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Ia. Q LU, { 4" i^rTi THE PAULDING NEW ERA. VOLUME X. DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15), 1892. NUMBER (3. NO CURE PAY M RKOKIPT OF BO CENTS WE WILL MAIL A BOX OF TETTERINE! I TNI ONLY INFALLIBLE CUM FOB Titter, OroDDd Itch, Itching Plies, Eton Did You Ever See A JPLENDlj) Worts tad all Itching SUn Disuses. IlHhw TITTER, H matter* not how lonf H ho* flitted, TETTERINE will •• certainly curt you a* you use It Harmless, Painless and Fragrant BflflNP V RoTnndrd If you are dlaMtlafWd niVUtl w tth tlm result*—Reformse«»— Bowtborw flank of tlmHtatnof tieoryri*, Choi* hau Bank, and National Bask of Mmumah. J. T. SHUPTRINE & BRO. SAVANNAH, OA. SELF-CLOSINO WE SELL DIRECT TO CONSUMERS. «h? Sips K: dtovmmI. Almi l»tt, sinet •iBsItni at.d pe/feci tttMkMatt •sec Made. Cormpeadence ImttwJ. Writ. at aaee to THE PARSONS MFS. 00. •B4T0 t.OAPI AL«T„ CHICAGO, iLU WASTE Great Fire Precaution A NECESSITY In His Fnotory, Rnifln« llooin, Manhlns Ntiop, riambnrs' mid I'lUntura' Shops, and aav pla^s writer* oily tntsto or olotnaa am used. 1 liny nro nokn<»t*le<lc*d by all to b« the host thing; for tin* purpose ever Invented. SBNO FOH I’liICKS AT ONCB. Frank E. Fitts M’f'g & Supply Co., 76*70 Po'irl Stroot, Bolton. EXCELLENT COFFEE 'T'HE flxqulello taateand flsrorof Vienna Coffts 1 esn only be obi allied by using two parts of (SrtTbo to one |>art of FMIL fsEELlG’S kAFFEE This is the best, rhnapent and moet healthful coffee mixture. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE TRY IT! Ask Your Grocer f»*r It. YOU WANT ONE? . JT, OBO •* our *4500 Bteycl.a, lo .d.artlM ur aaodi. Ail >ou hav, lo do I, ■ Mill, t.ikliM, vrHlMti “ *' n< r our lum ° axoAMraii plainly JERSEY MAHDPACTDRIMG CO. 19 WABASH AVE., - - CHICAGO. — O T • O. SAMPLE BY MAIL FREE. Addrew, Sole Agenti for U. I. Rosenstein Bros. 317 and 319 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. I 5 Will fill l||t| -ihIiin! S'B FOR THE MOST Artistic Job Printing -CALL AT THIS OlfFIOE- GILBERT LOGGING ENGINE Fon ALL Dunce. On Logging and Mining Tramways UHEQUALED I" rtm«h roads, heavy grades, r and Abort curve*. Built any gauge, for nny service, to burn coal or wood and lor either wood or iron rails. Huns iheri fall” * ur *»••» "«» u » repairs, gives satisfaction unde~ Bend for Illustrated Catalogue of Tram wag Locomotives, Cars, etc. Dunkirk, N. Y. DUNKIRK ENGINEERING CO., 2,MO Rsfereuses. Hum this ysjwr whan ysa writs A (IAUHT1NO THOUOHT, If Iho wind is tho breath of tbo dying, Aa ancient legends say, What rebel uoul, defying, H weeps down the atorma to-day? What fruitless, mad regrettln; Uttoro.1 that lingering wail? What life of itorm and tempast la spilled upon the gale? If the wind ia tho breath of tho dying, Across tho ten of light, What saintly sou), replying, Goes out to Uni to-night? Whom does this moonlit e*phyr. Uplift on its white breast? What spirit, puronnl patient. In rapture sinks to roal? —Klianboth Mtuart ritelpe. Footprints in tho Sand. BY PI.OKA IIA INKS kOUUIIKAD. K did not notice thoin at first. They were such tiny footprints and there were placet whero the wash of tho waves lnul half educed them. Andhowaa n man distraught with trouble, his brnin a maelstrom of anguish and hot anger against tho inim who would turn him out of hit homo on tho morrow and leave hit children without a roof to shel- ter them. Ah, that was whero it hurt. Ills children. Ho was a strong man, equal to meeting the bullets of fortuno and able to mnko Ida way up again, if ho had lo begin at the very lowost round of tlio ladder. Ho could end tiro privutiou and overwork. Ills wifo was young and capable, cheerful nud willing. Rut— tlie children I IIo had boon watching their play for tho last hour—thoir happy, careless play, so unconscious wero they of com ing ill—until he could onduro tho sight no longer and had rushed out into tho gathering night. How littlo thoy guoised that soon they wero to louvo their coin* fortablu home, tho homo ho had toilo 1 so hard to uinko and striven so hard to save. IIo had slipped into this strait so easily. That was always tho way. Hap piness and coinfort wero ouly to be wrested from futo by herculean ollorf. Poverty and misery waited on tho heck of a Huger. In tho beginning he had cecded a little money to provide tho nee- OSMl? implements to cultivate his place. To whom should ho so naturally apply