 6 50 Arrive Ccdartown 12 00 (i 40 GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday. NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Ccdartown 205 p. m. 715a. m. “ Itockmart 3 00 8 07 Taylorsville 3 35 8 39 “ Stiicshoro. ... 3 53 8 55 Arrive Cartersvillc 4 25 9 25 SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Eest. Leave Ccdartown 8 00 a. m. “ Stiicshoro. 8 52 “ Taylorsville 9 24 “ Itockmart 9 40 Arrive Cartersvillc lo 10 SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West. Leave Cartersvilto 2 50 p.m. “ Siilesboro 3 21 “ Taylorsville 3 37 “ Itockmart 4 10 Arrive Ccdartown 5 00 ALABAMA DIVISION. Daily, Except Sunday. Leave East & West Junction. 2 55 p. m. Arrive Broken Arrow 0 00 Leave Bioken Arrow 9 00 a. m. Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. m. ROME RAILROAD. The following is the present passenger schedule: NO. 1. NO, 3. Leave Rome 610a. m. 415 p. m. Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30 no. 2. no. 4. Leave Kingston. 920 a.m. 555 p.m. Arrive Rome 10 25 a.m. 050 NO. 5. Leave Rome. 800 a. m. Arrive Kingston 9 00 no. 0. Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m. Arrive Rome 10 10 Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun days. Nos. 6 and 6 will run Sundays only. No 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and Chattanooga. No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T. Va. & Ga. li. 11., for points south. EBEN JifLLYER. President. J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent. IF YOU ARE GOING West! NORTHWEST on SOUTHWEST. I3E SURE Your Tickets Eead via the IT., C.& St. L. Ey. r riie Mclienzieß oixte The First-class and Emigrant Passengers F A V 01 1 1 T .E! Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers, Pas. Agent, Pas. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. I- HANLEY, Gen. Pas & Tkt. Agent, Nashville, Tenn, BISEMiYtN' BROS M anufacturing CLOTHIERS & TAILORS 55 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1 SSL The Cartersville American. Entered at the Pont Office at <fartersville , Ga., May 9th, 18s2, an second chins matter. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1884. BAM BROWN. He Talks About Politics—Colonel Tilderi’s Letter — Mnjor Blaine, &e,. &c- For the past ten days I have not been able to do much work. My wheat and oats are all cut down, but my cotton and corn need work powerful bad; they do, certain. It just keeps on raining, and really T don’t know what to do. When T get into this kind of a fix I generally sit down on a stump behind my barn and think profoundly on polities or on the grand events of my uneventful career. Just now I am ruminating on politics, what is a very good antidote to too much green fruit. All the newspapers what come to my house are just chock full of politics; they are, certain. A few weeks ago Colonel Tilden’s name was figuring pretty lively in all the papers. But, alas, the Colonel has lost his grip, his boom is busted, be has passed. For two or three months his little old bob-tailed boom ca vorted around like a young mule colt what is hard to break, but that letter of his punctured the inflated wind-bag and let out all of the gas and blow. Colonel Tilden was powerful popular. He seemed to have the democratic party by the tail, and the democratic party did not seem to care a cent for that. On the contrary, they seemed to be proud of the colonel’s hold on the tail, and bragged about it a good deal. He was the most popular man in the United States, and I was a powerful strong ad vocate of his. My old woman and I have had lots of disputes about him. One night we prolonged the debate for three mortal, long, hot hours. She proved conclusively that Joe Brown ought to be president, and begged me, with tears in lier eves, to Have him nominated. I told her that I would try to do so, lmt that 4he Yankees wouldn’t vote for Captain Brown, and that settled the whole busi ness. She said that Colonel Tilden was entirely too weak to bear the lieat and turmoil of a campaign, and that he would die before the middle of August, if he were nominated. I suggested that he could go to Europe and spend the sum mer, and the campaign would run itself on his popularity. Popularity is a pow erful good grease to oil a political ma chine with, and T c.rivlod. xuyncli' up ami put in some mighty heavy blows, stuffed with flint-rock logic and bristling all around the edges with beautiful and con vincing illustrations drawn from mythol ogy; I did, certain. But all this did not convince her. She said that Colonel Til den was weak enough to die, if he didn’t have the age sufficient to shuffle him off this mortal coil. This is the way we had it, up and down, round and round, until we got so sleepy that we couldn’t talk above a whisper; then we shut our eyes and began to snore. When the colonel wrote liis letter of declination, my old woman was as happy as she was when I asked her to marry me. She came running down to the river bottom, where I was cutting wheat, jumping and laughing and screaming like she had stepped into a nest of eggs and had broken them all. She told me as fast as her tongue could rattle—and it can rattle pretty fast—that Colonel Til den had peremptorily betaken himself to the shades of private life; that he had wiitten a nice, pretty, sweet letter, say ing that he should bow to the will of Providence and