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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
1|- Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
KSyM&'&A. \
|L, NO 39.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
bish more murders
j in proportion to
L
t at least fifty pei
rued are fired from
ars and cigarettes.
■Stic brokers are said te
■Pommissions more than
(if during the Reading
fiey call this country “The
[ ^hy, asks the New York
ly not the riddle of a
jplc be solved by calling
_of the English system
support of a State
fra,ted by the case ot
farmers in the parish of
1 have had to raise $3009
them for tithes.
[ Minneapolis Times: Defalca.
gother too common. A 1
good name and unblemished
la lifetime of fair dealing, all
pputation which Bus+ire^TtreiriGrma-
bave spent years of self-denial to
begins to lose its commercial
We look askance at everybody,
^about asking whom we can trust.
* lyitfg foxe3 are distressing the agri-
Iturists in some parts of Australia, and
local paper says that at the present
.ate of increase it is greatly feared they
will soon become almost as great a men
ace as the rabbit pest. A camp of the
foxes, about four miles from Eriua, New
South Wales, contains fully 100,000 of
the pests, “and when disturbed they rise
'like a cloud obscuring the sun.”
In the last fifty years four Vice-Presi
dents have succeeded to the Presidential
chair. John Tyler was the first; he suc-
• ceeded William Henry Harrison. Mill-
aid FV •'re was the second, and he
serf out Genaral Zachary Taylor’s
Andrew'johnson and Chester A.
rti. complete the list. Only two
Presidents have died m office from natu
ral causes. Two have been assassinated.
The doom of another educational fad
; sealed. The French association d
Volapukists has dissolved. The moss
energetic apostle of the language which
was expected to set right the confusion
caused by the affair at Babel has recent
ly taken tho post of Prolessor of German
in a provincial college. There have
been other setbacks and the great object
of reforming the linguistic^ evils of the
world has been abandoned as far as
Paris is concerned.
The silk hat, that most characteristic
article if London attire, is said to be a
sure indicator of prosperous or hard
times in 'hat city. The denizens of
Chancer; lane and Gracechurch street,
thiwp- whknre found about the Temple
and the exchanges, if briefs are plenty
and business blooming, flaunt it in the
glossiest of new tiles. But if business
is slow tho old ones are ironed and do
longer service. Just now, notes the
New York Sun, business is bad, and
those of the hatters of the English me
tropolis who are not going bankrupt are
growling and grumbling with all their
might. *"•
The New York Advertiser says: “Be
ginning with Grant’s second inaugura
tion in 1S73, a period of twenty years,
duriug which six Presidents have been
inaugurated, the 4th of March fell on
pleasaut days only twice. The 4th of
1873, wns a bitter cold and blustering
day. There was neither snow nor rain,
but the temperature was so low that
death reaped a large harvest amoug
those who participated iu the para de.
The 4th of March, 1877, when Hayes
was inaugurated, was a miserably damp,
pneumonia-breeding day. The 4th of
March, 1SS1, when Garfield was in
augurated, and the 4th of March, 1885,
when Cleveland was first inaugurated,
were both pleasant days. Mr. Harri
son's Inaugural address was delivered
in the midst of a pouring rain, and Mr.
Cleveland’s second oath of office was
taken while the snow beat upon his
bared head. There is no sort of justifi
cation for the retention of this date for
this important ceremony. It will always
be made a spectacle. Surely it is not
necessary to slay the people to celebrate
the change in the administration of a
Republican Government. Let the date
be changed in the interests of humanity.”
A Tree 3000 Years Old.
O i the island of Tenerife, one of the
largest if not the very largest of the
Canaries, about half way between the
Porto Santo and the summit of the fa
mous P.co de Tyde, the highest point of
land on the island, stands the consider
able town of Orotava, famous for its
wouJerful “Dragon Tree,” the identical
botanical specimen which Humboldt
pronounced “the most ancient vegetable
relic iu the world.” Humboldt made
calculations on its age iu several different
ways, and declared that it was between
5000 and 6000 years old. Sir John
Herscael often alludes to it as the oldest
tree in the world. For at least twenty
centuries the Guanches used the immense
hollow of this ancient tree as a temple of
woisnip. Its eventful career was sud
denly terminated in the summer of 1867,
wuea it was uprooted and almost entirely
destroyed by a hurricane.—St. Louis
Republic.
Benjamin Patton, of Defiance, Ohio,
is s:i:a to be the only surviving office
holder under the administration o!
A i irevv Jackson, whose inauguration in
1820 he witnessed,
EASTER.
Easter, smileo’ theyoar!
Bringer of musicand floweret
Easter, whose skies are clear
With spring days’ lengthened hours!
What shall we say that is new?
What shall we sing that is old!
Sermon or sonnet or chant
Gilding reflnded gold.
Yet, Oh Brightness returned,
Weil may Iglorify thee!
Never the world again
Sunless and chill shall I see.
Quickened from clay, the reed
Springs from tho glow above;
Up from my heart has ieipei
The shining lily of love.
Peal, Oil carillon, peal
Every change to be heard!
Sing in the chapel, choir!
Trill in your meadow, birJ!
Thou who kneeiest in church
(Thy thought from earth apart)
My Easter offering, love,—
To the altar of thy heart!
—E. Irenceus Stevenson.
