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CURRENT TOPICS.
Editoii O’Brien lias sailed for home.
Boulanger's downfall pleases Bismarck.
The West Indian molasses crop is small.
Sixty-seven people die every minute in
this world.
Although present, a blind man is always
out of sight.
The post-office employes number ninety
six thousand men.
Knoxville (Tenn.) parties arc about to
bore for petroleum.
The New York Herald advocates the
coinage of half cents.
The Government is about to stock Salt
Lake, Utah, with shad.
Wacwallopen is the picturesque name
of a Pennsylvania village.
Wolves and foxes are rapidly increasing
in some sections of Illinois.
New York is making a movement for
three-cent street car fares.
A Missouri woman, six feet tall, has just
married a man of four feet four.
Ihe will of Mrs. Henry Wood, the Eng
lish authoress, bequeaths £36,000.
New York’s latest novelty is a Clerks’
Association for marrying rich women.
I l he salmon catch in the Sacramento
river, California, is almost a total failure.
The past month of May was the dryest
known in the records of the Signal Ser
vice.
Pittsburgh expects to have all her elec
tric wires underground by July 4 next
year.
Mu. 1 fiompson, of New York, has made
$4,000,000 out of pies in the last twenty
years.
Ihe notorious ex-Governor Moses, of
South Carolina, is pardoned out of jail
again.
A license to practice law has been
issued to David lloyston, colored, at Ash
land, Miss.
In California they wear thimbles while
eating grapes to avoid staining the lingers
with the fruit.
Edwin Booth and Mrs. Langtry are both
investing largely in mortgages on New j
York property.
The amount realized from the sale of the !
French crown jewels, completed the other I
day, was $1,716,000.
So called Vienna bread we have in this
country is said by a correspondent to be
unknown in Austria.
There’s millions in Mexico, otherwise
how could the total debt of the country
amount to $151,000,000.
1 ije death of William A. Wheeler leaves
the venerable Hannibal Hamlin the sole
living ex-Vice-President.
The President and his wife celebrated
the first anuiveisiiiy ui uieir marriage oy
fishing and fighting mosquitoes.
Bright’s disease seems to be a malady
of distinguished men in this country, as
gout is, or used to be, in England.
Coffee is still at a fancy figure of 100
per cent, more than it is worth, but chic
ory and burned peas are very cheap.
It is claimed by Key West physicians
that the disease is not yellow fever, but
merely a malignant acclimating fever.
Sweden has become a great exporter
of butter. The amount sent abroad last
year valued at more than $4,000,000.
Recent investigations show that the
whole country below Lake Superior is a
mass of mineral, mostly magnetic iron
ore.
There is a report that Hon. Charles A.
Dana is to turn his journalistic tripod over
to his son, Paul, and retire on January 1,
1888.
An Ohio woman recently cross-exam
ined her sleep-talking husband so effect
ively that a divorce suit is now in full
blast.
It is the purpose of the Treasury De
partment to substitute paper currency
for gold coin as the money of the Pacific
•Coast.
Tns Metlakaha Indians, who are a tribe
of civilized Indians from British Colum
bia, have recently established a colony in
Alaska.
Miss Kate Field has been in Salt Lake
for a month watching the effect of the
Edmunds-Tucker law and she pronounces
it a failure.
Philadelphia, Buffalo and other large
Northern cities are preparing to celebrate
Independence Day in the good old-fash
ioned style.
Tiie New York Legislature has passed a
law making marriage impossible unless
the man is eighteen and the woman sixteen
.years of age.
Hollowat, the patent medicine man,
who recently died, willed his immense
fortune to a stranger and left his aged sis
ters penniless.
Alexander Coxf., who this year gradu
ated from Yale, is the heaviest man who
■ever received a diploma from that institu
tion. He weighs ‘285 pounds.
The pack of salmon so far on the Pacific
■coast is smaller than last year, and the fish
received are also diminutive. The pros
pects are considered gloomy.
Si'xfi.owers make a good, hot fire, and
for centuries have been raised for fuel in
Tartary and Russia. Now they are being
■cultivated for that purpose in Dakota.
