The Climax, 1887-06-22

ISroclal Dispatch to The PoMl Lexington June 15 This is the great day The day all good Demo Democrats - crats Democrats have been impatiently waiting for ever since it was decided to hold the big initial barbecue at Woodland Park Well be it such for never In the history or this classic city has there been stich a feast set for Ihe hungry here as that whicti Col John It Allen Eil Headley Gus Jatibert and a host of other good worker set before Lex ingtons guests to day in the beautiful woodland of the patk Twenty large tables are covered with the finest Southdown mutton nice old country ham and huge buckets or Hint inimi inimitable - table inimitable soup so dear to Ihe hungry Ken tuckiaus heart burgoo Great stacks of snowy white bread can be seen on every hand nud the hungry mul multitude - titude multitude will surely have abundance and to spare Early this morning peo people - ple people began to pour into the city from every direction All the early trains were packed almost to suffocation and by 10 oclock Ihe crowd at the paik was enormous A large number of ladies are iu attendance nud they are lending nil their arts and beauty to make the occasion one to be remem remembered - bered remembered by all who are here to day Many of the good housewives went to the grounds as early as 8 oclock to witness the barbecue and burgoo mak making - ing making Eighty six mutton were cooked In this delightful manner yeMerday afternoon and this morning at 4 oclock Mr Jaubert had twenty more brought and put over the pit The burgoo is made in six large kettles the largest of which is 500 gallons All of them contain about 1650 gallons The ladies were much pleased with this wholesale cooking and think it a great improvement over the stove A commodious stand has been pro provided - vided provided for the speakers and around it arranged iu the best possible manner are reals for the accommodation of at least 10000 persons Near this stand Is a lemonade emporium where the cooling beyernge is dispensed to the weary and thirsty No intoxicating liquor iu any form is allowed upon the grounds and If the multitude can not satiate its thirst with burgoo lemonade or water the latter being rurulshed iu great abundance it will have to re remain - main remain thirsty or go back to the city bar rooms Ntar the entrance to the park some one has put up a cane rack and throwing alley The merry voice of the man hi charge can be heard at a great dhtauce picturing the benefits which will accrue to those who invest their money with him The Lexington Artillery is encamped within the base ball grounds enclosure and these gallant young men greeted the old war horse Gen Simon Bolivar Buckuer with a Governors salute and right heart ily did they perform the tank All the noon trains were loaded down

goiial fortunes of the orator hut upon the Mantling of the party for which lie spoke As for the personal equation il may l said that m man ever made a shorter job in committing political suicide Senator Sherman had a re remarkably - markably remarkably high place among the lead leaders - ers leaders of the Republican party If he had been nominated for President iu 1884 lie might oot Indeed have received the support of all independent voters but tlieie would have been no organized Mugwump movement against him After the election many Mugwump still regarded him as a man who might lead the Republican party back to power iu 18S8 To day he is not only no longer regarded as a Republican worthy of support for President by in dependent voters hut he is considered a man whose ambition ought to be op opposed - posed opposed by right minded men To put it plainly he has forfeited the respect of the public We may consider a man utterly wrong iu his opinions still if it is evident that he holds them sincerely and adheres to them consist consistently - ently consistently we respect him But when a man has one set of npiuious for the tnirty sixth degree of latitude iu March and another for the fortieth degree iu June we pit him When Senator Sherman after saying at Nashville last spring thit he had no reproaches to cast upon any Confed Confederate - erate Confederate and no auologies to ask of him appeared it Springfield three months later and ranted about rebels as unfit to hold oillce he not only for forfeited - feited forfeited the respect of 6very candid man but he Incurred his active ot position for a politician who is capable of such uubluishiug tergiversation is not the kind of a man to have iu the White House COALS TO NEW CASTIK i Chicago Breeders Unzctte v A Denver paper more conspicuous for the feeling than for the Candor which il displays iu the discussion of range questions having occasion to comment upon the sale of dressed beef in that market has a great deal to say about the shipment ol live cattle from Colorado to Kansas City and Chicago for slaughter and the shipment of tlitfr carcasses back for sale And all this with the idea of creating au impression that the rangellian is being wronged oouofpartol the legitimate profits ofhis business through some influence of the dressed beef men which lie is power

