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4 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1882 i THE CQNST11 U*I IN. Entered at the Atlanta Pout-office »* cecond-dat mall matter, November 11,1878. Weekly Conciliation, prlee *1.50 per anaaia. Clubs ol twenty, *20, and a copy to the getter up the elub. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS.?!.00. ATLANTA, GA„ OCTOBER , 1882. Over 50,000 people now read THE WEEKLY CONSTITU TION. Our aim is to have it go to every fireside in the state. Do you take it ? If not, send in your name at once. Don’t force your family to borrow it. The more readers we get, the better we can make the paper. We promise that it shall be bet ter, brighter and fuller than ever before this year. Send in your name. The election of Messrs. Rice, H ulsey and Hoge to the legislature gives Fulton county ar. active, intelligent and efficient representa tion in that body. Mr. Rice is a man of affairs, and Messrs. Hulsey and Hoge are suc cessful lawyers. All have had experience in deliberative bodies, and, while they will work untiringly for the interests of Atlanta and Fulton county, they will not lose sight of the interests of the state. The three gentle men make up a delegation that will compare favorably with any that has been sent to the legislature from any portion of the state. “GOVERNOR STEPHENS!" We have all thought it, ever since the old commoner declared himself through The Constitution squarely in sympathy with the organized democracy and thus scattered the assumptions of the independents, but we have never had the right to say it formally until this morning. But it is “Governor Stephens” at last, and by a majority unprecedented, in view of the smallness of the vote and the lack of excite ment in the campaign. Without more agita tion than follows a stump speech here and there, a majority of al>out 50,000 Georgians have declared by their ballots that Mr. Ste phens must consecrate himself to the service of the state for the next two years, and that his life shall be crowned with this special testimonial of his people. This is the first time that Mr. Stephens has ever repre sented the whole state directly and numbered every Georgian as his special constituent since Georgia was fashioned into d riels, and as full as his life has been of honors he loves his people too dearly not to feel touched at the splendid manifestation of their love and confidence, shown forth in our columns this morning. As for this result, The Constitution has predicted it front the first. From the very day that Mr. Stephens sent his famous inter view through our Washington correspondent, declaring that he would run only as the nom inee of the organized democracy, we said that he would be nominated and elected. He was nominated by an overwhelming majority in the face of a fierce campaign and now he is elected overwhelmingly in spite of soreheads, bolters, republicans and independents. And eo closes a very interesting chapter of Georgia history. WORTHYlOF CONGRATULATION. The people of Georgia are to be congratu lated on the result of Wednesday’s election. They have done well in calling to the execu tive chair a statesman of such wide experi ence and such high renown as the sage of Liberty Hall. In (honoring Mr. Stephens the people honor themselves. The Constitution favored his nomination and advocated his election, not only because the occasion seem ed to suggest such a course, but because of a conviction shat his administration would touch the intelligence, the desires and the needs of the people at every conceivable point. There will be no disappointment on this score. Mr. Stephens is a great man,great in his simplicity, in his experience, in his in tegrity, and in his utter devotion to the best interests of the people. The very highest hopes of his administration may be indulged in with the certainty that they will be fulfilled in every detail and par ticular. He will be the governor of the whole people, and will be accessible to the humblest citizen. He will be controlled by no ring, or combination of rings. He will be his own boss. He will conduct the affairs of his office with wisdom, prudence and economy. He will seek to promote the happiness and prosperity of all the people of every class, color and condition. His admin istration will perpetuate the harmony and unity of the democratic party, which, in Georgia, means the organization and combin ation of the best elements for the promotion of the Inst interests of all classes of citizens. This is wliat democracy means in Georgia, and it has never achieved a more hopeful victory, nor came nearer to carrying out its designs than in the election of Mr. Stephens. We repeat, the people are to be congratu lated. MR. STEPHENS AND THE YOUNG MEN. A remarkable phase of the campaign which has ju»t closed was the ardor and enthusiasm which the young Mien of Georgia have mani fested in behalf of Mr. Stephens. In Atlanta these manifestations have been most marked, and have resulted in a lively campaign in augurated and managed wholly by young men. and managed well. A Young Meu’s Stephens club was organized in Atlanta early in the canvass, with Mr. John M. Graham as president ami Mr. Clarence Moore as vice- president. When this club was in thorough working order, Messrs. Graham and Moore organized cluhs in every ward, and car ried on the campaign with the dis cretion of veterans and the energy of youth. In this work they had the active