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    THE AMEH1CUS WEEKLY TIMFS-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1891.
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WHAT MAKES LAND VALUABLE.
There is a strong disposition in Bos
ton to exempt personal property from
taxation, and the Globe of that city,
among other arguments in favor of the
proposed policy, says:
Futhermore, it i* the presence of popula
tion and personal | roperly that Rives value
to laud Drive these away and what would
the lund he worth? Land has no value ex
cept what it absorbs from the e sources. The
most fertile land Is worth little or nothing If
there Is no population ana business near it.
Tims it s the height of folly jor farmers to
drive population,capital and huslnes- away,
as they surely will do If they succeed Inin
creasing tiie tax burdens on nn
property.
j The way to “boom New F.ngla >d
The Alabama World’s Fair convention welcome capital and business, not
will bo held in Montgomery on the 20th ! them away. In tills view why is not. tli
stated by flic writer in the American Agri-
ulturlst a good one? “Neve • tax an* thing
hat would be a benefit to your state and
fiat could and would run away."
This matter of taxation is one of the
most important economic problems of
Tiie Georgia state dental association ■ the age. It is dillicult to frame a scheme
will hold its twenty-third annual meet-, of taxation that will he entirely just and
ing at St. Simons Island, May 10th ■ satisfactory, and perhaps it is impossible
inst.
Pensacola, Fla., had a fifty thousand
dollar fire Wednesday morning, several
buildings being entirely destroyed.
i*ted $625,-1
to 23rd.
Astivim.k, N. (
000 for city impre
one of the cornin',
will he heard from later on.
Southwest Georgia will have a full
crop of watermelons to dispose of in a
few weeks, and our northern neighbors
should begin to train their appetites for
the luscious fruit. The crop will be
large.
Columbus has been agitating the ques
tion of watering her streets, but after
investigation the city council decided
that it would be too expevsive, and re
fused to make an appropriation for that*
purpose.
It is now reported that the Savannah
and Western railroad has purchased the
Chattanooga, Home and Columbus,
which in connection with the Newnan
road, will give them a through line from
Giifiin to Chattanooga
The report of the New Orleans grand
jury will probably figure in the diplo
matic correspondence between tiie
United States and Italy, and is a strong
support to the position held by Mr.
Blaine in the controversy.
for human wisdom to formulate such a
system. In the matter of personal prop-
ments Asheville is I e, t Y it must he admitted that taxation
itiesof the south and j ^ r * ve8 awa Y» or causes its owners to
make very scanty returns. But it is a
rattier startling proposition to say that
it should bear none of the public bur
dens shared by the land owners.
As the south is practically a new coun
try, on account of our new’ conditions,
we cannot give too much time and at
tention to the study of the tax problem.
A general rise in land values would be
of incalculable benefit to us and it is
plain that we cannot expect it without
population and personal property, but it
is not every class of population nor ev
ery kind of personal pioperty that will
permanently increase tiie value of land.
To be of much benefit to a country a
population must be industrious, intelli
gent and law abiding, and its personal
property should be very largely of such
a nature as to make it a factor in busi
ness and in material progress. This is
to be considered in arranging a tax
schedule. We need the right kind of
population and personal property, but
some kinds would not enhance the value
of our hinds nor in any way aid our pro
gress.
So it is a very big question, and needs
The New York Ilorald says Judge j exceptional foresight and statesmanship
Crisp has a straight nose. Yes, and he
also has a straight record, a straight in
tellect, and if the democratic party acts
wisely, a straight road to the speaker’s
chair.—Savannah Times.
Murry county, Ga., is keeping up its
reputation for kukluk and white caps.
The latest depredation in that county
was the killing of Hosoy Jones, a far
mer, who was called to his door and shot
down Tuesday night. IBs murderers
are unknown.
Tiie Queen of England will complete
her seventy-second year this month.
She is reported to bo hale and hearty
with the exception of that rheumatism
in hor kuee, which necessitates tho use
of astick, and tho prospect of adding a
few more years to her reign is good.
Anna Dickinson threatens to go to
Russia. By all means rush her along.
