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VOL. II.
GENERAL NEWS.
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
FROM ALL SECTIONS.
incidents as They Occurred from
Day to Day During the
Past Week.
The gold reserve has now been re¬
duced to $03,734,438.
Wiley Brooks killed Bill Ye ary, a
negro, who attacked him at Tazewell,
Tenn.
The Central Glass Blowing Company
has resinned work by compromising
with its employes.
The appointment of Jas. D. Tillman,
of Tennessee, to be minister to. Equa
dor, has been confirmee.
In Criminal Court No. 2 in Wasliing
ton. Judge Cole overruled a demurrer
to the indictment found against F. T.
Miller for blackmailing in the district.
Tiie case will be appealed.
W. G. Mazyck, paymaster of the
South Carolina and Georgia railroad at
Charleston was held up by highway¬
men Thursday afternood and robbed
of $350. The robbery took place on
King street, and was perpetrated escaped. by
two negroes. The robbers
It is announced from Lagrange, (la.,
that a Pittsburg syndicate will build a
large mill there, v land company and
a brick manufacts > company, which
are to be adjuncts of the cotton mill,
were organized at Lagrange Friday.
"*■ Tvvo well defined and unmistakable
cases of leprosy have been discovered
within a few miles of Zanesville, O.,
The victims are daughters of Mrs. Ga¬
ry. the widow of George has Gary, usually an ex
soldier. The ailment been
in the form of scrofula.
Tlie Kent & Stanley company, a large
.manufacturing corporation at Provi¬
dence. has announced present inability
to meet maturing payments, atad ask
ing for au extension of time. The
concern, which is capitalized for $500,
00 QM)wn.s two big business blocks in
thr^jewolry district
• WMtiam Condon, better known as
“Wild Goose Bill,” became involved in
If dispute with a man regarding some
cattle near Spokane, Wash. Both men
pulled their revolvers and began shoot¬
ing. “Wild Goose Bill” fell dead at
the first shot, and his assailant was
TatiMy wounded, dying soon after.
"ftoward Jolly, indicted for embez¬
zling #2,100 belonging to the C. O. A
N \V. and Cotton Belt Railroad, which
he served.at Memphis, Tenn.; as agent,
paid over the amount to the American
Security Coinpany eultedy. Friday, and was re¬
\ leased from
Gaorge E. St. John, a well known
man of Clinton, O., was found
fF‘% P U§ISThursdsv. of scouring money by false pre
“ "'he verdict
* was
..v-.ti at j a: tn.,' atwratriiou-r lifter
r St. John was lying in jail. As soon shot as
, lie was left alone iu his cell he
himself through the bead, dying in¬
stantly. ’
Additional reports of the damage
-done by the floods in tlie town of
s^tferneville, vicinity, Sonoma received county. Wednesday, Cal., and
yipfny were
houses were washed away or de
‘*»dtli ,molished. tne inmates barely escaping from
their lives. A few miles
V enfernevilte a hotel and a dwelling and
y liduse were struck by a land slide
(JRmolished. reported. No loss of life has thus
<g far been
^MJrs. Emtua J. Huff, vice-president of
NHg Attn Southern Cassadaga Association,
Jacksonville, Fla. The Southern
j^Essadaga ■Uts, who is an association about to establish of Spiritu
are a
Sblony on Lake gives Helen, lectures, Volusia slate county, writ
FTIorida, * and
ings and tests, the first of which be
-gius February 17.
|p the There steamer was Xubyille a mutiny of the the Tennessee crew of
on
river Thursday. They were led by the
fireman, Joe Dunn, who Captain Glover
ordered to leave the boat. In the eon
fusion that followed Captain Glover of
shot and killed Dunn, and the rest
the crew were awed into submission,
gave himself up to the sheriff
^of Marshall county, Ala.
The the long parliamentary struggle
over Nicaragua canal bill came to
a close in the senate by Friday and the
bill was passed a vote of 31 yeas to
21 nays. From 2 o'clock in the after¬
noon until S o’clock the time was con¬
sumed in a discussion in which the
speeches were limited to five minutes.
John Ed Bryant, colored, is in jail at
Haynesville, Ala., charged with killing
his wife, Emma. They married a year
ago and lived together two days, Tues¬
day niglit while Emma was lying in
her bed playing with her baby, some
one fired a pistol through a crack in
the door, shooting her in the breast.
She died yesterday.
The conductors and motermen in the
employ of the Consolidated Traction
Company, at Jersey City, met Thurs¬
day night and discussed the advisabili¬
ty of going on a strike. The result of
the Brooklyn strike did not encourage
the trolley'raen and it was practically unani
decided not to go out. By relieve a the
raous vote #650 was voted to
Brooklyn strikers.
pi. his store, WMmyMnM, lwo well dressed .Ut tramps »
were seen lurking around his place and
neighborhood for the last three days
and they are supposed reliable to information be the mur- he
derers. From
Th,...,!-bug ».der the chip-» financial ? v
be found in Senator \ests
panacea when he declares that silver
may be paid out on government obh
gations when there is not 3100.0te.000
in gold in the treasury, but is very
careful to provide for an issue of bonds
in order that this gold reserve may be
kept intact In the language of the
street we are inclined to
" atChm “-
Three HickevZ negro section hands a named ,
Paul Giles Dixon and James
Fitzpatrick were arrested
and jailed at Frankiin. Tenn., charged
with attempting to wreck the South
bound Louisville and Nashville passen
eer train on Christmas night. It is
chareed that thev drugged the section
foreman at Brentwood and
the switch keys, ran two coal cars on
the main track with a view to wrecking
a freiglit train and securing provisions.
