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4 THE MACON NEWS. ESTABLISHED 1884. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. R L. McKtNNEY. Business Mngr. TOM W. LOYLESS, Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered by carrier or mail, per year, $5.00; per ■week, 10 cents. THE NEWS will be lor sale on trains. Correspondence on live subjects xoiiclted. Real name of writer should accompany same. Subscriptions payable In advance. Failure to receive paper should be reported to the business Office. Ad ii » s ail communications to THE NEWS. Offices: Corner Second and Cherry Streets. 42Sg • I __ _________ I THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, ALLEN D. CANDLER, of Hall. For Secretary of State, MARK A. HARDEN, of Bartow. For Comptroller-General, W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. For Attorney-General. JOSEPH M. TERRELL, of Mer riwether. t For Treasurer. W. M. SPEER, of iFulton. For Comraisloner of Agriculture, O. B. STEVENS, of Terrell. For School Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of Bibb. Some More Poiit'cal Buncombe. The effort of the Berner-Atkinson joint gubernatorial stock company to make Colonel Candler appear as the railroad candidate is highly amusing. It might, however, fool some few people who are not acquainted with the facts. In the first place, Mr. Berner, who had never before taken a definite position on any issue that was ever before the people, jumped astride of his anti-railroad, anti coi poration, auti-everything hobby—under tlie impression, no doubt, that if he ex- j pected to be in the race at all he must necessarily ride something, and his anti railroad hobby-horse was the only mount in sight. Candidate Atkinson was in much the same fix, but inasmuch as Candidate Ber ner had stolen his mount before he could get to him, Candidate Atkinson had to grab a broomstick and go galloping after Ber ner—-yelling “stop thief; he’s got my hobby.” And now both of them are trying to put Colonel Candler in the attitude of a rail road candidate. Let’s see just how they all show up when placed in the calcium light: In the first place—and this is proof suf ficient that he is not a railroad candidate —Colonel Candler has the bitter opposition of the Macon Telegraph, the only bona fide railroad organ in Georgia. On the other hand, he has the support of the Ma con Evening News, the original anti-rail road monopoly newspaper of the state. Now, does it seem reasonable that the Telegraph, in view of its ownership and its well known proclivities, would be op posing the “railroad candidate.” and that The News, which was the first, and for two years the only newspaper in Georgia to speak out against railroad consolida tion and monopoly influence in politics, > would support such a candidate? But this is not all. The News knows, and oothers know, that the railroads made cer tain overtures to Candler when he first entered the race, and he refused to treat with them at all. So careful was he to remain uninfluenced and untainted by them, that he refused to consult with cer tain of their ambassadors who sought to gain a hold on him by a subterfuge. But this is not all. Colonel Candler has a reputation fog. honesty and political purity covering a period of over forty years—more than the lifetime, perhaps, of either Mr. Berner or Railroad Commis sioner Atkinson. He is known to be above reproach, and nothing but the bitterness of a gubernatorial campaign could ever inspire a charge to the contrary. He is, in fact, famous for his rugged -honesty, and the railroad monopolists who. during Governor Atkinson’s entire term of office, have defied the laws of Georgia, under stand full well that they cannot touch him. But while this is true, it’ is also true that he is not demagogue enough to go about the state ranting and bellowing about railroad monopoly. He simply says he will do his duty, he will uphold the laws of Georgia—and those who know the man know full well that this he will do, and that no power on earth can deter him in the performance of that duty. Perhaps Messrs. Berner or Atkinson would do the same. But Colonel Candler differs with them on this issue only in that he did not need a hobby on which to ride in this race—something with which to draw public attention to himself. The public eye was already upon him. Long before the gubernatorial race opened up, he was centered upon as the most avail able man for governor, and he is still so regarded by a vast majority of the people of Georgia. Bui let's see who are these that have suddenly grown so solicitous about the in terests of the people in connection with this growing railroad monopoly. In the first place, from whence springs Railroad Commissioner Atkinson’s candidacy? Why, from the fine Italian hand of Governor Atkinson, himself. And what has the man who stands sponsor for this candidate done to save Georgia from the evils of railroad consolidation? Nothing, absolutely noth ing. On the contrary, he has refused to do what it was already his duty to do. He refused, in the face of a strong petition from parlies whose interests were suffer ing, to order