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SATURDAY'
FEB. 24,
SOUVENIR DAY!
Ladies Paptiouiahu invited.
SATURDAY
FEB- 24,
SOUVENIR DAY!
A POT POURRI OF OASES.
Recorder Wilson Dispenses Fines
With'a Free Hand.
John Carr was fined SIOO by Recorder
Vi ilson yesterday morning for selling
liquor Sunday, Feb. 11. Carr had been
fined S2OO Tuesday for selling liquor and
keeping his bar open last Sunday. The
evidence of the city's witnesses was again
contradicted with a general denial by
Carr, out the recorder lined him, making
$J[Hi that he bus paid in one week.
I Sampson, George Bodley and Paul
Days, fruity sellers, and Edward Moyle
were fined $5 each, for violating the city
ordinance of April 25, 1898, by displaying
their goods on the sidewalk, occupying
more than 2 feet fi inches space in doing
so Sampson was fined an additional so
for having his goods for sale on the curb
ing.
Ihe Greeks were represented by coun
sel. I hey all acknowledged they had
their goods displayed, but did not know
they had overreached the space as pro
vided by the ordinance.
A colored milk woman had to pay $2 for
allowing her cows to run at large in the
streets. She said the priceof milk in her
neighborhood would rise until she got
square for the amount of her fine.
A I. Shuman was fined $8 for being
f r “ti K a p nd ‘'‘sofdei'ly, and James Harris,
ioi the fun of having a scrapping match,
paid SB. ’
Nelson Carter, colored, thought he
owned a whole sidewalk on Congress
street, and paid $1 for the manner in
hich he obstructed the way.
\ lucent Gwiner played base ball in the
i< ets and Recorder Wilson fined him $1
tor being ahead of the season.
V i u*) eu * ,r een, colored, who works as
a stab.e boy for James B. West, was
larged with pointing a pistol in u. orgia
uuams face, but after ail the testimony
t u„ )een beard the recorder dismissed
f^ se Green, it seems, had been pay
h 7- Ule " ? nian some attentions, and also
c re n t, but, they had recently agreed to
ree - Ida Smith and G(orgia were
I c over the fact that their income had
ci unpaired, and it appears that the
‘ urge against Green was made to order
the occasion.
• ohn I ucker left his hack at the Cen
rli!,™ llroa<i depot and while he was
l ", l[ hing up passengers a policeman col
; , a him. Recorder Wilson fined Tucker
in2'V otll er haekmen are now stick-
Uht to their hacks like glue.
v,..',i ne ,f, Pal >uer swore $3 worth in a
. • aon 1 atnall street and paid his bill to
ti e city under protest,
h, n ene £ ro boys in front of the DeSoto were
i , \ scared day before yesterday when
policeman arrested Clem Bonaparte,
i ‘.oof *i was entered against the
u i a,ld lor the next few days the hotel
'l', r °oabl.v be freed from the usual
afternoor '‘bat congregate every
nliam Washington and Isaac Brown
oaoh fined $5 for cursing. Levi
‘ ge was turned over to the city
t. c b ar <red with stealing five wash
boards from H. H. Kuck.
CAME NEAR BEING SHOT.
Uiam Johnson's Devotion Nearly
Cost Him His Life.
illiam Johnson, colored, went to see
- s friend, the cook, night before last.
‘ < ook saffections had cooled, however,
the lust meeting, and she wouldn't
Johnson in. He didn't mind the door,
"ben, he entered the room the cook
•| s gone she bad taken refuge in her
stress house, going up the stairs three
• 'Ps ut a time.
'huson, not realizing where he was.
■ oiled up on the cook and they reached
iM)r neck and neck. It came uear
b"* a , P' a d heat, for the mistress of the
• told Johnson to get out or she
oaid shoot him. It was a chance for ar-
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gument, and while Johnson was profuse
in his apologies the lady of the house
would listen to nothing. In the
meantime. word had been sent
to her husband and he arrived in time to
. see the negro go down a lane. He fired a
couple of shots in the air to frighten him,
and after a hot chase caught him. The
negro was before Recorder Wilson yester
day morning and tried to make out a story
of love and devotion for the cook, lor
creating such a disturbance about his
love affairs he was fined $lO or thirty
days.
THE MEETING FOR MEN.
