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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY APRIL 20, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
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Macon, Qa.
' Money orders, checks, etc., should be made paya
ble to H. O. Hanson. Manager.
Sam Randall is hum ad, after ull. uud we
do not doubt but that he was pained when
his gentie of duty compelled him to refuse
Frank Hurd a seat in Congress.
Senator Jones in Detroit denies to a re
porter thnt ho has staked iiis fortune upon
*a pair. We are glad to hear it. A queen
and a jack don't amount to much.
When General Pope visited the big pic
ture of the battle of Shiloh in Cincinnati
“big tears rolled down his weather-beaten
cheeks," says a reporter. Pope wept be
cause he has never been able to contribute
a magazine article upon Shiloh.
Granny Hoar and Goody-Goody Blair had
a terrific enconnter iu the Senate. Granny
declared that ho would not toto Good/.
Goody’s knowledge for one million of dol
lars. That is a very high price for lifting a
catechism and tho Second Reader.
Some idea of the amount of money Paved
to the peoplo by the Brooklyn bridge is
given in the statement that tho business of
one ferry line has dropped from $2,01)0,000
to $800,000. But as the bridge does not
pay expenses s'omo of the savings go for in
terest.
“Ip Mr. Hurd were not such an outspoken
free-trader, he would have stood a better
chance of having the sent in Congress
awarded to him,” says the Jacksonville
Times-Union. No doubt of it; if Mr. Hurd
had been an outspoken protectionist ho
would have been elected.
“President Ci.K.vr.i.AVi»/ntim ites to Sena
tor Jackson that it wonld be nn act of /in
subordination’ on his part to decline the
judgeship which he had determined to be
stow npon him. Mr. Cleveland will find
no such 'insubordination' among Eastern
Democrats ~if theofiTioes ore good enough.”
So says the Boston Record.
Says the editor of the Tecamaeh (Neb.)
Bepublican: “The beer-guzzling, whiskey-
soaked, tlunnel-raonthed galoot who said
that we wt-re in the habit of working in the
printing office on Sunday is respectfully in
formed thnt he is a liar of the first-water.”
Yes, indeed! The editor was ouly reading
Ham Jones’ sermons when seen in his office
on Sunday. •
The Charleston News and Courier states
a singular fact In Portland, Me., a pro
hibition city of 33,000 inhabitants, tho total
number of people arrested for crimes com
mitted while intoxicated was 1,320. In
Charleston, not u prohibition city, tbe total
number arrested under the same circum
stances was 489; and yet tho latter has
49,000 inhabitants.
French duels are not more dangerous
than thoso of Virginia. According to re
cently published statistics there have been
fought in France since 1870 no leas than HU
duels, besides many between officers and
private soldiers, which are scarcely ever
mentioned in papers. Out of these 84 1-
duels only nine resulted in one of the par
ties being disabled. In 98 per cent, of the
coses the combatants left the tield unscathed.
The Detroit Free Press says: “The Re
publican weepers who have wept so copi
ously over the suppression of the vote in
South Carolina and Delaware have no tears
left to shod over the suppression in Rhode
Island. Yet the status of things in the
Utter State in inconceivably worse than in
any Southern Stuto. At the election last
week only. 19,000 votes were polled in the
entire State, though the SUte had in 1H80
male population over twenty-one years of
age of 76,(kM). There is no State in tho
South that shows a disfranchisement of
per cent of the voters."
Old Man Beecher has been milked very
dry by a Western reporter. During the ope
ration he said of HarrUun, the boy preacher:
"I have heard him preach," he continue 1,
l‘and I never heard anything like it You
cmld not call his sermon thin or slushy.
There wasn’t enough in it to be thin. If
yon bad taken the whole thing and
squeezed it together there wouldn't have
been anything. It was simply nothing."
Beecher heard him perhaps when they were
both beginners in tbe evangelist business.
He might be surprised, delighted and in
structed if he should bear Old Man Har
rison now.
A MiMdPAL election or two in the East
inspires the New York Star to indulge in
this: "We think that it U quite apparent
that if there were to be a Presidential elec
tion this year the New York delegation
would be able to promise the votes of New
Yotk, Connecticut and New Jersey to the
Democratic candidate#." Perhaps so, but any
prognostication as to New York, New Jersey
s'td Connecticut will be much safer after
eue baa witnessed the frteof BUI Morrison’s
^tariff bill. The three Htekte-s named will not
give their votes to any Democratic free
V now or hereafter.
The Coming Horse.
As the treos begin to cast a fthadoW the 1
grasshoppers to tly and tho trout to break,
the racers come to face tho starter. -In
California and Alabama, and in some unim
portant places elsewhere, the racing season
has opened.
