Show ED editorials ITO R I 1 A LS inauguration OF or THE ares PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ang cleveland herald has an article upon the inauguration atlon of the next president of the united unite d states the ath of march falling next year on a sunday we present the main points the constitution fixes the term of boffl e for fur president and vice preal dent at four years but does not set the time for the commencement of the term congress sept 13 1788 provided that the inauguration of the first president pres Pies ident should be on wednesday march 5 1789 but the inauguration of president washington did not take place till wednesday april 30 of the same year congress march 1 1292 1792 provided that the presidential and vice pres identical ident ial term should in all casas commence on oa the fourth day of march next succeeding the dayon day on which the votes of the electors electora should have been given the fourth of march 1793 when president washington should have commenced his second term fell V en P a sunday and hia inauguration ia is presumed to have happened on the following day in 1821 the fourth of march fell on a sunday bunday and president monroe was inaugurated on the ath in 1849 1819 the fourth of march fell on a sunday and president taylor was inaugurated on the fifth in 1877 the fourth of march falls on a sunday and consequently according to precedent we new president wil will I 1 be inaugurated on monday the ath every seventh presidential term twenty eight years the fourth of march falls on a sunday so that the next year for the inaugural day to fall on a sunday provided the presidential term remains what it ia is will be in the next century and in the year 1905 1935 WILL THERE BE A GENERA T FIGHT ABOUT IT A GREAT many people look forward to the ensuing elee elec election tiou for president of the tho united states with a good deal of apprehension and dismal foreboding it is understood that the struggle will vill be a very close one and that in most of the states the race will be contested inch by inch that the passions of both parties will be excited to the highest pitch and that crimination and recrimination will be indulged in freely and nd to a most exasperating degree degreg it tt looks as if there would be considerable sid erable disturbance and some blood shed over the elections election next month and indeed that kind of work has already begun in two or three states in the south but the real struggle is expected to begin in congress over the counting of the votes for the next president of the united states As ia is well known the house HOUPO is democratic and the senate republican and there are indications that the two houses will quarrel over the acceptance of the votes it is anticipated that on some ground or other one house will reject the vote of one state and the other house willi will reject the vote of some other state in order to be even and thus something after the style of the kilkenny cat fight the two houses will vill war with each other until there is nothing left of the electoral vote and the quarrel may extend into the various states until every neighborhood will have a very pretty fight inaugurated within its own borders beginning on this very question it ia Is true congress may have better sense than to quarrel in this way but there is no assurance whatever that congress will on the contrary there is much reason to fear that that body will not but wil wilL give way to its political prejudices and heated passions until the whole country is set in a blaze it ia Is indeed to he be hoped that wiser counsels will prevail and they may inay bah bat gach each party is eo to thoroughly posses possessed sed with the idea of its own seh and of the ruinous shortcoming i and vices of its antagonist that there ii is little reason to hope for rational procedure and prudent forbearance the republicans are filled with the assurance that with them rests the salvation of the country and the democrats are equally well assured that if the country is to be delivered from impending ruin it must be on the old established democratic principles thus it will be seen that these two contending parties are veritable irreconcilable and therefore it is idle to inqui indulge ge in hopes of their reconciliation and it is difficult to see how they can be harmonized even as each party Is as tenacious as death of its ideas of its ohwn own saving power and absolute necessity to tiie tile welfare of tile the country there is no doubt that the present winter will be one of the most crit periods in the history of the union meantime if we can do nothing bett erwe can at least hope for the best EDITORIAL NOTES wendell phillips says there is not a great city on this continent where for twenty five years the grogshops grog shops have not nominated the mayor and aldermen perhaps wendell does not consider this a great city the london times says the desire to construct the largest single ga 11 roof in the world was achieved in the roof of the midland railway station at st pancras which now possesses that distinction having eclipsed the roof of the imperial riding biding school at moscow by a few feet the span of the former being feet and that of the latter feet the roof to cover the large new station at st enoch for the glasgow union rail bail way has a span of feet and a length of feet the roof of the new joint station of the midland the great northern and the manchester shenfield sheffield a and nd lincolnshire Lincoln shire railways has a span of feet the cumberland auerhan fan ian says mr J henry martin lartin 5 a boatman from wash washington naton county who has been in the employ of the borden for past ia Is now getting up a co opera tive association among boatmen A ft ia is proposed that the tion tiou ivill will own its own boats and establish its own store at some point along the canal where all the supplies needed by boatmen can be purchased the members of the organization gani z aaion will thus be able to get t their r supplies at wholesale rates and