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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. MARCH 16, 1886.--TWELVE PAGES.
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Tills cliickeu when ilrcseeil is foully un.
dressed. There Are many, many chickens
in society.
'•The PreBi-
Tiie Boston Beoord says:
dent's hungry fellow-Democrats look to
him to repeat the miracle of the loaves and
fishes.” Not Rt all. But his (ellow-Demo
crats cannot understand why he should
play penockle with the Sadducees and
Pharisees night and day whiio there are ao
many devils to be east out of the body
oolitic.
It seems that Miss Betsy Cleveland sc
:ured the register's office in Washington
city for the negro Matthews. Miss Betsy
has, os the power behind the throne,
achieved for herself what the woman'
rights crowd has vainly sought, bnt it at,
guos badly for the popularity of the move
ment that tho first woman in power ecle
brates her succeed by appointing a negro to
office.
Gen. Terry, who has been promoted to
the vacancy made by the death of Gen,
Hancock, is a llepublican candidate for
the Presidency. Gen. Terry is a very able
man. llo thinks that the llepublican party
will want to bavo a soldier candidate tho
next time and he hopes to bo tho one to be
selected. The lost time he was in Wash
ington was during the Swnimconrt-mnrtinl.
Ho is n very plain, unassuming-looking
man, with abroad forehead, straight nose,
underneath whi ib hangs a flowing mous
tache and long, 'frown chin-whislters. He
is 4 good speaker, a man ot original ideas,
ai d has a good military record, Since he
has succeeded to the position ot Gen. Han
cock he more than ever believes he will be
nominated by the convention.
The Washington correspondent of the
Herald says: "Timothy J. Campbell lias
had a few words with the President Tie
journeyed to the White Houso this nftcr-
noon to request the appointment of a clerk
of internal revonue in Friedsam's district,
Brooklyn. Mr. Cleveland heard his per-
suusivo eloquence for soma time. Then he
said: The incumbent will not resign and I
can't remove him, hecauso hois indorsed by
several hundred of the alleged best men of
this city.' ‘Share, that’s nothin','was the
prompt rejoinder. 'I can git the signachers
uv eighty thousands of tho alleged ketther
iliment uv the party axin’ ye to resign on
account uv ineompeteney,' and clapping
his toll tile far down on his head the mem
ber (or tho Eighth district mado a straight
line for tho stairs."
Confederate History.
Every now and then a Washington cor
espondent gives a bit of so-callod Confed-
rate history. This is the lite<t contribu-
,’.on, and from the New York World's man:
'A member of the Ci nteilerntc Congress
said tho other day that there was a chapter
in the history of the rebellion that had
never yet been written. He was hoping
that some of the members of the Confed
crate Congress would take up the topic and
put it in the form of a book. He referred
to the story of the secrect sessions of the
Confederate Congress, no record of which
has ever been publisced. In speaking of
the things which had never come to light
he described an offer made by France to
the Confederate Government. France of
fered to recognize the Confederacy upon
one condition, and that was that they would
give up slavery. England offered to recog
nize the Confederacy if they would ngree
to let her have cotton at 121 cents a pound.'
The Confederate leaders were very un
wise, to Bay the least, not to have traded
cotton to England foi liberty at twelve
and one-lialf cents per pound. But the
Confederacy started out with no money, no
cotton and very little of anything else, ex-
ept enthusiasm.
As to slavery, it was very well understood
that its extinguishment would have excited
the sympathy of foreign nations, bat the
Southern people at large were willing to
sacrifice everything but slavery.
It will be a task of some difficulty to
write the civil history of the Confederacy.
The closing days of tho war were very de
structive to data of all kinds. Bnt why
does not tho Confederate Congressman, who
talked with tho World’s correspondent, un
dertake it? Let him tell us all about the of
fers of France and England, as to slavery
and cotton.
In the meantime the government might
save a part of the history of the country.
The reports of battles are being published,
bnt the Confederate government had a civil
organization. It is claimed that the records
of the Confederate Congress are in the
possession of the Federal government.
If this bo true they should bo
published. The people who are to
come after ns should huvo the benefit of the
whole truth. That some valuable records
are in tho hands of the government, is illus
trated by tho fact that a clerk in Washing
ton bos published a volume of tho laws
passed by the Confederate Congress. Sena
tor Vest, Mr. lteagnn, Mr. Singleton and
Mr. Barksdale were Confederate Congres;
men. They might take some action in this
matter.
