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T, A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. iMarwMwnw *■■■ ■ wwm «• 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. + ■ 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 VOL. IV.—NO. 32, 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.