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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY. AUGUST 15.18d4.
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All communications should be addressed to
II. C. HANSON, Manger,
' Macon, Georgia
K. B. Elliott, tho negro politician
who flourished for a while in * South
Carolina, died recently in New Orleans,
whero lie picked up a precarious living
R9 a shyster in tho police courts.
Of the Gainesville man who claims
to have invented perpetual motion, the
Netv York Herald, nays; “And in the
meantime, somewhere behind the mis
ty outline of Mount Washington, the
‘fool killer’ is grinding his club In the
Notch, preparatory to soling down
upon Georgia and destroying Simmons
at ono fell swoop.”
Thy late earthquake was a bonanza
for newspaper liars, and they aro work
ing it to its full capacity.
Speaking of the earthquake tho New
York IForfd says: At the New York,
on'Broadway Mr. Samuel J. Itandall,
of Pennsylvania, and a few political
friends were lunching. Suddenly there
was a rattling of glasses and a general
shaking of dishes, which brought the
ex-Speaker to his feet in a jiffy. A
South American gentleman in tho par
ty recognized the sensation at once.
Why, that is an earthquake!” he ex
claimed, and the room was vacant in
less time than one can count one.
Tim directors of the Now Orleans ex
position desire to set up tho Bartholdi
statue on their grounds. It would be
a paying card.
Tim late earthquake was altogether
sectional. The political earthquake
dnring this season will lie confined to
the doubtful States.
Omaha makes war upon Mother Hub-
bartl dresses because they frighten
horses. It depemls upon who wears
the Mother Hubbard.
Is the Austin, Texas, post-office there
are 80,000 postage stamps that will net
require licking. They have been wetted
by a leakage in a water pipe.
President Livingston took occa
sion in his address before the Agricnl
tural Society to declare that its mem
bers were not politicians, and yet im-
mediately following there was a stormy
debate about higher education, which!
isnot an agricultural topic. The agri
culturists will do well to avoid such
subjects. They will do better if they
will devote themselwea to getting up a
good exhibition of Georgia’s resources
fur the fair at this place, which may be
forwarded to New Orleans subse
quently.
' A French court has just decided in
tho case of a contested will that an old
woman of an hundred years of age, had
a souud and disposing mind.
Petersburg, Va., is going to put the
criminal law after the officers of her
broken hank. This is right and will
prevent other banks from breaking.
The Arctic explorer spells his name
“Greeley,” but the government insists
thatdtiif ’‘Greely.” Shades of Sum
ner! Tho Itopuhlican party continues
to slight the dark “e.”
As Iowa man has declined office and
another Republican has been investi
gated and found with $20 more than
his books called. Is tho grand old
party faltering on the threshold of
•death?
Tim Greely survivors get home in
time to meet a most horrible scandal
charged to them by tho New York
Timet. Perhaps Mr. Howard Carrol,
the young mnn at largo, is at work
again.
Tu* Chinamen in New York have
, followest the safest course. In their
recent meeting they adopted a platform
substantially as follows : “Pollytlcksco
he dammed, at’ce satr.ee. Chinaman
wasase atsvnwplpricee,”
•Some one has .rematked that an
American can always ho picked out
from a crowd in London because his
breeches hag at tho knees. Objector
Holman would bailie the experts with
his trousers, which bag In the aeat.
Tim Tribune holds tho Harpers re
sponsible for the utterances of their
fathers twenty-five years ogo, because
they inherited tho “name and good
drill.” On tho same princiblo the
Tribune is responsible for all of Horace
Greely’s sins.
The good results of the late primary
in Fulton are already cropping out. A
citizens’ reform meeting is about to
take charge of municipal affairs, and
the proposition to have a special build-
ing for Atlanta’s exhibit at New Or
leans has miserahW failed.
Whin U ahal! haw beta made clear that no
party which holds tho South solid By force and
fraud con ever have Northern votes enough to
make It successful la the nation, then all wilt
have been done that can be .ion* in this part
ol the country to break up the criminally solid
South.—Buffalo Express (llep.)
It was the Uepubli -an party that by
fraud anti force mode the South solid
an<i keeps it so. Tho bayonet and the
negro thrust Into Southern politics have
done the work. With this understand
ing we are prepared to indorse the sen
timent expressed.
Within the past three months over
fi,000 barrels of whisky have been ship-
pod to Europe, for storage by Pitts
burg distillers, and it is expected that
dnring the fall and winter enough mare
will follow to Bwcti the aggregate to 10,-
000 barrels. The distillers are doing
this to escape paying the tax which
they ate compelled to pay soon, owing
to the refusal of Congress to extend
the timesd whisky in bond. The three-
year limit is now expiring, and the
time has come when the owners of the
atocka most either get it oat of the
country or pay the revenue tax, which
amounts to abodt $3,GlJb per ono hun
dred barrels.