TIIE OLD WELL SWEEP.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
OU ain’t goin’ to take
that well sweep, away,
J o t h a m—t h e well
'Bit -A»s there
when I was a baby?
Don’t do it, Jotham—
don’t!”
Squire Sedgick
beckoned to his son to
lay down the uplifted
axe.
Mrs. Sedgick stood in the doorway,
with a fat, old-fashioned tumbler and a
glass-towel in her hand.
EileD, the daughter, paused in the act
of tying up an obstreperous young honey
suckle shoot; and old Grandsir Sedgick,
leaning on his staff, with his gray hairs
blowing in the fre3h spring wind, look
ing not unlike one of the ancient Druids.
“Why, father, we didn’t know you’d
care,” said the squire. “It’s a rickety
old thing, anyhow—” \
“Well, so’ra I a rickety old thing!”
quavered the octogenarian. “But you
wouldn’t go at me with an axe and
mallet, would you? I used to draw water
with that well sweep afore I stood as
high as the curb."
“Well, well,” soothingly uttered the
squire, “if you’ve any feelin’ about it, it
shan’t be touched! Only, sence the pipes
have been laid from the spring up on
Savin Hill, Eunice, she thought—”
“I don’t keer what Eunice thinks!”
said Grandsir Sedgick. “The pipes from
Savin Spring ain’t nothin’ to me. I’d
ruther hev a glass o’ clear water from the
old well than all the springs in crea
tion!”
“So you shall, father—so you shall!”
said Mrs. Sedgick, picking up the
knotted cane which the old man had
dropped, and tenderly guiding his foot
steps back to the cushioned chair on the
porch, which he had just left.
But Ellen tossed her much be-crimped
head.
“It’s the only well sweep left in Ken-
dal,”muttered she. “Horrid old fashioned
thing! Everybody calls our home ‘the
place with the well sweep.’ It’s too
badl”
“Hush, dear!” said Mrs. Sedgick.
“Grandsir’s a very old man, and he’s
never got over the shock of Dora’s run
ning away.”
Deaf though he was, the old man's
ear caught a word here and there, when
it was least expected that he would. He
looked quickly arouud.
“Dora," he repeated—“little Dora!
My son Adam’s daughter, with the black
eyes and the real Sedgick features!
There ain’t but a few things that I care
for left in this world, nnd Dora was one
of ’em. What have you done with
Adam’s orphen gal—eh, Eunice? The
gal that hadn’t no one but me to look
after her?”
A distressed look crept over Mrs.
Sedgick’s kindly face. She hesitated
visibly.
“It wasn’t our fault, father,” said she.
“Dora was always a restless child, and
she somehow couldn’t seem to be con
tented in this quiet place.”
The old man shook his leonine white
head.
“I dunno nothin’ about that,” said
he, “All I know is I miss little Dora,
and I want her. Jotham,” turning ab
ruptly to his stalwart sou, “where’s
Dora?”
“I don’t know auy more than you do,
father,” said the squire, leaning up
against the porch pillar, and saying to
wife in a lower tone:
“What has set him off thinkia’ of
Dora iust now?”
“Thinkin’! Ain’t I always thinkin’
of her?” piped up the old man. “Adam’s
gal, that was left to us to take care of;
and Adam was always the best of the
family! You nagged her, and you wor
rited of her, and she was too hig'n-
sperited to stand it, and now she's gone,
an’ you say you don’t know nothin’
about it. Eli”—and his voice grew
thriller—“that was what Cain said, mind
you, when the Lord asked him where
his brother was D- That’s why I set here
on the porch, where I can see half a mile
down the road, to get a sight of Adam’s
gal, Dora, cornin’ back where she be
longs 1”
The three lookers-on glanced un
easily at each other.
Slartin Sedgick, the son, flung his axe
emphatically on the ground.
“Grandsir speaks the truth,” said he.
“The house ain’t itself since Dora went
away.”
And he stalked gloomily down the
hill, to where his handsome four-year-
old colt was tied to the fence rail, await
ing its daily exercise around the square.
“Eunice,” said Squire Sedgick to his
wife that afternoon, “Martin is getting
restless again. He wants to go West.”
Mrs. Sedgick clasped her hands nerv
ously.
“Martin—our only sonl” she cried.
“ He -was just beginning to be recon
ciled to life on the farm, when Dora
went away,” said the squire, dejectedly.
“And it was she that reconciled him.
Eunice—if we could get Dora back
again? It’s as my old father says—she
was the luck of the house.”
Mrs. Sedgick burst into tear?.
“It wasn’t my fault, Jotham!” she
said. “I always liked the child, though
she wasn't no more like our folks than a
corn flower is like a squash blossom.
But she and Ellen couldn’t somehow
agree. Ellen always wanted Martin to
marry Miss Brownlee, and she up one
day and accused Dora of settin’ her cap
for Martin, and Dora couldn't stand that;
and when they appealed to me, I’m
afraid I didn’t take Dora’s part quite so
strong as I might hev donn.”
•‘I fenowed a woman’s tongue was
the bottom of it all,” said the squire,
with some bitterness. “Poor Dora!”
That night the whole Sedgick fam
ily were aroused by a light blaze in the
dooryard—the old-fashioned well sweep
burning up. Grandsir, in his flannel
dressing gown and knotted stick, lus
leonine head well outlined in the scarlet
glow, looking more Druid-like than
ever.
