Georgia Historic Newspapers

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VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 588.
Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm.
The Great Strike in the North.
The strike of the coal handlers and 'Long
shore-men in New York seems to be extending.
At las’, account.-the strikers numbered fifty
thousand or upwards, and it has been author
itatively stated that the handlers of coal, from
Boston to the Pennsylvania mines (including
the miners), only await the word, when they,
too, will join the strikers. Any attempt to
transport coal from Baltimore eastward, will
be met by a strike south of New York. A
Philadelphia dispatch sajs: “Information re
ceived in this city by the Knights is that the
Pennsylvania is crippled in its freight carry
ing department more than any other company.
No freight, the executive board in this city
were told, was shipped from New York to this
city, and the amount sent from here was much
less than the usual daily shipment.” And it
is also stated that President Corbin of the
Beading, and President Roberts of the Penn
sylvania railways, have been in communica
tion with the New York Knights. No action
has been taken by the District Assembly, but
the Locals are determined to it n I by their New
York brethren, which decided to support the
strikers, even to a strike, if No. 40 (this is the
New York ]). A. which ordered and controls
the strike) asks for it. Nothi ng will be done,
however, in that direction until the result of
the conference between Presidents Corbin and
Roberts and the Knights is made known In
the meantime should trausport by rail be at
tempted I). A. No 40 will request that the
freight-train men on the lines through the coal
regions be called out; and if the companies suc
ceed in shipping eoai to manufacturing cen
ters, it has been agreed to request ah factory
hands where such coal is used, to quit work.
Knme -j«
t'rrVred
Weighers’ laborers struck for rn |0ra p ty -when
the ’Loug-Sbora men responded , 0 tlleir ft pp ea j
for help, the Weighers’ dernaiM xyas conceded,
but in the meantime the
struck, nnoj at a general mealing it was voted
"that the delegates report hack to their d s-
tricts that nobody should go to work till the
’Long-Shore men return to their labors. It was
a unanimous vote and, as the cha'rman said,
was a vote of principle, as the men are per
haps throwing themselves out of work to pay
a debt of honor.”
The above, in connection with the great
strike in the Southwest last year, and that in
Chicago, indicates a condition of affairs
throughout the country, especially in the North,
very serious, if not alarming. But the cause
of and the remedy for this condition of affairs
should also be a matter of serious concern.
The cause lies too deep to be exposed in a brief
newspaper editorial, the remedy calls for the
exercise of profound patriotic statesmanship.
Perceiving the urgent necessity for investi
gation and corrective legislation, the New York
t leneral Assembly has appointed a special
committee of four to investigate the cause of
the present strike, and to take testimony. The
work was begun in the Council Chamber of
New York City on the 4th. The importance
justly attached to this investigation may be in
ferred from the fact that a similar committee
of three from the General Assembly of New
•Jersey are present, having been appointed to
watch the proceedings and report. It is cur
rently believed that the strike will result in the
election of a Knight of Labor to the l nited
States Senate frcjjj New Jersey.
It is really cause for grttulation that legisla
tors are wak ng up to the seriousness of the
impending danger from these labor troubles,
ai d manifesting a desire to legislate for their
prevention.
New Jersey Demands Constitutional
and Other Reform.
There is a pressing deni ind, especially from
the northern portion of New Jersey, for a
convention to frame a new constitution. The
basis of the senatorial representation is unjust
Kach county in the State has one Senator, and
under the system Esiex and Ilidson, with
their quarter-mil ion each of population, can
have nothing more in the way of voice and
vote than the small south Jersey counties with
populations of iess than 75,000. Coder the
present Constitution, too, special legislation
is prohibited. Cities and towns have been un
able to get the necessary legislation, owing to
the opposition arising from other towns and
cities already provided with the law, which D
being carried out in a different way.
The city of Trenton is without sewers. State
law is necessary for the peril eti m of a general
plan of sewerage. This furnishes an idea
why a constitutional convention is asked for.
The erection of a separate State prison for
females is another question that will engender
agitation. It originated last winter during the
impeachment trial of the State prison keeper
who was charged with the pate mity of children
bom in tlie female wing of the institution. A
commission was appointed to consider the mat
ter, and they will report jn favor of such a
prison It is said that they will recommend
what is known as the “cottage system,” like
that at Hudson, N. Y., and Sherborn, Mass.
This system is made up of a number .-f build
ings within a stone inclosure, where the in
mates may be graded or kept in distinct class
es, according to their crimes or evident lack of
morali y in order that that the irretrievably
Development in Florida.
The St. Johns and Halifax railway is pros
pering and pushing its way southward to the
material benefit of the Atlantic coast-line of
the State. New settlers are continually com
ing in, and the entire region penetrated by and
tributary to this important road is being rap
idly developed. New towns are being found
ed and built up at every eligible point on Hal
ifax and Indian Rivers.
One mi 1 on three hundred thousand dollars
were invested in St. Augustine in building op
erations last year.
1 he injunction against the Florida Railway
& Navigation Company, restraining them from
crossing the South Flori ta at Owensboro, has
been dissolved, and the work of laying the
iron will go on at once. They expect to run
trains into Plant City in about a month.
