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— — — TIIE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OClOBERRl, 1884. new YORK POLITICS. AND THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY. „ Heal the Breach and Patch Up Eff a peace-* Pen-Sketches cf John Kelly and llubort O. Thomp son, Their Leadere. X ew York letter to Claclnn»tl Enquirer.’ Xe ,v York, October 10.—Western Democrats and persona plying between tke two parties have been here volun teering to patch up a peace between Tammany Hall and the city opponents, jtr Stone, who owns a penny paper in Chicago which abused Blaine and tried to renominate Arthur, and (ailing in the latter has since supported Cleve land, is said to be very ardent to com pose'Thompson and Kelly. But, as usual, the allies of the Democracy are botching the job. They have arranged under the leadership ol Ottendorfer to nominato William It. Grace (or mayor against the Tammany candidate, Aider- man Grant,who once lived in the West, and has been very prominent in the baseball clubs. Grace is the last man around whom Tammany would draw. His nomination is a singular instance of how old issues and men recur at times o( coincidence. A (ew years ago Chester A. Arthur was the principal city politiciaif. He nominated (or mayor a down-town merchant, and nearly all the Germans in New York including this same Ottendorfer, I think, supported the Republican mer chant in preterenco to Mr. Grace, the Democratic candidate, who was a Ro man •atholic. Grace had been brought forward by Kelly’s opponents, but in order to have a Democratic union they presented a list to Kelly of men from whom be might take his pick. He se lected Grace, whom he hardly knew, but who was desirous to be mayor, and who spent over $100,000 in that single election. The united Democratic vote was sufficient to pull Grace through by- two or three thousand majority. Grace was born in Ireland, came to the United States, established a shipping house between New York andl’eru, and marrying an American woman from the State of Maine, very- much of Mrs. Blaine’s type, had a large family of children. It is said that the mother has brought up tho children to be Protestants, though the contrary is also told. Before he got through his term of office Grace had almost become al’rotestant from ids political exaspera tion against Tammany Hall. I tiiink them is somewhere on record a state ment from him to the effect that the Protestants ought to ntn things more. He undertook to set up a kind of Grace Democracy, and unwittingly picked out some of Kelly’s men to begin t with. Kelly expelled from his organisation whoever tampered with Grace, believ ing that Grace was endeavoring in a similar way to destroy Tammany Hall. The newspaper fight here against Kelly was hot at that time, and though Grace left office a disappointed man he took a certain amount of sympathy with him. He has lieen nominated this year with tho idea that lie can draw the Catholic voto again away from Tammany Hill and incfctontnlly ' • • ' ..-I. lint Ki’lly I- a favorite son of the church, and I should think that Grace’s nomination would compel Kelly to keep his candidate, Grant> standing. Herman Oelrich, who ia of German or Scandinavian fam ily, is to be nominated for comptroller the Democratic (unionists, * while Kelly's candidate ia a Mr. Paine. The mayor next to ensue will be the moat absolute mayor New York ever had, as the Legislature has followed the exam ple of Brooklyn with tins city, and taken from the board of aldermen the power to dispute the mayor’s appoint- ments. The two factors ’In this battle are John Kelly aud Hubert O. Thomp- ^Thls man Thompson has aspired for to be Kelly’s, successor In tho hip of New York. He is not as »>an as Kel.y, ant not Kelly’s good habits. Kelly is and lias l yin tem perate, ilomeatic, alrfct in bin religious observances, quiet to talk with, a onco Jndtistrious mechanic, and a politician i. n Cry Ion tS experience, having been m Congress years before tho rebellion, innmpson is nearly twenty years his Junior; U said to bo better educated, “?*»eertain genius for slaying up all night and working at a political organ ™tion, hut has no business habits CwW bSyr.nl Kwayo J^neral morals, promises to be, if he is •ucccssful here, a letting down from ® tog* New York city nas ever had. ?“**• is an important one—com- 5™°"*® of public works. Ifc em- P * ys all the laborera on thehighwayi, u-iges, etc., enormous in number, and *» the distribution of large funds of ,i™ c y- He assesses regularly from employes a campaign fund, and lr" * *°°d while past has I tad more t^ nigo ! ,cre Uian Kelly. Nobody e i* * much about Itim except the no!