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FRIDAY, APRIL13.
Soottlle, Gniteau’a counsel, Is ill.
By the by, Benjamin Brewster is fast
making himself the most thoroughly dis
liked man in Washington.
Reposts from Washington give assnr-
anee that Hon. Geo. R. Black is likely to
be folly restored to health.
Tax plow follows the water farrows along
the upper Mississippi.
William Mobbison’s friends are engi
neering a feeble Presidential boom.
“Jathawxxb” plays and the Atlanta
Constitution leads the laughing chorns.
Gciteau, Bill Jones, Mason, “Betty and
lie Baby” are prominent political isaner.
Kxotb is proving to be a greater ass
than was claimed for him by his most en
thusiastic friends.
Asthub tells Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylva
nia, that "no half-breeds” need apply to
him for office.
RaxwaTKB’ssndden activity is not war
ranted. Moses, the principal South Caro
lina criminal, is already in jail.
• "Jathawxxb” says: “The Atlanta Con
stitution is the most liberal and progres
sive paper in the South.” And the Con*
stilution gives hysterical, yells.
Tax Cxar is not afraid of the Nihilists any
more. Mrs. Cur caught him in an amour
With a female circus rider. A dynamite
(bell would be a grateful relief.
Thxbx’s a row brewing. Arthur went
behind the scenes of the theatre to flirt
With the Putpji actress Rhea. Old "Cump”
Sherman has preempted this business.
Minutes BooavT was oonscioua to the
last- He said; “This mau Shiphtrf « *
curious mixture of the knave and the fool,
With a decided preponderance of the for-
fax fatiguing feat of balancing three
Governors on one pole—Stephens, Gartrell
and Felton—has caused Colonel Morcellus
E. Thornton to drop the "syndicate” for a
season.
Washccotox society is in woe. Captain
Bradley who led the german for fifteen
jests on a fat salary, has been ordered to
his regiment. “Cump” Sherman has done
•jhfa thing.
Andrew Jipxsox having been disposed
of, Thomas Jeflerspu baa hat! his nones
\ultle3. tJncle Sammy Tilden respond^
in a letter, Better writing ia pnglp
BumniyV long suit.
wal'j a. lW«»l
athawxxb** says of the Georgia negro:
“He is on a progressive plane which Bill
Arp can never reach, for the reason that he
long since reached the limit of his think
ing capacity.” And the Constitution
smile*. •
“Jatiuwxxb” aays: “I do know that in
many sections the whites are depriving
their own children of educational advan
tages, because by so doing they are keep
ing the negro back.” And the Constitution
tachinates gleefully.
sajs of the people of
“Jatoawxxb'
Georgia: ‘They have always worshipped a
supposed greatness in Calhoun, Crawford
and Jeff Davis, and men of that stamp, all
of whom are dwarfed by slavery.” And
the Constitution giggles.
Dxptrn United States Maugham. Kan*
and his three companions, who murdered
Amos Ladd, a boy, while standing in the
door of his home, have been acquitted by
the United States Court in South Carolina.
Ladd was suspected of being a moon*
ahiner.
■wirier Iw the Blatte.
The people of Georgia are hardly re
covered from the shock of the murder of
eld man Hicks, of Gwinnett county, by a
gang of deputy United States marshals,
when they are horrified by the details of
tlja murder of a student or Bn State
University upon the streets Of Athens, by
a couple of negro politicians.
Cur readers are familiar with the de
tails of bo‘h tragedies, so there is no ne
cessity of their reproduction. But the lat
est one calls for immediate comment. We
recognize In this the legitimate conclu
sion of the partially successful attempt of
Mr. Emory Speer to Africanize that por
tion of the State to gratify his personal
vanity and ambition. We should
feel better about the matter if we might
justly lay the blame of the entire transac
tion at his door. But it is true, and it is
about time for the people of Athens and
the surrounding country to awaken to a
knowledge of the fact,that they who have
upheld and sustain* 1 this young mania
bis anything but admirable career, may
have to bear a part of the responsibility
for the results which have followed. Ho
doubt, just now, all the better elements of
Athens society are clothed inworrow over
the deplorable deed, and inflation of
the perpetrators of it. But for the pre
valence of wiser counsels, or the deter
mined front shown by the negroes, we
might have occasion to chronicle more vi
olence and a further outrage of law and
good order.
Only a few years since, In the midst of
the commencement exercises of the Uni
verslty, we saw this young’ man mounted
on a dry goods box at the corner of two of
the public thoroughfares of Athens, sur
rounded by a mob of drunken men, wo
men and children, the most ignorant, idle
and depraved of their class. With the
exception of the writer and two or three
other white men attracted by a curiosity
to hear wfaat he might say to suen an au
dience, there was not a person present
with intelligence sufficient to know or to
feel that he or she bad any interest in
Georgia or the community in which they
were cast more thA to get a
meal as best they could, and a shelter from
the snn and rain as best they might. And
we listened to this young Hr. Speer har
angue tills mass upon the bad treatment
they and be had received from the Demo
cratic party, the rights that he and they
bad been deprived of by caucuses and
rings, pntli by reason of the Influence of
the whisky or the effect of his eloquence,
they were worked up into a frengy of an
ger and hatred against every man whose
sk’n was white, save Mr. Speer. This
was in Athens in sight of the State Unfe
verslty, within hearing of its faculty,
board of trustees and visiting strangers;
in a city which justly boasts of its learn
ing, its intelligence, its refinement and
social elegance. And we heard not a pro
test against this sickening, disgusting and
disgraceful scene.
In the political contest which followed,
thee, and was repeated two years after
wards, many of these citizens of Athens
voted that this young man
should be sent to the national
assembly as their representative. The
trustees of the University endorsed him
by selecting him to sit as a member of
tbeirbody. Is it strange under such cir
cumstances, that the ignorant, the Idle
god the vicious should hare rallied to
hiRi ft) auffiotef.; numbers to make bis
eleptiensixre?
ofa dollar per month. The snm realized
yearly is very large, and It now trans
pires from the report of General S. D.
Sturgis, the new governor of the home,
that this amount Is In the main misap
plied. Three hundred thousand dollars
have been employed In extending and
ornamenting the grounds, fifty thousand
In running two stone walls and iron rail
ings, thirty-seven thousand in a library
building, twenty-three thousand on a lake,
and some trifles, etc., It appears
that the flower and frait gardens are ran
for the benefit of the commissioners and
their families, and that families from the
White House are lnvlted.to summer at the.
home amid costly furniture purchased for
their benefit. From the report of General
Sturgis, it would seem that the Inmates
are not so much as furnished with light
amusements or the means therefor; that
all of the receipts are expended extrava
gantly, the comfort and convenience of
the soldiers being the last thing contem-
plfced.
common fund, that competent counsel
may be employed to meet the legal skill
and acumen Imported for the occasion.
