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4 A Clje ® eeklg Jetos. SUBSCRIPTIONS. WEEKLY NEWS, issued two times a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, one year S 1 OO WEEKLY NEWS, six months 75 WEEKLY NEWS, three months.... 50 THE MORNING NEWS every day in the year (by mail or carrier) IO oo THE MORNING NE W 9 every day for six months (by mail or carrier) 5 OO THE MORNING NEWS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays (by mail), 1 year 5 oo ADVERTISING. Display advertising $1 40 an inch each inser tion. Discount made for contract adver tising, depending on space and length of time advertisement is to run. Local and Reading Notices 25 cents a line. Marriages, Funerals and Obituaries $1 00 per inch. Legal Advertisements of Ordinaries. Sheriffs and other officials inserted at the rate pre scribed by law. Remittances can be made by Postofllce Order, Registered Letter or Express at our risk. , CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited; but to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS. Savannah, Ga. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE IN SAVAN NAH AB SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. MONDAY. JULY 30, 1894. Tillman's Dispensary Act. Gov. Tillman talks and acts like a man who feels he hae great power, which he can use in any way that pleases him.. His announcement that the dispensaries throughout the state will be opened on Aug. 1. causes considerable anxiety. The dispensary act of 1892 has been declared unconstitutional, and it is the firm con viction of many South Carolinans that the act of 1893, which is almost identical with that of 1892, is also unconstitutional. Evidently Gov. Tillman thought so when ’ the court rendered its decision, because he at once closed all the dispensaries. The reopening of them is not due to a firm belief that the act of 1893 is con stitutional, but to the hope that the su preme court, as now constituted, will declare it to be so. , Will not this doubt as to the constitu tionality of the law cause the enforce ment of it to be resisted? It is almost certain it will. Ana, besides, there is a strong impression that in ordering the dispensaries to be opened the governor is moved by a desire to get even with the liquor dealers, whom he regards as his political enemies. He also wants to punish the people of the towns who, as a rule, are against him. Did be not tell the Charleston people a few days ago that he would cram the dispensary act down their throats? That was not a dignified way for a governor to talk to the people; but then Gov. Tillman never attempted to make a reputation for dignity and courteous treatment of those opposed to him in politics. The opening of the dispensaries will in tensify the feeling between the factions in South Carolina, and it would not be surprising if scenes to those wit nessed at Darlington should be enacted. In view of the fa’ct that the dispensary act of 1892 has been declared unconstitu tional it would seem as if the wise course to pursue is to have the act of -1893 passed upon by ikieans of a test case before un dertaking to enforce the act. It is not the governor's way, however, to adopt a policy that would not irritate the people. A Wise Policy. Mr. W. A. Henderson, the general counsel of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad is reported, as say ing that the Southern railway has set aside a large fund for the promotion of small industries along the several lines em braced in the recent consolidation, and that the policy of the system will be to encourage a general upbuilding of the South. This policy is a wise one. The develop ment of the country tributary to the lines of the Southern railway has hardly been begun. There are millions of acres of excellent land that can be had almost for the asking, and which can easily be changed into pro ductive farms. There are rich mines that have nover been worked and there are many towns that have excellent ad vantages for manufacturing. Under the direction of capable men the whole vast region traversed by the Southern railway can be made within the next ten years to furnish three times as much business as it now does to the railroads. A judicious system of advertising the advantages of the country should be car ried on. What is particularly needed is a thrifty class of settlers. There are thousands of farmers in New England and the west who would be glad to settle in the south. Many from those sections have already made homes for themselves in the southern states, and many more would have done so long before this if they had not been misinformed as to the •reception they would likely receive. Up to the present time the whole effort has been to build up the. west. Capital and immigration have both gone to that sec tion. Now, however, there is a noticeable movement in the direction of the south. The splendid resources and advantages of the south are being better understood. The southern people themselves are grad ually awakening io their opportunities and the evidences of thrift and enterprise are becoming more numerous. The Southern railway will have no cause to regret such a policy as that in dicated by Mr. Henderson. The Georgia Central, it is expected, will also soon be reorganised, and it should have a policy similar to that of the Southern railway. It is the only policy that will enable these roads to increase their earnings and make their stockholders glad. Ths Ablegate’a Liquor Ruling. A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun says that Archbishop Satolli refuses to be interviewed by reporters on the question of his recent ruling sustaining the decision of Bishop Watterson of Co lumbus 0.. in respect to liquor dealers, though he intimates that the time may •oon come when he will have something to say in respect to that matter. There is an impression that he has received pro tests from liquor dealers, though it cannot , « be stated positively that he has. It seems to be understood that the ruling is with out effect outside of the Columbus diocese, though bishops of other dioceses might regard it as defining the attitude of the church toward liquor dealers and proceed 'to enforce it. If they should do so, a very considerable stir would be created in the church, because it applies not only to saloon keepers but also .to all who sell liquor, either at retail or wholesale. There are many members of the church who are liquor dealers, and not a few of them, on account of their wealth, are gen erous contributors to its support. Just what Bishop Watterson did was this: He announced in a. pastoral let ter the suspension of every Catholic so ciety in his diocese that had among its officers ope or more liquor dealers or sa loonkeepers until such officers bad been replaced by others having no connection with the liquor business. He also said he would not approve of any new society that admitted to its membership anyone en gaged in any capacity in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. He went even further, and instructed the priests, who are under his