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ATLANTA. GA , SEPTEMBER 13,1887.
Tin' Visit of I'rcahl.’iit ami Mrs. < leveland.
The reception and cnleitainnienl of Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland, at Atlanta, during
the Piedmont exposition, will be u series of
events memorable forever to those who wit
ness them.
For the lird time a democratic president
will get foot on Georgia 8011. Additional
interest is given to this, by the fact that it
Is the man who led the democratic party
from twenty (Ivo years of defeat into glori
ous victory, and who restored tho south to
the eonli leneo of the. nation to their full
rights ami partnership in the. union.
Fresidimt Cleveland does not pay us a
formal pop-call. Ho comes in (lie old
fashioned democratic way, bringing his wife
•ml friends with him. and staying with us
three nights and two days. He gives \t
liuita more time than any city on his entire
route, because he is anxious to meet our
people, study our resources, and know some
thing from personal observation of our
folks and the wonderful riches of our Pied
mont legion, lie especially wants to meet
the people face to face and w ill be accessi
ble the whole lime of bis visit. Every visi
tor who wishes Io do so can reasonably
Count on shaking his hand and giving him
• word of welcome.
'Die scene* attending the president's re
ceplioti and entertainment will be superb
and splendid. The illumination of blenue
bhw mountain, with artillery on its heights,
ami a Hight of live thousand rockets from
Its crest by electric match, will be a sight
never seen before. The sham battle, cot
ering seventy acres, with four batteries <d
artillery, ten companies of cavalry and
thousands of foot Siddiers, w ill be an incom
parable spectacle.
The torchlight procession of ten thousand
young democrats in line, with the whole
city illuminated, and the air full of color
ami sound, will be inspiring. Tim exposi
tion itself will bean enormous show, full
of interest and instruction.
Now let us make tho president's visit
here the significant and overwhelming tea
ture of his entire tour. Let us show him
the south at her best, ami ht him know
that the people love him and honor him. ft
Is because ho wants to know tho south
better that he gives Atlanta more time than
any other city on his route. M hen he
stands up to speak to us. let him look into
the faces of mon southerm rs than any man,
living or dead. has ever seen assembled.
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How to I’rt'M'ov Our lorcilK.
In this democratic country where every
citizen claims the right to use his land as he
phases, digging down for hidden treasure,
•nd stripping it of the timber, it is some
what diliieult to see how our forests are to
be preserv cd.
The paternal governments of Europe do
not allow such small matters to disturb
them. They simply go ahead and requite
tin land owners to leav o a certain propor
tion of their timber uncut, besides requiring
them to plant trees. We cannot very w< 11
Compel our citizens to do these things. YVe
u*us; pcr»i ;ul< them, or otlerthem sultieient
Indiiceniems. Mr. James Byars, of the
National Forestry Burc.rn, in a recent speech
BUggetUd that the better policy would be to
exempt from taxation all lands planted in
forests. Doubt It *s this would do much to
wards preventing the wholesale destruction
of our for. sts. In some of the European
forests all that is done is to preserve the
undergrowth to biieh an extent as will al
ways leave a young tree to take the place of
the larger tree cut away for timber.
Jf the exemption plan will do any good
it should be given a uial, At least vne-
TIIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1887.
fourth of our territory must always remain
In forests or we may make up our minds to
see the land gradually turn into a desert.
If a state of governmental system of exemp
tions and rewards w ill do any good, then
the sooner we put it. into operation the
better.
Henry George and Land Values.
Mr. Henry George, who is a very eloquent
writer, is pushing his land theory forall it is
worth. He brings to its advocacy a brilliant
style and a facility of expression that are
well calculated so deceive those who take
merely a superficial view of matters and
things.
Mr. George's theory is that man can have
no propert y in land because man found it
here when he came, just as he found the
air and the sunshine. He can neither add
to nor take from it, therefore he can have
no right to it. ami no title in it. Property
in land being wrong, all our ideas of polit
ical economy are wrong. This is Mr.
George’s theory, ami lie contends that to
abolish private ownership ii land is to pro
vide a remedy for poverty and all the misery
that is the outgrowth of poverty.
