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VOL. XVI.
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tkiai. Joubkai
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chairman v . of
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of the national dctnocratio com,nit-
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Chicago with a capital of $25,000,000,
the largest of the kind in ‘he world,
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Amour the pork man offers $5,000
a r foot , for c a strip .. of land, , the , highes: ...
])iice ever offered for residence
er ‘ y 5n Chicago.
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_ Alumni ,, . , ti , 1
iie o. e imersity will
celebrate the Oentennnial Anniver-
sary of that institution during com-
mencement week in June.
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lm: prcsub-nl is back from the
< untenmal to Wnslungton, attcn.lnii
to Ins accustomed duties viz. 1 sten-
m ' to thc a l ! l' eals of seekers -
'I'm: question of removing the S'ate
Cap t" of Florida from ! :d!ehnssee is
agitating thc* legislature now in SCK-
sio: t will be i ;u-\ to move it; ‘oo
m rner r vp cluster around
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A In nt n or i wo ago France was
rentC cx<dled over Boulanger ex-
' .. c would be anolIn r Xa |* >;e
on: j eople were ready to die lor him.
II ei France fearing lest bcmi.lt
do- O:’ tltni. He settled down in
Lo- d m'iiiiil now the people have a
bout forgotten him. Fickle France.
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The Sun hern Manufacturers
sociation art* in session in Augusta
to see among other things, about
manuAicturing cotton bagging. One
mill in New Orleans and three in
Georgia are making this bagging.
.Mills have already contracted with
the Alliance Commitie for two mi!I-
i >•. vault-. \
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The State Teachers' Association
met in Athens this week. 'I hey
discussed among other things the im¬
portance of a State Normal College,
whether the same text books should
3:e used throughout the state, and if
religion should be taught in public
schools. 1 lie last will doubtless agi¬
tate the people of the South as it has
done in the north.
2 / 3 fc ,v
Fanny Eiiis, a y une gir, vais d in
tlu* greatest poverty and ignorance on
Lookout Mountain, has fallen heir to
a million dollars. But yesterday no¬
body eared for the poor mountain
girl, to day, the groat and good poo-
, )e of Chattanooga are “all stirred
up, over the rich an 1 admired
millionaire girl. Those Chattanoo-
gans are just like the Jerusalemites
3,000 years ago;a prominent writer of
that city said: “ Hu poor is despised of
his neighbor, but the rich hath many
friends.”
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r l Black ( well
here are aps as as
^ bite Caps. Ihe former in
lionn (ta., took G. II. Cornett from
his bed into the woods, gave him n
severe whipping, and ordered him to
leave that locality. His offence was
whipping his step daughter, cruelly
kicking and striking her with clubs.
The fellow justly deserved all he go'.
but the punishment should have been
inflicted, not by disguised citizens,
but bv legally an horized officers. The
News is in favor of the renewal of
the public whipping post for miscre¬
ants who beat their w ves, or treat
Y, i‘ii c; t • ‘.ly little children.
The t'r'o-i Is of o ircomm ki schools
wi i be glad to »F; :i that. t the late
meeti a “vnt’e-nen with Chancellor
Bo i». in .n..iiii.t, \tl \nta Tho (in „ooo-it.os ucii ..hum of
these sehootS were earnestly discuss-
ed, how their condition can be ini
moved, and the committee appointed
will Win doubtless uouoiicsi- recommend rvtuiuiuum to co the tut it, le--
islature the best system possible uu
der existing conditions. One gentle-
man advises that the whole of the in-
come received from the state railroad
be appropriated to educational ]>ur-
poses. He would apply $200,000 of
this fund annually to the common
schools and $100,000 to the state uni-
versitv. While the above amount
ded to the present appropriations is
small, still it indicates that some
mir leading men are awake to the
great needs of nur public schools.
The Toecoa News.
AMD PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL « JOURNAL
TIIE CENTENNIAL,
Never was there such fl brilliant,
georgeous and costly d«play, or
by as many peopler as
exhibited on the one hundredth an-
mversary of our nation. I T resident ..