- ill. 5 ? 8 ' lie ia not very communtca- Llf' 1,8 * ^ n, l °l idiotic grin or stare, E !T* *pectab!ea and has grown Fai- 1®g n * n< l tat. He baa dark hair and , . 10 ?’ * n d wonld appear to be a i annulate for apoplexy. Thus the of- K,” n . la }° r the fiscal of comp P®ler at the very time when they be- EXtr *5* “oat consequence are to- randidate* 10 ^ 0T *' U1 ''” " -i'lentia! .Tn® ®°n}Ocntcy tore has two camps uioroughly intrenched against each the Burgundians ami the reach were wheat!..* Kndish invaded ‘ , r „ c0, u m °n country. Titmmnny llall « bounty Democracy poll nearly elected. So Grace, who spent a for tune to be mayor before, is again to bo with the German votes. In tho eastern portion_of the city, where the Germans ive, and tho most densely inhabited 1 round on tho globe, certainly among Caucasians, these hoys have for years looked out for the interests of the Ger mans. Some of the poorer Germans not long in this country get almost all their ideas of politics from these hoys, who go through their quarters, stand abuse, get uncivil questions, but locato the individual families, and when they find a large number of grown sons in one household, or a big family follow ing, they pick out one and give him something in the w-ay of place. In eases of sickness or other trouble these people but little acquainted with affairs go right to tbeeo boys for help. Con- quently they have slowly built up a power which it is beyond the influence of newspapers to assail. The same is true in Tammany Hall and in the County Democracy, and in two other organizations existing here, both Dem ocratic. Against these compact votes, thrown in huge masses, the man who thinks that because he is a Republican kicker or a Democratic kicker he can much avail is mistaken. Jimmy O’Brien, who is no reiativeof Johnny O’Brien, maintains an organi zation here which is generally supposed to sit on the fence and wait to be tempted off with crumbs. He began this campaign in favor of Blaine. El kins and the Republicans did not bid high enough, and O’Brien has recently been talking for Cleveland. A Repub lican friend said to me yesterday: That Jimmy O’Brien controls the worst district in New York city, where the very roughest characters live. His organization at the polls is worth an army of canvassers. Hismencan spot nearly all the ballot-box stuffers, re- leatcrs, thieves, etc. How many votes O’Brien controls now is not clear. He ran a ticket with himself at the head of it for mayor last year and got about fourteen thousand votes. Some think he does not control over four or five thousand votes now, if so many.” The free traders in the party, con* snicuous among whom are Joseph W. Harper, Horace White and George Jones, who, whe'ther they understand that subject or not, protess to do so, had concluded to make a great rebcllinn this year under cover of Mr. Carlisle’s election to the Speakership. You must understand that Germany and, indeed, ail the continental nations which have any industries to speak of, are, like the United States, protection ists. I am not aware that there have ever been any important free traders in Germany. France has had some, like Chevalier Bastlet and perhaps De Tocqueville, who, in that brilliant but superficial book he made on the United States, claimed that the manufacturini system, by division of labor, wouli perhaps restore something like slavery or the feudal system to the world. That has been far from the case. The English pursued, with Portugal and Spain and some of the smaller coun tries, a similar policy to tiiat they adopted toward China with the opium question. They were resolved to force their goods in. They could not force anything into Germany or Franco, those two nations being aware of the British ambition to ultimately do the entire trade of tiie globe. Carl Scburz picked up in England, when he was a newspaper correspondent there, the British views of free trade. As Mr. Blsine said in Michigan bnt yesterday, these young men were freo traders at twenty, bnt probably would tum up protectionists at forty. We have seen a remarkable instanco of that in Will* iam Grosvenor,who wrote the best free trade book in this country, called, “Docs Protection Protect?” and in the present campaign he is making tariff speeches. The same is the case with the former statesman of the Treasury Department,wbo for awhile owned the old National InltUiaencer.l cannot think at tills moment of ilia name. I think ho Is a