as to hia wealthy neighbor, Judge Van Alstoyno, who made a business of loan ing money, and who lived on the blufl overlooking tho sea? IIo had given u mortgage on his placo as security, aud how was ho to know,what puuplo hinted freely uow, that tho rieli man had long tovetod his own little strip of land, which ndjoiued the judge's extensive grounds? Then had come tho dreadtul ■iego of scnrlet fever, which had attacked his household, nud littlo Annie, narrowly saved from death, had boon left a crip ple. There was a costly surgical appli ance that ho had heard would draw the crippled limb hack iutoshape, nud it was then thnt ho had asked for tho second loan, secured by n second mortgago, that he had taken the child down to the fa mous city aurocon. There w*s a hope— nothing .-lptiij ‘ u'hope—that some timo tho poor, shrunkeu little limb would he straight and strong again. Ilia heart softened nt tho thought of hia crippled child, and it was this re membrance of her that stirred him to an interest in tho tiny footprints that wont oil hofore him. Almost unconsciously and without purpose bo began to follow them, wandering aimlessly about, as thoy wandered, idly noting the places where they had turned aside and loitered, marked by shining heaps of shells aud mounds of sand. They were not like his Annie’s, these oven prints of light and nimble feet. His heart ached anew ns lie remembered tho last time ho had borno her in his arms to tiie beach and tho straugo trail tho poor little luinc foot had mado dragging in tbo sand. This child had a narrow, shapely foot, nnd in somo of the prints there was the distinct mark of a tiny French heel. Why was it that there was nowhero any sign of a larger footprint to guido tho little, babyish feet? Why did the littlo footsteps go on and on, never iu any placo returning? Who was there in all the town that would trust a littlo child to wander alone on the sands, witli tho tide at tho turn and night coin ing on? Who was there in the neigh borhood with a little child the size of bis Annie, who might have slipped away without the parents’ knowledge and strayed to this lonely spot, drawn by tho music of the waves, the strange magic of the sea? The answer brought a throb of awful triumph. Who hut the people living in the great house on the bluff? The judge's little Annie—the petted darling of for tune—upon whem he had so often looked with jealous eyes, comparing her position with thut of his unfortunate little one. And yet it seemed impossible that a child S3 carefully guarded could escape the vigilance of those whose sole duty it was to watch over her. What reason hud ho to go on along tho narrow strip of sand hemmed in by the bluffs, risking his own life,‘it might he, in a fruitless search for a child who had doubtless played there in tho afternoon sunshine, and who hud probably gone hack along the border of the beach, which was now laved by the water? If he should turn back at this moment to the homo where sat his sorrowing wife with his haploss children, what blamo could attach to him if on the marrow the tidings of Judge Van Alstcyno's terrible loss should he brought to him? How did it concern him if fate was about to deal to this man who had so persecuted him a blow more deadly than that that had boen leveled at binself ? He looked back toward the great house. There were lights in all tho rooms. Even at that distance he seemed to tea figure* nulling ts aud fro and tha signs of unusual agitation and excite ment. The next instant he rued tha loss of even that moment of Waning daylight, and, bending low to make sure of the direction of the little footprint*, ran swiftly on. Ho did not stop to reason with him* solf that thus would ho pray to bo dealt with by another should tho livoi of hia chi Id re u be imperiled. There are higher principles of action tha* that laid down by the golden rulo. Tho instinct of humanity in him was more powerful than self interest, and hs obeyed it blindly, oblivious of every other thought but that no innocent life was endangoiod, which it might ho hi* privilege lo invu. Once, twice, thrics ho knolt in tho gloom nnd unrobed for the dim impres sion* lie was following, and tho lait time he felt cautiously with his lingers on tho cold, wet sand to verify tho testimony of hia eyes in tho falling light. At length he accmud to hear a faint cry in tho diatanco, around n rocky point. Thu sound