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THE TELEGRAPH. miiat'j avast ditJis the teas7a*d .'wssili by the t egraph and' Messenger Publishing Co., •7 Mulberry H treat, Muon, On. Ike Dally la delivered by carriers In the city or •relied postage tree to ■nburlbon (or tl par month, fain for three montlu, $5 (or ill month!, or $10 ll» IM Wiexit la mailed to anbacribera, postage ee, at $1,00 a year and 60 cent! lor elx month!, Tnutilent adrertlaemente will bo taken (or the Dally at $1 per iqnare o( 10 Unea or leu, lot the gut Insertion, and 60 cent! (or each subsequent In sertion, and lot the Weekly at$l (oreuh Ineertlon. Death, funeral, marriage and birth nettcee $1. Dejected communication! will ant be returned. Oorreeponder.ee containing Importan newa and o«—■••Inn, nf living topic! la ICUOlted. but U)Ult be brief and written upon but one aide of the paper • hare attention. Kemlttancee ahonld be made by expreee, poetal pete, money order or regie ter ed letter. All oommnnloatloni ahonld be addreaaed and all Haney ordera, check!, etc., be made payable to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Oa. Next Friday la Arbor Day. Governor Gordon first set the fourth Wednesday of November ss Arbor Day for 1887, On the recommendation of the president of the Ameriean Forestry Con gress, and officials of the Southern Forestry Congress, the day was ohanged to Friday, the seeond oi December. The Governor recommends that the day be very generally observed, especially by municipal corporations and pnblio schools, lout year Georgia bad her first Arbor Day. Notice was given only a short time in ad- vanoa and the people did not have a fair ohanca to prepare for the occasion or to •how their appreciation of the value of tree oulture. This year ample time has been given. Every city, town and village in Georgia ahonld observe next Friday. There ongbt to be hundreds of thousands of trees planted in this State. It is a work in which the schools can easily be interested and in whioh they can give valuable assis tance. We are pleased to see that onr weekly Georgia ex- obanges are bringing this subject to the attention of their readers and are empha- sizing its importance. What doea Macon proposo to do. No city in tho State has more trees or more beantt- fnl ones. Mr. Bayaru when he apoke here 1877 aaid that the Macon park showed the finest natural tree growth he bad evoraeen. Nothing beautifies a city so much as fine trees. Considerations of health and comfort no leas atrongly commend the valne of at both culture. The people of Macon ought to plant thousands of trees next Friday. Within easy reach are a dexen variatit s, all of whioh are good. Very litUa expense need bo in curred; very little time and work wonld be neoessary; much good may be done. Total lou to the plMttera $814,511 Btildea the eotton Uft bought of the home menu* facturer. which were, of coarse, enhanced 35 per cent. When the Yankee fisherman needs foreign salt for curing hie fish no tax or duty Is charged, nuch Is and has been the law for many years. And yet, when the Yankee fisherman sells hU dried cod fish by tbe weight he actually does get paid for the salt that bla fish contain, llut when t^o planter has to give tbe cotton ties to the bnyer for nothing * is charged by onr swindling tariff 3A peroent. tariff. This statement ought to be eonviucing. The difference of $1.71 is a few cents more than enough to pay the freight on a bale of cotton from New York to Liverpool by •team, but the Englishman gets tbe beg ging and ties, which ought to pay the cost of handling. Hs had already made profit in selling the ties to the planter, would be hard to point out how the oountry as a whole or the far nor in par ticular is benefited by this 35 per cent. tax. Tna Chattanooga Times speaks of Carlisle and his “bigoted backers." As, by its own count, tho followers of Mr. Buidall number only thirty, while 138 Democrats favor tariff reform, it is another case of eleven obstinate jurymen. Atlanta having settled the liquor ques tion, her oilizens now have an opportunity to show that they love their town more than they hate esoh other. It is time that they unite. Soma Intercatlnc Figures. In seeking oonao alien for their recent defeat in New York tbs Republicans have given some smnsing explanations and made some absurd claims. One of their crumbs of comfort has been that this has been an off year election and that tho party whioh vrins in such yean is apt to loss at tho next (Section. The New York World baa prepared the following lntereiting table showing the vote of New York for the pait twenty-one years: DEHOCBATIC TtCTOatl!. last l- i use >«70 1N7S 1874 lets ISIS ... 