A ne w town, Naples, Das been founded on
tlie Gulf coast, which is to be improved by
widening the streets, extending the limits, and
otherwise. The site is said to be a beautiful
one, and it is proposed to ran a boat from
Tu ita Gorda to Naples at once.
Ripe strawberries are shipped daily from
Plant City, and have been on the market at
Winter Haven for several weeks; and the plans
etc., for the Presbyterian college at this place
being ready the work of building will be begun
wi’.bout delay and vigorously pus led to com
pletion.
The Citra, (Marion county) New Era says:
“There has been shipped from this place this
season via Florida Southern road 80,804 boxes
of oranges. The report of the F. R. & N. has
not been made u? yet, but will probably show
about the same number. As soon as ship
ments cease we will have something more to
say of this orange industry in which Citra
stands preeminently ahead of every other
point in the state.
The orange crop along the river is good, and
less than ten per cent, of it has been shipped.
The Coaist Defence Congress, at DeFuniak
Springs, Fla., organized on Friday, the 8th.
John B. Cary, of Richmond, Va., was made
President, and A. T. McIntyre, of Georgia,
was made one of the six Vice-Presidents. E.
C. McDowall, Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, reported a preamble and reso
lutions (which were passed unanimously) set
ting forth the defenceless condition of the two
ocean coasts and the gulf and lake coasts, and
memorializing Congress to take immediate
steps to put them in a proper slate of defei.ee,
and suggesting the establishment of a manu
facturing arsenal in the steel ore belt in the
South and the establishment of a navy yard
for the construction ot war vessels at some
Southern port.
The Highland Press, Sorento, E a., says:
“Befqre the orange shipping season opened the
crop was estimated at 500,000 boxes. As the
season progressed and the frill, went to mar
ket by the train load, the estimate gradually
went up until now some of the best infotmed
railroad men place it at 000,000 boxes. Where
is tlie man who said all tfcr orange trees were
killed last year?”
The Star, Titusville, Fla., records the fact
tha’, oil the 20th of January Dr. Wiley, of that
progressive village, had newly-grown Irish do-
w
Floods
, nooa_ .1 again
“W. C.T. U.
Means Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union.
The Becent Convention in ’Washing
ton—Sketch of the Society—Its
Object—Short Biographies
of the Prominent
Leaders in the
Movement.
Editok Sixxt South: The Woman’s.
Christian Temperance Union recently closed
Ss a teacher in the 1 T man’* ro ’jpge at Evans
ton. About two thomanApir,
under her instruction tjVtbe®
in which she tangit. S tw
she became known as * jeMic ipeaker.
an orator Miss Willard if vj
among women. Shf is vriloq
forward on the plat'om, 7™
ing, a speaking gesture
might be called magn! tic.*..’
mellow, never thia, and
distinct articulation null
est listeners. AltogeijH
piss* of get tie ess
tions." She, never impi
speaker on exhibition; j;
spised the use of aids, Lai 1
lessons of a celebrated
tributes much of her
its convention here, and the tfuestions which mother as a model. In ]
ila iiiamlifira rlicAiiacnS pqIIiS -’TMlKlil* Qt+onHrm COlTeSPOIlding 8eCr :t3fy i
its members discussed callt d 'public attention
to the piovement. But cmpartMCrely few
people understand the objects of the society
»od the work upon which it is eigaged, and to
enlighten them the writer embraced the op
portunity of getting such -facts and data as
would be of interest to your numerous read-’
ers.
MISS FRANCKS £. WILLARD.
The movement may be said to have started
in the little town of Washington, C. H., Ohio,
as early as the year 1873. A few days previous
the late Dr. Dio J-ewes had visited the little
town in tlie course of a lecturing tour and de
livered his famous lecture on “Our Girls.” In
the course of his remarks he dwelt somewhat
largely upon the havoc being made by tobacco
and ardent spirits, and offered to suggest a new
plan for fighting the liquor traffic which, he
asserted, if carefully adhered to, would close
every saloon in the place in one’s week thj,o.
His plan was - carried into effect. A commi^i—
wNm
erOIRSS
—rrreat noou_ * again visited the Ohio and
its tr.butaries exciting widespread apprehen
sions of great damage if not serious loss—but
fortunately without full realization. The liigi
waters prevailed over a large portion of Ohio,
Kentucky and West Virginia, swelling the
great rivers and their numerous tributaries
and threatening inundation and heavy losses
to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charleston, West
Virginia, and to the farming and lumber inter-
esteem the last named State. The tributaries
of the upper Cumberland overflowed their
banks, the river at Nashville was so full that
back waters gave trouble in the lower places
and families on the low lands near the city
had lo leave their homes. The Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore, the Ohio an 1 Mis
sissippi, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and tlie Bee Line railways refused freight, and
the Central Union depot at Cincinnati was
abandoned and the six roads entering it had to
start from other stations.
In the Delaware river, near Shawnee, I’a.,
above the Delaware weter Gap, there was an
ice gorge, with ice piled fifty feet high, ani the
water forced out of its natural channel so that
it overflowed the low-lands, submerged in
numerable farms and farm houses. A sudden
thaw would prove very destructive throughout
the valley.
