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Jno. Barton, - - - Editor.
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Detroit, Mich., insfailed tier new
Bishop Foley, the 25th inst.
Fourcoßgressmen-olect in Weft
Virginia, will have their seats con
tested,
Up to the 27th inst, yellow fev
er had disappeared in Jacksonville.
.No new crpos were reported-
It is rumored that Mrs. Langtry’s
husband recently paid her a flying
visit. Wonder how Freddie feels
by this lime.
As yet,, no one hue spotted ou’
Harrison’s cabinet. However, i:
lie don’t want to get run out of
Washington, he had better not
give Foraker a position
rJ he truly good republicans are
inclined to abuse Blaine, but they
should remember that Biaine con
stitutes a very big slice of the re
publican party.
Baltimore, Md., is about to have
a rebellion in the oyster trade. The
crews seem to want to dredge in
certain grounds, and the governor
forbids if.
The fever fceiged district of Jack
sonville has at last had frost, If
northeast Georgia had had her way
she could have given Jacksonville
a good frost a month ago, and had
plenty left.
Someone wants u division of
Texas. Now, if 6he owes that fel
low a dividend she is able to pay
it, but she don’t waul any in hern,
as to drawing in her skirts. ’Tis
true, her territory f state is large,
but bv-and-by she will find people
enougli to till up her borders.
Th® pope of Koine, has sent
Gen. Harrison a warm letter of
congratulations on his election.
Asa general tiling most foreign
era believe in ‘-Liberty,” but it
seems Ihe Catholic Lope is trying
to turn the impression in Ameri
can politics.
Gen. Sherman didn’t cut much
of a figure in the late republican
campaign, yet lie wants Harrison
to give him a position that will
contain the bigg's! plum in the di -h
.No doubt, he will have to take the
-•bung" out of that hogshead of
‘•gold coffers’’ that Puck shows him
with, before he can got that plain.
Tiie North Chicago Hulling Mill
men are on a strike. Their griev
ances have been referred to a < oru
rnittee of arbilrafion Whatever
the decision, it will be binding to
both employers and employes This
city seems to boa groat place for
strikes—urged by fashion more
than reason
Gen. Harrison seems to be getting
a number of letters from Southern
men, asking what will be his poli
cy toward the South. These men
might as well ask Gen. Harrison
which way the wind will blow on
hia inauguration day next Mireh.
He could give them just about as
direct an answer.
The great pacer Jay Eye See,
valued at $50,000, of Detroit, Mich,
stepped on a piece of glas3 in the
pasture, one night last week and
cut the main artery in his forefoot !
When found he was almost lifeless
from loss of blood. There was not
much hope for his recovery, 110
was one of the finest horses on re
cord in that state.
That Chinaman.
Some editor of Georgia, ought to
go to Atlanta and set his foot
under Venable's “coat-tail.'’ It
would help him wonderful. He is
in the lower house of the legisla
ture, from Fulton county*. That
•aunty has need to be ashamed of
aim. lie can find nothing to do
but make attack on the low* prices
paid newspaper publishers for le
gal advertising He wants the poor
devils reduced to starvation.
A few* days ago a thief, claiming
to be from New York, robbed a
store in Baltimore of 40 cents.
Finding his gain so small, he wren
ched the lock from the store door,
walked off and gave himself up to
the marshal. When brought into
court he was asked why he gave
himself “away!” He said a friend
of his had threatened to tell on
him. The truth of the matter may
divulge the fact, the thief made
su<?h a failure, he thought he would
quit the business and get even
with the town, by getting free
board in the “lock-up” for awhile.
That Note Cost him Something.
Memphis, Tt-nn., Nov. 25.—J
L. On ley of Frieudsh’p, one day*
last week wrote the following mes
'age to Rev. W. II Bruton, editor
of the Sla'e Wheel of Jackson: “I
thought you were editing a wheel
paper Iliad nothing in it but rot
ten democracy, and you can take
your democracy and paper and go
io I am a wheeler and a re
publican.” Bruton showed the
card to the federal authorities and
a deputy marshal was sent to ar
rest Onley, He was taken to Jack
son to-day and tried before a Unit
eJ States commissioner and held
over under a bond o'f SSOO to ap
pear at the April term of the teder
al court The lowest penalty lor
such an offense is SIOO line and
thirty days' imprisonment.
