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TH E WEEKLY TELEG K A P H: TO ESP A DECEMBER 4, 18PK.-TWELVE PAG IX
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Macon, Ga.
There are at least 1,000,000 more while
democrats than while republicans in this
country This proves conclusively that
the Democratic party must eventually be
supreme.
Immense flocks of crows are reported by
some of our exchanges as having made
their appearance. Thus is the immutable
law of supply and demand again illus
trated.
Thb “saloon" vote went to thedemo-
erstic candidales in New York and to the
republican candidates in Connecticut and
MiKouri. This is a vote which has very
little to do with political principles.
Thrum never was a time in the history
cl the South when it was moro important
lo preserve tbo democratic organization in
national, state, county and city politics.
This wil' !•» a cold winter for independ
ents in the South.
Up all the candidates on ihe slate tick
ets ID New York, Qen. Harrison was the
only republican who received a plurality.
An explanation will be in order when the
next democratic national convention comes
to nctuiuate candidates.
Col. Dudley no doubt anxiously awaits
the 4th of March, After lliat date it will
be safer for him to return to Indianapolis.
It is a sad state of affairs when one of the
four managers of the Bepublican parly
aan't go home for fear of being put in jail.
Thkrh is a difference of opinion as to
which of the charming stories of Mr. H. S.
Edwards is entitled to first place, bat Col.
W'llism Nye remarked yesterday aa he
partook of a beautifully barbecued pig at
•Mr. Edwards's labie: “This sureiy is die
beat production of your pen.”
. JoiHK-trStii^iMSiinihysicta^ say* the
distinguished slugger is all righi* nOt^ £x-
-^“■'si-pVlhat his legs aro wobbly, on account
of a nervous disorder. The newspapers of
the country wiii now perceive how dcrplj
they may have wronged Boston's great
.mu, to the pas'., when they took ft for
granted that wobbly legs indicated drunk
enness.
A paper, to be called the Press, will be
started in Washington soon. It is to he
tlie organ of the coming administration
and, as a newspaper, will probably belong
to the inferior class, from which Wash
ington journals find it impossible to extri
cate themselVes. A live morning news
paper at Washington would he at once a
delight and acuiiosity.
Gold is going to Europe by millions
from this country. “Old Hutch's" wheat
corner had something to do with the move
ment. Under our present economic policy
we can only buy what wo want in Europe
by paying gold or agricultural produce,
and when the latter advances in price the
Europeans look elsewhere for supplies.
We will do better some time.
Hundreds of cases of bribery will be
presented to Indiana grand juries, it is
said, and Dudley will be vigorously prose
cuted If be ventures to return home. This
would seem to be a good time to change
the election laws so ss to destroy the
market for “floaters” and Col. Dudley’s
importance. The democrats have the leg'
islatare, and can 'put an end to this
scandal, if they will.
Tn* high license law haB been in opera
tion in Pennsylvania five months and the
following criminal statistics from Phila
delphia show some of its effects. Com
pared with the same period last year, the
number of persons committed to the
county prison decreased 5,099, or 38 per
ccn*., in the commitments to the house of
cumxttivu the dccrcstc was 32 per cent,
This is a very good showing for high
license. _____
Wk are accustomed to think of Utah as
a very bail place, but we seldom mention
the fact that wicked Utah spends twice
*as much money for public schools as
Christian Georgia. To be outdone in a
matter of such grave importance by' the
most disreputable oi our territories is not
flattering to the Empire state of the South.
Evidently Georgia must brace ’up. Eight
now is the time.
Thb present Georgia legislature contains
more tanners than any of its recent prede-
eessors. There are 69 farmers in the Ifnnse
sgsirst 46 lawyers. The reputation of
the Georgia farmer as a lawmaker will
rise cr fall according to the work of this
legislature. It will have to consider a
number of questions for the right settle
ment ot which intelligence and liberality
are essential. Vfe hope the farmers will
contribute to snch results as will greatly
lend toward the true progress of the state.
Negroes tn the South.
Our dispatches yesterday gave the de
tails of the outrage perpetrated in Savan
nah on.Thanksgiving day by a negro mob
which attacked a policeman who was dis
charging his duty and preserving the
peace of the city. He was beaten to in
sensibility, stoned by the howling negro
men and women who left him for dead in
the streets. Fortunately before he was
stricken he put five good bullets into the
body of the leader of the mob, who had
begun the riot by seizing the officer’s club
and striking him over the head with it.
