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CURRENT TOPICS.
Whalebone is now worth about 18,500
per ton.
Missouri’s load fields cover one-ninth of
the State’s area.
Sii.k is actually used in some of the elo
gant new wall papers.
A rubber sole, for ladies' shoes, remova
ble at pleasure, is out.
“When’s eggs” is dio name of a tender
now tint for society frocks.
M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia specialist,
has been decorated a baron.
Wekki.y payment of wages is now re
quired by law in Connecticut.
Tiie sausage and blood-pudding makers
of Chicago are talking of a pool.
Iron slag is used by some Allegheny
(Pa.) manufacturers to make bricks.
Home of tho dudes now carry canes
whose silver heads are cigarette cases.
We still lead tho world in invention.
Over 3,000 patents a month are applied for.
Northwestern Pennsylvania expects to
have tho largest plate-glass works in tho
World.
The grave of Benjamin Franklin in
Philadelphia is in a much neglected con
dition.
Frank James, tho ex-bandit, is to becomo
salesman for an Atlanta (Ga.) dry goods
house.
A son of Jesse James sued a Kansas
City brewery for being run over by its
wagon.
A Reading (PA), fruit farmer has
picked fourteen tons of grapc3 to make
vinegar of.
The construction of thirty-four railroads
has been started in Japan within tho past
oix mouths.
A journal has been started in Paris
which is devoted to the proper toilet of
poodle dogs.
Italians are engaged in making cheese
out of tomato pulp at a Burlington (N. J.)
canning house.
Five hundred and fifty tons is the weight
of the gold held in the vaults of the United
(States Treasury.
The apple crop in New England this soa
son is expected to be about three-fourths
of an .avorago one.
A device for utilizing the power of Nia
gara river has been sold in two counties
bordering the river for 163,500.
lowa statistics show that 053 women own
farms in that State. Of the number only
eighteen are carrying mortgages.
The largost elevator in tho world is to
be built on Goose island, Chicago. The di
mensions will bo 475x250, and 225 foet high.
Last year Pennsylvania produced 73,000,-
000 tons of coal, valued at $93,000,000. This
exceols the value of gold and silver mingd.
Tilf «.inti-oct for tho Ohio monument to
General William Henry Harrison has been
awarded to Lous T. Rebisso, at the price
of jon,
During the last fiscal year the Govern
ment disposed of 25,111,400 acres of publio
land, tho largest amount of any year ex
cepting 1834.
A new railroad is to be built in equatorial
Africa, crossing the continent from Loan
da, Lower Guinea, to some Portuguese port
In Mozambique.
It is reported that the missionaries in
the Congo region have discovered that a
boverago made of bana.ias is a preventive
of malarial fever.
A little Michigan girl has without as
sistance picked and mounted on cards and
exhibited at a church fair 2,125 specimens
of four-leaf clover.
Tiie ruling profession of the far west is
evidently real estate. In one small town
of a population of 3,090 there are twenty
live real estate brokers.
Forty-two acres of land near Omaha, that
he bought twenty-one years ago for S6OO,
are about to be sold by a Westminster
(Md.) clorgyman for SIOO,OOO.
Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, who is said to
have converted more than 30,000 people in
the West, is now waging an unequal con
flict with tho sinners of New York.
One of the Georgia judges has pro
claimed his intention #t sending to tho
chain-gang any person convicted before
him of carrying concealed weapons.
The conductor of the ill-fated Chatts
worth train has fallen off forty-five pounds
since the disaster. Tho conductor is in no
way to blame for that fearful sacrifice of
human lifo.
The fastest time ever made by any ship
or boat, according to a scientific journal,
Was twenty-eight miles per hour, this be
ing tho performance of an Italian twin
screw torpedo boat.
Governor Richardson, of South Caro
lina, says that while in Philadelphia ho
was greatly annoyed by tho question:
“What did tho Governor of North Caro
lina say to you just now!”
Between . seventy-five and 100 young
ladies of Atlanta, Ga., and vicinity have
agreed to form a mounted escort to Presi
dent Cleveland and lady on the occasion
of their visit to the Piedmont fair.
The struggle in Ireland between the po
lice and tho peasants is taking somo of the
forms of civil war. Tho tearing up of
railroads, to prevent tho rapid transpor
tation of the police, is decidedly warlike.