lent him now strength. A fow rod* beyond tho poiut thoro was a run of clear water, often mistaken for an inlet of tho aca. Ho and others fa miliar with tho coast knew that it was a stream of fresh water, flowing down from the mountains auu Poking in thu marshes hack of tho bluffs in this locality, only to piorco tho cliff* at au unknown depth beluw tho water level and to huh- bio forth afresh whero tho soa laved their ba*o. At high water stream nud ocean merged into our, hut nt low water tho stream rippled forth to join tho son. And nt tho place where it welled up from Us underground passage there were dangerous quicksands. One misstep and the friglitcucd child, groping on in tho night, would meet a horribio doom, suallowcd up in a moment by tho greedy suction of the sands. There was a flutter of a white garment on n narrow spit of sand, bordurod on one side by tho advancing tide, ou the other by tho stream, with its treacherous beds aud crum'dlng hanks. Ho shouted to warn tho child of her datigor and the wavos drowned his cry. Confused, ex hausted, tcrritlod nt the* grout breaker* that rose with n thundering roar and foil again to dash themselves over tho sand in foaming sheets that lappod her feet, sho stumbled in tho direction of tho quicksAudt; aud it was on the edge of tho crumbling hanks of sand thut Richard Mansfield caught hor. There were lights moving amid tho ahruhhery on tho Van Alatcyno placo, more lights on tho narrow strip of hoioh below, doliniug timorous figures which scarchod tho tido pools and crouched nnd pccrod out upou tho framing waters, fearful of n burden they might bear upon their breast. Drenched through aud through, chilled and stiffened, with his strength nigh spont, he passoil them all, labored up tho bluIT and laid til* hurdou in tho futhor’s arms. Tho judge, distructod by tho anguish ho had undergone, idlontly received tho child, and bar deliverer, unrecognized, passed out into the darkness. It was as ho would havo asked. Strange complexity of human nature; lie could moet tho humilation and defeat of the morrow with now spirit, sustaino 1 by the secret knowludgo of this splondid triumph over his cnoiuy. But fato, or tho overruling power we call Providence, iu those days does not always give his own way to a man who would suffer in silence at tho hands of ono whom he has blessed. Late that evoning Judge Van Alstoyno, watching ids sleeping child in silent rojoicitig, awoko to a sudden sense of obligation uudischnrged. Ho went down to thu servants' quarters, where ho found the men drinking tho health of tho house hold in his wine. They startod up sheep- lihly at ids entrance, for tho jndgo was a stern man and somebody was suro to lie blamed for the mishap that had befallen tho little lady. But this tiino it was thu judge who was oiubarrassed, hesitating, almost deprecating, in his inanuor and speech. “Which of you was it that brought back tho child? I was so troubled — be side myself—that I did not notice. Which ono amoug you was it?” Thero was a moment's awkward silence. Then tho coachman roplied; “It wasn't none of us, sir. 'Twain man tbat'd been out walking on the sands. lie lives close by. Dick Mans field; him that has the crippled child. The judge passed out without a word. Richard Mansfield, tho inau whoso putty debt, so long unpaid, had been a vex ation to him, when his mind was en grossed with larger matters. Quo mort gage had been renewed. It had become duo, with tho second one, tho middle of December, but tho man had asked for rooro time and ho h&d given him uctil past New Year. He did not like to use harsh measures in the holiday season,hut he hud told him that business was busi ness, and that thu money must he paid at the beginning of the year or ho would ho compelled to foreclose. Tho fellow had seemed so thriftless nnd down at the heel. The interest had never been promptly paid. And so he had a crippled child? Tho judgo was walking down his garden path, hastening toward the dim light that shone in tho window of thu cottage. The night was raw, and the wind still blustered and shrieked, sure indication of a brooding storm on the Pacific shore, lie buttoned up ids coat and shivered ‘ | *■**"* men! and disturbed the gentlo *lw|>or, who stirred and muttered brokenly, the* •lumbered again. The Judge looked down upon the painted crib, the tiny crutch, whittled out by hand, that stood beside it, tho