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Gomoponionco oontolnln* Important now. and
Rloeai.looo of Urine topic l> oolldted. bot mtut bo
I til! and written opon bnt on. old. of tbo papor to
tart attention.
Xomlttanoeo thonld bo made by exposes, pootal
to to, money order or rettletorod latter.
AUanta'Bnrean 11X Poaobtroa etreet
tUtaommnnlcatlone ahonld bo addreooed to
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Mecca Qa.
Meaty ortere skills, oto tbonld bo mado payv
to H O. ll.ee>* Kana<o
The Flag Flaaoo.
Adjutant-Genorul Drum ia by all accounts)
eololy rwpomible for tbo late flag fiasco. It
la said of him that he is of Demooratio pro-
cUrities, and that he ia desirous that the
war shaii end. It is noi chimed iiint hie
motion was snggeated by any one from tbs
South, bnt that he dereloped the proceed
ing solitary and alone.
Granting him the broadest snd most pa-
triotio motives, ha boa created a'stir that
does noi detract from the warmth of the
weather.
By some it is regarded that the incident
will famish the Uepnbliotns fresh fighting
ground in the next Presidential campaign.
Others think that a boom will follow for
General Fairchild, the commander of the
Grand Army, and sometimes mentioned as
a presidential poaaibility. Hr. Watterson
thinks it a feint in favor of a pension steal,
and has opened picket firing. We ap
pend a sample:
“That morbid rhetoricians, who know as
littla of war as they care about troth—quite
carried away by their own slaughter of
epithets and overoome by the Inst o! con
quest by proxy—should tit their verbose
finery and sport a spurious patriotism or
suggestion of this kind is eharaoteristis of
the lion-hearted quill-driver and the roa r
ing Bengal allnger of ink; bnt when the
real matter is boiled down to an eaacnoe,
the phial containing'it will be labeled, if
labeled at all, “black mail.” Unfier the
whole of this clamor there larks a delibe
rate, carefully planned conspiracy between
the swashbuckler and the demagogue to rob
tho treasury.
“Tho whole affair revolves itself into
blackmailing raid upon those who have the
money of tho people in custody. Failing
to bully the pauper pension bill over the
President's veto, this is a movemonttoforoe
another throngh the next Congri
and to make the opposition of
an honest and frugal admin-
istratlon the bails of an appeal to the war
like passions of the majority seotion of tho
Union. To proatitnte the flag to the olalm
agents; to debsaah the national spirit to
the party haoka; to lira the Northern heart
and nnitoit on a big ataal is the oomplexion
to which Republicanism has coma at last.
As wo said, it the tex-peyera of the North
can stand it, bo can tha tex-paycn of tha
South. We can wait just as long as the
rest for the rational consideration of tha
■public business, and if those, who olalm
socb special love for the Union ean afford
to play before the netions of Christendom
tbo farce of a disunited country, why let
thorn have their wey. It will ooet ns no
xnoro than it will oast them.l'
A Hint to the Manager, or the State Fair.
The Atlanta fair ia being actively silver
tiaedin South west Georgia, and in refer
once to it, the Americas Recorder says
Cut the muu««m.nt at the Stela (air Is not th.
UnllMt one In the world, and whnl they do towards
working up an Inland! In th.tr (air x
done In . doll, methodical, don't-care way. A. tha
com petition of tha Piedmont Iipoaltloa will be de-
elded and eoergsUc, the State (air paople ahonld
atlr themeolve. np, pat n little n. w Ur. Into the
concern, let the people know Mouthing about It.
and .bow Forth Georgia and Atlanta that they can-
not raid their territory with Impunity. They wUl
Snd th# preu of Booth Georgia ready to bsck them
np.
If every officer of the Pair Auodatloa would put
In as good ticks a* Judge 9. a Black, of Hun ter,
they would hava a fair this fall that would an 11 pa.
a!' previous effort.. Judge Black, by hard and an-
ergetlc labor. anccMdad In gatUng hi* county to
coaseat to neks a display, sad you con mat May
that It will be a good on.. If ovary ogteer of the
uaoelatlon would do u wall ovary county la Mid-
die and Sowth and gonthWMt Georgia would bo In-
tereeled, and Macon, with all of Its abundant hotel
capacity, would bo wnnbU to entertain tha people
who would visit tho nail State fair, v
lard.
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A speoial from Ban Francisco, Jane IS,
to the New York Tribane sayi: Justice
Field, who is la this city, says concerning
the vacancy on tha Supreme bench, that
the impression prevails that Justice Wood's
suocesaor will be selected from the circuit
which he represents on the bench. This
circuit embraces Texes, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Georgia, Florida and Alabama The
moat prominent candidates are Senator Mor
gan, of Alabama; Secretory Lamar, and
Thomas J. Bern meg, of Louisiana. He
thought the choiee would faU between La
mar and Morgan. Speaking of tha accu
mulation of bmines in the Snprcme Court,
he said that when the reeeee begin there
were 800 casta which had not been reached.
