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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1808.
New Era In Georgia Politics.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says he had a talk
with a well-known Georgian in that city
the other day—a Georgian who said that
Hon. Hoke Smith “marks a sort of new
era in the politics” of Georgia. At least
that is what the correspondent says that
the Georgian said, and we have no rea
eon to doubt it. There are a good many
Georgians who do a lot of talking when
they are away from home, some of them
giving expression to ideas which seem so
foreign to Georgia thought that the aver
age home staying Georgian does not rec
ognise them. It may be a fact that Mr.
Smith marks "a sort of new era” in Geor
gia politics, but we feel sure that nobody
aver recognized the fact, except the Geor
gian who unburdened his mind to the
New York Tribune man. In saying thia
we do not wish to be understood as de
tracting in the least from the merits of
Hon. Hoke Smith, who has undoubtedly
had an unusually successful career.
No doubt there is curiosity to know in
what respect Mr. Smith marks “a new
•ra in the politics” of this state. Well,
the Georgian said that two young Geor
gians—Grady and Smith—started out to
capture fame and fortune at about the
same time. Grady was an eloquent talker
and a practical man
** -fr«n .ibi'.lty -'A f.i t, , ." ■ ,
captured the state drat,
iMOa use of his eloquence. Mothers be
gan to name their babies after him and
in every county young men sought to be
come orators. An eloquent tongue, it
was thought, was the surest means of
getting from between plow handles and
into the governor's chair or the White
House. Grady died young and then Smith
loomed up as Georgia’s big man. The
young men throughout the state began
to copy him, so that now eloquence is at
• discount and Smith's political methods
•re at a premium. Georgia's politics is
conducted on lines laid down by Smith.
This Is the v|ew held by the Georgian
Who talked to the Tribune man and who
gays that Mr. Smith "marks a sort of
new era" In Georgia politics. Does he?
A Victory Cor the Administration.
The great American eagle may flap his
wings and «creatn. lie has just achieved
• notable victory from the British lion.
It was a social victory, to be sure, and it
was secured without burning any powder
or massing war ships In the Thames.
Nevertheless it was a clean-cut triumph
tor the eagle, and the lion was honeet
enough to admit It.
For many months, indeed for considera
bly more than a year, as will be recalled
by readers of the newspapers, there had
been a controversy between Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador at
Washington, and the Vice President of the
V’nlted States, as to which of them should
have precedence at official and social func
tions which might be attended by both of
them. The British ambassador held that
by virtue of being the representative in
,thia country of Queen Victoria, he won
the Second Gentleman in the United
States, and should lie preceded only i>y
the President; and when the President
was not present, he should Invariably have
the place of honor. On the other hand
the Vice President held that he was, no
to apeak, the heir apparent to the seat
of the President, that ho occupied In this
country • position similar to that occupied
In England by the Prince of Wales; that
therefore he was the Second Gentleman
Os America, and as such should take prec
edence at the various functions. There
ware numerous hitches in the social af
fairs in Washington on account of this dis
pute. and the British ambassador declin
ed several Invitations because it was not
made clear to him that he wa» lc h ive
precedence of ttfe Vice Three
came very near being a scene growing out
. of the matter at the Grant memorial ex
«rei«a in New York, but by skillful dlplo
tnac> the gentlemen were (th . cn
agreeable to them. The British ambassa
dor. however, finally declared that he
would not visit the Vice Present’ until
-2L *** «*x>n him
Then President McKinley took ihe mat-
Hr in hand He got tired of the blcker
tnga. *ud determined to have the d'smite
WtUed He did not care so milch abo
the social frtll. as that good Mn< s houM
be restored all an>und He knew that ihe
Vkw ITeaident had a goo,| ease. but .
** 2?* »? w L youn< ■“«“* «*•*
.INy boa little weak on the of
•octal etiqu'ttw he lh , t |he
•ftauM be laid before the British foreign
office, and that the verdict of that IX > urt
*OUM be fimd. The vice
sented. The President wrote a personal
note to Ambassador Hay making a state
ment of the affair; and the other day Am
bassador Pauncefote got an order from his
government to pay an official call upon
Vice President Hobart. This settled the
matter, and acknowledged the right of
the Vice President to precedence over the
British ambassador. It is not known just
who decided the question, but it is prob
able that it was submitted to the social
lions of London, and it is sufficient for
people on this side to know that the Amer
ican idea was upheld.
Thus goes on record one notable victory
over the Britishers for the McKinley ad
ministration.
Duty of Southern Congressmen.
If Southern congressmen think it is no
part of their duty to assist in having
such changes made in the pension laws
as will lift the fraudulent part of the
pension burden, which burden this year
will amount to $160,000,000, from the'
country, they are greatly mistaken. It is
their duty to do whatever is best in the
way of legislation for the whole people,
and there can not be a reasonable doubt
that it would be greatly to the benefit of
the people if the pension burden were re
duced to reasonable limits.