Hebrew, however. He has been ont in 8onth America examining mines, etc., for he is a mining engineer. He told me when I recently met him in railroad car that he had entirely changed his views from practical rela tions witli business, and considered free trade destructive to this country. For a long timo the English pushed into Germany immense quantities of cotton and woolen goods, they had some advantage during the existence of of the old confederation, but when the Koilvereln reform was adopted and Ger many became nearly like the United States as far as her internal trade was concerned, with protection all around the frontier, but among the different States absolute free trade, tiie British began to lose their grip and the policy of Germany, like that of France for Borne time post, has been to guard well her manufacturing cralt and her mar ket. At this moment you behold an ex traordinary scene in Europe. The French, Germans and otiier continen tal nations about to hold a conference with regard to the rising trade of Africa for the purpose of refusing to let tiie English pick up every population and port on the globe, and create it into an exclusively British market. The Ger mans ofit here are nearly all American Germans. They feel that we practi cally have one-half of the glouo for ourselves, and ultimately will do all the trade within the American hemis phere. Canada, to the north of ns, has become a tariff nation with inde- C ndcnt institutions, and it ia really is difficult to-day to have a trade union with Canada than it has ever been before. Sir John McDonald, while here a few days ago, said ho thought Amelicam would never be lools enough to give up their markets wliich made them a prosperous nation He said Canada was not going to s< itraUa. Gatii. American nnd British Barbecues. London Herald. Among the latest tidings with regard to tho progress of the Presidential cam paign in the United States is the an nouncement that, at Slielbyville, Indi ana, some forty thousand persons have been present at a ‘ Democratic barbe cue.” Familiar as wo are beginning —or as we think wo are beginning—to be with the colloquial speech, the man ners and customs of the great Ameri can people, there may he a considera ble number of persons among us who have a very vague and imperfect no tion as to the meaning of the word barbecue, either Democratic or other wise. The word itself is an old Anglo- Norman one, and is conjectured to be derived from “barbe a queue,” from snout to tail, and is applied to a hog or other, animal split up the back and roasted whole. Thus Pope speaks of a whole hog, barbecued.” It is some what puzzling, it must be admitted, to learn that in certain parts of the West Indes a terrace partly or wholly surrounding a house is called a “barbecue,” and that in Cey lon the same term is applied to a cir cular floorof stone with a smooth white ilastered surface on which coffee- ieans are sun-dried; but in the States ' barbecue” still retains, although not without some subjection to the influ ence of metonomy, its carnivorous sig nification. A modern American barbe cue is a largo social or political open-air gard sheep and oxen roasted whole and hogsheads of humming ale gratuitously distributed among the rustics as part and parcel of the pas times of Merry England, was fully alive to the value of a barbecue as a weapon of party warfare. "Mr. Haw buck,” he would write to tho bailiff of his Hampshire farm, ”1 intend on a given day to dino witli my good friends tho lads of a right way of thinking. Mr. Steerworth, of Woolleybridge, will, I am sure, Bend four fine fat sheep to be roasted whole, and my old friend Tom Fatsidcs, of Leatberton, promised mo ten years ago a bullock that should be beef down to the heels. Now is the time for him to Bend his beef in. George Dustywhite is not the man I take him for if he does not give Duff, the baker, enough flour to bake, a sufficient number of gallon loaves; and from haters of the ministry and the tax-eaters, and the whole abominable thing you should be able to get enough mult aud hops to brew some barrels of good strong beer wherewith to drink confusion to the oligarch brewers. I look to the Hamp shire housewives to send in a good store of way i of pudding; and anything in the of bacon or fat pork that neigh- ALLAY NC SUSPICION. The Ffitivo Drummer Satisfies n Jeal ous Wife. Tbs worst case of fu.plclon and jeal ousy in the Northwest has-just been cured, the patient being the wife of a well known traveling man, says the St. Paul Herald. She bad noticed that her husbani never brought