Senator Kristie anil the President.
When, almost a year since, Senator Eus-
tis had tho courage to openly protost agaiust
A Washington special to tho Herald says
"It ia probable that when the history of
Congress comes to bo written Mr. Dingely,
of Maine, will be accorded the Bnnkum
medal for the most stupendous and trans
parent mock scheme yet sprung upon an
unsuspecting world, llis bill (H. It. Bunk
um, U'Jfi) proposes that "whoever, as labor
er, workman or mechanic, has been cm
ployed by or on behalf of the government
of the United States since June 25, ISOS, the
date of the act constituting eight hours
day's work, shall be paid for each eight
boars he has keen employed as for a full
day's work at the price per day as regulated
by private parties in the vicinity in which
tho work was performed without reference
to the number of honrs' work required by
snch parties.” In other words bo proposes
by his retroactive law to odd twenty per
cent to all wages paid to government work
men during the past seventeen years in tho
navy yards and shops under national con
trol. This tricky bill appeals directly to the
laboring classes of San Francisco, Brooklyn,
Norfolk, 1‘ensacola, Philadelphia, Kittery,
Springfield, Boston, Rock Island, Washing
ton and other places. It likewise delights
the claim lawyers throughout the land and
partakes much uf a lawyer bunkum for
that reason. All the employes under the
engineers engaged on the river and harbor
improvements will, if properly instructed,
shout for, the author of this back pay
scheme. They forget what remorse back
jsiy jobbery cost many Congscssmen. The
men who have performed piece work will
nr.tnrally favor sack an act Their claims
will complicate matters dreadfully, but that
will fuithe: interest the lawyers and enable
them to exact more than the regulation
twenty-five per cent for services os collec
tors. Secretary Manning, when asked
abont the matter, estimated roughly, from
such information as was readily accessible
at the navy department, that fully (3,0(10,
000 would be necessary to pay these claims,
bnt the probabilities are that double that
sum would be inadequate. In nearly every
the workman performed his labor
r a written or verbal contract to serve
i hours. The abrogation of all neb
r con tracts by a sweeping law of this sort
demoralizing in every view that can be taken
of ib If passed inch a law would encour
age every workmen to break faith with hi*
employer, and the gravity of such conduct
is not altered because the employer is the
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tho methods then pursued by Mr. Cleve
land, he was overwhelmed with a storm of
reproach from tho Mugwump organs, aided
and assisted by many Domoeratio journals,
whose special friends hail not then been
provided for. Senator F.nstia hos lived to
see and enjoy a speedy vindication.
Mr. Cleveland is in trouble. Tho task he
boa undertaken, has proven too difllcnlt
for one, with limited experience of public
wen and measaros, nnd he is reaching out
for sympathy and support. The truth of the
late interview between Senator Enstis and
himself baa been made publio. Mr. Clove
land asked of a newspaper man:
Why docs not Senator Eustls come to
see me? I have not the slightest ill will
sgainBt him, nor can I suppose that he haa
any against me. My duties here take mo
out of self. They leave me no time, even
had I the inclination, to harbor personal
resentments. I am trying to give the peo
ple a clean and honest anil able govern
rnent, and to this end I wont tho co-opera
tion of clean and ablo and honest Demo
crats. You may tell Senator Enstis I shall
be glad to see and confer with him and hear
his views."
When Senator Enstis was informed.of this
he promptly declared his desire to call upou
tho l’resident; and, on Friday evening, ac
companied liy the correspondent, he went
to the White Uonse, where he was cordially
received by the President,
The conversation between them lasted
about an honr, and was perfectly frank and
earnest on both sides. Senator Eustls guvo
his views as to the situation with reference
to tho Senate, and explained at length bis
idea of its real purport. He told the Pros!
dent that, in his opinion, the Republican
Senators were using tho controversy to
rivet the attention of the people, so as to
secure thp fullest possible audience for cer
tain disclosures they hoped to bring about
rcfiectiug upon tho character cf some of
his nominees, and that they were concerned
very little, if at all, about the papers they
had asked him to produce. He said it
would be fatally unfortunate if the Repub
licans should he able to establish serious
charges against any considerable number
of the President's appointees.
The President qnietly said: “If it be
true that any of my appointments are un
worthy, I hope they will bo rejected. It is
the Senate's function to do this. The Sen
ators are my coadjutors and advisors; they
cannot be too exacting for my taste. I want
no improper men in office.”
