Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188?, September 10, 1880, Image 2
sillily uni* Maximal IRss^jeSgiec,
—Ex-Congressman
Indiana, does not admit a doubt of ^FDepi-
ocratic Yictoiy in that State. -
—The debtpaycrs of Davidson county,
Tennessee, have determined to run Hon.
Neill S. Brown for State Senate^
—General B. F. Butler bas been invited
to address a Democratic mass meeting in
New York next week, and will probably
accept. !-*'*•" f )/ )
—Thompson and Thompson, each with
a p, i« tire Democratic ticket in Massa
chusetts for governor and lieutenant gov
ernor.
—Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Gov. John
M. Palmer and Hon. James C. Robertson
have entered actively into the Illinois
canvass.
—Senator Blaine took to Maine, it is
said, the Utter part of $100,000 contribu
ted by business men toward the defeat of
the Fusionists.
—The Montgomery Advertiser pre
dicts only a third of a crop of cotton in
that part of Alabama. The worms have
played havoc with the bolls.
—The St. Albans Messenger (Republi
can,) says the Vermont campaign is pret
ty warm for a “dress parade,” as it was
termed by Senator Blaine.
—The latest convert to the Democracy
is ex-Treasurer Spinner. The Republi
cans will now doubtless attempt to prove
that his signature on the greenbacks was
treasonable. It was certainly a remark
able signature.
—It is proposed to have Senator Bayard
or Speaker Randall to speak in front of
the custom-house or treasury building, in
New York, at an early day, in reply to
Secretary Sherman’s recent allegation that
if General Hancock is elected the govern
ment will be bankrupted within a year
thereafter.
—A London correspondent of the New
York Bulletin, calls attention to the im
portant fact that the British railways dis
used during the first six months of the
current year dividends $7,500,000 in ex
cess of those for the corresponding period
in 1S79; a striking proof, certainly, of the
steady return of the country to business
prosperity.
—■The Montgomery (Ala.,) Adeance,
published and edited by colored men.
says: “Fraud is the cry of the Republi
can papers of the North about the Demo
Cratic party of Alabama. Go on—sing
on as much and as long as you please;
we colored men aided the Democracy in
rolling up the large majority, and don’i
yon forget it; we are satisfied,”
Costly Eggs.—Win. A. "Welsh,
lovo.smitten youth of Philadelphia, im
agined that Miss Georgie Parker, an ac
tress, “had not treated him right,” so last
week, whilst the young lady was enacting
her role on the stage of the WalnutStreet
Theatre, young Welsh ungallantly threw
a couple of spoiled eggs at her. Miss
Parker had Welsh arrested, and he has
just compromised the matter by paying
her $500 for tbe insult.
Stalwart Sentiments.—Judge Rich
ardson, of the Court of Claims, a sta!
wart of the stalwarts, said to a Massa
chusetts friend: “It looks as though Han
cock would be elected, and I hope he will
be. He would make a better President
than the other man.” Senator Logan
said only two or three days ago to a friend
Who asked him what he thought of the
situation: “I am afraid they’ve got Gar
field.”
—Business a flairs in Louisiana are in a
better condition now, it is claimed, than
at tfny time since the war. Leading mer
chants of New Orleans say that their
sales have increased 30 to 100 per cent.,
and that business in July was as good as
that of January, which is something unu
sual in the South. Large manufactories
have been started in that city and in dif
ferent parts of tbe State, and people arc
devoting themselves more than ever to
ndustries rather than to politics.
—Governor Lowe, of Maryland, in a
late speech at Fredericks, expressed a be
lief that General Hauoock would receive
a larger majority than any President.for
twenty years. The leaders of the Grant
party, said be, do not desire the election
of Garfield, and would therefore vote for
Hancock. They will, however, he
thought, make every effort to secure the
next Congress, and at the end of four
years, by effecting a great revolution in
the public sentiment, they expect to elect
Grant to a third term, and then indefinite
ly. If tlio Democratic party, said he, is
unsuccessful in tills contest, he saw no
hope for it in the future. But he had no
fears of the result. New York, he be
lieved, would give Hancock from at least
fifty to sixty thousand.
John Sherman vs. John Sherman.
, The embarrassments of the Radical
statesmen this year are very great. The
New York Sim presents the case of Sher
man upon Sherman by putting the follow
ing extracts in juxtaposition:
From Sherman's speech in Cincinnati,
Augus, 30,18S0.
I hate never said one word impugning
Gen. Arthur's honor or integrity as
man and a gentleman, but he was not in
harmony with the views of the adminis
tration in the management of the custom
house. While I would not, perhaps,
have recommended his nomination, yet I
would vote for him for Vice President a
million times before I would vote for W.
H. English, with whom I serted in Con
gress.
From Sherman's letter to Chester A.
Arthur, Jan. 31,1S79.
Qross abuses of administration have
Continued and increased during your in
cumbency. Persons have been regularly
paid by you who have rendered^ little or
no service. The expenses of yoiir office
have increased, while its receipts have
diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in tbe
shape of bribes, have been received by
your subordinates in several branches of
tbe custom bouse, and you hate in no case
supported the effort to correct these abuses.
From Sherman's letter to the President
of the United States Senate pending
Merritt's confimation.
It is to be held that, to procure the re
moval of Mr. Arthur, it is sufficient to
reasonably establish that gross abuses of
administration have continued and in
creased during his incumbency; that
many persons have been regularly paid
on liis rolls who rendered little or no ser
vice; that the expense of his office have
increased, while collections have been di
minishing; that bribes, or gratuities In
tbe nature of bribes, have beeu received
by his subordinates in several brandies of
tbe custom bouse; that eSorts to correct
these abuses have not met his support,
and that he has not given to the duties of
the offloe the requisite diligent attention,
then it is submitted that the case is made
out. This form of proof the department
is prejxtrrd to submit.
Tiie Albany -Velcs says: “Aibauy is
for C ilquiit by a very laree majority, and
Doughgtty is more so. Who can deny
this'.’'’
The executive committee
primary election for Repi
the first ballot W. L. Spcrlin received 7(5
votes and B. J. Russell, 49; scattering, 41.
No one having obtained a majority of the
votes cast, another baTIot was takerT and
the names of B. J. Russel, R. C. Jackson
and G. F. West weie withdrawn. Mr. J,
i A. ^TcGregor was putin nomination. The
resultVas W. L. Spcrlin, 75; J. A. Mc
Gregor, 49; B. J. Russell, 4. Mr. Sper-
Jin was declared nominated.
Mr. T. W. Hammond introduced the
following resolutions whidi were unani
mously adopted:
Besotted, J, That .we, the people of
Baker countyj in mass meeting assembled,
do hereby endorse the entire administra
tion of Gov. Colquitt, aud do hereby prom
ise to sustain him with all -our strength
against his enemy. That iu the appoint
ment of ex-Governor Brownto the United
States Senate he acted wisely and in ac
cordance with the wishes of the people.