Thus far Southern congressmen have
done very little toward preventing
iniquitous pension legislation. They
have taken the ground that if they were
to oppose pension bills their motives
would be misunderstood. Therefore they
have practically remained silent while
pension attorneys have been lobbying, and
Northern congressmen have been voting,
for pension bills which take out of the
treasury $100,000,000 a year more than
should be taken for pension purposes.
With such a vast sum annually, now
squandered, the country could very soon
make Its coast defenses impregnable and
build a navy which would cope with the
combined navies of the rest of the world.
It is a duty which Southern congress
men owe to their constituents to see to it
that steps are taken to purge the pension
rolls of fraudulent pensioners. It is cer
tain that Northern congressmen will take
no step of that kind because they are
afraid to do so. They think that if they
should undertake to see that the pension
roll is made a roll of honor they would
bring upon themselves the wrath of the
entire Grand Army of the Republic.
Southern congressmen, however, have
no reason to fear that or any other or
ganization. Their re-election does not de
pend upon the votes of Union veterans.
They are free to do what they know to
be for the best interests of the country,
and if they should take a firm stand
against pension frauds they would have
the approval of all right thinking people
of the North as well as of the South.
Their duty in this matter is clear and
they ought not to hesitate to do it.
Some Senate Expenses.
What may for convenience be called the
private official life of those grave and
reverend seigniors, the members of that
most august deliberative body in- the
w*rld, th > S: r..»in ar a
sealed book to the majority of their con
stituents. The people gaze from afar,
in admiration, upon their great senators,
and wonder how they live in Washington,
and what they cost. The people know that
they cost a round sum, but they have
probably little Idea what that sum is, and
how it is expended. The annual report of
the secretary of the Senate, which is just
from the presses of the government print
ing office, throws an interesting light upon
some of the expenditures.
'lt appears from the secretary’s report
that the Senate cost the people for the
fiscal year ending last June more than
half a million dollars; to be exact, $525,-
512.41. There are ninety members of the
Senate, when the seats are all filled. The
principal items in the expense bill, of
course, is salaries. The incidentals, how
ever, are somewhat curious. For instance
it appears that the senators consumed
during the year mentioned $193.31 worth
of hay, oats, straw, rock salt, bran, mid
dlings, meal, etc. At the same time they
were provided with one pound of bees
wax, 509 two-grain quinine pills, one hat
brush, one bottle of bromo-litbia, one bot
tle of bromo-seltzer, one dozen bottles of
Jamaica ginger, two dozen clothes
brushes, one dozen “rose shampoo,” and
fifty-two gallons of “astral oil.” That
last item Is a lltiie puzzling. There is an
illuminating oil by that name, but elec
tricity and gas ore the illuminance in
Washington. “Astral” means starlike, or
coming from the stars, or something like
that. Could this oil have been something
to make the gentlemen see stars, or was it
a sort of “star juice.” to be employed in
the place of M co!d tea?”
The only witticism by George Washing
ton that is on record is his remark liken
ing the Senate to a saucer, in which leg
islative tea that is too hot may be poured
to cool. The Senate has changed since
the honored George’s day. Instead of be
ing a cooler, the Senate is now itself “hot
stuff.” and it takes a largo expenditure
to keep its temperature down. This is
shown in the ice bill. Ldet February,
when the mercury was away down, it re
quired 108,4(M» pounds of ice for the Sen
ate. The ice bill for that month was $354.87.
The next month, the mercury crawling
up tho tube a little, it required $2x2.91
w’orth of ice to keep the statesmen cool.
The figures for the other months are not
given in detail, but the sum total shows
that the average was kept up. And then
there are items for lemons, and appolina
ris water, and penknives, ami various oth
er little things; but the items which will
arouse the greater interest are those for
oats, "astral oil” and ice.
The famous pension case of Judge Long
of Michigan is once more before the pen
sion office, on an application to Commis
sioner Evane to vacate the order reducing
the pension from $75 to SBO per month. It
is claimed tn the petition that a pension
once granted becomes a vested right nnd
cannot be reduced or withdrawn, it is
moat remarkable how strenuously this
Miehigat* jurist, who receives a salary of
S7.MV a year from the state, fights for a
gratuity from the government.
It will be interesting to note which will
make the greater noise, the concert of the
power#, or the discord of the pugilists. '
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JAN UARY 20, 1898.
A Universal Accent.