sympathy and assistance of nearly all the young men of the city, and there is no doubt that their efforts bad a marked influ ence on the election—as all earnest, disinter ested efforts must have whenever and wher ever they may be put forth. But we did not start out to make an invidi ous mention of names. We intended merely to point to the activity of the young men in behalf of Mr. Stephens as a good sign. It shows that they have a high appreciation of character, integrity, wisdom and experience; that they respect and venerate the results of a pure life and tbe achievements of a great intellect. Tbe state is to be congratulated on the attitude of its young men, MR. FURMAN’S FARM. We have never printed in The Constitu tion a more important letter than the one that this morning gives the details of the ex periment made by Mr. Farish Furman with the scrub land of middle Georgia. It is a notable thing that a farmer should take 65 acres of thin land,producing less than one bale of cotton to eight acres, and in five years bring it up a bale and a half an acre. It is better that lie has done this with home made manure costing less than $4 a thousand pounds, and that yields every year double the cotton the manure cost, and in the fifth year $3,600 surplus cotton on $942 worth of manure. That he started with less than $2 worth of manure to the acre, and achieved his highest result with $14 to the acre puts his system within the reach of the poorest farmer. That he did all this with two mules is an evidence of what a small farm well tilled means, and that his land has risen from $5 to $100 an acre is the inexorable sequence of his plan. Of course there are some farmers and many cynics who will laugh at his presen -ation. The farmers will say, “why, I was planting cotton before he was born.” The cynic will, say, “we’ve heard of these fancy farmers be fore.” All right. As long as Mr. Furman can do wbat he is doing he is perfectly inde pendent of farmers and cynics. As for us, we believe his work is a good demonstration. It is the result of a clear-headed, well educated, determined young fellow giving himself up to a scientific and practical study of the soil. He has proceeded quietly and cautiously, but intelligently, risking nothing and achieving wonders. Just as sure as there is land to be farmed in Georgia he has farmed it right, and to his system or something like it the farmers must come before Georgia fills her full destiny. At present it takes ovei 334 acres of Geor gia land to produce one bale of cotton, ac cording to the department reports. In our opinion, it takes full four acres to make one bale. Therefore, it took 3,200,000 acres of Georgia land to produce the 800,000 bales that made up Georgia’s crop last year. If every acre was farmed as Mr. Furman’s is, 600,000 acres would have made that crop and left over 2,500,000 acres, now impoverished in bringing a sprinkle of cotton, to either lie tallow and let nature build it up or be put in other crops, or in grass for stock to graze on. Of course this result cannot be reached in a few years. But every approach that is made to it, every improvement that looks towards the result Mr. Furman has achieved, is just that much grined for Georgia. Intensive farming, as he has put it into simple practice, means rich acres, broad meadows, herds and flocks, happy country homes, and prosperous farmers, and these things mean a prosperous people and an independent state. A RIDICULOUS PROPOSITION. A special dispatch from Washington to The Constitution yesterday stated that the secre tary of the republican central committee in that city had received a telegram from A. E. Buck, chairman of the republican state com mittee of Georgia, announcing that in behalf of General Gartrell, he will contest the elec tion of Mr. Stephens on various grounds, namely, the bribery of voters at the polls, open and notorious intimidation, false counts by the managers, failing to open the precincts in some of the counties according to law, and the voting of convicts. This is all so absurd, and so peculiarly in keeping with republican management and methods in Georgia, that our readers will doubtless be inclined to seek some informa tion in regard to this chairman of the repub lican committee who is thus advertised to act “in behalt of General Gartrell” in this mat ter. In our opinion neither the general nor his real friends will relish this self-assumed guardianship on tbe part of the republican chairman. Many more Georgians will seek nformation in regard to the person who so glibly brands them as bribers, intimidators, and false counters of ballots. As the exigen cies of the campaign between him and Mr. Hammond for congress in this dis trict may require, these questions will be fully answered. For the present we content ourselves with showing that he and those who may propose to act with him are absurdly ignorant of the subject that has engaged their attention. In paragraphs 4 and 5 of section 1 of the Constitution ef 1877, we find these provisions: Par. IV. The returns for every election of gov ernor shall be scaled up by the managers, separate ly from other returns, and directed to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of rep resentatives, and transmitted to the secretary of state, who shall without opening said returns, cause the same to be laid before the senate on the day after the two houses shall have been organ ized, and they shall be transmitted by the senate to the