Resolved 2, TJiat the action of the
majority in the late Atlanta convention is
approved by us, it being tlic only action
they could have taken upder the circum
stances, tbe miuority having refused to
accord to the will of the majority, and
thereby defeating the will of the people.
That the responsibility of disrupting tbe
great Democratic party of-Georgia lies
with the minority, for which the people
will hold them to account.
Resolved. 3, That in ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown we find a man fully
able to represent tlje State of Georgia in
the United States Senate. Therefore, we
instruct our representatives in the next
general assembly, and they are hereby in
structed to use all fair aud honorable
means in baviug him elected to fill the
unexpired term of Gen. Gordon.
Characteristic*
The Globe-Democrat says:
The Republicans of Rutland, Vermont,
seem to be afflicted with supersensitive
ness. A torchlight procession in that city
abandoned a portion of its marching
route, and a fuJl-fledged editorial orator
declined to deliver a well-conned speech
the other night, simply because a Demo
cratic mob gathered around and hooted
and yelled. If it were in the South the
Republicans would be very happy to get
off with being hooted and cursed. If it
were in the South the Republicans would
be very happy to get off with being hooted
and cursed. If the Vermont Republicans
had beeu fired upon by a company of ku-
klux armed wirh double-barrelled shot
guns, tliey would afterward be better
qualified to sympathize with the brave
souls who have courage to be Republi
cans iu the South. The Vermont out
rage was a very tame affair by compari
son with every day occurrences in Mis
sissippi, Louisana and South Carolina.
This editor out-Herods Herod in his
mendacious statements. At this very
moment an active canvass is going on iu
South Carolina and Georgia, and colored
men hold their meetings and conventions
at will and without the slightest disturb
ance from any one. They also are invited
to attend the meetings of the whites,
and usually do so in considerable num
bers. Such stuff as the above is too trans
parent for belief, even in New England,
Happily, the thousands of Northern visi
tors who flock to the South every winter,
either for pleasure or health, are able to
see for themselves, and in this way tbe
bloody shirt lias lost its potent effect upon
tbe imaginations of the multitude. The
truth has come out at last and now for the
reaction at tlic polls in November.
The Beat Wiaman in the World.
All weakness does not belong to the
feminine gender. There are periods In
man’s life-time when he exhibits a greater
want of moral courage aud discretion than
women do. Usually, man appears weak
just at the point where woman manifests
the greatest strength. Hence the aphor
ism, “everybody has his weak points.”
Every man, in his weakness, dreams
that he has secured in 'the matrimonial
market “the best woman in the world.”
To him, in reality, she may be, and it is a
delightful delusion which his neighbors
permit him to enjoy to the fullest extent,
all the nhile knowing that he is mistaken
Far be it from the writer to interfere with
any man’s enjoyment in this matter. But
when “the best woman in the world” has
beguiled her lieged lord into the belief
that a trip to the mountains would
be so profitable to her and the baby,
and places tbe reasons for her goin
upon the ground that it would be so
pleasant for bim to fall back into his old
bachelor ways for a time, we must protest.
There may have been times when
would have been delightful to have re
turned to the frays of bachelordotn—es
pecially when the baby and little Johnnie
had the measles, and some of the other
children the whooping-cough—but not
now. The artless manner in which “the
best woman in the world” says that she
“hopes he will find plenty of things to
amuse him,” becomes almost heartless.
For in reality nothing amuses him. He
mopes about. The house is desolate, op
pressed by a dense silence and enwrapped
in gloom. The servants assume patroniz
ing airs, andentertaintheirrelatiousto the
remotest generation, at his expense. The
dost accumulates, and his linen becomes
demoralized and scattered, and everything
goes wrong. His solitary meals lack rel
ish, and arc served in a baphazzard fash
ion, the reverse of appetizing, ne longs
for any sort of companionship, and won
ders how Alexander Selkirk ever survived:
In fact, he feels about as miserable as a
pelican would in a wilderness or an owl
in a desert.
Thus time drifts wearily on, and his
pleasure is not enhanced in the least, or
his loneliness rendered more bearable by
tbe letters be receives from “the best wo
man in the world,” who assures him what
a glorious time she is having in the moun
tains, and bow Mr. Grizzlebeard admires
the baby, and the time is passlngso pleas
antly that she don’t know when she will
be at home. In fact, these letters have
a tendency to make bim desperate. He
would just like to get .bold of old Grizzle-
beard; he would snatch him bald in less
than two minutes. He is not hiving a
gloriousTime; Just the reverse; and he
wonders bow the baby looks, aud if “the
best woman in the world” is coquetting
with anybody. In fact, he is just as mis
erable as It is possible for him to be: He
becomes irritated, and is losing ground
morally, aud unless tbe return of “ the
best woman in tbe world” la early ac
complished, be will become as earthly as
the beast that perisbeth.
“The best woman in the world” is coin
ing home by tbe next train. Joy and
peace will reign once more.
Tbe Aibauy AdcertUer continues to
be mucb distressed and without tbe powj
er of making known tbe cause of its suffer
ing. Can it be that our ascetic content
pot ary b»s swallowed Jus cud?”
avail themselves of the abimdanimeans
at band to alleviate its condition. In
deed, their carelessness in ajlerent^yj^g*, F>
ulated community, would arnomit
criminality. • J L L la
“Just at the southern border of the city
is a vast track of swamp, covering proba
bly a dozen acres: The rank grass in it;
grown to an enormous height, has begun
to decay and to admit poison. The
swamp is too far from flowing water for
any or the rotten matter to pass off, atid
so it lies festering and purifying. A con
stant supply of the city drainage is al
lowed to empty near the swamp. The
sewer carrying off the larger part of this
refuse is open at the lower end, and has
beeu for weeks. Dirt is thrown up on
either side of it for a ways, to make it ap
pear that repairs are making.
The part that is open extends across the
lower part of the lot facing the President’s
grounds, and runs parallel and near the
road through the government park—the
most popular tjrive and walk in the city—
including the agricultural, Smitlisonian,
engraving and printing and botanical
garden grounds, and extending ftotn tbe
treasury to the capitol. Just east of tbe
swamp are several good-sized bays that
tbe tides do not affect now. They are
very shallow, and tbe stagnant water in
them is covered with a. thick green scum.
The employes-of tbe bureau of engraving
and printing, which is the nearest of the
government buildings to these bays, be
gat) to sufler from their poisonous effluvia
a fortnight or longer ago, and since then,
without exception, they have all suffered
from it. In many instances fever has re
sulted, in others a very dangerous type of
malaria, approaching typhoid. The clerks
of the agricultural, treasury, war, navy
and State departments, all within easy
distance of the poisonous .locality, have
also been afflicted to a greater or less ex
tent. Throughout the city,, .physicians
say, malaria never before made such rav
ages. It has extended even to the up
lands, which are usually considered safe
from it, and has at this early stage as
sumed the form of an epidemic.
