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CONGRESS AND THE CASH
SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL LEGA
TION ON THE TAPIS.
A Draft of Bills to be Reported to the
Republican Senatorial Caucus To
night—An Effort to be Made to Have
Harrison Withhold His Contemplated
Silver Message.
Washington. Dec. 14.—The republican
senators are indignant at the President and
Secretary Windom for “embarrassing the
party in the attempt to grapple with the
difficulties ot the financial situation." To
auote the exact words of a leader, “The
President’s mistake,” they say, “is in threat
ening congress with another silver message
after threatening individuals, senators and
representatives as they called at the white
h >us9 with a veto if they passd a free
coinage bilL” “He had better let us alone,"
said one republican senator, “if he does not
want a free coinage bill passed."
To-morrow morning, when the members
of the republican caucus financial commit
tee call on the President, they will probably
in:imate to him quite plainly that he would
do well to put his proposed message in the
tire. Secretary Windom’s blunder lies,
they say, in going to New York to consult
tne bankers at this time, when Wall street
to the western men is like a red rag to a
bull.
WALL STREET A WET BLANKET.
“Wall street has only to ?be connected by
name with a measure to defeat it,” said one
se ator, “and rightly or wrongly, whatever
proposition we adop , if we agree upon any,
will be labeled Wall street by the extrem
ists, just because Secretary Windom went
over there yesterday. Yet we have not
consulted Secretary Windom about
the measure we are framing, and shall not,
for we will report to the
caucus to-night before Secretary Windom
gets back from New York. In fact, we
have conferred with no one connected with
the administration, and shall not, except for
the interview with the President to-morrow
morning. If the administration had only
kept its fingers out of the pie, we would
have been very much more likely to
succeed. If it had not meddled last
session we would have settled this financial
question then; as it is, we have to contend
with the President’s unpopularity in con
gress and with Wall street’s unpopularity
nil over the eouutry, but especially at the
west. Nevertheless we are going ahead,
and we think that by to-morrow night wo
will have a feasible scheme to report to the
committee."
DRAFT OF A BILL.
The compromise draft of a financial bill
which the committee is expected to report
to the republican caucus to-morrow night
is not yet quite complete, but its contents,
according to some of its makers, wili be ns
follows:
1. A provision for the purchase of the surplus
silver, estimated at 13,000.000 ounces.
2. A provision for the coining of additional
silver dollars equal to the national bank circula
tion to be surrendered.
3 A provision for the recoinage of $25,000,000
subsidiary silver coin into sliver dollars.
The committee has not as yet, and prob
ably will not, incorporate the provisions for
tbe relief of national banks, because, while
it believes that they would relievo the situ
ation as well, they are afraid of the farm
ers’ alliance, which has so recently
demanded the abolition of the national
banks. The astonishing provision in the so
called Sherman bill for the issuance of
taO.OU'j.OUO fiat greenbacks to take the place
of retiring national bank notes will not be
in the bill.
The other members of the committee ex
press great surprise at Senator Sherman’s
action in pressing a fiat money proposition
susceptible of indefinite expansion, after all
Ins years of opposition to this vaga’-y.
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
The extreme silver republicans in the
i enate still hold out for free coinage. If
they agree to the prop sed compromise in
caucus to-morrow night, the force bill will
probably be laid aside “temporarily” on
luesday to make way for the financial
measure. If not, the free silver republicans
"ill probably lay tlie force bill aside to take
up a free coinage bill, expecting to carry it
with the help of the democrats.
NO POBTFOUIO FOB BUAIR.
Harrison Has a Grudge That He is
Not Apt to Forest.
M ashington, Deo. 14. —Senator Blair’s
assertion that he might serve the govern
ment in another capacity after March 4 has
given rise to any number of rumors, a'l of
which are running at large, because Mr.
Blair will not contradict them. The
uiost interesting of these rumors
Places Attorney General Miller on
supieme bench, Secretary
oobie m the department of justice, and
c‘-tutor Blair at the head of the interior
t*epartment. In connection with this
umor a bit of political history not gener
“own may be appropriately given*
, Mr. Harrison was a candidate for re
jection to the Senate there were five labor
Party men in the state legislature. Sena
“r .Hlaij was asked by Mr. Il r
ra°n s friends to say sometning or write
a praise of Mr. Harrison, for it was be
evecl that his utterances as chairman of
no education end labor committee would
, av ® Efeat weight with the five labor legis
tors. He refused to do so,and Mr. Turpie
as ®‘ ec ted as Mr. Harrison’s successor. If
.0 President has a short memory or a for-
Senator Blair may go iDto the
A POOR SHOW FOR SUBSIDIES.
bo Bill Apt to be Defeated Even if it la
Given a Hearing.
Washington, Dec. 14.—Congressman
-annon denies that he has yielded to the
Phssuro of the subsidy seekers, and agreed
" * et l ße new subsidy bill have a day this
He says the committee on rules, in
'>‘ ch We holds the casting vote on the ques
i ~, not decided yet to give the subsidy
i a day, and that he will not vote for it.
Seri . to this tie subsidy
;,) Grs wdl have great difficulty in
tenting their hill up in the House. Even if
tur. .i < 3 ’ or .if they get it up in spite of
"ill have a hard fight before
• i t) 1, j r> Mills, speaking for the majority
no democrats, says it will he eon e ted
j ry 6 tep of the way, and that ho thinks
ii P ref out condition of the treasury the
>,i ,Vl ‘l not dare to > ass the subsidy hill.
f. u j ( J’ u )gley admit* that it may he de-
MlLitS OFF FOR PINE itIDGF.
la Uncertain os to How L>ong He
Will Remain.
