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About Savannah weekly news. (Savannah) 1894-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1897)
4 QtWttliljStta. . SUBSCRIITIONSF WEEKLY NEWS, issued two times a week, on Mondays and Thurs days, one ysar $ 1-00 THE MORNING NEWS, every day in the year (by mail or carrier)... 10 00 k THE MORNING NEWS, every day ■ fjr six months (by mail or carrier. 5.00 F the MORNING NEWS, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays (by mall), one year 5 °0 L ADVERTISING. L Display advertisements $1.40 an inch each insertion. Discount made for contract rB advertising, depending on space and length of time advertisement is to run. JB Local and Reading Notices, 25 cents a line. Marriages, Funerals and Obituaries, SI.OO y per inch. Legal Advertisements df Ordinaries, Sheriffs and other officials inserted at rate prescribed by law. rveuiittances can be made by Postoffice Order, Registered Letter or Express at our risk. CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence solicited; but to receive attention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publica tion, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS, Savannah. Ga. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah as second-class mail matter. MO ND AY?' JA N<j AR Y IS, i 807? A Monetary Conference. Evidently the republicans intend to make an effort to carry out that provision of their platform which favors international bimetallism—at least they intend to take such steps to secure an international mon etary conference as will leave the sllver itea no room to charge them with having acted in bad faith. It is clearly their in tention to pass a bill authorizing the Pres ident to appoint delegates to an interna tional monetary conference if one should be called, and making an appropriation for the delegates' expenses. But what hope is there that such a con ference. will be called, and what chance would there be of its accomplishing any thing if it should be called? It is announc ed from London, where Senator Wolcott w<»nt a couple of weeks ffgo to work up a sentiment in favor of a conference, that the bimetallists of Europe are rather in different in regard to the matter. They do not think that an agreement could be reached, if a conference should be called; hence they are not giving Senator Wolcott any encouragement. We are not certain that the republican leaders are anxious for a conference. It would not be of any benefit to anybody. It 'simply tend to keep alive the agita tion of the silver question. The silver question will solve Itself if th4 politicians will let it alone, and the solution will be far more satisfactory than any results that could be brought about by an international monetary, conference or by legislation. Tne production of gold is steadily increasing and that of silver is decreasing. In the course of a few years the gap between gold and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1 will be practically closed by the advance in the price of sil ver. Then we shall hear no more of the silver question. If the bullion value of a silver dollar were equal to the bullion value of a gold dollar there would be no demand for free and unlimited coinage of silver, and the nearer those two values approach each other the less imperative that demand will become. The republicans, in preparing for an in ternational monetary conference, are sim ply putting themselves in a position to say they have complied with their platform pledges. We doubt that they expect or want an International monetary confer ence. A Town Without SweetheM-t«. Scientists say that the process of evolu tion of the earth is towards the leveling of all Inequalities, so that one of these days, probably some hundreds of millions of years hence, there will remain neither hills nor valleys, but the earth will be one great, smooth globe with unbroken sur face. They say also that the social evolu tion Is progressing towards a similar end, when there will be equality everywhere; when the rough places which cause people to fall down no.w shall have disappeared and the sexes will bo distributed in even proportion, from Massachusetts to the Friendly Islands of the Pacific. In those days, whenever they come, Massachusetts spinsters and the belles of the Friendly Islands will not need to hustle for hus bands, and the "boys’* in the mining camps will not need to import wives; mates will be at hand for all. According to the ideal view of the eternal fitness of things, the equal distribution of the sexes ts a consummation to be wished, and should assist materially in bringing about a state of contentment, if not positive happiness. Whether the theory would work out is an open question. Persona interested in that line of Investigation, however, have an opportunity to study the possibilities. For It transpires that there is in Ken tucky a town in which the sexes were so evenly balanced and the temperaments of the individuals so admirably suited to each other that the young men and young women have all got married, and there is not an unmarried man or an unmarried woman in the municipality! He town— Brookstown—la not large, to be sure. But is there another town, or village, in the United States, large or. small, which has neither unmarried man nor woman in it? Jt may be doubted that there is. It is re ported that half a doaen weddings during the Christmas holidays cleared the