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VOL. XXXI. NO. 307
COLUMBOS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 18o9.
DON'T GET WEI!
Preserve Your Health.
Ladies’, Children’s and Boys’ Rubber Gar
ments are sold so low that they are within the
reach of all. One or two dollars invested in a
good Gossamer may save a $10 doctor’s bill and
any amount of worry and uneasiness. Our
stock is full and varied in styles and prices are
low.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
LAST WEEK
We announced a cut in the prices on our Wraps,
for the reason we are overstocked Although
•onr business was heavy, we still have too manv,
and wilt continue the cut this week. 11 n’t for
get we have a choice line of Wraps for babies in
long clothes and children from two to four
years old.
J. A. KIR YEN & CO.
We show the best $1.50 Blanket ever offered,
and our $5.00 white Wool Blankets are the
largest and best to be had for the money in this
citv. Downy Crib Blankets, Pulmau Colored
Single Blankets $2.00 to $6.00. If you nead
Blankets don’t fail to see our stock.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
The best 50 cents Ladies’ Merino Vest, extra
large sizes in Laches’ Ribbed Vests. The best
Gents’ Shirt for 50 cents ever offered. Grrat bar
gain in Rihbed Top Half Hose at 20 cents.
American Hosiery Company’s Tan and Brown
Colored Half Hose at 25 cents, warranted not to
fade or stain the feet.
• J. A- KIRYEN & CO.
Pond Lilies,
Apple Blossoms
AND
Morning Glories,
All on Plushes of choice colorings for fronts to
Tea Gowns and Fancy Work. Also a large lot
of China Silk Tidies just received.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
Angora Hair Fringe,
In White, Brown, Tan and Black, new and very
stylish. Also new Silk Gimps. Cords and
Frinees. Keep your eyes on our counters if you
would keep apace with all the new and stylish
trimmings, etc.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Millinery.
Our Silk and Velvet Hati and Bonnets are
recognized as best workmanship ever turned out
from any Columbus establishment. We strive
to excell in style and quality, and are confident
of our success on this line.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
PREISTLEY’S
BUCK DRESS GOODS,
We carry the largest stock of these goods and
will make very close figures. Our 16-inch All-
Wool Blaok Henrietta Cloth for $1.00 is a grand
barga : n. Our 46-inch Preistley Serge for 85 cents
is the best value ever offered, wan anted to wear
equal to any $1.10 goods.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
CHRISTMAS
NOVELTIES
WATCH OUR WINDOWS
Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Scarfs,
Cuff Buttons, Studs, Toilet Cases,
Collar and Cuff Boxes, Suspenders,
And a variety of new things that will not be seen elsewhere.
PRICES ILL BE TOE LOWEST
Possible for the fine qualities we show. You will regret
making your purchase if you fail to examine our stock.
Chancellor & Pearce.
H®* Remember we will receive solutions to our XMAS
PRIZE PUZZLE until December 24. Correct solution and
prizes awarded will be published on that day.
CHICAGO MARKET.
Review of Speculation In the Gram and
Provision Market.
Chicago, Dec. 12 — In wheat there was
a better trade, and the feeling was a little
unsettled. The opening was a trifle tame,
but under good buying the market became
stronger and prices gradually advanced J
to Jo above the opening figures, then be
came easier and declined !c, ruled steadier
and closed about Jc lower than yesterday.
Corn ruled quiet and inactive early with
trading light and fluctuations narrow, but
as the session advanced more interest was
manifested and a moderate business was
transacted. The market opened at about
the closing prices of yesterday, was steady
for a time, but soon became weaker and
declined jc. for December, J to gc. for Jan
nary, and i to Jc for May, ruled quiet and
closed J to gc. lower than yesterday.
In oats, trading was a trifle more ani
mated. An unsettled feeling prevailed,
being firm early and weak later. An
abundance of orders to sell May at 23
cents were on the market, but an insuffi
ciency of baying orders prevented the
majority from being executed. About
noon weakness developed and under in
creased offerings prices receded | to gc and
the market closed quiet.
In mess pork a fair trade was reported,
but the feeling was somewhat unsettled.
Prices ruled 5c. to 10c. lower earlier in the
day, but rallied again 2Ac. to 5c , and
closed comparatively steady.
In lard trading was moderate, and the
feeling was rather easy. Prices ruled about
2Jc. to 5c. lower, and especially from de
ferred deliveries, and the market closed
steady.
Ia short rib sides an easier feeling pre
vailed. Prices ruled 2£c. to 5c. lower, and
closed about at outside figures.
Auburn Anuals.
Auburn, Ala., Dec. 12 — [Special.]— Col
lege exercises were suspended here at 12
■o’clock yesterday, and memorial exercises
held in Langdon Hall. Col. J. B. Me
Donald fired a salute in honor of the death
of the great military chieftain. Drs.
Brown, Lupton. Smith, Cadets B. C.
Abernethy and J. W- Bivins, and Revs.
W. E. Lloyd, W. C. Whitaker and W. A.
Rice, participated in the exercises. The
speeches were short, eloquent and abound
ing in many rich treasurers relating to the
life, character, and learning of the great,
but now silent leader of the South.
The people of Auburn are delighted that
Rev. W. A. Rice has been again appointed
to till the pastorate of the M. E. church
for one more year at this place. Brother
Rice has for two years ably, satisfactorily
and effectully served his church here,
and a minister more universally admired
and beloved dwells not among us. He is
an able, faithful and earnest preacher,
ana we bid him God’s speed in the begin
ning of another year’s work.
Rev. J. S. Frazer, the Presiding Elder of
this district, has been transferred to the
Selma district and in his stead we will
have Rev. Joseph Keener, son of Bishop
Keener. Mr. Frazer’s stay among us has
been quite pleasant, and he has many
warm friends here whose best wishes he
will have in his new field of work.
