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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 11.1884.
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H. C. HANSON, Mang.r,
Macon, Georgia.
If Ben Butler is alive, lie is at some
devilment to-day.
Ixdei'ekdkxtibm isn’t raising any
row a>rtli mentioning, in Georgia, this
year.
Great anxiety is felt in Republican
circles to know if Iiowgato will support
Blaine and Logan.
The able-bodied watermelon made a
vigorous contribution to the perils of tbe
“ga-lorious Fourth.”
The last Democratic President was a
bachelor, but it doesn’t follow that tbe
next one will be a similar unfortunate.
Arthur's cruelty to Fitz-John Porter
will not increase the Republican vote in
Kew Jersey, or add to his own reputa
tion anywhere.
The contest before the State conven
tion for the nomination to fill the office
of State Treasurer is becoming lively
Fun is fun, even in July.
The Southern negroes may become
enthusiastic Logan men, if they have
poor memories.
“The Southwsst Georgia truck far
mers and melon growers are profiting
by last year’s indiscretions, and are
not shipping so heavily to the West as
before," says the Augusta Chronicle.
They are “profiting” hv this year’s
season of “remorseless drown." The
rains have overwhelmed the melon
growers, and they have not had the
melons to ship. This is why they “are
not shipping so heavily to the West as
before.” It is a matter of necessity,
not discretion.
It would not be inconsistent with
Italy’s idea of a vigorous foreign policy
to hold France to an account tor the
recent attack of cholera on the Italian
consul, at Toulon.
The salary brokers in Washington
are in distress. The post-office em
ployes have received no pay for June.
Col. Burnside bagged the funds. Col.
Burnside is an enthusiastic Blaine and
Logan man.
BARX-iU RNEn Sherman retires from
politics on the record of having “voted
only once and that time wrong.” He
is evidently in dread lest he might ac
cidentally vote right, and thus mar the
record of his family.
Irish energies, across the water, are
being consumed in dreary and partisan
processions and counter processions of
opposing factions. If Ireland were
free, she would leap at one bound from
nationality to internecine war.
General Grant bos hidden himself
out of sight at Long Branch. Poor old
man! His fall was as sudden as his
rise, and it waa more deserved. Mo
man can persistently and safely sin
against all the canons of morality.
The Philadelphia Timet wants to
know why Georgia does not apply for
protection for her magnetic girls. If
the playful editor of tbe Timet will in
terview one of Georgia's magnetic
girls ho will find that she does not
need protection.
Tins world gets queerer and queerer.
Fcoliere: "Huakim dispatches state
that friendly natives had made a aortic,
killed two rebels and captured several
prisoners." It will be observed (hat it
was the “friendly natives” thq fixed
up the Job for the coroner. Ju»t sup
pose they had been unfriendly t
Ir the Zanl Indians could vote, there
would be one precinct solid against
Blaino and Logan—especially Logan.
He camo very near swindling them oat
of the best pvt of their reservation,
and this is why they don’t love him.
This is one of the troths that the Mew
York Tribune calls “defamation.” It
looks mors ilka robbery.
Rcrnr Hayes lux been accounted
lor. He was seen a few days since
crawling into the loft of a bam with "a
eettin' of alga” In hla hat. But where
ia BUI Wheeler, who got away with tho
money of Mr. Hendricks? Where is
bis bait-gourd and fishing tackle, and
his wonderful trout tales? The cam
paign lags until Bill is brought to the
front.
Pcslic men should neither be ta
il ,rscd nor condemned by wholesale.
Every public act ahonld stand on its
own merits—meeting with praise or
i. u- ire, according to ita quality. Par
s' nal favoritism ahonld abield no public
man from merited censure. Personal
ill will ahonld deprive no one of merited
praise. This U the platform of the
i«l Me.SKIinEB. ■
The outlook for a war between
France and China ia good. The Pig
tails are making a great mistake, but
tliey will not bo convinced of the fact
by any argument less material than
“tho last argument of Ktage.” The
attack on the French soldiers in viola
tion of good conscience ami treaty
stipulations will be met by united
Front« with the alternatives: apology
and indemnitr or war.
The Macon Tsleorapii seems very
mu h di-t'leaaed because Col. Estill
declines to be a candidate for Governor
of Georgia this yew,” says the Houtton
I! ne Journal. It is all in the seem
ing. The Txlecui-h and Messenger
l oftener than it frowns, although
■oca* peof le arc loth to believe it. The
■pectaefe of a min running away from
, j. Lion in Georgia is not
)Id nukes dry-eyed ir-ti'.:'
ir,try tobecak
On a platform demanding adminis
trative reform, and reprobating the cor
rupt methods that would necessarily
prevail under the prevalence of Blaine
methods, the Democratic candidates
would enter the campaign with a unit
ed party behind them, and with vast
re-enforcements from the independent
voters of tho country. It would be
worse titan simple folly to permit the
Republicans to suggest the platform,
and cover up all the tattoo inaits with
the mantle of a distracting tariff con
test.
