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THE TIMES,
Trenton, Ga.
THURSDAY, IIVA 21, iBBS,
A heavy loss by fire occurred in
Nashville t-lre 16th.
•rJohn A I jogan was eleocted to the
United States Senate the 10th inst.
Victor Hugo, the venerable French
poet 'and statesman, was given up to'
die the 16th by his pJjj^icfans.
The Ex-Confederate Hdmeat Rich
mond will : be dedicat F.d Wednesday
Under the name of Let* ,'Cainp.
Kentucky disitlers propose ta shut
down lor a season on the account of
over-production. They think the coun
try needs more dram drinkers or fewer
distillers.
The International Convention of
the Young Men’s Christain Associa
tion met the 13th. Considerable in
terest The Association
now owns nearly 100 building^worth
oyer $4,000,000. It will meet next
year at San Francciso,
The revised version *of the new Tes
ta'nent was ready for distribution a
mong booksellers last Monday. The
dianges are -described as being less
numerous in proportion, but more im
portant than those of the revised New
Testament.
Some of the merchants of Chatta
noogu have adopted a plan for mutu
al protection against those who do not
pay t/ieir bills promptly or try to dead
beat their way, by preparing a book
containing the name of each purchaser
with his debt-paying status.
A New York retired butcher gave
$4,700 the other night for an alleged
gold brick which was said to have
been stolen from the Philadelphia min).
The brick was valued at $15,00*0, and
weighed 77 pounds. It pnoved to be
pure brass, worth about $5.
Over a hundred of the most arristo
cmtic ladies in New York are said to
have agreed to organ 1 .c a dub pattern
ed after the “Union Club” of that city
Husbands and wives will probablyhave
alternate evenings for attending their
club 6. A great many ladies are prac
ticing with latch keys.-Ex,
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Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, as presi
dent of tire Jackson Memorial Associa
tiou, chartered bv the legislature of
Va., has issued an address, directed to
Jackson’s comrads and those who serv
ed under him, calling upon them for
aid in placing a monument over the
grave of this lamented general and sol
dier at Lexington, Va.
Although few of the New York
banks now pay an interest on deposits
the stream of money from all over the
country still flows into that city. This
is the season for collection from many
parts of the Union. The stream of
money will begin to flow steadily on
■of New York as soon as it comes time
so move this years crops.
The liquor men of Ohio are taking
the proper steps to bring about prohi
bition in that State. In the first place,
they fought the Scott la*v, wli ich im
posed a tax on s loons until a Demo
. cratic Supreme Court decided that law
unconstitutional. Now they are mak
ing an attempt to collect the tax which
was paid in while the law was in force
The liquor men of the Hockey State
will waken tip to fact some of these
trays that they h-ive gone a step too far
They are making prohibition senti
ment very rapidly, and it will tell some
of these days when ihey .wo nut looking
for it. —(JoSIEEitCjAL.
Gov. Puttison, of Pennsylvania, id
coining in 'for ii good deal partisan a
buse, eecairse lie bad the ihanliness to '
veto a demagogical bill passed by the,
Legislature to pay out of the State
Treasury Mr tombstones'lor all ex-
Federal soldi,irsVlio died in that Stlße
With the Republicans political clap
ir:p and patriotism vi’ty generally go
hand in baud. Doubtles all the tomb
stone dealers are earnestly fuvoi ot the
bill.
Charles Du lley Warner appears to
lie the last prominent mid who has
returned irotn a Soutliorn trip and pro
nounced this section of the country
loyal and peaCoUblo. When it takes
420 ytiars and an actual inspection to
convince a ni.*#fc of the condition of a
part of his own country, lieu light to
hire some one to kick him tor being
either a thick minded partisan or a
block-head, no nmttot how brilliant a
scholar he may be from a literary point
of view.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From the correspondent ofvhfe Times]
Washi*.noton, May 15, 1885.
From all parts of the country the
j President*; tm receiving the kinkiest
.words of commend ation for liis policy
of administration. Surely Grover
Cleveland was born finder a a lucky
star, as the skeptics say, for whatever
he does seems to suit the masses. His
course as president not only pleases the
DemofcraTs who elected him, but even
the Republicans who opposed him.
He is a true civil servics reformer,
and slowly but surely ho is reforming
the eivil service of tho government. If
he but continues in his present course
oae ye&r from the hate of his inaugu
ration will see a less number of Re
publicans in office than there were
Democrat at the end of twenty-four
years’etf Republican rule, Those who
find fault* and say that the President
docs not move fast enough do not
appreciate the situation-. It is the
higth of folly to cry for a clean sweep
of all the officers when it is known
that such policy would overturn the
business in ever department and create
a chaos of confusion so confounding
that no business could be transacted.
But as sure as day follows day in its
course so surely will the work of re
form go on, until not a rascal wiil b* 1
left to tell the tale ot the taking off of
his fellows. At present about one
third of all the •departmedt positions
are filled by Democrats, as the Republi
cans conceded this number to their op
ponents, but under present auspices
the matter will be changed, and Dem
ocrats need give themsolvs no uneasi
ness for should a change take place in
four or twenty-four yeanf 'frill it be
found that true civil servic has lid the
departments of the last vestige of Re
pnb ican corruption. Let not your
hearts be troubled about the rascals
staying in; they will all go out; tiust
in Grover, and Bayard, Endicott,
Whitney, Lamar, Garland Vilas and
Manning will sea that yon are not
disappointed.
