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President Northen and Secretary Nis-
bet are prepariag for the biggest fair ever
held in Georgia. Everybody is invited,
We believe if President Cleveland were
to go to war and annex Canada, the re
publican press would say he was working
in the interest of the British.
The gold fever in acute form lias seized
Michigan, and almost everybody lias it.
On the whole, Michigan is better off than
.Florida, where the fever is yellow.
The republicans are struggling in
Maine as if they feared the loss of the
state. A few more great efforts by Boss
Blaine and Maine may be converted to the
democracy. _____
Candidate Fisk says he likes the
President’s message—that it “hits the nail
squarely on the head.” The Democratic
party has every reason to feel kindly to
ward General Fisk.
The republicans of the Fifth Maryland
district have nominated a man named
Mudd for congress. In this campaign the
democratic nominee will be justifiable in
flinging mudd.
The President prefers to fish for black
bass in mountain streams, but on occasion
knows how to deal with the catching of
Canadian cod and mackerel. Ask the
republican senators if he doesn't.
Reedy, the motor man, asks for $10,000
more to aid his great enterprise. He is
modest. iDeLesaeps never asks for less
than $10,000,000 and Keely motor stock
is fully as good os Panama canal shares.
A monument to Robert Burns will be
unveiled at Albany, New York, next
Thursday. Thomas Carlyle said that the
three greatest men born in the eighteenth
century were Goethe, Napoleon and Burns.
It is given out at prohibition headquar
ters that there is every reason to believe
the party will cast three times the vote it
did in 1884. The Prohibition party has
no sincerer well-wishers than the democrats.
Senator Quay, accustomed to manag.
ing an eighty thousand republican major
ity in Pennsylvania, is entitled to the for-
Swgraacc due inexperience while he et
tempts to manipulate the democratic
United States.
Mr. Randall, away from the excite
ment of political life, is gradually regain
ing his health and strength. This is good
news even to those democrats who have
opposed him most vigorously in certain
lines of party policy.
Jay Gould has changed the scene of hit
operations. He is catching trout in the
Catskills. He is usually fishing for stickers
in Wall street. It is understood that he
likes sucker fishing best, but it is not so
healthy, as it involves no exertion.
The New York Tribune exults in the
hope that the republicans will carry Ver
mont next Tuesday. Republican comfort
is warce this year, and the fact lhat Ver
mont has not yet been lost is fondly
clutched by Mr. Blaine’s organ.
A JIoston paper reports that “the repub
licans are working in Maine as never
before. Every school district is being
well canvassed.” This is cheering news
for the democrats. They like to see the
republicans working hard to ca"y Maine.
TlieSupreme Conrt Amendment,
Ex-Governor James S. Boynton, who is
now the popular and efficient judge of the
third circuit, will be a candidate forjudge
of the supreme court, provided the amend
ment increasing the number of judges to
five shall he adopted.
Entries for this possible contest increase.
The legislature will not lack for material
from which to select two good associate
justices if tint duty should be devolved
upon it.
The avowed candidates for these high
places are Judge Pratt Adams, of Chatham,
Judge J. S. Boynton, of Spalding, Hon.
C. N. Featherstone, of Floyd, Hon. W. A
Little and Hon. Joseph Pou, Muscogee,
and Hon. H. Clay Foster, of Richmond.
Every one of these gentle
men enjoys a state reputation
whieh has been won in the pursuit of his
profession. They have all figured, more
or less, in politics, and each lias strong
supporters in the race which offer two
prizes for six contestants.