Here is n circular that explains itself and is attracting great attention Affiants William Sledd D S Lock ridge W T Howe W H Wilkerson T H Eastmr J M Daniel L C Wrixht Harrison C Berkley O W Raburu S P Hunt H C Grave J W Burbridge Thos J Northcutt say they were members of the grand jury of Montgomery Circuit Court at its June term ISS l and at that lime we as grand Jurors found only one in indictment - dictment indictment against J J Comelisou and only voted on or agreed on but one and hat was for a breach of the peace by committing an assault and battery upon Richard Reid deed There was nothing said about indent to kill in the grand jury room by any of the grand jurors and we reported to the Commonwealths Attorney that we had found an indictment against Cor nelison for a breach of the peace by committing au assault and battery upon Richard Reid When the in indictment - dictment indictment was drawn by the Common Commonwealths - wealths Commonwealths Attorney we were not pres present - ent present and it was not read to us or iu the presence of the grand jury When we made our report the indictments were not read out in court hut all handed in together and after the in indictments - dictments indictments were drawn by the Corn wealths Attorney they were signed by D S Lock ridge foreman in our pres presence - ence presence without any of them being read to us Afterwards at the trial or Mr Cornelison or when the case was called we Win Sledd W H Wilk ersou H C Berkley were present and were surprised to hear the indict indictment - ment indictment read as it did and for the first time to leant that the charge hall been changed to assault and battery with intent to kill in place of breach or the peace by committing an assault and battery upon Mr Reid We uevei informed Mr Cornell jon of the above facts until since the trial Wm SLEDD D S LOCKRIDQE Wm T Howe W H WlJKERSON T H Eastin J W Daniel L C WiuqHt G W Raeukn b P Hunt H C G haves J V Bukdkidoe T J Noethcutt Hakkison Behklky REMARKS The alKive change iu the real indict indictment - ment indictment of the grand jury is a bold and impudent forgery whoever the guilty

The Commencement Agony Now come the melancholy days when a long suffering public mutt again go through the agonizing tortures of the commencement exercise She time when one is supposed lushed teats over the profound eloquence of the young woman who says Friends schoolmates companions we must part For years we have been drinking at the fountain of knowl knowledge - edge knowledge and journeying hand in hau1 through the fields or learning Happy years gone never to return To day we Separate to day we launch our boats on the great wide sea or life to drift we know not whither While our hearts are heavy and our eyes tear dimmed we but we know all the rest Those of us who have lieen through it ourselves know that the au authors - thors authors of Yesterday To day and To Tomorrow - morrow Tomorrow Lifes Failures Light Ahead Philosophy vs Rationalism Which When and Why I he In Influence - fluence Influence of Metaphysics on Society The Sovereignty of Change Iook Aloft The Mirage of life Our Countrys Peril- Anarchical Ten Tendencies - dencies Tendencies of Modern Civilization the authors of these papers essays and ora orations - tions orations will ten minutes after it is all over be saying I got nineteen bouquets Didnt it go off lovely Did my train hang all right How did I do anyhow I was scared nearly to death I was so worried about my hair Did my sash ends hang right You did splendidly So did you Your essay was just grand How lovely of you to say so Every tiling was Just perrect I just thougut Id die when my name was called But I remembered that my dress cost 90 and that helped me out 1 am afraid Hint not half the audi audience - ence audience knew that the flounce ou my train was real lace Im dying to see what the papers say Itll be perfectly horrible if they dont describe the costume Tid Bits

