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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1894.
Hill the Nominee.
Senator Hill will lead the democrats of
New York this fall, and he will lead
them to victory. His nomination creates
intense enthusiasm throughout the state.
Under his leadership the democratic
ticket will poll a larger vote than it would
have polled under the leadership of any
other man. The factions will forget their
differences, arid personal animosities will
disappear in the enthusiasm with, which
the campaign will be conducted.
The ticket is a strong one. Senator
Hill, for governor, represents the Hill
faction. Hon. Daniel Lockwood, for lieu
tenant governor, represents the Cleve
land democrats, and Judge Gaynor, for
judge of the court of appeals, represents
the reform element of the party. The
ticket is skilfully constructed.
Senator Hill is confident of being
elected. He would not have accepted the
nomination if he had not been satisfied
that he woyld have the hearty support of
about every democrat of the state. With
a support of that kind he can hardly be
defeated.
The party wanted Senator Hill as its
candidate because it believed that with
"him its success was sure, and there are
some grounds for thinking that he wanted
the nomination. No doubt he regards it
a* almost certain that he will be the
presidential candidate of his party in
1896 if he succeeds in gaining the governor
ship. Success in New York under exist
ing circumstances would direct the atten
tion of democrats in all parts of the coun
try to him as an available presidential
candidate.
His nomination gives the gubernatorial
contest in New York national importance.
There is no doubt that Mr. Morton, the
republican candidate, accepted the nomi
nation wltn the view of being the next
presidential candidate of his party. Sen
ator Hill accepted the nomination, there
is good reason to believe, with the
same view. Th© one that is elected
will stand a pretty fair chance
of having his ambition gratified. Each
party, therefore, will put forth its whole
strength. The contest will be a notable
one. The whole country will be pro
foundly interested in it.
Senator Hill is not i>opular in the Sen
ate. It is not believed that he is satisfied
there. The position offers him no oppor
tunity for paving the way to the presi
dency/ He likes the life of an active pol
itician. It will be with no regret, there
fore, that he entersagain actively into
state politics, having presidency as
his goal.
Judge Hines and the Blacks.
It is stated that a large number of the
black voters of Bulloch county have
signed a pledge that they will not vote
for Judge Hines. This action is doubtless
due to the statement of a number of
prominent white citizens of that county
that Judge Hines, on several occasions,
in their presence, spoke contemptuously of
the colored people, showing that he has a
very low opinion of them.
But why should any colored man vote
the populist ticket? The {topulists do
not promise them anything in their plat
form, and they couldn’t fulfill promises
to them if they should make any. What
the populists want is the assistance of
the black vote. They are talking ahout
free school books and telling the blacks
they will share the offices with them, I
but, as a matter of fact, they have no use
for the blacks. They have about the
same opinion of them that Judge Hines is
alleged to have expressed.
The main reason why the populists are
now so anxious to get the black vote is
that they see there is going to be a great
falling off in the populist vote next
Wednesday, and they want to make as
good >, showing as they did two years ago.
They know If they do not populism in this
statj will be as “dead as a door nail.” If
the populist vote should fall considerably
below what it was in the last state elec
tion * the great majority of the populists
would go back to the democratic party,
satisfied that it would be folly to keep
. alive any longer the populist organization.
The populist leaders are sufficiently
well informed in respect to the condition
of their party’ to know that there has
been a very great decline in the strength
of their party, and that at the election
they will make a very poor showing, un- !
less they can get the blacks to come to
their assistance.
But will the blacks lend them a helping
hand { The indications ar© they will not.
They understand the political situation
in this state, and are not disposed to as
sist a party that is largely composed of
men Iteiween whom and themselves there
has been,from time to immemorial, clearly
defined enmity.
There have been many reports of the
organization of the blacks by populists,
and of the purpose of the blacks to vote
with the populists,'but as yet these re
ports have not been traced to any authen
tic source. The blacks cannot be so
easily made use of a» the populist leaders
seem to think.
Last Days of the Campaign.
The state campaign is very nearly
' ended. There will be speeches deliv
ered in various parts of the state to-mor
row and next day, but the voters have z
had the issues clearly placed before
them, and they have about made up their
minds as to the ticket they will vote.
There will, of course, be a vast amount of
work done on Wednesday, the day of
election. Thousands of democrats will
remain away from the polls on the plea
that their votes are not needed, or that
they cannot spare the time to go to the
polls, unless they are urged to discharge
their duty as citizens by their more en
thusiastic and zealous democratic neigh
bors. Those democrats, therefore, who
realize the importance of giving the dem
ocratic ticket a big majority should
make it a point to see that every demo
cratic voter in their respective neighbor
hoods goes to the polls and votes.
The plea that the democratic ticket
will be elected even though many demo
crats do not vote is not a good one. In
fact, there is scarcely any plea that can
be offered that will justify democrats in
neglecting to vote. It is of the greatest
importance to the people of the state that
the democratic ticket shall be not only
elected, but that it shall also receive an
overwhelming majority. A big majority
means the death of populism in the state.
A small majority would lead the populists
to believe they are gaining ground, and
that belief would encourage them to make
greater efforts to get control of thet state
in future elections.
What populism has done in Kansas it
would do in Georgia. It would check the
state’s progress by legislation that would
practically shut out capital and immigra
tion. It would promote dissatisfaction
and confusion. The people would become
disheartened and discouraged, and would
become less earnest in their efforts to
build up the state and improve their ma
terial condition.
Under democratic rule the state has
made splendid progress. It has grown
steadily in wealth and pppulation. The
public schools have been fostered, and the
rights of all classes have been protected.
A continuance of the state’s prosperity
depends upon the supremacy of the Demo
cratic party by such a majority as will
satisfy home-seekers and investment
seekers that the populists have no pros
pect of getting control of the state.