A great many sensible people have been
misled by Mr. George’s arguments, but if
his theory be correct, it is applicable to a
great many other things besides land.
Land, in ami of itself, has no value. It is
worthless until man by his labor has util
ized it. Lamlth.it is unoccupied may havea
market value, I it the measure of that, value
1* its posslbilitie-i of production w hen utiliz
ed by the labor of mam
Man found - live], (for instance) in a wild
state. He lu. . utilized them, ami he now
owns them, but lbe wool on the sleep's
back would be worthless if it were not wove
Into various t 'brim? tor the benefit of man.
The Geoigc theory is as applicable to own
ership in sheep as to ownership in land.
Here is what tlie great reformer says in a
lute number <. f his organ, the. Standard:
What the iiniu-.i labor i-uiiy mid tho Autl-poveit
society, tie' <>:.- us a political and the other as u
ethi-. 1 mid i- -.a-, o ;anizatlon, s-i-k to l rmg
about, i- i.-i.- v II." practical reC'iguitlon of Hie
gnat ti itb tli'it *i <1 i" i le this earth for the us? of
the. men wl.omi.i inuli to live in it; each genera
tion ml Izlngtiu 1 li Inheritance In turn, and leav
ing it uuiuqadred to its moves ore. This cud they
propr-e to m cumpli-.li by the taxation of land values;
a system miller whl. h, so long iwouly one man
wants to use any natural opiantimity ho shall to
free to do so without tribute J aid to any num; but
when by reason of social growth the privilege of a
natural opportunity Is wan ol by a number of men,
tin? Ullin a lio uses It shall pay to the community
Mull a tax as may fairly re pres nt the advantage
whh h Hie i-iijiym nt of thnl opportunity gives him
over bls fellownien who eonaent to forego its use.
It needs but a little thought to realize that under
slub a sysli m not only would that degrading desti
tution In the midst of plenty which we now know
ns poverty l*e impossible. but no man or woman of
sound mind and ho ly, and willing to work, need
want for any reasonable luxuries.
Thia is very fine, butitis very vague. The
“rich inherit alien” is rich simply because it
has been made so by man’s industry, and
the value of land is due. solely to its utiliza
tion and to the possibilities that it oilers in
that direction. So that, after all, Mr.
George’s tux would fall not on land, which
Ims no value of its own, but on man’s in
dustry, which has given the land value.
Mr. George’s system of land taxation con
templates the equalization of man’s labor
and industry, which is only another form of
socialism. It is not a vicious form, indeed,
for the simple reason that it is utterly im
practicable. As long as the world stands,
some men’s industry will count for more
than that, of others: as long as the. Almighty'
differentiates individuality in the human
race -ome men will bo crowned with great
success, where other-fail. This, after all, is
the whole problem, and Mr. George will
find it just difficult to level up individu
ality and iiii.-lli ~m < by means of a system
of taxation as it would be to dry up Niagara
rivet by dipping water from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Wi .ire I old t’ at Mr. George’s preposter
ous the--ry is ve -Citable to him. If he
lias ever made a limo out of it he has made
more than the human race ever ..will.
n
More < übnn Patriots.
'I ke i xpeditii u dispatched from Key
Wi st, a few days ago, against t üba will in
all probability come to grief.
The invading army is said to consist of
sixteen men under the command of Captain
Beriben. These filibusters propose to make
their way into the interior of the island
when’they will join other bands of insur
gents and at onee begin a guerrilla warfare
against the Spaniards, burning, plundering
and killing without mercy. Beriben is
said to be a daring fellow of considerable
military ability.
During the present century dozens of
just such foolhardy expeditions have. started
out from this country with the design of
freeing Cuba, but they have all been disas
trous failures. One of the most notable
attempts in this direction was tile one made
by General Lopez in ISSI. Lopez was a
gentleman and a soldier. He came to the
United States and spent a fortune in or
ganizing three expeditions for the deliyer
anee of Cuba. The first two failed, but the
leader succeeded in making his escape.
