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V OLUME XVIII
BITTLEtt, GEOBGIA, T1
20, 1894.
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The next total eclipse of ihff »n*
will not take place until the twenty-
first century.
A publication issued by a big East-
- ern thread company says that over 7,-
000,000 miles of thread are annually
used in the United States. |
cotton growers MEET SOUTHERN FLASHES. FROM WASHINGTON. THE LATEST BY WIRE BRIEF TELEGR AMS. BILL ARP’S
Japan has been inflicted by fewer
internal revolutions than any other
nation, the existing Qovernment hav
ing held unbroken sway i or 2500 years
Chicago, it is said, lias twenty-nine
Secretary Carlisle Ms lor Pro
posals for a New Issue
FOR
FIFTY MILLION TEN-YEAR
FIYE PER CENTS.
worth about $2,000,000, and 137 plain _ Congress May Inquire Into the Roas<
millionaires. It has some 30,000 resi- ons for This Issue.
dents who will have to pay the income j
tax, and the tax in the cfliy, if fully .
collected, will amount .to,some §2,- ! A Washington special says: Inas-
000,000 n year . much as the fact has leaked, out that
1 the president has made up his mind to
again take advantage of the resump
tion net and issue another series- of
journalist juts i
chorisms on tore,
mane
women
A Viennese
collection of aphorisms ,
- vi bonds, he concluded Tuesday to take
find marriage, uttered at Pie Otemian ,. . ,, » < i j a. . ,r
. A. - . time by the forelock ana direct the
parliamentary sessions. Jhsmarclc is igfUe before B11 blic opinion should
quoted as saying that “it s an extra- have the opportunity to crystalize in
ordinary advantage to a n'an’s career opposition thereto. Mr. Cleveland
if he can make his journev through ' thoroughly understood that a very
life without any feminine ’baggage.” 8tr0 "? P" blic ^“timent existed in op-
j cmiuiuc u -s= s | position to any further increase of the
■ , , ^ I public debt. This was male manifest
Mr. Bonn, weather observer at New ^ in q most pronounced manner at the
York, says there is no such a thing as . late session when the democratic ma-
an equinoctial storm. That violent jority in both branches of congress
at mospheric disturbances should neces- j to 8&°P?“ ground, not only against
.. . • 1 any further bond issue, but questioned
f-nrily bo connected with the passage t jj e Authority of Secretary Carlisle to
of the sun over an imaginary lino has ] issue the $5(1,000,000 loan of last
long been regarded as a mere super
stition by a great many observers,
especially as the disturbances ofteu
fail to connect at anything like fhe
proper time.
-/Tile'Japanese army appears to the
J San Francisco Chronicle to be in the
J situation of the popular bachelor
preacher who is flooded every Christ
mas with fancy slippers worked by his
fair parislioners. The Japs are em
barrassed by the abundance of straw
sandals which have been contribnted
by their industrious countrywomen.
A rough calculation gives about six
teen sandals to every officer and high
private.
The American Agriculturist i
marks: “The city of Buflalo has
passed an ordinance prohibiting ped
dlers from selling their wares before
one o’clock in the afternoon, and the
husksters are waging a vigofous" fighit'
against this unconstitutional invasion
of their rights. It is the same type
ofjnniySrpat legislation which has so
*■ -'often been attempted in prohibiting
farmers from vending their wares in
a oity or town without paying a li
cense fee. Such class legislation is
wrong, opposed to the spirit of a re
publican form of government and is
Ho doubt unconstitutional. ”
spnug.
Tliaddeus Stephens, in his will, be-
queathod $50,030 for the founding of
n free homo at Lancaster, Penn., for
deserving boys, without distinction of
rnce, color or nationality. After pay
ing other beqnests, the executors
found, states the Trenton TrneAmeri-
can, that there were not $31,033 left,
but that by the accumulation of vari
ous interests the estate would eventu
ally aggregate that sum, whereupon
the heirs brought suit over the con
struction of the will. They were
benten in the court below a few years
ago, and now, after the lapse of twen
ty-five years in the courts, the Su
preme Court has just rendered a de
cision affirming the decision of the
lower court, and the home will be
linilt and go into operation.
There are hundreds of farmers, it
is safo to say, in thinly occupied parts
of this country, who either do not
own their land or do not know
whether they do or not. They settled
on their holdings when young, and
no claims for rent or dispossess war
rants have been exhibited since. Un
claimed lands have been taken up in
New England within two years, and
a man who recently built a house in
Maine was asked why he did not buy
Fhat’s the
_ot
Carlisle’s Circular.
The following circular was issued at
8:16 o’clock Tuesday afternoon:
"Treasury Department, Washington,
D. C., November 13, 1894—By virtue
of the untbority contained in the act
of congress entitled ‘An Act to Provide
for the resumption of specie payments,’
approved January 14, 1875, the secre
tary of the treasury hereby gives pub
lic notice 1h.it scaled proposals will bo
received at Ibe treasury department,
office of the secretary, until 12 o’cleck
noon on the 24th day of November,
1894, for United States 5 per cent
bonds, in either registered or coupon
form, datedFebruary 1, 1894, redeem
able in coin at the pleasure of the'gov-
ernment, after ten years from the date
of their issue, and bearing interest
payable quarterly, in coin, at the rate
of 5 per cent per annum.
