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at tha poatodloo at Albany, Oa., aa
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SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 1892.
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Thibc’h a postoffice war brgwlng in
every town In the country.
Thk Indiana are giving the govern*
.Blent aome trouble In the Went.
A Fabmehh' Alliance aeparate from
. politic* aeenta no longer a possibility.
Mis with no further desire than to
be private oitlzens are becoming ptfln-
tfnlly scarce.
GaiikVUllyprepared statistics say
...that tills year's cotton orop will not
.rbn over 0,000,000 bales.
' Junon OnnKft appears to be getting
-ont of his difficulty nicely. The prob
ability Is that he will bo acquitted.
& Co.,
They
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PROHIBITIONIST, Poi-UllST
would make a good (Irm title,
are now trying to consummate* union,
Statistics indicate that crime In
America Increases In a proportion
twice as large as that which the pnptt-
. latlon increases.
Tin demands made by the National
Alliance convention In session at
Mumphlatiro almost an exact repro
duction of the Omnha platform.
Rki’UIimuan newspapers published,
t|ie other day, an absurd story about a
rupture between Cleveland Stevenson
over an Illinois appointment. The
story Is strongly denied on all sides.
It Is strange btft true that when a
great mnn catches a slight cold, the
newspapers of the oountry sound the
alarm and write columns about hts
sickness. .Tas, G. Illaine had such a
alight attack the dther day, audit
formed the subjeot of quite a lengthy
dfspntnh.
Washington gossip sayB that the
Democrats propose to Increase the tax
on whisky. A tax of 48 cents more on
the gallon would rnlse the revenues of
the government $40,000,000. Tills, it
-seems, would be Infinitely more deslr-
S able than the tnrilf tax. on tho nooossl
ties of life, nnU isaoapltal method of
raising the funds.
Sfy
m:
A convention of Negroes was held
in Atlanta the other day to memorial
ise the Legislature on the aubjoot of
■wrongs to tliolr rnoe. They protested
against their military being exoluded
from the Htnte encampment, ns well as
against the lynch law, and demanded
drat class accomodations on the rail-
■roads when first class fares are charged.
So far as IlitNtwo latter demands lire
concerned an Investigation would
ahow that the law is already on their
Aide.
Why all this clamor In certain Dem
ocratic quarters for an extra seaslpn
,9f Congress! ,
■ Scarcelyhad lt-b«en definitely set
tled that the Democrats had scored a
viotory In the national eleotlon on the
8th of November,- when a howl was
set tip for an extra session of Congress
to revise the tariff.
Chief among those to first raise the
ory for the extra session was the At
lanta Constitution, a paper that has
oceupied more poeitlons and Hopped
oftener and more completely von the
tariff since that Issue has been a lead
ing factor In the politics of the coun
try, than any other paper In the South,
.f Georgia and the other Southern
States had followed the lead of the
Constitution a few years ago, we would
all have been led Into the protective
tariff fold, and the tariff reform for
which, that journal la now so eager
that it cannot await the regular order
of Congressional sessions, would have
been Impossible for many \ years to
oome.
The tariff reformers who are famil
iar with the record that the Constitu
tion has made for Itself, will do a little
thinking for themselves before follow,
ing its lead when It oomes to shaping
the policy of the Democratic party
wltlrreferenoe to the tariff.
The people of the country have voted
for a revision of the tariff, and they
must have it at tho hands of the in.
oomlng Democratic administration,
but they have no right to expeot It tior
can they reasonably hope to obtain It
until tho Democratic Congress nssem.
bles under the regular order of Con.
grosslonal euccesslon.
When the Demooratio party goes
Into power it will find the trensury,
which It left with a largo surplus eight
years ago. now depleted. An extra
session means more money than can
be supplied from tho treasury. '.Still
tho money ltocessary to defray tho
extra expense will have to come, and
when the Fifty-third Congress would
moot In regular session it would be
confronted with a money deficiency
that would be nt once embarrassing.