“The characteristics of our people have
changed entirely,” said he. “Telegraphs, tel
ephones and the electric light have c mie into
use. Railroads have girded tlie land. A
thousand and one inventions have been genei-
aily adopted, and there is as much difference
between the agricultuial inhabitants of the
New York of 1848 and the inhabitants of to day
as there is between a S *ede and a Spaniard.
Mr. Sterne commented on the fact that the
statesmen of 1840, who drafted the Constitu
tion, were more or less influenced by the
laissex alter policy then in vogue in Great Brit
ain. “The less government one has, the bet
ter off he is,” was the way. according to Mr.
Sterne, that the question shaped itself to the
lawmakers of 1840. “But since then, great
monopolies have sprung up,” he continued.
“Something must be done to curtail their pow
er. [Applause.] The remedy is only to be
found in amending the Constitution.”
Mr. Sterne summed up the evil < winch need
ed to be abated. In his opinion the first great
evil is that the majority of cithens are too
mush interested in their own affairs to have
oroper regard for the welfare of the State.
The second evd is the increase i number of
inordinately rich and inordinately poor people
found in cities—“two classes which the^ co
munity would get along better without.
AGITATION IN NEW YORK.
corresponding seer :tarv t
which she is now president,
the union is large] y < 1 tit; to
with p°n. brain and '■'oiyBfll
In 1870-77, on invril
evangelist, sfee assisted
ings in Boston 6>r sevento n
afterward she undertook^ ,
of the Chicago Post, an etcn
her brother, O. A. Willard
In the following year M, ,
president of the State Ti nip; 1,1 16 Union, got
it a superior
borne but not
L a graceful bear-
a voice which
i musical and
a exoep tonally
fdi.es the remot-
wears the em-
ofound eoavic-
ier hearers as a
|sHe has not de-
ly in life took
i st and fhe at-
n speech to her
Sue was made
to society of
the growth of
ti (tries* '•>
I Moody, tlie
pities of m sel
ls. The year
fef editorship
taper of which
pi been' editor,
’fillard, while
up a petition of 180,000 nan
it to the legislature
abolish the whisty
the indefatigable
same year she was
the National Union, arid ■
body has expressed i: i m
work the spirit, em :y u,. , . ...
leader. From this tin:' oiriliiP biBtoiY o. the
• aid presented
ilhi® s : praying they
lccessful was
work that the
presidency of
mat time this
degree in its
wiscom of its
The* New South, Financially.! WASHINGTON CITY.
organization has been tose|
with the life of its preside*’
Another leader in
U. is Mrs. Hannah f
superintendent of ev
tiry of the Worlc|js ^Yof
Unions. She is a’ Friend
father, who was man: year;
best loved mere lant in Phi
ceived her education inti
of Philadelphia, sqpp.eateb
home and abroafl and by tl
of a lifetime to whatever ; s
literature and friendship,
years Mrs. Smith traveled i
with success everywhere,
convention she proved hersi.
of female orators. For tin
and vigor of expressing .*
one of the best of speaker*!
tune to hear, ai.d by all she
one of the leading spirits o!
She lias little of the fenr'ij.
oratory. Both as tt^theirA
her addresses are the modi
culine of any that are -to
gatherings. She will retir
spring and resume her eva
Mrs. Wallace, of Vn-'
Gov. Lew Wallace,
beep identified with
fro lip its inceutio'
far y, by-
interwoven
d the W. C. T.
pith, the national
work and secre-
i Temperance
was also’ her
.mown as the
elphia. She r i-
’riind’s schools
it by travels at
steady devotion
ust ;md pn : 1st in
For a number of
ngland, meeting
the Washington
one of the first
y of utterance
is undoubtedly
nas been my for-
as recognized as
the convention.
her style of
.pression
’ mas-
at these
and in the
ork there,
of
to ea^^the saloons and personally appdal to
the proprietors of the same to stop the busi
ness at once and seek other means of making
a living. Fifty-two women volunteered and
started^on their mission. There were fourteen
places in the town where intoxicating drinks
were sold, and in every place they entered
singing. The whole place became wildly ex
cited over tlie strange procession, and the en
thusiasm rose to a fev.r pitch. “The Cru
sade ” as it was called, was a success, and
soon’ spread all over the State with mere or
less results of consequences.
It is from this little germ that the present
very large association has s prung. But tem
perance is only one of tlie branches of the im
mense tree. There are forty separate depart
ments which may be included under the six
heads of organization, educational, evangelis
tic, social, legal and preventive. The story of
these departments and of the good they do as
a whole can better oe told in the sketches of
the leaders than in any other way. The pres
ident of the society and the leader and pro
jector of all its movements is Miss Frances E.
Willard. , ,
This well-known temperance leader was
born of that strong New England stock wht ;h,
when transplanted into Western soil, often
finds the best conditions of growth. Major
Simon Willard, who traced his line of descent
to the time of the Conquest, came to America
early in the seventeenth century. The an
cestors of Senat ir Hoar, together with Major
Willard and a few others founded Concord,
Massachusetts, the literary centra of New
England, which will always be associated
witu the names of Emerson, Holmes,
Hawthorne and l’horeau. (>ne of the Willards
was president of Harvard and his son
vice-president. One was pastor of old
South church, Boston; another the architect
of Bunker Hill monument, and all of them
filled positions of trust in the communities
A Naw Constitution and Local Govern
ment Demanded.
