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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1808.
An International Inquiry.
The Interview with Capt. Peral, the
president of the Spanish naval court which
investigated the Maine disaster, published
in our dispatches yesterday, seems to
justify the conclusion that the Spanish
government expects that the report of
the American board of inquiry will be
Jhat the Maine was blown up from, the
outside, and that that government will ask
for an inquiry by an International board.
It the Spanish government were not look
ing forward to an investigation by an
international board, it would hardly have
permitted the president of the Spanish
naval court of inquiry to make public, in
an unofficial way, what the report of
that court will be. The style in which
the Interview with the Spanish captain
was written indicated that the Spanish
government was anxious to have the
American public know, before the report
of the American board of inquiry was
made public, what conclusion the Spanish
court of inquiry had reached.
There does not seem to be any doubt
tt>Mt the American board of inquiry
will report that the Maine was destroyed
by an external explosion. The extraor
dinary weakness in the stock market yes
terday would seem to show tiiat there
was information in Wall street that the
report would be of a character that
... pUib* lead to trouble between Spain and
the United States.
The Spanish court of Inquiry will report
that the disaster was due to an accident,
and it is about certain that the American
board of Inquiry will say that it was due
to design, what then will follow? Will
there be a demand by Spain for an in
ternational inquiry, or will the United
States make demands which, if refused,
Will be tho beginning of war? The
chances are in favor of an international
inquiry. Hints have been thrown out in
the Havana dispatches that there might
be such an inquiry and it has been stated
that, owing to the possibility of an In
quiry of that kind, the American board
of inquiry has been exceedingly careful
tn the collection of testimony.
Nothing definite has yet been published
as to when the report of the board of
Inquiry may be expected. The impression
Seems to bo that it will be given to the
public some time during this week. If
It should, It would be known at the same
time whether the President has decided
Atpon a radical change in his Cuban policy.
I ■ ■ —-——-
The City's Food Supply.
It is one of the anomalies of Southern
lite, and particularly of life in this we
tion of the South, that while we are
blessed with a superb climate and sur
rounded on all sides by lands of great
fertility, which only wait to be "tickled
With a hoe to laugh out a bountiful harv
est," we do not produce the food we eat.
Year after year we depend upon less fav
ored sections to feed us, while we drift
along In the old channels ami
nend away our money to pay
our more progressive neighbors
for those rteccesary foods which we
might ourselves produce. Take a number
pf staple Articles of food, and make the
•ppiicatlon to the city of Savannah and
Chatham county. The articles and the
chief sources of supply may be brl< ly
stated as follows: Poultry and eggs come
Ao Savannah from Tennessee; butter
comes from Illinois, New York and Balti
more; bacon, hams and lard come from
|<ew York, Boston, Kansas City and Chi
cago; beef comes from Kansas City and
Chicago; dour comes from Minneapolis
and the West; buckwheat and oatmetl
, come from the West; potatoes come from
the North and the West. It u worthy f
Special mention that only a few davs a -o
grocery Arm of this city received a large
Shipment of Irish potatoes from Colorado.
I There to hardly an article in the li.-xi
which might be >«urthaned. but could i
produced In Chatham county as cheaply
gs. If not cheaper than »t can be produced
elsewhere. If other sax i <
nnd h ptefit
pble to raise these th mgs f or u , ,
them hundreds of miles to re«ei
would we not find It more nrofi'b
raise them at home? it n as ,
laird that it requires <m rtn 1V v *
twenty-Ave cents* worth of
du yto feed each resMent in » (
Savannah. Taking that figuro >. ’
and calculating that there «r,
eons within the city limits of s ivsnr
will be that the grocery b 1
•ttyt to about a day, and
mately ?6,800.0C0 a year, virtually all of
which hs sent outside of Chatham county
for s&dplies, and only a fractional portion
of Which stops in the' state of Georgia.
Why should this be so? Is there any
good reason for it?
»
There are no better lands to be found
anywhere than in Chatham county, within
a short distance of and connected by good,
hard roads with the city, in which there
is a ready-made market for country pro
duce-poultry, eggs, butter, bacon, lard,
potatoes and dozens of other articles.
These lands, now idle, are awaiting devel
opment by/ industrious and thrifty work
ers. Farms, or lands which can be
made into farms with but little trouble,
can be secured upon very favorable terms.
