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VaOtm. Georgia.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21.
Tax candidate who cannot control his
friends is becoming numerous.
"Birn and the Baby” gather dimes
faster than the Garfield monument.
Tub death of Jesse James leaves.a vacan
cy to which Sergeant Mason may ba pro
moted.
Gaidt has gone down in southwest Geor-
gia to examine Thomasville’a strawberry
Hxxar Gaunt has Joined the potato bug
In a raid upon the scarlet and snccnlent
strawberry.
Jos Haas is has a sweetheart who corres
ponds with the Greensboro Patriot. Hsp
py, happy man!
Old Dr. Bliss threatens a European tour.
His stock speculations on Garfield’s wound
must have panned out rich.
Editob Habbis cannot get loose from the
cotton tie. In the language of the poet,
“There are tie3 we cannot sever."
Wx cannot see that the committee have
corkscrewed mnch out of Shipherd. He
lies with wondrous facility and talks at
the troth.
Undxb" numerous aliases the annna
“dirt dobber” is getting in his work in the
provincial weeklies. Nobody mistakes him
for a wasp.
Uncle Rxnus rolls his iron hoop nnder
the wood-shed and apologizes to old man
Shook for kicking him by mistake for
“Jayhawker.” It is welL
Dobskt is out of the way. Now let the
wrath of the administration bo expended
on the minor offenders, and the Republi
can party vindicated.
Fmow the sale of his immense cattle and
land interests, Dorsey is well able to pay
his bondsmen and have enough left to .live
on in the Parisian capita].
Michigan's Congressman Hubbell com
plains that the Democrats in his district
are “going for his gut fat" They are after
the largest and most intellectual portion of
Congressman Hubbell.
Kino Chablxs I, of Wurtenburg, has
been converted to the Catholic faith, and
has been baptized by the Pope.
Bishop Beckwith confirmed Col. Mar
cellas E. Thornton at Eastertide.
The Civil miBbts Excitement.
Indications are plentiful that a certain
class of negroes, Instigated and encour
aged by mischievous white men, here and
elsewhere, are going to attempt to get up
a civil rights excitement daring the com
ing campaign. They are going to make
desperate and concentrated effort to obtain
the privileges they desire in railroad-cars,
hotels and places of pnblic entertainment.
Any resistance to these efiorts it Is expect*
ed will fire the Northern heart to such an
extent as will close np the scattered Re
publican ranks and rally millions of
bands to the halyards to ran up the ban
ner of the bloody shirt.
We bare already chronicled the fact
that Bishop Cain sued a Texas railroad
for damages because be was excluded
from a car set aside for white people. He
was cast in the suit in a United Stales
court and had to pay costa. The court
held that the company was only bound to
famish eqaal accommodations to both
races. Several attempts in a similar dl*
rectlonhaye been made at Selma, Ala
bama. In Florida, a Bishop Payne would
not ride in the same car with his colored
flock, and Indignation meetings are being
held at the North on this subject, where
resolutions are passed recommending the
negroes to resist all altempta to make
them ride in the cars furnisheDhr them.
We have seen a statement tome eflect
that the Central railroad lias discharged
a conductor on its rhomasrilte branch
railroad for the reason that be had ejected
from the white car a mulatto school marm
who insisted upon riding in there and re
fused to go out. And further that the
same road, under threats of prosecution,
had paid her seven hundred dollars.
Mr. Benjamin Brewster, attorney-gen
eral, has been approached by Frederick
Douglass on this matter, and has promis
ed to bring the administration to the aid
of the negroes.
It is charged that Mr. Blaine deserted
the negro on this point when he declined
to aid h's party, when speaker, in the pas
sage of what is known as the force bill.
Ben Peiley Poore, In a letter to the Bos
ton Journal, says:
Mr. Douglass attributes the present political
condition of his race at tgo South to Mr.
Blaine's defeat of tbo force till, lie believes
that the South Is the natural abode of the col
ored man, and that sooner or later education
and Industry will give him political equality.
If this is not granted, the colored man will
quietly withdraw himself and his labor from a
section of country where it Is Indispensable.
The railroads will have to meet this
movement. There Is no safe and decent
way to avoid it.
This step towards social equality musj
be met promptly and firmly. A fair in.
terpretatton o! the law will sustain the
roads. It Is all tf not more than they can
do to stand the Railroad Commission. If
they are to bo saddled with the negro
also, bankruptcy and ruin are within
very short and easy reach.
Editobs Macon Texegbath: We cannot
now afford to back down from our •‘Jay-
hawker” position. Bnt if it will suit you
jnst as well, we will compromise by skin
ning Mr. Shook alive. Constitution.
Thx blizzard in the Northwest has set
tied the fruit crop of that section. The
outlook here just now is shaky. A freeze
would be worse than Sherman and bis
bummers, if it be possible that anything
can be worse than Shannon and Us bum
mers.
A raw days since we were gravely in
formed by the Constitution that it was a
waste of time and words to defend the
South from gratuitous slanders. The
question arises now, why does onr contem
porary hurl the bitter end of the English
language at Mr. Shook ?
An exchange wonders why the German
Emperor does not issue an imperial order
forbidding emigration. His Royal High
ness has doubtless bandied champagne,
and knows that when the contents of a
bottle becomes enlivened the head is apt to
fly off or bottom fall out
The Constitution has been engaged in a
consistent and conscientious effort to re-
mo»e the false impressions that exist,
whether they are the result of ignorance or
of malice.—Constitution.
The wicked foreman mast have omitted
to insert in our contemporary’s Macon ed
ition, the “effort” to remove Jay hawker’s
false impressions, as recently set forth by
that jonma’.
Tux English railway commission receives
$47,500 a year salaries for commis.-ioners
and secretary. The commissioners and
secretary of the Georgia commission re
ceive *¥,700, or a little more than one-
sixth tuo cost of the English commission.
The English commission has had only
twenty ccses to try in two years.—Constitu
tion.
Georgia could well afford to pay her
railroad commissioners $47,500 also—if
they did nothing.
Tax Constitution says: “Mr. Shook is
gnisteksn in his views about the people of
the South. If he will come among us and
see for himself he will find as little bigot
ry and intolerance in Georgia, in propor
tion to the population, as he will find in
New York.” Is “Jayhawker” mistaken, or
does be snffer from strabismus? Does the
ConstilutU>n Join Arthur in putting the
New York man over the Ohio man?
Or the principal star route thieves, a
special to tho Philadelphia Record says:
- It is understood in Washington that Dor
sey has sold all his property in New Mex-
ioo, and that he has either gone into old
Mexico or some other country whence he
cannot be extradited. It is also said that
Dorsey has made some four or five million
dollars ont of the star routes, and that
Brady, who helped him io his schemes, is
almost penniless to-day, a sheriff having
levied upon some of his property last week
and carried it off. Brady is all broken np,
to use a common expression, and has lost
a great deal of money in unfortunate spec
ulation?.
In Madison, Indiana, Rev. George H.