decline the presidency. In my blushing and sad face she proudly waved the paper what contained his let ter. I sat down on a little stump, and she sat down on a little rock by the stump, and I read the letter aloud. It was a grand, patriotic, statesmanlike let ter, and I read it in a rich and subdued tone of voice, what added much to the effect. I told my old woman that it was a bully letter, and just such a one as I would have written, if he had given me the job. She said it sounded very much like my style, only not quite so smooth and creamy. I blushed and kissed her, and she dropped her head, and we both felt spooney and happy; we did, certain. If Colonel Tilden had the physical strength to undertake the race, he would lift Major Blaine clear out of his boots, but, as it is, Blaine stands a powerful good showing. Some of the democratic papers are very hopeful, because his re cord is pretty sharply smirched, and be cause there seems to be a big thunder bolt in the radical camp. But that is all buncombe. Grant and Garfield,both had. very bad records, and some of the radi cals wanted to kick, but they went right into the White House without any diffi culty. I agree with 'Squire Dana, of the New York Sun, who warns the demo cratic party not to depend on Blaine’s weakness, hut to put out their best man and fight like putting out fire, if they want to win the race. Politically yours, Sam Brown. The vociferous enthusiasm with which a great many of Arthur’s old friends are hurrahing for Blaine is almost brutal. They do not seem to think that Arthur has any feeling whatever. Don’t they know that there has just been a funeral in the family? A FLORIDA TRIP. As Told by a Bartow County Man- April 28th, .1884. —In company with my nephew, Dave Colltert, I left Stiles boro depot on the 9:88 train for Carters viile. When we arrived at the Etowah river we had to walk Iho trestle. Well, in my young days I was a great coon hunter, but 1 never learned to walk a log, but I was famous for cooning. 1 started on the trestle and Van McGinnis passed me and said ; “Come on, cap lain, or we will be left.” Here T took the trembles and had to stop about mid way over the river. My friend, Sanford Vaudivere, took me by the hand and balanced me across without any difficul ty, though J have no recollection of drawing a breath until I reached the bank.. We left Cartersville on the down pas senger en* route for Florida. Nothing <>f consequence occurred until we reach ed Macon. Here my nephew, Dave Colbert, was very greatly interested and considerably puzzled, and also a little frightened. The city of Macon is mag nificently lighted with electric lamps. These lamps filled Dave’s youthful mind with profound admiration and great awe. He wanted to know of me if the light was not obtained from the moon. I told him that it was not, and then ex plained to him the process by which the light is made. It was with great diffi culty that I succeeded in getting him away, from Macon. He was very ner vous for hours after we left the city—in fact his whole physical system seemed to be unstrung. We arrived at Jacksonville, Florida, at 9:30, a. m., April the 30th. In this city we remained about four hours. This is a beautiful city, located on the St. Johns river. After looking over the city we boarded the steamer, City of Jackson ville, for Aston, distant 14G miles. This trip we enjoyed very much. We feasted our eyes on all the beauties of the wide spread waters of the St. Johns, on all the picturesque scenery along its varied banks, and the time passed off so pleas antly that we almost forgot ourselves. At 2:34 p. m,, April 30tli, we landed in Aston. At 7:30 we left Aston, arriving at Fort Mason early the next morning. This place is situated on Lake Eustace; it has two large stores which handle $150,000 worth of goods each year. There are other houses of business here, but no liquor shops. In Fort Mason I found my old friend, Capt. John Dodd. The captain is looking fine and is doing well. is as lively and as clever as in the days of yore. We spent a few min utes with him. and then got direction to Col. John T. Wofford’s, and to Col. E. H. Cannon’s. We first found Col. Wof ford, and a few minutes later, Col. Can non. These gentlemen are old Geor gians, and they gave us a hearty wel come. I* was very glad to find them doing so well After a few days rest I began to look look around for a place. The news soon got abroad that my object was to pur chase a homo for myself. Cols. Wof ford and Cannon both offered their as sistance. I looked at several improved places, but they “over-sized” my pile. I fancied the Florida lands, and after ten days deliberation, I bought twenty acres of Col. Wofford and forty of Dr. Manes. lam well pleased, and hope to move this fall and cast my lot with the people of Florida. On the 10 th of May I was invited to a “fish-fry” on Lake Yale at the farm of Dr. Manes. Here I met a large crowd of people. The shore of the lake was lined with the fair sex, gathering shells. It reminded me of the song, “Gathering Shells from the Seashore.’” I could see the fishermen at a distance in their boats, drawing in the fine trout and bream. I had been promised plenty of fish, and I was not disappointed. About eleven o’clock the fishing party came in loaded with fish. All hands fell to work, and, in a few’ minutes, the fish were ready to