The damage caused in Michigan by the
forest fires this spring is estimated at $7,-
>OOO,OOO, a large part of Which is due to
the destruction of the town of Lake Liu
.den.
Florida has no State Board of Health,
which is unfortunate now that yellow
fever is within her borders. The general
•Government has been appealed to by the
‘Governor.
Major Poore once wheeled a barrel of
apples upon a wheelbarrow thirty-six
■miles, from Indian Hill Farm to Boston, to
pay an election wager in the Presidential
campaign of 1856.
A letter from Alaska says that white
men are constantly migrating to that
■country and its condition is rapidlv im
proving as to civilization and trade. Many
inducements in the way of fishing, stock
raising, gardening, fur hunting and min
ing are offered to hardy and industrious
•settlers.
MINE DISASTER.
Five Men Killed and Ten Others
Dangerously Wounded.
A Premature Explosion of a Dynamite
Cartridge in a Tennessee Mine.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 13.—Inman
mine, thirty miles west of Chattanooga,
was the scene of a terrible explosion this
evening. A large number of men were in
a chamber in the mines preparing to fire
off a dynamite cartridge. It exploded pre
maturely and with horrible results. The
news from Inman is that live miners were
blown into atoms, and ten more were so
badly injured that nearly all of them will
die. There is no telegraph office within
ten miles of Inman, hence no further de
tails can be learned to-night.
Reading, Pa., June 13.—. While a number
of men were examining a charge which
failed in Rahn & Kauffman’s stone-quarry
near Leesport this afternoon it exploded
with great force, fatally injuring Francis
P. Kauffman and Philip Schaeffer, and se
verely injuring three others.
COFFEE COLLAPSES.
Tlie Brilliant Hull Movement Breaks
Badly, and Three Failures Result
Therefrom.
New York, June 13.—The splendid bull
mo\ement in coffee which has been going
on for more than a twelve-month, and has
carried up the price of Rio coffee to the
highest figures known in many years,
finally collapsed to-day, and created an
excitement such as has not been known in
down-town circles for many a month. Ar
nold & Co., big coffee house, and several
lesser firms failed this afternoon.
Is Beer Spirituous Liquor?
Raleigh, N. C., June 13.—Richard
Giorsch, a liquor dealer in this city, was
arrested on Saturday last upon the charge
of selling beer in alleged violation of the
local option law, which prohibits the sale
of “spirituous liquor.” He sued out a writ
of habeas corpus upon which he had a
hearing this afternoon before the full
bench of the Supreme Court. Counsel for
Giersch argued that beer and wine were
not spirituous liquors” within the mean
ing of the law, and that consequently
Giersch should be discharged. As the law
applies to all places where the sale of
liquor has been prohibited by “local op
tion,” the decision of the court upon the
question raised is looked for with much
interest.
Mike Calahan’s Revenge.
(vhirfiVkiWWA
as “Rotten Row.” The house was under
going some repairs, and was jacked up
several feet. During the evening Mike
was thrown out, and for revenge he* pro
ceeded to jack up one corner so high that
the house upset. The whole building
w r ent bodily over on its roof, the chimney
sticking in the mud, w T hile the terrified
occupants came clamoring out through the
cellar door, which was then where the
roof-hatch ought to be.
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American Lard in Italy.
Washington, June 13.—Writing from
Leghorn to the Department of State, Con
sul Sartori says that the duties on imports
will be largely increased to protect Italian
industries and products. A strong effort
•is being made to have a duty of $3 86 per
220 pounds imposed on American lard. A
recent analysis presented to a Commission
is said to have show r n that American lard
contains 12 to 15 per cent, of water, hidden
by means of two or three per cent, of alum
and one per cent, of calce caustiea.
Saved from Drowning by a Dog.
Chicago, June 13. —Laurence Netcel and
a man named Pitt went out on the lake
this morning in a row boat. They took a
big Newfoundland dog with them. The
men were undressing for a swim when
the boat capsized and Pitt went down and
was drowned. Netcel Would also have
lost his life, but the dog seized him by the
nape of his neck and held him up, keeping
him alloat until help arrived.