People who are under the impression that
accent betrays not only the nationality
but provincialism as well will perhaps be
somewhat disallusioned, says the Chicago
Tribune, by reading the following inci
dent:
The experience is that of a Chicago wom
an who made a trip to New York a short
while ago. Up to the time of her visit
to the Eastern metropolis she supposed
that she spoke fairly' good English. iShe
read none but the best authors, and as her
friends were all numbered among the
cultured people, there seemed no reason
why she should not couch her sentiments
in pure, substantial Anglo-Saxon. Neither
did she affect an accent. At least, she
was not aware that she did. After arriv
ing in New York, however, she learned
that she not only had an accent, but that
it was a many-sided affair that was truly
perplexing.
She attended a reception one evening
where literary and aesthetic people pre
dominated. The first person she talked
to was a man with a bushy red beard and
gold eyeglasses.
“I am so glad, madam,” he said, in the
course of the conversation, “to know that
you are from my town. That Boston ac
cent is bound to betray the speaker where
ever it may be heard.”
The Chicago woman flashed him one
keen glance, then seeing he was in earnest,
she said:
I fear you have made a mistake; I am
from Chicago.”
Soon after she began talking to an el
derly woman.
Yoq are from Georgia, of course,” said
the other woman. “I can always tell a
Georgian anywhere. There is nobody on
earth who pronounces a’s and u’s like a
person born and bred in that state.”
And again was the Chicago woman forc
ed to proclaim the city of her nativity.
Later a young man commented on her
accent. "From Nova Scotia, of course,”
he said pleasantly. “I hail from there my
self, and it’s a pleasure to see some one
who speaks as they do at home. The
minute you pronounced my name I knew
s'pu were from my part of the country.
Nobody, else could say it with just that
accent.” Again she gasped out something
about Chicago.
“I’ve been lonesome and out of place to
night, he said. “Nobody here from my
section of the globe. You're the first per
son I’ve met all evening that hails from
west of the Rocky mountains. The minute
I heard you speak I said: ‘Here’s a wo
man from the Far West. We never lose
our accent, it seems, wherever we may
go.”
Just before the reception ended the
suave young man who stood at her side
leaned forward and said:
“I’ll drive over to see you some day, If
you don’t mind.”
“You’ll do what?”
“Drive over to see you. I’ll wager we
don’t live more than ten miles apart. My
home is in Robinson, W. Va., and you
cannot live far away. An accent such as
yours and mine is never heard outside of
our immediate, vicinity.”
They were on their way home at last.
“You’ll be apt to have a caller to-mor
row,” said her cousin. “That young doc
tor from Montreal is anxious to know you
better. He feels confident that you belong
to his city. He says he was attracted by
your accent from the very first. He’s
homesick and would like to talk to some
one from his native town. I didn’t tell
him any different. You ”
But the young woman gasped “Chicago”
and fainted.
PERSONAL.
—David Macferron, who has been treas
urer of Allegheny City, Pa., for over forty
years, talks of resigning.
—Rev. W. A. jjpencer, corresponding sec
retary of the Methodist Episcopal Board
<< Missions, has traveled 600,€00 miles in
the last twelve years. His journeys are
made in the course of his regular work
for the board. His home Is in Philadelphia.
—Mrs. Ann Eyre Hely, though almost
unknown outside the professional nursing
circles in England, shares with Florence
Nightingale the distinction of being one
of the nursing pioneers. She joined Miss
Nightingale in the Crimea in 1854.
—Dr. Samuel Harris, who is ill In a St.
Louis hospital, was the commander of the
Confederate ironclad Arkansas when it
made the famous trip down the Yazoo to
Vicksburg. On this trip Capt. Harris ran
his boat by the fleet of gunboats com
manded by Farragut and Porter receiving
broadsides which killed nearly his entire
crew.
Cl BRENT COMMENT.
Bushnell’s Storm Broke Early.
From the Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.).
Gov. Bushnell is the first Governor to be
inaugurated In a shower of public indigna
tion. All governors get into the shower
sooner or later, but generally there (s
a short period of respite, during which the
victim of misplaced confidence in the pub
lic is lulled into the belief that he is pop
ular. Gov. Bushnell's storm broke early,
that is a.l.
An Old Bitt Ever New Subject.
From the Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.).
It may not be practicable to kill off the
"yaller dog,” but it is certainly both prac
ticable and necessary to tax him. He at
least might be made to yield a revenue—
or get out. Owners of valuable dogs would
be more than willing to pay the tax, if as
sured of a weeding out of the lose! tribe
ot vagabond curs. Dog men and sheep
raisers could here meet on common
ground.
An Excellent Example.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem).
There was none of the "law's delay” in
•the case of John P. Thoma, who broke
into a store in Clayport, Ind., last week
The crime was committed early in the
morning. The criminal had had his trial
and been sentenced before 10 o’clock in
the forenoon and before 7 in the evening
he had begun a series of years within the
wa’ls of the Jeffersonville reformatory.
