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JOHN TRIPLETT, - - Editor
S.B. BURR, Business Mang’r
THOMASVILLE, GA.- .
Saturday, June 8, * - 1889.
New railroads are l>ciug projected
all over the state.
Foraker has about worn the bloody
shirt into shreds. Let the garment
be buried.
The Constitution has bloomed into
a Cleveland advocate for the presi
dency in 181)2.
B. Harrison is scanning the hori
zon tor some more cousins-in-law to
appoint to office.
The new hotel, Mt. Bon-Air, at
Augusta, has been leased and will be
opened this winter.
The new eapitol. thoroughly fur
nished, 'will be turned over to the
state on the 10th inst.
Jho Oklahoma craze is playing out,
Georgia offers more inducements than
the new territory.
The great Cronin mystery is still
unsolved. The Chicago detectives
claim to be on the track of the mur
derers.
Georgia politicians are figuring on
the next governorship of the state al
icady. Too soon, gentlemen. Wait
for the wagon.
What 1ms become of the movement
to erect a monument to the late Alex
ander H. Stephen# Georgia should
Hot neglect this saered duty.
“Breccias Maker” Wanaj^aker, as
your Uncle Allen Thurman calls him,
plays pious on Sunday and gives the
jj%- democrats the d 1 during the
week.
Mb
The women
vote; the legislature sayt
A contemporary wittily 1
they are still allowed to
wood.”
ri waiit*d to
they shan’t,
inmrks that
“split stove
The South is respoi
tho wails of want from
valley of death. In th:
gift should not lag belli
will not.
.ding nobly t,
E. Brya
Mrs. Mary
known here, receives $5,000 per
num for editing Munroe’s Fa>l
Bazar. In addition to this she do
great deal of other literary work.
A contemporary thus enumerates
the B’s in Boston: Bunker It ill, base
ball, baked beaus ami Ben Butler.
To these might he ad-led hail hoys.
'Th latter are generally found in
( and Boston is doubtless no ex
ception to the rule.
It is said that the city government
of Guthrie, Oklahoma, i.-“run with a
high hand.’’ The fellow who holds
lour aces, holds the highest, hand—
unless the other fellow holds a revol
ver or a bowic knife. These iast al
ways take the pot.
jnes liar been
iforiiians. Ha:
form Californians. Sam admits that
liis efforts were a dismal failure, lie
fays the people of that state arc going
• than a hound dog can
rate of speed they will
destination very soon.
I cllward f
ruu. At th
arrive at tin
Savannah is making a big etlort to
raise S50,0(M) to get a new lailroad in
to that city. .Mr. John K. Young,
president of the Board of Trade,
that the importance of the proposed
extension of ihe road from American
to that city can hardly he over-e.-ti
mated, and should not hr lost sight of
The great Wootic
on in Terry, 11-maw
couusel, headed by
ure making dc**.eiut
the prisoners neck,
that he will l>e again
the general impn-ssio
to be.
trial is goiujj
county, lli:
1. Rutherford
l.e chances an
nvicted. And
< that he ough
The Americau, ot Tlnladelptiia, is
republican to the core, but it ean’i
stand some of I'rtaideut Harrison’:
appointments. It says the domina
tion of Quay, if continued, will dis
rupt tho Republican party in Bonn-
sylvania and that the persons who
have been forecd on the President by
Quay are conspicuously inferior to
their predecessors, who were appo
cd by President •Cleveland. If the
Americau will take the trouble to look
< over the entire list of President Harri
ton’s appointments it will be able to
vjicud the scope of this remark
vably.
The Great Disaster.
Every day brings to Kgl^t' new hor
rors at Johnstown, Pa. The loss of life
will never be known. Hundreds, per
haps thousands of dead, will never be
known. This contioeot has never
witnessedsudh a wholesale loss of life,
We appeofofiV following extracts from
the press dispatches of yesterday:
tsent rate there will soon
be a live man digging in the ruins io
every dead one. Evans Johns,
Pittsburg contractor, who, until Wm.
