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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JULY 17,1883.-TWELVE PAGES.
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Manager.
I few friends who to the last tried to get him f west Virginia ** 10
“on hU feet” again and give him a chance. | ™
Some Cold Facts.
It is the custom of the protectionist ora
tors to picture the laboring classes of Eng- The account of a wrecked life is not cheer- 1 south Carolina - ~ no
land as wretched, half-starved creatures, ful reading and yet there are young men i It
and to place in contrast to them the wage all over the country who are treading in
Wanted: A chancellor lor the Univer
sity ol Georgia.
We are willing to wager a Georgia wa
termelon that Senator Ing lls cannot out-
jaw Doun Piatt.
The New York Post suggests as a good
Republican campaign motto: “Two
drinks of whisky for a nickel."
The New York Tri.mne heads a leading
editorial “Free Whisky,” and the first sen
tence reads: “This is delicious." Why,
you dissipated old wretch.
The New York Herald is responsible
for the statement that Ben Harrison will
soon emulate Sir Walter .Scott and pub
lish “Tales of My Grandfather.”
"The East Indian government wanted to
borrow $15,000,000 recently at three per
cent. Twice the amount desired was sub
scribed on tiie day the loan was issued.
The kiss which the new Duchess of
Marlborough gave Mayor Hewitt seems to
have softened him wonderfully. He has
not quarreled with anybody in a week.
Mb. A. E. Buck, of Atlanta, is out in a
card denying that any of the delegates from
Georgia to the Chicago convention were
“corrupted.” This is interesting, though
late.
From distant California, from Indiana,
front great New Y'ork, from New Jersey
and from Connecticut there comes one re
port. It is that the Democratic party is
marching on to victo-y.
Benator Quay did not lead the Sher
man forces to victory at Chicago. He will
probably have the same luck in leading
the Harrison forces as chairman of the
Republican national committee.
Mr. Traylor, of Troup, is in the race
for Congress to stay. He made a good rec
ord in the State Senate and his friends be
lieve that he would make a good Congress
man. They are actively at work in his
behalf.
At one of Simon Cameron's recent din
ners Seuatjrs Voorhecs and Ingalls sat
down at the same hoard, if would he in
teresliug to know whether these eminent
statesmen mellowed toward each other over
“the-wainuts and wine.”
WlLUAM Moore, the chief engineer of
the Augusta News, after devouring an
apollinaris lemonade day before yesterday,
wrote the following stinging words:
These are the day. when the clergyman dc-
parta on a vacation and the saloou-kceper
haogeth up his most alluring signs.
earners in our “protected” industries as
models of prosperity and contentment.
We 1 ave uo doubt that there is great
suffering among the working classes of
England and of every other country, but
the claim that “protection” makes prosper
ous workingmen is preposterous. It can
be refuted by the history of our protective
tariff. The higher rate of duty has not
produced a higher rate of wages. It has
only fattened the pocket of the manufact
urer. In many unprotected industries in
this country the average of wages is higher
than in those industries which enjoy the
benefits of protection.
I n a recent number of Harper’s Weekly
there is an article from Mr. Henry L. Nel
son, giving the results of his observations
in a certain part of that paradise of pro
tection known as Pennsylvania. Mr. Nel
son is a well known and reputable news
paper man, and-his testimony will com
mand attention. Mr. Nelson tells us that
“rnise y, poverty and squalor are to be
found n the coal regions of Pennsylvania.
* * * The laboring men are slaves.
Many of them come to this country pre
pared to submit to the most degrading
conditions. They are content with a pit
tance because they can live on nothing.
Very few Americans and Eng
lishmen are found in the coal mines; they
prefer the iron and steel mills.” ■
Mr. Nelson shows that the meagre earn
ings of the laborers are eaten up by the ex
orbitant charges at the stores which are
run by the company’s employing them.
They are compelled to pay outragous rent
for the miserable huts in which they shiv
er in winter ai d swelter m summer. Mr.
