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THE TET/EOBAPIIA VP MESSENGER; FRIDAY, MAY 8,t885.
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Many Georgia .'planters art in favor of
It is still evident that the Russians are
taking steppes to reach Herat.
West Viboima has a kind of ambu’atory
capitol, first here and then there.
Cobka ia a land without women. At
least it is said there are no change! of fash
ion there.
If Gen. Middleton really wishes to catch
Kiel he ought to secure a few of the cele
brated Joe Brown pikes.
Sam Randall has gone down to Wash
ington to find oat if it is really true that It
is a bad place for Democrats.
Ox a of the provinces of Afghanistan is
called Badchees. This is probibly the
headquarters of the Asiatic goat.
Tax report that Phil Sheridan had
"sassed” the Secretary of War is denied.
PhU knows who to boss, and when to do it.
The popular burial atyle In Chicago
terms to be to deposit the deceased in bis
trunk and await until the odor summons
the police.
A 51,500 consulate has no charms for a
ri * t i l * b y statesman. One night's roost
In a good jack-pot is a better berth.—StA
Paul Glob*,
While the officers of H. M. 8. Garnet
were taking part in a grand hop at Norfolk
the Russian corvette 8:relok took a grand
3kip and went to sea.
The speeches of the late Duke of Albany
are to be published. Well, the Queen c»n
all aril It, bat hanged If ,he can make free
born Americana read them.
Tub Macon board of aldermen ,UU in-
elate that the corporation 1, too poor to
kWtrr toe atiMta. Thoa year by year doe,
the hoard throw doit in the people'a eyes,
.1, England or Russia want, to secure the
services of a military man who bears a
great name, tbla country will lend Colrael
Fred. Grant to either of them.—JVeiwiri
Xcxts.
The recall of Mot by from Hong Kong
createa a long wmted vacancy. Moaby
can now beat bta Republican principles
Into plow shares and go to work on a
farm.
A Losdo.v authority advlaea people to go
to the eeacoast, because “salt water Is prt
venttve of lunacy." People who can'i
get to the seacout can put salt In their
whisky.
Kvidsntlt tha withdrawal of British
troops from the Soudan was In accordance
with well known principle, of eoonotny,
They will be placed where they will do Ibe
mot t good.
Tint opposition to Mr. Kelly la explain
ed. The Mugwumps do not wish him to
go abroad anywhere. The Mugwumps do
not desire the Democrats to have any of
fices at home or abroad.
Tub little King ot Denmark la to act as
umpire during the game to be played by
Rueala end England. The Utile King of
Denmark ought to get himself a patent
muk and look oat for stray balls.
81.1110a Btacxauax la reported as say
ing that U there was an election la Ken
tucky just no*. tbeSt.te would glre 80.000
Republican majority. Mr. Biackbur J failed
to gat PhU Thompson in charge of the
whisky bualneaa.
Thi new poatal card paper, nnder the
contract ot 1885, will be a delicate pink
Ueu of .the cream color of the card, now
iaiurd. The texture of the paper la alio
eil l to be Improved. The alee will be the
tame a, now to uie.
Tuxax la ground (or speculation aa
whether the UUnoia Legislature should
to ,ee Ibe New Orleans Exposition or the
ExpcalUon come to see the Illlaole legis
lature. One la about aa great a circus
tho other.—Cfticoyo
It will take several weeks if not months
for the King ot Denmark to define the
i: usaiau-Afghan fronUer. And If the Cur
coolly declines to abide by Denmark's de
cision, what then? Denmark cannot whip
Russia, and In tha meantime the railroad
wUl be finished.
Tnx rear line ot Republican entrench
ments In the Lawton care i, that a pardon
from Andy Johnaoo la no pardon. Tha
Ksw York Tribune says: “Let Mr. Clave
land give aa another minister who won't
require an ex-rebel'a certificate to prove
his loyalty.” They profited by Andy'a
treachery to his section and people, but
despise tha traitor.
Taaur, tramp, tramp, the rascals are
marublng. Daring Ibe mouth of April
Postmaster-General Vilas appointed (W0
postmasters at toarth class offices. The
majority ot the appointments were msde
to fill vacancies. It la said that on tha
fourth ot Ju'y tbs grand army of raicala
wUl move. In light marching order, and at
a doubts quick. We shall sea
Y. - aa Htoo, upon beiog reminded, 00
otordog out for a ride not long ago, that
be bad forgotten hla overcoat, replied:
"My overcoat I I haven't any, and I never
bat one; ar41 drrea Just the same way In
winter as I do in summer. My overcast fa
my youth." Vic la bthlnd Uw gnat
American, Uatnlin,who despises
tbs uses of uu.it-nhlrls and socks.
Gladstone's Victory.
That errors do not count much
against a man whose honesty and ca
pacity are unquestioned was never bet
ter exemplified than by the unanimous
vote of the Common! that placed *55,-
000,000 in the hands of Gladstone and
gave him authority to use It in his own
discretion for the honor and safety of
old England. Gladstone’s success ia a
grand triumph of character over mis
fortunes. The bitterness of last year,
the heart-burnings, the despair that
have been the old man’s companions
by night and by day, are buried deep
at last. If Gladstone cannot sieepnow,
must bo because the confidence of
hla people, in the supreme moment of
bis peril, lias set his pulse throbbing
and bis brain whirling.
