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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894
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A Special Message.
The tone of the message which the gov
ernor sent to the legislature yesterday,
and the topics touched upon in it, leave
the impression that he feels that unless
the legislature is prodded a little it will
not accomplish a great deal this session.
Only about three weeks of the session re
main, and the really important measures
have as yet received very little considera
tion.
The governor thinks that our judiciary
system needs a very thorough overhaul
ing. He is right about that. By Improv
ing it so that It would be in harmony with
our present needs and our understanding
of what it should be the state would be
benefltted in many respects, some of
Which the governor points out.
The governor is in touch with public
sentiment in respect to the public schools,
and the necessity for a general registra
tion law. He knows, as every well-wisher
of the state knows, that a stop must be
put to ballot box frauds. The people want
a pure ballot, and they will have it, even
if they have to turn down the machine
politicians in order to get it. Unless the
ballot box is put beyond the reach of fraud
it will be Impossible to get self-respect
ing mep to go to the polls or to take any
interest in elections. The elections will
fall into the hands of those who are in
politics for what they can make out of it.
If reports are to be credited both the
democrats and the populists were guilty
of violating the election laws tn the recent
elections—hence, neither party Is in a po
sition to accuse the other, and the best
men of both parties are now demanding
a law to put an end to corrupt election
practices. They see the evils and dangers
of such practices and they insist upon
legislation that will make them impossi
ble;
The startling feature of the message is
the announcement that the Northeastern
road is not paying operating expenses
and the interest on its bonds, which are
indorsed by the state. Gov. Northen’s
message, issued only a few weeks ago,
contained an entirely different announce
ment. In that message the people were
given to understand that the road was
earning enough to meet all of its obliga
tions and that, therefore, they need not
feel any anxiety about the matter—that
the state would not be called upon to pay
either the bonds or the Interest on them.
It seems, however, that the figures that
were given Gov. Northen by the state’s
agent did not convey the whole truth—
that is, that the physical condition of the
road had been allowed to run down, and
that the net earnings would have been
much less had not this been the case. As
It looks now the state will not be able to
get enough for the road to pay the bonds.
The advice the legislature should give
the governor Is to sell the road as soon as
it can be sold at a fair price. The longer
a non-paying property is held the less
likely is the state to get rid of it without
a serious loss. If it becomes a foot, ball
for the politicians the state will be out
a large sum before it gets rid of it.
The Armenians.
The cable story which was published
the other day of the slaughter of Arme
nians by Turks was a narrative full of
the terrible and the sublime. Men, women
and children were mercilessly hacked to
pieces by the fierce Turks, because they
would not deny Christ and embrace the
Mohammedan faith. Two hundred women
children, who were in church at
|s®*!’a.yer were offered their lives on the
My condition that they would renounce
Christianity. They refused, and were
That is, in part, the story
jjgM brought by the cable. It has probably a
foundation of fact. But Armenia is a
long way off, and the channels through
F which news reaches the outer world are
not above suspicion; hence, it is more like
ly than not that the affair has been much
exaggerated. However, the story has
moved England to take action in the mat
ter, and it is probable that the United !
States will be asked to make an invest!- ;
gat ion also, inasmuch as there are a |
great many naturalised American citizens
in Armenia, and the chances axe. if the
story of the massacre is correct, that
some of them fell victims to the Turks’
fury.
The Armenian question has given this
government considerable annoyance al
ready. It is said at Washington that for
years it has been the custom for Arme
nians to emigrate to the United States I
for the sole purpose of acquiring citizen- '
ship. As SOOD as they get their papers I
they return to their old homes, and there- !
after demand the protection of the United I
States minister and consuls. Under the
protection of this country such natural
ized Americans, who never had any in
tention of residing In America, have been
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, WVEMBER 20, IS9I.
a source of annoyance to the Turkish gov
ernment, and there has been a constant
state of Irritation between that govern
ment and this in consequence. To rem
edy this state of affairs this government,
during the Harrison administration, ne
gotiated a treaty with Turkey under
which the United States relinquished all
authority over or responsibility for its
naturalized citizens residing permanent
ly in Turkey. The treaty was not ratified
by the Senate, however. The missionary
societies opposed it, on the ground that
the naturalized Americans in Turkey were
Christians, and that if the protection
of this government were to be withdrawn
from them they would be persecuted by
the Mohammedans. The American min
ister to Turkey at that time, Mr. Hirsch
of Oregon, a Jew, agreed with the Chris
tian missionaries and said he would re
sign if the treaty was ratified.
What position this administration will
take in the matter of the Armenians is
not yet known; but when a Russian who
has been naturalized an American returns
to Russia to reside permanently, this
government holds that he does so at his
own risk, and that he cannot expect the
protection of the United States.
They Lived Double Lives.
Every once in a while a crime of unusual
magnitude is committed by some one who
was regarded as being eminently respecta
ble, and when all the facts are brought to
light it appears that this eminently re
spectable person led a double life. It is
not Improbable that in almost every com
munity there are men of this kind, though
it is only seldom that they are found out.
If the published facts are correct Samuel
C. Seeley and Frederick Baker, who, it is
alleged, succeeded In robbing the Shoe and
Leather Bank of New York of $354,000,
were men of this kind. Seeley was a
bookkeeper in the bank and received a
salary of SI,BOO a year, and Baker was a
lawyer who was supposed to be rich, and
who lived at the rate of $30,000 a year. See
ly is a fugitive from justice and Baker is
dead, having been drowned on the day
when it is understood that he was in
formed that he was suspected of being
concerned in the bank robbery. It is not
yet known whether he was drowned ac
cidentally or committed suicide.