The campaign of the democrats has
been conducted on a high plape. The is
sues have been fairly and frankly dis
cussed by men of* larger intelligence and
broader views than is generally the case
in state campaigns. The Speaker of the
House, Secretary of the Interior, United
States senators and candidates for sen
ator, as well as the candidate for gov
ernor and candidates for congress and
the legislature, have been the chief
speakers. The people ought to be, and
doubtless are, well informed in respect to
the issues, and a democratic majority
larger than that of two years ago may be
confidently expected.
Why the People Like Mr. Turner.
The chief reason why the people ad
mire Congressman Turner as a public
man is that he is thoroughly honest.
He does not pretend to agree with them
for the sake of gaining their good will
when he knows they are in the wrong,
nor does he attempt to evade the discus
sion of an issue, concerning which the
people differ, for fear of injuring his
popularity. He is a man of convictions,
and his opinion on any subject is the re
sult of a very thorough and conscientious
•study of that subject. He would rather
not have the favor of the people than to
gain it by means not thoroughly’ honest.
In consequence of his straightforward
course not only in congress but also in his
campaign speeches, the people have a pro
found respect for him. Even those who
differ with him on public questions never
question his sincerity.
It is admitted that he is one of the few
men in congress who are entitled to be
called statesmen. He is not an orator.
He would not be chosen to deliver an ad
dross where the kind of eloquence that
thrills an audience and excites demon
strations of approval was desired. But
he is a thinker—a man who leads men by
the force of his logic. His conclusions
are accepted because they all seem to be
correct.
In the canvass he is making for Senator
Mr. Turner is telling the people very
frankly what his views are on the issues
before the country. His views on some
issues may not be acceptable to all of
them, but that makes no difference to
him. He regards it as his duty to speak
what he believes to be the truth and for
the best interests of the whole country.
Such men are scarce. When they are
found they should be placed by the people
in the most responsible positions.
Work for Barnest Wom?n.
Dr. Parkhurst thinks there is work in
New York for earnest women to do. He
believes they can help him materially in
I carrying into effect the reforms he has in
• view. He saw what women did in Ken
tucky toward defeating Breckinridge, and
he is now inclined to enlist the women of
New York in the effort to purify the gov
ernment in that city.
He has not fully decided yet whether
; or not he will call on them for assistance.
In a public address last week he said he
. was considering the advisability of ask
, ing them to lend him a helping hand, and
in a subsequent interview he said: “A
live woman, thoroughly awake, is an im
mense team. There is something in a
j crowd of thoroughly earnest women that
' is impossible to overcome. Didn’t they
> turn the city upside down last summer
when they discussed suffrage ’ A woman
> carries everything with her. She
makes her own convictions felt, and the
! one great truth is this—what women talk
about everybody else talks about.”
If Dr. Parkhurst should ask the
! women to help him his crusade against
bad government in New York would be
cortie far more forceful than it has yet
I been. He could, in all probability, name
the next city government. He would
have thousands of women with him. and
they would represent every class of so
ciety. They would compel the men to as
sist in turning the rascals out.
Dr. Parkhust has already made him-
I self a terror to corrupt officials. He has
demonstrated that his power is greater
than theirs. If he should bring the
earnest women to his assistance there
would be a revolution in New York city
politics such as the politicians of that
city never dreamed of. New men would
come to the front, and those who have
I lived and grown fat at the expense of the
I people would be retired forever.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TiMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1894.
PERSONAL.
Mists Winnie Davis Is the guest of Mrs.
Charles De Kay Townsend at Milford, Pa.
The King of Italy has sent to .the Empress
of China several pictures and other objects of
art.
Lord Arthur Hill has the reputation of be
ing the best dressed man in the house of
commons. *
George Gould's expenses this season in con
nection with the yachts Vigilant and Atalanta
* have been nearly 8400.000.
The members of a Japanese club in New
York are making extensive preparations to
celebrate the victory at Ping Yang.
Mr- Gladstone has in his library at Ha
warden castle a very fine collection of hymn
hooks belonging to various communions.
The pastor of the Wilberforce Memorial
church, Birmingham, England, Rev. Peter
Stanford, is a negro, who was born in slavery.
Caroline Bruce and Agnes Kjillberg,
Sweedish women,- received honorable men
tion at the Paris. Salon for sculpture. The
latter holds the scholarship of the Swedish
academy.
Perhaps no woman who ever lived was
loved with a fiercer affection than the wife of
Andrew Jackson. After keeping his dueling pis
tol oiled and the hair-trigger of his temper set
all his lite on her account, Old Hickory said
on his deathbed that he would forgive all his
enemies except those who had slandered her.
An American who was present at the fete
at Hawarden in honor of Mr. Gladstone’s
golden wedding was impressed most strongly
by the prime minister s numerous commis
sions from the queen, which looked formid
able with their great seals attached and also
with an exhibit of axes in the house. Os these
there were fully half a hundred, the gifts of
English and American admirers of the grand
old man.
' A pretty story is being told of the veteran
chess player, Herr Steinitz. who has just been
beaten by Emmanuel Lasker in a contest for
the chess championship of the world. There
came a moment in the final match in which
steinitz, whose capacity for looking ahead
has always been phenominal. realized that
his youthful rival must beat him. Whereupon,
without going through the formality of with
drawing from the contest, the veteran simply
rose to his feet and shouted energetically;
‘ Long live the new champion!”
BRIGHT BITS.
Dyspeptic Lady—Doctor, do you think
oysters are unhealthy?
Doctor—No, madam—at least, I have not
yet treated any.—Truth.
The Duet at the Goldstein Reception.—
Ikenheimer—My! My! Ain’t dese hardt times
awful? Dose Goldstein girls has both to blay
off der same piano.—Puck.
She —How fearful it must be for a great
singer to know she has lost her voice.
He—lt’s much more torturing when she
doesn’t know it.—Tit-Bits.
Mrs. A.—At our hotel there were so many
people to talk with!
Mrs. B.—And at our’s there were so many
to talk about. —Boston Transcript.
“If you don’t leave at once I shall call the
porter!”