F.mn arrives to-tnorrow, has charge
of the smoky city force, said to-day
that 2,200 men would be at work in
the ruins by jo-morrow morning. A
large number arrived from Pittsburg
today, and 500 more are announced
for to-morrow. There are twenty-five
foremen here, all level-headed fellows,
who ke*.p their unwieldy and almost
exhausted forces under masterful con*
trt>l. Although they were scattered all
over the waste places to-day, heavy
work was done on the point district,
where a couple of hundred mansions
lie in solitfr heaps of brick, stone and
timbers. TTie labors of the search
ers were rewarded by the discovery of
a corpse about every five minutes. As
a general thing, the bodies were man
gled and unrecognizable, unless by
the marks or letters on their person.
As decomposition has set in, the work
is becoming one that tests their hearts.
The sad, sad story of Concmaugh is
not wiihout its deeds of heroism. The
appalling scenes of horror developed
daring courage where least expected,
while every day heroes, in the midst
of terrifying scenes, usually degener
ated into arrant cowards Those who
viewed the frightful scenes of fire and
flood agree that the hopelessness of
the situation was first fully realized by
the women, and that in the tender sex
was exhibited that dauntless courage
which is born of resignation. Mothers
lly sacrificed themselves »o the fury
of the flood or fire to save the lives of
their children and loved ones. Not
infrequently some pale-faced woman,
clinging with he r child to floating debris
realizing that the support was too frail
tor the two, wJlfild be seen to lift her
precious burden high upon the floating
debris and with a hasty kiss, bidding
farewell to nil that bound her to the
world, sank beneath the waves
Edward C« Willis, a young foundry-
man of Cambria. 27 years old, whom
no one ever suspected possessed more
than ordinary courage, when the flood
was at its height, and people
floating down the rushing torre
hundreds, rushed to his boat, ar e !
senseless to the pleadings of wife and
relatives, shoved his frail craft out into
the angry current. Gfiding alongside
a floating roof upon which a woman
and two children were kneeling with
blanched faces and stony stare, he
skilfully evaded the obstructions that
threatened to cruffi the craft, ar.d
lifting the terrorized creatures to his
boat, shot across the current back to
the bank. A shout of applause swell
ed from the throng that lined the bank,
but unmoved by the plaudits, ycung
Willis repeated the perilous journey
seven times, until twenty-two lives
had been saved by his indomitable
energy.
The next day, when the most of
Johnstown was still under water, Wil
lis ascended the stream to the desolate
city and again distinguished himself
by many acts of heroism and endur
ance. A tribute too great cannot be
paid to his noble character, but, after
all, among the heroes that these strange
scenes developed, he ts only
•many.
Since the last sentence was Denned
a party of searchers unearthed a charr
ed and unsightly mass from the snioul
dering debris within thirty yards in
trout of the Associated Press head
quarters. Unused to such frightful
discoveries, the leader of the gang
pronounced the remains to be a black
ened log. and it required the authora-
tative verdict of physicians to demon
strate that the ghastly discovery was
the charred remains of a human being.
Only the trunk remained, and that was
roasted beyond all semblance to flesh.
A five minute search revealed frag
moms ot the skull that at once disin
tegrated, of its own weight, when
exposed to 1 he air, no single piece
being larger than half a dollar, ai
the whole resembling remnants
shattered charcoal
Within the last hour half a dozi
discoveries in no way less hornfung
than tins have been madt* by the
searchers, as thev rake with sticks and
nooks in die smoking ruins. So ditfi
cult is it ai limes to determine whether
tiie remains are ihuseof human being:
mat it is apparent that hundreds mus
be fair!} burned to ashes, thus ihe
number that have found a last res
place beneath the>e*ruin> can at
never be mure than approximated
The country stands aghast at
fearful loss of life. The stDkivors arc
receiving, as they should, substantial
sympathy from all pans of the civilized
world.
Statc Road Business.
