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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,18RV—TWELVE PAGES.
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The papers are flooded with a feurlul
load ot lies concerning the late General
Toombs. Some of them are circulated by
people tvlio ought to know better.
A NoniHRBjf exchange says "General
Sherman has his eye on a plantation near
Kissimmee." The owner of tlie plantation
will bo lucky if “Cutup" keep; his hnnd
off it
'i an biographical sketches of Gonernl
Toombs in the Northern journals are filled
with untruths and exaggerations. It seems
that facts are embarrassing to a great many
people.
Part of the Bi-Sant combination is doing
well. The Cartersvillo Courant says : Bev.
Sam Jones is putting his newly purchased
farm on tho Tennessee rood in fine repair.
The new plank fences glitter in the wintery
sunlight We predict ho will make a success
of tho undertaking. ,
"1’hf. death of Bobort Toombs anil the
growing impetus of temperance reform in
Atlanta, show that Georgia is tanking pro
gress," says the Philadelphia Tress. And
the presence of such a paragraph in a lead
ing Philadelphia daily puper shows that the
“City of Brotherly Love" is not
Fleming DuBionon appears to be mnk
iug his mark as solicitor of the Eastern cir
cuit The Savannah News says editorially
“If Solicitor-General Dulliguon wants to
establish himself firmly in the good opinion
of the peoplo of this community let him
continuo to secure the conviction of mur
derers and other criminals, ills manage
ment of the Walsh caso was very creditable.
Tn« New York Herald, referring to the
Lawton matter, says: “By the way, what
does tho Senate propose to do about the
case of Mr. Jackson? He is still under the
constitutional disability, but was confirmed
by the Ser.ato ns minister to Mexico before
the fact was generally knorn. It may also
he necessary to remove the disabilities of
Ur. Morgan, the consul tr Melbourne, if he
is to be oontinuod in that office.
People who propoee to use tbo mails for
sending Christmas presents will do well to
read this: Print your namo and address,
aad the contents, if a paekago, upon the
upper left hand corner of all mall matter.
This will insure its immediate return to
you for correction, if improperly addressed
or insufficiently paid; and if it is not ealled
for at destination, it can be returned to you
without going to the dead-letter office.
Tub acme of swindling has been uached
by a man who recently invaded Patterson,
Now June*, with “algs ter sell/’ After the
s do had been made and tho eggs delivered,
it wss discovered that an ingenious fraud
had been perpetrated upon the purchaser.
The shells were made of a clear transparent
composition, and the shape perfectly mod-
• i tiled. The portion surrounding tue yolk
wi* made of albnmen, and the yolk itself of
ground carrot and saffron. The eggs were
tested and found to scramble well, and in
an omelette there was no peroeptible differ
ence between the real and artificial eggs,
but when boiled they are easily detected,
sa the yolk and the surrounding white
portion do not harden separately, as in the
real eggs.
Naw Jobsxt rivals the Connecticut wood
en nutmeg,Jwith manufactured eggs. “The
eggsaro marvelously perfect The aholls
are good, some white and some buff, but
are a little more brittle than those of the
genuine egg. Thoro is a perfect “egg-akin'
inside the shell, and the oontenta drop ont
in the shape of yolk and white. The white
is thinner and more transparent than the
real article, taatea like gelatine, and is a lit
tle salty. The yolk is apparently of com
starch, retains the impression of a finger
. and does not ran when broken, as does a
real yolk. It tastes like the white with a
piuoh of sulphur sddod, sad smells sour.
It is a trifle redder in color than in the real
egg. When cooked the eggs are tasteless
and insipid, and they will not boil hard.
No attempt hast been made to hatch them.
Pamcva and bis mad dog remedy are
being largely discussed In medical circles
of Orest Britain: 'Dr. John Bux
ton, surgeon of the Seventeenth regiment,
who has served in India, disagrees on the
question that a patient after showing hy-
<r phobic symptoms cannot recover. He
instances the ease of a l.oy five yean old
who was treated by him. The poor little
fellow wae in convulsion* and about to die
apparently, when Dr. Buxton, thinking to
soothe his passage to the grave, gave the
boy a dace ot Indian hemp. Tha patient,
to his surprise, passed into a quiet sleep
and awoke refreshed and afterward r. cov-
} * red." Our readers will remember that we
called attention «om» time tines to the fact,
that many yean ego Indian hemp had been
found to be sometimes a cure, and always a
I' live in fancied or real hydroDhohle.