The Sliver Question.
Washington, August 6.—In order to avert
much ns possible tho continual decrease In
the gold reserve, which now amount* to a llt-
over (117,000,000 as compared wlih (142,000,
the tlrsu>f May, It has been d-etded to re
strict the further payme.-t of fg-dd certificates
from the tre.sury.and where possible to make
payments In other funds than gold coin or Its
immediate paper representative.
This simple announcement, made in
the Associated Press dispatches on
yesterday, is of vast importance to this
country. The passage of the present
law in reference to silver coinage was n,
popular measure. It was demanded
y the great majority of tho people of
the South, and we, in common with
others, thought it wise, and looked for
good results to follow. It will not be
forgotten that many of the ablest finan
ciers of the country, as well as the most
sound and intelligent commercial and
financial journals, bitterly opposed the
law and pointed out tho evil effects
upon our financial system that would
eventually accrue as the results of our
depreciated silver dollar. Tho moat
dangerous of these, wo were told, would
be the export of gold, until not
enough would remain to form
a sound financial basis.
Whether we wero disposed to heed
the warnings thus given or not, it is
plain to all men now that tho fears of
the opponents of silver coinage arc be
ing realized, and while silver is piling
up gold Is disappearing, and by steady
process we aro neariug the conditions
ugainst which wo were faithfully
warped.
Wc do not profess sufficient knowl
edge of the Intricate laws of finance to
present lit detail the features of the
present unsatisfactory situation, or tho
changes'' In policy that aro necessary
to a safo adjustment for tho future. Of
one thing, howover, there can be hut
little doubt, anil that is wo are coining
too much silver into dollars so called
that are worth less than eighty-five
cents, upon tho standard of value
maintained in oar gold coin. There
are two remedies, ami the appli
cation of cither would no doubt
correct tho evil. The first is suspen
sion of silver coinage and tho recond is
to put one hundred cents worth of sil
ver into a dollar. To tho latter policy
wo nre inclined, because It would then
be sale to work tho mints to their full
capacity, and any excess of silver hero
could be exported, as gold is at present,
and having the same commercial vaiuo
abroad that gold has, could not embar
rass us financially. This policy would
prevent contraction, that must come if
silver dollars are forced to pass at a
discount, and meet the demand for sil
ver as the money of tho people.
Congress at its noxt session will be
called upon to take bold-of this ques
tion. It would be wise to follow the
counsels of financial men at our great
money centres, rathe- than adhere to
tho policy of4>rejudico ami political
claptrap in the further treatment of
this question.
Civs Them (tops.
The origin of the saying “a rope
around the neck” is thus explained by
a correspondent of the London Timet:
The origin ol this expression, aa well as Its
meaning, has lately been variously explained.
The practice, according to Demosthenes, pre
vailed in thopopu'ar assembly ol the Greek
State of Loeri, In Italy. There, according to
tin- constitution framed, It Is raid, by Zalcu-
cus, any citizen who proposed a new law did
so with a rope around hts neck and If the
proposal failed to obtain a majority of the
votes, the pr.potcr was at once strangled.
This practize kept tho constitution In Its orig
inal purity for two hundred years.
As Georgia contemplate*the making
of a new constitution, a measure which
is imperatively demanded in behalf of
the happiness and iutetests of allot the
people, this suggestion, which comes
down to ns from the earlier and better
days of human government, should re
ceive earnest attention. In the state
whero it appertained the constitution
was retained in its original purity for
two hundred years.
How amazing to us in this country
this sounds, when we recall that the
national constitution was destroyed by
a political faction in less than a cen
tnry, and where the making nnd un
making of State constitutions has be
come an almost daily practice. What
a relief to the burdened taxpayer it
would be if he could ring arope around
the neck of his immediate representa
tive on the eve of his departure for At
lanta with the promise of a certain
stretching if his bills to permit Bill
Jones to peddle withoutlicense, to pre
vent fishing in Spring Creek and to
move Jack Oldham’s house into the
next county failed to receive a majority
vote?
It is pleasant to c intern plate that
local legislation, which causes biennial
sessions to mean three sessions per an
num, would bo at once and forever
strangled.
In fact, the vista of blessings opened
np by the adoption of such section Tn
our system of laws presents such a
scene of human happiness that tho
mind is bewildered at its contempla
tion. How quick the cheap statesman
would find again tho obscurity from
which he sprang, and his twin afflic
tion, the constitutional lawyer, would
lie in the same grave beside him. Alas!
how little we know, notwithstanding
our boast of civilization and enlighten-
mentfeompared to the men who first
undertook to provide for the govern
ment of states. Let us turn back nnd
seek inspiration from long forgotten
fountains of wisdom and intelligence.
Let us present to each nnd every one
of our law-makers a box of hempen
collars.
