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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. —. 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. ■■■ ■ ♦ ♦ ■ 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. ♦ 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.