direction, to refuse ab solution to any Catholic liquor dealers who 4 ‘carry bn their business in a forbid den or disqualifying way, or sell on Sun days, either openly or under any sort of guise or disguise, in violation of civil law, and to the hurt of the order and religion, and the scandal of any part of the com munity.” A sweeping and radical ruling like that raised a commotion, of course, in the Columbus diocese, and steps were taken at once to bring the matter before the pope’s accredited representative, Mgr. Satolli. The appeal, however, brought no comfort to those who protested against the bishop’s action. The bishop was sus tained, and if the ruling of Mgr. Satolli should be accepted as the position of the church on the liquor question the Roman Catholic church in this country would be far ahead of any Protestant church in the matter of temperance. It is hardly probable, however, that there will be haste among the bishops to follow the lead of Bishop Watterson for two reasons. One is, that they would meet with aggressive opposition, and the other is, that there are.said to be bishops who do not regard with favor the pres ence of the apostolic delegate in this country. What Xs Hill’s Game P The man who is attracting the most attention in congress is Senator Hill. This is all the more sur prising because of the fact that even his friends in New York predicted . that he would cut no figure in the United States Senate. His political enemies called him a “peanut” politician, and they were sincere. They thought his ability was all in the line of running the political ma chine in New York. In a surprisingly short time he has made himself one of the most conspicu ous figures in the Senate. As a debater he stands in the front rank, and for po litical shrewdness he has shown his ability to give even Senator Gorman points. When he entered the Senate the old senators were inclined to look down upon him. He is in a fairway to make them look up to him. There seems to be no doubt from the course he has pursued during the last few weeks that he is playing a game. But what is his game? His senatorial as sociates are making guesses as to what it is. They get no information from Sena tor Hill. He keeps his own counsel, and seems confident of his ability to “paddle his own canoe.” Has he his eye upon the Presidential nomination for 1896, or 1900? That is a question that many are asking. His defense of President Cleveland is the most surprising thing he has yet done, and is the most popular. He is not on friendly terms with the President. He has been at the White House but once since he has been in Washington, and has received no favors from the administra tion. And yet he bore strong testimony to the President’s honesty and his fidelity to the principles of the Democratic party. He did it because, as he said, he was fair minded enough to be just even to a po litical enemy. • Strange careers these two men, Cleve land and Hill, havo&ad! Cleveland was mayor of Buffalo, and Hill was mayor of Elmira when they were nominated for governor and lieutenant governor, respec tively, of New York. They had never met, and did not meet until they went to Albany to accept the offices to which they had been chosen. They were never in harmony; each was the leader of a wing of his party. When Cleveland became President, Hill became governor, and when Cleveland was defeated for a sec ond term, Hill was chosen governor again. In 1892 they both appeared at Chicago as candidates for the Presi dential nomination. Cleveland was suc cessful and went to the white house a second time, and Hill went to the Senate. Their hostility to each other cropped out continuously until the other day, when the greatest debate that has occured dur ing this administration of Cleveland be gan, and then Senator Hill played the role of the defender of the President. What is Senator Hill's game? Whatever it is. it is the impression that he is play ing it skillfully. Still Circulating a Falsehood. The colored woman, Ida Wells, who has been endeavoring to create a public sentiment in England against lynching blacks in the south, has returned to this country, and has been interviewed in New York. It appears she went to Eng land on the invitation of an .English woman, who became interested in the blacks during a visit to this country. Ida Wells says she went to England to get the moral support of “that wise Christian nation when I should demand in this country that the negro should have a fair trip.l when charged with crime, and not be made the scapegoat of a white man’s crime or a white woman’s falsehood.” While we are opposed to lynching.we are free to say that we think it doubtful if this woman can point to a single instance where a black man, who has been lynched, was the victim of “a white man’s crime or a white woman’s false hood.” Bishop Thompson of Mississippi, who is a northern man, said, sometime ago. that lie has yet to learn of the lynching of a black man who was not guilty of the crime with which he was charged And in almost every instance the man lynched was charged with a most heinous crime THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894. against a white woman. Indeed, it is crime of this nature for which blacks are lynched, and blacks of the class to which Ida Wells belongs refuse to see that the way to stop the lynchings is for the blacks to create a strong sentiment among the people of their race against crimes of this nature. In her interview Ida Wells says: “While I was in London Gov. Northen of Georgia wrote to the London Chronicle protesting against the publicity given by the London papers to my statements re garding the lynchings in the south, and characterizing those statements as false hoods. The London Chronicle replied that its editorials were not based qpon tny unsupported statement, and mentioned clippings from papers of the south bear ing out my statements. Three days after Gov. Northen’s letter was received the cable brought news of the lynching of a negro in Gov. Northen’s own state, and that negro was cut down before he was dead and skinned alive.” • While it is true that a story was cabled to London that a negro had been skinned alive in Pierce county, there was no foundation for the story. The Morning News published several times that the story was untrue, and finally leading offi cials of Pierce county made a thorough investigation of it and branded it as a falsehood. It is a difficult matter to reach with a denial all who hear a false hood, and so this Pierce county yarn is still being circulated. If Ida Wells has beard the denial she shows herself un worthy to represent people of her race by continuing to circulate the story. The story really harries its own refutation, because there are nowhere in Georgia people who would be guilty of such bar barity as charged in the Pierce county story. ■ PERSONAL. The combined assets of the Rothschild family in EuropC.are not less, it is said, than $2,000,000,000. The virtual head of the family is Nathaniel, Lord Rothschild, of London. Signor Podreiter. a leading Roman crimi