Sis Congressional career Is a part of S
very small, and not respectable part cf
the history of the timei. Its main points
are embraced in an active and industrious
conniving with that political party, whose
success means the humiliation and dis
grace of the South, the destruction and
overthrow of the principles upon which
our social and political system rests. If
we are to credit the journals oi the city
of Athens, the elections which have oc
curred there during his Congressional in
cumbency have been a disgrace to our
civilization, and have been managed and
controlled by a mob of howling and
drunken negroes.
Is it to be wondered at, then, that riot,
bloodshed and murder have followed in
quick succession ? Who Is to say how
much more of it U to come before law and
order and common decency shall be again
enthroned by an enlightened and civilized
public sentiment ?
If this brutal murder ot ycung Roun-
t-ee shall not awaken the people of Athens
Thx counsel lor Crow-Dog, sentenced. ^ th(J , r fearfal condition, and to the lm-
to hang for the murder of Spotted-Ta,!, necessity of reformatory action,
haswntten to the commissioner of Indian h . ve
affairs, asking himtofnrnish funds for the, then tbe S°° d name °«£* p lcewIU haVe
appeal of the case to the United States So- P»*‘ d away forever. No place can pros-
preme Court. Commissioner Price refuses
tj'nt rfere.
“JATnAWKXB”eay8 the “people of Georgia
are controlled by this sentiment—that the
whites should have all the benefits which
flow from the labors of the negroes. They
think it ia right to make the negro work
while they enjoy the fruits of histoil.” And
the Constitution laughs.
“Jaxhawxzb” says: “Col. Arp is one of
the statesmen who progressed from the
‘surrender* into the Legislature of the
State by those innocent methods which
disposed of Republican rule in Georgia,
and carpet-bag rule in some other South
ern States.” And the Constitution snick-
era.
‘‘Jaihawxxb” says: “Any descendant
of Bob Toombs or Howell Cobb, or men of
that stamp, will follow bis father, and the
father, by his very surroundings, was in
herently the enemy of the republic, and it
is sheer nonsense to talk of inaugurating a
reform with them.” And the Constitution
roars with delight. .
Thx Indian commissioner refuses to give
Crow Dog, the red man, convicted of mur
der, a chance to take an appeal to the Su
preme Court. Arthur orders Lowell,
Brewster and Frelicgfauysen to use the ca
ble and dirlonumy save Dr.Lamson, tho
white man, convicted of murdering bis
brother-in-law for money.
Tax President will not act in the case of
Sergeant Mason until the Supreme Court
disposes of the question of the legality of
the sentence. The Secretary of War sus
tains the views of Judge Advocate-General
gsraim that the sentence is invalid. Tho
President, it iaknown, does not altogether
coincide in the opinion Jndge Advocate-
General Swaim gives in the Sergeant Ma
son case. Tbe opinion of Attorney-General
Brewster ha» not been^sked ut.
Pabson Masset has revolted against
In a recent speech, he say*: Mahone is a
never forgets an enemy or re-
® B * n WIM * , , „ 0 f an inordinate
!! d ^nld not hesitate to’ blot
station, who woKdjoo^ ^
Virginia out WO u!d be the proud-
'•Sb-ir ■» <*-
net day ba ( » . j# man ex-
--
pected anything oon jd become
stErsxsz** 11 * 1 *
*«*boote.”
per and maintain its credit and reputa
tion wbiebis at the mercy of a depraved
and ignorant class.
And if this state of affairs now ram
pant there is to be repeated and contin
ued tbe State of Georgia had best close
the doors of the University. The fathers
and mothers of the State are not going to
send their sons to a place to seek the ad
vantage of a training and education;where
it is known to them that they will have to
go armed to protect their lives and per
haps be brought back .in coffins, the vic
tims of the brutal passions of
Mr. Speer’s partisans. The peo
ple of Athens, the Democrats
of Athens and its vicinity cannot afford to
aiose their eyes to facts patent to every
body else. They have intelligence suffi
cient to see and to appreciate that Geor
gia is again about to engage in a conflict
with a political faction, which has been
for years seeking her life, and they ought
to have the manhood to cast aside so.
cial ties and associations, and personal
prejudices long enough to take a band and
to do their full duty in tbe struggle.
The State government of Georgia
which gives to the people the protection
of courts of law, which baa relieved
them from an imported robber band,
which has saved tbe public property and
kept inviolate the public credit, and which
has sustained tbe State University to its
youth—has been snatched from politieal
revolution and guarded from spoliation
by tbe Democratic party.
Take away this power, this safeguard;
and give rein to the unbridled ambition
and passions of Mr. Spear and bis follow
ers, and tbe classic walls or tho Univer
sity, within which now Ilea the bloody
corpse of tbe first 'ot its children mur
dered by negro politicians, will bo spat
tered with the blood of others, In an effort
to save them from the hands of amob of
Africans raised to madness by the elo
quence of Mr. Speer.ln tbe recital of his
and their wrongs.
The Soldiers’ Home mod.
The latest frauds upheaved amongst Re
publicans are in connection with tbe sol
diers, borne in Washington City. The
institution is supported by a levy upon tbe
pay of army men at the rate of one-eighth
■remtorta a moult.
The virtuous reformer, Brewster, more
generally known aa the dull tool of the
syndicate of stalwart thleTes commonly
called “tbe administration,” has subjected
himself to an interview, and comes be
fore the pabhc with hands uplifted fn
holy horror that his proposed raid on the
people of Sonlh Carolina should be look
ed upon as a political scheme. This
Washington Pendenuis—and Thackeray
has our declaration that we use the simile
only to illustrate an outside appearance—
blandly informs the reporter that he pro
poses to prosecute only ringleader*, and
not poor dupes; that the scheme originated
in the vacuum which exists under bis own
hat; that the President knew nothing of
it, hut that he had no idea but what “the
President, like the upright, high-minded
man he is, would cordially commend the
vigorous prosecution.” In fact, the pom
pons old relict has taken tbe witness-
stand, and vindicated, upon bis own word,
himself, tbe administration, and the pros-
ecntlng officers. However disinterested
may have been the compli
ment to Arthur, it must strike
tbe public as ridiculous, coming
from a man whose daily bread is tbe pres
idential crumbs, and spoken of aa one
who sat at tbe table with Dorsey, the
thief; whose most prominent official act
since an assassin made him President
was to upaet a court martial which he de
clared illegal, and discharge from the
government school the prisoner who, be
ing illegally convicted, was therefore un
der tho law presumably innocent. This
timeserving mendicant had best have kept
himself out of print. Un tbs one hand he
bal declared that the prosecutions are
not political; on the other that of bis own
knowledge the abuses la Carolina are not
greater tban elsewhere, but that they
have been so represented to him,
and crime should be prosecuted
whether committed by Democrats or Re
publicans. While most people will agree
to this common declaration, more than
one class would like to know why it is
that such crimes are not prosecuted out
side of States which do not support tbe
Republican administration ? At the same
time they would like to see this tool, “of
his own motion,” exhibit some energy in
prosecuting the star route thieves about
Washington. Why is It, with all of the
machinery of the United States at hand
o assist him, he cannot frame an indict-
jnent with meshes small enough to prevent
the thieves from escaping? Is it because
this is one of the subjects upon which to
use his language he has “conferred” with
the President? Does he realize that a
net with meshes small enough to drag
for the prime thief ot the ring, Is liable
also to pick up some of tue guests who
sat at bis table? True, this reformer
does not know of his owtf personal knowl
edge that these ringsiers are guilty, but
has It net beeD represented to him in lan
guage stronger than that he pretends to
have beard In Carolina, that they are ?
