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liCOH THM1PD m MESSESSEi
FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1882.
Ooxoasu has adjourned, and Robeson
hu returned to the bosom of hla noble con
stituents.
Bsmtob Baowu will probably resign ere
long in pnrananoe of “a capital under
standing."
A *1111 at the I'oint,
Meet a lot of Weal l’ointen where you
iz»y, an hour or so will be certainly filled
With remlnircenoes ct their claw days, of
flirtations with the girls at the balls at
Cozzens’s Hotel, the frolics at Bonny Ha-
rent’s and the noted fights which took
place In their time ; and Indeed In all the
times, from when Jube Early kicked
Camp Shermau across the campus, until
the day they broke ranis on their last pa
rade. For be It remembered, that not a
class has entered and graduated from that
institution, that has not had to record
among its memorabilia a regular stand-up.
and knock-down fight. Boys will be boys,
and cadets In uniform are no exception to
the rule.
Our boys are sent to West Point to be
trained as fighters, and It need not be a
matter of surprise if, on. their own mo
tion, they commence the curriculum witlfi
their fists, nature’s first and best weapon. |7tal
Once or twice, perhaps, in the history of
West Point, a cadet has us£ia knife or
other weapon, but the have
been very rare, though m^^^lrs since
a Joust with siuglo stick^Fas not iufre-
quent. Heretofore It hi
custom and wisdom ofj
not to notice these mi
at all, not lo_mark
ment topi
Ooaoanu having adjourned, there is ooj c
reason that we oan see why the'
should not meet in battle array.
n the policy,
in authority
r if noticed
im by a punish-
of the day
knot of
lace for
Tux next Georgia Democratic
vill cot be "done in a" Jt
“corner," as was the present maktjl
affair.
Joseph Bet cannot, in the natlpi
things, bold his grip mueh longer, wi
hs has departed, whose shall all tt
litical thing be ?
Ali.k.i William*, one of the Greenback
candidates for Coogree*man-at-large in
Kansas, Is a colord man. And Allen will
be elected to stay at home very largely.
tfaauuis still haggravating the Hen*-
I'.ih. He doesn’t “fold bis tent,” like a
g joil Htrab ought to, “hand silently steal
ilawny.” This is more or less distressing.
Tbs editorial children of the kingdom
have been oast out, np in tho ninth
district, and to n*t« nnanimonsly taken
backseats. They are saddest when iu**
sing.
Gordon Pasha, at last aooonnts, had not
been offered a portfolio in the new French
oabinct. Grevy was probably fearful that
he would resign in favor of Alfred Pasha
or Joseph Bey. _
Maui is congratulating herself that
Blaine haa decided to write one letter in
stead of making twelve speechee. Doubt-
leu his example will be followed by onr
own uncles. _
William Aar's idea that Mr. Stephens
will settle (be race issue in Georgia is more
amusing than any of William’s supposed
humorous effusions. William is funniest
when he is solemn.
Ur to this time, by actual count, Presi
dent Arthur has rooeived just 8,CIO invita
tions to visit different watering places,
and plaoee of general retort, each ui which
be has aeoepted.
Thb Detroit Pott and Tribun* publishes
a chart showing the comparative mileage
of rallroada throughout the United States.
Georgia is 13th with 2,581 miles in opera
tion on January 1st.
Jons Bull will find it a difflouli job to
run down and capture the Bedouins of the
desert. John in not built up from the
ground with a view to hie running races or
jumping high fences.
Ws do not suppose there would be any
impropriety in saying that Congress has
adjourned sine dro. Tho perfunotory
prayers that are put up in that body estab
lish nothing to the contrary.
Rscxxt developments in the Philadelphia
fish market are calculated to temporarily
eheek the demand for cels. They show
that the usefulness of a man’s Ufa is not
measured by the Ume he sotually Uvea.
Iris said in eertain quarters that Judge
Ttflgga will make the Independent raoe in
in the eighth district. This may be true,
but we do not believe it. The danger #111
come, in onr judgment, from McWhorter.
A touxo New Jersoyman, named Robe-
n, was arrested hi Philadelphia onBat-
rdtiy, for stealing $800 from his father.
And the old New Jerseyman, named Robe-
wbo has stolen millions, is still »l
larse. _
Tuc great iron strike haa lasted two
months, and the strikers have lost about
$4,000,000 in wages in the Pittsburgh dis
trict alone. And the poor wives and chil
dren of the strikers have been the princi
pal sufferers.
It is bad policy—not to ci-Aroetetixs tt
more harshly, for Democratic Congress-
mi n to engage in dishonest raids on the
tr. isury. That is the “ouuiiueruiai policy,'
however, and it is omnipotent in Georgia,
just now.
Ir is, perhaps, not too mueh to say that
Gen. A. R. Lawton would not rooeivo the
earnest support 6t Joeepb E. Brown for
the Benatorahip. Lawton and Blaek are
in the same condemnation. Joey is re
vengeful, we take it.
GaoaoiA ought to have a first-class Sena
tor even if Joey Bey is deprived of the
I ritiK-ge of having a Me Too to register
hia decreet. U is more important for
Georgia to have a Senator than for Boas
Joey to have a Me Too.
The Porto wants an explanation, “as is
an explanation," of tho hoisting of the
Biitish flag over public buildings in
r tSaid, when It was occupied by the
EngUsh. The explanation given has been
declared to be unsatisfactory.
i, It is hard to sec how the failure of shad
to ran up the Savannah river could injuri
ously affect the candidacy of a man for
Cougres*, yet such is said to bo the case.
This is a queer world an j how, and there are
few things in it queerer than some of the
Georgia * ’sovereigns.”
Ir is aaid a cornet player in Berlin burst
a blood veasel trying to sound a Wagne
rian doable note. There is a born or a
blood reuse! or a double note or a blower
or something else in the neighborhood that
will have to buret before there is any
pc.ee or comfort.
Ossof the striking indications of Eng
land's painful aed distracting position in
Eg; pt is her anxiety to have the Porte pro
claimed Arab! Bey as a “rebel.” The
Ports hasn't yet got the consent of its mind
ta rid England of her dilemma. The Porta
will centoally side with Arab!.
'I he French «.bow that it is mnsAi easier
a new one. The trouble with tbe French
»*, they do not know what foreign policy
will be f.<-uriag to Bumarck. If they
wr«r« Nit.-fled on this point, they would not
be long in taking a -t.-uid on the Eastern ,
ileruifr^
a jdiese combats
lived ouljr in th(?^JJ7>"ies of those who
witnessed them. They became part of
the traditions of the Point, but never
found their way into print.