Brooks town lists of marriageable persons. Brookstown thereupon becanM unique among American municipalities. But it may be doubted that the fortunes of the place have been greatly enhanced. It may be that Brookstown has become a Para dise of connubial felicity; and then again It may be otherwise. It can hardly be as attractive a place as It once was. Imagine a town without young ladles! What drummer would care to stop there over Sunday and help ‘‘the house" keep down the profits? Co*ld Ufa in such a place be I Emulsion I is made up of the most essential | elements that go to nourish | the body. Where the appetite | is varying or lacking, it in- i creases it, and where digestion | is weak, it aids it to perform | its function in a more vigorous a way. It enriches the blcod, 1| makes healthy flesh and cures i chronic coughs and colds by making it possible for the body « to resist disease. Our friends tell | us "IT Works Wonders” | but we never like to over-state J the merits of our remedy even when it has been tested and g tried for over twenty-five years, || If you will ask for it, we will | send you a book telling you $ more about the subject than we h can put in a few words. Go to your druggist for Scots s Etnul sion. Two sizes, 50 cts. and SI.OO. ffi SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. plete without its sweethearts, and beaux, and singing classes, and candy pullings, or their more swell equivalents? Indeed, it seems that Brookstown has precipitated a social problem, turning upon the query if it would, after all, be to the happiness of the human race if the sexes were so evenly distributed that conditions similar to those at Brookstown might occur from time to time. Georgia and Florida Tobacco. It has been made quite clear by the tes timony of tobacco growers given at the tobacco growers’ convention at Ocala that tobacco can be grown in Florida which is quite as good as any grown in Cuba. There has heen a great deal of disappoint ment at the result of efforts to produce the best qualities of tobacco ip Florida, but there are satisfactory reasons for thinking that the disappointment was due to a lack of knowledge of the proper meth ods for cultivating and curing tobacco. It was stated at the convention that tobac co as good as the best produced in the most favored districts of Cuba had been grown near Ocala. Thoee who produced this tobacco know the kind of soil that Is required; also the fertilizers that give the best results, and are familiar with the processes for curing tobacco of the high est grade. It seems to us that there is a splendid future for tobacco culture in Florida and Southern Georgia. There is a section of Southern Georgia in which the soil an<| climate are admirably adapted to tobacco, and when the right men take up the cul tivation of tobacco in that, section the re sults will surpass expectations. As for Florida, there is no doubt that there are vast areas of that state that will produce tobacco in quantities and of a grade that would make this country prac tically independent of Cuba. The cultivation and curing of tobacco in Florida are as yet but imperfectly under stood by thoee who are engaged in grow ing tobacco there. We do not mean to say they are not enterprising or that they have not sought diligently for information in respect to the cultivation of tobacco. We simply mean that the knowledge that will bring success will have to come large ly from experience, and will be obtained only after numerous failures. The condi tions in Florida may be a little different from those in other tobacco growing local ities. Hence, these conditions must be un derstood before complete success can be obtained. They will be understood event ually, however, and then the tobacco crop of Florida will be a great source of wealth to that state. The Bombay Epidemic. A more horrible tale than that from Bombay with regard to the ravages of the plague, printed in our dispatches yesterday, would be hard to imagine. The city has become literally a fester ing hole of death. People are. stricken with the plague, and die in two or three hours, after the most fearful agony. All who ban are leaving the place, many of them to die of starvation. There are some who must, remain. The air they breathe is poisoned with the stench of unburled dead placed In the open air by the Parsees, whose religion teaches them to feed their dead to the vultures. It is not surprising that panto prevails In un happy Bombay, one of the filthiest cities of the Orient. After a while the plague will run its course. And then Bombay will begin to recuperate. But will san itary conditions in that city be made bet ter than heretofore? It may be doubted that they will. Bombay has had devas tating plagues before, but has never learned the lesson that cleanliness is a preventive of disease. Her people are born and bred in filth and squalor, and until they change their religion and mode of life—which they will probably never do—there will continue to be great epi demics at intervals. Sensational newspapers are discussing the possibility of a personal encounter be tween Consul General Lee and Congress man Money, growing out of the latter’s indiscretion in publishing a message al leged to have been instructed to him by Gen. Lee for Secretary Olney. It is al leged that Mr. Money has written Gen. Lee a letter with regard to hla denial of the message in which he tells the general that "no one can brand