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A special dispatch to the NewYork
n\ from Wabash, Ind., says that
r. Tanner, the famous faster, is vis¬
iting in Elkhart. He now resides in
New Mexico, where he has a ranch
of fifteen hundred acres, and is inter¬
esting himself in a foundling associa¬
tion, to be conducted on vegetarian
principles, and part of his mission to
Indiana is to secuie forty infants.
The Doctor is surgeon for the asso¬
ciation, and he expects to secure the
children in Elkhart and surrounding
cities. He lives on one meal a day,
breakfast. The foundling home is
an experiment intended to demon¬
strate that the baser passions are
aroused principally by the use of ani¬
mal food. He expects to makegood
children as well as long-lived ones by
feeding them one meal a day of a
light vegetarian diet.
The Atlanta Constitution’s Wash¬
ington correspondent is or seems to
be rather proud of the fact that the
opposition of President Cleveland to
the bill creating a department of ag¬
riculture and making the Commis¬
sioner of the bureau a cabinet officer,
has not counted for much, as the bill
was passed by the house Monday,
but 13 votes having been cast
against it. The measure is popular
with the people and accounts for its
support. The correspondent will find
out that the)President is popular with
the people as well, and notwithstand¬
ing his asserted opposition there is
inple room in their big heart for
him and it.
Hon. W. B. Hill has written an
open letter to the members of the
Georgia delegation to St. Louis urg¬
ing them, out of respect to the prohi¬
bition sentiment of a large part of
the democracy of the state, to use
their influence to eliminate from the
national platform of the democratic
party the Cause opposing sumtuary
legislation, He urges the matter
with much force ami argues it in the
unusually clear style which is a char¬
acteristic of whatever he writes. The
deiagetion would save trouble to the
party by adopting his suggestion.
The clause cannot bring any strength
— it ought to be left off.
Mr. Carlisle is right when he says
we need no Chinese wall of protection
to make this the greatest government
and jychest people in the world. Here
we are not taxed to support a ‘great
army of idlers to maintain our na¬
tional integrity, and this advantage
alone, if cur government can be
brought back to the principles o
simplicity that marked the adminis
tration of the fathers, is protection
enough against the pauper labor of
the world, ilonest manhood and
no move.
The proceedings of congress have
seemed tame since the pyrotechnic
display of oratory ivith which the
twenty days’ debate of the tariff bill
closed last week. The congressional
record for those twenty days presents
the tariff question in its every phase,
and very clearly outlines the issues
upon which the approaching presi
dential campaign will be fought. It
presents as well a magazine of cam¬
paign material for both parties.
The late Dr. Agnew thought the
newspapers showed great credulity in
publishing stories of centenarians.
He did not believe any person had
lived 10 be 100 since the biblical
days, after having investigated many
alleged cases. Probably the old doc¬
tor would have lived longer himself
had he met one of George Washing¬
ton’s many nurses that are still a fea¬
ture of some of the side shows.
The new temperance paper of^.
lanta is to make its appearance in
that city to-day. It begins its ca¬
reer under very favorable auspices,
under the management of a stock
company having a paid up capital of
twenty thousand dollars. Its policy
will be to advance temperance prin¬
ciples without forming political alli¬
ances.
If we understand aright an article
in the Columbus Enquirer,, the pas¬
senger rate between Columbus and
Atlanta has been advanced from
$2.90 to $3.70 because of a threat of
the Georgia railroad commission to
place the local rates upon a similar
basis. If this be so the commis¬
sion is due the traveling public an
explanation.
Out of the ample dimensions of
his good democratic pants editor
Richardson offers plenty of cloth to
make a mantle of charity sufficiently
large to cover the rent in the democ¬
racy of editor Walsh, and still have
enough left to make a creditable ap¬
pearance at St. Louis.
The republicans declare with strik¬
ing unanimity that they can never
forgive us of the south if we insist on
free cotton ties. Nevertheless the
patriotic democrat, north or south,
continues to sing “Blessed be the tie
that binds.”
As will be seen from our neighbor
hood notes elsewhere, one of our cor
lespondents has discovered a variety
0 f singing snakes. If he will capture
some G f t j iem an rf exhibit them in
p ub | ic b i s fortune is made.