Though wedded to all of the legitimate
purposes aud enterprises of tho dfjly press,
we must protest now that the brassy and
ubiquitous reporter has found a way to
slip hy the seutinels at West Point, or
lias become possessed of tho tslismsnic
password.
Iu tlie .New Y..L .l.ilie,of Um 4th-ln>
slant appears a full and circumstantial
account of a mill at West Point between
Gsdet Scudder, of Mississippi, aged
twenty-one, and Cadet Cook, cf Rhode
Islaud, aged eighteeu.
We are not troubled that the Southern
er was vanquished lu the encounter, for
he stood and took his puuisbmeut like a
man, and every day since David slew the
mighty Goliah, ft has been demonstrated
that mere physical strength will not pro*
vail over science and skill.
Cadet Scudder seems to have been un
fortunate in more than one icspect. He
had been, as he thought, outraged by his
superior cadet ofllccr, and challenged him
to fight, ^be officer declined, but oflered
Cadet Cook as his substitute. Here Ca
det Scudder was unfortunate again.
Thirty years ago or more and the writer
of those lines knows that thero were more
amateur sluggers in Providence, R. I.
than In the balance of the world beside.
Cook may have come of this breed, aud
most likely did. His performance more
tban sustains the susdIcIou. The rmntt
was that Cadet Scudder got no satisfac
tion, but was badly battered by a cadet
against whom Le bad no feeling.
Whilo nursing his eyes in hospital he
may have time and opportunity to reflect
upon his want of Judgment In picking a
fight aud his lack of skill in conducting
it. When ho gets cut and becomes sea
soned It will bo In order to pound the fel
low who really injured him, and then all
things will be square.
Cadet Cook, having won a light, will
keep fooling abont with bis fists until
some other cadet will knock the wind
and senses out ol him.
Wbat we object to Is that the matter
should have been paraded In the New
York dailies, garnished with all of the
slang of tho slums.
A few fisticuffs more or less among the
cadets can do no harm, and should not
be noticed any more severely thau hereto
fore. But if West Point Is to be turned
into a training placo for prize fighters,
cannot be abolished too soon. Perhaps
some cadet who hu been a voracious
reader of dime novels and tho Police
Gazelle has put this fight to paper, if so,
he should be ducked iu the Hudson to
point just this side of drowning. It seems
that Cadet Scudder went to the ring unat
tended. When he gets so be can see over
his nose, and proposes to enter the lists
again In search of his lost laurels, we
would advise him to take a friend aloug
to see fair play, and that It shall be agreed
upon by all parties that noUiiug sliaii be
Mid about the fight outside of the corps.
grate upon the feelings of partial friends,
this should not silence It. The surgeon
doe* not stay tho knife becaase the patient
groans or the flesh quivers in agony, or
that the relatives of the patient weep at
the signs of blood and (offering. He Is
cruel that he may be kind.
To have used language leu plain would
have been to stifle facia and give play to
innuendo and conjecture, either of which
are capable of greater harm.
If Dr. Fitzgerald, whose profession
leads him to the study of minds diseased,
hu concluded from experience that
thousands of men in political life, from
the editor to tho chief magistrate of the
country, might well be sent to an insane
uylum, then It behooves .the people
to elect with critical caution
a sound rosn to represent
them. If political pursuits lead to tbe
.citemcnt which begets insanity, our
•teinent is good, that the friends of Mi*
Gustin may do him a wrong, by pushing
him into a political coutesi from one of
which he retired broken in physical aud
mental health.
The man who aspires to represent the
varied and Important Interests of a large
constituency should come before the pub-
Ur, not to uk for charity, but to luvlte
criticism and to defy censure.
Hr. Uuslln’a candidacy.
We publish elsewhere to day a com
munication from John 1*. Fort, Esq., aud
a card from Dr. Fitzgerald, in reply to
au editorial which appeared in this paper
on Sunday last, bearlug directly upon tbe
candidacy of Geo. W. Gustin, Esq , for
tbe Seuatorship from this district.
Mr. Fort hu appeared iu print ofiener
probably during the past Cow years tban
any citizen of ibis county. But few Is-
sues of importance hare lieeu made with
out au expression of opt niou from him.
This is well. It would be
better If others of our people
would follow bis eximple. As wc have
been able to observe, we have no recol
lection now of his ever luring been on
the right side of any question. He cer
tainly has failed to show any comprehen
sion of the principles that underlie, or ap
preciation of tbe duty that prompted the
editorial in question. We will state them
tor his benefit and challenge him to as
sail tbelr cone ct ness.
We assume,first, that when any man be
comes a candidate for a position of honor
or trust, his antecedents are tbe property
of tbe people to whom be appeals for sup
port. In the second place, the duty of a
public journal is Imperative to Inform the
people who read it of all matters affecting
the public interest.
Upon these principles we based the
editorial in quetliou. They are correct,
and cannot be successfully assailed. Any
attempt tc evade tbelr force In tbe inter-
eat of any candidate must tend to yeaken
his bold upon public reteem.
▲ word in reply to tbe eard of Dr. Fitz
gerald. Tbe charge of uncharitablenese
cannot be justly laid at our door. We
again repeatin all sincerity a declaration
dy made. We have none bat tbe | We fear there are a great many who can-
kindeet personal feelings for Mr. Gustin, not share his sublime faith In tho capacity
and have no personal or political ends to \ of Mr. Stephens to solve tbe race problem.
iLscrvw. I It Is now near twenty years since
If the criticism of a public journal may I Salmon P. Chaos, the Chief Justice of tho
lotion Mtatement.
According to the New York Financial
Chronicle of August 5tb, the receipts of
cotton from September 1st, 1881, up to
last Friday night, August 4th, were 4,061,-
024 bales, against 5,1*15,310 bales In 1881,
and against 4,800,884 bales in 1880, show
ing a falling off of 1,004,352 balei as com
pared with 1881, and of 238,800 hales as
compared with came date in 1880.
The total receipts for the week ending
on Friday night last, weze 4,815 bales
against 17,818 bales in 1881, aud against
8,082 bales in 1880,
The stocks in the interior towns on last
Friday night were 24,440 bales, against
52,441 bales in 1881, at corresponding
date. The stock at Macon on last Fri
day was 080 bales, agaiust 2,501 bales at
same date in 1881.
The total visible sapplyncf cotton on
last Friday night, August 4tli, was 1,500,-
057 bales, against 1,872,283 bales in 1881,
and against 1,531,471 bales in 1880. These
figures indicate a decrease cf 305,620 bales
as compared with 1881, and an Increase
of 35,180 bales as compared with the cor
responding date in 1880.