The members of the German-Amer.’can Citi-
lens’ Association assembled in force in Stein
way Hall, New York.City, recently, to trans
act the business of their party and to listen to
some suggestions from Hon. Simon Sterne as
to questions which should be taken up at the
coming Constitutional Convention.
Ex-Assembly man Eiward Grosse, a promi
nent German-American and chairman of the
Advisory Committee, introduced a resolution,
which was adopted, indorsing Assemblyman
Langbein’s bill raising the limit of damages,
.. , . . — . where death is caused by a railroad collision or
vicious may be kept frem coming in contact ot q ier accident, from 85,000, tin present limit,
with inmates less hardened in wrong doing. j §p),000.
Fhe govern ment will be like that of the Indian- President Leidcl then introduced Mr. Sterne,
apolis institu.ion, where he strictest discipline who began by tracing the history of previous
is maintained. e itepers wi be women. Constitutional amendments, and said that forty
The proposed prison i be more of a reform- I y eal . s had elapsed since the Constitution hud
awry and workbose than a jail. 1 he com- been sub j ect l0 a thorough overhauling. He
mi tee, it is said, will rar ler recommend that sa ;d the present Constitution had been sub-
the institution be erated on the grounds of sumtiaHy in force since 1840. and then recalled
the State Indust i. . >> 6 s, two nules thegrea . changes whict time had wrought in
above tins city where are 001 acres of laud lhe habitants of the State and their sur-
t ae property of tue commonwealth. This will : roundincs
obviate the neces ity for auy expenditure of 1 6 ’
funds for a site for the prison.
paper bottles, capable of fu'ly withstanding
the effect of alcoholic fluids, and unbreakable,
a ra manufactured in the United States. Paper
is first made from U a parts rag, fifty parts
wood and forty parts straw stock. Both sides
f the sheet are covered with a mixture of
defibrinated Wood and powdered lime. Ten
thicknesses of this material are placed one on
ri‘ her and they are then pressed in a hot
metal mold until they assume the form of half
hotrie The two halves are then united un
der the'influence of heat and pressure into a
. . .1 I). .al/lM Jit I sin sit
perfect
bottle.—Boston Budget.
Illinois on the Line of Progressive-
ness—Liberal Legislation and
Retrenchment.
A bill lias been introduced into the Legisla
ture of Illinois to appropriate §12,000 to sup
port day schools for deaf and dumb children
in Chicago.
Also a bill providing that State’s attorneys
in counties oi the third class shall 'urn over
all fees to the county treasurer and receive a
salary only—a step in the right direction.
And, also, a bill to allow college graduates
to take part in the election of trustees of reli
gious and educational institutions.
MRS. HANNAH WHITALL SMITH.
where they lived. The family became scatter-
5 The father of Mis. Willard early removed
to Vermont, but soon afterward emigrated to
western New York, where their third daugh
ter, Frances Elizabeth, was born. But the
home was not permanent and Mr Wifiard
purchased a large farm near oanesville, Wis ,
where he soon become a leader in movements
tending toward the development of the State.
He was also prominent in politics for vears
and a member of the State Legislature. But he
dii not seem to be saiistied and again moved
his residence, this time to Evanston, Id.,
where he became a banker. In this beautiful
town suburban to Chicago, the cottage was
built which to mitber aud daughter is now
sacred as their father’s last gift. After gradu-
MKS. 7. G. WALLACE.
nineteen «he became tlie wife of David Wal
lace, of Ind anapolis, and reared a famriy of
six children. Every thing that her son,
the author of “Ben Hur,” ever wrote
was submitted to her for criticism
or approval, and thou’.h slie knew
nothing of equity, he complimented her by
saying that her unerring sense of justice at
once lighted upon any defect or discrepancy
in jurisprudence, while her fine literary taste
was invaluable in regard to rhetorical sym
metry. Mrs Wallace has been a widow twen
ty-six years. She was left with a home, but
with no income, and thus many years of her
widowhood were spent in providing means for
her children’s support and education. The
story of how she became a temperance advo
cate is thus told by Miss Willard: “About a
dozen years ago, when the temperance ques
tion was agitated with remarkable vigor, a
meeting was called in its interest at one of the
churches to which Mre. Wallace went.
Though deeply interested in the exercises,
when she was appointed on a committee she
made several ineffectual attempts to rise and
beg that she be excused from duty, so great
was her dread of publicity. A little later she
]; -ened to an eloquent lecture on the evils of
intemperance and then for the first time felt
that it was her imperative duty to do what she
could. She was prevailed on to consent
appear, though she trembled at tlie very
thought of the trial it would be to her. She
hurriedly wrote a speech and in an excess of
fear stood before her audience, ‘But,’ said
she, ‘the moment I began to speak all terror
left me and the devotion I felt for my theme
o-ave me an almost superhuman confidence’.’’
To those who have read that marvelous
book “Ben Hur,” by her son, the illustrious
General Lew Wallaoe, the following incident
will Illustrate the home qualities of Mrs. Wal
lace as a panegyric would fail to do. The first
time they met after the book was printed, the
author asked his mother for her opinion, when
she replied: “0, my son, it is not much of a
story; but how dii you ever invent that mag-
nicent character, the mother’” “Why, you
dear, simple heart,” he answered with a kiss,
“how could you fail to know that theworiginal
of that picture is your own blessed self?”