Peddler—Very well! Perhaps he will buy
something of me.—Fliegende Blatter.
Clara —Were there any marrying men down
at the beach this summer?
Cora—Yes; there were two ministers and a
justice of the peace.—Yonkers Statesman.
Teachqr (to class in the science of govern
ment) —What is the difference between fiat
and actual money?
Thomas Goldbug—About thirty-five cents.—
Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Emdee—Years ago the doctors used to
bleed their patients for about everything they
had.
Van Pelt—The practice doesn't change
much, does it?—Truth.
Indicative--What makes you think Jack
Youngley is going to propose to you?
“Why, we were dancing the other nigh* and
I complimented him upon the easy way in
which he held me. ‘Oh. yes,’ he said, it's al
ways easy for me to hold my own.’ ’’—Brook
lyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Wages Under Two Tariffs.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
In December, 1893, under the operation of
the McKinley tariff, the Lowell Manufactur
ing Company reduced the wages of its work
ingmen. As a result of the working of the
tariff law putting wool on the free list the
company restored wages on Sept. 4, last.
This action of the Lowell Manufacturing
Company is respectfully commended to the
attention of Philadelphia manufacturers who,
a few weeks before the election, find it con
venient to threaten their employes with
further reductions.
Calamity Humbug.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.).
Os course the lamentation of the sugar
trust, that the new tariff has ruined its busi
ness is humbug. It is probably not wholly
unconnected with the speculative decline in
sugar securities. But it has quite as much
foundation, in fact, as the kindred lamenta
tions of various other manufacturers, many
of whom have a higher rate of protection un
der the new tariff than is given the sugar re
finers and who are making the same prepos- •
terous complaint. The McKinley organs, in
pointing out the unreasonableness of the
sugar wail, are letting their readers into the
secret of the whole calamity humbug.
Th® “Smart” Ex-President.
From the Chicago Herald (De m.).
One of the “smart" things said by Benja
min Harrison in his Indianapolis speech was
this: “Our democratic friends have passed a
tariff bill thqt is approved by only six dem
ocratic senators and by nobody else." This
is hardly true. I’he few monopoly features
of the democratic tariff were approved by
the six renegade democratic senators and by
all of the republic an senators. So far as the
remnant of McKinley robbery is concerned it
suits the republicans mightily. All the re
form features of the bill suit the democrats
and honest men generally. If the ex-Presi
would tell the whole truth about these mat
ters he would set his party a better example
than he does.
What Wilson Told the Englishmen.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
Chairman William L. Wilson was the guest
of honor at a banquet of the London Chamber
of Commerce last evening, and, while observ
ing perfectly the courtesies of the occasion,
he made a speech that breathed the true
American spirit. In a friendly wav he warned
his hosts that the American people were low
ering the tariff barriers about our country,
not so much to let foreign trade in —though
they were not afraid of that—but to let them
selves out and to get access to the markets of
the world on such terms as their resources
and energies would enable them to make.
That is at once a statement of a well-estab
lished economic fact, and the expression of
that high American courage which the pro
tectionists have done so much to quell.
Restore Appomattox.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.).
Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell’s
explanation of the reason why Appomattox
was changed to Surrender does not mend the
matter in the least. Mr. Maxwell does not
assume the responsibility for the preposter
ous change, but, of. course, some one in the
postoffice department sanctioned it. Appo
mattox should, by all means, remain un
touched. Jhe suggestion of Surrender as a
substitute for it must have originated in a
madhouse. There must be common sense
enough left in the department to decree that
what has been done in this matter shall be
undone. We notice that Gov, O'Ferrall is
highly indignant over wba‘ he terms an in
sult to the people of his state. That is a good
sign. He ought not to let his wrath go down
until Appomattox has been restored.
McKinley on the Stump.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
The tariff of 1890 is declared by its author
better than the tariff of 1894. To support this
declaration Mr. MeKinley makes the astound
ing assertion that under the law of 1890 “every
; man in this country was employed at good
■ wages.” whereas in fact, there were strikes
• and reduction of wages in most protected in
dustries. M ich to be regretted is Nr. Mc-
Kinley's straddle, or seeming approval, of
the silver free coinage heresy. The repeal of
the panic-creating Sherman silver act is de
plored and voters are urged to vote republi-
j can because "the party that struck down sil
, ver and gave it the severest blow it ever bad
i cannot be relied upon to give that metal hon
; oi-ble treatment.'’ Is the Republican
i party, after all, the party of silver nfiatioo
I and bent upon bringing financial ruin upon
’ the country.
Revenue and Gratitude.
It was In the West Indies, in the Island of
Martinique, where snakes of the most deadly
description abound, says a writer in the Bos
ton Globe. I was acting as ganger in charge
of black laborers on one of the largest plan
tations.
Among the men was a huge negro, recently
imported from the Guinea coast. I had
caught him skulking one morning, and threat
ened that if ever I found him again doing so
I would have him locked up and put on re
stricted diet. At this he flung down the hoe
with which he was working, and defied me to
do my worst.
It was a critical moment If I allowed this
man to set me at defiance my influence over
the gang, who were looking on, would be un
dermined.
‘•Pick up thathoe, you hound!” I thundered,
“or I’ll shoot.”
The man was thoroughly cowed„and, turn
ing sullenly to his work, he continued his
hoeing industriously, and I had no further
cause to complain.
Twice did I catch him stealing up stealthily
behind me, and a third time I found him con
cealed beneath the bed in my sleeping cabin.
At this I took him before the overseer, a
desperado-like Frenchman, one of whose
maxims w’as that the only way to rule men
was to shoot them at the first signs of insub
ordination. When I told him what had taken
place he had the negro led out to the shed at
the back of the house, where there was a
halter hanging from a team in the roof, with
a slip noose in it, as though ready prepared
for use as a gallows.
"See that. Diego. If any harm happens to
the ganger here, or if he goes missing and we
can’t find him, we shall hang you up here by
the neck till you’ve kicked yourself to death.
