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C4& (!5«jscjgi«c Hleshlw »«b Sicmmai Jicss»«3^
Mi 6rlfGrapb and ^Hfsscuflcr.
■r - - ; ,\ V. FEB HU ARY 10,'1882.
ii job . ii.i.t, Florida, has already ship-
unc . ..-1.20 otauges, and Grady saw bil-
K- xz ro in a two weeks’ trip.
• fAn^nT.T.'rt Independent principles
ti « . . jjne to Toost, when somebody elip-
yolap on him at Waynesboro, and captor
'3ms clothing.
ft* Booth Carolina Legislature very
ks. hly aoncludes not to grant their rail-
:i _. commissioners any further' power or
aticodsagnos.
Ihm appears that tho Savannah News
fPcf ijt euy knows but litl’o of the tatiff
guL'jj, bat does not even understand tho
■bSftoh language.
Jot irate “fence man” wes seen on yes-
■wtoj.iiith clenched list, making track;
At heme, breathing ont cruelty against the
tosfcace” advocates.
Sto-ii-AL G.,of Savsnnab, will not at-
in tho coming campaign to outspeak
band. Ho will probably lift his own
t and play on independent solo.
Ca. Am D. Ashton, of Burke, pro*
mluj Fiinton Felton the greatest dema-
ppeh Georgia. Col. Ashton is a con-
Bau.w of tho unadulterated article.
Sor Independent Be publican movement
fltagmsk Burkeoounty. Phil Carroll lost
lfi» wi.it, his poeketbook and his panta-
men Waynesboro a few nights since.
Atsaxsia a Savannah gent eman a few
at • since wo inqoirod of him if ho had
ou: i > trtiel. of tho “News”on the tariff?
"K*» * < quickly replied, “many times in
OakuHen years.”
'lawSavannah News was invited to stato
Be s*iUiou on the tariff question, and re-
9ii» n an oppressive silonco upon tlio sub-
h* - £«idu»tly tho News is unable to de-
caut wlwt its position is.
Wse^o iadies usually shoot their arrows
ka :.7.<*«aliue hearts, but a Cincinnati girl
hzs*-i a footman squarely in tho head a
H tv two since, and he was only a man
xi attending tho target.
* wsuoatign of colored men of Wash*
hovo presented Billy Mahone with a
with tho hope that ho will rap the
af llioso opposed to him with it.
a;a llastcy’s head i) in a rapping po-
.vtt now.
- e uaoant of the storm last summer, tho
mu'ts of new waterworks and saritary
Savannah is compelled to raise
*Wii ta real estate to S per cent. If she
, gtejeive her health at the expense of
pa .-so it is well.
Oracle.
The Atlanta Constitution, after repro
ducing the observations of this journal on
the action ot tbe city council in offering to
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad all the laud in the corporate lim
its necessary to build machine shops on,
free of cost, adds:
The above from the Macon Telegoaiti a no
Messences ta rather cheeky, considering the
fact that two of the inaMbcrs of the I-egislcturO
from Bibb county in the last General Assembly
voted against the charter of the road they arc
now helping ao lustily.
One of the members of the Legislature
from the city of Macon did vole against
what was known os the Cole charter, for
tho reasons given in his speech, that the
power granted to confiscate the road beds
of other roads was too sweeping and dan
gerous. Mr. Speaker Bacon did not
vote at all. The Constitution, con
sidering the present condition of
affairs, is brassy, very brassy, we may
say unusually brassy even for Atlanta,
when it undertakes even to hiut at any
hostility in this direction towards this en
terprise. The liberality of Macon was
well exemplified when it permitted the
road to be run through its cemetery, i
of tbe most beautiful In the country,
the face of objections of people who natu
rally lelt that it was somewhat of a dese
cration ot tbe resting places of their dead.
Macon went even fartbor. When it was
thought the road would have to enter tbe
city through one of her busiest streets, tbe
consent of all parties interested was pro
cuicd without difficulty.
If the Constitution will use a little of
the vigorous language it was so lavish of
last surnmor towards the men in buckram
that its fertile imagination had conjured
up as opponents to the Cole charter, it
may brush out of the way any little ring
or clique which may propose to stop a
road sudeast a damper on the energy and
enterprise of Atlanta.
Macon is fairly entitled to exhibit a
due amount of legitimate cheek on proper
occasions, udJ it will be our jd^aaure to
aid her to cost asidr anything like timidi
ty or undue modesty and to claim her
own whenever opportunity may offer.
Since the above was put in type we learn
that the city council of Atiauta has res
cinded an unwise ordinance, aud work on
the road will bo resumed. We find noth
ing but pleasure in this result.
■Fa*Troo Thinker* at their late meeting
ttsahii gton, resolved to plnce a statue
•STtajxaa i’uiue iu the old llall of Repre-
xEtss. Why not? Royal Bob Inger-
ss; be seen loafing about there nl-
; any .".no day.
%ra National Board jf Health is advised
teSA-A/idg il>o week ended January 28th
Bex- ware o'even -deaths from small-pox in
Sen fork city, one death i t Wilmington,
Js askj at Layton, Ohio, and three cases
«£ ncieioid at JiuTnrfipolw.
*■«./. V. Kxns, for many years on the
trial 3!allof that sterling journal, tbe
■snlg.-mery Aovertiser, retires and is ?ao-
wrlvd t-.-Mr. Chap ret! Cory, late of tho
Mak*a .i "J3. Good wBhvS attend tho cut-
*tae aati incoming brothers.
tsaiao.1 blatant “fesco meu,” strange
l» w>j, are ihoso who have no fences to
fesff-l, or at least a very limited acreage to
Bsc , yet they want to force this immense
mm sa their neighk rs just as if it would
ifaiuir.nny good to make their neighbors
je>So ion usalcts expense.
'-•optiieJ apportionment hill will
ihigan two additional members of
t, and for this reosQD, if for no
the proposed apportionment bill
Civil Service Reform from a Repnbll-
cau mill Democratic Standpoint.
The Uou. Leopold Morse ot Boston is
the only Democratic member of the
House from tho State of Massachusetts.
He is a wide awake, active member, who
believes iu the old principles of Andrew
Jackson in regard to tenure of cilice for
government officials. He is at present
fathering a bill which is somewhat pe
culiar, especially In its phraseology. The
preamble starts cut with the old Jackso
nian principle that “to the victors belong
the spoils.” Morso evidently believes
tbat«thi3 is tbe watchword of all politi
cians. He follows up his preamble by
providing in his bill that officials sbal 1
have tlicir tenure of office fixed at a presi
dential term of four years, except when
the Frcsident is re-elected, in which
event his bill provides that officials shall
"hang on” for another four years and go
out of office with the chief magistrate.
Tlmrlow Weed objects to any system of
competitive examination which renders
Republicans end Democrats alike eligible,
as competitors for-office, and says: “I
shall he slow to believe that Chester A.
Arthur, whom I have known fora quarter
of a century as an active, zealous and un
compromising Republican, has repudiated
his principles, or sanctions a ‘reform’
which leaves his friends who elected him
out In the cold." T. W. is clearly
—shall demand a tax upon the si-me accor
ding to valuation, and if the money is not
forthcoming, that home, with its surround
ings, is knockrddown to the highest bid
der. Fe low citizens, oil the advocates of
free trade favor that system ot taxation.
