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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
ECHOES OF The PRESS.
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.
Railroads.
N. Y. Tribune.

N. Y. Tribune.
A little less than 1000 miles of railroad were
built In the United States in the year just
closed. That Il almost the low water mark
in railway bull ing, though the years 1855.
1865 and 1875 made likewise meagre showing
For five years now the additional annual
mileage has shown a stead " ana rapid decline.
In 1890. 500 miles were bull; ia 1891, 42S,; and
in the three ensuing years, respectiy, ly,
4l7s, 1886 and 1919 bringing the. record
down TO January ], 1895. But all
signs now Indicate that the bottom has been
reached, and that the business viii again re-
sumo its normal volume and activity. Ii is Of
great Importance to the prosperity Of the
country at large that this form of indus ry be
not impcdel prostrated by adverse
and ill-considered legislat on, as il come
times has been. and il is to be hoped
that all artificial obstacles To its resump-
iion " iii be speedily removed. There are In
the United States 1859 miles of completed
road, $4,000 Of which have been laid ia the last
10 years. Between this and the year 1902 with
any luck at all, we ought To reach the 2JJ, ,0JJ-
mile limit, and are quite likiy TO do So. IL
looks now as IL steel rails would soon be
turned out at sl5 per ton, fact which ia it.
self will impart powerful impulse TO railway
burfdfng and att tho industries aiticti with 1t.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

tion without proposing remedy
that is either acceptable to the
country at large or possible
OF adoption by Congress. He might
end to Congress. as BUCHANAN did, an
hysteIical message implorng the legi :
lative DEPARTMENT OF government to save
The country. but ~ saver OF tie coua-
try the present Congress is about as
hol eless resources rs a tin anchor
dropped to leeward.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
This Is the Position of The News.
New Bedford Standard.

Asusual, the Democratic leaders ana news
papers are calling on the Republicans to come
up to their help against their own mighty and
kicking hosts. They recognize that they have
fallen into "a nasty mess, aud SO they are
whining about the patriotic duty of the Re-
publicans to help out Democratic party
schemes. We guess the country sees through
1t. and will rate the Republican declination to
enter into any quasi-alliance with the Demo-
cratic managers as commendable proceed
ing.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

MAYOR STRONG and the New York
Aldermen will have to deal with the
question of permitting any other flags
but the Star Spangled Bannsr to float
over the public buildings of the me-
tropols, and return to patriotism and
common senss may be expected,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

A HARD sma n on the nose that will
draw blood is Recommended by an
L .glsh expert for preventing action re-
sulting from temporary homicidal in
sanity. The possibility of applying the
preventive seems to depend much on the
physique OF the patient.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
Late, Rut q. X.
Republican sun.

The sun regrets that 1t is day late in con-
graduating Hon. Frank olney upon his re-
election as Mayor of tho city of Providence.
This youngster wasn't born when your honor
got there, therefore could not congratull lte.
Whether IL be late or not we desire to ex-
press our feeling by saying: Here's hoping
that your administration will be successful
one, and that at the expiration of your term
your fellow citizens VIII say swell done thou
good and faithful servant, come up higher"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

Irappears to be a fact that the little
island ont in The Hawaiian group that
England asks permission of the United
States to use for cable connection
would have been England's by gift from
Queen LII il her majesty had succeeded
IN oyerthrowing the young republic,
Things are different, now, since that
arrangement was made.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

ENGLISH scientists aud scholars ara
engaged in protest against using the
word scientist" on the ground that
Il Is very bad English. AS it has been
tn general use siuce 1910. or Whereabouts,
the protests are not likely to cut ice.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

A PHILADELPHIA dunderhead who
cried .ire" in theater has been SEN
fenced to two months in prison. In the
quality of common sense, Philadelphia
never is slow
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

tenden, who OPP
portunely reach
ed tho spot, or
dered a general
advance. Thorn
as also appeared
at the head Of a
fresh body Of men
and handled them
so skillfully that
the Confe,lerates
were first check
ed, then finally
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

ANTI-vAccINATIoN opposition to the
compulsory vaccination law passed by
the General Assembly. will be Il feature
of the proceedings at the forthcoming
session of the Assembly. This is u sub
ject Of strong interest and the columns
Of The News are, of course, open 10 a
discussion of l..
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

ASPIRING that throws stream Of mud
nearly twenty feet into the air has been
discovered in northwestern Montana, but
II isnt in II MS mud thrower IN compe-
tition with certain Providence news
paper, name unnecessary to mention.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

WHETHER we have an epidemic OF
grip or whether we escape it seems to
depend lsrgely upon the whim of the
disease. The doctors are not consulted
IN this matter.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