Tho occasion is .propitious. To-day
In two cities of tho State, not very far
apart, two representative assemblies of
Georgia meet, tho Grangers at Rome
and the statesmen at Atiapta. Both
have agreed upon tho nominations to
be mado, and will have ample time to
devoto to this rope business. Let the
statesmen indorse tho proposition in A
series of resolutions inviting the
attention of the coming Legislature.
Our Granger friends might second the
motion in the Interests of a diversity of
agriculture, by the recommendation
that a reduced acreage of cotton be
devoted to the growing of hemp.
Thus can both conventions unite in
a patriotic duty to tho people ami sup
port a wise movement by diverse meth
ods. Givo our statesmen rope. The
people will be apt to catch on to tho
right end of it.
with only Blaine and Cleveland,in the
race, would be (Killed for the former,
while Tammany votes for Cleveland
pretty solidly, then it is not
doubtful in our judgment, that Butler’s
candidacy will injure Blaine more titan
Cleveland. Indications point to dis
trust and uncertainty in both the Dem
ocratic nnd Republican parties, of But
ler’s candidacy.
Of one thing there cau lie no doubt,
an equal number of votes, then the
House of Representatives shall imme
diately choose by ballot one of them
for President; and if no person have a
majority, then, from the five highest
on the lilt, the said House shall in like
manner choose the President. But in
choosing the President the votes shall
lie taken by States, the representation
from each State having one vote."
As the Democrats control a majority
GEORGIA PRESS POINTS.
and that is that the Democratic party, of the State delegations in the House,
as the sequel has shown, had every- they would elect the President, and
thing to loso nnd nothing to gain by would, of course, choose Cleveland.
Butler's participation in its counsels. The following States would, in the
He is a physical, moral and' political event of an election in the House, vote
monstrosity. His main purpose for for Cleveland: Alabama, Arkansas,
years past lias been to consolidate un- California, Connecticut, Delaware,
der bis control the most inflammable Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
material in oarpopulation,with the pur- J|pryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Mis-
posc in the long run o£ making it the sourl, Nevada, New York, North Carc-
balance of power. lina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee,
His appearance at Chicago as a dele-1 Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin—
gate to the national Democratic con- 22,
vention, while he hod in his pockets The following would vote for the Re-
two Presidential nominations, was an publican candidate: Colorado, Illinois,
anomaly and nnoutrage. His minority Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,
report wsb submitted simply to give Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
him a chance to make a speech in his New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Awn interests. His action since has Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia-
proven conclusively that this was true 15.
and his present attitude is in perfect Florida being equally divided—kme
keeping with his general character as Republican and one Democratic mem-
a conscienceless demagogue. Itwoujd her—would not -have any voice in tlie
be a singular and disgraceful outcome decision,
of the present political situation for It would then devolve upon the Sen
any man to succeed to the Presidency ate to elect a Vice-President from the
through the trickery of this olA hypo- two highest in the list of those voted
crite. | foi 1 by the electors for that position,
, This would place Messrs. Logan and
S.na.o t Brown and th.Mar.hat.hlp. | Hendricks before the body and, the
An ed.tor.nl appeared m our tssne of K blicans ^ , he najorU
Sunday last, based upon a statement by w0 „,j elect Gem ^
our Atlanta correspondent, to the effect go that if Gen Butlcr directg b , 8 cnn .
that Senator Brown had assured Pres.- yaj8 60 as to throw ^ election into
aen Arthur that the app.,intment of.l. Congross he wU1 lve tbe country
h. Bryant as United States marshalfor , )emMratic Pre8ident and n Rcpubli-
Georgia would receive the confirmation can Vice-President.
the Senate, has attracted great atten
tion and caused much comment.
Bryant or his friends, oilo or bojh
Tax new postal notes are to be pale
lilac in color, the old ones were yellow.
The chief reason for making the change
was the poisonous character of tho in#
on the back of the old notes. Super-
intendant Plimley, of the money order
department, in the New York office,
said that one of the clerics had noticed
some time ago, after handling a large
number of the notes, when hU fingers
were moist, that the ink robbed off and
eventually the fingers became swollen.
He thereafter used rubber tip* when
handling them. A business man alio
complained, one <iay, that after hand
ling seventy of tbe notea, daring which
he wet bis fingers at hb mouth, bis
lipe swelled np and were painful,
clerk in the 4epartment at Washing-
n was similarly afflicted.
B.nlamln Will Not ror.ake Thant.
As will be seen by tho dispatches
General Butler 1ms written a letter to
the New York Nun announcing hia de
termination to stand by the nomina
tions of the Greenback and Anti-Monop
olists conventions. This is important.