house of representatives. Par. V. The member* of each branch ef the general assembly shall convene in the representa tive hall and the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of represntatives shall open and publish the returns in the presence and under the direction of the general assembly; and the persons having the majority of the whole num ber of votes, shaU be declared duly elected gov ernor of this state. * * * * * By the same constitution, the general as sembly must convene on the first Wednesday in November, which this year will be the first day of that month. That constitution fixes his duration of office, prescribes his offi cial oath and proclaims his official powers and duties. By section 49 of the code of 1873, the elected governor must be inaugurated during the first week of tbe session of the general assembly, “and on such day of that week as the general assembly, by joint resolution, appoints. On failure of appointment, it takes place at 12 o’clock, meridian, on Saturday of that week, uuless prevented by providential causes.” There is no law for contesting the election of a governor of Georgia. All the law as to "contested elections” in Georgia is in sections 1329 to 1334 inclusive. Section 1333 provides for contests "for constables, corporation offi cers, or otber officers not provided for above,” before “tbe court or persons who, by law. issne the certificates of election.” Sec tion 1330 is as to contest for seats in the gen eral assembly. The only otber class of con tests specified is called in section 1329 contests for “any office requiring a commission from the governor and elected by the people.” In . these last the governor is the sole judge of the election. What officers they are will be seen in sections 133 and 134 of the code. They may be said to be all civil officers, except as above stated. It is true that the constitution declares in paragraph VI of the article 5 quoted above, that “contested elections shall be determined by both houses of the general assembly in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.” And that applies to the governor. But the general assembly has not prescribed snch manner, and were it unanimously in favor of doiBg so it could not in time to prevent Mr. Stephens’s inauguration. For by our consti tution it takes six days to pass any law, and he governor-elect must be sworn in under existing law on the fourth day of the session at the latest. Surely those who have talked and telegraphed as to the intended contest do not suppose the general assembly would make itself so ridiculous as to begin after the governor’s inauguration a plan for trying his title to his office. We have heard it stated that the chairman of the republican state committee denies sending the telegram announced by D. B. Henderson. What we have said, however, may serve as information not only to Buck, but to a great many other people who have some interest in the matter. There is no mode of contesting a presidential election, and none for contesting the gubernatorial election of Georgia. Whether there should be is a different question. Let those who think there ought to be blame past legisla tures for not prescribing the manner of such Contests. In spite of every statement to the contrary, the Guiteau administration has made a desperate at tempt to destroy the democratic party in Georgia. Money has been sent into the state to aid the coali- ion, and every trick known to the modern republi can politician has been employed. To-morrow will settle the matter. We hope to show the Guiteau administration just how trickery overreaches itself when it comes in contact with genuine democracy. Editor Gorham has officially announced that the accidental president is in favor of the coalition in North Carolina. No official announcement is ne cessary to show that the Guiteau administration s in full fellowship with the Guiteau administra tion. It has been patent here for months; in fact, it has been advertised by the republicans from one end of the state to the other. Collector Tom Johnson, of Savannah, has re tired from the congressional race in the first district. This is a good thine for the democrats. Collector Johnson has a large personal following in the dis trict, including many democrats who would vote for him regardless of party lines. Nicholls will have no difficulty in defeating Atkins. of the sunny south can go to bed to-night and take a brief respite. But it is only a respite; there is other work to do. Governor STETHENb'8 majority is large enough to justify him in taking immediate charge of aflairs, bnt he will defer to custom and the law in this matter. It is thought that Rufus Hatcn is about to attach himself permanently to a circus. He is of the opin ion that continuous travel, night and day, will cure dyspepsia. The defeat of Mr. Stephens in Bartow county shows what a tremendous influence General Long- street has. He didn’t visit the county more than half a dozen times, and now behold the result. It was generally understood that Dr. Felton’s friendship for Mr. Stephens, which has beea so fully and freely advertised, was of the left-handed variety. . Phipps, who was caught stealing the poor-house supplies in Philadelphia, admits that he has voted the republican ticket ever since he was fourteen years old. A place has been reserved by the side of the re public&u stiff for the remains of the coalition. Editor Conley, of the National, will please raise the dirge. If the coalition would study Georgia law about two minutes and a half, we should hear nothing of this ridiculous talk about contesting the governor’s election. The majority in favor of the true Jeffersonian democracy of Georgia is assuming metropolitan proportions. No wonder the coalition wants to con. test The tariB mission made several attempts to strike a town where a circus was performing, but ihe newspapers nd railroad schedules misled them. Six years ago we had occasion to remark that the democratic party of Georgia was a very big thing We take pleasure in referring the reader to our files. Editor Charles E. Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, is making a tremendous effort to down Cam eron without joining the independent movement. Hubbell has made a striking success as a pamph - leteer. When Dorsey takes the field, tbe republican campaign may he said to be fairly inaugurated. The Constitution will contain a full account of Buck’s contest of Mr. Stephens's election—also a report of his examination of Benator Brown. They have no contests out in the wild northwest The next governor simply gives his opponent seven ty thousand rubles to leave the ranche. We advise Folger to prepare to contest. The best way to begin is to send to Georgia for one of ur talented Georgia republicans. The republicans ol the west are all getting closer to beer. They have discovered that there is a good deal of comfort in it. If the coalitionists had consulted the people be fore announcing themselves as candidates th ey wouldn’t feel so tired this morning. Viewed through Mr, Barnard’s spectacles, Mr. Cruhl’s comet is inclined to cut up some capers. For instance, yesterday morning it celebrated the election of Mr. Stephens by dividing into three pieces. Superstitious gents will please give the comet room. The esteemed New York Tribune says that Gen eral Gartrell has "certainly succeeded in giving the bourbons the worst scare they have had iu many years.” This is funny. It shows that the editor of the Tribune has been watching Georgia with an eagle eye. Mr. Stephens’s majority continues to grow. The coalition smelled like a collection of Peruvian guano and really acted as a fertilizer for the organ ized democracy. Hereafter, wheu there is any ne cessity of increasing the democratic majority it will be well to call up the ghost of the coalition. Right in the face of sixty thousand majority, the esteemed New York Times says that.the election in Georgia “shows that-the people are nearer ready than ever before for new combinations and inde pendent voting.” WeU, weU! Does the Times propose to contest?; The idea of contesting the election of Mr. Ste- pnens could only have originated in the brilliant minds of the republican leaders in Georgia. It is supposed that the leaders of the custom-house and capitol wings have pooled their issues on this. We trust the American astronomeis will not come to blows. The comet may be solid, or it may be divided, but the gentlemen with telescopes should bear in mind that Mr. Stephens is the next gover nor of Georgia, and that the state is solid. These facts ought to satisfy the astronomers. Our accidental president is now engaged in fish ing on our northern shores. A man of such signal ability ought to be engaged in jumping up votes for Folger. The sample rooms in New York city, miss his genial smile. There is some consolation in the fact that Jay Hubbell’s campaign pamphlet puts the south and the civil service reformers on the same general foot ing. Some of the republican editors are feebly at tempting to repudiate Hubbeli’s pamphlet, but there is no doubt that it represents the sentiments of the republican party. The New v ’ork Sun says that the sooner the pur chasable editors of the country are bought up by Jay Gould, the better for the country. But perhaps Mr Gould is too shrewd for this. He has already made one or two noticeably bad bargains in this direction. “What will become of Judge Twiggs next month?” the Chronicle asks. The answer to this depends pretty much upon the successor the failure of the republican attempt to consolidate all the op position to democracy in Richmond county under one tent. Bob Ingebsoll, who believed in the innocence of the star route thieves for a consideration, doesn’t believe there was any such man as Noah. If old man Noah has any surviving relatives, they ought to feel very grateful. We judge from the tone of Folger’s letter of ac ceptance that he would have made a most success ful street fakir. He is so plausible and so wordy; and his dignity is mixed with so much geuuiue condescension. It is generally understood that the republicans of the fifth district will make a still hunt in order to beat Hammond. The programme is a very nice one, but will it work? Probably not. It is said that the editor of the New York Tribune has offered to pay Editor Gorham’s passage to Cali fornia—all for the good of the par.y. This indi cates quite a state of thi-.gs The sage of Liberty Hall made the closing speech ol the campaign in Augusta Monday night UNCLE REMUS AND THE COMET. You all folks may be a havin’ a mighty good time,” said Uucle Remus, rubbing the back of his head against the door facing, “but I let you know dis ain’t no wedder fer no picnics. I’m a talkin’ now; I’m a flinging de essent er de trul at you.” “Why, what has come over you?” said the socle ty editor, • pausing in the middle of an announce ment relating to Miss Smithkins, of Smithkins- vllle. “Well, I des tell you w’at,” said Uncle Remus, “I bin mighty mizerbul, en I ain’t no better now. Look like ter me hit gits wuss. Ef I stays at home, I feels lonesome; en ef I goes ter chu’ch, I gits stir- news, you ole red up;.