Ex Consul-General Armstrong left yester
day for New York and will be gone until
about the 22d instant.
Miss Minnie Armstrong,one of Aubnrn’s
accomplished and charming youngladies,
is now visiting friends in Greenville, 8. C.
Mr. G. H. Lamar, of Washington, D. C.,
is now visiting his father’s family here.
After spending several weeks with the
family of her brother, Dr. P. H. Mali,
Miss Lurene Mell left today for her home
ia Athens, Ga. The fair Athenean has
formed many warm friends, and has added
much to our society during her stay, and
will be sadly missed.
The Ways and Means Committee.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The first session
of the ways and means committee was
held this morning, when an organization
was effected. Tuesdays and Thursdays
were selected as the regular days of meet
ing. The usual order in regard to the dis
tribution of the President’s message was
made, and the present tariff law was or-
oered printed in the shape of a bill to serve
«s s basis far the preparation of a new
mriff measure.
J i-FF DAVIS ON GENERAL GRANT.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED BT THE SEN
ATE AND HOUSE YESTERDAY.
The Georgia Representatives—The Leedom"
Silcott Affair—Blount Not a Candi
date for Governor—Georgia
Postmasters-Otber News.
His Reasons for Refusing to Criticise
Grant’s Military Career.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12.—When General
Grant was dying in Mount McGregor cot
tage, the Boston Globe instructed its New
Orleans correspondent to interview Jeffer
son Davis. Mr. Davis was not seen per
sonally, but a few days later penned the
following letter:
Dear Sir: Your request on behalf of a
Boston journal for me to prepares criti
cism on General Grant’s military career,
oannot be complied with for the following
reasons:
First, General Grant is dying; second,
though he invaded our country with a
ruthless hand, it was with an open hand,
and, as far as I know, he abetted neither
arson nor pillage, and has since the war,
I believe, shown no malignity to Confed
erates, either of the military or civil ser
vice. Therefore, instead of seeking to dis
turb the quiet of his closing hoars, I
would, if it were in my power, contribute
to the peace of bis mind and comfort of
his body.
[Signed.] Jefferson Davis, .
LONDON LABOR TROUBLES.
Gas Workers Strike—Nailmakers Increase
Their Employes’ Wages.
London, Dec. 12.—The first batch of
strikers left the South London gas works
at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The crowd,
which had gathered, cheered the men as
they marched out. Plenty of non-union
men are available for the companies and
there is no interruption to work.
The nailmakers in the midland counties
have conceded an advance of 10 per cent,
in wages of t^eir employes. This action
will prevent th9 strike threatened by the
men.
London, Dec. 12 —[Evening.]—The gas
companies with the exception of the
South L>ndon Company have conceded
the demand of the coal porters pending
arbitration of the dispute between them
by Sir Mark Wilkes Callett, governor of
the Bank of England, Sir John Lubbock
and Mayor Isaacs. The strike will there
fore be confined to the gas stokers and
coal porters employed by the Sauth Lon
don Company. That company is engag
ing able bodied paupers, of which there
are thousands now in the poor houses of
London, to take the places of the strikers.
The pickets sent out by the strikers today
stopped many of these men and persuaded
seventy of them not to go to work.
Sudden Death at Paschal.
Paschal, Ga., Dec. 12 —[Special.]—Mr.
H- C. Oogburn, a prominent planter and
citizen of Baldwinville, and living three
miles northeast of here, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease.
Mr. Cogburn was at Mr R. P. Baldwin’s
ginnery talking to Mr. W. A. Baldwin, and
without any warning fell forward upon
the ground in death. He was about sixty
years old, and was a member of Horeb
Baptist church. A wife and several sons
aud daughters are left, with a large circle
of warm friends, to mourn the loss of an
affectionate husband, father and citizen.
A Fiend Lynched.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 12.—Laura
Stivers, a 7-year-old girl, was assaulted in
the woods near Cleveland, Tenn., yester
day by a white man named Will Cardin. A
posse of citizens caught him last night, he
was fully identified by the child, and was
taken to a field and lynched.
/ g e nt Up For Three Years.
Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 12.-J. W. Brown
and Charles S. Henderson, two negroes ar
rested for rifling letters in the Charlotte
nostoffi m, pleaded guilty in the United
States Court today. Judge Dick sentenced
them to three years imprisonment and $iuu
fine each.
Rtpim’s Nomination Confirmed.
Washington. Dec. 12.—The Senate to
day confirmed the nomination of Green
B. Rium to be Commissioner of Pensions.
Vienna Printers Strike.
Vienna, Dec. 12.-The printers have
struck for higher wages. Several papers
found it impossible to issue their usual
editions today.
Washington, Dec. 12—[Special.]—The
stars and stripes floated gaily over both
wings of the National capitol today. Con
gress was in session and some work was
done. A half dozen or more bills were
introdneed in the Senate, among them a
bill by Mr. Bntler, of Snath Carolina,
providing for the emigration of persons of
color from the Southern'States.
Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, likewise of-
fered a resolution on this subjeet.
Senator Colquitt
was in his seat during the session and
seemed to be very busy with some papers
and manuscripts. On yesterday when
Congress was qplebrating its centennary
anniversary, Senator Colquitt was in Alex
andria, Va., eight miles away, where the
Davis memorial exerercises were being
held. This was not improper, for he was
a galiant soldier and the dead ex President
had been his friend.
The Georgia Representatives.
In the House today all the Georgia dele
gates were reported present. Nine of the
ten Georgians are seated in a single sec
tion. Judge Stewart, of the Atlanta dis
trict, alone of the delegations, drew a poor
seat. He declares he has no luck at lottery.