“Bidder's whose proposals are accep
ted will be required to pay 20 percent
in gold coin, or gold certificates, upon
the amounts of their bids as soon as
they received notice of the acceptance
of such bids, and to pay in like coin
or certificates an additional 20 per
cent at tbe expiration of each ten days
thereafter, until the whole is paid;
but they may, at their option, pay the
entire amount of their bids, when no
tified of their acceptance, or at any
time when an installment is payable.
The first payment, however, of not less
than 20 per cent must be made when
the bidder receives notice of the ac
ceptance of his proposal.
“The denominations of the bonds
will be $50 and upwards, and bidders
will, in their proposals, state the de
nominations desired, whether regis
tered or coupon, the price which the
bidder proposes to pny, the place
where it is desired that the bonds shall
be delivered, and tlie office, whether
that of the treasurer of the United
States, or an assistant treasurer of tho
United States, where it will be mest
convenient for the bidder to deposit
the amonnts of his payments.
“The bonds will be dated February
1, 1894, in order to make the prox>osed
issno uniform as to date with the ex
isting issue; but interest thereon will
begin November 1, 1894, and bidders
will be required to pay accrued inter
est at tbe rate of 5 per cent on the
face value of tbeir bonds from Novem ;
ber 1st to the date or dates of pay
ment. The total issue of bonds, in
pursuance of this notice, will not ex
ceed the sum of $50,000,000.
“The secretary of the treasurey
hereby expressly reserves tbe right to
reject any or all bids.
“All proposals should be addressed
to the secretary of the treasury, Wash
ington, D. C., and should be distinct
ly marked: ‘Proposals for the pur
chase of 5 per cent bonds.’
“Blank forms for proposals may bo
bad on application to the secretary of
the treasury. J. G. Cabukub,
“Secretary of tbe Treasnry.”
Anxious for Them.
A New- York special says: The suc
cess of the new government issue is al
ready assured. It enn be stated on
the highest authority that Drexel,
Morgan Co., and Speyer & Co., and
John A. Stewart, president of the
United States Trust Company, and his
' illowing stand ready to take the whole
isue. Drexel, Morgan & Co. have
st be
_ ombustiou
Fof cargoes of coal The danger is so
muoh the greater in. proportion as tho
| surface exposed;to.the air is’wider. It
; is maximum withboal duBt. “ The load
ing and trimming should, therefore,
be so done os to avoid os much as pos
sible the crumbLug of the coal under
the influencebf the ship’s motion. The
smallest vessels are preferable for the
carriage of-coal. . .
Mr. Hbepke does not 'Believe in the
possibility of the spontaneous com
bustion c|>f cargoes of damp cotton.
But it is I possible that a spark falling
accidentally noon a bale may remain
ignited fo
Jire to the
'he e
■spool
f with
HU<i
wise 1
(afterword set
sy, jotton, on
sily takes fire
ae is the case
' Stacks of hey,
1 hops are liks-
l combustion.
The 1
I Old -Testa-
em tb VoOiiftibttto all
theiyg’tWs, money and watches to the
plunders’ cause.
The "a press messenger saw the gang
bef6r«nihey reached the express car,
and rfit ont the lights and locked the
dooy An effort was made to break in
the door, but it did not succeed. A
company of men were organized and
started in pursuit of the robbers.
Many women and children were on
the train, but they were shown no fa-
vors. Great excitement was caused
through the flourishing, by' the rob
bers, of their Winchester rifles ftiicl si;
shoo tern. J y. .
I
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And' Discuss tho Depressed Financial
Condition o£ the Farmers.
The cotton growers’ convention,
called by the commissioner of agrichl-
culture for Alabama, Hector D. Lane,
met at Montgomery Tuesday morning,
100 delegates being present, represent
ing Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
Florida and North Carolina. The ob
ject of the convention was to devise
means for improving the present con
dition of southern farmers.
Commissioner Lane was chosen pres
ident and J. Norwood, secretary:
Committees were appointed on order
of business and resolutions. The order
of business reported was discussions as
follows: Commercial fertilizer, with
a view to the reduction of the use and
cost of planting; proper handling of
cotton, the picking, packing and gin
ning of cotton.
Reduction of acreage, improvement
of staple, marketing of cotton, immi
gration. A number of resolutions
bearing on these subjects was intro
duced and referred to the committee.
A resolution from the .Southeastern
Alabama distriot grange, declaring
that over-production and financial
stringency was the cause of the de
pressed condition of the cotton busi
ness and asking tbe co-operation of
sontbern planters in agreement and
practice of raising less cotton was
taken up by the convention, and dis
cussed for an hour or more.
Considerable divergence of opinion'
was manifested regarding the cause of
tbe low price of cotton, Letters were
read from tbe assistant secretary of
agriculture and the chief of tho gov
ernment weather bureau detailing tho
methods adopted and shortly to be in
troduced by the bnreau in making the
accurate record of the cotton crop.
The thanks of the convention were re
turned to these officers.
At the afternoon session the resolu
tions of the district grange were again
discussed and finally referred to tho
committee on resolutions.