It will take more then two years to dispose
of cum now on the calendar. Two meas
ures of relief had been snggeated, one to
allow the justice to sit as a quorum, thug
donblieg the working power of the courts,
and the other to divide up the dreoite, in-
creaeing the number from nine to eighteen.
A Watch frM,
Yon ean get an improved Waterbary
Watch, with a chain, and the Whmu Txut-
aKxtu one jeer, for «3. For particulars,
1 advertisement al-cwhere in this issue.
IIow Protection llorta the Farmer.”
The Charleston News end Courier which
echoes tha litoratnre prepared under the
anepioea of the Cobden club and the Ken
tucky whisky ring, publishes an article in
its editorial column under the heading
given above, arranged for the enlighten
ment (?) of the Sonth Carolina firmer. The
Charleston paper tells the aforesaid farmer
that every time be bays $50 worth of oil
cloth be pays $14 tax npon it, $13 tax for
the same amount of common carpets, and
$16 34 tax for fifty square yards of Brus
sels carpet. No better illustration of
the desperation of the freo traders
their efforts to sustain their theory
could be asked. It is not likely that any
farmer in South Carolina has bought a Brus
sels oprpet or fifty dollars worth of oil
cloth tinoe tha war, though they are cheap
and as for oommon carpets ho can bny all
he wants st less cost now than at any in the
history of ths country including the time
when the free trade lunatics bod fall
swing. •
But oat datifal contemporary has another
list showing the amount of tariff paid npon
other articles from lumber down to woolen
cloth. Jnst how mnch ell this oosts the farmer
not figured out. A careful comparison
the prices of the articles named with
tho prioes that rated in i860,' shows that
every one is selling new cheaper than then,
some of them even 60 per cent, IfK*. Has
any farmer ever seen nails cheaper? Or
paint? Or thread? Or stockings? Or
China? Or straw hate? Or tin plates? Or
ontlerj? Or lumber? Never. And yet
this Charleston meddler is foolish enongh to
name the dnty on these as oppressive, and
bold enough to advocate a return of the
country to the low tariff or praetieally free
trade of I860. In I860 the farmer paid
$2.75 for blankets; in 1884 he paid $2.55.
Cassimeres that coat 65 in 1860 coat 50
in 1884. Or see this list, showing differ
ence in prices:
ladO.
Standard ahMttnga .OSX
Standard drillings o-tfl
Few York bleached eheattOR. laid
Merrimae print. oral
64zG4 print cloth 0544
4-4 heavy ahMIlog UX
4-4 bleached eheeting osjfl
4 4 common bleaching ' 9 ,
Beat ticking 37
Glosbams lt>>;
Standard print. OSH
Good twilled flannels {wool) 35
Good Kentucky Jeans 37X
Mens'cslf skin machlneboote....94 0*1
Men's pegaed boots 3.00
(From 30 to 40 discount on all lines of'ihoeasnd
boots, etc.)
Here are goods used on every farm. The
prices given are those of I860 and 1884.
Had thoso of 1887 been nsed a much greater
difference would he shown. It will strike
the intelligent farmer that people who are
paying 4U per oent. leas tinder protection
than nnder free trade are not suffering maoh
from the tariff,
Tha TkLxampH affirms that all essential
objects of consumption effected by
the tariff are cheaper and batter now
than at any period nnder free
trade or revenue tariff and that
the tariff has made cheaper all that the pco
pie use. So far as tho productions
baaed upon iron, cotton and wool are con
cerned they oro sold as cheap in this
oonntry as in free trade England. “This,'’
as a noted writer says, “is in conformity
with the law that the greatest cheapening of
prices by the establishment of nataral in
dustry is exhibited in commodities of the
highest necessity." The one article of nails
ia a fine illustration of this as witness the
prices oppoelta the years quoted: 1861, $6.00
1881, $3 50; 1885, $2.25; 1887, $1 85,
How has this “oppressive tariff" affected
the American format? The number of
farms have increased from 2,000,000 in I860
to 4,000,000 lu 1880; the value from $6,000,
000,000 to over $10,000,000,000. Under
protection the production of cereals has
risen from 1,230.000,000 bnihels to 2,700,
000,000, or more than 100 per eent The
value of live etook has increased from
$1,000,000,000 to half aa much again, while
the annnal products of the term have
reached $3,000,000,000. There haa been
fair dnty on wool; aheap have increased
from 22,000,000,000 to 60,000,000,000, while
the home prodnote of wool haa risen from
60,000,000,000 to 385,000,000,000 pounds.
