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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
VOLUME X.
DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1892.
NUMBER 12.
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There’s s door in the wall of the agss—
A door that no man sees;
For the Angel who writes in tha Book si
Time
la the keeper of the key*. ' .
Onco in the year it opens, , *.
At the solemn midnight hour,
Whan the children sleep, and the old dooks
keep
Awake in the tall churoh tower.
And then, sr it swings on its hinges,
\V hoerer might peer inside
Would catch a glimpse of the centuries
That behind in tho silence hide.
Egypt and Uomo and Tyre,
All in that mythical place
Where the old yearsreet that were once pos
sessed
By the wonderful human raco.
The shadowy door swings open,
And a pilgrim enters iu,
Bowed with a twelve-months' struggle
In this world of strife and slu.
Waft him a farewell greeting;
He will pan no more this way—
This weary year who must disappear
Iu the haven of Yesterday.
Tho door still swingeth open,
And outward anothor comes,
W itb a stir of banners and bugles
And the boat of friendly drums;
His hands are full of beauty—
The cluster, the song, tho sheaf,
Tho snow-flake’s wing, and the budding
spring,
And the foam on the (rested reef.
This is tho New Year, darlings,
Oh I haste to give him cheer.
Only the Father knoweth
The whole of his errand here.
This is tho Now Year, darlings;
A year for work and play,
For doing our best, and for trusting the rest
To the Maker of night and day.
—M. E. 8angster,in Harper's Young People.
“STRANGER THAN FICTION"
*■ BY HELEN F0RHIC8T GRAVES.
f RS. TUCKER act
f down tho milking-
pail with un om
phasia that mado
.the pearly fluid
a spatter up into her
face.
‘Thoro,” said
she. /‘Didn’t I
nlways toll you
so?”
Gideon Tuckor
went stolidly
plucking a fine, fat
duck for market.
“You’re 'moat
nlways tollin' of me something,” said he.
“It would bo kind o’ queer if aomo of
your say-soea didn’t como true.”
“Thing* couldn’t help happening,”
laid Mrs. Tucker, “with that old aunkon
well right in themiddlo of the meddor.
You had your beat cow lamed thoro tho
first year wo bought tho place, aud I)r.
Dupont’s hired mau liked to broke his
neck there—”
“Just como short of it,” said Gideon.
“Anyhow’, lie had no business short-cut
ting it across my pasturo lots. But there,
Fanny, ’tain’t no use your scoldin’. I
nlways calculated to fill up that well
when I got time. Aud I’m sorry as you
be that the schoolma’ain sprained her
ankle there. She’s a nico girl, and aho
helps to support that old aunt o' hern
out West, an’—”
“It was all my own fault, Mr. Tuck
er,” broko in a sweet, cheery voice.
“It’s just as you said about Dr. Du
pont’s hired man. I hadn't any business
crossing your lot, but I was in such a
hurry, and it’s nn eighth of a milo
?. S' S A % « ms • = . tt * O 5 j shorter than to go arouud by tho main
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tfiiuMAU Vh
3,MB Riftnsess. Mum tUs wten pa writs
stood thero in the doorway, loaning on
a roughly-improvised crutch which
Harry Wait, tho carpenter, had made
her.
Her cheeks wore pale, and there was
a look of suffering on her brow, even
though a sort of forced smile had been
summoned to her lips for the occasion.
“La, me, Miss Kitty 1 ” said the far
mer's wife, hastening to bring a rush bot
tomed kitchen chair. “You do look
clean peaked out. Gideon, go down sut
ler an’ bring up a glass o’ cold root beer
right away.”
“I can’t do it, Mrs. Tucker,” said
Kitty, sinking into tho chair. “It’s no
use trying.”
“Can’t do what, Miss Kitty? ”
“I walked to tho schoolhouse this
morning,” Miss Ritchie answered, “lean
ing on iny crutch and resting by turns.
And I’ve walked so far on my way back.
But I feel sick and faint, and I can go no
further.”