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The account of the wonderful fire
j n Sieepy Head hollow in the western
part of this county, from the pen of
one of our correspondents, reads as if
the spirit of Lum D. was abroad in
the land.
Correction does much but encour
a g e ment does snore. First, correct
thc blood w j t h Warner’s Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla, then you have encour
a g em ent that good health will follow,
p uie blood is the fountain of health,
120 doses for $1.00. Try it.
BUYING BONDS.
The government has been engaged
new for three weeks or more in an
endeavor to reduce the surplus in
the nation’s treasury by the purchase
of bonds not yet due. At first the
offerings were heavy,out as might have
been expected, when it is known that
the government is obliged to pur
chase, while the bond holders gener
ally are ab'e to hold, the offerings
have been lighter and lighter from
day to, while prices have slightly ad¬
vanced. But notwithstanding the
heavy purchases at first, the whole
amount purchased,upwards of twenty
millions, has not reduced the surplus
in the treasury at all, for the reason
that the revenues have during the
the time exceeded the ordinary ex
penditures that amount.
Under our system of taxation the
poor people pay the taxes. The
man wjio puts hisjijoney in railroad^
primarily pays the advanced cost im¬
posed by the tariff laws upon the
terial he uses, but the patrons of the
roads pay the interest on the rail¬
road investments and the tax comes
therefore out of their pockets. Organ¬
ized capital has removed every item
of the internal revenues when it has
touched the rich. The tax on incomes
was the first to go. Other taxes that
bore upon the rich more than upon
the poor speedily followed, the repub¬
licans claiming that they have re¬
duced taxation $380,000,000 since
1866, yet, as Hon. Roger Q. Mills
very aptly says, not one stone in the
magnificent pile tells of devotion to
the masses who live by daily toil.
This money then, wrung from an
impoverished class, is being used fo
cancel a debt not due, much to the
interest of the great money class.
The men who, when they borrow are
forced to pay from 8 to 18 per cent
per annum, are forced to pay before
maturity a debt bearing 3^, 4, or 4^
per cent, paying in addition to the
principal a premium that reduces the
interest rate to about two per cent
P er annum - Congress ought to agree
and that speedily upon some plan to
stop this great injustice, by reducing
the rcvenues - Such a matter ought
t0 ^ ave P rece( ^ ence over a ^ other
matters and the action of the house
* n S* v,n § wa y t0 appropriation bills,
* s deserving of censure.
It ought to be determined by the
tariff bill what the revenues of the
government will probably be before
the appropritions are made. Com¬
mon sense says fmd out what your in¬
come will be before you arrange to
spend it, but the house in its action
has reversed this rule.
Kor the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The debate on the tariff bill in the
house has been closed. There has
not been mHch spread-eagle eloquence
in the debate, but the truth and jus
lice of the matter have been fully
vindicated. When a vote may be
taken is uncertain, but right will pre
vail.
The democratic state convention
will meet in Atlanta August 9th. It
is almost certain that the present
State House officers will be reaomi
nated.
The Central Railroad has purchas
ep the Anniston & Atlantic Railroad,
a narrow guage road completed to
Sylacauga, 53 miles long, by Talla¬
dega. The guage will be made stand¬
ard. It will be a valuable feeder to
the Columbus & Western.
Savannah and Augusta have gone
back to*sun-titne. Sun-time is a good
time, to eatdby, but specially godd to
work by. From sun to sun brings
health and wealth.
S. Alexander Smith, aged 82, died
in Thornasville—the patriarch of the
town. He was one of the commis¬
sioners who bought the land and laid
cut Thornasville and has lived there
ever since.
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A fearful accident happened near
Colorado Springs, Col. The passen¬
ger train collided with the east bound
freight train loaded with dynamite.
A terrible explosion occurred and 80
persons were killed.
Tournaments are in order. One
at Leesburg, Americus, Dawson and
many other places. Base ball is duly
reported. Mankind is wild after
amusement. Profitable amusement
might be found in more useful em¬
ployment.
Fruit and vegetable culture is rap¬
idly increasing in Georgia. One
man in Brooks county has 100 acres
in melons, and vegetables are rapidly
filling the northern and western mar¬
kets.
A shoe-maker’s sign from Mt. Ver
rj0 n, III, dropped near Covington,
Ga., the other day, supposed to ha*e
been brought hither by a tornado,
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The Great Northern Railway of