The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-14
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


There are SIX colored men in con-
gress, and 10000 more wanting to get
there.
3. S. Buroh has been appointed
Collector of Customs at Petesburg,
Va.
The Southern Dental Association
will meet in Memphis next year dur
ing Mardi- Grass week.
A dispatch from Chicago announ-
ces the death Of Bishop Whiteho use,
of Ill, in that city Monday.
Victoria c Woodruff and Jennie
c Clafin sailed for Europe last Sat-
urday. What has Europe done to be
thus punished?
The Memphis appeal. rejoicing
over the result of the county elections
in Tennessee, significantly says,
Farewell, Radicalism."
The quarrel of the Republican fac
tions N South Carolina is lively and
it is possible that some good for the
decent people Of the State may come
out of it.
A mob Of white men and negroes
hung a negro at Warrenburg, Mo-,
Monday night for ravishing a white
child six years old, belonging to
respectable family of Warrenburg
Aspecial dispatch from Benning-
ton, VT, announces the arrest of
woman named Flyn, who has a child
answering the description of Charlie
Ross, the kidnapped boy. She tells
contradictory stories.
Carl Schurz has been offered $50
900 per year to become managing
editor of the New York Staats-Zcit,mg,
The senator has not yet given an an
swer to the proposition. Nh Shurz
has sold his interest in the St. Louis
German paper with which he was
connected
An exchange thus pitches into our
great summer luxury: Ice water alb
serbs animal heat, causes congestion.
induces dyspepsia, consumption, dis
eased liver, and. inflammation of the
bowels. It breaks the enamel of the
teeth, and causes rapid decay. Ice
water is a luxury which works mis-
chief, creates disease, and causes per-
maturesdeath. Moderately cool water
is the drink for sensible people,
THd LATEST CoUNTERFE1rs.-Coun-
terfeits ofthe new fifty and ten cent
stamps are now in circulation. The
counterfeit Of either note is hardly
calculated to deceive persons who
handle much money. The paper is
poor and the green color is paier
than the genuine, and the engraving
very cIumsily executed. Altogether
the counterfeit is easily detected be-
cause of numerous imperfections.
The San Antonia (Texas) Express
says: "The cotton worm began to be
seriously feared recently in this sec
ton OF the State, when the rains were
SO frequent and SO long continued. |
But the hot and dry weather we have
had for week or two past has not
only destroyed the possibility of the
worm, but is calculated to mature the |
cotton to the greatest perfection. A
heavy crop may now be regarded as
certain"
The Milwaukee Sentinel epitomi
zes the daily life of an editor-in
chief. From the plaintive tone of the
last sentence the writer intimates
that he knows how it is himself
"The young man who is fitting
himself for journalistic career asks
US if the chief editors position is diff
ticult' On the contrary, it is the most
comfortable place on the paper. He
has only to dash off a few columns
of editorials day, and then enioy
himself. All the good-Iooking wo-
men with poems are shown in his
room, and he smokes all the cigars
sent in for the reporters. He receiv-
es invitations to deliver addresses at
country fairs, and carries homo the
best of the books sent in for review,
he hasn't anything else to
do he looks over copy, and carefully
runs his pencil through the joke the
writer struggled four hours with, and
considered his masterpiece"