The Greensboro patriot [January 27, 1885]

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.__l'hc last aniiUiil report of
: ',; muds sustains all
i lias said in common
his administration of the
, nt Printing Office. An
tion "i *-,075,000 is asked
ling fiscal year against
■the estimate for the
. year. This decrease
■ted i- due to improved
..,.,< facilities and to the introduc-
; modem machinery and to
• tion of better business
•i in the management of
GREENSBORO, X. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885. I JXO. II. III-MSEY. I.lll.r « Propcle or.
[ntiill : Sl.50 P« Ye»r. In Advance.
The Legislature is asked to
e (tension of the Atlan-
■!i Carolina Railroad to
The scheme, which
. he a revival of the Best
,. a in extend the road from
iville tn Fayetteville and ou
ooanties of Maruett,
Randolph, Stanly and
i Charlotte. One prop
- to give the -State stock t>>
■ any who will extend the
'harlotte. Another is that
shall put on a force ol
is. gra.ie the road ami
li for the value of the
and hay iron with the sur
mouey made by the road.
lor ia to amend the charter so
permit an issue of mortgage
mils in the amount of $15,000 per
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
A memorial in favor of the re-in
of iiewspa|>er postage has
prepared by a committee of
urn journalists. Fifty four of
idillg, representative West
r n newspapers held a convention
i Detroit during December, b\
this committee a as empew
1 the attention of Con-to
this important matter. It
the unanimous opinion of the
ntion tli.it he present law is
it and that Cougreaa ought Ui
j the remedy at once. The
nenl in favor of a revision ot
A is stated in the committee's
irial with force, and cannot
--fully answered. While
in nt has originated an
:n i he West, the press of the
wkbout reference to poiiti
iction 's in sympathy with
i spaper postage
;i,i:,l by the subscriber. In
year the law was changed,
lyinent being required at the
..I publication at the rate of
two cents pet pound. Publishers
foiiml it to be impracticable to
the outlay for postage by
advancing their rates to sobscrib
Postage became one of the
necessary expenses of publishing
a newspaper. It has been a tax
upon the publishers yielding about
IO.OOO to the Government.
the law was passed letter
..;.- has been largely rei'nced,
and the rates on transient newspa
ann periodicals have been
cut down one.half ; but the tax on
paper publishers remains un-changed.
Merely to state the case
prove the grievance. Then-is
no reason why newspaper pub
Ushers should be excluded from
the benefits of cheaper postage.
They ask that the present rates
should be reduced one half. It is
a legitimate demand which ought
to be immediately conceded by
TIIE PAITH-CUHE MANIA.
A -'i.iith" minister, J. D. Aus
,. started a Faith-Cure Hospi
tal in St. Louis, and has been able,
up to the present, to gel enough
contributions from deluded, chari
tabh disposed persons to run it.
Patients have been sent in to lie
i by faith, but all doctors or
medldnea are prohibited. "At
nperioilsoftheday." says a
»,h, matron, Mrs. Oaldwal
attendants and
TYPOIHAMA.
Typomauia, or the desire of see-ing
yourself in print, as the disease
is commonly called, is epidemic iu
this country and F.urope. So long
has the malady been chronic, and
so contagious is it that the skilful-est
physicians despair of curing it.
Even in Russii, where the govern-ment
generously maintains a quar
antine against foreigh authors and
prescribes rumigttion of the most
stringent variety for the native
book makers, typominia is ou the
increase. All microscopic research
has hitherto failed to discover the
bacillus seribbleriu, or germ from
which the disease springs, so that
the last resort in other disease—
inoculation—cannot be adopted in
this.
How severe and prevalent typo
mania was in England during the
past year may be judged from a
recent number of the Publishers
Circu'ar. According to this high
authority, the book issues numbered
live thousand.
Of theological works there were
issued 724 volumes. Alter theolo-gy,
we come to juveniles and tales,
of which 003 volumes were issued.
Third on the list come educational,
classical and philosophical books,
•VI.'! in all. Of histories and biogra-phies
theie were 490; of works on
arts, sciences and illustrated books,
132 ; of novels, 408 The supply of
the latter allows one for each day
in the year and two for Sundays,
but it by no means includes all the
fiction that appeared. Probably
four hundred more stories aud
novels were printed in newspapers
and magazines. Of j ear-books and
serials there were 323; of voyages,
navels and geographical works,
-30; of pamphlets, sermons and
miscellaneous, 208. Poets and
dramatists contributed 179 .olumes:
legal writers, 103; doctors and sur
geons, 100. Belles-lettres—that
nondescript class—claim also 100.