But with a tariff upon foreign labor—tho * . ,
products of foreign labor imported into these lnterost oertifioates Imposes no obli-
It : i ra favarl iW nk A. < ... . n a 1 .1 1 T1..1 .a
Company. It has to keep
these ships In repair, to pay
all of their ianning expenses while at
sea, »nd tlieir charges when in port. Gen
eral Alexander contends that the issue of
this country—a man is taxed iust in pro-, gallon upon the Central railroad, But it
portion to the amount ofgoodsheb^sj if | ^ eadude tbo CeDtra , railroaJ from
Dl s Ml
hb buys ft grant deni his tax ig considerable,
ifhebujs^Ulo his taxes are little, if he ! any participation In the earnings and prop
buys nothing which pays a dot, ho pays | ert „ 0 f [ be steamships, f or no matter
nothing to the federal government. * . .. ,
We favor, then, a tariff for revenue, but what amount of earnings they may make,
not a tariff forrevenue “only.” This is Bb- him Central railroad will get nothing.
*urd. as impossible of attainment as it J _ t ... nr* i *1- *
Is absurd, for all tariffs are more or less The money will go to Central Alexander
protective. We favor, then, a tariff for aud his friends and associates, or whoever
revenue which shall dUcriminate in fa- be tbe bo id er3 of these interest cer-
vor of h<yne labor, niloruinij ample enconr- I J
Element and protection to all home indas- tiucates.
tries. Ot all. people now in the United More still. By virtue of this Issue the
States. Geondana are the most interested _ . , „ *
in a judicious tariff, and of all the Central railroiclis compelled to give to the
peoplo iu Georgia, the citizens of Rich- stockholders of the Southwestern railroad
mond county are mostdeeply concerned in goo qoo, thtts reduciug the dividends
tno protecliue character of onr tariff. . ’ ' •
Georgia is the Massachusetts^ tho South, that might otherwise he paid to the stoik-
and the city of Augusta ta tho Lowell holders of the Central rail real for all
of Georgy Its canal affording wfl- .
ter power^qu.-.l to fourteen thousand t* rae t0 come,
horsepower, hiving millions invested in Gen. Alexander himself admits that the
chineahopsaifdvarions'offle* 3 manufactu- Southwestern stockholder have a good
rin>r enterprises calls aloud for encourcgo- I case and expresses a willingness to divide
meutand protection which has built up w ith them if the attorney of the Central
and made immensely wealthy all tho Now I , w .
England and Middle States. The thousands roa ^ 80 seises. I'- lna,;e3 no difference
you liave employed os operatives, men, how the attorney of the Central road may
J3S^S35fW5fiSaS9 **“•• «» «*»»*» or a. souiu.
jiose industries in your midst, the farmers I western road Lave a contract orldlN
ioso lands and their jjroducts have been I which they can enforce in the courts* If
.B? £ "" only Lair * far Mr to
laqBv swelled by them, all demand that as Gen. Alexander and the brokers seem
" hielded n « aic8t 1 th0 . ch ? n P, lBbor to be, the attention qf the courts would be
of EaMmpin poupera andagAicst the at- | • ’ ,
orico JMuropean capitalists. Other cities once engaged.
and tow\<nre greatly interested. The en-1 Both companies, tho Central and Ocean
h^ta^Wf > i^S52rta‘toihta i ^ SteamibipCompany, have floating debts
tectivo policV,'-a principal factor in di- represented by unproductive property,
▼erilfying cn^Vastries, Increasing tho Would not wisdom dictate that these
value of lands.'tPVlltng our population, I . . ., , , ., ,
advancing the w>?> of labor and building should bo provided against before auy in
up and enriching VP*ry i»ortion of our terest certificates are issued ? Without it
'» lta » »"]!»» Mlur. .o pa, la-
adjusted aud lnrmoniz5v r '*ut always with I terest upon the new evidences of debt
a view to revenue and proL^on to homo I which would reflect upon the road and
in entries. ' v -> j its management, and consequently de
IathoSsvannahNow* we follow-1 stray codfldence in its stock and obliga-
ing, which will be of interest V^hoso in-1 lions.
tarestedin the Central railroad:
Tho Alexander scheme is to give Vojpach
share of Central Railroad and 1)L Io ^ag
Company stock $15 iu these income'
of tho Ocean Steamship Company, a
o .ch share of tbe Southwestern rui
stock $SG of the same, tbo share goi
tho Soutewcstern slockholdera ainou
to $50.C00x$3d, $i,ao,ooo.
ow the first question is: Who O'
Ocean Steamship Ccmpany? If the
tral Railroad and Banking Company i
owner of tho Oocan Steamship Com;
then tho second question is: Why give
1,800,000 to the shareholders of,
outhwesleru ? The asm named is
to $24 on each of tho 75,000 shines
Ual Railroad aud Banking Com
stock, eo;
General Alexander contends that in
four months tho Central has already
earned money sufficient to meet all the
charges he has enumerated. On the
other hand, it may be said that these
four months were the best business
months of the year, and that even with
this advantage the earnings aro $250,000
lie I behind those of last year. In front are
j the bad iuonth3 which havo to he met,
• o and gentlemen of experience and wisdom
J quite tqual to that of General Alexan
der’s friends are confident thattheCentral
.conseq
sh-tre, should
toeb^ohi
the questions, v
We st
vioatly that much loss to oaoh cannot hope to meet all of its charges aud
id^ought'Kk’Welvcs ° 1 I P en Q Ses aad declar f 8 dlvidend of . “ ore
, whether wo will bo benefited I than 8 per cent, on Its stock. Therefore
by stripping the Central road of its paying wo contend that General Alexander’s
assets, -and whether the Central thus I , , . , ,
stripped is able to Jo justice to us in the fu- sc clno 18 aot aud sustained by
tcre by paying us onr just proportion of I sound business principles. No iudivld-
sfsszssss:£&tix£ h 1 rr w ,““ “f ," tonte m *-
porary benefit of doubtful character aud I private business, and tbe management of
look forward^ to a repetition of the years I a great corporation having In its halfds
1875,1870,1877 r 1
ANornES Siockhou>eb.
the interests of thousands should be con
trolled by the sarno caution and conser
vatism-that govern individuals in tbo
| daily transactions of life.
General Alexander afterexhausting his
It has just flashed upon us. We begin to
grasp tbe plan;—were we slangy we would
have sa'd, tumble to our cotemporary’s
racket. His briliiaut imagination has
soared to a pinnacle wccould never have
climbed. His idea is a grand one. We
gaze upon it and our jubilant fancy claps
its hands and shouts lia! ha! as the pro
portions come rolling in. It is tho intention
of tbe JVcira.lo mount tho Now England
factories on wheels, put a team of mules
to each, and haul them South. Enough;
we see them coming. Don’t spoil the
subject with details. The long line of
mills creeps out of the dim perspective.