the grip hon e with him, bat always left it at the store when be came in from a trip, and in her jealousy she imagined it to be filled with loveletter*.ap pointments of meetings with various faie ones, etc., etc. A. few days since, while her husband was on a trip tnrough Dako ta, she went down to th- atore, and ap proaching the porter, said: “John, you like to make a dollar hon estly when you can, don’t you?" “Ob, yea’m.” “You know where my hushaud keeps bis grip when he come in, don’i you ?” "Yesm. He throws it down in a corner cf the office an’ leaves it there.” Well, look here, John. He will be in Generally Th number of vot 11«ng r Tamm.'iny polls inort*. — Tammany is in a verv Mrang. “on. gome of it* members niy come ont in fa\ or of Ilutlcr ■ Jam many organ, the Star, CO J* to fight Plow-land all tfiow "Republicans of this city \ led poll something like V.**. ensand votes. Thev i robehly . - 1 l: ’.' '■ * i ■ '' i. A ivrtain T j!° n 5*lhem haw* been di-aJT<* Hie New York Sun to-day ci .V*?” Ihpusiuidw t.*s is the pn Euk.lWS Rfpohli. in disaffi* entertainment at which animals are roasted whole and animals of all kinds are consumed. The final cause of a campaign” barbecue is, of course, the the making of speeches; and the larger the number of guests convened the more copious, naturally, must be the Bupply ot victuals. The bill of fare at Shelbyville, Indiana, would seem to have been of a character to have satis fied the appetite of Rabelais’s Grand- grousier, or of that distinguished ama teur of solid fare, the Fat Boy in Pickwick.” The arrangements of the banquet would have done honor to tho stewards of the feast at Camacho’s wedding. Tables were set at which six thousand persons were simultane ously fed. Thirty oxen and sixty sheep were roasted whole, and wagon loads other eatables were consum ed, including, no doubt many hundredweight of pumpkin pie, Indian mdding, pork ana bean—albeit the ast named delicacy is traditionally rather Republican than Democratic— ;reen corn, Newton pippins and mo lasses candy. Senator Voorhces and Representative Holman were the chief speakers in the subsequent display of oratory; and of course the hilarious proceedings concluded with a noctur nal torchlight procession. It is not at all improbable that while the Democrats were enjoying their bar becue in Indiana, and the repleted guests were listening to animated con* lessions of DemocraUc faith—reform of the civil service, honest money, revis ion of the tariff, spirited foreign policy, and so forth—meetings equally en- thu iastic and eqnally convivial were being held on the other side of the po litical hedge, in order to give due em phasis to tho Republican doctrines of peace with the whole world, commer cial expansion in every practical direc tion, the encouragement of every form of American industry, and protection to every citizen, native or natnralized, at home or abroad. A Republican clam bake in Maine or Massachusetts is quite as significant a manifestation as a "Democratic barbecue” in Indiana or Ohio. Clam chowder—if the clams and pork be not extenuated, and if of “crackers” or biscuits there be put down naught in malice—is quite as good a basis for party "orating” as ox, or sheep, or pig roasted whole—espe cially on a hot day in September. English people in their insular pride prejudice are apt to forget that they are not the only people who com bine the pursuit of politics with hearty eating and drinking. The Americans, it is true, are a little too restless ami —their apparently phlegmatic nature to the contrary notwithstanding—a lit tle too mtrcnrial, to show any excep tional favor to the public dinner of the orthodox Freemasons’ Tavern or Wil lis's Rooms typo. Toastu.astership, which is intolerant of Intel polated cries of “Bally for you” and “That's so” from the audience, and which fails to understand cheers which culminate in "tigers,” has scarcely risen to the dig nity ol an art beyond the Atlantic. Tiie toast of the President of the United States is, of course, always a safe one but beyond that sentiment there is, owing to the federal character of the constitution, no generally accepted list of “loyal and patriotic toasts;” and, slthoosh th® awv «• ft mli* i vastly our superiors in the art of pub lic speaking, the cut-and-dried de corum of a public dinner is unsuited to their rhetorical genius. When a famous English novelist asked Dong- las Jerrold bow lie liked the lecture which he had just beard him deliver, the wit replied that it was very good, but that “it wanted a piano. Simi larly it may be said that