nal lawyer, has accepted the brief in the case of the' French government against Santo Caserio, the murderer of President Carnot. Prince Bismark is visiting, his son Herbert, at Schoenhausen, en route to Varzin, his summer home. The ex-chancellor looks feeble and is not inclined to take active ex ercise or long journeys. It-is said that Zola’s “Lourdes,’’ a story which has to do with the so-called miracle cures in the south of France, has increased tenfold the circulation of Gil Blas, the French paper in which it Is appearing. ' “The grave of Robert Browning in West minster abbey,” says the London Daily News, “will shortly have placed over it a beautiful design in Italian alabaster of the English rose and the Florentine lily inter laced.” - Mme. Carnot, widow of the murdered French president, is not only given to deeds of philanthropy, but she is a model house wile. There Is no work in her home which she is not as competent as any of her own servants to do. It is proposed to erect at Lebanon, Pa., a memorial over the grave of John Casper Stoever, who was one of the first German Lutheran ministers to be ordained in Amer ica. He was buried at the old Hill church, northwest of Lebanon, more than 100 years ago. What Inventor Edison is trying to do in New Jersey sts as simple as ABC. He pro poses to crush the mountains into fine pow der, take up all the iron and sort it out with magnets, and dump the surplus sand over the mountain side through a chute. Iron men say this scheme won’t work, but he differs from them. , ' , ■ The Countess de Montbello, wife of the French ambassador at St. Petersburg, has sent to Mme, Carnot, as the representative of French women a book containing portraits in water colors of twenty-four groups of Russian women, 5,000 autograph signatures and a draft for 18,000 francs to found a scholarship in a French college for girls. The volume is sumptuously bound and its corners of gold are ornamented with rare gems. BRIGHT BITS. “Has that young man proposed yet?” “Not yet, mamma, but he has been inquiring if your cough was anything serious."—ln dianapolis Journal. Mrs. Priirim (putting Willie to bed)—But you have forgotten to say. “Give us this day our dally bread.”- Willie—Yes, mamma; but I don't want to eat while I'm sleepin'!—Truth. He—Do you know anything about these 17- year locusts? She (of doubtful age)—Oh, no; when they were here before I was such a wee mite of a baby, don’t you know.—Washington Star. She had neither beauty nor riches, But she'd found a better scheme; She made herself attractive By never eating ice cream. —Christian at Work. “And your daughter: did she marry well?” “Oh. yes: her husband’s name is known all over the civilized world.” “One of the great artists or writers, eh?” “No. one of the John Smiths.”—Chicago Tribune. At the Revival.—The Deacon (to the cow boy, who has just dropped in to see what a revival was like)—Young man. have you made your, peace with your creator? The Cowtoy—l ain’t never had no trouble with him.—Life. Judge—You have been found guilty of as saulting the man who took the job you aban doned. attacking your employer, and burning his property. What have you to say for your self? Prisoner—Wull. y'r anner, oi’m willing to ar-rbytrate.—Puck. Exasperated Young Mistress (after a wordy argument with her cooki-yWhy. Bridget, it’s perfectly absurd.’ Either you*or I must be crazy. Bridget (proudly)—Sure and I wouldn't be so bold as to.thing. ye had no more sinse than to keep a crazy cook.—Truth. Little Ethel—Johnny took my banana. Mother—Johnny ! What do you mean . Little Johnny—lt was all in the game, mamma. I said.-“ Let s play Broadway,” and she said. "All wight," and so she got a table for a banana stand, and then 1 was a police man and walked past.—Good News. “Yes, father." said the young graduate freshly returned from college, “I am a trained athlete now and mean to take partin a num ber of contests in the east. I'm strong enough to lift almost anything." “Well, then," said the old man. grimly. “I guess you kin just slay at home and help lift the mortgage off the farm.’ —From Life. Amateur Poet (loftily)—Aw! Here is a little thing I wrote in five minutes last even ing. Editor (astonished)—You did? Why man alive! Any one who can write that in five minutes ought to make his living by his pen Poet (muchnattered)—Oh, thanks: . Editor—Yes. Y’ou can get 50 cents a thousand for addressing envelopes —Puck. CURRENT COMMENT. The Tax on State Banks. From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.), One of the senatorial candidates :s making the repeal of the lu per cent, tax on state banks his main plank, and clnms the credit of having brought that issue to the front. Perhaps he did wta;he could—his duty—and that is all rifeht but Mr. 'Turner has been ad vo eating the repeal fcr ten or twelve years in Georgia and tn Wash ngton. He was prob ably the first man to auvocate it on the stump in the state. Why Not Compromise More ? From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) After all why should senators who have com promised so much to secure votes in the Senate, object to compromising just a litue more to secure votes in the House, the signa ture of the President and the approval of the people? It is true the last does not count for much with the Senate, as a rule, but it has been so long since the Senate pleased the peo ple that a few concessions to them would be humbly appreciated. Mr. Clerkinwell—A Boarding-house Episode. “Mr. Clerkinwell—ln.” Though it was only a small white card neatly written and tacked in the side of the mirror of the hatrack, says a writer tn the New York Tribune, it was the first thing that caught the Nomad's eye the first day he entered the hall. And when he went out at the end of twenty minutes, after negotiating for a Three Pair Back, he noticed the card again, only this time it had teen re versedandread, “Mr. Clerkinwell—Out.” When the Nomad came to settle down in his new quarters he became deeply interested in the announcement of thf opming and-going Mr. Clerkinwell. Sometimes Mr. Clerkinwell was Out; sometimes he was In; and his habits seemed to be irregular, and he would be Out at unconventional hours and In when he would not be looked for. The Nomad even became so interested in the Clerkinwell move ments that he consulted Maggie at.out him. "A foine man is Mr. Clerkinwell,” said Maggie. “He has the front room on the same fiure wid yourself. He kapes the card tn 'the mirror so’s to save me the work of running up.and down the stairs if anybody calls to see him.” “Then he has a good many callers, does he?" suggested the Nomad. “Niger wan,” answered the girl decisively. "None a tall. But he might have, he says, and he don't want me to be after killing me self gallivanting up and down the three flights to see if he do be in or out. I wish they all done as he does “ '. One evening as the Normid reached the head of the last flight he met an eider,y man, tall and straight, with a gray mustache, which curled up at the ends: There was an anxious, troubled look on the bld gentleman's face. “Pardon me sir,” he began. “I am .Mr. Clerkinwell. I believe) I have the honor to be your neighbor.” The e Nomad tried gently to suggest that the honor was the other way, bit Mr.