“There I ” said Mrs. Tucker, tragically
apostrophizing her husband as he stood
at the head of the cellar stairs with a
stone bottle of home-brewed root beer in
his hand, “sec what you’ve done! ”
“Twarn’t me! ” stuttered poor Gideon.
“Miss,Kitty ’ll hov to give up her
school,” added his wife, “and ail through
you!”
Kitty could not but smile,even through
the pain of her stinging limb at Gideon
Tucker’s rueful face.
“Oh, it isn’t so bad as thatl” said she.
“Or at least I hope not. I mean to keep
my school if I possibly can. And I’ll tell
you what my plans are. You know that
old house under the locusts?”
“What!” cried Mrs. Tucker. “The
Ritchie Iluin?”
Kitty winced a little.
“Yes,” said she, “I suppose it is a
ruin. The grass is growing up through
the kitchen floor, and the shingles have
all rotted away on the north side, and I
don’t suppose there’s a pane of glass left
in any of the windows. But the doors
aie sound, and tho roof dosn’t leak to
signify. Henry Wait says it could be
made quite comfortable with a few pine
boards and a pound or no of nails, so
long as the weather don’t turn cold; and
if Mr. Tucker would allow me to live
there this fall-
“Tain’t fit for even foxes to live in!”
cried Mrs. Tucker, hurriedly.
“Why,” more slowly spoke her spouse,
“I was calkilatin* to store my pumpkins
•n* cabbages there; but of count if
you’ve took a notion t* tho piaco—”
“I was born there, Mr. Tucker,” said
Kitty, in a low voice. “Long before
father and mother were obliged to sell
tho old place. Long boforo poor old
Aunt Ruhamah wandered away and wont
to her relations out West.”
Yes,”observed Mr. Tucker, nervous
ly scratching his head, “and until I get
your Aunt Ruey’a signature to my title
deeds, they won’t ho wuth more’ll so
much waste paper. At least ao Lawyer
Goodrich says. For aho had somo sort
of a share iu the pro|>crty, sane or crazy. ”
Miss Ritchie colored.
“Father sold tho farm to you, Mr.
Tucker,” said she, “aud it’s my business
to sec that the transaction is legal. Aunt
Kuey is coming back.”
“Kh!” cried tho farmer and his wife,
in chorus.
“I had a letter from her yesterday,”
said Kitty. “That's ono reason I am
here to-day. The cousins in Ohio won't
havo her any longer. She is getting
older and more eccentric every day, ami
they say—what is quite truo—that it is
my business to care for hor. Ami the
poor thing expects to cotno buck to the
old Ritchie farmlKiuso just ns if she had
left it yesterday! So if Mrs. Tuckor
will lend me a few articles of furniture,
I’ll try to make tho piaco habitable
for hor.”
‘And you’re kindly wolcomo to 'em,
my dear,” said thefanucr's wife. “There’s
plonty of solid old furniture up in the
garret, that we can rub up with a littlo
oil and make docent. And it’s our
business to help you all wo can, seein'
it’a Gideon’s fault—”
It's nobody's fault I” quickly inter
rupted Kitty Ritchie. “And if tho
trustees raiso iny salary, ns they talk of
doing, if thut extra class in mathematics
is started, I shall soon bo able to pay n
littlo rent for the piece.”
“I guess wo shan’t duu you much for
no rent, Miss Ritchie,” chuckled Tucker.
“An’ you’re welcome to tho milk of tho
red cow if you nn' tho old aunty want
A cow’s a dreadful help in house-
keepin'.
Miss Ritchio thanked them and wont
on her way, limping slowly along.
“I’d a’ hitched up old Jack and took
her tho rest of tho way homo,” observed
Tuckor, as he stretched his neck to look
after tho departing figure, “if l hadn't
a’ soon Harry Walt's carpenter wagon
cornin’ down tho road. An' I guess I
ain't ono to spoil sport.”
“'Twon't never bo a match if Kitty
Ritchie shoulders tho burden o’ that old
crazy aunt o’ hor'n,” said Mrs. Tucker.
