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■'■ - THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1884. Dally and Weakly. THE TELEGRAM* AND MEMENGKB il pub* lihlicd every day except Monday, and weekly erjcy Friday. Tm Daily it delivered by carrier* In the city or mAlled postage free to subscribers at $1 per month, $2 &o (or three months, $5 (or tlx months or $10 a year. Tut Weekly (% mailed to subscriber*, po«* tage free, at $i 60 a year. 75c. lor tlx months. To clubs o( five $1.25 a year, and to clubs of ten |l per year, and an extra copy to getter up *1 club ol five or ten. Transient advertisements will be taken (or Daily at*l per square of ten lines or less for the first Insertion, and fifty cents lor each subsequent insertion; and for the weekly at $1 per square (or each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. _ Rejected communications will not be re* cornin' and er gwine.” At short range it is undoubtedly, by far, the most fear ful implement of warfare in existence. But this weapon’s usefulness was never tested, except upon some ven turesome shotes as the warriors ed. ■orrMDondence containing Important news at discussions of living topics, is solicited, *ni must be brief and written upon but one ■ide ol the paper to have attention. Remittances hhould be made by Express, Honey Order or Registered Letter* ■ Agents wanted in every community i«' the State, to whom liberal commissions will be paid. Postmasters are especially requested to write lor term*. ,.. .. All communications should be addressed to H. C. HANSON, Manger, Macon. Georgia. A Jamaica steamer says its captain and crew passed through a school of sharks forty square miles in extent on its last voyage.^*All Wall Street seems to be on a summer jaunt Republicans are pained at the fact that nil the indications point to harmonious action at the coming Democratic conven tion. In all the States we have yet to hear of a single contesting delegation. There is no doubt of the fact that Mass achusetts was largely responsible for the existence of slavery in the 8outh, but that will not be an issue in the coming cam paign. It is hardly worth the while to waste ammunition on side issues when ammunition is in demand for direct is sues. Southern nnd Northern Flavor. I can through malice, ignorance or cor- In the New York Times of late date ruption destroy the value of all of our is found the following: railroad property, so far as the owners There 1. a distinctively Southern Savor in of the railroads are concerned, and the story thst comes from a Pennsylvanian there is no power to check or restrain village of a murder employed as a means of | them, lettlln* “a financial qu.rreL” The victim ^y e think it grossly unjnst to anv I marched. President Davis, Secretary me w‘i“.mert men rod”'*tb°i “then of Georgia, for the State thus to of War Walker and Secretary of State murderer, "a member of a family formerly I imperil his property. The cry of ex- Toombs held an inquest upon it, and very wealthy but now in reduced clrcum-1 tortion, of discrimination, of monopoly decided unanimously that its use would stance*. Let us hope that the parallel will not Qr oppregB i on Joes not justify the adop- be in violation of the laws of nations Tirfu'.em InMct^the* ■urvUor^ind’that tion of measures so extreme that the W ith it war would tor simply murder -universal sympathy" will not he (elt for the court, cannot be trusted to test the I.very man of the defeated army would murderer. ThU would be the second chapter remedies applied for the correction of be killed or captured. It was not the of the southern murder, mid it it bcc.uic it I , bege ev ;[« cven wbcn their existence policy of the Confederacy to kill all of would he th»t murder, of thl, kind arose . their Northern cotton consumers. Be much commoner in North Carolina than I 10 proven- I . . ,, . in Pennsylvania, since the acquittal of I Any law based upon the doctrine sides, contending armies would he Duke., however, Pennsylvania Justice has n I that the owners of any one class of brought so close together in battle as to good name to regain. I pr0 p er ty can be deprived of the right of swap epidemics and increase the modi The Times goes out of its way to as-1 appca j t0 the courts for its protection cal difficulties, sault the South. It will be observeJ ; 3 both unwise and unjnst. So long as This was a severe blow to the invent- that while there is a condemnatory I t(j . g r jght is accorded one citizen, in I or, and one from which his inventive tone adopted in commenting upon the defense .of one species of property, it genius never reacted. He turned his Pennsylvania affair, the venom of the I mug j be accorded to all, and attention to politics, and suffered the Timet is in reality expended, upon j a p pbe d pj property of every class, or fight to proceed with smoothbore mus- Xorth Carolina and Southern civiliza- else g 0Teramen t becomes an engine of kets. tion. One would think that the Trnes oppreggion> and taW( ^tead of pro- 6ti.. could find in the metropolis plenty of I feting, enslaves, and confiscates GitApn has it that only the time neces- texts upon which to unload its right- | ^ proper ty of the people. sary to