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THE FREE PRESS. An Independent Democratic Journal. cTa! C. WILLINGHAM, EDITOR. The Free Press is an Independent Democrat ic Journal, opposed to all Rings, Cliques and combinations, of whatever sort, organizedto de feat the will of the people in all public matters or interests in whatever shape presented. Cartertrlllc, Georgia, November 21,1H,8. Special Notice. Subscribers receiving their papers with a cross mark opposite their names will understand that they owe for it and that we want the money at once. We cannot and will not continue the pa per to those who do not pay up. ../■£■ WA RDS A ND PUNISHMENTS." Tills Is the title of a lengthy .article in last week’s Ezpress, and we are frank to .say it provoked some little anger as well as amusement. To have read that jour nal as closely as vve have done since the 4th of last July, and to consent to the premises of that argument on “rewards and punishments,” is altogether impos sible. We are constrained to say, the impudence exceeds the audacity of the article. When we recollect that the edi- rhe street by the Lester party, with a large family on his hands and no other livelihood under heaven to provide the bread that filled their mouths it seems quite presumptious to hear the Express talk about the spirit of the opposition in ostracising the T.ester faction. “What meat has this Caesar fed upon?” Now listen: “ Dr. Felton and his friends all claim to be democrats and we have never heard the friends of Judge I,ester call them anything else!!!” Great God! can it he possible that men can talk thus, when a falsehood is brand ed on the assertion of every reader of the Express? When was Dr. Felton allowed to be a democrat, since the canvass be gun? “ “radical,” “liar,” “slanderer,” etc., were the on’y terms employed by this unfair journal—never once allowed to be a democrat, or respectable, even. Talk about ostracising the Lester fac tion ! Why the Lesterites were allowed to he the “respectables” of Bartow county (thank God, they are a blessed small minority!) by the “organized.” Dr. Felton’s family are denounced, his wife and daughter slandered, to help out the ostracism. Did Dr. Felton ever allude to one of Judge Lester’s family in the the remotest way? Never! Never! nor he will never. We are proud, thankful to know that ostracism, abuse, slander and vituperation marked the campaign of the “respectables.” As members of the second class, so-called by these arrogant organgrinders, we are happy to know we scorn such “respecta bility.” Listen again: “The people of Bartow county will crack the whip over the heads of those who have gone down in defeat,” etc. Hotgßtyt toighty! We re joice that you have arrived at an under standing of the situation that we have occupied since we first endorsed Dr. Felton in Congress. Bartow county cracks no lash—she has heard the slan derer’s whip in the columns of the Ex press for four long months —she has been browbeat, and reviled. She has been slandered and derided. The Express lias filled every sheet with threats and me naces. Governors and senators have cracked the party lash over her head. A horde of thimble-rigging politicians with little brains and much malice, have ram paged over her borders and filled her with dissensions and strife —all because she endorsed and honored a faithful friend and servant, and did not endorse nor hon or a man who was signally rebuked in his own county. Party lash indeed! Shame upon such journalism! Perhaps some of the editors desire to start an independent paper—as we are aware that a chronic longing of that sort periodically possesses them. One week Bartow county is told that the childen of the voters will live to curse the memory of their fathers, because they voted for Felton. The next week we hear a maudlin cry that the Lester faction will be ostracised. Call on “Citizen” or “Cato” to write up your respectability, but never expose your weakness and your malice again by a dissertation on “rewards and punishments.” CAMPAIGN CHIPS. The Express says it hewed to the line, with no thought of where the chips would fly. 11a, Ila, chips like chickens generally come home to roost. Judge Lester hacked a little on the Cole matter in Cobh. The chips flew all about. Cobb county gathered them up, and sent them home in a campaign basket that held 271 and upwards. James Brown chopped a little in Cher okee county and Cherokee gave Felton a nice little house warming of 738 majority, made of James’ chips and shavings. Jas. O. Dowda chipped a little on “Wool Hat.” When he got through he had raised such a blaze about bis heels, that he will never get over the burn while