THE ADVOCATE-DEMOCRAT.
PLANTATION NEGROES.
A Pleasant Evening With Polk
Alii lor.
“Ghoisies? Ghossies? Who says
dey ain' no ghossies ? I know dey is.
kase I done seen ’em. Vo’ kain' fool
me'bout datjfae’.” So used old Aunt
Vi’let to say to me in the firelit eve¬
nings of my open-eyed childhood, and
so echoed i the other night, after hav¬
ing listened an hour or so to Mr. Folk
Miller’s reproduction of the loving and
beloved old plantation negro ; for the
ghost of my “ole black mammy" hov¬
ered over and floated around me until 1
went to sleep. In my dreams the night
through her broad bosom pillowed uiy
head : her mellow, nasal voice crooned
me, and I was smoothed and calmed by
the dream ghost into tbe same care-free,
drowsy, happy state I so often knew
when a child. But 1 woke the next
morning with the old wound torn open,
with the old longing for the love that
had for so many years folded and pro¬
tected me even against my will, from
all the evils which it could could possibly forsee again or
meet, but I never
know.
“The pert upstart that the present
generation of whites call ‘the colored
person’ will never be able to under¬
stand in any small degree what their
fathers and mothers were to us of the
old regime," said Mr. Miller, "foi they
seem to me to know nothing hatred but envi¬
ous jealousy or violent for
their white acquaintances and, have
only one or two desires when brought
into contact with them—to make all
they can honestly out of them or take
all they can’t make. It is only vouch¬
safed to us of the times - befo’ de war’
to know what the negro can mean to
the ‘w’ite folks’.”
lt is clearly “an evening at home
with the darkies” Mr. Miller gives us,
not a set recitation or a series of reci¬
tations, for 1 heard him botli the eve¬
nings he was here, and it seemed to me
that the inspiration of the moment,
guiled by the thorough knowledge of
the subject and his sympathy with (Should it,
was the only lead he followed.
you ask aie whence the charm of these
renditions, I would tell you it is en¬
tirely in the faculty he ghosts possesses of the of
making us older ones days see the South,
dear old plantation the in luster seemed
when even moon’s
different from what which it is now, and to
the generation is at present in
avidenee it is an education out of the
"Uncle Tom’s Cabin" ideas of the
Southern negro and his white owners.
Mr. Miller accomplishes methods than this better I have
by his own unique
over seen it done before. We can
always remember anecdotes when we
carefully forget statistics or cold state¬
ments of facts, “an’ I’ll ’ciali to good
ne ss, honey, ef onst yo’ shet yo’ eyes
an’ ’jes’ listens, yo’ gotter open 'em
agin to be corn-crackin’ ’zackly sho’ Ferginuy yo’ ain’ got nig- a
jiniwinc gah yo’,” black Jane, whom
afo’ as my
1 sent up into said' the gallery and this merely for the an
experiment, highest meed of praise. There was aren't
many of ns left nowadays *# Mw wtio^Jgtvo
fill’ on th* rmHei-y
and listens: to the weird chants and
refrainsof the hands as they came backs, up
from the fields ou the mules'
harness jingling, chains rattling tired and
animals drawing deep sighs of done,
content that the day’s work was of day
and all the in summer's the yellow is haze down a The
when sun
whole family gathered there to revel
in the loveliness of the scene and to
draw fresh resist inspiration the temptation from it where¬ of the
with to
morrow.
Mr. Miller's powers o! imitation eo.no
not from a close study of the race, but
from absorption gamed by a lifetime
among them m all their conditions of
shivery and freedom. He utter.y ndi
cules (with justice) the characterize
tions of the minstrel or ordinary used eia
lect writer. Such language as is
by the Limklln Club would burst the
drum of a negro s ear, for he is nothing
if not musical, and such expressions as
“Weam, you am," etc., are utterly’,m- Is
possible for anyone to use who at
all acquainted with the race. Phe ne
gro will use all manner of stilted ex
pressions, the faintest meaning of
sonorously which he has musical not, but they their arc always compo
in
sitions.
I remember.’ said he, when a young
ster, hearing a negro sitting in the
country store say to another, Jirer
Jeems, predicate upon the what assumption hypothesis.does of your mag- yo
nanimity ! and I studied and studied
over this without being able to under
stand it, and finally tried it on an old
negro in a eoonskin cap, who was house. plow
ing in a cornfield near the
Good mornin , l nele /aek. Upon
what hypothesis do you predicate the
assumption of your magnanimity? talk I
‘V\hy, good Cod. boy, yo jes so
kain’t zackly oongosherate de glonfi
cation of deconditions and consecrate
hit.' I didn't ask anyone else
"Any musical instrument will tickle
the palate of the negro, but the banjo
is theirs above all others. I remember
one of father s negroes met me one day
and said, ‘Wars Dolk, day tells me you
kin play de banjo jes lak a nipf^ah an
notlakdese hyahpo white trash goin
eThs'a'rV oUniitmivbd nknfinNlev disgiteehimse'f banios as' no nig-’
learn^his^dat-awav doi sub’ n
ff an v/Tnlease wants to su™ ^
is Itoldhirato
<*«
XU»M know that s the tune a »»; dear old Meth- Vj.
odist minister says h^a sent more souls
to the devil than any other made.