IsHbor and thi* Farmer*.
The South Carolina Senate, last week,
killed a bill passed by the House which im
posed a tax of 1500 on emigrant agents in
each county wherein they did business.
The bill was intended to protect farmers
from agents who tempt negroes to jump
their contracts, and thus exposo growing
crops to the dangers of destruction for want
of sufficient labor. If the bill had really
been the remedy for this evil, it
would, in all likelihood, have
passed, but a similar law in Borne of the
counties of this State has proven worthless
iu more ways than one. In the first place
the law is easily evaded. If hands are
wanted to work upon railroads or levees, or
to settle new lands in other States, all thnt
is necessary to be done is to circulate the
news among the negroes and tho desired
end is accomplished. Under the promise
of $1.50 a day hands can he gotten iu most
Southern States by the thousands, who are
willing to go to any place. They will
pay their own way if able, will
walk almost any distance if unable to pay.
Moreover it is easy to arrange with rail
roads to pass them under the leadership of
trusty negroes, and draw upon tho proper
parties for the aggregate fare. No one in
Georgia has ever paid such a license, as far
as wo know, and yet Georgia negroes are
recruited constantly from counties protect
ed by a license law.
But the law is undesirable in some in
stances for other reasons. The hands that
go off are, as a general rule, not the best.
Many of them are the very worst in their
communities, and tbeir departure is regard
ed as a happy riddance. Those who return
generally comeback with money, and many
sand money to their families.. Iu ovor-pop-
ulnted countries, or properly speaking,
countries where there is an over-abundance
of labor, the emigration of the floaters is a
pnblie blessing, South Carolina, we be-
liove, has never yet suffered from scarcity
of labor; on tho contrary, her negro popula
tion is far too dense in many sec
tions. Any plan that would hinder the
employment of this overplns ought to bo
well considered before embodied into a law.
The section that supports moro negroes
than it employs profitably, supports them
out of private coracribs and smokehouses,
and makes chicken and hog raising a risky
business.
But there is a way to protect farmers
whic,b Georgia and Carolina might profita
bly consider, although we do not believe
complete protection possible, since life it
self, under the most\stringent, laws, in
the most orderly communities, is not abso
lutely safe. It would seem that such
legislation as would make any person who
employed a laborer already under contract
liablo for damages or for prosecution under
a criminal law wonld come nearer meeting
the requirements of onr people than any
thing yet proposed. 'Negroes cannot be
prevented from enitgriiting it they ohoo s
to do so. A law that will operate in favor
of the labor necessary to a county, and not
seek to restrain the surplus, is what is
needed.
Communists and Assassins.
A tew days since and it was wired thnt
the city of Han Francisco was greatly ex
cited over the discovery of a plot to murder
a Dumber of prominent oitizene by a secret
society, the memberi of which charge that
the threatened citizens were reeponsible for
the fact that the Chinese did not go fast
enongh.
It is more than probable that in every
oity of any considerable size in the country
theee assassins have active friends and sym
pathixers.
Justus Schwab, toe great communist
leader of New York city, was interviewed
concerning this plot, by a reporter of the
New York Herald. He said: “By works we
recognize then) and send them a socialistic
salutation acrosa the great expanse of coon'
try which lies between ns. I, for one, draw
the line at the Chinese, and for manifest
reasons exclnde them from the universal
brotherhood of man which Marx promul
gated and which Moat ami 1 preach and
practice. Looking at them from the stand-
point of European civilization the Chinese
are slaves who can never be elevated to the
Caucasian standard.
“I lament that the days of chivalry are
post and the spirit of the psladins is dead.
Here are four brave young men, inspired
by tlie most humanitarian motives, under
taking to ‘clean out' a modern Augean
stable, and what thanks do they get? None!