No man who really desired to work would
fail to secure a piece of land upon which
-to sow and reap if he went about it earn
estly. Still there are to be seen about the
streets of the city a number of able-bodied
men, principally negroes, who eke out a
precarious existence by picking up odd
jobs and ‘‘scrapping around,"’ rather than
go out of the city and earn a comfort
able livelihood upon a small farm. The
blacks, however, are not the only persons
who do not take advantage of the oppor
tunities offered by the situation) There are
a number of whiles also who could better
themselves by exchanging the uncertainty
of employment in the city for the certain
ty of crops in the county. And of the
state at large, it may be said that we shall
never enjoy a full measure of prosperity
while we send into other states for our
food supplies and devote ourselves to the
production of cheap cotton.
Million* for Warships,
Hundreds of millions of dollars have
been appropriated within the last week or
two for jvarships and war materials. The
United Slates have appropriated $50,000,000
for national defenses, Great Britain, $120,-
000,000 for warships, and Russia $70,000,000
for the same purpose. It is stated that
Germany intends to spend $95,000,000 in
building warships this year, France has
already appropriated $6,250,000, and Japah
about as much more. 's
These enormous appropriations for war
ships indicate that the great powers are
expecting war, and are preparing for it.
They do not knoyr when it will come, nor
what will cause it, but they are confident
that it will not be delayed very long.
At present the prospect of war between
the United States and Spain is more prom
ising than between any other nations.
The relations between Russia and Great
Britain are not as cordial as they Were
before Germany grabbed a part of China’s
territory. It is not improbable that China
may be the cause of trouble not only be
tween Great Britain and Russia, but also
between Great Britain and Germany and
France.
Tho spending of hundreds of millions of
dollars upon battleships this year means
that in the opinion of the governments of
the leading' nations the wars of the future
will be fought almost wholly upon the sea.
And it is somewhat remarkable that such
vast sums should be put into battle ships
which have never yet been satisfactorily
tested in battle. They may answer the
purposes for which they are intended, but
thfre is a chance that they will prove to
be failures, and that there will be changes
in naval architecture so radical that bat
tleships of the kind now being constructed
will be practically obsolete.
The maintenance pt great naval estab
lishments is a heavy burden, and it will
not be long before murmurs against the
burden will be heard all over the world.
They will help to bring about the great
naval conflict for which the world is pre
paring. If the issues now pending should
be settled without war, it would not be
long before there were others. When war
islso confidently expected it is pretty sure
to' come.
Ainerlctuiiring the Navy.
‘The opinion is quite frequently ex
pressed, and, no doubt honestly, that in
a war with Spain, the Spaniards would
have one great advantage over us, namely,
their warships are manned by Spaniards,
who would, from patriotism, tight des
perately for victory, while the crews of
our warships are composed largely of
foreigners, willing to tight for any coun
try that pays them. As a matter of fact,
however, the proportion of native Ameri
cans In our navy is much larger than it
is generally supposed to be, and it Is be
coming larger all the \ime. Under the
policy of Secretary Long, of Americaniz
ing the navy, only American citizens are
now accepted as recruits.
Much more than half of the men on
the first cruisers we put in commission
were foreigners. Within the last few
years, however, the proportion of for
eigners on our warships has steadily de.
created, and if we should have a war the
enlistment of native Americans in the
navy would be so great that the foreign
element would hardly be noticeable.
Our. naval officers say that they have
no doubt that the foreigners in the navy
would acquit themselves with credit if
placed in positions where coolness and
courage are required. They make good
sailors, and obey, orders without raising
lite question as to whether the orders en
croach upon their rights. The native
American not only knows his rights, but
is prompt to assert them. There is no
doubt, of course, that all of the principal
officers of our ships should be native
Americans, because it could hardly be
otherwise than that they would be loyal
to the government.
In ISSS the roster of the okl Brooklyn
showed that of the 236 blue jackets only
106 were Americans, and that there were
only 15 Americans among the 40 marines.
Since that time, however, the proportion
of Americans has greatly increased. The
New York Evening Post has taken the
trouble to find out from the navy depart
ment what prortortion of the men in the
n*vv at the present time are native
Americans. It finds that the records
show ‘ that at the close of the fiscal year
when the last statistics were sum
inanx< I. the number of men in the general
service was 8.685, and in special service,
including fi«h commission a nd coast sur
vey. 1,018. Os the men tn the general
x-rvtcc. i’M5 were petty officers. S 3 per j
ccut. cl wium were ckwvus of the United j
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY. MARCH 14. 1898.