he lives in Cherokee. L. N. Trammell hacked off some chips in a primary meeting in Whitfield. His county made him pick them up, carry them home, and store them away beside the Chas. L. Frost testimony, as a re minder of past folly. The workman is always judged by his work. Always hew to the line; the chips will tell the tale. “I never heard of ‘old Felton’ making a speech in my life that he didn’t ring sn something about‘myself,’ ‘my record,’ etc ” exclaimed one of the late “organiz ed’’ as he read Felton’s great Atlanta speech. Dr. Felton has just grounds to continually allude to himself in his speeches, for haven’t the little flees of organization as well as the big curs been barking and snarling ut his heels ever since be became a public man? He i> obliged to speak of himself beiore the people. If you would believe the “or ganized” Dr. Felton is a real ogre. DP. FELTON IN ATLANTA. Perhaps no political event in Atlanta in years has produced a more profound sensation than the speech of Dr. l elton there on Friday night last. He made an impression that few, very few, men could have made. It was the honesty of the man that gave him a prestige in ad vance; and when the people from all parts of Georgia heard him they iound him a true man. Hon. B. 11. Hdl ne\er spoke truer words than he did when he introduced Dr. Feltoh to that laige and respectable audience. Said Mr. Hill. Fei.low-citirens— One of the greatest needs of this country is more Feltons m public life. [Cheers.] I do not mean more independents. [Laughter and cheers.] You know' I am not much on that line—but what I mean by more Fel tons is more honest, brave and capable men, whom money cannot buy, whom power cannot intimidate, and whom chi canerv cannot ensnare. [Loud applause.] I speiik what I know when I say that in two long sessions of the most important of congresses he proved himself that man. [Applause.] Without detaining you further, I have the honor and pleas ure of presenting to this audience to night, my friend, your friend, anil the friend of the country, Honorable W. 11. Felton. [Great applause.] Dr. Felton never made a greater vic tory over the hearts of the people, not even when he denounced the “wreckers night in Atlanta. All day Saturday, Sunday and Monday he was the the theme of general conversation. Men were wild with enthusiasm. Some said they were never for Felton before, but that they were now for him for Governor or anything he wanted. They had heard him speak and they saw that he was an honest and true man, and that his hands w ere clean in the public service. We met men from all parts of the State and they w ere enthusiastic in the praise of Dr. Felton. The friends of Dr. Felton in the sev enth may feel proud of their support of him. They may feei assured that they have a representative who lias won the confidence t>f all fair-minded men over the whole State. None can assail his official record. None have dared to do it in the bitterest campaign know n to the political history of Georgia. HOW TnE ELECTION STANDS. In the first district, Nichols received 8477 votes and Corker 5031; Nichol’s ma jority 3440. In the second, Smith received 8126 votes, and Wade, 3642; Smith 4433 ahead. In the third, old Phil Cook had no op position. There were six scattering votes against him. In the fourth, Persons received 13,330, Harris 10,101. Person’s majority 3235. In the fifth, Hammond got 10,262, and Arnold 1899; Hammond’s majority 2,073. In the sixth, Blount had 18 scattering votes against him. In the seventh it stood, Felton 14,315, Lester 12,909; Felton’s majority 1,350. In the eighth, Mr. Stephens 54 votes east against him as scattering. In the ninth, Sper received 10,897 votes and Billups 10,075: Speer majority 222. Of the nine members elected four are independent—Persons, Felton, Stephens and Speer. All in all, these four are the ablest and most brainiest of the Georgia delegation. LOBBYING AS A CRIME. Among the evils to free government tlie system of lobbying has grown to he in Federal and State government a fear ful power in the hands ot: the money pow'er and gigantic corporations. It is a source of some hope to the welfare of the people that the legislature of Geor gia will define the crime of lobbying so distinctly that it may he certain to he punished and with vigor. '1 here is no higher crime against the public interests when wholsome legislation is to he de feated in the interest of powerful corpor ations who employ lobbyists in their in terests. Look at Georgia and see what she has lost by the system. It is a wise provision of our new con stitution that directs such legislation as shall punish lobbying as a crime. It will be difficult