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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-01-08
Clothing! Clothing

We are selling out at cost, in order to
close out AS we are going out of thss line.
We have rare bargains for all those who
will examine our stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

token with view to attract princes ana
millionaires, are swiftly brought within the
reach of every one. Half century ago there
was broad and quite impossible line between
rich and poor. Everything the latter WORE anu
used. and ate off, and lived with was coarse anu
rough and ugly. The poor mans clothes HIS
nottery. his furniture, his table ware, his wire
GOWNS and bonnets, all were unlovely' mar
tistic. barbarous, and in their way depressing
and brutalizing. But how great change mas
taken place in few years. Now the humDiest
servant maid can, without exceeding the limits
of her small wages, dress herself as tastefuily
"a her mistress. The mechanic or poor clerk Is
no longer condemned to live in squaior. for
the price, or less than the price, OF the old Ias-
toned upliness and meanness he can furnish MS
lodgings or his home with bright, pretty ana
suggestive things. In truth, silent revolution
of very great Importance has occurred almost
without being noticed. The comprehension OIL
the beautiful, that is to say the education OF tne
people in art is being carried on enectlveiy III
the most practical ways. Competition anu
the increasing appreciation OF graceIul anu
artistic productions have stimulated the mo'e-
ment, and 1t is producing effects which must
be manifested In higher degree OF CIVIL
ization throughout the country. Art for the
million is great thing and a benefcent. 1t Is
equal in it's stimulating effects to the growth OF
a new taste for literature, and it will doubtless
strengthen the general fondness for books and
at the same time refine the general literary
taste. 1t is in ali respects matter for satlstac-
ton and one of the best proofs that American
civilization is proceeding healthily and vigor-
ously despite the gloomy predictions OF the pes
simists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
escaped with his life. but perhaps to have killed
him at once would have ended his sufierings to-
PERSONAL.

nllon zidore, just deceased in Paris, should have
line for memory. He the doycn of the guild Of
cgar-stump collectors Before entering that trade hA
was valet OF King Charles x. Best Of all however he
was in his way phosopbeYi for asked II he was con.
tented with his lot Yes" NJ REPLIED, enough to love
life, but not enough to dread DEATH"
In his fifteen years rule in EsasoLothringen, General
Manteuel suppressed few French papers but In lea1
than that number OF months Prince Hohenlohe has sup
nressed ten times as menv Indeed the circulation OF all
French papers is forbidden save the Temps Figaro Ga
Bias and Petit Journal .ia@. 4tf
Professor Beesley, the eminent apostle of comtss
Postyism was the Radical candidate for Parliament ID
Westminster and was defeated by Mr.. William Lehmas
Ashmead Bartlett BurdettCoutts "Who is this Proes
sor Beesleyp asked of the "two millions" d
another "Best II I know exactly" was the reply,
hut think they call him philosopher But whar6
philosophy I" "Well, | can't say Dut they tell me u
was invented by a French COuntw
The health OF ex-vicePresident Wheeler who has not
been well for some time is better than 1t has beea
FOR several years. The people OF Malone where he Vea
say that he is quite his old self again.
The Rev. Dr. william Hayes Ward has accepted an In
yitaton to deliver the next Decoration Day Grafton be
fore the Grand Army Post at Abingdon Mass bis native
place.
Lieutenant "A Dapray Of the 23d Infantry. u B. A.
reported to General Hancock yesterday for duty as aide
de eamp The lieutenant formerly q washington
newspaper man, and appointed from civil lie " ais
present position.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
LIT For TIE MILLION.