Soon the best stables of the country will
meet in competition, on line tracks and for
large stakes. The coming season promises
to be the most noted in the turf annals of
this country.' The meetings are more nu
merous, the stakes larger and the number
of thoroughbreds in training far ahead ol
any previous record.
Racing men expect that the record in run
ning and trotting will be broken, and that
perhaps the two minute trotter will show
up. The infusion of the blood of thorough
breds with that of trotters has increased
the speed of the latter, and some belie
that a marked improvement will bo shown
in endurance.
The New-York Sun has devoted some at
tention to this discussion, and we extract
from its interesting article as follows:
The two centuries and more over which
the development of the running horse has
be«-n extended, have produced on animal
whose speed is only twenty seconds better
than two minutes. Tho material of the
present thoroughbred must have reached
nearly the hist possible refinement of ex
cellence, and the top rate of speed sustained
for one mile, by tbe record of Ten Broeck,
1:39], is within a trivial fraction of twenty*
five seconds for a quarter of a mile. When
we look for fast quarters for both classes of
horses, we learn of one being done by a
Texan mare named Belle in 21]
seconds, and we have beard of trot
ting quarters in fractions under 30
seconds; but tho shadow of doubt rests
pretty deeply over both stories. Among
the track myths of the present day is one
that Tom Bowling ran a half mile with his
shoes on in 4~> seconds, but tlin fastest
known half % wus by Oliptia in 47], or
23] for each ’ quarter. Ten Broeck’s best
quarter in his famous mile was in 24i, but
the Oliptia standard indicates that the en
durance of tho thoroughbred, the highest
possible to be attained in a horse, is such
as to enable him to maintain for four quar
ters of a mile a rate of speed within a little
more than a second of what he is capable
of for one quarter.
With this calculation iu view, let us look
at the.records of the greatest trotting horse,
Maud 8., and consider what she might do
were she of just ss enduring stuff as a
thoroughbred of purest lineage. It must bo
said thnt Maud S. has never been sent for a
distance below one inilo, but tho fastest
quarter ever recorded was done by her, and
we must accept that as the example of
the greatest speed of which a trotter is
cipufdo at present. In one of her trials she
was timed for ono quarter in 30 seconds,
lier fastest half having been done in
1:02. Upon this showing, if to-morrow u
horse of Maud S.’s perfect trotting action,
for it mnst be called perfect, should have
its veins tilled with the enduring biood of a
thoroughbred, it would be capable of trot
ting a mile in about 2:01. Even if we
should succeed then in fastening tho per-
feet trotting action on the pure English
stock, we would still lack the two-minutd
trotter. Whether he will ever eoiue or not
must still continue to be a question for the
most interesting speculation und dispute
among the breeders of our beautiful trot
ting horses.
It has been claimed by tnrfmeu that Harry
BakhoU made a mile in 1:3M, but this is not
of record; but we think the boat perform
ance yet given in public was by lkmrdman
at bheepshead Bay, who ran a mile in 1:40
in a hard race, aud not with a running start.
But these performances do not come up to
thoso of English horses. So experienced a
turfman on Richard Ten Broeck has declared
that he has seen more than one English
horse, with weights up, run ov*r the Rowley
mile in England in 1:38, und tho Rowley
mile is known as a long one. But recently
the idea has been broached that the nmu
can make better timo in harness than
under the saddle.
A showman, who gave performanors of
liariot races, ran two horses to a chariot
a half-mile in unusually fast time. The
horses were not thoroughbred, but encourag
'd by this, he made further experiments, and
the horses accomplished tho distance iu the
time usually mode by trained racers in trials.
If this be followed up patiently and Intel-
ligently, it may be that the coming runner
may lower the record, hut us it is contended
that trotters go faster under the saddle th in
in harness, the record of Maud S. is likely
to stand.
The present season may abound in phe
nomenal races and fine sport, but as to the
time record it will be entirely safe to dis
count convenient watches and short mile
tracks.
Tho South this sido of Washington and
Baltimore will enjoy little of the sport, the
racing stables and courses all being near the
great business centres of the country.