Very true,” responded Eustls. "If the
matter ended with the rejection of the bad
men and the substitution of good ones,
there would be satisfaction all around. No
body imagines that you desire any other
consummation, but, Mr. President, do you
not see the political aspect of this matter
and its bearing upon the administration
and the party ? The lesson the Republican
Senators will seek to teach is not tbst of
your acquiescence in the rejection of u had
man, bnt that ot your having appointed
these bad men in the first plsce. They will
make the point that your administrition
has been unequal to ita responsibilities;
that it is under reckless or vicious influ-
ences, snd in support of this will bring
forward the list of defeated nominees, with
the charges made snd sustained against
the country to remember that but for the
Republican Senate's intervention these men
would have boon bolding office under a
Democratic administration.”
The President nodded, bnt said nothing.
"It is not a question,” continued Mr.
Eustis, "of whether you knowingly ap
pointed had men, or will approve or disap
prove of their rejection. No intelligent ob
server of political events believes, or can be
made to believe, the slightest charge agaiust
the perfect integrity of your motives. The
question is whether the Democratic party
can afford to go before the people ia the ap
proaching Congressional election with the
record of having produced so much rejected
material."
“Ido not see how that is to be prevented
now.”
"The record can be forestalled. The
names of appointee* as to whose fitness
there is any doubt can be withdrawn.
Every man whose.presence in the govern
ment is a source of criticism and suspicion
can be eliminated.”
“Would you do that?"
"I would, from tho highest to the lowest,
I would lop off every branch threatening
the health and vitality of the Democrats."
At the close of the conversation the Presi
dent shook hands warmly with Sanator
Eustis and thanked him for tho candor
with which he had spoken They parted
good friends, each evidently convinced of
the other's purity of motive.
This is manly, truthful, courageous nnd
creditable to both parties. Much harm has
been done the publio service, and the
Democratic party by way of appointments,
already made and confirmed. The Repub
licans of tho Senate have only been too
happy nnd prompt to confirm the bad ap
pointments of the President.
If all the appointments in place of sus-
suspended Republicans are rejected, farther
injury will bo done to the public service
and the Democratic party.
This can he avoided, if Mr. Cleveland will
carry out his pledge with the same bravery
that it has been given. He has been "de
ceived nnd imposed” upon, by the very
lowest specimens of spoilsmen, nnd the
fact can be no more strongly illustrated
than in the success which has attended the
junior Senator from Georgia in providing
for his kin and henchmen. It is fair
concede, that what is true cf Georgia may
he applied with equal force to other States.
Tho Senate holds in its committees the
names of men as appointees to “public
trusts" whose characters and careers are
standing insult to “honest civil service re
form," such as tho Democratic platform de
manded.
They arc known quite os well to Republi
can os to Democratic Senators. Their re-
juctjfui wilt plnco the administration in un
unpleasant attitude before lAc couu 6y.
Their confirmation means disgrace and con
fusion to the Democratic party.
The mistakes of the past cannot bo cared.
The future always bolds out the chance for
amendment. If Mr. Cleveland will lop off
these miserable fungi from tho party for
whoso “health and vitality” he claims to be
concerned, the way will bo open to him to
reunite the acattered and discordant ele
ments which stood solidly at his back a
year ago. The situation demands acts—
prompt ones - and not word*.
vote in favor of the abolition of capital
punishment."
Two men who had committed a foul
murder were enabled to enlist thirty thou
sand signatures in their behalf. The mem
bers of the Legislature even attempted to
bribe a Governor from the discharge of his
duty. Hero were a lot of people petition
ing for a wrong against law, society and
justice. Fortunately in this instance the
petition proved worthless.
The right of petition cannot be taken
from the people, even if they misunder
stand and abuse it, but Rome safeguards
should be thrown around i£
Judicial, administrative, executive and
legislative officials should be barred from
this method of securing the tenure of their
positions, and inflicting wrongs upon the
community.
In addition to this, all petitions for office
and the pardon of criminals should bo fully
set forth in tho public gazettes, before
signatures are sought. These precautions
might disarm a practice which has become
d.mgerous and demoralizing to every de
partment of the public service, and to the
peace and good order of society.
bade him farewell. Despair for the first
time broke her resolution. It left her a
poor, weak wreek of a woman, with five
helpless children dependent upon her. If
the condemned murderer possessed the
instincts of a true man, and there are proofs
that he did—that ho had been a loving hus
band and father—the picture of that ruined
homo and those clouded lives must have
been more terrible in his last hours than
the shadow of the gallows itself.
