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The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1884-07-05
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An advertisement on the eighth page sets
forth fully the character and leading features
OF the Life Of Gen. Logan, which has just been
issued fFola TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE press.
1t is a magnificent volume in every way, and
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Nothing pat cut this year equals it. 1t is a
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The National tribune., 1884-08-14
AN ExCEIIENr CHOICE.

We are very glad to be able to state that the
Democrats of the 10Th Illinois District have
renominated Hon. Richard w. Townshend, of
Shawneetown, for Congress. The soldiers
everywhere have abundant reason to rejoice at
this, for it is a wcIl-deserved compliment to
one of the most faithful and active friends
they have ever had in Congress. Mr.. Town
shend is now serving out his fourth term, and
during the whole time he has ever been found
voting and working for justice to soldiers. He
gave cordial support to every authorized rec
ommendation of the GAR. Committees, voted
for the equalization-Of-bounty bill, and similar
measures
This fifth nomination shows how we'll his
constituency appreciate the zeal and ability
with which ho has served them.
We wish we could report equally satisfac
torily concerning another firm and fast friend
of the soldiers-that brilliant commander Gen.
W.. s. Rosecrans. 1t would have been a pleasure
to soldiers everywhere to have seen him re-
nominated and reelected, but we were not to
have such good fortune.
THE NATIONAL Tribune is entirely nom
partizan in its predictions and friendships.
Its only test of any public man is his attitude
toward the men who saved the country. If he
is their friend, and proves his friendship by
his acts THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is his we'll
ious for his success. If he is not a friend o
the soldiers The NATIONAL TRIBUNE wants
to see him relegated to the shades of private
life, where his capacity for harm viii be the
least as soon as possible, whether he be Demo
crat or Republican.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
TRIBUNETS.

Mrs W K Vanderbilts last bonnet cost
$50. The stock boom opened w. ks heart and
pocket-book-
Cincinnati Times: Dick Ogles6y. Of Illinois, made
a speech at the Reunion of ex-Army Chaplains In
New Jersey Saturday. Dick can't pass himself on
as an ex-Army Chaplain among people who have
heard him forcfbly express his mind when he goa
mad.
Boston Post II has been discovered that raw
onions are more eficacious In the cure Of snaks
bites than whisky, so that hereafter there viii b
no inducement for man to let q snake bite him.
When the news that Greedy had been found
reached the Benson District In Franklin County.
KY, q forlorn ague-shaken native remarked,
thoughtfully: Found, is he; thought he was
dead long ago; voted for him on'c., but-my
hide to-i they ever get me to do il again"
Brains are of Importance, even In rag-picking
Formerly the ragpiekers sold all scraps picked Up
"a Iron" from one-quarter to one-haf cent per
pound Now those who can distinguish steel from
iron separate the steel and get about two cents
pound for it. Several of them have made consider
able sums In this way. Some day cute fellow
viii find out how to tel within five years the aga
of dressed Spring chicken in the market. and win
straightway become millionaire.
New York Tribune: A Western circus man
Gently ordered a large advertising poster to Be
printed, and then kicked because there was 50
much sky in it. Il amt a-goin' to advertise tina
sky" he said to the photographer. :" paid you to
advertise my show. Drop few eamels and stio<
them up there amt a-goin to have all that good
space run waste"
The Nihilists may as wen dishand- Their work
Is going on even better than when they were fling
ing around dynamite bombs The Gar IS reported
to be smoking on the average four packages Of
| cigarets day No wonder the poor Czarina has
to visit watering places to recuperate her health.
/ They are making doors Of paper now, bat We
fear we shall be moldering in the tomb before they
/ perfect any feasible plan by which eur rejected
| manuscripts and Spring poems can be utilized TO
/ provide Us with house.
women is rum critters, Samivel," said the elder
| Weller. in one Of his philosoDhie moods Whas
would he think of Mrs. Bahrnan, who was caugha
last week trying to smuggle in LOCO glass eyes In
her hustle;
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

on Notifications for her sea-coast Little Bel
GUM has had to lay ont $40 900 in protect
ing Antwerp, and poverty stricken Italy has
de7oted $5OOoO,ooo, wrung from people who
think 10 cents fair price for days work, to
strengthening the forts along her frontier.
Holland has spent $1s,ooo,ooo in constructing
a system of locks by which her lowlands can
be flooded, and the march of an invading army
be confined to narrow roads, which can be raked
with artillery or destroyed by mines.
The amounts that Germany Russia, Austro-
Hungary and France have expended in fortify-
ing their frontiers is almost beyond calculation.
It is admitted on all sides that no country
can stand these frightful drains, but they all
ask: What can we do? To go ahead we know
is bankruptcy, but to not go ahead is suicide.
Which shall we choose?n
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