be eaten. After dinner croquet was in order. This game was indulged in by several of the young people. Others strolled upon the lake shore, and my opinion is that some love-making w r as going on. I would have offered my arm to a beautiful young Miss of eighteen summers, who seemed to be very much impressed with me, but I was afraid my wife would find it out. Every now and then a boat would be launched off into the lake. Each boat was full of happy and joyous young men and women. It was a pleasant sight, and no one but a sour and carping cynic could bo other than happy when looking upon such a scene. Florida is a grand country, and is being rapidly settled. As for health, it is un surpassed. In the section where I have bought land, the climate is delicious, and the scenery is such as will stir the soul of any man. All the time there is a gentle lake breeze moving over the country, which makes it pleasant all the day and night. The nights are very pleasant, and one can sleep under cover all the year round. This section of Florida is being very rapidly filled up with men of means, en terprise, culture and refinement from all portions of the United States. Lands can be bought as cheap here as in any other section of Florida, and I predict that ; in the next decade, it will be one solid mass of energetic, industrious aud prosperous people. I shall not attempt to describe it, but any lover of beautiful and romantic scenery will be delighted with a trip over this portion of Florida. Colonel Wofford has one of the love liest places I ever saw. It fronts a beau tiful hike, and Fort Mason, city of Eus tace, Lane Park, and the St. John’s aud Eustace R. R., all present a picturesque and lovely panorama, plainly visible from his dwelling. I was sitting at his house one evening, gazing 1 411 on the beautiful and placid lake, when the full-orbed moon seemed t<> rise slowly out of the water. What a seene for a painter! I thought to myself that, if I were only a poet, what magnifi cent verses I could write, with such a picture to inspire me! But, knowing full well that I was not a Shakespeare, or a Milton, or a Byron, I did not attempt it. PHO3NIX. HIND AND BODY. Borne of the most remarkable results of an unusual mental stimulus upon the body have actually been induced by the lucid description of them in the hearing of the persons who became thus myste riously affected. Lecturers on the practice of medicine in the universities and med ical scliooLs rarely, if ever, deliver a statutory course to their students with out exemplifying the truth of the forego ing observation. The writer well remem bers an instance in point, occurring in a class-fellow of his own who attended the practice of physic class with him. Dur ing and after the description of skin dis eases this student suffered extremely from skin diseases, induced by his too vivid realization of the symptoms de scribed by the lecturer. These uncom fortable morbid feelings culminated one day when the lecturer described the symptoms of a certain disease supposed to possess a special sphere of distribution in the northern part of Great Britain. For days afterward the student was tor mented by an uncomfortable and persist ent itching between the fingers, "which no treatment seemed to alleviate, but which passed away when an eruption of a simple type appeared on his hands, the latter induced by no known cause, but apparently as the result of the morbid mental influences to which he was sub ject. Not a session passes in tlxe medical schools but the lecturer on physic has occasion to quiet the nervous fears of nervous students, who simulate in them selves the symptoms of heart-disease, and require the gravest assurances that their fears aro ungrounded. and that they have simply been stud ying with a morbid interest the lec turer’s remarks on heart affections. In his work entitled De ’1 Imagination, De maugeon tells us that Nebelius, lectur ing one day upon intermittent fever, and lucidly describing ague, noticed one of his pupils to become pale, to shiver, and to exhibit at last all the symptoms of ague. This lad was laid up for a con siderable period with a true attack of the fever in question, and recovered under the usual treatment of the dis ease. If, however, it is found that the in fluence of the mind and the vain imag inings of a morbid fancy may induce dis ease, it is no less certain that a like ac tion of the mind may occasionally cure an otherwise stubborn malady. No bet ter illustration of such cases can be cited than those in which a severe flight re lieves a condition which. may have re sisted every effort of treatment. An at tack of toothache not unfrequently dis appears when we seat ourselves in the dentist’s chair. A severe attack of the gout has been cured by the alarm raised consequent upon the house of the pa tient being set on fire, whilst more than one case of severe pain has been cured by the patient ignorantly swallowing the paper on which the surgeon’s prescrip tion was written instead of the prescrip tion itself. —Harper’s Weekly. RE-UK ION OF VETERANS. Over one hundred of the survivors of the 23d regiment Georgia Volunteers met at Canton on the 31st day of August, of last year, and elected Col. J. J. A. Sharp chairman, J. L. Worley secretary and E. M. Mitchell corresponding sec retary. The meeting resolved to have a re union of the