( CIT,CA °o, Dec. 14.—Gan. Nelson A.Miles,
' ‘“'uaniJmg tbs division of Missouri, ac-
t-’apt. Marion p. Maes ami
if H'meral’s private secretary, Mr. Mizeti,
n, r l * **, ca, i J tor Bt. i’aui to-uight. Just
I, ~“* tlio general said he should
, ii lu “* 'I 1 - a couple dys, and
Hi tii " horthweiba-n ludiau country.
s, u ;' uM nijl **y Bow twig he would he ao-
Pjc Jlofnimi Wetog.
THIB WEEK IN CONGRESS.
Tha Forca Bill to Be Pushed Aside by
the Senate.
Washington, Dec. 14.— Just what will
take place in the Senate this week largely
depend* upon the republican caucus which,
it is expected, will meet tosmorrow or Tues
day. To-morrow will be the twelfth day
of the pendency of the elections bill, and
the probabilities are that un
less the caucus decides to take
some decided steps toward a 9 speedy
termination of the debate, the pressure for
financial legislation will become too great
to be resisted. In this case the dissatisfac
tion felt by some republican senators mav
flnd expression in an effort, made before the
week expires, to lay aside the elections bill
in favor of some measure now on the
calendar which will admit of amend
ment m the direction of in
creased use of silver ns a basis for
note circulation, if not of free coinage. The
impression is that in any event this week
will witness a departure from the order
which has governed the proceedings of the
since it reassembled on Dec. 1.
In the House.
There are a large number of important
measures pressing upon the attention of the
II use for consideration this week. Monday
is individual suspension day, and will be
taken up with measures to which little op
position is anticipated.
Mr. Dunnell ot| Minnesota has given no
tice of his intention to call up the reappor
tionment bill Tuesday. There is no con
certed opposition to the bill on
the part of the democrats, and the bitter
fight over the reapportionment, which at
the beginning of the session was generally
predicted, will not come off. New York’s
representatives will, it is understood, have
something to say about the manuer in
which the census of that city was conducted,
so it is difficult to forecast the length of
time which way be oonsumediu passing the
reapportionment bill.
MONEY FOR THE ARMY.
Mr. Cutcheon purposes to call up the
armv appropriat on bill at the first oppor
tunity, and the District of Columbia bill
should also be ready for consideration in
the House during the latter part of the
week.
The friends of the shipping bill have been
assured of a friendly disposition on the part
of the rales committee toward their meas
ure, and it is possible that the re-apportion
ment bill may be disposed of quickly enough
to permit the shipping bill to come up this
week.
The Dorsey bill to reduce the compulsory
deposit of bonds by national banks and to
authorize the issue of circulating notes to
the par value of the bonds held bv the
United States treasury for these banks will
be urged by the banking committee for im
mediate consideration. The commerce
committee also have a request on file for a
special day.
SORGHUM SUGAR.
An Improved Process for Its Eztraq
tijjjjJMacovored.
Washington, Dec. 14.—The annual re
port of the chief of the chemical division of
the agricultural department contains an
account of the process recently perfected at
the department as a result of experiments
in the chemical laboratory with reference
to the manufacture of sorghum sugar. The
chemist claims a substantial increase in the
yield of sugar per thousand gallons
of juice of from an average of about 19,000
pounds to an average of over 21,997, at an
increase of cost of production of SB4 for
alcbohol, which enters into the new process.
SOLUTION OF A PROBLEM.
2 The report recites some of the various diffi
culties Litherto found in economio manu
facture of sugar from sorghum, and indis
cates that the solution of the auestion wqs
to be found in s .me process which would
separate as nearly as possible the gummy
amorphous todies from the juice without
precipitating the sugar. The known prop
erty of alcohol to produce precipitation in
juice was made use of in further study of
this problem.
SOURCE OF ALL TIIE DIFFICULTIES.
The difficulties, says the report, which
have been encouutered iu the manufact
uring of sugar from sorghum juices have
been soleiy aue to tho presence of these
gums. Not only has tbe removal of the
gums been effected by the process evolved
during these experiments, but it has been
shown that this can bs effected at a cost
comparatively trifling by comparison with
the results. ,
BOWDEN NOT TO CONTEST.
He le, of Course, Confident That Ke
Was Elected.
Washington, Dec. 14.—Representative
Bowden of the Second Virginia district
said to a reporter to-night that he had no
intention of contesting the 6eat of Hon.
John W. Lawson, the democrat elected to
succeed him in tho FRty-second congress,
although he felt confident that Mr. Jjawson
had been defeated by 3,699 votes. To estab
lish all his assertions of fraud, lie said,
would require him to see about six or seven
thousand voters in the district, and he could
not do this in the forty days allowed him by
law. Besides this, it would cost him about
$3,000.
A OATHOHJ CHURCH BURNED.
The Vicar Eaves the Sacrament at the
Risk of His Life.
Cape St. lonace, Quebec, Dec. 14.
The parish church here was completely
destroyed by firo to-day. Rsv. H. A.
Dionne, the vicar, at the risk of his life,
succeeded in saving the holy sacrament.
Nothing olse was saved. The church was
one of the finest iu the diocese of Quebec.
Another building, used as a public hall,
ouncil hall aud court house was also burned.
The loss is $125,069 and tbe insurance
$65,090.
FIGHT OF THS INDIANH.
Two Strike and Short Bull Skirmish
ing for tho Supremacy.
