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Thh recent great heat, in Faris is said
to have produced an epidemic of lun
acy. All the police stations have been
beset by cases of mental aberration,
due probably to sunstroke.
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The signal station at Pike’s Pnnk.
Col., is about to be abandoned, as the
observations at so high an altitude are
not regarded as of sufficient value for
daily use to warrant further mainte
nance.
In the death of James Barron Hope,
the South has sustained her fourth great
literary loss in less than two years.
First came Fattier Ryan, then John
Estcn Cooke, then Paul llayne> and,
lastly, James B. Hope.
A family at Fort Hamilton, N. Y.,
do not mourn the loss of their pet
monkey. He upset a lamp that he had
lighted, a few evenings ago, causing a
loss of $2,500 by fire, and luckily him
self perishing in the flames. Pets are
somtimes expensive.
Phil Armour, the noted Chicago
meat packer, has given SIOO,OOO for
the establishment and maintenance of
a mission in that city, where 1,000
children of the poorest of the poor may
be educated, and for a free dispensary
for the same class of people.
A St. Louis firm is making a good
quality of imitation wool out of refuse
cinders and iron slag. The material
is used for belting and packing steam
pipes. The enterprise is in its infancy
yet, but its projectors claim that in a
little while they can get the wool fine
enough for surgeon’s lint.
In a recent trial before a San Fran
cisco judge, in which a newspaper re
porter was called as a witness, it was
ruled that any information given to a
reporter in h's capacity of a public
journalist is a privileged communica
tion. To require him to tell where he
obtained it would be a blow at the free
dom of the press.
Carelessness takes the lead in caus
ing fires in New York cit}\ Out of 70fl
fires which are recorded In the last
quarterly report of the fire department
SBS are put down as the result of care
lessness. Smokers were responsible
for fifty-nine and fireworks for nine
teen. It looks as though the smokers
were as much in need of regulation as
the dealers in fireworks.
An old gentleman in the South has a
novel way of disappointing gnats and
other insects of the season. He winds
stiff' paper into cones similar to the old
fashioned lamplighters,and, saturating
them with the oil of pennyroyal, sticks
them behind his ears in the way pens
ire often carried, and claims that the
industrious little birds are thus effect
ually kept away from him.
While the centennial celebrations
at Philadelphia were at their height
September 17, the Episcopal service for
the dead was being read at a modest
house on Second street, Washington,
over the remains of Septima Randolph
Meikleham, who died at the age of
seventy-three years. She was the last
surviving grandchild of Thomas Jeffer
son, the author of the Declaration ol
Independence.
Nowhere in the world is there such
another scries of large cities as that
which, beginning at Boston, termin
ates at Washington. In the line
arc New York, which, including
Brooklyn and other dependencies,
does not come very far behind Paris in
population; Philadelphia with its mil
lion, Boston and Baltimore with half a
million each, and Providence, New
ark and Washington, small by com
parison with the giants, yet themselves
of giant size.
General Black, Commissioner of
Pensions, is gathering together and
compiling for public use a sketch of the
pension systems of every civilized
eountry in the world. A report from
China shows that the Chinese know
nothing of pensions or pension agents.
There was a case once where an Em
press presented two sick soldiers each
with a box of pills. The report don’t
say, though, whether it was the Em
press or the people who paid for the
pills. The compilations will be com
pleted by the time Congress meets
About a year ago silver was acci
dentally discovered in the vicinity >f
Tivin Springs, McDonald County, Mo.,
about three hundred miles southwest of
St. Louis, and since that time a thriv
ing town, Splitlog, has sprung up,
SIOO,OOO worth of machinery has been
placed in positirn and mining opera
tions are carried on extensively. The
chief spirit of the mines is Mr. Splitlog,
a full-blooded Wyandotte Indian mil
lionaire. lie has built a railroad con
nection with the ’Frisco, and expects
during the current year to make Split-
Jog a second Leadvillo-
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1887.
INSURRECTION.
