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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1891.
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Americus, Ga., July 31, 1891.
Barkley, the defaulting Philadelphia
treasurer, is said to be suffering from
paresis. This is a scientific paraphrase
of being in chains for general rascality.
Philadelphia boasts of a citizen so
thin that when a railroad train passed
over him he escaped unhurt. lie was
so flat that an engine couldn't mash
him. Which is the thinnest, the man or
tbo story?
The Ohio member of the Republican
national committee says that McKinley
will have 30,000 majority. This means
that 50,(MX) negroes and whites will be
run across the border from Kentucky
and Indiana on election day.
The Tribune-of-ltomc says that '“the
man who swallows the Ocala platform is
no Democrat.” Can't somo- of the
“elect” sit up with the Tribune and con
vert it from its heresy? Where is Tom
Watson with his universal double back-
acting mouth?
The farmers gave Ingalls an awful
pounding in Kansas, hut they did not
succeed in pounding the wieketlness out
of him, for he still declares himself to
bo a Republican. There arc a certain
class of sinners that were not born to he
converted,and Ingalls is evidently one of
the tribe.
The Augusta Chronicle says that if it
were not for the Georgia Legislature,
the editorial pages of some contem
poraries would be as flat as baked water,
and yet the Chronicle turns from this
thrilling repast to dish up Toro Watson
in a column editorial. There's no ac
counting for tastes.
Hon. Jerry Simpson made a mash on The
AhkbicusTimss-Recoruer, and the editor
is plessed to eoinpllinent him very highly on
his intelleet nml peculiar knack at winning
people.—Fort Valley Leader.
Yes, Jeremiah is a fine, large prophet;
and a careful investigation of his ward-
xobo proved that he wore socks. Come
.again Jerry, and bring your knitting with
jou.
The Sow York Sun is trying to knife
■Governor Campbell in Ohio, because lie
is making a light for tariff reform, and
th# C'hlcagn Herald is advising the
Democratic party not to givo him any
assistance, bccauso the Ohio convention
that nominated him adopted in its plat
form a plank favoring tlio free coinage
of sliver.
The Athens Uauner, which was onco
owned by Larry Gantt, and which there
fore is no doubt familiar witli his gen
eral make-up, says that it was funny how
Larry escaped arrest when his partner
Harry was taken up to answer to the
government about a lottery editorial in
their paper. Larry is a sly one when it
comes to government officers, He has
boon ono himself.
Ehitoh Ukmskn Chawfohd of the
Athens Danner is felicitating himself
over the fact that so many ladles arc
making a brilliant success in tho pro
fession of journalism. If Kditor Craw
ford is not already married, it is evident
that some fair wielder of the pen lias in
duced Cupid to fire an arrow straight
into tho inner consciousness of tho Athe
nian aforesaid, Now let him own up to
tho soft impeachment.
If the Democratic congressmen from
Now York und New Jersey vote against
Judge Crisp for speaker, certain ambi
tious politicians from those two states
will regret it about tho time the national
convention meets. Judge Crisp is tho
man for tho speaker’s chair, and both lie
and Georgia deserve tho distinction.
Georgia is traded out of the lienor, she
can't bo cxpcctod to caress tho hand that
makes the deal. And sho will not!
These is quite a lively tight betwoen
St. Louis, New York and Chicago for
the next National Democratic conven
tion; but the chances favor largely a
Western city, for tho reason that a con
vention in New York would mean a Norn
York man for the nominee, while tho
present drift of Democratic opinion is
towards a Western man. A convention
in New York n Iglit mean a tight between
Cleveland and Hill, while to meet else
where might eliminate this ‘question
altogether.
As will be seen from reading through
tho Legislative proceedings, a Hood of
petty bills of no earthly importance or
concern to the mass of the people of
Georgia, is being introduced; and if one-
fourth of these become laws, the Legis
lature will be in session until Christmas.
A good way to check this perpetual mo
tion business is to put Into force the old
Spartan rule that the introducer of any
new law had to do ao atanilng under a
gallowa with a rope around hia neck,
and If the people failed to ratify and ac
cept the proposed new law, the proposer
was swung off into apace. It looks like
this la » good season of the year to re
vive some ancient methods of holding
down some too ambitious law-makers.