Denver, Col., Dec. 14.—A special from
Rapid City, 8. D., to the News,
says a soldier from Capt. Wells’ camp re
ports that the Indians in the Bad Lands
have begun again fighting among them-
Eelves. This nows was brought by
government scouts and friendly
Indiana. The battle took place in Gloss
basin. Two Strike aud liis followers cir
cled around Short Bali and his followers all
ibo forenoon, actively skirmishing, each
leader bound that his supremacy a chief of
the whole band should be acknowledged.
WANT INOALLH RETIRED.
The Alliancsmea of Hie Own County
Vote Against liitn.
Kansas Citv. Mo., Dec. 14, A special
from Atchison, Kao., the borne of heuator
Ingalls, say* tho farmer*’ alliance of
Atchisou county at a recent meeting
adopt* 1 resolutions reeoi/imeud.og the re
meet of I galls from the flan ate an i the
election to hi* seat Ot • f>M on' shuttle e
WM.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1890.
HIGH OLD TIMKS IN ERIN.
ADHERENTS OF THE FACTIONS
SPOILING FOR A FIGHT.
Serious Rioting Barely Averted in
Two Insta-.ces Prieits Denounce
Parnell From Their Pulpits-Cam
paign Speeches Made by Parnell in
Several Places Yesterday—Epithets
Flying in the Air.
Dcrlin, Dec. 14. —At I Vest port, county
Mayo, to-day Mr. Parnell and hi* followers
were denounced from the altar. Iu many
other Catholic churches similar denuncia
tions were uttered.
The national league branches in South
and East Down have voted against the Par
nellites. At Middleton, county Cork, the
local league branch voted 44 to 26 to sup
port Mr. Parnell.
A BISHOP’S CIRCULAR.
A circular by the bishop of Cloyene read
in the churches to-day says: “In consequence
of the deploratde state of tilings produoed
by Mr. Parnell’s unprincipled and unpatri
otic action, it is of the utmost importance
to reorganize the league brauches of this
diocese. The leaders ought to assemble the
mombers and explain the neceesity of
withdrawing from control of the central
league at Dublin.”
PARNELL ON THE ROAD.
Mr. Parnell and liis party drove to-day
from Kilkenny to Tullyrone in a brake.
They were preceded by a band and ac
companied by a large number of vehicles
filled with supporters, At Tullyrone Mr.
Parnell addressed a meeting of 500 persons.
His speech was brief, and was mainly a
repetition of his utterances in his previous
speeches.
COMMENTARIES OF THE CROWD.
It was delivered amid a running com
mentary of cries such us “Down with Judas
Healy," “To with Hennessy, the Zulu
King,” etc., from certain of liis hearers.
Mr. Parnell apologized for the weakness of
his voice, but he appeared to be in good
health. He promised the people a longer
speech on another occasion.
“MISERABLE GUTTER SPARROWS.”
From Tullyrone Mr. Parnell and his
friends drove to Freshford, where Mr. Par
nell addressed another meeting, referring
during bis speech to the seceders os “miser
able gutter sparrows,” whom he had pushed
out of obscurity and given a better chance
than he gave himself. After winning in
Kilkenny, he said, he would go to every
quarter of Ireland and ask the support of
the people. Here a gathering of his
opponents interrupted Mr. Parnell
with shouts of “To —with the adulterer.”
A fight would inevitably have followed but
for the presence of tbe police, who promptly
interfered and succeeded in preserving or
der. Mr. Parnell closed his day’s work
with an address at Urliagford, where he
will spend the night.
AN ANTI-PARNELL MEETING.
The anti-Parnell faction held a meeting
to-day at Tipperary, at wtiich about 2,000
persons were present. Telegrams were read
from Messrs. Healy and Sexton, both of
whom apologized for not attending the
mooting on the ground thut their presence
was required elsewhere. Mr. Davitt tele
graphed : “It is impossible to leave Kilkenny.
The fato of home rule depends upon
the struggle here.” Canon Cahill’s taking
the chair was a signal for a band of fifty
PArnellitos to start cheering for their
leader. This was responded to by the auti-
Parnell men, and cheering was kept up by
the two factions for fully an honr, making
it impossible for the speakers to be heard.
EAGER FOR A FIGHT.
Father Humphreys and others tried hard
to pacify the oposiiig crowds, but in spite of
their efforts stones were thrown and sticks
used freely, and a serious conflict was
averted only by the final withdrawal of the
Parnellitss. Speeches were made by
Father Humphreys, Mr. Condon and Pat
rick O’Brien, nationalist members of parlia
ment, and a resolution was carried in sup
port of Mr. McCarthy and his followers.
AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.
Mr. Stephen, a graduate of Cambridge
university, has issued an address to the
electors of Kilkenny in which he announces
his candidacy for parliament as an inde
pendent supporter of the government.
Messrs. Jlealy, Kenny, Tanner and D ivitt
to-day addressed meetings in support of dir
Jobu Pope Henne-sy. Mr. Healy declared
that if Mr. Parnell were allowed to retain
the leadership he would stump Ireland w ith
anew banner made of Mrs. O’Shea’s petti
coats. Mr. Parnell, he said, put Capt.
O’Shea in parliament, tbe price paid being
the honor of CaDt. O’Shea’,-, wife.
A STOP.MY RALLY AT NEWBY.
At a stormy nationalist convention at
No wry resolutions wore adopted strongly
denouncing Mr. Parnell and too Freeman's
Journal , and calling for the resignation of
Justin Huntley McCarthy, who represents
Nowry in parliament, because of his having
supported Mr. Parnell.
