Mountain Echo Newspaper

April 9, 1886 (Vol 1-No 6) Page 1 continued

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

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The Life of Little Rock, comes to us this week printed in red ink - a genuine "red headed" paper. Although a paper that should always be "well read," it does not generally come out in such glowing colors. It is a splendid society and literary journal neatly printed on beautiful tinted paper and never gets red headed except when the editor gets red hot. The strike prevented the shipment of the usual supply of tinted paper, and the editor of Life got red hot, and instead of "painting the town red" printed his excellent paper red.

The debate on the Edmunds resolution establishes the fact that the general opinion of Senators is that no adminstration can prosper unless it is run by its political friends. This seems to be the idda of not only the leading Democrats who spoke on the Edmunds resolution, but of the Republicans too. Mr. Ingalls said: "When the people decided a change of administration that implied that there should be a change of the agencies through which the administration might be made effective." "History has show," said Mr. Vorhees in his very able and exhaustive speech, "that no party can administer the affairs of a government through the instrumentality of its enemies." Perhaps Mr Cleveland will at least condescend to listen to such men.

The Rula Wold, of St. Louis, published on the 31st ult. 150 reports in reply to a circular sent out to the principal fruit shipping points in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia, from which it is clear that Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky will have no peaches; Tennessee may have a half crop, Arkansas about the same, while Mississippi and Northern Texas report but slight injury. Alabama and Louisiana will have their usual peach and small fruit supply. While Arkansas and Tennessee will not have a half crop of strawberries, Missouri and Kentucky, will have an average of small fruits. The season is reported backward at all points. The vegetable supply and general prospects are equal to those of any former year in the teritory heard from.

A Crank of the spiritualistic persuasion gives the following version of haunted houses; "A house may be haunted by some person in the flesh for some devilment, or it may be genuinely haunted. In the case of a real haunt, it is some earthbound spirit, we think who is held there on account of a desire to finish some work. Sometimes it is a lost will or hidden money, at others some revenge that has not been satisfied. The spirit is constrained by a strong desire to do some good or ill to some one who it had known at the house. When this desire is satisfied the haunt leaves. We could go to such a house with our mediums and hold conversation with the spirits and relieve the trouble. Usually such a spirit is undeveloped, but I think we should be able to communicate with it. At least we should not hesitate to make the attempt."

On the 31st ultimo Representative O'Neill, of Missouri, from the House committee on labor reported a bill to provide for the speedy settlement of controversies and differences between common carriers engaged in interstate and territory transportation of property and passengers and their employes. Mr Reagan, of Texas, opposed the bill on the ground that it would take from the local tribunals the settlement of a local question - a question between the hirer and the laborer. He said: "The remedy for troubles like the present was to be found through the ballot box, by the election of State Legislatures and Congresses and Presidents who would respect the rights of the people, and who would stop the system of robbery of the many for the benefit of the few which had been going on for the last twenty years. Until these large corporations were controlled by law and the monopoly of national banks was stopped, no remedy would be found for these ills." The House passed the bill on last Saturday by a vote of 195 to 29.