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| J. H. ESTILL. President. 1
SHELLING OPT THE CASH.
the govern memt rbadt to buy
$16,000,000 4‘S
Interest for Three-Quarters of a Year
to be Paid on Currency o’s A- State
ment as to the Effect of the New
Order on the Circulation.
New York, Sept. 14J — Secretary Win
dom left the Fifth Avenue hotel this even
ing for Williamstown, Mass., to join his
family. Ha received but few callers at the
hotel during the day, and in the afternoon
he announced to the representatives of the
press the plan he had devised for the relief of
thejstringency in the money market. Asa re
mit of his conference with the bank presidents
and financiers at the sub-treasury on Satur
day Secretary Windon said that he had de
cided to receive proposals for the sale of As
to the amount of *16,000,000, the proposals
to he received at the treasury department
in Washington at 12 o’clock Wednesday,
next. These bonds the secretary will pur
chase if a reasonable price is asked for
them.
PREPAYMENT OF INTEREST.
At the same time Secretary Wmdom will
offer to prepay for three-fourths of the
year tbe interest on the currency 6’s. The
announcement of these offers will come
from Washington over the secretary’s
signature on Wednesday morning, where it
will be officially formulated. Secretary
Windoin said that it was not usual for state
ments of the above kind to be made
before they emanated officially from Wash
ington, but owing to the anxiety of so
many of the business community to know
what was going to be done by the treasury
department m the premises, ne thought it
best to announce beforehand, although it
was Sunday, his intentions.
THE OFFER MADE,
Washington, Sept. 14. —The following
circular has been issued by the treasury de
partment :
Treasury Department, I
Washington', Sept. 13, 1890. (
In pursuance of the authority contained in
section 3of the act of March 8, IWI, public no
tice is hereby given that, with a
view to the purchase of $16,000,000
of bonds of the 4 per cent, loan
of 1907. proposals for the sale of such bonds
to the government will be received at the treas
ury department, in the city of Washington, D.
C., at noon, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1890. The
right to reject any or all bids is hereby ex
pressly reserved.
W illiam Windom, Secretary.
PREPAYMENT OF INTEREST.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di
rected that arrangements be made for the
prepayment of the interest due Jan. land
July f, 1891, on the bonds commonly known
as currency 6s. The treasurer and assistant
treasurer of the United States will there
fore be instructed to begin prepayment as
soon as the necessary blanks and stamps
are received by them, which will not be
later than Wwinesday, Sept. 17, for all of
fices east of Chicago, Persons desiring
prepayment of interest on currency 6s may
present them on and after that date, to be
stamped in the same manner as in the case
of 4s, and will be required'to sign the receipt
prescribed by the department. Those re
siding at a distance from point of payment
who intend to forward their bonds to be
stamped, will save time by awaiting ;the
blank receipt which the department Intends
to mail to eaoh holder who is recorded on
the books.
EFFECT ON THE CURRENCY.
In answering an inquiry from a Phila
delphia banker as to the net effect upon
the circulation of all the treasury opera
tions during the past month, the treasury
department has prepared the following
statement, covering all the recepts and dis
bursements of the government during the
period from Aug 15, 1890, to Sept. 13 in
clusive: Exp .ditures for the purchase
and redemption of bonds since Aug. 15,
1890, under the circulars of Aug. 19, 21 and
30, and for the pre-payment of interest
under the circular of Sept. 6, 1890, the cir
culars of Aug. 19 and 21, *21,100,000; 4Us
redeemed nearly all at 104 M, $22,043,310;
circular of Aug. 80, $10,103,100 ; 4Ws re
deemed at 104>£, $10,557,739.50; purchase of
4s, *2,411,450, at 125, and 125, *2,997 623-
prepayment or interest to and including
Sept, 13, $2,897,724; September interest
on *1,197,920; redemption of national
bank notes, *1,800,000; total expenditures on
account of the public debt, $41,494,316 50-
payments for silver bullion, *6,000,000;
ordinary expenditures from Aug. 15 to
Sept. 3, inolusive, *33,802,150 17; aggregate
disbursements, *81,296,466 67; total reoeipts
during the same period, including national
bank redemption fund, $37,340;169 01; dis
bursements In exoess of rooeipts for the
period named, *43,236,307 66.
GEN. NETTLETON’S COMMENTS.
°? 1110 fore 2<dng statement,
L*®' Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, to-night said; “The item of
r 7^ xpewiiturea ’ deludes about *19,-
9W.000 of pension payments, checks for
which began to be drawn Sept. 4. This
exhibit, supplementing tbe facts
recently published respecting tbe
C a T,Bß9°* th ,° , treasury* since
1889 . conclusively answers the
mistaken assertion sometimes made that the
treasnry either is now, or has reoently been,
engaged in absorbing and then hoarding
nc. easing amount of money of the ooun
tho ot^er mistaken statement that
mentT 11 r . noisurPS by the depart
irun mODe y °ut tbo treasury and
bm Uni c^arine^8 of business have born©
““ U ™ u An excess of disbursements
thirty i roceipts °f nearly *44.000,000 ia
“Irty days is a record.
Ready to pay out more.
tho £! dd , lUon *** fk* B accomplished result,
Unc rea(J y to disburse, if the
updo. 6rs wiU accept, about *10,000,900
ate, D^ 0 . Be ?n® tary ’ s aecond call for
an*iot b 0- * 21 ’,000,000, under the offer to
mtorest on 4s and currency 6s,and
u- *20,000,000 for the purchase of 4s on
btlSku llay Eext > if tendered at prices not
tan- Dt ‘ ** in addition to the ordi
ttasei I ”™* disbursements and silver pur
'-•SEtMANY LBQALiaSB SLAVERY.