Seeley was regarded as a model bank
employe. He was extremely attentive to
his duties. During the years of his con
nection with the Shoe and Leather Bank
he never took a vacation. The reason Is
now apparent, though before the discov
ery of his crime it w’as thought his fidelity
to his employers kept him at his post of
duty. He was to all appearances a model
husband, and his modest home In Brook
lyn was a happy one. He was not wor
ried by debts and, as far as the world
knew, he was just what he appeared to be,
namely, a sober, industrious and trust
worthy bank employe.
But he had another side to his char
acter. A part of his time he led a life he
would not have revealed to his employers
and his family unless forced to do so.
After bank hours and before he returned
to tils home In the evenings he met gay
female friends and spent money lavishly
in entertaining them. He gambled on the
races and was a frequent visitor at the
bucket shops. To a few he was known as
a gambler and a roue. To the world he
was a hard-working bookkeeper who spent
all of his leisure time at home.
The other man who is alleged to be con
nected with the crime, the lawyer Freder
ick Baker, was also a model husband, and
in the estimation of his friends was a man
of high character and large wealth. For
years he was a regular attendant at one
of Brooklyn’s noted churches, and at his
home in the city and at his country place
there was no suspicion that he was other
than what he pretended to be. Still, if the
published statements are true he led a dou
ble life for years. While maintaining the
character of an honorable man he was en
gaged In robbing a bank, drawing from ft
with the aid of his confederate inside hun
dreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars
a week.
Baker and Seeley are extraordinary In
stances of men leading double lives. Such
instances, however, are the ones which at
tract'attention and excite comment. The
ordinary and less sensational ones are
doubtless far more numerous. They come
to the surface once in a while, but they
make only a faint impression on the public
mind. There are very few that become
generally knowm, however, in comparison
with those that remain unknown to the
world.
The New Navy.
The annual report of the Secretary of
the Navy, extracts from which we publish
this morning, show that all the vessels
authorized by congress for the new navy
are either completed or are under con
struction. It will require about $14,000,000
to complete the vessels that are now being
constructed, and after that expenditure
there will be no more appropriations for
the building of war ships, unless congress
determines to still further increase the
navy. When all the vessels are completed
the United States will have a very re
spectable navy, not as large as that of
England, but large enough probably to
answer our needs, unless we should be
drawn into a war with a great naval
power, of which there does not appear
to be any probability. Our vessels are
built in accordance with the latest de
signs, and carry the most effective guns
that are made. They have cost a great
! deal, but the money spent upon them
| is not regretted. Our navy will be one
of the most effective means for prevent
■ Ing us from becoming Involved in wars
with other nations, because being pre
pared to defend our rights other nations
will not hastily disregard those rights.
The Secretary of the Navy thinks It
important that congress should give care
ful attention to the ordnance require
ment* of vessels that are liable to be
called into service In time of war. The
| Paris and New York of the Inman line.
I and the two vessels that are now being
i built at the shipyard of the Cramps are
I such vessels. These vessels must respond
; to the call of the government when needed,
but as yet nothing has been done towards
providing them with guns. In the event
of a war with Great Britain, the English
could quickly furnish guns and gun
•
mounts for her merchant marine on the
great lakes, and before we could get ready
to offer successful resistance our lake
cities might be almost destroyed. We
should have a reserve of ordnance and
ordnance stores. In support of his posi
tion the secretary refers to China’s hu
miliation by Japan. Japan was ready for
war, and China was not. China relied
upon her numbers, and thought herself
invincible. She has suffered disaster after
disaster, and is now searching the world
for munitions of war. Had she been pre
pared it is more than probable that she
would not now be begging for peace.
The secretary Is gratified at the interest
that Is taken in the naval militia. There
are organizations in eleven states, and
the number of officers and men mustered
In serving is 2,549. The naval militia
movement, however, is yet in its infancy,
but it is receiving every possible encour
agement from the navy department. -
H. H. Holmes, the Philadelphia Insur
ance swindler and murderer, a sum
mary of whose career was printed in this
paper the other day, bids fair to show up
as the most remarkable criminal of the
period. Every day adds blackness to the
history of his life. He not only committed
several murders for the purpose of getting
insurance money and worked several
schemes to the same end with bogus
corpses, but it appears from what he says
that he actually loved his work; he en
joyed murder and reveled in fraud. His
operations recall those of the Bonds in
Charleston several years ago; but the
Bonds were never murderers. They car
ried on a brisk business in insuring fic
titious persons, having them die of imag
inary diseases, showing up bogus corpses
and then collected the insurance money,
but they did not kill people in order to
get corpses.
PERSONAL
Joseffy, the pianist, who has been quietly
waiting until the clouds rolled by, is ex
pected to resume his public performances
this winter. Meanwhile, he has not been
having a half bad time. He has been a
teacher in a conservatory of music at a
tremendous salary.
One of the venerable men of Boston is
Dr. Burtol, who lives in Retirement in
that city. He is almost the only sur
vivor of the famous writers and thinkers
of the old days, and the last one of the
Transcendental Club, which included Al
cott, Emerson, Hawthorne and others.
J. Edward Addieks, aspirant for sena
torial honors from Delaware, is said not
only to part his name and hair in the
middle, but to wear a monocle, and affect
a prominent English accent. The newspa
per correspondents at Washington are
naturally hoping that he will be elected.