Editor McLurk has been down to Wash
ington to look into the tariff business, and
he writes: “It is now generally known that
the tariff bill will be defeated by from ten
to twenty majority if it shall be pressed to
a vote. Morrison and Carlisle would proba
bly prefer tbe defeat of the measure to
modifying it in an acceptable way. They
are thirsty to draw blood from Randall, and
probably care rather more to impair Ran-
dall a^arty standing than to reduce taxation
und revenue; but they are admonished
against a suicidal party policy not only by
the growing protection sentiment in the
South, but also by the general Democratic
sentiment from tbe President down, de
manding the passage of a judiciously revised
tariff. It is possible, then fore, that the
now apparently assured defeat of the Morri
son bill may lead to its recommittal to the
committee of "way* and means, with the
view ot cordial and manly conference with
the Democrats who are compelled to oppose
the bill now pending. Huch a conference
would probably result in modifying the bill
as to wool and sugar, and enlarging the free
list by adding other articles which wonld
cheapen our products without crippling
important indoAtrie*. The bill can't be
amended in the House by any revision of
the internal reuenue taxes, and only by a
general understanding reached in committee
can any bill be devised that will command
the solid Democratic vote of tbe House.”
The Dog Nil Dance.
Now that summer is approaching it will
bo well to remember that the well cared for
log never originates a case of hydrophobia.
The homeless, wandering or ill-kept cauine
agubond is the dog to be feared.
If peop'.e wish to keep dogs and take the
minimum risk, they should see that the ani
mal gets good food, plenty of water, exer
cise, and an occasional washing.
Few of the dogs seen upon our streets
are worth tho care that should be bestowed
upon them if kept. Just why a man Hhoul l
allow curs of no especial parts to hang
about his premises, making the night
hideous with their howls and tho day lively
with their fleas,is one of the unsolved prob
lems of our civilization. It would seem to
be a ruKs of the times that the less use a
man has for dogs the more he should keep,
and the more he keeps the less attention he
should give them.
Beyond hunting dogs and the household
pets that rejoice under the names of Spitz,
terrier, greyhound and poodle, city dogs are
absolutely useless. No man living, we dare
say, ever heard of a city watch-dog biting
the right person. Occasionally a woman
gets her dress torn off, an erruud boy on a
legitimate mission has his feelings lacerated,
a letter-carrier loses the rear awning from
his pants, or n child is scarred up by a cross
w’atch-dog who has been dissipating all
night, but the thief and the prowler ulways
escape injury. Even the boisterous cat that
can’t sleep peacefully in the day time be
cause of tbo dog, can sit out in the moon
light on any man's premises and make hu
manity toss upon its coucli.
Macon is especially unfortunate as re
gards dogs. Scarce are tho curtains of
night drawn and silence attempts a reign
before they come. Every alley, lane and
back street sends out its delegation of dogs.
They race upon tho highways, invade
premises and riot upon flower-beds until
profanity tikes the place of pleasant
dreams. Night after night twenty
per cent, of the people of this
city arc annoyed beyond expression by
riotous dogs that wouldn’t bring ten cents
at auction, except for sausago purposes.
The remedy planned by the city, viz: $5
license tax npon every dog that runs at
large cannot be collected except from tbe
owners of Viduuble dogs that are kept, and
has no effect upon the wild dogs of tho
night. Mecon would be comparatively well
off if sho could secure *5 for o.very dog that
runs at large on her streets.
We are not believers in tho hydrophobia
theory as accepted nowadays. Doga have
their sick spells from natural causes and are
vicious when ko affected. Bat the bite of
a sick dog or a well dog in hot weather will
render unhappy most any man for months,
anil even years after it is inflicted. It is not'
altogether uncertain but that a oomiufn
bite, un active imagination and a system
peculiarly constituted is all that is neces
sary to get up a fine substitute for hydro
phobia. Is it worth while to risk health
anil happiness for the sake of a triho of
worthless dogs? Cannot tho authorities
devise some method to exterminate and con
fine tho curs that overrun this city?
A Breach of Yloripttallty.
For obviou* reasons we have hesitated to
notice a matter which is engaging the atten
tion of tho press of the country. Even new
we hesitate.
That the visit of Secretary Lamar to his
old home and relatives should have been
the occasion of a newspaper sensation was
an unworthy reception of him. That it
should have been seized upon to defy the
traditional chivalry and hospitality of this
section by wounding the sensibilities of a
modest and much honored woman, is coarse,
indecent and indefensible.
We have the best reasons to know that
a social visit has been perverted by news
mongers, and that there is no foundation in
fact for tho reports circulated as to his
matrimonial intentions anymore than there
Is excuse for the breach of good manners.
TIME TO CALL A HALT.
The Colossal Stride In Centralization of
Ambitious Partisan*.
We can add very little to the arguments
POLITICAL NOTES.
It in stated that the most merciless critic* of the
l'renWlcnt'* policy in Watsliiugton are the female
relatives of Htalwsrt Democrats, and Mr. Cleveland
And* it harder to parry their thrust* than those of
the l
The Philadelphia l'res* say*: "The most accurate
definition of ths Democratic Chicago platform's dec
laration for 'liouext civil service reform' la given
by the Macon Tklzorumi. It say a that it meant
the placing of the best Democrat* In office."
