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mwm- ■tm Albany weekly hj ■ April s, 1893. r.;y,-raasa- _ .MAN; AF IN WALL STREET, IT MAY NOT MEAN THAT HE FEELS SAFE. JL Typical Scene In One of tlio Well Known •‘Banker* and Brokers” Offices With 1 Which the Money Centor of the Metrop- : oil* Is Crowded—Currying Favor* Trrrr"T’M> j —” EXTINCTION OF THE KISS. In tho intorvnl between the morning and afternoon sessions of the Stock Ex change the spectators and operators sat -fa tho broker’s office studying the ques tions as they had been marked up on the blackboard by a junior clerk. They spoko but little. Some wero making mental calculations, some were bililding air ■castles, a few were hugging themselves ■with delight because fortune was in their favor, and others looked grim and en deavored to conceal their chagrin and regrets at losses by the operations of the morning. -Not a few were wrestling •with Bassanio’s problem, considering ■whether another arrow would discover that already lost. In gambling tho hope that another fling at fortune will bring her down never fades. But those who gamble daily recognize that such reason ing is not sound, and where, as in Wall atreot, all the investments are based upon theorizing as to cause and effect, some thing more than unreasoning faith in fortune’s favor is necessary to open tho purso strings of its followers. Tlieso men wero veterans, and tho gambler's passion was subordinated to cold calculations. An old but gay and sprightly man came upon tho scene. Ho wnB the pro prietor of tho office, a big broker, widely known and very popular. Ho was ro- puted to bo tho possessor of great wealth. Upon his favor depended tho fortunes of some of the men in the chairs. Should ho withdraw it at a critical moment they might sink out of sight overwhelmed by Tuin, wrecks to bo pointed out by tho curious in after days as somo of the “has boons” of Wall street. He addressed them ■on tho subject of gold shipments, argu ing from his own view points as to their effects upon the prosperity of the com munity. Ho had the manners and voico of a stump speakor. He intorlarded his tomarks with jokes and reminiscences * *nd talked volubly. A handsome gray haired man, with smooth face and erect figure, watched him and tho others close ly. When tho broker had finished and disappeared into ills privato office, this man said quietly to tho friend, a visitor, who sat beside him: “I know now just about how all of theso men stand. Did you observe them while Jones was talking? Did you no tice how somo of thorn laughed loudly at his jokos, while others only smiled, and still others remained impassive? Did you see how thoso who laughed loudest strove to catch his eyo, aB though to say: ‘See mo; I appreciate your humor; I am im pressed with your remarks.-. The others here may not follow you, but I am all cars.’ And the meaning of all that is that they want to curry favor with him and win his personal good will, so os to bank ngainst it should they need his financial assistance. “I always pay attention to the crowd when he talks, for by observing them I can tell how much margin each is trad ing on. The man who laughs loudest and is most obsequious is very close to sinking. Ho fears he may go under any moment, and his laughter is a desperate appeal to save him. It rings in my ears like ihe cry of tho drowning wretch who yells: ‘Save mei Save mol’ I can al most see him struggling in the waves and tearing his finger nails on the glassy sides of tho rocks against which he is dashed in his attempts to pull himself into safety. Every time that man roars at one of Jones’ jokes, and holds his sides as though they would split, I feel a throb of sympathy for him, for I know his o»se is very desperate. The man who laughs moderately, looks knowing and has a fairly contented expression has a fair margin up and feels safe. But the man who looks at Jones with an air of indifference or has the courage to frown upon him is tho object of my deepest envy. That man repoBes on a financial rock so high and solid that an earth quake would recoil from it. And, de pend upon it, every other man in this place envies him too. If they dared, they would stroke his coat and rub shoulders with him in tho hope of gaining luck thereby. “I will never forget the sensation caused once by a man getting up here and calling Jones loudly by his firs, name. That ‘William’ still rings in my ears. There was dead silence for fully a minnte after it had been uttered. Every one of us expected to see the raBh man struck by a thunderbolt or consumed by the withering scorn of Jones’ lightning glance. I felt my blood congeal with horror, and several of the others told me afterword that they looked for some thing awful. But Jones looked as sweet as an angel, and we all could have wor shiped the daring one on the spot. He received a dozen invitations to drink within 10 minutes and was overwhelmed with offers of cigars. His margin, 1 after ward discovered, was 10 per cent. There is a report that another man called Jones Bill some years ago, but I don’t believe It. If anybody did that, it was an out rider. No customer with a proper con sideration of the possibilities of the fu ture could so far forget himself, even though his immediate conditions were most prosperous."