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the duty of ceorgia.
The Slate of Georgia has a very
important-duty to pirform in the
near future.
She may ° r may not P* rforna K »
bu t we are
convinced that she should.
The great Columbian Exposition
to be held at Chicago in 1893 will
Str to each State a splendid chance
to advertise
its resources and advan
ces to the world. At that time,
the sovereign States of the Republic
wi !i gather their resources together,
fI |d will vie with each other in the
dlplav to be made at the World’s
Fair-
Will Georgia be behind all of her
sister States in this matter ? A1
ready a great many of the States
have made appropriations for this
purpose, and in this work, Georgia
should cot lag.
It will he a paying investment to
the State to spend a considerable
sum jin providing for an excellent
exhibit at Cl.icago, such as >ill be
j 0 keeping witti the dignity and the
*ortb of Georgia, so justly called
“The Empire State of the South.”
The convention that meets in At
lanta next Thursday in answer to a
tali from the Governor, will have s
great deal to do with the settlement
of this question.
Before that convention Hon. An-
diew J. Cobb will deliver an opinion
on the law authorizing the State to
makeau appropriation for such an
exhibit. Judge Jobu I* Hopkins
till also deliver au opinion. If it is
decided that the Stale has no author
it) to make such sd appropriation,
then the exhibit wi.l be gotten up
through individual eflort.
IRorgia is going to be represented
it the World's Fair, and that is a
pretty definite conclusion reached in
the matter.
go out to teach school during
the summer months. x The college
this year will turn out more school
teachers than ever before, and when
the Normal department is establish
ed the old University will, indeed, be
the backbone of the system of edu
cation in Georgia.
In very truth,the dawn of a bright
er day is upon the youth of our good
old State of Georgia.
1£It is fno longer to be doubted:
Aihens^bas more pretty girls, more
fine horses, more delightful drives,
and more charming dancers than
any city in the South considering its
Inches. -
THE-HAPPY OLD SOUTH.
A FAIRY LAND THAT LIVES ONLY
IN MEMORIES.
Says the Augusta Evening News :
Mrs. Mary Anna JacksoD, widow of
General “Stonewall” Jackson, is in
New York engaged in writing np a
biography of her distinguished hus
band. A New York special states
that lor many years after the Gen
eral's death Mrs. Jackson steadily
refused all requests to give to the
public the story of bis lire as onlv
she could write it. It was nor until
their only child, Mrs. Christian, had
married that she yielded to her re
quest to write the life of a father she
had never known except by reputa
tion. Since Mrs. Christian’s death,
Mrs. Jackson has looked upon thi>
as a labor of love, and has continued
the work for her grand-children.
The book is now completed and will
be published this fall. It will be es
sentially the story of General Jack-
son’s private and domestic life.
A Georgia editor who, possibly,
has just become entangled in divorce
or breach of promise suit, sighs that
justice sleeps too muen, and dreams
too many irredescent dreams.
' Out in Texas it is said by an edU
tor who ought to kdow that a. boy
knows how to load his little brother
full of shot long before he knows
how to load the gun.
Educational leaven is at work in
Georgia and the youth of this State,
the flower and hope of the land, are
beginning to see the dawn of a
brighter morning.
When the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern is completed it will be a
popular summer trip to New York
via Norfolk and the great steamship
line in operation with this line.
The picnic season is fall upon us,
and Athens being a college town in
revelling in her share of these little
jaunts to the rural shades from day
to day.
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.iBSS
RECALLED BY OLD PAPERS.
Two Copies of Old Fashioned News-
pepere Published in the ’40s and
'SOs—Some Very Interesting:
Clippings from Them. Other
Journalism.
There is a Womans Press club in
Georgia. A club composed of the
women journalists of the State, and
it is already giving promise to be
come one of the most interesting
clubs in the State. Mrs. Ella
Bsington of Columbus i6 president
of the club and under her excellent
guidance it is moving on to tb&i
success and prestige that it so richly
deserves. Miss Rosa Woodbkrry
one of the brightest and most popu-
luar postgraduates pupils at Lucy
Cobb Institute has been invited to
become a member qt the club and
will read a paper before the next
meeting iu Atlanta on the woik that
lies befoie the club. Miss Wood-
berry’s paper will no doubt be very-
much enjoyed.
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOLS.