the attorney general to call a halt—to ask for the enforcement of the state constitution against railroad consoli dation. He held up this petition, so long that the paries who signed it became dis gusted, withdrew it and began proceed ings on their own acount. And from this source comes the cry that the railroads are overriding the laws of Georgia—which is true —and that Candler i is a lailroid candidate —which is a lie out of the whole cloth. In the next place, let’s see what Mr. ; Berner has been doing al! of this time. , Luring the many y.ars that he has been holding office, both as a member of the Senate and of the House, he has had am ple opportunity to put a stop to this growth of railroad monopoly in Georgia. But what effort has he cv r made in that direction? When before has his voice ever been raised against this iniquity? When, Indeed, has it ever before been raised for or against anything? Who is such, a fool that he cannot un destand the real motive of Mr. Berner’s sudden eruption? ..nd what. Indeed, has Candidate Atkin son ever done? As a member o' the State Railroad Commission—v inch position he continues to hold onto while seeking an other—he could at any time bring this is sue to the front. He could apply such rules to this giant monopoly that would at once nullify the evil effects of it. But what has he ever done? Noth ing except look the ether way whenever the railroads were engaged in a piece of unrighteous, illegal work. Indeed, it is a fact that Judge Allen Fort, the man whom Candidate Atkinson's political sponsor re fused to reappoint, was the only member of the railroad commission that ever dared to raise his voice against the railroads. But now that an election is on and some body wants office, they are willing to raise a cry which they know, and which the railroads fully understand, is meaningless and insincere. We prefer to vote for a man who will do his whole duty, come what will, rather than for a man who has had ample oppor tunity to do it, but who has just now dis covered that he ought to do it. We yield to no one in our opposition to ’ the railroad monopoly that for the past two cr three years has been engaged in overriding the laws of Georgia. We were the first in the field against this iniquit ous gang of consolidators, and we have a feeling recollection of having been called | several different kinds of damphool for I our temerity in antagonizing this element, j by the very newspapers that now pretend i to oppose Candler because he is the “rail- i road candidate.” And now we see these ; organs yelling themselves hoarse over the “railroad issue.” If we could have any confidence in their sincerity, we would be happy over their change of heart —but we cannot fail to see that it is all for politi cal effect. In the meantime, The News, which’ j fought railroad monopoly and corporation | influence in Georgia politics long before ! some other newspapers in this state thought the matter worthy of considera t.-on, will continue to support the man, who without making any to-do about it, will do his duty in this particular as in all others. On the other hand, the Macon I Telegraph, which is generally admitted to* be owned and operated by the very rail.- : road monopoly whose influence in Georgia ■ politics is considered so baneful, will con- I tinue to oppose this “railroad candidate’’ I and will bushwhack for Candidates Atkin son and Berner—who, if they are in ear nest and could have their way, would make such a thing as railroad ownership of a newspaper in this state impossible and unnecessary. How can the people fail to see the truth of this matter when they begin to com pare facts and records? Could Not Happen South. The Manufacturer’s Record administers a very caustic and, at the same time, a very just rebuke to the New York Even ing Post, which it correctly says, stands unique and unequalled among American newspapers as the sole paper among the 15,000 or 20,000 published in this country that has sunk all honor, all patriotism, and unequalled in the depths of degrada tion in which it has wallowed since the first announcement of the disaster to the Maine. Not content with the persistent effort that it has made to prove that the destruction of the Maine was purely acci dental, and to decry any possible effort which this country might make to relieve the suffering in Cuba or to defend its honor, if need be, the Post has now sought to belittle the effort that is being made to build a monument to those who lost their lives when the Maine went down in the harbor of Havana. Probably no higher motive, thinks the Record, inspired the Post than hatred of the New York Jour nal, which first suggested this monument, and while the Manufacturers' Record has net by any means always admired the Journal, it would a thousand times prefer to stand before the world responsible for the Journal's Cuban work than to be loaded with the shame of the Post’s mali cious, degrading course—a disgrace to American journalism and to America it self. Commenting on this movement to build a monument, the Pest says: “We ought always to consider what pos terity will think of the monuments we erect and what posterity will do to them. M e can imagine a future generation com ing upon this monument, wherever it may be erected, and asking: ‘Why cumbereth it the ground?’ The answer will be that certain sailors of the United States navy met with an accident, to wit, an explosion, on their ship, and that since it occurred at a time when there was a great deal of t-alk about war, and a pretty lively sale of extras, and since the accident was an explosion and not a collision or a hurri cane, it was deemed advisable to erect a monument to their memory. ‘Very inno cent intention,’ posterity would say in such a case, ‘but indicative rather of emo tion than of sound judgment,’ and there upon, if it happened to be in a place want ed for some other use. it would be thrown down without compunction.” Commenting on which the Record says: Could human ingenuity with malice born of the lo ver world perpetrate a more dia bolical attempt to discredit our dead? In the contemplation of such a disgrace to human nature, the Manufacturers’ Record has at least one satisfactions and that is that nowhere in all the South could such a journal as the New York Evening Post live. May the wise dispensations of Provi dence forever save our fair Southern land • from such a concentration of hypocrisy | and degradation as is found in the New I York Evening Post. Says the Bainbridge Democrat: “Poor j old Mrs. Nobles has been sentenced again, . for the fourth or fifth time, to hang—to j morrow, the 25th instant. While teeh | nieally guilty, this unfortunate old crea j ture is an imbecile, and not legally re . sponsible for the crime for which she is I to pay the extreme penalty of the law; and j when she is choked to death it is to be ‘ hoped that Governor Atkinson will stay that arm—(which he held aloft in this city in the campaign of two years ago a bid for negro votes and) ‘prayed God to para lyze if I do not respite Gus Fambles till I old Mrs. Nobles is hung’—and permit the j law to hang the real murderer, too.” MACON NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 26 1898. The Observance of Easter, “The observance of Easter dates back to about the year 6S, at which time there ' was much contention among the Eastern and Western churches as to what day the ! festival should be observed, says a writer in the Easter Ladies Home Journal. It was finally ordained at the Council of j Nive in the year 325 that it must be ob • served throughout the Christian world on the same day. This decision settled that Easter should be kept upon the Sunday first after the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, but no general conclusion was arrived at as to the cycle by which , the festival was to be regulated, and some ' churches adopted one rule and some an other. This diversity of usage was put an end to, and the Roman rule making Easter , the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon was established in England in 609. After nine centuries a dis crepancy in the keeping of Easter was caused by the authorities of the English church declining tc adopt the reformation of the Gregorian Salendar in 1582. The difference was settled in 1752 by the adop tion of the rule which makes Easter Day always the first Sunday after the full incon which appears cn or next after the twenty-first day of March. If the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter is the Sunday after.” The Warrenton Patriot says: “We be lieve Colonel Candler has made votes in trie stand he has taken as regards joint debates. There is no need or place for them before the nomination, and but little, if any, after, unless in case of defense. There is not an intelligent voter in Geor gia who does not know pretty well the position of each candidate, and there is no need cf wasting time and money run ning over the state to detract the people from their avocations. Time will tell whether or not both of these gentlemen win make such tours over the state with as much zeal after the nomination.” Apropos of Colonel Candler’s speech in i Rome today, the Southern Argus, of that city, says: “We believe in giving Judge I •Atkinson and Senator Berner a fair show- I Ing. We are in favor of them coming be- ■ fore the voters of Floyd county when they 1 see proper and presenting their own cause, i and we assure them that they shall have i fair treatment at the hands of the Argus. I But we favor them drawing their own ; crowd and not depend on Colonel Cand- ! ler’s popularity in Floyd county to get an audience.” •The News publishes in anohter column a card from Dr. K. P. Moore setting him- i self right before the public in reference to . the charges brought against him by the I Board of Healt'h, mention of which was > made in yesterday's News. Fortunately, ■ Dr. 