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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANT [TUESDAY JUNE 15 1886 CONGRESS.£ Proceedings of the Two Houses Last Week. With the President and His Ad visers—General News. The Senate* WUHiJroxoif, Jane 8.—In the eenete, Ur. Morrill, from the committee on finance, re* ported a bill creating an additional secretary of the treasury. He asked immediate con* eideration of the bill, in Wow, he aald, of the emergency known to all senators. On objection by Ur. Hoar, the bill went on the ' calendar. Ur. Hoar saying it was a bill of too much cousequenco to consider on the Washington, June In the senate Hr. Butler read a telegram from the mayor and a large number of cltiaens of Spartanbnrg,South Carolina, urging the senators from that state in congress to nse their influence in defeating the oleomargarine bill, which signers declare la the worst of protection. “Let the people buy oleomargarine," thoy say, “as they would any other article of food.” After the routine business, the senate preceded to the consider* atlon of bills on the calender under the five minute rule. A bill to legalize incorporation national trades union, which reads as follows: i it enacted, etc., That the term “national trade union,” in the wo or mi he Unite nembers rorkera, of this act, shall ng people having the states or territories or of aiding its banner, the r its and conditt individual rig labor, the protection of their individual rights in the prosecution of their trade or trades, the raising oTfUnds foe the benefit of tick, disabled or unem ployed members or families of deceased members, or for such other object or objects lor which the working people may lawfully combine, haring In view thefr mutual protection or benefit. of the beoome a . , _ own to Land shall hero the right to sue and be SI to Implead and bo impleaded, to grant and —are, in Its corporate or feel erty, real, personal and mlxe property and proeeeds and Income thereof for the — corporation as lain its charter do- hitcioh each InflflrMMtid anion rsomnch real necessary for the purpose of its incorporation. Boo. a. That an Incorporated national trade union shall hero the power to make and establish we as It may 1 objects, .and repeal at r such constitution, 1 ssr and by-krira as deem proper to carryout Its lawful obi* the same to alter, amend, add to or repeal at pleas ure. Sec. i. That an Incorporated national trade union shall have power to define the duties and powers of all Its officers, and proscribe their mods of elec tion and term of office, and to establish branches and rab-unionr in any territory of Uw United Sec. 9. That the headquarters of an Incorporated national trade stnlou shall be located in the dls- trlct of Columbia. The bill now goes to the house of represen tatives for concurrence. After the routine morning business, Hr. Beck called np his bill to prohibit members of congress from accepting retainers or employ ment horn railroad companies, whleh have re ceived land grants or pecuniary aid from con gress. Ur. Beck stated that he had no re marks to make upon it, and naked for its lm* rued into consideration. On the passage of the bill the yeas were 37, nays 11, as ______ Tlie llonae* WAtnntoTow June 8.—The house committee on Invalid pensions today agreed to report, ns a subatttnte for Sonator Blair’s pension bill, the bill Introduced by Ur. Elliberry, of Ohio, with amendments. Tba Blair bill granted di visible pensions according to disabilities,rang ing from $34 per month down to $8 to invalid soldiers and sailors of the United States in the late civil war, who are dependent upon their daily labor for support. Tha bill agreed upon by the house committee provides for a uniform pension of $13 per month for nil aol ■ fliers and sailors who are absolutely disabled and unable to maintain themselves, and does not recognize distinctions In rank. Ur. Crisp, of Georgia, rising to n question of ^”n n fiaturday! e <iaring the debate in thnhjnm.1 was betrayed into a warmth of expression which 1 regret The distinguished gentleman from Indl ana. (Ur. Holman)Twboas long service and whose years sntltle him to the respect of the paopls. waa. and is in IU11 peesesslon of mine. Ancxnresalon ‘ at gentleman, or waleh I understood prhoso long service and wH r the respect of the people, slon of mine. Ancxnrci or waich I undenMi : feeling which prompted »n that 1 non- say 1 regnd. [atlon with the gentleman Hr. Kelley, o/ lv.nnsylvsnla, called np ns n priviltged question the motion submitted by him yesterday to expunge from the Record the speech of Ur. Wheeler, or Alabama, upon Edwin U. Stanton. Ho based his question of privilege on the conscious, deliberate, por* slatent abuse of the onlor of the house by the representative from the eighth district of Alabama. In lieu of the motion nude yester day, he submitted a resolution reciting that Mr. Wheeler has been guilty of tba abuse of the order of the house, Inasmuch as his speech had not bean mads upon any pension bill, and declaring in thn delivery of the ipeach was without enaction of the haute, and la contra- or other form. . , Immediately Mr. Wheeler took the floor on tha privileged question, and mid that ho wished to correct some statements which .had been made regarding him, whleh were not true. Mr, Morrison cut short farther discussion by moving to refer Kelley's resolution to the committee on mice. Agreed to. Washington, Jane 11.