67.979 ... It (IS ... 20,061 ... 33.0V* ... V.SVJ -IM1T 111 im* l»u ISA last 11.164 lot, 1*61 16313 1.0*7 11,131 7,791 ..•boat la,too 1811 1871 1S7E 11,711 awuaucAE vicTomiia. .. 11.vos ISIS 1J.777 ... 61.161 issil 71,03:1 . 14,661 18U 11,073 It will b* seen that of these twsnty-one elections the Democrats have carried fiitoon and the Republicans six. It will alio be noticed that New York la given to sucoes- live victories rather than to alternation be tween the two parlies. Ths Republicans won in 1871 and 1873. Again they captured sueeesaive elections in 1878, 1873, 1880 and 1881. Ilia Democrats won in 1867-68-09- 70, and in 1873-74-75-76 andln 1883-83-84- 85-8G-87. They have kept up a Bteady winning lick for tbe past five years. At the recent election they made a gain of nearly 1,000 votes on last year’s viotory. New York is a Democratic state and alt ths indications are that the party is strength ening ita hold there. We expeot to Mr. Cleveland carry it by a rousing ma jority next year. Tbs Chattanooga Times thinks drenm- stances may compel Mr. Randall to eombins with the Republicans to defeat Mr. Carlisle, tn order to prottet his “eoniiateney at legislator." The Times evidently knows his record. Ship Bounties. Tlu Macoa Tauwaara lakea the very itnil po sition that them U bo need of lacrrestaf American shipping. It la perfectly content to in tha com mere* of Ihla country carried away by foralfn ahlpa. Thia la tn kteplng with tta proponed policy of ptrmltilnf foreign coontrlw to do our mans- factoring, and of anmndarlng on homa market! toforat*nar*—Birmingham Aga. The Age states ths Tslbobafb’s position falsely. We believe tbe existence of a pow- erf til mercantile marine, bnilt to meet natural demand for It, necessary to the highest well being of the oountry, but oh jset to the people being taxed to pay part of its cost, whiln our manufacturing indu tries are in such a position that they can gain no standing in foreign markets. Ths Age wants the government to lay heavy duties to make goods high to its citizens, and then to give bounties to make gooda cheap to foreigners. That is, these are what we understand to be the wishes of those who believe In high tariffs and high boon- ties, and the Aga belonga to that order cranks. THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNI^ G,f NOVEMBER 29, 1887.-TWELVE PAGFS. WHEN THEY WERE BOYS. The Tariff on Cotton Ties. Four years ago, when Congress was dis cussing the changes in import duties reo- ommended by tbe tariff commission, dis cussion arose as to whether the tax on cot ton ties was paid by the farmer or the final purchaser of his ootton. The weight of the argument was then that the farmer paid it, bnt we remember to have seen no state ment of fasts which made this plainer than does the following brief extract. It it from an article by Mr. J. S. Moore, an authority on economic questions, and a frequent con tributor to the New York Times: Tha Southern plantar doaa uat gat ana tingle cent paid for the bs*gto« or ties, whether ha aaUa bla cotton hero or In Llrarpoot. Tho fact la par- footly atmpte. Cotton la sold tn tbo United States hr groas weight. That la, If a bale of cotton wa'sha 46) pounds and tbe pries agreed le lOeontsapoond, tha eellrr receives 145. In Liverpool, on tho other band, 34 pounds and somatlmaa 76 pounds tare la deducted, and a bile of cotton weighing 4S0 pounds only net-, after deducting 31 pounds, 476 pound!, for which the seller le paid, ‘able tare la deducted i or tbe wrapping and tbe iron or steel ties. Now, than, lat ne taka tha prlca nf spot cotton of, aay, September 6, both In New Tori and Liverpool, and we will Cnd tho problem solved. Tha price of spot cotton on tbe 6th of September In New Tork was 10 cents par pound, and tn Liverpool It waa 6 7163 per pound. Procee la of a bale of cotton weighing 470 pounds i New York, groee, at 10 canta a pound to 1 45. Proceeds of a bale of eotton weighing 450 groan, Liverpool, deducting 71 pound- tore, or leaving 436 pounce, at 5 7-tCd,, to a (notion over £913‘.i., or raebanga at 484. le as n ar aa possible $16.71 for the aalf-esma bate and weight which brings tn New Toik $45, leaving $1.71 par bale for freight and Thus, tf tbe plantar la not