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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. __■- 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. * * 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, * * % The Great Northern Railway of