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VOLUME XXI.
NEWN AX, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 12 1886.
NUMBER 52.
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G’OUTGr A-GUDDLING.
“a craigit neron"—so catlea irom tne
length of his neck, which you could have
tied a knot upon without putting the
bird to much inconvenience. A long-
legged stupid, old bird he was, who
used to catch minnows and trout for
himself till tie muddled all the stream,
then go to sleep for an hour, with the
water up to his knees, till it got clear
again.”
While Willie went away to get Jack
and his best jacket, we stood at the
blacksmith’s door, and watched the
sturdy bum-the-winds putting a red-hot
tire on a new cart wheel, then pouring
buckets of water over it to cool it and
make it fresh. This was always great
fun to us.
By-and-by, back came Willie, dressed
for the occasion, and carrying the great
heron, precisely as a mother carries her
dominie Forbes was not in a particu-
arly angelic frame of mind on that Fri
day afternoon. Very far from it. Friday
has always been my unlucky day, any
how. If fate, as frequently happens,
has any unpleasantness in store for me,
it is sure to reserve it till Friday.
But Dominie Forbes was, as we boys
phrased it, “in a tear" on that paV.icular
Friday forenoon; something had gone
' V ,? n K W ‘ th hlm - Everybody j bai,y ,"onIy''hc co^d”n^t geTit ’to kip its
, ..*, a _ e domtme was deeply in Jong legs doubled up, which made mat-
love with a farmer’s fair daughter, and
that the courtship of Duncan Gray was
nothing to his in vicissitude, for at one
time bonnie Jeanie Johnstone smiled on
him, and at another she laughed at him.
And whatever Jeanie’s mood was.
ters look awkward. Willie put Jack
down at his feet, and took snuff out of a
6heep-horn mull, and handed the box to
us, and we all took snuff.
Our complement was now complete,
so ojf we all went, whooping for joy
poor pupils became the resultant; it was alonK t he road that led to the wood
flog—flog—flog all day when Jeanie was
saucy, but when Jeanie was kina every
thing we did pleased our dominie.
As a rule, at all ordinary times Dom
inie Forbes was a tartar. Squeers was
a saint to him. And the tawse—a piece
of leather bridle cut at the end into two
fingers and hardened in the fire—got lit
tle rest. When it was put away for a
time the “spengie”. cane, or rattan, took
its place, and I do not know which
makes the palms and fingers tingle the
most.
A bit of a masher was Dominie Forbes,
especially on a Sunday, when he wore a
swallow-tailed coat, with a morsel of
crimson silk handkerchief sticking out
of the pocket—he kept an ordinary white
one in a breast-pocket for nasal duty—
and his club-foot boot, with its extraor
dinary thickness of sole, shining like lialf-
a-yard of polished Whitby jet. The
dominie’s hair was As hlack as iiis boot,
and his side whiskers glittered, like boat
men beetles.
Now Saturday was a kind of mixed
day with us boys at Bellfield school; a
day of grief in the morning, because the
work of the week had to be recapitu
lated, and wo were all sure to be
thrashed; and of joy in the afternoon,
because it was a half-holiday and the
morrow was Sunday.
But lo! to our great astonishment, on
this particular Saturday the dominie
was as sweet in temper as a tabby cat
with five young kittens.
Jeanie had been kind. That was the
sqjution of the riddle.
But there he was, dressed in his Sal>-
batli clothes, silk hankercliief and
polished club-foot boot, and positively a
white necktie!
And he frequently smiled softly to
himself—wandered a little in his talk—
but looked generally angelic.
I blundered a good deal over my ir-
through which the Den burn ran. And
after us—hop—hop—hopping, and help
ing himself along with his wings—came
daft Willie’s heron in the most ridicul
ous manner imaginable. No wonder
several people on the road drew rein to
gaze after us; we were a queer pack of
sportsmen.
That dear old Den burn, as it used to
be in days of yore; I fancy I can see it
now, even as I write. Alas! thirty
years have fled since the date of this
little sketch, and the romance has fled
from the bonnie bum. It has been im
proved out of all its beauty.