American po litical oratory is all the better (or a reliminary picnic, for a parade, for bor Girskin likes to contribute will bo welcome. A11 friends of freedom will be anxious to make a handsome muster of knives, forks, plates, and brown jugs—no foppish glasses for me —and I will bring down twenty quires of the ‘Political Register,’ ‘Two-penny Trash,’and ‘Papa against Gold’to be offered for sale at cost price before I make my after dinner speech, and tell you what rascals these 8id- mouths and Barings, these Castle- reaghs and Roses are.” Such was, in effect, tho view taken of a political bar becue by the crafty old anarch of whom it has been said that he might have become almost anything in England had he only chosen to be an honest man. Cobbett’s barbecues, however, .were at the best archaic and restricted in their scope. He may have sown the seeds of the American barbe cue, but he would be fairly astounded could he mark the wonderful propor tions which the barbecue tree has attained in the country which he alter nately eulogized and abused so viru lently. He foraged for provisions very much after thcmauncrof Caleb Balder- stone; but it is “assessments,” it is voluntary taxation of political organiza tions, that furnish forth the table of a modern American barbecue. Of the morality of the entertainment we say nothing; bnt it is cer tainly very amusing; and our own lolitical parties might perhaps do more f they broke at once and for good and all with the hypocrisy of censuring each other for “legislating by picnic” while they indulge in all kinds of half hearted political gastronomy. There was more frankness, more sincerity in the brave days of old. What were the banquets of the Vows of the Peacock and the Heron—to the last wo owe Creasy—hut medireval barbecues of the grandest order: and who shall say that there was not a barbecue on the most substantial scale at Runnymede, aud that the barons were not well fortified with beef and beer when they forced John Lackland to sign the great char ter of our liberties? yon slip his giip out of the house and bring it up to me. I’ll give you a dollar. You can bring it back again in half an hour.” The porter consented, and two days later presented himself at the drummer's residence with the grip in his band. He explained that be had not before had an opportunity to carry It away, and giving dm a seat in the parlor, the woman car ried her prize to the bed-room, and with set teeth and a pale face opened it. The first thing she eucouotereu w«» u well* worn pocket Bible, thumbed aud suunhij, the mar* s of much handliog. Then she dug out a soiled shirt, some unchaste socks, comb, bait-brush, and then she found a letter folded within an envelope. This she opened eagerly, and read as fol lows: SELVA LOCKWOOD ON THE HUSTINOS. Attractions for the Ween -AT* J. W. RICE & CO.’S. too PIECES KENTUCKY JEANS At i2^c., felling elsewhere at 15 and 20c. 9 Just received fifteen pieces more of those ALL WOOL BLACK CASHMERES, yard and a quarter wide, at 50c., cheap at 65c. moridng^andif! Splendid styles, at ioc per yard. Sold in other stores for 5Sa 10 PIECES FINE BLACK SILK At$i—good as can be found in the city for $1 25. SpUndfd line of FANCY CASSIMERES forwinter suits just in and selling rapidly at low figures. Do net fail to visit our CARPET WAEEROOMS, “Fargo, D. T., September 1, 18M.—Hr. William . Drab Sib: Your assess* ment of fifty cents for the support ot the Younq Men's Christian Association (Bible fund) is now due, and tbe earnest interest you have always taken in the work as* suresme you will promptly remit tbe amount. Yon will be pleased to learn that the good cause progresses rapidly, us you predicted it would in your ad- drefc. delivered here a few weeks since. Yours, A. \V. Edwards, Secretary. This drove much of the hard, stony look from her face, but she continued her seareh. She fished out three or four tracts, a bottle of pop, a Francis Mnrpby temperance badge, a bottle of Dr. Sure* pop's corn destroyer, and beneath it all. in the bottom or the grip, a letter, sealed stamped and ready for the mall, ad. dressed to “Mhr Georgia Gray, St. Fanl, Minn.” The superscription was in her husband's well-known handwriting, and again tbe stony look came into her eyes. “Ob, the wretch 1” she cried in her an guish. “My suspicions are too well founded 1 Georgie Gray! Oh! this is too much!” and she gave way to a Hood of tears. When she had calmed herself she tore tbe letter open and read as follows: S t. Paul Misv., September 19.