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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
A Republican Admis sion

- SIOns
1t would seem from the following
hat Senator Edmunds has not much
hope of Republican success in 1892.
rhe elections last fall demonstrate
very clearly the fact that if the third
party movement does not materialize,
the Democrats have next to a walk
over. If the third party does materi-
slize, and should succeed in capturing
a few of the States, taken from either
of the old parties, it will leave a
majority of the whole to nei her; this
would throw the election in the
House of Representatives, which,
being largely Democratic, would
mean n Democratic President. Mr..
Edmunds is high authority in Re-
publican councils, and part of his
interview reads as follows:
"What gives rise to the feeling of
Unrest which appears to be abroad in
IN the land?" the reporter asked.
II think" Mr.. Edmunds replied,
"a large part of it arises from intrin-
.ic qualities of the human mind,
yhich has its periods of rest and then
f excitement, just as nature has in
respect to storms and diseases, and
the time happens to come when one
If these periods of feVers is at hand |
Some people are to persuade farmers
IF the country, who always have been |
and always will be the most useful |
faction and important ia 3tion of the |
community, that laws have been |
made which operate unjustly upon |
them, and that laws have not been |
made which would or should furnish |
hem a more rapid and steady pros
perity. In both of these cases, l |
think, they are in a large degree mis-
taken, and in due time they will dis
cover it. Indeed, l presume that the
largest part of the rejecting ones per-
fectly understand that crops cannot
be increased by legislation, or debts
paid by eheapeniDg the
value Of what is called money The
most of them, think, understand
that money, to be OF value and serve
its only true purpose, must be stable,
Just as every other measure must be-
aG Of weight and quantlty--ln dealing
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
A GREAT UNDERTAKING.
A West TenneSsean'S Views on the
Proposed River Canal.

A West TenneSsean's Views on the
Proposed River Canal.
To The American.
The appropriation by the Legislature
canal to connect the Cumberland with
the Tennessee and the latter with the
FOrked Deer or Big Hatchie River is
creating some interest in the enterprise.
If such scheme is practicable, and we
do not say it is not, the distance by
water from Nashville and Knoxville
and Chattanooga to Memphis would be
shortened hundreds of miles. And if
water transportation could be eStab-
Hshed and maintained over the pro-
jected route it would go very far to-
wards developing a most fertile and at
present inaccessible section of this great
State. Such canal would be more
valuable than line of railway, and its
banks could soon be dotted with flour
ishing towns and factories. Coal would
come to us tor half what we now pay,
and the great virgin forests of hard
wood which line our streams on either
side would Immediately come into de-
mand.
1t may be a question, however,
whether upon a geodetic survey the
surface of the Cumberland Will be
found to be as high as that of the Ten
nessee; or whether the latter at the
proposed connecting points will be as
high as that of Big Hatchie. The last
named river at its nearest approach to
the Tennessee River is at an ordinary
stage of water about $50 feet above sea
level. This town is about ASS feet above
sea level. Grand Junction is nearly 100
feet higher, and point about six miles |
south of Holly Springs, Miss, is the |
highest between Cairo and New Or-I
leans, on the Illinois Central Railroad. |
The greatest depression before reach |
ing the swamps or fiat lands in Missis- |
sippi is about one mile north of Grenada |
where it is only 230 feet above sea level.
Some day, no doubt, the channel of /
Big Hatchie will be utilized even more |
than it now is for transporting lumber
TO points south and west. Whether it |
can be successfully connected and so
utilized by canal connecting it with
the Tennessee River is probfematical.
The Legislature did wisely, however,
In making the appropriation, and q
Bolivar April .,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE law says that no dealer shall
sell or give" to any minor cigar
cites; but the boys still smoke. The
aw says that Intoxicating drinks
shall not be sold or given to minors,
but bOys-and boys under seventeen
years OF age-and boys whose parer is
never suspect fright here in Co
lumbia, still get drunk. The law
says minors shall not be allowed t.
play billiards in public billiard
rooms, but they play all the same
The laws are all right, but they are
not enforced. "What is every body
business is mob ,dy's business" 1
the parents would constitute them
selves "a committee and indict some
Of these saloon keepers and billiard.
table keepers, the laws would amouni
30 something. And better still, if the
parents would keep their boys a;
OOme, or take enough interest III
hem to know where they are, they
would grow up with better morals
1t is surprising the little restraint the
parents of this town throw around
their children.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE home Of the President James
K. Polk, in the heart of the city OF
Nashville, and at present occupied by
his aged widow, has been advertised
for sale for $1,000 city taxes. And
the same parties who worked the job
Of refunding Mrs. Folks bonds
through the legislature, have asked
that the taxes be RENTED "because
it is u.s." Indeed is a great name
being used for little purposes. All
this while Mrs. Polk is drawing, you
remember, a five thousand dollars
annual pension from the government,
and the interest on thirty thousand
dollars from the State, with no one
to take care of but herself. But she
is very old, and the general belief is
she knows little Of what is being done
with her business.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
In Memory of Gen. Johnston

