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TIED Bi THE TARIFF.
MARLBOROUGH WON’T PAI
DUTY ON ODDINb GIFTS.
COUPLE FACE A DILEMMA.
Must Be Married In A Bonded
Warehouse or Send Back al!
Their English Presents.
It appe ire that the Duke of M irl
borouph and Miss Consuela Vander
bilt will have to be married in a
bonded warehouse or that all their
wedding gifts from abroad will be
returned.
Ab the chances are that the couple
will not consent to be manied in a
warehouse, it is likely that the gifts
will be returned.
At least, this seems to be the in
evitable result of a decision to which
the customs officials have come, after
listening for three days to the British
Consul General’s frantic appeals to
release a gift of jewelry sent here
for the future duchess.
GOOD NOSES FOR GEMS.
The jewelry came from England
through the mail, but the lynx-eyed
customs inspectors in the Post Office
suspected that there might*be dutiable
articles in the package and pounced
upon it. Sure enough, the parcel
contained jewelry, and it was held
for the payment of duties, word
being sent to the Duke to “settle
up.”
But the Duke, through the Consul
General, said he was going back to
England soon, and the jewelry would
go also; so he didn’t see why he
should pay duty on articles which
were not intended to be used in this
country.
HE WOULD NEVER, NEVER PAY.
But customs authorities were in
exorable, and theDukesaid—at least
the Consul General said for him—to
send the jewelry back to England,
for he wouldn’t pay one farden of—
duty on it. So back to England
went the,g'ittfriog things meant to
dazzle the eyes of New York at the
reception after the wedding.
The Consul General of Her Graci
ous Majesty went to see Colonel
Phelps of the law division of the
Custom House again, and told him
that a great deal of jewelry and man;
other gilts would be arriving soon,
and wanted to know what to do.
Couldn’t some arrangement be
made so that the Duke and Miss
Vanderbilt could get their gifts.
A terrible sight’s Colonel Phelps,
When wearing his legal look ;
And, scorning any official helps,
t He thus addressed the Dook :
“Really, I don’t see how you can
arrange this matter unless they are
married in a bonded worehouse.”
OUT OV THE QUESTION, REALLY.
“Oh, iny, they couldn’t do that,
you know,” said Her Majesty’s Con
sul General. “I know Mrs. Vander
bilt would never consent.”
Thus Colonel Phelp’s stern look
was split into a hundred pieces by a
roar of laughter which made his
clerks jump from their afternoon
siesta.
So the Consul General went away
disconsolate, and the gifts whi ih are
coming, he says, will all be returned
to Europe. It is an awfully sad case.
The Advent of Scully.
From far-away London a danger
ous presence, a blighting influence,
has reached our shores. A few
weeks ago one William Scully,, some
times called “Lord” Scully, landed in
New York and now proposes to take
out naturalisation papers in that
state, in order that he may legally
acquire and “hold” land and practice
the system of extortion that has
made his name notorious as a rack
renter in two continents. The fol
lowing brief history of the man,
which we clip from the Twentieth
Century, will give some idea of his
devil-fish propensities.
“A snange, peculiar man is Wil
liam Scully. He has an iron w 11, a
heart that seemed never to open to
the cry of a distressed tenant, a dis
position seemingly merciless, an in
dustry beyond comparison, and the
tenacity of a bull dog. Although he
is now over seventy years of age his
constitution is still strong and his
frame robust.
Ito “He was bcm and bred in Ireland.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 1. 1895,
He and his father were “rack-rent
ers” and evictors there. He was
first attracted to this country by the
floating of the Illinois Central Rail
road bonds in England long before
the civil war. The circular gave
glowing descriptions of the country,
its rapid development and future
p ’esibilities. It was in the year 1850
that he bought his first slice of
American land. He was then scarce
ly thirty years old. His first pur
chase wai a modest one—he bought
government land for $1.25 an acre.
Now he o vns from 80,000 to 100,-
000- acres in Illinois. He is the pos
sessor of whole counties.’ In Logan
county his holdings are nearly 50,-
000 acres. Large tracts were ob
tamed at fifty cents to one dollar an
acre through the use of soldier? land
warrants. He owns more than a
whole county m Kansas, large por
tions of counties in Nebraska, shoes
of Missouri counties and sections in
other states.
“The present value of this proper
ty is great, but its value in the im
mediate future is beyond computa
tion. He has not acquired this
immense acreage for speculative pur
poses, but to hold and to rent. He
is a king, a foreign king, the arbiter
of the fate of hundreds and hundreds
of families. And still he has not
enough—he wants to acquire more,
and that is the chief reason he has
taken out naturalization papers. He
has ruled his tenantry with a rod. of
iron; he has founded a land system
so enacting that it is paralleled only
in Ireland, and he has awed his ten
ants that few could be induced to
tell the story of their wrongs, just'y
fearing that it would involve them
in ruin. Distracted and rack-rented
Ireland could not give him the $3,-
000,000 or $4,000,000 worth of prop
erty which Ameriia has given him;
there was nothing in England to
yield him the princely revenue he
draws from the United States.