The writer could mention dozens of other
names that deserve it, but space will not al
low Among those present at the recent con
vention were: Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, of New
y )r k: Miss Anna Gordon, a young lady of
threat prom se, who is acting as Miss Willard’s
secretary; Mrs. J. K. Barney, of Rhode Island
and a hundred of o'hers. .
The object of the W oman s Christian tem
perance Union are not very sharply defined,
and include many incidental subjects that do
not properly belong t > the plan with_ winch it
was orga lined A
As we have said the Union
atiou Miss Willard engaged in teaching. _ In | inc i u des forty different departments, each hav-
is(38—’70 as the guest of her friend, Miss Kate j , n , T special worK. Besides this every 8tate
Jackson! she made a tour of Europe and the j ha3 a separate organization, with the authority
East. The rare opportunities for stuiy in | q 0 use such means as they wish for carrying
Paris, Berlin and Rome were thoroughly im- ; out t h e objects of the association.
Droved and nearly every European capital was ! • • •
oiwent. slip wrote often for
Took a Wrong Idea of it.
I don’t see,” observed Boggs, as he leaned
visited. While absent she ,
home papers—the New York Independent, i
Harper’s Monthly, and val ro^fte^rv ' back in his~ chair, “how any man of sense can
She also gathered much materialfor 1 tera j , ba nj_, /e § r)0 qqq or sloO.OOOand skip
work and the experience added bread, ^ ^ be ^ He is disgraced, his fu ure ruined,
si°ht of ch tractor and countries. Witnessm
the condition of womeu in the East and in the
greater part of Europe, she was led to a prob
lem which has had large answer in her later
life : “What can be done to make the world a
wider place tor women’” This question to
herself, she says, had much to do with shap
ing her future life. ,
Returning home she entered upon her wont
lUC WlAUVSJ . ^ - , . f.
aud what good can the m mey do him?
“You doon’t take take the right view of it, re
plied Stebbin*.
“Why!” , . . .,
“The idea, my dear sir. is to settle for halt
the sum staler, and return home to be looked
upom as a smart man and be elected president
of a rival institution.”
TAugusta, Ga , Chronicle.]
We have carefully rea l the excellent article
contiibuted by Mr. Marion J. Verdery to the
North America Review concerning the fim>n-
ci si condition of the South. This article was
accepted in a way that was rather romantic,
and yet won a pla :e where so many contribu
tions never see the light, because its oppor
tuneness and merit.
Mr. Verdery is to be congratulated upon
this exceptional distinction.
All through the article there is-a minor chord
of affectionate'remembrance- of Georgia, and
especially of Augusta.^ It is said that an Eng
lishman realizes the Latin.apbt‘rism which de
clares that a man changes liis sky, but not
his mind when lie crosses the seas. All who
have ever loved Augusta, because of long asso
ciation and tender ties, never ailow that alt'ec
tion to perish even in remote or grander civi-
livations. Mr. Vcrdery’s mind and heart, even
in New York, turn enainoredly to Augusta.
The article in the North American trapes the
course of the South from the financial and po
litical ruin of 1800 to the reawakening of 1880,
Perhaps it did npt enter Mr. Verd»ry’s cal-
Ttilation, but we do most firmly believe that
' the worst disaster that ever happened for
the South was the withdrawal of greenback
currency and demonetization of silver, conse
quent upon the policy of Hugh McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury, wh>, in our opin
ion, is the wor-l enemy, not exce jtingGeneral
Sherman, that this section has ev -r known.
That the South should have recovered, in a
considerable degr e, from the paralysis en
gendered by thit man, is one of the -> oi’tiers
of the world.
Mr. Verdery traces the South through her
disastrous speculative era and big gambling,
from the effects of which many coiAniuuitus
have never recovered wholl>. It is calculated
that at least §1,000,00',000 went East and
West, fro n this secim, in stock and produce
gambling, since the war, and an Augusta mer
chant says that if our citizens here had back
what they fooled away at New Y ork and Chi
cago Exchanges, they would all be rijh and
need no ar ificial boom.
It is true that an Eastern drummer once
told ns that the South had got all that back by
failing cornu ercially on the East, but we doubt
his. figuring, while giving the benefit of ao ex-
plaaation. ...
\'i e understand that the speculative spirit is
not extincteat the South, but has changed its
form. The money that used to go for distant
stocks and optional commodities is placed at
home, much of it in the “booming” towns of
Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. This at
least is, even if imprudent for iniividuals,-
keeping the money at home.
if the prices of municipal securities and
lowering of«theiiiter^^^^^ritad the devefop-
.ayshan at any time since the
as he surmises, th it the accumulated capi
tal of the East is about to exploit the South as
it expanded the West, this section is qti the
eve of transcendent and undreamed of pros
perity. , ,
What effect the national railway law may
have upon this section’s progress no one can
venture to say. We prefer, as Mr. \ erdery
does, to take even an op imistic view of the
future, and to believe that there will be an
overflow of men and money from the North
that will fructify the whole South as the lands
of Egypt are made to blossom by tlie fertile
and swelling current of the Nile.