Harrison, with his family and mem-
bersofhis cabinet, left Washington
long the route passed over by Wash-
ington one hundred journey’in ream before, per-
formin'' the as many hours
s it 1 remiired iec ! ‘ the' former ©resident 1
days. ^ton, Reaehingthe ocean, like Wash-
i n; he embarked in a barge to a
ship, preceded to New York, was eon-
voyed to the shore in a barge, and
landed at the foot of Wall Street,
Many of the cermonies took place on
the spot where they occurred one
hundred years ago. The last presi -
dent , worshipped *, . J in the , same , httrch, ,
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, lnd s!ll in , ho samc pew in which
the fir3t j OII . ed w :, u th „ „ re t con .
gro „ }Uion 5n adoration to Deity, in-
yoking the Divine blessing on a new
. and . the .
notion a government new to
world. I here was a great procession,
:ui immense military prarade; him-
dreds of regiments in showy
forms with gleaming baronets,"head-
ed bv governors of states, generals
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and stall oiheers,brilliantly , .... , tasseilated ,
in gold and fiasbing swords.
were salvos of artillery, the waving of
banners, and the cheering voices of
great multitudes mingled in confused
noise with the blare of trumpets and
the drum beat of a thousand bunds o
. Eloquent speeches ,
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mus u*. were mat-e
by the president, the ! w > ex-pres —
dents, an l other noted persons.
1 here was a presidential dinner of
the most costly viands, and a ball, at-
tended, not by an aristocratic . few
some silly dudes would have, but by
6,000 dein x-rat c fair women and
brave men. It is doubtful it' the m-
dies esjualed in benuty and grace, the
lovely .lame, who smiled on Washing-
ton, awl tin- dr. ss of tho s ,ntIomo:,
. . less au,l 1 n tlian thai f
was lar , ta
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l.eroes who moved i • the mazy dance
one hundred years ago. The weather
was propitious an 1 the Centennial
celebration exceeded in luagmtu lo
and brilliancy anything eve: before
exhibited on this continent.
TOCCOA’S ADYANT AG E >.
Toceoa possesses many advantages
to make it a pro .pero isgro .v.n : city:
It is located on a great trunk Hue
railroad,and is tlie terminus of anoth-
er road that passes through one of ‘he
richest farming counties in North
Georgia. It is a natural center of
>rude for a wi le territory cinoiaeiug
portio s of a number of counties,
T ie farm lands are suseeptibl • of
high cultivation, and are capable of
producing excellent crops of almost
everything that can be raised in the
world except tropical productions,
It; iu the midst °f a great mineral
region, some valuable minerals lying
close to her doors. In all directions
are water powers,large an 1 small;the
agricultural, manufacturing an J min-
possibilities all around liero are
practically unlimited. Her pure wa-
ter, lit r healthy climate ami beauti-
( 0 l scei ery make her especially at-
tractive for health and pleasure seek-
ere .—all these advantages are sources
of g re «t wealth and prosperity. j t
re;na:us f or her citizens to decide
whelhfcr these advantages are to be
utniized, and made to produce the
m<*st happy results, or wh “her they
N • i all lie dormant aii around us, ynd
left ft r luture generations to .develop.
L’itizotts of Toecna, winch shall it he?
w h at c a n r,Ii nox K.
First we should organize; there is
strength fortsf and potency in organized e£-
Without organization but
tie ,-an be-low; with muled efforts
e\ei\tui g possible can be accom-
plished; Look at Atlanta. L\evy
imj>or ant ent rprisc is reached
tbrouji organizations. i here are
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associations, companies, corporations
wi bout number. ^ hat
cannot do, several combine together
‘ 1,ld make successful by union. Hotels,
factories, banks, instirar.ee, building,
loan and land companies, evert thing
is done by association. Atlanta
M prosperous, her people a re
rich, she is rapidly
1,1 population. 1 he citizens of every
other properous city do likewise,
Towns where the people stand
each other ami do not organize,
TOCCOA. GA. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1889
do m*t grow; they rfre dead bi* dying
l>y “innocuous disuetudeJ' Business
„, en T(iccna) „ by lon erdel , y the
, or amzatiot , f W l, v not
r “ ™. : u ! med 1 : alpl _ t0frelh together, form
pr * _
Board of Trade, and inaugurate
mea51jrea that w jjj k r j„g. the needed
'"P 11 ” 1 ,nr hotels, factories and ... all
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populations and develop the resour-
es of the cou,,tl 7 »’l around you? If
not, Tue News would like to make
known why not?
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FARM NOTES.
