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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPII AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1884. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally nnd Weekly. ThkTelxgrapu amd Mmsf.ngkr la pub lished every day except Monday, and weekly every Friday. The Daily la delivered by carriers In the ottj or mailed postage free to subscribers at tl per month, U 60 (or three months, $5 (or six months or $10 a year. The Weekly ts mailed to subscribers, pos- t—« as- * ■ . •]■ In or ten. Transient advertisements will be taken (or hoDaily at <1 per square o( ten lines or less for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion; and for the Weekly at |1 per square for each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications will not be re ined. '’nrrpsoondence eontainlnf important news u ' Itscussions of living topics, is solicited, •mt must be brief and written upon but one sido of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. Ageuis wanted in every community in the 8Ute, to whom liberal commissions will be paid. Postmasters are especially requested to write for terms. All communications should be addressed to H. C. HANSON, Mannar, Macon. Georgia. The boys and the girts are preparing to go chinquepin hunting. (%er a hundred Normandy stallions hare been recently Imported into this country, Tub results of fanaticism are often seen in rerolutions, hut rarely ever in genuine reform. 'Ws do not wont to contend with the pauper labor of Kurope, wielded there or employed here. Tits men who tremblo when the con tribution plate comes round are not of the stuff which constitute the angels. Hendricks, it is said, plays upon the accordeon. Very well; the President of the Senate should have some occu pation. Was the “large quantity of pork” eaten by Private Henry and vomited, really pork? Or was it lmman flesh? Was Henry shot for cannibalism? Hr. Hendricks has gone home, Mr. Cleveland is still in the woods and the Democratic party is still in doubt as to the interpretation of the tariff plank in the Chicago platform. Tub Mexican revolution is at an end> and the main revoluters have been shot. It is beginning to be suspected that melancholy statesmen in Mexico use the government as a means of com mitting suicide. A man’s good character is something that can not without hia consent be tak en from him. The sheriff may seize his goods and sickness strip his household, but neither sickness nor poverty can rob tire good man of his good name. Women differ widely. Everybody lias heard of the Hacon girl who re fused to wear the Chrulian Obierter aa a lnutie, and now comes a foreign lady across the wave with one thousand as sorted eyes secreted in the folds of her capacious trans-Atlantic bustle. Tiie bed is for sleep and not reflec tion. Do your thinking bofore yon get into bed, and you will Oo better Bleep ing afterwards. “Life," says the Philadelphia Preet sadly, “like a Chinese song, lias bin three or four notes, whether it is sung in a palace or a barn-yard. A Virginia girl has laid herself lia ble to imprisonment by interfering with the United States male. She eloped with the postmaster. A lot of relics from the ill-fated Jeannette have been found by the Es quimaux upon an ice floe,drifting 2,500 miles from where the ship sank, nearly three years ago. Why cannot every farm have its pe can aud filbert grove? It will take time to produce the trees, of course, but the farmer loses no time while they are growing, and will, when they be come productive, find them a source of profit. The Tennessee gun club scorns clay pigions. A fat Mormon elder at twenty• one yards’ rise is a much finer target, and lias this advantage: you cannot always tell when yon hit a clay pigeon, but the elder always betrays the suc cess of a shot. A-srnscRiBER of the Telkqraph and Messenger now abroad has gathered some valuable observations upon tech nical education and presents them, in an interesting shape to our readers in another column. It is tiie duty of every man to plant a tree. Aud while planting one he should combine beauty with utility. All of the nut-bearing trees are good shaders. Macon might just os well be trimmed with walnuts and pecans as with elms and china trees. “Gath” writes to the New York Tri bune from Saratoga: “Mr. Azariali Iioody, who is for Blaine, says that he was lately speaking to.a Mr. Johnson, from Macon, Ga., and asked him why the Southern States did not break up their solidity. Johnson replied that there were a great many men in the Sonth who would not feel distressed if Blaine was elected.” Mr. Boody bnilt the road from here to Atlanta. He i« now a very wealthy man, being banker and railroad president. Ou$ people all know our fellow citizen, W. B. Johnson, Esq. He is a man of large acquaintance, of matured- judgment and experience. His home and pos sessions are in our city and his fealty to tiie Soutli and to Georgia in ail respects cannot be impeachable. Opin ions anch as he expresses for himself