The Czar may have a soft place for hor
outside of an asylum, and it appears
that that is tiie only place suited for her
in this country, or, to express it moro
plainly, the only place that she suits.
Tbs Warrentou Clipper, in rhetorical
mood, thinks if our legislature at its
next session wishes to immortalize itself,
and let its praises' go sounding down
through tho “long drawn aisles and
fretted vaults” of all futurity, it will
certainly pass some effective dog law.
The opinion in ofliciai circles iu
Washington over the grand jury’s report
in New Orleans is that the attempt to
offset the lynching by charges of jury
bribing is unwise, but that tho effects
on the foreign population will be good,
and that Italy has no cause for com
plaint.
The grand jury of New Orleans Is
now after Mr. Conti, the Italian consul
at that place, who has expressed him
self rather too freely, and in language
that was not very complimentary to the
jury. Mr. Conti is lishing for an invita
tion to make himself scarce about New
Orleans.
to deal with it.—Atlanta Constitution.
TIIK LONESOME ACT.
Congressman Thomas K. Watson has
managed to place himself in a hopeless
ly lonesome position on tho speak
ership question
lie has declared his inability to vote
for Judge Crisp for speaker because the
judge does uot stand on tiie Ocala plat
form.
But Mills, of Texas, McMillin, of Ten
nessee, Bynum, of Indiana, and Spring
er, of Illinois—all of them candidates
for speaker—repudiate the Ocala plat
form. So all of them share in tho con
demnation of Crisp.
Tiie republicans will nominate Reed,
and he, too, repudiates the Ocala plat
form.
What, then, will Brother Watson do?
Ho will probably Hock off to himself
and vote for Elder Livingston. Tho
elder will stand on anything to get votes,
and he would as soon have Tommy’s as
anybody’s else.
When Congressman Watson performs
that lonely act, lie will bo moro or less
famous. And his district will be won
derfully proud of him.—Sparta Ishmacl-
ite.
Although the worst of the* grip in
New York appears to be over, it was a
pretty serious epidemic while it lasted,
577 deaths being attributed to the dis
ease and its combinations between
March 25 and May 1. Of this number
the significant estimate is made that
eighty per cent, occurred in the tene
ment house district of the city.
There is oue thing that wo intend to
do as long as we wield a pen, and that is
to condemn the present way of insinu
ating into our schools, books that were
written in tho north, and contain matter
calculated to teacli tho children that
their fathers were traitors and rebels.
We do not write in a revolutionary
spirit. Wo cherish tho glory of Ameri
can institutions. But wo do maintain
that tho duty of the south is clear and
plain in this matter. Our fathers fought
for sacred principles. These principles
wo shall perpetuate. We proposo to
keep hammering away until every book
of such nature as to teach our children
erroneously is taken from our schools.
We have plenty of good text books writ
ten by southern authors. We want to
see them used in our schools. Wo close
our article with these propositions:
Such books are iniquitous in their teach
ing. And they must go!—Athens
Banner.
“FUEL TRADE ON THE HALF SHELL,”
Brilliant Kate Field in her “ Washing
ton,” quoting Abraham Lincoln's cele
brated aphorism: “You can fool some
of the people all the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can’t
fool all tiie people all the time,” takes
occasion to wrap Major McKinley ami
the republican party right smartly over
the knuckles for stealing democratic
thunder under the guise of reciprocity.
A wonderfully shrewd thinker, she
says, was the man who signed the
emancipation proclamation, and he
never spoke more wisely than when ho
paid this tribute to humanity—a tribute
quoted by handsome Cornelius X. Bliss,
as chairman of the Tariff League ban
quet in New York, to which 537 men did
full justice, among them being Vice
President Morton, Secretary Noble
Major McKinley, Senators Dolpli, His-
coek, Aldrich and Carey, William E.
Curtis and Murat Halstead, all of whom
made clever speeches to the sweet music
of sympathetic cheers.
