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A man has ju». been released from
the New York penitentiary after lie
liad undergone thirty-three years of
continuous imprisonment. The out
side world must seem u queer place
to him.
No less than 27,000 English men
and women wrote letters to the Lon
don Telegraph in reply to the ques
tion: “Is marriage a failure." We
begin to believe the stories of there
being thousands of people in England
with no work to do.
Several thousand coal miners iu
Alabama aad Illinois are on a strike
against a reduction of wages. They
want as much as (ifty cents a ton for
miuing coal. It may be remember
cd, in this connection that protec-
tiouists contend that the duty of
seventy-live cents a ton is necessary
to cover the difference between the
wages of Amtrican and foreign mi
nors.
The first Sabbath in October of
last year the superintendent of the
Methodist Sunday school in Sumner
announced to the scholars that a
nice prize book would be awarded to
every one who attended the Sabbath
school regularly every Sunday for
twelve consecutive months, and ns
the fiscal year ended last Sunday, it
wns found that eleven out of the
eighty live on the roll were entitled
to prizes.
The Detroit Journal oilers to pay
$1,000 iugold to the person who shall
name the four separate coldest days
between November 1st. 1888 and
March 15th, 1881), on which the ther
mometer at the United States signal
station in Detroit shall register the
lowest temperature. The guesses or
predictions must be written nn pns
tal cards, one guess to a card, and
must reach the office of the Detroit
Journal before Dccembcf 1st, 1888.
Of the three Fox sisters who in
vented spiritualism, two arc about
to enter upon the work of proving the
whole thing a humbug. They will
lecture or give exhibitions in New
York. However perfect their dem-
emanations, they will not de
stroy jflMftualism. That, ^ypersti-
tion, orwnatevor it may be called, Is
so firmly' fixed in the minds of thou
sands that plain, prosaic facts can
do nothing to destroy it. The Fox
sisters will be helpless to undo their
own work.
When the pastor came to count the
day's contributions in a New York
church the other day he found a lit
tie wad of five $1,000 bills among the
nickels and dimes. Nobody knows
who put them in the basket, nud
some good fellow is chuckling all to
himself over the storm of curious in
quiry he has raised' It is hoped by
.preachers generally that this form of
amusement will become popular with
the rich.
The nnual session of the New York
Medical Association has just been
held in New York city. One of the
interesting papers read was that of
Dr, John Shrady, who states that
the first dissection in New York was
make in 1750, and the first medical
degree granted in America was that
to Robert Tucker, of New York, in
1820. During the yellow fever epi
demic iu New Yorli in 1708, when 2,-
ons died, the physicians car-
cir medicines around with
d charged at the rate of 12
dose.
A Georgia editor iu going away
his paper in charged’ a minister,
luring the minister’s stay iu the
inctum the following letter came
from a mountain subscriber: “You
know very well that 1 paid my sub
scription to your paper the last time
I was in your blamed town. If I get
any more letters from you like the
last one, 1 will come down to your
oltieo and maul the devil out of you."
To this the minister answered: “I
have been trying to maul that thing
out-of the editor for fifteen years past I man." A nu
and if you will really come down and | ctfl j
do it for me, I have twenty more
members of my congregation that 1
will get you to operate on.”
The Labor Scare.
SavnniiAti New*.
One of the tricks of the Republi
cans in this campaign is to make it
appear, if possible, that democratic
success means stagnation is bus!
ness and lower wages for working
men. They tried to work the same
trick in 1884.
During the campaign of that year,
the New York Tribune requested
certain republican manufacturers in
New Jersey to answer this question
“In case Cleveland should be elected
to the Presidency in November, and
the democrats should have a majori
ty in Congress and a free trade speak
er in the House, what, in your opin
ion would be the effect on your bus
iness?" Fifteen answers were receiv
ed, and were printed in the Tribune
the day before the election. All of
the manufacturers who sent answers
agreed that 51 r. Cleveland’s election
would have a very disastrous effect
upon the industries of the country,
and therefore would be highly inju
rious to workingmen. Several of
them went so so far as to say that if
Cleveland were elected, they would
shut down their works.
Cleveland was elected, and the
country is not ruined. The manu
facturers have gone right on making
money, and the workingmen have not
been injured. The fact is that Mr.
Cleveland’s administration has given
to the country three and a half years
of unusual prosperity.
The other day the New York Eve
ning Post sent a representative to
New Jersey to ascertain the condi
tion of the fifteen manufactories
whose managers predicted disaster if
Mr. Cleveland were elected. Tliir
tcc:i of them doing more busi
ness than they did in 1884. Two
have shut down—one because of
poor management, and the other be
cause of its bad location. Thomas
II. Hawkins, John E. Gctzinger &
Son, Bndinc, Thomas ifc Co., IV,
Warrick, Cox & Son and John Guv
nor, who said they would be com
pelled to shut down in the event of
democratic success, forgot to do so
somehow or other, and have made
additions to their works.