States, and more than 48 per cent, na
tives, Os the remaining 5,840, about 70 per
cent were citizens, and 58 per cent, na
tives. In special service there were 351
petty officers, of whom more than 91 per
cent, were citizens, and more than 86 per
cent, natives; of the remaining 667 men in
special service, more than 68 per cent were
citizens and more than 48 per cent, na
tives. Or, taking the service entire, we
find 74 per cent, citizens, and more than
54 per cent, natives, as against about 72
per cent, and 52 per cent, respectively ont»
year before; ttfnd more than 12 per cent, of
the remainder had declared their inten
tion. Os the 1,643 apprentices, more than
86 per cent, were natives.”
The foregoing figures indicate that those
who are apprehensive that the navy would
not give a goou account of itself in the
event of trouble with Spain because of the
number of foreigners in it have no reason
for uneasiness.
Cheaply Built Ships.
If what Mr. Charles H. Cramp, the well
known Philadelphia ship-builder, says
i about the battleships and cruisers in Eng
■ lish shipyards which are for sale,
is true, they are hardly worth hav
ing. The contracts for all of them
were made with second-rate powers,
and these ships are now for sale
either because the governments which or
dered them built cannot pay for them or
because, not having been built withirf the
time specified in the contracts, they have
been thrown back on the builders’ hands,
or have been subjected to heavy time pen
alties. The ships were not finished in the
time specified on account of the great en
gineers’ strike in England, which lasted
many months.
According to Mr. Cramp, the ships are
cheaply built. They are far from being
up to the standard of the ships of the
American navy. If our government
should purchase them, they would not add
much to the navy’s strength.
There is another phase of the matter
about which Mr. Cramp has something to
say, but concerning which very little has
been published. It is that an international
syndicate has obtained an option on these
ships with the view of selling them either
to the United States or Spain. It
doesn’t make much difference to the syn
dicate which government gets them, or
whether the United States purchases come
and Spain some. All the syndicate cares
about is the making of a big commission.
As the amount asked for all of the ships
is about $15,000,000, and as the syndicate
is to get 15 per cent, of the amount re
ceived for them, the syndicate, if it should
effect a sale, would make a profit of $2,-
350,000. \
It is not certain that Spain has bought
any warships, notwithstanding the reports
that she has. Dotfbtless all reports in re
gard to the matter have been circulated by
the syndicate for the purpose of creating
excitement in this country and influencing
our government to purchase the ships.
x It is not probable that our government
will act hastily. Capt. Brownson, who has
been sent to Europe by the President to
see what ships are for sale and to report
upon their character and condition, is net
authorized to make any purchase of war
ships. He is only authorized to report
what he finds. If Ship Builfier Cramp’s
story about the character of the ships is
sustained, our government will not pur
chase them. It wouldn’t have them at any
price.
PER SOX AL.
—Mr. Gladstone is one of the greatest
opponents of divorce in the English-speak
ing world. He believes that marriage is
a contract for life.
—Thomas Hobbs, now living in North
Hampton, Vt., at the age of 92, is one of
the few persons who saw Marquis de La
fayette lay the corner stone of Bunker
Hill monument June 17, 1825.
—ln England the novelist, David Chris
tie Murray, is giving a free lecture in de
fense of Dreyfus, presenting with a magic
lantern highly magnified productions of
Dreyfus’ handwriting and oMhe document
attributed to him.
—Dr. Seybold, professor of oriental lan
guages at Tuebingen, relates In a recent
article that the late Dom Pedro of Brazil
was a wonderful linguist, and that he him
self read with him books in Greek, He
brew, Arabic and Sanscrit.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Another Question.—"He has a bright
future ahead of him.’* “But do you real
ly think he'il ever catch up with it?”—
I’uck.
—Those Girls.—" Young Mr. Tizzens call
ed on me last week," said Maud. “Did
he?” replied Mamie. "He told me he was
going to reserve all disagreeable duties
for Lent."—Washington Star.
—Mrs. A.—l think your husband is a
very quiet dresser. Mrs. B.—H’m! You
might change your opinion if you heard
him looking for his clothes some morning.”
—Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly.
—"That man Williams never lost his
head in a foot ball game yet, did he?” “No,
I think not. He’s lost an ear. part of his
nose, eight teeth; but I do not remember
ever hearing of his losing his head.”—Tit-
Bits.
CI RII EXT COMMENT.
The Secretary of'State.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
The Action that Mr. Sherman, with his
fading mental powers and loosening grasp,
is an adviser of the President and the
head of a great executive department
ought not to be kept up any longer. He
is nothing in the administration, a name,
a shadow that wears a title. There should
be a living mind in the office, a man to
sit at thj right hand of the President at
the cabinet table and help him with his
great burdens and high duties.
