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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1892
Mount Airy plight appropriately be
given tbe name o! New Albany.
After November Mr. Watson will
not object to Haying “Where am T at.”
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Mans wan very close to the earth
night before Inst, it was only 85,000,■
000 tnlles away.
Aj.i, the visitors who come to Albany
Immediately proceed to fail In love
with the piece.
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"To tjik victor belong the spoils’
will be the Democratic cry on the 17tb
when Russell is nominated.
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Hon. O. R. Stevens Is one of the
most popular men In the Second Con
gressional district on every day but
election day.
Thkiik .has Jbeep an Increase of $85,-
157,00(1 In the exports of the Southern
States in the last llsoal yenr over the
yenr proceeding.
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I)n. G. A. Harper, of Sumter, has ac
cepted tbe Third l’arty nomination for
Senator from the Thirteenth. This is
another good Democrat gone wrong.
Tim I’eople's Party Is an organized
band of ofllco seekers. The trouble is
they all want office. They had better
adopt the rotation system,,so that they
will have a few common, ordinary,
voters to support them.
Tm< congressional race in the Sixth
is now lieck and neck between Ilart-
lettnnd Cabiniss. It now looks like
Cab'nlss will win, for outside count ies
say they don't want a Hlbb county
man.
CoNimnsHMKN have returned homo
now-to renew their pledges to their
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parties, and enter tlio next cumraign.
Many of them will go bank, but there
is no room for bolters or Hoppers.
Nxlt Watson and Winn.
Havr you noticed the fact that all
the important announcements, letters
and addresses bearing upon and grow
ing out of tbe present campaign in the
Second Congressional district have
made their first appearance in tbe
HxRAl.or
Twenty-fivk honorable citizens of
Bartow, On., have apologized humbly
to Tom Watson for having votud
for him at the Iasi election. They
say, God helping them, they will
defeat him iiext time In their section
If It can be done by honorable means.
TMK M4I.RDICTION OP A
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In every primary held so far in the
State the llrmni’rats have polled their
usual number of votes. No detrac
tions .of any importance have been
made by the Third Party, and every
thing indicates that the usual Demo
crat It) majority in the State will not
be materially changed or lessened.
Dis.utointkij Candidate Stevens
doesn’t allude to Oohpiit county in his
letter to the Hkuam>. The trim story
of how he At ole the march on the nr-
' ghnizt.nl Democracy of tlml county,
having the delegates to the Congres
sional convention selected on the 20th
of July, instead of the 801 h, would be
interesting reading.
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Tun Philadelphia Record says: The
farmers of Georgia have made a prof
itable and palatable contribution to
the summer comfort of tho people of
Northern and Eastern towns and cities
in the shipment northward of over 500
car loads of peaches. It is a pleasure
to know that the growers have re
ceived satisfactory prioes. The aver
age return has been about $1,500 per
car load.
South Carolina polities went up to
blood heat yesterday, and the result
Was a persona) encounter between
Gov. Tillman and Col. Orr, the Con
servative candidate for Lieuten-
ant-Gorernor. Coi. Orr had ac
cused Gov. Tillman of using
profane language on tho stump and in
tho presence of indies. Yesterday at
Union, the Governor resented this and
called Orr a liar. Col. Orr then start
ed at the Governor and a small sized
riot, seemed Imminent, Hut friends
Interfered, ami peace was finally re
stored.
“Mu. Tom Watson," says tbe Brook-
lyn Eagle, “lias made his fling;” and
the other fellows have bail their sling,
and that Is the upshot and outcome of
a very nosy and nasty Incident. By
calling the Fifty-second Congress a
drunken Congress, Mr. Watson has
managed to establish the fact, on the
testimony of competent observers,
r.\' that by comparison with other Con
gresses it is entitled to be considered
a remarkably sober body. The people
of the Tenth.; Georgia district will
,V probably bp satisfied with the achieve
ment .of their Representative, and will
not make any further use of Watson
as a Congressman.
tof. • Elsewhere in the paper we jfutitlshli
letter from* Hon.* ©.’B. Steveps, the
candidate otfhenow Well nigh desert
ed Alliance political' machine of the
Second Congressional district. It is,
In reply to an editorial and a commu
nication sighed “dictator” which ap
peared ip the hxRAi,p oh the 8r4 inst.