There is Lowell’s biggest one Iu front, and
in front of that is its Boss mounted on a
Canadian pony, followed by the book
keeper on a bicycle, bis ledger under arm,
tbo pen over lus apprehensive ear, and
nkstand grasped firmly In hand as ills eye
earchcs the byways for guerillas aud ku-
klux. The long line of-operatives brin
np the rear singing tho Battle of Bunker
Hill, while the directors scour tho un
derbrush, searching for a 22 per cent, mill
site. The lino rolls down the land, a few
mills straggling occasionally when tho pi
1 Ms strike moonshine whisky, or wander
off after Carolina tobacco. It strikes Geor
gia and breaks rauas. It is every mill for
itself anil tho d—1 take tho hind
most there. Every man that has
a mill drags it up and down the
country looking for a site. Mayors and
councilmou rush out aud shako hands,
and operatives unsling their barn shovels
and begin to dam the branches (porhaps
tbe laud also), while in and out araoug
them, with hU hair reached over his bump
of Invention, with a copy of Adam Smith
in one coat tail, aud a late census bulletin
in tho other, flits the able editor of the
yews, helping to unload the mills. It is a
fairy scene. Oh, that we had a seaside
imagination.
cil, that he would fall if tho law was in- ]
-Gustavo Dore. 50 jear* of age, looks j The Chicago grand jury is at present
. .„ [h , aboutffi j J 3 the \vor»t dressed inuii in conducting an investigation i«r the purpu*. m
yoked agaiust him, a majority of this body 1>urls 1 j aseertainim; —" - **—
instruct the city’s cause at common law' j —The Rev. Georgs W. Dunlap, a West- |
abandoned, will they not likely come to { cni revival:.!, lias eloped with « -> r ^ um ^. j ^ sliaresn f (he Chemical Bank, of
New York have rvkebeil si.TfcO, tiic i!i;:h-
lnir whotlnr the o]H-nUiu,i* ,.f ihu
rulators eoine within ihc «ot>e of tho
liis relief In the same way and throw j Pierre Bernard, husband of the
away tbo city’s cause, when tbo same j ]*teCaroline Bichinip-Bernard. will continue
shall be as well under way and establish- j 10 rc *L de iu n , st
, , e, I —George Fox, an Australian gymnast,
ml muter f laws of tlift Sl&te. Ill ft COUrt , P.
od under the laws of the State, In a court, W;IS ro<V nti y kiiici inSan Fmm-lseo by falling
The llmrt aic.
In our Issue of yesterday we published
a card from Messrs. Billups aud Harde
man and Washington Dessau, attorneys
for the bond commission, giving a brief
history of the action of the courts, aud at
torneys employed in this case, siuce the
order of Judge Simmons granting injunc
tion against the city council in the trover
suits against Huff aud Lawton.
We extract the following from the card
of the attorneys for the bond commission:
As you are doubtless aware, when Judge Sim
mons granted the injunction against the mayor
and council, the attorneys of the commissioners
of tho bonded debt. In connection with N. E.
Harris, city attorney, who represented the may
or aud council in the argument of tho cose be-,
foro Judge Simmons, by joint bill of exceptions
carried the decision of Judge Simmons to the
Supreme Court for review. When tho case was
called in that court, S. H. Jamison, Esq., repre
senting the mayor and council, moved to with
draw the bill of exceptions; and in aid of the
motion, read a resolution of tho mayor and
council, instructing tho city attorneys to do so,
aud also read the modified consent order al
luded to above.
of equity P
In tho face of proceedings so far in this
cue, we do not think the tax-payers of
tho city can afford to risk anything fur
ther on these questions. It is plainly
their duty to step forward at ouce, and
through a committee of their own num
ber become parties to the suit, and be in
position to preveut the abandonment of
the city at any timo in the future when
tbo laws of tbe State are pressing heavily
upon Mr. Huff.
So far as the Lawton caso is concerned,
it is difficult to conccivo how tbe mayor
and majority of council should have de
sired tho trover suit-against him to he
enjoined. However much they may have
desired to allow Mr. Huff a cliauco to
plead tho equities of his case in a court of
equity, no such consideration could influ
ence them in the Lawton case. It is not
questioned anywhere that Lawton re
ceived a portion of tho collateral' for
which the action in trover ugain&t him
was brought from the city direct. The
treasurer took his receipts for the same,
aud these are still iu possession of tho city.
There Is, therefore, no account between
him and tho city for au auditor to pass
upon.
Lawton also recognized the fact that
the first collaterals hypothecated with
him belonged to tbo city, when he ap
plied to tho city for additional collater
al upon tho original loan. The collater
al with him was increased by the amount
of security tho city gave him on a subse
quent demand, for which ho receipted the
city, and against which the treasurer
hoids his receipt to-day.
from nji ftcrial ladder. ^
Gail Hamilton refused to take $15,-
0S0offeredhw for. the purpose of starting a
weekly paper ia WiAIUoton
—Henry Waid Beecher has just hail liis
life Insured for an amount whhmmoko* trie
yearly premiums to be jt.H about
—Tbo two fi*w Judges in ConnecUcal
are named Andrew and Stoddard, but they are
not the men who made the 1-itiii grammar.
Sergeant Msson, who tried to shoot
Gniteau, will not be tried by the court-inn .tin!
ordered to meet at the Washington barrack.-.
—John B. Gough got $200 and expenses
for lecturing at Adrian, Michigan, the other
night, and those who hired him dost money by
—Hon. John E. Kenna ta named as au
aspirant for tho Unl»d State. Seuatorahlp from
West Virginia, in place of lion. Ucnry G,
Davis,
—Wendell Phillips heads a petition
against compulsory vaccination, of course; but
so do thirty iiostou physleluns, which is more
remarkable.
—Mr. Vanderbilt lias ordered that no
cst (
more free passes shall he issued to women
children and families by the railroads under
his control.
The Jeunlc Cramer case bids fair to bo
a warning to fast young men as well ns to silly
young girls. There IsTitllo doubt of the con
vlction and hanging of the murderers.
—W. W. Story’s new statue Is Orestes
clinging to Apollo's altar with his right hand
and repelling with his left the pursuing Furies.
The work is said to be one of his best.
—Samuel Fiercy, tho actor who lately
died of smalt-pox In Boston, was a disbe
liever in vaccination, and a mouth before
taking the disease refused to protect himself
against it.
—According to 'Edward Everett Hale,
a rich, foml and foolish old man gavqhis
grandson, a freshman at Harvard College, J20,-
000 for his year’s spending money. It ruined
the boy.
—Mr. Elijah C'app, of Scituate, Massa
chusetts, a hale and hearty man in-his eighty-
second year, worked oil day hut Tuesday ou an
ice-pond getting in ice, with tho thermometer
fourteen degrees below zero.
—Professor Massou says that in Edin
burgh probably ouo soul <u 2,000 knows that
De Quince lived there or is buried there, and
that of the loo who are acquainted with the fact
ninety-nine are Indifferent to it.
Tlm^OcMn^eamsbinTon” 0110 ? 0 ! I -Baldwin, the Newark, Nrw Jersjy,
rite Ocean bteauiship Company belongs lank cashier, stole SiMO,mand was sentenced
to tho Central railroad. General Alexin-1 Mteeu yean in prison. Tho Cinchiuati Am
tnntt **«»■» itllf flint lit'
ticncml Alexander’s Loiter.
General Alexander has snatched time
enough from an artistic inspection of ‘.he
vignettes on the new bonds or debentures I ficls glve3 rein to his imegrnaUon Vnd
of the Ocean Steamship Company, which I llp a s ! 0ck i 10 ],] er 0 f the South-1 Es<1 > 0:;e of H*c city attorneys, M
he proposes to parcel out among his asso- weslera road> M occupying our chair and isjn > lll ° o!hcr ciL 7 attorney, havh
dates, to upset entirely with a few words, U ritiUt . editorials for this journal. His
au editorial article In these columns under fancy U a3 fauUy as Lls ju(hraent . It aay
date of the 2<kb ultimo. Uls few words be lbat in hls br: ,, f aud pIie aomenal Ca
may he read in another column of this reer as a railroad man, helms soon editor*
issue. When we get through with him abl , Icat0 tLelr prerogatives and privileges
an impartial public may decide as to who at lbe bebeat of a ra i, ra#d 8yndicale .
is upset. , I is not improbable that he may have in-
Gcnerr.1 Alcxar.der attempts to avoid i j U ced some editor more mindful of his
the point made upon him, that lie is I pocket than of his clmracter and his duty
hacked in his present effort by bulls and I to send forth to tho world under tho mys-
brokers who have no permanent and I ticai “we” the utterances of one who in-
abiding interest in Central securities hut tended to beguile an unsuspecting
aro actuated by a desire to squeeze all the p ub ij C illt0 ^ doubtful but plausible
cash out of them possible. He admits I scheme, invented oniy for 'the benefit of
thatthe brokers are at his heels, but says I an individual or a ring. The imputation
that no Central stork lias tei»n snlrl mulpr I .1 ...
