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r_ ' ■■'r - ’Aj t*' *!*** ■led with the Inurri Bet. 1882, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1891.-8 PAGES. VOL. 59 NO. 2‘ 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