“A man can’t bo expected to marry n
whole mndhouse t”
“I guess Kitty’s worth itl” declared
Tucker.
“Sho Is a good girll” said his wife.
“And there was ono timo folks s'posed
sho was goin’ to be an heiress—when tho
old sea captain uncle came home with
tho prize money that he gainod in the
war.”
“I don't believe thoro evor was any
f irizo raonoyl” said Mr. Tucker, resum-
□g his task of denuding tho plump duck
of its foathors. “Thoro I"
“I know thero was I” nodded his wife.
“Mrs. Ritchie showed it to me herself.
All gold eagles; tied up in a shammy
bag, with a leather shoe string. Tho old
captain give it to her for nussin’ him
through that fever.”
“What’s tho reason you never said
nothin’ about it before?” questioned
Tucker.
“Mrs. Ritchio mado mo prointso not to
tell. Sho was afoared o’ boin’ robbed.”
“And whot over came of it?”
“That’s what nobody knows. Jest’s
like’s not old Ebon Ritchio put it into
that iron-miniug’ consnrn that honey-
cotnbed Blue Mountain and never done
no good. Or p'raps ho invested it iu
lottery tickets. He never had no judg
ment. Now, don't you go to chattorin’
about this, Gid Tucker. Mind, I’m un
der a promise to the poor old creetur
that’s dead and buried,”
“Some promises is better broken thau
kept,” said Gideon.
But Mrs. Tucker knew that the secret
was safe with her uncommunicative
spouse.
Meanwhile, tho builder's wagon had
stopped before tho old, one storied ruin
of the Ritchio house, strongly silhouot ted
by tho red smouldor of the September
sunset.
“Kitty,” said young Wait, stealing
his uimcoaxingly around her waist, “you
can't live in an old shell like this I Givo
up your false prido, lovet Let me make
a home for you.”
Kitty bit hor lip.
“And have it said,” said she, “that
Henry Wait was tho only one of the
Wait family that made a bad match!”
I don’t care what people say.!’
I do.”
Kitty, let’s go to tho parson to
night! Let’s be married l”
Kitty shook her head.
“Not until I’ve saved up enough to
buy a decent outfit,” said she. “Not
until I’ve paid the last debt that poor
father owed.”
I'll pay ’em, Kitty.”
No, Harry, you won’t. I can bo as
unselfish as you are!” cried the girl.
“Oh, hush! Who is that?”
A board in the old floor had creaked
softly, a shadowy little figure had come
forward with a sidling motion, into the
light.
“Be you Kitty?” asked a soft, high-
pitched little voice. “Is this home? I’ve
come a good ways, and I’m sort o’ turned
round.”
“It’s Aunt Ruhamah!” cried Kitty.
“Why, how came she here I And ull by
herself!”
“It’s a good ways,” repeated tho old
woman, shifting her fiat traveling bas
ket, “and I’m sort o’ turned round. But
I followed sister Sarah all the way. She
went before, an’ she beckoned. I fol
lowed her here. And she’s gone out to
the old well. I’m sort o’ feared to toi
ler her into the high, wet grass, but
she keeps a-beckonin’, and I guess I’ll
have to go!”
She started for the door, passing her
hand in a confused fashion over her fore
head.
“What doos sho mean I” asked Harry
Wait.
“Sho means mother,” wild Kitty—
••mother that has boon dea 1 and buried
these fifteen years.”
“Don’t you see hor a-beckouln’t”
piped tho little old woman—“just there
by tho old well? Wo never could get
Ebon to put up a curb there, and sister
Sarah was always afoard somethin’ would
happen.”
“I loo tho tall grass waving,” said
Kitty, “and a cloud coming over tho
surface of tho risiug moon, and tout is
all."
“It’s slator Sarah,” said Aunt Ruey,
pushing resolutoly ahead; “and sho
wants me. Why, Kitty, do you mean to
toll mo that you don't know your own
mother?”
Kitty sent for Harry Walt the next
day.
“Harry,” said she, “do you want to
do something for molt”
“I want to do everythin; for you,
Kitty.”