Governor-elect Oates being present,
was called upon to address the con
vention, which ho did in direct terms,
setting forth his views upon the situa
tion and why the price of cotton can
not be affected by monetary conditions
in America, so loDg as cotton is sold to
foreigners and tho price of cotton is
fixed in Liverpool.
A resolution was adopted that the
convention urge upon congress tho ad
visability of the United States building
the Nicaragua canal, as that canal will
give shorter water route for southern
cotton to the millB of China and Ja
pan.
A resolution was adopted that, as
the manufacture of raw cotton into
yarns doubles its value, and turning
yarns into • sheetings quadruples the
value, and the south is without its
many factories that should be estab
lished.
Southern legislatures are urgently
requested to encourage the establish
ment of such factories by exempting
them from taxation for a period of ten
years.
Second Day’s Session.
The cotton growers’ convention re
assembled Wednesday and organized
au association national in its scope for
the better protection of planters’ in
terests. The committee on statistics
was instructed to obtain and arrange
for the use of the convention official
statistics of cotton, the prices, etc.,
for the past ten years. The president
of the convention, Commissioner
Lane, of Alabama, read a statement
showing by tho census returns that’
resolutions on the part of planters to
restrict acreage have been followed by
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING'
8S
HAPPENINGS, ••
And Presenting an Epitome of tbe
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
At Kellar, La., Tuesday while Abram
Smith and bis wife were in the field
picking cotton, their cabin burned,
cremating their-three little ohildren.
The convention of the Sonthern Snr- _
gical and Gymnlogical Association, now
NEWSY lTElils PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president, Thursday, appointed.
Edward K. Lowry, of Ohio, second
secretary of the United Stato* lega
tion at Pekin.
The democratic congressional breth
ren who were buried in the recent po-
in session at Charleston, S. C., has an litical snow storm, are beginning to
attendance of about onehundred mem
bers.
Some fifty odd enlisted men of tbe
garrison &t. Fortress Monroe, Va., of
foreign birth, went to Norfolk to ob
tain naturalization papers Tuesday,
dealer, in Bremond, Robertson county,
Texas, has filed a deed of trust to se
cure creditors in the sum of $75,000.
Schmidt’s assets are from $100,000 to
$125,000.
The house of Louis Williams, nine
miles below Natchez, Miss., burned
Charleston’s receipts this year will be
fully 400,000 bulcs, of which 188,782
bales have been so -far received.
News reached Memphis, TenD.,
Wednesday of the bnrning of four
negro houses by forest fires near Mil
lington, Tenn., and of the fatal burn
ing of Fannie Woods and tho child of
a negro named Pitt Rbea. About
fifty negroes are now homeless in that
vicinity.
So far tho grand jnry at Jackson,
Miss., has made no report to the court
relative to the special warrant case,
and may not do so, but it may be con
sidered as a certainty that its refnsol
to indict was a finality, so far, at least,
as this court is concerned. It is un
derstood that all the witnesses in the
case have been paid off and discharged.
W. H. Gibbs, republican postmaster
at Jackson, Miss., under Harrison, ex-
auditor of Mississippi under tbe re
publican regime, recently indicted for
embezzlement as postmaster, of $3,-
970.82, was fined tho amount of his
embezzlement -by Judge Miles, in tbe
federal court Wednesday and sentenced
to three years in the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
prison.
Forty-five persons were poisoned by
ice cream at Wake Forest college, Ral
eigh, N. C. The cream was served' at
a golden wedding there. Among the
sick were five of the faculty. Mis3
Simmons, a daughter of the late Pro
fessor William G. Simmons, and Miss
Dunn are not expected to live. The
others are ont of danger. There were
ptomaines in the cream.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
The feature of Wednesday’s assembj^
proceedings was the presentation/' 0 f
the governor’s message and the formal
election of the officers named hC Tues
day’s democratic caueuses^Tn both
a decreased output of cotton. honsesttxg^pnUstaLhad tickets for
Bomintimn of th») Totel ^~°°- In the house
special resolutions subsequently offer?
ed and adopted by-the convention,
cover the following subjects:
1. Reduction'of cotton acreage and.
increased attention to prodnotion of
cereals.
2/ Greater attention to stock and
cattle raising.
3. Encouragement of manufactur
ing in the south by exempting manu
factories from taxation for a period of
ten years.
4. Encouraging immigration, res-,
olntions advising that large plants/
tions be divided into small farms anid
the latter be sold to bona fide home
seekers. ■
5. - I.ecommenclaU-an (hit. /uBtton be
withheld for sale by farmer^ -who ^
not in debt to - their factor^ and that
it be held for a rise—“whihh may rea
sonably be expeoted if the present
heavy receipts are apnfeciably re
duced.” ~'
5. The organization of the Cotton
Planters’ As| 00 iation of .the United
States oy America to. meet at least
twice ai ear and to consist of forir
delegate, from each congressional dis
trict in- the cotton growing states and
three delegates at Urge from each
statgrfjppointed by governors of such
[tes, irrespective of party prefg*--
jse. Said association is .faz-feoTdits
firit meeting j jtt-'3ackBon, Miss., the
.esday in January, 1895.
