The cupidity of the human family and
the burning desire to make something
out of nothing, continues to make suck
era of nianywrf them. Some one with
an investigating turn of mind iiuds that
within the last year there have been reported
4G cases of swindling bv confidence
men, who got from S1,000 to
from each of their victims, making a
grand total of .?H)9,77.,i of good money
that went this way. It is a good rule
never to bet on another man's trick or
bite at propositions that seem to indicate
certain wealth for you. The old way of
making money may be slow, but its a
long ways surer than beating u confidence
man at his own game.
The first news that Wyoming had
probably gone democratic was not by
any means confirmed by the later dispatches.
The republicans elect their
State ticket and the Legislature by a
good majority, and defeat Senator Beck's
son by more than 1,500. It was foolish
to expect anything else. The rotten
borough would never have been admitted
to Statehood if it had not been settled
in advance that she was to furnish
two republican Senators and a Congressman.
The Covington Commonwealth's objection
to the adoption of the Virginia
eoun'.y court system is that the present
county judges aie not as n rule, lawyers,
and the dockets of the circuit courts
could not bo very well trausferrd to
them. That may be all true, but
there is no need of any great haste in
the matter. Great changes can not be
made in a day.
