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ALBANY WEEKLY HREALD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1893.
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8ATUBDAY, AUGUST 20, 1803.
Krrr coinage gain* new supporter*
every day.
The Journal hasn’t said much about
that reported flop.
O’Fkrrall, who has been nomina
ted by the Democrat* for Governor of
Virginia, I* another man who should
«ue the newspaper* for publishing his
picture,
,1-r I* estimated that the word ‘Sher
man’ has occurred In the newspapers
in this country within the last two
Weeks no less than 104,379,410,735,914
times. ,
Skkator Gohdon Is going to de
liver a speech on the financial ques
tion in a few days, says a report. It
will, no doubt, he up to the double
standard.
Be 1 ? -
South Carolina Is still staggering
under the dispensary law.
evidently
It remains for some great calculator
to determine what Is to become of the
great army of unemployed men now
on the verge of starvation In the
United States.
hill
COHORKSSMAN MoKKS
thinks he thinks he thinks.
The politicians have at least got
President Cleveland at Bay.
Aitouhta Is kicking about hor water.
And so close to the dispensaries,
Thk man who can pay a large
these dnys, smile, and then ask the
collector to have a seat and olgar, and
talks about the bright future, is the
man who advertises.
and
Lie* unto the grandfather’s clock
of old a number of hanks stop every
day,
Thk latest thing in Journalism Is the
' evening papers—as far as news is con
cerned,
Hanks
This is a hustling world and the
man who does the most hustling usual
ly gets a front seat and is comfortably
seated while the others are quarreling
and scuffling at the door.
Your Uncle T.onny Livingston is
I 0
Wa move that Nancy Uniiks he
bitnhed to the “good times that are
coming.”
Thk Athens Banner wants to see
Georgia go back in the experiment of
State banks.
adjusting the cap on Ills gun which Is
to be tired In a day or two. It is Just
barely possible that lie will use noise
less and smokeless powder.
From the way they not most sllver-
ites in Congress seem to have n nilne
of their own.
Wayciioss has an avenue called
“Albany." It must be a hustling
ill
thoroughfare.
Poor Branham!
He, deserve*
monument for the life he sacrificed
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upon the altar of duly.
Thk train robbers in the Wust aro
complaining of hard Minus, and arc
going to hold a mass meeting.
Thosi dull dehatu* at Washington
are growing tjreaolne. The people
■want something more exciting.
It is said that two weeks more will
be devoted to the discission of the all
ver business. M,v. oh me; oh my 1
Baby Both lias no little brother as
reported, and the Constitution brushed
the dust off the Cuticurra out in vain
Tnie Brunswick Times-Advertiser,
referlng to Washington mntturs, says
■“It is time to got to business.” Well
yes I
England, like most every country
on the face of the globe, has some very
poor laws, or better, what may be
called no laws at all, and that such
measures should longer obtain is a
mystery beyond conjecture. As an
evidence of this truth, it is only neces
sary to state that two little girls, Ger
trude and Ethel Hedger, who are
wards In the chancery, and heiresses
to 1100,000 each, were recently ar
raigned as vagrants in a London
police court. Their fortunes are so
securely locked up in chancery that
by no process of law can any of the
money be obtained until the children
are of age. They are at present prac
tically destitute, and unable to pro
cure decent surroundings, clothing or
education.
TWnDLKDH AND
DIIIS.
TWREDI.E.
Bkino so intent upon the action of
Congress the country seems to have
forgotten the fact that Minister
Blount has something of importance
to say on the Hawaiian question.
Tick Atlanta Evening Herald is to
have a new home—a building that
will he an ornament to the push and
euorgy of one of the brightest papers
in the South. We congratulate the
Herald. _______
The
Tiik Philadelphia Record says that
“the suggestion that the bullion now
In the treasury vaults should be mint
ed into 107,000,000 silver dollars as
partial remedy against the scarcity of
currency has elicited a statement that
it would take all of the mints of the
United States live years to coin them
This Is far from correct. The Phila
delphia mint alone during the last
fiscal year coined 89,048,302 pieces of
all denominations, and the equipment
of the mint is such that it could turn
out silver dollars to the number of
over 43,200,OIK) a year, or over 200,000,-
000 In five years, without working
over time. Still, event this would
scarcely he fast enough to give the
suggestion alluded to any practical
value.
Tub Savannah Press says that 1
New Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is the subject
of John Graves' Negro lecture." Thnt
would appear a little strange when
the Georgln orator claims to be up to
date on the question.