Four Colored Men Killed and Many
Wounded
la Jlatajoiila County, To*.—The Midi,try
Called Out.
Columbia, Tex., Sept. 27.—1 n a fight on
Sunday night in Matagorda County, be
tween a large mob of negroes and a posso
of whites under command of Captain
Bates, four negroes were killed, including
Burton Hawkins, one of the leaders. It is
not known how many were wound
ed. The whites lost two horses. Later
information confirms the first report.
T r-5 troMf ’e arose > ver the death of Jerry
Massena, a colored constable, who started
out to arrest a white planter named
Banborn. Several hundred negroes
congregated bent upon killing San
born and his friends. After the fight
on Sunday night the negroes dispersed
for the time being, but further troublo
is anticipated. The Houston Light
Guards arrived here to-day and proceeded
down the river to Brazoria. The Pearson
Guards, of Richmond, with Sheriffs Hick
eys and Wadsworth, of Brazoria and
Matagorda Counties, are at the scene of
trouble It is thought that these officers
will arrest the leaders of the insurrection
before the militia retires.
CHANGED IN THE CRADLE.
A Former Cincinnatian Claiming to He
yneen Victoria’s Daughter.
Washington, Sept. 27. —Tho New York
papers publish a story from Caroline Lou
ise Kent, claiming to be the daughter of
Queen Victoria by her husband, Prince
Consort Albert Edward; that she was in
her inf-“icy taken from tho cradle by a
bribed servant and an illegitimate daugh
ter of Prince Albert Edward put in her
place; t* at she was traveled about
Europe and America by Count Lundi,
whose brother married the mother
of Albert Edward’s illegitimate offspring;
that they spent much time in New Or
leans, fleeing thence from cholera to Day
ton, 0., Where Count Lundi on his death
bed told her her history and was married
to her by Father Hahn or Hahneman, of
Dayton. She afterward married a lawyer
in Cincinnati, name not given; was di
vorced and has been since living in Paris,
supported by indirect contributions from
Windsor Castle, which ceased after the
death of Victoria's faithful John Brown.
The New York "suers say she is evidently
perreefly shire afid’a'full believer in her
direct legitimacy as the first born child of
Queen Victoria.
The Texas Train Robbers.
Austin, Tex., Sept, 27.—Tlie cases of
John Cresswell and others, charged with
train robbery, were examined to-day be
fore Commissioner Ruggles. At the out
set of the examination of the accused
Tom Jones pleaded guilty and was fol
lowed by another of the accused, Wm.
Humphreys, turning State's evidence,
implicating Cresswell and Jones
with himself as being members of
the gang. Witness 'claimed for him
self that he merely kept camp for the oth
ers, and had no direct hand in theFlatonia
robbery, with which the parties are
charged. The express agent, Northacker,
corroborated Humphreys as to Cresswell
as one of the men who robbed the train at
McNeill, having noticed him by the light
of his lantern. Evidence of Dr. Klein, of
San Antonio, was introduced to show an
alibi for Brown. The cases will be de
cided by the commissioners to-morrow.
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Arensdorf’s Bondsmen Withdraw.
Sioux City, la., Sept. 27.—The bonds
men of John Aretisdorf, the chief defend
ant in the Haddock murder case, who is
held in $3,500, surrendered him
to the sheriff yesterday, two
of the sureties withdrawing. Other
bonds wore furnished in a like sum.
It is evident that the results of the late
trial are causing anxiety, and that future
possibilities are regarded with great con
cern. The Methodist Conference, now in
session here, will raise SI,OOO to aid in the
prosecution. The arguments for a new
trial in the Munchrath case are not yet
completed, and sentence will not be passed
until late to-morrow at least.
Robbed, Blindfolded and Carried Off.
Little Rock, Arlc., Sept. 27.—A lette r
from Witt Springs says a man named
Cams living near that place was robbed
Sunday night of SBOO by three masked
men. The thieves shot through the door
of the house wounding Cams dangerous
ly. He was afterward blindfolded and
carried out and left in the forest several
miles from the house.