There may be other candidates than
those we have mentioned. Two opinions
are held as to the time when the amend
ment will become a law in the event of
its adoption by the people. One view is
that as soon as the official returns have
been reviewed by the secretary of
state and a majority is found for
the amendment the governor may issue
his proclamation declaring the amendment
adopted. Another opinion is that the gov
ernor cannot proclaim the adoption of the
amendment until after the legislature has
assembled and made the^official count of
the vote. The latter opinion seems to he
more generally held among lawyers, and
according to rumor, is the interpretation
which the attorney-general believes to be
correct. The governor’s proclamation
must be published for thirty days before
thej amendment can go into effect, and
therefore probable that the
election of the two extra judges
cannot occur before the latter
part of the regular session of the legisla
ture. In that event several candidates not
now avowedly in the field will in all prob
ability signify their willingness to serve
the state on the supreme bench. More
than one superior court judge in this slate
who does not now appear in the role of a
candidate for promotion may yet turn up
as a lively factor in this race.
All these prospects, plans, hopes and am
bitions are based on “futures.” They all
presuppose the adoption of the amendment.
Will it be adopted? The chances are
that it will, though recently there have
been signs of opposition ir, '"ifferent parts
of the slate. One county, in a mass meet
ing, has declared against the proposed
change. The prevailing sentiment, how
ever, appears to be in favor of the amend
ment, and it will probably be adopted by
a good nlajirity. If by any possibility it
should fail, tiiere wiil bo an immense
amourt of "love’s labor lost” in this state.
A "Nurserj” that Is a Fraud. | Trusts. ,
The investigations of th-s Ford commit* -'ir. Master Workman Powderly of the
lee in New York and Boston have been Knights of Labor says of trusts that they
watched with a good deal of interest and [ “arc a menace to the welfare of the public
the results have had wide publication. ’ generally, and are organized in the inter-
The principal business of the committee j ests of the few, to control the output, limit
Gambling for a Seat la Congress.
A queer story comes from the seventh
congressional district of Missouri.
The democratic convention had been in
session several days trying to nominate a
candidate for congress. Ballot after ballot
was taken without a choice. The leading
candidates were Judge Robinson and
Richard H Norton. Robinson had thirty-
one votes which was just three short of a
majority. Norton had eighteen, and there
were several other candidates each with a
smaller number. As Robinson and Nor
ton continued to lead their friends decided
that one or the other ot them ought to
have the nomination. Reasons
were offered to convince each
of the candidates that it was his dnty to
retire in favor of his principal opponent
but a candidate is one of the hardest per
sons in the world to convinco with such
arguments, and neither Robinson nor Nor
ton would retire. Finally it was suggested
that the gentlemen toss a penny for the
nomination. After some discussion this
plan was adopted. The candidates and a
few friends gathered around a table “cov
ered with green cloth ’’ Norton tossed a
penny in the air and as it descended Rob.
inson called out “head.” “Tail” was up
and Norton was declared winner of the
first toss.
On the second trial Robinson flipped
the penny and Norton guessed “tail.” He
struck it righf, and five minutes later was
nominated for congress in a district where
a democratic nomination means election.
This version of the Btory is quite had
enough. It is sufficient proof that neither
Robinson nor Norton is fit to hold a seat
in congrK:. But there is another ropoit
which makes the proceeding still more
disgraceful. It !b said that each candi
date put up $1,000 on the table, with the
understanding that the min who won the
two out of three tosses of the penny should
have the seat in congress and the other
should take the $2,000 pot.
The democrats of the seventh Missouri
district must be hard up for congressional
timber. The conduct of the candidates
and the convention was an insult to the
democrats of the district and cannot fail
to give them a heavy load to carry in the
campaign. Mr. Norton, If he ever gets to
congress, will have a notoriety which will
not add to his standing and influence in
that body. He will probably be known is
“the penny member.”
The mortuary report this week indi
cates the extremely healthful condition of
our city. In a population estimated at
more than 30,000 only six deaths
occurred—two of white end four of col
ored persons—not one of which was due
to fever of any kind. We do not believo
an equally favorable report can be made
by another southern city.
was to discover if the contract labor law
had been evaded, but incidentally
another matter was inquired into. In our
dispatches ol yesterday, Mr. Ford U re
ported as saying: “Another fact developed
was that the New England fishermen,about
whose rights we have had so much trouble,
are really made up of aliens to the extent
of 75 per cent.”