GENERAL 8. 6. FRY. routed, by rush
Of the Second Minnesota and a superb
bayonet charge by the Ninth Ohio
"Prussian" regiment Meanwhile .he
Union column east of Fishing creek got
across, and Thomas chased the Confed-
crates beyond the Cumberland, turning
their retreat into Bull Run stampede,
GEORGE l.. KILMER
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

Besides, Helen. you powder. +"
George, how dare you say snch thingf
I never didl You must apologize instant
ly, sir, orr
"well. see where 10 ,nbbcd of on my
coat
"Pshawi What fuss TO makei Just n
little bit Of powdcrl"-N,w York Re
oordar.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

SEVENTY thousand dollars worth Of
advertising space ia one newspaper
alone is the amlunt said TO have been
contracted for 1895 by a big dry goods
store in New York City.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

TODAY is"A observed as the 225th an
adversary of the Old S nth Church in
Boston town. an occasion the sentiment
Of which New Englanders generally will
shnre.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

A LOUISIANA jury has aquitted several
negroes arrested and indicted for lynch
ing one of their number on the ground
that negroes have the same lynching
privileges as whites. That jury evil
IDENTIFY has a strong sense Of grim
humor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

The Kansas City Sun is getting no
toriety in a peculiar way. Four of its
correspondents have been killed within
month for writing articles about per-
sons who didn't like the style of the
notices.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
RHODE ISLAND.
Even So.
Newport ~ eMs.

Postmaster George of Providence stlll holds
the fort against all attacks from Chairman
Owens and his associates who have been so
confident of dislodgng him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

ACCORDING to tariff reform prophecy
In event of free wool, foreign wool
would rise in price to the American
level. According to tariff reform facts,
American wool has dropped to the for
eign level and both have declined.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

Foa the FIST time in fifteen years the
pat ii Office has caught up with ifs
work. This is II fec ion on the pr
duclive power If The A American inventor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

The commissioners sppointed to ap-
praise lands condemned for the new State
Normal School will give . public hearing
at 2 n. m, Wednesday, In the Municipal
Courtroom, city hall
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

FISH. which exhist near the bottom
OF the deep sea, fall upward instead Of
down when they take tumble. 1t is
perhaps on this principle that the Demo
cratic party finds hope for the future.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
Full Associated Press Dispatches
MONDAY. JANUARY IA. 1895.

THE New York pantata bserves thai
from Lexow committee to a grand
jury is a good deal like escaping from
the frying pan to fall into the fire.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

WITH WAITE aud PENNoYER out of
Office there ought TO be "a decrease in
Western cyclones and wiad storms.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

The Democratic party is always very
glad to have the present administrator
called Populist.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

A THIEF disguised as n messenger
boy was captured sn New York the
o:bef day. The disguise was so com
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

in the direction GENERAL zoLLlcoFFER.
of the firing and halted behind fence
on the edge of a field across which Zol-
licoffer's men were advancing Fry
crossed the fence and rode off to the
flank to reconnoiter.
Returning from his reconnaissance.
Fry met strange officer, whose uni
form was veiled by white gum cloak.
The stranger evidently recognized an
enemy in Fry, but in order to cover him
self he said. pointing to some of his
troops advancing out of line, "We must
not fire on our own men. "Of course
not" Fry answered and rode toward
his regiment. In few seconds another
stranger appeared, who fired his revolv.
er at Fry. The latter turned and sent a
fatal bullet into tho cloaked figure rid
ing away, who proved to be Zollicoffer.
On the fall Of their leader the Con-
federates broke in confusion, but Crit
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

plele that 1t prevented him from
running.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

COLD waves appear to be very well
developed product Of the great and
polite West.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

The Americas cup will probably have
plenty Of defenders ready to be called,
but only one will be chosen.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

THE weather continues to distinguish
Itself for infinite variety.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
STORIES OF HEROISM.
NO. H..

A Battle IN. on Ine ,ona ns,h ,sa oa
Tragedy at Confedorates met
Mill Springs. tsr @'p a. |" the ie'I,a hands s' Of
General George II. Thomas troops on
the field of Mill Springs, Ky.
Thomas sc. ont from the interior OF
Kentucky TO drive the enemy from the
upper Cumberland region and across the
mountains of east Tennessee, On the
north bank of the Cumberland, oppo.
site Mill Springs, the Confederates held
q fortified positior, which Thomas mp.
preached, cautiously moving his force
in two columns. The Confedorates. led
by Generals George H. Crittenden and
F. X. Zollicoffer, sailed ont of their
intrenchments on the night of tho 18th,
bent upon attacking Thomas advance
column, which lay west of Fishing creek
and separated from the reserves by that
stream. Crittenden expected to dispatch
the Union columns in detail.
Zollicoffer led the attack, drove in
Thomas cavalry pickets and burst upon
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

DEBs likes ALT0ELD and ALTGELD
likes DEBs. Most people have pro-
found contempt for both.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14
RESPONSE No. % = THE GENTLEMAN FROM PROW-
DENcE STANDS ron REPEAL!


