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1 THE VIENNA PROGRESS, i-i TEBMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JNO. JLHOWSIL, l Lacy a. Morgan, i XI., NO 41. Vienna 4 ga ; , Tuesday, may 9, is»3. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ETON GOSSIP. from Day to I National Capital |ppointjnent$ in the Various Depart- incnts---Othcr Notes of Interest. about the departments. r Secretary Carlisle, on Thursday, in structed the collectors of internal rev- enue and custom house officials to re- ifrnin from making the arrests of Chinese who have' not registered until 1 further orders from the department. Speaker CrisjJ returned to Washing ton Thursday. He will remain several days looking after the interests of hie constituents. There are several score of fourth-class postmasters to be ap pointed in his district. Several presi- itiSPhostoffices must also be tilled, f’ r * ’^*(^.his constituents want er ofiicWr^ ly means of raising small cer- ed checks to large amounts, a er forger Thursday swindled three iks of Kansas City, Mo., out of fiOO. The victims are the Metro- llitan National bank the Citizens Na T jitlal bank and the Midland National ■ik. The forger gave his name as Forge B. Norton, but his identity is It known and no more trace of him is been discovered. I THE health officer at Astoria, Ore., ■ednesday telegraphed the depart- ■<nt that the steamer, Danube, had ■ rived at that point from Hong Kong ■ith GOO Chinese on board. These f iiinese were destined for Portland, Pre. In the course of his medical ex- ^■niiination he also examined their pa- and ho expressed the opinion that ^Hncnrly all of the GOO Chinese have bo- ^Hgus certificates. Secretary Gresham reaffirmed Tlrars- ■ day his statement of Wednesday that ho had sent two telegrams to the gov- V ernors of the western states asking m them to take precaution against vio- ™ lenee to Chinese. He did not care to state how many and wliat governors had been asked to take action, but said that the text of the dispatch over “I'^Si&Wgrmtule given out for publication Uy Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, was correct. The secretary declined t'o comment on the answer sent him by Governor Pennoyer. The following Georgia postmasters were appointed Wednesday: Braswell, , Paulding county, J. B. Harris; Cole City, Dade county, J. A. Bennett; . Ellijay, Gilmer county, A. T. Logan; I Experiment, Spalding county, R. E. : Hardee; Horns Cross Roads, Miller county, Hardy Strickland; Oakley j Mill, Cobb county, C. E. Johnson. These postmasters were commissioned for Georgia Wednesday: William J. r Parffioui, Landrum; Peter T. Shore, Alto ; John E. Mansfield, Bluffton; William S. King, Bonair; Annie G. West, Cusseta; Sarnna Turkman, Ellis. ( t Ex-Secretary Rusk and family left for the west on the Penusvlvania road i Tuesday afternoon. A large number • of the officers and employes of the de- — partment of agriculture went to the station to bid their former chief good i bye. Perhaps no other cabinet officer j has endeared himself to the employes ^^dhi^U^inent in .a greater degree Jerry.!'' A box of IHti'rs was presented to Mrs. Rusk by officials connected with the depnrt- Hnnent. General Rusk nnd family will stay in Chicago a few days before pro ceeding to their Wisconsin home. Secretary Gresham on Thursday, re ceived a letter from the United States consul general at Havana, dated April 29th, forwarding a copy of the procla mation issued April 28th by the gov ernor general of Cuba, already pub lished, declaring the province of San lingo do Culm in a state of seige. The rcas ongiven for the measure is thnt somo bands of men have risen in arms against the government in the ham lets of Velasco -and Puerto, near the northern coast of that province, for tho immediate suppression of which active military measures are now boint taken by the government. The president appointed postmas ters Thursday as follows: Margaret G. Davis at Biloxi, . Miss., reappoint ed ; Thomas W. James at McComb, Miss., vice S. W. Collins, office became presidential; Walter N. Hurt at Wi nona, Miss., vice Mary C. Mathews, removed; Albert L. Howe at Natches, Miss., viee H. C. Griffin, removed; Thomas B. Crews, at Laurens, S. C., vice J. M. Robertson, removed; Wil liam Y. O. Haimum, at - Maryville, Tenn., vice J. P. Edmonson, removed; John W. Clark at Ripley, Tenn., of- ficelf'.-'nme presidential; Robert A. Ponh Cleburne, Tenn., vice W. H. Den! resigned. Work for Bissrll. ^ Washington special of Wednesday When Postmaster General Bis- while the number of appointments made on account Of resignations and death was 1,077 more than four years ago. Cleveland*?* Return from Chicago. Promptly at 5:55 o’clock Tuesday afternoon on schedule time the presi dential train steamed into the Pennsyl vania station bringing Mr. Cleveland and those of his cabinet who returned with him from Chicago. Mr. Cleveland was the first to step from the cor and was followed by Secretaries Carlisle, Gresham, Smith, Herbert and Morton, Secretary Lament, Postmaster General Bissell and Attorney General Olney not being with the party. The only ladies accompanying the party were Mrs. Carlisle and Miss Herbert. Carriages were in waiting and the travelers were at once driven to their respective homes. When asked for an expression of opin ion regarding Lis visit President Cleve land, through Private Secretary Thur- her, said : 1 ‘We received a very cor dial welcome and everything that could be done for our comfort and pleasure. It was an occasion which I shall al ways remember with a sense of genu ine pleasue. I was much gratified at the enterprise, skill and taste display ed in the arrangement and appearance of the buildings and the results thus far attained bespeak to my mind a great success for the world’s fair. ur Spur.fall Treaty 3fny be Abandoned. A Washington afternoon paper