A policeman who started to the rescue oi
brave Officer McMurray, who had been
almost stoned to destb, was seized
and beaten by the infuriated mob
and a mechanic who came to his
rescue suffered a similar fate. The
perpetrators of these outrages will be
made to suffer. They belong to a class of ig
norant and vicious negroes who are forever
fomenting mischief and provoking pan
diets between the races. Such creatures
should be dealt with sternly. The temp'
lation to respond to their acts of viiiany
with the wild retribution of mob law
ought lo he resisted, but the law should
be put upon them in its severest form until
they learn that they must not defy the
constituted authorities, that a violation oi
the rights of citizens and the de
cency of a community will not
be tolerated, Men, whether black
white, must be taught that the law is
supreme. The indignation at the conduct
of such negroes as thoee who constituted
the Savannah mob is natural and just, but,
after all, the ignorant and brutal creatures
who perpetrated those crimes are guilty
only in the second degree. The principal
offenders against law and order are those
who advise the negroes to a course of con
duct which leads to such results. The
Chicago Tribune recently brought upon
itself the condemnation of intelligent and
decent men of all sections by advising
negroes in the South “to fight and
burn for their rights." Such .talk
has been heard before and
has borne fruit. The negroea have been
the chief sufferers from it. Whenever
they have dashed themselves against
the irresistible white supremacy
in the South they hare been
beaten back and they always will be
beaten. Where they obey the laws and
act as good citizens they are accorded all
their rights. The only possible progress
oi the negro iies in his recognition of the
fact that he must be a good citizen. This
obligation is not realized by a large num
ber of the negroes in the South. Their
ignorance prevents them from understand
ing the duties of citiiensliip while their
passion and credulity make them easy
prey to the vicious designs of
those who eshort them tu be
“more -osaerti**.’-’ - TlrJjt advice comes
sometimes from black bosses who are am"
bilious of leadership and hare no coccep-
tlon of its responsibilities. But the more
frequent and more dangerous instigator is
the white man who plays upon the igno
rance and prejudice of his inferior fellow
citiaen. Men like Bill Chandler, Ben
Foraker, Murat Halstead and the editor of
the Chicago Tribune, should be treated as
common enemies by both races so long as
they continue to sow the feeds of anarchy.
Intelligent and worthy negroes, and there
are thousands of them in the South,
should unite with the beat white men
wherever they live to diseturage and pre
vent all acts which tend toward a precipl
tation of race antipathies. Sensible ne
groes ought to know that their true friends
are the men with whom they have lived
all their lives and not the irresponsible
schemers who inflame their minds with a
sense of imaginary wrongs and instigate
them to such acts as will inevitably result
in tenfold more injury to the negro than it
can possibly cause to the white man.
A Growing Movennnt.
Those wlfo are making an effort to get
public schools in Georgia have re iso n to
lie encouraged. The cause for which they
contend cannot fail; the only possible
danger is a delay of its triumph, hot every
day brings that tteare; . There arc accum
ulating evidences that the state is shout to
wake up to its duty in this matter. It has
no more sacred obligation than the faith
ful performance of its coitoti'uti nal con
tract to support ?. system of public schools.
We havo a system, a good one, but the
support is what we have not and what we
must have if Georgia is to be true to her
self. It is embarrassing, not to eay
humiliating, in the discussion of
this question to be compelled
to publish to the world the real situation.
To admit that the children of school age
in Georgia aro dependent, so far as the
state is concerned, on the educational force
of 87 cents a year does more damage to
Georgia in the eyes of intelligent people
than can be repaired by any number of
gushing speeches over our greatness and
progress. The simple truth is that we are
not ptogressive in one of the essentials of
good government: we are backward. With
one «r two possible exceptions, all the
other states surpass us, and, at least, four
territories give us an object lesson in liber,
aiity. Will the farmers in the
West whose attention his beeu
directed to the good but comparatively
cheap lands in Georgia be in a burry
find homes iu our agricultural counties
when they learn tlist their children can go
to school only three months in the year,
and to very shabby schools even for that
time?