No skin of the Nemteanlionis girded round
their shivering loins. They get no reputa
tion, create but a small sized sensation,
and then in the most heroie manner possi
ble they are locked up, quite as though
they had indulged in an ordinary drunk.
American institutions and manners preclude
the production of great men. They are
nipped in the hud and only mediocre men
prosper."
Justus Schwab seems to forget that Afri
cans br.ve been raised to the Caucasian
standard, and ha has made no row about it.
The reporter then went into a dive next
door to Schwab's, where be met an individ
ual who announced himself as the son of
hell, and who thus delivered himself:
“The comrades of ’Frisco,” said this son
of sheo), who seemed to be pandyzed by the
ni w i or something else, “hsve at la-.t per
ceived that the Chinese eoolie immigration
originates on Nob HilL They liuve at last
determined on dealing with the matter
thoroughly, and to exterminate these bloat
ed muck-a-mucks root and branch. Indeed,
I am in a position to tell the Herald in con
fidence and good fsith that at present Nob
Hill is nnderminod, stored with nitre-gly
cerine, and when it explodes, as it will
shortly—IU give yon a pointer on that--we
will get some of the brickbats and sich like
away off here in Manhattan."
It is a pleasure to know that the 8outh
has no such tough citiz ns, aa yet
Hydrophobia So-Called.
Nym Crinkle, dramatic critio on the New
York World, who writes well upon any sub
ject he attempts, whether it bo the peso of
en actress, tho voice of c. singer or a Sun
day promenade along Fifth avenue, has
given to the pnblio one of the best short
dissertations on hydrophobia nnd the al
leged mad dog we have yet seen in print
Iu view of the excitement both in this
country nnd Europe, his observations are
timely nnd worthy of reproduction. More
over, he writes under the stimulus of an
experience both valuatiiu and dangerous.
We extract sufficient from his nrticle to
cover points often discussed in the Tkj.e-
okaph:
“Hydrophobia is one of the most terrible
the most mysterious and the rarest of dis
eases that afflict humanity. Not one doc
tor in a hundred ever saw a well-authenti
cated case of it.
“I am at this moment writing this article
with a hand lacerated by the bite of a
strange dog. I encountered him one Sun
day morning two weeks ago in front of my
residence. I am a lover of dogs. This was
a brindled bull terrier held by a chain,
patted him on the head. He wagged hiB
tail, jumped up affectionately upon me.
slapped him playfully on his side and in an
instant be fastened bis fangs in my right
hand. One of them struck an artery and
ent it. I bought the dog. It cost mo $15.
domiciled him. For forty-eight
hours I had one of those subjective
struggles which teach a man how absolute
ly he is at the mercy of his imagina
tion. I went up to Dr. Hamilton. He
looked at my hand nnd asked at once,
“Whero is the dog?” •‘I’ve got him,” Ire-
plied. “Is ho all right?” “Sound as a dol
lar." “Then don't give the thing another
thought. If I cauterize the wound you are
liable to have a secondary hemorrhage, and
then yon will be disabled for a fortnight.
“Thnt was nil toe medical treatment I
ceived. But I found myself that night
dwelling upon the incident. All the dread
possibilities were rehearsed. My fancy ex
nggerojpd my knowledge and my feelings.
I felt pricking and burning sensations run
np my arm, I fell into an nneasy dose,
heard the smart nnd saw the gleam ot'
fangs in the phantasmagoria ot a nervous
sleep.
“I woke up in the morning unrefreshed
and with a dull consciousness that some
thing was impending. After a bath and a
walk in toe sun my resisting power began
to assert itself. I saw that at this rata I
would ovolute out of nothing all too symp
toms of rabies.
I sincerely believe at this moment that
I could havo brought on the symptoms of
tetanus if I had only placed myself under
my own imagination. If that dog had
shown any symptoms of sickness I should
have been a case for Fasteur. But be
proved to bo as straight as a trivet. I made
friends with him. I found that bo had a
broken rib. I must have struck that when
I slapped him on the sido.
“Now consider a moment If I had kill
ed that dog when he bit me, as it was very
casy to do, all the science, nil the intelli
gence and all the reason of the world conld
not have saved me from my own fears.
