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THE AMERICU8 WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAi 8, 189i
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THE TIMES rCBLI.SHlNL
THE MAVIS MONUMENT
The New Orleans Picayune suggests
that the old Confederate veterans should
organize in every Southern state for the
purpose of raising funds for a monu
ment to the memory of Jefferson Davis,
and that the matter should be called to
their attention by hen. John B. (Jordon,
the commander of the Confederate Vet
erans Association, at the reunion which
takes place at Jackson, M’ss., next
nut h.
Americus, Ga„ May 8, 1891.
The Cordelian wants a system of pub
lic schools for Cordelc.
Tin: I'nited Sta
.Mild
try
■d with :
confront!
The iron hi
regions grow*
evictions ai
li glits.
Henry Waiter;
state of Pennsylvai
ing army for the s»i
disorders.
es and Italy
eh other. Both arc
i empty treasury,
he Pennsylvania coal
se each day, and the
using some Moody
! The people of tSouth should,as one
I man,follow the lead to he set by the vefc-
| erans, and erect as a tribute of love one
of the grandest monuments ever built to
any of the world’s heroes.
There were thirteen states in the Con
federacy, and there were hundreds of
thousands of Southern soldiers and sym
pathizers in the non-seceding border
state
suggests that the
maintain a stand-
ession of its own
According to
are HI,(M2 loco
States. At the
Manual, there j ( >en t uj
.Nothing short of a half million dollars
should he thus invested, and if every
veteran would constitute himself a com
mittee of one to raise subscriptions, each
Southern state might raise $10,000 to
$.">0,000, by letting everybody contribute
twenty-live cents up to live dollars, as
they might feel inclined.
If there ever was a holy duty ineum-
in the United
to sin
the
1,135,00<> freight cars in An
uid of 1800 there were t j, e
If cheap clothes make a cheap man,
as the republicans argue, it is just as
fair to assume that the cheap sugar
which our children eat makes cheap
colic.
Tiie nobility of Kugland lias been
tackled by the grippe with fatal results
in many cases. The grippe is no respec
ter of persou and king and peasant alike
perform the nasal act.
Heavy frosts and ice are reported
from the northwest, and the damage to
the fruit is groat, while down this way
we are enjoying the delightful sunshine
and eating fruits and vegetables from
the gardens.
thousands
people of the south, it is
levotion to the memory of
lan whose sun set behind the
lefeat in a cause for which
of our people laid down their
ABOUT TIIE SPEAKERSHIP.
Th** at tacks of the Ht Louis Republic upon
Judge Crisp, and 'heir forced effo ts to boom
Mr Mills for speaker of thfi next house of
representatives are extremely ridiculous.
The last Is that bet#of ten to one are offer
ed In Washington that Mills will be elect d
speaker. The Republic cun get nil the bets
ill
uke
tu
Mi.
d hi
Isp/’ It continues to
he lots not
iff reformer; liecmo
or of the repeal of
; on tobacco: liecaus.
the Hlalr hilt; been:
•ry,
L be elec
enthusiastic
he lias not been In
hs Internal revenu -
lie was ready to vote
* hs m up.tor ted pro-
In Cie
id supp *
All of which Is the
him—another
r. riff a
hat Judge Crisp
o be held to d iy, no on
le writer ol i e abov
ihi get double as man;
militate In the rice, an
■ a certaint y.—At hint
Abbeville will have a bank. The
organization was perfected hist week,
with S. 1*. Lasse ter, president, and S. N.
Mitchell, cashier. The capital stock is
$50,000 and it will bo a branch of the
People’s bank, of Atlanta.
The New York legislature failed to
make an appropriation for the World’s
fair, but it will have an opportunity to
do so next year. It will not do for all
the states to turn their backs to Chicago.
It cannot run the fair alone.
President Harrison and party are
now in Oregon, and will soon journey
towards the east again. In the mean
time Blaine is bolding the fort in Wash
ington, but all important matters are
delayed until Benny’s return.