Recently we have sent fhrongh four or
five of the great states of the Northwest a
car filled with products of Oeorgiaeoil and
proofs of Georgia enterprise. Hundreds
of thousands of people saw and admired
this excellent exhibit, and the thoughts
of many of them were turned toward our
state as a desirable place of resi
dence. Suppose we should take
an average Gedrgia public school on
a tour of the country? Is there a man in
the state who would be proud of tho con
cern if he should meet it in tbe land of the
stranger? We need not apologize for the
misnamed thing which we call a public
Bchool. The sooner we expose its almost
absolute worthlessness the sooner will
dawn the happy day of its complete regen
eration. Wo sometimes ttrgo tbe men
who reDresent us in the federal council to
stand up for the honor of Georgia. When
a man speaks this he usually reiers to
the history, to the political and
social condition of the state.
On these stores Georgia need not be afraid.
She haH never suffered uo-wswered detrac
tion when such questions J "tie discussed.
But who can defe' -t lie school
polio? ? . W« daunt/, ' imagine* who would
be rash enough to make the attempt unless
it be those gentlemen who sit in the legis
lature year after year and vote against
every proposition to rtits our eonoo* fund
to the grade of decency. If any additional
proof of the profound need of better
public schoolB be wanted it is fur
nished in the conduct of these
gentlemen. They invariably explain their
attitnde by declaring that their votes rep
resent the wishes of their constituents.
We are glad to see the press of tbe state
taking hold of tho public sthool question
with vigor and enthusiasm. The intelli
gent people of Georgia expect the present
legislature to do something to improve the
public schools. If the legislature shall
Jail to do anything on this line, it will
neglect its best opportunity and its noblest
duty. _______
Col. Dudley’s methods were even im
proved upon in the Indiana election, an
will ho seen by tho following letter written
1>J a “worker” to the New York Herald:
None ot u* who wero working tho voters
handled any money. Two non were given tho
bag to hold, and they went Into an upper
room which had been used for gambling, and
had a little wicket In tho door. Once inside,
Quay and Hla Throat
A Washington dispatch announces that
Foollafr Talk.
The fact that Mr. Ckevelaj>d received !
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Senator Quay “will do all he can to secure over 60,000 more votes than hia successful F ‘ rat frond of my ffl[
the seat of every republican who has been opponent has given rise to some discussion I J"*"***- n n
elected, and, if it becomes necessary to as to the method of our presidential elec- cftUen-United StH^T^baby^Mk 865004
Southern Pig Iron.
A New York exchange says that the de
mand for Southern pig iron in the Eastern
markets is assuming such large propor- j they kept thcmfelvc* oat of f-Ight, When we
tions and growing so rapidly as to attract' ^ad secured a voter we took him to the polls
the attention of the entire iron trade. The «“ *° vu ' w , h ” * 100 '’
, _ _ ___ . . I window. The workers handed the voter a
sales have grown from 500 tons a few years ^ Wc ket,and saw him band it t«> tbe Judge of
ago to 150,000, and an even more rapid . election. Then he gave the voter a little check
increase is expected hereafter, as large * w Hh w*rks on it, which the two men up
contracts extending over next year have ‘be gambling room would under-
. , ? , J atand. Tho checks were little piece* of paste
been made at an advance of 50 cents to $1 lK)atd I(w0 bad bought ft mau , or , Si we put
per ton. The popula ity of Southern irons | a V on the check. If tho price »»* tlO. we put
in tho East is due not only to the compare-i *“ x down, and If it was t*J, we marked XX
lively low price hut to their quality as 1 “P “
, 1 _ » . . , | through tho holo in tho door, and got hi*
well, the authority quoted 6tSting that J money. Tho bag at my place gave out four
those shipped from the Birmingham and [ times that day, and I went and got more money
Chattanooga districts equsl, if they do not. tac h time. Talk about "two-dollar" campaigns!