But then—well, it rose in a peat moss
—a marshy, boggy, dismal swamp—
through which it flowed silently and
sluggishly, and here we caught many a
lordly eei. Escaping at last, it rushed
merrily along by the side of a road, over
a sandy, pebbly bottom, bordered by
long slips of watercress; then it went off
to the left, and became the “marsh” be
twixt my father’s land and a neighbor
ing farm. And here even was good gud-
dling ground, and many a lusty
trout I have hauled to bank from
beneath the green overhanging banks.
The the Den bum went wimpling away
through haughs and green meadows,
and under many a rustic bridge, till it
reached at last the dark and rocky
wooded glen of ’’Maidencraig. Here its
waters feed those mill-dams, and turned
a monster mill wheel that seemed always
to roll round and round, night and day;
its black wet sides glancing in the sun-
8 ine, or glittering when the moon
shone. Onward it dashed for another
mile and then flowed sullenly past the
foot of a gloomy pine-wood, where, tra
dition alleged, more than one farmer had
been robbed and killed while returning
late at night from the market; where a
mother had hanged herself, and where,
even in our day, little Sammie Stuart,
regular verbs. I gave single verbs to when looking for birds’ nests, found a
plural nominatives and murdered my murdered bairn.
past participles. But dominie merely
smiled and corrected me.
I went back to my seat, walking on
feathers, seemingly.
I had a favorite flat mahogany ruler,
Close by this wood was to be our gud-
dling ground to-day, nevertheless.
Little we cared for tradition. It was
a lovely day—a day that would have
made an old man young again. Spring
and I got round to my table in time to wag on the trees—spring was every-
find mischievous Davie Law burning w j iere> i n the woodland glades the
one end of it between the bars of the ' scented furze was all in golden bloom; the
grate. j feathery larches were green—green, and
My joy was turned to wrath. I drew j draped with little crimson tassels; while
forth the ruler and smote Davie wu 1 pink-white fingers protruded from the
the firey end of it, javelin fashion. It twiglets of the dark and solemn pines,
went half way down his throat, I sup- j Spring was in the hearts of the birds—
pose, and loosened some of his teeth, j t | ie me llow fluting merle, the saucy,
Davie yelled, and the dominie appeared | moc king mavis, the modest sispin, the
and found Davie spitting blood and | ^jd^ bright chaftie, the bonnie, wee
cinders. But even this did not disturb
his equanimity. He merely said, “You
shouldn’t have done that, Gordon.”
Such is love—when Chloe is kind!
We were not a bit surprised to get
away that day two hours sooner than
usual.
We rushed pell-mell, almost breaking
each others ribs in the doorway.
rose-linnet that sang on the thorn.
And spring was in our hearts, ay,
even in Jock's, though the green heather
was high enough almost to bury him.
But here is the Den burn. It is bright
and clear, and not too full—just in tine
condition for guddling.
And now my English reader will be
initiated into the mysteries of guddling;
Vve yelled and shouted for joy, and that j s> jf he does not already know
flung our Highland bonnets high in air. w j,at guddling is.
When the exuberance of our ecstasy 1 goes ever y jacket; then our sleeves
had somewhat subsided, Willie Jamie- are ro p et | up to the very shoulders, and
son—poor lad! he was killed soon after Qur trousers high upover the knees. Wo
this by bis father’s horse falling on him are hare-legged, bare-armed, and ready
—stood up on the top of a stone and for ac f j on> We begin by building a
shouted: strong wall of green turf, which we
“Who will go a-guddling?” ? | tear up from the burn’s bank at each
What he really did say was: “Fa’ll s i<] e 0 f the stream; then we make a heap
gag guddlin?” But you see I am polite 0 f extra big turfs close to the burn, and
enough to translate his words into Eng- j dashing them and beating them down,
hsh. | speedily complete our dam.
Now, Willie was the biggest boy in • Hurrah! the burn is almost dry be-
our set] and we respected him accord- neath the dam; only in the pools the
inglv and looked up to him almost rever- water still abides, and into these go
entially. Even a box on the ears from nearly all the trout. Beautiful yellow
Willie was considered an honor and a j trout, speckled with red!
condescension on his part. | We wade in the water; the two Will-
“Who will go a-guddling?” j ies wade, and Davie wades, and Jock
Fifty arms waved in the air at once; wades; Jock uses his bill: we thrust our
fift V treble voices rang out “I’ll gang! \ xlTe arms in under the green banks,
I’ll gang! I’ll gang!” I heedless of eel bites, heedless of the
But Willie had no intention of invit- presence of ugly water rats. We seize
ing the small-fry—the nippers from 5 the trout by the round, slobbery heads.
ana prepare Tor nome.
