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VOLUME XXX.
CANTON, MISS., SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880.
NUMBER 23.
NEWS TN BRIEF.
CompQefl from Various Sources.
Thb Ways and Means Committee
hare Instructed Representative Wood to re
port favorably to the House the liill to abol
ish the Freedmen's Bank Commission, and
to cover funds in their hands into the United
States Treasury.
A ctclone struck the village of
Mitchell, Dakota Territory, on the evening
of the 25th, doing much damage to life and
property. Jacob I.uther, formerly of New
Alamakee, Iowa, and Henry Smith, former
ly of Kane County, III., were killed. Fred
Francis, Mr. Phelps, Frit Badd and Win.
H. Moth were badly injured. A number of
buildings were blown down.
Gov. St. John of Kansas held a con
ference with a numler of prominent citizens
at Topeka, on the 25tb, to determine upon
some course of action to relieve the great
destitution that prevails In some of the
weatera counties of the State, caused by
drouth and loss of crops. It was estimated
by those present that fully 20,000 people
In the locality designated are iu immediate
need of provisions to keep them from actual
starvation. It was agreed that Kansas can
and should take care of its own poor without
calling upon other States for assistance. It
was determined to form a State Central Re
lief organization, and a committee was ap
pointed to carry out the plan proposed.
An anti-Grant Republican meeting
was held at Chicago on the night of the 2Gth,
In pursuance of a call issued by the ninety-
two delegates from the Farwell Hall Con
vention to Springfield. Central Music Hall
where the meeting was called, was crowded
at an early hour, and another meeting was
organized at Farwell Hall. An address
waa adonted In the nature of
statement to be presented to the National
Convention, setting forth the alleged unjust
and arbitrary action of the State Convention
at Springfield, and asking that the so-called
disfranchised districts be permitted a repre
sentatton in the National Convention by del
egates of their own selection.
Thb Kansas Democratic State Con'
vention, to select delegates to the National
Convention, waa held on the 26th. Col
Thomas Moonlight was chosen Chairman
The Convention refused to instruct In favor
of any candidate.
Thi Colorado Republican State Con
vention, held at Denver on the 35th, instruct'
ed iu delegates to Chicago to vote as a unit
for Gen. Grant.
At Piqna, O., on the morning of the
SSth, a barrel of gasoline exploded In the
cellar of the residence of Mrs. Dr. Jones
canning a conflagration by whichthe house
waa soon consumed. Two boys, Charles and
John Perdue, brothers, aged respectively
tea and fourteen years, perished in the
names, and Miss Kate Newland and Mr,
Fred Amendt were badly burned. The
bouse, with it furniture, which was com
pletely destroyed, was valued at from $5,000
to fio.ooo.
A portion of Gen. Hatch's command
bad another light with Victorio's band on
the 24th, at the headwaters of the Polorao
River, New Mexico, sbout thirty miles south
of OJo Caliente. The Indian loss is variously
stated at from thirty to fifty. Several Nava-
joes and Comancbes were found in the camp,
bowing that the bostUes had received rein'
foreements from those tribes. There is no
mention of any casualties among the troops
engaged. T
Tbb West Virginia Greenback-Labor
State Convention was held at Charleston on
the zttth. Delegates to the National Con.
vention were selected and a State ticket nom
inated, beaded by Col. N. B. French, of
Mercer County, for Governor.
Tux Missouri Democratic State Con
vention waa held at Moberly on the 26th.
Ex-Got. B. Grata Brown presided. The
delegates to Cincinnati are uninstructed,and
are divided tn their Presidential preferences
as between Tilden, Morrison, Seymour and
JIancock. The St. Louis Republican claims
nineteen out of the thirty delegates for Til
den; the St. Louis Time figures out twelve
for Tilden and eighteen anti-Tilden dele
gates.
Thb National Woman Suffrage Asso
ciation, at its recent session m Indianafplis,
appointed a delegation to visit Chicago and
present their claims before the National Re
publican Convention.
Thi Wisconsin and Minnesota Green-
backers both held State Conventions on the
27th and chose delegates to the National
Convention.
Thx Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, held on the 27th, chose an un
instructed delegation to Cincinnati.
Thb friends of Bon. William R. Mor
rison, of Illinois, held an informal meeting
at Washington the other evening, and re
solved to further his candidacy for the Pres
idency by holding meetings, organizing
clubs, etc. Among those present were Rep
resentatives Reagan, of Texas; Chalmers, of
Mississippi; Eppa Hunton and Harris, of
Virginia; Taylor and Atkins, of Tennessee;
Phillips, Clardy, Clark and Waddell, of Mis
souri; Thompson, Blackburn and Knott, of
Kentucky; and Townahend, Springer and
Singleton, of Illinois.
Thi. Cincinnati Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was formally
closed oa the 28th. Episcopal residences
were fixed at New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, St. Louis, Atlanta or Chattanooga, St.
Paul, Minn.; Austin, Texas; Des Moines
and San Francisco. An Italian Mission Con
ference waa authorized. Western Missions
were authorized in Nebraska, Utah, Black
Hills, Dakota, Indian Territory, and Mon
tana outside of the Montana Conference
and the Black Hills Mission.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Thb Whittaker trial at West Point
terminated on the 23th. In summing up
Recorder Sears argued that all the testi
mony went to show that Whittaker was the
author of his own assault; that he was of a
morbid temperament, which was aggravated
by the fear that he would not graduate,
by an unrequited love affair,
and by other causes. Wbittaker's counsel
maintained, on the other hand, that the
Cadet was of a cheerful temperament, that
be had no reasonable cause for anxiety as to
bis passing examination, and no conceivable
motive for the perpetration of the fraud with
which he was charged.
Brackbttsville, in Southwestern
Texas, waa Inundated by a rain storm on the
2Kth. The water In the main street was from
five to eight feet In depth, and rushed
through the town with the velocity of a tor
rent. A number of houses were swept away
and their inmates drowned.
Thb Texas and Pacific Railroad is to
.be opened for business to Weatherford,
Tex., on June 1.
A convention has been arranged be
tween the United States and Canada by
which exchange of postal money -orders ha
been simplified and the cost reduced.
The Staffordshire (England) coal
miners have struck work, and the collieries
are Hosed.
The Communists of Paris, to tie
number of several hundred, made a demon
stration on Sunday, the 23d, by endeavoring
to decorate with flowers the spot where the
Communists were shot in 1871. The police
Interfered and arretted several of the lead
ers. Their friends attempted their rescue
and blows were exchanged.
