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THE AMERICDS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1891.
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THE TIMES PURLISHINO COMI'AN /,
Americas, Oa.
Americus, Ga., May 22, 1891.
The good die young. The others be
come oldest inhabitants and lie about
the weather, their age and everything
else.—.Yew York Herald.
Mashaciii setts is to be redistricted
so as to give the Democrats seven and
Republicans only six congressmen. The
legislature is now at work on the bill,
aud t if they will only lix it so that Henry
Cabot Lodge will be left at home the
country will he thankful.
John Yoi ng Hiiow.v will be the uexl
governor of Kentucky. The state con
vention which meet in Louisville Wed
nesday, after a most harmonious session,
gave him the democratic nomination on
the eleventh ballot, and lie will have an
easy victory over any one whom the re
publicans can put in the licld against
him.
The Boston Herald says: “Missis
sippi will unveil a monument to Jeffer
son. Davis next month. It has been
pushed through by the women of the
state who undertook the work and have
not sulfered it to lag since its inception.
It is rather hard to match the energy
and determination of the women of the
south when they once get to work.”
It is not infrequently the case that a
man's public spirit is in inverse ratio to
the ability of his pocketbook. The Au
gusta Chronicle gives an illustration of
this as follows:
Capt J. Rice Smith's speech Monday nl^ht
was full of bright sayings. Here is one of
them: If I was rich I would give fitoihe
Exposition, but as I am a poor man, Mr.
Chairman, you can put me down for fi).
Col. John Tkiiilett never misses an
opportunity to announce a marriage in
the columns of the Times-Knterprise,
and yet, poor fellow, ho knows very lit
tle about such affairs. The veteran
bachelor of the Georgia press may yet
be persuaded by some fair damsel to do
for himself what he has donb for so
many others—announce his own matri
monial alliance.
THE GROWTH OF THE SOUTH,
Statistics are said to be dull and
stupid. That may be true as a general
thing, but when you take an inventory
of your property and find that you are
worth just three times as much as you
w ere ten years ago then figures become
more fascinating than poetry ami more
thrilling than oratory.
The south will back us up in these
statements. When it pulled itself to
gether after the war it found that it had t,l ° United States senate
. . . , , . , , * ™ cr #wd like the Kansan,
nothing but bankruptcy and pluck as j
capital in trade. Its motto was, “The I whlle the brilliancy, eloquence and
past is nowhere; the future Is every- talent of Ingalls are undisputed, the
where,” and it drew its hell one hole above comparison is almost too strongly
INGALLS AND HIS MODELS. .
The Constitution of yesterday says:
Ex-senator John James Ingalls, of Kan
sas, who has recently signed a contract with
Major Pond to lecture throughout the Unt
ted .States, will make At an u one of his
poin s. It Dneedless to say that he will
draw an audience equal to any of Scott
Thornton’s,
I» galls is the most eloquent ml pictur
esque orator among Iving Americans. He
Is an actor equal to Booth and a word paint
er superior to Ingersoll No man ever sat in
ho could draw a
tighter and started in the race.
! drawn. No living American on the
The statistics which represent its pro- ] s kage or off is Booth’s equal as an actor,
gross are as exhilarating and cheering as an ^ on *y Irving, Forrest, Macready, Sal-
>ld wine. Its coal output twenty years
ago was about two million tons; now it
is nearly eighteen million tons. In 18H0
it thought it was rushing along at a
breakneck speed because it bad erected
vini and Junius Brutus Booth have ever
contested the palm with him in the
world in modern times.
Asa word painter, no man who ever
spoke or wrote English ever surpassed
This is what the Atlanta Constitution
has to say in compliment of The Times-
Recorder and its work for Americas,
and her prospective speaker:
Tuk Americas Times-Recorder Is put
ting In Homo ext client work for Speaker
Crisp—to he. And In this connection it may
be reinarrkrd that the tine h«ud of Hascom
Myrick Is plainly visible In the editorial col
umns of our Amerlcus contem|»orary. It
goes without saying that Amerlcus now has
.the best paper she has ever had.