Has it ever been represented
to Mm that the administration’s
hirelings shot down an unarmed old
man and boy in Gwinnett county for no
cause whatever under heaveD, and that
the machinery of that branch of tbe gov
ernment he himself pretends to head, has
been used to save these murderers from
punishment ? Why was not an “admoni
tory letter” addressed to the prosecuting
officer, and these men convicted and
hang? Was ft because he had “confer
red” with the President upon this subject
also? Why Is It that throughout ihe
North and West preceding elections, hun
dreds upon thousands of dollars are open
ly used to purchase votes, bribe mausgers
and falsify returns, and no prosecutiouc
are begun or dreamed of, by tbe Brews
ter’s who have sat in tbe cabinet ? Is it
because the party has nothing to
gain and everything to lose in these quar
ters?
These are a few questions, a long suff
ering people would ask of this suddenly
active member of Arthur’s cabinet, if they
dreamed that he possessed honesty enough
to answer, or independence to act. But
they'do not entertain such hopes and
have gone ahead quietly to unite and de
fend themselves. Theprinciptl complaint
agafnst them, as set forth in the Washing
ton Bepublican and Detroit Post, is that
tho whole state has not risen npand
hurled a denial of thd charges into Brews
ter’s teeth. A failure to do this, is cited
as evidence that the charges are admitted
and the opposition preparing a rebellion.
These papers know well enough that there
Is but one way to deny the charges In a
criminal prosecution, and that Is by a
plea ofnotgnHty.
The press and people of South Caro
lina have taken the right course. With
the pluck and unity which characterize
them, they look the danger squarely intbe
face and prepare, without waste of words,
to meet it. They know that Brewster Is a
hypocrite, masquerading In tho garb
ofa reformer, and bolstered up by the
power and good will of a corrupt admin,
istralion working for its own perpetua
tion. And they have reason to distrust
that power. The years have not fled so
fast, that they cannot remember the days
when, for political purposes. Caroling was
overrun by spies and aliens, her good citi
zens dragged before venal coarts, con
fronted by perjared witnesses, and thrown
into penitentiaries on tramped up charges,
Those were tbe days when Grant was In
the White House as tbe chief executive
to-day he is the power behind the throne,
directing the enforcement of his old poli
cy. We say the people of our sister State
are pursuing the right course. They have
no favors to expect from a party • which
was kept in power fu 1ST8 by tliefl and
perjury, nor from an administration bora
of assassination. There is no rebellion in
For genuine and unadulterated devil
try on this particular point a negro preach
er can take the lead of anything save a
negro bishop.
Quite recently a Bishop Cain sued a
railroad in Texas for compelling him to
ride in the same car with his fleck, and
had to pay tbe costs for his pains and he
trouble in a United States coart.
Bat Bishop Payne could not see it, so
he raised a rumpus on a Florida road
The Jacksonville Union, gives this ac
count of 1U
On the day in question there was quite a
party of colored men going over to Femandlna
to attend some church meeting at that place.
All of these, except Bishop Payne, went Into
the car reserved for colored people. This car
Is equal In all Its appointments to the one oc
cupied by the white passengers. When I came
to Bishop Payne In the rear, he handed mo up
his half-fare ticket, and I said (not offensively):
“Well, old gentleman, I can’t recognize this
ticket here. Von are In the wrong car. You
will have to go in front.”
“No shV’ shouted out the reverend Bishop,
“I won’t do it. I won’t compromise my man,
hood by doing so. Stop your train and put me
outiiyouwUh.”
“N'o, I won’t put you out, but I am going to
stop at Panama station, and yon can get out
there if you choose," said Conductor Living
stone.
And at Panama the Irate prelate got out
Before the train started the conductor suggested
kindly to him that he had much better he
sensible, get into the comfortable ear for col
ored people and go on. But the reverend Bish
op would make no reply, and tramped volun
tarily four miles back to Jacksonville.
Tbe Traeleee el sbe University.
In some comments on the recent mur
der of a student in Athens, we uninten
tionally did an Injustice to the trustees of
the State University, which we make
haste to correct.
It seems that they are not to be held re
sponsible, for the fact that Mr. Emory
Speer occupies a seat as one of the board
of trustees. Some time since the Legisla
ture passed an act allowing tbe alumni
association of the university to eleet lour
persons from thgir number annually, who
shall be members of the board of trus
tees. At tho first election under this act
Mr. Emery Speer waS one of tbe persons
chosen.
During the last commencement, at the
meeting of the alumni ^association, when
this subject came up In order, Governor
Brown, president of the board, immediate
ly moved that Mr. Emory Speer be elect
ed unanimously. Thu motion received a
second from Chief Justice Jackson, as
loud as it was prompt. But the motion
did not prevail by any means. A num
ber of the members of the board ot trus
tees were opposed to it and so expressed
themselves. Finding that he was
about to be defeated, Mr. Speer
rusbed out and by an active canvass
among the resident alumni, saved himself
by a majority vote of one or two. He suco
coeded in defeating a gentleman who waj
far more worthy, and who had done much
to foster and build up the university.
And this result would not have been ob
tained but fora rule which had been estab
lished, permitting members of the Senior
class to vole before they were really grad
uated and bad become alumni of the uni
versity. And evenwlth this,his election was
only secured by appeals to tbe chivalrous
instincts of the gentlemen present, to the
effect that Mr. Speer bad recently mar
ried a lady,and she a stranger In a strange
community, would keenly feel the blow.
The whole matter gave rise to
much feeling and Considerable com
ment at tbe time, so much so that a State
Senator and an alumnus, then. present,
gave notice that he should feel it bis dut y
to call the attention of the Legislature to
the matter and to move that the authority
given to the alumni association to elect
members of the board of trustees be with
drawn.