Arai) 'ihalerß Authorised to Resume
the Traffic.
, Sept. 14.—The German au
uorV * at Ba K amo 7° havo published a
fr.,' ! i )erm i t fing everybody to engage
- in iite slave trafflo, and only pro
the exportation of slaves by sea.
reenvf- 6 dealers are also authorized to
jovpi f, r ,'i na , ways * The Arabs are over
er7 ? thus afforded them, and
In con! nly bu yi n f? slaves at street auctions.
o.L ■ uen^ 0 °f this aotion of the German
<L U ln^Ul °f Arab slave dealers is
TICINO’S REVOLUTION.
rovisional Government With
dtews Under Photeet.
14.—Thi morning tbe pr
un,i Ua K ° vornment of Ticioo withdrew
to fv!i P T- ,t ° St and hanf ied over thoir offices
V e ,-!' j commander of the canton,
at k„iu rai tro °P* have occupied tbe palace
'iiciao UU2Ona > Olle of throe capitals of
HJofning
BLACK STUDENTS RULED OUT.
Tbe Maryland Law School Closes ‘.lts
Doors Against Them.
Baltimore, Sept 14.— The Maryland
Law School has determined that it will ad
mit no more colored students. Last year
two colored students, named Cummins
and Johnson, the first who ever attended
lectures there, were graduated with
high honors. After their graduation two
mure colored students, W. Ashhie Hawkins
and John L. Dozier, applied for admission
and were received. They have been at the
universitv or.e year and have been notified
by John P. Poe, on the part of the regents,
that they cannot return.
OBJECTION BY THE WHITES.
The white students of the law, medical
and dental departments of the university
sent a petition to the faculty protesting
against the admission of any colored stu
dents to the law sohool. Mr. Poe says that
some time last winter a petition against the
admission or retention of oolored students
was laid before the faculty, signed by
nearly all of the ninety-nine students,
ACTED ON BY THE REGENTS.
The mutter has been continuously agi
tated since that time, and this summer the
regents, into whose hands the question was
left for adjudication, had held several
meetings and considered it very carefully
in all its bearings. They had finally re
solved that it would be unwise to endanger
the school or jeopardize its interests in any
way by any longer allowing colored stu
dents to attend the school in the face of
such manifest opposition. A number of
students had left the school, and others had
refused to enter because of the prepuce of
the two oolored men, and the school was
continually liable to those losses so long as
that state of affairs lasted.
THE CHIEF CONSIDERATION.
That wns the chief consideration in
fluencing the action of the regents, and in
view of their exceedingly low record they
did not feel it incumbent upon them to
force an issue on their account. Hawkins
is the principal of the public school at
Towson. Dozier will go to Howard univer
sity in Washington. Hawkins states that
the action of the faculty practically shuts
him out of all possibility of entering the
legal profession. He Is so placed, being a
married man, that he cannot leave his
present position to study elsewhere.
HARRISON’S VACATION,
Ho Will Probably Return to Washing
ton Saturday.
Cresson Springs, Pa. , Sept 14.—Presi
dent Harrison and family passod Sunday as
usual to-day. In the morning they at
tended divine services In the parlor of the
Mountain bouse. Rev. Fred C. Cowper
of the Protestant Episcopal church at Wash
ington, Pa., officiated, and preached a short
sermon. Miss Jeannette Halford, daughter
of private secretarv Halford, sing Haudel’s
“Hope in the Lord’’ with good effect. A
collection was taken up for the benefit of
deaf mutes generally, and the President was
a liberal contributor.
A WALK IN THE AFTERNOON.
In the afternoon the President and Mrs.
Dimmick took a long walk over the moun
tains. There has boon a decided fall in the
temperature here during the past twenty
four hours, and to-day Tog fires are burning
brightly In the hotel and all the cottages,
including the one occupied by the chief ex
ecutive.
TO LEAVE SATURDAY.
While the President will not admit that
such is his intention, it is regarded here as
practically settled that ho will return to
Washington Saturday. Tne season ends
that day wiih the closing of the Mountain
house. So, if the President remains longer,
he will find the place decidedly lonesome, to
say nothing of the difficulty of procuring
meals at the country inns, the nearest of
which is over a mile from his cottage,
which has scarcely any convenience for
cooking.
During the coming week the President
and his family will visit Johnstown, Bell’s
Gap, Rhododondon park and one or two
other points of interest in this vicinity. On
these trips they will be the guests of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with
George W. Boyd, assistant general passen
ger agent, as its representative.
ROBERT RAY HAMILTON A CORPSE.
Hia Body Found on Hia Ranch by Nor
vln Green’s Bon.
Helena, Sept. 14. —J. O. Green, son of
President Norvin Green of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, returned to
Helena Friday after a tour in the Yellow
stone National Park. Mr. Green says that
on Aug. 23, while an his way into the park
from the Union Pacific, he stopped at the
ranch of Robert Ray Hamilton of New
York, whose trouble with his wife caused
such a sensation a year ago. Mr. Green
says Mr. Hamilton had bought the
ranch about two moni.hs ago and had made
it an outfitting place for park tourists. Mr.