The American Society of Civil En
gineers met in annual convention at St.
Louis on the 25th, for a session of four
days. Between 300 and 400 delegates were
in attendance from various sections of the
country.
At Rochester, N. Y., on the 25th,
Mary O'Connor, a servant, aged forty-five,
attempted to kindle the kitchen fire with
kerosene. An explosion occurred, covering
her with the burning oil, and she ran wildly
into the street, fanning it into flames. The
flesh was literally roasted upon her lower
limbs and dropped off in shreds.
An extensive oil fire occurred in
Brooklyn, N. V., on tbe morning of the 26th.
Several men were badly injured by the ex
plosion of an oil tank.
Joel Ferguson, Town Marshal of
Murray, Calloway County, Ky., -was shot
and killed on the 24th by Dan F. Jones, a
saloon-keeper.
A duel has been fought at Pesth,
Hungary, between Count Zinchy and Count
Stephen Karolyi, in which the former was
wounded, it was thought fatally.
The Peruvians have recaptured Mo-
quequa and Areqtiipa.
A. H. Littlekield has been elected
Governor, and H. H. Fay Lieutenant-Governor,
of Rhode Island, by the General As
sembly. A railway line is projected from
Matamoras to Monterey and thence to Sal
tillo in Mexico.
The boat-race between Hanlan and
Riley, which was rowed on the Potomac at
Washington on the 20th, was easily won by
tbe former.
Thomas O. Thurston, who shot and
killed his partner, W. W. Embry, at Leav
enworth, Kas., on last New Y ear's Day, and
who was acquitted on the ground of self
defense, on the SSth attempted to shoot Mr.
D. R. Anthony, editor of the Timet, as the
latter was passing along the crowded street
at noonday. Thurston fired twice, both
shots missing bis intended victim,
but both taking effect upon other
parties. Lucien Baker, a young attorney,
was pierced through the body by one of the
bullets, and very dangerously, if not fatally,
wounded, and John P. Douglas, advertising
solicitor of the Timet, was slightly wounded
in the head. Thurston was arrested, and
for fear that be would bo lynched was taken
to Fort Leavenworth and thence to Atchi
son, where he is now imprisoned. - Baker
was attorney for Thurston in bis recent trial
and secured bis discharge.
George W. Pickens, an old settler
of Butler County, Kas., on tbe 23d was suf
focated in a well which he had been blasting
on bis farm in Benton Township. Frank
Waite, a neighbor's son, went down in the
well to the assistance of Pickens, and he too
was overcome by the deadly gas and fell
from the bucket to the bottom, fracturing
his skull.
Robert T. Gray, a commercial trav
eler from St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide
in Kansas City on the 26th. His parents re
side at Normal, 111.
John Eichbero, a prominent citizen
of Memphis, either Jumped or fell overboard
from the steamer Hard Cash and was
drowned, on the 25th.
The employees of the Philadelphia
Rolling-mill, 1,200 In number, have struck
for higher wages.
A season of most intense heat, ac
eompanied by long-continued drouth, has
prevailed throughout New York, New Jer
sey and the New England States. Un May
the thermometer in New York
City and vicinity ranged from
ninety-two degrees to one hundred degrees
in the shade. Tbe police report for twenty
four hours showed thirty-two cases of sun
stroke tn New York and Brooklyn, six of
which were fatal. Vegetation of all kinds
was nearly burned up. On the 23th there
were twelve deaths from sunstroke in New
York and Brooklyn.
Some 2,700 miners bave struck work
at Leadvllle, demanding an advance from
three dollars to four dollars per day. They
have compelled miners who did not volun
tarily join in the strike to quit work
Trouble is apprehended.
The spring meeting of the St. LouL
Jockey Club will open on Tuesday, June 8,
continuing until me iouowing Monday, the
14th. On each of the six days there will be
numlicr of spirited races, commencing
promptly at 2 p. m. All railroad and steam
boat lines give reduced rates of fare to St.
Louis during the races.
Mr. H. Plems, an ex-Alderman of
Dubuque, Iowa, committed suicide on the
2llth by shooting himself through the head.
Family troubles.
Dennis Kearney has been released
from the San Francisco House of Correction.
The President has signed the Carlisle
bill, amending the Internal Revenue "law in
reference to distilled spirits.
The Nevada delegates to the Cincin
nati Convention are said to stand three for
Tilden, two for Tburman and one for Field.
Tae Convention adopted a resolution in
favor of Tilden.
The Senate has rejected tile nomina
tion of S. Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, to
be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
for the Territory of New Mexico.
Two executions took place in Ar
kansas on the 28th. Thomas B. Edwards
was hanged at Ozark, Franklin County, for
tbe murder of Julia Alsobrooks, bis para
mour, in Johnson County, in July, 1H78,
and L. L. Ford was hanged at Marion, Crit
tenden County, for complicity in the mur
der of John Broadway, in October last. On
the same day Peter King was hanged at
Woodsticld, O., for the murder of David
Trembly in September last; Charles Balling.
colored youth of sixteen, was hanged at
Hanover C. IL, Vs., for an assault upon a
white woman; and Henry Hamlin was
hanged at Hartford, Conn., for shooting
Watchman Khlpman while the latter was
trying to prevent his escape from the State
prison in September, 1H77.
At Buena Vista, Colo., on the 28th,
James I teed and James Edwards had a shoot
ing bout in which both were killed.
Bill Dklancv, a noted desperado of
Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa, was shot
and killed on the 20th by Byron Reynolds,
with whom he had provoked a quarrel. Ie-
ancy had leen arrested for horse-stealing.
arson. Incendiarism and murder, but always
escaped any Bevere punishment.
The Vulcan Iron and Nail Works of ' at the
hattanooga, Tenn., have been thrown Into
bankruptcy. There will be no immediate
stoppage of the works.
The Delaware Democratic State Con
vention Instructed its deb-gates to the Cin
cinnati Convention to present the name of
Senator Itayard as a candidate for President.
Mr. Hkai
Constantinople, reports that be has received
a dispatch from Massoul, dated April ",
which states that the inhabitants of that and
neighboring villages are suffering from
famine. The dispatch, which is signed by
the Archbishop of the Syrians, savs: "Their
sufferings are indescribable. Finding no
cereals at all, some are eating corpses and
become ill in consequence. Their lamenta
tions are. heartrending. Most of them are
dying, as they bave nothing to eat. Those
of the inhabitants who have been until now
between life and death, pray you to give
them such assistance as will enable them to
live."