Cotton seed trusts eondemaod.
Congress petitioned to pass the
i-option bill.
Congress to be requested to re-
d the cotton tax collected in 1866-
7.
e convention then organized the
|w association by electing offioers to.
until the January meeting as
lows: Governor James Stone, of
_>pi, president; Hon. J.O.Wad-
Georgia, and commissioner of
iculture for tbe cotton growing
,teB, vice president; Robert E. Eok-
erger, of Alabama, secretary, and
ofessor James Smith, of Georgia,
leasurer.
The chairman of the convention was
juested to issue an address to all bns-
cbs interests asking . co-operation in
itainingtbe objeots of the association.
■Hug, resolution was adopt-
“Resolvfed; That-the honest convic
tion of this convention as practical
cotton growers is that .the estimates
that are being sent ont by the cotton
convention; based upon praotical ob
servation' and best statistical informa
tion, that the present crop will not ex
ceed 8,500,000.”
The convention adjourned sine die:
jfp you would have your son to have
the vote, in almost every Case, 'stood
about 63 for the democrats and 34 for
the opposition nominees. In the sen
ate the vote stood 1 aboal 24 to 7 in fa
vor of the democratic nominees.
The Alabama Sheriff’s Association
met 1 at Montgomery in annual session
Tuesday. Officers were elected and
tpe usual business routine was gone
brongb with. The recommendation
f tbe state auditor in' his report to the
/legislature that sheriffs be allowed 20
instead of 30 cents per day for feeding
prisoners was discussed. The sheriffs
argue that they will not suffer by the
reduction so much as the prisoners
will and a committee was appointed to
look after the matter in the legislature.
COTTON ESTIMATES.
The Exchanges Furnish Figures Re
garding the Output.
The estimate of the cotton crop
made by prominent operators on the
exchapge at Savannah vary from 8,-
750.000 to 9,463,000 bales, the majori- _
ty putting it at about 9,250,000. It is U E ” iHTY - FOUR AND FIFTEEN.
estimated generally that tbe crop^sT
Georgia will be 5 per cent incj«ased
on last year_or 1.200.000JhtthS:'
' AUGUSTA’S BEPOBT.
Averaging the opinions of promi
nent cotton men, the estimate of the
trade in Augusta is that the ootton
crop for this year will be between
9,250,000 and 9,500,000 bales.
- ESTIMATE. OP GEOBGIA’S CBOP.
A Columbus dispatch says: The
general estimate of tbe entire cotton
crop of Georgia is not oyer 900,000
bales. It has been rapidly marketed,
and in the territory tributary to Co
lumbus the receipts-have been heavy,
but the total receipts will show a fall
ing off, as considerable cotton has
been left in the fields. It is estimated
now that the total receipts for Colum
bus will approximate only 68,000
bales.
PBOJP WILMINGTON, N. O.
The prodnoe exchange at Wilming
ton, N. O., makes no offioial estimate
of the cotton crop, bnt individual es
timates of the cotton men vary from
9,250,000 to 9,500,000 bales. It is
also estimated that about two-thirds
of the-ootton in that territory has been
marketed. Receipts to date are 121,-
233 bales, whioh is about 14,000 bales
ahead of last year.
Devastating Floods in England.
-that floods in various parts of England
are still raging. In Buckingham the
houses in the lower portion of the
town aro flooded and the roads are
blocked. The Avon, has overflowed its
1 at Bath and thousands of per
sons are consequently imprisoned in
General Clay Captures a Fifteen-
Year-Old Bride.
A message from Foxtown, Ky.,_ a
small village two mileB.from White
hall, the home of General Cassius M.
Clay, says the general has succeeded
in marrying pretty Dora Richardson,
despite the determined effort of his
children and friends to prevent it.
The ceremony was performed at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning by Squire R.
M. Douglass, with the brother of the
girl and two or three of the general’s
farm hands present. ■
His ohildren pleaded earnestly with
him not to marry, but he assured them
that he could not be dissuaded from
his intentions. He is eighty-four,
while she is fifteen years old.
VIRGINIA BAPTISTS
Sleet in General Association at Al
exandria.
The Baptist’s general association ol
Virginia convened in its 71st annual
convention Tuesday night at Alexan
dria. This is the representative body
of Virginia regular Baptists, and. now
includes 23 district associations—820
churohes, 400 preachers and pastors,
and a membership of near 100,000.
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief Slention of Dally Happenings
Throughout the World.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR SIOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
pnt in a resurrected appearance in
Washington.
. Major W. M. Stanton and Captain
F. V. Abbott, corps of engineers, have
been appointed os a board to investi
gate and report upon tbe channel
which is now required by a recent act thiough the outer bar of Brunswick,
of congress. Ga.
Blue, red and green and every other Twenty-nine clerks of tbe census
kind of fire burned in Chattanooga office were dismissed Thursday. This
Tuesday night when 5,000 republicans 1 -will be followed in a few days by the
of tho county and surrounding towns dismissal of 200 more. The cause is
united with as many more in the city ! the completion of tho work of the
to celebrate Evans’ election. j eleventh census.
