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( THE MORNING NEWS. i
Established 1850. Incorporatbd 1888. V
| J. H. EBTILL, President. j
FIERCE FIGHT AT ALBANY
TWO CITIZENS IN A HAND-TO
HAND ENOOUNTEH.
After the Exchange of a Few Hot
Words They Come Together—The
Men Fight Like Demons—Knives
Are Erought Into Ploy, Which Were
Used So Rapidly That It Wa3 Dan
gerous to Interfere—One of the Oom
batants Thought to Ee Fatally
Wounded— Hia Assailant Surrenders.
Albany, Ga., Sept. 6. One of the
bloodiest and fiercest fights ever witnessed
in this city occurred in Tift & Co.’s store
last night, a little after 9 o'clock, between
Enoch Jordan and Herschel Fudge.
The exact particulars were not obtainable
last night, but to-day the News correspond
ent learned the facts as follows;
BEGINNING OF THE THOUBLE.
Mr. Fudge rented a farm from Mr. Jordan
this year. Yesterday the former came to
the city and made application to Mr. Tift for
supplies for a laborer on his farm. Mr. Tift
refused to advance the supplies unless Mr.
Jordan, who cierks for Tift & Cos., would
6taad security for the payment. Mr. Jor
dan was appealed to, but refused unless Mr.
Fudge would consent to turn over the re
ceipts of a certain number of bales of cotton
3 collateral. He let off some hot language
at Mr. Jordan and then left the store.
Last night Mr. Jordan was standing talk
ing to some friends in the store, aud while
talking pulled out his pocketknife and
began whittling and trimming his nails.
Just at this time Mr. Fudge walked into the
store, and pretty well under the influence of
liquor, it is said. As ho walked up to the
group of gentlemen, Mr. Jordan spoke to
him about his crop. Mr. Fudge roplied :
‘‘Jordan, you have not treated me square
this whole year.”
“1 have treated you like a gentleman,
Mr. Fudge.”
“You are a liar,” and then the men
wont together.
KNIVES BROUGHT INTO USE.
Bystanders say Mr. Fudge drew his knife
and made a desperate thrust at Mr. Jordan,
who warded off the blow, and, gripping Mr.
Fudge, shoved him against the counter and
began cutting him.
The two man fell io the floor, and knives
were used so rapidly that no oue would at
tempt a separation. The men fought like
demons until A. R. Johnson, who arrived
ou the .scene, saw that a murder was inevita
ble, and separated the combatants.
Mr. Fudge did not rise, and was picked
up, cut ail to pieces. Drs. Davis aud Hills
mnn soon arrived, and, upon investigation,
found that Mr. Fudge was stabbed in the
head several times. His throat was cut, the
gosh reaching from the back of the neck,
severing the jugular vein, and his left arm
was slit open from the shoulder to the elbow.
JORDAN SURRENDERS.
Mr. Jordan gave himself up to Sheriff
Edwards, hut was not locked up.
Mr. Fudge is still alive, but there is not
much hope of his recovery.
The affair created a great deal of excite
ment ou the streets last night, as it is the
topic of crowds to-day.
Mr. Fudge, from his many similar exploits,
has won for himself some notoriety. He is
now under two bonds for appearance at
court. Notwithstanding this, he has many
friends who deeply sympathize with him
to-day, and the entire communit3 r regrets
the terrible deed. Both men are young and
recently married.
A HORRIBLE STCRY.
Two Young Girls MurtJerod and tbe
House Set on Bire.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. C.—A horrible
story of a double murder lias reached here
from Livingston. Overton county, about
fifty miles -from a railroad. Sunday
the family of William Smith went to
church, leaving two girls, aged 17 and 19
years, in the house alone.
About 9 o’clock a neighbor noticed an
unusual light in the direction of Smith’s
dwelling, lie ran over and found the houre
rapmly burning. He arrived just in time
t /see the bodies of the :,wo girls, both dead,
lying on the floor in the center of the down
stairs room. Their faces were covered
with blood and their clothing disordered,
so fierce were the flames that the bodies
could no t be rescued. The girls had un
doubtedly beeu murdered, after which the
house was set on tiro. The family was a
very respectable one.
SHOT WHILE BATHING.
A Renewal of an Old Difficulty May
End Fatally.
W aresboro, Ga., Sept. 6.—lVbile a
crowd of negroos were bathing in the river
near Yam this afternoon Jake Roberts 3hct
and fatally wounded Henry Handy with a
inches er. Handy is not .expected to live
l ko fiight. The ball passed Lhrough
and n n ‘ n was the ro ewal of an old
still at Urge? 01 * 31 ' 19 made bis esca b u and *
A SCHOONER ASHORS.
The Captain Unable to Locate the
Huoya Owing to Thick Weather.
Haven, Mass., Sept. 6.
Ahout , o’clock last, evening, during a south
westerly storm, the United States fish com
m.ssion schooner Grampus, bound to Woods
“ frtm Hyannis, ran ashore on L’Hom
k^teW 6h f OQU ’ , V * ne y ard sound. Im
-8 ates c y u afler t le veSse * struck the United
hissrif.coinmissiotier, Col. McDonald,
husaion* Bn < and and , the assistant com-
J • W - Collins, and Drs.
anl s, ]O L , at . ter ’ the schooner in a dory
Fafmout“ dedmmakiD * a -*• Ending at
THE VESSEL FLOATED.
fl atingThl vt t! i 0 lraal P us succeeded in
i*hL S fwT^ about 10:30 o’clock last
Of tbo thick L. *? m \ ,tate and that on account
the buoT k 'Tf ather he was unable to locate
heavily whin, 10 “ ay3 , tbe vessel pounded
injured bur if„ ab 'j re > but he thinks she is
Cygnet of l . a, U- Th® steam launch
s;o i towed fh 6 ~Q lted States ti-h couimts
day. 60 tbe Grampus to Woods Holl to
p_ Bar ‘ k Cler k Under Arrest.
