Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1879 Page: 1 of 4
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HIE STATESMAN-
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DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN
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STATESMAN.
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VOL. VIII.
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY JANUARY 10 IS7D.
NO. 15
WE
THE STATESMAN
'X-IIIJ DAILY
pa!libct every mm!Df except Monday
Till i WEKKLY
g pnM-f hed every Thursday tnornlnjr.
AU hn?inc eorre:'jxraleiict coinmunU u
tta.shnnlj he aildrrsmtd to
C. It DU'KLL A JIOHRW
Aastin. Texas
h'A ADDRESS TO THE SICK.
fo yon want lo porifr the system
lu yu want to r1 rid rf biliousness?
)v you want something lo strengthen yon?
Itu you ant a cood BiiotiU:f
IK yixi want lo g'-t nil of norvooinceef
lo yuu woil (rood dievtinnt
Io yua want to lci. wcllJ
Ii yira wmil lo Imiiil n ynar constitution?
l) ) 'a waiil liriri anil ivoroua fecliUK?
if you do
TAKE
six&rzoxsrs'
v.. 11.
V5 fc; i i.i is c o.
B- lo proprietors Simmon.' Liver
I'iiiliiu-lpMn.
Regulator
The Favorite)
Home REMEDY
I warranted not to
contain a ptiigle par-
ticle of Mercury or
any injurious uiinj
eral nbtance. bat
In PURELY VE:
I KTABlK contain-
ing those Sontnern
ft 'iota and Herba
which an All-Wue
I'lorldenee h.s placed In countries where Liver
direa-e must prevail. It will cure all diseases
rauwd by derangement of the Liver and Bow
elc ItcKulate tua Liver and prevent
CHILLS AND FEVER.
SI.TITIO.NS' LI VU IlEOt'LATOK
I eminently a Family Medicine and by being
kept ready for Immediate resort will live many
an hour of suffering aud many a dollar In time
and doctor' bills
AftHr ovpr Forty Ter' trial It la atill rer.elv-
Ina the most unqualified testimonials to Ita vir-
tue from persona of the biehest character and
responsibility. .Eminent pujsiciaua commend
it a the mom
Effectual Specific
FOIt CONSTIPATION. HEADACHE PAIN
IN THIS SIH)i:i.UlCHS DIZ.INKSS BOUK
bTOMAI.'U HAD T A STIC IN TUB MOUTH
HIUOLS iTTACKS PALPITATION 4K
TUB HRftT. PAIN IN THK HKUION OK
THK KIDNEYS l)KbItN 1) KNCY. GLOOM
A.NI FOHKboD'NO OK EVIL ALL OK
Wium AKK TUB OFFSI'KINU OK A Did
EASSD LINKR.
COLIC IN CHILDREN
For children complaining of col-
ic headache or sick sloruacb a tca-
rpoonrul or mora will give relief.
Children as well as adults some-
lime eat too mnch supper or eat
something whic b does not digest
well producing sonr stomach heart-
burn or restlessness; a good now: of
Liver licgulater will elve relief. This
applies to persons of all ages. It is
the cheapest purest and best Family
Medicine in the world.
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
CAUTION.
Bny no powders or prepared SIMMONS LIV-
jnT'KkUl'I.ATOit unless in oar engraved
wrapiier with trade mark stamp and signature
uulirukin. None other is genuine.
J. H. ZKILIN A CO.
Prioefl Philadelphia fa
SOLD BY ALL DRUUUI8T3.
seplJ
Gentle
Women
Who want glossy luxuriant
and wavy tresses of abundant
beautiful II air must nse
LYON'S KATUAIRON. This
elegant therm article always
makes the Hair prow freely
and fast keeps it from falling
out arrest. and cures gray-
uesrf removes dandruff and
itching makes the llair
strong giving it a curling
tendency And keeping it in
any desired position. Beau-
tiful healthy llair is the sure
result of using Kathairon
Ue loueodly
IAMOND SPECTACLES.
These spectacles are manufactured from
'Ml.Nl'TK t'UYSTAL PEBHLK8" melted to-
petlier sad are called DIAMONOon account of
their hartines and brilliancy.
Having been tested with the polar! scope the
diamond lenses have been found to admit fifteen
ier rent leas healed raya than any other pebble.
They are ground Viitb great scientific aeco-
racy are free front chromatic aberrations and
produce a brightness and distincinesa of vision
uot before atiained in spectacles.
MANl KAtTl'ltEI) BY TUB 8PRNCER OP-
Tii'ALMANL'FACTl RISO COMPANY. NEW
YOltri. For sale by responsible agents in every
city in the Union. A. BA11N. Jeweler and opti-
cian sole Bgeut for Austin. Texas from whom
they csu only bo obiaiued. No peddlers em
btoved.
lo not buy pair unlets yoa e the trade
-stars auiaeoaawiy
Tl ! J'l k IXA1TS FLY. ERICS
' 1 t V V.1 r7 Lttir Cum nmun
6M
sC
ILLS all the
FLIES ia a
room ia TWO
HOURS
locwortb
wriU kUl
IDore fiie
than $io
rorth of
tly rassr.
JS0 dirt
40 tronbl.
Bold by
avoanm
.
k'Botaaic Medicine coeafiWN. Y.
Jyildec-""
NOT FAIL
t asi rr f
CataJama. 1 1
contain arla
and r I
r bums verjr
Brvlcl 1st
ral a.aas la
vnlaabU I A1Y rKKex rsalratplal.
lata; par!' mr rlri fair ler-
MHt 'mmIIv or Aajrteailiwral aiatv. Wo
amr lanlras waal mrmm
t n tae r-M ! kirt. aslt Tra-iairteH
ataa Manes alia tw laeoytt . wriiS-
m! ap-tailoMa of ta wrvaiaar
auaav rlaiialaf ! Ha v. aiaaa at !
( 0 to no per waU aaall ikn
ITLIM T Al)laa.
Vi.it i I-IIJ( ATIO. Maaoll
onr a "'
yrlmlaaaaalillMlsult- HArmm i
trt aatlaaai staaa.. a --
KOITSOMEIT WAIB Av CO.
Ortlal 4iraax (P7
a Wabaaa Atfc Cakaf. 111.
DOLLAS
IM.ISTIUTED sriENTlFIC XEUS
r. .jnn-a h-ina Jaanarr 1 14
Wi w.t r on tlenr and the lndu-UiaJ Arta.