'Moore’s standing as a man and as a I physician is sufficient to acquit him of ; any intentional wrong doing, and his card : makes it clear that his violation of sec- i tion 66 of the city health regulations—if it was a violation at all—<was such in merely a technical sense. The Dalton Argus sizes it up this way: “Spencer’s bluff challenge is wholly un fair. The fight is recognized to be one between Candler and the field, and Spen cer says to him, Come out, old feller, and let us two young fellers jump on you at once. We can wallop you, you bet, Come, I meet me and ‘Bob; we’ll sandwich you between us, and if I can’t lick you, me and Bob can.” _New York state has just appropriated $50,000 to be expended (toward making bad roads good. This in the Empire State is a tax of but 1 cent per SI,OOO on farms. lit is estimated that if on each $2,500 worth of farm land in the state 50 cents were assessed, the levy would net annually sl,- 000,000, which, if expended on the roads, would ultimately largely increase the val ue of the farm lands. The South Georgia Home says: “The Home commends Colonel Candler for re fusing to take part in a joint debate. Such discussion would become a personal wran gle between the candidates, could serve no good purpose and instead of uniting the party would tend to divide it. The out come of such discussion over the state would be disastrous.” The papers which are claiming to be for Judge Atkinson are at the same time sup porting Senator Berner; vice versa with the Eerner papers. It is “anything to beat Candler, declares the Americus Times- Recorder. The Rome Tribune must feel very lone some in oposition to Colonel Candler in Floyd county. Almost everything else up that way is for him, and he will carry F 10yd at the ratio of about three to one. A cook-book writer says cloves are chiefly useful for flavoring foods. She never attended the theatre with the kind cf escort who has to go out “to see a man,” comments Mrs. Myrick. iSo far the Rome Tribune is the only portion of North Georgia that can be put in the Atkinson column. And he is wel come to it. Editor Triplett, (who has been looking at the newspaper cuts,) declares that all warships look alike him. “Have you noticed how the jingoes have quit howling now 'that war seems inevita ble? The Chicago News classes Senator Mills among the disappearing big guns. TO BRING TROOPS TO ATLANTA. Norfolk, A a., March 26.—The railways j centering here are making ready as rap- I idly as possible for the expeditious hand i ling of trooops and munitions in case this , snould be necessary. The importance of i Atlanta as headquarters for the depart -1 ment cf the gulf, makes the Seaboard Air Line a most important connecting link be j tween that city and the army and the j navy depots of repair and supplies here. Arrangements have been completed and j the iwar department advised <that troops : and supplies can be transported from Nor | folk to Atlanta, 600 miles, in fourteen •hours. PROMINENT PHYSICIAN INJURED. Monroe, Ga., March 26.—Dr. N. L. Gal : loway, a prominent physician and a for- I mer representative from this county to , the Georgia legislature, was out respond ; ing to a professional call one evening this : week, when his horse ran away with him. throwing him out. of his buggy and bruis | ing him up considerably. He is now using a crutch. MONITORS OFFICERED. Washington. March 26. —The navy de partment has issued orders today placing the officers in command of a number of single turreted monitors recently called into service. The monitors will be ready co proceed from two to three weeks. POLITICAL NOTES Senator Phil Cook is in Rome. Col. Candler has accepted an invitation to address the Democrats of Pike county at Zebulon on April 12th. Judge Atkinson will speak in Franklin, Heard county on Monday, and in Cusseta. Chattahoochee county, on Wednesday of r.txt week. A large party will go from Atlanta tc Rome this morning to listen to Colonel andler’s opening adiress, and both Ata .n- aad A.ugusta will send delegates. A nem<adous crowd is expected. The Perry Home Journal says: We are authorized to say that Hon. C. G. Gray, of Fort Valley, will not be a candidate for tne legislature this year. We are of the opinion, however, that he will be a candi date for congress. By a unanimous vote the executive com mittee of Macon county has endorsed the action of the state executive committee. At the same session April 21st was ap pointed as a date for the primary for leg islative and county officers. Fannin county will furnish two candi dates for the state senatorship. They are Messrs. W. C. Thomas and J. W. Gillam. 1 In the race for representatives the contest in Fannin lies between Messrs. Gabriel Thomas and George W. Phillips. It is probable that within the next few days Col. J. W. Renfro will announce as . a candidate for prison commissioner. Col. ■ Renfroe has had much experience in the j handling of convicts, and his strength ; throughout the state would make ihm a I strong factor If he decides to make the , race. Every day assurances from Elbert coun ty make Col. Candler’s suceess there more positive. It is considered that Hon. Phil Cook, for secretary of state, and Senator O. B. Stevens, for commissioner of agri culture, have the bulge over the other can didates. Representative T. M. Swift will j probably be returned to the legislature. The fight for legislative offices in Pick ens county promises to be lively. Already several candidates are looming up. Among them are A. P. Mullins, the