The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-19
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
BRIGHT COMMENTS
By BRIGHT WRITER'S

The Great fissco- Cannot Compete WIN
the outh-Probibition Protested-Com-
.,ock had Better oo-CoId Drinks-Other
Topics of Interest.
Tur GREAT FIAsCo-The Panama
Canal Il the greatest project ever under
taken bv the hand of man. The fyre-
mids OF Egypt and the Chinese wall
sjnk into insignificance. Preparations
machinery and all things considered II
h. perbaps one-third completed, and It's
hooks show a debit of some $50 ,OOO,OOO.
Al this rate its cost would be over
Il 600 900. OOO-an amount OF money OF
which the mind is absolutely incapaDie
of forming real conception. should
il not be completed a most stupendous
loss would be involved.
Whether II will be completed or not is
but matter Of conjecture. The french
Government is reported TO be about 10
take some action in the premises. 1here
are dinlomatic as well as pecuniary
ANTIQUITIES in the way Whatever its
future. the canal is an object OF com
handing interest and more or less pup
lie attention must be directed to II. Inc
World has presented the situation WIN
all practicable clearness.-Neo 10fh
WorH.
CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE SOUTH
/ The Memphis Appeai publishes an inter
view with Ex-Governor John {. Brown
nresidelt of the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Company, now one oil me
largest corporations Of the kind IN the
world i'm reference 20 the probable war
between Northern and Southern iron
companies. $50 far" said Mr.. Brown
las our company is concerned, we
have made no reduction, nor Will
we. that know Of Being asked
what the Southern manufacturers
would do she uld the Eastern
and Northern furnaces unite IN war
against Southern companies, he SAID.
"The Northern and Eastern men are not
| in q position to do this. they are much
depressed The Alice, Htna, and other
large furnaces have closed down and are
ont of blast. but If such combination
were made they would lose money. nc
South is in better position to tight, be
cause il can make iron cheaper. II the
/ North and East combine and cut Sl.0O
ton they would not destroy entirely the
margin Of difference between the cost OF
making iron here and the transportation
to other markets Of the Southern pro
duct. They would be selling at loss,
and we could stand The cut without loss,
even if our profits were unappreciable.
/ The dpDeal. in referring to the inter
view. saws Mr.. Brown, "like discreet
soldier. did not care 20 uncover all our
resources to the enemy But the AP'
peH adds "War having been declared by
/ the Thomas Company, we should not be
surprised if il did not wax warmer, ana
that before the summer closes the South
ern iron men would be compelled TO
show their fun hand and take the pot, -
/ BoitimOr6 Spn
PROHIBITION PROrEsTED.-Since the
defeat Of prohibition is assured beyond
doubt. several prominent political lead
ers who had been active in playing the
prohibition submission game 10 dust the
/ ewes of ProhibitiOnists, have publicly de-
cared their purpose to vote Tor ~.
/ Among these are Governor Beaver ard
| Senator QUAY, but none will be deceived
bv their attitude. Had they been earn
estlv in favor Of prohibition, they would
have been in the front Of the battle
/ from the start instead of tagging
/ I'm the rear until a declaration for PROFIT
bilion could be excused by its certain
defeat. This is done by party leaders,
who have profted by the Prohibition
submission trickery to get some sort OF
grin on the Prohibtionists for future
political uses. What they fear is that the
/ Prohibition vote for Governor next year
may be swelled mp to 100000 or more
and that the PrOhibitiOnists may unset
tie many legislative districts, and they
are running with the hare and hunting
with the hounds.-Phlmdoph'a Tunes.
CoMsTOcK HAD BETTER Com.
/ Comsiock accuses; he refuses to disclose
the source Of bis information, and he
makes no charges personally, and is,
/ therefore, unworthy of belief.
NO man can afford TO make inuendoes,
and particularly the man who is open 20
suspicion as dishonest on bis own con
/ fession MI Comstock is in that posi-
ton.
Mr. Mason proposes TO prosecute the
/ investigation TO a conclusion. That is
well, but it is needless effort on Mr.
/ Masons part The public is the prose
cutOr i'm this case.
The administration will probably try
+ To protect COmstOck. We hope so. IL
won't save him 1t will only hurt the
administration.-AeU FORK Star.
4 LITTLE Al. FOR THE HERALD. w.
/ II is rum0red i'm this city that Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor OF the
/ Herald. has gone to Khartoum, the CAPT
/ tai Of the Mahdi lie left Paris three
weeks ago. went to Marseilles, from
there TO Alexandria, and was supposed
to be this week in Cairo
Two explanations of the journey have
been cabled one TO the effect that Mr..
Bennett made wager that he could
enter Khartoum and depart alive,
statement doubted by an officer who had
served in the Egyptian army.
The other reason assigned is that
correspondent at Cairo sent long dis
patch 10 Mr. Bennett, in which it was
stated that Chinese Gordon was still
alive, but kept a close prisoner and that
The new Mahdi had agreed to ransom
Gordon for million francs in cOnse
Quence of his recent reyerses at kOrd0ian
and Bahral- Ghazal.
1t is stated that Bennett made all ar
rangements for the payment of the sum
mentioned and started at once with an
intimate friend At the Herald Office 10
was stated that dispatches from the pro-
prietor had been received from Mar
settles, Alexandria and Cairo, but moth
ing was known of his prospective move
ments.-Nec Iork Star.
COLD DRINKS We notice that sew
eral of our contemporaries are raising
the annual cry against cold drinks and
the harmless decoction known as ice
cream. Ii may be that harm has result
ed from drinking ice-water in certain in
stances, but that its use under ordinary
circumstances is injurious or in the
slightest degree unhealthful is about the
silliest notion ever preached to gull |
bic public.
Animals, and man, too, for that mat
ter, in state of nature, drink from the /
coolest streams and springs. In fact. I
hot drinks are the abominatiOn OF civil /
yaffou for fIav have avartr ono ,f fba,, /