This was a “ten dollar” campaign, and some
men got as high as 8 JO apiece for their vote*.
surpass, the best Scotch irons, formerly
imported in large quantities. Being of
fered at a considerably lower ptice, there The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
!. every probability that in a short time is having a fine vetsel built in Scotland
they will completely drive out the foreign 1 for its fleet, to run between New York nUd
article. I Aspinwkli. When completed the curious
It is gratifying to know that some peo- spectacle will bo presented of a ship owned
pie in the South are benefiting by the b ? Americans, sailing from an American
high tariff, and we hope the number will. P°rt, officered and manned by Amer cans,
rapidly increase. One of the most intol- b « the British flag and entitled
erabic of the tariff’s features has been' onI . v to British protection. Under the
that its benefits and its burdens have been , circumstances, that protection cannot be
sectional. When both become equally ’ expected to amount to much. This anom-
distributed, the people of the whole ' alons “tate of affairs is Wrought about by
country will discover that protection is not oar maritime laws, which prevent Ameri-
the sacred thing that some have supposed can citizens from claiming the protection
UV> be. Therefore, let our Birmingham of their government for property iu ships
and Chattanooga friends get all out of and from flying their country’, flag, unit*,
it they can, remembering that pig iron is tb « T *“e>* «cre built in an American
only raw material, | yard.
8am Small is firing away in New Y rk J Bishop McTyeikk, of the Southern
on “The Quick and the Dead Prohi i- Methodist Church is dangerously ill with
tionists.” Sam pops up in Atlanta on* typhoid fever at his hem*on the grounds
week a:il stirs up the town. Tbe next ‘ of Vanderbilt Univc.—i y s'. Nashville,
week we hear of him in Kalami&ioor He is the senior bishop oi i.bt church and
New York. He appears to have a roving fur year* has been one of the most active
commission and an inexhaustible motive of its leaders. Prayer, for hi., recovery
force. will rise from thousands of hearts.
take extreme measures, like the organiza
firm of another House, lie will be found
ready.” This is not the first hint given
out that the political gamble™ the repub
lican party lias put in charge of its for
tunes are prepared to resort lo desperate
measures to make sure of complete con
trol of the government. What have such
men as Quay, Mahone, Dudley and Butler
to lose by following any cours», however
revolutionary, that may promise succesa?
They run little chance of being hung; al
most everything else than life that hon
orable men value they have already lost.
This threat to organize another House
than that which Clerk Clark will call to
order, and to demand of the new President
recognition of the irregular body, is ac
companied by a hint from the same
source that, if necessary, the governors
of republican states will delay issuing
certificates to democratic raembers-elcct,
until the House has been organized. Either
course would be almost equal to a revolu
tion, and would severely shock public
confidence iu the stability of our institu
tions.
There is absolutely no reason why Quay
and his companions should be making
threats of revolutionary proceedings. The
clerk of the House is a brave and honest
inaD, who may be depended npon im
plicitly to make up tho roll of the new
House witli strict regard for the narrow
discretion left him by the law. He
will not violate the law to
gain an advantage for hjs party,
no matter what pressure may be put upon
him. And there ir no evidence that even
in cases where hesitation as to the proper
course might be honest Gen. Clark will be
subjected to any pressure from his party
to influence his decision. On the contrary,
there is a well-defined sentiment, affecting
a large portion of the Democratic party,
that to hold the lower house of congress
by a very slendf r majority would not be,
under present circumstances, a party ad
vantage. We do not share this sentiment,
but it is strong enough to prevent any de
termined struggle to keep control.
The truth about the situation is that
honester, purer politics, with a higher
regard for the law of the land and the
epirit of our institutions, is much more
needed at this juncture of our national
affairs than ihe iusUiiatiuu in power ever
the House of one party or the other. It
will be no help toward this end for the
republicans to organize the House, but it
will be a help if, in contrast to the threats
of Quay, Dudley, Mahone and Butler,
the professiouai corrupliouUts now in
charged the republican party, who have
ju-t l>olight the Presidency, the democrats
manifest only an anxiety that the law be
followed and justice he done. Thedemo-
crate cannot afford to gain the House by
practice* of doubtful morality or
legality—nor can the republicans, for that
matter.
A llad Hill.
The last legislature had the good Bense
to reject the hill of Mr. Brady, which pro
vided that a plea of failure of considera
tion should vitiate contracts for fertiliz
ers. Mr. Brady is in the present legisla
ture and has introduced his bill again.
It will be again defeated as it should be.
The Middle Georgia Progress of Pand-
ersvilie says of this queer measure:
Mr. Brady has Introduced bts guano bill
again tn the House, being about thj mine meas
ure offered by him last year, It is said. Legis
lation which encourages and set* a premium
upon rascality, however sslutory Its effects
might bo in tome Instances, I* pernicious in
tho extreme and should bo promptly defeated.