* Clerkinwell waved away the idea as obnox ious te him. “Did you.” he continued, “happen to notice a small Card in the hall mirror wita my name on it?—but, of course, you didn't." “But I did notioe it.” “Indeed?” said Mt. Clenkinwell: “how ob serving! Perhaps you noticed, too, if it said ‘Mr. Clerkinwell—Gut.’ or Mr. Clerkinwell - In.”’ "It says‘Mr. Clerkinwell—ln.’ “Oh. dear—that's right. I'm in. I just came in: but I couldn’t‘remember if I changed . it or not. I’m glad it's right, because it will ' save me a trip down all those stairs. Good night, sir,”.and Mr, Clerkinwell disappeared in his room. After this the Nomad saw more of Mr. Clerkinwell,-and even penetrated his room, on his invitation, and talked with him of many things. But Mr.’Clerkinwell always seemed to have a nervous, preoccupied air which the Nomad traced readily to his appre hension lest the card in the mirror was wrong. Usually after coming in it took at least one trip and sometimes two back to the hall to satisfy Mr. Clerkinwell that the card was right. ' It was the same way when he went out; he always came back; from the stoop at least, and sometimes from the corner. Often when he came ;n the Nomad, to save him the trip back, would go down for him to make sure that Mr. Clerkinwell was In. not Out; and never did the Nomadic eyes fail to consult the card carefully when their owner passed through the hall; and sometimes when going out the Nomadic legs would again ascend the Three Pair when it was feared that the card was wrong. Not that-anybody, Mr. Clerkin well himself or any one else, ever did find the card wroqg. Mr. Clerkinwell could no moie pass the hatrack without turning the .card than he could walk through the door w ithout unlocking it; but the thing had taken hold upon the unfortunate Nomad, even as it had upon Mr. Clerkinwell. Butthough drawn into the net. he still re tained his reasoning faculties to a certain ex tent: so one day be ventured respectfully to ask if the labor and mental strain of keeping the card right were not somewhat out of pro per tion to the number of visitors received. Mr. Clerkinwell thought not. "Let me see, ”he mused: "let me see. was it two or three years ago that Maj. Harrodan called. I declare, it’s almost four years. Well, -well: how time flies. But. bless me, it was only last summer that Mrs. Inkster, wife ‘of my dear old schoolmate, Dick Inkster of Philadelphia called on me. What do you think of being out when a lady calls on you?” The Nomad expressed his abhorrence of such an untoward and calamitous concatena tion of events. “So you see.” added Mr. Clerkinwell, cheer fully, “they do drop in occasionally, and you can’t tell when others may come. And when they do come Maggie aan see at a glance if I am out or in.” A It happened three cl*s a<ro, as the Nomad was preparing for bedßhat he Marti heavy tramping on the stjkjtnd along the haM, and lowvoices and going in and- out. Then Maggie rapped aVhis door and said: “Mr./Clerkinwell has been after being took sick bn the street, and they brought him home in a ambulance; and he wishes, sir, if it's not too much trouble, to see you tn liis room.” The Nomad hurried in. Mr. Clerkinwell was m bed, and the doctor was bending over him. "I—l’Ve had a bad turn,” said Mr. Clerkin well, feebly. “They wouldn't stop to let me change.it as they brought me in. ~ Won’t you please go down and attend to it for me? Re member, ‘Mr. Clerkinwell—ln.’ ” The Nomad did so. When the doctor went out he said: “He’s a very sick man.’’ • ■ The Nomad saw Mr. Clerkinwell again in the morning. He - opened his eyes wearily and uttered the one word, “In." The card was still right when the Nomad went out a few minutes later. When'he came back at night it was wrong, as he read plainly in Maggie’s face. So he reached up and righted it-r“ Mr. Clerkinwell—Out." 7 His Goods Undervalued. Elbridge T. Gerry, New York's protector of infants, is having a good deal of trouble with a fine house that he is building in that city, says the New Orleans Picayune. Some time ago work on the house .was delayed by a strike among the workmen, who refused to handle the marble wainscot, which he had imported from abroad, alleging that he ought to patronize home industries. Now he is in a much more serious, trouble. It is with the custom house this time, which has seized a large invoice of interior furnishings for the house on the ground that It was greatly un-’ dervaltied. There were elaborate iron rail-' Ings, marble mantels, arches and caps for pilasters, a great deal of ornamental glass, splendid brass candelabra,' door locks and knobs, and many other things. ..These things were reported to the custom house as worth J 3.000, whereas it ts said that $lO 000 would not cover their value: Os course, it was the builders, and not Mr. Gerry, who made the false report, but. all the same, the goods will be seized, and will have to he bought from the customhouse after-they have lain there a year, or their duplicates wdl have to be pro cured, which will take about ae long. He Did His Be/it. An old Jersey City resident, says the New York Sun, threw down "Dodo.” "I don't think so much of it. lye known Sarah Zab-' nske.” Now. nothing pleases a Jersey City person more than to tell of the days when Jer sey City was not a collection, of car sheds and ferry slips, but had a fine society of its own. "Sarah,” he continued, was the daughter of the chancellor. One time the Dauisti minis ter, De Billet, was visiting the chancellor and Sarah took-him to a party. When it was time to leave the diplomat asked Sarah what the formalities of this country required of him. Sarah was a witch. ‘You must say. ‘By golly. I've had a bully time.” ’ So. with Sarah on his arm. the minister made , a pro found bow. and with his best accents said: ■Madame, by golly. I've had a bully time.’ The woman was astounded, indignant. The man realized he had done something wrong. When he found out how sarah had treated him he was furious. But he afterward mar ried her. Dodo couldn't have given Sarah points, and that was in the -60s.'’ Foreordination. Years ago, says the Summerville News, an old hardshell preacher, who lived on the bor der in the days when the Indians were at war with the whites, was making prearations one morning to go to church, miles away, through a cotmtry infested with savages. He was care fully loading his old flint-lock rifie to take aiong. when a friend present remarked: “What are you going to take that gun along for. oldman? Don’t you know that if it is foreordained for the Indians to kill you, the gun won’t save you?" “ihat s very true,” said the old man, de liberately ramming the ball home, “but sup pose that it is foreordained that the Indian shall be killed? Now. how would the good Lordci.rry out his purpose if I didn't have my gun along?” That closed the debate. Gens. James Longstreet. John B. Gordon, Wade Hampton and Joseph Wheeler are the only survivors of the nineteen lieutenant gen erals of the confederate army. Miss Alice Moore of Cleveland, is one of the few women who have made a century record on tha bicycle. A century run means to ride W 0 miles in a day. • ITEMS OF INTEREST. About the best and most appropriately dressed man in town is a Chinese laundry man in Fourth avenue, says the New York Sun. His soie outer garment is a loose, long piece of gauze, lilac purple in color, extend ing from his shoulders almost to his heels It is oound at the waist by a wide sash of neu tral tint, harmonizing with the garment li. g .. dl f 3 ;. As 6een from street the tall, delicately colored figure, with its graceful drapery, reminds one of the figures drawn by the best of the French decorative painters. Chocolate brewing, says the New York Sun. is a tine art of the east side, especially of the German quarter, and one gets there a better cup of chocolate for a cents than one is likely to get elsewhere in town for 10 or 15 cents. It surpasses the chocolate of the French quarter, having more strength and body. It is the German habit, however, to make chocolate over sweet. Even after the cup has been sweetened quite beyond the taste of the ordinary palate two or three lumps of sugar are placed in the saucer as a concession to persons of unusually sweet tooth. Says an American business man who has been'living in Mexico: “What Mexico most needs is education. The ignorance of the peons is astonishing. If the great churches of America, which are yearly sending mil lions of dollars to China and Africa to educate the heathens there, would devote a fair pro portion of that money to Mexico, tar more •good would be accomplished. The money would be spent and results more apparent. The few missionaries in that country are do ing good, but their number is not sufficient. Then, less theology and more liberal educa tion should be taught, and sectarianism should not interfere with the work. Strange as it may seem, the English tongue has.dis placed the F tench as a foreign toague. and is rapidly being, learned by the younger na tives.” It is not unusual to find, who are un able to swim. An officer of a ship lying at a South street wharf. Jtfew York, said that many of these are men who were brought up in the country. They had a liking for the sea aid were attracted to it by stor.es they had read; or walking a ong the water front on a visit to the city they were struck by the sight of some fine ship and wanted to go to sea. Many of them could not swim- Os course the young sailor who hss shipped in this way knows.he ought toleain to swim, and he ex pects to learn; but he keeps putting it off from day to day andf.om year to year until he gets to be an old man; and then he pays no more.attention to it. In fact, he has been three or four voyages in safety and without mishap he may think no more about it, and he may become a thertufh deep water sailor, a veritable old salt, and je; be unable to swim. A correspondent of the Boston Transcript draws a gloomy picture of the farmers in the hill country of New Hampshire. There is no large area of land anywhere under cultiva tion, and only small herds of cattle. The scattered houses are surrounded by a garden patch, a few acres of corn, a pasture, with dense woods encircling all. “there is no real farming." he says. “Each man has his own mouth and a smaller or larger circle of dependent mouths to till, and he goes at it in the way that lies nearest to his hand: in the way that his father went at it before him. and his grandfather and his father. The commer cial idea of accounting for -outgoes and in comings is no part of their mental make-up; they live from field to mouth, and their hori zon is bounded by the store which takes their butter and eggs in trade, and the town house where they exercise the rights and functions of American citizens.” . • “In a Broadway car the other day,” said Mr. Eozzle to the New York Sun, “I saw something that always interests me, a father and son on friendly and affectionate terms. He was rather a big man, the father, and rather a powerful man. too, physically and mentally; a man of soniev account. The son was even taller than his father, though he couldn't have been more than 16; he was a fine boy, with the spareness of youth, of high intelligence, and with the alertness of that happy period of life. He and his father were great friends, and the father was proud of him. When the conductor came along the father paid for both. . ‘For the toy,’- ihe said, very quietly, to the conductor, at the same time indicating that 6 foot youngster by a slight movement of the hand. It was neces sary that he should explain why he had paid two fares and who the other fare was for, but it was almost touching, nevertheless, the father’s evident feeling of pride aud ; affcc|ion, for the motion seemed also to convey, in spite of him, ‘This is the sort of boys that we raise down our way.’ ” “Just after I had finished college,” said Arthur L. Romaine of New York to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “I made a tour of the old world. During a visit to Palermo I was tempted to go in o the Capuchin convent, which is near there, and the unbounded curiosity which is common to most young people induced me to follow my guide into the catacombs, in which the bodies of people who had died ages before are buried. I saw a great many bodies of both sexes in an ex cellent state of preservation. There were lots of ghostly friars dressed in the habit of their orders, and either lafdawav on shelves or fastened against the walls in an upright position. Death is rarely ludicrous, but there these old fellows are grinning at you like Chewy cats, and [ defy any man with the smallest vein of humor to exmaine these mummies without laughing either inwardly or outwardly. The price of plates varies with the position, though women for some reason or other, are charged twice as much as men. The women are exposed to view in glass lidded coffins, and appear to have been decked out in all their finery. Some of these bodies have been there for centuries, but to look at them one could easily imagine they had died only the day before.” “Yes, sir. There is such a thing as an epi demic of diamohd thefts,” is the way a diamond detective stated it to the Chicago Record. You know there are such things as diamond detectives; men wbo are experts in the capture of diamond robbers. “I never knew,” the diamond detective went on. “one diamond robbery to occur in this city, or any other, that it wasn't followed by two or more on the same day. or within a few days. I sup* pose you have heayd that a man who makes the stealing of diamonds his business will rarely steal anything else. That is why you sometimes hear of burglars entering a house and leaving everything untouched. They en tered the house io get diamonds, and, failing, they wanted nothing else. The average dia mond thief is a pretty sleek young man. He generally knows where he can dlsuose of dia monds before he gets them. The trick played on Peacock Monday is an old one, but not a very clever one. It is my