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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TLESEAY OCTOBER 9—TWELVE PAGES.
THE ELECTION.
A Cold Day for Independents
and Republicans.
•AMENDMENT PROBABLY BEATEN.
The Democratic Legislature Nominees Car
ry Fulton by about Six Hundred Major
ity-Some Scratching In Chat-
* ham—General Advices*
Atlanta', Oot. 3.—[.Special.]—The elec
tion passed otf quietly today. There was no
disturbance of any kind during; the day.
Voting was quite brisk and nearly all regis
tered TOters deposited their tickets. There
were three tickets in the field, democratic,
republican and third party. Bice, the nom
inee for senator, and llowell, Venable and
O’Neil; nominees fqr the House, are elected
by probably 600 majority. The indications
from Cobb and Clayton are that Bice’s ma
jority will be 1,500 in the district. Small
made a very strong race, receiving practi
cally the solid vote of the prohibitionists of
Atlanta, who disregarded party lines.
Several members of the democratic
committee were seen at the polls all
day, wolfeing in the interest of Small and
his ticket. This fact has created consider
able talk here to-night, and it is believed
some action will be taken toward removing
them from the committee. Van Pelt for the
Senate and the republican nominees for the
House received the solid colored vote, lie
has probably carried three wards out of six
and one or two country districts. There has
been a good deal of interest manifested here
to-night as the returns were received, owing
to the mixed condition of affairs. All of the
returns will not be in until to-morrow.
First ward—Van Pelt (republican) 2'0,
Bice (democrat) 291, Small (third party) 230.
Second ward—Bice 274, Small 232, Van
Pelt 135. „ „
Third ward—Van Pelt 190, Bice 150, Small
126.
•Fourth ward—Van Pelt 251, Bice 121,
Small 111. „
Sixth ward—Bice 490, Van Pelt 1£9, Small
West End—Bice 47, Small 90, Van Pelt 65.
South Bend—Bice 34, Small 43, Van Pelt
50.
Collins—Bice 36. Small 20, Van Pelt 19.
Returns from Edgewood, East Point and
Bryant’s have not come in. The county pre
cincts so far heard from are:
Peachtree Bice 64, Small 4, Van Pelt 3.
Buckhead—Bice 36, Smalt 12.
Oak (jrove—Bice 58, Small 2, Van Pelt 0.
Adamsville—ltice 32, Small 16, Van Pelt 21.
Cooks—Bice 42, Small 84, Van Pelt 24.
COBB COUNTY.
Marietta, Oct 3.—[Special.]—The elec"
tion passed off very quietly here to-day.
Hon. A. S. Clay and T. J. Hardage, the regu
lar nominees, were elected against J. C.
Sanges, independent, by a handsome major
ity. Bice carried this (Cobb) county by 862
majority against Small, independent, and
Vanpelt, republican, and several small pre
cincts not heard from will swell the above
majority.
CLATYON COUNTY.
Jonesboro, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The vote
in Clayton ebunty resulted as follows: For
senator—Bices majority is about sixty; for
representative—Ward, democratic nominee,
has a majority of forty-five.
WILKKH AVI) OCONEE.
Athens, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—Beports re
ceived here indicate that Hill and Sims have
carried Wilkes county. A light vote was
polled.
Dr. Gibbs and Col. Mustin have carried
Morgan by good majorities aud it is reported
here that Shannon, as state senator, has
carried Maill.nn .-minty.
The vote was cipse and hotly contested be
tween legislative candidates in Oconee. It
will take official count to dequle.
rULASKI COUNTY.
Hawkinsville, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—Haw-
kinsville polled 292 votes, nil straight demo
cratic, for governor, state house officers, T.
J. Bay for Senator and Y. II. Morgan for rep
resentative. The amendment received leas
than a dozen votes. Only one negro voted.
Cochran polled 135 solidly democratic votes.
The other precincts have not been heard
from yet.
.SUMTER COUNTY.
" Anebicus, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—In the
election to-day, Dupree for the Senate aud
Simnjoni and Brady for the House carried
this county by about 500 majority over Wal
lace, Crayton and Littleton, their colored op
ponents. A light vote was polled, the ne-
gioes taking very little interest in the con
test, and none ot them voting for governor,
state house officers or the constitutional
amendment.
COWETA COUNTY.
Newnan, Oct. 13.—[8pecisl.]—The elec
tion in this county passed off quietly, with
the exception of a few slight afirays. A
light vote was polled. Sufficient returns
have arrived up to this hour to show that the
regular democratic ticket has been elected
by about 400 majority over L. P. Barnes, re
publican candidate. The constitutional
amendment is probably defeated by 200 ma
jority.