Well, we tuned up the guitar and banjo
together and played it until it seemed
g»r bh V.,1 ss
and ?T^?wi.h h ‘\Vhoo-eee vo^/^Ta n?gwh marster fo’
"
" how'"entirely
ita.nuscd rneto see
^•f*‘ Miller lle rlx liecomes ^” e> ’"' what ,a ‘” he e ^ is renre- r ^r
. 3a
Be " t,D £ c?ook e
f,?! £d move*in Wntsunlimber and
tJaV/he feet tl,e same spran
Lcited .white even his little interreg
of explanation become pictures
quelv ungrammatical. ordered
“When my company was
away and the leave-taking came, my
ole black mammy—God give bless the her— last
stood at the gates to me
farewell of all my dear ones, and as she
folded rae in her arms the tears stream
ing down her face, she stepped her sob
long enough to exclaim. ‘My firin', son,
when dem blame Yankees ‘gin
jes yo' tek to yo - heels and run as
yo‘kin stret back to yo’ ole mammy.
01!AWFORDVILLE, I l',«RUARY H 1805.
w I ■■
gwine let nuthin - 'hurt her
boy.’ the outside world will never
“Oh ! in file
know the love for and pride their
hearts of these old women for
white 'ehillun.' Mammy was the boss
of the plantation. Many a time I’ve
gone to my own dear old mother and
asked her permission to play with some
of my little friends and been answered,
‘Go ask your mammy whether you can
or not’ 'Mammy, mother says can 1
g-o play ?’ ‘Dat yo’ kaint. suh ; hit's
’eidedly too damp.' 'Mother (tear¬
fully): Mammy says I can't go.' ‘That
settles it, you can’t go,’ and 1 never
did."
The old negro retains his devotion to
and care of his ‘w’ite takes’ absolutely
the same as he ever did, only recog¬
nizing the faet of iiis freedom in an
abstract way. ‘Dem chilluus 'lougs to
me, ’deed dey does,’ and always will
while they both live, and the thought
of separation never enters his head. I
remember my friend Major Anderson
bad an old black man whose utility on
this earth had about departed, but who
was still allowed to water his ‘ole
marster’s fine mar’ just to his keep duty,
pencilled.’ lie often forgot
and of course that made the mare suf¬
fer in looks and condition. The major
had threatened time out of mind to
send the old man away from iiis ser¬
vice, and at last said to liim, ‘Unele
Billy, 1 have told you about this long
enough. I see we shall have to sepa¬
rate sooner or later, and it might as
well come now as any other time.’
Uncle Billy looked up and gravely said
‘I dul ferget agin, Mars Majah, but
’deed I’se sorry fer hit.’ ‘Well, Billy,
I’m sorry for it, too, but I think we
had better separate right Mars now.’ Majah. ‘Use
mos' pow’ful sorry fer dat,
Hit do seem a pity fer us to palit Has
yo’ made upyo’ miu' jes’ wlia’ yo - gwin
tu?’ ”
“Their original application when of sacred least
text often strikes you you
expect it. 1 remember an old negro
who was being cared portion for by his young
mistress off on a of the old
s»>s sgr5fffe,*ss« suss:
liable possession, lie came up to see
her and compare notes about once a
year. I was visiting old Uncle the family Jerry one
Christmas when came
nn hi«s nn in m l ti'in Hi* hud inn«it
doleful, downcast countenance, and he
responded in a dismal tone to her in
quiry as to what was the matter, and
how' he was ' AlZTe'llv. anvwav with V ‘Tol’ble Garni
only tol’ble
lu^ri g?ly treatin’ hSh latolyf dis ver ^De ole las’ll. nitfirah nrettv P
a nd de
craps want none too good, nudder, de
woods tuk fire, an’ crop up, an’ crop up
till de cabin cotched an’ bu’n up, nn’ I
’sensin’ a’eounterpano 1 usemr kTverdo
rzeSL-Z. ^a^tsai
pigs an’ chickens you evel, did see, a.,'
de freshet crope up on ’em one night
ii'aV m“i' v S^toJSClfSf 1-awd. Miss ,».
sho^Vow'de v i I...,..,. ,i, u 9 s jMa7ths :„ s - r i„n, kaS(
Go
‘How’s that, Jerry ?’ ‘Well, MissNel
tv &wd i.-htln lu’bs de Cood Hook sav who de
he chas'en, and he done dis’
been chasin’ me ‘roun’ so liboly
las yeah 1 know he,a pow’ful 'tached
“The negro did not make a success
f„l soldier for either side, no matter
what all the theories are. An instauee
iiiS JfeaS«SU*St. 2 «S 3 , «ssa,^: !
afflK
f er yo ’ to do ail If de iiglitin’. We give all
wants tu he’p. yo’ let ns. Jes
me some puns an’ Tnunishun for de
boys an’we show yon what we kin do.