At a large meeting at Youghal, at which
Canon Keller presided, resolutions condemn
ing Mr. Parnell were adopted.
A PROCESSION AT WATERFORD.
A procession of 400 torch-bearers, accom
panied by band3 of music, waited for Mr.
Parnell at the railway station at Waterford
last night. \\ hen he failed to come the
paradors marched to the town hall, where
they were addressed by the mayor and
members of the municipal council. When
the speech-making was over the gathering
adopted by acclamation a resolution in favor
of Mr. Purnell.
RUSSIA’S WAR ON THE JEWS.
A Claim That it is Necessary to Pro
tect the . easantry.
St. Petersburg Dec. 14.—The Aovoe
Vremya protests against English or other
foreign interference In regard to the treat
ment of the Jews in Russia, and says: “The
meeting in London will not advance the
cause of the Jews one step. At the bottom
of the movement is fear of the English of the
invasion of their country by the Jews, who
might deprive the poor of their bread and
enter into competion with the rich as well,
it is not religious intolerance that prompts
the measures relative to the Jews in Russia,
whore their synagogues stand proudly by
tho side of Christian churches; it is übwlute
nece.stty for faving tho rural populace
from ! eing drained of their resources i y
the Jews, who have alroady ruined the
peasants in Galicia, Roumama and Pom
erania. Russia will save the Jews them
solve* from popular retribution. t>he does
not assume false liberalism, but acts openly
in protecting the prosperity of the nation.
If the whole of Europe should attempt to
force a distasteful p .lior upon Russia, she
is in a position successfully t > defend her
independence."
A Railroad htrl'ao in Scotland.
laindon, Dec. 14. — A1l of tho railway men
in Scotland will strike on Eunday next for
shorter hours. There is a proepect of trallic
Using entirely suspend'd during the Christ
inas middays.
Audience* With China's Emperor.
Pauls, Dec. !♦.— A decree has been issued
aiimiumoug that Ita emperor wtil grant a
yearly audieaoe tv ail forego whilst**.
A CONFUSION OF NAMES.
The QambrlU Manufacturing Com
pany Haa Not Failed.
Baltimore, Mil, Dec. 14.—The state
ment telegraphed from here to the effect
that the Gambrill Manufacturing Company
had failed was entirely erroneous. It was
the Druid Manufacturing Company, manu
facturers of cotton duck, that became finan
cially embarrassed, not the C. A. Gambrill
Manufacturing Company. prop-ietorsof the
PatADseo fl lurlug miils. A Mr. Gambrill
had been identified with the Druid Manu
facturing Compuuy—hence the blunder.
THE DRUID COMPANY’S AFFAIRS.
At; a meeting of the creditor* of the
Druid Miils Manufacturing Company, a
statement was submitted showing the c in-
P*ny to bo solvent. The liabilities, includ
ing a mortgage on the mill property, are
$450,U00, while the assets are rTIIi.OOO. The
mills at Woodbury are carried on the
books of tlie company at $600,000. The
balance of tne assets were in the hands of a
trustee. The indebtedness is equally dis
tributed, no large amount bomg held by any
creditor. The trustee was directed to
apply to the court for permission to con
tinue the business, for which, it was said,
sufficient money could be obtained without
difficulty. A committee was ap
pointed, consisting of Douglas H. Thomas,
president of the Merchants’ National Bank;
Richard Cromwell, of the Bank of Balti
more, and a representative of the firm of
Ralii Bros, of New York, to advise with
the trustees as to the management of the
business. The trustee was authorized to
retaiu all the employes of the company.
HER NEGRO LOVER.
She ia White and -Wealthy, but She
Forced Him to Marry Her.
Dubuque, la., Deo. 14. —Richard Harris
and Minnie Crumpfield were married to-day
by J ustice Cooney. The only attendant was
a deputy sheriff. The bride is a daughter of
a wealthy German farmer and is not at oil
attractive. The groom is a stalwart negro
teu years younger than Minnie. He was
rulse.l from childhood by a Gorman family,
and speaks only their language, lie haw
been working on a farm adjoining that of
Minnie’s father. One of Minnie’s duties was
to light a government lamp o;i too rives-,
and there she mot Harris. The night was
so dark that she failed to notice he was
black, and yielded to the dusky Lothario.
Wednesday eveuing she had Harris arrested
on charge of seduction, and to-day in tho
court room demanded that he marry her.
Finally he consented, rather than to go to
jail, and with the aid of uu interpreter the
strange pair were tnkbried.
SMALL-POX IN GUATEMALA.
One Thousand Two Hundred Deaths in
the Country in Sevan Weeks.
San Fbancisco, Cal., Dec. 14.—A sad
record of mortality in Guatemala was
brought to this city yesterday by the ar
rival of the Pacific mail steamer San Juap.
Among tbe arrivals was Joseph McMulluq
a newspaper man from New York. The
republic ot Guatemala, he said, is besieged
with small-pox. The disease has made
fearful progress receuily. lie
says that in seven weeks there
wore 1,200 deaths throughout tho country,
and the number at last accounts was on the
increase. But few sanitary precautions
were taken when tho epidemic first ap
peared. The result was that the peo
ple were mowod down by hundreds. In
tiie city of Guatemala dozenß of deaths
have occurred daily. Tho hospitals are
crowded, and there ure open field; for
a score or more of physicians. Contrary to
the dispatch of last night, no cholera is re
ported from Guatemala.
DIED FROM THEIR BURNS.
Two of the Buchtel Students Succumb
to 7 heir Injuries.
