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THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1«OB-
Georgia's Frnlt Section.
XVe agree with Prof. J. L. Budd of the
agricultural college of lowa, that the wire
counties of Georgia are remarkably
well adapted to the growing of fruits and
vegetables,' and that these counties are
destined to become famous for their or
cfiards, vineyards and melon patches, but
we do not agree with him In what he says
about Florida.
In his opinion orange growing in Florida
has received a set back from which it will
never recover, for the reason, he says, that
the state is becoming more and more liable
to freezes, owing to the cutting down of
the pine forests in Alabama and Georgia.
A Uttlq inquiry w'ould have revealed to
him that such weather as was experienced
|q this part of the south last winter does
not come more than once in a half century,
and that the cutting down of the pine for
ests has nothing to do with it. Just such a
freeze as destroyed the orange groves last
Winter destroyed them in 1835. The pine
forests had not been disturbed at that time.
And since that time many cold waves that
cHd more or less damage have s w.c-pt over !
the state. The freezes of 1836 and 1895,
however, are tjie ones that ruined orange
trees, and In those years the weather was
exceptionally cold throughout this country
and Europe. There is, therefore, nothing
upon which to base an opinion that the
removal of the pine forests had anything
to do with the freeze of last winter. The
freeze would have occurred no doubt had
riot's pine tree In Georgia or Alabama been
cut down since the famous freeze of 1835.
i While it is true that a freeze may occur
again next winter, there Is more reason to
think there Will not be another disastrous
freeze in the next fifty years than that i
Jre etaje Is more liable to freezes now than
it has been at any time during the l&et huu- ,
dredywarx ' ’
Within three, or at most five years, we
expect to see as many oranges produced in
Florida, as there has been at any previous
’ time in 'her history. The orange growers
feel their loss keenly of course, but they
are not disheartened. They have faith in
Florida as an orange producing state, and
they are showing their faith by chopping
the dead wood out of their groves and In
other respects giving them the kind of
treatment their present condition demands.
What Prof. Budd says of the fruit pos
sibilities of the wire grass section of Geor
gia should be widely published. It Is un
doubtedly a favored section, and we shall
not be surprised if it becomes the garden
•pot of Georgia.
There Will Re no Split.
A prominent politician discussing In
Washington the other day the question of
$lO future of the Democratic party ex- I
pressed the opinion that there would be
two democratic candidates for President
ta 1898. Wo do not believe that opinion
Is worthy of serious consideration. The
Ohly issue on which the democracy is di
vided is that of sliver, but the division is
Xiot greater now than it has been for
a number of years. It is true that those
Who favor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver are making a good deal of noise.
They are trying to create the Impression
apparently that the silver faction is tn
control. They pursued pretty much the
same sort of tactics prior to the last na
tional democratic convention. They are
(jot meeting with a great deal of success,
however.
’ The fact that no candidates for the
presidential nomination are being dis
bussed is not significant of anything. It
•Bly shows that there are not at present
fny democratic leader who is pushing his
qlaim to the nomination. There will be
plenty of candidates, however, before
the time for selecting delegates to the
Rational convention arrives.
• It Is known that the President Is en
deavoring to so shape political issues as
to solidify the party and prepare it for a
successful contest in 1896. That he will
In a great measure succeed there is no
reasonable ground for doubt. It would
be the worst kind of folly for the party
to divide on the silver question or any
sther. Neither of the two factions would
stand the remotest chance for success.
A division would simply make the success
qf the Republican party certain. Where- I
(h, therefore, would be the wisdom of I
each faction putting a Presidential ticket "
in the field?
. It will become apparent a good while
before the national convention meets
(hat the sound money faction is largely
in the majority. That being the case, a
sound money platform, such as the pres
ent platform of the party is. will be adopt
ed. and a sound money man nominated for
/resident.
There will no doubt be a great many
allverltes who will be dissatisfied and '
some of them may leave the party and '
join the populist party. but the great
majority will stay with the Democratic
patty There are republicans, also, who
will likely join the populists, who arc
fn favor of the free coinage of silver. It
la quite certain that the platform of the
i 1
Republican party will be in favor of sound
money.
The next President will be a sound
money man, and he will be elected upon
a sound money platform, unless public
sentiment in respect to silver undergoes
a radical change before the next national
election Public sentiment now is strong
ly in favor of sound money, and it is
likely to become stronger in that direc
tion as the discussion of the money ques
tion goes on. The people will pursue the
honest course when they are fully con
vinced "which the honest course is.
A Southern Man in 1800.
We like Senator Hill’s response to the
article in the Washington Post, entitled
“A Southern Democrat for 1896,” much bet
ter than the Post’s article. The Post’s
article creates the Impression that the
south should demand the nomination of a
southern man by the democracy in 1896
whether It would be advisable to nominate
a southern man or not. The position Sen
ator Hill takes Is that In making a nom
ination no consideration should be given
to the question of the section in which a
candidate resides. The nomination should
go to that Icsdar of the party who is be
lieved to be best qualified for the Pres
idency, and who is, in every respect, the
most available. Is that leader a southern
man? If so, he should be nominated. Is
he a northern man? Then let him be the
standard bearer in 1896.
The south would of course be gratified
if the democracy’s choice In 1896 should be
a southern man. The south, however,
would not ask for the nomination of a
southern man simply because he was a
southern man or because she Is almost
solidly democratic. All that she wants is,
that in making a nomination the ques
tion of section shall not be raised, and
that in considering the availability of can
didates southern men shall stand upon ex
actly the same plane as northern men.
The south has no favors to ask. She
stands upon her record and her merits.
If among her sons there is one who has the
qualifications for the high office of Presi
dent and the confidence, admiration and
respect of the people to a greater extent
than democratic leaders in other parts of
the country he should have the nomina
tion. To nominate a southern man chiefly
because he Is a southern man would be a
great mistake.
