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CURRENT TOPICS.
An icb bridge' has formed at Niagara
Falls,
The population of Paris is sai l to be de
creasing.
Two young Bostoniens fought ten rounds
for a girl.
Overcoats for a dollar are advertised
in New York.
I he children in Bogota carry their own
chairs to school.
The Chinamen in New York are said to
send home $150,000 a year.
M. Grevy raw twelve cabinets, with 180
ministers, serve under him.
Two young ladies have embarked in the
dairy bimlness at New Orleans,
A N+:w York boarding house madam has
seized a baby for her board bill.
A P TRIE!ho huffa'o of mammoth sirs has
' .UU fin fou 111 Republic County, Kail.
I fie Canadian Government proposes to
dut 6n a lino of transatlantic steamers.
An exclusive New York belle owns a
bonnet made wholly of ostrich feathers.
There were lynched during the year 1887
in these United States, no fewer than 123
persons.
Kansas Citt has been chosen as tlie
eighth member of the American Base Ball
Association.
A Hindoo widow has raised $25,000 in
Boston to provide an institution for Hin
do widows.
The regular rate of increase of the As
ter estate is said to be from $10,000,000 to
$ 3,000,000 a year.
Chari.es Lyon, of Denver, has a collec
tion of over seven hundred pens, no two
of which are alike.
The secretary of the British legation at
Washington is a brother of Rider Hag
gard, the novelist.
Water furnished by meter is now five
cents a 1,000 gallons in Washington, in Bal
timore eight cents.
The old Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore
is to be sold for building lots, and the
bodies have been removed.
The great Lick telescope in California
uiii bring tho reflection of the moon with
in thirty miles of the earth.
Colonel F. IV. A. Robie, of Plymouth,
N. H., has served continuously as a justice
of the peace for forty-six years.
The London firemen are to bo equipped
in asbestos cloth, which lias already been
tried in Paris. It does not burn.
January 9 was the coldest day ever
known in California. The mercury in
many places fell so the freezing point.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, will de
liver the address at the unveiling of the
Jasper monument, at Savannah, February
22.
It is said that twenty-three members of
the present Congress have been in some
way connected with the newspaper busi
ness.
Ax immense hunting expedition is about
to start for Masailand, the ground of Ri
der Haggard’e lust novel, “Allan Quarter
main.”
-Advices from Panama state the coffee
crop of Antigua will be small this year
and will not, it is calculated, exceed 2,500,-
000 pounds.
Silva Porto, n Portuguese traveler and
slave trader, who died at Bohr, in Africa,
recently, was the first white man to cross
tho Dark Continent.
The six-year-old son of Jacob Wolf, of
pear Kansas, O , has unarm, his right,
growing out of his back between the shoul
der blade and spi 10.
Noiith Cakolin v has decided to abolish
tho pensions to ex-Confederate veterans,
thinking the money can be belter used in
building a soldiers’ home.
Sidney Smith, of near Dewisburg, N.Y.,
a few nights ago while asleep walked
from his window and (ramped half a mile
through the snow before he awoke.
A spotted,dog that follows the delivery
wagon of a carpet store, Philadelphia,
wears an oil-cloth cover on which is
printed an advertisement of his owner’s
wares.
At Montgomery, Ala., the other day,
four colored men stood up and were mar
ried to four colored women. Tho men
were a‘l brothers and tho women were all
sisters.
Slaveholders in Brazil are opposing
the linai extinction of slavery on the
ground that it, will be impossible to carry
on coffee planting on a large scale if sla
very is abolished.
This device of colored train robbers in
Texas of painting their faces white in or
der to disguise themsaives was one in
stance where “the devil was blacker than
ho was painted.”
The fatalities of tlie last blizzard in Da
kota wore as great as those attending the
average car-?tove accident. At present
heat and cold divide tho honors in killing
off human beings.
The death of W. 11. Chippendale,' the
veteran Eng ish actor, recalls the fact that
he was the youth employed by Sir Waiter
Scott lo carry to the printer the manu
script of Waveriey.