So you see it will pay you to take care of
him.” «
On the afternoon of the day following my
interview with the overseer I was sitting at
the stables seeing my horse attended to' when
my attention was attracted to Diego, coming
from the neighborhood of a marshy jungle
of trees forty or fifty yards away from the
factory and residential cabins.
He was trailing something along the
ground, which on closer examination proved
to be the body of a terrible poisonous snake,
the “Fer de lance.”
To my surprise, instead of making toward
the laborers’ quarters, after looking stealth
ily round to assure himself that he was not
observed, he entered my own sleeping cabin,
dragging the serpent in after him through
tn? open window.
These serpents live in pairs, and if one of
them is killed and its body taken away the
survivor, when it awakes, to activity in the
nightfall, will follow along the course its
mat has been -taken and in this way will
often travel to great distances.
From where I was standing I could see in
through the open window, as I had expected,
the negro carried the body of the serpent and
placed it upon my bed.
Then lifting it carefully, so that no part of
it any longer touched the ground, he carried
it away and concealed it in the shed where
the overseer had shown him the gallows rope.
When the overseer heard my statament he
immediately ordered Diego to be arrested
and placed in captivity in the very shed in
which he has concealed the body ot the ser
pent.
The moon had risen soon after sunset, and
it was not long before we could see distinctly
the form of the serpent’s mate issuing 1 from
the jungle.
It came with its head raised high in the air,
and swaying from side to side, as though it
were looking for its mate.
Quickly it advanced until it reached the
open window. For a moment it paused here,
Its head thrust through the window. Then
its coil lengthened out, and quicklv, stealth
ily the glistening, slimy monster glided into
the room.
The horror of what would have occurred
but for my fortunate catching sight of the
negro as he brought the snake from the
jungle was upon us all, when suddenly we
were startleci at seeing the snake again issue
from the hut.
This time it came through the doorway,
and by the pace at which it was traveling it
seemed as though it was still following some
definite track.
suddenly we realized where the snake was
going. Although the boay of its mate had
not touched the ground when it was carried
from the hut. the live snake was still follow
ing upon its scent.
As 1 have said. Diego, the negro, was con
fined in the shed, and. seeing the danger to
him, I raised my rifle to fire and kill it before
it could enter. As I did so. however, the over
seer caught the barrel of the rifle, saying:
"What are you doing? The snake's all
right; it’s going into the shed.”
“But Diego.” I gasped, "the negro. It will
attack him and kill him.”
• *T*ft does.’soiQnaqh • t£e worse for Diego.
He'lT, be peppered with-his own sauce/’
I wrenched tree the rifle, but it was too late.
The serpent had already disappeared within
lhe shed. I ran forward at full speed, in
tending to unlock the door and. if possible, to
save the unfertunate man, but even as I ran
a cry of terror and agony rang out and I knew
that I was too late.
I broke the serpent s back with a blow from
the butt end of my rifle and dispatched it
with a bullet a moment later.
Then, turning to Diego. I cut the flesh away
from that part ot his thigh which had been
bitten, and with what little knowledge of sur
gery I possessed, bound up the wound and
stanched the flow of blood. His giant consti
tution enabled him to stand what would have
killed an ordinary man. and his gratitude to
me, whom he regarded as having saved his
life, was as strong as his former resentment
had been, and more than once on subsequent
occasions did I owe my lite to his faithful
service. •■
One of A. T. Stewart’s Secrets.
The phase man of the Boston Journal was
dilating on the value of politeness every
where, but especially in Stores, and remarked
that he would discharge a clerk tor impolite
ness or inattention quicker than he would for
petty theft. Impolite or inattentive clerks
rob their employer of more money in the
course of the year than do the thieves. An
old resident of Roxbury overheard the re
mark, and as an illustration of the impor
tance of politeness on the part of salesmen,
said:
"A good many years ago I went to New
York in company with my friend B. One
snowy day we strolled into A. T. Stewart s
store. Neither of us intended to make a pur
chase. We merely went there as a mattei of
curiosity.
"At the door we were met by a polite gentle
man. who insisted that he should take our
overcoats and umbrellas to relieve us of the
burden of carrying them about the store. We
told him we were not intending to purchase
anything, but that made no difference in his
attentions. Another equally polite gentle
man,insisted on escorting us through the
building. The fact that we did not intend to
purchase goods did not lessen his courtesy.
Finally, to entertain vs. the courteous clerk I
showed us a large invoice of shawls which
had just been received. The clerk unfoided
one after the other, and by and by my friend
said he would take a $1,500 India shawl which
pleased him. and a little later I purchased a
valuable carpet. When we entered the store i
neither of us had the slightest intention of
making a purchase of anything, but the po
liteness oi that clerk put more than $2 000
into the till of A. T. Stewart which would
not have been there otherwise.
"You are quite right in emphasizing the
value of politeness, it is the most valuable
commodity a irai or a woman can carry
about. It may he sometimes misplaced, but
in the long run it pays.”
The Ticket Seller.
From the New York Clipper.
You see him through a little hole,
The ticket seller bold;
A monarch in his rigid air, -
To sympathy quite cold;
It never could be that he was
A youth—he's always old.
He gazes at you with an eye
So critically stern:
Replies severely to the facts
That you desire to learn:
The visage of a dead head he
Can readily discern.
He takes your dollars with a twist
That's born of constant use;
Slaps down your ticket and the change
W ithout the least excuse;
Tho' money's tight he slings it 'round
in manner very loose!
And so the stream goes ever by.
And through the window small.
With whirling brain he etill must sigh
And smiling answer all;
The hardest work of Adam's kin
Yes, ever since the rail!
.Have pitv on him. ladies fair!
Have pity, dead heads, bold!
Have pity for the man whose brain
is premat ;rely old:
Whose worries and nerplexities
Are great and manifold!
St. Peter has no post like this.