T , )e , ast t h reo numbers “on of the News
co ,j a rtWe s grape culture
from the Hon. Felix Corput, in the
Southern Cultivator, we recommend
tkat these articles be cut out and
P very as ^ valuable d j n a s cr ap for book, as intending they are
S any J one n
, l‘»ve a vmey.rd. ,
Ensilage means corn or other grain
cut vvh v" Z™" a, H J Preserved m a
tight . pit of larg« bin. , . kilo is the
„„ ^ „, e ;* or ..... , v | dc(l ,|, a
corll is closely with" packed and presse u
down heavy weights, so
that the air may be excluded as lmi.-h
as l ,ossiblp f and ensilage may be
a,,d s vveet whea used m wl,lter *
Lorn, sorghum , or amber cane is gen-
eral m 11S g d and usuatlv pianted in
ll ;, f '
d tllree r ,
It ,s cot while green, and
from lo to 40 tons to the acre. It
cu ^ ll P *" short pieces with a straw
cutter a " ,achi ,,e ,n ade the
pose, placed m the l silo} . then it is
covered with plunk upon which is
pl at . ei | heavy weights and the work is
completed. Months afterwards the
e silage comes out rich and sweet;
the cattle eat it with great relish and
it makes them healthy and fat. J he
cost of plowing, planting, cultivating
ail( | uwur into the silo is about §5
;U) ju re, winch produces, say 20 tons,
Twenty tons of ensilage is equivalent
‘ 1 Gutriiu t. % ah e to .en tons of ha\.
• owing no ^ ns ° ia j < ? ^ v
re ^ e,IS,1;l V,,lkee , 0 .
covv ’ < ^^ - e ; ^
™i,^r i
| < “tfh ensilage o winter 50 ol) coa. .
11 ‘>* 1S 51 ver y hberal allowance for
Georgia winters.
When one considers the amount of
manure these 50 cows will furnish,
ltd tin* I t/Ai/rt mre income ittre/t from milk n!S butter
of ti«
irreet proti's as the result of eusilaoe
bero-res »pparen».
A farmer etnrtinR with only n few
cows, can in a very few years have
hi- heard of 5t),
For that amount of stock all the
land he will need is 100 acres.
Tv enty acres ensilage,
ed with root crops and some grain
will keep the fifty head the year
round. '1 hirtv acres can be devoted
to root crops, will orain, vegetables an j
fruit. This make 50 acres under
cu jti V ation; the other 50 can be used
as cattle range.
The buttermilk from 50 cows sup-
piemented with some corn will fat-
ten ^ lu) ^ s ' 1 he income from but-
ter, pork, anil surplus stock every
year will he large.
Result:— A beautiful, finely culti-
v;t ted, fertile farm, lots of money and
happy life. 1 iie News believes that
stock with ensilage is the easiest,
quickest and most certain solution of
the farm problem.
We would like to hear from our
readers on this subject.
Fruit is now out of reach of frost.
there is every appearance of a very
large crop of all < in is.
Spalding county farmers have or-
g-mized a co-operati%*e manufacturing
company with a capital of $25,000.
They w ill operate a cotton gin, cot-
1< n see 1 oil Mill, grano factory gri>t
mill, and manufacture farm imple¬
ments and machinery . Why cannot
the dinners in Habersham an ! Frank-
I n eoumi silo the same.
In J/ilciKll county dogs are trained
to hunt sheep tlieives. If some means
can be devised to drive out sheep eat
in i do.:s. she.*p raising would be a
profitabic industry.
Many farmeis recommend shallow
eniuiic for corn It kills weeds bet-
ter than deep culture; Hie deep corn
~ lillks 8land the earth
;‘y' lure evaporates rv ' s >»<;»l«ybctte it; it save r , as tue dec,. roots eul-
grow corn, while deep culture
cti s tiiem; last but not least
corn is anide to the acre,
it u-* claimed mah the insurance on
cotton witl be less with cGtton basing
lha , j nl0j a3 Uic collun lS not so eas .
jy burned as jute.
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TVasinte is ^ remarkable forage
wVect l.igl,,‘ami’forty uT to the
acre have been produced on
lands in Florida. One seed will pro-
duee 85 stalks, making enough feed
fi«r .tof oxen 24 hours; stc 3 k
? *. j t .
j- jr j l0 g c | JO ] era . 3i a ke a pile of corn ,
thoroughly scorch it and give
atfectcd tree access to it: it will
t!irt
SOME MAGAZINES.