patchwork coverlet and thu wati cheek and remombored the rounded cheek of the little slcopcr he hnd loft pillowed ou down beneath a canopy of laco, Tho man who could without emotion pronounco sentence upon a criminal,who waa called tho most cloar-hcado l and hard-hearted of usurers iu tho oonduct of his privato businms, experienced a queer rising iu his throat when ho ossayod to speak A tear full on tho fadoJ coverlet. Ho reached out Ids hand to the man who stood beside him, nnd Richard Mansfield knew that Ids days of hopelcu poverty and strifo wero past. — Wa*liin;ton Star. Dr. L. L. 8ei in tho Tribuuo “Whether or n sweeps around with any ccrtai extensive outbr summer, nnd n again* From tho froutiur, wl servation, it cn men of unusual ’ York, says f tho grip: wave which not be statod o was a ttrv i iluring tlm learin^ hero ir.ny post on dor my oh- among these dth nnd con- AlTTtn TUP OTATI? Bnetf-llna from Covington to AtlanftM U V Hl\ 1 ilL O 1 A 1 Hit ntf MW several miles on the Georgia, stitution, tho consecutive attacks of pneu monia wero fatal in fifty pur cent, more of tho cnies than is usual ninoug men of averugo health ami strength. “The treatment is now bettor un lor- stood by tho profession in genoral, and an attack would ho- liuudlml with more intelligence and success than two years ago. Neltlier tho chemist nor tho ml- croscopist lias ns yet discovered tho pres ence of nny microbe to which tho com munication of the trouble nmy be ascribed, so tho precise way iu which it ic com municated esnnot he stated definitely. “It is uow generally adinittod by tho medical profession that tho 'grip,' ■Chinese,' or 'Rlltz-Katarrh,' is aspuoifle infectious self-limited disease, spreading by atmospheric influences and duo to tho presenco of a micro organism, l'ntholo- gists aro not yet agreed as to the oxact na ture of the bacillus, notwithstanding Ilia elaborate researches of l’ruddon, Klein and others, but it is to bo hoped it will soon he definitely recognized. All, how- over, aro agreed that it is a specific genu. Altitude and temperature seem to have littlo to do with its development, though humidity 1ms u marked in lino ice. One of its appearances this year was in tho talkie lands of tho Rookiot, at Denver, where it 1ms boon prevalent for a month. No ono is oxumpt from iti attacks, but those individuals whose occupations keep them in thu open air scent susceptible. Witness its severity iu the army, the po lice force and nmong hoi sc-car conduc tors. No, it is not considered dangerous, unless complicated with pneumonia, or whon attacking patients who aro suffer ing from somo debilitating disease, as consumption or Bright's. Then tho mor tality runs high. Tho I'roiidont of ono of our largest lifo Insurance coinpauies told tnu this morning thnt tho list ol death claims for tho last week almost broko tho record. Grip, however, was not asdgned as tho causo, but it unques tionably hnd its influence. Preventives? Avoid excesses and exposure,hot crowded rooms or mootings—especially night ulr. Dress warmly aud live well. if tho disease makes its apjio trance —and you will uot he loft long ia doubt ou this subject—send for your physician.” An Aliimliiluiiftloat/ Tho first boat over built entiroly of aluminium was rocontly launchul on Lake Zurich, Switzerland. It rosemblcs in appearance nnd size the small naptha Inuuchce, and, in fact, its motive power is an engino of this kind, which has an improved device whereby tho flamos can be maintained whilo the boat is not in motion. Ac a distance the host has no un usual appearance. It is only on noar ap proach and close examination that a per son would notice that tho boat was not puinted gray, but was umdo of u white, shining inctal. Insido everything bos tills silver-white color, for even the scats, gunwales nnd handrails lire mado of this beautiful and untiiruishablo metal. Whenever a polish is given tho surface looks like pure silver. “Not only aro the ribs nnd plates made of aluminiivn, but the castings of tiie engine, tho rud der,and even tho tiller ropos aro mado of tiie saino metal. Tho entire amount of ulurniuum used is a littlo loss than 600 pojnds, while tho total weight of the boat, including tho wood, iron and oop* pur purls, is 070 pounds. Tho launch will hold from eight to twclvo people. Ono of equal size built of wood and iron would weigh from 1400 to 1700 pounds. Tho plates forming tho shell of tho launch are only half as thick as tho iron plates used on other launches. Tho speed developed was also greater than in other bouts of the same class.