Samuel J. Tildbn was attended seven
years and eleven months, and about every
day of that timo, by Dr. Charles E. Sim
mins, of Now York. The Doctor has not
yet been paid. The bill is said to bo
$143,000.
Mrs, Cleveland says she will not again
have her photograph taken as long as she
is mistress of tho White House. She is
offended at the use to which hor portrait
lias been put in advertising cigarettes and
chewing tobacco.
Steadied oysters are recommended by
physicians as the most wholesome. But
ordinary restaurant fried oysters, dry and
leathery, an I entombed in a mass of indi
gestible batter, are a sanitary menace,
and should be snubbed. ,
General Juan N. Cortii.la, a profes
sional Mexican revolutionist, has been
pardoned by President Diaz, after an im
prisonment of eleven years. Ho onco
crossed over the Rio Grande and captured
tho town of Browasvilio, Tex.
TO THE BOTTOM.
Propeller California Struck by a
Gale and Broken Up.
Fourteon of the Twenty-Seven Persons
Aboard Lost..
Mackinac City, Mien., Oct. 4.— Tho pro
peller California, commanded by Captain
Trowell, left Chicago Saturday night,
bound for Montreal. Sho was laden with
twenty thousand bushels of corn and seven
hundred barrels of pork, and carried a
crew of twenty-two persons, and also had
three passengers. She encountered a heavy
wind early Monday morning oil the Bea
vers, and at 4 p. m. the sea had increased
so that it was impossible to steer her,
and three hundred barrels of pork were
thrown overboard, but without helping
her much. About 11 p. m., when just above
St. Helena Island, the sea broke in the
gangway and put out the fires. Sho then
swung around in tho trough of the sea and
began breaking up. Tho captain ordered
the boats lowered, but she was so badly
listed it was impossible to lower one. The
captain went into the cabin to get the
passeagers out, but when he returned he
found tho first mate and several men had
left with the boat. The steamer now be
gan rapidly breaking up, and soon all
hands were struggling in the water. Tho
captain and engineer succeeded in getting
a boat loose from the wreck and picked
up the second engineer, coo c and one lady
passenger. Their boat drifted down along
side the propeller A. Folsom,. which was
anchored under St. Helena, and was pickod
up and brought here. Another Boat had
succeeded in getting ashore near
Point La Barbo. The steamer Faxton
picked up one man who was drifting
down tho Straits on somo . wreckage.
Later information places the number lost
at fourteen and tho saved at thirteen. The
wreck lies a mile from shore, and a heavy
sea is breaking over it. The hull is under
water, the masts gone and the cabin
stands on end. It is thought that nearly
all the bodies will be found under it. Every
one had on life-preservers, so the bodies
will come ashore as they get clear of the
wreck.
A Mighty Alliance.
London, Oct. 4.— Much‘interest is ex
pressed hero on the subject of the Italian
Prime Minister’s interview with Prince
Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe. It is believed
that the great Chancellor has developed
the military convention which has been in
force hitherto between Germany and Italy
into a much closer alliance, similar to that
which now exists between the Berlin and
Vienna Governments. AntidlnnH
—ceased here xtiat England will shortly
join the three Powers in question.
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Bound to Down the Anarchists.
New York, Oct. 4.— s All of the police of
North Hudson and fifty special ofiicers are
under instructions to prevent to-morrow
night’s proposed meeting of Anarchists to
protest against the execution of tho Chi
cago Anarchists, and tho Union Hill com
mon council has decided to revoke the li
cense of any saloon or hall where an Au
urchist meeting is allowed to be hold.
Kemper’s Murderer.
Denver, Con., Oct. 4. —John Kemper was
fatally injured in a railway wreck here,
and before dying confessed to having mur
dered his father, a grocer on Barr street,
Cincinnati, about two years ago. A negro
named I'eter Hines was arrested at tho
time charged with the deed, but on trial
was acquitted.
Texas Tragedies.
BnENiUM, Tex., Oct. 4.—J. M. Lockett, a
policeman, was murdered by three ne
groes, who have been captured, and
likely to bo lynched. A white murderer
in the same jail, named Beilus Whiscnant,
who killed Constable George Schley, at
Chappell Ilill, is in danger of similar
treatment.
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Brothers Blow Cut the Gas.