Middling cotton was qnoted In Liver
pool on last Friday at 7d, and on same
date last year it was quoted at 0 13-10.
The weather during tho past week has
been generally favorable, although In
some sections too much rain has fallcu.
The caleipillar has made its appearance
in some portions of the country.
In Texas picking is going on lively. In
Georgia the sreoud bale is more difficult
lo get out Ihau the first.
The Solution of the Negro Problem.
William Arp, best known to the people
of Georgia as a humorist, is also a volun
teer farmer and something ot a ready
made philosopher.
Every Sunday he contributes a column
or soof quaint philosophy to tbo Atlanta
Constitution Illustrating the daily ups
and dowus, the mysteries, miseries, bad
luck and happy surrouudlngs of a Geor
gia farmer’s life. These essays have all
beeu light and jocular, aa also relishable
and tradable.
But the sun seems to havo been clouded
about William Arp’s homestead of late.
Terhaps the heavy rains have caused tbe
liornj heads to qu’t biting In tho spring
brandies, or maybe the rabbit trap hu
caught a ahoto, or the neighbors' little nig
gers have robbed tlie muscadine vine. He
may haye failed to find the guinea hen’s
nest, or somebody hu plugged his pet wa
termelon. Any or all of these misfortunes
wore more than sufficient to make a more
hilarious man than William Arp serious.
But he turns from domestic matters iu
his latest contribution "and drops into
politics, which causes us to think that
“Hightower Bill" Felton may bo entting
an uncommon wide swath along about iu
the territory of Bartow. William's mind
seems to have been wrestling with aflairs
of State,oblivious of the fact that a grea»*v
worrynuut still is Just ahead In the shape
of fodder-pulling time. Ho appears to
to have beeu cogitating over the colored
brother and his present aud future rela
tions to tho white man. Tlteso last twen
ty years and many a man and womau,
too, soutb-of tho l'otomac, hu laid awake
of nights and thought upon this subject,
while the darkness grew darker still, and
daylight came at least to drive away a
spell calculated to bsille judgment, reason
and experience.
Strange to say, William Arp hu cog
itated himself out of,a labyrinth ot difficul
ties. His mind hu reached a satisfactory
conclusion; the solution of the vexod
problem I* laid out In all dearness before
him.
And be hastens to lay it before the read
ers of tbe Constitution. We reproduce It
for tbe beuefit of those who are euy of
faith, as follows:
Mjr traatsst hope of Mr. Stephens's adminis
tration Is In a quietus of the negro's |»oliUcal
ambition. For sixteen years tho public peace
tuu been disturbed at every election by unscru
pulous politicians fish ting along the color line
for the colored vote. It has kept up discord
among tbe whites and resulted In no good to
the negro. They have been bought up like
sheep, and the hypocrisy of the white man who
made the purchase was more disgusting tban
the stupidity of the negro. Juat after the
the carpet-baggers promised him forty acres
and a mule, and they have been fooled with
promises ever since. Mr. Stephens Is a philoso
pher and a student of history, and knows that
race has got to be subordinated to the
other. There ta no compromise, no social
equality and no political equality except
paper.
Rut Mr. Htephcns knows it all, and 1 feet
sure will rebuke all time servers, ail hypo
crites. Georgia must take the lead in settling
this problem between the races regardless of
what the North may say or do. 1‘eace at home
is Iietter than office at Washington.
It la Ume that statesmen and sages delivered
themselves of the truth boldly, fearlessly, zed
the whole naUon will listen to Mr. Stephens on
this subject with more respect than to any liv
ing man. Mr Hill was aggressive and grand
and noble In his utterances, but Mr. llill was
bitter and made enemies. Joe Brown is smart
and philosophic, and plays with Uie people
like Talleyrand. Joe Brown is personally a
great success, bat somehow there Is an ideal
that his creed Is peculiar. Joe Brown lint, his
Htate next, and last of all his country. Joe
Brown has boxed the compass and may box It
again If be lives, and as often as ho ascends a
step higher on the ladder, the people look up
wbat he wilt do next But Mr.
Slcpheiui has been the same conservative
hold-barker all the Ume.
There are few right-thinking white men
la Georgia but that will agree with Wilt-
lain Arp in moot of the language embraced
in tbe paragraph* which we have quoted.
United States, proposed a solution, viz;
that the victorious Norib should give to
the enfranchised African all of the polit
ical power of tbe South, aud thus compel
tbe white men to leave the country. Aci-
ug upon this inspiration, the Republican
party has followed and Is still following
this plan to the best of Its ability. Amer
ican statesmanship stands bailed and de
feated at the outermost edge of tho great
est problem ever presented it, and we
cannot see with the eyes of William Arp
how Mr. Stephens Is to solve it. In the
absence of reason and argument, it is the
fashion of the enthusiastic admirers of Mr.
Stephens to endow him with prescience
and powers almost supernatural. Per
haps this is not altogether unnatural in
view ot tho fact that one so seemingly
frail should have occupied so much of
public attentiou during these forty years.
But the enthusiasm of partisans can
impart no further physical strength or In
tellectual. for to to Mr. Stephana.
In these seventeen years past he hu
done nothing toward solving the race
Issue. It Is true that while he was in
open revolt against bis party, the negroes
supported him in his rebellion. They
rallied to Gov. Colquitt under similar
circumstances and bore him to the guber
natorial cbalr over the protests of tbe best
white people of the State.
And to-day, notwithstanding tbs jeal
ousies between the b'.adc and white lead
ers, the negroes are solidly organized, u
agaiust the candidacy of Mr. Stephens, for
the reason, u they claim, that lie dallied
with a coalition of which they were the
greater part, and finally took service with
the Democrats. In place of harmonizing
the element, tbe only result so far shown
from tbe caudidacy of Mr. Stepbons, is
disaffection,disappointment aud distrust in
the ranks of the party to which he at pres
ent claims allegiance.
Can it bo reasonable to hope that onv
with a divided party at his back can
weld it into harmony, and further cause
it to take up aud assimilate iu action and
principle with a large aud antagonistic
element? Looking at this subject in all
of its length aud breadth from our stand
point, wo can but admire even if we fall
to share that faith of Wiiliam Arp's which
would appear to bo capsblo of tho mov
ing of mountains.
Wo take it that the late Republican
convention in Atlanta presented a fair
sample of the present political status ot
the Southern negro.
Tue larger wing was marked by a deep-
seated antagonism to tho Southern white
mau, and there was no attempt at con
cealment. li was evident that the negro
wav the controlling element in Kepubti
canism in Georgia, though a few white
office holders cling to hla skirts.
blow as hu been their advance towards
a culmination, yet it hu been sure, that
iu the absenco of a Radical halt and re
treat, tbe negro problem must eveutualiy
resolve itselr into a conflict of races.