A Bible Class to Be Organized at the
Y. M. O. A.
The meeting for men at the Young
Men’s Christian Association rooms to
morrow will be in charge of Rev. W. F.
Smith, pastor of Grace Methodist Episco
pal church. Mr. Smith is a forcible
speaker and all young men are urged to
attend this meeting. Good singing and a
bright service is what is offered.
A Bible class will be organized at the
association Wednesday evening. All
members are invited to join this class. A
similar class was conducted very
successfully last year and was only
disbanded when the leader was
compelled to give up the class because of
ill health. All desiring to enter this class
will report to the secretary, and the only
requirement will be that each member
bring his Bible.
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
The time of departure of the Atlanta
morning train on the Central railroad,
No. 1, has been changed to 8:30 o'clock
instead of 8:45. Train No. 18, on the
Lyons branch, will leave Lyons lieVeafter
at 7 a. m. instead of 9:80, reaching Savan
nah at 11:15 a. m.
A meeting of the passenger agents of
southern railroads will be held at Look
out mountain, March 13, for the purpose
of adopting some plan looking to the suc
cess of the movement to get the Grand
Army of the Republic to hold its next
convention in Atlanta.
General Freight Agent Wmburn, of the
Central, is in New Orleans.
The rumors of the contemplated consol
idation of the Marietta and North
Georgia with the Atlanta, and Florida
railroad have caused much comment
amsng railroad people. The consolida
tion of these two roads sooner or later
has been considered inevitable by many
railroad men. and while it has been
talked of often, they have not looked for
the final union to materialize for some
time. Neither of these iroads has been
making any money as a separate com
pany. Mr. Garrett, general manager of
the Atlanta and Florida, is said to be in
possession of information concern ing the
efforts of certain parties to get a pull on
the Atlanta and B'lorida bonds. Nothing
is definitely known about the plans to
join the two roads as yet, and probably
othing definite will be known for some
time to come. The sale of the Marietta
and North Georgia, which is slated for
March 3. may tell the story. It is said
that the road will be bought in by the
bondholders. Coffin Si Stanton, and it is
known that these bondholders hare been
negotiating with the Atlanta and Florida
people for the bonds of that road.
Mr. Gorman has introduced in the Sen
ate a bill to amend the interstate com
merce act, so as to make it unlawful for
competing common carriers to form any
pool or agreement for the apportionment
of the traffic except under conditions pro
vided in the bill. These conditions are,
that all contracts or agreements shall be
in wnrtng, and filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission and shall only
become lawful whan approved by the
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 18SH.
commission, or upon an entry of an order
of court, as provided for in the act. All
contracts are to be considered as approved
after the expiration of ten days from
their filing, unless the commission makes
an order formally withholding its ap
proval. The commission is directed to
withhold its approval whenever it shall
find that the operation of any contract
will rosult in unreasonable rates, unjust
discrimination or unfair service. Orders or
findings of the committee shall be subject
to review by the circuit courts of the
United States, from which also an appeal
will lie to the supreme court of the United
States.
General Passenger Agent Haile received
a letter a few days ago from a gentleman
in Detroit, inquiring the prices and char
acter of the lands, and the condition of
affairs generally, in this section. The
writer stated that he and a party of
friends were about coming south to inves
tigate the inducements offered to settlers,
and wished to be informed as to desirable
localities. Mr. Haile referred the
letter to Mr. Geo. McDonald, of Cuthbert.
Randolph county and its county site,
Cuthbert, have been advertising the ad
vantages of that section extensively.
Cuthbert is on the South western division
of the Central railroad. This was
the reason that Mr. Haile re
ferred the inquirer to Cuthbert.
Mr. Haile received a letter from Cuthbert
this week, saying that inquiries were be
ing received daily from the north and
west, as the result of the reading matter
Cuthbert has sent out, and that several
visitors are now there investigating the
resources of that section.
it might pay other Georgia counties to
follow the example of Randolph.
The earnings of the Louisville and
Nashville for the second week of Feb
ruary amounted to $368,936, a decrease of
$87,250; for the two weeks of February,
$746,005, a decrease of $168,720; from July
1.1893, to Feb. 14, 1894, $12,129,513.79, a
decrease of $2,327,809.16.
