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.LEyEN, around the old castle
|aric Stuart was so long a pris-
favorite spot with trout fish
in the last five years, the rec
bw, has yielded 1000 of these
ty season,
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Australian failures have had q
kfect on the London season.
5 are notlceably fewer and
khionable people use the omni-
|hich run ON regular routes all
h1on.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

Steamship Empress OF China
ivices that the treaty is about
d between the Chinese and
governments by which the
grees to assist immigration to
rs country, discouraging for
ent all others.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

Metropolitan Gardens associa-
|,ondcn has just opened a fourth
cn ground in Hackney. Tho
Twas given to the board and
Is spent in laying it ont.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

thehisiorical mementoes from
IA at the worlds fair, are the
OF Fl1arro, Bolivar's saddle
a immature of Washington,
oy the father rof North Amer
fr'y to his counterpart of South
through o., the Intermediary Of
T. lhc Ccylon exhibit is prov
OF The most instructive to
Vi ethnology, as well as ever
~ 10 the average sightseer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

old book Brooklyn is referred
post-town Of New York
pig village compactly and hand
built 1t has n pleasant and
elevated situation opposite
y of New York, from which it
fonrths of a mile distant"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

|,,sa .ae most instructive Ms wei,
i 'eS' .' curiosities to be seen at
| e,hne;S III, exhibit from Paris, which
hder,",o building. Among
1.-The bn,an .nlngs to be seen is every
bral .s"' ",'nan body represented in
tla,' o'ors and 60 made that II
Il Thop apart even to the last
|ipds' 'asre u, are ais, models of
bal s,,'i VI life. There is a turkey
ey, aud s' ana a beetle as large ns
/ aana s,aa' both can be dissected ID
Prsc WIKI, ihere is also u model
cncb which Il, comes apart in l4o
fity mo', o. which comes apart in
beiup U'e, n e,' the price Of the whole
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

once filed in a Moslem grave
reopeDed on any account. 10
Fhe faintest chance of it being
led, a cypress tree is planted
fry intcrmcnt, so that the Gem
fsemble forests more than any
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

|xru Of the total resident popu'
nenyer is composed of people
1, there for their health's sake.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

,irS iS queer ancient Irish titles
I'm kh. las, as honorable distinctions,
|'a Aml all lists of the peers Of Great
|rh.n'n hhlOns them are "The O'Grady
III" liiay'owen'" !. "'rhc O'Maine," !"
n M' - oorne by Cornelius O'Kel-
(Ro~rlaoe is Hugh Hyn-
/. Ne, NEW! who is also prince of
,,,c ,M,,cccillicuddy of the Reelss"
| and IVnor .n,, Don" are real per-
H. ANA N THE Knight of Glynn
by mo'l mn'sht of Kerry" are titles
'''''ers of the Fitzgerald
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

he "rhs''re "oSaa,'s of Jamaica, to put
ked ,'1an' = la. practice (voodoism)
|of tS,..w aw authorizing the In.
ed Of oaf''ssy,six nr. ..,, lashes on persons
ktesa p,rsaS,ticing ,s., tho black art,
NJ an 'asSes '.s,l on anyone found
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

.r York flower mission has
..ihuting blossoms among the
/, houses for the last twenty
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

pom which fell in Arizona last
sold to Yale and is now at a
Een factory to be polished. 1t
TO be composed of minute black
lie diamonds too small to have
ue and yet making the meteor
heavy and hard to polish.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

enison, Tex, recently, three
named Early married three
bamed Parker, and the mother
rirls completed the capture by
Eing the father of the boys.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

|yrp cheeks is a fashion tint
n revived in Englands s titled
|his Season, The rouge is quite
nut on with no attempt to
"A smblancc to nature.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

!, mark, New York, has three
rs. one of them is IA littl' red
N the others belong to the
n small Axis deer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

EoRK photographers say hat
N Depew's photograph slls
|hau that of any other Am'ri.
nrcsident or an actor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

Gov. McKinley's Napoleonic poses
will hardly distract attention from me
fact that he voted for the sherman IAN
IN. Y. Wesll - !.
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I,upeNT COMMENT.