“That's nnnienso 1” (But aho laughed
and colored nevertheless) “1 want you
to put a curb around that ol 1 sunkm
well. Aunt Ruey keeps wandering out
there. Sho declares that mother stands
beckoning her uud leaning over to look
in. And it's an near to bring out water
from thoro as to go to Hemlock
Springs.”
“I thought tho old well was dried up
long ago,” said young Walt.
“There’s water there. I soo it shine
and sparkle. Aud Mr. Tuckor says he
will dig it nut anew and stone it up it
you'll build a curb. It will lie handy for
the cattle, ton.”
“Very well,” nodded Wait. “Any
timo Gid Tucker's ready, I am.”
Mrs. Tuckor enmo a few days Inter tc.
the first huaking hoe of the season, full
of excitement.
“Hov yo heard!” said sho.
And Mrs. Bradley, tho buxom hostess,
made answer:
“Wo ain’t hoard nothin' new!”
If 1 hadn't hcord It with iny own
cars an’ seen it with niy own eyes,” said
Mrs. Tucker, “I never should ha’ bo
Raved it. But it's true i”
What's true?” breathlessly demanded
Mrs. Bradley.
Miss Ritchie's como into hor fortuuo,”
said Mrs. Tuckor.
“WhatI” cried nil tho company
“In gold,” said Mrs. Tucker. “The
old captaiu's prizo inouey. I km wed it
must bo somewhere. And it was there
nil tho time 1”
“Where?” questioned tho company
with ouo accord.
“Wedged behind the big half-way
stone in tho old sunken well, where they
used to lower tho crcnnt-puil to koo
cool,” engerly spoke Mrs. Tuckor.
an old tin box rusted clean through, and
tied up in the sumo identical shammy
bag that Mrs. Ritchie once showed me
years an’ years ago. Bho must a’ put it
thoro herself, to keep it out of her hus
band’* hands, that timo ho Imd such a
notion o' puttiu’ everything into minin'
shares an' lottery tickets, an’ died afore
sho had u chance to toll anybody whore
it was. Gideon ho discovered it, Axin'
up tho now stun wall.”
Mrs. Brudloy gave a start.
“Don’t ye know," said she, “poor old
Aunt Ruey always stood to it that her
sistor Sarah wus stand in’ there by the
well, beckonin’ to hor? Bho doclaro'
that sister Sarah wont afore her all tha
way from Ohio.”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Tuckor, in a low
voico. “Aud when Gideon got to tho
house, thero was Aunt Rtihnmnh settiu*
by the fire, with hor knittin' work in her
hands, jest for all tho world like she was
asleep, but stono dead. And wasn’t it
lucky sho signed them title pa pore
Gideon's last week? And Kitty's cry
Ing fit to break hor heart. Kitty
be married now whouever sho pleases
There ain't nothin’ more to wait for.
And who knows,” sho addod, looking
timidly over her shoulder at the gray
shadows of tho gloaming, “but that
Aunt Ruhamah saw clearer than wo do,
and sister Sarah, Kitty’s mother, was
really beckoning ou the edge of the old
well?”
“Ahl" said Mrs. Bradley, “who
knows?”—Saturday Night.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIIPLY
PARAGRAPHED
The New Year In Japan.
Tho Japanese New Year comes at the
same time as ours, but instead of cele
brating but ono day,the Japanese observe
the first three days of January. Indeed
in certain localities even six days are
observed. During tho holidays, public
offices arc closed, and very little buxines.*
is transacted, ail classes of people devot
ing themselves to enjoyment, nud spend
ing much time in making aud receiving
New Year's calls.
Arrayed In gay holiday attire, the
people go from house to house wishing
one another “Shim ucw omedetto gozai
mazu,” which means, “May you havo
happy New Year.” The cullers are often
atteuded by ono or more servants
carry bamboo baskets laden with gifts,
for it is the custom to leave presents with
one's friendly greetings. The presents
are usually inexpensive articles for every
day use. It is customary to bestow more
costly gifts upon one’s relatives and
intimate friends duting the closing days
of tho old year.