It may he well enough to talk about
“elevating the ballot," but it seems to
be a case of misdirected zeal. When
the standard of citizenship was de
graded to the San Domingo level, the
ballot went down with it. The doc
tors, the professors and the philoso
phers may put their levers under the
ballot and try to pry it up; but with all
their efforts jltey will be unable to get
it above th* dead level of a degraded
citizenship. The ballot can only be
made what it should he by undoing the
crime which Republicanism perpe
trated on the citizenship of the coun
try. Radical ills demand radical
cures.
The degree of LL. D. Iiecomes mean
ingless and ridiculous when it becomes
the property of attch ranting ignoram
uses as old Omar D. Conger. The
business of manufacturing titles has
fatten into disrepute. If a howling
demagogue is suitable timber to be
worked up into a full-fledged doctor of
laws, the common sense of the people
ought to put them on a strike against
the whole titular manufacturing busi
ness. The next tiling one knows, the
public will be bearing of John A. Lo
gan, LL. D. Then there ought to be
on insurrection. *
Oaors'a In the Chleagp Convention.
It is understood in Georgia political
circles that the Empire State of tbe
South will be honored in the conven
tion of Tuesday next at Chicago with
tlie chairmanship, either temporary or
permanent. Georgia has led ail South
ern States in her unllincliingadherence
to Democratic principles and in the
large mojorities rolled up for Presiden
tial candidates. It is not likely that in
the event of the success of the party tho
State will get even a cabinet place;
nor is there even a remote possi
bility that either candidate will he
taken from her borders. The only way
open to those who desire to honor the
State Is, to give a representative more
prominence In the convention. The
man understood to be chosen for tbe
place is the Hon. A. O. Bacon, who is
in truth a thoroughly representative
Georgia Arcadian. Not only would
the gentleman named illustrate the
State’s purest Democracy, but he
would preside over the convention in
a manner satisfactory to all. Ills edu
cation as well as principles fit him for
the position.
Fourth of July*
Yesterday, for the first time in twen
ty-five years, Macon put on her holi
day clothes and celebrated the anniver
sary of the American Declaration of In
dependence. Feople by the thousands
adjourned to the park and spent the
day amid the excellent sports prepared
under the auspices of our Library As
sociation.
It is pleasant to note the revival of
the Fourth of July holiday. Few peo
ple yesterday recollected the origin of
the day. Had they been celebrating
the anniversary of tbe arrival of Colum
bus or of the battle of Bunker Hill it
would have been all the same. The
holiday was the item of importance,
and it was enjoyed none the less be
cause its import was forgotten. We
need summer holidays more than days
of recreation in the fall and winter.
Under the oppressive best of
July day the physical system
most he kindly treated to prevent a col
lapse. “What a pity Christmas don't
come In the summer,” said the boy,
looking wistfully through the window
into the slush and sleet of the road.
And thousands of grown people lmve
echoed the wish, standing behind
counters,poring over ledgers or bending
to tbe work bench. Our holidays are
badly distributed. Let us by common
consent adopt the Fourth of July as a
grand park day. If, in the opinion of
the economists, it adds one too many
to oar list of free days, why then drop
George Washington's birthday. It
won’t affect George’s happiness or
fame, but it will add to our comfort.
Taka Nature by tha Forelock.
A word jus’, here with some of our
small farmers and croppers whose cot
ton crops have been overran with grass,
Hay by the wagon load was selling
yesterday in Macon at ninety cents per
hundred. Why not, we say, why not
make a critical examination of your
fields and give the preference to the
most thrifty crops? If your cotton
higher than your grass, cut ont the
Veto of tho Fitz-John Porter Bill.
By reason of Ids general inertness
and abstinence from active partlssn-
ahip, IVesidcnt Arthur was abont to
retire from the position to which he
was raised by a great accident, with at
least the good will of the American
people.
But after his veto of the bill for the
relief of Fitz-John l'orter, and the
prompt and stinging rebuke adminis
tered to Idm by the representatives of
the people, lie will lie remembered os
a partisan, so little, as to smother Ids
own convictions of right and justice to
the basest political uses.