“You done it o’ purpose,” said he,
feebly shaking the stick at the assembled
family, who were trembling in the door
way. -“You know you did. First Dora
and then the old well sweep. The only
things I keered for in this world—and
now they're both gone, an' I may as
well lie down and die!”
“I didn’t mean any harm!” hysteri
cally sobbed poor Ellen. “I was light
ing a taper to seal a letter—Marian
Brownlee always uses the new-fashioned
colored wax to seal her letters—and it
burned up too quick, and I flung it out
of the window, but I never dreamed it
would fall among the dead leaves around
the old well curb and set it on fire 1
didn’t mean any harm!”
“Don’t fret, father,” said the squire.
“We'll build it up ag’in—me and Mar
tin—jnst exactly like it was before.”
The old man shook his head.
“It won’t be the same,” moaned he—
“it won’t be the same! Nothin’s the
same in~Ifn8-T?3{W!”
And he took to lu? lied from that
day.
Poor Ellen hung down herhe^d like a
drooping lily. In neither case liStLshe
intended any actual harm, but in both"
instances she felt acutely responsible,
Martin was making preparations to go
out West. Grandsir seemed to have lost
all interest in the surrounding world.
Her mother went about with swollen
eyes and a pale face, and Squire Sed
gick sat by the hour on the front porch,
looking as if he had lost his last friend.
One violet-scented April afternoon,
however, Martin came home from the
city, whither he had been to purchase
some absolute necessity for his travels,
with a flat parcel under his arm.
“Look, motherl"he said. “It’s some
thing for grandsir. I don’t know but
what I’ve been extravagant, but I declare
to goodness I couldn’t help it. The
minute I set eyes on it, I thought of the
dear old man lyin’ up stairs in his bed.
It’s a picture,” he added, as Elten came
hurrying to his side—“an oil painting
with a fine gilt frame. Exactly like our
old well sweep that was burned down,
with the red barn in the distance, and
the sun settin’ behiud the woods, just as
I’ve seen it go down times without end.
You don’t know how queer I felt when
I saw it in the store window, and I went
in and paid twenty dollars lor it. I’d
do without them campin’ blankets and
the fur robe, mother; but I wanted
grandsir to have that picture.”
They hung it up on the wall opposite
the head of his bead, and when the old
man waked from a nap, just as the sun
set beans shone over the mute canvas, he
looked at it with a smile.
‘.It’s our old well,” said he, not evinc
ing the least surprise. “Just like I was
a-lookin’ out of the window at it. I’ve
got the well sweep back ag’in now, and
p’raps Dora’ll come next. Who know*?”
And for the first time in a week, he
got up and dressed himself, and deigned
to give a sort of conditional approval to
the repairs going on in the burned dis
trict.
‘It looks too new now,” said he, ad
justing his “far-away” spectacles. “But
p'raps in a year or two it’ll be more
weather-beaten an’ nat’ral-like. I can
allays look at the picter, though, when I
want to see the old well sweep.”
Ellen pulled her brother’s sleeve as he
stood intently regarding the bright little
oil painting on grandsir’s wall.
Martin,” said she, “nobody ever
could have painted that picture by guess.
It is oar old well sweep, and there’s the
very butternut tree and the broken
shingles on the barn roof. And don’t
you remember, Martin, how fond she
used to be of painting?”
He turned suddenly around with an ir
radiated face.
“Why didn’t I think of it before?” he
cried.
Mr. Solomon Feldman, sitting behind
his desk rail in the darkest corner of the
dark little art store, was startled from an
abstruse financial calculation by the ques
tioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close
beside him.
“Is it sold?” a solt voice timidly asked
—“my ‘Old Well Sweep?’ I see it is
gone from the window. Oh, is it possi
ble that I can be so lucky as to have sold
that picture?”
Dora Sedgick was very plainly dressed.
Her shoes and gloves were unmistably
shabby; there was a certain pallor in her
skin and sharpness in her features which
told of a battle with the world, in which
she had not as yet gained the advantage.
But at that moment her face seemed
transfigured with exultant joy.
Mr. Feidman referred to his books.
“Twenty dollars,” said he, with lead
pencil between his teeth. “Not a bad
price for a beginner, and twenty-five per
cent, commission. Price of frame, five
dollars, and—and here is your ten dol
lars. You might as well send something
else.”
A shadow from without made the lit
tle gas lighted cubby hole look a degree
dingier than before at this moment.
“Could you give me the name and ad
dress of the person who painted the pic
ture I purchased yesterday—the ‘Old
Well Sweep?’ ” asked the voice of Martin
Sedgick.
The veiled and shawl wrapped figure
turned suddenly around, so that the
flickering gaslight shone full on the dark
eyes and mobile lips.
“Martin?” Ehe cried out, with an in
voluntary step forward.
“Dora—my Dora! No, you shall not
draw away your hand!” he cried. “I’ve
got you now, and I mean to keep you —
yes, always, Dora?”
»****♦
“Eh?” cried Grandsir Sedgick, rous
ing himself from one of the frequent
slumbers of extreme old age. “Dora, is
it? Adam’s little black-eyed gal? Well,
I knowed she would come back before
the Lord sent out a call lor me. Some
thin’ told me she would. They've fixed
up the Old well sweep, Dora, and you’re
bock. again 1 I hain't nothin’ left to
wish for now."