—New York Sun. A HISTORICAL Sanitary Stiiruce lavn<M»R the Sacred Realm of Romantic Sentiment-. The kiss of affection and romantic love is celebrated in t-hb song and story of ull ages. Sacred literature justifies and honors the holy kiss of religious sympathy and fellowship. The meeting of the lips has always been with our race the universal and natural and spontaneous expression of the most teuder sentiment. Now sanitary seieuce pusheB itself forward to degrade tho kiss to the level of sewer gas and the many agencies by which noxious and infec tious disease is propagated. It is de manding the abolition of the practice as a remnant of barbarous ignorance of tho laws of health. It would subor dinate romantic sentiment to cautious prudence and forbid the lover to cm brace his sweetheart, even as a seal of their betrothal, until they are able to produce medical certificates that they are free from the transmissible germs of disease. For several years past prudent par ents, under the instruction of their physicians, have guarded their young children jealously against the indis criminate kissing which was once in vogue, lest those poisonous germs be transmitted to the babies. It is a reasonable precaution, for undoubted ly the danger exists, and us the germ theory of disease is more generally accepted peril of such contact is ap predated the more intelligently. If, then, there is a serious risk for children in careless kissing, say the preachers of sanitary science, it is a risk which older people must avoid also. Even the cherry rod and pout ing lips of beauty may convey mate rial poison along with the rapture of love they express so romantically The most ardent manifestation of masculine devotion may be the means of -planting the seeds of dis easo which will bring forth a fruit ful crop of maladies sent down through generations. So says science. TWELVE SWORDSMEN SLAIN BY ONE MAN BEFORE AN ARMY. A Scene More Exciting Tlinn Any Battle In the Annals of Modern Hlutory—Two Great Armies a* Witnesses of tl*e Terri* ble Work of One Sword. To give an idea of what a bravo man can do if he knows fencing thoroughly and but keeps cool and collected in dan ger, we will relate a historical duel. So extraordinary is this combat that it would be held a romance had it not been witnessed by a whole army. The hero is Jean Louis, one of thtr great mastors of the beginning of this century, and the duel happened in Madrid in 1818. Ho was tho inaster-at-urms of the Thir ty-second regiment of French infantry. The First regimeut, composed entirely of Italians, formed part of'the same bri gade. Regimental esprit do corps and rival ries of nationality caused constant quar rels. when swords were often whipped out or bullets exchanged. After a small battle had occurred in the streets of Madrid, in which over 200 French and Italian soldiers had taken part, the offi cers of the two regiments, in a council of war assembled 1 , decided to give such breachos of order a great blow and to re establish discipline. They decreed that the master-at-arms of the two regiments should take up tho quarrel and fight it out. Imagine a whole army in battle array on one of tho large plains that surround Madrid. In tho center a largo ring is left opon for the contestants. This spot Is raised above tho plain so that not one of tho spectators of this tragic scone— gayly dressed officers, soldiers in lino. Spaniards, excited as never a hull figlil excited them—will miss one phase of the contest. It is beforo 10,000 men that tho honor of an army is about to be avenged in tho blood of 80 bravo men. Tho drum is hoard. Two men, naked to tho waist, step in tho ring. Tho first is tall and strong. His black eyes roll disdainfully upon the gaping crowd; no ^ ia Giacomo Ferrari, tho celebrated Ital Accordingly the secretary of tlio I ian. The second, tall, also handsome, Ohio board of health has been urging an ^ niuscles like steel, stands mod- the Pastors’ union of Sandusky to [stly awaiting the word of command use their influence to put .. stop to N?” V 61 *" f'T’ S 'Ztt ., ,. , ,. n , . . 