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I’AKT TWO.
STEMS in three states.
GEORGIA, FLOHIDA AND SOITH
( VIIOLINA PARAGRAPHED.
,i:iry Line. of Town* County
l-uti'll!led by .Armed Men to Keep
1(ll , sninll-l’ox—Movement to llnlld
t Otton Knetpry t Greensboro
1(l ., ived—Hall County’* Gold Mine
Prixmer Again l*roniles to Give
Hall.
GEORGIA.
town of Eliijay voted $3,000 In bonds
, „ew school building. The vote stood
,i is said that a $20,000 team match be
i,\,,!i Northern gun clubs is being ar
,.lllSed to lake place at Thomasvilie
,-horily.
Two families from the Northwest have
n ntly purchased large farms and moved
to Floyd. There are twenty-twq people in
the two families.
Ur. Fielding Travis Powell, a prominent
physician of Atlanta, died Friday. Dr.
! owed had been in ill health for the past
two ut three years. His death was caused
by heart failure.
The Soldiers’ Home property, which was
purchased with the contributions of the
people of the state as a resting place lor
indigent Confederate Veterans, will be
.-old at public outcry in six weeks.
W. W. Davies, commander of the John
1! Gordon Camp Sons of Confederate Vet
i litns, has been appointed major general
in command of the division of Georgia by
Robert A. Smyth, commaiider-in-chief.
The grand jury of Green county has rec
ommended the payment of SIOO toward the
monument to be erected in the county to
the Confederate veterans. The monument
has bem ordered, and will be unveiled
April 20.
T. M. Tiokner, cashier of the Commer
cial Bank at Albany was accidentally shot
in the eye Friday in Lee county at a dove
shooting contest with Macon, Leesburg
and Albany gunners. One shot entered
the bail of his eye near the pupil. Dr. P.
L. Hilsman says he will not lose his sight.
At Greensboro, last week, Charley Dan
iel, charged with the murder of a negro
at Union Point, was found guilty of man
slaughter, and was sentenced to six years"
In the penitentiary. Sherman McWhorter,
charged with the murder of his brother
near Pi-nfield, was found guilty of man
slaughter, and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for four years.
At Cement, two miles north of Kingston,
an accident occurred Friday in which
Ernest McGuire, son of the superintendent
of ihe cement works, lost his foot. A ne
gro hand was throwing some dry dynamite
out preparing for a blast. Uy accident
it took tire and McGuire placed his foot on
the dynamite to extinguish the tire, when
it exploded with the result stated.
H. Hedley Bush expects to make bond
for liis appearance at the July term of
the Superior Court of Hall county to an
swer to the charge of misappropriating
funds intrusted him by T. C. Parker and
n. C. Epperson of Macon. Bush has re
vived a cablegram from London stating
that the bank at Gainesville had been tele
graphed from New York to make bond,
lie is still under guard at the Hunt House.
A large number of business men held a
meeting at Rome Saturday and discussed
plans for the promotion of permanent
work looking towards thoroughly organiz
ing the Seventh Congressional district for
the encouragement and development of en
erprises in that section. An address will
je Issued calling together all the various
commercial bodies and business men of
the city, to get together and work for the
upbuilding of Rome.
In the early part of last year a move
ment was put on foot looking to the build
ing of a cotton factory in Greensboro,
considerable sum of money was raised, but
by reason of the failure of other parties
i come up to their agreements, the plan
vas temporarily abandoned. Within the'
Past week, however, E. A. Copeland and
Vt. It. Jackson have made a liberal prop
osition to the people to build a factory,
and it is probable that in a short while
the enterprise wilt l>e an assured success.
Henry W. Morton, John G. Stanton and
P. C. Oglesby, three printers, all of Sa
vannah, left Atlanta on the front end of
a passenger car of the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad Thursday afternoon. Nine
mills lrom Xewnan the train swept
around a curve at the rate of forty miles
an hour, and Morton, who was standing
with his hands in tiousers pockets, lost
his balance and fell to the ground. One
side of his face Is torn and cut by a se
vere fall. His left hand is sprained and
swollen, and his back is in such a condi
tion that he cannot move his head with
out causing him excruciating pain.
The ordinary of Towns county has pTac
ed guards at the county lines at most
of the roads leading into Towns county,
with orders to not allow any person to
Pass into the county from districts likely
id )>e infected with small-pox. A young
man named Ledford, from Clay county.
North Carolina, passed through Towns
county several days ago Infected with the
disease. He had spent a night at Sea
ught s, in Habersham county, the place
where three of the family have small-pox.
■' w days after his arrival home he de
veloped a case of small-pox, and many
jx rsona called to see him before It was
learned what the disease was.
A school contest that Is beginning to at
bact much attention In that part of Geor
gia will take place in Dublin on the 18th
"f next month. Speakers have been se
lected from the pupils of the public ychools
of Sandersvllle, Tennille, Wrlghtsvllle,
Dublin, Eastman and Hawkinsvilie, nnd
they will contest at Dublin for a ten
tlollar prize offered by Prof. Thompson, of
Inc Dublin public schools. A distinguished
committee has accepted Prof. Thompson's
Invitation to decide upon the merits of the
declamations. The committee Is composed
of Dr. J. D. Hammond, president of tl\e
Wesleyan College; Prof. I*. T. Pollock, of
.Mercer University, nnd D. Q. Abbott, su
perintendent of Macon’s public schools.