The scenes are not uncommon. Every
day the courts Chat grind out justice crush
with tho husks of society, hearts of gold.
Crime is a two-edged sword, and murder is
four sided. Is it not strange that passion is
so strong, humanity so weak, and judgment
so easily unbalanced that men go forward to
acts that will blast the future and the
present aliko for all those whom they hold
dear in life? “Tho son of a convicted
felon"; theHe words will ring in the ears of
those Louisiana boys as long as life shall
last. “The daughter of a man who was
hung;" this is to bo the dowry of the little
girls. “A murderer's widow!" This for
be the party’s candidate for Govci
Major Bacon is a candidate before the T)7
ocratic electors of the entire State, J
would not, if he could, limit the
a single county or group of counties.
‘‘(.IltfstjJ
Slireds and Patch**.
Borrowed money is of all things theuj
scriiiitilons about keeping Lent.—L 0 ,.l
Citizen. “
The silver-plated statesmen have a i
plo creed—long speeches and short doll^l
—Fhiladelphia Press. "
It is notod that "Gathering Beans"
Millet, of tho Morgan collection,
bought by a Boston man.— Philudelpt^I
Record.
Nature accommodates herself to fins
cnmstunces of tho people. Yon never hsu|l
of a wntei-spout in Kentucky.—Pittsbml
Chronicle. 1
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If the agricultural bureau can find i t,jl
tn raise cold tea on the Smithsonian c
the mother, who is carrying a cross as
Congress will be liberal in the matte; J
appropriations. —Philadelphia Times.
Explanations from the yonth who i
forcibly ejected from a WeHt Side reside#
The night of Petition.
To lie people belon >s the sncrel right of
petition. It is the vohicle through which
they may make known tlieir wrongs and
burdens to their rulers, nnd oak forjredrcss,
But this right haa been fearfully abused by
politicians uud office seekers.
Tho present administration, bowailx the
fact that it hna hearkened to petitions, nnd
the public service has been scandalized,
that notoriously incompetent, nnd in some
cases bad men have been clothed with
‘public trusts.'
Not one man in n thousand has the moral
conrage to refuse to sign a petition of
any kind when asked. Very few mon
inform themselves oa to the object of
petitions when their signatures are
sought. They sign to get rid of
an unpleasant appeal, with the mental
reservation and hope, that it will he counted
as nothing.
Examples after examples have been given
of the worthlessness of the ordinary
petition, and yet men will continue to sign
them, and the couutry is burdened with
bxd officials, and justice ia often cheated of
its victims
Bnt n few days since, a distinguished
Georgian, who admitted that he could not
refuse to sign petitions, related to the
writer, the history ot one, recently pi
Rented to a municipal corporation in Geor
gia. A wag wroto a petition, asking that n
paved street be opened to a disreputable
resort. He first obtained the signature of
his father, n clergyman. Armed with this,
the grand jury were easy victims, when the
names of many prominent citizens followed
on the list. Not one had read the com
tents cf the paper.
A very strong illustration is afforded in
the case of the murderers recently hung in
New (Jrhulls
"Petitions asking for a commutation of
the death j>enaltv to imprisonment tor life
were circulated, which, in a very few wet-ha
received the signatures of 30,000 persons,
including the Governor of Mississippi, mem
bers of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
and California, the mayor of San Francisco,
United States judge and other influential
citizens. The Board of Pardons met again
in February, and all these petitions were
presented and speeches made. One of the
members of tho board changed his vote in
deference to this expression of public opin
ion, the other two—the majority—stood
fine, and the pardon was refused.
"The last appeal made in behalf of the
condemned men was a request signed by
forty-two members of the Ktate Legislature
asking tlw Governor to postpone the hang
The Last Point uf Resistance Tossed.
A friend at our elbow, who is gloomy as
to the future of the Democratic party and
the South, suggests that Southern repre
sentatives should make no further struggle
to hold tho government to its written char
ter, hut should go in for a fair divide of
the spoils.
He contends that the South can never
catch up with tho North in the march of
progress, when hundreds of millions are
annually expended in the latter section, o
which the South is compelled to pay her
proportion. He is dumbfounded that
Democratic President is controlled by Mug
wumps, and thnt there seems to be no hope
of better government for the South.