Probably no public man in England
leas understood abroad than the Pre
mier. He has been called weak, vac
illating, incompetent; and surely in
the plan and results of the Soudan
campaign there are manycircumstances
that apparently justify this. It seems
now that to have dispatched Gordon
and Stuart alone into the heart of a
hostile country was foolhardy, and
that a strong army should have
been cent promptly to their rescue
when their terrible peril was
made apparent. Indeed, by some, any
interference in the Soudan seemed
rash and uncalled for. But there are
many things in the character and the
situation of Gladstone, that, when un
derstood, explain away much that
seems mysterious and inexplicable in
connection witli the Soudan imbroglio.
He U a conscientious, conservative
man, believing in the divine rights of
people and of nations. He is a conser
vator, the near friend of the Queen,
herself a conservator. But he is sur
rounded by bondholders of England,
the enemies of his administration,
and by the fire-eaters. When Gladstone
first erred, it was in suffering himself
be driven by the bondholders into
interfering with the Soudanese, who
with some came perhaps, fancied their
interests in Egyptian securities threat
ened by the Mnhdi’s armies. The
English arms should have barred
gypt from the Soudan and left the
deserts to their true owners. His next
error arose from unwillingness to in-
ade the Soudan to the detriment of
English tax-payers, and the peril of
the Soudanese, ne may have foreseen
also the present unsatisfactory condi
tions.
From this arose the Gordon mission,
for which, after all that has been said,
Gordon himself was largely responsi
ble. He was not in the English army,
and not subject to the command of the
home government. Bravo ns the
bravest, hut egotistical, too self-
reliant and badly balanced, ho exag
gerated his own powers and accepted
the mission. It was an ill-timed, prof
itless movement, an error, hut an er
ror in the direction of justice and
mercy. Direful as were its results, it
was not the greatest of Gladstone's
errors. To us it seems the worst lies
in the failure to send to Gor
don’s relief a powerful ex
pedition when first called for.
But there were powerful reasons per
haps why this could not lie done.
Could a credit have been obtained be
fore Gordon's plight bad been known
and dwelt upon for weekaandmonths?
Were the forces forwarded as soon aa
it was possible for him to secure them?
Gladstone was judged by the remits.
He accepted the verdict of tho world,
The verdict was against him in every
count. But the English people, while
condemning the errors that led to such
disasters, understood the old
man's motives and refused to
sacrifice him. An’ hoar has
arrived in which the rights of his own
people seem Imperiled. There is no
hesitation now. He cannot be accused
of oppressing the helpless people of the
desert for greed and gold. It ia the
great empire of Russia that faces Eng
land and threatens her. Gladstone is
another man. There is a rush ot arms
and armies, a concentration of supplies,
a gathering of ships and;engines of
war. The man of peace has had a con
flict forced upon him. 8tending bare
headed in the midst of bis people he
has asked their confidence and support.
No man in tha history of the world
has ever received such an answer. It
came from an undivided nation, and
not a dissenting voice marred the
mighty meaning which Hushed the old
man’s face and placed him at the head
of all England.
Moboeracr.
The learned jurist who sometimes
disports his erudition in the columns ot
the Atlanta Constitution, on the 20th
nit. took occasion to pronounce the fol
lowing dictum in re Mob vs. Law.
Is liter* ear law in thta country except the
wtll o( the people, or public opinion. State*
hare bo rtepect for a dec Won of Uo Federal
Supnae Coart wh*n tt thr«at*n* Ireeperable
Injury. Individuals do not httluta to com-
nit l*cal murder under certain circumstances,
with the confident auuranco that courts are
power!** to enforce the lew. fa many
the law la a dead letter because June* wtll
■01 brine to a verdict in accordance with
Apparently a Judge le Invested with
^w. powers, cepectoUy In the matter of con
tempt of court. But when publle opinion
leone orarwhelmlntly to 00* direction what
Jodfk car item the tide, and how can he ex-
eretae hie power? Fethap* It laeUit|htuU
la. Ferbepe the great publle, Ur* an equity
court, hu the right to control Ihoaeoacop.
tiooal own whereto the law by reeaon ol lu
universality It deficient. It there le any doubt
about tho right there la none about the might
In tbla country tho people rale.
In behalf of an intelligent, virtuous
and law abiding population, whose
present and future happiness and pros
perity depend upon the supremacy ot
the written law, we take prompt occa
sion to record a dissenting opinion
which may atone for any lack ot learn
ing by its solid common sense.
If thereof no law in this country,
save that delivered by a mob, court
houses,
ute booksof the State and Federal gov
ernment have preserved a worthless
mass of stopid nonsense. If there is
no law in the country save that which
may emanato from a gathorlng of the
populace, thou the people of this
country arc grievously taxed to support
a judiciary system, and with its array
of officials and expensive methods of
procedure, from the Chief Justice
down to a bum bailiff.