In Memory of Gen. Johnston.
Memorial services in honor of Gen.
Joseph F. Johnston will be held I'M
der the auspices of the Leonidas Polk
Bivouac at the Methodist church
next Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Appropriate music and short address
es from members Of the Bivouac and
others will be the character of the
exercises. The public are cordially
invited to attend AMI assist by their
presence in doing honor to the dead
chieftail of tbs Lost Cause. In this
typical Southern community it
would be passing strange if the invl-
tation were not responded to with a
large attendance. The me nOry of
the splendid service held in honor of
Jefferson Davis is still green and
fragrant. 1t is only fitting that a
similar tribute be paid his great con-
temporary. Their differences are
buried in death and their achieve
ments are linked in our memories.
The dead hero is the last Of the lead
ers who are held in popular estima-
ton to have been the master spirits
of the late war. 1t is not proper here
to dwell upon his great character and
achievements. There are none so
ignorant or so base as to deny his
transcendant ability or his claim OIL
our affections. His was
"One of the few, the immortal names.
That were not born to de-"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
Kineaid Admitted.

WASHINGTON, April 8.-The case
of Charles E. Kincaid, the newspaper
correspondent indicted for the shoot
ing of Representative Taulbee, OF
Kentucky, in February, 1890, which
mas be N on trial in the District
Criminal Court for the past few
weeks, was given to the jury this
afternoon. After being out nearly
three hours (due to the fact that at
first the jury was not uniN they re-
turned a verdict of "nOt guilty
When the jury came into the court
room there were large number OF
Kincaid's friends present. Judge
Bradley reminded the spectators that
he did not know the nature of the
verdict, and cautioned them against
making any demonstration in the
courtroom. When the foreman OF
the jury announced the verdic. many
of the defendants friends rose from
their seats, but the Judge again
.autioned them, and the verdict was
received quietly.
Kincaid then walked up to the
jury box and heartily shook the hand
Of each juror, thanking them for
their verdict, Kincaid then left the
courtroom, and was coon surrounded
by many of his friends, who warmly
congratulated him on the happy ter
minatiOn of the trial. His sister and
a number OF other ladies, who have
been constantly in attendance during
the trial, also expressed TO Eincaid
their sympathy and joy at the result.
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He Voices the Opinions Of Many
Others.
From the Birmingham News.I

From the Birmingham News.
"There are some young ladies in the
city whom l never call on, for fear
will meet men there whose acquaint-
ance / do not care to cultivate," re-
marked a young man this morning.
~ know l would like the ladies, and
could enjoy myself in their society, but
1 certainly have nothing in sympathy
with some of their callers. 1t seems to
me that some young ladies who come
to Birmingham have never had much
attention before, and they run wild
over the men who flock around them
here. Their social zeal runs away with
their judgment, and they accept indis=
criminate attentions"
al remember the other day a friend
asked me if was acquainted with Miss
SOandsO, and / replied 'yes''
"He said he had observed that Mr..
Dampfool was also her friend" / shut
up like clam,
$50 you see there was not much hon
or in claiming her acquaintance. /
think the young ladies should use more
discrimination and should reward only
those young men with their friendship
who hold themselves aloOf from evil
associations and are careful always to
be gentlemen"
"What inducement is there for
young man to deny himself forbidden
pleasures il other men who indulge in
them are accorded the same considera-
ton by the ladies?"
"The young ladies have the power of
doing much good in the elevation of the
habits of men and they should exert
that power and influence"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

with cdfnmodites or lands, that II a
farmer Gerees to sell his next years
crop for % many dollarsj he must be
able to Know what that number of
dollars Will be good for when he gets
it,"
"What dangers to both parties and
to the coitntry are there in the situa-
ton? ?"
Don't think there is any danger to
the DrematIc party" the Senator re-
piled, with faint smile, "for in the
next Presidential election if the
Farmers Alliance should carry many
States without having a majority OF
the whole Electoral College the re-
suit would be that there would be no
election by the people, and the
present House of Representatives,
| having a very large Democratic ma
! iority of States as we'll as members,
would elect the Democratic candidate
in constitutional and regular way,
although he may have carried the
smallest number of States; as to the
danger of the Republican party, it il
that the Farmers Alliance may
carry, in the next Presidential cleo
ton, some States that would other
wise vote for the Republican oandi'
date and thus, in effect, if there
should be no election by the people
give the election to the Democratic
candidate by the House of Repre-
sentatives."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
STATE News