Last Sunday’s issue of the Brunswick
^Times announces a change in the edito
rial management. Sam Whitmire retires
and McK P. McCook takes charge. W’e
regret to lose the one from the editorial
craft and welcome the other into the fold.
The officers of two banks, one in Now
York and the other in Philadelphia,
failed to immigrate to Canada after their
crookedness, and have been arrested.
The charge is making false entries on
their books for the purpose of deceiving
the bank examiners.
Tiie trial of E. A. Underwood for the
murder of Alex Sayre, some six weeks
ago, was begun in Atlanta Monday. From
the facts published at the time of the
killing Underwood will probably follow
in the track of O/.born, unless something
new is developed in the trial.
Macon’s water supply is running
short and it is now thought that the res
ervoir will have to be tilled from the
river at a point above the city. The ap
pearance is not so good as that from the
springs from which the supply is now
takeu, but it is said to be just as pure.
The Georgia convention for the
World’s fair will meet in Atlanta to-day.
It will be a notable meeting, and much is
expected of it. The foundation for
Georgia’s representation at the World’s
fair will be laid, and the people of the
whole state should sanction the work by
substantial support and assistance.
It is now stated that if Secretary
Proctor resigns to succeed Mr. Edmunds
in the Senate President Harrison will
give the war poti f olio to General Alger,
and thus get bim out of tho way as a ri
val for the presidential nomination next
year. If Alger lias the bee in his bonne 1 ,
however, ho will decline to accept tho
appointment.
Tiie Michigan legislature has adoped
a new method of choosing presidential
electors. The electors, instead of being
elected on a general ticket from the stato
at large, will be chosen by districts.
Each congressional district will elect
one, and tho whole state has been divid
ed into two districts, each of which will
choose an elector. The effect of this ar
rangement will l>e to give the Democrats
at least half of the presidential electors.
Let a memo ial he erected worthy of
the greatness and the self-sacrilico of the
chief who led where every southern man
and woman followed
Let every old soldier rally around the
last resting place of ins old chieftain for
tho performance of a sacred duty.
Let the patriotic women who make
green the graves of the sleeping heroes
ou memorial day, take up this matter,
and add this duty to that which they
have obligated themselves to observe as
long as time shall last.
Let the children of those fatheis,
whose boxes lie beneath the sods of a
thousand battle fields, from Bull Run to
Appomattox, and the children of others
more fortunate who survived tho strug
gle, take up tho watchword “Honor tc
our illustrious dead,” and join hands
with the veterans and with tho noble
women, who are ever foremost in pa
triotic deeds; and altogether determine
that the monument shall he built, the
grandeur of which can ho measured by
the effort put forth by the south acting
in harm * nious concert.
A monument will, in any event, ho
erected, hut it should he such a one
as will represent not only the command
ing features of the illustrious dead, hut
the veneration in which he was held by
the people for whom he sacrificed
his all.
Let’s raise $500,000 in the south by
the individual contribution of every
man, woman and child in the land.
Will the veterans and tho ladies memo
rial associations lead off in this enter
prise?
The school history for southern chil
dren should clearly set forth the south
ern side of tho controversies that led to
the war between the states as its main
purpose. It should he a perfectly fair
history, and, therefore, should state the
northern side of the controversies also;
hut the motives and principles that ac
tuated the story of their glorious part
in that struggle should bo told in a way
to make a lasting impression on the
minds of the younger generation. A
colorless narrative will not answer.
The child should he made to understand
fully what his father and kinsmen
fought for and how well they fought
and should he inspired with moro pride
in tho history of tho four years of une-
ipial war waged by tho southern states
in their struggle for Independence than
in any other history that ever was writ
ten or that ever will he written.—Nows
and Courier.
The Constitution is right. Judge
Chas. F. Crisp will he the next speaker
of the house, and the useless attacks of
Charles Henry Jones will only tend to
make him stronger. It will
bring more prominently before
the people the splendid work he
implished in his almost single hand
ed tilts with the tyranical speaker, who
occupied the chair in the last House,
which alone, if he had done nothing else,
would entitle him to recognition at the
hands of his party.