I The merchants and Cotton Bag-
Atlakta. June 4.—[Special to Ha- j ging.
con Telegraph.]—There has been filed - The merchant, of Georgia should
with the comptroller-general the an*
nual statement of the Western and
Atlantic railroad, for the year ending
May ■< >8*9-
The gross receipts for the year were
$1,359,669.44. The expenses for the
year were $1,175,218.19. The net
income reported is therefore $i§4,*
457.25, on which Ihe company will pay
an income tax of one--nalf of one per
cent., which amounts to $922.2$.
Among the items of expense report
ed is the pay-roll of officers and em
ployees which foots up the handsome
■jm of $575-598-7o.
The rental paid the state was $300.
000.
The cost of coal for the engines is
reported at $201,320.71. The road
paid out during the year for oil, tallow
and waste $25,1x3.
Legal claims were settled to the
amount of $25,000.
The whole expense incurred durir g
the year, on account of engines and
cars, was $3,250, and the amount ex
pended for track iron was $9,821.
certain!y co-operate with their farm
er patrons in their efforts to brdak
down the jute bagging trust, and to
better their condition through a sub
stitutkm of the course cotton covering
for jute bagging. The bagging can
be had, and the farmers are going to
have it, and the merchants should
show a disposition to aid them
this movement.
There is, unquestionably, a belief,
as expressed- by the Boston Journal
of Commerce, that if ihe farmers find
opposition to the movement, it will
prove a binderance to the accomplish
ment of their present purpose to cov
er this year’s crop with cotton bag-
The Province of a Newspaper, As
Defined by Judge Ingraham.
NEWS NOT LIBELLOUS.
ging-
pla
* following brave words used by
Cleveland, iu his late speech
York, is a true index to the
i'i;
»u with no excuses or
with no confession of
« not given to nan to
ud conflicting vi<
. policy which pre-
where iudivid-
tolerated ns in
\ud yet, when
d advocated,
'it ter; less or
• they are
mere
■ receilt-
*‘Call Me Cap’n.”
The Times-Union, Jacksonville,
discussing the qualifications ot Bar
num’s successor as chairmart of the
National democratic executive <
mittee, quotes from Simon Sugg!
follows:
‘•Gentlemen,*’ said Simon Suggs.the
hero of Tallapoosa, ••we must now
perceed to elect a cap’n What you
p want is er man about five feet in his
socks, sandy hair, red whiskers, a skyar
onto his left arm, one eye sorter cross
e/T who ain’t afccred o’ the devil him
self, and is sunt punkins in a bar fight.
Gentlemen. I see by the expression in
your counternances that the man yon
want now stands before you. All op
posed say ‘no.* Unanimously carried.
Fall in, every durn one o* ye, and while
off*n duty, I don't min’ yer callin’
plain Sam, but when red nosed war
gits ter stompin’ of h»s foot, and the
batilt raillv begins, you’ie got ter cum
up ter lick log, sho* pop, and call me
cap’n! and you must call it out loud,
S. nding abroad fot supplies that
could be raised at home, and cducat-
tog your children abroad, is like taking
jgWKitcr out of the pot in which you aie
ng U cook greens: you exhaust the
gatvon k r 2n< * s P° l1 the greens. You de-
he volume of currency at home
the volume abroad.—Southern
Debts of the States.
The recent issue of the statistical
abstract of the United States contains
a statement of the debt of the several
states of the Onion. Their combined
indebtedness foots up the snug sum of
8220,000,000. This would not be a
heavy burden on thirty-eight great
states if it were equally distributed
among them. But it is unpleasantly
lumped on some states, while others
have little to carry, and some of the
poorer states have among the heaviest
loads.
Illinois, West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Colorado have no debt; Kentucky
owes only 8074,000, Mississippi 81,-
105,150, Kansas 81,500,000, New
Jersey less than 82,000,1)00, Florida
$1,275,000, Minnesota and Ohio 84,-
000.000 each. The great state of New
York has a debt of .only 87,000,000.