Where there were 12,500,000 people employ
ed in the gainful occupations in 1860 there are
now 17,500,000.
This it nnder protection. Whet has the
News and Courier's polioj of free trade done
for England, the only oonntry iu the world
that holds to it Tbero were one-tliird Ices
people cultivating English soil in 1881 than
ia 1861, In 1861, 20.8 per eent. of the peo
ple were agriaulttiiiits; in 1881 thete were
but 12.4 per oenL M classed. This does
not look aa though free trade is building np
the agricultural interests of England. W«
of the South who have had to buy provis
ion! from our next door neighbors know
that out prosperity inoretaea aa these pur.
chases diminish. Can English farmers be said
to prosper when year after year tho quan
tity of bread atnffa and meets they import
Heath of Juilgo Locliranp. j and woot growar, yonr Interest, demand a protec-;
The precarious health of Judge Lochrane tlv# tariff. They are Jana, faced. They are neither j
had prepared the pnblio for the announce- P 1 *- nor WH- nor good red barring
BULLOCK’S REJOINDER.
ment of his death, wlrioh occurred at his
home in Atlanta on yesterday morning.
For more than the half of a cjntury be hod
been a conspiouoni figure in Georgia.
From his early manhood the writer knew
him well and to regret at his death is added
the regret which accompanies editorial
da y. It wonld be far more pleasant to ns
to dwell npon the genial and pleasant na
ture and ways of the friend than to com
ment npon the career of one who had
filled high and responsible positions
in the State. Coming to Oeorgia while yet
a mere youth he appeared aa a clerk in a
drag store. Attracted by his faollity and
grace of speeob, the chief jnstioe of the
State invited him to the study of law. The
invitation was accepted, and the young
Irishman was soon admitted to tho bar.
Married into a prominent family, after a
brief sojourn in Savannah he settled in
Macoo, and was soon a member of a coterie
of brilliant yoiing men, not overgiven to
the dry study of the law. Host of these
were sacrificed in the war, but
Loohrane attaching himself to the political
fortunes of Governor Brown, rose by
appointment to the cironit benoh, and again
by appointment to the highest position upon
the Sapreme benoh of the State. With a
s'.feak of th* Bohemian in his nature, at
various times he had brief connections with
the press, and at one time was the profes
sor of medical jurisprudence in a oollege,
not of the Allopethio school. Fond of tbo
company, and seemingly careless of mate
rial success, he was possessed of great
shrewdness and resource, and finally
amassed something of a fortune. There
was in him nothing of the stuff out of
which martyrs are mado. He had
come of a etook, that had to reeonoile
ihemselves to the various fortunes of a
country the prey of revolts and oppressions.
Henoe what might be strongly oritioised in
others enjoyed a certain sort of immunity
him. In the lost days of tho war we
met him traveling through the oonntry to
soe Jefferson Davis on some important pur
port, and in less than a month wo met him
coming from a visit to General Wilson, the
Federal commander who held Macon.
Lochrane was incapable of a cruelty or an
injury, and it was doubtless good for our
people that he had the ear of those who
ruled over thqm during the fearful period of
reconstruction. He was too companiona
ble to become a deep student, bnt he was
very qniok of apprehension, absorbed readi-
from others and was as brilliant at the
bar as at tha banquet What mattered it
to the mass, if with small alterations his
Bt. Patrick address would do equally aa well
for a charge to the grand jury, a Fourth of
July oration,or a lecture to medical students.
He was ever the same genial, lovable Loch
roue, florid in complexion, Uluetnted more
■trongly in speech end emphasized always
in drees. Mnch of the secret of his suooess
lay in what ho laid to os in his yonng man
hood, viz; that ha “had never indulged
a regret or a resentment.” It is hard to re
alize a life without a regrotj but though,
often exposed to extreme provocation, we
can recall but one instance of resentment on
his part A vainglorious fellow, wboss
necessities he had often relieved, reoklestly
wounded him in an impertinent publication.
He was deeply stung for a while, but laugh
ingly showed us on the following day an
abject apology.
The people who oome after us will desire
to know something of the mou who pre
ceded ns. For this demand we have writ
ten.
It is a pleasure to know that If the latter
yean otLochrane'a life were clouded by im
pending death, he met hia end with an un
clouded faith, aud that of ths pnblio mon
of Georgia, if there are aoms of sterner re
solve end intent, there are many who will
not leave to their friends the pleasant mem
orise which will always cling about the
name and tarns of Lochrane.
A Show of lUndi.