Austin, who forged a note for $2S0, pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced by Judge Alli
son to five years in the Southern prison
and a fine of $10. He made an eloquent
appeal to the oourt, claiming that he had
gained hia education while working at the
plow and that he bad no criminal intent in
doing the deed; that he had been populnr
as a preacher in Teunestee, and many Ue-
airexl him ot Nashville, but that the confer
ence was fixed like onr government-the
bishop being the president and the elder*
the cabinet—and that, having their pets,
they only gave him an appointment pay
ing about fifty dollars a year. When ar-
yMted in Texas he was preaching and
ffra—hi n ff s drool.
mended the retention of another person, j Oux Atlanta correspondent gives an
TlielEIeelloa Prosecutions.
The prosecutions that Hr. Attorney-
General Brewster has instituted In Ala
bama and South Carolina, for the pur
pose of securing convictions to aid bis
party in unseating Southern Congress
men, have not been successes so far.
A special to tne Nashville American
gives this account of the first cases tried
In Huntsville, Alabama:
The trial of Joseph T. McGehee and Daniel C.
Clark for violation of the election law In the
late Congressional election in this district be-
,can In the Federal Court The government
‘after the examination of one witness, rested.
The defendants Introduced no evidence, bnt
were willing to submit the case without argu
ment The District Attorney declined to agree
to this, and the case was argued today, when
a dramatic scene in court occurred. Judge
Bruce charged the Jury at length, and con
cluded with the remark to them: "If you be
lieve the evidence you must find the defendant
guilty;" whereupon one of the jurors arose and
said: “Are we to decide this case according to
the law and evidence presented before ns? If
so. we prefer to have our own counsel.” Tbe
defendants’ counsel replied: "Von cay decide
as yon see proper.”
The court adjourned amid greAt confusion
and excitement Tho jury, after remaining
ont abont ten mlnntes, returned a verdict of
not guilty. The Judge simply remarked: "The
defendants are discharged; also this jury for
the present term of the court”
In South Carolina it Is probable that
convictions may follow, for the United
States Judge has ruled that the District
Attorney may pack the janes for that pur
pose.
And this is all the more likely wheu
the character of the testimony Is taken
into consideration. The Greenville, S.
C., Nines famishes the following speci
men. It says:
One Hugh Kane, well known to onr people,
who was first delivered from tho gallows by tho
special grace of a United States Jury, was put
on the stand as the principal witness against
the respectable citizens ol Richland who are on,
trial, and he was there compelled under cross-
examination to state that he bad neTcr been
naturalized as an American citizen, bnt that he
had token the constitutional oath that he was
a citizen and that he bad subsequently voted at
Acton In this county, thus publicly accusing
himself of one of tho highest crimes known to
the law, ^ < ^
Mr. Speer's Letter.
In another colnmn of this issue may be
found a letter written by Mr. Emmy
Speer to the Atlanta Constitution and
published in that journal on the 14tb inst.
Mr. Speer had no need to go to the Con
stitution, for the columns of the Tklk-
oraph are always open to any one who
may feel himself aggrieved.by Us utteran
ces. Mr. Speer, who, if he is noted for
anything beyond a reckless ambition and
Inordinate vanity, is tbe proprietor of a
very vivid imagination and a loose and
foul tongue, delivefii himself of a denun
ciation of us, for the reason, that In the
discharge of a public duty as a journalist
we had thought proper to lay at his door
where it properly belongs, the responsibili
ty for the recent bloody tragedy at Athens.
As introductory to his diatribe he charges
that wo cherish “animosity” against him,
for the reason that we were discharged
from a clerical position in the forty-sixth
Congress for “Incompetency,” which posi
tion his cousin succeeded to.
The charge is without foundation. Mr
Speer mistakes the feeling we entertain
for him. It does not approach the dignity
of animosity, which, whether rightly
grounded or not, recognizes something
worthy in the object at which it may be
directed. Why should our animosity
reach out for Mr. Speer when the Injury
or injustice to us, If committed at all, was
performed by other bands? Our relations
with his cousin are, and have always
becD, kindly. Is Mr. Speer haunted with
the memory of somo dirty trickery In con
nection with this affair? It was brought
to us at the time that our official
head was the price of his vote
to the Democratic organization In
the House. Our position came from tho
hands of our friend Mr. Hartridge. Upon
application to his successor, Hon. John
Nlcholls, he frankly informed us that but
one position could be held by his district,
and for sufficient reasons be had recom*
This waa aaUsfactory to us. We probed
no farther. What has reached us since is
not pertinent to this issue. But granting
that the charge in all of its force be trne, ^
that one who bad done during four years,
tbe bulk of the clerical work of the Con
federate Congress, was incompetent for
further duty, this was a misfortune, not
a fault. There is an immeasureable gulf
between Incompetency and Infamy. The
overweening egotism of Mr. Speer blinds
him to tbe fact that we atand on opposite
shores of the gulf.
We cannot recall the use at any time of
tbe expression, that we intended to use
Mr. Hanson’s paper to drive Mr. Speer
from public life. Repudiating any such
narrow scope of journalistic labor and
responsibility the fact stands, that Mr.
Hanson has no paper. This gentleman is
associated with ns, In the conduct of tbe
Telegraph and Messenger, and Mr,
Speer has in his possession the highest
evidence of accord between manager and
editor in relation to himself.
I^tt in view of recent events and the
present condition of affairs in Georgia, we
can not Imagine how a journal may be
more judiciously used, and a life more
usefully and honorably spent than in an
effort to put Mr. Speer in close communion
alone, with that dangerous and' degraded
element upon which be mainly jelies for
political preferment.
We have felt it a duty, warranted by all
of tbe circumstances and surroundings, to
charge upon Mr. Speer, the main respon
sibility for the lata murder of a stu
dent at the State University. Weregret-
ed then, and still regret, tbit In our opin
ion this responsibility wss divided.
We desire to re-iterate with all of tbe
forco that simple English is capable of
carrying to ithe intelligent mind, that
our opinion is unaltered {and the conclu
sion of our Judgment in giving it shape
and expression. Uur position has been
unequivocally endorsed by tbe leading
journal of the city of Athens,
tbe home of Mr. Emory Speer, and
by other journals of the State. Be
yond this, the article in question has re
ceived the warm encomiums of many of
the ablest and leading minds oi Georgia;
gentlemen of such character and position
as form and give tone to what is known
as public opinion. Mr. Speer and the
reading public are familiar with the reas
ons clven for our opinion, and neces
sity does not exist for their recapitulation.
It has pleased Mr. Speer to draw a par
allel between his own and our record, to
his great satisfaction. He caunot possi
bly be better satisfied on this score
than we are. No matter what may
have been our errors and misfortunes,
wAave always been true to our blood
and our people. We have enjoyed no
profit, reaped no honors or advancement
at the cost of our self-respect or at the
expense of the good and true people of
Georgia.