Rumor has been busy with the Gener
al’s name of late. It has been slyly
hinted that a private yacht stood ready
to convey the General to a port un
known to the public, npon an errand
whose purpose is a state and stately
Many people are of the
opinion that the doughty
warrior, disgusted with Blaine,
distrustful of Cleveland, fiercely
opposed to St. Johns and unmindful of
tbe Greenback anti-monopolist, wo
men’s rights combination, might board
his yacht without warning and anchor
ing three miles off shore, leave the
country to be tom by warring and des
perate factions. In other words the
public was afraid Benjamin was mak
ing bis preparations to stand from un
der. Tim news from the Bay State acts
at restall apprehensions. Benjamin
will be on hand, net to ran, not to take
the stomp, not to engage in hitter sec
tions! strife, bat to stand by his party,
while it dies [its accustomed quadren
nial death and leaves him again a
widow.
Tha Earthquake.
Tho leading item of our dispatches
this morning is the earthquake, which
on Sunday at 2 p. m. shook the North
ern and Eastern States. Though not
violent, the disturbance seems to hare
boon very general, extending from the
northeastern portions in n southwestern
direction, anil being very perceptible
in Wostern Pennsylvania and Mary
land. Boston records six distinct
shocks ami Pennsylvania two, showing
n diminishing disturbance. The sea
coast and island resorts all report dis
tinct vibrations and great excitement,
Beyond tho wrecking o! chimney
glasses and bric-a-brac, and the crack
ing of ceilings no great damage war.
ported. No lives were lost or personal
injuries indicted.
The recent disturbance will set the
scientist to speculating upon tho causes
which give birth to these vibrations
and the forces that underlie the earth’s
crust. It would 1)0 interesting to hear
tbe explanation given from an elec
trical point of view. The general course
of oar mountain ranges and
metal bearing Btrata ’ is from
northeast to southwest, and more fre
quently titan otherwise tbe earthquake
follows the same direction. Is it not
possible that the earth being the great
reservoir of electricity, iU hidden con
ductors at times are heavily charged and
circuits broken producing explosions
and vibrations, whose echoes only are
conveyed to the upper crust? The sub
ject is a boundless one for those who
have time to investigate and dwell
npon it. The faetthat telegraph offices
all over the recently shaken districts
were powerfully affected, in one in
stance the chemical jars being broken
may be a straw to direct the attention
of scientific men in the right direction.
Primary vs. Convention.
Tho approaching meeting of the
have managed to spread abroad an tm-1 Democratic -executive committee of,
pression that ha? no substantial basis. Bibb county is regarded with unusual
We are authorized to state—and it interest by’ our people. There is no
affords us pleasure to do so—that no question os to the purpose of those who
communication, written or verbal, has have the interest of some of the aspir-
passed between 8enntor Brown and Luts for legislative honors in hand,
President Arthur in relation to tho ap- t 0 prevent a primary clec-
pointment of Bryant. Senator Brown tion, and, if possible, to force a conven-
has received no intimation from the tion upon the county. The only rea-
President in regard to the appoint-' son we have heard assigned for this
mint, and lias given no opinion directly departure from a long established, fair
or indirectly about it. Indeed, his and satisfactory custom, is that it will
first knowledge that the appointment | be less tronblo and expense to the can-
was to be made was gleaned from the didates. This may be Jtaid to be the
newspapers containing tho announce- argument of the candidates themselves,
ment. who are afraid to risk their chances for
Senator Brown holds that, under the a nomination in a primary, where every
rules and practice of the Scnato, the voter can express hia’ choice. We
most diligent inquiry is mado as to the would suggest to these gentlemen that
character nnd antecedents of all ap- they have entirely mistaken the ob-
pointees sent to the Senato for confir- jects of <tho nomination. It is not for
mation, and that before any name is the, purpose of distributing hon-
sent in for the consideration of the ors to chronic candidates, hut
Senate it would he as improper in n I to secure proper representation lor this
Senator to express an opinion as for a county in the coming Legislature. It
judge to announce his decision in a would be as well to remind them also
case in adrcnce of its hearing. • that they have not been drafted or con-
We cannot frankly say that we fully scripted as candidates as yet. If there
concur in this position, but Senator I jg any decided public domand ior them
Brown is a Senator and must be. gov- they have nothing to fenr from apri-
ented by his own sense of right and mary. If their candidacy is
duty. There are plenty of men whose upon their own motion they
names the President might send to the I have no right to evade,' by
Scnato for official appointment' who trickery, tho test that the voters of
are notrionsly unfit, as in tills particu- this county have a right to apply before
lar case. Their records and antecc- they aro entitled to indorsment.
dents are ouch, that no Senator could The executive committee will do
possibly vote for their confirmation W ell to heed these suggestions,
and at.ilie same timo give dife regaitl I primary is demamled by the people,
to the interest of the country and the L n d any nltempt to- override tliclr
sentiments of his constituents. wishes .will he resented.