secure a brace of them delays eous indignation. Indeed, in the Her* I humblest citizen can invoke the [ the impending challenge. The Sena- ald of even date with the edition ol!the 4 protection, of the State in support of his tor from Kansas will be obliged to Times from which the above is taken, j ^g^ts of person and property, in all face the Senator from Georgia on the we find the following: things, except investments in railroads, field of battle, and with the Brown o,V?u"£ ..LumT^CeTh There should he no exception to the pike. Few inventors live to demon .entence of Policeman Conroy l. s fresh liius* 1 rule, no discrimination against this strata in actual battle the superior tration of that our criminal law reema to have property. There can be none either in qualities of their productions. Colonel been intended for the benefit of criminals goun( j policy or good morals, and we I Bowie is the only notable Instance we do not believe the Constitution will I can recall. Butthe luck of Mr. Brown Tn* Independent movement in Florida Jeopards Democratic eucceia in tbatquar ter. The South will not continue to be solid without earnest effort and unity of action on the part of the Democratic masses. In looking alter doubtful States, North and East, it will not do to lose sight of unfavorable indications nearer home. Wa have deliberately resolved to vote against Blaine, since learning that he en couraged watermelon-stealing when a boy. v will never do to establish the precedent 1 electing a man ol such antecedents as ihat It would break up melon-growing sod bankrupt all the Sunday-echoole in the country. If the country be wlee, it will .iced this warning. crime was one ol the most wanton and brutal I not believe the Constitution will can murders committed of late years. His convlc* meet this view of the case and is proverbial. tion and sentence were hailed by the commu-1 deny the correctness of our position in The inevitable result tails for emotion nlty as a wholesome administration of Justice. re ( erence to its application to railroad | There can be but one ending. Some fine the’p'rocredlngs. The prisoner'areo'rXgl? property in Georgia, or the danger that morning the sun will rise up and see gets a new trial, with the odds on his side of arises from the loose ideas of a people in the neighborhood of Spa Springs, escaping with a light penalty. Not more than who will sanction the enforcement of Bladensb jrg, two venerable Americans, one In a down of those who commit murder such j aw wildly swinging in a circle, at the end when* one u found'guuty'by‘the TuJy bm I The law nndcr which the Railroad of two pikes, while tlieir esteemed chances arc that the verdict will be annulled I Commission exists not only permits, seconds stand waiting in suspense for by a higher court on some legal technicality. | but under its present execution en* something to give way. Mr. Ingalls' And yet hnrdly a session ol .the Legislature I f oreeg upon the owners of our railroad j uike will bo fouled in Mr. Brown’s more'ax In°favor ofmllidcrcra" ' ”* m *‘ ° property, the wrong nnd injustice of watch guard, and Mr. Brown’s will be The city press in addition to this helplessness in the first place and hooked in the hip pocket of Ingalls’ furnishes daily record of crimes un- °* confiscation in the second, imminent deadly breeches. Bat there known in the South. The .World in involves control without responsi- will bo.no salvation for Mr. Ingalls when one edition recently reported seven | Witty, power without accountability, once in the hands of a man who, after a police court cases in which as many I We are seeking to have the errors un-1 generation of delay, has found an oppor- husbands were Tne “balloon" campaign of the Fenians against England Is gaseous and ridiculous. If there were any serious purpose to tend balloons loaded with dynamite bombs over England, it would be diabolical. It would be assassination and incendiarism, not de cent warfare. The Irish cause gains noth ing in the estimation of honorable people by snch brutal vaporiugs. Tun Atlanta girls need not doubt that they wifi always have the assistance ol the TiLxaum axd Mzssinqu in defend- dug them against the graceless, con scienceless charges of Atlanta correspon dents of 'S'orthem and Western papers. TheTxucxArtt axd Miser.tr, ex lores all the fair, sweet Georgia girls, and Its re sources—offensive and defensive, are at tlieir service. A Dangerous Move on West Virginias Mr. Blaine Is interested with promi nent Democrats and others in large business enterprises in West Virginia. It is consequently likely that when he takes the stump he will make a strong effort to secure the electoral vote of that State. The movement may he characterized as dangerous. In the volume ot'liis hook already published, Mr. Blaine treats of HA debt of Vir ginia in connection with the dismem berment of that Stabejby military force He deals with the creation of the now State, as far as the general government was concerned, os “a war measure, 1 justified by military necessity. The government deprived Virginia of a por tion of her territory, and to this extent deprived her of her power to pay her debts. In view of this fact, Mr. Blaine argues