—Hist Where we display the largest and most varied stock in the State. A Small Audience Listens to the Woman Candidate for the Presidency- New Issues for Old. V. Y. Tribune. The bill-boards in front of tbe Academy of Mnsic contained last evening a number of woodcuts representing Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the roman lawyer of Wash ington. Underneath each of them were the words: “Our next President." Peo ple glanced at ihcrn, read the legend and smiled. Sboi Uy after 8 o'clock, a medio in- sized woman, dressed in Wck velvet, with a big bunch of roses in her college and s white lace handkerchief depending from one of a row of bntlons in the front of her dress, stepped brlrkly on the stage of the Academy. She remained in sight long enough to show the audience that she wore her hair Japanese fashion. She saw about 300 people In the house on her see- ond appearance. She advanced to a read ond appearance. She advanced to a r< ing-Jesk placed near tbe footlights, number of women in the front row cl dap- K I their hands. Mrs. Lockwood bowed, t did not smile. Without looking at a roll of manuscript In her hand, she said: “I have been requested to talk on the la- auea of tbla lively and mixed campaign. I want to talk to the galleriea on tbe ground floor." Tbe galleries remained immovable but tbe stragglers in the circle took poaaeeatonof orcbestrarbalrs. Placing a pair of eyc-glaasea on her note she rt quested the "manager" to “throw open the doors and let tbe people In.” Those who were already In bad paid from fifty cent! to a dollar for the privilege. Tbe people who were Invited to enter without price didn't enlcr. Mrs. Lockwood stated that there weren't any issues to talk upon and that enough inkandbrainehad been wealed in this cen> • paign to run tbe Government for four jnare. The simt old pla'itodee bed been dished op for twenty years. She was tir ed of tnrm. Tbe Republicans wsntsil high tariff—tbe Duuocrata wanted tree trade. Her party was in favor of a mid dle course. Tbe old parties would be -lead of Inanition when tbe women were o arching to slctorr. There are on ly 10,900,000 male voters in the country to 12,900.000 adult women tax-payers. Yet O As A AVIs •Ul.VIt., OC|HCUIUV( Atf,—*iUU< (Iray: Your note asking to meet you in Rice park Saturday evening was banded me by a district messenger boy this room ing. In reply permit me to say that you have mistaken the man. You may not be aware of tbe fact that I am a married man, and am blest with the love and con fidence of the beat and sweetest little wife in America. Rather than betray that confidence or dishonor that love I would snffer ten thousand deaths. In my eyes there is but one woman in tbe world, and she it is who greets me with a pleasant smile and a wifely kies every time I come from a trip. William Then she lsid down on the bed and nobbed for a while, end then closed the grip, took it to tbe porter, and asked him to return it to tbe store, and say nothing of what had occurred. As he entered the store, the drnmmer stepped from behind ind: a pile of goods, and asked: “Did she go through it, John?' “Guess so. She took it* into another room, an' was gone bait an boor before she brought It beck.” "How aid she act?’ "Well, she was sotnilin' bnt awful ly teary Hike around the eyes, bht gimme another dollar, an’ said this world wonld be a happy world if all men were like her husband." "That's business, John. Here's the V I promised yon, and ntrw let's go across the street and take something. When you come back dump that rtnll and pat my things back in tbe grip, for I go ont to-morrow morning. I'll never forget yon, John, for putting me on to this." and they slipped out and disappeared behind the green shade of a convenient saloon. “COURTINC STICKS.' nyhow. Neither is Aosti Against the Rules to Fight. Chicago Ilerald. number of tough-looking men In tbe king-car got excited talking politics, i of them—one a Democrat and the r a Republican—got mad and began ni g each other. The larger one of the got np in the able, swung bis arms m.l uni wanted to fight. He said be tbe biggest Democrat tbatcyer 1 whip l .... pil. All lie wanted was a chance. Tbe r man -at still awbile, evidently try- i) avoid a row. but finally his anger he better of bis disc etion, when be -e.l np. pulled off his coat andshout- prelimtnary picnic, tor a parade, tor Chinese lanterns and a torchlight pro cession, with, perhaps, a few Roman candles and Catherinewheels to fol low. Eating and drinking, however, in the freest and easiest of manners must form an Integral part of the func tion, or Cicero “wDl take a back seat” and Demosthenes will “dry up.” Of all modes—in fine weather he it well understood—of patting politicians in a ood humour with themselves, and in ducing them to listen, with full stomachs, to declarations of what fine fellows they and their leaders are, and what rogues and im postors are their political adversaries, there wonld not appear to be one more eminently suitable to the purpose in hand than a barbecue. To squeamish persons the sight of an ox, a pig, or a sheep roasted whole may b> a very re- uleive and even nauseating spectacle, n a wet day in an English village, i ■I'm ready for von. Look ont." Hut hole on a minute,” said tbs big low “conn* to think of It, tt'a sgmintt e ri.'ea of my profession to fight. W* IV talk of fighting, bnt must avoid P4 {to* it is aliH fed S* * sneers^,,... ,.V“ b to*0 «!■' miration i **st the Tatnmany *1 for IlniH-rtlS. it V1... has -I wh le N.* 11*.* dislikes Kelly very ■Wh .t fe your profession? t pugilist, sir.” the occasion of a wake or fair, inch a sight, generally fp* np in the interest ot tbe local pamicans, is of a deeply- depressing nature; bnt a grand barbe cue in glorious summer weather, with S eats by the thousand and animals to roasted alive by the score, may, to the strong stomach, be a ingdU p Uy;i^ _ 0 mj ca j barbecue has, .1.. I 11... I fl.vtt-n 4a unrsatrella* ft necei* it ahould always be doms it, and gratifies i. Itatndsout a deli. IN lh«: -I I n .. 1 i tini.f f Y .r.k^r- p-a «roan<l th* c< kZtel onhap;>y until lately, dwindled down to very at tenuated and weazened proportions. It is almost ashamed to know itself; yet it is questionable whether the insti lion, which has taken each a firm rj •boulder to shoulder and change tbe Con stitution in order ,hat women might ob tain their rights. We ere nominally Christians bnt really heathens. Accord ing to a decision of the Secretary ot tbe Treasury a women might commend a ship. There was nothing in tbe Constitu tion to prevent her from tiffing the Presi dential chair. Won en can no longer be relegated to the ' redle and tbe ktteben. Tbe full-fledged American woman stands ready for tbe workshop, tbe pulpit or tbe forunt, and she demands equal protec tion from I he Coc sUtutlpn sad equal jus tice from tbe law. She never knew of a people composed of men alone. 8he had never heard of a people composed and propagated by women alone. No person under tbs age of thirty-five yeera was eligible to the Presidency. "Home of you may think I lency. "P . . am not eligible on that account," Mrs. Lockwood en nested, with e wintry smile. “All that I need to elect me," ehe contin ued, “ie a majority al electoral vote*, and by your aid I will get them. Tbit is a free country, and at tbe coming election yon can vote for me or anv other man.” Fatal Accident. J exsky Citt, N. J., October 22.—A dis used stable suddenly collsp-cj this morn ing. Three boys engaged in tearing np Ibe floors for fire wood were buried In tbe rains. Michael Salfiran, egad 12, was In stantly killed, bis brains being duhed out and hia body horribly battered, others were seriously injured. J.W.RICE&CO HEADQUARTERS -FOR- CLOTHING AND HATS I Winship A Callaway, For nearly Thirty Years lhe Leaders cf the CLOTHING AND HAT TRADE CF THE STATE, , Y.ISK, October --M -*, Minnie -.ings. the actress, to-day obtained a . ,„....t for $2 "sOagainstpoHceociurr Wm. - — in the L'mtesl States, was not, to a B. Deveeeand SI!,, Delia Mnrphy, dress- reason- an.: great extent, fostered ltero by the ty- maker,In an action br. igbtfitr falaaarrest :: -*' r -ntori., “ " ‘ ‘ ' and ImprlsonmenL A Queer New Enaland Custom of the Last Century. Hartford Post. In early New England days, as far back as tbe rniddie of tbe eighteenth century, when bcspitality was a practice as welt as a rirtue, there wax in most houses only one large assembly room, and there the family and all tbe guesta and chance call ers gathered on winter nlgbta about tbe bis sing fire logs. We know that yontb was youth and live was love and young men were timid aud maidena were shy, and eonrlahtn went on In thoM d .VS How was courtship posaible in this com mon room, where every word was heard aud every look taken notice of? We read in tbe admirable volume ott the recent ren- tenuial of Long Meadow, Mass., by Pro fessor klcbard 8. Starrs, ot that town, in the winter evenings for the convenience ot young lovers, since there was co “next room,” courting-sticks were used; that ia long wooden tubes that could convey freftn lip to ear sweet and secret whtapere. Was this an invention peculiar to long Meadow? it is a charming picture that this calls up of