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VOL. VI. NO. 1.926. HAS THE GRIP. Governor Northen Can’t Stand This Beastly Weather. THE STATE DEPOSITORIES Continue to Cause Worry News of the Schools in Georgia. Special to the Tribune. Atlanta, Jan. 9th. —The governoi was not at the capitol today. He it down with a slight attack of the grip The weather is of the beastly variety and the very worst kind for such a trouble, so his excellency very wisely decided to re main in doors at the mansion. He had a number of callers during the day, but nothing of general interest was done. As yet there has been no appointment of depositories in the towns in which the legislature decided they should be put. This is due to the fact that there are two contestants for the place. In Elberton there a e two banks and the same is the situation in Carrollton. The governor has not decided which of these banks he will name in these cities. What he is going to do in the division of terri tory in Harmony Grove and Jefferson re mains to be seen. The situation of hav ing two depositorirs in one county seems rather un qua, to say the least. Then in Monroe county, where it was decided to put a depository, it was found that there is no regularly chartered bank. There is a strong private bank but a depository can only be placed in a regular chartered state or national bank. State School Commissioner Bradwell had to throw out an election in Schley county today. It seems that the county school board of that county went ahead and elected a man to fill the place of Dr. Smith, who has been county school com missioner for years and who resigned to go to Florida, and they held the election without first having the applicants exam ined as the law directs. They wired '.he facts to Capt. Brad well this morning and he ruled the election void. He also re ceived information that J. G. Mills had been elected county school commissioner in Jefferson county and J. W. Phillips in Douglas county. Thirty-six counties have decided t open the schools in January. Under the law recently passed the time of opening schools was left to the county school boards but the school year was changed to July. Up to date thirty-six counties have decided to go ahead and open the «chi ols now. Fulton county is one' which decided übf, to open the schools until July as contemplated by the law. The change will qelp to bring about quarterly payments tut is not material otherwise. C -ptain Bradwell lists of teachers who pas■ examination at the election Satuiduy. Under the law conn y ofiic als have thirty days io'which Tn make out these lists and send thereto the s’a e school comm rsioaer. Some of uem have already begun toJstud in tic* lists. " WORK AT WASHINGTON. The House Gets Down to Work on the Tariff Bill. Washington, Jan. 9.—There were by actual count, 40 rper>bers present when house met at 11 o'clock, commit tees were called for reports, but without result, and the house went into comnrit tee of the whole on the tariff bill. Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means committee, resumed his speech in favor of the pending tariff measure, de claring that a protective tariff, instead of increasing wages, really lowered them by reducing their purchasing power. Mr. Wilson finished his speech amidst loud applause, and was followed by Mr. Burrows. Work of Committees. By a strict party vote, the house com mittee on elections decided to recom mend to the house that ex-Congressman John J. O’Neill be seated from the Elev enth Missouri district, in place of Charles F. Joy, the' sitting member, who is a Republican. The house banking and currency com mittee decided to take a vote next Fri day on the bill to repeal the 10 per cent tax on state bank circulation. The fate of the measure in the committee appears to depend on the vote of Representative Warner, of New York. In the Senate. There was nothing of special interest in the routine morning business of the senate. The resolution offered by Mr. Chandler as to the authority for the ap pointment of Mr. Blount without the advice and consent of the senate was taken up. After some colloquy, Mr. Chandler withdrew his resolution, the matter being within the scope of an in quiry now going on before the commit tee on foreign relations. MURDER NEAR MARIETTA. A German aud 111. XV Ho Met a llorrilllu Dentil—Their Son Missing. Marietta, Ga., Jan. It. —1 ferny Saner, a respectable German, and his wife were murdered in tbeir home near I’inchtsun, four miles north of this place, and their son is missing. Their barn was burned and their house had been set on fire, but neighbors ar rived in time to extinguish the blaze. Mr. and Mrs, Saner lav at full length on THE ROME TRIBUNE. me iknvneu uvur will! m<ar vroumug burned from their bodies, having been saturated with oil. The neighters put out the blaze and saved their bodies aud the house from destruction. The floor was covered with blood which ebbed from eight bullet holes in the left side of Mrs. Saner’s head and from a wound caused by a heavy blow in the back of the Mr. Saner'i bead. Near Mr. Saner lay the barrels of the gun. They were bent from the blows. • A visit to the fire at the barn revealed nothing except burnt carcasses of horses, cows and other stock. Many suppose the boy was burned in the barn, but there is nothing to warrant this, save his absence. The coroner soon arrived and Saner’s pocket book, containing $326 was found, it is believed the entire family were murdered and that robbery was the ob ject. TALKS' France and Italy Will Clash Unless Some thing is Done. Paris, Jan. 9.