Atlanta Journal; J. P. Neese, a young
attorney of excellent reputation, went to
1 'ovlngton a year ago. He had money In
•no Slate Savings Bank and paid a bill
there by giving a check on his deposit for
The next day he returned to his home
1,1 Fatrburn. Two days later the bank
failed and the check was not paid. The
man holding it demanded that Neese make
the check good. He failed to do this, so
the matter rested for a year. Thursday
night he was in the city at his father’s
tesidence when ho was arrested on a war
rant from Covington. He was locked in
a cell with common criminals at police
headquarters. An officer came to take
him back to Covington. Neese offered to
pay the cheek and the expenses of the
officer. The officer accepted and then
Neese was allowed to go. The city police
department had again been made a col
lecting agency.
Atlanta Constitution: Benjamin F.
King, who claims to have been greatly in
jured by having to undergo compulsory
vaccination, has tiled in the clerk's of
lice a suit for damages against Columbus
R. Giles and Jesse A. Sewell, who cla tged
to be a physician and officer of the law,
and vaccinated himself and family against
his will and to the detriment of his health,
ne asks tor $1,009. King alleges that he
has heart disease, and was unable to un
dergo a vaccination. He also alleges that
at the time his daughter was very 111.
The petition says that petitioner was ex
cused from vaccination by his family phy
sician, and that the doctor attending 1-fim
was to be at his house when the vacci
nators called for the second time, but did
not arrive. The vaccinators forcibly en
tered his house, the petition says, and vac
cinated him and bis sick daughter. Since
then he has been unable to do any work,
and has suffered great pain, and had to
require the attendance of a physician. His
daughter, too, was made much worse by
the operation.
FLORIDA.
Large shipments of lettuce ate being
made from the truck farms near Leesburg,
and good prices are being received.
Strawberries are going forward from
Lakeland in large quantities. The daily
shipments amount to about 1,500 to 2,000
quarts.
The Dunnellon Phosphate Company has
chartered the following vessels to take
cargoes of rock phosphate from Fernan
dlna: Bark Lina, 2,000 tons; steamship,
Hexan, 2,400 tons and steamship Lalehame,
2,700 tons. There are also due and to be
loaded with the same material the steam
ship Ingram, 2,000 tons; steamship Low
lands, 2,000 tons, and another steamship,
name unknown, 2,000 tons.
Benjamin Hampton, a young white man
who arrived at Tampa several days ago
from Avon Park, shot Texas Stuart, a
notorious negress, at her home, in Ft.
Brooks Friday night. He was in the
house with the woman, and they engag
ed in an altercation, when Hampton drew
his revolver and shot her through the
middle of her right hand. He was ar
rested.
The Thompson Lake, two miles north
of Grand Ridge, performed Us periodic
freak of emptying itself through Its sub
terranean passage one day last week. As
soon as it was known that the water was
running out the whole country was on
the lookout and ready to capture the fish
that were to be left on dry land. Wagon
loads were carried away. This lake em
braces several acres, and Uas a mean
depth of about twenty feet. It has no
settled time for running out, but has per
formed this strange feat several times in
the memory of the old settlers. Its last
emptying was a year ago, when It re
mained dry for several weeks, hence the
presence of such quantities of fish and of
such large sizes is a mystery.
Tuesday last in Washington the follow
ing details of a Florida couple's divorce
were brought out in a suit: Benjamin F.
Clayton, a clerk in the war department,
has been sued for separate maintenance
by his wife, Anna R. Clayton. Mrs. Clay
ton says that they were married in Sep
tember, 1866, and that Mr. Clayton desert
ed her last September. She says that
some time ago she learned that her hus
band had “secretly and connlvously”
made application for a divorce from her
in the state of Florida, representing that
he was a resident of that state. She says
that he has a salary of SIOO a month from
the war department, and that he draws a
pension of $45 a month from the govern
ment. He also owns real estate in Flori
da. The Claytons recently appeared in
court in another case, when Mr. Clayton
brought suit against bis daughter and
wife to get control of an interest in a
house and lot in Washington. It appear
ed that the daughter, who some time ago
had a government position, bought a
house and bargained to pay for it by in
stallments. Some time later she lost her
position and was obliged to suspend pay
ments Her mother then paid in about
S6OO for her, and then the father took up
the payments, with the understaning, ho
says,that he should have an interest in the
property equal to the amount that he paid
In. He paid about $2,500. and sent the re
ceipts to another dauglyer who lives in
the West for safe keeping. When he tried
to get possession of his interest in the
property he says that he could not do so,
and when he asked his daughter in the
West for the receipts he says that she
refused to return them. Therefore Mr.
Clayton concluded that his wife and chil
dren had formed a conspiracy in the mat
ter, and he went to court about it. This
case has not been settled yet.
Through the efforts of the DeLand
Board of Trade, the cassava starch fac
tory was located at Stetson, two miles
west of DeLand, on the DeLand branch
of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railway. The promoters of this factory
Imported two car loads of seeds from
Nassau In order to insure a large acreage.
