Year: 1879

travels drought the whole globe. He is, in addition, q profound scholar.

 --Cox and Reynolds, the two men from Forsythe and Kirbyville, whom Quinn, Young, and Hale, EMPLOYED to assist in effectiug the arrest of Hel- phrey, in Fancy County Mo-, tried to keep the governor from paying over the reward to Quinn, who went down to the Capital Saturday last to claim it for himself, Cole and Young. This action is very thin as well as very shabby in Cox and Reynolds Quinn. Young and Cole, are tic men wlio ought to have the reward.

 -''CoMMERcIAL TRAMPs. ."-We un- derstand some Of our friends aniong the commercial travellers have taken of f'ensc because we reproduced from the Little Rock Democrat n paragraph watning the gulhble public to beware of giving their orders to commercial tramps." Now there is no necessity for any gentleman who is doing lcgit- innate business in soliciting wholesale orders, to take umbrage at thdt para graph, for it referred only, and was intended alone for that class of fellows who are around from small concerns taking orders for single suits, half dozen shirts, fourth of dozen pairs half hose, &e., and pretending that they will supply such articles at tho same rate to the consumer that whole sale Houses sell them to the home mer- chaDk, and at the same time send far superior article. These are what WE call commercial tramps, and we make . widc distinction betweensthat classs of fellows and the legitimate commercial traveller, whom we recognize as an im- portant factor in the transaction of bus mess between the retail dealer and the jobber.

 .zThe town ordinance requiring road duty upon the streets of this town, meets with the birterest condemnation of many Of our citizens. A strong pe- tition was numcrously signed last Sat urday protesting. against the enforce ment of tine ordinance, and asking re- peal thereof. There is nothing wrong in the voters and taxpayers of the city making their wishes known by petition, and when petition is gotten up and presented in the proper spirit; it is en- titled to the respectful consideration of the city council.

 But it is altogether wrong, unjust and silly in any one to impute sinister aud corriipt motives to the city council on account of the passage of that ordi- nance, or to make angry or disparag- ing remarks about these who do not see proper to sign petition for the re- peal of the ordinance. This was done by at least one of the parties who was circulating the petition last Saturday. So far as lie or any other man who is opposed to the ordinance is concerned, they would do we'll to remember that our town Council is composed of gem tlemen whose honesty, whose public spiritedness, whose devotion to the very best interests of this town, whose intelligence and true worth will only appear the more prominent by being put in the scales and weighed by the side of these same qualities in the gen. tlemen who now act so foolishly as to impugn their motives. They are men whose own interests would restrain them from doing anything detrimental to the best interests of the whole town, even if they were actuated by no high CT moral impiilses. The ordinance may appear oppressive at first sight, but after all why should the townsman not be made work She roads as we'll as the countfyman in many instances this is the only way to get any contri- button for public improvements, for there is always, in every town, con- siderable number of voters who pay no tax at all except the poll. The coun- tryman has to work the road for the city snob to drive over when he wants to take drive into the country,a we sec no good reason why the city people should not work the streets of the town for the countryman to drive over when he brings his produce to town. If thefe are gentlemen in town who are too indolent, or too proud to do actual manual labor on the streets, or Whose time is worth more at their business, let them pay their one dollar per day in lieu of labor, and the whole matter is settled.