—Journalistsand diplo mats in France are shocked and deeply indignant at the story, told upon the al leged authority of the United States Consul at Palermo, of French agency in the Sicilian outbreak. Since an entente between Russia and France was established. German diplo macy has been feverishly devoted to em broiling the French Republic with Italy. There is every reason to believe that the maneuver at Palermo is the result of German intrigue. A report comes from high diplomatic sources that renewed pressure to spring war upon France has been put upon the Italian Premier, Sig. Crispi. Rome journals are paid to print pretended evi dence that French forces are concentra ting in Tunis in order to make a descent upon Sicily, and that the revolt on that island was incited by French agents for the purpose of dividing the Italian army and leaving the Alpine frontier open to French aggression. Information has reached the govern ment authorities here that vehement agitation.ls going on in every province of Italy in favor of an immediate rup ture with France. Preposterous allega tions of French intentions appear in local journals from the Swiss frontier to the Gulf of Taranto. The Aigues-Mortes verdict is taken for a text, and Italians are exhorted not to suffer another such affront as was put upon the kingdom by the slaughter at New Orleans. A veteran diplomat here declares that the relations between France and Italy are too much strained to endure. Un less England can restrain Germany, he says, tiie present Italian regime, as a last desperate resource, must imitate Napoleon 111. and embark upon war, CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH, Depot t of tli<» Situation for th* Week End. ing January 8, 1894. Chattanooga, Jan. 9.—The Trades man, in its review of the industrial situ ation in the south for the week ending- Jan. 8. 1894, reports that no material change in industrial conditions has taken place. The number of new industries in process of organization continues to be above the average, indicating a pros perous state of affairs, as compared with the past few months. There can be no doubt that the tide of revival in manu facturing and mechanical affairs has fairly set in. It is shown by the increasing inquiry for machinery of all kinds, by the for mation of new co-partnerships and com panies, by tne enlargements of plants, and by the growing sites for factories nnd industrial plarfta. Southern merchants and southern banks are in a good condition, and an adjust ment of the pen-ling tariff question is. .only needed to insure renewed pros perity. It reports 33 new industries as estab lished or incorporated during the week,' together with eight, enlargements of manufactories. Made Laws While the Train Ran. Albany, Jan. B.—Curious features are connected with the signing of the first bill passed by the New York legislature of 1894. It is the capitol appropriation bill, which places $200,009 at the dispos al of Commissioner Perry, to put at least 1,500 men to work at once. The bill was passed in a hurry on Tuesday last and was not engrossed when Lieutenant Governor Sheehan left for New York, so that it was not signed by him and consequently could not be signed by Governor Flower. Lieutenant Governor Sheehan passed through here on the Empire state ex press. The train stops only a few min utes' He was met at the depot by his private secretary. Mr. McGoldrick, and signed the bill just as the train was about to start. Mr. McGoldrick was compelled to jump from the moving train and he injured his right hand by falling. The bill was taken to Governor Flower, who signed it. Hoy (Tilled li.v Ilfs Father. Elgin, 111., Jan. 9.—Clark Burr, a wealthy farmer, killed his son Charles with a shot gun here in a quarrel grow ing out of the latter taking innsic lessons. The young man, who was 17 years of age, was endeavoring to draw a revolver when the father fired. Burr gave bonds of SIO,DUO, furnished by his neighbors. Fattl Draws Well. Nashville, Jan. 9.—Patti drew a $7,800 house here and has left for At lanta. She has signed a contract with Manager Marcus Mayer for 15 more conceits, making 40 in all, and extend ing her tour to March 22. She was also elected to life membership in the Ladies’ Hermitage association. Mali stolen at Cartersville. Chattanooga, Jan. 9.