And that is the result with almost every case
of dog bite. Tho first step on the part of
stupidity is to kill tbo dog. Then he is de
clared to be mad, and then sets in the chain
ot subjective and fanciful results. Science
and common experience agree that unless
toe dog has rabies there is no danger of the
victim of his Lite having hydrophobia
Weil, my own experience tells me that one
dog in about five thousand that are killed
as mad really has rabies. Dog men are bit
ten every day. Your ordinary dog-fighter
is covered with scars. Thero isn't a sports
man who hasn't had the mark of a tooth on
him.
“The dog is subject to epilepsy and ner
vous attacks that are common enough. But
it a poor animal should get a fit in the
streets of New York the cry of mad dog is
his doom—and the doom of everybody that
he bites. Could he be saved from toe Ig
norant malice of the mob, something
might be determined. We should st least
know if imagination can bring on the symp
toms in the man while the dog is healthy.
“Mahew, who has written- the best, be
came the only scientific, book on toe dog,
insists that rabies is an extrem ity rare dis
ease that develops slowly in the animal,
who is sick weeks before his paroxysms ap-
per. Ho describes minutely all the symp
toms of the rabid dog. and no one hod abet
ter opportunity to stndy them—not even
Zouatt. He saved scores of dogs from pop
ular doom that were suffering with vermic
ular fits.
“Fear, which is always the concomitant
of mystery, is the prime factor in individual
hydrophobia and in those popular scares
which we are having at toil moment • »
“It sounda somewhat absurd to say that
the life of a dog that is supposed to be mad
ought to l>e saved. But when the case is
understood the absurdity vanishes. In the
first place the rabid dog does not start ont
as toe popular fear paints him upon on in
discriminate biting career. The dog,
whether mad or healthy, bites and snaps
only when irritated. It is the hnnted dog
that bites at everything, and the assnmp-
tionthathe is mad sets toe crowd npon
him. Then, wrought np to a pitch of fren
zy, he bitea and tears all within his reach.
It is possible to prodace this kind of hydro-
bia in any highly organized dog”
Tax Nashville American aska: “What
.-- shall we do with our wheat?" Havei;
tr real hydrophobia. ! ground into flour and eat it
A Woman's Cloak.
The capacity of a woman's oloak is no
longer an open question. Tho matter has
practically been settled by tho discovery of
the peculations effected by tho “queen of
shoplifters” in Boston. The capacity of a
woman’s cloak is unlimited.
The property found in the apartments of
thiB shoplifter, Jane Weldon, would have
almost filled a freight car. It embraced
every variety of stuff, every urtiole known
the open Bhclf trade. When
the discovery was mado the police
invited examination anil more than a thou
sand people visited headquarters to soarch
for stolen articles. In one load taken from
lh« woman's room were seven bottles of
mustard, seven bottles of honey, twelvo
buckets of applo sauce, ten boxes of house
paint, twelve packages of different kinds of
Hour, bottles of peppermint, pepper, two
boxes of candies, ironing boards, tubs, etc.
Imagine a woman entering a grorery and
calmly leaving with a bneket of apple sauce
under her cloak, repeating tho visit twelve
times; or varying her programme by carry
ing off a box of candles. Imagine, if possi
ble, this same woman armod with ironing
boards, or with a nest of tubs leaving a
furnishing establishment undetected.
Where were the clerks?
A pickpocket once told a reporter that
there was no great skill necessary to the
profession; that what was chiefly required
is termed “check," brazen cheek. There
exists in the public mind a belief that a
thief’s face wears a sinister expression; that
bis actions are sneaky and his appearance
suspicious. This may be accepted as the
conventional idea. The stage
sists in carrying out the delusion,
os does also the novel. Nothing could be
further from toe truth as to successful
thieves, and when tho frank-fneed, rollick
ing stranger laughingly jostles tho average
man iu the crowd, jests with a friend, or
salutes his victim pleasantly, he disarms
suspicion. Yet in nine out of ten times
robberies are cffectedtby just such persons.
