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Why Not. indeed! A Southern Democrat For President in 1896. WASHINGTON, April 4-The Post this morning, under the caption "A [South? ern Democrat for 1896," publishes a col? umn editorial, in which it says: "Why should not the Democrats nominate a Southern man next year ? Why would it not be the right thing to do-the courageous,, the consistent, the equi? table thing ? Why, indeed?" The Post says it is difficult to under- j stand the attitude of the National I party and the acquiescence of the South in regard to the Presidency, possibly it is habit. For two decades at least, Southern Democrats have agreed to the propositions set up by their Northern colleagues that the country is not ready for a candidate from the section lately in rebellion against the general government. For two decades and more, it has been an accepted theory that a Southern candidate would alarm j the American people, would revive all the memories, the apprehensions and the antagonism of 1861-5, and during all that time the Southern Democracy have assented without protest, subordin? ated themselves to the mere phautom of a vanished past, meekly borne the beat and burden of successive campaigns, j furnished the rauk and file for ali the great battles and stood aside iu humble deference and uncomplaining abnega * tion while the fruits of 'heir strength and prowess were divided among tho members of an insignificant contingent, but why ? At most, this was only an expedient. It was never essentially a matter of principie and propriety. The Post thinks the time i* ripe to put au end to the existing state of affairs. f Senator Morgan declares that the case could not have been better pus than it is in the Post's editorial. Senator Hili has telegraphed to the Post the follow? ing: . ALBANY, N. Y., April 4, 1895. To the Editor of the Post: I have perused with much interest your article entitled "A Southern Dem? ocrat for 1896." It is able, creditable and timely. Any policy which seeks to debase an otherwise acceptable candi? date, simply by reason of the section of country wherein he resides, is unpa? triotic, unwise and unAmericao, and I am opposed to it. This is no time for the toleration of sectional predjuices. jealousies and animosities. The exist? ing political conditions demand that the patty should have the whole country to cb- se from. Let there be a free fi-^'d. a fair contest, and may the beet man wi/: This is my Democracy, and j tne.-? are my sentiments, briefly aud hastily i-xt>rcosed. (Signed.) David B. Hill. The Political Committee. Its Eeport Piled at Boston-Scheme i of National Labor Laws. BOSTON, April 4 -The Globe says that. from what can be picked up from the gossip around the State j Uou8e, it appears that the labor sec? tion of the committee on mercantile affairs ou their trip South to find out j why the mills of Massachusetts wish - to go South, is one upon which there .is a wide difference of opinion among the various members. The committee claims to have found out that in spite of the appar- j ent prosperity in Massachusetts j among the cotton mills, a large j amount of Massachusetts money has j been sent South That there is noth- j iug in the charters of the new cor- j porations formed uuder Massachu- ? setts laws that will prevent them from organizing in Massachusetts and going South. Reference is also made to the fact that there is at present nothing to prevent the cotton corpo? rations of Massachusetts from putting all the money they want to in South? ern mills. The report will prove that cotton manufacturing in the South is not a new industry, but since 1892 there has sprung up in that section condi? tions favorable to Massachusetts cap? italists. IR substantiation of this there will appear a long array of figures which will give some surpris? ing results. The report will not speak hopeful? ly of the scheme of establishing mills near cotton fields or near coal minos, as cheapness will be equalized by ex- \ penses in another direction. The re? port will give the following seven distinct causes which are attracting the cotton industries of New Eng? land to th? South: Nearness to cotton fields, cheao I tenements, cheap coal, mild climate, i low taxes, abundant water power and ; absence of restrictive labor laws The labor question, which really is j the most important part of the report, ; is where the division of the commit? tee is really the greatest, as the por-1 tion of the report submitted advises j national legislation in thc hours ofla bor of women and children and asks : that the commonwealth take steps to? ward securing such legislation. - m? -fm - In a lecture on the effects of rifles, Professor Horsley, of London, haviog showed some photograghs of bullets in flight, demonstrated that in front of! every bul?et is a parabolic curve of com? pressed air, while behind it there are a series of little eddies of air rushing into the vacum created by the flight of the missile. An Expression on Currency. j Illinois Democrats to Make Their Positon Knowe-Free Silver. SPKKGFELD, Ul , April 4 -The I Democratic State committee held au . important meeting til is morning. ! There was a full attendance. The j object was to discuss the calling of a ? State Delgate convention to fix thc j currency views of the Illinois Demo? crats for the next campaign. The sentiment was nearly unanimously in favor of the convention, lt was decided to call one to meet in ! Springfield June 4th. Each county committee is instructed to call a con? vention for an expression cf views and sending delegates to the State convention. The basis of represen? tation is one delegate for every three hundred votes cast for Claggett for State treasurer. The