Only just in time, for yonder, running
up stream, comes farmer Milne
—he always was a brute—and two
of liis men. But if he thinks
to catch ns he is much mis
taken. We take to the woods with a
defiant whoop! and farmer Milne has
seen the last of us.
Grief came on the following Friday,
though. For the dominie had got a
new spengie cane, and we three conspir
ators stole that and cut it up. We were
just about to begin.
“Let us smoke the calumet of peace,”
I said.
When suddenly the sharp features of
Dominie Forbes were protruded over the
ferce.
“Oh! you young scamps!” he cried;
“wait till to-morrow; I’ll ca—ca—calu
met you.”
What could we do to avert the ordeal
that would in all probability take place
to-morrow.
“I have it,” I shouted. “Let us go
straight and see Jeanie.”
We told her all, adding—
“Oh! please, Miss Jeanie, take pity
on us, and be kind to the dominie. He
is so fond of you, Jeanie, and if you say
a word he will never thrash us.”
“Do you think he is fond of me,” said
bonnie Jeanie.
**0! Miss Jeanie,” I replied, “he would
die for you.”
“That he would.” said Willie.
“I’m sure he would,” said Davie.
Reader, that promised thrashing never
came off, but I’ll tell you what did come
off just two months after—a wedding.
And Dominie Forbes limped away
from church with bonnie Jeanie’s hand
in his sleeve.—Gordon Stabley, M. D.,
C. M., R. M., in Home Chimes.
Cure for Writer's Cramp.
Writer’s cramp is an affection which,
until a very recent date, has been looked
upon as in most cases incurable. Fort
unately, however, for those who suffer
from this disease, means are now known
to exist not only for its amelioration,
but for its permanent cure. The diffi
culty is one which is not, as its name
implies, confined to writers. It may
occur in any individual whose occupa
tion brings into constant play one set of
muscles; thus the pianist, the teleg
rapher, and the ballet-dancer may suf
fer from these cramps or from an inabil
ity to perform the acts peculiar to his
occupation.
The cramps are merely symptoms of a
diseased condition, the exact seat- of
which is a matter of dispute; some lo
cating it in the brain, others in the
spinal cord, while there are those who
regard the nerve-centers as in no wise
affected, but trace the source of the af
fection to the nerves themselves. The
method of treatment which has been
found most successful consists in the
application of gymnastics, combined
with massage, to the affected muscles.
The rubbing, and sometimes a gentle
striking of the muscles with a wooden
bar, together with regular movements
of the fingers or other defective part,
are continued for several weeks, during
which time not more than one hour
daily is devoted to these exercises.—
Science.
Why We Are Grin goes.
People often wonder and ask why the
Mexican calls the American a “Gringo,”
or what the word means. That can be
explained much easier than why the
American calls the Mexican a “Greaser.”
When the Americans went to war with
Mexico, a melody, every verse of which
ended with “Green grow the rushes, O,”
was very popular. It pleased almost
everybody's fancy, and was sung by old
and young. While in camp the soldiers
would sing it constantly, and all the
Mexicans could hear was “Green grow
the rushes, O.” They immediately be
gan to call the American soldiers by the
first two words, as it sounded to them,
“grin-goes. ” They made it into one
word, by which they will ever know the
American—“Gringo.”—Nelly Bly in
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Pecnliar “Death Sentence.”
Among the old papers in the county
clerk's office in Freehold, N. J., is the
death sentence of a negro named Cresar.
It reads; “Therefore the court doth
judge that thou, the said Caesar, shall
return to the place from whence thou
earnest, and from thence to the place of
execution, when thy right hand shall be
cut off and burned before thine eyes.
Then thou shalt be hanged up by the
neck till thou art dead, dead, dead; then
thy body shall be cut down and burned
to ashes in a fire, and so the Lord have
mercy on thy soul, Caesar."—New York
Sun.
Costly Buildings in New York.
The cost of some of the big buildings
which now so often attract attention
'v be given thus:
me building $1,000,000
1,500.000
2.0UU.OOO
2.0UU.OOO
2.5UJ.000
2,'OU.UUO
3,500,000
STRANGE FREAKS OF ELECTRICITY.