Under such circumstanocs we cnnnot Kvo have discharged our full
fee why a Senator might not publicly I j u ty in reference to this question, and
nnnounce, if th«S occasion required it, ,i 0 not feel that we havo any farther
that he would not voteforconflmiation. 1 responsibility in the premises, beyond
In the conrso of a journalistic career holding to public accountability tho
we havo frequently known the vote of men who may bo instrumental in fry-
the Senate on a particular appointment, I j n g to force upon the people of Bibb
before, just os well as wo did after the county Legislative candidates whodaro
vote had been cast. 1 not risk their changes before the pco
However, we are authorized to deny I p) c .
as emphatically as possible, which we
have dono with pleasure, the statement I A Military Chongs,
upon which wo had commented. It The recent change in military tactics
had no foundation in fact. in the United States army will be
Tnc Savannah Timet gives Mr. W. A.
Wright, the new editor of the Waycross
Headlight, a good send-off.
The Cobb county voters nominated a
farmers and a lawyer for the Legislature,
and the ticket gives general satisfaction.
The Democrat! of Harris county will
nominate their two candidates for the
Legislature at a primary election, on tbe
30:h inst.
No man loses anything by making it
rule to write nothing that may ever involve
tbe necessity of either public or private re*
pentonce.
Mu. E. D. Byars, of tho Newt and Signal,
Is reported to be dead, tiewas .lhard and
faithful worker in the journalistic field,
and deserves the kindly remembrance of
his bretlircn of the press.
" The Fulton county nominees for Up
Legislature will be selected at a primary
election, to be held on tbe 3d of Septem
ber. At the same time delegates to the
Senatorial convention will be chosen.
The Confederate reunion at Forsyth, on
the 23d inst., is being extensively ndver
tised. and it will prove to be a big affair.
Tbe fountains of much eloquence will be
unsealed, and the newspaper people In the
neighborhood will destroy much barbecue,
NoTmxo is more apparent than the
shifting and unstable character of local
legislation in Georgia. Without the idea
of permanence, law does not commend it
self to the judgment of people. No good
law should be repealed in answer to a more
popular prejudice.
It is right hard for Fulton county to be
lieve that Cobb and Clayton have any other
duty in Senatorial elections than that of
voting tor a Fulton county man for the
Senatorsliip. There onght to be enough
fair-minded men in Pulton to do away with
this erronous impression.
The DeKalb Newt has changed its type
and general make-up for the better. It is'
a matter Worthy of note that there Is a
steady Improvement on the part of most
of our Georgia exchanges. This ^indica
tive of general improvement in the State;
for, as a rule, it is fair to judge of a com-
inanity by its papers.
It is necessary, aa a matter of course,
that there should be diffi-rences of opinion
in every.country as to wiio should fill the
offices within the gift of the people. This
need not be followed by a division of the
people into permanent and warring fac
tions, and newspaper effort should be di
rected to the avoidance of inch a calamity
Tnz Emnnnel Count;/ llemizer speaks Of
Judge George 8. Rountree, tbe 'nominee
for the Senate in the Sixteenth district, as
follows: .
ONLY A PIN.
Only a pint
Ann It calmly lay
In tbe shining light
GE(
Of a bright uoouu&y.
Lee ti
Only a boy,
»r y that pin,
Till boy'and^pln'aiiko* were B°'
Only a oh Mr—
It had no buatui-u standing thorn •
Tho boy ho put ou , flundUh ifrin'
n tbe scat ol that chair .,o U xeo pta |
Only a nan,
He sat on that chair,
■meat one:
And man, and boy’ and’ptn,'and cW*
lu wild confusion mingled there>
N “[Carmarthen iourniL
A Nevada mine called the P e »,i n . I
has developed a bonanza of cobait am
nickel. comutaoi
Pink, white and blue water Ulb.
grow as large as dinner pistes in
land, Australia. y 1
Tnn campaign is not all mud flic
ing Nothing but cold water wKtfi’
on St. John, the prohibitionist. 0,0,1
It Is asserted that the fifty thotmaaA
Italians in New York not 10 per cent
speak or understand tbe English langasg?
TwELVi-year-old^ bad boy; “gj,"
The nominee ts n.-tt a brilliant man -indeed,
he Is anything else—nor Is he an orator. Hr
is, however, a good business man, honest to
tho core—so those who know litm best say.
and la endowed with.a great deal of practical
sense. He will, therefore, make as a safe Sen
ator. la abort, what be lacks In brilliancy on
the floor of tho Senate chamber he will make
up In hard work In tho committee room.
Practical sense bests brilliancy in pro
viding legislation for the good of a people.
alatmed: “Why, what do you mean n,,ht!
