The Press., 1895-01-24

The story of suffering that comes from Nebraska is keen reminder that, even n country like ours with surplus of products always, famine may still prevail | n certain sections. The days when old l nations suffer from a~lack of supply of food products are over. The difficulty now is that the price of food products is so low that even the wheat producers have nothing to fail back upon if crop proves B failure.
 Part of the edition of the Bristol Press, weekly, was seized at Bristol Friday by Postmaster Montgomery for alleged vio- lation of the anti-lottery law. The paper anitem relating to the distribu- tion of prizes at g. recent fair. The mail edition of the Bristol Herald was seized Thursday for the same reason. The law in such cases is very clear, and no news paper ought to be able to plead ignorance of matter which has been so widely published.
 Wm. J. Sewe1l, rep, has been elected from New Jersey in place of Nc Pherson, dem. Stephen Elkins, rep, from West Virginia, in place of J. W. Camden, dem. Horace Chiffon, dem., succeeds Richard Coke, dem., in Texas; Lucius Baker, rep, succeeds John Martin, dem., in Kansas; George c. Perkins is re-elect- T To1 To na1ov lock continues, the supporters of Addicks, rep, having votes sufficient to prevent the reelection of Senator Higgins, rep. It looks as if compromise candidate might have to be agreed upon. Gov. Knute Nelson, rep., of Minnesota, succeeds Sen ator Washburn, rep.
 Governor Fishback of Arkansas awhile ago publicly advised the licensing and regulating of disorderly houses in Little Rock. He said they were "as necessary to city life as any other kind of sewer age." The protestant ministers of the town dissented from this opinion, and passed resolution on the subject. Now
 
 in which he informs them that he is a moral and practical, sensible man, and that they are narrow minded fanatics. "Not one of you," he tells them, "feels (sic) as deep and intelligent an apprecia- tion of the worth of religion and morality as do."
 The formal announcement that a num- Der of the richest mill corporations in New England will very soon build large cotton mills in the southern states, has naturally caused much excitement there. Already delegations are on the way north ward from various ambitious and anxious municipalities which wish to be made great by the location of the big new mills fin their midst" The city of Columbia, South Carolina, has voted to exempt from taxes for ten years the property of any corporation which will build factory The New England capitalists will have to stand good deal of hugging from the southern brother for the time being.
 The Press is under obligation to all who contribute to it items of news-dOub- ly so to those who bring them in early. As the time for going to press draws near time and space become more valuable, and greater condensation, and in some cases omission, of valuable contributions becomes necessary. There is leisure and room enough for contributions that come in early, and in the necessary sitting out of what must be omitted or cut down, it is but just to discriminate against such as might have been (but were not) sent in early, ..,., -.,. s,- =.
 Springfield Republican: The Fayette county (O.) authorities who secured an indictment against the militia Col. Colt for firing on a mob of would-be lynchers. have heard word from Gov Mckinley. He says:-
 l am the person against whom the in- dictment should have been returned. It was by my orders that the soldiers were at Washington, c. H., and if any one was to be indicted it should surely have been the person whose orders sent the militia there.
 That is calculated to increase respect for Gov. Mckinley. If Colt is punished. the governor will probably be quick to pxer- else what power he has in undoing the work of the county authorities.
 Governor Merrill of Kansas, in his in augural address on Tuesday lat, in call ing attention to the rapid withdrawal of capital from the state within the past two years, said:
 "It is estimated that $15, ,OOO, ,O0O has been withdrawn by parties in the east who had loans secured by real estate, and who have lost confidence in Kansas invest ments, while nearly all the large insur- ance companies and savings banks who have been accustomed to make loans here positively refuse to take any new mort gages until the laws shall have been changed"
 This is the disastrous result of populist experiments in financial legislation on a small scale. The moral is commended to those statesmen at Washington who in- Acline to think that populist fnanciering I on large scale might be a bonanza for the country.
 George o. Jones of New York city, who boiled 31OO votes as greenback candidate for governor in 1885, has just died at the age of 70. This was the event of his life and since then he had lived quietly in the big city.-SprialQted Republican.
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