A bill has been introduced iti the
Florida senate amending the railroad
-commission law of that state so as to
make the ofllcos of railroad commission
ers elective by the people, instead of ap
pointed by the governor as at present,
and the Times-Union of Jacksonville,
•thinks that It will meet with much favor
from the people. The oflico of railroad
commissioner is a very important one,
and there is no good reason why the
people should not elect them.
The Republic of Columbia is to bo
well represented at the Columbian ox-
position at Chicago. The Columbian
government has appointed ns commis
sioners two of its most distinguished
citizens, and the building to bo put up
by our sister republic will be on of tho
great attractions of Chicago in 1893.
Thus far the responses from American
nations to the invitations to the fair have
est continental American exhibit ever
made in the world.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
in a ringing speech before tho state con
vention at Louisville, declares for the
free coinage of silver, and says it must
not bo straddled by the Democrats in ’02.
The Republicans are entirely responsible
for the deminitization of silver, and to
the Democrats belongs the credit of
bringing silver up to the standard of
gold. The silver question and the tariff
must come along togotberand with both,
the senator think'*, the Demoeiats will
march on to victory.
President H arrison has returned to
Washington. There was no demonstra
tion upon his arrival there, only his
grandchildren and the usual crowd about
the depot being present. The nearer to
tho white house Mr. Harrisou got, the
less the desire on the part of the people
tqsee him. That he is a very small fish
has been fully demonstrated from the
beginning, and this was plainly shown
when he left Mr. Blaine at home, for
t'ear that the latter would knock the
shine oil of the man with the big bar,
Instead of approaching an end the
Florida senatorial contest seems farther
from settlement as each day passes.
The fight shows new phases every
twenty-four hours, which increases the
bitterness of the opposing factions, and
drives them farther and farther from
-each other, and it now seems impossible
that either of the candidates before the
caucus will ever leceive the nomination.
No one can receive the necessary two-
thirds vote, and tho best thing that can
he done is to abolish that undemocratic
jneanure, nominate Call and go home.
mills on its streams and manufactured j Ingersoll, and it is the highest merit of
180,000 bales of the cotton it had raised,
but in 1800, only ten years later, it man
ufactured 500,000 hales and made con
tracts for more mills.
Before the war the sleepy negro lay in
the sun on top of iron mines whoso val
ue was only suspected. Agriculture ab
sorbed the people’s attention, ami they
let the negro sleep on. Now the mines
are worked, tho bonanza has been un
covered, dreams of wealth have become
an inspiration; the roar of tho forgo, tho
hum of machinery are heard everywhere,
and old Pennsylvania is beginning to
tremblo in her boots as she surveys her
vigorous and daring rival.
The south has rolled up its sleeves
and proposes to be rich again—iichor
than ever. It has all the natural re
sources which attract capital and enter
prise. Young men from the north on
the lookout for a career are making in
vestments there, helping to develop the
country, and they always receive a warm
w elcome. The tides of population, kept
apart so long, are mingling their waters,
and unless the politicians raise a row
there won’t bo any north or any south
twenty years from now, and in their
s*ead we shall have a united, contented
and prosperous country.
Therefore, hang tho politician and let
the good work go on.—X. Y. Herald.
no exemptions.
The Times-Recorder feels free to
say that tho jury system as managed in
many of our largo cities is a farce, and
oft times produces travesties on justice
instead of promoting it, and tho larger
the city the worse tho system.
It is nigh time, that with tho rapid
advance of civilization and tho more
complicated relations of socioty and
business, tho crudities of a system
originated by our semi-barbarous ances
tors should bo eliminated, and tho sug
gestion that the legislature take up this
question this summer is a very oppor
tune one.
The higher our enlightonmont, tho
lower the average scale of jury intelli
gence is dropping, and the remedy is to
bo begun in abolishing jury exemptions
in to to.
The Times-Recorder commends to
every citizen who loves his country tho
following sensible thoughts from the
Columbus Enquirer-Sun:
There will l>e a fine opportunity at the Hum
mer session of tho Georgia legislature for
some member to do a great public service by
doing wvay with a crying evil In the laws »e
latlng to the administration of Justice In
this state. Let him introduce a bill repeal
ing and abolishing all jury exemptions.