,.,ican government has de-
,,.soutinue newspaper subsi'
'a,iuc TO 800, 900 annually.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15
DELIRiOUS DRIvEL.
HE Ssnseless Charges of Rattle Brain Re-
publicAps,

Bourbon repu blican newspapers like
the New York Tribune, and bourbon
republican speakers like Gov McKin-
ley, in attempting to make their con-
stituents believe that such commercial
disturbances as the country has re-
gently been experiencing are due sole
ly to the presence of a democratic ad-
ministration at Washington, presume
very largely on the ignorance of the
persons whom they address. The Trib-
une has been preaching persistently for
several weeks the doctrine that the
public confidence is lacking from the
mere fact that the country has demo-
cratic president. But it would be a very
silly country that would throw up its
hands In despair three months after it
had seated man in the presidential
chair by one of the largest electoral
majorities ever given. II the country
had distrusted Mr.. Cleveland and his
party it would have manifested that
feeling at the polls last November, and
not waited to do itself an injury by
expressing such distrust in May and
June. The bourbon republicans also
take 1t for granted that the persons
they address have remarkably poor
memories. If they did not they
would not challenge reference to
the long list of important business
failures that followed the election Of
Harrison in 1885, Between November
9, 1883, and October %, 1889, the fail
ures in the woolen trade in Philadel-
phia alone counted up liabilities of over
"a, 1000, 900. Almost as soon as the de-
feat of Cleveland was settled big strikes
of street-car and other laborers began
in different parts Of the country. There
were notifications Of reduced wages,
shutdowns in large manufactures, and
| failures in various branches Of business,
many Of them important, their total
number for the first six months after
Harrison's election being 6,711. All
this followed the success of ticket
which was pledged to high protection
and the turning over to new admins
tration Of an overflowing federal treas
ury unembarrassed by any Sherman
silver law. President Cleveland, going
back into Office, finds practically
empty treasury and burdensome tariff
law and ruinous silver law, both en-
acted since the expiration of his former
term, and both bearing the signature OF
republican president TO hold him
and his party in themselves responsible
for the recent business unrest in such
circumstances is almost too ridiculous
for serious notice. If the democratic
congress refuses to reform the tariff
law and repeal the silverlsw its respon-
sibility for resultant conditions Will be
definitely settled. N Y. Post.
| -Ex.Labor Commissioner Peck, OF
New York, whose fraudulent report
was the main reliance of the republican
protection campaign last year and who
h.e Aad N Eurone IN escape trial, Will
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Nv, ~ 'ne road near his home
,,quah, a,,l, |. T., James Chris
'l'a,ked l'i,, by unknown assas-
bm A,iieo, His head was sew.
"lS body. The murdered
| wla Son of the notorious Ned
5" ""u ,p, gave the United States
to,, %och trouble until killed
~ nv rn, 'asl 81 fall. He is also a
kouah' a1'' .hrlStie, who is in Jail
august. " nane on the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15

-Ex.Labor Commissioner Peck, OF
New York, whose fraudulent report
was the main reliance of the republican
protection campaign last year and who
has fed to Europe to escape trial, will
act as correspondent Of q protection
newspaper syndicate. Perhaps our re.
publicsn friends over in Ohio knew OF
this when they assured US the other
day that the issue of protection was 70
be as much alive - ever. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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||sihs ||st,hs Of the warship Camper
4 "Isn n coliided with the Victoria,
nave been due to the presence
|, Nn"n " by a Maltese stoker.
4 | Oh duty at the time of the
nc Voluntarily ran below and
~ "., wa,ter-tight doors. Before
,"'up'cted W the task the water
win W ms neck. The British adj
"'u promote the stoker and
r% I,s.l pension in case this story of
'e and bravery be confirmed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