This is about the history of the Lffair
as we have been able to gather it, and of
course relieves the board of trustees ol
any responsibility, for the fact that Mr.
Speer holds a position for which many of
them consider him unworthy and unfit.
is falae. When the Constitution gets
through with its frolic over the pyrotech
nic display, which it has conjured up for
tbe occasion, will It meet the Issue,
wh’.di ft has so far avoided by saying
openly, whether “Jayhawkers” charges
are true or false? We will engage to
furnish the fun on this subject, until
langMng itself may become a serious and
unenjoyable pastime.
»T What Authority 7
It will be remembered that the Georgia
Railroad Company has concluded to re
sist In tbe courts of the State the action
of the railroad commission in fixing the
rates ot freight, by which the business of
tbe road shall be conducted. We do not
propose to discuss the merits of the issue
between this road and the commission,
but we take the occasion to observe that
since tbe railroads are now permitted
to go into the courts to contest
•for their rights without incurring a
penalty, it might be well for all of them
to avail themselves of the privilege when
ever th«y have a case of sufficient impor
tance to justify such action. Railroads
and railroad commissioners, as well as
citizens, must at last have their rights,
powers and duties adjudicated by tbe
courts. It was for this purp > se that these
tribunals were established. He who sub
mits to what ho thinks or knows to be
wrong! and oppression, will be certain
to invite further aggression from the
sime source. But our object is
not to discuss the relation of the railroads
and the commission. A day or two since
we noticed in an Atlanta journal that the
railroad commission, In the absence of the
Governor, had employed Messrs. Mynatt
and Howell to represent it in the case
brought by tho Georgia railroad. The
objection which suggests itself, is not to
the parties employed as of counsel, but as
to the lack of warrant and power upon the
part of the commission to do this thing.
It is true that tbe frequent absences of tbe
chief executive of the State is calculated
to he embarrassing to every department
of the public service, but if the Governor
cannot overcome his propensity for mild
frolicking and junketings In the shape of
colored parades and Sunday-school pic
nics, with an occasional little political
maneuvering about Washington, why the
people must suffer until another election
may bring relief. He has no power un
der the constitution to delegate Ms au
thority to any one, and it is very cer
tain that the law creating and
organizing the Railroad Commission
does not confer upon it any of tha'powers
ot tbe executive. It is true that its grant
of power is very broad and arbitrary, but
there may be some limit to even this.
By what authority does the commis
sion employ counsel and propose to bind
the State for the payment of fees ? Tbe
State has an attorney-general, a very able,
experienced and competent official, whose
duty It is to represent tbe State iuthe
courts. Wby Is be not entirely compe
tent to represent the State in this matter ?
Where is the imminent necessity that
demands of the Railroad Commission the
employment of counsel whose fees are to
be paid by tbe taxpayers of the State ? If
perchance we can get a member into tbe
next Legislature, who can forget suffi
ciently that he is a candidate for Congress
jr governor, to take tbe chances of offend
ing some voter, perhaps we may have
these things made the subject of some
Stringent and reformatory legislation.
Tbe Constitution ana theJayhawker
Letter.
The Constitution catches its breatli
long enough, after a hearty peal of laugh
ter, to declare that it does not laugh at
tho “Jayhawker” letter and to read us a
little lecture oa editorial ethics. It takes
occasion to remind us that a public jour
nal is not presumed to endorse everything
it may see fit to publish. The point is
well taken so far as it goes, and we were
made acquainted with it very long before
there was such a journal as the Constitu
tion, and before its large, varie
gated and able staff had been
made farai.iar with the rales
and practices of journalism. But we sub
mit, that it is rare, very rare, that a journal
publishes matter reflecting upon tho char
acter, opinionsj practices, habits and so
cial acd public life of its readers and pa
trons, without seizing tho opportunity to
say whether tho criticisms are just and
warranted by facts or not. It may bo
that there Is something in a community
which needs correction. If so, the criti
cism ot any one who has noticed it
may be properly used as the
basis of comment looking to
reform. ( Commuifit!es may be, and
often are, unjustly assailed by persons of
such character and antecedents as would
make comment superfluous aud unneccs-
ary. But when a severe arraignment of
a people is made in the columns of a jour
nal of a distant State, and is reproduced
iu the columns of tho leading paper of the
community so assaulted, without a word
pf objection or contralictory comment,
the general reader Is left to presume that
the arraignment has the basis of fact and
truth.
“Jayhawker,” as must be known to the
Constitution, as it has been given to the
public press, is In tho employ of a rail
road in process of construction in Geor
gia for tbe purpose of inducing emigra
tion to the State. He writes a letter con
taining such charges against the people of
the State, which, Tf true, ought to prevent
any honest man from looking for an In
vestment of hi* money or a home for his
famtly In Georgia.
The Constitution, which Is given as
reference in said letter as a liberal and
advanced j mrnal, copies the letter with
out comment. Is it a forced construction
to say that the roan in Ohio, meeting
these facts, would reach the conclusion
that “Jayhawker” was right, and for the
reason that he was tacitly indorsed by tbe
Constitution1
The Constitution itself puts the point
in a nutshell when it says:
In other words, a charge is cither true or
false; If It Is true there Is an end of the matter
If It is false, any attempt to “repel" it would be
defending in open court a criminal change, j folly.
no hedirsa traitor who contribute* to a I The Txleohaph says that the charge
Knropean Politic*.
We publish In this edition of our jour
nal tbe first ofa series of articles on the
actual condition of the states of Europe,
their relations with each other, their In
trigues and secret purposes.
Inasmuch as the author of this series
h&s other literary work on hand, besides
business affairs of importance, there will
be considerable Intervals of time between
the appearance of the successive numbers;
hence we advise our readers to preserve
each of the letters, so as to be able to re
fer to them in case future articles contain
references to those already published.
The author of this series is not unknown
here, aud has had a peculiar experience,
dating more than eight years conttnous
residence in Europe, which has given him
an insight into matters not opeu to public
or even private observation. The copious
European telegrams published by Ameri
can journals arc but very imperfectly un
derstood in consequence of the waut ot
knowledge among our people as to the
matters these Press Association telegrams
reler to. *
Wo may promise our readers, - however,
that if they will carefully read and pre
serve tho contributions of our European
correspcndent, they will never be at a
loss iu future to fully comprehend the
real significance of the European intelli
gence published in American periodicals.
Errata.
In our last report of Supreme Court
decisions, in tho case of Langston vs.
Roby • t ah, in the sentence, “The Judg
ment sought to be set off was junior to the
other,” the printer used the word “prior”
for junior. We trust that no such injus
tice will be done our reporter again, whose
care, intelligence and conclseuess have
met with the emphatic endorsement of
the bench and bar.