He is a preacher, and that accounts for it.
Talk About Congressmen.
The House is a fine looking body of men,
and dresses well. Even Major Martin, of
Texas, nas adopted tne regulation black
and cast aside his linen dnster. The Demo
crats have an able leader in Mr. Carlisle.
Pale aud wan looking he seems to speak
with some degree of effort, but a hash
fails upon the whole House when he does
speak.
Tlie Leedom-Silcott Affair.
Today tbe body got into a non-partisan
wrangle over the Leedom Silcott affair,
and several resoiu ions and as many
amendments were offered and were being
debated, when the Kentuckian obtained
the floor and iu a few words explained
how utterly out of order the whole pro
ceedings were, and the trouble was quieted
instantly and the contestants returned- to
their seats apparently satisfied. The Re
puolicans themselves have great faith in
Carlisle’^ fairness and his sterling integ
rity.
The Loedom affair grows worse and
worse, and.? I am disposed to think that
Mr Leedom will lose his character, as well
as his worldly goods. This seems to be the
general impression, as far as the investi
gation has gone, and it has been by no
means thorough. It shows Leedom up
badly. He has been discounting members’
salaries with Government funds and
pocketed the discounts. This is ia proof,
I believe, although nothing is said about it
as yet. It will all come out by and by.
Voted a Recess.
The Senate vated a recess today until
next Monday, and Senator Ingalls not
hearing anything from the other end of
the capitol put in a Christmas resolution
to take >. ffset on the 19 h inst. I presume
they will quit about that date.
Blouuc Not a Candidate for Governor.
Not. an item of Georgia news can be had.
Our members are entirely passive. The
Enquirer-Sun may say that Mr. Blount
will be a candidate for Congress another
term and not a candidate for Governor. I
get this from a reliable source. If Mr.
Blonm, lives to be re-elected to Congress
aud serves out the term, he can write a
book and title it ‘‘Twenty Years in Con
gress.” He came here first to the forty-
third Congress, defeating Sam Gove.
McKinley, of Ohio.
Major McKinley, the Republican leader,
was a handsome young;fellow ten years ago,
when he first came to Washington. He is
two fat now and too thick for his height.
His intellectual face, sedate and dark,
marks him as a leader. He lacks the
aggressiveness of Reed, and I doubt if he
will handle his men so well as the present
Speaker did.
Georgia Postmasters.
I learned today that L. H. Peacock
would soon be appointed postmaster
at Bainbridge, and Walter Ackerman at
Cartersvilie. The commissions of the
present incumbents expire Jahuary 12,
next. E. P. S.
Lieutenant-General of the Army.
By Butler—For the emigration of per
sons of color from Southern States.
A joint resolution of the Florida Legis
lature in favor of a national ship canal
across the Florida peninsular and of the
improvement of the SL Johns river, was
presented by Cali, read in fall and referred
to the committee on commerce.
Gibson offered a resolution, which was
referred to the committee oa foreign rela
tions, instructing that committee to in
quire into the expediency and practica
bility of acquiring or setting apart terri
tory for the occupation of ne T roor colored
citizens of the United States, and also to
inquire how favorably and in what man
ner the Government of the United States
“can and ought equitably to aid the freed
man of the United States, their families
and descendants to 'emigrate thereto and
settle thereon, and to establish a system of
common school education.
Ingalls offered a concurrent resolution
(which went over withont action), for
a holiday recess of the two Houses from
Thursday, December 19, to Monday, Jan-
uarv 6.
Under resclntions offered by Senators
Aldrich aud Platt, changes in the commit
tees prepared in caucus aud already
published, were agreed to.
After a brief executive session the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
THE SILCOTT STEAL.
MR. CLEVELAND’S SPEECH
A.T THE BANQUET OF THE MERCHANTS’
ASSOCIATION OF B09T0N.
Tbe Practicability and Usefulness of Ballot
Reform Discussed - His Speech Enthu
siastically Applaudea—Promi
nent Georgians Present.
The Report of the House Committee on
the Defalcation.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The report of
the Silcott committee was presented to
the House today. The report gives a de
tailed statement of the assets and liabili
ties of the office on December 5. The
shortage is stated at $70,708 96. It states
that the committee has not made sufficient
investigation of the matter of discounts
and notes. Many notes, the committee
believe, were forged to cover the defalca
tion already existing. It also says that the
committee cannot too severely condemn
the manner in which the Sergeant-at-
Arms conducted the affairs of his office.
Payson offered a resolution, continuing
the committee and giving it enlarged,
powers, on which a iong debate sprung
up.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, Dec. 12 — In the House,
immediately after the reading of the
journal, Butterworth, of Ohio, rising to a
question of privilege, offered a preamble
and resolution reciting the facts in the
case of the publication of what is known
as the ballot box contract, and asking for
the appointment of a committee of five to
make a full and thorough investiga
tion and report without delay the
evidence and findings thereon to the
House. The committee is to ascertain
and report by whom said contract was
prepared and whether the signatures are
forgeries or genuine. If forged, what per
son or persons directly or indirectly aided,
abetted, assisted or knowingly consented
to the preparation and utterance of said
forgery, and for what purpose and intent;
whether any of the members of the House
whose names appeared on the alleged c >n
tract had or have either directly or indi
rectly any unlawful, corrupt or improper
connection with or interest to the ballot
boxes.
The resolution further provides that th9
committee shall have authority to call for
persons and papers, administer oaths, etc.
Butterworth detailed the circumstances
of the publication ia the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette of the various phases of
this matter.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, whose name
was also appended to the alleged contract,
joined with Butterworth in asking for the
appointment of the committee.