H. P. Schmidt, banker and general ] The smallpox scare at Washington
has resulted in an order from the
health office for the closing for a time
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
. Greater New York commissioners
A band of schoolboys dug a cave on Tnesd an(1 p re parcd outlines of
a vacant lot in St Louis and seven of nec in J itifll lotion on the 6ub -
hem were buried by the roof qpvrng ject of / ODaom ^
in. Henry Raedeer, eight years old, j . ,
was killed, and Herman Walkenford, A boarding house iff irideriield,
aged twelve, was badly injured. The Rhenish Prussia, was destroyed by fire
others were unhurt. Wednesday night and seven occupants
. , r ,. m , were burned to death. Several others
A Memphis Tenn., special says: I mi8sin
After a week’s delay m securing a jury ° .
the trial of W. S. Richardson and E. | Governor-elect Levi P. Morton, of
N.-Smith, charged with being parties ■ Now York, has caused to be filed with
to the Kerrville lynching where six ne- ft* secretary of state his statement of
groea were murdered, was begun | riechon^xpens^es. ^He gives the total
Thnrsday. It looks as if the trial will
of the Central High school, the Busi
ness High school and two of tbe gram
mar schools in the city.
Oo-incident with the issno of the
circular inviting bids for gold United
at an early honr Tuesday morning and i States bonds the treasury department
two young children were cremated in j is beginning to lose gold. On Novem-
the blaze. Williams himself and an ber 13th it lost $6,000 in gold and on
older child were badly burned. Wednesday $130,000 in exchange for
The estimate of the cotton crop I United States notes and treasury Dotes,
made on the exchange at CharletsoD, i The gold was withdrawn from the snb-
S. O., varies from 9,000,000 to J treasnry, and further withdrnls are ex-
10,000,000 bales. It is expcctfed that; pected.
Tho report of the United States
strike commission upon the controver
sies which arose between the Illinois
Central Railroad Company nnd the
Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific Rail
way Company and their employes in
Jnne last is a pamphlet of forty-three
pages, and contains suggestions of
more than usual interest.
The treasnry sustained a further
loss Thnrsday in its gold reserve,
$275,000 being withdrawn from the
various sub-treasuries iu exchange for
United States notes and treasury notes
of 1890. This brings ihe aggregate
loss from this cause within two days
to $400,000. The gold is being prin
cipally taken cut in Boston, and is
evidently intended for bond pur
chasers.
The attention of the president was
called Wedesday to ihe statement con
tained in certain newspapers to the ef
fect that there had been a disagree
ment between him and Mr. Carlisle in
regard to tbo issue of bonds and other
matters, and intimating that such dis
agreement might result, in the secre
tary’s retirement from the cabinet.
The president emphatically donied the
entire “batch of silly misstatements, ”
andBaid: “Never since our associa
tion together has there been the slight
est unpleasantness concerning the af
fairs of the treasury department or any
other matter.
Many requests are received at the
_ postoffice department from postmas
ters all over the country asking that
pertain offi^jg-inelnded in the recent
oijit'service order be excepted~TT(
iTs operations for a short tithe. It
appears, according to. many of them,
that the postmasters appointed since
the new administration enme into
power have not yet had time to fill
the offices under them with their party
friends, and by the new extension
they are debarred from selecting chief
clerks and other officers who have
heretofore been considered entitled to
party patronage places.
United States Minister Dun has
communicated to the minister at Tokio,
Japan, the substance of an important
cipher cable proposition received from
Secretary Gresham at Washington. It
suggests that if Japan will join China
in requesting the President of the
United States to not as mediator in
settling the war he will exercise his
good offices in that capacity. A simi
lar proposition has been sent to China.
The proposition presents a grave ques
tion to the ministry. They are urged
on one hand by tho popular sontimerit
to continue the war and crush Chin,a."
On the other hand European powers
are threatening to intervene. -As be
tween these conflicting influences the
ministry fiud great difficulty in reach
ing a decision on the American propo
sition, bnt the prospect is that it will
he accepted.
Hill’s Election Expenses.
Senator David B. Hill has filed
statement of his eleotion expenses as
the democratic candidate for governor
ns follows : Paid to democratic state
committee for the general -expenses of
the campaign $2,500, paid for trans
portation $150, paid for use of type
writer maohines $13, paid for personal
myself' and secretary,
confidence in yon, let him know ai.<*3 HE L aa trips t
t^ips thronghorif ^heritats, $335,; pett
iest thirty days.
A London cablegram states that tbe
British ship Calmer, Captain Read,
last reported at Hamburg, Oct. l,from
Tquiqui, foundered in a gale off Spurn
Head, Yorkshire. Twenty-two persons
were drowned, including the captain
and his wife. Eight bodies were washed
ashore at Worthing.
At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon a
fierce wind and dust storm struck
Denver, Col., from the north, filling
tho air so that it was impossible to see
across the street for a long time.
Many plate glass windows and awn
ings were destroyed. The temperature
fell 20 degrees iu 30 minutes.
The sensation at Memphis Thnrsday,
in the murder trial of Smith and Rich
ardson, charged with ihe sextuple
lynching, was the appearance on the
witness stand, one after another, of the
s'x widows of the murdered men. They
told the circumstances of the arrest of
their husbands by Detective Richard
son.