Dresden is soon to have stave fac
tory.
The legislature passed a bill author
izing county courts TO issue bonds to
build county roads.
A cotton factory is to be erected at
Cardiff.
Winchester is planting maple shade
trees.
The snow has just disappeared from
the mountains in Sewer county.
A Gibson county man, it is said, made
$1,000 last year on four acres of toma-
toes.
Commercial Clubs are springing up
all over the state.
The Methodists at Kenton are build
ing parsonage.
The X. of F. hall at Dayton will be
dedicated about the Goth.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

ANOTHER call has been issued tor
third party convention, to meet in
Cincinnati on May the 18th. 1t does
not appear from the prominent sign
ers that the "solid South" has much
to fear. There are among the signers
for the call: w. S. Morgan, State
President of the Arkansas Farmers,
Alliance; A. J. Streeter, candidate
for President on the Union Labor
ticket in 1888, A. r. Anderson, MEM
Der of Congress, Sidney, Ia, J. H.
Allen, Chairman Peoples Party of
Indiana; w. A. PETER, United States
Senator from Kansas.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it ON hand will pro,
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA F7G SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YoRK. nv
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

IF is safe to predict that the Co
lumbia and Williamsport road will
be built. People along the line and at
both ends have subscribed fairly well ;
now if all of them will squeeze their
subscriptions little bit higher, the
amount will be raised and the work
be will commenced. 1t ought to be
finished before winter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
SENATOR FLOURNOY RIVERS.
The State Senator From Giles Will
Make Chattanooga His Home.
For sale by Druggists.

The leader of the State Senate, which
adjourned sine die Monday, has been
Hon. FlournOy Rivers, the handsome,
talented member from Giles County,
| and it will be especially gratifying to
ChattanoOgans to learn he will shortly
claim Chattanooga as his home.
In another column of Che Times ref
erence is made to the new law partner
ship of +. NJ. Thompson and EX-GoV.
Robert L. Taylor. Gov. Taylor stated
yesterday that a gentleman well known
in the state would be admitted to the
firm, but declined giving the name. 1t
was subsequently learned that the eX-
Governor referred to Senator Rivers,
who himself admitted in Nashville yes
terday that Chattanooga with it's gro
gress, energy and glowing prospects
would in future be his home.
Senator Rivers, though young in
years and appearance, has led the Dem
ocrats in the late Assembly and has
earned the reputation of being the most
brilliant young Democrat i'll the Gen
eral Assembly. The rising young men
of the State with good judgment are
heading for Chattanooga, the DiGckiest
city on the continent and the coming
metropolis of the South.
Chattanooga has ample room for men
of Senator Rivers stamp and the city
will accord him a hearty welome.-l
CHATTANOOGA Times.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE american of last Wednesday
editorially says: eve hear it some
times said that there is strong SEN
timent for third party In this State.
There is no such thing; but there il
an effort, secret all insIdiOus effort,
working beneath the surface, to brin ,
about this result through the manip
ulation of this sub-treasury issue
The effort is ridiculous and the fail
ure will be inglorious."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
lad not been heard from.

IT strikes us very forcibly that all
these gushing kilograms from Con-
federate Bivouacs to Secretary Blaine
that they are ready'to flight for their
country" is a cringtng and suppliant
bending of the knee that is very little
if any short of being contemplate
and disgusting. The South is ready
to do it's duty at all times, but it is
not ready to make a show of doing 1t,
lust to pander to the prejudice of the
demagogues and political blather-
SIXTIES of the North. The South de-
mands the confidence and good Opin-
ion of the honest, intelligent, think
Ing people of the world, and it has
won its proud place by the manly dig
uity of its men, not by their bowling
and bending and begging to be CON-
sidered what they are. Such polltl-
cal clap-trap is siekening.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

Gov. BUCHANAN has appointed
John II. Mcdowell Coal Oil Inspec-
tor at Nashville, to succeed Charles
l.. Ridley. 1t is said that Col. Nc
DOwelI is not more loved than hated
by his Alliance brethren, and the
Governor was for a time in a dilem-
ma. But Goal Oil Johnnie" is a
very loud patriot, and has control of
a more or less Influential organ, and
therefore to keep peace in the family
Johnnie was given the pie.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

IF we are to wait until the revenues
of the Post Office Department exceed
the expenditure before we can hav,
one cent letter postage, there is ever!
likelihood of very long wait, as the
postal subsidy law of the last Con-
gress will add very largely to the ex-
penditures of that department with
out adding much to it's receipts foi
some time to come.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

ONE Mr.. Davis, whom the Gov
ernor pardoned from the penitentiary
last week, turns out to be a very slick
citizen. He forged a letter to the
Governor, with the name of a promi-
nent lawyer signed to it, making his
case d very pitiful one, and his in
generation a very great hardship,
and then he further forged long Pc
tition for his pardon, and your uncle
Buck was taken in I'd let the young
rascal go. A reward has been offered
for his recapture, but at last accounts
he,had not been heard from.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