“Dago” Joe Dangles From a Tree.
Memphis, Tenn., June 13.—“Dago” Joe,
a half-breed who shot and killed Walter
Haynes, a young white boy, at Shelby De
pot, Miss., on the 18th of May, was taken,
yesterday afternoon, from the officers who
were conveying him from Duncan Station,
Miss., to the jail at Austin, by a crowd of
fifty men, and hanged to a tree. He had
been arrested at Texarkana and brought
back on a requisition.
Extra Session Talk.
Washington, June 13. —Speaker Carlisle
is expected he»i soon, and it is believed
his coming will be followed by the arrival
of a number of prominent Democrats who
will confer with the President regarding
the necessity of an extra session. Mr. Car
lisle.it is said,favors an extra session, and
will urge the President to call Congress to
gether as early as October.
Canadian Crop Prospects.
Montreal, June 13. —The Canadian Pa
cific Railway Telegraph Company has col
lected crop reports from all points of the
Northwest and Manitoba, and with hardly
a single exception, the prospects are said
to be much better than last year and a
plentiful harvest is expected.
The Stars and Stripes.
Hartford, Ct., June 13.—T0-morrow is
the one hundred and tenth anniversary of
the adoption of the tfcars and Stripes as
the National emblem. Flags will be dis
played in this city, and the Conrant editor
ially recommends that the custom of
displaying tiags on that date be made Na
tional. _
A Child’s Fatal Fall.
Parkersburg, W. Va., June 13.—This
mornjug a five-year-old child of Sandy
McDonald, a well-known farmer near this
city, fell off the upper floor of the barr
to the ground and was iustantly killed.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1887.
A TREMENDOUS METEOR
Drops Into the Earth Near Evansville,
Ind—The Dreadful Missile Estimated
to Weigh at Feast Two Tons.
Ev ansville, Ind., June 12.—At an earlv
hour this morning an enormous meteoric
stone dashed into the earth near this city.
Ihe point where it fell is about nine miles
from this city, in a wooded tract near the
village of St. Joseph, this county. It was
a little past seven o’clock when the resi
dents of that vicinity heard a sharp, whin
like crack, simultaneous with a slight
earth tremor. It was at once
concluded by all that it was
another earthquake, with which this sec
tion of the country has been repeatedly
visited during the past several months.
It was two hours afterward before the
real truth was discovered through the re
port of a young farmer who had found a
large tree mutilated as though it had been
struck by lightning, and a hole of enor
mous dimensions made near its foot.
Several fragments of sulphur-smelling
stone were scattered about the
mysterious orifice, and a strong
sulphurous smell seemed to permeate
the whole atmosphere of the
place. It was soon determined conclu
sively that it was an aerolite of great di
mensions and had buried itself tn the
earth to the depth of twelve or fifteen feet.
The projectile had evidently descended in
a slightly slanting course, judging from
where it had struck the tree and the point
where it had imbedded itself in the
ground. Several fragments of aerolite
were gathered and will be brougnt to this
city, where they will bo examined by
some of our local amateur geologists. Ef
forts to reach the stone were unavailing
w ithout a vast amount of labor. It is evi
dently one of the largest a?rolites that
ever penetrated our atmosphere, and can
not weigh less than two tons. The sharp
i eport heard at the time it fell was no
doubt concussion of air and its
contact with the tree. Efforts will
be made at once to secure the aerolite,
and the pieces already gathered will
be sent to the Smithsonian Institute.
Ihe particles of sulphur-smelling stone
are declared to be an admixture of obsid
ian and tractyte, of dull grayish and dark
colors. It is a wonder that even these par
ticles were broken off after the aerolite
had resisted the great force which had
propelled it from its home in the spheres
and holding itself intact until reaching our
planet.
An Indoor Camp-Meeting.