The republican papers have been accus •
tomed to deny that any considerable pro
portion of the so-called American fisher
men were really Canadian subjects of the
queen who had no intention of becoming
citizens of the United States. It is well,
therefore, that an official investigation
should show that three out of every four
o I them are aliens. Whenitht people at
large understand this fact, they will begin
to appreciate what a trivial lusiness inter
est is, by false pretenses, being used by
republican politicians to endanger the
prosperity and peace of the country.
The brave fellows about whom Mr.
Blaine grew eloquent a few days ago, as he
described the coolness with which in their
little boats they prosecute their calling
among the towering waves of the New
foundland seas, were not American fisher
men—at least only one of four was. They
were British subjects, and in the “nursery
of seamen,” which the United States main
tains with much tronble and expense, were
gaining the experience that will enable
them to serve with credit in Her Majestr’s
fleet—should the United States and Ene-
and ever go to war. In’cffect, our expen
sive “nursery” is turning out three British
sailors to one American. We pay money
to strengthen the hands of a possible
enemy. *
The British subjects thus educated do
not, even in a time of peace, serve in the
American fleet. Nor do the Americans,
for tlfat matter. Admiral Porter recently
stated that “the crews of our ships of war
are generally made up of men from all
parts of the world, largely from the Scan
dinavian race, who do not care what flag
they serve under. These are the descend
ants of the Huns, Goths and other barba
rians who pnee overran Europe. They en
list in our navy softened in character! but
still free lances, ns of old. They serve for
money, with no sentiment for flag or
nationality, and, possibly, if it came to an
action with a ship of their own or a neigh
boring nation, they would haul down
American flag and hoist that of ilieir ovj^thlngs by the cotton producers, now that
country.” ^,fvd a'jcy are organized, seems to be in order,
Mr. Ford and his conupittei^fiaiAt'cn 11,1 ' Tkl if properly handled much good should
a good piece of work. EveryUCffy \ fWult.
understand what a fraud the boa^ j,,
“nursery of American seamen” is. >'
the production and smother small nggrega-
tions of capital in the same business or
crush them out entirely. They should be
wiped out of existence as speedily as pos
sible.”
These sentiments are in accord with the
ideas of a vast majority of the people gen
erally. Especially is this true now of the
people throughout the cotton belt, since
by reason of the bagging trust, every bale
of cotton is being taxed at least twenty,
five cents to swell the coffers of the monop
olists who control the market. Much is
being said by the Farmers’ Alliance asso
ciations in regard to it, and the protective
tariff which renders it possible.
The peculiar position of the vast num
ber of people dependent upon cotton pro
duction, receiving themselves no protec-
tion from the tariff, but contributing out
of their hard-earnings, directly and indi
rectly, to nearly every protected industry
in the country, excites sympathy in their
behalf, and it is hoped that congress by
lessoning the duty or by admitting jute
and bagging free, will make a repetition
of this extortion impossible,
There are, however, other trusts,^taking
Mr. Powderly’s definition as true, which
are as extortionate, and, if possible, de
serve greater centre than the bagging
trust, but of which the farmers seem to be
ignorant, namely, the compress and
storage charges at v the ports,
It is well known among cotton merchants
that the charges for this service are regu
latcd by associations having a monopoly
of the business, and that the charges aggre
gate abcD^fl. 15 per bale, or fullyfrom fifty
to sixtjJily is per bale more than the work
can b»-*a of ably done for. Here, then,aie
twg\ wandejne controlling the compressing
aim ttjo other stowing of cotton (by stow
ing ie luejint loading vessels), about which
nothing if/ said, but which are extorting
from the cotton producer double what is
being demanded by the bagging trust,
Why is this? Is it because the merchants
and factors at the ports feel that as
the extortion is not borne by them
they must keep the matter quiet and
make no effort to correct it?