him as a liar in the newspapers with impunity." Mr. Money has a reputation for throwing ink bottles in committee rooms, but it is not likely that trouble will result between the two gentlemen. The day of duelling is past. —lt Is stated that Baroness Hirsch will give another 2,600.060 francs to build a hospital for consumptive children I «« »>« lUVHru. THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, JANUARY 18,1800. Prof. Falb of Vienna is reported to be dying in poverty. He is the somewhat celebrated earthquake and general calam ity prophet who, a year or so ago, was frequently quoted in the newspapers. It would seem that croaking of horrors to come was not a paying business. It is probable that Pro ( f. Falb was so impress ed with his own prophecies of evil that he was not able to get out from under the influences of them, and hence made a fail ure of his endeavors. Spain protests too much that she will institute reforms of her own free will and accord in Cuba. If she keeps it up much longer the rest of the world will feel as sured that she w%uld not grant a single concession if she were not obliged to. PERSONAL. —Sarah Thomas, a lively woman, 109 years old, in Wales, possesses all her fac ulties, but is a dangerous somnambulist. The Princess of Wales annually sends her on her birthday as many shillings as she has lived years. —Menelek, the victorious Negus of Abys sinia, has ordered from the Russian paint er Poljaow a picture to represent the bat tle of Adua. It is to interpret the idea that St. George assisted the Abyssinians to their victory over the Italians, and is destined for a place in the negus’ palace. —A French writer Edouard Toulouse, has examined Zola’s mental peculiarities, and discovered a peculiar weakness of memory. He could not recognize well known citations from Moliere, Balzac, Hugo and George Sand, and in some cases even failed to remember his own early writings when passages from them were read to him. —Gen. Gourko, the noted Russian sol dier, formerly governor general of War saw, is seriously ill. About two years ago he suffered from a stroke of /apoplexy, which compelled him to resign his post at Warsaw. For a year he has been stay ing at Wiesbaden, but with little benefit. He is 69 years old and holds the rank of field marshal. —Mrs. Hobbs, an Intimate friend of the first Duke of Wellington, has just died in Ireland at the age of 103 years. Her hus band was badly wounded at Quatre Bras. Five of her fourteen children and six of her forty-four grandchildren are serving in the British army, and she had besides thirty-two great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. On her 100th birthday the Duke of Cambridge congratu lated her in behalf of the army. —The celebrated traveler. Count de Gu bernatis, who recently returned to Rome from America, has been received by the king and queen, to whom he communi cated his intention of founding a perma nent museum of American industrial and natural products, and their majesties as sured him of their support and encourage ment. The museum will most likely be opened in April, Count de Gubernatls be ing already well provided with the neces sary materials. —The late E. P. Whipple used to tell the story of Rufus Choate that once while ad dressing a jury he several times repeated a certain part of his plea—repeating in, the same words and accent. Certain that, the great advocate had some reason tor so strange a proceeding—a reason not ob vious to others—Mr. Whipple took an op portunity to ask an explanation. Mr. Choate's answer in substance was: “There was a numskull on the jury who was pay ing no attention to what I was saying; I would have kept up the repetition until he listened if it had taken the entire day!" BRIGHT BITS. —Brown—What is the nature of the pro posed amendment to the Raines law? Jones—lt provides that, in addition to calling a saloon a hotel, the bartender must be known as a chef.—Puck. —Poet—Let me tell you, sir, that poem cost me a week’s hard labor. Editor (who has read it) —Is that all? If I’d have had the passing of the sent ence you’d have got a month.—Tit-lßits. —Cabana—Did you know Snortious had applied for a pension? Lovell—No; on what grounds? Cabana—Says he has strained his lungs yelling for war with Spain.—Philadelphia North American. —lntuition.—She started affrlghtedly from her slumber. “There’s a man in the house,” she cried. “Impossible!” ’Then it’s a very advanced woman." That was to say, her Intuition could not be wholly at fault.—Detroit Journal. —Small Sister—How do you s’pose peo ples way up norf teep warm in de win ter. Bobby? Small Brother (scornfully)—Why, what does you s’pose de fur-twees is for?—Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. —He was about as black as the tradi tional ace of spades, and two dusky dam sels, each of whom claimed the right to call him husband, sat bolt upright in the court room and glared at the defendant. 'Yo’r honor,” said the prisoner, “I want to apply for a change of venus in this case.” “On what grounds?” inquired the court. “I want a change of venus,” repeated the defendant, “because one of dese wo men is prejudiced ag’in me.”—Troy Times. CURRENT COMMENT. Should Not Play Politic*. From the Chicago Record (Ind.). This general arbitration treaty meets the approval of the people, and would be of inestimable value to the business world in giving assurance of immunity from war. The Senate cannot afford to play politics with this matter by allowing it to go over until another administration comes into power. On the Other Side. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.). Edward J. Phelps does not approve of the arbitration treaty. Says he: "My ex perience in international law matters will not warrant me in approving a treaty of this kind, because I do not think such a treaty can accomplish the results hoped for.” We may add that Editor Dana does not approve of it, and thus the extremes meet again. A* to Currency Commission*. From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.). The Times-Herald believes that the speediest and most practical way to bring about the reforms demanded by this con vention is through a congressional com mittee composed, not of outsiders, but of senators and representatives. That com mittee. If appointed at the extra session, could prepare a report and a bill by the opening of the regular winter session, and i the subject could then have the right of : way until disposed of. By this method currency reform might be made an ac complished fact early in next year. A commission of non-partisans and non members of congress would postpone It la-iveral year®, perhaps forever. Old-Time Stenographers. They were both old-time stenographers, employed somewhere by the week, says the Chicago Dispatch, but the conscious ness of being able, at will, to produce pages of hen's tracks which only they could decipher—and sometimes even they failed to do so—invested them with a feel ing of intense superiority to the rest of mankind. But this normal feeling was for the mo ment usurped by one of humility, as. they sat on the sofa, the light turned gently down, and the soft radiance of the. flicker ing jet in the street alone illuminating the apartment. It was an hour for confession, and he paved the way by saying: “The first job I ever struck I lost through carelessness. My employer dictated a let ter to a client, asking him to meet him at a hotel called the Seven Ravens. I wrote •it out the Seven Elephants.” “A wholesale chemist was my first em ployer,” she murmured. “He used to keep a diary. One day he dictated to me the fateful words: ‘Bought a carload of sul phuric acid. Quite good day’s business.’ ” “How did you transcribe it?” he in quired eagerly, for he had registered a vow in his inmost soul that he would never marry a perfect idiot. “I didn’t get it quite right. ‘Bought a carboy of sulphuric acid. Good God! it’s poisonous! He moved a little way from her, but re membered his own early struggles and edged back again. “Dearest,” he whispered, “do you re member the convention which nominated Garfield?” She thought he was trying to find out how old she was, but curiosity got the bet ter of discretion, and she confessed to a dim memory of that occasion. “I was hired by the Times then to re port the speeches. A New Yorker got up and said the dissensions among thetr opponents were very timely, for they bid fair to create a break in the ranks of the democratic party. “Oh, tell me,” cried the fair girl, with a sudden accession of interest, “how did you .get it?” His head fell on his breast. “I cannot. I dare not tell you." Rising, she turned the lamp down still lower. This man said the dissensions among their opponents bid fair to create a breach in the ranks of the democratic party?” “He did! And I transcribed it ‘pants of the democratic party,’ and what is more, it was printed in the paper that way tne very next morning.” Out of Hlm Line. The commercial editor of the Daily Bread having been taken suddenly ill, the joke editor assisted in the compilation of the annual trade review, says the Chi cago Tribune. As the result of his first half day’s skirmishing about town he turned in the following: “Broom dealers have made some seep ing changes in their business. Those who have been able to get in on the ground floor, however, have gathered considerable dust during the year. Straws show which way the wind blows. “Blacksmiths have had hard pounding to keep even, and have by no means a shoer thing for the coming year. With mkny of them it has been Horse and horse. "Butchers make no bones of declaring the fat to be in the fire. One of them gave the reporter a roast, and tried to chuck him out of doors. He accused him of trying to ascertain the size of the stjsak hf» had made, out of the business. “The saloon bs&ipseeS* been nnsab isfactory, in a measure, the majority of the customers being chronic growlers. “Rubber dealers report a good year, but complain that the business has been in flated. Some of them are tired of this. “Elevator manufacturers have had a year of ups and downs, but they know the ropes and hope to pull through. “There has been strong opposition in the butter business, and losses have com pletely cowed many dealers. “In the produce line it may be stated briefly that overproduction has taken the statch out of the potato crop. Carrots and onions are in the soup. “Dealers in fruit claim have done business at a loss, no matter what the Aggers may show. There hasn’t banana profit in apples, and everything in the grape line has gone to seed. “Manufacturers of cheap cigars are in a bad box. They complain of a lack of confidence. They are in bad odor with the general public. “Furniture dealers have done fairly well sofa, and hope to do better as the season advances. Some of the new styles of hall furniture for this year’s trade are very hatractive.” “There