“As tiie Washington advocates re
duced taxation, I am not in love with
the McKinley act, but, believing with
Abraham Lincoln and Chairman Bliss
that ‘youcan’t fool all the people all the
time,’ I’m sure that Major McKinley
was right in saying that ‘we do not want
any monkeying with tiie tariff,' and we
are not going to have it.
“Tho brilliant son of Ohio predicted
that the tariff law would not be changed
in ten years, “unless it be changed by
the republican party on protection
lines.” There’s as much wisdom in an
unless as in an if, and this “hedging” on
the part of Major McKinley is all the
assurance some of us want.
“I have already called Mr. Blaine's in
spiration—reciprocity—“free trade on
the half-shell;” and as reciprocity was
hailed with enthusiasm at this tariff ban
quet, and as General Foster has just re
turned from Spain with the last and
best reciprocity treaty in his pocket,
what practical difference does it make
to people who can’t be fooled “any
time,” how much hairsplitting goes on,
provided reduced taxation is generally
and safely accomplished?
“What’s in a name? Everything and
nothing Everything to politicians and
fools. Nothing to statesmen and the
wise.”
what has the company gained?
The decision rendered by the Louis
iana supreme court the other day has
been widely heralded as a victory of tho
lottery company.
It was in favor of the company, but of
what practical value will it be?
The legislature had voted to submit to
popular vote a constitutional amend
ment re-cliaKering tiie lottery. The act
was vetoed by tho governor, and hence
the amendment did not go to the people.
It is now held by the supreme court that
a proposed constitutional amendment
docs not require tho action of the gov
ernor; that lie has no authority either to
sign or veto it. Accordingly tho secre
tary of tho state is ordered to submit
the amendment to tho people.
That it will bo ratilied may be taken
for granted. Its adoption will legalize
tho lottery in Louisiana. But this legal
validity of the business within tho state
can not interfere with tho operation of
the federal statute prohibiting the use
of tho malls for lottery purposes. That
statute has practically suppressed the
traffic, and tho adoption of tho ponding
constitutional amendment can not re
ive it.
1)11. BRIGCX CONDEMNED.
The committee appointed by the
Presbytery of New York at its recent
meeting to investigate tiie inaugural
address delivered by Bro. Charles A.
Briggs on his taking tho chair of Theol
ogy iu the Union Theological Seminary,
has made its report. In the majority
report he is practically charged with
heresy on three points: First, in that
he would elevate human reason to un
due prominence, and make it one of tiie
authorities for the acceptance or rejec
tion of the several parts of the Bible;
second, in his declaration that there may
possibly be errors of historic statement
in the Scriptures, and, third, in his ex
pressed belief that the human soul may
perhaps have some opportunity after
death to accept the conditions of salva
tion.
These assertions of the committee are
fortilied by ample extracts from the
address wliijli they were appointed to
examine and criticise.
It is therefore recommended that D
Briggs be tried on these indictments.
A minority report will also be pre
sented, signed by two of the committee.
They affirm that if the language of Dr.
Briggs is liberally interpreted it will not
be found to conflict with any essential
proposition in the confession of faith.
They futhermore regard it as unwise to
bring him to trial, for tiie reason that a
discussion would be started which
might last indefinitely and end in doing
serious injury to the cause of religion.
Whether the assembly can stem the
tide of what is called progress, can
afford to banish such men as Dr. Briggs,
is a very interesting question. It may
be necessary to have a confession of
faith as the foundation for an ecclesi
astical policy, but it ought not to be
hurtful to allow clergymen a large lati
tude of interpretation. To bind each
pulpit to a literal acceptance of tho
creed is to stifle investigation and im
pair its efficiency. Besides, it may be
discovered|in the pinch of controversy
that a very largo number of ministers
and laymen agree with tiie general posi
tion of Dr. Briggs, and in that case the
situation would not be free from danger.
Heresy trials are never edifying, and
they seldom result as happily as could
be wished.