It is so with tho successful shop-lifter. She
does not sneak into an establish
ment look guiltily about her and sidle cau
tiously up to a counter. If she did a dozen
pairs of eyes would watch her every move
ment. She enters with confidence, is en
gaging, dainty, fastidions or even contempt
uous. She is a grand ludy too entire
ly superior for suspicion. And her
veil never fails her even though she
be burdened with a wash tub under one
nrm and a backet of apple sauce under the
other. Tho shoplifter who stole and carried
off from dozens of establishments some
thing like a carload of plunder, must have
had tho cheek of Lucifer and the tact of—
well toe tact of a smart woman.
In this day of bookmaking, it is refresh
ing to know that we are to have one that
will be reedsble. The Hon. David Davis is
said to have prepared a volume of me
moirs, to be published after his death, in
which appears a list of the “wolves and
Umbs” he discovered in Cc^gnss while
t> reel dent of the Senate. Tho wolves or*
those whom b a knew to be for sale, and the
lambs Ike honed ones. Uncle Davy
flocked with the wolree and lam be, by
turns.
The Presidential Succession#
Senator Hoar’s bill which has passed the
Senate, and is now in the House, awaiting
action provides:
••That in cam of removal, death, resignation, or
Inability of both tho President and Vice-President
°f U»e United State*, the Secretary of State, or If
there be none, or in caae of hi* removal, death,
resignation, or Inability, then the Secretary of the
Treasury, or if there be none, or in cm. of Ida re
moval, death, reeignatlon, or Inability, thou the
Secretary of A’ar, or if there be no&e, or in caae of
hi* removal, death, resignation, or inability, then
tho Attorney-General, or if there be none, or
in tho caae of hi* removal, death or Inability, then
the Postmaster-General, or if there be none, or in
cue of hie removal, death, resignation, or Inability,
then the Secretary of the Navy, or if there be none,
or in caae of hi* removal, death, resignation, or
iuabllity, then the Secretary of the Interior
■hall act a* Prenldent until the disability of
the President or Yieo-Prosldcnt Is re
moved ora Presldeut shall be elected: Provided,
that whenever the powers and duties of the office of
President of the United States shall devolve upon
any of the persona named herein, if Congress be
not then in seealon, or if It would not meet in ac
cordance with the law within twenty days thereaf
ter, it shall be tho duty of tho person npon whom
said powers aud duties shall devolve to Issue a
proclamation convening Congreea in extraordinary
session, giving twenty da>V notice of tho time pf
meeting.
Section a. That the preceding section shall only
be held to describe and apply to such oOcara aa
ahaU hare been appointed by tha advice and con
tent of the Senate to the office* therein named, and
•ash are eligible to the office of President under the
constitution, and not under impeachment by
the House of Representative, of the United flutes
at the time the powers and duties ot tha office shall
devolva npon them respectively.
Section 3 repeals sections 119 to 190 of the Re
vised statutes.
Tho Unloaded Pistol.
The Nashville Union, referring to the
late tragedy in that State in which a young
lady was killed by a young man, during an
evening call, says:
■'A man, yonng or old. who calls on a lady with a
pistol In his pocket should tie Imprisoned for lifo,
and if injury is dona ho should be hanged, and
any person who points a pistol or gun, loaded or
unloaded, whether tt hare look, .took or barrel, at
soother, shonld be placed for Ufa either In a luna
tic asylum or a penitentiary.”
That is good, so far as it goes, but any-
one who handles a pistol in public, not in
self-defense, ought then and there to be
considered an outlaw, and any bystander
who might brain or disable such person,
shonld not be held to legal responsibility.
Some yean since, the writer witnessed a
practical operation of this. A fellow in a
crowded restaurant was revolving the cylin
der of a loaded pietol, just purchased, to the
delight of a circle of country bampkins.
An old citizen walked in incidentally, anil,
taking in the aitaation, raised his stick and
floored the handler of toe pistol. It was
discharged into the counter as he fell, and
his companions raised his limp body and
went in search of a surgeon. lie never re
turned to eult for the pistol.
“The Washington Post has ascertained
that Governor Fitzhngh Lee did not make
his horseback Virginia campaign in toe
saddle of his illustrious ancle. This dis
covery unhones a great deal of campaign
criticism," says the Philadelphia Becord.