The free-trade press of the State etill at
tempts to beguile politicians who have en
joyed plaoes for a term of yean, snd thoae
who aapirs to public hcncr .t, that the situation
is to remain unchanged, that weareto have
perfunctory nominating conventions, mean
ingless platforms, snd that ths man fortun
ate enough to secure a lucky combination
may expeot a nomination, whioh may be
considered an election. They seem to be
quite as oblivious to ths change of senti
ment among the people as to the changed
eoBviSiuua by which we are surrounded.
Those who trust to such edauranees are
likely to meet with grave disappointments.
The South has virtually stood still for
twenty years, but in the earning twenty
•he proposes to move forward rapidly.
From time to time we have called atten
tion in these columns to changes that have
The description is trt^>. Further on it
uses this significant largnr.ge:
Nothing bat » protective tariff bu or ever can
make the Southern State* what God and Nature in
tended her to be. Wherever manufacturing Inter
ests are located in the Sonth you do not And a tin
gle man who oppoaea a protective tariff; the farmer
can sell the manufacturer bread, meat, potatoes,
garden trick, cotton and wool, and the manufac
turer pays him for them ont of hia wages, and both
are happy.
The repeal of tha internal revenue laws, which
have ao long disgraced the statute books, and a pro
tective tariff will make every industry North and
8outh. Eaat aud West, flourish; pay off the national
debt as fast aa it becomes due, and elect a Demo
crat every time to most any office. A free trade pol
icy will ruin the country, and|lts advocacy will give
the Republicans another long leaaa of power.
Tho Tkleobafh is proud to welcome on
oily caput le of bravo and intelligent
work. As to the fntnre tho Georgian says:
The candidates for Congress in this Congressional
district will bo expected to define their position on
this all absorbing question.
The convention that meet* next year will have
representatives from Chatham, Effingham, Screven,
annel. Bulloch, Bryan. Tattnall. Liberty, llcln-
tosh, Glynn, Wayne, Appling. Pierce, Camden,
Charlton, Ware, Clinch and Echols. Walk up
Messrs. Norwood, Nlcholls, Bradwell, Meldrlm.Du-
Bignon, snd a host of other lesser lights, and take
pinch of tariff snuff.
Some of the gentlemen referred to are
quite prepgred to take the snuff referred to
ia lerge cr small pinches. It may hare cs
caped the notice of onr contemporary, bnt
right nnder the very nose of the News and
tho convention which secured the nomina<
tion of Mr. Norwood declared distinctly in
favor of tho doctrine of protection.
What the Georgian promises for tho First
district will be presented in other dietrichi.
The representatives from Georgia in the
next Congress will be lnv.ted and even per
guaded to make their views fnUy nnder
stood by the people who do the voting.
Weather and Water.
Daring the last two weeks the crops in , __ , . ..
... ® . , ... . ... -1 nesa of that statement was proved by the
this section have been without ruin and
What II« Says in Reply to “Tax Payer" on
the Rond Question.
Efitor Txleobafii: I happened to be in
New York when your edition o{ the 5ft was
issued, containing two colnmoe on ths
••bond question," signed “Tax Payer," and
lor this reason have only now read it.
In that communication abuse of “Bul
lock" it substituted for foots orargument in
support of repudiation; and were it not for
yonr editorial indorsement of yonr corre
spondent as being “one of the moat gifted
writers and parent patriots in Georgia," I
would not notice this evidence of the high
position yon ensign to him. In deferenoe
to your indorsement I wish to respond.
It will be impossible for mo to follow in
detail the line of vituperative rhetoric
poured forth by your correspondent with
out taking np too muoh of yonr space and
fatiguing your readers. 1 will therefore
oouti-nt myself with a brief rejoinder.
I winh to say first that I never “fled tho
State " After my resignation of the office
of governor it was, for personal
and family reasons, more agreeable to
spend as mnch of my time as possible
in New York State with my aged parents.
There was no secret as to my whereabouts,
and on frequent occasional met the Gov
ernor and the Attorney-General of Georgia,
the State's financial agent, chairman of oom-
mltlees, counsel, etc., in New York city
when requested by them to do so, snd when
officially requested to respond to my ca.es
in court here I came to Georgia, and con-
tinned to do eo from time to time nntil the
proseonttng officers consented to coll the
oases for trial. After the death of my
parents I resumed my residence in Georgia
and have ainoe been doing, in a modest way,
wbat I could to aid in bnilding np and
maintaining oar material interests.
As to tho “bonds," I now repeat what I
have frequently said and printed before,
that none were is.ned except in pnrananoe
of statnte law, and all were duly recorded
in the appropriate departments of the Stats
government
It is true my Republican successor vetoed
tbe bill which brought this bond oommittee
into s-slnteuoe, hut ho did this beoanse their
sitting wonld be an unnecessary expense.