purblind, be wHIaeo that when be ealle bla ootton groee In New Tork, and le enppoaod to got paid for tbe wrapping and ties at tbs prlce.of cotton, ba simply goto the Liver- p ml price lor a bile after tha tore of 71 pounds la uedneted from It. In other words ha no more gats paid foi the wrapping and Uaa In either country than ba geto paid tor tbe ginning of It It 1« entirely a loan to hia, and has to ba borne by him. Thin being a mathematical demonstration, the main question Is, why should the plant rpty a tax of 35 par cent on ootton Uaa, when be baa pi loan tha wnole coat and value of theae tlaa) In 1681 the treasury collected no leaf than $211,- 483 duty on cotton ties, and tha acoount stands thus: First coat of tire Imported In 1881 $003,804 Duty paid on them at 35 per cant 311,188 tee Mr. Randall's Chairmanship, A few days ago it was aonouuoad that Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Randall would en deavor to agree upon tbo leading features of a revenue reduction bill. Yesterday's dispatch of our special Washington corres pondent stated authoritatively that Mr. Rindall would be plaoed at the head of the appropriations commit- of the new CoDgress. This last very important piece of newB. It would be a relief to tho Demooratio party know that he goes to his old placa in pur suance of an understanding with Mr. Car lisle which v ill render united party aotion possible. There has been no general de sire in tho party to "discipline" Mr. Ran dall Qis services have in past years been great, and they are remembered. But there has been a general feeling that he has used the opportunities given him by bis holding the chairmanship of the most im portant oommittee of the House to thwart tbe will of his party on the most important question before the oountry. The difference views between Mr. Randall and the majority of his party has been very wide, but if he wishes the tariff revised and reduced, aa he is ssii to do, and is as devoted to the interests of his party as a good Democrat ought to be, there is no good reason why they sbonld not be reconciled by mutual cgneesaions. Mr. Randall leads a very small minority, and should expect to make the greater con cessions. If the appointment of Mr. Randall to the head of tbe appropriations oommittee means this, then the party and the country are to be congratulated. If, however, he ahonld enter upon his duties determined that the tariff shall be revised only accord ing to bis own views, there is likely to be trouble in the Democratio camp. Tho Orest National J—ne. In the coming session of Congress there will be one issue which will rise above all others. It is tariff reform. It cannot be obscured. It oaunot be met with equivoca tion or postponement by the plea that this not the proper time for its consideration. The people aro overtaxed to the amount of over $100,000,000 • year. They expeot re lief and the Democratic party has promised give it to them. The Now York Times dearly defines the situation in an editorial, from whioh tbe following extnot is taken: Bol plainly Mr. Carllala cannot concede that tho tariff shall bo an Isolated question. ll to a party ineoUon In tho broadest neoeo of tbe word. .1 to ito nails I baa an; QUMilon In absolutely the onto rational tuna on which the ~ tnocratlc part) baa which tt to dearly Tho party to oonmilttod lb’s way, axcopt by logtaUHvo actum, tariff reform. lu repre-enatl-eo In tha eiaenttva branch bava declared for It, urged It on Oongreaa, presented It to the people, and done everything they com Id to advance 11. Tbe gaaat body of too party reprcsenuuvoa tn the popular branch of Congtaat aareo with tbo eaaaotlv#. Tha only dleoontlonu are Kandall and bis little groap. Tbe; are strong enough, aa things now aland, to present any action boosnee, acting with tha Repub licans, an opposition majority le secured. Bnt thou strength lies wholly In their recognition by the Democratic majority. Ho long aa they have that recognition, with aU Its privileges, eo long aa thty retain tbalr p aces on tho oimnlmees of the Hens*. and can command the R-floenceand advan tage rivra by Hose p acra with, nl changlog their opposition to tho Domocre'to tariff policy, they Dot abandon that opposition. Will Mr. compel them to choose) Will tho party Ilona* back him In ao compelling thorn) Thom Ilea tha question of tha whoto eeesion. Any reasonable concessions should be made for tbe sake of harmony in tho party, but j edging by