A further analysis shows that
the gain over 1883 is greatest in
the class of arts and sciences—78 ;
in history and biography the gain
is 70; in fiction, 59; in poetry, 34;
in travels, 20. But there is a ile
crease of 138 in juveniles; ot 90 in
belles-lettres; of 13 in sensational
and 3 in medical books. In
new editions 1884 surpasses 1883
by 128 including 00 in novels, 32
ii. law books, 22 in arts and sci
• nces, 35 in poetry and 3i in belle-lettres,
with a reduction ot 44 ill
juveniles.
When one reflects that the stock-in
trade or plant of the anthor is
so easily procured wo ought to be
surprised that there are uot more
Isioks issued every year, instead of
so few. For every one who can
sign his or her name in this last
generation is convinced that he or
she cm write a novel, just as
everybody believes he or she can
edit a newspaper better than any
body else.
A bottle of ink, a steel pen and
a ream oi paper, all of which can
lie bought for a song- will equip
the loftiest or the lowest aspirant
in literature. Brains e not in
eluded. They are not necessary.
The National Banks.
The Philadelphia Evening Tele-graph,
in commenting on the war
that is being waged in certain
quarters against the national bank
system, gives the following sug
gestive statistics :
"During the year 1884 there were,
throughout the country. 121 bank
failures; of these 11 only were na
Munal banks, 22 were State banks,
U were savings banks, and .i were
private bank.. The contrast with
188.1 is notable, the total numnei
failures of these institutions
'"'"•-stale Commerce Bills.
We propose to mention a few
features of the Reagan aud the
Seuate bills for the benefit of our
readers.
First, we are glad that Mr. Beck
h«s moved to strike out that fea
tine of the Regan bit. which in
providing that separate accommo
dations tor whites and blacks shall
not be deemed a violation of the
law, does in effect claim for Con
gress the right to make it the law
that to provide separate accommo
datious for whites and blacks shall
be a violation of the law. Congress
has the poser and the right to reg
ulateconimeree between the States;
but surely such a provision as the
one to which Mr. Beck objects can
not be intended to regulate com-merce.
11 seems to us to be stretch
ing the Constitution when it is
made to cover such legislation as
i hat. The'-blanket clause," as Mr.
Garland so happily dubs it, ought
to he relied upon. We mean of
course the power to provide for the
general welfare, &c.
Another provision of the Reagan
bill is t hat railroads shall not charge
more for a shorter haul than for a
longer one- that Is, let ussay by way
Ol illustration, shall uot charge mure
for hauling a car load from Hunt
ington to Staiinton than for haul
ing a car load from lliintingtoii to
Richmond. Is that a wise provi-sion
t Think ot what it means, or
rather how it would operate. It
means that a railroad may charge
as much for a shorter as for a long -r
haul, and would operate to realize
the charging oi as much to haul a
ear load from Hunington to Staun
ton as from Hunington to Rich
inoud. Are you willing to legalize
charges of that, sortt If not, how
will you so charge the provision
referred to as to make it accom-plish
the object you have in view f
Will yon provide that the railroad
shall not •diaugo as much for a
shorter haul as for a longer onef
Do so. and then to reduce the
one charge one cent on a ear load
would comply with the require
meats of the law.
Again : Congress has no power
to regulate inlra State commerce,
but only interstate commerce.
The Richmond and Allegheny rail
road lies wholly within the State of
Virjinia. Then-lore neither th
A New View of the civil Service.
There are a little over 100.000
Offices ol the national Government.
Ut these 15,000, or about one sev
enth, are subject to the regulations
M the Peudietoii acl, Wuoever
wishes to fill one of them must be
examined. The Executive can ap
point no one but a passed oompeti
tor.
But the occupant of any one of
these places can be hustled out of
office iu the most peremptory
manner possible. In fact, the
more activity aud change among
these reformed 15,<K)0 tne greater
would be the pride and satisfaction
of the true blue civil service re
former. His chief delight is to
shake the examination papers iu
the face of the o.tilled politician ;
and the ofiener the examined are
chosen aud thrown overOoar.l, the
more examinations are necessary,
aud the more frequently do the ex
animation commissioners sit in sol
emu conclave while the able bodied
applicants tell all they know about
the culture of the coffee plant iu
its native .soils or of the consuuip-tiou
of beans iu Bust u. It isu't
the removed the reformers care
about. They have nothing to do
with them. They are lor the ex-aminations
and the examined, and
every clerk appointed under their
prescription is gleefully regarded
as a tribute to their novel and esti-mable
genius. If President Cleve-land
should turn out (he whole 15,
000 l'eiidleton clerks all at once,
there would be an ecstatic whoop
and delirious bustle among the re-formers
at the prospect of having
to supply twenty or thirty th HI-sand
examined candidates at once
to till up tne vacancies. Sew com-missioners
would have to be ap-pointed
with more and bigger sal-aries,
and perhaps the civil service
reforming machinery would grow
to be bigger than the departments
themselves, something almost too
good to dieain of.
