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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XX.
ENGLAND’S CHEAT SHAKE.
The ruling tuple of the hour in every
civilized laud is ihe frightful expos
ure of Loudon's social rottenness by
the Pall Mall Gazette.
Never before in the world’s history
lias such a black and infamous sys
tem of wide-spread tin! powerful vil
lainy been revealed to the public gaze.
The Gazette's charges do not contain
4 he names of the guilty parties, but
the other details are given with such
precision that any detective of ordi
nary intelligeneo could locate the
■criinnals within nventr-tour hour;.
Reading between the lines trillions
of Britons at a glance recognize the
public enemies thus held up as the
objects of u nation's burning scorn.
It must be recollected that this re
markable crusade is directed against
lto ordinary criminals. It concerns
itself with the highest in the land;
with the heads and scions of En
gland’* haughtiest houses; with the
gilded youth, members of parliament
baronets and dukes, and so on. not
sparing even the prince who stands
next to the throne.
. IVell may Mr. Spurgeon, England’s
greatest preacher, exclaim : "I feel
bowed down with shame and indig
nation!'’ But it will always he re
membered to the honor of this
wise and good that lie had. the judg
ment and the moral courage to place
himself on the side of the right.shonl
der to shoulder with the masses and
the middle ranks of society. Cardinal
Manning, the earl of Shaftesbury and
a few others of high position, nobly
discarded the prejudices of rank and
caste, and gave the Gazette their
hearty support in its good work. Mr.
Spurgeon expressed the feeling of
these brave reformer* when lie said:
"This is a loathesomo business, but
even sewers must he cleaned. Sparc
not the villains, even though wearing
stars and garters!’’
Although this is a tight for moral
reform, it is nevertheless a light in
which the social lutes are sharply
drawn. The middle clashes and hon
es' poor are loused to the highest
pitch of lory against the vicious no
blcweit and wealthy roues who are
systematically debauching their
daughters, conspiring for their ruin
at home and permitting them to be
exported abroad to gratify foreign
Just. It is dangerous to tamper with
the common people in a matter of
tins kind. The outrage committed
by Tarfjuin's brutal son upon I.ttcre
tia, caused the people to rise and ex
pel the entire brood of tyrants. Just
such vices on the part of
the French noble* brought their
heads to the guillotine in 1792. His
tory is full of hucli examples, and the
lecherous lords and plutocrats of Brit
ain will he blind indeed if they do
not take warning in time.
It is true that the Fall Mall Ga
zette and it* friends are vigorously
opposed by a powerful influence.
Even in this country the point is
made by such pajiers as the New
York Herald that great cities front
the earliest time have always been
the hot beds of vice. New York and
Chicago arc said to be as wicked as
Condon and Faria, aud ail of them
arc probably as bad a* Koine and
Athens ever were. The traffic in
•chastity exposed by the London paper
has always existed it is claimed, and
must exist in cities where there are
extremes of wealth and poverty. It
such is urged In this country, it may
be imagined how much more strong
ly it is urged in England. Fortun
ately, for the cause of morality,'the
editor of the Gazette ; s a mail with-
out fear, lie invites investigation,
and <h tie-prosecution. If they drag
him to the courts he threatens to
summon the Prince of Wales,the clean
of Canterbury. Mrs. Jeffries and naif
of the parliament, and prove his facts
by the very persons who have raised
the loudest clamor over the alleged
scandal.
It is a sad business ail the way
through, but, “even sewers must be
cleaned. Spare not the villains even
though wearing stars aud garters
Atlanta Constitution.
Congressman N. J. Hammond has
recently been to the White house, and
that means just this: That if Mr.,
Cleveland is a reformer and no re
specter of persons Kcnfroc will not be
appointed post-master of Atlanta.
Njw we shall see what we shall sec.—
A bany Nows.
TIIK COTTON CHOI’.
If is a fact accomplished that the
area of the cot ton crop oflßßs-s(i is the
most extensive over planted. Accord
ing to the department of Agriculture
the area is about eighteen million acres
blit tlu> Financial Chronicle’s tables
indicate an area of 15,719.000 acres,
showing an increase of 4.10 percent,
as compared with 1884, 7.20 per cent,
as compared with 1883. The area of
1882-83 was 16.590,000 acres, and the
yield was 6,002,000 bales, the largest
crop ever produced.
Jhe Chronicle publishers a report
upon the acreage and condition ol the
crop, witli its retrospective reveries
elaborate tables and searching analy
sis in forming intelligent opinions,
forms a models of careful and intelli
gent discussion. It is a work which
tbe National Department of Agricul
ture under any of its former heads,has
never approached in its discussions of
any crop, and which is uncqunled by
anv private enterprise in the field of
agricultural reporting.