THE PANAMA CANAL PROJECT
Mr. Bigelow's Report to the New \ I
Chamber of Commere*. •
we used several years ago against the cen
tralizing policy so persistently urged nt
Washington. One after another of the
safeguards of the constitution have been
broken down, anil the solemn pledge, iu tho
fundamental law, to the States and the t eo-
ple. of all powers not delegated to the Unit
ed States, nor prohibited by it to the mem
bers of the Federal Union, is treated as
wholly without meaning or force. Congress,
by the aid of the Supreme Court (which was
so manipulated as to become its subservient
instrument), made tho paper promises of
the Treasury a legal tender for all private
debts, whether contracted before or after
the issue.
The constitution, in plain terms, forbade
the States from making anything but gold
and silver coin a tender in payment of debts,
and nowhere granted this forbidden privi
lege to Congress. Under the plea that tho
delegation of the right “to make all laws
which shall be necessary and proper for car
rying into execution the foregoing powers,"
all of which were particularly described,
meant to include as many new powers as
the Congress might deem necessary or even
desirable in exercising their functions, the
issue of le^al tender paper money was held
to be justified by the public peril. The
New York, April 17.-Hon. j ohn .
low, who represented the New York n ^ I
her of Commerce ut the recent in.iilS®' I
Her oi c ommerce at tne recent ium*,.-
of the Panama Canal plan, has heat
report. Mr. Bigelow joined Ferdinand I
of I
Lisseps and other gentlemen
February IK. Charles'tlo Lettep*^I
the Isthmus a few week, i* I
Judge Kelley of Philadelphia, who began life a*
a free trader aud drove hiaipolf into the rank* of
the protectionluta by hi* own argument*. is to write
a hiatory of the tariff.
gone oilt to 1
viiusly. had made practical arrangeI
for the accommodation of the party or I
project before tho gentlemen eoatemullul I
the connection of the waters of the Ail
nt Colon with the waters of the lVifi/!l
Panama, by a canal of uniform ley*L V ;,, w 1
outlooks or tunnels und both limit) . j I
deep enough for the transit of ships of ft.I
first class from the open sea at one f mil! I
the open sen at the other, 'lhe
length of the canal is to be about U’,'. miU 1
The total excavation necessary to gf„ ,’JI
required width and depth amounts to ,i'_l
120,000,000 cubic yard*. The total eXcu ? I
tion made up to December 31, lsV, ?I
14,078,856 cubic meters. On Januarral
1880, there were about 15,000 lum i "
ployed in the canal.
Mr. Iligelow auvs that thero never ■
more complicated problem presented ton I
engineer. The government of theSutekl
weak and unsettled; the regions mods *
Every Congressman iu Now England with the ex-
ceptlou of two will *taud for re-election. The two
ar*- M« i«-r*. Collin* of Massachusetts ami Waite of
Connecticut.
California ha* a politio.il paity called the irrign-
tion Ufa, whose object i* to secure irrigation tor the
unwnU-rml'part* of the State.
Tbe Pennsylvania Republican nomination con
ventlnn will on Tune :nth. Governor Heaver
it t* thought, vffil bo re-uninitiated without effort.
The whipping-pout bill ii*
Kentucky Legislature.
It i* thought the Keutucky Legislature
journ in two week*.
Shred* und Patciic*.
heard a group behind me talking of Cable.
Kaid one: "What'* tho matter with Cable?” "Well,
he'* spoiling himself by taking lessons in elocution.
He la stilted and no louger delightful a* n reader
unless bo forget* hi* lessons and drop* bark into
his owu individual peculiar stylo.'' "I* he a
Southern man?" "Not in sentimeut. Not a aonl
In the Norik take* Cable to have any sentiment in
common with the Houth. Ho was simply born
there and staid there until last year. Do you know
that down in the Century office they call him the
little haw •or?'*—New York Correspondence of tbe
New Orleans Picayune.
Of
A Catastrophe Tost May l<eail to Others.
Probably tho South 1ms had more lecture s
from l’hiliulolphia papers upon good morals
anil honest methods than from any other
point in tho Union. This perhaps wns to
be expected, as Philadelphia is tho “City of
Brotherly Love,” and naturally foil an inter
est in tho redemption of the lost sections.
Tho recent exposure of abuses in the dis
charge of a public trust in the Keystone
State reveals tho sad fact that the philan
thropical moral redemptionists have been
neglecting homo territory while laboring
abroad. The World gives this version
the evil recently unearthed:
'Tho Republican stronghold of Pennsylvania has
paid out in twenty-one years $*,500,000 for the edu
cation aud maintenance of the rhlldren of soldiers.