But the other portion of the
loo nun offices, the renaming 85,
000, are not connected with the
l'eiidleton act stall. Theoretically,
the Executive cannot only turn
any one of.lhese out, but he is tree
to put anyone he sees lit IU, no mat
ter what the lucky man doesn't
know about coffee and beans.
These, however, are the offices the
Senate bill, nor the Reagan bill, mugwumps ami reformers don't
it 8 were na
report
died all the
„„.„,„„„•,.,. to the sick wards, when
all prayed lerveutly for the recov-
,,,, patients. Expression.
. ,,!„.,, to blasphemy were
ttem, u, the faithful and God
ivolfedioeure. The appeals
nly the effect ot making the
. Lately a ebildnaa.
ed Durham died, and the matron
c Plaeenly remarked that "God
wanted the little one or He would
have made him whole." It IS
mi,,,e, stated that several *
euiUlren have been prayed to the
D"ink of the grave, and not with
standing this the matron and
j,,,., believe that Christ
thin, il I"' "•»"" '"'
„"! ,, is ol no use to
Comment is ttuueneusaryi
> remarked that unless
mber of cranks
he nurse would
being only 45; of these
lionet, 8 State. 2 savings, and ...
urivate A suggestive teature ol
"bank failures of l«»b*-j
over one half of them, or 67, fail-1
through speculation, and these may
,.ruin be divided into four classes.
OftheBrst, stock broking bankers.
".ere were 25 wrecks; **•-•
those which were broken
mil, or ■iv speculating officers, there were
19; of the third, or those that fail.
...rough favors granted to Spec,
lat.ng creditors, tl.ere.were 3
of other speculative
were 20." % „
The Tel-qraph then
the consideration
the
will cure
and if be
call in a
doe.-.
but it ■»■»>
there was s large n
n^tifnoobiecti,
.u asylum. Prom
|iKioUH mania to
1°' !SS i.--.rreotio,, mm
I'p'ecddy folio*. *~ U but astep.
his kind ol re
,bal of Freeman,
, killed his child be
Id
aud
failures there
commends
Prominent Democratic
leaders in Congress and leading
Democratic newspapers that are
making ready lo substitute State
"private banks for national
banks." and adds:
«The latter have maintained an
admirable position throughout the
eountry during the entire period
„f depression. Those th t taikd
,„ .New York were chiefly the diree
.."indirect victims of fraudu'ent
practices on the part ***•*
arts: and If the Government exam
„,er had made his investigation ol
their condition more rigorous they
would not have been wiecked
Here i» this city not a national
bank has failed since the shrink
age in values began, and theie is
probably not one of them which is
not as strong now, or stronger,
than it was iu 1881.'
The Telrg aph's beta and figures
are hard to auswer, successfully.
nor any other bill, can operate upon
that road so long as it chooses to
keep itself free from entangling alii
anc.es If it confines itself to Vir-ginia,
it may snap its fingers at
Congress.
Again: A railroad that carried
wheat from Chicago t« Hew York
city has to compete with water
transportation at least as far a-
Buffalo. How ean it successfully
compete if it ^s not allowed to low-er
its charges between Buffalo and
Chicago? Or if all the wheat is
sent by water to "Buffalo, the local
shippers will to have to pay much
higher charges to make up for the
pecuniary loss conseqrent upon a
loss of all the through freight.
A senator offered to the provision
forbidding a railroad to charge as
much for a shorter as for a longer
haul the following amendment:
"But this provision shall not be
construed lo legalize the charging
as much for a shorter as for a Ion
ger distance in any case."
However, the lawyers in the Sen
ate saw as soon as this proviso was
read that it could be evaded, as we
have said, by charging a cent less
on a car load transported the short
er distance, and the proviso as
amended received only eleven
votes."
Thus forcibly reasons the logical
and always level-headed R'ehmoiid
Dispatch. We think the Dispatch
covers the whole ground, and is
right in its conclusions, as usual.
filialS— orilemucmcv in Kngland.
Within a few months the cause
of democracy has incr ased in
strength to a notable degree iu
England. This has been due some
what to the hard times which made
the working masses profoundly
discontented with their lot and
anxious to discover a remedy ; but
a cause that lies deeper is the very-spirit
of the age which is every
where over turning ancient abuses,
challenging authority and Morgan
izing society on a broader recogni-tion
of the rights of man. There
cent extension of the suffrage iu
England was a marked concession
to This new power of the people.
and other and even more radical
concessions are inevitable.
One gratifying feature of this
agitation as it exists in England is
its outspoken and orderly charac
ter. The reforms demanded are
obnoxious, it may be. but it can at
least be said that the demands un-made
in an open and manly fash
ion. Democracy in England, thus
tar, is not tainted with arson, pil
lag'e and assassination. Whether
it remain thus, will depend largely
ou how it is treated. There is a
disposition in the Anglo Saxon for
lair play, and he will not counten-ance
underhanded and savage me
,hods unless driven to them by
desperation.
