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CURRENT TOPICS.
Buffalo Bill’s wife has applied for a dj.
vorce.
Sba bathing by moonlight or starlight ig
an ovation.
Senator Riddleberger once fought two
duels in orw day.
In the ffexiean church choir no woman
is allowed to sing.
Theke are 1,400,000,000 cigarette* smoked
in this country annually.
They are raising peaches ten inches in
circumference at Bentonvillc, Ark.
The hop crop of the Mohawk Valley, N.
Y., is said never to be liner in quality.
All the Vanderbilt roads will do awaj
with the deadly car stove this winter.
The Pacific Railway Commission wil
sit in New York from September 20 to Oc
tober 1.
American wind-mills are helping Egypt’;
grain growers to compete with Western
farmers.
A little child near Charlotte, Mich.,
fell into a milk can head first and was
drowned.
Counterfeit two-dollar silver certifi
cates are giving considerable trouble in
New Jersey.
In Milan, they have no sidewalks: but
the entire street is paved smoothly from
house to house.
The people of this country spend #82,-
000,000 a year for silks. Less than half of
it is woven here.
Vague rumors are in the social breeze
about a coming marriage of a Duke to an
“American girl.”
The great Tower of Babel which is to
distinguish the French Exhibition of 1889
i» gradually rising.
Mark Twain, the richest humorist in the
world, is an inveterate smoker and an un
tiring billiard player.
Employes of the Pennsylvania railroad
are to organize independent assemblies of
the Knights of Labor.
It is said that Flood and Mackay lost
#8,000,000 in the recent attempted wheat
corner in San Francisco.
General Black, the Pension Commis
sioner, draws the largest pension enjoyed
by any soldier—#2s a week.
An O’Neil (Neb.) girl fell out of a second
story window to the ground and landed
uninjured on her rubber bustle.
It is said of Russell Sage that he can
command #25,000,000 in cash in half an
hour any time during business hours.
There is still another railroad danger
that must go along with the car stove and
the wooden bridge—the grade crossing.
An Ensenada (Cal.) paper speaks of ma
hogany as so plentiful in that section that
’it forms the cheapest kind of fuel for do
mestic use.
J. E. Sherman, of Cape Charles, Va., has
raised #16,000 worth of kale from fifty
acres, or #3®) per acre. His net profit is
#12,950, or #259 per acre.
The public debt has been reduced at the
average rate of #62,706,975 each year, #174,-
186 each day, and #120.47 for every minute
of the last twenty-two years.
At Seymour, Can,, the other day, a man
was found dead in the woods with a child
playing beside the dead body, but too
young to convey any information.
When a horse with the cognomen of
Laggard wins a #IO,OOO purse, the eternal
unfitness of things on this mundane
sphere receives another striking illustra
tion.
A bold, bad young man has been writing
love letters 1o the daughter of Jay Gould,
and her brother explains to u reporter
that the writer has never seen the young
lady.
Millionaire Mackay, of California,
has received the cross of the Legion of
Honor from the French Government for
making Havre the terminus of his Atlantic
cable.
Mrs. Rogers is the cattle Queen of Tex
as, said to be worth $1,000,0<H). Her hus
band is a preacher, and Mrs. Rogers
looks after the business end of the estab
lishment.
President Cleveland’s invitation to
Pittsburgh is to be engraved on a steei
plate, which is to be rolled until it is only
three-thousandths of an inch in thickness
and can be rolled together in the form of
a scroll.
Wharton Baker, of Philadelphia, is at
the head of the American syndicate which
has just secured such extensive conces
sions in China for banking, building rail
roads, telegraphs and telephones, devel
oping mines, etc.
TnE death of Prof. Baird before com
pleting his sixty-fifth year shows that men
of science do not always understand the
science of life. A man of his powerful
physique and great abilities should have
lived at least'eighty years.
Not to be outdoue by Yan Phon Lee, the
Chinaman, JoKichi Takoinini, a Japanese
nobleman, has just married Miss Carrie
Hitch, a beautiful Creole belle of New Or
leans. There seems to be no limit to the
enterprise of American girls.
A photograph, said to be one of the
largest in the world, has been taken of the
United States Treasury building at Wash
ington. It measures seven feet by four
and is to be presented to cx-Seoretary of
the Treasury, Daniel E. Manning.