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Bright snd.l. e »u!iful>
Monthly for May. The eater
of a*scene on tlie Hudson is worth the
• f , , The
l r Le ine 1 u,m er * a ne account account ot of
“ Tun Wonr.en-Poets of America,”
with excellent ^ .tapanMe'Travel” portraits* of illnsba-' each-
oMn erestm,, redding, for the low
price of twenty cents, ought to p ate
thlS ma - ?z!ne 0,1 ever v lad,es table -
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§iibscriptionsTorwurd from this office,
n 0n9 wollld j , s,, PP ose that or,llnariI y
“Once A Week’' reaches the 'perfec-
5 ° n of weekl v ma a: ines - But t,!e
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Centennial number »nrp«»es>II;oth-
ers. his superb. Every lady should
possess this princess of r weeklies,
Subseirptions received at : this office,
Many Persons
Arc broken d >wn from overwork or household
cures lirmviFs Iron Ritters
rebuilds ihe ‘.ysteni. :iids d iyestion, removes cx-
cun of bile, and cures malaria. Get lire genuine.
Far better than the harsh treat¬
ment of medicines which horribly
gripe the patient, and destroy the
coating of thc stomach. I)r. J. H
' cEean’s Ci>Wls and Fever Cure, l y
mil 1 yet olLetive action will cure.
Sold at oOcents a bottle;
INDUSTRIES.
erlas Tl ,„ Rm TTuited State list, toh“ftTto»,i. commission s
rlvcra . H a |f „r them will be placed
in , he savanah riser and half la tlie
Flint, |
Capitalists have bought 17,000
acres of land in Etowah county, pay.
ing $190,000 cash. They have an op-
tion on 200 acres near Cartersville,
they nil! build furnaces,rolling
mills and manufactories.
Northern visitors in Thomasville
offer to put half the money foi small
industries there providing thecitizens
subscribe enough to retain a con-
trolling interest in each interprise.
Mdlcdgeville is to have a cotton
c ef } ar tf^vu is liooniing, a large a-
mount of real estate there will soon
be s.ffit at aucliiin.
'1 "e Georgia l>,.ciiic ror.,1 is span
40 jvjji e!S we , t () f Columbus Miss,this
iv(J9 l|l0 Eichmnnfl & Danville ays-
tem connection with the Illinois
tral.
V' G ^' <>bin ? brick company of At
irr.r.wSxnit i buildings. £2
alld When their four
chines nre at work they will turn
ir,0,000 hriuk a day. They control
3,000 acres of fine clay and if neees-
sary they will increase their capital
to $250,000.
The Manufacturers Record says tho
Bessemer ores of Western North Car-
olina are far greater than is known
to the world. There is cnongh ol
grade ore in that section to run
every Bessemer furnace in Ameiica.
The English and Northern steel mak¬
ers have been carefully investigating
that region and there are good pros¬
pects of developments in the near
future that will surprise the whole
countrv
Not far from Murphy N. C. There
anj and silv er mines supposed to
have been worked by DcSoto. Shafts
were snn k a t, a period far beyond tlie
memor y ( ,f the oldest Indians. The
yein of silver is five feet thick, and av">
era ges about $60 a ton, while specie
mens have been been found with
thousands of dollars a bn. This
property, comprising 160 ac.cs has
been sold for $15,000, to parties who
will develop it.
Cordele is putting in a Na el S orc>
Factory , an Oil Mill, Guano Factory,
a Saw and Shingle Mill, a planing
Mill, a Barrell Factory , and Electric
lights
Columbus has organized a Knitting
Mill with a capital of $10,000; and is
putting up a factory for making wheel
barrows.
A railroad company was organizen
in Athens this week week, officers e-
leeted, and the initiatory steps taken
to build a road from Athens to Jef¬
ferson.
onowSSii’&TKRS.