Mek lne Captain, too, so I kin be
- spons ible fer dey actions.’ I procured of
a uniform w ; ! i, considerable the
^Jd lace and buttons left on it, got an
order for the muskets and ammunition
an d 800 n Silas had his company day* under
Mtive training. The before the
fl rs t battle fought after this we were
aU drawn up in line and ammunition. getting our
last review an d rounds of
There wcro rounds apiece. Silas
came up t o me and saluted. AVI,at i ,
j t> ‘Mursc Polk, is all dat’muni
tion fer us? Don y</ think hit's too
muchv j don’t want ter see none o’
uiner‘1 Bragg’s good powder an’ shot
wastB d, an’ yo’ knows de darky is
poyv -f„i s | ow in loadin’an’ firin' when
)l( ,. s - cite d. I I think, sub, ’bout five
roun s q iut r fer we all.’ 1 saw that his
sug>fest i on was carried out, and the
next morning, when wc were all pro
arin ‘ for the fight, was highly amused
he r the following conversation saluted take
plaee; An orderly rode up and
>si ] as< saying, ‘Captain, right take in your yonder men
an ,l form them on the
fle](1 . v'essuli. Not down in dat open
BcV 8U ,,. I kain’hole dem niggah: bah te
tet ,, crrer | n dat open fieF, snh. I let
me tek dem down thoo de w««xh.,
wll a‘ dey won’ be so promiscuous, sub.’
- K ight ,f down there, l tell yon, Captain,
an don't wait.’ ‘Did Giner’l Gragg
sen( j Ine dem orders?’ ‘Ol course lie
f jjd, you fool ni^er. Be in ;t hurry.’
‘All right, suh > I jes’ wanted tu know
w ho sent ’em If Giner’l Gragg sent
“i! dt ‘ ra ,f ,rd « r8 - I pintedly is gwine to
obey ‘ ll, : ah .’ VpU. ham, star, up, dab,
yo u ? r ‘ > °, kl '' 1 ' la ^' yo lsdi '.
‘ alleB , , an A( ‘V'f we all n ‘ X"
jaa“ »a S'? &
~rS«b.n ui V»W.
s| ., lt ()tK , of their oombs right could over
t( j jj n ,.. a nri before y you say
t)l( . re wagn - t a ni r to lei seen,
save am! be had fallen over be
S!Sit i lin ,i a i log After the battle I called
BJf ~ ?- Orj* « Well. ntxz
; tote » W dem i ° *’• nijg^ahs. ” I • round h y\, thci mai de l f... vv«,d»
, la Tnail klig W cum sizzliTthoo / de a 7"
■ • , • • dat . » '.‘ i •,
; f okeKd,d ,°P lose m dey >' mm , a " d ,U * i '‘/’'ff ’
l nlf? ^ ahs waB ' vutl ‘ a thousand dol
! U an’Tpfntc-^ t^k dal, te de
J^X an eidedte ^.n^ stayed till all
h, was heah we
j es as ,] m xx 1 as we was las’night.
: ff «“• all white man. ise gwine
’
_
j brightened Mr. Miller's with limitless anecdotes plantation are
up many sings
melodies and ditties, which be
| with almost the genuine negro and mellow, voice,
I He makes it husky, sweet
I I It has a strain of nasal rainorness. or
minor nasal ness, about it. whichever
you please, that makes its th mos
1 eessful imitation of the origifal ! ifwe
ever heard. » jp
He has written both words and
music to many of them himself.
verses from the latest pub inlied /J®*" are
subjoined. "Mt
I’m Gom’ , . to Ole _..... vinttuiij^f .oio
I’m goin’ to ole Virgiuny, uhtvr if!
hoe do corn
In de merry, happy days of longa go ,
VVhar set ole marster de lawn, and oi^iwtittnfr
upon swarm'd n
As de darkies house doh. ar^utl de i
great is -
Deni good ole days gone, npvef|iiu>
will dey return, 1
.
An’dis darky’s lot will over jp
But twell Gabrel blows Ms trump it iu
de resutToeshuu morn |ncs
He'll be tuinkin’ uv do good oi, *
lie's had,
Chorus.
No mo’ will I hunt fo’ dc posser »■ de
coon;
Nor sot about dat sweet on- ***
doh; cuLpy
For de cruel war has ruined my
Southern home,
An’ 1 never ’specs to seo dc w h“no
mo'.
l miss vie ole plantation an’ if" , g
of earlier days, of t jf
Who pain, knew no pangs linug^
For ole marso was never lacking way/ In
it come to means an’ *
An’ole miss was dar in suns turn An'
in think’ rain • *1 let
1 often how cruel it was to
me free roamf A
To wander and aimlessly to l
For if ever that- existed a heav’n on | h
to me, ® “
It was down in my ol<; VSvgir.af
home. ‘vl ip
ctionni. Ij,
No mo’ will 1 hunt fo’ do possum iMmih
coon j enlw
Nor set about dat sweet ole IM
doh; 4tR».V
For <le cruel war has ruined . luy
Southern home, lfco»> t
An’ I never’specs to see de
»*•««»-'• Soin4el v
A dispatch in tills morning’s
frolu , Washington says it will he u»#e fee
endeavor of Senator Voorhoes to
all the democratic factions on o*etf
nancial Iu V measure ^orthe and will then be assistedfc| naively arms:
“ ,lis a
meeting blonal committee of the democratic for the pnrpoie confc%- b)
considering of what party.f%ero should be doife wjffid fpr
the t,ie good the underlyinor the yluiic
main-spring of mil the
political system this country oj
kl! .V tll “ t <»> ocks the secret our
reckless , methods of doing things.