.vi.i.rtot aihrned paileuU. with aaiae nd
ui. eaor wh inveuior. a new teat are
t a J.cr I of especial via to laveatora
aa l ititM-snot f'Hiad to any other Journal.
ui.t -tsTr Jk-nsTirio M
Va.ztu i c.tai.oa. one w4iime make aboal
Sn ( . n'ed o fi o p 'or n'T JBf
lK.i.M a r K lociub. htiefimeas aunplted.
l-4l.cri(t i.ic rwmi now tJ ed ot year 1S
Altered t? li. Al.K boo l"blihT
JU t-tmice iiiu l New Yin a. bot1w
'1TIB lAUSl AND STOCK
1 1 K-Nn rOR SAI.K.
I wiit aiy &ne Krm and Stock Ttanctk.
ir.t it) acre molT uiwcr cunt fence aiva
.. . l at ml e cUt saiiea tmnt Locktaart -i
ntv allies frm AuMia: at abont J i. 4
t;( tii "1 vw.-mj
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keui biinei ah
1 .ni an4 e 41. W id
Ii.e lW oel alp ta Iri
ovut.
rv...Sbcoiu.rs fall cvf Uluirat.o. ol New
. C..tm.vem-uts in machiiwry ZZZJ 2X
--.. t. Intents. Al'Prralu-l'"aa.Pfri2ria!
' i ...k ..... il una and Family recellKa.
tub nw.ssv.n pi blic ht iiool
STIi.n V
We ccrtainlj Byrcc with tin Tele-
phone that every eliiM in tlic State
shouM be educated. Tlic orixsc of
the Btate in giving every fa mil J a fixed
homestead exempt from execution or
mortgage is to assure the proper rear-
ing of the youths of the coiniEonweiUh
and proffer a premium for self-rt'l'ant
families and households. It n'not ab-
solutely certain that a people should
look to the State further than this for
the greatest boon God bestows. Thsy
should rather rely upen themttlvcs.
There is no such stimulant to inistry
and none so ennobling as tlia. thich
impels the father and mother i toil
that their chilJrcn may be iutellfent
and honored. Besides all this ptbiic
schools the greater number of tbtm
are like public offices. They are
or-
mal. stiff machines. "So much fi
so
much" is the law of their operatn
It is machine work. Competition
te-
tween these public schools is
ial-
oeless and only formal
have too the effect to
stroy all private schools. The
he ti-
ent -v
coi-
incr. laborious earnest efficient.
vate schoolmaster can hardly
pete with them. Ignorant pcopc
patronize the "cheap Johns" of litern
ture and since the State educates fr
nothinc they are content with what th
State gives and this isjbTfrnrsrnry-i.
meanest article in tVe market. Pn
vision might well rbe made by th
flfattt rvv li tsviintiai' oml Innrna fni f l( i
3 . -' . . Radicalism and Democracy that Peter
education or penniless orphans bun . . " .
. -r . . 1 Cooper and Brick Pomeroy might
- . 1 ut
tolerated is an open question.
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and New York and
many otucr cities
and towns are growing weary of the
education of the children of the State
by the State. John Randolph was
not singular in denouncing it.
But this undetermined question should
be philosophically and dispassionate-
ly discussed by our lawgivers. . Ped-
agogues are sharp shrewd fellows.
They write and talk well. The public
school system has been fastened on
many States even as the genius of
Texas is fettered by it. Schools now
exist spasmodically. Children are
given time to forget all they ever knew
when a new pedagogue comes along
to rake - in philanthropically the
public funds give out a few fresh
ideas and then depart to prey
upon tome other benighted com-
munity. He himself constitutes the
brilliant nucleus of a comet but a black
shadow marks the path of its flight.
We have now three months of training
paid for by the State and then comes
an interregnum of nine months that
the State-taught brats may indulge
in sweet oblivion. Then the peda-
gogues again swoop down upon drowsy
urchins with new methods and new
books and they are made through two
montns more marvelously wise. The
process would be criminal were it not
farcical. There is much consolation
in kaowing however th.tt it costs
Texas taxpayers each year only
million dollars. The value
received is accurately measured by
as many cents iiut it serves to pre
vent indiyidual effort. It prevents
each father's exertions to establish
Gxed schools and to educate his own
children and thus destroys all good
country and village academics and
rears the children of Texas in besotted
ignorance. And does this account for
the plethoric condition of the peniten-
tiaries in States blest with free
schools?
FOR WIIO.TI WILL XII li SOUTH
VOTE IN 1880.
South Carolina newspapers discuss
the inquiry whether the South in the
next presidential election should co-
operate with the Eastern or Western
Democracy. Very certainly the East
and West as Democratic facts have
parted. The East adheres to Sher-
man the WeBt would approve Voorhees
or Pendleton. But neither the East
nor the West will give the country it
peculiar candidate for the presidency
The money question in the Democr110
platform may be wholly preternrvtei
It fact Hendricks who has bee-
will probably be nominated. ' If he be
not some unknown nnhear '"of Frank
Pierce will be amazed w -n the ht'
ning strikes him with t"e of
his candidature fr he uge8t
office in the wof1- The Soulh'
just now suborinale9 u I11""
tions totlr-ixigle iJe'- that Conkling
and Blaine hate " Sonlh. To defeat
their aspirations the leading South-
1 A iT
ern idea. It U enJ necesaai j -.ui.
a compromise between the tast and
West and discovert candidate well
esteemed by both and feared by neither.
rt .;ii vote the Democratic
ticket and now that gold and paper
and silver are at parno measure by any
possibility can be forced through Con-
gress designed to disturb the coun-
try's
flnancea. The l'rcsiaeni it
Congress in this behalf became
revolutionary would interpose bis
veto. Therefore the financial ttatu in
qua cannot be disturbed till after
March 1SS0. Then the greenback
mania will have exhausted Us force
and Cooper's and Pomeroy'a followers
will probably lapse into organizations
ith which they were onginauy mu-
ated. The chances are tncrciore mai
there will be only two candidates for
the residency and theso two will be
Gen. Grant and Gen. Hancock or ex-
Senator Hendricks.
Meanwhile It it well to remember
that during the session of the rowing
Congress many new quest ious will oe
discussed. Their fleet upon parues
cannot be foreseen. There are millions
involved in the Improvement ot the
navigability of the Mississippi in Us
diversion into lateral streams
nitwaTs. hTDcrborean and
Southern. These schemes may com
bine their strength in Congress and in
the West an! South to make a prcsi
dent. In fact the valley of tlie Mis
sissippi and the two traaa-contincniai
railways if Scott and Huntington
could co-operate would wield strength
enouch to make the next president.