fly successfully to maintain it's fight against
what was then called the force bill A
weaker man than Blaine would have been
ruined by this ruling, but it cost him no
strength in his own party and gained for
him the admiration of many Democrats, so
that it was long afterward said that of all
Republicans Mr. Blaine was the most popu-
lar with the Democracy.
His First Failure.
lie lost the presidential nomination in
1876 when it was almost his. Personal ami
mostly unquestionably cost him that prize
The offense he had given to Conkling and
anger which he had caused to arise in the
hearts of men who controlled other dele
cations led to hasty combination, which
resulted in ballot that sent Mr.. Blaine to
the rear Men wondered how he would act
in this emergency. His heart had been so
enthusiastically set upon the nomination
that many believed he would show some of
the weaknesses of human nature, and that
we would discover the weak point in his
mental and moral equipment. But he re-
vealed the highest resources. He sent q
most cordial dispatch to Governor Hayes,
the nominee, promised to take active part
in the canvass, and did, going to Maine and
conducting there, as chairman of the state
committee, n canvass which was the admi-
ration of every man who saw it.
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dent: 81 was candidate once. / was given
one opportunity, and | never can say word
or do deed again which would look as
though did not regard the verdict at that
time as final"
On the 4th of June, 1892, the country
was amazed to learn that Mr. Blaine had
that day resigned as secretary of state in
a brief and very formal note, without
word Of explanation, and that President
Harrison had accepted the resignation in
the fewest possible words This is not the
place and now is not the time to comment
or even surmise. On Sept. 3, 1892, Mr..
Blaine addressed TO Chairman Joseph IL.
Manley, of the Maine Republican commit
tee, his last public letter on politics. On
the evening of Oct. IA, 1892, at Ophir Farm,
New York, the residence of Whitelaw Reid,
he made his last speech.
Social and Domestic.
Those who knew James G.. Blaine only as
public man knew but half of his life, and
that not the more attractive. His ancestry
was of the native American nobility, and
his own family life was of strangely
varied character, u middle age of unalloyed
happiness being followed by an evening of
almost continuous calamity and sorrow.
The Gillespies and Blaines were people Of
SIdnul1H
Colonel Blaine who was commissary gen
eral of the northern department of Wash
ington's army was the secretary's grand
father Neal Gillespie, his mothers father
was n scholar of high standing and direct
ed his grandson's studies down to tho time
he entered Washington university. Equal
honor is due the ancestors Of Mrs. Blaine
who was Miss Harriet Stanwood of fam
lily that settled in Massachusetts, I'm the
early days Of that colony, and went thence
to Maine in the vanguard of it's pioneers.
In Augusta, where her father, Jacob
Stanwood, lived for many years, Mrs
Blaine was born in 1923. Her father was a
we'll to do merchant, n man Of influence,
although never holding public Office. He
took great pride in his daughter, who was
girl of fine natural gifts, strengthened by
liberal education. Full of ambition and
force so we'll displayed in after life, she
determined to make her own way, and
hence started out as n school teacher. 1t
was at Millersburg, Ky, that she first met
Mr.. Blaine, then u professor at the Military
institute at Blue Lick Springs, twenty
miles distant. The world has heard enough
of the circumstances connected with their
marriage. & Is n cruel feature of American
political campaigns that neither man nor
woman Is spared. The slightest youthful
indiscreton or even an error of judgment
is magnihed into monstrous crime, and
in 1884 both candidates suffered.
The first child OF this union, Stanwood
Blaine, died in infancy. Three sons and
two daughters remained, and the fathers
heart was wrapped up in them. Walker
Blaine, the oldest, wC7 his fathers trusted
companion and assistant. Miss Margaret
Blaine was TO her mother what Walker
was TO his father, but Miss Harriet was
best known to the public, possessing both
wit and beauty and all the social qualities
required for a leading lady in Washington
society. OF Emmons and James G.. Blaine,
Jr., the world knew but little. Such was
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