The beautiful streets are littered, every
one of them, with refuse so offensive that
one canhbt walk them without being nau
seated. The odors of Roosevelt street are
redolent in tbe choicest localities. Street
sweepers which made daily rounds in
cool weather are seen no longer. Water
ing-carts, too, were once plentiful, and af
ter them the streets were as fresh aud
clean as a swept floor. The watermen
seem to have been given a vacation. Tlie
trouble with the sweeping was that the
pious authorities sublet it to impious
contractors, who quarreled over the mer
its of a sweeper, and to settle the matter,
so as to offend neither, the authorities
thought best to stop the sweeping. Then
something liappened to the garbage men,
Nobody can find out what, unless they,
too, wan ted to go to the mountains. At any
rate, for two whole weeks there has been
no garbage collected in this delectable
city. Consequently every back yard bas
become a breeding-place for disease.
Ea ikoatfiBAteaT"^
Editors Constitution: L'noli
ue of August 27th an^artiole
Voice from Southwest Gey
:cli I think the writer, to say._^_
t, takes an unfair view of the s
the railroad freight tariffs. My i
_.anding of the rates proposed b?*he
tral railroad, under the St%ta comini<
eris circular NoiTO, i^that' roe rates
cotton would stand about. aslQlfows: ■
perJOO lbs,
COLD-HAND OF MORBECK.
BY B..M. RANKING.
I tell this tale as nearly as possible in
the wordsfof my -friend, the Rev. John
Chalmers,^sometime rector of Gilthwaite^
nl ’h) thcfcounty of Durham.
• * ' < *
v Did I ever tell you the history of Lucy
Gbdge? Ah well, it is a sad one, but
interesting far alLthatrf-sn-sLir
my boy—tbe nights get cojucr, I
is/spring, instead!'of warmer—
our pipe, andyou shall hear it.
iucy! If you had seen her even
saw her you would have said
Barnom on the Situation.
A dispatch from Philadelphia to the
Boston Herald, gives tlie following as
Chairman Bamum s views of the political
situation:
He went to Ohio and Indiana a month
ago, laid grounds for the most complete
organization of both States aud will open
the most aggressive campaign there. The
preliminary work lias been most ef
fectually but quietly done, aud, instead pf
concentrating on Indiana, he will compel
the Republicans to make a desperate cost
ly struggle to save Ohio. Baruunt is now
in Ohio", and has been there for three
days, although it has not beeu publicly
uunounced, and he is there on business.
He is fully satisfied that Ohio is a doubt
ful State, and hopes to startle the Repub
licans by his bold and hopeful efforts to
carry it. He now feels certain of both
the Cincinnati districts, and, as Cincinnati
has carried the State in every close con
test since 1875, he regards it as fairly de
batable, aud he will throw bis best speak
ers and his hitherto well-husbanded
means equally into Ohio and Indiana for
a 30-day fight. The loss of Ohio to Gar
field in October, or a nominal Republican
majority there for the State ticket, would,
in his judgment, carry New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, New
Hampshire, Wisconsin, California, Ne
vada and Oregon without costly cam.
paigns and by large majorities. “You
may rely .upon tbe statement that before
tbe middle of September tlie Republican
leaders will understand wliat Bamum bas
been doing, and they will be more ear
nest in their defensive campaign iu Ohio
than in their aggressive campaign hi In
diana. Bamum’s theory about Indiana
is, that it is naturally a Democratic State,
and that tbe Democrats need only to sura
mop their own strength on the home
stretch to carry it by a decided majority.
He has been there, and English is in per
fect accord with Barnuih’s policy to have
every voter cantassed. The Republicans,
he thinks, have boen running a shouting
and costly campaign in Indiana for a full
month, and, when Bamum and English
shall be ready to advance their whole line
at once, that the resources of the Repub
licans will bq. largely -exhausted, .and,
with-defiant assaults made simultaneous
ly in Ohio and Indiana, *they will be un
equal to the struggle. In commenting
upon tliis dispatch, Col. McClure says
editorially- “Those .who know Mr. Bar-
mini will understand that he is not an
idler or a dress-parade politician. Ue is
of tbe TiMen school, silent, sagacious and
tireless, and the first visible results of his
organizing policy are given in New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, while the
silence of his guns in Ohio and Indiana is
explained by ids desire to fight the great
battle and expend his munitions of war
but once to decide tbe issue.” '
■ ■ I4li«
A macing Kan Faund.
John M. Benson, a dealer in hats and
men’s furnishing goods, at Montgomery,
Ala., left his home on August 1st, says
the New York Tribune, to come to this
city to buy a fall stock of goods. He ar
rived here about tbe lOtb, aiul went to tbe
St. Denis noteL After he had been there a
few days the hotel man noticed that there
was something wrong with him, and tele
graphed to his friends at Montgomery that
he was not well anil that they would bet
ter look after him. Ou August 29th Mr.
Benson went to Manhattan beach. On
his way back, however, be refused to give
up his ticket to the gateinan at Bay Ridge
and was sent in consequonce by the boat.
That was the last seen of him until last
Monday.
In the meantime Mrs. Paul, his sister,
who was visiting'in Connecticut, and his
younger brother from Montgomery, had
come to this city in search of him, and
finding that he had left the St. DeDis,
bad applied to the police. On Monday
night Dr. Peter Hull, of Jamaica, L. I.,
found a man silting on the curbstone in
that village, who said that bis name was
John Benson. Dr. Hull, who haA seen
an account of his disappearance iu the
New York papers, immediately telegraph
ed to his friends iu this city, yesterday
morning two friends of Mr. Benson. J. II.
Farley, of this city, and H. C. Davidson,
of Montgomery, went to Jamaica and
brought bim to tbe city. He was taken to
the St. Denis hotel, where he will be cared
for by his brother and sister. He was
better last night, although very much
prostrated. Benson had very little money
at the time of bis disappearance, and dur
ing bis absence he bad been wandering
around Long Island iu a half-starved con
dition.
Governor Colquitt ftiVone of the War-,
ren family on his side—Lott Warren/
Esq., of Albany—young but brainy, firm
and influential-
Tbe question finally occurs: Was Mr.