OUR BESSEMER STEEL PLANT.
America Has a Capacity of 3,500,000
Tons of Steel Rails Per Annum.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce publish
es reports from every Bessemer steel plant in
the United States shoving that America lias a
capacity of fully 3,500,000 tons of steel rails
for 1887. The Journal has compiled a table as
the result of its inquiries which shows a total
apparent rail capacity of 3,071,000 tons. The
paper says:
We do not pretend that this is absolutely cor
rect, nor that there will be no accidents nor
interruptions to interfere with rolling the full
capacity. The fifteen old Bessemer plants
have a total converter capacity of 295 tons,
which, multiplied by the average output of
10 000 tons per annum of converter capacity,
skives a capacity of 2,950,000 tons of rails.
Four other mills are adding or building con
verters. Ten mills ro 1 rails from purchased
blooms, in part purchased at home but chiefly
imported, as by the strange workings of the
tariff there is much less protection for Ameri
can bloom makers than for rollers of steel
The tabulated statement is supplemented
with specific statements from all the steel com
panies. The Journal says:
This report does not include several rolling
mills which once rolled iron rails, nor is it ex
pected that any mill will be able t) run to its
full capacity during trie entire year. Careful
estimates furnished us say the rail mills have
already contracted for an amount much nearer
4,000.000 tons than has been generally report
ed. E ridently there is no immediate necessi
ty for importing steel rails, but as the rail ci-
pacity is beyoud that of the converters, the
imports of blooms may amount to half a mill
ion tons during the year, should the price war-
raut. Just now they are relatively much
higher than rails.
Organization of New Industries in
the South.
[Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record.]
The reports show that the past two weeks
has been the most active ever known iR the
South in the organization of new industrial
enterprise«. The remarkable activity in iron
interests has spread to other lines of manu*
factures, including cotton mills, and a number
ot new enterprises in that line are under way.
The organization of iron and coal and land
improvement companies has be ! n unprece
dented. The capital stock of he new coal and
iron companies reported during two weeks
ag<T> gate over §9,000,000 and of the land im
provement companies, most of which have
been formed to build furnaces, iron works,
cotton mills, §10,000,000.
It is noticeable that there is a wide diversi
ty of new industries, and while about a dozen
furnaces have been projected during the fort
night new machine shops, foundaries, rolling
mill and steam plant enterprises fully keep
pace, thus assuring a home market for the pig
iron these furnaces are to produce. At Bes
semer, Ala., a §-500,000 rolling mill company
has been organized, and at Anniston a §200,
000 iron pipe company, the entire capital in
both companies having been suliscribed al
most as soon as the books were opened. This
is a particularly noticeable feature of the pres
ent era in southern progress, that money is
most abundant and cash subscriptions are
made to new enterprises by southern people,
as well as by northern capitalists, with an
avidity that is surprising.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capitol.
By BEN. PERLY POORE.
No. 172.
Broderick and Terry.
Broderick was last in Washington in the
Spring of 1859, and’lie left New York for C ali-
fornia in April, by the Tehuantepec route,
joining the steamer “Sonora at i^capulco.
There were many passengers on board who
had crossed the Isthmus of ranfUnav among
them the Hon. -William M. Gwin Every room
on the ship was occupied; there was none for
Brodeiijk; bat the engineer of the ship kindly
gav* his, which was situated just abaft the
wheel on the starboard side of the ship Hon.
William Gwin’s room wat on the port side at
the extreme stern, so that the length of the sa
loon, diagonally, separated these two distin
guished gentlemen. And this distance from
each other was maintained through the voy
age.
Broderick did not hesitate to say whafewould
be liis course when he arrived in San Francis
co; he was determined to avow his hostility to
Gwin, his friends, and all in that connection.
This subject wafl frequently canvassed, and as
often Broderick was earnestly desired tp ab
stain from doing that which was certain to
bring down upon him the entire strength of
tie element opposed to him; but, having de
cided on his course, no argument of friends
could dissuade him from it.
Tte first difficulty occurred at the breakfast-
table at the International Hotel, San Francis
co, when Broderick gave expression to bis
feelings in such manner as to excite the antag
onism of a person with whom he refused to en
tertain those relations which gentlemen enter
tain f.<r each other.
It was then, and growing out of this, that
Judge Terry was brought in, and took, the
plate of the person above ref* rred to. He
was the man of| ill others the ‘chivalry’’desired
to have pitted against Broderick.
A meeting was arranged, Broderick was
placed in the hands of his frien'3s, and, strong
and muscular as be was, he was permitted to
take his ground with an exceedingly delicate
“hair-trigger” pistol, which was discharged
while he was raising it, tlie hall striking the
ground a short distance from him. The rest
is easily told. Broderiek’feli, a hall threg^--
hjs, career. He was pif^d did not materialize.