^n ef I loafs ’ioun’ town, I years bad ‘ ’T’er night I say ter myse’f, I did, ‘Remus, y< The white republicans have demonstrated the fact that they cannot control the negro vote. We hardly know whether to congratulate the white re- jg ~ « me’eve’y time she gimme a plate er viules, rapscallion you, you better go down dar whar Brer John Henry preachin’, dat w’at you better do You better go down daren year ’im sco’ de sinners. W’id dat, I tuck my foot in my han’ en I put out, en w’en I git dar, de house ’uz full, en dey wuz all a settin’ dar des ez ca’m. en des ez cole blooded ez mudeats in de mont’ er J iner wary. W’en I walk in dey all cas’ der eyes on me, en dey keep on a look in’ at me, twel bimeby I say ter myse’f, I did, “Bless yo’soul, childun. I’ll des ’bout show you who I is, en whar I come fum. en I des rar’d my head back en I lit on ter dat ole time chune: “Come along, true believer, come along. And walk in de he v’mly way— I rastle wid Jacob all night, all night, I rastle wid Jacob all day!” "You ain’t year me sing, is you, boss? Well, bless yo’soul, I shuck dem niggers up, en defus news you know I hadum swayin’ backards en for- rerds same like I had um on a string. I des natally hetted um up. Den I sorter ease down, and Brer John Henry, he riz en begin for ter preach. I lay back, I did, fer to ’joy myse’f, en I ain’t mo’n doze off’fo’ he begin ferterietch on de comic.” “On the what?” the society editor asked. “On de.comic—dis yer stair w’at shows up’fo’ day wid Vr back hair down. I done got my ’spishuns er dat .comic, and Brer John Henry aiu’t no sooner toten on ’er, dan I picks up my hat, I did, en makes fer home. Brer John Henry done sent me wud dat hegwine fetch me up at coufunee. aaze I vi’late de ‘ciplia.’ but I done got too ole en settle fer to squat down en year dezeyer preacher mens take dertexes on de comic. Is you seen ’er yit, boss?” “No, not yet.” “She’s a sight, mou! She look lak she done drap loose fum some’rsen lef’ a streak er fier behime ’er ez big ez er omlybus en loug ez a freight train; en, honey, she’s desaeallyhootin’.” “It is more than probable.” said the political ed itor, “that if we don’t bother the comet, the comet won’t bother ns.” “Dey mout be mo’ dan one proberbul,” Uncle Remus replied, “but, chile, don’t you fret; I ain’t gwine nigh dat comic—dat I ain’t. De furder off w’at she is de mo’ better I feels. Ef no comic don’t come a-huntin’ atter me 1 ain’t gwine huntin’ after no comic—now you kin des mark dat down wid de p’int er yo’ scissors. "W’at pesters me,” continued Uncle Remus in a troubled tone, “is de way Miss Sallie gwine on Bless gracious! I can’t git in sight er de house bid- out Miss Sally come a-hollerin’: ‘Remus! Oh, Re mus? Man done fine n’er comic. Yer de ‘count right in de paper.’ Ef I ain’t forgit some, deyer mo’n ’lev’m un um right now in;de Nunlted States, en deyer all a-makin’ fer Atlanta, Georgy. I ax Mars John ’bout it. en he hoot at me, bnt Miss Sally she say ef l don’t b’leeve w’at she say, I kin des git up’fo’ day and look todessunnse, en, bless gracious! dar wuz de comic right at me. De way I puts it down is dat Miss Sally got mo' sense dan me en Mars John hole puttergedder.” “Hit look like,” said Uncle Remus, after a little pause, “hit look like dey can’t be no mo’ ’leckshuns ’roun’ In deze naborhoods ’cepin’ deys a comic hung up in de elements. I duuner w'at kinder sign dat is, but dar she is. Miss Sally, she talk pol- publicans or the negroes. For. fear that people at a distance may think t aat Buck is an ignoramus, we will state that he is a very shrewd man. He simply gets off hi* feet when he seats himself to telegraph w Derby Henderson. The while republicans of Georgia will continue to claim that they coutrol the negro vote in Georgia whereas, they do not control one-lenth of it. What does Jay Hubbell think of this? There is a moral iu tne result of yesterday’s elec- fou for the gentlemanly leaders of independent- ism who contracted with the republicans to destroy the democratic organization. The democrats of the fifth congressional district will now have an opportunity to turn their atten tion to the fine Italian campaign which Mr. Buck, of the coalition detail, is making. The Jeffersonian democracy of the empire state but 1 mos’ fear’d fer ter go np dar en slip in my ballots. Eve’y time I year talk er 'leckshun, den I year talk er comics. Las’ year, year 'fo' las’, en now dish year. Up dey comes an' dar dey hangs. Some you kin see, eu some you can’t, but you kin year tell er all un um. Dey comes up en dey looks at us en den dey goes a sailin’ off. Whar dey comes fum en whar dey goes ter, I be bless ef I know, but w’at do dey come fer eve’y time deys a ’leckshun up? Dat w’at I wanter know. Sho ez youer settin’ dar, hit’s mighty quate dat a cullud man can’t go en cas’ his ballots bidout dey’s a comic a settin’ up a watchin’ 'im. I ain’t skeered,” continued Uncle Remus, moving to wards the door, “but I'm gwine to keep one eye on MissSallyan’te’roneonde comic, an’w’en Miss Sally startslin fer ter pack up den I’m gwineter gowid’er. kaze w’en dey done fool all de yuther folks, de day ain’t gwineter come we’n dey fool Miss Sally.” BUZZ AND BOUNCE. THE GOSSIP THEY HEAR IN NEW YORK. 8piey Talk* and Bright Aneodotea of the Men and Things Fast and Present in the Metropolis of the New World—Beeoher snd His Politi cal Sermon- Theatrical .facts. