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THE DEMOCRAT. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. Official Journal of the City of Alexandria. Henry L. Biossat, Business Manager For President : GROVER CLEVELAND, OI NEW YORK. For Vice-President: THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, OF INDIANA. For Congress-Fourth Congressional District: Hon. N. C. BLANCHARD, OF CADDO. -MAINE opens the fall elections j on Sept. 8th. cl --THE State of Morelos, Mexi- E ico, contributes $2000 toward the s' World's Exposition. --BALTIMORE is tickled to think that there is a greater depth of water in her harbor approaches than New York's or Philadelphia's. -ToMAHAWK punch is a Lon- I don mixture of champagne, green t tea and curaco. As its name would v imply it goes straight to the, head. n -Mn- J. R: McLean, of the Cin- C oinnati Enquirer, has contributed $15,000 from his private purse to C the Democraic campaign fund in c Ohio. -- -NINE hundred and sixty-one of the 1300 inhabitant of a village of Saxony were attacked with trich inosis after eating the flesh of dis- t eased pigs. Fifty-seven of them I died. 1 -A CANVAss of Company D of 1 the Boston Cadets showed the fol- I lowing: Republicans, 18; Demo orats, 10; Independents, 6; total, - 34. Presidential preferences, Cleve land 33; Blaine 1. -THERE is a customer's store in Philadelphia which has added a new feature to its business. It now furnishes ready-made funeral outfits for funerals at a moment's notice. The proprietor says this funeral outfit branch of his trade is grow ing daily. -THE other day in London two men who sold a painted sparrow for. -a canary were sentenced to three months imprisonment at hard labor, and just afterward two women who had beaten and half-starved three little children were sentenced to une week's imprisonment. -TRE Tribume of New York,.ad mits that Blaine is a tattooed man, 'but adds, "so was Abraham Lin coln." The Tribune is undoubtedly prepared to produce letters from .Lincoln asking -to be let into a subsidized corporation on the ground floor, with the touching appeal: "I am confident that I will not be a dead head in the enterprise." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -THE New Orleans City Item- is in earnest when it says: "If there were to be as many executions in this city as there are murderers who deserve the rope, some-of our news papers would be compelled to en large themselves or materially cur tail the "full account" of, the miser able scenes. After the commission of crime, the next misfortune is a too minute detail of its attending circumstances? LOGAN'SB LETTER. cat we But brief respite was allowed the public curiosity after the remarka- lu1 ble but characteristic letter of ac- ch ceptance from Blaine before we co, were afflicted with that conglome- soi ration of revamped nonsense em- the braced in that of the Republican no nominee foI the Vice-Presidency.- ca The only parallel existiEg between tel the two is found in the windy ver- io< bosity of each. Each seemed to th have adopted the maxim of Tally- E; rand, wherein he proclaimed "words hb were invented to conceal ideas." bh These two special specimens of Re- m, publican rhetoric are as remarkable ca for their profuseness of the former as the paucity of the 'latter, while to that of Blaine..consumate and -fin- V ished after its fashion. Logan's, hi though but a little briefer, is but a ce compound of stupidity. Blaine had in the modesty or good sense to ab jure the point on which Logan cc chiefly bases his- hopes of success. T Each dwelbon issues past, with ab- A solutely nothing new or desirable t° in the prospective. But Blaine is R evidently the best tactician dis- o0 plays more regard for truth than tt did his stultified colleague on the tl Republican ticket. In some of the Independent journals it is facetious- tl ly dubbed as "Logan's Great Let ter," most evidently in derision, as co we will presently show. We would l( not inflict on our readers any spe- p cial or detailed review thereof- y "such game would not pay for the S candle"-but content ourselves by t calling attention to but one point, t which he calls "equal rights of cit- n izenship." Under that head he _a waves the bloody shirt to his heart's content, however much to the disgust of his readers. To fa thom Mr. Logan aright it should be borne in mind that at the outset of his political career he was a most f blatant Democrat; that from the S - position he then occupied, i. e. that s - of the most intense Abolition hater s -actually a hunter of fugitive _ slaves to restore them to-their mas ters, he now plays the rdll of the most devoted negro worshipper. 