Cltsnctilor Boggs,ut the State Uni
versity, has been down at Brunswick
for the past week attending the con
vention of school teacLers in that
city. Chancellor B ggs was accom
panied by Professor Bocock and Dr.
White, who are members of the com
mittee trom the faculty appointed to
sc.rk up the Normal department ol
the Slate University, which is now
fsiily under way of a epeedy and
ulisfactory establishment.
It was joyful tidings that these
members of the faculty carried to the
teachers of Georgia. Welcome mes
sage?,indeed,to say to them, “jwe are
preparing lor you at the State Uni
versity a Normal 6chool where you
can all come free of tuition and reap
Ihe full benefits of our apparatus,
our libraries, our laboratories, our
lectures and our entire facilities for
imparting knowledge to the students
of the college.”
No wonder that Chancellor Boggs
speech announcing this newB
rew.red with genuine and prolonged
•pplause. No wonder that the teach.
* r » of Georgia rejoice that they are
»’• last to have a Normal school com
plete in every particular. No won-
dev that all Georgia feels nearer than
f ' er to ihe grand old University, the
date’s cherished institution that has
>lood as its sine qua non for more
li'an one hundred years.
It is gratifying beyond measure to
Notice the increasing interest now
e t all over the Stale for a higher, a
and a freer education to the
masses. The State has liberally ap
P r °priated more than a million dol-
i & fa to the schools, and will appro
priate more as the schools grow in
8IZe * the common schools need
a higher order of teachers'
hey must come from the State Uni
Says the Dallas Morning News:
Up in tLe Cnichasaw nation a wife
has just assisted a hand on her bus-
dand’s farm to chop said husband to
pieces with an ax, place the remains
in a coflee sack and sink the 6ack in
Red river. A little neice who wit
nessed the butchery was also thrown
into the liver. The farm hand has
fled and the self-made widow is ini
jail The wedding has been post,
poned until the high contracting
parties reach the other shore, where
they will be permitted to occupy the
same gridiron forevermore.
Any* chef should be Able to carve a
name for himself.—Yonkers States
man.
Don’t trifle w itk the barber; he is gen
erally able to bold his hone.—Elmire
Gazette.
In the matter of “laying out” the un
dertaker isu’t “iu it” with the tramp.—
Boston Courier.
Mobile has compromised on the brass
hand question, and has a Gass band.—
New Orleans Picayune.
The young fellow in bis mad struggle
with an incipient mustache raises a ter
rible fuzz.—Washington Star.
No man knows how desperate a wo
man can look until he has seen her un
dertake to ride & bycycle.—Rim’s
Horn.
It costs $10 000 to gild the dome of the
State House in Boston, while you can
paint the whole town red for $30.—Tex
as Siftings. . , er
Mrs. Dusoe: Oh, dear! This paper
has pnblished a horrie scandal about me.
Miss Mina Ann Pnssley: How terrible!
How did they get hold of it?—Puck.
Stranger: I have 300 burglar alarm
I’d like to sell you. Hardware Mer
chant: Do you manufacture them?
No, sir. I am a burglar.”—Detroit
Free Press.
A natural supposition.—Ted One of
the dime museums advertises a phan
tom hen. Ned: What does she do?
Ted: Lays shosts, I suppose.—Life’s
Calendar.
It is a very indolent girl who will re
ject a kneeling lover because she is too
lazy to talk any more thau she can help,
and “No” is shorter than “Yes.”—
Somerville Journal.
“I have such an indulgent husband,”
said little Mrs, Doll: “Yes, so G< orgo
says,” responded Mrs. Spiteful. “Some
times indulges too much, doesen’c he?”
—Exchange.
Ab, those were stirring old timesl
The days when hien were made of pa
triotic stuff. D tys when the South lay
sleeping beneath her bright biue skies,
blessed with a society incomparable, pul
sating with a' proud spirit of honorable
aristocracy, and. her green fields fairly
waviDg in the breezes of prosperity ami
the promise of a boundless future.
It is interesting to dwell upon any old
relic of the old South. There is a charm
.about the very touch of a Confederate war
flag to-day that sends a thrill of righteous
pride throngh every nerve and vein of even
those who never saw it rise and fall on the
field of battle. '
There is something of a charm about the
very sight of the old white houses with
.great white columns, temples to a lost,
hut honored cause, homes of chivalry unct
pride.
