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UU :<RENI TOPICS.
, -a is considering a two-cent railroad
sili •
IT.omiu is enjoying roasting ears just
now.
Ei.ectißciti is now applied to blacking
shoes.
I\ twelve States women have the righi
of school suffrage.
Tiie Utah Legislature contains thirty-one
Mormons and live Gentiles.
As the cable read loses its grip, Death
tightens Lis on the passengers.
No lady who wears a bustle can belong
to the salvation aruiy in New York.
Long Island farmers’ wives get three
cents a pair for making boys’ pants.
A M ahison- fWis.) man has given 3,000
children of that eity a free sleigh ride.
A fouty-loi ;xd crocodile covered with
woolly hair has boon discovered in Florida.
A ' pancake toss”—tho catcher eating
all he can catch—is a new entertainment.
The British Museum has just acquired
the chair used by the Queen of Egypt,
f 1,40) years ago.
Coxgkkss is asked not to interfere with
the adulteration of lard, because it is an
infant iudustry.
No smoke arises from any house in Ja
pan. Charcoal furnaces are used both for
cooking and h ating.
Ortho twenty-one committee clerks of
the lowa House sworn in the other day,
nineteen were women.
A iiemp boa will be held in Indian Terri
tory, April 27, in which seven murderers
will take a prominent part.
The Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Company has already paid £303,000 on ac
count of tho Chatsworth disaster.
A lot of Liberian negroes employed by
l)e Lesseps at Panama are begging the
United Wtates tosenl them home.
People wtio say that thoro are few great
A>lJiers in Europe should recollect that
great wars make great Generals.
“Wk Brandenburgers only fear God and
nothing else in the world,” is now on tho
crnis of tho royal house of Prussia.
'lwo young Massachusetts women have
gone to Buffalo with the intontion of em
lia* king in the profession of dentistry.
It is formally announced by his friends
that Governor liill is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President.
“Johnston, Gallup & Hurry” is the
name of a New York firm, which is said
to he a busy and enterprising concern.
Tins Naval Board reports favorably on
the eight-inch pneumatic dynamite gun
recently tested at Fort Hamilton, N. Y.
A change of two letters in a message
cost the Western Union Telegraph Com
-1 any S2OO by a Supreme Court decision.
Mit. A lieu., proprietor of the Baltimore
*'“«> is worth £20,(T0,030, and is said to be
the richest newspaper man in the world.
Miss Susan La Flkschk, an Omaha In
dian maiden, is studying medicine as the
ward of the Connecticut Indian Associa
tion.
The newest whim in that part of New
York polite society which suffers from
ennui may be called the “pug-dog recep
tion.”
Seven engagements were made at a leap
yo u- party at Woodland, Cal., the other
night, where only fourteen couplos were
present.
A sham, piece of tapestry of the time of
Louis XIV, entitled La Lecon d’Equi
tation, was sold by auction in Paris re
cently for |2,'JO 1.
Next to the Emperor, the Crown Prince
ot Gormany has a larger number of decor
ations than any man in the Empire. Pie
has seventy-four.
Maine claims to have sixteen men and
Women who have lived more than one
hundred years, and no end of inhabitants
who are over ninety.
Senator Wade Hampton and General
Sherman are in a hot quarrel over tho
twenty-tv/o-year-old conundrum, “Who
burnt Columbia?"
If the manufacturers of firearms who
have formed a trust will turn out a gun that
won’t go off when it “isn’t loaded,” tho
people will forgive them.
A man in Loo County, Ga., has succeeded
in taming blue jays so that they fly down
from tho trees and perch on his shoulders
as ho walks around his garden.
The Senate Committeo on Education ha 3
decided to report favorably the bill pro
viding for a commission of five to investi
gate the alcoholic liquor traffic.
Atlanta University refuses to accept
tho proffered £B,OOO from the State Treas
ury on tho condition that no white scholar
shall be taught in tho institution.
Ti e U. S. steamer Autletam, which has
done duty for ycai'3 as a storehouse and
barracks at the League Island Navy-yard,
is to be broken up and the material sold.
Germany’s resolution to take part in the
Paris Exposition this year is accepted as
evidence that the war spirit against
France in t ho Fatherland is not rampant.
Donald Fletcher, nowjone of the rich
est men in Denver, Col., reached that city
nine years ago almost dead with consurap
t on and barely live dollars in his pocket.