Nelson says that in the mining region
“there is nothing cheap except labor.”
The men receive from CO to 80 cents a
day. They are brought into constant com
petition with the “pauper labor of Eu
rope," which is hired by the mine bosses
every time it underbids the American
workman.
With the stopping of work, very few
laborers make more than $12 a month the
year round, and a third of this amount gees
rent for the shanty. Eight dollars »
month is very little, in the expen
sive coal (regions, for food,
clothes and medicines. There is
many a miner who goes without dinner
day after day, and who tighteus his belt
when noon comes. A piece of fresh meat
is a luxury fur the holidays, and two or
three cold potatoes are the usual contents
of the dinner pail. There is no allowance
made by the employers for accidents and
illnesses. When the doctor Is needed each
visit must be paid for when it is made.
When rent day comes the rent is taken
from the month’s darnings, and if the head
of the family can work no more the family
is turned out with all the bitter cruelty of
business.’ Wholesale evictions rake place
in Pennsylvania, as well as in Ireland, and
scenes of brutal indifference to human
rights and of pitiless carelessness of human
eelings are common. Mr. Nelson tells his
story in a straightforward way without
any attempt at rhetorical effect. The dis
mal facts he discloses could not be made
more impressive than they are in the bare
recital. His article exposes the hypocrisy
and falsehood of the boast that wherever
there are protected industries you will
find a happy and well-to-do working class
Congress has resolved to investigate
Italian immigration, presumably with
view to restricting it. This move is in
the line of least resistance. Few Italians
can vote. Is the opinion growing that we
have as many foreigners as we can readily
assimilate?
An exchange Bays: “Sarah Bernhardt
recently spent an afternoon at Monte Carlo
and-won $900 at roulette, which she spent
tiie same evening.” Our informant fails to
state how Sarah spent the $900 . in one
evening, but the presumption is in favor
of roulette.
Mr. Randall is said to have grave
doubts of Presidant Cleveland’s election
If Mr. Randall would get out of the sulks
and do a little honest work for the party
to which he professes to belong his doubts
and opinions would be entitled to more
respect from the Democrats of the country
footsteps of Fred May.
Yesterday the.election of Diaz as pres
ident of Mexico was completed by the
unanimous action of the electoral colleges
of the various States. The Mexicans have
chosen well. Diaz is a man of brains and
is just enough of a despot to suit the pres
ent condition of Mexico. After he rules
the country for a while it will be able to
stand larger doses of liberty.
Judge Thurman is not an exception
ally old man to be in public life. He is
only 74. John Adams lived to be 91,
Thomas Jeflerson 83, James Madison 85,
John Quincy Adams 80, Martin Van
Buren 80. All these took an active part
in politics until the end of their lives.
John Quincy Adams died in the capitol
while a member of the House of Repre
sentatives.
The month of June was not character
ized by & very brisk business, but there was
one concern in the country which made
money steadily. It was the Philadelphia
mint. During the month it turned out 100,-
000 twenty dollar gold pieces, 1,801,000
silver dollars, 500,000 dimes and 3,000,000
pennies.
A Desperate Step.
The management of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad has taken - a
desperate step in ordering the arrest of
Mr. Hoge, the chairman of the grievance
committee of the striking locomotive en
gineers.
Tiie arrest was made on the pretext that
Hoge had issued a circular in which he
advised the strikers to go to work, and
then to cripple the engiues of the com
pany. Mr. Hoge is also accused of com
plicity in the alleged dynamite plot agaiust
the officials of the C. B. & Q. system.
The company is now in a position whore
it must prove its charges against Hoge or
be convicted of cowardly aud out
rageous conduct. On the face
of it the accusation is improbable.
There is no more orderly or well regulated
labor organization in the country than tiie
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
They discourage strikes, and endeavor to
avoid all clashes betweencapital and labor.
The charge that any of their members ever
contemplated the use of dynamite will not
be credited by the public in the absence of
positive proof. The officials of the C. B.