. But, of all these, it is most interesting
-to contemplate the old South in the pages
of old newspapers, that were published m
those days. Wbat ismore exciting than
no read down the colura s o( tome old
Southern newspaper pubislnd in days
that are lo tg since lost aud gone? Wba*.
more capable of inspiring one with caress
ing regret for the old, «Li South, 30 fair, so
happy and so bright?
an olden relic
A gentleman who now lives iu Union
Point has lately sent the. Banner several
copies of old newspapers publ siu d in
Athens along about the days of’40 and
’50.
One of the papers is the “Southern
"Whig” and the oilier the “Southern Ban-
posterity. Surely he can never he denied
the possession of great intellect, sound
judgment, vast and varied learuiug, and
actuated in all his movements with the
highest and purest principles of virtue,
honesty and justice. Be it therefore
Resolved, That we receive with sad seu«
sibility the intelligence of the depth of
the Hon. John C. Calhoun.
Resolved, That we wear &9 a feeb'-e
token of respect for the m mory of the il
lustrious deceased, the usual badge of
muurniDg for »h>- space of thirty days.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathiz
witu bis family and friends in this heavy
and sore bereavement.
Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing
proceedings be furnished bis disconsolate
relict.
Resolved, Thai the public gazettes of
this pl-ce be requested to insert tnese pro
ceedings in their columns resoectivelv
ANDREW M. JONES,
ROBERT J. BA' ON,
EDW. D TRACY,
WM. H. WADDELL,
JAMES J. SNiDER,
Committee.
Is Scott Thornton, the “Atlanta
tragedian,” a crank, a fool, a humbug,
or what?—Cuthbert Enterprise.
Scott is neither of these. Scott
knows he is hissed, and is, or ought
to be apprized of the fact that he
furnishes only amusements to his
audiences. But, then Scott has
sense enough to know that he is
making mote money at this than he
could at anything else, and he per
sists in it. Scott is no fool.- Not
much.
Georgia is doing but little towards
haviu£ an exhibit at the World’s Fair.
Let enthusiants be aroused. We must
be represented. The May convention
should start the ball to rolling.—Bruns
wick Times.
Then why, in the name of good
ness, don’t such excellent papers as
the B< unswick limes take the mat
ter in hand and help agitate it.
The newspapers ought to have been
discussing the plans for an exhibit
all this time before the people.
ter-
built
and the Uuiversity will be
°P alcng with the schools to
The following statement, or po
litical prediction, is said to have
fallen from the lips of Mr. Jay G.
Gould during his recent visit to
Chicago: “President Harrison’s
administration has been a good one
The probability is there will be no
change if the country escapes finan
cial troubles until next election.
Mb. Blaink has a great following,
but 1 assume he does not care to as
sume the responsibilities of the pres
idency.”
The Banner likes that euphonious
little “ ’RahS-Rah! Rah!” It sounds
like the ever-glorious, ever-happy,
ever-prosperous, and ever-hustling
journal that the Banner professes to
be. Besides, it gives such papers as
the Atlanta Journal a good note and
a sonorous key in which to bark at
oar heels. A newspaper these days
is n. g. unless it has some other pa
per barking at its heels.
The Banner is getting overground
m a mighty hurry, and don’t you
forget it. From all along the Geors
gia, Carolina and Northern railroad
subscribers are coming in daily, even
in advance of the mailing facilities
of this road. Our agent was down
in the good old county of Lincoln
one day last last week and brought
back dozens of subscribers. Think
of this, advertisers!
The man who raises his voice
against the State University to-day
is an opponent to higher education
and an out-spoken enemy to the
common schools. The University
and the schools go hand in hand and
heart to heart. Tne man who speaks
their ' V” J-B-urougnwun against higher education is out of
P lD g examinations so" they Georgia to-day. That’s what.
GEORGIA PEOPLE.
Boggs—Chancellor Boggs has re
turned front Brunswick, where he went
to attend the Teachers’ Convention.
Campbell—Rev. C. D. Campbell,
formerly of Atheus, but more recently
from Texas, will be a visitor in Athens
next week.
Estes—Claud Estes, Esq., delivered
the oration in behalf of the Ladies’ Me
morial association iu Macon. It was a
very beautiful and appriate address.
LAwsON--The judgment of all who
heard the magnificent address of Judge
T. G. Lawson at Milledgeville on me
morial day, was that the man and the
occasion had met.