Jlloy a, ',° *? B co wh ? t do peo|lepr “i W 1 '
,
he done for the good of the
% , SSniS!tm
tnotism gush nan second, d always w has the shibboletlft^tl guided tin
.'iowed froin that selfish standpoint
everything is measured by that
narrow rote, “The good of the party”
forsooth. That means what humbug,
Whut subterfuge, what trick, shall he
jesortod to »n order to forward the in
Jf'o.’ ^ical \.Z u i 0 ,d toLri'uier' L'hut hi Gu'/samlM/o bust’to 1
in the
£ ptheiringerf ti,?s hi V.e-it the
«h at
luncture is eariuff a, straw uhout
K ^•« (its '^1
expectants of b on e w »'W
^ h ® th ®hieh ha^hmCn ffdline
imelc p which it it las jtoken hv y f* ^
ov f, r
Hk thirties f rflm vVimhimr ^Ws
tonthatcitler ler of ran
suiting '™ for b “ the r hriu good t rnrhL of the th Thafi republic^
hc.ig^litii.nc 1 by s pr Lse. b no
evidence of such fact The so-c..Ued ,, ,
a
and Z™ZZ°Z‘Z2 seek, in scor ng for for ^tthm position, npn ntt
Ul !"k urld 0 y cxcont honest tin,
ditch mto ii wlueli tl! thm they him nSd it »
and V cur h 11 ,f the diseases wtuU
.. Not^"'iarLie^
oiber'’'' 1 ‘ ‘ ;. ^ A A„ pa of L T oa ’“
ar !tod t bp Ifc 81li SK?!
Not the slightest indication wtionof of diriOter
“*fd pubHc !.
Z. e,tl ^, 11 h< I’^tV ' as stetesmw statesmi-ii ' iirm am Taw" law
f. i A Jfi
, , o, the ? P n.o- tlmt
1 *?h n , bwathm weal
petty politics above tw 0 T^ m, 1 ;:;** e 1
“A,. "A, 1 A!, i lt b,About tW
the people , were we-e lookii ook , g va a btF tt after after
J H 8 ? L 1,e ,r. a ATin this direction
^ / ‘ U “ J ^tLAutflt'^thatA, r L !' -V 1 a see
nothing , in sight but the gor^ g ml” of of thrir their
respective partica— Nonconformist.
Kli l^crkiilM*
.... j,, , remUation for wit is
wn ' He gave a rare exhibi
tion Atlanta of it in an Journal interview of last published Friday, in
After reading that interview no one
can ^^ dispute his powers in that dW
>«• «*
,,X'seo t ht -treasury tiecause , ., .lr. Mr 1 arf'ite arl.slc has l as
that U ‘ e hh, ' rm ?" Ww " 0ie ,)
ll'de^na^^ 1 , 'ariinle
g";'* m >s demandsan and l as Mr. ^artiste
?«rrts.x , s
Mr. Mr. C.rbiu,- i»erkin» *il proceed* .III l« then Milr to «... grow
iviUy and harc ^ ti( . at Ule ha ,„ a
speaking of the silver-using coun
tries, he says:
“They have lost half their wealth,
Kvery * man of these ■' people who had
th ^
- ally ™ a ,*«
America? America has puts dollar
lbty hLe nave t7t"tt lost ineir ^an wca iu. ^
,° f c " ur ^ : they hay0 wi “ :n every
strong and rep^nat.ve government
has done every thing in their power to
prodrn a this state of affairs. Out how
exceedingly w itty has Mr. lost 1 crams dollar gets
: when he asks: who a in
[ America ? U .th five cents cotton, and
business stagnation and pauperism
staring us in the face, we all must.feel
j ingiy appreciate the pungency of Mr.
' Perkins' wit. >0 one but as witty a
1 person us he would have thought %i
such Mr. a Perkins rollicking piece of humor,
then goes on to sav :
“The tail can’t wag the dog; 75,000,
000 people can’t put gold under the sil
ver of 1,'300,000,000 people. All of the
MOO,000,000 civilized people couldn't do
it.. The savages must take care of
themselves.”
“The tail can’t wag the dog." How
witty Mr. Perkins grows! in fact, he
grows mystical so in witty his that lie grows a little
exactly language, and we don’t
grasp his idea, if he has one.
Who wants to put gold under silver?
‘That is the very thing we don’t want.
We don’t want silver redeemed in and gold, if
want absolute bi-metallism,
ho means to say that it can’t bo done,
he displays his ignorance as well as his
wit. It has boon done in the past, and
Mr. Perkins’ 300,000,000civilized people
did it, and wo will confide to him an¬
other faet—if the 75,000,000 people of
this country were to adopt free silver,
the rest of the “civilized quick, people" they would would
come to it mighty of “savages”’ for trade.