He had already transmitted to the Legisla
ture a fall aud complete statement of the
amonnt and cfiarAoter of tho bonds issued
during my administration, and tho correct-
some of the hottest days known to the
oldest inhabitants" have been experienced.
On Saturday tbe thermometer indicated at
onetime 98 degrees, and yesterday 97. This
is abnormally bot for Macon, and the effect
upon vegetation hag been very damaging.
Corn is curled np and parched,
and cotton prostrated. Should the unfa
vorable season extend throngh this week a
■evere loss will be inflioted npon the Ar
mors.
Here in the city the distress is increased
by reason of a scarcity of water, owing to
a change that is being made in pumps. Tbe
supply in tbe reservoir is dangoronsly low,
and probably cannot be increaaed for some
time yet An aooident might at any mo
ment leave ns with no water at all.
^^Wa«rs^=B2s3tsnrt
News and Courier advocates. Tbe Booth-
Oppression Not Slorallty.
It not require yesterday's heat end
oppression to convince the people that the
enforoed suspension of the sale of soda
water and other non-intoxicatiog and
harmless drinks is one of the moat intoler
able nnieanccs ever pat npon this city. It
seems s little thing, in tbe abstnot, bnt in
reality the present condition of affairs
amount to absolute discomfort snd dis
tress.
To ns it is incomprehensible that people
will qnlotiy submit to be ruled and dictated
by • handful of extremists in this matter
whon nine-tenths of them feel the bad
effects of tho present arrangement.
Yesterday afternoon while etrangera visit
ing the city were forced into thli office for
evon a glass of oold water, a brass band thun
dering oat a military qniok-step passed the
door.
Tito Itniul Question.
In this Issue of the TusamarB ia pub
lished a communication from ex-Goveroor
Bullock touching the "repudiated bonds”
of Georgia. Ex-Governor Bollock writes
in reply to "Tax-Payer,” whose article ap
peared In these oolamus on Jane 6th, end
is entitled to a hearing. HU views
ere expressed in the dear, terse lengnege
of the badness men, snd nsed no oommenle
from the Txlxorafb. The inbjeot so for
as the State itself le ooncerned U ns adju
dicate and the TzLianarn's position rela
tive to a reopening has already been strong
ly expressed.
Tux Philadelphia Frees gravely says:
“There is no anger, no bitterness, no feel
ing of hostility towards the Sonth nor any
desire to hnmiliate the people of that sec
tion, remaining in the North. On the con
trary, there U an earnest wUh for oordUl
relations with the Southern States, end
deep interest in their prosperity." In the
seme iaane with this the Prase publishes
opinions from the hste-oenten of the North
aud West going to show that there ere plen
ty of people left who wonld be glad to see
the Sonth agdn reduced to territories and
placed in the hands of thieves snd robbers
for punishment.
SilRHUS AND PATCHES.
Is Tallow Jack coming further Forth) That's ths
Key WssUoo—Boston Herald.
committee.
Dr. Bozeman, of Golnmbns, whom dl
knew to honor and respect, was appointed
by my Demooratio successor to examine the
State's financial records from the time of
Oglethrope to 1871. This service was faith-
tally performed, and he pdd me the com
pliment of saying that tbe records of my
term were clear and comprehensive and
that he had no tronble with them. It was
ascertained, however, that fonr bandied
thousand dollars of bonds were signed by
my Immediate Democratic predecessor, of
whioh no record could be found.
No fraud in tho issue bonds daring my
term has ever been officially charged, anti
none will over be proven.
Referring to this bond committee's report
said and printed in 1872, and I repeat it
now:
Briefly raeapttnlatad. the opinion nf the
Committee" end the decision of that Legislature
eeemi to have been:
1st. That where the partlM who loaned money to
the Mute or meneged the raUroede end edvtnced
the money to build thorn, were Bspnhllcens. 1
not construe the Uws end exeente them In the r
ner end el thH times the oomqiUtee think 1 should
have dons. '
3d That In throe Instances tha laws which I did
•seoute were unconstitutional.
3d. TbM ths Legislature which enacted the lews
was e --lissurd."
4th. That three Republican*, by easUtalng the
ecu of Consreea had ordained “an nu Godly
chalice (or bU fellow” end “mutt not murmur If
to bU own Upe the bluer enp be preaaed bythe
avenging feU of e belter day.” In other worde
while tbeae DemocraU are In power, Republican!
nmil not oipeol tbs boneet payment of Joel
ero farmer is beginning to realize that *he
has bean dcc-ived all hia Ufa. There never
wee abetter time to think for himself.