Then if a proposition be mie fo con-
vert Ui XxtiS. into" one for Jtvtnue
ratlier than proUction and if trade i
ships le free and navigation acts giv
log a monopoly of coasting commerce
to American sliis and steamers be ab-
rogated t ln-re will be such an utter
dutuption of parties as oraniztl to
day that no proiilitt may foretell
rerUiti of any fu'ure elections.
Very certainly th aptcts of
partisan forluncs and those of
indiviilu.iij as cmididates arc so un
certain t Ii rat. it is qnite impqssiltle to
detiue future events even as probable
Blame cjmprehends these difficulties
and uncertainties for which he would
discover a solution in the continued
use of the bloody shirt. Ilia commit
tee. to use the language of an
old English pundit are tlnctort
aniihiiriiht dyers of soul; (sol
dicrs) not of the Cross bat of the
bloody shirt. They go forth now to
select a battlefield on which we are not
foolish enough to fight. Therefore we
co-operate with them. Let us punish
every outrage done a white man or a
negro on election days and especially
should public opinion punish those
who led the innocent blacks into.this
crusade with Southern extremists to
defeat a Unionist Hancock in this con
gressional district and elect Wash
Jones.
But the ken of prophets of old
would be required to unveil the future
of parties or of issues which Blaine
would perpetuate. The readiness with
which netrly a million voters were re
cently abraded from the river shores of
iavigato a windy sea f Grecnbackiera
h'07Q ll rvtar oltrrhf to frliA ami ia ami
uu vv a iiu tt aviicrua 10 lV U U1U BUU
reak the cohesive force and inmotent
ji . . .....
ttlB wi nuijipuio-iu ji ills panics.
k.bpular opinion is liberalized and the
iny exempt from the domination of
tlir old masters to an extent neyer
h'Vwn before and it can only be as-
si td of the West and Southwest that
tM News and Courier is mis-
tao. The yalley of the Missis
6ii Texas may co-operate
withfle Northwest but never in a
prKntial election with New ng-
When we have cheap mustang
s to our coalfields New Eng-
ills will be welcomed to Texas
fields but Texas voters will
fill in our time New England
xes or elect a New England
candidate for the presidency.
Lit:
tKS AND SHYSTERS AND
BILLS OP COSTS.
ghest court of Missouri has
decidi
hat a lawyer is not an ad-
juncte
art or parcel of the judiciary
systcrh'
d therefore is not an officer
of theTj
Thus i
Louis)
. . Ml
te or part of its government.
Hows that the lawyers of St.
were required to pay an oc-
cttpatii.c1
x and refused have been
compe'
fork o'
to take in their shingles or
le fees. The tax imposed
in Misie
n. Irtrrtpit.
is thirty dollars. This is
l than the aversce shvstcr
of a cit.;wi
and it is pi
illage has at any one time
nated that of two or three
thouaiuivrv'stera at court one in five
will hav take down his "shingle'
in order Plep up Ins "board." Jus
ticcs of t fcaco are greatly annoyed
since jiisctlnly prosper in perpetual
petty wa. al Shysters live by exci-
ting strife litigation about trifles in
these pett e tins. The elevation of
the legal j'Ision by taxing it thus
excluding tnturers and ignorant
knaves witeV only tend to reuder it
respectable Irtt suppress most of
those costlgUts about insignificant
matters
tot iaae society miamous
perjur-
i&trt and crowd the pur
j. - juj v court8 witn drunken
idlers
as ui
lers and ltvx Tr t
TTurc would ci
ti i
;V a blan to Drotect the
tate treaste 0 inst bi8 of cosU
jgainst
.hat
.m the petty courts
pi"e U1M Aotiainess loosely that
aarrel that I a pa9aion for card8
' 1 - iL . 1
o t'g"onod no longcr fa8ten
.pon society Ant nt :.
their follies eTnL.
Therefore
the'
4t
ent by the State
of bills of costio
courts below or
above shouldso'
templated by the
Legislature wiV
fi
grains of allow-
ance otop in.
fro m the treasury
and litigation 1
ysters will alike
be suppressed et
and the moral"0
greatly improvt"9
e cost of living
ition of society
burdens of gov
ernment lessene-j.
nwhile learned
honorable and svju
nl lawvers will
oe pieaseu ui )i-'riL.
i 1 t .rtl4
- V oaiivaviuoit icuuu
ao.e mupu . AcccM tQ th
ranks of the prolyl ha9 .
so easy that it haae 4caat. To -
member of the gv freternityi nQt
very long ago wr
ed most hon-
orable. It was
us
u ranee to the
public that the nc o
was at least a
rxtiurioaa etuiient;'
he could bo
think he had a
ous memory.
ne could grasp p. l8
'
even if he
could not deduce iTJg
He could find "paaars
conclusions
he could not rcasoi111
s" even if
first princi-
plCS. liUl luta a.
hanged and
simply because thei. v
structions at the gat. L
o such ob-
the temple
of Themis as th
.7 Ol
i!
ed bv the
highest judicatory . and
that which cmtty ay ritone
com'
meuueu. rsi
-an
awaatsj r myumt IP aVSl S TV -m
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l - J IP t
solemn San Antoni U
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eignm insiau Volnmn ol
editorial to the h.sot uleof
New Orleans foghJ after B
treaty of peace J. BRBtd at
Ghent between thiUR
Great Britain. The Lrefore
signified nothing. U
parod with u1'vTtje4 of
1SC1-5 a mere skirmifct n
7.I wasted breath. ttnJw
the eighth of January iaQ
da Therebksan
are closed and the pecoj ftboat
Old Hickory Governor GeIU
Coffee bam Houston &
a J a a
Ten-
neasce neroes oi im v
12-13
ou' xa his
tory and wars and auton qo.
We. haye enough to do hn9
anniversaries of grand eventctin
our own local wars and reJ
We'can hardly chaat the prr
a 9
roes oi iko wncn tnosc ot lsuu rise
up before us demanding a monopoly
of admiration and gratitude. Oar
patriotism because of these facts and
because of our homestead laws is pe
cuharly local and even so should
it be. And yet the ambition of party
leaders impels them to seek Federal
rather than State honors. Men use the
Governor's office simply as trading
capital with which to buy a scat in the
United States Senute. It is all wrong
The Union should be ever main
tamed and iniestructible and
will last till transformed into the
empire. Then we will begin to
discover how indispensable to local
and personal liberty is the cultivation
of this sentiment which the Herald ig
norcs when it writes poetry about the
battle of New Orleans. It should
rather chant a requiem at the
gateway ot the Alamo a dirge
at Goliad and sing pictns of
victory on the field of Sin Jacinto.