—Chief of Postoffice Inspectors Whiteside received a message stating that the pouches con containing Saturday night’s entire mail from the north, east and west were stol en from the Cartersville depot. The thief is unknown. HOME GA., WEDNESDAY MORNIMQ, JANUARY 10, 1«»4. WATTERSON’S WAY. His Vigorous Attack of the Democratic Tariff Bill. SPEECH BEFORE A CLUB. He Uses Strong Language in Denouncing the Party Measure. l.f.'Cisvu.i.E, Jan. 9.—One of the most remarkable political speeches which has been delivered in Louisville in a long time was made before the Watterson club, the occasion being the celebration of Jackson’s birthday by this well known WWJIf . HENRY WATTERSON. political organization named in honor of Hon. Henry Watterson, of The Courier- Journal. The speech was received with the greatest surprise, though with tre mendous enthusiasm. Mr. Watterson spoke with great vigor, and evidently felt what he said. Mr. Watterson began his address in the following vigorous remarks: I would not be entirely candid' if I did not tell you at once that, there are some things in the political outlook that jars against my sensibilities nnd offend my judgment. I mean no disrespect to per sons in authority when I declare that (this seems to me an era of very small things and very small men. Yet the stream of life goes on, bearing its awful cargo of good and evil, of hope, and fear,, and hold-, ing to the least of the generations the rela tion it held to the greatest. And, surely, never in the history of mankind were deeper problems set to statesmen and phil osophers than are hidden ip the dark clos ets of contemporary experience, arising out of the unfixed laws that pre to deter-! mine and the undefined boundaries that' are at once to separate and inclose the ac- ' cretions and rights of property and the op portunities and the literties of the people. It is now, aa ever, the old battle between the many and the few, for the blessings of free labor aud free thought, which, tinder Ot'.r system, are supposed to be birthrights of all. Mr. Wattdtson then asks why in the midst of a country where there are mil lions lying idle, and plenty abounds, does the cry of want and suffering go , up from one end of the land to the other. He says that the Republicans tell us it is because the Democratic party has come into power! and that, on the other hand, the Democrats tqjl ug, it re sult of 20 years of—Republican rWsrule, affl<iad legislation. The truth of the matter is, according to Mr. Watterson, both parties have proven recreant to trusts imposed; both have failed in the discharge of impor tant duties laid upon them, and both "are-TespOT.sible for the easting state of affairs—the Republican party sinning in excess, and the Democratic party guilty of important omissions. He said the cause of the revulsion of feeling which was shown in 1893, was the failure of the Democratic party, which a year previous had swept tlie country, to show a disposition to carry out the program that bad been mapped out. This, bringing about an unusual state of affairs summed up in the following paragraph: The political conditions are thus exactly reversed. It is the victorious Democrats who are disheartened, the vanquished Re publicans who are encouraged. And the question for you—the veritable, the un terrified, tne original boys in the trenches —the question for you to consider is, whether you arc going to sit down and sulk over it, or wake tc ths danger and make yourselves heard and felt in those seats of power, which exist by your will and breathe the breath of life out of your nostrils. Mr. Watterson then entered into a dis cussion of the present plank in the Dem ocratic platform in reference to tariff, He denounced vigorously the action of certain democrats who attempted to in sert a plank which to his mind was good Republicrn doctrine, and when they failed, then tried to have Mr. Cleveland repudiate it. Failing in this they charged that the substitution of the Neal plank the present one—for the Vilas was the midnight swirl of a turbulent mob. The speaker said: If history were fiction, and politics a game of blind-man’s buff, poets would be statesmen and only children would vote. There was never a more deliberative act done by a deliberative body than the sub stitution of the Neal plunk for the Vilas plank by the national Democratic conven tion of 1592. It was the logical culmina tion of a campaign of education covering 10 years. It was an act of the people set ting aside a subterfuge of the politicians. It was not done at the dead of night, un der whip and spur, but between the hours of 6 and 9 o’clock in the evening, when the convention was wide awake, and knew perfectly what it was about. It was not planned to obstruct the nomination of Mr. Cleveland; though, if the convention had suspected that Mr. Cleveland had any hand in the original tariff olauk. which it struck out. be I wouia not nave received one-taira or its votes. Both Mr. Vilas and Mr. Whit ney were assured by myself and others that no obstruction