There never was, probably, at the
head of the Attorney General’s office
a mote able and popular person than
Mr. Garland who occupies the posi
tion to-day. Your correspondent, we
believe, was the first to mention him
pubicly for the plaoehe so efficiently
fills and so entirely adorns; so that it
is net with a little pride that the
above note is made.
The appointments made to the various
Bureau offices so far by the adminis
tration have been eminently wise, not
a single mistake so far having b«en
made on the score of honesty, ability,
industry, and energy. Col. Coleman
takes bold of affairs at the Agricultur
al Burmin like a veteran, and seems to
know more wliat the needs of the Bu
reau are than either os have
preceded him. lie is gettinf£\iown to
hard pail and it will make it a depart
ment of which the farmers will be
proud. Coleman ir a practical as well
as a theoietical farmer, and his ideas
aie as 1 road as the grain! prairies ol
his Btate. He is throughly of the o
pinion that the farmer is as good as
any one eles, and little better than tin*
majority, and lie will see that they
have all that is their due and that the
Bureau is run in their interest.
The European war cloud is not yet
dispelled. Should a combat come le
tween England and Russia the Presi
will call an extra session or Congress
that the laws regulating our shipping
interests may he so modified that the
United States nriy gain a fail share
ol the carrying trade which England
is sure to lose. 8, B.
SUNDAY-SCHOOLS AGAIN.
Editor TLies: —Little did we tlr’nk
when the Sunday School was re-or
gan a'sd at the Methodist church about
a month ago that such nest of hornets
would be raised above 'the heads of
those who toolc part in its organiza
tion, and who acted conscientiously
and with the purest motives as regards
rhe so called tfrtirfh M. S. at the Pres
byterian'church. Much less did wt ap
prehend the necessity for an cxplina
ticii of the facts to tnsfke clear to tiie
prejudice irf:ii*ht of a certain class of
individuals that it was mt stai'toft up
for the purpose of breaking do'Avn oi
impairing the Union S. S. It was the
editor ofTlie Times who‘by opening up
the columns of bis paper with a
very encouraging little prelude*brought
ulp for public discussion what was at
first oirly a Ideal disSeriiion, and which
was caused by a few imYK'iduals who
being blinded by prejudice songht to
mislead others by showing up in a
false light that which was leally noth-
ing in itself. We are charged with,
deserting the Union S. S. and start
ing an oposition \>nfe. Wo mhst
confess we have never heforb heard of
a union S. S. in Trenton. T-bb word
union wentiiply inconsistent with the
past history of 'our social relations.
We claim that the S, S. at the Metho
dist church denominational
than is the one at the Presbyterian
churdh. You have Presbyterian lit
erature, while we have Methodist. It
was at first attempted to provb that a
school was either union or sectarian as
it had union or sectarian literature, but
the editor-saw the mistake into which
h 3 and those entertaining his viev s
had fallen, and in his last week’s 7fcsue
claims that he ]>*d admitted that there
was “nothing in the literature”. He
has now drawn in from his last line of
defence, and upon what basis is be go
ing to prove that the Sunday S. at the
Methodist church is denominational,
and that tk6 one at the Presbyterian
church is a union Sunn&y school"? His
proof rests upon the title lie has given
them, and upon that alone*. His un
ion Sundayschool has Presbyterian lit
erature, : ar.d we suppose that is the
reason he admits that there is “noth
ing in the literature” Of the church
members in and around Trenton nearly
throe-fourths are members of the
Methodist Church, all of whom favor
a Methodist lb. S* Out (n the num
ber who are not members of any church
we think at IteaSl one-half would pre-
fer a Methodist 8. 8. to a Presbyteri
an 8. 8. in disguise. Mr. Ilavron errs
" lien lie says we have not enough ma
terial to support two Sunday schools
iu Trenton, for there is enough, mate
rial here to maintain six t>r seven and
give them all a larger attendance than
the unionunday school has e% r er had
Nc"',c‘ they arc so very anxious to
have only one Sunday school, wbv did I
they not agree to unite at tli£ Metho
dist church last summer, and have a
union Sunday school in reality and
not in name. As the Methodist chinch
was in better condition a*>d more con
venient, it was thouglitClint it avould
be the proper place; but this of|tr was
spurned with Contempt by thtiP strict
advocates of a union Sunday school.
Uor these reasons we have not felt our
selves obligated to patronize the school
at the Presbyterian churchf and we
have ever claimed to liavo a perfect
right to organize and maitain a school
at the Methodist church suited to the
wants ol the majority of the people.
We have taken no notice to what
has been said relating to this matter
by those not at all intesested, but on
ly to what the editor who has been
the most conspicuous of those deserv
ing notice.