During the holidays the streets present
a most festive appearance, for houses are
elaborately decorated and everybody
locks gay and happy. The decorations
remain for fifteen days, and consist
many cases of evergreen arches over the
doors. Red berries and yellow chrys
anthemums are interwoven into these
arches, and purple cabbages arc also
used. The Japanese think tho cabbage
highly ornamental, and use it as a house
plant and at funerals. The cabbages
ure said to look like large purple rosettes
in the decorations.
Btraw ropes are twisted into fanciful
shapes, and interspersed with ferns, and
lanterns and Japanese flags are also much
used in decoiating. The flag of tho
Sunrise Kingdom is a largo red sun on
background of white —Forward.
The laws of heredity ure curious
, their working.
Forming- an Epitome of Dally
Happenings Here and There.
An »n i Pinkerton Mil Wi» dmmA Id
the New York aMcinbly Thursday.
According ton dispatch of Wsdnrdsy
a r ee m II trust has been formod In
D ui hint.
George 8h Tp, ono of Berry Turner 1 *
gang of out laws* near lMnevllle, Ky.,
w.a killed Wedn aday.
Two tn»n were ki led and six injured
in nn * cridont at the Blum furnaoo, near
Birmingham, Ala., Thursday.
Fitzsimmons, tho Pittsburg thief and
murderer, cointnl tod suicide Thursday
p.iri-h pi Ison, New Orleans.
II. H. Laskey, a jowelor of Roanoke,
i., was arrested Wednesday charged
Ith attu opting to swindle an iusumnee
iinpniiy by firing his store.
ho dry goods firm of W. A A. Moses,
tie of the oldest and larg st houses in
ford, Ala., mado an assignment Batur-
for the benefit of Its creditors gen
erally R. P. Thomas is tho assignee.
A d in j ul eh from Coal Creek sat* the
miners attacked the garrison Sunday
i j lit, and fighting at long ratigo follow
er twenty minutes, with no casual-
on part of tho garrison. All quiot at
the latest reports.
Chattanooga dispatch of Saturday
, <r . . In the recent Belt road duals,
barley J. James managed to scoop In
. 100,000 for his »hare of the spoils. Ho
managed to get out of tho company, and
many puoiilo are curious to know what he
ma le in tho game.
N shvillo dispatch of Thursday
Tho Cincinnati division of the
Adam* Express Company has dropped
twulvo muu found tone mornhora of the
Brotherhood of Express Messenger*. It
is understood that a number of otlior dis
missals will follow.
dispatch of Thursday from Pine
villo, Ky., says: Tho Turner and Par-
t in factions havo had another clash, and
thin timo ono of the Turner gang was
lied. The man klUod was George
Sharp, son of old Kirk Sharp, at wh >*o
house Turner and Id* gang havo boon
making headquarters.
A Knoxville dispatch savs: Tho now
union trust company h •Ids a mortgnga
on thu Knoxville electric railway for soma
$350,000. On Saturday tho trust com-
MUiy filed a hill in tho federal court ask-
ng a rcceivor, declaring that tho com-
tauy is insolvent, ns it had defaulted its
uteri st ou tho bonds.
A dispatch from Dallas, Tox., say*t On
xturday tho commissioners’ court of Dal
las county filed suit against Harry Broth-
re, hardware dealers, in tho amn of
100,000, damages tustninod in the burn
ing of the Dalliui county courthouse in
January, 1800, caused by a defective
heating apparatus put in the building by
tho defondant*.
Ifaipalch from Columbus, Ga., says
Thu annual meeting of tho stockholders
of tho Eagle and Phonlx mills wua hold
Wn Inesday and largoly attended. Nearly
thousand shares were represented.