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. New York, October 5.—Henry Ward Beech er has created quite a stir here by preaching a political sermon in which he insisted that the defeat of Folger would tend to purify the republican party. The sermon, which was eulogistic of Cornell and his administration and teeming with abuse of the men who packed the Saratoga convention, is published in pamphlet form and distributed liberally through the city. It is charged openly that Beecher was paid by the Cornell faction to deliver the sermon as a campaign document to beat Folger. The sermon was a spicy one, and I will give you some sample extracts fromrt: “Politicsis one of the noblest things the mind can contemplate,but the latter day politicians have, by their scheming, covered the term politician with reproach and made it a synonym of immorality. The politician is popularly considered as a worm who bores into the timber of state.” „ “The platforms of the two parties.” he continued, differed in little or nothing. They were both loud ly iu favor of honest government, honesty for the laboring man, for the soldier, and for the people. But platforms were mostly masks behind which men concealed their real designs. The men who made them laughed most heartily at them. “There is no manner ot doubt that Governor Cor nell was set aside not for his vices, but for his vir tues. There were two influences behind it all. One was revenge, the other was avarice. You re member it is written that when Christ was con demned Tilate and Herod were made friends. On the day that Governor Cornell was set aside Avarice and Revenge met and kissed. 1 can see in my mind one man who was glad to see him dispossessed be cause of his revengeful feelings, and another be cause of the money that he was jingling in his pockets. Let me say rather that he would have had less to jingle if Mr. Cor nell had been renominated. I won't he a part ner in any compact between Avarice and Re venge. My right hand should forget its cunning before I vote for any man who Is presented to me to gratify revenge or malice. The republican can didate has earned a high name. They cannot bribe me by putting up a good man to vote for in order to displace a better man. I say that such a man is a mere cats paw, used for the purpose of putting a face of respectability ou an infernal act. “Ought there to sit on yonder police board, which is notoriously feed, a man who has participated in recent party proceeding* of such a doubtful nature? Is it not an outrage and a scandal that the presi dent makes such a man his bosom friend? Is it not an iniquitous thing that instead of conciliating the mass of outraged voters a man has been picked up and made chairmain of the state committee who is simply notorious for a want of reputation? They should know that the sentence is even now being written on thousands of votes which will de scend noiseless as snowflakeB, but with all the force of an avalanche. The republican party should not countenance the forgery and fraud perpetrated at Saratoga by voting for the candidate foisted upon them by the convention.” Talmage made gambling his text last Sunday,and handled the stock exchanges, lotteries and gift en terprises without gloves. He said: “In ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, when a man loses money he hushes it up. There aic ex ceptions: As when the police of Boston broke into gambling den and found there the merchants of State street and the poor ones of Ann street; as when Bullock of the Georgia Central road was dis covered to have stolen *103,COO for gambling: os when a man in Wall street transferred *180,000 from the accounts of his customers to the pockets of the gamblers. “Oneof the main pipes to the sewer of iniquity is business excitement. Most of the day gambling houses of New York have been found to be in the neighborhood of Wall street. When men get through one form of gambling they pass to another in order to keep up the excitement. The excite ment of the stock exchange disqualifies a man for going home. So they pass from the exchange to the faro or the roulette table. “In the presence of God this day I arraign gift enterprises as being mainly responsible for the fear ful spread of this evil. Men who failed in other business got up gift concerts. Then came the prize- package humbug. You bought a package on the promise of finding a great prize and you found nothing. Yea, the very name of ebariry was in sulted by the association with it of such enterprises. After the war they were gotten up professedly for widows and orphans by men who would let the widow and the orphan starve on the doorstep. I have no faith in an enterprise which for the sake of present benefit will open Vide the jaws of a monster for the reception of bodies and souls.” “There Is a capital fellow who sprang into fame very'suddenly,” a friend of mine remarked the other day as Joe Keppler, the caricaturist of Puck, passed. “A few years ago he was working hard and making a scant living by writing for the SL Louis papers. Some of Frank Leslie’s folks seeing a rough election cartoon of his offered him StOO a week to come to New York, which he accepted ea gerly. Soon after he came here he started “Puck," Schwartzman, his partner, furnishing the money. Puck, which was the only German comic paper