Copeland.—State'Lccturer Copeland
delivered an address to the Allianoe-
men of Baldwin county at the court
house last Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m.
Alliancemen ouly were admitted.
Winter—Ex-Editor Albert Winter
is lingering in the lap of Lumpkin
county “teaching the young idea how
to shoot.”
Hawker—Hon. W. E. Hawkes, of
Americus, delived a soul-inspiring ad
dress in Lumpkin on memorial day.
Simmons— D. N. Simmons is editor of
the new paper called The Leader, pub
lished at Lake Park Lowndes county
UP IN THE GROVE.
What
the Banner’s Correspondent
Finds to Write About.
Harmony Grove, May 2.—[Special].
—Mr.B. B. Nunn, a prosperous busi
ness man of Nicholson, was in the Grove
yesterday.
Mr. John O. Caldwell, a prominent
planter of Lincoln county, is in the
Grove on a short visit to relatives this
week.
The walls of Dr. Adair’s new brick
building on Carnesville avenue are rap
idly rising and it will not be long before
they are completed and ready for plas
tering.
Mrs. H. M. Wooten, of Athens, is vis
iting friends and relatives in the Grove
this week.,
The first issue of the Harmony Grove
Age appeared yesterday under the edi
torial management of Mr. J. W. Creigh
ton. Mr. Creighton is a staunch Alli-
anceman and plants himself firml
upon the head rock of Alliance princi
pies. The first issue of the Age under
us new management is quite a credit to
its editor.
TAKING IT ALL IN.
Athens
^•fpleie the system This is being
° Ue ’ loo. There are more sons of
wtners at college this year than ever
fore, fifty ^ cent of the entire
number of students in attendance
e'ngboys »bo left the plow handles
' come to college. Dozens of these
tre at present hurrying through with
Will Be Shown Up At the
World’s Fair.
They have taken in the town.
And pictures of all Athens institu
tions will be seen at the great World’s
Fair in Chicago in the year of our Lord
1898. „ , .
Mr. W. H. Clancey, a well known and
prosperous photographer of St. Paul,
MinnT, has been in Athens taking views
of all the publio and private buildings
of importance. * , .
Mr. Clancey is a photographer who
understands his work and the views he
has taken around Athens will be perfect
in every respect. , , . .
Athens, with her beautiful drives and
noble institutions of learning, will show
uu well at the coming Fair and these
views will doubtless he of great benefit
GEMS.
To will what G id wills, is the only
science that gives us rest.—Longfellow.
Take your heed. To be near the life
boat is diflennt from being iu it.—J. H.
Evans.
“God islove;” “Oar God is a consuming
fire.” We are bewildered by the appar-
rent contradiction. But bow could it be
otherwise? “C inst tbon by searching find
ot God? Canst thou find out the Al-
miuhty unto protrciion?”—Selected.
To be good and to do good are the two
objects set before the Christian—lo devel
op a perfect charactei by rendering a per
fect service. True Chris'i n culture leads
to and expresses its-lf in service, while
faithful and loving service is the very best
means of Christian culture.—W. Gladden.
Mr. Spurgeon says: “If you have to
live among lions, do not irritate them.”
This is wise advice. Many Christ! ms
needlessly excite opposition and crippl
their uselulnese. Even lions may be
tamed by skillful handling.—Sehcted.
He that b.th given us the faculty wbe>e-
by we are able to think, should he thr
principle object about which the power
should be exercised. Oar tun dsaiea b am
fmm God; and, therefore, as the beams of
the sun when they touch tire earth,
should refiect back upon God.—Cbarnock.
T. ev are curiosities in their way.
The typography is quaint, the style of
editing unique, the force of expression
fearU-8- and to the point, at d the general
make-up intensely interesting.
It seems that iu those days tin re were
hot times all over the couutry. Political
meetings wete being' held, heie «ud ther.-
all ov r the lard, li was no local politics,
either, bat national issues.
Above the editorial column of the
Southern Banner” is a picture of the
American eagle, with the com,try’s flag
proudly waving over the paragraphs that
followed, and those paragraphs were the
very essence . of patriotism melted and
oared into type.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS.