To the observer a walk on Broadway ut this
time of year Is always interesting. He secs
there thousand proofs of the Opulence of New
York of the growth of deicacy in taste, of the
spread of Oriental ideas of magnilicence of the
multitude of ways by which the acqulsitiveness
or caprice Of the rich is mini tered to and slim
ulatcd. The eye is Toasted upon splcndOrs of
color, form, fabric. All that cultivated imag-
nations can conceive in jcwclry, brc-a-brac
furniture, costume, is heaped together in daz-
cling profu.on. Between Fourteenth and
1wenty-thirG SITS. all the rarest products of the
earth may be found on exhibition In the even
ing, under the brilliant electric lights, the spec
taclc is very striking and well calculated 10
convey to strangers ii vivid impression of es-
tablIshcd prosperity and accustomed luxury.
Yet there are other exhibitions IN this city at
Christmas time which are more significant and
of higher kind of progress, perhaps There
have grown up within few years Il number of
great establishments, which trade directly with
the people, which deal III almost every kind of
household goods, and which make money by
selling very chcaply great variety of attractive
and III the main substantial articles.
What is most remarkable in these establish
ments is that their immense and heterogeneous
stocks duplicate IN appearance the costly wares
of the fashionable stores. No matter what is
in vOgue-the latest feminine garment, the
newest fancy in dress goods, the freshest ca
price in head gear, the last graceful creation in
jewelry or plated ware, or china, porcelain
glass or pottcry-fathful reproductions are to
be found in these colossal stores; and the prices
are really amazing. For a few cents often, and
always for Il mere fraction of the cost of the
thing copied, all that is brightest and most
original in household and decorative art can be
had by the poor Nor is it true that everything
is sacrificed to appearance. The plush which
initiates sealskin is i'll itself handsome, warm
and enduring. The feathers which initiate alli-
gator Russia, morocco, etc, are good and
strong. The cheap dress fabrics are not flimsy,
but stout. The plated ware will retain its brill
lance a long time. The blown glass is as dura.
BILE as the cut. The Crown ware is not more
brittle than Wedgwood, and Its colors are
burned in as thoroughly. No doubt there is
plenty of trashy imitation in the market but
the great firms here spoken of buy in such
quantities that they make bargains, and they
have found that the surest avenue to public pat
ronage is to obtain reputation for honesty of
representation.
The result is that the public at large never
had such opportunities to enjoy art in the
household. Designs Of all kinds, first under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
PROHIBITION IN ATLANTA.

The Prohbitionists have trumphed at
Atlanta and the order declaring the result of
the election has been formally signed Prob
ably this will not terminate litigation. Nothing
apoarenty can, 81 long as clients with money
can be found to hire lawyers. But decisive
advantage has been secured by the Prohibition
ISIS, and probably the business of most of the
dealers in liauor will now be broken up, so that
the ultimate decision will be of less interest to
them. 1t is not impossible that in this way the
resistance to the piohibitory ordinance may
gradually fade away.
Nevertheless the result of the experiment at
Atlanta will be watched in all parts of the
country with great interest. 1t is a test, not
only of the fitness of the people for self govern
ment, since 1t involves the question whether
laws duly enacted can be faithfully enforced,
but of the expediency of prohibitory legislation
where little more than bare ajOrity of the
people favor sucn a measure. 1t is to be
frankly admitted that in other parts of the
county, where prohibilory enactments have
been sustained by Il large proportion Of the
pcople, those enactments have proved futile
because they were not backed by a sufficient
pnblic opinion to enforce them. If the effort in
Atlanta shall nevertheless prove successful, the
result will have great influence, not only in
Georgia. but throughout the Southern Stairs.
Already the success of the methods adopted by
the Prohibitionists at the South has given a
valuable lesson to their cO-laborers III Northern
States 1t has shown that mere hunting for
office, and savage assaults upon political
parties, do not promote the cause of temperance
so much as q single-eyed and earnest devotion
to the measures by which that cause may be
advanced. In Atlanta, for example, the
advocates Of prohibition did not go up and
down denouncing political parties, and making
war upon the political convictions of the
people. They did not affirm that no man
except Prohbitionist was fit to hold office.
On tho contrary they avoided to the utmost
any antagonism between themselves and the
political convictions of the people, or the
political organizations through which those
convictions were expressed.
The result has been a success such az the
advocates of prohibition have not been able to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.

