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Newspaper Page Textoll'ME la n Til UNION & RECORDER, 1 ,„ ihe d Weekly In MllloagevIlle.Ou. ' u b'y barnes*moo r e. ...IP dollar and ttfty centmi year In mol ,t||H for ae Venn -live cents.- eJ '‘pninU ^UNl'uS'’atu! the"sun'lllOIlN >' Vi5eriMJon«)llilated, AuiniHTlst, 1*72, V. ' *lu« in It? rtirtr-Tl. rd Volume and (Federal Union Established In 1829. L >o THERN lircOORRER I8I9! i Consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, (ja.j March 15. 1887. —l 1 . . ■ !■ . amm — Number 36. (tnUilil! inOlf with PURE VEGETABLE TOXICS, quickly aad completely CLEANSES mi EXBICHES THE BLOOD. OnlckeM ike action of thoLlrer and Kidneys. Claaratha complexion, makes the skin smooth. Itdocanot ..lure the tooth, cans* headache, or produce con. stlpstloi—ALL OTHER IRON MEDICINES DO. PhjBidanfl and Droggists erarywhere recommend It, I f). HI. Ruoor.KB, of Merlon, Mem., eeyi: “I JEJunend Brown'. Don Bittern u u raluehlo tonlo dj " p,pUo r Mb. vrn. Btbuu, 86 St. Mery 8t„ New Orleen., La., en: " Brown'. Iron Bitter, relieved me In a cm it Hood podtoning, and I heartily commend it to those needing ft blood punflftr. .•jK w W. Monahan. Tuscumbift, Al».. mts: 1 av» been troubled from childhood with Inaj ^ pur* ,uon on my face—two bottles of itters effected ft .perfect cure. I oftblft medioint.* 4 have been Blood and erui cftnnot*ipeak to° highly of thisyalaabl Crettln. hu abore Trade Mark and crpmed red line* on wrapper. Take no other. Madaonlyby EBIIWh CHEMAVAL CO., liALTIMOBE, Hit. April C 1886] 30 cw. ly ~G. T. WIEDENMAN, MERCHANDISE BROKER, Milledgeville, Ga. i Ifflce in Bank Building. Jail. 11, 1887. 27 tf DR. \V. Wl H HALL removed Ills olllce to Hie room rmeriy occupied by Mr. Uniter no. Clerk of Huperlor Court. (k tf Rufus W, Roberts, Attor:tioy-at-Xjaw Milledgeville, Ga. 3 ROM FT attention given to all business In- rusted to Ills care. Olllce in room lonnerly pled I.v .Indue it. It. s infonl. v. 10, t"<>. ‘ iu ti. THE TARIFF. IlSS G. LAMPLEY CRAYON ARTIST! tudioin the M. G. M. & A. College. LIFE SIZE CRAYON’ PORTRAITS from photographs. R- Lessons given in Crayon, Oil painting, Kensington painting on velvet and satin. ® Orders and pupils solicited. Milledgeville, Jan. 4, ’87. 26 3ui Dr. W. A. MOORE, AEFKIls Ids professional services to the pco. y pie of Milledgeville, Baldwin county uml sur rounding country. When not professionally engaged, he will he round during the day al his j'j™®* an< l residence next door east, of Masonic Milledgeville, Ga . Nov. in, issn. 10 tlm. HOLMES’ SURE CURE MOUTH-WASH and DENTIFRICE. arcs Weeding (lum- 1 'iroat, Cleanses tii Mouth. Sore and Purities the -■atli: used and recommended l>v loaillng den- K 1 repared by Mrs. J. P. ,V W. It. IIoi.mkh, mists Macon. Ga. For sale by all druggists bentl and dentist.. Aug. 5th, 1SS0, Fills 4 ly- The Oft Told Story °I tho peculiar medicinal merits of Hood's Sarsaparilla Is fully confirmed by the volun- ,ar y testimony of thousands who liavo tried “ Peculiar in the combination, pri^iortlon, and preparation of Its ingredients, liecullar n the extreme care with which it is put • P, Hood’s Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures ^herc other preparations entirely fall. Pecu liar in the unequalled good name it has made ■d home, which is a “tower of strength abroad,” peculiar in tho phenomenal sales 4 has attained, Hood’s Sarsaparilla ' the most popular and successful medicine , oro the public today for purifying the ood, giving strength, creating an appetite. 1 raftered from wakefulness and low spirits, and also had eczema on tho hack of ” ) head and neck, which was very annoying. [ onc bottle of Ilood’s Sarsaparilla, and 1 liavo received so much benefit that I am ] tr > grateful, and I am always glad to speak “ Sood word for this medicine.” Mas. J. S. bnvubr, PottsvlUe, Penn. Purifies the Blood Henry Biggs, Campbell Street, Kansas City, au scrofulous sores all over his body for c„«L 5 I earfc llood ’ s Sarsaparilla completely '.ureci aim, pu'ff allac ° Buck ‘ of North Bloomfield, N. Y„ ; auerca eleven years with a terrible varicose rer on his leg, so had that ho had to give P business. Ho was cured of tho uleer, and also of catarrh, by Hood's Sarsaparilla Soiabyaliaruggut^ gl . s | xfor85 . Proparedonly ' ■ *’ HOOD A Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. loo Doses One Dollar Feb ^ 1887. ,80 cw. ly Wo call attention to a third article on the Tariff by Hon. Samuel Bar nett. If any of our readers have read the two articles on the tariff, written by Mr. Barnett, which we have pub lished, they will he sure to read this article which wo lay before them in tlds number of the