And then it is too early yet for even
tho most devout tariff reformer to
foresee the necessity for an extra ses
sion of Congress for the sole purpose
of revising tho tariff and increasing
tho freo list. Much depends upon
what Congress does between now and
.lie Fourth of Marob. The Republican
Senate may oonolude to take up the
revenue reform blits passed by tha
DemoorAtio House of Representatives
and pass them out of respoot to the ex
pressed will of the peoplo. Such a
course upon the part of the Senate,
even though It Is Republican, is not at
all Improbable in view of the result of
the reoent eleotlon, and It will be time
enough to determine what course the
new administration shall adopt after
the Republican Senate, in the face of
the expressed wishes of the people,
has defined its oourse upon the tariff
reform bills passed by the Democratlo
House,
IHspv I.
deg*ted now, an.
ir’ted once more,
and turnmll of
Polltioa has been i
the coupiy'y has.'ret
from the excitement
political strife, to the customary rou
tines of business vocations.
Everyone of dburse Is thankful or
should be, for the turn which affaire
have taken, and indications bespeak a
brighter future in the commercial
activity of our (nation, than has been
seen in years.
In the midst of this promise of a
prosperous future the successful party
should go slowly about accomplishing
the ends for which It has been put In
power. A slow revolution gives op
portunity for bringing the best means
to the accomplishment of the ends In
view, and fixes the ohange once made
on a more firm and solid foundation.
Of course the quloker good 'principles
can be ppt intoeffeot the better for
the people,but baste le never contin
gent upon nor consistent with good
and effective work. For this reason
we depreoate the offorU on the part of
some over-zealous Democratic organa
to endeavor to shape the polloy for the
new administration by urging upon
the leader their reasons why an extra
session of Congress is necessary.
It is not a necessity. The change,
to be an effective one, must be a grad
ual one, that Is, reasonable time must
be given to the consideration of the
weighty questions which present
themselves. The impetus given to
activity in every section by the recent
expression of publlo opinion Is notice
able everywhere, and the general out
look for a prosperous administration
was never bettor than it is to-day.
Democratlo principles will go Into
effect, but let tho measures olmnging
the present laws be wise and conserv
ative. .
THE DISTRICT ATTORJVBVHHII*.
w
the' I National' Alliance
which has been Ift'sesslon
The fact that it Is tendli
m
Our State Legislators nre iu some
what of A hurry about putting into ef
fect Some of the Democratic principles.
"They want to pass a bill authorizing
the issuance of notes by State
■ banks, * and have everytnlng in
readiness to put It III operation as
aooii ns the Democratlo Congress re
peals the 10 per cent, tax on tliolr oir-
' -culntfou. This seems a little previous
ns the mensuro thus passed might be
In nonfilot with. the law as passed by
Congress latcr/on.
\Yk haven’t yet seen the comet
■which is said to bo now visible in the
heavens, but we hnve been reading a
■good deal about what the astronomers
liavo to say about it, and if we thought
it would do any good we’d be willing
to carry nruuml n petition for“naiiy
•citizens’’ to sign—of course they’d
sign it—everybody signs petitions
when asked—requesting the thing to
•change its route. According to the
astronomers, this now comet is headed
for this globe, nnd is liable to come in
contact with it very soon. The as
tronomers claim, according to an arti
cle that wo 'find in the Philadelphia
Record, to have discovered from their
observations tlint the head of the comet
is pointed very accurately in tho di
rection of this globe, but eonsolo us
with the assertion that contact, if it
•should ocour, would only be with the
tail, and that It would be as bad for
that appendage as George Stephenson
.said it would bo for the “coo" that
might encounter a locomotive. The
late Biehard A. Proctor, however, held
that the tjll of a comet docs not coin
cide with the track which the head of
the comet pursues in spaoe. The tail
, which we see extends from the head in
a direction exactly opposite, from the
sun. This direction can never be the
track of any obmet except in the case
of one traveling directly, toward the
sun; and no comet has ever been seen
to traverse such a path In space. So,
therefore, although there might be on
November 28 a shower of meteors if
the earth should pass through the
track of the comet, it is not likely that
the phenomenon would enable astrou-
ers to explain more clearly or con-
i mystery of comets’ tails.