The real estate craze in Southern Cali
fornia has even demoralized the doctors.
In writing a prescription recently one of
them added this direction: “Take one
third down and the remainder in one and
two years, secured by mortgage.”
Seven thousand people assembled at City
Foint, Boston, the other day, to witness a
series of swimming matches between
dogs. The contestants swam from a barge
anchored about half a mile off shore to a
point within a short distance of land.
Dr. Spencer F. Baird, the deceased
secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, i»
the author of more than 1,200 books, pam
phlets and publications of various kinds.
Elder Evans, of the Shaker community
New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y.,
has just celebrated his eighty-fifth birth
day. For fifty-five years ho has abstained
from eating fish and flesh.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Ten Persons, Including' Three
Young Ladies,
Scalded, and Property Destroyed by a
Holler Explosion.
Flint, Mich., Aug. 30.—One man Mown
into atoms, tw T o fatally scalded and eight
other persons badly scalded, bruised or
burned, the total destruction of several
large new barns and a season’s crops
made up the sum total of the result of
an explosion this afternoon on the farm
of Lyman Curtis, five miles from here.
A threshing bee was in progress, a
steam-thresher being employed. There
w r ere about fifty persons present when the
boiler exploded with terrific force. Dan
iel Stugar was blown to pieces, Lyman
Curtis and Daniel Newcomb were fright
fully and fatally scalded, William Rock
wood was thrown twenty feet, and sus
tained injuries which may cripple him for
life. Hiley Eckley’s hip was crushed.
Thomas Deupe and Patrick Dowell
were jammed about the head, and
John Bennett was scalded so he
will be ‘ marked for life. The
saddest feature was the terrible scalding
of three young ladies. The victims were
Miss Jennie Fosdick, Miss Teachout and
Miss Mabel Woodruff. To add to the hor
ror fire broke out and rapidly licked up the
barns and crops, despite the greatest ef
forts on the part of the unhurt portion of
the crowd and the neighbors who flocked
to the scene.
THUGS
Rob a Train Passenger of a Large Amount,
and Have a Desperate Eight with the
Police.
Detroit, Mich,, Aug. 30.— JamesNickey,
of the firm of Nickey & Gaudy, brokers of
Cherubusco, Ind., was a passenger on ihe
Wabash train this morning to the Adrian
Encampment, G. A. It. Just before the
train reached Milan he discovered that he
had been robbed of #1,600 in money and
bonds. At Milan four men lob the
train. At the station beyond Milan
Mr. Nickey got off and took the
first train back to Milan. There he
found the men buying tickets to Detroit.
With the assistance of the Wabash of
ficials the men were arrested and placed
in the station-house, where a desperate
fight followed and the gang broke away
and escaped; three of the men look to
the woods and one hid in the fire-box of
an engine in an old mill in the town. C.
A. Timewall, a Wabash official, found
the man and pulled him out. He was
then securely tied and brought to this
city. Officer Kean took the prisoner to
the central station, where he was regis
tered as Charles Moyer, a machinist, of
Pittsburgh. He had #SB in his pocket, and
all the utensils for conducting thimble
rigging, or the shell game. Officers of
Milan and a great crowd of men searched
the woods for the three men who escaped,
but did not find them. In the fight one of
the officers was knocked insensible and
another was badly hurt. Moyer is a
stranger to the police of this city.
Pay, but No Bounty.
Washington, Aug. 30.—1 n August. 1863,
John Prior, enlisted in Company I, Sixth
Indiana Cavalry, for three years, and
received twenty - five dollars advance
bounty money. Subsequently he was
tried by court - martial for murder,
found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged. In September, 1565. the company
mustered out and disbanded, and in the
following month Prior’s sentence was
commuted to imprisonment for life. In
January, 1873, he was pardoned, and re
leased from confinement. He filed an ap
plication for pay and bounty for his army
services, and it has been decided that he
is entitled to pay as a private soldier up
to September 26, 1865, when the company
disbaiided, but that he is not entitled to
bounty because he did not receive an hon
orable discharge from the army.
Foreign Military Organizations.