was meditated; and it is well known that, averse as I was to the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, I regarded it a foregone conclusion before the con vention met, nnd had ceased to disturb anybody, qr to be disturbed on that ac count. In short, in the most decisive, and, as far as anything in American politics cin be solemn, in the most solemn —at least in the most serious way—the conven tion ended, as I hoped, finally and forever, the long struggle between the forces of light and darkness hi the Democratic party, by stamping out a double tongued assertion of its tariff policy, and inserting a declaration which no human being could misunderstand or misinterpret After reviewing the magnificent vic tory of the Democraticjiarty, under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, “the ideal" apostle of tariff reform, aud the successful meeting of every charge brought by the vanquished enemies, in cluding flings at''sectionalism; the cry of “confederate constitution’,’, Mr. Watter son concludes as follows: The Two Report,. I have read with exceeding care and deep concern, the reports accompanying the newly introduced measure of tariff re vision. The Democratic report begins by a masterly declaration of tariff for revenue only logic, to end in an actual exposition of protectionist practice. The Republican report seizes the weak point effectively, anil, both In its sarcasm and its effrontery, shows us how impossible it. is to placate the implacable. Democrats may learn from the report of the Republican minority of the ways and means committee, if they have any doubt about it, how hopeless is tne task of urg ing liberality upon monopoly, or reason ing with th# demands of subsidy, or quell ing the spirit of either. Thy concession of today becomes the concession of tomorrow. Give bounty an inch and she will take an ell. Just think of a Democratic commit tee tolerating the sugar bounty for a. sin gle day! Yet, with the repeal of their bounty before their eyes, the sugar claim ants, professing to be Democrats, stood around demanding their own terms under threat of voting with the Republicans, Aud so with every interest thAt is al'owed to enter the ways nnd means committee room. They all regard themsulvet as as sociate members of the committee—a sort of ex-officio congress by brevet—and it is to do as we tell you, or die! As long as this stand-and-deliver game is allowed to go on—as long as there is no one to kick the rogues and rascals out, and to pitch after them their bogus samples and false entreaties, and to close the windows and bar the doors —be sure that we shall have no reform which they can prevent. I believe in the integrity and courage of Grover Cleveland. I telieve "HWepgtri otism and genius of J olm we could put two Jaeknon would live again. lam giving tile admin istration the niost earnest ami disinterest ed support, because I believe it is trying to do right, ami because, in the main, my judgment approves the fruits of its inten tion. My judgment does not approve the i Wilson bill, either in method or in detail; but if it is the best that can be got out of congress, so be it. But it is far, very far, from a measure that can be truthfully described as em bodying the idea of tariff for revenue only.’ It is merely better than the Me- l Kinley bill in degree, not in kind, and if protectionism is ever to lie dislodged, I doubt the Trojan-horse strategy to which ' it seems to incline. We live In the age of the Carnegies and the Goulds, not iu that ; of Priam and Aeneas. bodying the idea of 'ft tariff for revenue only.’ It is merely butter than the Mc- Kinley bill in degree, not in kind, and if protectionism is ever to lie dislodged, I doubt the Trojan-horse strategy to which it seems to incline. We live in the age of the Carnegies and the Goulds, not iu that of Priam and Aeneas. The robber barons know their business. They never go to sleep. They relinquish nothing. Their rapacity is insatiable. It was the history of the old slave power that the more it got rhe more it deinahdcd. It might have had emancip;|Gon, and its gradual and peaceful elimination from ihe body corporate. It refused this, to end in blood and flame, carrying with them vast losses and cruel lung to slavery, defend and mainlain it, not have it back today on Mr. Wilson’s moderate dose of revenue powders in protectionist capsules is rejec ted by the protectionists as vigorously as the slave owners rejected Mr. Clay’s sug gestion of emancipation. Like the slave holders, the robber barons yield nothing. They will not reform themselves or con sent that any one shall reform them. The work must, therefore, be done from with out. It will never proceed from within. And when it is done, if it be done by statesmen and not by the sword, the American manufacturer will rise like one who has teen in chains, amazed, as the slave owner was, to find that the theory he cherished was a curse, and not a bless ing. The Chinese wall