is one thing evident,” growled the city editor, as he ran his eye over the manuscript and grabbed his blue pen cil. “There has been an overproduction in the chestnut crop.” Shrewd in Finance. All the great financiers of this country, outside of politics, do not live in New York, says the Washington Star. One of the greatest of them, nameless here for ever more, lives In more or less regal splendor on Capitol Hill. That is to say, he lives in regal splendor when he is asleep and the rest of the time it is pretty much boarding house, except when the mother of his best girl takes more pity on him than she ever will after he is married, and asks him to take dinner at her house. About a week ago this financial Machia velli sat in a poker game with a young man whose reputation for not paying any kind of a bill is wider than the District of Columbia at its widest part, and he won $75 from him, for which he gave his check. Our Machiavelli from Capitol Hill didn’t want to take the check, because he had heard how previous checks had not been available, as there wasn’t quite enough money in bank to meet them, and there was usually a squabble which didn’t de clare any dividends worth mentioning. But he had to take the check, or nothing, and when he had taken it, he sat down to think. When morning came he had thought, and as soon as the bank was open he was there with his check for $75. “There’s not enough money to meet it.” said the paying teller, with the invaria ble suavity of a paying teller. “I supposed not,” smiled and bowed the holder of the check, "and I was instruct ed to make up the difference, so if you will be kind enough to tell me what it is I’ll fix it.” He was informed that the balance was $62 and the Machiavelli at once deposited, sl3 to the credit of„his friend and then presented the check, which was, of course, honored, and he came out of the bank just $62 ahead and no bother to anybody. The best part of it was that when the maker of the check met him and he told him that a friend of his had deposited enough money to his credit to make his check good, he never asked who the friend was. indeed, he never asked any questions at all; he slumped and kept his mouth shut. A Seene at Court. The English papers are telling an amus ing story about Lord Carrington, to the effect that at the last drawing room held by the queen he. in announcing the names of the ladies present, according to his du ty as lord chamberlain, got “mixed,” and announced a certain Mrs. M. as “Lady M.” Thereupon the queen bent forward to greet her with the kiss on the cheek that is always given to wives and daugh ters of peers. As she bent. Lord Carring ton found out his mistake, turned ex tremely pale and gasped out: “Don't kiss her. ma’am, don't kiss her; she's not a lady at all!’’ SAILING DAYS OF STEAMSHIPS. The following steamships are appointed to sail on the days and dates as per sched ules annexed (Central standard time): FOR NEW YORK. Steamship LA GRANDE DUCHESSE, TUESDAY, Jan. 19, at 5:30 p. in. Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, THURS DAY, Jan. 21, at 6 p. m. Steamship KANSAS CITY, SATURDAY, Jan. 23, at 7 p. in. Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 12 m. FOR BOSTON. Steamship NACOOCHEE, TUESDAY, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p. m. Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE, FRI- DAY, Jan. 22, at 7 p. m. ' Steamship TALLAHASSEE, MONDAY, Jan, 25, at 10 p. m. FOR PHILADELPHIA. Steamship GATE CITY, WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, at 7 p. m. Steamship CITY OF MACON, WEDNES DAY, Jan. 20, 7 p. m. FOR BALTIMORE. Steamship BERKSHIRE, WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p. m. Steamship WM. LAWRENCE, SATUR DAY, Jan. 23, at 10 p. m. Steamship D. H. MILLER, WEDNES DAY, Jan. 27, 1:30 p. m. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —The chief proofreader of the London Times is a Cambridge graduate, who has a salary of £I,OOO, or $5,000; but, then, he is a great scholar, not only in the English language, but in all ancient and other tongues, not excepting Asiatic ones, says Leslie’s Monthly., He is permitted to query and suggest excisions or additions to the work of writers and editors. —A Moscow dentist has solved the prob lem of supplying the human mouth with false teeth which will grow into the gums as firmly as natural ones. Dr. Zamensky has performed several successful opera tions on dogs, as well as human beings. The teeth are made of gutta percha, por celain or metal, as the case may be. At the root of the false tooth holes are made, and also made upward into the jaw. The tooth is then placed in the cavity. In a short time a soft granulated growth finds its way from the patient’s jaw into the holes in the tooth; this growth gradually hardens, and holds the tooth in position. It is stated that it does not matter wheth er the cavity in which the tooth is to be placed is one from which a natural tooth has been recently drawn, or whether it has been healed for some years. —“I don’t see why Americans should be so far ahead in so many things and yet so far behind in the use of compressed air,” said C. L. Mueller of Hamburg, Germany, according (o the Cincinnati Enquirer. “In my city experiments have been success fully made' by which persons have travel ed twenty miles in eleven minutes in a pneumatic tube, and several lines will soon be in operation in Germany. The pneu matic cylinders