Stck headache, wind on the sU m-
ach, bdnuif ues.-, na ca are aareeu-
bly hauislied l»v Hr. J. II
uilSc Live*! au<t Kinney Fillets. 25e.
a vial.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
v ^Trom ii All S members!
m Toecoa 80
f d ^ro <, K * ftZl "J ^ V IT*™’ ’
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takin •' stoek m Fvohir C °e ° ^
ZtorflW j’ ,-o- m »lhlrs IfS o,'! on
t > 65 members, two shares ;from 65 to
^ b V uee 8ares » meiubers and D P“
^AJjfan^^tb ti 11 1 *
1^. j, eavv jr fK)( | s through tuc ex-
a jy e such as wagons, farx imple-
ments and guano. They get these
gbBda at factory prices, the expense
of one handling; wldcl.
„•?,,? />«> ? “““‘J l A' I f letncettre 1 btn J e *»*»'"* A1,anc
,Te Tl if ^ S ‘" S a “ d J
the frit Olive hill.
C. \V. Macone president of the Na-
t,ona * * armers ha- issued a call for a
™® elin g to ,le hell in Birmingham,
^ jn the ~,'.VSSK5TS confl ^
ct witl| tlie jute ba<J .
ging trust; the nrder in cacll 8tate [ 0
assist in the conflict. to ascertain if in
the substitute for jute, a sufficient
can be obtained for all sec-
tidns, and to adopt measures for the
guidance of tlie brotiirrhood.
The Putnam county Alliance lias
raised a bonus to purchase 30,000
Canton, p ,, blls „ ed
at, lias been publishing some
things vulgar and immoral,and which
seems tr east reflection on the Farm¬
ers' Alliance. The Alliance passed res
olutions condemning thc Advance and
calling on its members to withdraw
the r subscriptions from said paper.
One Alliance has passed resolutions
that their members must not loaf a-
bout town, must not use ardent spir¬
its. and tlie male and female members
must not sit on tlie same benches in
open Alliance meetings. This is a
little hard on the boys and girls.
The Alliance of Pike county Ala.,
will build a ware house at Troy, and
establish a pine straw bagging facto-
ry.
A Alliarlfe «iS t „c;Tx Tile , National , a , secretfre
nets $1 .iiO net annum ? and the Nal
tionai lecturer $500.
The Dakota Farmers’ Alliance lias
an insurance association called the
Alliance Hall Association. The rc-
oeipts last year amounted to $106,000; and*
there were insured 566,8 3 acres,
$72,529 in losses were paid.
The Habersham County Alliance,
attends to the moral and intellectual
interests of its members ns well as to
the agricultural and financial. Presi¬
dent Johnstone are the right man and
in the light place.
Persons who lead a life qfexpos-
ure, are sul>jeet to rheumatism, neu-
-algia. and and lumbago will find
a vaiusMe rente ly in Rr. J. H. Me-
Lean s Volcanic Oil Liniment; it will
banish pain and subdue imflamation.
AMONG OGli EXCHAGES.
Augusta News: Tho colored Re-
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I trer.need.npplv ,,cssm tf " lc, ‘5 ’-"S'' pol.cy, •** wntoh tll “. »*►-»•*- i» he-
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Athens Chronicle : A writer in the
Tribune of Franklin county is urging
tl ‘ e building ol a road from Carnes-
vll c Lo Alliens. Hie writer says that
Clarke, Madison and Franklin cotin-
ties would build Inc road if it were
put before them in a proper manner.
The writer makes some good points,,
and if Franklin and Madison coun¬
ties are in earnest in the matter and
want the read, it can be built.
West Bowersville Union : Toocoa
Postmaster.—Tlie CarnesvilJe Tribs
une says Mr. Scott, late P. M. at
Toceoa, will make a Crst class P. M
The Tribune thinks as Toceoa is well
worthy of a goo i man for Postmas cr
that a ‘first class Postmaster.” will
be satisfactory, and and if Toceoa has
a man superior lo Mr Scott, that is
double ‘ first- class, etc., lie Is worthy
of a higher position,
Cuthbert Liberal. If the sugar tru-t
comes down much harder, countrs
cditorswillhavetou.se long sweet¬
ening in their cofiee. We are solid,
We own a full barrel of best Georaij
syrup. Let the trusts squeeze.
If the sugar trust doesn’t letup, ice
cream and lemonade will go up. And
summer just opening ! Wc are sor¬
ry lor the boys who haven't wives
Wives never take ice cream and lem¬
onades. iSucli things are for sweet¬
hearts.