Tbs oonntry has began to be more or leas
accustomed to the reports that the Demo
craU ere looking around for some available
Southern man to nominate for tbe vies
presidency. Tbe latest individuals men
tioned for this place are Lamar and Car
lisle. No person, however, who is familiar
with ths cowardice rf the democracy ever
behaves that any man living below tbe old
line of Mason and Dixon, whether loyal or
disloyal daring the war, will be selected
next year for this honor.—Globe-Democrat.
The Globe-Democrat need not perturb lie
loyal soul over Mr. CarUile. True, be Uves
just serose the line, bnt he has sworn
before the country that be gave tha Confed
eracy no aid or support, and that ha did
not sympathize with the South. Mr. Car
lisle purged himself with this iron clad oeth.
yond local happenings, and is edited with
rare vigor snd intelligence, addressee Itself
to the matter under consideration, and it
affords us pleasure to quota liberally from
s late issue. Of the preeeut situation it
mys
That* seems to baa disposition os Uw put cl
candidates for Congress oow-s-days. «o entertain
twu aeu of views. One they fling Id the breeie to
retch vote#. The other, their candid convictions
npon public fiueeUone, they hint el privately.
Tbe uoet prominent question in Amerirtn poU-
Uca Just now Is: Pres Trade vs. Tarts Reform,
with Incidental protection.
In the lire! CoogresWrnnt dletrlct things an set
ting terribly mixed on this qoastlon. The greet
•egol of free trade, the flmsaik Morning Xewa,
press meg lo do Uw thUUsg for the dletrlct, bnt we
wonld Just hare end now any to that Jonrenl the! ee
far aa the Oeotglaa U concerned, u expects to atehe
war to the bitter snd on Us tree trsds policy, end
the randiflaten far Confrere Is this district
•how their hands an this gnaetioo.
wlty psmttUws we wish they ware
men-an always on the still hut for otflee; Ml the
farming close that free trade te the old Dtmocrahc
■login, end that they ore for free trade end do _
fever the propxtlre Idee. They te.: the rice planter • oth*r rvcpevt Texas stftlrv*
A correspondent writes toaak whet kind of cloth
le moat durable. Convict stripes, deer sir. They
ere never worn on t—Boflalo Express.
In thli oonntry men ere called hsnihen If they
worship tbe Jog. In India they are heathen If they
worship the Jogg'er not—Danevllle Breeze.
When Qneeo VlctorU'e family are all together
there are fllty-ntne of them. And not a mother’s
eon of them earns hie living.-Hanford Pooh
From an old bachelor's album: ‘ It’s too ••
many whan ono Is yonng. sad too loU when am
old. The Interval may prodtnhly be devoted to
flection."—ltd BUs.
Churches to this gnat coon try in risen at the av
stage rate of tan a day; aalooni a the rate of
a day. Whet le the moral of that) It his Sonet
to very Immoral—Mllwaokee Wsconeln.
It to repnrtod that the Bncetone hare advanced
10,000 troops to within oU tan tangs of Eent
Whin they got within onemsemtongs the war cor
respondents wUl begin to sharpen their pencils.
Burlington Preo Press.
Pond mother to vtattlnfl friend: Tee, every roe
eeenu lo think he looks like hie peps; now doyon.
Mr. PlUglbbon? Pltagtbbuo (coueotlngly) —Well.
>«■. t ut. Indeed. 1 wouldn't allow tbit to annoy
me, if I were yon,ecclderlng be U soond in ewry
The defondera of repudiation do not dare
submit tho question at issue to our own
State courts, but when the subject to agita
ted they act up a howl of denunciation
against “Bullock” and tho Legislature
which passed tha laws.
Thank God the day has gone by in Geor
gia when her sober, solid men can be blind
ed or bulldozed by this sort of chaff. If
we have had tha property or money of
otbor paople for our own benefit wo are
willing and ready to pay it when our oonrto
ao decide.
As to myself and tbe report of the “Bond
Committee" from which yonr correspon
dent quotes eo ooplouely, I detire to esy
that when I resigned tbe office of Gover
nor, there was no charge against me of offi
cial misconduct. The charges subsequent
ly brought against me were an afterthought,
and were nsed for political effect in the
Seymour and Blair campaign against Grant.
The oommitteta were not assisted by short
hand reporters to give verbatim and oorreot
reports of statements made before them, nd
hence words wero attributed to aud pat in tbe
mouths nf witnesses which they never nt
tered. For instance, Mr. Sage, chief en
gineer of the Air Line railroad, to made to
say that I approached him with o corrupt
propo rtion with relation to bonds indorsed
for that road. When, in fact, os ha after
wards explained, be bed nothing whatevor
to do with bonds, snd tbe conversation with
mo to which he testified was about lands
on the line of tho than proposed road. Oap-
tain Conly also said;
.. " T V. r *<? ort °> th* sf.’dsaee given by ms a< pub-
lislisd by ths committee. Is wholly Inaccurate, snd
puts words la my mouth I hare asm ntierod. and
mskre me say things which ora not true In feet.