Finally he landed near Havana, but his
forces were soon captured and dispersed,
and Lopez was taken prisoner. The un
| fortunate general was parroted in Havana,
• his friends in this country being powerless
to save him. although they made strong ap
peals in his favor.
lu some points Cai tain Beriben’s venture
resembles the I.opea affair. The black
flag programme is u new feature, but it is
not calculated to add to the strength of the
invaders, and the chances are that the fili
busters will b< hunted down and shot like
dogs.
•
They are Hani to Kill.
Occasionally u dyspeptic southerner picks
up a few ideas from northern health crunks,
and at once begins a vigorous onslaught
ujmn the diet and the cooking of his native
section. Among other things he is certain
' to mention the deadly frying pan as a se-
I rious drawback to the physical well-being of
i his people.
I’udoubtedly bad cookery and an un
wholesome diet w ill injure anybody, but it
| is not yet settled that tho southerere are
1 worse off in this regard than their northern
neighbors. Ficin the texolutienary war
> dow n to the pres, nt time the vietims of the
I deadly frying p in. the men who had a
i sneaking fondness for corn broad, bacon and
i coilaids, have prove.l themselves in point of
physical cudu.aiiee the equals of any set of
• men on the face of the globe,
M hen it comes to the matter of longevity,
| it is a notable fact that nearly every patri
■uch report) das living beyond the century
I limit hails from the south.
Os course lids doers not ptove that we
j have briaighi our diet and cooking tv pcr-
section, bub it goes to show that we are not
being killt-d olf at a very alarming rate, and
that, we have not degenerated into a race of
weaklings. The average southerner may
not compare favorably with the northerner
in the matter of complexion, and he is
slower in his movement- z... a rule, but when
the two come to test their strength and en
durance in the labors of peace or the hard
ships of war, the southerner makes a record
that no American need be ashamed of.
Pcrliaps we have too many new fanglcd
health notions anyhow. The men who are
a law unto themselves in their habits gen
erally live Uj attend the funeral of the
cranks who attempted to advance them.
Nature guides nine men out of ten in the
right direction. Jf the tenth misses it, he
may deserve to mit>» it. It would be an
overcrowded world if everybody lived to a
great old age. Some must get out of the
way early to make room for the others. It
is all right.
—
MjMhiMdppi Corn for Jllinoi**.
The growing independence of the south
is illustrated by a news item in the New
Orleans Picayune, which states that Illinois
farmers propose to transport thousands of
hogs from the drought stricken regions of
that state to northern Mississippi where
corn is abundant.
The idea of fattening Illinois hogs on
Mississippi corn would have been deemed
the perfection of folly a few years ago.
Mississippi then depended on Illinois and
the other western states for almost all her
supplies of meat and corn. This year tlie
corn crop in Mississippi is very large, and
there will be plenty to supply the wants of
the unfortunate Illinois farmers.
This incident may serve to impress upon
Mississippi, ami the other states of the
south, the importance of self-reliance.
—_—_——
Prosperous Times Ahead.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record’s
special reports from all parts of the south
make a splendid showing.
According to the Record’s figures, our
corn crop will be the largest ever raised,
exceeding the crop of 1886 by over 50,000,-
000 bushels. Our contemporary says:
The yield of corn in the south for the
last few years has been:
Bushels.
1 >Bl 433,270,(K)0
18S5 470,776,000
1886 481,818.030
•JSB7 535.000,000
4 Estimate based on government reports.
Thus the increase in com as compared with the
crop of 18S4 is 107,000.000 bushels; compared with
J‘ 8\ 70,000,000 bushels, and with 1886, 61,000.000
bushels. This alone would vastly improve the con
dition of southern farin' r\ as the great drawback
to their prosperity hereto! - 'r * has been their de
pendence t« r com and bacon upon the west. This
year the south will be nearly self su ppm ting in the
matter of r«>rn, and millions of dollars that have
been paid for western corn and provisions will be
saved. In many counties tho farmers have raise I
not only enough com fora year’s consumption, but
will, it la claimed, have sut!.<-ient to supply their
v.ants t'ortv.o years. As our reports show, there arc
ninny places where the yield will run from 50 to
100 per cent over the crop of but a conserva
tive estimate based on official rep »t s places the ag
gregate for the whole south at about 51,000,0j0
bushels over hist year’s crop, with the probability
of tho final returns showing a somewhat large
excess.