There is one evil above all now
pressing ou the masses which they
recognize and which they have
made up their mimls, with real
British bull dog pertinacity, to
abolish, and that is the present un
just and cruel land monopoly,
in this vast country of ours
appreciate the suffocation
threatens the thirty millions of fc.n
wish to see interlered with or
changed at all. To do that would
be to practice old fashioned poll
tics, with no examinations attached
anil the reformers have a natural
repugnance to politics of all sorts.
Civil service reform is what they
want, and it is enough for them,
and anything beyond is superflu-ous.
J.■tier.mi i)avl>' Accusers.
[Sow York World. 1
There are scheming politicians
aud malignant partisans who are
loath to surrender the capital of
sectional strife supplied them by
Hie unfortunate rebellion, aud who
reluse to recognize the fact that
slavery and the war to which it led
are things of the past. They hate
• he Southern people because the
South has become politically an-tagonistic
to their party. The
fiercest Confederate brigadiers and
the meanest Confederate scalawags
are patriots in their eyes il they
will consent to turn Republi-can.
But a Southern Democrat
they foully represent as an unre-constructed
rebel to the end of his
days.
These bloody shirt agilafors have
one precious relic of the war to
which they cling with jealous te
nacity Poor Jefferson Davis is
their capital. Whenever they find
it necessary tobtir up their section-al
hell-broth they use -Mr. Davis as
a spoon. He is an old man with
one foot or one loot and a half iu
A Monte Crlslo In Real Life.
[New York Herald.]
The report comes from I'hiladel
phis that Prof. Samuel Kent Kane,
uncle ol Dr. Kane, of arctic fame, is
dead. His death Seems to have
beeu as mysterious as his career
was romanti-;. The tamest report
on the subject is thaf he was killed
in a railway accident near Sew
Orleans while on bis way to Phil
adelpbla, but there are other ac-counts
which hint that he was mur
dered by robbers for the money
which he carried. This might very
well be true. Oftentimes, Indeed
Prof. Kane was iu the position of
the traveler with MM empty purse
who could sing before the robber,
'nit as often he carried with bun
thousands of dollars and had mil
lions to the credit of his name His
life was lurid and nomadic, and he
had over again goes through the
entire g .nun between vast wealth
and abject poverty. Of late years
he lived more in Philadelphia than
anywhere else but his restless hah
its would hardly entitle him to call
any place his home. He was a na-tive
of Ohio, - aud was iu his 07th
year. It was as the forerunner of
the vast Standard Oil Company
that he first sprang into affluence.
He was a professor of natural
scie-ces iu Oberlin College when
oil excitement broke out. He was
caught iu the popular craze. His
ventures prospered; every enter
prise yielded him thousands, and
his thousands grew into millions.
Then he was caught in large specu
lations; the originators of the
Standard Oil Company secured
his red aeries aud Kane was penni
less and iu debt. Next, the mining
fever broke out. K ine was iu Cot
iir.nlii 'mill a pauper lie went
into mining enterprises and came
out a millionaire. There came a
turn in the tide, however, but this
time he saved $050,000 out of the
wreck of this fortune. He came
erst, and his wealth increased to a
million, but a confidence speculator
panel him and his money. Now
i here was dire poverty lor several
sears in Philadelphia, but in 1881,
while in Arizona examining certain
milling lands for Boston capitalists,
luck again rubbed against him. in
ihree months he came back with
1300,000. He married a young
wile in New York, and the. young
w fe went off' with 937,000 in good
bank notes, lie never heard of
her again, and he never sought to
liud her. At the time of his death
he had lost nearly all his money,
li.it owned considerable mining
property. He was the first man to
make soap out of kerosene, bu' in
this he was unlucky. His patent
»..s stolen. Uis body is said to
have been buried by an only son,
who lives in the west.
Leadeii-lleaieil J"< Ire.
The President has signed the
bill sending the French spoliation
claims to the Court of Claims. This
closes the first chapter iu the long
history of this most remarkably
prolonged case. For eighty five
years these claims have been be-fore
Congress. Forty four separate
committee reports have been made
upon them and only three were ad-verse.
Twice has Congress passed
bills for the relief these claimants
and each time the president has
met it with a veto. Presidents
Pierce and Polk vetoed the bills
for Hies claims. The great names
in Congressional history have been
attached to reports in favor ol
these claimants. Ruins Ohoate,
Henry Clay and Charles Sunnier
have uiyeii their payment. It is a
noteworthy fact that the first re
port iu their favor was made by
Andrew Gregg, who was the grand
father of Andrew Curtill, the chair
man of the House, committee on
Foreign Affairs, who submitted the
final and triumphant one. Bugun
with Grandfather Gregg, the case
An Illustrious Chlrken Thief.