We have Inflamed with wild harangues
no brutal and drunken mobs of negroes
on the streets of the most cultured city of
the State. We have never regaled a gang
of low and ignorant white men with
brochures of filth, obscenity
and blackguardism, that would
have caused a panic in a
brothel and brought tho blush
of shame to the habitues of a
rat-pit. We have never used a negro fop
the promotion of our ambition, and ba;l
him publicly denounce us for tergiversa
tion, and threaten to cudgel us for person
al deception and treachery. We have not
professed loyally to the principles of one
party and taken cover in the camp of an
other. We can look all Georgians square
ly in the face, our wife «ud children,
and say to them that our record,
whatever it may be, at least enj >ys one
inestimable honor—that it has never been
polluted by the indorsement or approval
of Mr. Emory Speer, or aoy such as be.
Wandering from the real issue, Mr.
Speer has referred to matters not relevant
to this discussion. We do not propose to
follow him in that direction. He has in
vited, even provoked us to step over the
barriers of public discussion and to drag
forth the incidents of private life.
As a journalist, it is part of our exiling
to be fully acquainted with tbe careers of
tbe men with whom we have to deal,
There Is at ourelbow a mass whose airing
would not tend to elevate Mr. Speer In
popular esteem and admiration. Present
necessity does not require its use.
Our pen is stayed by the memory of
dead and living people who have not par
tidpated in his honors, and who are not re
sponsible for tho more than dubious meth
ods by which he has gained them. Nor
do we intend that Mr. Speer afaall divide
among his family and friends what we
mean for him, and 1dm alone.
Wehavo no cause ofcomplalntof them.
All solar as we know are doing honora
ble service in their respective callings.
Some, we know, are upholding the prin-
dples by which all that Is honorable and
decent in Georgia can bo transmitted to
our children, and which principles Mr.
Speer and the motley rapscallions with
whom be is associated are endeavoring to
overthrow. We have had occasion before
to deal with fellows as windy and as
vaporing as be. He can say nothing, can
do nothing that may add to tbo unut
terable contempt which we entertain and
enjoy for him.
The Republican party stands without n
rival in the number and variety of its ex
pedients to carry its point. Our readers
will remember how a number of Now
York legislator* ruined Tommy Platt by
the aid of. a stepladder and a convenient
transom. This trick stood unrivaled until
Borne Tennessee statesmen conceived tho
brilliant plan of working off a majority
against them with belladonna and croton
oil. This laid out the transom and the
stepladder. And now Ohio sees Now York
and Tennessee and goes two reporters nn
der the bed better.
From the testimony taken in tho bribery
and corruption caso before the Ohio Leg
islature, we extract this delicate morsel.
A witness swears as follows: “Yesterday
morning, March 23d, Mr. Watson came to
my home; he wanted to see me; had not
met him before; was surprised to see him
so early; he told me ho hnd finally sue*
ceeded in the plot he had laid; I asked him
what it was; said he had got word Netter
was to be in the city; had made arrange
ments to watch his movemonts; had ar
ranged with clerk to get rooms at hotel
adjoining Netter’*, with door with a tran
som between; he was determined to watch
him that evoning; in tbe ovening ho got
two reporters together with him into Net-
ter’s room,! nnder Netter’s bed, and that
they had overheard my conversation with
Netter, and the proposition made to me
which I declined.”
intereating sketch of the sotive political
manosuvering going on jnst bow. -
Tub new Czar does not seem to be so
anxious to get the royal crown upon his
head as to retain the one whichnaturepro-
vided.
At latest aooounts the immortal J. N.
waa beading toward Atlanta. He will lift
the veil and remove the pressure on the
first of June.
Ixis vaguely rumored that when Alex
Stephens gets done toting the eighth dis
trict skillet, he will not hang it upon an
Augusta Hook.
Ex-Govzsnoh Mosxs is in a New York
jail for swindling, and Ben Brewster has
hia body servant down in Charleston to
swear his election indictments through.
*Captain Howgate, who stole four hun
dred thousand dollars of pubiiomoney, has
escaped from the same jail that holds Gni-
teau. Howgate and Dorsey know too
much.
The reform, instituted by that silly old
idiot Brewster, in South Carolina, does not
seem to pan out well. The trouble is, the
tools in nse are so filthy they stick to the
government’s hand.
We are indebted to considorate friends
for some valuable contributions respecting
the career of Mr. Emory Speer. They are
duly filed for future reference and use,
should occasion demand them.
Old Shibhebd swears that Blaine dis
patched Huribnt .to this effect: “Go ic,
Steve.” The American people who know
Ur. Biaine cannot be deceived. If he had
dispatched, “Go in, Steve, and win,” the
popular eye and mind wonld have recog
nized the “premier for an hour.”
Thb Bev. Mr. Fitzgerald must have had
Mr. Emory Speer in his mind’s eye when
be fired the fallowing hot shot: “One of
the delusions of young people it the notion
that everybody is dieply interested in what
they do or say. It usually takes a good
while for a young man to learn what are
his trne relations to the universe.”
Thx Mexicans have discovered a soap
plant Tbe American government ought
to take steps to introduce it in the Con
gressional gardens at Washington.
“What objection,” Mr. Feltoa a«ked,
“can any Georgian have to the doctrine
that every ballot cast at an election should
represent the individual convictions of tho
voter, rather than the command of a su
preme caucus ?”
Ask the Mahoneites in the Virginia Leg
islature, and then task the Big Four and
Mr. Massey for their experience in resist
ing “the command of a supreme caucus.’
—Richmond Dispatch.
Thx Mark Tapley ot the New York Trib
une is jolly over the independent situation
in Georgia. He says: “The anti-Bonrbon
movement in Georgia seems to be gaining
ground steadily and surely. Its leaders do
not make mnch noise, bnt they keep quiet
ly at work and succeed in attracting tho at
tention of the people. Their principal
spokesman, ex-Congressman Felton, is
making speeches in different parts of the
State, and is greeted everywhere with large
and thoughtful audiences.”
The Madisonian,published in Mr. Speer’s
district, says of the Bountree murder:
“The burthen of this nnfortanate and bru
tal crime rests upon the Hon. Emory
Speer, who has, since his advent in poli
tics, made a relentless war on tbo Demo
cratic party, appealing to th9 howling ne
gro mob for political assistance. He has
endeavored in every speech to tbe popu
lace to excite the ire of this ignorant race
and array , them against tho respectable
element of the country.”
Sfkakeb Keifzb is an optimist u regards
tho republic. He made a speech at a re
union of 7otcrans in Baltimore on Monday
night, and in the course of the speech said
that since the war “this nation bos grown
in every way better—morally, physically
and patriotically. Wo livo longer. There
is less publio rascality to the population
than in any other nation which ever did
exist.” And yet Keifer had just been
guilty of the rascally trick of removing
two trained stenographers to give a brace
of his incompetent chums fat positions.