and others give to this campaign an in tercet and uncertainty that has accom panied no previdus Presidential con test. The Courier-Journal says that one of of the requirements of the State mili tary ia that each soldier upon going into camp is expected to have three pain of socks. This is singular extrav agance. Everybody knows that the Kentucky militia go barefooted. Daniel C. Libby, of Gorham, had his pockets picked of $72 while engaged in shaking hands with Hon. James G. Blaine at the Old Orchard Hall. Dan was probably a country jiostmaster, and his $72 went as a “voluntary con tribution” to thccampaign fund.” Editor Wacterson refuses to play slide on the rear side of the Demo cratic tariff plank. The truth is the committee failed to dress off the rear aide properly, and Editor Watterson knows that American breeches do not protect even a great statesman froth splinters. It makes no difference which side gets left in November, Benny Bntler lias got toshonlder the cussing. And in this connection it may be well to Conrnor Cloaland's Letter, This document was rather unexpect edly placed before tho country on yes terday, through the Associated Press. It makes complete the preparation of both parties, so far os tiie record is concerned, for the vigorous prosecution of a very remarkable political cam paign. We had hoped that the final chance for tho Democratic party, toploco it self on vantage gtound, so far as the one great issue of the campaign was concerned, would be improved by Governor Cleveland. That in hia letter of acceptance he would rise equal to a great emergency, and prov ing liisufeif superior to the convention that nominated him, woulej meet, with out hesitation, the question that moat decide tiie election. He has not only tailed to do this, bat has Ignored it altogether, and it now remains to be seen what Influence the donbtfnl position of the party, through its platform and its nominee for tho Presidency, upon the tariff question will have upon the votersot New York New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, Outside the effect his letter might ta f ,rm Benny thAtri-p^pie-i.. not h „ eapontUg question in the doubt- * top * t * *,?“?’ " or eTen * fal States, it ha* not been looked for ■continent ” U will be a CM* ^ by ^J, "continental dam. of universal damn. Ix fifty years the patent office baa la med 300,000 patenU. Yet the truant schoolboy still returns to the pedagogue with pants bulging with newapapen in the ncighboroood of the danger point Old Civilisation seems lobe stridingup the incline of a treadmill; heaps of fuss and no progress. Jirr.rjoa Ditumii he ca t m« why vet eran, ot the Mexican war who participated In the rebellion ehoold be denied the beneCti ol the pcntlon acL We didn't eoppoea be count Heieono of ’em.—Philadelphia Preaa. Jefferson Davis has long since de clared that ho would never accept any thing from the United States govern ment. Tiie editor of the Prtu may not know it, hut when Mr. Davis says a thing lie means it. Tiiehe is no need of a court-martial to try IJcut. Greely for the execution of Private Henry. The dead man de liberately plotted the destruction of the entire party by his attacks upon the small stock of provisions, and doubt less did contribute to the death of some, who, because of iris selfishness, were shortened in their daily supply, There was no way to atop the thieving but ts kill the thief. Anioi the business hours had pass ed on Wall street recently a newsboy selling papers yelled “the bank lias caved.” The name of the bank was not distinguished, but in twenty minutes the officers at Albany were in iionscssion of descriptions of thirty- ae\ i-n cashiers with orders to arrest, while frantic directors and red-necked honk presidents had each other by the collars sU over town. The bank that had caved woe ot< the suburbs and bn* men had beer buried in the land. upon this point will prove a disap pointment to a large portion of the party, in which is embraced both pro- tjetionista and free traders. What the latter oppose, as a matter of gover- mental policy, they were willing to ap prove, in a crisis that all admit is to settle for years, and perhaps forever, the chances of Democratic suprem acy. The time has now passed for discus sion within the party of the platform, nominee, letter of acceptance or plan of campaign. These ore all settled. The party cannot retrace its steps. It cannot formulate a new issue, adopt a new platform or make up s new record These ere before the country, and it is now to be determined if they can be successfully defended. Our judgment upou this point has been too often expressed for repetition here. We may be mistaken, and hope we are. However this may be, con scious of the faithful discharge of duty in the warnings we have eo often ut tered, we shall await with hope, if not in confidence, the results of November. Perhaps the fairest criticism that caa be passed upon Mr. Cleveland’* letter as a political paper is, that it ia remarkable only for what it does not contain. Causa