.acadri be rnddeuly aud severely sat down I sla '' ra,t of 1:10 stalwarts, or a very near that no Central stock bas been sold under j conveyed by hls language on this point
as. The country could not etand another his advice, but on tho contrary his friends j , nay be considered a fair set off to tho
TMxroe Conger, or Julius Cesar Barrows.
”.tcc» ra. -Ictl entertainment ta pravidid
■ -7 ,-Voland in a course ot twelve concerts
t :*a r.mis each or n dollar for the dszon.
fc. be*l iocnl talent ta ea^a»ed, and sing-
* are aoinoUmaa brought from a distance,
«x tae other ejj.en-ca are kept down cs
v «s ptx: .iblo, aud the philanthropic mnn-
aro said to make both ends meet.
drew:
fl*MT
Ito
jxo|Je who ln-1-t that we onaiht to
riiill, salijug.'.te Mexico, annex Canada,
uni free and capture tiic north j-oJe,
-1 '1\ e, might do well to remember tiiot
:nuy uln-nily It a good deal bigger than
s.—PhUaddfihia Times.
. might add that Chill, Mexico
,.iia are a good deal bigger than
*»ot generals.
£ta. great lasso, ffnsg from tits roof of
White House Goorgiaward, seems to
■*r* -’ Itcawbont tha necks of a score or
vwiscf mixed politicians. Having critical-
dr acnaii.od tho featurers of those who
i the ‘ catch’’ wo hereby, in tho
of Georgia, implore the adminis-
anot to pull on tbe rope. We want it
intro
Dr. reltou on (bo Turin:
In the course of his speech in Augusta
on Tuesday night, Dr. Felton gave his
views ou the subject of taxation and the
tariff. As our telegraphic report could
not do the paint justice, wc give below
what ho did say in full, which we find in
tbe Augusta Evening Nvies.
Our readers will be prepared to read
that upon this issue Dr. Felton and the
Telegraph corao very closo together,
though upon other issues aud upon tho
ultimate aim of his present political more
wo aro as far asunder as tbe poles. Dr.
Felton ta reported as saying:
£lh. Again, not only ta a s ife and sound
financial system ucc ssary to the payment
of all honest debts, especially the national
and State debts, but wo must havo special
care and solicitude concerning tho revenues
of the government: for, bo it remembered
that nothing but incotne—rovcnuo over
aud above oarcurro.it exppuitares—rays
the debts of a government. We must
raise the funds for those current expendi
tures and pay tbo interest upon the nation
al debt,and utso ecr.uel as rapidly os possiblo
the ptincipal of that debt. How shall wo
it ? Here
TuhNcw. lias not openly committed it-
to u t trill for revenuo only, abandon-
avtia free trade doelrino As a tariff for
aavoxte only cannot support tho govern
ment without affording protection, and ns
Ih. Jtowo is oppo<ei to protection, it must
itocr internal revenue or direct taxation,
mi upon this Issue we propose to meet it.
do i
ere let me state, that our oarrent
& oiutinxxa ttas succeeded in crystaliiz'
aqg urau-Jy. Fifty million Ameriosas ex-
taadto him their hoartfclt tha-iks. Our
Jang men will no longer be forced to rush
aa£tf iro theatres fir drinks. They can
pi drunk on innccent looking gumdreps
hcdrccA acts. All that remains to be done,
■a toco stallfan the Gainsboroughs.
Jbi* of our contemporaries are dispos-
sff to esudolo with Atiauta on ecccunt
off. too .etvnt-fires, ar.d h:ad their an-
—in innnli irilli “itiiniin frnm Atlan-
“Anolhiv lamentable con-
’V.^xtion,'’ -to. We do not mean to- say
teat Ihsti njpreseions of sympathy are
iflUtastd. We s-imp’y insist, iiowevor, that
.y . fi. uhy .should be donated to tho
a a: rone, companies.
t o .-litutfon shook hands with Col.
VtAi-t-a. ,i.. believing him to be the only au-
>wr: -. i t itherof the now party in Georgia,
sbvu t i- TEUKUtAPU did tho same for
■itwv. S;itur. In the confusion of the
: neither journal hoard the footfalls
jt Vr. i'dllon ns lie anxiously paced the
ill, and it now transpires that they
Jyshaken hands wiili tho midwife
^mme. It is the proud pleasure of
fh»T«A-.asru to openly acknowl^geand
(BIX its errors. The Doctor ba.6U.apol-
—V-'
JM .V. . A CJ
Mm hud supposed the question of the
i^Rorahip of the Atlanta Exposition hod
J0,-! jgmod. Colquitt, Kimball, Mnrehesd,
raffa young parson of tl.e name of Ryck-
(t|> w(r4 *11 itjMted in favor of the
Tinro^r railroads. But now oomes into
^oslOol. Thonti.n’t imported editor, who
ithebaMrftr ?-Y. ~
totopeadent
gkr.a twist
pafatarant
ed by tho arrearages of
pension acts, tho Feusion Bu
reau c-diing this year for ono hundred
millions instead ot about thirty millions
which havo heretofore met the expendi
tures of the I’eusiou Bureau, and stating
that it will take five hundred millions to
meet tho claims undir this act.
I am sorry to say that organzied
Democracy ta responsible for their oppres
sion. It originated iu and was pn.sf ed by a
House having thirty Democratic majority.
With this heavy addition to onr expenses, it
is folly now to demand a repeal of our in
ternal revoruo taws—possibly tho tax on
mutches, proprietary medicines, bank
checks and b ink deposits may be removod
ns wns reported npon favorably by tho
committee on ways and means in (Imp last
Congress. But the tax upon whisky and
tobacco cannot bo removed nntil oar na
tional debt is grently reduced or cancelled.
As soun os this reduction takes place, we
favor the repeal of all “internal revenue
laws.” They can only bo excused
or justiAed on tho ground of necessity
that tlioywcro and are yet war meas
ures. These articles—whisky and tobacco—
are tho prodccts of home labor, and tho
hand of tho Federal tnxgather should not
be laid upoa any domestic industry. It is
n restriction, a barrier to internal improve
ment. It impoverishes our citizen* to tbe
exlentof the tax upon lh<-ir individual in
dustry. Again, it is an unjust discrimina
tion between the industries of tho country;
every indnrlry should be equally protected
or equally taxed by the general govern
ment. You say ttiey are luxuries. They may
be luxuries to me but necessaries to you.
Moreover, your tea nnd coffee are luxuries,
and yet tbe demand from tho people was so
importunate Congress was compelled to
place tea and cofiee u.-on the “free list.”
