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The Remedy Not In Congress.

There are still good many Republicans,
especially in the rural districts, who don't
understand what sort OF thing the Repub-
lican party in the South is. or the methods
which prevail In its management. To the
minds OF these honest gentlemen the plan OF
Federal supervision Of Congress- elections
may commend itself. 1t is simple and con-
venient to attribute the Generalization and
decay Of Southern Republicansm to other
than the true causes, and to ascribe to frauds
at the polls what Is really the result OF the
profound disgust OF Southern Republicans
with the domination OF white scalawags and
ignorant negroes. There is little In the
character and processes OF the Southern
Republican ofiiceholders to satisfy respect
able Republicans. All that the cheap Re-
publican politicians OF the South want be-
sides the Federal patronage Is to keep the
party small and SO retain their hold on 1t
In more than one Southern State, the Repub-
lican party consists OF q body OF Office
holders. The decent white Republicans
have no use for it. The negroes, now that
the novelty OF voting has Worn Off have no
great interest In the fortunes of few poll
tlcians. Besides, they have found out that
the white politicians enjoy the offices.
Mr.. JOHN T. EzELL was recently nomI-
mated for AttOrnry-G eneral OF Alabama by
the Republican Convention Of that State. He
has declined the nomination in a letter which
should be instructive reading for Northern
Republicans. Il wish to make it public"
he writes that cannot accept the nomi-
nation for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT rendered re-
Gently by the Republican Convention. am
Republican. and would feel it an honor
to accept the nomination made by u Com
vention OF the Republican party. As an eye
witness, know that the recent meeting at
Montgomery was not such Convention,
excepting few gentlemen who were there
by mistake. 1t was meeting Of negro poll
tcians and deputy collectors, An instan-
taneous photograph Of that meeting would
DO political education TO those in power
who made such a meeting possible. II the
time comes whom such assemblaGes are not
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Circumferential.

Here Is another gem from tho editorial
columns OF our fool namesake In Baltimore
The San of that town speaks OF Mr.. GROVER
CLEVELAND as:
Tho best President tho country has had In half q
century"
What does this blind and silly devotee
mean? Does 1t wish TO be understood as
maintaining the proposition that GROVER
CLEVELAND was a better President than
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, In any sense in which
the adjcctives OF relative excellence can be
employed?
Half century is a long time. During
the past fifty years the White House has
been occupied by MARTIN VAN BUREN, WILL
LIAM HENRY HARRISON. JOHN TYLER, JAMES
X. POLK, ZACHARY TAYLOR, WILLARD FILL
MORE FRANKLIN PIERCE, JAMES BUCHANAN,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ANDREW JOHNSON,
ULYSSES $. GRANT. JAMES A. GARFIELD,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR, and BENJAMIN HARRI-
SON; and Il. b. HAYES was there Tor time,
although he did not belong there.
Over all or any Of the names In this list
GROVER CLEVELAND has single title OF
superiority. He is the latest President tho
country has had In half a century He Is
fatter now than ever. II the Baltimore SIM
in Its blind devotion, insists on the waist
band measure Of moral and intellectual
merit, let 1t say 30.
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from The ChIrG0o HSrlW
En- Assistant Postmaster General stevenson tells this
story o; Senator Blackburn. They were among guests
Al dinner party not long ago, wheI, Mr Stevenson
looking across tie table said
Senator do you remember that day when we were
seconds in a duel ''
Mr. Blackburn promptly expressed his recollection OF
tho pleasant event and tho other guests called for
the particulars OF duel which hal loft in the minds of
tho seconds such cheerful memories
Well began Nr Stevenson, "Mr. Blackburn droVe
me ont 10 tie ground. It before sunrise, but No
were mo seconds aud Of course, were FIRST on the
ground EHi the principals soon arrived "0w, was
very ignorant about dWeR Tho principals knew very
little too Rut MIR. Blackburn wAa vol informed and
In order that every ng should be cleary understood
and SNtsfsciorY lie SAID he would plain The code, 80
lie TOOK the moor rather the ground and began TO
iak. 1t was very Interesting for you all know, the
gentleman from'kentucky t. an orator"
just then there interruption 10y tn" bread plate.
AMI Mr. Stevenson paused 10 help himself to bread hut
the ppu'" continued, aud Mr. Stevenson apparently
going on with his dinner
ended" said several guests eagerly, and speaking =.
once.
ON It DIDN'T end. 1t didn't begin, said Mr. !i"Yrn'
foemny - GU see. Blackburn began 10 tax be.
for" SunrIS and hr never stopped till alter sundown
and then 1t was too dark for the duel"
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recognized MS representing the party, Con-
yentlon could and would assemble In
Alabama that would at least command the
respect Of the country"
Republicans who seek the cause OF the
weakness of their party In the Southern
States may find 1t indicated In Mr.. EzEbhs
letter. Under the control OF coterie OF
oiIlceholders and office seekers, 1t must re-
main incapable OF growth. Mr.. HOWELL
and Mr.. HENRY CABOT LODGE and MIR. REED
cannot force 1t into strength and growth by
giving the counting OF tho votes to boards oil
Federal oflceholders. The remedy does not
lie in Congress 1t lies with the Southern
Republicans themselves, although Repub-
llcan President who thought more OF build
ing up the party than OF building ma
chine OF his own could help a good deal
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Ignoble Domination.