The thirteen gas companies that now
supply the Bostonians with light by night
are iu process of consolidation into a gi
gantic trust organization covering proper
ty Of the value of £14,003,000.
A traveler, recently returned from a
trip to Now Mexico, says that in a little
valley in the south of the Territory he saw
ripe apples, green apples and apple blos
soms all growing in the same orchard.
Howard Douglass, Supreme Chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias, has suspended
the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge, number
ing 25,000 members, until they amend their
laws to conform to those of the Supreme
L dge.
At Orlando, Fin., a dog is owned by a
much coveted bell-, which, whenever a
tiresome visitor stays too long, will stand
Up in front of him and begin to yawn and
show other signs of being sleepy. It is
said the hint is readily taken.
A farm :r in Ingram's Township, Norih
Carolina, has a wife that, be is really proud
cf, and with reason; for she can split 200
fence raiis a (lav, and has done it time and
again; ami he says It is a • •minon thing
for her to citt seven btfrels of turnon tin* »
Say.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, Jan. 18.— Sen ate —a bili was
passed to fix the charge - for passports at one
dollar mow five dollars). A bill was reported
to settle and adjust the claim of nay Slate for
expenses incurred in the defense of the United
States. The direct tax bill was considered. An
amendment was added barring all claim* not
filed within six years. The hill was then passed.
The Blair educational bill was discussed until
4:30p. m., when the Senate adjourned until to
morrow.
IJOUcP. Mr. Grosvenor presented the me
morial o, the Board of Centennial Commission
ers. at A uricltu, 0., in regard to the centennial
celchra’ >n of the settlement of the Northwest
ern Ton:lories, ji was ordered nr :«0, , A
't.'-eh’b ■ ,■ -»mi,. v
fWtMary of the Jjite.ior v.nat legis
lation is necessary for the disposal of
public timber lands and.for the preservation of
the natural forest lands at ihe head of navigable
rivers. A. resolution was offered making inquiry
as to the funding account. It was not received
as it referred to the proceedings of a past
Congress. The minority report on the Thobo-
Carlisle contest was submitted. The bill mak
ing an appropriation for the establishment of
agricultural experiment stations was passed.
A joint resolution appropriating >50,000 for the
representation of the United States at the In
tcrnational Exhibition, at Melbourne, went
over as unfinished business. Wilkins called up
bis national bank bj'l. and Weaver, of lowa, fil
ibustered until 4 p. m., when the House ad
journed.
Washington, Jan. 19.—Senate —Petitions
were presented and bills reported. The defi
ciency appropriation bill was reported with a
feiv amendments. It will be ca’led up Monday.
A resolution was adopted directing the Secre
tary ol the Interior to report a plan of legisla
tion needed forthe disposition of the public tim
ber lands. After ati agreement to adjourn from
to-day until Monday, the Senate went into ex
ecutive iession.
House. —A bill was reported to regulate prac
tice in causes removed from State Courts. A
joint resolution accepting tho invitation to par
ticipate in the Melbourne International Exhibi
tion and appropriating 550,100 was passed. The
Natioi a bank circulation bill was called up as
the unfi - ii-.hed business, hut Anderson, of Kan
sas, and Weaver, of lowa, filibustered against
it, anil it went over Portraits of former Speak
*rs of the House from Massachusetts ware
presented by that State. After speeches by
Massachusetts delegation and Messrs. Randall
and Breckinridge, of Kentucky, 1 gift was
formally accepted by resolution, anil at 4 p. m.
ib* House adjourned until to mrurow.
Washington, Jan. 20.—Senate.—Not in ses
sion.
House. —After minor bills had been passed, rs
memorial of the National Hoard of Trade was
presented favoring "adequate appropriations
forthe improvement of navigable rivers and
harbors." Mr. Springer rose to a question of
irivilego. and ixp aim d his connection with
ihe recovery by law of the money loaned Phila
delphia for the Centennial Exhibition. The re
port on the Thobe-Cnrlislo contest was consid
ered. Mr. Crisp presenting the majority view of
the case. Mr. Thobe was granted an hour to
present an argument in his own behalf. He
read his speech. The previous qnes
ion being ordered upon the resolu
tion of the majority confirming the title of Mr.