Gtorgia has a law requiring the inspec
tion oi commercial fertilizers before they
are put on the market, and an ample num
ber of officers are commissioned to perform
this duty.
But, even if this safeguard to the par-
chafer were not afforded by the state, there
would be no reason for the passage of Ihe
Brady bill. Whether a man buy guano,
or diamonds, or mules, or calico, the law of
the state protects him from such imposi-
lion as this bill proposes to prevent. If lie
can prove that he has been swindled lie
need not pay for the fraudulent article. U
Mr. Brady’s bill is intended to substitute
assertion foreviilen. e, it is wrong in prin
ciple, and would be demoralizing in prac
tice. If it is intended to supplement exist
ing statutes, it is superfluous.
The enactment of such a statute would
[injure most the class of citizens whom it is
' designed to benefit. It would impair the
credit of the average farmer with reliable
fertilizer msnufseturers and dealers. It
would he a constant temptation to imposi-
tion. It would ui> the uusrU with litiga
tion. We cannot see how it could result
in any good to anybody, while the evils
that would come from it ought to be ap
parent to the most casual observer. The
legislature will bury the Brady bill once
more.
tions. We have been surprised to see so
many able and influential journals advo
cating the- abolition of the electoral col
lege and the substitution of a popular vote.
The fact that Mr. Cleveland received
more votes than Mr. HarrDon is a gratify
ing evidence tit at the country approves
the present administration and would like
to have it continued four years more, but
it is not a sufficient ground for the revolu
tion of our systun of government.
We have a union of sovereign states.
Every state has definite rights which are
guaranteed by the articles of confcdera'
tion. Not one of these rights can bo
abrogated save by common consent. Presi
dents are elected by states, not bjr tiie peo
pie of the United States. It may seem
unjust from certain points of view that
Delaware with her one representative in
congress should have aa many senators as
New York with her thirty-four members
of tbo lower house and her many times
greater population But the uniotf would
never have been formed unless Dela
ware had been allowed as much
representation in the Senate as New York.
The reasuus sliivn forced the original
recognition of state sovereignty are far
stronger now than they were when the
union was formed. The colonies were
bound together by a cense of common dan
ger, and in the face of native and foreign
foes were more apt to be considerate of
each other’s rights than are the states in
their present condition. Whenever the
administration of the general govern
ment is in qaestion every member of
the federal union has a right to
speak the will of its people, and a stronger
impulse from some other state in a dif
ferent direction is not permitted to over-
r.Ie the decision of sovereignty.
But there are many other reasons why
the abolition of the prerogatives of the
states in the choice of President and Vice-
President would bo dangerous. The
lavish and dtfianl use of money in our
national elections is one of the great evils
of oor time. At present iho money pow^r
in oor politics operates only in a few
donbtfnl states. If the country were to
choose its chief executive w : thout regard to
state lines, the scope and opportunity of cor
ruptionists would be immensely enlarged
Temptation to the ignorant and unprin
cipled voter would lie increased to a fear
ful degree. No locality would be free from
the machinations of the men like Bill
Dudley and Matt Quay and every ballot
box in the land would be in some degree
subject to bids.
The election of President and Vice-Presi
dent by a direct vote would involve a
revolution of our theory of government.
It would also lead to a demoralisation of
onr politics compared to which the bold
and unscrupulous schemes of the recent
caiup
enough for mc.-Budlngton FrJ Pnn. T1 “''
“I tell you, Candida,” said beribub, ,
Ihe publicb fairly going „u d *
Indeed T” replied CsndMui, “I'm sor,,^?*; 1
that. It you wish to conceal yosreelUam o
atm* down, why, my house b at your I
—Harper's Bazar. r 'Wcc-.'|
“Why do you call him a duder ..