The labor tfcarc did not work in
1884, and It won’t work now. The
workingmen of the country have had
proof they could ask to convince
them that they will not be injured
iu the least by a democratic admin
islration.
Preserving Fence Posis.
In building a fence around our
young orchards, says the New Or
leans Picayune, several years ago we
tried many plans for preserving the
posts. Having occasion to remove
the fence this winter we noted tLo
condition of the posts as follows:
Those set with no preparation were
decayed an inch or more in thick
ness; those washed with a thick
coat of lime were preserved better,
but were seriously attacked by
worms: those posts coated with hot
tar were as good as whom put in the
ground; those painted wito petro
leum were equally as good and
sound for setting. Let the posts
get perfectly dry, and then with a
pan of cheap kerosene and a white
wash brush, give the lower third of
post, the part to go into the ground,
two or three applications of the oil
letting it soak iu well each time.
Posts treated will not be troubled by
worms or insects of any kind, and
will resist decay to a remarkable
degree. This we find to be the sim
plest, easiest, cheapest and best
method of preservation.
Presbyterians Incensed.
Chakleston, S. €., Oct. 13.—The
Presbyterians here are very much in
The New State Capitol.
Atlanta Constitution,
The new eapitol is steadily ap
proaching completion. The beauti.
ful pink marble wainscoting is be
ing put up around the walls of the
grand corridors on the first floor, and
the white marble tiling is being laid
on all three floors. The marble steps
of the grand stairway in one of the
great light shafts have been put in
place ami the iron frame work of the
other awaits the steps. The Govern
or’s private olfice, in the north end,
is finished in maple and the adjoin
ing offices in cherry. The executive
offices extend from the north entrance
round the west side, taking up ail
tho rooms on the first floor to the
main entrance but two, which has
been assigned to the Secretary of
State.
The doors and door frames open
ing into the corridors are all of oak,
and the inside of the doors is cover
ed with wood to match the finish of
the rooms they open into. The prin
cipal offices on the first floor are fin
isbed in oak, cherry or maple, aiul
on the second and third floors the
wainscoting and door frames of the
corridors are of oak, and the com
mittee rooms are finished inside in
yellow pine. Tho State Library,
which reaches from the second floor
through the third across the end, is
finished in cherry, and the Supreme
Courtroom in the south end, is liu
ished in oak. The Senate Chamber
is in oak, and the House of Rcprc
sentatives with the surrounding cor
ridorsda finished in cherry.
It is thought that the building will
bo finished in January, and that the
State officers will move in sometime
in February, «<> that everything will
be In perfect order by the time the
summer session of the legislature
begins.
The Negro Vole.
Tho Atlanta Constitution says:
Alluding to the fact that at the re
cent election in Georgia tho demo
The Governor’s Salary.
suv.kii nil Sens.
favor of an amendment to the consti
totion that will increase the salary
of the Governor of Georgia to $4,000
per annum.
An increase in the Governor’s sal
ary has been suggested frequently
and the suggestion is a good one.
The office of Governor is of more
importance than that of representa
tive in Congress, and yet a Congress
man receives $5,000 a year, while the
Governor receives only $3,000. Is
there any good reason'why a Govern
or should not receive as much as a
Congressman? It is true the last
named is paid by the general govern
ment, which is abundantly able to
pay even more than it does; but,
while Georgia is not wealthy, she can
afford to pay some of her officers bet
ter salaries than they get. The Gov
ernor and tiic Supreme and Superior
Court Judues ought to be better
paid.
Georgia is behind a good many of
the other States in this matter. In
the South, for instance, Virginia and
Kentucky pay their Governors $5,-
000: Tennessee and Texas $4,000;
Florida and South Carolina, $3,500.
Why should not Georgia pay as much
as any other Southern State?
It is true that the best men in the
state arc willing to hold the offices at
the present salary, but when they do
so, it is generally at a considerable
pecuniary sacrifice. There willing
ness to accept an inadequate salary
is not a good reason why the salary
should not be increa,ed.
It is not probable, however, that
the proposed amendment will be pas-
cd by the legislature just elected,or,if
passed, ratified by the people. The
defeat of the constitutional amend
ment increasing tho number of su
preme court judges from three to
five settles that question. The
amendment should have been adopt
ed. An increase of the supreme
crats had little or no opposition, the j bench is needed, and an addition of
Sauila.iuu in beu-Goiug Ships.
Even the government officials are
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun is in j no t satisfied with ordinary fuiniga
tion, as will be shown by the follow
ing, from thtf journal of commerce.
Washington, October 8.—Surgeon-
Genera) Hamilton, with the appro
val of the President and Acting Sec
retary Thompson, has issued the fol
lowing circular in regard to the treat
ment of foul ships:
In order to stimulate shipmasters
to aid in securing a clean ocean-going
fleet, the following regulation con
cerning the treatment of foul ships
is hereby adopted and will be observ
ed at all national quarantine sta
tions:
“When a vessel arrives at an}' na
tional quarantine station from an in
fected port and requires disinfcctian,
she will he subject to ordinary dis
infection, as provided in former reg
ulations.