Would that legal justice could oftener be
di-penned with such alacrity.
Davis* Day Dream.
From the Chicago Chronicle (Dem.).
The Hawaiian annexation argument of
Senator Davis rests largely upon the as
sumption that the Nicaraguan canal will
some day be completed and that posses
sion of Hawaii will be necessary to the
safety of the canal. The weakness of the
position lies in the fact that
the Niciraguan canal is lit-
tle better than an iridescent
dream. Its completion depends ultimately
upon government subsidies, which may or
may not be forthcoming. In any event
the completion of the canal is so far in
the future that its bearing upon the Ha
waiian question need not be considered.
This is altogether aside from the fact that
we don’t want Hawaii and wouldn’t know
what to do with it if we had it.
METHODISTS OF FLORIDA.
Conference Vote« Against an In
crease in Lay Representation.
Jacksonville. Fla.. Jan. 17.—1 n the Flor
ida Methodist Conference this morning the
question of in increase In Lay representa
tion was discussed briefly, and the vote
stood U fur and S against an increase.
The Detective’s Mistake.
Burker was more than an ordinary de
tective, and when a big reward was offer
ed for the arrest of Click Joyce’s gang of
moonshiners in the Tennessee mountains,
Burker concluded to win the money, says
the Detroit Free Press. He only weighed
130 pounds, but he was game and ambi
tious. He went among the moonshiners
as an invalid seeking rest and health, put
ting up with a family in which Mag
Wilkes was "the oldest daughter. Physi
cally she was a magnificent specimen of
her sex, and Burker soon learned that she
was Click’s sweetheart. Then he laid his
plans in the cold-blooded way that detec
tives have. He became Mag’s devoted ad
mirer. His stories of life in the city were
enchanting to the unsophisticated beauty,
and she couldn't help contrasting the
ways of Burker with those of her giant
young lover. Click was duly informed of
this menace to his future happiness, but
he held his peace, and never lessened his
vigilance against the possible invasion of
Ono TSurker ’ MSg sat on the
shelf of a rock, little dreaming that on top
of it, not a dozen feet away, stood Click,
leaning on his long rifle. Burker proposed
as though his life depended on the an
swer, and Mag accepted. Click was about
to move around to the base of the rock,
when Burker’s words stopped him.
“Now t , dear,” he said, persuasively, “I
want the first proof of your love. You
know where Click Joyce’s still is. Take
me to it. I’ve often wanted to see a moon
shiner’s abiding place. We won’t go too'
near to-night, but I’ll know the way and
call again.”
Burker could not see her face, and be
fore she could answer Click had sprung
down, announced himself and wrested a
revolver from Burker’s hand. “Mag,” he
began, “I reckon you an’ this man is
gwine to be married. I’m not ”
“Hole on, Click. I’m not denyin’ we
wus, but I’m a needin’ of you more’n ever,
Click. He’s a revenuer. Don’t you tech
airy hair of hisii’s head. Weuns has seen
him an’ he will go down the trail in the
mornin’ an’ ndtcofflt back no more.”
Burker is still a detective, but he never
goes back to'the mdtlntains.
art. ? p . ♦ —■ ■.... ■-
He Twisted the Lion's Tail.
The man sitting on a salt barrel had a
hand on which only two fingers were left,
and sizing him up for a veteran of the war
*1 asked him if 'he hadn’t been wounded by
an exploding shell, ‘says a writer in the
Chicago News.
“No, not as I remembers of,” he replied,
as he held up his hand and turned it over
and over.
“I thought that might have been the
case, but you probably got caught in some
sort of machinery?”
"No, not exactly machinery, sir.”
“Gun explode in your hands?”
“No; no gun didn’t explode.”
I gave it up at that, but after a few
minutes the man looked up and said:
“Stranger, you’ve seen a lion, I reck
on?”
“Oh, yes.” i
“Seen ’em caged and looking as harm
less as cats?”
"Yes; they generally look that way.”
“That’s the way I sized up one in a
cage in a circus. He lay there, looking
so sleepy and good-natured and harmless
that I thought it w r as a swindle on the
public and I’d try to rouse him a bit.”
“And so you poked him?” I queried.
“No, sir, no poking. I jest calculated to
gin his tail about three twists and make
him feel that life wasn’t all beef and bones
and sunshine. I waited for my chance and
then I reached my hand in. How far is
it from a lion’s mouth to the middle of his
tail?”
7nßevt;lat'fee£, •* UtMi 1 ’
“I thought it was about a rod, but I
known better now. I hadn’t more’n got hold
of his tail when he got hold of me and
was gulpin’ down them missin’ fingers. He
wanted the hull hand and arm, but they
beat him off. I thought at first I wouldn’t
explain matters, but then I thought I
would. I look a good deal like a fool,
don’t I?”