From the Southern Wnig the following
editorial is taken:
In our paper tc-day will be fonnd an
official account of the proceedings of a
Southern Rights meeting in Franklin coun
ty, which was doubtless intended for our
laat paper, but did not reach us until it had
gone to ptess. It will be seen that they
have adopted resolutions in favor of the
tings of the Nasuville Convention. We
understand that the wire-workers of the
Democracy here, who oppose chat * plat
form,” are talking about “straightening out
flails in Fianklin”—so onr Democratic
friends in that county who participated in
the proceedings of the meeting, may look
out tor a bull of excomnmuicatton or some
other maniles'atiou of the hot displeasure
of the would-be leaders here. Lo .k out,
gentlemen of Franklin, there is a rod in
pickle fer you!
ATHENS’ TOWN TAX.
From the Bouthem Banner, dated April
11,1850, the following editorial paragraph
is clipped:
We understand the result of the deliber
ations at the town meeting in this place,
on Thursday night last was that five hun
dred dollars should first be raised by vol
untary subscription tor organizing and
maintaining a fire department, and that
fifty per ceut. upon the (own tax should
afterwards be levied upon houses and stock
in trade. A very equitable and proper de
cision in our own estimation.
IN MEMORY OF JNO. C. CALHOUN.
Another very interesting clipping from
the old Southern Banner is a resolution
passed by the Pbi Kappa society on the
death of statesmun John C. Calhoun, who
hail just died.
Following are the minutes of the old
Pbi Kappa that day:
Phi Kappa Hall, April 3d, 1850.
At a ca led meeting ot the Phi Kappa
Society to adopt appropriate measures rel
ative to the death of our illustrious brout
er, Jobo Caldwell Calhonn, who breathed
bis last at Washington City on the morn
ing of the 31st nit., Cbatbam-like in the
discharge <>t his public dunes, the follow
ing committee was appointed to report res
olutions embodying the sense ot the socie
ty upon the occasion: Edward D. Tracy,
Robert J. Bac »>, Wm. H. Waddelt, Andrew
M. Jones, and Jumes 8. Snider, who sub
mit ed the following:
The life and coaracter of onr much es
teemed brother and friend requires no eu
logy. An enumeration of his distinguish
ed public services, whether as representa
tive, Senator, Cabinet Minister, or Vice
President of the United States, were
wholly unnecessary. For what else would
it form out ihe brightest pages of his coun
try’s history for the past forty years
firm and abiding love for the whole coun
try; stern devotion to the cause of civil
and religious freedom; inflexible regard for
truth; invincible resolution in the accom
plishment of those measures which in his
wisdom he thought necessary for the pub
lic weal, together happily bh nded with
tuose social virtues which adorn private
life, constituted the characteristics of his
great mind. In his death the country has
sustained a loss whicu cannot easily be re
paired.
It is, perhaps, too soon to speak of him
as a statesman, as an actor, in the recent
S ilitical strifes iu our national councils.
at wheu the unsparing band of time shall
have consigned to the motu.-r earth those
who acted their parts with him ou the
“giand theatre of life’s busy stage;” when
the party asperities of toe Dints, and the
partialities of friends shall be fo,gotten and
lost in the future; then, may ^the great
works of his eminent life be committed to tion. It
the truthful historian and the judgment of home of.
DECORATION ODE.
(Written by Mrs. L. Rutherford, Athens,
Gn., 1869.)
Southerners! this day, and this alone,
Id the wh-le year we meet,
As a nation, again to hoid,
Communion sad but sweet.
We come not with exultant shout,
With victory’s banner borne,
But with spirits bowed and grieved,
O’er our i-.>v*-d ones to mourn.
If grief and sorrow e’er could move,
The shining courts ab we,
Me thinks that angel's tears would flow,
Responsive to slice love,
Oppression’s voice against this scene,
Has nev» r yet been beard,
That heart most adamantine prove,
To n:8e o> j cling word;
Tis true onr noble cause w»s lost,
Onr banner la d away,
To tell h- w much we love it,
Is traitorous now they say.
Yet e’er these grav. S we do forget,
Let our tongUtS forget to move,
Oat right bands forget theii cunning,
Our hearts forget to love.
Ob balmy air and sunny sky!
Bring forth your swe< test blooms,
Such as grow bnt in southern dime,
To wreathe our dear one’s tombs.
Flowers ne’er were used for nobler work,
A monument they rear,
Oi a nation’s gti-f 'und fondest hopts,
That lav entombed here.