their past oondnot we fear that “tha little ltandali group” will make demands which are ont of all reason, and the granting cf which would awerva the party far away from the polioy which the administration, nearly all tbe Democratio leaden and the great mais of Democratio voters deiiro to seo carried ont beeauso they believe it to bo beat for tho country and tha p«‘y- A Hootl Point* The Augusta Gazette soorea a good point against the claim that tbe result of tho re cent Virginia election ia au endonement of “ibo Randall idea.” No unprejudiced man who knows tho situation in Virginia would make any such preposterous claim. Tho Republican convention ’mat first in that state and passed resolutions demand ing tho repeal of tho internal revenue. When the Demoo ratio convention met adopted almost tho identioal resolutions on that question which tbe R-publican* had proclaimed some weeks before. Ma hons accused tbe Democrats of try ing to steal bis thunder. In Virginia tbe groat issue was Democracy against Ma- honeiim. But if tbe “Randall ldea”,*as the foremost consideration with the Democrats, it mads vary poor showing. Tho Democratio majority in the Slate at ibe recant election was only 3.61S. On the Cleveland idea in 1884, contending against the money bags of the national Republican committee, tbs Democrats tarried the State by 6,141. therefore appears that tha Djmocrata lcat 3,516 votes by adopting the Randall ides instead of tho Cleveland idea. Dob Canos announces that he considers himself tbe proper person to occupy the throne of Franco as well as that of Spain Why doea not ho claim tha whole ea-th while ha is about it? | on Tuesday a sharp falling off In receipts at the !<orto gave a fresh Impulse to the speculaUon for the rise, which with some floctusUcna was contin ued to near the dose of Wednesday. In view of tjie recent imiU crop eeUmttee the market Is very sensitive, a falling off In the movement, and the explanation that e tine from Memphis that forest fires obstructed transportation, and from Texas that the strike on the railroads was having tbe same effect, was little heeded. To-day * decided Im provement In Liverpool and reports of tho horning of cotton glna and eotton In field by foreet fires caused a further advance, hnt the market became quieter In the last hour. Cotton on the spot was dull and unchanged until Wednesday, when an advance of l-16o. wae quoted, followed by an equal advance to-day, middling uplands cloelog at 10Xe. Gen. Boclanqxb has been ordered out of Fsiis because a presidential eleotion im pends. The “gad of the musio halls’’ might bo dangerous on such an excltlDg oc casion, especially as the man who bestowed that name npon him stands the best ohanoe o£ succeeding Grevy. It looks as if cold weather were ahead for General Bouiaugar. San Francisco Chinamen are angry be cause the ousiom house insisted on collect ing a large tariff tax on a very fine god which they imported from China. They onght to meet with* good deal of sympathy from a certain oiass of our people, as s-.ch a tax affords no protection to American industry. They call him Buffalo Bills now. for ha has (00,- OMone dollar ones.- Boston Post. Paopla of cqltnr* will discard the vnlgtr termi nation and say ebryaanthema'am. — Syracuse Herald. Shot a cow "Oood sport. Tommy)" * Oh, fair, and an old woman. Both doing well."—Morning Journal. . Sometimes a woman belonaa to tha upper set. and Ihsn again tbs npparaat belongs to tna woman.— Tessa Slftlnga. Shermnn'a Platform. It is not all improbable that' Mr. John Sherman may be called npon next year to sacrifice himself to Republican party exi gencies. They must have a candidate, and as he is getting old sud has for mauy yean cherished an ambition to be president, he may think one ohanoe in a hundred of being elected better than none at all. Under these circuiostanoM Ihe platform on whioh he proposes to stand is worth examining He oalls It short and simple. When he eomes to stand on it ,he will find he needs bilanoe-pole. It is indeed short—"pro tection to Ameriean industry and protec tion to tho negro ballot” The diffioalty about these propo- iitious is that they aro based on false pretenses. The tariff does not in crease industrial prosperity and the negro ballot Is in no need of proteotlou. Both in volve great wroogs to tho general pnblio, one for the benefit of a oiass, and the other for the benefit of is party. Mr. Sherraon hopes to mike workingmen believe