Ego and * >A -> Sept.6.—Charles R.
uni ledger cit-: !a Suire, formerly individ-
Nationa, Rank** at tba broken Keystone
charges Wl .' 8 * w ®ro arrested last night,
ledgers, and Vi'u‘ ing , fall * eo;jtrie * in lbeir
08 would ten,! ! ,“' lcln K euoh statements
inar. Thnv Z lO dei:tivj the bank exam
-000 bail for n ruloas i to-night on $lO,-
* a neariug on Tuesday.
?El)f JBofttittjj
A NEW MOVEMENT.
Colored Cotton Pickers Organize for
SaK Protection.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 6.— The Tt'mes-
Democrat'a Galveston special gives infor
mation concerning the organization of the
colored cotton pickers, who have agreed not
to pick cotton after Sept. 2 for less than
SI per 100 pounds and board. This organiza
tion has been perfected through the colored
alliance, and numbers more than 500,000,
with thousands being added every day
throughout the southern states.
Col. R. A. Humphrey, general
superintendent of the colored alli
ance, admitted the existence of
this organization, saving: “It had been
Induced Dy the organization, some tuna ago
of planters and merchants in certain sec
tions—notably Memphis and Charleston—
to reduce prices for picking to a very low
standard, and that the colored pickers had
combined to protect themselves from this
dictation."
He thinks they will be able to do so. It
is learned that a secret ciroular has been
mailed at Houston to every sub-alliance
throughout the cotton belt, fixing the date
when the strike of cotton pickers shall be
simultaneously inaugurated aud how it
shall be conducted.
a secret circular issued.
The Picayune's Houston (Tex.) special
says: The headquarters of the oolored
national alliance of the United Hint os is in
this city. Col. K, M. Humphrey, general
superintendent of the colored farmers’
alliance and cotton pickets’ league,
has been actively at work iu
organizing the colored men for a
general strike all over the south. To-day
your correspondent obtained a copy of a
secret circular which Humphrey is having
distributed by thousands all through the
cotton states. The following is the main
feature of it:
Whereas, The planters and speculators
above mentioned are firm in their demand that
you pick at starvation wages as offered by
them and leave your families to suffer the
fearful consequences, placing to your account
the present low prloa of their cotton, and
WnERrAs. The above 600,000 pickers already
have bound themselves together in sacred cove
nant to puck no cotton for any one except their
own before about Nov. I, at less than $1 per 100
pounds, with hoard; and
Whereas, Your success depends upon your
united efforts.
Now, therefore, I, R. M. Humphrey, by virtue
of the authority in me vested, do issue this my
solemn proclamation, fixing the 12th day of
September, 1891, it being Saturday, as the
day upon which our people shall
cease from and absolutely stop picking
cotton except their own. and shall pick no more
until about Nov. 1, unless their just demand for
wages shall be sooner acceded to by the planters
and others interested.
THE SABBATH FOR MAN.
Dr. Lorimer’s Bold Declarations In a
Dedicatory Sermon.
Chicago, Sept. 0. —The recently com
pleted Fourth Baptist church, located at
the corner of Ashland boulevard and Mon
roe street, was dedicated this morning.
Dr. George C. Lorimer, formerly of this
city, but now in charge of Tremont Tem
ple,- Boston, delivered the dedicatory ser
moD. In the course of his address Dr. Lor
imer said that Sunday,being the first day of
the week, called to remembrance the day of
theresurrection, but that while maa should
cease from manual labor on that day he
should not consider it as a sacred day, but
should umuse aud rest himself as he ssw
flr, not foi getting the significance of the
day.
EMOTIONAL WORSHIP WAS DEPRECATED"
as was the theory that all worship should be
conducted in places set apart for that pur
pose. No piece wa3 considered as especially
sacred when men desired to worship God.
It could be done in one place as well as in
another. Dr. Lorimer also asserted that the
sacraments were not a msa-.s of grace or
remission of sins, but of instruction, which
those desiring to learn of the grace and
goodno3s of God sho.uld attend. An im
mense congregation attended the dedicatory
tervices.
CLOTH DEALERS ASSIGN.
A Baltimore Firm Fails After an Ex
istence of Forty Years.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. G.—John Moore
and ChnrlesJ. Moore, trading as Robert
Moore & Cos., w holesale dealers in cloth, on
Baltimore Btreet, near Hanover, made an
assignment for the beneflt of their creditors
to Carl Victor, trustee. The bond was
for SIOO,OOO. The firm has been in exist
ence about forty years.
Charles J. Moore, a sou of its founder,
says he iuteoded to retire from the firm,
and the business would be continued hv his
cousin. John Moore. He said the assign
ment is for the Bdo purpose of liquidating
their affairs.
A balance sheet just taken shows the firm’s
assets to bo approximately $143,000, and the
liabilities $97,000.
AN ASSIGNMENT AT HARRODSBURO.