While it is true that the Democratic
party depends upon the south to win Its
victories, it Is not true, as the Post states,
that three-fourths of Its strength Is In the
south. The south cast only about one-third
of the votes that President Cleveland re
ceived, and only a few more than half of
the electoral votes that were cast for
him. The Democratic party therefore
would have to forever remain a minority
party if it placed all of Its dependence
upon the south.
The south neither asks nor expects any
thing mpre than a fair contest in which
there shall be no sectional jealousies, pre
judices and animosities. With the result
of a contest of that kind she will be satis
fied. *
The Price of Cotton.
Will the price of cotton rise or fall or
remain about where it 4s from now until
the opening of the next cotton season?
That is a question concerning which there
Is a great deal of speculation. Under the
date of April 4, Mr. Alfred B. Sheppcrson,
the well known authority on cotton, in an
article which appears in the last Issue of
the Dry Goods Economist, expresses the
opinion that the larger supply of cotton
this year-does not justify so great a de
cline in cotton ms has taken place. He
says that although 2,300,000 bales of Ameri
can cotton have come Into sight in excess
of the movement to the corresponding time
last year, it has been so fully absorbed
that the visible supply in the world Is only
about 300,000 bales greater than at this time
last year.
The consumption is very much greater
than It was at this period last year. It
is, according to Mr. Shepperson’s esti
mate, fully 15,000 bales a week greater.
Notwithstanding this Increased consump
tion, however, the price is l%c per pound
less than al this time last year.
The manufacturers of England are not in
a highly prosperous condition, owing to
various causes, one of which Is that India
has taken much of England’s trade with
China. The continental manufacturers,
however, are doing a profitable business
and the American manufacturers are do
ing a much larger volume of business than
last year, but their profits are not large.
All the manufacturers at home and
abroad are pretty well stocked up with
cotton, and it is not probable that they
would be in a hurry to follow a rise in cot
ton. They could not very well do so un
less they could get better prices for their
products, and that they cannot do until
there is a sharper demand.
There seems to toe a general feeling !n
favor of waiting to see what the acreage
of the next crop is going to be. If there is
a considerable reduction In the acreage and
business at the same time shows an in
creasing tendency towards prosperity a
very considerable rise in the price of cot
ton may reasonably be expected. And why
shouldn’t the cotton planters cut down
their cotton acreage? The price of corn Is
high, and all of them are compeHed to
have corn. If they would plant more corn
and less cotton it would be better for them
from any point of view. They -wouldn’t
have to buy corn at a high price and sell
cotton at a low price. The price of cotton
would advance and they would have their
own corn end would get more money for a
reduced cotton crop than for a big crop.
But even if the acreage should not be re
duced Mr. Shepperson Is inclined to think
that the next crop will be considerably
smaller than the one that is now being
j marketed which, he estimates, will reach
| 9,7W,000 bales. It is a rare thing that two
| great crops are raised In succession. Mr.
Shepperson calls attention to the crop of
1883-3. which was a good one, and says that
the crop of 1833-84 was 18 per cent, less,
although the acreage was 6 per cent,
greater.
It will not do. however, for the
cotton farmers to bank on the
season of 1895 being an unfav
orable one, expecting on that account to
get a big price for cotton. The wiser plan
for them to pursue Is to cut down the cot
ton acreage and give more attention to
food crop*. By following that course
they are much more likely to have a sur-
I plus at the end of the season than If they
I cultivate all their land in cotton.
I Nicaragua's back-down to Great Brit-
I’ ain was not very graceful; still it lets
this country out of a complication that
might have grown ticklish.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1895.
PERSONAL.
—The young czar Is said to owe the
great improvement in his health which
has taken place in late years entirely
to cycling.
—Vaszary, the primate of Hungary, Is a
man of the most simple tastes, and when
he first entered office his task was ren
dered doubly hard by the fact that hith
erto he had been but a poor Benedictine
monk. He drove to the prlmatlal palace,
at Gran, in a public cab, carrying on his
knees a cage containing his pet canary.
—Edward Burne-Jones, the famous Brit
ish artist, is of Welsh extraction. He
is Rudyard Kipling’s uncle. Burne-Jones
is almost entirely self-taught. His pic
tures are nearly all restricted in color
to curiously varied tones of bluish pur
ple and ruddy bronze. In appearance
Burne-Jones Is a pallid faced, dreamy
eyed man. He is considerably over 60
years of age.
—The mayor-elect of Superior, Wls.,
is the Rev. C. S. Starkweather, an Epis
copal clergyman. He is a man of wealth
and culture, until recently rector of tfie
Church of the Redeemer, in Superior.
A few years ago he came near being
elected bishop of Wisconsin. He has en
tered politics because he thinks he can
do some good in public life. Two years
ago he was elected an alderman. He is
doubtful whether he will ever again
take a parish.
—Maud Howe Elliott writes that when
she saw the pope she was impressed by
the loneliness of his life, which make's
him really the “prisoner of the Vatican.”
She wondered, with a woman’s imagina
tion, whether he would not be happier
passing the last days of his life simply
and unostentatiously among the people
of his little native town. One thing that
struck her forcibly in the holv father
was the great refinement and' softness
of his face, and she says that his hands
are so thin as to be almost transparent.
—A Chicago paper is responsible for this:
Lase Pence of Colorado is said to have
suggested to Gen. John B. Gordon the
Idea of going on the lecture platform. The
Georgian was telling some war stories
to a company of gentlemen in Washing
ton last year, Mr. Pence being of the
company. The narration delighted the
Colorado congressman, who declared that
if these stories could be strung together
they would prove a source of revenue.
Senator Gordon said he would consider .
the matter, and the result was his suc- r
cessful appearance aS a lecturer.