A Wellington (Kas.) man told his wife
♦tat for two cents ho would cut, his throat,
•ihc required capital was advanced and
the transaction resulted in a prospective
widow.
Mrs. John Geest, of Wichita, Kas., has
well employed her twenty years of married
life, for she has borne twonty-two chil
dren, twice giving birth to twins and once
to triplets.
Some railroad companies are slow to
adopt tho method of heating their cars
with steam, possibly preferring to wait
for summer, and warm up passengers with
hot cinders and smoko from the locomo
tive.
A man living near Macon, Ga., was at
tacked a few days ago by a Texas pouy
which he was leading, and would have
been killed if his wife had not run to his
assistance and stunned the animal by
striking it with an axe.
TnE advocates of u postal telegraph-svs
tom have finally get their bill before Con
gress, and their figures as well. They
claim tLat thoy can bu Id 15,000 miles of
lines In this country and take In nil th*
principal cilias for fO.&sj.JTO.
riFTIKTH CONCHES*
FlmC# Session*
Washington, Feb. 15. Senate.— Petitions
and memorials were presented. Hills reported
and introduced; One to reimburse States fot
interest paid on moneys expended in raisins
troops during the war of the rebellion. The
Blair educational bill was taken up, Mr. Hale
speaking. He was followed by Messrs. Mor
gan. Butler, Call, Saulsbury and Blair. An
amendment proposing to distribute the money
appropriated on the basis of population instead
ot illiteracy was voted down with several oth
ers of minor importance. The bill was finally
passed—yeas tft, nays 20.
House.—Mr. Cox was appointed Speaker pro
tern. A bill was passed ci ■ ating Board of Ar
bitration to determine the cor.tr -versy over ccr
tain territorijjclair- ay Texas and the United
States Bills- reported, among them a
number for the erectipn of public buildings.
Also, a bill to pay SICD to soldiers enlisted under
the act of July 22. 1861, and discharged or pro
moted before the expiration of tv.- > years, and
who have not received bounty. A resolution
was reported for the appointment of a special
committee to investigate the delay on the new
library building, its contracts and affairs. The
urgent deficiency bill was taken up and con
sidered. Pending final action tho House ad
joured.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Senate.—Hills were
reported and introduced. Mr. Plumb’s resolu
tion directing an inquiry as to the causes of in
efficient mail service was agreed to. Also Mr.
Manderson’s resolution was adopted requiring
the Secretary of War to furnish the Senators,
on their request, with lists of persons to whom
the records of the rebellion are to be issued.
Private pension bills to the number of 103 wer;
passed, and after a short executive session
the Senate at 1:45 p. m., adjourned until Mon
day.
House —Mr. Carlisle was In the chair. The
Committee on Printing submitted a report on
the inquiry in regard to the shortage of public
documents credited to members. A number of
reports were submitted. Senate amendments
were concurred in to tho House bill providing
for the appointment of eleven division superin
tendents of the Railway Mail Service. The
urgent deficiency bill was then considered until
G p. m., when the House took a recess until Bp.
m., the night session being occupied in debate
on the Anderson Pacific Railroad Telegraph
bill.
Washington, Feb. 17 Senate —Not in ses
sion.
House.—The Blair educational bill was laid
before the House and referred to the Commit
tee on Education. A motioh was agreed to in
structing the Committee on Manufactures to
report back the resolution directing the Secre
tary ol the Treasury to investigate the Sugar
Trust in New York. The urgent deficiency bill
was passed. A private bill, coming over from
last Friday as unfinished business, was passed.
At 4:45 p. m. the House adjourned until Mon
day'.
Washington, Feb. 20.—Senate A bill to
incorporate the Washington Cable Electric
Railway Company was considered, after peti
tions foi legislation for the better protection of
women and girls had been introduced, and a
bill appropriating ?3t,no.} for the erection of a
building at Roanoke, Vu., hod been passed. At
4 o’clock the Senate went into executive ses
sion, and at 5 p. m. adjourned.
House—An executive communication was
received from the Secretary of War in reply to
the battle-flag resolution. The Pacific railroad
telegraph bil 1 was made a special order for
Marchs. Under the call of States a number of
new bills were introduced. One was for the
apportionment among the States on the basis
of illiteracy, of ?<55,000,009, and several for the
erection of public 1 nildings. A motion was
made to suspend the rules and pass the Hoar
joint resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment changing the date of the Presi
dential inauguration from March 4 to April 30.
and extending the term of .the Fiftieth Con
gress to the latter date. After considerable
discussion tho motion was lost—yeas 129, rays
128, not two-thirds.* At 3 :50 p. m. the House ad
journed.