Chief of Police Mehen, Parkers
burg, W Vs., was surprised at re
ceiving from Thomas Campbell, a
prisoner at the county jail charged
with chicken-stealing, a letter
wherein was set fo.th, in uoexosp
tionable English, a story which
exemplifies iu a startling manner
the ups and downs of life. The
writer asserts that he is a grandson
of Thomas Campbell, the Scotch
poet, and details his life and that
ot his family so minutely as lo
leave no shajjow of doubt of the
truth of his story. He says he was
bor" near Edinburgh and was
brought to America by his parents
when he was but four \ears old,
the family making their home near
Morgantown, West Virginia. A'
the outbreak of the war he enlist
ed and served four years, falling
from the ranks of the One Hun
drcd and Thirty third Peiinsylva
ilia Volunteers at the Wilderness,
with five bullets in his body. Ke
covering from his wounds he went
abroad to complete his education,
and in 1870 graduated from the
University of Paris. Afterwards
he took a medical course at the
University of Berlin, and the fol
lowing year engaged in the drug
business in Zanesville, O.
He was ruined by the floods of
February last and removed with
his family to Fayette county, Pa.
He then went to Pittsburg, and
finding his finances low secured a
flat boat and embarked his famil)
for Cincinnati, intenuing to engage
in the rig anil junk busintss en
route. At each stopping place
Campbell and wife pushed a. dog
car*, about the streets, gathering up
rags, glass, etc. At Marietta In-fell
in with a stranger who sug
gested the poultry business as an
auxiliary. This was agreed to. but
in a day or two the partner let a
number of fowls escape, and to
avoid loss made up the deficiency
from a neighboring farm yard.
Campbell sold the stolen poultry
ami was soon alter arrested and
jailed. His wife, who is with him,
is well known iu Pittsburg, her
maiden name having been Thomp
son. The case excites much inter-est.
A Chlneae Lynching.
[lYk-lijl KmriroJ
•Just outside the west gate of the
Shanghai city is a small hamlet
where lived an old man his son.
The latter made it a practice ot
calling upon his father for cash
whenever he was in want of it, uu
til the thing got lather monotonous
for the father, who reiiioiislralcii
with his son, and being saucily re
plied to, the father attempted lo
apply "paternal correction' on the
son ; the son, iu rage, then caught
hold of the door bar a d brought it
down with such force upon the
father's skull that he cracked it
[ and killed the old mail. The
! neighbors, li-.iiing the row, as
! sembled at the door of the house
where the murder was committed
and captured the son as he was ell
deavoring to escape. The members
of the father's clan were tueu called
together, aud at a solemn conclave
it was decided to administer ou the
spot law set aside for pa-ricides in
st.-ad of appealing to the magis
trates, which invariably coises
much delay, and perhaps the mur
derer might effect his escape ill the
mean time. So the parricide was
bound hand an loot, and just with-out
the hamlet a hole was dug ami
the wretched iniirdt rer consigned
to its depths. The mild was thrown
into the hole and the members ot
the clan 'tamped by turns on the
grave until it was on a level with
lhe ground, and so, without leav-ing
a mound or any marks to point
out the parricide's grave, the as
sembled crowd dispersed silently
at their daily vocations.
Thl« Mie.1 be a Ue.
[Baletab ..pocial N. Y. Tribune -January 14th.)
Coh I Thomas M. Holt in his
canvass for the Speakership of the
House of Kepresentatives made
numbers of promises of chairman
the grave. For years he has been
a private citizen, living iu a most j lla8 triumphed in the last years of
retired manner, except that at long , ||jtl (jrandson Cm tin The benefit
intervals, with the excusable van; j 0|- t|ie acl m;\\ goto the grandchild
ly of advancing years, he makes a j r(.M ,, die original claimants. The
harmless speech. Yet these uu | mstory ot the case shows that over
easy politicians talk of him as the | ,,„ mngant. of these claims are still ■ 8|,ip 0f various committees should
old English nurses used to talk of u.,^ j,, t|,0ii.iuJs of the descendants j (,,. he elected. He was elected and
the Black Douglas and try to I of the original claimants. I failed to keep these promises. To
frighten people with his nauie. These claims grew out of di-pre | day Mr. Leaser, of Iredell, v
datious made upon our commerce
by the French during the close of
the last century. By the treaty of
1800 our Government assumed the
French liabilities for the losses.
Charles Sunnier estimated the
amount of the claims at $12,000,-
000. Il is not probable at this late
time this entire amount can lie
proved up, as many of the families
through poverty and the lapse ol
tune, may be unable to either pre
sent or prove up theii cases. The
bill as it now stands as a
law merely refers ihe cases to
the Court foi their proper as
ceitailiinent of the exact amount
due each persou. The finding ol
the court will not constitute a judg
meiit, but it is understood that
Congress will promptly pay the
findings of the Court.