The American Position.
From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer (Dem.).
The '"dreadful preparation” is likely to
be the means of attaining the end sought
without resort to war. It cannot fail to
convince Spain of the amazing earnestness
of the American people and persuade it
to listen to the voice of reason. The Uni
ted States is not disposed to be domineer
ing :n Its prodigious strength. It is dis
posed to be conciliatory and magnani
mous. Rut it is determined that the war
must stop soon, and that Cuban freedom
must come from iu ,
Judged by Appearances.
Two little girls occupied seats together
on an elevated train the other night, says
the Boston Herald. Both were scantily
dressed, hollow-eyed and hungry-looking.
They were unmistakably of that class
known as “cash girls” employed in the
downtown department stores, for each
addressed the other by a number in lieu
of a name.
Directly opposite them sat a fashionably
dressed woman,'who was accompanied by
a well-groomed male escort. Upon their en
trance the conversation of the little girls
stopped abruptly and there was something
pitiful in the earnestness with which both
watched every move of the woman so
stunningly gowned. Two pairs of ab
normally keen though tired eyes thorough
ly investigated every bit of finery in her
apparel, from the highest plume of her
hat to the soft, natty shoes which en
cased her shapely.feet.
“Say, Seventy-six,” whispered the small
er of the two girls, leaning toward her
companion, “she’s a real lady, she is. You
can tell by her make-up. Ain’t that a
beaut of a hat, though; and look at that
diamond breastpin. Whew! I’ll bet that
hat cost all of—”
“Sh—interrupted Seventy-six in an un
dertone, “she’ll hear you.” There was a
spell of silence as both girls leaned back
with their heads Testing against the top
of the seat. They were enjoying ihe daz
zling picture before them.
After glancing over a section of a news
paper which the man had given her, the
woman folded it up and handed it back
to him.
o Did ,Y° U get the tickets?” she asked.
“Yes,” was the answer in an indifferent
tone.
“Let me see them.” r ,
He extracted a small envelope from his
vest pocket and handed it to her. “By
the way,” he remarked; “we will have to
go to-night. I couldn’t get seats for to
morrow, and rather than miss it I took
these.”
“To-night?” she repeated, in a tone of
vexation. “You know well enough that
we can t go to-night. We have another
engagement—”
"Which we can conveniently cancel,” he
interpolated.
“Indeed, we will not,” she retorted, with
a determined stamp of her foot.
A protracted argument followed, which
was not too low for the cash girls to learn
the drift.
You to Mrs. Brown’s alone,”
finally exclaimed the man, “and I will
take your mother to the theater. We can
call for you on our way home if you in
sist on going.”
You will not go to the theater with
anybody. You must and will go to Mrs.
Brown’s with rpe.” Thus asserting herself,
she deliberately tore the envelope contain
ing the tickets in minute parts and threw
them on the floor.
They left the train at the next station,
he with a disgusted look on his face and
she with head erect and a defiant glare
in her bright eyes.
Scarcely had the rustle of her garments
ceased to be heard when SeverAy-six sage
ly observed: “You’re all off, Twenty-sev
en; s|ie ain’t a real lady. It’s only her
fine duds what makes you think so. "she’s
only an imitation, ad no clerk would take
her to a window if she wanted to make a
sale.”
Joys of Altruism.
In the wretched attic, the abode of pov
erty and suffering, sat two persons, hus
band and wife, says the Chicago Tribune.
Pale, hollow-eyed, hopeless, with her
hands folded In her-lap, the wife looked
drearily out of the’ window at the patch
of blue sky visible‘beyond the blackened
chimney pots ahd dingy roofs that an
swered for a landscape.
The husband, gaunt with famine and
misery, leaned his head on his hands in
the attitude of one who had given up the
battle.
He had tramped the streets day after
day looking vainly for work, and now, too
proud to beg, he waited calmly for the
end.
With their last bit of fuel they browned
their last crust of bread, which they
steeped in hot water in a mournful effort
to make a beverage faintly recalling the
coffee of happier days.
The afternoon sun,shining dimly through
the smoke and fog that overhung the great
city, sank behind a bank of gray clouds in
the distant west, and tije miserable attic
became, if possible, darker and gloomier,
but the wretched occupants heeded it not.
The apathy of despair had settled upon
them.
A light footstep was heard ascending the
rickety stairway.
There was a knock at the door, and
without waiting /or an invitation some
one entered the room.
