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ATLANTA,GA. NOVEMBERS, 1-7.
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Cotton I tgnres.
The New York l inanV il Chronicle says
that the marketing of <</.: mliyraildn.’.n.-
October has been on a vr. liberal- .'.v.a:.!
It is equally true tb.it never Lt.fi re It; so
much cotton reached a market during Octo
ber as in the present season. Ti.is re tit
has been made possible, fir-t, Vc.v.xe the
crop isan exceedingly early one, and < . :.d,
on account of the favorable conditions for
gathering it which have thus far generally
prevailed. The month's gross aggregate I
Overland i~ 205,214 bales, against ! ' ,1:1 '
bales in I**6 and 159,' 1- in l*-5. The gain ;
has been well distributed over the v.>:
routes except that no cotton has I • n car
ried thus far this year, via Hannibal, while
last year the movement reached 3.521 bales. '
For the two months the total nioveii,. nt • \-
hibits an excess over the like period a year
•goof 78,13'3 bales, and in compat <ei with
IK*5 the increase is (.5,548 bales. In the n.t
for the month the rains over pt. .. • ■ ,rs
is not quite so marked as intlu go t id.
Ing 88,042 bales compan d with last y< irand
85.247 bales contrasted with I*Bs. For the
sees >n to date the excess is respectively 57,-
869 and 51,799 bales.
The not port receipts during the month
hate been decidedly heavy, reaching 1..!.
401 bales, against 1,034,450 bales a y< trago
•nd 1,055,624 bales two years since, lor
the two months to November 1 tie ex.
compared with !•- is 474.527 bales, th.,
gain over IbS'i being 4211,914 bah s. The ex
ports to foreign port during October have
been 791,202 bales, and compare with 579,-
115 bales last y.-ar and 590,016 bah sin 18*5,
•nd the total sit ■ ■ September 1 records a
large excess ovci < itlnr of the two preceding
years. It will be noticed that the continent
has taken 204,840 bales more this year than
last, or an increase of over 138 percent.
Northern spinners had up to November I
taken 443,213 b ile . an increase over the
Corresponding ; er;, d in 1886 of 87,365 bales
•nd an Increase over the same time in I*Bs
of 44,307 bales. Tlie amount of cotton
marketed since September 1 in l-*7, is 549,-
89'1 bales more th in in 1886 and 503,713
bales more than in I**s. The movement up
to November lof the present y.ar is 61*, |
bales more than in 1880 and 566,713 bales i
greater than in I*<>
The Chronicle, in its weekly review of
the cotton movement, says that for the week
Muling last Friday night the total receipt*
have reached 2*9,17 I bales, against 294.934 ■
bales last week. 271.799 bales the previous
week and 276.-76 bales three weeks since,
making the total receipts since the Ist of ’
September, 1887, 2.038,745 b les, against
1,615,466 bales for the same period of I**6,
•howingan increase since September 1, 1887
of 423.279 bales.
The exports for the week reach a total of '
113,226 bales, of which 95,591 were ’
to Great Britain, 15,6.56 to France
•nd 101,979 to the rest of the '
continent. The total sales for forward de- I
livery for the week are 474.100 bales. For '
immediate delivery the total sales foot up
this week 1,336 bales, including forex-
port, 1.: lit for consumption, —for specula
tion and —in transit. Os the above I
Vai s were to arrive.
The imports into continental ports have !
•ecu 55,W9 bales. There has bcm an in- f
ena.-o in the cotton in sight of ,7ki '
bale-as compared with the same date of
1886, an increase of 2.-1,475 bales as com
puted with the com -ponding date of 18.-5 i
•nd an increase of 172,179 bales as u npared
With 1884. I
The old interior stocks Lave increased
during tin* week I 5,(838 bales, an 1 are to- '
Bight 21,813 bales more than at the same I
periisl last year. The receipt* at the same
towns have been 3,126 bales less than the
Mme week last year, and since September
1 the receipts at all the towns are 200,535
Palea more than for the s*me Uuic in loco. |
The total receipts from the plantations
( since September 1,1887, are 2,316,876 bales:
in 1886 were 1,847,090 bales; in 1885 were
1,903,669 bales. Although the receipts at.
i the outporta the past week were 289,174
bales, the actual movement from plantations
was .122,3-2 bales, the. balance going to in
crease the stocks at the interior towns. Last
' year the receipts from the plantations for
’ the same week were 322,352 bales and for
I 1885 they were 321,579 bales.