IVISE CAPITALISTS MARINO HEAVT
INVESTMENTS.
The Manufacturers’ Record of July 25
says:
Shrewd financiers who recognize the
fact that the time to mako investments
is during periods of depression caused
by monetary stringency, and who also
appreciate the facts that this country
lias not stopped growing, and that in
dustrial development, instead of being
overdone, is still in its Infancy, as com
pared with what the future will show,
are quietly laying their plans for im
portant operatives. Their wisdom will
ho seen when activity returns, for then
their enterprises will he all ready
to take advantage of prosper
ous times. The movements
of capitalists in this direction
are illustrated by reports in the Manu
facturers’ Record of the purchase for im
mediate development of 25,000 acres of
iron and timber land near New C'astlc,
Va., at an advance of 200 per cent, over
the price which it sold for last Septem
ber; tho decision of the owners of about
70,000 acres near the same place to com
mence its active development and to
construct a ten-mile railroad for this
purpose; the sale of 0,000 acres of iron
ore property near Fredericksburg, Va.;
tlie purchase of the Columbia (S. C.)
canal for #200,000 by New England capi
talists, who will utilize its great water
power by building cotton mills, etc.; the
purchase of 000 acres of land near Balti-
more by Pittsburg manufacturers, who
will build a manufacturing town; tho full
organization of a *0,500,000 company at
New Birmingham,Tex..composed largely
of English capitalists interested in Mid-
dlesborough, Ky., to build an iron-mak
ing town; tho organization of a #1,000,000
mining company to operate at Llano, tho
groat Bessemer ore ccntor of Texas.
These aro a few of the big things re
ported for the week that indicate tho
tendency of capitalists to be on the look
out for good investments despite finan
cial stringency.
Among other enterprises reported in
this week’s issue of the Manufacturers'
Record is a #1,000,000 salt company in
Kentucky; a cotton mill at Charlotto,
N. C.; an #80,000 contract for water
works engines at Savannah; an #80,000
rolling mill and cotton tie company at
Denison, Texas; a #300,000 sale of phos
phate land in Florida; an increase of
#500,000 in the capital stock of gas and
water works company at Macon, Ga., for
enlargements; a #500,000 phosphate
company in Florida; a #50,000 woolen
mill oompany in Texas and a
#100,000 lumber company in the same
State; a #200,000coal company in West
Virginia; a #75,000 improvement com
pany at Florence. S. C., aad a #50,000
company at Raleigh, N. C.; #500,000
voted for public improvements at Knox
ville, Tenu.; a #1,000,000 construction
company in West Virginia; a #100,000
improvement company in Manchester,
Va., one of #50,00.) in Basaio City, Va.,
ami one of #40,000 in Louisville, Ky.;
#25,000 waterworks In Brunswick, Mil.;
a #20,000 cottonsecil-mill company in
Texas; largo fire-brick works in Soutii
Carolina, Ac. For a mid-summer week,
witli Ettropo and America puzzled over
financial matters, this summary shows
really remarkable dogreo of activity in
Southern development, and indicates
what may be expected this fall and win.
tor with a roturn of confidence to tho
business world,
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES.
From the state department comes the
important official news that the czar had
temporarily relaxed the Jewish expul
sion measures, and that lie had done tiffs
in compliment to the United States and
at the instance of this country. While
this was described as temporary,and in
tended by the czar as a respite until ho
could consult with his political advisers,
it is hoped that it will lead to a perma
nent modification of the oppressive or
ders of expulsion. The matter has been
very delicately managed, as the action of
the czar in expelling the Jews was a
matter of purely domestic concern, with
which neither the United States nor any
country had anything to do, and a diplo
matic remonstrance would have been
resented, but means were found for put
ting the matter in its proper light before
tlie czar.