One of the most bloody battles
fought at Van Bnren, Ark.-, since the
war, occurred Thursday between tbe
Liilines and Johns, nnd as a result
John Johns is dead and Ben LaRne has
n Winchester ball through him and
cannot .recover. Tho Johns are armed
to the teeth and are pursuing the La-
Hues.
The committee on membership of the
aristocratic Woman’s Club, of Chi
cago, after a stormy session, refused to
admit to membership the colored lec
turer, Fanny Barrien Williams. The
application for membership had beon
considered at several secret sessions
and a qnarrel of the first magnitude
developed by the discussions.
Adjutant General Tnrsney has re
fused to comply with a request from
Governor Waite for his resignation,
saying he will resign when the govern
or, whose retirement has beon decided
liy a majority of 20,000, does the same.
Tt is understood that the governor will
now remove the adjutant general. Mr.
Tarsney was opposed to the renomina-
tion of Waito for governor.
The complete official returns of Mis
sissippi’s election arrived at the office
of tho secretary of state at Jackson,
Thursday, from 1 the seventy-five coun-
ties.in Mississippi show the following
aggregate vote at the congressional
election in the seven districts onJNt
vember 6th: Democratic pop :
nlist, 12,096; prohibj$|oi) f 451; repub-
jjfan, 1,900. TJjjg was; less than half
a v oi
The striking weavers lot Lorraine
Mills, at Pawtuoket, R. fri who' have
been out since October 2, have at lost
voted to return to their looms. A set
tlement was accomplished through the
intercession of Mayor Tiephe. It—is
claimed by the management that the
employes will by the introduction of
i m proved lo&n heads on the machinery,
be able to earn more thari before the
wages were out.
After debating the question for
sometime the members of the repnb-
lican state central committee of Ne
braska have announced that they
would contest the election of Jndge
Holcomb tor the governorship. Secre
tary' Sedgerwick said the grounds for
tho contest on behalf of Majors,.the
defeated candidate, would be charges
of fraud in several voting precincts in
Omaha, ineompetency of election
fudges and consequent irregularities
in the connt.
A courier has arrived at Muskogee,
I. T., from the Arkansas bottoms and
reported that he, by chance, ran into
the Cook gang in their quarters. They
received him without fear of their
whereabouts being reported to the
officers. A number of farmers who
live near the rendezvous of the ping
have arrived and reported to United
States Attorney Jaokson the situation,
and have asked that they be commis
sioned and be permitted to lead twenty
deputies against the outlaws.
PRESIDENT COMER.
He Will Head the Central of Georgia
Railway Company.
A New York speoial of Wednesday
says: There have been a number of
important modifications in the plan of
tho reorganization of the Central of
Georgia Railway oompany, since the
terms- were last published, whioh es
sentially change the method- of the
conversion of the old into the new se
curities.
The full plan is not yet ready for
formal announcement, bnt the general
outlines are as follows: The name is to
be ohanged from the Central Railroad
and Banking Company of .Georgia to
the “Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany.” The. new company -will en
deavor to secure new leases of the
Southwestern and Augusta and Savan
nah roads at five per cent upon their
sfook. Mr. H. M. Comer will be presi
dent of the new company.
CHURCH CONGRESS.
Sixteenth Annual Session Convenes in
Boston-, Mass.
With all the pomp and with the full
beauty of the church liturgy; the six
teenth annual session of' the great
church congress of America was form
ally opened in Trinity Episcopal
ohurch at Boston, Moss., Tuesday
morning. It was a most impressive
“ ' "! bisho.
'and earnest, attentive churchmen and
women, from all parts of the country,
representing every class and e' t'ry
HE TALKS PHILOS jpi
THE SITUATION-
to Worry f Over
Defeat.
FoUt
at $19,700, of which $16,000 went to
the state committee.
The British steamer Brookfield, Cap
tain Ferguson, from Galveston ami
Norfolk, which arrived at Havre,
France, November 9, after partially
discharging her cargo, was found to
be on fire in her forekold Wednesday
morning. The fire was extinguished
with slight damage.
Advices from Rome state that several
Catholic bishops in the United States
have renewed their reqnest to the Pope
that he condemn certain societies of
workingmen as associations that can
not be countenanced by tho chnrcb,
bnt the Vatican does not regard it as a
dnty to interfere in tbo matter.
The official vote of last Tuesday’s
election in Indiana has been received,
and by congressional districts tho re
publicans have a majority of 55,674.
For the head of tho state ticket, with
one county (Snllivan) out, the repub
lican plurality is 47,649. The populist
candidate for secretary of statereceived
29,591 votes, showing a populist gain
over 1892 of 7,604.
A sensation has been created at Den
ver, Col., by tbo announcement of
Coroner Martin that a prominent bus
iness man is under strong suspicion of
having committed the horrible mur
der of strangling the three women who
have met death by this method in that
city during the past few weeks. The
identity of the man suspected is with
held by the coroner.