In tho lauguage of our dying Senator,
“there can be no good society or sound
government here, where oue party at
tempts to dominate the other by the use
of the negro vote.”
He might have gone a step farther and
said with equal truth that there will be
no solid peace here so long as the negro
Is arrayed in eumlty agaiust the white
man.
We have noue of tbe hopes of William
Avp as to the power of Air. Stephens to
silence for the present tho war ol con
tending factions. But even it he possess
ed such power, who is to wield it when
tbs few years that are allotted to him
shall have passed away?
When we see a brazen and truculent
negro, whohu had his head turned by as
sociation with white men who have dis
graced their race and .blood, wave hla
cudgel over the head of a lieutenant-gen
eral, whose fame u a soldier once filled
the world, aud know that said negro Is
recognized u tbe leader of the Republi
can party tii Georgia, we may be permit
ted to doubt If tbe two years' administra
tion ol Mr. Stephens can solve tbe race
problem.
And we may be allowed to think that
our safety, present and prospective, can le
found aloue In the unity or all good white
meu to protect aud preserve onr Slate
go vernment.
A Chance for llawhtns.
PaovinKKCx, K. I., August 3-W. A. T.
Hmlth, a colored clergyman, made persistent
application for accommodation at the Adams
House this afternoon and was refused and
driven out. avowedly because of his color. He
has i-ui ployed counsel to prosecute the land
lord under the civil rights law.
At the Adams House, lu tlie plantation
of old Col. Authony~somctimes known
as Rhode Island, we would expect tbe
doctrine of the equality and brotherhood
of the races to find recognition. One
would expect that doctrine to prevail at
auy house lu old man Anthony's planta
tion, hue espsdally at a house named for
Adams—a supposed apoetlo of freedom
and equality. The reason of the case Is
even stronger when we contemplate the
fact that tho man demanding liberty,
equality «nd fraternity, in the instance
before us, was a clergyman—“a col
ored clergyman,” whatever that
may mean. What the particular
color of the clergyman was—whether he
was red, orange, yellow, green, blue, iu-
digo or violet, or any combination of any
or ail of these colors—or whether the
term “colored” applies lo tbe skin or tbe
character, the paragraph la silent. But It
does tell ns that a certain clergyman, of
an uncertain eoler, registering himself as
one of a great family, was denied beard
and lodging in tbe Adams House, in Radi
cal Rhode Island, because of hi:, race,
color, previous or present condition l We
are tempted to suspect, from all the cir-
cumttancez ot tbe csss, that tbe Rev. W.
A. T. Smith ia an African, and we have
no question hut that the proprietor ofthe
Adams House is a Puritan Radical. It Is
not to be thought that such a state of af
fairs can be tolerated in Rhode island.
Hawkins, the Radical candidate for Gov
ernor of Tenuessee, says tbe negro shall
have equal rights, or blood shall flow.
We shall call hla attention to this denial
of equal rights in Anthony's plantation.
There tent any place better than Provi
dence for tbe inauguration of Hawklcs'a
blood-letting ; and we don't know any
body that tbe country could better spare
thau a Puritan Radical Boniface—nnlees
it be Hawkins himself.
Ths Altamaha river, tor the improvement of
which tbe river and harbor bill appropriates
•uuesumof *r>,0u), is tbe stream which,
according to tradition, once got so dry that they
had to have water from a neighboring la^f to
in the ferries mtoh.—PMUtMpki* Pr**t.
Tbe Philadelphia Press ha* mixed rivers.
Its the KUkeminitas, of Harry White'* dis
trict, in Pennsylvania, that was drank op
by n thirsty now. The AlUmahe is navi
gable at all seasons from its rnoetb to Us
headwaters, and bean on its bosom one of
tbe largest and moat remanent!vt timber
trades of the entire country.
A Useful Crank.
Clark, a Chicago drunkard, beat his wife with
his wooden leg, and was sent to Jail for ten
days. The prison was crowded, and Ihe con
victs were doubled in tho cells. Clark's com
panion was Prindell, a mau verging on insani
ty. Clark related his crime to hit companion,
set bis leg In a corner, went to sleep and snored
continuously. Tho anoring erased Prlndell,
and he killed Clark with the wooden weapon.
There are a number of Interesting
points In the above paragraph—too many
to be considered iu the short space allotted
to a newspaper article. It Is Just such a
paragraph as could have been gathered up
nowhere on earth so well as in Chicago.
Ofjall cities that is the . one in which a
brute would be expected to get drunk and
beat his wife with his wooden leg. There
Is more unadulterated human
diabolism there, to tbe square yard, thau
there probably is, to the square rod, in
any other city on the globe. There are
many Clarka there—wooden-beaded aud
wooden-hearted, though perhaps there are
but few of them there that can boast of
so convenient and handy a weapon for
wlfe-bea'ing aa me villainous Clerk. He
seemed o bo somewhat better equip^d
for tbe 1 usiness tban most villains o his
trade.
It mustn’t be supposed that wife-beating
haa any special premium ou It In Chicago.
It Is apparent that such conduct Is mildly
objected to in that modern Sodom. Clark
was sent up for ten days. This was in
tbe nature of a mild protest against the
risk be ran of taking the poor woman's
life, rather tban as a punishment for exer
cising tbe privilege of teaching a drunk
ard’s w'fe tbe full measure of her misery.
It is reasonable to suppose that bad Clark
taken a switch, or a raw-hide, or some
other Instrument, not liable to produce
death, he would not have been punished
stall. “Ten days” for such an unwar
ranted and murderous use of a wooden
leg Is few enough even for the modern
Sodom; and, according to this estimate,
there would be no time at all given to
the mere offense ol wife-beating. It was
evidently the use of the wooden leg in so
dangerous a manner that offended Chica
go Justice. The penalty would liave
been as severe, perhaps, U the victim had
been a bcok agent, a lightning rod ogan,
a legislator, or a learner on wind instru
ments.
Rut Just think of the Idea of a man’s
being allowed to go home druuk and beat
his wife with a wooden leg, at the ridicu
lous cost of ten days’ confinement in jail
A year in!the quarries would have been
Inadequate to do Justice to the subject.
Hanging would be a punishment none
too severe for brutes like Clark.
But Clark was not simply a drunkard
and a wife-beater. It lias been seen that
those little peccadilloes are soon forgotten
In Chicago. Had be not also been one of
thorn depraved individuals, who make
iiislit hideous by snoring, he would per
haps have been living to-day—a bright
and shining light In ths city of brutes.