Savannah News: Dr Cyrus, pres¬
ident of tlie Putnam county board of
health, reports tlie following deaths
in five months, from July 1, to Nov,
30, 1888, in Palatka and for three
unites in the surrounding countrv:
Consumption, (5 non-re9idents) ]
hnlT”,\’dZ!Z if pneu^nn 1 :
lockjaw 1; m liaria fever 1; conges-
lion of the brain Rciseasc of the spine
I; chronic dysentery 1—a total ol
twenty-two deaths for five summer
months. Palatka has a population of
5,^00, and challenges the workl to
beat tins record.
lb 1 i . i .. .. a «. v
0r you art* a!! wo n out, really good Lr nothing
it is K v »*ri:i debility. T/t
n;;t> i*.'! - ' / HON HITT I,US.
It will cure you. n:.*igiT 2 a good apoetlto. Sold
Lj til ds-alerc ic medieiSe;
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hire a re u nrr. accnlei ts and dig-
cases which affect vSlock and cause
serious inc mveTifen re am! loss to" the
?| Ul ,e * e< * 0( ' bv .'J seot ^ .^ r ^
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Neuralgic Jfernous
And those iroubled with nerrousTie-.-x:^ :h :ig
from care or overwork will be relieved by lakiug
Jlrotvn’s Iron Bitter*. Genuine
has trade mark uad crossed red lines on w rapper.
[ ABOUT L4DIFS
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Marion Ilnrland is the non. de
of Jl/r. .M. Y, rgiui. lerhunc
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bfSunnvbadk f \ T
‘"S. Mrs. bnrnh s Cooke P t Aehesen a, is pres-
ident o'the W. C. 1. U. of the stale
ofTexn* ° f J”
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ganizing Unions in South Africa.
Miss. Frances E.*Willard is writ-
lh S a book entitled, “I- itty Fortunate
Years.” In{it will be her first compo-
«ition wriUen when "“e* 1 she sl)e was was ten len -' voars oa,s
old.
The eldest daughter of f lie Seandi-
navian novelist, Bjomstjerne Bjorn-
fc ,ter * h,>t V"*™’
made her debut as an opera Singer in
Paris. (To pronounce the above hard
name,sound the ‘j’ like ‘v,’ and the v»"
something like o in word.—E d.News.
Mrs. John Logan is busying her¬
self tvhile abroad in-/working up a
scheme to establish a finishing school
in the arts of housewifery when she
returns home,either in this city or Chi
Cago. The school will a sort of home
where girts, after giaduation, can
spend a year becoming acquainted
with the mysteries of housekeeping.
Mrs. llodgsbn Burnett is to receive
$7,500 a year for her work in editing
the children's department of a syndi¬
cate of English and American papers.
As her revenueJYom “Little Lord
Fauntleroy” averages $1,500 a wcck,
it will be seen that Mrs. Burnett’s
lines have fallen in pleasant places
—at ifenst as regards financial matters
A properly upholstered brougham
is drawn by chesnut horses, and the
men on tlie-box are in mourning; you
see a pair of softjbrowu eyes looking
out upon you; you &ce?a dainty mass
of cambric and’ lace, aud you know
that there is pretty Airs. George
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Gould'out drivingjwith her^baby and
nurse—New York Cur. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, LLD.,
Ph.IL, LUD., the most learned
woman in the world and the founder
of the Egypian exploration fund, is
booked for a course of lectures on
Egypt next autumn under'the direc¬
tion of the^Rev. W. C. Winslow, of
Boston, and at the request of a num¬
ber of the leading religous, literary
and scientific men of this country.
Miss Bruddon’s only dramatic ven¬
ture was knocked out on its first pre¬
sentation byfone of the remorseless
critics of the gallery. A scene was
introduced in which a child was kid¬
naped from its mother, and at the end;
when ail were made happy, the res--
of the child was taken for
I was the fault of a novel-
island passed unnoticed for quite a
minute after the fall of the curtain.
Then a “god” leaned over from the
balcony and solemnly inquired:
about that kid?” The piece
was swamped in an inextinguishable
of laughter.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Correspondent.)
Wasiungtox, May 1st., 1889.