removed, the world will be at his feet. Does national charac ter count for nothing ? Does a laud teem ing with original resources count for noth ing? Are the creative energies and inven tive genius of n people who have reversed the feudal policies of the old world, to build a fabric in the new whose corner stone is competion and whose watch word is freedom,’ to be accounted nothing? The cry of the poor goes up to God for work! But there is no work. Why? Be cause there is overproduction. Why? Be cause we can produce in nine months more than we consume in 12. The remedy? More consumers; wider markets; freedom of trade with all mankind. Let us out of this black hole of protect ionism, where, with banks bursting, with money and mil lionaires multiplying by hundreds, men are starving by thousands. Let us out, out to the world, and, with plants estab lished, processes perfected and cheapened, trademarks and patents carrying all the protection that honesty ought to desire, and we can meet and beat all our commer cial rivals —yea, England—in every neu tral market, recovering those markets that geographically belong to us, but which have been stolen from us by our senseless policy of restriction. Fellow Democrats, it is of the first im portance for us to know, and to know as speedily as possible, whether we have a Democratic party, homogeneous and strong, as in the day of the sage and hero, whose memory we celebrate this night—a party whose lines are laid in fixed princi ples—honest money, home rule and free trade —with power to compel discipline everywhere—or. whether we are a ‘ agglomeration or factions,tnrown togetner by the upheaval of the times. My own effort is, and always shall be, for straight politics atid square issues. I want to know a spade when I see it, and to call it a spade. I don’t want to deceive, to mislead anybody. I love no neighbor less liecause he does not agree with me. He may be right and I inay be wrong. But let us at least be honest. Let us say what we mean and mean what we say. That is the roaa to good government. It is also the road to universal patriotism, which, founded in free thought and free speech, aud support ed by the virtue and intelligence of the people, is to precede tljgt period of peace on earth, good will to pen, to which the the Christian world loaks as confidently as to the coming of its Redeemer. I do not despair of its realization. Ido not despair of the Democratic party. The immediate outlook may not be all that we would have it, but the future is always ours. Let us cling to it. Let us fight for the test that it has to give. Suicide Rather Than Hang a Woman. Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 9. Jones, the public hangman of Victoria, has committed suicide by cutting his throat because he was unwilling to exe cute the death sentence pronounced upon Mrs. Knorr for causing the death of infants she received at a so called “baby farm.” A Military Arrest In Mexico. Mexico, Jan. 9.—Vincente Vales 1 ques, a well known resident of this city, 1 has teen arrested by order of the war! department, but on what charge is not) known. He is now in the Santiago mil? itary prison. I DOLE SEEMS DEFIANT. ( He Flatly Refuses to Accede to Willie’s D«. mands. Victoria, B. C„ Jan.—The steadier Warrimoo, which has just arrived, brought advices from Honolulu uirder date of Jan. 1. On Dec. 19 Minister Willis demanded of the provisional gov ernment that it surrender to the queen. President Dole replied refusing to con sider this demand. The government is keeping the answer of Dole to Willis' demand secret until it shall have had time to reach the president. The following summary, however, has been obtained from good authority: Dole begins by noting that thia is the first official communication this govern ment has had intimating in any way the policy of President Cleveland towards Hawaii. By no action of this government has any matter connected with the late revolution-been submitted to the author ity of the United States. - / This is carefully argqed, i No intimation made to the proviso*! anything having teeß-ffofie 'WnflSloreil in the premises until the of the president, now by Minis ter Willis. An resume is given of a series of polMcal straggles leading up to the revolution, including the acts of Kalakaua before 1887, and his obstructing and dictating legislation by filling up the legislature wuh office holders. The climax was reached in-the opium scandal when Kalakaua took a bribe'of $71,000, previously prepared for the leg islature. The citizens then united to overthroxy the monarchy. This was averted by his submission to the new constitution, which took most of his ar bitrary power away. Thence on until his death he constantly chafed and sought to evade those restrictions. The inside history of the attempted revolution of 1889 is then recited, and of Liliuokaiani’s partiripatiou therein. The opposition then shown by her to the rights and interests of foreigners was, after her ascending