The resolution was adopted without di
vision.
Adams, of Illinois, chairman of the
special committee to investigate the office
of the Sergeant-at-Arms made what he
said was a partial report from the com
mittee. The report states the deficiency
at $70,708, and says there was found #lso a
note from Leedom for $1030, on which
only $150 had been paid. It further states
that the Sergeant-at Arms had been dis
counting salaries and notes of members
of the House, and that although it was
claimed that this was done from private
funds, there was evidence that in some in
stances at least it had been taken from
the Government safe and the profits
retained oy the Sergeant-at Arms. It says
the committee cannot too severly con
demn the negligent manner in which the
Sergeant at-Arms conducted his office and
exonerates the paying teller ana book
keeper from blame.
The report concludes with the state
ment that the committee did not feel
authorized to go into the question of lia
bility.
At the conclusion of the long debate
which followed, a resolution was adopted
directing the committee to report as to
the effect or result of any deficiency in the
cash of the Sergeant-at-Arms office, and
especially as to unpaid salaries to mem
bers, accompanying their report with a
bill if necessary.
Also, one offered by Hemphill, of South
Carolina, directing Sergeant-at-Arms
Holme9 to arrango with the Treasury
Department for the payment of mileage
of members and delegates.
Brown, of North Carolina, introduced a
bill for the repeal of the tax on tobacco
in all its form3. Referred to committe on
ways and means.
Adjourned to Monday.
GORDON’S ELOQUENT WORDS.
He Asks Old Confederates to Remain True
to the Memories of the Fast.
New Orleans, Dec. 12 —At a mass
meeting of Confederate veterans, held last
night, resolutions were adopted mourning
the death of the great chieftain and pledg
ing themselves to provide a fund for the
family of the deceased, and to raise a mon
ument to his memory. Governor John B.
Gordon, of Georgia, presided, aud ad
dressed the meeting as follows:
To me, and doubtless to you, this is one
of the saddest, yet sweetest and proudest
occasions of a life time—the saddes., be
cause we have just borne to his tomb our
great chieftain; the sweetest, because we
have laid him to rest after life’s fitful
fever is over, on a bed softer than was
ever made by the blooming roses or a pil
low of dowD. We have buried him with
blessings and honors, and the esteem and
affections of a grateful people. Let me
add that it was fitting that he should be
laid to rest with the flag of the Confeder
acy which he loved so well, folded about
him living, and buried with him; the stars
and stripes of the R jpublic, for whose
honor he spilt his blood, waiving over
him.
If be could speak to us tonight, I am
sure his injunction would be to remain
true to the memories of the past, and no
less true to tne duties of the future and
the glory of our American Republic. The
grief over his death is ours, Out his fame
will yet be claimed for his country and
mankind.
Governor Gordon then urged that funds
should be raised to build a manument to
his memory and Drovxsion made for Mrs.
Davis and the “Daughter of the Confed
eracy,” becau ;o it was a holy duty to our
own manhood and the highest privilege
left us.
Addresses were also made by Governors
Buckner, of Kentucky; Lowary, of Missis
sippi; Fowlo, of North Carolina; Eagle, of
Arkansas; Fleming, of Florida; aud Nich
ols, of Louisiana, and others.
THE DAVIS MONUMENT.
trust committed to their keeping; thos
will they still proudly present to the
world proof of the valne of free institu
tions; thus will they demonstrate the
strength and perpetuity of a government
by the people; thns will they establish
American patriotism throughout the
length and breadth of onr land; and thns
will they|preeerve for themselves and for
posterity their God-given inheritance of
freedom, and justice, and peace, and
happiness.
PAYMENT OF SALARIES.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, Dec. 12.—In farther ex
ecution of the arrangement as to commit
tees. Walcott was excused from service on
the committee on Indian affairs.
Petitions from various parishes of Louis
iana in favor of a national election law
were presented by Senators Ingalls, Sher
man and Evarts. ,
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following:
By Sherman—To revive the grade of
Representatives of the Southern Press Meet
■ and Organize i-. New Orleans.
New Orleans, La., Dec. 12—[Special.]
—Pursuant to adjournment yesterday, the
representatives of the Southern press met
this morning for the purpose of organiza
tion and co operating with other Southern
newspapers in the raising of funds for the
erection of a suitable monument to the
memory of the late ex President Davis.
John W. Childress, of the Nashville
American, was elected President, and
Leon Jastremski, of the Louisiana Review,
Secretary. The following newspapers
were represented: Thomas G. Rapier and
Thomas E. Davis, New Orleans Picayune;
T. Fort, Chattanooga Times andKaoxville
Sentinel; W A. Collier, Memphis Appeal;
John W. Fairfax, New Orleans City Item;
Page W. Baker, NewOrleans Times-Demo-
crat; George W. Dupre, New 0 deans Daily
States; J. A. Childress andE W. Carmack,
Nashville American; Jos. W. Carew, Teche
Pilot; J. E. McDaniel, Associated Press; E.
F. Davenport, Bessemer Journal: G. H.
Richardson, Enquirer Sun of Columbus;
W. W. Screws. Advertiser, Montgomery;
W. G. Waller, Richmond Times: E P. Mc-
Kissech, News and Courier, Charleston;
Leon Jestremski, Louisiana Review; John
Henderson, West Point Mississippian; R
M. Johnson, Hjuseo j, Tex., Post.
The following papers were represented
by proxy: St. Louis Republic, Mobile Reg
ister, Eilisville Eigle, Savannah News,
Augusta Chronicle, and the Jackson Wnig
and Tribune.
The name adopted for the association is
the Southern Press Davis Monumental
Association. The association is to be com
posed only of Southern newspapers.