present in cumbent: Colonel W. T. Day, and A. V. Jones. All of these gentlemen are Repub licans, but as the county is strongly of that faith, the fight will be mainly be tween those named above. Politics are taking on lively shape among the Populists in Warren. The Pop ulist nomination by primary is set for May 11th, and the aspirants for office are losing no time in pressing their claims. There are four candidates so far announced for the office of sheriff, five for tax re ceiver, three for tax collector, and two for county treasurer. Rev. J. C. Combs is the only active candidate in the field for the legislature, but other entries are daily expected. Hon. William M. Hawes, War ren’s present representative, declines to offer for re-election owing to the pressing duties of his private interests. Hon. C. E. McGregor has been urged by his friends to make the race, and cross swords with Rev. Mr. Combs, but the major has ac cepted an offer with a school book pub lishing company, and will devote his time for the interest of his company instead of running for any office. OFFICERS IN SAVANNAH Are After Firemen and Machinists for the Navy. Savannah, March 26. —Three recruiting officers from the monitor Amphitrite at Port Royal arrived here yesterday for the purpose of enlisting firemen, machinists and seamen for naval service. They are Lieut. V. O. Chase, Lieut. R. B. Higgins and Dr. Lung, the physician at the Port Royal naval station. They will begin work at once. The firemen and ma chinists secured will be sent to other war ships, but all of the seamen will be sent on board the monitor Amphitrite, which needs about fifty to fill her quota. They say they will take one hundred seamen if they can get them. Paymaster J. N. Speel, of the Amphitrite, was here today, having sent off this morning thirty five seamen gun. | s on the steamship Bir mingham to New York, to go aboard the receiving ship, from which they will be distributed to different cruisers. The recruiting officers seem to be of the opinion that they can get some good ma terial here, and they are going to make every effort. Lieutenant Commander Commander Hawley, of the navy, is ex pected here about April Ist on the same mission. Gen. William M. Graham returned yes terday afternoon from his inspection trip to Tyhee Island, and left last night for St. Augustine, where he goes to inspect another of the stations added to his de partment. Before going he said he found the troops at Tyhee in first-class condi tion. The fortification is about complete, and will be ready to do effective service, he says, within a short time. In case of emergency Gen. Graham is satisfied there would be no trouble in getting it ready for work in short order. Gen. Graham says full arrangements can be made to protect Warsaw sound, the entrance to j Thunderbolt river, in a little while in case | of hostilities. IMPROVIDENT. During the month of March most of the Young Men’s Christian .Associations of the United States have discussed at the men’s meetings held on the last three Sundays three of the greatest evils cf the present day that affect young men, Gambling, In temperance and Impurity. Our Macon as-’ sociation, which, is rapidly becoming a thoroughly up-to-date organization, of course joined in the general movement, and their meetings have been singularly I successful. Tomorrow afternoon this se- j ries will close with one of the best ad dresses of the series, on Improvidence, to be delivered by Hon. Walter B. Hill, one of Macon’s most distinguished lawyers and Christian business men. A large au dience of men will doubtless greet the elo quent speaker on this occasion. The News is requested to say that these meetings are not alone for members of the association, but are free and open to all men, and they are not only allowed, but are urged to at tend. SONS OF VETERANS. Americus, Ga., March 26. —A largely at tended meeting of young men was held at i the city hall for the purpose of organizing i a camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Permanent organization was effected, and the name “Jack Felder Camp” adopted. The enrollment of members numbered more .than fifty. W. K. Wheatley was chosen commander; A. D. Gatewood, first j lieutenant; Ed Gyles, second lieutenant; I T. W. Callaway, adjutant; K. S. Cobb, ; quartermaster; J. H. Cameron, treasurer; s Dr. B. B. Hudson, surgeon, surgeon; Rev. i L. G. Henderson, chaplain; T. B. Guice, color sergeant; E. A. Nisbet, historian; iMiss Jennie Holliss, sponsor. The local camp of veterans and the newly organized Sons of Veterans will attend the annual reunion in Atlanta in July. RAIDING DISTILLERIES. On Tuesday night, April sth, a lecture on Christian science will be delivered by Mr. Edward A. Kimball, C. S. 8., First j reader of First church of Christ Scientist, 1 Chicago, 111. Admission 50c. SENSATION Created in the Carter Tria! by the Evidence of Lieut. Rees. Savannah, March 26. —The testimony of Lieut. Rees has created a sensation in the Carter courtmartial. He said Capt. Gil letite told him to be careful what he said concerning Carter, as he (Gillette) would i be in the engineering corps long