Some of the Southern newspapers are
condemning the New Orloans grand jury
for refusing to find indictments against
the leaders in the Mafia lynching. The
report is just what was expected, and
meets the approval of a vast majority of
the citizens of New Orleans, especially
those who were in the mob. If indict
ments had been found against all who
While tho population of France is at
a stand still almost, that of Germany is
rapidly on the increase, and tho result
of the recent census shows a most grat-1 participated in tho killing, the question
ifying evidence of growth and increase. j arises where would the jury come from
It is also said that the births in the j to try them ? It is stated that tho whole
recently annexed province of Alsace- j city was involved, and tf this is true none
Lorraine are largely German, rather I would be left to sit upon the jury,
than French, the nation of which it was
formerly a part. , An,,i,kw Es «’ of AtbeM -
— r — j is receiving the plaudits of the press of
Birmingham, Ala., is boasting that a • Georgia for discovering that the consti-
steel plant will soon be in operation in j tutiou of the state does not prohibit an
that city. The wealthy Elyton Land appropriation for the World’s Fair from
Company has taken hold of tiie matter j funds outside of tho regular taxes. Geor
and this assures the success of tho en-1 gia should be represented, and if the
terprise. This company never does way pointed out by Mr. Cobb is wise, it
tilings by halves, and the south rejoices
with Birmingham that the prospect for
the plant, which will* be the only one in
southern states, is almost a cer
tainty.
would bo well to make tiie appropria
tion, but if it is not, the citizens of this
grand old state can be depended upon
to raise the requisite funds to have its
resources on exhibition in proper shape.
It is now reported that6,000 w’hite in
truders upon the Chickasaw Indian lands
are to bo driven away, as other intrud
ers in Oklahoma have been driven away,
and as the woodsmen who tried to in
trude upon tho Indian reserve in north
ern Wisconsin have been driven away.
There ought to bo better regulations for
the guidance of the pioneers in these re
gions than those that are now enforced
and now neglected. The Cliicasaw set
tlers ought to have been prevented from
intruding upon land that they could not
lawfully take, and that somo of them
have held and worked for years by con
sent of tho Indians. The pioneers in
several parts of the west have had hard
times this year.
The contest over the governorship of
Nebraska has been settled by the courts,
and the majority candidate steps down
and out to give place to the minority.
Boyd and Thayer were the candidates.
Thayer was closing his first term and
consequently was in office when the re
turns were counted. The figures show
ed tho election of Boyd, but the poiut
was made that he had never been nat
uralized and was consequently ineligible.
Thayer, however, surrendered the office
to his competitor, and tho question of
law was submitted to tiie courts. The
docisiou is that Boyd is ineligible, and
that Thayer is entitled to the office.
Cotton is down to tiie very lowest
point and all feed stuffs are high. The
New York telegrams announce that
meat lias reached tho highest poiut
known there since 1881, and that recent
advices from the producing sections of
the country have given rise to a fear
that the conditions of a decade ago are
to be repeated. Within the month just
closed the advance in prices of meats of
all descriptions has averaged four cents
per pound, and this increase, it is the
opinion of the representative retail
dealers, is likely to bo maintained
throughout the summer. It is predict
ed though, that when the summer is
over prices will be normal.
AFTER THE I TATA,
It is reported from Washington that
Attorney General Miller holds that the
United States has tho right to take the
Itata wherever found, and accordingly
every effort is to be made to capture iier.
Considering the long start given to tho
runaway it remains to bo seen whether
the chase will amount to any thing or
not.
In view of the doubt that has prevail
cd as to tho law on the subject, the fol
lowing passage from Hall, an English
authority on international law, lias a
timely interest:
When a vessel or some one on hoard ter
while within orcign territory, commits an
Infraction of its law* she may be pursued in
to the open seas and there arrested. It must
be added that thts can only he done wlun
tiie pursuit is commenced while the vessel is
still within the territorial waters or has only
just^s-Miped from them.
Th a reas >n for the permission seems to he
tiat pursuit under these circumstances is a
c ntlnuatlon of an act of jurisdiction which
has been begun or widen, but for the acci
dent of Immediate escape, would have been
begun within the territory itself, and that
it Is necessary to permit it In order to enable
the territorial jurisdiction to be exercised.
That covers tiie case of the Itata ex
actly.
