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0 THE TELEGRAPH, ttmUSBED EVERY DAT I* /BE YEAR RED WEAKLY BY TEE Telegraph and Messenger Publishing Co., 97 Mulberry Street. Macon, Or. The Dally l« dellvsred by CRtTien in the city or mallol poetAge free to aubacrltiSTs, for ft per month, |1.80 for three month!, $5 for all month!, at HOaywir. The Wxkrlt la mailed to anbacrlbera, poatage tree, at f 1.75 a year and 75 centa foralx montba. Transient advertlaementa will be taken for the Daily at tl per equaro of 10 lines or lnaa for the first insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent in action, aud for the Weekly at fl for each insertion. Xotlcee of deaths, funerals, marriages and births, •1. Selected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing lro]>ortant news and discussions of living topics is solicited, but must he brief and written upon but one side of the paper to bare attention. Remittances should be made by express, postal Dote, money order or registered letter. Atlanta Bureau 17K Peachtree street. All communications should be addressed to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Oa. Money orders, checks, etc., should be made paya bleito H. C- Hanson, Manager. “Wobkk tilings roiglithnppen to the great Stale o! New York than the election of Chester Arthur to succeed Senator Miller." No doubt about it. Miller might be elected to succeed himself. The recent cold snap in Florida is ac counted for. Senator Jones of that State, haa abandoned the constitution for awhile, and haa gone up into Michigan on a matri monial speculation. Hr.i'iiEHENTATivE Hammond, of Georgia, is not favorably impressed with the make up of the rivers and harbors committee, which be says is organized more in the in terest of rivers than of harbors. Some of the Itopuh’.icaiiR aro terribly • alarmed over the fact that the chairman of the naval committee is an Alabamian. The word “Alabama" is sufficient to frighten the average Northern llepublicun into the jim- jams. “X say, did you make any good resolu tions this year?" “Bet yer life. I resolved not to give a cent for whisky, tobacco, pool, billiards or charity.” “Indeed! Broken them all?" “No, not all. I don't give to charity.” It is said that when Senator Brow n's eye extehes a complimentary notice of Senator Ingalls in a newspaper, he calls a page and sends his broad-gauge smile out to tho ante room to be hung up along with his goloshes. "I r wouldn't take loug for an honest committee to tell all tho good ltcpublicnn party has done the 'colored race’ in the past dozen year*," says the Boston Hor- ald, taking its life in it’s hands for opin ion’s sake. It is thought among Democrats in Wash ington City that the two parties are about to split on fin uncial and economic ques tions. Speculations aro rife aa to whether, in that event, thore will be an allinnce be tween tho South and Eaat, or the South and West. The London Lancet says that children who aro allowed to go barefoot enjoy al most perfect immunity from the danger of “cold" from accidental chilling of the feet, and they are altogether healthier and hap pier than those who, in obodicnco to the usages of social life, wear shoes and stoek- >089- The Iowa Legislature, which is Kopubli- ■cau of course, is in a fix. The Liontonant- Goveruor has moved away, and cannot or ganize the Senate. Tho President pro tem pore has some little misunderstanding with the cosh of a bank with which be was con nected, and has found it convenient to step over to Canada. And this in “trooly loil" Iowa. The man .who does not pity tho poor pro hibitionist during the prevalence of such a blizzard oa this, must have had hia bowels of compassion frozen. As far as we ore concerned wo shall aiwaya believe that the prohibitionist who thaws himself out with a “Tom and Jerry" when the thermometer is hngging tiro zero notch is s better citizen than the man who goes to bed cold and shoves his wife's feet out of their warm place. The World, commenting upon Cleveland's rebuke of a nephew, who wanted office, says: “When we recall the scandalous way- in which the public patronnge was used by some of Mr. Cleveland’s Itepobllsen prede cessors to give fat offices to blood relatives of all degrees of kindred, we must heartily commend the Prcsidei. for the position he has taken. More especially if, in addition to keeping his nephew, out of office, he will sot appoint any moro brothers-in-law or Republicans ” This from the Cartersville Conrant: The Now York World is our authority for say ing the Kimball Honse owners effected a compromise with its creditors at titty centa in the dollar. The meeting was held on the 2nd in New York city, and after a full statement of affairs the creditors accepted the compromise. Col Howell, we under stand, has sold out his interest, and Gen. Toombs' estate is much entaugled : but we hope there will be no serious loss to the people who risked their honest money in it. Says tho Courier-Journal: “It was the whine of Fotaker, in his campaign for the Governorship of Ohio last fall, that