The increase in amount in sight, as com
pared with last year, is 544,655 bales, the
increase as compared with 1885 is 490,066
, bales, and the increase over 188-1 is 607,905
bales.
7 he weather reports of the Chronicle that
picking is making rapid progress under the
influence of generally favorable weather
conditions, and in districts of the southwest
is almost completed. Killing frosts are
reported in Texas and elsewhere, but with
no appreciable damage. Some correspond
ents note an improvement in the prospects.
The Chronicle says that the speculation
in cotton for future delivery at New York,
| lias been less active, with the tone fever
ishly unsettled for the week under review.
■ foreign advices early in the week were gen
erally favorable, and the movement of the
crop (except In the receipts at the ports as
reported on Monday) ceased to show any
excess over last year, while stocks at the
ports continued comparatively small. But
it was found difficult to maintain the higher
range of values. The “short interest” had
been almost wholly eliminated, and the
market therefore lacked the artificial support
which that influence affords. There was
also some disposition to increase crop esti
mates; recent minimum figures were gener
ally abandoned. Freight brokers reported
less urgency in European shipments.
Thursday a better crop report from Mem
phis and a fuller interior movement caused
many of the bull party to sell out, find some
of them turned bears, putting out contracts
for lower prices, and there was a decline of
a few points, most decided in the early
months. Friday there was an early decline
tinder the weak foreign advices, but there
was a quick recovery and a dearer closing
on the report that a New Orleans authority
of some repute estimates the crop at no
more than 6,550,600 to 6,600,000 bales.
Cotton on the spot has been very dull. Quo
tations were reduced l-16c. on .Saturday.
Friday, with a further decline of l-16c.,
middling uplands closed at 9 9-16 c.
Tired of the Queen.
Thet rades people of London are loud in
their complaints at the general stagnation of
the business of the metropolis, and popular
disfavor attaches to the queen as being the
prime cause of the prevailing commercial
dullness.
Unusual distress is expected during the
j winter from this state of affairs and the
| question arises, in what way will the com
i plaint of the people express itself. Already
; unmanageable rioters are parading the
streets of London, and only a few Sundays
| ag.. afn 1 m< b assailed the sacr-d pre- ■
i ci nets of Westminster Abbey, shouting |
denunciatory epithets to the canon during
service, and to bis words directed to the
welfare of the laboring classes, cried “Give
us Work.” It is but short work fora few
thousand hungry and tsm-mployGl b. trigs to
i leap tic- bounds of order and seek occupa- I
tion in ib-truction and clamor when th< ir j
incllnati. il to peacefully sustain themselves
cannot be met through the usual course of
' commercial and industrial activity. In
i ext hanging his Jalx-r for pay a laborer rar
I lers .»- he would in any other trade, but if
1 he finds no buyer he Naim s the public.
Comui’.rcial stagnation in London is felt
in every branch of industry and both capi
tal and labor arc complaining and poor old
Victoria is unconsciously bearing the brunt
of blame.
Th. ; q ' are not satisfied that the good
old lady shmtld remain so inactive, while
but an effort by her would start at full play
the wheels of commerce. Her delay in
returning from the Highlands, where she
b > pn--.d a longtime at her summer home,
l;.n held back the fashionable social season
and this has checked expenditures which
wer.- expected from this and oilier conse
> 'tent movements. The impression also
prevails that she has remained in retire
mens much longer than was necessary, she
having kept constantly from the public
since her husband's deatli nearly twenty
five years ago. Her penuriotisness is pro
verbial and is the source of discontent, for
of the millions voted her she spends but lit
tle. and giies away less, and the people
know tl. it court luxury isan example which
will be followed to the public good; and, in
consideration of liberal allowance to her
they expect gratuitous contributions from
the crown, in certain instances.
The prince of Wales, whatever may be
said of him. is the favorite of the people and
tin y long fur the day when he shall become
king. He suits their fancy in the matter of
liberality, love of display, extravagance in
living, fondness for social gayety, and has
made himself very popular throughout the
kingdom.
England may love her queen, but it will
be better satlslied with Albert Edward as
l king.
tnswertiiK a t orre»pi>i„lent.