None object to historical recitations of
facts but that to wlu'ch the Herald
devotes its space for the noise that
was made about it was the least im
portant having the least consequence?
of any like event in American history.
It made Andrew Jackson famous and
made him President. He gave pater-
nity to the idea "to the victors belong
the spoils." His practice of .t became
an approved habit of his party. lie
thns made the country's offices rewards
for partisan zeal and thus .were cor
rupted the very foundations of society
and government. We do not see
therefore that the victory at New Or-
leans save to the extent that we would
honor the names of a few men made
famous by it should be recognized as
a holiday anywhero and least of all in
Texas.
FOREM.N MIO.Ntt FOB AUSTIN.
It seems that every stonecutter
knows that when limestone is taken
from a quarry it is full of moisture.
When it dries it grows white. The
moisture within gives it its original
bluish color. When water freezes its
expansive force is absolutely measure-
less. When stone freshly taken from a
quarry is exposed to a temperature be-
low thirty-two degrees the water
freezes and stone cracks. But the
stone once bereft of moisture by the
sun and air defies
alike cold
and
rain. it crumbles
under the in-
heat but no
fluence of intenso
degree of
sence of
atmospheric cold ab-
heat affects it. The
letter-writer for the press who says
that the white limestone taken from
Austin quarries is valueless because
freezing moisture cracked blocks re
cently quarried should examine the
front of the Sampson & Henricks build
ing reared twenty years ago. There
not a fissure in the structure.
It will stand uncracked unless fire as
sail it till the crack of doom. There
is not on the continent better stone for
building purposes than this. It is not
too hard to carve or so soft that it
will not endure any required super
imposed weight. It has been tested
through many years: but then there
are good men and loyal owning quar-
ries in Northern States. They would
bo pleased to give freights to railways
from the great lakes. They would
compel us to use marble from Ver
mont or East Tennessee rather than
from Marble Falls. They would sell
us limestone precisely like this
which wo have and compel us
to use it at fourfold the cost
of this which constitutes a magnificent
county court house and many private
buildings. We imagine that this court
house will stand hundreds of years
and long before it crumbles there will
be not a custom house in any civilized
country on the globe. Austin stone is
good enough for Texas and for Texans.
If Vermont would have a few ship
loads we can supply the demand even
there; but we would no more have
Vermont or Missouri stone than cities
of those States would order from Aus
tin.
Tiir religious and reading world
will be glad to know that those learned
gentlemen of Eagland having the
matter in charge have almost com-
pleted and perfected and concurred in
the translation of the New Testament.
It would be a painful and dangerous
task to write the history of the differ-
ent translations of the Bible. Though
the book be inspired its translators
were not and never hoped themselves
to be "translated" and there are many
passages as they left the work of
doubtful authority and significance.
The Lindon Dnily Xctes says it is not
svfeto say much about Aid helm and
Caedmon; it is ticklish work talking
about Wycliffe the very spelling of
whaaa-ataaaa-aaay- ptovoka a litcfarj
quarrel. When we come to Covcrdale
and Tyndal we arc in the centre of a
faction fight. The Genevan Bible
ana ine uisuop s iiioie are as peri
lous topics as the prayer books of
Edward VI. and Elizabeth. In the
confused theological turmoil of the
sixteenth century when Protestants
and Catholics succeeded Henry VIII.
who fought chiefly for his own hand
mady parties and people had a tarn at
translating the Bible. It says a good
deal for their honesty that our author-
ized version was evolved after much
contest of opinion and selection out
of the Bishops' Bible which supersed-
ed the Geneva Bible which was a re-
vision of 'Coverdale's Bible" to which
again "Matthew's Bible" and the
Great Bible" and "Cranmer's Bible"
were not unindebted; while Wycliffe's
and Tyndal'a Bibles must have been
consulted now and then as a scholar
might coosult Boccaccio's Latin Ho-
mer as far as it goes. The complete
result of all the revisions up to James's
later time is the most splendid monu-
ment of pure English in existence. It
has the vigor of the great age the
Elizabethan age with none of its ec
centricities and conceits.
Tnxxx will be a hegira of thieves
from Austin on the fifteenth when all
the sheriffs of the State in person or
by proxy will be in the capital.
For each 2000 people there was one
murder committed last year ia New
York City.
EXPLOSIgJ OF THE PA It TV IN
GEORGIA.
We have had occasion to refer to th
ugly quarrel in Georgia between Gover
nor Colquitt and Senator Bjn HilL
ine maiier is more serious tnan we
supposed. An Atlanta special to the
St. Louis IlejtulUtan says there is a very
ugly state of feeling in Georgia politi
cal circles j oat now which may not un
reasonably be supposed to threaten the
80000 Democratic majority that two
years ago won the huge banner offered
by Texas for the largest Democratic
majority cast by any Couthern State.
The disturbance caused by Senator
Ultra late action nas widened and
deepened. Mr. Hill has contended all
the time that his objective point was
to secure the discharge of Treasurv
viers: niurpny wno naa paid
ii . a .
a fee to a clieat oii Mr. Hill's to do
what Mr. Hill charged was illegiti
mate work. . Governor Colquitt how
ever was outraged at the insinuations
against himself that followed Mr.
Hill's assault on Murphy and demand
ed an investigation at the hands of
the legislature that it might be shown
that no sinister connection could have
existed between himself and Murphy
in me matter oi ine lee. i ne inves-
tigation was full and thorough.
snd the committee while differing as
to the minor points denounced as ma
lignant and slanderous all insinuations
against the Governor. Mr. Hill in an
interview with the Baltimore Gazette
denounced the report of the commit
tee in very bitter terms. sav
ing if the Democracy of Geor
gia adopted that report it did
not deserve to succeed and would
be beaten. In the interview he alluded
to the Governor in such terms that al
though be professed kindly feeling for
tne uovernor the latter felt impelled
to denounce Mr. IIill as his active and
malevolent enemy. An open fight is
therefore inevitable between these
leaders. The State press almost unan
imously indorse Governor Colquitt in
this contest while the four papers now
in opposition to the organized Democ
racy oppose him. Mr. Murphy it is
said is preparing a very bitter personal
assault on Mr. Hill and some bard
words may be looked for. The Inde
pendent papers alluded to have been
very bitter toward Senator Gordon
since that gentleman canvassed the
seventh and ninth districts (which
were carried by the Independents) in
favor of party nominees. Aside from
personal abuse they make but one deli
nite charge against him which is that
he voted for the confirmation of
Fred Douglass and then denied
on the stump. Gen. Gordon
denounces this bb false and says that
whenever it is presented in respectable
shape or by a respectable person he
win prove it to be such. 1 here is now
no doubt that the Independents hav
ing captured under Felton and Spcer
the two strongest Democratic districts
of Ueorgia and having seriously de
moralized others will attempt to cap'
ture the State in the next election. It
is claimed that these assaults on Col
quitt and Gordon who are par excel
lence the leaders of the organized De
mocracy arc part of a scheme to break
down the party in the State. The
plan of nominations has been generally
abolished and the tegro has come to
the front as an active politician again
and this time with the privilege if
they can be consolidated of holding
the balance of power. The lines will be
drawn between the Democrats and In
dependents in the next election and
these ruptures among the leaders arc
simply premonitions of the coming con
flict.