Some time ago a delegation of leadi ng
Jewish citizens, headed by Jesse Selig-
man, tlie New York banker, and Oscar
Strauss, ex-minister to Turkey, waited
on President Harrison, and he assured
them that the best efforts of the admin
istration would be used to soften the
rigors which the Russian Jews were en
during. Minister Smith succeeded in
bringing tlie subject to the czar's atten
tion in a favorable light, in presenting a
personal message from President Harri
son. After the minister’s departure, re
newed representations were made by
Consul General Crawford. Ho has rep
resented tlie United States for many
years at St. Petersburg, and is a great
favorite with the Russians. To his tact
iu great mcasuro is due the willingness
of tlie czar to suspend the anti-Jewish
policy of the empire. World-wide inter
est lias been taken in tho sufferings of
the Russian Jews, and it is a tribute to
the United States that this influence has
been able to accomplish what all tho
rest of the world could not do.
GEORGIA school HOOKS.
A hill Is paroling betoro tho gonoral
assembly to make text books in all the
schools of absolute uniformity. This is
not a good plan, for it is exactly on the
lino of monopoly which tho present
Legislature is on record as opposing,
Such a law would givo one set of pooplc
control of tho school book business; bo
sides depriving toachcrs of the exorcise
of a discretion as to the choico of books
preferred by them on account of special
excellonco.
Such a law would bo a mistake.
A bill pending on the schoolbook sub-
joet Is, however, a pood one; anti should
bo passed. It is one that prohibits tho
use in Georgia schools of text books
that misrepresent the south and falsify
history, and speak of tho late civil war
oa’a "rebellion,” Our children must he
taught tho truth about the conliiet in
which their forefathers fought and died
A few weeks ago tlie reports of the
prospects of tho cotton crop in several
of the cotton states wero not altogether
favorable. They aro now better than
tlioy wore then. By the latest official
bulletin from Washington on tfie subject,
it can he ascertained that cotton is very
promising in Texas; that it shows a
marked improvement in South Carolina;
that it needs rain in one part of Tennes
see; that it is very promising under tlie
fine weather in Louisiana; that it is
doing well in Mississippi; that it is im
proving under the rainy weather in
North Carolina; that it shows a slight
deterioration on account of drought in
Arkansas, and that it is in excellent con
dition under tho favorable weather In
Alabama. There need not be any doubt
hereafter about tho cotton planters of
tlie South having a good year.
SENATOR R. o. MILLS.
If the rumors from Texas are well
founded, it appears that Mr. Mills will
soon reach the goal of his ambition by
getting into the United States Senate;
and will thus be out of the speakership
race.
The sudden retirement of Senator Rea
gan two moDths ago, and tho appoint
ment by Governor Hogg of Henry Chil
ton to fill out Ids unoxpired term, was a
sore disappointment to Mr. Mills and his
fricndH, and it was the general belief
that Chilton would make his mark dur
ing his appointivo term and acquire a
prestige which Mr. Mills would bo un -
able to overcome when tho legislature
met two years hence. ■
But now that tho Texas Legislature is
to be convened in extraordinary session,
the election of a Senator will be precip
itated, and Mr, Chilton’s appointment to
fill an unexpired term, pending a session
of the Legislature, will become a nulli
ty, and Mr. Mills can come betoro that
body on Ids own merits,
There seems to be no doubt of Ills
election, and in such event Jttdgo Crisp
will have a clear field in the Speakership
race, as Mr. Mills is tho only man
whoso opposition was to be feared, and
that in consequence of tlie division of
tho Southern vote,
INSANE MURDERERS.
The hanging of Ozburn marks another
nail driven into the insanity dodge cof.
fin; emphasizing the fact that insanity
cannot be successfully pleaded asjusti
fication for murder, unless the proof is
overwhelming.
It is a peculiar phase of these so-called
insane murderers that they are always
sane enougli to know the consequences
of tlieir crimes; as witness the army of
cranks that sprung up in the wake of
Guiteau, and made attempts on the lives
of numerous public men, and who sub-
sided completely when Guiteau was
hung, sane or insane.
When men of murderous disposition
are made to understand that even insan
ity, real or feigned, cannot save them,
a long step towards tiie prevention of
murder will have been taken.