When Mr. Emory Speer desires to eruc-
tata farther bile, his attention may be
properly direetod to the following trench
ant paragraph from the able and foaries
journal published at his home. Tbo Ath
ens Banner says: “While Mr. Emory
Speer did not point the weapon that fired
the fatal shot, it cannot be denied that he
nerved and encouraged the arm that per
petrated tho deed by elevating tho negro
raco to positions to which they are not
fitted. Any ono has bat to live in Athens
to seo tho fruits of this Iadependeat move,
in the changed attitude of tho blacks to
wards the whites—and this feeling is kept
alive and encouraged by tho Independents
for tbo most selfish purposes.”
Madiud is excited over tho recent bull
fights. A cablegram says: “Tho chief
topic of conversation between the acts was
not Barcelona but the disastrous inaugu
ration of the season of bull-fights, where,
on two days in succession, thero was a
fearful scene of excitement. Many bolls
were badly wonndod. Tito celebrated boll
lighter, Carancha, smashed his nose.' On
the second day the bull caught noar the
barrier, tossed up and gored again the pop
ular oppa In, Angel Faster. He wts mor
tally wounded. Extremo nnction was
given him outside tho bull ring and ho was
carried homo on a stretcher, followed bye
large crowd. Hundreds of all ranks visited
his honse. Tho press is full of harrowing
accounts.”
Aabon Alpxobia Bbadlky, tho once boon
companion snd friend of the men who aro
seeking to control Georgia, has oome to
grief at the St. Loris bar. He dofended
a man who was convicted of mnrder. The
Court of Appeals granted him a new trial
on tho grounds of the “ignorance and im
becility” of his connsoh Tho Post-Demo-
crat says: “Mr. Bradley inquired daring
tho day at the offico ot tho dork of tho
Court ot Appeals if Jones was granted a
new trial. Beiog informed that ho was, bo
expressed himself satisfied with tho result.
Being requested to read tho opinion, he
sat down and was handed the document.
Ho had not read iar when a frown settled
upon nis conntenunco and did not leave it
until he had finishod reading. Hi« feet
kept time to the indignant emotions within
his breast. When he had finished reading
ho arose and said: “That's a Dred
Scott decision! They delivered it to
satisfy a howling publio. It was not Emmet
they wore oftor; it was me. I hope
thby are satisfied. He will get a new trial
now nnd he will be hnng,” saying which he
left tho office and slammed tho door after
him. The Senator was seen about tho
Four Courts dating tho afternoon. He
waa much exercised over the action of the
court, Rnd to a Globe-Democrat reports-,
he made tho following carofuily rehearse j
statement: • « .
“Say that Isay lho Court of Appeals
have granted Emmet Jones a new trial,
which in my opinion is right nnd just.
But in the grounds on which they base
their opinion they havo exhibited the es
senoe of negro jealousy and stupidity and
showed themselves ignorant of the jaw of
the State of Missouri; an8 their decision
eon be overturned if taken to the Supreme
Court” Alpy ought to retqgi to Georgia
and join the Independents.
The Hurrah
The days of the sweet girl graduate,
the ripening masculine student, tbe rose
bud orator and the blooming candidate,
are upon us, and we take occasion to lift
our yoice in an appeal for a helpless snd
long suffering people. Naturally, the ap
peal will go direct to tbe class known as
“ye locals” of the commonwealth, whose
duty, It has been to deal enthusiastically
wltlathe hurrah season, which lies well
in between spring and thebeart of sum
mer. —-
Tbe evil complained of Is tbe reckless
and studied application qf the laudatory
division of tbe English language, to e7ery
one whom necessity or pieuure brings
pleasantly before the public. It is an
evil felt as deeply by tho various locals
of certain communities, as by tbe people
whom he afflicts; and but rarely appre
ciated except by very young or over am
bitious subjects. Why it has grown to
proportions sufficiently large to draw
forth comment it is difficult tossy, unless
It be that susceptible reporters, drawn in
to a self commitment upon special occa
sion, have set up a high pressure gauge,
and are forced In all Instances to insult,
or toe the mark. Sowing tbe wind, they
reap the whirlwind.
It really seems as though the good old-
fashioned modes of mention aro lost for
ever. Forty years ago a young lady
having read In pnblic an essay might con
fidently open the morning paper of the
next day and find itstated that “Miss Cur-
lyhoad entertained the company present
with an original composition entitled,
‘Thoughts on a Jane-bug.’” Only this
and nothing more. But the modern re
porter wraps himself around the subject
much more elaborately. Drawing from
bis private drawer his list of English and
and anglicized adjectives he Indites.
“Bnt the event of tho even
ing was the recherche treatment
which that novel subject, “Thoughts on a
Junebug” received at tho talented hands
of Miss Curiyhead. Taking the bug when
he first hurled bis rainbow form Into the
mellow summer of a breathing corn field,
she followed him through all the devlons
windings of his short but active career
Whether he bung upon the'goiden plumes
of the rlpsnlng grain, or burled himself
in the luscious depths of a rosy peach,
she was with him explaining his every
movement, and mingling her gentle phi
losophy with the bidden emotions of his
little wayward life. Her rich, sympathetic
voice fell upon her spellbound bearers
like the dew of heaven upon the thirsty
fields, and beneath the tender charms of
her fancy they nestled, even as the lost
traveler nestles in the shadow of a great
rock In a weary desert. When she ceased,
a burst of applause shook the building,
and flowers rained at her feet until upon
her cheeks the roses cast their tints and
flashed a tableau, few who witnessed it
would care to forget.”
But this Is only one division of tho hur
rah season. While it must be admitted
that ye local, cast in upon a college com
mencement is apt to let his fancy take
flight, yet there are adjectives called forth
by a political campaign, which can never
bi reached amid the ephemeral sweets of
commencement. Your trne reporter of
the modern pattern does his loftiest work
upon tho platform, side by side with the
orator of tho evening. It may be that the
contest is for a seat in the Legislature
only, bnt it is all the same to him. Nor
does it affect his spirits when tho orator
stammers, pauses, and hear his broken sen
tences fall into the listless ears of a wearied
crowd. In the morning he has it, “Hon.
Percival Jones on last evening uttered one
of the most eloquent addresses ever deliv
ered in this city. He spoke to one of the
largest and most enthusiastic audiences
ever assembled in our midst. Taking up
the speech of tho scallawag recently out
lined in these columns, who aspiies to
represent this county, he literally tore it
to tatters. He brought to bear upon the
subject all of the powers of a richly stored
mind, and tbe charms of wonderful elo
quence. His denunciation was terrific.
He hurled upon tbe record of his oppo
nent a flood of sarcasm, irony and invec
tive that fai.-ly made the flesh creep. Once
wheu he raised his right hand aloft
and uttered the stinging sentence, 'he is
a liar,’ his magnificent appearance elec
trified his audience into demonstrations
which prevented bis continuing for five
minutes.”
The reporter, however, does not pauso
at this. The male graduate, the newly
admitted lawyer, the lately arrived physi
cian, the numerous candidate, the enter
prising showman—all sit easily upon
his shoulders and are borne without a jos
tle. A reform is necessary ’ somewhere.