ITin. SCHLEICHER'S SUCCESSOR.
Saturday when it was still uncer
tain whether Mr. Schleicher would live
and before the telegram came with the
painful announcement of his death the
disposition of San Antonians in this
city and of Germans friends of Mr.
Schleicher was not concealed to make
the late congressman's son-in-law his
successor now strange that people
begin to administer on an estate before
the breath of the owner has certainly
left the temple of clay it inhabited.
But the contest between Ireland and
Schleicher was most violent and bitter.
Schleicher's friends will love his mem
ory eyen more than they did the admir
able gentleman scholar and statesman.
Their hostility to Judge Ireland wi'l
be measured by their devotion to
Schleicher and as developed here yes
terday tnis aiiection will constitute a
large share of the stmgth of ex-Governor
Stockdale if he be a candidate.
He and Judge Ireland or Mr. Burgess
would be worthy competitors for the
vacant seat and if Stockdale decline
the candidature it will bo thrust upon
the eloquent Mr. Burgess Judge Dc-
vine or Judge Russell. Therefore it
seems that however earnest the friends
and intelligent the admirers of Judge
Ireland he is destined to encounter if
he become a candidate a competitor for
Mr. Schleicher's place demanding to
insure defeat of his grandest exhibi-
tions of intellectual and oratorical force.
But the probabilities are that Mr. Bur
gess Ireland's friend and supporter.
and not Ireland will be a candidate.
Bargess will be perhaps invincible
though either Stockdale or Devine er
Russell will be worthy of his etecl.
Burgess however is confessedly the
best stump ppeakcr of his district and
his rival in this race will have a fear-
ful fight to make.
Juduk A. P. McCoujficK who stood
high upon the district bench of the
State has been telling the Telegram
what he thinks of continuances. He
claims they should be limited and
that parties charged with criminal of-
fenses should be forced to trial at the
second term of the court after commit-
ting the offense f which they are ac-
cused. Such a law prevails in Illinois
and it prevents the escape of criminals.
He believes in destroying the distinc-
tion in felonious homicide and would
make all murder cases capital offenses
and believes the law regarding "justi-
fiable" homicide or "self-defense"
should also be changed to such an ex
tent that this exense could not be plead.
Murderously inclined persons would
then have to resort to other means
than killing enemies to escape
the penalty of the crime. He
also favors a change in the pres-
ent system of allowing appeals. He
does not look favorably upon the law
giving all felony convictions the right
of appealing upon quibbles as at pres-
ent and would have no appeals from
the lower courts except in capital
cases and then only that a higher court
might review the transcript to see that
no manifest injustice had been done.
He also thinks a change necessary In
the '"special venire" system and favors
the) taking away of civil causes from
the Appellate Court and making this
court give undivided attention to thv
criminal business.
The sufferings of unemployed wo-
men and children in manufacturing
towns in New and Old England are
greatly aggravated by tearfully cold
weather. It is a great pity that these
mills are not on the banks of the Col-
ado where summer en lures through
nine months each year where the nec
essaries of life are of spontaneous
growth and cold weather lasts hardly
long enough to make us appreciate de
lights of the land we inhabit. Very
certainly no more mills will be built in
New England by any manufacturer
who has ever seen Texas. Here food
tuei wnen tne northwestern narrow
gauge ia built; hides cotton and
wool are cheaper than elsewhere
in the world and here it costs a
laborer the least possible to live;
and yet New Englanders persist in
endeavoring to grow rich on bleak
barren frozen stony . hillsides when
the exuberant plains and valleys of
Texas and a climate as faultless as
that which God breathed upon Para
dise invite them to the South. Cotton
and woolen goods must be manufae
tured and just as surely as men and
women continue to wear clothes so
surely will the material for them
be prepared in this city. When
it win te done depends upon
ourselves. We need the chespest beef.
the cheapest and btt fuel ; we need
caeaper routes to tne sea ; we need a
wider area of country tributary to the
capital. For these resources we must
depend upon ourselves. Nature has
done almost everything and our tasks
are light and easy only requiring a
degree of co-operative force and action
for which we have not been properly
educated.
Bno. Penn's chosen psalm-singer.
v alentine Columbus Hart has caused
the arrest of Bro. Oswald Pope of the
Texas Baptist. Valentine Vox some
times called Hart swears that Bro.
Pope Intercepted letters he wrote and
opened them and read them and Vox
the sweetest voice in all Israel is
sorely disgusted. He has caused Bro.
Pope to be indicted and a sinful sher
iff having not the fear of the Baptist
or of Pope Leo of Texas or any other
Pope or potentate before his ungod
ly eyes gobbled the editor aforesaid
and was about to chuck him into
a dungeon vile in Dallas when
some good brother put up a bond
for $200 and that was enough to get a
good man out of hockelty the Dallas
word for calaboose which is Choctaw
for Daniel's den of lions and for dun
geons vile. But the Federal grand jury
have the matter under consideration
and Bro. Pope is scared. He did not
intend to commit any crime. He is in
capable of that but then his curiosity
was aroused about the literary skill
of Brother Penn's musical adiunct.
and Brother Pope was led so the story
goes to perpetrate a deed which soci
ety and law alike condemn with much
earnestness. There was not supposed
to be any money in the sweet chorister's
letters. We had forgotten to remark
that brethren should live together in
amity. But Brother Vox doea not love
Brother Pope.
A sentiment universal as it were
comes from the West as expressed
through representative men now as
sembling in this city in favor of the
retention of General Steele in the po
sition he now-fills. The West claims
and asks nothing
but
protection
and it is asserted
that
the
it has re-
ceived this under
administra
tion of General Steele. He is a
soldier of lifetime experience under
standing fully the needs of the frontier
ana Deing a western man his sympa
thies lead him to extend the people of
that section all the aid in his pow
er. it is not asserted that Gov
ernor ltoberts intends making a
change in the administration of the
Adjutant General's department tut in
view of the inauguratioa of a new
State administration these representa
tives of the West wish to be heard. It
is a matter in which they alone are in
terested and they certainly consult
their interests when they urge the re
tention of General Steele.