- “And she's promised to be my wife,”
declared Martin, with his arm passed
carelessly around the girl's slim waist.
“And Mania’s given up the Western
plan,” ecstatically cried Mrs. Sedgick,
“and he's going to be content to settle
down here for good and all.”
“And oh, I’m so glad!’’ gasped Ellen,
while the squire slapped his son’s back
in as encouraging fashion.
Old Grandsir Sedgick looked from one
to the other with a serene smile.
“I hain’t nothin’ left to wish for,” he
repeated.—Saturday Night.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Chinese botanists can grow oaks in
thimble?.
Science announces that cholera bacilli
do not live long in the body that has
been properly buried.
The University of Pennsylvania, Phil-
delphia, is to have a building entirely
devoted to chemistry.
It is necessary to use high pressure in
order to transmit the electric current
economically to long distances.
The Edinburgh Review says that the
commonest form ot color-blindness is
that which thinks green identical with
red.
Coal of an excellent quality and in
large deposits has been discovered at
Djebeli-Ebou-Feyaz, in the district of
Zer, Asia Minor.
There is a reptile common to the
Sacramento Valley, California, known as
the blowsnake. A full-grown blowsnake
thinks nothing of swallowing a half
dozen eggs at a time. (
The auger that bores a square boh
consists of a screw auger in a square
tube, the corners of which are sharpened
from within, and as the auger advances,
pressure on the tube cuts the round hole
square.
The modern lecturer relies greatly up
on "the projection of illustration? upon s
screen, and the lanterns for this purpose
have been so improved that effects and
illusions of a most wonderful kind are
now obtained in the lecture-room.
M. Van Rysselberghe, who died re
cently at Antwerp, was the inventor -of
the meteorgraph, an electric weather
register, by means of which the con
ditions prevailing in various localities
may be shown at a central station.
Much research aud investigation war
rant the assertion that man is not the
only animal subject to dreams. Horses
neigh aud rear upon their hind feet
while fast asleep; dogs bark and growl,
and in many other ways exhibit all their
characteristic passions.
Electricians are now considering the
feasibility of U3iag potentials up to hun
dreds of thousands of volts. With-the
potential of 100,000 volts the power of
Niagara could be transmitted to Chicago,
with a loss not exceeding twenty per
cent., and it could be sold at that place
in competition with steam po wer, prob
ably to commercial advantage.
A large dirigible balloon, intended to
make headway against air currents of
twenty-eight mile3 an hour, is being
made in France. It will be similar in
form to the La France of 1884-1885, but
larger—230 feet in ieugth and forty-
three feet in its greatest diameter. It
will weigh sixty-six pounds per horse
power, and will be propelled by a screw
in front with a rudder behind.
The enameled iron of various colors
which has become such a common ar
ticle of electrical commerce is made, ac
cording to a French industrial paper, by
dipping the iron plates into an enamel-
liquid composed of: Borax 24 parts
(by weight), soda salts 6, boric acid 15,
washed sand 25, feldspar 12.5, saltpeter
5, flour spar 3 parts. The plates are
then dried and fired. Coloring is ob
tained by using metallic oxides.
Items ol Interest Gathered at Random
trofc All Ora the State-
Change for the Passenjer’s $l(L
There is a conductor on the Euclid
avenue street car line who played a
clever trick on a passenger the other
morning, which has probably taught
him to have his fare ready hereafter
when he boards a car. The passenger
lives away out at the end of the line,
and was so punctual that he caught the
same car every morniug. About a week
ago he tendered a $10 bill in payment
for his fare. The conductor did not
have so much money at the beginning
of his trip and told the passenger that
he would pay the nickel out of his own
pocket and he could return it the fol
lowing morning. The next morning the
business man agaiu presented a $10 bill.
Again the conductor paid, the fare for
him.
This occurred four mornings in suc
cession. The fifth morning the same $10
bill came around, but the conductor was
prepared. He drew a heavy bag from
beneath the seat and handed it to the
passenger with the remark: “Here’s
your change, sir. It’s all right. I’ve
counted it.” He had secured 1000 pen
nies the night before and kept twenty-
five of them for the fares he paid for the
business man. Tne bag contained 975
copper coins. The passenger took the
bag and rang for the car to stop. He
now rides on another car.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Mound City’s Name.
The city having been named in honor
of St. Louis many suppose that the pro
nunciation should be “St. Looie,” be
cause that is the correct pronunciation
of the name of the saint. Louis is not
an English name, and Hume, in angli
cizing it in his history, always writes it
“Lewis.” All the French kings of the
name “Louis” are “Lewis” in Hume’s
writings. Those who say “St. Looie”
in speaking of the city may think it is
more honor to the sainted King oi
France, for whom it was named, to use
the French pronunciation. On theothei
hand, our language is English, and it is
perfectly natural that there should be
those who hold that the name of our
cities should be as nearly English as
possible. The “St. Looie” pronuncia
tion will never cause any one to forget
why the city was named St. Louis, and
if it is the most popular it should be
generally accepted. Doubtless the ear
liest settlers never said “St. Loois,” but
it is a long time since they were here.—
St. Louis Post-Dispa te’j.