opinion that the young man had pals, and that they knew the regular delivery man at Peacock s was absent. It is a trick of diamond thiaves to interest some one in apparent good standing to help them out in their work. No doubt, in this case, the young man has teen cultivated by the thieves tor some time for just such a game. Some years ago I knew a young man in this city whose people belonged to the up per crust and he was as suave as a dancing master. But beneath the surface he was crooked, and all his associates were young men who would not be permitted to enter his own home. He was offered regular pay by a nest of thieves to act as theit go-between and was in their employ when he was run to cover. Through his people he gave the gang away and they were all captured and are now doing time. The young go between was let off and afterward reformed.” Cleopatra was aovidow. She was the cause of not a little discord in the families o; both Caesar and Antony. The former took her to Rome with him. but the people sympathized so strongly -with the dictator’s wife that he was obliged to send the Egyptian queen rack to her own . country. Antony gladly ruined himself for her sage. Cleopatra was a blonde, with a complexion like ivory, yellow hair and blue eyes. Zenobla, the queen heroine of Palmyra, became a widow after the fall of that city before the Roman arms. She was taken in triumph to Rome, and after being released married a Roman senator and be came an exemplary housewife. Artemisia. Queen of Caria. immortalized herself by the honors she paid to her dead husband. Mau soleus. she erected for him the, most splen did tomb in the word, hence the word mauso leum. Queen Victoria is the most powerful wiaow on the globe. She rules 11.475,057 square miles of tha earth’s territory and 37b.7i5.857 of its population. U b seame a widow Lecember 14. 1861. Boadicea was a widow when she led the great revolt which nearly ended the Ro man power in England. She committed sui cide after the defeat of her army. Andro mache, the widow of Hector, was tall, blonde and blue eyed. After the capture of Trov she was married to Pyrrhus, surviving him to take a third husband. The ex-Empress Eugenie of France lives in retirement in England, with occasional visits to the conti nent. She and Victoria are warm personal friends. The list of sovereigns record the names of 326 widows, who either reigned in their own names of as regents. Mme. de Maintenon was the Widow Searron for years before she attracted the attention of Louis XIV There is a Hebrew tradition that Eve survived Adam, and was therefore th? first widow. Mary Stuart was one of the most fascinating widows who ever lived. THE NEWS IN GEORGIA. Gathered From Correspondents and Exchanges. Maj. Dj M. Andrews and Lieut. Charles D Echlos arrived at Rome, and went down the Coosa on the Resaca. They went on an in specting tour for the United States govern ment. It has been twenty years since any government work has bee done on the Coosa between Rome and Gadsden. All the work has been done below that point, and now work is needed above it. It is expected that an ap propriation of 1100,000 will be made for this purpose. Col. T. E. Patterson, chairman of the prohi bition committee of Spaulding county, ap peared before Judge' Hardeman at Macon Wednesday in behalf of Sundry prohibitionists of Spaulding, and requested a mandamus compelling the ordinary of Spaulding county to show cause why the ordinary should not fix a date for holding a prohibition election in Spaulding. Judge Hardeman granted the mandamus and ordered the ordinary of Spald ing. to show cause on August 6. at Griffin, be fore tne superior Court judge then presiding, a rr election should not be fixed. The mandamus became necessary, as the ordinary had declined to fix a date. Judge Hardeman holds that a primary election in a county for a nomination is not a general elec tion, in the meaning of the law. News reached Americus Tuesday of another brutal murder of a white man at the hands of a negro and his ready pistol. The murder was committed in the little town of Appleton, on the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad, and the officer killed was Bailiff Watson, who was also postmaster of the town. Bailiff Watson went to the house of the negro, Arthur Currie, to serve a warrant upon him for assault with intent to murder Currie was in bed when the officer ■entered the room and stated his business. The negro made a motion as if to rise, but instead drew a pistol from beneath his pillow, and leveling it at Watson, pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the throat just beneath the left ear and came out near the center of the neck. Watson fell to the floor and never spoke after being shot. Currie did not even stop to put on his coat or shoes, but leaping from the window fled to the woods. - Augusta Herald: There is a queer story afloat in the city, which has created much sensational talk. - Details are meager, but from what we can learn, the following is about as reliable a summary of the case as is known by any one except the principals. The case is said to be located in West End. A young man had been visiting a young lady for a length of time, and it was generally con ceded that they were engaged. Some time ago, however, they had a misunderstanding. At a recent picnic, to which both parties went, the young man "as constantly in com pany with another lady, and some one told the former lady that they were to be married within a short time, or something to that effect—perhaps tbasingly. This enraged her. She went home and told her mother that he had betrayed her. The young man, by trickery, was summoned to the home of the lady, where he was forced to allow a marriage ceremony performed. Subse quently, he left town. After he had left, the girl acknowledged that she had concocted a scheme to prevent him from marrving any l one else. Gt course this chagrined the family of the young man, while, it is well known, that marriage, under such circumstances, would be illegal. Wednesday, so the report goes, the father of the young man went be fore Judge Conner and swore out a warrant against the lady for falsification, but whether he did so or not remains to be developed. Augusta Chronicle: Excitement was created in Magistrate Herndon’s court Wednesday morning by Messrs. M. P. Foster and M. P. Carroll, attorneys on opposite sides in a case on trial, engaging in a'fisticuff. Mr. Foster represented Virginia Dunn,, a negress, who was suing L. B. Burns, a money lender, for the recovery of her watclh The woman pawned her timepiece with Mr. Burris for $4. and when she went to redeem her pledge she claimed that the watch Mr. Burns offered her was not the one that she had left with him. She contended that her chronometer was a SIOO gold hunting case watch. Mr. Burns in sisted that the watch he tendered Virginia was the one she had soaked with him. The two could not agree upon the matter, so went to court to have it decided. Mr. Foster, in arguing the case to the court asked Mr. Carroll a question which he at first refused