Meantime, nnd whatever the oourse
of the present Senate may he with ref
erence to tariff legislation, the ablest
men In the Democratlo party will hnve
nil they can do to bo rendy for a safe
and judiolous revision of the tariff by
the time the Fifty-third CSngress will
assemble in regular session! Great
changes arc to he made affecting largo
business interests throughout the
country, and these change? should be
made ns gradually and equitably as
possible, with due regard to the public
good, without paralyzing any legiti
mate branches of business.
We are upon the eve of a revolution
In the system of taxation nnd finance
in this country. That is what tho
change of the administration of affairs
of the government for which the peo
ple have voted means, if it means any
thing in tho sense of political econo
my, and if there ever was a time In the
history of the Democratic party that
called for. the exercise of caution and
all tho oommon sense nnd wisdom that
its nblest and best men enn bring to
bear, that time is now.
Tub Chilians nre rejoicing over
Domoorntio viotory for one reason
above all others, nnd tlmt is they will
not again be Infiloled with Minister
Patrick Eagan. Eagan says he will
not return to Chill, ns he will only
hnve time to go down and back before
his successor is appointed, nnd Eagnn
is right.
Just before his departure,Thursday,
for Helena, Chairman Cnrter said to n
reporter: “I am going straight hack
to Helena and go to practicing law,
furnishing opinions, legal opinions of
course, for 1 don’t suppose my politi
cal opinions would bring me in inueli
money just now." The exigencies of
the campaign seem to have made quite
a humorist of the gcninl chairman.
le novel features are presented
consideration of the actions .of
- --“at ' ■• if ; »
Hrtffloq
session at Memphis;
It Is tending, as a body,
largely towards the ThliM Party Is no
longer concealed, and. the disaffection
brought 1 sbidt between aome of its
leaders on this account may result In
the entire dissolution of the Allianon
as such. Those among the delegates
who favored a nonpartisan organiza
tion bolted the convention, and It Is
said that they will enddavor to main
tain the organization free from poli
ties. The other aide will merge into
the Third Party, and the spilt, Unless
matters are straightened, will result
in the loss of many members, both In
the South and West, and the probabil
ity is that It will not be long before
the organization will cease to bb Na
tional.
The schedule of tho demands mnde
by the convention tallies almost pre
cisely with the Omaha platform,.whioh
is oonolusive evidence that a large
body, at least, from the Alliance has
allied itself with the reform move
ment; but there are numbers of stnnoh
Ailipncemen who still maintain that
r.he order should be held aloof from
polltlos, and, while they may favor the
platform to a large extent, the fact of
tlielr refusal to Indorse the 'Third
Party movement may result in the di
vision of the National order, a part of
it going to the Third Party, and the
formation of a new Alliance move,
ment,
The fact is the Alllnnnc is losing its
ground. So long ns it held aloof from
politics It did well, but now the Al
liance ns separate from polltlos is
hardly conceivable. Polities and the
reform movement broke the spell, and
the mighty Samson has lost his power.
THE NCHOOI. III!.I..
i»grilPS ^lOTORE.
The Herald Is glad to reproduce
the following strong endorsement of
Col, Jesse JV. Walters, of this city,
from the Thomasvllle TimCs-Enter-
priso of this morning, and thanks the
Tlmes-Enterprlse for it, besldus:
Hon. Jesse W. Walters, of Albany, is
a onndldate for dlstrlot attorney. It is
said thnt several other gentlemen nre
aspiring to tho same position, Mr.
