The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-14

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cussed.
ENcKE's COMET AND j. G. B. returned abonA
the same time.
THE GRAVE OF President Folks grandma.
ther is seven miles from Charlotte, N. c.. in a
dense underground where it is in danger of bes
ing lost and forgotten.
"FoR HEAVENS SAKE give us democrat fos
governor' says writer in the New York
Sun. Right! What's the matter with David
3. Hill?
A PENSACOLA PAPER wants all that portion
of Florida lying south of Alabama annexed to
that state. 1t would be difficult to make the
trade and have the goods delivered.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN has sworn off again. He
proposes to stay sober until he succeeds in half
killing such of his fellow-citizens as are will
ing to meet hum i'll the ring.
THE PRoHIBITIoNIsTs OF Tennessee are mad
at Governor Bob Taylor for characterizing the
third party as a set of cranks. We rise to in.
quire wherein did the governor do them inius-
tice?
THE MENTION OF the confederate states in
the senate makes some of the senators nervous.
1t is natural. About twenty-five years ago
the confederate states made great many peo.
pie very nervous.
In CHICAGO, THE other day. q drummer
jumped on a man who hurrahed for jeff Davis,
knocked him down and beat him savagelv,
He told the crowd that he would strike any
man who shouted for Jeff Davis. No doubs
he knows who to strike.
THE NEW York TIMES charges minister
with saying that the Burmese sell their wives
and daughters like sheep. Now, the fact is
that in Burmah husbands and fathers do
nothing Of the sort. They are models of good
behavior in their domestic relations.
Is INToxIcATIoN A crime? The decisions OF
the New York courts settle the matter in that
state. In New York, man who has been con-
victed and sentenced for being intoxicated in
public place is held to be guilty of a crime,
but simply getting drunk in plaae that is not
public is no crime.
THE GOVERNOR OF Greenland msee year
receives complete file of his home Iapers.
He begins with the first of January and reads
the entire mass through to the end His news
is rather stale, but it is no uncommon thing for
him to work himself into violent fs over
something that occurred in Denmark yeaP
before.
In 1900 ONLY three per cent of our pepula~
ton lived i'll towns. In 1880 the town jewellers
had increased to twenty-five per cent of tho
country's population. If this rate of increase
continues, what will become of the country
districts? 1t is out of the question for everys
body to live in town.
GENERAL LEW WALLAcE's campaign life
of Harrison says that when the young man
made his first public speech, his audience
called him a ."swinge-cat." It is more likely
that they called him ''snged cat" and it
is pretty certain that the general will feel like
one when he emergeS from the presidential
race.
CHINA is PREPARING for a row with Great
Britain. All the Chinese in the British eolO-
MES have been ordered to return home within
three years, by which time it is believed that
China's navy viii be all right, and her army Of
100000 men viii be ready for the fight.
Against such ovelpowering odds even Eng.
lands strength would not amount to much.
THERE Is GOOD REASON to believe that there
is such a monster as the sea serpent, but the
better class Of travellers on the ocean are slow
to admit that they have seen him. When
man sees a sea serpent every little paper in the
country pegs away at him with lot of imper-
tinent questions as to what brand of liquor he
uses.
TIE CONSTITUTION HAS o better and briefeP
newspaper code than that recently advanced by
Editor Dana. It is-give the news, and all
the news, and such other things as will be Of
interest to the public. This is what has made
THE CONSTITUTION the most popular of ALI
southern journals. Circulation of daily 10000
Sunday 10000, weekly 125,000. Now is the
time to subscribe.
ELEcTRIcIrY NAY WORK in @ surprising
manner when the New Workers use it in the
execution OF criminals. Only the other day.
at Hartford a shock from an electric wire
stretched young man ont apparently dead
He remained in this condition several minutes
when another shock restored him to life
Now, this won't do. Ii it is going to work
that way with criminals, hanging would be-
the safer method
HERE Is THE latest divorce puzzle in New
York. The case is this: a husband who had
been divorced from his wife married her again,
and now wants second divorce. The wife
was barred under the statute from re-marry@
ing. But did the statute mean that she could
not re-marry her former husband? Does the
husband need a second divorce? If his second
marriage was invalid he is free.
GENERAL SHERIDAN LEFT an autobiography,
anu Two Gays OcIofG HIS CtaLh was occupied IN
reading the last proof sheets. The book will
be published in a Wees or two, and will doubt
less have a big sale. 70 The very last the gem
eral was anxious about his book, as he be.
leved that the proceeds OF its sale would make
a comfortable provision Tor his family.
INDIAN HUNTING Is tho popular amusement
in Brazil. On the frontiers it is a common
thing for parties Of white men to attack In
dian villages and slaughter the inhabitants.
When this is impossible taoy poison the wells
with strychnne, and in this way murder helpa
less and innocent victims 10y wholesale. The