We
lo not
which
gland, hemmed in by th ocean on
a -erritorv just about twice the
size of any one of our larger states,
like Alabama, Georgia, Florida. Il
linois or Michigan. In 1873 it was
Officially stated that the 33,013,5 o
acres of land iu Rnglanfl were held
bv 872,830 proprietors, but that of
the total acreage, 22,000,000, were
owned by 10,'.'07 persons and one
million acres by twelve individuals.
Under the circumstances this is a
monstrous scandal, and one that
»iU8t aiid will be regulated.
Before the rebellion Jefferson
Davis served his country well in
peace ami in war. He won honor
in the forum and wounds on the
field of battle. He served lor six-teen
years in Congress, in the Si II
ale and in the Cabinet without be-coming
a m.l.onai.e like John Slier
man. Slaverj made h'ui a rebel.
Vet slavery was not the fault of the
South. It was its misfortune a
curse alike to black and white, iu
bented from the nation from which
we wresled our freedom Before
the Confederacy, the record made
by Jefferson Davis in honor, orato-ry,
statesmanship and integrity
would shame some ol his corrupt
assailants in the Senate and com-pare
favorably with any.
Why do Republicans
this old man by Ihe hair
him into the Semite !
they were defeated in the election
ami think ihey can rebuild Repub
licanism by reviving sectionalism.
They fau the embers of hate in or
der to rekindle the fire of corrup
lion.
I-Ollg Bcl.ll*: ..... «-.^od.
llUnnaduke Ro'riiu' •pea* in Ssn«e »»ainlt in-crease
«f Ouvernor » salary-1
Mr. Bobbins was thoroughly sat
istied that the bill was unconstitu
tional iii its application lo the in-coming
administration. The object
in passing it now was to enable the
incoming administration to take
advantage of it. It seemed from
the argument of some of the geir
tlenicii that it is the noble army of
officeholders I hat make this a great
State. He said lhat if it was pee- (
had been promised the chairman
ship of the Committee of Education
and to w lich he had not appointed
rose and charged the Speaker with
perfidy and being unworthy of the
confidence of his friends. The
Speaker simply replied that he had
promised before his election to ap
point Mr. Leizar chairman of Coin
mitiee on Education, but that sinee
his election as Speaker he had de
ciiled that it would be unwise to
make such an appointment. There
was consideriWe excitement in the
House while "his scene was being
enacted.
The Cereal Crops.
The official statement of the
Bureau of Agriculture places the
pr dnetion of corn in 1884 at 1,795,
000,000 bushels, and 'hat of wheat
ai ne rly 513.000 000—the largest
aggregates ever recorded A large
surplus will in either case remain
above the wants of the home mar
ket. France has raised the dui.es
on American grain and Germany
threatens to do the same, for the
agricultural depression in both
countries is very marked. No
doubt a similar movement will be
igitated in Great Britain, where
the questou of "Shall we grow
wheat 1" is already being
discussed. Meantime our farmers
are almost forced to sell at the [ire
vailing low prices, or find it cheaper
to use their corn as fuel or to con
vert it into hogs.
Whether the low prices now
ruling will so extend the consiimp
tion ot Defeats as to make a market
tor the surplus remains to be seen.
Such an extension would be eipiiv
aleiit to raising the standard of liv
ing, and this if maintained, would
be of lasting benefit lo mankind.
Good food can never la- too cheap.
Tlie College Workshop.
The trustees of the Slater Fund
for educating colored people in the
•South have been considering how
Ihey can best introduce practical
knowledge in their instruction.
Recently Ihey have visited the
workshop of the College of New
York City. This college workshop
was one of Ihe first of the kind es
tahlished in the country, and the
results obtained have justified the
lime and expense given to it. Stu-dents
are given three lessons a
week. The fiist year they learn lo
fashion wood to an> required form
or dimensions, to make joints, veil
cer, finish and polish. In the sec
ond year metal working tools are
used, forging, chilling and solder-ing,
finishing iron and brass; and
turning wood and metals is begun.
The third year the making of more
complicated pieces of machinery is
learned. '-So that," President
W.-bb expl lined, "our boys go out
with a comprehension of the theo
rj of mechanics and an actual prac
tice iu them which enables them
with a little study and practice to
master any handicraft or profes
sion."
Mr-", (.round lo I'n rr-.
A few miles west of I'latStdmrg,
Clark county, Ohio, ou Saturday
night, twelve Clydesdale horses es
caped from their pasture and were
on the Indianapolis, Burlington
& Wabash Railway track near
Hawkins Out when the ei.sthound
train came along at the rate of a
mile a minute. The frightened
horses ran along the track and
were chased by the locomotive into i
the narrow cut. banebed close to-gether
and crowding each other.
Here the train, the breaks grinding
hard but ineffectually, came thiiu
dering along, and in a second the
horses were mashed against the
earth sides, cut up under the
wheels or dashed high iu the air.