Washington, Feb. t'l.—Senate—Executive
communications were presented and referred.
A resolution was reported by Mr. Hoar author
izing the Committo- on Privileges and Elec
tions to continue the 'nvestigation ordered last
session into certain events in the State of Tex
as. Bills were introduced and referred. Reso
lutions were agreed to, calling for information
as to the expenditures of employes, etc., of tbe
Fish Commission. A resolution was offered
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dis
tribute all public documents now in committee
rooms about the library not required. The bill
to incorporate .the Washington Cable Electric
Railway was debate 1 until 4 o'clock without
final action, and after executive session the
Senate adjourned at 5:30 p. m.
HOUSE.—The special committee to investigate
the delay on the Congressional Library Build
ing was announced. A resolution was adopted
calling for information regarding the use ol
steam power presses and band presses in the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving. The direct
tax bill was reported and referred to the com
mittee of the whole. A joint resolution was re
ported proposing a constitutional amendment
prohibiting polygamy. Bills were agreed to
appropriating 45.’,80) for enlarging the public
building at Charleston, W. Va., (125.033 for a
public building at Allentown, Pa., and *1(0.001
for a public building at Lancaster, Pa. Atsp.
m. the House adjourned.
Thomas Waltham found Jim Blakeney
in his bed-room with his wife, near St.
Louis. Blakeney in trying- to escape shot
Waltham and oue of his children. The in
jured husband shot and killed Blakeney,
and fell mortally wounded.
A Swiss and Italian syndicate has bears
formed which will advance the Italian
Government 0),000,003 francs to enable it
to complete the Simplon railway tunnel
and the railway lines which will connect
therewith.
Rev. S. 11. Cate, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
committed suicide by drinking poisoned
whisky.
More than £4,000,000 is what tho Reading
strike has cost miners, railroaders, iron
workers and proprietors.
Daniel O’Day and his son, who were
sent to the Albany penitentiary a year ago
from Chattanooga for five years for
counterfeiting, have been released.
W. H. Dirham, a wealthy banker of
Crawfordsviile, Ltd., Ims been assessed
£5,303 for failing to list £13),033 worth of
property for taxation. Lie will now bo
com polled to pay tie back taxes and pen
alties for several ye^rs.
Wm. Morris, a young man, was fatally
shot while struggling for the possession
of a revolver. The accident occurred near
Delhi, 0., and is the result of boys’ play.
John and Henry Smith were killed at
Bcutonville, Ark., by an Indian whom thoy
attempted to arrs*t. Th* Indian then e»-
e*p*4,
TRENTON, I)ADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1888.
HE HIT IT.
How a Gas Well Crank i< Gcltin ; W<al;l»
and l ame.
Bradfohd, I’a., Feb. 31. —diet Boogher,
a character well known in the gas and oil
region as “Gas Well Crank” Booghor, has
long declared that be could lora'e gas ter
ritory simply by walking over the ground.
If gas ex : sted there it would instantly
make its presence known to him, he said,
by affecting him with a strange tickling
and choking sensation in his throat.
For years ho has tried to impress nat
ural gas operators with the importance
of this gift of his, but only suciOedei in
gaining tho reputation of being a harmless
but annoying crank. A few weeks ago ha
turned np in the Ohio gns and oil h lls
and, R inminn, inJugsd some par’’ •- to'bc
tiovo Uwtrgsis coqid be found on a Iran
near Delphos, a tract generally regarded
is entirely b non of both oil an I gas.
Booghor declared that it was ali he'could
io to walk over the tract in question, be
eauso of Uie suffocating influences the gas
inder the ground had on him. Ha look the
parties iothe place and walked with them
over the tract. He was to all appearances
nearly choked to death while crossing
the land. The parties resolved to spend
some ino ey in to3‘.ing tho territory, en
tirely on the strength of his chok’ng. A
’.veil was drilled. L ist We it
struck a vein of gas. The well was torpe
doed and responded with a flow of more
than .>,0l)0,000 feet of gas a day. Booghor
is now the lion of lhat region, and is over
whelmed with orders for his services in
“choking” gas territory’. His gift for'o
cating gas by suffocation bids fair to be
worth more to him than a big gas well it
self would be.
