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i 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. * * ♦ — • — 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.