Chicago, Oct. 4. —Edward and Thomas
Moran, aged about twenty-eight and
twenty-six respectively, were found dead
in bod at their hotel this morning, suffo
cated by gas. They came from Ardake,
Dakota, and were en route to Canada.
The two were brothers, apparently busi
ness men.
Negro Desperadoes Capture a Train.
Greensboro, Ta.. Oct. 4.—A gang of ne
gro desperadoes seized a passenger train
while moving through a secluded porLion
of Pleasant County, Pa., at a slow rate of
speed, robbed the passengers, took posses
sion of the engine and amused themselves
by running the train back and forth on the
road for hours.
Circulation and Cash.
Washington, Oct. 4.—A statement, pre
pared at the Treasury Department shows
that during the month of September there
was a net increase of $32,350,375 in circula
tion, and a net increase of $7,204,135 in the
cash in the Treasury.
Woman Arrested for Arson.
Tiffin, 0., Oct. 4.— Mrs. Silva Nokes, a
colored woman, was last night arrested
and bound over to Court by Mayor Pan
ning for arson. She set fire to a house
from which sho had been ejected for non
payment of rent.
Chicago's Water Tunnel.
CmcAGO, Oct. 4.—Chicago is about to
construct a water tunnel four miles
long, eight feet in diameter, to cost about
SOOO,OOO.
Smothered by fas.
Youngstown, 0., Oct. 4.—George Haw
kins and William Wood were smoth
ered by gas in an old mi no near this city.
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1887.
DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.
Hiram Corliss Fount! Hanging Sixty Foot
Above tho Street With the Life Uura
cd Out of Him.
Detroit, Mien., Oct. 3.—A corpse sixty
feet from the earth, hanging in a mesh of
wire*, the arms and feet moving percepti
bly like Jack on a string, was the ghastly
sight which greeted people at nine o’clock
to-night on the corner of Woodward ave
nue and the Campus Martius. The
discoverer of this shocking trag
edy happened to bo a man with
a fire-alarm box key and ho called the de
partment. Three ladders were erected
in mid-air and all fell short of reaching
the dead man, but finally he was got
down on the Hayes extension and car
ried into a neighboring drug store. lie
had been dead some time, and through his
body during the time he hung there had
passed the electric current of tho entire
Brush system, which had made his limbs
move as if convulsively. Thus perished
Lineman Hiram Corliss. Noboby knows
how long he had hung in the wires when
discovered. An immense crowd gathered
to watch the efforts to secure, the body, an
operation attended with great danger be
cause the electric current was still on.
Corliss, in replacing or looking for a leak,
had made a fatal find.
A NEW DEPARTURE.
Flection of a Catholic l’riosfc as I’rlnclpal
of a I’ulslic School.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 3.— At the elect; jn
for principal of tho Thirty-third AV-’rd
school to-night Rev. Father McTighe, .to
man Catholic priest, was chosen. The
election has caused considerable discus
sion in religious circles, as it is bo
licved to be the first timo on recor l
that a Catholic priest has ever been called
upon to fill a similar position in the
public schools. The reason thjjt tho Cath
olic clergyman applied for the principal
ship was, as ho claims, because there are
over four hundred Catholic children in
that ward and only thirty or forty Protest
ant children. The Catholic people will not
send their children to the public school on
account of there being no religion taught
there, and Father McTighe claims that
when they pay most of the school taxes in
the ward they should have some of the
benefits.
British Naturalization Movement.
Chicago, Oct. 3. —The St. George Society
held a meeting to-night. Geo. Braham
said the naturalization movement among
the British subjects was getting along
nicely. Five hundred English wml Scotch
at Pullman are getting ready to jofhi. Jas.
Chealte, the chairman said: -“When we
first came to this country we came to
make money merely. Our feelings are
now changed. We have nov come to
stay.” It wa« mov-'d that the, American
and English flags be Wednes
day from tho windows of the society hall.
Upon The suggestion of A.G. Hodge, Chief
of Clan Gordon, the society unanimously
agr ed to parade with the Scotch societies
in the .Presidential profession on Wednes
day.
Safe Blowing.
Steubenville, 0., Oct. 3.—While’Squiro
George McCauslen and family were ab
sent from their residence in Salem Town
ship, this county, yesterday afternoon at
tending church, burglars entered tho
house, blew open a largo safe in McCaus
len’s room and stole between S6OO and S7OO
in gold and paper and escaped unobserved.