•Washington, Aug. 30. —The President
will issue to-morrow a proclamation al
lowing the free entry of the arms, ammu
nitions and baggage of such foreign mili
tary organizations as may desire to par
ticipate in National Military Encampment
and Drill to be held in Chicago in October
next, upon satisfactory assurances being
given that none of the articles s all be
held or permitted to remain in this
countrv. _
Died at the Age of 105.
Newark, 0., Aug. 30.—There was buried
near Brownsville, this county, to-day, a
woman whose remarkable vitality had
carried her through more than 105 years.
Her name was Mary Yearly, stepmother
of Mr. L. N. Yearly, of this city. She was
born in Baltimore County, Md., August 7,
1782, and came to this county in 1857. She
was the oldest woman in the county, and
probably in the State, being in her 106tb
year.
Family of Eleven Drowned.
Fort Worth, Tex., Ang. 30.—A great
fail of rain has prevailed for twenty-four
hours in Northern Texas, causing rivers to
overflow and delaying trains by washouts.
Eleven persons, all of whom belonged to
one family, named Schmidt, were drowned
at Cleburn.
Two-Headed Wee Bit of Humanity.
New Haven, Aug. 30—The embalmed
body of a two-headed infant was received
here fromHayti ty Prof. Moses C. White,
of the Yale Medical School. The infant
lived but twelve minutes Jafter its birth.
It will be used by the Professor in illus
trating his lectures before the medical
students.
Postmaster Drowned.
Erie, Pa., Aug. 30 — lsaac Horton, post
master at North East, was found drowned
to-day in the bay at Erie. Deceased had
been" lost from a pleasure boat witnin
three or four days.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1887.
A NERVY WOMAN.
She Shoots Two Men Who Attempt to As
sault Her.
Chadron, Neb., Aug. 29.—Two men be
longing to a gang of bridge builders at
work near here, went to the house
of a barber here named John Botts.
When they knocked Mrs. Botts came
to the door and told them her
husband was not at home. They asked to
be allowed to come in and sit down any
way. Upon the refusal of Mrs. Botts
to allow them to do so they tried to
force their way in. At last, releasing
her hold on the door, she ran to the
bureau in the corner of the room, took up
a forty-four caliber self-acting British bull
dog revolver, and as the men rushed to
ward her fired two shots. Both balls took
effect and both men were wounded in the
groin. They were taken to a drug store
and medical aid summoned. They are not
expected to recover. Public sympathy is
entirely with Mrs. Botts, and no attempt
is likely to be made to arrest her.
A Burglar’s Awful Fate.
New York, Aug. 28.—“ Jimmy” McDev
itt, a well known burglar and a nephew
of “Jimmy” Elliott, the prize fighter, who
was killed by “Jerry” Duuu in Chicago a
few years ago, met with a violent death
this morning while trying to escape from
a store at 11 White street where he had
been discovered. He was surprised by a
porter, who closed the door on him and
sent for a policeman. After a desperate
struggle to escape McDevitt plunged
through a plate-glass window. He was
caught by the stomach and disemboweled.
When released he was dead. A companion
of the dead burglar who was watching ou
the outside of the building was arrested
and locked up.
Indemnily Lands to Be Openeu.
Washington. Aug. 29. Acting Land
Commissioner Stockslager has issued the
necessary instructions to carry into effect
Secretary Lamar’s recent order restoring
to settlement and entry certain railroad
indemnity lands as follows: Southern Pa
cific railroad, of California, about 4,000,000
acres; the Dalles Military road, of Oregon,
about 1,200,000 acres; the Alabama and
Chattanooga railroad, of Alabama, about
2,500 acres, covered by unapproved selec
tions; the Vicksburg and Meridian rail
road, of Mississippi, about 1,500.000 acres,
also covered by unapproved selections.
Elephant on a Rampage.
Ingersoll, Ont., Aug. 29.—The largest
elephant of Robbins’ circus got away from
the circus this afternoon, and swam across
Smith’s Pond. He then went through the
. town at a lively pace, turned west and fol
lowed the river some distance, destroying
any fences that were in his road, got into
a field where there were a number of
cattle, and, after chasing them around for
a while, got on the Grand Trunk railroad
track and is still on the road w 7 est about
six miles from here. There are a number
of men, with two other elephants, after
him.
The Battle with the Indians.