Gen.. Daniel Hastings, elected governor
of Pennsylvania over William M. Singerly,
appeared eight or nine times on the same
platform with his opponent while the
campaign was in progress. They fre
quently introduced each other to their au
diences, and each voted for the other on
election day.
Mrs. Carlisle, Mrs. Lamont and Mrs.
Bissell are going to be judges in a com
petitive doll show in Baltimore, w’hose
purpose is to procure funds to give the
children of the slums a happy Christmas.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will have there the
wonderful collection of dolls of all na
tions she bought at the World’s Colum
bian exposition.
R. D. Blackmore is a market gardner
by trade and writes his novels in his spare
time. He lately stirred up a protracted
discussion in the London Times by a let
ter to that journal wherein he deplored
the condition of the contemporary British
fruit grower and divulged the painful
news that only twice in forty years of
fruit growing had he been to make
both ends meet. He can raise fruit galore,
but cannot get a great enough price for
it to make its cultivation pay.
Judge B. L. D. Gussy or Morgantown,
Ky., the republican who was elected judge
in the Second appellate district on the 6th
inst., to the great surprise of the party,
which nominated him in a spirit of mis
chief, is known familiarly as "Old Alpha
bet,” on account of the initials in his
name, and is famous for his eccentricities.
He is painfully indifferent to his dress
and personal appearance, and has adopted
every political vagary of the last thirty
years. His election has shocked and
amused all Central Kentucky.
Mr. Alma-Tadema, who is uncommonly
fastidious in his personal appearance, had
for his guest on one occasion Mr. Elihu
Vedder, the well-known American. On
the morning after his arrival at the house
Mrs. Alma-Tadema was awakened by a
rude knocking at her chamber door;
much alarmed she aroused her husband,
who demanded in fierce tones what was
wanted. H was Mr. Vedder who was at
the door, and he answered: "I say, Tade
ma, old chap, whera do you keep the scis
sors that you trim your cuffs with?”
CURRENT COMMENT.
Maybe It Is; and Maybe It Isn’t.
From the New York World (Dem.).
The talk about repealing the income tax
or preventing its collection by withhold
ing the appropriation necessary to its col
lection is pure vaporing. The income tax
is here to stay.
Will Spike the “Popguns.”
From the Washington Post (Ind.)
All the republican senators who have
expressed their views on this question are
in accord. Ail of them declare that no more
tariff legislation shall be done by the Fifty
third congress. They expect to oppose it
as successfully as the democratic senators
opposed the force bill. The same kind of
sauce that was served with the republican
goose will be brought in for the democratic
gander.
Leans to the Spoils System.
From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.)
As to the civil service reform. It may be
said that no improvement can be effected
In that service until some mode is sug
gested of securing good appointments. To
keep a man in office merely because he is
already in is a poor sort of reform. To re
fuse him appointment merely because he
is out would be civil service of a bad
kind. Civil pensions are inexcusable under
a free government. What remains? Noth
ing but the practice of the fathers. Let us
cling to it.
To Prevent Railway Strikes.
From the Denver (Col.) Republican (Rep.).
One of the first duties of congress during
the approaching session should be the en
actment of a law for the regulation of the
relations which should exist between rail
ways engaged in Interstate commerce and
their employes. An excellent model for a
law of this kind can be found in the ship
ping act of the United States, which makes
strikes and lockouts tn the merchant ma
rine impossible. Uninterrupted transpor
tation Is as necessary to the public welfare
as air or water under modern conditions,
and it is the duty of the government to
prevent either employers or employes from
causing either freight or passenger block
ades.
Postmasters and the Civil Service.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.)
An effort will probably be made to ex
tend the civil service rules to postmas
ters whose appointment is subject to con
firmation by the Senate. Bills to that ef
fect are pending in both houses. These
postmasterships throughout the country
have been regarded as rewards for party
zeal, and have been the subject of fierce
contention in many towns and cities. It is
understood that the movement meets with
the approval of the civil service commis
sion. If such. legislation is secured it will
materially lessen the rewards of partisan
services. It. has also been proposed to
make postmasters elective. In recent years
contests for postmasterships have been
settled frequently by submitting the issue
to a vote of the members of the party
which is entitled to the office. One of the
difficulties with elective postmasterships
is the want of geographical boundaries of
the territory served by the postoffice. The I
constituency of a postoffice is not definitely
defined by state, county, borough or town- ;
ship lines.
Merry to the Last.
It was the 21st of April, 1821, says the
Illustrates Son tags Blatt. Dr. I. P. Frank,
the eminent governor of the University
hospital, Vienna, lay on his deathbed,
and was expected every moment to pass
away. Once more the eight leading medi
cal men of the capital gathered round
his couch. All at once the patient burst
out laughing.
"What is it that tickles your fancy?”
his friends Inquired.
"A story has just come into my mind,”
was the reply. "On the battlefield of
Wagrum lay a French soldier and count
ed his wounds. “Sacre-bleu!’ he exclaim
ed ‘it takes eight bullets to kill a
French grenadier.’ Gentlemen, there are
eight of you, too.”
Thus he spoke, and expired in a fit of
laughter.
A Startling Announcement.
The Rev. George R. Dodson, the popu
lar minister of Alameda, tells rather a
good story at his own expense, says the
San Francisco News Better. While spend
ing his summer vacation at Skagg’s
Springs one Os his greatest frlneds was a
fellow boarder, a little girl of about 8
years old. The two were constant com
panions, and the child daily accompan
ied the clergyman on his excursions in the
neighborhood. One evening the little girl
remarked her fellow diners:
I like going with Mr. Dodson.”
vt hy?” queried the stranger, hoping to
draw the child out.