to know when sharp and cunning men are employed in such dirty work. But the penalty can be made so severe as to have less ot lobbying than heretofore. “NOBLESSE OBLIGE .” The first man in the late heated cam paign to raise his voice in forgiveness was our gallant old hero, 4) JH. 1 elton. When victory perched on his banner, when the shouts of the host who follow ed him was heard in glad huzzas, this faithful Christian soldier called on the multitude to lay aside all dissensions and strife, and to forgive and forget. He was grander than when he was pressing to the last’victorious height that made the field his own. He was nobler then thqn when he drew the assailants to their breastworks and tore their banner from the walls. Aye! it is great to conquer, but it is greater to forgive. If he can counsel peace, who received only blows, if he can forgive who bore such dire assaults, if he can forget whose home and family were thus attacked, we will ground arms and say, Go in peace, and may the Lord forgive you. As we expected Senator Gordon was re-elected on Tuesday, really without any opposition, though Ex-Governor Johnson received the votes of Cannon, of Bartow, Reese and King of Floyd, and Roberts,of Cobh; Mr. Sheffield of Miller, voting for “Tete” Smith. Gordon’s election had already been fixed. The votes had been bound together months ago and there was no chance to beat him. Ring rule had fixed the matter effectual ly. Well, we only hope Gordon will improve upon his first term, stand by true democratic principles, vote in the interest of the people and kill the news paper men who make him talk too much. Can’t somebody throw a wet blanket over the Rome Courier? It won’t recon cile itself to defeat. But, never mind, Court/, we’ll go fishing next Spring. THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. This bodv has scarcely got down to real work yet. The most sensational matter that has come up is the investiga tion of the Governor’s conduct in sign ing the Northeastern railroad bonds. A committee from each branch ot the leg islature have been at work for several days in secret sessions. We sincerely hope his Excellency will come out all right yet. Until the w ork of the com mittee is completed we withhold fuither comment. Mr. Gray, of Catoosa, has introduced a registration bill for voters. If it means honest voting we think it ought to pass. The writer hereof was among the first to advocate such a law'. We have not seen Mr. Gray’s bill and don’t know' whether vve can endorse it or not. It is thought by the friends of independentism that the purpose of the advocates of the law is to defeat freedom of action in elec tions. We think a good registration law w ould have given Dr. Felton 3,000 ma jority on the fifth inst. The introducrion into this State of the Moffett hell punch is the object of another bill before the body. It is said to be very popular among the retail liquor dealers and people of Virginia. The bill pro poses to levy a tax of 2}.i cents for every drink sold, tobe used as a public school fund. Such a law would not only greatly aid in the education of the children of the State, but it would equalize the tax burdens of the liquor dealers. The man who sells only ten dollars worth of liquor a day ought not to pay as much for the privilege as lie who sells fifty dollars worth per day. The election of Superior Court Judges and solicitors will take up considerable of the time of the legislature. The candi dates are numerous and anxious, and they will w orry tlie members a great deal. There are many “anxious souls” button holing everybody who lias a hit of in fluence with a sidgle member. We have concluded not to encumber our columns with the dull and monoto nous proceedings of the body. Hereafter, as important matters come up we will keep our readers posted. For some weeks we have been receiv ing at this office a newspaper which vve consider the very best one published in Georgia. It is the Atlanta Sunday Ga zette. For pleasing sketches, fine edito rials, crisp news items, and exquisite typographical appearance it certainly bears off tlie palm. It lias such contrib utors as Henry Grady, J. C. Harris, C. 11. Hubner, Miss Bertha Peck and we know the people are always delighted to read after this array. By all means sub scribe to the Gazette. The bill presented in the legislature to reduce the judicial circuits of the State from twenty to sixteen has been defeated in the house. When it is remembered that the Judge of the Blue Ridge circuit did not perform a single day of official duty from the 4th of July until after the sth of November, and that his courts were held by other jueges, it shows the