Walters is thoroughly qualified nnd
equipped for the office. He is able,
painstaking and conscientious iu the
discharge of every duty. This Is, we
believe, the first time Mr. Walters has
ever asked anything at the hands of a
Democratlo administration. Ho cer
tainly ought to stand well with Cleve
land, for he has been a most
enthuslastio supporter of Grover. As
Elector for tho Second dlstrlot, he
made speeolies In every county in the
dlstrlot, In some of them two or three.
His unanswerable arguments, nnd zeal
and fidelity in advocating the great
oause, added largely to the sucqesB of
the tloket in this district and In the
State. Jesse Walters never goes nt
anything in a half handed way. He
went Into the late canvass early, nnd
never, until the last ballot had been
deposited on the evening or the 8th,
did lie relax his energies or stop.work.
There Is not a man In the district bet
ter qualified to fill the position, ami
his hosts of friends throughout this
section hope to see him capture the
prize.
Don’t rush the office racket too fast.
The offices will keep fur some time
yet.
Arizona nnd New Mexico may soon
be ndmltted ns Stntes, which means
four more Democratic Senators.
Jno. Temple Gbavks is spoken of
for Minister to Venezuela to take the
place of Minister Soruggs. There’s
$8,000 a year In it.
Tub Atlanta Journal denies the re.
port thnt there is to be a new morning
paper in Atlanta under the manage
ment of Hoke Smith.
Inter-collegiate athletics has
boenre-instituted at the State Univer
sity. This is the best thing the Trus
tees have done in sometime.'
Is there not some way to prevent
the selge which President-elect Clevo
land will have to undergo frirni office-
seekers after the 4th of March?
Senator.Vkst, of Missouri, says the
Democrats must move slowly and cau
tiously in their reformation of the
tariff. Senator Vest is a long-headed
statesman.
Texas people are putting thous
ands of dollars into rain-making ex
periments so far with very meagre re
sults. A good many of the Texans
still stick to water as a beverage.
OcRtitnte is in rather a bad fix if
part nf our Legislative session has
been illegal. The mills of the judicial
nnd executive departments may have
to turn backward for a time,"and re
grind some of the meal they have scat
tered so broadcast.
Rev
Pkof. Smith, who is now being tried
for heresy before the Presbytery of
Cincinnati; for writing a pam
phlet in which he stated tlmt
the Bible is unreliable and unin
spired, said in ins defence yesterday
tlmt if all the charges against him ns
given in the testimony coujd be sub
stantiated, then lie should be declared
guilty. This seems to be the senti
ment of the Presbytery, too. The
trial will be couoluded Monday.
Thomas E.Sherman, while ad
dressing the Society of the Army of
Tennessee the other day, turned his
remarks on the monument to his fattier
which the family has ordered.but which
is now in the hands of the strikers at
Westerly, Conn. Among other things
lie said whioh caused much excitement
nnd elicited great applause was the
following: “The family cannot even
move oor father's tombstone from the
spot where these workmen hold it en
closed. They will not consent to let
us have it moved and I only know one
way to get it, and that jo organize one
of his old regiments and go there and
take it by force."
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Wen Peter bed bis plctor’ took,
W’en Peter bed ble i Inter’.
Hie oeok was twisted in b cibok '
Jsstlllcrl*buwcon-rriiter; i »t.'
Ills heir was flyln nil nboot.
Beside* bis tongue wus lolllii out!
Seems It blp ears they flopped ab shock
W’en Peter bed hts plctur’ took.
Wen Peter bed his ptetur’.
Wen Potor bed bis plctur* took,
W’en l’cter bed bis pfotnr*.
Hs sold that bo perposed to look
Jest like them plctnr’s In a book—
Jest Ilk* & Roman victor.
Bat bis ol’ whiskers stood ont straight—
So straight ft forty>aeven pound weight
Couldn’ pall ’em down—an there be ast
With one oyc open, ’tother abet,
W’en Peter hod his plctur’ took,
W’sn Peter bed bis plctor*.
Won Peter hed bis plotur’ took,
W’en Peter hed bis plotur’.