I r.'. -.ii.u- C .s-uii 11. X■!n a , t editorial this
morning im.kr Hie head . f ...i.i.m s Mission. ■
I you »|sttk of the northern • Moody shirt'’ in »crime
i against the nation. Now will you answer a candid
I reader of your (a;., r. a candid question? Row is it
i that It a sjaMker at Hie north refeia to the hue re
bellion tlie south lin iu tint. !i eras ‘bloody shirt, ’’
but at the same time that same -o uh can | reject a
I Davis hlpixMixitue through its territory and bury n
i city in confedemte lbws, and the north must remain
: s lent and say nothing about it. rieaso answer
this little poser. Nohthehs Democrat.
The question of our correspondent may
■ be a candid one, but it certainly is not a
j poser, nor is it. in our opinion, from the
pen of a northern democrat or any other
: kind of a democrat. It is fashioned pretty
I much as one of Murat lialsiead's young
i men would fashion it. Moreover, our cor- i
, re-pondent is not as candid as he claims to
j le, for he fails to send us his real name.
There can be no candor In a person who ■
hides behind an anonymous communieation.
But we let these things pass. Is it really >
j true, as o.tr ttneandld and anonymous cor
tespondent says, thia the south, or any
f t> pr> -..’illative of the south,cries out "bloody
shirt” when a northern speaker or newspa
per “refers to the late rcbtllion’?” Has it
: ever been true? The Cons rm tion has
never, in the wliolecourse of its experience,
. observed such an incident. From a northern
standpoint, the term "rebellion’’ is a per
fectly prvpef one to use. just as the term
| “war betwecnXlhc states'’ is a perfectly
THE WEEKLY CONSTITtTION, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1887.
' proper one to use from a southern stand
' point.
Practically, it can make no difference to
the present generation whether the war was
| a rebellion or merely a civil war. The real
I point, now that the strife is ended and tlie
i question of secession settled, is, shall there
be peace and unity and fraternity between
the sections? Our correspondent may not
regard this as the real point, but at least it
is worth considering. ’
When Foraker and Halstead announce
that the war is not over—that the south is
trying to steal a march on the country —and
that the negroes are prevented from exer
cising the right of suffrage—this is what
we call waving the bloody shirt. And it is
something worse. It is an appeal to the
spirit of sectionalism, and the spirit of sec
tionalism ought to be buried in the grave of
secession. When The Constitution com
plains of the waving of the bloody shirt,
our correspondent may be sure that its pro
tests are directed against a revival and a re
newal of the spirit of sectionalism.
As to the demonstration over Mr. Davis,
we do not know that the south has stipula
ted that the republican organs of the north
should remain silent over it. They have
not remained quiet, in fact, and, so far as
we know, their inquietude has not been co
piously criticized in this climate. The pol
iticians are entitled to all the capital they
can make out of the episode; this we freely
allow; but thoughtful persons will question
whether such political capital can beof any
lasting benefit to tlie party that seizes on it.
They Must Hang.
The decision of the supreme court yester
day in the anarchist cases, shuts out the last
ray of light for the condemned men, for
there is not the slightest hope for executive
clemency.
Grave doubt has been expressed, since
the terrible Haymarket riot in Chicago, if
the instigators and murderers in the tragic
event would be punished as their offense
merited. When the cases of the seven con
spirators and incendiaries went before the
courts, many doubted a conviction and
more feared that the strong local influence
exerted in their behalf by their sympathisers
would prevent the infliction of just punish
ment.
The conviction of the men received the
heartiest indorsement of the whole press
and public. It is horrible, of course, to see
seven men swing into eternity in a moment,
for any cause, but there are occasions which
justify it, and if there ever was such an oc
ca-ion that of the doomed anarchists is one.
Such a doctrine as their's begets the worst
crimes, and such crimes must be met with
the severest punishment.
Hut these men will go to the scaffold with
their murderous theory closest their hearts,
and their last words will be for their follow
ers to uphold their dangerous teachings, or
possibly, to vindicate their death by the riot
of anarchy. Consequently the public has
no sympathy for them.
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Will They Hang?
! Next week’s Constitution will carry to
I its read-, rs the most important piece of news
in its history.
I On next Friday the seven anarchists are
Ito be Lung in ( ago. The scaffold is
1 biing built. The jail is garrisoned by scr
[ eral companies of trorq s. Detectives are j
| statl ?ned in every corner of the city. In
spite of these precautions it is feared that
Friday will be a stormy day in Chicago. It
is known that the anarchists have sworn
that the seven men shall not die unavenged.
Fear is even felt in other and distant cities
win re the anarchists may attempt to show
th.it in every prominent American city the
blood of their comrades shall be avenged.