The Now York Hun and the Houthem pa-
pen discovered and published this fact,
while Lee wan in the midst of his campaign,
lie changed hones every time be changed
districts, and really rode in more th»o half
a hundred saddles. But the Bepnblican
preea could not afford to recognize the truth,
until after the election.
A St. Louis special says: “A purso of
$500 was made np for Sam Jones, tho evan
gelist, last night. Ho has been hero four
weekB, and closes his engagement next Sun
day night. His success has not been an
great hero as elsewhere, nnd ho has found it
os hard work saving sinners here as Moody
and tho boy preacher did."
The Wilkes Booth stuff having been
worn threadbare by the space-writers and
special corresponkents, how will this do for
a now lay: “A new pretender has turned
up in Paris. He is a young man of intelli
gence, who claims to be the Prince Imperi
al. His story is that he was not killed in
Zululund, but captured by tho Zulus, from
whom he soon after escaped. He says that
ho walked clear aoross Africa to the Medi
terranean, nnd crossed to Marseilles. He
resembles the late alleged Prineo slightly,
and has been kindly cared for by toe police.
Of coarse, liko most of the so-called princes,
be is of unsound mind.”
Tuu London Standard gives as the reason
telephones have not succeeded ns well in
London as America the following: “A ‘city
man' in London likes to go to his offico at
ten o'clock, and leave nt five o’clock, and
before tbo one hour nnd after the other to
be rid of Mincing lane or Lombard street.
Once in the carriage which bears him to his
home, ho in a different personage from what
hi was daring tho previous seven hours.
He is a statesman or a country gentleman,
or ho devoteB himself to dining, to his fam
ily, to lawn tennis, to gardening, or to epio
verse, nnd declines to think of toe city nnd
business until the fated hoar arrives next
morning. Hence his antipathy to the tele
phone, which mny disturb him nt all man
ner of inconvenient moments."
Or the late decision of Judge McCay ns
to tho prohibition election the New York
Herald says: “The growing tendency in
both Federal and State court.: of Lto has
been to set aside entirely a law found to be
unconstitutional in part. Tho feature of
j the Georgia law which Judge McCay holds
' unconstitutional essentially affects the
whole law. The part of tho statute which
he upholds is not tho law that the Legisla
ture pnssed nor toe law that the people
voted on. It may bo tbat neither toe Leg
islature nor the people at the polls would
havo consented to n law prohibiting toe sale
of native wines. It may be that they con
sented to this luw only bocanse of tho ex
ception in favor of borne products. We do
not consider too decision sound either in
law or reason/]
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
“We warn our people against yielding to
any such temptations ns are offered in the
Blair educational bill. That bill strikes at
the very root of our free institutions, nnder
the pretense of extending the benefits of
knowledge and educating the illiterate
class. It saps toe strength of local self-
government in that it makes the govern
ment at Washington the beneficent chan
nel through which t flows a poople'e contri
bution. Not only is this bill contrary to
the principles of free government as estab
lished in this country, but it will nndor-
tnine the strength of onr system of free
schools. No people eon be educated from
without; it is a work which most he done
by'each community. A thousand raised by
local taxation is worth in the canse of edu
cation ten thousand contributed by the gov
ernment at Washington. Anything that
weakens the sense of responsibility in any
community for the snccess of the schools
does an irreparsblo harm. What we need
in the South is moro thorongh realization
of this responsibility. We need an awsk
ening; we need to be left to oar own re
sources.”
v* , , anil Patches.
England is to send an expedition against
the new MahdL The prudent AmStaS
newspaper has saved its old war maps ttad
is ready for the fray.—New York Grapjj
As a final test it is proposed to apply th,
sir -
The Dolphin has started out on her final
rough ocean trip for trial in a gale. ?
probably the only way to disposo of hor-
Albany Times.
One result of Attorney-General Garlands
experience in turning out the rascals mar
be discerned iu tho recommendation in his
report that the government build more
jails.-Omaha Herald. more
Civil service reform will never be consid
ered complete until everybody gets the
place wanted.—New Orleans Picayune
It will take some years yet to bring Phil.
ndelphin to that State when it will h T6 fuU
recognition to a man who hasn't a grand,
father.—Philadelphia Chronicle.