Had he this questioning line —
Those thousand queries to expound
And answer. I opine
That even his position old
St. Peter would resign!
“What did you do when he proposed?”
“I lost my self-possession at once." —Truth.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Property to the extent of $3,204,587 was de
stroyed in 1893 by lire caused by electric
wires.
In the belfry of the old parish church at
Bury, England, the curfew that tolled the
knell of parting day t-00 years ago is still in
place,' and is still rung every night at sunset.
Donald Funnam, who lived in Dunkirk,
Scotland, in 1702, is believed to be the tallest
man who ever lived. When he straightened
up, as though he had style about him, he was
li leet 4 inches.
Rare Ben Jonson learned the trade of a
bricklayer, but tired of it. so the story goes,
after a fellow workman dropped a couple of
bricks on his head, and upset a bed full of
mortar down his neck.
The tobacco raised in Beloochistan is ex
ceedingly strong and cannot be smoked by
any but the most vigorous white men. The
natives do not appear to be affected by it, and
children of 10 and 12 years puff away all day
long without any discomfort.
Uncle Ephraim Barnstable, of Dead’s Cor
ners. 0., nas caused a, cage to be constructed
for himself, into which he crawls every night
at 8 o clock and locks himself in. This is on
account of his unfortunate habit of walking
in his sleep and singing “Comrades” at the
top of his voice, to the great annoyance of •
his neighbors.
While Georgia has produced some curi
ously named people, Kentucky believes she
will soon be able to present a good claim for
recignition in that line. I’here Is a lawyer
in the Blue Grass region named Fountain
Box Babbit, and a stock raiser near Coving
ton who rejoices in the patronymic of Gad
dleeup Deedlenucks. His father’s name was
Dup Deedlenucks.
While cleaning out his well, William Sam
ple, a Kane county (Idaho) farmer, found an
old plug hat at the bottom. It was of the
style of 1860. and. as the well was not dug un
til 1890, he was at fi'rst inclined to believe
that it had grown there. Sample’s neighbors
think his mental condition might be im
proved a little if some method could be de
vised to furnish him with brains.
Idiots, says the New York Times, have been
improved, educated and even cured; not one
in a thousand has been entirely refractory to
treatment: not one tn a hundred who has not
been made more happy and healthy; more
than 30 per cent, have been taught to conform
to social and moral law, and rendered cap
able of order, of good feeling, and of working
like the third of a man; more than 40 per
cent, have become capable of the ordinary
transactions of life under friendly control,
and of understanding and social ab
stractions, of working like two-thirds of a
man, and 25 to 30 per cent, come nearer and
nearer the standard of manhood, till some of
them will defy ?he scrutiny of good judges
when compared with ordinary young men and
women. That this is not mere rhetorical
flourish, says a writer in The Hosuital, is
proved by the statistics of one of the" largest
English training institutions for imbeciles.
Storing wind power has for years been one
of the pet subjects of inventors, and many and
wonderful-ha ve been the schemes proposed
to accomplish the work, says Gassier's Maga
zine. One of them hailing from the sandy
plains of the western part of the United
States, was to httve a windmill drive a belt
and bucket conveyor to carry sand up into a
large tank or hopper, somewhat after the
manner in which grain elevators carry wheat.
A stream of sand was to be let out from this
bin upon a large overshot water wheel and
cause it to turn, just -as it would under
the weight of a corresponding volume of
watar. When there was a good, steady wind,
sand was to be stored up for use during suc
ceeding calms, and power was thus to be
made available continuously, with the spe
cinc ooject of driving a number of arastras,
or ore mills, which were located in a sandy
district where only sufficient water for drink
ing purposes and for moistening the ore to be
operated upon could be obtained. Like the
winding up of springs, the compressing of
air and other unlikely wind power storage
suggestions, however, the sand power scheme
has come to naught, and its promoters have
been ooliged to seek other fields and pastures
new.
All travelers agree, writes a Rome corre
spondent of the Buffalo Express, that there
are nowhere else roses so magnificent as
those that cover the wall of the old Roman
palace of the Via Slstui, in which once lived
the famous epicure, Lucullus. Rome is a city
of roses. They run riot; but those of the old
palace have become cilebrated. Their odor
is passionate in its intensity. Their form,
their every petal, the way they hang upon
their stems is picturesque. The color in some
is deep, deep crimson, almost black at the
heart; in others it is cameo pink, changing to
rich cream tints at the center; others are the
bright yellow that mellows Into gold; others
are the white that is like melted moonlight
in the petal cup. I lived next door the
house overlooking the palace garden,
and I had frequently asked my
self: “What has produced these
superb roses?” One day I saw the gardener,
whose love for his roses is almost pagan,
watering them carefully at the roots with a
ciear, dark liquid. I was sure that this was
the feeding that had to do with the secret of
their wonderful beauty. Cn investigation I
learned (hat the wealth of odor and coloring
was the result of animal food. That mysteri
ous libation which I had seen poured at their
roots was strong beef tea, made from fresh
cu;s of beef and strained. Ths old gardener
himself invented the idea. This reminded
me how luxuriantly I had seen ferns of every
kind, even the most delicate, growing in
several spots tn Germany, where the brewers
had bestowed their retuse malt.
Nowadays everybody carries a watch, and
they are turned out in millions by machinery.