Masons to the Front.
Fort Valley, Ga., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—
Last night at a regular meeting of Fort
Valley Lodge No. 110 F. & A. M., the sec
retary was unanimously ordered to pur
chase one share in the Davis Land Com
pany and the share to be deposited in the
archives of the lodge to show future gen
erations the love ana esteem t he members
of tbe lodge entertained for the memory
of Jefferson Davis, aud the interest they
manifest in the future welfare of Mrs.
Davis and Miss Winnie. The Fort Valley
lodge urges all Masonic lodges in the
South to follow her example as the price
of one share will never be missed by the
order.
Dale Gives Boud.
Atlanta, Dec. 12 —[Special.] -W. R
Dale, the preacher with the checkered
career, and who has been the center of a
sensation in Atlanta for some time, has
secured bond and will be released from
jail at Dallas. The oond was signed yes
terdav afternoon and approved by Sheriff
Thomas this morning. The bondsmen all
live at Beilwood and are connected with
the Seventh Baptist church, of which
Dale was pastor. They are: Frank A.
Smith, F. M. Gober, J. M. Allen aud H. C.
Thurman.
Boston, Dec. 12.—The Merchants Asso
ciation banquet tonight was a brilliant
affair. A large party of Georgians were
among the distinguished guests. Ex-
President Cleveland delivered an eloquent
address, which was enthusiastically ap
plauded. He spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: When I
see about me this gathering of business
men and merchants, I find it impossible to
rid myself of the impressive thought that
here is represented that factor in civilized
life which measures the progress of a peo
ple, which constitutes the chief care of
every enlightened government and which
gives to a country the privilege of recog
nized membership in the community of
nations.
Our business men cannot if they would,
escape the responsibility which this con
dition casts upon them—a responsibility
most exacting and invested with the seri
ousness which always results from a just
apprehension of man’s relation to his lel-
low-man and tbe obligation due from a
citizen to his Government. They cm
find no pretext for indifference in the
self-complacenc claim that under Ameri
can institutions as in other times and in
foreign lands, business men aud mer
chants have only gained a recog
nition of their importance and
value, as it has been forced
from a Government in which they had no
representation and from rulers who looked
upon their vocation with contempt. Tney
cannot absolve themselves from loyal duty
to a Government which has at all times
invited them to a high place in public
counsels and which has always ungrudg
ingly conceded their indispensable value
in the growth and progress of our re
public.
These considerations plainly point out
your responsibility and duty as members
of the guild of business and as belonging
to the fellowship of trade.
But we cannot avoid other reflections
leading in the same direction and related
to you alone—the business men of Boston.
The scene of your activity i3 the commer
cial center of a great aud ancient Com
monwealth, rich in patriotic traditions. It
was upon the waters of your harbor that
the first active and physical defiance and
opposition was made to odious and unfair
imperial legislation affecting colonial trade,
and the first battle byAmericans for liberty
of the oerson and for freedom from uDjust
and oppressive restraint upon business,
was fought within sight of your ware
houses. „
Tne Boston, merchant of today has not
less integrity and virtue than his prede
oessors; but3urely we are not called upon
oy the fear of controversy, to close our
eyes to the. fact that his environment is
vastly different There is among our
people less of meaning embodied in the
sentiment that the Government upon
which we have staked all our hopes and
aspirations, requires for its successful
maintenance, a patriotic regard for the
aggregate of the happiness and prosperity
of ailjour oeopie and a willing consent to a
fair distribution of the benefits of our free
institutions.
Equal rights and impartial justice are
stipulations of the compact we have
entered into with each otner as American
citizens; and so nicely adjusted is this plan
of our political association, that favorite-
i.-im for the sole advantage of any section
of our membership, inevitably results in
an encroachment upon the benefits justly
due to others. But these things sir, so
lightly upon the consciences of many that
a spirit of seffiihness is abroad in the land,
which has bred the habit of. clamorous
importunity for Government aid in behalf
of special interests—imperfectly disguised
under the cloak of solicituda for the public
good.
Manifestly if the motives of all our citi
zens were unselfish and patriotic, and if
they sought in political action only their
share of the advantage accruing from the
advance of our country at all points to
wards her grand destiny, there would be
no place or occasion for the perversion of
our suffrage. Thus the inauguration of
the intimidation and corrnp.ion of our
voters may be justly charged to selfish
schemes seeking success through political
action. But these evils have been neglect
ed by honest men disgusted with all
political endeavor; they have been tol
erated by respectable men who, in
weakness of patriotic sentiment, have
regarded them as only phases of shrewd
political management, and they have been
actually encouraged by the honors which
have been bestowed upon those who boast
of the use of such agencies in aid of party
supremacy.
* * * * This hope, risen like the
star in the East, nas fixed the gaz9 of our
patriotic fellow countrymen; aud every
where—in our busy marts of trade and on
our farms—in our cities and in our villages
—in the dwellings of the rich and in the
homes of the poor—in our universities and
in our workshops—in our banking houses
and in the ranks of inexorable toil—they
greet with enthusiastic acclaim the adveqt
of ballot reform.
Taere are no leaders in thiscau3e. Those
who seem to lead the movement afe but
swept to the front by the surging force of
patriotic sentiment It rises far above
partisanship and only tho heedless, the
sordid and the depraved refuse to join in
the crusade.
This reform is predicted uDon the cool
deliberation of political selfishness in its
endeavor to prostitute onr suffrage to the
purposes of private gain. It is rightly sup
posed that corruption of the voter is
entered upon with such business ealeu
lation that the corruptor will only pay a
bribe when he has ocular proof that the
More Regid Scrutiny to be Given to Treas
ury Disbursements.