Whii.r
the IIkrald does not ap
prove pugilistlo mills, it Is refreshing
to know of a man making $10,000 in a
single night in less than ten minutes.
In this line it la hard times as well as
hard knocks for the vanquished.
Albany** example la worthy otamutu lion.
Sho la living ut homo hoarding at tho same
plare and furnishing her own cash.—Wayorots
lloratd.
Tlion you said something. There is
nothing short nbout Albany but her
nrteslaii wells, and she has thirteen of
t liese.
Prof. McCook, in the Forum, favors
the public with an interesting article
on the tramp question. He suys there
are more than 45,000 tramps in this
country; nearly every one of them is
American horn and unmarried and 57,
per cent, of t hem are skilled mechanics
in the prime of life. This great num
ber of tramps, there is every reason to
believe,are men who have been thrown
out of employment in the mills and fac
tories because they could not compete
with the pauper labor which the pro
tected manufacturers Imported into
thla oountry.
the
In some sections even tho Jewelers
are complaining uf hard times, but
they have a watch out for something
bettor.
Oonohkshmkn may oonie and Con
gressmen may go, but the extra ses
sion, like the brook, seems lo go on
forever.
Now that the House Is going to
hold night sessions, additional light
will probably be shed upon the silver
situation.
Wayciioss quarantined a oar load
of lumber that came from Brunswick,
i
saying that they could not stand even
yellow pine.
I,ast Tuesday was the regular pay
day of tho employes at Washington,
but they did not get any money. This
was owing to the fact that the Presi
dent hns not yet signed the resolution
which wns rushed through both
Houses, making the necessary nppro
priation.
Tiikhk Is nothing “conditional" In
the demand made In the Democratic
platform for the repeal of the Sherman
law, any more than there is for the
free coinage of silver on a basis that
will make silver dollars as good as
gold ones in the market and in the
payment of debts.
Tiik board of lady managers of the
World’s Fair hns adjourned and there
hns been a decline in the price of
stripped tongues.
World'
It Is announced that the
Fair managers will close the concern
this fnll and reopen it next year when
the times are better.
Not as an evidence of hard times,
but ns a matter of fact, several assign
ments have been made in the newspa
per olllces in Atlanta of late.
Dkscitk the fad that Congress is to
debate over a week longer, the Bepub
lie.ans are growing uncomfortable at
the progress of tho Democrats.
Conorkss keeps on debating while
Gknkral Gordon declares to
editor of the Grlflln News flint if Con
gress refuses to come up squarely and
promptly to the relief of' the people
by the enactment of laws to that end,
that ho would announce upon the
floor of the Senate that he would
never agnln raise his voice in support
of the party, though it would kill him
politically and otherwise. Democracy,
he said, now has the grandest oppor
tunity uver offered a national party of
benetitting the people, and if it shirk
ed the duty it would die eternally.
Tiik whole country is singing the
praises of young Congressman Bryan,
of Nebraskn, who delivered a silver
speech in the Lower House Wednes
day last. Nearly every member was
present to henrhim, and for two hours
and fifty minutes he held the large
gathering spell-bound. His speech is
said to have been the grandest effort
made on the floor for years, ,and when
he had concluded he was tendered an
ovation, by Democrats and Republi
cans alike.
Mayor I.amr, of Brunswick, is
dandy, and is doing business nt the
old stand like n veteran. He is right
the blame for the case of yellow fever
should rest upon the shoulders of those
who aru responsible. But there
something wrong when the newspaper
men nrc not allowed to attend the
board of health caucuses.
Conqrkssmkn who ignore the plat
form upon which they were elected
says the Ocala Capitol, are not Demo
crats. That is the long and short of
it. The party has spoken, anil they
were sent to Washington as its agents
to carry out its expressed wishes, not
their own. They will do well to re
member this unabridged fact.
'thousands of unemployed men in this
-country are starving and lighting like
maniacs. Where is America's Antony.
A Miohioan eoftln factory 1ms dis
charged over four hundred employes.
An instance, says the Savannah News,
where the times were too hard to die.
Has any one in South Georgia heard
of an appointment being made down
this way of late? It looks like the
present administration is reserving
lor South Georgia what North Georgia
wouldn’t have. And then to think of
the overwhelming Democratic ma
jorities down here last year! .
hard, Pauline, it's hard.