of Dissatisfaction. Tho one handled and fifty-three elec toral votes of the Southern States have been set aside as assured for the Demo cratic presidential ticket. The representatives of these one hundred and fifty-three electoral voteu in the National Democratic convention were set aBide, just aa the electoral votes are. They had been manipu lated by tiie machine politicians of Nuw York up to tiie point of submis sion. Tho South can have no politics, save to assure Democratic ascendancy in her State governments, and she fol lows the lead of Northern Democrats, who have helped her in this respect. She is expected to do most of the vot ing, and none of the nominating. With the basis of this vote to oper ate upon by skillful politicians tiie put ting up and pulling down of men is a comparatively easy job, as has been capitally illustrated in the most recent nomination. It was a piece of machine work pure and simple, and for this reason does not inspire the enthusiasm and confi dence of the people. With the local quarrels of New York politicians we have nothing to do. It is best for us to have nothing to do with them, so that we cannot be expected to become partisans of any of the different factions. But we may look and learn some thing from the present campaign. Nothing said or done at the Sonth is likely to affect the final result, but the people of the South should never again be driven like cattle by Northern poli ticians in a Presidential campaign. It is said that Tammany is disaffected and that the workingmen are dissatisfied and indisDosed to support Mr. Cleve land. The Republican allies of the Democratic party deny this most vehe mently. Time only can demonstrate which is right and what the ex tent of the dissatisfaction may be. But there are other people dissatisfied who are neither workingmen or the par tisans of Tammany, and it is this dis satisfaction that endangers Democratic success, the chances of whicli are con fined to New York, the pivotal State, Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey. It is a part of our duty to keep our readers informed as to tho causes and extent of this dissatisfaction, wherever they may be found. In the discharge of this duty we pre sent the (olio wing extract from a letter of a Democrat the New York Sun As regards the Stncss end Availability of Cleveland, the predi-tlons ot those who opposed hia candidacy arc being dally verb Bed Machine work, aldod by the votes and action ot delegates from Republican States which have never given a Democratic electoral vote, Imposed him upon onr party at Chicago. Is the New York machine prepared to meet tho responsibility ot Its “mlditfmmer mad ness," or will it withdraw Its candidate' They used the name of Mr. Tllden to aecnre their victory In the convention end resulting detect at the polls, and their speaken In distinct terms stated to tho delegations o; other Btatea that Mr. Tllden had given to them p rannal assurances that he d-slred end recommended Ctevelend’a nomination. Wat this true or false? I did not believe it then, and I do not believe it now. Up to tho time of assembling of the Chicago convention, the Democratic party had every reason of expecting success. Let those who, bv machine methods, dished these ex pectations and forced the nomination of Cleveland, and who mutt now plainly seethe Impossibility of success, withdraw their can didate. I have seen nowhere a solution ot the strange action of the Pennsylvania delegation t Chicago, This delegation stated in empbat lo terms that they put Mr. Randall In nomine tlon with the Intention of voting for him first, last and all the time, aed that It was with them a matter of Stale pride to do so. Yet they dropped him after only one ballot end gave CleveLmd their almost solid vole on the second ballot. Was this because of the general belief and nnOers-andlng that unless Cleveland was nominated ou the second ballot the machine wonld be uaaAle to succeed on anyiuhscqnent ballot? And, it so, why? In these tlmee ol widespread disappoint ment among the Democratic masses, caused by the action of tho Chicago convention, Democrats are showing a disposition to hold to a rigid accountability those machine agen cies which have turned ihelr hopes end pros peels ol success into probabilities of defeat. This is not oply a strong presentation of facts, but ft is a fair sue. It in hut justto presume that many other Demo crat* are aware °i the*? facts and sym pathize tally with the Democrats who give them publicity. We should feel, in the face of such developments daily being mado public, that we would be inflicting a wrong upon onr readers and insulting their intelligence by telling them that this campaign i* moving forward smoothly and harmoniously, surrounded by ail the harbingers of victory in November next. We lay before them such facta aa, in onr beat judgment, go to illustrate the situation, and leave it to their own good sense to form their own conclu sions. the dead bodies of their comrades ? It constitutes no crime in the sight of