WHEN We read of the selfish terror that per-
vades the peoples along the Mediterranean we
cannot help being proud of our Drawer and
more generous Anglo-Saxon blood. Cruel
stories come from France, Italy and Spain of
suspected choleraic victims being chased away
by the peasants with scytbes and pitchforks;
of others being stoned from the public foun-
tains and the bakers and the provision stores;
OF the really sick being cut off from all human
aid and sympathy, like the lepers used to be
by the Jews. Recently the panie-stricken
Spanish quarantine guards actually fired on
and drove back the French Minister and his
| attendants, who had been on visit to ship
in the harbor. At the same time these people
wallow in filth that actually invites the cholera.
| They are too lazy to keep clean, and too cow
ardly to run the slightest risk of dying. We
northern people are certainly guilty of many
sins against the laws Of health, as well as
| against Christian kindness and charity, but
we at least make some effort to protect not
only ourselves but all others against the plague,
and when it does come we share its dangers
with the poorest and lowliest, and care tenderly
for the stricken ones, with brave disregard
10 the consequences to ourselves.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

dition in life, every religion, every rank from
private to Major General The sole test was
loyal service to the Government during the
war.
1t is this catholicity of spirit which will
characterize Gen. Kountz's administration as
Commander-in-Ch Chief, and no possible consider
alton could induce him to violate that spirit,
and falsify his whole record, by any connec-
tions with politics while holding his present
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

EVERY one is figuring cut the wheat crop
according to his own peculiar bent of mind A
-million-bushel crop is hardly insisted on so
strenuously as it was fortnight ago. and the
estimates range all the way from that figure
down to 475 million bushels. The Agricultural
Departments estimate is 455 million bushels,
based on an average of between 81 and 80 mil
lion acres, and an average yield Of - bushels
to the acre. The highest average yield was
1905 bushels in 1879, and the lowest was 1910
in 1881. Last year the average was III bushels.
Meanwhile the price was dropt to 90 cents in
Chicago the lowest it has been since 1860.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

THE PROJECT to convert the land adjacens
to the Niagara Falls into an International
Park is not, as many suppose in a condition Of
suspended animation, but is being actively
pressed forward The owners Of the adjaceus
property on the New York side want Sc 00o, eco,
while the Commission offers 100000. This
looks as if the two would eventually come to-
gether, and probably the New York Legisla-
ture viii this Winter vote the money needed
Tor the purchase, since public opinion strongly
fayors it. The negotiations on the Canadian
side are going on equally well, and the pros
pect for an International Park becomes quite
tangible.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
NOT A PoIIrIcIAN IN ANY Way.

The news has gone abroad that John S.
Kountz, the new Commander-in- Chief, has
consented TO be the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Toledo District.
The only foundation for this story is the
general desire of the Republicans of his home
to have SO available a candidate to pit against
Hon. F. III. Hurd, the Free-Trade advocate
The Democrats have heavy majority in the
District, and the Republicans are on the eager
lookout for candidate whose availability
will give promise of overcoming the prepon-
derance against them. Naturally, they turn
to Gen. Kountz, who in years gone by was
County offices. His Ugh personal character,
his soldierly record, his German parentage, his
prominence in the Grand Army, and several
other weighty considerations combine to make
him very eligible candidate.
But Gen. Kountz has been out of politics
for several years. He retired at the expiration
of his term as County Recorder, nearly 10
years ago, and embarked in a business which
he has deyelopt to very fine proportions. The
care of this and the GAR work have absorbed
all his time and energy, and for years he has
resisted every appeal to re-enter political life.
| But even were he not so firmly opposed to
again becoming acandidate for apolitical Office,
his high conception of the duties and response
bitities of the position to which he has been SO
recently elevated would set him like adamant
against any such proposition. No man in the
Order has labored more resolutely to make it
of the opinion that in this way only can the
Order be maintained and made to grow, and
his whole record is consistent with this view
When he took command of Forsyth Post il
it had membership Of 60 only, and there was
talk of surrendering its charter. Before the
expiration of his term the membership had
increased to 200, which included the very best
men in Toledo, among them many Democrats
who had held aloof from the Post because they
feared its degeneration into political machine
Under his influence Forsyth Post made
demonstration oil It's non partlzanshlp by adj
yocating and securing the election of that vet
eran Democratic politician-Gen. James B
: Steedman - to the Commandership of thu
Department of Ohio. In his own admins
| tration of the Department of Ohio, Gen
Konntz had an admirable opportunity tt
illustrate his policy, and did SO. The splendit
success of his term of office-"The Drummer
Boy Administration" as it has been called
has been often told in these columns. Durin,
that year 165 new Posts were formed in thu
j State,-or over three per week. tho mem
bership leaped from 2,237 to 5000. In thi
marvellous increase were included men of every
a political creed, every nationality, every con
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