Carlisle to his scat, a substitute was offered by
Lyman, of lowa, to refer the papers to a select
committee for further investigation. The sub
stitute was defeated yeas 195, nays IF?—six
Heir.ocriits voting in the afflimative. as follows:
Bynum, T.llman, Koran, Hare, McKinney,
Shively and Weaver. On the adopt ion of the
majority resolution the vote was. yeas DO nays
3 The republicans tefrained from voting and
the poi tof no quorum was ra sed. The House
at six o'clock adjourned until to-morrow, leav
ing the question unsettled.
Washington, Jan. 28.—Senate —Mr. Beck
presented the remonstrance of the Western
Union Telegraph Company aora. nst the passage
of the postal telegraph bill. Ordered printed
and referred. A petit cn from Massachusetts
in favor of peace was referred to the Committee
on Foreign relations. The resolution to in
vestigate the conduct of Federal officials in the
recent election at Jackson, Miss.,
was reported and adopted. Bills wore re
ported for the admission of f the State
of Dakota and Ihe orga dzat.on of the
Territory of Lincoln. The House joint resolu
tion aßproririating #..),(0 > for the International
Exhibition at Melbourne was passed. Resolu
tions were offered by Mr. Chandler calling for
information as to the changes made in the new
cruisers. Mr. Frye made a tariff speech criti
cising the President's message. The Blair ed
ucational bill was discussed by its author for an
hour. At. 8:33 p. m. the Senate went into exec
utive session, and at 4:15 p. m. adjourned.
House.—-In ihe House the regular order was
(he resolution confirming Mr. Carlisle’s title to
his soul, it was adopted—yeas 164, nays 7.
Under the call of States bills were introduced
and referred, and at 8:53 the House adjourned.
Washington, Jan. £4.—Senate.—The first
report of ihe Board of Control as to the manage
ment of the Industrial Horne at Utah, was
transacted by the President. A bill was intro
duced and referred for the formation and ad
mission of the State of Montana. The Presi
dent's message on Pacific railroad S'was referred
to a special committee of seven—yeas 54, nays
5. Ab !i was reported to restrict the price of
gas in Washington to one dollar per thousand
cubic feet. A bill was passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Mississippi
river at Burlington, la. Mr. Palmer addressed
the Senate on his bill to regulate immigration.
The deficiency appropriation bill was taken up
and discussed.
House —A bill was reported making bills o'
lading conclusive evidence in certain cases.
Also a bill appropriating HTS,o;K) for repairing
the U. S. steamship Hartford. Also a bill for
the erection of a building in Washington for the
Signal Office. A resolution was adopted (-ailing
on the Public Printer- for information
as to discharges at a time when the
printing ordered by the House is largely
in arrears. A resolution directing the Com
mittee on Military Affairs to report on the ne
cessity for a military post at Fort Brown, Tex
is, was discussed and adopted. A bill wai
( assed authorizing tho constructing of a bridge
cross the Mississippi river at Memphis. A bill
v.as introdv.c-d by Mr. Breckinridge
(Ark.) to discontinue customs district*
where the revenues do not equal expenses, and
to appoint deputy collectors at sub-port s when
necessary; also to fix annually the compensa
tion of collectors and surveyors except where
fixed salaries arc now provided. Bills were
passed authorizing the construction of a bridge
across the Missouri river at Lexington, Mo.;
conferring civil jurisdiction on ihe LTnited
State* Courts in Indian Territory; granting
right of way through certain Indian lands in
Minnesota. Mr Wheeler (Ala.) offered a reso
lution. which was referred, for printing live
thousand extra copies of the report of the West
Point Visitors, and pa d a tribute to .V ! r. C. W.
t Iliids, president of the board
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. LA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27. IBBS.
ARMING THEMSELVES.
