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r UMBIA ERA VOL. XLII. COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1897. NO. 5 GOL E LD NEWS AND COMMENT. The fundamental difference be tween Cleveland and Jefferson is this; Jefferson organizedhe Demo cratic party and Cleveland disor ganized it. Verily Indeed the cigarette U in bad odor. Last Friday, by a unani mous vote, the bill passed the House prohibiting the salo of cigarettes and cigarette paper in Tennessee. In his address at the annual bank quet of the New York Board of Trade, Henri Watterson said that, what was necessary was a new birth of morals. If Henri is not too old to learn new tricks he should give the nation the benefit of his exam ple. Miss Sopronisba Breckinridge, daughter of Col. W. C. P. (Pollard) Breckinridge, has been granted a li cense to practice law by the Judges of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. She will practice in conjunction with the law firm of Breckinridge & Shalby. ANY business that a Senator or Representative of the United State has with Qrover Cleveland as Presi dent, must be transacted through urover s private secretay. By an executive order Grover declines to admit any member of Congress into his august and mighty presence. A bill has been introduced into the Indiana Legislature against the wearing of high hats in theatre, and the penalty clause provides for fine and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding live days. In our opinion this will only aggravate the nuisance. Nothing short of death or style will stop a woman. Mrs. Hungekkokd, who assumed the literary name of "The Duchess, is dead. She lived at St. Brenda's, Brandon, County Cork, Ireland. She became widely known to readers of light literature through her novels, "Molly Bawn" and "Phyllis," and many an idle girl has whiled away her lonesome hours In a hammock with "The Duchess." Dispatches from London state that Senator Wolcott, of Colorado who is visiting England In the in terest of bimetallism, is not satisiled with the progress of his inquiries there. The gold-bugs and Republi cans deceived many people with this humbugof international bimetallism during the last campaign. But it has served its turn and can no longt deceive. The Indiana Legislature is turn ing its attention to some other im portant small matters. Besides the high hat bill another ha3 been intro duced "to prevent the fostering of crime and sentimentality" by send ing flowers and paying other deli cate and friendly attention to crimi nals, excepting the immediate fami ly from tiie penalty of the act. And still another to prevent the playing of foot ball. United States Senator Jame son Z. George of Mississippi, Is dan gerously ill from heart failure at t lie Garfield hospital in Washington, and owing to his advanced age his friends are very apprehensive of the outcome. He is now in his "1st year and has been a member of the Uni ted States Senate for nearly IB years; the term which he is now serving expires March 4. 1S!H. He has made an able and hard-working Senator. Tennessee editors are in rather hard luck these days. Editor Slack of tlie Bristol Courier is in danger of durance vile on account of send ing one of his editorials through the mails, the language of which Uncle Sam thought was beyond all hounds of decency; and H. H. Hulni, city editor of the Memphis Herald, is now held for criminal li bel at the instance of a man about wlwun be wrote too freely, while editor Kggerton of Dickson county is under arrest for embezzlement. Mark Twain is making a hard fl.ri.t )iir..,iiit novertv. A few years ago bo thought himself a ricli man, but lie is to-day worse than penni less. Since his return from Africa a few months ago he has been living in very modest lodgings in London, going nowhere and seeing but one or two friends, working all day and every day at a history of his trip around the world. He Is past 00 years of age and in poor health. What fun America's greatest hum orist will be able to grind out of these surroundings it is hard to guess. OUR LAW-MAKERS. Busy as a Hive of Bees, Working for the State's Welfare. Number of Important Bills, (!uleu luted to do Good, Will Soon He Made Laws. The Solon Have Put Attorneys-General Oil a 2, BOO Salary, ami Kinnbat- Irally Say They are Opposed to Cigarettes. THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Senate. The Senate was only in session during the morning, and nothing of especial note was done, save the in troduction of a few bills. . Senator Dabbs, from this district. introduced a bill to provide, for the payment of salaries to clerks of Chancery, Circuit and Criminal Courts, and compensation to their assistants or deputies in counties with a population, of 30,01)0 or more. The salary of the clerks mentioned above is fixed at $2,000 per annum in counties having a population of more than 30,000. The clerk . is allowed one assistant in counties having a population of more, than 50,000. The salary of the assistant is fixed at 1,000 per annum. J5y consent Mr. J iamner submitted a petition from citizens of Tipton County, asking the Legislature to pass a law requiring banks to give security for deposits. HOIINA. Mr. Rogers' cigarette bill passed its second reading, the rules having been suspended for that purpose. 