that their prosperity depends upon a high tariff, when in truth tho principal beneficUrioi of our present polioy are-a fow trusts, combi nations, lings, associations, eto., whioh ex ist for the purpose of discharging workmen when tho prodaota of ihtir industry sink too low In piioe. He also hopes by head* log a. new erasado ogainet Democratio government in tho South to arouse so much of tho old feeliog against this seotioa that many voters wilt forget live issues in their desire to suppress the influence of tho Southern white man in tha government The design of Senator Sherman is a wicked one, but, like a great many wioked things, it is .woak. Workmen in genera) are more intelligent than he gives them credit for being, and the prosperity and general eentent of the negro prove that be is not oppressed or misgoverned. Cotton Ntntament. From the Gbroniole's eotton artioio of November 35, the following hots are gather ed relative to the movement oi the erop of the put week: For tho week ending this evening, Novem ber 35, tbe total recripta have reached 24Jj 388 bales, against 284,816 belts lest week, 301,600 bale* tbe previous week and 289,174 bales three weeks alnee; asking tbs total receipts since tbe 1st of September, 1887, 2,874.549 bales against 2,437,8*4 bales for the same period of 188Gj showing an in- ere ne since September 1, 1887, of 436,675 bales. Ths receipts of ill the interioi towns for this week have been 189,373 bales. Last year tha reoeipta of the aami week wete 176,382 bales. The old interior stocks have increased daring the week 25,5(0 bales and are to-night 37,354 bales more than at tbe same period Uat yesr. Ths receipts ah the lame towoa have been 13,068 bales more than the same week last year, and uiuoo Septets her 1, tbe receipt* at all the towns are 374,161 balsa more than for the same time in 1886. Among the interior towns, ths receipts at Macon for the week bare been 1,910 bales. Last year the reoeipta for tbe week were 3,063 bales. This shows a decrease for tbo week of 153 bales. Tbe total reoeipta from the plantations since September 1, 1887, are 3,200,147 biles in 1886 were 3,765,892 bales; in 1885 were 3,749,837 bales. Although tho reoeipta at tha outporta the put week were 249,388 bales, the actual movement from plantations was 274,022 bales, tbs balanoe bring taken from tbe itooks at ths interior towns. Lut year the receipts from ths plantations tor the same week were 309,162 bales, and for 1885 they were 291,069 bales. The imports in continental ports this week have been 80.0W bales. These figures indicate an increase in the cotton in sight to-night of 266,617 bales as compared with tbe asms date of 1886. an in crease of 334,186 as compared with the cor responding data of IS®’., i ,,u incteeae of 151,063 aa compared witV 1884. Tbe Chronicla has ths following to say of the market fluotnations for the week under review: Cotton for (stare dtUvsry at this market has been quite nnseutsd for th* week under revtvv. TL* opening vrs* somewhat depressed, under favorable forelsn adricta, both commerced and political; bet ■Doe* your husband swear aa much as ever)" "Swear! Why, I can’t Ins? a parrot two weeks in tba bouse.”—Town Topics. Volapnk, tha new world lsnguass, baa only one swear word. Borne lnvsn’ora don’t seem to bare any common senses—Somerville Journal. m tbe dude has sol lot) the latmt edition of Webster's Dictionary." “Has bsl Wall, hurry, than, and slam tba covers down."—Chicago News. 'My am. If estrange drg stops you In theatre*! and Inquire* after the health of your calf, tell him that he la suffering from pleuo-pneumoul*.— Burlington Free Frees. Tha agricultural fair of the present opens with a speech by a lawyer and close* with ahorse race. Agriculture takes absok seal.—New Orle.na Pica jun*. 'Docs II pay to be good)" asks ao exchange. All we know la that a minister only gala $7 tor marry ing a couple, while a lawyer geto $390 for unmerry- log them.—Tonkere Statesman. A Cincinnati dsecon la under arrest for stsaUng |3 4!from thecoatributtonbci. It to neneceaaary to state, perhaps, that hto pecnUiloes dated evara scries of years.- Btnghampton Republican. A Montana paper referred the other day to "Ktoaar W llllam, cf Oarmany." "Ktsser William" uot a German, bntan Amsrleae, and hla other front nama U "Teoumseh." -Losrell Courier. Th* Canadian papers are calling Mr. Chasebsrl-tn "Jonah.” Well. Joeiah perhaps made a nacre tensive Investigation of the Inaid* of th* Has ques tion then any other aaeo that over Uvsd.