Burlington mother to her lints girt. , I
aduile;' "Why, a dude, momma, !• a joon!|
man that cares more about his clothe, thao h!l
do« about Jmu*.” Fact Burlington F r *|
“Hello, Bromley, that isn’t the foirl
«tej f TV Pfo»lW<l that It your side lo*t uj
(have off one whbker." "tveii»l
haven't I? ’ "Yea, but you've ihavid offbouJ
of u,«"Oh. that's all right I uwTI
other one in the Mate kin,lot a U-t ,| tH
rtager."—Time. 1
Mrs. Hautlon (amazed, to James, thel
coachman)—“I* It possible, James, that you a-J
trying to raise a mustacher' James tabuhedl
-‘■No, no, hiudeed, ma'am. I f orgot
jeeterday, ma'am.” Mrs. Hnutton-”tVet| thtl
moment you reach home, James, yon mui |
tend to I hat at once. I’m afnld now some ,
will notice It.”—The Epoch.
Anybody mean enough lo steal stuffed
bsrds Irom tho academy ot natural eclencc
would uproot and cart off a tree to I
square It he could. The act ol theft waa ,iuJ
gelher tough, rough and low down. If osurbif
thethbl should^b« mnmmjlsed, so Until
might be exhibited in the jearot outlcll
is.sm aa a specimen at the "Genua Homo.TolJ
Depravity, rhtla., 10th Century.” Phllud'etphlj
Becord. [
The man in pursuit of health, if he haj
carefully followed all the medical adrlcs of.
fere J him from professional quacks, bai jina
up meat, vegetables, milk, tea, cotfce, fruit, til
bacco amt most of his clothes. Now come* 'll]
that bats, by rcs>on of Unit hard ntstl
gins, "excrclto a constricting influence reucl
tbs bead," and compress tbe bt od vessels J
tho scalp, with results ot the direst chsricitl
Of a truth, man Is much sffliotert The t]
must go.—Coxeaekle News.
PERSONAL.
--..14 „1„
The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain ex
presses the opinion that elections in Eng
land are “singularly pure" and becoming,
if possible, more co. This happy state ot
aflairs he ascribes to the secrecy wi h
which the ballot is cast, made practically
certain by the British election laws. There
is no doubt but that to make the ballot
secret is to disconrage bribery. There
could be no certainty that a man mean
enough to sell his vote would keep his
contract after receiving payment if he
could, safely, without fear of detection, de
posit any ticket in the box he pleased. But
would not viva voce voting he belter still?
That would guard against bribery and
fraud at the same time.
A Needed Ketorm.
The New York Herald has often done
good work, bat it has seldom hit upon a
moro nseful line of endeavor than when it
attacks the present systom of appointing
officers upon confidential recommenda
tions, carefully kept from public
knowledge. The President is entitled tn
the honest advice of the beat oitizena of
every community in his selection of office
holder*, if he desire it. He can have per
sonal knowledge of tbo fitness of hardly
one in a thousand ot the men he puts in
offioc, and is obliged to act npon the rec
ommendations of persons in the commu
nity in which tho officer will serve.
Would it not be belter in every way
that the whole matter should
be above board, so that evey
man who sign* a petition for the appoint
ment of a certain persen shall bear some
degree of responsibility ,for his cundnct in
office? Under tho protont practice almost
any applicant can procure ail tbe signa
tures he may desire to a statement setting
forth hia peculiar fitness for place, whether
sucit fitness exists or not. This would not
he so easy if the signers knew the petition
wonld be printed in their home paper, with
ull the names attached.
A reform in the direction indicated and
the abolition of the secret sessions of the
Senate will do more to give the country
good and honest public officials titan any
number of cat and dried civil service rules
and examinations. There is no more rea
son why public officers should be appointed
by secret influence and their qualifications
discussed in tecret sessions of the confirm
ing body than there is for the adoption by
stealth, without the knowledge of the pub
lic, of the l«w* it i« the duty of those offi
cers to administer. A good law will not
yield satisfactory results if a bad man is
empowered to execute it. The publicity
insisted upon in the discussion of proposed
laws is designed to inform the people and
prevent as far as may be the bringing to
bear of improper influences upon legisla
tors. The secrecy attending the nomina
tion and confirmation of efficera is appar
ently intended to render the appointment
of men with rotten records pomible.
That is not what the country needs and
desires. Appointments in the public serv
ice are the prizeB in American politics.
Will not the standard of the service be
raised if every ma i who aspires to enter it
is made to know l-.ai hia character will be
submitted to careful scrutiny and the re
sult made known to all men? 4 n( l will
not congnssmeu and petition-signers be
more careful if their connecti.n with ap
pointments is no longer a secret of the ex
ecutive department?