in which the passengers are seated are fed with pure air, and no one has yet felt any bad effects from being slid thus rapidly through space. In Lon don there are many miles of pneumatic tubes for transportating parcels, and yet there are none in America, except as be tween different portions of buildings. With the JJnited States leading, as it does, in railroads, I expected to sec it far in ad vance of us to the use of compressed air, and was disappointed at not learning any thing new about it in this country.” —The old French convention lasted three years, one month and four days. It had T 49 members ami passed 11,21© decrees, saya the New York Tribune. Os its 749 mem-4 bers, 58 were guillotined—Duray, June 26* 1783, being the first, and Bishop Huguet the last, Oct. 6, 1796 ; 8 were assassinated and 2 shot; 14 committed suicide; 5 died of grief; 6 perished in abject misery; 3 died on the highway, to be eaten by dogs; 1, Armon ville, the last wearer of the red cap, per ished in a drunken fit; 4 died mad; 2 were killed in the arrays 1 was carried away by the Prussians and never heard of; 3 died suddenly; 1 expired in prison; 1 fell dead of joy on learning that Bonaparte had dis embarked at Frejus; 138 perished in ex ile or in penal settlements; 23 were never heard of from the date of the eighteenth Brumaire; 65 vanished after the corona tion of Napoleon, and 25 died in poverty and obscurity. The convention had 63 pre siding officers, of whom 18 were guillo tined and 8 transported; 22 were outlawed, and 6 sentenced to improsinment for life; 4 died in madhouses, and 3 committeed suicide. —lt has been said that there are no skat ers on ice in the world as graceful as the American girls, says the Washington Post. This may be due in a measure to the dif ference in method between the skating of the girl of the new world and her English sister, but be the cause what it may, the truth of the assertion still holds. An es sential feature of the English method is to skate with a straight knee, which can not be accomplished to the letter and at the same time give the graceful, easy stroke which is so noticeable a character istic of the American skater. It cannot be said, however, that the women of the old country are as prone to adopt this method as the men, and there are in Eng land to-day Home. really fine skaters. En glishmen, as a rule, execute their move ments on the ice on a grand scale. They appear to be flying rather than merely gliding over the surface of the ice, and some of their strokes are really marvels of strength and skill, one stroke frequently carrying the skater the entire length of the rink. The American skater, however, takes the stroke with a slightly bended knee, and then coming up to the “straight knee” movement, makes a most easy and graceful appearance. —A suit for damages has just been brought against an English provincial newspaper by a husband who considered himself and his wife aggrieved by the terms in which the coiffure of the latter was described in the report of the county ball published in the journal in question, says the New York Tribune. They recall the description of the Marchioness of Tavi stock’s head dress at the queen’s drawing room, described by the court newsman and commented on by a volunteer outside with abominable ideas on the subject of hair dressing, whom, nevertheless, it does not appear that the marquis brought into court for damages. This is the descrip tion of the court newsman: “The front hair was curled a la neige (like snow), at the top an ornament in diamonds like a peacock’s tail: the back hair raised from the roots, accompanied on each side by curled marteaux (hammers).” And then the comment of the volunteer and much too previous outsider: “A recent book of travels gives the following account of the fregresses tn the interior of Africa: ‘The women are satisfied with little cloth ing, but they bestow much care on the decoration of their heads. Their woolly locks are saturated with oil often of the most unsavory description. In front they are arranged in massess of frizzy curls, and the hair .behind is drawn tightly to the top of the head and twisted into a knot, into which is stuck a bunch of pea cock. ostrich or other feathers. If time and hair permit, there are other knots at the side of the head, to which more feath ers or beads are attached. Suet or chalk is then blown through a reed over the head and face, and the cheeks are plenti fully bedaubed with red paint? I ask, sir, where is the difference? Which is the more barbarous—l assert also the most preposterously absurd—the headdress of the Marchioness of Tavistock or that of the poor savage?” If the said newspaper contains anything like this, it is quite time it was brought before the local cadi and mulcted by damages heavy enough to be remembered at least till the next county ball comes around. jS 0 1 Jjn !w Ifw KP -iJWwOi fl ~mOHDA GEORGIA. Dawson has an electric light plant which is the equal of the best in the state. At Royle Wednesday morning while on the way to school little Berta Harper dropped dead. There are 162 candidates for the posi tion of city weigher of Atlanta. The sal ary is S6O a month. Hitch, Powers & Co.’s stock of goods at Quitman were sold Thursday by Receiver R. C. Mclntosh, bringing 6814 per cent of the invoice. (M. B. Eubanks is the newly elected city recorder of Rome. P. H. Spullock held the office for some years, but resigned on account of