If there la no law in tho country
save the outgivings of the denizens of
the curbstone, then our system ol gov
ernment is a joke, and our boasted
civilization a farce.
The statement that States do not re
spect the decisions of the Federal Su
preme Court in extravagance of asser
tion can find no parallel outside of an
asylum for madmen. The States have
bowed in acquiescence to a radical
change in the system of our govern
ment, the logical outcome of the decis
ions of tho Supreme Conrt.ujoon tho re
sults of a grand civil war. The South,
has acknowledged that the authority of
the Federal government is paramount.
No individual Las ever yet commit
ted a legal murder. Murder, next to
treason, is the highest of crimes and is
so described by the law of the land.
No tribunal has ever yet declared mur
der to be legal. The contradiction in
terms must be plain even to the in
fantile mind. There is an unwritten law
among all nations, founded in human
nature itself, which will permit the
taking of life in defense of family or
home. Juries, which are the judges of
law and facts, have sometimes said
that the man who has slain the se
ducer of wife or daughter has
not been gulity of murder, but all
judges have charged that, under the
letter of the law, the crime has been
established.
In such cases the law is a dead letter,
but not a dead spirit, and the prince
of a judge, juries, counsel and the ac
cused are the highest evidence that
there ia law in the land. It is only ap
parently that a judge is invested with
vast powers as to a contempt of conrt,
This power is carefully guarded, and
fine and imprisonment are allowed—for
what? To punish a contempt of the
law and its officers.
This country has been deluged in
blood because one section of it held
that there was a “higher law" given
unto it in relation to the conduct and
possessions of the people of another
section.
The penalty has not yet been fully
paid, but the South has been the first
sufferer for defiance of a declaration so
atrocious. Having suffered crucifixion
of body and soul in defense of law, it
would bo madness in her now to be-
como an advocato of the Instrument of
her sufferings.
The judge who lias taken an oath to
obey, to uphold and to dispense the law
will be recreant to his great trust and
high duty If he shall be swerved from
his honest conviction by popular
clamor.
Gallows trees, prison houses and ar
mies of convicts from one end of this
country to the other, attest the fact
that it is a land of law. Defaulters,
dishonest bankers, rich thieves and
slanderers at largo give evidence that
the law is not so efficacious in all
cases as it might be.
Thoee who make np the juries and
really administer the law should be
taught to respect it, rather than to be
encouraged In the idea that tho might
of the mob controls the lives, liberties
and properties of the people, and in
these tho etrncturo ot society and gov
ernment. For these reasons and for
others that might be given, wo dissent
from the opinion of the learned jurist ot
the Atlanta Constitution.
In behall of the people ot the South,
ot Georgia and ot Atlanta, we protest
that the opinion upon which we have
commented does not express their sen
timents and feelings, and does them a
great wrong.
That the hurrahs of a mob should
aid a corrupt prosecutor and a crazy
judge to force a jury to convict a num
ber of boys of a crime of which they
were not guilty, is bad. That a banker
who bad robbed those who entrusted
their hard earned savings to bis care
■hould have been saved from the peni
tentiary by a manufactured public
opinion ia worse, if possfbie.
That a community would, without
protest, see an honest ballot prostitu
ted by felons under the order of a gang
of politicians is too fearful for proper
disenasion. That a body chosen and
assembled to give laws to a free people
should permit its dignity and privileges
to be in vadel and insulted by a drunken
rabble ia a crowning outrage.
These were such acts aa to make the
lovers of law and liberty'.Borrow and
despair. They were all in the direct
line ot mob law and were calculated to
make the unthinking believe that there
is no other law in this country. It
may be that they were the outcropping
ot the corruption which haa under
mined our system and may yet destroy
it, but we shall still hope and believe
that our people in the main are law
loving and law abiding.
one anil humUla'lns failure. The ban-hearted
manner in which the Preeldent hu been par
■ulng the Important work of pleelns In tho
hand* of truited, capable, end efficient repre
sentative! of the party throu(h whose Jnflu-
ence and almost superhuman exertion he wu
placed at the head of affairs, those
various charges and dnUea for the
safe conduct of which the Demo
cratic party 1s alone to be held responsible to
the people, le little lest then disgusting. Un
true to the confidence reposed In him, end un
worthy ot the great compliment bestowed on
him hr hla consUtuents, hie administration
hu commenced with a series ol blunders, snd
bts Irionds snd supporters In Loulslsn* snd
throughout the Union have Just cause for com
plaint. Indeed, I am sorry forthls, and regret
to be compelled to make the statement, hut it Is
a fact nevertheless, snd the question now Is
whether the errors of which I speak,snd which
btve become so patent to the whole country,
ere mletakea ol the head or the remit of evil
promptings and treacherous conduct toward
the party who-e principles he claims to repre
sent The feet that a horde of unscrupulous,
Ignorant, dled-ln-the-wool and offensively
partisan radical leaders til over the country
under Democratic rale, and In direct viola
tion and contradiction of the very principles
of Democracy end the wishes of e majority of
the people, u expressed at the ballot-box,
a shame and a disgrace, and
reflection on the competency, capa
bility, and character of those whore suf
frage placed Mr. Cleveland In the White
Ilouto. It should be understood that t Presi
dent and a few cabinet officers do notot them
selves constitute n party or an administration,
the active workers In all the multifarious de
partments of the government-those who
make the figures, manipulate the books, and
keep the recordi-are the administrators of
our affairs, snd then under Preeldent Clave
lend are Bepnbllcane. They are the
tame who have been running the ma
chine for nearly a quarter of a cen
tury, In whom the people bad toet confi
dence, and regarding whom a change
was to eagerly and anxiously desired by the
country. Now let me ark: What sort of reform
It this? And what Is likely to come out of It?
