Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-08
THE EDITOR AT LARGE

And still the good news continues to go around that wages are being increased under Grover Cleveland'S management of the government If his ideas were carried out our country would bloom and blossom like green bay tree.-Car- roll County Times
 It is announced that Speaker Crisp is studying the silver question abroad. Probably he thought he could learn more about it there than at the Griffin conven- tion Ditto Senator Bacon, though we haven't heard that he is studying while in Europe.-Atlanta Journal.
 The Consti's gall bag is as large as Livingston's. It calls upon Judge Law son to resign his seat in congress because he does not believe in the ratio of 16 ounces of skull to l ounce of brain. He is not one of your lightweight sixteen to oners. It reminds us of the Constis cheek last year when it called on Steve Clay to call MT. Turner off the stump Valdosta Times
 One of the latest achievements of our reform city government is the fning of citizen on a charge of disorderly conduct because he had refused to loan half dollar to one of Commissioner Roosevelt's reform policemen. The policeman ac-
 
 half dollar, and the citizen refused, where upon hard words resulted, and the officer arrested the man who had declined to be his creditor. The next thing we know 1t will be considered 'dsorderly conduct to pass one of Roosevelt's finest with out giving a military salute.-New York Mercury.
 Only last week the 900 operatives in the cotton mills at Lowell found notices posted in their working rooms that an in crease of 10 per cent in their wages would take place this week. This action was entirely voluntary on the part of the mill owners and makes the third recent case of the kind in the Merrimac region. Only a few days ago the Chicago Fri bune, the leading republican paper In the west said that more than 1,O00,O00 people in this country had been affected by the increases in wages which have occurred since the 1st of last April The thing seems to be contagious, and the danger of overf1owing prosperity" which a leading republican politician says is the only thing that threatens his partys prospects for next year, becomes daily more threatening Jour- nal.
 The European statesmen who arranged matters for the Bulgarians and gave them Ferdinand for prince, failed to take into account the peoples attach ment to their religion. Ferdinand would proba bly have failed anyhow, from what is known of him, but there might have been some possibility of his success if he had even professed allegiance to the Orthodox church. The importance of this consideration is evident from the popular leadership of the metropolitan Of Soha, whose Russian sympathies are not only political, but ecclesiastical. Stambouloif thought he could disregard the religious feelings of the people and that was one cause of his failure. When Ferdlnand broke with StambouloH he had nobody left to support him, and it looks now as though he would not go back to Sofia, where the bishop is evidently on top.-- Philadelphia Times.
 Peffer agrees with the great lights of the republican party that the increase in wages is a very bad thing. If it goes on the outlook for the country is truly ominous If there are to be no more la bor riots, no more CoXey armies, no more lockouts, but everybody is to be too busy to go to silver meetings, what chance IS there of purifying politics or eleVatlng the senate by an infusion of new Peiters! still. there is little hope left. The ad- vance in wages is mot as great as has been reported" The number of con- tented people, therefore, may not be so large as to endanger our institutions. Then the patriotic bad times may return again, giving the tramps and the cranks A new lease of life. Anyhow, Peffer is down on prosperity. Lexow, John Sa- bine Smith and the Tribune are not more opposed to it or more distressed by IL than he is With such powerful com bination presenting a solid front against the threatened revival of business that calamity may yet be stayed II not en- tirely ayerted-New York Evening Post.
 The suit brought by an alleged wife of the deceased millionaire against the es- tate of Jay Gould will furnish sensation if nothing more. Double lives revealed to the public only after death have not been any too common among men more prominent for their wealth than their rectitude, but the popular impression of Jay Gould was that the one feature of his life that could not be successfully at tackled was that which related to his do- mestic affairs. It will hardly be worth while to jump to the conclusion that this impression was false because the claims of a wife and child never before heard of have been presented in court. The woman who is said to have been married at 15 to young Gould, then surveying in northern New York, parted from him and afterwards married to another man, and who never mentioned the romantic circumstance till now, needs some cor roborative testimony. Shyster lawyers are ready to trump up all sorts of un- founded claims against the estates of dead rich men and it will be well to waitt until the evidence is presented before concluding that the alleged newly dis covered wife of Jay Gould is not the dis covery of claimant of this sort.
 Taylor's Partial Settlement.
 Pierre, s. D., Aug. w. w. Taylor and wife arrived today and will remain until after the trial next Thursday. They were accompanied by c. T. Mccoy, who today paid to Treasurer Phillips the