J1ETT1M ON RACKS Turf Field and Farm The political papers of both parties are fairly united in pronouncing the legislature of the State or New York for 1837 a failure in that it did not originate and perfect any reform meas measures - ures measures of consequence It proved to be a rattier conservative body and much of its action was too plainly influenced by purely partisan considerations Rut the jKirtion of the press devoted like the Turf Field and Farm to the healthful and invigorating out door tports of the people will always bear this legislature in affectionate remem remembrance - brance remembrance for at last passing the law which legalized on the grounds of in corjHirated tracks the betting which is the handmaid of racing new Yorks sunday law Cincinnati Enquirer The Sunday situation in New York City tins reached a point where it really provokes laughter They had up be before - fore before Justice Lawrence on what they called Itst cases two proprietors or two of the largest hotels iu the town for the atrocious o lie nee of permitting guests to order and drink a bottle of wine with their dinners on the first day of the week commonly known as Sunday The Court held that it was an offense under the law flued them heavily and indicated that upon a repetition he would bend them tojuil So it results that the forty thousand people who dine at New York hotels

less under present conditions to coin but But there is no law to prevent the slaughter of Colorado cattle at home and it is not likely that any one having occasion to slaughter them lor home consumption would send them to Chicago or Kansas City and bring their carcasses back Still less likely is it that one set of men would ship live cattle nut of Colorado to eastern markets nud another set of men ship diessed beef into Colorado to supply their place except for some abnormal condition of the Colorado markets due enlrely to local illu ences And we have heard Colorado farmers complain Hint notwithstand notwithstanding - ing notwithstanding there might he a deficiency of beeves the Colorado butchers would only pay for them a pi ice eqnal to their value for shipping purposes ami iu order to keep the market down as nearly as possible to that figure would bring iu dressed beef from Kansas City and Chicago to supply their trade Of course there was money lost ou the ten carcasses brought in but not so much as was made on the hundreds of home raised beeves which they wete thus enabled to buy below their legiti legitimate - mate legitimate value So our contemporary in instead - stead instead of inveighing agHiust eastern dressed beef men had better turn its attention to its local butchers rings

The farmers who propose to succeed must raise ou his farm those varieties of stock aud produce most marketable and best adapted to his situation On low rich alluvial laud it would not pay to breed small stock Broken rugged hillsides with short sweet pastures hi summer and natural pro protection - tection protection iu winter or forest laud with occasional oneu glades for grazing are best adapted to raising ponies and donkeys land incapable of adequate support for horses or cattle affords all that the hardy little creatures require fur fully eight months of the year During the remaining four months some sweet Upland hay placed under shelter and most moderate it would be safe to say a scanty ration of roots aud a handful of bruised corn or oats given at noon and so placed that all the heids shall fare alike will bring out the ponies of Shetland Exmonr or Iceland in full health aud vigor at the end of a severe winter The land over which ponies range should be freely supplied by nature with clear running water if not Hie herds will not scatter but will es especially - pecially especially iu winter remain close aud in the neighborhood of their water

raonoply Prices that will teach you in the silent logte of truth theilitlrreiiee tietwerii iltwHiiy with IhmoI with ttnMl men between the cash and credit system between the right and the w route way Uim w tr ounrrs will thnnr day after day new arrivals at Panic Prices We shall atfer hih Ii unanswerable arguments n an uClWr hourn can maleh Leaders and specialties at quotations that no other hmi e can idler stern and stuMtorn fuels that will level ytxir liet m the subject of Bargains This h the niii ie come ud hear the lices that crow I oorstmv u will flad xiw that will repay iHi tor comintr We invite an early and repeated visit and lispeetiii Our stock wiH be rt pleuMtetl every few days and resieetiMy tibiultiel lo Ihe CA3II trade ooly Our stok oxisis f al Kio and summer goods and they will lie sneiittceilVlhllibeanl of price- You ean find any thing yon wait in Dry Uuwfc Xutiuttt Fans Trunks Carpets Uttibfeitas Hats Bts Shoes ami many other things too numerous to mention