Union-Recorder. He will see in it, wore powerfully de. picted, the graven image of tariff despotism which our government, in its reckless legislation, imposes upon the vast majority of our people. We do not see that those papers, in Geor gia, which have been advocating the protective turiff, have thus far noticed it at all, while still praising the policy which our government lias adopted to benefit the few at the expense of the many. As they are industrious pioneers to open the way, in Georgia, for the protective policy, they ought, if they can, to point their lances at an opponent, who, with relentloss po tency, exposes the despotic favorite- ism of our rulers. We leave them in the hands of this kniglit-errant of the people’s rights. The people will stand by him in unbroken ranks, if they fail to meet him and show that his ar guments are only the deceitful gleams of a perturbed imagination. We are in a revolutionary crisis on this, the most deeply interesting question of the times. We hold with Mr. Bar nett, that the protective tariff,wheth er it is intended to do so or not, robs an immense class of our people for tlie benefit of another and smaller class. Every man in tho United States, who has even a partial ac quaintance with the history of the tariff, knows, that Mr. ltobt. J. Walk er, Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk, framed a tariff meas ure greatly reducing the tariff in 1846, and that a further reduction was subsequently made, a few years thereafter, which tariffs in the de cade, ending in 1860, increased the total property from seventeen to twenty thousand millions of dollars. The tariff, which now exceeds 40 per cent, upon an average, was brought down as low as 18 per cent, under Mr. Buchanan's Presidency. The New York World said (we think in 1880,) that those sixteen years of the low tariff “swelled immensely the indus try and commerce of the country. Never had the United States been so prosperous as when the civil war broke out in 1861 and came upon us like a cyclone,” It asked too: “How many Democratic Congressmen have ever read Secretary Walker’s great free trade report of December 3rd, 1845; or examined its six cardinal doc trines and rules for arranging Demo cratic tariff schedules?” To the writ er of this, who saw Mr. Webster fre quently in his room when in Augusta, he said that Secretary Walker made a very able Secretary of State. In deed he said he had no superior In his party. It is a fact, which we think no one will dispute, that Mr. Walker's pre dictions, as to the result of the low tariff, were fully verified in every par ticular. The country was so pros perous under the low tariffs up to 1860, that the tariff question ceased to be an issue England during that time had adopted free trade, and was bounding forward, prosperously, n- niong all the waters and nations of the earth. America was her great rival for supremacy with her splen did commercial marine. Our Gov ernment adopted the high protective policy. Our foreign commerce ceas ed, and, under the protective policy, began the unconstitutional tariff measures of plundering the people for the benefit of the American man ufacturers. What a fall was there uiy countrymen! Did you ever think of it, that before the war there were but two or three millionaires in this country, and now, they are counted by hundreds? The protective tariff, doubtless, did much in creating them. With this we will close for the pres ent, by asking tho people who say they care nothing about the tariff, to look into it, at least a little, for their own good. The more they do, the more they will see how it has de stroyed their property. Washington Letter. From Our .Regular Correspondent. Washington, March 7, 1887. Editor Union Recorder: The Forty-Ninth Congress has pass ed into history. It leaves a record which compares most favorably with that of any Congress of recent years, and surpasses that of almost any Con gress which was divided by the two great political parties into two hostile camps. It afforded a striking example, too, of the constant increase in the volume of desired legislation which has been going on for the last six or eight yeftrs. More bills wore introduced in both Houses of the Forty-Ninth, more committee reports were made, more bills passed, ;more became laws and more were vetoed than ever before by any Congress. There were introduced into the House during the two sessions 11,258 bills and 263 joint resolutions, on which over 5,000 reports were made. This was several thousand more bills and over a thousand more reports than were made by the Forty-Eighth Congress, which had, in its turn beat en the record. In the Senate