For more than twenty years this case
has been one of a Northern general and
his government. While the people of
the South Jfelt a sincere sympathy for
a soldier who had been the victim of a
profound persecution, they have felt
that his vindication should come from
those who perpetrated the wrong upon
him. But now that a man holding the
place and prerogatives of a chief mag
istrate lias seen to throw into the po
litical arena t.ie personal cause of a
wronged soldier, the American
people as a body will have something
to say about it. Tiie reasons given to
sustain a veto so unjust and unworthy,
are insufficient to hide the real purpose
and are too contemptible for serious
consideration. It will hardly bo ac
cepted, that the finding of a court mar
tial, a body organized -to convict, in
times of great excitement and peril,
upon e.r parte evidence, must stand
forever, and that tho judgment cannot
be reversed upon newly found and un
impeachable evidence. That Abra
ham Lincoln approved the finding of
the court, may serve a partisan pur
pose in a heated campaign, but it can
not appeal to the sense of justice and
air dealing implanted in the breast
of every honet man.
Chester Arthur has handed himself
down to an unenviable immortality,
Without social position, save such ai
was given him by his marriage with
the daughter of a distinguished officer
and gentleman, he had no professional
standing save as a lawyer’s clerk and
no political reputation beyond that
gathered in the slums oi Mew York. A
brief and uneventful term in a very
high position, would have permitted
him to retire with the respect
that clings to the office which
found him through a tragedy. He will
now go down as a cowardly and truck
ling politician, and a man whose sense
of honor and right were not proof
against tho corrupt practices which
could make him congratulate Dorsey
for debauching a State through the
power of "soap."
As to Fitz-John Porter, his vindica
tion is assured. A military commis
sion, not organized in his favor and
with a majority of his personal ene
mies, found that lie had been a deeply
injured man. Gen. Grant, the bitter
est of partisans, with the courage and
esprit of a soldier, confessed that
he had joined in the wrong
done , Fitz-John Porter by a
military tribunal. The Congress of the
United States set aside the finding of n
court that sought for a victim to hide
the mistakes of an incompetent brag
gart. Age and the burden of tbe dis
grace attempted to he put upon him
have carried Fitz-John Porter beyond
the ardor and aspirations of a soldier’s
life. The return of his well-worn com
mission could carry but little of solace
to hint for years of suffering. His
sword, battered in the battles of two
wars in defense of hie country’s flag,
cannot be wielded again at the front of
battle.
But in thi* hoar of disappointment
he may feel that every American citi
zen who can appreciate and feel that a
soldier's honor is wrapped up in his
life, will condemn the humiliation
which has been pat upon the honor of
the country, through the weakness and
imbecility of it* Chief Magistrate.
If the tide of battle in this pending
contest is to be turned by the misera
ble consideration that a man
and a faction have refused
to remove an nnjust stigma from a sol
dier of tbe country, then not only have
the best days of the republic been
numbered, but the query will pre
sent itself to every thinking man, as
to how long a government can com
mand the confidence, respect, affection
and allegiance of its citizens, that per
petrates a signal wrong to perpetuate a
corrupt party.
brought against him, though these
charges have all been made and al
leged by the Mew York Herald and
other Republican journals.
If the party does not intend to try to
win this time it may devote itself to
purging itself. In that event let us
haul up John Kelly and other alleged
culprits, and if the proof of their guilt
is clear let us discipline them. If, on
the other hand, we are going in to win,
it will he at least prudent to have all
the good will, encouragement and votes
that we can possibly muster.
Wo have reason to dislielieve that
John Kelly contributed in any degree
to the defeat of Gen. Hancock. By
common consent it is agreed that he
received tbe coup de grace from the tariff
issue.
. The falling off in the Democratic vote
in New York city may be properly
charged to the injudicious nomination
of Mayor Grace. John Kelly was not
responsible for this. He protested
against it. The nomination was made
by Irving Hall and the County Democ
racy. It was unfortunate. Immedi
ately a religious war was opened upon
Mayor Grace by the Mew York Herald
and other Republican journals. Some
persons, friends and acquaintances of
the writer, Democrats, voted against
Mayor Grace. How many more did
the same thing, we have no means of
computing.
But if John Kelly did defeat General
Hancock, it would appear that if he is
read out of the party he may feel in
clined to pay a similar attention to
the nominee of Chicago. He goes into
the convention witli thirty delegates, a
vote that in a close count may’control
tlie nomination. It may be difficult to
read a man, with this strength, out.
We do not know, not being engaged in
the reading out business.
It strikes us that we had better go
slow. It ia not yet settled whether wc
•re in or out, for Mr. Watterson may
put us alt out at Chicago. But if Kelly
must go, then in the language of the
poet, we may exclaim s
"Good-bye, John,
Don’t stay ions?,
Reading Out.