1 lie jsrandoii penitentiary mil was again taken up, and passed by a vote of 51 to 42, with an amendment to the effect that !)!(, mi place of lit',), con victs should be hired to one manu facturer at one time, or shall engage in the making of any one special line of articles. The following new bills were in troduced : By Mr. Rogers To make it a felony to buy or sell a vote. By Mr. Rogers To require all public officers to take an oath against bribery, making it a misde meanor to act without taking such oath and making it a felony to swear falsely in taking the same. By Mr. Boyle To repeal the act establishing the Court of Chancery Appeals. Friday's ntot Ki:ni;s. Semite. Mr. Taylor introduced a bill pro viding tliat local option be permit ted in all Incorporated towns, cities and taxing dis'ricts in the State. Under this bill the Board of Mayor and Alderman are authorized to call a special election upon receiving a petition to that effect, signed by at least 20 per cent, of t he legal voters residing in the town, city or taxing district. A majority of all the votes east will obtain local option. The House bill providing that the salaries of attorneys-general shall be .f2,iV)l per annum, and that an assist ant shall he allowed at $1,200 per year in counties of 50,000 population, came up in the Senate for its third and fln-il reading. In order to make the act constitutional the Senate amended the bill by striking out all of the matter relative to the assist ant. The bill passed by a voto of 31 to 1. Mr. Oillham's bill authorizing county courts to appropriate ad ditional compensation lor Attorneys-General in counties having a population exceeding 80.000, came up on its third reading and a lively discussion ensued in which nearly every member joinod. The bill passed by 21 to 7. House. The following new bills were intro duced : By Mr. Dykes To simplify the election laws. The bill provides that the ballot may be printed on any kind of white paper, and shall be from three to four Inches wide and from six to seven and a half inches long; also that no ballot shall be thrown out for mere technicali ties. By Mr. Essary To authorize county courts to elect coal oil in spectors at a salary of $1,500 per year, and all fees in excess of this amount received bv the inspectors shall be paid into the State Treasury. Mr. Rogers' bill prohibiting the sale or giving away of cigarettes in the State came up on its third read ing, and was unanimously passed. Ayes SI. The full text of the bill, omitting the caption, is as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee that it shall be a misde meanor for any person, firm or cor poration to stll, offer to sell or to bring into the State for the purpose of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of any cigarettes, or cigarette paper or substitute for the same; and a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be a mis demeanor, punishable by a Hue of not less than $50. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that the grand juries shall have Inquisi torial power over o ileuses committed under this act. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that this act take etfect from and after the lirst day of May, 1S'.7, the public welfar" requiring it. The House adjourned until Mon dav at 11 o'clock. SATURDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Senate. The Senate held a short morning session Saturday, working about an hour, and adjourned until Monday afternoon. The Senate concurred in the House resolution appropriating $5,000 for the use of the State Board of Health in eradicating Texas fever among cattle and extending the quarantine line around the portion of the State where it does not exist at present. The House cigarette bill was in troduced into the Senate by Mr. Mann. Mr. Houk introduced by request a bill to regulate telephone charges. Senator Dabbs, of this district, who is himself an M. I)., introduced a bill to provide for and to regulate and restrict the fees of physicians and surgeons. The bill states that in all cases of