survivors of the regiment on the last day of August in each year, and that the re-union this year would he held at Acwortli, on the 30th day of Au gust, as the 31st will be Sunday. It is desired that every living member, their families, also the wives and chil dren of deceased members of this old veteran regiment be present to contrib ute to the pleasure and success of the meeting. Also every confederate sol dier, and especially the members of Colquitt’s brigade be on the ground. Gen. Colquitt and other distinguished speakers are expected to be here. Acwortli will give a royal reception to all who may be on hand. Come, then, and let us have a good time. E. M. Mitchell. Acwortli, Gn., June 17, 1884. A dispatch from the city of Mexico says that the national elections passed off quietly, that the formality of providing the voters with ballots was generally omitted, and that, “therefore, few, if any, citizens voted,” THE ME4MNG OF THE REVOLT. The meeting of the Massachusetts re publicans and independent voters who are uuable to support Mr. Blaine, was followed by a similar meeting in New York, which represented the same feel ing and adopted substantially the same action. At both meetings resolutions were unanimously passed declaring the Chicago nominations to have been made in defiance of the reform sentiment of the country, and to represent political methods -and principles which ought not to be approved. The resolutions also express the hope that the democratic party will offer proper candidates to the country, aud provide for committees to Co-operate with each other, and to take such steps as may le necessary for car rying the purpose of the meetings into effect. The character and tone of both meetings were very significant. They were composed of citizens who have no grievances to avenge and no personal objects to seek, who are neither sore heads nor aspirants, but men who be lieve that political honesty is the best political policy, and that when the chief reason for supporting an improper party nomination is that the party is not quite so bad as the other party, the time has come to call a halt. It was interesting and significant at both meetings to observe that there was no foolish declamation or hasty action. The willingness expressed to support certain Democratic nominations was not a willingness to be merged in the demo cratic party, nor a desire prematurely to move for the organization of anew par ty. There was no proposition to erect a platform, and there was a frank ac knowledgement that the opponents of the Blaine nomination, outside of the democratic party,differ upon many ques tions of public policy. The point upon which they all agree is that it is a gross public wrong to support for the presi dency any • candidate whose public re cord is not stainless, or to uphold politi cal methods which are debasing. As Mr. Moorfield Storey expressed it, tersely and clearly, ‘ ‘We are united to rebuke corrupt men and corrupt meth ods in politics.” For such a movement as the present republican revolt this is a platform broad enough and strong enough. The move ment of 1872, which was led by the New York Tribune against the republican party and the re-nomination of General Grant, was justified by its leaders iq>on the ground of Republican recreancy to principle and the public welfare. But it was not alleged that the republican can didate himself implicated m ques tionable practices, however near to the executive chamber the trail of suspicion and of accusation may have reached. But now that the party has deliberately selected as its leader the one man among all possible candidates on whom the cloud of doubt rests, patriotic citizens may well feel that the party of moral ideas and of the national conscience is trifling with its own fame, and surren dering its strongest hold. A party must be judged by its acts and by its chosen representatives. How can it demand to be trusted as the guardian of the nation al honor and character when the charac ter of its chosen leader does not defend itself ? —Harper’s Weekly. ENGLISH IN THE LEGISLATURE. Swift upon the heels of the report of the board of visitors to our State Univer sity, complaining that the students are unfamiliar with the rudiments of their mother tongue, comes the Montgomery Advertiser with a demand for gramma rians in the legislature of that state. The complaint is that the law-makers of our sister commonwealth cannot pass laws that are not liable to be torn into atoms by the supreme court. The evil is a serious one. Laws ought to be so plain that the commonest citizen can understand them; but if they are so miserably constructed as to mean any thing or nothing, then the confusion and detriment to the public must be incalcu lable. But would a lot of grammarians remedy the evil? These boys of ours, and doubtless the Alabama law-makers, have passed through the grammar de partment of the public schools, with the highest honors. And yet our board of visitors say our university men cannot read, write or spell the English language correctly, and the Advertiser says the laws passed by Alabama legislators can not stand before the eminent jurists of the supreme court. This is horrible to contemplate, bu£ it cannot last long. Within a very few years there will be no boards of visitors or judges of the supreme court or legis lators, who have not received their train ing in the same schools. Having drank from the same fountain, there will be no little differences of taste and sentiment among them as to prosody, syntax, etc., and everything will go along smoothly. If everybody spells, reads and writes after the same standard, there will be no carping critics, and the laws, the spell ing, the reading and the writing will be uniform, and that much at least will be gained.