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Vice-president Morton lias been
to see President-elect Harrison,
A big draw on the .Norfolk, Ya.
Savings Bank, has suspended that
instilution.
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 usual Ibis time anoth
er iude woman.
The president seems to be mak
ing postoffice appointments that
ought to have been made three
years ago.
The butchvrs and cattlemen of
St. Louis, are at war Cutting of
prices on the part of the butchers
toward the cattlemen is the cause.
Up to 21st inst., there were two
deaths and thiee new cases of yel
low fever in Jacksonville. Ere
this that section has had frost.
It is now aimostan 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. Tiideu's wines and liquors
•old for $6,000. If republicans
bought them, they will presently
vote th® straight democratic tick
et.
Chairman Barnum will get over
his illness and it will 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 twel' eor 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 Siiiiiii calls the New York
era ‘dollar worshippers.’ Quite
appropriate. The dollar was certain
Jy worshij.j'd in the recent elec
tion.
It is saui ihat Henry Watterson,
at the St i ouis convention, re
marked: *‘t h, damn silver any
way.” 11 i a good thing, howev
er, the (J> urier Journal doesn't
agree with i im
The inhabilauts oi the town of
Leavenw*all, Ind,, are excited ov
er the big neks that are falling
from the cliJl above them. Sever
al have already fell, crushing tim
bers, etc., that came in 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-
tacle as a New York Croesus
clutching his millions.” But the
combinations of the latter leave
the former mighty few dimes to
pinch.
The It ice Problem ia A'liea.
The Commotion says: "Nearly
every great nation in Europe ia get
ting read* to seize and bold a larga
•lice ol Africa.
• Uonnuny’s pretext forgoing iato ;
the lam-giabbing holiness ia that aha
desires to btoak up tba Afiican slave
rade. and she has invited several of the
powers to uo-operate with her. Hot
Germany has a bad case of the colon
ization fever, and she proposes to help
herself to everything in eight.
* After the European colonies sac
ceeu in gaining a foothold iu Africa,
it gore without saying that they will
have to deal with a race problem of
oouhiderabie magnitude.
"How do they propose to treat the
negro alter securing his native land by
foiCo, fraud and purchase? Will they
educate i im, and m ke a citizen of
him? Will they keep him iu a state
of peonage, or wilt they m x and min
gle with him oa a plaue 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 an inferior race
stand in their way, As soon as they
see that they ean not have good gov
ernment and progress with the negro
at the top of the social pyramid they
will push him down to its base and
keep him there.
* The rext genrradon will see Afri
ca pass entirely under the control of
the whites, and the moat troublesome
raoe problem of the ages will be set
tled on the dark continent.”
The Sp rit of the South.
The New York World says the in
tei views with representative journal
'' of the South published in yesUr
lay'* World undoubtedly reflected the
pi*-rxiling sentiment of that section to
wards the incoming administration.
Tht solid sonth i* not yet broken,
and it can not he broken by any of the
me<hods adopted by the repnblicans in
the past. Senator Quay’s talk of the
“mailed hand” is either blind madness
or open-eyed folly. What President
Grant, with his iron will, was nnabls
to do while the southern states were
many of them still under military
ruie and the country wonted to the
domination of force it is sheer luster
to think that P/osident Harrison would
be able to accomplish twenty years li
ter, even were he disposed to nador
'ke it. The day of eoeroion and of
aogro scalawag rule at the south has
gone by, a*Te- to lOtarO
The spirit of the Sonth is national.
The race question it unt be pennitt.
•and to settle for itself. Bat there is to
other southern question that is not al
so a northern and a western quo uioa.
The southern people are open to ap
peals to their patriotism and tbeir in-
tereste. They can ba divided politic
ally on the terilf qneetion aa soon a*
the republican leadere make it eafe for
them to separate. There are plain in
dications that this is to be the new
policy of the party that Will return to
power in March.
, Ti* s coatnmatioa devoutly to he
wished. The demoeratio party will
gaia more than it ean lose by the de
struction of tbs Jan lemnsut ef the old
sectionalism.'
Hon. W. C. Winslow.
Hon. Cope W inslow who was a
candidate for solicitor-general of
the Bth district, before the logisla
ture got left. In his 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 door upon the
boy. jumped into the carriage and
were rapidly driven off The little
fellow rushed into the street crying
as if his heart would break. Some
men came along and on seeing his
distress said:
“What is the mutter, 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 convuls*
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 lor you; but to bo perfectly
frank, Winslow, I will have to give
Billy Felton a complimentary vote
on the iirst 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
the trees stripped of the leavos, we
know that spring, garlanded With
flower* and breathing perfume will
couie again tripping under a sunlit
cacopy— but the heart that has been
once betrayed will trust again.”
The speaker then assailed tbo ay*,
tem ef electing judges and solicitors.
“Suppose,” said bs, “that a mail
like the glorious and lameated Judge
Lumpkin had been a candidate under
this new system. Scpposs he bad
been defeated by a combination, that
splendid intellect wooid have parted
under dim eclipse disastrous twilight
shedding ”
lie described the manner of elect
ing judges and solicitors as a sort ot
three card monte triek, and said that
ibeis weie members who, if aevcessa
iy, would have traded their great
graDd-mothers and mother in laws f< r
billy goats. This provoked uproari
ous applause.
The lecture fairly bristled with hap
py bite, relieved by fine pathetic
points.
Mr. Wiuslew concluded with two
fine quotations from Shakespeare.
“Gentlemen,” said be, “the time of
life is snort. To spend the shortness
basely were too long did life but ride
upm a dial’s point; still ending at the
arrival of an hear.”
“To thine own eelf be true, and it
must follow, at the night the day, thoc
; eanet net then be fslae to any man.”
| Tho above outline givee but a fain:
idea of hie humorous, sensible end
eloquent talk.
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