L, Nov
To I'll
would
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Yours RI
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

THE ice crop will proceed to take
heart.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

the camp Of Gen
eral M. ID. Man
son before it was
fairly daylight.
The last regi-
ment of Man i
sons to turn out
at the alarm was
the Fourth Ken
tucky, led by
Colonel Speed
Smith Fry. This
command started
at double quick
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Not Much Cnance.

The visitor came into the Office of a
country paper in a distiilery district of
Kentucky with a notice IN his hand.
II want to put al advertisement in
the paper" he said.
mot any more, l reckon, than l
want you to put it in," responded the
editor with editorial earnestness not
unusual on such occasions. What
is it?''
"Some fellow in Missouri sends it
to me. He wants to exchange farm
he owns out here for whisky
"Well, of course. - sighed the editor.
we'll print it, but it won't do any
good. We have too many people
right here around US who are trying
to exchange their farms for whisky,
and on the instalment plan. too.-De-
trOit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
a Slur on the CITY.

An enviOps woman has had her say.
She has slandered one of her own sex.
and she has slandered the fair name
of Cape Girardeau as well. She had
grievance. Her spleen was full of
poison, and that poison was boiling
to get out and besmear the good name
OF some woman whose position in life
was SO much higher than hers that she
envied her-begrudged her. Shewrites
a mean article, rushes to a newspaper
Office. finds the editor and through
him she gets her slanderous gossip in
to the public print. She says the
meanest of mean things about her own
sex. She warns parents to watch their
children. Says the woman she has
reference to is the mother of five
children.
Coward-coward-is this long
tongued. jealous creature. She is not
gentle woman. She could not be.
No good woman will try to blacken
the character of one of her own sex.
No chaste woman will wontonly be-
little one of her kind. and the editor
that will lend the columns of his paper
to aid in the spreading of the venom
of foul-mouthed woman is not the
kind of newspaper man we need in a
community of moral people.
Let the women gossip. Their tongues
are their own unincumbered property.
God gave them these weapons of war.
and like brave. patriotic soldiers.
they have been in the front with fixed
weapons ever since Eve lied on poor
old Adam. Let them gossip, but keep
them out of the newspapers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
The Farmers of Germany.

Emperor William. of Germany. on
opening the meeting OF the hush: ndry
committee of the German Council re-
Gently, remarked in his address that
1.-THE continued unfavorable condition
OF husbandry imposes upon my gov
ernment the imperative duty Of de-
vising ways and means calculated TO
increase the profit derived from the
cultivation of the SOIL The duty is
imperative, but what is the method TO
be employed? On this point the New
York World says:
There is one thing that could be done
by the Emperor's government and by
every government in Europe that would
promptly relieve the misery and suf-
fering of the toilers. This is to get
rid of the vast and wasteful armies
which the toilers are taxed to support.
The burden of militarism is a heavy
one in all the countries of continental
Europe: but would the abolition of the
armies have the effect the World
thinks? The farmers and landowners
would pay less taxes, that is certain.
But the soldiers. returning to civil life.
would have to find occupation. They
would have to join the army of pro-
ducers. They are already consumers.
The agricultural products of Germany
constitute their food. and would con-
stitute 1t after disbandment. 1t would
simply throw many thousand of I'M
employed men on the country in
search of work. And we fail to see
how it would benefit the farmers in
any degree. except in lessening taxa
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
The Republican Ticket.

The Republicans OF this city met in
delegated convention Saturday night
and nominated a full city ticket. The
convention was the largest and most
enthusiastic meeting we have ever had
in the city. The court house was pack
ed with leading citizens who were there
to witness the first Republican conven-
ton ever held in the city to nominate
a city ticket. Everybody wanted to
see good ticket nominated and the
delegates there to nominate the ticket
seemed to be determined to give the
voters no reasons for complaint. They
selected such men for the different Of
fees as they thought would be accep-
table to the largest number of the
voters and Taxpayers of the city, and
We believe they named ticket that will
be elected
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Yours Fraternally
J N ROSENTHAL N d
For County school commissioner.