of any sort of ability in this country, sprung into pop ularity with its first issue and immediately be came a well paying investment. The cartoons, being bold and attractive, became so popular with the Americans that the partners decided to publish an English edition. The result was that in less than a month the F.nglish transla tion doubled the German edition. It now has over 65,000 copies in circulation in English and 15,000 in German. Now each of the partners draw 81,000 a week besides improving the property and leaving a surplus to make up a reserve fund. Keppler’s rock and tree faces in the Hancock and Hayes campaign gave him a reputu_ tion that made him the rival of Nast ” By the way ( Tom Nast is getting to be one of the richest news paper men in this country. He has been getting *250 a ivtek from the Harpers for ever so long, be- sides what he has made by outside work and in the lecture field. He is without any extravagant habits and has saved his money. Matt Morgan, who is probably the mast cultivated and versatile charica* turistin this country, and who was brought over from England by Frank Leslie—to compete with Nast in the Greeley campaign, has abandoned the profession and settled dawn in Cincinnati. He gets *200 a week from a large show printing house and is building a $10,000 house ou the hills. On last Saturday the house of A. T. Stewart was closed. Mr. Edward J. Dunning, who has for a long time been superintendent of the retail husi . ness, has rented a portion of the store and will carry on the business as before. He will employ all the old clerks, and saj s he will try and keep up the rep utation for having tne best which Mr. Stewart worked a lifetime to establish Samuel Groocock, who had cha.geof the hosiery department, H. C. Sylvester, who was ac the head of the Paris branch of the house, and two sons of Judge Hilton have formed a copartnership and will continue the wholesalebusines-of the old firm. The two first floors of the building will be rented to the new firms, the upper stories will be fitted up as whole sale dry goods stores with elevator*, electric lights, and all modem improvements. Judge Hilton said that the business had always paid well, and that he closed it because it was too heavy a tax upon his ill health to attend to it. Running the store with its seven branch houses and several factories pre vented his carrying out Mr. Stewart’s plans con cerning Castle Garden, and several other things that he now pioposed to devote himself to exclu sively. I met Peter Cooper the other day with his rubber shoes, his water proof top coat, his umbrella and his air cushion. He was commenting on Thurlow Weed’s ill health is this wise: “He is only eighty- four and ought not to die so young.” Cooper is up- in the nineties and wonders how it is that a man a half a dozen years his junior should ever be sick. Bishop Potter is eighty and attends to his large dio cese without assistance, and is iu better health than he was thirty years ago. Ex-Governor E. D. Morgan is a perfect picture of health at seventy,and William K. Dodge, six years his senior, does not look a day over fifty. August Belmont is three score and ten, but has always taken care of himself, except when he fought a duel and was wounded and has a good prospect for a dozen more years of active life. Russell Sage, though seventy, does the work of ten men and looks younger than Jay Gould, who is only forty. Mr. Tilden,though not seventy, is completely broken down; politics has worn him out early, as it did Horace Greeley. I am getting bald myself, though I am not yet fifty. The semi annual book trade sale began last week at Clinton hall with a consignment of stereotype plates. Brown’s Folio Bible brought *1,500; Catho lic Bible, with notes, *2,000: Nicholson’s Encyclo- pa'dia of Architecture, *1,000; Rural Cemeteries of America, *500; Lossing& Spencer’s Complete His tory of the United States, down to the present ad ministration, *7,000; Moore’s Byron, *2,500; Works of Thomas Moore, *2,000- the Rollo Books, (first published over twenty-five years ago). SI,750: Rollo’s Tour in Eu rope, *1 250; Abbott’s American History for Youth, S4S0; the Florence Stories, §300; the Harlie Stories', *150; Theodore Tilton’s Tempest Tossed, S50; Hill's- Life of Washington Irving and Bryant, *120; the new American edition of Itoget’s Thesaurus, *1,005. and Spurgeon’s Sermons, *1,015. In many cases the copyrights went with the plates. ’> he first bookson the catalogue, those of Appleton * Co., sold very well: the works of Darwin, Iiuxl ,-y, Tyndall and Spencer bringing 75 per cent of the retail price. Yesterday was openingday of the National Trot ting and Horse Breeding association at the Gentle men Driving park. The trots were well attended. Mr Robert Bonner drove a fast chestnut colt. Mr Frank Work held the reins over Dick Swiveler and Edward. Wm H Vanderbilt rode behind Lysander. General Grant drove the old sorrel mare—pacing mare—that pulled his open wagon »t Long Branch all summer. Governor Stauford drove the cele brated Calfomla trotter Wildflewer. W K Vander bilt rode behind Boy Dick and Early Rose. Mr Sea man Lichtenstein had out his handsome chestnut team. Topper and Harry Venu. J S Shaw drove his famous marc, Jessica, and WmShaw drove TriHheL The trotting was good and Idon’trememberotever seeing as many of the best horses of New York to gether as I did yesterday. on Its stock bonds and leases amounts to S5,G39,U46. After publishing a