Norwood, in tbe committee of nine, nomi
nated by a two-thirds rule? Read the
records.* j
pounds, or 25
tion aga
Valley.
dowtr&sTTuthbcit. __
Tliis write: - makes a comparison of tlie
increase of rates from Fort Valley and Ma
con 3n the experimental rule of tlie com
missioners heretofore adopted,treating the
Central and Southwestern railroad as one
continuous road. I presume the commis
sioners have wisely concluded, after thor
ough investigation, that this . rule was in
jurious to the Central railroad and cer
tain localies, so much so, in fact, that the
company could not earn a dividend under
it, or the localites against which 1 it discrim
inated, hold their legitimate trade. Macon
merchants have had but little to sayrelative
to the discriminations against them under
rule No. 1 fixed by the State commission
ers, and we are glad to see that from ■
sense of justice to this city, as well as to
the railroads interested, they have issued
circular No. 10. The city of Macon
largely depends upon the business created
by the termination of the railroad lines
here as separate roads, just as they were
found when the commissioners went iiito
office and issaed the order consolidating
them, and it would be an act of the gross'^
est injustice to deprive her of this •advan
tage—an advantage enjoyed by every city
in tlie South of like location.
The existence of many of the towns of
southwest Georgia doe3 not reach- back
of the construction of the Southwestern
railroad. Aud they, as well as those ex:
is ting prior to that time, have steadily ad
vanced iu prosperity under the same or
similar adjustment of rates. In fact, the
rates now proposed show a reduction
from those in operation prior to the rates
fixed by the State commissioners, and will
give southwest Georgia a better system of
through rates than other towns similarly
situated in the Slate. It is usually the
custom iu fixing rates to take the local
rates from the intermediate town to the
first terminal poiut, and-add it to the
through rate from the latter point, to
make tbe through rate from the interme
diate.
But in this case, on cotton for instance,
as has been shown, the cities and towns
of southwest Georgia will have the advan
tage of twenty-five ceuts per hale <-to
points beyond Macon. : «
The writer of the article, “A voice from
southwest Giorgia,” concedes that the
roads should have rates that will produce
them a fair revenue. I ask him to sug
gest a plan -other than that proposed rai
der circular 10, by which this revenue can
be earned. ". - Macon.
August 27,1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The
foregoing communication was sent to the
Atlanta Constitution, on the 27th of
August, with the request that the same
be published as an act of simple justice to
Macon, and the Central railroad. From
some cause, best known to the “able edi
tors” of that sheet, no notice was taken
of the matter, nor has it been possible to
get a reply to our inqu'riCs concerning
tbe reasons lor Its non-appearance. You
will perceive, from the communication
that called out the foregoing reply (which
I trust you will also publish) the writer
in the Constitution does Macon a great
injustice—for part of which at least that,
paper's owu typo, I thiuk is responsible,
for I believe there is an error in the print.
I have read the Constitution for many
years, and this is the first time I have
known its editors refuse to correct an in
justice to a large class of its readers
What its motive for refusing is, I cannot
say.
I might add further that the writer from
Southwest Georgia (if he is from tljcnce)
forgets the fact that Macon is a competi
tive point; that the commission has but
little, it any, power to regulate freights to
Charleston, aud that each road ought to
have a schedule so adjusted that a divi
dend can be realized from tbe freights on
that road, which properly belong to it.
Macon, Sept. 4, 1880. *
The following is the article referred to
The Railiioad Fiieigiit Tariff—A
Voice fkom Southwest Georgia.—Ed
itor Constitution: In your issue of the 25th
inst., you state that Macon favors the
changes in railroad tariff authorized by
commissioners’ circular No. 10, because
they are Slowed a difference of 50 cents
per 100 pounds on cotton. This figure
greatly underrates Macon’s advantages in
this proposed change. The difference in
her favor is very considerable, when we
come to carefully examine tbe rates. To
illustrate: present rates on cotton from
Macon to Savannah is thirty-seven ceuts
per 100 pounds, from Fort Valley it-is
thirty-nine cents. Tlie proposed change
makes Macon’s rate forty cents, an ad
vance of eight per cent, while Fort Val
le) ’s rate is changed to as much as fifty-
two cents, an advance of thirty-three and
one-third per cent., making the advance
on Fort Valley’s rate twenty-five and one
third per cent. greater than the advance
on
This discriminating rale virtually forces
•eveiy bale of cotton shipped from South
west Geotgia through Macon to the coast
to pay a toll of at least fifty cents per bale
to pass this new toll gate. Southwest
Goorgia is a unit in fighting such a dis
criminating procedure on the part of the
commission. We readily admit that Ma
con’s Ave millions of property and her
citizens have rights that are entitled to
consideration and protection, but we
cb.im they have no rights that rise higher,
or are not common with the rights of the
many millions of property and the scores
of thousands of citizens of Southwestern
Georgia. 'IVe claim to be the supporters
of the Southwestern railroad. It is from
us she receives her revenue. And we arc
at a loss to understand why the railroad
officials should combine with a wealthy
city to oppress and paralyze the commerce
of her patrons. We do not antagonize the
true interests of our railroad. We will
cheerfully bear our proportion of any ad
vance the commission sees necessary to
gire the railroad a rate that will yield
them ft fair revenue, but do most earnest
ly protest against anything like an un
equal advance, which at once in
augurates tbe very discrimination that
called tlie commission into existence,
You state Atlanta is very wisely keeping
her mouth shut in this light. I doubt the
wisdom of such a coarse. If Atlanta
hopes to enjoy much of the trade of south
west Georgia, she must not refuse to open
her mouth and purse in aiding southwest
Georgia in lighting this circular No. 10,
for it erects * wall between Atlanta and
southwest Georgia that the capital and
business energy of your live city cannot
very well scale. Now is Atlanta’s oppor
tunity for this trade, for Macon’s position
in this fight is not such, as to foster and
perpetuate her business relations will:
this section of Georgia. We look upon it
as au effort on her part to obtain an uudue
advantage of a people who has largely
contributed to lier former prosperity.
Should your city, by keeping her mouth
shut, let this opportunity pass unimproved,
your commercial agents soliciting our
business will be met with tbe question;
What did Atlanta do iu tbe fight ou cir
cular No. 10?
Southwest Georgia.
—-A New York Herald special says that
(here are indications that tbo Democrats
Lave praclioally abandoned tbe contest in
Maine, and this state of things is attested
by 1 the withdrawal of men and money
from tbe canvass there for more effective
use iu Indiana. Democratic speakers re
turning from Maine say without qualifica
tion that f>e fusion movement was a fail
ure, 'and they tatve no hope of success.
The contest will be continued simply by
local speakers.
py, and-,to- live out a placid,
of wife apdjhotLdriiood whh-
trouble or even excitement
cent, pretty lass. It was not.at all tbe
sort of face that a man would aream’of as
being connected with a tragedy, but I
doubt if you ever heard of a bitterer trage
dy than that I have to tell you. Do'you
remember Morbeck Hall, the great house
you exclaimed at when we were driving
yesterday, though you could only get a
glimpse of it in the distance through the
trees ?