The hanging of the crazy Guiteau is
conclusive evidence that such a penalty
deters even those who are supposed to
he hopelessly insane. In fact, every in
sane man in the country, except lie he a
maniac, is sane enough to know tlie con
sequences of his crime, and the iniliction
of a just punishment on all such people
will deter hundreds of others of the
same class from committing crime.
Better that a score of irresponsible
insane people bo hung than that one
good and valuable citizen lose his life by
the hand of a mentally unbalanced as
sassin, who knows tlie nature of his
crime, and yet is sharp enough to save
his neck with tho plea of justifiable in
sanity.
THE NEW DISTRICT.
Tito opinion seems to prevail very
largely among the members of tho legis
lature that in tho rcapportionmeut of
congressional districts Brunswick should
bo separated from Savannah, so that the
former can bo relieved of tho great dis.
advantage of being represented by ti
congressman who owes his first allegi
ance to Savannah.
It is almost impossible for a congress
man to work through an appropriation
for two seaports in his district; he must
*-ork for ono or tho other; and conse
quently Brunswick lias so far fared very
poorly tu the goncral dlstributiou.
With representatives that can work
oaclr for his own por‘, botli our seaside
cities can gain advantages that will re-
Meet back great benefits upon the inte
rior that feeds them; andfortheso rea
sons the consensus of opinion seems to
bu towards tlie separation of these two
Georgia seaports iuto different districts.
This is tho “see-saw” appearance of
things as presented to tho vision of Edi
tor Dana of the New York Sun: The far
mers’ alliance has a plan for raising tho
prico of wheat to tho top notch; but the
carrying out of tlie plan would involve a
corresponding rise in tho prico of bread
of tho working masses, whose help is
sought by tho alliance. At the same
time, tho members of tho farmer.,’ al
liance dosiro to got tho prico of all tho
manufactured goods which they need
down to the lowost notch; but tlieir suc
cess would mean low wages for the fac
tory hands, whose assistance they are
anxious to get.
It is said that Governor Jones will
chango his metto from “Jones he pays
the freight" to “Jones ho will get there."
Yet Jones will doubtless find out before
he does get there that the candidate who
gets there must pay the freight. Now
let Jones adopt as the motto of his
escutcheon, “He that pays the freight
gets there,” and his prospects will
brighten to fill Governor Hill's shoes.
Well, Gov. Hogg, 400 pounds; Sena
tor Coke, 300 pounds; John H. Reagan,
200 pounds; Charles Stewart, 280pounds,
and the following members of the Dallas
Club: Joo W. Record, 438 pound s; Wil
liam Skelton, 408 pounds; Dick Flana
gan, 230 pounds, and more of them who
have not been hoard from, aro all for
Hill. Yes, sir, the fat men have gone
back on Grover.—Dallas Times-Uerald.
The Georgia Legislature amused It
self and spent $3,000 of the people’s
money last week by passing a bill mak
ing dogs property, and then reconsider
ing their action next day and killing the
bill. Probably many more days will be
spent just as uselessly by our Salons be-
A WHATHV SOLON.
On last Friday there was quite a little
breeze in tho house of representatives
when Mr. Chappell, of Laurens, arose to
a question of personal privilege. He
charged that Mr. Glenn Waters, who
represents the Macon Telegraph ou the
lioor of the house, had abused and vil-
lified him in a report of his speech the
day bofore.
Mr. Chappell was very wrathy, and
went for Mr. Waters with gloves off and
probably no socks on.
Representative Phillips introduced a
resolution calling for the immediate
firing of the offending reporter from the
floor of the house.
Speaker Howell couldn’t stand this at
tack on the liberty of the press, and got
out of tho chair to oppose the resolution.
He said he had no interest in the Tele
graph, hut ho didn’t like such a preced
ent as this resolution would establish.
The House had full confidence in Mr.
Chappell, and nothing tho Macon paper
could say would hurt him.
A mollifying resolution was introduced
by a member, and after scvoral speeclics
it was passed and tho storm blew over.
Mr. Waters was saved and still has the
privilege of reporting the House pro
ceedings to his papor.
GO HOME.