that it would not be inequitable for the government to assume the pay ment of a portion of the debt; and, as additional reason for such action, he citeB the historical fact that Vir ginia ceded to the general government the whole “northwest territory.” More than a hundred million of dollars have been paid Into the United States treas ury from tho sale of lands which Vir- giua voluntarily gave away. The debt question enabled Mahone to rise to power in Virginia and has given the people of that State vexation and trouble beyond computation. Is still an open question with West Virginia, a comparatively young State, and the suggestion of Mr. Blaine, to throw the burden upon the general government, will not fail to catch ad herents. If it be true, as alleged, that many Virginians Bhouted for Daniel and voted for Cameron, in order to settle a trouble some question, it is not difficult to un derstand how West Virginia would hail the proposition of Mr. Blaine, to pay her debt fr jm the general treasury. Human nature is scarcely strong enough to resist an offer to have a troublesome financial obligation forever settled. Mr. Blaine’s movement is plausible, strong and dangerous. We would all like to have somebody else pay our debts for us. Our State University Should bo a pride to every Georgian. Every citizen has watched its course for many years back and has hailed with pleasure every Indication, nomat ter how slight, I that it was becoming a university in something beyond the mere name. But every citizen will nat urally feel discouraged to find in tho present annual report this paragraph: The board discovered the lack of attention to minor matter!, luch aa spelling, penman ship and grammar, and In consequence the hoard could not accord is htgh a general aver- OSF The Patriotic Side of' Policy. c ' we American. M ’ Th i' r * liked to seethe big chimneys smoking on the soil ol his own country, as well as on those of iU rivals. It is quite true that there j! Americans who rather prefer anythlns that comes from abroad, and esoeciali. whatever is "ao English, you know " itf, the dude is not the representstive Amcw can as vet, and we believe it will S before he will be. The average Amiri? 11 * feels an boneat pride and slftotetfo-fiS seeing hi. county makingTSS to every direction. He is proud of her man ufaclures, and means that they shall Sirs snnnlilfi pnmnssna«..i •go In scholarship as they would have liked every reasonable encouragement, even to do. This defect the, considered dec to the °L* up for beating their I der which these dangerous conditions tunity to meet a foe and demonstrate a wives, while the brutality of the police, liaTC arisen corrected. Wedo not seek design.lt will be a short, sharp, bloody the demoralization of females and the or advise the repeal of the law or the campaign for vindication. Before the lawlessness of the common people are commission. We desire its amendment Kansas Senator’s farewell “Now I lay things the eager reporters will not 80 th *t the question of earnings and of me down to sleep” can benttered, allow the public to forget. rates shall not he the subject skillfully twisting the handle of his A little Southern civilization and a of assumption by the commission weapon, the inventor will have made a resort to the so-called Southern method but of proof before the courts. We tourniquet of the Kansas waistband, of settling financial disputes would a l>all maintain at all times and under and the proud Western orator will re- perhaps ho beneficial in New York 1111 circumstances that any law that semble an hour-glass caught in a cy- city. There would he fewer “gigantic | cannot stand the scrutiny of the courts clone. swindlers” walking Wall street, and I “* 9 the result of errors, ignorance and L And descending from the shelter of fewer national “decoys” left on hand Passion,” and will labor for its amend- j a neighboring scrub oak, Senator Hoar to be pensioned by Congress and to ment, and if need be, repeal. on tho one side will say unto Senator claim the “universal sympathy" of a We wil1 never consent without pro- Hampton on the other, verily it wifi be very patient people. 1 tost to any statute that in its enforce-1 an ‘ ‘Alaska” day when Brown'gets left, ment carries the confession of its in- Clp . rlm .„» with Dynamite. The R.„n of ,h. boss... j justice in an exemption from jnd.cial | Consi(lerablc cxcitemcnt hag rcccnt . Tennessee had a tilt over the tariff, and did not do so bad alter all. The Mem phis Avalanche says: “The fact thst hi a Democratic convention comprising 1529 delegates 533 voted for ths Ohio platform yesterday shows the rapid growth of pro tection in the South. Within a year, or perhaps two, the free trade faction will form a small minority In the Democratic party tn Tennessee." w I a* i ... # i vuusiiu.ruuiu vxvibcuium uuo reivui* A recent communication upon this f th ®. ^ ly been developed in naval circles over subject in our columns has awakened “ ® > i s au on y. sundry guns constructed to throw shells much interest in and comment upon an This is the line of our oppostion to aro ^ with d lte lnstcaJ evil that affects our own, in common ‘to l«r continuing the railroad Com- Tll0eX p e / ment8W0re