—Peoria Transcript. It la hoped that Messrs. Aagtll Pntnsm, Tapper and Chamberlain wUbnot adjourn wltbont peeling npon the long mooted question: "Doea tbs ood Cab salt tbo ocean or tbe ocean salt the cod Hah.—Chi cago Herald. Ethel—"Mamma, I am writing tn Nellis Lra; ■hell 1 say anything fur your' Mamma—"Witting te that contemptible person ifutat Tea, give bar my love. How 1 detest that girl to be sura!"— Harper's Bis tr. Too here remarkably soft bends, Mr. Baearck; do yon ne* glycerin*)" "No." "I wish my hands ever* white like yours; they ere so whit* and email ledy might envy there. What business are yen lot" "I am orgenutng e new labor party.' 1 —Lin coin Jndg*. SHREDS AND PATCHES. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S EARLY STRUGGLES WITH POVERTY. Postmaster-General Vilas Remembers Rla Father When a Postmaster-General Stephenson's Childhood—Uvea of Prominent Men. Special Correspondence Mscon Telegraph. Washington, D. 0-, November Farmers study the conditions surrounding a successful plant in its infancy, bnt tbe boyhood of men who make theit way to tbe front attracts comparatively little atten tion. Yet is it not well worth study, con sidering the conoeded fast that boys are worth more than beans in most BDy mar ket? Take President Olevelsnd, for instance. A good deal bss been written about him, bnt concerning the details of his boyhood not mneh is known. HU grandfather was an Irishman born, from Connty Glare, and bis mother, Anno Neal, barely ctciprd it by being born in B JUmore just after her paronta arrived on shore. Pby“(Von “if.- 11 '® cU **. »n om anything about that. Then I ^ . not 1 tnerciel College and took, if** loCt i ness and bookkeeping* and ° f b »l Htn.bed law, was admitst made my first Argument beforeths ’ -urt j net before I w-i-,20. Myfolk.uP .w it n great font, bnt l know n«!5\? 0 *$| 25.— judge and the lawyers who hosrd th,t ’1 ubly didn’t, i .> ustaa^T'l that the owe bad gono against m* ” to l Genial'' 1111 " ™ 8 I btl CLNVeLAND AS GB0CEB S BUT. On the paternal aide congenital influ ences were very strong, and tight of Presi dent Clev land's family, grandfather and nneles. have a plaeeof dMinotion in Ap pleton’s “Oyoloprodia of Biography.” His great-grandfather died while a gnestof B*n- Wh st makes yon think onr naw boarder to a rrtrd man)" asked a boarding Runs* mistress of on* ot her asrvanto. "Because," replied the |lrl, 'I noticed that when ho oune home early the other morulas ha removed his shoes before going ap s:el».''—Indga. Aa an Item ot Interest U might ba stated e pile of strength thet wonld reach ha f way to tha mooa to wasted la these parte every year by people holding » hymn hook In church who don't know a B flat from tt* bowl of o John .Thomas cat.—Jasper Tea.) Hesperian. II takes nearly to.oeueo firelgn aggs n month to keep the EnglUh In cekse end puddings, and tha Uartfotd Poat sejei "It's all ore elth a country that cannot ley IU own rggs." An long a* Eoi paraUU In having her oaks and sating ll to), aha wilt have to submit to a foreign yolk.—Spring field Union. Tho Fat of the Load. OtMDTille IndlcfkUr. A neighbor says that Mr. Tom Wright, a fow mile* Irom town, has aUngbtared thir teen hog! avenging over thn a hundred pounis, and thatte has been grinding aan- aage meat three days. Saoh men eoald stand an Egyptian famine. Latest Retlaaisa. Carte rsvtue uourant, Tbo rioventb Congressional district bss brand naw representative in the shape of a bouncing baby girl that scales the beam to 11 pounds—tleoUon last Friday. To onr clever Congressman and lady wo exttnd hearty congratulations. Caring fo* tha Poor, P)»v*|y BfOftktX. Captain W. H. Stuckey has loaned the riter bis corn-shtller and sold him a bushel of meal on tick, SLd we tbl ik we beard him tell one of the boys to carry us a load cf corn home. Captain, please have it ground first. Dow Urlfila U Affected. A Griffin man was asked yesterday it At lanta's going wet wonld interfere with tbe whiskey trade there. Hs replied that Ur. Thompson would return to A laLta, but Stewart and Werner would r-main, tbo jug trade from the dry eountiro around Orttta beiog very extensive, Light Florida Travel Florida travel has been unmu lly light this winter. A sleeping oer conductor said list night that hs brought only three passengers from Cincinnati. Holiday lodluetjuna. The stores have bpgun to displav Christ mas goods, and already thu