The Chicago Great Western has Intro
duced anew plan on its lines in the move
ment of freight trains. Hereafter the
conductors must report the tonnage of
freight carried in each car. By this
method it is believed that the overload
ing of cars will be prevented to some ex
tent, as a car carrying 50.000 will be thus
discovered and the earnings of the train
more accurately kept.
The Louisville Southern stockholders
and bondholders are still on the anxious
seat, according to the story in the Consti
tion, regarding the reorganization of the
Richmond Terminal and East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia, untier the terms of
which the Louisville Southern stock and
bond? havo been deposited with Drexel,
Morgan & Cos. The Louisville Southern
stockholders and bondholders will hold a
meeting on March 1 to consider upon and
decide what course to pursue. At this
meeting it will be decided whether to let
the stocks and bonds remain in the hands
f Drexel, Morgan & Cos., or withdraw
them. Those opposed to Drexel. Morgan
it Cos. still think the reorganization plan
will fall through, but it is believed by un
prejudiced parties that the plan will be
successfully carried out. The Louisville
Southern is operated in conjunction with
the Queen and Crescent system, and is a
Brice-Thomas property.
Grocery Burned Out.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 28.—At 2
o,clock this morning the wholesale
grocery house of J. A. Ward law it Cos.,
was destroved by fire. The loss is esti
mated at $14,009, the firm is fully insured.
Murder by Malpractice.
Ban Francisco, Feb. 28 Dr. Eugene F.
West was sentenced to-day to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary for murder, by
malpractice, of Miss Addle Liltnoor, a
young iniiliuer.
READY FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
The Democratic Executive Congres
sional Committee Appointed.
Washington, Feb. 23.—Senator Charles
J. Faulkner, of the executive democratic
congressional committee, has appointed
the following senators and members, who,
together with the officers of the com
mittee. will constitute the executive
committee: Senators James K Jones.
S. M. White, John L. Mitchell,
James Smith and Samuel Pasco,
Representatives James P. Pigott. Will
iam McAloer, W. D. Bynum. Benton Mc-
Millin, Thomas E. liae, Justin R. Whit
ing. John T. Heard. Joseph Wheeler,
William A. Jones and W. S. Forman. The
full committee has been called to meetion
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. At this
meeting a plan of campaign will be dis
cussee. and arrangements made for the
selection of a campaign committee to
take immediate charge of the work.
A WOMAN FOUND DEAD.
The Coroner’s Jury Says it Is Suicido,
But Murder Suspected.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 23. Miss Lizzie
Christopher was found dead near Ros
well this morning. She was employed by
the Roswell Manufacturing Company.
Yesterday at noon she left the factory
and nothing has been learned of her move
ments since. There was a gash in her
neck and one linger was missing.
A coroner's jury rendered a verdict
that she committed suicide, but this is
not satisfactory to the community, and
an investigation is being made to ascer
tain if she was not murdered.
DROWNED IN THEIR CABIN.
Eight Members of the Crew of a Bark
Meet an Unusual Death.
London. Feb. 23.—The British hark
Montgomery Castle, Capt. Byrnes, from
New York, Jan. 27, for Anjer, Dutch
East Indies, for orders, has arrived at
Fayal seriously damaged. For several
days the vessel encountered severe storms
and everything movable on her deck was
swept away, including her boats.
Finally a JtremeDdous sea swept over
her, staving in her cabin, flooding it and
drowning eight of the crow, including all
the officers, leaving no one on board capa
ble of navigating the vessel, which was
speedily put into Fayal for assistance.
DISMISSED FROM THE NAVY.
A Surgeon Convicted of Insubordina
tion and Falsehood.
Washington, Feb. 23.—8 y order of the
President, Passed Assistant Surgeon
Richard Ashbridge has been dismissed
from the navy for refusing to draw up
the report of the proceedings in a court
martial, of which he was recorder, and
also for using a falsehood in the sumo
case. A court martial, held at Mare
Island, Cal., convicted him of these
charges and sentenced him to dismissal
from the naval service.
Flames at Fort Wayne.
Fort Wavne, Ind., Feb. 38.—At 8:80
o'clock this morning fire broke out in tho
large shoe establishment of Vandermark
<St Bro., on Calhoun street, and destroyed
the building and stock The loss is SIOO,-
000. The adjoining building of Meyer A
Bro., hatters, was also destroyed Mer
gethrrm'a millinery and notion store was
Hooded with water. Ibe Clay street
school building, in another part of the
city, was also destroyed.