Graktvillb, Oct. 3.—[8pecinl.]—At the
•lection to-day Gor. Gordon and nomineii
for state house officers received 88 votes
each, and Senator Ballard the name, and for
representatives, Atkinson 51, .Jones 50,
Barnes (independent)38. The nominessare
elected without doubt.
THE VOTE AT GENEVA-
Geneva, Oct. 3.—[Special.[—The election
here to-dsy for representative resulted as
follows: Davis (independent) 4 votes, Max
well, the nominee, 47. The election passed
off quietly.
GLYNN COUNTY.
Brunswick, Oct. 3. — [Special.]—In
Glynn connty the entire democratic ticket is
eiecteu. James M. Poitel is elected by a
majority of 250 over Atkinson (negro), re-
republican.
ROCKDALE COUNTY.
Conyers, Oct. 3.—[Special.—The election
was a quiet one and a small vote was polled.
A. C. McCall, the nominee, defeated T. M.
Thomason, independent, by a Urge majority.
* BALDWIN COUNTY.
Milledoevillb, Oct. S-—[Special.]—The
election passed off quietly tonlay. L. N.
Callaway is elected over Dr. Keenan, the in-
dependent, by about 2U0 plurality.
DOUGHERTY AND BAKER.
Albany, Oct 3.—[Special.]—The election
passed off qoietly here. Lewis Arnbeim, the
democratic nominee for representative, was
elected by a good majoritv- Gen. Morgan
the independent candidate, will contest
C. A. Alford was elected senator in this
county and he will carry the tenth district.
Prin us W. Jones was elected represenU-
tire in Baker, having no opposition.
• JASI'RR COUNTY.
Monti cello, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The
election was a quiet one. Ail the precincts
have not been heard from, but enough is
known to warrant the prophecy that Camp
bell, the nominee, will beat the independent,
Key, and the negro, Gordon, put together.
Hurrah for the organized democracy.
RANDOLPH COUNTY.
Ccthbert, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—Randolph
county polled a heavy vote for governor and
against the amendments. Crenshaw is
elected over Ingraham (colored) for repre
sentative. The principal excitement wns
over the Senatorial race, between Capt. Jf.
C. Edwards and Dr. Jf. A. Baldwin. Bald
win carried the county by 139 majority.
CAMPBELL COUNTY.
Fairdurn, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The elec
tion passed off quiet.y with a small vote
polled. II. L. Johnston, the nominee for
Representative was elected over Beall, the
independent, by nine majority.^ There was
no opposition to Ballard as Senator.
WHITFIELD AND MURRAY.
Dalton, Oct 3.—[Special.]—\V. C. Glenn
is elected representative and 8. E. Field Sen
ator. T t he amendment is defeated.
The official vote of Murray county elects
McAfee and Bates.
RICHMOND COUNTY.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The state
election to-day passed off quietly, only 678
of the 1,370 registered voters casting their
ballots. The new registration law, compell
ing the payment of back taxes since 1877,
Was the cause of the small vote. Gov. Gor
don and the sUte officers received a nearly
unanimous vote, and the amendment to the
constitution adding two judges to the su
preme bench was also voted for.
Hon. Thomas C. Gibson had no opposition
for the state Senate and he will succeed Hon.
John S. Davidson from the eighteenth dis
trict.
The legislative race had four candidates,
Mr. Silos C. Bead running alone, and he was
easily defeated by the regular ticket made
up of Joseph R. Lamar, Win. H. Fleming
aud \V. V. Calvin. This makes a strong
representation. Jlr. Fleming is the only new
representative. Mr. Calvin Is the only man
in the legislature returned for a fifth consec
utive term, and he will be in the race for
speaker. Lamar and Fleming are popular
and able yotytg lawyers.
TALROT COUNTY.
TaliiOTTON, Oct 3.—[Special.]—It has
been a very quiet election. About half the
voting strength of Talbot county was polled
today. Only three precincts have been heard
from. Three hundred and seventy nine
votes were polled. S. Maxwell, democratic
nominee for the legislature, received 128 ma
jority over F. J. Davis, the independent.
The state, house officers and B. n. Williams,
for senator from the twenty-fifth district, re
ceived the full vote. For the ratification of
^•amendment of the constitution, 9 votes,
against ratification, 370. Maxwell’s majority
over Davis in the county will be about 450.
' MITCHELL-COUNTY.
Camilla, Oct. 3.—One thousand five hun
dred and twenty-eight votes were polled in
this county to-day. For representative, J,
Hand received 890 and Israel Maples 638.
For senator, J. SJ Clifton received 960 and
Noah Keaton (colored) 275. Nearly the en
tire vote was east for the state ticket and the
amendment to the constitution.
QUITMAN COUNTY.
Georgetown, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The
election passed off quietly, owing to the fact
that M. L. Albritton had no opposition, as
Gay retired from the contest yesterday.