Dr. John A. Wyeth, who served in
tiie Confederate army during the late
war, wrote for the Century Magazine a
short time ago an article descriptive of
the life of the Confederate prisoners at
Camp Morton. His plain recital of their
suffering and hunger, and the brutal
treatment to which they were subjected,
raised an awful howl among tho loud
mouthed fanatics of the north, and ever
since the publication of his article he
has been made tho object of malicious
attacks. In order to cover with con
fusion the sectionalists who have so
frantically denied the truth of his arti
cle Dr. Wyeth has addressed a letter
to his former comrades in prison asking
them to forward to him a written state
ment of their experiences while at Camp
Morton. Dr. Wyeth’s address is 294
Madison avenue, New York City, and he
will bo pleased to receive a statement of
facts from the old Confederates who also
survived the hardships of the prison
pen.
Indiana is in the lead. It has return
ed to the “good old days” and in settling
a tie in elections resorts to a foot race.
Well, that may be as good and conclu
sive as drawing lots or cutting a book or
playing push pin or doodle or climbing
a greased pole or any of the well known
modes of settling contests from the
“way back” of the Greeks and Romans.
It is also cheaper than to have a new
election, and if it is satisfactory to the
contestants tho people should bo satis-
lied. This plan is recommended to the
Florida legislature. By all means let
the contest there bo settled by a foot
race.
Editor Sid Lewis, of the Sparta Ish
maelite, is opposed to Cleveland as i\
leader or party dictator in ’92, and prej
diets direful results if the democrats
allow’ him to map out the route they
must follow. It is more than a year yet
before the party will nominate a candi
date to lead it to victory, and in that
time some one will bob up who can fill
in the bill on the money and tariff ques
tions, and it may or may not be Cleve
land.
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday
published the following special from
Washington:
Judge Charles Frederick Crisp, of Georgia,
will t»e the next speaker of the house of rep-
res ‘Ltative*.
It looks now as if the Georgian would have
a walk-over. H*»n. Benton McMillin, of Ten
ne*see, who ha<*Just returned to tills city from
a trip through the New England slates, re
torts that me cat Is practically solid for
Crisp. Mr. McMillin has made a good deal
of headway blm«elf in the speakership con
test, but he could do nothing Iu New Eng
land except to secure support as second
choice. As a matter of fact, Mr. McMlIiln’s
oniy eope is to come in as a cornprornl-e in
ease the two leading candidates—Crisp and
Mills—cannot win. Judge Crisp, however,
has such a lead over Mills that It do s not
now appear probable that he will ever be
headed.
Thomas A Coakley, one of t ie Tammany
hall braves and a candidate for doorkeeper,
has canvassed the east very thoroughly, and
Is prepared to furnish figures ou application,
showing how Judge Crisp will win‘‘hands
down,” as lie exprestes it. He s<ys that
Crisp will secure the solid vote of New En
gland, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and West
Virginia This aggregates 71 votes, as fol
low’s: New Hampshire, 2; Connecticut, 3;
Massachusetts, 7; Rhode Island, 1; New
York. 21; Pennsylvania, 10; New J rsev’,5;
Delaware, l Maryland,!}; Virginia, if; West
Virginia, i.
In addition to this, Judge Crisp-will getl3
votes from Ohio, the only democrat in the
delegation who Is against him being Tom
Johnson, of Cleveland, a single-tax demo
crat and free trader, who has pronounced
for Mills. The South Carolina delegatiou of
six is also for Crl p, and these, with the ten
votes from his own state, give the Georgian a
round 100 to start with, it will only require
113 votes In she caucus, and Judge Crisp has
only to And 13 additi »nal votes in the 126
from the states not heretofore named to se
cure an absolute majority. He has strength
all through tin south,especially In Alabama
and Mississippi,and nothing now appears
more certain than that he will he elected on
the first ballot.
HE IS FOR CRISP.