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A SECOND STRIKE
Threatened by RoatllnT Miners as AM Have
Not Been Given Work.
Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 21.—R parts from
all parts of the Schuylki.l region indicate
that there are fewer men working at tho
mines to day’ than yester lay ia conse
quence of now troubles arising because of
the Reading Company’s peremptory re
fusal to lake back all the old men, as was
understood by the Corbin-Lewis settle
ment. A second miner’s strike may occur,
unless all the men are given work. The
Congressional Investigating Committee
went to Shenandoah this morning to in
vestigate at once into this new trouble,
and to see if their mediation can prevent
serious consequences.
Retirement of the Boy Pianist.
New York, Feb. 21- — Josof Hofman, thi
marvelous boy pianist, will not play any
more in public this season, and probably
not for many soasons to come. His nerv
ous system is on tho verge of breaking
down from Ihe excitement of so many’
concerts following so closely on each oth
er. It was after the concert at the Metro
politan opera-house on Saturday _ night,
that his father, Caslmer Hofman, came to
the conclusion that the time had arrived
when the performances must bo- abruptly
stopped.
Brown Pardoned.
New Orleans, Feb. 21. — Dan. Brown,
who was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced a few days ago by Judge Baker
to six months’ imprisonment in the peni
tentiary at hard labor for tbe killing of
Adolph Zcnneck, o“ the Mascot, for tho
publication in that paporof an article con
cerning his alleged intimacy with a lady
in Algiers, was pardoned yesterday by
Governor McEnery.
Will Not bo Tried.
Cincinnati. Feb. 21. —The District Attor
ney in tho United States Court moved a
nolle of tbe indictment against J. W. Wil.
shire, charged with violating the United
States banking law, in connection with 15.
L. Ilarp r, of the Fidelity National Bank,
on the ground of inability to prove the
charge. Tho court allowed the motion,
and Mr. Wilshire and his bondsmen, aro
released.
New Minister to Liberia.
Washington, Feb. 21. —Tho Rev. J. O.
Price (colored), President of Livingston
College, at Salisbury, has received a let
,ter from Secretary Bayard, informing him
that the President has appointed him Min
ister Resident and Consul-General of the
United States in Liberia. Mr. Price has
not yet decided whether he wi l accept the
offieo or not.
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Big Iron Failure.
Pittsburgh, Feb. 21.—The great iron
manufacturing firm of Graff, Bennett &
Co. bus assigned to P. H. Miller, with
£I,(XX),Odd to $1,503,000 liabilities. Some
years ago they failed for $1,203,000, but se
cured an extension, and have been able to
clear off SSuO,OOO f the debt.
Tho President’s Trip.
Washington, Feb. 21. —The Presidential
special left for Florida at 1! :53 a. m., bear
ing President and Mrs. Cleveland, Secre
tary and Mrs. Whitney and Colonel and
Mrs. Lament. Two maids accompanied
Mrs. Cleveland.
Salvation Army Tragedy.
Napanee, Ont., Feb. 21.—Peter Slum*
dreau, a laborer, probably snot bis wife
fatally and then killed himself to-day. lie
ha l been greatly provoked by bis wife
joining the Salvation Army.
Honoring Washington in Vienna.
Vienna, Feb. 21.—A banquet in honor of
Washington’s birthday was given at tho
Grand Hotel this evening. Three hundred
Americans, including Mr. Lawton, U. S.
Minister, were present.
A Oeleclive’s Method.
Detroit, Feb. 31.—A Methodist revivalist
at iron Mountain, Mich., turns cut to be a
detective in search for a murderer. He cap
tured his game and left for Janesville.
Miss Holmes is Free.
Cincinnati, Feb. 21.—Miss Josic Holmes
is free. The indictment against her for
connection with tne Fidelity Bank affair*
wm no lied this morniag,
THEATER BURNED
Fever? 1 Fersons Eadly Injured, and
Two Will Dio-
Anarchists Suspected of Having Fired tit*
Theater Combine —The Proprietor Driveu
fCraxjr.