Bad boy: "When I was gettingyJurfsce
powder at tbe drug store this noon
him in behind the screen.” Sister- "till,
-papa will hear." Bad boy: --P,
there, too.’’—Burlington Free Preu. °
From Dublin is reported an extra-
ordinary story of a lioness eating her own
tail. One day she removed twelve Inches
of if. and though efforts were made to heil
the bleeding stump, tbe lioness comlnmd
to eatdhs tail untillt bad almost entire r
disappeared. One of the fore paws su then
attacked, ahd it was believed that tbe on-
cration would end in self-destruction. r
The volunteer artillery of Man
chester were at target practice with a 3i
pounder, when suddenly the gun reso
lutely refused to go off It was discovered
after two honrs of hard wotk that somt
Handy Andy had rammed home tbe shell
before the powder, and none of tbettea
men nor the officer working the gaa found
ont what was the matter untit a d-zea ab
ort! re attempts bad been made to fire iL
Eleven years ago the condition of
the timbers supporting the dome of 8t
l’cters were such as to excite alarm for
the safety of the structure. Since then
repairs have been going on with much
steadiness as the depleted state of tht
Papal cxcbeqner would allow. The great
cupola bas been secured with lead, which
was chiefly tbe gift of Spaniards, amwiz
whom tbe.Pope numbers his most faithful
adherents.
A number of the railway companies
which centre In Philadelphia, as well as
several of the leading businese bi-usss,
have pat np private fire-alarm l oses, with
the city’s consent. Tne signal boxes used
are those of tbe Gainewpl! pa-ent, and are
supplied by tbe oity at Jl.27each. Minted
them are eo located that they can ba util
ized in case of a fire in the nelghborhoud
wben tbe city box cannot beres:bedia
short order.
‘Tna Original” Walker laid it down
that champagne onght to be Introduced
very early at tho banquet, without any re
gard whatever to tbe viands it maychanee
to accompany. "Give ebaapigne," be
That School o> Technology,
chronicle a-d Constitutionalist.
The popular interest In this Important
■abject it daily deepsnlng. A branch-
mechanical engineering-to which mnch
attention is given in technical or industrial
schools will' suffice to outline the results
that are accompliahed and objecta aimed
ah Mechanical engineering has been de
fined to be tbe art of designing, construct
ing and operating machinery, mill work,
steam engines and other machines. It
bas been wisely remarked that tbe ample
remuneration whlct^ manufacturers are
willing to give for such work and tbe
growing conviction that our youth may be
trained to fill places of usefulness and
honorable profit Iq mills, factories, etc.,
to the advantage' of themselves and
the country, suggest a systematic etudv of
all branches bearing upon mechanic art,.
It has heen considerately urged that in a
school of technology,conspicuously, math
ematics give tl-w rninof calculation; draw
ing. skill of eye non band, shop practice,
familiarity with actual labor accurately
perforate I. The students at the same
time acquire a knowledge of English liter
ature and tbw modern languages, which
enables then) to eypre; e themselves with
correctness and rtuonev and to b« at case
in any presence. Tbe Worcester Institute,
Massachusetts. Is par excellence, the
School of Technology East. I n thst school
French is tins foreign language most stud
ied, though German receives much atten
tion. Chemistry r. nsthDugh the roorae.
Ten hours a week tbe Junior year and two
honrs a week Hie middle year are devoted
dth
heo champagne goes tightly nothing can
II vn wronv ”
start 1st
guesta after which they seldom Hag No
other wine prodnre. an equal effect in in
creasing the success of a party—it Invaria
bly turnsthe balanco to the favorahle
When Champa
well go wrong.
■“Joe Man-ton was a {mmo* bf>
lisb gunsmith of the hot century.'' *aH s
well-known Philadelphi t j-ilntii dor, tbs
other day, "and long after Hint-locks wers
out of date fi is bareels were renmontel
with percussion lock - and commsndel a
! I! -ft I-:.- ■■ in I! .■ ' 1 :,,, r 1 i,
llshguna to-day are the Dongall. Lancas
ter, Greener and Grant gun*. The latter
are favorites among pigeon-shQo
to free hand drawing.
Senator Brown ltoa not promised the I hailed with deiight by tbe green aqnad,
confirmation of Bryant to President but will inflict a pang upon the iazy-
Aniiur. Aa Bryant ia notoriously an bone members, it 'permits the swing-
improper j>erson (or any official ap- ing of the arm while on the march and
pointmenl, and as hia confirmation places quick time at 120 instead of 00.
would be entirely unacceptable and ob- Hereafter tbo soldier may relax the
jectionable to the people of Georgia, fierce and rigid arm, and cease to hook
wo may hope that his official chreer Ida aching little finger in tho off-seam
will not pasa far beyond tho find Mod- of his imposing trousere. He may cease
day in December next. While watch- to carry his disengaged arm as though
ing and serving the interests of the it was of no practical service, and use
people of Georgia, we neither desire or it as nature intended be should, to bal-
intend to do senator Brown the alight-lance himself when in motion and de-
its. "at the be-.tltfhing ofUmnr
[hilarating qualities serve to si
icata after which tbev seldom fli
iU
they are very light. slu>.»t v<*ry atronuly a
rarely get out of onler. Attrat-cluMgun of
any of these makers cr ti about foriy-f:ve
guinea*, Including the duty. The bent tar
get plttola ever manufactured were those
of Kticlu ~ - •
- jichenrei ter, In Bvgeniburg. Bavaria.