It is probable that Prof. Seymour
the scientist, will not be buried alive
next month as per arrangements made
and his determination. The Pro
fessor’s mnin stay, Dr. E. C. Dunn, has
become frightened at the opinions
enunciated by papers throughout the
country that he would be oriminally
liable If Seymour should be burled alivi
under his care and direction and fail
to survive the experiment. The doc
tor has notified Seymour that he will
not act as his physician. He suggest:
to Seymour that he will wait until the
talk dies out and do the act privately
in the presence of reputable witnesses
where people know nothing about it.
The'dlfference between the Demo
crats in Congress who want to first
vote for the repeal of the Sherman sil
ver purchase law—the “unconditional”
repeal, if you please—and those who
are contending first for a free coinage
substitute to be agreed upon, makes
about the same distinction that is to
be drawn between tweedledee and
tweedledum.
The Democratic party stands
pledged to the repeal of the Sherman
law. It also stands pledged to the free
ooinage of silver on a busis that will
make a silver dollar as good as a gold
dollar in the mnrket nnd in the pay
ment of debt.
Now, if the Democrats of Congress
really intend to carry out tlie plain
and unequivocal pledges made to the
people on the money question in the
platform, there is neither reason nor
excuse for. such quibbling and hair
spliting as is now consuming tlie
time of Congress and causing delay
that is ruinous to the country. The’
same Democratic majority that is
pledged to the repeal of the Sherman
law is pledged Just as unqualifiedly to
bimetallism or "the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money of
the country, nnd to the coinage of
both gold and silver without discrimi
nating against either metnl or charge
for mintage.”
Let tlie Democrats in Congress who
stand upon the platform and propose
to preserve the integrity of the party
and keep faith with the people vote,nnd
vote now, for the repeal of the Sher
man law, thus stopping at once the
government purchase of silver bullion
on the present basis, and then enact a
law to carry out the party pledge with
reference to silver. The same Demo
cratic vote thnt repeals theShermnn law
ought to be good for the preservation
of silver, and those who flicker will be
held to strict account by their constit
uents.
Now, the point that we want to
make in conclusion is this: It
does not, or need not, follow, ns most
of the advocates of “free silver” would
make It appear, that tlie prompt and
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law, thereby stopping nt once the pur
chase of silver bullion dnder the pro
visions of that measure of Republican
parentage, means that the country is
to abandon tlie use of silver ns money,
A fair construction of the Democratic
platform and an honesty of purpose
upon the part of the Democratic ma
jority ought to put all fears about sil
ver at rest when the Sherman law is
the subject of consideration or the
question to be voted upon.
Repeal the Sherman law, nnd then
enact a silver law on the line of the
Democratic platform so overwhelm
ingly approved by the people.
AS TO A tlNIVBBSAI. HEI.IGION,
done in arithmetical problems? In
case that process should be adopted—
nnd It seems it would be likely to give
as good results as any other at present
in sight—there would not be enough
left to form a basis for a universal re
ligion that anybody would accept.
THE DEGREE OP TSIB OFFENSE.
United States. One death in four
weeks Is all that Is shown on the rec
ords. Is not that a low ratio? v
Onk of the young men who has been
employed pushing people about the
Columbian Fair grounds in wheel
chairs has resigned to marry a rich
California widow, whose acquaintance
he made in the pursuit of his wheel
ing occupation. The occurrence, re
marks the Boston Herald, is another
illustration of the fact that a pushing
young man is bound to make his way
in the world.
From tho Savannah News.
The coroner's jury that rendered
verdict in the case of Robert McBride,
who was shot to death by l’at Meehan
in Atlanta last Monday, declared that,
they could not determine the degree
of the offense. Wns not that a rather
remarkable verdict? There was no
question as to' the facts in the case.
Meehan killed McBride. There was
no doubt about tlmt. And he did not
kill him In self-defense or while he
wns in the act of committing a crime.
He killed him deliberately nnd with
out warning, McBride not even offer
ing resistance. Meehan’s excuse is
that McBride had insulted his wife
some days previous to the trag
edy. It is admitted f hat McBride was
guilty of that offense.
But how pould a coroner’s jury fall
to reach a conclusion that the crime
Meehan committed is murder? It
seems that ten of the jurymen wished
to find a verdict for that offense, but
that two of them refused to coneent
to it.
Under the law only one verdict wns
possible. If the jury felt thnt Meehan
had some Justification for his act they
could have found a verdict in accord
ance with the facts and then added
that they thought there was
provocation for the crime, but to say
that they are unable to fix the de
gree of the offense would seem to in
ilicnte that* they (lid not understand
the legal definition of the crime of
murder.