Clark’s jail chum was a crank. Tho
crank Is at home in Chicago. Tbs water,
tlie tood, the society and the atmosphere
of that city tend to the production ot
cranks who, it must be confessed, are of
ten Improved by tbe loss of their ruin da—
such as hey are.
This was evidently tho case with
Frindell, Clark's cell-mate. He showed
most excellent taste aud judgmont lu his
dealing with tbe snoring wifo beaten As
a general rule, it conb! never be main
tained that a man, who anores in kis
sleep, Is entitled to either life, liberty cr
the pursuit of happiness. If true as an
independent proposition, then surely no
ouo can deny that rrindell played the
Judge, Jury and executioner, on this
occasion, in a manner exceedingly becom
ing to tbe great State of Illinois. Besides
•11 this, there was something of retrilm*
live Justice in the druoksn wretch's being
brained with tbe weapon which be bad
used so mercilessly upon his wifo. If
tome similar fate should meet all tbe
wretabca who run the schedule of the
Chicago Clark, there would be fewer tear-
stained faces in homes that onco were
happy ones.
Tbe (looker.
If Georgia was ever given to the culti
vation of the goober, or, as It Is same-
times called, the ground pea, and again
tbe peanut, we cannot recall tbe time.
Of course there was a sufficiency of tlie
crop raised for local demand and con
sumption, but why the Georgia troops In
the late war should liave been denomi
nated “goober grabbers," ta still a mys
tery to us. But they were distinguished
In this way on tbe march, by the camp
fire, and when pleasant jest was tossed
about the bivouac. Some ambitious poet
of those days even embalmed the idea in
verse, and from the misty realms of mem
ory we can recall the bright face of a
pretty girl, long since laid away in the
valley, who was accustomed to slug a
song, the refrain of which was—
"No, my love, I'm a goober grsbbler."
If the madrigal had been dedicated to
tbe North Carolina infantry, we shouul
have at once done honor to Us uniqueness
and appropriateness, for North Carolina
was then and sven before, the chcsen aud
promised land of the goober.
Running out of Wilmington ono brisk
morning in tbo yet early autumn, the
train carried not only Its usual load of
military and civilian travelers, but Cling-
man's bricadc cf North Carolina, suddenly
ordered to Goldsboro.
About seveu miles out the train, with
the exception of the engine, suddenly left
the track and rolled down an embank
ment -o the edge of a bold little creek,
with a depth of two or three feet of water.
Just on the opposite side, a farmer had
turned up, with a shovel plow a day or
two previous, the goober crop in a field
of about four acres. Without waiting to
see if anyone was hurt, and the only dam
age was a cut on tlie bead of a colored
train hand, the men of Clingman's brigade
dashed through tbe creek and charged the
goober patch. In lest time than It has
taken to write these lines there was not a
goober above ground in tbe patch. Then,
was not a Georgia brigade in the field
that could have carried the position as
quickly and cleanly.
Passing by that spot several timet dur;
lug tbe days of peace, wa have noticed
that tbe four acres of goober-patch along
tbe line of that road have grown into
hundreds. We have no statistics at band,
but (he goober-trade of North Carolina
and the portions of Virginia adjacent
must be very large and valuable. Tbe
nut has become not only an article of
home consumption, but enters# largely
into commerce and manufacture. From
it la expressed tbe best article of what la
known as olive oil, far superior to the
cotton seed oil, and the kernels are large
ly need in tbe manufacture of caudles.
An article on ihte subject In tbe Norfolk
(Va.) Landmark details some informa
tion of interest and information to onr
farmers. A Mr. Elliott, of that city, hti
a goober factory in which a Urge number
ol girls and women are employed iu the
light and pleasant work at remunerative
wages. It is just tbe thing that ia needed
in every considerable town In Georgia.
Mr. Elliott pays from eight to eight and a
half cents per pouud for goobers, and has
paid to cne farmer as much as ten thou
sand do’lars for bis crop, and he alone
haudles from 80,000 to 100,000 lacks of
goobers during the year. The market
for them when prepared Is always good,
and extends from alaiue to Texas.
What we desire to impress upon tbe farm
era of Georgia who havo beaten their
awords Into ploughshares, Is that If there,
was no reason for calling them goober grab
ble™ during tbe war, they should makes
reason for it now.
It is admitted that our future prosperity
will depend in a great measure upon di
versified crops and small indistries,and
the capacity to turnlsb to women and
children light aud remunerative employ
ment. The cultivation of the goober and
Its subsequent preparation holds out the
hope—nay, mors—the certainly that it
will fulfill these conditions.
Tbe sell and climate of Georgia are ad
mirably adapted to tlie growth and pro-
J ictloo, and we certainly have men of
ejterprlse and energy who will agree to
uar .* all that may be raised.
Dipping tbe subject from its se
vere aud prssaic surroundings, tbe goober
should bs JnrUhed for its more tcsthetlc
and sentmuatal conditions.
Some pbiijj;pher of these latter days
has observed that Southern statesmanship
lias declined with the gradual fading away
of the old-fashioned barbecue. It is quite
certain that we have none of that ready
and vehement eloquence of tbe hustings
that was heard throughout the land du
ring the old days, when the blue smoke of
tbe barbecue pit rose In every county
from the time roasting oarebsgauto ripen
until a nipping frost had taken all the
twist out of the persimmon.
But if the barbecue was intlmrely con
nected with the flerco Jousts of factious on
tho stump, the goober, the fragrant aud
oily gooberr beld its own In the council
chambers of the State. Those werogood
old honest days, when the present leader
of tho “Jeffersonian phalanx" In Georgia
made his daily lunch ou a pint of parched
goobers, and when there were a race of
economic statesmen from North Georgia,
of whom but one specimen Is lett in tha
person of Doctor Bei^jamin Dugfar, who
wnen elected to the Legislature were ac
customed lo parch and carry tbelr own
goobers. There are men in Mllledgeville
this day who can tell you that when tho
sessions of the Georgia Legislature camn
to a close the halls of tho capltol were
half Ifg deep In goober shells.
So let our farmers bring back one of
the lost and useful arts of agriculture,
and in doing so prepare for our coming
statesmen a brain food that shall put to
shame the pborphorescent fish. Don't let
us have tlie name without Ike game. Let
us be goober giabblere for ail that the
tcim is worth.
Tbe Demscrarj of (he nixlb.
To their eternal credit, be it said, utter
ly failed and refused to follow tlie late
State convention in breaking down the
two-thirJs rule, though Mr. Blount’s
nomination did uot make Its adoption an
absolute necessity.