The fact Is, Democrats do not Intend to he held
responsible for this kind ot government. The
Democracy, it would be well to elate, It bigger
than Mr. Cleveland and hie cabinet combined,
ot which both ere but the creaturei, and the
representatives of that party st Washington
will tee tbit Mr. Cleveland (hell pursue
the proper line of eetlon. The whole troth
of the matter Is, Mr. Cleveland Is totally
lacklpg In Information respecting the condi
tion ol affaire In the South end Week and I*
reliant entirety on the feverish advice of a
couple ol Mugwump paper* lu New York city,
who ere Just ts Ignorant as he regarding those
Important section!. It It new no longer a
matter of distribution ot offices snd govern
ment patronage, bat t question of party prin
ciple, and the Democratic element will aee to
It that thta administration It Democratic In
the fall elgnlficeuce of the term, or tbit Ur.
Cleveland and hie cabinet shtll felt and be
buried In the ruins they have msde.”
He Thanks the Press nnd People for the
Confidence Shown In Him.
Editor! Telegraph and Meuenger: At the
conclusion of the contest over the receiver
ship of that portion of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad lying In
Qeoigli, I beg that yon will allow me the
opportunity throngh the columns of your
paper to express to the press and people ot
the State my sincere appreciation of the
gratifying evidences they have given ol
tbek confidence in my pnrpoto to menage
this properly In promotion of the Impor
tant Interests which It Is Intended to sub
serve. In the effort to place the road In
proper condition and to so manage It ss to
make It a valuable agency in conducting
the badness of the country, I hope that
ibis confidence may prove to have not been
misplaced.
To the millions of dollars already fu
rcated In the construction and purchtts of
this road, it Is intended to devote a large
sum In putting the etme la a condition ot
complete repair and thorough equipment
Only br such disbursement can the road
be placed In a condition to discharge the
obligations to the public wbloh were Im
posed by the Btate of Georgia when its
construction was authorised by the Legis
lature. Tho great object was to secure
legitimate competition in the transporta
tion of freight and psesengnrs, and It is
manifestly to the Interest of the public that
tbit important end should not be defeated
by anv means, direct or indirect With
the difficulties now removed It Is my pur
pose to proceed ts rapidly as the means st
command will permit to place the road
condltisn which will efficiently serve
the bntiuees interests ol its patrons.
Yc are very truly. Hxnry Fisk.
Atlanta, May 2,1885.
A raw yean since irate Iowans hunted
down all the bar-rooms they could reach
and now they are treating the skating
rinks the same way. Some folks tre
mighty hard to please.
Grant Is now well enough to converse
with Farson Newman and Adam Badean.or
as Den Platt wonld say, Adambadeandor.
Cancer stands no showing with a min who
can dally endure Badean and Newman.
LEGAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Prepared for the Telegraph and Meeeen-
ser by W. B. Hill, of the Macon Bar.
Jndge Branham had a novel method of
bringing a “hung" jnry to an agreement.
They had been out nil night and came Into
court at 0 o'clock with that horrible sink
ing which a min feels while waiting for a
late breakfast after a sleepless night The
foreman announced that tbs jnry could
not agree. “Well, gentlemen, think about
It a hall-hour longer. After that yon may
have your breakfast sent you, provided
you will pay for It. And you may have
your meals regularly at yonr own expense
while you are deliberating.” The jnry re
turned to their room. The Judge’s bint
about “regular meals" seemed to Indicate
a permanent arrangement, and in five
minutes they returned with a verdict.
Victor Hudo never wean an overcoat.
Years ago a traveling Kentuckian con
vinced Victor that beat should be Inter
nally developed and proceed ootward. As
this theory coaid be worked In conianctlon
with the old gentleman's conviction that
the Bourbon should be put down, be has
never forsaken 1L
Tux Galveston News says: "Looksvery
much as If Grant was trimming his satis
for a Presidential race In 1888. There are
few men in this country that could be
beaten with such propriety, celerity and
excellent effect.” The General has made
a successful campaign so far. Be has
rained four doctors, got on the retired list
st big pay, has advertised the book Bsdeau
Is writing largely and freely, and hu land
ed Fieh In jail alongside of Ward. Pretty
live man, that
Col. Boon, of Alabama, recently ap
pointed minister to Venezuela, stand up
Are you a Mugwump?