flrit with almost every community in the “lesion, and we shall maintain conducted with shells ebargod only State. against all comers. It fs laid down anJ H obtainc 5 The abnormal condition of political *« th « ln 0 ( r “ ation ol nei « h : were as follow.: The gun, whore dls- affairs, resulting from the war, hu I bora, the Consl.futem especially, andK,^ potjer wai compre sscd air given to small and designing men op- for th « balance of mankind ^ I gu jj e nly liberated, cast the shell with portunitiesfor aggrandizement,of which I general. A\e are opposed fair accuracv about a milei tbe they have not been slow to avail them-j to the _ abnormal ( powers I fl . ght q| ^ aheU regembllng selves. The formation of rings, cliques | °lthe Commission, and the eloslng of ^ flight of a similar and combinations has put in the handa ‘ h ® ecu* against tho owners of ou r I projects thrown from a morUr. Ex- Foixowixo np the IW6unc’s Idea ol rep resenting Citizen George Washington as a “tattooed man," a Blaine man has discov ered that the fiddle of that eminent gentle man to still in eight end In good repair. We don’t believe that the “Father of his country" was either e tattooed manor a fiddler; but his having been both would add nothing to the qualifications of the Mulligan Man for the Preeldency. unworthy ones, the political powerand “ or < a ' or the P°* crs °* u,e U)m ; with Bhells loaded with dynamite, and machinery of counties, municipalities mtorion as at present constituted, and successfully. Accuracy and well- ia itopposed to opening the courts for > . nbtm ? nwI . and tho SUte. Tho evil is great, and to itopposed to opening the court. lor ^ c Ioglonl! we „ obtaine<1 . it grows upon what it feeds. | “>e purpose of reviewing the action. [ Tbe fir i t obiection ureed affa i n to require argument. The remedy is 1 an ^ “ r ® rca< iy to go to the people of | plain and simple. Every citizen owes | Georgia with it. the duty to the community in which he ~~~~ lives to use his best efforts in behalf of Brown’s Golden Opportunity. Tax House of Representatives told their sergesut-st-arms to put Hatlet Kilbourue in durance. John did It. The Supreme Court decided that John bad no right to do It, and an inferior judicature aaae the damages at $20,000. Tbe government will pay It and It may keep Kilbourue out of the penitentiary a little while. Let us hop* that tbto la ths last we shall hear of Iongee, who baa been far more ornamental than useful to the Democratic party. To dsxt property the protection of the courts la a great outrage—amounting to outlawry; and that to just what the Rail road Commlsalon law of Georgia doea. It would be bad enough if the railroads were allowed to appeal from the Star Chamber decisions, at their own expense, In order to protect the mangled remains ol their profits; but that privilege la denied them, in consideration of the fact, we suppose, that what to taken oof of the profits of rail road business remains In the pockets of the people. A tow to compel merchants to sell goods at half price would accomplish the same purpose, and thousands of people would indorse ft The popular tendencies are bad. Oca Congressman, Mr. Blount, has not been in Congress long enough to satisfy bis own mind, that he does not rota away his own, rather than the money of the people. On a motion to Increaee the Item lor the lest mail aemet, a proposition en tirely in behalf of the people, he voted agalnet the people, end carried Hammond, Clemente and Crisp along with him. We are pleased to note that Messrs. Harde man, Turner, Reese and Mcholto voted the other way. This Indication of open rebellion against the assumed leadership of a very small man, will give great pleas ure to the constituents of these gen tlemen, end the public at large. Tbe elder colored brother cannot be President of the railed Statee. The New York Journal of Commeret, In a reply to correspondent, settles the point In this way: “We mean exactly what we said, that ‘any natural boro citizen of the Baited litotes, 13 year* of age, who has lived yean In this country, white or black, Catholic. Protestant or Jew, may be elected President.” We added that this has been tbe rule from the formation of the govern ment to tbe peasant time. The negro, if natural boro citizen (cad many were bon), has always been eligible to the Presidency. If boro a slave, lie I* not le gally, a natural boro citizen, and therefore is not digit!* and cannot be made so with out a change In tbe conaUtutloo." a few men, and in many instances railroads. Docs the Conifilulion ques- perlmentg were on Mon d ay i aa t ma) le iworthv ones, tho nolitical nowerand tl° n or favor the powers of the Com- ... _i,i, *„.i • i . r The first objection urged against the The necessity for reform is too great °* the Commission. This to the Issue F bag never been overcome. The greatest distance yet obtained to little less than a mile. Such a gun would avail as nothing against the guns now in use. An enemy’s fleet would wise, clean and good government, and I Tho Courier-Journal graphically do- j* eflective, far beyond the range of a no society can be good or government scribes the alarm in the Senate and the j ort defended with the air guns. But pure that to not controlled by the boat preparations for real war which followed | g ana ther objection now devel- sentiment of the people. Tho time is tho wordy battle betweon Ingalls, of oped w ),ich seems equally fatal. Tho propitious for a change in Georgia, and I Kansas, and Brown, of Georgia. It to destructive force of a dynamite explo- there Is no good reason why Bibb rumored that several offers were made g i on [ g fa ] eu than supposed. It to county should not be the pioneer in the to the Georgian by Southern associates evident from the following account of movement. 