A letter from Cimarron, New Mex
ico, says in regard to the reported massacre
of the Bradbury party: "A party passed
my place some time since, and asked ad
vice aloiit going on the north fork of tbe
Gunnison to prospect. They were advised
not to go, as it is very dangerous, as tbe
White River Utcs were camped from South
Cedar to the mouth of the Uncoinpahgrc.
They paid no attention, but went on. The
Indians got after them, and Ouray and
Chepeta interfered in person and prevented
a massacre." Another letter says the loca
tion of the rumored Bradbury massacre is
at least one hundred and forty miles from
the town of Gunnison, and nearly if not
quite as far from the mining camps of the
Gunnison country, and states, further, that
it is not positively known that Bradbury
was murdered, and that the Gunnison min
ing country is not on the reservation, and is
open to settlement.
Canada voted $100,000 for the relief
of Ireland, and now, as the result of negotia
tions between the Secretary for Ireland and
the committee entrusted with the expendi
ture of the money, it has been resolved, in
stead of expending it in the purchase of
food, to devote it to procuring a supply of
seed for planting; the construction of piers
and harbors; providing fishing-tackle, and
other productive works, such as the draining
of land.
Leon Sat has been elected President
of the French Senate.
FACTS AM) FIGURES.
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Mat 25. Senate A number of pension
eases were disposed of. The President pro
tern, litld ltcfore the Semite a communication
from the Secretary of the Treasury in response
to a resolution of inquiry, stating the amount
due Kansas as five per cent, of the sales
of public lands in that State is
fWO.ass. The Agricultural Appropriation
bill was placed upon the calendar. The
Supervisors bill was taken up by n party
vote, and a long debate followed, participated
in by Messrs. Conkling, Bayard, lloar, Voor
hees, Kdmunds, McDonald and others. The
bill went over Haute The Sundrv Civil
Appropriation bill was further considered in
Committee of the Whole. After a long dis.
cussion the committee rose, twentv of the
tifty-two pages ot the bill having been dis
posed of.
May 2)!. Senate .Joseph E. Brown pre
sented his credentials and was sworn in as
Senator from Oeorgia. tn plaeo of Senator
Gordon, resigned. The Pension Deficiency
bill passed. The amount appropriated for
pensions is ).240,ou. The House bill for the
relief of homestead settlers in Kansas and
Nebraska who lost their crops by the drouth,
extending for one year the ttofb in which to
complete their payments, passed. The morning-
hour having expired the senate resumed
cousifleration ot tiie bill defining the terms of
the Chief Supervisor of Kh-ction. Mr. Win
dom moved tohiy the bill aside informally to
consider the Agricultural Appropriation hill.
Mr. Bayard objected. A long political discus
sion followed, nt t lie close of which the bill
passed bya party vote...... House The Sieak-
er pro tern, presented a message from the
l'resident, urging ulon Congress the neces
sity of actlfm upon the tic agreement. The
Sundrv Civil Appropriation bill was further
considered in Committee of tbe Whole.
May 27. Senate Mr. Eaton's bill to pro
vide for the appointment by the President of
a commission of citizens to Investigate tbe
question of the tariff was taken up and
amendments were reported by the Finance
Committee. The bill was temporarily laid
asi4e and the Agricultural Appropriation bill
taken up. A numlwr of amendments were
agreed to and the bill passed Rintte The
Sundrv civil Appropriation bill was further
considered in Comiiiiitee of the Whole. Con
siderable discussion arose over the clause au
thorizing the Secretary of War to negotiate
with the legal representatives of the Confed
erate ticncrals Bragg and Poik for the pur
chase of their private papers relating to the
late'war. An amendment to strike out this
provision was rejected. The General lleli
ciency Appropriation bill was reported Just
prior to aujouriiiiieiii.
May 2S. Senate The hill granting pen
sions to certain soldiers of the Mexican and
other wars was placed on the calendar. The
committee report was not unanimous. The
River and IlarlMir Appropriation bill and
amendments wen- reported, and Senator Ran
som announced tnat ne would call the bill up
Monday Howne The Sundrv Civil Annro-
printion bill was further considered in Com
mittee of Wie Whole. Saturday being Decora
tion Day, both houses adjourned, over till
Monday.
NewOrleans has shipped to France
and Italy within a year 2, 400,000 gallons
of cotton-seed oil.
Mr. Sliarb, of California, in 1878
received .fs.iiofor seven acres of or
anges. He says the profit that year
was over $1,000 per acre.
The pear trees of the old Mission
gardens of .Santa Cruz, Cal., planted
by the Spanish priests ninety years ago,
yielded an immense crop last year.
Philadelphia contains 103 distinct
iron factories, giving employment to
nearly 12,000 hands, without including
those employed at the Baldwin Locomo
tivo Works.
There are in the United States 380
theaters and 120 concert halls, 1.50 reg
ular traveling companies, fifty variety
coinpanies.sixty-eight compan les formed
to support stars and seven resilient stock
conipauics.
Two years ago not more than 800
head of cattle were owned along the en
tire valley of the Upper Gila River.
To-day there are at least 25.000 head
grazing over the same ground, and
twenty-six good ranches being farmed.
The estimated value of the prop
erty of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland is 4,300,000.000
that of Franee and the United States,
eacn 54.ipoo,ooo,000; that of Germany.
$:t,62o,000,0O0; that of Austria-Hunga
ry, ;j,uuo,uij,uoo, ana that ot Russia,
Z,.'0O,00O,0UO.
There are 50,000,000 acres of land
In California lit for cultivation, but not
over 6.000,000 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 8,000,000 are in
closed. Over 20,000,000 acres are held
by land rings or individual monopolists
for speculative purposes, in tracts of
izo.oou to aw.ooo acres.
According to an official statement,
the eflective strength of the Swiss
rederai Army on the 1st of January,
iooo, amounted to ii,9i men, as
against 11!). 748 in the Drevious venr.
The numbers required by the existing
law are 105,388 men in the regular
army, and 97.012 in the Landwehr; or
altogether 212,400. The actual total at
present is 215,063.
According to Le Technologiste, the
churches in Europe which will contain
the largest number of persons are as
follows: St. Peter's, at Rome, 54,000:
Milan Cathedral. 37.000; St. Paul's, at
Home, z.000; St. Sophia, at Constanti
nople, 23,000; Notre Dame, at Paris,
21,000; Cathedral of Ph-a, 13,000; St.
Marks, at Venice. 7,000. Evidently
naiy is 1110 countrv 01 the lanrest
churches.