Or, is it because these trusts are so-called
home institutions, and therefore are, and
of right ought to be, exempt from the cen
sure that is so justly heaped upon theother
monopoly that has its hoitb at the north?
A judicious investigation into these
ita mtue signmcnnce. y
The address of Major McKinley at the
Salt Springs Chautauqua has been talked
of ontside of Atlanta. It has given com
fort to the republican organs of the north,
who pretend to think that the major lias
made a powerful impression on the south.
The Indianapolis Journal has several
long specials from Atlanta describing the
progress of the work which Major McKin
ley was expected to promote and foster.
The jubilant correspondent says on this
subject:
Valiant work has been done la this lino by a
few men and a few newspapers. Tbo Atlanta
Constitution, than which there Is no stronger
protection organ In the country; tho Augusta
Chronicle, the Birmingham papers, tho Aunts
ton Hot Blait. and others lesa prominent—these
papers have led tho fight.
Unfortunately, however, all are strong In
thetr allegiance to the Democratic party, and
•luce the party has promulgated Its platform,
these papers have consented to smother tlicir
Individual views. They are letting the tariff
question severely alone.
Tho situation la peculiar, ncro is a strong
minority, embracing many of the strongest men
In the south, yet it does not dare assert itself.
The tongues of the advocates of protection are
tied and none dares say his soul’s hts own for
fear that he may la some way hurt the “solid
south,"
The following paragraph from the cor
respondent’s letter indicates what the
republicans expect as the result of the
McKinley episode:
The republicans are quietly orgauizing for tho
coming light. The scheme to have Major
McKinley, of Ohio, address the people at Chau
tauqua has been Jealously fostered by the repub
lican leaders, although it had ita origin outside
the republican ranks. The pcoplo Hrc hungry
for Information upon the tariff question, and as
the protectionist democrats have the highest
admiration for McKinley, they intend giving
him a royal reception upon the event of bis
visit. Ills speech will be good.
The democrats naturally feel secure, but—
seme mighty strange things have happened m
politics.
The McKinley business seems not to
have been in* the interest of philosophy
after all. It was a sort of apostolic mis
sion in the interest of the Republican party
and the Bacred doctrine of protection. The
true significance of the little episode is
dawning. It will finally become clear.
The annual report of Commissioner
Black shows that since 1801 the United
States has paid its soldiers nearly one bil
lion dollars in pensions. President CIeve-
land has approved more pension bills than
any of his predecessors, but he has had tiie
courage to set his veto on every bill that
concealed fraud under a pension mask.
His pension vetoes will not hurt him
among honest and intelligent man any
where.
Mr. Dockery, the republican candidate
for governor of North Carolina, is trying
to gain votes by telling his hearers that
Mrs. Cleveland is accustomed to kiss negro
women. It is needless to say that Mr.
Dockery shares tiie common republican
belief that lies are good political weapons
—and the lugger tiie better.
Prompt Action Demanded.
Congress ought to pass at once the joint
resolution offered hv Mr. Hooker, of Mis
sissippi, several days ago authorizing the
President to suspend the duty on bagging
for cotton. Prompt action in this matter
would bring relief from the present bag
ging combine.
It is true that there is talk among the
fanners of holding back their cotton and
thus trying to force down the price of bag
ging. A general co-operation in such a
course can hardly be effected, and if it
could the delny would probably not re
duce the price of bagging when the entire
supply is in the hands of a few men who
understand fully the advantagesthey hold.
The farmers have obligations which
they must meet. Merchants
have, made advances to
the planters to enable them to produce
their crops on the faith that they would be
paid at the usual time. The withholding
of the cotton crop from the market would
seriously embarrass a large proportion of
the merchants without any reasonable
chance of benefiting the farmers. The re
lations between the merchants and farmers
would be so disturbed by such a course as
to make it probably a losing business to
both in the long run.