want a little the
Mr. Perkins when asked "What
would be the effect of free silver or free
coinage in America?" replied :
“Why, the Mexican and Chinaman
would semi their debased silver dollars
to our mint and get our dollars with
gold under them. When ! asked a
Mexican what he would do with free
coinage in the United, he said:
“1 Will take 1,000 Mexican dollars
' vorU ‘ *} Ml dollars, and get 1,000 A.heri
oan dollars, worth ifl.ooo Very soon
.you w‘H fhavo all out silvei and wo
will have
In ‘ ho first P lai:a > lf wo 1,11,1 { r ?" coln '
a S® there wouldn’t be any gold . under
our silver dollars, which Idea it seems
«“>> 1 Pf into Mr. Perkins head, and
as for that greaser Mexican, with whom
Mr. Perkins carried on this thrilling
.dialogue, lie ought to have boon sontto
slilVedgeville. There is more silver in
Mexican dollar than there is in an
American dollar. The tlio moment United we States, have
free silver coinage in
at that moment the price of silver go e.s
up all oyer the world, Why. m 181)0,
when there seemed a eei taint,y of n
silver bill passing silver went.up at
once everywhere to *1.20 an ounce, and
swa-rttrs uhhk
greaser evidently must not have been
ani intellectual phenomenon,
‘Is there enough silver alloat foi
commercial purpose, Mi. Perkins
watf asked. Ami tlion ho reaches tho
climax of his humor when he replies :
flootlefevitli “Ye^ too much. hob, I lie people aie
t. 1 ns »
with it. It is getting to be n nuisance,
Mr Perkins then ^s on to advise us
to follow the example tVnit of England, for
getting the faet Fmgland is the
creditor nation and American a debtor,
‘‘Don't coin any mme aUvnr lttlly UH ltnd we
"f, d u - Hays M, ‘ 1 orluns " ‘
“If the people would all agree with
have pnftttle donflihnu e m ms. It is the silly
P d!a<mssi*u that causes the
pome, amt poorer J»"
confidence in us, It. m Kli all right.
A great wit is Perluns. ha
Grange (.rapine,
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(Jan tlio ««odx lH> Hellvci eil.
Nothing is more plainly the disclosed at of
the present lime than terms
bind‘in the. executive chair, lie was
Urst to destroy silverjas a moneyunetal, tariff
wcoad, continue a protective im«l
,X. The lust eieetion was a genu
ine surprise to the parties of this eon-
tract and
It was not iiiteniled to attempt the de
structim, of the groan hack until the
11( . xt Congress convened, but the cm
..batie revolution at the noils last No
voruber made the present frantic effort
necessary. j(, The RL plan hHc:.ns adopted whh defeat to
a&l'^mlists u u to
and silveradvoeatCH wher
; i()m j nat ,. (1 . Doruoevats were to
aid lUSpnblieaus as they did in Kansas,
Colorado, and other States, in rnturn
for which Republicans were to aid
Democrats as tbey did In Texas, Ar
kanMaH una otherlocallth- s.
The scheme was to kill off all Fad
ing advocates of silver ami I’opullsm, plan
«' ld results prove that the
waH 8U( . 0e8(l f a l. Nothing save a eon
spiracy e'mbl between the two old parties
have resulted in such a series of
th coincidents! a „ (1 a l<it „ t,, declare them
more With the leading
silver men and Populist* absent in the
next Congress it was thought silver an retire easy
matter te demonetize and
the greenbacks. I bis was Urn scheme
which the last elm-lion upset. From
the time the extent of Democratic dis
* w( . n , kn „ w „ ,. verv ,. n ,. iyv of t | )U
administration ami its Wall »tro«t part
cars liave'beei, exe. t id in forcing u Coii
dltion where a demand for the ret.be
"'ent of the could be dc-
u!ws ^ |. or this object the
of bonds was made before (ion
trrtsHH commenced. For this purpose
irold is now belntf Kent out of tneeoun
try and another bond issue is threat
ened. President Cleveland is determ
ined to redeem Ills last pledge to the
moneypwners and will resort te any
measure lawful or unlawful to aeeom
plish it. The retirement of the green
wxs
X.ll £,“
stroved, J yet they are doing it in th
^,th . otfr / manner and expect to
rngc.l’constituency. tlmir treaciu rvBii to an out
X •’ National Watch
A railroaii suit of far-reauliing im
portaneo was institute'! fiy Simon liar.
/.ig, of New York, in the circuit court,
at Raltimore Thursday. The action
was brought through Marshal, Mar
bury & JJowden against the reorgani¬
zation committee of the Georgia South
era and Florida railroad and the Mer
___ of
cant lie Trust and Deposit Company, is tbe
Baltimore. The trust company
depository of the Is,rids and tlie with¬ pool¬
ing agreement. It is sought to
draw the bonds and to declare the pool
ing agreement null and void
A party of ... Americans umb-r , the ,i W/F lead
ership of Colonel Frank G. Grayson, of
Stamford, Conn., who sailed from Cata
gena, December 1. for the port oi
Quibden, on the Uulf of Daru n, dev
tiued for the < apio gold mine, in <_ti¬
wreck last Thursday.
AN ACTOR’S HAVEN.
How “Tlio Little Church
tlic Corner” Was Named.
“The Little Church Around the
ner" has become world famous,
very few know how It came to be called
by that name, or that Joseph Jefferson the
was indirectly responsible for
christening. death of George Holland,
Upon comedian, tlio Mr. Jefferson, who
the was Lin
a p ersonal friend, called upon
\vid< o\v anil at her desire sought the
minister of the church which slio at¬
tended, with the request that lie olli
ciate at. the funeral of Mr. Holland, as
it was dosiroahlo that it should take
place in a public place the of worship friends in
order to accommodate many
of the deceased, who wished to pay
their last respects to the dead. "Some¬
thing,” said Mr. Jefferson, "gave me
tlio that impression Mr. Holland that I had actor. best mention I did
was an
so in few words, and concluded by
presuming that probably this fact
would make no difference. I saw.
however, by the restrained manner of
the minister and an unmistakable
change in the expression of his face
that it would make, at least to him. a
great deal of difference. After some
hesitation lie said ho would be com¬
pelled, if Mr. Holland had been an
actor, to decline holding tlio service at
the church.
