The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

proclamation calling for an election
upon the question of a Constitu-
tional Convention, on Thursday,
August 5.
WILL T. HALE has retired from
the editorial force of the Nashville
American, and leaves an "aching
void" behind; with apologies to Mr..
Hale for this poetic license.
OUR top lofty Chief Justice of the
Tennessee Judiciary thinks the
press and the people have no right
to kick. But this was clearly an
Obiter dictun1, and the kicking is
even more vigorous than before.
SINCE the Centennial opened, the
street cars of Nashville have killed,
manned and wounded, two men and
three women. Moral, when you go
to Nashville, look out for the street
cars, and don't rely upon them to
give you any warning.
-&OA
IN the appointment of Railroad
Commissioners, Governor Taylor
disappointed the kickers by giving
them nothing to kick at. He ap-
pointed Democrats and politicians,
it is true, but they are intelligent,
trustworthy business men as well.
Mr.. DINGLEY's bill, before it
reached the Senate proper, or while
it was in the committee room, was
amended twelve hundred times. 1t
is only the Dingley bill IN name,
therefore. However, it is none the
less obnoxious, for all its amend
ments.
THE College of Bishops of the
Methodist Church convened in
annual session in Nashville last
Wednesday. In preparing the plan
for episcopal visitation it was de-
cided that Bishop Keener should
preside at the Tennessee Conference
at Shelbyville next October.
THE Senate Wednesday refused
to ratify the treaty between the
United States and Great Britain,
negotiated by Secretary Onley and
Sir Julian Pauncefote. Another
miscarriage of the Cleveland ad-
ministration. Senators Harris and
Bate both voted against it.
TALK on the tariff will commence
in the Senate May IS. Until then
the Republicans are not inclined tC
discuss the bill. 1T will raise reve-
nue. enough" is their lOconic an
swer. 1t is estimated that the in.
creased revenue to be raised from
beer, will be about $13,000,000, anC
from tea $l0,000,000.
JOhN IL. ~ Maj, publlollCl VI Tx
Chicago Dispatch, has been convict
ed and sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary, for printing and send
ing obscene literature through The
mails. He will not be put in stripes
but will be given blue-gray suit o
the second grade; and for good be-
havior his time can be reduced tC
twenty-one months.
FRANK BIRDsALL has sold tn,
Giles County Record to Mr.. Rayl
of Indiana, who will assume contro
at once, and Mr.. Birdsall will go
with his family, to Yazoo City
where he has bought another paper
Tennessee journalism loses one o
its brightest lights by this change
and yields to another state first
class, all-round, good newspape
man.
IT seems that christian scruple
in Nashville have given way t.
patriotism" For weeks the Cen
tennial Management has violated tn
state laws and insulted christian
sentiment, by working hundreds o
men on the Sabbath. And yet, no
a daily paper has condemned it, no
has single voice from the pulpi
rebuked it.
Mr.. MCKINLEY has brought sucl
prosperity to the Jellico mines i,
this State, that the operators hav
reduced the wages of the miners
with a strike and fifteen hundred
idle men as the result. Thes
miners say that they would just a
lief starve while loafing as to starv
while at work. In their despera
ton they threaten the State mine
at Bhusby Mountain. But still on