But a little while ago and Mr. Wat-
terson and his co-whisky ringera pro
posed to decimate the Democratic party,
by reading out Mr. Randall and those
who concurred with him as to the Mor
rison horizontal bill. Mow, tlie Mew
York Herald, tlie Atlanta Constitution
and some lesser journals - propose to
read out John Kelly and Tammany
Hall. That the Mew York Herald,
which is a Republican journal should
leslre to accomplish this pbrpose is
not strange. It has failed to use John
Kelly, and its present proprietor will
never forgive Kelly for the exposure of
the escapades that made Europe a
pleasanter place than Mew York for
young Bennett. But the reading ont
of John Kelly and Tammany Hall will
hardly help the Democratic party to
win a victory in this contest.
Mew York is the pivotal State. It ia
the State that both parties are fighting
for. It is conceded that the party
that carries it stands the best chance to
win. It is absolutely essential to Dem
ocratic success. John Kelly has sev
enty-odd thousand votes at his back.
It seem* to us that it would be a Dorns
ocratic mistake to read this man and
hi* followers out of the Democratic
A New Cotton Qtn.
Mr. Charles T. Mason, Jr., of Sum
ter, South Carolina, has just completed
a cotton gin that works upon a new
principle, and is said to perform ita
work more rapidly, safely and strongly
than any machine in existence. Mr.
Mason, it will be remembered, has for
several years been engaged upon a cot
ton harvesting or picking machine to
supplant the darky, and finished his
labors too late last year to demonstrate
the utility of his invention upon cotton
growing in tlie field. The declaration
of any man who has invented
a cotton picker must be received with
caution, but qs the Teleoraph’s read
ers are necessarily interested in every
thing that pertains to the growth and
handling of cotton, and the new gin has
received friendly notice from the press,
an account of the invention is present
ed.
The prime idea of the gin Is the
same aa that of the cotton picker, and
it the Utter serves no other purpose
than a stepping stone to a cheap and
safe cotton gin, it cannot be said to
have lived in vain. Tlie Courier-Jour
nal furnishes the following description
of tho gin, which was seen at work:
In place of the *aw* end rib* now ueed In ell
short staple gin,. Mr. Muon hu substltated a
hollow metallicCTUnder about lour feet In ill
smeter aud vary lox In length losulleny oltbe
Sin frami-a now In uae. Tbe cylinder presents
a fluted or ware-llke ratface, the wave* bains
parallel lo It* all* end about three-eighth* of
eu Inch In width and one-sixteenth of an Inch
In depth. The crest of each of theta wave* l*
perforated by email triangular aperture* about
ono-elfbth of an Inch apart, and each .per
turn encloie* a aharp metallic tooth, the point
o( which la depreaaed allchtly below the cyl
inder aurfaoe. The arrangement of there
teeth la very much tbe aamo u In the picking
atema ol the cottcn barretter, the teeth being
protected or -hooded" by the aide* of the aper
ture* tu which they are'aet, to that the aurlaee
ol tho cylinder la amooth to the touch, tbe
polnta of the teeth not being felt. The cylinder
revolve* upon n theft almllar to the abaft now
uacd In the taw gin. A ateel bar called a
■tripper" la fl*cd parallel witli u
the cylinder, and to ndjuated with aet icrew*
u to coma within a ■•■!! fraction of an Inch
of the face of the cylinder. The teed cotton
is ted In upon the revolving cylinder Just as It
la ted In upon the aawa in the aw gin. The
IttUe teeth then demonstrate tbelr naelulneaa.
The cotton, being flbroua, alnka down Into the
apertures, where It ia caught by the point* of
the teeth and la carried under the stripping
Jiar The teed, being leo large to put under
tbe bar, remain* outside and Anally, after be
ing thoroughly cleaned of ell fibre, drop* out
ol an opening between the cylinder end the
box,]u»ta*ltdoeelnihe»awftn. Thebrosh
which clean* the cylinder, end the condenser
which delivers the lint cotton In a roll, are
precisely the same as thoae now used In the
uw gin.
The advantages claimed for this gin
are as follows: It is cheap; repairs can
be made with ease and without skilled
Ubor; the teeth cannot he broken by
contact with foreign substances; sparks
cannot be generated; works with less
friction and less power; works more
rapidly end does its work better than
any other gin; does not ent the fibre;
is not dangerous to life or limb. Tlie
Xnrt and Courier says in conclusion:
Sample* ol abort staple cotton ginned by tbe
Muon yin, exhibited to experienced cotton
factors, i",non planters and cotton spinners In
Charleston, hare been pronounced to be In ex
tra line ion-11 lion and the staple surprisingly
long. In fact, aome good Judges declared the
aamplea to be worth fully a cent a pound more
than tbe same chus of cotton would be If
ginned by the in gtn. The Maaon gin
also cleans the seed more perfectly than the
mw gins. Indeed. If the teeth are placed
etose enongh together and the nnmlwr of
stripper ban Is Increased, Mr. Maaon fa satis
fied that the seed will be cleaned by hi* cylin
der Ju*taa perfectly aa by the “Unlen" in the
cotton sect oil mill*. He predict* that con
a (derations of economy will soon compel the
cylinder principle to be substituted for these
Uatlng machines.