the negro waa denied his rights in the South, and, Jherefore, the Republicans should he elected in Ohio. In speech after speech, from the beginning to the end of the cam paign, he dinned this charge into the ears of bis auditors; but never a word said be about the denial of the negro's rights in Ohio. This week, however, Foruker was ’ i laugurated, and. in bit address never a word said he about tho denial of the negro's rigbin in the Sooth, while he grew excited in protesting sgainst the denial of the ne gro lights it) Ohio.” THE aMACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES. Settled at laat. Washington society and governmental circles have been in a great flatter of late years os to an undecided social question. The atatns has been at all times painful and disagreeable, bnt occasionally violent and threatening. There is not a greater sham or humbug in existence than what is called Washington society; yet from the early dayB of tho Republic it has exerted a powerful influence upon the Government. Andrew Jackson's cabinet was wrecked'by a purely social question, and the peace of other administrations has been threatened by similar questions. During the 1 am turn days of the Arthur administration, when the frolicking was furious and fast, there was more than one scene, at thu White House, between women who quarrelled over their socisl rank and precedence Fortunately Miss Cleveland, wti has pa-sed the age of the debutante and now approaches the tea-drinking era, haa a will of her own, and she haa settled this long mooted question. A Washington special sayB: To-day Mlaa Cleveland settled the vexed qucetlon of precedence which, it la sold, the Preel- dcut was not equal to, on New Year's Bay, by giv- ins to Mra. Sherman the Unit place in tho line by right ae the wife of the Vlco-President pro tempore. Mra. Sherman takes precedence over the wives of tho cabinet officers and tho wife of Ihe Speaker of the House. Mlaa Cleveland's decision prevents further discussion and places the wife of the acting Vice-President as “first lady of tho land" before the people. This will be pretty rough on the society dames, moro'especially the high flyers, hut they will have to stand it. It has been offi cially declared that Mrs. John Khermnn is the first lady in the land, and will be wor shipped and obeyed accordingly. The matter is still not without embarrassment. John Sherman, wov.waotn everything will claim that he is tltfo first gentleman in the land. This absurd claim cannot bo al lowed. Possibly some good natured peo ple, or even Washington society, might ad mit that ha was the gentleuiun consprt or a sort of brevet gentleman, but no more than this. Among the common folks, who bear the burden of tho government, and make the American name honorable and respectable, there will bo a doubt if any of the Sher- uinus aro gentlemen, nnd then some people will never surrender the conviction that the first lady in tho land is she who best keeps her home, her children, hor heart and her husband. However, as the question is finally nettled, there can no longer bo any reason why tho government should not now proceed to the performance of its usual fuuctious. Just one more suggestion. Perhaps we can settle tho first gontleman business by competitive oxnminaticn. Tobacco, Prior to the wnr .it was not an uncommon thing to find in Georgia flourishing crops of tobacco. Peopled largely by emigrantNorth Cnrolinians and Virginians, the State gained • from them a practical knowledge of the methods necessary to tho growth of the weed and its manufacture. In some sec tions it wns grown for the market; in nearly all for home consumption. Every planta tion hod its little tobacco crop, and behind the cabin of every thrifty negro was a little patch. Even nntil now this latter feature is observed in connection with the cabins of old negroes who have survived the wrock of old systems and tho change of condition. But tho growing of tobacco cannot bo said to have ever been a business in Geor gia, unless we go bock to the peaceful Indian tribes and the earliest days of Amer ican discovery. The cotton fever swept everything before it, after the gin and improved machinery came into being. Cotton oven overran tobacco and songbt to drivo it from the Carolina hills, only falling back into warmer latitudes when experience and climato had settled the quostion of adaptability. But.tho kindliness with which tobacco adapts itself to this section, now that cot ton is no longer king and men are seeking to diversify crops, is attracting attention on all sidea. In South Carolina tho tobacco movemont Is strong and widespread, and only ignorance as to methods checks tho deveio pment of interest in It here. There seems no reason for doubting that these hills and valleys of Middle and North Geor- gU can be mido to produce ; d tubu'- 'o and u fair profit upon investments in that direction. It ia stated upon good authori ty that the tide-water sections of North Carolina ore beginning to abandon the cul tivation of cotton for tobacco, and it