In the meantime Governor Oglesby is con
sidering petitions for pardon, but it is felt
sure tl-.at he will not interfere.
We shall have full detailed account of
this terrible sc. ne in next week’s issue, sent
us by our own correspondents in Chicago,
together witli talks with each one of the
doomt d men in liis cell before the hanging.
It will make a great historical chapter.
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About the Farmer®.
It is a favorite argument with those who
admire the free-trade teachings of Brother
Henry Watterson to announce from.time to
time that the farmers arc growing poorer—
that there is a great and an increasing
depression in the business of agriculture,
and all on account of the tariff, which is
“taxing tlie poor farmer for the benefit of
the monopolies.”
We think it is safe to say that the farm
ing interests of the south are in a better
condition today than they have ever been in
the history of the country. They are cer
tainly in a better condition than they were
from I*ls to I*6l, when the tariff for reve
nue only was in operation. Not only is
agriculture in a better condition, but every
other material interest of the south. We
not only have diversified farming on a sur
prisingly large and profitable scale, but we
have more diversified industries than ever
before. The increase in our manufactures
and the development of our material re
sources have astonished not only ourselves,
but the world.
As to the condition of agriculture in the ;
south, we can only say that if Georgia is an |
average state, there is nothing the matter I
with our agricultural interests. On the con- '
trary, they ais flourishing as they have 1
never flourished before. The fairs that I
have recently been held ntid that are now
j holding in Georgia give a flat denial to the j
declaration tli.it the farmers of this state are ■
I growing poorer year by year, or that our 1
I agricultural interests are declining. At the i
riedmont exposition there was a most
! wom’.i:display es the purely agricultural ■
1 resources of the state. A more wonderful, !
■ a more hopeful exhibition was never given. !
Take, as an example, the county of Put- I
nam. Tm thousand of the visitors at the ;
Piedmont were amazed that Putnam failed i
to carry off the first prize; but Putnam was
only one of three or four counties, and a
good portion of its exhibits remained un- i
packed, owing to the lack of space neces- i
I sary for their display.
We have Cited Putnam because thM ;
county is the centre of the purely agricul
tural region of Georgia. Its farmers are
i prosperous to a degree, and the improvement
' and development of its resources during the
past twenty years have something
wonderful. The entire agricultural display
at the Piedmont exposition showed what
has been accomplished during the past
twenty years, and yet the Piedmont was
not intended to be an agricultural show, but
the farmers took possession of a good part
of it. They brought their farm products,
their horses and their cattle, and the result
was an astounding exhibit of progress and
development.
That was a purely agricultural
fair, and jit was the most success
ful in the history of the society. Hancock
has just been holding a successful horse
show, and this is a definite part of our ag
ricultural development. This week Athens
is holding a most successful agricultural
fair, and there is no sign anywhere that
the farmers arc not improving their methods
and increasing their profits.
Hang Them First,
Our dispatches indicate a remarkable re
vulsion of public sentiment in Chicago in
the case of the condemned anarchists.
As the day appointed for tlie hanging ap
proaches thousands of men who have all
along been clamoring for the blood of the
prisoners begin to weaken and waver. The
petitions for executive clemency are filling
up with the names of signers embracing
some of the best and most prominent citi
zens.
Doubtless these tender-hearted citizens
agree with the lawyer who said in speaking
of the Haymarket crime: “This is not ordi
nary physical assassination.”
IVc fail to see how this can give the plea
for clemency any weight. The fact that the
anarchists were engaged in a work of extra
ordinary physical assassination would ap
pear to make it plain that they deserve the
severest penalty of the law. Their plan of
assassination was the most unmerciful im
aginable. Their bombs were as likely to
kill women and children as to destroy
monopolists and policemen.
It is no time for the people of Chicago to
split hairs over the question of the ordinary
or extraordinary guilt of these fiends. After
the hanging, let the matter be discussed if
there is nothing more important on hand.
The thing to do now is to send the senti
mentalists to the rear, and give the sheriff
and his deputies elbow room.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt.
In the death of Madame Goldschmidt,
who is lovingly remembered in this country
as Jenny Lind, the world loses one of the
sweetest singers that ever delighted mortal
ears.