BRIGHT HITS. ,
—“Excuse me, madam,” said the paying
teller, ‘“but you have not endorsed this
check. If you will write your name on
the back of it, it will be all right.”
“Oh. of course,” said the little woman..
“I had forgotten.” Then she endorsed
the check: “Sincerely yours, Janette
Hicksworthy. Harper’s Bazar.
—“What Is this?” exclaimed ,the prima
donna, as she crumpled the printed sheet
• threw it upon the floor and stamped upon
“What is the matter, my dear?” asked
her husband.
"A brand of piano has been placfed on
the market without my knowledge, and I
have not w-rltten a testimonial saying it
is the finest instrument I have ever used,
this is the first time such a thing has
happened. —Boston Transcript.
—Rank Swindle.—“ What d£ you think’”
said Eel Bill; "I jlst about had the dough
in me fist fer a gold brick which I had put
in three days in flxin’, when the blame
rube s hands got to shakin’ an’ he dropped
it am it broke.”
“Hard luck,” said one of "the push.”
No hard luck about it. I was swindled.
I t l >ought that brick from warrant
ed it to be the best pavin’ brick, an’ would
stand anything. But I guess they ain’t
Journal hOnest these da >' 3 -”~ I ndianapolls
—“Paw, what does It mean when thev
say money talks?” asked Johnny
“It means,” said Mr. Billus, after re
flecting a moment, “that it sometimes
helps a man that’s got it to talk a little
louder than, the other fellow.”
all money talk?” persisted John-
"N—no. Not exactly.”
“Then money that mnf talk is hush
money,- ain t iti'4 v u
s A’P^ e V? u out bring
tn your kindling wood.”—Chicago Tribuna
—ln a case before a Paris court, in
which a popular actress has had to ap
pear as a witness, the Judge seems to have
shown considerable diffidence about ask
ing the lady, as he was in duty bound to
d .°; w hat was her age. Evidently he con
sidered that such a question put to a wit
ness would be a direct incitement to per
jury, so he asked her her age before she
h<i<i B worn. “How old sre von
madam? he said. After a little hesita
tion, the lady owned to being 29 years of
age. And now that you have told the
court your age,” continued the gallant
, y ?, u swear to teH the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
—Cincinnati Times-Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Who Free Silver Would Hart.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Deni)
Free silver would not <iur>t the banks one
whit more than it would hurt the people
whose savings are deposited in the banks;
the people who work for wages; rhe people
who have saved or invested a dollar, or ex
pect to earn a dollar. A depreciated cur
rency suoh as would follow free silver
would inflict upon the people the greatest
injury possible through legislation.
The Advance of Beef.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.).
Secretary Morton is on the wrong track
In his search for the causes that have forc
ed the oppressive increase in the price of
beef. Instead of sending out to the wes
tern ranches to see if it were due to any
great shrinkage in the cattle crop, his
agents should have stopped right In Chi
cago. where they would have found that
the advance in prices was caused by the
inordinate and highly organized green of
the monopolists who control the beef mar
ket.
The Price of Cotton.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
Sharp as the recent advance has been
there Is really no present indication that
H has yet reached its culminating point.
In fact it is now more apparent than ever
that, notwithstanding excellent trade and
good prospects ahead. Manchester srrin
•ners have allowed their stocks to run verv
low, having taken much less than their
usual proportion of the American croc
;Trade has recently improved greatlv ’n the
United States, and the adventoT
tween Japan and China ks likely to greatly
stimulate the demand for cotton goods in
the far east. There is. ewrv
reason to expect brisk competition for the
remnant of the crop of 1894, and, conse
quently, a further advance in prices.
The State of Chicago.
From the Chicago Tribune -(Rep.).
A representative from Greene county
has introduced a resolution for a consti
tutional amendment giving this countv a
legislature of its own. so that it may tax
Itself, make its own laws, and have its own
supreme court. Cook is to have nothing
to do with the ivst of the state except as
far as the election of state officers and
senators Is concerned. The scheme, which
is an unworkable one. doubtless was meant
as a joke. Chicago will be patient and
wait. Her pride might be flattered bv a
proposition to become the great city-state
of the union, but on reflection she will no*
disassociate herself from the rest of Illi
nois either entirely or partially. She feels
that the other counties need her, and she
will not desert them.
A “Goldbag" Scheme.
Springfield (Mass.). Republican (Ind.).
Senator Morgan of Alabama is watch
ing Great Britain, now that the Nicaragua
canal is inatoeynce, and is continually dis
covering some new way in which that gov
ernment is scheming to get the best of the
United States, especially in South Amer
ica. He now thinks that he has struck the
true inwardness of the British cla’m on
Venezuelan territory up to the Schomburg
boundary. It as all due to British gold
bugism. The rich gold deposits of the
Orinoco valley are coveted in order to
v-nable Great Britain to Increase her store
of that metal, and prevena other nations
especially the United States, from increas
ing theirs. Morgan does not want the
United States to “stand idly by anti allow
( her to carry this policy into effect”—and
i every free sliver man Is expected to say
‘ "amen.” »
Gen. Miles’ Poker Story.
"I don’t poker, tnyself,” said Maj. Gen.
Miles, according to the New York Maili
and .Express, “in ,faet I aim glad to say
that the game hag rather gone out in the
army, but I think I can claim to have
be en a witness of tlhe biggest game as to
stakes that was ever played.”
“Tell us about it, general,” said Coil.
Oqhiltree. “I have some pretty good poker
stories in stock myself.”
"And so have I;” said Henry Watteir
- B°- . ‘‘For insta/ice, Joe Blackburn’s
about the game played in tlhe trenches
at the battle of Shiloh, with a table made
of the bodies: of the comrades of the
players.”