Louisville, Kt., oept. 6.— M. Tabler
has assigued at Ilarrodsburg, Ky. The as
sets are nominally SIOO,OOO, and the liabili
ties are unknown. He is interested in Bir
mingham and Florence, Ala., Wichita,
Kan., and is supposed to have property to
meet all of his debts, but was forced to the
wall by small creditors demanding imme
diate payment.
MINISTER GRUBB’S FURLOUGH.
He Experiences a Violent Eurricane
on Eis Homeward Voyage.
New York, Sept. 6.—Gen. E. Btird
Grubb. United States minister to Spain, ar
rived from Havre to-day on the French
liner La Touraiuo. The stoamer was met
at quarantine by a delegation of G. A. R.
members from New Jersy who came to
welcome Minister Grubh. Tne minister
was in excellent health and spirits.
The La Touraiuo experienced a violent
hurricane, lasting forty-eight hours. Dur
ing the gale
THE SEA STOVE IN THE LOOKOUT
on the foremast, which was forty feet from
the water’s edge, and also broke a number
stanchions. The ofll -ers of the steamer say
it was one of the heaviest storms they had
experienced in seveu years on the line. The
cap. too, of the iron windlass, weighing
over 400 pounds, was hurled to the port
side of the steamer, a distance of several
rods. Fortunately no ®ne was injured dur
ing the storm.
A SENSATIONAL BOOK.
Tbo History of Lincoln’s Assassination
About to bo Published.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 6.—A special to the
Republic from Parkersburg, \V. V., eays:
“Geo. T. M. Harris of Ritchie county, a
member of the which investu
gated the death of President Lincoln and
condemried Mrs. Surratt, has just fin
ished his history of the assassination
of President Lincoln. The histcry
was compiled from stenographer’s
notes, which are in Gen. Harris’ possession.
In the book Gen. Harris boldly asserts that
Jefferson Davis aud certain memb/rs of
his cabiuet were Interested in a.id encour
aged the assassination of President Lin
coln. Ho fortifies his statement by a iatve
amount of documentary "Vkieuce. His
book will create a seusatirn.”
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1891.
TEMPERANCR IN MAINE.
SENATOR FRYE ON THE REMEDY
OF THE LIQUOR EVIL.
He Denied That the Habits of Europe
Tended to Temperance—France De
teriorating by Absinthe Drinking.
The License no Remedy.
Lbwistnon, Me., Sept. 6.—The largest
crowd evei; gathered at a temperance meet
ing in Androscoggin county heard Sena
tor Frye at the Pine Street Congrega
tional church this afternoon. Hundreds of
people were turned away. He claimed that
the law waß the only remedy for the evil of
intemperanoe, denied that the habits of Eu
rope tended to temperance, because
of the prevalence of light wines and
beers, asserted that Franco was
deteriorating by absinthe drinking, Italy
by cheap and strong liquors, Germany by
brandy, and held that the German emperor
was alarmed by the increase of intemper
ance aud was issuing ediots tending toward
a reduction iu the growing consumption of
spirits.
"license is no remedy.”
Hejsaids “Liquors sold undor license in
toxicate as quickly as when sold illegally
under prohibition. Glasgow, iu Scotland,
licenses, bat when in Scotland I was pre
vented from seeing the great iron ship
building .plants in operation, because
of a fair held but for one
day in that city. For this fair the
workmen saved so much and drank so hard
that the great shipbuilding plants, em
ploying 5,0U0 men, had to shut down eight
days until the men got sober. If you
licensed rum drinking to make men sober,
then why not license thieving to make them
honest, and prostitution to make them vir
tuous."
ALEXANDER STEPHENS ON TEMPERANCE.
He then related a conversation he had
with the late Hon. Alexander H. Stophons
of Georgia, in which the distinguished vice
president of the southern confederacy to!d
of the oounty of Liberty (Georgia), which
had the first iron-clad teinperauce law ever
passed in Amerioa, over seventy years ago.
"This county,” said Mr. Stephens, "was
the happiest, richest, best educated and
most orderly county of Georgia: and the
year I lived there was the only year of my
life, I remember, in which I was perfectly
well."
A PLOT FRUSTRATED.
Seven Desperate Convicts Attempt to
Obtain Their Liberty.
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 6.— The Ex
aminer says: “A daring plot to break from
the state prison at San Quentin has been
frustrated. Seven of the most desperate
among the 1,300 convicts have been placed
in solitary cells, closely guarded, while a
number of others are being especially
watohed. Among the seven are three who
escaped last year and defended themselves
in a fortress among the hills until the (then)
warden made terms with them.
THE PLOTTERS.
“They are Charles Dorsey, a murderer,
who escaped in 1687 and was captured in
Chicago; Mickey Delaney, a burglar; Will
iam Hanlon and Harry Manning, stage
robbers; Abraham Turcott and James
Sullivan, murderers, and George Ross,
burglar. Deianev had the tools with which
to break out. When the guard came he
was to fell him with a slung shot. With his
keys all the other convicts would be re
leased from their cells Then an attack was
to be made on the guards iu the prison
yard and the escape made.
ASSISTANCE FROM THE OUTSIDE.
“It i3 believed outsiders were to be in wait
ing with arms, and a desperate fight would
have certainly resulted.
" the plot was detected by a guard over
hearing certain words that aroused suspi
cion. The men wera watched aud gradually
the names of the leaders were learned. For
three weeks the wardon has been prepared
for the outbreak. When the crisis was
thought to be at hand the leaders were
quietly arrested.”
SAMUELS STATION ROBBER3.