1 Such is his hatred'of everything Southern displayed on all occasions, and especially in this letter, so s warped his judgment, so absolutely blind to facts, that he descends to I 1 absolute falsehood in his effort to fire the Northern heart on the sub ject of the iniquities, as he styles it, o constantly practiced towards the 1 r freedmen by Southern whites, thus o striving to keep alive those long r, since smouldering embers and ani o mosities engepdered by the late e war, but now happily become ex ,o tinct in the bosoms of all except the few of which Mr. Logan is a 1 shameless example and oxponeht. As this bloody shirt doctrine seems Sto be the only hook left on which to hang a hope, he is destined soon to find it but a rope of sand. He has allowed ambition to warp and runaway with his judgment; he is I: emphatically of that class of dema gogues who never learn and never __ forget anything:. We will take leave of this renowned hero, Gen. Logan, by commending to. his spe is cial notice a few extracts from a re most pronounced Independent news in paper. on this which it calls "Lo 11 gan's Great Letter." In a scath rs- ing review, thereof the Philadelphia In- Times has this to say: "It must in ir- justice be said, however, that a very sr- little of such a letter will go a:great on way. Though the essay on the ta a riff is nht as long as Mr. Blaine's ng the rest of the letter is a good: deal longer. It waaders over the Obi; cagoe platform with a "uperfiuity of words and a paucity of knowledge that makes even the original reso lutions respectable, and Blaine's chapter of history resplendant by comparison," etc. Again: "It is a sort of rambling eommentary on the platform, ntterly confused and contradictory and hopelessly illogi cal, and it seems adapted to the ini tellectual development of the per iod when Logan was a member ol the Illinois Legislature from Eygpt." We cannot quote further, but,from the extracts given it may be judged of the contemptible esti mate in which it is held by those so Ii capable of judging.. -THE following good story is told by an exchange about ex-Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, noted for his humor. One of the liveliest S campaigns that was ever canrriedon in North Carolina was the one in which Vance and Judge Settle competed for the governorship. They carried on a joint debate. All the white emigrants turned out to hear Vence, and all the colored Republicans to hear Settle. On one occasion, at the conclusion of the speaking, Vance was informed that there were 'some charming young ladies who desired to testify their devotiom to the Democratic party by kissing the Democratic candidate for governor. Nothing loath,. Vance descended from the' platform and kissed a dozen or so young beauties from the Old North State,. when he paused long enough to turn around toward his coumpeti tor and shout: "Settle, I'm kissing my women; you kiss yours!" On account of their race and previous condition of servitude, Settle did not kiss the feminine Republicans. GLORIOUS VICTORY, 18 TO.4 The Shreveport nine have met the celebrated Dallas nine on their own grounds and have scored a victory t so complete as to surprise the most r sanguine and enthusiastic of their numerous admirers. The reputation of the Dallas Browns, acquired in e many close contests, is very high. . Indeed they are considered the best ball players in the south,. and. their pitcher, Crawford,. is. so powerful that very few. men could hold his balls. The victory of the Shreve o port nine is glorious indeed. All o honor to our boys who have done up the Dallas Browns by a score of t18 to 4 Yes, friends, "done' em up" ie brown.-[Shreveport Times.. Is -BEN Butler always has a sin g glo eye on the main change, and' is i- beleived to be holding. off from te allegiance to get a bid. A Wash - ington paper states that were Gov. le Cleveland to signify, at this time a his willingness (if elected) to make it. Butler a member of' his Cabinet, o and to let him dispense the New ;h England patronage, the Governor Snwould have the hearty support of the Massachusetts statesman inside of fifteen minutes. Judging by his Id record, Gov. Cleveland is the last is man-that would make such a bar a- gain.. 'er -IT is a splendid indicatibn of a ke healthy public sentiment in the u - nanimity with which the Hen. N. C. >e Blauchard is being supported'for re a election to Congress from the Forth "' Congressional Distriot. It is also o0 a deserved compliment to the faith ful discharge of his duties.. He ia has proven himself to be an ablk, in zealous,.energetic and: capable rep ,ry resentative. He will- unndoubtedly at be' unanimously nominated and overwhelmingly. elected.---[Demo cratio Review. al -Jon Printing neatly executed 'bit at this office. . A' - TOWN ADJERTI8EIENTS. JACOB GEIGER, - Proprietor. Is selling at New Orleans wholesale prices to the jblbing trade, and o$trs _'; ing epecial inducements to retail buyers. The stock eonsists in part as follows: Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Stationer School Books, Tobacco and Cigars, Liquors for medioi nal purposes, Garden Seeds, Etc. Cor. 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