The husband and wife looked up.
A girlish form stood before them. In the
dim light they saw a young face, framed
in clustering curls, the divine light of pity
shining in the soft brown eyes that looked
down upon them, and there was a thrill in
the musical voice that spoke to them.
“We have heard that you are in trouble,”
said the visitor, ”and the Society of Will
ing Workers has “commissioned me to bring
you these.”
Thereupon she laid upon the little table
a pair of slippers, half a dozen embroider
ed handkerchiefs, and a small bottle of
quinine pills, and softly withdrew.
Blessings on our organized philanthro
pists! What would the deserving poor do
without them?
George Once More.
•iMr. President,” said Mrs. Washington,
in a very stern manner, according to the
Criterion, “who was that lady I .jaw you
taking into a restaurant yesterday after
noon?" a
"Could you not see for yourself?”
No, Mr. \\ ashington, I only caught a
glimpse of your backs as you turned into
the door.”
The President made an imposing figure
as he stood id the light, with one hand
resting on the table and the other thrust
into his trousers' pocket.
“Madam,” he began, "I never told a lie”
—lt may have Seen some trick of light and
shade, but it did seem as though a tired
expression crept across Martha's classic
features—“However,'' he continued, “I will
endeavor to make up by vigor and origi
nality what I lack in experience. That
lady, madam, was your dear mother,
whose years of devotion I thought to par
tially reward by a small dtsh of ice
cream.”
Mrs. Washington was up and about the
' house again before the week was out, just
the same as if nothing had happened. Such
were the constitutions of our ancestors.
Work and the Maiden.
At an evening party in London, says the
Criterion, a gushing young thing was in
troduced to Marie Twain.
"Oh. Mr. Clemens!" she said. "Now
please do tell me! I've been thinking of
taking up writing, but I am so afra.d of
that dreadful writer's cramp—dm you ever
have it?”
"I did, madam.”
"And what did you take for it?”
"Beefsteak.”
“Just fawncy. But how and where did
you apply it?”
“Broiled, and internally,” said Clemens
gravely. "I can't answer for its being a
panacea, but it cured the kind of cramp I i
bad, all right.” - j
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Henry C. Corbin, the new adjutant
general of the United States Army, gain
ed considerable prominence some years
ago as a member of President Garfield’s
so-called “kitchen cabinet,” composed of
himself, Gen. Swain and Col. Rockwell, all
army friends of the chief executive. Gen.
Corbin entered the army in Garfield’s reg
iment of Ohio volunteers in 1562, and the
regular army in 1806 as seedrid lieutenant
of the Seventeenth Infantry. Since then
he has had regular promotion and now
reaches the important post of adjutant
general.
—The difficulty to be met with in estab
lishing an age -for the so-called Indian
mounds and other antiquities peculiar to
this country is practically illustrated in a
find made in Missouri some years ago. It
was a curious pipe, discovered fully 6 feet
below the surface'of the soil. It was of
native workmanship, the material being a
dark colored wood, and representing, in
rude form, st duck. The chief peculiarity,
however, was the bowl of a British clay
pipe of the last century, sunk into the
back of the bird, it is thought the origi
nal owner got the clay part from some
Atlantic coast wanderer. In every other
particular the pipe was of the most primi
tive form and character.
—A pound of salt does not cost much.
Nevertheless, it is not any too cheap con
sidering the amount of salt there is in the
world, says an exchange. Sea water is so
full of it that a box three feet deep filled
with sea water and allowed to evaporate
will show a residue of one inch of salt
on the bottom of the box. Allowing an
average depth of three miles to the oceans
of the world, there would remain a layer
of salt 230 feet in thickness on the bottom
should the seas evaporate. Another inter
esting comparison shows that if the salt
of the sea could be extracted, it would be
greater in mass than all the land of the
globe that appears above the surface of
the waters. A German estimate fixes 3,-
400,000 cubic miles of sea water on the
globe, which if boiled down would yield
85,000 cubic miles of pure salt. Thus it
will be seen that there is no very good
reason why salt should be expensive.