The Indications point to a good cotton
crop, if no serious disasters occur. Higher
prices for tobacco will make up for the
short crop. Wheat, oats and grasses have
been produced in abundance.
AH this is calculated to give pd impetus
to the commercial and industrial develop
ment of this legion, and it will do more to
invite, investigation than anything else
could have done. Prosperity attracts every
favorable condition in the shape of enter
prise and capital. We are entering upon
an era of tremendous progress, and for some
years to come we may count upon botvtr
times than have ever been known in our
history.—
A Sensible Colored Editor.
The editor of the Marion, Ark., Headlight
is a colored man who feels a deep interest
in the welfare of his race. lie sees no prob
lem growing out of the relations of the two
races.
In the matter of education this colored
editor's views are good-tempered and sensi
ble. He says that the leading colored edu
cators of the south do not want mixed
schools. The white and colored children,
he thinks, will do much better by tliem
selves in separate schools. Mixed schools
would increase the prejudice between the
two. and perhaps lead to war.
The colored people need a few more such
editors. The Headlight man will never
have any trouble with his white neighbors.
He will never feel that he is oppressed or
denied his just lights. When people are
minding their own business, and when they
respect the rights of others, they are rarely
interfered with. This class of colored citi
zens find it diliieult to believe that there is
such a thing as a race problem. They love
their own people, and desire to be with them.
They take it for grinded that the whites feel
the same way tow ards their own race.
Viewed in this light, the separation of the
two colors appears to be for the good of
each, because it results from the workings
of the principle of natural selection. With
self-respect, and a little common sense, there
is nothing in the way' of continued peace
and harmony in the relations of the whites
and blacks.
The Cotton Movement.
The New York Financial Chronicle, of
September 10, in addition to its other fig
ures, has a review of the cotton mov< ment
and crop for the year. According to the
Chronicle's figures, the total crop this year
reaches 0,5L’1,<i23 bales, while the exports
are 4,-l*>B,32fi bales,and the spinners' takings
are 2,077.ba1e5, leaving a stock on hand
i at the close of the year of 52,0m1 bales.
' The total receipts at the Atlantic and Gulf
■ shipping ports this year have been 3,320,-
I 621 bales, against s,tllHi.tW bales last year
■ and 4,770,100ba1es in 18SI 5; and the ex
| poits have been 4,438,320 bales, against
4.343,001 bales last season and 3,039,495
' bales the previous season, Liverpool getting
' out of this crop 2,C05220 bales.
Tin' Chronicle has a review of the world's
I consumption, which is of surpassing inter-
I est. Tho new season opened not- only
' with bitter hope but with the conditions
i actually improved. Doth goods and yarns
had already begun to go out more freely be
' fore the first ol October, so that nil reports
; of that day agreed in saying that stocks of
■ y arns as well as goods Lad been gre.uly re
duced and were very small. After the first
j of October the export movement continued
free, the total shipments of yarns for Octo
ber, November and December being 153.600,-
IKJO pounds, against 5t*,1u0.000 pounds for
the same months of 1665, while the goods
aggregated 1,229,500,000 yards, against
1,064,100,000 yards in 1885. It is scarcely j
necessary to say that, other things being
equal, this change alone was sufficient- to ;
entirely transform the condition of the trade
from depression to prosperity, from a drag
ging production to extreme activity. An
other feature which contributed to the
English spinners’ profits as the season >
opened was the count of stock of cotton at j
Liverpool the last of September, made pub- i
He October first, which disclosed the total on
hand as 51,000 of American besides 13,000
Egyptian and 9,000 sundries (73,000 bales
in all) more than the running estimate.
This discovery, corning at the time when '
large estimates of the American crop pre- ;
vailed, induced a considerable decline in the.
raw material, and as spinners were under
contract on a basis of the higher rate for
cotton, the difference inured wholly to their
advantage.
In the south the conditions during the
entire season have been all that could be
reasonably hoped for. YVhere mills have
not improved their situation this year, it
must have been due to some very excep
tional drawbacks; it certainly has not been
due to a lack of demand. Almost the entire
southern section of the country has been
greatly prospered, and the consumption of
those states, both of northern and southern
makes of goods, have largely increased.