Every thing to which I tretifltd tending to show
that Oonnor Bollock acted Is good faith to tha
state tar, it Kiss, Uw cwstsB? tzclaJad, sbile
every other thing to which I treuflsd. sad which,
taken by ltsoir. could bo tortured Into a reflection
on tha Governor, hat bora grossly garbslltd and
carefully recorded.
Col. Atkinson, another witness speaking
of tbe report aa published, says:
-Mnch of my testimony to suppressed or omlttod
snd much of that printed U so condensed that tt
does not correctly express ths facts detailed by
Col Burns also said:
“The greeter port of my testimony to either n,'
preened or emitted In the printed report.”
But notwithstanding nil thin desire to
conviet me, the committee were not able to
report any offictot act of mine for impeach
ment, and contented themselves by pro-
coring from a convenient grand jury In-
dictmente against me as bring liable for
other officials alleged misdoings. Io none
of these, however, was there any allege-
tion of my having officially or personally
committed any trend in the tome or indorse
ment of State bonds, or of having demand-
•a or feoeirod bribes or compensation for
•neb iaane.
On tba toial of these indietmento in
court the alleged misdoing* of other offi-
ciriswss nod proven and I was vindicated.
Not one oingle Repnbliean official of my
administration baa ever bees convicted of
those of ue who
ere sUU alive enjoy the respect of onr fel-
low ettisan* la the communities where we
now reside. It to, therefore, late in tho
day to now rehearse these old, stale scan-
dala ee a reason for refusing a hearing in
onr oonrto to the Stata'a er.ditora who
bflWflbocn robbed by the partiean atcicn
*, IrgislAUve majority usurping tho
judicial (auctions of government
Nor to it a good defense to uy that the
government wbieh authorized the bonds
was composed of “greedy besets and birds
flung in npon na ht the wake of war ” for
it u not tine. The atflef offleioU of that
government, legislative, judicial and
cuttve, were natives of our ioertnn ***
who were citizens hero before'
daring the war, nnd who did .J 64
duty on our side daring th.
BoeWlIv. intellectually and finan^V'
tbeso officials were tho peeraof any f
positions before or elnro ,1^
The judicial officers of 0,. *“
premeand Superior Courts appointed a
ma were not excelled In personil ohuL,?
and legal learning oven by the pr<W
cuponU of those high positions
The only logical reason ever t ff ered tor tkt.
repudiation is that the government wku
authorized and issued tho bonds wu t?
outgrowth of Congressional reconstruct^!
ond negro enfranchisement, and thst
State government when it fell into the
trol of the opponents of those mutiu,.
was not bound bv any of the acta of ii
predecessors. If his position be well Ufa?
then of coarae there has been no legal g-,
ernment In Georgia elnoe a Democratic
ernor fled the State to avoid submitting <1
Congriaalonal authority. The same L-ci
laturo whioh. voted repudiation of dtbto
contracted under Republican author:,
also voted a gold medal to the abaoondii
Governor as an expression of their apDren-2
tion of his fidelity to public duty!! ' ”*■
Fortunately for our State, however this
control of reactionists—“Bourbons '-l.,!
short-lived, and by a union of thoU
who accepted reconstruction aa atoaiitv
with those of your party, Mr. ZiaJ
who preferred progress and prosperity' to
sulkiness and “oussin” the Bourbons wj,
given back seats, whioh they still retail
and Georgia was again started npon an tn
of pc see and plenty.
I hold snd shall maintain that the
tmacy of the repudiated bonds is a quntiai
for judicial ascertainment, and I would b,
perteo'ly witliog to submit that question tol
Judge Thomas J. Simmons and Judge John'
L Hall, sitting in their judicial capacity j.
Ur hearing evidence aud argument. 0™.
ions fxpnwged in the hey-day of youth, nn-
der the influence of high politioul exciuJ
ment, is one thing—mature judgment uooa
a ooso in cvnrt is quite another thing. But
Mr. Editor, I have no pecuniary interest is
this question. I never owned one of sheael
bonds, aud never intend to do so. It k
however, of personal interest to ms whit
some one like your “Taxpayer” empties hii
vials of abuse on my head instead of offer
ing an argamont to sustain tho repudiation
which is in him.
I enclose yon a pamphlet covering
some oorreapondenoo between myneliind
others on this bond question. Perhaps it ii
this tract which baa inspired your c >ms.
1 mndent. If so I hope ho will reed it tgtin.