The cranky utterances of Charles Hen
ry will have little weight with the mem
bers who compose the next House, and
the only possible object of the attack is
to keep his own name from sinking into
oblivion.
But Charles Henry Jones can he for
given when it is known that he inherits
his insanity. The people of Talbotton,
Ga., where he spent the
early part of his life, are
well acquainted with his family his
tory. His father, I)r. John Jones, while
a good man, had his peculiarities, which
seem to be more perfectly developed iu
his s
perfectly sound In mind, at least his life
at that time was not such as to create
that impression, and he was always
looked upon as a man who, though
learned in his profession—he was a prac
ticing physician—was regarded by
liis neighbors as out of the usual run,
and if lie were alive to-day would he
termed a crank.
It must be from this source that
Charles Henry gets his crazy streak.
A ROW OVER THE TARIFF.
The Western Commercial Congress,
which met recently at Kansas City, end
ed in a row over the tariff. The reso
lutions composed by a majority of the
committee on resolutions and finally
passed by a vote of ffd to 55, each state
delegation dividing, favored a tariff for
revenue only, free, unlimited coinage of
silver, and the issue of a sufficient
amount of legal tender notes, redeema
ble in both gold and silver, “to restore
the equilibrium between money and
other products." The minority report
favored a tariff with incidental protec
tion, and the free, unlimited coinage of
“American gold and silver in a ratio es
tablished by an International Monetary
Convention, which shall make the silver j
and gold of equal purchasing pow
The silver clause of the minority re
port was defeated off a viva voce vote
and then came the light on the tariff
Mr. K. V'. Smalley ot Minnesota, chair
man of the committee on resolutions, led
the protectionist forces. He said that
he had not expected when he accepted
the chairmanship that the democrats
“would crowd their party platform down
his throat.” He charged that the con
vention had been packed in the interest
of the democratic party, and that its real
purpose was to “weld together the dem
ocrats and the farmers’ alliance ” Tho
charge was vehemently denied and vehe
mently repeated, and a debate of more
liveliness th in good temper ensued. The
representatives of the Business Union of
St. Paul, withdrew, and after the pas
sage of the majority resolutions, Mr.
GEORGIANS ON TIIE SPEAKERSHIP.
Congressman Tom Winn drove down
from hi« home in Gwinnett yesterday
and spent the pay among his friends in
Atlanta.
I
THE FRENCH 31 ASS ACRE.
The slaughter of men, women aid ft
children at Fourmies, France, by troo I
on May day is likely to bring on a serioSJ I
eruption among tho laboriny classes r,| |
“Yes, I was in Washington,” said he, ; that country. The soldiers claim that I
Tor some weeks during the closing days j they were justifiable in firing into th*|
of the last congress, and from what I j mob, as they were closely pressed, i Jln |
gathered from the old and new members ■ there is no excuse for killing the i B
alike I do not think there is any doubt, j cent children, and it seems that th
of Mr. Crisp’s election as speaker. Niue- should have been able to repel the i *
tenths of the old members I talked with | men without the use of their guns, tj, I
said he was by odds the best equipped ; laboring classes, not only at Fourmie* I
i for the office. He is conservative, ; hut also in all the labor
centers J
just, well balanced and a thorough par*; France, are terribly incensed, and active!
liamentarian—the very best man in the j preparations are being made toatta^l
House for speaker. And he will get it. j the regiment which fired the fatal shot.
Gallant Ben Clifton came up from Sa- Dynamite, in large quantities, is bei D I
annah and spent the day among his imported from Belgium, and it look |
degenerated into a democratic pow
wow,” resigned his chairmanship and
left the hall. The congress passed reso
lutions providing for biennial sessions,
hut it is evident that the tariff question
will have to he kept out of the debates
of future congresses if they are to he
successful.
JACK THE RIPPER.
The recent murder of a woman in New
The Doctor was not considered i York after the usual style of Jack the
Kipper, and the great sir in police cir
cles to catch him leads the Herald to re
mark :
It is Interesting at this Juncture to recall
out* Ido dent In tiie weird and Khiwtly caret*
ot Jack tue Kipper.