Tom Cor win's son is an applicant
fcr the consul generalship of Mexico.
If the son be of the color of the father
the appointment is eminently fit to be
made and when he enters Vera Cruz
he will be on the right side of the
color line. Then too he is an Ohioan
and therefore entitled to the place.
His eloquent father was once Min
ister "to Mexico. Wasn't it Tom
Corwin who said of the propo
sition to wage war in 1845 against
Mexico that "the Greasers should wel
come us with bloody hands to hospita
ble graves. The Mexicans should
love the son of bim who gave utterance
to such a sentiment and therefore the
singular propriety in this proposed ap-
pointment. But then if it conciliate
Mexicans will it not exasperate Ameri
cans? and will not the President lose
at home more potency than he can grain
abroad? -
There are fewer than a million peo
ple in New York city and more than
one and a quarter million in lexas
and yet the coroner's office statistics
of Gotham show that in the past
twelve months there were 1003 violent
deaths in the city; 150 suicides and
1G9 drowned. Texas doesn't get away
with many more living people assured
ly than New York and yet because
it is noisily done in this State by the
nse of the pocket on the hip the world
is all agog about it and people deem
us even in Chicago an incongruous
bloodthirsty lawless population.
Tns bill to create a Texas currency.
that ih ra.j of the GrenWWra ma I
e - - J I
be appeased will be speedily consid
ered by the Legislature. Texas bonds
as they mature or may be called In and
redeemed will be supplanted by bonds
bearing 4 per cent interest. These
will be held for the interest or circu-
lated as currency.
JrsT as sxn as the United S:ates
Siid to the world "bring in my pa-
per; we are ready now to redeem it
in gOM" the nolders said "since it
is good as gold we prefer it to gold.
and there the matter rests. We heard
Urcttnbackers say last summer that
when resumption dny came there would
be a standing army of 10600 ar.ied
men in front of the Treasury building
for. weeks demanding gold and silver
for paper. Green backers prophesied in
vain. There are ten gold dollars paid
into the Federal treasury for each one
withdrawn.
Steamships plying between New
York and Boston and Liverpool and
Bremea are more numerous than profit
able. One of these lost (10000 on a
recent voyage to and fro. It follows
that if weare to have MexicanBrazil
ian and Paraguayan steamship lines
there must be governmental subyen
tions. Without these the country
will still produce more corn wheat
bacon flour and cotton goods than it
can sell and there will be idleness and
tramps and suffering even among those
willing to toil.
Tub national banks according to
their last reports owe one thousand
million dollars to depositors. They
owe this debt now that resumption is
effected in gold. Bat the same peo
pie who three months ago were hoard
ing gold and silver are now sending it
to the banks and taking paper instead
It is a queer world we inhabit. Men
only demand that which they can't
get and when they can they don't
want it.
Taxation in Memphis has been enor
mous intolerable and unpayable. If
Memphis cease to exist its creditors
will administer on its estate and those
who owe taxes will owe the dead city's
creditors and these poor deyils will be.
made to dance an instantaneous horn
pipe in which "double shuffling" is
inadmissible and nothing tolerated but
an old . Virginia "reel" or " break
down."
x resident hayes insists that a pe-
nod of rare prosperity and business
activity is dawning upon the country.
The President's reasons for this faith
are not wholly unsubstantial. It oc
curs to us tnat much depends on a
Southern Pacific road and steamship
lines to Mexico and Brazil and other
countries. We produce more than we
consume and sell.'
Oxe Dr. Graves declares himself in
San Antonio a candidate for the office
of city physician. If some competitor
would give bim a "dig in the short
ribs" the price of burials in the San
Antonio potter's field would be lessened
one-half as the graves would be already
dug. This is too grave a joke to be
laughed at.
Yakoob is the nice young fellow who
will be made by the British king of
Cabul. He has a pleasant name.
It is doubtless Afghanese for Jacob.
Won't Yakoob.have a clothing store in
a wing of hie palace? -
In the death of Mr. Schleicher
Texas loses a powerful advocate.
wh03e place it will be very difficult to
fill. In truth it becomes a subject of
national lament.
Mac milliners have been regarded in
fans the proper persons to arrange
now women should be dressed for more
than a dozen years. Grenville Mur
ray in his latest "Round About
France" paper observes that' while
there may be female modistes auite as
tasteful as the man milliners the man
milliners do not think so; it is they
wno originate tne fashions which mo
distes do no more than copy and
their's is the undoubted faculty "of
charging double what they would ven-
ture to do were they women." He re
lates that there is a great artist in mil
linery who shall be nameless but
whose reputation is world-wide who
'will not condescend to work for any
body who comes beseechingly to his
warehouse." He affirms that his artis-
tic self-esteem will not allow him to
dress a lady who would not be likely
to do mil justice to his brilliant con
ceptions. A lady once admitted into
the happy circle of this man's pa
trons ne "scans ner witn an eye or
inspiration" and decides eff-hasd
what he wishes her to wear. Her
own choice in tne matter is not con
sulted. When a lady has given many
and cogent proofs of knowing what
styles and colors are best suited to
her face and figure then and not till
then does be deign to receive her or
ders. Ladies who rule their own
household witn a firm band "are as
mild as cherubs in the presence ot'the
Olympian milliner." He is cold and
peremptory but to do him justicehe is
not overbearing. Strolling about bis
saloons with a notebook and gold pen
cil in bis hands "he stops to boi
courteously to customers who enter
snd either pssses them on with a wave
of the hand toward the trying-on
room or alaa ha aatoraa) with than ta
small mirrored chambers where the
mysteries of the new toilets are dis-
cussed." The French servant grrl is generally
much better off than her American or
British sister. She carries three-fourths
of her earnings to the savings bank.
and is never content nntll she is the
possessor of at least tlOO with which
to buy a debenture bond of the city of
pans entitling ner to tne chance of
winning $30000 of the quarterly draw
ings urenviue Murray farther ob
serves that they have too mnch taste to
disfigure themselves as certain English
and be might have added American
housemaids do by tricking themselves
out in cheap nnery. Their universal
costume is a white linen cap and a
gown ot printed cotton or calico with
perhaps a silk kerchief of a gay color
to wear on Sundays. Merino is some
times worn but not often. While sbe
is not indifferent to the attractions of
dress she is imbued with a native good
sense w hich teaches her the propriety
of attiiing herself according to her
station.