pub- lishes the following: Abundant reas ons for the abandonment of the policy of reciprocity under the McKinley bill exists in the complaints received by the state department regarding the eva sion of the treaty by Spanish officials in Cuba. The Spanish government was forced into the treaty by the diploma cy of Mr. Blaine, because of the fear that if the Cuban sugar growers were deprived of their market in the Uni ted States through reciprocity arrange ments with other sugar growing coun tries, they would rise in revolt against Spain. The Government apparently intends to make thetreaty so unpopular that it will fall to the ground of its own weight, nnd has imposed an excise tax nearly equal to the duties remitted by the McKinley bill. The Spanish min ister gave the assurance when the ne gotiations were in progress that no ex port or port duty, national or provin cial, should be imposed on exports which the United States admitted free of duty, but the new excise, although levied on sugar for domestic consump tion, practically accomplishes the pur pose of an export duty. Our govern ment will either protest strongly against this tax or wipe out the whole treaty and leave the Cuban growers to face a possible import duty under new tariff. TELEGEAPHIC GLEANINGS. The Ms ol the World Conflenssil ] Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. BUSINESS REVIEW. president on the subject of the ap pointment of presidential postmasters, tho latter will realize that during his absence from Washington the official of the department who have charge of this branch of the work have not been idle, for Mr. Bissell will place befor him for approval about one hundred appointments. It is not- likely that the full hundred will be considered at one sitting, but it is probable that the next list of appointments will be unu sually long. The total number of fourth-class postmasters appointed M ednesday was 141, of which 135 were to fill vacancies caused by resignations nnd dentil. A Comparative -Statement. A statement prepared from the rec ords of the postoffice department shows that during the first two months of the present administration, the to tal number of fourth-class postmasters appointed was 3,894 as against 6,104 made during the first two months of Mr. Harrisons’s administration. The number of appointments made during the last two months to fill vacancies caused by resignations and deaths was 2,685 as against 1,608 made during the .corre sponding period of last administra tion. The number of removals made during the last two months is shown to be ouiv 1,209, while the number of removals made during the first two months of Mr. Eurrisou’s administra tion reached 3,496. The excess of ap pointments four years ago, therefore, J,2i0 ftad the excess of removals 2,887, Report of Trade for the Past Week by l)nn & Co. Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for the past week says: Presi dent Cleveland’s decision about the redemption of legal tenders all admit has arrested what threatened to be come a serious disturbance. Reports from all pnrts of the country indicate that the trade has been much retarded by bad weather and unsettled money markets, and complaints of poor col lections are general. Chicago reports a decreased wholesale trade and collec tions behind band, retail trade and construction work being retarded by the weather and building materials below last fall’s prices. The demand for money is heavy and banks are con servative. At Sioux City no panic re sulted from heavy bank failures, and at Omaha trade is very active, but re tarded at St. Joseph by bad weather. Business is fair at Kansas City, with cattle stronger, but trade is quiet at Denver. At St. Louis, jobbing Lade is good; collections free. South ern orders are small, but cotton seed is in demand for replanting. At points in Tennessee trade is generally slug gish and collections small. At Mont gomery and Atlanta some improvement is seen, but at Charleston trade is dull. New Orleans reports a fair trade with especial aetivy in real estate and build ing materials, but there, and at most other southern points, collections are slow. Tho failure of the Pennsylvania Steel Company eauses much depres sion, and makes it harder for other concerns to obtain accommodations. Cotton is an eighth lower on sales of 8l 0,000 bales in spite of reported inju ries, the pressure * of heavy stocks be ing felt as money lightens. Corn has risen a cent and pork SI per barrel and the speculations at Chicago seemed to have revived with the bad weather, which delays farming operations. Even' wheat is a quarter of a cent higher than a week ago, with sales of 500,000,000 bushels, though receipts at the west- are still heavy and ship ments by lake enormous. Enormous produce exports have improved a little but for the month all exports from New York are still much behind last year’s, while imports here show an in crease of §9,000,000. This state of foreign trade is still the cause of dan ger of the money market which no j election of the administration, however wise, con entirely remove. • * The business failures oecuring throughout the country during the last seven days number 238 as compar ed with totals of 208 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 211. NATIONAL DEBT STATEMENT Showing the Operation of the Treasury Department During April. The operation of the treasury depart ment during the last month, as indi cated by the debt statement issued Monday, shows a net increase in the public debt of §3,726,819.40. The bonded debt increased $421,000, and the cash in the treasury decreased $4,147,824.40, the net result being increase. of the ’debt. The in terest bearing debt increased $500. Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity decreased $73,100 and debt bearing no interest $347,850. The aggregate interest and non-inter est bearing debt, April 30, was $962,- 407.764.13. March 3d it was $962,- 828.219.13. The coin certificates and treasury notes offset an equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end of the month was $596,016,- 621, a decrease of $1,411,470. The total cash in the treasury $756,544,116 against which liabilities were outstand ing, including $97,011,330,08 gold j serves, A Paris Cablegram States that tlie Behring sea tribunal df arbitration re sumed session Tuesday and Mr. Carter, of the council for the United States; fcontihued his argument: Eire at Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday morning, destroyed the dry goods store and stock of Edward Schuster <fc Co.; entailing a loss of $100,000. The in surance is $90,000. A Boston, Mass., dispatch says: The Episcopal convention, Thursday; chose Dean Lawrence, of Boston, the broad churchmen’s candidate, as bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts to succeed the late Phillip Brooks. The destruction is reported of the British steamship Khiva off the Ara bian cost, probably with appalling loss of life. The Khiva sailed from Bombay April 12th, carrying a large number of Mahomedans bound as pil grims to Mecca. The home for destitute children two miles south of Burlington, Yt., was burned Monday night. The in mates, seventy-one children, were all rescued. The building was a four- story brick, with additions supposed to be fireproof. Loss about $50,000. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Ex- President Benjamin Harrison was elected Wednesday by the Ohio com- mandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States as its commander for the ensuing year. The other officers were nearly all re elected. A New York special of Tuesday says: Drexel, Morgan & Co. state that more than a majority of both classes of bonds and stocks of the Richmond Terminal have been deposited with them. It is thought that the details will be com pleted during the week and the plan given out to holders of securities. A New York special says: The con dition of Edwin Booth was reported late Monday night to be very encour aging. His physician states that he is better and brighter than he has been since his illness, and confidently ex pects him to recover, all alarming ru mors to the contrary notwithstanding. Sixty-five Africans, who are to show the “dark phases” of African life at the world’s fair, were steerage pas sengers on the steamship La Bretagne which arrived at New York Sunday. There were twenty women and four children in the party. Most of tho human exhibition comes from Da homey. General Schoffield, at Washington, received a telegram from General Cook, commanding the department of Arizona, Monday night, stating that he thought the report regarding tjje Navajo outbreak was exaggerated. All necessary steps, he said, had been taken to protect the people and quiet the Indians. Advices of Monday from Melbourne, Australia, are to the effect that the general uneasiness caused by tbe many failures of Australians banks continue and tbe suspension of the National Bank of Australia, the last of the finan cial institutions to go under, has added greatly to the excitement in banking and commrrcial circles. Two men were killed and one seri ously wounded Thursday morning by the explosion of a piston head in the shops of the Cincinnati Southern rail way at Chattanooga, Tenn. The dead are John Quigley, white, and Will Peak, colored. Jesse Biles, white, will probably lose his eyesight. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Herbert A. Preston, one of the oldest Washington correspondents, died at his residence in that city Tuesday morning of a complication of diseases. Mr. Preston had charge of the New York Herald bureau at the capital for many years, but lately he has been en gaged in miscellaneous newspaper work. He was about fifty-seven years of age. United States Senator Standford states that ex-President Harrison will deliver his course of ten or more lect ures before the Leland Standford, Jr., university at Palo Alto, Cal., in the early part of the next college term. The last lecture will be an expression of Mr. Harrison’s views as to tho best plan of compiling an international code of law to govern all prominent nations of the world. Monday fifty skilled workmen in the 33-inch beam mill of the Carnegie Steel Works at Homestead threw aside their tools and quit work on account of a reduction from 37 to 26 cents per ton. The whole town is excited. The former union men look upon the trou ble as a victory for them. It is said they intend returning to work to get even .with the present strikers who ac cepted their positions last summer. A.London cable of Monday says: News comes from Zanzibar of the drowning of 125 slaves by the capsizing of an Arab dhow in which the captives were being conveyed south of Mada gascar. It is complained that since the recognition by Great Britain of the French protectorate over Mada gascar, the British cruisers have ceased to patrol Malagassy waters, and that the French authorities in that vicinity wink at the slave trade. A dispatch of Thursday from Cleve land, O., says: Coal has been scarce at Ohio ports for several days and boats have lost much time in getting full loads. But matters will be even worse for the next week or ten days. Ail the Ohio miners quit work Monday, and while it is not expected that the strike will be of long duration, it will take at least a week to settle it and in the meantime vessels will have to lie still at present. Advices from Havana are to the ef fect that the insurgents in eastern Cuba number 300. The government will ask for funds for a campaign against them, but not for reinforcements. At a meeting in Madrid Sunday evening the cabinet approved the resolution au thorizing the governor of Cuba to draw upon the royal treasury for any amount required for military supplies, Warships