New York, June 12.—A new feature in
Methodism was introduced to-day in the
commencing of an indoor camp-meeting
at the Jane street M. E. Church in this
city. Meals will be served during its con
out-door caEVp-meeiliigs. rresiumg mu or
Palmer led the services. To-day’s services
began with consecration meeting in the
morning, followed by communion, Sun
day-school, holiness meeting, outdoor
meeting, prayer-meeting and evening ser
vice.
Southern Battle-Flags.
Washington, June 11. —The Sunday Cap
ital to-day publishes the following: “The
President is said to have promised Ad
jutant-General Johnstone Jones, of North
Carolina, during his recent visit to this
city, that all the -flags taken from the
Southern States during the late war
should be returned to those States at an
early date. This resolve on the part
of the President is mainly due to the
instrumentality of Adjutant - General
Drum, a thoroughly national man, who
wishes to withdraw from public gaze all
mementoes of internecine strife.”
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The Indian War.
Nogales, A. T., June 12. —The Indian sit
uation is unchanged. The troops are at a
loss as to the whereabouts of the Indians.
There is a perfect cordon of soldiers along
the southern boundary of the Territory,
and it will be almost impossible for the
hostiles to cross into Mexico. No ad
ditional information from Tucson about
the semi-official report that one hundred
bucks were on the war-path, well armed,
and that four hundred Indian warriors
would soon be in the field.
A Fearful Fall.
Wheeling, W. Va., June 12. AtMounds
ville this afternoon, as George Edwards,
n eight-year-old son of ’Squire Wm. T.
Edwards, was playing with some com
panions on top of the famous Indian
mound, he accidentally rolled into the
well-like excavation in the center, falling
a distance of seventy feet, breaking his
left leg. and bruising his right leg con
siderably, besides otherwise injuring him
self internally. His condition is hopeless.
Children Perish in Flames.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 12.—A special
from Winnipeg says the residence of a
farmer named James Edwards, living in
Township Menota, South Manitoba, burn
ed last night, and three children, aged
seven, twelve and fourteen, perished in
the flames. Edwards and his wife jumped
from an upstairs window, taking two
other children, or all would have per
ished.
Poor Marksmen.
Paris, June 12.—M. Clemeneeau and M.
Foucher, the late editor of the National,
fought a duel with pistols. Two shots
were fired, but neither of the combatants
was hit. The duel was the outcome of a
newspaper quarrel.
Was She Kidnaped?
Detroit, June 12. —Last fall Mrs. Albert
Brooks, of Juniata, Mich., went to Denver
to receive SBO,OOO and other property, her
interest in an uncle's estate. !>he has not
returned to her home, and efforts to find
her have not availed. It is supposed she
has been kidnaped and is being held until
her captors get all her money from her.
Resembles the Spanish Fly.
Trenton, Mo., June 12.—Swarms of in
sects resembling the Spanish fly. have
visited this place and vicinity, devouring
vegetation and causing great suffering by
their poisonous bite.
TRULY ENCOURAGING.
Unprecedented Demand For Iron all Over
the Globe.
Pittsburgh, June 14. —The demand for
iron and steel is still great, considering
the great quantity that has been turned
out in this country in the last year. Gen
erally at this time there is a falling off.
The men don’t care to work much in the
three months to come and the manufac
turers use the time in making repairs.
This year is an exception. Orders are
still coming in, it is safe to say, at the
rate of 600 tons a day. A call at the
offices of some of the leading iron firms
shows that each morning it re
quires half of the forenoon to examine the
mails through which contracts are com
ing, not only from all parts of the United
States, but from Canada, South America
and many other foreign countries. There
is still metal to be got, but the product is
getting scarce. There is not a ton of un
sold pig iron within several hundred miles
of Pittsburgh. In this city metal that has
been stacked by for some years is being
disposed of. In one place over 1,000 tons
have been held for almost eleven years for
higher prices have just been sold. In this
city all the iron and steel mills are in op
eration, excepting two.
A PANIC.
The Wheat Market Tumbles and the Great
Clique is Buried in the Kuins.
