The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Lew Wallace has put the finishing touches
on his new novel, and as soon as he mas gwen
1t hasty review it will be ready for the pub
Usher, who has not thus far been selected.
General Wallace has written the book slowly
and with infinite panstaking, with the hope
and expectation that 1t will exceed Ben
Hur,' in merit and popularity 10 will make
a portly shall octave volume of 744 pages, OF
the kind Middle would delight to circulate,
and will therefore be one-thlrd larger than
Ben Hur"
People all over the country, irrespective OF
party lines, will be glad to learn that Cover
nor Chase, Of Indiana, has promptly repudt'
ated the profane denunciation of democrats
attributed to him i'll his Union City speech.
The governor, while q strong republican, Is
minister of the gospel, and he Indignantly de-
MES that he invoked upon the heads
OF the democrats. In fact, he says that he
did not mention them at all, but spoke in
blistering language of certain persons who
had heaped vile abuse upon ex-union soldiers.
There is now political harmony in the Mac
veagh family, Franklin MacVcagh, Of Chicago.
abandoned the republican party in 1884 and
has since been earnest and unselnSh
worker for democratic principles. He is par
ticulary ardent as n tariff reformer and
great admirer of Grover Cleveland. Wayne
MacVeagh, who has within few days an
nounced his purpose to vote for Cleveland, ID
a brother of Franklin, The latter is one OF
Chicago's foremost merchants, and the former
is brainy Pennsylvania lawyer, and won
national reputation attorney general of
the United States under President Garfield
The Birmingham Age-Herald publishes a
strange story about Isaac H. Vincent, the
defaulting state treasurer, now serving OUT
his sentence in convict hospital 1t seems
that when Vincent ran away he went 10
Monroe Louisiana, where he purchased a
plantation. He called himself J. F. Box, and
under that name lived there with his family
four years. At the end Of that time he dis
appeared, and shortly afterwards was tried
and convicted In Alabama. His Monroe neigh
bors say that he lived an upright life and
generally respected. Nobody dreamed that
he was a fugitive from justice
zone of the most extraordinary forms of in
sanity is a mania for stealing womcn's shoes"
says DR.. Dodd, physician at the Bloomingdae
asylum, in The Boston Globe. ut is distin.
guished as Il disease by itself and the Germant
have named it Observation-Disclosures
1t is more common among men than with the
other sex. There is one case on record of
young man whose sisters lost their left shoes
as fast as they could buy them 1t was always
the left one Of each pair that was taken.
For a long time the thefts remained mys-
terry, until one day the brother caught young
woman i'll the street. threw her down. tore OFT
her left shoe and ran away with it. lie was
captured, and thus the secret was discovered"
A very amusing trial developed out of
suit of replevin for dog brought by DR.. T.
II. Brady against John A. Levi, in Justice
Shannon's court, in Kansas City, Mo-, re-
Gently. Both parties claimed the ownership
of the deg. DR. Brady's attorney, however,
stated that they could prove the Claimant
ship beyond doubt by the recognition of the
dog for Mrs Brady, and she was accordingly
summoned. The animal immediately jumped
from his place in the prisoners dock and
showed with every demonstration of canine
joy his recognition of his mistress. In
sideration of the adverse testimony this was
still not convincing to the judge, Mrs.
Brady said that If she would sing o certain
song the animal in response to his training,
would join in with her in his dog fashion and
voice and sing the song through. This she did,
and at the first words of the song the dog
leaped for joy and fulfilled his part of the
duet. No further evidence taken. and the
canine returned home with Mrs. Brady.