Georgia is put down for 88,752,305,
but there is about property enough
held by the state to square up ac
counts. The heaviest state debt is
that of Virginia, which consists of a
funded debt of $23,550,000 and an
unfunded debt of 88,312,340, Massa
chusetts comes next, with a debt of
8-31,000,000, and Tennessee is third,
owing 817,000,000. The debt
lvania is $15,000,000, that of
Arkansas $12,020,100, of Lo
$ 11,082,021, of M issouri $0,525,000,
of Alabama $0,214,300, of South
Carolina 87,012,741, North Carolina
about 812,000,000, and of Texas $4,-
237,730. The total funded debt of
the Southern states is placed at $00,-
58,043.
The New York Sun accounts truly
for the accumulation of this great bur
den when it says:
This heavy aud enormously dis-
propoitionate burden is mainly due to
the years of misgovernmeut aud plun
der which the South endured under
cpublican carpet-bag rule. That was
broken up by the efforts of the South
ern democrats, aided by the Sun aud
some other newspapers; and the mel
ancholy period ended forever with the
election of Samuel J. Tildcn as Presi
dent of the United States.
It is well to remember these things
once iu a while. The figures of the
them state debts, even at the pres
ent time, remain as a reminder,
wonderful energy and new prosperity
of the South is steadily decreasing the
mountain of state debts piled up dur
ing the eight evil years of Grant and
carpet-bag rule.”
Our Pension Lrst.
ready it takes 888,000,000 a
to meet the large and ever-in
creasing pensioners’ list, and the offi
cial announcement is made that next
year it will reach $103,000,000.
Every “hacking cough” that tack
les an old soldier (or rat Iter au old
hummer, since the real soldiers will
never defraud their government) fur
nishes him a pretty safe passport to
the pension office. lie can easily
enough make oath that he “caught
that cold during the war,” although
it took it twenty-five years to devel
op. A rheumatic pain or a tooth
ache is worth more than a good-sized
hank account.
The people of the country, without
regard to section, party or military
service doting the war, cheerfully
submit to taxation tor the brave men
who did their duty and suffered in
jury and disability in the service.
But against the policy of pensioning
camp-followers, hammers nndbouUtv-
jumpers, the most respectable north
ern republican journals arc them
selves protesting.—Times-Union,
Jacksonville.
There never was a greater mistake,
for there is a determination among
farmers that amounts almost to dcs-
paration to tabboojute bagging, and
it will l>e done at any sacrifice. The
News aud Advertiser has watched
the course of affairs with interest,
mixed with apprehension that the
kindly relations existing between the
farmers and merchants might be
strained through the action of the Al
liance.
Tlteie is no necessity for any such a
misfortune to befall the country, for
the merchants are the farmers well-
wishes, proven through the loop
years in which they have befriendet
them. The farmers have also stood
by the merchants. There arc mu
tual benefits in the cultivation ot the
closest and most confidential business
relations between these classes—the
two great props and stays of
try’s prosperity! The farmer is the
producer, aud the merchant, by
furnishing a market at home, and by
forming a medium of distribution,
Rives increased value to the farmer’s
products. There are reciprocal dutici
due flora oue to the other, aud 1
recognition of them always coutril>-
utes to the general prospeuty.
The merchants of the country
dentlv entertain fears that the cotton
packed in cotton cloth will hav
be unpacked at a loss, aud they
conscientious in lamenting a tnov
which they think will lose money
the farmer. This need not be the
case, for the Exchanges of the South
ern sea ports should regulate this
matter. It is a well kuown fact that
every cent paid for jute bagging
lost by the farmer, for the price
regulated iu Liverpool, and tare Uik-
! off, the farmer being paid for the raw
cotton.
submit that the merchant
who does not actively co-or
farmers in trying to save the price of
this bagging to the country, is stand-
ivn light. To cover with
jute, the raw material being imported
takes the whole sum which it co
out of the country, while to cov
with cotton saves the cost of the ra
material to the South. That is
plain ami easily understood proj*osi-
tion. For illustration, assume that
the raw material of jute bagging,
counting cost of manufacturing,
50 cents per bale, that means $3,51)0.
000 sent out of the country,
assuming that the cotton require
cover a bale cost the same, its
results in saving to the planters of the
South 83,500,000.