That was Lucy’s home, and it has been
on my mind to tell her ever since. She
was my niece ou the mother’s side, for the
last of the Gedges of Morbeck, as old a
family as any between Tweed and Trent,
married my youngest sister; it was a love-
match, to be sure, for she had riot a stiver,
though ’you know lad, the Chalmers are
as good a line as any ill thoxountiy-side,
and they were a happy couple, God rest
them! But there never was but one child,
my niece and goddaughter Lucy, and her
dear mother was taken when she was but
a little bj£ of a thing; so she grew up her
father’s pet and plaything, and Iris chief
companion; for he would not put auy
woman ’In my dead sister Marian’s place
—and the older she grew the bonnier she
became, till, wliat with her beauty and
what with the tales of her father’s weatlh,
the heads of half the young men of the
country were turned by tbo heiress of
Morbeck.
Weli, so it fell out tbat just before she
grew to nineteen, old John Geilge died,
and when liis will came to be read, it was
found,tliat Lucy, as was just, would in
herit everything when* she came of age,
saving a tew legacies to old servants and
the like; but meanwhile she was left un
der the joint guardianship of myself and
her father’s sister,Mrs. rostlethwaite, and
could not marry without our joint con
sent. Of course the poor child could uot
come to the rectory here with no compan
ion but an old bachelor like me; beside?
it seemed wrong that the hall should be
shut tip so long as there was one of tbe
race to live in it, so it was arranged that
this aunt of hers should come and live
there with her as chaperon and what not.
She made a great talk did Aunt Fostle-
thwaite, about the sacrifice she was mak
ing * itl burying herself in such?
an out if the way corner of the world; but
for any part I thought she w’as in the luck
of it, to be living at and manager of
Morbeck Hall, with such a companion as
my dear lassie, instead of eking out her
widow’s jointure amongst a lot of oldtab-
bles in some stuffy London street. But
to do her justice, I think the woman
meant well; and she was kind to Lucy
after a fashion of her own, for I do be
lieve she loved the poor child as much as
she could love any one but herself. Af
ter all, she was a Gedge of Morbeck, and
noblesse oblige you know, my boy. She
was just one of those women—I daresay
you have seen plenty of them in Loudon
—who can’t forget at fifty that they were
beauties at half tbe age, arid who have
managed by hook and by crook to get
their own way all their lives.
I suppose her husband knocked under for
peace and quietness’ sake, and site never
had any children to worry, so she came
to domineer over Lucy with all the de
light of having found a new pastime. I
remember one time when she was ill, and
like the obstinate fool she was, wouldn’t
obey the doctor; she said that she had had
her own way all her life, and was not g<
iug to be contradicted at her time of lift
I thought I should have choked when that
slipped out; but it was no laughing mat
ter, lad, the mischief she made through
tliat way of hers!
Well, to make a long story short, tlie
auut had firmly determined that her
r.iece should marry some scapegrace of a
fellow whose name I don’t remember,
dou’t want to—I never saw him; his chief
recommendations were, a broken consti
tution, an empty purse, a distant rela
tionship to tbe late Tom Postlethwalte,
and an old title. So madam bad settler
that bonnie Lucy Gedge should be my
lady, and bolster up my lord’s falling
fortunes with the broad lands and full
coffers of Morbeck Hall. Unfortunately
for her schemes it takes two to make a
bargain, and my niece was as sensiole a
girl as ever stepped iu shoe leather, so it
was open war between them, or rather
passive resistance on Lucy’s part, and a
course of alternate nagging and wheed
ling on her aunt’s,
open air, and Lucy,
eve^willtfl plaid thri
run
rriage
-arms aroi
seemed tp charm
went id togefc
, iofckii
g lovelier than Van Loom, an officerinthe King’s Guards
n over her go,
town thtt
r herself, a!
d my neck,’
ay all feai
aud bef<
eaqj£ other
i-need wis
How bright and cherry she was,
Her spirits were almost wild
. ever hear of what our
1 being foy?—thatsud-
f spirits,' from no particular
cause, which they.hnld.ln he a presage-aL
mish?p to the person dm whom it is seen ?
I tlririk' Lucy Gedge was for that eve
ning.
au end at last, aud
thiuk of moving;
It-was-inst after that, when Mr. Ar
thur came suddenly to3forbeck7justloFa
visit, every one thought, and to court Mrs.
. ... , Alicia, and fo: a whole week everythin"
sis had.somQAYay.ta^OfcAniLthe.raadAma. -seemed. tn-gQAwimminglv between timm 3
none-of-the-bestr-after-the-weather-we bad- -But-one-evening r there-cMB*«*w*4®4lie-
ll non Ravin". T.,,pv grnso t/- nntnoM 1 1, ... -
The dinner cafne to
it’hegaii to be time, to i
knew the main reason of tlie girl’s
steadfastness well enough—she would
tell an\ thing to her old uncle John, bless
her! There was true love aud faithful
troth between her and young Hugh
Nelson, of Giltbwaitc; and he was of my
own blood too, though not so Uiear as
Lucy; and I bad watched him grow up
from a bright mischief-loving boy to the
handsome, brave young squire, for whom
every one bad a smile and a good word-
just tlie man, I thought, to make my
darling happy. But, a31 told you, they
could do .nothing independent till Lucy
was of age, so there was nothing for it
but to wait, and they did wait patiently,
whilst we three kept the secret, aud how
the poor girl put up w>tU all that old
woman’s vagaries all the time will always
be a wonder to mol
However, time slipped away, and the
twenty-first birthday came, aud then, by
his advice, Hugh appeared at Morbeck
Hall, to greet his cousin and make a for
mal offer of his liaud and heart, and I
need not tell you that she took him then
and there. You should have seen Aunt
I’ostletliwaithe’s face! I thought she was
going to have a fit, but she thought better
of it, and after a torrent of abuse directed
at Hugh, some flowers of speech specially
devoted to me, and a general peroration
relating to ingratitude, conspiracy, and
the like, slie announced her intention of
washing her hands of the whole affair,
and going back to London as soon as her
boxes were packed—and precious glad
we all were, I can tell you, when they
wore brought down into the great hall
ready corded! I fancy she managed to
feather her nest pretty well dining those
two years! • -
So madam, having taken herself off in
dudgeon, there was nothing left to hinder,
and arrangements for the wedding were at
once set ou foot. It was to be a very
quiet affair at my owii little - church at
Gilthwaite, and of course I was to marry
them. So as it would have been tod far
for Lucy to drive in the morning, and be
sides that she could not well be married
from fier own great lonely house, we set
tled tha‘, I should fetch her over on the
previous evening to sleep at the rectory,
and that tlie wedding should take - place
from thence. And now comes tbe sad
and strange part of the story.