Stile Is paying too much for such services, at least in this instance. But you see things are fixed according to the “organized,” and there is no remedy. We have received a copy of the Xew Departure, a periodical published by a class in College Temple, Newnan, Ga. The New Departure: has been running some time and surely ought to be a fa vorite wherever it goes. We like its present form better than the old, and it fully demonstrates that the excellent lady under whose diaection the typho graphieal part of the paper is conducted is a first-class printer, The type are all set by tlie class. The Constitution says Speer is elected to Con gress in the Athens district by something over two hundred votes. Well, he has gone down deeper in the mire to get them than any candi date we have heard of since the war.— Macon Telegraph. Yes,he went down deep into the hearts of the toiling masses of his district, a class of people who we remember “IT. H. J.” failed to reach the time lie wanted to go to the legislature. Remember that unless you pay up for Thf Free Press it will be discontinued as we are unable to run our business on the credit system. We hope our friends will understand the situation and “gov ern themselves accordingly.” “A word to the wise i-3 sufficient.” All who wish to sustain this paper must come up like true friends and stand by it rightly. ■ Our Lester friends should not continue to grumble about colored voters for going for Felton in the late campaign, especial ly as they were exceedingly anxious to secure their votes. There were two dem ocrats to choose from, and we think they selected by far the soundest one and much the abler man. They exhibited good judg ment. One of the ablest men Georgia sends to Congress is Nat Hammond. In the fifth we took no decided stand; but when they began to call Reub Arnold “an East Tennessee interloper,” after having fought his way to his present home, our sympathies could not be restrained in behalf the persecuted. The election of Mr. Rufus E. Lester as president of the State Senate and Gus Bacon as Speaker of the house meets the approbation of every Georgian. They are both able and presiding officers and will reflect credit upon the legislation of our grand old commonwealth. The committee investigating the con duct of Governor Colquitt in signing the Northeastern railroad bonds are still in session. Until the report of the com mittee is reached we shall say nothing except that Governor Colquitt may come out all right. Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens is al ready at hie old quarters, at the National Hotel, Washington City, preparatory to his Congressional labors. We are glad to learn that his health is as good as usual. Hymn for the investigating committee: | “Pull down the blinds.” THE DEM OCR A TIC PA R TY OF GEO i. >J ' 1 The democracy of the State has stifl ed more from the influences of design ing political tricksters than from any other cause. We refer to a certain ele ment who use the name of the party to carry out their own purposes of getting into office and use organization as the party whip with which to force freemen to vote for whhomsoever a few court house politicians may order them to v ote for. This reign of mere partisan force is about to end. So corrupt and intrigue ing has the so-called organized become that the honest people have become dis gusted—so much so that they will not attend conventions for any purpose; and the idea that a few shall get together and say what the mass of the people shall do is causing a rebellion against the party lash. When organization sim ply means the work of a few* interested politicians the people will not submit to being ruled by it. Whenever it is nec essary to organize or concentrate in or der to defeat bad government the honest people w'ill come together in some way. They will do right. The democracy of Georgia has become too powerful to be further controlled by tricksters and thimble-riggers. The party has got to unload itself of certain elements who are democrats simply be cause they hope to gain thereby. They would he good whigs or republicans which ever should be in the ascendancy. To fight these the independent spirit of true and genuine democracy is beginning to assert itself, and it has elected the late campaign four Congressmen out of nine. We hope to see the day soon come when we shall have a pure and undefiled democracy representing free and repre sentative government according to the full meaning of the term. When that be comes a fixed fact we shall have no di vision in our ranks. • The Atlanta Constitution having inter dicted any mention of The Free Press in its column during the late