II does seem that modern civilization ought
by this time to have secured some convention
for the protection OF the lives and limbs or
people who venture into the middle OF the
street. Why it is that all who drive vehicles
of any kind Invariably regard foot passengers
not merely as intruders but as deadly enemies,
to be exterminated whenever possible ID
mystery not yet solved. Unhafpily the fact
constitutes serious drawback to the security
of Reorganization, and for timid persons ana
women it is nothing less than daily terror.
In the most crowded parts OF Broadway ana
certain other thoroughrares policemen are sta
toned to prevent the accidents which woulo
otherwise occur too frequently. But elsewhere
the unfortunate who has to cross the street
needs the agility Of an acrobat, the many
faceted optic of fly, and the meekness OF all
early Christian. Should he venture too near
horses head in his pardonable efforts to avola
being run over, he will probably be cursed at
with tropical fuency worthy of the Wild west.
If, when the streets are greasy with mud, he
slips it is doubtful whether the brewers wagon
lust behind will be pulled up before it has
knocked him down aud broken some OF his
limbs. 1t is sometimes supposed that the cross
has been imagined that the sidewalks were for
them and not for storekeepers and pedlers.
The drivers, however, accept no such doctrine.
They will rather go fast over crossing than
anywhere else, and the prospect OF making the
wretched passengers slip and jump and dodge
out of their way ills them with unholy glee. but
though we use the language of humor in speak
ing of this matter there is really very little fun
in it for the public, and after all, the puDlic
would seem to possess some rights In the
premises which even the drivers of carts ana
wagons and street cars are or should be bound
to respect. The other evening, in Brooklyn,
wagon driver sent his pole into womans eye,
fractured her skull, left her in dying condition
and ratified away. When such things are posi-
BILE it is in order to look to the safety of the
public in the middle of the street little more
carefully. few sharp lessons given by the
criminal courts to the ruflians who assume the
monopoly of our highways would certainly
tend to teach the remainder of them better
manners.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

The amount of silver owned was also $194.ooo
less than at the beginning of the month"; !hese
changes, with decrease of $463'ooo IN panh
notes held, leave the Treasury Win Du'
$3.50. 900 more money of all kinds than at the
beginning of the month. but decidedly stronger
in position. If Congress would attend 10 lts
part of the matter as well as the Secretary OF
tbe Treasury does to his part, business pros
meets would be much brighter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
aMu5cmfnl5.

p,,or OPERA HOUSES" Adoni1
CoMFpY THEATRE -S-"kellar.
s." AmOrita"
DAIY's THEAIRE-S-"A Nlght OIL
EDEN NUsgE--WaXwOrkS - ~-,..,
c.paNp OPERA HOUSES" Oh, what Night
n snyIn.S s PARK THEATRE s. The Grip
iTcEUM THEATRE-S:15- d" One OF Onr Gifts
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-Japanese Vliaee. s,r.r..
~ ,,soS sof auE IHEArgR-s:3O-"Sa and Sinners
Nm o,s {; ARDEN-s-" The Ratcatcher -,
STASDARD THEATRES" Christmas ran Voniihe'
sTap TIIF .TRR-s-" The Black Hussar.
TuAIJA THgATRt-S-" Seecad"t"
THpATRE CoMIoUE-S-" Wrinkles. ,,,.n
IISIos sou ARR ragATRg-S-" Romeo ana JuucI
WAIIAcKs-S-" HOodman Blind
1agT STREET TUEATRE-S-" Evangenne.
Sd AVENUE acknowledgements.
BIN AVENUE THEArRE-S-" Mlkauo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

If it is better to be born lucky than rich, it is
worse to DO unlucky than poor. The case of the
unfortunate engineer of the tug which was sunk in
He'll Gate the other day seems to illustrate this
He managed to scramble on to one of the schooncrs
which were being tow ed by tho tug, when the latter
went down. In few minutes the schooner drilted
on the rocks. Then no went on board another tug
which tried TO pull the schooner of. and rs he was
drying his clothes tho boiler burst. blowing him
again INTO the water II is q little odd that man
80 marked by Destiny for misfortune should have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