“Hardly that.”
"Well, you do, and that’s why I ex
plained. I was fool ’nuff to want to twist
a lion’s tall, and you may be fool ’nuff to
want to poke one in the eye, and so my
advice is—don’ti”
The tirnernl'* Feast.
Here is a true enough dog story, says
the Chicago Times-Herald. Among Tom
Ford’s chums were several incorrigible
foragers. When Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau,
the gallant Kentuckian, commanded the
division he had strict orders against for
aging. One day he saw Ford’s chums car
rying a dressed sheep to camp. An aid
was directed to arrest the foragers and
march them to his side. ’’You have been
stealing sheep,” said the general.
‘‘We killed this one in self-defense,” said
a young butcher. “He was about to collide
with us.”
“Nonsense! Take that to my
headquarters and go to your camp,” snap
ped the general.
One of the crowd of foragers hung about
Rousseau’s cook tent that night long
enough to learn that their mutton was to
go to the general s mess. The* ft£xt day
the same‘batch' of forgers were again
caught with a large, fat sheep, well dress,
ed. This time, 'ttff '*Generul scolded them
savagely and thretftenM Them with dire
trouble If they killed another sheep. As
on the previous occasion the mutton was
sent to the General’s mess and eaten by
him and his staff. A few days later, when
Rousseau and some freinds rode through
camp the men in Ford’s company barked
like so many Newfoundland dogs. This
nettled the Kentuckian, and he demanded
of the captain to know what it meant.
“I can’t tell you. General.”
“Then call out one of your men and let
me question him.”
One of the foragers was trotted out.
“What do you mean by barking as I
came into this camp? Tell me the truth.”
“Well, General, you remember that last
sheep you had taken from us and sent to
your mess, and that you and the staff
feasted on, don't you?”
“Yes. but what has that to do with this
infernal bow-wowing?”
"Eevrything. General; that wasn’t a
sheep at all; it was a Newfoundland dog.”
A Story of Preaident Dins.
Not tong ago. says an exchange, Presi
dent Diax of Mexico received a letter from
a little girl of Pueblo, in which she said:
“Mamma locked up my doll, and I wasn't
naughty. Please make her let me have it
again.” A day or two later the child got
by poet from the genial President a
handsome doll, with a note stating his
belief, should she remain good, her moth
er would never have occasion to lock it
away. By that time the girl’s parents had
got wind of the message to Diaz, and they
wrote to him. expressing regret that their
wilful child had taken it into her head
to communicate with him. A note was
received in reply from the President’s sec
retary, assuring the worthy people that
his exalted superior had quite enjoyed the
experience, and was pleased to have the
worry of holding office relieved occasionally
by such a quaint episode.
—An elderly gentleman had waited while
the audience passed out, in order to have
a word with the scientist who had lectur
ed. “It’s a relief.” he remarked, cordiaJ
ly. “after so much discussion of political
economy, to listen to you. What pleased
<ne most about your d'scourse was that
its subject was not money.” “No.” was
the answer, after some consideration. "Its
subject was not money; but its object
was.”—Washington Star.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Thomas Mansifield’s residence, six miles
southwest of Washington, Ind., caught
fire in the morning. The roof was burning
briskly when an Evansville and Indianap
olis passenger train happened along. The
engineer stopped the train, and the pas
sengers and trainmen carried water from
the tender and extinguished the flames.
—An. Alaska traveler recently described
some extraordinary phenomena connected
with a small lake, named Selawik, situat
ed near the seacoast. Tides rise anti fall
in the lake, perhaps on account of an un
derground connection with the sea. At the
bottom, he says, the- water is salt, but on
the top there is a layer of sweet water.
—A police raid on a slot machine joint
at Cincinnati resulted in an examination
of the machines and the discovery that
they were constructed with “short decks”
on the rollers. That is to say, instead
of a full deck of cards the roller lacked
several, making a reduction of the play
er’s chances between 30 and 40 per dent.
—Seventy-eight snakes in one writhing
mass were unearthed by men in the em
ploy of the public works department of
New Bedford, Mass., the other day. The
reptiles were about a foot below the sur
face of the ground, and had gone into win
ter quarters. Near the same locality the
same men discovered a nest of twenty
snakes.
—Petitions are being distributed in every
town along the Des Moines river which
contain a request to ask the state legis
lature to make a vigorous attempt to buy
the dam across that stream at Bonaparte,
la., and to open up the Des Moines to the
fish, which are unable to pass the ob
struction. Sportsmen, especially the dis
ciples of Izaak Walton, are anxious to
see the obstruction removed.
—Years ago, when one of the now burst
ed Wichita banks was running, Its officials
caused a certain money borrower to insure
his life and transfer the policy to the
bank as security. Year after year the
bank paid the premium and kept the pol
icy alive. The other day the man died
and the receiver of the bankrupt institu
tion collected $7,500 from the insurance.