WE are glad to note from the action
If the Union at its meeting last Fri
lay, that our brethren of the Farm
ers' and Laborers' Union are opposed
20 the third party movement. In
this county at least the Democracy
ing together, are invincIble, divided
hey would each jeopardise the sue
'ess of the other. The Democratic
party is the natural home OF the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

Miss HENRIETTA LAZARUS has
a talent and literary taste that gives
her access to almost any paper or
periodical she chooses. she has am
bitiOn and application as we'll, and
will make her name known in the
literary world.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

LOOK out for the counterfeit 50 sill
Yer certificates; they carry the por-
trait OF the late Gen. Hancock on
their faces and are printed upon pa
per so near like the genuine that
Treasury experts have been deceived.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
a Special Rate for Farmers,

You have been going to the Flour Mills and getting 28
POUNDS OF Patent Flour 3 pounds of low grade
pune OF wheat Now do better for you than
make some money for ourselves. We will give you
SO 10 ONDS PATIENT FLOUR
And 10 pounds of bran forty pounds low grade
oneBushe1 OF GOOD Wheat.
Have you ever been able to get any such oer Every
farmer will answer, NO?
When thesh your wheat will store it at
OU EXPENSE and give the -four for it whenever
for at any time and in quantity. If you will try you
at be convinced that business
you money ~
BUCKS MILLING CO.. Columbia, Tenn
N B-lst We propose to give you eight pounds
Patent Flour for bushe of wheat than have
before or get End We propose give you
bushe of good wheat pounds low
than you have gotten get elsewhere 3D. We will
store your wheat for nOng and thereby you the
shrlnkage when exposed and the of storage
make the best -four in the land Try and yourself
BUCKS MILLING CO..
aE
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont,
has rendered his resignation to thu
Governor OF that State, to take effec,
next November. He has been in the
United States Senate since 1866, AND
through these eventfui years n leader
of the Republican party. Rats desert
a sinking ship-but let that pass.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

The extravagant Congressional
funeral will have to go along with
the other extravagancies of republic
can rule. Hereafter all government
expenditures so far as they are con-
trolled by the House of Representa-
tives ought to be made with an eye
to economizing, so that some of the
burdensome republican tariff take.
may be lifted from the shoulders of
the people.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE man who wishes to read promi-
nent democrats out of the party be-
cause their views do not in all things
agree with his, isn't making as much
fuss as he was a short time ago. This
is no time to talk about reading met
out of the party; it is only by pre-
senting a united front to the enemy
that we can elect the next President
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10
Thanks!

The HERALD booked more new
subscribers and more renewals last
Monday than in any one day at this
season of the year for years and
years. In the subscription line in
the last four months, THE HERALD
has done a third larger business than
it did last year. Our coupons, and
live stock column and Model Hus.
band contest seem to be popular, and
we return our thanks for the liberia
patronage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

GOVERNOR HOGG, of Texas, hash
a very pI city name but his head is
very level all the same. He wants
10 paternalism in his, not even when
it is presented in the share of a cash
bounty of two cents per pound for all
the sugar produced IN that State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

UNCLE SAM is quite well to do, in
fast wealthy, but it is not probable
that he will again indulge IN the ex-
travagant luxury of a billion dollar
Congress for some years to come. Ii
did not agree with his internal ar
rangements.
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Confederate Pension Commissioners.

Confederate Pension Commissioners.
The Polk Bivouac of the county ap-
pointed Maj. Campbell Brown, Capt
W. J. Whitthorne and B. s. Thomas
t. the State Bivouac, which met in
Nashville and elected the assistant
on Confederate State
Pensions. The following were elected
by the State Bivouac as the Assistant
Commissioners; T. F. Perkins, Of!
Williamson, Geo. B. Guild, of David
SOD. and Frank A. Moses, of Knox
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

Many years practice have given G.
A. Snow & Co., Solicitors of Patents
at Washington, d. c.. unsurpassed
success in obtaining patents for all
classes of invention, They make a
speciality of rejected cases, and have
secured allowance of many patents
that had been previously rejected.
Their advertisement in another col
umn, will be of interest to inventors,
patentess, manufacturers, and all
who have to do with patents. If.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

The Mississippi Alliance is de-
vided against itself. The sub treas
ury wing fiocking off to itself, and
the anti-sub-treasury party allying
with the Democrats. OF course the
antis and the Democrats will win.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE alleged falling off in the per-
centage of increase in the negro race
in the South is very easy to account
for. The census enumerators in the
South didn't enumerate all of the
negroes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

THE Mdgwumgs and Republicans
Of Chicago are invited to take a back
seat, and Mr.. Cregier, the straight
Democratic nominee, is the Mayor.
Straight goods are always the best
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-10

p. T. BARNUM, the great Snowman,
died at his home in Bridgeport,
Conn, last Tuesday.