Prohibition in Florida.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 27.—1 n the last
three weeks twelve Florida counties have
gone dry. Other elections are going on,
and Prohibitionists are liable to sweep the
State. The campaign has many novel fea
tures.
Another Fatal Case of Cholera.
New York, Sept. 27. Celestino Vento,
another of the passengers of the steam
ship Alesia, died on Swinburne Island to
day. T.iis makes four deaths out of tho
eight patients taken to Swinburne Is
land. _
The First Yacht Race.
New York, Sept.*27.—The first of tho
yacht races for the America’s cup was sail
ed to-day, and won by the Volunteer, which
beat the Scotch Thistle nineteen minutes
and twenty-three seconds. The second
race will be sailed Thursday.
The Scaffolding Fell.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27.—8 y the fall
ing of a scaffolding around the court-house
building Contractor Kerrigan and seven
colored workmen were seriously, and sev
eral, it is feared, fatally injured.
CONVICTS REVOLT. *
Tho Mine Closed and They Are Smothered
Into Submission After a Volley is Fired
Into Them.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 26.—For some
reason the full particulars of the mutb.j
of the convicts at Coal Creek can not be
obtained. The Knoxville Iron Company is
very reticent about the affair. In
spector Burrows returned from
tho mines this morning, and
says tho troubles have been settled.
On last Thursday, at the dinner hour, tlfa
convicts refused to leave the mines. They
claimed that the food was so bad and the
tasks so heavy that they could no longer
endure it, and they would remain in tie
mines until better fare and more hums i
treatment were promised. The guat.rs
would promise nothing, and the
convicts refused to move an inch. Every
effort was mado to remove them to the
stockade peaceably, but they held our.
against threats and entreaties with all the
determination born of desperation. Then,
it is said, the guards fired into the mine,
wounding several negroes, but this if
denied. At any rate Friday afternoon
they shut off the ventilation, and
on Saturday afternoon the convicts
yielded to tho men. Tho closing of tho
ventilation shaft drove them to the mouth
of tho mine, and there they crowded
around the opening, fighting among them
selves for front seats. They endured
most excruciating torture before giving
up, and it is said several of them were en
tirely exhausted when they surrendered.
Mr. Burrows states that everything is
quiet, and that he apprehends no further
trouble.
Negro Uprising.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 20.— Information
was received last night that an uprising of
the blacks in Matagorda County was
likely to occur, and the sheriff of Mata
gorda County dispatched a courier to tb j
sheriff of Brazoria County requesting
immediate assistance. Over 200 negroes
were stated by the courier to be under
arms in Matagorda, and the whites of that
section are consequently much excited.
The trouble grew out of an attempt of a
negro constable to arrest a white man liv
ing on Carey creek. The constable was
subsequently found dead in the creek, and
the negroes believe he was killed by the
w T hites in the neighborhood. It was re
ported later last night that Sheriff Hickley,
of Brazoria County, had started for Mata
gorda with an armed posse of fifty men and
that the sheriff of Matagorda was en route
to the scene with a hundred men, all well
mounted and armed. Ta-dav at noon a re
port was received here that the sheriffs,
with their forces, had arrived on the
scene, and that hostilities had begun. The
negroes have been largely reinforced. The
Houston Light Guards have been ordered
to leave at once on a special train for Co
lumbia, Brazoria County.
A Physician's Terrible Mistake.
Hamilton, Oxt., Sept. 26.—Dr. Ander
son, of Mill Grove, Ont., had among his
patients two girls, daughters of Wm.
Nicholson, aged twelve and eight, suffer
ing from malarial fever, and a Mrs. Ry
nial. To treat them he required quinine,
and came to the city to get it. He re
turned with what proved to be morphine,
and the result was that the three patients
died. Mrs. Rymal early last week and the
two girls on Friday last. The mistake was
not discovered until after the death of the
girls. t
Two More Dead.