I( not, why not?
Have yon got a pardon?
Areyondlalutefnl to the Veneznelens by
reuon of any public addresses you have
made?
Did you write a pamphlet for Blaine?
How do yon stand with Bqnlra Edmunds,
tha alleged proprietor of the Doited States ?
Tax New York Post says: “ It in not be
et nse Pillabury, Chase and Troup are
Democrats that they tre denounced; It Is
because they are unfit for office.” The
suspicion ia gaining ground that the Feet
does not denounce ten thousand .‘other of
fice holders le, not because they nr* fit to
hold office, hot because they are Repub
licans. When we see tha Mugwumps, aa
well as Republican press engaged In
concerted howl over a Cleveland appoint
ment we ieei encouraged to believe that
•low though It be, the work of reform goes
on.
isbn the jury ns It they were criminals
and which forces their reluctant assent to
a conclusion In which they really d > not
concur as the price of their liberty. Mis
trials ere so expensive to the county tbit
the judge cannot be blamed when be puts
the pressure upon the jury to force them
to an agreement; but the mhchtef lies in
the antiquated requirement of unanimity.
Majorities rale among judges, why not
among tha jurymen?
A prominent lawyer ot Middle Georgia
said to me last week: “It Is a strange
thing that the lawyers have almost every
where been In favor of the prohibitory llq
nor laws which have been gradually taking
the State. The sale of liquor really benefits
nobody except the dealers and the lawyers.
Prohibition destroys the criminal practice,
end thus cute ofi e great many fees. Espe
cially It cuts off thesapplr of homicides, lu
which dess ot esses usually the highest
fees have been paid. There are at our
county seat nine lawyers; six favor and
three oppoie the fecal option taw which '•
toon to be voted on.” If this statement be
correct, It ought to be set down
to the credit of a math-abused
profession. Lawyers are proverbially
coneervatlre; their training naturally lo
cates them on the tide of law and order,
Tbla may account for the fact stated.
Now ts the ttehlag rcston ts on, here It
cheap way to keep the cetcb fresh.
Regnard said et • recent meeting of the
Sodete de Riologie that a flab which he
bed placed in a weak solution (2 to 1,000)
of cocaine fell into a state of apparent
death after a few minutes of floondeiing.
lu respiration wee completely tnspended
for two hours, as ehown by an analysis of
the water, which was not diminished In
oxygen end contained no carbonic add
gee. Yet the fltb was not dead, and when —The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
will not attend the marriage of hu niece,
Senator Eustle Frees His Mind.
We give below tho body of a dispatch
from New Orleans containing the views
ot Senator Eustle In regard to the pres
ent administration. Senator Eustle ia
a gentleman of character and ability,
and In no sense a politician. He is,
under x>ur present system of govern
ment, by reason of his Senatorial office,
an adviser of the President. He is a
leading Democrat, and his election to
the Senate was a protest against
wretched political methods in Loniei
ana, and for these reasons his utter
ances will attract universal attention.
He la reported aa follows:
"Yewsen say formeendytm cannot ear It
too strong,'' Senator lulls sold, “tbit In my
... Jnfigmont Mr. Cleveland thoa far, from 0
libraries, and the state j Democratic standpoint, kaa teens com
placed In a Jar of pare water became as
lively ts ever.
The Russians most have had an euy
Job in handling the Afghani, The Afghan
matchlock or jsxall has no parallel as
firearm on the face of the earth. It
about nine feet long, and Is fitted near the
mnxale wl'h a prong which supports tt on
the ground when tt to about to be fired off
It to fitted with a powder pan and a catch
for bolding a fate. An Afghan marksman
has to depend opon the state of hit fuse,
end therefor: he to by no means a certain
shot Daring the tut Afghan war It Died
to he a joke among the British soMlen that
an Afghan wonld poise hie jasail open
rock, calculate when hit enemy wonld
likely to arrive in front of hta muzzle, fix
bit rate, and then go of! to tome little dis
tance end sit down end smoke. If the
enemy arrived In front tf the matchlock
jost ts It went off, why then he wonld moat
likely be killed, bat U be didn't, end the
weapon went off a quarter of an hoar after
be bed pelted tt, then no barm wu done,
and its owner would philosophically “set"
the jtxail again in hopes of catching the
next comer, and then go ofi to hit rack,
emote and await developments.
The new woolen milk at Baltobory.SS
fL, are progrtastog finely, and will socn be
gin the manufacture of goods.
aratao in cbicsco.
A topsyturvy tumult snd a Strangs strife
A duttr-damaged dinner, and t wild, wicked
The chronic carpet-cleaning, with a etrong,
stoat stick.
Th> , trasl t o h tricV° p#rpl * xjn *' “* the tick’s
Ti ® toM*.i5* p wq ”“ ,erM wher « “>« fleet
lh « white-
A boundless bill to Faience, and 1 scarred
shin to teen.
A week end weary women, and a mad, moody
London* lias 2,000 active clergymen.
New Hampshire has the longest
lived people on the average.