Jenny Lind was born in Stockholm in
1821. She was a singer from infancy. At
the age of ten she began to win her stage
triumphs. After singing in all the capitals
of Europe, she visited America under an en
gagement with P. T. Barnum and gave one
hundred and fifty concerts. Her first con
cert in New York netted her SIO,OOO, all of
which she gave to local charities. The
rage to hear her was so intense that some
of the tickets sold for hundreds of dollars.
Her marriage to Otto Goldschmidt in
Boston turned out happily, and during the
retoainder of her life she refused to sing in
t public except for the benefit of the poor.
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Two Feeble Old Men.
In England people are asking the ques
tion: After Gladstone dies, what?
In Germany men are wondering how the
death of the Emperor William will affect
the empire.
The belief of these anxious inquiriers is
that Gladstone is the liberal party, and that
the German emperor is the empire. That
the fortunes of the two countries-depend
upon the lives of these men is probably a
mistaken conclusion. The idea represented
by Gladstone is full of life and vigor, and it
is growing. It means freedom, and when
its great apostle dies it is reasonable to ex
pect that other strong men will spring up to
take his place and battle for a popular
cause. Witli the Emperor William the case
is different. He represents a dead or dying
idea, the old idea of the divine right of
kings. His death would throw the empire
into the hands of the crown prince whose
feeble health makes him easily influenced by
his wife, a woman of iron will and great
determination. It is generally believed
that the crown princess will induce her
husband to liberalize the government and
place the supreme power in the hands of
the people.
Taking this view of it, the death of Glad
stone will not imperil the home rule cause,
but the death of William will end the pater
nal despotism which cramps the energies
of the German people.
There is no other view to take. The
world has long since outgrown the idea that
it cannot afford to have its great men die.
No man is indispensable. A Ctesar or a
Napoleon cuts a mighty figure when he is
above ground, but as soon as he is under
the. sod the world wags along as usual. The
world is several sizes larger than any Colos
sus that has ever attempted to straddle it.
The New View of an Ohl Horror.
A Mr. Lawrence Gronlund has written a
book which is destined to provoke consider
able discussion. The book is a study of
Danton’s course in the French revolution,
and the author’s purpose is to show that his
hero was a moderate reformer, a fair rep
resentative of the great middle class, and
that, so far from being a murderous mad
man, he was an earnest and consistent so
cialist.
Perhaps all this throws some light upon
I the designs of our American socialists. It
I will be recollected that jt is not very long
i since Mr. Henry George threatened us with
' “a belly-full of such reforms as came
through the French revolution,” Follow-
■ ing his line of talk. Mr. Gronlund writes a
' book to prove that Danton was a very nice
i man. The next thing in order will be the
! vindication of Robespierre and Marat. No
I doubt Mr. Gronlund is prepare 1 |to assert
i that they had the heads of their fellow citi
zens cut off simply because they loved them,
' and that the whole wild, red carnival of the
' revolution was a sort of socialistic love
' feast.
I Titore is one point, in this business that
should teach a lesson. It is that those who
| raise a storm cannot control it, and that
■ those who sow the wind are pretty sure to
| reap the whirlwind. Admitting that Dan
-1 ton was at least a moderate socialist, his
i stormy eloquence fired the rabble and urged
men into excesses which their leader was
; utterly unable to check. Whcu Danton said
i , •
; to his followers: “We must dare, and again
dare, and forever dare,” he was planting
, dragons’ teeth and only ono result could ,
j have been expected. It is true that through
| out the lurid haze of that, terrible period we
catch glimpses of this Titan, this Satan, as
some of his admirers lovingly called him,
making tremendous efforts to shape the
bloody chaos into something like order, but
like many other rasli reformers he found
that while the work of destruction was easy,
the work of reconstruction was almost im
possible. The trouble with Danton was
that his moderation came too late.
A moderate reformer with cranky ideas
will not do to'trust. Danton’s associate
Robespierre, is a case in point. Like his
colleague, he was a lawyer, but unlike him
his moderation was at the beginning of his
career, instead of at the end. This pale
faced weakling resigned a judgeship be
cause he was too tender hearted to pro
nounce a death sentence. He went into
politics with one special hobby, the aboli
tion of capital punishment. Yet, a few
years later, heads could not fall fast enough
to suit him, and he declared that: “There
is a period in revolutions when it is a crime
for some men to live!” He threw his mod
eration away just when Danton was ready
to pick it up.