and troops are held in readi ness to be sent to Cuba at a moment’s notice: The duke of Yeragna, through the long-distance telephone from Chicago, opened the Press Club fair at the Grand palace in New York city Mon day evening. The duke’s message was as follows: “From a thousand miles away, I hereby declare by word of mouth, the great fair of the New York Press Club formally opened and wish it every success: Christopher Colum bus, dtike de Yetagna.” President John W. Keller then declated the fait opeh; There was a large attendaiice and a big success is predicted. The Ingham county, Mich., Savings bank did not opeii its doors Monday morning; as was expected: Commis sioner Sherwood took possession of the bank several days ago; and while he was satisfied that the securities were ample to protect commercial deposits, he required that a bond of $100,000 be given to him in trust for the savings depositors: That bond has not yet been signed, and consequently Mi. Sherwood would not permit the bank to commence business again. Efforts will be made to obtain such a bond with a view to reopening the bank. Five men lost their lives in the rag ing current of the Little Red river near Searcy, Ark., Tuesday. The river is very high, as a result of the recent heavy rains and the current is very swift. The men drowned were: Al len Brown, Robinson Caruth, Joe Scott, Sandy Cooksey and Allen Booth, All were employed at the government rock quarry, two miles south of Sear cy. They got in a small boat and at tempted to cross the river, when their craft was thrown violently against a rock; wrecking it. The men were thrown into the river and were soon carried down with the current. A New York dispatch of Wednesday says: The consolidation of the princi pal sole and welt leather manufactur ers in the country has been accom plished under the title of the United States Leather company. The hew company has been organized in ac cordance with the laws of the state of New Jersey. The capital stock of the new company is to be $120,000;000, divided into $60; 000; 000 of 8 per cent cumulative preferred stock, issued for the actual property; exclusive of goods, which will be turned over to it, and $60; 000; 000 of contmon stock. None of the stock will be offered for sale, but all will be retained by the vendors of the various dropeities purchased by the new company. GEORGIA AT TEE fitt. Her Wools and Products Are Well Ref resented There. RIVERS ON THE RAMPAGE. Much Damage Caused by Overflows. A Disastrous Cloudburst. Another foot of rise in the river ; inore flooded villages on the east side; a collapsed warehouse which resulted in one death and a prospect for a rep etition of the scene of a year ago. All these tell the story of the high water at St. Louis. The river at 6 o’clock Monday evening showed a rise of a fraction of an inch over a foot since 6 o’clock of the night before, with the water still creeping lip on the gauge. Many persons who had been living in the second stories of their homes were forced to move out altogether Monday, and several narrow escapes happened, some barely escaping before their res idences collapsed or floated away. THE SITUATION AT ALTON. At Alton, 111., much damage lias al ready been done. The Missouri Point farmers are applying for aid and are prepared to leave at a minute’s notice. The greatest calamity lies in the probability of the Burlington’s em bankment across the Missouri Point being washed away. It cost thousands of dollars to build it and it is now gradually spreading out and sliding into the water. RISING AT CINCINNATI. At Cincinnati the Ohio river at mid night was fifty feet above low water and rising at tbe rate of an inch an hour. It is five feet above the government danger line and Eat Row and Sausage Row are flooded. No damage has been done and none is apprehended. At Dayton, O., the Miami river reached ihe unprecedented height of 15.5 feet. WATERSPOUT AT TREMONT CITY. An noon Monday an immense water spout burst over Tremont City, a vill age near Springfield, Ohio. At about the same t me Mad river broke its banks, and within eighteen minutes the water had flooded the town, carry ing away outbuildings and stables and flooding the first story of residences. No person is reported killed or drown ed, but there is a heavy loss of stock. At midnight one hundred acres in the northeastern part of the city, contain ing two hundred houses, were flooded and the water was rising a foot an hour. DAMAGE ALONG THE ARKANSAS. A special of Monday from Little Rock, Ark., says: The Arkansas river is on a boom. It has risen in forty- eight hours to within a little over three feet of the highest mark of the great May flood of 1892. Several houses have passed down the river, showing that the flood had been encroaching upon civilization up the river, while the current was filled with trees, logs and brush. Buying Up Southwestern Stock. A Savannah special of Friday says: A large New York banking firm, the name of which brokers refuse to give, is buying up Southwestern stock in large quantities. Besides other Cen tral securities nearly 3,000 Bhares have left the city on the order of that one firm within the past week. Two the ories are advanced to account for this movement of the stock—one that Ter minal people are buying them for the purpose of an attack on the reorgani zation, plan and anotherjthat it is spec ulation based on hope of the success ful outcome of the reorganization plan. The Souvenir Bell. A Washington special saya: Delay in collection of materials has caused postponement of the ceremony of cast ing the souvenir bell to be made of historical metal collected by the Daughters of the American Devolution for the purpose of commemorating the opening of the Columbian exposition. The ceremonies were set for Monday and Mrs. Cleveland was to have touch ed a button at the white house con nected