—In thn house, on motion of Hr. O’Neill, of Missouri, tho senate bill, similar to the one introduced in the house by Mr. O’Neill, wu paased. to legalize the in* corporation of national tradee unions. Civil Service Bill. The c'.ause appropriating for tho salary of the president having been reached, Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment pro* Tiding that none of this money shall be paid until the dvil service rule* shall have been changed as recommended by the committee on appropriation in the latter portion of the bill. A point of order having been tailed against the amendment, Mr. Bayne, while not contending that it was in order stated that If it wat ger mane to the bill at all, it was germane at this point. Mr. Findlay, of Maryland, said that the provision whether in tho form presented by tho gentleman from Pennsylvania or in its original ibrm was a proposition conceived in the spirit of the purest buueambo for the bold rat purpose of the moat transparent dema goguery. There wu no man hen who doubted that It was subject to a point of order, and therefore would bo thrust out of tho bill as an irrelevant and impertinent intruder. There was no man who doubled that if by any miscarriage, each should not be its fate. When It got to the senate, that body would trample it under foot with the scum and contumely it deserved. If, contrary.to mason and precedent it shoatd pus that body, it would confront n hostile executive who would give it Us approval only under the com- pulsion of forced position to which ha had Man driven by hia own poUttcnl friends. This hones (and by this he meant tha damp, ersrie majority) had already rudely tamed its hack oa one of the principal reform, ia tha currency o! the country, recommended by the president, and, u if that had not beau enough, It now proposes to knock from under him the vtry foundation atone of his political creed and public rucctst, and thia was politics and them were leaden. If it- were not aTverious a • man might alt down and laugh at uppose, though that it a quea* eubt. [Laughter and applause.] it of the eligible* into bin own this old party preserving its snecemion. and name,if not (n polity, and principles through n half century of conflict and varying fortune fighting battlee for twenty-five years only to lose them without one break in a long chain of reversal and then at last after all this long tion and defeat when party victory had brush- •fi aside tho blade cloud of disaster and re vealed the silver lining to its ravished gaze. Whether intoxicated to the spectacle ormad from theorems of Jay, the grand old party, nneqnnito tho taak of deliberate con templation of its own splendid ichtevemants, naked to be in the Terr moment of lUtnumphand on tho very ipotwhere It had It had voted down an honest dollar, and it now proposed to tear away a safeguard to tho moat valuable law on the statute book. Lot no gentleman deceive himself. Tho gentle man from Indians (Hr. Holman), in response to t question n few days ago, had said that the object of the amendment was to deal out oven- handed Justice, and tho gentleman from 1111- nola (Mr, Springer) had rtlll more plainly 1st the boose know that it wma Intended to given partisan, instead of n non-partisan, service; that tho effect of the amendment requiring the certification of tho full list of eligtblte to the appointing power would be to give n parti- sen and not a non-partisan service, was not a mere matter of coqjectural speculation, bnt It wu n matter of experience, demonstrat ed, boasted of, gloated over by Inn Baltimore postmaster. Thia ingaoiont young man had got the whole list of eligiblee Into hit hands. A voice—What Is hat Mr. Findlay—He is democrat. He wu s dem- eorst in office. He wu appointed by the pres ent preeident to tha office. That fixes hia democracy, I suppose, though that it a ques tion of somo doubt. — • • Hog hand „ cording to bis own statement before an ex- amlner of the civil service commission who wss in Baltimore, he made each good use of it that in leu apace than a year he hod turned out every republican In that office and had pat a democrat In hit place without mlsasng lire oner. While Mr. Findlay wu delivering Mi speech, members from both aides of the house crowded around him, and hit last sentence waa received with a burst of mingled hisses and applause,the spplauso being partly intend ed for the sentiments expressed by Mr. Find lay and partly in approbation of tha action of the Baltimore postmaster. Turning defiantly towards the democratlo aide, Mr. Findlay exclaimed: “When you applaud tha effect of thia amend ment then yon mean to uy that tha certifica tion of all ellribles will result in what yon have applauded. Then yon mean to say thatjthe ob ject of this amendment Is to give a partisan and not n non-partiaan service. Applaud Jnet as iongu you please, neither hisses nor up- { louse will deter me from tho discharge of what consider n doty.” [Applause.] Mr. Findlay then continued to review tha action ol tho Baltimore postmaster. This in. S enlous young man, ho mid, with ho aid of more expert ulmtere, still had violated rales of tho civil service commission and still boasted that if ho had only boon span tie longer In hia place he would hav over the democratic civil service refo office to bit successor, [Laughter plants.] There wu not a man in the house who did not know what the effect of tho provision wonld bo. Hr. Compton, of Uuyland, said that tha unit hit colleague made on tha Into pontmu- ter at Baltimore wu u undeserved aa any one man had over mado on another, Who wu that postmuter? Ho waa the peer of tha gentleman from character and intelligence, end n democrat. Civil scrvico hid sought by every effort, and ha had violated the law of , bo* Jiticai icaJawags and a lot or nnp rinclpied scoundrels—associates of bis coUetgnas