The law 1« such now tint in every commuui*
m iny or tin molt Intelligent, upright and
ccessful citizens a^e relieved from Ju-y
service. Thu time has come In Georgia, as It
ha* lu other slates, w.ien tho service* of this
class of citizens arc Imperatively needed li
tho Jury box. In every countv in Georgia
Jury exemptions have grown to be a great
evil, and tae demand Is increasing, from the
bench and fr »m the people, for relief. A law
should be passed abolishing all Jury exemp
tions, und vesting In the discrimination of
the Judges in each case tne excusing of Ju-
bcen very cordial, and promise the great- ror * on 1,10 Krotinii of a K e * Mn«w, peculiar
occupation, urgent business or other condi
tions which might appeal to the court.
Tiie Democatie state convention of
Kentucky completed its work Saturday
evening, and tho following is the full
ticket: Governor, John Young Brown;
lieutenant governor, M. C. Alford, Lex
ington’s attorney general, W. L. Hen
dricks, Flemingsburg; auditor, L. C.
Norman, Frankfort; treasurer, II. 8.
Ilale; register of the land otlice, G. B.
Swango, Compton; superintendent of
public instruction, E. Porter Thompson,
Owenton; clerk of tho court of appeals,
A. Adams, Cynthiana. Just at the close
a resolution endorsing Grover Cleveland
and .John G. Carlisle and naming Cleve
land for president was offered by J. 1*.
T.arvin, of Clinton, but the delegates
were in no humor to delay and tho mo
tion to adjourn was carried, defeating
the motion.
lx the United States court at Charles
ton W. Va., on Thursday, Warren M.
Frame, of Raleigh county, was con
victed of violating the lottery law by
sending letters through the United
States mail to the Louisiana lottery, and
was fined $25 and costs by Judge Jack-
son. This is the first conviction for the
offense known to have been made in the
United States.
Ingalls that he is a close and success
ful imitator of the great Agnostic, whose
beautiful periods are the w'onder of his
admirers and tho despair of his imita
tors. But for his heterodoxy, which
causes him to be feared and denounced
by Christians, ho would, by common
consent, rank facilo princeps among the
greatest orators and writers of ancient
or modern times.
The results Iugcrsoll could have
achieved, if he had been lighting under
the banner of the cross instead of
against it, would be surpassed by no
man that ever lived; and could be com
pared only to the military successes of
the great Napoleon sweeping the plains
of Europe during the first years of his
unparalleled career.
Ingalls is a wonderful man, but he is
not the equal of either Booth or Inger
soll. Ho lacks the sincerity which car
ries conviction with the words they ut
ter; his words are only words, not senti
ments; and beneath the gilding of Us
ornate sentences the baser metal of in
sincerity can too often be detected.
What he says would carry more weight
if the public were convinced that he
himself felt as he talked; but his record
is not consistent, and too often has he
sacrificed truth to point an epigram, and
sincerity,to launch an oratorical thunder
bolt.
A FINE DISTINCTION.
Tho Now York Herald calls attention to
the fact that the Judges of tho queen’s bench
In London have Just decided that it is no vio
lation of the lottery and tutting laws for a
newspaper to offer and psy a prize or sum of
money to the person first miming the winner
In a mining horse race.
One of the Judges said that it was not like
a lottery, nor was It a wag«*r. It was a mere
question of guessing the names of winning
horses. It was a lawful cn’erprlre on the part
of the newspaper and lawful competition
the part of Its readers.
The Herald takes tho position that the
English decision will hold good under ou
lottery and betting laws.—Con-tltutlon.
It is difficult to perceive how tho win
ner of a guess differs, in a moral and
legal point of view, from the man who
wins by straigh told-fashionod betting.
This nico distinction could have only
originated in the mind of an English
man,bent on protecting the national sport
of horse racing from any inroads of law
or gospel that might interfere with its
full and free exercise by every Briton
under tho sun.
This shows too the power of the
press. A great and good editor can offer
a prize to tho man who will guess tho
winning horse, and it will bo
all right, but should a man ignore
tho agency of the good and great editor,
and buy pools on a horse race, or bet
with another on the result, it is gambling
pure and simple.