Wm Sears, Webster’s candidate far the
Senate, defeated W. W. Fitzgerald, Stewart'*
candidate, by thirty votes in tins connty. It
is safe to predict Fitzgerald's election by 500
majoruv in the district.
Mr. (Jay was not »n' independent, as the
Telegraph state! to-day.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Louisville, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—Gamble
and Tarver, democratic nominees, nr* elected
over Taylor and I’adden, independents, and
McLoud and Williams (negro), republicans,
by about 1,000 majority. Everything passed
off very quietly. •
WILKINSON COUNTY.
Gordon, Oct. 3.-[Special.]—Joel A.
Smith, democratic nominee, defeated W. F.
Cannon, independent, in Wilkinson county,
by a majority of 199. D. L. Shannon is
elected senator, withont opposition.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Sandersvillb, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The
election passed off quietly. The vote was
practically unanimous for the constitutional
amendment Francis, one of the nominees
for the Honse, is elected beyond question.
The race between Maye, the other nominee,
and Fencock, anti, is very close, with the
chances in favor of the latter, with three
districts to hear from.
THE LAGRANGR VOTE.
LaGhange, Oct 3.—[Special.]—It has
been an exceedingly quiet election and a
light vote has been polled. The vote for
Gov. Gordon and the state ticket and Ed
Sharpe for senator is 166; forThos. H. Whita
ker lor representative 165; J Carlton, also
for representative, 151; for ratification of
constitutional amendment,95; against it, 43.
No negroes voted. No county returns all in.
RUMOR OF A ROW.
Acousta, Oct. 3.—[Special.]— News was
received to-night of a row between the whites
and the blacks at Steliaville. There was a
lively race in JelVerson county for the legis
lature by three factions. No particulars of
the difficulty can be obtained.
CLARKE COUNTY.
Atii ens, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The election
here for state house ofilcers and memberf of
tbe legislature passed off quietly. Car
riages were kept runnibgall day and a good
array of white votes was polled. W. A.
Pledger, the negro candidate for the legisla
ture, did not succeed in carrying out his
boast that he would poll the full negro vote.
A large number of colored people remained
at their work daring the day and appeared
utterly indifferent as to the result af the
election. The white people of the connty
were on the "Wt nn<l the negroes of the
election were earnest in preventing Illegal
voting. The returns at this hour indicate
that the full democratic ticket has received
a majority of near 500. The official count
will not b« finished nntil midnight, too late
to give you from this office.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Lexington, Oct. [Special.]—The re-
■nit of to-day’s election for senator and rep
resentative gives W. J. Johnson 64, Shannon
gets 437 and Harper 436. J. T. Oliver and
C. II. Arnold are elected to the legislature
by 300 and 200 majority over W. C. Birch-
more. Woodstock precinct is yet to hear
from, which will not effect the legislative
ticket and will give Johnson about 500 more
votes.
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Savannah, Oct. 3.-[8pecial.]—The state
election passed ofl quietly to-day. No special
excitement occurred. Half a dozen men
were turned down at repeaters. They were
not discovered voting twice bnt it was sus
pected that they were trying to, and they
were ordered oil'. One man tried to vole
four or five times.
The only opposition to the regular demo-1
cratic ticket was the republican ticket for
representative. F. O. DuBignon liad no op
position for senator. There l always some
scratching, of course, but to day it is more
general than usual It grew ont of a desire
of certain admirers of one or two
candidates to make their men
lead the ticket. Naturally the friends of the
other candidate resented tins and lively
skirmishing took place. The friend of Capt.
W. W. Godon and Col. Peter Keill/ on the
ticket for representatives and of Hon. F. G.
du Bignor for Seuator. The principal
scratching was done on ticket for representa
tives but after all it did not lesser the vote
of either candidate to any expert.
The .total registration wns 3,290 of these
900 were colored. Tbe republicans did not
have any douse upon their ballots relerring
to the constitutional smendm nt.
The count was not completed until after
midnight. The total vote was 1,758, as fol
lows: Gordon, 1,361; Barnett, 1,378; Harde
man, 1,377; Wright, 1,875; Anderson, 1,378.
For senator, F G DuBignon, 1,451. For rep
resentative, W. W. Gordon, 1,282; Petei
Reillcy, 1,258; William Clifton. 1,260; S. M.
r’leasaht (republican), 367; 8. It. Morse (re
publican), 365; W.H. Matthews (republican),
374.
For the constitutional amendment, 1,371;
against, 4.
BROOKS COUNTY.
Quitman, Oct. S.—[Special.[—The elec
tion passed off quietly hi this county. A
full vote f..r Gur. on uud it ,te house officers
was polled. W S Humphries is eleccd to
the House and Vicks nt Colquiit-is doubt
less elected to the Senate from this district.