On the last day of Heptembcr PM8, when
ho had Mccompllshed his fourth crime, and
all London was wild with excitement and
fury, lie wrote ou the shutter ot an adjoin
ing house these words of warning and de
fiance:
•T have murdered four, and will murder
sixteen more before I surrender inys.lf to
the police.”
Here was a bold cbsllenge to tiie detectives
to And ills biding place, and an Insolent
prophecy that he could not ba discovered but
would have to make himself known when
ills si rang * ta*k was completed.
What a inousin-dty lie must be! He itss
already killed nine In London, and If this
last murder In New York is ids work, then
lie is just lialf way to tiie end of bis journey.
Tiie man’s make up is simply astounding.
The most it rid imagination can hardly eon
celve .t such a creature. He is the uevil In
carnate, gloating over deeds from which his
fellow* recoil, and bousting that he is beyond
the reach of possible detection.
Hanging is too good for the scoundrel.
friends here yesterday. “1 don’t know j very much as if there would be liv e i I
anything about polities now,” said lie. times at Fourmies. I
‘Indeed, I have been too busy since the j But whatever the results of the
e inquiry!
legislature adjourned to think of poll-; are there is no doubt that a feeling 0 f|
tics. The legislature can he relied upon | bitterness against the troops, and <
to redistrict the state satisfactorily, and against the government, has been arouj.1
and* I shall he perfectly satisfied with I ed that will not he allayed in a long time I
what they do. Tlio Brunswick people It will show itself in riots and other labor!
seem to want to get a district they can disturbances of one kind and another ft
call their own. That is, they want to j In all the labor centers of Franco there!
cut loose from Savannah, and I suppose 1 is an unmistakable desire to avenn
they will do it. No, I am not thinking j those who were shot to death at Four!
about running for congress next time. I j rales, and it is not improbable that the!
am young enough to wait, but I am go- killing and wounding of so many met
ing on to Washington just before the i women and children will causb a deplor
iiext. congress meets, to put in some j able condition of affairs throughou
work for Crisp for speaker. He is the France.
the biggest man in Georgia to-day, and T 7 777 . : * ■
. * i *i . b . V *, r,IE London Standard, commentinj
lie must be the next speaker of the ; . . . , . u *|
. „ , , * „ on the Blair incident, says; “Seldoal
of the house of representatives. . . , , "P
...... . , . i has a moro ffagrant breach of inter!
“What do I think of Crisp s chances? ’ .. , . . . it ‘l
u ,, • .1 . * r . , o national courtesies occurred than in thil
Smalley, saying that the congress “had said Congressman Kufe Lester, of Sa- . . . - ... . . .
'appointment of Blair as minister to!
vannali, who called up to see about that i . ,, , . . .. |
’ 1 , .... i China, and the refusal of tho Chinese!
government to receive him has inflicted!
a rebuff alike od Hlair and tlio Unitdl
the next house of representatives. No, j < ■
Tom Watson’s letter will not injure his . J, ardl ad( , t0 the the popularit M
chances in the least. -Atlanta GonstI- P ,. og|dont IIarri80Ui and the Americi J
* j who have been snubbed by tho actiosl
The rumor is now atloat—and it is j of China will thank neither tho I’resiT
based upon good authority for belief, dent nor Blair for having placed the|
too—that editor A. I. Branham will re- j country in the wrong. Blair, inthJ
tire permanently from tho Georgia field ! course <?f liis public career, has said!
of journalism. Mr. Branham is one of ' many unpleasant things about other!
contempt case yesterday. “1 simply j
feel confident that lie will he speaker of !
HIS SINS HAVE OVERTAKEN HIM.
“Old Hutch,” tho Cldcago speculator,
has at hast gone to the wall, aud no one
in this broad land will grieve that he
will no more enter the field of specula
tion. His heavy losses in the past two
years have about consumed liis immense
fortune, and made him a subject for the
mad house. He wandered away from
liis home several days ago, and on Fri
day was arrested at Evansville, Ind.,
vYliile on his way to Florida, it'is
supposed.