heaven nor of just men. Had the liv ing fallen upon and tom each other limb from limb it would hare consti tuted no crime. Men reduced by years of privation and months of want to the verge of death are not rational, respon sible beings. They become animals in which remain only the outlines of a God-like nature. The passions aud sufferings of these men, the situation, their despair, made them but as tiie Arctic wolves. That some retained, through it all, the glory of their man hood, but proved the siblime strength gf humanity. That some succumbed to animal instincts but reveals its abject weakness. But it adds no crime, brings no disgrace to the Greely party. It unfortunately envelops the ill-fated ex pedition witii a greater horror than lias before been revealed. , Croely’a Discoveries. A long interview had by an Associ ated Press reporter with Lieutenant Greely will be found upon our first page. From a scientific point of view, it will he more interesting than any thing yet derived from the records of the ill-fated Arctic expedition. The primary object of tho Greely ex pedition was not, as many supposo,the discovery of the North Pole, but to ob tain information relative to temperature, currents, electrical influences and at mospheric conditions. With this un derstanding it will -be seen that Lieu tenant Greely’s efforts were not useless, nor his intentions defeated. Amongst the chief points gained to science were the facts that it is possible for even human beings belonging to a temperate zone to live in the high Arc tic latitudes with comparative comfort; that the tides which influence the ex treme northern waters came from the north, indicating tiie existence of an ^>pen polar sea; that these waters were two degrees warmer than those flowing northward a few hundred miles further south; that there were absolutely no electrical disturbances at the highest point reached; that the aurora borealis was witnessed to the southwest in stead of the north; that nc open polar sea existed at the point where Dr. Kane claimed to have viewed it; that the needle was never still at Fort Conger except under conditions (a storm) which were likely to move it, anl that at the highest point visited by Lieutenant Lockwood the needle deflected 104 degrees, or more than one-fourth the circumference of the dial. These facts will furgish food loir di gestion for many years. Ifat450miles from the point where tiie pole is sup posed to be locatel the needle pointed 0,240 miles away fiom tho north, how would a discoverer proceed to locate the pole when he had traveled to its supposed neighborhood? The Latter of Mr. Handrleks Follows close upon that of Mr. Cleveland. It ia evidently not the let ter he prepared at Saratoga after bis speech, in which he set forth the possi ble dignity and importance of the sec ond office in the government aa con nected with Its duties. Mr. Hendricks has exemplified the old adage that “brevity ia the soul of wit,” and the best comment on bis let ter I* that it U “snort and sweet.” Arctic Cannibalism. To tho Arctic horrors of starvation and suffering has been added a fresh one—cannibalism. It ia positively as serted that at least one man, Kisllng- bury, was, alter death, a victim to the necessities of his comrades. Thatnone of the others whose bodies were brought back bad suffered fnutiiation is positively affirmed by person* who examined them, bat the same was said of Kisiingbury. Added to this is the fact that four men were never fonnd. “Their remains were swept out to was the explanation given. About these four men, including tiie Esqui maux and Private Henry, there most always hang an air of impenetrable mystery, a cloud of doubt. Greely’* report does not deny cannibalism. It certifies that no Instance of the fearful practice came under hia personal ob servation. The whole matter is unfortunate. It ia the result of too much newspaper “enterprise.’ ’ It ought to have been left aa it was, since no testimony can ever net the matter at rest in the minds The Earthquake. Discussions of the late earthquake develop the fact that the weight of sci entific opinion is in favor of the “crush ing in” theory as the immediate causu of the disturbances, with the loss of heat aa the prime cause. Prof. Abbo explains it as follows: "Wo bare throughout the world, and no- where better than in our Middle Atlantic Stater, lllualratloni ol geological itrata dis placed, dislocated, aot-up edgewise aud hrokeu up by seams aud faults, showing that the solid earth in process ol cooling during put ages has shrunk to slightly smaller dimensions, crumpling the strata Into ridges such u those out ol which the Appalachian chain hu been formed. The operation has been a very slow one. Little by little a great •xtent of rock would como under a severe strain. Finally parts of U gave way. A dislocation of a few Inches relieved the strain temporarily, this sudden dislocation would be ielt over the entire neighborhood very much like the yield ing and snapping of the floor ot ah Ill-con* strutted and