is well known that Middle anil Upper Georgia ap proach much nearer in quality and climate to the old tobacco countriea, than these. It is desirable that all the counties well suited for tobacco crops should be thor oughly tested by growth and analysis of the weed, and that the value of the grades should bo determined, anil the results made known. North Carolina's splendid progress is largely attributed to her tobacco crop. If the old North State can make money off-- of one crop Georgia ought to be able to combine her two advantageously. Is the agricultural bureaif’in Georgia able to sup ply seed and information now ? A Gallant Georgian Dereads the Ladles and Assaults the Queen's English. While engaged in billeting his own poor kin and those of General Gordon upon the government, Colquitt put Hugh A. Haral son, Esq., of Atlanta, and a brother-in-law of the General in the Treasury Department. It appears that Colonel Haralson has come to the defense of the treasury girls albeit it ia well known that the average treasury girl will give you the start and pro tect herself. The Washington Capitol has unearthed two of the late orders of the gallant Georgia Colonel. The first runs after this fashion: “The registers in that'section of the sixth auditor's division now at work in Marini's building, on E street, were much mortified to find that the following curious circular had been sent in a sealed envelope to the ladies of the draft and transfer room: “ To the Lodiea ot the Draft Room—It becomes my duty as well as my pleasure to inform you that I will fully and thoroughly protect you from even a look of insult or disrespect on the pert of any clerk in this building, if reported to me. While I do not anticipate anch, yet I desire you to know that I am ready to protect you if necessary. Very respectfully, H. A. H.’ “The ladies who received this missive were at first inclined to believe that it was a joke, and that the signature waa a for gery, but the peculiar construction of the sentences convinced them that tbs chief of division from Georgia had in good fsith constituted himself tbeir unsolicited cham pion against imaginary foea. So far as can be discovered no one of the ladies has ever complained of insult or disrespect from tho gentlemen employed in the division. As for the registers and other gentlemen who are brought into daily contact with the buries of the draft room, they are indignant at the circular, and denounce it totally gratuitous and uncalled for." Ah! how this breathes in every word and line the well known chivalry of Atlanta. The young man treasury clerk, hod best look about, when he goes to ogle and mash the treasury girl. If caught in this* nefari ous act, the gallant Georgian will be found ready and able to lick him. It is a pity that so gallant a Georgia col onel, who is ready and willing to protect the females in his department, knowing that tho Queen's English is in hourly danger from John Logon, Bhould have consented to attack it himself. This is the other or der refered to. “Hereafter you will direct each clerk in tho draft room when they are late to report to me, or if I am not in my office, to Mr. Patteiaon, so that the time of arrival may he noted, both for tho information of the chief clerk and the chief of iliviaion. Also when a clerk is absent for a day or more for any crubc whatever, when they do return to duty to report both to the chief clerk nnd chief of division. These rules are absolute and will be carried out to the letter.” “Registers nnd clerks, draft room, will therefore work with that r nd in view. Any one who may get behind in their work, and thereby endanger the success of this pur pose, will certainly be reported to the prop er authorities.” If thcro is really any sincerity about tho civil service business, it would appear from this that the commission should be over hauling tho bends of divisions in the Treas ury Department. A Great Mistake. The ecclesiastical court, which has just assembled in Atlanta for the trinl of Dr. Armstrong, upon charges of gross immoral ity, has committed a great mistake in de ciding to sit with closed doors. This language of the prosecuting counsel in opening the case covers tho whole ground nnd is unanswerable: "Mr. Charlton said it was duo tho public nnd the Episcopul Church that there he no star chamber proceedings in the case. ,If Dr. Armstrong he innocent, let him be ac quitted in a public trial and thereby vindi cated; if he bo guilty, let the proceedings he published daily that the church bo ac quitted of any unfairness. Under «■ ery phase of tho case, it would be best that tha trial be heard in public so far os admitting the press." Dr. Armstmog may afford to have a se cret investigation, but the Episcopal Church cannot. Closed doors raise a sus picion in the public mind, nnd no really in nocent man would accept n technical ac quittal ar n condonation of wrong doing for the flake of the chnich. If he is guilty tho public should be given tho testi mony, not to satisfy n prurient curiosity, but that all suspicions