after Carter had gene. The English Patent Office Library. i If the poor inventor is not entirely ignorant of patent procedure, he knows that the patent office makes no st arch to test the validity of his invention, and so he comes to undertake it himself. If be finds that his invention appears in no previous patent, ha is confirmed in his belief that he will at last see bis dreams realized and that be will in a short time possess great wealth. If, on the other band, he finds his ideas have been anticipated, his dreams of fortune fadeaway like mist 1 ■ foie a morning sun, and life, as he has known it lor to many weary years—huid, toilseme, pit i iiess to those vvho, like bimstif, In; k money—lies painfully clear before his view. A short three boars—or even less— spent in this lilt iiy m.:y plunge the man who entered it hopmul and bright into deepest des air, and it is certain I that within its wails many silent trage dies of this kind are enacted week by week and noticed by only lew if any oi those around. Ent inventors are a hope ful race, and though wome who suffer such a disappointment of all their hopes may never recover from it there is no doubt many recommence their experi ments and elaborate other inventions from which they expect the same, or 'even greater, realities cf wealth and happiness. —Chambers’ Journal. Not Quite Certain. A case was being tried in court, and the particular question at issue was the Dumber of persons present when a cer tain event occurred. An honest but sim ple minded German was in tLe witness box. fie had never taken an oath before and was not a little disconcerted The lawyer who conducted the cross exam ination saw his opportunity and bad gered him with questions after the manner of his kind. “How many did you sa? there were present?” he shouted, bringing his fist down upon the table as though the fate < empires trembled in the balance. Veil,” meekly answered the wit ness, “c.2 5 course I gould not chust say, but I dinks dere vas betveen six and sefen. ” “Tell the jury what you mean by that,” roared the lawyer. “How could there be between six and seven? Were there six or were there seven?” “Veil, ” answered the witness, “may be I vas wrong. Eero vas more as six. Lut dtre was not so much as sefen. Cue was a fery leetle boy.”—Pearsons W eekly. Lobengula’s Justice. Only one old tree marks the spot where the king used to sit administer ing justice to his subjects. A large part of this justice consisted in decreeing death among his indunas or prominent men who had excited his suspicions or whoso cattle he desired to appropriate. Sometimes he had then denounced— “smelled out,” they called it—by the witch doctors as guilty of practicing magic against him. Sometimes he dis pensed with a pretext and sent a messen ger to the hut of the doomed manto tell him the king wanted him. The victim, often ignorant of his fate, walked in front, while the executioner, following close behind, suddenly dealt him with the knobkerry, or heavy ended stick, one tremendous blow, which crushed his skull and left him dead upon tha ground. Women, on the other hand, were strangled.—“lmpressions of Afri ca, ’ ’ by Professor Bryce. Looking Ahead. New Boarders-—That bed’s rather narrow for two. Landlady—Three have slept in it. New Boarders —Yes, but we haven’t boarded here long enough yet to get that thin.—Harper’s Weekly. Extra Inducements. “Extraordinary Fire Sale” read the advertisement. “Customers are invited to call and examine goods, which will be found still warm.” —Philadelphia North American. Chalky Bed of the Atlantic. Tne bed of the Atlantic from 400 to 2,000 fathoms is covered w’ith an ooze, or very fine chalky deposit, consisting to a great extent of minute broken shells- Near the Caspian sea there are sever - al “eternal fires,” so called by the na- I tives, where natural gas issues from the ground and has been on fire for ages. Funds Locked Up In Chancery. The receipts and transfers into the su preme court of judicature (England) dur ing the year ended Feb. 29, 1896, were £15,383,257 Is. Id. This sum, added to the balance in hand on March 1, 1895, makes a grand total of £76,768,417 3s. sd. After payments cut oi court to successful I claimants and others amounting to £17,- ! 035,648 14s. Ibd. there remained in hand ' in cash and securities on Feb. 29, 18 ! the large balance of £59,732,768 Bs. 7d., ; exclusive of a large item under the head of I “Foreign Currencies.” The proportion of j this balance which may be classed as aun ! claimed” is not stated, but no less than ! £2,327,822 13s. sd. lias been appropriated in the absence of claimants to various ob- I jects. The consolidated fund is liable in ’ respect of this appropriation in the event of legitimate heirs at any time substan tiating their claim® The number of suit ers’ accounts is eu,t-24. ci which som*- 5,000 relate to funds unclaimed between 1720 and 1877 The funds it. the supreme court of judi cature (Ireland) uii Sept. 30, 1896, were £3,381,213 is. Bd. In the chancery divi sion there is a large sum of unclaimed money, but the exact amount is not stated. More than £250,000, part of such un claimed funds, has