Democrats are urged to turn out to the county con? ventions and to give free expression to their views so that there maybe no more doubt as to the position of the party The vote was 17 ayes to 3 noes. Mayor Hopkins of Chicago favored a delay of twenty days and left for Chicago before the vote was taken. Chairman Hienricasen of the State committee gives out an inter? view on the subject, asserting that there is no question that Illinois Dem? ocracy ia almost unitedly for free sil? ver and he believes that the conven? tion will 60 dec?ate. He expects a tremendous outpouring of Democrats to the State convention. He declar? ed to the United Press correspondent ; that he has had considerable trouble holdiug county committees back ! from expressions in favor of the white metal and that the sentiment of the Democracy of the State is so over? whelmingly in favor of some early and emphatic action that the State committee, couM not do less than call the convention. The Mighty Trust. PHILADELPHIA, April 4-Astir was created among Philadelphia meo today by an order issued by the sugar trust, directing them to stop handling all im ported sugars. A number of brokers say they will not be materially affected by the order, as they ordinarily handle j but little of the imported article. The dealers who will suffer the most ; are importers and small jobbers and the firms who trade in "Scotch yellow" brands. The latter brands, which are imported, undersell the lower domestic grades and are used largely by confec? tioners. It is stated that about 60,000 bags of "'Scotch yellows'' are imported I aonually. The order will be obeyed, it j is said, ior the reason that a disobedi- ? ence would give the trust an opportu? nity to crush recalcitrant dealers. The Nicaragua Canal. WASUINGTON, April 3-The Presi- ! dent has selected, under a provision of the sundry civil appropriation bill, the j following persons as a board to iuvesti- \ gate and report upon the feasibility, \ permanency and expense of the Nica ragua canal over the route proffered the construction compauy: From the army. Major William Ludlow, corps of engineers; from the navy, Commander M. T. Endicott, C. E ; from civil lifef Alfred Noble of Chicago, member o the American Society of Civil Engin, eera. Major Ludlow was born in New York aod appointed from that state as a first lieutenant of engineers in June, j 1864. Little more than a month later he waa brevetted a Captain for gallant I service in the defense at Allatoona j Pass and before the end of the year be was brevetted as major for gallant j service io the Georgia campaign, and in j March 1S65, he received auother brevet i for gallantry in the Carolinas and was made major in 1882. Colonel Ludlow , served as the engineer member of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia. He is at present light j Doune inspector for the Detroit light bonne district. A few years ago he got ioto a difficulty with the light house board over a question as to the advisa- j bility of placing certain lights in the St. Mary's and a court of inquiry to de? termine whether Major Ludlow should be tried by court martial resulted. Tbe board was vindicated in the question of j dioiplioe, but Major Ludlow was not i court martialed. Mr. Endicott, whose rank of com- j mander is relative and not actual, was j appointed a civil eogineer io the navy from New Jersey in July 1874.' He stands second on the list of civil engin? eers. ---^?T?- -- Norway is more properly Norea, j meaning "North Isle." It is called by the natives the "North Kingdom." One-fourth of the visitors to New York's Metropolitan Art Museum dur? ing 1894 congregated there on Sun? days. Ceylon has 25,000 square miles, or about the combined area of Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The crown of Italy was founded in 18G8 as a distinction to those who were instrumental in bringing about a consolidation of public opinion and the unification of the country. English Catholics, headed by the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Ripon, and Lord Chief Justice Russell, are try? ing to remove at Rome tho prohibition to Roman Catholics to enter Oxford and Cambridge. Telegraphic Briefs. j April 4. fhe annual sale of postage stamp; by the Spartanburg pos: office amounts to more than 810,000, and the city is entitled to free mail delivery. Work has been started ou a ten story hotel in Atlanta. It will cost ?o, : 000,000. Kev. Dr. George VV. Carter, of j Portsmouth, Va., aged 75 years, aud Miss Virginia Statham, of Lynchburg, Va., a?cd 20 years were married iu Washington yesterday. The British steamer Etheldred from : from Boston to Jamaica was halted off Cape Mayai by a Spanish gunboat, which fired a shot across the Ethcldred's bows. The Ohio river steamer iron Queen was bumed at Rachine, Ohio yesterday. One woman lost her life by jumping into the river Loss ?60,000. James Emison, at one time a deacon in a Brooklyn church, has been sen? tenced to four years in S;ng Sing for j stealing $54,000 from his employers. Hon. W. L. Wilson took the oath as I Postmaster General of the United ! States yesterday. ! Assistant Cashier-Fred. W. Griffiu. : of the Chicago Northwestern National j Bank has confessed to stealing ?50,000 '?? from the bank. i ! The Baltimore Conference of the ! Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has advertised itself again by quarrel? ling ov?