“Well,” said Mr, John W. Mackay, “as
I will inter a claim fpr some
P 1 tv e games, played in the good old days
in Nevada, when the boys had the Corn
stock lode to draw upon. But, general,
let us have your story.”
“It was dm the spring of 1865—just thirty
JT, ar , s th * s Meek, when I come to
think of nt—when Davis. Lee and the rest
of you ■ confederates, Col. Watterson,
in full retreat from Richmond to
ward Danville, and we were pressing you
night and day, hardly stopping to eat
or sleep. On the eve of the battle of
Sailor’s creek ”
“I was there,” said Col. Ochiltree. “It
battle that I was wounded.”
1 hat day,” continued Gen. Miles, “we
overhauled and captured a confederate
wagon train, and found, greatly to the de
light of the boys, that several of , the
wagons were loaded with confederate
bonds and confederate money in transit
from the confederate treasury depart
ment in Richmond to wherever the gov
ernment now on wheels might make its
last stand. The soldiers simply helped
themselves to the bonds and the money,
and the officers d'id not care -to deprive
them of the spoils to which they were
richly entitled. At night when we knocked
off work for supper and a few hours rest
and sleep 1 lha, d occasion to ride along
the line, and found, greatly to my amuse
ment, a poker game going on around al
most every camp fire. Stopping to watch
one of the games, •this is what t heard:
‘How much is the ante?”
‘A thousand dollars.”
“And how much'to fill? Five thousand.
Well, here goes. I raise* it ten thousand.”
Good; I see you and go you ten thou
sands better. Twenty-five thousand to
draw cards!”
• ca,r ds were drawn, and presently
a bet was made of fifty thousand. Some
one went a hundred thousand dollars bet
ter, but he was ruled down. Fifty thou
sand was the limit. However, there was
five hundred thousand dollars <!n. the
pot when it was hauled down by the
winner, who had three trays and a. pair
of jacks. I expressed my surprise at the
size of the game,- and told the boys that
they had better go slow cr tiheir funds
woulr run out.
..“Never fear, general,’ replied one of
them. “We will keep within our means.
You ought to have been here just now.
Why, we had a jackpot of $1,200,000.”
‘I think you Mil agree with me,” con
tinued Gen. Miles, “■that no bigger poker
game than that was ever played.”
How She Got the Pin.
w Lat a perfectly adorable diamond
pin! cried the young woman with the
violet bonnet, according to the Chicago
Tribune.
“Yes, and my husband gave it to me of
his own accord.” replied the young wo
man with the black silk gown.
"You mean he thought he did.” «
“I mean nothing of the kind. I’ll die if
I don’t tell somebody, and it might just
as well be you aS anybody else; but don’t
tell your husband.”
“I ■won’t. I’ll let him think your husband
gave it to you out of pure generosity—he
hates to have anybody get ahead of him.”
“I know. Well, my new gown came home
a ruin, an absolute wreck, and, to tell
the truth, I took most of my rage out of
Antonius, because I wasn’t.afraid of him
and I was of her. A day or tVo later his
new suit came home from tne tailor. It
was, a perfect fit except that the coat
sleeves were half an inch or so too long.
I told him that it didp't really matter
much, for they could easily be shortened.
He replied that he wasn’t afraid of his
tailor if I was df my dressmaker.”
“Humph! He would be if.his tailor was
a woman.”
“M'hm. He said he would go right down
and give- him- a piece, wf Ms mind-xhat
he’d tell him that fie wasn’t fit to nuv a
pair of bicycle blpomers: Indeed, he used
such awful language that I was reallv
alarmed. That made him more ferocious
yet, and I trembled for the consequences.”
"Oh, well, you know it takes nine tailors
to make a man.’’
“So Anjinlus remarked. I tried to calm
him by reminding him that, the poor man
was probably a weak, nervous creature
"with a large family depending upon him.
but he refused to listen and rushed off
downtown.”
“Then he sent a messenger with the
cofit and a polity note saying the sleeves
were too long.”
“Nothing of the kind. He came back
in a cab an hour or so later with his over
coat torn, a piece of court plaster on his
cheek, and oh, such an eye!”
“How cross he must have been!”
“Oh, not as much as you might imangine.
I didn’t lose my presence of mind. I just
cried out:
“ ‘Antonius Bittersweet, I hope you
didn’t quite kill the poor tailor?”
“And he got you the pin the first day his
eye was fit for him to go out? Well, I’m
sure you are a remarkable woman.”
“Oh, well, not so remarkable as vou
might think,’ modestly replied the young
woman with the black silk gown. “You
must remember that Antonius is my sec
ond husband.”
Gottdcd to Indifference,
It was darker than four kinds of Egypt
in-the-time-of-Pharoah, when Mrs. Hig
ginbottom had shaken the sleeping Mr.
Higginbottom until he opened his eyes
and felt the darkness thrust upon him,
says the Detroit Free Press.
“What—wha—what is it, my dear?” he
asked with an effort that would have bem
visible if the light had been turned on.
“Oh, Hiram, she whispered, in a tre
mor. “there’s a burglar in the house.”
"How do you know?”
“I heard him.”
"Probably it’ft the cat.”
“I couldn’t hear a cat walk upstairs,”
she snapped.
“Did it walk upstairs?” he inquired
sleepily.
"No; I said I heard the burglar, up
stairs?’
"How do you suppose he got up?”
"He didn’t get up,” she whispered an
grily.
"But didn’t you say you heard him up
stairs?” he asked, gently.
"No; I said I heard him downstairs.”
“When were you downstairs, my dear?”
he asked with an awakening Interest.
“I wasn’t downstairs, Hiram,” she re
plied. “I was upstairs and heard the bur- i
glar downstairs. Can’t you hear?” and she
gave him a vigorpus shake.
“Hear what, my dear? I don’t hear anv-1
thing.”
Mrs. Higginbottom was provoked al
most to the battlepoint.