campaign, it goes to show' that The Free Press is a little sort of a whale to continue to exist under such circumstances. Such is me tropolitan and rural journalism. Mr. Claude Cochran is now the sole editor and proprietor of the Ellijay Cou rier. Mr. Cochran is a sprightly and witty young man and the people of “Gilmore” should rally to his support. We hope he will receive encouragement commensurate with his deserts. The editor of the North American De view is mentioned by a Michigan news paper as “the enterprising editor of that sprightly publication.” The Free Press says the editor of the Congressional De cord should take heart—his reward is coming. Atlanta promised to build anew capital building for the State. Now, let Atlanta do what she said she would do and have no “flickering” about it. We supported Atlanta on her word of honor and Atlan ta must stand to her promise. And no\v they say our good friend Boh Alston is pecuniarily interested in the Moftet bell punch business. We don’t believe this. We could not believe that Bob Alston would ever lobby for any bill. Pay your bets. If Lester had been elected there would have been no dodg ing. Square it up, and let us confide in your honor if we cannot trust in your po litical foresight. Pay up, gentlemen. Wanted. By the “Organized.” Sev eral young men to mock “Old Felton.” Amateur stump speakers and mimics preferred. Old hands need not apply as their services have proven useless. Did any body vote for Iloltzclaw, the decoy cluck lor Lester? If they did, there lias been no record made yet. We have just received the Ellijay Courier which brings the startling intelli gence that Speer is elected. THE BANKS AFTER THE FIRST OF JANUARY. I In relation to the action of the New York hanks after the resumption of specie payments by the government Mr. Robert Bliss the Vice President of the bank of New York, was asked: Suppose I am a despositor and on Jan uary 2, 1879 I offer for deposit in your bank fifty trade silver dollars, will they lie refused?” “No; we take them as a special de posit to be paid in the same coin. Trade doihu-s, by the way, would not be re ceived at all except as a special deposit for they are not a legal tender.” “How would it be with fifty full coin age dollars?” “We should receive them, to be paid off in the same coin.” “How if I offer subsidiary silver coin ?’’ “We would not take it at all; that is not over five dollars worth to make change.” “Suppose I am a dealer and present a check for five hundred dollars on Janu ary 2, 1879. and ask for gold; shall L get it?” “Yes, if the government resumes.” “Jlow will the daily banking in the city of New York differ, if at ail, from the hanking of 1^70?” “It won’t differ any; it will he just as it was then, only its volume will he largely increased.” • “Are the nationol banks likely to re tire their one and two dollar bills after resumption ?” “Not if they can help it; not unless they arc compelled to, for they are a very great convenience. It depends entirety i upon the action of the government, upon the silver hill.” Washington, November 19. The i signal corps station at Cairo, Ills., re ports as follows: Quite a heavy shock i of earthquake occurred here last night, j which lasted one minute and ten seconds. | It was first felt at 51 minutes and 50 seconds after 11 p. in. The houses were s distinctly felt to totter, hut no damage j has yet been reported. Another slight ! shock was felt at 5:15 this morning. The houses tottered from west to northwest * to east to southeast. Our latest advices from Atlanta state that the -Northeastern railroad bond inves tigation is stilj progressing, but, as the meetings ot the committee are held with closed doors, nothing reliable has trans pired. The worst feature of the whole business is the secrecy with which the investigation is conducted. Secrecy in | such a case is the mother of suspicion. Savannah Xeirs. OUR CITY GOVERNMENT. Why Should the Tax-Riilden People Pay ho Much for so Tittle. To the Free Press: Ah the end of the year is raphlly ap proaching, bringing with it our munici pal elections, permit me a small space in your columns, that I may make a resume of the public or official acts of our public servants for the past twelve months, that we may see whether they can give a just account of their stewardships. First, let us inquire into the revenue of the town —the amount collected and how expend ed. Our taxable property amounts to some $500,000 or SOOO,OOO. Upon that they levy and collect $4 on thesl,oo0 —making some .