The net result ol the last week’s
review is to indicate a great deal more
than is implied in showing that an
imeqnnied area lias been planted. It
is proven by ample statistical rompar
isons that a good stand in June is in
dispensable to a favorable result in
anv year; that tin's simple factor i al
most conclusive of its result. It j s
shown that the Juno stand of the
present crop is exceptionally favora
ble. A review of acreage in a se
ries of year* show remarkable diver
sity-. The area of 1884, (or instance,
which turned out a crop of about 5 -
690,000 bales, being 3,241.000 acres
greater than that of JBB2, which
yielded 6,992,000 bales the yield „t
each acre varying between 149 and
194 pounds. But the record proves
that there is a persistent analogy be
tween the early stand and condition,
anl and final yield per acre. The
crop of 1884, for instance, though
covering a verv excessive area, was
started under the disadvantage of a
rainy season, Iho roots wore accord
ly short, and when tiie drottth of the
latter summer -iipervcned. the plants
were not in an average condition to
draw sustenance from the subsoil.
The crop afISSS, therefore, with an
exceptionally good stand and an un
precedented acreage presents a re
markably brilliant promise. This is
particularly promising for the Miss
issippi valley and the central group
of cotton States.
The greatest increase in acreage is
that of Texas, 13 per cent., followed
by Louisiana with 8 per cent., Ar
kansas with 6 percent. audTennecsce
with per4edit. Texas has planted 3,-
680,000, or nearly one-filth of the
whole; Georgia, 3,067,000; Alabama,
2,984,000 and Mississippi, 2,564,000
acres.
It H shown t hat notwithstanding
the frequent fluctuation in yield, re
sulting from bad stand and summer
drouths, there is a rapid and steady
progression in periods of several years
In tbe six years ending 1872, the
yield averaged 3,167,000 bales per an
num; in the six years ending with
1878, the average was 4,771,000 bale*,
and in the six years ending with 18J4,
the average was 0,711,000.
It may he added !o the Chronicle’s
exhibit of the initial probabilities of
production, that the markets of the
world have remarkably reduced
stocks of cotton, tho present supply
beings less than any recent year, with
the single exception ot 1881.
The Health Monthly, l.i un article
on tropical plants and fruits says:
“The coca lcafof South America has
the power toappease hunger and thirst
and is therefore largely used by the
natives of Peru in their mountain
travels. A physician suggests that
this property of coca is due to its
awcslheitc effect upon the nerves of
the month, throat and stomach,
which nerics are drugged, lulled or
put to sleep by the influence of coca.
Thus the coca is not a substitute for
food, does not supply nourishment
and.those addicted to its use become
emaciated narcotized and broken
down generally in health. Men some
times remark if they have got to go
without a meal or 'obacco, they would
prefer the chew of tobacco. This al
so probably has something of the
same power as coca to allay the sense
of hunger, and its efTects in the long
run are equally disastrous.’’
Dr. Ferrari inoculates 600 cholera
patients daily in Spain.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1885.
THE BOGUS BONDS.
An esteemed con-respondent .in
Carolina calls upon tlm Chronicle ;to
stale the grounds upon which the
bonds of the State of Georgia were
repudiated. The story is a long one,
and the seiios of State securities dis
allowed. with the atm,nuts and rea
sons, have been pnltlis. ’din this pa
per. Probably the nost slice.not
presentation of *ho State’s position
has been made by Congressman N. J.
Hammond, of Atlanta, whose admi
rable letter was published in the
Chronicle on the 10th of June last. In
it he shows how the bonded debt of
the State was increased from five to
somewhere between ton and thirteen
million dollars; how the State’s en
dorsement hud been put upon railroad
bond* up to nearly six million of
dollars;how roads were recklessly
chartered and endorsed until, as Col.
llammoml says : “No man can im
agine where so many railroads in
Georgia were needed. The multi
tude of our roads to lie aided spawn
ed upon our statute hoiks in that
frtti'ful ten days, might have increas
ed ad infinitum had not the project
ors run out of the mime, of corpora
tors and of places to connect by rail
roads on paper, to he built bv paper
Very tew of them wore ever built or
ever begun.’, In each of these the
endorsement ol the State for front
812,000 to 815,000 per mile was offer
ed upon the terms specified in the
Constitution, and tlo completion of
sections of ten or twenty miles of
each road. And yet money was ad
vanced on these roads in plain viola
tion of the Constitution, before the
lines had been graded or issued, tttul
it has been shown by the purchasers
and holders that they knew all these
facts before they accepted the bonds
so endorsed. TheCartersville and Van
Wert railroad com; any bonds wore
endorsed under the law requiring five
miles to be completed, where but one
and halt miles were completed, and
later on $175,000 was advanced when
but three miles had been finished.