& Q. have probably been (imposed on by
a set of detectives who have worked up a
fictitious case in the hope of a big reward.
The confidence of the public in the Broth
erhood ot Locomotive Engineers is not yet
shaken.
The Sultan is said to be in a fright be
cause of the German Emperor’s proposed
visit to the Czar. This shows that the
Sultan appreciates the fact that, could
his greedy enemies agree upon their re
spective shares, they would promptly kick
him out of Europe and apportion his em
pire among themselves.
Editor Grady has invited Speaker
Carlisle to oome and make a speech at his
Chatauquo^ Only a few weeks ago Edi
tor Grady was denouncing Speaker Car
lisle as an agent ol the whisky ring. We
congratulate EditorGrady on his contrite
repentance.
Alabama *17*
Mississippi -
Louisiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri Lf*
Arkansas
Texas 44
The total track laying for the South for
the past six months has been 1,689 miles,
or almost one-half that of the entire Union.
The most promising field for railroad in
vestment at this time is the South, and
capital is beginning to appreciate the fact.
A Dirty Convert.
The New York Sun has at last made up
its mind to support Mr. Cleveland. We
do not consider this a very important addi
tion to the Democratic strength in New
York. In 1884 the Sun was the meanest
and most slanderous of all the newspapers
which opposed Cleveland. It scrupled at
nothing and circulated the most reckless
slanders of the Democratic nominee with
all possible flourish. The resnlt was that
the Sun lost half its circulation and nearly
all of its influence, it degenerated from a
sheet. President Cleveland/ was elected.
From the day of his inauguration
until now the Sun has been
forever finding fault with- his
administration, aspiring his motives,, and
endeavoring in every way possible to bring
the President into disrepute. It has not
conducted its warfare on the high plane
which would have characterized the- oppo
sition of a decent journal. ItB methods
have been low aud valgnr. It has substi
tuted innuendo for argument, aud has
often willfully perverted its statement of
fset*. And now the Bun humbles itself
and comes to the support of the man whom
it has maligned and slandered for more
than four years. Its venomous and un
principled opposition did not hurt Mr.
Cleveland. Let us hope that he will es
cape the contamination of its fawning and
hypocritical friendship.
Lew Wallace is to write the campaign
life of Ben Harrison. The exuberant
fancy which ma$ “Ben Hur” the most
popular novel of the day will find little in
spiration in the commonplace career of the
grandson of good old William Henry Har
rison. If Wallace writes an entertaining
life ef Ben Ifarriaon it will be the highest
proof yet given of his genius.
Europe will soon be full of disappointed
Presidential aspirants. Mr. Blaine is still
seeking comfort in the Scottish highlands.
Chsnncey Depew will soon be drowning
his sorrow in the foaming vintage ol
Champagne. Judge Gresham sailed last
Saturday to rest for a few months amid the
charms of several effete monarchies!. While
be is wandering In foreign lands thinking
of Ben Harrison he may recall the linen
-Marvellns ailed mors tnuJoy (vats
A Fast Young Man.
Ten years ago there was not a more pop
ular young man in New Y'ork than Fred
May. He was bright, handsome, genial
and happy. At the high-toned clubs he
•was a tavorite and society lavished its
caresses upon him. He represented an
old and honored family name, and while
not wealthy in the New York sense had a
snug competency.
To-day Fred May, in the prime of life,
ts a ruined, broken d wn man, a common
dead-beat, and a fugitive (from (justice.
The transition from his estate of ten years
sou is n logical sequence of events. It is
an old story.
Young May “took life easy.” He loved
its pleasures and dissipations, while he
shunned its duties and burdens. He was
it fast young man. He lived beyond his
income and hail no thought for the mor
row. First in the series of troubles came
accumulated debts and the consequent
compromise of honor. The habits which
had brought about such embarrassment
were fastened by it on a nature that was
too weak to break their bondage. The
young man fell lower end lower in his
habits and associations until he lost that
life preserver of character—self-respect.