11 an tne heart-beats of one ner
son in good health during twenty-four
nours count 00 concentrated and weld
ed into one great impulse, it would be
jMiwenui enougn to raise a ton of iron
izoieet in the air. A health v heart
Keeps sieamiy at worn without weary
ing; but this it is enabled to do because
It takes a rest after each beat: or to ex
press it more clearly, if the contraction
(emptying) and expansion frehllincl
occupy two-thirds of a second of tinie.
the period of rest takes a third of a sec
ond before contraction again occurs.
-It seems that oysters mav bo arti
ficially propagated bv chonninr nn thn
iiiij nuu icuiaiu oysters logemer. Dr.
w. d. tsrace savs that the vounr oysters
thereupon immediatelv bec-in fnrmino-.
In a few hours the embryo can swim In
the water. Its shells, at first small and
apart, soon grow down over the edges
ami nnauy iorm tne ninge. In twenty-
four hours it is able to take food, and
it grows to a size sufficient for food in
about three years. An average oyster
cuuuuiai irom six to nine million eggs.
A large oyster contains fifty million
eggs:
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
LATE NEWS ITE243L
The village of Savoy, Fannin
County, Texas, on the Transcontinental
Railroad, was almost literally wiped away
by a tornado on the night of tbe 2Sth. Nine
persons were almost instantly kiiicd and.
over sixty were injured, some ten
or twelve of the latter having died
within a few hours afterward.
The village contained a population of ab.mt
400. The only buildings of any account
left standing are the Houston Methodist
Church and the Academy, the latter of
which was transformed into a hospital for
the wounded. Some nineteen liusiness
buildings, including the Railroad Depot
were almost totally demolished. The list of
the killed is as follows: Dr. Joseph Kearns,
Wm. Sudduth, E. L. Andrews
and child, Sara Gill, Ellie Gilla
gher, T. J. Cox, Miss Mattie Best
Miss Pantha Johnson. The more seriously
wounded are Mrs. McKce, Edna, Itoliert
and Sam McKee, Erne John, Ollord Horn,
Mrs. Ir. Kerns,-, w. rostcr,Pror.Holland's
daughter, Hattie Johnson, Itoliert Johnsos,
Robert Gallagher aud wife, Mrs. Suddutft,
Mrs. Dennis Horn, Mrs. M. L. Taylor. A
number of these have since died.
The Court of Inquiry in the case of
Cadet Whittaker, at West Point, have ren
dered a decision in effect that Whittakcr's
wounds were self-inflicted. Upon the pro
mulgation of tbe report Gen. suhoncld at
once ordered the arrest of Whittaker, who
will remain under surveillance until his case
is disposed of.
Frank Jones, Sidney McQuinn and
S. Williams, employees on the Keoh Mail
route, were recently killed by the Indians
on the Little Missouri, and there are re
ports of other massacres. The Indians are
thought to have been from the Standing
Rock Agency, on their way to Join . Sitting
Hull. At Tex.irkana, Ark., on the night of
the Stith, a party of white men surrounded
the Jail for the purpose of lynching a negro
prisoner, named Cromwell, who had com
mitted an assault upon a white woman. A
number of negroes collected about the Jail
and attempted to thwart the move
ment. Koth parties were well
armed and a fusilade occurred between
them, lasting for some time. A number
were wounded on each side, three negroes
fatally. It was subsequently ascertained
that the negro Cromwell was not in Ihc Jail
hue of the melee, having been pre-
vioii-ly removed in anticipation of mob vio
lence. The Apaches recently massacred a
parly of whites in Cook's Canyon, N. Mexi
co. Five bodies were recovered and brought
Into Fort Ciimmings on the .'SOIIi. The only
ons recognized were those of Samuel .1.
United States Consul at I Lyons aud a young m.m, bis companion.
wit asp nisooa.
It is a srood deal of a bore to Imv
otners love us more than we love them.
Josn Milling.
People always svmnathizn with t.b
under dog in the light, but they bet
their money 011 the other animal.- -Boa-
ton fosl.
Americans are the most inventive
race on t he globe, and it seems singular
mat 110 pian ior making Hies stay in bed
until the entire household is un has
yet been patented. thilmlelphia Chron
icle.
- -The recent cold snaps have had no
injurious effect on the apples. Now, if
they can only ect safclv nast thn hovs.
there is a splendid prospect for lots of
orchard fruit this yeas. Burlington
jjfiwKcte.
When the enterprising truants not a swim-
mimr not n Rvimmln.-
ne loves to lie a basking in tbe sun in tbe
sun.
ImoroviBing lies to save him from the trim
ming from the trimming.
Which he deserves for that which he has done
wmcn no nas aone.
Somebody who appears to know how
fashionable schools are managed says:
"To educate young ladies is to let them
know all about the ogies, the omenies,
the itics, the tics and the mistics; but
nothing about the ings, such as sewing,
darning, washing, baking and making
pudding."
Scene breakfast table. Mother
reads from morning paper What is
vinegar without a mother?" Little M.
inquires: "What does that mean?"
Mother " It means there's what is
called mother in vinegar." Child re
marks: "There's vinegar in mothers,
sometimes." Boston Transcript.
' Never, when traveling, be over
boastful of your Nation, State or coun
try," says a philosopher. We would
like to emphasize that word never. A
New York man on his way to Oshkosh
began to boast of his biceps and a little
bit of a creasy chap hang-ins on the end
of a car scat popped up aud lent him
one on tho nose that started a stream as
crimson as tho Red Sea. And when the
New Yorker travels again he will wear
a muzzle. N. Y. Express.
now fresh and innocent the breezo
Thai skims the morning milk, and lneads!
It hovers now numng the trees.
And then to other spots proceeds.
1 love the air, so e:ilm, so cool.
Tout breathe upon my fevered brow.
It wakes my appetite ihuit fool!
1 u break my last, but don t know how.
For, ah! the wind I love so well,
Cnfeeling, mocks me while I praise It,
Because I i.-an not can not tell
What means 1 can adopt to raise it!
UnA'noicii Intfiectmimut Pttet.
An agent of an accident insurance
company entered a smoking car on a
Wcitcrn railroad train a few days ago,
and approaching an exceedingly gruff
old mail, asked liini if he did not want
to take out a policy. He was told to
get out with his policy nnd passed on.
A few minutes afterward an accident
occurred to tho train, causing a fearful
shaking to thn cars. Thu old man
jumped 1 and, seizing a hook at the
side of the car to steady himself, called
out, "Where is that insurance man?"