A New Rond to Florida.
Onr readers may or may not have
noticed recently in the columns of this
journal, the following dispatch:
New York, July 3.—It la rumored that ne
gotiations have been completed with the
Frankfort committee of landholder! of the
Brunswick and Western branch,consenting to
an extension of time for tho construction ol
the road from Albany, Oe., to Columbns, nmj
consenting to the construction of the road Into
Florida Propositions have been made by re
sponsible Georgia people to construct the road
subject to Iron aud equipment from Columbus
to Albany, which the Rrunawtek and Western
road will undoubtedly accept and proceed
with the work at once.
If the statements made within tlie
paragraph are even substantially true,
they bear upon Macon’s interests in a
manner easily understood. It is of tho
utmost importance that Macon be kept
uj>on trunk lines. This city at present
catches a large per cent, of the Florida
travel with the Southwestern and East
Tennessee, Virginia and Goorgia roads;
at one time it had*a much larger share.
Gradually, through tho establishment
oi ocean steamship lines, Atlantic
coast lines, and the Pensacola and At
lantic connecting line, business has
been more evenly divided. The road
described above threatens to draw
away even yet more of the business.
It ia a connection the Tileorapu sug
gested when first the narrow gauge
road was mentioned.
The Telegraph does not accept the
immediate completion of the Brunswick
and Western extension as an assured
fact. But the building of it is merely
a question oi time. Macon’s defensive
move is the building of the Macon and
Florida Air-Line road. It is to tlie
interest of this city and both of her
great railroad corporations that snch a
line be constructed; else may we ex
pect to sit by and see our prospective
wholesale and commission trade
snatched from us, and the carrying
business of the roads eaten into by
shorter line.
Macon is now a hundred miles south*
cast of the great Northern trunk lines
to the Southwest. It will be her own
fault if she is left east of the trunk line
from the Southeast to tlie West. Let
the people ol Macon and tho Central
and East Tennessee railroad men unite
and build the Air-Line road. With
that secured Macon holds the key to
Florida.
To the Landers of tha South,
You have been fighting tha Republican
party for twenty years or more. Will yon give
etr to one question, asked In all sorionanest
and sincerity: Are you quite sure (or what
reason you are fighting It?—New York Tribune.
We hare been fighting the Republi
can party for twenty years or more.
We have no objection to giVing ear
to one question asked in all serxrasness
and sincerity.
We are sure, quite sure for what rea
son we are fighting it!
We have been fighting the Republi
can party for twenty years or more, and
wilt fight it for twenty years more if it
be able to stand up so long, becanse
the Republican party has nbver in
twenty years lost an opportunity to in
jure end oppress this section.
Because it was guilty of the force bill
legislation.
Because it wee guilty of sustaining
carpet-hag rule in all tbe Southern
States whereby the people were plun
dered of untold millioni, and a debt
was placed npon Southern States which
a generation cannot wipe out.
Because of the bayonet rule in Sooth
Carolina and Louisiana. Because of
tlie great l’realdential ateal and the
rape of Florida. Became of Belknap,
Colfax, Dorsey and tbe thieves who
under Republican rule have been al
lowed to fatten on the public treasury.
Because of the millions appropriated
to public buildings, rivers, harbors and
internal improvements, tlie North and
West have received nine dollar* to
where tlie 8oath has received one.
Because of the jobberies in every de
partment ; because of the paid lobbies;
because of the credit mobllier; because
of your demoralized press; because of
fraud and corruption in every de
partment of the government and in
every State, where Republicanism has
prevailed. These are some of the rea
sons the South is fighting the Repub
lican party.
“Speaking of dogs,” remarked Captain
Tom Henderson yesterday, dropping his
two hundred and twenty-five pounds of
avoirdupois into a cane-bottom chair In
front of Sparks’s warehouse, “did I ever tell
you of Van’s experience with the two
country cure?" Alter the chair bad braced
itself against tbe wall and given evidences
of its ability to uphold the hero of tbe dove
field, some one present said "Mo." A n in-
vitatlen to proceed was not extended, it
being generally understood that when the
popular expressman braced himself for a
truthful narrative, the truthful narrative
would aooner or later get abroad.