>r a resolution of ?hanks to the newspapers. April 6. A dispatch from Macon, Ga., says : Patent Shea, a citizen of Hancock County, was shot and killed last night by Professor W. E. Reynolds, of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricul- J ture College. He was probably drunk and was on Reynolds' front porch. Reynolds took him for a burglar, and bis son, who was with him when he ! opened his front door, warned him to look out as the man waa going to shoot. ! The professor raised his gun and fired, ' almost instantly killing Shea. Th' affair is deeply regretted by all the , people of Milledgeville, and by none i more than Professor Reynolds himself. Thc coroner's jury retured a verdict of perfectly justifiable homicide. William T. Nolon. confidential book? keeper of the Park Avenue Hotel, New York has disappeared with seve? ral thousand dealers. The Woollen mills are increasing ^wages from 5 to 15 per cent, on ac? count of the improvement in business. The old Brevoort Hotel, New York bas been closed. . Belgium will make an exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition, and will encourage the manufacturers to make individual exhibits. William Lake was electrocuted for I murder, yesterday in the Auburn, N. Y , prison. The Massachusetts mill men visited Pelzcr, Piedmont and Pacolet mills yesterday. The Oscar Wilde-Marquis of Queens berry libel case now in progress io London is described by the St. James Gazette as an "orgy of indecency.'' j A great many of the papers are report- j ing the trial verbatin, but the Gazette \ says that the whole evidence and the j circumstances of the case are of such a j charaoter that they cannot be reported. ? A Suicide that was a Failure, j "Talking about suicides,'' remarked a well-known railroid man the other day, to the Pittsburg Dispatch, "re? minds me of the experience which hap? pened to a young friend of mine, who, I at one time had more money than horse sense. About a year ago, he got co a terrible spree in New York, and, while io a condition of alcoholic recklessness, concluded that it would be quite the thing to take a trip abroad. Without giving any one the slightest j inkling of his intentions, he boarded a j Cunarder, and by the time she got to Liverpool, I'll bet he had her rigging festooned with empty bottles. Ar? riving iu London he continued his de? bauch, and threw his money away in a manner which made even the habitues of 'St. Jimmy's* and the 'Supper Clubs' tremble. In the course of time, he got fiat broke. The rest of the story might best be related in his own words. " 'When I realixed the predicament I was in, I can assure you, old man, my feelings were anything but com? fortable. I recollected that I bad over drawo my account at the bank, a?d the thought that I had acted in such a fool? ish manner made me wretched and desperate. I felt a delicacy about ask? ing assistance from any one I bad met over there, and finally concluded the only way out of it would be to commit suicide. During my stay in London I had made the acquaintance of a promi? nent young physician, and one day while in his office, I noticed on the ; mantel a large colored bottle, filled to the cork, aud upon which was pasted a poison label, showing thc customary skull aud crossbones. With the crafti? ness of desperation. ? succeeded in making away with the bottle without being detected, and hurried it to my room. "'I took about half a dozen stiff, brandies and soda to nerve me up to the point. I wrote a long, incoherent j letter 'to everybody,' telling how I had been misconstrued, unappreciated, etc., etc., lay down on the bed and drank : about a pint of the liquid-waited five I minutes aud didn't die-waited ten j minutes and didn't die Go! up and looked at thu bottle, drank some more, | and again reclined on the bed-thous! ( ? surely I must die. Waited about 2'i minutes longer, and, if anything Jeir better. Thought then; was something : mightv strange, and took the bottle ; with its remaining contents to a chem ? ist for analysis. He told me i: w^s dis? tilled water.' "The young man's {'..clines eouid then be better imagined rhnn expressed in words, and upon receipt of a cable? gram from him, his parents quickly sent sufficient funds to cover his pas? sage back to America. He doesn't say much* about his first trip across the briny, except to a few of his iutimate friends " Tue Coloners Judgment. '.it. was a hot fight, an' no mistake, I sah !" observed the colonel when the , brush at Burnt Hickory was mentioned, . says the Cleveland .Plain Dealer. j I "You were there, colonel V "I shud say I wuz, sah ! I wuz io : I command of my regiment, with powah : ? to use my own discretion, sah." "And you led them in V 'Not the res? vs, sab ; not there-: i resuvs-" ! "Your men were in the reserve?" -j j "Let me explain, sah. You don't j : seem to grasp the idea, sah. I led fo' ; hund'ed and sixry men-" .'in the regimeut ?" ' "Yes, .-ah A i-ar ful co inman dab j i ,.?.,. j j nevah takes in his whole fy ce nil it Deco tn cs a despit case case. sah. When \ ; the enemy come up iu rifle shot, au' j j made a stand, san, I selected all my I ' fo'ce but the resuvs, an' we sailed righi j up to pistol shot distance, an' shah we ! stood ouah ground, >-ih. not a man fflncbin\ not a man movin', for twenty ! j minutes, while the bullets flew around j us like sand, sah-'' "How many men did you lead in, j colonel ?" "Two hund'ed an' eight !" "But why did you not rush in your j reserves and end the 6ght right I there-" "Shows youah lack o' military skill, . "Ui. We had reconu"ite'd the around, ; o' found we couldn't G^hr oo mo'n j iwu hund'ed an* einht men-" .'Why so, colonel ?" "Why. i^ud Lawd, sah, tbah was j only two hund'ed ao' eight trees in the j patch." the Serpents Stin?. CGNlAG?QUS In all Its sJAffes com m.,,m~~ Pletely eradicated by RLflflD PflKflV1 ? . S- S. Obstinate sores V??mWMmmm*- healing powers. lt re? moves the poison and builds up tbe system. X ralnable treatise on Mle disease and lu trttami malled free. . 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