$20,000 or $24,000 tax they collect on the taxable property. There are some 6(0 males in the incor porate limits subject to a street tax of $3 per capita , making about SI,BOO. There are eleven bar-rooms in town, paying an annual tax of $l5O each, agregrating $1,050. There is collected annually from fines about SI,OOO, and from the proceeds of exhibitions and the town hall rental some SI,OOO, making in the aggregate the sum of some $25,000 or $30,000 collected from our burdened tax-payers to support our municipal government. And yet this enormous sum, fabulous as it may seem is not sufficient to defray the running expenses of our simple little machinery of town government, and our city authorities arc forced to borrow mon ey 'without consulting the will of the people or tax-payers at an enormous rate of interest to meet current expenses of the town. Now, in all candor I ask how can this enormous or fabulous sum of money be spent yearly in a radius of one mile with so little show of expenditure. Let us try and see if we can divine the methods by which it is gotten rid of. W e have a mayor at a salary of $200; eight aldermen with a salary of some $75 or SIOO each, aggregating some S6OO or SBOO yearly. We have a tax collector with a salary of some $125, a clerk with a salary of some $125, a treasurer with a salary of some $125, two marshals with a salary ot some S6OO each, making $1,200. Making in all some $2,500 or $3,000 in salaries paid out by the town yearly. Now, with all candor, common sense and reason, I ask is this not an unreason able sum to be paid out annually, by a town whose government and municipal machinery is so simple is this, and whose people are so oppressed? And yet after all these salaried sinecures are so extrav ! agantly paid, we have an unexpended balance in the treasury of some $25,000. What.becomes of that? We have our i street boss at some S3O per month or $360 per year, and the average of some six street hands, with wages at an average of some $25 per month, making a sum of some $1,500 paid yearly for street hands, and a team to be kept up at an annual cost of some S3OO. And yet after all this 1 we have an unexpended balance in the city treasury of over $20,000. For extra team hire 1 suppose we pay annually some S3OO, and an insurance on the city hall'some SSO per year. And after all this is deducted we have in the treasury some SIB,OOO or $20,000. What becomes of this large sum? Can it be possible that this great sum is expended, even af ter the street hands have been paid in cleaning out ditches, cutting holes in the streets, hauling rock and placing in the streets so as to make them impassible and obstruct the highways, and in building causeways and little ditch bridges, and in placing stone on the edge of ditches and covering them with dirt or earth after the manner of a child at play? I admit that a large sum is uselessly spent In this way but cannot for once think tnat tne enormous sum of some SIB,OOO yearly ex torted from the hard earnings of the tax payers, can in this way be disposed of. I assert, and have heard it asserted on the streets by our best citizens, that the whole annual cost of our city government should not exceed the whisky license, show tax, street tax, and fines, which at the present estimate is some $6,000 year ly. And I verily believe the city in the proper hands could be kept up even bet ter than it is and better order preserved with this sum without any ad valorem tax being collected that it is under the pres ent administration of affiiirs. Think, tax-payers! on your house and lot worth some SI,OOO you pay the State and coun ty some $9 or $lO and the city some $4. (’an you live at this rate of burdening you? Can you be surprised at the de pressed condition of your property when you think of this drain or lien upon it? Do you wonder at the industries of our town lying torpid and of the destruction of her business and enterprise, and her general retrograde? Let us make an is sue upon valorem or ad valorem tax and elect it. The town can be run on the special tax and let us have it done for the next year. Caktkhsvii.le. GENERAL NEWS. Items Picked up Here and There from our Exchanges. The bonded debt of Memphis is $2,688,- 140. Matt R. Lee, of Goldsboro, X. C., ex hibits a fourteen pound potato. Cock fighting is in vogue again in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bids are out for erecting water works in Jacksonville, Florida. Two premiums were awarded to col ored men at the North Carolina lair. The sugar houses are in full blast in Louisiana and the yield is a good one. The police say there are at least two hundred tramps in Texas at present. Capt. C. E. Johnson, of Monticello, Fla., recently killed a 400 pound bear. One of the best performers in the great London circus is William