also share in the general dividends of the store it is also proposed to bid for the shipment of coal in bulk it is said that the indian territory is the gretna green of fugitive dovers lovers from texas as marriages in tho the indian nation are held valid the place in south carolina where republican negroes shot white democrats partly in consequence of ot which governor chamberlain vence is said to have applied to president grant for troops to protect republican negroes from democratic whites has been variously spelled in the dispatches as cam boy loy Cain boy cau Can abay Cain hay and cainhoy Cain hoy the last name appearing to be the correct one the boston advertiser s says ays A new industry has sprung into existence in furnishing a substitute for sand or sawdust used in sprinkling 11 ug the floors of saloons and restaurants the new material i is of paper and is the castoff cast off of another industry namely the particles accumulating from the process of perforating fo a heavy paper used iu working mottoes for framing commonly called matts matta instead of being returned to the paper mills as heretofore to be remade for use it is is saved and sold bold to saloons and restaurants at a profitable though low figure being perfectly white it has a fine cleall cleanly y appearance and can bo be used much longer than sandor sandon sand or sawdust the omaha herald of october 22 says it ia is a fact which most observing men have noted that the climate of nebraska is gradually changing the rainfall ia is increasing steadily year by year Thi This smales makes the cultivation of timber an easy matter and every farmer should deem it a patriotic duty to do his share toward covering our treeless plains with beautiful groves the new rew york world ventures the follo peasant who chanced to be walking near a lonely wood met a robber who asked him if he would like a drink the peasant replied that he usually about that time took a little when the robber knocked him down seized his purse and giving him a sixpence said go drink my health this said the luckless rustic is robbery no I 1 have only assessed you for campaign purposes replied the daring thief moral the above has none but a great moral idea says the new york world of oct 18 frank B cordova was arrested yesterday and fined ten doll lars lara for being intoxicated and insulting ladies in the grand G gentral depot he appeared in court wit with his necktie and collar half torn off and declared to justice otterlo arg athe the trouble is your honor th that this officer does doea not recognize I 1 ze the distinctions in society I 1 am a gentleman ap maione A cow belon belonging gling to one ono malone maone one of mount blount carbon pa drank from a tub more than the hait half of seven gallons of oil at the bumb ing run oil works and died in a few minutes now malone threatens e sto to sue for the value of the cow and the oil owner threatens to sue bue for the value of the oil she drank Is ale equal to wine the religious papers are discussing the propriety of using ale in the communion service when wine cannot be had as was done by a baptist congre congregation gation gatlon in burmah the washington star says the young men recently expelled from the naval academy for refusing in to give ive lve the names of certain boys w who 0 had been indulging in ln the pastime of hazing fall to receive much sympathy and it is light right that they should not the necessity for the supremacy of order d erina erlna in an u institution of this kind is apparent A family of systematic murderers has been dla dia covered discovered at montague texas seven of them well armed are besieged by an incensed community and are likely to be starved out popular meetings are being held in nashville to devise devis e means for the suppression of crime mayor kerchival Kers hival is charged with being the friend and protector of gamb lers there are some aa as diabolical wretches in this country as can be found among the bashi bazoukas one james myers myer son of the sheriff of jefne Jefre jennerson jefferson raon county mo it is a alleged seduced the daughter of G george oge bacchus a feeble old german and then put fourteen buckshot into the old mans body because he be forbade tho the graceless scamp the house at t ramsey Canad canada two young men entered the schoolhouse school house after hours violently assaulted the school mis mia tress and then cut her tongue out she managed to write the particulars of the outrage and the names of other her assailants and then expired her dead body was found on the floor of abb schoolhouse school house on the scholars arriving arrivi ug the next ni morning two physicians drs J C J jordan ordan and 11 cabel cahel tabb had llad a fight in the market richmond riehmond va and a dyspeptic fellow stand standing by remarked things are co coming min I 1 g to a pretty pass when doctors cant find enough patients to kill hill and have to go to killing each other an englishman has patented an artificial hare for gray hound bound racing or training a stunned stuffed hare bare mounted di oh n a of shuttle that runs in a deeply grooved rail yards long it is operated b by y two men with a windlass this IL nare hare are aro on wheels has been tried very bucce successfully Q s the dogs pursuing it aa as eagerly as if it were a real animal the london bondon times says it may be said that as far as can be ascertained at pr present e sent the territory known as europ european an turkey am a rf gion glon considerable considerably larger than the united kingdom contains about eight and a quarter millions of inhabitants among them three of a million of true li religion divides the remaining seven and a half millions in the ithe proportion of about three mahome tans to four christian the former representing chiefly converts made during four centuries of unrelenting despotism A new industry that of drying eggs has been set on an foot at passau on the danube and win prussian military authorities are 6 about to give the product a trial for soldiers lat rations lops |