It ia estimated that 30,000 cans of
milk are sold dally In Boston.
A turnip closely resembling an ele
phant is on exhlbiuoD at Key West.
The little town of Batavia, N. Y„
1 pends annually $200 000 lor liquor.
Out of the word “incomprehensibil
ity.” a Connecticut indy msde 2,218 differ
ent words,
A burglar was arrested in Sacra
mento dressed In a prieat’e cassock which
be bad stolen.
Fully one-lmlf the names of the
mailing offices stamped on letters and pos
tal cards are illegible.
Black headed slippers of solid jets
are an impor ation from Paris, at once
very unique and luxurious.
Beaded silk stockings are still an
other luxury which will be indulged In by
those extravagantly inclined.
Collars and cuffs of ecru linen,
edged with white linen lace, are pretty a:
an accompaniment to a neglige costume.
At Shiga, Ken, Japan, there resides
a dwarf, only 17 inches bigu end 36 years
old. who ia well educated and a good
writer.
Drawn thread work is now fashion
able on bed linen, hem stitch Is used on
the edge, where this trimming is em
ployed.
IVhat is said to bo tho largest dia-
ondin the world is about to Ea cat in
Amsterdam. It was recently foanu in
South Africa, and weighs 475 carats.
Some person sends to a New York
journsla four cdutnti article which en
deavors to prove that Gen. Grant to the
man-child referred to In the twelfth chap
ter of the Book of Revelation.
An ingenious novelty In Ico-pitchers
has recenUy been Invented, in which the
simple prevan e of a spring at the top
throws forth a stream of water. The ex
ertion of lifting or tilting the pitcher to
avoided.
A good imitation of ground glass
may be obtained by boiling n teaspoonlul
of rice In a pint of wa-rr for a naif an
hoar. The solution lightly dabbed on the
gass with a brush will gin the desired ef-
It has been estimated that an iron
car wheel will travel 40 (> 0 miles, while e
steel tire will ran 200.000 miles before wear
ing out The ateel costs two and one-helf
times ee much, but runs more than (oar
timet as long as an iron wheel.
Many soft timbers, especially wal
nut, ere more destructive to the enttiog
edge ot planes than even oak. This to
found to be due to minute crystals of silica
of about uniform sir- evenly distributed
hrough the ttoane of the wood.
It has been found that the ice plant
Is a great abeorber of salt, a Hold exuded
it Ita leaves di.cloelng about 33 per cent
f sea salt. It to suggested that Its growth
on lands msde unproductive by excess of
salt would bring them Into a condition un
fit for cultivation.
The recent defeat of Jndge Cooley tn
Michigan In a popular election la • led
commentary on the system of electing the
judiciary by poDdler vote. Here was a
men who confessedly stood et the bead of
tbs jurists In this coantry. His name bet
been more thought ot than any other to
connection with the nsxt vacancy upon
Boprema bench of the Doited
Btate*. He has done more
to define and elucidate the principles ol
ronstltotional lew, then any judge since
Story yet he is beaten in ea election (or a
local office by a men whose misfortune In
having to follow to eminent e jurist, elic
its for him tht .compassion of his friends,
in the language of Uufue Choate, the sue-
easeful candidate was "toned on the
blanket of a popular election into a hard
hole.”
Whatever may £e*tbe outcome of the
contest between the receivers for ths pos
session of tbs East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad, there to one branch
ot the question In which the
people of the State, who have or
may ever have any demand against the
road ere Interested. Such demand, have
erieen and trill arise again In tavor of pas
sengers or employes Injured, and in cases
of fre'ghtloet or damaged, or in any cue
of breach of contract The rscetver of the
Federal court to now suable only to the
sonrt which appointed him in Tenneuee;
and If sued there • Judgment against him
wonld be worth nothlog, in view ol the
fact that the road to mortgaged
for more than tt ft worth. I
saw recently an tnglnver who had
bean scalded by an engine which waa over
turned on the defective track of the road.
He weeaerlotu'y crippled. The receiver
struck bis name from the pay-roll. He
was utterly unable to do any w rk, and
hie family wai dependent upon hie labor.
The king of a severe tribe wai not more
frreepoosible for whet be might do then
wet the receiver in this cue To say that
the injured men could goto Tennessee and
ray *23 at costa In advance (or theprtvl-
1 age ot eulng, In order to gat a worthless
lent, to the mockery of jostles. No
the lawyers lot Phlntay and others
age of sal
Judgment,
dOUMthtl —*— . H,HW| HI.-, U.ll.l.,
as well aa Judge Hammond, would be will
ing to here Major Pick appointed receiver
by the Butte court and to bare him oper
ate the Georgia division of Ute road sub
ject to tho courts of the Btate.
PIOPLE AND GOSSIP.
the Princess Beatrice. He considers it to
be a flagrant mesalliance.
—A twenty-five foot monument wilil
be erected over the grave of Dr. Norris,
who Tolnnteered hie service* In Vick,burg
daring the yeiljw fever panic of 1878 and
ratod at hta poet
■—Fashionable underwear ia made of]
of white China silk for summer, as It to
even softer and lighter tbau surah. This
is trimmed with some delicate lace, gen.