—Pica yune. Ntwiy Not*> ParafraphletUy ProienUd. Tb« anou.l ennv.atlon of He Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers will moot in Atlanta on M y lltb. The meeting will bo held in the state cajdtol. Gov ernor North*n hns already granted the use of tho hall to tho mgineera. On Saturday the tax asaesaor* of Co lumbus computed their work and squared up their books. Tho result shows an increase In the taxablo property of the uity of {1)71,045 over that of last year. I ho total amount is $0,810,875. The Atlanta and Florida has a receiver it each eud of the line. All the partiea Interested say thnt this ia too muon of • .lood thing. And tho quustissn ia whoae r» ceivor will step down: Judge Marshall Clarke's or Judge Emory Spoor’s! Th« courts will decide. Tho McDufllo County exchange has al igned to close business. The ssaota are $fl,000; liabilities $8,000, Preferences, ‘1. Gross, $950; Bank of Thomson, $200; Tin nuns K, Watson, $ 1,800; J. F. HIT. W. Shields, $100; Rlvora it Sts- ileton, $180. The cxchaugo waa ownod »y tho farmers of tho county. News comes fooin Now York that tha Olo'dt committee his finished its report on tho terminal's prop riles and is en gaged in arranging to curry out tho sug- g» aliens which it will recommend. There an impression In railroad clrcloa that methlng heavy will drop whon this cunmittoo reports. Just whore it will leave tho Central kcops everybody guest- mg. 9 * • The Old Rock college in Athens is to e trnrsfoint'd nnd made now undir tho beautifying touch of t to hpildor's aaw and hummer. Money luffkiont to do his hna already lx on raised, and tho work will begin in tho very noar future. Win n tho ropnlta nredud on tho building ■re completed it will he ready for tbo opening of the stato normal collego, es tablished by tho Hit legislature. T. J. Fields, a fanner living in Col quitt county, has received $105.91) net returns from two hales, or 750 pounds of long, li tter known os sea islnnd cotton. s is 11} routs per pound for ono halo and 15 cents for tho othor. IIo has •hipped tlir>e more hales. Mr. Fields ays tint he rdsod the long staple just at cosily ns lie could have tho short. Bev- oral fanners who planted the latter staple are delighted witn tho returns. The regular quadrienoial mail weigh ing for the southern states will commence on February 17th and continue thirty lays. This is done to fix ihe basis of compensation to railroads for hnndllng the Ui lied States mail. All tho mails in the south will bo weighod daily for thirty davs, end upon tho nggicgutod weight of thirty days' mail handhu by each rail road will bo Imsod thu compensations for carrying tho malls for the uoxt four years, whether it increases or decreases within that timo. At tho recent oonvoutinn in Atlanta of the Southorn ('arringo Builder's Associa tion, a telegram was read from Willard II. smith, chairman of the world's fair transportation committee, sending greet ing and speaking of tho enormous exhi bition of carriages that they would have. A committee was nppointod to confer with Governor Northen about having ox- ldbits thorn. Tho committco are to find out the best way to make the exhibits; whether thoy shall no in tho Georgia building or in tho building set aside for carriages. Tho finest medical colloge building in tho south will ho ono of Atlanta's im mediate acquisitions. Aud its coming is not intended as sn antagonistic ele ment to anything of the kind Atlanta now has or mny ever securo. Only n more commodious nud completo building is the object, the same curriculum nnd staff of professors Atlanta hns known for tho nat decade belli^ in tho change. Over ono hundred thousand dollars will bo distributed in tho work ncccssiry to pro duce tho new building. Ho far. con tracts have been awarded for $1)80,000 in round figures. An interesting suit came to an end in tiie DeKulb county superior court a few days ago. It was nn old suit in which about twelve thousand dollars was in volved. Kl'jah Clarke and others sued Milton A. Candler, executor for Mrs. I. C. Craig, to recover their father's estate. There wero soinu Interesting legal points in It, and the suit was an unusual one. Tho children sought to make Mr. Candler responsible for ine acts of a co-adminis