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Vice-president Morion has been
to see President-elect Harrison.
A big draw on the .Norfolk, Ya.
Savings Bank, has suspended that
institution.
Macon s treasurer comes out be
hind in his accounts with the city
$20,000 shortage.
London has had another killing
added to her list ot Whitechapel
murders. As urual this time anoth
er iude woman.
The president seems to be mak
ing postoffice appointments that
ought to have been made three
years ago.
The buichtrs and cattlemen of
St. Louis, are at war Cutting of
prices cn the part of the butchers
toward the cattlemen is the cause.
Up to 21st inst., there were two
deaths and Lhtee new cases of yel
low fever in Jacksonville. Ere
this that section has had frost.
It is now aimost an assured fact
that Pickett will contest the elec
tion of Col Candler in this district.
There is the least danger but whal
Candler's election has been legal.
Mr. Tilden’s wines and liquors
■old for SO,OOO. If republicans
bought them, they will presently
vote th straight democratic tick
et.
Chairman JBarnuin will get over
his illness and it wil 1 be good news
to the whole country. He is a good
democrat, and the party can not af
ford to lose him.
If looks now as though the re
publican majority in the house will
be three, and is feared enough dem
ocrats will be turned out on con
tests to carry it to twelve or fifteen.
It takes a great intellect to keep
up with all the follies and foibles
of fashion; but it takes a greater in
tellect in a true sense, to ignore
them.
Sam Small calls the New York
era ‘dollar worshippers.’ Quite
appropriate. The dollar was certain
ly worship. • and in lhe recent elec
tion.
It is sam bai Henry YV atterson,
at the iSi i ouis convention, re
marked: •*( h, danm silver any
way;” 111 a good thing, howev
er, the Uv urier Journal doesn't
agree with i ini
The inhabitants ol the town of
Leavenw<>rtt, Ind,, are excited ov
er the big neks that are falling
from the elili above them. Sever
al have already fell, crushing tim
bers, etc., ihat came m the way
A man’s list is sometimes a terri
ble weapon. A man in New York
was knocked down the other day,
but refused to make any charge
against the man who struck him,
as he felt all right. He went home
and lay on a lounge and died in a
few hours. His assailant is still at
large, and as he is a stranger to the
police, it is likely will never be
captured.
The New York World thinks
that “a Georgia cracker pinching
his dimes is just as sordid a spec-
tael* as a New York Croesus
clutching his millions.” But the
combinations of the latter leave
the former mighty few dimes to
pinch.
The It ico Problem in Atiiea.
Thu Confutation My: “Nearly
every great nation in Europe ia gat*
ting read* to seize and hold a largo
el ice ! Africa.
• Germany’s pretext for going into
the lan a-grabbing business ia that sha
desires to break np the African slave
rade, and she has invited several of the
powers to co-operate with her. Bat
Geranay has a bad case of the colon
izatiOQ fever, and aha proposes to help
herself to everything ia sight.
‘ After the European colonies suc
ceed in gaining a foothold in Africa,
it gore without saying that they will
have to deal with a race problem of
oouaiiierabie magnitude.
“How dottier profo<e to treat the
negro alter securing his native land by
force, fraud and purchase? Wiiltbey
edacate r im, and m tea citizen of
hrua? Will they keep him is a stats
of peonage, or wili they m x and min
gle with him on a plane of social
equality?
“It is safe to say that greed and the
instinct of self preservation will de
cide the question. When the whites
take possession of Africa they are not
going to let any sentimental views
about the rights of au inferior raos
stand in their way. As soon as they
see that they can not have good gov
ernment and progress with the negro
at the top of the social pyramid they
will push him down to its baso and
keep him there.
‘The r-ext gear radon will see Afri
ca piss entirely under the control of
tbs whites, and the most troublesome
race problem of the ages will b set*
tied oa the dark continent.”
The 8p rit of the South.
The New York World save the in
(♦ftviews with representative journal
■"'h of the South published in yosUr
iy' World andeabtedly reflected the
pirTuiling sentiment of that section to
wards the incoming administration.