THE Vermont soldiers are quite anxious TO
revisit Washington and some Of the battIefeIds
of the Army Of the Potomac, and an excursion
is being talked OF, which win start from Bos-
ton, Burlington or some other convenient point,
and the cost of which viii be entirely within
the means Of all. This Is an excellent idea,
and we hope it wiz be carried out Vermont
furnished 35,262 men to the United States
Army, and though some Of them lie on every
battlefield Of the Army of the Potomac, there
should be still enough left to get up grand
excursion party.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
THE DEyoURING SWORD.

The military establishments of Europe have
reached appalling proportions, but still no
nation dares stop in the mad competition
for the largest armies and the most powerful
enginery of war. For any one to stop now, say
the critics. writers and authorities one and al,
is to fall behind, at once and invite certain
surrender and destruction. So they must all
go on taking still more and more of their young
men away from productive pursuits and max
ing of them idlers and devourers of what others
produce, and more enormous sums must be
raised each year to build Notifications, i'm
mense guns and costly ships Of war. Germany
is now preparing to be able to call out in case
of war 100000 men, while Russia viii be
able to summon to the flag nearly 13, 1000, 600
Out of these it is expected that Germany win
have 3,S60,000 real combatants, and Russia
100000.
When placed on war-footing the armies OF
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
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THE WAR OF 1912.

A dispatch from Washington announcing once
more the authority of all the engineer officers in
charge ofcoast and harbor defense, that the Atlantic
coast and lake fronts-that is virtually the entire
country-is in a defenseless condition, would natur-
ally alarm less self-confdent people. But IN
truth we gave England such setback hundred
years ago, and we have so easily whipped every
thing undertaken since, that we have no fears OF
foreign philadelphia Times.
This is an unfortunate allusion. The last
time We fought England we made as disgrace
full fasco of it as we well could of anything.
The war of 1872 was series of humiiiating
and shameful failures, redeemed only by two
or three brilliant victories on land, and the
wonderful success of our splendidly fought
frigates
The contest opened with the cowardly sur
render of Detroit by the drunken Hull; Win
chester followed up by allowing his men to be
surprised and massaered on the River Raisin,
and the misfortunes in that quarter embraced
the surprise and capture of Michillimacki-
nae, and the massacre of Col Weiss forces at
Fort Dearborn and Col. Dudley's near Fort
Miami. On the New York frontier things
went no better. The cowardice or incompe-
| tence of Wade Hampton's grandfather brought
ton against Montreal, and when portion OF
our troops had crossed the Niagara River: I'M
der Scott, and engaged the enemy, the New
| York militia, which was to move over to Their
support, suddenly remembered that the law
did not compel them to go out of the State, and
go they would not. SO that Scott and his gallant
| companions were overpowered and captured.
Gen. Winder- father of that Gen. John
H. Winder who was responsible for all the
| horrors Of Andersonville and all other rebe
prisons-ran away shamefully from in front O
Washington, from an inferior British force
and abandoned our Capital to insult and de
struction.
The only redeeming passages in the long re
cord of humiliations to our flag and arms, were
Harrisons brilliant little victory over Proctor
at the River Thames, the stubbornly contested
battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane Jack
sons victory at New Orleans and the superb
success of our Navy. The victory at New Or
leans brought US nothing but a partial re
demption of our sadly damaged prestige for
was fought weeks after the treaty of peace hat
had been signed.
We were SO glad to be. allowed to quit tina
the treaty of peace does not contain theslight
est al1usion to the causes for which we took U
arms, and England, who was worn out wit
her gigantic struggle with Napoleon, wa
equally glad to be at peace, so both agreed t
stop right where they were. This is the trut
concerning the war of 1872.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