Holbrook, Ariz., Sept. 26.—Sheriff Wil
liam Melvernon and party met John Gra
ham and Charles Blevins, outlaws, in
Pleasant Valley last Thursday. Tlie sheriff
ordered them to surrender, which being
refused, both wore lulled. The sheriff
now has a posse of seventy-five men, and
says that the Tonto Basin must be righted.
All the Tewksberry faction not killed have
surrendered to the sheriff. Only one of
the Grahams men is alive, and he is
wounded.
Children Killed by a Bomb.
Quebec, Sept. 26.— Four Children of
Pierre Gobout, a farmer of St. Pierre,
a parish on the Isle of Orleans,
below Quebec, were playing on the
beach, when they found a bomb which had
been fired from an artillery range, and
which had failed to explode. They took
out the fuse or plug and dropped in a
burning match. Three were instantly
killed and the fourth can not recover.
Lady Assassinated.
Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 26.—Ronce
verte, Greenbrier. County, W. Va., reports
the cold-blooded and unprovoked assassi
nation of a well-known lady of that place,
the crime having been committed about
midnight Friday. The murdered woman
was Mrs. Louise Eldridge, the wife of
John Eldridge, a prominent citizen and
the keeper of a restaurant in the the town.
A Devilish Deed.
Troy, N. Y., Sept. 26.—Last night an at
tempt was made to wreck the St. Louis
Express on tho Fitchburg road, near North
Pownal, Vt. Nine ties were across the
rails, fortunately the engineer saw tho ob
struction just in time to chock the train’s
speed, so that, though the engine struck
the obstruction, it was not with force
enough to do any damage.
Canadian Exports and Imports.
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 26.—The total value
of the imports into Canada for the month
of August last was $9,769,583; the duty col
lected was $1,988,708. The total value of
the exports amounted to $10,012,054, of
which $8,384,938 was the produce of Can
ada.
The Cholera in Italy.
Rome, Sept. 26.— 1 n Messina during the
past twenty-four hours there were re
ported 110 new cases of cholera and 55
deaths; in Catania 6 new cases and 6
deaths, and in Palermo 8 new cases and 3
deaths.
THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP.
It is Expected to Cost Cleveland
SIO,OOO and Fifty Speeches.
The Distance Traveled Will be 4,436 Miles,
and tlie Journey Will Occupy Twenty
two Days.
Washington, Sept. 25.— Mr. Cleveland’s
trip to the Western and Southern States
will cost him several thousand dollars, per
haps more than SIO,OOO. He has engaged a
special train for the entire distance, about
forty-five hundred miles, in stages divided
as follows: Washington to Baltimore, 43
miles; Baltimore to Harrisburg, 85 miles;
Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, 248; Pitts
burgh to Indianapolis, 381 miles; Indian
apolis to St. Louis, 240 miles; St. Louis
to Chicago, 282 miles; Chicago to Mil
waukee, 85 miles; Milwaukee to Madi
son, 82 miles; Madison to St. Paul, 270
miles; St. Paul to Minneapolis, 10 miles;
Minneapolis to Omaha, 880 miles; Omaha
to Kansas City, 197 miles, Kansas City to
Memphis, 487 miles; Memphis to Nashville,
230 miles; Nashville to Atlanta, 29 miles;
Atlanta to Montgomery, 175 miles; Mont
gomery to Morristown, 883 miles; Morris
town to Salisbury, 238 miles; Salisbury to
Danville, 97 miles; Danville to Washing
ton, 233 miles; total, 4,436. Tho jour
ney will occupy twenty-two days. If
the railway journey were a continuous
one it would occupy between five and six
days, provided the train made thirty-five
miles an hour. Much of tho travel will bo
during th% nights, and so far as the time
spent on tho railway is concerned, there
fore, tho trip will not be an exhausting
one, either to the President or his wife.
But there will be stoppages for brief pe
riods at many cities where the party will
not alight, and it may be assumed that
the President will be required to make at
least fifty speeches of greater or less
length.
JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.