The Board of Trade paid the transporta
tion on these canes, and is distributing
them free to those who will plant and
cultivate the cassava and agree to deliver
the roots to the factory this fall. There
will be not less than 500 acres planted and
there would be much more were it possi
ble to obtain the seed. The factory peo
ple agree to purchase all the roots offer
ed, even if 5,000 acres are planted. They
claim that the demand is unlimited. They
agree to pay $6 per ton for the roots at
the factory. This season they are mak
ing arrangements to utilize only about
5,C00 or 6,000 tons of roots, as It is likely
the crop of this section will not exceed
that this year. The plant for working
up this quantity of the raw material will
cost In the neighborhood of $25,000, but
the company, which seems blessed with
abundant capital, says it will Increase the
capacity of the plant from time to time,
as the production of cassava Justifies it.
Tiie growers figure that they will be able
to grow not less than eight tons to the
acre, and those who will give the crop
extra attention In the matter of fertilizing
and cultivation exited to do very much
SAVANNAH. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 180S.
better, but even at the minimum figure
of eight tons to the acre and at $6 per
ton, the profit of the industry is apparent.
It was at first supposed that the factory
vaould make the roots into starch, but
tnis is den.ed. The product of the factory
is yet a secret—lt may be tapioca, glucose,
Hour, or some of the many valuable‘com
mercial articles It Is possible to manufac
ture from the roots of the cassava.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Dr. W. J. Garner of Darlington died
Saturday.
The Methodists of Union have almost
completed their new church.
A commission has been issued to tlie
Georgetown Literary and Social Club.
The artesian well at Monroe has been
sqnk over 600 feet and very little water
obtained yet.
The Hessian fly has appeared in some
sections of the state and is ravaging the
wheat crop.
The new Council of Kershaw Is consid
ering the need of more and better water
for the town.
Telephone connection with Yorkville via
Lowry-ville and McConnells Wile was es
tablished Tuesday.
A large amount of cotton that has been
in storage in Sumter for several months
was sold and shipped Friday.
Capt. T. E. Dudley, one of Bennetts
ville’s most prominent citizens, died Wed
nesday night from cancer of the stomach.
A commission has been issued for the in
corporation of the Christ Church Agri
cultural Society of Christ Church parish,
in Berkeley county.
Winpsboro is becoming a great cattle
market. On Thursday eight car loads of
cattle were shipped from that place to
Richmond and elsewhere.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Bamberg cotton mills will be held on
March 22 for the purpose of voting an is
sue of bonds to the amount of $40,000.
Eliza Jackson, alias Mamie Wilson, a
young white woman, who was burned ac
cidentally two weeks ago, died at the City
Hosp:tal at Charleston Friday morning,
as a result of her injuries.
Resolutions were adopted by the Abbe
ville Alliance advising a reduction in the
acreage of cotton this year—it being
thought by the alliance that it was the
only redemption for the farmers.
Anew circle of the King’s Daughters
has recently been formed in Charleston
for the especial purpose of founding a
refuge ior penitent women of a certain
class, with a view to redeeming them to a
worthy life.
Maj. Cambridge M. Trott has resigned
from the command of the Second Battal
ion of the Fourth Brigade of Charleston.
He gives as his reason for resigning press
of business. James Allen, Jr., has been
asked to accept the nomination.
Gov. Ellerbe has received a letter from
Prof. J. L. Jameson of Brown University
asking the privilege of editing the letters
of the great Calhoun. The work is to be
prepared for the American Historical As
sociation, and to be published by the Uni
ted States government.
Union has a young man at its graded
school named Cogdell who is 19 years of
age, weighs fifty-four pounds and is for
ty-four inches high. He is a native of
North Carolina. He has a sister nearly
the same size. The parents live trl the
Union* Mills, and are of normal size.
The Union Cotton MifNCompany will
build 100 more dwelling They will
also increase the capital stock $500,000,
making the total over a million. They
will build a large store room, and place
electric lights in the operatives’ houses,
thereby d.minishing the liability of fires.
The Insurance adjusters finished their
work Thursday over the losses by the
burning of the Highland Park Hotel at
Aiken, and agreed upons62,oo9on the build
ing, $25,000 on the furniture, and $2,500 on
the electric plant; a total of $89,500. The
question of rebuilding the hotel has not
yet been decided.
Monday night Belle Hardy, a notorious
character of Anderson, while under the
influence of liquor, went into the meat
market of Gabe Massey and raised a row
and when he undertook to eject her she
grabbed a large butcher knife and plung
ed It into his left side. She was lodged
in Jail. Massey is in a precarious condi
tion.
Permission has bqfcn granted by the Sec
retary of Stale to the Phillips & Meyers
Manufacturing Company of Charleston to
increase the capital stock to $25,000. Per
mission was granted to the Southern
Loom, Harness and Heed Manufacturing
Company of Spartanburg to change Us
name to the Cornell Loom Harness Com
pany. and to Increase its capital stock to
SIB,OOO.
A severe fire, driven by a heavy western
wind, raged near Dupler Friday. Several
thousand dollars worth of property was
destroyed. Shortly after the fire broke
out Mr. Falls Bedenbough’s lumber milis
caught, and before help could be secured
the mill and several hundred thousand
feet of lumber were in flame 9. Several
neighbors barely escaped having their
home, burned.