and infcrencos should be stopped. If he is innocent, the further the quicker this fact can be spread wi th the testimony upon which it is based, the hotter for the church and for the ac cused. The matter has passed in a meas ure beyond mere church circles nnd au thority, to the great public, a portion of which worships according to tho Episcopal form and another portion does not. This pnblic has refused to accept the ex planation of the vestry of Dr. Armstrong's hnreh. It will refuse to accept any ver dict made up in secret, by a court, that organizes for business under rulings that do not strike it pleasantly. A Scotch verdict of “not proven" cannot restore Dr. Armstrong, although it may save him from punishment. An ecclesiastical court is the last body that should think of sitting in tho dark. W'Jien tlie court convenes again, it will have opportunity to correct this mistake, and it should be desf to the curbstone chat of Atlanta, if it desires to do its full duty. Negro Emigration. The New Orleans Times-Democrat is not alarmed as the negro emigration movement, but takes a practical view of it. The present movement it is, says is more intel ligible than that which took place some years ago. “The negroes are settling mainly in the southern portion of Arkansas, in a country well adapted to them in every respect, os is shown by the fact that it already maintains a large negro population. It is the centre of the cotton belt of tho country, very ter- tile, and yet with mnch land open to settle ment, damage from overflows having some what retarded its growth. In this country the negro will encounter none of the hard ships he met with in Kansas. "While a movement of this kind always creates some littlo excitement among plant ers who fear lest it may result in drawing off their labor, it cannot altogether be pre vented, nor is it altogether injurious. It is natural for msny negroes tc desire to estab lish themselves in new lands, and as the whiles of the central Southern belt are moving to Texas it is not to bo wondered at th“t the negroes should move West also. They make as a rule, it is true, poor emi grants, having no exact idea of where they want to go, or what they will do when they get there, and possess scarcely any properly, but still they are, like the whites, constantly tending Westward. “Instead of such a movement being injuri ous to the States from which these negroes move, it is advantageous in several respects, if in moderation. If thousands of the whites of South Carolina, for instance, move to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Texas, and there is no corresponding emi gration among tho negroes, that State will find itself every year with a greater negro majority. Tho proportion of the negroes in its propnlation has been increasing rap idly from year to year, and some measure is needed to prevent a further increase. This, the negro emigration toward Ar kansas and Texas will accomplish, at the same time there is no danger that it will in the least affect the large pre ponderance of whites in the latter States. Unless it is desired to condemn certain sec tions of the South to the negroes, to make them absolutely black nnd free from the in fluence of Caucasian civilization, a move ment such ns bos started toward Arknnsas should be encouraged within legitimate grounds rather than opposed and prevented. It is only when it takes the form of the Kansas exodus, when it leaves plantations vacant, and brings misery nnd suffering upon the negroes themselves who embark in it without knowing what they are doiog, that it becomes injurious and dangerous." About the Itaxor. The New Y'ork Sun inquires why tho gen- ternnn from Africa always uses a razor as his weapon of offense and defense. This is a hard question. Perhaps the gentleman from Africa cannot answer it intelligently and satisiactorily himself. The first time this novol weapon in the hands of the gentleman from Africa ar rested pnblic attention, was when Wash ington city was infested with a mob of very unruly “intelligent contrabands.” When- ever a row sprung up which was very fre quently, these “contrabands" were all tound to be armed with razors, which they immediately whipped out nnd with which they proceeded to “cyarbe” each other up, or the police, as the cose might be. Cer tain it is, that the razor in the hands of the gentleman from Africa is a very ready and dangerous weapon. Possibly it came into use on account of its cheapness, and the ease with which it can be concealed. May be, because the gentleman from Af rica was largely engnged in the barbering business and found a barbarous weapon closo at hand. It is no more curious than tho fact that a white man cannot use a razor successfully as a weapon against anything but a stiff beard. Let n wbito man slash around with a razor,.and be would, in all probability, slash himself to pieces. That the getlemnn from Africa uses the razor with great deftness in brawls is estab lished. The real reason why may never be discovered, hut every ono of them enught with one on