1 tako tlioir places on either side of their the practice of unscientific kissing or . , , \ deathlike silence ensues, kissing which is not carefully re 1 «On guardt” strained by sanitary laws. Ho 'ftlso ijjjq two masters cross swords. Gia- warns them of the danger of using como Ferrar i lunges repeatedly at Jean the same wine cup in administering Louis, but in vain. His every thrust is .the rite of the holy communion to me t by a parry. Ho makes up his mind different persons. He would not lot to bido his chance and caresses and women kiss each other after tho pro- teases his opponent’s blade. Jean Louts, vailing fashion, and of course ho dis- calm and watchful, lends himself to the countenances the kissing of babies play, when, quicker than lightning, tho by every chance comer, and be would Italian jumps aside with a loud yell and prevent kissing among the babies makes a terrible lunge at Jean Louis—n Florentine trick, often successful. But Tims colfi and prudential science is "> th extraordinary rapidity Joau Lom, invading the realm of tender and ro- and rl8p ° Sta qulcMy ta tUe mantic, poetic and religious seuti „ It nothtag/ . crlss Giacomo, ment and destroying ns a pestliouse lnere Borato h,‘> and they again fall on tho very temple in which tho love of guard. Almost directly ho is hit in the all ages baa offered up its worship. b roaa t. This time tho sword of Jean It is an appalling revolution.-—New Louis, who is now attacking, ponetratos York Sun. I deeply.v Giacomo’s face bocomes livid, his sword drops from his hand, and he Tlio runny none. I [alls heavily on tho turf. He ia dead. A most unpleasant sensation is | Jean Louis is already in position. Ho A HYPNOTIC IMPOSTER. 1 —TT—a An Engll.limnn Who Cmild Do Many Thing* For Teacher* or Hypnotism. Tho subject who came to me had been a shining light in the profession, and I have reason to know that ho was ex ceptionally gifted. He had performed to crowded houses under soveral great artists at the Aquarium, and elsewhere in London and the provinces. Ho had figured at seloct seances of scientific hyp notists. He had been privately operated on by medical men anxiously soeking after truth. And, by his own statement, he had humbugged them all. What proof had 1, thou, that ho was not hum bugging me? Ample proof. Ho offered, in the first place, to do under my direc tion everything which he had done in public and privnte seances when under supposed hypnotic control. I contem plated, in tho first instance, accepting this offer and giving a demonstration to a select circle, and it was solely owing tc myself that this was not done. As a preliminary, I asked him to ex hibit a few of his powers for my private edification. He complied without hesita tion. He firtlt of all passed himself into tho “cataleptic” state and lay on tho floor rigid. Two members of my staff took him in this condition and laid him across tho backs of two cliuira—tho back of his head resting on one and his heels on the other.' He remained so for several minutes. On a lines being made over him with the hand, his body became arched upward or downward. Two fairly robust individuals next sat on his body, and the “cataleptic” supported them without sighs of inconvenience. He then himself thrust a needle into his arm and through tho lobe of his ear. to prove that he was insensible to pain while in tho cataleptic state. Next he showed how one side of his face could be drawn down by toothache (“suggested” by the operator), while the ether side was distended in a broad grin. Again, at tho “suggestion” of tho oper ator. the grin and the toothache changed sides, and so on. Ho offered to swallow an ounce of cayenne pepper in a glass of water, but unfortunately 1 had no cay enne pepper at hand. I asked him whether he could tako a wineglussful of ipecacuanha, and ho professed readiness to do it at once The cayenne pepper 1 could partly understand. It would ho u mere question of standing a certain amount of pain. But 1 asked him how he managed to control the effect of the ipecacuanha. “Wo only do it for a time.” he said. “You can learn to do it with practice, like the rest of the tricks But wo always bring the stuff up after the performance.” lie also expressed his readiness to drink oil. Among novel tricks which he offered to perform was that of “slow ing” the pulse while under hypnotic influ ence. Of this he claimed to bo tho orig inal inventor. I asked him whether all the “subjects" wero equal imposters. “All," he said. He know them all per sonally and would answer for them. He ridiculed the mere suggestion that there could be anything genuine in hypnotism, whether in Paris, London or anywhere else, but here he may have spokon be yond his knowledge.