The following particulars are given of a
recent most horrible murder near Edinburgt
Tex. : About midnight a party of men, sup
posed to lie Mexicans, arrived at Bishop's
store, and said they wanted to buy goods.
Bishop, who was asleep in the upper story of
the building, put on bis pants and went down
stairs. As soon as he began waiting on tbe
gang one of them drew an immense bowie-
Kiiue and struck his victim over
the head, tearing the scalp open
from the forehead to the back
of the head. Bishop fell and was then dis
patched with eleven stabs, literally pinning
hnn to the floor. The murder was accom
pushed so quietly that Mrs. Bishop, who
was up-stairs, knew nothing of it until the
assassins entered her apartment, after rob
bing the store of $300 in coin. Mrs. Bishop
and her colored servant were most horribly
maltreated by the scoundrels. Bishop, the
murdered man, was from Tennessee. He
bad been married but a short time.
Prof. II. M. Gathright, Principal of the
Henderson (Texas) College, died at his home
on the 24th. He was one of the most promi
nent educators in the South, having been at
the head of the State Agricultural and Me
chanical College at Bryan, from which he was
deposed recently in a disagreement among
the faculty of that institution. He was a
Mississippian, and had filled prominent edu
cational positions in that State.
At Abingdon, Va., on the 24th, Wm
Rife and S. A. Jackson, well known citizens
and business men, bad a shooting affray,
growing out of a business quarrel. Rife was
shot four times, causing death in a short
time. Jackson was arrested.
A man named Waggaman, who, with
another named Bennett, was engaged driv
ing a large herd northward, camped three
miles from Cleburne, Tex. They had quar
reled about hours of relieving each other,
and finally Bennett stabbed his companion.
killing him almost instantly. The murderer
escaped.
The Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly at its recent session at Charleston,
S. C, in answer to the overture on the sub
ject of women preaching, took decided
ground against this innovation, but refused
to take steps toward so amending the Book
of Church Order as to make its language
more distinct. The next meeting will be
held at Covington, Ky.
Mrs. Hannah Green, aged fifty-five, liv
ing with her brother in Louisville, Ky., on
the 24th committed suicide with arsenic
The cause of the deed is enveloped in mys
tery, and the only theory advanced is that
she sold a cottage some time ago and went
to New York, where it is thought she lost
the money, causing alierration of the mind.
Col. Blanton Duncan has entered suit
against tbe Louisville Courier-Journal
Company for $25,000 for slander, the cause of
tbe suit being an article published lately by
that paper charging Col. Duncan with being
connected with the "Bloody Monday" affair
of 1855. The Colonel claims to be damaged
to the above amount.
-At Hampton, Ga., thirty miles from At
lanta, on the 26th, Dr. D. F. Knott, in a dif
ficulty with George Lee, fired at him, and
Col. B. F. McCollum, rushing in, took
Knott's pistol from him. John McKneely,
Town Marshal, soon came up and demanded
the pistol of McCollum, who refused to give
it up. A tight ensued. Finally they were
separated, and McKneely went away. Soon
he returned with a double-barreled shot-gun
and started to where McCollum stood. Mc
Collum picked up a rock, and said : " Are
you going to shoot?" McKneely said, " Yes,
you," and fired both barrels. McCol
lum was literally riddled with shot, and fell
dying to the ground. The murderer fled
and Gov. Colquitt has offered a reward for
his apprehension.
W. S. Parkes, better known as "uncle
Buck," of Vanceburg, Ky., for many years a
Justice of the Peace, committed suicide by
drowning in the Ohio River. Deceased was
eighty-one years of age.
A Maysville (Ky.) dispatch of the 25th
says the regulators have cut the telephone
wires between Catlettsburg and Louisa, and
have posted notices all over the county.
warning the civil authorities not to attempt
to hold Court. Several of the Lawrence
Grand Jury are In Louisa, guarded by the
Sheriff's posse, afraid to venture to their
homes. The excitement in Catlettsburg is
intense, and troops were momentarily ex
pected.
Mrs. B. M. Davis, the wife of a promi
nent citizen of Bryan, Texas, had it given
out last September that she was drowned in
the bay. Her husband and friends mourned
her as dead, held funeral services, etc It
now transpires that she eloped to New York
with a man named Met; raw, who has re
cently become conscience-smitten and in
formed Mrs. Davis' father of the whole af
fair. Tbe development creates a sensation
throughout the State, as the parties are all
widely known.
Ed. Nelms, the negro who assassinated
Rufus Armisted by shooting him in the dark
some time ago, near Hernando, Miss., was
captured on the 24th in Tunica County, Miss.,
by three colored men, who secure the J830
reward offered for bis body dead or alive.
The assassin was lodged in Jail at Hernando,
but it was generally believed he would be
strung up without trial.
Stonewall Jackson's widow and her
daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, will unveil
tho Winchester, Va., monument to Stonewall
on June 0.
During a recent rain storm the family of
. M. Rountree, living near San Saba, Texas,
took refuge in a cave which soon became in
undated, and two little boys were drowned.
The remainder of the family were rescued
in a perishing condition.
W. Paramore, President of the
Texas and St. Louis Railroad Company, has
closed contracts with II. M. Landeville for
the last of the uncompleted portion of the
road, between Tyler and Corslcana, a dis
tance of seventy-live miles, to be completed
October 1.
The Louisiana Republicans have nomin
ated for Congress Taylor Beattle, George
Williamson, James S. Matthews, and Charles
B. Anderson, for the Third, Fourth, Fifth,
and Sixth Districts respectively.
Colonel Tom Scott, who retires
from the. Presidency of the IVmiKylvunia
Kaih'o.id a man of immense wealth,
went to housekeeping in 1817 011 lifty
dollars a mout h.
Fungoid Origin of Whooping
Cough. It is worthy of note that the
fungoid origin of whooping cough, as
serted some years since by M. Svet-
zerich, seems to be contirnied by the
researches of M. Ysehniar, who states
that he has found certain lower organ
isms in the spittle of whooping-cough
patients- organisms not met wiin 111
any other disease accompanied by
cough and ex pectoration. He asserts,
furl her, that the organisms in question
are identical with those which, by their
aggloniiiieration, form the black points
011 the skins of oranges and the paring
of certain fruits, especially apples.
Thus, M. Ysehniar, by innoculating
rabbits with this dark matter, or even
causing it to bo inhaled by men, pro
duced lits of coughing several days in
dunit ion, and presenting in every re
spect tho peculiar characteristics of the
convulsive whooping cough.