The po I was large against tbe ratification of
the uiiiendni^ut to toe <oustitution.
THOMAS COUNTY.
Tuomasvjlle, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—Thom
as county elects McIntyre and Alexander to
the House by over 1,400 majority. The state
ticket gets about the same vote and Jas.
Vick is withont doubt elected to the Senate.
PIKE COUNTY.
Barnesville, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The
election for governor, state home officers
and representatives for the legislature to
day, resulted es follows; John B. Gordon,
1,215: Clifford Anderson, 1,230; N. C. Bar
nett, 1,230; W. A. Wright, 1,229; R. U. Har
deman, 1,230; C. L. Bartlett, senator, 1,232.
The democratic ticket for representatives
stood as follows; J. H. Mitchell, 1,294; J.
W. Means, 1,289.
Republican ticket: J. B. Maddox (col
ored), 562; C. W. Newton, 665.
For ratification, 361; against ratification,
646.
Democratic majority, 730.
MONROE COUNTY.
Forsyth, Oct. 3.—[Special.]—The demo
cratic nominees for. the legislature were
elected to-dsy over their republican oppo
nents, JJ’ood and Butler (both negroes), by
triumphant majorities. The white vote here
was 396, the negro vote 182. Only one other
precint has been heard from and it increases
ihe democratic majority by about 75. Fo>
ratification, 306; against ratification, 63.
THE GEORGI A EXHIBIT.
It Still Excites a Great Interest Among Ohio
People.
Front the Shelby, 0., Democrat.
An exhibit that is a great attraction is
that of the state of Georgia, nnder the
management of W. L, Glessner, commis
sioner of immigration. Some of the ex
hibits, especially the fruits, having been
over the epuutrv for six weeks and none
too carefully handled by railroad employes
do not show well, and at best s part of
them would not exoei d in fine points simi
lar fruits gcown in this county. Uutu>i| in
various stages is sn attraction. A plant nf
cotton shows the stage at which it is ready
to be picked. The • plant undeveloped
might be mistalo n f r a current bush, ex
cept that the largo limbs sro tipped with
many small branches, upon which are the
cotton bolls, or’rich are of the size of an or
dinary baii of popcorn. ! Us picking sea
son opens in Aug st ami has been known
to continue as Int - tut December. The
lower bolls mature first and often when
they are ready to be gin nod the top of the
plant will be in bloom. I: requires three
pickings to clear a field. The work is
mostly done by black . A good day’s work
is two hundred pounds It requires about
tixteen hundred pounds of raw cotton to
produce five hundred pounds of ginned
cotton. To the teeds adhere more or less
cotton, which is removed by a machine
and is used for batting. The seed is then
ground into meal or red deed to oil, and the
latter finds a ready sale as one of the in
gredients of bogus lard. Ginned cotton is
then put into a jute bag aud is compressed
by hand into bales of five hundred pounds,
which are bound witli strips of sheet iroa
known as cotton ties, iu which shape it is
ready for shipment, and in this form 68 per
cent, of it goes to England. In Georgia
there are six mills manufacturing cotton
goods, the daily pr duct of which is 50,000
yards. Nearly everything in wearing ap
parel, both white and colored goods, table
spreads, counterpanes, towels, bolts of mus
lin, etc., are in the exhibit.
FOIt HEADACHE
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate,
Dr. I. B. Sanford, Sheffield, Mass., says;
“Most excellent in derangements of the nerv
ous system, such is beudache and sleepless-
The Traitor Manila Revealed.
From the Han Francisco Alls.
Mr. Cleveland has no more malignant
enemy, and the Democratic party no more
determined, insidious and treacherous
opponent, than Charles A. Dana and his
Sun which shines for all. Last election
the Sun opposed the party openly, but
suffered so badly in a business way that it
went through the form of going back into
the fold. While ostensibly supporting
Cleveland and Thurman, every issue of
the Sun is a stab at the democratic ticket
and an attack on the democratic platform.
Its friendship is simulattil in order that its
stabs may be circulated by unscrupulous
republican *organ», labelled “democratic
opinion.” Every DemuCiaiiu Presidential
ticket since 187G hss Wen systematically
“knifed” by the Sun, and every American
editor of any discrimination knows how
that it is in active and treacherous con
cert with the Republican parly. As the
Sun is powerless to do harm in its own
field, the only aid it esu give Harrison is
by having its utterancts quoted abroad hv
epublicau papers as Democratic
authority.