EDITOR DEMOCRAT:-The time is
drawing near at hand when the voters
of our county will be called on to
select some one to fill the Office of
School Commissioner of our great
county that prides herself on being
one of the leading counties in South
east Missouri for her excellent schools.
and the many teachers that have been
trained and educated in it by at
tending our district and graded
schools and completing their educa
ton at the State Normal school, locat-
ed at Cape Girardeau, and | feel that
we have achieved much and that the
good work of education should go on
and that we should elect to that
office of School Commissioner a man
that has his whole mind on the ad-
vancement of our schools.
Now we have in the field a candidate
for that Office whose name is familiar
to every voter in the county. He has
been principal of the public school of
Cape Girardeau for the past eight
years, which merits his success as a
teacher. And by his fatherly care he
has educated his sisters and they are
now teaching the youth of our land.
which, if there be such thing as praise,
credit and reward. he should have
same for his manly acts.
And I feel that when the voters 60
to the school meetings to cast their
vote for Commissioner that they will
consider when they vote for Prof.
Thomas E. Joyce that they are voting
for a man that will discharge his
official duty in an impartial manner
and without fear or favor, directing
his every move by the law governing
his official duty. A VOTER.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Vol. XIX--No AZ
Ladies, Edition OF the .,s.o -.

Ladies' Edition OF the Den ,sf.t.
The young ladies of ST. Aan's Guild
of the Episcopal Caurca have made
arrangements 70 issue a Ladies Edition
of the DEMOCRAT on Easter Monday.
They will have full control of the
paper for that day and of that issue
and will solicit advertisements from
all our merchants and business men.
a large edition will be printed and
circulated by the ladies in this and
adjacent counties, and of course ad-
vertisements in this number will not
only help the good cause, bu: in our
judgment be highly advantageous.
1t will be the aim of the mechanical
force of the DEMOCRAT to make this
an edition DE LUXE and in every re-
spect a number to be preserved for
many years.
The able, talented and accomplished
Miss Fee, of the Normal faculty will
haye editorial charge OF this issua, and
of course it goes without saying that
the literary contents viii be very
interesting.
Miss Amy Kimmel and Bertha
Brucher will be the busin .ss managers
and solicit thu patronage OF oar busi-
ness communit7.
The first copy will be printed on
white silk and voted to the most
popular citizen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
The Right Men Appointed.

Governor Stone has appointed Louis
Houck and Leon J. Albert of this city
and DR.. ]. Haw of Pennington as Re
gents of the Southeast Normal School.
Messrs. Houck and Albert have been
members of the Board of Regents for
several years and their re-appoint-
ment by Goxernor Stone will meet
with the approval of all the friends of
this grand old educational institution.
DR.. Haw was appointed to fill the va
cancy in the Board occasioned by the
death of T. B. Buford. The gentle
men are all progressive men and Gov
ernor Stone could not have selected
better men.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
How They Died,

Take walk through our cemeteries
and you pass the last resting place of
the man who blew into gun to see if
it was loaded. A little further down
the hillside is buried a crank who
tried to see how close he could pass
in front of a moving train. In stroll
ing about You pass the modesttomb of
the hired girl who started the fire with
kerosene, and the grass covered knoll
that covers all that is left of the boy
who put corn cob under a mule stall.
The tall shaft of the man who blew
out the gas casts a shadow across the
bosom of the boy who tried to jump
on moving railroad train. Side by
side the ETHEREAL creature who always
had her corset laced to the last hole,
and the intellectual idiot who rode
bicycle nine miles in ten minutes, sleep
on undisturbed. Here reposes the re-
mains of the young doctor who took
dose of his own medicine, and just
over there, with the top of shoe box
driven down by his head, lies a rich
old man who married a young wife.
Away over by the side gate reposes
the remains of the boy who went fish
ing on Sunday aud the old woman
who kept her strichnine side by side
with her baking powder in the cup
board. The man who stood in front
OF the moving machine to oil the
sickle and is quiet now; and he rests
blythe side of the careless brakeman
who fed himself to seventy ton engin.
The fool killer is gathering them in
one by one, still he is sometimee be-
hind with his orders.-Great Bend
Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Largest steer in tae ,yorIi.

There arrived at the West Phila-
delphia stock yards on Friday what
is claimed to be the largest steer in
the world. The animal, which weighs
within a fraction OF two tons. is )
years old, and was raised near Me-
chanicsburg, Cumberland County.
1t is of the Durham variety A
special car was provided for the
transportation of the monster beef.
The animal is so large, fat and clum-
sy that after lying down it is with
great difficulty that it manages to
stand up again, and usually requires
the assistance OF a gang of cattlemen.
The monster is exceedingly docile,
and seems TO know its name, Dick,
to which it answers when spoken to
by its keeper. Dick" is now on ex-
hibition at the stock yards, and will
be until Tuesday, when it will cease
to be the largest steer alive. On that
day Dick Will be transformed into
about ;oa and a quarter of dressed
beef. The Official records of the abat-
toir shoE that Dick is thu biggest
beef that has arrived there in thirty
years-Philal lelphia Record.