"Well, Hiram Higginbottom,” she said
in a firm tone, "if you don’t care whether
burglars come in and murder us in our
beds, I guess I don’t either.” And evi- >
dently Mr. Higginbottom didn’t, for long
before she had recovered from her nerv- I
ous fit, he was Snoring at a pitch that I
would have driven a burglar to a boiler
shop for relief.
—
O. Captain: My Captain!
From the Writings of Walt Whitman.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip Is
done.
The ship has weathered every rack, the !
prise we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the
people «•! exulting.
While follow eye» the steady keel, the ves
sel grim and daring!
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red.
Where on the dock my Captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear
■the bells;
Rise up. flor you the flag is flung, for you
the bugle trills.
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths,
for you the shores a-crowd'.ng.
For you they call, the swaying mass, the
eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some, dream that on the deck.
You've fallen cold and dead.
i My Captain does not answer, his lips are
I pale and still,
I My father does not feel my arm, he has
no pulse nor will.
: The ship is anchored safe and sound, its
i voyage closed and done,
i From a fearful trip the victor ship comes
tn. Its object iwon;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain liea.
fallen cold and dead.
• ITEMS OF INTEREST,
—Greater New York, a topographical
statistician points out, will cover an area
of 317 square miles; three times the eize of
London, and twelve times that of Paris.
Rome, Babylon and Memphis are not to
be mentioned in the comparison.
—Nearly all the plants that have thorns
in their wild state' lose them after genera
tions of cultivation. It Is as if planis
brought under the protection of man grad
ually lay dowp their arms and trust them
selves entirely to his protection.
—The singing in Russia—that is, in the
Russian church—is confined entirely to
men. All the monks are singers. For a
thousand years Russia has been searched
for the best voices among the monks,
and they are brought-to the most import
ant centers. As no one can be come a priest
in Russia who is not the son of a priest
(the parish priests being married), in
nearly all the training has gone on from
age to age.
—A novel drinking glass has been in
vented, the special feature of the inven
tion being, we are told, that bottled beers
may be poured into it without the three
parts froth, fro which you have patiently
to await subsidence before drinking. With
the corrugations Inside instead of outside
the glass, the foam is'sald to be so distri
buted that it resolves itself into a thin
layer at the top, no matter how fresh
the liquor may be.
—Statistics give the mileage of all the
railways on the globe at the end of 1892
at 406,416 miles, or one mile to every
3,516 inhabitants. Puerto RJco is the state
containing the shortest length of rail
way, numbering eleven miles, and the
United States have by far the greatest
-174,784 miles. Next, but a long way be
hind, comes Germany, with 27,455 miles,
then France, with 24,018 miles. The United
Kingdom is fourth, with 20,325 miles, and
Russia fifth, with 19,656 miles.
—“Flitting” is the term used by the
Pennsylvania Germans for a family mov
ing. This is also a Scotch usage, and it is
nearer the original meaning of the word
than is the more modern acceptation.
Philologists conjecture that the word has
reached Its present common meaning
through a fancied relation to the word
“fleet.” A flitting in the, cqlloquial usage
of the Pennsylvania Germans does not
mean a hasty removal, nor has it any
half-humorous intent, such as Sometimes
marks the word.
—France’s parliament stands in danger
of excommunication, which, if carried in
to effect, will be without precedent in his
tory. It seems that one of the abbes who
sits in the Chamber'of Deputies for a
rural constituency, has introduced a bill
to punish and prohibit duelling, and un
der a papal bull now in existence any
one who opposes the bill must be excom
municated as encouraging this particular
form of murder. That is to say, it the
Chambers reject the bill; the clergy, ac
cording to the terms of the papal edict
in question, have no alternative but to
place them under the ban of the church.
—Says the Philadelphia Record: “A full
case of handcuffs, straight jackets and
iron chains is among the possessions of
the state board of lunacy, and is care
fully treasured as a relic of the old treat
ment of the insane, which has now hap
pily passed almost entirely out of use. It
seems incredible that such cruel contri
vances should have only a few yeqrs ago
been used and authorized by eminent
physicians as necessary to curb the out
breaks of unfortunate patients. The case
Is now in the office of the insane depart
ment of the Pennsylvania hospital at
Forty-ninth and Market streets, and in
view of the absolute freedom given the
patients there, this formidable collection
evokes great curiosity. ' Hanging to one
pair of heavy and unwieldly handcuffs is
a chain of wooden beads, which an insane
man succeeded in forming and decorating
with curious carvings while kis move
ments were hampered by that mass of
iron.” ... .
—lt Isi well known here, says the Wash
ington correspondent of the Chicago
Times-Herald, that Mrs. Cleveland is very
tired of being the wife of the President,
and that she Ipoks forward with great
joy to the time when she can once more
be plam Mrs. Cleveland. As the wife of
the President Mrs. Cleveland leads a life
which is dreadfully monotonous. She is
debarred from general society and can.
accept no hospitaHcy, qxcept from the •
members, of the cabinet, and cabinet din
ffers aie pretty dreary affairs, because
Jill the members know one another so
thoroughly before the first season is half
oyer that they get tired of the same so
ciety before the list has been enhausted.
The wives of the members of the cabinet
have a much better time of it socially;
°ut shopping, at the theater or In any
public place Mrs, Cleveland’s, every move
ment Is watched, so that her whole life
is more or less artificial and subjects her
to constant constraint. Mrs. Cleveland
would no doubt be glad to leave the white
house behind her. She 13 fully convinced
that It is not a place for happiness.
~~' So ’' ne of , the old continental families
literally did date their pedigrees from the
Hood, says the London Standard. The
French family of Croy possessed at one
time a fine picture representing Noah,
with one foot in the ark, exclaiming
Sauvez les papiers de la maison de Crov.”