The perusal of these articles evi
dently caused the fur of the usually
doolie and smiling candidate for Con-'
gressional honors to turn the wrong
way, and we suspect that he lost the
cunning of the shrewd politician for
the .nonoe and straightway proceeded
to Indite this Interesting epistle while
the evil spirit of angry passion had
oontrol of him.
The letter Is full of the anathema
that comes of disappointment and fol
lows despair. It is the ill-tempered
Wall of a defeated candidate whoso
vaulting ambition and vain political
aspirations have been overcome by an
abler exponent of a more righteous
cause.
If anything In the way of facts and
positive evidence were wanted by the
intelligent voters of the district to
convince them that Mr. Stevens is
unlit to represent them In Congress,
this latter of lus would be sufficient.
Tho man who Is thrown out of balance
and allows himself tobe upset by alittle
newspaper criticism In a campaign
like this would cut. a pretty figure on
the floor of the National House of Rep
resentatives.
The llRiiAi.n has opposed Mr. Stev
ens in Ills Congressional aspirations,
but we have never thrown mud at him,
nor alluded to him in unparliamentary
terms. The papers of the district sup
porting his oandldncy have been fair
enough to aocord this distinction to
the Hkbai.d In the discussions that we
have had with them durlngthe present
remarkable campaign, and we regret
that Mr. Stevens himself has now
placed himself In a position to invite,
in retort, a resort to billingsgate.
There is but little In Mr. Stevens’
letter for the Hkrami to notice, nnd
wo would probably have given It to
the publlo without a word of comment
or criticism If It were not for a state
ment that lie makes which Is calcula
ted to mislead fair-minded people
when viewed in the light in which Mr.
fd evens presents It. He soys that the
Worth county mass meeting on the
Otli of June which selected delegates
for him to the Congressional conven
tion also “selected delegates to.the
Senatorial convention which mot nnd
nominated lion. W. E. Wooten, and to
other conventions, without opposition.”
This la (rue, but Mr, Stevens lias omit
ted testate in this connection that, the
meeting on tile (Ith of JuflD was Oft lieu
for I lie purpose of electing delegates
to the Senatorial add State conven
tions, but not for (be purpose of elect
ing delegates to the Congressional
convention. Not nntyhedlhc election
of Congressional delegates not been
mentioned in I lie cull for this meeting,
but It had been recommended by a pre
vious mass meeting, and had been ac
cordingly determined by tho Execu
tive Committee of the County, to order
n primary on the Doth of duly, In com
pliance with tin* recoin in cm! utlOp of
the Executive Committee of the dis
trict, for tlm elec!ion of delegates to
the Congressional convention; hut
when tile crowd gathered (lie Alliuticc-
meu and Stevehsites, including a mini- 1
her of Third I’nrty men, found them-]
selves in the majority and proceeded ;
lo elect delegates to the Congressional j
convention then and there. As the
elootl&n’of delegates to the Congress
ional convent ion was not set forth in I
the call that linil been issued for this
meeting, that .part of the proceedings
which related to Congressional dele
gates was Irregular and void, and only
bad to be objeoted to by any respecta
ble Mm her of Democrats to be set
aside, while that which was done at
the same meeting with reference to
the Senatorial and State conventions
was regular ami held good. Tile Dem
ocratic Executive Committee of the
county, after being purged of those of
its members who bad gone over to
the Third Party, evidently took tlio
view that >e bore present of the mat
ter; for they ordered the primary on
tlio 80tli of July, and Russell carried
tlio county by n largo majority.
These are faots wlileli Mr. Stevens
did not care to bring out. in Ills allu
sion to Worth county, but they are
facts all the same.'and put the Worth
county ease in quite a different light
from that in which tbe artful dodger
and would-be martyr would have it
appear.
Mad ns be appears to have been
when he sat himself down to commit
the indiscretion of writing tbe letter
which the IIkkai.d takes pleasure in
laying before tbe people of the Second
Congressional district, Mr. Stevens
did not forget to appeal to the sympa
thies and prejudices of all Alliance-
men. This assumed martyrdom will
catch some, but not all. Many of the
best Allinncemen in the distriot are as
true as steel to the old Democratic
party, and have become thoroughly
convinced that the organization of the
political machine known as the Dis
trict Alliance which met at Outhbert
and nominated Mr. Stevens for Con
gress was a great mistake. The move
ment was one fraught, with dangers to
the Democratic party wliiah many
good Alliancemen and loyal Democrats
aid not see at first; but they see them
now, and are constrained to withdraw
their sympathy from the Alliance po
litical machine and its candidate.