He contends that we bad best
take all the Blair bill can
give, all that the rivers nnd harbors
legislation can draw out of the Treasury,
and thnt Southern representatives join al
the jobs on hand and all that may bo pro
posed. He argues thnt the country will be
bound to go to pieces under a continuance
of unwise legislation, nnd that the Sonth
should sco to her fair share of the assets.
There is mnch meat in his ideas. Per
haps tho end he desires is approaching more
rapidly than he ia prepared to admit. Every
Southern representative hut one voted for
the late pension bill, after having made
speeches against it, in order that a few
Northern Democrats may but carry their
districts. It is claimed that juggling will
have to ho resorted to to prevent tho pas-
sago of tho Blair hill by a stiff majority.
Even Riddleberger has had to make the
motion to expel tho lobbyists from ll/o floor
\of tho Sennit-, including thoso holding cards
of admission from the Southern Senators.
The long straggle of reconstruction, nnd
tho demoralization which followed in South
ern States governments, have dulled the
sense of honor of tho people and it is re
flected in their representatives. The Sonth
does not exhibit staying powers of resist
ance, and her return to the government
has not Ire-established methods of honesty
snch ns were predicted by Sumner and
others.
The spirit of the people has been broken,
and it has communicated the misfortune to
nil animate things in this section. Even
the Georgia mule has succumbed. Pa
tiently he has toiled In the cotton-field, and
carried accumulating mortgages on his
back, for theso many years, but during all
this time it wna dangerous to fool with him
iu his hours of cose and leisnre.
Orators have embalmed the forceful and
expansive reach of his hind feet, and poets
have sung of tho strength of bis back hone,
his lightning agility and calm exterior when
contemplating an extraordinary coup.
All men have admired the heroic straggle
he haa made against the encroachments of
tho “intelligent contraband" between whom
and be lias raged “an irrepressible conflict.
Alas, the stern power of the male has
succumbed. He has forgotten his cunning
agility, and has ceased to remember his
years of wrong and oppression. A toddling
child might hang toy bells on his heels now,
or fondle with his once unapproachable
and untouchable ears, the blazon of his
blood and heredity.
Bnt a tew days since we noticed a lmck
darkey, appareled with a pair of keen spars,
mount a four-year-old mule. Immediately
we trailed to enjoy the free circus. Though
poorly provided in the way of saddle and
bridle, the darkey rammed the cutting
blades into the flanks of the mole. True
Co his instincts, there wa* a visible eleva
tion of spine and a couple of eccentric
dashes to the right and left.
Another gig from the glittering rowells,
and he lowered bis crest, laid hack his ears
and loped away like a buck-rabbit in front
of a hound. His spirit hod been broken, ho
hail surrendered to the inevitable, and the
"intelligent contraband” was master of the
situation and victor over his life-long en
emy. In the halcyon days anent the
late civil strife, such a performance
would have cost some white man
fifteen hundred dollars. The last point
of resistance has been reached and passed.
The Georgia mule has been reconstructed,
and by a coon. The way is clear anil open
to the Northern invader to come and share
-he Unit. The day may not be distant
when the gloomy friend, at our elbow, shall
Vee the many htujl statesmen of the South
totting off spoils from the public treasury.
heavy as that under which Christ fainted on
the road Calvary; who has six mouths to
feed, and no friend on earth. Can any man
who has such at Btake yi-ld to passion or
temptation with this picture before him?
A fiend might, but a man, never!
Men and women who yield to crime for
get these things. And the strangest part of
it is that many who often have the pictures
of human misery thrust before their eyes,
and who note the far reaching and blasting
effect of error ore not impressed. The man
Ford and his accomplices were- officers of
the law, and in the jails and courts had
seen despairing women and broken-hearted
children go forth to lives of misery. Yet
with cold-blooded determination they went
upon the streets, assassinated a citizen. They
staked their own lives and the happiness
of their families upon a mere political game
with the coolness of a gambler who tosses
a coin before a faro dealer. Sorely for the
sake of onr common humanity, we must
believe that the possible consequences never
rose to mind. H that final jail scene had
been flashed before tho eyes of Ford as
hare possibility of the result of his intended
crime, he most have fled from the scene
even when the pistol of his desperate vic
tim was in his face and hia own life in
danger.
The Washington Star makes this centre
shot at Cleveland's coon: "Petitions are
pouring in from New York State in favor of
the confirmation of tho nomination ot Mr.
C. Matthews to a district ofllco. Now
let the President nominate a citizen of the
district for a Now York office, and see
which way the petition stream runs."