FOUR OF MIR. BLA1NE'S CHILDREN.
with grave charges affecting his integrity of
character. Accusations were publicly made
that he had received as price for hisinflu-
ence certain securities from railway seek
ing congressional aid. The proof of these
accusations were said to be in the posses
sion of n certain clerk named Mulligan
and in the shape of letters The friends of
Mr.. Blaine looked very solemn in these
days, and he was himself most anxious.
One morning when this black cloud was
hanging over him and his friends he arose
to q question Of personal privilege. There
had been hint of his intention. The great
galleries were packed. Every seat upon the
floorwas taken, and senator's had come from
their chamber that they might see and hear
Blaine in this hour of his desperation and
peril. For every discomfort which this
throng suffered they were amply repaid.
The scene which took place has been almost
unequaled in parliamentary annals Blaine
stood there magnificent in his defiance.
He held aloft the bundle of discriminating
letters, Of itself n dramatic picture and sit
uation worthy of the greatest dramatists,
and he declared with some sense Of humil-
iation and personal outrage that he would
himself read these letters 80 the house, that
tons were.
Blaine was never more superb. lie con
quered that house by his very magniGcence
Of resistance. He held himself mt bay SO
that men cheered and the galleries resound-
ed to the echo with the applause OF this
spectacle. He read the letters through, and
then, with dramatic power which, if it were
acting, was finer exhibition of the dra-
matte gift than the greatest actors have
ever shown, he pointed the finger of scorn
and accusation at a certain member of the
house and accused him of Withholding
telegram which would have proved his in.
nocence.
Blaine's enemies always asserted that this
was acting. They did not deny the magnf-
cence of the performance, but they suspect
ed its sincerity. For his friends it was
perfect vindication, and for himself it was
a complete victory, as tho formal charges
were from that day dropped. 1t was
perilous step to take. Had it failed Blaine
must inevitably have been ruined
His moral courage was displayed when
at the very last of his experience az speaker
he de1ed the majority in his own party and
made n ruling which he insisted was just
and. in accordance with his oath as speaker,
but which enabled the Democratic minor.
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own in Augusta and few thousands to his
credit in the bank. He was for time fas-
cinated with business pursuits, and it was
"A serious question for some months whether
he should not abandon politics and devote
himself to business
Those who knew Blaine in later years de-
clared that had he entered the field of bust
ness activity he had the peculiar mental
qualities which would have enabled him to
stand with the great organizing and con-
structive commercial geniuses of his gener-
alton. He never cared for money for itself.
He did not have the acquisitive sense. But
he liked power, and he realized at that early
day what the power of money is.
Why He Went to Congress.
An emergency arose in the congress dis
trict in which he lived. A candidate was
to be put in nomination. The temptation
was offered to him; he thought of the mat
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

the family when Secretary Blaine took up
his residence in that historic house on La
fayette square that was but too we'll named
the House Of Calamity. The tragedies pre-
viously enacted there are part OF the ma
TONS history, and the Blaines suffered ter
ribly.
First came the death of daughter
(then the wife of Colonel Coppingerl and
but two weeks later Walker Blaine died
even before the country had learned that
he was seriously ill The marriage of
James C. Blaine, Jr, a mere boy. to Miss
Marie Nevins, was followed rapidly by his
divorce and painful series of recrimina-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

Istic msnner" In about two years the first
volume was issued, and it caused amaze
ment. Blaine the. warrior was revealed "a
Blaine the true historian. He told his story
in simple literary style, with great lucidity
and with such fairness as could only have
been expected of historian of n future
generation. He wrote of his personal enc
mics as justly and as kindly as of his
friends, and he made contribution to po-
litical history which is invaluable. The
sale of the work was enormous, and its
profits made Mr.. Blaine very wealthy
man. He said himself that it was only
after the receipts OF the sale of this book
that he realized the luxury of possessing
money.
The pathos of the story of General Grant
writing his memoirs upon his deathbed is
the most sublime of general history. But
it has seemed to many that there is some
thing of pathos in the quiet resignation with
which Mr.. Blaine returned to tho writing
OF the second volume of his history after his
defeat for the presidency in 1854. He had
lost the prize when change of COO votes
could have givenit to him. The alliterative
blunder of Burchartl had defeated him in
his moment of victory, and if ever n politi-
clan went through an experience which was
TO test the strength Mr.. Blaine did in those
winter days of 1884 and 1885.
He uttered one word Of protest and al
most of despair, and then he took up his
pen again, walking for an hour or two each
day over the crusted snow of the Augusta
streets that he might get exercise, and
when friends went there, 10 sec him they
found him r!ainH tie f''' eirr =, pa
tioi.t, cheerful, l"' va S'''.'.'o u.s. ..J,!
and then OF the mss! 1, 5...,.s y nich burned
within him. When his book was COM
pleted he took his family to Europe and
spent q year. and it was while there that,
acting in accordance with the monitions of
his physician, he wrote the Florence letter
bidding his friends that they must not look
to him as n presidential candidate, for he
could not accept the nomination If it came.
Reluctantly and only after second warn
ing from him did his friends heed him.
Had he remained passive while abroad he
would have been nominated in 1883
Secretary Again.
With something of the serenity of the
youth of old age Mr.. Blaine entered for his
second term upon the duties OF secretary of
state. His mental genius asserted itself in
that Office again, and while his physical
characteristics and the ardor of his youth
had been subjected TO change the power of
his mind was illustrated. He conducted
most brilliant diplomatic correspondence,
and he formulated the most important COM
mercial and financial policy which the gov
eminent had undertaken since the war,
with the single exception of the resumption
Of specie payments. He turned the atten-
ton of the politicians from questions bred
of the war to those of the future and gave
promise of commercial prosperity between
the nations of the American continent.
1t is probably upon this achievement that
Mr. Blaine relied for posthumous fame. He
said when the politicians went to him urg.
ing him again to be n candidate for presi-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