1 repeat, internal taxes are an unjust dis
crimination between the industries
of the country, where all are
entitled to eqnal rights before tho law;
and these taxes con be only excused a«
war measures nnd a finaLctal necessity;
now, as soon as the necessity disappearejiet
them ail be repealed. But how wiil you
raise your revenue then,end the rovenaonow
required ia addition to the amount raised
from whisky and tobacco? There are only
two modes—direct taxation—taxes levied
upon all home industries, upon leal estate,
upon incomes, upon merchandise, upon too
product, of your fields, and yonr shop*,
upon everything; or by a tariff levied and
collected upon foreign commodities im
port. j into the country. It is true the gen
eral government bas the right to levy di.ect
taxes, provided they are apportioned among
the Dtatee jaccq.-ding to their respective
’ tu t wvwimuik Vi UIO4I rnijlOUtlVU
ap- J numbers. But I pray God the time may
Kimball
ifsttaM^as trigadlrr j never oome when the Federal tax assessors
* — *— 1 ** 1 and collectors shall swarm through Georgia
our lands, oar homes, oar furni-
tering every hou>e, and nuking a
pOMOSftioOftt
igasaefifiss-Bw
lietaCyonr
real and pereonal
u mm
at lita suggestion havo invested iu It I terms “ignorance” and “lolly,” which in.
largely and permanently. Can General J previous article we ascribed to the con
Alexander guarantee that his friends will duc . 0 r General Alexander. We will sc
not unload so soon as the fat dividend I consider it. But wo would have him and
now cooking under his direction bas met I ( be public understand, that the proper
tiuir eager appetites?. j editorial hand fills theso columns and
He is certainly not ignorant of the fact I will continue to do so until removed or
that tbe bulls and brokers hate passed I stilled forever.
Central stock about back and Iro among I y 0 geuttain&u connected with the man-
themselves as 4 hot ball, urging the banks I agemeut of this journal owes, or has ever
to hold them up until tho day of the big owned, an interest in any railroad in
divide. He may remember that when it I Georgia, or elsewhere. The writer decs
became necessary to change the directory I not even enjoy a railroad pass, aud though
to accomplish his purpose, money inlatgo h, e might have idle millions to invest,
quantities had to be raised in order to j would not invest a dollar in Central stock
relieve hypothecated stock that it might 1 80 Jong as General Alexander and friends
be voted in a direction likely to secure the gland re ady to plaster it with interest cer-
forthcoming of debentures. I tificstes. Aud it has been to warn and to
We can inform him that it was gener- pro tect the people of Georgia who have put
ally estimated that of 15,000 shares of I their earnings iu it that wc have deemed
Central slock voted by his combination j t within the legitimate scope of our
the banks controlled all or nearly all of duly t0 oppose General Alexander and
it. Further, a gentleman of Georgia who lbo brokets,
declared that it a director of the Central I i n i| 10 course of a journalistic service
railroad he would oppose Gen. Alexander I covering some years, we have been cont
end his scheme, yet as an individual not polled to step between men and their
insensible to f;.t dividends he sent the I ambitions, their interests and Ibeir hopes,
proxies of 1,S00 shares to be voted along j W hen, in our honest judgment, the inter-
with Gen. Alexander and the brokers. est8 c , the pe cple of Georgia demanded It.
Even, a layman of tiie most limited un- j \y e re fer with some pride to the fact,
derstanding and experience should know t bat w0 j iav0 ' outlived tho contempt
tlist legitimate and permanent investors j 0 f men who would havo robbed Georgia
are not made up of this material. Busl- I when she was down, and dishonored her
ness men able to make permanent Invest- when sbo was almost defenseless. We
menu for future use aud contingencies do bave no regrets that we have outlived
not have to go to bauking institutions to [ many of these and outlasted the most of
carry them. . tbein
The Issue Is not whether Gen. Alexan- lf tt 0 Central roa d shall bo able to ward
derbas confidsuco in the stock of the 0 ff General Alexander’s threatened blow
Central or whether he gave the cue to the ag easily as wo can shod bis contempt, the
many anxious, Inquiring and invettigat-1 people of Georgia will havo reason to con
ing minds, which was followed by a rapid gratutate themselves upon having safely
and unprecedented rise In the value cf passed through a great peril,
this security. The Georgia investors and I ——-
brokers may not have been keen enough I mtotIdk New Eturlanil Mills 8onfh.
to have seen what he saw. They may | Tim pellucid articles of tho Savau-
not have been able to grasp tbo subject Bah News are beginning to produce
with the same ease and facility that lie I smiles among tho various editors
did. He may bo entitled to all of the about tho country and soma point-
laurels which he claims. Wc have no dc- od questions are being thrust upon
siro or disposition to trim a leaf from his onr contemporary. Tho Philadelphia
chaplet. But the real issue to the discus-1 Press, replying to an assertion, asks tho
sion of which wo are invited Is, whether question once propounded by the Tele-
bis present scheme Is just, wise and prop- graph, viz: “If tho Southern tnanufac-
cr, whether it will stand the test that pru- turer can make twenty-two per cent, profit
dent and experienced business men would on hls investment, wLile New England
put to It. I makes but seven, where is tho monopoly,
General Alexander denies his Intention I * n< l where is tho cause for complaint
to load tho Ocean Steamship Company I South?” To this the News replies that if
with debentures, hut contends that ho will I'•ho tariff was removed, Now England
simply “i-sue a certificate of interest on I could not make anything, aud the im-
the net earnings after paying all fixed | mense capital now invested there would
charges, all interest, all sinking funds,
all marine losses and laying up a consid
erable yearly surplus.”
We submit in the first place that “ma
rine losses” cannot be fixed and provided
for. These are contingencies beyond bu-
come South. Thus does be sweep away
at one stroke tbe whole difficulty. But
our contemporary does not explaiu
how the manufacturers are going to
j din vest tbe “Immense capital now invest-
I ed” in New England—bow the owners of
man calculation, almost beyond tbe ca- I 'he mills there are going to find purchas-
pacity of General Alexander, to reach and
formulate into figures, so that in deduci
ng this iif-m from the net earnings, the
arbitrary juegment of himself aud friends
must give tbe weight of fact to the wild
est speculations
I ers fos the very property they are about to
leave because it will not pay a profit, or
why tbo man who proposes to buy one
could not be as easlily induced to come
South himself, instead. This trilling
omission tangles tbe whole calculation.
The Central Railroad Company owns I There Is a waf however, the wholesale
the ships of the Ocean Steamship l trsnstot of tbta property can be made, and
It appears from this that the manage
incut of this case for the mayor and eoun-
[cll had been intrusted to N. E. Harris;
Mr. Jem-
»g prob
ably asked to b3 excused from ser
vice in the case. If he had not
done this, there was au agreement, or un
derstanding, between Harris aud Jemison
that Harris should attend to and manage
this case for the city. The attorneys from
whom we havo quoted state that Ihcy ar
gued tho case before Judge Simmons,
seems that Sir. Jemtaon did not appear.
At any rate, ho ta not mentioned as Jiav
ing taken any part in the case.
Messrs. Billups, Hardeman and Des
sau, iu connection with Mr. Harris, city-
attorney in charge of this case, filed a
bill of exceptions to Judge Simmons’ rul
iugs and order, aud on this scut the case to
the Supreme Court for review.
Tho city council passed a resolution
instructing this bill of exceptions with
drawn from the 8upretuo Court. This
action of council was taken in the ab
sence of Mr. Harris, the legal adviser of
the council who bad the case in hand.
At a mbsequeut meeting, under the ad
vice of Mr. Harris, the city council sus.
peuded this resolution. At a stil later
meeting, Mr. Hull appeared and stated to
the city council that if Lite Jewett bill
and tho usury laws wero pleaded, against
him he would be thrown out of court. Iu
short, he virtually acknowledged that be
had no case under the laws of the Start*.
The council at tbta meeting rc-euactcd
or re-enforced the resolution instructing
tho city attorneys to withdraw the bill of
exceptions from the Supremo Court. Mr.
Jemison was present aud advised this
course. In justice to Mr. Jemtaon, we
will state that he has given it as his opin
ion that proceedings in equity, iustcad of
common law, was tho proper course to
take in tho caso from tho first. While
this tnay bo true, the citizens of Macon
fail to understand why the cause of the
city should have been abandoned by the
city council, at a time when by Mr. Huff’s
admission tho city was certain to defeat
him before the Supreme Court.