The old church at Alexandria,
from which just one hundred years
ago last month, George Washington
issued and rode away to be inaugu¬
rated at New York, is as carefully
preserved. I was seated j ust back of
old Washington pew last Sunday,and
I tried to imagine how George must
h ive longed to oe out of thatpe^V on
such Sundays when the spiritual food
offered by the pastor was particular¬
ly stale, and when he had but to look
out of the window to see the budding
leaves of the trees beconing him a-
way, and but to listen to hear the
^adstones in the chureh-jard out-
side. If George had not been busy
living out an historical existence, I
believe he wcfuld have induced him-
self .. to CUt the ., l{ ■ > n S “rvice . and , go a-
,
a
Visitors to the old church h:ve to
pay at leuSt five cents to the sexton
to see tho church outside of
time. A close inspection of th~ pia—
card conveying this inforrnati •
showed me that the vestrymen
have been much exercise 1 in '
ininejs reg-irdiu the nric*- »o
ged. Evidently tu-
a t 25 cents,
10. T 1
not cue arbiter prices.
The fee, however, is an abscb
necessity. The sexton told me i ••
NO. 1
he was obliged to watch every movl
me.it of visitors. People allowed
eo into the Washington P pe« 8te
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the button, off the cushions, , • in . ... bit*
ful ignorance of the fact that onl
the hair inside is a part 1 of the or.Vi
, "f , olstery. , . --everal „ ,
years ag<
, som
— aiii
tore the old plate off the pew doorJ
Vandalism is a crime peculiar to r.ol
people, but it reaches the sublime in
imprudence when it work in a church.
The movement to build a grand
national road,200 feet wide,from Arl¬
ington cemetery to Mt. Vernon,a dis¬
tance of about 16 miles, is meeting
with favor and tho proposition to have
each State, with tho government con¬
tribute to it,will probably be accepted^
If Secretary Blaine and Presidorit
Harrison had selected the corps a--
broad with sole regard to the female
representation, there could hardly
have been a greater success.
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of ’.he minister
to England, has ha 1 a long and brill¬
iant social experience, as tho budding
daughter of tho then Senator Harlan
during the war and the reconstruction
and later as a member of the Cabinet
circle, when her husband was Secre¬
tary of War. Few women are more
genuinely and unconsciously Ameri¬
can in every thought and action.
Her social status is so well defined
and her experience so broad that
there is no danger that she will be
overw helmed, or socially bullied by
London society. A grown daughter,
a sou aged sixteen, „ and a younger
daughter accompany their parents.
Younger than Mrs. Lincoln by
many years is Mrs. \\ hi tela \v Reid,
daughter of D. O. Mills, the million-
aire of California creation. She is
very attractive in appearance, of the
blonde erder above the medium
height, and is notable in dress for
subdued colors. Mr. Reid will rent
a magnificent hotel in Paris, anditis
safe to say that his own thousands,a-
bly assisted by the Mill millions,will
create a sensation even at the French
capital. They will take With them
their son of seven and daughter, a tot
of five years.
r I’o the land of Andalusia,
where
we have sent more gified litemry
men than to any other court, Mr. Pal¬
mer is accompanied only by his wife,
being childless. Mrs. Palmer is a na-
tive of Maine, and was an heiress
when she met and married Thomas
VV. Palmer. While her husband was
in the Senate, Mrs. Palmer was a no¬
table figure in Washington society
and proved herself a very clever so¬
ciety leader as well as a kind and ge¬
nial personalitv.
The wife of Col. Fred Grant was
Ida Marie Honore, at the lime of her
marriage the recognized belle of
Chicago. She is a fine musician and
a linguist. There are sev¬
young children, including a
daughter born in ihe White House
in 1876.
SMILES.
Cross-Eyeu Man—Miss, may I have
the honor of the next waltz with von.
Two ladies (eagerly rising)—With
pleasure.—Fiiegend Blatter.
Squecz <1 Through.—George Won’t
you be mine dear?
Clara—I think I should have to be
hard pressed indeed to take yon.
George (equal to the emergency)
—Oh, if that’s all, here goes—Mun-»
scy’s Weekly.
Hello Brown ! I hear you have a
new type writer. Is she good look*
ing?’’
“Good-looking! Why, man, no;'niy
wife selected her?’’
“ Why how did she came to select
her?”
“Well you see, my wife was a type¬
writer herself before we got married.’
-Life.
Col. Gonrker—It seems too good to
he true. How d <1 vmi come to ac¬
cept a fellow like me?
Miss ingenue —A ell you
one!,<n nri.-t was beginning
silly and !i-ti over v->
t't step in to j r -v
In i
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