The first resolution OF the Windsor Hotel
re'ormers is an incxcusable libel upon the
Government and the people OF this town:
"Resor,d Tha, tho disclosures of this winter make a
fresh appeal our citizens to emAncpas tho city from
the IRnobe domination under which whole generation
has suffered"
1t would be waste OF timo to dwell upon
the falsity Of this wholesale libel upon the
men, many Of them still honored citizens
who have held municipal office here in the
last thirty years. The well-meanlng parlor
rrformers do not know what they are talk
ing about, or they would not thus assail the
living and the dead, citizens and officers, by
Wholesale OF whom the great majority were
upright OF life and patriotic in purpose and
all OF whom could tell more In ten minutes
about tho government. the politics, and the
people OF this municipality than whole syn
dicate Of prigs will find out in lifetime.
When, however, these respectable but In
judiciOus gentlemen, representing what we
may call the ingenious clerical. the incura-
Bile Mugwump, and the swell Republican
contingents, come to talk about emancipat-
ing this city from ignoble domination. they
ought TO be talked to roundly. Good or bad,
pho VI 4NC" 1ol Sity iitho ai-
ways been what q majority or at least plu-
ralty o. the citizens have wished it to be.
There has been continual interference from
Albany; but outside OF that and in 80 far as
the citizens OF the town have been allowed to
govern themselves, we have had nothing
but the domination Of the people, democratic
self-government. II that self-government
is ignoble, the voters whose creature and I'm
age it Is, must be lgnoble, too.
II the parlor relormers would carry their
ideas about the government of this munich
pality to the last analysis. they would find
that in their most secret and honest
thought, they regard the people rs igno-
bic. ignorant incapable OF choosing good
rulers or securing efficient and economical
administration. For the rule OF the people
the reformels would substitute the rule OF
themselves, an oligarchy OF optimates gov
eminent by committees OF seventy-hve or
thereabouts. Every year or two these few
dozen persons take it upon themselves to
say how New York city ought to be govern
ed, and feebly try to persuade the common
herd TO admit it's inferiorty and follow these
self-chosen leaders.
Yet the rule of the people, for the people,
and by the people is still good enough for
most OF tie inhabitants Of this town.
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A Single Electric Light Estimated to De.
stroy 100000 In a Night.