The Fulton County Confederate Vet
erans’ Association has elected General
C'lemmt A. Evans as president of the
association.
* * #
Mrs. Jeannette Hammond, who was
arrested and jailed in Atlanta on the
charge of being implicated with Lewis
Redwine in the looting of the Gate
City bank, was released a few days ago
on a $2,000 bond by theFnlton county
grand jury, who are investigating this
celebrated case.
« * *
A verdict was reached a day or two
ago in the case of Colville versus Wad
dell, in the city court of Atlanta be
fore Judge Westmoreland. The jury
found for the plaintiff against the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
garnishee, for the sum of $533, part of
salary due Mr. Waddell as president of
the association.
. * * *
On July 1st George A. Clarke &
Brother, the oldest and one of the
largest firms of thread manufacturers,
will open a branch agency in Atlanta,
This big concern, the factories of
which are in Newark, N. J., where
over 3,000 operatives are employed,
has now but six agencies in this coun
try—New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, Chicago, St. Louis and New Or
leans. Allsrta will he the seventh.
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The Savannah* News says that
prompt settlement of the difficulties
of the Central railroad would be bene
ficial to Savannah and to all the road’s
creditors. Incomes of people in Sa
vannah alone have been cut down at
least $500,000 by the insolvency of the
road. In many instances the entire
income of individuals and families
have been stopped by the failure of the
road to pay the interest on its obliga
tions.
* * »
Uncle Rob Hardeman, treasurer for
the state and bank inspector, has been
going the rorinds for the past few
weeks looking ih behind the vaults
and counters of the state banks to see
if things are going along according to
law there. He finds that the banks of
the state as a whole are in better con
dition this yeaj than they have been
for a long time. He finds that the
banks are strong and well managed
generally, and will make a good re
port.
A few days ago the Augusta, Gibson
and Sandersville railroad came forward
with all of its tax money, and set a
splendid example for all of the other
railroads in the state that are in the
hands of a receiver. A check was re
ceived from the officials of the road by
the comptroller general for more than
$40,000, which pays all of the county
and state taxes of the toad for the year
of ‘91, and all of the state taxes for the
year of ’92. All the municipal taxes
were duly paid for ’91, and the road is
receiving high praise at the comptroller
general’s office.
* * *
Soon will the superb timber of the
Okefenokee swamp be floating upon the
broad bosom of the St. Mary’s river.
Mr. Henry Jackson, the president of
the company, states that he has just
purchased a complete skidder outfit for
the purpose of handling the huge cy
press logs of the swamp. This ma
chinery will operate in a circle of 2,000
feet in diameter, transporting every
log to the center, which will be the ca
nal. The logs are elevated above the
undergrowth, and carried along by
means of a heavy cable to the canal.
The canal is being extended westward
through the swamp and eastward to the
St. Mary’s river.
Governor Northen is looking into the
recent outrage in Clay county, where a
strange negro was burned to death for
murdering Mr. Joe Burnett while he
was asleep in his store. Governor
Northen’s position on the subject of
lynch law is well known, and as soon as
he read of the occurrence in the papers
he wrote to Judge J. H. Guerry and
Solicitor Jim Griggs, of Dawson, in
whose circuit it occurred, and asked
them to give him official information
of the affair. As soon as this is done
the governor will issue a proclamation
offering a reward for those who were
guilty of the crime of burning the ne-
f to. The governor is determined to
o all in his power to put a stop to this
indiscriminate lynching of criminals.
census will be a most satisfactory one.
He will make out the apportionment
for the school fund this year to the
counties, according to the result of the
new census and not according to the
last. There will be some very broad
changes in some of the funds for the
counties. The county of Lincoln, for
instance, will fall short to some extent.
It is shown by the enumerators that
the school population of this county is
not quite so large this year as it was by
the census five years ago. This means
that the county will not get quite so
much money this year as it received
last from the state for the school fund.
But while this is true of one or two
counties, most of them show an increase.
♦ * * *
Em-President Davis’s Ilody to Lie in -State
in Atlanta.
The plans for allowing the body of
the late ex-President Jefferson Davis
to lie in state in Atlanta on the 29th of
May have been arranged and will prob
ably be carried out with but little
change. The special train that is to
take the dead chieftain from New Or
leans to his last resting place in Rich
mond, will reach Atlanta the day after
it leaves New Orleans, and it is thought
now that the train will leave that city
about the 28th of next month. It will
stop long enough in Montgomery, Ala.,
for the body of the confederate leader
to be taken to the state capitol, where
it will lie in state a few hours. It
will be the same old building,
front of which Mr. Davis in
the old days of the 60’s received
the commission as president of the
confederate states of America. It will
be one of the biggest days in Mont
gomery that city has seen for a long
time. From there the train will move
on to Atlanta without many hours de
lay. It will stop there according to
the programme thus far announced,
four hours. It will reach the city on
the afternoon of the 29th about
o'clock, and the body will be taken to
the state capitol where it will lie in
state four hours. The special train
will then leave at 8 o’clock for Rich
mond, making no more stops until the
final stop is made.
* * *
Major D. N. Speer Dead.
