Smyrna times., 1881-01-19


enteen dollars for every dollar it receives
from that source as revenue.
Judge Finletter, of Philadelphia, has
recently decided that the cat is an animal
entitled to the protection of the law ; but
extraordinarily he express the opinion that
the cat is. a nuisance, and therefore
proper subject for determination.
The indications are that the military re-
view on the occasion of General Garheld's
Inauguration will be the grandest since
the review of Sherman's army in Wash
ington. Military companies from every
State in the Union will participate.
The first Legislature of Pennsylvania
met at Chester on December A, 1852.
The building used still stands, and is oc-
cupied as acooper shop. The bedy passed
sixty-one acts and was in session but four
days. That was an age of acts not words.
Reports from all sections of South Car
DINA Indicate that great damage has been
done to the cotton and rice crops by the
protracted wet weather. Of the cotton
unpicked in December one-half has been
lost and the remainder much injured. On
the Sea Islands the Gotten is rotting in the
fields. The rice harvest is one OF the
most unfortunate on record.
A New Jersey Grand Jury makes a
mastery plea for the re-establishment of
the whipping-post for the benefit of wife
heaters, the argument being that fines and
imprisonments compel suffering in the
families of the criminals. The principal
objection to the whipping-post is that it
destroys self-respect; but as wife-beaters
never have any self-respect an exception
might be made for their benefit.
Women have actually voted in Illinois
in FIVE municipalities on the question of
license, and all of them, the high and
low, illiterate and educated, Catholic and
Protestant, voted TO close the dram-shop.
But let us thank God most Of all that in
the supreme court of public opinion the
greatest lawsuit of the country is set for
trial. Long quibbled over and frequently
postponed, it has at last come squarely
to the front; it heads the docket, and the
clear-cut issue is stated in these words:
"The Women Of the Nation u.s. The Liquor
Traffic"
A representative in the Missouri Legis
lature, says the Philadelphia Record, has in
troduced bill making drunkenness mis-
demeanor punishable by fine and imprison
ment. This legislator is on the RICH
track. A drunken man ought not tt
be tolerated in any public place. He il
as dangerous as an insane man, anC
should be cared for accordingly. TIL,
property of persistent inebriates ought II
be taken away from them and its dispose
lodged with guardians. Bystatute drunk
enness should be made shameful as wei
as punishable.
The Worlds Fair Commission of New
York has experienced stroke of luck a
last, and one that promises to lift it owe
the obstacles which beset its first step
toward putting the Exhibition project il
motion. General Grant accepts the pres
idency of the Commission. He does thi
with the understanding that he is not t
be called upon for any services until fou
millions of dollars are raised by the Fl
nance Committee, but he evidently ex
poets the money will be forthcoming an
believes the enterprise will be success
If the precedents of the Philadelphia Ger
tennial are followed, the duties of tn
President will not be onerous.
General Garfield has again spoken +
the colored people words of sense an
strength Touching the old complaint i
the South the white minority dominate
the black majority, he states that thi
simply proves that there is more strengt
in intelligent minority than an ignorar
majority. Also, that education and elev:
ton, by such means, is the hope of th
colored element in the South This
true. Laws cannot be made to regulai
differences, the result of lack of INTEL
gence. Where the greatest intellectu
force is concentrated there will be don
mating influence The rectifcation
certain wrongs is through education.
General Grant has communicated
the public his views as to the inter-ocean
canal. His article develops the contras
between the French and American scheme
The Panama canal will cost nearly $4OC
100000, the Nicaraguan, S75, 100000
The former viii charge 50 per ton to
the latter not more than $3.50 per to
The former is under foreign charter al
auspices, the latter is entirely America
The Panama canal will be difficult to co
struct, and lead through an unhealthy
gion; the Nicaraguan is in healthy {
mate. In brief, the advantages are ali
gether with the Nicaraguan route, best
the fact that the concession is held
Americans, and it is intended to have I
company chartered by Congress. Tn,
appears to be no doubt that the Mica
guam enterprise should receive the earn
support of all our people. 1t is in i
with American interests. a
The sixty horsepower boiler in
basement of the dry goods store of I
Creery & Co., Broadway and EleveI
street, N. Y, exploded Satnrd
shaking the surrounding buildings as
an earthquake, tearing hole in the 81
walk twenty feet in length, SCATTERING
large plate-glass windows in both fro
OF the building and in several adiac
stores into fragments, hurting heavy Fl
ments of stone 200 feet down Eleye
street, and driving an iron girder acl
the street. The engineer. Sam'l n