■As we understand tho facts connected
with this case, Mr. Jomisou’s first appear
ance iu It wss before the city council, aud
bero lie favored a course entirely different
from that advisod by Mr. Harris, who had
the caso in charge from the first.
Mr. Jemtaon afterwards, acting for the
city, by agreement with Judge Hawkins
aud Messrs. Lyon & Gresham, attorneys
for Huff, obtained from Judge Simmons a
modified order In tho case, which was
published in our lsstio of the 3d.
Messrs. Billups, Hardeman and Des
sau say they uever saw this order until
Wednesday last—the day tho caso came
np in tho Supremo Court. The judgment
oi tbo Supremo Court was an affirmance
of Judge Simmons’ order in the marten
as modified by the consent order obtained
by acreciucnt between Mr. Jemison and
Huff’s attorneys, as stated above. Mr.
Chief Justice Jackson stated, from liis
place In tho Supremo Court, that Judge
Simmons was exceedingly anxious that
the Supreme Court should pass upon the
merits of tho case, but that tbe action of
tbe city attorney, Mr. Jemison, in instat
ing upon withdrawing the bill of excep
tions, left tbe court without discretion to
hear tbo case. The effect .of the lit
igation so far has been to transfer the
case from a court of common law to a
court of equity. This tbe attorneys on
both aides agree, as we understand, is the
present status.
There are two grave questions for the
tax-payer of this city to consider:
1st. Will not HulPs counsel, when the
case comes up, and when tbe Jewett bill
and the usury law are invoked in defense
of the city, plead that these baviug been
overruled iu tho demurrer to Huff’s ap
plication for injunction, are settled finally
ao far as their application to this case is
coucerned ?
2d. If npon the showing of Huff to coun-
der’s contemplated issue of income bonds
will transfer to tho Southwestern stock
holders $1,800,000 of tho property of the
Central, iu order that tha Central's
stockholders may realiz3 immediately
$3,475,000 of tlioir own money.
Tills will rnako a loss to the
Central’s a’ockholders of just
$24 per share. When tbay get the income
bonds, thes8 and their slock added
together will bo worth just $24 per share
less thau tbe stock alone ta worth before
this issue. No private business would be
treated in this way by its owner.
Tne Industrial Revusw.—The first boro
of tho Atlanta exposition la before na iu
tho shape of a handsomoly printed aud il
lustrated magazine under the management
of Messrs. Grady, Handy, Ryckman nnd
others. It looks, reads and smells like the
cotton exposition. It is very sound on tho
tariff question, bnt has not yet discovered
the fact, that tho Georgia railroads made
the cotton exposition. Facts aro of the
highsst importance to na industrial re
view. Indeed, we may.say that nn industri
al review cannot get along withont fact.*,
nomsttor how many pictures it (pay have.
Tho Review is published monthly, at
Philadelphia nnd Atlanta, and may be ob
tained at tha subscription price, £2 per
annum.
quirer’s etuti-tieal man figures It out that he
gets i>^lii a salary of SltM.CwsJS |>cr year.
—The Hou. Joseph Smith, of Hadley,
Mass., died on Friday morning and his wife
died six hours later.. Me was bom In February,
17-Jii, and she was born the following October.
They had been married sixty-four yean.
—Geo. I. Seney, president of the Met
ropolitan National Bank of New York, who
eently presented the Brooklyn library wff '
l>JU, has given to religious, charitable am.
caiionul institutions no less than $1,433,000.
—“You have no ruins, no natural cu
riositles In this country,” drawled Mr. Oscar
Wilde to Mrs. Senator Pendleton at a reception
last week. “No," replied tho quick-wittod
lady, “but our ruins will come soon enough,
id1 ' '• ' “
dotation ot any bonking house in the
Id. This bank dedans an average quar
terly dividend of 2'> ]>er cent.
1\. P. Deuaiha-T, professor in the
Museum, of Natural History, Paris, Iras been
conducting via born to experiments with a view
to demonstrating tho effect of electric light on
vegetation, and ho decide* that no conclusion
favorable to tire employment of this n"cnt for
the purpose suggested can be drawn.
It is thirty years since the cable be
tween Dovifr and Calais were completed. Tho
first message was handed to I’rince President
Louis Napoleon on December "1,1851. Prior to
the messnee an electric shook fired a cun to sa
lute lire Jmke of Wellington, then at Dover for
the first time as Lord Warden of the Cinque
ports.
Thebe is a young man traveling
around in eastern Texas vaccinating the ne
groes with beeswax. Ho charges n dollar a
Tac., represents liim-elf ns being api
Vav-l (C(MVra.ui. m»i».to«« » ...'pointed by
the United States government, anil threatens
that dire penalties await those who refuse to
be operated on.
Tiie latest improvement In telegraphy
is a meclmnscal device whereby a type-writer
at one point, connected by wire with a similar
instrument at another point, writes out any
message sent over it without the intervention
of the usual telegraph operator. A person who
can use a type-writer can scud his own me*-
gaje.
Thebe are only 113 works In the
English language which the blind can read.
Producing books lit raised letters Is vtfry ex-
S nsive, and of course the sales are small, so
ot their publication is a matter of charity!
The Perkins Institute, of Boston, have almost
raised a fund of 9100,000, with which they will
.-sue twelve books a year Indefinitely.
. We get a shocking gllmpso of tho
nether side of English life in a census which
was taken on the first Saturday evening of the
year of the • frequenters of public houses at
Bristol. Out of a population of 289,000 there
were 103,000 who entered the public houses on
that one evening between the hours of 7 and
11. Of this number .'>1,074 were men, 35,808 wo
men and 13,415 children. And tire Pall .VaU
Gazette soys there is no reason to believe that
Bristol is worse than any other large town.
The Washington Republican offered
85 for the best written letter acccptng an offer
ot marriage. Gertrude Nelson pocketed the
half eagle by tills cifhslon: My Dear Donald-
Fresh with the breath of the morning camu
vour loving missive. I have turned over every
leaf of my heart during the day, and on each
poge I find the same written, namely: grati
tude for the love of a noble man, humility hi
Tun. \\ ashington correspondent of the
Atiauta Constitution says of tho Georgia
members of Congross that they are prompt,
attentive, industrious and oqual to nil tho
demands made upon them by their con
stituencies. There aro a number of indepen
dent aspirants in Georgia who havo a poor
opinion of tiie judgment of the Washing
ton correspondiht of tha Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Since Savannah has suffered from a eo-
oial spasm, no Sunday tit-plo is allowed
savo crackcreond checs;*, from Yamacraw
to Thunderbolt. Strangers with r.n “ach
ing void” are recommended to Howard
Richardson’s cough tonic, whioh is highly
endorsed and extensively used by ths Sa
vannah bench and bar, with tho exception
of onr friend Judge Harden, who still dal
lies with buck bser.
Du. Duateb in his work on “King’s
Mountain and Its Heroes'’ strips Major
Andre of tho garb of honor with whicli^his-
tory has mwrapped him, and shows that he
was a sneak thief, who stole a full set of
“L’Encyelopedia” from tho Philadelphia
University, and a portrait of Frnnklin from
the Iattor’s house. Sherman, Bhoridyn,
Hunter and many othor heroes aro waiting
for some Draper to ntrip them.
The twenty-eighth wife of President
Taylor, of tbe Mormon church, has proved
intractable, nnd has been sent to San Fran
cisco. Slio clubbed two or three of her as
sociato wives and cudgeled old Taylor him
self. Aud now President Taylor ta not
qaito so much of n Mormon as hs was.