Denver, Col., Aug. 29.—A telegram from
Meeker, says information has been re
ceived that in Thursday’s battle with Col
orow there were five whites killed in
stead of two. and four wounded. Seven
Indians and two squaws were killed and
five wounded. There has been no fighting
since Thursday, but over six hundred In
dians are camped within six miles. The
Indians are ready to fight at the least
provocation.
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Blown to Atoms.
Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 29.—An explo
sion of dualin occurred at the Draper col
liery this morning, killing Robert Martin,
and injuring five other miners, one of
them, George Lawson, fatally. The men
were receiving dualin at the bottom of the
slope, when a spark from Martin’s lamp
fell on the primed end, and exploded.
Martin was blown into a mass of unrecog
nizable flesh. One of Lawson’s legs
and an arm were blown off. He can not
live.
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Tempest Tossed.
New York, Aug. 29. Smashed and
broken by wind and wave, the steamer
Bermuda, of the Quebec Steamship Com
pany, arrived in port to-day. She had
struck the terrific hurricane which last
week roamed along the Atlantic coast,
and, battling her way through it, had re
ceived many scars from the warfare. The
officers and crew by heroic struggles kept
the vessel under way.
Postal Convention with Portugal.
Washington, Aug. 29.—Acting Postmas
ter General Stevenson and Viscount Das
Noguieras, the Portuguese Minister, to
day exchanged ratifications of an addi
tional postal convention between Portugal
and the United States. The convention
modifies the present system of keeping
postal money order accounts between the
two countries and will go into effect Octo
ber 1 next.
What Will Our Boodlers Do?
Washington, Aug. 29.—1 tis thought at
the State Department that a new extradi
tion between Great Britain and this coun
try will be negotiated at an early day, as
every thing seems favorable to such a re
sult. The growing objection of Canadians
to their country being a sort of a Botany
Bay for America has induced the home
Government to act promptly in this mat
ter. r
Government Finances.
Washington, Aug. 29. —Notwithstanding
the large pension payments this mouth,
amounting to #16,500,000, the receipts for
the month to date are more than #7,500,000
in excess of the total expenditures duriug
the same period. The receipts have aver
aged over 11,000,000 a day, and now amount
to *33,514,354.
* Treason in Spain.
Madrid, Aug. 29.—A conspiracy against
the Government, has been discovered at
Pouce, Porto Rico. Forty persons have
been arrested, including the president of
the Autonomist Club.
CONQUERED.
Going Through the Treacherous
Rapids in a Boat.
Perilous Trip Made by tlie Inventor of a
Craft Calculated to Rob Turbulent Seal
of Their Terror.
Buffalo, N, Y., Aug. 28.—C. A. Percy, a
wagon-maker of Suspension Bridge, went
through the Niagara rapids this afternoon
in a life-saving apparatus resembling a
life-boat. The trip was attended with
much danger,chief of which was the likeli
hood of the craft being destroyed by sunk
en rocks. Large crowds along the banks
of the gorge saw the experiment. Percy’s
invention is seventeen feet long and near
ly five feet wide, is shaped like a surf-boat
and ooverel with water-proof canvas. The
keel is weighted with three hundred
pounds of iron plate aud strongly ribbed.
The whole weight is nine hundred
pounds. At each eud is an air chamber
six and a half feet long, and between
them is another space four feet long,
which can be utilized to carry passengers;
provision is made for using oars. These
chambers can be imperviously closed, and
the only trouble seems to be the air sup
ply. Percy claims that his iuvention is
self-righting, self-bailing and perfectly
safe in a heavy sea. His idea of
testing it in the whirlpool and rapids
was to demonstrate these quali
ties arid make money by exhibiting
it subsequently in the gorge. The start
was made from the old Maid of the Mist
landing from which all the barrel naviga
tors have left. Percy changed his attire,
fixed up a drag consisting of a thirty
pound weight and a ten-foot line, and then
rowed out toward the Canadian shore.
The under-current had no effect on the
drag. At half-past three Percy pulled in
his oars, and as the boat drifted rapidly
toward the whirlpool rapids, entered
t.e rear air chamber. At twenty-five
minutes of four o’clock the boat passed
under the bridge. It was tossed about
in the big breakers, as the barrels had
been, but behaved better. It was fre
quently out of sight, and was turned about
by the counter currents, but never rolled
over. As it neared the Whirlpool Rapids
Percy put his head out, but drew it back
in time to avoid the shock of the last
breaker. This was the worst one of the
lot, and Percy had been deceived by the
lull in the torrent. Just before it the
craft went out of view for a mo
ment, but turned up safely in the
maelstrom. It did not circle around, but
was carried toward the Canadian shore.