Evebt now and then an Alabama paper
stands np and has something to say about
Georgia politics. The latest is from the
Macon (Ala.) Mail:
“It begins to transpire that those Geor
gians who propose to administer on Mr.
! Stephens’ political effects need not be pre
cipitate. His retirement !b postponed on
account of hia indisposition—to retire. It
will be kiodly remembered the last words
of Daniel Webster were: ‘I ain’t dead
yet.’
In tbe meantime, some of the candidates
for the proposed vacancy threaten to
bloom anyhow.
Iv my Lord Roscoe Conkling has lost
everything efee, he still retains bis top-lof-
tical sarcasm. Ho speaks of Gov. Cornell
as “that lizard on the hill.” We have
vainly searched] our scrap-book
for any thing worse than this from Col.
Thornton on the “Syndicate”. Tho “liz-
zard on tho MU” may be said to lay over
the “snake in the grasi.” Governor Cor
nell’s remains may be taken out and deUv-
ered to his family for interment.
Abthub enjoys the distinction of having
been hung in effigy.
Btjoe seek knocked the Republicans cold
in the late Ohio municipal elections.
Sabi Bbbshabdt has discounted future
“accidents” by getting a true, true hus
band.
Oub university students will have to tak
their exercise by platoons, armed with
muskets.
Abthxjb has strengthened his cabinet by
the addition of a fool and a knave, Teller
and Billie Chandler.
Thx loyal league has been renovated,
and Arthur has taken the oath and been
duly initiated.
Dana, of the Sun, donbts the successful
Hnid and Watterson’s free trade combina
tion, when it shall take the road.
The murder of young Rountree wil
carry to tbe old men and women of Geor
gia what “Independentism” means for
their children.
The ^allows about Washington who
not exported at the high-old-time-all.night
frolics at the White House are beginning
to grumble about it.
Because Joe Blackburn has treed a thiev
ing clerk in the Quartermaster’s depart
ment, Tommy Reed, of Maine, ponts and
won’t eat his doughnuts for supper.
The Sunday-school picnic threatens
to bloom, and our :“gov.” with his
lunch basket and song book is far away
nmong the floods and the floating heathen.
Hates trained Ah Sin and he flung Den
nis Keamey the first fall. Arthur has
handled him and he has downed Dennis
again. No time taken. The sand lot is
for rent.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says : Having
laid in a fresh enpply of quicklime, the
bribery investigation was jesumedatCo-
lumbos yesterday.
The New York Mail and Express opens
its columns to remark, in connection with
tho desecration ot Andre’s monument:
«It is but a few years since a million Union
soldiers overrun the South, despoiled her,
oonqnerel her and left her prostrate, bleed
ing aud destitute. Yet, year arter year
when the fresh flowers come, the old Con
federate soldiers affectionately decorate
with noble impartiality the grave* of their
own and of our gallant dead, and we love
and honor them for their magnanimity.’
For aged men, women, weak and sickly
children, without a rival. Will not cause
headache. Brown’s Iron Bitters.
Jumoee Thompson, the great Jongee, has
been beaten for an alderman’s place in Co
lumbus, OMo. Jongee was busy nursing
“Gentleman George’s infantile Presiden
tial boom.
The Sherman family are not to be allow
ed a monopoly in tho criminal business.
Beecher’s nephew Eugene is in Ludlow
street jail. Ho only angled a Mr. Angle
out of fifteen thousand dollars.
The Washington Post intimates that
Stage-driver Page finds it harder to drive
Arthur on the Chinese question, than to
handle the reins over a six mule team
over a mountain road, hitched to a Con
cord stage.
Judge Tompkins gran the injuaieton
prayed for by the stockholders of the Cen
tral railroad, to restrain General Alexan
der & Co. from issuing interest certificates
baaed on the property and earnings of the
Ocean Steamship Company.
Thb Dutch actress Rhea made $347 for
'Betty and the Baby” at a matinee. She
kissed Betty and cried, and Betty cried,
and ao did the clerks and clerkesees who
paid far the show, but the Baby did not join
the chorus. That 347 wi!l furnish tho ser
geant with a royal tear.
TnzBE is too much ado over the news to
Sarah Bernhardt’s marriage. A marriage
on the part of Sarah is hardly an event.
Those who read the latest French novel,
Monsieur Le Ministre, cannot but see the
resemblar ce between Monsieur and Chet
The Serbian “Slava.”
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
Among the orthodox Greek populations of
Eastern Europe the national customs,
founded for the most part on religious tra
ditions or superstitions, bear a strong re
semblance to each other. The Greek
Church is the national religion of thb Rus
sians, Roumanians, Bulgarians, Greeks
nud Serbians—the latter nationality com
prises the population of oil Serbia, one-
half of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina—
altogether not far from twenty millions of
sools.
The most singular exception to the gen
eral role above mentioned is that of the
“Slava,” celebrated by Serbian families.
This quaint annual fete dates from the first
introduction of Christianity into the an
cient empire of tho Serbians, more than a
thousand yean ago. As each head of a
family was baptized, ihe chose a patron
saint from the large assortment canonized
by the orthdox church. Now every saint in
the calendar has a special “day” of hi*
own, and when the family chief adopted
these-it was henceforth to be his
“Kb.™ » an d that of all hi* descendant*,
'Slava,'
ao long as time shall exist.'
The favorite saints were Nicholas,
George, John the Baptist, Dematri and
Mark, henoe m the “days” of these ecc’e-
siastical dignitaries there are nWro^s
Bendeb, tho celebrated mnrderer of
Kansas, has been captured after having
been lost sight of for years. He was found
working on a raft. *
Bon Lincoln does not approve of the
opinion of Judge-Advocate Swaim, in the
Mason case. It is refreshing to know that
Robert has an opinion of Ms own.
It is thought that some of the political
combinations will pot survive the hot sum
mer. Any man who has a governor tied
out, will do well to pnt Mm on ice.
We have mnch to be thankful for. Amid
oil the hubbub of politics and disorders of
life, the Georgia peacb has escaped from
his tussle with J. Frost without the usual
black eye.
Fbank Hatton, the biggest man in Ar
thur’s cabinet, takes no stock in civil ser-
vice reform. He tells Republican office
holders to go in and win. Frank goes in
himself every deal, but hla hand is too
light to win always.
The clerk who sent word to the office
yeatorday that John Chinamen is related
to the American people because he ia “a
cussin’,” will please come round and get a
copy of patent office reports by way of
compensation.
With Longstreet’a hirelings hounding
unarmed old men and boys to their death,
and Speer’s negroes murdering students
upon the streets of Athens, the “Indepen
dent” movement begins to loose the few
attractions it possessed.