Washington, Dec. 12 —The develop
ments in the Silcott investigation are
likely to have the effect of causing a more
rigid scrutiny to be given at the Treasury
to ail disbursements for salaries. It
has been the custom of the
Auditor of the district for several
months past to collect the salaries of dis
trict employes, tnrning in a warrant to the
Treasury and receive money in return. By
this method the employes were enabled
to receive their salaries in cash instead of
checks, as had heretofore been the prac
tice. The employes nearly all preferred
the payment in cash. The method
pursued bore a great similitude to that
adopted by the Sergeant-at-Arms. The
Treasury has now taken a stand against
this method, and has written District Au
ditor Sharp a letter in which tbe depart
ment announces that it will no longer
countenance this method of payment.
A BOY BEHIND THE BARS.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD CHILD ARRESTED
FOB STEALING COAL.
The Little Fellow’s Pitiful Story—Mr. Cal
vin Out of the Race — Glen - Arm
strong Marriage—Suing a Bank.
Other Atlanta News.
Strike at Pratt Mines.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 12.—Several
days ago tne trainmen of the Pratt Mines
railroad went out on a strike on a demand
for higher wages being refused. Today all
the free miners, about 1200 in number,
stopped work, demanding that the train
men’s request be granted. They say they
will not ran the risk of operating tbe
mines with green hands, and propose to
support the old hands in their strike.
Things will remain as they are until Gen
eral Manager Bond returns.
Cotton Futures.
New York, Dec. 12.—The Sun’s cottou
review says: Futures made an advance of
3 to 4 points on a strong report from
Liverpool (which took many of the bears
by surprise) supplemented by very small
receipts at New Orleans, but at noon the
market had become dull and week, the
bolls showing little vim with which they
of late have come to the snpport of values.
Large receipts at Savannah and a decline
of 116 at Wilmington also gave them a
pause. Cotton on spot was dull and weak.
Bond Offerings* *
Washington, Dec. 12.—Bond offerings
today aggregated $1,451,050; all accepted at
104g for 41’s and 127 for 4 per cents.
Homicide in Gainesville.
Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 12 —Louis
WitctovaKi, Mayor of Starke, was shot and
instantly killed by Albert Thrasher y ester-
day. The affair occurred in the office of
Ashby & Thrasher, attorneys, and there
are conflicting stories as to its cause. The
general belief is that seme domestic com
plications led to the shooting. The mur
dered mau was prominent in this county.
He was President of the Bradford County
Board of Health and Grand Sachem of the
Auoient Order of Red Men in Florida. His
body was taken to his home in Starke.
Caucus of Democrats Senators.
Washington, Dec 12.—The Democratic
Senators met in caucus after adjournment
this afternoon to arrange memberships
from their side of the new committees
proposed for this Congress. A committee,
headed by Senator Beck, was authorized
to make selections and report to the cau
cus to be held next Monday. The com
mittee will hold a session Saturday.
SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.
Large Attendance—Proceedings of the Sec
ond Day.
Americus Ga.,D3c. 12—[Special.]—The
city is lull of preachers, and tne twenty-
third annual conference of South Georgia
is uader fine headway. The Confederate
Veterans’ Association of Americus sent an
invitation to the conference yesterday to
attend the Davis memorial services at the
opera house. The body attended, and
Bishop Hargrove offered the opening
prayer. Short speeches were made
bv Dr. J. W. Hinton and Rev.
W. M. Hayes, of the conference. Both
gentlemen were complimented very high
ly for their patriotism and eloquence.
In the afternoon Rev. B. F. Breedlove
preached an interesting service at the
Methodist cnurch. At night there was a
communion service conducted by Rev. A.
M. Wynn. After this service Rev. J. B.
Culpepper, the well known evangelist,
took charge of tbe congregation, and for
more than an hour held such a meeting
as only he can do. The attendance was
large, and the services were very greatly
enjoyed.
The Conference fixed the hours of its
sessions from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
This morning promptly at 9 the ses
sion was opened with devotional exercises
conducted by Rsv 9. 9. Sweet.
Dr. W. A. Candler, Rev. G. G. Smith,
and Rev. W. A. Dodge, of the North Geor
gia Conference were introduced and in
vited to sit with the body.
The following supernumeraries were
called and passed: 9 9 Sweet, Charles
J. Toole, D. R. McWilliams, C. H. Carson,
W. E. Davis, J. J. Giles.
D. R. McWilliams, and J. J. Giles re
ported themselves as ready for work.
The name of P. H. Crumpler was an
nounced as a transfer from the Texas con
ference.
The Bishop called the first question,
“Who are admitted on trial?”The following
were admitted. J. H. Mather, J. W. Fjn-
ley, T. E. Lang, C. E. Crawley, G. W. M.
Luke, F. F. St. Clair, E. F. Morgan, W. C.
Brewton, R. B. Ross.
Dr. W. C. Bass, President of Wesleyan
Female College, read his report of the col
lege.
Rev. H. W. Key, President of Andrew
Female College, read his report.
The reports of Presidents Bass and Key
showed their schools to be in excellent
condition.
On motion of Dr. W. P. Harrison the
conference ordered a committee on memo
rials to the general conference.
The bishop then called the twentieth
question: “Are all the preachers blame
less in life and official administration?” In
answering this question the names of the
snperanuated preachers were called first,
as follows: F. R C. Ellis, W. H.
Thomas, 9. G. Childs, T. B. Lanier,
W. F. Bearden, W. F. Roberts,
W. 9. Baker, C. A. Moore, John M.
Marshall, P. C. Harris, J. M. Austin, Thos.
K. Leonard. Tbe last two names reported
that their health was restored and that
they desired to be again an the effective
list.
The Bishop asked, “Who are admitted
into full connection ?”