bad health. The following ticket has been elected at Flovilla. For mayor, R. V. Smith; for councilmen, W. B. Dozier, W. F. Douglas, R. L. Gardner, J. L. Holloway and S. L. Thompson. The residence of J. E. Mclver of the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at Atlanta, was burned Thurs day night, and $l5O worth of diamonds stolen. The thief escaped with his booty and there is no clew to his identity. A few nights ago a dwelling on Judge J. B. Pliny’s place, within a few miles of Dawson, was destroyed by Are. The house was vacant, the tenant having mov ed out a few days before, and the Are was evidently of incendiary origin. Judge Pliny offers a reward of SIOO with proof to convict the incendiary. H. E. Jenkins, one of the best known cit izens of Box Springs, near Columbus, in Talbot county, has received letters which indicate that whitecaps are after him. He is charged by moonshiners with being an informer, and they give him twenty days in which to leave the county. A ne gro has been arrested in connection with the case. A movement is on foot among the busi ness men of Dawson to have Dawson made a- rating point and put on an equal footing in freight facilities with Albany, Americus and other rival towns. The bus iness men of Dawson pay the railroads an nually $150,000 for freight, $30,000 more than is paid by either Albany or Americus for the same volume of business. The stockholders of the Third National Bank of Columbus contemplates increas ing its capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $150,- 000. At the annual meeting of stockhold ers on Tuesday, at which 80 per cent, of the stock was represented, the matter was discussed favorably, and it was decided to pass upon the advisability of doing this at a meeting in February. The contemplated strike of the dye house of the Eagle and Phenix mills at Columbus will not take place. The trou ble was settled by the receivers agreeing to remove all the colored employes and allowing only whites to work. While this does not give the employes any more money they say it will help them by other men being put in to All the places now Ailed by negroes. An adjourned term of Terrell county su perior court will open at Dawson to-mor row to try Ave negro men charged with three murders, who were not behind the bars when the last November court was in session. These are General Hayes, who so brutally whipped and burned to death his little child; Ed Stevens, who killed an other negro man, Jack Gresham, Christ mas week, and Harris Floyd, Oss Kelly and Turner Solomon for killing Owfen Cross, a negro man, a short time since, whose murder was shrouded in mystery for several days. Motion for bail in the case of Dr. A. T. Ford of Worth county, who killed his cousin, William J. Ford, in October, 1895, was argued before Judge Littlejohn of the southwestern circuit at Albany Thurs day, Judge Spence being disqualiffed. Dr. Ford went to trial at last fall term of Worth superior court, but the jury failed to agree and a mistrial was declared. Defendant is conffned in Bibb county jail for safe keeping, and by consent the case was tried without having him present. Judge Littlejohn announced at the con clusion of the argument by counsel, that he would take time to review the evi dence before rendering his decision. Alfred Cain, the man shot on Factory street at Atlanta Christmas day by Mitt Smith, died Friday morning from the ef fects. Cain was conducting a little groce ry store at 90 Factory street, and on Christmas day, his friends claim, he was standing in the street talking to a negro, when Smith came along on a horse and, cursing the negro, ordered him to get out of the way. Cain interferred, when Smith drew a pistol and struck him on the head twice. Cain then seized the pistol and they clinched. In the scuffle Cain was shot in the abdomen. He also had a wound in the palm of his hand, from the effects of the shot. Smith im mediately disappeared and has never been caught. The governor will be asked to of fer a reward Or his capture. , Atlanta Journal: The case of A. R. Fow ler, who is minus both hands, against the< Preferred Accident Insurance Company, was argued before the second division of the supreme court. Messrs. Payne and Tyne, counsel for the insurance company, non-suited the case in the city court some time ago. and Mr. George Westmoreland, on behalf of the plaintiff, carried the case to the supreme court. Mr. Fowler claims that he took out an accident policy with the Preferred Accident Company, which provided that he should receive an indem nity of $2,500 in case he should lose either of his hands. Soon afterwards, while out hunting,his gun was accidentally discharg ed. the load injuring 'his hand to such a degree that amputation was imperative. He made application to the company for his insurance, but it was refused and he Aled suit to recover. The company alleged that Mr. when he was a theolog ical student preparing to enter the univer sity as a Presbyterian preacher, went to the office of the company and made appli cation for an accident policy. The policy provided for the compensation of $2,560 for the loss of a hand, which was the largest sum provided for in any policy issued by the company. The company refused the payment on the grounds that when the ac cident occurred Mr. Fowler had not been accepted as a risk. The defense urged at the trial that it was a very unusual thing for a man to seek accident