M. Dakala, the Athenian, id now the
husband of Sarah Bernhardt. It is said she
will create quite a stir in Greece. Well!
well! The people must be amused. It
was only Helen away back yonder in the
past; but it is Helenblazes now.
Editor Harris has unearthed his phrase
dictionary and opened up the Mtherto
silent French division of the language.
It muBt be admitted however that vally do
ahamb is a mild way of describing Fresh,
the leading secretary of the administration.
Brewster’s ooat of arms is described as
being one of the most gorgeous works of
art seen about Washington. We have no
idea wliat the design is, bat there ought to
be upon it a jackass in the Ret of shooting
Honk! Honk 1 loul onough to be heard
in South Carolina. ■
The next time the people of this State
have to deal with the lawless negro ele
ment, they will not pause until the white
backs found amongst them have folt the
rawhide. There is little difference betwe< n
the actual criminal acd the men who incite
disorder and make orime a virtue.
Hr*. Sfaekay IkIkihI.
Paris Special.
Mis. Mackay ti exceedingly indignant at re
ports current in Paris olncr daughters ap
proaching marriage with a scion of the Bour
bons. She Informed e-Valtai e reporter, tne
-it... ik..( a trot a u-nnl nf I Til til
l>ons. cue miormcu tv xmai r
other day, that there was not a word of truth
In the story “If a monarch were to propose to
Miss Mackay,” declared her mother, “he would
I..." Xf™. Vulif ernressed herself
b “ own. bnt joins in the rejoic
ings of the household. But when each son
gy™* *£U np»n establishment of
rA«i^ 6n i he C f> ebr ntes the “Slava”
225* always the same day aa hia an
cestors. This custom must not be con-
ss£s* •*»
a a
- their proper position in the
social fabric,) are generally named after
da$M»h e w° fthe8 . a l nls ’ and U 11 * “Saints-
bfrth 3 onnnn, £e<rt t day instead of hia
W l th olher nationalitio*.
lienee, if a man has sir sons, each will
“Saints-day,”’ and there
winliSl.® amv6r,, ? r ' e ? kept-but the Ser-
^ • e .? tlreI y dutinct from this,
as every ma e descendant of tbe original
h?nf« t fL Wh ° ei g brao6d Christianity crie-
montea 1 ? 6 ??™- 0 Slava day. Tbe Slava cere
monies begin jn the morning with a reli-
gous service in the nearest chTrch; aH ?ho
fami y attend oxcept the lady of the house,
tiL ho , me *° Prepare the dain
ties. of which her family and guests will
J lrta * e lab) r i* the day. After the churah ‘
ceremony is over, tho priest goes to the
S5. d finds a tebl ° ln the centre of the
^Mt room, upon which there is a large
candle, wme and a loaf of white
th^.m«L 18 deftIy orna “»ented, on
the crust, with across and other devices.
8kill h0 enrh 1 ?. 8 ^j^^ry proud of thete
■aim each is endeavoring to outdo the
re m. ,n beautifying tho Slava loaf.
JStJSiSZ describes a cross in tbe air
, W **P f U8 .r n, / e > 1111(1 then pours wine on the
J? at form of a cross, while one of
tho children holds it in front of him. He
then reads a prayer for the hai
EdscsUsaal-UfKr of school Cota-
mlMloaer Orr.
Oar State school oommisMoner, Prof.
Orr, has written a letter to the Christian
Index in regard to the late educational
convention, held in Washington City, from
which we make the following extract:
At tlie late meeting in Washington
twenty-one States were represented, main
ly by State, superintendents. After a gen.
eral discussion of the subject of national
aid, a committee, consisting of oro from
each State represented, was appointed to
formnlate Ihe principles which ought to
enter into any law upon the snb-ject which
Congress may pass. The following were
the principles agreed upon:
L A direct appropriation from the treas
ury of an adequate sum, say not less than
flS.OOO.OOO annually, the appropriation
to be oontinued, trom year to year, for ten
years.
2. The money thns raised to be applied to
the support of tbe common schools, teach
ers’ institutes and norinjil schools.
3. The fund to be distributed among tho
States on the basis of illiteracy, as deter
mined by the census of 18iO.
4. The application of the fond to bo
made under the State law* and by the lo
cal State authorities.
C. The continuance of the gift to nny
State to be conditioned upon tbe appropri.
ation by the State, from year to year, of at
least one-third of the amount received from
the rations! government, and ujton the
faithful application of the fund to the ob
ject contemplated by the act.
These propositions were considered sep
arately in committee, and were separately
voted npon, and were eaoh adopted by a
unanimous vote—a most remarkablo re
sult.
A word or two now as to the reasons
wMch influenced their adoption, as brought
out by the discussions. The policy of going
direct to the treasury for the money was
adopted on the ground that tbe needs of
tbe South are pressing, that''tho whole
country is imperiled by Illiterate suffrage,
and that the sum given should be ndoqunte,
uniform and definitely ascertained.
The distribution upon the basis of illiter
acy was looked npon aa a measure of jus
tice to the South. The net of the United
States Government, in freeing and enfran
chising the slaves, placed q great burden
upon the impoverished Southern States,
and it was invoked to relieve, as far ns pos
sible, from the pressure of that burden.
It was further felt that in order to be
efficient, successful and satisfactory ad-
ministration of the educational affairs of a
i State, local self-oontrol was indispensable.
These reasons all came out fully and dis
tinctly in our discussions; and, after calm
consideration, as has already been
stated, all the propositions were
adopted by a unanimous vote.
By authority of the department this
abm ,—.— .u.jr [iiuuu oi xnetr committee went before the oommittoss on
-fil.-„ e u Ctl J? ® n deavoring to outdo the on education, of both he uses of Congress,
rest m beautifying the SUv.-i innf in joint session, presented their views in
the form substantially of the propositions
above enunciated, and were beard at length
in their support through gentlemen of their
own number, selected to mako tho argu-
**"” t *y M K JWiy for the happiness and ment. It is impossible to tell what will be
PHMperity Of the family until the next 81a- ' - — - - • -
▼a anniversary, tataa the first piece out
»if.vA af ’ , aftor receiving
\V<?n tn h< £ S 1 frra'-mty goes away.