Green found on his arrival at Mr. Hamil
ton’s ranch that the owner had been gone
on a hunting trip five days.
HAMILTON’S BODY FOUND.
The next day Mr. Green and his party
started to hunt up Mr. Hamilton. About
thirty miles from the ranch Mr. Green dis
covered his body in Snake river, and his
horse and dog a little distance away. Mr.
Hamilton was identified beyond all doubt
by Mr. Green, who had the body taken to
the ranch, and who notified Mr. Hamilton's
family. Mr. Green was surprised to hear
that the above facts had not been pub
lished.
AN EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED.
One Passenger Killed and Fifteen In
jured.
St. Louis, Sept. 14.—The through Kansas
City express of the Missouri Pacific railway,
which left St. Louis at 9 o’clock last night,
was partially wrecked at Glencoe switch,
about twenty-seven miles west of St. Louis.
One passenger was killed and fifteen injured,
four fatally.
SUFFRAGE FOR TOILERS.
Opening of the Workmen’s Congress
at Brussels.
Brussels, Sept 14.—The workmen’s suf
frage congress opened to-day. M. Defus
sons was elected president Five hundred
delegates, representing 400 socioties, were
present. Among the delegates was Signor
Costa, the Italian deputy. Tbe congress,
by a large majority, resolved to hold mon
ster demonstrations in the chief towns of
Belgium on Sunday proceeding the meeting
of parliament in favor of universal suffrage.
a general strike favored.
At the afternoon session there was an
animated discussion on the subject of a
general strike. This resulted iu the unani
mous adoption of a resolution declaring in
favor of tbe principle of a general strike,
bat the congress decided not to fix the date
of tile proposed movement at present.
W ben the conference adjourned the dele
gates left the hall singing the “ Mar
seillaise. ”
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1890.
KENNEDY’S WAR ON QUAY
T3B OHIOAN'S BITTER SPEECH
PRINTED IN THE RECORD.
The Allusions to “a Convicted Crimi
nal” and ‘‘a Second Judas Iscariot”
Eliminated Quay Not Called by
Name tn the Printed Version—Quay
Forced to Make a Reply.
Washington, Sept. 14.— Representative
Kennedy of Ohio printed his Quay speech
in the Record this morning, but it has been
toned down to come under the ban of par
liamentary language. In the speech on the
floor he made the charges of a "convicted
criminal,” and a second Judas Iscariot
against “Matt Quay.” In the speech in the
Record he does not oall Senator Quay by
name, but makes the ohargei against "the
chairman of the ropublioan oomraittee.”
He also materially modifies his language in
denunciation of the Senate, in order that
that body will have no ground upon which
to make public or official complaint. But
the speech as it is printed is very salty.
The charges against Senator Quay are the
same as made iu the newspapers.
must break his silence.
Now that the speech has been officially
printed Senator Quay must either deny or
stand a convicted criminal before the peo
ple of the country. He could remain silent
under the charges of democratic papers, but
under the same charges from a republican
congressman he must either speak out or
get out. The simple bandying of epithets
will not satisfy the country. Representative
Kennedy might be a "blackguard and a
loaffer,” but because he is that it is no proof
that Senator Quay is not “a thief.” He
must deny it and give those that have
charged it upon him an opportunity to
prove it and force hitn to the wall. If he
is not a thief he should be able to prove it.
Probably the House will take some action
to-morrow, and in that event there will be a
scene simitar to that precipitated a few
weeks ago by Cannon.
its severity not modified.
The revised speech Is hardly less severe
than as originally delivered, but it is be
lieved by congressmen from Ohio to be now
in conformity with the rules of the House
governing criticisms in debate in the other
branch of the legislature. The first part of
the speeoh, which was devoted to the
federal election bill. Is unchanged. Coming
down to the attack upon the Senate, Jno
change is made in that part referring to the
high character and Btandiug of Webster,
Clay, Fessenden and Wade. Then,
after declaring that Ohio has twice
within a decade been disgraced by senators
chosen "simply because they were able to
outbid other contestants,” tnere is this sen
tence: “Surely the cloak of senatorial
courtesy has been used to hide infamy and
corruption, which has dishonored and dis
graced a body which was once the proudest
in the land.” This Is the only reference to
the cloak of senatorial courtesy, all that
port declaring that senatorial courtesy bad
become a stench ia the nostrils of the people
and a cloak to cover uo infamies being
omitted.
changes as to quay.
The only chaugo ma'de so far as Senator
Quay is concerned consists in the elemina
tion of the word “criminal”, where it oc
curs in two places, and of the omission of all
mention of Senator Quay by name. Where
it was suggested in the original speech that
Judas, when he hanged himself, had left
“an example for Matt Quay that is well
worthy of his imitation,” there is substi
tuted therefor the following: “An examole
well worthy of imitation.’’
The sentence, “The Republican party
cannot afford to follow the lead of a branded
criminal,” is struck out altogether, and
later on, fc-here it was said, “He stands a
convicted criminal before the bar of public
opinion,” a change is made so as to read,
"He stands convicted before the bar of pub
lic opinion.”
BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS.
A Row With His Wife Drives a Man
to feuicide.