Now this proves that a great and good
editor sanctities whatever he touches,
and can make good out of evil.
Those who have been slandering the
press will now have a chance to repent
of their wickedness, and admit that the
editor is a great moral reformer, at least
in tho eyo of tho law. “Go to the editor,
thou gambler, consider his ways, ami be
come wise.”
COTTON STATEMENT.
From the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle’s cotton article of May lrttb
the following facts are gathered relative
to the movement of the crop of the past
week:
For the week ending Friday evening,
May 8th, the total receipts reached
52,519 bales against 44,772 bales last
week, and 59,5:10 bales tho previous
week, making the total receipts since
September 1, 1890, 0,075,044 bales
against 5,728,882 bales for the same pe
riod of 1889-90, showing an increase
since September 1, 1890, of 940,102 bales.
The receipts of all the interior towi
for the week were 20,302 bales. Last
year the receipts of the same week were
5,071 bales.
Among the interior towns the receipts
at Macon for the week were 150 hales,
Last year the receipts for the week were
10 bales.
The old interior stocks decreased
21,900 bales during the week, and are
122,448 bales more than at tho same pe
riod last year. The recepts at the same
towns have been 10,080 bales more than
tho same week last year, and since
Sept. 1, the receipts at all the towns are
580,845 bales more than for the same
time in 1089-90.
Although the receipts at the outports
the past week were 50,519 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
28,400 bales. Last year tho receipts
from the plantations for the same week
were bales, and for 1889 they were
5,001 bales.
The above statement shows that the
total receipts from the plantations since
September 1,1890, are 0,837,100 bales; in
1889-90 were 5,700,007 bales; in 1888-89
were 5,480,312 bales.
Those figures indicate an increase in
the cotton in sight of 741,223 bales, as
compared with the same date of 1890, an
increase of 920,90L bales as compared
with the corresponding date of 1889,
and an increase of 800,928 bales as com
pared with 1888.
Noting the success of the Evening
News since it secured a Georgia editor,
Mr. Shaver, the Chattanooga Times has
followed suit and captured Branham,
the only original of Brunswick and
Rome, and now since both the News and
Times have able Georgia men on their
staff, the Chattanooga papers will
sparkle with a new lustre.
The Virginia State colored Baptist
convention developed one sensible ne
gro. In reply to the suggestion that five
thousand dollars be raised by the Ameri
can Baptist Home Missionary Society for
the purpose of establishing colored semi
naries in the South, ho said: “I am op
posed to any more such help from the
North. I would say to tho home missiou
board, of New York, put your money
somewhere else and let us help ourselves.
If we are ever to stand alone, now is the
time to do so; but as long as our North
ern brethren rock the cradle for us, we
will be children, and forty years hence
we shall be as dependent on Northern
help as now.”
The latest and most liberal estimate
of tho total cost of construction of the
Nicaragua canal is $100,(XX),000. That is
a big sura, but it would be a really pal
try outlay for the accomplishment of
such a magnificent and very important
enterprise, and there is no doubt that
the commerce passing through the canal
would be sufficient to pay a handsome
dividend on such an amount. No amount
of money is too great to expend in ac
complishing such a commercial necessi
ty as this canal. The only question is
its practicability.
Jay Gould claims that instead of be
ing an annoyance to invalids his elevated
roads are a real benefit. He says that in
whizzing by the trains cause a commo
tion in the air which purifies it and
makes it healthier for the people to
breathe. The wizard is hard to turn
down.
MISSISSIPPI STARTS THE HALL.
The big event of the Mississippi cam
paign, which has been waxing quite
warm of late, will come off on Saturday
the 23rd instant, at Kosciusko. Senator
George and Major Ethel Barksdale are
billed to meet at that time and place and
discuss tho sub-treasury scheme, the
former attacking and the latter defend
ing tho measure.
This will be tho first of a number of
joint appointments that have been ar
ranged between tho two. Both are
good speakers and men of character and
force who have been for a long while be
fore the Mississippi public.
Tho result of the contest will be felt
throughout the south, and the discus
sion will bo watched from all quarters.