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In an editorial headed “What the
Alabama Election Mean's,” the Chlca-
go Inter Ocean makes tbe following
ifojqnflqtl,
The bubble has burst. There is little
ope for the People’s Party in the
Jouth. The Alabama election clearly
demonstrates this. The Alllanoeiiieu
did not vote the Kolb ticket. Their
State lecturer and several other State
officers deserted Kolb, 'f he old cry of
white supremacy was just as powerful
against the new pplitlcal combination
as It has ever been against the Repub
licans.
Western Republicans who had a
leaning toward the movement to take
the Alliance into National politics are
now able to see how futile are the ef
forts to break the solid South by such
a combination. Southern Bourbons
talk fair, but they vote as they shot.
The destinies of this government can
not be worked out along the Alliance
line. Tile old political parties are to
wage the battle and decide whether
Majority or minority rule shall pre-
Thk People's party in the West can
only help those in favor of minority
rule. Every vote for Weaver in Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, or Il
linois is a vote for Cleveland. The
People’s party in the South is only a
myth. The Alabama election has de
monstrated this and that the new
combination is only for use in the
West to assist the Democrats.
All tills comes nbout by our North
ern contemporary mnking assertions
in regard to things which it knows
nothing about. The only correot state
ment made by the Inter Ocean Is that
political battles will always be fought
out In the South between the two old
parties. Hut the battle will always be
an easy one, for the solid South will
remain Democratic to the core.
Hut our Republican contemporary
has always delighted In making petty,
false and malicious thrusts at the
South and Southerners for desiring to
maintain white supremacy. On this
line we have only to sny the Inter
Ocean is badly off. White supremacy
will always be maintained, but the
voice of the white people of the South
Is raised agninst the infamies of the
Republican force bill, with Its threat
ening domination of Illiteracy nnd Re
publicanism, anil In this they are up
held by every consistent thinking man
In the Union.
But the most glaring IheOnsH-
enoy In tlm Inter Ocenn’s article
Is that in one paragraph it
practically admits tliqt the Republi
cans had a leaning towards the Third
Party and Alliance' movements In llie
hope that they would break the solid
South. Stioh they have found by Ala
bama's election cannot be done, nnd'
now they falsely assert that the “new
combination," as they call If, is "only
for use in the West to assist Demo
crats.” llali! It takes only a glance
to see that the Third Parly noil Tim
Republicans have time anil again
made advances toward each other, anil
If the “new combination” .l* | ( , assist
anybody il will he the Republican*
who have bill for their support, Ttnm
add again llopnhlinm lenders in the
South have atlviseil their followers to
vole tile Third Parly ticket, lint they
have ai'complisheil nothing, nor will
they.
Republican fraudulent promises of
brilliant Impossibilities may lure
many wayward Third Partyiles into
llielr column, but the loyal Demnernls
of I lie South and West always have
fought the Third Party movement, nnd
tail I continue to do so totlie biller end,
Eel our contemporary investigate
another time before making such con
fident assertions.
SA.1I M.11AI.1. HAN UIJA1VKII
HIM TAG.
be like the dog on tbe'express car.
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Mr. Joe Pottle,,of Milledgevllle,
yestprday nominated tor congress In
the 6th district by tbe Third Party.
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Senator Cpjqilltt, who has been Hi
for some time In Washington, is much
better tp-day. He will return In time
to speak In Atlanta at the Democratic
rally, to be held there next week.
uStfiiftS inS Qom milt tee has made
an earnest appeal to tbe stoclnqltfers^
to take some measure towards, reor
ganizing thfe system. Terminal se
curities are In bad way# and the time
for reorganization seems to be now- or
never.
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At the recent primary
Bradberry’s district, Clarke county,
only one vote was cast. The vote cost
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the county $8. Three managers at the
precinct get $2 each, and the man for
carrying the returns to Athens gets $2.
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Tom Watson is booked for the stump
in Cordele on August 18th; Tom' is
too confident ofTiIs own success. He’d
better stay at home where he’ll need
votes, thau to go to the Third, where
there is absolutely no chance to defeat
Crisp.
Hon. Seab Wright, of Borne, has
written a letter in which he repudiates
election in Third Party for advances made
him, and the insinuations against his
political record, lie says he has al
ways Voted the Democratic ticket and
always will, and will never enter into
politics except as n straightout Demo
crat.