been appropriated to ward the cost of building the law courts and law library in Dublin. —Chambers’ Journal. o POWDER Absolutely Pure I BLESSED Are Americans by Poor Cubans for the Great . Relief Work. New York. March 26—Louis Klopsch, of the Christian Herald, Caban relief work director, has wired the World from Ha vana : “The American relief work in Cuba is in most excellent condition. Heretofore the utter inadequacy of supplies from Amer ican sources made operations on a large, satisfactory scale impossible. Today there is enough afloat for thirty days’ require ments. On the arrival of the next cargo, due Thursday, every known place of des titution will immediately be provisioned for ten days and 200.000 men. and women will be sustained by America's practical sympathy, pending an official statement of actual needs thereafter. Then the Amer ican relief will be as far reaching as it is possible to make it. Letters and telegrams from Consuls and Consular agents receiv ed by me within three days fully confirm the generally accepted views as to the magnitude and intensity of awful distitu tion. “Consul McGarr, of Cienfuegos, hereto fore incredulous, now reports 15,000 desti tute in his consular district and believes it will be worse. Tomorrow, on Estrella street, we open a central station for the relief of 12,000 destitute in Havana; also a diet kitchen for 2,000 sick in San Laza rie street. The bakeries in Havana and the suburbs are turning into bread all the flour received. The situation in a nut shell is that there are 205,000 reconcen trados in 402 towns and villages. Three hundred tons cf cornmeal and 50 tons of bacon weekly can save them. Thej’ look to America as their only hope and bless its people for the good already done. They say ‘When Americans die Peter will not wait for £bem to knock at the heavenly gate, but will open it wide before they knock.’ ” EENNETT FOR JUDGE, G!ynn County Grana Jury Endorses Him for the Place. Brunswick, Ga., March 26—After a very busy session, Camden superior court has been adjourned. The general grand jury presentments contained the following in dorsement of Joseph W. Bennett and com plimentary reference to Judge J. L. Sweat; “Being informed that Judge J. L. Sweat will not again be a candidate for the judgship of the Brunswick circuit, we therefore unanimously recommend Hon. Joseph W. Bennett for the position and urge our representatives to use their best efforts to accomplish this result. And we hereby extend to his honor, J. L. Sweat, judge of the Brunswick circuit, who is soon to retire from the bench of his own accord, our sincere and heartfelt regrets that he has decided on this course, as we fully appreciate his able and im parti a) administration of his court duties.” THE OFFER ACCEPTED. Hospital Auxiliary Will Avail Themselves of Railroad’s Offer. The ladies auxiliary of the Macon Hos pital Association has accepted che gener ous offer cf the Macon and Birmingham railway to give them 5 per cent, of the gross proceeds of -all through freight into Macon for fifteen days. The date for the giving of this revenue has been changed f'-om April 1 to 15, to April 15 to 30, as this will give the ladies more time in. which to solicit freight. DARK BLUE WON. Oxford Carried Off the Honors in the ’Var sity Boat Race. * Putney, Eng., March 26.—The fifty-fifth •annual beat race between Oxford and 'Cambridge was rowed today over the course from Putney to Mortlake, four and one Quarter miles and was woa by Oxford by twelve lengths. A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE. Woodstock, Ga., March 26. —The activ ity and vigilance of the revenue officers in this section is so persistent the moonshin ers find it difficult to get their machinery in operation before it is torn up. Today J. A. Spence and E. T. Petree dashed into Milton county, destroying t-o thousand gallons of beer, a new still that had just ‘been put in the furnace but never us«M, and captured five men at work in the dis tillery. These two officers are brave and active, and probably capture more stills than any other two officers in the service. PILOTS ORDERED TO SAVANNAH. Jacksonville, Fla., March 26. —Eight of the leading bar pilots of this place and Fernandina were ordered to report at Sa vannah today to a United States office 'there for special duty, and they left at noon. Captain Platt is the government officer who seemed to have the orders for them. Much interest has been aroused over the order. slilliuery Opening. On Tuesday ami Wednesdav. March and 30, we will show all the latest styles in trimmed hats and bonnets. The ladies are invited to call and see them. Our trimmer brought back all the newest ideas while in New York. Morris & Wilchinski, 119 Cotton are. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist church at Minersville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He says: “A few applications of this linament proved of great service to me. It sub dued the inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it wil please me.” For sale by H. J. Lamar & Sons, druggists. You can talk to 10,000 every day through the columas of The Newc. a