No doubt Meehan wns greatly ex
cited by the Insult that McBride had
offered his wife, but McBride’s offense
did not justify Meehan in killing him
Public opinion would have excused
Meehan if he had given McBride
severe whipping. It remains to be
seen if a jury of the superior court
will excuse him for killing McBride.
If a jury should do so it would be
equivalent to saying that tho law
against murder in Georgia does not
represent public sentiment in the
State and that it should be amended
in important particulars.
We never saw it in the Enterprise^
but the Tlfton Gazette says that the
Smithvllle paper is responsible for the
following:
It is the deliberate opinion of the
Lee County Enterprise that Hon.
Thomas E. Watson, if not now, will
soon be a fit subject for the lunatic «fc-
ylum.
The Worth Local sums up the finan
cial situation in the following ma£
ner.
It
„ has been Bald that the present
financial stringency might be reme
died if everybody that receives money
would keep it going. If this is the
case, none of the present trouble can
be laid at the doors of the press gang.
The Tifton Gazette offers the fol
lowing advice to tho farmers of every
section:
Now “the fields nre white with cot
ton” and cotton picking is the order
of the day. We advise our farmers to
sell just as fast as they get it ready
market; our observatio
for market; our observation is, as
general rule, those who sell early gel
die best prloes
The Waycross Herald furnishes this
advice for the benefit of the Atlanta
reporters and Athens correspondents:
A new kind of bullet proof cloth
has been invented. Orders for the
-coils from newspaper men are rapid-
y flowing in.
QUEER COKDVUT OF A DEMO
CRAT.
. ■
From the Atlanta Herald.
Editor Myrick says:
Not content with trying to strangle tho no
tion llnancinlly. the President desires to de
prive it even of tho privilege of groaning while
It la Doing llayed alive.
Is not that rather a tough thing for
a Democrat editor to say about the
Demooratio President?
Is it not a queer thing to come from
a man who was recently asking Mr.
Cleveland for an office?
If Mr. Myrick thinks Mr. Cleveland
is mistaken why does he not treat the
President with common courtesy?
What sort of a Democrat is it that,
having been refused an office, resumes
his abuse of the great party leader?
The charge that Grover Cleveland is
trying to strangle the country finan
cially i> one to come from Bepubli-
oam and Third Party cranks, and not
from Democrats.
From tho Savannah Nmv».
A World’s Parliament of Religions
is among the international Congresses
to.be held at the World’s Fair next
month. It is expected that tlie “par
liament” will be attended by learned
men of every faith in the civilized
world, and probably also by some
fetloh worshipers from among the
uncivilized races.
The gathering will be notable as
marking tlie arrival of an era in which
churchmen of all denominations may
meet together without the risk of one
sect exerting itself to boil followers
of another sect in a cauldron of oil
Blit beyond thnt, what?
There is not the remotest possibility
of a universal religion growing out of
the meeting. Some such idea has
been suggested; but having in mind
the recent notable failure of one of the
evangelical churches of America
keep its own particular adherents in
harmony, and noting also the nil
merous but luss demonstrative discord
in other American churches, it will be
readily perceived that we have not
yet reached that age of agreement ill
all things that is called the milieu
nium. When a universal republic has
been achieved, then we shall need
nniversal religion; at that time, prob
ably, such a religion will have been
perfected through the process of evo
lution. But the time appears yet
long way off.
By what process oould a • universal
religion he evolved from the creeds
be represented at the Chicago parlia
ment of religious? By oaneellation
by striking out common factors, as is
PRESSISMS.
SEVERAL THINGS.
The Americus Times-Recorder is
having lots of trouble with the “card”
writers, but is handling them in a
masterly style just the same.
The Augusta Evening News has an
editorial headed “Grover All Right.”
If lie isn’t, lie’s most.
The Columbia Breeze continues to
be one of the best weeklies in Alabama
Tlie Breeze deserves a liberal support.
A IIkkai.d reporter overheariTa con
versation, or rather a discussion, this
morning, between two Negroes.