Gentlemen of the convention, in the name OF
the great republic, the only republic that ever.
existed upon this earth; in the name OF all her
defenders and OF all her supporters; in the
name of oil her soldiers living; In the name OF
all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle.
and in tho name of those who perishcd in tho
skeleton clutch Of famine at Andersonvile and
Libby, whose sufferings he so wildly remem-
bers, nlinois-Illinois dominates for the next
president of this country that prince of parlia-
mentarians-that leader Of leaders-James @.
Blaine. /
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03
THE CAREER OF BLAINE
His Brilliant Attachments and
Magnetic Personality.
A TYPICAL AMERICAN STATESMAN

The Most Popular Citizen of His Day.
Yet He Was Disappointed In His Life
long acknowledgements Incidents of
Eiis Career as Congressman, Speaker
Senator, Secretary of State and Presi-
DENTAL .Candidate--CoIonel Ingersoll's
Celebrated Nominating Speech at Gin
matthias. BIaine's Domestic Life.
copyrighted, 1884,
the first Monday of December, 1863.
met in the hall of the house of repre-
atives number of men about thirty
sof age who were destined to play an
rtant part in national life. Allison of
Window of Minnesota, Pendleton of
Randall of Pennsylvania and General
Id were among them. But there was
ho attracted attention from the vet
of the house the instant he entered
aamber. He was man of noble pro-
ons, of easy manner and perfect self
nce He had splendid crown of hair
reddish tinge and "a full beard of the
10 tint. His eyes attracted the attention
every one who saw him. They were
&c, luminous and restless.
sunset Cox, an old member, was attracted
ILLS man rs soon as MS eyes Tell upon
m. He asked who he was and said that
ais man would make his impress in that
hamber. Mr.. Cox was told that this man
Who had thus attracted him was new
member from Maine whose name was
Elaine, and Mr.. Randall, who knew him
lightly, said "He is a native of my own
tate, was born near the town of Washing
IN, was educated in the college there, and
lfterward met him in Philadelphia, where
was a teacher. have heard of him in
aine, where he is regarded as n man of
'eat promise and much political ability"
Such was the impression which Mr.
Elaine caused when he first entered the
ouse of representatives, and if traditions
re accurate his personality was as strong
ymade manifest to his Republican asso-
Gates at once as it was TO Mr.. Cox. He
was only thirty-three years of age. AS
Randall said, he. had been ten years before
u teacher in Philadelphia, and before that
at military school in Kentucky. He had
taken his diploma at Washington college
when barely twenty-one years of age, and
while he was regarded by his teachers and
his mates as bright and smart he had given
no suggestion of the powers that were in
him, so that these early friends bore him in
nind while he was in obscurity
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-02-03

with the eyes Of rivals. Conkling had won
n magnificent repute as an orator, and by
the most arduous toll was cultivating it.
He unquestionably aimed at pre-eminence
in the party, and Blaine felt this intuitively
as soon rs his eyes fell upon the man. 1t
was inevitable that these two should come
into collision, and in the course of some
heated remarks Blaine compared him to ~
turkey gobbler The words were no sooner
uttered than Blaine regretted it, and he
caused an expression of his regret to be
conveyed to Ccnkling. Conkling, however
never mentioned Blaine's name afterward
when he could avoid it, and refused many
tenders of reconciliation.
After Mr.. Conkling's death hie brother,