The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-08-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The car or Russia has established fund
of $50 600 for the relief OF poor Journalists
and authors, and their families.
Hawthorne. y. J.. has a lady btcvc!ist
VINO wears cardinal red boomers. she is
the sensation OF the village and her has
band recently tried TO get injunction
from a court restraining her from wearing
such u costume. He failed and his wife
continues 10 keep Hawthorne stirred up.
Luther Latin Mills. the Chicago criminal
lawyer says that when he %as boy lie
frequently accompanied his father. v no
WAS Il wholesale merchant. on collecting
tours through the northwest. Tlsey had
TO travel by wagon, and as his father would
have large sums of money aboS; him il
was often problem where hey could
safely put up for the night. My boy
the old man used to say, 1T is safe to stay
at house whore there are flowers IN the
window"
New YORK each of which is worth s.
O0.WO. Dr. Webb has paid 100000 Tor
his residence in New York J. J. Aston
has given Sl,c0o,0VJ in jeweIry 10 his wife.
Miss .. Vanderbilt received 5000 worth
of boquets from nabobs AT her recent
'comins-out" party. Ex-Secreta-y Whit
ney, who would like to BE- president. has a
ballroom in his house the panels CT which
cost $5,0oO each. Pianos costing As high
as $1,000 are common among the nabobs
At a recent opera the women's Jewels az
gregated A,SS500O. Cornelius Vanderbilt
has gates from France. stone from the
west, a gardner from Berlin and plants
from Italy At the Burden-Sloane wed
dins there were $50 millonaires, with t,e
aggregate pile of $l.c0o.0Oo000
The South American diplomats in WASH
nSton protest against Minister Bavard's
remarks concerning England's seizure of
the island of Trinidad. The cable advice,
from London represent Mr.. Bayard as as
surinS the British people that the Trinidad
Incident is only a triiing one that the
ls!ald Is occupied by a few goats and that
nlllish snlps have merely stopped there to
lay a cable. Coupled with this erltuitc,is
declaration. the American Ambassador
casts a reflection upon a friendly South
american republic by telling his English
HaehdS that Brazil seemed to be intensely
excited over nothing. At the Brazilian
iesation the effort to reduce the South
American opinion of Mr.. Bayard into ,iip-
loiIAuc litnS laSe is painful to witness
following upon the Corinto incident the
callousness exhibited by the administration
at british occupation of South American
territory rs SO eXasperating as to provoke the
Spanish-speaking diplomats in Washing
ton almost beyond the bounds of poiiteness
IN their discussion of the affair. There is
no question of Brazils ownership of this
spot now invaded by British greed. accord
ing to these gentlemen, but no matter to
Whom II belongs. the United States is ex-
pected by every South and Central Amer
lean government to protest against Great
hfltaihs advance in that portion of the
world. The Monroe doctrine is involved
ana however barren the rock known as
Trinidad may be, England has shown by
her Qualifications at Gibraltar that noun
tains in the sea can be transformed into
fortresses and coaling stations. Expert
ence would count as nothing I'm the plans
of Salisbury in moving England onward IN
its career nf conquest