"Because he has no morals,” was the
startling reply.
When the summer boarders had recov
ered their equanimity .they instituted an
investigation, the upshot of which was the
discovery that the curly haired maiden
possessed an insatiable craving for stor
ies- This desire was frequently gratified
by Mr. Dodson, but, unlike the anecdotes
of the child’s mother, the minister’s tales
were never pointed with a moral for the
youngster’s government.
A Fish Story From Africa.
“Domingo’s nose took a Grecian turn;
he scratched his head, and uttered a few
expressions in negro dialect,” says a writ
er in Harper’s Young People. “Then he
made a bait with codfish; but alas, the
little fishes didn’t like salt cod.
"This time Domingo was at his wits’
end. Corned beef, sardines and codfish
were everything that there was eatable
on board. He sat silent and dejected.
... ‘These little fishes would no doubt
like fresh meat,’ I said to Domingo.
“ ‘I have’t any,’ he said sadly.
’ ‘Make some fresh meat,’ I said. And
you may believe me or not, as you like,
but he did. With his sharp knife, from
the thick part of his heel, a little at one
side where the hard flesh joins the tender,
he proceeded to cut a little morsel with
which he baited his hook. It was appar
ently exactly what the little fishes want
ed, for they precipitated themselves upon
it voraciously. The results were most
satisfactory. And an hour later, ip serv
ing me a delicious dish of fried fish, Do
mingo said, proudly: “
“ ‘Didn’t I tell you they were good to
eat?” ?' .
‘Excellent,’ I answered-’’? a ,»
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A Famous Counterfeiter.
A tall man, with a cape overcoat over,
his gaunt shoulders and whose bristling
gray eyebrows jutted out over keen blue
eyes, and matched the bristly white
mustache which softened the outline of a
broad, square jaw, came into a well
known hatter’s yesterday on a matter of
business, says the New York Press. He
was a striking figure and -wore the in
definable air of a thoroughbred man of
the world who had seen better days and
who remembered them. After his silk
hat had been blocked he left the hatter’s
with a courtly wave of his hand to the
proprietor, who said to me in low tones:
“When that man was at the top of his
particular heap and the head of a crow-d
who made their quarters in the neighbor
hood of Bleecker street and Broadway, he
bought a rfew silk hat every fortnight;
and so did all the rest. Those were days
when men of his sort dressed after a
fashion of their own, with velveteen coats
to set off their well rounded shapes, ruflled
shirt bosoms with collars cut low in the
neck, spring bottom trousers in plaid pat
terns, low patent leathei- shoes, lots of
jewelry and a silk hat always.”
efe? ” 1 suggested.
Bidwell, the forge*; the greatest of his
day, and the best of his IqL Th» t man
who robbed the Bank of England of near
ly one million sterling in gold and gave
the most of it away while he was in
Ludlow Street jail to New York policemen
and politicians. He is proud of his record
even now. He was sentenced to twenty
years, after conviction, and served his
time. To-day he is earning a modest liv
ing in a respectable way, and is shad
owed by central office detectives.”
Genius Alwayfe Awarded.
Two men were seated at a small table
near the front door, says the Chicago Rec
ord, waiting for their sandwiches and cof
fee, when they were approached by a
shabby stranger who touched his hat and
said: “Gentlemen,, may I ask a favor of
one of you?”
They wei*e silent. It was no new experi
ence to them; m inhr-.; 'til
"What I wished to ask was, gentlemen,”
continued the stranger, “how to spell the
word balloon.”
They looked at each other in evident
surprise and one asked? “The word ‘bal
loon,’ you say?”
“Yes, gentlemen. I got into a discus
sion with a friend, who says there is but
one ‘l.’ I maintain-there are two.”
‘Your friend’s right.” said one of the
men at he table.
‘‘No, he Isn’t.” ’ rfetbrted the other.
"You re right—two ‘Fs.”
“Let me see now,” said the first. ”B-a-l
--double-o-n-bal-oon. I think your’e wrong
Bill, and that this man’s friend wins the
bet.
“It’s no bet,” said the shabby stranger
‘We simply got into an argument. You
can see for yourself there is chance for
an argument. If I had a pocket dictionary
I cotild tell in a minute. Gentlemen, would
one of you loan me a dime with which to
purchase one?’
They looked at him coldly for a mo
ment and then each pulled ont a dime and
gave it to him.
"You’re a good thing,” said the first
one.
"Yes, you’ve got sometning new,” added
tne other.
But the shabby stranger did not smile.
He simply thanked them, and said he
would buy one for his friend also.
Checkers.
From the Southern Magazine
There’s lots o’ fun in winter time when
woods is full o haze,
An’ the blue smoke comes a curlin’
■ where the cabin fires blaze;
When the squirrel shakes the hick’rv nuts
that tumble fur an’ free;
But the best fun’s playin’ checkers by the
chinyberry tree.
That takes you back to summer time
the village heaves in sight.