in last fill’s campaign, when he (Mr. Findlay) had •ought to defeat the democratic ticket. [Ap plause on tho democratic aide.] Immediately the house wu in an uproar, but above tba noise Mr. Findlay wu heard to inquire, angrily, whether his colleague meant tosay tbit he associated with scalawags and scoundrels. Either tha confusion prevented Mr. Comp ton from hearing Mr. Findlay’s question or drowned bin reply thereto, bnt tho gentlemen stood within * few feet of one another, angrily gesticulating, while other mem bon of thn house gathered around and took innch Inter est In tho scene. Speaker Carlisle, who wu in the cham ber, approached the speaker’s desk and wu apparently ready to seize tha gavel and exert hia authority in the caaa. The demon stration became mere threatening, bnt Chair man Blonnt wu equal to tho emergency and ■oon succeeded in securing comparative quiet. The angry colloquy between these two Maryland members continued for some time. Hr. Findlay secured the last word, saying: “We have real democracy in Maryland, and tha spurious democracy that hu corrupted and debauched the fraaehlaa ofonr state, and hu made, through the ageney of the president here, thn recommendation of men who owe their offices to such Influences u have mado the nama of civil service reform stink by tha character of tha appointments made, I am in favor of civil service reform, not snivel ser vice reform), bnt genuine civil service reform, and I say that whenever the day comae that it shall bo recognized u the policy ofonr conn- try that evaiy four years n hundred thousand offices era to be put np for talo and knocked down to the highest biddor; though this country bu ■ stood every strain and trial, that strain will be too great; for the onion will ho confronted with the most dangerous enemy that bu ever assailed its peace or threatened Its Integrity. [Applause.] The Haynes amendment wu then ruled out of order, and soma little discussion arose as to tho proper mode of appropriating for the ularyofthe presiding officer of tho aeuate. It wu finaUyagreed to atrikaont the elauu appropriating $8,000 for the salary of tho vice- president and to appropriate $3,000 to pay ' int be selected to pnaldo llog to In the The Polygamy Bill. Washington. Juno 10c—Tha report of the house judiciary committee on tho Edmnuda anti-polygamy bill, which wu presented to the home today, ia a very long document. Af- ter a detailed atatement of thn changes made by the committee, tho report nje: Yr nr committee hu no disposition to recom mend any mesumre to the house which will in volve the sanctity of any religious faith, however wrong in tbalr opinion It may be. But a dlwinc- llon between overt acts, ream ing from etalcf which tba law makes criminal, and tho opinion snd of worshipping of O ' — the dictates of conscience, wulla! report oo toe oonstttntr so as to need no committee does not hesitate to_ rent from tba twelfth section ot the senate bill, effect of which would ho that-the conductor too corporals “church of Jean Christ of latter day nlnu" would be controlled tor treaties of tba church In conjunction with trutsea appointed by ths president. This union of tho irnitnae of too church and those of the forermunl cannot be distinguished iron a union of church and state, and slew respecting too cwahHahmcm of raUgion, nor can It bo other than a limitation of the free exercise oi religion. to hero the majority, who control in tha matter SBKS? 57,I’M In fact, an establishment of tha Mormon church by law. to be controlled by tha government. Tour committee recommendanaanuTmeot and dtosota- tlou of the eors oration. This is eUariy public poi- bedonewlth- J. M. BIOS, Thn Regulator and Controller of Low Prices. Will stall samples of ell dames ofJS®"?*;* 4 ill iTrrrsisrr on all orders abonJIlftOI Ton toUme money snd get better variety toteket mat by writing utahoot what you want and get- ite acknowledged lowest price*. 44 and « White- HewsamUilapapet. | INDISTINCT PRUT out any strained construction ot authorities. iBoth the charter of the church and of the emigration fimd company wee* null for want of power. The acta confirming these charters were voT tame reason. It Is a matter of grave doul organic act authorised Use original tlonal, for it Is obvious they give form cl religion over every id which thus discriminate in over another, is in proper sci the establishment of rcilgtonHl possesses ail original power overtheterrUoiBH a right 10 avoid the acts of its suboniliata agency,! and awert lie own policy. With thU view of thn power of congress, your committee rccommonds to cut out by the mot tots church satabUshmont and npaay Is dei ... the church. Its officers an all church corporation, and If the taster si tussoivuu its parasite cannot survive. Tho duty of congress is to prevent such an Institution being eetabllsbcd in any states* a means of promutlng Its growth to that nature, at which admission to the union will toe co«n* l,<le oaan<K <> to** doub5d! ,W *W iS wltbtrOTsssaSffjflth'rirespaiparpoM Si eurinS existing evils, it does to In entire consistency with toe constitutional liberties of the people and with their free right to exercise their religious beliefs according to their conscience, and only under the responsibility or each man, to toe supremo being. Tariff Talk, Hr, Uorrleon'a announcement in the house today that ha would call up tho tariff bill next Thursday, wu tho result of a confercnco between the leading revenue reformers of the between the leading revenue reformers or the house. Speaker Carilile hu been urging them not to give np tho idea of patting the Mil at thia session. Hr. Morrison's announcement wae met by one from Hr. McKinley, of Ohio, to tho affect that bo wonld oppose the oonsld- oration of tho tariff bill. The Indicatloni are that tha contest will begin and end Jnat at this point. Necemrily, there ia an element of uncertainty in all calculations u to what tho honuwill do next Tharaday, bat tho estimate* of the opponents of tho bill appear to bo well founded. They uy that a carefnl can- vau of both aides of tho house ahowa that the motion to consider the bljl will be defeated by at lsaet fifteen Votes. Washington Gossip. Washington, Jane 7.