The pedigree of a Welsh family, the Mos
tyns, of Mostyn is equally remarkable. It
has been preserved among their papers
for more than three centuries, is inscribed
on illuminated parchment and measures
over twenty fefet long by about a foot
broad. It begins with Noah, and, as
Hayward remarks, after passing through
most of the princely houses mentioned
in the- old Testament, is made to flow
through sundry royal and imperial chan
nels til it reaches Edward 111., where it
stops; so that it would fit anv family
claiming descent from the Plantagenets.
But in spite absurdities of this kind
probably no Croy or Mostyn ever de
scended to the depth of silliness of sup
posing his or her blood was literally blue
The fact was that the Moorish invasion
drove the nobles inter every kind of ex
tremity: Many families In their dis
tress allied themselves with those of Afri
can, Indian or Jewish blood. In this man
ner their descendants gain what is com
monly called a “dash of tar brush.”
When the. Moorish yoke was eventually
thrown off, the old families who dated
from a time previous to the Moorish in
vasion were particularly anxious to main
tain the purity of their descent. The bare
idea of the slightest taint of African or
Jewish blood filled them with horror. Yet
nearly everybody's blood was so tainted
when the Moors were overthrown and the
Jews expelled at the end of the fifteenth
century. Those, however. Who were con
scious of their pure descent were natur
ally proud o»f it. There was no trace of
the loathed, dark-faced Moor In their
veins; they had never intermarried with
the despised Jew. But all around them
i were men who were partly Jewish, and
I who, whatever they might say. bore the
i signs of their mixed origin in their faces.
1 Perhaps, therefore, it was not altogether
I astonishing, absurd as it now seems to
us, that the Spaniard of pure descent
j should come to imagine that the blood of a
> quadroon, as well as his complexion, was
dark in color, though how they came to fix
■ on blue as the color of their own blood
i must still remain a mystery. If they really
I thought it was blue they must have shed
it far less often in their country’s cause
I than history would lead us so believe.
Nor could they have been very keen ob
servers in other respects. Presumably the
cheeks of their children were not blue,
nor did the highborn Spanish maiden blush
blue when some Spanish Lord Tolloller
pressed her to share hfs hearth and home.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Expliauicen.
The Macon presbytery will hold its next
session at Geneva, commencing Cct. 24.
Judge Beck ®at in chambers at Griffin
Saturday upon an injunction of certain
taxpayers against the city of Forsyth to
prevent the issue of SIB,OOO of waterworks
bonds. The injunction was denied after
a full hearing.
The following appointments were made
by the President Saturday: Frank C. Arm
strong, of the district of Columbia; Alex
B. Montgomery of Kentucky and Thomas
B. Cabaniss of Georgia Jo be commission
ers to negotiate with the' Indians of the
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee
or Creek and Seminole nations. This is
the Dawes commission.
The farmers and fruit growers of Spald
ing are beginning to. grow enthusiastic
over the prospects of a full crop of fruit
this year. They regard the danger line
as passed when the full moon of April
failed to bring a frost, and now some
thing very unusual must occur to pre
vent the largest crop of several years.
A branch of a peach tree was shown on
the streets of Griffin Saturday that aver
aged three blooms to every inch.
There is a plan on foot to connect a
dozen of the small cities and towns with
Americus by telephone. The towns include
Smithville, Sumter, Bronwood, Dawson,
Weston, Shellman, Richland, Parrott’s,
Preston and Plains, thus making a com
plete circuit. It is estimated that total cost
will not exceed $2,000, since two or three
of the points above mentioned are already
connected by private lines. Cuthbert and
Lumpkin will also be Included in the cir
cuit should the people there desire to sub
scribe also.
Atlanta now has nine military compa
nies, all of which, except one—the Gate
City Guard—are attached to the Fifth
Georgia regiment, commanded by Lieut.
Col. John S. Candler. And the indica
tions are 'that before the month is out
the tenth company will be formed and will
seek recognition at the hands of the ad
jutant general of the state and apply for
a place in the ranks of the Fifth regi
ment. The new company, if formed, and
there is very little doubt about its for
mation, will be known as the Emmet
Guard.
A case of much importance to insurance
companies was decided by Mayor Dun
woody, at Brunswick, Saturday. H. Ro
senfeld, special agent for the Equitable
Life, was arrested by the city authorities
for refusing to pay the special license tax
of fifty dollars for non-resident solicitors.
He resisted payment on the ground that
the company paid a regular tax assessed
on all companies, and on the further
ground that non-resident solicitors could
not be made to pay this tax while resident
agents were allowed to do business with
out paying any license. The hearing oc
cupied the entire morning and was ably
contested by both sides. Mayor Dunwoody
dismissed the case against Rosenfeld and
desided that the ordinance was not valid.
Augusta Herald: The tax digest foots
up more than last year.. The total for
1895 is $22,520,182; for 1894 it was $22,403,598!
When it is considered that we are in the
midst of a cry of hard times and while,
to an extent, there is business depression
and a shrinkage of Values, this increase,
though small, is an excellent showing.
But there is a ridiculousness in some
items that might be called comical. The
amount of money loaned at interest in Au
gusta is returned at $107,698. This return
is absolutely absurd. A business man, a
month ago, estimated that the money
loaned at interest in Augusta approxi
mated $1,000,000. Money on hand and in
bank is another item. The return is $307,-
049. This is just as absurdly out of pro
portion as the money on interest item.
Capping the climax, while there are other
ridiculously low returns, are the returns
of bonds, railroad, municipal, and all kinds
of bonds whatsoever (city of Augusta
bonds, bonds of the state of Georgia and
of the United States excepted). The re
turn of this item is $186,610. Any man in
Augusta knows that such a return is
simply injustice. Bonds are not returned
for taxation and that is all there is about
it. The truth seems to be that the strug
gling merchant and the poor man must
pay the taxes, while the rich man secures
himself in nosition to avoid contributing
■ his fair share to the support of the gov
ernment. Nobody is going to accept it as
true that there is $300,000 worth more of
household and kitchen furniture in Au
gusta than there is money in bank and
money loaned on Interest here; not that
there is $500,000 more such furniture than
there are bonds.