We have no idea that there will be any
general effort to keep tho crop hack from
the market. The proposition to use osna-
burgs or other cheap cotton goods for bag
ging continues to mest with a favorable
consideration. Last Monday a conference
of farmers from west Tennessee and north
Missbssppi was held at McmphU to con
sider the situation. The use of cotton
cloth was recommended and the farmers
present seemed to think that thb would be
the best solution of the trouble.
Borne insurance agents have declared
that cotton in such form could not be in
sured, hut there appears to he no reason
for Buch a refusal. At any rate the belief
prevails that cotton in osanburgs would
he marketbie. In the opinion of the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, “this is evidently
tiie only way out of the dilemma. The
difference in price is little, and,that
difference will be more than made good in
future years. If the planters allow the
bagging trust to win, it will mean their
slavery to it in the future, and submission
to any price it may fix; if this scheme of
robbery, however, is beaten, it means
.cheaper bagging for all future years.”
Undobtedly there will soon be enough
experiments made with cotton wrapping
to prove jnst what value there is in the
suggestion of its general UBe.
High nail Low Wages.
The republicans depend for success in
tiie present campaign upon convincing
working people that their wages would be
lower buHor the high tariff. They have
practically abandoned discussion of other
branches of the tariff question, and in
this matter mostly appeal to prejudice or
indulged in hare assertions. The New jute bagging if they can possibUij*
York Tribune, however, ventured to give Riihstitnte for it. 1
some facts about wages in European
Tiie Hagglng Question
A good suggestion in reference to tk
ton bagging question is made bv tk/v*'
Orleans Times-Democrat in an edit,**
entitled “Cover coUou with cotton » ***
The extortions of the present trunk
driven the cotton planters to the
nation that they will not long depend
jute bagging if they can nn« s :u.V."
Mr. Blaine is said to own large inter-
terests in Pennsylvania mines and in
Maine mills. Half the workers in Penn
sylvania mines are foreigners who
do not speak English, and the
workers in Maine mills are the
lowest paid of any in the northern
states. Yet Mr. Blaine is the loudest
mouthed champion of American labor and
of high wage-.
countries, and the authority of the
Tribune will hardly be questioned by pro-
tectionists. It says:
British wages are higher than wages In Ger
many or France, Mulhall, the English statisti
cian, puts the difference thus: In Great Brit
ain, *7.43 weekly; lu France, *5.04 weekly; In
Germany, *3.84 weekly. But his figures are too
high for each country, for the report ot Germau
wages, prepared with great care by the Staffs
tlcal Society, Concordia, quoted by Schoenhof,
on official expressly employed by President
Cleycland’s administration, to collect free trade
statistics, shows the average wages ol working
men employed in trades and factories In differ
ent provinces of the German empire aa follows
(see “The Industrial Situation,” by Schoenhof,
page 115:)
Silesia *2.32
East Prussia 2.85
Posen 2,90
Pomerania 2 68
Brandenburg 2.90
Saxony, Kingdom. 2.74
Bavaria *3.22
Ha over 3.20
Badou 3.S8
Alsace-Lorraine 3.62
-* urtemberg 3.60
Westphalia 3 65
Kheulsh Prussia..... 3.70
Average .*3.12
Anhalt 2.98
Saxony. Prussia... 3.U1
Hcsse-Nassau 3.15
Brannsschwelg 3.28
The average ol these quotations is only *3.12
per week, against *6.27 In Great Britain lor 102
occupations named already, and *12.05 for the
United States. The “Annualre Statlsque" for
1884, also quoted by Mr. Schoenhof (page 12-1)
makes French wages average *6.36 In Paris lor
men and *3.78 in the departments ontside o l
Paris, only *336 for women in Paris, and only
*1.98 outside of Paris.
