The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25
CURRENT COMMENT.


BROTHER BLAINE has settled the hsheries
question by buying dozen boxes OF sara
dimes on credit. Thus the republican came
paign progresses
AN ARKANSAS EDITOR wrote to PresidenS
Cleveland for a loan Of $500 on the ground
that he was an enthusiastic democrat. ThS
loan not forthcoming, the aforesaid edito5
jumped on the democratic party with both
feet, and is new getting even with the pres1s
dent to the full extent Of his ability. Howe
ever, democratic prospects grow brighter every
day.
JOHN G. CARLISLE has been unanfs
mously renominated to represent the sixth
Kentucky district. Samuel j. Randall will
receive the same high compliment from his
constituents in q few days. This is all as 10
should be- Both are men in whom districtS
state party and country should feel, and do
feel, the greatest pride.
Mr.. I. S. CURLETT, OF Litwalton. Virginia.
writes to the Richmond Dispatch to correct
the report that no resigned the Office of come
monwealths attorney because he had chals
lenged man to fist fight, Mr.. Curlett eaysa
Though was SO unfortunate rs to be involv+
ed In tst-Geht, that had nothing to do with
INC CAUSE VI MY ECSANnHlluu. ALI no puSlllSB
and consider all such exhibitions disgracefu1t
though when they occur the spur of the
moment they are sometimes very excusable.p.
The STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT is made
that Charles B. Waite, formerly an Illinois
supreme judge, will shortly publish an article
in which he will take the position that the
common law entities women to svote; that woS
men were voters in all the original Americas
states, and that the statutes denying them the
privilege of voting are mostly unconstitutional
and void. He declares that the DISTINGUISHES
ment of women is one of the greatest political
crimes of the age.
HERE IS AN example worthy of being follow.
ed by the fathers Of all "mashers." Mr.. Charles
Crowley, handsome young fellow in Brooke
Ign, followed Miss Parker on the street, and
spoke to her, and tried to take hold of heK
| arm. Miss Parker screamed and gave Crowley
| in charge for insulting her. The young mans
| father got him out on bail, and then dragged
| him to the young lady's house, where he made
| him get down on his knees and beg the young
! lady's pardon. Crowley Jr., was then taken
| home, and persons residing in the neighbour
| hood were kept awake ali night by mysterious
whacking noise, which sounded like barrel
stave vigorously applied to bagging trust or
| something else.
! UNTIL SIX YEARS ago the Garrett family
were the envied of all Maryland. Fortune
had showered it's blessings upon them. There
was only one drawback. Tho third son Of
| John w. Garrett was hopeless imbecile. In
the course of a short time John Garrett and
his wife died, their son Harrison met with
| tragic death, and now another son. Robert, the
| great railway magnate, is a maniac Within
few years the rich and powerful family has
| CHI bx,c or a.,
| saddest Affections known to men. Their
| princely mansions will go into the hands OF
strangers, and their vast wealth will be dis.
| tributed, while the original owners sleep in
| their graves or linger behind the bars of theig
| asylums.
THE CINCINNATI CoSIMERo1AL-GAzRrTR
has special from Liberty, Indiana, which
states that the prohibitionsts of Union county
have offered q gross insult to the union vet
Grams OF the county. 1t seems that at recent
| meeting the prohibitionists unfurled an ilA-
| mense confederate flag IN the courthouse
| square The republicans demanded that is
should be taken down, and several hours later
a number of veterans tore it down and carried
it off. The prohibition leaders stated that they
did not know what kind of flag it was. 1t had
been furnished for the occasion and they had
displayed it without suspecting it's character.
The episode stirred up considerable feeling.
If THE MORALS of the age are not better
than those of past ages they at leastlo look bet.
ter. generation or two ago social life was
committed to the drinking habit Leading
public men were seen I'M oxicated even in con-
gress. Webster was little short of drunkard,
and some of his contemporaries were as bad OK
worse. In ttose days women Withdrew after
dinner, SO the men could get drunk. In Eng
land the same social customs prevailed Lord
BroUgham took Charles Sumner to bar dim
ner where everybody got drunk. and what
troubled Sumner wss the fact that Brougham
seemed in his element. But the prohibitionists
OF the present day would give Mr.. Sumner very
little credit sor sobrety, because he was very
fond of fine wine, and drank great deal of it,
Undoubtedly We have some scandalous habits
still, but they are kept in the background.
They are no longer respectable. The prince
of Wales would like TO riot publicly, as his an
cestors did, but he dares not outrage public
opinion. There are some drunken and rotten
lords and society men in England and in this
country, bit they are in disgrace. So far as
outward appearances go, our morals have inn
proved 1t may be that in the dark and be-
hind closed doors apparently respectable men
give flee rein to their vices, but they are COM
PEELED to behave themselves in public. Even
this is some gain.
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