Major D. N. Speer, whose death oc
curred a few days ago in Atlanta, was
well-known throughout the state. At
one time he was state treasurer and his
administration of the office was highly
satisfactory. While treasurer he saved
to the people of Georgia $200,000 by
withdrawing the state’s money from
the Citizen’s bank of Atlanta before
that institution collapsed.
When the war broke out in 1861
Major Speer enlisted in the confeder
ate service as captain. During the
years 1861-2 he served as a major on
the staff of that gallant officer, General
John B. Gordon. For the remainder
of the struggle he served as lieutenant-
colonel on the staff of General S. B.
Buckner of the trans-Mississippi de
partment. He was a brave and de
voted officer and as such was frequent
ly the recipient of marked praise from
superiors in command.
After the war Major Speer began the
practice of law in LaGrange under the
firm name of Speer & Speer. He re
mained in the practice until 1880, and
was recognized as one of the most
prominent lawyers of the section.
The citizens of Troup county, in
1880* presented the name of Major
Speer as a candidate for the office of
state treasurer to succeed Hon J. W.
Renfroe. When the election came off
in the fall of the year Major Speer,
although Mr. Renfroe was an inde
pendent candidate, received a majority
of 93,000 votes over his opponent and
he was declared elected. After vacat
ing the office of treasurer he was elect
ed the president of the Exposition
cotton mills, which has occupied the
greater portion of his time. He has
also held numerous , directorships in
the hanking establishments of Atlanta,
and also of Newnan, Monroe, Carroll
ton and LaGrange. He accumulated
large amount of property after com-
ig to Atlanta, and has long been re
garded as one of the wealthiest men
in the citv.
Let Them be Punished.
Speaking of the recent whitecap
trials in Carroll county, the Atlanta
Journal says:
The news of the conviction of a num
ber of the whitecap outlaws in Carroll
county is an assurance that the good
people of that section oi onr fair state
are determined that the majesty of the
law shall be upheld and a law-abiding
people everwhere applaud their deter
mined effort to rid the state of this
lawless gang. No purer, abler or
braver man adorns Georgia’s judiciary
than Judge Sampson Harris, who pre
sides over the superior court of Carroll
county, and the public can rest as
sured that he will see that the cause of
justice will not suffer. It i6 to be
hoped, too, that Judge Harris will
make an example of this gang, and
give them the full extent of the law.
Never in the history of this good old
county has a case excited more interest
than the one just ended, and the result
shows that Carroll is not a healthy
place for the class of criminals known
as whitecaps.
Compiling the Results.
The commissioner of education is
busy with the work of receiving the re
turns from the school census. The
enumerators have all been appointed
and the work is progressing most rap
idly. The work is also moving along
with most satisfactory results to the
department. The figures that the
enumerators are senping in to the com-
Raisinj.Swan.?.
Swans are nest hard to raise; they sell
at $4 J and $75 per pair. A farmer at
Biddeford, Me., is making quite a suc
cess at swan breeding, and his profit;
must be quite large each season. Th<
average hatch yields from three to six
young swaus. They hatch usually about
•June and mature in fourteen months
from birth. Tney are very cross when missioner show that he was not very
with a brood, and need watching cqa- much mistaken when he said that the
stanfiy uuless pecned up closely.—New census would show the state up to better 1
York. Independent. _ advantage in the matter of illiteracy. ;
— i While some of the counties are not _
The first English cook book was “Tht showing up so well, others are making j many points none has fallen in more
Forme of Cury,” fhat is, cookery; da tec up for it and the impression on the , than three weeks. Oats have suffered
1390. j mind of the commissioner is that the j chiefly; they are now heading out and,
Wcailier aud Crops.
From the official weather bureau
bulletin for the past week, issued
Wednesday by Director Morrill, we
make the following extracts:
In the northwest section of the
state there was a satisfactory amount
of rain during the week, which soft
ened the ground and was generally
beneficial, although retarding planting
operations somewhat. Light frosts
were general in this section-on Sunday
morning, but, as the air and surface of
the ground were fairly dry, little dam
age was done. Upland corn is about
all planted and is coming up well;
cotton planting is beginning. Wheat,
oats and grass crops continue to prom
ise well.
Continued lack of moisture in the
northeast is causing considerable grum
bling amongst the farmers, for the
brisk dry winds have dried up the
ground and made it so hard on uplands
that it is there almost impossible to
plow or otherwise work the soil. The
consequence is that the planting of
cotton is hindered and will continue
to be hindered to a greater or less ex
tent until there comes a good wetting
rain, for which everybody is praying
at present. About one-half of this
year's anticipated acreage of cotton
has been planted up to the present
date.
Corn is up and cotton planting near-
y completed in the west section. In
some early cotton fields chopping has
begun and considerable plowing is be
ing done in corn. Little rain has fal
len the past week and the ground has
been badly dried by the high winds.
Bed lands have become so hard and
dry that cotton is coming up very
slowly. The stand of corn is good and
small grain 6hows an excellent appear
ance, though a slow, warm rain in
needed.
The continued drought in the cen
tra] counties is keeping cotton from
coining up, and at many points cotton
planting has been discontinued until
rain can be had. Those who planted
early will have good stands. Without
rain soon, the oat crop will be serious
ly damaged. The warm sunshiny
weather of the past week has rapidly
dried the ridge lands and cotton plant
ed now will not come up.
There has been practically no rain
in eastern Georgia the past week. At
without rain, the yield will be short.
