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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY. AUGUST 15.18d4. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally and Weakly. Tbs Teleokavk ud Messekueb Is pub- Halted every day except Monday, and weekly every Friday. Thi D»ii.y la delivered by carrier* In the city or mailed pontage free to aubserthers at ! 1 per month, f: so tor three months, (5 tor six month* or (10 a year. The W ar.ai.v fi mailed to subscribers, pos tage free, at tl SO a year. 75c. lor alx month*. -1 club ol live or ten. Transient aovertlsemcnts will be taken for ,ie Daily at 1 per square of ten lines or less for the flrst Intertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion; and forthc IVearly at (1 per square for each Insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications will not bo re nt discussions of living topics. Is solicited, -or must be brief and written upon but one solo of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be mado by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted In every roinmuuity In the State, to whom liberal commissions will bo paid. Postmasters are especially requested to write fur term <. 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.