The safe contained $1,300 in money and
bonds, but the thieves overlooked a small
drawer where the remainder of the money
was kept.
Bill Kissane Again.
San Francisco, Oct. 3.— By a ruling of
Judge Sawyer, of the U. S. circuit court
to-day, the caso against Wm. Kissane,
which achieved such wide notoriety owing
to tho career of Kissane at the East, was
practically ruled out of court under the
statute of limitation.
Spain Ready for War.
Madrid, Oct, 3.—Eight battalions of in
fantry, besides cavalry and artillery,
under General Lasso, have boon concen
trated at Cadiz and Malaga in readiness to
cross to Morocco. Several war ships are
also in readiness for active service.
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Cholera in Quarantine.
New York, Oct. 3. —Four more cases of
cholera have developed on Hoffman Island
among the passengers of the steamship
Alesia. The patients were removed to
Swinburne Island. There are fourteen
cases under treatment.
The Boilers Were Old.
St. Louis, Oct. 3.—The boiler in George
Plant’s flouring-miil exploded this morn
ing, killing four persons and seriously
injuring two others, one of whom will die.
The explosion is attributed to old boilers.
Two Children Crushed lo Death.
CmcAoo, Oct. B.—Two children, Annie
Bricki and Richard Armdt, while passing
through a lumber-yard on their way from
school this afternoon, were instantly killed
by a pile of lumber falling on them.
Policeman Murdered.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.—Policeman W. D.
Johnson was shot and killed in We3t Phil
adelphia this morning by a suspicious
character whom the officers accosted and
asked to give an account of himself The
murderer escaped.
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King Maliatoa a Prisoner.
London, Oct. 3.—The latest news from
Samoa is that the Germans took King
Malietoa on board a gunboat for tho pur
pose of exiling him, on account of his fail
ure to prevent his people from robbing
German plantations. King Malietoa bad
previously written to the British and
American Consuls expressing disappoint
ment at the absence of their support.
Terrific Crash.
Minersville, Pa., Oct. 3.--By a collision
on the Mino Hill Railroad, near hero,
thirty-six loaded freight cars were de
molished, but nobody was injured.
PRESIDENTIAL TOURISTS.
Progress of tlio Western Trip of Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland—Their Train a Palace
on Wheels—Enthusiastic Greetings All
Along tiie Houle—'The President Makes
a Speech nt Indianapolis—A Quiet Sun
day at SL Louis.
Washington, Oct I.—President Cleveland
and Mm Cleveland began their tour of tho
West and South yesterday. Their departure
from Washington was under a bright sky
and pleasant auspices. The special train
bearing the small and select party left the
Baltimore & Potomac depot promptly at
10 o’clock. The traveling party consisted
exclusively of the President and Mrs. Cleve
land, Messrs. Ilissel and Bryant, and
Colonel Liftnont, P. V. De Graw, tho repre
sentative of |the United Press; F. T. Bick
ford, of the Associated Press, and Superin
tendent Baldwin, of the Pullman Palace
Car Company.
The train looked very handsome In its
new paint and glistening bronze fittings.
Through the plate-glass windows could be
seen baskets of jacqueminot roses, and
other cut flowers, which had been provided
v»y Ur Pullman. The President' and Mrs.
Cleveland occupy the private coach
of Mr. George M. 'Pullman, which
Is a veritable palace on wheels. One com
partment has all the appointments of an
elegant drawing-room, and the portion de
voted to sleep is as handsomely furnished as
the bed-room of the mansion of a million
aire. Ila's were raised and waved by
friends and spectators in the depot as the
train moved out, and to these salutes both
the President and Mrs. Cleveland responded
by bowing and smiling until ont of sight
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. I.— The Presiden
tial excursion train arrived here on time last
evening. Tiie party was greeted by largo
and enthusiastic crowds at all the stations
along the road. At Baltimore calls wee
made for the President to step out upon tiie
platform, but he refused to do so, the train
making a stop of only five minutes. At
Harrisburg Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland came
out of the car and stood on the platform,
bowing in response to the plaudits of tho
large crowd which had gathered.
At Mifflin and Mount Union the in
habitants came out in force and cheered
the excursion. At Huntington flags were
liberally displayed and the steam whistles
of the town tooted their loudest At Lewis
tion Junction was gathered a large number
of villagers.