1 to arrange preliminaries and place him government experiments recently made Soon we shall have to select Repre-1 in position to perforate the Cassius of a ear Annapolis, that tho mere casting sentativea for our State Legislature. It the Senate with leaden pellets; but a board ship a dynamite shell would is the general opinion of observing per-1 with a quiet smilo he refused them all. amount to nothing, unlesa it hod veloc- sons, that our Legislature to fast de- “I have been insulted, outraged, but I j ty sufficient to give it penetration, tcriorating, In strength and integrity, can do nothing,” said Mr. Brown, ii I (pedal to the Herald says: Let ns endeavor to infuse new life and I correctly reported. “During my life I Tho t»ri*t consisted ol nint one Inch blood Into our body politic,and to do this I have been a minister, judge, war gov- wrousht lion pUtci, bolted to each other, and we must commence at the bottom, ernor Republican, Democrot.'.roilroml ££ Let every citizen resolve to take part president and Senator, but never a I rte4 such a wey as to represent a ponton in political primaries, and then carry soldier. The fact is, I can’t shoot of a broadside of an Iron-clad. Tbe plates and the resolutions Into effect. Let us worth a continental.” With this he the whole structure, especially the boltlnt, have our best men in all public posl- settled back apparently resigned. I torat^much weaker tarset than tbe side of tions, and make character and energy It to evident that the Senate and the I chtr(tI wm detonate u )n Mtual the test for political promotion. | Northern public have much to learn of tact with the lece ol the plates. Charges of Georgia's Mr. Brown. In the calm I five pounds and ten pounds produced no Tho Railroad Commission. [ stroke of his hand upon his patriarchal f***'; A'wcmj’ pooo*'barge produced an 1 1 Indentation about six inches tn diameter and t . , . . , , . I, , i t 2 .1 I iUUCUlAllOH fiUUUl HI IUt'Ul'1 IU filllUClfil We do not desire to be miaunder- beard there was less of differing than one ^ mh of an lnch deep . Aflcr a stood with reference to onr position of calculation. Anticipation, not em- pound charge the Indentation was three- touching the Railroad Commlsalon. barrassment was expressed in the quarters of an Inch deep overan eras two feet Neither do we intend to misstate washing motion to which he constantly **•"**•/> “ d b,ok * n “ 4 that of any of our contemporaries, or subjected hto hands. In the calm Sena- °,™ r * a l‘„ny soother bolt woe ol any of the advocates of the present torial submission to the injury inflicted broken and tbe indent deepened to on# and a law. The issue is plain and simple, there was craft and resignation. Mr. half Inches; the outer plate sprung out two and we are persuaded that tew, if any, Brown bad, in fact, atready planned *‘‘ h ‘ “»« ^ng unto- of the geople of Georgia will controvert hto revenge. Lulled by the friendly * he ind^t wuta^'lnchesd^p the principles upon which onr oppoai- congratulations upon his temporary land two and a hall feet In diameter. All tbe tion to this law to baaed. Whether trinmpb, Mr. Ingalls walks above a plates wire sprung at the edges. One of the hidden mine. His mangled remains ““her* ol the tacking was somewhat splln- will-ere long be pictorUlly exhibited £ in the various illustrated journal* of u>ree feet In diameter; the out" “££ wm the republic. I cracked In the vicinity of the Indent; nil tbe It will be remembered that when t»!t» were badly strsfned. but foar were still „ „<r, unbroken. Tbe ilructure, alterpounds of Mr. Brown was enumerating the offi I dynamite had been exploded against It, to ccs And positions in which he had la* I charges as euumerstod, was practically pain* bored there was no mention of the fact lured. A modem six Inch breech loading that he had once been an inventor. "ooto have pierced this urges through The announcement would have placed | al ,,Wu • _ Mr. Ingalls upon bis guard. Brown railroad bnilding has been promoted or retarded by the existence of the com mission, and its extraordinary powers is at last Irat a question involving the policy of snch a law. We would not underrate the Importance of good policy as this applies to all public questions. There are, however, con siderations of right involved in this question thst should not, cannot, be disregarded with safety. We have created this commission and vested it with supreme power to make and enforce rates that determine tbe earnings of onr railroads. From its edicts there is no appeal. The rail road* of Georgia, which have cost at least sixty millions of dollars, are placed at the mercy of