PERSONAL
MENTION.
h's lungs finishe
in. a carriage an
hon.se of bi«
Charles Sumner’s study, in the second story
of his residence at the corner of II and Fif
teenth streets, was a paradise in tlie estima
tion of bibliophiles or persons of a fine-art ed
ucation. To one fortunate enough ro gain an
entree, it appeared almost impossible to bring
order out of the great chaos of books, pam
phlets, inanus iripts, newspapers and waste
baskets prevailing in the room. The walls
were hung with every choice engravings and
photographs, ot which Mr. Sumner was an ar
dent admirer having in his pos.-ession one of
the most extensive and valuable collections in
the country. The situation of the study was
very cheerful, and tlie furniture was rich with-
oi t being gaudy. Here and there portions of
lounges could be detected amidst tlie mass of
books and papers, while occasionally a mod
erately clear view in perspective could be ob
tained of a full-lenith chair. If askei to
“take a seat,” a visitor would find it no easy
matter to comply, and if he attempted to sit
down without an invitation he would b? wor-
derfully surprised with the sudden growth of
the furniture. It would require numerous ex
periments for one to learn through how many
inches of official letters he would have to
plunge in order to reach the inkstand or pa
per-cutter. Here one found a simile to the
“Tomb of the Scipios,” where the statesman
could call before him authorities on civil, ec
clesiastical, military, naval and social matters,
and have then! repeat again the i ruths with
which his speeches were fortified and sharp
ened.
P roffitt’s Speech in Congress
Ggorge H. l’roffitt, when a representative in
Congress from Indiana, said that a verbal skir
mish between one of his colleagues and a mem
ber from Pennsylvania reminded him of a cir
cumstance which occurred in the Indiana Leg
islature: “I had made some remarks, sir, up
on a subject of some importance. I was fol
lowed by a gentleman in opposition, who im
mediately commenced misrepresenting my
languige. I corrected him, sir. He received
my explanation aoparently in all sincerity, but
continued to nr isreiresent me. I again, sir,
with some little warmth, corrected him, and
complained of the course he seemed determin
ed to pursue. The gentleman, after a mo
ment’s hesitation, cast an imploring look up
on me. and with much candor said: “Well
Mr. Proffitt, I know that you did not exactly
use the language attributed to you; but, sir, I
have been for six weeks preparing a speech on
this subject, and, in order to give it effect, it is
necessary for some person to use the language
a;tr but-d to you. I know of no person who
can stand it better than yourself, and so you
must excuse me.”
Carl Schurz.
Carl Schurz was a dual man, as he used to
appear in the Senate, blending into one the
best and most characteristic types of the Ger
man and the American. His physical fibre is
German, as also are his philosophical aptitudes,
his scholarship, his intellectual thoroughness,
his polyglot facility, his refinement of spirit
and of manner. All these he owes to the felic
ity cf birth and breeding and heroic early man
hood in Germany. But his next felicity was
he
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
Brigham Young is dead again.
:or ; elect Davis, of Minnesota, is in
t*n£t~_£o»m. —
General Maxey, even if he has been defeat
ed for Senator can get along.
William R. Travers is very low and-weak
and not likely to live many days.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, celebrated
his fiftieth birhday in Chicago.
Cardinal Gibbons, it is said, will plead the
cause of Dr. McGlynn at Rome. %
Spurgeon’s health is failing, but he contin
ues to preash to immense congregations.
Mrs. McClellan, widow of the general, has
established herself at Florence for the winter.
Justin McCarthy is of the opinion that Gro
ver Cleveland is as good an Irishman as
Blaine.
The Marquis of Londondery, Lord Lieu tea-
ant of Ireland, offers to sell his Irish estates
to his tenants.
Secretary Manning’s demand, “Untax the
clothing of 60.000,000 people,* seems to wake
about 60,000,000 echoes.
Henry Watterson cqnnofc be B^id to have a •
cast in his eye. As'&n admirer dpt it, he has
the glower of genius..
Judge Haas- a Catholic and a supporter of
the Septenna e bill, was ehosen as candidate
for member of the Reichstag.
Count di Robilant, Minister of Feteign Af
fairs, has resigned, and the resignatiea of Pre
mier Depretis is likely to follow.
A lunch fir two walking delegates, Including
two bottles of wine, and costing §10.70, is an
incident of the New'York strike.
There is no longer any donbt that Mr. JSe»-
retary Manning will retire from the Treasury
shortly after-the, adj jurnment of Congress.
Ex-Governor Ireland will be permitted to air
his talents among the denizens of Seguin,
Texas, hereafter, instead of Washington City*
- The rumor that Mr. Waller, American con
sul general in London, has been summoned to
. Washingtc n to confer on foreign affairs is de
nied.
Hon. David Tarpie, Democrat, of Indiana,
has betn elected United States senator by U
legislature to succeed Gen. Harrison,
lican.
Mr. Call, in the' senate, introduced « joint 4
resolution, providing for the estabiUhment od
a national quarantine at a station near Cedar
Keys, Fla. )
The ghost of Stonewaf Jackson appeared
last week to some stud '
Military Institute at Let;
muuuut,
■ «F -
On account of the expected tough weather
next month, the yachts entered for the oc>an
race are being provided with iron booms. We
have no yachts, but as to the iron booms—well,
it’s a poor town in this section that doesn’t
possess one.—Nashville American.
that, as early as his twenty-third year,
came to America. It was at the right moment
every way. Had he waited ten years he would
have hardened into maturity, and could never
have yielded to the fusion of a complete Euro
pean personality with a complete American
one The fusion is perfect; for this extraor
dinary man, while he is a genuine German, is
a genuine American, too. He has assimilated
every creditab'e national quality. He is a live
Yankee mitigated by a German accent. His
sympathies, oriles, aspirations are thoroughly
American, and he understands our institutions
and our political life as spontaneously as any
native.