Tbs tolid soath ia not jet broken,
and it can not be broken by any of the
methods adopted by the republicans in
the past. Senator Quay’s talk of the
‘-mailed hand” is either blind madness
or open-eyed felly. What President
Grant, with hie iron will, was nnable
to de while the southern states were
many of them still under military
rule and the country wonted to the
domination of force it is sheer lnaacy
to thik that President Harrison would
be able to accomplish twenty years h
ter, even were he disposed to under
take it. The day of eoereion and of
ne*ro scalawag rule at the soa.h has
gone by. Barer to itaru
The spirit of the booth is national.
The race question it ui"*t be permitt
ed to settle for itself. Bat there is no
other eoathern question that is not al
so a northern and a western question.
The southern people are open to ap
peals to their patriotism and their iu
tereets. They can ba divided politic
ally on the tariff question as soon as
the republican Isadora make it eafe for
them to separate. There are plain in
dications that this ia to be the new
polioy of the party that will return to
powsr in March.
’Ti a conmmatioß devoutly to be
wished. The deaooratio party will
gain more than it saa loee by the dt-
Btructioa of the la3t lOtansut tf the old
aeetionalisua/
Hon. W. C. Winslow*.
Hon. Cope Winslow who waa a
candidate for solicitor-general of
the Bth district, before the legisla
ture got left. In hie eulogy of de
feat the fol’owing nigh the address
ed the legislature in the following
humor, pathos, eloquence and true
and tender touch, and common
sense that is artistic in its refine
ment;
He began by saying there was a
wide difference between Napoleon
and himself, Napoleon had been
described as being “grand, gloomy
and peculiar.” “I.” said the speak
er, “am neither grand nor peculiar
—but am very, very gloomy.”
“What defeated me?” asked Mr.
Winslow, solemnly, •■After due
consideration I am forced to the
conclusion that it was for want of
votes.”
“But why did I lack votes?”
He answered this question by
telling in inimitable style an anec
dote. Two fond parents in lowa
promised to take their little son
carriage riding. When the time
arrived they shut the doornpon the
boy, jumped into the carriage and
were rapidly driven off The little
tellow rushed into the streetcrying
as if his heart would break. Some
men came alougand on seeing his
distress said:
“What is the matter, little fel
low. We hope you are not hurt?”
“No,” said the little fellow, point
ing at the flying carriage, “I ain’t
hurt a bit—but yonder goes two of
the grandest liars in the state of
lowa.” This sally simply convulsr
ed the audience into laughter.
Mr. Winslow then humorously
described the fellow that stuck to
him. Weeks ago he had promised
not only to vote tor him, but to use
all of his influence to get him elect
ed. Two or three days before the
election I met him and said, “Old
fellow, you have not forgotten your
promise? Of course you are going
to support me.” The member grasp
ed his hand, but turned his face
and whispered, “Oh, yes, I’m going
to vote for you; but to be perfectly
frank, Winslow, 1 will have to give
Billy Felton a complimentary vote
on the first ballot, but on the sec
ond I am your man ” “You will re
member,” said the speaker, “that
there were only two running, and
one ballot did the work ”
“When the winter throws its cold
white mantel over the earth and
tho trees stripped of the learee, we
know that spring, garlanded With
flowers and breathing perfume will
come again tripping under a sunlit
canopy—but the heart that has been
once betrayed will trust again.”
The speaker thin assailed the eye
tem of electing judges and solicitors.
‘•Suppose,” said he, “that a nan
like the glorious aud lamoeted Judge
Lumpkin had been a candidate under
this new system. Suppose he had
been defeated by a combination, that
splendid intellect would have putted
under dim eclipse disastrous twilight
shedding ”
He described the manner of elect
ing judge* and solicitors as a sort ot
three card monte triek, and said that
there weie members who, it ne cess a
iy, would hare traded their great
grand-mothers and mother in laws f< r
billy goats. This provoked uproari
ous applause.
The lecture fairly bristled with hap
py kite, relieved by fine pathetic
points.
Mr. Winslow eoneluded with two
fine quotations from Shakespeare.
“Gentlemen,” said he, “the time of
life ia abort. To spend the ehortnsea
basely were too long did life bnt ride
upon a dial’s point; still ending at the
arrival of an hour.”
“To thins own self ba true, and it
most follow, as the night the day, thou
sanet not then be false to any man.”
The above outline gives bnt a fain:
idea of hia humorous, sensible sad
eloquent talk.
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