sickness treated by physicians and surgeons during the last Illness of persons who are recognized heads of families, that the said physicians and surgeons shall be recognized and treated bv the courts as preferred creditors; that the following rule of fees shall be used : For prescriptions, 50 cents each ; for medicine and prescription, fi eacn; ror mileage, 60 cents one way, and lor all malor operations a fee of not exceeding $25, and for all minor oporatiions a fee not exceed ing $5 shall be allowed. . MONDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Senate. The Senate was in session only in the afternoon, and very little work of general interest was transacted Mr. Smithson introduced a bill to prevent frivolous continuances in criminal cases, and to abrogate the rule of law now in force as to appli cations for continuances in criminal cases. UCMIMP. The following new bills were in troduced: By Mr. Johnson, of Smith To make stockholders individually and collectively responsible to all deposi tors and creditors for the full amount of deposits or loans made to sucli bank, and all the individual property of each stockholder or part ner in such business shall be subject to the satisfaction of its creditors and depositors in the proportion his stock bears to the amount due sucli creditor or depositor. By Mr. Thompson, of Roane To extend the time of the collection of taxes by the several county trustees until the first Tuesday in April, 1H!)7. By Mr. Caruthers To prevent in solvent debtors from making pre ferred creditors. By Mr. Johnson, of Davidson To prevent railroads from making un reasonable charges, and from dis criminating in rates. The Jarvis criminal costs bill was passed alter a short debate; numer ous amedments were offered, but all were sent to grass before the final vote was taken, which showed 57 in favor of the bill and 17 opposed. From the House the bill goes to the Senate, and, being hacked by a strong, decisive vote in the Hoi'.sp, it is more than likely to pass the Senate. (Continued to Seventh i'asie.) li NOXYILLK PAILl'K KS. Iteeelver A luleil For Two II. . I,. AtNoriution. Knoxvim.k, Jan. 23. There is great surprise in Knoxville at the appointment of a receiver for the Southern Building & Loan Associa tion. Mr. Luttrell, one of the directors, said to-day that expert accountants have just examined the books and found that tiie association can pay every cent it owes and 6 per cent interest. The Franklin Building & Loan Association assigned to-day and W. S. Shields, the trustee, at once Hied a general creditors' bill in chancery. The assets cover the liabilities. How (Jen. Lee Proposed. f New Orlcnns Picayune. "When Robert K. Lee cast his lot with Virginia, his wife's words to him were: "Whichever way you go will be in the path of duty. You will think it right, and I shall be satisfied." Arlington was the living record of Mrs. Leo and her ancestors, the museum of the most complete collection of Washington relics on the earth, the scene of Lee's court ship and marriage, the birthplace of all his children. Robert E. Lee was a favorite with Mr. and Mrs. Custis from boyhood. He and Mary Custis planted the magnificent avenue of trees to the right of Arlington when they were barely more than chil dren. One day Mrs. Custis, Mary and Robert Lee sut in the big hall; the latter read aloud from one of Scott's novels. When she had lis tened for some time, Mrs. Custis said: "Mary, Robert must be tired and hungry, go into the dining room and get him some lunch." When the girl went the young man fol lowed, and as she stoopped to get a piece of fruit cake out of the side board, he put his arm around her and whispered the sweet old stoy. He could wait no longer. Perhaps t lie romance of Walter Scott touch ed a chord in his breast, which broke forth into sudden melody. Tbeiictforward two lives were one. Heaths From Grippe. Ckntkevim.e, Tknn., Jan. 25. The grip is spreading in this section. Mrs. F. B. Russell, who has been confined to her bed for aonie time with the grip, is not expected to live. Five deaths occurred yesterday J. S. Rogers, Mr. Wilkes, Mary Ayde lotte, daughter of Alex GeIrge, Mrs. Akers, wife of Bill Akers, and Mr. D. Hines. Mr. Hines was S7 years old and wa in the Mexican war. A SERMON FOR THE TIMES. Dr. Hawthorne Talks About "Throw- ing Stones From Glass Houses." Great Commercial Wrecker, Who Com bine Their Capital to Deprenx Mar ket are Monumental Thieves. From the Nashville Hun. The Sun takes gome extracts from a sermon preached by the Rev. J. B. Hawthorne In the First Baptist Church of Nashville. It contains thoughts for Sunday reading, which The Sun wishes to give a wider cir culation. Dr. Hawthorne