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2 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY APRIL 20, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, rtJftLbiHKU EVKftT DAT IS THE YSAB AND WEEKLY BT THE Telegraph am! Messenger Publishing Co., V7 Iftxlberry Jtreat, Macou, Ga. The Daily la dolivere-J by carriers In the city or Balled pottUge free to tmW.ritars, for $1 per BOLth, f2.R0 for three months, $5 for aiz month*, Of $10 a year. Tde Wkkely la mailed to anbacrlbera, postage free, at $1.25 a year and 75 cents for alz months. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Dally at $1 per square of 10 llnea or less for the drat insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent in sertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each Insertion. Notices of deaths, funerals, marriages and births, SI. Rejected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing important news and discussions of living topics is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to bare attention. Remittances should bo made by express, postal ■ota, money order or registered letter. Atlanta bureau 17 X Peachtree street. All communications should be addressed to THE TELEORAPH. 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— :m