The sun a’ silverin’ the leaves an’ burnin’
’em with light;
The whole town roun’ the grocery store
a-lookin on to see ’
The boys a-playin’ checkers by the chinv
berry tree. *
A pine box was the table—what thev
shipped the dry goods in;
It was kinder hacked an’ whittled, but as
riginal as sin;
With the "board” marked out in pencil
jest as plain as plain could be,
For the boys that played, the checkers by
the chinyberry tree. z
I used to stand an’ watch ’em—jest a bov
with ragged hat; 4
Suspenders made o’ cotton, an’ me wearin’
one at that;
It was most as good as swimin’, or as
flyin kites to me
To watch ’em playin’ checkers by the
chinyberry tree.
The mayor come out to see ’em, an’ the
marshal left his beat;
The preacher, kinder solemn like, come
walkin' down the street.
An’ half forgot his sermonts of salvation
full and free,
As he watched that game of checkers by
the chinyberry tree.
You could hear the birds a-slngin’ in
the meadows fur away.
The whistle o’ the partridge an’ the wrang
lin’ o’ the jay.
An’ the trains rolled to the station jest as
noisy as could be;
But they kept on playin’ checkers by the
chinyberry tree.
I guess they’e still a’ playin’, though the
years has rolled away,
An’ the boys that loved to watch ’em is
gettin’ old an 'grav;
But I see the light still shinin’ on the
meadow land o’ Lee.
An’ in dreams I'm playin’ checkers by the
chinyberry tree
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The Hamilton of Bradshaw,
Neb., had to be absent from his pulpit the
other Sunday. His wife took his place
and gave great satisfaction to the congre
gation. '
Second Advent prophets have alarmed
and terrorized a large number of people
in the state of ‘ Washington by telling
them that the United States will be de
stroyed by revolution and fire inside of
a days, and that The entire world
will be destroyed inside of one year. T.
W. I ennington and James Miller are or
ganizing a > colony in Tacoma to fly to
British Columbia before the crash comes.
They say the United State's will be de
stroyed first, but that all. who seek refuge
on British soil will be saved temporarily.
Later on all the people of the world will
be destroyed except 12,000 of each of the
twelve tribes of Israel, who will be
caught up into the clouds while the earth
is devastated, and will afterward be al
lowed to return to earth and inhabit it.
Mr. Miller formerly resided at Winncpeg,
and has a large family of grown-up child
ren. Mrs. Louise Bradin, at whose
house they are stopping, says: ‘‘They
are nearly naked and starved. They
preach their gospel from 6 o’clock in the
morhing until 11 at night, and have a
large following. When they and their
colony leaves this country they will ren
dezvous at North Arm, near New West
minster, B. C.” Miller and Pennington’s
teachings have resulted in many families
destroying their pictures, bric-a-brac and
earthly valuables and preparing to fly to
Canada. One old man was being treated
for cancer, but told his physician that
further treatment was unnecessary, as he
would be caught up into the clouds and
saved.
During the sixteenth century the na
tional coinage wasi:so unsatisfactory and
inconvenient that. large numbers of pri
vate traders and merchants were impelled
to have halfpence and farthings manufac
tured for themselves, says Chamber's
Journal. These "tokens,’' as they were
called, were made of lead, pewter, latten,
tin, and even leather, and could only be
made use of as currency at the shops or
warehouses of their respective issuers.
Notwithstanding the endeavors made dur
ing several reigns to put a Stop to the cir
culation of this unauthorized coinage, tra
ders’ tokens continued to multiply to an
astonishing extent, until in 1672 a procla
mation was issued prohibiting their mak
ing or use under severe penalties. From
that date until 1787 the issue of private
tokens entirely ceased, .but in the latter
year, owing to the great scarcity of gov
ernment coin, the Anglesey Copper Mines
Company struck and put into circulation
some 300 tons of copper pence and half
pence. The bold example thus set was
speedily followed by other trading firms
all over the kingdom, and again the gov
ernment found it necessary to take action
in the matter, which it did by issuing a
new national copper coinage from the
Soho works. Foi- some years the issue of
private tokens was thus effectually check
ed, but in 1811 the authorized coinage again
getting scarce,‘the cbpper companies and
others recommenced the issue of batches
of tokens. This went on until July 27,
1817, when the manufacture was pro
hiolted by -act of parliament, and all
tokens in. currency were ordered to be
withdrawn from circulation by Jan. 1,
1818. .
One of the queerest of all queer cere
monies ktept alive in Japan is that ob
served by the descendants of a- native mil
lionaire. its object being the worship of
old straw sandals. They have a special
reason for venerating cast-off foot-gear of
this description, they being the origin of
the rise of the family from a condition of
obscurity to its present opulent state. It
seems that the founder of the house was a
petty tenant farmer, who was at one time
so poor that he succeeded only by dint
of the most arduous labor in making ends
meet. After several years of a hand
to-mouth existence be began to make
straw sandals in the brief intervals of
his work a-fleld. To the surprise of the
neighbors he made no attempt to sell the
produce of his industry, but kept on add
ing to the slowly accumulating heap of
sandals. For more than two years he
spent every spare moment in this manner,
and finally had so many sandals on hand
that he had no more room to store them.
He then hired a couple of junks, and
loading them both with sandals, set sail
for Sudo. On reaching the island the
shrewd man applied to the official su
perintending the great gold mine, begging
that he might be permitted to present a
lot of new sandals to the-miners, in re
turn for which he desired only to receive
old, worn-out foot-gear of the men. This
innocent request was readily complied
with by the officer in charge, and the
farmer soon left for home with his junks
laden with old sandals. So soon as he
returned he set to work boiling the san
dals given him, and was rewarded by
gaining from them no less than 340 pounds
of pure gold. This was the origin of that
great fortune which the founder of the
family bequeathed to the descendants,
and every year since then the grateful
heirs have performed a solemn ceremony
in honor of old sandals.