It was early In February—just a week
after Candlemas, as I remember only too
well—-when I arrived, late Sri. the gray
afternoon, at MorbqJk, where I was to
dine with my ward before we started for
Gilthwaite rectory. The winter had
been an uriusually severe one, even for
these parts; but In the last days of Jan
uary the frost bad brokeu up, aud it.
seemed aa if our old north-coutnry saying
as to a wet Candlemas was to be literal
ly carried out, fo? ever since tlie second,
when it had beeu one constant downpour,
there bad been a succession of mild,
muggy days, with au overcast sky and au
incessaut drizzle. As tbe carriage that
had been sent to fetch me drove up the
avenue in the failiug light qf the after
noon, there was something ju the aij that
seemed to weigh oue’s heart down; a
cold, dank.smell rose up from the soaked
earth where last year’s leaves lay rowing
under the bare branches that dripped
slowly as tbe thick mist clung arid crept
around them. But tbe feeling of depres
sion passed away as we drew up at the
open hall door, from which the ruddy
‘ glow of a great fire streamed out into the
been having. Lucy arose to prepare for
our journey, leaving me to finish my
glass of port by the fire, when, as she
readied tlie door of the room, sho turned
and said— ,
“Oh, uncle, I forgot to toll you; it is
such horrid weather, and the roads are so
bad, that I am going to have the carriage
•brought round to the garden door that
opens off the Broad Terrace. It will save
us half a mile.”
Then she went to put on her hat and
cloak; it was nothing to me which door
we went from, and in fact I felt rather
glad at the prospect of shortening our
journey, even by half a mile: so in due
time Lucy came back and we started oub
for the carriage. I must tell you that in
order to get out by way of the broad ter
race we had to traverse a little-used part
of the old house, and came out at last
through a long passage by a small pos
tern door, with a flight of several steps
outside. The unused rooms and the pas
sage smelt damp and fusty, and I was
glad to feel even the clinging outside air.
when the little door creaked open at last
to let us out. AsY -went down the steps,
they were so slippery with the wet mist
that it was all I could do to keep on my
legs, but Lucy tripped down after me
like a nymph and we reached the car
riage safely. We had- not gone far be
fore she stretched out her hand caressing
ly to me, and said, “Uncle John, are you
sure you are wrapped up warmly enough?
Your hand felt so cold just now as you
helped me down the steps.” '
“1 help you, my dear!”"said I. “I
never helped you; I had quite enough to do
to keep my owu legs!”
“Oh yes, uncle, dou’t you rem'ember ?
As I catne through the postern, you
stretched oat your hand and-led me down
the steps and it made me shiver all
tlirough—your hand was like ice! Are
you quite sure yon are wrapped up
enough ?”
I would have taken my oath in any
court of law that I had nothing to do
with the girl’s safe exit, and she. would
have sworn on the other side; so I held
my tongue, and allowed her fancy." You
know what old Sir- Samuel Tuke says—
“If she will, she will, you may depend
on’U
And if she won’t, she won’t, and there’s
anendon’t?”
So we rolled on, chatting of this and of
that until we readied what was the only
really serious obstacle to our drive.
There is a dip in the road, at the Bottom
of which runs a brook, with broad, level
meadows on the other side. In summer
time, or riven in ordinary weather, it is
just a bit of a beck tbat a child might
jump over; but when the floods are out it
will be a roaring torrent in half an hour’s
time with the moss-water coming from
the, moors. I felt just a little uneasy
about it, but nothing to speak of; we bad
to cross by a wooden bridge tbat had done
duty for a good many years in storm and
sunshine, only it did come into iny head
what a bother it would be if the bridge
should have been carried away, and we
should have ’to go back to Morbeck after
all. Just as we came to the beck, the
horses shied and stopped, in spite of all
the coachman could do to soothe or urge
them. So at last says he to the lad who
was beside him:
“Jump down, Jem, and see if the
bridge is all right.”
Down got Jem, and hunted about for
a while in the darkness; but all of a sud
den the mist lifted ou the other side of the
beck—which was roaring down in speat
by them—and there was a woman all iu
white beckoning under a big oak tree; so
he cried out:
“Isay, missus!”
She made no answer, but kept on that
waving of her hand, and Jem cried out
again—
“I say, missus, -can * we cross the
bridge? ”
Iu another moment he wa3 up beside
the coachman, saying, “Go on, George; I
can’t hear what she says, but she nods and
beckous to say it’s all right,” and we
drove ou. I can’t tell you how it hap
pened exactly, my dear boy, but just. as
we got to the middle of the bridge, there
was a horrible crash aud crackle, and we
were all struggling for dear life in tbat
hill torrent. 1 managed to get one of the
doors open, and dragged Lucy, drenched
and insensible, on to tbe wreck of tbe
carriage, and between us we got her to
shore. Both the horses were killed, part
ly by drowning in their traces, partly by
k.cking each other to death iu their agony,
I fancy; but George’, Jem and I managed
to rig up a sort of litter, and made the
best of our way back, with Lucy on it, to
Morbeck Hall. We got bet in and the
womenkind put her to bed and tbe doctor
was brought, but it was too late. Apart
from tbe shock and the cold, she had
some injury to the spine, I believe, and
slie died just at inidnsglit, without eveu a
moment of consciousness.
I leave you to imagine what I suffered
that next day, which was to have been
my darling’s wedding morning—and now
they were streaking her for bet grave!
I could do nothing but sit dazed in tbe
library, tbiuking of what might have been
and wliat was; but my reverie was inter
rupted by old Mrs. Partridge, the house
keeper, who come in for some instruc
tions. After I had said all that I thought
necessary, I noticed that she lingered as
if loth to go; but I thought little of it, till
she half muttered 4 as she reluctantly
turned* the haudle of the door—
‘Ah, poor Iamb, I knew how it would
be when I beard her speak of the Broad
Terrace!”
This roused me to curiosity. “Wliat
do you mean, Mrs. Partridge?” I said.
“What is there against the Broad Ter
race?”
She turned and looked at me with
gaze halfskeptical, hall apologetic as’ she
said:
“Do you mean to tell me, sir—and’you
half a Gedge, as a'body miy say—that
you never heard of the Cold Hand of
Morbeck? Did j - ou never hear of Mis
tress Alicia, then, her whose portrait
hangs over the mantlepiece in the oak
drawing room ?”
There rose.before my. mind’s eye a pio:
ture at which I had often gazed with a
strange undefined feeling of pleasure,
pain and pity combiueiW-The face was
that of a proud and lovely woman; but it
bore tho expression of one whoTikd passed
through some terrible agony which bad
hardened instead of softening her nature.
1 answered that I knew it well, but not of
any history specially connected with it.
“Aud what has that to do with—wliat
did you call it?—the Cold Hand of Mor
beck?” said I, as there came over me,
with a rush of unexplained apprehension,
that strange assertion of poor Lacy’s, just
after we had started ou our ill-omened
drive.