The t lirom le hears also of an enlarged de
mand for y arns made in the south, from
northern mills, heavy weights, if wcmistake
not, in all cases. This has been a feature
to an extent in previous years, and we see
no reason why it might not, under favora
ble circumstances as to freights, be made a
growing industry. Southern managers
have come to realize that the advantages of
situation, etc., they enjoy are not so great
in any ■ to permit a mill to be built
orconductedcxe. pt with strict regard to
obtaining bed results with a given capital.
But granting they have advantages, they
might, we should tliink in many cases, be
more effectually reajied through spinning
yarn for northern mills. The spinning and
the manufacturing departments are not by
any means as extensively separated among
us as in Great Biitain. But if that practice
is found by long experience to be more
economical there, it seems as if we ought to
come to it in the end; and in that case, why
might it not fall to the share of the south, in
a larger measure, to spin the yarn where
the raw material is found?
So far as India is concerned, the exports
have reached an aggregate of 21 £ million
dollars, though the trade began with
million in 187(5; the United States exported
in value about 7J million in 1876 and this
year about 15 millions. The increase in
spindles is not, however, large or rapid, the
total number of mills reported in 1886 being
95, with 2,261,561 spindles, 17,455 looms,
consuming 643,204 bales of cotton of the
average weight of 392 pounds.
In its weekly review of the cotton move
ment, the Chronicle says that for the week
ending September 9, the total receipts have
reached 85,437 bales, against 39,309 bales
last week, 19,270 bales the previous week,
ami 9,6411 bales three weeks since, making
the total receipts since the first of Septem
ber, 1887, 100,936 bales, against 54,344
baies for the same period of 1886, showing
an increase since September 1, 1887, of
46,612 bales.
The expoits for the week reach a total of
18,015 bales, of which 16,461 were to Great
Britain, 100 to France and 1,454 to the rest
of the continent. The total sales for for
ward de.livi ry for Hu week are 290,400 bales.
For immediate delivery the total sales foot
up this week 3,67.5 bales, including
for export, 3,675 for consumption, —for
speculation and —in transit. Os the above
1,410 bales were to arrive.
The imports into continental ports this
week have been 15,000 bales. There has
been an increase in the. cotton in sight to
night of 101,165 bales, as compared with the
same date of 1886, an increase of 69,661
bales, as compared with the corresponding
date of 1885 and a decrease of 227,971 bales,
as compared with 1884.
The old interior stocks have increased
during the week 9,462 bales and are 11,061
bales less than at the same period last year.
The receipts at the same towns have been
16,452 bales more than the same week last
year, and since September 1 the receipts at
all the towns are 13,233 bales more than for
the same time in 1886.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, ISB7, are 111,880 bales;
in 1886 were 56,041 bales; in 1885 were
85,383 bales. Although the receipts at the
outports the past week were 85,437 bales,
the actual movement from plantations was
96,398 bales, the balance going to increase
the stocks at the interior towns. Last year
the receipts from the plantations for the
same week were 47,019 bales, and for 1885
they were 61,156 bales.
In regard to New York the Chronicle
says that business for the week was inter
rupted by the new legal holiday, “Labor
Day,” on Monday last. The speculation in
cotton for future delivery at this market has
I been fairly active, but fitful and uncertain
1 in tone, involving pretty wide fluctuations
' in prices. On Saturday there was much
j depression, due to sales to realize, the gen
eral discrediting of seriously adverse crop
reports and the free movement of the new
crop. But on Tuesday renewed buoyancy
was noted on a renewal of unfavorable crop
accounts, but the best prices of the day
were not sustained, and on Wednesday, af
ter slight fluctuations, the close was lower.
Thursday a firm opening was followed by
a decline, but Friday rumors of an adverse
crop report from the Agricultural bureau,
in which 87 was mentioned as the probable
average condition, caused a small advance
1 in afternoon dealings, but the close was at
! some decline from last Friday. Cotton on
; the spot has been in demand for home con
-1 sumption, and the very' small stocks, espe
cially of the better grades, have enabled
i holders to obtain more money. There was
j an advance of j cents on Wednesday, and
; the sales have latterly embraced considera
ble parcels to arrive. Friday the market
was steady al 10j cents for middling up
lands.