savs: "If Christ were on eartli to-dav he would stand in some social center, where Parisian ideas, sentiments and fashions prevail, and say, 'Be- noid yonder houses of uncleanliness and shame, and let him who is with out sin cast the first stone at it.' It Is humiliating to know that there are men and women around us who are too prudish to countenance the erection of a home, in their com munity, for the reformation of har lots, but whose sensibilities are not disturbed by the sentiments and customs which promote the growth of harlotry and all of the attendant abominations. j - ! ' ; ! f . "If those Pharisees had gona out and caught a thief caught him in the very act of stealing some man's property and brought him to Jesus, saying, 'Master; here is ft thief whom we caught in the act of taking another man's property, what shall be done with him?' I imagine that he would have made the same reply that he gave them in the case of the unclean woman, 'Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at him.' "If we apply the law, 'Thou shalt not steal,' as interpreted by Christ and his apostles, how few men among us could honestly say, 'I have never violated that commandment.' When Paul exhorts the Romans to be honest in the 6ight of God and men,' he is simply interpreting and enforcing the old law, which said, 'I hou shalt not steal. "In the New Testament honesty means honorable, but in the ethical code of modern business circles it means simply conformity to the let ter of a bargain. To be honest In the truest and noblest sense is to be true to the largest spirit of social duty. The honest man regards an unwritten obligation as just as sacred and binding as the one that is written, signed, sealed and de livred. He is just as careful to pay a debt of 10 cents as one or a thous and dollars. "I have a tract of land on which my neighbor discovers a ricli vein of gold. Knowing me to be Ignorant of the real value of the property, he makes me an offer for it, which accept. For a thousand dollars he gets from me something which lie knows to be worth a hundred thous and dollars. In tli id transaction, while lie violates noliw of the State, lie transgresses the divine code, which says, 'Thou shalt not stoal, and 'provide things honest hi the sight of God.' Under the laws of the State he is not chargeable with theft. But according to the law of God, as understood and accepted by honest nicii, lie is not less a thiu than those who run away with the contents of a bank vault. "A man makes a piece of counter feit money and buys something with it, or lie signs the name of some merchant to a note which he after ward gets discounted in bank. Is that man a thief? Yes. What is that makes him a thief in the eyes of the law? It is the fact that he got another man's property without naviiii! 'anything- for it. Apply the same principal toother transactions and von will convict thousands of men whom no court has ever in dieted. According to this principle every gambler is a thief; every selle of frau. uilent goods is a thief: every corporation that gives a ficticious value to its stock is a combination of thieves. The great commercial wreckers who combine their capital to depress markets and to get other men's property for half its value are monumental thieves. Every form of deception by which men get the advantage of each other in business is theft. The most persistent and remorseless thieves are not in the convict camp, but in mansions. where they are clothed in purple and fare sumptuously every day. If all the men who have dealt fradu lently with their fellow-men were put into the chain gang to-morrow, it would make gaps in commercial, political and religious circles too fearful to contemplate. It would wipe out Wall street. It would an- niliilale the grain and whisky rings. It would shut up half of the broker age offices and suspend more than half of the water-works companies. It would cancel a majority of street paving contracts, utterly disorganize the plumbing business, thin the ranks of the real estate agents, paralyze gas-light companies, and so reduce the representation in Con gress that no quorum could be ob tained until after the next election. So an application of the moral law would empty many a church pow and remove from his sacred olllce many a man who is attempting to perform the solemn functions of the Christian ministry. "When we look upon a man con victed of embezzlement or forgery and about to be confined to a felon's cell, we cannot afford to spurn him and anatheuiize him because his crime is the product of influences which pervade the commercial world, and for which every one of us is in some degree responsible. Tried