Former friends shunned bint and he was
pointed out as a dangerous companion.
Last summer he was arrested at Newport
for getting drunk and endeavoring to
break up an entiie hotel.
A few weeks ago be grossly insulted a
lady on the streets and made an assault on
the policeman who attempted to arreat
him. He waa taken into custody, but was
released on bond. Before the case was
called young May disappeared. Ills said
that he has forfeited his bond and fled to
Demersra- Be Is an exile from inmia^"”
The Sugar Trust. J 1
The. sugar trust perhaps sees
days are numbered, and is determined to
rch the people of as much as possible be
fore the end comes. It has again ad
vanced the price of BUgar, this ti' • >n the
pretense that raw sugar lias be ome <carce
and higher in price. The Ns v York
Times gives a comparative slat meat of
the cost of refined and rav »tt,.rs on Oc
tober 1, about which t ms .tie trust was
organized, and now, wl.ijh shows that
the pretense is a false one. On October 1
the price of “fair refining" in the New
Y'ork market was 4J cents, and
it is now 4J cents—no advance
whatever. On October 1 the price of
“centrifugal” was 5 7-16 cents; it is now
5J—an advance of 5-16. These are the
two grades principally used by refiners,
and on an average they cost 5-32 of a cent
more than when the trust went into the
business of squeezing the pockets of the
people, with the help of a high tariff.
How does the other side of the account
stand? Since October 1 the price of cut
loaf and crushed has been ad
vanced 11 cents, of granulated 1}
cents, and A standard 1 cent—an average
of nearly 1]. *
When it is remembered that an advance
of one cent a pound for a year means a
tax upon consumers of over $30,000,000,
all of which goes to a few dozen men, the
magnitude of the wrong perpetrated by
the trust and the injustice of the law which
makes that wrong possible will be appa
rent. Magnificent fortunes have been ac
quired in sugar refining before the forma
tion of the trust, and it was presumably a
profitable business, but the owners of the
refineries became dissatisfied with mere
profits. They decided to extort every
thing from the people the law would allow,
and are doing it. '
The margin between tariff taxes upon
raw and refined Bugars must be made nar
rower.
The Uniiernliy Chancellorship.
It is to be regretted that Dr. Stricklcr
declines the chancellorship of the State
University.
His election was a tribute to his recog
nized merits and his admitted fitness for
this high and honored position. His ac
ceptance would have gratified the
friends of the University. We are confi
dent that he could have administered the
affairs of the institution in such a way as
to improve its condition aud enlarge its
popularity.
But Dr. Strickler is the best judge of his
wn duty. He has seen fit to decline the
lolicited honor which was conferred
upon him to continue his ca
reer in the pulpit. We arc
confident that not only the congregation of
the Central Presbyterian church but the
people of the city of Atlanta are glad that
Dr. Strickler will remain where he is.
The University, however, must be provi
iled for. It needs a chancellor. When
Dr. Strickler was chosen the Telegraph
said that he was the very man for the
place. Now that he has declined, we hope
the trustees will be able to find some other,
man as capable and worthy as he. To do
to will not be an easy matter, and- the
election of a chancellor may be postponed]
Elizabeth, New Jersey, which for ten
years has been the worst debt-ridden town
of its size in the world, has finally effected
a compromise hy which it agrees to pay
its creditors fifty cents on the dollar. The
creditors are happy at the prospect of get
ting anything.
Kallruitd Construction.
Before the present year opened it was
predicted that tt would not be a very good
one for railroad building. Six months of
the year have gone and they show a splen
did railroad record. During that period
3,320 miles of railroad hare been laid.
This ts only 300 miles less than the entire
railroad mileage of 1885, and 600 miles
short of the mileage laid in 1884. Last
year was the phenomenal period of rail
road construction, and during its first six
months there was a total construction of
3,754 miles.
For the present year California leads and
Georgia comes second, being one mile
ahead of Kansas. Railroad construction
in the South has been especially active.