Thomasvtlle, Ga., Sept, 14.—A sensa
tional suicide occurred at Metcalfe, in this
county, this afternoon. B. B. Doss, who
lives near Tallahassee, put a pistol ball
through his head in the rear part of Rube
Manning’s store. At last accounts he was
still living, but will die before
morning. Ho is about 40 years old,
married and the father of several’ children,
llis brother, Capt. R. P. Doss, Is a
prominent citizen of this county and the
chairman of the county democratic execu
tive committee. The cause of his rash act
is family troubles, his wife having left him
and take-i up her abode with her foster
father, Rube Manning. She had also in
stituted proceedings for divorce. Mr. Doss
stated to friends iR this city on Friday last
that his mind was made up that if
his wife had waited a few days she
would have had no trouble to sue for a
divoroe. He also stated, before going to
Metcalfe, that he would either briug away
his wife or kill himself. He was a desporato
man, and his tragic end does not greatly
surprise those who knew him.
DRINK IN CLUB BOOMS.
Atlanta’s Police to Stop Sunday Tip
puns' In Private.
Atlanta, Ga., Sopt. 14.—C. P. Johnson,
a saloon-keeper and a member of the Em
met olub, was arrested to-day on a charge
of keeping open a tippling house on the
Sabbath. The rooms of the olub were
raided by the police and Johnson’s
bar-keeper was found with his apron on be
hind the counter, and in the oash drawer
was S3O taken in to-day. The members of
the ciub have been calling for beer, whisky
and cigars whenever they wanted it and
paying for it, the money being used
to pay expenses and to bury dead members.
They claim that they have the right
to do this under their char
ter, but the polloe officers
think it is a violation of the law, and so Re
corder Kontz has always held. There i#
some talk of investigating Atlanta’s swell
Capital City club and others, as the officers
say they have been in the habit of doing
what the members of the Emmet Club have
done.
SOUTHAMPTON’S STRIKERS.
The DOCs. Companies Decide on a
Oeneral Lockout.
Southampton, Sept 14. —All of the dock
companies have decided on a general lock
out until further notice. Tbi3 has caused
much Irritation. The strikers received
only from baif a crown to four shillings
strike pay instead of half a guinea, which
they had expected. Many were so angry
at receiving the smaller amount that they
destroyed their tickets.
A Big Blaze at Havre.
Havre, Sept. 14.—The United stevedores’
sheds, with freezing chambers, machinery
and 80,000 carcasses of mutton, were
destroyed by fire to-day.
THIS WEEK IN OONQHBB3.
Tbe Senate to Follow Out the Caucus
Programme.
Washington, Sept. 14.—1 tis expected
that Senator Handers will conclude his
speech upon the conference report on the
land grant forfeiture bill to-morrow, and
that the report will then be agreed to.
If it is theu not too late in the day, Mr.
Sawyer will oall up the anti-lottery bill,
wnich has already passed the House.
Otherwise, he will ask the Senate to dispose
of the private pension bills on the calendar,
postponing the anti-lottery bill until Tues
day. So far as is known there will be no
open opposition made to the passage of
this bilL Mr. Gibson of Louisiana will
speak in its favor, and if any opposition
develops on the floor Mr. Spooner and Mr.
Casey, the latter of North Dakota, will
support the measure. But it is Mr. Saw
yer’s hope that Mr. Gibson's speech be
the only one delivered.
THE NEXT IN ORDER.
Following the anti-lottery bill on the
order of business adopted by the republican
caucus are the bills to repeal the timber
culture act, to establish private land courts,
for the relief of the supremo court, and the
labor bills. It is hardly probable that all
these will be disposed of this week; but,
should it prove to be the case, rapid pro
gress will be checked when the bill to
transfer the revenue marine service from
the treasury to the navy depart
ment, the next on the programme,
is reached. This bill has been discussed
a number of times during the session, but
the opposition always prevented a vote. Ho
far as known the opponents of the measure
are still equally determined that it shall not
pass, and, as they include some of the best
tacticians on both sides of the Senate, a
long debate may be anticipated. An hour
every day, under the order adopted by the
Senate last week, will be devoted to the
consideration of bills on the caloudar to
which no objection is made.
In the House.
The opposition shown by the minority in
the House to the consideration of the
Langston- t enable election ease had the effect
the more strongly to determine the repub
lican loaders that the House shad act upon
that case, as well as upon the Miller-Eiliott
case. It has been urged upon tbe absent
republican members that the party could
hardly afford to abandon the ool
ored republican . contestants, after
seating a number of white repub
lican members. A largo number
of telegrams have been sent to the absentees
requesting their attendance here, and if a
quorum ie obtained by Monday or Tuesday
it is the intention to dispose if the two ejec
tion cases without argument beyond the
forty minutes talk allowed by the rules in
each case after the previous question has
been ordered.
THE TARIFF BILL.
After that will follow the tariff bill. Al
ready Chairman McKinley has prepared a
way for speedy action upon the bill by this
resolution, indorsed by last night’s caucus,
providing for a suspension of ihe ordinary
rules and conderation of the bill by the
House itself instead of in committee of tne
whole. The time to be allowed for consider
ation was left blank in the resolution, to be
filled in by the committee on rules. It is
the impression that not more than two or
three days at the most will be so consumed,
and that if a quorum is in attendance the
tariff bill will go to conference before the
end of the present week.
GOODS IN BOND.
Senator Aldrich Explains the Action of
the Senate Committee.
Washington, Sept. 14. -Senator Aldrich
said to au Associated Bress reporter to
night: “There seems to be some misappre
hension in regard to the purpose and effect
of the Senate amendment to section 31 of
the tariff bilL This section, os it passed
the House, provided that all imported mer
chandise in bonded warehouses at the time
the bill wont into effect should be dutiable
at the new rates.