Lfiteat From the MoCojr-Hntficld Ba> tle-
Ground on llir Kentucky mid West Vir
ginia Border, T*
Catletts huno, Kr., Jan. 24. There i 8
nothing new to-day from the lie roe ven
detta that is being waged between the
Hatfield and McCoy factions in Like
County, Ry., aufl Logan County, W. /a.
The scenes are r.ow in Logan Count;,. a
sparsely settled district without railroad
or telegraph facilities, and with only a tri
weekly mail, consequently nil news of gen
eral character is brought by a spe'ial
courier. Borne Pike County people s are
here to-day and purchased and ship >ed
sixteen Winchester rifles, 8S and 44 <uli
ber, having purchased all that were 1 be
bad at out* hr rd ware store . h ~ > a
r.u . i a . ;l iUi.'ld pariy w wre
only a day or so ago and purchased
$lO worth of ammunition. This, con ed
with the fact that the county judge
and county attorney of Pike County lfi’ve
gone to Frankfort in quest of arms, 10-. ks
very much like tho war is on in earnest,
and that the wilds of West Virginia \"ill
ring with music during the coining \v> *-k.
Almost every body is up m arms in-he
two counties named above, and the excite
ment increases daily. There is big f un
ahead. v
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American Divorce Good in England.
London, Jan. 24. —In the divorce aotjrt
to-day, in the case of an English women
named Turner, who had married an Amer
ican named Thompson, and who had iWtd
the marriage annulled by an American
couit, the judge held that the woman,hatv
iug married an American and lived with
him in America, was entitled 1o the sarfto
laws as her husband, and therefore the
decree pronounced in America was bind
ing in England, without a further decree
from an English court.
The Fisheries Quesiion,
New York, Jan. 24. —An Ottawa special
says: It is semi-ofticially stated here that
tho Home Government have urged tho Do
minion Cabinet to make such concessions
on the fishery question as will bring aboi t
a settlement. It, is plainly intimated tht t
whilst the demands of Canada are admit
ted to be of importance, they must not Is
allowed to prejudice the larger interna
tional interests involved.
Powdered Coal as Fuel.
Chester, Pa., Jan. 24.—At the Chester
iron works for the last few days there has
been successfully tested the application
of powdered coal for fuel. The combus
tion is perfect. Both ashes and smoke am
entirely consumed, effecting a saving J»
from fobty to fifty per cent, in fuel. The
coal is powdered by the cyclone principle,
and applied to the furnaces by a process
invented by J. G. McCauley.
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An important Bill Veload.
St. Louis, Jan. 24.—A dispatch from
Jackson, Miss., says the Governor has ve
toed the bill providing for the holding of
a Constitutional Convention. The veto
message is long, and reiterates and en
larges upon the objections urged in debate
bylhe opponents of Lite bill when it was
before the two houses. A re-!-hot debate
is looked for when tin: bill comes up for
passage over the veto.
Coffee in Sight,
New York, Jan. 24.—Brazil coffee forms
the basis of the supply for this country.
Tho visible supply is 255,(100 bag*. Since
Saturday tho Coffee Exchange lias turned
over 4iX.i,000 bags. This would seem to in
dicate an unusually large sale of futures.
The expected Brazil crop due shortly is be
lieved to be larger than ever. No fears
are entertained of a scarcity.
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War Tax Bill Likely to Become Law.
Washington, Jan. 21 —The Sub-Judi
ciary Committee of the House has decided
to make a favorable report on the bill re
storing to tlie States the direct war tax of
{80,000,000. The bill has passed the Senate
and if it goes through the House, ns it
doubtless will,Ohio will get about a million
and three-quarters as her share of the war
tax.
For Heroic Teachers.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 34. —So much suffer
ing and death has been reported among
teachers and pupils in the State in the late
storm that prominent people and papers
have advocated public contributions to
heroic teachers, and to aid those who have
been crippled through loss of limbs by
freezing.
Twenty Years for Martbr.
Chicago, Jan. 24.-- Billy Hayes, a young
thief, was to-day sentence 1 to twenty
years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary
for the kiding of John Watts, a similar
character, during a quarrel about a woman
on tho night of January 35, 18s;.