School children and teachers do not want
schoolbooks changed overy few months-
but speculators in books must live _’
Orleans Picayune.
There are two kinds of natural gai u
that which you bore to get, and the other
that with which you get bored. -MranoaD-
olis Tribune, * 1
It was the intention of Mr. Blaine to
write tho President's message; but bo was
n it nsked.—New Orleans Picayune.
When Senator Plumb's biU prohibiting
poker playing in toe army Is passed the last
incentive for toe West Point graduate to
enter toe regular service will be swept ruth-
lcssly away.—Dotfoit Tribune.
Wlint makes the Forty-niuth Congress
chiefly remarkable is that there is no Smith
in it. Has tho country lost confidence in
the Smiths, or nro thoy tired of managing
national affairs?—Philadelphia Becord.
There seems to be a disposition on the
part of Logan's fellow Senators to restrain
him from making an ass of himself. lM
such efforts should have been made when
his ears were in an early stage of develop
ment—Chicago Times.
Office seekers havo found to their chag
rin tbat tho latest style of coats for Con
gressmen uro without button-holes. —Phila
delphia North American.
Occnlists predict that wo shall become a
spectacled nation in fifty years moro. As
far as our navy is concerned wo are a spec
tacle now.—St. Paul Globe.
Tho Pilgrims never wonld hsvo landed had Ply.
mouth ltock boon decorated with current wooden la
of Boston aldermen.—Boslob Record.
A Boston lady haa presented Mr. Cleveland with
a cane. In the Ilo*tones, language of flirtation thta
“Vonr moasago received."—Philadelphia
Preaa.
If ever Senator Kdmunda appeals from tho decia-
Iona of tho chair, better known aa John Shonnan,
other Senators would better vacate tho chamber,
for tt will be a collision between two icebergs.—
Utica Observer.
Tue Washington correspondent of the
New York World, is responsible for this
sketch ot tippling in the cnpitol.
Itls a very common thing forprorolnentS.-Bston. .
who an liberally aad hospitably Inclined b give * ’ anl6 *«« and sinco
Cotton Statement.
From the Chronicle's cotton article of
Decomber 18, the following facta arc gathered
relative to too movement of the crop for the
past week:
For the week ondin^ this evening (Do-
oember 18), the total receipts have reached
238,011 hales, against 248,134 bales lost
week, 242,797 bales the previous week and
259,925 hales three weeks since, making the
total receipts since the first of September,
1885, 3,154,222 bales, against 3,329,548 baics
for the same period of 1884, showing a do
orcase since September 1, 1885, of 175,324
boles.
The receipts of all the interior towns Ipr
the week have been 179,833 bales. Last
year toe receipts of the same week were
134,653 bales. The old interior stocks have
increased during the week 44,413 bules, and
ore to-night 94,665 bales moro than at the
same period last year. The receipts at the
same tpwos have been 32,050 bales more
little luncheon parties nearly every day In their
committee rooms. At these Innchee champagne Is
always served in every committee room, nnleae
there is always kept in .lock a good supply of
whisky. The private supply of liquor about the
Instate 1* very great. One or two of the favorite
subordinates In the Senate wUl keep their places to
that body unUl they die. because they maintain
private ban for the concocUon of dcelmble drinks.
In tbo Senate restaurant then baa not bean for
many yean any pretense of hiding the sate of
liquor. Whisky Is not avtn served in a teacup as
It used to bo some yean ago. Yon can go Into tha
Henate restaurant, or the House restaurant for that
matter, and order what yon please In tha way of
wine or stronger liquor If yon have the money to
pay for It Tha hum ting and hypocrisy of the whole
thing an shown by the fact that the very fleoaton
who make the flercest opposition to any modiflea-
Uon of tho restrictions upon the ante of liquor In Us
capita!an thegreatest patrons of the private am-
piles In the committee rooms. The majorttv of
fleoaton have too much leisure upon their hands.