There is another benefit to the
ton growing states involved iu the
use of cotton bagging; the 100,000
bales consumed in making the ha
ging will decrease the visible suppf
that much,and raise the price in the
same ratio as it bears to the total
yield. Every new use found,
which cotton can be put, benefits the
ottou producers in proportion to the
amouut consumed.
There is no occasion for any difier-
icc between the farmers and mer
chants ou this question. If the mer
chants can’t see that it is to
farmers interest to use cotton bag;
why, he is entitled to his opinion
the different views can l»c held,
the same close and friendly relalion.-
contimieto exist.—Albany New
New York Wort ).
The libel suit of Chas. \V. Hodges,
of Cranford, N. J., against the Press
Publishing Company, on trial for five
days past, before Judge Ingraham,
resulted yesterday in a verdict for the
defendant, with an allowance ot $200
for counsel tees. The suit grew out of
a publication in the New Jersey edi
tion of the World in July. 1885, in
volving Hodges in the purchase of a
saloon in this city, by one Moncton,
who wrote to a friend named Mocker-
son, in Elizabeth, N. J.. that he had
been deceived by Hodges and had
lost $600, the earning of a * life time.
The publication of this letter constitut
the libel of which Hodges com
ained. Evidence showing the facts
the saloon purchase, the behavior
Hodges and ^oncton’s frequent
abuse of him for swindling hii
produced by the defense, together
with the depositions ot the mayor, city
judge and chief of police of Plainfield,
testifying to Hodges’ bad character.
Hodges denied any desire to swindle
Moncton, proclaimed his letter to
Mockerson to be false and gave Hodges
good name.
DeLancy Nicoll and W. R. Bronk
appeared for the World. Mr. Nicoll
said there was not the slightest pre
tense of malice. There was no pur
pose in publishing it except the duty
of a correspondent to his newspaper
furnishing it the current news. '1 he
wspaper owes to the public a great
duty—that of printing the news —which
' not performed faithfully, will result
in the loss of its circulation and stand
f ^Fine Depot. ~
It is understood that the Georgia
Southern railroad bar let the contract
to James Brqg^ for the immediate
erection of immense freight and pas
senger depot at Valdosta. The depot
will stand sear Mayor Thomas* resi
dence, will be’ 50x200 feet long, and
two stories high.
The Valdosta Tiroes says: Work on
the road from here to Lake City is
going along finely. Every mile of the
distance is covered by laborers.
The track has been laid to Mud
Swamp, and the grading promises to
be dons earlier than the contract.
Drifting Back.
President Harrison, in his ojieuing
remarks at the great relief meeting in
Washington, over which he presided,
said, in speaking of Jacksonville’s
contribution:
“1 am glad to say that early this
morning, from a city not long ago vis
ited by pc«t lence, not long ago itself
appealing to the charitable people of
the whole land for relief, the city of
Jacksonville, Fla , there came the ebb
of that tide rf charity which flowed
towards it in the time of its need, in a
telegram from the sanitary relief asso
ciation. authorizing me to draw upon
them for $2 000 for the relict of the
Pennsylvania sufferers.’’
The north poured thousands and
thousands of dollars into the yellow
fever towns, and now the bread which
they cast upon the waters, iu the
name of charity and humanity, is
drifting back to them. How blessed
it is to give.
-V country editor, in closing au
exhaustive report oa finance, and with
a personal application of the subject,
which is pathetic in the extreme, says:
'Money U close, but not quite dose
enough to nxfih.* Pay yooranbferip-
It Runs Like Clock-Work
The Evening News takes pleasun
in cordially endorsing every word
the following editorial from the Allan
ta Constitution of yesterday:
"It gives us pleasure to bear testi
raony to the admirable managei
of the Central railroad for the last t?i
months. President Alexande
Manager Belknap, with their splendi
corps of lieutenants, have
the derangements of the winter with
its immense increase of busn
clock
the great system now ru
work in every part 1
quered these difficulties and rc-estab
hshed perfect order in this immense
and over-worked system, is an achii
ment that deserves the public rccogn
tion we herewith cheerfully give.”