Tiie Queen of Italy-haa commanded th:
tbe rooms occupied by tbe German emperor
tbeQuirtest *b*II remain la exsotly tb*
in » hich bo left them.
Levi P. Morton, Viee-Preddente!
received bis business training in the dry
trade, and It was not bntlt be had arum
competence la that llneof trade that ho tea:
banker.
The family estates of Sir Dauglas8toi
In Perthibtre, Scotland, which hare been sol
subject to the approval of tba court 61
to Mr. John S. Ke_nedy of New York, oonilili
23,6(0 acres, and Include many of .the to
gromc-motrs In tbo Highlands.
Queen Victoria intends to pirce
equestrian statue of tbe late Emperor Fredei
In Windsor Great Park.Incloseproilmllyto'J
statue of the prince coneorL It bsi beta
chased outot the Women's JubileoOflerlsg.
will bo unveiled lu March next
Cardinal Manning is recovering
strength slowly but surely, and though !:r I,
likely to appear again on tho platform oein
pulpit with his old frequency, his iuhf-
public affairs Isas keen as ever, and the ma:
nient of hi* diocese remains, down
detail, In his own hand*.
Chaunccy M. Depew was graduated i
Yale Colli go In 1866. and three years liter
admitted to tho bar. Ills connection with
Vanderbilt railroad Interests dates from II
when he made ios mtHuAlstiSCC — 5.
derbllt, and becamo tho attorney of the
York and Harlem road.
The Emperor of Russia, accordiu
London Truth, was aeverely cut on the
knee, face, ncek and left arm in tbs reesa
road accident In which so many ot bU a
ants woro killed. The empress, according
same auttortly. suflered from terrible kys
after her reeeuc, and wss insensible
time for so long that it was feared 'h«
about to die. The emneror was so alaraa
anxious that he seemed to bo on the
paralysis. .
BREVITIES.
Tho Princess of Wales prencaitd
husband on his torty-elfhth birthday »
pastel portrait of herself, execute! by Stx
der Wcjrde.
A telegraphic wire Is the last tbioj
wonld expect to #upport ref elation,
traveler In Broxll write* to % German hort
oral Journal dc*criblng a crop ol ab
which he found clothing Iht wires not
Klo Jill rim.
A Mrs. Smith of Grand Kap‘uh» ^
wn* recently severely injured by tb« *
closing oi a folding bed on which »b«
cllning. fibe wo* completely »bnt la «
bed, and it became ueceiwry to pry HU*
fore »he could bo reieaied.
A Carthage mau bet his lumber
against a w oman'* baby on the eleclloi
won, bought a nursing bottle and a co
engaged a nurse. Tbe woman reiojeow
up the baby, and th* winner oi the w
aDd asked a widow to marry him.
Jose Maloni and A. Williams,
cfsco thieve*, stole a lot of clothe, an-U^
la a room. They were arrested and eon
telling where lb# clothe* were to be
officer went after the plunder »nu o
M>ine one hiwl rtiU^ 'l thf Mu' • V •
Fashions tn vi-itii.g
large, almost square card tor mart > -
and the name, address and day
madame Is at home Is engraved upo
board. The card of-the unmarrrlet
smaller, end ha, myrely the address
card la very small.
Two men died at sea oi suu.^*
brigantine Mary C. Mariner,
ccntly at Philadelphia from hloP
became so violent when first
wssnecOMAry to He them down lo “
Sunstroke at ms Is an extremely
rtacc.
A giatleman in Brussels bJ, '^°
usual enthusiasm lor the game ° p
course ol agaras bis partner tin ..
which he had already won by deep
and skill. Instead ol swearlog, *** » (
would ordinarily have dons la l '“ _
stinces a few time*, he gave hi,
tier twenty sntln In the rib, wl:
aud left him dead.
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For Hicket*, MaYaamn*. a"' 1
order* ot Children
Scott's V.muWon of pure 'V. 1 j"' :
g^Mteh u ch5&‘?V‘j
strength upon it i._ ...
the following: "I h t''' 1
sum in .,.f It- !--'-'- > ■'
.Landing, aud hue h '
il with the results, a* U *, i
long
marked."—J-
M. D., New York,