Akron, 0., Dec. 14. —Lulu Steigmier of
Attica, 0., and May Stevens of Clifton
Springs, N. Y., who were tho worst burned
of the victims of the birthday party at
Buchtel college Saturday, died early this
morning. Both were burned almost beyond
reeog ilion. Miss Stevens was one of tho
mo3t beautiful ami most popular students in
the school. Not a spot on her b dy except
tiie soles of her feet escaped tho fire. The
parents ot Miss Steigmier arrived tr.is morn
ing an hour after their daughtoi’s death.
May Baker of Johnson’s Creek. N. Y., nnd
Aurelia Vi’iniok of Storm Lake, la., are the
most seriously injured of the surviving
mombers of the party, but their physician.;
say there is no immediate danger.
PO3TAL CLERKS ON THS OCEAN.
Germany Sends Representatives to
Urore the Innovation.
New Yobk, Dec. 14.—A. Bachse, minis
terial director, and H. Petzold, oberpost
secretair, representing the German govern
ment, arrivtd hero to-day on the Trave
from Bremen. Tlie object of thoir visit is to
endavor to make arrangements with tho post
office department for tbe annointinout of
postal agents to distribute and inspect tho
mails ou board the steamers on their passage
to this country, so that the mails will no
ready for delivery ou the arrival of the
steamers, thus saving twelve hours timo.
The German government is willing to sup
ply agents on board the stejmors goiDg to
that country.
PRINCESSLOUIBS’SGHABTLY FIND.
Ehe Dlecovers Sculptor Boehm Dead
tn His Studio.
London, Dec. 14.—Joseph Edgar Boehm,
tho eminent sculptor, died suddenly in bis
studio this evening. Tbe Prinoesa Louise,
who called to inquire as to the progress of a
bust which he was makiug for her, wus
horrified to find the sculptor dead m his
chair.
Heart disease is supposed to have been the
cause of death. Boehm was 53 years of age.
He had executed many works tor the royal
family, including statues of the queen and
the Prince of Wales. He was born in Vi
cuna, but had resided in London since 1862.
DEATH FOLLOWS
A Spaniard Falls to Find the Lymph a
Cure.
Madrid, Dec. 14. —A man in this city
suffering from consumption, who was
inoculated with the Kocb lymph, has just
died. For several days before hts death be
breathed with difficulty, and his pulse was
irregular. A post mortem examination |ie
v easel the usual consumptive appearances
and pericardial swelling.
padlnwexl’s Hiding Place.
Paris, Dec. 14.—M. Gregorio, a Journal
ist, says lie kept Radiewski, the suspected
murderer of Gen, Beil rerk off, concealed in
hie house from Nor. 1* to Dec. 3, when
Pa/1 itwskl went to the house of At. i*bru>
yore.
Uroppmi liatA.
Ahqt'fTA, Ga., Dec. 14 Patrick Walsh
dr i/ped dead U/-day. iio was an o il niUxeo,
bt nut Mr. Walali ot the t hrontoit.
TIIE FRUIT INDUSTRY.
WHAT OLD GROWERS SAY ABOUT
FRUIT GROWING.
This Weather Good for Trees—New
Ideas About Saving Fruit-What
Growers Think of the Associations.
An Immense Yield, if the Season is
Propitious-Fruit Farms are Becom
ing Valuable—A Profitable Business.
Fort Valley, Ga., Deo. 14.— Fruit
growors are gettiug uueasy now about the
next year’s crop. The winter so far has
been so extremely mild that in many local
ties tho buds have swelled and the trees
are nearly ready to blossom. Apple blooms
are plentiful, aril plum trees in some places
have takeu ou spring attire. Old growers
say that in their opinion the crop was de
stroyed last season about this time. They
believe now that the March suap only
brought on more speedily what would have
come finally. Tho cold weather prevailing
over this section of Georgia now. is heralded
with joy by growers, but they are ap
prehensive that it is only for n
few days. Strawberries have never
quit bearing, and a great many have been
sold along tlie line of the Central railroad
from Macon to Columbus. Not as many of
tho trees, especially peach trees, were killed
last year as the growers thought. They lliul
In pruning this season that the orchards are
pretty full, and if the season is propitious
tho thinning out of trees will benefit the re
maining trees. Old growers took the severe
devastation last year philosophically, since
they believed that it would make tlie crop
of 1801 larger, 'lhoy have had high hopes
of an immense yield this year, and up to
this time they say everything has been iu
their favor. The preceding winter has been
warm, aud they have learned to predict a
severe winter after a mild one, nnd vice
versa.
THE KIND OF WEATHER NEEDED.
If tbe weather will continue coid, as they
predicted in the beginning, all will come out
right. If a warm Winter be followel by
weather of the same kiud, tlie sumo conse
quences resultant last year will attend this
year.
In speaking of the condition of fruit
growers, an idd grower laid that it is not a;
good as it was two years ago. Then they
coined shekels, be said. But they did not
prepare for a cold day, as they should, and
the last yea: ’s failure went hard with them.
He said that there was fruit enough de
stroyed aud thrown away tdoyears ago to
have supplied the markets two seasons. He
argued that growers have learned
a lesson lrom their waste, too. Ho
said that every grower that is able
is preparing next season to
utilize every peach, apple, grape, etc.,
grown on his farm. They ore doing this
by putting up evaporators and canning
establishments. Some have established
stills, and he predicted that thousands of
gallons of fine peach brandy will be made
next year.
Two years ago, he said, all fruit too ripe
to be shipped to northern markets was
shipped to home markets, where it rotted
invariably. Tho home markets could not
begin to carry the immense quantities they
had. All tlie fruit too ripe to be basketed
and too soft to be sent even to a near by
market was threw away or fed to pigs.
