The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT.
Various Topics of the DaY
Briefly Discussed.
Mr.. MILLS: DEAR SIR-We have buried
our little Ratchet.
THERE is movement on foot in New York
| to provide the poor with flowers. This is all
very WELL but how about work and bread?
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE abandoned all hone
| Of breaking the solid south. This is the onl,a
evidence of republican shrewdness which has
been developed during the campaign.
SOME OF OUR contemporaries note the facA
| that the tariff discussion is over. Would than
| it were; but there long and weary dayd
| ahead, for the campaign orator is abroad in
the land
Poor OLD JUDGE ToURGEE will take the
stump for Harrison and Morton If hid
speeches are as poor as his last book his aus
diences will fee to the woods.
MRS CLEvELAND's WAR on the hustle has
thus far been quite successful This new de4
parture may yet come to be regarded as one Of
the glores of the present administration.
|
says that the south needs people, and that
money will come when labor and population
are here. This is great truth.
THE NEW YORK STAR thinks it very funnvi
that Mrs. Amelie Riyes Chanler should writa
a tragedy when she has been married only
two months. Events move rapidly these dayss
Mrs. HARRISON RECEIVES callers while Benz
jamin lies in bed. Poor Benjamin has broken
| noplx inf I,o Gob+ IL s., hill
trated at having seen the handwriting on tho
wall. s.
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS is confident thas
Michigan will be carried this year by the dern5
ocrats in both the presidential and state elecg
lions. This is very high authority. Michigan
may yet astonish the.word.
| THERE is AN impression that the rulers OF
Germany and Russia held their recent meet5
ing to divide the world between them. If this
is the case the two will find that they have o.
| big job on hand.
| GENERAL HARRISON IS rapidly going to-
| pieces under the strain of too much leadership,
All his life he has been too proud to shake
hands with the masses, and his present experis-
enoe is novelty to him.
IT is SAID that the climate of Russia haa
shortened the days of every American minister
ever sent to that country. The Hon. Cassiuss
! M. Clay who was once sent on that mssond
still surviyds at the age of nearly ninety, bus
Mr.. Clay is an exceptionally tough man.
Mr.. BLAINE is so far away that he may be-
excused for not understanding the situation I'M
this country. For instance he expresses thu
opinion that Harrison will be elected upon the}
issue directly made for him by tho presidents
ONE CONGRESSMAN HAS already been sent to-
the lunatic asylum during the present sessionJ
This is pointer Perhaps the cause OF nuch
OF our unwise legislation is the presence in the
halls of congress of men whose proper place is
i'll the asylums
THREE AMERICAN LADIES have been ex%
tended the franking privilege for their letters
and have thus no use for postage stamps. They
are Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant,
the wives Of ex-presidents. Their letters are
entitled to free conveyance through the public
mails.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE particular about their
buttermilk. At Wichita, Kansas, the otheg
day, seven persons were poisoned by drinking
buttermilk, and three of them may not rccovero
The doctors think that the poisoning was due
to the fact Of the milk standing in copper yes4
sells.
GENERAL HARRISON DEvoTEs much Of his
talk to visiting delegations to discussion Of the
ballot-box question, and Judging from his res
marks, one would gather the impression that.
this institution is confined strictly to the SOUTH,
The general will know more about the ballot
box question after November than he does,
now.
THE CALIFORNIA STAGE driver who com.
mitted suicide the other day by sitting on O.
fifty pound can OF giant powder and touching
it off showed that he thoroughly selfish
| and brutal. If man. must kill himself, les
| him 90 1T in way that will not shock his
neighbors and tear up the surrounding country
GENERAL FISK, the prohibition presidential
nominee, announced in a public address thae
"the sickly little annex called the temperance
| plank which the republicans nailed to theiR
platform, has driven thousands of temperance
voters into the prohibition ranks" General
Fisk is busily engaged in puncturing tie ree
publican cuticle.
THE CHATTANOOGA TINES expresses the
opinion that Charles Dudley Warner is right
when he says that the rude treatment of souths
ern men and affairs by the Cincinnati press
has injured the business Of that city in the
south. There is no doubt about it.. Our mer-
chants do not propose to trade in city where
they are persistently misrepresented and villis
fed.
bLAKELY HALL, OF the New York Sun, who
is in Chicago studying the anarchist plots, has
a remedy for the whole trouble. He says that
if the anarchists were caught, well scrubbed
taught the English language and fed on whole-
some food for month, anarchy would SOON
be thing of the past. The suggestion is worth
trying, provided we keep the anarchists at hard
| labor.
ETHAN ALLEN, OF New York. is interesting
himself TO bring about the purchase of Cuba
by the United States. He thinks that one hunq,
dred million dollars would buy her. as Spain
is running her and would be glad to get rid OF
her at fair price, The little island should
be released from Spanish control withoua
Spain being asked any odds; and the cause Of
humanity and civilization would justify thig
country in seeing it is done.