there were introduced over 3,000 bills on which nearly two thousand written reports were made, being upward of 500 more bills than by the record- breaking Forty-Eighth. The death- roll also of the iast Congress was unu sually long, comprising thirteen names. Tlie total number of laws enacted was about 1,300, while 132 were vetoed by the President, making twenty-one more instances of the exercise of the Presidential prerogative of veto than had occurred from the foundation of the Government down to the begin ning of this Congress. Only one pri vate pension bill and one public bill, namely that providing for a Govern ment building at Dayton, Ohio, suc ceeded in passing both houses over the President’s veto. As to wlmt be came of various important bills which failed, lack of space will forbid me to tell their whole story in detail. Quite a number of them, liowevei, which were passed by both Houses, never reached the President because of dif ference in regard to them between the two Houses. Congress was in session tho whole night preceding tho day of adjourn ment. The House, with unusual per tinacity, sat continously from eight o'clock Thursday night until Friday noon, the hour at which tlie session expired. The usual scenes of a last night were enacted. The Capitol was filled with people who wanted to see the close, but only u small portion of whom could gain admittance to the already crowded galleries. Congress reverses tlie usual circum stances which associate themselves with a death scene. It does away with all solemnity and quiet, decorous hush and suppression of noise. Peo ple'who want to witness the most rio tous scenes of which a representative body can be guilty, have only to crowd the galleries during tlie dying hours,of Congress. If they want to see men of reputed dignity in undig nified antics, they will not be disap pointed, for there is a license then which at other times is not indulged. Never since Congress had an existence has there been such confusion, huste and general disregard of parliamenta ry safeguards in the transaction of business, as characterized the pro ceedings of Thursday, Thursday night' and Friday morning’. When it was rumored, about noon on Friday, that the President was da his way to the Capitol at the request of Speaker Carlisle, who informed him that certain scarcely finished bills could be saved from death in no oth er way, the crowd in the Capitol be gan to surge toward the Senate wing, the President’s room being in that And of tlie Capitol. The result was tl^at the police force had more than it could do to control the swaying mass of humanity that wanted to see tlie President. Congressmen, also with varying success, made vigorous ef forts to squeeze their way through the crowd to inquire if tlie arbiter of tlie destiny of certain bills in which they were interested had arrived. He came with several members of liis Cabinet, repaired to his room and settled down to business. But the clock now pointed to twelve. There was a limit to tlie speed and endu rance of clerical fingers, and tlie fag ged out enrolling clerks who had been running a ruce with time, won only in the case of the District Appropria tion bill and this was due to tlie ven erable officer, Capt. Bassett, who arm ed himself with a gas-lighter add (as lie lias done biennially for a quarter ot a century) mounted a chair qnd pulled back tlie hands of the Senate clock. The President signed, this promptly, but the hands of the clock crept up to twelve again before the Deficiency bill could be engrossed and it failed. Thanks to Senator Joseph E. Brown for a copy of his speech, deliy- ered in the Senate, oil the 28th ult., on tlie reply of tlie President to tho res olution asking for copies of the cor respondence in regard to tlie seizure and confiscation of the schooner Re becca, and the resignation of Minister Henry U. Jackson. Tlie peculiar purifying and building up powers of lloyd'^ Sarsaparilla Dr. A. G. Haygood is conducting a ruvi-1 ml in Oxford. He preaches every night, and is succeeding in arousing the active j interest of lay members and of others who have never taken part in divino serv ee. j The meetings have already assumed the _„ y „. warmest phases of a revi val, and the pres- ma ] te it the very best medicine to take ont outlook gives indication of much good , hj geasoni being accompilshsd. , , .1 , i f 1 >( * A. • /HU •li.Ifl After the Ball and combed their beautiful hair, bright tresses one by one, ‘ hod and talked in the chamber After the revel was done. Idly they talked of waltz und quadrille; Idly V“*v laughed, like other girls, Wh0 over the lira when all Is still Com),out their braids and