Meyer ffirsch, for a nunibeFofycars'
grand treasurer of the Ancient Ordpr
United Workmon, was arrested atBlj"
timore, Wednesday night- charged
embezzling funds of the qrder. An al
leged shortage of $10,547 was found in
his accounts. Hirscli’s lionasmen re
fused to mako good this Shortage and
tho order turned the matter over to
the grand jnry. 1'
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has rendered an opinion in/the Gaultz,
in the school case, affirming the de
cision of the lower court. The court
refuses to restrain by injunction the
members of the order of St. Joseph
(Catholic sisters) from teaching iu
public schools in the garb of their or
der or the school directors from em
ploying or permitting them to act in
that capacity.
Mary Neilson, twepty-tfre years old,
of Philadelphia, -avmle dicing with a
tit'friends at Norwich...^onm^
y afternoon, in response to a
toast, laughingly drank a glass of car
bolic acid with suicidal intent and died
-soOn'afterwards. Nrit one of .fhe par-
ty suspected that the liquid was poisoii
until its fatal result was seen. Grief
at the death' of her husband led to
the ach. -
Wednesday tho -governing commit
tee of the New York stock exchnngo
listed $119,000,000 of Southern Rail
way Company common stock, $50,-
000,000 5 per cent, non-cumulative,
preferred stock; $21,911,000 first
mortgage, 5 per cent gold bonds and
the various securities of the lines com
prising the company, to-wit: The
Colombia and Greenville, Georgia Pa
cific, Western North Carolina, Rich
mond and Danville, Virginia Midland
and East Tennessee companies, which
have assented- to the reorganization.
A New York special of Wednesday
says: The White Star line steamship
Adriatic took in her steerage a party
of twenty colored people bound for
Liberia. This is a flying column from
the army of 4,000 negroes that is said
to be gathered in southern seaports
awaiting means for deportation. This
organization is under the management
of Jere McMillan, a white man living
in Birmingham, Ala., nnd nnder tho
patronage of Bishop Turner; of tho
African Methodist Episcopal church.
ALABAMA’S LEGISLATURE
Convenes in Montgomery and Is Or
ganized by the Democrats..
The general -assembly of Alabama
convened at Montgomery Tuesday at
noon. Both honseB were opened with
prayer, aiter which the members pre
sented their certificates nnd were
sworn in by Chief Justice Brickie, in
the senate.
The two houses adjourned about 1
o’clock to meet at 10 o’clock Wednes
day morning.
The democratic members of the sen
ate met in the 1 senate chamber after
adjournment and nominated tbo offi
cers of that body as follows: Presi
dent, F. L. Pettns, of Dallas; secro
tary, William L. Clay, of Madison;
assistant Eeoretary, Elmore Garrett, of
Calhoun; enrolling end engrossing
clerk, Mrs. Emma Scott, of Birming-
ham; doorkeeper, Bryant. James, of.
Barbonr. ' ,
The canons of the democrats in the
lower honBe was held at night, and re
sulted as follows: Speaker, Thomas H.
Clark, of Montgomery; clerk, Massey
Wilson, of Clark; assistant clerk,_J.
F. Proctor, of Jackson; enrolling
•clerk, W. P. Howell; of Cksbourue;
engrossing clerk, Nat Taylor, of Ma
rengo; doorkeeper, Robert Hasson, of
Etowah; assistant doorkeeper, Thomas
Fain, of Dale.
Decided Against the Brokers.
In criminal court No. 2 at Washing
ton, D. C., Tuesday merning, Judge
Cole oyerruled a demurrer to the in-
dictinerit against McCartney and Cbap-
m£D, the stock brokers, who refused to
BD8ffef
Don’t fret. This thing hag happened befor<L
andwj snrvived it. If the Cuifcd States oil
North Amoritia can stand ir, so can I and sol
can you. It is not as bad as war or pestilence
or famine; not so bad s* a cyclone or
ticlcne-s or death or taxes. An i yet we are v
b^» to all these. If we bye h«.*al:h and strengfi
and food and raiment ought to be thankfuL
and happy. The troth i* t onr p oplo caro bssl
about this republican yictory ‘than they have
about any Binco tho wan I heard an old-tirae
democrat say today: “Idon’t caro a darn. Oar
party is not fit to run tbs government nohow.
Now let the yarks taUe it and run it till king
dom come.” Another oijc said: *‘-\Vc swept our
state in the face of five cent cotton, bnt op j
nor h, where they bavt no cotton, thov cleaned I
U5 up like an avalanche. How's that?”
And now theqnarre. still t-s on in .licdenir
ocratic press.. Who d;d ii? Wno i* lu U “ lll ‘-
responsible for the inglorious d^fcat^
factions aro crying: ‘*1 told v>fi *
people are tired. What is the nao q
lluil out how tbe wagon came to tnj
dad is under tho hay? Let’s get i
drive oh. It reminds me of Jndge 1
old darkey, who waited np ai?d found y
in the calaboose. Ho sent for "Mars J
and declared he hadn’t “dun nuffin—uuffiil
all.” ‘*VVell. Jack, they can’t pur yon in lierS
for that. There id no law to pnnisii a man for
doing nothing.” 'Jack brightened up fora
moment: “You 'ay dey can’?, Maw John.”