It turned out to be the best investment
the bank has ever made.
—A photographic apparatus for divers on
submarine excursions has been devised by
Senor Borteus of Rio de Janeiro. If. con
sists of an incandescent lamp with re
flector in the diver's head piece, and an
ordinary camera inclosed in a rubber en
velope having a glass front. Electricity
for the lamp is supplied by a small dy
namo in a boat above. Pictures are tak
en by pressing buttons through the rub
ber covering, and objects in Rio de Janei
ro Bay have been photographed under wa
ter at a distance of ten or twelve feet as
easily as in full daylight.
—Much satisfaction has been caused in
France by the publication of statistics for
1896, which show the population of France
to be increasing. In 1893 the number of
births only exceeded the deaths by 7,146. In
1894 the excess rose to 39,768, which was
also a trifling figure for a population of
38,000,000 and which justified the anxiety
as regarded the future. Nor did the alarm
appear to be groundless in 1895, for the
number of deaths that yehr exceeded the
births by 17,813. The figures of 1896 show,
however, that last year there were 94,000
more births than deaths.
—lt is a familiar fact that fishes can
change their colors at will; many fishes
make remarkable changes, says the New
York Sun. Free swimming fishes most
commonly preserve their normal colors,
though these fishes can change; the fishes
that change most are the bottom feeders.
For their own protection from other fishes
that would prey upon them, and the bet
ter to enable them, themselves to capture
food, these change their colors«to match
the bottom they are on, so as to make
themselves invisible. They do this often
to a degree that seems extraordinary. In
one of the smaller salt-water tanks at the
New York Aquarium there are a number
of small flatfish. The bottom of the tank
is covered with coarse gravel. The great
bulk of the gravel is composed of pebbles
of a brown white, a eort of pale Iron-rust
color. Scattered in this are pebbles of a
deeper tinge, with nw and then one of
a brownish gray or brown black. The flat
fish lying on the gravel at the bottom of
this tank imitate its colors in their own
backs in a manner that is marvelous; they
are of a mottled brown, like the colors of
the gravel, and the smallest of the flatfish
is the most wonderful. They are all thin
and lie close to the bottom. The edge of
the little one blends with it; and its back
is a wonderful mosaic of browns so like
the gravel of the surrounding bottom that
it appears to be a part of it. Even in this
clear water, at a little distance, the fish
is scarcely distinguishable.
—Prof. Esclangon, the editor of Lo
Monde Scientifique, In Parts, has invent
ed a man-killing machine, which he
thinks will ultimately do away with the
blood-stained and horrifying guillotine,
says the New York World. Although the
death is effected by means of electricity,
it is not altogether bloodless. The electri
cal part of the device is used simply for
the purpose of pulling the trigger, so to
speak, and setting the death-dealing ma
chine to work. Imagine a diver’s helmet,
made without a visor. It is round and
smooth, and comes down to the breast
and the back of the neck, and fastens un
der the chin with a heavy strap. In front,
in a position corresponding to the inner
corner of each eye, there is a small slot
or hole. On top of the. helmet there is a
rod curving over in front and ending just
opposite the eye-holes. The wires for the
electrical circuit run through this tube.
At the end of the tube are two cartridge
like arrangements containing two very
slender and exceedingly sharp-pointed
needles. Neither cartridges nor needles
are to be seen before the machine is used.
Being movable, they are pressed back and
set on a hair-trigger, ready to dart forth
through the eyes and into the brain of
the condemned. The French . inventor
claims that such a death is painless, sure
and easy, but it is hard to understand
how he arrives at his conclusions. That
the needles are as quick as an electric
current can make them is evident. The
machine has been christened "Le Execu
tioner.” After death the helmet is taken
from the body, and the corpse is seen
without any mark of disfigurement.
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GEORGIA.
Twelve new brick stores have been built
in Arlington since the fire, and more con
tracts are being let.
The celebrated Flannagan murder case
from DeKalb county will be argued in the
Supreme Court, at Atlanta to-day.
Henry C. Wimbish, the colored politician
of Atlanta, will be collector of customs at
that city. United States Marshal Walter
H. Johnson has made this announcement.
Marion Harris and John R. Cooper filed
a petition in the clerk’s office of the Su
perior Court at Macon for a new trial in
the case of Charley Waller, who has been
thrice convicted of the murder of Tom
Smith about a year ago.
T. C. Parker of the Parker News Com
pany, Macon, is in Macon looking into the
plans for the remodeling of the Union Ho
tel, which his company has purchased,
and will at .once make some valuable im
provements on the building.