dice-box has commenced to cbncklo. SSMWsSf Rrcat-grnnr!lather died while a gnestof lien jsmin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1757 and tbe great philogfpher apoke of him na “humane in hia life, e*sv and affable in his eonvenatioD, open and sic cere in bis friendship, and above every speoies of meanness and dissimulation.” The Presi- der.t'a grandfather introduced a bill intotbe Legislature of Connection! for tha abolition of s1av<ry. Having been asked to wbat ha attributed Ms eerctnl and precise business habits tbe President replied: “To tbe fact that I was often in need of money when I was a boy I learned frequent from want of it the exaet valon cf a York shilling, and I learned that shil'i"gs conid not tra honestly earned ex cept by xtriot economy and great attention to ths details ot business.” When ho was rising at 3 o’clock in tho morning and walking seven miles and back to earn a York shilling on the Erie Canal,or, latrr, when he served as chore boy in a oountfy gfaswy at 960 a jert, or, later yet, " ii- n a in,m i tn, he tramped through Utica and 8mouse without is dollar in hia pcoktt, and conid not find anybody to hire jim to do a job of work of aoy sort at any wages, or, still later, when bo raniacked Buffalo In vain for days for the ohanoe to serve eomebody as office boy, ho was re duced to just those extremit.es which make Anarehlata of Ibe oowards an 1 cranks who inveigh against law and destiny. Mr. Cleveland's neat, symmetrical and rather dainty bandwriting was acquired while ho wae keeping books lor the Blind Asylnm in Naw York Just as hs was sixteen. Grc-vrr is understood to have been a little backward in the “deestriot school” ot Fay etteville, N. Y., always preferring fishing to frao iona. When ho waa Governor anjold man appeared at tba capital, and introducing himself as tbs Governor's old schoolmaster, raid: “I remember I give yon the blreh three timet for going tubing in Cbenago oreek, end I have ceiled to apologise. “Don't ynn do it!'' said the Governor; “Jou't yon do It! I am very much indebted to tbs Ifotioga I have received!' I called yesterday on Postmaster-General Vitas and aeked him if he wonld tell me abont hia youth and eduoation. "Way, certainly," he said; “bnt yon oan at it in abont fonr lines. My youth was, •ppily, nm ventful While my father was not ticb, be waa not very poor, and I never bad to fight for a living, like aomo boya, I wai a stringer silks to the Up ot luxury and tha lap of ps-nury.** “Yes; and he to a great extant a:. . my reading—and other things tooth's 65 '™ uot inclined to give me pocket w spenilur the thine* I tauta! bu?lraZ say to me, -Not. whenever you"*^.*2 thing, come to mould tell me what it and we will talk it ot.r, and if 1, D ‘‘ and need* d. you Bhali havo it.' Tw commoded me In varionaway, when I in hf T' fc “n d oae . dny 1 and B *°° p *«—yOn the re"— ment of boys, and marked ®Jte o=.. whero ho says that they ahonld be'-mut with spending money, ao as to ketnT_ from dissimulation and uncandidldij 21a lather road it over, and then turned to and said: ‘William! A man who wre . og bribes while he ocn the highest j udioial position « a y. cannot teaon mo anything about the «, agemeut of my flnance»r I p t01 ^ withdrew the book, and father panis? own method.” r—am Tha Postmaster-General's mother is in excellent health at 07, and visited eapital last winter m his gnesL It she now she would find him olossted at ta bard at work on his annual;report. lira. Vilas is, the moat oomalyand ot tho most vlvadous and interest women In the oebiuet circle. I UT yesterday and noticed that aha bad quite recovered from her tremendotu tigus of the Presidential J»unL Fin-: had to prepare to reo.ive the Pwidia party a: Madison; then she enoonnit two terrible sbooka duriDg the ioora At Kansas Oily sho saw half a doten re ran overby a street oar, and two din k at Memphis, Judge Ellet fell dead ia fa of tbe President while be was hti n and sitting by her side. 8he is deUeato farm and feature, but she poasesieisui and elastic tomporment, end tr.il fcgia Wednesday receptions and bold her pi society when Congress meets. I IT, )T V1L1S TEND* POST OITICN. ‘Ynur’oa Yankee, I believe." “Yes, by birth. My father, now some months deni, moved from Chelsea, Vt "ten I wea 10 and took bis family to ths bnutitnl knoll where stands Madison, Wis. Bnt bstore that, curiously enough, be was postmaster in tho little town of MorrisvUlc, and I remember how fow ths duties of the f uic« were, uis mat salary for tbe last *•»•» months was $1 41, a little less than 2 cents a day.” . a—i 6 °PP°»« Jon went to luhool. General?" "Not at ones. Tho first thing I did was tog.into*printing ciffloo „ MeTtl.’ My fa hjr brliiv -d tn making boj s work, and intha’rffljol awept ou\ washed rolltrs, mads Ana a..d did chorea, and there I letrnrd t - art typ*.. I remember that tho Aral stickful I act up wai about tha wood rs of the telegraph a« expressed by ao old l*dy who got *n answer with fresh tak on ft from a long disisnoo and declared that fit dogol'kopiziu.' After mat I went to •cbo 1 a 0 -n plo < f years and rate rod the \y| - A Party ot Harvard otndenU YU I tad Capa Cod lul naoir to itnly tbe natural bUtory of tha c. a«t Tt«*r amailurf «r«nea« $,>, . - hav« ba#n ds»crtb*4 by cnaof lhatr i.nuter far I ^ thoj da, thijjgL,” I ftftid, And I J*•»»"*ty Of wiec-meip when I was IS, In the n.phomore summer I ttetme seriously 111 of f«T»r end wu taken ont far a year, which f pr -fi'ably spent in a bank. In that bank I learn-d i-o-inMi methods and considerable abont becking—a goo-1 deal that he* always beoou elul to mo. Well, that s about ell—it U too much, auywoy, Nob dy w O'* to r. a-1 anch trifl “ Lincoln o-as ns mao. Tbs boyhood of General Stephens assistant postmaster-general, ins act lag. Hie parents bad a few years boon cangbt in that great tid* ot tmlt from tho Otd North 8tals ttf Kantsoky, i there the subject of this sketch wu i half a century ago. Ilisfstharwuapli: ot modcrato means, and ths child sai^ to the heritage of hard work and IUU* 1 that greets a farmer'! son. Tho aaksd Christian connty wero fair, and Flit Ntc-phcneon had more books thantiiafi bora, so tho yonth's ambition to "to somi-ibing” was easily gratified. Vbn wa> 15 these advantages were greatly n plied by a removal ot ths family to yonng and growing city ot Bloomiott Ills There be 1 ‘wont to tho academy,’ there he early entered on tbe stadyef law. Hit ambition wai stimnUudhy fr qnent sessions of the Circnit Coart' its toramot learning and slcqwnee. P Daria was judge and Abrahem LltnoU one of tbs popular attorneys. Gao. Stephenson docs not look bis y for though gray as to hair sod shits i beard, bo is tho pioturs of halo health his step is elaatto and vigorous. A f deal of interest is felt In him jest nos. cause tha transfer of Usn. Vilas ba'* attractive vacancy, and Illinois bu () have a Governor next fall. In this connection it may bo well to: tion the boyhood of anotbsr mat known to-day, the Hon. Roberta. Lire The gst-tnl features of his life et Oh are familiar boosnao tbs oooatryroj with interest everything that relat* V honored father. When Abraham 1* waa c riled to Washington, Robert *j* the poriori of boyhood. His early ll -* quiet and happy enough. He |to» h quiet end bsppy enough, us honest, manly boy. It ia Ihs pMf* this present brief sketch to cell *h* only to his prineipal amu*ooank> was angling. Tho lovsof this sf*’ 1 clang to him all his life, and b6U honored and auooesaful mrmher « Pel** Fishing Club, wall know* *•« sembly nf famous men. Tbs sit» jr deavored to show Mr. Liseei 11 *?,*,— tarts tie at thuds. W. A. Cson^ It la Slarcbleff oa. Early County News „ _ ... It is announced that Mr. Osrjljj* sooept the invitation to visit wjjjjj make a speech on the tariff qoa*“. Carlisle represents the troe DjmejjJ" tlment on this question, end gret that ha oanoot And time to Georgia to make • »?*• j language of tho TaLxaaara,** * r, Ct] in the assurance that whsMtoN^ e:me* or not, th* tariff " will keep on **nitrchiDg lb routs° Mac in Shoppie*. Ml#sB-M-E*V» > ; 1 ABC Hi -lUUyyiasB. —y Bqnara, Mecon. e >» riitalsf. Tho Happy Old ooath. J Greenville Indicator. .ho-tiSiU Hog killing, ond oorn aba^ w things of tho past How ba fallen! There was a U»» , e 5i bread, backbones, JS til UogB sbonnded in the I!*n' J r „ , winter ronod. Then the b«i''fy,, j., at night made tbe welkia n s, suppers and hard denn-j^ h i c rl happier than any satij the Sid South, howh.pprgi“ u , Lottery Tickets Forol.h » y. PoaTLaan. Me. jssgffSfei 1 putlwh tusar-1 askM for more about his training. I “I went back to tho univentiy it. have been ei -usivslr dsh A I*r»ou. have hat «l«d »ltt man named Col* eedtosketreg 1 ^ lu soms*b»t?)crcIrcooi<u.n- , .» th.lr luck, eode.ta pelt fl » f ofewh-.le ticket at ‘., o! wt-JlsJ* round, by readloj the scj.„ « »»* • eksi .k..im l.a-t drmwn I- t! ncivereuy I ih« pnaur.->’»® Bu0,