Keating and Bacot
The late Col. Keating Simonds was one day
arguing a case in court, in which the late es
teemed Col. Harry Bacot (H. II. Bacot, Esq.),
who was rather of diminutive proportions, was
the opposing counsel, and missing a large folio
volume which he (Col. Simonis) had brought
with him into court, to use as an authority, he
moved himself from side to side to look for it,
exclaiming: “What has become of my law?”
“Ah,” said he, with ready wit, on espying it,
at the same time lifting up his tall form to its
fullest stature, “I see how it is; my learned
and ingenious friend, not content with using
potent argument and his own authorities
against me, has actually bottomed himself on
my law!” and pointing to the huge volume
serving as an elevated seat for his diminutive
and unconscious adversary, he drew it from its
hiiing-place amidst the almost unextinguisha-
ble laugh ter of the judge, bar, juries and by
standers.
Spies says lie was born wi j
an old robber’s castle. He is i
days in a condemned felon’s cell. Moral:
Don’t be born in a robber’s castle. .
Mrs. H. C. Meredith, the widow of Gen.
Meredith, took charge of his immense cattle
business after his death. She lives at Cam
bridge City, Ind., and is known as the “Catt e
Queen.”
Wilson B irrett, upon being asked the other
day how old he vas, said: “When I play
‘Chatterton,” I am 17; when I play “Ham
let,” I am 20. That is all I am going to toil
anybody about my age.”
W. II. Smith, tlie leader of the House of
Commons, is a cold, hard-hearted business
man, incapable of stirring an audience. His
speeches are laborious and unimaginative ex
positions of facts, figures and arguments.
Gen. Horace Porter said the other night that
no description of a woman could be happier
and juster than that famous one : “C rporeal
enough to attest her humanity, yet so trans
parent that the divine light shines through.”
Henry George is nothing if not original. At
agreattemperai.ee meeting in New York City
he advanced the following novel views: The
sale of liquor cannot be prohibited. A law
cannot, be enforced when it is agsinst public
opinion.
Emperor William, of Germany says, “once
before we had to dissolve the Reichstag, owing
to its refusal to vote on arny bill, and the dif
ferences between the government and the par
liamentary majority were only brought to an
end by a foreign war.”
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, U. S. Minister to
Germany, arrived in New York on January
31st. Minister Pendleton was asked on his
arrival what the general war feeling was at the
German Capitol. He replied that the situation
was very much strained.
Victor Hugo used to appear in the list of
Senators under “V”. M. Yves Gayot has
himself cata oguefl under “Y,” and M. Mau
rice Fame under “M”—ludicrous attempts to
leparate themselves from the common single
Republican surname.
Mme. Modjeska says Boston is so English a
city that if Queen Victoria were to become the
owner of America, and come hither, the Bos
tonians would promptly welcome her and say:
“Here we are; we have been waitinz for you
all those years and are your ever faithful sub
jects.”
The Philadelphia Press almost unanimously
disapproves the action of Gov. Beaver in sign-
in" the bill imposing four new police magis
trates on the Quaker City at an annual cost of
§12.000. The Ledger says that lhe bill “is for
no other purpose tiian to give a bonus of §3,-
000 a year each to four ‘practical politicians’.”
Beaver’s first important political move seems
to have been a faux pas.
.Times F. Hudson, an editorial writer on th*
Pittsburg Dispatch, has received a letter from
Mr. Reagan, in which the latter offers to name
him to the President for appointment to the
commission provided for in the inter-state
commerce bill Mr. Hudson is the author of a
book lately published, called “Railroads and
the Republic,” is a Republican in politics, and
generally reputed to be wealthy.
William H. Crane, the comedian, tells this
Dew story of his boy: “His mother asked him
the other day whom he had been playing with,
and he answered that lie had been playing with
old Juie Seligman’s little boy. ‘Hush, my
dear,’ cried his mother, ‘that’s not the way to
speak of Mr. Seligman His name is Julius,
not Juie.’ ‘Then,’ replied the precocious child,
I suppose that my papa’s name is Billions.’ ”
Dr. Windthorst, Prince Bismarck’s chief
foe in the Re’chitag, is described as a little
man very ugly to 1 ;ok at, with eyes like a frogte
and mouth reaching from ear to ear. He is
opposed to Bismarck ostensibly on patriotic
but really on personal grounds, his grievance
being that in 1866 by the annexation of Han
over he was eliminated from a fat office which
he had held in that kingdom. He is the re
verse of Bismarck in nearly all respects. Bis
marck is big, Windthorst little; the former
rough and overbearing, the latter polished and
suave; the one a sturdy Protestant, the other
an ardent Romanist; the Chancellor proud of
his big, blacksmith-like hands, the Opposition
leader vain of his lily-white fingers over which
a manicure spends an hour a day, and finally
Bismarck a deep drinker of gosd German beer,
and Windthorst a free tippler of choice brands
of French champagne.