Mu. Cleveijanu has the longest score on
language, as may he seen from this sum
mery: “‘Usufract.’ — 8. J. Tilden.
'Bright Snnlight of Publicity.'—Manton
Marble. ‘Turn the Unseals Out.'—The
Sun. ‘ltobcson ism.'—Tho Han. 'Star
eyed Goddess of Reform.'—Henry Wntter-
son. ‘Structural Weakness.’—William C.
Whitney. ‘Offensive Partisanship.'—Gro
ver Cleveland. 'Publio Office ia a Public
Trust.’—Grovor Cleveland. ‘Innocuons
Desuetude.'—Grover .Cleveland.”
log for a month until the Legislature met,
tbdr competency ami fitness, and then aek I and pleJging themselves, if he did so, to
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tho other evening are unnecessary.
Yieldixo to the "unwritten law” of the
Democratic party of the State, Governor
McDaniel has retired from the guernatorinl
contest. It remains to be seen whether
this action will simplify or involve the
campaign. It would be un'ortunate for
him and the State if his exit from like his
entrance to the Governorship shonld be in
any manner connected with a political bar
gain or trick. The announcement of his
retirement will create no surprise, as it had
long since been discounted.
Referring to Mr. Clevolsad's promises
to Senator Enstis, the New J York Herald
says; • “If the case is so had the President
ewes it to himself, to his own good name,
to make public, without hesitation or delay,
tho names of the Senators, Representatives
and others who have deceived him into
making any nominations which are so unfit
that even bis own party ask him to with
draw them.” This is right, and the Presi
dent in order to redress the wrongs done to
the Democratic party and the country, and
to carry out the spirit of reform, shonld de
mand the resignation of a number of his
appointees who have been confirmed, and
in cose of refusal, Bhonld suspend them
promptly. He shonld not hesitate at any-
thing calculated to restore "the health and
vitality of the Democrats.”
T/a
Where Crlu.e Fall* Hen*lent.
Cre of the biulileiit features of the lute
e*«cnUon in New Orleans of the murderess
of Cspt. Morphy was the parting between
Ford and his family, a wife and five young
children. Through al! the fifteen month*
Ural have paaaej since the commission of
tho crime for which Fold wee convicted,
'lie baa labored with every energy to save
h'x life. Haggard and broken, believing in
bi. innorvnee, (became to the cell ot the
doomed men on the fatal eve of his death aid
The Augusta Chronicle has this to say
with reference to the proposition ot Judge
Simmon*, to leave the choice of the next
Democratic candidate tor Governor of
Georgia, to four connties: "The Demo
cratic party of the State ot Georgia will not
consent to any settlement of the Guberna
torial question by one county or a cluster
of counties. The Gubernatorial canvass in
this State ha* fairly begun, and is exciting
interest among the people. Every Demo
cratic voter in the state is interested in the
question as to the gentleman who
slrall be nominated for the high
office of Governor. The nomi
nating convention will not meet till mid
summer. The indications are that the
rank and file of the Democracy will have
practically decided the pending question
before the date referred to. This is the
more probable in view of the canvass now
being made by the distinguished aspirants
for Gubernatorial honors. Bnt the choice
between two leading candidates—Major
Bacon and Judge Simmons—chonld not be
decided by Bibb county, or by Bibb and
the counties contiguous thereto. It
dne Major Bacon to say that while
be and hia friends are confident of carrying
Bibb county, neither he nor they fevor any
snch proposition. We know that Major
Bacon's position, succinctly stated, is, rbei
the Democracy of the State does not, and
ought not, recognize (he claim of any conn-
chill
reason wns a parent,—Detroit Free
There is a lingering, lurking suspii
that Carl Schurz and Dorman B.
have gone off somewhere and oiynni&d
condolence meeting.—Philadephia Presi
Tho Rev. Joseph Oook says: “If I k
dog which smoked 1 would shoot him.'
would any man. Tho rascal would as
as not sneak in and steal all the cigara.
Chicago News.
We heard a little four-year-old child
to its mother who hnd threatened to spasi]
her if she did no* keep quiet at the diow|
tabic: “Yon tant do it. I’se sittin' on
Warrenton Clipper.
If the rates on fourth-class mail mi
are increased it would merely signiiy thil
our beloved country is suffering from
bulky surplus of fifth-class statesmanship
Philadelphia Press.