Five Are Reported Hemmed in and
Cannot Escape.
New Orleans, La., Sept. o.—The
Picayun*’* San Antonio (Tex.) special says
Supt. Imes of the Southern Pacific railroad
has returned fram the scene of the
train robbery at Samuels SlatioD,
and has reported that the five
robbers have been hemmed in
by the rangers and Mexioan troops in tl.e
Texas peninsula, and cannot escape. After
the robbery they rode leisurely to the Rjo
Grande, having a paok mulejjloaded with
mail sacks and boxes of cigars and stolen
fruits.
There they opened sacks, rifled the mail,
ate the fruit and smoked the cigars. A
sheriff’s posse arrived there about two hours
after their departure, but hesitated about
crossing into Mexico until the arrival of the
rangers, six hours la tor.
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
Had they continued they would have capt
ured the robbers. The rangers followed
the trail. The robbers made for the pe
ninsula, following the Rio Grande aud
crossing twice into Texas. They are now in
Presidence county, pursued by the rangers,
Mexicaus and Indian seouts. it has been
learned that they secured most of the money
from the big iron safe in the express car,
which had been locked, as it should have
been done, with the time lock by Messenger
Smith.
THE FAIR ON SUNDAY.
The Board of Lady Managers De
clare in Favor of Closing.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 6.—At a meeting of
the board of lady managers of the world’s
fair last night, Mrs. Lucas of Pennsylvania
again urged the adoption of her resolution,
which was first presented at tho nffotitig
last November, deolaring in favor of closing
the world’s fair on Sundays.
The arguments in favor of Sunday
closing were made by Bishop Fowler and
Miss Frances E. Willard.
Stirring addresses on the opposite side of
the question were made by Mrs. Bagley of
Michigan, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker
and Mrs. Troutman of New York, who con
tended that the fair should be open ou Sun
days for the benefit of the poor who could
not go at other times. The result of the
vote was 56 yeas to 35 nays.
EON. BENJ. HALL DEAD.
He Wes at One Time Chief Justice of
Colorado.
Auburn, N. Y., Sept.—Hon. Benjamin
Hall died here this morning, after a linger
ing illness.
He was bern iu Whitehall, July 23, 1814.
Io 1850, by appointment of President Fill
more, he made a compilation and revision
of the accumulated official decisions of the
attorneys general of tae United Suites. In
April. 1861, President Lincoln appointed
him chief justice of Colorado.
THE WEIGHING SYSTEM.
—r—
Its Adoption by the Internal Revenue
Bureau Considered.
Washington, Sept. 6.—The internal
revenue bureau bus been considering for
some time the advisability end practica
bility of adopting what is known as the
weighing system for the official determina
tion of the quantity of spirits placed in
casks aud packages. This system, if udopted,
will take the place of the present one, by
which the contents of a cask are deter
mined by the use of gauging instruments,
us now practiced.
The law makes it the duty of the commis
sioner to proscribe rules and regulations for
a uniform system of weighing, marking,
gauging and inspection of spirits.
the commissioner’s aim.
The commissioner desires to adopt the
best means attainable to secure that system
which is the most qprreet. I: seoms to be
universally conceded by all conversant with
the two systems that that of weighing is
much more accurate.
The internal revenue office has prctiared a
table showing the weight of a gallon of
spirits at any given strength. Alcohol being
lighter than water, of course the stronger
spiriti are the loss they weigh The present
system is regarded as undesirable, for the
reason that it only approaches accuracy
when the casks are made in ihe regular
form and the inside surfaces are completely
smooth.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM.
Avery slight change in the curvaturo of
the staves will \ery materially affect the
holding capacity of a cask, as indicated by
the gauge rod. A slight difference in the
thickness of the staves o- heads
of a package will produce
the same effect. All these difficulties
will be overcome by the use of the weighing
system. The question of so&kage or ob
sorption of spirits by the various classes of
barrels during the various periods is one of
the questions which is at present engaging
the atteution of the office.
THE QUESTION OF ABSORPTION.
It is known that ordinary charred btfrrela
will absorb three to twelve pounds of spirits,
aocording to the period of time the spirits
have remained in the cask. This is also
affected by the nature of the wood com
posing the barrel and the temperature at
which the spirits have been kept.
Under the present system of gauging the
spirits absorbed by the wood are not meas
ured. The government loses the tax and
the distiller the spirits. Under the weigh
ing system the spirits absorbed into the
wood would add to the weight of the pack
age.
The commissioner has requested distillers
throughout the country to assist his office
in arriving at some conclusion ns to the
average amount of spirits that will be ale
sorbed, aud it is probable that a deduction
will be made from the gross weight of pack
ages on this account.
MANY SCALES NECESSARY.
With the adoption of the weighing sys
tem it will bo necessary to have scales at
every distillery and rectifying house for
the purpose of weighing the spirits, but it
H not intended that the di (tillers shall be
put to the expense of procuring these.
Should the system b<? put into operation the
government will procure the scales.
It is believed that this system is perfectly
practicable at all places and under ail con
ditions, except in the case of spirits that
have been rectified or compounded by the
addition of saccharine matter, and
here the present system of gauging
will have to be continued. It
is necessary to know the strength
of spirits as well as their weight, under the
weighing system, so that it will be imprac
ticable to asi ertuin the quantity of spiriti
in a package by this method where any
cons derable quantity ofJ<a( esarine matter
has been aided, for the reason that the
strength of the spirits canuot be deter
mined after such addition.