overcrowded ball-room or an overloaded warehouse. • Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and the Lower St. Lawrence are sug gested as the centres from which the thirteen Atlantic States are affected. In support of the “crushing down” theory, the fact that Jersey coast is gradually sinking, very gradually it is true, but yet perceptibly, ig again brought forward, The general verdict seems to be that these little thrills will continue.beneatli our feet, but that we are not in tiie line of the greater con vulsions of nature which occur only in volcanic regions. An Honost duds*. It is customary nowadays to charge up tiie increase of crime to incompetent judges, and doubtless the want of vigi lance and high moral characters in this department have much to do with the law’sinadequate protections person and property. There isono judge, however, in this broad land of freedom who bids fair to acquit himself of blame. His name is Drummond and he Uvea in Milwaukee Tiie fact* which hare brought Judge Drummond so promi nently before the general public were developed in the settlement of a chan cery estate by three lawyers, who sent into coart their bills for spprovat. The value of the estate was $32,000; the amount of the bills $25,000. The marks of the judge were as foUows: “These chaiges are infamous. They are such aa men who are sconndreia and tb ieves at heart would make. The charge of $15,000 is cot down to $1,600, those of $5,000 each to $500. Repeat such a piece of rapine in this court and I wiU disbar every one of you." We agree with the Philadelphia Record that “it is safe to say that a more im pressive and effective disconnect equal length has never been pronounce-1 in an American court.” The Truck That Will Pay. The Telegraph regrets to learn that the failure it the truck business in Georgia, and by that we mean tiie green truck shipped to a distant mar ket was much more extensive than was at first supposed. That money should lmvelieen lost is not the worst feature; a failure on account of the seasons could have been endured, but farmers Id many sections have lost heart and be lieve themselves relegated to a con tinuance of the one crop system. The Telegraph has pointed out for two years the necessarily certain fail ure of the truck business. It regrets as much as anybody that tho failure was necessary, but it cannot see in it> any reason for despair. There are plenty oPthings marketable nnd well adapted for shipping that can be raised upon any farm with much less cost and risk than green truck, and which com mand fine prices all the year round. In the business of raising dry products any farmer who owns land may engage and be able in advance to figure out his profits. He may raise for instance, and there are men who have done it this year, all of tlio various kinds of beans, tiie “Lima," “Southern Prolific, 1 “Crenseback” and “Fftthorse,” which command from $3 to $5 per bushel all tiie venr round, and of which from twenty to forty bushels can be grown to the acre. Or he may grow the peas, the “Crowder,” “Field pea” and “Mush pea,” which bring from $1 to $2.50 per bushel. Or peanuts, which are cheap at $1.50 all the year round. Those who have fruits will find drying them a most ■ profitable employment. It will pay to dry out peaches and apples at 6 and / 4 cents per pound, nor will it interfere with the fruit intended for a local market, if such can be had. Added to this are somo vegetables that can he evapo rated. As canning establishments are added to our industries, a market will be offered for even green truck. The farmer is not dependent upon cotton, nor yet green track. With but little extra trouble and the same help, he can make his good land pay hint in dry products more than in staple, and be dependent upon no limited season. Aside from this immense amount of forage left on hand for stock after a crop of peas or beans has been gath ered isa wonderful advantage in freight. We have in mind a gentleman who grew three acres of Lima beans beside three acres of watermelons. From the melon patch he got one carload or 1,000 melons. These he supplied to tiie West, paying $148 per carload freight and realizing about three cents each for tiie melons over and above expenses. Upon the bean field he produced 120 bushels, worth at no time since the war less than $3 per bushel, or $360. These beans weighed 7.200 pounds and the freight rate to I’hiladelphia, their market, is forty cents per 100 piunds, or $28.80. The total profit per acre in beans was about $110 to $10 in melons. These beans are priced at their lowest possible value. They are now worth $5 per bnshel, The New York Nun cute out some good work in this paragraph: “All Democrats of all aorta may devote them selves w4th hearty unanimity to the great work of returning an honest, able of the horror loving, and if prove-1 will 1 and fearless Democratic majority to the have accomplished nothing. What if I House of Representatives in the Forty- the starving survivors did feed upou ] ninth Congress. Tha Craveynrd