Contrary to expectation, thero waa no
sensational action, and tho mooting wa*
marked witli earnestness and zeal. The
proHidenl’s report was a very able docu
ment, nnd reviewed the operations of the
factory, allowing a satisfactory condition
of ufTaii
North enrolIna republican stato
executive committee met at Raleigh,
Wednesday. Thoro wiis much disowsgioi
as to whether tho convention could Mm
iniite cimdidaten for statu officers, or olect
delegates to the nation'll convention. It
by a large majority, decided that it
should only elent delegates, and that the
nominating convention should l>« Raid
Inter. April 14th ia tho date, and Ra
leigh tho place,
A Charlotto dispatch of Thursday aays
In his confessions, Boyd, tho wreckor,
told of having been employed last Juno
ou the Carolina Contral road, and of hav
ing tried to wreck a train on that road
during that month. This was not re
lated in hit confessions, because It had
not then been confirmed. An investiga
tion made by tho Carolina Contral au-
Lhorith h shows that Boyd’s story of his
c inunction with that road and the at
tempted wreck is true.
A Louisville dispatch says: Judge John
Hitter, cashier of the deposit bank of
Glasgow, Ky., which failed a few days
ago, is a defaulter and insane. Ho was
found to bo in debt to tho bank $26,000.
Judge Ritter, besides being ono of the
representative citizens of Barron count"
is ono of the most widely known men
that section of tho state. When the
failure of tho deposit bank was announced
a* imminent, Judge Hitter took prompt
mcniures to turn over to thi bank all of
his property.
The directors of tho Eigle and PJieni
mills of Co'umbus, Ga., met Tuesday
The annual meeting of tho stockholders
was held Wednesday. Ex-President
Young recently iesued a circular to tho
tjockholders, in which ho severely criti
cized the present inmagement, and inti
mated that the interests of tho stock
holders were not os fully protected
they should lie, and that tnero was
trav*x n,,co b"d judgment in tho con
duct of the ulTiir*. it is expected that
this circular will figure in the proceed
ings and n very lively time In expected.
BLAINE NOT IN IT.
He Writes a Letter Declining the Pres*
identlal Nomination.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday says:
Blaine is out of it, and will not he a can
didate for the republican presidential
nomination. Ho lias written a letter to
Chairman C'arkaon, of tho republican
national commit too, sta'ing that his immo
would not be presented to tho conven
tion.
TIIR I.RTTKH IN FULL.
Washington, February 0.—lion. J. B.
Clarkson, chairman of tho Republican
national committee—Dear Sir: I nm not
a candidate for tho presidency, nnd my
nntno will not go before tho Ilepublieun
national convention for the nomination.
I make this announcement in duo season.
To those who havo tendered mo thoir
suppoit I owe sincore thanks, and am
most gratoful for thoir confidence. They
will, 1 am sure, make earnest efforts in
tho approaching contest, whioh is ren
dered specially important by reason of
tho Industrial and financial po li ios of tho
government bolng at stake. Tho popular
dcrUlon of these issues is of grest mo
ment and will be of far reaching conso-
quence. Very sincerely yours,
Jamils G. Blaine.
NEW EVIDENCE
In the Wrecking of the Keystone Dank
—Yard Implicated.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: At tho
hearing Tuesday of Henry II. Yard, who
was involved with Ex-City Treasurer John
Dardsley and President Gideon W. Marsh
in tho wreck of tli • K")stono hank, somo
evidence was introduced by United Btntcs
District Attorney Read wide!, created a
decided sensation and promises to un-
raval the mystery of the disappearance of
the bank's entire cap tnl.
Government Exp< rt A. R. Birrett tes
tified, from his examination of the bank's
books that Yard’s indebtedness at tho
timo of its olosing in March last was
$tU!),7H6, including overdrafts of $27H,-
011. Of the remalndt r, thoro are four
cm title iten of deposit, ninounting to $-V
000 each, issued to Yard without being
charged ng dust him, action which is bar
red by tho Ntatues of limitations.
MORE DISCHARGES
Brotherhood
Of Express Messenger
Members.