'I his change is regarded as a matter of
very considerable importance, and the com
missioner has been going over the subject
slowly and carefully for several months.
CUSTOM HOUSE FAVORITISM.
Solicitor Hepburn’s Report Suppressed
by Secretary Foster.
Washington, Sept. o.— Solicitor Hep
burn of the treasury department, an hon
est, frank lowan, investigating the com
plaints by importers of favoritism in the
appraisers’ department of the New York
custom house last spring, has discovered
facts showing collusion between certain ap
prai'ers aud curtain importers, whereby
ti.e latter successfully practiced gross
under valuations, which ho em
bodied in one of the breziest
reports ever made to the treasury dgiart
meut, recommending not only the dismissal
of tho guilty appraisers, but tho removal of
the general appraiser for not knowing what
was going on.
Secretary Foster was about to approve
the report, wheu the appraisers brought
their political friends to appear, and, "for
the sake of the party,” tho report was sup
pressed and the appraisers retained. As
soon as congress meets a resolution will be
passed by the House calimg upon Secretary
Foster for that report, ad it will be made
the basis of a lively investigation.
DAMAQE ALONG JER3EY.
Long Branch, seabrisht ana Asbury
Park Suffer from Heavy Rai:: a.
Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 6. —The
hcavyjrain-storm and high seas have caused
much damage along the New Jersey c ast.
The bluff at Long Branch has been eaten
away in many places and the bulkheads are
badly shattered, especially in front of the
Octagon hotel.
At Seabright the Highland Beach rail
road tracks are Inundated.
Io this village the streets were washed out,
while in the lowlands near here tne first
floors of dwelling houses are flooded.
FvU3k on Harrison’s Ohances.
Washington, Sept. 6.— With reference
to the Republican nomina iou for President
in 1892 Secretary Rusk says: “1 have never
doubted that President Harrison will be re
nominated aud re-elected as President. I
think the country has come to regard Mr.
H irriscu as a safe, satisfactory, and sub
stantial kind of president. Blaine, if a
candidate before the i ext convention,
would be a formidable one, though I can
not convince myself that there will bo the
slightest antagonism between President
Harrison and James G. Blaine. Mr. Har
i isou has enemies and these may unite on
Maj. McKi .ley, wuo, I think, is not averse
to becoming a candidate.”
The New Governor of Crete.
Constantinople. Sept. 6. Achmed
Eybad has been appointed governor of
Crete to sucoe.-d Djevad Pasha, just pro
moted from the governorship to be grand
vixier. A rumor, winch it is imp issibie to
couflrm, is current here to tl.e effoot that
Kimual Pasha, the recently deposed grand
vizier, is suffering imprisonment. His dis
missal is i.ow understood to be due to c >m
piiqity In a plot for the deposition of the
sultan.
A -IQUIiXAUSrs VIEW
HOW THE NEWSPAPER OF THE
FUTURE WILL BE CONDUCTED.
It Will Deal in Personalities Just as
Long as People Like to Rea l About
People and Themselves—And a Cir
culation of Half a Million Copies
Daily is by No Means Impracticable.
New York, Bept. s.— lt is difficult to see
how the daily journal of news can go much
farther into the magazine field and still bo
true to its own peculiar mission. Iu its
literary features alone, which are super
added to the news features that belong more
properly to the daily newspapers, the Sun
day journal is already superior each week
in variety and general interest of oontents
to many monthly magazines. The illustra
tions that will command themselves, it
seems to me, to the conductor of the news
paper of the future will be essentially those
which help the letter press to describe news
events of curreut interest. Of many such
events of current ephemeral valuo the
artist's pen or pencil is quite as useful
in presenting an accurate, vivid
impression as is the pencil of the writer. In
this ro9peet, as in many others, the prov
ince of the magazine lies beyond, though
not necessarily above, that of the journal of
the nows. One attempts to do at length
for the month, the season, or the year, what
the other does briefly for the day. It is not
probable, it seems to mo, that there will be
any notable obange in the price of newspa
pers in the near future. The size of the
newspaper has been said to bo susceptible of
increase with profit alike to its publishers
and to tho reading public just in so far as
its advertising area increases by natural
means in proportion to its reading matter
area. But that increase in the variety aud
value of Its contents which it warranted
exactly in so far as the number of adver
tising pagas keeps pace with the growth of
the news, and feature pages must not be an
increment of quantity. The editor is en
couraged to give to tho public in proportion
as the public gives to hie newspaper; and
the conscientious editor who realizes that
the dutios of a great nowgpapor aro as
many ns its privileges and aro greater even
thau its opportunities, since opportunities
may be made when they do not appear
spontaneously, wlil give the public far more.
But he must not weary tho public while so
doing. “The news iu a nutshell" must be
his motto.
THE PRICE OF TIIE DAILY JOURNAL
will probably not be greater, and may lie
less. One cent is the average to which re
ductions must ba made. There is no im
mediate prospoct, it seems, of the cost of
paper being less, but the introduction of
type-setting machines will reduce the cost
of composition, it is estimated, by 25 per
cent. Any corresponding reduction in the
cost of other departments would, of oourse,
so redueo the cost of producing the whole as
to enablo the publisher to reduce tbe cost of
tho nowspaper to tho public. It is by uo
means lucou. eivnble that the paper on
which a daily journal oould be printed may
yet be made out of hay, for example. Any
decided cheapening of the price of paper
would afford the publisher the readiest
opportunity to reduce tbe cost of his jour
nal.