Choul. The disgust and indignation whicli followed tiie attack of the Indianapolis Sentinel upon Mrs. Blaine has been In tensified by the intelligence that the grave of her first child has been muti lated, in order to furnish a basis for tho scandal. Language is incompetent to faith fully portray tiie wretch whose nature is so debased as to engage in such work. It is but a matter of proof o tiie demoralization caused by the war The bummers who desecrated grave yards at the South are fit subjects to do any dirty work desired of them. The old cemetery in the city of Sa vannah, in which Bleep many of the honored men and womcirwho adorned and illustrated that community, bears the marks of the vandals of. Sherman’ army. Tiie inscriptions and dates on many monuments are so defaced as to destroy ti-e tributes oi loving hands to the dead. That the ghouls who did this work have not forgotten their call ing, is testified to in tiie robbery of the grave of Stewart and Uie violation of many cemeteries of the North. Not long ago an attache of s leading Republican journal, the Detroit Poll and Tribune, demanded that the gov ernment or the Republican party should send men South to obliterate thy record* of treason upon the monu ments erected to the Confederate dead. Before the discussion ot the infamous suggestion had died out, tiie monument to General Worth, one of the heroes of the Mexican war, situated in one of the public parks of New York city, was mutilated, and soon afterwards other monuments in different sections of the North were similarly treated. Whether this desecration of tiie tombstone of Mrs. Blaine’s child was really intended to bolster the published slander, or was done to incite partisan rancor, it ia in either cose a disgrace to American civilization. It is something to remember that all of this occurred at the North in a State that prides itself upon its morals and undertakes to chide tho South for its tins The South made war upon living men. No where in her record does it appear that she slandered a woman and mother and violated the grave of a chil-1 to give strength to a calumny. There is sufficient in Mr. Blaine's record as s publicist and a partisan to make tight on. He and hia party are legitimate points ot assault, but the in stinctive justice of enlightened human ity will rally to protect the reputation of bit wife from a slanderer, and the graves of his children from political ghouls. If be ia to be assaulted in this way, the country will forget the politi cal trickster in it* sympathy for the husband and father. DEORCIA PRESS POINTS. The unusual coolnoss of the present summer perplexes the numerous “oldest iuhabltams.” Estimates of a cotton crop soould be based upon an early frost, this year, and expenditures should be mado to correspond with tho estimates. W. R. Rankin, of Gordon county, la the probable Senator from the Forty-third dis trict. (Jordon, Murray and Whitfield con- •titute this district. A peeling comment on the harsh, brusque manner of one of Georgia’s public teachers suggests the very point at which many public apeakers.make a fatal mis take. The weapons ot war are not adapted to the ends of peace. Independent candidates are beginning to pop up here and there, throughout tho Ktate. r It is more than merely probable that most of them will pop back Into pri vate life. As a rule, {independent candi dates serve their country best in private life. Congressman Candler’s popularity in the Ninth district is eo great that there seems to be no talk, evetf, ot opposition. Well, there is no hardship in snch a state or affairs. The Ninth district is entitled to a rest, from wars without and fears within. Ebitor Whitman, of the North Georgia Citiren, is a good newspaper man—able, active and enterprising. The fact that ho is “down" on the cheerless North Pole bus iness will not be advanced to establish a different estimate ot his worth to the news paper world. The farmers In lower Georgia have had excellent weather for palling and curing their fodder, and the local papers testify to the fact that they have improved their opportunities. Fodder is n wonderfully "handy” thing to have about the farm. May there be great stacks of It all over Georgia! Some of the Georgia papers are very lax in discharging tho duty oF giving their contemporaries credit for reproduced news Items. There is a number of good rea sons why this should not he the case, but it will be sufficient to say that It isn’t hon est. The genuine reformer has work to do in the woild of journalism as well as In that of statesmanship. The Montgomery county Democrats will have a mass-meeting to day, to decide whether to make nominations for the Legislature, or to let all the natives run. There are some counties in Georgia in which aernb races are dangerous to Demo cratic supremacy. Montgomery may not be one of these counties, but there is noth ing wiser than commendablo prudence. There is something refreshing to racked nerves in the quietude that prevails in Georgia political circles, Mr. W. H. Lasting**, of