Smyrna times., 1881-05-11


TO Christianity in this country. Sunday
= murdered Chinaman had two funerals
in New York-one with the accustomed
Christian ceremonials, the other at the
rrave. where printed papers were burned
10 drive away the evil spirits.
SAYS the Philadelphia Record, it is not
Malone but the prohibitory liquor move,
ment that is likely to split the Solid South.
The agitation on the temperance question
appears to have been mainly transferred
TO the other side of Mason and DiXon's
line. 1t crops out everywhere in that
region and bids fair to give politics and
politicians q very lively shaking up
IF THE Whitaker trial has accomplish
ed anything thus far, it is to embroll and
confuse and set by the ears the whole fra
ternity of penmanship experts Saturday
one of these gentlemen insisted that a
loop which the Judge-Advocate described
as 6 full and flowing" was really "sharp
and ANGULAR" and when the Judge-Advo-
cate said certain passage was " awkward
and scrawling," he vowed that it was
particularly graceful" The effect upon
the minds of the court can be more easily
imagined than described.
THE Journals of Western Europe are
showing great anxiety over the plague,
which is raging on the banks Of the Eu-
pirates, and manifests strong intention
to invade Europe. Two years ago Russia
stamped out the disease by measures OF
memorable rigor, but the Turks are too
apathetic and fatalstic to oppose it effect
ually, and its progress in Asia seems to
Justify the demands made upon European
Governments to take means for its imme-
date repression before it appears, as is
threatened upon the shores OF the Dos
phorous and the Black Sea.
THE Committee of Safety may as we'll
disband, they were appointed to find out
if the occupant of the White House had
a back bone, and they have found out.
They are to day, says the New York
Tribune, like the man who went into the
engine-room of an electric light establish
ment uptown, a few days ago, and care
lessly took hold of the wire over which
the electricity was passing-wlser than
they ever were before or ever expect to
be- 1t is absolutely certain that no one
of them will ever again ask President
to "recognize the primacy" of Boss Conk-
ling.
THERE is not much comfort in the re-
port that the internal revenue receipts for
the year ending June so will exceed those
of the previous year by nearly S1O,000,0OO
owing chiefly to the collections on cigar
cites; for this increase marks the spread
Ofan injurious habit among growing boys.
No one who keeps bis eyes open as he
walks about the streets can have failed to
observe that half the small boys he meets
are smoking cigarettes 1t is not neces-
sary to condemn the use of tobacco by
men before venturing to protest against
its use by babies. furthermore, there is,
unhapily, no doubt that women and girls
make every year larger contribution to
the revenue derived from cigarettes.
THE French troops are rapidly oyer
running Tunis. 1t is not q campaign in
which glory is to be won, for the invading
columns are advancing with superior
numbers against horde Of alarmed and
ill-disciplined marauders. 1t is however,
the first active service which any portion
of the army has seen since the war with
Germany, and the military operations are
watched with eager interest, not only by
the French people, but also by strategists
and diplomatists in foreign capitals. Fol
ten years France has been a vast barracl
in the centre of the European circle o
camps. The military budgets have steadi
ly increased, and Republicans who useC
to condemn the army expenditures unde
Napolean Ill. as extrayagant and unneces
sary have never hesitated to grant sup
plies for much larger establishment THAI
that crowned intriguer ever dared to ask
Every branch Of the service has been re
organized the most radical alteration
have been made in the military code, tn
conditions of enlistment and the sySteI
Of. promotions and staff appointments
and the whole character of the army ha
been changed so as to be in accord wit
the spirit and genius of republican institu
tons. This is the first opportunity tn
ndtiOu Hd5 uah vi bCoIlLI5 CCA years WI
in military organization A late dispatc
says the Kroumirs have abandoned the
position and the war is virtually over.
AFFAIRS grow worse in Russia and u,
better. The Baltic provinces are agitatin
for land privileges equal to those enjoyC
by Russia The Gar is imprisoned
his country house and threatened. Fl
life is regarded unsafe. The effort
being made TO introduce parliamental
representation and ministerial responsible
tyinthe councils of the Gar. Butitispo
sible that the policy of repression has be-
carried too far, and that the present u
heavai will continue till the people reali
their demands or the empire is Owe
thrown. Such are the indications I'll
now exist.
The mystery of Nihilism grows me
and more mysterious, and the NANTES
issued by the Nihilist Executive Comm
tee, IN consequence of the execution
the assassins of the late Emperor, is
somewhat incomprehensible docume
The reigning monarch is taken to task
putting to death the murderers of
predecessor. As he did just what all I
world expected him to do, and as it v
substantially impossible for him to
otherwise, he is himself threatened W
ayiolent exit 1t is true that the Co
mittee simply write. /" We win contir
our efforts for the liberation of the p