ALBANY. June 2G.-Pror Iintner, State Ento-
moloGst has made microscopic oxamina-
ton Of the insect collections Of single cleo
trio light. and estimates that the debris which
he inspected represented $4,000 insects. As
many OF tho smaller forms of insect life
probably constituted the larger portion OF
those attracted to destruction by tho light, he
believes that the average number OF insects
destroyed in a night by single electric light
at nearly 100000.
The larger portion Of Prof Lintner's spec-
men collection from one light consisted OF
minute gnats. mdges. crane files and similar
small two-winged insects, No mosquitoes
wore discovered among the victims, rs They
are not attracted to- the lights. There were,
however. large numbers OF plant bugs. which
are Injurious to vegetation, particularly OF one
small species OF handsome green gassid.
which leeds upon our grasses. A number OF
the moths. ard one of the leaf rollers which
have made such havoc in our fruit trees this
season were found. az well as other species OF
the same family. Prof Ltntner in speaking OF
his examination said
" was sorry to see quito a number OF the
beautiful gauHo wings among the heaps OF the
slain. as thor larvip are tho aphls lions. which
aid In kee Ting down phides or plant lice"
The electric light to quote Prof Lintner,
will undoubtedly prove an active agent In the
reduction OF insect pests. and also furnish
entomoloRists with many rare specimens and
with many species never before seem"
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Chimney Dep-w Debating Letters In IA
Restaurant.

from N" HrroIi n Eigia.
on one OF tho hottest nights o. tho week happened
t. miss train tie Contra EoA =, tie faction II
minute, uni. AS had for ei;rd d.IneT | dived
the street TO to uehrrst place and entered a
thing to eat and sat in c,r,r irving 10 Summon up
enough energy to 10 down town 10 some important
WORK. when the door WAS "ro,' 81 and r'rnnsy built
square ,houldersd man s'r dr. D.. ancci Rpidiv about
selected tAhc that stood a9arl Fud aaiLS on hs nat
revealed thu dome uko Tor Load AID ihmiy tLalchsd
cTAuium OF ChAuncey DeIeT
small active ana Hirri young nar who accom-.
panied Mr. Depew dropped ~ "aHt"s h. was arryug
the iOOr, handed the ;l'vuHs raj ROAD President
big bundle OF papers and wlipi TX GU; hlg note,
book revealed the fact mt h. StenuRrapGer For
an hour he never raised rs head from ih- book nor
asked single question. ~ pcU0Ii moved wan rcEu,
mrity iron, SIDE NJ the iage t, tho other uutl tie
book Was han MED witt I...-
As for MIR, pegtw hs oGe 81 picture Of errH in.
tollcctuaty md h-alth "Ii Nas vvidty routuatcd
hy the groups Of logged i,"a- ANT 0mnu ,n' men In
4 same room he sat i"r Getty erect IN MS papers
IN hand white he q. - My ps,sod his handler
chief over his forrhea! WIN she Other a., alng with
interchangeable eveuHsss AMI cnphass Tho play OF hia
features aud the. constantly alternating series of ex
pres.ions almost gave nteN NJ tic character vi the
letter. he dictated ono arcr after another was dis
posed Of and in exactly nn lou9 lhr correspondence
hui.aci and Nr D'prw arose handed a liberal feo
to Tho waiter bowed cOuTtcouHy to the cashier and
strobe out
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DIVORCE EASY IN CONNECTICUT:
A Woman Separated for tho Second Tine
From the Same Man.