Alapaha, is mentioned for the solicitorshlp of the southern circuit. He has long been a prominent man in his section. Is the 35th Senatorial district, It is an nounced that Mr. J. T. Spence has with drawn from the race, in favor of Mr. W. A. Tignor, of Jonesboro. The opinion that the nomination should go to Clayton, this term, teems to be pretty general. In toe Walton county primary election, Messrs. J. W. Arnold and J. M. Gresham were nominated, and the Newt gracefully falls into line tnd flies the banner ot the nuccess*il candidates. This ia the only- way of ridding defeat of its sting. Editor Hog* bos announced himself for the legislature in Fulton county, on a tak ing platform. The duties of an editor are of such sort as to keep him fully posted op the wants of the State; and this is one of the reasons why editors usually make val uable law-given. The Democrats of Stewart county will, on the 1st of September, hold a convention at which candidates for the Legislature will be nominated. At the same time, as we understand It, the county win express Its preference for Senator from the twelfth district—composed of Stewart, Webster and Quitman. Stewart ts not overrun with candidates. Ol a contemporary, the New and Signal, comes to ue In mourning lor its editor, Mr. H. D. Byan. Our acquaintance with him was only such at could be gathered from a weekly reading of bts piper, bat It ensblee us to say that Georgia hu lost a good and true citizen. We must ail go; let us,look to our records! Tus Glynn Democrats will have a pri mary election on the 30 Lh of August, to settle on a candidate for the Senate from the fourth district, made fup Glynn, Camden and Charlton. When the county hu expreued its preference, nothing.will remain bat to nominate the candidate and elect him. Ths district ought not to be rep resented by a Republican. The Pierce county Democrats have fallen into jli^e, and will settle on their nominee for the Legislature, by a primary election, on the 30tb instant. Messrs. 8wett, Brantley .Johnson and Dix on are mentioned u candidates, tnd they hive agreed to let the primary decide the question. So much for the consequences ot fairness and good humor. Matsu. Jokes aed Post are the publish ers of the Georgetown Keho—n Quitman county contribution to the list of State papers. It is a neat, substantial paper, and is edited by Joshua Jones—with whom the readers of our "news notes" are not unacquainted. Tbe Echo will not be a mere echo. It will have opinions of its own—good ones, and it will express them in good language. Editor Pxeiiam doesn't want to go to the Legislature, and is inclined to look upon our commendation ot him for that poeltlon In tbe light of cruel persecution. That la taking a selfish view of the matter. Our Quitman friend ought to be willing to make the sacrifice for the good of the State. When the editors take hold of tbe legisla tive helm In Atlanta, the "ship of state' will get right, again, once more. Tbe Democrats of Borke county have usually bad trouble about their election! of members of the Legislature. This time, a primary election has been ordered for September 10th, at which their three didates will bo .elected. As this will give every aspirant a fair chance to test hts strength with the people, the resnlt of the primary ought to be followed by a united Hia Son Ran the Business .Detroit Free Press. An acquaintance naked him howtl,„ saloon business was, and ho hopned off the sidewalk as he replug "How?" 110 * 8 Mh * 10 y este «Jay !■■ ' r >“ Vhy .’, m /, vi !° lik ® to go oop to Bell. Islo, und I leaf my son Shako to run der saloon. I dells him eafervthlSS to do, und Shako he save homns dS blace in a vay to astonish me all oafer" And how did he come out?" Vhell, pooty queek after I v h»«, gone a man comes in und aay my buS vhas choosen headquarters for a CleS land. glub. Ho likes to seo if my vhas all right, und Shake filled him I schooner twice oop und vhas ticHed all oafer.” 180 “Man was a fraud?” “Oof course ho vhas! He vhas gone maype half an hour when No. 2 comes in. I p tells Shake my blace was pick.' ed oudt for headquarters for a Blaine glub. Dot makes Shake grin like «' monkey. He fills oop somo schooners for der stranger, und vhas free mit cigars." 1 ■ “Another fraud?” “Oof course, but my son Shake he neater travels except to Toledo und pack. He vhas sfiust as tickled ash a paby, und ven No. 3 comes in mit about twenty-five pig vollers peliind him nnd says my blace vhas selected ash head, quarters for a Butler glub; dat green. Horn of a Shake acts oop der beer end cigars for cferybody. No. X ho cornea pack mit a growd, liul No. 2 he comes pack nut feefty, und dot Shake cmntv three kegs of beer und two boxes'^of cigars.” “Well, well?” “Vhen I comes homo dot poy meets me liko sweet oil, und he says we haf der bulgo on all der saloons in Detroit We rhas headquarters all oafer, und he like to go into partnership. VlienI discovers how he vhas fooled I vhas so madtl break my own window* nnd walk de floor all night. After dis