Now that Gaitcaa is declared ssno by a
competent jary, tho Memphis Aptical as
serts, and does it with confidcnco, that Win.
R. Moore, member of Congress from tho
alleged Taxing District, ii tho champion
lnnatio and sss of America. Who said ho
wasn’t?
B. M. O., with his three hundred and
sixty-ilvo walking sticks, no two alike, has
joined ths independent column. Words
cannot overstate tho gravity of the situa
tion. If Captain William Paine stands
firm, however, all may yet bo well.
and as to our curiosities, wc iuqiori them.”
—John W. Garrett bas presented the
State of Maryland a portrait of George Calvert,
the first Lord Baltimore. The portrait was
copied by J. A. Vintner, of I-oudon, from a
painting by Mytens, -.vho lived In tho Uuic . ‘
James L The picture cot Mr. Uarrctt 82,000.
—U is slated with much positivencss
that President Davis, of the Senate, favors the
admission of Dnkatsii Into the Union. Judge
Davis' Voto combined with that of the Repub
licans, would give tiic bill u majority lit the
Senate, and as tiie Republicans control tile
House it would appear that the measure has a
good prospector passing.
—Tho Philadelphia Fre» says that J.
IT. RIdgway, a macu Tacturcr of lefriperatori tn
that city, has a letter from Mr. Scovillc, coun
sel for (iultcau, accepting an oiler for the re
mains of the a-*a .In after hb execution. Itiilg-
wav say* that tiie remains are to exhibited and
liultean's relatives are to have half tho pro
ceeds.
—O.apf. James B. Eads is still enthusi
astic over the proposed lntcroccanlc ship rail
way. He says he has develo|ied two practica
ble mutes, aud tiie road can easily be built.
But he wants the government to aid him by
fronting 5 per cent, dividends on two-thinls of
the capital stock of the company, which
amount.) to i''O,0W,0Cw) for fifteen years after the
raa-l is completed.
—Mr. Arthur will, wear hta medal of
the Order of tho Spoils if the Stalwart GUjLc
Hemoernt, of St. Louis, has not stated a surmise
as a fact. The same paper declares that Conk-
ling, Cameron, Logan, Pierrepont, Bruce,
Storrs. Baum nnd Kellogg also will bear tho
modal about their persons. As each medal
weighs about a pound, some of the illustrious
meu named may find It convenient to carry a
wheelbarrow around with them.
—Gen. Grant, when asked the other
evening where wns His sword which he wore at
Lee s surrender, answered, the New York cor
respondent cf the Boston TrnveUet’ rays: “i
didn't have nay on. I seldom wore a sword. I
did wear one at the battle of Shiloh, and > it
saved my 11/e. A ball struck It and broke tbe
scabbard, which drooped on the field. I be
lieve Mr.-. Grant lms the Made. She Is better at
saving tilings tii.au I am.”
—Aprojios of Mrs. Pendleton’s neat re
tort that.“We Import our curiosities,” a Phila
delphia lady is credited with a remark which
rather exceeds It in audacity. At Mr. G. W.
Childs' reception, in conversation with the
wife of a distinguished American diplomat,
and niter a little qul/.tUig aoto the class of peo
ple who were likely to fall ubwn and worship
him, Oscar Wilde Is credited with the remark
th* he came to America to touch us “to rec
ognize the beautiful iu nature." "Then,”
said the ludy, “you had better cut ycur hair
shortcrand vour trousers longer!”
—The month that has just past has
been sadly conspicuous for the death Of distin
guished person* In thb country. The bar has
lost Richard II. Jama, K. W. Stoughton, Ed
mund Burke and Clarkson !{. Potior; the bench
mUses Jmfee l'lerpont, of the Vermont Supreme
Court, and tho law school of Harvard Professor
Thcophllns Parsons. Ex-Governor Bullock died
In Massachusetts, as did Ensign If. Kellogg,
who was a few years ago the American repre
sentative on tiie fisheries commission. Senator
Wagner, of New York, wns killed by the Spuy-
ten iJuyvil disaster, and Caroline lUehlngs-llcr-
uord, tho singer, died of small-pox at Rich
mond. Delano A. Goddard, of the Boston Ad
vertlscr, was among the foreinostrof American
editors, and lust of all comes the death of Dr.
Bellows, tho Nestor of tho Unitarians in Ihb
country'-.
will try. Your* henceforth,
It how appears that tbo statement of
Blanche Douglass before the coroner’s jury at
the lnqucstin.lli6 Jennie Cramer case was one
of a half dozen stories concocted for the pur-
> by the murderers, all the others being rc-
b:-j too thin, and that sbe will be one of
^■Principal witnesses against tbe Malloys,
WTTTr.g all she knows of tho sickening tragedy.
Bhc will probably escape punishment herself
by turning State’s evidence, but It Is consoling
to reflect that her testimony may be the means
of bringing justice to the miscreant* who de
spoiled 041001 girl first of her honor and then
of her life.
It appears that the prcfcreuce shown
for many yean by American breeders for red
cattle Is, after all, only a matter of sentiment
A writer In an exchange shows that in England
the fancy has never prevailed, and that in the
prize shows In that country tbe roans and tho
red and white have always been awarded more
premiums than the red. The large breeders lit
the West, It would wdn, are beginning to real-
lze that thb vcnsclcs* preference for ml cattle
has decreasedsthe profit of the trade veiy seri
ously and hedc at last determined to be no
lodger bonnav bythc unfortunate fashion.
—At tho Grosvenor gallery opening in
London the (esthetes mustered in strong force la
very “grecnery-ycllery” attire, and attracted for
more atcatlon than tho pictures.
■—Ono hundred thousand acres, with
partial freedom the tariff laws, ha* been
granted by the Mexican government to au
American for tho colonli "’ ~ *
of the Latin race ou the f
—Business men she
—ono on the building tli
tlx; newspaper. When 1
hundred perrons ae
three thousvnd-will c
—It it stft t
cr.s propose to
the officers in th
tering the Virgt
Virginia Untvc
son, nnd putting.
suit their notions.
—Tlte Dcmocra
considered the
proponing tho election of
■lessee, formerly heading
be acting chief clerk of
filiobcr continues secret
resolution received
and the Republican
lx requested to pc;
—Duriti” tho yi
tons of coal were
mn. A few yi
bean expressed f:
progressed more r!
ho bordered the
is growing huger
will so continue.
pcct to Alabama
State In the Unlou.
—How repudiall
has just been illuf
Norfolk landmark
recently received by 1
wl!h had advised a fricnS
State to make a purchase
To tills letter was received
■Thunks, but tho locatii
• ■ ■ 'ihol w
Applying for tho “ilcnmirnl Wt*
innn” Position.
Candidates' Littere to Birnnm
Iu a delicate hand, ou a sheet of note paper,
with a pretty picture In the comor showing
some th nvers, u bird’s nest, anil a couple oi
bee* walking arm in arm, was written:
Ur Jlarnum: 1 want to beyour '20,000bean
ty, not for money but lame. There is airhole
tot of stuck-up girls in this town who arc just
as jealous as they can be of me. am! treat me
They aro complaining of tho new super
intendent of publio instruction of Virginia
that he doesn't know how to spell, and thoy
instance “Weduesdy,” “looso” for losses,
‘editoral,” “colutn,” “oorrespondant,” “nn-
tramnlled,” and othor words.
■■■
Randall nays tho Democrats and Repub
licans in Washington Tire good little boys
jast now, and eat gragorbroad and peanuts
together - very happily. The hair-pnlling
will come along by and by. ’
lx ta rumored that several other gentle-
men of about tho calibre and bore of Mr.