Gen. Early Better.
Lynchburg. Va , Feb. 28.—-Gen Jubal
A Early is better to-day. lie ia sluing
up, and say* he feel* slreuger.
DIXIE’S RACE PROBLEM.
Episoopal Bishops Meet to DiscUbs
the Situation.
Washington, Feb. 23.—Bishop Nelson,
of Georgia, is here interesting himself in
behalf of the colored people of the south
of the Episcopal church. Bishops Leon
ard, of Ohio; Penick, formerly of Africa,
and Dudley, of Kentucky, are also here.
The meetings are being held in the Epiph
any church. Bishop Nolson said that
there were ten times as many negroes
proportionately in Georgia as there
are here. It usod to seem oasy to him to
be kind to the negroes, but now the
problem was appalling.. “Wo haven't
even scratched tho surface of it,” said
he. "What are we going to do with these
people? The colored people have religion
—more of it than they can use. What are
we going to do! There have been four
distinct theories ad vauced, which I will
merely touch upon. The first is
amalgamation. This is absolutely im
possible, The south unconditionally
refuses to accept it as a
solution and there is no use
talking of it any longer. Tho second
idea is extermination, hut no really godly
people believe in that. I think, so we need
dwell on it no longer. They are not
beasts—they are people. The third plan
is colonization. This has been much dis
cussed by intelligent people even, but if
you have thought of it, don’t think of it
any longer. To dejiort the colored
people of this country would take
every steamboat in tho land twenty
five years continual service, taking no
account of the children that would
be born during that time, and would cost
$75.(4X1,1X10. Let people deport if they
want to, but it won’t affect the problem
any. The fourth theory is segregation.
This is what I regard as tho
true solution of the matter. It will
bring them together, yet keep them
apart. It Is more trouble to
get the colored people, as a rule, to go to
white churches and white schools than to
get the whites to let them come In. Edu
cation is not the only thing. They must
have religious education and strive to
raise both body and soul.
One thing was made clear at the meet
ing, namely the desire to bring tho col
ored people into the Episcopal church in
tho south.
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS.
Officers Elected and the Meeting
Brought to an End.
New York, Feb. 23.—The concluding
meeting of the American Publishers’ As
sociation was held to-day at the Hotel
Imperial. Officers were chosen as fol
lows:
President —James W. Scott, of the
Chicago Herald.
Vice President—E. H. Wood, of the
Boston Herald.
Secretary—W. C. Bryant, of the Brook
lyn Times.
Treasurer —H. F. Gunnison, of the
Brooklyu Eagle.
Executive Committee—C. W. Knapp, of
the St. Ixiuis Republic, J. A. Butler of
the Buffnlo News. M. A. Mcßae, of the
Cincinnati Post and St. Louis Chronicle,
F. H. Kauffman, of the Washington Star
and F. Driscoll, of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
COUNTY RECORDS BURNED.
The Fire Started by Outlaws to
Destroy Indictments.
Birmingham, Ala., Fob. 23 - Unknown
parties broke open the Clay county court
house, at Ashland, last night, an# fired
the building, all the records in the clerk’s
office being burned, but the building was
saved. It was believed to have been done
by a gang of outlaws uude-r indictment to
dchtroy the records in certain cases. Tbs
building was saturated with oil.
fire anaanßacav a meeting.
The Mm ’"tlhg" at' St: Louie: Left
Wifi -nly Thirty Present.
St. Louis, Feb. 28.—The populist party
hold what was intended to boa grand
mass meeting at Central Turner hall last
night, but a destructive conflagration
broke out at Twelfth and Locust streets
and drew away the crowd. The meeting
was called to order by Chairman J. B.
Follett of St. Louis and only thirty men
were present. The proceedings com
menced with a review of the situation.
It was resolved to form an organization
to be known as the Populist Party Cen
tral Club, with Mr. Follett as temporary
chairman. A meeting will be railed at an
early date to complete the organization
and elect officers.
ras CLOSING SESSION.
The national executive committee of
the populist party held their closing ses
sion at the Lmdell hotel to-day. Reading
of congratulatory telegrams was first
taken up. Among them was one from
Grand Master Workman Sovereign, of
the Knights of Labor, which said: "In
all your efforts to restrain the money
power, and the confederated monopolies
from robbing the industrial masses, wo
pledge you our most hearty co-operation.”