Just before reaching this city the Presi
dent expressed himself as delighted
at his reception by the people.
For hours previous to the time fix< d
for the arrival of the train here
tho streets leading to the depot were liter
ally jammed with people. The train was
twenty minutes behind time, but this fact
did not create any apprehension for its
safety, for it was known to every one that
orders had been given for it to have the
right of way over all of the trains on tho
load, and, being in the hands of trusty
train-men, little fear of an accident was
'folk The delay was- caused by a stop at
■'Homewood, in the .city limits, for fully
twenty minutes, to witness the illumination
of the natural gas stand-pipes, which, from
a height of nearly 120 feet, sent a
pillar of fire fully fifty feet above the
pipe. As soon as the train came to a stop
Superintendent Pibjbn conducted tho la
dies of the
Union to Mrs. (Ircveland, and Mrs. It. H.
Jones presented the beautiful testimonial
which had been prepared The train only
stopped in this city for five minutes aud
continued on its way westward
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct 2.—The Presi
dential excursion train arrived here at 11
o'clock a. m. yesterday. Very little was
seen by the travelers of the State of Ohio,
ihat commonwealth having been traversed
during A thousand people had
assembled Columbus at 4 o’clock a m.
ou'| to lie disappointed as the President
baernot yet arisen. The trip through this
Stall before arriving here was a continued
ovation throughout. This city was elaborately
decorated Tho President and Mrs. Cleveland
were escorted through cheering crows to
the capitol by an imposing civic and mili
tary procession. Governor Gray welcomed
the Chief Executive to Indiana in a short
speech, and the President replied briefly,
congratulating both the State ami the city
in well-chosen terms. In concluding, Mr.
Cleveland aliuded to the late Vice-President
Hendricks, as follows:
‘‘l um at this moment much impressed with
another thought connected with this place, its
suggestion can not fail to awaken in your
minds an affectionate sentiment, and its
subject directs the interested attention
of the nation to this spot. Here lived
and died a man—your neighbor, and
your friend whose namo wa3 a house
hold word throughout the land, trusted
and respected by his fellow men and by them
invested with the highest civic trusts. A loyal,
true son of your State,'mid his honors he nev
er forgot the people of Indiana and his fellow
townsmen of Indianapolis. And while he loved
you well, ho brought honor to you by his faith
ful discharge of the functions of public
office, and by a firm devotion and adherence to
patriotic principles. All will join you in the re
spect you chcri.-U for his memory and the kind
ly tender thought of the people of the land will
always turn to your city as the place whore
your dist nguisbed citizen lived and died, and
■where rest his remains among the surroundings
he so much enjoyed.”
St. Louis, Oct 3.— After the speech
making at Indianapolis Saturday the Presi
dent shook many people by the hand. He
then, accompanied by his wife, called on
Mrs. Hendricks and lunched with her. After
a brief call on ex-Senator and Mrs. Mc-
Donald, the party again took the train. A
brief stop was made at Terre Haute, and
tho party was welcomed by Senator Voor
hees and ex-9ecrctary of the Navy Richard
w. Thompson, the President responding
with a short address. The trip was then re
sumed, stops being made only for coal
and water until this city was reached
at 11:45 p. m. The party was met by
a recaption committee at East St. Louis,and
was driven across the bridge, two solid
masses of cheering humanity lining the
way. A banner stretched across the bridge
at the Missouri line bade (them “welcome to
Missouri.” .The city was splendidly illumi
nated. The night was spent at the home of
Mayor Francis.
Sunday morning at 10 o’clock President
C eveland and Mayor Francis, ac
companied by their wives attended
services at the Washington Avenue
Presbyterian Church, where a sermon was
delivered by Rev. Dr. Brookes As the party
passed from the carriage to the door of the
church the assembled spectators uncovered
their heads, but made no other deni^is ( ra
tion. A visit to Shaw's Botanical Gardena
occupied the afternoon, and the evening
was passed quietly at the mayor’s home:
RIDING OLD HOBBIES.
Tlio Sickening; Taint of Rottenness Wliich
Permeates the Republican I’arty.