Now, this was all wrong, the grower said.
Tbe canning establishments will save all the
fruit too ripe to be shipped to profitable
markets, and the rest may be preserved.
He cited an instance where, two
years ago, a grower, . in tho
press for baskets, was unable to ship,
utilized hia fruit tiy preserving it, made
mere money on the whole than he had ever
mails shipping.
THEY ENTER INTO AN ALLIANCE.
The growers have entered into a sort of
an alliance to take care of every bit of fruit,
and build up the industry, which has already
taken 9iich u held in this section of coun
try. Where corn and cotton onoe grew in
crops unprofitable may bo seen to-duy the
handsomest orchards in the world. A. 8.
Cooke of Cookß & Cos., fruit merchants.
New York, camo south last season, and
spent some time in this section, looking over
the orchards. He has interests in Jersey,
and Delaware, and Maryland, and he pro
nounced the orchards down here superior
in many respects to the orchards
tn those states. The fruit may not
yet be as largo as in northern orchards, but
the signs of thrift and enterprise and prog
ress in southern orchards is significant of
something greater and better in the near
future. Nothing will impode our progress,
a prominent grower said, but the continued
failures by the changing weather. Aud
growers, ho said, have I ogun to prepare
themselves against such losses from this
source. He exolainod that where a grower
formerly planted a hundred acros in peach
tree* he now divides tho acreage up nnd on
tho same field be plauts a fourth peaches
only, while the rest Is planted in apples,
pears, plums, grapes, strawberries or other
fruit. Bv this means, he said, a grower
may not be absolutely cut off from making
a crop of some of them.
DIVERSIFY THE CROPS.
If he falls on peachei, maybe he will bit
on apples or pears, or if ho falls on them,
perhaps he will harvest well on strawberries
or grapes. “Thus we have endeavored to
diversify,” he said, “and the idea has al
ready worked well.” In alluding to the
Fruit Growers Association, which was <r
gauized some years ago, to protect the
growers, an old grower said that nothing
will be so apt to secure for growers success os
a direct knowledge of their own trades and
transactions. Let every man, he said, at
tend closely to his own farm, watch the
markets and keep posted, aud he will do
for himsolf more than any association will
bs able to do for him.
Ho said that associations were good
enough where growers had so many out
side affairs that they were preveuteu from
giving to their business proper attention.
In such a ease he is not a grower. He is
dabbling in tho fruit business, whilst, prob
ably. he has other irons in the fire to which
he devotes inora of his attention. The
grower deprecated this, as it is common
among growers in some sections to plant
extensive orchards aud subordinate them
to something else. That is, devote more of
their time and energy to other pursuits.
Tho fruit business, he said, requires as much
time and attention, and it is just as profit
able, as the banking business. Only people
have not been as thoroughly educated uu to
itast iey should bs. He xalil that already
a fruit orchard in this section was a fortuuo,
and the Industry is in its infancy.
BECOMING VERY VALUABLE.
In five years a fruit farm ciinuot tie bought
here. Tiny will he gold. The industry is •
great one, and old heads are aiming
together to improve upon the old plans
every year. Improvements arc being made
and a better knowledge of fruit growing,
a fairer plea of shipping, and a more sue
cossfui process of saGng ail kiwis of fruits,
are unfolded to the people aud the industry
is growing aud growing. It has great pos
sibilities. It Is a happy aud an easy life,
nod a prosperous fruit grower Is better otf
than a king.
lbs preeeut uneasiness among growors on
iPiyjUtft u( Wfitihtr 4m ~j t* >
trees, largely. They are more easily killed
just at this time. Apples aud pears fare
lietter, nnd grupas and strawberries come at
a time when nothing except wet weather
can damage them. If the cool weather
continues, however, growers will not lie
apprehensive, and Georgia miy look for
the largest fruit crop she ever had,
z. and. a
CROOK OR CRANK.
A Suspicious Btrr.ngar Under Arrest
at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 14.—Tho police have
arrested a vory mysterious stranger, whom
they’ conceive to be a crook of tbe first mag
nitude, but who may turn out to be acrank.
He gives his name as J. B. Cave, but was
registered at Ids hotel as Will Dix Richards
of New Orleans. In a suspicious
letter fotmil in his pecKet, nddresmi to
Mrs. Amanda E. Emery, No. 146 Division
sireet, Minneapolis, she is addressed as his
dear wife. The writer complains that she
will no' send him any money to live on or
to got out of tlie countrv with and expresses
his intention of going to Cuba to die among
thieves ami cut-throais. He pretends the
most extreme poverty, though at tho time
of Ins arrest he won stylishly dresstd and
had money in his pockets. He charges that
no wife is worthy of her husband who can
seo him iu such danger of arrest, even
risking his life t > write Pi her, without fur
nishing him with money enough to ieavo tho
United .Scites. The lotter makes no
relerenoe to any specific crime, though so
full of evidom eof fears of arrest. Yester
day Cave wrote a note t-> a modest Atlanta
lady .proposing to make her.aoquaiutanee.
This led to his arrest. Whoa searched lie
bad a large number of similar epistles
ready written to ladies in all parts of
the country and a list containing tho ad
dt'oKses of many more. He has represented
him-elf since coming hereto bo an agent for
some sort of a patent.
Macon’s Election.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 14. Maoen’s munici
pal election was hold yesterday. Here is
how it resulted: Mayor, .Sylvester B.