A suspicion has arisen that exaggerations
are creeping into print, and there is a
haggard look about the average repot tor’s
face which bespeaks a strain tbatcannot
much longer be endured.
Thx Now York Herald says Mr. Keifer
is evidently not competent to appoints
stenographer.
“Bettt and tho Baby” prefer that pop
Sergeant shall remain in tho penitentiary.
They are doing hotter without him.
Thx itjit crop in the West is killod by
the frost, but the hooaiere are not incon
solable. Their Legislatures have prohibit
ed them from having applejack, anyhow.
Sctant—Post-Appeal office:
Reporter—Ool Marcellas, did you hear
anything drop ?
OoL M.—Yes, Hoke Smith has Just
dropped my imported editor.
It By the by Benjamin Brewster can
spare the time from getting up affidavits of
Dr. Lamson’s insanity, be might write an
other letter to have ex-Governor Mosea’
body servant indicted for illegal voting.
Axtbub’s Club, the Union League, has
indorsed by resolution his veto of the Chi
nese bill. This organization distinguished
itself on a previous occasion by denounc
ing Horace Greeley and receiving in re
turn a castigation in somo of his warmest
English.
The Savannah Hews gives a glowing de
scription of the advance and enterprise of
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way Company. This corporation isintbe
hands of wise and progessive men and is
doing signal service for Savannah and
South Georgia.
While Senator Vonco was pirouetting in
a free trade league in Now York, Mr. Up-
eon, member of Congress trom Texas, was
delivering this sentiment in Congress:
“We must have a tariff producing the
ample revenue needed to meet the wonts
and obligations of the government, so ad
justed as to afford a fair protection to
American industry and labor 03 against
foreign competition, with the least possible
burden on the people. In that doctrino he
fully oc r.curred, and he believed most of
the leading Republicans and Democrats
throughout the country had committed
themselves to it.”
North Carolina is too greatly Interested
in manufacturing at present, and has too
much of a future interest in that direction,
to be led off by Senator Vance. Free trade
means direct taxation, and no man would
fliuoh nnder this sooner than the North
Carolina farmer.
Sct»oyle r nod the Tramp.
Hew York Sun
On* sunny forenoon Schuyler Colfax was
lc-inlng over tho back gate waiting patiently
for the^eall of his country. He had just found a
crocus in the (lower bed. His ho* rt .'nThecen-
spring, and it seemed to him that In the gen
era 1 revivification he. too. might have a chanco.
There approached Hchuyier a wayfaring citizen
whd wore one shoo and one split boot.
"General.” said the stranger, “could you
give a hungry matt a nickel?” . . .,,
8 "X will willingly give you a nickel, said
8chuvler, blandly, "out I am not a general.
My career has been that of n statesman.
“That’s ft,” said tho tramp. “Yob show It in
' »*Tell me. my friend,” continued Schuyler,
handing over, not a nickel, butadimo—-you
mingle mnch with the great world, and your
profession lends you to all tho busy haunts of
men—tell me, as an observer of events, do you
see any signs of a Colfax movement? Dp you
hear any voices demanding tho vindication of
Schuyler Colfax?’* , _ .
“Well,” said the tramp, cautiously, eyeing
first Ills boot and then his shoe, "perhaps I do
seo signs and hear voices; and if .It s worth
lvthing to you to know——"
Schuyler gave the man half a dollar and In
vited him Into tho house.
“Now," said he, alter having provided hU
guest with a square meal, “speak without re
serve. If you bring any message from the peo
ple of tho United States to a veteran who, how;
Otra noon dispatches indicate that the
Republican party in Congress are abont to
close ranks for a vigorous assault on the
Democracy. All pairs aro to be declared
off, and every man is to be at his post, to
take part in the unseating of Southern
Democratic Congressmen. Tho election
prosecutions in South Carolina and Ala
bama have not panned out to fall expecta
tions, and the majority is going to try to
overwhelm tho minority. It is more than
likely thqt tho present session may witness
a filibustering match of endurance equal
to that in which the infamous force
bill was defeated. It w.is not doom
ed eafo or prudent to attempt to alter
the rules. This means that groat reliance
is to be placed in tbe stupidity and parti-
sanship of Keifer. During the confer-nce
Mr. Jey Hubbell, the honorablo Michi
gander, who is supersensitive inrelation to
his “gut fat,” dropped this solid chunk of
wisdom. Said he: “Gontlemen, we may
as well realizo tbo fact at th’s csrly day,
that if wo are to havo a Republican major
ity in tho noxt House it Hill not come
from the North; wo must get it from the
South.” This sorves notice on the South
ern Democracy. They havo only to crush
out the Independent movement in the
Southern States, and the control of tho
next Houso is in their hnnds.
The Romo Courier, ono ot the best bal
anced journals in the South, says: “Hon.
Emory Speer, in a letter to the Atlanta
Constitution, makes a caustic reply to an
article of the Macon Txleobaph, charg
ing him with responsibility for tho feeling
which led to tho marder of young Roun-
treo, one of tho students of the University
of Athens. Wo would copy the letter but
for its bitter personalities. Scurrility and
personal nbnso seem to be the drift of pol
itics in Georgia now. Though Mr. Speer
may have had somo provocation, he oaght
to know that a more dignified and logical
reply would have constituted a better de
fense. The people of Georgia have intelii-
gmoo enough that gross personality in po
litical controversy is only resorted to by
those who are incapable of sound argu
ment, or who have a very bad cause.”
Tbe Communication of “A Student.”
We cheerfully publish in another col
umn the communication signed “A Stu
dent” in relation to the late tragedy and
the present situation in Athens. It should
have gone to the public without comment,
but for the following reasons: The wrl
ter makes an especial allusion to Macon,
and again uses the following language:
“Your paper has declared that it wishes
the prosperity of our venerable institution
of learning—then correct these sensation
al stories,” etc.
Further, the communication comes un
der cover of the name of a highly reput
able and responsible gentleman to ns, but
he is either tbe writer of the communica
tion or the note accempanying it—certain
ly cot both, as the chlrograpby shows.
It seems to us that there Is a covert insin
uation conveyed by the language and cir
cumstance to which we have alluded, that
we desire roost distinctly to disavow.
The Telegraph has given to its readers
no stories in connection with the unhappy
affair that have not been taken line for
lino from the columns of the daily press
of Athens.
It has purposely refrained from giviDg
publicity to information conveyed to it by
parties connected with the University, and
very prominent citizens of Athens who are
net connected with u, which do not alto
gether tally with the assurances contained
in the communication of “A Student.”
We cannot be held responsible for the
conclusions our readers may reach, after
reading any item of news which may be
laid before them in the columns of our
journal. It is their right and privilege to
think for themselves and to give such ex
pression to their thoughts as may seem fit
to them.
The Telegraph has expressed with
out any reservation whatever, an interest
in the welfare af the University, and has
taken opportunity to exhibit the sincerity
of its assertions In this respect by prompt
and vigorous comment upon the late trag
edy, its causes and effects.