Tho art of smiling, while one is phobl
graphed, is taught in Pittsburg. It in
smile different from the one used at bilk
when being presented to a partner for th
dance. — Picayune.
It is evident that the pension rolls shod
have a careful overhauling. Voting for Jia
Blaine is not exactly tho kind of patriot*]
service for which the public should pay fu
sions.—Chicago Times.
A California statute forbids tho sale of |
liquor within one mile of the StatoUni-l
vorsity grounds. Tho Legislature evidently
realizes tho value of walking as an oxorcui|
for studious young men.—Boston Post.
Tho Kentucky treasury is empty, and!
sorno ot the members of tho Legishton
have been unnblo to get their pay. Happy
old Kentucky! Then her Legislature is ton]
adjourn before long.—Now York San.
A Boston Indy last summer attended
funeral in a country church. After'' fl»|
singing of n hymn, a man who was sitting
besido her remarked: "Beautitnl kytur,
isn’t it, ma'am? The corpse/wroto il“-
Boston Beacon,
The cable gives an account of tho antial
f a crazy man on the Paris bourse. Tb]
honrso cannot fie much like our Amerii
boards of trade nnd stock exchange!,
they couldn't tell a crazy man from asj
body else.—Chicago Times,
Polygamous Mormons are being s;»|
tenccd to prison at the rate of five daily
When one considers that each leaves on u
average of fivo widows some idoa of tb
extent of marital destitution in Utah mi)|
he formed.—Chicago Tribane.
Mr. Grow, do yon think the RepubB-l
cans will elect the next President?" "V*
think they have ( sure thing]
next timo. Cleveland U the high-wiW
mark of the non-partisan experiment i>
government.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The last reception of the season having
been given, the diplomatic corps and Ib
army and the navy officers at WoMliingtj*
will have time to rest up a hit preparstorj
to the arduous task of drawing their f*I
for tho current quarter.—Chicago New*.
Logan declared the other day that lie «•
as sincere a friend of the negro as thm
was on the floor of the Senate. Perhap;
bnt he was the only man in the Sena*
whose name is linked with the pnmuge it
the infamous "Black Laws" against the m -
gro.—Courier-Journal.
It is officially denied that Mies J* -
Chamberlain, tho Cleveland beanty, «*•
called the Prince of Wales Jnmbo; hut, *
this wa* by all odds the brightest rem»d
Miss Jane has ever been accused of uiiku*
we sincerely regret that a denial of its **■
thenticity has been entered.—Chicago S«»s
A Washington newi item says:
clerks in tho Federal departments h**s
formed a mutual protective association, bf
which any clerk who is discharge 1 recei"*
the sum of (200 from his fellows to ensU*
him to start afresh.” But the necessity 1 *
such a thing is not apparent. A sntfieb**
protection is a President who eontinurs <•
warn off oil the wicked Democrats »*•
would like their jobs.—Chicago Times.
A possible reason why Mr. Evarts s w* -
tory does not make a greater impression '*
the country is given by a western N‘*
Yorker. Ho had attended n meeting at “*
Cooper Institute, where the great nu*
spoke. Dropping into a store in the neig
borhood ho observed that he bad been o
at the Institute bearing a speech. ^
speaking?” asked the storekeeper.
Evarts.” “Ah! And what is he tatt*
abont?” “Well, I dunno; ho dids t s»f-
—[Brooklyn Eagle. —
Yon Have a lYrfeel Bl*n*»
when you demand a Uensons Cnpcine OA I
dninri.1. to expect to receive one. let tee I
we rezret to ear. a few draoMs of the I
variety who will try to persuade you hr erere — I
worthies* eubetitule with a eUalfar sooadW* ^ I
eueb as •Ce|*irtn." •■Capsicum." -** I
Sirin*.- etc., prefixed sutoetimes with
■trin*.~ etc., prefixed sometime* eun y-- . I
••Burton," or ••Heaton." Cheap Johniwffl I
one ot these wretched imitations foe hair “J/Jd I
of lb# Jeuntne. se he ran well J a«CA 1
value hetufi nothtnz, aad IU root bel laG I
U* aeon's are the only porous pu«*erv w w I
depended upon to euro everjatlmoat O* I
Uraal treatment. Thoy ais prompt, sate I
u-wrh. Protect yoarself afiatasS deewptma
ot reliable dramrletreaty. Th* Y,
■Three Heels" trad* mark and haa thaword
etna" cut la the centre.