this commission, Against this vast property tbe State has closed her courts, and in the pres ence of bankruptcy, now or hereafter, this triumvirate, responsible to nobody, , _ _ * Tux late State conventions hav* been to has been an Inventor. Twenty-five eonluitogand tmjmufactory. that the TU- yeareagohe invented the celebrated U n b^* u ^ miuarfagrin. If th* Brown pike,now so highly esteemed in | party has made up Its mind to defeat the museums, and there are men liv- again, it might just as well b* defeated ing in Georgia who bore them to the | with him aa anybody else, music of the drum. This weapon con- * slats of a hook and meat axe of Gothic TxLxmuru *xn Mnszsara . seek to win tbe admiration of all architectural design, crossed upon a .. Woeuntoyoa whtn all men speak well spear head and naHed to a po e. It 1 « J™ ’1*“ . ., „ _ , , , .of you.” It is willing to rest its claims to was invented in Mr. Brown’* happiest public rested on tbe trend wbkhlt mate moments and intended in the hoar of in dteiWrSt'irf^eanmetWt, to all the conflict with the enemy to “catch nm' departments of civil and political 111*. The Solce of an Arkansas Courtship, From the earliest church days it has been the delight of the village swain to accompany his lassie home after the divine service. There is something in this single act that has always ren dered it popular, and we have been to considerable pains to unravel the mys tery. Information derived from young person who knows, leads to the belief that in courtship there are oppor tunities and opportunities, which, whllo alike in some respects, yet differ in glory. For Instance, there aro five nights of the working days, any one of which to perhaps as desirable as an other, a shade of preference, however, being expressed for the days nearest the approaching Sabbath. Then there to next in order the Sunday night call, famedinsong as the great "spark ing” occasion, and indeed, for persons meaning business, Sunday night 1s desirable one. But the walk home from church is undoubtedly the prime choice of all. In the Sunday walk homeward there are all the elements of pleasure and variety. The swain to seen in hto best attire, clean shaved and hto boutonniere unwilted. Hto “choice” to as matter of coarse arrayed In her best and the two are on dress parade before the community. Whatever honor there is in tho position he occupies the swain enjoys to his utmost. And In deed tho (octal recognition, tho in dorsement of a pretty and popular girl in a Sunday walk, ia no small affair. It is seldom, however, that this hosor is so fiercely sought as to lead to bloodshed, as recently in an Arkansas village. Tho two young men who fig ured in it were bent upon "seeing home” the preacher’s daughter and took their seats in the audience, each determined to secure tbe prize at any risk. Suddenly one was seen to rise, and crossing the aisle, calmly sett himsell in the preacher’s family pew. This of coarse meant defeat for the other unless he could prevent a walking engagement being organized before service* were ended. Hewaaayonng man of de- ctoion, and acted at once. He calm ly drew bis revolver and sighting over the left ear of a bald headed elder who was propping hto right up with hto open hand to catch the words of wis dom that were being uttered by the father of the preacher’s daughter, pulled the trigger. As a matter of course there was an explosion; the Arkansas pistol never hangs fire. The effect was electrical, especially as concerns the young man in the preacher’s pew, who was scribbling hto application on the fly leaf of a hymn book. He hurriedly got down behind the seat and arranging hto battery, thundered back a reply. In the meantime the deaf elder had led moat of the congregation ont into the grove, and the preacher was hang ing oat the window by hto hands, try ing to decide whether it were better to climb back or to take hto chances amongst a'half dozen vicious males that he bad neglected nntil thelaatmoment to observe were tied directly under him, Those of the audience who remained disarmed the young men, and it was agreed that they should fight it out with fists in the woods. In the mean time service* were suspended. This wise arrangement, however, was de feated. It was not known that the young man in the preacher’s pew was the favorite. Nor was it known that the preacher’s danghter had stuck a derringer In hto boot leg when bidding him gool bye. ThU was developed later, when the other young man wa* brought in from the “ring,” shot through the lungs. There to undoubtedly an unusual amount of pleasure in the Sunday walks homeward. But the spice of the Arkancai courtship to wanting. crowded labors of the professor*. This to but a reproduction of what has been given forth for many years, and it to hat a matter of justice to the faculty of the university to say that the same thing may be justly charged up to oth er institutions of high grado in this country. But a year or two since it was found that the graduates of West Foint could not read, write or spell the English language correctly, notwith standing the fact that these prerequi sites aro made mandatory for admis sion. The proposition of the hoard of examiners to increase