Tis sad buttrue, that their bright hues,
Will wither in a day,
But tne fond hearts that placed them there,
Shall never know decay.
Tis said love is immortal.
In the grave can never lie;
The heart then has no burial.
For devotion cannot die.
When time with its withering hand,
Hus laid us in the grave.
Let children’s children teil their children,
The story «>f our brave.
Let adamantine columns soon,
Comemorate their love,
Pointing up to where the good and pure,
Rest with th. ir God above.
Go mother, with your choicest wreath,
Place it on your boys breast,
Dearer he was than life itself,
In a hero’s grave he rests. 1
Go wife, with thy sweet offering,
Beside tby loved one kneel,
Tbv heart within tbee will be stirred.
His angel presence feel.
Daughters, sisters, make beautiful,
The graves of those you loved,
And fur tbe stranger burte • here,
Let every heart he moved.
Go maidens, with thy cherished hopes,
That in tbe grave doth lie.
The flowers speak of thy young love,
That budded ^ut to die.
Methinks that angels hover ’round,
This scene of pnrest love,
And the fragrant iDcense resting here, *
Will reach God’s throne above.
MINOR ITEMS.
LAINS WILL DECLINE 5 OUR FAIR PROSPECT.
HE WILL NOT BE STRUCK BY HAR
RISON LIGHTNING.
AND WILL WRITE A LETTER
All Kinds of Washington Gossip Gath
ered at the Capital—Foster Is
“Muchly Rattled”—The Printing
Scandal.
A great quantity of fish is sold in Ath
ens every Saturday.
Never was there a gayer period in the
history of Athens than now.
The Augusta and Chattanooga is by
no means dead.
There is one thing that is as certain
: summer sunshine. The Georgia
Midland is going to come to Athens.
The Yahoo Quartette was out in fine
trim recently and made the echoes
ring.
There are more new bouses going up
in Athens now than ever before at one
time.
The iron front of Mr. Bloomfield’s
building on Clayton street will soon he
in shape.
For a season Miiledge avenue is ruin
ed as a pleasant aud inviting drive by
the grading of the electric line.
Among the young ladies of Athens
there are several splendid banjo play
ers. It is a source of much pleasure to
listen to them “tickle their African
harps.”
It is only a question of time before
the rugged hills of Broad street will be
graded down to inviting terraces and
new, and pretty bouses erected thereon
The handsome new residence that is
being built ou Miiledge avenue by Mr
A. L, Hull is rapidly nearing comple
will probably become the
Professor and Mrs. Bocock.
ASH1NGTON. D.
O., May 2, 1891.
—Mr. Blaine
will. I am in
formed, shortly
remove himself
from the danger
of being struck
by Presidential
lightning b y
writing a letter
declining to allow his name to be con
sidered in connection with the nomina
tion next year, and announcing his fe
alty to Mr. Harrison and desires to see
him Dominated, but there is another
danger that he cither lacks the courage
or inclination to remove himself from,
and which may prove, as disastrous to
him as the anchors he once oast to
windward by the advice of “burn this
letter” Fisher.
This danger arises from his desire to
protect the financial interests of his
friend Stephen B. Elkins, who is a lead
ing member of the syndicate that now
has the government sealing privilege in
Behring sea. But for this degire all the
trouble ruight have been avoided for tbe
coming season in Alaskan waters, as it
is known that the British minister was
ready to pledge his government to stop
all Brittish vessels from capturing seals
for one year if Mr. Blaine would make
the same pledge for American vessels.
Last year, before Elkins became ioter-
ested'in t he seeling industry, that was
what Mr. Blaine was asking for, but
now he doesn’t wish to stop the sealing,
because his friend hopes this season to
take an enormous number—a coura
geous treasury ag -nt blocked the game
last season by stopping the catch, but a
more accommodating agent in the per
son of J. Stanley Brown, once the pri
vate secretary of President Garfield,and
now the husband of Mollie Garfield, has
been selected for duty with the sealers
this season, and Mr. Elkins and his
partners anticipate no trouble in taking'
all the seals they can catch, if Mr.
Blaine can only maintain the statu quo
until the fall.
SEC RET AY FOSTER IS “RATTLED.”