The following table will show the number
j of milts of railroad laid is fourteen South
ern f-Tares nnrinir the r-r.-j.-m Tear-
A Delinquent Worshipper.
The Atlanta Constitution used to pre
diet every few days before the St. Louie
convention that the Democrats of New
York would </tll Mr. Randall in to save
the State. So far they have done no suoh.
thing. On the contrary Mr. Mills.was the
honored speaker of the late Tammany rat
ification meeting. He made a magnificent
exposition of the Democratic tariff plank
and, in the opinion of the Tammany lead
ers, greatly strengthened the masses in
New York. Some day the constitu
tion may realize the fact that it
is possible for the Democratic party to
differ from Mr. Randall and yet succeed,
By the way, why has our esteemed con*
temporacy ceased its devotions, before its
quondam idol. Mr. Randall stands jiiB
where he did a few months ago when the
Constitution was lauding him to the skies,
but that able organ novor mentions his
name of late. Somebody has flopped and
we are confident that it is not Mr. Ran
dall. In the matter of agility the es
teemed Atlanta Constitution can give Mr.
Randall two and the deal anil beat him
every 1 time.
Clinnges In tiie MHU DHf.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Atlanta
Constitution, says that it is “expecting to
see the Macon Telegraph attack the
Democratic House for striking seventeen
articles from the free list and placing them
in the dutiable schedules of the tariff. It,
is hardly possible that our esteemed con
temporary will permit this sweeping recog
nition of protection for protection’s sake to j
go unnoticed.”
There is nothing in the past conduct of I
the Telegraph to justify an expectation J
that it will attack the Democratic Houss
either c penly or covertly. It is devoted to 1
the success of the party, and whatever con
cessions of details may be necessary to suc
cess, so long as principles are observed, it
will not regret. If the Democratic leaders
in Congress have foun t it necessary to re
store the old duty on raisins in 1 order to
gain the support of California jnembers for
the Mills bill; we cannot see that the char
acter of that measure is materially
changed. If of the hundred and more
articles placed on the free list by the orig
inal bill it has been found necessary to
strikeout seventeen of the less important,
it cannot be truthfully said that it is no
longer “the bill to reduce taxation”' which
its caption says it is.
It would have been an- extraordinary
thing if so important a measure, affecting
so many interests, could have stood the
test of weeks of discussion entirely without
amendment. It is enough for the Trem
or a pr that no amendment so far
accepted, defeats, or even seriously
affects, the original purpose of the biili It
still provides that tax reduction shall be
on Democratic lines. All of the more im
portant raw materials of manufacture
placed upon the free list are still thsre.
The wisdom of the concessions made by
the Democratic leaders is no? only shown
by the gain of votes in Congress, hut by
the Unanimity they have brought about in
the Democratic press. Take the case of
our esteemed contemporary. If we re
member aright, it looked upon the Mills
bill, when first introduced, with coldness
not to say contempt. Was it not wortli
while to change this attitude of this great
Democratic organ—if it could he
done cheaply? Free whisky, which
it most desired, could not he given, for that
would have been contrary to tiie party’s
principles, but it was agreed to continue
the tax upon bone-black, bonechur, hog
bristles, paintings in oil or water colors,
and -a few other articles. That wus enough;
the bill became a protection measure, aud
now our esteemed contemporary is whoop
ing with the balance of the Democrats.
Wo are glad the Constitution is satisfied
with so few and so unimportant concessions
to its desire that the people shall continue
to be taxed as much as jtossible, and has
oome back where Democrats are thick
enough to keep each oti.er warm. Perhaps
it wus beginning to feel the rt flection of
its own coldness, not to say contempt.
A Ilepullcnil Rocket.
Since the **»i,im nf Mr MrKirvler from
the Chicago convention he has been the
hero ot the Republican side of the House
of Representatives. The reason for this
extraordinary hero-worship is that McKin
ley arose when three or votes had been
cast for him and begged the convention
not to nominate him. There never was the
slightest danger that the convention would
do so, and McKinley’s speech was really a
piece of presumption. - He never held a
good place even among the “dark horses
It is said that Mr. Reed, of Maine, chafes
under the clamor over McKi -ley’s “noble
and self-sacrificing conduct.” Mr. Reed
has a right to resent this aduistion.