WOULD HAVE PREVENTED WITHDRAWAL.
“If the Senate had adopted this section no
extension of time for the withdrawal of
goods in bond at the old rates would have
bean possible. In order that the matter
might be open for conference an amendment
was offered that afforded opportunity for
future consideration. This amendment was
not intended in any sense to be finally ex
pressive of the judgment of the Senate
committee.”
GEN. JOHN S. CROCKER DEAD.
He Was Warden of the Jail of the
District of Columbia.
Washington, Sept. 14.—Gen. John S.
Crocker, warden of the district jail, died at
bis residence tn this oity to-day. He was
appointed warden in 1869, and during tho
Guiceau excitement had charge of
all the arrangements for his confine
ment and hanging. Gen. Crocker served
in the army of the Potomac under Gens.
McClellan, Moade and Hooker, and was
captured by the confederates in 1864 Af
ter being imprLsioned in Libbey, Salisbury,
and Belle Isle, by special arrangement of
Secretary Stanton he wa3 exchanged for
Col. Chancellor of the confederate army.
A Telegraph Office Burned.
Washington, Sept. 14, 11 p. m.—ln
formation has been received here that the
Western Union telegraph office at Lynch
burg, Va, is on fire. It is reported that it
will be a total loss.
,>>NBD WITH AN AX.
> . His Father to Bava
His own Life.
Griffin, Ga., Sopt. 14. —James Moore,
an 18-year-old negro boy, brained his father,
Handy Moore, with an ax lost night tn a
negro settlement in the suburbs of the oity.
His testimony and that of his mother
before the coroner’s jury to-day was that
the elder Moore was cursing and abusing his
wife and threatened to kill her, and made
an effort to cut her, when the boy halloaed
to her and she dodged his blow. This an
gered the elder Moore still more, and he
turned his attention to the boy, with the re
sult stated. The jury returned a verdiot of
voluntary manslaughter, and the boy is
held in Spalding jail to await his trial.
PIEROS COUNTY RADICALB.
Rev. A. O. White Nominated for the
Legislature and Delegates Chosen.
Blacksheab, Ga., Sept 14.—The Repub
lican party held a meeting at the court
house here yesterday for the purpose of
electing delegates to the congresiioml con
vention at Way cross, and to nominate a
representative. After a very inharmonious
mooting they took a recess at 6 o’clock until
7, when they reassembled, and succeeded,
after much wrangling, in nominating Rev.
A. C. White for representative, aud ap
pointing delegate* to the Way cross conven
tion.
WHITE MEN MUST RULE
PERFLFXITIEB OF THE PROBLEM
IN MISSISSIPPI
Powerful Cppoeltton Developed to
the Property or Educational Quali
fication Schemes Many Poor
Whites Would be Cut Off by the
Adoption of Either.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 14.—Now that tho
mist of debate has cleared away trum the
atmosphere of the oonetitutional conven
tion ft may not be untimely to give a short
review of tbe situation. The perplexities
that surround tbe suffrage problem seeni to
have increased with tho discussion. The de
bate of the post ten days has developed a
powerful opposition to either an educa
tional or a property qualification, and tho
delegates of the white counties are unooin
promiting iu their hostility to such restric
tion of the suffrage.
WOULD CUT OFF MANY WHITES.
They maintain that largo numbers of their
white constituents will bo disfranchised by
tho engrafting of such suffrage limitations
upon tiie constitution, and a serious schism
iu the Democratic party ranks is imminent
if the Chrisman aniouduient, which em
bodies thut idea, is carried through. Tl.e
delegates from the black counties contend,
on the other hand, that tbo quo3tiou de
mands heroio remedies.
THE FOUR PLAN&
Four plans of settling the suffrage ques
tion havo been proposed, and neither one of
the four has mot with the prep inderance of
support necessary to harmonious adjust
ment of the quostion. The committee to
whom was entrusted the task of
formulating a suffrage plan sub
mitted a plau which its chairman
announces did not reflect the views of any
considerable majority of the committee,
but represented the basis of a compromise,
which was thought to lie the best settlement
possible, in view of tha divergent views
that prevailed. That report is divided iuto
three branches—apportionment, franchise
and electoral colleges.
THE GERRYMANDER.
Under the apportionment plan the state
gerrymandered, giving the preponderance
of power to tho poorer, white counties and
taking from tho rich, black counties, which
pay tho heaviest share of taxon, a lurge por
tion of their sovereignty.
The doctoral oollege plan makes an elec
toral college of tho lower house of the legis
lature, and its province is to elect all state
officers in accordance with the wishes of the
po >ple as expressed at primaries, eaoh
county to have as many votes lu the elec
toral oollege as it has representatives in the
House.
The franchise branch of the report limit
the right to vote to those who ha ve resided
two years in the state and ouo in the oounty,
and have prepaid a poll tax of *2. It also
prescribes a system of voting modeled upon
tbe Australian plan.
THE OBJECTIONS TO THE REPORT.
The objections to the report are reflected
in the speeches of thoso who have opposed
it. The black counties demur to the abridg
ment of their sovereignty. Tho others in
sist that the proposed educational qualifica
tion is a temporary expedient, and that in
a few years the danger of negro domination
and consequent financial ruin of the
state will be greater than
ever before. The Australian ballot
system is criticised as easily evaded and
wholly inadequate bo moot tho present
emergency. The report is also objected to
because it makes no provision for white
supremacy in tho oounty governments,
which is considered to be of weightier im
portance than executive or legislative
coutroL
RAIN DAMAGING COTTON.
