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About Dade County weekly times. (Rising Fawn, Dade County, Ga.) 1884-1888 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1887)
T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. -- 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.” « 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.