The engine of the train which went
down with the Tay bridge has been
raised, and the reversing bar shows
that the engineer had no t'me to reverse
his engine before ho went over. The
recent evidence shows that the train
ami bridge fell together, and before the
former had left the track.
The Recent Ye to.
Mr. Hayes has occasionally been de
scribed as a weak man. It very often
happens that a man who knows or sus
pects that his neighbors regard him as
a weak man takes pains to convince
them of his real strength by adhering
with peculiar obstinacy to some scheme
he has formed or some opinion he has
announced, in the face of evidence
that the scheme is crazy or the opinion
aDsurti.
The President's course in regard to
the Immediate Deticicncy bill will seem
to many persons a fresh illustration of
this trite truth. It is reported that his
veto was received with disappointment
even by the Kepublicans in the House
who had voted and spoken against the
bill on the same grounds as
those alleged by the President for
his veto. They were perfectly aware.
nowever, tnat tneir objections were sil
ly, and they had excuses which the
President had hot. Many of them were
men of no sort of political standing or
responsibility, ana nobody would think
of holding the Republican party to ac
count ior wnat tnev said or did. Mr.
Garfield, who is recognized by the coun
try as tne lea'ter 01 tne minority in the
House, is so far from sharing the aver
sion of less responsible persons for the
Clause on account ot which the Presi
dent has voted the Deficiency bill.
that he is himself the author of that
clause, which he drew, no doubt, in the
hope that the Democrats would put
tnemscive8 in tne wrong dv reiectine it.
but which the Democrats promptly ac-
eepieu anu put air. oarneiu sown party
in the wrong, as factious opponents of
iair measures. Another excuse the Ke
publican members of Congress had
which the President has not. They did
not bring forward their objections be
cause they themselves were so foolish
as to believe in them, but only in the
hope that they could make irritating
speeches about them, and " worry the
Democrats" into indiscreet replies,
which mitrht be effectively used before
the country in the coming canvass. It
is a noble work for a " grand old party,"
no doubt, to stake its hopes upon its
success in taunting Southern men to say
something which can be used to excite
sectional prejudice in the North. What
ever its character, the attempt did not
succeed, and the men who made it must
be surprised as well as disgusted to see
the President taking up aimlessly tbe
tae' ics which they had adopted for a
definite object which they had decidedly
failed to attain.
But for the curious condition of mind
which it shows in its author, the mes
sage has neither interest nor value. A
State paper cannot be a very effective
"campaign document" when it only
tempts people to discuss what could
nave induced its author to deliver it.
In point of fact Mr. Hayes1 last message
is worse than worthless to "tho
party," as tho representatives of tho
party in the House had sense enough
to see. The people of this country are
not particularly scrupulous, not as scru
pulous as very likely they ought to be,
in the means they adopt for the attain
ment of what seem to them desirable
political ends. If Mr. Hayes had
pitched into the brigadiers aud drawn a
picture ot tne horrors which would be
let loose on the enfranchised nesrroes
if the Democrats were allowed half of
the election officers, he would not have
lacked for applause from his own par
ty. Hut to try to fire the Northern
with the proposition that riders on ap
propriations bills are always objection
able, so objectionable that the Presi
dent is justified in depriving public of
ficers of their pay rather than pass
them, is a prepostei ous attempt. There
is not a man in the country, of course
excepting Mr. Hayes, who would not
vote with cheerfulness for a rider on
an appropriation bill if it would give
him anything he much wanted and saw
no other way of getting. Much less is
there any party or any faction of any
party which would hesitate to use all
the means which the control of t he leg
islature put into their hands to coerce
an executive officer of an opposite par
ty or faction, even if tbe legislators
thought that riders on appropriation
bills were in the abstract improper.
Nobody except Mr. Hayes does think
so or pretends to think so. Everybody
else knows that the President would be
the absolute ruler of the country if Con
gress could be made to pass all the
appropriations. It is the power to
withhold supplies that gives Congress
its control over the Government, and if
Congress should relinquish this power
C-ongress would deserve and incur the
contempt of the country. The radical
mistake of Mr. Hayes' message is the
assumption that the stoppage of appro
priations is more to be deprecated than
any use which can be mado of the ap--propriations.
This is altogether un
true. It would be much better for the
public that there should be no Federal
supervision of elections than that the
tcdcral supervisors ot elections should
be unscrupulous Civil-Service Reform
ers bent only upon securing by hook
or crook the nomination of the Admin
istration candidate and his election, or
upon counting him in if he failed to be
elected. Congress has taken the ground
that deputy marshals shall not bo so
appointed or so used. If Mr. Hayes
chooses to insist that in that case
deputy marshals shall not be paid, Con
gress is apparently powerless to pre
vent mm irom stopping tneir pay. mit
POLITICAL POINTS.
The St. Louis (J lobe-Democrat,
which, it is needless to say, is a Grant
paper, remarks: "If Zach Chandler
were alive now, littlo 'Genie' Halo
would take the precaution to put iron
plates in his pantaloons before talking
against Grant. The old man wouldu!t
stand any nonsense."
The Republicans are eettimr no
more harmonious very fast. If onlt
colored people. He was after money,
and, no doubt, his failure to get as much
as he thought he ought to have is the
real reason why he proved to be so
good a witness for the Democrats, and
so poor s one for tbe Republicans. In
fact, Conway gave the whole scheme
completely away. He told the Com
mittee how President Hayes and
the late Zach Chandler arranged to
colonize the colored people in Indiana
in Allfnn.ient numhpni to mnlra it . it..
publican State. Conway was the agent one-half of what the Sherman papers
employed to carry out the scheme. He 8ay of R'aine, and the Blaine papers say
went to Indiana and fixed up matters 9rant n,d tna Grant papers say of
wnn tno leading Republican politicians "" ouormau is at nu true, an
there. When everything was ready for 'hose distinguished Republicans should
nuttinw the. scbnmn in nnoniinn f be candidates for at least three terms
way stationed his aerents alone- the "-P'ece in the penal institutions of the
route which the colored nennlo took to country. if. . World.
reach Kansas, and they, by lies of one -The action of tbe House of Repre
kind or another noreiiswlod tho omi. sentativeg, under Demoora tic control.
grants to change their destination to '? refusing to unseat Yocum, prompts
Indiana. One of the lies told by these lne "asnington correspondent of tbe
agents was that the Kansas people were New York Herald to say that the Dem
determined that no more colored neo. oeniM are not as unscrupulous as the
Die should noma into thnir Sita nd Republicans used to be when they had
that they were keeping them out with the majority, and when tbe rule was
shot-o-uns. This ia how. oeenrUno- tn laid down by tbe late Tbaddeus Stevens.