insurance and pick out the very best the company could grant and in just seven days afterward have an accident befall him. The lower court sustained the position of the compa ny and Mr. Fowler carried the case to the higher court. Now comes an interesting feature of the case. While the suit was pending before the supreme court, Mr. Fowler took out apother accident insur ance policy with the accident department of the Aetna Life Insurance Company. On Oct. 22, 1896, while out hunting, near Union City, Tenn., Mr. Fowler lost his other hand, for which the Aetna immediately remunerated him in the sum of $1,666.66. Mr. Fowler, in a letter to Mr. Zeno T. Harris, the general agent of the company, said that he was very grateful for the prompt payment of the Insurance, as he did not think his application had yet been accepted. Mr. Fowler ffrst made applica tion for SIO,OOO insurance, which the com pany declined to accept, but granted him tije indemnity for the loss of his hand, which application he had subsequently made. The case against the Preferred Company is how under consideration by the supreme court. Atlanta Journal; In Jones’ history of Georgia there is a statement to the effect that one Samuel Delk settled in July, 1777, on the Ogeechee river, at what was known as Morgan’s ferry, and. in August, while absent from him Indians came and mur dered his wife and four of his children. He was a brave soldier of the revolution. Col. W. C. Glenn says that he is in receipt of a letter from a gentleman in Augusta calling his attention to the fact of Samuel Delk’s settlement on the Ogeechee river, and that he knows Taylor Delk is a direct descendant of Samuel Delk. Samuel Delk was a soldier in the American revolution. The Delks, so Col. Glenn says, moved to Pike county seventy years ago, and have lived in the house where the killing of Sheriff Guinn took place during all these years. According to this Mrs. Taylor, who now lives in an humble little two-room cottage on D’Alvigny street, has a right to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. FLORIDA. - V' The annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic occurs at St. Pe tersburg, Jan. 19. An unknown man was found alongside of the railroad track at Yulee Friday morning in an unconscious condition. He is supposed to have fallen off a passing ' train. The shell road from DeLand to DeLeon Springs is an assured fact About $4,000 has been subscribed to build it, and when finished it will be one of the most beau tiful drives in the state. The unusual sight of two whales was witnessed in Pensacola harbor Friday. They were about thirty feet in length, and had just crossed the inner bar when they were Arst seen spouting water. Col. Samuel T. Shaylor of Jacksonville has received a communication from the ?djutant general, tendering him the ap pointment of judge advocate on the gen eral staff, with the rank of colonel. John Bettieford is the latest candidate for the postmastership of DeFuniak Springs. Hon. T. F. McGourin, United States commissioner and postmaster un der the Harrison administration, is con sidered slated for rhe United States mar shalship for the district. The appointment of J. C. Stowers ea postmaster at West Palm Beach has been confirmed by the Senate. This office was made a presidential one of the third or der last July, but, as no conffrmation could take place until congress should meet, Mr. Stowers has not felt secure of his place. He is now Axed for four years. Several bushels of broom corn seed has been received by the board of trade of Orlando. The seed will be planted in or der to have a foundation for a broom factory, and will be distributed among such farmers of that immediate vicinity as will undertake to plant it properly and to care for it. No charge will be made for the seed. Several of the large shell mounds on the Spencer place at West Palm Beach have been opened recently, and some cu rious relics found. J. H. Dicks has ex amined skeletons of very large-sized In dians in perfect condition, at a depth of one and one-half feet. The bones became very soft when they were exposed to the air. They were found piled, as if buried carelessly in a heap. Mrs. Ann McCarty arrived at Cypress Friday looking for her only child, a girl of about 12 years. She says that while she was conffned in an asylum in Texas, two years ago, her husband left that state, taking the child with him. As soon as released, two months ago, she found out by some means that the man had gone to West Florida, and the child had been left near Apalachicola, Without any money she made her way to Apalachicola. There she heard that her daughter was with a family near Cypress, and retraced her journey to Cypress. The long search was rewarded by a happy meeting with her little daughter. Fort Ogden has not had a good rain in two months, and the ponds are all drying up. There have been several white frosts, killing potato vines and tomatoes and beans. The truckers of Fort Ogden will plant largely of watermelons, under con tract with Mr. R. A. Burford of Johns town, Ga. He furnishes the Kolb Gem seeds, and will pay S2O per hundred for all that •will average twenty pounds and upwards up to the Ist day of June. He has also contracted all along the Florida Southern railroad on the same terms, and will ship in car lots. Thia is a new plan and will work to the advantage of all, as the small growers who do not have a car load can sell all they have.