2. When any vessel shall arrive
at any national quarantine station in
such foul condition as to render her
dangerous from a sanitary point of
view, and is found to require cleans
ing and disinfection, and having at
any former time within one year been
subjected to ordinary dis
infection, such vessels will be re
quired to undergo extraordinary dis
infection, which, in addition to the
ordinary measures, will include holy
stoning, scraping, the taking out of
rotten wood, a second disinfection
and interior re-painting, all of which
will be required before granting a
certificate of free prnctique.”
repabliena organs declare that it is
the Result of bulUiozifig and oppres-
sioi
a- that the failure of the
reptfOlitaus to nominate candidates'
and support them is another evidence
that the negroes are not permitted
to exercise the privilege of voting;
and they draw forth the Moody shirt
and proceed to wave it most vigor
ously.
But to what purpose? Governor
Bullock, who was a republican in
Georgia when it was dangerous to be
one, owing to the attitude of Thud
Stevens and his radical coadjutors,
has time and again announced in the
column* uf some of the most promi
nent papers in the South that the
apathy of the negroes is due to the
fact that they have lost confidence
in some of the men who used to lead
them, and to the further fact that
democratic home rule has been favor
able tv their advancement and do
velopuont.
The health authoriticsof Brooklyn
are considering what action to pur
sue regarding tho custom of a socie
ty of Polish Jews iu that city, who
have idoptcd a peculiar mode of
buryitg their members. They bring
out th: body in a rough box, and af
ter tbi grave is dug the body is ta
ken from the box and laid on the
grounc. The box is then broken up
and tba boards put up on tho inside
of tho grave, after which the body is
laid or the bare ground and then
eovcrel by the top board of the box.
Tho other lot-holders in the ccrnc-
tarics object to this mode of burial,
as it it very unpleasant to those vis-
tiug tho ccmetary.
two members to it would not have
necessary the levying of an addition
al cent of taxes. The effect of the
defeoit, however,jwill he probably , to
prevent, for some years, any attempt
to relieve the overworked supreme
court judges, or to increase the sal
ary of any public officer.
Richard Grant White wrote a se
ries of articles several years ago to
show how inefficient the public
schools of New York and Massachu
setts were. Many people in both
these states became very angry over
Mr. Whites strictures. There are^
people iu Georgia to day win) would
resent criticisms of our so-called
system of public schools, but there
is hardly an intelligent Georgian
w(d is not ashamed of the fact that,
except in the cities and larger towns,
there is not a free school in Georgia
open more than three months in the
year. When we allude to our state
“system” of public education wc per
petrate a cruel joke. It is time to
look this ugly, discreditable fact in
the face.
Now that the railroad companies
censed at a resolution adopted by the| llav0 Drbiddcn the use of their
Charleston Presbytery at Aiken* last j b 1 ri « 1 *» l ^ lynching parties in the
, ' , ‘ , . almost treeless State of Nebraska,
week "forbidding the public eonten- ■ t,be interest in the forest culture has
ling against tlie decision of the as , revived among its citizens.
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The oreinan of an Arizona print
Hl-e, who had occasion to shoot
ompositors, added insult
him aftcr-
The oldest of republics, Switzer
land, lias not departed from the sim
ple notions of government with which
it was founded, if we may judge from
the salaries paid its highest officials.
The president receives $2,700, the
cabinet officers $2,400, senators and
represenatives about $4 a day for
actual service. The entire outlay
for the executive and legislative de
partments is only $01,000 a year, or
a tax of two cents upon each inhab
itant. Thu expense of the same de
partments in the United States is
$21,000,000 annually, or a tax of
thirty-five cents, it should lie re
membered however, that Switzerland
has not yet gone into the business of
making her people rich by taxing
them and is not solicitous about hav
ing a strong paternal government.
General Sherman amuses himself
in his old age by predicting all sorts
of terrible things. He reminds us
that the northern people are slow to
anger, but once aroused they are
not easily pacified. He says that
if the negro continues to be suppres
sed there will be another war, more
cruel than*the last, and the torch
and dagger will take the place of
well-ordered battalions. This talk
abont the suppression of the negro
vote is unworthy of a man of sense.
There is no civil war looming up in
our future, but if one should come,
it is difficult to sec how it could be
more cruel than the last, or at least
that part of it which was waged
against us by General Sherman and
his torch-bearers.—Constitutin.
Tho recent disastrous flood has
s^^ugusta to Uiiniyng of pBinjtfor
tnepreventation of such dfta&ters.
The Savannah river appears to be
come more dangerous every year and
Augusta very wisely is trying to de
vise some means of controlling it, ’
Mr. \Y\ W. Thomas of Athens, a
member of the eapitol commission
and an engineer of large experionce,
writes to the Chronicle on this sub
ject. He lias had occasion to sur
vey the river above and below Au
gusta, and In- ib Inks permanent
protection from flood could lie insur
ed by this means.
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