Corn is growing rapidly and vegeta
bles have stood the want of rain so far.
The latter plantings of cotton are not
up yet on account of the dry soil. The
chopping of early cotton will begin
this week. Corn has a good stand and
plowing has commenced.
Droughty weather is prevailing in
the southwest section of the state.
Brisk winds during the past week have
dried up the ground to a considerable
extent, especially on red lands where
it is now quite hard and unfit for
working. The temperature has been
reasonable and but for the want of
rain to bring up late planted cotton
and to soften the soil, conditions
would be most favorable foi a contin
uation of the rapid and flourish-^
ing growth thus far reported in nearly
all kinds of crops.
Although the past week has been a
fair one for the crops of the southern
section, many complaints are received
of the almost total absence of rainfall.
The soil from lack of sufficient mois
ture is somewhat baked and difficult
to plow. Cotton planting is still in
progress but generally the crop is all
in and much of it up. The melon,
vegetable and fruit crops are in most
excellent condition but would, as is
the case with other crops, be much im
proved by a few good showers during
the next week. Potatoes, although all
planted, are not yet up. Reports rela
tive to the oat crop indicate that it is
more in need of moisture thun any
other.
Very little rain has fallen in the
southeast counties, and the long
drought has slightly injured the cot
ton crop. Farmers are well up with
their work. The gardens are about
planted and are looking fine. Truck
ers are picking and shipping cabbage
apd peas. Planting is still being con
tinued vigorously at a few points,
while in some places the dry weather
has prevented it.
THROUGHOUT TJE SOUTH.
Notes ot Her Progress anil Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
WHITEC1PPERS CONVICTED.
Eleven of tiie Citizens o! Carroll County,
Ga.. Found Guilty.
Sadden Termination of the Trials.
Story of the Crimes.
The white cap cases being tried in
Carroll county, Ga., supeiior court had
qui e a sudden termination late Monday
eveiiing.
Dick Byrd was put on trial Monday
morning. The state weaved a web
around poor Dick, who is a young man,
and showed his guilt beyond douot, and
not only his guiP, but the guilt of a
number of those indicted by the grand
j iry. Lum Britt swore posi ively to
Bud and o:hers; and Wiley Duke, Fred
Duke and Willie Chambers, who were
jointly indicted for the riot, were put on
the stand and gave ihe whole thing
away. The evideDCo was so overwhelm
ing that the lawyers for the defense had
all the pri-oners brought in court and
submitted the case to the jury without
argument.
The jury retired, and in ten minutes
brought in a verdict of guilty in the
case of Jesse Brooks, Sr., who is a man
fifty-two years old and a deacon in the
Baptist church; Jesse Brooks, Jr., Wil
lis C. Brooks, Bob Ayers, John J. Pol
lard, Thanus Roach. John Plemmons,
Richard Byrd, Green Simkins and John
Dukes. The bills against Wiley Dukes,
Fred and Will Chambers, were nolle
pressed. The last three were boys who
turned state’s evidence. Sentence has
not been passed on the case yet, but will
probably be passed in a few days. This
makes eleven convictions to date and
others will follow. There are ten* more
true bills against all paities.
HISTOEY OF THE CASE.
On the night of the 22d of March, an
outrage was ccmmitteed on the person of
Mrs. S. J. Bowen and Sam Bowen, Lum
Britt, W. J. Britt, who is now eighty
years old, Frank Eason, and three of his
children, Mrs. Mary E. White, and two
of her children were whipped by a crowd
of men, some of whom were masked and
others had blacking on their faces. They
were whipped by strong men, . while
others held pistols in their faces with or
ders not to move or speak or they would
be killed. 8ome of the whipped paities
were carried to the woods and their arms
drawn around trees and then whipped
until they could not walk.
-THE CAUSE OF THE OUTRAGE.
It is thought that the whipping grew
out of a lawsuit between J. H. L. Ben-
ford and Mrs. Mary E. White, but some
say the whipping was on account of rev
enue business. It so- ms that J. H. L.
Benford loaned John White,the husband
of Mrs. Mary E. White, $100, and he
gave a deed to fifty acres of land to Ben
ford to make him secure. When the
money became due old man White had
removed to Haralson county, but his
wife still lives on the land, and she re
fused to give it up. Armid with what
was thought to be !• gal pap' rs,Heory Ben
ford, Price Benfoid, a baiiiff and others
threw Mrs. White out of her house, and
an attempt wus made to burn the house.
Henry Benford is indicted for this crime.
Many lawsuits, both civil and criminal,
were tiie result, till at length Mrs. White
was thrown out of prosession of the house,
and Heory Benford,Mr, J. H. L.Benford’s
son, moved into it. Mrs. White sued out
a writ of possession for the land, and. it
was this case that was to have btea tried
at New Mexico district the day after the
whipping.
bile the whipping was going on or
ders were given to all that if they ap
peared at the court ground next day they
would be visited the night succeeding
and would ba killed. Mrs. White was
made to premise that she would leave
the state at once or she would have been
killed on the spot.
The white caps of the New Mexico
district will not down. Fire was set to
Sam Bowen’s house Saturday in several
places, and it was burned up. Bowen
W. J. Leonard, county judge of
Marshall county, Tenn., has been ar
rested charged with larceny, forgery
and altering public records in connec
tion with the issuing and redemption
of county bonds.