Regard for the freed men and the
soldiers arc two hobbies tlio Republi
cans ride with a persistency that is
wearisome, and about tho next move
they will ride it entirely out of them
selves. They see their support from
these two quarters gradually dropping
away from them, and why? Simply
because the war and tho issues grow
ing out of it are settled, and whatever
may have been their importance in
their time they were distinctly of that
time, aro now a part of the history of
the country, and can not he reacted
amid the pressing demands of a new
and advanced generation. The sol
diers have won their victories, and
they turn from their deeds of
valor in war to the not loss heroic
conflicts of peace. Tho Republican par
ty does not own them, and while a
grateful nation delights to honor them
and repay them so far as it can the
loss of limb and health, it is wisdom
to behold that this comes from no one
party, and the promises of unlimited
pensions made these valiant and loyal
men, with a hope to win their political
support, is an insult to their patriot
ism and unworthy any party. The
granting of pensions has been on the
most broad and liberal basis. There
is not a disabled veteran or one unable
comfortably to provide the means of
sustenance, whose disabilities are
properly the result of his service, in all
this land who does not receive a pen
sion or who could receive one on prop
er application. No one is willing to
pluck a single leaf from the soldier’s
crown. He should receive and does
receive all honor and all equitable
provisions for comfort, but there is a
point were his own good citizenship
demands all this fuss about pensions
to stop. This Nation will never see
one of these deserving men suf
fer, and they know it or should
know it, and in its desire to pro
vide for the worthy, some undeserv
ing pensioners are living on the
bounty of the Government. But poli
ticians see in the veteran army an
“element” and they must bid for its
support. The lowa Republicans in
their platform hau» thrown open the
following plank, “This Government,
saved from destruction and treason by
the patriotism (ind valor of the Union
soldiers, can not afford in justice or
honor to deal less than justly with
them. It should cordially and prompt
ly bestow, as an obligation of the Gov
ernment and not as a charity, liberal
pensions to all disabled or dependent
soldiers, and to the dependent widows
and children of soldiers.” This elastic
word “liberal” stands in pale contrast
to the demand for retrenchment and
reform. But when we look upon all
such as this as a political dodge, meant
only to catch votes —a means resorted
to over and over again with results so
well known, we find no cause for won
der at the threatened party dissolution.
There is no use for it, but it is sinking
through its own weakness, and if it re
lies, as it has done, on questions long
settled as a means of gaining support
from a new generation, it will fail just
as surely as those issues are of the past.
Chicago Current (Ind.)
•* A GREAT MISTAKE.
General Rosecrans’ Comments on the
Position of the G. A. U.
General ltosecrans has been prom
inently identified with the Veterans’
Union and was the spokesman of that
association in carrying President
Cleveland the assurance of its respect
when the childish partisan conduct of
certain Grand Army men made it
necessary.
Because of this action tho General
and the organization which he repre
sented have jjjeen, denounced by the
partisan who were sorely re
buked for their intemperate conduct,
by this action. The charge is now
made that the Veterans’Union is be
ing used by Democrats for partisan
purposes, and that it was organized in
political antagonism with the Grand
Army organization.
This charge General Rosccrans him
self denies and in this connection
shows that the Grand Army was not at
first and was never intended to be a
political organization. But that it has
grown to be such an organization he
admits, and deprecates the fact that
the Republican politicians seem to
have captured it.
The General further gives figures to
show that the Grand Army would be
to-day a much more powerful organi
zation in point of numbers, and in
fact in every respect, if it had not inter
meddled with such unworthy political
designs, and he draws tho conclusion,
and every soldier who has the good of
the Grand Army organization at heart
will agree with him that “it is a great
mistake to play pranks in this way
with so fine a foundation as the Grand
Army had to start on.” — Harrisburg
(Ha.) Patriot.
“A Mere Accident” is the title of
a book just out. Bets are even as to
whether or not it is the biography of
Rutherford B. Hayes.— Macon Tele
graph.
VOL. IV.—NO. 33.
BLAINE AND FORAKER.
The Ohio Man’s Severe Arraignment of
Jame* G.’a Voracity.
Governor Foraker, in his speech bo
foia some of his Ohio constituents, was
led, in his desire to make points
against President Cleveland, inio wlu*i
was really a severe arraignment of
Mr. Blaine’s political veracity. Ia
order to show that the Dcmocratio
President is responsible for a new out*
break of disloyal feeling in the South,
which the Ohio Governor pictures as
existing to-day, ho allowed himself to
draw a delightful sketch of the quiet
loyalty that had grown up in tho
Southern States during the Republican
Administrations at Washington. But
on November 18, 1884. before the in
auguration of President Cleveland,
Mr. Blaine, smarting under his finally*
acknowledged defeat, made a speech
at Augusta, Me., outlining the future
course of the Republican party, which
amounted practically to fitting it ont
with a supply of new bloody shirts.