with the automatic arrangement which would have turned the molten metal into the mold. It is expected the delay yill bp for a few day? paly. The Historic Engine, also Models of Whitney’s First Cotton Gin and the First Steamship lhat Crossed the Ocean, are on Exhibition. Chicago; May 1 ; —An inspection of the World’s Fair discloses the fact that the Sbufh is pretty well represehted therJ, despite the failure of some of the legislatures to appropriate money lot state exhibits: There is no denying that it would be all the feettet if the Southern states were more thoroughly represented, bnt it is gratifying to find. in a personal inspection that southern products make up an impor tant ;patt of this exposition; by fat the greatest the World has ever seed. Chicago Was a little disappointed be cause more people did not coine td the opening. There were crowds but only for the day; It is accepted that the Eastern people will patronize the Fair very well, and the states as far as Kansas and Nebraska will certainly send enormous throngs here. What of tlie South? is the question on eVety tongue. Chicagoans want to know if the Southern people are coming to the Fair to any extent. A representative Southerner, who is here, replied when asked this question by World’s Fair officers, that the Southern people would not come here to be imposed upon. “They are will ing to pay reasonable rates, but if it is reported that the charges are extor tionate, they either will not come at all of will not remain long. Thous ands would be deterred from coming if they feel that the hotels and board ing bouses are going to ask extrava gant prices.” Chicago has the rapacious spirit as much as any city in the woild, but the hotels have learned a lesson at the vety start which they will remember. Some of the houses did talk about raising their rates and the impression went abroad that visitors woriid fee robbed. This kept thousands and thousands away and the tush was not near so great as was expected. Prices were not increased and the hotels did not make the money they had looked for. There is not much danger of ad vanced prices after this. The tendency will fee to reduce them. The hotel and boarding house busi ness has been overdone; and there ate more accommodations than there will be guests unless everybody between the Atlantic and Pacific cbmeh. A vis itor can live here as cheaply as any where; and he can spend as much money As in any other place—possibly mote than elsewhere. The best way for a stranger to Chicago will be to write to some friend here if yon know any. State about What .you can afford to pay, and get the addresses of a number of hotels and boarding houses. Then agree on a price by cor respondence; and on arrival here you will know just where you ate go- ihg and where to hate your baggage Checked. Florida’s building oh the Exposition grounds is already becom ing headquarters for Floridians; Geor gians, South Carolinians and Alabam ians. Florida’s building is a facsimile Of old Fort Marion on the San Mateo, at St. Augustine. The palms and other tropical foliage, plants and fruits which are growing around it and within, give a decided Floridian air. Georgia has no building here. But inany things peculiarly Georgian are to be seen in and About the Fair. There are minerals in the Mining Building, cotton, rice and cane in the Agricultural Hall, fertilizers, sewing machines and cotton goods in the im mense Manufactures Building, speci mens of Georgia wood everywhere and Georgia plants in the Horticultural Hall. In mote than half the buildings there is Georgia pine in the floors. One of the attractions outside of the Fair Grounds is a collection of war relics on the Midway Plaisance. There is an interesting collection of photo graphs of battle scenes taken between Allatoona and Atlanta, along tbe Wes tern & Atlantic railroad, and Kennesaw Mountain is faithfully reproduced. The famous “Lone Grave” by the side of the State road’s track in Alla- tooDA pass is photographed, and the man who tells all about the relics has a pretty story of the grave being tend ed by the railroad workmen. He has another about the “Hold the Fort” song. He gets flowery sometimes in his descriptions, but he is impartial and fair in his picturesque accounts of the battles. When he comes to the “Old General” in his lecture, he gets eloquent, and it is amusing to see these northern and western people go up to the locomotive after he has described the race from Big Shanty up the line of the State road, and the cap ture of the spies and their subsequent fate. He points to the holes made by the bullets of the pursuers in that thrill ing race, and his hearers will go up and examine the holes curiously. The joke is that the boys aroifnd the West ern & Atlantic's shops in Atlanta, knocked the holes in the tendei and cab with cold chisels to make the effect more realistic. But, no doubt, a great many relics which the world reveres are no more genuine than these holes, presumed to have been made by bullets. There is some thing about this old historic, wood- burning locomotive which ran np and down the picturesque mountains of the State road for years after the war, which excites more interest than any relic in the collection. It is still in good condition, and steamed and puff ed its way up here from Atlanta, climbing Cumberland mountain, be tween Chattanooga and Nashville, and coming on by Evansville and Terre Haute, where it attracted more atten tion than “John Bull,” the first loco motive, did coming across from Phil adelphia. There is a model in machinery hall of Eli Whitney’s first cotton gin, the one he invented and set np on the planta tion above Savannah. In Transporta tion hall is a model of the first steamship which crossed the Atlantic. This was the Savannah which sailed from the port for which it was named seventy- five years ago. The original was