“Weil, sir, its • a longish story, but I’ll
tell it to you as I heard it from those who
had the right to know; though the family
didn’t much care to have it talked about—
but they are all dead aud gone now, all
dead and gone! And you were nearest
to my voung lady, for I don’t count that
Mrs. f’ostleiiiwaite, with lier haughty,
jrying ways. As if I didn’t know the
louse ought to be .managed—I who bad
lived here, girl and woman, for better
than forty years! It was in the old troub
les, sir, before the ’45, aud then, as yester
day, there was naught but an heiress to
Morbeck, Mistress AUcia. She was a great
beauty, they tell me, aud her father’s idol, -
aud ha{f tbe young gStitleiuen in tbe
country werq ready to cross swords for ber
smile. Auiongst ah her suitors, the only
two whom she seemed to favor were her
cousin, Mr. Arthur Gedge, and a Captain
who
-ball,
ing; t: _
lows, and
about her n
rious had a
■*ay wh‘
the county
' the even-
. ae could
-disfavored,if “she. had a
was thought t^.be fo? her
many of the gentry hereabouts who would
have liked to see the old Stuarts get their
own again, but the Gedges had always
kept to themselves, aud had never been
iinepji/-tm' plotting,nr.Mia- iii-p
know all about tbe retreat from Derbv
NO GNB'HKOWS
Hoff we Make our MeJieine or how-
w» Prepare
Nt > ONE KNOWS
’ f HE RECIPE
By which we make
simmoNs
ball tbat there was a messenger in the
Village, come down from tbe court, with
a silver grey-hound on his sleeve; and
then Sir. Arthur took Mrs. Alicia into a
side room, and he fell on his khees
before her, and prayed her, for their
love’s sake, that she would help
him, for lie had been mixed up,
it seems, iu a plot for Prince
Charles, and it was death if he were ta
ken. So $Jie agreed with him that he
should hide till night in a secret rodm iu
the west wing—^that by the Broad Terrace,
sir—and then she would come and guide
him out by the postern that he might es
cape. The night came, and she came too,
without .a light, for she said that would
be dangerous, and guided him through
the passages, until she opened the little
door; and as he grasped her hand and
kissed it, it was cold as death. And as
he stepped out on the steps, there was a
gleam of steel outside, and Mr. Arthur
was in the clutches of a troop of the
Guard, with Captain Van Loom at their
head. He was executed, sir, like many
another brave lad at that time; and before
a year was over, Mistress Alicia was
married to Captain Van Loom, who. got
his colonelcy for his services.
“They say it was a wretched life they
led. He turned out a drunken, gambling
brute, and broke her heart; but none ever
knew whether it was true what folk
whispered in the country-side, that she
sold her cousin to her lover. Anyway,
she died a miserable, childish woman-
rest her soul! But/sir, they say that
ever since that day, auy Gedge who pass-
'es the postern ^y night will feel an ice-
cold hand leading them down the steps as
if to destruction, and tjiere is harm always
comes of it. If Miss Lucy should have
felt the Cold Hand of Morebeck, for so
tbe country folk call it, sir, saving your
presence!”
What could I say? What could I
think, except that “there are more things
in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
dreamt of in your philosophy?”
We buried my child aud Morbeck went
to a distant cousin. As for Pfugh Nelson,
he went abroad for a year or two, anil
then came back and married a good, hon
est girl with a decent dowry, as behoved
the transmitter of an old name. But
though he was a good and tender hus
band, ami a wise aud gentle father, 1
know full well that his young heart with
all its store of love, was buried in the
same grave ryith Lucy Gedge. So now,
my hoy, you will laugh at me, I daresay,
for you wise young fellows do laugh at
all that you cgll superstition, but it gives
me a shudder ,stiil when 1 think of that
winter night when my child grasped the
cold hand of Morbeck-—The Pen.
Colquitt vs. Norwood.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
With your kind permission, a Democrat
who has “no axe to grind” proposes to
write a few notes on the situation, ad
dressed to your readers in general and
the voters of Bibb county especially.'
I shall set down naught in malice; for
this is truly tbe time foretold in Scripture
when “a man’s foes shall be'those of his
own household.” The fact that tliis di
vision is not only in the same party, but
that it actually extends to the relation of
father and son, brother and brother,
should temper the zeal of partisanship.
The prophecy, referred to. goes on to state
that there shall be variance between men
and their motliers-in-Iaw. Even this has
been realized; aud I concede that the
motliers-iu-law are solid for Norwood and
reform. ^
There are a great many cautious, sober
thinking meu in Bibb county who, recog
nizing the suddenness with which this is
sue was forced upon them, the necessity
of time to get .the proof of campaign
charges, and especially their lack of infor
mation about the record and the claims
of this new Colossus tbat now bestrides
the Stale, have felt it proper to defer their
judgment in this matter.
With due respect to all parties, Ijespect-
fully submit that their course is the' wisest
and fairest tbat has beeu adopted. Was
it just to Colquitt, after Ills enemies had
had years for the manufacture and trum
peting of charges against his record, to go.
over to Norwood without a moment’s in
spection °f Bi 8 record? When we have
beeu promised the aid .to our decisions
which may come from a public joint dis
cussion— is it right to look forward to tbat
occasion solely as a scene when eager par
tisans. will “whoop up” their respective
leaders, independently of the results of
tbe discussion ?
Macon’s conservatism lias been used as
her reproach. Let it it also be her glory,
when conservatism is meritorious.
But undoubtedly many havehastily de
clared themselves for Norwood. The
convention had no sooner adjourned than
Mr. Samuel H. Jemison hurried to Ma
con and opened the campaign with artil
lery. Although it was damaging to the
candidate of my choice, -the strategic
promptness with which he organized the
Norwood clubs, compels my reluctant ad
miration. No oue can divide with Mr.
Jemison the credit of the Norwood
boom.
But is the great issue of State politics
to have a trial by powder, or a trial by
sober public opinion? Is it to be au ar
gument of noise? Can tbe people of
Macon, “where confidence is a plant of
slow growth,” be hurried into unwise en
thusiasm by methods such as these ?
No-Axe.
The Pressure on Turkey.
Constantinople, September 2,—Jt is
asserted tbat the powers only agreed to’
the naval demonstration as a method of
moral persuasion, and that they do not
intend to land troops or’employ any
other form of coercion. It is said that
England and Russia have instructed their
commauders to' endeavor to treat with
the Albanian chiefs. Austria, however,
objects to this course. The Porte has
vainly endeavored to gain Austria's good
offlres on the Greek question.
What degreo of “moral suasion•’
(which is, we suppose, a diplomatic phrase
for intimidation) is to be found in a dis
play of naval force which is clearly un
stood and agreed not to be used, tt is hard
to understand. Such a movement finds
its best explanation, perhaps, in the hope
that in the chapter of accidents something
may occur to develop a line' of policy;
aud the “powers” are now wholly unable
to agree upon any course of procedure.
