The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-28
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs.
Coggia has discovered another con


EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Coggia has discovered another COM
ct.
They get the pure juice Of tho rye"
in Minnesota by distiIling grasshop-
pers.
Chicago wants to see them, and
will give $4,000 each for Henry and
Theodore for fifty nights.
Plymouth Church praying for Mr.,
Tilton is the most touching instance
of magnanimity we have heard Of
since Miss squeers forgave Nicholas
Niclkeby.-New York Herald.
The New York Herald says the
modern American pugillist is the
greatest humbug Of the age the big
gest braggart since Falstatf, and the
biggest coward since Pistol.
We learn from the Courier Journal
that Gen. John G. Breokinridge's s
health has not been improved by his
trip North, and his physicians enter
tain grave apprehensions as to his
condition.
The Press announces that the Aus
trian and German Charges D'Afairs
at Madrid were notified Friday last
of the recognition by their respective
governments of President Serrano as
the Chief of Executive Power OF
Spain.
The announcement that Rev Hen
ry Ward Beecher was to preach at
the Twin Mountain House, n. H,
Sunday, caused a large influx of peo'
pie to hear him. Stages were loaded
with visitors from all the hotels and
towns in the vicinity, aggregating
about 1900. There was no allusion
whatever to the scandal.
A curious fact has been recently
stated: that an italian vessel set sal
not long ago from Macao with 63s
coolies on board, destined for the
guano diggins in South America
We have no doubt that these kinnap
pers were Boston yankees, and The
ship yankee vessel
The Democratic State Convention
in Tennessee have nothing to say il
their platform about maintaining the
liberty of the press, and the abolition
of Poland's and Freelinghuysen's new
sedition law. But Tennessee is a yer,
remote State, aud the Democrat.
there are probably not aware 0
everything that is going on in th'
country,
Some idea Of the amazing number
Of the locusts out West is formed
by the fact that on the line of the St
Joseph and Denver Railroad, between
Axtall and Beattie, they covered the
track two inches deep; and although
the engineers put on a powerful heaG
Of steam and tried to drive through
them, tho train was nine hours going
eleven miles. On tae same road, t
train pulled out Of SeGeca on time
but, encountering the locusts, was
driven back, and had to wait unit
the n1yriads Of insects had crossed
! the line As this was in Kansas, the
grain crops there are threatened as
we'll as Minnesota and Iowa. Of the
extent Of the ravages, no present con.
lecture can be formed but in the re-
gions occupied by homestead settlers,
the suffering IS severe.
In a letter from the Louisville Cou-
rier Journal, Beecher pronounces the
the reputed sermon Of his advising
the hanging of Jefferson Davis, in
1865, an unblushing forgery. He
says: Not only did I ever utter OF
make such miserable stuff, but the
whole world knows that while many
clamoring for some sacrifice or VIC
tim, l everywhere and always oppos-
ed with intense earnestness the she'd
ding Of drop Of blood. and resisted
with all my might the influence
which sought the execution Of Jeffer-
son Davis It is not the first shame
fully forgery upon me which has been
circulated in the South and West.
am SO heartily desirous Of the re- es-
tablishment Of good will between all
who have been alienated, and I so
much value the good will of my fel-
low citizens of the South, that I step
aside from my usual course and make
reply to this SANDER