the faculty will not in our judgment, remedy the evil. A professor of spelling has no more business in a university than a young man who is not well grounded in the fundamental exercises of hto moth er tongue. The fault lies in a different direction. It must be laid at tho door of our public school system. No such report was made in regard to the University when boys were sent there preapared at pri vate schools. There is something lack ing in a system that neglects or ignores the foundation of an English education. Every boy may not be expected to ppcll like a lexicographer and write like a Macaaley, but they may bo fairly pro ficient in both. The old masters, with a hickory wyth in one hand and a bine- back spelling hook in the other, if they found difficulty in producing such a re sult generally succeeded in the end. If under our present system boys cannot he educated in English np to tho common and accepted standard we shall be forced to adopt the pho netic principle, though it may seem a trifle awkward to have a graduate who can shoulder and trip a Greek verb, spell horse “hoss.” Beyond this we are entirely pleased with the brief syn opsis of the report of tho board of vis itors which has reached us. If the original document shall not, like its predecessors, be marred by fre quent and. untimely references to “onr noble Christian Governor,” then there will be just cause for further congratu lation. dollar directly itaked on their success w! mean to make this country as cornr,l»i« any in the world, and to Vtand b”. 1 ^ who Is trying to make more of it than hu been done yet. There are people who sociate sentiment from all !uch qUM?i n „. and refuse to think of them on any but those of personal profit. But the tvni cal American is not of that sort; i7, P ; patriotic, and bis patriotism has an indui trial aide. As he walked through the collection! ol the Centennial Exhibition^if. felt aa did Mr. Howell., the Arnett eagle crowing in bis breast, and eaneclln. in Machinery Hall. The nation"®& are building up on this continent Is first 2 all an Industrial life. We are a plo D ?e o workers, not of idlers, and our politics a?, largely Industrial, even in quarten J which the interest ia theoretical and Ind'h Nellie went to see Oscar Wilde’a wedding and was immensely amused, at arriving at thechurch (8t. James’s Sussex Gardens) to find that the bridegroom had given or' dert that none should be admitted unless they had bis card. Of course, It was q\5S right that a certain portion of the church should beset si—* — —*" should be set apart at weddings for the friends of the bndo and bridegroom - bat for a man to issue hie commands as to who shall and who shall not be admitted to n public place ol worship Is a little too ridiculous. Nellie got in, however, not* withstanding her being unprovided with Mr. Oscar Wilde’s visiting card. She says tbe brido's dress was pretty, chiefly on ac count of Its perfect simplicity. Her veil was peculiar, being of gauxe or open- meshed spun silk, or something unusual* The bridesmaids' harmonics to terry-cotta and primrose were spoiled by white hats and feathers. Nellie say! it was the fun niest thing in the world to see the con tracting parties and the best man posing in studied altitudes during the ceremony" Fancy a man being married with his head on one side, like a "tired" lily, hit handon ills hip, and his legi disposed according to a preconcerted arrangement. The bridee- ntaids carried lovely liliea. La-tv Wilde "snatched” her new daughter to her heart with some effusion, and the bridegroom kissed the bride with much calmth and coolth in the presence of a somewhat lim ited congregation. Ceorgla Polities. We published in our issue of yester day a significant article under the above heading, from the Savannah Times. It to proper to seize the opportunity to say that this journal to in no way re sponsible for tho inauguration of the movement referred to. Notice had been given of the growingboom of Mr. Estlll as a gubernatorial candidate in the southeastern and western portions of tho Slate. This fact coaid not have escaped.’the readers of Georgia journals. The movement seems to grow, and from the earnestness of expression in various quarters, oar judgment to that Mr. Estill, at present, has a support and following far more sincere and re liable than has attachod to any of tho Presidential booms that have lately blossomed and faded in public. In this connection it may not ho unap propriate to say, that wo are in no way responsible for the animus which has been charged up to parties interested in the conduct of this journal. Correspondents bavo done them selves and others manifold injustice in ascribing other motives to Uio conduct of this paper titan those very frankly given to tho public from time to tlmo. The TiutoRAl-ii and Mxubknuer never fights individuals or combinations from behind entrenchments. It has no pur poses and principles that are not (ally shared by its readers and patrons. An lea Water Fountain, Baltimore Sua. The Ice water fountain which - Dr. Cogs well, of San Franclaco, has donated to the city of Washington la now being put up at tbe corner of Seventh street and Pennsyl vania avenue. The fountain