Tbo American Dnntml A«u>elatfon.
Among nil the publio meetings tint have
been held at different parts of the country
daring the last month, nous has so inter
cried ut •• the meeting of the Amrrioan
Dental Association. Political conventicnr
have met, wrangled, adopted platform?,
passed resolutions, mode nominations snd
adjourned, but, outside of the few direoily
interested parties, the world has cared
naught.
Friendly barbeones, peaosfol picnic*,
riot-raising camp meeting* hare failed to
disturb the even tenor of affairs, beosnse
in every case tbo influence of the event was
circumscribed. Bat in the proceedings of
the Amsriosn Dental Association every
mao, woman and ohild is directly or iodi-
rsctly interested.
It is wilh ranch relao'nuee that wo are
foreed to tay that we are no little disar-
pointed in the results of this convention.
It has, thoogb, failed of its high
mission, and shirked the importnnt
issues before it. Tho problems whiob
should have been before ths convention
are these: IIo* can a man be made to en
ter into a dentist’s off!-re without feeling
and exhibiting that fear which is unworthy
a true man ? How can he be m»de to stay
in tbs presence of the dentist without oon-
oeiving the most violent hatred for him,
and the most intense desire to rise np and
throttle him 7 Aud how can he be made to
leave ths office without having effeetooliy
destroyed all tbe argument to be advanced
In support of the "bolineae’' theory 7
It haa Ung since been elearly demon
strated to onr mind that no man, possets-
ed of nerjee, can have hie favorite and
msst sensitive molars ground away, his
gams cut loot# and pinned badt, and a
lump of gold wedged into hi* tooth with a'
diminutive sledge hammer withoot experi
encing tbo emotions expressed in tbe
problems. For the proper solution of
these difficulties the poblic naturally look
ed to tbe dental association. It was ex
ported that its members would discover
some acid powerful onoogh to palnieeily
dissolves tcoth to the required extent
without racking a man’s nervous system,
by tho oso of rasping files and grinding
drills. It was expected that instead of
driving golden wedges with the blows of a
trip hammer, other and gentler methods
would bo resorted to. It would be an
easy thing to bathe the surface of the tooth
with a solution of a metalio salt, and then
by means of a weak battery, resort to tho
•Isotrot)pie or gaovanoplastio system
and with touche* as soft as the dropping or
feathery flakes of snow deposit the metal
in the desired spot. And if • tooth should
get iu such a condition as to require pull
ing, it was thought tbat a plan would lie
devised by which a coil eould be passed
around it, a mi met be produced by mean*
of the induced current, and then, jwith a
single breaking of tbe circuit, tho work
would be accomplished. These wore tbe
things the people expected. Bat how have
their expectations been realize i 7 From a
report of the proceedings w# see
that tbs first paper read before tbe conven
tion wa* on "Diathesis snd Cacabexia.”
This was followed up by a treaties on the
“Etiology of Dental Caries,” after which
the convention visited the zoological gar
dens.
This is evidence enough that all hope of
dental reform at present is hopeless. For
another year at least ws have got to make
up our minds to bo polltd,punched, ground,
drilled uni bored according aa tUir pleas
ure may dictate. Tbe outlook la dark and
gloomy. Our hopes have been thrown to
tbe ground again and again. Yet we are
It ie a noteworthy fact that ell profreeioia!
dentists oppose the Innovation. But far
ell that, woman will sneered, end under
her tender touch** pain will disappear
es by magic, and tbe present tyrants will
b» driven to the rmlcr permits ’which
alone they art fitted to follow.
“A touho lady iu this Etate was struck
dumb the other day, and before the next
week was engaged to be married.” It
seems aa useless to publish things of this
sort aa it ia to warn the people against the
dangers of the toy pistol. Women so quick
in all things else invariably fail to oatch on
here.
Thz latest telephonio feat was tho result
of a Belgians Invention. He conversed,
without effort, over a line of two hundred
and sixty miles length, two hundred of
which was sub-marine. This opens up a
•till wider field of telephonlo usefulness,
for it is now thought that the new princi
ple Involved can be made to work success
fully on trans-Atlantio cable lines.
Jud Clucbxts was renominated at Dal
ton on yesterday. It is now In order for
Mr. Stephens to return to Georgia and re
deem the pledges made by his friends, to
the effect that he would wipe oat Indepen-
dentism. Thero is an issue between Jud
Clements and "Hightower Bill" Felton.
Upon whloh eido of tbs issue will the “Jef
fersonian” leader of the oleomargarines
drop?
Boms of the people in Richmond county
are disposed to laugh at the reasons of the
Chronicle tor not taking a part in the pre
liminary campaign tor Congressman, in
tho eighth distriot. The fact is, tbe Idea
of tbe Chronicle'• having no preference
“before the convention spsaks" ie some
what startling. Unols Aleck’s “navvy” is
a "broth of a boy.”
" Tbs children of this world are wiser In
thsir generation than the ohildrsn of
light" Mr. Htephana will not resign his
•oat in Confress until after ths election.
Brother Hsls's Unele Lucius will smile at
the prudence of Brother Walsh's Unole Al
eck. There is nothing like spending one’s
evuniugs in oomtuQniom with the goloid
dollar to make a fallow secretive and con
ning.
Tna Astor that was beat for Congress by
Demoora.ic Flower hu at lut found balm
for his hart, in a consulship to Italy. He
wishes to lay in a supply of Italian works
of art, and, not being disposed to bear the
traveling expenses, this office is givon him
with a view to having his expense* paid by
the United Statu. This poor man wilt
thus be able to “make tbe ends meat,”
Nonnxa could more certainly establish
the sincerity of Sonator Hill’s pol’ticnl
convictions, and his fsarleuucu in givisg
expression to them, than ths fwt that he
won his Imperishable fame by fighting
against majorities. Ben Hill was too pare
nud too brave a man to foWow tlie multi
tude to do evil. He had tha courage to
follow the lead of his convictions, and his
grandest moments were when majorities
would have crushed him, but could not.
Who among oor rising young statesmen
will, like him, have tbe courage of thoir
convictions?
Mr. Watterson decs an Inst.
Ceuntr-Jeumel.
The Republican party is committed to the
policy of war taxation in time of peace. Tlie
Democratic party Is committed to the removal
of tbe grievous burdens im noted under the
Republican principle. That Isa live enough
isvua
“Tax people constitute the but elvil ser
vice commission. The heavy-weight offi
cials are within their roach." This is trn%
Bat ths fact that ths people pat np with n
certain civil service for a given length of
time, does not prove that the people in
dorse ths serrioe, or that a majority even
approves it. While the people are all pow
erful, at the same time they are tolerant.