his person or attempting to uso it should be immediately forwarded to the nearest chain-gang, after having been knocked down and disarmed. One Way to Settle the Liquor Question. Bismarck has undertaken to Bcttle the liquor question for Germany, and has in duced the Kaiser to give his consent nnd signature to the bill. The papers devote several columns to tho draft of the bill and comments on the measure. Tho bill pro poses to compensate those deprived of a livelihood through its operation on the basis of a two years' income to each person ten years in the trade. The traffic will be con trolled by a monopoly ministry, which will appoint agenta to do the wholesale vending of the refined spirits, the federal States ap pointing the retailers. Restaurateurs, etc., by special favor will bo allowed to sell spir its obtainod from the monopoly without re gard to prices enacted by the State retailers. Possession of braontweiu by private per sons above a specified minimum ^ill be ft penal offonse; also import ttlon of raw or refined spirits. Communes will be empow ered to add 60 per cent, to the monopoly selling price. “Young Mu*--oners." Every grown-up boy in thin section will be glad to hear that preparations for the re production of that gem among books of ad venture, "The Y’oung Marooners," are be ing made and that in course of time a splen didly illustrated edition will be laid before the public. Few works of the kind have nttained such popularity. It has been in every household here, has crossed the ocean nnd been translated into several languages, and has everywhere run through many editions. Its author, Rev. F. W. it. Gouiding, is dead, but the work which was popular before the war, during the war and now, rises to even greater popularity, is a fitting memorial Written in very graceful, simple English, true in description and thrilling in many of its situations, it yet conveys to a very im pressionable class many valuable lessons. “The Young Marooners” will remain with ns for many years. The publishers are Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. A Washington special says: “A rather amusing incident occurred at the office of the public printer the other day. Mr. Rounds, the father of the public printer, who is here visiting bis son, was sitting in the office when Senator Brown, of Georgia, came in and was introduced to him. ‘Ah, yes,' he said os he shook the Senator's hand warmly, 'I remember meeting you at the Republican National Convention in 186ft, when we nominated Genera] Grant for President. I remember that you mode a very good speech at that convention, tell ing them why you thought Grant should be nominated. It was a good speech, sir, a good Republican speech. I hope you are atill as ardent a Republican, Senator,as you were then.’ The Senator was somewhat taken aback by Mr. Rounds's sally, and af ter spending an hour trying to explain to Mr. Rounds why be was not a Republican yet, left with some apparent doubt aa to whether he had succeeded in making his explanation quite satisfactory to the Illinois gentleman.” “The editors of popular magazines,"says the Critic “Lounger,” “are constantly in recept of curious letters, but I doubt if any one of them ever received such a one as come to the editor of Harper's the . other day. It was from a lady who wrote that she was dying, and that her physicians told her she would be dead before the conclu- tion of Mr. Howell's story, 'Indian Som mer.’ She was very much interested in it, and did not want to die until she knew how it was going to end, and she begged the ed itor to let her read the advance sheets, that she might die happy. The writer was ap parently in earnest and the editor had no rensou to doubt the genuineness of the hit ter." John PorE's recent attack upon Fitz-John Porter has brought out again the letter written by General Franklin to this effect: “During the trial I thought it proper to inform Porter that General J. F. Reynolds, George H. Thomas and myself would, if requested, go before the court and swear that we would not believe Popo or Roberts (Pope's Inspector General and the nominal prosecutor) under oath. I had consulted General Reynolds before I wrote tho prop osition. Ho consented to go himself, and thought General Thomas would have no hesitation in giving such evidence. I was myself well convinced of General ^Thomas’ opinion of Pope’s veracity from what I had often heard him say before the war.” Porter declined to call in these witnesses, GH thj ground that PVflTvt.hlnrr KOPTvorl rrning well, and it would he impolitic, under the circumstances, to attempt to break down the evidence of the principal prosecutors. “TnE dying Congressman, Raking,” says tho Washington correspondent of the Cleve land Leader, "though he knows he cannot live moro than a month or two at the fur thest, keeps up his spirits very well indeed. Daring the choice of the seats he was one of the unlnckiest ones, and got one near the back of the chamber. As he took it he turned to his next-door neighbor nnd said: ‘Not a very good seat, it's tme; but it will not create so much attention back hero when it is draped after my burial' Not long ago the doctors told him he was safe ns long as his feet did not begin to swell, but when that change took place he might know that death wns approaching. Said ho: ‘Of late my feet havo been swelling considerably. 