Ho looked so desp’rlt an forsook,
Hed sicb astranglln, chokln look
Jast ltko ft bow constrictor.
An w’en the mnn Bbowed him the proof,
I thought that Peter’d raise tho roof.
Ho conldu’ control hlsself st all,
But bed to set right down an hawk
W’en Peter bed his plctur’yook,
W’en Poter hed bis plctur’.
-S. W. Foss In Yankee Blade.
We present in unother column an
interview with Senator Wooten upon
the bill providing for a graded school
systejn for Albany.
As will be seen Senator Wooten is
strongly in favor of the measure and
has worked furjt for years,but having
encountered some opposition to the
measure, and it being one involving
file question of taxation, he lias very
rightly asked for a public expression
of opinion iu regard to the measure.
Albany should have the publlo
sahool system. The friends of the
measure should stance get ready this
petititon, get on it the names of the
majority of the tax payers, and then
there will be no delay.
Let tlie matter be taken in hand.
Dispatches say that McComas, who
has just been appointed Justice of the
Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia, will be strongly opposed by
the Democrats. This Is a retaliatory
measure. Four years ago as Mr. Cleve
land was retiring from office A. E.
Stevenson was .appointed by him to
the samo position. On the principal
that a life appointment ought not to
be made by a president about to retire,
Stevenson was not confirmed. Now
the Demooratio Senntors will try to
defeat MoComas. Well, revenge is
sweet.
The OKI Bnalleh Fiddler.
I know not wliy nor cau I help re
grottiiig that tho gprxl old English
word “fiddler” should liavo utterly
lost casto, nnd dragged down fiddle
with it in its fall. There's no blinking
tho fact that it lias been a name of
scorn for full a hundred years. Thus,
when poor 'Widow Tlirale choso to
give her dead brewer a successor iu
the person of tho highly estimable
Signor Piozzi, all the world and his
wife cried shame upon her for “wed
ding a fiddler.”
Hence we see that even in 1784 the
word had already become what
Jeremy Bentliam calls a “question
begging appellation”—and of hang
dog forge, But indeed the gallery
wag’s, “Don’t waste him! Kill a
fiddler with him!” addressed to the
actor who had stage slain his man
shows that “fiddler" had already
nnughtto lose. Eutwhyl The old
phrase, “Drank as n fiddler,” yields
no explanation. It has its perfect
match in the contemporary proverb,
“Drunk os a lord,” which never low-
ergd the peerago in any one’s esteem.
Nor can wo fairly tako ns a type of
his class tho fiddler mentioned in
Cowper's letters. Thatwortliy, after
fiddling all night at a tavorn hall,
begged n bed. All beds full, he
craved n shako down in the hay loft,
lured tho guileless landlord thither,
knocked him down and mado off
with all his cosh. Eut oven if we
assume that the whole tenor of this
exceptional fiddler's lifo was base-
only we won't ussmuo it, that’s fiat,
and wo leave it to sharper wits to
find the key to this fiddle riddle.—
National Review.
Di3CC8bixg the question of an extra
session of Congress, the London Tjines
says: “The eagerness of tlie defeated
party to abrogate the McKinley law
Is, in itself, sufficient to inspire the
victors with caution. But there are
better reasons for delay. A change
from tlie most monstrous absurdities
of McKinleyism to something like en
durable tariff, will be slow and tenta
tive, but it cannot be long postponed,
nor can it be restricted within named
bounds.”
Great Professors of the Past.
Among the most famous physi
cians of the University of Alexandria
were Cleombrotus, Herophilus and
Erasistratus, and among the subor
dinate physicians was Philosteph-
anUB, who had charge of the natural
history department of the museum
and who wrote n book on fishes.
Tho researches of the physicians
were founded upon the only sure and
certain basis of anatomy. They wore
authorized by the royal authority of
Ptolemy to resort to the dissection
of the dead and to ascertain by that
only trustworthy method the correct
structure of the human body. They
were also authorized to make vivi
sections of criminals who had been
condemned to death, in order that
they might ascertain the mode in
which the various functions of the
body were performed.