The very eonsoiousneas of power tusks*
them tolerant. The great majority of
them, engrossed in their owo all dr*, aro
slow to di«cover the errors of a systuu of
service! But a party that fancits itself se
cure, because thj people suffer it to go un
robuked for a season, U InUmg itself iuto
a false eecarity.
Tn« New York Tribune, commenting on
the greet strike, svye that it is estimated
that the strikors around Pittsburg alone
have lust not leu than $4,000,009 in wage*.
The oonfliot botween labor and capital, of
con no, presents ths most difficult qouttion
which political eoonomisU have ever at
tempted to solve. It is well understood
that there oan bs ao prosperity when th*
two are et war. Ws believe that th* same
corporation* whub yield to tbe demand-* of
the strikers, would make equal'p libers!
roncessions if approashed is a pacific way.
Ihe manufacturers and mi'ro»d corpora
tions have uot f-vraottee ths Oommaniatie
fires which raged iu*Pittsburg but u few
years ago; nor have they rosovered trov
the loas ot the millions of d jllare’ worth of
property which fed the flames. It ia nof
to be supposed that ths resolleetiou nf
those days is calculated to soften tlu-ir
views now. They naturally regard the loa*
of this $4,000,000 on ths part ot the strik-
rn as a just retribution. Until aoras oth»r
spirit than tbe ouo ihatauimstsd tie strik
ers, then. Is mon>fosted.ltis not bs expect
ed that capitalists will yie d.
Titans has been a system*tie effort t*
ft np a yellow fever paste for the p«.<
several weeks. It ha* b>on eh*-gel .hat
this was done to inluaues OosjiVs* t»
pass a heavy appropnxttoo f >r the National
Board of Health. But perhaps there is
something else covered op in tli'-s thing.
The Wall Street (.V. Y.) Reporter ot a re-
c«*ut date says:
Thera appear* to be coa•l.tershte ground for
apprehension that this tt to bs a yellow fever
year In tbe South, Judgiog from some private
dispatches which ware received tn this c<ty on
Saturday. Inhabitant*of Luuttiatta and Texas
are said to b« moving North In large numbers,
and many cams exist that are not mentioned
in the Aaroclated Pros dispatches. Every ef
fort Is being made to prevent tbe real facto
from coming to light, aa buainrM In the South
would suffer materially, but the tenor of our
information tt that the fever has become epi
demic aud is spreading rapidly.
The South has been uansurily free from
epidemic* so far. NewOrlosna has had
but two casts of yellow fever, and none
have been reported at say of the Gnlf or
Atlantic ports. It is not likely that the
disease will trawl trim the Rio Graadu
across tbe continent of Ibzas. It is simply
impossible lo cocoesl tbe prevalence of
yellow fever in any Southern city, and e
stock journal in New York city tt the lest
place to look for news of this character.
nnr.wiftRH.
“Pu*ca” punches G'a tetnne In this
way:
The grand o'.d boy to the vt < tf i.l go.
In the Jingoes' ranks jou ..Sul him.
With Diuty's sword he will ».-.*« a blow;
And his own harp slung Ik bind him. _
“Laud of th* Sphinx,” this w^r.ior bard sings
out,
"Though tricks they play thee.
One grand old boy ihy right shall guard;
By jore I won’t betiay thee;"
Tns victims ot *stir*»ad disasters In tbe
United 8tttM average more than oue a d&y.
Tns sparrows are not hated so much iu
Pittsburg- Bouse of <bc: there have Just
wblppcu a cat.
The pension bureau has grown to be ct
such colossal proportions that it requites th*
additk n of sou clerks
The international Association of Short-
hand Writers In the United States and Canada
will meet In Cincinnati oo the Sttt Inst
The Virginia Slate Teachers’ Associa
tion has doidod that the rod tt e
Item ta a w*U
are.
We fear our Methodist friends in Wis-
con*in are getting rather too frisky. A
rtrd wi •man's toot race was oes of the s
turns of a recent Methodist pirate tn th»t htate.
Os Tuesday last tlie driver of a wagon
In New York becaa** enraged elm ply because
htt horn switched him sharply is Um face with
hto tall while attempting to keep the fftee off,
beat the animal with a cart rang until the
brute, driven against a wail, turned et bay amt
kicked th* man to death.
It la fair lo conclude freta the follow-
1 A ffenttemaa dartres to Cads portlier with res-
I itaTkoamtos him in th* lutekma daM
. Weak. Owe whoowsa a fryttg yah aods Hera
I U pork prefer
t* rod tt a nrermary
imuii ot school (unit-
change. Water thus affected by t ht k
de
clares to be agree t nervine .an J refrlgerantas
well as an astringent.
Is tbe probate court at La Crosse, Wis.,
a decision has just beeu rendered which tt of
interest to all speculators in futures. Amen
who had been speculating iu gram througlffa
broker, who died, brought suit to recover un a
promissory note for fti.uw given In couuecUou
with their grain business Tbe court held that
the transaction was gambling, tbat there waa
no legal consideration, aud that lbs note waa
Invalid. This tt tho most direct decision yet
rendered upon the legality of such operations. .
The portrait of a captain in tho Salva-
t*on Army in Philadelphia tt giveu in tbo H'sr
Crw, the journal ot the movement. Ills name
1s Milton Light, but htt title ot Jack tt
printed In much larger letters, and the picture
represents him with a gun in bis hand, a pistol
and knife at htt side, htt belt stuck full of car
tridges, and an expression on htt face that
might be regarded as ths threat of a cutthroat
or tho reproof of an evangelist, according as the
likeness to assumed to hare been taken before
— after his change of heart.
The difference between military and
elvil methods of dealing with persons accused
of cruelty to animals is illustrated by the c
of Corporal Kelly. Just disposed of by a oourt-
martial at the Jefferson barracks, who so bru
tally and crucllv brat a government horse that
“ ‘■oL Kelly was fined tl and costs
For the military offense ho was
In the e . w
sentenced by the general court-martial to
dishonorably discharged from the sendee of
Ihe United mates, to forfeit all pay and allow-
ami to be confined at hard labor in the
military prison at Loavenworth for six yeara.
Some of tho item* in tbe snalry civil
appropriation bill are interesting. Wa find
• hO.W) tor furniture for on# wing of ths War
and Navy Department building, ti .700 apiece
fur elevators; f.70.000 for a dry dock ut tii- Mare
Island navy yard, a very notorious In&tno for
fradulentami slra n work of a'l klu-tt: « i> ujs
for‘■additional beef for Imilni*," «ud the In
dians will be fortunate if the gut >; o »i «., n h
of It: repairs to Senate elevator, f.o. «r. which
reminds ua of one of Robeson a reiM.rvshirs,
the repairs on which costing a good dt-t re
than the ship Itself cost. The sundryeuii i> It
is a capacious receptacle of job*, nud U>ut is
very little problug done.