It presumes that the conductors of the
local press in Athens are fully aware of
the situation and currounaings, and it has
yet to see any reason why it should pro
nounce the - accounts which come from
that quarter, “sensational stories,” or to
attempt to “correct” what it is beund to
accept.
We are pleased to learn from “A Stu
dent” that matters are quiet, aud the
University has sustained no damage so
far, aud may be pei milted to express the
hope that this condition may become per
manent. We do not care to re-open a
discussion as to the causes of the late vio
lence. Our opinion has been matured
after a calm aud carelul survey of all of
the surrotindings, aided by close personal
observation running through many months
at a time in Athens, during tho past three
years.
If the people of Athens cannot and will
not see and appreciate facts which are
patent to other people, it may require
something more to make them fully com
prehend tho situation. In their behalf
and in behalf of the people of Georgia, we
have attempted to cut at the root of the
trouble.
If the knife hand of tbe surgeon quivers,
or the eye loses tbe mark when the quick
is reached and tbe blood flows, the life of
tbe patient may be lost in the endeavor to
save It.
81,000.000 For (bo Education of (ho
Frecdmen of (be South—A Bleb Do
nation.
Harwich, Conn., Soecial to the Philadelphia
met.
John F. Slater, a wealthy gentleman of thts
city, has signified bis intention to create a
fund of >1,0U0,‘J00, to be known as the “John
F. Slater fund," for the education of tho freed-
men. The fund is to be vested in the hands of
trustees, who arc to apply tho income accord
ing to tho instruction of tbe donor. It is un
derstood here that the act Incorporating these
trustees Is to bo presented to the Senate at Al
bany, New York, to-day. Mr. Slater thus ex
plains. In ono paragraph of Ills letter to tho
trustees, his general object: "The general ob
ject which I desire to havo exclusively pursued
is tho uplifting of the lately emancipated popu
lation of the Southern States and tncls poster
ity by conferring on them tho blessings of
Christian education. The disabilities formerly
suffered by this people, nnd their singular pa
tience ami fidelity lit the great crisis of tho na
tion establish a just claim on the sympathy
and good will of humane and patriotic mcu. I
cannot but feel the compassion that Is due in
view of the prevailing Ignorance, and which
exists lit rough no fault of their own.” Mr. Sla
ter leaves tho trustees tho largest liberty in
making such chnngcs In tho methods of apply
ing the fund as may from time to time seem
wise. He suggests that the education of teach
ers for the colored race may bo the wisest pur
pose to which the fund can be nut if after thir
ty-three years three fourths of the trustees shnll
for any reason agree that thero is no farther
use for Ute fund lit the form It is now Institut
ed. He authorizes Wicm to apply tlio capital
to the establishment of foundations subsidiary
to the existing Institutions of high education,
so ns to make them more freely accessible to
poor colored students. Under the present In
stitution of the fund he specially wishes that
neither principal nor income be extended in
land or buildings for any purpose than that
of safe and productive Investment for Income.
ity, do not hesitate to Impart it. I am listen
The tramp hesitated. “There ain’t no mes
sage as 1 know- of,” said he, “hut it seems as
if l’d heerd this Skullfax talked about aomo-
" “That Is to say,” suggested Schuyler, “while
you are not charged with any formal mission,
von come on the part of the people of the Uni
ted States to sound me, to draw ont an expres-
sion of mv views on public questions, to dis
cover whether I-am disposed to emerge from
retirement? Proceed." . .
"Como to think,” resumed tho tramp, ’It
was alKHit Skullfax that I heerd talk.”
"At last.” murmured Schuyler, rising from
hts chair and pacing the floor In great agita
tion. “Fellow citizens, or rather fellow citi
zen, I thank you for this unexpected nomina
tion. X should havo preferred to remain In tho
quieter walks of private life, to which my
tastes, my veans and my ext'erience of the In
gratitude of human kina alike Incline me: but
this summons is too imperative, too unani
mous to be disregarded. Fellow citizens, or
rather fellow citizen, Schuyler Colfax is at tho
service of his country.**
The statesman sat down to write a letter to
the editor of the South Bend Tribune, while
tho tramp departed, richer by a ten-dollar bill.
“So that's Skullfux," soliloquised the latter,
“it’s curls how folks get things mixed. I
thought from what I heerd said abont Skull
fax that ho was servin' out a sentence some-
whores."
BBBT STIES.
—
Fiddler won the New Market biennial
stakes. Great Carl second, Soltykoff thiol.
A colored prac'itiocer has been ad
mitted to membership of rite medical and cbl-
rttrgical faculty of Maryland.
At the New Market cavern meeting the
race for the New Market handicap was won by
Lord Cadogan’s Springtide. Mr. P. Loriilard’s
Nereid was second and Count F. De Lagrange’s
Maskcleyne third.
On his guard: “So Charles Francis
Adams has been bunkoed! I shall have to
look out or somebody will bo feeding me plug
tobacco for doughnuts In this country.”—Af-
trxbuted to Jumbo.
Finding that the publication of another
first-class dally paper In the city of Mobile was
not a financial success, tho proprietors of the
Mobile Chronicle hove yielded to the force of
circumstances and suspended publication.
The highest price ever paid for a horse
In England is believed to have been paid by the
Duke of Westminster, the richest peer In that
country, who paid the extraordinary sum of
ft too,000 for an animal which he desired to pos
sess.
A teacher can hardly show worse stu
pidity than In imposing upon a naughty pupil
an extra lesson as a punishment. The loam-
Dangers of Beaf Tea. ic
Richard Heals in London Practitioner.
“Many wrltcrshaVe endeavored to Impress the
public and the profession with the truo value of
beef tea, viz..- that it Is nota nuriment but a
stimulant, and that it mainly contains excre-
mentitious materials. You constantly meet with
those, even In the ranks of the profession, who
believe beef tea to be really a powerful nutri
ment, while In most cases among the public your
pcsitlvo statement that In milk we possess a far
cheattcr and more powerf"! blood and flash
making food than In beet tea Is met with a
skeptical stare. A short time since a physician
wrote how he was not Infrequently called to
eases where lie found the patient literally starr
ing to death in the midst of plenty. Wines and
Honors of all choice brands covered the table,
with beef tea, jellies, and essence of meat, in
all their endless varieties, somo of which, the
consultant was told, were given every half hour,
aud that therefore tho patient bad l>o»n well
kept up. By a speedy clearance of all bnt the
brandy-bottle, and with the addition of two
or three pennyworth of milk, he hod on several
occasions rescued a yonng and valuable lift
from certain death. The late Dr. Francis SgP
■on showed how detrimental beef tea may prove
In some cases of Bright's disease, where the
kidneys aro already taxod to tha utmost to
throw off metamorphosed structures, aud yet
tho metamorphosed structures of tha muscles
of the cow are stii«?raddcd: for thoso very ma-
‘ lals, had the animal lived, would bare been
acd away as urine. Frequently, too, boet
Is advised by practical physicians fn diar
rhea, dysentery and during diarrhea of ty
phoid. Certainly a largo experience of tropi
cal dysentery and diarrhea has taught the wri
ter to look upon this fluid In the light of poison
In such cases. Dr. Lauder Bniuton, in some
very able remarks upon the occkshmal inju
rious remits of beef tea. says: "We find only
too frequently that both doctors and patients
think that the strength Is sure to bo kept up if
a sufficient quantity of beef tea can only be got
down; but this observation, I think, raises the
question whether beef tea may not very fre
quently be actually Injurious, and whether the
8 roducls of muscular waste which constitute
ic chief portion of beef tea or beef essence
may not under certain circumstances be ac
tually poisonous. For although thero non be
no doubt that beef tea la In many cases a most
useful stimulant—one which we find very hard
indeed to do without, and which could (tardly
bc replaced by any other—yet sometimes the
administration of beef tea, lfko that of alcohol
ic stimulants, may bo overdone, and the pa
tient weakened instead of strengthened.”