Discouraging News From tbe Georgia
Plantations.
Atlanta, Ga., Hept. 14.— The rains since
the Ist of August havo made a vast differ
ence in tbe cotton crop, auu the present
outlook is that, in Georgia, it will be at
least 25 per cent, short. This information
comas from tho department of agriculture
of tho s'ate, through ar. interview with Col.
John Waddell, commissioner.
A HEAVY FALLING OFF.
He says: "Our report or tho condition of
the ertv Hept. 1 was 81 per cent, of the
average. That was a falling off of twelve
poiuts during August. This was due to
rust caused by tho exoessive rain, and the
same cause will depreciate the condition of
the crop at least ten points more by the
time our October report comes in.
STILL FURTHER DAMAGE.
“The rains of tho past two weeks
have made the rust much worse,
and there is already additional
damage of ten points since Sept.
1. I have been nearly oil oror the state and
know whereof of speak. The rust is par
ticularly bad in Southwest Georgia In
North Georgia the condition of the crop is
better, but tho best reports corne from
counties where there is not much cotton
raised.”
CALVIN FOR SPEAKER.
Richmond’s Popular Legislator in the
Race for the Place.
Augusta, Sept. 14.—Among the demo
cratic nominees for tbe legislature from
this county is Hon. Martin V. Calvin, who
has been a member of tha House since 1888.
He was the only man in the last House
having a fourth consecutive term. His
nomination guarantees him a fifth consecu
tive term. He served acceptably as speaker
pro tem. of the last House. During the en
forced absence of Speaker Clay,
through several weeks, Mr. Calvin
was in charge of the House. There
is abundant testimony to the perfectly
satisfactory manner in which be met the
responsibilities of the occasion. Through
his eight years’service he proved himself an
earnest friend of agriculture, education and
feneral progress. He is well and favorably
nown throughout tbe state, and the an
nouncement that ho will be a candidate for
the speakership of the next House will in
terest bis friends and sot them to work in
hit behalf. Mr. Calvin holds a prominent
position in the alliance, and is recognized as
one of its most active and conservative
members.
A FATAL SLASH WITH A KNIFE.
A White Man and a Negro In a Fight
to the Death.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 14.— Sampson Dunn
will die to-night, so tbe physicians say,
from cuts received in a fight late last night
with a white man named Jim Williamson,
an employe of the Sibley mills. Dunn is a
bright mulatto and a member of a negro
baud. They got in a fight in a barroom.
Williamson had two fingers nearly bitten
off, and Dunn was nearly dlsetnbowled and
stabbed several tl ones.
Death at Thomaevllle.
Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 14.—Mrs.
James L Linton died, after a severe illness,
Friday night, at her husband’s home in this
SWEDEN'S SLEEPING BON.
Gspt. Krlocsaon’e Remains Landed at
Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sept. 14—The body of Copt.
J<>hn Ericsson was landed from the United
States warship Baltimore at. 3 o’clock this
afternoon. The transfor was made with
muoh ceremony.
Upon arriving here Friday evening the
Baltimore saluted the Swedish flag on pass
ing the forts. Soon after the vessel had
dropped auchor the American minister
went aboard to announce officially tho pro
gramme of the ceremonies. The reception
committee, which included three officers of
the uavy and four nephews of tbe deceased,
mot on board the Baltimore at 1 :S0 o’clock
this afternoon.
DELIVERY OR THE REMAINS.
Speeches wore made by Capt. Schley of
the Baltimore in delivering tho body to the
American minister, by tho latter in oou
signiug it to Admiral I’oyron, aud by tho
ailmiral in accepting charge of it. The re
mains were then transferred to a steam
largo draped in black and silver, which
was commanded by a captain of the
Swedish navy. The body was placid
within a paviliou that had been erected for
the purjKiso on the bridge of the vessel, to
which it was carried by sailors from tho
American war ship. The coffin was cov
ered with wreaths.
A PROCESSION OP BOATS.
A procession of boats then formed. First
came Admiral Peyron und the captain and
other officers of the Baltimore; a number of
American sailors, and then the catafalque.
As the prooeesion of boats moved slowly
along minute guns were fired by the Balti
more, and by the forts on shore, while all
the vessels in tho harbor hauled dowu their
llags to half mast. When the funeral tssrge
arrived at the landing stage the governor
of Stockholm formally received the body,
which was then borne by American sailors
to a largo pavilion, handsomely decorated
in black aud gold, which had been erected
near tho water’s edge in the
iwrk. While the body was lining carried
to the pavilion, bells tolled and, t he military
whioh were to escort the remains to the
train preseuted arms.
A CROWD AROUND THE DISH.
An itmueube crowd assembled In and
around tho pavilion. Whou tho coffin was
placed on tho bier in tho pavilion dozens of
wreaths aud other floral emblems wore
heaped up around it. The sorvices were
very simple, consisting of siugiag Swedish
hymns and the recital of a poem. At the
conclusion of the services tue body was de
posited in a uiaguiiiceut hoarse aud
tho funeral procession was formed,
in which were representatives of tho
king, the orowu prince and the government,
the American ministers to Sweden and
Denmark, the offloors of tho war ship Bal
timore, rind tho municipal authorities of
Stockholm. In line was the carriage of the
King of Sweden. The route to tho rail
way station was thronged with spectators,
who maintained respectful silence as tho
prooesaion passed along. It is estimated that
100,000 persons viewed tho procession.