Conwav. the colored people were forced who being asked on one occasion how
he wa? going to vote, replied: "Which
is our rascal t I'll vote to seat him, of
course." Detroit Free Press.
Does anybody imagine that Mr.
Blaine's first Administration would be
to go to Indiana. Cunwav explains his
share in the business by saying that he
thought it was for the good of the
country that the Republican party
should remain in power because that
party was in a higher state of civiliza- any improvement on the second Admin
tion than the Democratic. There is no istration of General Grant? Certainly
reason to doubt Conway's story. It is not. General Grant as a President per-
hardlv probable, however, that ha mitted and encouraired oxeat acand-ila.
would have told it if he had been paid and there is no reason to doubt that he
to keep silent. It seems that he claims would permit and encourage them
that there are still due him $700 for again. But if he has permitted crimes
his services in this exodus business, and protected criminals, he has not
lhe refusal of the Republicans to satis- committed crimes nor is he a criminal.
ty tnis claim is, perhaps, the reason ne is not a very sensitive nor a very
why he deserted his friends in their scrupulous man, perhaps, but he has
time of need. It is hardly creditable given nobody the right to say that he is
to the President to be mixed up in such not an honest man. Can anybody say
a disreputable affair. It is not consist- as much of Mr. Blaine? N. Y. World.
ent with the dignity of the Chief Magis- When a few weeks ago, in some
iraie 01 tne country to engage in engi- ot tne southern Btates, .Republican
neering political schemes such as this Conventions were marked by brawls
wuicn ine senate mouus committee ana Dy other disgraceful proceedings.
has exposed. N. O. Times. the general tone of the press and of the
.. " country was apologetic. But when the
invest gating Republican Rascalities, tactics and conduct of the ignorant col-
The flinims of thn .nn:ri rom th. ored men of the South were transferred
Senate Contingent Fund illustrate the so- to Ohicftfo. and the Cook Countv R-
-"" 4 " jr. ouruai nublican Convention was conducted in
largo number of small Southern Democrats manner that indicated a mixture of
Wilh the means of makino-a trio to Washing- ! io-nomic hnnriahnnu ohililiah fnllv
ion, ana Ol.l utt le else, cost ia,SUU. The Kel- i,d Hominooeinl- HormmtUm IhAn-u
logg Investigation, which supplied the rare and domineering aogmattfm, tnere was
mass of perjury on which the present move- nothing to relieve the affair and its,
?-ei2nfoirhi!o?.t!2fiI; Kel";" based- eoet proceedings from bald disgrace, or the
1.000. The investigation off charges against r .. . . .1. . .? . .
Senator Ingalls, which seem to have fallen to participants therein from the charge of
megrounn, cost cu.4011. Mr. Davis committee outrageous lolly.
?iovJi-ikrX!,nfi.rJlt.A?2 -Mr. Blaine declines the second
ous sensational chanres made br him In Ben- place on the Grant ticket, even in ad-
ate speech, cost s Vs- Tbe Committee to in-1 vance of any offer of it to him. We are
clam-bake, otherwise known as tbe commit- sorry for the gifted boomer of Maine,
ice on civu service anu ifetrencnment in
Kbode Island, cost almost exactly tbe same
to say that each of these inquiiles was wholly bining against him we have feared that
unnecessary, and that the money spent upon he might take some such discouraging
,ir4f I i'1'.iin, - .... " w
but since the indications in the Western
States that Sherman and Grant are co n-
them was utterly wasted. New Y'trk TrUnmc
In every instance the Committees re
ferred to were necessary to unearth Re
publican rascalities. As to the Exodus
Committee, more Republicans than
Democrats were provided with means
to make a trip to Washington, and in pre8idential than
one uisiaucu 11, is reporteu tnat non.
John C. New, a distinguished Republi
can of Indiana, and Chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee,
made the trip, pocketed the - means,"
and did not swear at alL He went
again, and ' we presume pocketed the
"means ' a second time. During the not be satisfied till he is invited into
1 emu w uuiuuuce was engageu m the parIor instcad of ,ho kitchen of the
... .u. C,KUU, 'r-"u"- white man, when be is his equal in in
uaus asaeuio 1 oe caueu to v asningion. telligence and in wealth. Poverty is
just to make the trip, for they admitted not he . of wealth. nor ignorance
that they were not in possession of the equai,( intelligence: but when the
important information. The Exo- nmrlmntf.h nnd thn ionnrant
dus Committee has been of great
service to the state of Indiana,
and to the country, for it has been
proven that the leaders of the Repub-
view of the Drospects of his partv. And
yet he would do well to think twice
aoout it. a vice-rresiuential nomina
tion in the hand is worth two Presiden
tial nominations in the bush; and it is
much better to be beaten on a Vice-
on a Presidential
nomination. If. Y. World.
At the conference of the colored
Methodist Kpiscopal Church in St.
Louis recently. Dr. Turner, the editor
of a newspaper for colored readers,
printed at Philadelphia, said in the
course of a speech: "The negro will
poor man grows rich and the ignorant
man intelligent, then an barriers to
social equality on account of color
should give way, and social equality be
established between those in wealth
and intelligence equal." Dr. Turner's
remarks were loudly applauded.
The irrepressible Blaine partisans
are pursuing their object with an un
scrupulous disregard for the august
claims of the ex-Presidential chief cora-
iican party in Indiana and elsewhere
went'into it deliberately to import pau
per negroes for the purpose of voting
the Republican ticket. In the Kellogg
case it has been shown that he owes
his place in the Senate to frauds and
Mated Hayes. The Davis Committee Ix
has demonstrated that the most as- SLSSJSSL wh.i
founding frauds have been perpetrated om districts m Pennsylvania where
in the freasury Department, to cover te-1' ledeT Rfl "f"-?
TV II IV. 11 icgumuuiu 1 u jimmu ius.iui.ir
ing the delegates to vote for Mr. Blaine.
It is assumed that these direct instruc
tions from a delegate's immediate con-
ud which, erasures, alterations and mu
tilations were resorted to. One item of
$240,000,000 cannot be accounted for.
In the Ingalls case, it was a Republican
tight throughout, ne was cnargea wiin
bribery. It was shown that he owed
his place in the Senate to bribery, but
technically it was not shown that the
money came through his hands, and so
the Kansas man escaped by the skin
of Ins teeth, that he was guilty, a
large per cent, of his constituents be
lieve. 10 raise investigating commit
tees to uneartn Republican scoundrel-
ism has been in order for a number of
years, and a good many villains nave
stituents will outweigh the prior in
structions of the State Convention and
warrant him in disregarding the latter.