trator. Tbc causo for action hspp ned twenty years ago. Tne plaintiff recover ed a verdict for $5,000. It was one of the most interesting cases ever tried in DeKxlb county. It Fays to Dress Well. Let a young man lay it down as a golden rule that it pays to drets well. If there is a graiu of truth in tho old say ing that clothes cm make a man, it ap plies with inci cosed forco if the man who happens to bo meant is a man of ability. A well-fitting suit of clothes is a magic key to society—not clothes by be thought that his little J themselves, of course, but considered as daughter might even now huvo been at the mercy of wind and wave. A queer freak for a man to be walking on tho sands on such a night. He must have been distracted to choose such a place in such weather. Distracted? This waa the first day of tbo new year, and it was to-morrow that ho had deciarod the mortgage should bo foreclosed. And there was the crippled child. Richard Mansfield, sitting beside his sleeping child, his head bowed in his hands, not now in despair, but in a stout effoit to master the situation before him, heard something that sounded like a muffled knock at tiie door. He raised his head, alarmed at tho late call, and the Judge entered without bidding, in a gust ol wind that rocked the frail teno adjuncts in tho make-up of the man. If you were going to employ a clerk and there were six applicants, ail equally intelligent, capable .aud honest, but one of them well dressed and tidy in looks and the other five stuffed into ill- fitting garments, tho chauces are ten to one that you would select tho first. No young man looking forward to something higher ia life can make a better invest ment than to buy good clothes. The fact that Roscoe Conkling was an ex quisite drosscr only loot an additional in terest to his great individuality. No man ever accused him of being an ani mated fashion plate, but tbo publie re spec ted him all the more because he ha I tne outward signs of a man of taste.-~bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. Georgia's rolling exposition will soon boa reality. Tho srhemo hoi olnady been well advertised, end promises great things for the state. It is the idea of its projectors to a have magnificent cur built and fitted with a vnrlity of Georgia's choicest products, and placo it on the road, and csrrv it through every state in tho union. The car is now bring built by the Jack‘on-Sharp Company, of Wil- limlngton, N. G\, and will be a splendid one. It is an elegant palnce c*r s- verity feet in length and will be built with con- vencncics for the purpose which it is to be used. As soon as thecsr is completed it will be brought to Georgin. nnd loaded with an exposition ot Geoigia’s product, and placed on the road. Colonel E. C. Machen says tlmt th Middle Georgia and Atlautic railroad will be completed in the near futuro. He has been in Savannah in ronfo. encj with the syndicate there. The first thing on the programme is to iron the mad, which is already graded from Macon to Coving ton. Then the company will have a line from Covington, on the Georgia ro id, to Eatonton, In Putnainjmunty. That will be e good start on the rood, which is to be an air-liuo from Covington to Savan nah. The original intention was to build but that will not bo touched until the rest of the line Is completed. Tho Cfearhston News and (’curler •ays: Borne of tho enterprising citizens of ono of the counties 11 Georgia have devised a scheme in srruro a goo) class of immiirant firmen and to hidn poor and Industrious ’‘homo people,** winch Is well worthy of the attention of capital ist* and land ownera in South Carolina who aro seeking ways and mo ms to de velop their respective countlu-. The promoters of the Georgia scheme have Orgaoiaosl a company with a capital stock of $50,000, subscriptions to which are to bo paid in land, or monoy. The compnny'a plan is to purchase good farmiug propotty and divide it Into one- humlrud-acro farms, on each of which “a comfortable residence" will be built and such improvements made as will cnahlo a tenant or purchaior to begin active farm ing operations os soon ai he take* pot- session. Somo timo since the Macon Telegraph mailed inquhha to all tlm cotton raising counties in Georgia nuking for estimate* on cotton acreage for the present year. Replies wero rrc ivod from « large ma jority of these corrcs indents, and tho re sult was