Col. Joe Terrell has carried Berrien
county for Attorney General. The
race between two contestants is becom
ing warm now, nnd no prediction can
be made as to final results. Both Mr.
Terrell and Mr. Glenn are popular
throughout the Slate, and both ure able
lawyers. Either would make a good
Attorney General.
The Bain bridge Democrat says:
Russell has sixteen votes solid, in a
necessary eighteen in the district
Democratic convention, and requires
only two more votes to secure the
nomination. No greater triumph was
ever seen of principle over passion.
According to Mr. Berry McDaniel, of
Baiubridge, the Third Party of the
Second Congressional district will put
out as their candidate for Congress
one Alex R. Jones, of Thoinasville, fa
miliarly known as “Grasshopper
Jones,” of Thomasviiie.
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Mr. Watson will not be dealt with
harshly for his malicious charges of
drunkenness and disorder against the
House. Mr. Boatner, chairman of the
iiominittee to investigate the matter,
has prepared his report, and it will be
presented in the House to-day, It will
simply state that the charges made by
Mr. Watson were wilfully, maliciously
and knowingly false, and censure will
be passed. Jerry Simpson is on hand
ready to prepare a minority report if
the censure is made too severe, as if
such a thing were possible under the
circumstances.
A. O. Bacon, John Bolfeuillet and
Robert Hodges, Esq., of Bibb were
nominated Thursday for the legisla
ture in Bibb county. 4
It comes from headquarters that the
Republicans will not put out a State
ticket, nor will they endorse the Third
Party. The only part they will take
in the campaign will be to run Harri
son electors.
General Adlai E.Stevenson lias been
Invited to speak at the Democratic State
rally in Atlanta on the nth. This
will be the opening of the campaign
in the Slate, and Gen. Stevenson says
if it is possible for him to bn there he
will come.
Tlie halls of Congress are now de
serted, nnd almost all of the Repre
sentatives have taken their departure
from Washington to the scenes of
their respective campaigns, where
they are battling for re-election.
Everybody, Republicans ns well as
Democrats, spoke in the highest terms
of the work of Speaker Crisp, and
among the number who went to hid
liim good-bye was Tom Reed, of
Maine, who heartily congratulated
him on liis course as Speaker of the
House. Nearly every Democrat said,
as he bade the Speaker good-bye, “I am
for you against anybody for Speaker
next time.”
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Since the defeat of Kolb in Ala
bama, the Kolbites have been crying
fraud, and claiming that they would
elect a Legislature of their own to re
dress Kolb’s grievances. In fact they
have asserted that when the Legisla
ture next meets there will be two sucli
bodies. Such an attempt maybe made,
but Alabama does not fear the result,
for, according to the constitution .of
the State, the Legislature cun meet no
where except in the State House, un
less in case of emergency. Tills will
shut the Kolbites out in the cold, for
only duly elected legislators, with
proper credential.-*, will be admitted,
and of course the majority of these
will be Demoerats.
. Jelferson died three years before the
tlrat locomotive whistle was heard in
the rulted States: and yet the Jingo
lender* have convinced their ignorant
follower! that the Virgiiiinu favored
government ownership of railroads.—
parfa IsluhnelUo.
News ha* jii'M been received that the
Cubans intend lo strike for liberty
from Spain. Vessels equipped with
well-drilled men, arms and ammuni
tion, left Key Weston July 2.5 in the
command of Cuban patriots, and de
velopments are awaited with great
anxiety.
In an interesting letter to a Georgia
paper Mr. Sam Jones, who is evangel
izing out West, writes an amusing po
litical note on Mr. Sam Small’s pecu
liar antics. He says:
Politics art? getting mightily mixed
in Georgia and really I It ml them a
mixtry everywhere in my travels. I
am bumfuzzled on Sam Small, if all re
ports have any foundation. They say
Sam lias jumped from church to
church, until you cannot locate him
religiously and now they charge that
from a Dumocrat*to a prohibitionist,
and from a prohibitionist to a Third
Party candidate he moves with grace
and speed. If Sam keeps on he will
Tlie Duborrow bill appropriating
•52,51)0,0!HI to the World’s fair as A girt,
was passed yesterday in the House by
a vote of 181 to 88. The debate was a
spirited one, and the opponents of the
measure were strong in its denuncia
tion; but the majority realized the
necessity of the aid thus extended, and
the bill was passed.