Old Hutch” has been the terror ol
speculators for years, and lias manipu
lated the markets in more than one in
stance to the sorrow of his neighbors
and associates. He was extremely ec
centric, and In many ways attracted
public attention, not only in his specu
lations hut in Ids private life. He cared
little for the world or what it thought
of liis methods, but accumulated mil
lions are nothing to him now,and he will
probably spend the remainder of his
days in an insane asylum.
The Savannah News in speaking of
the candidacy of Judge Cricpforthe
speakership says: “The prospects of
Crisp are much better than those of any
other candidate. Ho is conducting liis
canvass quietly and with excellent judg
ment. The attacks which the friends of
other candidates inako from time to
time on his record lie meets fairly and
squarely, and thus far they have done
him no harm. Indeed, there are reasons
for thinking that they have done him
good, boeauso they have given him a
chance to cxplaiu some things which, if
unexplained until the last moment,
might be used to his disadvantage.’’
The republicans of I’eunsylvauia are
glad, doubtless, that G. \V. Dolamater,
their candidate for governor at the elec
tion last fall, was not elected. Immedi
ately after the election I he hank of
Meadvillc, of which he was the head,
failed. And the failure was one that
has never been satisfactorily explained.
All the circumstances connected wit i it
have an ugly look. The liabilities were
about $1,100,000 and the assets look
rather slim just now.
No city in Georgia can take rank with
Americus on improvements in the past
two years, and to-day she is rapidly
marching onward and gathering new
citizens from all parts of the country.
Hundreds of new' houses have been built
in the past twelve months, and still
every a callable mechanic is busy with
saw and hammer, and the houses are
hardly completed before they are occu
pied. The only thing that will keep
Americus from being bigger than any
other city in Georgia is that she would
crowd all other cities outof the state.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that tlio
democratic orators are not making such
a tintintabulation about tiu as they did
a few months ago. The orators, how
ever, pointed out to the people what a
fraud the tax on tin plate was, and the
latter are now making tho tintintahula-
tion which is so disagreeable to the ears
of tho republicans. The people are
aware of the fact that there is not a
pound of tin mined in this country, and
the miserable, bulky and course stuff ex
hibited at republican conventions as
American tin plate is nothing more than
American sheet iron covered with tin
from Europe, and it was the purpose of
McKinley when he increased in liis
tariff hill the tax on tin plate to compel
the people to purchase the inferior plate
made in this country, in order to put
millions of dollars in the pockets of a
few republicans who are engaged in the
manufacture of sheet iron.
There will he perturbation among the
society ladies of many cities when it be
comes known that the custom house de
tectives in Now York have made the lar
gest capture of Parisian gowns in the
history of the special treasury agents’
office. Special Agent Wilbur and his
men, in confiscating the costumes, have
unearthed a systematic swindle on the
government which has contined for
yearsand has robbed the revenue of
many thousands of dollars in duties and
at the same time exposed incompotency
at the appraiser’s stores. Tho goods
seized consisted of forty-three cases of
the finest Paris dresses. They w ere con
signed to' fashionable dressmakers In
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St.
Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburg and
other cities. The consignor’s agent on
this side of the Atlantic has escaped be
cause he is now in Europe.
the brightest and brainiest men in Geor
gia to-day, and liis ability has shown
itself wherever it has been carried. In
the field of teaching Mr. Branham made
a reputation that was most enviable.
As a superintendent of public schools he
won golden opinions wherever his ser
vice was secured. Leaving the profes
sion of the pedagogue, Mr. Branham en
tered the newspaper business as a re-
Mrs. Mary Ann Jackson, widow «
General “Stonewall” Jackson, is in Neil
York, engaged in writing up a biogr
phy of her distinguished husband.