Percy again emerged from the air cham
ber Up had been sufficiently shaken up,
and seeing a chance to row ashore with
out encountering the Devil’s Rapids, he
did so, landing at Colt’s elevator twenty
minutes after he had struck the first
breakers. Only five minutes were spent
in the rapids. Percy was none the worse
for his trip.
Jesse the BovFiend.
Boston, Aiw 28. the
boy murderer, who has been in prison sev
eral years as a result of a series of horri
ble murdevs, has just confessed to a crime
of which he was not suspected. He ad
nit's having decoyed a little boy named
-lornce Miller out on the South Boston
marshes and cut him almost to pieces.
Pomeroy had a mania for cutting people
up. was only fourteen years old at
the A number of women have been
U-ying to get the young fiend pardoned,
ait it is thought this confession will put a
Siietus on their efforts.
Thought He Had ’Em.
Marquette, Mich., Aug. 28.—A mischiev
ous workman named Polk, at the big mill
at Ontonagon, placed a small garter snake
upon the shoulder of a fellow workman
named Hollis yesterday. The man was
busy and the reptile made the ascent of
his neck before he noticed that something
wa3 wrong. Thenhe craned his neck and
met the flashing eyes and vibrating tongue
of the snake within two inches of his nose,
aud with a yell of horror threw up his
hands and rolled upon the floor in a dead
faint, and is very low from the effect of
the shock.
A Cowardly Murder.
Cleveland, 0., Aug. 28.—James Feeney
and Patrick McDermott quarreled at a
dance in Ashtabula, 0., last night. While
Feeney was on his way home with two la
dies, McDermott stole up behind and shot
him in the back with a revolver. The ball
penetrated one of Feeney’s lungs, and he
will die. McDermott is under arrest, as
well as a man named Bushnell, to whom
the revolver belonged.
Death Sentence Commuted.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 28.—Governor
Richardson has commuted the sentence
of Oxey Cherry, the twelve-year-old col
ored girl, convicted of murder and sentenc
ed to be hanged in September, to imprison
ment in the penitentiary for five years.
The girl was couvicted of killing a two
year-old white child by administerting a
dose of concentrated lye
Squatters in Southwestern Missouri.
St. Louis, Aug. 28.—Settlers are rushing
into Southwestern Missouri and squatting
on the finest lands in the State that haa
been granted to the Iron Mountain rail
road, which has been forfeited them by
failure to observe its contracts with the
Government.
Emin Bey Holds the Fori.
London, Aug. 28. —Zanzibar dispatches
say: “Messengers from Ugenda report
that Missionary Mackay has obtained the
permission of King Mwanga to return to
the coast. He reports that Emin Bey is
well and still holding out. King Mwanga
has organized an expedition against Uuy
aro.”
Bank Caves At Vicksburg.
Vicksburg, Aug. 28.—A serious cave oc
curred immediately back of the Delta
wharfboat last night. The entire bank
settled down about twenty for a dis
tance of two hundred feet running back
about eighty feet.
THE PENSION RECORD.
Wliat the Democratic Administration
Has Done for l lie Veterans.
Mow that certain blatherskites of
the Tuttle-Fairchild stripe are seeking
to transform the Grand Army of the
Republic into a Republican partisan
machine, by assailing President Cleve
land’s record for the purpose of show
ing that he is an enemy of the veteran
soldier, it becomes a patriotic duty to
present the fact to the public so that
every veteran soldier may appreciate
the ineffable scoundrelism of those
who would obscure the truth for the
sake of partisan ends. An official docu
ment has been issued which will en
able all who want to know tlie truth
to comprehend at a glance what Mr.
Cleveland’s Administration has done
for the Union soldier in regard to
pensions and positions.