Observation-Disclosures and men wounded IN des-
rerate riot in Limerick. - Bulgarian village
attacked by Serviaus. - Arrival Of Senator
Robb IN Paris.
DoMrsTIC.-The President not yet ready TO give
Mr. B;gelows letter to the public. - An episode
in American diplomacy with Persia. - Judge
Campbell, of Dakota. replying to the charges oil
senator Vest. - 4 poor widow, age eighty,
murdered in Foxboro. Mass. 60 Disappearance
Of a theatre owner in Ohio. GO Elopement OF a
how and girl from Chicago. - Operations of a
notorious gang of confidence swinders IN Pennsyl-
vania.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The "Owl" train from
Boston wrecked at Pelhamvle; the fireman killed
other persons injured - young woman crazed
nv bleaching her hair. - Pastor Bott tired to
preach in his oil church. - Bro0hlyn ponce
man assaulted three people - Ex-Minlster
Francis explains the Kelley case. 60 MI. beecher
will not receive New Year calls
The Observation-Disclosures observations indicate
milder and fair but clustering weather. Iempera-
ture Yesterday: Highest. 320; lowest, Is ;
average. 26o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
cporrsoUE PERFORMANCES.

IrODt Tia 81 louis Hl0be-LeW0cTd. ia
recent writer argues that certain animals h"vo
sense OF humor. In common with human beings o hen
even the solemn mule must foe IKE ,i in
no looks at the antics OF the present Adhinis''A'
the matter OF reform,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

BUT NOT so EASILY FILLED PERHAPS.
The Mobile Re0iser. -.
good many pocketbooks at tue close OF this WeeA
Will be like The Austrian miss0n-vacant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
UNAPpRECIATED ORATORY.

From The New York World. . ,....
An Alderman In Montreal has sued ne Hcrdd OF n %"
CITY, for printing speech that ho did not deliver ~.
average New York Alderman ought to DO sued ior w"
speeches that he does deliver.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

The platform was raised on posts on one SIDE,
and so the wind could easily get under IL. III
the "stringer" to which the planks were nalled
had in turn been nailed to the posts, the accl-
dent would not have happened. But the sta
ton was built by the economical town author
tiles long ago, and the railroad people therefore
are not responsible for the disaster which 1t
caused. Fortunately the wreck was attended
with small loss of life, although the crowueu
cars were all thrown of, and some Oh them
rolled over and over down an embanKment
seventy five feet high. The escape OF the pas
sengers was indeed as wonderful as the cause
of the accident was rare.
New-Yorkers have the name of complaining
much but doing little in a practical way TO
keep down the expenses of their municipality.
But they do not deserve this reputation always
as recent events show. The Quaker Dam
project. the INDUSTRIOUS job fathered by Hubert
O. Thompson, has been defeated, or at IeasV
postponed, mainly through the efforts OF pri-
vate citizens. 1t is stated, in an interesting
letter printed elsewhere in this paper, that
when the maps of this undertaking were placed
on exhibition a few public-spirited taxpayers
had the plans examined at their own COST oe
came convinced that the dam was useless ana
impracticable, and opposed it sharply. 1t was
doubtless due to this private interest that the
Sodom Dam plan was adopted in the stead OF
Thompsons expensive job. The incident
ought to encourage all private citizens to take
n more active part in the consideration OF prov
ects affecting the public welfare. They can
do more than they think to reduce the $3o TO
per capita expense of running this city govern
ment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

James Steward writes to The NeT- York Times
:" am very glad that ono paper ut least has the
moral courage 10 say what it thinks is right" The
context shows that the paper alluded to by James
is The Times itself We are afraid that James is a
great American humOrist and is shamefully guyIng
our neighbor. For James Is to be presumed to
know that The Times. far from having 1.-The
moral courage to say what 1t thinks is right"
earnestly supported Mr. Cleveland for the Presi-
dency, although its frequent denunciatIons of him
as Governor were still fresh in the puoc mind. Ii
was less than year after The Times had eXcoriatcd
Cleveland as n political blind man. man of des
perate political hardihOod, player of scurvy
tricks. very low-prced rcformor. a preposterouS
Presidential candidate and II parochIal statesman,
that II fell to commencing him to its readers
inst the man for the highest Office within the gilt
of the pc el And James calls this sort of thing
"moral courage" just as another joker with a
taste for fantastic characterization spoke of ice
cream rs that delicious bivalvc." We submit to
James that II would be only decent for him to
pend his fun at the expense of Fagns brand Of
moral courage until the holiday season is over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