Albert Cox are seriously contemplating tho
formation of little independent congres
sional parties of their own.
Billt Madone’s superintendent of pub
lic instruction proposes to resdjast and
revise Webster’s spelling book. The inde
pendent party is to be independent, every
max to spoil as he pleases.
PnrsiDENT Authub is a gay deceiver. He
flirt] with Mr. Stephens with violets and
rose*, bat is squeezing Jim Longstreot’s
hand under the table all the time. To.
fascinating wretch!
Mb. Stephens has got the Stella ooin and
the goloid dollar in the oommittee of ths
whole. "The enterprising burglar” with a
a jimmy and a dynamite cartridge can’t
get them ont.
A 3kv. Db. Cbosby wants Phil Sheridan
to go forth and destroy the Mormons.
Small-pox is handy now and "Little Phil”
can try it on the saints as ha did on the
Fiegun Indians.
RVJtTUI»U3tB lUVj TOW* *»»V. Mini !»«-•»»
horrid mean; and say the spitcfullest th:
about me just because I can't keep those fel
lows away from the house. 1 would go ou an
elephant into lbe ring anywheres. .
ltuston is to be credited with the following:
Ur. Larnnm: 1 will giro you a descrip
tion of myselL I am tiro feet fire in height,
and a perfect form. I have htule eyes and
brown hair, a dimple in'iny chin, aad am told
. m ^
UIUHU AAJOAI, n uuupiv III MUJ VU
every day that I am handsome. I have beauti
ful arms aud hands aud a pretty foot. I have
« handsome bright eye. My teeth are white as
pearl. 1 am quite sure tf you were to see me
you would engage mo. I came from tiie private
walks of life, au<l am very little known, nnd
my mother hearing that you are n Christian
gentleman lias given her consent if I am chosen.
My'nrm, hand aud face are handsome ns well
as form, and were I In stage costume ou exhi
bition should be a r.;...rk’.ing beauty.
A Indy In Mlucrevtilc, Pa., writes on gilt-
edged note paper
My personal description is as follows: Five
feet seven and u half inches high; un abun
dance of dork, wavy hair, large, dark nnd cx-
pre-dvc eyes; complexion fair and exceeding
rich color bread Miouldered and plump form,
and considered the finest formed woman In
the .state of Pennsylvania. 1 regret that I have
not a belter photo to sand. You, nodouht, have
seen my namo In the papers os the acknowl
edged loveliest lady in the land, not only in
face, but in form. Mr. Forepauj.-.'i wonted rae
to come, but I could not ride Id* elephant if he
gave me S50.000—not that I feared, but incon
sequence of being a member of a highly c.-itccm-
cd family. If you would like to vxmatmr-
sonally, I slum Id not fear yonr critic!-
n young girl nineteen years <>f iigi
hereabout* for refinement and rc*r
State that la in such hot .water
Ijaymcntof honest debts, is
—Cabbsces and potatoes nr-;
New York daily from Europe,
riving Monday had ono thousa;
toes from-Ireland and HnotlamM
with thirteen thousand tons of!
anfi Scotch potatoes are now duo
The steamer Geyser, Copen bag
at New Yolk Monday
head* of cabbage, in iai
tom-house duty ]• ten cent
toes, but even at this th^r a
thau tiie American producM
scarcity of the latter. JH
—Some startling in^|
children are ju*t noir
one case a man has b.
with a horse-whip a seven-yd
ho and hls wife were enppwetTto be'
ing. In another cow a man and hl«
the wrists of their eighteen month* bi
steel trap while they whipped it. The
of les- passionate and more cunning 1
indicted on children by weighting t
tho work of men, in order to get it <
cr, usually escape public notice.
—The Congregational chnrch at,
tem, New York, lus hit upon tiic m/rcl ■
ot a “broom driU” for tiie purpose of rab
funds. Bixtoen young ladies of tiie con %
tlon wero arrayed in pretty, picturesque cos
tume*. and. armed with brooms, went through
the ml titary evolution with as much praototon
as randan. The show to sold to have attract
u largo number ot young men: b-.uW.-n
likely thcbniini drill will rope i-.i many n;
likely
riel ones.
before.
They have
cn iha
—The verdict of a Methodic!, clerical
Jury in the cceletiastical trial of the Itov, II. O.
Hoffknan, at Bloomington, * Hi ;*• >i-«. by which
was disgraced for long-contiuui-d wicked
ness, was reached at two o'clock in the morn
ing. The defendant :i*ked permission to lead
in prayer Just before tho vot \wi* tnta n, and
1 am
and noted
stability.
Gen. Thus. L. Ounomim aspires to be
the independent Motes of North Carolina.
A PnrSilAn Mother.
Bottom Journal.
Let mo conclude wi^h a roc it nl nf ai fitet illus
trative ol a trait characteristic In France. I am
proud to number amoiij*' mv friend* a brave
house-porter (conciciye) nnu his wife, who al
ways receive me pleasantly when I h*>k in their
Itxfcc to inquire if ouc of my friends, who U
tlicir employer, is at home. The other <lav I
mlsscfl the ko(ni wife’s face, and inquired of
the huabaua where she wa*. He pointed to the
tunall bed room back of the lodge, “rih !” ha
whUpared. "Mother and child are both well: it
U a little girl, and born hurt night.” I paid him
my eompHmemts and went my way. Ho seemed
brim full of fatherly affection. A faw days af
ter, having occasion to call ou my friend a^ain.
I looked into the lodge and found the new
mamma seated by the fire, |>ala but happy. I
f-ontfratulated heron her daughter's arrival In
the world. “Jfarci/’ ahe said, "aud what do
you thiuk of. my happy family?” I looked,
ami in her lap lay an uglv pup dog.harmonious
ly f n joy ing rapewe beside a huge Angora cat,
while on tne woman's shoulder perched a tame
pigeon. "Yes, yes,” I said, opening xuv eyes
rather widely, ‘That’s all very fine, but where’s
your baby?” "The l*by, Monsieur? Oh! we
sent her to the country—out to nune, you
know.” "Yes, oh, yes," added the father, "we
sent her away to nurse the fifth day after tho
was born. It’s rather a gvOdi&h baby, 1
think."
most i
v hlcb he used
ed. and all <
guilty, llo
both with c
. the
►ten
fieri
era let of
popular,
i reach ers.
nan liml kvi
lgregations and fe
—The question of pensioning ex-Con-
fedcrates N ouce more Ijefore tho pendon com
mittee. The Galveston Arte* declares that uu
application is pending, made by a fellow who
fir*t entered the Union army, thru deserted and
entered the Confederate army, aipiin deserted
ami re-entered tho Federal army, from which
he \vn> iu flue course of time honorably dis
charged. The difficulty with the committee Is
in determining for which service t*> pension
him, nnd whether for both or for neither, and
the Joke i* thut he is the only cx-<*onfederate
soldier who has ever applied for a pension from
the Federal government.
— Auditor Massey, of Virginia, still
“hoUls the fon." Ho remains in lull possesion
of tho office, with tbe right to appoint hls own
clerks, but his tenure U an uncertain one.
Four lteiidjuiter Senators, popularly known tos
•‘the big four,” have refused to Join In the
election of Allen, tbe Readjuster nominee, and,
together with the Democrats, or “Fuaden.”
they constitute e majority of the Senate. Tiie
bolters show no sign* of weakening. The. iru
‘ ' ‘ md e
ible su
from
blicmfjSttraato
receiving
incut, some of
which cordially
ot these papers declare* that a caueo. rule
qulring a nominee to surrender all of hu
sort of a spoils system. * ■
the coalition. One