Tho Henate sessions in the main an vary dull,
flenalon have a fashion of getting tigether In their
committee rooms for social chats. Tho rosnlt la
always men or leas drinking. A gnat many man
men an broken down by this convivial habit of
•toady tippling than by any so-called overwork.
Tho Supremo Court, too, has Its barroom. Thta
room la eo bidden away from the public that vary
little ta known of It. as only the Justices and tbolr
friends ever succeed In passing by the guards and
reaching it. It ta next to the dnealng room of the
jUaUces, when then ponderous genUemen go for
tho purpose of pntUng on and taking olf their rich
rofan of shining black silk. Thta room ta a vltia
one, with an entrance from tha ctark’e office be
sides the one from the dressing room. It has a
genial, open grate, over which hangs an old fash
ioned. black Iron tea kettle, with a nozzle huge,
black and tbick. Thta ta lbs kettle which has been
need for beaUng tha water employed In mliing hot
punches since tha days of John Uanhall. Thera ta
a smart yeUow man in attendance In thta room,whs
hae a Sne cabinet of assorted liquors, and who taaa
etpert In mixing all kiada of fancy drinks. Tha
furniture ta of the plained, the chairs and sofas be-
tag upholstered In black horn bate. Bat the room
ta so retired and well stocked with good things to
drink, that II leone of the moat dellghtfal snugger-
tas about the capital. Seated In front of thta glow-
lag Are, alth long pipes or good cigars, the rotund
justices can watch the steaming tea kettle n they
elp their grog or faoey drink, forgetting for the
Ume how far behind ta the work of Ike Enpreme
Court
Tha Weekly Telegraph Free.
W* will send toe Verily Teleokapu
one fear to any on* who will gat np a clnb
of fir* new snUcribara to i: nt one dollar
“ £h w-tf
September 1 the receipts at all the towns
are 331,458 bales more than for toe soma
time in 1884.
Among toe Interior towns, toe receipts at
Macon for the week have been 2,362 bales.
Last year toe receipts for the week were
1,831 bales. These flgnrca'ahow an increase
for the week of 531 bales.
The total receipts from toe plantatiors
since September 1, 1886, are 3,619,013
bale*; in 1884 were 3,676,191 bales; in 1883
were 3,589,086 bait*.
Although the receipts at tbs ontporte toe
post week were 238,011 bslis, the actnol
movement from plantations was 284,907
boles, tho balance going to increase tho
stocks at the interior towns. Last year too
receipts from the plantations for tho samo
week were 280 755 tales, and for 1883 they
were 261,064 boles.
The imports into continental porta this
week have been 79,000 bales.
The figures indicates decrease in the
cotton in sight to-night of 180,802 bales as
compared with toe same date of 1884, a tie-
crease of 422,810 bales as compared with
too corresponding date of 1883, and n
33,670 bales as companmTrn
The Chronicle hits toe following to say of
the merket fluctuations for the week under
review:
. J** "S* c ®J* U ‘ ,n "> “**"■ •<* future delivery St
ttta Bmrkvt ta bs, fairly active. During the flrst
half °f the wmk under revtaw there were decline,
followed by quick recovery, and the closoon Tue*
dayw« but slightly lower than on the previous
* L advlcm from Liverpool
at Sonlhare mars.Is. together with some Inorea.
to tbs crop mors nent. seemed to prrrsnt the ral*
ttotljrlow flffon.which
emnnldtegany su.Ulned'b.y,^^^
* h * Uln * w* uncertain opening
^ followed by a.harp advance, eo. o.nodw,.
batter Liverpool rep.rt Yartarday tha fon.lgnm*.
vtaee were (ttoeoura.qng. and most of Wednesday's
«dv«ce wm lost, but there w„
.he.»Idra»rea 7,«.y
Irregular market cotton
Jl-.poica.Umtedd’UL Quotatlom w«^
*•“•<** 1-tSe. on TnrwUr. but this «Vflin*
cUlly.q.'mtadwtth-mebeam*.fur
•pst.uu.rn. To«Uy |b« mariut wm qoist ffitk-i tin-
tosnfad at »j,'a. ter teMdltag —--1