1 can atand it well enough nn long ns the daylight shines and I do not have to face death; but if I nwako in tho night with that sensational swelling in my feet, the thought of passing away makes me nervous, and I wish the doctor.had not told mo.'" The New Y'ork Star says: “There are but two ways of dealing with the standard sil ver dollar. One way is to trout it as a port of the subsidiary ooinage, giving it a limit ed legal tender faculty. If this were done, nnd the small notes retired, a large amount of silver would go into uso—precisely how much cannot be foretold. The other way of dealing with the silver dollar is to in crease its weight and make it equal in value to tho gold dollar, as it usod to bo. It is idle to discuss whether gold has gone up, or silver has gone down. That is a matter of no conseqnencc. The gold dollar and the silver dollar are no lunger of the samo value. The government cannot make them so. All tho resolutions or laws that Con gress can pa«« will not change the value of either gold or silver tho fraction of a cent. All that tho government can do is to recog nize the facts that exist, and stamp the motal at its vulne, neither more nor less. To pay any part of the debt in dollars worth only eighty centa will injure tho credit of the country. The best money is the cheap est. It is cheaper to borrow gold at two and one-half cent. than to borrow sil ver at five per cent. How will it help tho Bilver men if the credit of the government, is impaired?" Dropped Stitches. Four snakes were recently removed fronl the stomach of a Western woman. Girls, this is a terrible warning. Y’ou cannot he too careful about kissing men who drink.— Pittsburg Telegraph. “Oh, yes, Lizzio and I were made one in Naw Y'ork," exclaimed a newly married man to a friend on the cars. “Traveling West?” “Yes, going to Chicago.” "Ah! going to be made two again. My congratulations."— Tid Bits. New sub, on market cases: “How do you spell whisky?" Old rounder, on slug nine, joyously, "By the phonetic system, all la bials and gutturals. Let’s go analyze some." (They go out and expand their intellectual horizon.)—Burdette. “Boys," said a dying Kentuckian to his weeping sons, "when you go down the river to New Orleans you keep clear of a game called ‘yucker,’ whero the jack takes the ace; it’s nn-Christisn," and he laid bock and died in peace.—Philadelphia News. It is noted that “just when the English dandy is learning the American formula of *Give me a hoist with my overcoat, bub,’ the New York dude ii practicing the dis carded Englishism of ‘Give me a lift of me topcoat, me deah fellah.’ "—New York World. “This is a pretty time of night for you t be coming home. Where have you been?" “Been down—" “Now, don’t tell me you’ve been watching the old year out, air; I’ve heard that atoiy for twenty yean." “No, m’ dear. Jes’ stayed down to greet th 1 new year.” “Oh, nonsense!" “No nonsense ’bout it, iu’ deer. How’d yon like to be a Dew year an’ come in, an’ not have a soul on sight t' welcome ye?"—Chicago News. GEORGIA, CsAwrnsD l ocarr.—To all whom it mar concern. I ban in ilna form applied to Geo. L. Sawyer, onlina-y of raid county, for leave to aeU thelanda lying is Monroe county, da, belong- ins to lay ward Mary Lockte Holmes, said applica tion will be beard by said ordinary an tbe am Monday to February nett This noth da/ ot De cember. IMS, I'suiwU Z. T. HUOCLZY. Guardian. ITEMS OF INTEREST. “Tbe tear fella gently from ber eye, Aa they are parting at ibe door; Her bosom heaves with many t sigh, She thinks abe ne'er will see him more." Hia brow la dark, and in bis eyoa A wild and angry light appears; He docs not heed tbe maiden's sighs. He doee not heed tbe maiden's tears. For while to-night they billed and cooed— From seven o'clock fill half-peat ten— While be tbe liaabfnl maiden wooed. And kissed ber red, ripe lips—ah, then Her Utile dog-0 dire mishap! How quickly woea up round na spring!— Chawed up hlB new and glossy cap Of fur into a shapeless thing. Omaha is said to have more of its surface devoted to streets and alleys than to build ing space. Bbooklyn is exercising a gentle pressure on Congress to buy more ground for tie new government building in that city. It is the experience at Harvard that “ivlr stand as well in the classes os boys,'but in economic and philosophical studies they lag. The Hill-Shnron case in San Francisco got two witnesses into the penitentiary for perjury, and several others have been in dicted. A bailuoai) station is to be erected on the rite of ancient Babylon, nnd patent medi- cine advertisements will be the handwriting on the wall. Loan SiiAFTKsnrnv is credited with har ing said, “if London did not have its 400 city missionaries, it would require 40,00u more