"Well, you know Van, my setter, has
got just twice the sense of any dog in Geor
gia, Dr. Mettnuer's Jeff not excepted. Van
gets bis meals at the office, hut here of
let* Ills appetite lie* been |»oorly, and I
have noticed that lie has a habit ol carry
ing his food oirand giving it to otherdogs.
Yesterday, though, after his pan had been
tilled and put ont (or him be trotted out the
door and went off up toward Cherry street.
Presently here he came with two mengy-
looking country curs, wagging his bead
and tall and doing his best to entertain
them. They trotted along by him, how
ever, In a philosophical way, evidently
not disposed to trust him much.
Seeing them coming. I moved the
pen inside my office and shut the glass
door, geiting where I could watch them.
When the three got to where the pan
ought to have been, the procession stopped.
The two dogs looked at Van and Van’s
gaze was fixed on space. A puzzled look
came over his countenance, and then he
trotted up and smelled around a little
and came back. Well, gentlemen,” ex
claimed the narrator, with a laugh that
could have been heard four blocks and a
vigorous slap of his thigh, "yen Just onght
to have seen those two dogs light Into Yam
Up and down they had it, and I believe Ir
hadn't come out end kicked them off
they would have cleaned np the old
man."
“What was tbe fight abont, you reckon ?”
asked Ovid Sparks, quietly,
"Why, bless your soul, don't you eee!
Van had invited those two dogs to dinner,
and they thought be was playing a town
joke on them.”
"Yes. I’m coming," shouted 8parks to
an imaginary person as he made his way
upstairs. “Goingup the street?" saida
long-legged gentleman to a broker moving
off. “Engagement at half-past five,” mur
mured a young lawyer gliding round the
corner. Then the two countrymen who
were present looked at each other and one
said: “Bill, git yer team and let’s strike for
home.” And then a red setter dog came
waddling up, smelt of Henderson inquir
ingly and looked tired; and, spurred with
a sodden reeolation, Henderson got up and
said: “Comealong, Van; let'ago,too.'
HERE AND THERE.
It may be human nature to side with
the weaker party in a tight, but it's mighty
poor policy.
What doutbii country want with a new
war fleet Tin times of trouble have we not
tbe Maryland oyster navy?
Oss advantage has Mr. Blaine when the
campaign gets too warm for him. He
knows how to hire a substitute.
Events grow old very rapidly in this
country. Very few politicians to-day can
recite Bill Morrison's horizontal cate
chism.
Jobs L. Sullivan's greatest effort of his
life wss on Mondsy evening last. He
knocked out several thousand people on
the first round.
It is said that John A. Logan was among
tbe very last to gst back to Washington in
'61. Well, John will come up with the
•trsgfters again in 1184. -
It is now userted that pure oxygen is a
certain cure for cholera. At the blackber
ry end watermelon season is raging, cut
this out and paste it in your eye-glass.
Tux private secretary is becoming an
important factor in polities.'The next
presidential campaign threatens
conducted by private secretaries and liter
ary bureaus.
"Andnow lot a quotation,” he said, air
ily leaning gracefully over her choir as the
sat yesterday in tlie park’s umbrageous
shade. The mingled fames of cigarettes
and beer fanned her cheek as she turned
and said. "One more unfortunate, weary
of breath.” -
Tits latest foreign riffle is a locket aet
with thirteen diamonds. Machinery with
in the locket keeps tbe stone* moving rap
idly In e circle and produce* a fine efiect
Ladies wearing these do not have to waits
and tom abont to show off their jewels.
FROM ATLANTA.
Or Flnnnolal Rumore-a Better Outlaw.
—Chicago Delegatee-Bank Return^
[ersciAL coxxxaroNDxscx.'
Atlanta, July 3.—In my letter publiih
ed Ibis morning, reference was nude
tbe rumored embarrassment of-
business firms, and also of a rumor efliw
ing one of the city banks. As to tbe latte,
since writing It, I have had a converasuZ
with one of tbe directors ol the bant
in question, who made a personal exami
nation of tlie affairs of tbe concern ve*u,
day afternoon, end assured me tliatth«I
was no foundation whatever to the «
1. wt, and that the bank ia in a better ai? -
dition today than it was thirty dm S'
I consider the bank one of (he aoiK:
eat and safest in the rSt -
The rumor. I understand cr I»
.">t of a circumstance wherein the
refused ro make a loan to a certain “Si
vitlual for food reason, not afie.-tini m
financial strength in the leaat. The rumlil
may, therefore, be dismissed ax idle
as to the firms reported to have allnind
their papers to be protested yettenl,! i
am Informed thi* morning thattbevhm
made xathfactory arrangement* to auS
all obligations, and are relieved of anr Jm
barraaamonts. I tin glad to be ahls te
make these statement* and tm eatiafisrfX
their reliability. aauinedot
It is, of course, useless to disarm* it,,
fact that money ia abnormally tleh?
ourbueinese men will have to sell Dretii
close to the wind tor a month ?,
*"0, possibly until the cott£[
crop begins to move. I think there nsedri
no apprehension of trouble ascent JLv
baps, with smaller firms, and believe ooi
business men will have tbe ability £5
sagacity to meet and master the situation!