A writer in the Contributors’ Club in
the November Atlantic asserts that there
is an individual quality in the song of
each bird. This .summer a friend told
me that she was “able to detect bv their
songs the nine different kinds of song spar
row.” She was very triumphant over it,
and it gave me pain to explain to her
what, from my own observation, I be
lieved to be the truth, namely, that
there are almost as many different songs
as there are song sparrows; moreover,
that not only do individuals among them
differ from one another tn their arrange
ment of the three parts of their theme,
or in the .finish they bestow' upon the
separate parts, but the individual him
self varies his' notes from time to time,
taking endless liberties, writh them, ac
cording as the spirit moves him or his
vocal powers permit. He may choose
to stop short at the trill, though this
is a rare occurenoe; more often he be
gins with it, ending with the three
sharp notes. Again, he practices the
turn, which, at best, is an uncertain
phrase, singing it over by itself a num
ber of times; quite discontented, it
would seem, with its indeterminate char
acter. Then perhaps he bursts out in
a reckless, don’t-care manner, as if snap
ping his claws at practice and perfec
tion, jumbling his notes together like a
music box suddenly gone mad. It is a
mistake to think that all the birds of a
kind are equally gifted with all their
fellows, as if they were little mechani
cal toys struck off by the gross, and
warranted to produce precisely the same
song. Why should it be so? Merj differ
in this respect; so do various domestic,
animals —all of them, for aught I know.
Two black-and-tan terriers living next
door to each other have distinctive
barks; the one can boast of a far wider
compass than his friend I mean his
enemy—as well as of a more hideously
exasperating quality in the tones. I have
the honor of acquaintance with a cat of
high lineage. He is outwardly magnifi
cent, and Inwardly all that a cat should be
—the beau ideal of cathood. But he has
an inchoate mew. It is his one limita
tion, and one w'ith W’hich his owners do
not quarrel. Cocks axe notably many
voiced, and I doubt not that close obser
vation would disclose fine characteristic
shadings in the voices of those familiar
creatures that respectively squawk, cluck,
neigh, bray and moo. So, when we re
flect that, next to man, the singing bird
is, in the matter of vocal gifts, the most
highly endowed of beings, it is hardly re
markable —except for the reason that peo
ple do not generally remark it—that he
should have also the gift of varying ex
pression.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exchanges.
The new Baptist church at Carrollton
is nearing completion.
Monroe Mitchell will be hanged in Ber
rien county on Dec. 7.
An effort is being made to reorganize the
Southern Cadets of Macon.
It is estimated that not less than 200 ne
groes from other cities and towns have
come into Brunswick within the past two
weeks looking for work on the sewerage
system. A number of them have been em
ployed, but the majority are loafing about
the streets.
John F. Hartsfield, one of the promi
nent merchants of Camilla, died and was
burled about a week ago, after an illness
of eight weeks. E. D. Hartsfield, a brother
of J. F. Hartsfield, is closing out the large
stock of general merchandise of the old
business with a view to winding up the
business.
The bankrupt stock of O. J. Power, who
failed in business at Hogansville a month
ago, was sold at auction Saturday by
Sheriff Henderson. Power’s indebtedness
will probably amount to $2,000, but his
available assets will not exceed half
the amount. The sale will continue from
Saturday to Saturday until the stock is
disposed of.
A tenant house on T. J. Fountain’s plan
tation near Reynolds, was burned late Sat
urday. It was occupied by Bob Lewis and
family. Lewis’ wife went off visiting and
left her three small children In the house.
Later the house was seen falling in, and
only two of the children on the outside,.
The other was burned. The negroes lost
all they had in the house.
Athens Banner: Saturday night the
ringing of the college bell by the students
greatly annoyed the sister of Hon. J. R.
Lyle, who has been sick for several weeks.
Mr. Lyle made a request of the boys to
stop ringing the bell, and they did so
promptly* adding that they regretted ring
ing it at all. Mr. Lyle appreciated this
act very much andi suggests. three cheers
and a tiger for the boys.
In the superior court at,, Macon Monday
the cases against Aylesberry and Andrew
Amison were concluded. These young men
were indicted for the murder of James
Sanders, in South Macon last August, and
the case was a very interesting one. The
solicitor general accepted a plea of Invol
untary manslaughter in the case of Ayles
berry, and Judge Griggs, who is presiding,
sentenced him to two years in the peni
tentiary. Andrew was released.
Mitchell county, held a primary election
under the call of the democratic execu
tive committee Saturday drew out quite a
number of candidates for the various
county offices. After a very lively con
test all over the county the following of
ficers seem to be nominated, viz: For clerk
superior court, S. E. Cox; sheriff, G, W.
Swindle; tax collector, J. L. Stewart; tax
receiver, O. L. Acree; county treasurer,
G. W. Ott; surveyor, W. H. Davidson, Sr,,
coroner, J. A. Dollar.
Capt. Gilbert M. Davis has been ap
pointed temporary receiver for the Macon
Exposition Company by an order passed
by Judge James M. Griggs, at Dawson,
Friday. The papers in the case were filed
in the superior cburt clerk’s office at Ma
con Saturday. The petitioners are Dop
son, Clarke & Daniel, T. L. Ross. R. W.
Jemison and J. B. Jemison. The last
named were employes of the exposition
company during the recent fair, and claim
that the company has failed to pay their
salaries.