—[Special.]—Senator Joe Hawley, of Connecticut, ia usually sensi ble, but sometime* ho file* off the handle. Ha did to today in a most amusing ator Brown had called np hit bill to give a rebate of not more than twomty-fivc per cent to all railroads In the south which had par- chased rolling stock from the government at the clou of the war. This rolling stock had been improvised for array service, ■ was worth very little, hot because toe southern railroads could then get nothing else, they took It at tho price* fixed by the government authorities. Nearly all of the roads have been reimbursed twenty.flvo per cent on tho amount paid, and Senator Brown’s bill ia to provide for a settlement with the others on a similar buls. Among tbo roads in Georgia it affects only the Roma and South western, u tho others have already had • set tlement; bnt InTanaeatoe and other aouthera statea it will reimbnne a large number of road* for nnjuet expenditures. - when tha bill cams op before the committee on rallroads,!t wu ap proved by atinanlmons vote. Sena torBrowu wu authorized to prepare tho report, ’ reason Of tho committee’s action, and tha .report hu boon in print soma week*. Today, when the bill wu about to pats, Sea ator Hawley leaped to hia feetu if ha had jnat mashed a bumble bee. Holding a fluttering and frightened report in hit hand, he exclaim ed in a fourth of J believe that wat ■ on railroads, Ha f lacc II stated that an invading army had gone nto the south, and in another place tho word “Invaded” wu used In relation to the move ments of the federal forcee. "I am sure,” cried Hawley, “that no union Midler coaid unction the use of thou tonne.” Senator Brown saggelted that ha wonld supply a synonym more agreeable to the delicate nervu of the senator from Connecticut. “No,” said Mr. Hawley, "I am done with it” Thia would seem to bo enough to settle tho bill, bnt it didn’t Senator Brown calmly stated that he bad no desire to insert any or- fenslva words in tha report, and that ha wonld bo the last man in the senate to re-open say feeling of sectional strife. Aa some offaou bad been taken to a certain expression In tho report ho naked icavo to withdraw it To this S eneral content wu acoordod. Hr. Brown ben called a vote on tha bill and it wu passed. He went to several members of the committee and agreed to anhatltnto tha word "coverod” for “invaded” and to pat “anion army" for “Invading army.” Ho wu authorised by the committee to have the report reprinted and •eat along to tba house with the bill. Hr. llawley’e term la expiring, and, u thia inci dent ahowa, ha ia in deape rate strait. Washington, Inna 8.—The presidential party arrived hero from Deer Park at 7.20 Washington, Jana a—Tho Marino hos tel officers have received information bom I’enlce, under date of Jnno Oth, to the affect number of euu being sixty-one, with thirty- six deaths. The uma bureau bu alto received infor mation from Florence, Italy, dated Jana 3d, that two deaths have occurred there from cholera, tad men are expected. . President Cleveland Ia aaxieat for an urly adjournment of congress. He had a consul tation with Hr. BandalUoday on tho condi tion of tho basinets. Ur. Randall aapreaaad tha opinion that, with tho proper uw of the time, an adjournment could bo reached early in July. It ie said that the president has an extensive tour In prospect for tba summer. Be will not go to Europe, u hu been stated, bnt he pines for the recreation of tho Adiron dack!. Ha it pf tho opinion that an early ad journment would bo or gnat benefit to the party, u well u to Mrs. Cleveland oud him self. Washinoton, Juno 11. — [8ooc!al.]— One or the latest removals for offensive parti sanship Is that of J. B. Hayes, who had bean inspector of tboportof Now York forflftoeo years. Hr. Hayu accompanied Colonel Lv moat oahlatrip out to meet the ship which wu bearing the president’s brida-olaet Into New York harbor from her European tour. Ho supposed that Colonel Lament of coorae had a permit from tho secretary of too treatary for tho passage of Mlu Folsom* baggage with out examination and tha anmaroos tranks of that lady were not subjected to tha usual cus tom house Inspection. It turns oat that Colo nel Lament had no permit guaranteeing this courtesy. Hr. Hayu wu vary much surprised to find that tha first communication he re ceived from the president after this act of conrteey wu a notice of removal from office for offensive partisanship, Tha first comptroller of tha treasury hu de cided that the word “office” in the first citato ulelOof the civil servic* commission ap plies to the bend ofn bare* u wsU u to the hud of a deportment, that tba head of a ba rren it tha bead of an office: also that whoa tba bead of a department believes that tha public service will ha pi can appoint a confidential of a bureau in hia department without re quiring him to undergo civil service exami nation, and tho appointee can receive tha pay of nay clerk ia tbo classified service, provided then ia a vacancy in any grade for which an appropriation bu boon made. Tha qnutioa arose on an application by tha third