There are very few people who under
stand tho sub-treasury scheme, except
tho picture of an immense warehouse
which looms up in their imagination,
where the farmers can store cotton and
corn, wheat, oats, etc., and draw a big
pile of money from the government, and
this discussion may throw the needed
light upon the scheme.
It is to be hoped that tho speakers will
maintain a friendly feeling toward each
other and thus keep down anything like
a division in the democratic ranks of
that state A good humored discussion
will enlighten the people, but should ill
feeling arise between the speakers it
will be imparted to the people and
pr jbably be the cause of a great deal of
harm. Gentlemen, keep cool.
THE TARIFF 18 THE ISSUE.
In a recent interview Senator Colquitt
declares that the democrats will display
great folly If they allow the silver ques
tion to be overshadowed by the tariff,
and he expresses tho opinion that if the
democracy does not nominate a free
coinage man for the presidency they can
not hope to win. The ablest leaders of
the democratic party, however, while
recognizing the importance of the silver
question do not entertain the same views
as Senator Colquitt. They are cognizant
of the fact tl.ai the republicans are do
ing all they canto agitate the silver ques
tion in the ranks of the democracy in
order, if possible, to keep the tariff issue
in the background.
The success of tho democratic party
in tho next campaign depends on it
keeping the tariff issue, upon which it
has alieady won a glorious victory,
square to the front from the beginning
to the end of tlie presidential fight.
While the democrats all over the coun
try are a unit in favor of tariff reform,
they are divided on tho silver question,
consequently the prominent men of the
party north and south appreciate the
fact that defeat awaits the democrats if
on the eve of tho presidential contest an
issue is put forward which will cause
dissension in the party ranks.
The democracy is not on record as
being opposed to the free coinage of sil
ver, but as it is not a party question, but
on the contrary a matter upon which
opinions differ widely, the thoughful
leaders of {the democratic party have
suggested, and wo think wisely, that free
silver is a question which should bo
fought out in the congressional elections,
and in this way it will be made a subor
dinate issue in the national convention
and tho danger of it causing a rupture in
the party will bo .avoided. This is the
plan suggested by the thinking men of
the democracy and there is every reason
to believe that it will be adopted.
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PENSION FRAUDS.
The next house, says the Loui**™
Courier-Journal, will have no duty t
perform more imperative than the
vestigation of the pension burea
The pension list has grown t
enormous proportions that the
who have it to pay, demand some assu r
ance that it is honest.
Even the republican journals begin u]
see the fraudulent character
whole business, and are demanding
vision. The following paragraph h takJ
for illustration from the Chicago tJ
bune:
The abuses of the pension system
lustrated by the manner In which l
liUDdred-day men from Ohio have been
stated on the rolls. Their scheme to»
a pension was carefully organized, and th»»|
succeeded In getting on sometime ago. Fro ^
evidence furnished him, Gen. Black ordered!
these claims held up pending an 1 nvestLI
gatloa, which was still pending when CorJ
noral Tanner came Into office,
result of the investigation they flnaliyl
were dropped, but now they have manag'd!
by some kind of Influence to get buck on thJ
roils again. They are to uraw pensions for!
the rest of their lives for one hundred darfl
play In Washington. In which they never!
tired a shot and nover saw a rebel, and ial
which not one of them was even Mok. By]
fraud and deceit they got on the rolls origin.!
ally. Then they were hung up and rejected!
and now here they are again In some myncl
| rlous manner grubbing from the treasuryto|
j pay them for their hundred-day picnic. Theyl
are patriots for revenue only. It is just sachl
outrages as this which have brought scandal]
on the pensloo business. If the rolls were]
investigated and cleaned up undei
construction of the law, fully one-fourth tht|
names would be taken off as having no legal]
right there.
Gen. Black was a democrat appointed!
by Mr. Cleveland; Corporal Tanner wyl
appointed by Mr. Harrison, with the ii
junction “be liberal with the boys ’
Mr. Cleveland vetoed the pauper pen]
sion bill; Mr- Harrison signed it.
Revise the pension list I
SUSTAINED HIS RULINGS.