A Public Benefactor.
Dai vi sion. Tex., Jan. 34 John T. Allen,
State Treasurer under Governor Hamilton,
died yesterday, aged sixty-two years. He
bequeathed his fortune, valued at i IM,OOO,
to tho city of Galveston for the establish
ment o f an industrial school
Suicided while Delirious.
Cincinnati, J n 24.—Sister Mary Mar
cella. a young novice in the Conveut of the
Good Shepherd, on Bank street, in this
city, committed suicide while delirious
with fever, by throwing herself from a
third-story window.
Rescued After Great Suffering.
New York, Jan. 24.—The steamer San
Marcos, which arrived to-day from Hav
ana, brought the crew of the bark I). Cha
pin, of Boston, which sank at sea Decem
ber 25. After being in their boat ten days
without food or water, and losing by
starvation a.id exposure Captain W. G.
Hull, the cook and one seaman, the rest of
ihe crew were rescued on January 4.
Savail ths Hangman a Job.
I’lTTsiiuegh. H.»., Jan. 24.—Ed. Coffey*
the convict".i murderer, who cut his throat
in the county jail last Wednesday, died at
i o’clock th>s morning from his injuries.
TEKIiIBbK ACCIDENT
On the Palem Branch of the Dela
ware and Hudson Railroad.
Four Persons Fatally Injured and Oilier*
Badly Hurt—The Cars Tumble Over an
Kinlmnkim nt.
Troy, N. Y., Jan. 28.—A terrible railway
accident occurred this afternoon on tho
Salem branch of the Delaware and Hud
son railroad, from the results of which
four men will probably die. Many others
are seriously injured. The accident oc
curred ou a curve about a mile west of
Baxterville, between Shusban and Salem.
The train was forty-five minutes late
leaving Salem, and an attempt was be
ing marie to make up some of tliis before
reaching Eagle Bridge, where it connects
for Troy. The train was composed of the
engine, ono baggage and mail
car anil two passenger coaches.
As it rounded the curve the
coach which was next to tho last car of
the train, left the track and bumped over
Ihe ties for about eight feet before leaving
the track altogether. Tliis it did in a wild
series of somersaults, turning
igyer at least three times before
4BKliing the. jjqjtom. The car behind
folwwed, and the scene was one of horror,
in which the frightful cries of the injured
women and mem-were mingled with' tl»e
crashing of glass and timbers. In the car
first mentioned were seated about sixteen
passengers. When the plunge occurred
they were all injured. David Owens,
a Western Union lineman, was fatally in
jured. The recovery of Conductor Charles
Frost is impossible, and Clark Rice, of
Cambridge, N. Y., Clarence Stoddard, of
Granville, and Martin H. Stevens, of
Shushan, are seriously and perhaps fatal
ly injured. John 11. Shields, Miss Annie
Shields, Nellie Tierney and several others
whose names are not ascertained arc seri
ously cut and bruised.
CANS FULL OF JEWELRY.
Two Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Stolen
Property Recovered.
Grafton, W. Va., Jan. 23.— Several cans
containing the S2,(XX) worth of watches and
jewelry stolen from J. W. Hull & Co., a
few diiys ago, were found yesterday hidden
among the rocks in the woods near Valley
Falls, where they had been placed by tho
burglars until a convenient opportunity
offered to dispose of them. A stranger
with rain-soaked clothing bought the cans
from Bradshaw & Co., at Valley Falls, on
the morning after the robbery and disap
peared in the w oods with them. When tho
mows of the robbery reached that piano
suspicion was excited and several young
men made a search of tho vicinity yester
day with the above result. The goods
were all in good condition and apparently
all that hail been stolen were recovered.
Maxwell is Doomed.
Washington, Jan. 23. —The Supreme
Court of Ihe United States to-day render
ed a decision in the case of Hugh M.