Chicago, June 14.—Demoralization and
financial disaster overtook the great wheat
clique to-day. The much-vaunted “com
bine” is smashed and bankrupt. The
wheat pit was in a panic for an hour.
The June option dropped from 92% t 072%
the most sensational collapse seen in this
market in its history. The sixteen million
bushels of grain collected here and held
by a mysterious combination, of which
nobody knew any thing to a certainty,
will now be sold out “under the ham
mer.” Maurice Rosenfeld & Co., one of
the most prominent of the clique brok
erage houses, have announced their sus
pension. The losses on the decline by this
concern will probably amount to $400,000.
Irwin, Green & Co., another of the clique’s
houses, announces their complete stability
and have promptly put up all the margin’s
called from them. About C. J. Kershaw
& Co., there has been no announcement,
and there is the faint hope that they may
pull through, but they are behind in their
margins. The collapse is worse than the
failure of Peter McGeoch, and will entail
worse losses.
But the Indians Got Away.
Tucson, Ariz., June 14. —News has just
reached here that Lieutenants Johnson
aud Hughes.Tonth * ■
day and captured every thing m the camp
except the Indians, who escaped on foot,
and have crossed the San Pedro. Captain
Wint, Fourth Cavalry, is on their trail.
There are thirty Indians in the band, mov
ing in a northeastward direction from the
reservation.
Lightning’^fwtul
St. Joseph, Mo., June 14. —Matt Rapp, a
prominent farmer, was instantly killed by
lightning last night. Mr. Rapp awoke in
the middle of the night and went to the
side dspr of his residence to see how vio
lent §ie storm was. The moment he open
ed the door a bolt of lightning rent the air
and he fell dead in the arms of his wife.
The only mark upon the body was a bluo
mark from temple to templo
under the chm.
J Christopher Columbus I
ion, June 14. —Documents are dis
played in the Norse Department of the
American Exhibition with the object of
showing that the continent of America was
discovered in 985 by an Icelander named
Leif Erikson. A collection of maps lent by
the Royal Geographical Society show the
route said to have been taken and the parts
of America explored and named by the Ice
landers.
Extraordinary Hail-Storm.
Phii.ippoi’olis, Juno 14. —Hail-stones
strangely shaped, pointed, and weighing
over a pound each, recently fell in the dis
tricts of Altos and Carnabat, between Ad
rianople and Shumia, on the south slope
of the Balkan Mountain, Eastern Rou
melia. The hail-stones destroyed the
harvests, killed many laborers aud cattle
in the fields, and pierced the roofs of
houses like bullets.
Fishing in Canadian Waters.
Montreal, Can., June 14.—The Louis
burg (N. S.) harbor is full of American
seiners, loaded with mackerel, all taken
within the three-mile limit. Twenty of
them passed Ingonish, going northward,
this morning. One troller took over fivo
hundred quintals of codfish on the river
banks from fish baiting procured at Mag
dalenes.
Miners Killed.
Wilkesbarre, Fa., June 14. —By a fall of
rock in Mill-creek Colliery this morning
Peter Ceimmer and Simon Charmesky
were killed, and Michael Fisher and John
Pradosky severely injured, the former so
badly that recovery is impossible.
Chandler Elected U. S. Senator.
Concord, N. H., June 14. —William E.
Chandler was elected U. S. Senator to
day t>y both branches of the Legislature,
for the unexpired term.
Insane Intention.
Niagara Falls, Ont., June 14.—Carlisle
D. Graham,who wont through the Niagara
Whirlpool rapids in a barrel, will to-mor
row afternoon repeat the performance,
but instead of being inside he will bo
strapped by his feet and hands to the out
side of the barrel.
Torn to Pieces by Cars.
Wheeling, W. Va., June 14.—A train on
the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling rail
road this morning ran over aud horribly
mangled Noah Billington. an employe of
the Wheeling Valley coal works. His
body was strewn along the track.
INDEMNITY LANDS.
The People’s Bights Nobly Protected by
a Democratic Administration.