Those who note from day to day tho
insipid accounts of our Legislative pro
ceedings, and tho waste of time and tho
people’s money resulting from such
frivolous legislation will ho tempted to
join the chorus tljjt is already beginning
to Swell throughout Georgia that the
Legislature is killing time liuti should
speedily wind up and go home.
There is really only one necessary
piece of legislation to be enacted, and
that is tho reapportionment of the con
gressional districts of tho stato, by
which the new eleventh district is to he
created.
If the Legislture will pass this speedily,
and then rush through a few important
locnl bills, they will merit the thanks of
an overtaxed people by summarily ad
journing.
Too many laws and too long sessions
of the Legislature arc evils against which
our people will protest in no uncertain
tones, if the Solons don't hurry up.
When a resolution was passed by tho
legislature on Thursday asking that
lion. Pa-riek Calhoun address that body
on tho bonofils to bo derived to the peo
ple of Georgia from tho deepening of
water at Savannah, Brunswick and
other ports, tho right view was obtained
by grouping these toge.her. Savannah,
it Is true, desired the prestige of a single
mention, hut such was not given, ard
should not have been given. Deep wa
ter for both ports Is what ought to be
worked for, The Times is in favor of
deep water at Savannah and is willing to
assist according to tho measure of its
ability in getting It.—Brunswick Times,
SOME FUN NT LAWS.
Tlie following arc a few of the bills
that have been, or about to be, presented
by the wise men at Atlanta during the
present session:
A tax on bachelors, to be graded ac
cording to age. All unmarried men, be
tween the ages of 25 years and 35, must
put up for single blessedness $25 a year;
between 35 and 40, #50 a year; between
40 and 45, #100; between 45 and 50, #150;
and all between 50 and 00 years, #-00.
This is considered rough on the old
fellows. Some of them are making a
“grand kick,” and protest against being
fined for not doing a thing which, in
many cases, it is impossible for them to
do, and which no man can do alone,
Besides, they think the scale of prices
ought to be reversed. Make the young
fellows pay the heavy tax, and let the
bald heads off cheap.
Tlten we have the bill prohibiting all
doctors and druggists from using intoxi
cating liquor while on duty. (This is
generally approved.)
Another, that all consumers of liquor
shall be compelled to take out a license,
the same as the men who sell the stuff.
(Gracious, what a revenue this would
bring to the state.)
And then there is the bill condemning
tlie practice of lawyers resorting to all
sorts of trickery to save well-known
criminals from tlieir just deserts, and
recommending that all such barristers
lie reminded that they are not doing
their duty to society by such “shyster-
TIIE CONVICT LE ISE.
An interview with Mr. Clifton, of
Chatham, chairman of tlie penitentiary
committee, says the Atlanta Journal, in
dicates tlie probability of some action at
this session of the legislature in refer
ence to the convict lease. Tho opposi
tion to this system has always been
great, hut it grows constantly more in
tense, and was never before so deter
mined as it is now.
It is safe to say that the convict lease
system in Georgia is doomed, and that it
will he abolished as soon as it can be
dono legally. Whether or not the pres
ent lease can be immediately abolished
and all the convicts restored to the earn
of the state, it is difficult to say, but it
is quite clear that no convict lease will
ever he renewed in this state. The peo
ple of Georgia will tolerate tiffs system
no longer than existing contracts may
oblige them to do so. Tito system lias
been tried in this state for more than
twenty years, and we have had quito
enough of it.
Tlte day of its death is rapidly ap
proaching, and it will be a Happy day for
Georgia.
WEATHER AND COTTON.
The wet weather prevailing yesterday,
July 28, the first dog-day, is said to bo
indicative of tho continuation of rain
for every other of the 40 days that cog.
stitute dog-days,
If this be so, or even approximately
so, the cotton crop will he made somo
days later, though the yield will bo in
creased, and tho weight much enhanced
by tlie moisture.
It trm Vo thousands of extra dollars
In tlie pockets of farmers of Southwest
ern Georgia that the crop in this section
is always some weeks ahead of every
other part of tho South; and that they
can thereby get fancy prices for the
first few thousand bales of green cotton
NOT OUT YET.