FROM the Same MAN.
WATERBURY,, June 26.-The ease with which
divorces can be obtained In Connecticut has
been aptly illustrated in the New Haven county
courts tho past week. Two cases have at
tracted public attention. and caused much
comment on the loose methods OF our courts.
The first was that OF Mrs. Rosa ALL OF this
city. Five years ago Henry ALL married Rosa
Hartmann. a handsome young German girl.
Ahl was bookkeeper In one OF the large man.
ufactories In this city and bore good charao-
ter. After two years Of married life and the
birth Of girl Mrs. Ali learned that her huS.
band was unfaithful and an application to the
courts secured her divorce and the custody
OF the child. The divorce had Il good effect on
Mr.. ALL He turned over a now leaf. aban.
doned his former associates. and for two yearS
he led most exemplary life. His reformation
was matter OF comment by everybody. and
well-meaninR friends brought him and his
former wife together again. Mrs. ALL had not
forgotten the first year of their married hRppi-
ness, and his more recent couduct encouraged
woman could wish. When, therefore Henry
proposed marriage again he found Rosa will
ing, and year ago they were reunited.
For some time he was a most exemplary hus.
band: Finally he began drinking. made errors
In s %b him ina lost his 10 His wife
to no avail She was again neglected for other
women. She saw no way opon, for her except
to Judge Robinson who granted decree on
the ground OF habitual lntemperance. Mrs.
Ali Is handsome woman. about % years old.
and is very popular member Of the Amphton
Club OF this city.
Charles Coupland. manager OF the TinRuO
plush mills OF Seymour. is another instance or
the ease and rapidly Of our divorce mill BE.
who is an emneltly respected lady of Sey.
mour. lIe got divorce on Juno 10 on the
ground OF incomratibity. and on the 18th he
was quietly married to Mrs Thomas s. Jewett
Of EirmiHEham, the widow Of the late pr.
Doctor had been divorced from q former hus-
band, so ths, makes her third marriage and
Mr.. Coun,and's SECOND. The two are spending
on tho shore OF Long Island sound.
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we're exultlng over this neat device for keep
ing this promise to the cor while breaking 1t
to the hope, when UP popped Mr. T. HEALEY
and requested the Speaker to decide whether
this "earmarklng" OF funds with reference
to future legislation was constitutional.
The Speaker declared that 1t was not, to
the immense disgust Of the Unionists, who
found themselves sprawllnR between two
stools, having irreparably allenated the pro-
hibitionists without making the liquor deal
ers grateful even for small favors. Thus
OF the imposing programme OF home legls-
laton put forward some months ago MOTH
ing remains but the Tlthes BILL which has
been so much tlnkered that 1t leaves the
Welsh clergy dissatisfied, while 1t has made
the mass OF the Welsh voters more clamor-
GUS than ever for disestabllshment.
But while Lord SALISBURY has brought
humiliation on his party by his inability to
pass domestic measures proclaimed of para
mount Importance notwithstanding his
command Of huge majority and his mercl-
less enforcement OF tho closure--he might,
like Lord BEAooNsFIELD, have regained
prestige to some extent by dazzling for
eIgn policy. There Is certainly nothing daz-
zling In the surrender OF HeliRoland, or in
the assent to wedge-lke interjec-
ton Of German territory in East
Africa between the northern and
southern possessions Of the British crown.
We have no doubt that tho Hamburger Mach
richten, the organ Of the ex-Chancellor, ex-
pressed BIsMARCK's first impulsive and
genuine opinion when 1t said that Heligo-
land was well worth the abandonment OF oil
the German claims In Africa Chancellor
CArR1vI has obtained that invaluable island
at good deal lower price, As for the as
sumption OF a protectorate over Zanzibar,
although 1t is true enough that France gave
pretext for it in the Tunlsian affair, 1t
Is questionable whether the time was
we'll chosen for embitternR the French re-
public, when the Newfoundland controversy
had entered upon a serious phase. 1t Is
probable, however, that the partition treaty,
as a whole, will encounter no vehement re-
in tho House OF Commons, since Its
prominent feature. the cession OF Heligo-
land can scarcely be objected to by MIR.
who was so conspicuously asso-
ciated with tho surrender OF the Ionian
Islands to Greece. 1t is the Tories who are
the severest critics OF the treaty and 1t Is
supposed to DO the business OF a
to please the people who placed
1t in power, rather than the Opposition.
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ELECTRICITY TOO DEAR,
If the Companies Stick to Their Prices
the CIIY'n Going Back TO Gas.