The great mission of the daily newspaper
will continue to be, I believe, to gather and
print in brief the news of the day. When
that news discloses lawlessness, the editorial
influence of the journal should naturally bo
directed toward aiding the proper officers
of the law to suppress that lawlesncss.
When the con lensed diary of the day re
veals an outrage on the helpless, the op
pression of tie weak, the evasion of a pub
lic duty, the existence of a private crime,
it at once becomes the duty of the newspa
per to hold this wrong-doing and crime up
to public scorn and reprobation, and to
throw its influence into the scales of public
judgment on tho sido of truth and justice.
The news and editorial features and in
fluence must continue co-ordinate.
In view of the continuous increase in the
number of pages iu the daily issue of the
blanket sheet newspapers, it would seem
natural that any change iu tho size of these
pages would bo toward decrease than in
crease. The area of tbe page of the daily
journal will scarcely be reduced so as to
approximate to that of a page of a wookly
publication or magazine, for the increase in
tho number of pages necessarily implies an <
increase of cost wbich would not bo propor
tionately diminished by a decrease iu size.
The ultimate form of the daily newspaper
will undoubtedly be what tbe pubiio de
mands, since the public good is, and should
lie, the whole object of its existence. This
would seem to be the four-page epitome of
the news of the night, ably edited and sold
for a penuy.
the daily circulation
of more than 300,000 which bad been at
tained in this country some time ago war
rants the belief that a daily circulation of
half a million is by no means impracticable
lor an American newspaper, with au in
crease in the number of fast mail trains and
with the possible introduction of pneumatic
service tubes in which merchandise, and
incidentally daily newspapers m bulk,
could be dispatched from a center like
New York so as to redfch a constituency a
thousand rniie3 away in time for the
breakfast table. Such au achievement
would be quite as wonderful under our
conditions as is tbe circulation of the
Petit Journal in Paris, which is said to
reach eight hundred and odd thousand
readers. Certainly such a result does not
now seem more unattainable than tne pres
ent circulation of the World did ten years
ago. An increase in the next quarter of a
century in mechanical facilities for the in
troduction aud distribution of the daily
journal anything like corresponding to the
same increase in the last quarter would
render a circulation of a million copies
daily entirely practicable.
it is difficult to SUPPOSE
that the relations of a daily journal to the
men who make it "ill ever be paternal.
Individual independence of n'tion and
thought aro necessary to tho production of
a harmonious whole. Tho Idea was con
ceived some years ago of building blocks of
houses in Brooklyn in which the composi
tors were to havestbe privilege of residing
on payment of a yearly rental equivalent to
a low rate of interest on the actual capital
of the investment, with tho privilege of
purchasing at cost. Not long after this
project was seriously considered there was a
strike in the composing room aud the typo
graphical union raised prices. I believe
this project was then abandoned,whio.u was
tbe only one I remember to have beard of
looking toward i nternalism. The kind of
matter the successful journal will oontli.ua
to prefer to print will be that kind of wbich
its readers show the most appreciation. The
average judgment of an intelligent public
comos nearer to establishing a standard of
right and wrong in matters of this kind
than docs any arbitrary rule or the judg
ment of any one man. Tbe newspaper
which is tbe truest to tbe trust wbich tbe
public reposes in it and to which the public
can the most invariably and promptly
look for the rectification of wrong
and Use o ainpicnship of tae cause ot the
individual against corporate opp. easloa
will always be tne most Ru ces.ff.il both
from a journalistic and financial point of
now. Pope soys the noblest study of muu-
kind is man, wbloh being translated means
that men like to read in the newspaper*
about each other, not to say about them
selves. As long as this continues to be
true the dally journal will continue to deal
iu personalities and to deal with persons
rather thau things; but the sanctity of tho
home, where its invasion can in no way
servo any great public end, to which in
dividual feeling must always be to some
extent subjected, should as far as possible
be respected.
AH FAR AS JOURNALISM
as considered as a profession and compared
with law, medioino and ether vocations
which aro thousands of yoars older, it may
be said already to be their equal iu every
rospect. Two of the foreign miiisters of
the United States at this time are self-made
journalists, whose editorial positions
before they entered the diplomatic
service were superior in influence aud in
public consideration to those they now oc
cupy. The pecuniary rewards of joarnal
lsm compare favorably now w ith those of
the rank and tile of the elder professions,
and it is likely that they will continue to
grow greater with the growing influence of
the daily press.
Tho daily newspaper will in all proba
bility never bo printed on paper very much
better adapted to the purposes of illustra
tion than is tho papier now in use. If it
wore possible to buy book paper at the same
price as the article now used it would still
be impossible for a journal of very large
circulation to print a y such as its Sunday
edition without going to press as early us
Wednesday at the latest, and that of course
is out of the question. The number
of illustrations must therefore con
tinue to be gauged by the needs
of tho day, and their artistic
merit with present facilities can hardly
be very much improved. The infinitesi
mal part of a second during which there is
contact between the metal cut and the page
•of paper iu the most perfect printing press
known renders it impossible to produce a
picture which portrays thought and feeling
as well as shape and density. Of courso
there may tie departures from accepted
methods of printing just as great as is the
difference between the old baud machine
and the mighty Hoe press, but speculation
on that subjeot is unprofitable.
John A. Cockerill
THE ALLIANCE WILL WIN.
Ex-Gov. Gllck Predicts It Will Have
Kansas' Electoral Vote.