A man passing the door of an ex
press car asked a negro whose dog
that was. He says, I don’t know, sir.
nnd the messenger don’t know, anu
the boss at the office don’t know, and
tlie man asked the negro where the
dog was going?. Jle did not know
where he is gwine, and the messenger
don’t know either, and de boss man at
the office he don’t know. The dog has
gnawed off’ his tag, and none of us
knows whose dog he is, or where he is
gwine.
1 fear sometimes Sam has gnawed
his tag olf and nobody knows what he
is, or where he is gwine. But Sam
will get somewhere. If there is no
other hole to come out at, he will come
out at the one he went in at. I like
Sam and I want him to do well for
both worlds.
In his “Idler’s Column” S^itli Clay
ton of the Journn] t suggests that Ful
ton county should have a Congress
man of her own. Fulton has a popu
lation of 100,000, and lie predicts that
at the next census she will have a pop
ulation large enough to give her the
desired article. It is to be supposed,
from previous actions, that the sur
rounding counties will look on meekly
nnd calmly and let Fulton do just as
pleases.
Chinamkn Jmve been the subject of
no small amount of legislation during
the last two years. Since the immigra
tion of Chinese laborers has been pro
hibited, a law has been passed, requir
ing all Chinese laborers in the country
to obtain residence certificates, and
each one of them must file a copy of
such certificate with his photograph,,
with the government officials. A11
Chinese laborersjaundrymen included,
who fail to do this by May 1898, will be
bustled back to China in short order.
Hon. T. J. Lyort, the Democratic
candidate for the Legislature from
Barlow, and A. J. Moore, a Third
Partyite of Chattooga county, en
tered into a novel agreement the
other day. Mr. Moore asserted that
the United States Senate had been
Democratic since the war. Mr. Lyon,
of course, contradicted him, and finally
they both signed a paper agreeing that
tlie one who was wrong in the matter
should not speak from the stump again
during the present campaign. It seems
that Mr. Moore had gotten his in
formation from some of Dr. Macune’s
literature. Mr. Lyon went on his way
rejoicing that he had shut up one
Third Partyite’s mouth, at least during
the present campaign.
Together with the Pinkertons and
other Carnegie officials,- II. C. Frick
was arrested and charged with the
murder of the laborers who were
killed in the Homestead riot. Frick
was released on $10,000 bail, however,
and Judge Ewing says in his opinion
none of these men can be held for
murder, at least not in the first degree.
Thk Thomasviiie News is no more.
The announcement is made in yester
day’s issue that the publication of the
paper is discontinued. One of the rea
sons assigned for stopping the paper
is l hut there is “iio money in running I
it,” and another is that the labor nee- i
essary to keep the paper up to the
high pressure standard it had adopted,
was making a physical wreck of its
editor. Other reasons are also
brought in, incidentally, but they
might as well have been omit
ted; for the public will read
ily grant that the two first named
were sufficient. The News was short
lived, but it probably fulfilled its mis
sion. it was the organ of Candidate
.Stevens, the nominee of the Alliance
political mnehine-of this Congressional
district, and as that gentleman’s race
has been practically run and lost, he
has no more use for a daily newspaper.
Albany will have a big- Democratic
rally on the night before' the conven
tion meets.
This hns about been decided, anty
everybody interested should by alu
means make it a point to be here.
This occasion will be almost as big a
thing as tlie convention Itself, and the
air for miles around will ring with
Democratic eloquence. It is probable
that all tbe best speakers in tl;e dis
trict will be here on that night, and
instead of political discussions In
street-corner groups, the-entire crowd
will be entertained at the Court House.
Hon. Ben E. Russell will oertainly
be here, while Cols. IV. N. Spence and
W. M. Hammond are booked for the
ocoasion, and an effort will be made to
get several other well-known Demo
cratic orators of the distriot.
A SrKCIAL TRAIN.
A special train will bring large
numbers up from Bainbrldge, and will
collect the orowd from all points of the
counties through which it passes.
Russell’s home oounty will send up
one of the largest delegations which
will be present at the convention, and
the other counties along the line will
furnish their full quota of the Demo-^
crats who are coming up.
I.OW RATKS.
Although Mayor Gilbert tins not yet
beard from nil the railroad officials to
whom be has wrlteen, It is probable
(lint they will comply with his request.
The S., F. & TV. has agreed to give a
rate of less than one fare for the round
trip from Thoinnsvlllo and Thomas
county. The rate offered is $1.25,
round trip, which will bring a large <
crowd from that section. No arrange-O
incuts linve yet been made for n speoial 1
from TTiomasville, but it. may be done
before the date of tlie convention.