The Act of a Cra/.y Woman In Tennessee
and Her Fortunate Escape.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 25.—When the
Hopkinsville accommodation was within
about half a mile of Cedar Hill, Tenn.,
last night, running at the rate of twenty
five or thirty miles an hour, a lady
jumped from the train. As soon as it
could be done the train was stopped, and,
running back, strict search was insti
tuted, but she could not be found. After
searohing for half an hour the train
-*ame on here and reported the fact, when
"a number of citizens, with lanterns, went
to the place whero she left the train and
soarched the woods. They could find no
trace of her. This morning she appeared
at a farmer’s, a mile north of here, having
been out ail night, telling them she had
Jumped from the train because they were
going to hang her. She was considerably
bruised, and was evidently demented. She
is a Mrs. McßeynJms,
County. <gr
Bloody Avengers.
Greenwood, Miss., Sept. 25. —A negro
named Henry Taylor killed another negro
on Tallahatchee river about two
months ago. At that time an attempt was
made by: colored Masons to lynch
him, but they were prevented, a Mr. Stan
cil taking Taylor into the house and pro-
Since then both Taylor and
his wife nafre disappeared. One day last
w< ale a body was found in tho river, which
pr» T ed to be that of Taylor, and the
imjj’ession is that colored Masons made
away with both him and his wife. George
Evans, who was hanged here July 26 by a
negro mob, was supposed to have been
lynched by colored Masons, because he
had killed ouo of tho number. The feeling
is getting to bo strong that the colored
Masons take an oath in their secret or
ganizations to avenge the death of a
brother Mason.
More Cholera Victims.
New York, Sept. 25.—The cholera-strick
en ship Alesia still swings at anchor off
the lower quarantine, and her passengers
are still held on Hoffman Island. Two pa
tients died at five o’clock last evening and
one expired at five o’clock this morning.
Francesco Cesario,aged thirty-three years,
was removed from the Hoffman Island hos
pital to Swinburne Island to-aay. He is
very sick. Twenty-three of the passengers
are now very ill. Cesario is likely to die.
The others are improving.
Trouble With Convict Miners.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 25.—A mutiny
of convicts is reported at the Knoxville
Iron Company’s coal mines at Coal Creek.
They refused to go in the mines yesterday
aftornoon, and the guards opened fire on
them, wounding three or four. One is
thought to be mortally wounded. The
cause of the trouble is said to have been
the refusal of the superintendent to move
the coal away from the mouth of the pit,
thus preventing the free circulation of air.
Land and Labor Club.
New York, Sept. 25.—A meeting of vet
erans of the late* war was held to-day, and
a land and labor club organized. Resolu
tions were adopted to the end that the
Government should grant Western land
to the veterans and advance passage
money and means for working the land.
The movers of the resolution will attempt
to secure the indorsement of the United
Labor party.
Snow in the East.
Farmington, Me., Sept. 25. Snow
fell north of here this morning, covering
the tops of the Old Blue and other moun
tains.
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 25.—Snow fell
lightly for half an hour here last nigh*.
The temperature fell to 40°.
Counterfeiters' Molds Discovered.
Kenton, 0., Sept. 25.—While boys were
playing in East Kenton this they
found hidden under a stone five plaster
paris molds for making counterfeit coin.
The molds were nil for one-dollar coins of
different dates. No clew to owners,
REBUKING FORAKER.
Wliat Ohio’s Democratic Candidate for
Governor Thinks of Ills Opponent.
The indictment which Mr. Powell
Irew up against Governor Foraker,
was a stinging one. In it he said:
“The Governor of Ohio should set an
example in his own conduct of loyalty
to established order and good govern
ment Whenever, in public place or
speech, he refers to the President of
the United States, it should be with,
at least, a decent respect for the Chief
Magistrate of over sixty millions of
people and the highest elective office
on earth. The President represents
the dignity of our Republic before the
other nations of the world. His rep
utation should be as sacred to every
fair-minded citizen as his own. In de
fiance of this sentiment Governor
Foraker, in a large convention, not
only claimed that President Cleveland
was lacking in courage of every kind
but made the express charge of
cowardice against him by comparing
him to a ‘whipped spaniel.’ Such
universal censure came at once from
private citizen and public press that
even the Governor hastened to join
the majority and pass judgment of
condemnation on his own conduct.