It U now ascertained that more than f 4,000,000
this amount has been stolen by the managers
these school* In that period.' The »tca!lnga have
averaged f 200,000 a year.
"The invi stlgation ha* been made by the Gov
ernorof the State, who ha* reported the facts
the Attorney-General in order that all i ernona who
have detraudod the State and ran be reached may
be prosecuted.
"2'he infamy of the crime I* increased by thedev-
1UU cruelty that It necessitated. Tbe allowance by
the State for the care of the children ha* been $150
yearly for children over ten years of age and $115
for those under that age. The children have been
kept without proper accommodation*. ragged and
hungry, to enable the tbievta to steal half the State
allowance. The Governor aajs: 'A aaddsror more
shameful story of deliberate human cruslty could
not be exhibited.’ ”
A sadder case of immorality can bardly
bo imagine.!, but there are contingent evils
that must not be overlooked. Suppose this
discovery should rob tbo South of tbo mis-
sionary services of that great religions daily,
the Philadelphia Press, and its kindred
spirits ?
on. John Smith is to oppose Hon. Tom Eai
tbe legislature in Telfair county,
defeated in the
Judge—"What have you got to say for yoandff"
Prisoner—"Your honor. I'm a stranger in the city
on a visit. The cold must have affected—" Judge—
'Drunk! Ten dollars or ten days.*' Priioner (get-
j log scared)—"But. your honor, I have no money.'*
Judge-'"Oh. a vagrant! Two months." Prisoner
(getting scared)—"Pray listen, your honor! I'm no
vagrant." Judge (growing Impatient)—"Well, If
you can't i>ay yonr flno send for some of your
friend*." Prisoner—"But I have no friends here.
Judge (waving his band)-"Ah, a tramp! Hi:
months."—Tld-Ults.
i recent dinner party the subject of eternal
life and future punishment came up for a long dis
cussion, in which Mark Twain, who was present
took no part. A lady near him turned suddenly
toward him and exclaimed: "Why do you not say
anything? I want your opinion." Twain replied
gravely: "Madame, you must excuse me, 1 am
silent of necessity. 1 have friends in both places!"
If Mormon women had tho spirit of mice they
•ould run polygamy Into the ground in short order.
Let them each marry flve or six hatband* and try
to make home happy. What is sauce for the Mor
mon goose is also sauce for the polygamous gander.
A plurality of husbands ought to be a* religion* as
a plurality of wives.—Picayune.
Mr. Charles Jones, ninety-six years ohl, who last
week visited Washington for the first time in
aeventy-flve yeais, is an old-faihloned Democrat
who applied for the postmt*ter*hip at Barkham-
stead, Conn., under President Madison, and who
visited the capital to see If his recommendations
had been examined.—N. Y. World.
Mr. Htead. of Pall Mall Gazette notoriety, is now
lecturing in England on "Hvclal Purity," and is
everywhere announced and advertised as the
"Champion of Parity": but from his record he
would seem to be ouly » light-weight champion,
N. Y. World.
Some day the Chaplain of the House of Repre
sentatives will be declared out of order. He has
no right to argu*- a case in prayer when there is
question before the House —New Orleans Picayune.
Governor 11111 has appointed two ladies as notaries
public for Buffalo. They should do a thriving bus
iness, for a woman's facilities for making a man
awearare something unequaled.—Rochester Dem.
peril passed by and the question came up
again, iu a time of profound peace, when
gold and silver were as plenty tut blackber
ries, and money worth only 2 per cent, per
Annum. The greed for power by this time
had grown so great at Washington that it
boldly struck out all the restraints of the
great charter.
The “execution of the foregoing powers”
ns virtually held to he the ordinary legis
lation of Congress, and this body was to he
tho judge of what was “necessary aud
proper" to this end. The paper money was
defended at first ns “necessary," tho ground
of that plea being taken away by there be
ing no further necessity for such legislation
they appear to have fallen back on tho an
thority given in tho word “proper,’* as if
the clause had read “necessary or proper!"
Thus they not only assumed a prerogative
nowhere expressly delegated to them, and
which was therefore forbidden by the reser
vation, but they could not make out even
a plausible case for their Action without an
entire new reading of the instrument by
which they wore created.
Having thus cleared the way for doing
whatevt r is right in their own eyes, tho ad
vocates of this centralizing policy now pro
pose another hold step, and aim to take in
their hands the entire charge of popular ed
ncation. They offer to the people a bonus
of nearly onuhundred million dollars to al
low tho Washington authorities to grasp
this engine of subjection. Whose money is
it of which they are thus liberal? It is to be
wrung ont of the sinews of the producing
classes. Has the Federal Government ever
set an example of tho economical use of
means for suy purpose whatever that they
may be safely trusted to carry on a system
of common schools at the public expense?