Mr.. Rane, United States nsul-General at
Berlin describes in his report an experiment made
by the German Government in the disposition OF
tramps. These nomads few years ago infested
the German Empire. Bismarck had "happy
thought" in regard to them. Large areas of waste
land were secured, aud the tramps were made to
colonize them. Mr.. Raine does not say precisely
what percentage of the strange cooasts took to
steady work and raised themselves to higher
plane of life, but he ntimates that while some re-
formed and became good citizens Others proved ir-
reclamable and had to be sent to warehouses;. We
also have tramps, and we might adopt the German
idea by putting them. just for beginning, upon the
San Carlos reservation Then we could await the
issue with the calm Indifference felt by Iago when
he had set Roderigo on to kill Cassie. Whether
the Apaches killed the tramps or the tramps killed
the Apaches. or each slow the other, the country
would be the gamer There would be one problem
less to grapple with.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
A FREE TRADE SCHEME.


From Ths ST. Louie Republican, ,,,o-,ts
with Hon William r. Morrison leading the Ipemu.s
I'm ,nrress we may vet SEQ the time whom Pennsy'a"
will DO spelled with j"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

The destruction of tho Spring Valley Water
Company's pumping works ut Lake MERGED may
occasion serious Inconvenience to San Francisco,
unless the reservoir is full enough to keep mp the
city's supply IF water until the works are rebuilt.
IL is fortunate that the accident has occurred at
time of the year when rains may always be expected
Had it happened in the middle of the dry season
the consequences might have been very en-
barraSsng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
ANENT KISSING.


A poetess sings In The NOrriSoUn Herald:
kiss me, kiss me quickly. love;
Where the fragrant
Vine. and vagrant
Winds your window lodge above"
Tastes differ but for part we'd rather be kissed
slowly than quickly There Is very little sasf ction IN
lightning kisses
II seems TO us like kissing wasted.
The pleasures gone before you taste tt.
greater JOY, sweeter bliss
Lies In the long aud lingering kiss
The melting kiss, as we might say,
That fairly takes your breath away.
Il BootOn Courier
has been added to the list OF elective studies
offered to students at Columbia ColeGe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

The people of Austin, Texas. have enough excite
ment to keep them interested. The presence there
of a murderer gang of murderers who has or have
killed thirteen women in one year. is enough to
agtate any community. and the failure of the
police to secure the monster or monsters adds
greatly to the discomfort of the situation That
strange n series of crimes should have left traces
is perhaps the most remarkable fact OF all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
manners.

In one respect County Clerk-elect Flack will find
that he has laid out thOrny road for himself If he
attempts to take advantage of the letter OF the
Civil Service law III disregard of its spirit; we
refer the reappontment of clerks In the Supreme
Court. The proper performance OF the duties OF
these positions requires long familiarity with them
and peculiar qualities of adaptation. The most OF
the present iucumbents are men who have been
thoroughly trained for their work, who have been
retained through several administrations because Of
their fitness and whose removal would be felt as
real inconvenience and loss by judges and lawyers
So thoroughly ls this understood that County
Clerk Butler only attempted one removal-tbat OF
william Lamb the Clerk of the General Term. And
so general and pronounced was the protest against
this act that Mr.. Batter was compelled very soon
afterward to rciustatc him. That feeling would be
manifested even more emphatically now If Mr..
FIack should attempt the removal of such clerks.
Too few Of our city offices filed with such con-
scientious, courteous and competent men as Mr..
Lamb MIR. Dunn. Mr. Van Claim, Mr.. Cav or
several others Of the Supreme Court clerks If
the dismissal OF any of these men follows Mr..
Flacks entering upon the duties OF County Clerk,
he will be likely to hear some unpleasant things
from the Supreme Court bench as well as from the
bar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

The cause of the accident on the New Haven
road yesterday morning was most curious. A
few seconds before the "Springfeld owl train
reached Pelhamville, coming toward this city, the
high wind lifted the station platform, 100 feet
long. over on the track, and wrecked the train.