Tbe flneatnfle for sport ing purposes is the
double-barreled Kapro n rifie, coating thir
ty guineas, though some' of our army < ffi-
cera prefer tbe ordinary regulation Spring-
Held ride, *which stands rougher uiagt
than the Express does.”
NOT A “CJflB WC1D** AT ALL.
General Butler on tho OrUbi of a Com-
' men Expression.
Rostov, August li.—Uomral Butler give*
the following amusing explanation of tbe
origin of what is generally accepted ae a
profane remark: ,
Tho editor of the Boston I/ermUi does not
seem to know enough to be wicked when
he wants to be. He cloeee an article npoa
e*t injustice.
Butler's Candidacy.
The effect of Batler’s candidacy ia as
yet a matter of speculation. So many
contingencies enter into the calculation
that it Ulmpoasible as yet to determine
whether Cleveland or Blaine will be
damaged the most. At the present time
the extent of Tammany’s disaffection
is the moat important feature of the
situation. If the vote of this organiza
tion and that which it ordinarily con
trols should be cart largely for Butier
it will destroy the main reliance for
Democratic majority in New York. On
tbe contrary, if Butler (hall succeed
controlling the vote represented by the
car driven and stevedores, and which,
An Election of President Dy tn. House
of R.preuntatls.s.
Some presses and politicians already
claim that the candidacy of General
Butler will hare the effect to throw the
election of President into the House of
Representatives—the present House.
At present this can be esteemed only a
wild claim npon the part of those to
whom perhaps “the wish ia father to
the thought.” No one knows or can
possibly guess at present what will be
tiie strength of Butlor's poll. It may
not be absolutely certain that lie will
ran. Tbe attempt* at pacification
which wt ore naked to believe are now
being made, may harmonize all antag
onisms or may possibly neutralize But
ler's effort if he shall continue it. But
it aomething is not done within a short
time, an election by the Hoosc of Rep
resentatives—-a possible contingency-
may become a probable one. In that
event the matter of procedure liecomee
interesting.
The constitution, after providing for
electors and the casting of their vote*
and the count of the latter by Congress,
declare*: “The person having the
greatest number of votes shall be the
President, if inch number be s ma
jority of the whole rumber of electors
eppointed; and if there be more than
on* who have each a majority and have
stray tho tendency of his machinery to
waddio. If the authorities will take
the trouble to pot a stripe down the
liberated arm, surely its swinging
motion will in the future present as
pleasing an apocarance as tiie swing
ing legs beneath it.
_ six hours a
week to nisrhantcal drawing ibtrluR the
middle and Senior years. There is s de-
psrtment of design, and instruction it im
parted preparatory to fresco and ornamen
tal painting and tbit designing of prints.
T&c feature of this FXuwil.ul acnooi is tne
method and amount of practice in tbe ma
chine shop. This shop, itself a regular
factory, turns ont marketable products,
and gives work|to skilled mechanics for the
direction and Ix-n- ti- of the students.
A fact which speaks volumes is this:
Tho master of this particular depart
ment receives an annual salary of $3,000,
while the president of the Institute—the
head of the faculty—receives only $2,300
per annum. Each pupil works each day e
fixed number of boors. It la claimed that
a pupil In one of these schools ba* this ad-
vantogo over a mere apprentice: Ills ad
vancement from drudgery fa skilled labor
i* rapid; bis time Is carefully distributed;
he progresses under constant andayste-
matte instruction; in addition to all title,
be ripens gradually, but rarely under tbe
ditcipline and culture ol drawing and In-
tellectuiil studies.
It has been truly laid by one of the Dem
ocratic nominees for the Legislatarc from
this county, that a school of technology—
a school of mechanic arte—“i. a felt want
In our ijtate and will be tbe school of the
your bumble servant lu tbo ller.ibt of r'ua-
day as follow*: "Can anybody be
lieve that a man with bis recortf cores
tinker’s malediction for the pried-
esofany parly?” Now he evident J
The Cotton Harvester.
The Telegraph hoe had inquiries
addressed to it in reference to the cot
ton harvester alleged to have been per
fected in South Carolina, which itia un
able to answer, (or tho simple reason
that no practical teat of the machine
has yet been reported.