I have written thus much not on v £
avoid seeming to give color to unfounded
rumors, which might work harm hot V.
well to deal with them fairly and ahow
them up. ™
Certainly auch rumor* and reports at
such a time, are dangerous, end a menace
to business lnterests.bat, at the seme time
it is beat to meet them squarely. '
A number of the delegatee to the Cbicsgo
convention have arrived In tbe dtv. linn
Walter T. McArthur, one of toe tfrr-d dta
trlct delegates, mode this office e rare
pleasant call title morning. He is ono ot
the substantial representative men of bis
section of the State, and I hazard nothing
saying that he is one of toe cleverest
I beet members of tbe 'Georgia deiegE
Tn talking with such of the delegates I
have had tlie pleasure oi meeting as to the
convention and its probabilities, I find
there is not the eich unanimity
end enthusiasm in regard to Cleve
land as was noticed here a
the adjournment of the State convention
While it may still he the impression with
them that Cleveland is tbe most available
candidate, tbe impression is by no means
asjitiong^aml has undergone a perceptible
Atlanta has made preparations for a big
day to-morrow, and expects a big crowd of
our “country cousins" to fetch their sur
plus ducats Into the city.
The banks, under call of toe Governor,
ere making their eemi-annnal returns.
Their condition at toe close of business
June 30, as published, considering the
times, is decidedly creditable.
A Fin* Hair Dressing.
Cocoaine dresses toe hair perfectly, an-1
Is alto a preparation unequalled for tbe
eradication of dandruff.
The superiority of Burnett's Flavoring
Extracts consists in their purity and great
strength.
grass. If your grass is higher than
your cotton, why not hoe out your cot- ] party. We have no faith that tbe gap
ton? Cotton ia more easily killed than thus made could he fiile-1 by kickers
grass. Gras* pays better for some j oe- from the Republican party. We «lo
pie titan cotton. If the rain continuer, j not las m to defend John Kelly
the idea may he worth something. [ .cata.t any charges tha’. may . •-
The Haro of Console.
The Governor of Dongol* must he a
hard one, even as Governor* go. The
noon dispatches report him as tele
graphing from Debbeh that he had
succeeded in defeating “the rebels,”
killing 4,000 of them, with a loss of
only half that number of his own troopi.
And then it is uniquely added: “The
news is not believed.”
It is not stated under what name the
Dongola official performs his mighty
works, witli the sword and with the
pen. It may be Moses, or it may be
Fope. More likely it it Bntler. Cer
tain it is, that where he is known he is
looked npon as a liar. Egypt doesn't
seem to lie ahead of the United States,
in the matter ot Governors.
There is one thing to be commended
in the claim of the Dongola fellow,
and that ia his moderation. He could
have pat the loss of “the rebels” at
8,000, or even at 10,000. His not hav
ing done so shows him to be not alto
gether hoggish in his claims—a lesson
that may well be atndied on both aides
of the Atlantic, by men who exercise
authority, command armies and fight
battles. It would seem that the in
fluence of “Christian soldier” Howard
in Egypt, is already being seriously
felt.
Butlsb’s friends are reported aa ex-
pressing the opinion that “the Sooth
will support him in tlie end.” So it
I will. It will support him in the end,
Jn-iTEB Pluvius gave the Fourth c! and encourage the end to harry up.
The sooner be is ended the better it
will ’ he for the country. But it will
not aid luin in inaugurating tlie Iiegiu-
ning of a cock-eyed calamity, in th
way of a Butler administration.
July a fearful wetting. Having thus
shown himself to bn no patriot, his
eli. ice'd getting on the pen-icr list
ecn ,i hoj elet-- <*•■ to e* ervbody
jt i .- !. ■; -I Vorh, j.
That Husband of Mine.
Kew York Sun.
A woman hastily entered a llerlem isger
beer saloon and demandod of the pn -pr-.*
tor:
"Hu my husband been in here?”
^tolon't know him. Is he a tali man?"
"Red headed
"Yee, and red complected.’’
“Fall beard?"