The trial of Sam Sledge on the charge
of assault with Intent to murder Bob Har
ris was concluded in the superior court
at Macon Saturday. Sledge was tried last
term and found guilty, but John Cooper
secured a new trial. Friday Mr. Cooper
and his associate, Thomas R. R. Cobb of
Atlanta, made eloquent speeches, and the
case was closed by Solicitor General Fel
ton Saturday. The case was given to the
jury at 11 o’clock, and at 2 o’clock they
reported that a verdict had been reached.
It was guilty of assault and battery.
Sledge was sentenced to six months in
jail and twelve months on the chain-gang.
Macon Telegraph: Three loud, piercing
screams startled the inhabitants of Tatt
nall square Saturday night. The screams
emanated from the park on the square
and sounded like they came from a woman
in distress. A number of citizens rushed
from their houses with the blood nearly
freezing in their veins to ascertain the
cause. One reformed newspaper man who,
however, is still noted for his chivalry,
made a thorough investigation in com
pany with a yqung man of Mercer, and in
the center of the park found a young
couple billing and cooing. No one else
was seen and the screams are still a
mystery.
Engineer Swansburg and Fireman El
iott, who reached Macon on a Central
railroad freight train at 5:40 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon, reported a dastardly at
tempt to wreck their train near Collier’s
station yesterday. The train was
down a steep grade at a speed of twenty*
five miles an hour, when the engineer saw
a crosstie on the track several hundred
yards ahead. He at once reversed
his lever alpl applied the brakes, but the
engine ran onto the crosstie before stop
ping. Fortunately the crosstie slipped and
was carried along the track ahead of the
engine for a distance of several hundred
feet. The engine was thereby not de
railed, and the train crew got out and
spent some time in searching for a clew
to the would-be wreckers, but none could
be found.
• Sunday morning a negro man was found
lying unconscious in the Central railroad
yard, near the stock pens, al Augusta.
The police were notified and tho man was
sent to the Freedman s hospital at once.
The man’s head had been beaten almost
into a jelly by some one who used an iron
bolt several feet long. He was In a coma
tose condition, and very little could be
gotten from him. It was found that his
name was Tom Johnson; that he was
from Aiken, S. C., but had been living
In Augusta a few weeks. Nothing more
could be learned, but It is supposed that
he had some money and was decoyed to
the railroad yard Saturday night by
tramps, who ■wished to rob him. The po
lice have found o-ut that he had been em
ployed Saturday in driving cattle from
Gillespie’s stock lots to the railroad.
Johnson was struck eight times on the
head, four of the blows landing on the
same place in the rear and liacturing the
skull.
One night, about three weeks ago, a
negro was found lying insensible in Sib
ley’s alley, at Augusta. His head had been
terribly crushed with some kind of a blunt
weapon. In fact, when the man was re
moved to Freedman’s hospital, the doctor
said his skull had been fractured and re
fused to allow him to see any one or talk
to anybody. Only during ths past day or
two has he recovered sufficiently to be
interviewed by a police officer This was
done by Lieutenant Cartledge. He gave
his name as Elbert Prescott and said fie
w'as from Edgefield county; that he came
to Augusta to visit his brother-in-law,
Rance Sullivan, who lived in Sibley’s al
ley; that he and Rance "fell out," and
while he lay back against the bed Rance
hit him twice with an ax. Prescott was
badly hurt without any doubt. His skull
was fractured, and he had a narrow es
cape from death. Rance Sullivan is now
serving a term of ninety days on the- pub
lic works for striking another man. It is
understood that his defense will be that
coming home on the night in question,
he caught Prescott in a compromising p<x
sition with his wife and struck him with
a piece of leadpipe.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News of the State Toll ia
Paragraphs.
A farmer named Criswell, living about
five miles from Pensacola, quarreled
Sunday morning with his 18-year-old son
about a dog. High words passed between
them, and the boy drew a pistol and shot
! his father, the ball entering the abdomen
and passing through the vitals. The phy-
- sicians have no hope that the wounded
• man can live.
• Ted Martin, a young apprentice boy in
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
' shops at Palatka, had his right arm caught
in the belt of the drill press Saturday. It
was torn off at the elbow. Drs. Cyrus and
■ Welch were at once summoned, and they
5 amputated the arm above the elbow. He
5 was not injured otherwise and at last re
r ports was resting, easy.
j Palatka Advertiser: Collector F. C.
5 Blanchard is the owner of the greatest cu
riosity of the bird kingdom—a white quail.
This very rare curiosity was killed by a
' sportsman a day or two ago a Short dis
tance from the city and presented to Mr.
Blanchard, who will place it with a tax
’ idermist at once to preserve it. This al
’ bino of the feathered tribe is certainly a
curiosity, and has been the talk of our
‘ sportsmen ever since its capture.
Deputy Sheriff Mooney has taken back
to Tampa, from Orlando, P. M. Thomas,
" who is wanted in a dozen places for for
" gery. His plan is to give a check payable
’ to himself, and signed in his father’s
1 name. The amounts, so fraudulenlty ob-
• tained have ranged from $2 to S2O. Col.
1 Thomas paid a number of these checks,
J' but they began coming in so fast he de
-1 cided to call a halt. After consulting in
timate friends he has decided to let tha
e law take its course.
s Jacksonville Times-Union: A woman on.