T he artist and the true craftsman have prac
tically ceased to work upon them, says a
London journal, for we cannot accept ma
chine turned casts or fronts and backs
“swedged’’ in a mold as artistic, even though
studdei with jewels, plastered with enamel
and lavishly engraved. Certain companies,
abandoning all pretence to beauty in tavor of
use alone, have flooded mankind with time
keepers in cases of base metal, which are a r
serviceable as they are ugly. The crystal
face to the watch obviating the breaking of
glasses, was a great improvement, and the
stem-winding system, dispensing with the
watch key. completes the convenience with
which the modern man commutes the pas
sage of his hours. Does he iS3 those flying
hours better than did his watchl ss ancestor
Is it not perhaps largely due to clocks and
watches that he goes to ied so late
and rises so long after the morning
has dawned? In old times mankind in gen
eral retired to rest with the sun and rose
with it. The healthy sleeper had no know
ledge. and wanted none, of the passage of
the dark hours. Also he had no bill to pay
for gas or candles, no explosion of petro
leum :amps, and wore no spectacles if he
lived to r.e a hundred. The sun was the
only timep.ece he wanted; splendied, self
winding and sufficient. There is perhaps
no instance of human wastefulness so great
as that of the amount of morning light cast
away and disregarded by civilized mankind
between the hours of daybreak and of mod
ern breakfast time since the invention of
watches. We do not say that this serious
change is entirely due to the horologist.
He has his uses; it would be difficult to
regulate railway trains and parliamentary
debates by the crowing of cocks or the
trickling of clepsydre. Nevertheless it is
curious to reflect how ve-y well the race
got on before anybody owned a watch, and.
most wonderful of all. how the ancient
mariners of Greece and Rome and Phenici i
navigated the seas'without the ghost of a
chronometer.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exchanges.
A Spaulding county farmer had an exhibi
tion in Griffin Saturday of eight ears of corn
raised from one grain. The eight ears con
tained 6,336 well-develop;d grains.
Mr. Renew, living three miles west of
Americus, brought the Times-Recdrder the
premium gourd of the season Wednesday. It
measured four feet in length and was larger
than a man’s arm from tip to tip.
Dahlonega Signal: James Hughes, residing
at the Hand mill, had bad luck last Sunday
afternoon. Some one broke in his house
while all were away and carried off S2O in gold,
a pistol, one of Jim’s shirts and a bottle of
‘temperance drops.’’
Augusta Herald: The inhabitants of Monte
Sano were greatly excited Wednesday over
the presence of a mad dog in the village. The
children were all kept indoors until the ani
mal disappeared. He has bothered no one
yet, and may possibly have been troubled
with temporary madness.
Jackson Herald: J. R. Anglin walked up to
our office last Wednesday morning, looking
as bright as a May morning. On inquiring
the news, Mr. Anglin said: “I have two of the
finest twins, a boy and a girl, at my house
ever seen in the county. Democracy in Jack
son is sure to win overwhelmingly this year.
Gwinnett Herald: There is enough hay
made in Gwinnett county this year, if cut and
stored away, to feed the stock of the county.
A great many farmers are opening their eyes
to this important crop and are saving it.
There is no hay superior to the crab glass
that grows on the old red hills of this sec
tion.
Jonesboro Enterprise: “From every corner
of the countv comes the cheering news of
democratic gains. The more sensible of our
populist friends are gradually finding out the
deception that is practiced by the populist
leaders and coming back to the true party of
the people. It is only a question of a short
time when all will discover their efiror and
we shall all be united again as a happy and
victorious family.”
The Jackson Herald quotes a prominent
colored voter of that county as follows: “We
aint’ gwine to let no hired Atlanta nigger
come in here and abuse us and accuse us of
leing bought and saying all manner of mean
things against the good white democrats.
Dat nigger Freeman never got no nigger
votes for the third party in this county. Jack
son county niggers ain’t no fools. They know
who their friends is.”
Progress: The artesian well at Vienna has
beeen bored to the depth of 228 feet and the
work came to an abrupt standstill Thursday.
The contractor says there is little prospe.t
for a spontaneous flow and states that at the
present depth pure artesian water is plenti
ful. and that by the aid of a steam pump
forty gallons a minute can be gotten. The
city council will make a decision as to
whether the boring shall stop at the present
depth, or the boring be continued.
At Covington a democratic mass meeting
was called at the court house Wednesday.
Between 400 and 500 people assembled. Among
them were many colored Voters. Hon. L. F.
Livingston was addressing the crowd when
an alarm of fire was raised, which disturbed
the meeting, and it was postponed until next
Friday night. The tire originated in W. T.
Sock well’s machine shop, which was de
stroyed. A small dwelling near the shop was
also burned. The loss is $3,000. There was
no insurance.
A crowd of about 400 interested spectators
witnessed the bicycle races at Leeton park.
Americus, Wednesday afternoon. The ellipti
cal quarter mile track was tn fine condition,
and as the wheels glided over the smooth
surface in the exciting contests cheers greeted
the graceful riders, i he races were under the
auspices of the Americus Cycling Club, and
many gold medals and other valuable prizes
were awarded to the winners. The tourna
ment was a great success and thoroughly en
joyed by the large crowd of spectators.
Laiderman Jim Johnson of the Augusta
truck s was painfully hurt during the nre
Wednesday morning. While walking along
the roof of a house with other firemen the
sheating gave way and he had a hard fall,
striking the rafters on his side. He would
have fallen through had not Fireman Battle
caught him. At first it was thought that sev
eral of Mr. Johnson s ribs had been broken,
but the doctor in attendance, later, said the
casing of the ribs had been fiactured and the
lungs bruised. The injured man was taken to
the truck house, where he is now resiing
quietly.
At Macon. Ga„ on Sept. 25, the
body a of negro woman, Ida Hicks,
was found in some weeds near
where Sells Bros.’ circus exhibited. She
had been murdered presumably last night.
Her throat was cut from ear to ear and there
was a stab in the left breast. One hand
clutched her throat, as if she had tried to
stop the flow of blood. From appearances
she had been dragged or had crawled one
hundred yards from the place where she had
been muidered. She was found lying on her
face. There is no clue to the perpetrator of
the deed.
The rumoratbat Will Meyers was possibly
connected with the murder of William Callo
way, of thls.city, is still talked of by the peo
ple of Athens, though few credit the story,
it is known, however, that Chief ’Connolly
and Capt. English had a talk with Myers, in
the course of which they asked him if he had
ever 1 ean in a scrape like this before. He
hung h a head and replied that he had been in
one scrape before equally as bad as the one
he is now in. They asked him when and
where. He replied: “That is for me to know
and for you to find out’< There are many
who believe he meant the Calloway murder.