Richards the Nebraska herdsman.
who confesses the murder of nine per-
sons tells with perfect coolness and
apparent -pride bow he killed at one
time a woman and her three chi'drea.
They were to start in the sight on a long
journey and he calculated that it
would be safe to murder them because
the neighbors would not readily suspect
. it.: TT j? . i . l. :
aajwiD. uo wnib uui auii uug wicu
graves before committing the crime.
I mraa nrfcf " ha aalcl 9n a
"any more excited than I am sow. I
" w m . v kv. bvi
had studied the matter oyer for a long
time i naa calculated the risk I ran.
and I knew thoroughly what I was do-
isg. I went at it exactly as if I
had
been butchering so many hog."
Editorial Note.
Wade Hampton received elcv
wounds during the war one of them
sabre thrust-
Last year st. Lmiis received 203000
bales of cotton. Ttie receipts this year
. a AAJa "
are expected to reacn ;wuuo bales.
Charles M. SUgg a court stenogra
pher at Indianapolis has gone mad
through "excessive and constant men
tai laoor" m reporting seme recent
murder trials.
Since the Illinois Board of Health
has been at work a period of eighteen
months it has reduced the number of
"doctors" in the State by 20 per cent.
irom ivw to .ouo.
A paper read before the London Sta
tistical Society last winter showed that
England had tl.500.000.000 in Dublic
ana pnvate can as and an annual accu
mulation of over :i 000000000.
The female chimpanzee of the Phila
del phia Zoological Garden is dead and
students ot the Darwinian theory are
interestedly wstcning the strantrelv
manlike expressions of grief bv her
a.. - . T -
male companion.
New York ladies talk about taking a
prom" on "Broad." meaning a nrom-
enaae on uroaaway and now some
one suggests "Going to take the Lt"
instead of "Are vou going to take the
elevated railway I". Life is short and
aooreviation is the order of the day
Dr. Schliemann has made a contract
with the Turkish government binding
mm to give me imperial Museum at
Constantinople two-thirds of -all his
discoveries from his excavations on the
site of Ancient Troy and bear all the
expense of the excavations. The la'-
ter amount to snout f'j.iuu per
monin.
A wealthy lady of New York
known for her charities and benevolent
works" proposes to elve the citv of
New Orleans several public fountain.
to furnish pure water to the poor dur-
ing the hot season. The city promises
to give tne plats ot land on which the
fountains will stand and the eo-opera
tion of the water department is all that
is neeoea.
At tne opening ot a recent session
a . a
of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
the following model petition was of-
fered it being known that the docket
was crowded: "O. Lord bless this
conrtjbless these lawyers and make
them know that life is short and time
is precious and not to be wasted in
empty declamations; for Christ's sake.
Amen."
Three tourists undertook to walk be
hind Niagara Falls a few davs ano.
The danger ia great in winter owing to
tne ice. uae oi tne trio in picking
his way over the slippery path ran
against a huge icicle which broke off
and fell on him. He Was badly cut
and has since been insane but whether
from a blow on the head or from fright
is not settled. He was an original ma-
niac or ho would neyer have gone be-
hind the falling fl oodtide of the mighty
river.
The Lee Monument Association
chartered by the Legislature of Vir-
ginia for the purpose of erecting in
Richmond a monument to Gen. Robert
E. Lee proposes to take up on his
birthday the nineteenth of January
a collection throughout the South in
aid of its undertaking. It is suggested
also that entertainments be given
throughout the South on the night of
the nineteenth for the same object.
The association has a large sum on
band but not enough to erect a fitting
monument-
Here is a hitherto unpublished letter
written by Abraham Lincoln. It was
found amongst the archives of the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad Company in
the Bloomington III. office a few days
ago. The note is characteristic 6f the
groat "rail-splitter" as to style and
shows that "Abe" was-not averse to
traveling dead-head probably because
he found it necessary from a financial
point:
- Springfield February 13 1858.
li. f. Morgan bapenntendent C. t A
Mturoad: deab am Says Sam to
John : "Here's your old rotten wheel
barrow. I've broke it nsm' on it. J
wish you would take it and mend it
'case i shall want to borrow It this af
ternoon." Acting on this as a prece
dent here's your old "chalked hat."
l wish -you would take it and send me
a new one 'case I shall want to use it
the first of March.
Yours truly.
A. Lincoln.
Judge Black.of Pennsylvania tells a
comical story of a tnal in which a
German doctor appeared for the de
fense in a case for damages against a
client of his by the object of his as
sault. The eminent jurist soon recog
nized in nis witness.wno was produced
as a medical expert a laboring man.
who so ne years before and in another
prt of the country had been engaged
py mm as a builder or post and rail
fences. With this cue be opened the
examination: "lou sav.-doctor." be
began with great deference and suav
ity " that you operated upon Mr. 's
head after it was cut by Mr. ?"
Ob yaw." replied the ex-fence
builder me do dat; yaw yaw."
" Was the wound a very severe one.
doctor r
" Enough to kill him if I not
save
his life."
' WelL doctor what did vou do for
mm i
Jl.a '
" Everything."
" Did you perform the Ctesarian op
eration?"
On yaw yaw; if me do not dat he
die." i
"Did you decapitate bim."
"Yaw yaw; me do dat."
"Did you hold a pott mortem exami
nation i" - .
"Oh to be sure Sbudge. me alvsvs
do dat."
"WelL now doctor." and here the
Jadge bent over in a friendly familiar
way "ten us w nether you submitted
your patient to the process known
among medical men as post and rail
fenciorum?"
The meek doctor drew himself up
indignantly. "Scherry Flack" says
ne -i aiwais anow'd yoa vas a sbav
hawk Iswyer. and now I knuw you for
a mean man."
The absolute aiavtry of the padrone
system is shown by the statement of
the young girl recently brought to New
York from Italy by one Sicco. On be-
ing questioned the other dsy sbe said
that 8ixo bought her of her father
paying' 200 francs of which 120 was
in gold and that her father told her
she no longer belonged to bim but to
8 ceo and that she must go with the
Utter wherever be went and do what
ever he said forever. The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
nas informed the padrone that he can-
bot obtain possession of ber nntil he
can prove to the satisfaction of the au-
thorities that he basso immoral ob-
ject la view is claiming her.
Joseph Beckert of Kllbonrn City
Wis. married a young pretty and ac-
complished widow. The match was
ia all respects fitting except that the
husband iu a Roman Catholic priest.
He has cot waited to be disciplined by
his church but has resigned from the
priesthood.
Major French of San Antonio lai
been renominated by the Democracy
of that cily. -
Humorous
A wll-fe4 hoc roased np !n his tf
And dropped a recwfol tear
The Uoautifol Snow has come.'" he sau!