GENERAL NEWS-
Singular Phenomena of the New Zealand
Eruption.—a puxxiin e Affair. ! Who will -in urn for Wiggins now ‘.
Among the many extraordinary na- i The American people will neve;
turai phenomena attending the recent | r .,j se a „ 10 „ umer , t lo Wigging I
eruption of Mount Tarawcra, one which j . . , . ■ .
appears to me not the least singular has 1 " * •
been passed over in comparative silence 1
and without exciting comment so far as
I am aware, among the scientific or un
scientific public. During the last week
those attending Mr. Burton’s interesting
lectures have heard there related one of
the strange and, so far, inexplicable cir
cumstances witnessed by Mr. McRea
and others of that devoted little band
to whom it must have seemed that hell
itself had opened to destroy them. I al
lude to. the fact of their being unable
to make water boil on that terrible
night, when earth itself appeared to be
in a state of ebullition. I give here the
narrative from Mr. McRae’s own lips,
and I feel confident that few who have
read of the magnificent courage and
presence of mind displayed by him
among those fearsome surroundings, ana
none who have heard the plain, un
varnished tale modestly related by him
self, will ascribe the circumstances as
due to the working of an overheated and
excited imagination.
Mr. McRae says: “I made George
Baker, the cook, put some water on the
fire to make cocoa for the women, who
were cold and shivering, poor souls,
though holding up grandly. About
three quarters of an hour afterward he
met me in the passage and said to me:
‘Come here, sir.’ ‘What is it?’ said
I. ‘I can’t get the water to boil.’
he said. ‘Tut,’ said I; ‘poke up the fire.*
‘It’s a good fire,’ he replied, and so it
was, a glowing fire of blazing rata logs
—a splendid tire. ‘Put your hand in
there and feel it,* said he, taking the lid
off the boiler. I did so—very gingerly
I can assure you, and found the • water
as cold as when we put it on. There
were so many extraordinary things hap
pening around me that this particular
one did not excite my wonder very
much. I thought it was owing to the
electricity in the air. George Baker can
vouch, as well as myself, for the fact of
the water having been on the fire for
full three-quarters of an hour, and at
the end of that time being as cold as
when put on. We spoke of the circum
stance to the others at the time as being
curious, but soon had matters more
serious to distract our attention.”
Now, surely, here is a natural phenom
enon worthy the investigation of all our
scientific men, not only in New Zealand,
but throughout the civilized world. We,
of course, all know that the greater the
atmospheric pressure the greater the
number of units of heat required to
make the water boil, but some other de
terrent cause must have been at work
in this instance, as, after having been
placed for three-quarters of an hour on
a good fire, the water remained abso
lutely cold. What other cause was
there ? is the problem I suggest to our
scientific men as one well worthy of
their research.—Cor. New Zealand Her
ald.
The Books Balanced Perfectly.
The cashier of a business place had oc
casion to leave his desk one day, and he
called the son of the proprietor, who
was at work in another department, to
take his place for an hour or two, and
instructed him about how to make en
tries in the cash book, in case any money
came in, the receipts on one side and the
disbursements on the other. The boy’s
father came in and wanted $2, which the
son gave him, and when the cashier
came back he found an entry in the cash
book. On one side was this: “Took in
two dollars from a granger with his
pants tucked in his boots.” The cashier
looked at the scrawl in the book and
then at the cash drawer, and said:
“Well, where’s the two dollars?” The
boy thought a minute, took a pencil and
wrote on the other side of the book: “Pa
collected the two dollars.” The cashier
sighed and the boy said: “Weli, it
balances, doesn’t it? What more do you
want?”—Peck’s Sun.
after working them into a corner, and
,0 He rushed through their ranks, pitch them out on to the bank, and
dashing them aside in all di- laugh to see them leap and dance, their
rections. like a sturgeon in a bodies shimmering white and golden in
shoal of haddocks and made his the sunshine.
wav to the spot where Davie Law and , Ever}- fish that Jock catches he tries
I with our jackets off, were having it to gwa llow. but Willie pulls them away
out in downright earnest. and casts them ashore. ...