On 7:li of July 1871, Mr. Kimball, its
President, asked Gov. Bullock to en
dorse $300,000 of bonds, in the new
name,upon lie promise to withdraw
and cancel those $275,000 endorsed in
the old name. Governor Bullock en
dorsed and delivered as requested,
hut tlie first batch were not with
drawn or canceled. Clews was the
company’s treasurer, ami held these
bonds with lull knowledge of these
facts. These, then, are some of the
reasons why the State has outlawed
the bonds and declined to allow her
self to he sued in the courts tor their
consideration.—Augusta Chronicle.
KIL.I.IS(> I> OCO.XKK.
Ti* wife of the .flurdprrd Man Car*
riM Him !>• <1 Body from the
Field to the House.
One ot tiio most cold blooded and
heartless murders that has happened
for years in this section, occurred on
Friday evening in Dark Corner dis
trict, Oconee countv. The particu
lars of the difficulty as near as we
could gather, are about as follows:
George Hardeman the murdered man
had rented the McXortou place in
Hark Gorier district and rented a
parlion of the place to Crawford
Whitehead. Everything went on
smoothly until Whitehead’s crop got
considerably in the grant and Harde
man went to him and told hitn that
the crop must be worked. White
head did not pay much attention to
the warning and did not seem to care
much whether the crop was worked
or not. This brought forth, hard feel
ings between the two, which resulted
so fatally to Hardeman Friday eve
ning. Crawford Whitehead, armed
with a double barrel .shotgun went
to where llardctnan was at work in a
field near his house, and the trouble
was reopened and he shot Hardeman
killing him instantly. Mrs. Harde
man, the wife of the murdered man
hearing the firing of tnc gun, went
to the field and found the lifeless body
of her husband. She picked up the
bleeding remains and carried them to
the house. Whitehead, a'lcrhc com
mitted the bloody deed left for parts
unknown. Hardeman is represented
a hard working in-offensive man.—
Athens Banne.
Two murdtfrers were lynched near
Granada, Miss. Both had been con
victed ; one had been sentenced for
life, and the other had appealed to the
supreme court.
A UTAH CURIOSITY.
Flames leaping; from a Water Well-
Effect of the Scene by Night.
Mr. Tim Winters had a curious ex
perience on Saturday evening, lie
has been experimenting for some
time with a view to obtaining a flow
ing well on his premises. He had at
one lime a pipe to the depth of about
99 loot, but owing to meeting with
some hard substance, which made it
impossible to force the pipe any fur
ther, it was taken up. Another, how
ever, was inserted in its place, which
on Satu rdaevening had reached a
■depth of-854'eet. The water, howev
er, was of a light bluish color, resem
bling the refuscof the wash-tub more
than anything else, and came forth
like a miniature geyser, the eruptions
taking place at intervals of about 15
minutes, (lie fluid rising 10 or J 2
feet above the end of the pipe. On
Saturday evening a gentleman held a
lighted match over the pipe in order
to ascertain how near the top the wa
ter had reached, when he was startled
by a bright, strong flame breaking
forth and with such strength as to
cause him to retreat in haste.
Previous to that, Mr. Winter slates,
he had noticed a rather strong sulphu
ric odor, hid nothing that could pos
sibly have led him to imagine the re
sult that followed the application of
the match. On Sunday the place was
visited by scores of people, the news
having reach that portion of the city
and tiie minor of a discovery of natu
ral gas reached a Herald reporter yes
terday, who visited the residence of
Mr. Winters and inspected the curi
osity. Ji’or a time there are no indi
cations of water, save a deep, distant
rumbling as the ear is applied to the
tube; soon a foamy substance com
mences to bubble over, then tlio wa
ter rises slowly to the edge of the pipe
suddenly .shooting upwards. Tl.o
supply of gas is, however continuous,
the amount seeming to ho regulated
by the action of the water, the great
est qnanlty of gas beigg obtainable
during tbe time the water is run
ning; ami it is during tbe escapo Of
tlio fluid that Hie light burns with
the greatest intensity, thus present
ing the almost unparalleled specta
cle of tire and water coming forth at
the same timo and mingling with one
another tho water is very soft, lint
does nat appear lobe of an oily na
ture. At night Hie speetacle is de
scribed as being grand in the effect
produced. A couple of miners cat rled
away samples of the sediment pro
duced from the water yesterday
with the object, it is understood, of
having it thoroughly examined.