to answer, and when pro pounded the second time Mr. Carroll told Mr. Foster if he would gentlemanly ask him the question he would answer it. Mr. Foster quickly retorted that if Mr. Carroll said he asked the question in an ungfefftlbmanly style he was a liar. Mr. Carroll arose from his seat and advanced toward Mr. Foster and two or three blows were passed. Spectators quickly interferred and parted the lawyers before any injury could be inflicted. A’fter the difficulty, which threw the court into a state of confusion, was over. Mr. Carroll apol ogized to the court for having used unparlia mentary language and he and Mr. Foster shook hands and made friends, which amica bly settled the trouble. Neither one of the lawyers was lined for contempt of court. It is reported that the cotton factory at Dennard will be shut down on or about Aug. £O, and that the operatives will move else where as soon as they can secure employ ment. It is further reported that the factory has been sold, or that a sale is being nego tiated. The saw-mill and fixtures, mules and other property belonging to the firm of Bull & Greene of Sylvester was sold at receiver s sale last Saturday. The mill and the l ulk of the other property was bought by Wright & WeSlosky of Albany. All the property except the mid brought very good prices. Griffin Call: Sam Hall, a negro employed by the Mangham Drug Company, became very curious Thursday to learn the contents of the jugs, bottles and boxes in the rear of their store room, and in doing so opened a cartoon of ammonia and applied his nose. It knocked him silly, and when Will Elder brought him around his bump of inquisitive ness had gone down rapidly. The Rome Tribune.which has for some time been managed by J. A. Hall as editor, will be sold to seaborn Wright. Gordon Hiles and W. A. Knowles on August 1. These gentlemen are well known throughout the state. It is thought that Hon. Seaborn Wright will use the paper in his behalf when he becomes a candidate for congress fi om the Seventh dis trict as an independent against Judge Mad dox,who will be the democratic nominee. This rumor, however, is denied by Mr. Wright's friends, who say that he has controled a large share of the Tribune for the past two years, and if he had desired to become a candidate and allow the paper to advertise him, he could have done so long ago. La Fayette Moore of Cordele, knpwn all through the timber section as *Drykiln Moore,” has been for years about saw mills and engaged especially in drying timber. The old process was so slow that Mr. Moore gave the matter thought, and the result is he has patented a process which will revolution ize the business of lumber drying. He dis cards altogether the old rl in of fans. His lumber is put in an inclosed chamber pro vided with heating devices, with air inlets at the base of the chamber. His process ab sorbs the moisture at once from the timber. His process is now used by the Parrott num ber Company, by Butts & Co. of Ashburn, by J. J. McDonough, Stillwell, Millen & Co. of bavannah and others. 1 J. H. Davis of Albany lost fifteen chickens and a few turkeys Wednesday night from a disease which he does not understand. Mr.. Davis says when he went to his chicken house Thursday morning every fowl that he had was dead or dying. It appeared as though the necks of the chickens were suddenly broken, death resulting almost instantly. Gov. Northen is expected to go to Chatta nooga next Wednesday to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the Southern Interstate Industrial and Immigration Asso ciation. which meets in that city Aug. 1. The chamber of commerce of Chattanooga is making extensive preparations to entertain the delegates, a number of whom will be governors. Lowe Tomlinson had an accident on his ox wagon at McDonough last Monday morning which came very near ending bis earthly ca reer. He reached down to gather up the lines, which had fallen, and his steer made a sud den lunge, throwing him to the ground, when both wheels passed over his neck, almost breaking it. He was badly choked up. and carried to Dr. Scott’s office for surgical atten tion. W. O. Tift of Tifton has just had notifica tion of the disposition of some peaches shipped by him to northern markets. While the shipment was not a large one, it was highly satisfactory. The consignment was ten crates, containing a little less than three pecks each for which Mr. Tift realized s7l. or about $lO per bushel. Mr. Tift has more of the same kind, and will ship them as early as possible. The Valdosta Videttes. at a meeting on Monday night, received the report of the special committee on captain, and unani mously recommended Prof. A. T. Moore for the vacancy. Cn Thursday night the formal election was held by T. M. Cook. J. P.. and two freeholders, confirming the choice of the company. It will likely be two months before the examinations are completed and the com mission delivered. ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA. The News of the State Told in Paragraphs. Several parties have been digging for treasure on the banks of Gasparllla sound, near Grove City, said to have been buried by the pirate Gasparilia. No find of value has yet been reported.. Saturday while Dan Barco and John Brooks were arranging some head stones in St. John’s cemetery at Cotton Plant in Marion county last Saturday lightning struck | the roof and chimney of the church, com pletely demolishing it. A buggy belonging to a negro who was assisting in the work, was shattered and torn all to pieces. Fortunately no one was hurt. At a meeting of the democratic executive committee of Calhoun county. Wednesday, W. B. Clark was elected chairman and J. T. Boykin, secretary, All the members bf the committee were present, excent three. Ou motion of Hon. A. Buford, the committee de cided to call a primary election for Aug. 30, to nominate a representative and county of ficers. This county is decidedly in favor of a railroad commission. A mast pitiful sight was seen on the arrival of the steamer May Garner from down the river at Jacksonville', Tuesday morning. A negro woman carried a baby 11 months of age. which had its left arm torn off. From what could be learned the baby had been shot with a double,-barreled shotgun, and the re suit was its arm being torn off and several shot entering its side in the neighborhood of the heart. The child was carried to Jackson-. ville for medical treatment, but died at I o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The incessant rains are found to be damag ing to the cotton'crop in Columbia county, but a decided advantage to the late corn and hay crops. Up to the present time 10 per cent, damage to the cotton crop is thought to be a conservative estimate, pears abe being sold in fair quentities in Lake City at 80 cents to $1 her bushel and the housewives are busy preserving and canning. The fruit is of good size and the crop much heavier - than it was estimated it would be. The new postmaster of Lake City, W. H. Perry, has been duly installed and ru mor has it that- a brick poqtoffice is to be erected