“While bis refusal to pe rionii the
funeral rites for my old friend ml would
have shocked me under ordinary cir¬
cumstances, the fact that it was made
in the presence of the dead mull's son
was more painful than I can describe.
1 turned to look at the youth," contin¬
ued Mr. Jefferson, "and saw his eyes
filled with tears. I was hurt for iny
young friend anil too indignant with
the man to reply, so I rose to leave the
room. 1 paused at the door and said:
•’ 'Well, sir, 111 this dilemma is there
in i other church to which you can
direct me from which my friend can be
bin riod ?’
“He was a
eliureh around the corner where I
might get it done,’ to which I an
Nwo.iod," said Mr. Jefferson :
"‘Then if this ho so, God bless the
little church around tlio cornet' and
so I left the house. "
formed The minister important had unwittingly christening, per¬ and
an
iiis baptismal name of "Thu I.iltle
Church Around Urn Corner" clings to it
to this day.
An Object Lesson.
In an Interview with Fredrick Alter,
of Cincinnati, in March, irt'.Kl, Grover
Cleveland said : “This country is going
lo have the hardest times it lias expo
rieiieod for many years. * * » But
1 don’t Intend to raise my hand to pro
vent it. What this country needs and
must have is an object lesson. We
must have luird limes mid business fail
urcs and bankruptcy distress before and Congress a curtain will
amount of
realise its duty and country perform it. object 1 pro
povj to give the \ an
lesson*’ ' ibev # ’‘*vu been
.tt the ttete .'fi'eiktnii** purnorMr '!,'!wEi'U’TO
*r ”1**“
,
in uuBuredg *« bt a*i tour i*n<
ties, have been quoted and and have com men finally I
on by hundreds slued,
found their wa.y into one of tlio lead¬
ing magazines of the country, all with¬
out protest or denial. Therefore,
sturtllng and improbable fairly be presumed us they ap¬
pear, they may made. to
nave been
H curious to I'lim
pletely the great political "I Am" of
November, ’02 and March, '00, himself Ignores
all means and agencies chastisement except
in laying this needed upon
tbe people. The work lias been well
done. Courts, Cabinet, Congress, leglslult army
navy, State Governors and ires
have bt •en so many senseless pawns for
the hand of nlliclal omnipotence to
move at pleasure. His ominous words
caused public uoidideme to tremble
like a reed shaken Dy the wind. The
grip of financial contraction sunt the
circulation from tlie extremities and
congested the head and heart of tlie ua
tion within thirty days. Money ecn
tors careened' and trembled, furnace
fires flickered and died out ; wheat and
cotton languished and died, and tramps
spraug up instead! tlio stubby beard
and ragged limbs of labor became stub
bier and more ragged; tollers and
toilers’ wives and children grew gaunt
and wolfish, and the hideous tramp,
tramp, tramp of both Sherman’s and
Cloyelund's bummers resounded from
ocean to ocean and from lake te gulf, tlie
all for what? All Id demonstrate
f.'IHG and certainly with which, by a
little determined effort on the part of
otto man, nn i entire nation of intelli¬
gent, Independent p>-opln ran be pros
ti nted at the feet of the British Lion
and the Golden Calf. Ncport News.
Till? KANSAS IIOVVK.
Tin; Governor Make# iui I n!<•**
out in ir Ulwovcry.
Ever nlnce the popultotH #ot control
of KaiiNHft some two years tttfo the Ke
pnblieanM have kept up a eonntant
howl about how the htato had been
ruined in Hh finance* and it* credit de
htroyed. The newly elected governor,
Morrill, is (since a republican, his election) and that lie ban the
discovered managed. lie
State has been well
; iy ! is safe truth that ho
It. to ha of iy an a
large a measure prosperity, so rapid
an accumulation of wealth and sur*
rounding physical comforts has nevpi
before been realized from a like m
vestment of money and labor In the
hi dory of human endeavor an ha been
accomplished in If annas.
“The endowment of our educational
institutions ba been managed administration by wist
legislation and prudent of other
known in the experience grand total no of all
State until we. have a
funds sacred to education of * 1
There have been < instructed '\0HH pub
lie bool houses.’ The governor place*
Kansas in the forefront in the educa
tional sphere and ijuotes frtnn statis
ties to show that tlie State debt b
practically wiped out#
Monopoly newspapers bread are making the a
great howl for cheaper for
masses !■ the go's! old Roman days
the people who had stolen all the prop¬
erty Unit the people had created dis
tribuled bread among the manses, and
thus kept them down when iUs-.ati»fie<l
with tin-, condition in wliie'i Providence
had plated them. Oh, yes ; feed 'em
cheap bread and charity soup. That’s
what Un-y vole for. In Germany pre
pared sawdust is being used to a very
great extent in making bread for poor
Somehow. <irover couldn't nee
thing to admire in tlie action of
mir-Ferier.— LaGrange Graphic.
NO. 7.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
*
WIIAT THE LAW MAKERS IN
CONGRESS ARK DOING.
Populists and Silver Men Mas¬
ters of a Very Interesting
Situation.