New York special states that for manJ
porter ou the 'Atlanta’"Cowtltation, ! 5*“™ " ftor ‘1*? 0ener “ r * ,leatl ‘ \
where l.e at once became known as one ! Jf^on steadl y refused all request. |
of the best writers in Geor K ia. IIig | g'™ to the public the story of his life.
countries. It will ho well If his politic!
al friends reward his services in .s-im*!
other way than making him ministeru|
a foreign court.”
work as editor of the Brunswick Times, j ^ 81,0 <=o«ld write it. It was ,
and later of the Trlbune-of-itomo hag ! “1 their only child, Mrs. Christian
finished the climax of his success in the
forth estate most splendidly. It will be
heard with regret all over Georgia that
Editor Branham is to permanently with
draw for the state pre^s, where ho has
done so very much good work.—Athens
Banner.
h:|
married that she yielded to her request
to write tho life of a father she had ne*|
er known except by reputation.
Mrs. Christian’s death, Mrs. Jackioi
has looked upon this as a labor of lovil
and has continued the work for kef
grandchildren. Tho hook is now c
pleted, and will ho published this fiHl
The Louisiana Lottery question now | it will ho essentially tho story of Genf
goes directly to the people of the state j era i Jackson’s private and domi
for decision. The continuance of the | uf e ,
institution after the expiration of its
present lease Is forbidden by the consti
tution of the state, hut a hill to change
the constitution iu this respect was
The question whether Robert
Hamilton is alive is again occupvi^
public attention. Hamilton is the n
passed by the legislature, and was vetoed ! who - 11 wiU ^ remembercd -
I to a scandal in which a $10 baby
and
by Governor Nichols. The lottery com-.
pany contended that tho governor had pi * lme(1 0,1 on him as hl80WD ’, ,
no right to veto such a bill, and carried \ woman ln tho ca8 ° was sent t0 ,bC *
tiie case to tlio supreme court, which i ' unt * ar J r ' , ,,,
has now decided in the company’s favor, I lcKcd ,hat he waa <lrowncl1 wh '!, e
Ing a swift-tlowing stroam. The
! that was said to be his was buried a
; where it was found. Thomas Cooptr,|
throo’jmlges voting that way while two
voted against it. The bill, therefore, be
comes a law, and nt tlio next general ,
election the lottery amendments will be ; " ote<1 8»l<le, was present,
submitted to the people for their action, j hU body was /ound^and^he
Tho present sentiment in tlio state is
1 there ncro circumstancos which led hi
* jm.oi.uii nt.utiuu.uh iu tiiu ntitiu Iri , ... . .1 ,>J
favorable to tho company, and it is * be hive .hat theibody was not lUI
probable that it will receive a large ! Ham,lt<,n - Man * beliovo tba “f j
1 n ' L l> 1 ......... 1!~ n . . Amn ..liter fiiftlfl
majority of the votes cast.
Editor Gunn, of the C’uthbert Lib
eral-Enterprise, comes out this week
with a card explaining his connection
with tho Northen caucus. He axplains
that he was invited and attended, but
had nothing to do with passing resolu
tions. He does not dischuie what was
done in the meeting, further than to
say that certain officials were discussed
and it was decided to prefer charges be
fore the executive committee, but up to
this time nothing has been done. Ed
itor Gunn's explanation does not throw
much light upon the mansion meeting.
CONORKSSMAN Dol.I.IVER, OUO of tllO
few rcpulicans in Iowa who managed to
escape the democratic tidal wave last
fall, says that Gov. Boies will have to go
at the next election, as the republicans
will sweep the state. This borirt was
made at Washington a few days ago hut
since then lie has no doubt read in the
papers that tho farmers are going to put
a ticket in the field at the next state
election, and that Boies’ chances of suc
cess are decidedly more encouraging
than those of the republican who will
oppose him. Boies has made a good
governor, has given his attention to the
needs of the farmers, and there is every
reason to believe that hundreds of them
will vote for him again. One thing is
certain, however, and that is, if the
democratic ticket is not successful the
republican will not be.