—The recent happening in Havana har
bor by which the United States lost one
of its best warships and several hundred
lives, has drawn attention, among other
things, to the power of high explosives,
now psed for war and for other purposes,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. According
to recent experiments the perunites, rank
ing in the order B. C. D, are the most
powerful explosives. Next come explo
sive gelatine, rack-a-rock, emmensite,
gun cotton and United States rifle pow
der. This is the rank they would assume
used for blasting purposes. The various
gun powders and high explosives of the
present time would take rank as follows,
ranking perunite ,B, at 100 per cent: peru
nite C, 91 per cent; Rossel’s mixture,
89.3; perunite D, 83; Americanite, 82; ex
plosive gelatine, ,gl; schnebelite, 80; rack
a-rock, 79; heliolite, 78; nitro-glycerine
(best quality), 73; Nobel’s smokeless pow
der, 70; explosive gelatine, made from No.
5 nitro-glycerine, 68; United States navy
gun cotton, 67.5; fulgurite, 67; emmensite,
66; French nitro-glycerine, 63; dynamite,
(No. 1), 62.6; Cannonite, 62; Amide powder,
59; progressite, 58.5; tonite, 57; bellite, 56;
oxonite, 54.4; atlas powder (No. 1), 50;
melinite, 49; silver fulminate, 48.2; mer
cury fulminate, 47.5;, rifle powder, 35; mor
tar powder, 30.
—A man has been found in Rome who
once endured for several ybars the torture
of imprisonment on the He du Diable, says
the New York Times. He is Gen. Paolo
Tibaldi, who, with Ledru-Rollin, Mazzini
and Campanella, was condemned to depor
tation for life on the charge of conspiring
against Napoleon 111. He says that, in his
day, the island was a bare rock, without
a tree or a blade of grass, and each of
the prisoners had no shelter from the sun
until he made a hut of driftwood. The
government provisions, sent dally from
the adjacent Royal Island, consisted of a
pound and a half of the worst bread for
each convict, a piecte of old meat or salt
fat, beans or rice, a little oil and six
centitliters of tafia, a kind of spirit. "If
is impossible,” says the General, "to de
scribe the sufferings to wfhich we were
subjected by our cruel keepers, Accord
ing to their caprice, we were chained and
kept for months on bread and water, or
beaten almost to death with ropes, and
so obliged to remain in bed for weeks ata
time, suffering horribly. In 1857. $5,000 was
raised to organize an expedition to rescue
me, but several attempts of the kind only
served to make my situation worse. Final
ly, however, the press and public opinion
in France claimed my liberation, which I
obtained at last, arriving in time to fight
for the Flench republic, and to have the
sad privilege of signing with Trochu the
capitulation of Paris to the Germans.”
—One of Gen. Butler's closest yachting
friends tells an interesting story concern
ing the general's connection with the cot-,
ton claims which arose out of the seizure
by the government during the late war
and were before the courts in Washington
a long time before the claimants were vic
torious, says the Boston Globe. This man,
who has been in active practice at the
Suffolk bar for many years, and got the
story from Gen. Butler's own lips, says
the General did not come into possession
of the famous yacht America by purchase
as generally supposed, but by gift, in the
following manner; After the cotton claims
had been pressed unavailingly for some
time the Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, who was
interested in them, and later was himself
on the supreme bench of the United
States, induced Gen. Butler to take up the
case and press it to a termination. Butler
was finally successful in his suit and re
ceived a check for $25,000 from hfs gratified
clients. Mr. Lamar also wrote him a letter
in which he stated that he and his friends
understood the genera! was an enthusias
tic yachtsman, and that as they had come
into possession of the old America, after
she had been raised from the spot where
she had been sunk as a blockade runner
during the war, they would be pleased if
he would accept her qs a gift, showing
their further appreciation of his efforts in
their behalf. This story, the writer’s infor
«mant says, he believes to be entirely true.
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Florida
GEORGIA,
The state convention of the W. C. T. U.
convention will be held in Atlanta the
Ist of June.
A Methodist missionary convention will
be held in Elberton nertt week. Bishop
Duncan will preside.
The Tourist Hotel at Fitzgerald is about
completed and the electric plant installed
in each of its 120 rooms.
A new mercantile flrm has been open
ed up in Lawrenceville, which will be
known as Brown & Robinson.
Will King and John Paterson, white
boys, are in jail at Atlanta charged with
stealing two bicycles. They admit their
guilt.
During the week there was shipped from
the port of Darien, coastwise and foreign,
3,308,977 feet of timber and lumber, valu
ed at $37,807.
Fitzgerald is to have a national bank.
The principal stockholders are Mr. Fitz
gerald, Mr. Buice, Mr. Bowen, Mr. Phil
lips and Mr. Bauder.
The Superior Court for Elbert county
will be in session this week. There are
half dozen homicide cases awaitihg trial
and much civil business.