Brooks alias W. H. Jtixwell, against tho
State of Missouri. ™rooks, or Maxwell,
tho plaintiff in error, is now in prison m
the city of St. Louis under sentence of
death for the murder of C. Arthur Preller
in April, 1885. The decision was announc
ed by Chief Justice Waite, and its effect is
to affirm the sentence of death pronounced
by the State Court.
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Believes in the Book of Mormon.
Richmond, Mo., Jau. 23. —David Whit
nier, the last of the three witnesses to the
truth of the Book of Mormon, is now in a
dying condition. Last evening he called
the family and friends to liis bedside and
bore his testimony to the truth of the Book
of Mormon and ihe Bible. He is known by
every one here as a man of the highest
honor, having resided here since the year
838.
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New Englanders Are Catching It.
Boston. Jan. 23.—The harbor is almost
frozen over as far as the narrows, and the
ferryboats and steamers have great diffi
culty in proceeding. Reports from New
Hampshire state that the thermometer in
many places iu the .State fell t 035 degrees
below zero last night. Towns along tho
south shore of Massachusetts report tho
thermometer as 18 degrees uelotv last
night.
Tax on Telegraph Poles and Wires.
Filli.a dei.l’h ia, Jan. 23.—The Supreme
Court to-day affirmed ihe judgment of
common picas court No. 2 in tho suit of ttu
city against the Western Union and Mu
tual Union Telegraph Companies to recover
from those companies the annua! lice use
fee of one dollar for each one of their poles
erected upon the public streets, and $2.50
for every mile of suspended wire.
The Law Broke His Neck.
New York, Jan 23. Daniel Driscoll was
hanged this morning. He left his cell at
7:25, reached the gallows at 7:28. and, af
ter saying a prayer, the black cap was put
over his head, and the weight foil at 7:39.
He died instantly. Driscoll's last words
were: “Jesus, have ntercy on me.” His
neck was broken.
First Response.
Lincoln, Neil, Jan. 23.— President Fitz
gerald, of the Irish National League, to
day received a draft lor {I,OOO from Mr. F.
B. Hayes, of Ottawa, Can. This is tbs first
money received in response to tho Presi
dent's appeal asking one thousand Irish
men to subscribe 81,000 each.
Anti-Chinese Bill.
Washington, Jan. 23. Representative
Cummings, of New York, to-day intro
duced iu the House Senator Mitchell's bill
of last session prohibiting Chinese immi
gration, with the addition of an amend
ment authorizing Collectors of Customs to
construe the act, resting the burden of
proof on tlie person accused of violating
its provisions; requiring all Chinese resi
dents within tlie United (States before the
passage of the act to furnish information
as to the means by which they obtained
entrance to the country, and forbidding
the introduction cf Chinese by wfil* of ha
beas corpus.
THE COLORED VOLE.
A Cutting Rebuke of Malignant Partisans
anil Office-Seekers.
It seems strange to find the New
York Times t:»L-iii«>■ a prominent stand
in defense of the South against tho
charge of suppression of the colored
vote, and yet this able journal, at one
time foremost among those whose
abuse and denunciation of the election
methods of the South was character
ized by partisan hatred and sectional
malignity, contains in a recent issue
the most striking protest which has
yet appeared in any Northern paper
against the bloody shirt policy of the
Republicans for 1888.
The Times is a Republican paper,
but is generally a very fair one. Its
criticisms are open and frank, and its
coui’se is not controlled by the lash of
its party. It believed Mr. Blaine to
be a corrupt man and Mr. Cleveland
an honest one, and it supported the
latter for the Presidency. It did not
sever its party alliance, but lias since
stoed with the organization of which
it was for many years the chief organ.
In outlining its policy for the next
campaign, the Republican party has
clearly determined to make the al
leged suppression of’Uie colored vote
in the South one of its leading issues.
’On this the Times a column ed
itorial, which is an admirable produc
tion, and should commend itseif to
the fair-minded voters of all parties. It
says:
Those Republican politicians who still think
there is capital for their party in keeping up
sectional agitation and firing the Northern
heart with Southern outrages are trying des
perately to make an issue of the alleged sup
pression of tho Republican vote in Southern
States. The difficulty which confronts them
lies in the fact that the Northern people want
no more sectional agitation, and arc entirely
willing to leave the elections in Southern States
to the control of the people of those States.