All up the Northeastern road from Ath
ens to Lula the farmers are planting the
crops and the outlook -was never better
for a large fruit crop.
Eatonton Messenger: The canning fac
tory wants to run again this summer, but
it can’t because the shipping rates over
the Middle Georgia road would knock
out all its profits.
J. C. T. Baker, the lumber merchant of
Atlanta, who became suddenly insane
during the burning of his residence, near
Edgewood, on Saturday last, died Sun
day in terrible agony at the Grady hos
pital.
Patillo McGowan, Mattie McGowan and
Julia McGowan, all of Atlanta, have taken
■out attachments against the Louisville
and Nashville for the loss of baggage
amounting to $1,302. They ask for interest
and attorney’s fees also.
The fifty-fourth annual convention of
the Chi Psi college fraternity will be held
in Atlanta on April 24. Delegates from
colleges in Vermont, Connecticut, Massa
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South
Carolina and Georgia will be in atten
dance, representing sixteen colleges.
Mrs. Eliza Turnipseed was granted a
divorce In Judge Lumpkin’s court at At
lanta Saturday from her husband, R. W.
Turnipseed, and was given the right to
assume again the name of her first hus
band, who was Col. John M. Reynolds
of Burke county, and who died in 1878.
Mrs. Reynolds married Mr. Turnipseed in
1885, and lived with him only one year.
A petition was heard by Judge Butt at
Columbus Saturday, from the
creditors of the Elks’ Social
Club, asking that the property of
that organization be put in the hands of
a receiver, to be sola at private sale to
satisfy their claims. These proceedings
were interrupted by the suing out of a dis
tress -warrant at the instigation of Mrs.
Salisbury, who petitioned the court to or
der tho property sold at public outcry, by
the sheriff, to satisfy rent claims.
A valuable horse, belonging to C. C.
Stratton of Macon, died Saturday of hy
drophobia. The horse was bitten in the
nose several days ago by a rat, tut show
ed no signs of the disease unti, Friday-,
when it began acting strangely and con
tinually rubbed its nose against trees and
other objects. Mr. Stratton sent the
i horse to a veterinary surgeon, who pro
’ nounced its disease hydrophobia as soon
I as he observed its symptoms. So far as
: known, the horse did not bite any other
animal.
Two suits were filed at Atlanta Satur
day against the Southern Railway Com
pany for damages. The first .was that
I of Harry E. Hutchinson, a minor, by his
next friend. He alleges that he was run
over by a switch engine and his right leg
cut off while arranging a switch. He al
leges that he played about the yards and
was asked to help in the work by car
couplers, and was soon lulled into a sense
|of security. His father, A. Hutchison,
sues for $1,995, and the son for the same
I amount.
Augusta Chronicle: George Walton de
; sires that Bishon Holsey be set at rights
I in regard to the charge published that he
had offered to sell his daughter to Charles
Dixon for a sum df $15,000. The man
referred to w-as Toomer. and the informa
tion, so George Walton says, came to him
through Henry Lincoln Johnston. John
ston is willing to prove this statement.
George Walton desires to say that there
was no reflection at all upon Bishop
Holsey, who is entirely straight in all his
dealings.
Atlanta Constitution: A rose vine with
the most remarkable history of any plant
in the state, perhaps, is dead. The vine
belonged to Mrs. Gaicaren, and when in
the full perfection of its growth, she was
offered $6,000 for it, on condition that it
be transplanted without injury to the
vine. This offer was refused, because the
vine frequently made several hundred dol
lars clear cash each season from the sale of
its buds, at 28 cents each, and more than
paid that sum during its existence. But
it produced its flowers too rapidly and
finally spent itself. Over a thousand peo
ple have made special trips to the resi
dence of Mrs. Gaicaren to see the wonder
ful vine, which was next largest io any
known in floral culture in the United
States
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News of the State Told In
Para.srra.phs.
Robert Miller, a carpenter, dropped dead
Central and Peninsular railroad depot at
Ybor City. The cause assigned for the
death was heart disease.
Mrs. Gowman of Tampa has begun suit
for alimony against her husband, Dr. c
Gowman, alleging desertion as the basis.
Dr. Gowman denies her claims, and the
case is set for next Thursday morning.
J. George Ingram, a young man 23
who is employed bv the
S Tetephone Company in the capacity
of collector, was run over by a car of the
Jacksonville street railway Sunday af
ternoon, and had his right leg broken
Joseph Halbuth, first mate on the Rus
sian schooner Uranus, lying in Dog island
near Carrabelle, went ashore on
Good Friday, with several other sLlor”
to have a good time. On their return
trip the small boat they were in ran
on an oyster bank, and the mate got out
oti ' iost 1,18
sxg .■sx
of changes in the operating department
of the phosphate plants. They are so
rapid and unexpected that it is hard
to keep up with him. ■ ar<l
Salomonson & Fessenden of Tampa have
ciosed a deal with E. J. Hills of Sanford
in which they sell that gentleman thirty,
nye acres of land northeast of Ybor Citv
The consideration paid is $4,000. They will
lay it off in lots and secure the location
of new cigar factories. uo *-
™ e ; authol ! ze ?. strength of the Florida
state troops is 84 officers, 90 non-commis
sioned staff and band, 1.300 enlisted men
making an aggregate of 1,474, which is in
creased by the staff of the commander-Jn
o? le £ to I>4B4 \ Z he organized strength is
84 officers and 896 enlisted men.