—London Truth. KIT CAfcSON IN ITS PRIME. WE HAVE EVERYTHING FOR OUR • . ■ * CHAUTAUQUA WEEK. Don’t Fai It Had fiCTk-n Tlimiinfitl UuNtling Cltliem Wf»CT«? Now but n Hundred Remain, “In fMteyou might lmvo traveled 1,000 milos and not have found »w lively a tovvu as Kit Carson^ l-olo.,” said Station Agent Billy Dunaway tho other day as tho Kan sas Pacific tralir lingered before tho sta tion house at the now quiet little Ic-wn on Big Sandy creek in eastern Colorado. “This was then the terminus of tho Den ver line of the Union Pacific, and you can just bet the camp was a hummer. There were over 7,000 people here, and a gayer crowd you uever Baw. The popu lation was made up of railroad xneu, cowboys, mule skinners, gamblers and a preacher. “Tho latter was sometimes loi)ely r but the 0,000 other people in camp were fair ly sociable and managed to have a mod erately good time, and everything ran wide opep, and in tho palmiest days of the camp there wero 47 saloons, 7 dahee halls, 2 theaters and all the other things necessary to the lubrication of existence in the gay and bouuding west. For two years things were redliot, with fights. | shooting matches and lynching boes near ly evory night. “Somo of tho old time engineers who wero jerking steam over the line then say a regular daily news item in railway circles for awhile was to the effect that a man or two had been hung the night before to the bridge on tho Sandy. Tho lynching of a man for murder was an unusual event, but dire vongeanco was wreaked on tho petty burglar, borne thief or other unprincipled offender who dia not have tho nerve to shoot, but sneaked arouud after dark to do his no- farious work. When dealing faro, the gamblers preserved peace and quietude in the game by wearing two 0-Bhooters silently swinging from their holts, and when In a game of ‘stud’ tho pack vvua always secured from being blown away by one of tlieso same free moral agehts 8omo stiff games vvoro playod in thoso days, aud when a cowboy camo in off tho roundup, or when tho freighters camo in from a long trip off to Mexico and Arizona, or pay day on tho lino camo along, money was stacked a foct high on the cloth. “After tho camp had been running in this way for two years tho road was put on through to Deliver, and the crowd followed. Where onco you could set* over 7,000 people there are now a hun dred or so, and all that remains of the I Delicious Evaporated Appli former glory of this namesako of old Apricots. We have a fresh l Kit Carson Is tho ”“' ek ™,, ban . 1 5’! l '' l ) hanc 1 for next wee k yon soe up there on the biU. «. lot of | Wg hftv{ . only fifty dozeu To send us your orders for Finest Groceries. We lead t all in keeping the prices do You should not worry with ba T th CAKES Remember our Cakes are re~ better than you can make, be you sometimes fail. We can ways fill an order for any kin cake given us the forenoon of wanted. caused by tho violent excitation of wipes his reeking blade; then, with the tho ulnar nerve duo to a blow on the point of his sword on the ground, ho elbow. This norvo passes down on calmly awaits the next man. the inner side of the arm, and then , Tho best fencer of the First regiment ,. ... , ,i paries are there, impatient to measure the elbow joint. Any one who ha. | BWOr da with the conqueror, burning to felt his neighbor s elbow sticking into Hveng0 master they had deemed in- his ribs knows that the elbow is re- v ( nc H,i a< markably deficient in flesh. The j ean Louis hardly had two minutes’ nerve is therefore at this point very re8 t_ Ho la ready. A new adversary- near tho surface and has little to stands before him. A sinister click of shield it from a blow. If we are so swords is heard, a lunge, a parry, a ris- unfortunate as to give our elbow a post and then a cry, a sigh, and all is over, smart tap, we obtain a practical con- A second body is before Jean Louis, firmation of tlie fact that the ulnar A third adversary advances. They nerve is the principal sensory nerve want Jean Louis to rest. I am not of the forearm and hand.-Toronto ^^“em^tSian is as " 1BU ’ I tall as the one who lies there a co: odd Comment. | covered by a military cloak. He has One who gives public or private closely watched Joan Louis' ploy and recitations is certain to hear remark- thinks ho has guessed tho secret of his able comments on his work. Most victories. He multiplies his feints and people wish for something emotional tricks; then, all at once, hounding like a and dramatic, where the color is laid tiger on his prey, lie gives his opponent on with a heavy brush and senti- [ ment is rampant, PRUNE broken boor bottles and dosortion.”