The Chronicle’s weather reports indicate
! that dry weather has prevailed generally at
. e south during the week, and that in con
sequence picking and marketing have made
i excellent progress. Damage to the crop
from various causes is reported by some of
1 our correspondents.
Havs I'oh Friends in Texas.
The Piedmont expedition has secured a ball
i rate tare from Texas to Georgia, and back. This
| xb the first time a low rate has U.vu given to
Georgians living in Texas. It is the first
chance our friends in Texas have had to conit
back home ami see their people.
Now, if you have friends in Texas, wute
them at once to come and see you, i
they come to the exposition or not. It w i
a grand time for meeting old friends. As soon
as you read this, write the news to your friends
ia Texas, and beg them to come back home
onee more. Georgia loves them yet, and they
love Georgia. To all Georgian-in Texas who
read this, we sav, tell your friends in Texas
about it. Tell them that for half fare you can
come back to the old state, ami see Georgians, ;
Carolinians, Alabamians, Virginians and
Tennesseeans, and all gathered together here
at the greatest sliuw ever seen in the south.
We want ten thousand Georgians who live in
Texas to come back and make the old state
glad by paying reverence to her once more.
As we understand it the half rates are good
frqm any town in Texas to Atlanta, Ga.
Monte Christo Outdone.
China has stubbornly resist! <i the march
of modern ideas. Her statesmen have pro
fessed a contempt for what the outside
world calls scientific progress, and the
masses of her people have opposed super
stition. prejudice and ignorance against all
efforts to introduce among them mechani
cal appliances of other nations.
'Die immense population and great nat
ural resources of China have long been a
tantalizing temptation to the speculative
and enterprising spirit which had overrun
the rest of the world but which encountered
an impassable barrier in Chinese law and
Chinese prejudice.
If we may believe reports which are
now freely circulated the immemorial
Chinese policy has been suspended and a
system of internal improvements on a gi
gantic scale has been projected for the
“Flowery Kingdom.” This opining in the
hitherto impenetrable Chinese wall has
been accomplished, not by a statesman, a
diplomat, or even a money king. It is the
work of a little fidgety individual known as
Count Mitkiewicz, an alleged Russian no
bleman. The count has been in this coun
try several years and never has been still
five minutes of the entire time. He has
been continually proclaiming some wonder
ful discovery or working up some sheme
that threw into the shade the most ambi
tious projects of Colenel Mulberry Sellers.
The count went to China,and by some means
or other gained the favor of the government.
He explained his plans for the building of
railroads, the construction of telephone
lines, and the establishment of manufacto
ries iu China and convinced the authorities
that such enterprises would prove vastly
beneficial to the kingdom. Not only was
the count given permission to carry out his
plans, but magnificent grantsand subsidies,
and a monopoly, the value of w Inch cannot
be computed, were assured him on condi
tion that he would accomplish the proposed
improvements.
According to the latest, reports this man,
who was a year ago diverting the annoy
ances of actual poverty by building the
flumsiest sort of air castles and getting him
self laughed at as a crank, has actually or
ganized a stock company with a capital of
$25,000,000. Among the subscribers are
men of the highest financial standing and
business reputation. The Chinese minister
saysthat his government w ill take $5,000,-
000 of the stock. Chinese bankers and
merchants have subscribed $7,000,000 more.
The other $ 13,000,000 is reserved for Ameri
can stockholders and nearly ali of it has
already been taken.
There must he something besides gas in
this last enterprise of the frisky little count.
Many a time since he came to America he
has been without a dollar, but if his present
plans work out, (and it seems they will),
he may in a few years be the possessor of a
fortune that will make the wealth of Gould
by comparison a mere bauble, and the fabled
“find” of Monte Christo pale before the
actual achievement of a cranky little count
who got on the good side of the sleepy old
Chinese.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Since Memphis was made a taxing district
in 1880 it has paid off nearly $4,000,000 cf its
debt. About $3,000,000 is yet to be paid.