sunk many years later on the Atlantic coast bnt the original eggine had been taken put and hag been preserved. THE GROWING CROPS. Report of Ifeaffier Bureau for Past Week. The weather and crop conditions of the varions sections of the state as giveit by the weather bnrean for the past week is as follows: Cold and windy weather in the north west of the state has returned all Vege table growth of the past week. Corn has suffered for want of heat and rav ages of cut-worms, so that its condition is not as good as last week. The more advanced was slightly damaged by frost during the latter half of the week. Corn planting is nearly finished, bnt some replanting will have to be done. With normal rainfall, wheat, oats and grass are doing finely. The larger part of the cotton crop is not yet np. No serious harm has been done to fruit ex cept where the high wind has in some eases broken the trees. The weather in the north section has been very unfavorable for all growing crops, on account of the cold. High winds have baked the lands and greatly retarded the growth of cotton and corn. Damage has been done to cot ton by the frequent light frosts, which also injured fruit and gardens. Stands of corn are good. Cotton planting is well under way but not yet finished. Little of the crop is np yet on account of the low temperature, Potatoes and beans have been killed by frost at many points. Grain and grass are proifiising, Although the abnormally cold weather and frosts of tho past week havo probably slightly injufed some crops and retarded the growth of till, the rain, which has fallen at intervals, has doubtless acted as an offset, and crops in the northeastern counties are in fair condition. Cotton is coming up slowly and planting is not com pleted. In some localities farmers are replanting cotton which was injured by frost. Corn is planted and above grottnd. Working over is in progress and an excellent crop is probable. Some complaints are made of slight injury by cut worms, this, however is not general. The fruit crop is in fair condition but rather backward in growth and a slight shortage in yield is indicated. In the west section the growth of all crops has been checked by cool weath er during the past week. High winds hate caused the soil to bake some, and an additional light rain would be bene ficial, Cotton has been slightly dam aged by frost and its growth greatly retarded, while the condition is far below the average. In some localities it is dying on account of the cold, un favorable weather. Oats and ‘ wheat are heading out slightly and are in ex cellent condition, but some corres pondents report slight injury by bud- worms. Fruit has uot been very ma terially injured by frost and cold weather and the prospects are still fa vorable for an excellent crop. A fine rain in central Georgia dur ing tbe early part of last week has been of untold benefit to crops in general in this part of the state. About two- tfeifds of the cotton crop is up. Little cropping is reported as yet. Plowing of corn is in progress and the crop looks well though some damage from bud- wotms is reported. Wheat and oats are coming along finely. Melons are not extra; have been troubled by worms somewhat. Gardens are fair. The prospects for a large fruit crop continue good, though high winds have blown the peaches off consider- ablv. The weather has been excellent in the eastern counties with the excep tion of high winds and want of heat. There has been abundant rainfall with out its being excessive. Cotton has been rapidly planted since the rain and tlie most of the crop is now in. The chief complaint made is of injury by cnt-worins which have attacked corn, cotton and gardens. Notwithstanding, the crops are in fine condition in this part of the state. Corn has been worked out and cotton is being work ed. Oats have improved since the rain. The reports of fruit are very encoura ging. Irish potatoes look well. Cane is growing Well but the acreage is rather small. Farms at many places in the south west section were badly washed by ex cessive rains, which slighly injured the young and tender crops. The cold weather was somewhat injurious to cotton, corn, oats aud the setting of peaches and pears. Cotton and corn are reported to be dying out at some places. In most of the south section the week has been favorable. Abundant rains on the 19th and 20th relieved the dan ger of drought and have brought up the cotton to good stands. Iu Brooks, Lowndes and Clinch counties, howev er, the storm was very violent, and the rainfall excessive amounting to over five inches. The downpour in so' places washed away crops and soil, 4 ing great damage. Oats have benefitt by the rain and the crop is in excep tionally good condition. The general appearance of orchards is promis ing. Truck farms are in a good shape, as a rule, although worms are doing some damage, as they are also to corn and cotton. Reports from the counties in the southeastern portions of the state make the fact clear that the weather of the past week has been excellent for all crops in that section. Good wet ting rains prevented the threatened damage from drought, and the weath er in every way has been suitable for all vegetable growth, except that it has been a little cool. Work is going right ahead. Cotton is about all up, not very good stands yet. Corn plowing is the “order of the day.” Corn, though troubled some by bud-worms, is generally in good condition. Wheat and oats look well. Beans are bloom ing. Fruit trees are in good condi tion, and special mention is made of the promising outlook for a good yield of Le Conte and Keiffer pears. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. PRACTICAL HINTS. China may be mended as firmly as a rock by the following recipe: Two persona will be needed for the work, however, for tbe manipulation must be rapid. The necessary materials are a little unslacked lime, pulverized; the slightly beaten white of egg, and a small hair brush such as is used for mucilage Put the white of egg on the broken edges of both pieces to be joined, and immediately dust one edge with the powdered lime; put the two edge3 accu rately and firmly together, hold in place for a minute or two and then lay aside to dry. To keep your silver bright without constant cleaning, which is injurious to the plated articles, dissolve a small handful of borax in a dishpan of hot water with a little soap, put the silver in and let it stand all the morning (or afternoon, as the case may be), then pou off the suds, rinse with clear, cold water and wipe with a soft cloth. Use flannel to wash tee children with in winter and they will be good-natured while bathing. Put a sound, ripe apple in the tin box with your fruit cake, and the latter will keep without becoming crumbly or dry, —New York Recorder. to if Ann Hosts mads uavdtw. - Butter Scotoh—Boil a capful o; sugar, a cupful of molasses, half a cup of batter, a tablespoonful of soda. Stir frequently, and as soon a3 the syrup will •nap between the teeth after being dipped in cold water, remove from the fire and flavor to taste. Pour upon a buttered tin one-fourth of an inch thick, and When nearly cold mark off in strips or squares and wrap in paraffin paper. This is excellent. Lemon Drops—Boil one pound of sugar, a cupful of water and one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar until a little dipped into cold water will snap between the teeth without a suspicion of stickiness. Remove from the fire and »dd tartaric acid to the taste, aud flavor highly with oil or essence of lemon; oil is preferable if obtainable. Drop the candy from a spoon upon buttered tins to form drops, or pour into an oiled pan and mark off in squares. Peanut Candy—Almond or peanut candy may be made by employing the same materials above, without th( flavoring, by just before taking off. pouring in a goodly supply of nuts anc Jetting the whole boil up once. Do no! stir the syrup in any way, or it will grain, but when brittle ponr on slab or pan and mark off in strips. Oid-fashioned Molasses Candy—Pom Into a large kettle a quart of mo'.asses, boil for one-half hour over slow fire, 3tirring to prevent it from boiling over. When a little dropped in water become! brittle, add one-half teaspoonful soda, stir quickly and pour out to cool; turn in the edges as they cool, and when cool enough to handle pull until it becomes • golden color. These last three recipes make candies that grow very sticky if exposed to the air after the syrup is cold, but which will keep indefinitely if put in glass jars or tin boxes with top3 securely fastened to exclude the air. An oiled cloth wiped around the edge of a kettle in which syrup is boiling, making an oily streak just below the rim, will prevent its boiling over, and must be looked to in candies which can not be stirred.—Good Housekeeping. An Editor Denounced. A mass meeting of the citizens of Denmark, S. C., was held Saturday af ternoon. Abont five hundred were present. Captain J. E. Steadman was called to the chair and J. D. Millhouse acted as secretary. Colonel D. Paul Sojourner explained that the meeting was called to denounce the course of certain newspapers in regard to the lynching of the negro Peterson, and the course of Editor Goiizales, gf the State, is particular. PALATABLE POTATOES. Fried potatoes are a staple of family tables, but how many housekeepers •erve them nicely? American fried po tatoes are boiled first and sliced cold to fry. They need a large frying pan, or are best cooked on a griddle which has surface enough to let each piece lie next to the fire. The careless cook throws in potatoes enough to (ill the pan, let ting some scorch and others get sodden. Slice them a quarter of an inch thick, so as noe to break in turning. Salt and pepper, and when the large spoonful of fat is turning brown in the hot pan lay them in, brown quickly and turn with a broad griddle caae turner. Potatoes of •econdary quality are best pared and •liced raw and fried. The heat of boil ing fat, which i3 stronger than that of boiling water, drives the water out ol them. Small, deep kettles are sold for frying, and the lard is kept in them and used many times over. The Secret of “Chips”—The secret of frying Saratoga potatoes or “cuips,” as they are called, i3 to have them cold, crisp and dry before putting them iu the boiling fat. They are sliced a3 chin as possible, soaked in ice water an hour or more, and each slice dried on a towel, fried in very hot fat and drained on a sieve a moment in a very Lot oven or over the stove, then cooled in a draft quickly. They are hardly worth the trouble. Tue Virginia Way—They taste bettei to be sliced thicker, soaked in cold water, drained and fried in a covered pan with two or three spoonfuls of suet, turning brown before they are put in, salt and pepper thickly while cooking at leisure. This is a Virginia fashion of cooking potatoes. Hoosier Potatoes—For dinner they are pared and boiled till nearly done, then put in the kettle with nice boiling white turnips to finish. As much turnip as potato is the rule, and the turnips must be put to cook half an hour earlier to be done at the same time. When done, drain; let the kettle stand uncovered over the fire a moment to drive out the steam from the vegetables, and mash them together, mixing well with two spoonfuls of butter, salt to taste and serve in a well smoothed mound in a hot dRh with pepper on the top. Tuis is • nice way of serving turnips, without the strong flavor mo3t persons dislike, and potatoes of ordinary quality are better used in this fashion. Kentucky Potatoes—Slice the pota toes as for frying, and soak in cold water for half an hour. Parboil in a frying pan, pour the water off, and let them stand on the lire uncovered till the steam is driven off; brown a spoonful of butter or fat and pour over them a min ute after, then cover the potatoes with milk, in which they should boil till done. Salt and pepper while cooking, and watch lest they burn. There should be just milk enough when done for a creamy gravy, thickened by the starch of the potatoes.