Among tho improvements in sur
gery effected by this school of physi
cians may be mentioned new opera
tions for lithotomy, instruments for
crushing calculi, for reducing dislo
cations, etc.—Westminster Review.
An Old English Custom.
Miss Strickland ia good'enough to
toll us that it was fonporly tho cus
tom in England for married pooplo
to keep the anniversaries 6f their
weddirg day, and on those occasions
as many small minc6 pies were placed
in one dish on the table as corre
sponded with the number of years
that the husband had enjoyed con
jugal felicity. In families where
olive branches wore numerous this
pleasant custom must have proved
the sweetest of boons for the juve
niles and their friends. We have
grown too grand in these days for
such modest mince pie anniversaries,
which have been superseded by sil
ver and sometimes by golden wed
dings. Curiously enough, while plum
porridge has entirely disappeared
from our culinary economy, the
preparation is still cited iu Amer
ican cookory hooks, and the recipe,
even to tho stoned prunes, is almost
precisely identical with that given
nearly 150 years ago by Mrs. Hannah
CHosso.— London Telegraph.
An Oild l'lnco for a Snake.
John T. Thomas, a mino boss at
the Northwest colliery at Simpson,
hod an experience a fow days ago
that is jvorthy of special montion
from the fact that it is supposed to
ho unprecedented in the history of
mining. Ho was engaged in eating
his dinner end wa3 seated fully 700
feet from tha mouth of the slope
when he observed a long, slender oh
ject wriggling along tho floor of the
mine a short distance from him.
Upon closer inspection it proved to
he a garter snake such as is seen in
the fields hereabouts frequently.
It was twenty-two inches in length,
and was immediately killed by the
men whom Mr. Thomas had called to
see this ordinary sight in such an ex
traordinary place. Mr. Thomas has
followed the vocation of a miner in
this country and Wales for thirty-
seven years. In the latter country
he has seen eels in the mines which
had been hatched from spawn
brought there by the flooding of the
underground works, but he has yet
to hear of a similiar case of snake
finding.—Carbondale (Pa.) Leader.
Unlnfluwmablo Petroleum.
Numerous processes figure in the
patent list whereby it is claimed
that petroleum can be rendered in
explosive and also uninflammable.
One of these consists in adding to
about forty gallons of petroleum two
pounds of copper sulphate, and stir
ring tho whole well. After about
six hours’ standing the oil is ready
for use.—Philadelphia Ledger.
'Arrangements are already being
made for Mr. Cleveland’s inaugura
tion next March. ;
The Republicans are rather sore on
Carter, the manager of their campaign
during the light. It is charged tlmt
he sent more money to Montana than
he did to Illinois, in order to secure
his election as Senator from that
State. They are now rejoicing that
the Montana Legislature is Demo
cratic which means no Senatorsldp for
Carter. The manager of an ill starred
campaign has a thankless office to say
the least. Brother Carter will have to
try the soothing. effect of private life
for a while as a restorative for his
shattered nerves.
Iemih& nf* Richmond count)
has introduced a bill in the Legisla-
fifr«loiinakd i dogs property and re.
quirirtg tbemtb bfl given In by their
owners for taxes, the same as other
prOjferty. i *
The bill Is An the right line and
ought to pass and beoome a law. Such
a law ia needed in Georgia, and no one
feels the need of It more than those
who own valuable doga. . ' ’
Why shouldn’t dogs be recognii&d
as property and be taxed acoording to
their value and reoeive the same pro.
teotion that the laws of the State give
to other property? There are thous- j
ands of dogs In Georgil whose owners
prize them above the value «f an' qr- j
dinary horse. Many of them oust
more money and would bring more on
the market than an ordinary borae,
and their owners would gladly pay
taxes on them in order that theg
might be reoognlzed as property ad
have the protection of the law.