He soon settled the business by pitch- ; presently Jock gets a frog and chokes
in , u , both, and when we arose on it . There is nothing sticking out
from the ground- but a hind leg. However. Willie lays
-vw will ve gang guddlin'?" said hold of that and draws it ouV and cau-
WiUiT’ tions Jock, and the guddling goes mer-
“Gang guddlin’? Wouldn’t we, just r rily on. ..
On“ ent our jackets, and off after Never was finer sport bn this earth.
Willie went Davie and I; my arm round I have fished all over the world since
Davie's waist: his arm round my neck; then, but the memory of tha. after-
he telling me he liked me better than any noon’s guddling always will remain a
hov in the school, and I assuring iU nny one.
, hat j had alwavs quite loved While we are guddling, all the mills
Davie that - beIow us that depend on the Den bum
„,. r to Den bum, where we f 0 r driving power have to he idle: of
• tended to “riddle, we met daft Willie course they have, but what care we
Willie was a wheelwright—or The waters rise very high in the (him
ids brother was; for I don’t suppose he at’last, and over and over again we have
““ .i id » great deal in that way. to strengthen it, '
himself did a gre ^nd vou. ! At last however, we hear a shout
ButWilhe wasnt f h - he f ^ m NV nHe, and a “skraigh" from the
N °‘^ a feather in the wing, heron, and well we know what it
twopence in the shilling—»* means. buret> ^ the waters
A”,C r l< ..!.»£ 8... ~
not have been le*s ’ ^ en _ our j| jkets, save our fish. munity was a by-word—‘Nothing worse this
thized with us m e *7 - * „ I mills down the stream will have side of Africa.’ “ But the missionary started
tered with heart and soul mt j enough now and to spare. It will three schools in that neighborhood and round
games and all schemes.^ ^ : fiu ^ ove ; flow the dams and make a , iSout
“■Willie, ' ve *. n ' dash breast high over the wheels, and it | of the men who launched the anti-
** II t will” cried Willie, “and will sweep the linen from the fields o s i ATer y movement in Boston only Mr.
And ru put on my bed the bleaching works. Sewall and Olivar Johnson an warn
so Will Jock- Ana v j wh&t caJpe we? Have we not liyiB -
'G^lTy-th^wsy. was . Um. Ufo-1 tine fun. We W our trout in «nn*s ,
l building.
O. ^ Potter building
Stewart building
Cyrus W. Field building.
D. O. Mills building
Produce Exchange
In addition to the above are many
other business edifices of large cost; and
then there are the great apartmentment
houses up town, a number of which
each cost more than (1,000,000.—Chicago
Herald.
Sunday Schools In tho Adirondack*.
A very worth}* member of the Society of
Friends, who is familiarly called the Quaker
missionary of the American Sunday Sch«>ol
Union, writes to the primary class of a Con
gregational Sunday school in Brooklyn, of
his work among the Adirondack mountains,
where so many go for health:
-My dear little helpers: after organizing a
Union Sunday school. I promised a pn tty
card to every scholar that would bring me a
dollar f “ the library. One little girl said,
*\Y I, 1 .now grandpa is awful tight, but I
>i to try to love a dollar out of him
To the Sunday school of Plymouth Congre-
gn.Tnal Church, Brooklyn, he writes of
meeting a hermit who has lived alone among
the mountains for thirty years, on corn meal
and water, but has given 2,300 large Testa
ments to such as would agree to read in them
every day.
To the Gospel Chapel Sunday school he
“As I drove up in front of a grog
shop a man said, ‘Mister, you need & revolver
more'n a Bible up here: nary a Christian
here. We don’t go much on ligion; rather
have a keg of beer and a dance.' This com-
The Newspaper's Worst Side.
The worst side of the newspaper—the
worst side of personal journalism is this
—that it gives us the exceptional side,
makes it seem the real and personal side.
Crime are made interesting, criminals
heroes, and their doings chronicled as if
they were kings and queens. It is the
ambition of many persons to see them
selves in print; and if a girl will get
married to see her name in the newspa
per, as one admitted she had done, why
it is not beyond the bounds of possibil
ity that a man would commit murder in
order to be the reigning newspaper sen
sation, and that he would exercise inge
nuity to make it brutal as possible,know
ing that this increases his sensatioual
value.—Jennie June.
Thread from Milk-Weed.