THE VUNBIIAI. TRAIN.
Arriving at the railway station, where a
special train was waiting to convey the
body to Wermland, the birth place of Cant.
Ericsson, tue remains were placed in a hand
some funeral car,heavily draped in black. At
8:30 o'clock the train moved slowly out
of the station. The whole ceremony was
conducted with great solemnity, and made a
profound impression. The municipal au
thorities will give a bouquet to tho officers
of tho Baltimore at Hassolbacken to-mor
row, and Tuesday a gala performance will
be given nt the opera house in their honor.
Wednesday they will dine with the king at
Drottlues.
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COLUMBUS' EXPOSITION.
Secretary Grimes and Bla Assistants
Liard at Work.
Columbus, (H., Sept. 14.—The all-ab
sorbing topic of conversation in this city is
the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition. Ex
hibits are coming in by tbe score, and as
ninny applicants as con be accommodated
are clamoring for space. H-.eretary Grimes
and his efficient assistants are at present as
busy a set of men os can bo found in Co
lumbus.
One of the most interesting features of
this exposition will boa collection of rolios
of every nature. E. G. Byington of the
Evening Ledger is the manager of this
deportment, and he is leaving nothing
undone to make it unexcelled iu beauty and
variety.
The Columbus Guards at their last meet
ing decided uot to enter any of the exposi
tion drills.
A MARSHAL SHOT DEAD.
Hla Murderer a Desperado He Was
Trying to Arreet.
Camilla, Ga., Sept, 14.—L. F. Barber,
the marshal of Newton, was killed yester
day noon by Call Edwards, who had been
drinking. Will Lumptou asked Edwards
to leave his saloon. Shortly after ward the
inarHbal attempted to arrest Edwards, and
was killed. Tw o shots were tired, one by
Edwards and one by Marshal Barber. L.
K. Barnett, the sheriff, brought Edwards
here for safe keeping last night about 11
o'olock, and carried him on to A1 nany to
day at the prisoner’s request. Edwards is
a desperate character.
IS JAIL AT ALBANY.
Albany, Ga., Bept. 14. Sheriff Barnett
of Baker county arrived in the city at 11
o’clock this morning with Cull Edwards and
placed him iu jail.
Barber killed a man named Wilson a few
years ago.
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
The Tarpon Springs Irrigation and De
velopment Company Organized.
Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 14.—The
Tarpon Springs Irrigation and Development
Company bus filed articles of incort>oration
with the secretary of state. The capital
stock is {250,000, with the privilege of In
creasing it to 11,000,000. The company is
authorized to buy, build and operate navi
gation lines, water or irrigation works,
street car, omnibus or stage lines, mines,
turnpikes, toll bridges.ferries, hotels, health
resorts, sanitariums, manufactories and to
engage in any atid all manner
of mercantile, agricultural, manufacturing
or commercial operations. The principal
place of business is to be at Tarpon .Springs,
with oflioes at other places. The incorpor
ators are A. P. K. Halford, of Tarpon
Borings; George B. Johnson, J. C. Fromms,
George B. Creveling and F. A Davis, of
Philadelphia, and John B. Walton and W.
W. K. Decker Sc Cos., of Tarpoo Springe.
The six flr*t named constitute the board of
directors for the first year.
A Negro Car Coupler Killed.
Augusta, Ga.. Bept. 14.—80n Jackson,
a negro car coupler iu the Georgia railroad
yard, was killed to-day. He slipped under
a heavy coal car and bad his legs crushed
off near the body. He died ia about two
hours.
t DAILY, $lO A YEAR. 1
4 SCENTS A COPY. V
{ WEEKLY, $1.36 A YEAR )
GOD’S WINGS OF LOVE
TALMAGB PRSAOHBS ON A TEXT
FROM ROTH.
Swiftness of tbe Heavenly Pinions—
Their Breadth Sufficient to Cover All
the World—Their strength Sufficient
to Bear All Our Burdens—A Heaven
for All.
Brooklyn, Sept 14—The subject of the
discourse by Dr. Talmage to-day Is “Wing*
of Love," the famous preacher taking for
his text the words: “Tho Lord God of
Israel, under whose wings thou art ooine to
truss.”-Huth it.. 14
Scone; Au oriental harvest field. Groin
standing. Grain in swaths. Grain in
sheaves. At the side of the field, a white
tout iu which to take the naming, jars of
vinegar or of soar wine to quench the
thirst of tbe hot working people. Swarthy
men striking their Mokleft into the rustling
barley. Others twisting the bonis fur the
sheaves, putting one end of the band under
the arm, and with the free arm and foot col
lecting the sheaf. Suaourned women pick
ing up the stray straws and bringing them
to tho binders. Boat, a fine-looking Ori
ental, gray-bearded and bright-faced, Mia
owner of the field, lookiug on, and eeti
mating the value of the grain aud calculat
ing so many ophahsto the ocre; and, with
his largo, sympathetic heart, pitying tha
overtasked workman and the women, with
white fuoes enough to faint, in the hot'
noonday sun. But there is one woman who
especially attracts the man’s attention. Bh®
is soon to bo with him the joint ownor of
the field. She has come from a distant land
for the sole purpose of being kind to an;
aged woman. 1 know uot what her feat- 1
urea were; but when the Lord Ood sets be
hind a woman’s face the lamp of oourago,
and faith, and self-sacrifice, there cornea
out a glory independent of features.