The purpose of this exposition is to con
trast high American with low European
labor, but it does more. It shows that the
labor against which France and G ermany
find it necessary to “protect” is the high
est paid in Europe. They do not fear the
competition of Spain or Italy where the
rate of wages is even lower than with
them, but only that of the much higher
paid English workmen. And it is the
same competition that our own protection
ists fear. When they speak of the pro
ducts of pauper labor that will gorge
our markets and close «our
mills, they mean the products of the high
est paid labor in Europe. They are quite
able to take care of themselves when they
compete with the lowest priced.
The Tribune neem* to have shown con
clusively that if protection makes high
wages in the United States, it does not do
so anywhere, else.
tyalitrieM for Solicitors.
Alabama lias finished her first year’s ex
perience under a law wiiich compensates
the solicitors-gcncral of circuit courts with
salaries instead of lees. There are ten
judicial circuits in the state, and the solici
tor in each of them is paid $3,000 a year.
The total collections of solicitors’ fees
turned lulu ihe eiuie treasury fur the past
twelve months wns $10,521.83, which is
$10,478.17 short of the total amount paid
in salaries to solicitors. This is not a fair
showing for the new system, because all
tiie fees earned prior to August 1, 1887,
belonged to the solicitors. It is oelieved
that the fees for the next year will he suf
ficient to pay the salaries of the solicitors.
The operation of the new law has been
very satisfactory. Solicitors arc found to
be fully as efficient ns they, were under the
fee system, and there 1ms been an im
provement in the general administration of
their offices. The fee system, which Ala
bama has abolished and which Georgia
still maintains, is subject to grave objec
tions. It 1ms often led to abuso of office
in this State. The temptation is great for
a solicitor to wink at violations of the law
which result in an increase of his income,
and we regret to say that in some instances
this temptation has not been successfully
resisted. On the other hand, there is an
incentive to multiply prosecutions for
frivolous or technical offenses as the
means of increasing the solicitor’s com
pensation. On the whole, we think
the public interest would be promoted by
the change of our fee system to one which
would give solicitors fair salaries. Geor
gia’s judicial circuits are much smaller
than those of Alabama, and our solicitors
would be properly compensated witii sala
ries less than $3,000. At the present rate
of official compensation in Georgia $1,500
or $1,800 would bs sufficient pay for solici
tors. Capable men could always he found
who would take these offices at such a
salary, and we believe that the law would
he more equitably enforced under salaried
prosecuting officers than it will by those
who are left to depend upon fees for their
p»y- .
A correspondent of the Times-Djaio.
urges the use of cotton cloth for core,'*
cotton and the editor indorses the iQ ,l ' 1
tion. Cotton encased in cotton cloth ffl
be better protected than by hemp 0 , j.!
bagging, and there is no reason ,u
would not he as acceptable on the ms,”
,The use of cotton bagging would note's
protect tiie farmers agffost com
bines, but would bring otk [
substantial benefits. It is estimstedthu
it would require about 100,000 bales of
cotton to make cloth enough to bale m
crop, thus increasing the demand ford,
crop v The Southern mills couid contnj
the Iffisiness as they are the reeogei,*
leaders in the production of coarse coin,
fabrics. There would be new factQria %
tablished iu the South especially for tj,
manufacture of bailing, thus giving dj
country a new and profitable indnitr,.
The bagging question is one of prsetici
and urgent import to the farmers of the
South. It is being discussed by themia
their conventions and in their consults,
tions with each other. That some preveu-
tive of a repetition of the present comkiui
will be found we have no doubt Ik,
suggestion that cotton cloth be media,
stead of jute bagging strikes us asemi-
nentiy sensible and practical.
A Itecoril of Nine Years.
Nine years ago the total amount of prop,
erty returned for taxation in Georgia wj,
$234,971,648.
A few days ago the returns for this year
were completed and the comptroller-ges-
ci al footed up a grand total of $357,863,331,
An increase of about $123,000,000 «
nearly 60 per cent, in nine years!
This is a splendid showing. It ii the
net result of the industry, enterprise and
economy of a great people encouraged sod
aided by honest local government. The
same rate of increase for the next nine
years would carry Georgia’s total wealth
away above half a billion dollars, and n
are confident that loose of ns who shall
live nine years more will see thit mult
accomplished.