Georgia haa enjoyed tbe benefits and col
lected taxes for nearly twenty yean on
abont six hundred miles of railrosd which
were bailt within the State beoause of hn
promises. Those promises aro broken,
and against the holders of thoso pro mitre
our courts are dosed.
Do you think, Mr. Editor, that abating I
‘Bullock” and screaming “fraud'' ia this I
coso will satisfy tha oonscianoe of an honret |
man or promote tho honor of Georgia?"
Rortm B. Bclloci,
Atlanta, Gs., Jane 18, 1887.
A COSTLY INVITATION.
The rresldent Invited to Kansas City by
tho Hoard of Trade and Citizens.
Few York Herald.
Tho members of tbe committee recently
selected by President E H. Allen, of ths
Kansas City Board of Trade, to prepare
•nd present to President and Mrs. Clou-
land an invitation to visit the city daring
the coming fell ere qnietly at work arrang
ing details and perfecting plana for ths
proper observance of tha important event
The invitation to whioh names era being
obtained reads aa follows:—
“We, the undersigned, hereby join in an.
invitation to President Cleveland and wife I
to visit Kansas City, our signature within
to bo attaoked to tho form of Invitation ap
pointed by the Kansas City Board of Trade,
consisting of E. H. Allen, A. R. Freneh,
Witten McDonald, E L. Martin, H. M.
Holden, 8. B. Armour and James M. Nava” I
The invitation will be engfbssed in book [
form end will be twelve inches wide, eev-1
enteen inches long and about six inches I
thick, and of tha very finest paper. The
style of binding has not been ioliy dicided
upon aa yet, bnt will probably be of seal
skin bandeomely mounted. The bosk will
be allegorically illustrated in water ooIob
by Barra. The first page will contain e fe-1
mole figure, at the feet of whom lies the 1
oonntry tributary to Kansas City, saJ I
sketches representing her prodnote, indue
tries, etc. Tho next seven pages wUl con
tain pictures of maidens representing the I
Stated of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, In- j
dian Territory, Colorado and Now Mexico- I
The ninth page will contain the invitation
to President and Mrs. Cleveland, and vu
be execoted by the most expert penman is
the city. Following the invitation *m
oome the signatures of 30,000 residents «
Kansas City. It is the intention of the
comroittie to have everything abont theu-
vitatiou exoonted in Kansas City. It will |
eoat about $1,000.
FINISHED IN ONE SCENE.
A Very Kealletlc Performance ta I
„ „ Brooklyn Museum.
New Yotk Star.
Abcut two hundred people wefii io tii*
Brooklyn Mtuenm, at Flatbnab aventlsaod
Fulton atroet, last evening, to see Hender- |
eon’s Dramatic Company in the blood-curd
ling drama entitled “Jesse James.' 1 Tt«J
fiid not see the whole performance, as the
entertainment broke np in eonfnsion and •
serious panic was narrowly averted. TW*
were about fifty people in tbe body of »•
house end one hundred end fifty more >“
the gtlleriee. The curtain did not go ep et
eight o'clock end tbe audience began to g*
uneasy. Their noisy demonstrations con
tinued nntil 8:20, when three members *
the troupe came before the curtain.
While two acted as a body guard the thud
explained why the performance had not»
gun. The speaker opened by laying «**
Henderson was a deadbeat. 'This P>*“g
audience, and they cheered and hooted
and yjltod. The speaker continuing. *•“
that Henderson had not paid b<a oomp*0(
any salaries for two weeks, and they MJ
resolved not to play. Thto was the *W«“
for a general scrambling toward th*
office. Tbe small boys yelled, the wo-f"
■crewed, the babies cried and the te*9*
whistled and hooted. „ ,
Money was refueled to those who »PI“”.
at the box office aa tong as she csrii
out, but when paymerri eras stopped tw-w*
were still about seventy-five person*
had not been settled with. They proceed*}
to mike things lively. Thd? crowded sad
S ashed in the moat bolster*)* man#*'-
everal persons were thrown down saa
trampled upon, aud one or two worn*
with children in arms narrowly eecap*~
being crushed. Policeman John Refit?* °1
the Central eqnad, with two officers,
at the door to preserve order. They ett*»
gled with she mob, and alter a atuhbo"
tussle succeeded in clearing the
_ While nobody was seriously injured, meay
'werebadly bruised.
Toothftcbfts Fftcvftcbfte
ItfUmul ud ion tjN, ut wrultiJ c ■*•**"'■ *
Food’s Extract. boLliftcarbcU.rrioaJj.
CoL J*me* E. Morn-on, chief
of the N*w York Ci?il Skrrics
died at Raff*lo, of ftpopiexjr, Tftt** A -
I evening.