To show the difference in the pictures
of the South as it was in 1884 drawn
by Foraker and Blaine, wo bring somo
of their sentences together:
forakhu.
The war between the
North and South had
been ended twenty
years when ho became
President, During that
time tho prejudice that
had led to it had almost
completely faded away,
and both at the South
and at the North it was
difficult to find any
trace of the bitterness
that had been engen
dered by the great con
flict. Tho people of the
South had como to see
and concede tho error
of their cause. On all
sides, especially among
the ex-soldiers of the
Confederacy, there was
a growing feeling of pro
found thankfulness thut
they had been beaten in
battle, and that, as a
consequence, slavery
had been destroyed and
they had been saved to
be a part and to enjoy
the blessings of tho
Union. The results of
tho war were, In short,
coming to be every
where recognized and
accepted, and upon the
basis of their accept
ance tho sections were
becoming more securely
bound together in union
than they had ever been
before.
It was believed that
the day was not far dis
tant when the South,
recognizing the justice
and equity that wore
involved, would, with u
creditable pride in do
ing what was right, ac
cord to even the most
humble colored man the
full enjoymont, at the
ballot-box and other
wise, of all the rights
guaranteed by the Con
stitution.
Whether Governor Foraker has for
gotten all about the Augusta speech oi
Mr. Blaine, or whether his zeal as n
Sherman man now leads him to hasten
to point out the fallacies of his former
chief, we shall not attempt to decide.
—N. Y. Post.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The attempt to provo an incur
able case of Democratic dissension has
failed. —SL Louis Post-Dispatch.
We give due warning to Repub
lican politicians that they can’t lmng
anj’ more dirty linen on the color line.
—Duluth Paragraphcr.
Foraker’s ferocious campaign in
Ohio has enriched natural history with
the important fact that the humbug ia
the noisiest of all insects.— St. Louis
Republican.
So far as the nomination of Fred
erick Grant is due to the thought that
his hereditary name will command sup
port, it is a piece of snobbishness un
worthy of any great American party.
— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
When Wales, at Homburg, de
manded to be regaled with tho sight of
a typical American, Blaine disclaimed
the honor but sent for Depew, who in
turn protested and called in ex-Govcr
nor Alger, of Miohigan. The last
named was fain to admit the soft im
peachment and pose feu - his Highness’
delectation. In admitting that he was
not a type of American citizenship Mr.
Blaine showed greater candor and more
consideration for his country’s good
name than has characterized his previ
ous performances.— Chicago Herald.
Tuttle Repudiated.
The views of Tuttle, Fairchild and
the others may be popular in lowa and
Indiana, but in other communities
they do not have much support. That
this is true the following resolution
adopted by the Kerwith Post, tho
largest npd most influential in New
Haven, Coru., may be offered as evi
dence:
"Resolved. That th’s post disapproves and
condemns any demonstration of disrespeot
against the Commander-in-chief of the army
and navy of the United States, believing- as wa
do that the spirit of loyalty in tho past is still
the spirit that holds the Grand Army of the
Republic as an organization free from political
strife; and we condemn the action of any mem
ber or members of the Grand Army of tho Re
public who would attempt to turn the organic
zation Into a political machine.’’
The old soldiers are beginning to sea
how foolish they have been in allow
ing themselves and their organization
to be used as the tools of politicians
who caro no more for the Grand Army
than they do for decency. Chictw
News.
BLAINB.
Few persons In the
North realize how com
pletely the chiefs of the
rebellion wield the po
litical power which has
triumphed in the late
election. * * * It Is
a still moro significant
fact that in those States
no man who was loyal
to the Union, no matter
how strong a Democrat
no may bo, has tit*
slightest chance of po
litical promotion.
The colored papula
tion, almost to n man.
desire to support thd
Republican party; but
by a system of cruel In
timidation, and by vio
lence amt murder,
wherever violenco ana
murder aro thought
necessary, they are ab
solutely deprived of alt
political power. * * •
It [the question of po
litical Inequality] bo
comes the primal ques
tion of American man
hood.