—St. Louis Republic. A stranger on the cars near Los Angeles, Cal., ordered cigars for his fel- low’-passengers and, just as the weed* k»4 been lighted, blew out bi» brain*. MY BABY. I awaited my baby this morning', As 1 wait for him every day. To come from his early breakfast; So loving and blithe and gay. With his books slung over his shoulder, And his little cap in his hand, To take sweet leave of his mother. To look in her eyes, and stand c A moment beside her, smile. As he goes through the pretty rule Of kissing her twice, “Good-by! Good-byP Ere he trudges awav to school. I waited in vain for my darling: I could not believe my eyes When I saw him bound over the threshold Out under the bright spring skies, So eager to join his comrades A moment he could not miss, He had gone away and forgotten— Forgotten my good-by kissl It seemed as some cruel monster Had snatched him awav from my arms! My child! Had his mother’s petting No longer its soothing charms? Alas! ’tis the old, old story The mother must take her place In his heart, in a far-off corner. With her dear old yearning face Shrined dimly within his mem’ry, While newer, more thrilling ties Wind in and out 'mong his heartstrings And cling to his lips and eyes. Comrades, aud sport?, and sweetheart, Now one thing, now another. Alas for my boy, he’s my “baby" no more— He's forgotten to kiss his mother! —Belle Hunt, in New York World. 1IUM0E OF THE DAY. cash- Dissolved in tears—Salt. “Lights out”—The absconding ier. ‘I’ll just make a night of it,” said the sun as he went down. The largest part of most people is tho wish bone.—Atchison Globe. Can a newspaper war properly bo termed a scrap of paper?—Texas Sift ings. If a great lawyer is a legal light, is a great electrician an electric light?— Life. He—“If I should—er—ask you to marry me She—“You’d make the thirteenth.”—Life. He—“What can I do to prove my love for you?” She—“Don’t speak about it any more.”—Siftings. Women are not cruel to dumb ani mals. No woman will willfully step on a mouse.—Richmond Recorder. A despatch from. Montana says tho Crow Indians show fight. No doubt they have caw3.—Lowell Courier. It is odd that there is one thing a self-made man was never known to do; and that is to “finish” himself.—Puck. “My wife,” said Squills proudly, “is queen of tho tea table, and she never reigns but she pours.”—Drake's Maga zine. “That’s ‘a new way to pay old debt3,’” remarked the tailor, when Chappy came in and paid him in full.— Truth. A Germantown baker sent fifty big gingercakes to the local almshouse last week. A very nice dough-nation,— Philadelphia Record. She—“How did the amateurs do tho trial scene last night!” He—“Immense ly. It was the greatest trial I ever lived through.”—Statesman. He—“What a beautiful picture Miss Blanche Rouge makes besides the por tiere.” She—“Yes, she is exquisitely painted.”—Texas Sittings. George—“1 thought you were study ing oil wells in the West.” Fred—“Ob, I gave it up; it was such a bore, you know.”—New York Mercury. “It seems to me,” groaned old Atlas, under the heavy burden of the earth, “that I’ve got a mighty poor geographi cal situation.”—Chicago Tribune. “How do you like your alarm clock?” asked the jeweler. “First rate.” “You didn’t seem pleased with it at first.’ 1 “No. But it's broken now.”—Wash ington Star. “I don’t see why you think the cook thinks of leaving; she is well paid.” •Wife “Ye3; but she hasn’t brought one of Bertha Clay’s novels with her.”— Inter-Ocean. Jackson—“I met a man on the street yesterday who reminded me of you. 1, Jenkins—“Is that so. How?” “He, too, has owed me ten dollars for more than a month.” Clara—“I saw Ella on tho street to day. She was trying to travel incognito.” Mamie—“You don’t say so. What had she done to disguise herself?” Clara— “She didn’t paint.”—Grip. “Will I find your husband at tho club this evening?” “I'm sure you will, for he kissed me good-by and said his work would keep him at the office until late.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean. She—“You are always sneering at women who talk too much. Are you hitting at me?” He—“Not at all. There are lots of women beside you who talk too much.’ —Texas Siftings. Hunting tile AUijaior in Florida. L. J. Hill give3 some lively experisuco of hunts after alligators in Florida. Ho says the hunting is done at night in a small boat. One man stands m the bow of the boat with a bullseye lantern; an other uses the oars; while a third is ready with a rifie to do the shooting. The lantern shines the eyes of tho alliga#ir. On the dark and placid bosom of the lake the ’gator’3 eyes shine like two balls of fire. Noiselessly the boat moved to where the balls of firo glisten. When within a few feet of tho alligator the rifleman sends a ball crush- into his head between the eye3. If the shot is a good one, the ’gator turns over on his back and i3 hauled into the boat. Sometimes when only badly wounded the alligator give3 muc i trouble ind is likely to prove dangerous.—At lanta Journal. ' Oregon Has a Rabbit Pest. A Westerner, speaking of the numbet of rabbits in Oregoo, used a somewhat startling phrase to emphasize the facl that the State is overrun with the pests. He said in the most serious way possi ble: “There are enough rabbit tails in an Oregon wheat field to patch Texas a mile in its raggeiest place.” This is supposed to be the language of the soil, the decadence of which causes the high literary critic to mourn. The quotation is literffi with the exception of ona word. ’He didn’t say Texas. —Neff Y'-k Tribune.