— ] Duuver News. 16 2-3 cents Can Co] A Dl.tnrlinr ut u Ituliour.nl. Julius Bit'll burg writes: “At tho occa sion of a musical fostival in Dusseldorf I witnessed a Bcono that produeud gen eral and not unjustifiable excitement among thoso present". It was at the last, , , .. . . rehearsal of Beethoven’s ninth or choral Left, and if you wish any y symphony, and tho great hall was filled send your order at once, as with people from near and far unxions selling rapidly, to hear tho thon but little known work. | We will have fresh Lady A RumlnJuconce of Fanny Kemble. The late Fanny Kemble is remembered by old residents of Germantown and Philadelphia as a superb horsewoman. Sho had a fiery temper, which matched that of her husband. Pierce Butler, and speedily brought about wliat is still ono one of tlie most noted divorce trials re ported in the law books. In her youth she was remarkably beautiful, and in the role of Juliet she was the personifica tion of dazzling loveliness. Ehe was not ed for her keenness of wit oven in the days of her old age. Once, whon an im pertinent street lounger stepped up to hor while she was looking in tlie window of a bric-a-brnc store and said, “Are you fond of antiquities?” Mrs. Kemble quick ly unpinned lipr veil and turning on tlie man her aged face (sho was then 73) asked, “Are yon?” Ono of Mrs, Kemble's daughters is Mrs. WiBtar of German town, well known in litoraturo.—Har per’s Weekly. Whilo the orchestra playod tho first e rs, Almond Macaroons, movoment we noticed a dark bearded, and Vanilla Wafers,'• and spectacled, middle aged man in the an- g e day during C" dionoo, who had a score boforo him and ] n1 , n 1 Very Truly, wus gesticulating wildly, being evident- < l ua ly very much dissatisfiod with tho per formance. Suddenly he arose, advanced toward the orchestra and began to shout: “ ‘This is nil wrong. It was not thuB that my immortal friond, Beethoven wanted his masterpiece to bo played You ought to play it much slower, and in this way.’ Ho began to beat time vig orously to tho astonished musicians, en tirely- Ignoring Mendelssohn, who con ducted tho symphony. At this moment several pooplo forcibly ejected tho dis turber from tho hall. The man was the well known Professor Anton Sclilndlor, Beethoven's constant friend during the last years of his life and the author of a 'Biography of tho Muster.’ ”—Boston JoumaL Mock & Ra 1 Reich & Gei* Jean Louis’ sword has parried and ia now r ^ m £ aiiL jsi_ - a _ I deep within his opponent’s breast. I like to be curdled, said a great wllat nec( j we t0 re i a to any more? lady to mo one day. I like “at I Ten new adversaries followed him, and piece about a child being run over by the 10 feU t, e f or o Jean Louis amid the a train. Oh, isn’t it run over? Well, Bxcitc( j ye i] 3 an q roars of an army, you think it’s going to bo ran over. At the re q U est of the Thirty-second and that’s nearly as good.” regiment’s colonel, who thought the Another lady once asked, with a lesson sufficient, Jean LouIb after much gracious and sunny smile, “Don't pressing consented to stop the combat, you recite anything about a good and ho shook hands with the two sur- murder?” — Clifford Harrison in vivors, applauded by 10,000 men. Stray Records! 41 ' From that day fights ceased between French and Italian soldiers. a mff.renc*. This wonderful and gigantio combat A little hotel on Market street might p 0 held a fable were not all the hangs out a sign, “Beds, 25 and 50 (aots gbovo B t a ted still found in the cents.” A guest walked in the other arc hives of the ministry of war.—Lip- day and asked to be shown a speei- pincott’a. men of each kind of bed. He found sho could Not Appreciate it, that they were exactly tho same size, | « [„ t i, e drawing room of one of Califor- in the same room, and both were cov ered with woolen comforts that looked just alike. Guest—Why do you charge more A Matter at Fact Dog. There ore. prosaic men and women, and there are matter of fact dogs. For purely business purposes they are often the best We once owned an excellent retriev ing spaniel of tho simple order of mind, without a grain of humor. This dog ac companied ub unasked when we wanted to shoot a bullfinch in the garden to stuff. The gun went off, and the poor bullfinch dropped. Now, this dog had been used, when the gun waB fired, to go and look for a dead or wounded rabbit. So, instead of looking under the apple tree, ho dis appeared into the hedge, and in a few minutes ho returned with a rabbit in his mouth! So much for the value of a matter of fact dog.—London Spectator. Tho Extra Session of the Senate. President Harrison’s proclamation call ing an extra session of tho senato is the usual course pursued at tho outgoing of each administration, to enable the senate to "advise and consent” to tho cabinet selected by the incoming president. It is also enstomary at the same session to send in the names of ministers soleeted for the most important foreign posts and other leuding offices at home, President Cleveland's proclamation, issued under similar conditions four years ago. wus dated Feb, 20. There was some talk in connection with the issuing of the proclamation about the question whether a president Death From a Barber’. Barer. The death of Mr. John Terry of Rector street from a malady brought on by a slight cut in the face which he g.