The bottom has not dropped out of th
melon market yet. H the shipment ,*>
inferior fruit can be stopped the market
will be all light. The manager 0 f th
Macon Produce Exchange, which j,
handling the western melon shipments
says the market is in a better condition
now than it has been for a week. Th e
prospect is that good stock will continue
to bring satisfactory pi ices. The Imp
ana crop will not hurt western markets
before August 1. South Carolina is now
shipping at the rate of only about si xt r
carloads per day.
“If we can keep out the culls,” sa ij
leading shipper, “it will be all right, but
when a lot of poor melons are sent into
town, it spoils the market even for good
ones, and it remains spoiled until the
culls are gone. Good melons, weighing
from twenty pounds up, will always
bring decent prices where (he market is
not glutted. Growers will learn, after
awhile, not to sldppoor stock. Another
source of trouble has been the exaction
of freight prepayment on the lines run-
ning north and east of Atlanta. This
has sent an overload of melons to the
western markets, which aro now pretty
well glutted in consequence. Still good
melons are bringing from #150 to $175
per car load in Chicago. St. Louis and
Kansas City are beginning to he supplied
from tho Missouri crop. In all proba
bility it will pay to ship first-class me]
ons to the north and east eight or ten
days yet.”—Savannah News.
CHEAPER COTTON AND LESS DEBT,
While tlie outlook for cotton is not
flattering as a year ago, and no such
prices will likely bo obtained as pre
vailed last season, yet as an offset to
this must be borne in mind the fact that
no crop of cotton was ever made
cheaply as this, and if it only brings 6
7 cents, it hasn’t cost as much to make
it, by a cent or two, as heretofore.
One of the reasons assigned by a prom
inent financial authority is that the
farmers have been forced into the most
rigid economy by the financial strin
gency that cut off absolutely the usual
supply of money loaned them.
According to this same authority, the
farmers owe as much less than they did
a year ago as is represented by the dif
ference in the price of cotton last year
and this; or say 22 per cent less.
If this is correct, tho outlook is not
gloomy as the low price of cotton would
seem to indicate, for if the farmers have
one-third less money this Fall, they owe
one-third less than they did last year,
and no great harm will result from the
extraordinary shrinkage.
and
Gov. Campbell is not worried about
the rosult of tho election in his state
next fall, and he lias eitiicr a large sup
ply of confidence, or is in possession of
certain information which removes his
election beyond tlio domain of doubt.
In a talk with one of the members of
the staff of tlie 81. Louis Republic, I10
said that he saw nothing to prevent the
Democrats from going down to Hamil
ton county with a majority of 30,000
votes, and he -was quits sure that the
dissatisfaction in that county was not
sufficiently great to offset such majority.
Upon petition of the creditors
of the Brunswick Time*, that
paper has been placed in tlie hands of a
receiver, who is Mr. McK. F. Cook, the
present managing editor. The paper will
continue to be published under the re
ceivership until such time os a sale can
be effected under order of the court. ft
is expected that all matters will be
speedily adjusted, and the Times con-
tinuo to go to its readers, serve Its ad-
fore they gratify their restive constitu- verlisers, and labor with unremitting
onto litrtt a I a..... . .
ents by a final adjournment.
zeal in behalf of Brunswick.
NO BISHOP VET.
Goorgia Episcopalians seem to have
hard luck iu getting a Bishop. The latest
news from the committee,wltiph went to
Laramie to sc# Bishop Talbott, is tlia[
he is likoly to decline; and the committee
‘®*7es there to-day without securing any
satisfactory assurance of his intention.
To an outsider it seems very strange
that a man with enough intelligence to
he a Bishop cau’t say “yes,” or "no” at
once; and the peculiarity of the situation
is increased by the circumstanco that
this is tlio second case in a short time
where Georgia Episcopalians have elect
ed a Bishop without knowing before
hand, as they should, whether he would
accept, and had a long suspense to
follow, awaiting the evolution of one of
that come to market. j two simple monosyllables from the inner
Iusulc tho next thirty days, the staple ! consciousness of tho gentleman elected
The position of Bishop of Georgia is
ono of sufficient dignity and importance
to justify any man in accepting to whom
it might he offered; and it is to be re
gretted that tlieso prelates have not set
that value upon tho offer which its dis
tinguished merits would seem to require.