The Central is now entitled to
sume its name of the • Old Reliable
which was temporarily laid aside last
winter. The multitude of passeng:
trains that enter daily under the union
depot at Macon now arrive and depart
promptly on schedule time. Thtre are
no long and tedious waits. The Cen
tral’s system, including its main stem
and all its branches, appears to be
excellent order and runs like clock
work.—Macon News.
for
“There is only one way to get
faction out of a public offiice,”
President HarrUou to a friend not
long ago, “and that is to please your
self while you are in it. You cannot
possibly give satisfaction to the rest
of the people, no matter how you
the less success you will have. The
best president that it is possible
the country to have is always sure
go out of office with enough enemies
to make him uncomfortable if he is
very sensitive mau. aud the worst
possible president; when retiring from
office, is sate to have enough friends
to make life agreeable to him, if he
has sense enough to care tor himself.
The one thing that I will try to do at
president, wifi be to act so that when
ny term of office has expired, I can
asr with truth aud a dear conscience,
•thank God,
. , I h**e Mtkfrd myself’
j&JT COST!
TOH1T
mm
A Big Dry Goods Firm Fails Owing
$180,000 With Equal Assets.
Columbus. Ga , June 3.—One of
the heaviest failure:! that has occurred
in Columbus in a long time was an
nounced to-day. The Bee Hive,
Sternberg & Loewenherz, proprietors,
was closed by the sheriff undm a mort
gage held by Clafflin a'd CoTof New
York, for $15,000. The Bee Hive
was the largest retail dry goods estab
lishment in Columbus, and did a large
business, employing a large number
of salesmen. The propriety are
active business men, and the failure is
generally regretted. Their liabilities
are estimated at $160,000, and their
assets are nearly as much.
No Railroad Sale.
The Savannah, Dublin & Western
railroad was put up on the block
Savannah Tuesday, but only $35.
was bid and it was withdra^, as the
mg.
In his charge Judge Ingraham said:
The importance of the newspaper in
the detection and prevention of crime
cannot be ovt r estimated. The schemes
enable men to obtain dishonestly
; savings ot a life time are numer
ous, and it is to ihe newspapers almost
entirely that we must look tor the de
tection of these crimes. If, in this
,the defendant can satisfy the jury
that the published story is true sub
stantially, he h.s committed no offense
led to a verdict.”
Having moved into his new ami elegant qnartc* in Finn l*Ucr, on Madi
son street, has determined to make a change in hi* ImiJimm, ami will, fur
the next 90 days, all goods now Iu store
At .Cost Prices for Cash.
His »tock consMs of:
"Wagons,
Bno^ies,
- Carriages,
Harn<
■SADDLES, eto,-
yourself with :
minimum sum fixed in the order for
sale was $50,000. Judge FaUigant
has granted an order to sell the road,
without reference to prices, on July
2nd. and it is presumed it will then be
bid off by some one.
In the Summer of Success.
The June number of The Southern
Cultivator is a handsome and most
interesting and valuable periodical.
Its table of contents covers the cutire
range of topics connected with every
department of farm life, and the
practical information imparted in a
single number is invaluable. The
Cultivator is pre-eminently practical,
and its motto is: we strive to make
each issue better aud more practical
than its predecessor. We recommend
it to our readers. Send on one dollar
and* get it for one year. Address
Tne Cultivator Publishing Co., Drawer
M, Atlanta, Ga.
Young Female College.
Thomosville, Ga.
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It has for some time past I
ticeablc that idle money
rn financial centers 1
begging lor investment.
.Scarcely a month ago $2,000,000
worth of real estate, comprising loL-,
building and warehouses scattered
throughout the business section of New
York city, was knockc t down at auc
tion at considerable of an advance
the sum expected to he realized.
It was found however, that the aggre
gate of the rentals amounted to but j ]j t .