•rally Imitation deny.
—Mrs. Livermore saya in a recent
letter that Wendell Phillip, burned * num
ber of promissory not.a the night before be
died, given by peop'e whom he did not
[want hie executors to prosecute.
P—The announcement has been made
In New York of the engagement of Mice
hatrlle Garrison, a granddaughter of the
Commodore, to the Hon. Charles R.
Slide-Ramsey, a too of the lata Earl Dal-
booeie.
—The son of Count Gleichen (the
Queen of England's cousin). an officer to
Ins Grenadier Gnards, was rendered Inara*
t itle by a spent shot and laid among the
deed for burial Ut.lv, but. reviving, struck
bit own nupe out of the list of killed.
—John Reed, the gasman at the
Chestnut Street Jbeatre, Poi'edelphte,
whose will, leering bta bead to the theatre I
to be need In ptoye requiring a tkaU, hat
attracted wide attention, will bars a big
benefit tbta week, and will retire. He Is
toe father of Roland R*td, nr,d to widely
known among theatrical ptopic. Frank
Mero. Lotte end other weU known acton
will play lor him.
SELF-RAISING
G) Bread
1 reparation.
THE HEATHFUt AND NUTRITIOUS
Baking Powder!
Home Testimony
from
J.EmmetBlackshear, M.D.
restores to the flour the strength-giving
phosphates that are removed with the
bran, and which are required by the
system No other Baking Powder doel
,L° StS less ’ i8 heaUhier and
stronger than any other Powder.
Macon, Ga., July 14, ISBL-Uaks
pleasure in adding my testimonial to
the superior excellence of your Hors-
ford s Bread Preparation I linking Pow
der) aa an article healthful and nutri.
tious. So long aa superfine wheaten
flour is made use of for bread-making
BO long will there bo a necessily for re
storing to such flour the nutritive ele
ments of which it is deprived by the
refining process; and, so far as I am
aware, this is the only Baking Powder
in the market that possesses that qnal-
ity; while in giving lightntSl and
porosity to the bread, whether made oi
superfine or unbolted (Graham) flour,
there is none better.
Yours respectfully
(Signed)
J. EMMET BLACKSHEAR, M. D.
For Sale by all Grocers.
‘■••I’ .;-n\ i-'l.fri.s'iiMw i'.m
Try it.
CAPITAL PRIZE. S7S.000.~V1
rickets only S8. tharss In Proportion?
b. S. L.
jouisiana State Lottery Compi'.y!
0 do borebY certify thul we nporvire i&a
igemenls of all tho Monthly and ct mi.
annual Drawings of the Loulnl&:ia nut* Lot*
terr ComP&uy. and In porftou managq snd oon*
trolthe drawing* thuimtclvea, and that lbs
tamo are conducted with honcftty.tslrneh* and
in good faith toward all purlieu, and wo so*
thorlxo tho company tousr thlucertlflcsle.wlth
Tiie divorce market in Indianapolis
totbussomramizrd by a local journal:
“Brisk competition among our lucal law
yers baa brought down the prices of dl-
’orces. We quote: Common separation,
:15; small alimony, 325; large alim ny,
: 50 to 3100, according to circuoittances.’’
A letter containing |20 and a sheet
of blank paper was received recently by
Hoyt H. Freeman, of Watertown, N. Y.
This to the fourth lime money has been
sent anonymously to him to the last four
years, directed in the same handwriting.
Five hundred ai d fifty dollars in all has
been received.
Nations and individuals aliko fall to
rain when they “forget God" and go into
vein idolatries of self and self-gratification,
the beat histories which have come down
tout have bren written by mvn who felt
profoundly this conviction. For one thing,
end a rather importatt one In inch a mut
ter, they were afraid to tell Use.—J. A
Fronde, in Youtlu' Companion.
A French scientist asserts that it is
potlbJs 10 foretell toe weather, eomettmee
tm to twenty hours in advance, by observ
ing and comparing toe Bounds emitted by
a telephone connected by letde with two
iron bare stock la toe ground a few yards
•part. Id oeae ol a thunderstorm a noise
like toet of shriveling leaves Increase! until
• flesh of ll^htnhyi occurs,when tbesound
Commissioners.
Incorj'ors’M In 1M8 for 25 year* by the L«f*
■*l*tnre lor Klncatlonal and Thurlublo par*
pose*— with * capital of li.rao,aro-to which s
reserve fund of over IttOOOO hu ilnco been
dded.
By an overwhelming sopnlsr voto Its fran
chise wm made a part of the nronent HUlc oon*
tltotlon adopted December'id, A. I)., 1879.
The only lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any state.
it never Scales or postpones.
„ Its Grand Binds Number Drawings
Uhe place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
ORTUNE. Firm '}RANT>l>kAWING(’LAM
r, IN THK ACADKMY OK Ml’HIC, NEW
ORLEANS. TrKHDAT. MAY l2Trf, IMS.