A Split in the Hanks,
Indianapolis, Nov. 27. —About
1,200 democratic veterans, mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Re
public posts of the state, held in
the capitol building last night a se
cret meeting, at which it wasresolv
ed that every democratic member
of the Grand Army of the He pub
lie should abandon the order, and
all present pledged themselves to
withdraw from their posts. Adju
nct Geneial Iloou'z presided. A
name and constitution tor the new or
der proposed by the democratic veter
ans were adopted. The new order is
to be charitable and non-political in
obaraQter. Another meeting will be
held to night, and ou Wednesday ev
ening there will be a public mass meet
ing in the city hall, whan reasons for
deserting the Grand Army of the Re
public will be given and the princi
ples and object® of the new order laid
before the public. Adjutant-General
Koontz says similar meetings will ba
hold all over tha state within the next
week. Mr. Ivoontz said last evening
that ho had letters bom men is eight
ra'OJ Indicating that tha rarverusut is
national.
AmoDg the letter* reoeived was one
from John Norman, secretary of
the democratic societies of Pennsyl
vania, promising that every democrat
ic soldier in Pennsylvania will leave
the Grand Army of the Republic. The
president of the societies, who ran
against Braver for governor, is t thg
hssd of the movement in Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Xoontz ye that bat few
Indiana democrats have attended
Grand Aroiy meetings since the elec
tion became all post* havo been hold
ing met lings ratifying the election of
Harrison aud Hrorey. It is pretty gen
traliy believed that Congressman Mat
sou io at the bead of the movement,
but so far he has made no public state
mcDt. It is known that he feels very
85r because the G;and Army of the
Republic as an oiganization, worked
against him, and bis friends here say
that he will follow theexample of Gen
Palmer ot Illinois.
The Revenue Report.
Washington, nov. 25—Joseph 8
Miiler, commissioner of internal reven
ue, ia his annual report to thssecreta
ty of the treasury, says that the total
receipts of the fiscal year ended June
30ih, were $124 320.475, an increase
of $5 489 1 1 4 over the previous year,
t-he estimated receipts for the current
fHrai year are 125,000,000 dollars pro
vidod no change is made in existing
rates of taxation. r I he withdrawals
lrom tue warehouses during the year
show* the laige increase, as compared
with the previous year, in the con
sumption of all kinds ot liquor and
‘ igars, with the single exception of
spirits di*>illed from apples, peaches
aud grapes ihe cos' of collee'ion of
hs emal taxes were 3,978 253 dollars.
During the y#ar 1 074 violations ol
the Jaw have bei-a reported, 70l per
sons srieeU’d, end 518 illicit *fills
Seized. The internal revenue officers
have 'offered much loss by the dc-
Htroving of tbeir vehicles and bores by
moonshiners,.and it is suggested that
a law be p'assed for the'r reiraburdc
meat.
The aggregate amount of taxes cob
l*-ted trowi tobacco duiiug the year
was 5,(J62,43l dollars, an increase of
554,31>4 over the previous year. The
export stoonat shown a decrease in all
kinds of tobacco, except cigarettes, of
which 40 334 300 dollars wore were
exported than that ot laet year.
Ths cornmitisioner recommended that
ihe distillation cf all kinds of frnit
brandy bo hareatter allowed under the
law regulating the distillation of ap
pie brandy. The abolition of the
tax, he says, would cause a large loss
to ttio revesuen than generally estimat
ed through a decreased grain distilla
tion. It would also work great mis
chief to the revenue service. The
commies ioDer given at length bis rea
eons for believing that it is imprsetic
able to protect the revenues from trand
in case of alcohol need in the artß is
freed from tax.
The quantity of spirits remaining in
the distillery at the close of the year is
stated at 61,038,018 gallons, being
4,112 457 more than at the close of
the previous fiscal year. Tho qnanti
tv of distilled spirits in the United
States, except what may be in the etas
toms bonded warehouses on the first
day of October, was 93,712 919 ga'
lons, this quantity being distributed
as follows: In distillery and noecial
bonded warehouses, 53,590,428 gal
Ions; in the hands of wholesale liquor
dealers, 14,828 871; in hands of the
retail dealers, 15 288,055. The qnanti
ty of oleomargarine produced from
November Ist, 1886, day on which 'he
oleotn*rg4rioo law took effset, to June
30, 1888, was 56,020,154 pounds.
The commissioner fears that the law
relating to oleomargarine ia being
avaded, and recommends additional
legislature to icctre i' better enforce
meat.
W. A QmLLian L
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