The President’:* instructions to Sec
retary Lamar have been obeyed, and
the great indemnity belts of public
land are soon to be thrown open to the
settler. It was the attempt to rob
Guilford Miller of his farm that direct
ed the President’s attention to the ex
clusion of settlers from these belts.
They had been shut out, not by law,
but bj r the action of Executive offi
cers who were anxious to serve the
great land grant corporations. In his
letter concerning the Guilford Miller
case, the President says;
“After a lapse of fifteen years this large body
of the public domain is still held in reserve, to
the exclusion of settlers, for the convenience of
a corporate beneficiary of the Government, and
awaiting its selection, though it is entirely cer
tain that much of this reserved land can never
be honestly claimed by said corporation. Such
a condition of the public lands should no
longer continue. So far as it is the result of
Executive rules and methods, these should be
abandoned.”
The Secretary now shows that four
teen land grant railroad companies
have made selections in the indemnity
belts to the full extent of their rights,
and that twenty-two have chosen in
those belts all the land that is subject
to selection. The belts have been
closed to the settler for various terms,
ranging from two years to thirty-seven
| years. Under the rulings of the de
partment no settler can acquire any
rights under any of the general land
laws in any part of the belts so long as
they remain withdrawn by Executive
order. “There seems,” says the Sec
retary, “to be no valid reason why
these orders of withdrawal should not be
revoked.” They are to be revoked, for
the Secretary’s plans for restoring the
belts to the public domain have been
approved by the President.
The action taken by Mr. Cleveland
in relation to these lands will be re
garded hereafter as one of the greatest
achievements of his Administration.
For fifteen years broad belts of public
land, covering in the aggregate 100,-
000,000 acres or a tract equal in extent
to the area of the four Middle States
and the six New England States, have,
by orders of the Interior Department,
been closed to serve the con
venience of powerful corporations and
tvifl Tin *' itio ' Yioiin d arie s . These indem
nity belts should not be confounded
with the grant belts. In the indem
nity belts the corporations have never
had any rights by law except the right
to select a comparatively small num
ber of sections in the grant belts. The
boundaries of the indemnity belts were
specified, not in order that the copora
tions might control the lands included
by them, but simply to restrict the
area within which they were allowed
to select sections in lieu of those in the
grant belts which had been acquired
by settlers before the passage of the
granting acts.
And yet the Interior Department
was for years so completely under the
control of these corporations that all
of these indemnity belts—containing
perhaps fifty sections which the cor
porations could never acquire by law
for every one section which they could
lawfully take to make good their losses
in the grant belts—were promptly
withdrawn from settlement by depart
ment officers and have remained closed
until this day. As we have said, this
was not done simply to suit the con
venience and caprices of these heavily
subsidized corporations. The evidence
shows that it was done for another
purpose rs well. Settlers could not, go
upon these lands and obtain title from
the Government under the Homestead
and Pre-emption laws, but they did go
on with the hope of making reasonable
terms with the coporations. for, al
though the corporations knew that
they could ncyy legally obtain title to
more thanaMSmall number of sections
they undertook to exercise control
over the whole area. They had not
picked out their sections. Who could
tell where these selections would he
made? A hoggish corporation would
prefer to pounce upon a settler’s im
proved farm if it could find one. It
was the efforts of some hundreds of
farmers living in an indemnity belt,
who had been oppressed by one of
these corporations, that caused the
present Land Commissioner to decide
that Miller was entitled to his farm,
and to direct that indemnity selections
must be made upon vacant land. But
before this action had been taken the
corporations had worked their will
with the unfortunate farmers and had
exacted payment in ninny eases for
land to which they could not give clear
title. Ali this jobbery must now cease.
The companies must take their legal
share, and in the remainder of this
great tract of 100,000,000 acres the set
tler will be able to secure title from
the Government under the general
land laws. — N. I". Times.
The reconstruction of the navy
is going on with such vigor that within
five years the country will have twen
ty-five serviceable vessels, counting
the five double-turreted monitors as
available for defensive purposes.—
Spring field Republican.
VOL. IV—NO. 17.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
The Satisfactory Condition of the Country
Under Democratic Administration.