to the throne, con stantly emphasized. It became violent during the latter part of shown jbvher inverse guqj ■■hints in opporitioa ■'i.'Jdl legislature. ' Tiie events of thi ' reign are recited, the re-.:wtilat z defunct lottery bill and tue removal of the Wilcox cabinet, a'l through the queen's personal influence. Dole recites the attempted coup d'Etat action of the committee of safety and two mass meet ings of foreigners and natives. The com mittee deemed the presence of American forces necessary for tiie protection of life and property and requested Minister Stevens to land them. Dole denounces, in the strongest terms, the falsehood that Stevens was ever ask ed to have his forces assist iu ths revo lution. or that he ever did so. The gov ernment disclaims having ever author ized Damon or any other person to make terms for the queen's surrender, and de mes that he ever reported or was asked to report such terms. Damon made those terms on his own responsibility. Never before or since the revolution did any of the members of the committee of Bsfety confer with Stevens about the overthrow of the government. The provisional government is respon sible only to those who constituted and are now maintaining it In power. It is amenable to no foreign power on earth. It has always been faithful to its con stituents and by no act or intimatiou has ever offered to submit its rights to the United States or any other power. For these reasons this government must re fuse to consider the proposition of Min ister Willis. No allusion is made by president Dola to Willis' appeals to their patriotism and moral sense, nor to the terms of amnesty Secured from the ex-queen. DENIED ABSOLUTELY. Minister Thurston Says They Already Have a Recognized Government. (Copyrighted by Associated Press.) Honolulu, Jan. 9.—The proposition for the establishment of a republic here said to have been brought by Minister Thurston and Mr. H. N. Castle, of The Advertiser, is absolutely denied by both of these gentlemen. To the Associated I’ress Mr. Thurston said: "Such an idea never entered our heads. Why should it 't We are now an established government. We have oesn recogmzea uy notn me umtea States and Russia, and to establish a re ? public would be but to renounce the re cognized nation we have tor its exist ence. This we do not propose to do. Deny it, absolutely, and give it the widest publicity,” concluded Mr. Thnrs- ’ ton. when interviewed. ' Mr. Oastle took the same view. He ! said: “You can see what my views are from tb« columns of The Advertiser. While, like Mr. Thurston, I am a Ha- ‘ born American, I am not hpre to compromise unless our 1 national mother, America goes com , pletely back on us, which I don't believe , American patriots would tolerate." j Blount nt Washington. ((Copyrighted by United I’ress.) Washington, Jan. 9.—Ex-Congress tnan Blount, former commissioner to Hawaii, has arrived here. He was at the' department of state bright aud early anfi had an interview with Secretary Gresham. Minister Thurston will re turn ft t once to Washington where his 4ar vices will be much needed. / Some Appointments. I Washington, Jan. 9.—The president sent to the senate the following nomina tions; i John M. B. Sill, Michigan, minister 'resident and consul general of the United to Korea. States marshals: Albert A. .'-■■Hmm, for the District of Columbia; J. IW. Tulllbfte, eastern -district of Louis iana. O. J. Carroll, eastern district cf North Carolina; J. N. McKenzie, mid dle district of Tennessee. General luung litluriiing, San Francisco, Jan. 9.—General P. M. B. Young, United States minister to Guatemala and Honduras, has arrived here on the -steamer City of Sydney, on leave of absence, en route to Washing ton, and thence to his home at Atlanta, Georgia. Minister Young says that war between Nicaragua and Honduras now threatens to assume formidable propor tions. To Elect an Assistant Richmond, Jan. 9.—Bishop Whittle has called a special meeting of the coun cil of the diocese for the purpose of electing an associate bishop. The meet ing will be held at St. Paul church in this city, Jan. 31. I'eixoto Has Resigned. Paris, Jan. 9. —A dispatch received in this city dated Rio, Jan. 9, states that President Peixoto, of Brazil, nas re signed. —v- —-X Jan ~ Ham ed United succeed him- self. CITY GLEANINGS. A Baptist Election. At the conference of the First Baptist church Sunday Co). Chas. M. Harper was elected treasurer and Capt. A. B. S Mosely clei k, Charming Accompaniments, All who attended the conceit at Shorter night before last were delighted, and the artists who appeared are receguMumuch praise. One feature the beauty the the lhum P & m s si n- ■ ' 'nun: Ul ‘ l! ’ ’1 ‘C: ■ 1 telling mouths old boy had taken tm^ v show. The doctor At the First Pr?sbyterian. The regular prayer meeting held at the First Presbyterian cbuicCT®| night, beginning at 7:00 o’clock. AIIT coedially invited. A Lecture on Armenia. Dr. J. A. George, an lecture tonight at the