—Telegraph and Messenger. The overseers of Harvard University have decided not to confer the degree of LL.D. on Governor Eobinson, and have thereby robbed General Butler of one of the elements of his somewhat extraordi nary personal eonspieuity, NUMBER 9. CHAFF. Oft as the youth is bent the twig's in clined. Grow is a favorite diet now w ith poli -1 ticpans. Thus will not be a cipher campaign. The tattoo is not in cipher. Democratic dark horses are as plenti- I fill and frisky as wild mustangs. Mr. Hendricks does not seem to be wildly enthusiastic over Tilden’s letter. If Mr. Talmage were afflicted with rheumatism, his power of oratory' would be crippled. It always seems singular that the col lege commencements should be at the end of the term. Mr. Beecher, who was so enthusiastic ally in favor of Arthur, is equally enthu siastic in liis opposition to Blaine. When Ben Butler read Tilden’s letter of declination, he bowed to himself in flie looking-glass and winked. Carl Schurz will not support the re publican ticket, but he is still open to engagements to stump the country at S2OO a stump. The sea-serpent has not made his ap pearance this season; but there is a “gi ant lunatic” at large in tlia Pennsylvania mountains. Who will be the democratic dark horse ? The country is w’ondering whether it will be a frisky colt, an old racer, or a mule. A Houston editor, who swore off’ before a justice of the peace not long since, lias come out in ail editorial headed: “Does Prohibition Prohibit?’’ Just to think of the influence of a mil lionaire. Vanderbilt said “the public bed and,” and shortly afterwards the banks began to break. Since becoming governor of Kentucky', Proctor Knott lias grow’n serious. How ever, after passing the fifth bottle, ho can create something of a laugh. It is said that Sunset Cox is a close reader of nfew'spapertf. Necessarily so, for otherwise his supply of jokes would be unable to meet the demand. A physician connected with the Pan ama Canal Company is said to have suc cessfully cultivated yellow fever germs, with which he has experimented by inoc ulating animals, and it is promised that an account of liis experiments shall soon be published. An advertiser in Texas for agents to sell Mexican ponies says: “Sample po ny free on conditions; inclose stamp.” Tliin may indicate that the sample ponies are very small, or that the advertiser is misinformed as to the postal rates for certain classes of mail matter. In the event of Mr. Blaine’s election it may be expected that liis brilliant foreign policy will include overtures for. closer . relations with the natives of New Zea land. A cable dispatch says of the Maori king that “high rank entitles him to be more odiously tattooed than any of his suite.” Now is the time for obscure individ uals to get interviewed, and have their views on the presidential candidates pub lished as the opinions of leading and prominent citizens. They can easily find papers to give them prominence, if they happen to come out against their own party. “The Paris police have again raided the book-makers and seized a large sum of money,” says the cable. Persons unac quainted with terms used by speculative patrons of sporting events, might infer from this that the police of Paris are hos tile to literature, but such is not the in ference that is borne out. Several of the widely known republi can and independent newspapers have refused to support Mr. Blaine. They do not want a “brilliant” administration. An aggressive policy, they wisely con clude, would unsettle the country. This country is now' too great to retain the old aggressive idea. Some laborers digging near Onandaga lake unearthed a large number of skele tons lying side by side with their heads towards the south. At first it was sup posed that they had found the place where the Sun had put away all but one of the democratic candidates for the presidency; but the skeletons proved to be the remains of Indians. “We want Blaine,” said a well known Irishman, “not because we believe that he will serve his country better than any one else would, but because, in the event of liis election, Ireland would have a friend who would make demands of Eng land and compel her to grant them.” That might do well enough for Ireland, but it would not answer the purposes of a progressive nation. Ireland must fight her own battles. The fall of a tenement house a few days ago occurred within sight of the corner where loss of life was occasioned some two or three years since by the collapse of an old building. It is probable that some of the tenants witnessed the sad scenes which attended that disaster, yet the usual reluctance to quit the unsafe building was shown. Strange as it seems, it ’is almost invariably necessary for the police to oome in and hustle the tenants out when a dwelling has beenjcondenmed as unsafe. 4 ln the case of this latest budding, the tenants were barely out of harm’s reach when the crash came.