The loc otive ploughed through
the shrieking mass, killing eleven
out of the twelve and badly wound-ing
the twelfth. The great speed
Of the train saved it from being
ditched. The engine was only
slightly damaged. The horses
were valued at $200 per head.
Heroic Vfon.cn In France.
iPaii* Letlcr in New Orleam* ThuoB-Democrat.!
There are at present seventy wo-men
ill France who have received
the distinction of the Cross of the
Legion of Honor. The last ofthcni
is Mine. St. Julien, the Superior of
the Sisterh .od of St. Vincent de
Paul, who has been eiij.aged at the
Marseilles City Hospital for thirty
years. The order is generally giv-en
to women for devotion to the
sick and wounded. Lady I'igott,
for instance, besides several French
women, has received the order as a
reward for her services during the
Franco Prussian war. But the
name of ROM Bonhenr, artiste
pic litre, is also on the list, and it is
said that Mine. Abeicot was decor-ated
for her defending the house of
the Maire of Oisen, her husband,
against armed men, and that Mine
Regis, who is the first decorated
French woman, earned her distinc-tion
in 1819 for'•resisting the mob."
Sanaa,
A girl at least may smile and
smile and be a willin'.
A note from the capitol: The
Bureau of Information is overrun
l>3" members of Congress who de
sire to kuow in what part of En-rope
Nicaragua is situated.
"Ma, this paper says there are
3,950 bauds of mercy in this coun-try.
What is a band of mercy I"
"An association for charitable por
poses, child." "Oh, I thought it
nneant a brass band that didn't
practice of evenings."
Maraiages should take place ou
Wednesday.-New Orleans Pica
gune. And divorces on Two's day.
'•In Chicago a levr days ago a
man had his hand literally frozen
stiff to an umbrella which he was
carrying before he realised the ex
lent of the cold." It is pretty much
the same way in other cities. A
man must ■freeav on" to his um-brella
if he wishes to retain pos-session
of" it If he doesn't, some
other fellow will Ireeze ou to it.
"There," said the jeweler, "there
is a ring I can sell you for ten dol
lars. It is a good, heavy, solid
gold ring, just what it looks to bo."
"Yes, 1 see." replied Mrs. Rhine-stone,
-but I think I'd rather have
something that looks a good deal
better than it is."
"Well," said Mr. Smith, "I've
made one good resolution this Now
Year." "Indeed," said Mrs. Smith
"Yes, I've sworn off using tobacco;
1 shall smoke nothing but five cent
cigars and cigarettes in the future."
A sociable man is one who, when
he has teii minutes to spare, goes
and bothers somebody that .hasn't.
The Republican office holder
sings: "I would not live always, I
ask not to stay, hot the country
will suffer when I am away.''
The manager of the New Orleans
Exposition says one week of sun-shine
will bring the show out all
right. We haven't heard whether
the management intends to appro
pi .ate the sunshine.
sna|i Simla.
—Says the Boston Post: "It's a
wise man that knows when h'es
full." It is a wiser man thutdoesn't
get full.
—Christopher Columbus has tak-en
out a permit to build a house in
Washington. We thought Mark
Twain said he was dead.
—"The mutton is almost gone ;
this is a definition remarks an
Arkansas paper. When the mut-ton
is all gone what is it t
—-You can't cure a drunkard by
impris nenl," observed Dr. Jones
of Philadelphia the other day. Did
the doctor ever try keeping a man
iu for life t
—"Which is the worst, a legisla-ture
or an earthquake t" is the
query Ihey are struggling with in
Ohio. If the question alludes to
an Ohio Legislature there ought
not to be much controversy shout
it.
—The Philadelphia Item i« pub
lishiug a thrilling story entitled -'.V
Cry in the Night." It must have
been the first baby. The second or
third might cry itself blue in the
face and there wouldn't even b. o,
• paragraph iu the incident.
-
Women alllie K&poalilun.
I New Orleau. IV-..' une.
The women of almost every State
; and Territory have fashioned and
' sent articles for exhibit iu Ihe Wo-
; man's Department These success
: till, skilled workers, like so mail)
good genii, arc tapping at our
Southland door, ami they are
awaiting to have it opened and
hope to see the women of the South,
like a large, sweet statue of wel-come,
standing there to bid them
' enter. To Ihe women of the South
j this exposition of woman's work is
of the greatest value. It means to
: them a practical illustration of the
divers methods by which a woman
' may earn money. In this depart
tnent they hope to find new ideas,
new plans, new hopes, new ener
gies. They will see what other
women have done and will learn
; what they may do themselves.
now take
and drag
Because I iiin-.i si.nc- Supreme Court.
Justice Field does a great deal
of general reading and has a line
library.