1 have nimpiy tried to give the rea
sons for orgAinzing a Sliool at the
Met hod tat Church, and if they are not
sufficient to show that the motives oi
those who took part iu the organiza
tion were fur the jromotion of the gen
eral good. I shall lay it to their ig
norauce aud llie prejudice of their
minds, believing that every reasonable
person wifi view it in its true light.
As the ditor lias persiter.tly refused
to grant me tho right of a fictitious
name, I will just sign that of
Bum Brook.
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THE PRESENT COST of BUSINESS
<JOMI‘ASED WITH.THE PAST
A well informed merchant of Bos*
ton recently said to a representative
of a Boston newspaper that ho had
been lookiug over his accounts, and
was surprised to find since the close
of the war there had Leeu a steady iu
crease 4m the ordinary expense of-car
ring on l usiness. That this increase
*-6f budiues expenses extends beyond the
'merchantto tht manufacturer and
most other kinds of business hi a fact
'patent to most employers. Mere !of
'fice work costs a great deal more now
th&n it did in 1865. more clerks are
needed, and, ‘tfh thb whole, 'each of
these receive higher pay. Assistance
is required in the receiving and deliv
oriug departments to an extent and of
a character that would not have been
dreamed ot two decads ago. Then
those are a variety cf incidental expen
ses that now enter into the computa
tion. There are telephone charges,,
printing, the expense of solicitors, the
whole making up an amount sufficient
ly large to eat up all that would have
been considered fair profits a quarter
ot century ago. It is probably that
the ex periduce of different trades va
ries, and* vet we faLcy that in most
lines of bnsiuess statement k somewhat
simi’ar to the above might be made
The tendancy, ail the tunc going on,
to lessen the hours oil set. vice, both in
offices and work-shops, of itself makes
the cost'of b'lsiuess proportionately
higher. C'liTipetftien is sharper than
it was fen or twenty years ago, and
prices are ’no much reduced in most
Commi dites which enter into the nec
eseitias ot a household, that median*
ics, clerks, and others are enabled to
live much better now than i‘t was
possible foi them to do tan or twenty
vears ago, when tb t ir wages were less
and the cost of living was gerater
Scientific A^er’can.
THE SMALEST WOMAN ALIVE,
The parlors of tho Ashland House,
on Forth Avenue near twenty third
street, weie crowded yesterday with
friends of Miss Lucia Zarate, “the
human doll,’’who was holding a recep
tion. Miss LuciA is the smallest wom
an in the world, weighiYig but 4J
pounds- Her clothing would fit a
new born infant, it taking but one yard
of cloth to make costume. Stand
fag on the center marble tubi/, in the
parlor she received her guests accept
ing tlmir trib‘Vt'er of flowers with gra
'CioWs “ease, and each case returning
thanks iu broken Englith for their
kindness. Her higth is about
inches; her chest measures 15£ inches*
rVaist arms eight inches in length
middle finger inches, and her lit
tle finger of au inch. She has over
800 costumes, and every morning she
selects the er6.rt she desires to wear.—
New York Times
Poisoned By Ice Cream.
A Churdh Excurtion to Tallulah
Falls Ends in a Big Scare
Atlanta £la May 14. —St Paul’s
Methodist Church had an excursion
to Tallu’ah Bulls to-d«y, carrying 7 UO
Graat excitement was created by thj
receipt of a telegram at 9 o’clock to
night that 100 ot them had been poison
ed by ice cream, and asking that phy
sicians to meet the train on its arrival.
A large crowd including fifteen or
twenty doctors, waited at the depot
two hours for the arrival of the party
At 1 l|o’clock the train rolled in, bring
ing in several dozen very sick persons
amongst the passengers, but nolle ol
them showed dangerous symtoms of
poisoning. Theie was great alarm a
mong the excitesronists when they all
began to get sick alter dinner. The
scare in Atlanta was perhaps even
greater, and theie is general sa.fsfac
tion that a disastrous accideut was
averted.
THE SOUTHERN BIVOUAC,
[From Louisville April 11]
B, K. Avery & Sous, publishers of
Home axir E.ihsfi have purchased of
Messrs. Melton tld the SOUTHERN
BIVOUAC, and the .June unmher
much enlarged, will he the first of tlie
new series-. The magazine \Vill here
alter ho Under the editorial Charge of
General Basil \V. Duke and Richard
VV. K •lott. As foritiejlyv War papers
will be the special feature of tlie mag
azin, but each number will have literary ar
ticles illustrating all phases of Southern life,
the purpose being tt> make it, in every sense,
a representative literacy magazine.
The June nutl»bor Will eontaina briliant ar
ticle on tho Pitttle of Franklin, by Major D.
W. Saunders, ncfeoinpanicd the first accurate
mapoftlio bnttle field yet published. It will
also have account of Gen, John llt Morgan’s
escape from prison, to bo followed by ft full
and nuthorative statement! of the missinh of
Jacob Thompson, so little understood and sb
gHovoust.y misrepresented. Pahl. 11, Hayhh
will contribute to the first number an article
on “Southern W*rj,l.yrics,” and Harrison
Robertson a characteristic poem. Tho mag
azine is to bejgreatly enlarged and its typo
graphical appearance entirely changed.
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