It is not too much to hope for a still
more rapid r^ite Of increase in »the mil
nine years than in the past nine. Tit
natural wealth of Georgia is far bells
understood and appreciated now thin «
was nine years ago. Local and foreigi
capital is seeking new investments in this
state every day. Factories arc rising,nil-
roads are penetrating thinly settled sec
tions, opening them to commerce and idl
ing iu the value of their lands, imp
methods of agriculture are redeemin|
‘worn out” lands and bringing profitable
returns from them. There is in every put
of the state a steady, natural growth ol
population and a constant development oi
tiie conditions of tyeallh.
Georgia is a great state and destined to
become greater.
But It Is the Idlest Jabber thst ever wu ipotn
to Idiots, I won’t say by Idiots, to tell the Asks
lean people thst you can have (ree trade In col’
tons or woolens orjany other manufacture ai
that the owners of the factory can ptj “I
higher wage* than the men with whom M
come In competition iutbe market. IttoU
that is a proposition so simple that no mu «*
sucesslnlly dispute It.
This is a paragraph from one of Mr-
Blaine’s recent speeches. The quee
free trade in cottons and woolens i» ri
involved in American politics, but if *
Blaine used the opportunities of his rrert*
travels intelligently he knows that the lav
priced labor of tiie continent of F.urcje
engaged in tiie production of those articles
finds a protective tariff necessary again*
the higher priced labor of England. Ah
cording to his theory, it would ha®
“idlest jabber” to say that England coud
compete with Germany and France, W
somehow she does.
liml Crop News,
Up to this time there lias been very little
complaint from any section of the preva
lence of conditions unfavorable to cotton,
and there It as been every prospect that the
coming crop would be a large one. In our
dispatches this morning, however, there is
very serious news from Arkansas and
Mississippi, two of the most important
cotton states. Almost -unexampled rains
are causing tiie bolls to rot before opening,
picking is impossible, and caterpillars have
appeared in vast numbers to complete the
work of destruction. The area covered by
the dispatches is about the most productive
iu tiie cotton country, and if the reports
are not exaggerated the total of tiie crop
will he reduced by many thousand bales.
A typographical error in Iho liver
and harbor hill, as passed by congress and
allowed to become a law by the President,
provides $25,000,000 for “improving Back
Cove, Portland harbor, Maine.” The ap
propriation thus made is law, but it is
iforting to know that only $23,000 will
be spent.
A national bant will soon be starteda
Chicago with a capital of $5,000,000. 1
projectors arc considered shrewd bo®*
men but this experiment is one of
doubtful chances. It is said lhat a b 3C
he prosperous must have deposits to I •
times the value of its capital. Tho*
now only one hank in Chicago which
as much ns $15,000,000 on dejiosil. D*
is the Frrst Mat’onal, and ita c *P ll *f
only $3,000,000. New York Has a very <
banks with as much aa $5,000,022^'"’^
did not start with any auchauui. Then,
ent proportions are the result of louf •
cess. Tiie men who are backing t ie ®
Chicago bank are confident, however, t-
they will make it pay.
to bt*
TnE Indiana White Caps seem ^
some sense of humor, even if * S rim ,
riety. A farmer in Crawford cou “ t -''^
instance, neglected to provide woo
family last winter, although be f* 3 ,
sensed of ample means. According
avenging White Caps called on ^
bitched up to a cart, and ®*“
haul wood like a bone all nig *• ^
then curried him, drove hi® ,0 a
and made him drink, and put hi® 1
barn and made him eat corn.
of treatment resulted in providing^
wood pile for tiie rest of th 511
iks 1
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The Nashville American
Cleveland’s “transcendent abilit
is a very high tribute, e>|>ec
paper owned by republican:
come i-i think ol it, though, no ^
inch good position to appreciate t lf
dem'ii itrenglh u republicans.