Now they say Pasteur is a fraud, but the
fact remains that be lias saved scores of human
beings from the horrible death of hydrophobia.
Zola’s works have been suppressed in
Russia. They turn the civilized stomach
everywhere except in France and the United
States.
The dear tu'ke of Marlborough is still the
rage at Newport. The duke will carry a iin<
lot of American gossip when Le returns to the
brothels of London.
Age considered, M< Neilly, of Saco,
Maine, goes to the head of the defaulters’ list'
Ho was only nineteen, and he scooped over a
quarter of a million.
Blaixe has drawn first blood for the next
republican nomination. Two delegates to the
national convention were chosen in Lacka
wanna county, Pa., the other day, and were
instructed for Blaine.
Missourians are the hardest people in the
world to satisfy. A Missouri farmer found an
egg the other day with a clock face and the
, hours clearly marked on it. Now he is kick
ing because it don't keep time.
Colorado people complain that the cow
boys are wobbo savages than Colorow and his
band. They are not half so much afraid of the
Indians as they are the white desperadoes. The
government ought to turn the rascals out.
Jay Gould is getting so hard up that he
proposes to raise the elevated railroad fare
from five to ten cents after certain hours. It
is a sublime spectacle, as someonehasremiuk
ed before, to see a good num struggling with
adversity.
The Galveston News docs not think the
recent wheat corner gives cause for alarm, be
cause, though the gamblers who tried to iniike
tho corner are out SB,VW.UUO, not a single grain
of wheat was lost. That is a comforting
thought.
Senator Riddleberger bought nil the
liquor privileges for the bhenandoah county
fair for SIOO and then refu-ed to let a drop ot
intoxicating liquors be sold on the grounds.
The senator is thought to be doing penance fur
Ida recent naughtiness.
Roderick I’, vndosi Butler, congressman
from the first Tennessee district, is accused of
selljiig his influence in the pending prohibition
tight in Tennessee for SSOO. When Butler
was in congress s< veral years ago he was ac
cused of selling a West Point cadetship.
In reviewing his defeat at the Allentown
convention, Editor Singerly says: ''The
' Record, however, is not r.ltogi tlier dis-
I couraged.” This is natural. Mr. llaudall has
i knocked the Record cut so ni'teii tli.it tin re is
no reason why another drubbing should have
| any decided etfci t o:i it.
We have hitherto s.ippd that an Ameri
can base ball player was the I e-t paid man in
the world, but it seems that we were mistaken.
A Spanish bull fighter lias be. n offered e’ '.<• •>
to give four perfoi man.-cs in the City of Mex
ico. The only difficulty in the modern bull
■ tights is to catch the ball after he is turned
: into the ring.
Only nineteen suits have yet been filed
against the Toledo, I'eoria and Western rail
road, on account ol the Chatsworth honor.
These aggregate claims for SI3U,<AX) and as
there will be over a hufideed suits more the
rond may be lucky to escape with the payment
I of a round million. That sounds heavy, but
| the officers us the ruod ought, to thank their
I stars that they are not in Jail.
Hon. Thomas E. Powell has made hfi
opening speech in the Ohio campaign. It was
a strong and dignified presentation of the denS
ocratic case. The Ohio democrats have a good
candidate. They ought to go to workman®
elect him. ,
The city council of Richmond has refused
to appropriate $15,000 to help defray the exsl
pen-es of the dedication of the Lee monuments
Richmond will raise the amount and as mncS
more as is necessary, without regard to th<
council. Richmond is a good deal bigger con.«
corn than its city council. %
Men rise rapidly in this country. Six.
teen years ago William M. Singerly was sellj
ing peanuts in Chicago. Now he is the propri«
etor of the Philadelphia Record and owns a
superb yacht. Mr. Singerly will be rcmenv
bered as the gentleman who tried to run tha
recent Pennsylvania democratic convention, i
Johnny McLean is said to lie worth $5,fMX),s
000. He proposes to put some of it into tha
baseliali business at YVasliington. McLean
live- in Washington about as much as he does
iu Cincinnati. One of his dreams is to be a|
United States senator from Ohio. John h./J
er been a bashful fellow.
Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, can?
not. under the constitution of that state, be 4
candidate fi r re-election. There is no lack oj
gentlemen, however, who are willing to taka*
the office. Among the probable candidates are)
Congressmen Clardy and Burnes, and Davifj
R. Francis, the rich and handsome younsf
mayor of St. Louis. ,
A Louisiana judge has enjoined the As.
cension Democrat against supporting General
Nicholls for governor, on the ground that th&
charter of the paper stipulates that it shall ba'
“democratic in politics.” This judge may be a’
very wise man but our recollection is that Gen#
erat Nicholls was a democrat at a time whext
democrats were badly needed iu Louisiana. If
he has changed his polities since that time
are not aware of it. .
Watterson has fixed it. In the next
house, Carlisle is to be speaker, Mills cliair.
man of the ways and means committee, and
Bill Scott “the most ininortant member orj
the floor.” Imagine Bill Scott in that posi*
lion. He was in the last congress and his onlj,
reputation then was that he hud thirty mil.
lion dollars. Scott, as a great parlianmntaijJ
leader, will bo the most astounding revclatiod
in our history. Then all the people may Le
pardoned for exclaiming "Great Scott!”—*
but not till then. ,
The i it teen great American inventions of
world-wide adoption are: 1, the cotton gin ; 2j
the planting machine; 3, the grass mower and
reaper; 4, the rotary printing press; 5,
tion by steam; 6, the hot-air engine; 7. thei
sewing machine; 8, the india-rubber industryj
9, the machine manufacture of horse shoes;'
10, the sand-blast for carving: 11, the gauge
lathe; 12, the grain elevator; 13, artificial ice.
making on a large scale; 14, the electriS
magnet and its practical application; and,
tho telephone.
The reports of John Ruskin’s failing mindi
have revived the story of how Millais usee®
to visit I’uskin and his wife as a dear friend J.
how he took Mrs. Ruskin as the original of ths
sad, clinging sweetheart in his famous pictura
of “The Huguenot Lovers;” how tho painted
and his friend's wife fell in love with eactt
other, and how John Ruskin gave her up td
Millais and said he hoped they would be very
happy together. In the opinion of most people?
Ruskin’s insanity is at least as old as this re*
markable action.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, smokes an im.
mense red clay pipe which General Sibley .of Sra
I’anl, gave him. The pipe is thus deseiibeda
“The pine was made by Isla-Du-Ta, or Red!
Eye of the Sisseton Hand, a one-armed bravS
of the Dakota Indians, from the red pipei
quarry, celebrated by Longfellow in his ‘Hinjt
watlm.’ Presented to Governor Fitzhugh Lets
of Y’irginn while in Minnesota, January 281‘
by W.ih-Ze-Oni-mi, or YValker in tha
Pines,” this being the Indian name of General
Sibley.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, does not appear to
have the solid support of his own state for tlid>
chairmanship of the ways and means commits
tee. The Austin Dispatch says: “Th dem
ocrats of the, next house .should unite in vigf
orous protest to the speaker against the ap*
pointinent of that blatant free trade howlerl
Dodger Q. Mills, to the important positiolX
of chairman of tho committee of ways ana
means. It’s safe to say, however, that yonif
Uncle Sammy Randall * will have a r.ord oi
two to say in the matter.” ,
Governor Foraker has played the demaq
gogue so long that he forgets the ordinary de4
ceneies of every occasion which affords"hiiuj
an opportunity to assume the role of a political
blatherskite. Last Thursday night he was is
guest of the city of YV heeling, a democratic]
city, and a city full of southern people. Yet]
he made a speech full of sectional hate,
which lie said the south was “danmablw
wrong’’ in the war. How splendid are ths
patriotic words of Governor Wilson beside
such vile etuffl “I have been asked by somd
one at my side,” said Governor Wilson;
“whether the confederates were traitors. Irf
reply I have only to say the man who asks that)
question at this day and on this occasion i 9
lacking in patriotism and is inspired by the
same sentiments that once moved for the de2
struction of this union. He is the man wh<S
would keep sectionalism alive and fattenon
sectional hate. [Cheers.] The day is past
for anything of the kind to succeed. Thia
country is grandly united. Let it remain sd
forever.”
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