With the swiftness of the telegraph he
sends an invitation to the President he
had insulted to hasten to Oiho, so we
could all ‘unite in doing honor to his
distinguished presence.’ The last I
heard President Cleveland had not
yet reached the Executive residence at
Columbus.
“Again, there are in Ohio at least
four hundred thousand Democratic
voters. Thoy have done as much to
advance the credit, standing and rep
utation of our State as was ever done
by the same number of people. In all
things which constitute good citizen
ship they have no superiors. They
have a right to expect at the hands of
their highest officials decent language
and fair treatment. Yet in the same
State convention we find Governor
Foraker publicly proclaiming to the
world that when he was inaugurate
our party had not left enough cash
in tho treasury to ciean up the ‘ dirty
Democratic tobacco spit in the State
House.’ It will *®t be necessary for
me to take exception to tlf**taVv of a
Governor of four millions of people
entering the field and appropriating
the language of ward politics. His
own party has alread y done the work
of censure. His State executive com
mittee is now circulating a second edi
tion of that speech. It has been both
revised and reformed. All such ele
gant language and choice expressions
as ‘dirty Democrats’ have been care
fully eliminated.”
In closing his remarks Mr. Powell
said: “What the people of Ohio now
most require is a Governor who will
give more attention to their own af
fairs than to imaginary troubles in
Georgia; who, instead of traveling to
and fro on the earth, preaching a
crusade of hate and animosity against
the South, will give attention to the
affairs of his own office, establish
and keep business hours, and demand
and enforce such economy in the sever
al branches of government that our
expenses and appropriations shall at
least be kept within our revenues in
stead of exceeding them from a half to
a million dollars annually.”
Tho effect of Powell’s arraignment
of Foraker’s bloody-shirtism • and sen
sationalism was instantaneous, and it
has been very generally conceded that
tho young Democratic leader made a
good opening. The speech subsequent
ly delivered by Foraker exhibited no
improvement in style over those ad
dresses by him which Powell so severe
ly criticised. It was coarse and inflam
matory throughout, and while it
pleased the Artisan element drawn
forth to hasMt it had little in it calcu
lated to make an impression upon the
thoughtful and the candid. —Chicago
Herald.
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
What ths Present Administration lias
Done for the Country.
All the Republican State conventions
held this year “arraign” the present
Democratic Administration, and all
that are yet to be held will do the
same thing. That is the first duty of
a Republican convention, and one
that should meet and adjourn without
going through the perfunctory sol
emnity would be held recreant to the
party. What else can they do? When
they look to the National capital, they
see a Democratic President in the place
where Republicans have sat for so
long a time that they had come to re
gard it as an appendage to their party
—and all that is left them is to gnash
their teeth in helpless rage and “ar
raign” the new Administration.
One convention bases its arraign
ment on the battle-flag business; an
other on the turning of some Republic
ans out of office; but all arraignments
are about some trilling thing that is
passing out of the public mind.
This Democratic Administration has
done some things that its Republican
predecessors never attempted,- nor
ever thought of. It landed a force of
marines on the Isthmus of Panama to
protect Amevican property during a
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revolutionary outbreak, and, in doing
so, gave the first suggestion uf a vig
orous and determined foreign pol cy
we have had for twenty-fivi years. It
reversed tho public lands policy of
live successive Republican Administra
tions—a policy in the interest of rail
road companies, cattle corporations
and alien claimants—and inaugurated
the new and better policy of reclaim
ing the public lands for actual home
stead settlers. These distinctive Dem
ocratic measures the Republican con
ventions take no notice of. They pass
over the improved commercial and in
dustrial condition of the country, so
marked in its contrast with the dismal
depression that prevailed for three
years before President Cleveland cii
tered office; and they likewise leave
unmentioned the prudent management
of the public finances, the large pay
ments on the public debt, and the
vigorous prosecution of the work of
rebuilding a navy which, under Repub
lican management, had dwindled to a
few old tubs.