-t while being shaved ought to be an admonish ment to barberB. The wound inflicted by ihe razor in the barber’B hand was very slight, but it was the means of admitting into Mr. Terry’s system some baneful substance, which may have been in the lather, or on brush, sponge or towel, or on the barber’s band. The result was blood poisoning, from which he died in a week after he had been cut.—New York Lotter. i Eggs from prize-winning Buff Cochin and Brown Leghorn chickens 411.75 per 13. Address H. I. Stbbkb. aia’s bonanza men, now living in New York, there hangs a painting of a very common country scene—a girl feeding a flock of turkeys. The money king’s for ono” bed "than the other? They I daughter says that her father cares more are as much aUke as two often stands before it for long moments hens. Landlord (condescendingly)—We change the sheets, 6ir, on the 50-cent beds once a week, and on the 25-cent beds once u month. Guest—Guess I'll take a 10-cent at a time. His boyhood was spent in a tiny hamlet tneked away in the Cats kills, and when the pretty girl says, pet tishly, “I don’t see what you find in that tea chroino thing to admire,” he sighs Tlie Flrat and Last Time.' On a sultry day in August an aged negro who gloried in the name of Pom- pey, was driving through Main street in Springfield, Mass., a poor old skeleton of a horse attached to a heavy load of By the most frantic'efforts the horse had succeeded in dragging his load ever an unusually high crossing when sud denly the poor animal stopped, reared in the air and fell dead on the street. Pompey stood for a moment in Bilent astonishment, with extended hands, pend ent lip and bulging eyeballs, then ex claimed, "By gum! I nebber knowed him do dat afore!’’—Cor. New York seat by the stove and nod.—Louisville an(1 answe rs, “No, for yon never had Courier-Journal. | such a home.”—New York Times. A wab is imminent between Brazil The Georgia pupere are about unanimous for ballot reform. And the Legislature will give I an( j Argentine Republic, and it is uaid it to u. la October, too.-Daricn Timber Ga- that chlJe w | n he , p Brazll j n [he event “Don’t be too sure about that. The “ere is one. It wouldbe agoodthin aforementioned may not have com- if some country would spank that llt- nleted that slate manufacturing pro- tie Chile. Always in trouble or get- Sejfc. I ting some other country in trouble. A Sleep Walking Feat. In the swampy districts of France the men are accustomed to walk over the marshy ground on stilts. A sleep walker on one occasion buckled on his stilts and crossed a swollen torrent in the dark. On awaking he had not the courage to perform the same feat in daylight.— Boston Globe. Your suit is the correct style, so _ h DlsjriCa must your hat and shoes be, and Mi & edit’s is the correct place to get them. 25-dtf m. To Onr Friends Cnstoiers: You are cordially invited bad ever convened congresses as a whole I , examine out in special session by proclamation issued . . . just previous to his retirement from Spring Goods, now m, S office. An examination of the records have all the new novelt:’ shows that this was never done, The rfahrics and we are 1 earliest date at which a new congress ± ' abrlCS ’ ana ™\ are \ ever assembled after the inauguration of shipmenrs each day. 1,0 a president waB May 15, 17»7, when interest and examine ( President Jefferson called thetwohonses f make vour nil together to consider the situation canoed ‘ ore . y°U ma * e y° u r pu by the suspension of diplomatic relations Spring Wear. We Will n with France, in 1841 President William era [ e our Goods to-day, but Henry Harrison convened -congress in May 81, by proclama- 38 ou f stock ls com P Iete ’ special session on —, .... . tion issued March 17, bnt before tlie as- mention the many a1 cctnbling of the body he hod died and j mve to 0 ff er Mr. Tyler was in the chair. The occasion for this special session was the condition of finances and rove* nne, which demanded attention. Since I 1841 the congresB has been called in spe cial session four times only. In 1850. lie- I cause of the failure to pass the army ap propriation bill: in 1801, because of the war; 1ft 1877, because of. the failure to pass the legislative and executive appro priation bills; in 1870. because of a fight over the appropriation for United States marshals in the same biU.—Washington Letter. ' 1 The Constitution still stioks to its claim that Georgia is entitled to 2,500 offices under the present administra tion. And that’s right, too. Georgia is entitled to that many and more be sides if she can get them. The Con stitution ia attending to Georgia’s in- terests at the pie oounter at Washing- I ton with great,earnestness and success. Ck'. r- 1mm