auditor for a confidential clerk. Tbo secretary of stare recently received • cable message from Minister Cox,at Constanti nople, saying that tha sultan of Turkey de sired to ttnda wedding present to Mrs. CUve- laad, and asking that It ho received, Tho president, wbil* appreciating tho motives of the sultan, felt that its acceptance would be in violation of tha spirit, if not tha letter, of tha constitution, a>d accordingly telegraphed hit declination of tha proposed compliment. “Glad Tidings ForMothsrs.” BILL ARP. AND MRS- ARP CBLBBRATB THEIR BIRTHDAYS. Sh* Children and Welsh bon goes la ana Pleasant Mamstlea an Beoallsd-Xr. Srp Is ■ ot Too Old to amt around tad Pat as Atn-xrs. Arp In altatt or--Sweat EuadlUp." We are haring torn* birthdays new for Mrs. Arp and I are both Juno bugs. That in to uy lama bngaad she its butterfly I reckon. I won’t call her a bog though she dou jane around sometime* when things go wrong. 8h* had a birthday lut week, and I would tall how old tho is If' I wu sure tbo wonld never bon widow. She thinks I wonld marry again at the drop of a hat, bnt declares aha wouldn’t and uys something about a burnt child dreading tho fire, Bnt the don’t mun that I kndw, and tho honut reason is that the it afraid she never could find another man Uko me. It wonld take her a long time to train another feller and gat Mm up to any standard of uxorial docility. A young man will train but one over thirty won’t train worth n cent, and that In tho reason why it la so dangerous for a girl of ambition to marry an old, yonng man or a widower. Tbo train ing ia on tho other side than, and aha had Jnat as wall surrender to tha inevitable. We had the birth day and gathered all tho children hut one. There were nine of thorn here, and somo grandchildren and somo friends, snd we had a good time. I saluted Mrs, Arp on her cheek aeon ia the morning. She always turn* her cheek to me now, but •he dldant tut to by no means. I made np her had for bar, and swept the room and flew •round smiling, We had musie and played cards and want a fishing and eat spring chick, ant and huckleberry pie and talked, and the boys said smart things nod told of exploits snd escape*, and thair mother and sisters thought they were the smartest boys in the world. Ifa boy sneezes hit mother thinks it smart. Mrs. Arp thlnka her boys an aa improvement on the old man bnt my ambition la for the girl* to bo at smart u thair mother. Than la no room Cor improvement an that line. Not long ago I wont off and WU gonaa month. Whan I came book I had a warm weloomo and everything wu calm and serene. I played Mng and autocrat for two or throe days, and strutted around with tha uma eanaaqaentail airs I had went over in Carolina. But they don’t lut long at my boas*, and now I am in my normal state of tweet humility. A man must go away from home to put on alia, Ia bet it it a good Idea for the woman to go too sometimes jnat for a change. Folks got sorter common to ono an other from continuous presence Absence mar conquer yonng love, but It refreeheo the O'' I know a lady whose hatband is surgeon in tha navy, and ho is generally gone two yean and stays at homo tiro months when ho cornea.- “How do yon stand it,” uld L “I wonld just u leavo have no husband at all.” “Oh,” laid aha, “I think It la just splendid. I am so glad to see him when he cornea, and I look forward to it with so much pleaiuro. I don’t see what thou wlvu whoso husbands are always with them have to think about and hopo for. I am sure I would got awfUl tired ofnavingamanbsng around homo nil tho year nrand. It would be M monotonous. Two montha in two years ia just about right, and besides yon know tha doctor sends mo plenty of tnonmr anil that maku nn for hia amahm.” •pare I feel better and mors Uko a gentleman, and it sheds its benign Influence on ail around mt. A close observer un toil when I’m in funds by perusing tha brolly. I can tell by my feelings my appetite, my hilarity. A man ought to kup a dollar or two in hit pocket all tha time, Jnat like he keep* a buckeye or a rabbit foot It is fruit time now. There are chor tles, and dewberries, and huckleberries, and raspberries, and mulberries, and tho tuasr { uat flics all tho time. Every ireakfut, while Carl It mllkii practicing bar music, I pick tha raspberries and fiU a tumbler for each of them to taka to school, and I sprinkle them all oqer with sugar. I go with them as far at the foot-log over tho crook, and in tha evening I go to mcct|them, and wa come by the dewberry patch snd hava a good time. Thoy will think about that walk to school aa long as thoy live, and it wUI always ho a pleasant memory. Thoy their bato fall of eggs. Wo will begin to cut cat* tomorrow, and thoy will find tome part ridge eggs and bo happy. School will bo out ‘"ion for" next week, and then for blackberries to make Jam and jelly. They can pick all day and •cratch all night, and keep fist and hoaithy. Thia country life It just splendid for children. Mix It up with school and with work and It will makamen and women for a state to bo proud of. But you toad a boy to school all bin y< “ * " * ' yonng life, and then to collego, and ht i’t bo fit for hardly anytMng abort an of- seeker. Us will be wanting to goto tbo logiclature before he is twenty-five. Fva known fellers to ran for the legislature who didn’t know whether a cow that was lying dowu got np behind or before, or how to drive a nail Inn plank to keep it from aplittlng, or whether It was tho east wind or the west wind that brought fkir feather, or whether it wu this year* wood or lut year’s wood that produced poacheo and grapes. But atill thoy can make laws to govern the