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Jxo, Barton, - - Editor. —r—w-m- ■■ ■■■ ■— ea .. * ■ < ¥i ul -TiTVm^mK&mmSm 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. W. 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