A NEGRO.
A negro is a black man and not a
“colored” man, because black isn’t a
color. People that are not black are
not negroes, properly speaking, but
“colored” people. MJihittoes are “col
ored” people. People possessed of any
of the various shades of color are col
ored people; hut black people do not
conic within any possible combina
tion of colors and so it is nonsense to
call them “colored.” Ilencu, in speak
ing of the recently emancipated class
we term them “negroes and colored,”
inasmuch as neither of the form* in
cludes them all. The word “nigger”
is not in our vocabuiarv.
There is no human virtue m any
possible color, and there is no re
proach in the want of it. A sensible
negro will not be ashamed to ho a ne
gro ; for ho will know that the esti
mate in which lie is held will be bas
ed upoii his character and
not upon his want of color.
It argues a want of sense
on his part to rejeetthe word “negro,”
applicable, to himself, and shows
that be believes that the term embod
ies a reproach.—Albany News.
Of all the cool things in this ago of
check, the passagi cited front tlioscn
tcnce of death passed by a Judge in
Wyoming, upon a condemned mur
derer, is certainly the coolest. After
reviewing the trial, his Honor said .o
the prisoner: “I am by no means
satisfied with the evidence in the case
and am not sure whether you killed
John Forbes or whether he died by a
visitation of God, but my sentence is
that you be hanged on the third Fri
day of June; and should you know of
your own innocence you will have
the comforting thought that it is
doubted by somo of the wisest think
ers of the age whether life is, under
any circumstances, worth living.”
GOOD HEADING FOR YOUNG MEN.
The late Edwards Pierrepont, who
distinguished hintsclf as secretary
of tho American legation at Rome,
once received a letter front his father
which contained the following sound
advice:
Dress like a gentleman ; never he
peculiar or flashy, but dress as be
comes von, not as becomes someone
else. Never talk about your expen
ses or your money, and never be
ashamed to live with economy; on
the contrary ho proud of it. Your
business now is to acquire knowledge
and you need not bo anxious to dis
play yours, especially to older men,
but always try to learn of them.
Nevcr|say to another what, it would
be unpleasant to have him say to you.
Remember that good manners are
of great importance. Manners should
be frank and easy, with dignity.
Avoid fawning, toadying ways as
vou would the foul fiend. Never
lawn to a prince or swagger to a
peasant. Be courteous and manly
everywhere and to every body.
Let your manners bequict; nothing
is more underbred than a flurried ad
dress, with a face wrinkled all over
with grinning delight.
The countenance can express pleas
ure and welcome without idiotic con
tortions, and when these appear,
whether in the son of a duke Jor a
drayman, they are intensely vulgar.
You cannot have good manners in
the drawing room if your habitual
manner is bad ; the habit will betray
yon ; let the habit be always good.
Far belter that you look frigid ev
en, than that yon degrade your coun
tenance with silly hilarity.
Bea gentleman, feel like a gentle
man, and you will look and act like
one.
Sometimes you will bo neglected,
and your vanity may feel wounded.
Nevet let this annoy you. Be abso
lutely .sure that in due time all will
come right, and that you will have
all tho consineration that you merit.
No ono can do you any permanent,
injury but yourself. Tlio world i*
so constituted that it is not in men’s
power to withhold respect from lofty
character, real ability and good con
duct.
You may be invited to a bull or
dinner because you dance or tell a
good story ; but no one since the time
ol (jnpon Elizabeth has been made a
flahinet minister or a lord chancellor
for such reasons.
THE uoTnscim, i>.h.
The great banking house
of Rothschild orginated in Frank
fort, Germany, about 150
years ago. The founder the house
dealt in old clothes, and had for a
a sign a red shield, which in German,
is rot h scliild. The son of the old
clothes dealer continued the same
business, became a pawn-broker and
loaned money. Ho succeeded so well
that lie died in 1812 leaving a fortune
ot $.7,000,(XXX He bound his five sons
by a solemn oath *0 follow the busi
ness together, holding the property in
partnership, and extending their op
erations so that all the world should
know the firm of Rothschild. The
sons were true lo their oath. They
occupied the great financial centres
of the world and worked for the com
mon interest. Nathan in London
prospered wonderfully. 110 witness
ed the battle of Waterloo, and by ex
traordinary efforts reached .London in
advance of the official couriers. He
reported a great victory for Napoleon,
aud slock went down to almost noth
ing. He refused to buy, but had
scores of agents purchasing: The
next day Welligton’s messenger ar
rived. The truth was known, and
stocks went up. By this singlo lie
the great houso of Rothschild made
$5,(XX),000, After that the firm rolled
in wealth. It made its pow
er felt iu the palace of every ruler in
the far East, and in this Western
world at tho fircsido of the New Eng
land farmer, and in the log cabin of
the pioneer. The Rothschilds of to
day have the spirit of (heir ancestors.