Well-to-do people, or those who
desire to bo thought well-to-do,
?ZlRw priest less than a ducat
(about $2.40) for his services on that ooca-
to?minAteS r »i, the6 ? .tidily services have
^™?}° at « d » the relatives and friends of the
^ i m S? them all a
.Ppy olava. After each visitor has made
a wish, be receives a glass of wine and then
somo bo:lea wheat, specially prepared to
be used only for Slavas, and in feasts for
commemorating the dead. After the
wheat, preserved fruits (slatko) are hand
ed around, then another glass of wine and
finally the guest is given a cup of coffee
prepared in the ’JUrkish fashion. Right
here I may observe that poople who have
never lived in the Orient do not know what
real coffee, ns a beverage, should be. Each
°°P is made by itself. The coffee is
powdered in the cup, or ground in
a small hand-mill, and then placed in the
cup; hot water ia poured in, the proper
quantity of sugar is added, in a powdered
suite with the coffee, and when the mass
hns settled to the bottom, the anxious
gourmand gets a drink fit for the god«.
Care must be taken to let the grounds
settle before drinking, and the operator
mus. avoid drinking too deeply, so as to
reach the dregs. Tho Arabs have a still
more delicious means of preparing coffee.
They take a much larger quantity of tho
powdered berry and pour on boiling water,
which is at once teemed off agnin; in this
way they get only the first aroma of the
coffee, which is the chief delight of the
lover of this beverage. Of course, it re
quires a largo expenditure of the fruit for
a cup or Arab coffee, and hence only rich
people indulge in it, but when I recall the
horrible, bitter c impound called “coffee”
in America, I mentally resolve that never
more will I insnlt my palate with tho
chnstian’s abomination which they miscall
"coffee.”
The congratulatory visits continue until
sunset. Only specially invited guests re
main for the evening entertainments,
which are little more than a continuation
of those already described. It ia not nn-
usuat for peasant families to keep up
their Slava jollifications for tbreo days,
especially when their anniversary comes in
an idlo season of the year when time is of
even less value than is ordinarily attached
to it in the easy going countries towards
the rising sun. The Serbians are exces
sively proud of their Slava ceremonies, aud
affect a superiority over their Slav brethren
who have no such festival.
There is a common expression in use
in Serbia, in referring to something
which is of doubtful probability in the fu
ture, when conversing with a person of
another nationality—“Ob! yes; that will
happen as your Slava”—a form of spo.reh
equivalent to the Greek Kalends.
Edward Maxwell Grant.
Belgrade, Serbia, March 14.1882. '
the result. The effect of so much unity
among gentlemen coming from all parts
of the country—men supposed to have
made the great subject which convened
them a matter of special s'.uiiy. cannot
fail to be very considerable. The mem
bers of our body mingled freely with the
Senators and Representatives in Congress
from their respective States during our
stay in Washington, and the general testi
mony was to the effect that there seems
to he an almost aniversa’ desire, on tho
part of both Senators and Representatives,
to do something upon the great question
of popular education.
Xo'give yon an idea of what such an appro
priation as that for which we a«ko l would
do for the Sonth, I may state that the share
of Georgin would be over a million of dol
lars. With this snm, increased by the
State appropriation, we could keep the
schools in operation all over the State,
eight or nine months of tho year, hold
teachers’ institution in every oouety of the
State for the better instruction of tea shers
now in the field, and establish normal
schools for the training, from yonr to year,
of an adequate number of young men
and womem who have determined to de
vote thcmiwRres to teaching as a life work.
If m> brethren of the different charches
could only see, as I think I see it, that tbe
common school is the only agency that
can give to our youth, generally, both
white nnd colored, such a degree of intelli
gence and cnltnre a> shall prepare them
for understanding the great truths of tho
gospel and for becoming thoroughly effi
cient and useful as church members, sure
ly they would place themselves iuthe front
ranks of those whonre seeking to fully es
tablish and perfect that agency. I hope all
yonr reader* will ponder the thought con
tained in tMs lost sentence.
dot Sick of rbclr Sew.
Table Special.
A merry and madcap association of pretty ac
tresses, known os the “Rleuses,” gave a supper
and ball this week, which ha? since been tho
talk of all the Parisian clubs and green rooms.
The association of “Ricusca” was founded
years ago on a strong anti-masculine basis. Tho
members met periodically at dinner, from
wnlch the malo element was rigorously ex
cluded. Among the rules of the “Rleutcs”
was one forbidding all favorable mention of
anythingauiscjillne at th banquet- mi ic
penalty of fine. After awhile, however, thea _
pretty Rleuses began to gat sick of their own*
sex, and this year it was decided that each
member should Invite two male guest* to the
feast. The entertalnmentcamc- off at Druand’s
on Wednesday. The roles of the two sexes
were exactly reversed. At this original sym
posium It was tbe Indies who waited on tho
gentlemen; not the gemlencnon the ladle*.
The guests had. In fact, nothing to do but to
keep still and let the fair hands ol their host
esses moke them happy.
A Son ot Texas.
Qalreeto* Seat.
‘How is yonr son coming on ?” “Oh, I
am haring a power of trouble with him.”
“What’a tho matter now?” “Well, yon
know, I couldn’t send him to school, be
cause, thaaki to Giveruor Roberta, there
ar3 no free schools, and I could net afford
to send him to a private school.” ■ “Yes, I
know that it so.’ r “A’ell, I sent him away
from Galveston out to tho frontier, and, as
luck would have it, he was convicted of
horse stealing and got five years in the
ponitontiary.” “That was bad.” “No. it
wasn’t; for you sea at the pinitmtiary he
could learn a trade and become a useful
citizen.” “Well, that’s good.” “No, it
isn’t; for Givernor Robms hu pardoned
him oat o i aoo m it of hia yon.h and iguo-
ranos.”
J . UVUftICU 1W»
be refused.*' Mrs. Mackay expressed herself
very stitongly on the whole subject. She com-
>CI) Birwiifiij tm mb nnuivi’uwivww —
plain* that *nc i* besieged by fortune-hunter*
“II this goes on I shall have to_ put a notice
"II imaB-irauiuL aiuwi I--.. —
upon the door.” said the wrathful little lady,
"announcing that In conformity with American
customs Mis* Mackay will not have any marri
age iMirtioii.” A curious commentary on this
social Incident Is supplied to^tay by the Mad
rid correspondent of tho Oauloit, who. In no
ticing the reports about Don Ihilinpl, tlio
Bourbon ln question, nnd Miss Mackay, ob
serves that Paris does not seem to know that
Don Philippi wa* married, morgana tteajly tea
widow called Bordre on the 18th of lebruary
last.
Tbe Wrong Direction.
Evening h'eut.
A colored woman was pulled out ol the river
yesterday. She had got religion, an.l said she
was wading to heaven, which w as the "'kgt'sl
mistake on record, as she was headed straight
for Hamburg.
They Didn’t Catch On.
San Francisco Post.
“Of all tho rustics that stop nt this house,
the natives from Bodie take the mnt-
zi,” said tho room-clerk of tho Baldwin to
n Post reporter the othor day.
“Sorter green—eh ?”
