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t glir ^dvertiscr-fdpyenl 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. senibly in reference to the origin of —-—♦ *■ 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. Bcwaro ot Fraud, as my name and tho price are stamped on the bottom ot all my advertised shoes ... . •. ..... *-* - wearers a dealer price* or W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOEa GENTLEMEN. w t' nkon}". d ; ,0 2" 1 •"'! 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