Tho proposition is not only objectionablo
in its financial aspect, but it is fraught with
S eril to the most sacred ponular rights. We
ad some experience ourselves of the intol
erable character of Federal interference
with tbo liberties and dignity of the citizen
when Congress usurped the control of local
elections and placed its own partisan offi
cials at every polling place in tho large
cities of this State. But this goes ter
beyond that measure in tho danger to the
cause of liberty and justice. He who could
write the songs of a nation was held to be
tho arbiter of its destiny. But once place
the common schools under the control of
Federal legislation, and the despotism of
centralized authority need ask to go on no
further to gain nn absolute Control of the
machinery of government in every commu
nity throughout the land.
The selection of text books will always be
in the hands of the controlling po>ver, and
these being paid for out of the common
fund will he of such a character an shall be
determined by the central agency. The
nomination or tho confirmation of teachers
and the arrangement of the order and dis
cipline of the schools will follow uaturally
and inevitably until every school boy and
girl in the country will be educated as they
are iu Germany, under the control anti
snbjectto the will of uu imperial parliament.
When we exposed the aim of these ambi
tious partisans, more than a decade ago, and
predicted that it would not bo long before
they would attempt to seize upon the instru
ments of popular education, and to govern
the conduct of all our common schools, now
the pride und ciro of whatever is excellent
iu every community tinder tho patronage of
State authority, Home smiled, aud not a few
anecred at what they affected to consider
our unfounded fears. Tliut prediction is
fulfilled to the letter in the proposition now
before Congress. The project is urged with
all the force and ingenuity of which tins-
schemers are acknowledged matters, and if
it fails ut first it will be renewed again und
agaiu as long tin the people will tolerate tbe
policy of which it is suc h un important part.
If it is successful it will destroy one of the
main bulwarks of home rule, or local self-
government. We hope that resistance will
be aroused at last amt burl these would-be
oppressors of the people forever from their
ill-used power. N. Y. Journal <»f Commerce.
healthy, while men have to be imp’ortol
from foreion count new. TU
from foreign countries. The most serjottl
difficulties with which the company hav*u|
contend arc tho control of tbe water* of tfcil
Chagres river, which in the rainyseAsosI
would Hood the larger portion of the cm31
and securing tho necessary labor at i»r M ’*
cable rates. The question of labor is,
Mr. Bigelow, “the axis on which the faT
tunes of this enterprise revolve.” TbL
canal terminates at both ends in a inu-l
grove swamp. “For seven months of even!
year it is liable to rain not only every di»f
but several times a day, and when it doj
rain ut this souson the water does not conn!
down, as with us, in drops, but in nhetS
so that to bo out of doors when it rains,
means being as completely wetted 1 3 i
thrown into the sea, and consequentlyi
suspension of work for at least two-third]
of the seven ruiuy months."
Tho men are frightened, continue t!
report, by tho mortality around them. 3
Bigelow suggests that the scarcity node,
of manual labor on the Isthmus should <L
pense with at least that portion whichtL
labor market will not cheerfully Hnj.pil
Machines cannot be affected by clicutJ
There an* already at work on the i.sthmj
machines for dredging and for excavati*
l'ar more powerful than any everuseda
the Suez canal. Mr. Bigelow was infers
by the vice-president of the company tl
the company had iu its treasury snffiji
to carry it through the current year—ab
$120,(KK),(K)O. The international congNMcj
1871) estimated the probable cost of tU
canal at $213.0(H),000. “No doubt soineij
the money bus been injudiciously exp
ed,” says Mr. Bigelow, “but what g
work, whether of a private or public dai
acter, has escaped this reproach?"
The difficulties to bo overcome are f. J
more formidable than any with which pi
vate enterprise has ever yet successful
contended, and Mr. Bigelow thinks it?
quires a very “robust faith" to believe U
tho I’anauia Canal can be opened for nr
gation from sea to sea for an additional n
no larger than the net proceeds ot the i
loan of $120,000,000 which Mr. De Lef*.
is now soliciting. Tho Panama Canal k
suffered from a lack ot unity of pnlici {
its management. In the five years of ^
progress it has had seven directors-gpai
or superintendents of work on tho lsthni
No two of them remained tw*o whole yw
“How far this is chronic," says Dr.Uigd
“I am not competent to judge. That»
sufficient means the canal can bo builtu|
believe, no longer a question among <
ginoera who have visited tho work* i
seen wlmt has already been accomplish*
Whether the revenues of tho canal wiH*i
remunerate the stockholders for it* corf
a question about which Mr. Bigelow \
not sufficient data to form an opinion.