The college of bishops of the Method
ist Episcopal church south in session at
Nashville rendered a decision in tho
matter of the append from the ruling of
Bishop Hargrove on a point of law' raised
in tho Tennesse conference in the pro
ceedings in the case of Rev. I). C. Kolley,
D. I)., who, at the last session, was sus
pended from tho ministry for six months
on the ground that ho had left his charge _ ,, _
without proper authority to make thej lar 8 est Ba P tis4 assembly ever!
canvass for tho governorship on the pro- j held tllat " tc P 9 " er ° takon to celebrat fl
hibition ticket. ! tho centennia 1 of 41,6 « reat movement!
Ur. Kelley denied ids guilt. The con-1 inau « llrated in England,
ferenco voted by an overwhelming ma-1
jority that a trial was not necessary,
A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
Dr. Pickard, in his sermon at the!
First Baptist church Sunday night, no!
ted a coincidence in the history of misJ
sionary w’ork instituted by the BaptiitJ
denomination that is quito remarkable.!
It was ninety-nine years ago at a great!
meeting in Birmingham, England, held!
under tho auspices of such noted IiapJ
tists of that day as Messrs. Cary, Fuller,I
et al, that the first steps of this grand!
missionary movement were consumf
mated.
It was recently in Birmingham, Ala.,|
but Bishop Hargrove appointed a com
mittee to try the case. Friends of Dr.
Kelley denied the right of the bishop to
appoint this committee, aud the consti
tutionality of the law on this point has
been the subject of much newspaper
discussion pro and con.
The appeal to tho college of bishops
was from Bishop Hargrove’s ruling on
point of law. This appeal was offered
by Revs. B. B. Haynes and T. II. Han
son at tho Tennessee conference.
At a meeting of the college of bishops
tho appeal was considered with tho
reatest care, and tho collego sustained
every ruling made by Bishop Hargrove
with the exception of one, tho college
holding in this case that the conference
should not have been denied the right
to appoint a trial committee.
A deal which was made by the last
Republican governor of Massachusetts
with a Washington claim agent, who
now claims that ho was to bo paid a cer
tain amount for engineering through
congress Massachusetts’ share of the di
rect tax bill, has boon repudiated by the
present Democratic executive of that
state, who refuses to recognize any such
deal or to pay any sum to the agent.
According to this agent, whose name is
Davis, he is a member of an association
of claim agents or lobbyists, who “cre
ated and kept alive” in congress “the
sentiment that it was proper and wise to
return this tax to tho states.” This bill,
which is one of the many to enrich the
North at the expense of tho South, it
now seems was forced through congress
by the use of money, and if tho truth
was known more states than Massachu
setts had paid agents in the lobby.
The Nashville American suggests:
“The most brilliant idea yet credited to
tho administration is the proposition to
make Senator Blair superintendent of
immigration. His exclusive ideas would
show to lino advantage in tliat office. It
only remains to give him headquarters
at New Orleans, in close proximity to
tlie Mafia colony, and his proper niche
in the goveanment will be filled, to say
nothing of the probable occupancy later
on of a quieter niche out on the Spanish
Fort road.”
Mr. A. E. Lassiter, a hotel keeper of
Valdosta, committed suicide the other
day by taking morphine, because his son,
a lad of fifteen years of age, had stolen
money from some of his boarders. It
would have been better if ho had given
the morphine to the boy, it might have
saved him from further trouble.
Maioii W. L. Glkssnkr, who return
ed from Chicago Sunday evening, has a
nico trip lixed up for the Georgia press
boys, and in speaking of tho program
says: “I have arranged for compliment
ary transportation over all the roads,
and we shall carry tho boys first to
Chicago, where a couple of days will
bo spent as guests of the World’s fair
managers. Then we shall take a steam
er for a trip round through tho great
lakes. We shall spend one day at De
troit, and then go down to Put-in-bay,
where wo will bo entertained by the
Ohio Press club. From thence we go to
Sandusky, tho center of the Ohio wine
country, and back via Cincinnati. Alto
gether the trip will consume about six
teen days, and the actual expenses of
the boys will no exceed $50 each. We
shall travel in special Pullman cars and
go to the best hotels. No ladies will be
expected on this trip.”
