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4 Wtthlg Jta* * SUBSCRIPTIONS. WEEKLY NEWS, Issued two times a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. one year 9 1 OO WEEKLY NEWS, six months 75 WEEKLY NEWS, three months.... 50 THE MORNING NEWS every day in the year (by mall or carrier) 10 00 THE MORNING NEWS every day for six months (by mall or carrier) 5 00 THE MORNING NEWS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays (by mail), 1 year S OO ADVERTISING. Display advertising Ji 40 an Inch each Inser tion. Discount made for contract adver tlsing, depending on ppace and length of time advertisement Is to rim. Local and Reading Notices 25 cents a line. Marriages, Funerals and Obituaries 81 00 per inch. Legal Advertisements of Ordinaries, Sheriffs and other officials inserted at the rate pre scribed by law. Remittances can be made by Postoffice Order, Reg stered Letter or Express at our risk. CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited; but to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AH letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS, Savannah, Ga. RKGISTKRED AT TH® POSTOFFIC® IN SAVAN NAH AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894 i_—-' ~ , 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 ,» . -u - ill ... .■ ;l . ... 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. Awarded Highest Honors—World** Fairi DR, * CREAM BAKING PBWB'H MOST PERFECT MADE. /pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free fioni Ammonia, Alam or any other adulterant, | i 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. 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.