The San Franclaco'Commrre/u/ Humid
of the JWth July says: “Ws have to note tbe ar
rival in our city of several Arab merchant*,
who reached here via Panama by the Pacttic
Mail steamship Grauada. These Arabs era
from Jerusalem, and come to this city with the
intention of opening an cftabltohmtut here for
the sale of Turkish gowls and curios, under Uie
firm nr— a
Arabs
claim t<
As they wear tneir native costume, consisting
of a long, bright colored gown, or kiblr, and
fir head dress, a cone shaped cap of red doth,
they very naturally attract no llttlo attention
ale of Turkish goods and curios, under Uie
name of Bicharar. Michel A Ui The
* not only speak English fluently, but
it to speak all ot the principal laugusxes.
streets."
Died Before Jim Dlff.
rote and Tribune.
Jim General* died In a barn at Luzerne, Pa,
Wednesday night If* was a colored man, ami
•lied a starving pauper. And yet, two years
Hgo^uindry *i>ceulaten in tbat vicinity held
J ln\“ euerals in be worth tJOfi.OW and had that
insurance on htt life, but the insuring com*
panles died many months before Jim did.
One Grand Reunion.
Cincinnati Mnquirtr.
The Sultan of Morocco has three hundred
id rixty-four wives, snd only needs one more
~j have on* for each day in the rear. Htt life
Is cne grand reunion, and every day he renews
his acquaintance with the wife he last met tho
previous year. When th* Monday wariring tt
hung out In the back yard of the Psltco it looks
like a dry goods store In an Iowa cyclone.
Calculated to Hake a Han Die.
Norrietown Herald.
At a political meeting at flan Antonio. Texas,
s man was seized wlthlauahter, and tils oon-
tori ions became so great that It required sev
eral men to hold him, and h* did not become
quiet until morphine waa administered. It ta
*u r posed that tlie speaker said the Independ*
— tn Pennsylvania were sincere reformers
hat utewart would poll half a* many votes
aa Heaver. Such remark* vre calculated to
‘ i a man almqet die a laughing.
Where Gefl^tanj Is Dehlwd
Exchangf.
Tn Germany the sofa Is th* feat ef honor, and
. omit offering its privilege* lo an Invited
gue»i Is to write one's self down tgunraut ot
lire usages of polite society. But a gentleman
may not sit upon the sofa; to take a scat there
uninvited 1* very presumptuous; and to ask
even an Int'tnaie acquaintance to placo him
self beside her on that sacred resting' place,
would be highly Ind^cnmui in a ymug lady.
Huch i* the custom of tbo country.
Tom’s Old Habit.
Taras flingt.
Jim Webster, au Austin colored voter, re
turned a few days ago after an absenco of a
week in the country. After he gut back he
was asking Undo Mnao how hit ne
gro acquaintances were coining on, and amoni
id among
—. — „—, j*Mnu
hi* lock of sociability and stiffness, was do
ing. “Didn’t ycr meet a funeral as yerwas
coinin' Into town 7” “Yea. I did, Uncle Moae."
I'em was Tom Knott's obsequious, day was ”
•Wo'1.1 tnout hsd rurased lilt. Dat ain't da
fust time he has passed me on de street wtdout
tewin' on dat l e Loosed me '
•Ihers, what Tom Knott, who <
Roman (lo.
London Truth.
A very interesting llule story belongs to the
exhibition of the royal academy this year. A
ltdy and her daughter, in a sudden shower ut
rain, took refugo in a doorway, it was tbat of
a great artist'* s.udio; and tbs great artlrt him-
•cTf entering at th* moment, Invited them to
come in from the rain. As the rain steadily
poured down, he studied atteuUvtly the young
girl's face and figure; and preocmly, produc
ing hi* card, he MUcd the mother's permiuion
to make a painting of her daughter. Ho Oat-
terlnf a compliment from so distinguished su
artist could not be declined; and a beautiful
portrait, the result of a great msny sittings,
wa* finished In due Ume, and is one of tho or
naments of thi* year’s exhibition. Huch a
painting would have an Immense value; but it
wa* gracefully presented by the artist to tlie
roung lody heraelf. Its only fault to that it
hardly does jurttee to tho lovely original.
Real Runner*.
Pteeseut MUUrhood.
"What do yon call rale manners r' fitoppln *
in de road on de way from de soring, lmlnncin'
plguin of water on yo’ head ao r leitin' de
mannus ttpectable rullud folks tn big planta
tion* fo' de war use ter bave-U, when you sees
nut her puraon you ain’t seed lately, to lo ssako
a nice. p'iite curchy, an* aay, 'Good arawnln',
rturr Booker*—or fits Tildy,' 'chever It ta—*bow
<1ow doeayo' copperuaity seem to saggashint#r
Den, if she's got any n'liteneae 'bnt her, she'll
spon back an' aay, 'Pm very serrennlbl# 'cord
ing to my conrtllarittta,Ste Jyara.' Infs what
(calls mannus aa to mannus! But Ms otetimey
darkle* tt gittin* mighty sra’ee; an' 'iwon't be
long— 1 'twon't be long—'fo* dear an’ vtelr lino
manuuz tt all pamed away 1"
A Qumtlou of Taste.
AV* York Timet.
There was a funny episode in th* Illinois
Greenback State convention. Mr. Francis H.
Hall having been placed in nomination for
Htate Superintendent of Insirjction. a dele
gate, following the inuruc.lons of his county
convention, placed in nomination Miss Francis
E. Willard, the temperance and home protec
tion advocate. Another delegate from th*
mow county >Md be had juet retired a die-
patch from Mua Willard saying she cvnld not
accept the non I nation, and tbe first delegate
then withdrew it A third then moved that U
b* unanimously resolved that hsd she not re
ined she would have bees nemlastsd. whteh
proposition was received with mlugi*4 tangU-
ter and hisses, and th* second delegate Moved
to substitute a vote of regret, which, on mo
tion. was laid on th* table A fourth delegate
remarked that It waa not In good urte to teU
Mr. Halt that he would not have been nomi
nated If th# convention could have got som#
oneeira. Hall was then nominated by accl -
Tbo Urate of I.lglit-Uo
Dangramem Castle Is to day a^crut
JSSiated'uiS r dil?u“o.r.‘ 1 The^a .
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