Immigrants continue to at rive at
New York in large numbeis almost daily,
and the increase of this kind of travel
has been sucb that tbe Hamburg-Ameri-
can Packet Company have put five extra
steamers on their line. It is stated that
most of the immigrants now arriving have
friends in the West, who during the spring
and summer sent them the passage tickets
on which they now come. The most of
them g<$ direct to Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Wisconsin to work on
farms'or In shops.
Thomasville Times: Let it be borne in
miml by the people of Georgia tbat Mr.
Norwood is careful to state, in arraigning
Governor Colquitt, that he makes hi*
charges upon the basis of rumor. Is
Governor Colquitt to be condemned and
made infamous upon minor? Mr. Nor
wood ought to vouch for the charges, or
cease using them. |
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21.1S70.
The Courts - ordered, adjadgrd and decreed
that the dtfendams. and eaca of them be and
hereby are perpetually rest-ained and enjoined
from making, vending, using o r exposing to sale
either by themsetrVs. their arents. or seirants,
auy article of Liver Medicine haring thereon the
said labels or wrappers and from usn r ihe w-rds
’Ur. A. Q--Simmons J ir^r Me 'icine.” or ot “Dr.
Simmons Lirer Regulator or Medicine,” and
from Using the name or word "Simmons” asap-
plied to a Lirer Med cine, and from using tbe
false and counterfeit tokens, labei.r or trade*
marks. u
BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES, COUNTER
FEITS AND FRAUDS ON
Simmons Liver Regulator.
A New Plascue for the; Wheat Crop.
The Bulletin says Russian newspapers
call attention to the ravages inflicted in
the southern provinces by the beetle
called by naturalists Anisoplia Austriaca,
and by the rural population of Kherson,
Couzka. This insect first appeared in
18C5, in the Melitopol district, but there
is nothing known as to how and whence
it came, as it never had been heard of in
any other part of Russia, ©r bordering
countries.
As many as ten bushels of tbe beetles
have been collected from one acre of
wheat. They fly from ear to ear, and do
not quit the grain until it is destroyed.
They are capable of making long flights
from one government to another. Last
summer a mass of these beetles Was dis
covered in the sea near Ocbakoff; they
were so thick that it was difficult to puli
a boat through them. The British vice-
consul at Nicolaieff reports that ufaless
efficient measures are adopted, it is prob
able that all agricultural Russia will
eventually become-the prey of these in
sects, causing privations hitlierto little
unknown in tbe country. He considers
tbat the subject demands tbe serious at
tention of Europe, as Russia supplies so
many countries with wheat, and. her mis
fortune may raise the price of American,
produce.
The Kansas Democrats and “Wo
man’s Rights.” — The Democrats of
Kansas have nominated Miss Sarah A.
Brown for State Superintendent of Public
Instruction. This is a new departure in
poli*ics,especially fortlie Democrats, who
have not heretofore favored “woman’s
rights.” Miss Brown is at present super
intendent of schools for Douglas county,
and is credited with having accomplished
a great deal more in tbat position than
any of her male predecessors. The Dem
ocratic leaders in Kausas express the
opinion that Miss Brown’s nomination
will strengthen their State ticket by
drawing votes from the opposition. If
this prediction, shall prove correct it will
have the effect of popularizing the nomi
nation of women for -office by parties
seeking to overcome an opposition ma
jority. It would appear that the Demo
crats propose to enlist the fair sex in their
cause as much as possible iu this cam
paign. In a recent interview with a del
egation of women suffragists General
Hancock assured them that if elected
President he would not veto any bills of
Congress looking to the enfranchisement
of women. Miss Brown, the Kansas
nominee, is described by a prominent
Democrat as “mighty brainy,” and it is a
fact tbat none will dispute tbat there is
plenty of room in political parties for ad
ditional brains.—Washington Star.
Cadet Whitaker.—This famous col
ored We3t Pointer is enjoying his indefi
nite leave of absence in New York at the
home of a colored friend, Moses Weston.
His mother, it is said,-wants him to enter
the pulpit.
—Of the campaign in Connecticut
General W. B. Franklin says: *“Tlie en
thusiasm for Hancock in Connecticut is-
greater than I have ever known it to be.
A* large majority of the men who served
in tbe Union army are with us, and are
forming themselves into veteran organiza
tions. A vote was taken a few days ago
in one ot onr State militia companies that
w as encamped at Niantic, and forty-nine
of the sixty members declared their in
tention to vote for Hancock.”
TUTT’S
I GYPPTCK1G OF A
TORPID LIVER.
Loss of Appetite, Eowclr, ctative, Ftir. in.
the Head, sR&JtonHrcr.sr .mi ttl.- Irt/iA
part, lV.a under too 8ha_ e.?rb!:d ', i -.1-
noss after eatintr, wi:n a di'inclincasi t>
exertion cf Louv rr uxind. .Iri-iULaLty cT
temper, •s-ttt r reeTua e :
i.!Knv.le- tr^stmadertv, Ue.riL-:-, L'ir-
rmets, Muttons ■» at tJettrart, Let i bo
lero the ejc/i, Yedow t-iir. li ed:c_o
r.cnorrl'y ©vpr.tl-erydsfcejs. J'oeCessncta
with fitful dreama, hi,,hl7 Colored L'r.nc.
It i'l-ESS'WALNINOS ALL' NILE£5ZD,
szfitous cislaccs vmll soon bs civncro.
TUTT’S PILL j arc cspc.-iiiDy mlaptt d to
Mi b rSM-> one dose eflc**t» surb a rhu
ai'lccUm: as Iu n^toiiLh thr nuttt-rtr,
COW0TIPAY3ON.
Only with WirtwtTity of th«
licaiih be enjoy’ l> If i-o conmir*»: on i*
i»f recent a * d<v*e t»t TITX’3 FI^LS
Uill saflice, bun!*?: -s bccczic babiiu*', on®
pXifboukl be tal.-cn i- ’ynlshr-EraduaJiy
Ir.£ lh«fivqnec r 7 ft dw»eun*:l ure^u'.trdLily
movement U obta ned, which will aoou fy.low.
Dr. I. Cay Lewi*. i'lUton, Ark., rant
41 After a »»racti^ of S3 years* l ptoaoaat*
TUTT’S PI I beet autMalioui*
ever nuidc.” "
Rev. F. R. Oaryood, New Vom, t
“I have had Dyspepsia, Y.Vik St •-ninth and
Nervousness. I iv.-rcr ptwl medic:::*? to do
me po much good aa TUTT’S PI LLS. They &re
as pood *»
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nuts u Nstcral Color. •*« in*! ATit«nscm»!» “f nd is*
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