American inquisitiveness and ingenu
ity united have produced threads from
the blossom if the common milk-weed
which has the consistency and tenacity
of imported flax or linen thread and is
produced at a much less cost. The fibre
is long, easily carded, and may be read
ily adapted to spinning upon an ordin
ary flax spinner. It has the smoothness
and luster of silk, rendering it valuable
for sewing machine use. The weed is
common throughout this country, but
grows profusely in the south. The ma
terial costs nothing for cultivation, and
the gathering is as cheaply done as that
of cotton.—Dry Goods Chronicle.
The Earthquakes of Lima.
In Lima there is a constant shaking of
the ground. The houses are uniformly
three stories in height. The first story
is of brick or stone, the walls being
fully three feet thick. The upper two
are made of bamboo lashed together. It
takes a pretty severe earthquake to de
stroy one of these buildings. The pecn
liar thing about a shake is that the first
time you get one you are apt to take ifr
coolly. The next time you are afraid,
and ever after that you are demoralized.
Earthquakes are something that no man
can become accustomed to.—Chicago
Herald.
A Sirs of Frosperity.
A New York paper declares that the
country must be more prosperous this
year than it was last year, because more
people are petting marric J.
A Pair of Crazy Shoo*.
A pair of crazy shoes has been made
at Boston, Maas. The shoes contain 839
pieces of leather, and the tops alone con
tain 109 small shaped pieces.—Chicago
Times.
1 earthquake.
It is estimated at the Treasury
Depariinent that there has been s
decrease of nearly •< 11,000,000 in ih-
public debt during September.
1 he rye eiop of the United State-
has ranged in the seven years be
tween 1!»,800.000 and 29,500,000 bush
els, averaging 27,700,00 bushels.
Nearly fifty crates of the Georgia
persimmon have been shipped to
New York from Mitrshailville. A
handsome profit was made upon
this crop last season.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the
lady who in 1884 was a candidate
fur the Presidency of the United
states, and would have been elected
had she received enough votes, is
in the field again.
The Washington correspondents
now state that it is an assured fact
that Secretary Manning will re
sume his work in the Treasury, and
remain so lung as his health will
permit.
A family once employed at the
Augusta Factory earned a
monih. On a strike they drew $4.-
80 a week. They are still out be-
tiuse subordinated to the will
other people.
Cholera is reported as having pre-
■ ailed among hog- to a greater or
less extent in all sections of the
State, bui with more disastrous
effects in North, Middle and South
west Georgia.
Every six years, there is a combi
nation in North Carolina to defeat
Gen. Ransom for the Senate, hut
ihe General always “gets there.”
He does not answer letcers, but is a
master of hand-shaking.
There have been 375 dismissals
from the Public Printing Office
since Ihe new Public Printer came
into office, the object therefor being
to bring the pay roll within the ap
propriation for the office.
“The voice of the spoilsman is
heard iii the land,” says that emi
nent Republican authority, the
Philadelphi i Press. After listening
to the voice of the spoilsman for
twenty-four years, the Press ought
certainly to be familiar with the
sound.
If men acquire whisky livers,
women acquire corset livers. The
corset caanges the whole shape of
the liver, and one feminine liver has
been found cut in two. Both whis
ky livers and corset livers are de-
“tructive of human life, but there
are people who will have them.
Beerbohm's (London) Corn Trade
List estimates a deficit below the sup
ply of wheat tor Europe at 78,000,0 f ‘0
bushels, but he places the surplus ot
ihe United Mates lower, the defi
ciency of England and the surplus
of I.alia higher than any other re
spectable statistician. This 78,000,-
U00 is in addition to the ordinary
external requirements of Europe,
which range between 200,000,000
and 240,000,000 bushels.
There is not much gold mining
now going on in Naeoochee valley.
Hie Lumsden mine, that a few
years ago yielded such rich nuggets
as to give Georgia the gold fever,
has beeu apparently exhausted.
That English company/ which w as
to invest its millions there, has
passed into a dream, but there i re
a few persons who still look to the
coming of these capitalists with a
faith most touching and child
like. Messrs. Childs & Nicker-
-od’s mine is in successful opera
tion.
The Russian newspapers general
ly express themselves as satisfied
with the action of Gen. Kaulbars in
Bulgaria. The Novoe Vremya says
.Kittling remains for the Bulgarian
regents but to bow to Russia’s will,
unless it be to force Russia to adopt
measures to render it materially im-
possible for the regents to pre\o-nt
Russia’s wishes from being realized.