Gorman, a North Carolinian. Benj. Halon, near Shelby Springs, Ala., raised eight bales of cotton on eight acres with one mule. Carl Cushing, of Florida, will have one thousand four-year.old orange trees set out in January. The Charleston bagging company is succeeding so well that the directors ad vise an increase of stock. It seems undoubtedly true that Martin, Republican, is elected to Congress from the first district of North Carolina by 40 to 50 majority. S. D. Rich, recently of the Hannibal (Mo.) Clipper , lias* purchased the daily Commercial, of Toledo, which will here after be published as an independent pa per. A special to the London Times from Pesth says “Rhoumania has appealed or will appeal to powers to demands from Russia.” Wm. B. Hill, a prominent lawer and secretary of State of Marryland under Governor Bradford during the war, died day before yesterday —aged 63. Mrs. J. IT. Bryant, of Benton, Ala., cut the hair, 42 inches long, irom her head and sent it to New York to be sold for the benefit of the yellow fever suffer ers. Millet brothers, cattle kings of north west Texas, have the contract for. fur nishing beef to all the Indian agencies in certain territories, and to supply them it requires about one thnsand head of eight hundred and fifty pound cattle per month. EVERYTH TNG. A Column of Fun, Fact and Fancy in Con glomeration. The man who nominated Lincoln is dead again. It has got to be fashionable in England to marry American girls. The Paris jockey club has resolved to have no more races on Sunday. Talmage is getting to be a bigger man than old Beecher. The son-in-law of Horace Greeley was defeated for Congress. They now call it the “pull-back party" j in Massachusetts. Turkeys are getting big around the waist. They “pulled down the blind’' in Penn sylvania. That is they pulled down Cm - tin. At the Tennessee candy-pulls the young men carry along an extra clean shirt to put on after the entertainment is over. Oberlin calls it a scandal for a young gentleman and lady to walk arm in arm. It. is in Oberlin, but not elsewhere. The Princess Thyra is 25 and the Duke of Cumberlin is 33. P>less you my chil dren. P. T. Barntim will sit in the next leg islature of Connetieut. All the worid sa show. “David Davis,” says the Boston Post, “has got anew ulster. Four women have been at work upon it since last winter." Mrs. Bonanza Maekay spent $70,000 at the Paris exposition. The ancient adage of fools and their money can be rung in her©. A gutta-percha nose was furnished a hospital patient in London, and he became so vain and conceited that they had to steal it away from him. The New York A r eics is of the opinion that the police can’t work up any case which involves anything more than knocking an old man down. It takes six weeks of singing, dancing, swearing, fighting and rejoicing to crown an African king, but the place is a good one and pays big wages. “The deuce take that tray,” said a di ner at a betel, when the waiter spilt its contents over his broadcloth. ‘‘Sir, the deuce can’t take the tray,” replied the waiter. Windsor Castle is being made ready for the approaching marriage of the Duke of Connaught, which will take place about the middle of February. The Russian general start' has had I printed several thousand copies of anew j Afghan-Russian dictionary for the use of ; the Russian officers. “Joaquin Miller has had his hair cut.” But lie’s going to advertise for proposals when it comes to cleaning his finger nails. —Hartford Times. A man named Smith, of New A ork, dropped dead on receiving the news that he had been elected to Congress. He pre ferred death to dishonor. —Chicago Times. The Rev. Jasper, of Richmond, is mak ing a model of the solar system according to his ideas thereof, lie is bound to con vince the world that the “sun do move. The San Pedro orchard, four miles from Hollister, California, contains 65,000 fruit trees, embracing the almonde, quince, nectarine, apricot and other varieties, and the inclosure measures over 400 acres. At a coming masquerade in Portland, Maine, at which each person will repre sent an author, there will also be a groupe to represent “Keramos,” Mr. Longfellow’s poem, with a real potter turning a wheel. James A. Scott, editor of the Montgom ery, Alabama, Advocate, a Democratic paper, is a colored man. He worked faith ful lv for the success of the Democratic ticrKct ti 115 reci*lit election. A Chinese drama which will not be played to a close for four years, has just been put on the boards in Canton. It Anna Dickinson had started out that way she would still be playing. There is where clergymen get left. They get no more for marrying a couple weighing 200 pounds