He is the superior of McKinley in natur
al ability as well as in parliamentary ex
perience. When the Republicans of the
House get in a tight place it is not McKin
ley but Reed to whom they look for suc-
tor He can say more in five minutes than
McKinley can in twenty, and in the sharp
and quick work of running debate. Sunset
Cox is the only man on either side of the
House who is anything like a match for
“the Fat Boy from Maine.” Mr. McKin
ley does not trouble the Democrats in Con
gress ose third es much as does ssuey, wit-
Thu K'lNtol Must Go.
Judge Van Epps, of the City Court of
Atlanta, announces that when there are
oonvictions before him for carrying con
cealed weapons the offenders will have to
go to the chain-gang. Good for J udge Van
Epps! If all the judges in the Slate will
follow the worthy example thus set before
tlieai the statute against concealed weapons
will amount to something. It has been
very loosely administered. Nobody de
fends the habit of carrying deadly weapons
concealed on the person. It iq admitted to
be the source of mischief and crime. Bub-
lie opinion is set squarely against it, and
for years we have had laws to punish such
conduct. The loose and indifferent man
ner in which these laws have^cn enforced
by courts and juries has deprived them of
their proper effect. Grand j(tries have not
been sufficiently vigorous in their inquiries
into this class of offenses. Solioitor-geoer-
als have not always prosecuted them with
due diligence. Often petit juries have
failed ol their duties also, while judges
have frequently imposed insignificant fines
instead of harsher punishment. Judge
Van Epps has determined that the statute
shall meaD something so far as he is con
cerned. Such should he the tuiud of nil
those who are entrusted, with the enforce
ment of the laws. The habit of pi-to! car
rying is rapidly dying out in Georgia,
more by reason of the improved morals of
the people and the censure < f public opin
ion than because of the work of our courts.
Now public opinion demauds that the law
shall he enforced and that those who per.
sistently anil defiantly violate one of the
easiest and best of all our statutes shall re
ceive from the correcting hand of ju-lice a
lesson not to be forgotten.
Let it he remembered that next Satur
day the Democrats of Bibb county will
nominate candidates for the lower House
of the Legislature. Every Democrat should
express his choice at the primary.
An Important Discover;.
The value of the metal aluminum has
long been known. Its toughness, mallea
bility and lightness peculiarly fit it tor
many of the uses to which iron and steel
are now put. These qualities and the fact
that it exists in inexhaustible quantities
in every clay bank have led to patient
effort cn the part of scientists to discovers
method of extracting it at a moderate cost.
Heretofore the metal has been excluded
from common use by its price—$10 to $16
a pound.
If a report from Newport, Ky., can be
believed, however, a long step ha*
been taken toward making aluminum
as cheap aa it is plentiful. It is made, ac
cording to the report, from clay, which
i* a mixed aluminoua earth, and from
, cryolite, which L a double fluoride of
based upon the theory of salktiWticti, the
ore being smelted in a water-jacketed 'steel
furnace. When the mass is quite liq, lid
the melted ore is allowed to run oul i nl0 a
converter or covered Blagpot holding about
400 pounds. From this the melted metal
is drawn out by a syphon, leaving the slag
behind. This slag is said to be an excel-
lent flux to aid the smelting, and by means
of a futna. e and apparatus made for the
purpose tiie operations can be carried on
continually as in making steel. By this
process it is claimed that aluminum can be
produced for fifteen to twenty cents a
pound, and if this be true it can safely be
predicted that improvements soon to f 0 [.
low will reduce the cost still further ami
bring the m -tal into coinpe ition with steel
in* many dvpartmen’s of cons ruction.