An order of General Gordon, Com
mander of camps of confederate veter-'
ans, will notify members that they are
invited to the ceremonies in New Or
leans on the occasion of the removal of
Mr. Davis’s remains on May 31st.
The business portion of the little
town of Water Valley, in Graves
county, Ky., was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Threehundredper-
sons lived in the village, and many of
them are homeless. Twenty or thirty
houses, including all stores, were
burned.
News was received at Montgomery,
Ala., that a severe cyclone swept over
Midland City, in Henry county, on tho
Alabama Midland railroad Wednesday,
killing several, some reports say seven
persons, destroying part of the town
and doing considerable damage other
wise.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee,
has appointed Colonel William H. Car-
roll to be coal oil inspector at Mem
phis. This is the best paying inspec
torship in the state, being worth about
$10,000 per annum. Colonel Carroll
is chairman of the democratic execu
tive committee and managed the last
campaign.
A Nashville special of Tuesday states
that the federal grand jury is engaged
in an niceciigation of the wrecking
of the Commercial National bank. Mr.
J. P. Dobbins and Bank examiner Mc-
Knight, it is understood, with several
Commercial bank employes, have testi
fied and a report is expected in a few
days.
The Pelican sawmills at New Orleans
were destroyed by fire Tuesday even
ing together with a million feet of lum
ber. There was no insurance. Thirty
cottages in the vicinity and a pile
driver were also burned. The- total
loss foots up $100,000. The cottages
were occupied by laboring people who
lost all their furniture.
The Lady Ensley Coal, Iron and
Bailroad Company went into the hands
of a receiver Wednesday for the pur
pose of protecting unsecured creditors.
This is one of the largest mining and
manufacturing corporations in the
south. The property of the company :
consists of coal mines at Horse Creek,
coke ovens at Jasper, the Hattie Ens
ley furnace and two-thirds interest in
the Lady Ensley furnace, Sheffield ore
mines at Busselville, and also seven
teen thousand acres of fine mineral
lands in Franklin county.
There is-a movement on foot to have
a subtreasury establised in Savannah,
Ga. The bankers have held a meet
ing and decided it was advisable to
take steps to have it establised, and
are now at work securing information
in regard to an application for a
branch of the government treasury
and the data necessary to make a
showing that Savannah is the best
place in that section for the establish
ment of a subtreasury. They will say
nothing in regard to their movements,
and, though the project is known now
to be on foot, the exact status cannot
be obtained.
NEWSPAPER MEN MEET.
Nearly Every Paper of auy Promi
nence in the South Represented.
The editors and controllers of nearly
every daily newspaper published in the
south, of any prominence, met in At
lanta Wednesday. Some few papers
were represented by proxies, but the
great majority were represented per
sonally by their proynefdrff.' The oc
casion of the meeting‘was’-f of the pur
pose of determining on a telegraphic
news service for the afternoon news
papers.
Snow in Minnesota.
A St. Paul, Minn.^ special says:
Three feet of snow on a level on April
20th is most unusual in this state, but
that has been the amount of snowfall
Wednesday night and Thursday ir
some parts of Minnesota, the average
fall being over one foot. Minneapo
lis had an even worse experience hav
ing no cars running up to 4 o’clock,
and at Stillwater the cars are snowed
up on the street, being caught in all
portions of the city,
Defaulted and Died.
John Scbardt, the defaulting cashiei
of the Mechanics’ Savings Bank and
Trust Company, of Nashville, Tenn.,
died Monday from congestion of the
brain. The ba: k' has made an assign
ment for the benefit of all its creditors,
with James J. Pryor as assignee. Ihe
assets «re placed at about $200,000 and
the liabilities $150.000.
NORTH GEORGIA
iluAUA UUUU^uj
at dahlonega.
A branch of the State University
Spring Term legini First-Monday in Feb-
r ruary. Fall Term begin* First
Monday in Septevber.
Best school in the sonth, for students with
training is
, _ r . limited means. The military
was one of the parties whipped on the ; thorough, being under a U. 8. Army officer,
23d of March, and is an important wit- ; detailed by the Secretary of War.
ness in the cases now on trial in Carroll
superior court. Everything Bowen
owned in the world was burned up in
his humble cottage. Officers are on
track of the parties who burned Bowen’s !
house.
Dazey Did it All.
A Nashville special of Sunday says: I
J. P. Dobbins, of the d- funct firm of |
Dobbins & Dazey, states that the report j
is in error that he has at any time stated j
that he exonerated bis partner, George
A. Dazev, of the blame of wrecking the
firm. Mr. Dney, be claims, has stated
to Mr. Dobbins and to others that he j
alone is responsible for the firm’s losses, i
BOTH SEXES HAVE EQUAL ADVAN
TAGES.
Students are prepared and licensed to teaeb
in the public schools, by act of the legislature.
Lectures, on Agriculture and the Sciences
bv distinguished educators and scholars.
For health the climate is unsurpassed.
panmonth and upwards. Messing
^EariTseuator and representative of tie state
is entitled and requested to appoint odb pupil
from his district or county, without paying
matriculation fee, during his term.
For catalog or information, address 5ear*.
tuy or Treasurer, Board ofjrosteea.