Topeka, K as., Sept. 0. —Ex-Gov. Click
was iu Topeka yesterday; in a conversation
he said: “The democrats of Kansas are in
the fight this year independent of the alli
ance. A full ticket is boiug nominated in
almost every county, and, although in a
few counties tho democrats and tho alliance
have divided the ticket, there io no fusion.
Tho Demooratio party in Kansas will, with
out a doubt, bo stronger next year on ac
count of this allianco movement, but
the alliance candidate for the presi
dency will carry Kansas sure next
fall. It will not make any difference
who that candidate may be, whether a
northern or southern man, the result will
bo the same. The people can’t be fooled by
the tdqody-shlrt cry any longor.”
The demooratio ex-governor then turned
his attention to prohibition, and said: “The
majority of the republicans in Kansas
want prohibition left out of thoir platform,
but tho other fellows scare them into leav
ing it in. Joo Hudson and Barney Kellv
get after them, and it has to stay. For all
that, the Methodist eburoh is really re
sponsible for it bolng kept before the people.
The Republican party is largely composed
of members of that church, and the preach
orsget after tho fellows who want to let up
ou the fight, and tell them if they don’t
keep prohibition in the platform they will
all go over to the third party, and the re
sult is the preachers scare ail the courago
out of them. Tho republicans would
like to let prohibition go, but they can't
do it."
FLOYD’S ALLIANCE RALLY.
Felix Corput and Tom Lyons Address
an Immense Throng.
Rome, Ga., Sept. o.—An immenso alliance
rally was held on yesterday at Morrison’s
camp grounds, about six miles from Rome.
Thero wore several thousand people present.
A barbecue and basket dinner was served
on the grounds. Several addresses were
made by prominent spoakors, among whom
wore Hon. Felix Corput aud Thomss Lyme
of Cartersville. A great deal of enthusiasm
was mnnifeited during the sneaking. There
was loyalty to the Democratic party. Third
partyitei were in a hopeless minority.
A s’rang move n now on foot by several
prominent citizens of Floyd county to
organize a democratic olub. Tbe move
ment meets with encouragement on every
side, and it may bo safety said that there
will bo such an organization in a short
time. The true blue democrats claim that
there is urgent need for organization, as in
all probability they will have the third
party to fight in 1892.
MUi.RAY’S CORPSE.
It la Hanged to a Tree to Be Eaten by
Buzzard a.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 6.—A news
agent of the Florida Central and Peninsular
railroad arrived in the city to-day and
states that the body Murray,
ti e notorious outlaw and murderer, was
taken from Gainesville to Starke aud
buried there Saturday. That night unknown
parties went to the grave and exhnmed the
corpse, cut off tbe trigger finger of
the right hand with a hatchet and hanged
the body to a tree three miles from Starke.
A placard was placed on the corpse forbid
ding any person to touch it until the flesh
had been eaten off tbe bones by tbe buz
zards. At noon to-day passengers on the
train saw the corpse still swinging in the
breeze.
Tho Ponce de Leon Drowning.
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. o.—Tho verdict of
the coroner’s jury over the bodios of Mrs.
Kennedy and Jeff Stewart, who were
drowned at the I’once de Leon last night,
was accidental drowning. The funeral of
Mrs. Kennedy will taka place to-morrow at
her oi l homo, near Wist Point. Stewart’s
body will be held until his wife returns to
the city.
Gladstone and Labor.
London, Sept. o.—ln a communication
just made public, Mr. Gladstone writes in
favor of tbe increased representation of
labor in parliament, but deprecates tbe
formation of a labor party. His objection
to such a party, in his own words, is on the
ground that “if every class of a commu
nity exercised the right to form a party,
we should have a queer parliament.”
Democrats on the Stump.
Washington, Sept, 6.— Representatives
Mills, MoMillin, Wilson, Bynum and Hatch
are all going on the stump next week.
Mills, McMillin and Wilson go to Ohio and
tbe others West. MoMillin will also speak
in Massachusetts.
The Weather in Wales.
London, Sept. 6.—A terrific gale in
North Wales has caused further great dam
age to crops- Prayers w ere said in the
churcdfes to-day for fine weather.
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THEDKOVES ATTIIE WELL
| DR. TALMAGE PREACHES TO AN
AUDIENCE OF FARMERS.
His Text Taken from Genesis xxix , 8.
Gathering the Flocks Together and
Watering the Sheep—Great Multi
tudes Wanted to Gather Around the
Gospel Well—Drivo Your Flocks Up
to the Sparkling Supply.
Elmira, N. Y., Sept. o.— Dr. Talmage
preached boro to-night to an immense multi
tude, who have come to attend the New
York and Pennsylvania exposition, which
is hold here Sept. 1 to Sept. 9. It is a com
bined exposition of cattle, sheep, horses and
valuable stock of all kinds from the two
states. The sermon was preached on the
fair grounds to a great audience of farm
ers, horsemen, drovers and stock-raisers,
from near and far, us well as citizens from
adjacent cities. Secretary Stanley of the
Young Men's Christian Association of
Elmira presidod. l)r. Tal mage’s text woe
Gomeis xxix., S. "And they said we cannot,
until all the flocks be gathered together,
and till they roll the stone from the well's
mouth; then we water the sheep."