The following were called, made their
reports, and their characters were passed:
H T. Etheridge, E. F. Cook, G. T. Roberts,
F. L. Stokes, W. E Mumford, T. R. Me-
\Iichael, J. W. Connors, H. Stubbs, T. B.
Kemp, W. C. Jones, O. B. Chester, O. W.
Branch, J. C. Flanders, J. E. Wray, C. T.
Clarke, L R. Allison.
Rev. M. F. McCook, chairman joint
^ board of finance, submitted report of ap-
suffrage he has bargained for is cast in his ! propria!ions made to the claimants,
interest. So too it is reasonably expected j After announcements, the Conference
that if the employe or laborer is at the j adjourned with benediction.
Notes.
Bishop Hargrove is a dignifi ^d gentle
man, and is an excellent presiding officer.
Mr. A. M. Brannon, the lay delegate
from St. Luke church, is very popular with
the ladies.
Rev. A. M. Wvno, so well known in Co
lumbus, is still looking young and vigorous.
Atlanta, ; Dec. 12. — [Special.] — This
morning a policeman led into the station
house a little white boy, crying bitterly,
and locked him in a cell. “It’s little Jim
mie Hansford,” said the officer. “He was
arrested by the elevator man down at the
coal elevator near Magnolia street, for
stealing two lumps of coal.”
From behind the bars of his cell, the
little fellow told a pitiful story.
“Papa told me to get the coal,” he said
between his sobs, “and I didn’t know they
would arrest me. Mamma’s sick an’ papa
can’t work, an’ we didn’t have no fire.
The baby is sick and they told me to go
and pick up some coal.”
“Where do you live?” was asked.
“In the Healy brick, down near tbe cot
ton factory on Marietta street,” he re
plied.
“How old are you, Jimmie?” asked the
officer.
“Nine years old,” said the little fellow.
The Healy brick is a three-story brick
tenement house on the corner of Marietta
and Magnolia streets, and in two squalid-
looking rooms on the second floor, at the
head of a narrow, rickety flight of stairs,
the Hansford family live. W. M. Mansford
is a carpenter by trade, but is at present
unable to do any work. His wife is an in
valid, and can only walk about the room
on crutches. In the room were three
children, two little boys seven and ten
years old, and a little baby sleeping in a
creaky rocking chair before the dying em
bers of a small fire. There was no cover
ing on the floor, and tbe rooms, in one of
which the family sleep, and in tho other
cook and eat their meals, were both most
scantily famished.
“I can’t leave the house to work,” said
the father and husband to a reporter; “my
leg gives me great pain, my shoulder bone
ia dislocated, and I suffer from heart dis
ease. My wife is an invalid and the baby
has been sick two months. I told Jimmie
to pic up some coal in the water drains
where it had fallen from the cars, and he
says he did it, but they arrested him for
it.”
“I offered to whip him,”he continued,"to
pacify the coal men, but they refused to
let him come home, and had him locked
up.”
“How do yon manage to support your
family ?”
“When I am able to leave the house I
do odd jobs, and my oldest little boy,
Henry, works at a grocery store, runs
errands and delivers goods.”
“So Jimmie, who’s just nine years old,
is locked up as a thief for stealing two
lumps of coal to ke.-.p us and the baby
warm, and we haven’t got anything to
pay him out with, so I reckon h3’ll go to
jail unless the Judge lets him go.”
During the morning the boy’s father
was arrested and locked up. It is charged
that he makes his living by sending the
boy out to steal coal.
The Execution Stayed.
Execution of Lewis Phillips for murder
in Wayne county, which was to have taken
place tomorrow, has been stayed by the
Governor to give the prisoner an opportu
nity to apply for a pardon.
Lunatic Asylum Appropriation.
The first drafts on the special appropri
ation for the Lunatic Asylum were drawn
today as follows: For the purchase of a
new boiler for heating, $3300; for repairs,
$2000.
Glenn. Armstrong.
Hon. W. C. Glenn, late Representative
of Whitfield county, was married today to
Miss Miriam Armstrong, daughter of Dr.
J. G. Armstrong. The bride arose from a
sick bed for the ceremony.
The Boy Burglars,
Julius Bone and Aimer Clay, sentenced to
the penitentiary last week, were today
given a new trial, and allowed to plead
guilty and were sent to the chaingang for
one year.
“ Mr. Calvin Withdraws.
Mr. Calvin’s letter retiring from the race
for the Commissionership of Agriculture
will appear tomorrow. He desired the po
sition, but esteems harmony in the alliance
above personal ambition.
Suing a Bank.
George 9. May has sued the Merchants’
Bank for $2000 damages for injuring his
credit by protesting his draft.
Sooth Carolina Bonds.
Columbia, 9. C., Dec. 12 —Considerable
stir was created here today in State
financial circles by the appearance before
the committee on ways and means of the
General Assembly, of Russell Wise, of
New York, as an attorney on behalf of a
petition for the recognition and payment
of bonds issued under the act of March 23,
1869. This action, coming at a time when
the Legislature is considering the ques
tion of funding the Brown consols into
4 per cent bonds, causes much comment.
time of casting his ballot removed from
the immediate control of his employer, the
futility of fear and intimidation will lead
to their abandonment.
I remember the inauguration of another
reform; and I have seen it grow and ex
tend, until it has becom-j firmly establish
ed in our laws and practice. It is today
our greatest safeguard against the com
plete and disgraceful degradation of our
public service, it had its enemies and all
of them are not yet silenced. Those open
ly and secretly unfriendly, said in the be-
ginning that the scheme was impracticable
aud unnecessary; that it created an office
holding class; that it established burden-
some and delusive tests for entry in the
public service which should be open to
ali; that it put in the place of real merit
and efficiency, scholastic acquirements;
that it limited the discretion of those
charged with the selection of public em
ployes, and that it was unconstitutional.