Col. E. A. Smith, one of the most prom
inent and best known lawyers in that sec
tion of the state, died at his residence at
Eastman Thursday night of apoplexy.
Judge 1 J. H. Lumpkin has granted a
charter to the Confederate Reunion Asso
ciation. The charter was applied for by
a large number of citizens throughout the
state. w
A meeting of the citizens of Taliaferro
county has been held for the purpose of
establishing a bank. John F. Holden of
Crawfordville is erecting a brick building
to be used as bank building.
Ed Hagan shot and instantly killed An
drew Scott, in the northern part of Thomas
county Wednesday. Both are negro la
borers on a turpentine farm. It is said
that Scott’s wife is the cause of the
trouble. Hagan escaped.
The election at Fitzgerald Thursday for
$33,000 water works and light bonds result
de in overwhelming victory for bonds,
only six votes being recorded hgainst
them. The school bonds recently issued
by the board of education were sold at
102%.
Thursday was the first anniversary of
the Reynolds Banking Company. A state
ment of the business done showed a profit
of 11 per cent, on the capital stock. A9-
per r cent. cash dividend was declared and
2 per cent, carried to surplus account. The
same officers and directors were unaimous
ly re-elected.
Will Forrest, 16 years old, the son of W.
R. Forrest of Stone Mountain, was killed
Thursday night shortly after 8 o’clock by
a passenger train of the Georgia Railroad.
Young Forrest was returning to his home
when the accident occurerd. Just how it
happened is not know, as the engineer did
not see him ahead.
The cottpn warehouse built by an in
corporated company a’ 1 Fitzgerald last
summer increased the cotton receipts 90
per cent, over the preceding season. There
are 700 colonists Who will engage in cotton
planting next year, having learned their
points during the past two seasons while
watching their Georgia neighbor farmers.
Mrs. Zack Martin, wife of Conductor
Martin of the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad, broke her arm and leg on last
Tuesday. Mrs. 'Martin was visiting a
near-by friend when the accident occurred.
She was walking about the house when
she stepped on a trap door leading to the
cellar. The door gave way, precipitating
her several feet.
The waterlogged Norwegian bark Sae
heim was sold at Sapelo on Wednesday
last by Auctioneer Blount. James Foley
of Savannah was the purchaser, the big
gest bid being SB'M). Mr. Foley also bought
the cargo of pitch pine sawn timber and
deals for $2,350. The sails, rops, etc., were
sold separately and brought $504.50, making
a total'of $3,654.50 for vessel, cargo, etc.
In the city court at Macon Thursday
Mrs. Sol Mack was fined SIOO for carry
ing concealed weapons and slft) for point
ing a pistol at Ed Kahn. The offenses
grew out of adifficulty which Mrs. Mack's
husband had with Mr. fcahn about an
alleged insulting message Kahn sent Mrs.
Mack. For the part Mack took in this af
fair he was fined $lO by the Recorder and
was suspended thirty days from the police
force. No penalty of any kind was im
posed on Kahn.
Gordon Lee, through his attorneys,
Gieen & Rountree, has filed a bill in the
United States Court at Atlanta against
Henry Frederick Stone of New Jersey, to
enjoin an ejectment suit which was insti
tuted in December. The original suit
was for the purpose of ejecting Lee from
1 000 acres of land in Dade and Walker
counties, of which it was alleged he was
wrongly is possession. Under an order of
Judge Newman the ejectment proceedings
have been held up pending the hearing,
which is set for March 26.
A serious runaway occurred near Elber
ton last week. Dr. A. S. Oliver, a promi
nent physician of Elberton, and a young
Mr. Glenn of Oglethorpe county, were
driving in a buggy, when the horse be
came frightened and ran away, throwing
them both out. Mr. Glenn had his arm
broken in two places and was badly bruis
ed in several places. Dr. Oliver had his
shoulder bone and several ribs broken
and was also very badly bruised. He was
unconscious for a considerable time. Med
ical assistance was obtained and both are
doing well.
There will be 1,100,060 fruit trees come
into bearing on the colony farm at Fitz
gerald this year, it being their third season
since they were set out. Pensions are in
creasing considerably at the colony ftoiw
the new members constantly arriving.
There is about $15,000 per month paid out.
in federal pensions. Every factory in
Fitzgerald is now working over time; the
three sash and door factories are months
behind in their orders, the eleven riff mills
are not able to cut fast enough for the
brokers, and the timber mills are over
loaded v ith orders from the car compa
nies. ' . - •
A interesting suit was filed by Mrs.