"Yes."
"Wear a sionch bat?”
"Yea.”
“He wu here not five mlnateaago. lie
came In. drank a gla«< or L-n:-,i,and
then walked down toe etrest”
‘Drank what?”
e door.
•he said, shooting her
self out c
iy Remedies before the public
for nervous debility ami weakne** ol nerve
generative system, there Is nothing equal
to Allen'e Brain Food, which prom pit?
and permanently restore* nil lost vigor;
It never fella. 41 a pnekage, 6 for fb. At
druggists or l>v mail from J. If. Allen, 313
Firat Avenue, Mew York CUy.
PuttlnK the Editor on Notloo.
Wejreroea Headlight
Editor Ward hu been married one
month to-day. Ha la lookaiftvaowsk
the sanctum. Business.
Fully up on Shnkepenre.
Fort Geinee Tribune.
It is said that one of our wise young
men being asked recently, as ho return
ed from the circulating library witli a
volume or two, if lie had ever read
Shakipcaro, tossed hla head in a
know-it-all way and answered,
"Shakapeara? Of course I have; I
read it when it first came out.”
Sons of tho Blaine men are trying to
make capital out of the fact that John A.
Logan got back into Washington from tbe
battle of Manassas long after eome of th*
more prominent generals. John, however,
wu not entitled to any credit on that mem
orable oocasion. Tbe fact he now glories in
wu brought about by tbe ume cause that
will defeat him In the coming campaign.
He never could run well.
It is now said that Senator Brown and
Senator Ingalls sit upon the ume bench in
Capitol Park and swap chewing gum for
all the world like giddy Sophomores. And
on top of this comes the information that
H. W. O.” and Henry Watterson part
their hair in front of tbe same looking,
glass si ol old. Signs of an harmonious
Democracy are u plentiful u redbogs at a
picnic. Let the band play and the cam
paign proceed.
Etxbsal vigilance is not only tbe price
of liberty, bat It enters largely into the
price of everything else. Ibe man who ia
not eternally vigilant will have a hard
time in these days to keep body mid soul
together.
•"rKwasacav" Is to be supplied with a new
water tank end s new board ol trustees. One
will protect (bo Institution front fire. Th*
usefulness of tbe other is yet to be demon
strated,—Lowell Citizen.
The other will probably attend to the
tanning ot negro bides. We speak it not
reproachfully. A negro is improved by
having his hid* tanned.
Is there a person in the United States
who does not believe that Chester A. Ar
thur did deliberately tie when be published
his reasons (or vetoing the Potter relief
bill? Yet the "grand oldjperty” sustain*
him. Is there a person in the United
State* who does not know the! the record
of J sines o. Blaine is stained with corrup
tion? Yet the "grand old party” foil
his white plume.
is my brotbcr-ln Uw, and I know theceee
well. He
trembles at..
It all to PARKER'* TO!
Unequalled as an lnvtforent;
WeakNervsiisMen
ntsnJ
MZRST0N RCMCbYCO..*
AUBURN INSTITUTE.
W ■ANTED, a compete!
■ take charge of th* I
struct rese for last terra
the IS th day of next in
from tho list of moMom
tbe I'Kh Inst. 1 ‘
Chain
SPRING WITHOUT BLOSSOMS.
Readers of Hawthorne's ' House of.Perea
Gablet" will rmll m pslta vMl vilia
pocrfllfTurd Pjmoheoo, who bad been un*
Jiutljr imprl'oncd since his ecrlr manhood.
Mid, after hU relesM: My lire is cone and
where U mj hgpploteeT Oh! eiYe me mw
happlDMS.'^ But ih*t coaid be done oolr In
j.srt, m gle*BU ol warm sunshine occtilon-
ally fail across tbe gloom of a New £ugl&nd
autumn dsy,
In a letter to Messrs. Hlscox A Co.. Mr. L.
II Titus, of Pennington. N. J., im: "1 bare
suffered untold mleerj from childhood pom
chronic disease of the bowels and dUrrhoM.
accompanied by great Min. I sought relief
at tbe bands ol physlcUns of tYery wbool
ami used every petent and domestic remedy
uu ler the enn. I have at but found in PAR*
lCKR’d TONIC a complete sprciAc.preTenttive
end euro. Am your InYsluabU# medicine
which did for me what nothing eleo could
do, is entitled to the credit of my getting beck
mjhsp^yders^t^ehewinUy end gnuefally
MrV iT^Jelle, who needs no introduction
to the people of Jeney City, adds: 'The tee*
timonfal of Mr. Tttna Is ten nine en<l volunte*
end life, escribing
. ». ,14lhy . * wVcrt.
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