The Hephzibah cow stealing case was the
theme of conversation among the colored peo
ple this week, and resulted in a sudden and
unexpected denouement. Henry Mitcheil,
the real thief, after disposing of the cow,
came to the village and attended a ball given
by some colored people near here. His pres
ence was reported to a prominant gentleman
in the village, who immediately wired to Au
gusta for the county police to come and make
the arrest, in the meantime he persuaded
the following named colored men to make the
arrest of the darkey and bring him in: Philip
and Bryant Cog.l John Griffin and Will Gra
ham. They were furnished with a pistol for
defense and a rope to secure the man. They
repaired to the dance house, and between 12
and 1 o clock, just as the authorities from Au
gusta drove up, returned with their prisoner,
securely roped. He was placed in the buggy,
taken to Augusta and lodged in jail. His
confession will release Henry Thomas, now in
jail, charged with complicity in the matter.
There was a mysterious forgery which
tuined up at Capt. Brotherton’s store at
j Atlanta Wednesday morning. A well-dressed
I young man v.ent into the store and asked one
of the clerks to show him a hat. The clerk
' complied, and the young man selected the
i first hat shown him, without making any
I questions. He offered in payment a check for
'58.85, signed with the name of J. J. Combs
and drawn in favor of T. G. Anderson. The
' check was such as Mr. Combs uses in his bus
iness. and bore his advertisement as a whole
sale commission merchant in one corner. It
looked genuine, but it was referred to Capt.
Brotherton. He instructed the clerk to step
| around to Mr. Combs apd see if the check was
genuine. While the clerk was out the young
man who presented the check disappeared,
and a minute later the clerk and Mr. Combs
stepped in, saying that the check was a for
! gery. Mr. Combs was unaole to explain it.
The check was torn trom the middle of the
I checkbook, which is kept in Mr. Combs’ prl
j vate office. He was unable to tell who the
j forger was.
The Signal is a new weekly newspaper re
i cently established at Cartersville. It is ed
ited and published by I. W. & J. M. Neaton,
I two bright young men who have had consid-
I etable experience in newspaper work, ihe
paper is well edited and displays a good ad
vertising patronage.
The news comes from Camden county that
politics are getting exceedingly lively in i hat
section. Wilson, the present negro member
of the legislature from that county, is in the
race for re-election, and is organizing the
negroes against Dr. B. Atkinson, the demo
cratic nominee. It is said the race will be
very close, but that the democracy is active
and will down the negroes for once. Another
negro, Holzendorf, has also entered the race
and this will divide the negro vote.
A young man of nice appearance, dressed
in a neat sack suit and straw hat with a wide
brim that covered a rather handsome face,
was escorted to the Atlanta police station
Wednesday by Detective Green. The charge
of forgery was entered opposite his name.
Just after he arrived a gray-haired old man,
trembling with age and exhaustion, tottered
in and took his seat in the office. His wrin
kled countenance showed deep sorrow and he
spoke in a weak, piping voice. “That boy
has ruined me," he said, leaning over on his
heavy hickory stick. "He's my nephew. I
trusted him. I put him in charge of every
thing and now he's done this way. I don’t
know what lam going to do.” The old man
was much affected. In his feeble way he gave
an account to the officers of what he claimed
to have suffered at the hands of the way
ward young man. it was a story of careless
dissipation, thoughtlessness ana ingratitude.
» Southeast Georgian: Mrs. Martha J.
I Campbell of Cherry Point, while sitting near
the stove on last Fricay. was stricken with
paralysis, and grave fears are entertained by
her friends and relatives that time will soon
end with her. Mrs. Campbell's life and his
tory is in many respects remarkable, and as
we know that the same will interest many of
our readers we give a brief sketch of her life.
Mrs. Campbell is now 96 years old. She was
born in North Carolina and came to Georgia,
living first on the Altamaha river, thence she
moved to St. Marys and from there went to
Florida, from which state she was driven
back to Georgia by the Indians and settled
down in St. Marys, and has lived at and near
that place ever since. She is small of stature
and has never appeared very robust, but has
never suffered sickness or pain until she was
stricken on last Friday. She was the mother
of but one child, who became the wife of the
late Mr. John Pacetti. She has now six
grand children, forty great grandchildren
and four great-great-grandchildren.
rounOßtHTFlorida.
The News of the State Told Ib
Paragraphs.
In attempting to jump from the front end of
a rapidly moving street car at Pensacola Sun
day afternoon, Hugh, the little 9 year-old son
of Hugh B. Hatton, a merchant tailor, was
caught beneath the car and the flesh of the
right leg was laid open nearly to the bone
from the knee to the foot.
A delightful party was given by the Misses
Morton and Walker Wednesday evening at
Longwood, a novel feature of which was the
“Periwinkle Supper.” The menu was printed
on dainty cards tied with cords, and decorated
with periwinkle shells. Each dish was called
some name beginning with the letter “P” and
where original names had to be applied it
caused much comment and merriment.
The mangled remains of John Williams,
colored, weie found in the eastern suburb of
Pen: a mla Sunday afternoon. The body was
lying on the railroad track, and every indica
tion goes to show, that he had been stealing a
ride on the train.' A little boy says he saw
the man jump from the car. His foot got
caught in the frog of the switch and he was
thrown beneath the moving train, the body,
from the chest down, being horribly mangled,
one leg being entirely severed from the trunk.
Some months ago W. R. Hill, a member of
a colored band, was at Clearwater on his bi
cycle. While playing for a negro- dance the
bicycle was stolen and ho trace of it could be
found at the time. The bicycle was found in
the garret of Markley s packing house, and
suspicion points to Henderson as the thief,
as he was wording- for Mr. Markley at the
time and has since tried to get in the house
several times. He must have carried the bi
cycle on his shoulders for two miles, as no
track could be found.
