The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-28
CURRENT COMMENT.
Various Topics of the Dav
Briefly Discussed.

Various Topics of the Dav
Briefly Discussed.
THE Campaign wakes Lively
From Texas unto Maine,
Thanks to the Usual Blunders
OF Brother Jonah Blaine.
IT WOULD BE an easy matter to describS
congress as a wind trust.
THE COOL WAVE astonished everybody, and
made business lively.
cit is A nipping and eager air" these morns
ings and nights
ZEB VANCE SAYS: "When fight man and
lick him, his scalp is mine"
THE red bandanna is waving in the northA
west. Long may she wave.
Four MOTHERS IN Media, PENNSYLVANIA
have eighty-four children. Media bids fair to,
become metropolis.
THE SEA SERPENT is performing off tho
Maine coast. This ought to be warning I'd
Brother Jonah Blaine.
If THE REJECTION of the fisheries treaty geta
us into trouble with England, the responsibility
will rest upon the republican senate.
HARRISON is apparently timid mana
He is waiting for Blaine to write Blaine'g
letter of acceptance.
THE bang with which Phelps's chances,
exploded seems to have been utilized
to dress his hair.
SENATOR GoRMAN says the democratic
campaign is getting along all right, and he
ought to know
ENGLISH BUSINESS MEN deny Mr.. Blaines
statement that trusts are common in EnglandJ
They say that they hardly know the meaning
of the word.
BY MEANS OF comparative brevity, Uncle,
Eyarts is victorious. The fisheries treaty has
been rejected, but Senator Morgan got in his
work, all the same.
A BRIrIsH SYNDICATE will put $4,000 600
in waterworks for Buenos Ayres These
south American cities will soon be ahead Of
us if they keep up their present pace.
GOVERNOR GRAY, of Indiana, has cons
cluded to make war on the White Caps Ig
is about time for such movement to be ins
augurated.
AmEL1E R1vEs will shortly have new
drama before the public. Henry the Secs
ond" is the title, and those who have seen tho
manuscript pronounce it wonderfully strong
and vivid work.
IT is said that Higgins is to be added to
the working force Of the democratic cams.
pagn committee. Fellow-citizens, this
means business and heap of it.
roonnt otor,, ,,,oe
equinoctial 1t is possible but it is more likely
that it was part of the West Indian hurriS
cane in the gulf. The regular equinoctial wilG
probably put in its appearance in the course Of
the next three OF four weeks.
THE BIRMINGHAM News says that Missssy
sippi has practically quarantined against the
whole world. 1t is not as bad as that but the'
quarantine regulations adopted by the state
are very sweeping and very strict. They Will
interfere greatly with trade and travel.
AN organ says that Brother Blaine is very,
unpopular in England. 1t has also BEEN
demonstrated thatshe is not as important mi
this country as his friends pretend. At any,
rate, he is not popular enough to be elected
president over his own name.
THE RECENT CYCLONE the New York Here
aid says, was the forerunner of others likely
| soon to appear in the gulf stream region. This,
is year of meteorological wonders, and it willy
not be surprising if we hear shortly OF a hurria
cane as memorable as the blizzard storm OF LAST
| March.
HERE ARE SOME interesting immigration,
| figures collected by the Ford committee: "ThS
| total number of newcomers during the eighS
| years was 4,250,000. OF these Germany con%
/ oar ma. To,,f =
496 900; Sweden, 81 GOO; Italy 10000; Nor%
way, 3,000 Austria, 10000; Russia, 115, o00s
and Scotland, 107 900. 81 The Hungarians num-
bered $4,000, Denmark then follows with G7,s
! Geo. and there were nearly as many Swiss aR
| Danish immigrants. The Netherlands sent to-
| us 5000 more settlers than France, their num%
| Der being 10000. Poland was next with 81, COOS
while Roumania closed the list with g. 100"
Ex-srATE SENATOR MANIsTRE, of MissouriA
recently said to st. Louis reporter: ut wasl
| my good fortune when a resident of England
toform the acquaintance of the great master;
| of novelsts, Charles Dickens. / picked himl
| up from the street just as he had been knaG 6eG
! down by one cab and was in danger of being.
run over by another. He was at the time, asl
| he always was, reporter. That night 81
tramped with him through the worst slums Of
| London. He told me his business, and iIgi
| some way we became friends, and often afteE
that l accompanied him on his night walkss
Many characters that I saw ON these eXeurE
sions have peered at me since then from the,
pages of his novels. One thing that impressed
me about Dickens was that he never toolr
notes. never saw him with a pencil in his
! hand, nor did he seem TO be paying any attend
/ ton whatever to what was going on around
him yet in the newspaper articles that make
up the complete volumes of "SketcLes by;
Boz 1 recognized that every scene, sound on
incident of the trip had been indelibly im@
pressed upon his wonderful mind" .
AFTER JANUARY any paper in New York;
publishing the details OF an execution viii be-
! subject to fine and imprisonment under the
new law. Several editors have been inter5
viewed, with the following result: Chester 81
Lord, of the Sun: 1--WE have habit OF prints
ing the news in this establishment, aud ii
would take considerable imprisonment to break
us of it." Julius Chambers, Of the Herald :;
"YYe have sent as far as the Polar sea for news
and at rather moro danger than that Of im-