Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-03-22
SOME THINGS SAID
BY u Few ofOur Exchanges
On Various Subjects.
READ AND LEARN.

inridge-Pollard sort be tried be.
hind closed doors. The country's
stomach is strong, but nature has
its limitations Memphis Scimitar.
Senator Peffer's resolution to
investigate the newspaper state
ments as to some senator's having
been engaged in stock jobbing
speculation, was tabled. OF course,
it would be an impeachment of
the boosted dignity of that body
for such proceedings to be insti-
tuted.-Jackson Wing.
A colored boy recently appear.
ed at colored university in AT.
lanta who had walked all the way
from Vicksburg, Miss, $50 miles,
in the hope of earning his way in
the institution. He reports kind
treatment and assistance from
white and colored people on the
route to whom he told his pur.
pose.-Appeal. valanche.
A distinguished physician says
that an indispensable requisite to
good sleep is that you "owe no
man anything" We take this ear.
ly opportunity to lay this impor-
tant physiological discovery be-
fore our readers. OF course this
is not dun-of course not. We
only want our delinquent sub.
scribers to sleep well.-Pulaski
Citizen.
Cut off three inches of the tele-
phone girls skirts, heys Scarcely.
AT last Chicago has tackled a nut
too hard for it to crack. The
town may grow at the rate of 30
per cent year, run a Worlds
Fair and slaughter more hogs than
all creation combined, but when it
comes to making women go against
the fashion, its name is mud
Memphis Scimitar.
The Senate committee has re-
fused to give hearings to the star
wing wOrkingmen who came all
the way to Washington in palace
cars and put up at high-priced
hotels in order to talk to senators
about the pauper wages OF Eu-
rope. Possibly the tender-hearted
old bald-heads couldn't stand the
sight of such distress.-Memphis
OOIlHleICldl.
1t would be better for the dem
ocrats of the House to authorize
the counting of a quorum, when
members refuse to vote, than to go
more than two weeks without a
quorum, as was done previous to
the passage of the Bland Coinage
bill. Some way of getting a quo
rum should be decided upon be-
fore the tariff bill gets back to the
House.-Lawrence Democrat.
Memphis ought to have had the
great cotton exposition which is
to 90 to Atlanta. Memphis is the
largest inland market Of the sta
pie in the world, and could have
shown more varieties of cotton
than any possible competitor. At
lanta is scarcely a cotton market
at all, but she is a city with pop
ulation which contributes in one
day $14O,000 for public enterprise,
and that explains great DEAL
Memphis Commercial.
In the Second COngre ssional
District the contestants for Con.
gressi0nal honOrs were John G.
Houk, the present incumbent, and
Henry r. Gibson. 1t was decided
by primary election last Satur-
day and it is claimed that Gibson
won by LOO majority. Houk
claims foul and is likely to con.
test the decision by an appeal to
the voters next November. The
contest between the two noted
Republicans was scandal from
the beginning to the finish Me
Minnville New Era.
Hon. b. A. Enloe is a strong
advocate of the Wilson tariff bill
He opposed the unconditional re-
peal of the Sherman bill. He
favors the free coinage of silver
He made Il strong speech in favor
of, and voted for the coinage OF
the silver seigniorage. He voted
for the repeal of the infamous
election law. He has advocated
the repeal of the 10 per cent tax
on State bank issue. Mr.. Enloe
has favored every move for the
benefit or relief of the people thai
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