They wield a dangerous power.
They have but to set their
combinations to work to affect
the price of the daily bread of every
laborer in the civilized world. With
their encouragement kings and em
perors stand ready to rush into bloody
wars. It is in their power to give us
flush times or to bring on a general
panic. Doubtless the world would be
better off’ without them.
NO. 29
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.
Apropos of suffrage for women,
Gov. Francis E. Warren of Wyom
ing Territory, who ;s now in Boston,
writes as follows on the practical
workings of woman suffrage in that
territory, in a letter addressed to a
member of the legislature: I huvo
been a citizen of that Territory ever
since its organization while it was
yet a part of Dakota. And from niy
experience and observation I a iu
compelled to say in justice to women
ot Wyoming that woman siifl'rage
lias not lowered the grade of public
officials in that territory. On tlio
contrary, our women consider much
more carefully than our men tiie
.character of tho candidates, and both
political parties have found them
selves obliged to nominate their best
men in oilier to obtained the best
men in order to obtain the support of
the women. Asa business man, city
county and territorial officer, and no v
as Governor of Wyoming Territory I
have seen much of the woman suffrage
but ! have yet to hear of the first case
ot domestic record growing out of it
Our women nearly all vote, and since
hi Wyoming, as elsewhere, the ma
jority of women arc good and not
bad, the result is good and not evil.
V bile I had no hand is passing the
act which gave to women this privi
leged must knowledge its success now
after fifteen years’ trial; ami I will
add that no attempt to repeal tho law
bus been made for ten years, and
none I believe is contemplated; tho
practical workings of woman SU f.
t rage commend it more to favor
among men and women as they under
stand it better and know more of its
ln "‘ B ' It has been productive of
much good in our Territory. If (i, c
women of Massachusetts ai'o as intel-
Itgetit and public spirited as those of
Wyoming (and I have no reason to
doubt they ate) their political influ
ence will ho for good government and
public order. Certainly ibis is the
case in Wyoming,”
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS
A circular sent out by four cotton
manufacturing companies—two at
Columbus,Ga., one at Memphis,Tenn.
and one at Grantevillc, S. c. to
Southern cotton milts stockholders
asserts that for tho last three years
cotton manufacturing industries i„
the South have been on tho decline,
and Unit nino-tcntlis of tho cotton
nulls are in a deplorable condition.
Jhe purpose of the circular is to
bring about an agreement among mills
owners to limit production by dosing
a certain number of mills. The prop
position, of coui'so, is that those which
are closed shall participate in tho
profits of those which remain open
Tho depression i„ co(ton Koodß . g
greater titan it lias been in years. The
price of them is remarkably low. The
impression all along has been, how
ever, that the Southern mills were do.
tug much better than the Northern
mills. This circular, however, leaves
giouml for reasonable doubt on that
point. At the prices at present pre
vailing, there is no margin of profit
tor the mills, and from tho tones of tiie
circular they will suffer serious loss
if something is not done to relieve an
overburdened market, despooling
plan suggests itself l 0 some of tho
mill owners as tho best that can bo
adopted at this timo. It will ho known
soon probably whether it meets tl.o
approval of a majority of them.—Sa
vannah News.
The growing demand for soul hern
n on out west encourages the produc
ers of Alabama and Tcnnesee. There
has been no material advance in price
but there is a better feeling i„ the
market and the furnaces aro rapidly
selling their surplus stock. Much
southern iron is now being shipped
to Chicago, where itcomcs into direct
competition with Lake Superior iron,
rho Pennsylvania iron men are re*
joiced to know that the atten
tion of their southern competltoi®
is being diverted to tho west. A good
deal of southern Iron, however, still
comes cast on old contracts and prob
ably the greater part of tho Virginia
output is sold in our eastern mar
kets.—Boston I’ost.
In a slugging match with the devil
Sam Jones knocks that Plutonian
functionary out of time with a regu
lar John L. Sullivan lick.accornpanied
/villi a sort of lay-on-McDuff iuvlta
-1 tioa te como again.—Texas paper.