Persons Who Hire xournluc Balts
. A'rw York Sun.
“Also to hlro for fnncrel and other
occasions, dress suits of the finest quality,” Is a
line at the bottom of a recent advertisement by
a Brooklyn tailor.
“Do many people borrow suits for funerals?"
wc asked.
"Do they I Well, I wish you would stop a
minute or two ahd see them come aloug,” said
he, adding: “Why, I thought it would suit a
public demand, having In view only those who
are included in what are called ’the masses,’
but even I waa astonished when I found well-
to-do people, merchants, officials, politicians,
and. In short, every sort of people applying for
overcoats, coats, trousers, or wholo suits in
which to attend funerals. Very often a poor
man finds the cost of a relative leaves him
no money for his mourning suit which, after
all, he would only wear one day. Quite as
often men in better circumstances decide to at
tend a funeral almost at tho last moment
Again, there are a great many men who are so
careful about their money that they hire suits
for all Imaginable occasions rather than buy
them outright”
“What do you charge?”
“Oh, we will loan a satin-lined doeskin over
coat for a depositor 320. and when it Is returned
we will keep S2. Here’s a black beaver snlt-C-i.-
the same mon-y, and here's a common, though
very genteel suit that we will loan for • 1. We
have a hundred such suits for all sixes, ages and
styles of persona We inquire about the per
sons we loan them to, but sometimes they fall
to return the clothes. Wo aro obliged to take
that risk.
Howgate'* Escape.
Washington Special.
The officer sat In the room with him an hour
and allowed him to tako a bath. They then
suggested that it was time to go.- Howgate sug
gested that they wait and havo dinner, and
busied himself in the meanwhile looking for
some papers, aud went into an adjoining room,
when the officer lost sight of him for a mo
ment As ho did not return the officer opened
the door and saw his daughter. He asked for
her father. She said he had just stepped out
for a moment and looked anxicasly at the
clock. The officer rushed for tb> door, but
could see no signs of the prisoner and no car
riage In sight The honse was sot-rchefl. and a
general alarm sounded. The pt.icc exercised
all vigilance, bnt no duo has ytt been found.
It is thought to be a preconcerted plan and that
arrangement* have been made to spirit him out
of the city. Shclbargcr and Wilson and Judge
Cuppcy, Ills counsel, are thought to know
nothing about It as an argument to release the
attachment of one hundred thousand dollars
on his property was to be made Tuesday and
his flight will materially datnago the case. It
la thought certain officials, whose connection
with nowgato has been questioned, knew some
thing of tho plan. It tssald that his embezzle
ments could not have been effected without the
aid of some officers who wonld rather assist In
the escape than run the risk ol a full trial of
tho prisoner.
Lost Above tbe Cloada.
Son Francisco Ch onicls.
An old miner, John Lamcy. during the se
vere snow storm ol last month left his rabln at
Fur Can. on the top of tho montaln. about six
miles above Downieville. to go to Howard
Flat. The whole cottnjry around about was
familiar to him. and the path was straight and
not very long. Taking the wind, which blew
northward toward his destination, as his coin-
pay. he followed Its course. 'But it blew varia
bly and led him on a circuitous tramp over the
mountains neliad an apple and a biscuit in
his pocket, and dividing these five portions ho
prepared to intend as many days In the moun
tain*. Sleeping at night beneath a heap of
snow. Into which he had burrowed, and grop
ing his way as best he could through the blind
ing snow during the day time, ho spent four
daysand nights. On the filth day. exhaust
ed and without food. he was about to sink
down in despair when he came upon a Chinese
camp, where he received foo l and care. One
of tho Celestials piloted him safely to Downle-
ville.
They make short work of strikers In
Spain. When the Madrid compositors struck
lately, tho President and Secretary of the trade
union were thrown into Jail, and all soldlen,
sailors, and civil servants who could set typo
put at the sorvice of tho newspapers.
Many of the refugees about Nxtchez,
Miss., who have been receiving government
rations manifest no disposition to go to work,
scr-
onl
about
the cltv.
Eleven States will be obliged to elect
new Congressmen on their State ticket unless
extra sessions of the Legislature are called.
These States are: Texas. Kansas. California,
Michigan, Nebraska, Arkansas, Illinois, Mis
souri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and West
Virginia.
Gbeenbackism seems to be fast dying
out in Iowa, notwithstanding tho efforts of ox-
Congressman Weaver to keep it alive. Only
two or three of. the thirty or forty organs of the
party that were started in recent years survire.
The latest one to give up the ghost is the Sioux
City Independent, the oldest greenback paper In
tbe State.
A Chicago Times Boston special says
a Chinese lodge of Freemasons was Instituted
In that city lost night, a largo proportion of the
the 400 Celestials in town being Initiated. The
affair leaked out through inquiries at hardware
stores for knives three feet long, to-be used In
the ceremonial. These could not be furnished,
and the heathen were supplied with sword
bayonets.
RsauLAB trains are expected to run to
Decatur, Texas, on the Fort Worth and Denver
road, thirty-five miles from Fort Worth, by
April 15th. The track was within nlno miles
of Decatur March 30Lh. Tracklayers on tbe
Denver and New Orleans ought to have reached
l’ueblo by this time. These two roads, together
with the Texas and Pacific, will compose the
new route from New Orleans to Colorado.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut,
has Introduced a bill in the Senate for tho ap
pointment of a commission of colored men to
Inquire into and report'upon the Industrial,
intellectual ana material progress of the col
ored people of the United States since the close
of the war. The blU appropriates • 15,00 for
expenses, -3,000 fora secretary, and sl.hoo fora
■iauugraplMr. ,:The only object of the bill
seems tobe to ms ke a tew places for our off
color “brethren.”