list of the bonds, mortgages, etc., and interest paid on each, it says: “From a study of these tables it is manifest that the must earn in round numbers something like *170,000 net per month in order to meet its interest, siuking fund and car trust bonds. The statement of the earn ings, gross and net, which are issued and printed from time to time by the company, show that the gross earnings are at the rate of *1,000,000 per month and that the expensesare at the rate of about 09 per cent, or *750,000 per mouth, leaving *341,000 per month to cover fixed charges, thus demonstrating incoDtestably and irrefutably the inability of this corporation to continue for a much longer period to pay interest upon its obligations ” Dr. H. L. Little, of the Jefferson hospital, Phila delphia, has just performed a surgical operation that is creating a great deal of comment. It con sists of transplanting a piece of membrane from a rabbit’s eye into the eye of a patient, which had been injured by sulphuric acid. Dr Little removed the eyelid from its firm adhesion to the ball and made it ready for the new piece of membrane, which Dr L W Fox, assisted by Dr Hewson, had carefully dissected from the left eye of the uncon scious rabbit, and the part was rapidly transferred to the under surface of the man’s eyelid and neatly stitched to its place. Another operation will be performed that will, it is thought, restore sight to the injured eye. POINTS. Jay Gould has asked for estimates from threeship builders—John Roach, of Chester, the Cramps, of Philadelphia, and Steers, of New York—for an ocean yacht which shall eclipse anything afloat The requirements are that It shall surpass In ele gance and comfort any ship ever built, shall sail faster and smoother, and be built In such a way as to prevent seasickness. his looks as if he was preparing for his journey around the world. Talmage in his sermon on gambling says: “Sir Horace Walpole tells of a man who dropped dead on the steps of a club-house in which he had gamed away a fortune. And when his lifeless form was carried into the house the men began to bet on whether he was dead or not. It was proposed to- bleedhim, but one of the gamblers said that was not fair play.” Ross Raymond, formerly of the Herald and fora while New York correspondent of The Constitu tion, is now in I ondon and a reporter of “The Tel egraph;” He is; also rehashing eastern letters which he dates in Egypt and publishes in the San Francisco Sunday Chronicle. In New York people go every where. A few nights ago I dropped, into Dick Parker’s variety show on 3d avenue, ami saw Leonard W. Jerome president of the Long Island jockey club, drinking beer with some young friends and apparently en- joymg the perfotmauce. | |The demand for seats at Mrs. Langtry’s first ap pearance iu this country Isso great that Abbey has decided to sell them at auction, commencing a week before the first performance and selling so- many seats a day until they are all taken. Bancroft, the historian, has over 14,000 books in his library, and is said to value more than any other book he has the original edition of the historv of Captain John Smith. Miss Rosalie Beecher, a well known society belle and a relation of the great preacher, will make her debut on the operatic stage in “Lucia.” with Stra- kosli opera troupe at the Grand opera house on to morrow night. Thegreat Newbuig poker case has been sett!»<l by Hedges and Scott giving Newbui-g 320,000 fbt- which they got his receipt in full payment of all claims. . It seems that Mrs. Langtry has become common in the old country. Her photographs are being sold for two pence in England. Howard Carroll, of the New York Times, 6- prominently spoken of as the republican nominee for congressman-at-large. J R Keene and family will leave next week for Europe and will remain in the old world two or three years. Theo’s husband is a fashionable Parisian tailor who makes her stage clothes. Buzz and Bounce. The Absent-Minded Man nnd HU Box. From the Oil City Derrick. “IwasgoingtoKlnzua, when a young man got on at Warren and sits down side of me, and bym’by says he, ’I’ve a little box here I call my bean box.’ With that he pulls outa little round box an’ shakes- it, an’ I hears somethin' rattle. ‘Now,’ says he, ‘s’pose we jest bet the cigars on their being odd or even beans in that box, ‘All right,’ says I, ‘it’s o<id.’ ‘You’ve lost,’ says he. ‘Yes,’says I;‘we’U get the cigars at Kinzua.' And then we falls to- talkin'about somethin’ else along time, until all at once says he, ‘I j tut want to show you a little bean box I've got here;’ an’ he pulLs out that box again. Says he, * Let's bet the cigars or something on odd or even beans in this box .’ Thinks I to myself, you poor absent-minded critter, can't rem- mber that you showed that to me a minute ago. And I says, •AUrieht; s’posewe make the bet five dollars.’" I thought I'd jnst teach him to remember things. ‘I'll do it.’says he; ’now what is it?’ ’Even,’ says I. lie opened the box and ” “Well, what then?” says the reporter, as the colonel paused. “He wasn’t so absent-minded after all,” said the colonel. “There wasseven beaus in that box.’- "I found out afterward that the box had no bot tom, or rather had covers at both ends. Ou one of the cavers was fastened three beans and there were four loose beans in the box. When the man who bet said odd, the cover to which the beans were fastened was taken off, and when he said even, the other end was lifted.’ ’