people. Old age may not bring wisdom bnt it brings knowl edge, and so I wu a little proud that thru •oon yean had passed over my. hood. I thought thatauroly I wu gaining unto, bate good lawyer told ma today that I wu now on the declint, for our supreme court had decid ed that a man over sixty wu incompetent U Juror; to I am not lit to try a ease, I suppose. I know that a man ovsr sixty could not bo compelled to serve on a Jury, but tha oonrt uys ht shall not aervo for ho Is Incompetent. Well, if tint la co the supremo court ought to resign for they art over sixty. I rackon that some of thou Juvenile members of tho legislature mado that law. Country Ilfs hu a charm for town folks and they look forward to the time when they can retire from work and settle down on a farm. My friend Judge Branham came to aw at yes terday and took off his coat and hang it on a ang it« futon •very b called, A and cap Wa talked over tha good old days and wa paid tribute to tha dead—tha friends whohadlaft us, and wa diactutad tba living and wa talked a little politics and wa wandered over tho ferm and along tha croak and branchu and « etched tho minnows dodging aroond and ho •aid in a whisper. “I almost with I wu a boy again.” If Judge Bleckley had boon •long I think wa all tons would bars goon in udga Branham said ht knew tho baptizing branch, u it wu .downin Putnam. Heeonldgorlghtnow catch a cat In one holt and a perch in an other-tbo lineal decendenlaof tha aame fish he used to catch ia tho long ago, Ha knew tba vary spot where ho pnllod ont an sal tbo first ono ho over caoght and b* thought It wu a snake and threw down tha pole and nn for hit life, ’Those wen good times” mid ha “and this* an good time* too; lot aa apologize for tbo bad and tnjoy all the good that wa can. Love, pity end contentment will make any- W^iat?gentl* genial comfort It la to ho visi ted by an old friend. Not a formal call but a good, honut, loving vlait—a visit that pays double, for it pay* him that give* snd him that doth receive—it Is twice bletsed and for a sea son renews onr youth and loaves a sweet odor after it hu passed. Bill Air. Many parsoni an afflicted srtth eruptions of the skin, bolls or ulcere. Brandeth’s Pills taken freely, will, ia a ehort time, can trap, tlonr. pimples or boils. Ulcers of long stand- lag require treatment for tome weeks, hut bo amured that the wont fever sorea or obstinate ulcers will surely diuppenr If you porter ere with ttete KHa. DURING THE WEEK- Tuesday, June 8.—Bight perrons were smoth ered and burned to death In Chicago ...Raleigh and reveral other North Carolina towns voted for prohibition..... The Grand theatre in Looisvllla, Ky. wu destroyed by Bro -A passenger train on tbs Northwestern railroad of South Carolina fell Ihtongh a trestle, killing islxpaarongen..... Alfred long, charged with murder and other crimes in North Carolina, wu taken from Jail by masked men and lyaobad Tho pram stand at the St. Ionia fair grounds fell, Chariot Dyer, one ot the editors of the Republican, wu killed and several other persons were injured. In vnx Cm.-Mr. Ivy, and employs or the Air Line railroad, bad a Huger mashed while coupling cars. The general council adopted an ordinance prohibiting pool wiling oti bawball .Tho rorc- uue men are haring a quiet ttma. Wednesday, June 0.—Chattanooga Is Infested with thieves In the elsritona held' In Belgium to replace the outgoing members of the chamber of dopants, tbo Catholics gained sierra seats. IV. c. Harding A Co.’s woolen mills at Stamford, Coen- valued at 1329.000, werodeitroyed by dro Colonel Richard M. Hoe, head of tba firm of B. Hoe & Co., printing press manufacturers. New York, died suddenly at Florence, Italy Forty- nine of the recently arretted men, Indicted by the grand Jury for rioting and oonipiracyatMIlwaukea, Wit, were arraigned In court. In rni CiTT.-Gorernor MeDantcl hu offered a reward of 1190 for tbo arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Monroe county of John Simmons, who murdered Lewis Mathews A meeting of tho theatrical managers of the southern statu wu held at DaGlve's opera house A patent medicine vendor reached Atlanta yesterday, who bu driven all tho way from Sacramento, California. In a bug gy , the team—a pair of poulcv-being tho aame he started with. Thursday, Juno 10.-A passenger train on tbo Ottawa, Of age City and Council Crave railroad, of Kansu, wu thrown from tho track, killing two men W. A. Dots, tha owner or twenty-four but ter factorise in Illinois, hu felled .Tha quarterly report of President Green, or tho Western Union Telegraph company, recommends that no dividend bo paid Ibr the present quarter... .The entire polio* forco of East 8t. Louis, except the chief, hu boon discharged. A gang of thieves had planned, with the connivance of lbs polk*, to rob tba city treasury, several business bouses and a Musk. in the Citr.-Tho BclecUo medicine association. oflhe United States will meet in Atlanta next week.-,, Samuel Lows, a young white man, acci dentally shot a ponton ot tho thumb and flrst finger of bis left band away while fbollng with a gun—.OolonsI Luther J. Glenn, who has, fbr eov- oral years, been a very prominent lawyer in thia motion and one or the most prominent oUlsensof Ibe Mate, died at hia homo yesterday. Friday. Juno Tire esses ot •nerohiau in Chloaco were called in court and their counsel moved for a change of venue, which wu granted, snd their Inal will lake piano oo June 21 .The political excitement of tho last few days in Perth culminated In serious rioting Five men won arrested In Chicago who an supposed to bavo sot on lire tho building in which eight per sons lost their Uvea. In the ClTT.