The Boston Herald says : Tbo “bold
declaration” of tho Readjuster leader and his
organ, that hereafter the Readjuster* of Vir
ginia. Republican and Democratic, “will bo-
known as administration men," has not been
exceeded in humor tlnco tho whale declared
himself to be one with Jonah. Mahoue swal
lowed the Republican party of Virginia before
tho last election, body, soul and breeches. The
Federal patronage was placed in his hands, aud
in return be and his Congressmen have “sup-
d the administration” as reliably os any
. bllcans haTO done. Ncllhcr he nor life-
party has any future except in alliance with
the administration. And President Arthur is-
not the sort of a politician to play at coalition,
except “forkeeps.” So for as Virginia lscon-
ccrned, the situation Is unchanged: but how
wtU the Republicanizatton of Readjustcrlsm.
affect ^thctejtidepeudeut movement in otiicr
Miss Cora Munn,' tbe Chicago detec
tives, has professed religion. She Is described
as “a short, thick-set woman, twenty-three
years old, of a decided German expression of
countenance, who wears a black bat, a profu
sion of white neck tic, Chesterfield spit curls,
and a very plain pair of spectacles." She says
of her badness; "Oh! what a wickod life I have-
led. Night after night I shirked my work as a
detective, and mode lying reports to my em
plovers that I had been hero and there, when
I hadn’t, but spent tbe time In dirty saloons,
reveling with vile ward politicians and city of
ficials. I knew no fear, no sliamc, no decency.
dldu’t fear God, nor man, nor devil. I made
my poor old father gray-hcaded with wrctchod-
Tbe Boston Bean
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In Boston there is no longer any demand for
sunflowers or lilies. The bean still holds its
own.
Tbe Kalin* Instinct.
Charlotte Observer.
The Southern independent gravitate? as nat
urally towards the Republican party as a 1~~
try mule toward a fodder stock. It Is the a
nstinct that Impels both—“plcklns.”
Wherein Mr.-Arthur Excel*.
Chicago Tribune. Rep.
Mr. Arthur Is said to glvo bettor dinners than
any other man who evcL.oecuplod tho White
House. There wo* on«LL- German- who, hay-
led a disreputable ItTe, died, leaving ‘
.d ranch better off. At his funeral
wife attempted to let his memonr down
by apologetically remarking: “Volt, he v
goot schmokerl”
Tit for Tat.
- Chicago Times.
It Is said by the Republican otyi
James was a Democrat. It doe*
occur to the Democratic organs t
while Jesse James, murderer aud
been dispatched under the admin!:
Democratic Governor of Missouri,
J. Ouitonu. assassin and dead-beat, avmve-lly a
Republican, is still having a happy time of It
selling autographs in tho Washington jalL
Where Shall We Turn?
Courier Journal.
Mr. Muntz, of France, has discovered that
nearly all waters contain more or less alc-ohoL
It Is found In river water, in tho sea, in rain
water and In melted snow. This is bad news
for liquor prohibitionists. If conscientious
they will have to get that alcohol extracted
from their water before they drink. Even wa
ter taken in sufficient quantity may prove an
intoxicant. The very dew of the morning con
tains enough alcohol to make a lira tipsy. The
very atmosphere we breathe is full of it. Es
cape from its absorption the temperance ora
tors cannot. The coldest rain water contains
the largest proportion of alcohol.
Cheater Works Off a Joke.
Cincinnati Commercial Special.
Senator Pendleton and Representatives But-
terworth. Young and Morey called on Presi
dent Arthur to-day and presented him with the
invitation of the people of Cincinnati to las
present at tho Arbor Day ceremonies on tho
27th fust., and to plant a tree on that occi
The President returned his ths.nl:>
-.lie invitation, stating that it would
him great pleasure to l>e present. He
spoke, however, of the manv important
duties he had on hand, and expressed
a fear that he might be unable to give himself
the pleasure he would like. "Should I fall to
be present," concluded the President, and
a merry smile lit uo his eyes. "lot
mo suggest to the committee tha propriety
of asking Senator Pendleton to do the
planting, and then perehar.ee ft mav blossom
somo day into a Presidential tree.” The Sena
tor from southern Ohio smiled and blushed
like a girl, while the committee withdrew.
Nplnner’s Philosophy.
PhtTadelphia MeMrd.
'Qsneral Francis E. Spinner thoroughly un-
derstonds human nature. A party of loumal-
ists recently called upon the old watchdog of
the treasury at his -airier home In Florida.
Tbe Western Plan.
Xapa {C’l.) Rx-Large.
King Paw, a young Chinese boy sixteen years
old, has been abused and perv-eute-l bv mis
chievous and hoodlum boys In Xapa. He
makes hi* complaint t" us. and cal’ei upon the
community for protection. He i* harmless,
inoffensive, and it is a shame that he should
be made the object of maltreatment by rough*
and Ihoughtle** boys, who several times have
struck him with Stones, poumled him with
their clenched fists and bruised him otherwise
physically. If officers are not aware of the
treatment he receives, wo coll upon citizens
who see this inoffensive Chinese boy a-multed,
to demand the arrest of tbe offender* against
law and humanity.
Mongolian Nottbrntiou.
Xapa [Cal.) Reporter.
The Chinese population keep a
formed on all matters affecting tii
a cla«s; nnd ns the majority of t
can read in their native langtnn;
kept diligently posted on the Chin-
bill. A member of the six eontps:
from Fan Francisco on .Sunday
with him a lundtc of small pam;
in Chinese characters giving full)
the nature and -cope of the Chlui
immigration bill, its proero— lot
gross, and tho efiorts Wing made
for j nese embassy at Washington to dt
■— are. These little books he "veil-tied out nt
twenty-five cents each and seemed to find ready
sale for them. He also putuj-nt eon-picuous
points frequented by his people, handbills
printed in storing Chinese charm-lets embody*
ing similar information for the Mongolian ruee.
'eurntciy fu-
eir interests
he-- people
;, they huvo
se limitation
i:es .'ante up
lad, having
:W printed
artkmlare of
■ the Cht-
: its pass-
Free Trade Union
Hets Tori Letter.
An “American Free Trade League" has just
been foruu-d here, under the auspice* of Mr.
David A. Wells nnd other gentlemen of the
same way of thinking. To day they have issued
a circular partially dlxtloslng their plans of or
ganization. Those, to use their own words,
include "the union of the various, free trade
clubs throughout the country In one repre
sentative body; also, to encourage the forma
tion of clubs lit 6totcs where there are none,
having theso In turn undertake in > formation
' * *-U? in every Cong.ctwiona! district, in this
Of club
“Did George Alfred Townsend call.upon vou, way securing not only intelligent support to
General, while he was here?" one of them In-, 1 members of Congress among their owu con-
’ ’ ........ .. J;-that's | ‘ -
he didn't
, lath ?’ N
call. The fact Is no wrote something mean
altout me once, and I always have found that tionai proof that evi
when a man doet that he never forgives me
afterward."
stltucnts, but an Influence over them that will
be felt In their official action.” All this looks
like business, and it may be accepted as addl-
it may
tionai proof that everything In tills quarter is
shaping itself toward* making the tariff tha
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