Wadlky, Ga., has recently had a
sensation in an attempted suicide. A
youug lady of that placo was eugaged to
four young men, and each had obtained
the necessary license for the marriage.
One of the young men caugut on to the
racket and proceeded to tho home of his
fair affianced, armed with his document
and insisted upon an immediate cere
mony. The young lady could not quite
consent to this, as she was not fully de
cided, whereupon the ardent youth pro
duced a vial of laudanum and drained
the contents to the bottom. Prompt
medical aid was procured and the young
man will probably live to see tho girl
married to one of the other three who is
blessed with a little more brains.
Green B. Raum, Jr., son of the com
missioner of pensions, has resigned his
position as chief clerk of the pension
bureau because he was caught stealing
money. There is no harm in a Republi
can stealing from tho government—
Raum’s crime consisted of Being caught.
Having failed in their efforts to get
up a naval combat between the United
States and Italy, tho newspapers have
turned their attention to the insurgents
of Chili and arejitching for a row between
the Charleston and Esmeralda out in the
broad Pacific, but they will hardly be
gratified as the insurgents’ gun boat will
need all the shot and shell she can gath
er further down the coast. There a few
sailor editors and the boys feel safe in
getting up a row on the water.
Tho two Birminghams have therefore!
figured quite conspicuously in the histo-l
ry of this great work of the Baptists,T
and it is really ramarkable that this!
should ha» e been so without any pre-|
concerted intention to bring it about.
And it may bo also remarked as a
incidence worthy of note that thecom l
ing year will mark tho celebration of!
this Baptist centennial, as well as the!
quadri-centennlal of tho discovery of]
America.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
It is a noteworthy fact that at the!
election of last November every one of!
the thirteen original states of the fed-f
oral union was carried by the democrats.I
Ten of those states now have democratic!
governors, namely, New York, Pennsyl l
vania, New' Jersey, Massachusetts, I
North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware.I
Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia.1
Two of the three remaining states, Con-f
nectlcut and Rhode Island, were carried!
by the democracy on the popular vote!
and would have democratic governors!
bnt for the majority clause in their re-1
spective constitutions. Tho remaining!
state, Now Hampshire, although demoT
cratic on tho vote for congress, was car- f
ried by the republicans for governor by|
the slender plurality of ninety-three|
votes in a total poll of 89,000.
Mayor Suakesaeare, of Yew0r-|
leans, is determined to root out the nest I
of Italians in that city and is beginning!
with Consul Corte, who is perhaps as I
deep in the dye as any of them. In W* V
letter to Governor Nichols, requesting |
that Corte bo recalled, he says:
I f Corte has ever had any usefulness here!
as consul be lias outlived it and become I
through his own act not only an unaccept*-1
hie person, hut an element of danger tot
community In that by his uttei auces, he
cites his Inflammable people to riot or I
opposition to the laws *nd customs oft |
country they have sought as an a*:
Being a deposition, as te confesses him** ! |
of criminal secrets relating to Individual
his race rcaldent among us, he ret uses to (D
up information he has and thereby
the danger to the community from
criminals.
The Georgia, Carolina aud Yorthefltj
railroad runs near old Appall ce |
church, In Ben Smith’s district, lD |
Gwinnett county. In front it takes p al
of the land set apart for church l ,ur l H) *
cs. In order to arrive at the dam&fe I
sustained, assessors wero appoint* I
the usual way. Tho Lawronceville H* r
aid says that after investigation theI
sessors allowed the church ten do I
for damagp to tho land and |
spiritual damage.”
A I.ove Song In M Flat.
“My modest, matehless Madeff D j* oa ^ ;
Mark my me.odlou*midnight im>
Much may my melting music uu»
modulated monotones.
My un
This young man stayed out <®o J
serenading his lady love. He ca 8 ,
cold, which developed Into c 1 ata ‘j r J ar ri
he cured it with Dr. Sage s
Remedy, a sovereign specific >orrj
cases, “Cold in the Head,
Headache. It correct* the . I
breath, stops the offensive disc# j* I
heals the irritated throat and nose, I
ing the head eiear, and smell ana . I
unimpared. It costs but 60 ccn'^p
the proprietors offer in good
(or a case they cannot cure.