-Gtnsnl L. J. Gartrell bu bun Tory tick for sororal days .The artesian well tower hu boon completed A treo In Walker street schoolhouso yard wu shattered by llghtulng. JlmFalkncr had hia left leg broken while working with a hone Tha graduating exercise* of tho Atlanta Female inatltut* look place at tho In- •mute hail. Saturday, June 12.—Four homo thloras wore hanged at Limestone, Idaho The business fall, urea Ibr Ibe part week throughout tho United Slates number IN, land in Canada 39 Dennis Boyle, colored, wu hanged al Bolievlllo. La, for murder Flnstbrook's brother* box factory at Toronto, Ont., valued at 1100,000, wu burned A fire at Litchfield, Conn., destroyed 1300,000 worth or property Bishop Thomas Francis llundrtckon, (R. C.) or Providence, B. 1„ died while sitting In his chair. Ik the CiTY.-Wbllo John Foster, a negro man, wet standing on hit front porch, lightning struck a treo In his yard, and tho shock wu so Intense that Foster wu knocked down snd hu not boon •bio to walk tinea, bnt his physician uya he will ba all right In a few daya Sunday, June 13,-Tb* Mower county national tank at St. Paul napanded, with liabilities at 190,000. Tha gludars have broken ont among tbohorauln York county, South Carolina .The arbitrators In tha caso between the Atlantlo and Pacific and the Southern Pacific railways, growing out of I rant-continental wars, hare rendered their decision in flavor of the Atlantlo and Paelflo A suit for 1900,000 hu tarn Instituted against Jay Gould lor breach of oon tract oo account of con demnation of property while tho St. Louis and Ssn Francisco railroad wu baying Its way Into St. Lou! Tcrriblo storms and floods prevailed In the French provinoes Loon Laurent Picket, a well known writer tod member of the French senate, died Ono hundred attires and Ira gnglltn people lost Umu liras through the erup tion of tho volcano Tsravens, near Auoklsnd, New Zealand .The British government hu Is sued ordsra to the Canadian government toauka no more act suras of American vs mils, except whore tbo violation to so open snd flagrant that It cannot bo wlnkad aL It) THE City.—James Gumming, a ten-year-old boy, broke hit right arm whlla playing ball Jud Bhcnell, a train kind an Urn Georgia railroad, had hia right foot crushed and two ribs broken wbllo snitching soar Tba First Baptist Bundty school minion at Roynoldstown hu baon com pleted, Tli* Froth mgrsnea Of BOZODONT randan It tho most agreeable artlclo ever used u a tooth wash. It hu none or tho acrid propcrtUt of thn utringant tooth powders, and instead of contracting tho gums, It renders them firm and clastic. A western ilghtarer bring told that the dried op mao of )I0 pounds weight wu RrsrU, the Now York senator, said; ’’By goshl I’ll bet h« boards.” If yon bad taksn two of Carter’s Little Liver Pills bafonntlrlng yon wonld not have had that coated tongue or bad tut* in tho month this morning. Keep a vial with yon for occasional use. ’Landlord,” said a Wisconsin traveller,omsrrinf im tho dining room altera tong and frulitoas ugjjlo to secure a dinner— 1 'Landlord, (hero's a dinner—"Landlord, then's have hero tbit's u good an tho ono think that yon have hero that's as got A Most Litoral Offer. ippliincefl oo thirty dar>'trial to tar man i nth Hmoua Debility. Lo« of JJOn»rOIID'S ACID PIIOSPnATK, ' A Valuable Remedy tor OravsL Dr. T. H. Now lakh, Jr.. Ht. Louis, Mo., uya: “I have used It in dlsuMaof th« uri nary organ* such u yravol, sad particularly speimatorrhica, with vary Fond result*, and think It n very valuable remedy in thowdln- Profcmor—Does uy question trouble rqti. llr? modern—No, sir, not at all. Bat I am alUtfe in doubt how to frame rov answer so u to giro yen tho precise information ibr which you seam to ask. A sound mind gou vary seldom without • sound digestion, and nothing contribute* to ward it mot* than th* on of ANGOSTURA BITTERS, the world renowned appetiser and invlgontor, manufactured only by Dr. J. O.B. Biegtrt A Boos. JIM GIBBS'S YARNS. A Florida Humorist and Bis Adventure* by Flood and Field. Eustis, Fla., May 13.—Jim Gibbs, tbo era :k- er humorist of fluwonco county, is a wiry young follow of about forty, a hard working farmer and a assal-oooMlonal lover-o'old red liquor. Ho hu bright imall oyea, a face the color of old tripe and n mustacho that ia tho Shadow of things hoped hr. Jim is a good fellow, 'qniat, peaceable, hospitable and Is sat urated with natural, genuine, purely Ameri can humor. Ho hu two voices, ono a deep but coming np from tho deptha of his Inner economy, the other a charming falsetto, sug gestive of tho ambitions school girl, who at tempts to reach high O without first going through tho nocemaiy preparation. Tha hu mor of hit yarns ia enhanced by bin startling change from one voice to the other. Many of your readers will remember him, as they have boon delighted listeners when stopping over at Live Oak. Jim never smilea or laughs him self, and ia at bit best whan he ia about ono drink ahead of the game. A PRETTY HEFTY CEAWFIiH. “I’ll swear, boys,” said Jim ono day u ho (topped bit hone in front of the saloon and swayed easily In hit saddle, “I don't wut to mo no more heavy rains like we’ve had thia week. They’re about spiled uy crop. VYosa’n that, them blame crawfish is crawlin’ all over my yard. My dog bagged ono the t'other night.” “How wu that, Jim t” Inquired ono of tha boye. “Well, you sl_, couldn’t go to sleep, for 11 at tho rain, and all to onct the pop com menced barkin’ like tho devil. 