New Yoiik, Feb. 20. —Hoboken’s Theater
Comique, a low, barn-like structure, was
- toially destroyed by fire early this morn
ing. The proprietor, Robert Gautzberg,
has been almost driven out of his mind by
the catastrophe. Ilis brother-in-law, Otto
Lobes, who was the leaderof Ills orchestra,
is ilc; d, his l weive-year-oldboy Otto is dy
■tagin St. Mary’s Hospital, and his wife,
bn invalid, is also dying at the homo of a
friend. Four other buildings are partially
destroyed. The theater was crowded last
evening with the usual assemblage, and it
was two o’clock before all I*’ft. Mr. Guutz
berg and his family lived in one part of
the building. At four o’clock Mrs. Gautz
berg, who was sick of pneumonia, awoke
her husband, and a few minutes later
be hoard a crash and saw the glass
roof of the theater fall. The entire lire
department was called out, and the
engines reached tho burning building
just us the inmates were escaping. Mary
Tuppe, a servant, packed her trunk in the
midst of the smoke, threw it from a win
dow, and was about lo follow it when
the firemen caught tier. Mrs. Gautzberg
was taken from a window. Florenz Nae
gato and Alois Piioimer, two singers who
were stopping in the building, were cut
.about their heads. Frederick Pietsch and
h s wife and Caroline Tueppc, also sing
ers, wore slightly injured. While these
people were Icing rescued Mr. Gautz
berg kept-crying out for some one to
saved his boy Otto. The little fellow had
gone to the room of Mr. Lobes to awaken
him. A ladder was placed against the
window of the room and Mr. Gautzberg
was the first to mount it. The heavy vol
umes of smoke drove him back. Just then
the white face of Mr. Lobes was
seen and for a second the man
tottered. “Don’t jump!” shouted
those on tho sidewalk, but their warn
ing was unheeded. Mr. Lobes pitched
himself heavily forward and struck the
sidewalk. Twenty minutes later he died.
Robert Gautzberg was next brought out
unconscious, and then his lit tle son, whose
legs and abdomen were so badly burned
that he will die. About seven months ago
several men reputed to bo Anarchists were
employed at the theater. They quarreled
their employer over money matters,
anr* wfion dfbijilvswl toft, wniWg * » «m—
--geance. Mr. Gautzberg idias an idea that
these men started the flames.
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Echoes from the Cyclone.
Mt. Vernon, 111., Feb. 20.—Thirty dead
bodies so far have been recovered from
tite debris made by the terrible cyclone
yesterday. Some of these, however, died
since being The number ef
wounded will sum up over one hundred.
Three hundred houses were completely
demolished and one thousand people arc
homeless. In six acres, formerly well
built up, but three houses nrc standing in
the path of the storm,aad those are wreck
ed. On the right and left of tho path the
debris plunged like catapults into homes
more fortunate.
A Fatal Fall.
Bay City, Mich., Feb. 20.—Carrie Tietz. a
young woman from Sebewaing, who was
arrested for burglary and held fortrial, at
four o’clock this morning tore her bed
quilt into strips, pried an iron netting out
of a window and attempted to reach the
ground by a rope made of quilts. The rope
broke and she fell a distance of thirty feet,
striking on her head. She will probably
die. Her sister, held on the same charge,
was ready to follow if the rope had not
broken.
Land Law Amendment.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The Senate Com
mittee on Public Lands to-day considered
the proposed amendment of the general
land laws, namely: The repeal of the tim
ber culture and pre-emption laws and the
amendment of the homestead law so as to
limit tho acquisition of available public
lands to actual settlers. It will probably
report a bill substantially similar to tbe
Senate bill of the last Congress on this
subject.
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A Lunatic Kills His Room-Male.
St. Peter, Minn., Feb. 20.—The night
watchman at the hospital for the insane at
St. Peter in making his rounds at two
o’clock this morning discovered that J. W.
Stover hod killed liis room-mate. Charles
Warner. The two patkwU were consid
ered harmless, and had roomed together
for tho last two months. The murderer
accomplished his deed by using the post of
an iron bedstead, with which he crushed
tho victim’s skull.
Conscience Money From Cincinnati.
Washington, Feb. 33. —Tho Secretary of
tho Treasury received, through Adams
Express, a package containing $1,603 in
National bank notes, shipped by “A Free
man,” at Cincinnati. It was accompanied
by a note asking that the money lie placed
to the credit of the conscience fund, and
bearing the signature, “One Who Will Be
Honest.”
Manager Missing. Also SIO,OOO.
New Orleans, Fob. 20,->George W. Hill,
manager for the Diamoftd Match Com
pany, has been missing since Thursday.
He is SIO,OOO short iu his accounts.
Neal Dow Again Nominated.