Much speculation has been indulged
in as to which of the speakership can
didates would bo the recipient of the
votes of the representatives who belong
to the farmers’ alliance, and whether
they would all vote together. The al
liance representatives have, as a rule,
fought shy of expressing their prefer
ences, if they had any, contenting them
selves with saying that they proposed
supporting the candidate who was will
ing to make the most concessions to
their principles; but Representative Ed
munds of Virginia, who is in Washing
ton City for a day or two, looking after
the interests of some of Ids constituents,
is more outspoken than any alliance-
man. Ho said: “lam for Crisp. He
is one of the ablest men in the house,
and ho has pre-eminently all the quali
fications that should be looked for in the
speaker of tho next house.” Mr. Ed
munds is a democrat, as well as an al-
l'anceman, and he will attend the demo
cratic caucus, and will, of course, be
bound by its decision.—Augusta Even
ing News.
Signor Ciambetti, tiie editor of the
Italian paper, Christofero Colombo, pub
lished at New York, is in trouble, owing
to tho fact that he has been indicted for
perjury. It appears that in a libel suit
against his paper ho swore that he had
never been convicted of a crime, but doc
uments were pulled on him, showing
that he had served three terras in an
CRISP WILL BE SPEAKER.
The Washington Star, an Independent
newspaper, in an article on the speaker-
ship canvas, says of Judge Crisp’,
chances:
Crisp U evidently a strong favorite,
that he is regarded so by the other car
ate* la shown by the fact that they ;ire a ,
lighting particularly against him.
piobably not have the Georgia deieg,ti 0li
solidly lor him, as there is some Jeuluusr
and Mr. Blount announces hia own candj.'
dacy, though he hus been making no can.
vass for himself, and his announcement!,
regarded as no more than a best lie demon,
stratlon against his colleague. Crisp, howev.
er. was the leader of his party in the politic!
til fights da -ing the last cougre s, ami gave
evidence of abilities which have secured him
s> rong supporters and many of them. Hu
friends contend that tbe chief question to i*
considered lu the choice of a speaker of the
next house is his fitness for the portion
there being no political issues between tj le '
candidates, they all agreeing on the great
purty questions, anu for him they claim the
qualities, which he his shown during hi,
career, which pre-eminently fit him for the
speakership
An effort has been made to have it appear
that he was not sound ou the tariff, l,ut it
was very easy to answer this from tiie record
showing that he stood exactly with t'mlUle
It is expected that he will have considerable
strength in the south and south we*t, and that
ids coolness and conservatism will make
him popular among the members who have
been elected from the north of Mason and
Dixoa’sline. He will probably get a good
shareofthe New England votes, aid it u
► aid that the New York delegation will be
for him, with McMillan for second choice.
The popular notion seems to be that he
stands about the best chance of election,and
in betting he would at tb.s time probably be
the favorite. He has recentl v been speaklnj
In the west, and bis friends sav he has gain
ed strength in that section One great ad*
vantage ha will have is that most of the old
members are for him, and yet he would not
bj embarrassed by old traditions and by
p edges.
EFFECTS OF FREE SUGAR.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin notes
several interesting results of the remov
al of the duty from the lower grades of
sugar. “Manufacturers of confection
ery,” we are sweetly told, “now believe
sugar to be comparatively better and
more economical to use than glucose at
three cents per pound, which means the
opening of a large demand for sugars in
that field. For years tho American
manufacturer of preserves has had to
compete in our own markets with the
English manufacturers, who had the
great advantage of duty free sugars,
which constitutes about one-third of the
cost of tho preserves. Now as we are
able to get our sugars practically duty
free and substitute them for glucose,the
use of which has made our domestic ar
ticle inferior to English goods in point
of sweetness, our canning and preserve
industry will greatly expand. Brewers
are also experimenting on the use of
sugar instead of glucose in beer making,
as they want the sweetness of the form
er and are enabled to get it at what they
consider very reasonable prices. A heavy
demand is likely to result if the experi
ments are successful.”