Bill after bill has been Introduce)
in the Geurgia Legislature, to make I
dogs property or to subject them 1 to
taxation the same ns other property, |
but evej'y time such a bill is Intro-
dticed it is sneered at and treated as a i
sort of chestnut or Joke. Sensible peo
ple must be at a loss to know why this
is so, yet the fate of every “dog law"
introduced in our Legislature since |
the war shows It to be true.
If the Legislature will do no more, I
it might agree.upon a bill allownigl
the owners of dogs to make propWty I
of them by returning them for taxes, I
the same as other property, and thus [
under the protection
of the State. The
sportsman who pays $50 or $100 for a l
blooded hound or a trained-bird dogl
thinks more of him, perhaps, than ]
of any other property he.may own of j
alike value, and it is nothlnghutright
that he should be allowed to place the |
dog on nn equality with hisflfty-dol4
cow or his hundred-dollnr horse so t 1
as the Inw’s protection of property^
concerned, provided he is willing tpT
pay the tax. . j ■
William Henry Harrison, in 1840,
carried Elbert oounty in this State by
909 majority. In 1802 Benjamin Har.
rlson lost it by the same majority—099
Democratic papers are united upon
the fact tlmt one of the first duties of
the new administration is to swe;
away all forms of the pernicious fori
place them
of the laws
bill.
It is strange how newspaper corres
pondents oan figure out the ^whole,' I
policy of an administration four!
months before that administratipD|
goes in to power.
Rival organs-will fight on every!
issue where a question of consistenoyf
to prinoiples is not Involved. Witness!
the Journal and Constitution on tl(
extra session question.
It seems that there are going
he some lively time? out in Kans
Several elections are being oontesl
and Mrs. Lease ia put on the trail ’
Jerry Simpson, who, she says, is i|
Democrat. This disoovery beats the|
work of Columbus.
S3)
HhhHsk
The malicious report that Mr. Cjj
land made certain concessions
promises to Tammany for its supp
is vigorously denied by the New Yorl
Democratic organs. Such a oourse ill
entirely inconsistent with Mr. Clove-!
land’s spotless record in the past,
Mr. I. C. Plant, the well-known
banker of Macon, died at his home in
thnt city on Wednesday afternoon,
The Telegraph says that Mr. Plant,
was the oldest banker in the South, 1
having been engaged in the banking
business fifty-eight years. t
■If we nre to judge by wha*A , f
sometimes see In the newspapers, m
nre forced to conclude that there is i
large element in the great cities of tb<
North more ignorant and supersti
tious than our Southern Negroes e
were. A Philadelphia spiritual
medium, for instance, advertises tb«tj
she will “reveal the name of your fu
ture husband or wife, cure corns and'
warts, restore missing lovel-s or sweet
hearts, cause hair to crop out thickly
on bald bends, and give sure tips on
the races.” This “lays it over” any*!
our Southern Negro voodoo doctoW
and conjurers.
“The arrest of R. E. Foster, a drum
mer in Atlanta, on a charge of lunacy. I
recalls to mind a little incident which,|
happened on our way to Atlanta to i»ij
tend the opening of the General As-J
sembly,” said Ed Jones this morning.!
“Foster stopped for a while at the Ar-T
tesian House, and his actions |
led people wlio> saw film to ljeliWI
that he was of unsound mind. Going!
up he was on the same train wide
Capt. Wooten. When the'conductor
asked him (or his ticket he jumpedl
from liis seat qnd caught hold of Cnptl
Wooten, saying excitedly : ‘Hereij
tlie man who has my ticket.’ Cnd
Wooten of oourse did not understand
the circumstanoes nnd made a vigor-j
ous protest, and it came near resultingj
in a small fisticuff before they
separated. Foster was finally quiet<
down, however, and matters were c(
plained satisfactorily.” Foster is now
hopelessly insane and has been cnj|
ried to his home, from where be
be sent to the asylum.-
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