Portland, Me., Feb. 20.—The Democratic
Mayorality Convention to-night nominated
Neal Dow for mayor. Mr. Dow is also tho
Prohibition candidate.
Ten Years in the Pen.
Saratoga, N. Y., Feb. 20.—Jas. Green,
the Bailiton Bank burglar, wa« to-day
Uac«4 f*r t®n >#•»••,
SECTIONAL PREJUDICE.
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A Republican Campaign Cry Which Is
About I‘lajreit Out.
It is certain that the Republican
party will make its last tight for
power under the domination of its old
sectional bitterness and prejudice. Its
violence and viciousness will make
clearer than ever the great advantage
the Democratic party his always en
joyed as a National party —represent-
ing the whole country and not a par
ticular section of it. Looking at every
tiling from a single point of the com
pass, the Republican party will con
tinue to attack the Southern States; to
do every thing in its power to ex
asperate their people and to revive
old animosities. It has made its calcu
lations and adopted this policy delib
erately in the hope of preventing a
break in the Northwest, where its ma
jorities have grown smaller and
smaller every year, until now, with its
other policy of obstructing tax reduc
tion and reform, it can have no hope
of retaining control in these agricult
ural States of the Northwest, unless it
can succeed in blinding reason with
prejudice.
On the great question at issue in the
campaign, the interests of the South,
the West and the Northwest are iden
tical. They all pay tribute to the pro
tection barons of the “ industrial
States;” their agricultural popula
tion is everywhere more or less ham
pered with mortgages forced by pro
tection and held by tho beneficiaries of
protection. Commercially’, too, they
arc closely identified with eacli other,
and they have only to unite to
free themselves from the gross injus
tice by which their progress is retarded
and their wealth drained from them in
a steady stream for tlie benefit of the
more favored States. It is to prevent
this union that the Republicans indulge
in frenzied appeals to all the hatreds
if twenty-five years ago.
The Democratic party is not under
the necessity of replying. The Repub
licans are out of power; they’ have no
issue to present except issues on which
they have been repudiated, and by
continually dwelling on the past they
show that they are incapable of seeing
the needs of the present. If the tariff
reform fight is made hot in the West
ail'd Northwest, no amount of “ shirt
shaking ” will blind the people to
their real interests. A fight that
put every protectionist and mo
nopolist on one side ami every lover
of fair play and good government on
the other ought to be made in the com
iim campaign, and to lead here in Ihe
Yv*st we want a Democratic candidate
for Vice-President who can add 2,000
votes to the Democratic vote in Minne
sota. — St. Louis Republican.
THE LONE STAR STATE.
Why It Would Re Perfectly Proper to
Blake Four States of It.
That nice old Republican organ, the
Chicago Tribune, is most distressed and
very angry because it has heard some
where a rumor of a plot to cut Texas
up into four States, thus giving the
Democrats six additional members of
the Senate and six additional electoral
votes.
It is easy to propose this scheme, but
not so easy to carry it. No sentiment
is so strong among the people of the
Lone Star State as the sentiment in
favor of Texas unity. They take pride
in keeping Texas intact, as it was con
quered under Sam Houston and Davy
Crockett, and in preserving the boun
daries of the Texas Republic, which
for ten years was recognized as an in
dependent Nation by the powers of the
earth, and which voluntarily gave up
its National existence to enter the
Union of American States. No, tho
Texans do not want Texas divided.
Rut suppose these sentimental rea
sons did not exist. Honestly, now,
why should not Texas he divided?
Texas has as muc h territory as Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
aware, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana
combined, with some land to spare.
Her territory could ho cut into thirty
two States each as large as Massachu
setts. Her population equals the com
bined population of the nine States of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Florida, Colo
rado, Nevada and Ore on. These
States have eighteen votes in the Sen
ate, while Texas has only two. They
have thirty-one electoral votes, while
Texas, with the same population, lias
only thirteen. Why should it he unjust
to cut Texas up into four or more
Slates if her people would consent to
it?
Besides, Texas is growing faster
than almost any other State in tiie
Union, and has land enough to support
the entire population of tho United
States.
We do not see what just ground for
complaint the Republicans would have
if this huge domain—an empire in it
self —should he cut up into several
States of the usual size-. Boston (Hobs.
Murat Halstead has slie l enough
tears over tho confirmation of Lamar
to wash the bloody shirt whiter than
Com (icrctal
VQL. IV-NO. 52.