Price. Aldermen—First ward: G. C. Con
nor, for three years; T. O. Cbratney, for
two years; M. F. Carroll, for one year. .Sec
ond ward: W. T. Morgan, for three years;
J. Vau, for two years, and A. W. Gibson,
for one year. Third ward: R. H. Smith,
for three years; W. B. Troy, for two years,
and L.Lillienthal for one year. Fourth ward:
W. T. Hhir.holser, for three years; T. J.
Ware, for two years, and N. R. Winahip,
for one year.
Tourists at Thomaevllle.
Tuomasville, Ga., Deo. K—Thomas
ville has no reason to complain of lack of
popularity witli the winter tourists this
season. About alt the boarding places ex
cept the big hotels are full. Tbe hotels
have not yet been opened. The wealthy
people, Who fin the big hotels and spend
money lively in livery turnouts as well as
in other ways, wait until after tho Christ
inas holidays before coming.
A Blaze at Sanford.
Hanford, Fla., Dec. 14.—At 9 o’clock
yesterday morning fire was discovered at
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
water tank and wood yard. It is supposed
to have beea Btarted by a spark from a
passenger engine. The principal darnago
was to tho tank and a fiat oir loaded with
wood. The damage reuohus several hun
dred dollars.
Her Clotheß Ail Aflame.
Rarnehville, Ga., Dec. 14.—Mrs. T. W.
Cochran was sitting near the fire in her
room yesterday morning, when by some
means her dries caught fire, and before the
(lames could be extinguished her feet and
hands and her right side were severely
burned. Bho is doing ns well as could be
expected uuder the circumstances.
Orlando’s Election.
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 14.—Tho city elec
tion Friday was ouiot and orderly The
straight democratic ticket was elected
almost without opposition. It is as follows:
Mayor, W. H. Palmer; clerk, Jas. K.
Duke: assessor, R. Be wan; marshal and col
lector. J. W. Preston; aldermen, S. 8.
Puckett, E. J. Reel and W. J. Ponder.
A Failure at Columbus.
Columbus, Ga.. Dec. 14.—The failure of
Mr. G. H. Gabriel, a prominent wholesale
grocer here, is announced. His liabilities
are between $80,090 and $40,000, and assets
about the saino. Dull times anil his poor
collections caused the failure. Mr. Gabriel
is ono of the oldost merchant* in Columbus
and stands high.
Rumors of an Arrest.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 14.—1 tis reported,
but the rumor cannot be verified, that an
urr -t ias been made iu connection witn
the express robbery on tho Georgia road a
few weeks ago.
HYPNOTIC HEALING.
Miracles of an Indiana Evangelist
kxerted at Her Revivals.
Muncik, Ivd. , Dec. 14. For the past
three weeks Mrs. Marla B. Woodworth, tho
noted eva: geiist, has been conducting a
revival In this city. Last evening Miss
Ruth Hughes, aged 17 years, joined in the
services, and during the excitement went
into a trance about i) o’clock. The young
lady lay in a rigid state, without any seem
ing circulation and suppressed breathing, nil
night, not moving any part of tho body
exoeut a portion of the lingers of one
band.
At 0 o’clock this evening there had been
no change in her condition, making twenty
ono hours in which she had been unconscious
to all surroundings and perfectly helpless.
According to Mrs. Woodworth’s Instructions
the girl is kept at the church and no physi
cians are allowed to examine her physical
condition, although several called this
afternoon to do so.
On last Monday Mrs. William Melton, an
estimable lady, who ha been an invalid for
live years, a greater part of the time being
unable to walk, was conveyed to tho church
that she might experience some of the heal
ing poweit that the celebrated evangelist is
supposed to possess. Mrs. Melton bad been
at tho church but a short time until she
was hypnotized, and after considerable
Draying and appealing to him whodoeth all
things well, she arose without assistance
aud walked about the church with ease.
Since returning home Mr*. Melton does her
own work, and has oalled on her neighbors
for the first time since she was taken sick.
JUDGMENT AOAINHT A CORPSF.
Posted on tho Door of the House
Where Dofendant la Lying Dead.
Goshen, Ikd., Dvc. 14.- Sam 11. Davis,
of Hhipshuwaun, last week l rought suit
against John Burns, a peddler, for a claim
of SBO. burn* died Widuueday evening,
Thursday the case was tried, and a judg
ment with order for Instant service was
secured against Burns, who bad then tsieii
dead twenty-four hours The constable, in
a <|uaridsiy this morning, posted the order
for execution upon the door of the house
where bet Oirpse wee lying. Develop
ments at the funerei ere being eagerly
wetuhsd lor.
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ACROSS MOUNT LEBANON.
TALMAOE TELLS OF ITS HIGHT
AND ITS CEDARS.
It Noses Among the Clouds 10,000
Feet Above the Level of the Sea.
The Cedar the Monarch of the Troes.