The drug store of Dr. B. M. Kenner at
Mcßae was entered Friday night, the cash
drawer rifled and the contents of one show
case, containing watches, rings and jew
elry, was carried off, the loss amounting
to about $75. Most of the valuables belong
ed to J. C. Wright, jeweler.
Dahlonega Nugget: There is a young
lady in Hightower district that has a calf
which she can tell it to come and kiss her,
and it will do so like a boy. Doubtless
there are numbers of young men in that
neighborhood that would like to be in that
calf’s place, when it comes to kissing the
beautiful girl.
'There are but two cases of small-pox at
Madison, both colored, in the same house,
mother and son. The son developed it
shortly after arriving there from Chatta
nooga, and the mother and father have
been since confined with him. The munic
ipal and county authorities have used
every precaution, and no spread of the dis
ease is feared.
James T. Wright, C. G. Smith, Paul
Hough, D. B. Dunn and Minter Wimberly
are applying for a charter for the “Inter
state Land and Improvement Company.’’
The capital stock of the company is plac
ed at SIOO,OOO with the privilege of increas
ing to $500,000. All of the incorporators ere
connected with the Macon and Dublin
Railroad, and the purpose of the new com
pany is to develop lands along the line of
that road.
What was claimed to be the biggest hog
in the world died at Columbus Thursday.
It was the property of Frank Williams of
Phenix City, and weighed over a thousand
pounds. The animal was over four feet
high, was seven feet and nine inches in
girth, and was about ten feet long. Its
owner had just brought him in from a
tour of exhibition, and the hog died at the
end of the journey. Northern parties had
made flattering offers to Mr. Williams for
the hog, but he had refused them.
George C. Bolian. of New Orleans has
filed a suit for damages against
the Atlanta Dental College and its* dean,
Dr. William Crenshaw. Bolian claims
to have been injured in the sum of SIO,OOO
by the action of the college authorities in
expelling him, and in writing a letter to
his mother alleging that he had married
a disreputable woman and was living with
her in a house of ill-fame. The plaintiff
denies the charge.
Sitting up in his bed propped by a mass
of pillows, with his face thin and pale
from a long and serious illness, Robert
L. Ivey was married to Miss Cora Cham
blee of Elberton at Atlanta Friday night.
They met three or four years ago. Seven
years ago Mr. Ivey was divorced from
his first wife. The divorce was applied
for by her. No fight w’as made and the
divorce was granted. He was given no
divorce, and until he procured this impor
tant paper he could not lawfully wed
again. Since that time he has been con
ducting a mercantile business at Atlanta
and has traveled considerably. He was
the owner of valuable property and was
able to enjoy the luxuries of life. Friday
his divorce was secured and though dan
gerously ill he was married. His doctors
hope to save his life.
A great deal of excitement has been
aroused by a recent escapade of the mis
chief-loving class of ’99 at the State Uni
versity. These gentlemen decided one
morning to place a bench against one of
the outer doors to Dr. B. F. Riley’s class
room, where they were then reciting. Un
fortunately the doctor came to that door,
but, being unable to get in, he went
around to a rear door and entered. The
affair was trifling in itself, but some
traitor in the class went to the doctor and
misrepresented the class in such away
as to arouse the doctor’s ire. He demand
ed satisfaction and an apology, which the
juniors at first refused to give, declaring
that the mater was done in mischief and
no apology was needed. Dr. Riley was
preparing to bring the matter before the
faculty when it was settled between him
and a committee of arbitration from the
junior class.
Gainesville Cracker: There seems to be
no doubt in the minds of many Gainesville
people that the $3,700 received by the
agent of the Southern Express Company
in Atlanta a day or two ago is the same
money that was stolen from the company
at Social Circle last spring, the story of
which was fully told in the daily press
at the time. The amount stolen was
$4,000. Os this amount about S3OO was in
checks, the remainder being in cash. This
tallies exactly with the amount received
by the company, through the mail in At
lanta. It is known that the officers of the
express company have been hard at work
on the robbery since it occurred, and it is
generally believed that they were on such
a hot trail that the person who stole the
money was frightened so badly that he
promptly sent it to the company, thinking
he might thereby save himself. Several
officers of the company have been in
Gainesville this week, but they were mum
as oysters, and would not talk about the
robbery. It is confidently expected that
some sensational developments in the case
will materialize in a very few days, and
the arrest of the suspected parties may
follow.
FLORIDA.
John Gomez of Panther Key, Monroe
county, claims to be 120 years old. Hie
wife is nearly the same age.
The steamships and sailing vessels do
ing a regular business between Tampa
and the towns up and down the Gulf
coast are all being well patronized.
The Methodists have just completed a
neat little church at Baldwin with a seat
ing capacity of about one hundred. Their
church was blown down during the 1 storm
of 1896 and they have been without a
place of worship ever since.