The eiect’on of a new prince in Bul
ger.a will be impossible until the
proper relations which should exi- +
between Gen. Kaulbars and the
Bulgarian government be restored.
The Department of Agriculture in
Vtlauta c< inpleted Oct. 5, the
c impila i m of re, i r s rei eived Irom
cropsrcpor ters throughout the
State,which shows the condition of
the crops as compared with '.he
average of last five years to be:
Corn,91 per cent.; rice, 98 per
cent.; sugar cane, 88 per cent.; sor
ghum, 94 per cent.; sweet potatoe
37per cent.; turnips. 72 per cent.;
cotton, 79 per cent.; tobacco, 95
cent.; number of stock hogs com
pared to last yeai, 87 per cent.; con
dition of stock hogs compared to an
average, 92 per cent.
The Democratic State Convention
of Massachusetts assembled Thurs
day at Worcester. John F. Andrew,
of Boston, was nominated for Gov
ernor. The Convention passed res
olutions strongly endorsing the ad
ministration ot President Cleveland
i’id said of him: “IK* has giver
t the country a ok an, capable am.
> triutii a Imi ii-i'.ra i ■ i, w ■ thy o
'.he support of all f'i -i.ris ol goi (
'i.verntiicnt. He lias vimlica’K
lie Di mccrstic partv from tt.i
landers of it s e n e m i e t
. y deiiionsirnllilg its filiiea
f • r jiower and its nbili'y am.
determination to give the oulini
an honest, thrifty and conservative
management of Us affairs.”
The Sioux Indians, it is said, Iuia e
determined in the national council
of their nation to establish mail ami
transpc rtation routes throughou-
the irontier region, which
shall be conducted exclusively as
ii Indian enterprise. It will b.
none afoot by atnletic young lndi
ans. The routes will include ever}
frontier town and will engage sev
eral hundred Indians. There will
be three trips a week and the car
ryalls will be strong, light vehicle.-;
which the men will pull twenty-five
miles aday. The whole nation will
share in the profits as a co-opera
tive business.
The vnights of Labor in the w<->-.
and more particularly in St. Louis,
have decided that strikes, like the
boycott, must go, and that it should
no longer be recognized as a necessi
ty. While this iiniiortunt decision
is not publicly announced,, the in
formation comes from unquestioned
authority. The fact is that some ot
the Knights consider that this has
been one of the greatest onuaelei-
! that the order has had to meet.
What action will be taken in this
important movement iu the Rich
mend convention i- jd uncertain
TliOSt. Louis delegates, however,
it is understood, are instructed in
fa vor of u uw which w ill dispern-e
-ntirely with the strike system.
\.rbitratiop will hereafter be the
•olicyol the western Knights in all
(tiestionsof wages and labor that
require adjustment.
Miss Clara Barton, president of
he J merican Association of Red
Cross, at present in Charleston, has
written Mayor Harrison of Chicago)
shoot the condition of thing in that
ity. She says in her letter: “Fulfill
ing my promise to report, I would
iay that the damage to property is
•ot overestimated. Scarcely a house
is left whole. The people are brave
ly struggling, full of gratitude for
the sympathy and help so generous
ly bestowed. I have informed
Mayor Courtney of your move
ment in Chicago, for which he is
deeply grateful, but begs me to say
that as soon as the greatest need for
present contributions is met he will
telegraph the fact to every country
and request that no more be sent.
He hopes two-thirds of the sum re
quired is already assured.”
Prime Minister Tizza, replying to
interpretations for the government
in the lower house of toe Hungarian
Parliament said the Au-tro
Hungarian government intended
to prevent any single power from
establishing a protectorate over
Bulgaria. “We want independence
among the Balkan states,” he con
tinued, “without having any
covetous designs towards any of
them. No community of interests
xists in the Balkans. TheAustro-
German alliance continues, guard
ing mutual conditions of existence
without endangering peace. Austro-
Hungary will not allow any single
power to make armed interference
in Bulgaria. The Austro-Hungarian
Government intend? following this
policy during these critical times.”
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Colonel A. S. Colyar, of Nashville,
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Municipal Government of Nash
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reform in Memphis. The poets are
well represented, inspired by the
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