Inventions rorthe Nineteenth Century,
The steamboat, the reaper, the sewing ma
chine,
Cara running by night and by day,
Houses lighted by gas and by steam,
And bright electricity’s ray. •
The telegraph’s click speeds like lightning
released,
Then the teirphnt e comet to excel it'
And, to put on the finish, the last but’ not
least,
Is Ike famed littlv Purgative Pellet.
fjtst but not least is Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
Purgative Pellet, hm-aute it relieves human
suffering, adds to the sum of human comfort,
and enables the relieved snfferer to enjoy til
tbe blessings tnd luxuries of the age wa live
in.
HOW TO 'fight THE PESTILENCE.
A Plan for Giving the Nntlonal Authorities
Absolute Power In Case of Plague.
From the New York Tribune.
Editor Tribune: While local authorities
throughout tbe south are dealing us best
they can with yellow fever, it behooves the
cooler and safer sections of the Union to
consider means to prevent a-recurrencc of
the plague and its attendant frights. Peo
ple will differ as to the constitutional
power of the government to take entire
control of the machinery necessary to
crush out or restrain an epidemic; few will
deny that it is beyond the power of numer
ous corporations and communities, acting
within limited spheres and under the con
flicting demands cf charters and state and
national laws, to insure safety to them
selves or to others. The question arises
whether it is not best, the general govern
ment having already been called in to sur-
rgpder to it entire control, and if necessary,
as raay'appear, vest it with extraordinary
powers in time of epidemib.
Disease that threatens the whole people
is n national enemy, more dangerous and
difficult to combat than hostile fleets and
armies. Surely the necessity that gives to
the general government the sole right to
combat the latter, if foreign, and to enter
cities within the union and suspend the
civil processes in order to stamp out dis
orders that are domestic, but threaten the
peace of the union, is not stronger than tbe
necessity that appeals for the defense of
health and life and quiet. The experi
ences of this summer have again demon
strated how weak aod inefficient, even at
their best, are the local precautions to pre
vent the spread of yellow fever. From a
few cases at Plant City we have now epi
demics nt Jacksonville, Gainesville and
Fernandina, Fla., Decatur, Ala., and Jack-
son, Mbs, with nlsrming cases developing
among refugees elsewhere, aud frost proba
bly forty days ofl. Vigorous, wise and
relentless measures in the beginning would
have controlled the evil, there would have
been but little fright and few interruptions
to the nta.il service and to business.
Vigorous and relentless measures even
now would control the plague, hut the
problem is a much larger ouc. There is
only one power that can exert this control.
If in the beginning the United States gov
ernment had seized Plant City, a mere vil
lage, and arrested every person in it sub
ject to the fever and placed them all iu
isolated camps as prisoners, under care of
the best phvsicians and surrounded with
all reasonable comforts, there would in
all probability have been no fever else
where. If the government had entered
Jacksonville when the fever was pro
nounced an epidemic, and moved its in
habitants into numerous small and separ
ate camps in the piney woods. there is lit
tle doubt that the disease would have been
crushed out. ■ But the duty of the govern
ment would carry it further, if we
admit its right in the begin
ning. It would put a city so
emptied under strict guard, and
in the hands of competent sanitary engin
eers to determine wherein lay the cause of
disefise, and this ascertained, such changes
jn the existing methods of cleaning, drain
ing and sewerage would at once be made
by the authority temporarily in control, at I
the expense of the city, collection to be
made afterward by the assessment of a
special tax. Cities liable to such assess
ment and seizure in time of epidemics would
be kept clean and there would be a marked
improvement in the health of many that
suffer every year from milder fevers trace
able to the causes that breed the present
prevailing type. People familiar with
Jacksonville know that the place was ripe
for dheasc, and the question arises whether
such carelessness as lias marked the course
of its local government in this respect does
not make it amcnalilM in the people else
where whose peace and health and busi
ness hare thereby been disturbed.
It will he said that the measures sug
gested are harsh and impractical; that
they would All the people with bitterness
toward the government; that it would be
impossible to suspend the bnsincss of a
city without ruin to its merchants. There
is more than a grain of truth in ■ the ob
jections. Bnt if harsh, are tbe measures
harsher than those which southern com
munities have already, and not always
successfully adopted? Train service, te
not only infected but healthy points, is
suspended; cordons of police surround
hundreds of communities; the refugee,
hungry, weary or sick though ho may be,
has no place to lay,his head. Train
load after train-load of people
free from disease has been
hauled out of Florida to points 500 or 600
milts away with the car doors locked, and
no provision made for food or attendance
upon tbe sick. But that there were peo
ple along the way venturesome enough to
feed the hungry through car windows,
they would hnve starved in their cages. So.
far as travel and inter-communication in
many sections are concerned, the people
might m well be living in feudal times
cacti castle with its leofls called in and
drawbridge up. Anti the shotgun runs
the highways. Perhaps it were even bet
ter that the'people should feel bitterness
toward the general government fora while
than that the contempt and hatred which
have been engendered between so many
communities should exist and be flourished
yearly.