Speaking of the outrages of Ihe Re
publican carpet-baggers who overran
the South after the war, and of the
causes which prompted the necessity
of counteracting the evils of their das
tardly regime, in which they ran
rough shod over the people by their
control over the negro vote, the 'Times
says:
Unprepared to exercise intelligently or con
scientiously their newly acquired rights, the
negroes fell under the leadership of unscrupu
lous men and were arrayed against the people
who bad the largest interest in the good order
and good government of the reconstructed
States. The result was incapacity, extrava
gance and fraud in public affairs, and a bur
lesque on popular government. The native
Southern people, who felt that they had the
rL to control affairs in their own States, saw
no salvation for their public or private inter
ests except in overcoming the power which
was thrust upon them.
The North soon admitted that Federal inter
ference to sustain State Governments which
rea%d on the ignorant negro vote and were
managed mainly by greedy and unscrupulous
adventurers, could not be maintained. Public
opinion withdrew all support, and nearly a
dozen yeats ago the whole fabric went to
pieces.
As to the so-called suppression of
the colored vole in the South at this
time, the Times dismisses the question,
as being an appeal to sectional pas
sion, which can not deceive the intelli
gent people of the North, saying:
Outrage, violence and election frauds dimin
ish in proport on as the necessity for them
ceased. For the last two years little has been
heard of them, but election returns show that
many votes are withheld from the ballot box
for one reason or another. Colored voters may
have become indifferent, after finding that the
ills which they were taught to expect from
Democratic ascendency did not befall them,
and easily induced not to vote. More or less,
also, they have begun to divide their votes be
tween the part es. In not voting or in voting
for Democratic candidates, they are probably
influencxlbv no worse inducements than are
used in Northern States to sway the action of
voters whose intelligence and honesty are not
sufficient to guide their political action.
Such wolds, from such a source, can
not fail to have effect with the people
of tiic North, who have already re
buked the sectional animosity which a
few party bosses have sought to at
tribute to the Republican party as a
whole. Mr. Blaine went to pieces on
this rock, and if its present policy is
pursued, the Republican party will re
ceive its ultimate defeat in clinging to
it. —Atlanta Constitution.
The Tariff Debate.
Mr. Sherman seems to be demoral
ized by the exigencies of his candidacy,
Ilis speech on the message was a mere
rehash of Mr. Blaine’s cable, and dis
plays poor Mr. Sherman in tho un
pleasant attitude of one of Mr. Blaine’s
most abject followers and imitators.
So closely did he copy his master that
he even suggested a distribution of the
surplus, a piece of idiocy on which it
was generally supposed Mr. Blaine
held a patent, with the disposition to
prosecute all who dare infringe it. Mr.
Sherman's speech must have disap
pointed his friends in the Senate, and
will disappoint Western Republicans,
who see that to oppose alt reform
of tariff is fatal to them, because it is
to be false to the pledges of their party
and is opposed to their own just de
mands. Mr. Voorhees made a very
forcible defense of the message which
Mr. Sherman had attacked, exposing
the wrongs and mischiefs of the sur
plus taxation and the war tariff, and
urging free raw material for the bene
fit of American manufacturers. He
declared rightly that the Democratic
party, in seeking to effect a wise and
conservative reform of tho tariff laws,
is the truest friend of the home manu
facturers and of their work people.
— N. Y. Herald.
VOL. IV-NO. 48.
DEMOCRATIC POLICY.
Why the Spirit of Democracy Is Opposed
to Unjust Taxatiou.
The Democratic party, through its
traditions, its platforms and its Presi
dent, is committed to these principles:
(1.) The Government has no con
stitutional or moral light to collect
a revenue in excess of the needs of its
economical administration. Unneces
sary taxation is unjust taxation. Un
just taxation is tyranny, whether im
posed in a monarchy or a republic.