Hon. W. A. Pkffkh, tlio alliance sen
ator from Kansas, expresses himself on
the wants of the people as follows: “The
people want more money. They do not
care much about the tariff; they do not
care very much about tho coinage; but
want money, and they will not be sat
isfied until they have money. So you
may set it down that, no matter what
republicanism or democratic partisians
do for an issue in 1892, the masses of
the people who are mustering for tho re
bellion which is coming, will talk about
little else than money, more money,
cheaper money; and that will be the
great issue in 1892 and from that time
forward, until success crowns the efforts
of the masses.” Peffer is right, but
what troubles most people is how to
get it.
is in Australia, or some other forei^
country, and that lie will reappear*
tho public has forgotten tho scandal*
The arrival of the steamer Erop 1
of India at San Francisco on Tuei
from Liverpool, after a voyage of ei|
days, L a remarkable feat. The '
touched at Gibraltar, Marseille*.
pore, Ismai’ia, Suez, Clomobo, F*
Hong Kong, Kobe, Nagasaki and 1
liama. With no deviations from
straight course the total distance
ersed is over 1(1,.*100 miles. The moil
markable part of her run was from
koharaa to San Francisco in 10 day*,
hours and 34 minutes. The dirt
between the two ports is 4,950
miles, which makes the average«P«^
the steamer about 475 miles a day.
posing that she kept on the shortest
route.
It wii.i. be greatly to the credit of the
New York police force if the man cap
tured in New York a few days ago,
known as Frenchy No. 1, turns out, as
Inspector Byrnes believes, to he “Jack
the Kipper.” The entire police force of
London has been trying for two years to
capture this interesting individual,
without success. Highway butchery
cannot go on with impunity in America,
as this arrest proves.
Ir now appears that the announce
ment that Mr. Blaine would not be a
candidate for the republican nomination
for president against Mr. Harrison was
simply a little previousness of son Bus
sell through the columns of his own
journal. Mr. Blaine remains quiet upon
the subject, hut will no doubt speak out
as soon as lie decides whether it is safe
for him to enter the race. To become
president has been the ambition of his
life, and he would hardly lot an oppor
tunity to gratify it fail.
In announcing that he will not he a
candidate for tho presidency Mr.
Blaine probably feels that it is liis duty
to relieve Mr. Harrison on that score,
as the latter knows that should the for
mer consent to run ho would have a for
midable rival, and an unfriendly feeling
might arise between the president and
Ids premier. If Blaine should become a
candidate he would probably resign Ills
present position.
In his speech before the assembled
teachers in Biunswiek, Governor Nor
then advocated schools for the training
of teachers; and Commissioner Brad well
wanted longer terms for the c*>iumon
schools. The greatest need of the schools
is more money, and when the salary is
sufficient to command we will have j
better teachers, and abler men and wo
men will train for the profession.
District Attorney Grant has about
concluded his investigation of the na
tionality and legal status of tho Italians
killed in New Orleans, and, though no
official report has been made, it is under
stood that only two of them were Italian
citizens, and tlioyjwereexpatriated crimi
nals. This gives the Italian government
little or no grounds for indemnity, and
the whole matter will probably end with
a few more communications between the
heads of the statu department of the
United .States and Italy. Put up your I 8ay8:
guns. 5 ~ '
tori
The expenditures for pension*
year ending Juno 30, as now~ 0 '
stated, amounted to $109,3>‘*^
the previous year we paid $87,^"
while in the year before that
$80,288,508.77. Tho cost of the W
army, it may he interesting to
for this year estimated at $M*!*
Besides our pensions our ainff
$30,000,000.
Tiie Charleston News and ^
Tho cotton crop of D 1 *" ’
Is in sight to-day, according to ^
Hester, of the New Orleans
amounts to the Immense total o ^
Elaborate preparations are being
mado at Columbia S. C„ for colobrat- j i.Trhlch' u'YlS.OOO "“"V,
ing the centennial anniversary of tl.e the , f the pre cedW ■
Hint meeting of the (jeneial assembly of — ' fJ£
South Carolina in tliat city. The celc-1 Senator Bi.aiii had Id* R' P
bration will occupy May 1:1, 14 aud 18, | and had gotten a.s far as Chira^^
and wilt include an oration by General 1 journey as minister to China* ’ -
Wade Hampton, a military parade, a , was called back to Washing
people’s ball, etc. It is well to celebratu Cblrcse government may do
such events, ] it is hardly possible.
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