I vhas home all der time, and if somo stranger vhalka in and says ahem—h’m —your place has peen ’selected lor a head . Shust at that point he vhill feel cyclones und earthquakes und wild cAts und glubs und fist* hit him all at vonce all oafer his sacred pody. I vhas right oop on all der games, vhile Shake vhas so green vou pelief some cows pasture on him all summer." New York Evangelist. Israel Pinkham and wife moved from Maine many years ago to Utah Terri tory. They passed through f^alt Lake the other day on their way to their old home, and tne old lady made no secret of the cause of their return. To the re porter of a Gentilonewspaper sho said: ‘My husband and I have lived togeth er these fortv-throo years, nnd though we joined the Mormons twenty years ago nothing was ever said about polyg amy until this spring. Then somo sneaking priests came round .and got the old man worketfup with tho idea that he must have one or two more wives. ‘Not much, Israel Pinkham,’ says I; ‘we’ve traveled together this fur, and no Mormon will separato us now. We’ve got two sons and a darter back Hast, who shan’t havo anybody poking fun at them, and there's tho two little boys that wo buried back in Maine, who won’t have no occasion to pint their fingers at us when we cross over to the other shore. This thing has gone just as fur as it’s going to. Israel Pinkham, wo’ro going back to Maine,* says I, ‘and whether we’ve got one y.-.tr or t*’!i yo.irs to liw. wr’ll end this here pilgrimage decent, as we begun ‘‘Ain’t that what I told you?’’ said she, addressing tho old man, who had l>een a silent listener. Ho smiled in a faint way nnd nodded assent. “We’re going back to Maine,” continued the old lady, ‘‘poorer than when wo came out hero, but wiser, and no wuss solar os I know. There’ll be no more Mor mon in thii family.” Cannibalism. N'mhvlllo Banner. The allegation that survivors of tue Greely Expedition/ 9 in their extreme hunger, ate tho flesh of their done com panions, has revived many historical reminiscences of cannibalism. Tho following case has not been referred to, and since it give* an estimate of the quality of human flesh as food, I send it to you: The voyago of tho French explorer, Robert Cavelier de la Salle, down tho Mississippi river, was mado in the first part of the year 16H2. He had in his company a priest, Father Zenobtai Membra who recorded the chief inci dents of the expedition, which was af terwardsi printed as Ids “Narrative.” In this Father Membrc, after relating the arrival at the mouth of the Mis sissippi river, says: “We were out of provisions, and found only home dried meat at the which we tech ts appease Ot*r hunger; hot soon afer. perceiving it to be human flesh, we left tbe rest to our* Indians. 1^ was very good and deli- cate.” • Like an Old Cranky W«nd.)w Shutter* That is the way a man's* rheumatic joints sometimes are. Hinges old, . and worn, and lolly m-rd oiling. Tiie trouble is in tin* Mood. A man who;-of any at i .jiint \* worth repair ing. Tho repairing can he done by means of Brown’s iron Bitters. That enriches and purifies the blood, drives out the pains and works complete restoration. Thousands testify to it from happy experiences. Mr. C. II. Huntley, 018 North Sixteenth htreet, St. Louts, says, “I used Brown’ll Iron Bitters for rheumatism, general debil ity and prostration, with the best re sults.” Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. COLDS. “ Orrville.Ohio, 10. Wt. ** Havtug b»’s*n subtext to % bfofo •ffrrtton, with fritjawk*- CnraftY P*iyo»al firtf ne prompt ami U the rm*t effective eiaody I hAYtj tvrr tricl. Jamkj$ a. Hamilton, Editor of The- Cntcmt:’ COUGHS. and hearty support ot those whom the .old., for . namtor o< rm, I berto, ret- primary shows to b« the choice of the Democrats of the county. Wa copied .ever.l day. ago a statement I from a Northeast Georgia paper to the ef • j feet that Mr. A. G. McCarry would likely | be an Independent candidate for the Leg-' Mature— accompanying it with an expres. lion of unbelief in the correctness of the surmise. Slni e then M r. SfcCurry ha, pub lished a card in the Hartwell An. in which, like a true man, b. announces his pnrpote to abide the result of the primary election, ** Or.i.C.AyerACo. I Lowcll 1 Ma» d by iQ A Carolinian With a Sack of Coopers* Newborn Journal. A few week^ ?<ince a stranger called At one of the Trenton stores ami purchased goods to the amount of 11 25, and having deposited hia cost on a side connter when he entered the store, steppes! over to hij coat and dragged it up to hiss, and out of huge pocket brought forth a largeaire shot Hack filled to the top with what the merchant supposed to he either gold or silver. The customer untied hia sack, and to the astonishment of the merchant he j»oured out neither gold nor silver, but counted him out just three hundred and twenty-live large, old-fashioned copper centa. threw hia coat over his shoulder, took bin purchaeev and departed Mt.C, 11**4, Ohio, Jun- 2*. !■* ? "I haT<MV?al Avni'i I'HKKl PriToKtf. (M> ‘pring f-.r a <