church on the manners .! his native country. _Jt vary luteresting. All cordially invited. No Opera Tills Week. Manager Nevin, of the opera house, received notice yesterday that the Ta vary Opera Company, booked for Thurs day night, would not be able to fill the date. The company has stranded in Augusta. Teague Will Die. Peter Teague, the negro shot Sunday was very low last night, and it was con sidered impossible for him to recover. Those Tax Books. Judge Meyerhardt has all but five of the missing tax digests, but thesr he has received are not those lost. They are duplicates that were kept in the Ordinary’s office. The law requires that there be three separate sets of the digests. The Convicts Ready, Work will be begun at once on Rome’s streets by the county convicts. They are now camped at the crossing of the C. R. & C. and R. & D. railroads, and Capt. Moore says he never had a better work ing set. This means much for Rome’s streets. PRICE UVE CENTS. WHITE CITY BURNED » The Recent Scene of Splendid Achievement Now in Ruin. FAIR BUILDINGS GONE. A Magnificent but Terrible Picture Unfolded to the Gaze of the People. Chicago. Jan. b.—The beautiful White City is in ashes, and the greatest building on earth—the liberal arts build ing of the World’s Fair is a mass of smouldering ruins. Probably no more magnificent yet ter rible spectacle was ever witnessed on the continent than that of the destruc tion which visited the World’s Fail grounds about 7 o’clock p. m. The fire started in the Casino, just east of the agricultural building and south-of the peristyle. The Casino was quickly' devoured, and the Sanies surged north on top of the peristyle and drop ping made a second line of fire along the base of the columns. The flames then sprang through the wusicr hall whyfe*, corresponds at the 4- s t ‘ 1 ( V 1 ' ' eL lire w; i peristyle were spectacle for those people fortunate® enough to Ire on the moving sidewalk ’ just east of the pcr.-stylo was that of a succession of gigantic human beings. The spectators at this time, partly to guar.l their lives and prevent wholesale robbery; of tho exhibits, had been large ly driven by tho police westward over tho bridges from the lake and lined up in a soinl mass against the electricity building. Here they could see great blazing fragments dropping down upon ti.o exhibits below. Through the glass in the buildings could beseen pieces falling like boulders in an avalanche, cr'ttshing and burning the exquisite French section and threat ening to destroy the Russian and British sactions. - » The boats and engines osi the lake side had by this time the flames in the ashes of the pt in the low er eolmiade of the side of the bni were t subdued, i orU v P- m - the BLi; • !ith-> >• build > f A iitA g a i >< > \ e. f > : e> : . ■- 1 ■ -f 1 ur> i ark than it waM -i ■ by six in l"nldmgs. The caM’-j 1 ?/' ■ - - we. tti'l of ’ 1 s '."a -t » £'• li/ii's and I.reek l.atWJ 1 is arch*s w< >■ ' stately e..b- [I li" in cdl.lns. -. cm.de win ii | s ; i~'l' o‘. W bn 11 in 111 >‘g;n.:m! 'n 11.. n ." ■ -pp or.'Knn in bus and ms heralds with [■&&»& and chariots are the muss of mins and 2 :m®MHMB| wise, is a nmhmeholy UotH%' w**f**l Save here and there. wbe r*®ra||||H|||| girders protrude-*, not a norMfiMagM saved from th . flames. AU about the walks are sH / ’• ." debt is and charred In suds BSHI wind blew from the PuruingJHßHH and little piles of white some of th., brands were consiHHß falling. Manufacturers within and without, presents des r.-d either by artist or exhilMMH The lattice work between and th« carre 1 one, covering tbjHHH a:.de on the east side, was ®U>a pi.'nt above the sent IwniHffig States section south, BBMI hei:, -’ r ' n - mbb lU-oh :ir-ii-.i TP ' MgM wore . 4 .>X 4 ? v * water which, iv'd- two inches in depth, are innn rneral.'le ladls containing precious ware* baled and bound for res.hipment as sooi as they could be released from bond Upon and about them lay, now destroy ed, the decorations of the pavillious. The French, Belgian and English set tions suffered most and in the spaces o cupied by them are to be seen the mol disastrous results The scene ins.de til great manufacturers’ building was ■ absorbing interest. Here and there waj seen boxes with their tops half buri® through, but their contents safe, ex.® for water that leaked into them. Af® of the timbers in the roof are still bd® ing and smoking. JMH A rough estimate places the ® ', the buildings at about t’suo.isi'i. timate of the loss on the exhibit®- given until the cases <•<>ntain' goods are examined. B Judge Key to K« tire. Knoxville, Jan. 9.-Hon. Key. United States judge district of Tennessee, has .stat''dM|M will retire from the bepch so. n seventieth birthday, whh h 27. He has filled the office v® tinction for many years, and retire to his private home at < Judge Key was postmaster ga®M®| der President Hayes. Among tflb , • cants to succeed him on the T. S. Webband Judge IL H. MbHH of Knoxville, and Judge T -. Chattanooga.