It is stated that “aninvestigator with
a keen regard for figures has gone over
the statutes of the United States Pen
sion Bureau, and by actual count lias
made up these statistics regarding the
Pension office business, which shed
clear light on that part of President
Cleveland’s Administration.” These
figures, as to private pension acts, are
of a character to silence all adverse
criticism. They force the conclusion
that Mr. Cleveland has stood ready to
sign every meritorious claim for pen
sion. No veteran soldier can con
template the record for a moment with
out realizing that in President Cleve
land the brave, meritorious soldier has
a conscientious, inflexible friend. The
records relating to private pension acts
and the employment of soldiers, are as
follows:
General Grant, from 1870 to 1877 inclusive, a
period of eight years, approved 485 private
pension acts; Hayes, from 1877 to 1881. inclu
sive, a period of four years, approved 808 pri
vate pension acts; Presidents Garfield and Ar
thur, from 1882 to 1885, inclusive, a period of
four years, approved 756 pension acts; while
President Cleveland, from 1886 to 1887, inclu
sive, a period of only two years, has approved
863 private pension acts.
This is 77 more than Presidents Grant and
Hayes approved in twelve years, and 127 more
than Presidents Garfield and Arthur approved
in four years.
President Cleveland has. also, to begin with,
appointed more ex-Union soldiers to office
than any other President. He approved the
act of March 19, 1886, which increased to *l2
per month the pension of 79,989 widows, minors
and dependent relatives of Union soldiers of
the late war. He the act of August
4, 1886, which Increased the pension of 19,030
crippled and maimed Union oiaio™ of ti»j into
war. He approved the act of January 1887,
which placed upon the pension rolls over
25,000 survivors and widows of the war with
Mexico.
We challenge the entire Republican
party to show the foregoing figures to
be incorrect. There they stand—
figures for the people—figures for the
veteran soldiers —figures for the pres
ent and for all time.
But this is not all. The work of the
Pension Bureau during the past two
years, should be studied by tlie people,
and by the Union soldier. Here they
are:
From July 1. ISBS, to June 30, 1887, inclusive,
268,699 pension certificates of all classes were
issued by the Bureau of Pensions.
From July 1, 1883, to June 30, 1885. 129,517
pension certificates of all classes were issued—
an increase of 139,180 certificates In favor of
the first two years under Democratic over the
preceding two years under Republican rule.
From July 1, 1885, to June 30, 1.887, there
was disbursed on account of pensions, $139,-
584,270.45.
From July 1, 1883, to June 30, 1885. there was
disbursed on account of pensions *122.967,243.46,
showing an Increase of *16,617,026.99 for the first
two years under a Democratic Administration
over the last two years under a Republican Ad
ministration.
On July 1, 1883, there were 303,658 pensioners
on the rolls. On July 1, 1885, there were upon
therolls 315,825 pensioners, being a net increase
to the rolls during the last two years under Re
publican rule of 41,467.
On the first day of July, 1837, there were upon
the roils 492,000 pensioners —unofficial, but a
low estimate —or a net gam of the rolls during
the first two years under Democratic rule of
66,875, or a net gain of 5,108 to the rolls during
the first two ye irs of President Cleveland’s
Administration over the last two years of Pres
ident Arthur's Administration.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887.
112,360 certificates of all classes were issued
by the Pensions, of which 54,191 were
“original,’’ b«ng 5,017 In excess of the highest
number issued in the history of the
bureau.
With such facts and figures in view,
comment is not required—they speak
for themselves. Partisan malignity
may assail them, but they will glow
the brighter by the assault, and will
become more conspicuous. Democrats
may well feel proud of the record.
The truth is always more powerful
than a lie. The truth grows in public
favor. This being the case, the Demo
cratic party has only to keep tho truth
before the people. — Indianapolis Senti
nel.
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Blaine has done many foolish
things in politics, but he isn’t fool
enough to rush home because Sherman
has captured a single outpost that
Blaine will get when he needs it. If
Blaine wants Ohio next year, he will
either get it or he will give it to Sher
man with such a cluster of prickly
thorns protruding from the rose that
Sherman won’t be able to handle it.—
Philadelphia Times.
was anxious to insult the President at
St. Louis, on one occasion borrowed
$70,000 when he was ill the hog busi
ness, and was hog enough to swindle
his friends out of $35,000. No wonder
he left the Democratic party and joined
the Republican parly. — Indianapolis
Seutinu.
VOL. IV-NO. 28.
THE REBELS OF TO-DAY,
A Term That C»'i Justly He Applied to
the Republican Party.