life in a Puritan household, this tu bular love-tasking, tbe pretty girl (neatly every girl is pretty in the firelight of long •go) seated in one stiff high-backed chair, and the staid but blushing lover, handling the courting stick, itself an open coufra tion of complacence, if not of true love. Would the yoong man dare to say, "I love yon,” through a tube, and would ba feel encouraged by the laughing, tender eyes ol Ibe girt when she re plied through the same paaetge, “Do tell P' Did they have two sticks, so that one end of one could be at the ear and the end of the other at the month all the while? How convenient, when tbeyonng man got more anleot than was seemly, as tbe flip srent round, for the the girt to pat her thumb over tbe end of tbe tube and atop the flow of son! I Did i -a the young man bring hia atlck. and so an- (J / nouncc hia intention, or did tbe yonn - ledy always keep on* or a pair on band, and to reveal both willingness and expecta tion? It was much mote convenient than the telephone, with lie “hello" and procla mation to all listenera at tbe end of the line. Loren can make love with any- thnig, even with a telephone, tbe snccess- fnl courting ot a deaf person (for there is one word that nearly every pne likes to to hear) ea we know, can go on through e •i^aking trumpet, bat there courting- sticks seem to us the ue plus ultra of ten der . o.uiunlcatlon—when a third patty is presenL T hey would be very useful now at large parties, where there la auch a d:n and babbie that one can only court a pretty girl at tha risk .,f bronchitis or ngfiis. Soottines in the jam yon can girl: but with a long Have now instore a splendid slock, embracing every variety of Cloth ing, except shoddy. The reputation of their goods exterdd to several Stales. They have a growing trade m Florida, carried there by former citizens ol Georgia. They take great care in filling orders, us'ng their best judgment ard rarely tail to please. They receive many letters approving of their selections and speaking in high terms of the low prices and good quality of goods. Persons buying from Winship & Callaway t,et the benefit of nearly thiity year-’experience in the trade. The only complaint they have to make of their customers is that they w ar our clothes too long. Cotton, we know, is low. but C'othing at this house is lower than cotton. Think of a Cassimore Suit for $8.50, and $10 tho price of a Sattinctt a year or two ago. Will open Monday morning a large addition to Iheir stcck of Boys’ and Children’s Clothing! UMBRELLAS AND RUBBER CLOTHING. Suits made to order by a first-class Enadway Tailer. Shirts in stock and made to measure. WINSHIP & OALLAWAY, 126 ShCOND STREET. MACON, GA. TIIOU8 NDw 1 jOS'J markets bought by In Georgia. Terms the hundred. **rnis i . Don’t waste your money on cheap Ma chinery. Thou Hands lost every year bj buying thinl-clas* goods. Come and aen or write and get prices. Five Leading Engines and Saw Mills. Three Best Gins. Two Best Grist Mills. Superior 3-Roller Cane Mill. Best Mowers, Davis’s Water Wheel.! These goods took premiums at Atlaa 1 ta and Lomsville over the largest display of Engines ar 1 Machanery ever made in the United States. Baggies and Wagons from the leading Rubber Ltdting—largest line of any boost Long time. M. J. HATCHER A CO., General Agents, Corner Fourth and Fonlar Streets, Macon. Ga. SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS, MACON, . . . GbORGIA. courting*!) lick from her too ai tion lirr r a 4}' rtr. Thla inven-1 rrrival for many •.k'IriI of »ny far- J. S. Schofield & Son, Proprietors, MiDufactururs <;f an! Dealtrsin Every Virlflv .tyri- u'lnri! ilarkiner?. SCHOFIELD’S PREMIUM COTTON PRESSES,' nival English i.in. William C-.l.l.-tt. The author of “P.-t.r Porcupine,” who hml been ream! in en epoen when vU- I unccnstirod 1 , .1X0 "wake "ferns ta. attiea” were yet 1 •gv an-1 uroten.mm i-J upisU .1- in, .-nth >-t ess and profligacy, 1 been ovoastutneU r -■■l"ey V Right Bowar. r JJ -Police l .. S’icho 1* hi W«*t Tw«nt>*!i ftirret, afu-r an illntaa that be ran in J :* .1. BNcboia waiCfcalrman of Tammany lUllQmmraiOnMttt—Cf hAn KeiiyV Affair. October this Pack by Horae, Hand. Water or Kream Power. Schofield's Empire Engines and Boilers and Circular Saw Mills. ne Mills an-1 Kettles and i'-Miinas and Mau hinery of Every K:n ’. “Shafting." “Pulleys" and “Hangers" a Specialty. . i«o girls irte-i to brighten a y out hunting by playing ghost. He tin 1 hota harrclt of his gun, killing iheg-.rls i | atantly. W K kreu I lnc< Ml!!. 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