Justice Bradley has a very chol
eric temper and is quite eccentiic
iu other respects.
Justice Blatchford is nearly as
rich as Bradley. l'hey are both
great book collectors.
Chief Justice Waite is suffering
from an endeavor to clear the Su
preme Court docket It is nearly
three years behindhand.
Within a year after Mr. Cleve-land
enters on his term he may
have threejodgeshipa to fill. Jus
tices Field and Miller and Ihe Chief
Justice will all be of age to retire.
The three great Justices are Mil-ler,
Field aid Matthews, and
office; now you have to almost
pull their caudal appendage off to
keep them away.
self all motions mail
motion day for the
itich Hlaea m lirargta.
For several weeks past a party
of Boston scientists have been ell
gaged in making a teSI of the sil-ver
and gold mines in the Cohuttah
Mountains, iu North Georgia. T.ic.\
have made their report, which has
thrown that entire section into a
frenzv of excitement. Jerome
Prince, of Boston, and Charles
Harness, of San Francisco, the
gentlemen who made the test,
: state that beyond any question this
' stri'ie is worth more to Georgia
: than all Ol her manufacturing in
dustres, and that a great capitalist
. in Boston is waiting the result ol
their test to come at once and open
1 the mines. They "say that the assay
' will run 80 per cent, and over, and
. that the vein is over 1,500 feet
wide and runs clear through the
mountain sboul eight or nine miles.
; Mr. Prince states that «L'0,000,OoO
would not buy the mines,
Killed by a Mliii-ler.
The Rev. Charles F. Clarke, a
well known clergy.n Ut, "I Houston
county, Oa., while quarrelling with
a colored man, was attacked by
the latterwith a knife. The preach
er, who had a cane in his hand,
struck the negro on the head, kill
,c on Monday, ing him instantly. A Coroners
Supreme Court.'.jury justified the preacher.
■ lleillli from a lack in a Hoot.
(C a-lotln Observer.!
Mr. A. G. Ueid. and old and re
s| ted citizen of this county, died
yesterday morning at his home in
Providence township, after a very
painful sickness. The immediate
cause of his dealh was blood poi-soning,
resulting from gangrene.
Some months ago, one of Mr. Keid's
feet became irritated by contact
with a tack in his boot, and the
irritation soon gave way to in!! mi
uiation and shortly thereafter gan
grene set in. The disease was
treated at once by physicians and
appeared to have been cured when
it again made its appearance, this
time in one of Mr. Reid's hands.
I'wo of the fingers of that hand
shriveled up and the palm sloughed
off. The bones of his legs and
arms had also become affected, aud
when the symptoms of blood ,.oi
loning set in, the doctors knew
thai fir. Beid was beyond hope.
| His sufferings were intense, but he
iiore them bravely.
Wedded lo a Child of Twelre.
Nicholas Van Horn, a well to-do
farmer and widower, of Habers-ham,
Ou., the father of two child
ren and over thirty years of age,
was married to Miss Ivey, a child
of twelve. During the ceremony
the chihl began to sob, when the
in ui patted her on the head in a
fatherly manner and wiped away
her tears with his big bandanna.
A shower ol stone..
At Cshallata. Mexico, last Fri-day
evening, a fearful shower of
stones n-ll, lasting eighteen min-utes.
It destroyed all the grazing
and cultivated land, leaving many
persons completely destitute.
Preferred llralli lo Cliiircli-t.olng.
Emil Spaclimann. of Syracuse,
committed suicide by shooting him
self. It is said that the immediate
cause of his act was the urgency of
his friends that he should attend
1 church.
Meaale Kpldemlc.
One thousand cases of measles
, are reported iu New Bedford,
Mass.. an average of one case to
eveiy thirty persons.
—A huge lemon was recently
\ picked al Panasoffkee, Fla. It
measured24 inches in circumference
The Hud»oii Hirer feach Crop.
Nulice has been sent to the New
York Mercamile Exchange from
Marlboroiigh on the Hudson, that on(. way, L"J inches the other, sni
the peach crop 0U the Hudson River ighed 4 pounds 13 ounces.
for 18*5 will lie a complete failure,
and that many observers, who re
ported on the indications of previ
oils years, declare that the failure
of 1885 will lie iu the most complete
on record. The warm days of ear
ly January opened the buds, when
a! sudden drop to IS degress below
zero Killed all the opening vegeta-tion,
leaving black ami hard knobs
where the buds had been. The Hild-i
sou River crop affords the later.
and the best portion of the peach
' supply of New York city.
—The fortune left by the late
John W. Garret, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, is said to amount to 935,000.
000:" He acquired this sum by the
aid of a popular railroad and a
rigiil adherence during a long life
to "strictly business" principles.
1 The fortunes of most millionaires
are ove rated. In this case it was
the reverse. Mr. Garret! died
worth twice as much as most jieo-
' pie had guessed.