Will any sensible nun deny that the
country would be better off with the peo
ple of Jacksonville in twenty-five well-or
dered camps, supported and guarded by the
general government, than with the whole
southern section disturbed and the trade
interrupted for sixty days at the very sea
son for commerce it most depends upon?
The possibility of fever at Savannah has
already cost that city trade, as it has also
Brunswick, Pensacola, Mobile and interior
points. The great exposition in Augusta
lias been postponed, that at Macon aban
doned. New York merchants hold can
celled orders lor goods from the south, aud
southern merchants are more than anxious
about their collections. Is it not better
that the business of one city should be en
tirely suspended than that a whole section
be put te loss sod confusion? Nor does it
follow that 8ucli suspension means ruin.
Laws touching contracts and limitations
could be devised that would operate in tbe
favor of creditors, and we may he sure
that all possible help otherwise would be
given by creditors, since it is from these at
|:o.t that the greatest help is derived.
Tlte question is a national one; nor can
it be said that the south only is threatened
by the operations of such a system of de
fense as has been suggested. The north
and wrst are vitally interested in the mat
ter. They, too, have unclean cities, and
know what it is to see yellow fever and
cholera corpses hurried to burial through
gloomy streets. They will lend their as
sistance to any plau that produce* good re
sults. A system that will crush out anep-
idcrsic m the beginning and stimulate mu
nicipal authorities everywhere to cleanli
ness is what the conn ry’needs.
11. S. Edwards.
New York, Sept. 27,1888.
A DEFENSE OF GOSSIP. | STRATEGISTS OF THE CIVIL tv Ms
Gills Believe that Life in Not Worth I An English Soldier’s i eminent Unon
Living Without It. * 1
From the London Spectator.
Englishmen, and still more EnglishwO'
men, are by habit so didatic, so much given
to utter'thouglits graver than their realopin-
ions that to find the head of a great female
college defending gossip comes on one with
a shock of surprise. It is as if one Had
stumbled in a copy book over the text,
under the letter “C,” “Chat b the current
coin of conversational capital.” Mbs
Gladstone, however, the principal of North
Hall, Newuham, evidently intended to do
it when on Thursday week she related her
little story of the Newnham students’ de
bate.
The subject 6et for discussion in the de
bating society was whether life was worth
living without gossip; and the girls, after
an animated controveray, decided almost
unanimously that it was not. Miss Glad
stone, speaking to the Association for l’ro
moting the Education of Girls in Wales,
smilingly defended their vote, and,in spite
of the nearly universal opinion of social
moralists, we incline to suspect that she
was right. Certainly si t was, if ty “gos
sip” we are to understand the pleasant chat
which b one of its many meanings.
Easy conversation, sprinkled with allu
sions to persons, yet not confined to per
sonalities, b one of the intellectual enjoy
ments possible only to those who live under
and share in a developed civilization. It
b deliberation made piquant by brevity of
speech and by an underlying knowledge
assumed on ali hands, which of itself indi
cates at once the cultivation and equality
of the talkers. The uneducated never gos
sip in thb sense, they only narrate and ar
gue; nor do those whose mental interests
are confi. ed to a very narrow circle.
To gossip well, indeed, requires a certain
quickness of mind, a widish range of knowl
edge, however superficial, and a degree of
tolerance for opposed opinions which is, if
not partiality, a very good substitute for it.
No one * hose mind creaks as it opens, by
no means a rare peculiarity even with the
able, can gossip pleasantly; nor can one
who b by nature intolerant of opposition.
They say, for instance, that we know not
how truly that rural Americans, the men
at least, never gossip in this way, and dis
like those who do, just as Englblt country
folk i islike those who indulge in badi*-
nage.
The quickness of the give and take wor
ries them with that sense ot their own in
competence to keep up with it which once
made an eminent bishop rebuke a jester
with a discourse gently condoning “nimble
mindedttess.” Much gossip frequently in
structs, if only by compelling tbe speakers
to reduce their thoughts to simple words
and see how they look then, and it always
lightens the mental atmosphere, making
the mind fe-1 freer, as the body ieels in a
rowing or cricketing dress Discussion in
undress—and that is what Miss Gladstone
meant by gossip—is iu fact a mental stint
ttlant, the healthier for .its comparative
freedom from mental alcohol.
It is not very nourishing perhaps, but
neither is tea; yet the taste f r tea, espec
ially a taste that can distinguish qualities,
is a sure sign of an unvitiated palate. It
was of a master of gossip rather titan of an
intellectual talker that a hiuvdeclared she
liked him exceedingly, but would never
marry him. “It would,” she said, “be like
drinking line coffee ail day.” That is per
haps its truest analogue in the material
world, blit flue coffee b not only a pleas
ant but, in certain states of the body, par
ticularly wh n it is a little worn out or
chilled to helplessness, a most beneficial
thing.