apiece than they do for splicing a sharp-nosed woman to a man with a voice like a darning needle. Mr. Ilennon teaches a district school in Missouri, and his sensitive nerves are shocked every time he approaches a group of his scholars to hear them sibilate: “Keep still boys; thar’s a Ilennon. Keokuk Constitution. It is not the servant girl who is under arrest in Allenton, Pa., for opening her mistress’ letters, but exactly the reverse. The servant received letters from her lov er, and the mistress yielded to curiosity and read them. “In no other city in the country,” says a correspondent of the Pittsburg Commer cial, “is there such an army of half-edu cated, half-witted, no-mannered, vulgar, hobbledehoy girls as one' meets constant ly upon the Washington streets. A writer who was present says that at the recent funeral of a Cincinnati man who had been barely able to earn the nec essaries of life for his family, there was a band ot music, twenty carriages, pall bearers wearing many yards of crape, a profusion of flowers and a heavy plated casket. Some commotion has been caused in Paris by the arrest of 28 persons con demned by default some six years ago for participating in the commune. In one case a publican named Finet has remain ed unmolested for the last seven years, and was not aware of his having been prosecuted. A youth of sixteen in DuPage county, 111., he fell madly in love with his school mistress, about thirty, but his wise father induced him to give up his sweetheart whom he had planned an elopoment to Kansas, for and in consideration of “a real nice double-barreled shot-gun.” Gambetta once jocularly said that he ought to be considered a commercial trav eler, as he had often been called a politi cal bag-man. The jest won the hearts of the commercial travellers of Paris, and they propose to entertain their illustrious associate at a public dinner next January. Governor McClellan’s thanksgiving proclamation recommends that in church, in New Jersey, opportunity be given to every one to make an offering of money for the xever sufferers both as a thanks offering to God for abundant mercies to wards us and as a pledge of our afflicted fellow-citizens of the South. A letter with SSO in it is among the cu riosities of the Washington dead-letter of fice. It reads thus: Hoboken, Sniffy Tiddleywinks & Cos. Pig-dealers, 222 Hoffensnipper’s Terrace, co. Tiddlekee ave. and 405th st. Nantucket Mass. The surgeon to the British national training school for music advises that a pupil should be taught to sing as soon as he can read. He adds, however, that the lessons should last only for fifteen or twety minutes, and that the range should not exceed an octavo. Children, he says, should not be allowed to sing songs ex cept those written in the same moderate range. The sultan is showing signs of an earn-, estness and a decision hitherto supposed to be entirely foreign to his nature. He is willing to listen to unpleasant truths; and, in order to conform himself concern ing the true condition of affairs, has or dered a number of reports to be sent di rectly to himself, instead of to his minis ters, who have always taken care to let him know just as much or as little as agreed with their own private interests. The 46th Congress will be conspicuous for the absence of old meinljers wiie have long been in public life. General Banks, Burcliard, General Buttler, Banning, Eden, Chits. Foster, Chapman,Freeman, Eugene Hale, Carter Harrison, Governor Hendee, Hartridge, Judge Durham,Rev. Dough lass, Taylor, Southard, M. Towns end and Governor Walker will be miss ing. The Knoxville Tribune says: “Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens is in Washing ington and in better health than he has enjoyed for months. He now weighs nine-two pounds, which is a democratic gain of about nine pounds. This is to l>c looked to if the presidential election is thrown into the house. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GOO D BAR Or AIKS MAY BE EXPECTED AT THE CLOSING OUT AUCTION & a i: Next Saturday ! A. M. FOITTE, Assignee, X. Gilreath A s<>n. OPERAHOUSE. ARE COMING Wednesday and Thursday Nights. under ihe management of Harry Kobinsou, THE GREAT AND POPULAR VV A I , I . _A_ O K THEATRICAL TRIPOLOGUE troupe In their refined, attractive and mirth-provoking THEAT R I eA L PE RFOK MAX E, Opera, Comedy, Drama and Farce, VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. MIRTH, LAUGHTER, WIT and HUMOR. tyFor full particulars see programmes. Admission, 50 cents: Children under 12. 25 cts. Doors open at 7 o’clock; performance to com mence at 8r (rpoat Bargains. ,1. A. 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