police." The first volume of Victor Hugo's post humous works will appear next month. It is entitled “Le Theatre en Liberie," and will contain dramatic pieces in verse. The New York Telegram wonts million aires to keep physicians constantly near them in order that there may bo no ques tion as to tho cause in case of sudden death. Di'bino the convulsions nnd tidal waves which attended the earthquake at Batavia year before last manse a -ji curui weighing from thirty to fifty tons were carried several miles inland. Of New York’s thirty-six representatives in Congress, eight are college graduates. Among tho Senators John Alexander Logan is recorded on having taken a degree at Louisville university. The yacht Brunhilde, which is carrying nn American pleasure party around the world, has already been mistaken for a pirate in the Indian ocean. All American ships are war-like in appearance. A two per cent, feo is paid tho surrogates appraisers in New Y'ork appraising estates. The appraisers arc casting wistful eyes on tho Vanderbilt property, but Mr. Do Pew says their services nre not needed. A contbact has been lot for the construc tion of three crematories in the Fere k Chaise cemetery for the incineration of the debris of 4,000 subjects annually dissected in the hospitals of Paris. The price is $43, 000. The largest, price by the squaro inch ever paid for a painting was lately given to the Duo d'Aumale for the “Three Graces,” by Caphaol, from Lord Dudley’s gallery. The pnee wns $125,000, or, ns tlio picture is only seven inches square, $2,500 per inch. At a recent meeting of the London An thropological Society, a modern philoso pher rend a paper on the game of liop- scotch, iu which lie traced the origin of the game to a period anterior to tho introduc tion of Christianity, and showed that in early Christian times children had some rough idea of representing in this gamo the progress of tho soul through tho future world, and that the division of the figure into seven courts was on account of the be lief in seven heavei s. Some of tho cruelties which are still £ racticed iu the prisons of Franco nve just been brought to light by the trial of a soldier for insubordination. In the defense it was shown that in tho prison of Barnaul, whore the prisoner haa lain in solitary confinement for twenty-five days, s prisoner was allowod'iu the way of fooabut a pound and a half of bread a day and a jug of water. Twice a week ho had a plate of soup. Wlmt with this semi-starvation, the prohibition of any kind of work and tbe ubsence of daylight from the cells, prison ers not Infrequently became temporarily insane. Tho Sumo Human Nature. Many vatu attempts are made to repeat the re markable success of Hannon's Caprine Fleeter. This splendid remedy Is known, sold and used everywhere, and Ha prompt action and unrivalled curative powera havo won for It hosts of friends. Imitations have sprung up under similar sounding names, audios "Capsldu," "Capsicum." eto.. In tended to deceive the careless and unwary. These articles posaeaa none of tho vlrtuoa t>f Uie genuine. Thoreforo we hope the people w*'.l assist ui to pro tect what are atonce tbeir euterests and ours. Ask for Henson s i 1 Aster, STul examine what it given you, and wt/e sure that ths word “Caprine" is cut in the middle of tho plaster Itself, and ths “Three nealt" trademark is on tbe face cloth. Any repu table dealer will show you these esfeguards with out beoitatlon. If you cannot remember the name —Henson’s Caprine Plaster—cut this paragraph from the paper. MOTHERS’ FRIEND. makes CHILD-BIRTH **. Tbe time hu come at but when tbe terrible agony in* * ciilent to tble very crit ical. period in a woman'* life can be avoided. A distin guished physician, who passed tbe greatest portion of his life (forty year*) in this branch of practice left a child bearing mother tbU priceless legacy and life-sav ing appliance, "The Moth er*' Friend," and to-day there are thouaand* of tbe bc«t women of our land who having uaed tbi* remedy be fore confinement, rise up and call bi* name blessed. We receive letters from every section ol tbe country ’.tanking us tv placing this preparation iu the reach of suffering woman. One lady from North Carolina writew us that she would like to thank tbe proprietors on her knees for briuging it to her notice, as in a previous con finement she bad two doctors and tbev were compelled to use enhruform. instru ment*, etc. And *he suffer ed almost death; but this time she used Mothers' Friend, and ber labor was short, quick and almost like magic. Now, why should a woman suffer when she can avoid it? We can prove all we claim by living witness*# and any one interested can call or nave tbeir husbands do so, at our office, and see tbe original letters, which we cannot publish. This remedy is one about which we cannot pub liah certificates, but it ia a wonderful liniment to be need after the first two or throe months. Send for treatise on the health and happiness of woman* mailsd free, which given all particulars ^ BOX M. ATLANTA, OA. Jy»tu,thur,*unhwly