The Colon ol Autumn Flowers.
From the Boston Journal.
With nature’s usual skill in putting
something cheerful into tbe melancholy
seasons, the an mini is glorified with the
most brilliantly tinted leaves and flowers,
wherever they are permitted to turn natu-
tally aad art BOt corrupted by ammonia.br
any other preparation of the cver-restless
gardner. Zinins and asters, gloxinias and
nasturtiums, geraniums and marigolds,
and countless other bright flowers, make
the old-fashioned garden the bnt panacea
for the somber soul; gay tinted leave* at
tract the dispirited and hopeless to the
long walks which will make them into
normal, wholesome beings; gay flowering
meadows attract the sedentary and moping
to the outer air.- It b strange that
notwithstanding the admiration which
has been bestowed for ages upon the glo
rious colors of autumn.scientists are yet in
the dark upon the cause of the different
brilliant shades. It hss been said that the
oxidized products of chlorophyll result in
tenn Gflliernla.
Gen. Wolieley’s Article In Fortnightly
In the war between the not them
southern states of America both • •
were composed of great manses of » f*
raised levits. Heaven born genius *
sullied with military education and £,
edge, had therefore the best chan» W »
making itself felt and of coming , of
front. Yet wlrat is the lesson the hi.,
of that war teaches us.' All those
names will be forever remembered in™°* e
nection with it by the English
race throughout the world were . ?
soldiers, lee and Grant, Stonewall ???
sen, Sherman, McClellan, Sheridan j *"
street, Johnston, Hill and a host of’oth” 8 '
whose names are and will lonv l» n >
hold words in their own states Wfr “"t;
graduates of West Point, that most „ * 1
Tent of military collegts. Mct1 '
One of the greatest men of that excit-l
and memorable time was Abraham I;
coin, a shrewd, clear-headed man of bii •
ness, of very great natural ability aid
quick apprehension, possessing, too ak»
insight into human character and endo*!!!
with a splendid patriotism. Ail the L.
qualities he Possetsed are ind’spensableto
the general, but he knew nothing of
or of the soldier’s science. Can his
ardent admirer imagine for one mom**,
that, had he been pitchforked into
command of any of the northern armi«
he would harts succeeded? Can it be sun!
po-ed for a moment that our greatest of
artists, instinct though he was with arti*.
tic genius from hb birth, could ever haw
produced any great picture had chance
made him in early life a vicar or a doctor '
It cannot be too forcibly impressed un<m
nil who nspire to high military positions
that no amount of inborn genius, unless
accompanied bvdeep andthou.htfulstuiiy
can ever secure them sftccess. ” “
New York In Presidential Years.
From the New York Sun.
In.1868, it presidential year, there was
n union on the municipal ticket between
all factions of the democracy in this city
and tlte state went democ atic. In 1872
there was a division, two tickets being run”
and thed-epublicans carried the state. In
1876 there was again a union, and the
state went democratic 32,000, In those
three elections local union meant victory
and local divbion defeat. In 1880 the
conditions changed, and the local nnion
brought disaster, while in 1884 the same
exception prevailed, tmd absence of union
won the state. The fact of the whole
mutter is that New York city is demo-
cratic and its majority is not affected, one
way or the other, by union or absence of it,
so long as the issues which dominate the
result are national in character, as was
the case in 1868, 1876 and 1884. When,
however, as in 1872 and 1880, local
jssues, foreign to the main one, are injected
into the canvass, the effect of it is to
curtail the normal democratic msjority.
The talk about a division drawing ont a
larger vote b the talk of amateurs. It
may help a handful in the city but it does*
the democracy a corresponding amount of
damage throughout the state. The
shrewdest managed contest in a presiden
tial fight which the present generation of
New York democracy can recall, was that
of 1876, led by Mr. Tildcn in person. He
knew tig? effect of a local contest better
probably than any man then living and it
was his continued aud unswerving counsel
for the local factions to unite, which they
did, earning for him the splendid majority
in the county of 53,969, which was 10,000
more majority thnn Mr. Cleveland received
eight years later on a largely increased
vote.
A New Fnd In N«w York.
From the New York WorM.
The newest tiling among the “carriage
girls” is that the 1.Hitman shall be provided
with a small shawl of a color to match hb
livery, and when he opt ns the carriage
door he holds up this shawl so that the
feet of the lady descending shall not be
seen. The whim originated with a Chicago
heiress who had feet of the proportions
which the funny paragrapher is prono
to ascribe to the women of that city.