THE ARBITRATION SCHEME.
A Shallow Devlrr Concocted by C*
slonal Driiiacoinva.
An assembly of Knights of Libir
Youngstown, Ohio, in a set of resol
relating to the East St. Louis killing,
bled upon a practical measure of reM
Massachusetts will hi.ve an Arbor Day on tbe
21th of tbla month. They are already drilling
hole* in the rock* to plant bean pole* In.—Phila
delphia Pres*.
Nobody ha* yet had the effrontery to write a song
about the melancholy fact that work i>egin* in the
rooter when the snn goes down.— Somerville
Journal.
NEWSPAPERS IN ASIA.
Japan Ahead
Between the Irish agitators and Mr. Gladstone the
British lion presents a picture of dUtres* and mla-
|ery that should make BriUunu weep.—Chicago
Times.
It would take a man :».«»> years to read all the
standard works. Very few men. however, care to
devote so much time to reading.—New Haven
Newt.
There ta increasing evidence that Mr. Cleveland
is a spiritualist Nobody will deny that he is a
very medium sort of man.—Philadelphia Press.
" 'Left Alone'" I* the announced title of a novel
shortly to te published by a Boston book firm.
Blaine the here?.—Richmond Dispatch.
For onr own part we are in favor of the whole
Morrison bill except the enacting clause.—Phils
f Many ot the Nations of
Kurope,
Japan possesses at this moment 2,000
newspapers. Considering that nut a single
journal of any kind existed, or was thought
of in the country twenty-five years ago, thia
rapid rise aud spread of the new spaper press
there U one of tho moat remarkable facts in
the history of journalism. Japan now
boasts of a greater number of newspapers
than either Italy or Austria; of more than
Spain and Russia taken together, and of
twice ns many os the whole continent of
Asia. The appetite of the Chinese for news
U sufficiently fed by the Pekin Gazette —
which is, in fact, not a newspaper at all
and two small sheets published at Shanghai.
Corea possesses an official gazetta since 1884,
and nothing else resembling a newspaper
exists. The French have already started a
paper in their m*w colony—L'Avenir de Aiwicu. u. *, imu »o» ^
Tong-king, but it is a purely French sheet, I Grimes Solicitor-General, by J- N*
it can hardly contribute much to ;'ue cn-1 contra.
Tiie contest between Messrs. Dana and
Pulitzer i* becoming exciting. Here ia the
latest:
Tin*. stAti-iusnt tbxt "Mr. I'ulitzrr's check for
wx* smoug the campaign fund* of the Re
publican national committee in 1**4" in * lunatic
Hr. Pit til V devoid of foundttiou.—World.
"Ncvt-rtUelfiis, it is u solemn tael that in
1881 theKepabliaui n.tionnl committee had
amonii their campaign (an.is Mr. Joseph
l’alitzc-r’s check for $5,1100, aud applied it in
the simo manner as they applied other
cheeks. Now, how di 1 this happen? That
is the question. Insi.-o i ot screeching over j drlvhi* Trcn,
the (act in a frantic fren/.y, Mr. Pulitzer
should favor the public with soma intelli
gible explanation of it. tf he can. —Snn.
The World rejoin.:
"Mr. Stephen U. hllOu. «m «.ke<l Uot eteotim tf
lie could throw any li^ht on the foregointt inf.Urjr.
-If Mr. FaUU«hut rn.a uaaftv.Utotuud dollar
chKk,’ h. replied, -a.’d hare i hototnphwl it and
•“* ?*.''? Iltr:r- 1 ■><*’» he'****oiiteiniBg a tUeUion ol th« Boprematkurt; N, w Ymk bd'eTTothboTz’s .liop wMfUUed
ever did and 1 don t think any on* *Im If — «-—1;»- -a «... • ... -
A tutted kudo around Um sun at aatting
occurs in long-continued rainy we ith* r.
his check had been in our treasury I would have
been likely to Lnow it. Heveral of my poUUcal
friend* have asked nr in the past fi« d*y* about it
and I've said it vm absurd 1$ think of it.