The Pldem'ont Tobacco Works factory at
Rock Hill, with its contents, was com
pletely destroyed by fire Saturday morn
ing at 5 o’clock, also a small tenant house
adjoining. The estimated loss on the fac
tory and contenflfTirjn.OOO. The Insurance
is $7,000. The tenant house was valued at
SSOO, covered by Insurance. The cause of
the fire is unknown. The directors will
rent another building and continue oper
ations. The factory will be rebuilt at an
early day.
CANDLER’S CAMPAIGN.
Editors of tlie State Still Discussing
His Letter.
Augusta Chronicle: Bob Berner Ik a
bachelor, is handsome as a picture, and a
speaker of rare grace and eloquence. He
will be a live wire in the contest, but Al
len D. Candler will be Ihe nominee of the
party.
•Albany Herald: We will not presume to
speak of Mr, Berner's strength In Middle
Georgia. What his local following will
be, or whether he will be able to work
the geography of state politics and satisfy
the counties of Middle Georgia Is a mat
ter about which we are not In position
to speak advisedly or with any degree of
certainty, hut when it comes to South
west Georgia the Herald can claim with
out boasting to be in close touch with the
people, and we give it as our honest
opinion that Mr. Berner will have very lil
tie following In this neck of the woods.
Macon Evening News: Hon. R. L. Ber
ner has announced his candidacy for Gov
ernor, and there is every indication that
lion. Louis Garrard will make a similar
announcement within the next few days,
thereby making it a four-cornered race.
Of xjurse this will necessarily change
the political situation considerably, and
the two candidates already In the race
will have to revise their calculations. We
cannot believe, however, that it w.ll
change the result. Hon. Allen l>. Cand
ler has a greater hold upon the people
ttian all of the other candidates combined,
and they are going to make him their
Governor. That Mr. Berner, however,
will carry two counties that were counted
ror Candler cannot be denied; but ho will
also carry some of the counties which
Mr. Atkinson counted upon, and will very
mater.ally spilt the anti-Candler vote fit
the other counties of the state. The same
is true of Mr. Garrard. That the Candler
streng.h cannot be so easily assailed Is
equally evident.
Macon Telegraph: Hon. Robert L. Ber
ner exercises the right of an American cit
izen to offer for the high office of Govern
or through the Democratic primaries. We
think Air. Berner docs not present fairly
the ios!tion taken at the late manufactur
ers meeting in Atlanta. The amendment
“to include exemption from state taxes”
was not adopted. But the resolution, rec
commending county and municipal option
by a vote of the people—“upon such
terms nnd with such restrictions as the
legislature may deem expedient," was
adopted unanimously. There was no sug
gestion of state exemption, as Mr. Ber
neisseems to Infer, and therefore we can
not see where the issue he seeks to raise
is to lie joined. It appears that he Is strik
ing at a man of straw of his own creation.
Cordele Sentinel: And now Bob Berner
will make the race for Governor. This an
nouncement rather complicates matters
somewhat in the situation. The friends of
Mr. Candler have considered the candi
dacy of Judge Atkinson as the result of
the W. Y. Atkinson Influence in the state.
It is a well known fact that Mr. Bering,
also belongs or rather did belong to thit
crowd. However during the lost senato
rial fight a coolness is sold to have sprung
up between Messrs. Atkinson and Berner.
There can he no doubt however of the fact
that Mr. Berner's strongest support will
come from those wffo have for the past
few years manipulated state ix>l|tlcs. Just
how much of this Influence he will share
with Judge Atkinson and'Mr. Candler re
mains to be seen.
Thomasvilie Times Enterprise: Chat
ham’s warring •elements are already get
ting ready for the next battle. It Is said
that Mayor Meldrim yvjU jead the Atkin
son forces while Firm dußignon will
champion the cause of Candler. And there
will be hot times In the old town.
Columbus Ledger: Mr. Berner speaks
of certain expenditures, and says tney
should be curtailed, yet he would oppose
such curtailment. He panders to a senti
ment that is supposed to exist, and plays
the part of a demagogue. He caters for
the support of the public school teachers,
and for that reason would continue to ed
ucate negroes with money taken from the
pockets of the white people of the state.
When Mr. Berner begins his canvass
among the white people of Georgia he will
no doubt find them tired of educating the
negro, and he hail as well face the issue.
His flight of eloquence regarding pensions,
etc., pounds very nice, but he could r.ot
have offended any honest Confederate vet
eran by advocating a revision of the pul
sion list, nnd cutting off all frodulent pn
sloners. In that way there could be an
other large saving to the taxpayers.
Americus Herald: it would not appear
that Mr. Berner’s chunces of winning the
prize are any too good, but he has many
strong political fr.ends throughout the
state and they will undoubtedly lend him
valuable assistance. In the meantime,
the Candler forces will work harder than
ever for their man and the presence of rn
additional candidate will add new Mre to
their work.
Lumpkin Independent: No man In the
state is more popular in Strwart county
than Bob Berner, and already preparations
are being made to form a big Berner club.
It is regarded as the harmonizing move in
Georgia state polities.