This would give the crowd an oppor
tunity or attending the rally on the
Kith, as the Bnlnbrldge contingent
will do, without being compelled to
reinniii over two nights.
I.arge crowds from Dougherty and
the surrounding counties will surely
be on linnd, and quite an ovation will
be tendered Mr. Russell.
Everybody Is in favor of the rally,
ami it is now almost a settled tiling.
It will be a great send-off for Hon.
Hen E. Russell, and when the conven
tion meets next d'tfy Ills name will go
through with a rush.
T.et everybody talk up the Denio-
crattb rally for theltfth. It is now in
dialer.
A MIDNIGHT TIUII.
A Iteni<1 rart‘ mill Cmtlcul. I.t'-lrtjy.'.l -
All Piiltr ViiNinaol.
Jerry Simpson and Tom TVatson
have gone into the log-rolling busi
ness, but Tommie’s log is too big for
Jerry to linndle.
Mu. Cleveland’s published corre
spondence allows him to be true and
loyal to tlie country, as well as to tlie
party which is supporting liihi.
Six candidates are out for tlie Leg
islature in Fulton. They are all neck
and neck now and still bustling, but
unfortunately three are bound to get
left on the home stretch.
—“You can’t claim,” said tlie man
who doesn’t care for the rod ami line,
“that fishing affords exercise.” “Oh,
yes it does,” was the reply; “for the
imagination.”
—Perdita: “Don't you despise a man
who loves one woman and pretends to
love nnotlier?” “Penelope: “Yes, in
deed; it is much more honorable to
pretend to love both."
The liquor interests in Chicago are
flgliting for the Sunday closing of the
World's Fair. They are open all day
Sunday, and the closing of the Fair on
that day would be capital for them.
There was quite a large Negro vote
polled in the Alabama election, tho
other day. Our Northern brethren
who persist in waving tlie bloody shirt
should take note of this, and cense
their useless and malicious wrang
ling?.
A correspondent writing from
‘as a rule tlie
correspondent
Washington says that
men in public life best blessed with
the gift of fine manners arc from tbe
South.” Mr. Watson, says the New
York World, is appareritly*the excep
tion which provesthisinterestingrule.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
For the first time in several montlis'y
tlie Hery-tmigued monster got in his '
work in the city on Saturday night,
nnd tlie charred remains of a residence
and it? furniture stand to-day to show
the successful work of the destroying
element.
Exactly at 11:15 Saturday night tluw'
lire alarm was sounded, and people
rushed nut of their houses or .stuck
their heads Old of windows to sec tlie '
heavans in the southwestern portion
of the city brightly illuminated.
The fire proved to he in tlie resi
dence of Mr. I.ewis Price, on Broad
street, next to Mr. TV. T. Cox’s home.
The department was out in an in
stant after the alarm was sounded,
Thromiteeskn taking suction at the
cistern by the Broad street well, and
Defiance using tlie one at tlie corner*^
of Commerce and Madison streets. (1
Defiance threw first water and was
quickly followed byjl'liroiiateeska, but
the llamcs had then gained good head
way, and it was impossible to save any
of .the building intact. Eagle No.
did not take suction on account of an
insufficient supply of hose, but the
Ilook and I,adder company did some
commendable work in pulling down
all the walls of the burning dwelling,
so that at least half tlie timber in the
building was saved.
The house was occupied by Mr. *
Lewis Price and family, and was the
property of Mrs. Narcissus Cox. Mr.
nnd Mrs. Price were absent from the
city, and Messrs. J. H. and S. Prioe
were at tlie S., F. & TV, depot, at work.
There being no one'on the place when
the fire broke out, the only furniture
saved was in one of tlie front rooms.
Tbe dwelling was insured for $400,
and the Price family had $1075 on j
their furniture and effects. It is not
known how tlie fire originated, but
when first seen it was in the roof near
the kitchen and must have caught
from an imperfect flue.
Last
year Madame Guyman left
$20,000 with tile French Academy, of
Sciences to be given to the man who
should first discover a means of put
ting our planet in communication
with some other orb. Astronomers
are now turning their glasses toward
Mars in tlie hope of getting up a mu
tual signal service with the people T
there. Maybe the communications will
be telegraphic. TVhy, don’t Edison
try it?
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