BILL’S BAZOO.
To tho lion. \V. U. Chandler.
The Solid South! the Solid South'!
Where once the carpet-baggers reigned.
Where scalawags shot off the mouth
With bloviation well jimblained—
Its rebel yell no more is heard
Where soars aloft the Yankee bird.
But far and near is heard the shout
Of Chand or Bill, whoso gruesome soul
Is whirled in frenzy round about,
Lest “these here States” become a whole
And put old Europe’s thrones to shame—
One-souled as well as one in name.
The rebel yell has passed away,
And yet we have the bloody shirt.
Alas, that decades since the fray
B.li thus should with the voters flirt!
Hut never mind; the votes once tnoro
Will snow the drift of 'B4.
Fill high tho brazen bowl of gall,
Fill high the bowl of senseless bate;
Yet floats the flag high over all
And Bill’s bazoo is blown too late.
With bitterness the Northern mouth
No more berates the vanquished South.
—Hatch*.
TWO GREAT ISSUES.
Strong Democratic Claims to Retention ia
Power.
It is now quite clear that the ap
proaching Presidential election will
turn upon two questions which neither
of the great political parties can evade,
and which both must deal with frank
ly anti unequivocally. The political
organization which either in the per
sonnel of its National ticket or in its
declaration of principles shall attempt
to shirk or straddle these questions
v. ill be repudiated by an overwhelm
ing expression of public opinion at the
ballot-box. The tariff and land ques
tions are the issues that must divide
political parties in the Presidential
canvass of 1888.
A revision of the tariff to the end
that necessaries of life may be disbur
dened of useless taxes, that the farming
interest inay.be relieved of unjust and
burdensome taxation and be enabled
to secure better markets abroad for its
surplus products, that manufacturers
may no longer he cribbed, cabined and
confined to an overstocked home
market, and that labor may receive
just and ample reward and obtain
cheaper food, clothing and shelter, is
admitted by all intelligent thinkers to
be an absolute condition precedent to
the continued prosperity and tranquili
ty of the country. The struggle with
the land grant railroad companies,
whose lands are forfeit to the Govern
ment by their own ladies, for the re
covery of those lands by the people, the
annulment of fraudulent titles under
which extensive tracts of land of right
belonging to the people have been
seized and are now held, and the pre
vention of the unlawful entry of large
bodies of the public lands for specula
tive purposes, will bemattersof almost
equal prominence with the tariff ques
tion in the political canvass about to
Le opened. The excellent record made
on the land question by the present
National Administration will be a lead
ing feature of the Democratic claim to
retention in power.
The two issues thus stated naturally
blend in the general interest of labor.
Both questions affect the welfare of the
working people of every class and
guild. Light taxes and cheap lands
are the sure guaranties of good wages
anil steady employment Tariff taxes
are just as oppressive as any other and
far more insidious in working the de
moralization of industry than these
collected directly from the tax-payer.
Cheap lands, homesteads to be had for
the occupation,enable the wage-worker
to assert his independence. The work
ing people of the United States will,
therefore, take a profound interest in
the discussion of these questions. No
matter what attempts may be made to
mystify and obscure these live and real
issues the wage-earners will not fail to
pti’ceive that his welfare is bound up
in them and that his interest lies in the
reduction of taxes and the preservation
of the public domain for the occupancy
of actual settlers. — Harrisburg (PaA
Patriot.
CURRENT COMMENT.
There are a good many hills in
Washington, but the bill that should
he laid on the table and have a cover put
on it is Bill Chandler. — N. Y. Graphic.
Not until the sectional issue has
absolutely been obliterated can the
Republican party hope to ever gain a
foothold in the South. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
“The White Mountain Freezer
Company ” has been organized in New
Here, perhaps, is a chance
for John Sherman to be a president.—
Chicago Herald.
With Kellogg and Pinchbaek
both headed for the Republican con
vention, it’s nigh the time for Flana
gan to set out, too. —Philadelphia
Times.
The attempt to wave the bloody
shirt in the case’of Mr. Lamar was a
failure. It wouldn’t wave. The wind
blew through its tatters. The bloody
shirt is pretty well worn out, anyway.
It never was a handsome garment, and
now the country has no further use for
it. It is time to put it away in the
political ragbag, and the country can
part with it without regret. But w«
are sorry for Hon. William E
Chandler. It was his favorite sliirh
and we don’t know how he Will dt
without tit— £oston GMit