curls. “RcbMof satin and Brussels lace, Kuota of flowers and ribbons, too, Roattered about In every place, For the revel is through, And liaud and Madge in robes of white, The prettiest nightgowns under the sun, Ktooklngleea, slipperless, sit Lu tho night, For the revel is done. “Hit and comb their beautiful hair, Those wonderful waves of brown and gold, ’Till the lire is out In the chamber there, And the little bare feot are cold. Then out of the gathering winter chill, All out of the bitter 8t. Agnes weather, While the lire is out and the house issllil, Maud and Jladgo, together, “Maud and Madge In robes of white, The prettiest nightgowns under the sun, Curtained away from the chilly night, After the rovel is done. Float along in a splendid dream, To a golden gittern’s tinkling tune, While a thousand lusters shimmering stream, In a palace's grand saloon. “Flashing or jewels and flutter of laces, Tropical oders, sweeter than musk; Men and women with beautiful luces And eyes of troploal dusk; — And otffeface shining out like a star; One faty haunting the dreams of each; And one voice sweeter than others are, Breaking into silvery spoech ;— ‘Telling, through lips of bearded bloom, An old, old storyover again, As down the royal bannered room, To the golden gittern’s strain, Two ana two they dreamily walk, While an unseen spirit walkB beside. And all unheard in lovers’ talk, He claluieth one for a bride. “O Maud and Madge, dream on together, With never a pang of jealous fear. For ere the bitter St. Agnes weather Shall whiten another year, Robed for ttio bridal and robed for the tomb, Braided brown hair nad guides tress. There'll he only one of you left for tho bloom Of the bearded lips to press “Only one for the bridal pearls, The robe of satin and Brussels lacs, Only one to blush through her curls At the sight of a lover’s face. O, beautiful Madge in your bridal whito, For you the revel has just begun; But for her who sleeps lu your arms to night, The revel of life is done. flTxud erownod with your saintly hliiS, Queen of Heaven and bride of the sun, 0 beautiful Maud, you’ll never miss The kisses another hath won. THE TARIFF. BY HON. SAMUEL HARNETT. Tlie United States tariff is tlie heav iest in the civilized world. England on her uggregate imports collects about 5 per cent, duties; France, 7 or 8 per cent.; Germany about the same; Italy about 9; Russia is high above these—23£ per cent. The United States towers above them all in her tariff, with 30 per cent, on aggregate imports; 48$ per ceht. average on all taxed commodities,' The first Ameri can tariff only kept tiace with ‘Others —8$ per cent. But w£ have improved. We excel our fortubT selves, fo'urfold, A mixed cargo could go to* England and pay its tax, thdn to France and pay again, then to Germany and make a third payment, and then to Italy and pay a fourth tax—and the four payments all put’together would not admit it into the United States.— They would aggregate about 27^, while we charge 30 in a lump. And yet of all the people On tile face of the wide earth, we liave the least need of any tariff at all. In tho face of all this, however, our tariff is not merely a little, hut manifold higher than that of any civilized power—Russia alone excepted. Nor does it yield a revenue at all in proportion to the burden it impos- ses. From her low tariff, Eng land derives twenty-two per cent, of her entire revenue. Germany about thirty per cent. If ours yielded in like ratio, we are actually ashamed to say what it would pay. The figures would seem extravagant. Why does it not yield in like proportion? Be cause it is so high as to he largely prohibitory. Foreign goods ennnot overcome an obstruction of 43J per cent. This rate—instead of increas ing revenue—reduces revenue; of course it reduces commcrqe also. And just here note; Free trade would add more to our commercial profits, than protection adds to our (apparent) manufacturing fjrpfits. We.say “ap parent,” for protection adds to tlie amount, without adding to the profits, of manufacture. , Our tariff, moreover, is highly com plex. Fawcett says: “Excise and custom duties ought to he confined to a few articles of consumption.” In other civilized countries they are usu ally so confined. Thus, England lias hut few—France not many. We have thirteen or fourteen sched ules—about as many schedules us there ought to he articles—the speci fied articles or items in our tariff are over 1,50U, and tho rates about GOO; some specific, some ad valorem and some compound. Certain woolen goods illustrate all these forms. Tl)us blanket, flannel, and various other worsted goods, valued at between 80 cents, and $1.00 per, p|6und, pay du ties as follows: o0 cpnt§ per P9und, and 85 per eent. ad valorem. Another class valued at over $1.00 per pound, < pays 85 centR per pound, and 40 per cent, ad valorem. And so it is with many other artioles—they pay duties both compound and complex. The tariff schedules comprise the following classes of articles at the av erage rates affixed, vis; ■CHHDULR. BATS PBR CENT. A. Chemicals,about ..SI B. Eartbao ware and glass 48 C. Metals, Iron, Steels and manufac tures of metal 40 D. Wood, and wooden wares 18 E. Sugar and molasses 52 F. Tobaeoo 73 G. Provisions H. Liquors I. Cotton and cotton goods 38 /. Flax, etc ...30 K. Wool and woolens ■ ;.... 