WINTER PARK’S FAIR.
The Gates 4o Open To-day—Pensions
for School Teachers.
Winter Park, Fla., Feb. 21.—Everything
is now being put In shape, for the opens'
lng of the Winter Park district fair on
Wednesday, to hold until Friday night.
We have had some much needed heavy
showers the past week that have helped
on wonderfully lots of flowers, fruits and
vegetables for the fair, nnd the outlook in
this directions is excellent. Col. A. E.
Dick of the Seminole not only loans his
fine hotel orchestra and helps out in other
ways, but offers a silver cup for the bicy
cle tournament. The Rollins College stu
dents will put up some good Irase ball
games, and Hon. W. C. Comstock, a
wealthy Chicagoan, who has an elegant
winter home here, is also giving the man
ager liberal assistance.
Bishop H. B. Whipple of Minnesota,
Judge C. G. Butt of Qriando, Hon. H. S.
Chubb of this city, anil Col. Thomas J.
Appleyurd of the Sanford Chronicle are
to be the orators.
The second day will have a white baby
show and the third u colored baby show,
and everything irolnts to lots of fun. De
spite the severe freeze of a few weeks ago
the fruit growers and truck farmers of
this vicinity promise to be well represented
In displays of winter products.
The clay road from Orlando to Alta
monte Springs is now completed, except a
little gap in Maitland to be plne-strawed
temporarily, and the travel over It is al
ready surprising.
The Morning News protest against pen
sioning school teacher., Is both timely and
sensible, as a movement hos been started
in this stale on the same line that the
New York teachers are working. However,
the movement la of slow growth, and will
hardly succeed. In Canada the pension
system has tieen In vogue for many years,
and one example will .herw how it works.
We bad In thta county for a number of
years a pensioned Canada teacher. After
thirty years or so of teaching there he was
retired on a pension of something over saw
a year. And .vet this same man came to
Florida, and was principal of several high
schools in different cities at a full salary.
Although doing here full service at full pay
he was, in Canada, a retired teacher on
n handsome pension. There was no disa
bility, no poverty In the case.
PENSION CHECK FORGED.
Elnm 11. Cnrllon on Trfnl in the 1 nit
cil States Court ut Tunipn.
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 21.—1n the United
States Court Saturday Elam B. Carlton,in
dicted for forging the name of Mrs. Sarah
A. Mercer to a pension check, and for re
taining a portion of the money received
for her In payment of hsr pension claim,
was placed on trial.
Postmaster Johns of Sweetwater, De-
Solo county, testified that Elam It. Carl
ton called at the postofflee for a letter for
Mrs. Sarah A. Mercer, nnd showed a let
ter from the department saying that her
pension was allowed, and that a check for
her would come soon. Carlton informed
Ihe witness that be was Mrs. Mercer’s at
torney. and said that he wanted the letter
delivered to him. Subsequently Carlton did
receive tlie letter l’or Mrs. Mercer and
opened it. The letter contained a check
for Mrs. Mercer. Carlton left an
envelop* with the witness, di
rected to himself, and requested that if a
letter came for Mrs. -Mercer It lie placed
in this envelope.
Charles Mercer, a son of Mrs. Sarah A.
Mercer, testified that he first saw the
check for Ills mother In possession of Mr.
Smith, the agent at Wachula. The check
was for $881.91. Carlton refused to give
him the-entire amount, and only gave him
$208.45, which amount he took home and
gave to hi. mother.
The case ended In Inability of the jury
to agree.
KNOCKED DOWN UY A RINA WAY.
Snn(ls Nlnttox Rnilly Hurt nt Ilnyhoro.
I’repn rut lons lor I’luntlnu,
Sparks, Go., Feb. 21.—Saturday, Sands
Mattox, in h’s efforts to slop a runaway
horse and wagon, was knocked down and
the w’agon run over him, breaking one of
his legs, besides bruising him consider
ably. The accident occurred near Bay
boro. He vvus brought to Sparks for treat
ment, and his wounds, other than the
breaking of his leg, Is not considered se
rious.
During the past few days we have had
good rains. The farmers are now very
busy preparing their lands for planting.
Judging from the preparations being made
in this direction the acreage in water
melons will be larger than It was esti
mated it would lx* three weeks ago. The
low price of cotton the past season makes
the farmer believes that even though his
melon crop Is a failure he could not do
much worse, as the hay crop raised after
the melons wouljj lie worth comethlng.
The announcement of Mr. Berner’s can
didacy for governor has created more
favorable comment here than either the
nnnounctment of -Mr. Candler or Judge
Atkinson.
TOBACCO CURING HOUSE 111 It NED.
Part of tlie Owl Company’. Plant ut
Rainey In Ruins,
Quincy, Fla., Feb. 21.—One of the Owl
Company's largest, tobacco curing bouses
caught fire about 8 o'clock this morning
and burned to the ground. Other buildings
In Ihe vicinily were saved by heroic ef
forts. A fierce wind was blowing from
the northwest. The building contained
150,000 pounds of tobacco. Very little Was
saved. There Is some insurance.
IS THE DAY GROWING LONGER f
Sclent I tic Reason, ia Support of tlie
Theory Thnt It Is.
From the Youth's Companion.