GROVER NOT IN IT.
After a great flourish of trumpets
about cx-l’resldeut Cleveland taking the
stump in Ohio for Campbell, It turns out
that ho is not going to apeak at all, and
that for tho very good roason that be
has never been asked, and the still
greater reason that ho wouldn’t speak if
lie was asked.
r. Cleveland Is quoted as laying:
“I um convinced Hint Governor Campbell
and all other fair minded political friends
wll; understand that If I decline to go ui’ 0D
the stump, there are perfectly good amt valid
reasons for my Action, entirely consistent
with a most earnest desfre for the success or
a,.' live democratic candidates in Otdo *"
elsewhere. Of course I Anticipate that aery
will be failed In certain quartets If * uch “
quest Is tusde and declined, th*f 1 11111 ** " s
and indifferent! t0 the success ot (he no-
luces of my party, .hut such lli-nature
cations I do not cxpu.et to escape
event.’'
The Boston Herald (Iudepen dent)
hopes that Mr. Crisp may be cbosen
speaker. It considers him, of 1 e
candidates, the one best qu.*l i,!cii
tho offifee. Among hfs qualiflc at ' ons 1
instances “a 1 general courtesy of bea , r1 .^
and a disposition- of fairness towi r
opponents/’'
Be Mud the ffeen»«.
On the stage, the glitter, the
and the paint show forth the most,
step behind the scenes and you will w
hold the truth. The chorus girl*
not all “fancy paints them,’’ but rather
whal they paint themselves ; just so wits
many of the flaming advertisements 01
so-called “catarrh enrea-." Get back® 1
the scenes, and they are not cures', /***
real one,-and the only remedy that is a
cure is BK Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. L>”
the curtain; -and you will find the naked
truth to he,-that this Remedy hr the one
that cure* the went eases of Catarrh*"
the Head,, and no mistake. It la e** 0 ,?
remedy iu- all catarrhal- ooniiftio»»i
aa Catarrhal-Headache,. Catarrh »f
Throat, etov
will begiu to roll into Americus,
the financial stringency lifted.
By way of preparation for tlio early
movement of .cotton, several of tho
banks of Americus have shut down on
loans, and aro getting big cash balances
on hand to be ready for the rush.
The Daily Record, of Greensboro, N.
C., calls attention to tho following state
ment, which appears in a pamphlet just
issued about Greensboro: “Greensboro
has four banks. Tlio banks loaneo dur
ing tho past twelve nioutlis an aggregate
sum of #2,900,190.85, and suffered not
one Cent's loss to any ono of thorn dttr-
idg tlio entire year. Not only have)
these banks not lost one cent by bad or
fraud lilt::! paper or payments, neither
lias any endorser or surety had to make
any of tlie payments for their principal
or original borrovfef. ”
Tuf. miners’ troubles St Brioevllle and
Coal Creek, Tenn., have abewt been set-
tied temporarily. Tho minefs agree to
permit the convicts to go back fo wSrk,
pending an extra session of the Legisla
ture, which »iil be called in September,
when it is believed tho convict lease sys
tem will be abolished. Governor Bu-
Itanan and Tennessee arc to be cofryrrat-
ulated on this happy termination of a'
very troublesome and knotty question,
that threatened at one time to end in
blood.
Nearly all the men of influence
among the Italian and the Hebrew 1m
migrants who are swarming to this
country urgo these immigrants to pre
pare for American citizenship, to learn
the English language, and to mako them
selves familiar with the Institutions and
laws of the United States. The advice
is sound, and it is satisfactory * to learn
that it is taken by a largo proportion of
the people to whom It is given.
The increase in the size of fortunes
and the corresponding advance iu the
standard of living in the United States
are Indicated by the fact that the estate
of the late Secretary WIndom foots np
*200,000, though It was announced that
he- died- “a poor man.”