-•180th Monthly drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE. S7S.OOO*
100.000 Tickets at Five Dollars Enoh?
sructions In Fifths In Prooortlon.
1UAITTAL fRIZB 175.000
do
do
2 PRIZKd OF |6,000
5 do 2,000
10 do 1,000
20 do fiCD
resembles i
rain or hail falling on soo
THI PRESIDENTS DEAD LOVE.
Hla Heart was’lurlsd Under Heliotropes
Twenty Yeats Ago.
Washington Letter In Philadelphia Times.
Thera la a dim, shadowy fear among the
fair sex at tha capital that tha mythical
ItalTelo lady whom rumor has betrothed to
Mr. Cleveland may tnrn up at soy lime
and carry off tha prize, bat there is the
best authority for aiding that the fear la
groundless. Tha ooly woman ths President
ever loved has been dead more than twen
ty Tears. The most aa then tic report* here
tt that while quit* a vouoe man, teaching
school in awes lern Naw York Tillage, he
met xnd loved a yoong gin not yet seven,
teen. They were engaged, but the pov
erty of both parties provented mar
riage. Tha young teacher made up
bis mind to go to Ohio for
tha purpose of providing a home for hia
betrothed and was on the point of starting
for the We*t when she fall >lck, and in lesa
than a weak waa carritd to her last retting
place. There are no abmlate proofs of the
truth of this story. The President bta
oarer mentioned the matter to bit nearset
friends, and tha source ot Information is I
town go<9:p, handed down With perhaps
the usual variations and additions.
Whether the President has remained sin
gle out of a romantic fidelity to the mem > 1
ry of hi* youthful love, or whether a 1-ach-
eiov Ufa to b.et ratted to bit IncUnaUa—lat I
of coarse, a matter of conjecture. Tho:
who know him beet aay that he ts too w.
1 In old ways to change at this la
—J.aml that no bride will be mis tress -
ths White Hoove while be to occnpant.
25
ArraoxiMATioN rain*.
9 Appjoxlmalloa Prizes of 7V)
1,967 Prises, smonntlngto — ♦2S3,SuC
Application for r*U?* 10 club* ihonld bemsdf
oniy to ths ofDoe of tho oompRuy la New Op
leans.
tor further information write clearly, flvttj
lull address. POSTAL Novas. Eiprelt
Money Order*, or New York Exchange in or«li*
nury L*tt«r. < 'irrency l>y Kx»>rp«a ni auma&l
ami upWMjili *t our expense . adtlrcsaod
M. A. DAUPHIN.
Naw Orlw.ins.LAe.
or Me A DAUPHIN,
007 asvwr.th at.. Washington. D. C,
Ma*i* P. u. M..it,*y onli-rn !•*»«?»T.; Hills'S*
drc*s Registered letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL RANK.
M«w Orleans. L*.
sA **■ ■ Av
TUTTS
PILLS
25'Yl
The Greatest
WILBOR’S COMPOUND OF
PURE COD LIVER!
OIL AND LIME.
Wllbor's Compound of
" . ami 1.1 ine I m- n Want**
T* Aind over the i -'a Oil is
SYMPTOMS
TORPID
I.oaaofupprtlts,"
tho brad, will*
back pnrt. Pal
blade, I ullnsat
Inclination to exrrtloa of bodror mind.
Irrlcablllivoflrmprrt l.ow nplrlta. wlik
a feeling of bnvIn* neglected •wine duly.
Wear lor «*, 111 7 /1 ue«i, I lull er las at the
Hearts Dot* beforcthe eye*, lleadarho
oirr lho right rjre. Ke«iIrwanea*. with
Siful dreo'na. HitUlycolored I rlue, snd
CONSTIPATION.
TUTTS IMLf flaree-pei .Aliy a'Ltpftfd
to such «■»•« «, <«:.o d.jnM efTWu such a
cinn-'.-cfr*. ;i:i7nstoa«t .ni*;jf.l.r«*uiTt*rer.
i *y lncrF«*r the A |i|»etlte,*Q«i r*'JM tho
1 '.y t » l-Le cm I lean,* MUMtMfili
ttnii r 11)1 r vl, •* | I y If. • loin- Action on
t I> 1 ' 111 \ e Orvn n 1.J^ ~ >»l»r oUin
mn «iR»cT'sVSiiiitii wash and den mice i
Ifenorxtes tt. ? L-dy. saakfi i..t.my iWh.
.? » .v .- j ..-ft..- vs.t-’-n t n*t! &*.<•«• ting ' ?r» Ho re Month.
-.111 ’ .1 • or; Thr K*.. ( . ih.j Tefi tii arid Puriflea
I ' 1.;:. .r l 1 ;h:M : .•• \-f of U*x C:utl»U. Prepared by Dr*. J. J*. AW.H
* 1. ! hy -:r -'1 ; Holmes, J>cntl»u, Maroa, (is. For gals 11
OS'i'K L 11 .’lurray M., Nctv TorftU lrnfflsu and dentists.
f-* • i' i rltto-dbj t»i-
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