It is bold playing; but Mr. Blaine is a
bold man, and he recognizes that if he
fails to break the solid Grant line of
instructions at Chicago, his cause ia
lost. St. Louis Repuldican.
. .
The Republican Grievance.
The Republican grievance against the
Southerner, as we gather from an ex-
been compelled to take back seats, change of that faith, is that he will not
1 . 1 ...-11 . 1 : . : . : I ..: -..! 1 I ... 1. a.,llv,i;n.n. All 1. : ...
J1IJI1 BL1J1 llll V LI 1 CI JllveSllgilllUg WIU- I DI.DIU1 nuu let t.v. j,n i,v..iiu v.1.11 '
mittee is demanded to overhaul the hard names. " If a Republican even
crookedness of another distinguished refers to tne southern people 01 sixteen
lie 11 u uiiu.wi uaiuiau 11113 uuits iu ia 1 111 ciehwcu
the late Seoretary of War McCrary,
who left thn Cabinet of the Presidential
fraud to take upon himself the honors
and responsibilities of a Judge. He is
is now charged by the Chattanooga
2'imes with the villainy of being direct-
ago as rebels in
arms, says this cheerful commentator
with more force than grammatical or
even physiological accuracy, "lhe
spinal column of these Southern mem
bers 11 v up in a cat-like curvature.
We will not stop to discuss the iniprob-
lv interested in a fraud of $100,000 upon ability of the suggestion that the mem-
the Government. A Chattanooga dis- bers referred to have but one spinal
patch of a late date savs: column to their collective backs or the
The lYmot of this cltr will to-morrow morn- physical impossibility of the " cat-like
Ing charge, upon documentary and k other curvature." If the Southern members
ri 011 , iiiaicitriviary iniAjfart paiu a.iMr,iMM wis
i... .,,.,;. ... b bia rfi.iut I. r,T,;,i, ,i... ci,., At won... l ...rmcr were to do anything liko that, even
to oass the armronriation for their pay- ; &!?.!VJLT. JFll?''? "P? metaphorically, it would be veryjad.
ment on the ground that he personally . thatho " tne trouble seems to be they don't.
objects to the practice of all parties in I ',";"; of too engineer in charge, after the
... . . . , , . I.tiict ot hnumppM hail ilisMnnrovcn the claim.
nnd that he paid It on a trumped-up report of
three engineers, who were virtually direct eil
by McCrary to approve the claim. The Times
oirers to make each and all of these allegations
good before a competent committee of Con
gress, and designate some of the witnesses
and documents It wishes to nave examinea.
this country, which is and always has
been the practice also of all parties in
all countries where representative gov
ernment has been established. N. Y.
World.
The Story of the Great Exoduster.
At last the labors of the Senate Ex
odus Committee have been crowned
with success. It sought long and faith
fully to discover why the colored em
igrants from the South suddenly turned
aside from the beaten path which led
towards Kansas and directed their steps
towards Indiana. Senator Voorhees
felt sure that the new direction which
the exodus had taken was not suggested
and advised by the colored people. He
saw in this movement a deep-laid
scheme to change the political complex
ion of his Slate and ho determined to
expose it. It must bo admitted that
his efforts at first were not very promis
ing. Indeed, until the Committee was
about to close its work very little that
was important was discovered. The
Republicans were shrewd, and managed
very skillfully to cover up their tracks,
iu an evil moment for them, however,
they called to the witness stand General
Thomas W. Conway. This Conway is
not an unknown individual. His deeds
while a resident of this State have
given him a reputation that an honest
man would not care to have. In this
exodus business he has been a very
prominent ligure. It must not be sup
posed, however, that his interest in it
grew out of nny desire to assist the
Tho statement is a true one so far as
the reference to " rebels in arms" is
concerned. Thore is scarcely a Repub
lican in Congress who dares to trust his
standing in the party for more than
forty-eight hours at a time without
some such reference. And what vexns
He further alleges a belleflhat Met Vary was ... - ,. ,iw, ,u- ...:. i i
a partner in the law firm which worked the '-u
claim through ine ucpariniciii. i ictniim as a imc no uuiuiiu pun i hum nuu
bellicose feeling here end all along the river on
this subject, biit circumstances have so far
combined to kiep the matter quiet. The occa
sion of the initial ventilation now is a Wash
ington telegram in the Cincinnati papers of
Ihc llh. which admits that the claim and its
payment were parts of one nnd the same Job,
and charges the onus of the theft on the
Knginccr's Department, which is purely slan
derous. Just what it will cost to investigate
tli is -charge of rascality it would be dif
ficult to name, but the investigation
ought to be had, and if McCrary is
guilty, as he doubtless is, he should be
punished to the extent of having his
judicial ermine stripped from him. It
is still in order to investigate Republi
can rascalities, and if tho people would
be relieved of the burden, they must
keep rascally Republicans out of office.
Indiana State Sentinel.
The Republican Convention of
Florida, the samo body that sent a solid
Grant delegation, has distinguished it
self by nominating ex-Senator Conover
for Governor by acclamation. Cono
ver's career as a Senator, and its dis
graceful ending, is still fresh in tho
memory of tho public, anil to our es
teemed Republican contemporaries, is
left tho delightful task of eulogizing him.
Elmira CV. Y.) Gazette.
exhibits no cuivattire, "cat-like ' or
otherwise. In point of fact, the Repub
licans have found the Southern spinal
column altogether too free from curva
ture to suit their fancy, or their hope of
continuance in power.
It would not be strange if the South
ern members were to take more notice
of the perpetual nagging and name
calling to which they are subjected, by
partisans, who can in no other way
show themselves useful to their party.
Of course it is undoniable that there
were "rebels in arms" sixteen or eigh
teen years ago; but even of so undenia
ble a truth one becomes partially
wearied when it has been iterated and
reiterated for sixteen or eighteen years,
for no other purpose than to stir up
strife and resentment. Undoubtedly
the Southern members have wearied of
it; and it is greatly to their credit that
instead of resenting it, as the Republi
cans would like lo have them, they
have tho wisdom and the self-restraint
to refrain. Thereby they show that
they believe in that reconstruction and
restoration of the Union which the Re
publican party boasts of as its worjc,
even if Republican members of Con
gress do not believe in it. Detroit Free
Fress.