One of the most interesting subjects d's
cussed by Prof. George Darwin during his
recent visit to this country was that of
the possible and probable increuse in the
length of the day.
When once the earth is in motion about
an axis, no matter how the motion cume
about, it would continue forever, and nt
the same rate, thus making the day al
ways of the same length, unless something
Is happening or will happen to interfere
with that motion. Now, there are several
causes in operation which affect the per
iod of the earth’s rotation, some of which
tend to make the period less and others to
make it greater. Fortunately the influ
ence of each of the causes is very small.
They are generally easy to understand,
and a simple experiment will Illustrate one
of them.
Tie a stone to one end of a string, and,
holding the other in the hand, whirl it
around as nearly as may be in the circum
ference of a circle. When its speed is
nearly uniform allow the siring to wind
up on the finger. Jt wtil be noticed that
as the string shortens the angular veloc
ity increases. In the same way, if the
matter forming the earth should in any
way be drawn nearer the axis of rotation,
it would turn faster and the day would bo
shortened.
By actual loss of heat a shrinkage of the
earth is probably In progress, and, al
though the process is exceedingly slow, it
certainly tends to dlminisn the period of
rotation. On the other hand, any addition
of matter from the outside will tend to
Increase that period and make the day
longer. Undoubtedly .light additions to the
the mass of the earth are constantly made
by the arrest of meteoric bodies passing
through the atmophere. Their influence is
opposed to and tends to neutralize that of
any earth shrinkage that may be going on.
The most important interference with the
rotation of the earth that ive know of is
that of the tidal wave, which is due to
the attraction of the sun and moon, but
more largely to the latter. It is easy to see
that this Is a resistance against which the
earth turns, and Its effect is to increase the
length of the day.
Astronomical observations extending
over about 30W years have failed to show
any sensible chinge In the day, but the In
fluence of ihe tides must become evident
after the lapse of a great many years.
Prof. Darwin declares that the dny may
lengthen until It Is at least fifty-five times
as long as It Is at present, and that would
be also the period of the revolution of the
moon a trout tile earth.
A day of 7820 hours, such hours as we
now have, would offer many Interesting
advantages, but there would be some
things about It not altogether agreeable.
As It is not likely to come for some mil
lions of years. It is not a matter for imme
diate anxiety. •
MARKETS FIRM. BUT QUIET.
HI'P(HITEI) Til VMS ACTIONS l.KillT
IV THU LEADING UKIMII l HUNTS.
Cotton Ilnirt anil tncliiingeil With
*■*•■ or us.- Rules—Spirits Turpen
tine Advanced to 3:i Cents u Gal
lon—Romlii I' Irm and lnrli ait a >'d,
Villi, l.luht Sales—AVliolesule Mar
kets Stead) Exchanges to Ho t'lns
od To-day.
Savannah, Feb. 21.—The main feature In
the loading markets to-day was the ad
vance ai the price of spirits turpentine,
which was firm at 33 cents with u good
demand. There watt a fair demand for
cotton at unchanged prices, the reported
, sales of siKits being CSS bales. The rosin
market was llrm with sales of 23S Iwrrela
reported, at the Hoard of Trade. The
wholesale markets were steady and fairly
active.
The exchanges throughout the country
will be closed to-morrow, in observance of
Washington's birthday, consequently no
reiH>rts of markets will be regelved. The
following resume of the different murkets,
both local and telegraphic, will show the
tone and the quotations at the close to
day :
COT'TOX.
The local spot cotton market remained
quiet and unchanged to-day, with a fair
demand ami moderate sales. At the first
call at the Cotton Kxctmnge, the market
was bulletined quiet and unchanged, with
sales of 219 hales. At the second call the
market was unchanged with sales of 416
bales. At the lust call, the market closed
quiet and unchangtd, with further gales of
50 bales.
The following were the official spot quo
tations, at the dose of the market, at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good middling 5 16-10
Middling 5%
Low middling ..5 6-16
Good ordinary 6
Market quiet; sales, spot, 685; f. o. b.,
700.
.Sea Island Cotton—The market was quiet
and steady. The quotutloos were un
changed, as follows:
Extra choice Floridan II 645
Choice Florida* 1314
Extra fine Florldus 13
Fancy Georgias 12149x13
Extra choice Georgias 12 #12%
Choice Georgias 11 #lll4
Extra line Georgias 1014
Fine Georgias 9 #914
Medium line Georgias 814
Common Georgias 8
Savannah Receipts, Exports and Stocks.
Receipts this day 3,116
Receipts this day last year Holiday
Receipts slncy Sept. 1, '97 1,030,678
Same time last year Holiday
Exports Groat Britain this day ..... 5,866
BxpoM.m#mmt tills day 5,150
Exports coastwise this day 1.857
Stock on hand this day 89,908
Same day lust year Holiday
Receipts and Stocks at the 'Portg-
Uecelpls this day 39,898
Tills day last week 34,793
This day last, year 20,371
This day year before last 18,387
Receipts past three days 61,992
Same days last year 31,504
Same days year before last 31,364
Total receipts since Sept. 1, 1897 ..7,181,801
Same time last year 5,840,923
Same time year before last 4,305,887
Stock at the ports to-day 1,237,840
Stock same day last year 929,338
Receipts This Week East Year—
Saturday 11,127 Wednesday ....13,845
Monday 20.377 Thursday 9 210
Tuesday 16,096 Friday 10,736
Dally movements at other ports—
Galveston—Steady; middling, 5 13-18; net
receipts, 9,000; sales, 360; stock, 193,119.