III tho Companies stick to Their Prices.
the city" Going Back to Gas.
The Gas Commission at meeting In tho
Mayors office yesterday rejected all the bids
for street lighting made by the electric light
companies. In their proposals nut In last
April the companies, as though by arrange
ment. united in asking about % per cent. moro
than last yoac's prices. Tho increase was OK
planned on tho ground that the rent OF sub
ways and other expenses incidental to the de-
struction OF their overhead wire sy stems rem
dered 1t impossible 10 do the work at the old
figures. But the members OF tho Gas Commits
sion could not SEQ II in that lEht and said that
the bids were all too high. besides that. they
could not have made the contracts at the in
creased price without eXccei!ng the appropri-
aion. The companies wore tod to put In new
bids. they agreeing meanwhilo TO no on un'or
the old contracts But when their BIDS came
in al but tho Harlem Lighting Company
chGrGet the now PRICES, New bids have again
b@oa called for, and II theY Gre not low enough
TO come within the appropriation tho COmms-
sion will 20 back to gas Tor street Lighting.
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No one Interested In learning what the
modern race horse can do will be content with
Salvatore demonstrate n OF his superiority
over his forerunners Be(aule 1t was part
OF Salvatore feat only'and not the whole.
carrying twelve pounds more over mile than
Ton Brock carried In the same time. 3O',,
still leaves the inferior horses name inscribed
on the book ri records as tho star for the
standard distance. Longiellow ran mile, in
longer race, in lao against KingRsher
when the mark stood at 1;4S. ySArs before
Ten BroSck's effort yet It went for abb
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Recent writer's on Greenland say the Es-
KINDS have become so crossed by frequent In
termarriaRe with the Danes that scandinavian
faces are as frequently met as Eskimo in the
native huts. At the present rate tho native
race OF Greenland bids fair to disappear en-
tlrely within the next century unless 1t is pre-
served in its purity by the isolated peonles OF
Smiths Sound or the east coast. 1t is the old
story Of the stronger race absorbing the weak
or, just az some OF our Indian tribos are now
more nearly white than red. and will doubtless
disappear entirely, not by humiliation. but
through absorption by the white race around
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..r,herc IL One of the Hogs"

F,oH Stage Qu pt ana QUiiie,G
TuW SuN IL devotnE considerable space To tho poTk
business ia well written Vrile descriptions OF tho
"hog' asho APP IN rublir. 1t Ia only nescssary
now TO say '"ro rfr when me Of ,he genus becomes
offensive There b. oLe ot Tho hogs to see the human
porru" sItuA away, This Wa done at tie Madison
Square Garden on opening night when two or three
perSons srSsisd in standing up to tie dSeomnture Of
those behind them ana It worked Let the hog sxpoS
are 80 On III good WORK.
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eolutely nothing as compared to the genuine
sensation produced by the definite cutting OF
the record to its present figure.
What's q race or more now TO Salvador or MS
owner After the last struggle with Tenny'
what would thrill our racing public Ike send
Ing the hero OF Wednesday over mile In
somethinG like 1892
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The Mugwumps have scored two con-
splcuous politico social triumphs within a
single month. They have elected GROVER
CLEVELAND into the Century Club In New York,
and they have beaten CABOT LODGE for Over
seer OF Harvard In Massachusetts. In each
case It was for politics regardless OF the per-
sonRl fitness OF either candidate. To a Mug
wump life without politics is duller than stale
beer. He won't have it.
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Preachers who Make Light of Wife
DrntlnE.