There are mechanical difficulties in
the way of a cotton harvester so intri
cate and stupendous that anyone may
be justified in refusing to credit the ex
istence of inch a machine until its suc
cess has been fully proven. The Tele-
graph has as yet no opinion to express
npon the new attempt to master these
difficulties. In another column, how
ever, is reproduced an article upon the
subject from the Charleston -Vein and
Courier, a careful and painstaking
journal, which we recommend to the
attention of those who feel interested.
By* mistake of the artist, Senator
Vest accompanies Butler in the cam
paign lithographs, in place of General
West, the Vice-Presidential nomine,
of the Greenback labor party.
word. Will you inform him Hist in ths
olden time, when traveling tinkers went
about the country mending the holes ia
tha tin kett'ts S=d pan. ua flaqueuuj
found one that was ragged and rusty, so
that the soldering iron would not take,
and he was obliged to HU It np with a tnau
Of solder. To ki-.-p that solder e* mutt
over the hole white In the melted state, he
wes accustomed to take some crumbs «
bread and moisten them sad
make a little ridge around the boh
with the moistened cruntbe. to hold the
■older tn its place m he melted It In. Tbit
wee whet was called n "tinh. r’a dam,
which he brushed away alter be had fin
ished. ae it was utterly use!rsa» So that
oar pilgrim fathers naed the words "not
worth u tinker’s dam," never dreaming
tha' they wen profane.' The editor of the
U El. vid,Hilly llm : | i.-iisd I,.',
ing all his life, when fi- imsn andthetke
must soften the word down to "maledic
tion.'’ Yours truly.
Benjamin F. Bctles.
people.’’
A Mormon Maesaore.
Courler-Joumal.
Nashville, Tenn., August 11.—An or
ganlsation established by Mormon elders,
in Lewis and tiles man counties, this State,
about three yean ago, was broken upon
Sunday by the killing of ell the elders hy a
band of masked men. Mr. Depriest, Unit
ed States mail carrier between Ivy Mills
and Centerville, Hickman county, gives
tbe following account of the massacre:
Three elders were holding a meeting at
Conder's farm. Cane Creek, Lewis county,
Sunday morning, when twelve masked
men on horseback rods np to the h
Reducing Fares.
CMlwJelphUCxU.
Western IUilroatl |>r»- .tient—“I telly?
sir, it Is ruir\ou*«. I can’t reiluce
tween these jM-intsfroa.
muxt bo cr»* y.”
Buptrinten lent—“It inu»
i.f t >
15 AO to $5. Yea J
lust 1,0 done. sir.
id Z.
fixed;
that to carry
vs,- will nuk*
or the new B
part dIourtr*lNc.”
“But it costs more
them?'’
“O, I have that all
it nil up every trip.”
“In what way.
“My idea is to rui
cars.’’
“W<Jl r ..
“And then, before reaching the end oj
the road, you and I. .lionised m twoof
tiie James gang, will hoard ih«* train.'
. : “Capital tdcai But that *• »ulil only wort
r^nptothcUouse atul \ f,, r a while. The poNM-nR-M would co
plain and the author
nothing hut p«
“O, but we won’t touch tl
“No
“No—we ll just rob the iforter.''
uhl gash*
j)»s*entfen-
ordered a young man named Hatton and
young fonder to surrender. They showed
tight, wben one of the masked men knocked
Cornier down, breaking his skull. Hutton
tired at one of the marked men, who fell
dead, and war alterwardr found lobe Dave
Hatton, a citizen of lfic kman county, who
lived at llrujhfork, on Beaver Dam. The
marked men then shot am) killed two of
the Mormon elders. The third elder ran
toward the wood, from which firing war
soon heard. The elder, not haring been
e'en since, ir supi-ored ai?o to have been
killed. It bar since heen ascertained that
the marked men liefore going to Conder’s
house stopped at the house of a man named
Garrett, near Conder's boose, found a and s
Mormon e der It.and left two masked * n 1 1
men In chargcol this elder. Shooting war | He
heard there ehorUy afterward umf that I
elder bas not been teen since. When fir. by Li
ing commenced at Conder's hour.- oneof
•Mersbid Uhioa Mrs. Condtr n.n<i in ! Tn* L m© Contirr rr; *rt a. a*'
•booting At Win Hra. Confer wm w<>.. Htendance *-[ delegat - a* tn- ugri< altar-
An End to Bon* temping*
El wanl Shepherd, of II arris burp, Bl
*iays: “Having received so much benefit
from Electric Bitten. I feel it rny duty to
let sutlerinfl humanity know it. ilATehx*!
a running sore on tuy leg for eignt year*,
my doctors told me I would have to h» v .'*
tli- bone scrajH-tl or leg amputated. I
i jh>ad, three Ijottles of Electric B.tteri
cr« ;tre fifty • enU -i
Art. i - live cen'1 » 1
ikin *V Limar
1 nl ,v 'nt'et»tiion.