97he death of Col. R W. Frobell will
be the occasion of deep regret to many
friends throughout the South. He was a
man of fine natural gifts and sterling
cheractcr. Ab a civil engineer lie won
high and deserved reputation. When
Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War
Col. Frobell was one of the engineers in
charge of the party which made the first
survey fora railroad to the Pacific Coast.
It followed aim st the line of the North
ern Pacific; During the war Col. Frobell
did most efficient service in the
engineer corps of the Confederate army.
He rescued the Confederates f-om Savan
nah by constructing pontoons out of rice
boats when General Beauregard and Hen.
Gustavus Smith thought escape impossible.
That achievement won unstinted praise
from high authority on both sides. After
the war Col. Frobell was employed on the
United States engineer corps, and diil val-
sable work in the Improvement of rivers
and harbors in this State. His last wo k,,
and one which enlisted his enthusiasm and
pride, was toward the construction of the
Covington and Macon railroad. It was
his pet project. To his skill, energy and
hopefulness is line much of the credit for
the success of this enterprise. A good
man has finished a laborious life and gone
to-bis rest.
The national Democratic headquarters
have been arranged at No. 18'West Twen
ty-fifth street, New York, midway between
Broadway and Fifth avenue. The com
mittee will ^ccupy the entire building
which is a double residence,, four stories
high. A corps of clerks have already been
engaged and the practical works of the
campaign will soon begin. The Republi
cans have secured headquarters only a few
Mocks distant from the Demooratic. They
have leased the building which was used
hy theCarleton Club until it went out ot
existence. Since that time it has been
used a* a fashionable gambling house.
The Democrats intend to establish a sort of
branch office at Indianapolis which will
have specinl supervision of the campaign
in. tiie West. The Hoflitian House, New
York, will continue to be the center of
general Democratic information and the
headquarters of the State Democratic com
mittee. which will take a lively part in
e Presidential contest..
Wicked Editor Moore, of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, who ran away wifli Actor
John Norton’s pretty wife, was arrested
with his guilty paramour in Topeka,
tiovernor Morehouse, of Missouri, asked,
by telegraph if Governor Martin, of Kan
sas, would honor a reqfiisition for Moore.
Governor Martin replied: “Certaiuly. It
will afford me pleasure to surrender such
a scoundrel to justice.” Moore goes back
to St. Louis to answer more serious legal
charges than that involved in his abduc
tion of Norton’s wife. He is accused of
stealing $20,000. itu money and several
thousand dollars worth of diamonds from
Norton. The proof is said to be conclu
sive ami Moore will probably exchange
the managing editor’s chair fora felons
cell.
Women are seldom bigamists. As a
rule they are the victims in cases ol too
much marrying, but Pennsylvania come*
to the front with a woman whose record
rivals that of the most reckless bigsmM
yet discovered. Her name is Lorins
Hart. They have already found fourteen
of her husbands and the returns are not
all in. Her motive for frequeut marriage*
was to rob Iter various husbands. Boon
after the nuptials she would pretend to
receive information that her mother ***
very low and procuring all the money -
co Id get from her husband would depart
never to return again.
Tiie Telegram* has had occasion to
criticise Mr. Randall's recent course —
political mutters, but it yields to none >“
respect fur his personal character ar
great abilities. We hope that his P 1 ***
illness may he speedily overcome, and e
be spared for a further career of use u
The Atlanta Constitution’s young w»n
in Washington has made the discovery
that Congressman William A. Scot 1 ’ o
Pennsylvania, has contributed $1/ >
to the Democratic campaign fund.
is important—if true.
Every day increases the number of R*"
publicans who renounce their former p>m
tical associations and come over to
Democracy. Thousands of men wb° ’°
for Blaine in 1884 will vote for CleveUn
in 188a
It might have beer, a piece of goodHoc
for Boulanger if floquet»,
abled his tongue instead of bis win P’P
It is his tongue whiohfltrings him i Dl ° n
icule.
Lrvi P. Morton served his country }
ing the war by purchasing it* bonds at -
cents on the dollar and holding them i
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