Belle Anthony in the Superior Court at
Macon Thursday,' asking for a divorce
from her husband, E. R. Anthony, who is
a well known resident of the outskirts of
Macon and who has been famous for his
vineyard and his wines. The petition al
leges that they were married in the year
1893 and that*'in the year 1894 they were
separated, Mrs. Anthony returning to
her former home in Atlanta. No particu
lar grounds for divorce are given except
that the forced her to leave his
home, but did so without using physical
force. Mrs. Anthony asks for the restora
tion of her former name, which wass Mise
Belle Williams, and asks that her hus
band be restrained from disposing of any
of his property until a settlement of the
divorce proceedings can be had, and he
has made the proper provision for her.
Atlanta Journal: A very interesting
case which was ended in the Superior
Court Friday was that of Mrs. Josephine
Farris vs. Douglas & Davison. Mrs. Far
ris sued the firm some months ago for
SIO,OOO damages for an alleged insult which
she claimed was offered her by one of
their employes. In her bill of complaint
Mrs. Farris stated that while shopping in
the firm’s store in December, 1896, she was
falsely charged with shoplifting and great
ly humiliated before a number of people.
She alleged she was looking at some ar
ticles displayed on a counter when an
employe of the house came up to her and
asked her what she had under her cape.
She held up her cape and showed there
was nothing there. She claimed that he
said he saw her take something. After
the suit was filed Douglas & Davison Set
tled with Mrs. Farris for SSO. Attorney J.
L. Key, who represented Mrs. Farris, con
tinued the suit for the fee, which he
claimed he was entitled to under his con
tract with Mrs. Farris. The jury allowed
Mr. Key a fee of SSO.
FLORIDA.
Hampton has a Peeping Tom. He has
been notified to leave town.
Encouraged by the success of last years*
experience in growing cane, at Charlotte
Harbor, the acreage will be doubled the
present year.
Wadsworth and Lelnhart of Oviedo,who
are engaged in celery growing on quite an
extensive scale, hope to realize at the rate
of $2,000 per acre for their crop, which is
looking exceptionally fine.
In the County Criminal Court at Orlan
do Friday, Judge Butt sentenced Peter
Williams, alias George Graham, to ten
years in the penitentiary for breaking into
Darby’s store in Apopka.
Senors Jose Arango and Jose Villamil,
two well-known and prominent Spaniards
of Tampa, have purchased two blocks in
the Fourth ward of that city, and will
have thirty-seven dwelling houses erected
at once.
A son of John McDonald, of New Berlin,
is at St. Luke’s Hospital, at Jacksonville,
being treated for a wounded hand. A day
or two ago he was trying to open a large
rifle cartridge when it exploded and blew
his thumb and two first fingers on his right
hand off.
Several prominent turpentine operators
from South Georgia were at Tampa last
week making trips Into the surrounding
country and negotiating for all the pine
timber lands to be found in bodies of suf
ficient size to make them desirable as tur
pentine farms.
Great Interest is manifested in Alachua
county in the coming meeting of the
school board, when text books will be
adopted for the next five yea re. The
Gainesville Sun says that the general, and
in fact the almost universal opinion, la
that the text books now in use should not
ye changed.
The property of the Albion Mining Phos
phate Company was sold by Sheriff Sut
ton Friday. Clarence Camp of Albion pur
chased the property for S2OO. At one thne
this was considered to be the most valua
ble phosphate property in the county. It
has been sold at public sale several times,
and has been abandoned for the past few
years.
The cattlemen of Charlotte Harbor
while on a recent drive had one of their
horses bitten by a large rattlesnake. Tho
fangs were deeply imbedded in the flesh
above the knee. The horse was thrown
down and a deep incision made across the
wound, which was filled with salt. Aside
from the swelling that followed, no incon
venience was manifested, and the horse is
now well.
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen:
The officers of the Jacksonville division of
the Florida Naval Militia were seen yester
day afternoon by a Times-Union and Citi
zen reporter, and were asked about their
proposed trip down tjie east coast of the
state to locate suitable places for signal
stations. They said that they were await
ing orders from the adjutant general, and
were expecting the same at any moment.
It is estimated that the tour pf investiga
tion will consume ten days’ time, which in
cludes a trip to Nassau from Miami. At
other points on the coast steam launches
and sail boats will be used to cruise about
to select the best places for stations. One
or two members of the naval militia have
indicated their desires to sever their rela
tions as such, but at'present it is regarded
as very improbable that anyone now t*
fiteogyr mil be to