The silver men in Congress are mas¬
ters of the financial situation to the ex
tent oi being able to prevent legisla¬
tion they do not want, but there is lit¬
tle probability of tlieir power extend¬
ing any further; hence, the certainty
that, there will be no financial legisla¬
tion at tiiis session. There is a scheme
on foot to lot the whole question rest
until a few days before the close of the
session and then to attempt to rush a
bill through the House and the Senate
discretion authorizing the issue of bonds at the
of the Secretary of the Treas¬
ury. This scheme is the result of a
combination of those Democrats and
Republicans who think nearly ulike
upon financial questions, and will, as
a matter of course, be opposed by the
sliver men.
Among the Viiils introduced and re¬
ferred was one by Mr. (.'handler (Re¬
publican), the of New Hamnshirc, to pre¬
spatches vent wrongful from telegraph taking of news de¬
wires. or telephone
Another displacement occurred
1 liurainy, when Mr. Jarvis, of North
Carolina, x Democrat, who had held the
seal made vacant, by the death of Sen¬
ator Vance, introduced and made way
for Ills successor, Mr. Pritchard, who
lias been recently elected by the legis¬
lature to till Senator Vance’s unexpir¬
ed term. Mr. Pritchard is a Republi¬
can and upon lining sworn in, he took
a seat next to Mr. Chandler, who sub¬
sequently Mr. Jarvis offcred.'a resolution to pay
#M. I0 for bis last two days’
service, which resolution was immedi¬
ately agreed to.
'1 lie State of North Carolina lias not
been represented by a Republican in
the Senate since reconstruction period,
Senator John Pool's term having ex¬
pired twenty-two-years March ago. On the
fourth of next Mr. Pritchard
will have a Populist for his colleague,
in the person of Mr. Butler, who wa*
elected at the same time as himself, to
succeed Senator Ransom (Democrat).
The Hawaiian question was kept up
'I hursday Viy a speech from Mr. George,
or Mississippi, against the Lodge bill
proposing annexation, and by a reso
jutimi braska, by in air favor Allen of immediate (Populist), stops of Ne- for
annexation.
ensiou bills outlie calendar wore
taken up anil twenty-one were passed,
""dueling the senate bills granting
pensions of #75 a month to the widows
’’mi Adl /' an er, Commodore
L'.'JF, *f, , ,, la J or General Carroll,
’ •'
•tuu , SMI dollars a month to the widow
of Lieu tenant lommande, Hinnies, of
u >e ' iav .V. and Brigadier General Wes
*"*,
1 “* *w 4ii«...i if* Urn *
, "Ousteu and Northern 1, iiixul
„I
"nipanv to cons tract and .tain
bridge* bayou across Galveston bay, Buffalo
ami Clear creek, in Texas, was
taken from the calendar and passed.
The Ilouifi.
Beside i tmssing a resolution author¬
izing of an investigation of the manage¬
ment flu- oil lees of the architect of
the eupitol, the house Thursday did
nothing but consider in committee of
the whole the sundry civil appropria¬
tion bill, which came over from the
day before.
The policy Of the war department In
abandoning outlying military posts
and concentrating the army Mississippi In anil
near lar go cities and the
river Improvement offered themes for
the personal debate of the day, but no
change was made in the bill in regard
te either of them. Eight Uiousaud
dollars were added to tlio bill to
clone tin- ground of the arsenal at Co¬
lumbia, Tenn.
Thu item for tlio improvement of the
Mississippi which river evoked a discussion in
Mr. Washburn (Republican), of
Iowa, said he objected to the diversion
of funds under the plea of public Im¬
uml provement enterprises. to purely private purposes
Nine out of every
ten dollars npprojiriated for the Missis¬
sippi pended river, ho ussertud, had been ex¬
on the hanks of the river, td
tlie neglect of the bed.
denied Mr. Money that this (Democrat), the of Mississippi, and
was case as¬
sorted that the benefits of tlio improve¬
ment of tlie Mississippi river did not
accrue to tlio people of the lower val¬
ley, but largely to those of the North¬
western (states. It gave them wate
communication with Europe, by which
their products were transported to
market. He hail himself seen vessels
loaded at New Orleans for Liverpool
with grain from Uiut gentleman’s own
State.
An amendment offered by Mr. Sayre
was agreed to directing that 11,500,01X1
of the Mississippi river appropriation
be used in the employment of movable
jettien and atccl rainsons in the be- re
movul of barn and obstructions
tween the mouths of the Missouri and
Ohio rivers.
by 'Jim Mr. following’ amendment, New offered
Kay (Republican), of York,
wan agreed to :
“lt shall be unlawful for any clerk
,,f any court of the I'nitcd States to
include in his emolument account or
return any fee or fees not actually
earned and due at the time nuch ac
count or return is required actually by law earned to
mad* - , and no fees not
Khali be allowed in any such account.”
This amendment is an outcome of the
Congressional investigation of .Judge
Ricks, of Ohio, and the testimony of
witnesses as to the practice in vogue in
offices of some of the clerks of the
| nib d States courts.
How to lt« Happy.
Are yon almost disgusted
With life, little mau?
I will tell you a wonderful trick
That will bring you contentment
If any thing can—
Do something for somebody, quick ;
Do something for somebody, quick !
; Are you awfully tired
With play, little girl?
Weary, discourage^ the loveliest ami sick?
I'll tell you
| I Game in for the world
Do something somebody, quick ;
Do something for someltody, quick !
—Guardian.
'
! Mr. William O'Brien, M. P., has
! written a letter to the Freeman’s
| Journal ened in the stating west that of Ireland. a famine is threat¬