Julia street mashed her finger Sunday, for
• which a man turned in a fire alarm, set
’ the bells clanging, “Big Jim” to blowing.
and Chief Haney, to spinning over the
pavement with the big horses to the hose
s wagons thundering behind. Os course it
3 was an accident—the mashing of the fin
ger and the alarm as well. When the w,o
--f man pierced the air with a shriek, the
v man thought that she was screaming be
ti cause of a fire, so he pulled the knob and
s let It go at that.
At Tampa, Saturday morning, as Dr.
e Bruce, accompanied by his 8-year-old
granddaughter, was on his way to his or-
• ange grove, he alighted to speak with a
" man, leaving his >;orse unhitched. The
horse became frightened and ran away.
The little girl was thrown violently tq
™ the ground, striking her head against a
- pine tree. When picked up she was un
i conscious, and had a severe bruise on the
s right side of her head. She was brought
- home, and It is feared that she sustained
- internal injuries.
Four hundred and seventy-eight boxes,
• the largest shipment of grapefruit ever
c made from that point, at one time, left
’ Seffner on Tuesday. Last Monday L.
Stafford received a check for $53.60 as
net proceeds from the sale of fifteen bar-
• rels of egg plants, shipped the previous
week to New York. This gives net pro
ceeds of $3.58 per barrel. G. F. Chastain
also received net proceeds of $2.20 per box
for egg plants packed in the ordinary
orange box. Both of these gentlemen are
making shipments every week.
A railroad negro robbed W. O. Thomp
son of Dade City, while sleeping the other
night, getting S6O in money and a pocket
knife. He cut the slat of the shutter so
as to introduce his hand and unlatch it,
then reached Mr. Thompson’s trousers
hanging near the window. He left no clew,
but went t<? Tampa and exhibited the
money and. knife. The sheriff went down
and caught him putting on a suit of
clothes he had purchased w’ith a. part of
the money*He had spent it all but 25 cents
and still had the knife. He is now in jail.
The tabulated statement just issued of
the exports from Pensacola for the year
ending Oct. 31, 1894, shows that during the
year 577 vessels, of a total tonnage of
500,959, were cleared, with cargoes of tim
ber, lumber, shingles, coal, coke, cotton,
and pig Iron for foreign, and the principal
coastwise ports. The total amount of
shipments were 270,405 cubic feet of hewn
timber, 1.64,008,000 superficial feet of sawn
timber, 1140,337,000 superficial feet of lum
ber, .4,993 cubic feet of oak timber, 300
bales of cotton, 30,400 tons of breadstuffs
and general cargo, 793 tons of pig iron,
1,832,000 shingles, 5,124 tons of coke and
111,373 tons of coal.
C. C. Caledes of St. Augustine, claims, to
have lost SSOO from his pocket on the
street Wednesday night. He offers SIOO re
ward.
Messrs. Hansen & Larsen have re
turned from their summer visit to tha
north, and will now proceed to erect a resi
dence and raise a crop of vegetables on
Cypress Island, near Kissimmee.
A party of Kentuckians were in Mari
anna last week. They were en route for
Wewahitchka, where they have recently
bought a large milling interest. The party
was composed of five gentlemen, three la
dies and three children, who will make -J
Wewahitchka their home.
The grand jury of Jefferson county say
in their general presentment last’ week
that a five-mill school tax has been paid
for several years, and yet there is no
money in the treasury, school warrants
are at a heavy discount, and it is reported
that there are outstanding debts against
the county school board amounting to
$5,000, more or less.
Z. R. Reed of Grove Park, was in Gaines
ville Sunday and had his right thumb am
putated by Dr. Phillips. Mr. Reed has
lost his thumb as a result of testing an
other man’s remedy for an Injury. He in
jured his thumb recently and was told to
put carbolic acid upon it. He followed tha
advice and cooked the flesh to the first
joint, which necessitated the operation.
Kissimmee Gazette: A colored woman, '
Lizzie Styles gave birth to an illegitimate
child Tuesday evening, on the premises of
Calvin Bryant, and tried to conceal the
matter by burying the Infant near an out
house, in the back yard. In the afternoon g
yesterday some hogs passing through tha ’
lot rooted up the body and began eating it.
When discovered the face and neck of the
little dead body had been horribly man
gled and torn by the hogs.
A decidedly sensational beating was ad
ministered at the residence of F. W.
Dennis, at Jacksonville, Monday. W. C.
Hodge, money delivering clerk of the
Southern Express Company, was the vic
tim. Early in the afternoon, so it is
claimed, he insulted Mrs. Dennis, ile was
made to come into the house later in the
afternoon at the point of a gun in the
hands of one of Mrs. Dennis’ sons, made
to take off his coat and kneel on the floor,
while the younger of the Dennis brothers,
a schoolboy, thrashed him with a bundle
of plaited hickory switches until the blood
flowed.
Essie Washington, colored, aged 9 years,
died Saturday night from Jockjaw cause!
by a wound inflictqd on her head by her
mother, Mary Washington, with an In
strument unknown. Such was the verdict
in substance of a coroner’s jury at Fer
nandina Monday. The testimony produced
was very convincing of the guilt of the
mother injuring her child. It was shown
that she frequently beat it unmercifully
and in several instances had to be stopped
by the police. Her testimony was con
flicting in the extreme with that of the
other witnesses, to whom she had previ
ously stated that she had caused the
wound by striking the child, and upon the
witness stand she said that she had no
idea how the wound was caused, other
than that the child told her she did It
by striking her head against the bed
while trying to get away from her (th*
mother), who was trying to whip her.