A St. Louis, Mo., dispatch of Fridav
says: * Despite the denials of local offi
cers of tho Adsmi Express Company, It
is positively asserted that several dis
charges of old messengers, said to belong
to tho brotherhood, have taken place
during the past few days.- On th3 Ohio
and Mississippi, between Bt. Louis and
Cincinnati, five mefsengers were dis
missed, while others are expecting their
walking papers every minute. Of the
gix messenger on tho Louisville and
Nashville, between Bt. Louis and Louis
ville, only three of the old men remain,
nnd two of tho four running between Bt.
Louis and Henderson, Ky., are out of
employ me t.
DR. M'KENZIE DEAD.
lie Was Ihe Acknowledged Greatest
Physician of the Century.
A London cablegram of Wednesday
uight rays: Bir Morell MiicKon/.io, the
grcat« st physician, is deni. He bad of
fered from bronchitis and iisthnn, fol
lowing his recent attack of infliionx-i.
His illness, however, it was considered,
had taken a favorable course. ILs death
was quite sudden.
Tho career of Dr. MncKcnziu as a
physician is a striking cxamplo of tho
force of genius. He early displayed
great analytical and surgical power, and,
when yet quite young, was regarded by
tho seniors of a jealous profession ns thoir
equal. Ills fame traveled from England
to all parts of tho world, where bin name
came to bo regarded as an authority in
medicine.
GARZA STILL ON DECK
And Giving Trouble on Both Hides ol
the Itlo Grande.
A Washington telegram of Saturday
says; Tho Gar/,a movement aloug tho
Mexican border is giving tho officials of
the war department considerable trouble
just at present. No secret is msde of
thoir disappointment thut Garz-t is still
at largo in tho American territory, and
that liis operations cannot ho confined
exclusivity to Mexican territory. Garsa
and IiIh followers nro known to have ro-
ceivo I aid and sympathy from tho Mexi
can residents in the vicinity of lilo
Grande, and tho fact Hint the United
Btatos troops are unable to capture tha
revolutionists is, in a Urge measure, at*
tributed to the deception practice! upou
them by these people.
TO SUE THE SOCIETY
For Failure to Hold Its Fairs aa Par
Contract.
A telegram from Macon, Ga., states
that the indications at presont are that
the state agricultural society will figure,
at no di taut day, as tho defendant In a
case in c »urL The plaintiff will be tha
city of Blacon, widen will file within tho
next few days a suit for $10,000 damage
against tho society. Tho failure of tha
society to hold iis fairs there ai it had
contracted to do, will he tho ground of
action on which the city's claim for dam
ages will be based. The contract was
that the city should furoidi and keep in
repair tho grounds and buildings for
twenty years, in return for which tho
society should hold a fair every year.
PUBLIC DEBT FIGURES.
A Big Decrease Shown In the Cash Bal*
ance.
The public debt statement issued at
Washington Monday shows a net decrease
in the cash balance in the treasury during
January of $8,206,008; decrcaso of tha
bonded debt, $1,OUO,062; aggregate of
public debt, included gold and silver cer
tificates and treasury notes, $1,579,401,-
700. gold certificates outstanding, $180,-
605,700; silver certificut s. $820,854,048;
cuirency certiflciitoH, $10,850,000; treas
ury notes of 1800 (bullion purchase
notes,) $81,553,000; total cash in the
treasury, $778,790,871; net cash balance,
$3 L 808,450
A PRINCELY OFFER
Made by Lonlsville t Ky., for the State
Capitol.
A Louisville, Ky., d spatch of Tuesday
says: Astroog effort U being mude to
secure the removal of the st.ito capital
from Frankfort to Louisville. A bdl to
that i fleet has been adversely reported in
the legislature, but it will bo again con
sidered by the committee. Bcnutor Alex
ander, the mover of the hill, pledges a
million dollars nnd a site from Louisville.
Hu is confident that these inducements
will win tho day, ns thy people are dis-
satisfied with the present ont of-Lhc-.wo..
location of tin- rai-it'-l
citizens or Butte, Montana. parartWIgg
about the streets with cloths over their
heads on account of the bad »umss from tM
ors dumps belonging to tbs manv miss*.