(2.) A surplus in the Treasury is a
National evil, and may become a Na
tional peril. It is a standing tempta
tion to extravagance. It may per
petuate high taxes for a long period
by leading to the inauguration of ex
penditures that will be continuous.
The way to deal with a surplus is to
stop its collection.
(3.) The taxes to be first abated are
those which bear heaviest upon the
greatest number of people—namely,
taxes upon universal necessities and
the essentials of manufactures. Hence,
the food, the fuel, the shelter and the
clothing of the people and the raw ma
terials of the manufactures should be
first relieved in any reduction of taxa
tion.
These are Democratic principles.
They should constitute tho Democratic
policy. . Whatever compromise may
be required to secure the best attaina
ble result it is the business of statesman
ship to make. Statesmanship has been
defined to be “tho science of the prac
tical,” and the practical duty before
Congress is the prevention of the sur
plus.
But the President is entitled to the
thanks of the country and to tho
united support of his party in his cour
ageous stand for sound principles.—
A’. Y. World.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
The man who fired the first gun
at Fort Sumter was killed the other
day at Charleston in a row. Is it not
now safe to regard the war as over?—
Chicago Herald.
An enthusiastic partisan wants
the Republicans to nominate for Presi
dent the man who once led them to
‘‘glorious defeat.” Well, there’s Fre
mont and Blaine. Both did it, and
either of them can do it again—easily.
—Detroit Free Press.
“I am out of the fight,” says Sherman, in jest;
“ I am but an on-looker in Venice.”
Ah, Senator, candor in all things is best.
The fight's out of you. Let the truth be con
fessed,
The chunk you've bit off with such spirit and
zest
Is too large to chew and too tough to digest.
Your role is not Barkis, but Dennis.
—Chicago Tribune (Sep.).
Press is paid $20,000 for trying to prove
that the war tariff increases the wages
of working-men. The fund is doubt
less raised by the Pennsylvania million
aires who have been importing Hun
garian laborers into this country.—
Albany (A r . Y. ) Argus.
Sherman to deliver his two-hours’
harangue in the Senate Chamber.
Every body knew in advance that he
was a defender of monopolies, an
apologist for extortion and a patron of
trusts. Sherman’s record is consistent
at least on those points.— St. Louis
Republican.
Our Republican friends are quite
annoyed with James Russell Lowell
for thinking Grover Clevelithd is the
best President we have had since
Abraham Lincoln. They would feel
less annoyed with him were it not for
the fact that so many thousands of
Mr. Lowell’s fellow-citizens heartily
agree with him.— Boston Globe.
Some hopeful Republican has
cvglved a theory that his ticket will
be elected this year because ‘‘the year
with three eights in it is lucky to the
Republicans.” In view of the failure
of the political records to show a Re
publican victory in A. D. 888, or 888,
1888 or 2888 B. C.. this view is evi
dently founded on the conviction, that
the year with three eights in it must
be luckier than the year with three
It’s in it. — Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Sherman a Weathercock.
In his recent tariff speech Senator
Sherman said that the 8-cent revenue
tax on tobacco “was a burden to the
farmer and to the cousumcr.” On
February 10, 1883, pending the consid
eration of the clause relating to in
ternal taxes on snuff and manufactured
tobacco, which the bill, as reported,
placed at 12 cents per pound after July
I, 1883, Senator Beck moved to make
the rate 8 cents, which was agreed to
despite the fact that Senator Sherman
voted "No,” If the 12-eent rate was
not a burden to the farmer and to the
consumer in 1883, what makes the 8-
cent rate so now? John Sherman is a
fraud and a weathercock. On Febru
ary 16, 1883, Senator Gorman moved
for the repeal of the internal-revenue
tax on tobacco, snuff and cigars. His
motion was rejected by a vote of 7
yeas to 47 nays. Senator Sherman vot
ing “No,” as he did upon every pro;*-
nsition to reduce the internal-reveu nt
taxes on tobacco and liquors. Senator
Sherman is a fraud and a political
weathercock. —Chicago News.