Mobile—Nominal; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 1,867; stock, 41,927.
Charleston—Quiet; middling, 5%; nql re
ceipts, 1,657; stock, 25,660.
Wilmington—Firm; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 471; stock, 18,931.
Norfolk—Steady; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 382; sales, 200; stock, 02,140.
Raltlmore—Nomlnal; middling, 6; net re
ceipts, 2,282; sales, 228; Stock, 32,977.
New York—Quiet; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 639; gross, 12,020; sales, 223, all spin,
tiers; stock, 200,033.
Rodion—Dull; middling, 6*4; net re
ceipts, 1,138; gross, 2,760.
Philadelphia—Dull; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 6,408; stock, 10,663.
Dally movements at Interior towns—
Augusta—Steady; middling, 5%#5 16-16;
net receipts, 775; sales, 359; stock, (M 1,860.
Memphis—Steady; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 4,283; sales, 2,109; stock, 113,802.
St. I/OUls—Quiet; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 2,272; sales, 200; stock, 70,741.
Louisville—Middling, 5%.
Houston—SteAdy; middling, 6*4; sales, 137;
receipts, 2,775; stock, 59,617; expected to
morrow, 6,000.
Exports of Cotton This Day—
Galveston- Continent, 608; coastwise, 4,-
997.
New Orleans—To Great Rrltaln, 5,800;
coast, 6,097.
Mobile—To Great Britain, 3,636; coastwise
100.
Savannah—To Great Britain, 5,866; conti
nent, 5,150; coastwise, 1,857.
Charleston-Coastwise. 1,871.
Norfolk—Coastwise, 1,142.
New York—France, 785; continent, 1,068;
forwurded, 3,174.
Total foreign exports from all ports this
day—To Great Britain, 17,704; to France.
785; to the continent, 9,016.
Total foreign exports from all ports thus
far this week—To Great Britain, 46,085; to
France, 785; to the continent, 15,420.
Total foreign exports since Sept. 1, 1897.
—To Great Britain, 2,849.926; to France,
653,223; to-the continent, 2,016,028.
Liverpool, Feb. 21.—Cotton, spot, quiet;
prires favor buyers; American middling,
3 11-32d. The sales of the day were 12,000
baie.-t, of which SCO were for speculation
and export, and Included 11,800 American;
receipts, 5,000 bales. Including 4,500 .Ameri
can. Futures opened quiet with a poor
demand, closed quiet hut steady; 'Ameri
can middling, low middling clause, Feb
ruary, 3.17#3.18d buyers; Fcbruury-Maroh,
a,17i(3.18d buyers; March-Aprll. 3.17#3.19d
buyers; April-May, 3.18d sellers; Muy-
June, 3.184X3.19d sellers; June-July, 3.10d
sellers; July-August, 3.19d buyers; August
fSeptember, 3.19#2 20d sellers; September-
October, 3.19#3.20d buyers; October-No
vember, 3.2(5l buyers; November-Decem
ber, 3.2<*?x3.21d sellers.
New York, Feb. 21.—The larger share of
to-day's transaction* In cotton future*
was of a scalping nature, the weak longs
and shorts having pretty well balanced
their account on Friday and Saturday, In
anticipation of Sunday and to-morrow's
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holiday, while the stronger bulls and
ts ars were Indisposed to udd to their ob
llgat’ons.
The principal factors brought to bear
on the market early In the duy were pre
dictions of heavy port receipts, not alto
gether satisfactory advices from Liver
pool and sensational reports from Wash
ington. After opening steady at unchang
ed prices to 1 |toiiit lower, the scope of •
fluctuations was only a matter of 4 point*
with the market finally quiet at unchang
ed pi Ices, to 3 points lower. Liverpool
seni a few scattered selling orders, but
took little or no part in trading through
the balance of the session.
New York, Feb. 21, noon.—Cotton future*
opened steady; sales-, 6.100 hales; March
and April, 5.95 c; May, 6.02 c; June, 6.95 c;
July, 6.08 c; August, 6.13 c; September, 6.19CJ
October, 6.07 c,
Now York. Feb. 21. 4 p. m.-Cotlon
futures cloed quiet; sales. 119,200 bales;
February, 5.93 c; May. 5.91 e; April, 6.97 c;
May, 6. 01 e; June, 6.01 c; July, 6.07 c; Au
gust, 6.10 e; September, 6,08 c; October, 6.06 e;
Navi mber, 6.08 c; December, 6.11 c.
New Orleans, Feb. 21.—Cotton future*
quiet; salts, 11,500 bales; February, nomi
nal; March, 5.52#a.53c; April. 5,D7#5.68cJ
May, 5.63#5.64c; June, 5.68#5.69c; July,
5.726;5.73c; August, 5.75#5.76c; September,
5.77(1x5.79c; October, 5.79f)5.80c; November,
5.80 c bid; December, 5.82 c bid.