She is extremely pretty and wears a No. 6
glove, hut only her shoemaker and her
maid know the number of her shoe, and
they wouldn't tell for worlds. Her shoe
maker has lain awake nights planing a
last that will mnke that girl’s foot look
small, and he has never succeeded except
in hb dreams. She is painfully sensitive
concerning it; her skirts are nil made to
touch the floor, and so skilfully hung that
when she walks they droa their folds in
such a way that not a glimpse of a boot
appears. But one day she had cause to sl'ght
from her coupe in front of a large mirror
that was outsde of a furniture shop and
then and there shedbeovered to her horror
the yellows and reds of autumn leaves^, (that every time she stepped in and out
and it has been noticed that as fruits turn 'of her carriage all iter precautions for con-
yellow, chlorophyll grains become angular,
two or three pointed and finally angular;
but the reason why the cardinal flower b
red and the gentian is bine; why golden
rod is a bright yellow turning to orange,
aud the succory is a delicate blue, has
never been discovered, fa the want of
definite conclusions upon the subject,
some scientistshsve advanced a few inter
esting theor.es. Mr. Grant Allen lua ex
pressed tlte belief that green was the
primitive color, that yellow was then in-
trounced, followed by red and finally by
blue, but he has not mentioned why tlte
first color was green or why it ever gave
place to red or blue. Kev. George Henslow
has advanced the theory that colors are
the result of nutrition, and that thr differ
ent varieties of color are produced by the
visits of insects which have caused more'
nutritive fluids to pour into the attractive
organs. In a recent treatise he ssvs: “In
stead, therefore, of a flower having first
painted a I etal with a golden streak to in
vite the insect, and to show it the right
way of entering, the first insect Tbitors
themselves induced the flower to do it,
and so benefitted all future comers.” Mul
ler has noticed some interesting correla
tions which exist between colors and in
sect visitors. Thus beetles seem to affect
yellows, wm-ps and carrion insects reddbh
browns, while the bees and other more In
telligent insert* delight in purple* and
coaling her feet were useless, and any
passer-by might see. She went home in
despair anti never put one of those un
happy feet into her carriage again until
she had thought out tit*! plan of the shawl.
Being a woman of wealth and a social
leader, anything she did was sure to be
copied, and now it is held by tlte Chicago
girl that it is indecent to expose her feet
under such chcumstnnces, an! all the foot
men are provided with little shawls tor
modesty’s sweet sake. It is to be hoped
that the women who ride in horse-cars
have pretty feet, or are l»ss sensitive.
Utilizing n Lover.
New York letter In JVatcrbury American,
l!y the by, a woman who had just re
turned frwm a trip abroad with some rela
tives, and who b rich enough to have pant
a weole staff' of couriers, remarked to me a
few days ago thot site did not like going
with these excursion companies, andtbsi
they were not satisfactory at all. Asking
her for nn explanation, she said it was
mote Spoil *ud les* exjieiistve to mcci
with a gentleman of high lineage, or a
foreign nobleman, fall in love with hnn,
become engaged, and at the end of the to
season drop him out ’of sight, n*™
interested and told her to go on. She wen
on. She said the idea is to get him to
pay all of the small expenses, attend to a
of the amait errands, introduce hnn to
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blues. Oxidization ta believed to have friends mid exhibi. a atrong devotion i
great influence in changing thee Ion of .him. Of course he could not po*‘ 1 J’y
flowers, and different chemical elements accept remuneration in rite form ot css
have various results. It may be that
autumn flowers ate gayer than others be
cause they have had a longer season for
the entertainment of ' their insect friends.
Whatever the cause, even the scientific in
vestigator can appreciate the courageous
colors which glorify a dying season.
Loo Cabins were not hot
houses and the’people who
dwelt in them were not hot
house growths. They were n
hardy, healthy generation and
the remedies use! were simple
^preparations rei.m laced in ■‘•““““t »"«*{-• •"* ” "Vn,l yet I can-
J^p-^Varaer’a 1-og Cabin Cough ■».* own estimation„f l»r. An! T« { ^
OLD ^ and Consumption remedy ami not think that this sort <! IS r nrottit*’
Warner's ’Tippecanoe,” the great stomach j mon occurrence, in spite ot tier i
tonic. aept29-sal-w i tiona.
I vlUUIIVIulltrtl ••• * .
for bis i*ervice«, ami the only way
enable him to serve without startling * •
Grundy was "to become engaged. 1 w»
startled nt thb, when she smiled nnd con
tinued: “Why, bless yon, my dear sir, i
of one who has been engaged to a
of foreign noblemen and one or two
memuers of the British aristocracy, simply
to indulge in the luxury of a* 1 !*'
personal conductor gratis. If I
know that thb Bante woman . is one ,
moves in the best of society, tacons
to possess a moral character ot * 8,
standard, I should feel a little dubious ol
know
scries
members