The American people have eyes to
see, and in spite of all the arraigning
resolutions of Republican conventions
they perceive that the condition of the
country is better, and its future bright
er this day, than they were for years
under Republican administrations, and
they are in no mood for a change to
tho old state of things. St. Louis Rc
publican.
A PATRIOTIC SOLDIER.
A Republican Veteran Who Reveres Ills
Country More Than His Party.
According to a letter from Litch
field, 111., members of tho G. A. R.
in that community are interested in
the position taken by Mr. Abram
Brokaw, an old soldier and a Repub
lican, who had applied for admission
into the Grand Army, but who lias
withdrawn his application on account
of what he considered indications of
partisanship in the organization. Ho
states his position forcibly in the fol
lowing letter:
South Litchfield, 111., Sept. 2 . To ths
Commaruler and Members of the S. S. Phillips
Post , No. 379: Sirs: Petitioning your honor
able body for admittance, I have, with regret,
again read of insulting action towards our
Chief Magistrate by what seems a majority of
the G. A. R. posts of Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia on August
26. This, coupled with the acts of a part of
the G. A. R. posts of the West, to embarrass
the President when contemplating being pres
ent at the parade of tho National Encamp
ment, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., the last
week of this month, has confirmed a previous
ly held opinion that the G. A. R. organiza
tion is tending to dissolution or a
political division of the order; that, instead
of a body associated together for social and
Deneflciary purposes, and having no political
bias, has it seems within tho last six months,
by acts of a large number of its influential
members, a tendency to a political machine.
lam an ex-soldier, who has seen over three
years of active service, and in every sense a
Republican in politics, as most of you
and I can not consistently unite with what is
claimed to be a non-partisan order, wherein
a Democrat comrade can not cheerfully in
parade reverence and honor the Chief Magis
trate of this great Nation, if he be of my political
choice; and when one who is of that political
affiliation has been chosen President of the
United States, which makes him Commander
in-Chief of our army and navy, I deem it a duty
as ex-soldiers to bestow due honor on him as
the chief citizen of this great Nation, no matter
what acts in his official career, after due delib
eration, he may approvo or disapprove, though
I may not coincide therein. For the reasons
above stated I decline to muster until such
time as I am satisfied the order is non-partisan.
Very respectfully, Abram Hkokaw,
Late of Co. C. First Regiment Missouri Volun
teers.
PUBLIC OPINION.
For President in 1889—Benny
Foraker. Platform: I saved this here
people myself. —Philadelphia Times.
General Lucius Fairchild says he
is biting his tougue. That is much bet*
ter than wagging it with palsy curses.
— N. Y. World.
Keep right on with the war,
Commandcr-in-Cbief Foraker. You
are making Massachusetts solid for the
Democracy. —Boston Olobe.
The path of Safety for the G. A.
R. is to ignore political leadership and
not invite the hostility of any class in
the community. Boston Transcript
(Rep.)
No Democratic veteran ever felt
it his duty or privilege to insult a Re
publican President of the United States.
That is worth thinking of.— N. Y.
Graphic.
jority of Republicans favor the renomi
nation of Mr. Blaine. What large char
ity there is for an erring statesman!
Mr. Blaine should reform, if only out of
gratitude. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Republican organs are not
yet through talking about the falling
off in the Democratic majority in Ken
tucky. The Democrats of Kentucky
elected their man, however, which was
not the case in November, 1884, in the
United States, when there was a gen
eral and decisive falling off in Repub
lican majorities. —Detroit Free Press.
That there has been a steady
improvement since the summer of
1885, until now both capital and labor
are well employed and there is an
actual business boom in nearly all
branches of trade and industry, every
body knows. We do not say that it.
has been induced by Democratic con
trol. But it- certainly has not been
hindered by that fact. There is no
fright left in tlie old bugaboo of the
Republican managers.—AT. Y. World.