‘*No, sir;” said tbo judgo. “No, sir; they Can’t
doit*” “But, Mars John, dey bes done dono
it, and I is here right now—’fore G »d I is*”
Well, vro demo .rats are all in font now, and
I’m not going to bed about it. Thf re is not
much difference betwt cn the two parlies no
how. There i* no dividing line on principle.
There are thousand* of proi ction dem<cr.tts
down son h, especially in Alabami and Ten
nessee. They say protection has enriched tho
north, and now lot tho south gc to manufact
uring and get l\cli too. On the silver question
our people are as much divided an tho republi
cans. Some v ant to take silver straight, and
come to da- u h it with gold, and nobody but the
fools know which is right. So, after all, there
in but one soULd, well-defi ied lino and that is
ofiic •, spoil:*, patronige. But few of n-* have
any interest iu that, so let the ofiico holders
and office seekers bowl and weep. I’m not go
ing to shed many tears. There aro fivo repub*
iicans in thin town trbo are right now rumina-
tijig about jour litth poKtofTico for • two years
hence, and/ they are all clever men and good
citiz ns, but only one can get it. Then, there
are two or threo revenue officers and tin e or
four clerkships at Washington, and that
that onr whole county of three thonsatul
g«;ts out of national politics, so let ihe prts
sion proceed. As Cobe says, “It’s ail ophonarJ
with me.”
Federal politics.*is not of so much codec)
qiiencc^fo us as.( _ M ' (■
ihe mwyte“hero we want’a eolid south, a unitl
oLpeqple. Tho populist party has done monf
to disturb harmony and engender discord
the squ.li thau all other causes. If it bad l
. on good principles and with a eo
to reform coi rnpt method* thousands!
ooct men would have joined it, bnt it has
uerori to th9 prejndicts of the laboring < ‘
aud.art'aighea .them against their moro
nate nabors. Ir. has fostered and encourage^
desire for paternalism*and made promises 11
negro that i t never intended to perforir
is astonishing that men who pass as gentu
at home should 06 far degrade their insyiucts^.
their, consciences as to carry the bai/ncr of
mch a party. I would rather be a repTibl can
ten times over than a populist, and yet J know
sotne good men who have joined that party and
ifess to Lelievo in its afesnrd and ridicnlou*
pfiatforra. Thero i* bnt one explmntion of
tllis straugo aiioumlly and lliafc is juat what a
1-ver populist said when I asked him if ho
rpally behoved in their platform. “Platforms,”
51 id lie, “amount to nothing. It is what a mau
toe* that wo jndge him by—not what he sav*
he will do. We propose to reform and econo
mize ami put down monopolies. I he old par-
lies are utterly corrupt, as you will admit, nml
uasjime to have a now deaL” 'J hat is sensi
ble, and, if tlioy. had. that for a platform and
had left ant all their foolishness and liaS pu£
forward men who wore not tricksters nnd deni;
gogues-tkero wai a great opportunity to b
njrkr\hird party that would have held tliel
ance of power in national politics anif li^
checked tii- corrupt methods of ttie ftato de:
ocracy. Even as it is*, iEuy liave -been a terror^
to machino rolitic3 in Georgia and thereby,,
have done somo good, but with their professed
principles of paternalism and the morab6i*liqu-
ity of their leaders, woe be unto Georgia if
they ever get into power. The people admire |
the boldness of an independent, but lament tho
foolishness of u» populist. Dr. Felton didont
mean 10 bo one nnd he is not one now. It is
very hard for an old lino whig like him to be a
democrat and wo sympathize with him in
tho strain that ha* ,b?en upon him for
forty years. Beu. Hill was another and
said" w*ith mortification. “I dident go to be
a democrat.” Toombs was ano her and Alex*
Stephens, and they gave Dr. Felton aid and
comfort When he ran ms an independent against
Dabnpy and Lester. Mr. Stephens never was
a democrat at heart and would h ive rnn as an
independent if tho democrats had dared to
nominate another man. Dr. Felton has not yofc
bee »me reconciled to democracy. He cannot
indie his raising, and somo of his friends pre
dict that he will yet join tho republican party,
for in that party ho can find the protection pol
icy that lie favors and can also find thousands
of old lino whigs. If lie had run this last raco
as an independent he would havo received
many votes that ho did not. Now let tho grand
old mau retire. Let him say with Othello: I
have dono the state some service and she
knows it. Speak of me as I am; nothing ex
tenuate nor net down aught in malice.”
But there is some good mixed up with every
bad tha: comes. The populists arc sick unto
death and so are tho A. P. A’s. and Tammany.
Now Jet the next presidential contest be fair
and squaro on the tariff. Let protection or
tariff reform be the issue. We want this ques
tion settled so that the hidden monoy can be
turned I003C. There is just as much of it as
there was a few years ago, when the boom was
on, bnt people will not invest while this uncer
tainty continues. It is not so much whether
silver should be 16 to 1, or some vaiiable ratio,
as it is the withdrawal of capital fiom active
employment. I wish to.borrow and nobody will
lend. This may be goo’d for mo in tho long
run, but in the short rnn it is very aggravat
ing—if not moro so. Nevertheless, the best
thing for us all to do now is to be calm anu
serene. —Bill A rp in Atlanta Constitution.