Fnliteer. judging from hie newspaper during the
campaign, wasn't In the mood for distributing five
thousand dollar theckeamoag us RepuUicana.
presume he did more to pull me down, tbreugli the
columns of the World, than any oae etsa. "
The nimble trout, like tbe gay liane-haller. now
begin* to go out on a liy.—Philadelphia Record.
declaring that “Congress should at o
take steps to prevent the issuing of wak
stock by tbe railroads of tho country'
ten-line statute forbidding the capiuhxd
of profits by corporations engaged *««*
mon carriers would bo of greater adu ‘
to tho workingmen thau a cord of ai
tion bills like tho demagogic measure | M
by the House of Representatives the o J
day. This latter scheme is one that b»
suspicion at the outset by
vdrange and vehement language
s»me of it-» leading supporters. ™
partisan politicians like Reed
Maim*, and Curtis of Pennajb*
join hands in crying “Away
constitutional restrictions! Give tbe i
ingman what he wanted” It is tirnef *
honest workingmen to cousider wbtthdj
inte rests of labor will be subservedbj
lation tending to bring the toilers ofj
nation iuto antagonism with the fao<hBi
tel principles of onr government. h 9 |
instinct of the Congrt shioaul dcujiC'V®
allow the corporate fcpoliators full » #
while flinging the laboring man, i
for all, the sop of uu extra conMiU®
tribunal. It is impossible to arbitrated
■floss that Tuny bo destroy* d by * 1
declaration that tho men who eouipj^M
not employed by tho other party to tbe m
The proposition is a shallow device w J
Inde the honest toilers. They
relief in vain from corporation tvr*w|
the hands of a Congress made up 1*^J
mon snW rvtent to corporation inter
Philadelphia Record.
KupreiueVourt «f Oeorftx
Atlanta, Ga , April 17, /\T
'lmttuhoochee. Argument conclude*-1
No. 7. Chattahoochee. Cr»«jJ
Kimbrough. Argued. Willis A 3™
for plaintiff; Martin A Worrill, Jo* 4 '
body contra. „
No. 0. Chattahoochee. Sewell v
Argued. J. J. Ball for plwintiffi‘J
lightemuent of the natives. The Persians
are comparatively insensibly to the fascina
tions of the daily pap*?. The six papers
which they posse sit 6we their existence to
the reigning Shall, who is a man of letters
himself, aud composes poetry in bis spare
hours. The natives of India have l.nOD
newspaper*.
A Rhode Islatid Political Trick.
Newixjut, R. L, April 16.—It is under-
stood that voting liau in evory city and j fro_
town in Rhode island are to be examined i benefit of tho boycotted man in innch the
to ascertain when each voter registered and same manner that marked the outcome of
by whom hie tax was tuid. with s vtew . f ti« striker*’ ertumde against Mr. Grey, the
A lU»ycoded Hatcher's Bis Biulnea*.
Cbicaoo, April 17.—Tho boycott against
Lotbholz, the North Side butcher, promises
r.rex.nt indications to result to the
M to the legality of vote* coat by penoiu I with customer* tliu morning, and the bnay
»><*« reentry taxea have been paid by | bcteher .iecUr.-l that any number of new
other*. The movement U made to over- patron* hod come to him unee the boveott.
throw the prohibition vote if possible. | -We actually have all we can do to till
order*,*’ laid be, -and if the boycott con-
W hit I hoi
XaMIVILLfc. Tr.xx.
Hate* h*» appointed lion. W. C. Wbit-
tl.ome to laccecd Howell E.J*ck*on*e Uni
ted State* Senator from Ten&caeee.
JaekMra a. Senator, j j |Wnk ha TC to rt . n , niore
A j; nI 1 ®:.— t ! 0T _*!>‘ or I emmodiona quarter*.
Titrate U not a paper in Nevada that pay*
interest on the money invested.
Ko, ?, CllitU»hC5enf8.
ton. Argued. J. H. Martin for P L
Willi* ,V Matthew* contra. ,
No. 10. Chattahoochee. Cobh " j,
Argued. C. F. Thornton, Kush®’*. 5
for plaintiff; T. W. Grimes Soli.iwr lr '
by J. M. McNeill contra. ., J
No. 11. Chattahoochee. WiPwA'fl
ve Aria Argued. W. 8. Wall**
for plaintiff; C. J. Thornton.
No. 12. Chattahoochee. H»*,
St.de. Lconi.laa SIcLrater. Hd*JS
body for pUIntiff; T W. Grime* ^
General, bv J. M. McNeill contra
No. Ilk Chattahoochee,
Wynne. Argued. R. B- Jx*
!h/i<rr frt* tii-dAftiff * Peabody **
Dozier for plaintiff; Peehodf
J. M. Smith contra. _ .
Conn then adjourned to 9 ofl
Monday next.
The I’aUuU Circuit maybe
Tuesday.
Maxv New Yorker* have
the European cuatom of hirimf , ^
private carriage* and bumf,
tract permit* yonr er*»t on tn* p—
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