“Here he gets a more tractable lot
of tenantry to succeed the Irish.
They were mostly stolid, plodding,
and with but little ambition above
the conditions of vasal age imposed
upon them. Their appathy gave
him greater boldness. Drains, ditch
es, wells and other improvements
made by the tenants’ labor, which
are immovoble and add to the value
of the property, were made the basis
of an advance in rents. He or his
agents never took the risk of build
ing or keeping in repair houses,
fences, barns, cribs and so on. The
only thing rented was the bare
ground, and an incoming tenant was
forced to pay the outgoing one for
all the necessary fixtures. What
wonder, then, that all over the Scul
ly estates the buildings were little
better tian the mud cabins of Ire
land or the old time shanties of Har
lem?
“Only once in three or four years
would he leave his home in England
to visit his estates here, and his stay
was brief. He had no luterest in
America beyond the land which he
bought for tribute, and for tribute
only. He very early recognized the
fact that all taxas levied for public
improvements, although they might
increase the value of his holdings,
would boa burden to him. In this
emergency he devised his ironclad
lease, the principal condition of
which is, that the lessee or tenant
shall pay all taxes assessed and lev
ied against the property. Naturally
in his section of the country roads
are rare and schoolhouses do not
flourish. His oppressive contract
served a two-fold purpose for him.
If its legality was open to doubt, it
would at least restrain the ignorant
tenantry of his two townships from
voting a tax upon themselves. If, on
the other han 1, its legality could be
established, the more taxes and im
provements the tenants were com
pelled to vote the better for Scully.
“As years went on the value of
the land was brought up from $ 1.55
an acre—the raw end open prairie—
to a valuation of S3O an acre, and
without any effort on his part to im
prove the property. The rack-rent
ing process has beem contempora
neous with the advance in values,
for although “Lord” Scully has done
nothing to raise the price of his lands
and Las persued a policy calculated
to reduce it, he has not scrupled or
failed to increase his cents propor-
tionately with the advance in quota
tations, and so “rack-renting” be
came a- recognized and dreadful
feature of bis American land policy.
“Every year before the crop is
matured or can be sold every grain
buyer near the Scully estates, or at
any point where his tenants could
possibly sell and deliver, is furnished
with a printed list of na ties, includ
ing all of the Scully tenantry, accom
pany d by a formal notice that the
rent of the persons named is unpaid
and warning them to purchase none
of the coming crop, as it is covered
by the landlord’s lien.
“It used to be a practice when
anybody was suspected of an inten
tion to from the Seullj
estate to serve warrants, upon the
suspect and seize his crops.
“It was ‘little things’ like these
which caused the Illinois legislature
to pass the anti-alein law.—Kort
Madison Chronicle.
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Digestive Compound. See adv. in
another column.
Must Get a New Thermometer.
We are evidently under the neces
sity of procuring a larger thermome
ter with which to measure the new
Cleveland debt. Our present ther
mometer registers only $305,000,000,
and already the debt mark has reach
ed the high point of $304,691,242.
The Treasury officials have had their
eyes on the thermometer and have
resorted to every expedient, lawful
and unlawful, to force down the
long black column which tells the
story of revenues that cannot be ob
tained and debts that go on piling
up. That period in the month has
already come when by disregarding
its obligations the Treasury can gen
erally begin to accumulate a little
money and make it appear that the
debt is not so bad as it really is.
October begins, however, a new quar
ter of the fiscal year and the dishon
est game of temporary repudiation
has been especially difficult to play.
As toon as the exigencies of the
case require it we shall provide our
selves with a new thermometer.
During President Cleveland’s so
journ at Buzzard’s Bay, while he
has been amusing himself at fishing,
the new debt has increased in about
the sum of $30,000,000. Notwith
standing his phlegmatic disposition,,
the steady increase of this debt must
make upon the President’s mind
some sort of impression. There are
not many men at the head of a great
fiscal institution who could fish and
fish day after day while the establish
ment of which they are at the head
rune in debt at the rate of a million
dollars a day. Most men, finding
themselves in such a plight, would
long since have returned to their
occupations and responibilities. It
is an illustration, we presume, of Mr.
Cleveland’s fortitude and great mor
al strength that he is able to fish and
fish while our debt thermometer
goes up and up.—New York Press.
Fiendish Brutality.
A letter from a Havanna corres
pondent to the New York Cuban
Jusetti states that it was a daily
practice of the Spanish jailors to take
several prisoners from the forts and
prisons and shoot them.