“Green? Well.I should snigger. You
seebocacso they’ve beon making a little
coin up that way they think they know it
all. A party of four got here yesterday
morning and started out shopping right
after breakfast. At dinner they came in
all. shaved, trimmed up and togged out
with nev suits, and I’m blessed if each
didn't have a rad flannel chest protector
hung around Lis neck outside of his ooat.
They actually believed they were somo sty
lish new arrangement to protect the clothes
from being soiled while at the table.’*
On* of the driwbaiks of married life is
sickness of th* little ones. For n Cold or
Cough you cannot find a better remedy
than D.-. Bill’s C-oujh Syrop. Neirly all
physician* prescribe it and no family
hould be without it.
A II.wilt Anecdote
Henri Wallerton.-
Mr. Hewitt has long been troubled with
sleeplessness. He now lodges In the upper
store of oneolWosmley**houses, where he has
the entire floor, embracing, among other apart
ments, three bed-rooms. The morning after
t.i. . ..(.ilit'c rteoiitvoni
Brewster In Hla Den.
"Gatk."
"Why. It Is as good as a play,” li*
go un into the Attorney-' ienerur-
sec Brewster. He hns taken out the
used to be there, and pqt a table In i
ol the room, on which are a large
wax caudles—blue, red, white and I
ore—nnd the floor is covered with 1*.
and there Brewster receives yon with < _ _ I
nltlccneeofa Grand Vizier, his shirt-bosom
full of ruffles, rutiles at bis sleeves, bis sack and
vest of velvet, and his trowsers of white cloth
or flannel, and low-quartered shoes. His lin
gers are full ot rings—I Chink then? Is a ring on
almost every finger. The old fellow is cither
trying to e«tabll»U the fact that te is the last
remnant of the aristocracy, or he It ln his sec
ond childhood. He writes a good many let
ters telling what the government Is going to
do, and nobody seems to have nny thing against
lii:n: but It is a terrifie caricature of the young
widower's administration Arthnr has Men a
good deal praised for his gentle, dainty habits
and addrasr. but llrew.tr on tab Inca him as
much as the circus knight oatshlaes the ring
master.”
Veto Comments.
Washington Special to the Courier Journal.
Comment on the President’s veto continue*.’
Said Senator Farley, of California: “I must
confess I was surprised. I had thought the-
President would approve the bill.’’ "What do-
you propose to do about It'.”' "Give me anoth
er dosetof the same medicine.” 'supi>osc It'
shares the same fate ot the bill vetx'd?'’ "Well,
you know this la the second time ti.o Demo
crats have come to the relief of the l- oplool
the l’acifle coast on the Chinese qin-uou. and
If we give the Republicans a tb nl chanocto-
provetbalrallegiance and love for American
labor and they full to rciMuel te :!w demand*
of the people of ray >e< tiob, with them rtri.i the
re»:>o;isibilv, and not with us."
Senator Slater is of the opinion that it sounds,
the d xith-knell of the Republican party on tlio
Paclilc coast.
Joe Blackburn says: “We will try to puss the
bill over his veto. )! we fail iu -.Icit. we will
pr.ss a bill for fifteen years, and i he vetoes
thet. we will, in order t** help our friends of
California, give him a ten-year clause, and If
he vetoes that, we will stop, and .. ith him and
hi* party rests the rcsi«>uslblllty.’'
“Suppose ho vetoes a ten-year l ili, what will
you do il the Pacific cmist should api>eal to you
again?'’
"Well. I would favor tho pas- tge of a bill
making Bo-ton the only ;>oint in tlie United
suite- at which Chinamen could or-hould ho
landed, and then suggest to California tho
passage of un act prohibiting tile landing of
any Chinamen in that State eith. r by land or
water.”
lllvlll«| 1111 VC. , L „ t...
hlsflret night’s occupancy of.oste of thasehc
•went to Wormley and complained of the barr
ing of the dog*. “Very' well, Mr. Hewitt. sa>*
Wormley, “that U an easy matter to remedy.
Sc the dogs were removed. Next day -Mr.
Hewitt, occupying room number two. cum-
plained of the cats. "The eat*,’’ says Worm-
ley, "are not so easily dealt with as the ‘brv*'
Mr. Hewitt, hut I will do my best. The third
day Mr. Hewitt declared that the dog nuisance
aud the cat nuisance were abated by room
number three, but that lit* rest had been greativ
disturbed by the bird*. "Now, Mr. Hewitt
Eavs Wormley, with a mixture of humor and
chagrin truly Ethiopian, “I can manage the
dogs, and I’m getting a purchase on the cut*,
but how can you expect a man to tackle the
sparrows and the larks?”
TaUersMvaa Tiltlcu.
Courier-Journal.
Mr. TiWen’s personality is ver y potent and
As an accorn
a ninny sided ^.aU^nmn* cm*
£ within the mn«e of hh iutelleot and
U*r every branch of .1 philosophy.
immUhed party iccdcr b '
—Mr. Addison Gase, of Boston, is re
puted to be the ice king of the country.
! i a it... /.(..I.t iwwi.wiativ In tho inn Ao!
nnd profound
ltd shoulder*
all the public men of our day. Ho wax
nominated And elected in li*#u bcemts • he repre
sented the popular demand for rdministmtivo
reform. He should have been n< mimacd, and
had he been nominated he wo : M have been
elected, in a* the reprewntutivu of our
elective system, struck down by force and
fraud in hia person. But the fallu v of the party
to renominate the old ticket u? rincinnau
was substantial}v the coudouttion of tho
fraud, and. therefore, except a< a sentiment,
the exclusion of 18# s, infamous j.» it wasla not
likely to prove very effectual ir !-h*j. If Mr.
Tilden reappears upon the seen* of active po
litical life, he must appear as an ^riranized hlea
and moral force rising out of the immediato
situation. If he wants to reappear, and has the
physical strength to make hi* dewires voluble.
nmvides the* frigid necessity to the inhabitants J there is no shadow of a’doubt thrt he can do so.
Cf Havana. Tiinldad, Cape du Verde Islands, * The pigmies who aspire to the i ext.hmenh
Imported oomba and brushes at Lennar,
Bcnkin & Lamar’s.
v RioJttueiro Montevideo, and has icehouses ic nomination are really In robody’s way.
' «,* \ ow Orleans. Augusta, Savannah and other But. in considering this question, Mr. Tilden'a
Southern tow ns. He says that the ice crop is wish.* and health are of p&nrnonnt iropor*
! shorter tills year than since 1880. and very tance: because it may lumpen that Mr. Ti Idea
Drobablv since 1870. Of course the demand ex- hss a nominee ’*hld out, 0 aa the saying h, and
ceeds the supply, and a corresponding increase that he purposes in his owu person imH again
tn mac be expected. to take the field.
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