The .Marion County School Board,failing
to make a loan from the National Bank
of Jacksonville or the Putnam County
Bank at Palatka, with which to meet its
warrants to be issued, has allowed 8 per
cent, interest from date of issue until
paid.
Nathaniel Brewer of Massachusetts,
who now owns the celebrated Newport
Sulphur Springs property, six miles above
St. Marks, on the St. Marks river, will
rehabilitate the property and make it a.
sanitarium for the cure of rheumatic
complaints.
Mr. Fairchild, who went to Polk coun
ty a few months ago, and, in company
with Fred H. Varn, raised an experimen
tal six-acre crop of tobacco this fall, is
so well pleased that he has already plac
ed an order for the machinery, piping,
etc., to irrigate twenty-five acres to be
put in the spring.
The banking house of F. Gilmore & Co.
of Jacksonville disposed of another large
stock of securities, consisting of $600,000
United States government bonds. The
sale was made to New York parties
through the Treadway Collins Company,
and the bonds, which have been in the
possession of Mr. Gilmore for twenty
years, were forwarded Saturday.
J. A. DeLaunay, publisher of the Tam
pa Daily News, was fined $lO and costs by
Judge Barron Phillips In the Circuit Court
at Tampa Friday. The fine was imposed
for alleged contempt of court, although
Maj. DeLaunay had assured his honor J.
that he meant no disrespect to the cotart.
The alleged contempt consisted in criti
cising one of the jurors, in the Rene St.
John murder case, who refused to agree
with the other eleven and caused the
case to result in a mistrial.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
William Walters was killed near his
home in Kershaw county by a tree fall
ing on him.
A carload of colonists from lowa passed
through Florence a day or two ago going
to Chadborn to join the colony there.
W. B. Cowan is the champion sports
man of Darlington. He recently went
hunting and shot thirty-two times kill
ing thlrty*two birds.
J. P. Harkness, a merchandise broker of
Greenville, is accused of passing worth
less checks, and with being short in hia
accounts with Armour & Co.
The Columbia Register was sold Fri
day under foreclosure proceedings to Wil
liam A. Hatfield of New York. The only
bid made was that of Mr. Hatfield,
through his attorneys, and was for
The Clinton cotton mills seems to be
prospering, or at least developing. The
mill was started with a capital of $50,000,
then the capital was increased to SIOO,OOO.
A few days ago a further increase to $150,-
000 was made.
A project has been sprung looking to
the erection of a telephone line to cortnect
Saluda, Greenwood, Chappels and New
berry. Saluda has now but slight con
nection with the world. There is talk
about the erection of a line to Abbeville.
By an almost even vote when a two
thirds vote was necessary, the state Sen
ate on Friday defeated Mr. Ragsdale’*
joint resolution proposing constitutional
amendments providing for the election of
Supreme Court justices and circuit judges.
W. McD. Green of Clarendon county •
was shot and seriously wounded by a
negro named Sep Jones, near Felder’s, in
Clarendon county, Thursday. Mr. Green
will recover. The difficulty -was brought
on by stock owned by Mr. Green running
on Jones’ field.
William Brevard killed Middleton Lloyd
on S. F. Boykin’s place, about 10 miles be
low Camden, a few days ago. Both are
negroes and it is supposed from the testi
mony taken at the coroner’s Inquest that
they were gambling and got into a row.
Brevard shot Lloyd with a double-barreled
shotgun loaded with buckshot.
Prof. B. L. Jones, principal of the city
schools of Columbia, may have to stand
trial for whipping Alfred Martin, the
young son of W. T. Martin, one of the
best-known business men of Columbia.
Young Martin persisted in whispering in
his class. Prof. Jones called him up and
gave him a severe flogging. On reaching
home Mr. Martin examined his son and
found stripes on his back as large as a
person’s finger.
Amid squalor and utter degradation, a
young white, man named Seay was found
dead in bed at Columbia a few days ago
in a den run by Jane Jackson. Whether he
came to his death by his own or other
hands has not been proved. It is evidently
a case of poisoning and at the same time
a possible case of suicide. He is said to
have gone to Columbia from Asheville on
Monday night. He went to Jane Jackson’s
house to spend the night, and was found
dead in bed by his paramour, Ida Carton.
Col. Benjamin D. Cunningham died at
Greenwood Thursday, after a brief ill
ness. Deceased came from an illustrious
family on both sides; on one the Cunning
hams of Laurens, on the other, the Nobles
of Abbeville. He read law in the office
of his uncle, Ed Noble, at Abbeville, and
was admitted to the bar about twenty
years ago. He was 49 years old and un
married. He leaves one sister in Wash
ington, D. C-, one in Asheville. N. C., one
in Savannah, Ga., one brother iu ChaiCea
(on, and two in Lauren*