Secretary Foster appears to be get
ting what the boys call “rattled” over
the condition of the treasury. To quiet
the alarm created by tne announce
ment thai he iutended to extend the
outstanding 4>£ percent bonds at 2 per
cent, instead of redeeming them when
they mature September the first, next,
be had his Director of the Mint furnish
a statement to the press which made it
appear that the ero.moi s sum of $258,-
000,003 was available to pay ‘iny debts
or appropriations. This was so ab
surd that Mr. Foster had himself in
terviewed in order That ho might say
that he did not altogether endorse
that statement. He then proceeds to
figure out. aD available cash surplus of
$70,000,000 and to naively inform the
country *hat he also considers the $100,-
000,000 in gold, which has always been
regarded as a reserve held against the
$3^0,000,000 greenbacks in circulation,
to be available cash aud that he will not
hesitate to use it if it comes to a pinch.
Notwithstanding these statements the
daily balance sheet of the treasury for
yesterday shows a surplus of less than
i >12,000,009.
A HARRISON STAMPEDE.
.The evident Harrison stampede which
has set in among the big republicans is
exciting the curiosity of political ob
servers. Even Quay. Clarkson and
Dudley have announced their allegiance
co ‘‘Little Benny,” and their determi
nation to see him nominated. Tbe only
reason that 1 can see for it is that no
other man wants the dubious honor of
leading the republican forlorn hope
next year.
Representative McMillin, of Tennes
see, who is a candidate for Speaker of
the House, and several of his friends
held a conference this week. Mr. Me-
Millin has been traveling in the eastern
states and the presumption is that he
has been doing a little quiet missionary
work for himself. He declines to talk
about his prospects further than to say
that he is in the fight until the Speaker
“Called Back” is now applicable to
ex-Senator Blair,whom the Chinese Em-
jeror declines to receive as U. S. Min
ster, Some other diplomatic position
is to be found for Mr. Blair who has
been ordeipd to report to tbe depart
ment of State.
it’s mighty hard to do
The joint committee of senate and
bouse that has been trying to locate the
waste of money in the printing and dis
tribution of public documents has v ad-
journed until June. Its members have
found out enough to make it certain
that from 15 to 25 per cent, of the mon
ey now paid out may be easily saved
The same thing could be done in every
branch of,the Government if the at
tempt was made by men unhampered
and in earnest.
The report of the investigation made
into the antecedents of the
SPLENDID OUTLOOK FOR THE
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
PLENTY OF MONEY ON HAND.
IN OLD ENGLAND.
The Clip Is Spreading and It Roles the
fMS ;
London. May 2.—Among the promi
nent men who are suffering from influ
enza are the duke of Richmond and
Gordon and Lord Hongliton. The sick
ness of these two noblemen has com
pelled the paliainentary committee, of
which they are members, to adjourn.
Several other- committees are crippled
by some of the members being confined
to their residences owing to attacks of
the scourge.
Reports from all parts of England
show that influenza is still spreaai—
There are many cases in London.
and about Leeds, Yorkshire, there are
thousands of cases of the disease, and
the mills in the Morley and Churwell
districts are short-handed,' owing to the
fact that so many people are suffering
from the disease.
Work In AU Departments Being Rap
idly Pushed—Miss Cousins’ Case
Postponed—Other Fair Notes.
Chicago, May 2.—[Special.]—Those
appeals to the various legislative world’s
fair committees that have been- enter
tained in Chicago are beginning to have
the proper effeoc. The house sub-com
mittee at Springfield has done the hand
some thing by granting its approval to
a bill appropriating $1,000,000 fot a
suitable exhibit for Illinois at tbe
World’s Columbian Exposition. That
appropriation, if the judgmeut of the
oommittee is approved, and it doubtless
will be, is to be guarded by a state com
mission of twenty-five, to include thw
two Illinois members of the national
commission, the two state lady mana
gers and Mrs. Potter Palmer. The
other twenty are to be appointed equally
from two leading political parties and
representing as far as possible the va
ried industries of the State,
This recommendation of the commit
tee, which will doubtless meet the ap
proval of the general assembly, leads t*
a consideration of the prospects of tbe
Columbian exposition, the greatest en
terprise of the kind that has ever been
undertaken. It is still two years and a
day betore tbe gates of the exposition
are to be thrown open, but in'that time
there is an enormous amount of work to
be done. In those two years a colony
of magnificent exposition palaces are to
be constructed; nearly $30,000,000 is to
be spent and the curiosities and speci
mens of the representative indutries of
the countries are to be collected for
exposition.