by God's standard of honesty, which regards what is in the heart as well as what appears in the life, that man is not more criminal than thousands who stand high commer cially, socially aud religiously. Highest of all in Leavening Power. ABSOLUTELY PURE "Let that man among you who never planned anything crooked in his own business, nor winked at crookedness in others, and who is in no way responsible for the spirit of dishonesty in the world of trade, step forward and hurl the first anthema at him who stands before a human tribunal convicted of theft. I stand aghast to-day, not as I look upon some impecunious wretch who has stolen a lew dollars, out as look upon the great army of collossal thieves who walk abroad unwhipped of justice, and whose example and influence have led mil lions of people to think that dishones ty is disreputable and despicable only when it is punished by the State. It it the couduct or these imperial rogues that is supporting and spread ing the doctrine or the anarchists, that 'all property is theft,' and that is hastening a revolution which will make the bloodiest picture in the book of time." The Sun has not space for the en tire sermon, but the above extracts strike at evils which thoughtful and honest men should seek . to remedy. The tendency of the times is to sacrifice honor, manhood, vir tue and everything moral in the mad scramble for money. If every minister and every newspaper in the land would open their batteries on the same lines which Dr. Haw thorne has marked out, we hope to see the high type of honest man hood which he holds up recognized as a standard, and the mo ai sense of the people aroused to the appre ciation ot the dangers into wnicn the nation is rushing. Dr. Haw thorne is not an anarchist, and he is perhaps clear of the charge of being a "calamity howler," and it is to be hoped that bis words ot warning may not fall on deaf ears in places of power. Unless there is a halt called, the revolution which he so graphically predicts will come, and it will, as he says, "inane tne bloodiest picture in the Book of Time." 'The Dnclicss" is Demi. Di'HUN, Jan. 24. Mrs. Hunger- ford, the novelist, is dead. Mrs. Hungerford s literary nom ne plume, "The Duchess," first became widely known to the readers of light literature through her novels "Molly Bawn" and "Phyllis." "Pretty Tales of the Joys and Trials of Lovers" told in a light, chatty way, which found favor on the two con tinents, and for many years the novels of "The Duchess" have sold in many editions. Mrs. Hungerford lived at St. Brenda's Bandon. County Cork. She married when very young, and was early left a widow with three small children to care for. In 1SS: she married Henry Hungerford, of Cahirmore. A Special Providence. It takes wind, gall, scintilnting ac robatic imagination, a railroad pass and a couple of white shirts to run a newspaper, but no money. Keep that for sordid trades people who charge for their wares. The Lord loves a cheeiful giver. He'll t ike care of the editor, lie has a charter from the State to act as a door mat for the community. He will get the paper out somehow, and stand up for the town, and whoop it up for you when you run for office, and lie about your pigeontoed daughter's tacky wedding, and blow about your big-footed son when ho gets a a week job, and weep over your shriv eled soul when it is released from your gasping body, and smile at your giddy wife's second marriage. Don't worry about the editor; he'll get along. The Lord only knows how but somehow. Exchange. A Patriotic Editor. The editor of a small rural news paper in Georgia, who has clamored for war with Spain, was the victim of a practical joke recently. One of the town wags got up a fake letter Irom Havana and addressed it to the editor. It was as follows: "Gen. Wevler desires ine to inform you that the work you are doing against Hpain has greatly retarded his cam paign. He will pay you loOHO to quit. Will you take it?" The editor answered : "Dear Sir I am a true patriot and believe that Cuba should be free, but I have a large family to support and times have been very hard, so I think that my first duty Is to my family, and I beg to say that I accept your offer and shall say no more on the subject. Please send the money, as I need it." ' Graham Kgerton Captured. Whites Bm kks, Jan. 24 G. Egerton, back tax attorney for Dick son county, who recently defaulted for about $2,000 and then skipped the county, has been arrested in Cin cinnati. This news reached hereto day, and officers left at once for Cin cinnati to bring him back. They irn expected to return about Wed nesday. KL'hteous Realism. "I painted a winter scene the other day that