decision las been reached by the Baptist InInistsrs
conference IN the case Oftl Rev 5. T. McCutchen
who was CHARGED wiki mstrsatinE his wife The Row
Mr. McCutcnen struck his wife and for such conduct
he was hrraRned before a ministers conference Tho
10 lowing were the revolutions adopted by tho confer
ence his morning
"Rssuirri, That as conference dsapprovc OF IN.
Of brother McCutchcI IN striking Ills wic-au act
witch was unmany, unchrstinn, aud unmiuhtertal
"Erso.mc, mat with our GiSapprova ot Brother Nc
Cutchron in TINS particular Sull retain our coma
dence IN his Christian character
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Although the McGiniy song has become a chestnut a
FAR Sew YORK cit aud its vicinity are concerned n
isSlil selling hrsky ia Tho West and South The pub
s"rs SAY that over % 100 COPIES have boon sold The
has served both author and ell Flynn
vii" wroe the song is variety edAn At the time
tile song WAS written hr and his partner Sheridan were
earning $50 a week When tho musical news arrived
thai Mc'iinty had gone to THO bottom tho sea the
salary OF the cOmeGi ms rose S2Oa week The pub.
fishers too In for share OF the proGta
Al the time the SONG wuE rub shad these two young
Germans were dragging ont n rreuurous existence in
Brooklyn trying 10 rrll IiAnoS on the .nstalment plan
and dealing in cheap music. Their sIoro WAS s,ory
furnished an! tho money taken In every day was con-
simed each night N tho attempt 10 pay current sx-
penses. Along came FInn with his manuscript Of Mo-
Gintr lttwsat tho town orders cam" In from or
ehesra leaders for orchestral arrangements The press
wis kept lusY u,ht md day to suppg the drmaud.
The young "rrIpan, smiled. They painted the store
put oGt big g"trn tiGH, and filed Tho reiuvenAted
Place wish wFnrs
Great numbers of nredi"s are SPARKLING in Staten
IL nj cry night now They 'rst rHUde their Appear.
anre wee, or ten days ago and u ey have multIped
exceedingly Fiuce ten This 10 considered y certain
ssh b. al Nc"r an slermrn that lhe wcskGsh will bite
tr'n' 'uutr this year what the connection may n.
between nc'iirs ana wcaSnsh they do not attenpt to
llGt.
A company hashce formed tot ent 4tEsamer chairs
for 81 fora n p t.r HI the chairs are sun
pied wta ute TAM. G"s ri t, Lo3 p}ato tumris-
aud ioto. several uo' ,auI 4 these rented chars
ARE nov ami The Gruaui for Them is constantly
nrr H.rs The r.ea Is that most travellers w"ud
raj pay S, Tor tho rent OF steamer chair tran buy
al DO po,nrred VITA storing It when tncy get "
Eurpc.
Mosquitoes are scarcer s'1ten Island thrn they
hay" hronim June tur many wear. i1' OAr at this
tine lhtTe N'ro twenty lHos IUtOts D.. every this
year wny tn, I. SO has not 'o'u satisfactorily sE.
plan" hI. II II Al luiCre ting IH"i 0t the re
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MoCann'. Drnpharou- Romance.
From The Nrro Marrn E,qlst>r

From me NrlU HlrrH RsQiTi>r.
Thus hcCann's story has been utterly diScredited
lie haS been proven not only BY the testimony OF the
Cr0kers and Mr. Grant but BY that OF Tom Adams and
nearly everybody whose names he mentioned III his
story. to DO an utterly unreliable witness lIearpsars
to have imagined largo part OF his story.
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From the Itlod Observer
practical and pressing question for New York city
to consider ia how she is going TO make room Man
haitian Island for additional growth, No doubt the
Fus figures VIII give fresh momentum TO the
10 annex Brooklyn aud other contiguous communities
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Trotter-Table d'hote with wine, ono dollar ell :
How much 10 the dinner without the wlnsi
WAitST-HinSty SORtE
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A Hearty Welcome.

"zis is lofsy" cried the NsApoIiAn Immigrant a. the
mAnhOls exploded $50 lkA 20 HeSuViuL ItSslA quite
~ honA"