New York, Feb. 21.—Rlordan & Cos. say
of eoiton to-day; "Cotton was very dull
to-day. The ante-holiday evening upon
which usually occurs, and which to-day
should have been Induced by the war talic
of tha sensational journals here and tha
IHxlltlgnl uneasiness In Europe, failed to
materialize. Full receipts and a factional
decline in Liverpool caused our market
to open a shade lower, but the demand on
limited orders was good, and the scalp
ers, noting this, advanced prices a fevy
liolnts afier the opening. The market de
veloped no snap, however, and the selling
out of their purchases caused a recession
to about the opening figures. May opened
at 6.01 c. eased to 60, rallied to 6.04 c, and
closed at 6.01 c to 6.02 c, with the tone of th
market quiet.
"Unless some change Is brought aboui
by jiolltleal there are no sign*
of arty pronounced activity In immediate
future.”
DIG noons.
New York, Feb. 21.-Rainy weather con
ditions and the effect of to-morrow’s hol
iday tend to make the day's market it
quiet one !n dry goods. There was no very
marked attempt to boom the market, and
buyers were few. It Is probable that the
real beginning of the week's trading will
Ik- on Wi-dnesday. The price tone for cot
tons remains firm. Slight advances have
been announced in the New York mill*
wide sheet lugs and same other lines. De
mand Is still restrained, to-day's mail or
ders showing little change, from previous
ly reported averages. Converters still
figure quite prominently In the market,
and are more liberal in their bids.
NAVAL a TORES.
Spirits Turpentine—A strong demand
continued for the offerings, and the prion
rose early to 33c. At the tlrst call, at tha
Bxtflrd of Trade, the market was bulle
tined flim at 23c, with reported sales of 81
casks, at 32*io and 32 casks at 380. At
the last call the market closed firm at 33c.
with no sales reported.
Rosin The market had a quiet appear
ance, Judging from the reports at thq
Board of Trade. At the tlrst call the mar
ket was bulletined firm and unchanged
with no sales reported. At the lust call It
closed firm and unchanged, with sales ol
23S barrels. The following were the quo
tations;
H - C
T> 120 K 17S
3 ‘t lxi M HI
* 1 * N sjj
0 1 3-5 w. a 2oa
H 160 W. w 223
Naval Stores Statement-
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock April 1, 1897 4,836
Received this day 292 ] 7b3
Received previously 302,124 l.yn'm
- j
Tota * .....307,163 1.236,234
Exports to-day }g)
Exports previously 287,721 1,076.154
Total since April 1, 1897 ...287,861 1,076,614
Stock on hand this day 19,321 179,61a
Slock same day last year .. 19,434 260 I 'a
Receipts same day last year Holiday
Charleston, Feb. 21,-Turpentlne markee
firm at 32c; sales none. Rosin firm un.
changed; sales none.
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 21.-Spirits tur.
pentine llrm. 32%3?e. Rosin firm, at 41 2d
0x1.25. Crude turpentine, nothing doings
prices unchanged. Tar steady, 95c
New York. Feb. 21.-Rosin steady*
Strained common to good. t1.40#1.45. Spir
its turpentine firm at 34#34%c,
RICE.
Market firm and active. The following
quotations are for round lots In f.rsß
hands:
F' a l r 574141
Rough—73c to sl.lO per bushel.
FINANCIAL.
Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange--The market I*
steady. The following are the ixet Savan
nah quotations: Commercial demand
$1.84%; sixty days, $4.82%; ninety days, *4.81
francs, Faria and Havre, sixty days
5.23; Swiss, sixty days, 5.25%; marks
sixty days, 94 5-16.
Domestic Exchange—Steady; banks nrs
buying at par and selling as follows; Up
to *26, 10e premium; *25 to *6O, 15c premium;
*6O to SIOO, 20c premium; S2OO to SI,OOO 34
per cent, premium; SI,OOO and over, $1 nen
SI,OOO.
Securities—lnactive and very dull. Buy
ers and sellers well apart.
Stocks and Bonds.—State Ronds- Geor
gla 3% per cent, lionds of 1930, 107 bid,
asked; Georgia 3% per cent., due 1913,’:0d
bid, asked; Georgia 4% per cent, bonds,
1915, 117 bid, 118 asked; Georgia 4 per cent
due 1926. 112 bid. asked; South Carolina
4Vis, 108 bid, 198 asked.
City Bonds—Atlanta 7 per cent., 103 bid
—a ski-d; Augusta 4%5, i, 102 bid, 104
asked; Augusta 7 p r cent., 10R bid. KH
asked; Augusta 6 per cent.. 107 bid ’O#
asked; Columbus 5 per cent., 103% bid ‘:oslc
a skill; Macon 8 per rent., 115 bid, 117 ask
ed; Macon 4%, 1926. 103 bid, 105 asked; Sa
vannah 5 per cent, quarterly April cou
pons, 110% Md, 111% asked; Savannah 5 pep
cent., quarterly May coupons, 110 hid
110% xisked; Charleston 4s. 93 bid. 9i> asked’
Railroad Rond?—Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent, interest coupons, 117 bid, US
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 6 per cent, gold bonds, dun
1924. 108% bid, 108% asked; Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company col-