The most interesting and important
caso to the newspapers of the country,
nvolving as it does, to a certain extent,
tho freedom of the press, is that of the
Mobile Register against the United
States Government. The case grows out
of the act of congress prohibiting the
publication and sending through the
malls, of lottery advertisements. It is
Italian prison for forgery before ho i understood that tho suit is brought by
came to this country, and the chances ^ l0 Louisiana Lottery Company and the
are good that ho will also inspect tho j Register as a tost case. It is a question
interior of an American penitentiary. greatest import and the issue will
He was among the first to call upon Italy j wa tched with interest,
to avenge the death of tho Italians killed , HoN J. I.v, iAr .,.« Informed a
in New Orleans and It is now discovered rcportcr tb „ other day m
that he belonged to the same class of j , le wa8 tlred of beinR borod bytbepe „.
cr m ua s. | cil pushers. That his ideas wero valu
able, and that ho did not propose to al
low otlior people to mako monoy out uf
them, while he received nothing-
Johnny has changed materially since his
defeat for tho senate. lie used to be a
favorite with tho r.ewspapor boys in
Washington, and was glad enough then
to liavo them publish his sayings.
Emperor William, of Germany, i*
evidently an Immense Ego. Ho is enor
mously "Big I." He belioves evidently
that ho was not made for the people,
but the people wore made for him. Hi*
ideas are all personal. He said tho other
day in a speech: “As to tho home
policy, which is becoming established, I
shall not deviate a hair’s breadth from
the course I have adopted. I alone am
master in this country, and nobody
else.”
Tins robber gang was not exteminated
whon Bubo Burrows bit the dust, and
the next work of the express com
pany will bo to capture the Dalton
gang now operating in Texas. Satur
day night a train on the Santa Fo ro3d
was robbed of valuable express, though
the shrewdness of tho messenger in blu
ing his money packages in tho stove
pipo prevented them from capturing 1
larger booty.
Hon. Roger Q. Mills and his friends
aro said to be somewhat offended at
Governor Hogg becauso the latter di
not appoint him to the vacant Senator
ship. Mr. Mills does not not seem to be
in the swim of the young democracy
which is running affairs in Texas just
now. *
A Complete Collapse
is occasioned in our feelings by derange
ments of the liver, stomach and bowel
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets euro sic
and billious headache, bowel complain
internal fever and costiveness.
remove all waste matter, and restoi*
health to body and mind. A dose, a*
laxative, consists of one tiny, sop",
coated Pellet. Cheapest and easiest
take. By druggists, 25 cents a vial.
One of the most promising signs of
safety to tho republic is tho action of tho
New Orleans grand jury in justifying
the lynching of tho Sicilian assassins,
Any temporizing, or apologies, or in
dictments, would have emboldened tho
villians to such a degree that law and
order would have coased to reign in such
centers as New Orleans, Chicago and
New York. Tho American people
through tiie New Orleans grand jury,
liavo put on record tho statement that
assassination will uot he tolerated in
America. l iberty is not license, and
the sooner the foreign world recognizes
this fact, tho hotter for everybody.
Young Henry McDonald, asonof Itev.
Henry McDonald, of Atlanta, who is at
tending the university at Athens, shot
himself through the loft lung Thursday,
while carelessly handling a pistol. The
wound is dangerous, but the young man
may recover. Accidents of this kind
are of frequent occurrence, but it is use
less to advise against this evil practice
of carrying a pistol. As long as they
are manufactured there will bo boys
whoso only ambition is to own a pistol,
and tlioy only learn tiie lesson by expe
rience.
It is doubtful if the farmers legisla
ture will agree to appropriate the ono
hundred thousand dollars asked for by
the World’s Fair convention, even if it
should ho clearly proven that it is not
unconstitutional. Tiie opinions pro and
eon, as expressed by prominent citizens
and eminent lawyers both in the conven
tion and out of it, are at variance, and it
is a question which can only be Settled
by the legislature itself.
Congressman Charles L. Moses, of
the Fourtli district, was in Atlanta at
the World’s Fair convention, and the
Constitution quotes him as follows:
I see ft stated In a western paper that there
are three Georgia congressmen who will not
vote for Crisp for speaker. Of course, It Is
what you newspaper men call a fake, but It
should be dealed. In my opinion the Geor
gia delegation will be a unit.