The Consumers Street Railway Com
pany of Tampa has closed a deal by which
they become owners of the Palmetto
Beach railway. The contract stipulates
that tne Consumers company shall build
a line of road from Palmetto Beach to
some point in the First ward within four
months from date.
Sanford Chronicle: A “Paisy Paper;”
that’s what the reading public says
about the Sunday issue of the old reliable
Savannah Morning News, with its twenty
pages of reading matter and illustra
tions. Col. Estill is bound to give South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida patrons a
paper that they can always feel proud of
in every department.
St. Augustine Press: A deed was record
ed in the clerk’s office this morning, by
which the East Coast Land and Produce
Company conveys to the Hon. Francis
Jeffrey Moncrieff and J. Hope Finlay, all
of its lands in St. Johns county in con
sideration of $lO in lawful money of the
United States. The deed was drawn up
in London very elaborately, covering
nine pages of parchment, and is signed
for the company by W. Kemp Welch, di
rector and chairman, Joseph Walton, di
rector, William Hope, secretary. It is
acknowledged before Patrick A. Collins,
United States consul general at London.
Bronson Times-Democrat: Cullen B.
Seals, a white convict who has been con
fined at Albion, was released last Thurs
day, having been pardoned. He was given
the privilege of exchanging his stripes
for rags so filthy that, by his own state
ment, he preferred to wear his tripes
to Gainesville, but one of the bosses took
pity on him and gave him an old negligee
shirt and a new pair of overalls. Cer
tainly some humane provision should be
made for convicts who are discharged.
Seals says he is confident he would have
been liberally provided for had not Gen.
Bailey, in whose camp he was, been
away at the time of his release.
Tampa Tribune: Olaf Lovengreen has
returned from Havana, whither he went
in search of health two months ago. He
returns much improved, having gained
twenty pounds in weight. He says Cam
pos had not arrived up the departure of
the last ship, but was expected at any
time. He says further that you can get
no news of the insurrection, as the gov
ernment suppresses everything. He de
sired to go into the country, but the au
thorities refused to grant him a passport.
A number of newspaper correspondents
are at the Hotel Pasaji trying unsuccess
fully to get news. The wires are all cut
and communication with the interior is
very difficult.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Assistant Postmaster Gayden of Colum
bia is said to be $275 short In his accounts
with the government.
Spartanburg is going to have a base ball
team. It is the intention of those in
charge to form a stock company, if
enough encouragement is given the matteb.
John L. Kelley, who was convicted of
highway robbery and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary at the May, 1893,
term of court in Marlboro, has been par
doned by the governor.
The governor of North Carolina hag
made a requisition on Gov. Evans for two
fugitives from justice from that state.
Hugh and Henry Easterling are the two
men wanted. They are now in the Marl
boro jail, charged with larceny.
Solicitor Ansel has consented to the re
lease of James Murray and Finley, the
two white boys held in jail at Greenville,
to await trial for burglary, on condition
that they leave the state. Murray was
released Wednesday and Finle> Thursday.
A charter has been granted the Lancas
ter County Building and Loan Association
board of corporators, of Lancaster. The
association will buy, Improve and sell real
estate, loan money, and do other build
ing and loan business. Capital stock, $50,-
000, divided into 500 shares at the par value,
of SIOO.
L. Breslauer is planting a farm neat*
Georgetown with tomatoes, peas, beans,
etc., for his canning factory at Waverly.
F. G. Tarbox has purchased all the up
lands extending from Willow Bank to Rich
mond plantations, and is busy preparing
tho land for a large ttruck crop. T. W.
Brig htman and T. S. Munnerlyn are plant
ing all the uplands belonging to Serenity
plantation in truck.
The hearing in the case of young Da
Hines <fo<r tampering with the United
States mails was begun at Columbia Sat
urday, but was continued until a material
witness who is sick could he (had. lit Is
charged that De Hines claimed a letter
containing a small amount, which he had
already taken out of the mails. He was
asked to open the mail at Dawkins, and, it
is Charged, took out a letter addressed to
himself with money in it,.
Three colored men broke into a car of
the Northeastern railroad at Charleston
Thursday morning about 3 o’clock, and
made away with a lot of freight. They
paid a second visit to the car. but were
surprised by the watchman, who fired sev
eral shots at the car breakers, one of
whom was captured. His name is Samuel
Patterson. The man's house was then
searched by the police, and a large amount
of stolen property found, including four
crates of eggs, several cans of lard, a
number of boxes of cigars, and a quantity
of cow peas, etc. The police are after
Patterson’s accomplices and expect to
capture them before long.
Charleston Post: It is understood that
a very interesting question has arisen
in one of the commands of the Fourth
brigade, and the settlement of it is anx
iously awaited as it may possibly go to
wards the establishment of a precedent,
to be followed by every company Ln the
slate. A young man, whose home is in
New York, but whose place of business
is here, joined one of the local commands
as a reserve member some time ago for
purely social purposes. Some pressure
was brought to bear and he was induced
to sign the enlistment papers. After he
had done this he was approached and re
quested to buy a company uniform, which
he refused to- do, stating that in his opin
ion. as he had enlisted, he should be
provided with such an outfit free of cost.
He took this view of the matter from
the first, and told the Post reporter
that he intended to keep it to the last.
He said that the commanding office
asked him if he intended to appear on
H.rpe.-tlon, to which he replied in.
the affirmative. He was then asked in
what uniform he expected to appear, and
he said he would have no objections to
parading in the blue blouse which the
state had furnished to him. notwithstand
ing the appearance of the other members
of the command in the company uniform.
He said that there was a question of
principle back of the whole matter, in
his opinion, and if the state or the com
pany wanted him to parade in a S2O uni
form one or the other should give it to
him free of cost. He says that he will
report at the armory next Tuesday in
< the fatigue uniform.