A resolution denouncing the Wilaon
bill was passed, after considerable dis
cussion in which directly opposite views
clashed.
An address to the country was adopted,
declaring for free coinage, with the ratio
of 16 to 1 between silver and gold. Ninety
eight delegates out of 132 accredited
were present, some having proxies Re
ports from all the states showed that the
Peoples' party was growing, accessions to
the ranks being about equally divided be
tween the two old parties.
Prof. Phelps Better
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 28.—The con
dition of Prof. Edward J. Phelpa was
more favorable this morning though still
critical.
TRICKS OF "STERILE JACKS."
Formerly They Could Waste Months
Before Flying Their Kites Over Tall
Chimneys.
From Cassell s Magazine.
In years gone by, when church steeples
or small chimneys had to be climbed for
purposes of examination and repair, the
services of the "steeple jack” wore called
in. A kite was flown by a skilled hand
over the top of the structure to be climbed,
on which generally upwardly curved
iron hooks were left fixed in a convenient
position for catching the kite string.
With the string once over one of these
hooks the kite was pullod down to the
ground by a second string attached to the
one which was used in managing and
controlling the flight. In this way leaving
the string looped over its aerial support.
The kite being then removed, a stout
cord was attached in its place, and
drawn over the top of the struc
ture until the cord had taken the
place of the string, rising from the
ground, passing over the hook a descend
ing to the ground at the other side. This
process was then repeated, stouter and
stouter cordage being used each time, and
finally a strong iron chain, until at length
a tackle was raised and fixed from which
the ad venturous workman, or “steeple
jack.” could h nulled up to complete the
adjustments and attachments of more re
liable machinery above. It need scarcely
tie observed that some skill was required
for the attainment of distinction in this
art of kite Hying. One great advantage
of the process was the delay that con
tinually occurred in getting the neces
sary adjustments made. A firm who hod
undertaken a work of reconstruction or
repair naturally hesitated to send a staff
of workmen to any distant place until
them waa good assurance that they could
ut once rotor upon their task. A kite
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flyer was, therefore, dispatched as a pre
liminary measure to establish a practical
connection with the top of the chimney
or steople. But when this forerunner
was once well away from the
superintending eye it seldom hap
pened that a favorable wind for the kite
flying part of the programme could be se
cured. Tho public houses in tho neighbor
hoodzif the scene of operations, which
naturally became the refuge of tho kite
hearing artist and messenger, appeared
to exert somo very curious meteorological
influence upon the direction and force of
the air current*. Weeks, and in some
special instances months, would slip by
before a favorable and manageable breeze
would present itself for raising tho kite,
adding a material item to the total ex
pense of the undertaking. It was these
embarrassing circumstances that ulti
mately led to other now currently prac
ticed methods of climbing chimneys. In
dependent alike of the caprices or the
wind and tho seductions of drinking
places. For the past twenty-five years.
In fact, tho old kite process has probably
been only rarely followed and may well
be classed among the engineering relics of
a bygone generation.
Hadn’t Missed His Oar.
The wind was blowing a gale and the ratn
was pattering against the window panes st
the home of a prominent Camdon physician,
says the Philadelphia Press. The clock had
Just tolled the hour past midnight, when the
physician wus aroused by the ringing of his
door bell. He Jumped out of bed. put on his
dressing gown, went to the window, raised
the sash, and saw a man muffled to tho ears
standing on his front step. He asked:
What do you want at this late hour?”
“I'm Mr. Carr," was the answer
"Well, go home. lam not responsible If
you did miss a cur. Why did you stay out so
late?”
The window went down with a bang and tbs
doctor went back to bed.
Tbe bell rang again, the doctor put his head
out of the window and saw the same man on
the step.
"Doctor, doctor: I’m Mr. Carr.”
"Well, If you did miss your car, what have
I got to do with it?"
Carr, doctor; Carr. Don’t you under
stand''"
“ What do you take me for, a conductor?"
“No. no. doctor. Mrs. Carr, my wife, your
patient, is very 111, and requires your ser
vices. 1
Oh, that's you, Carr, is It? Walt a minute
and I'll be with you.”
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