If Mr. Gronlund expects to commend so
cialism to us by this tribute to Danton lie
will find himself mistaken. We care noth
ing about the late moderation of Danton or
the early moderation of Robespierre, when
we know that at the pivotal turns of the
upheaval these two men infected everybody
around them with their madness. Still,
this book will do some good if it leads us to
keep an eye on such moderate socialists as
Mr. Henry George. Mr. Gronlund has un
wittingly shown us that the moderate crank
is liable at any moment to pulldown the en
tire social fabric, and run-a-muck with the
sword in one hand and the torch in the
other. It may be well to bear all this in
mind.
To-Morrow’s Elections.
There are elections in a number of states
tomorrow. lowa, Maryland, Massachusetts
and Ohio will elect governors, state officers
and legislators; New Jersey, New York and
Virginia, will elect legislatures; New
York, Nebraska and Pennsylvania
will elect judges of their supreme
courts; New York a secretary of state,
comptroller, attorney general, state engin
eer and surveyor; New York and Pennsyl
vania, treasurers; Nebraska, regents of the
state university; and Oregon will vote on a
prohibition amendment, and on a proposi
tion to change the time of holding state
elections from June to November.
In lowa two years ago, when there was a
. gubernatorial issue, the republican plurality
was only 6,979. The latest accounts from
that state show that there is great apathy
among the republican voters this year, and
some sanguine democrats even hope to carry
the state. Perhaps this is hoping for too
much, but there is no doubt that the repub
lican majority will be very small.
In Maryland, the democrats will have a
majority as usual, but perhaps not the
usual majority. The party there is infested
with cranks who call themselves reformers,
and these cranks will vote with the republi
cans. This contingent is mainly made up
of disappointed office-seekers and their
friends, but their united opposition will not
be sufficient to defeat the regular democratic
ticket.
In Ohio, the general impression is that
Foraker will be re-elected. He is a man of
very small calibre, and a typical Ohio repub
lican. Moreover, the belief is general in
the rural districts of that state that if Fora
ker is re-elected he will turn out the demo
cratic president and proceed to apportion
out the federal offices in accordance with
the Ohio idea. This is a very happy view,
indeed, and, in connection with the wild
alarums of Halstead, to the effect that an
other confederate war is in progress in the
south, will do much to solidify the republi
can voters of Ohio.
As to the other states, witli the exception
of New York, our readers will have to do
their own guessing. In New York, the
newspapers have been carrying on a most
scurrilous campaign, but there is no reason
to believe that the democratic ticket will
be defeated.
Gordon’s Mission.
A correspondent writes to know if Gen
eral Gordon went to Ohio to change repub
lican votes. We may say that he had no
such intention. He lias not discussed the
issues between the candidates at all. He
went to Ohio for the purpose of convincing
the decent people of that state that the
bloody shirt crusade against the south is a
crime against the union. If the north
really fought to preserve the union, thefl
the south, if it be a part of the union, should
have the benefit of the result, and not be
made a scarecrow every time such a nonen
tity as Foraker appears on the scene.
It is General Gordon’s mission to set the
south right, and not to say to the people of
Ohio whether they should choose between a
small man like Foraker or a man like
Powell.
Northern and Southern Prejudice.
General Gordon’s visit to Ohio will have
one good result, even if it has no other. It
will show to the thoughtful voters of both
parties the great difference between the
temper of the democrats of the south and
that of the republicans of Ohio.
Perhaps no American going from one
state to another ever had such a ferocious
reception. Seeking to heal the wounds of
the war and to vouch for the good faith of
the southern people, he is denounced as a
traitor, a secessionist and an enemy of the
union. With a message of unity and fra
ternity on his lips, it is charged that his
hands are red with the blood of innocent
negroes. His character and his integrity
are assailed with a virulence, that must be
new, even to Ohio, where tlie political hell
broth. if we may use a mild term, is always I
| brewing.
All this shows clearer than anything else '
could show that the red traitors, the real I
disunlonists of the present day are those
! who are shaking the bloody shirt and shriek
• ing over it. The war is now being fought
over in Ohio. Foraker blackguards decent I
men and is praised for it, and Halstead and i
his newspaper gang ace trying to bulldoze !
: honest people into the belief that such men
i as Governor Gordon are trying to innugtt- 1
i rate another rebellion.