will be placed in a pavilion unmounted by a bronze stork, whose bead will be twenty feet above the ground. The fountain wul be in a granite shaft supported by two bronze dolphins. Tho special novelty of tho fountain is that two feet below the earth there la a reservoir of stone several feet aquare, in which the water pipes are colled. This ia to be kept full of Ice by the authorities, and it to claimed that when once filled It need not be refilled for a week and that the water will be kept cool daring the hottest season for that time. Tin- fountain will coat abaot tfijtQpi An In scription on the shaft will reed. "Prevat- rd by Dr. Henry D. OogxwaD. of tat Franclaco, Cal.” It ia thought that water Trill hi flowing frnsn the Minlsln nail Ann day. Cur* of Aathma and Spinal Weakness. 230 West 22d Stbiet, New York, May 17,1883.—Though It may be Irregular for a physician to give a certificate in favor of a proprietary medicine, still In tbe canse ol humanity, I i vor ol Aflcock's Porous Platters, which I esteem the most remarkable external rem edy of this centuiy. 1 have known these plasters to enre spi nal weakness where the patient had been confined (or months to hto bed. A black smith of my acquaintance was severely in ured in the lurk by the kick of a horse; our Allcock’a Porous Hasten quickly re lieved him of excruciating agony and cuied him in a week. Another patient, suffering Irom neuralgia of the heart, waa completely cured in four hours. In asthma, I know of a case where they were worn for three months and fully re- stored the health. In another ctse nlirre a patient had sporadic cholera, nothing relieved him unlil be pat on threeeAil- cock'i Porous Pluters; in twelve houn nil pains in hto cheat and stomach disappear ed. I know that these plastcn applied rn the pit of the stomach, nr.- a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and constipation. Finally, U persons once use AUcock'l Porous Plasters they will never u-e any other; they are so pleasant, quick and painless—nature's balmy assistant. H. C. Van Nosuax, M. D. Presidency and Platform Have both been relegated to the Dem ocratic convention soon to assemble at Chicago. In the poeaibility of chance* no donbt the combination of names may have been suggested that will be finally selected, but wo take it that all prognostications at present are tbe merest guess work. Fuller reports which bavefellowed the late Cleveland boom, more especially from New York ■bow that there was little, if anything, in it. No test of Mr. Cleveland' strength was taken in the convention, and though New York will vote as a unit, there are a half dozen names just as likely to be presented as hto own, There waa a decided Indication that the mischievous and dangerous fire upon Tammany has ceased. Tbto gives some thing of hope to the situation, in that it indicates that the strength of New York will not be frittered away by op posing factions in the coming fight. DisarroirriD candidates have one con solation left them; They can sneaoma railroad for damages. Gixxxu. Toons* to none the tou great under the refining, chastening influence* of age and feebleness. HU laet days will be hto beat days, and tbto to good enough Tug Blaine-Logan combination has tak en in the rosy Locbrana out of tbe Demo cratic shower. It waa a generous act and we hereby tender our acknowledge Or the many remedies before thepubUo sotnerve tor nereousdebUity and weakness New York CUy. ... Until the melon season to over, pol ftics in South Georgia will hare to nv pendj7 remark* the Blackahear Jftws STORIES ON THE ROAD. Commercial Travelers at a Wayalda Ir -Somethin* to Put In a Cripsack. Prices,® Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. COLDS. “n»>i ,-n. •hiii nnwt: j I bar* ever tried. Jjutu A. Hamilton, Editor of The Ortl ILaetzy Baugumam, Proprietor Globa FBEPASKD ST The corn In southwest Georgia to, we learn, not very promiaing. “Yes,” ri- * —•* “ e aiu iuus aa is ata as, mu —risks outside the ebaneee of railroad cellto- lons and steamboat explosions" “SJuU rfaka, for Inetaaeer’ ’This, for instance," said Mr. W. D. Frank- Un, who was than traveling for an K«»!e.-a houae, and la knownto merchants la all pert* of Uto country: "Tho rlsk-whlch. Indeed, amounts almost to acestalnty-of retting the djspepela from perpetual change cl diet and water and from having do fized hours for eat ing and sleeping. I myself was an txample. I say wm, for I am all right now.” ’’«O discount on your digestion?" broke In a Chicago dry goods Irareteit lighting hto cigar "Not a quarter per cent. But I had to give up traveling for a while. Tbo dyspepsia ruln.-l mv taper v..,-n-r .. adrwrttoem^ofpARKEU-sroHre. fwri itn:. 1 it flzodmotipiu : ■ . Thera to nothing oo earth, fit my opinion, equal to B M a cure for dyspepsia." Meurs. lllscox £ Co. of New Tort tho pro prietors, hold a letter from Mr. Franklin sup Ll*?5f*Froclsef*-' packir-s tonic- 111 * digestion, cures Malarial FevoraT Hsartburo, Headaelte. Coughs and Odds, and all chronic diseases or the Urer and Kldocrs. I-ulabot-l tie tn your valise. my iu larger size. COUGHS* 1 ’ 1 ^jafscpgMT •fleet, tod I Am ,-Xt to rco-fttzu.ftl i; to soy opo ilmllAriy Affected. Dr. J.C.Ayer&Co.,Lowell,MaiS-