From the drift of their remarks it I
was readily surmised that they had
adopted the clearing house matter as a
theme, and it was soon seen that the
oogeney of the old-time darky,
coupled with his expliolt faith,
weighed the distrustful apprehensions
of the younger Negro, who soon lapsed
into a state of taciturnity, while the
elder woolly-head proceeded In a phi
losophical way:
“Yo’ young Niggers doan’ kno’
whut’s good fer yer. ’Course dem
clearin’ house stifferkates Is gwine ter
be all riirht. Yo’ coinin’ here tellln’
me ’bout it bein’ er put up job ter get
de Nigger’s money zempllttes yo’
sumpsliun. Ain’t yo’ been a Nigger
long ’nuff to kno’ dat whut’s good far
de white man am good fer de Nigger? .
Doan yo’ kno’ dat all de cel’brated
men in Albany dun tooken signed er
’greement to ’cept dem stifferkates,
and dat dey kno’s mo’ bout dis flnan-
sliul bizness den all der Niggers in
Albany? Time yer been er Nigger
long’s me yer’II learn sumpen.
“Doan come tellln’ me ’bout no “lPa; - *
yo’ Niggers go on an’ ’tend ter yer own
’fairs. White folks ain’t gwlrie s 4k\
leteber suffer.”
And Unole Billy ambled down the
street, unmindful of the faot that he
had made a speech that would appear
in print.
’Way back yonder before a single
cotton sprout lifted its young tendrils
to the morning sun the Herald fore
saw that the cotton orop was going to
be a large ohe and that the priced
would be necessarily low. It seemed
that every farmer thought that the,
other fellow would not plant
ootton, and that he would put
large aoreage and thus sooop
lucre that would be paid for the
sporadic yield. But he reokoned with
out his host—the other fellow was do
ing just as he was, and was thfnklng
the very same thing. The HKrald
saw all this, and knew just abouf tu>#"
it would terminate, and, to-day, arrhe
average farmer, paoes the streets of
Albany with a sample of d}4 cent cot
ton under his arm, we want to repeat
the oft-time and well-worn warning
“Sell every ootton seed you have, and
then, for another year, adopt as your
motto: “Hog and hominy, and diver
sified farming; the salvation of the
farmers of the South.”
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in the
The Brunswick Call has this for the
information of those whom it may
concern:
For the benefit of the outside world
who are so anxious nbout Brunswick
just now, we will state thnt there lias
not been a death in our city in two
weeks.
There are not more than half of the
members of the House in Washington.
They have gone out to escape the sil
ver debate.—Savannah Press.
But they draw their pay just the
same, while the country is waiting for
'em to ilo something.
The Tliomasville Times-Enterprise
sends this solid kind of advice to the
politicians who nre now congregated
at Washington:
Statesmen, and not demagogues, are
needed nt the front now. Let the lat
ter give way to tlie former.
This is a time, says the Atlanta
Journal, when Congressman Breckin
ridge probably calls to mind tlie fate
of Charles Stewart Parnell.
the
Here’s some sound sense from
Tliomasville Times-Enterprise:
A good motto for these iiard times
Spend every dollar at home. Don’t
send money oft'.
The populists have undertaken to
show that the Democratic party-
rotten to the core. No’ party in the
history of the country has undertaken
so many impossibilities, nor -has any
party been so successful in carrying
out a single one.—Ocala Capitol.
There is a genius in Birmingham,
Ala., who deserves, very likely, abet
ter fate than to be locked behind the
bars of a common prisoner’s cell. The
fellow’s name is Chas. Wellburn, and
it was in his cell, a few days ago, that
an illicit whisky still was found. The
still was hidden qpder a table and in
provised with a 'bucket, tyr which was
a piece of glass pipe as a Worm, thre
tin boxes as fermenters, and a spittoon
as a furnace. Molasses, apples, an
the like, furnished the prisoners a
food, were used as materials for mak
ing the rum. It is presumed that the
manufacture of liquor bad been gfflng
on for some time, as the still showed
evidences of having been in aotive
use. The industrious prisoner would
not have been caught up with, prob
ably, bad he been less liberal with bis
produot, as it was noticed on several
occasions that quite a number of the
prisoners were in an intoxicated con
dition.
Of course, Wellborn’s playtb^s
were taken away from him, and there
is sorrowing within the Alabama jail
by all the inmates alike.
Excepting Albany we are inclined
to believe the following from the
Brunswick Call:
Brunswiok is the healthiest city of
in these
its site in the Southland, yea,
The working men of Atlanta are
going to hold a meeting to formulate
some plan looking to relief from tt)
financial, commercial and industmal’
stringency. They ask that the people
patronize home industries and thus
creato employment for the unem
ployed. The plan is. a sensible one
and should be carried out in ev
city in the State.
Auanr ia almost entirely (tfK$gg*
sickness.