Tbore are some reasons why it is appro
priate that I should accept tho invitatlon-to
preaoh at this groat interstate fair, and to
these throngs of oountrymen and citizens,
horsemen just come from their fine chargers,
the king of the boosts, for I take the crowa
from the lion, aud put it ou tho brow of tho
horse, which is in every way nobler, and
speak to (these shepherds just come from
their flocks, the Lord himself in one place
called Shepherd, and in another place called
a Lamb, and all the good are sheep, and
preach to you cattlemen come up from tho
hords, your occupation honored by the faett
that God himself thinks it worthy of im
mortal record that be owns “tho cattle on a
thousand hills." It is appropriate
that I come, bocauso I was a faraer’o
boy, and I never saw a city until
I was nearly grown, and having been bora
tn the country I nevor got over it, and
would not dwoli in cities a day if my work
was not appointed there. My love to you
now, and {when I got through I will
give you my hand, for though I have this
summer shaken hands with perhaps 40,000
people in twenty-one states of the Union,
ali the way through to Colorado and north
and south, i will not conclude mv summer
vacation till I have shaken hands with you.
You old termer out there! How you make
me think of my father! You elderly
womnn out thero with cap and spectacles I
How you make me think of my mother!
And now while tho air of these fair grounds
is filled with tho bleating of Bhoep, and
tho neighing of hones, and tho lowing of
cattle, 1 cannot find a more appropriate
tnxt than the one 1 read. It is a scene in
Mesopotamia, I oautfully pastoral. A woll
of water of groat value in that region. Tho
fields around about it white, with threo
flocks ot sboop lying down awaiting for the
water. I hear their bloating coining on tho
bright air, and the laughter of young men
aua maidens indulging in rtißtic repartee
I look off, and I see other flocks of sheep
coming. Meanwhile, Jacob, n stranger, on
the interesting errand of looking for a wife,
comes to the well. A beautiful sheperdess
comes to the same well. I see her approach
ing, followed by her father’s flock of sheep.
It was a memorable mooting. Jacob
married that shepherdess. The Bible
account of it Is: “Jacob kissed
Rachel, and lifted up his voice and
wept.” It has always Leon a mystery to me
what he found to cry übout! But before
that scene occurred, Jacob accosts the she -
herds and asks them wiiy they postpone the
slaking of the thirst of these shoep. acd why
they did not immediately proceed to wa'er
them. The shepherds reply to the effect:
“We are all good neighbors, and as a matter
of courtesy we wait uutil all the sheep of
the neighborhood come up. Besides that,
this stone on the well’s mouth is somewhat
heavy, and several of us take hold of it and
push it aside, and then tho buckets aud the
troughs aie tilled, and the sheep an> satis
fied. Wo cannot, uutil all the flockß be
gatborid together, and till they roll the
stone from the well’s mouth; then wo water
the sheep.
O, this is a thirsty world! Hot for the
head, and blistering for tho fret, and parch
ing for the tongue. The world’s great want
is a cool, refreshing, satisfying draught.
Wo wander around and find the cistera
empty. Long and tedious drought has dried
up the world’s fountains, but nearly nine
teen centuries ago a Shepherd, with crook
in the shape of a cross, and feot cut to the
bleeding, explored the desert passages of
this world, and one day came across a well'
a thousand feet deep, bubbling and bright
end opalesoeut. ad looked to the north amt
the south, and the oust and the west, and,
qjded out with a voice streng and musical!
that rang through the ages: “Ho, every
one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!”
Now, a great flock of sheep to-day gather
around this gospel (veil. There are a great
many thirsty souls. I wonder why the
flocks of all nations do not gather; why so
many Btay thirsty; and, while I am won
dering about it, my text breaks forth in the
explanation, saying: “We cannot, until all
the flocks be gathered together, and until
they roll the stone from tho well’s mouth;
then we water the sheep.”
If a herd of swine come to a well they
angrily jostle each other for the precedence;
if a drove of cattle come to a well they
book each other hack from the water;
but, when t e flock of sheep come,
though a hundred of them shall be dis
appointed, they only express it by sad
bleating; they come togethor peaceably.
We want a great multitude to come around
the gospel well. I know there are those
who do not like a orowd—they think a
crowd is vulgar. If they are oppressed for
room in church it makes them positively
impatient and belligerent. Not so did these
oriental shepherds. They waited until all
the flocks were gathered, and the more
flocks that came, the better they liked it.
And so we ought to be anxious that all the
people should ceme. Go cut into the high
ways and tho hedges and compel them to
come Id. Go to tho rich aud tell them they
are indigent without the gospel of Jesus.
Go to the poor and tell them them the afflu
enoe there is iu Christ. Go to the blind and
tail them of the touch that gives eternal illu
mination. Go to the lame and tell thorn of
the joy that will make the lame man leap like
a hart. Oatber all tho sheep off of ail the
mountains. None so turn of the dogs,
none so sick, none so worried, none so
dying, as to be omitted. When the fall
elections come tde whole land is to ba
sooured for voters, and if a man is too
weak or sick to walk to the polls, a car
riage is sent for him; but when the que
tioa is whether Christ or the devil shall
rule this world, how few there are to
come out aud seek the sick, and the lost and
the suffering, aud the bereft and tho lame,
and induce their suffrages for the Lord
Jesus. Why not gather a great flock! All
America in a flock; all the world la a flock.
This well of the gospel is deep enough to
put out the burning thirst of the fourteen
hundred million of tile race. Do
not let the church by a spirit of exclu
'siveuess keep the world out. Let down
all the bars, swing open ail the gates, scat
ter all tho invitations: “Whosoever will lot
him come." Come, white and black. Come,
| red ineu of the forest. Come, Laplander,