She is to be the ancestress of Jesus Christ.
Uoaz, the owner of the field, os soon as ha
understands that it is lluth, accosts her with
n blessing; “A full reward lie given thee of
the Lord God of Israel, under whose winga
thou art come to trust.” Christ compares
himself to a hen gathering the chickens un
der her wings, in Deuteronomy God is
represented as an eagle stirring up
her nest In a great ninny places in the
realms David makos ornithological allu
sions; while my text mentions the wings of
God, under whioh a poor, weary soul had
corns to trust.
I ask your attention, therefore, while,
taking the suggestion of my text, 1 speak to
you iu all si nplioity and love of tho wings
of tiie Almighty.
First—l remark tlint they wero swift)
wings under whioh Huth liad oome to trust.
Thera is nothing in all the handiwork of
God more curious than a bird’s wing. You
have been surprised, sometimes, to see how
far it could fly with one stroke of tho wing;
and, when It lias food in prospect, or when
it is affrighted, the pulsations of the bird’s
wing are unimaginable for velocity. Tha
English lords used to pride themselves on
the speed of their fnloons. These birds,
when tamed, had in them the dart of light
ning. How swift were the carrier pigeons
in tho time of Antony and at tha
siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed!
A carrier pigeon was thrown up
t Uoueu and came down ah
< llient —ninety miles off—in one hour. Tha
currier pigeons were Ibe teiographs of tha
olden time. Swallows have been shot in
our latitude having the undigested rice of
Georgia swamps in their arops, showing
that they hod oome 400 miles iu six hours.
It has been estimated that in tbe tea years
of a swallow’s life it flies far enough to hava
gone around the world eighty-nine times,
so great is its velocity. And so the wings
of the Almighty, spoken of iu the text,
are swift wings. They are swift
when they drop upon a foe, and grift
when they come to help God’s friends. If a
father and his son bn walking by the way
and the child goes too near a precipice,
hovr long does it take for the father to de
liver the child from danger? Longer than
it takes God to swoop for the rescue of his
children. The fact is that you cannot get
away from the care of God. If you taka
the steamship, or the swift rail-train, be is
all the time along with you. “Whither
shall 1 go from toy spirit, and whither
shall I floe from thy presence I If I ascend
up into heaven thou art there. If I mats
iny bed in hell, behold I Thou art there. If
I take the wings of the morning and dwell
In tbe uttermost porta of the sea, even there
thy hand shall hold tne.”
The Arabian gazelle 1b swift as the wind.
If it gets but one glimpse of the hunter, it
puts many crags between. Solomon, fool
or five times, compares Christ to an Ara
bian gazelle (calling it by another name)
wbetihesaye: “My beloved is like a roe."
The difference is, that the roe spe -ds tha
other way: Jesus speeds this. Who but
Christ ooulu have been quick enough to have
helped Peter, when the water-pavement
broke? Who but Christ could have been
qniok enough to help the Duke ot
Argyle, when, in his dying moment,
be cried: “Good cheer Ii could
die like a Homan, bf*t I mean ta
die like a Christian. Como away, gentle
men. He who goaa first, goes oieanest f*
I ha<l a friend who stood by the rail-trade
at Carlials, Pa., when the ammunition hod
given out at Antlotam; aud he saw the train
from Harrisburg, freighted with shut and
shell, os It went thundering down toward
the battle-field. He said that it stopped not
for any crossing. They put down ttM
brakes for no grade. They held up for na
peril. The wheels were on fire with th
speed as they dashed past. If the train did
not oome up in time with the ammu
nition, it might as well not come at aIL So,
my friends, there are times in our lives
when we must have help, or perish. Th*
grace that oornos too late is no grace at all.
What you and I want is a God—now. Ohl
is it not blessed to think that God is alwayi
in such quick pursuit of his dear children.
When a sinner seeks pardon, or a baffled
soul needs help, swifter than thrush’s wing,
swifter than ptarmigan’s wing, swifter
than flamingo’s wing, swifter ttian eagle’s
wing, are the wings of the Almighty.
I remark, further, carrying out the idea
of my text, that the wiugs under which
Huth had coma to trust wero very brood
wings. There have beau eagles shot on
the Kooky mountains with wings that wera
seven feet from tip to tip. When the king
of the air sits on the crag, tbe wings ars
spread over all the eaglets in the eyrie, and
when the eagles starts from the rock, th
shadow is like the spreading of a storm
cloud. So the wings of God are broad
wings. Huth had been under those wingi
In her infantile days; in the days of hoi
happy girlhood in Moob; in tbe days whoa
she gave her hand to Mablou, in her first
marriage; in the day when she wept ovei
his grave; in the day whan she trudged out
into the wilderness of poverty; in the days
when she picked up the few straws of bareh
dropped by ancieut custom in the way ol
the poor.
Ohl yes, the wings of God ore broaf
wings. They cover up all our w ants, al
our sorrows, all our sufferings. He pugf
one wing over our ora lie, and he pubs ths
other,over our grave. Yes,my dear friends, 1)
is not a desert in which wo are placed; it a
a nest. Sometimes it is a very hard nest
like that of the eagle, spread on the rock
with ragged moss and rough sticks, but itil
it is a nest; aud, although it may bo veq