The invitation issued to foreign na
tions to participate in the enterprise has
already been accepted by the two coun
tries whose acceptance is most valuable
to success. With France and England
in the exposition the other countries of
the old world and the colonies of the
new are bound to fall rapidly into line.
Bnt there is every indication that the
machinery of the exposition is in suffi
ciently good trim to do the work requir
ed. There is harmony between' tbe two
governing bodies, the local directory
and the national commission, an«l their
early jealousies have all been discarded
fora desire of ultimate success. There
is at present a little irritation and fric
tion among the members of lady mana
gers but with the exercise of a little
good sense and harmony will be doubt
less there restored.
The plans for the great buildings of
the exposition are nearly completed and
within a very short space of time the
contracts will be let and the actual
work of construction will commence.
The proverbial rapidity with which
Chicago buildings are erected and the
necessity of speedy action in this case
insure the utmost possible expedition
consistent with care and economy.
When the work is done visitors to the
fair will behold miles of beautiful build
ings filled with the attractions of every
country of the earth.
Every department of the exposition
so far organized is pushing its work
with with the best prospects of snocess,
and the interest that is manifested in
the enterprise, both at home and abroad,
indicates' that when the doors are
opened upon the Columbian exposition
two years from now it will be to dis
close the greatest show the world has
ever seen.
Colonel Thcebe Couzins and ex-Judge
Waite, her attorney, appeared before
Judge Tuley this morning to press tbe
motion for a bill to restrain the motiion
for a bill to restain the removal of the
complainant from the office of seoretary
of the board of lady managers. Direc
tor Edwin Walker, with Judge St.
Clair and George V. Massey, of the '
bord of control, represented all the de
fendants. The ontcomc of all the ar
gument was a postponement until to
morrow, when tbe court will give a
hearing. Judge White wanted the
case to go on this morning, but Mr.
Walker wanted continuance, and it was
granted.
“You may have until tomorrow
morning,” said Judge Tuley, “but let
it be understood that affairs are to re
main in statu quo until then.”
“We have no desire to interfere with
the complainant or with her effects
while the matter Is in court,” respond
ed Mr. Walker, and the party on tbe
defense walked out of court.
Colonel Phoebe will renew operations
to-morrow,'but the lawyers of the board
of control do not think that the matter
can be tried in a state conrt or that it
will be necessary to file an answer.
World’s fair directors are making
slow progress in deciding upon a man
to recommend to Director General
Davit for art director. At present
everything indicates that Halsey- C.
Ives, of St. Louis would be their choice,
as be probably will be the choice of tbe
national commission committee. Mr.
Ives is decided upon, however, only
after the place was positively refused
by Director Charles L Hutchinson.
The members of tbe local committee
tried for weeks to induce Mr. Hutchin
son to accept the. place, but he was
compelled to refuse. The local com
mittee will meet again on S&tnrday, by
which time they expect to receive word
from the commission committee and to
make their recommendation. Some
objec tion has been raised to Mr. Ives’
appointment from a certain quarter
with the statement that be is not a big
enough man for the place. Another
alleged abjection mentioned by his
opponents is that he hails from St.
Louis and that he wants to stay there.
Mr. Ives’ friends, who happen to be in
position to do him great service, claim
&9H
Italians lynched at New
Orleans, by the U. S. District Attorney
of that place has been received by the
Attorney-General and turned over to;
Mr Blaine who will decide whether SZiTSTSSi
shall be made public. • - —* ^ _ 2 u
m
and that if be is appointed he will come
to Chicago and devote his whole time
and energy to tbe work.
The members of tbe board of control
met at 10 o’clock this morning, font ad
journed soon after to examine the site
at Jackson Park. They were accompa
nied by several members of the local
board, by the chief of construction, tbe
landscape gardener and other officers.
An exhaustive article on the Catholic
churches of Chicago, for publication in
the South American press,.is requested
from the department of publicity and
promotion. The request comes from
the exposition missionaries now in
South America, who write that the re
ligious organizations there are taking
great interest in the fair. The papal
nuncio of Lima seems particularly in
terested and has given valuable assis
tance to Commissioner S a fiord. The
South American priests ask for infor
mation on the number and size of Chi
cago’s catholic churches, sketches of
the archbishop and other dignitaries
and descriptions of the conveats and
orphan asylums. t