60 L. Silks 58 M. Books and paper 28 N. Sundries 27 Geaer&l average duty 4S& The free list save tea and coffee, has such a beggarly look, that one is surprised to learn what the aggre gate imports of free articles amount to—viz: about $200,000,000. This shows how largely we wouldexotyinge with others, if we could. But our policy seems to be to loud all other industries, to promote the classes of manufactures for which nature does not fit us. Agriculture is thus loaded down, and as to coru- iinerce, it seoms to be the policy of the government to prevent both toe fact and the means of commerce. Our tariff severely restricts imports—that of itself severely limits exports. Thus the government discourages both, and between the tariff and the naviga tion laws our marine is at a low ebb- naval and commercial. And what is the upshot, of it all? Of our entire imports, $550,000,000— $450,000,000 pay duties amounting to $200,000,000. The other $200,000,000 of imports are on the poor, beggarly free list. What a magnificent system of exchange we should have were it all “free list.” And yet for government to get its $200,000,000 of duties the people pay $750,000,000 out of their pockets. The government gets the little end of it, $200,000,000 and the “protected class” $550,000,000, the big end by nearly three to one. Besides all this direct loss, the waste by misguided industry, forced into wrong channels, is enormous; perhaps greater than the other items. Indeed, the cost of the tariff policy to the American people is incalculably. Tlie disturbance to the natural course of industry occasioned by our tariff is far beyond that of any other civilized country, and is without ex cuse. A tariff like that of England, France or Germany, generally of less than 8 per cent., hears some safe pro portion to interest and to ordinary profits. The American tariff averag ing 43J per cent, is a disturbing ele ment beyond and above almost all sound conditions of business. Think of an artificial premium of 43J per cent, to quit natural, paying indus- 'tries and embark in other busines on an artificial basi?. of taxation! Aver age dutie8,pr43i per cent! It is not a had business which pays one third of that per cent, profit. Our tariff is equal to two or three fair profits at a clip. The majority of business men would accept it as the equivalent of three years profitable business. It is sir or seven times the average rate of interest. A capitalist would lend money for six years, gladly ac cepting as compensation year by year \vhat tbe tariff tadibs at a single stroke, in advance and without a risk. The United States—the government which imposes it—can float bonds at 4 per cent—less than one tenth the tariff rate. It would take ten years interest on a 4 per cent, bond to get yoOr goods into the country! This is called ‘Incidental protection.” In cidental. Ah excessive tariff stimulates tho wrong industries. Soon, by 484 per cent, stimulus, too much capital and labor is drawn into them. Domestic competition thus springs up in place of foreigh, and the next thin tiling we hear is a foolish cry for “more pro tection.” The home market being overstocked, we cannot resort to fore ign markets for relief, because they give us no 43J per cent, to start on, and so we are at oar wit’s end the cry for protection, protection, goes up to Congress—q perpetual cry from the btibss it has begotten and suckled; but can never wean. A New Craze. “Society ladies in the Northern cit ies are going in for tiie new hat call ed Winnie Davis. It may be tbe name, or it may be the peculiar curve in tlie long front brim, widen shading the brow, makes it becoming to all faces. The hat was designed by a Southern man, Mr. W. S. Witham. who has gone into business at 635 Broadway, N. Y. Oh,^ the vanity of women of fashion!”