Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Miss Rose Elizabeth ,Cleveland nas about concluded arrangements 'to go to Chicago to assume the the editorial charge of a literary ’magazine of great pretensions, but -mall circulation, called “Literary Life.” We judge by the general tone of her letters to the publishers of the magazine, which have been published, that she expects to soon make Chicago the literary and intellectual center of the universe. "

, The first number of the new Francesville paper, the Francesville Tones, came f to hand last week. It is a five column quarto, in size, and neutral in politics. The first number shows up well for local news, but mighty poor for advertising patronage. The proprietor is E. DeForest, a newspaper man of 15 years experience, and the same by-tlie-way, if we are not misinformed, that started the first paper eVer published in Remington, in this county. We wish the new venture good success. After all that has been said and printed regarding the need of a navy, and of our miserably defenceless condition in case of insult or assault by any nay al power of the world, Congress is about to to appropriate a beggarly four

millions to rebuild. the American navy! The suin would not build equip more than one good man-of-war, able to cope with the best vessels of any foreign naval power. It is just about the amount that Great Britain spends every month upon her navy, upon an average. - Copiah County, Mississippi, old •Bloody Copiah” where whiskey imd bloodshed have been the ruling forces for years, is the latest instance of the success of the Local Option principle in dealing with the liquor question. In that county “No License” carried by a small maprity, a year or two ago. On Wednesday of last week another vote was taken and this time the anti-liquor party again carried the county, - and by a tremendous majority. In Hazelhurst the vote was at the ratio of two to one. In Crystal Springs ten to one and in Wesson 280 to 2. It is stated that “Copiah has become the most orderly and enlightened county in all Mississippi under a strict enforcement of her prohibition laws.” Many other Counties in the same state have, gone the same way, and others are likely soon to follow The temperance people of the south are wiser than some of their northern brethren, and do they never commit the grea? error of “Mixing Temperance vith Politics.” Tliereareno “t>ird party prohibitionists” in the Sojth—nor other place for that matter, -’Vtafferthe Prohibition pecple un_ aetfctand their best interests.

The high-license plan has worked well wherever it has been adopted. Supplemented by practical temperance misSKJhary work, it forms a potent and beneficient agency of moral reform. Its growth is fostered by rational ideas of the limitations of police restraint, not by hot house currents of fanaticism and bigotry. The policy which it embodies is one in support of which patriotic and sober-minded citizens may heartily unite. — Philadelphia Record. ’