Each morning the prisoners were
stood in line. Ten men were selected
for death. Perhaps it would be the
first ten ; perhaps the last ten men,
or the middle ten. The names of
the condemned men were not ascer
tained. They were simply penned
up and treated as animals.
In the province of Santa Clara,
General Luque is said to be rivalling
the reputation of Garrido, “the
butcher,” in the Eastern Province,
according to letters received from
Sagua La Grande, on the north coast
Cuba. His forces recently captured
a mountain hospital, near Diego del
Valle, after a fierce combat with 200
Cubans, who were guarding the sick
and wounded. In the hospital were
thirty-one insurgen's unable to par
ticipate in the engagement. The
Spanish soldiers put every one of
them to the bayonet. Not one was
left aiive.
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'l’rain No. 8. N’c 1. Train Train No. 2. No. 4. Train
No. 11 N’isxp m’l No. 27 STATIONS. No. 28 cay m’l N’t sxp No. 12
* 15p 10 ?0p 12 lOp 7 15a Lt Augusta Ar 8 3Op 1 OOp 5 15a 7 48a
5 48pl’O 58p12 86p Belair | 12 36p 4 48a 7 14a
6 08p 11 flip 12 46p 7 45a Grovetown 8 OOp 12 27p 4 87a 7 00a
< 19pll lip 12 58p Berzelia 12 16p 4 25a 6 47a
• 80p II S9p 105 p 8 00a Harlem J 12 09p 4 16a 6 85a
II 88p 114 p 8 06a Dearing 720 pl 2 m 4 07a
11 58p 130 p 8 19a Thomson T 05p 11 44a 3 50a ....
.... .. s 2 08a 142 p Mesena 11 83a 3 38a
12 16a 1 OOp 8 35a Camak 6 50p 11 26a 8 28a
.... .. 12 42a 2 12p 8 53a Barnett 6 28p 11 05a 8 04a
12 56a 2 25p 9 04a Crawfordville 6 17p 10 54a 2 48a
1 22a 2 49p 9 25a Union Point 5 55p 10 34a 2 21a
Is 1 88a 8 04p 9 38a Greensbore 8 42p 10 21a 2 04aL’"ji
0< 17 2 05a 8 29p 10 00a Buckhead 5 20p 10 00a 1 87a ’
4 10a 2 22a 8 43p 10 12a Madison 5 06p 9 43a 1 20a 720 p
8 28a 2 41a 4 OlpllO 28a Rutledge 4 50p 9 22a 1 Ola 6 57p
8 42a 2 56a 4 16p 10 40a Social Circle 4 88p 9 06a 12 45a 6 88p
• 05a 8 19a 4 40p 10 58a Covington 4 20p 8 43a 12 22a 6 lOp
9 22a 8 41a 5 OOp 11 15a Conyers 4 02p 8 22a 1200nt 5 Sip
9 81a 8 54a 5 12pll 26a Lithonia 8 52p 8 10a 11 45p 5 45p
9 46a 4 15a 5 30pll 42a Stone Mountain 3 86p 7 53a 11 24p 5 80p
9 64a 4 28a 5 40p ll 51a Clarkston 8 28p 743 sll lip 5 22p
10 Ola 4 39a 5 49p'12 m Decatur 8 20p 7 84a'll OOp 5 15p
1® 16a 5 Lv 3 05p 7 15a l 0 45p 5 OOp
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159 p 1 81a 2 12p 8 47a Warrenton 6 lOp 11 17a 12 03a 6 41p‘
3 18p 2 06a 2 44p Mayfield 5 22p ll Ola 11 36p 6 22p
2 32p 2.80 s 3 04p Culverton 4 51p 10 49a 11 18p 6 09p
2 43p 2 50a 3 21p 9 22a Sparta 4 25p 10 40a 11 02p 5 59p
8 OOp 8 22a 4 OOp Devereux 4 OOp 10 26a 10 38p 5 42p
8 lOp 8 37a 4 09p 9 43a Carrs 3 42p 10 18a 10 25p 5 83p
8 82p 4 16a 4 84p 10 00a Milledgeville 2 52p 10 00a 9 54p 5 12p
3 50p 4 48a 5 07p Browns 2 13p 9 46a 9 80p 4 54p
4 OOp 5 07a 5 28p 10 24a Haddocks 149 p 9 37a 9 14p 4 44p
4 12p 5 28a 5 50p James 125 p 9 28a 9 OOp 4 83p
4 45p fl 80a 6 45p 11 00a Ar Macon Lv 12 40p 9 00a _B_lsp 4 OOp
'7 02p 11 80a 2 85p Hillm'an " 127 p 8 27a 6 Olp
11 80a Siloam 1 42 p
11 gOaAr White Plaine Lv 1 20 p
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