—Ex. If the Winnie Davis hat _ is the “most becomhig style” out this spring for ladies aud misses, it is not the “vanity” but the good common sense of tlie lady buyers that gives the shape such wide-spread popularity. We are at least glad to see that the name the shape bears lias not proven a barrier in the way of its sale up North. Miss Winnie Davis, after whom the hat is named, is the daugh ter of Jefferson Davis. Afnong our Exchanges. Dr. Armstrong will never preach again. Com planting is now the order of the day. Tnluage’e flock, at bis Brooklyn Tab ernacle, now numbers 4,051. -oSl b * rto “ Methodists contributed $350 to missions at the collection ta- ken up at ohuroh last Sunday. < Opportunities are very sensitive i h !.L lg! V „ If X ou them on their first visit, they seldom come Again. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; hut he Is more excel lent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Our sentiments, our thoughts, our words lose their rectitude on entering certain minds, just as sticks plunged in the water look bent. A Royal Milliner.—Rumor has it that the Prinoess of Wales is an emi nently clever milliner,and gives finish ing touches to all her own bonnets and hats. Sandersville will soon have a direct telegraph line to Augusta. Prepara tions am now' being made to estab lish the line alohg the narrow guage road. House of Representatives of Rhode Island lias by a vote of 53 to 7, resolv ed to submit to the people, the consti tutional amendment allowing woman suffrage. It is whispered among the well in formed in Germany that the Empe ror William is about ns near liis death as a living man can be. There is no belief that he can survive the spring. Hon. N. J. Hammond in a letter to the Constitution says that on applica tion to him, Mexican soldiers in the fifth district' can get pension applications and can thereby get their pensions without expense. Husband—If you only had tho ability to cook as mother used to, I wouM hr> hsppv dear. Wife-And If you only had tho ability to make money enough to buy things to cook as your rather used to, I, too, wou'd be happy, dear. The Columbus Inquirer-Sun very truly remarks: “When a man with a small salary tries to support a saloon and a family at the same time, the family will nave to succumb. It iins been tried, and the saloon’comes out on top every time. ‘‘Madame,” said the tramp, “I’m hungry enough to eat raw dog.”— “Well,” she responded; kindly, suiting tho action to the word, “I’ll whistle some up for you.” The tramp left, taking bis hppetite with him.—New York Bun. Congress ought to make a change in its method of dealing with the appro priation bills. They should be pass ed early in the session, so as allow tlie President to examine and sign, or ve to them. They are of too much im portance to the country to be postpon ed until the end of the session. Judge Van Epps, of the City Court of Atlanta, lias announced from tlie bench his intention to impose chain- gang penalties upon keepers of gam bling houses that are convicted iu liis court, and It is though 'it will have the effectof breaking up gambling in tlie Cupital City. Harvard College, It. is said, will ex pend $230,000 in taking astronomical observations in the Boutli. Hereto fore such observations in the South have been taken by 8poony young couples who never thought it necessa ry to expend more than the price of a few plates of ice cream.—Savannah News. Before tho Clerk had finished read ing, and before tlie veto was announc ed in the House, the President in tlie Executive Mansion knew that Ids ve to of the pauper pension bill bud been sustained by 175 to 125. Speaker Carlisle telegraphed the news to him. The President could not have been more gratified than the country. A Columbus lady last fall took her banana tree out of the box in which she was keeping it, and put it in a dry place under the house and covered it witli cottonseed. Columbus lias had very balmy weather lately, and the lady concluded to air and sun her plant. When she brought it to light she was surprised and pleased to find a bunch of bananas nicely growing on the tree. There are thirty-nine ba nanas on tho bunch, and each one is a little over an inch long. They look like small cucumbers. The fruit will probably ripen if this weather contin ues. America will suffer greatly from tlie recent Italian earthquakes. Soveral thousand hand organists are preparing to emigrate. There is some old fashioned Biblical justice in the law pro posed in Illinois which makes the man who incites a crime equally guilty with the man who commits the crime. J^ew Orleans is holding indig nation moetingsto protest against tho Sunday law. They had for gotten there ever was any Sunday, and it grates on ’em like a regular blue law. Legalcap, foolscap, letter and nots paper —pens, pencils and ink, for sale cheap at the Union &, Recorder office.