"And siayinx viii soon tc hero."
A laJr named Mrr Matrnl-ah
ilaU tronhle In lighting her a-ah.
ah. r
nnlvl.
ta dry-a'i' .
TB wood boms ureou.
She nsed kerorene
iPanse. Then eontiaaa solemnl
$be ha goue whera the fuel is dry-
r j
Maid to order A table girl.
A noisy fellow annoys a fellXa
Did you ever hear a peach blow
Sleight of hand Refusing a mar-
riage proposal.
He who shovels grsvel must sccv;
to conquer.
The day after washing day ! one ci
sad irony. . v y
Dried apples are used for dessert at
all swell parties. -
Taggart calls his pig Barkis because s
he is always swilling.
"I dearly love rnv sweet art" sai.'
the enthusiastic confectioner.
A young man with' his first goat
may be said to have a tuft tirue saC-i
CI . I T I . ..S
vuroci-piayiag ta cuorcn according.
. tii ji v . .
vu x uuaueipaia paper is worship-
ping the Lord in a horn.
What is sweeter than a sugar honsr-?
Why a young ladies' seminary when it
is full of 'lasses ' -
Anybody can catch a cold now. Thi
trouble is to let go again like the man
who caught the bear.
A lot of bootblacks sitting on a curb
stone may not be India rubber bova.
. i i- i . . . -
iuuugu iucj are guitcr-percncrs. -
The man who "nailed a lie to the
counter" has been measuring thirtv-
four inches for a yard by it ever since.
A Missouri woman keens ud a bar
in her house for her husband to pat-
ronize and in this wsy keeps him at
home besides getting all his money. '
Custom compels an Icelander to kis-
every woman he meets. What eur-
prises him most is the unusual number
of old maids that are going the wron-'
way.
Des Moines lows has a brass ban
fmmnciopri if nrintoH Tha.
type all day set up the neighbo-h "i
1 v. AUliT Ul
outing tne evening and then set them-
selves up about midnight.
Better it is to sit on a barrel at tlic
corner grocery with contentment than
to repofe in the most luxurious easv
chair adorned with a tidy in the house
oi an order-loving woman.
A smart scholar had this .Question
put to him by an Inspector: "Well
my boy do vou know what svntax'
means?" The child of a teetotaler an
swered : 'Yes sir the duty upon
spirits.'
The ostrich hunters of South Amer
ica bearing in mind the almost incred-
ible digeotive powers of that bird ex-
tract the pepsine from its stomach and
sell it for its weight in gold to dyspep-
tics. An Illinois farmer has told hi&aaulT
story. He was going out to his corn
crib the other morning he. says when
ne saw a targe rat witn head erecLcar-
rying a full-sized ear of corn in his
mouth while at the same time his tail
was wrapped around anothjlargc car
which he was dragging bchTlrd him .
At a religious gathering in Portland
man arose to address the assemblage.
and as he progressed with Lis "experi
ence" he waxed warm and eloquent.
"Brethren and sisters." he said excit
edly "I love the Lordl I love him
better better better than I lovo a nice
prtng chicken and I don't caro wheth
er it is a pullet or a rooster 1"
A day or two ago when a servaTrt
opened the side door of a house on
Sibley street in response to a tramp's
Kboca ner lace looked so kihd and
benevolent that the hungry man had
no .doubt that a good dinner aw
him. He had however laid'Juv
certain programme and iie thereto
began: v
"My dear woman t havsn't had anv f
thing to eat for two days and I want ;
ed to ask it you would .spare me on
those icicles which has fallen from tbl
eaves?" .
"Well I dunno"she slowly replied
as she looked out "I suppose we
might spare yoa one if you are really
suffering but of course you won't take '
the largest and best!"
He stepped down and selected an
icicle about two feet long and in a hts- '
itating manner inquired:
"If you would only sprinkle a little
pepper on this I would be forever gratc-
"It's rather bold in you to ask it but
I suppose I can sprinkle on a little a
very little" she replied and sbe got
the pepper and dusted his "luncheon"
very sparingly.
He. started to move away but seem-
ing to recollect something he turned
and said :
"Yoa seem so benevolent I'll ask you
to sprinkle on a little salt as well. I
like my icicles seasoned up pretty
high."
'You are a boll man sir and it's
plain that yon have the appetite of a
glutton but I'll give you a bit of lt
and then you must be gone" she re-
plied. When the icicle had been duly salt-
ed the min expressed his thanks but
didn't move away. His gamo wasn't
working to suit him. Borne folk
wouldn't have stood there and seen
him bite off the end of a big icicle
but this girl did. And further when
he hesitated to go she indignantly
called out:
"I know what you want. You now
want me to warm the icicle in the ovtn
for you and then put on some mustard
but I'll neyer neyer do it! "
The man moved slowly out ef tie
gate ana as ne tnrew ji mcic nt n
passing dog he gsve utterance to Ms
disgust in language punctuated entire-
ly with slung shots.
Judge White of the Appellate Cuuit
sustained the ruling of the court at
Beguln finding Cos d actor Davidson of
the Sunset road for not stopping trui:.-
five minutes as prescribed by law. The
other dsy Judge White was on the .
same train and the law was put in tf-
lect to tne letter. The lodge became-
exasperated at the delays and final! j
asked wnat they were op to such noi;-
sense for. The reply was "Jad" wt
are illustrating the five minute W-w
yoa." The judge took in the tituu-
Uon at once ana told.Msjor Center.-
that as far as be. White was concent
ed the delay would sot discommot!.-
him but it would work a great hard
ship upon a Urge number of passt u-
gers wishing to make connectiorv U f
the North. Tell your cond actor sui 1
be "to go ahead and get in oa tin;?
and I will draw up a petition to t!.-;
Governor to have the law repealed.
and will have mv brother iudzts t
join me in it. I see that it is a tm-k i
law." "And I'll join you in the peti-
tion" said Attorney General Jtor.
McCormick who was also a pisstc-;- r.
Nashville's colored society witsesy a
on Thorsdsy evening January 2 ti t:
marriage of Arthur D. Lassitoa.
of John iL Lacgston minuter to J !
ti and Miss Ida H. Napier d&t:.''.' .
of CoL Carroll Napier. Presi-lctt fr-.
vathof PUk University and otLcr f lo-
ored celebrities were present.
A case originally in vol virg 1:?
which has swallowed up the ctuu j '
both litigants besides ccitic '
country a large sum has been 'm'
amicably" at Clb Maine
.xi.orf T.T. -Vciwr Si.
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