” 1 per cefft. of the cash value of the I t| m t ha
proju-rty, so that alter deducting taxes,
repairs, etc., the net income from the
premises was hut 4 per cent. And
yet the purchasers of this property
thought they were making an excel
lent investment, aud so they were,
judged by the earning capacity of
capital in the North, for many large
real estate owners are glad to receive
3 to 4 i»er cent, net on their invest
ments. And now comes an even
more striking illustration of the de-
ised earning power of money, or
perhaps one had better say, the help
lessness ot capital. On Thursday last
Comptroller Myers, of New York city,
opened bids covering nearly 88,000,-
000 of the proposed $0,000,000 issue
of park bonds at 2). per cent., the
prices bid ranging from par to 1 \ per
above. Among the bidders
Dine of the most solid financial
concerns, such as the Mctroj»olitau,
Central and Atlantic Trust Com pa
rs, savings banks and privat * bank-
g houses. A trust company stands
ready to take the balance at pa
the offer should prove acceptable.
Where to invest money to ad
tage is becoming a problem the 1:
vexing as the grand total of
wealth increases. Twenty yearn ago |
a family inheriting $100*000 could
count or a life of comparative afflu
ence, since an income cf 10 per cent,
and unward coulj safely be looked
for. To-day, as investments in gen-
oral go, 5 |>er cent, is considered a
d. cidedly profitable income The re
cent refunding of the British Con
sole, to say nothing of Mr. Secretary
Windom’s management of American
government securities under tho Gar
field administration, taught the world
that the period for large returns on
security investments has passed. With
in a verv few years the savings hanks
of New York and other Eastern money
centers will be comj»elh d to find good
fields for the investment of $500,HtX),-
000 or perhaps double that vast sum.
The surplus capital in New England
seeking profitable investment is prob
ably even greater than in New York,
and it would l»c well for Southern
enterprises to be more vigorously
pushed in that field. In'the mean
time, capitalists, banks, trust compa
nies, savings institutions and other
financial concerns are puzzled where
to put their idle capital to the Wt
advantage.
To all such one may properly *av:
Docs not the South, which throughout
its borders is pulsating with the grow
ing vigor of industry, offer the very
best fidd for the investment occipital?
Certainly, nowhere in the worl.l arc
the natural laws ot program sustained
The Asylum Overcrowded.
The board of trustees 01 the lunatic
asjlum, on account of the overcrowd-
id condition of the institution, and
especially in the lemalc department,
i>ceu literally ! have found it necessary to instruct the
ordinaries of ail the’eounlies that pa
tients can only be received as vacan
cies occur, and application must be
made before sending. Preference is
to be given to recent or dangerous
cases.
Since it ltecamc known that the
publicans have a very slim majority
i in this congress*death has bceu hus-
I ie<* with democratic than wit it repub
lics. The only membei
died have Iteen democrat
They are three in number: Mc*>r
Burns of Missouri. Towmhend of llli-
ioi>s and Guy of Iamisiaua. Dt
rats have lieen elected to succeed the
irst two, and as Mr. Gay's district
gave a democratic majority of alxntt
J2JMH) ut the last election, he
will doubtless he succeeded
by a democrat. It is a little singu
lar that every death thus far among
members should have been of demo
crats, but the republicans need not
t* that Providence
, $15.00 i>er mouth
nr.ition apply to
JOHN K. BAKER. 1
MCI
I'ASSKNGI K SCIIKDUI.E
FREIGHT SERVICE
1* K.J-vvi-t I l lv Jci, 1HVJ VI* Tint
Green
FRUITS,
and* Dried
MELONS,
VEGETABLES,
It IRI.IIO %l>.
SuwaiHM* Kiwi* Itoutu to Florida-
M'MM KKS, MURK IS
gue from that 1
1 he i 1
The movement in behalf of cotton
bagging as a substitute for jute bag
ging seems to l»e progressing satisfac
torily, aud the chances are that it will
be successful. The jute trust will
Have itself to blame if it finds a big
supply ot bagging ou its hands at the
end of the year. Last year it was
grasping. It wanted to make an
enormous pile of money in a very
short while. This year it has dee
it expedient to reduce its prices, hut
in view of last year’s <»x|>eriencc
farmer’s don't feel as if they want to
have anything to do with jute bag
ging. The general use of cot Dm bag
ging would greatly increase tin con
sumption of cotton.