published in Sunday's paper. The rsplloa indicate a general reduction of nerwsgs devoted to cotton throughout tho stats of about 90 per cent ns compar ed with the crop of last year. Tho acre age devoted to cotton heretofore will bo tliia yoar planted In corn, whoat, peas and other food crops Tobacco culture will also claim attention from Ueorgin farmers, and in some counties whrre ex- pcrmlenta have proven auceessful, a large crop will bo planted. Maraa Will del Ihe F*lr. The 8thto Agricultural Society will probably return to Macon, Its first love, for which all the members seem to hava a lingering fondness. This waa virtually douidod at the last meeting of thu execu tive committee. The n port of the sub committee ncemmonding Columbus waa C resented to tho executive committee, ut tho Idea seemed to bo that Columbus waa too far awav. Bo, after considerable discussion, In which there was nothing of bitterneas, it wai decided first of hll Gist a fair should be held next fall. Then tho ntieation of a location waa taken up. The premium committee waa appointed to begin negotiations with Macon looking toward tho holding of tha fair thero, and to decide on Macon If tho ; ark could bo secured under the terms of the old con- trait and without uniting with the Macon Georgia Fair and Exposition Companv. Il such anangemonta could not bo maua the committee was authorized to select some other location. The gentlemen from Mscon assured the committco that tha city would no doubt l>o quite willing to renew the contract, nnd tnontho minting adjourned, tho members to meet again very shortly to renew negotiations with tiie city and get to bury that $10,000 suit. Griffin was selected os the next place of meeting. OPPOSED TO AMERICAN SILVER Asa Substitute* Antl-Mllver Men Talk on the Nuhjfct. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Teller, in view of the talk last year which has been to somo exteut renewed this year, about a compromise of the sil ver question on the haHi of the American product, saw a number of loading sena tor*, Friday, with tho view to ascertala- Ing tho feeling on tho sonnte side. Ha found that many leading republicans wero oppoted to it, nnd that it had very little support from men opposed to unlimitad free coinage. Mia-ra. Hhrrman, Merrill and Allison, members of the finance com mittee, authorize the uso of their names as more opposed to this proposition than absolute free coinaue. AGAINST CIGARETTES. Ciiimi Mtf h« Anked to • D*- hlbltory Tax. A Washington di.patch of Friday enyet Tho ways and means committco ot iho house of representatives will be petition ed to pruparo n bill invoking the puts*- uni condemnation of tho govoromanl upon the cigarette habit. Representative# Cochran, Cummings and Htahlneckar, of Now York, all havo iu their posareaion I i Is which thoy hove been petitioned to introduce, providing for tho suppression of c gnretto manufacture by imposing BB internal revenue tax of $10 per thousand oi all Imported or domestic oigarattaa iu this country. FOR STARVING RUSSIANS. A Train-Loan of Flour Donated kj Philadelphia L'ltlxens. On Monday t e Duluth Imperial Mill Company ol Buff do, N. Y., shipped from their warehouse to Samuel Bell & Bona. I*bi adclphia, a train of fifteen car* of flour. The trairT* was decorated with bnuners bearing the following inscrip tion : “This train of fl .ur for starving Ru-sia will be sent hv citizens of Phil* d' lphia on tho American lino steamship India, sailing under tho American flsg, February 20th.” THE IRISH BILL Will Have No Show In the English Ptr* 11 ament. A London cablegram of Friday says: The Irisb county councils bill will bo brought up in the house next Thursday. The McCarthyius and tho ParnellRes will unite in opposition to it. Mr. Glad stone will bo on hand to tosr it to pieces. The electoral districts are arranged on the American uerrTimoderinj plan SARA IS CRAZY. A Woman Who huaUaincdCon»lder*bl< Notoriety. A Bnn KmncUco di.patch of Mond»j .ays: Mr«. t-ara Allbca Terry, widow ol Judge Terry, nnd, previous to her m»r- ringo to Terry, ol Sharon divorce suit caloricLv. bar bccorno violently insane. Tirana ..roTtOW uul« ofMwrallFM conitruct.l batwafla J.au.ry L a«J January 1, 1W5 which bring, th. totj Xg/of’th. ffnlu^u«»ptom.g Thi. U a decrou® Of 18H mum warn mp yrar 1 . flgurra, nod ‘b-““JJS* durlag any year aloe. 1885, durlog wyUA onlyltui rail** of trod WIT. laid. . _ .mm