But its victory came—wrought by the
force of enlightened public sentiment—
and upon its trial every objection which
had been urged against it was completely
discredited.
As it has been with civil service reform,
so will it be with ballot reform, except
that the coming victory wiil be more
speedily achieved and will be more com
plete.
And as the grand old State of MaBsa
chusetts was foremost to adopt and dem
onstrate the practicability and usefulness
of civil service reform, so has she been first
to adopt a thorough scheme of ballot re
form and to prove in practice its value
and the invalidity of the objections made
against it. We t-lumk Massachusetts to
night for all that she has done for these
reforms; and we of New York hope that
our empire State will soon be keeping
step witn her sister S ates in the enforce
ment of an effective and honest measure
of ballot reform.
In conclusion let me say that good men
have no cause for discouragement.
Thmgh there are dangers which threaten
our welfare and safety, the virtue and
patriotism of the American peonle
are cot lost, and we shall find
them sufficient for ns. If in too great con
fidence they slumber, they will not al
ways sleep. Let them bat be aroused from
lethargy and indifference by the con
sciousness of peiil, and they will burst the
bonds of political selfishmess, revive their
political freedom and restore the parity of
their suffrage.
Thus will they discharge the sacred
A Big Consolidation.
Birmingham, Dec 12 —The largest con
solidation of coal and iron properties ever
known in Alabama, was effected here
yesterday. Declaration of incorpora
tion was filed for uniting
the Debardeleben Coal and iron
Company, with the Bessemer Iron
and 9ceel Company, the Little Belle Iron
Company and the Eureka Iron Company.
Tne name of consolidated company will
be the Debardeleben Coal and Iron Com
pany. The capitai stock is $10,000,000.
The new company has seven iurnaces at
Oxmoor and five at Bessemer, and one
hundred thousand acres of coal and iron
lands in the Birmingham district. The
company has now in operation seven coal
mines, with a combined output of five
thousand tons daily, including the famous
Blue Creek mines.
The combined capacity of furnaces is
800 tons daily, the five ore mines being
now worked on sixty miles of Red moun
tain ore, owned by the company. The
president of the new company ia Henry F.
Debardeleben.
TBe Rate to Be Increased.
Pittsburg, Dec. 12 —It is stated upon
authority of Secretary Joseph D. Weeks,
of the Western Bar Iron Association, that
before the end of the month a meeting of
the association will be called to increase
the card rate of iron. The present
price of bar iron is from $1 90 to $1.95 per
pound. The next increase will bring
It up to 2 cents a card or over. The Amal
gamated Association can then demand
that the card rate be revised and the rates
increased. This means a general increase
in the wages for every member of the
association. It will affect at least 5000
working people in Pittsourg.
The Cronin Trial.
Chicago, Dec. 12.—Luther Laflin Mills,
counsel who was to close tbe Cronin trial on
behalf of the prosecution, will not be able
to appear on account of sickness. State’s
Attorney Longenecker will therefore make
the final argument, beginning tomorrow.
Compulsory Filot Laws.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 12 —The Chamber
of Commerce of this city tonight adopted
a memorial to be supplemented by similar
action of the Chambers of Commerce of
Petersburg, Danville and Lynchburg to
be presented to the Legislature, urging the
repeal of the compulsory pilot laws of the
State.
The Strike Settled.
Dartmund, Dec. 12.—Th9 directors of
all the mines have agreed together to end
the lockout. Ali the men have therefore
been restored to their places. The leaders,
Bunte and Seigel, have declined for the
present all offers to return to their former
employment.
Wedded a Soldier’s Daughter.
Savannaa, Ga., Dec. 12.—William
EwiDg, Captain of the New York baseball
club, and Miss Annie Lawson McCaig
were married here tonight. Miss McCaig
i« the daughter of an ex Confederate sol
dier.
NEWS OF THE RAIL.
The Enquirer Sun learns from good
authority tnat there is now no doubt of
the extension of the Columbus and
Rome road from Greenville to Newnan,
and making it a s andard gauge road. The
surveys have ail been made, and it is likely
that the work will be completed inside of
a year.
As has already been stated by the En
quirer-Sun. some extensive improve
ments at the Union depot are contem
plated. Included in tbe improvements
will be a large restaurant, and trains,
morning and night, will stop long enough
to allow passengers to get their meals.
The Macon train was an hour late yes
terday morning.
The heavy freight business caused a
partial blockade of freight trains at the
Central yard Wednesday night and yes
terday. The yard is, apparently, inade
quate for the Draper handling of the busi
ness of the company.
A force of hands is engaged in laying
side tracks in the Columbus Southern’s
yard in this city.
Plana for the Columbus Southern depot
in this city have not yet been made.
The north-bound train on the Georgia
Midland road encountered an obstruction
on the track one mile south of Griffin
yesterday afternoon. The pilot of the
engine was broken. No farther damage
was done. The obstruction consisted of
several large rocks, and it is snpposed that
some miscreant attempted to wreck the
train.
Fbenix City Notes.
Major J. A. Allen is visiting friends in
the city, and is looking well.
Miss Bessie McCook is in the city look
ing after some real estate belonging to her.
Mr. Moses Padgett is able to be out
again. He has improved very much lately.
Mr. Charles West, of Birmingham, is
here, and will spend several days visiting
friends.
Mrs. Amie Matheson leaves today for
Danville, Va., where she will join her hus
band, Mr. J. H. Matheson. Daring her
stay here she has improved very much
in health, and her friends wish her a safe
and pleasant trip.