We MENTIONED last week how the prices Of
stocks had suddenly enhanced until the whoIs
decline Of the previous three months had been
recovered from Since then there has been the
iveiiest sort Of a time between the Bulls and
the Bears over their maintenance at that point.
As they halted at that figure the Bears reasoned
that the upward movement had spent its force,
and one the other way must follow. So they
attacked vigorously. The Bears, favored by
the abundance Of cheap money, stood their
ground firmly, and so far neither side has
gained any material advantage The struggle
has been wholly confined to Wall street oper-
ators, the outside public taking no part and
but little interest in the fight.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

THE most successful manager of the Indians
in this country seems to be Gen. Crook. His
policy is very simple, is easily understood by
the noble red man, and is as infallibly exc
cuted as the laws of the Modes and Persians.
1t is to pet the good Indians and thrash the
bad ones until they see the beauty of being
good In this practical way he has converted
the Chirahuahua Apaches. who used to be the
terror of the Texas frontier, into peaceable
farmers, who are raising fair crops and excel
lent cattle. They claim to be thoroly in love
with the ways of peace, but nevertheless the
General has still good force of cavalry within
easy striking distance of their reservation.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

every port in the world, and plentiful shew of
powerful ships of war to make sure that it will
be well respected. We would have the present
absurd consular system replaced by such a
diplomatic corps as the English, French and
Germans maintain-wide awake, trained men,
who have no other business in life than look
ing out for the commercial interests of their
advance them. This is our idea of what a
"yigorous foreign policy means.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
OK. KouNrz AT HOME.

Elsewhere we give a fuller account Of the
catering reception Of Commander-in- Chief
Kountz on his return to Toledo than time and
space permitted us to present last week. The
reception is Of special interest to every CON-
rsde in showing the estimation that the new
Commando is held in al his own home-in the
city from which he went p years ago as a drum
mer-boy IN the gallant 37th Ohio; the city to
which be returned as manned hero after the
glorious assault on Mission Ridge, and the city
which has often bestowed upon him places Of
trust and honor. The best men in the city
headed by the Mayor united in the demon,
stratiOn in his honor, and bore public test
moay TO bis worth in their speeches.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

THE English are much disturbed over the
report that both China and France have ac-
cepted the mediation of our Minister to China
Mr.. Young. They fear-as they have reason
to-that such mediation means an enhance
ment of American diplomatic prestige in China,
which viii diminish that of England. There
is strong pounds shilling and pence-favor to
this The Chinese market is, next TO that of
the United States, the best and most valuable
one that England has. Her sales of goods of
all kinds to China are only exceeded in guam
tity and value by those to this country. The
chief business of her diplomatic corps in that
part of the world is to build up and maintain
this trade, and anything that strikes at her
diplomatic supremacy strikes at her Chinese
trade, and is sufficient to produce very acute
alarm in all the counting and banking
houses of London.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14

We said last week, IN announcing the failure
of the Egyptian conference, that theOnly logical
solution of the problem presented to England
was the establishment of government on ths
banks Of the Nile similar to that by which
India is ruled; and now the kilograms state
that Lord Northbrook has sailed for Alexandra,
ostensibly on q mission Of inquiry, but more
probably to establish a vice-royalty there We
hardly expected the English Government to
act so promptly on our advice.
The National tribune., 1884-08-14
A RARE CHANCE.

The most valuable of military works is un-
doubtealy the Rebellion Record. the official pub
location of the War Department. Volumes
one, two, three and five Of this work are now
out Of print, but TIE TRIBUNE has managed
to secure three complete sets eleven volumes)
and wiz send set TO any address on receipt Of
Sg7. Address simply THE NATIONAL TRIB-
uSE, Washington, d. C.