was so true to nature that the thermometer in my studio fell 20 degrees." "Humph! That's nothing. I painted a portrait of old Brown last year that was so lifelike that I had to shave it regularly." ( Harper's Bazar. Latest U. S. Gov't Report IPbwdter L CAL OPTION. Text of a HID Hefore Hie Tennessee General Assembly. A bill entitled "An act to permit local option in all incorporated towns and cities and taxing districts in the State of Tennessee," has been introduced, and Is now before the Legislature. The bill is as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be lawful in all incorporated cities, towns and taxing districts in Tennessee to restrict or prohibit the sale of any or all intoxicating, spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, whenever a majority of the legal voters residing therein shall so declare in a special flection held for that purpose in the manner hereinafter set but. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of any sucli incorporated town, city or taxing district shall order a special election for said purpose, as hereinafter provided, the question to be voted upon shall be submitted to the legal vrters residing within the said incorporated town, city or taxing district, and they shall vote thereon; provided, however, that such question cannot be submitted ut any such special election ofteiier than once in every two years. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for such ques tion to be submitted to a vote at any such special election by the Mayor and City Council of sucli town, city or taxing district, unless a petition addressed to the Mayor and City Couucil of sucli incorporated town, city or taxing district shall have been signed by at least 20 per cent, (or one-fifth) of all the legal voters residing within the corporate limits of sucli incorporated town, city or taxing district, us shown by the last Federal census preceding the time when such petition is presented and filed, requesting that such special election be so held at some date thereafter, which shall not be less than sixty days from the date when such petition, so signed, shall have been tiled with the Mayor and City Council aforesaid. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That when sucli petition, so signed as aforesaid, shall be filed as aforesaid, the Mayor ami City Council shall forthwith order a special election at some convenient time to be appoint ed by the Mayor, not less than sixty days from the time when such peti tion is presented and filed. Sec. o. Be it further enacted, That the question to he submitted at sucli special election shall he in the fol lowing form, to-wit: "For Local Option"' and "Against, Local Option."' rec. I). Re it further enacted. That if at such special election so held as hereinbefore provided, a majority of the legal votes cast tliere.it shall bo cast "For Local Option' then and in that event it shall not thereafter be lawful to sell any spirituoin. vinous, mall or intoxicating liquors within such incorporated town, city or taxing district, and any person found guilty thereof Khali be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and pun ished as such; provided, however, that if at hoiio- special election held thereafter in the manner hereafter provijed, a majority of the legal votes ,.ast thereat shall be cast ' Against Local Option," then, and in that event, it shall he lawful to sell spirituous vinous, malt or in toxicating liquors in ;such towns, cities and taxing districts, subject to such restrictions and regulations as shall b deemed just and proper by the Mayor and City; Council, under the laws of the State of Ten nessee. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare re quiring it. The friends of local option are working earnestly in behalf of the bill and they request th at all per sons In the state friendly to the measure who would assUt in sup pressing the open saloon, get up petitions and send them to their representatives in the Legislature now in session without delay. They also request papers throughout the stat to publish aid call attention to the bill. Whether itchinc burning, Ueeilinp, leafy, crusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simple, scrofulous, or lu-roclitary , from infancy to src, Speedily cured by warm baths with CtrncTRA Boat, gentle anoint ines wit hCtTKTR 'oint ments, the piv.it skin cure, and mild doses of Cutktra It evolvent, grt-Atest of blood purifiers and humor cures. uticuni It oM thmnrhnat th. wHd Form Dica awdCsw. O.' , Prop. . Hn-U.li. tf "Uu is Cur. t.frr Rlmd !lamor,rr. nk iiviiiviiv una ntNt; i carwl bj CvTivta tutr. 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