One of Thom 3,600 Years Old.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 14.—T0-day Dr.
preached another lormon of his
series on Palestine and tho adjoining coua
tries. After delivering it in the morning in
tho Academy of Music in.this city, he
preached it again In the evening in New
N ork, at the service held under the auspice*
of the Christian Herald, before commanc*
ing his sermon Dr. Talmage staled that in
spite of all the efforts that were being putt
forth to hasten the completion of his new
Tabernacle, the work was on so magnificent*
a scale, aud the necessity for care in its
construction so imperative, that judging by
present indications it would not be ready
for dedication before Faster. He was happy
to say, however, that tho hospitality of tha
Christian Herald through, which these
Hunduy evening services iu New York had
been held, would be continued, and the
publisher of that journal had already
secured an extension of tho lease of the
Academy of Music. He would therefore be
able to hold services there every Sunday
evening until the new Tabernacle was flu-v
ished. Owing to the Inclemency of the.
weather he would discontinue the custom off
giving an address out of doors after thsf
regular exerci eg to the crowd of people who
bad been unable to gain admission to tho
academy; but the publisher of the Christian
Jierald was endeavoring to obtalu the usty
of a churoh or public building iu the neigh
borhood in which an overflow service could
lie held. Dr. Talmage than anuuunced as
his text l’saiiu alv., 16: “Tho cedar* of
Lebanon which he hath planted."
in our journey we change stirrup for
wheel. It is 4 o’clock in tho morning, at
Damascus, Hyr ia, and we are among the
lanterns of the hostelry waiting for the
stage to s’art. A Mohammedan in higk
life is putting Ills throe wives on board*
within an apartment by themseivoe, amt
our party occupy the main apartment off
cue of tho most uncomfortable vehicles ia:
which mortals were over jammed an*
half-strangulated. But we must not let
tho discomforts annul or disparage the
opportunities. We are rolling on and out
aud up the mountains of Lebanon,
their forehead under a crowu of snow
which coronet the lingers of the hottest
summer cannot oust doivu. We are ascend
ing heights around which is garlanded
much of the finest poesy of tho sonDturos,
and are rising toward the mightiest domin
ion that botany ever recognized, reigned
ovor by the most imperial tree that ever
swayed a leafy scepter—tho Lebanon cedar;
a tree eulogized In my text as having grown
from a nut put into the ground by God
himself, aud no human I and had anything
to do with its planting: "The trues of Leba
non which bo hath planted.”
Tiie avorugo bight of this mountain is
seven thousand feet, but in one place it
lifts its head to an altitude of ten thousand.
No higher than six thousand feet can vege
tation exist, but buiow that line at the right
season are vineyards and orchards, and*
olive groves, and flowers that dash the'
mountain side with a vory carnage of color,
and fill the air with aromatics that Hosea, i
the prophet, and Solomon, the king, cele
brated as “the smell of Lebanon.” At a
hight of six thousand feet is a grova
of cedars, the only descendant*
of those vast forests from which
Solomon cut his tlmbor for the temple at,
‘Jerusalem,aud where atone time there
one hundred thousand uxineu hewing out*
the beams from which grout cities were con
structed. But this natiuu of trees has by
human iconociasm been massacred until/
only a small group is left. This race offs
giants is nearly extinct, but 1 have no doubtl
that some of thoso were here when Hiram,
King of Tyre, ordored tho assassination oft
those csdars of Lebanon which the Lord;
planted. From tho multitude of uses to
which it may be put and the employment off’
it in the scriptures,the cedar is the diviue fa
vorite. When the plains to be seen from the,
window of this stage In which we ride* 1
to-day are psurched under summer heats,
and not n graaa-blado survives the fervid--
Ity, this tree stands in luxurlatico, defying'
the summer sun. And when the storms of
winter terrify the earth, aud hurl the rocks
in avalanche down tho mountain side, tbi*
tree grapple; the hurricane of snow In tri-.
uiripti, and leaves the spent fury at its feet.
From sixty to eighty feet high are they,
the horizontal brauches of great
sweep, with their burden of leaves, usetUe
shapea, the top of the tree pyramidal, m
throne of foliage on which might, and
splendor, und glory sit. But so continu
ously has tiie extermination of trees gone
on, that, for the most part, the mountain*
of Lebanon are bore of foliage, while, I am
s irry to say, the earth in oil lands ia being’
likewise denuded.
JJThe ax is slaying the forest* all round
the earth. To stop the slaughter God
opened the coal mines of England, and
Scotland, and America, aud the world,
practically saying by that: “Hero is fuel;
as far as possible let my trees alone.” And
by opouing for the human race the greab
quarries of granite, and showing the human
family how to make brick, God is prac
tically saying: “Here is building material ;
let my trees alone.” We bad/
better stop the axes among the
Adirondacks. We btd hotter
•top the axes in ail our forests, as it would
have been better for Syria if the axes had
long ago been stopped among the moan
tains or Lebanon. To punish us for our
reckless assault on the forests, we have the
disordered seasons; now the droughts, be
cause the uplifted arms of the trees do not
pray for raiu. their presence according to
all scientists disposing the descent of tho
showurs, and then we tiave the cyclone*
aud the hurricanes multiplied in nujnler
nnd velocity because there is nothing to
prevent their awful sweep.
Riant tbe trees in vour parks, that tha
weary may rest under them. Riant them
along your streets, that up through tbe
branches passe, a-bv may see tho God who
first inode the trees and then made man to
look at them. Riant them along the brooks,
that under thorn children may play. Riant
them in vour gardens, that as in Ed-n the
1/ird in-iy walk there in tbe cool of the day.
Riant them in cemeteries, their shade like a
mourner’s veil, aud their loaves sounding
like the rustle of lb wings of tbe departed.
Let Arbor day, or the dy for
tho planting of trees, recognized
by tbe iegislaturea of many of
tliestates, tie observed by all our people, and
ths next 100 years do as tnuob iu piaulhig
these leafy glorias of God as the last 100
years have accomplished in their do..mo
tion. Wtittii, not lung before bis death, I
saw on the banks of tbs Hudson, m Ids
glaze I nap, riding on horseback, Usorga R.
Morris, th* great song writer of A mortal, I
found hum emotional, biM t could
spsre that ires!" tb# vans* which many at
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