by favor* ble conditions more actively
at work. The profits D> be reaped
from investments in the .south, in
mineral and timber lands, in furnaces,
mines and factories, judiciously man
aged, appear to be fabnlotu to all who
are not familiar with the logic of ex
perience. Let the moneyed men of
the North, therefore, come South,
look around, select the enterprise in
’which they may see fit to invest, and
with anything * like discretion in the
matter of management, returns anon
capita! ventured will be’ double,
triple and in many case* quadruple,
can be obtained upon equal outlays
upon safe ventures is the North cod
the older sections of the West. The
El Dorado of the next half century is
the Sooth. The wise recognize it;
the doll and the timid will rre long
regret their doth or their beriUncy.
The Chicago Tribune makes tha
mark that “quinine is down to the
west price ever k.ic.wn, 25 cents j*cr
ouuce. That’s what naturally rc
Its from the removal of the duty on
the article: but our protectionist
friend- will find that it is “too cheap"
and will no doubt advocate a rest on
tion of the dutv.
WANTED,
500 Cars Watermelons,
5000 Baskets of Early Fruits,
• r "hi. It t \rh: imx tii«hr»i miukri
II Iu 4.1.1
.11 Jl M>l
M Dam
A. I*. KU'KKTS \VI:
MARVELOUS
MEMORY
Florida Central
AM)
IVniiihiila Kailrontl.
Ftrwr.n lfc« r It A
DISCOVERY
tottai «f ftrmmrr Trml»lt|
A New York correspondent write* :
Martin G. Johnson, a well known pro
fessional man in Brooklyn.who resided
in a farm at Jamaica, L. I., died
887, worth nearly $300,000, which he
left to his nephews and nieces, though
ir. his life time he permitted them ic
struggle for a livelihood. He gave
about $20,000 to charitable mstitu
tior.s. He was childless. His wife
w is c;ivcn a life interest in the c»tate.
which she sold to one of her nephews
for $10,000. She had a separate es
tatc of her own. which the husband
m: naged for her, and in settling up
the affairs oi both the executors found
one of the meanest records ever
brought to light. He had charged his
wife for her clothing and pleasure
trips, and for her seat in the church
where they worshipped in company.
When he gave anything to a charita
ble institution, taking to himself all the
credit for generosity, he charged half
of the grit to Mrs. Johnson’s account
and said nothing about it. Even his
Christmas presents to her acre charged
to her estate. Her accountant figured
out $9 500 charged against her in this
war. ami as the heirs refused to make
it good %lie sued them, and the referee
00 Tuesday gave her judgment
$88jo.”
Second and Third Rounds.
J will virii thr sevrral preciocu f;r
the purpc**e of rec«riiog the return* of
tix at the following time*:
FIRAT not *!'.
W»y» May 24 io the fofe®oon{
McDonald. May 21. io the sftrtsooo.
Bouton. >1„ M
hut (jImp/ow, May 4th.
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for
The following uni-joe awnritje no
tice tppoutd in a Cleveland paper
recently: “In Guilford, Medina coun
ty, Ohio, oa the 2nd iiutaat, by &
Wiboo, tan:ucl I). Courta lo
Mia* Sul lie Morplir, after a tedioui
coomhif of fifteen jean, wkicb ni
bom with Chrioiau fortitude sad
patience.” If the happy groom «m
too bmhfol to pop the quotum before
fifteen yean of courtebip, he rertaioW
wm aut mbaaed to let the wocU
know it.
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25th, in fora
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Will be in Tboxntrille doriog tb*
month of Jose, 00 Thursday*, Fridays
and Saturday*. Blast* famished as
heretofore* Book* will jeatirtly ciaa«
oa the 3<ftb of Jnoe.
J. F. McCas*. T. IL
DAN’L A. HORN,
DRESSED LOIBEB,
MOULDINGS,
TURNED WORK
AST) BRACKETS.
Suh, Blind*, Doom and Shin
gles, Fear and Vegeta-
. ble Crate*.
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