I But witness the contrast between the re- I
publican organs of Ohio and the southern
i people. Gordon in Ohio is villlficd; Ids
i character and his integrity are attacked; |
his honesty is called in questions
he is denounced as a murderer. Hova
j are-northern men received in the soutlifj
j Always with courtesy; always with liospLi
tality. General Sherman, who. burned AW
lanta to the ground, has revisited the sccnesi
of his operations on two occasions. lie was •
treated with consideration and respect. He 1
was so enthusiastic over his reception, in-i
deed, that he wrote a long letter to the edi4
tor of The Constitution, in which he paid(
a well-merited tribute to the recuperative!
capacity of the people whose homes he bad(
ordered burned.
Nor is this all. When Hayes, who stole!
the presidency, appeared amongst us, ha
was treated with distinguished
tion. And recently, when John ShermanJ
who was H tyes’s right-hand man in this
stupendous steal, visited the south, therd
was nobody found to blackguard him, H®
was treated with decency.
This is the lesson that Ohio teaches.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
A NEW workingman’s paper in Texas ist
called The Daily Dinner-Horn.
An organ says “the tide is running strongJ
ly in favor of the republicans.” May be it is »
salt water tide.
The Philadelphia Press says that th<r
time has come for two parties in the south;
Well, as we said before, send on your orators. 1
Send on your orators.
A Tennesseean up for selling liquor withJ
out a license was saved by the testimony of liis
neighbors that whenever he got hold of any.
whisky he always went to work and drank ib
up.
“Wrap-Up-His-Tail” is the odd name o?
one of the rebellious Crow chiefs on the Big
Horn. There is no hope for an Indian who
flaunts such a name as that in the face of out
civilization.
The Philadelphia Press thinks that a,
world’s fair would be too big a thing for At
lanta. Well, we are not talking about holding
it today, but tomorrow.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub-;
lican says that Mrs. Jefferson Davis keeps a,
fine picture of old John Brown, of Harper’s
Ferry fame, in her photograph album.
Anarchist Parsons would be a free ma»
today if his lawyers had not thought that iff
would have a good effect for him to surrendev
himself and stand his trial. The lawyers madei
a big mistake. (
Fourteen men in one little town in Ireland
have been imprisoned for cheering for Mri
Gladstone. The British should fence in all o$
Ireland as a penitentiary if that sort of thing
is a crime. .
Inspector Byrnes observes that the reasorj
many girls and ladies are so well dressed in'
New York is that of late years various new iiR
dustries are opened to women by which thejg
are enabled to earn easy salaries.
They are queer people in Boston. Kittj,
Russell, after a married life of twelve
has left her husband because he abused her,
and now turns out to be a man. The deserted!
husband is doing as well as could be expected.
According to the mystic goose bone, th®
weather from December until late in April
will be terribly severe. When we add to
the predictions of cold waves for November ib
will be seen that the coal dealers are on Jtop. i
If you must drink anything, drink beer. A3
Chicago woman, for drinking beer, was thrown
out of a second story window by her husband.
If she had drank whisky her husband would
probably have thrown her from the top of th«
tallest building in the city.
Sylvanus Cobb, the novelist, said in hia
will: “Let no blackness of crape or funeral!
weeds cast its gloom upon my memory. I
would that my beloved ones should sock thet
brightness and fragrance of faith and trust ini
God rather than tlie gloom which belongs tef
doubt and unrest.”
Since Spurgeon’s pull out from the Baptist;
Union his tabernacle will not hold the immense
crowds that assemble to hear him, in expec
tancy of hearing sensational sermons bearing,
on his withdrawal. In this, however, they*
have been disappointed.
King Ja Ja, the African monarch deposed
by the English authorities for attempting to'
get up a corner in palm oil, lias been sent as a.
state prisoner to London. He is at present con
fined in-the baggage-room of one of the hotels,
and the British colonial officers are wondering
what on earth they are to do with him.
When he was actually dying, and when en
tirely too weak to sign his name, the late Gov
ernor Bartlett, of California, told his brother;
that he had promised the mother of a young
man imprisoned for forgery that ho would
pardon her son after he had served tinea
years. “Convey my wishes,” he said. “t<4
Waterman after I am dead, ami I know het
will carry them out.” Governor Waterman)
has now announced the promised pardon.
DIVIDING OUR PROFITS.
And Giving Our Headers Some Big Christ
mas Presents.
We furnish our subscribers with ,
The best family paper in America.
The cheapest paper printed—the only 12-pago
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The paper that pays more for special features than
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Whm we do this our contract with our subscribers!
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Appreciating this we shall distribute to ti e u on)
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here ft Is:
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Mih-. rilxTH h« ior«* January
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