The New York Tribune says the Democrat*
constitute “the party of rebellion.” In the
name of common sense, if the Democrats con
stitute the party of rebellion, what shall t>«
said of the Ohio Republicans who nominated
Forakor, the man who, In connection with tha
Question of the return of the flags, threatened
to organize a rebellion against the United
States authorities? What shall be said of the
Republican party as a whole, seeing that for
over twenty years it lias been in an attitude of
“rebellion" against every effort to obliterate
sectional lines—seeing that it persistently an
tagonizes every sentiment tending to allay the
passions engendered by the war. —Richmond
Dispatch.
The Republican party lives in the
past, and has no affinity with the is
sues of the present day. Its leaders
would subvert the constitution,trample
on the liberties of the people, and
usurp the functions of the Government,
if they had the courage to put in prac
tical operation w hat they most earnest
ly desire. They maintain their con
trol of the Legislature in this
State by a shameless disregard
of sacred constitutional obligations,
and by refusing to grant an equitable
reapportionment. They have held
possession of the Legislature in Con
necticut by a monstrous system of mis
representation, whereby certain small
towns, casting a few hundred votes,
have as much representation in the
law-making body as Hartford and New
Haven, which cast thousands of votes.
While the South has cast behind it the
passions and evil feelings of the war,
and lias entered with marvelous en
ergv upon an unexampled career of
prosperity, the Republican leaders and
their organs are ceaselessly proclaim
ing that the war is not over, and are
endeavoring in every way to re-enkin
dle the embers of sectional hate.
Mr. Blaine, immediately after his de
feat in 1884, indulged in a tirade of
abuse against the South, and declared
in effect that Mr. Cleveland was not
fairly elected. The Republican press
quickly took up the cue, and has main
tained ever since the most dastardly
warfare on the Administration ever
known in the history of politics. Sen
ator Sherman, in his Springfield (111.)
speech, deliberately spoke of the Gov
ernment at Washington as the Confed
erate Government, and, ghoul-like,
violated tha graves of the dead past.
The warm, enthusiastic invitation of
the citizens or St. tom's to tho Presi
dent of the United States to visit them
caused Tuttle, an lowa Republican
leader, to prostitute the position he
occupied in the Grand Army of the
Republic to the basest partisan ends,
by threatening the President with per
sonal violence if he should visit that
city. The offer of Adjutant-General
Drum, a Republican, to return to tho
various States the battle-flags stored
in the War Department, caused another
Republican leader, Fairchild, to curse
the President in the most blasphemous
manner.
The Republican leaders and their
organs, bv their incessant efforts to
tear open the wounds of the civil war
and to promote disunion, are the only
rebels of the present day. They can
net realize the spirit of the age, but
live in the past and persist in their
fruitless and disloyal work of breed
ing hate. The Democratic party
deals only with the issues of the pres
ent day. Since it obtained the control
of the Government all its energies
have been directed towards purifying
the Federal service, which had become
honeycombed with corruption during
the long reign of Republican rascality,
developing the illimitable resources of
the country, checking the iniquitous
tendencies of the monopolies, which
were the creation of Republican Gov
ernment, and seeking in every way to
weld in the bonds of union and
fraternity all sectons of our common
country. It is the Stars and Stripes
against the Bloodv Shirt, a reunited
people against a coterie'of disappointed
politicians. It is not difficult to fore
tell the result. The American people
will put down the Blaine-Sherman-
Foraker-Tuttle-Fairchild rebellion as
efficiently as they did the one tvventv
two years ago, and the Bloody Shirt
will be buried by their votes beyond
the power of resurrection. —Albany
(N. Y.) Argus.
DRIFT OF OPINION.
No Democratic candidate should
pay any attention to the Republican
effort to fight the war over. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
ing-man to fail to vote the Democratic
ticket. The Democratic party has al
ways fought his battle, and is fighting
it yet. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
apologists had crawled into a very
small hole and pulled the mouth of the
hole in after them. At least, they are
not exhibiting so much mouth as they
did some time ago.— Dubuque Tele
graph.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, the
young Republican roaring bull, is a
hypocrite. After abusing President
Cleveland without stint, in and before
the Ohio Republican Convention, he
I now volunteers a letter inviting him to
! thet State on his Western tour. —A’. Y.
| Telegram.