Ernest Svedelins is experimenting with the
sisal hemp plant at his plantat’on in Valka
ria, on the lower Indian river in Florida.
Recently he has had on exhibition a sisal leaf
grown this summer which measures fifty
inches in length and weighs nearly eleven
pounds. The fiber which comes from it is al
most pure white; is as fine as silk and as
strong as any of the fibers of commerce. The
most simple and primitive way of extracting
the thread is to place the leaf In cold water,
where it should remain about two weeks,
then the fiber separates itself from the other
vegetable matter by simply drawing the hand
up and down the leaf once or
twice, hhe Melbourne (Fla.) Times says:
The people of the east coast of Florida are
neglecting a splendid opportunity for monev
making by their backwardness in engaging in
the cultivation of the sisal plant. Mr. Svede
lins is also experimenting with the leaves of
the pineapple plant, and is getting better re
sults alreadj’ than those secured by the de
partment of agriculture in the Biscayne bay
region in 1892. F lorida can easily distance
the Yucatan growers, if the east coast people
will only bestir themselves.
At De Funiak Springs Wednesday the
State Normal College opened with a much
larger enrollment than ever before. The
prospects are bright for a pleasant and pros
perous term. Dr. Walker, with the aid of
the other members Os the faculty, will do all
in his power to make each (.student feel the
great importance of taking advantage of this
wonderful opportunity. It is true the college
only gets a small appropriation from the
state in comparison with other institutions,
especially when the average attendance is v
taken into consideration. However, the col
lege is supplied with a splendid college build
ing, including four large rooms, with yards,
etc., all in good order. There are also two
dormitories, and students'who prefer to board
can easily find comfortable and pleasant
homes in one-half mile of the college, at $lO
and sl2 per month. If the different railroads
of the state could be induced to open up their
big, iron hearts in regard to transportation,
it would look more generous. It is true they
have made a small cut for students, just
enough to be called, by them,‘cheap rates.’ But
they are not all cheap. People in the south
ern part of the state are completely bluffed
off from this institution on this account. It
costs them about as much transportation
coming and returning as the whole term at
college would cost them.
The fishing season on the Gulf has opened
in earnest. The club house of the Crystal
River Fishing Club has been opened by its
members for the season. A party consisting
of Dr. William Anderson. Capt. L. M. Thayer
D. W. Davis. R. B. McConnell, and F. A.
Teague went down on Saturday afternoon,
and report the fishing very fine. It is pre
dicted that this point will be the great tarpon
flshingground for this winter. Some of the
finest and largest tarpon ever seen were
caught there the early part of this year.
Good reports reach Orlando of the pros
pects for Rollins College for the coming year.
Prof. Fairchild, president of the college, ar
rived at Winter Park two or three days ago,
accompanied by his family, and is actively
at wora arranging everything for the opening
of the fall term one week from to-day. Let
ters are being received from all parts of the
country from young people who are prepar
ing to be on hand at the opening day. Rooms
are being secured in the cottages on the col
lege grounds, and with private families In
Winter I’ark. The attendance promises to
be much larger than in any previous year,
and the college people are all feeling very
hopeful and exultant over the prospects.
Manon county is beginning to take a good
deal of interest in the proposed amendments
to the constitution io be voted on next Tues
day. and it is probaole that each one of them
will receive a good majority. Especial inter
est is taken in the school amendment. The
people here cannot understand why Leon
county, for instance, receives a portion of the
school fund based on 10,000 school children,
and has in reality an enrollment of but little
over 2 00). while Marion county and most of
the counties in the southern portion of the
state have an enrollment and actual attend
ance closely approximating the school cen
sus. Therefore, the amendment changing the
existing order of things, and giving moie
equal justice, will receive practically every
vote in the county.
Passenger train No. 10, Conductor Holt,
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad,
north bound, left Tampa at 7 a.
m., on time, Thursday with ten
or twelve passengers, all men. The
crew was on the lookout for washouts from
the storm. When about nineteen miles from
Tampa, and running about ten miles an hour,
the train rushed into a washout where not ex
pected. Engineer Boone saw it when too late
to stop and could only pull the throttle wide
open and rush the train over if possible,
which was done. Upon examination it was
discovered that the train had passed over a
washout ten to twelve feet wide and eight to
ten feet deep. The rails were held only by a
flsh-plate on one side and the strength of the
rail cn the other. The rails were bent at
least one foot. The fireman was on the ten
| der getting wood, and was thrown off and
• down the embankment, but was not hurt.
Engineer Boone got his arm tadly burnt, but
not seriously. At the time passengers in the
rear coach felt the rough motion and, looking
forward, could see the front coaoh bouncing
up, and in a second the passenger coach went
over. To look at the washout one could read
ily see that the train haa only one chance in a
thousand.
At Tampa, on Sept. 25. atli:4o a. m.. W. A.
Dunnavant, white, was walking up the rail
way track sear the South Florida depot, hold
ing an umbrella in front of him. A switch
engine with some freight cars backed into
him, knocking him down. An entire car ran
over both legs just below the knees, crushing
them to a pulp. He was taken on a stretcher
into the baggage room, where Dr. Douglass at
tended him. Morphine was injected, but a
complete collapse resulted, and he
died at 4:30 o'clock p. m. Just before
his death he plead piteously to be
turned over, and it took tour men to
hold him: he died ten minutes later. Dun
navant hailed from Burkeville, Va. He was
25 years old, and had been m the employ of
Goode & Walker, iron bridge builders and
contractors of Atlanta, for several years. He
was very favoraoly known. The fireman of
the engine stated that the bell was ringing at
the time of the accident, but that, owing to
the high winds, it was probably not heard.
Neither the fireman nor the engineer saw
Dtniavant. This occurred in the busiest
pan of the yard, and crossing the tracks was
considered a Very hazardous risk for anyone
to take when obscuring their sight with an
umbrella.