One of the prominent devices used
by the Republicans in the last National
campaign w hereby to terrify the peo
ple was an industrious circulation of
the warning that if the Democrats
should succeed to power the wheels of
industry would refuse to move in their
sockets and things in general assume
the air of a grave-vard. A cheap jew
elry firm in Attleboro publicly tele
graphed to New York on the night be
fore election: “If Blaine is elected fill
our order; otherwise consider it can
celed.” Similar cheap tricks had been
in operation every day.
But human nature did not radically
change after election. Men continued
to eat, to wear clothes, to live in
houses and even to wear cheap jewelry.
The wheels of industry, in fact, moved
more nimbly in their sockets than
before. It is even doubtful whether
the soft-solder man canceled his order.
On the whole the condition of busi
ness has remained satisfactory, and is
so to-day. That there are strikes and
numerous disputes between labor and
capital is rather an evidence that
times are good than the contarv, for it
is an old maxim to make hay while the
sun shines and to strike while the iron
is hot.
The severe competition among man
ufacturers has made it necessary to put
a far greater stock of goods upon the
market than formerly in order to live,
while traders find it necessary to han
dle almost double the quantity of goods
in order to secure the gold profits. All
this operates to fulfill the great eco
nomic law' promulgated by Josiah War
ren, that the inevitable tendency of
competition is to make cost the limit
of price. At this point labor is sure to
get its own, and Mr. Atkinson would
have us believe that we have already
nearly reached it.
Ours is a great country. The sum
mer sun shines down upon a mass of
humanity as contented and properoua
as grumbling human nature will per
mit itself to be. The people have no
confidence in their rulers. are
gradually unloading themselves of the
degenerate Republican party that
er prospect sfretehes out before them.
The second Democratic Administration
will find the country more solidly pros
perous and happy than at any time
since March. 1861. —Boston Globe.
THE HOUR HAS COME.
Why Incapable Kepubliean Clerk* Object
to the New Civil-Service Rule*.
Beyond all doubt, the prospect of be
ing subjected to an examination as tc
fitness is alarming to hundreds of the
petted favorites at Washington. They
protest that they do not want to be pro
moted; that they are content modestly
to hold on to what they have, and con
tinue in the discharge of duties in
which they have become proficient.
The cool, sequestered vales jtliey move
in now are good enough. Theirs are
not grasping souls. The truth is that
they fear, not only an examination as
to their personal capacity, but an in
quiry that may end in demonstrating
their superfluousness. They dread the
disclosure that there is so little foi
them to do; that they have for years
been practically their own masters;
that they are to be found at all hours at
their clubs or going the society rounds,
and, in a word, that the Government is
swindled every time they draw tlieic
pay. Nine out of ten of these men are
Republicans or Republican sympathiz
ers; nine out of ten bewailed the down
fall of the Republican dynasty and the
overthrow of Republican methods.
Nine out of ten of them have, ever
sinee March 4, 1885, shivered in the
shadow of coming exposure and re
form. The dreaded hour has come,
how ever, and all good citizens look to
the Democratic party to make the in
vestigation searching and exhaustive,
and to apply without favor the agencies
of a complete and comprehensive re
form. — N. Y. Star.
PUBLIC OPINION.
-——As to the new South, it is not
headed in the direction of Republican
ism. The new South is Democratic to
the core, and will remain so until it is
assured by the dissolution of the party
of Mr. Blaine that there is to be no
more sectionalism in the politics of
this Republic. —Atlanta Constitution.
Ex-Postmaster - General Frank
Hatton thinks that Sherman is the
strongest man that the Republicans
can nominate next year; that Blaine
would be beaten worse than he was in
1884, and that the party will not have
any thing resembling a walk-over, it
doesn’t matter who is nominated.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Republican organs are wont to
speak of “ the insatiable hunger for
spoils of the Democratic party;” but
can they tell us when any Republican
Administration has ever cut down the
expenses of Government by abolishing
fat but unnecessary offices? It is no*
remembered that such a thing has
gone into the Republican record. — Chin
cago Times.