near the northeast corner of Marion street, through the enterprise of an indi vidual. Near Idlewijd Park Thursday while John J. Burrus, a farmer, was engaged preparing ground for sweet potatoes, he discovered a chicken snake about five feet long, which he killed. Noticing that it was of unusual size in proportion to its length, he cut it in two to make a post mortem examination and found that the stomach contained two large size opal glass eggs. Mr. Barrus says that when a boy he wps visiting a cooper who lived near Tallahassee by the name of Wells Hamlin, and while there a setting hen had been driven from her pest by a large chicken snake. The snake was soon after killed opened in his presence and eighteen eggs taken from its body. He furthermore said that the eggs were put back under the faith fulold hen, and that every egg hatched out a lively chicken. Orlando Reporter: What was formerly the Bonnie May Mines Phosphate Company, near Pemberton, and originally owned by M. C, Rerdell and W. McCoy, has recently been organized into the Bonnie May Mining Com pany of Hartford, Conn., with R. M. Burdick, well known here, for president, and Charles H. Clarke, city attorney of Hartford, as sec retary and treasurer, and M. C. Rerdell aS su perintendent. For three weeks Mr. Rerdell was engaged in. buying the most improved machinery and putting up buildings, and they now have probably the best phosphate plant in the state, as great care was taken in the purchase of machinery and they will begin operations about Aug. I. The capacity of the plant is about 50 tons per day. Before purchasing the ma chinery Mr. Rerdell visited nearly every plant in the state and says his is the only genuine soft phosphate on the market. They have a rating from the state chemist which is the highest in Florida. Tim organization is per fected under the laws of Connecticut which al* low no watering of stock and require that 90 per cent, of it be paid up. making it a strong, safe company. The head officers are in Hart ford. where President Burdick, a well-known winter resident of Orlando, resides, as well as does Secretary and Treasurer Clarke. Gen. Robert Bullock, one of the prime movers in the new organization known as the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, has, it is reported, refused $1.25 per box on the tree for his large crop of oranges from his Marion county grove. Dr. L- W,. Weedon, assignee, sold the Bay pharmacy at Tampa at public outcry Wednes day. H. J. Cooper was the purchaser; con sideration $1,200. A. W. Lynn has a’ record as an alligator catcher. He has caught and killed 775 sau rians this year. Add to this 21 rattlesnakes and 450 moccasins and it makes quite a re cord. One alligator killed by him measured 10 feet and 11 inches. Pinny Dukes, says the Ocala New Capitol, is the owner of a most valuable dog. Yester day he gave the dog a basket containing a note and money, and told him to go to the market. The dog did as ordered, returning with every thing his owner ordered. -j/ S. S. Harvey of Escambia county is re- '. ported to have one of the best pear crops in the United States, a little fortune richly won in the face of all discouraging croakers. All suitable lands set in pears near the railroad will soon be worth SIOO per acre. The crop of guavas at Yailaha Is greater than for several years. John James Is ethu siastic on the subject of starting a factory to work them up. .fie has capital at his com mand and if he can get the guavas at a rea sonable l price the factory will be a cer tainty. Ground has beqn broken for the new jail at Milton. A. W. Olson, who contracted for all the brick work, has a full crew of men at . work, and it is qnlv a question of a short time when the building will be completed. Manley &00. of Georgia have the contract for the en tire building, at a cost of about SIO,OOO. The People s party of Hillsboro county<or ganized Wednesday by electing A. V. Wright chairman and William p. Neeld secretary. It will meet again. Aug. 7 for the purpose of de-, ciding whether or not primaries or conven tion Sill be adopted as the mode of nomina ting county officers. A full People’s natty ticket will be jn the field. The Pensacola News states that the British steamship Akaba, Capt. Carter, which sailed from Pensacola May for London with a cargo of over 2,000,000 feet of lumber and tim ber, being the second ■■ largest over carried from this port, arrived at London, discharged her cargo and returned on July 19, making the round trip in fifty-eight days. A call has been issued by S. S. Puckett, chairman, and T. J. Appleyard, secretary ot the Nineteenth senatorial district democratic executive committee, for a convention to meet at Orlando on Aug. 15 to nominate a successor'to Maj. M. R. Marks. Maj. Marks, it is thought, will be nominated. Orange county will send ninety delegates and Osceola county will send thlrty-peven. Two almost disheartened young men from Jonesville were in the city yesterday, says the Gainesville Sun. They had set the date for a double wedding, and in vain bed endeav ored to secure marriage licenses, The county judge of Levy would not grant a license, and, of course, there is no one in Alachua county authorized to do so. They will go to Starke to-day and apply to the judge at that place for the iffiportant documents. The Orlando Reporter holds forth as fol lows: " There is a trite old saying that light ' ning never strikes but once in a place. We have positive proof that this old -saving.’ like many other signs and superstitions handed down to us from the dark ages, is not reliable. A large pine tree just east of this city was struck by lightning about one year ago, killing it. One day last week the same tree was again struck in the same place sliv ering it from top to bottom-’ 1 T. H. Henderson, a colored men employed as porter at Label Bros’ carriage shop, at .Jacksonville; died Thursday from the effects of eating shrimp. On last Tuesday evening Henderson procured a quart of shrimp, from which himself and several other persons ate heartily. At about 2 o'clock in the morning Henderson was taken with severe pains in the stomach, and a physician was called. Re lief was administered and he was thought to be getting along all right until yesterday morning, when he was suddenly taken worse again and died. The will of the late Peleg Peckham was filed in County Judge Bryan's office, at Or lando. Friday, for probate and record. The will bequeAtbes his daughter. Minnie Peck ham (now Mrs. A. MacCallum) all of his Win ter Park property, and to his son, Charles C. Peckham, his farm in West Hartford, Conn., the rest and residue of the estate being left to his wife. Upon the testimony ot the superintendent of Cincinnati sanitarium Mrs. Minnie Poyntz has been granted of guardianship for O. T. Poyntz. The superintendent of the san itarium states that Mr. Poyntz is utterly in capable of managing his affairs and probably never will be again in such mental condition as to be able to be without guardianship. Letters of guardianship were issued by County Judge Bryan at Orlande Friday morning.