1 thought *twu a coon ont in the yard after ohlckens, so I slipped on my panto, took a lantern and went out. What do you think I uw? Boys, 1H swear it wan th* biggest crawfish 1 over seed In all my lib. Hit wu on hlu hind legs a aparrin’ at the dog. I sicked the pup on, bnt the crawfish whipped Mm ont in ono round. I went Into tho house after my gun, bnt when I got hack tho doggoned thing wu gone. I wu sorry for I wai goin’ to give hit to ay friend Sonator Bill Bryson.” “How big wu it, JJmT” ukod one laughing listener. * \ "Boys, I’ll twar Mt waa u big u that goods box,” pointing to a dry goods box about throe feet square. A MASSACRE OF WILD DUCKS. I’ll bat a hundred of fodder that I've got tat in a day.” “Wbero ia it, Jim?” “I've got Mt right home now, ain’t I Jo?” “How long it it, Jim?” "Hit's twenty foot long, If hit’s a foot. Hy old grandfather fit tho Iqjlnt with hit. You kin nut ysr whole arm down tho barrel. Ono puts , day lut winter I got un right tiriy to go down to tho pond dock hunting. I loaded the old S un with* pound of powder and six pound of bot and started off. I had to use about a bar rel of mou for wadding. Tho gun wu ao heavy I couldn’t carry hit, so I drag tho plagued thing through tha hushes. When I got to tba pond it wasn't quite sun np. Tha pond wu klvercd with ducks. Boys, I’ll swear I never nw ao many ducks in my nateral life. I rotted the gun on a branch and pulled the trigger. Gentlemen, tho dog gone thing kicked. Hit cut my lip throogb, busted my snoot and kicked mo onto the hood. Yea, air, hit kilt ma dead. When I came to I wu klvertd with blood and could scarcely ice. I hurried to tho houao quick's I could and got my bee fixed un. I wat that weak that I couldn’t walk much and it wu two hours afore I went back to tho pond. I’ll swear, boyi, tho gun wu still amok. In’ and a forty aero field t'other aide tho pond wukivered with ducks. I wlshtl’d took Uttar aim. I b’liavo I'd a Mlt all they wav in the pond.” "How many did yon kill, Jim?” "Wall, I on’y got seventeen hundred. I’d a got more, bnt somo on ’em wu so badly shot up I didn't kssr to bother. For all, that gun cuttin’ up ao and bustin’ of mo nn’ tho load hadn’t gone outln’ of it, for about a week af ter, Tom put on a fresh cap and kilt a hawk with it flvo hundred yards off.” “What will you take for that gnn, Jim?” "’Taln'tfor solo. I'm goln’ to koep hit ontil nex’ 'lection, and to* of I can't make tom* nigger demoenta with hit.” A cunious cioAn* ’ "Thank yon, that smells liko a good cigar. Tba poorest cigar I tver smoked wu ono I got it Houston somo tlmo ago. Ultwuat night. Tom and mo had bean to a party, I think, and uws patted through that place I ’eluded I wanted asmoke. We had plenty of ‘old rad’ with us, but no smokin’ torbtekor. Wo dniv np to tho storo and I hollered for the man to como down, lilt wu about midnight. Hit wu n long time befero I could wako him up, nnd when ha did ba wu akoored tq_ corns down. I reckon ho ha found — opened tbo door a crack and nit what I wanted. I told him a cigar. IIo handed somethin’ oat and hit wu so long I thought kit wu a broom-hnadl*. I toM him i wanted a cigar, and acs ho: ‘That’s • cigar, and choap at five cents.’ Solllt bit and rodooff. Hit wu n dogg<mod_long^hlt_ struck agin /' ' I Pfe When I got homo I wu sahst nnd rich, tenpin’ tha 1 branches nnd sheerin' my host, I broke off part and kep’ on smokin', bat it wu still too long, so I kep’ broskln’ off pieces nnd puttin’ IV**, sw t 'em in m: •till put and kep’ on smokin', bat it wav atill too long, so I hap’ brea‘' ' ” -* * _jfin’ and had a pocket full of cigars. That wu tho longest dnr I onr ucd, nnd I wu two boon and a half glttln' homo, too.” "What wu It mad* of, Jim?” “Why, bur grass and waboo bark. Hit wu green, too, for bo had made bit In tho mornln' and tuk bit In at night afore hit wu half dry.’ THE OAY AND FESTIVE TEXAS FOXY. One year ago a Texas hflnt trader brought ■ lot of th* mart vicious ponies to Live Oak and Ask for ‘Hand Harris Tobaccof ’ every time. SENT TREB-Rampto* ol oaBow.to apply It. M. M. become owner of a pony. U# bad no troablo in breaking it to tho saddle, for ho ia a number one borreman and a fearless rider, hut when he came to break It to harness ba had a regu lar picnic. Ha told na of hit troubles one day, with the asm* impaatlv* countenance and tho change of vote* that ia a part of hit natural swear, boys, them Taxupoatea la Ilka a streak of lightning. Tothar day I hitched mine to tho wagon nnd want to loading np fed. dor. I had about three hundred bundlu on when tbo pony cot sheered like, *nd off he started on • deadron.'wagnn and all. Hit wu tha doggondaat raea I ever teen. Hit run right through ths woods about forty mllo I guew, and whan I fetchod np with bit after a two day’s sarah, hit had a wad or gnpo vinca ’roond Mt u big u that there stone over yon der. The wagon wu all brnk np and I never did lad bat ono handle of fodder, hit wu scattered all over the ynrtb. Now good-by, I urns’ ba goln’. Come ont somo day and see my cat that’s big u a yearllu’. Icotched It by the collar ’tother day and hit drug mo half way op a big chainyboriy tree," Maxwell l!»i a Friend. Bt. Louis, June lb—Sheriff Coekley yester day received through mail a proposition to permit the writer to rescue Maxwell while bring eon- ’ dueled to or from the court room. The letter te signed' Cbtriu Hunter.” The writer olrimato to What Wu Left Him. "Poor Saodboppar to dead,” remarked smith. “Y'os," answered Brown. ■ be’edead." "Rich, he wts,” added ffmltb. “Yes, be wu rich," arid Brown to n riixlued ‘•Leave jon anything?" axked Smith. I'tift ne a/iTVp" replied I?roan in a more cheer- i) tone. , Harsh purgative ramadiu are feat giving way to the gentle action and mild affoota at Carter’s Little Liver Pills. If yea try then* they will certainly platan yen. :