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, THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fail Where They May. 1
JNO. E. HOWELL, l
LACY A. MO ROAN, I
, XI., NO 43.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
01 111 1
erest Gather^ at
AH Oyer the Stats.
lofessor
1st for
fa fit one
' W. S. Yeates, the new gti-
1 he state of Georgia, will
the work of reorganizing
Pgeologic al survey.
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[Hie Central railroad company lias
A its Macon shop force of sis hnn-
|d men on three-fourths time for
f. summer, and the men are blue
For the outlook. About twenty-five
I n were discharged.
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I The comptroller general and the at-
■>rney general of the state are after
Jhe railroads that are behind with
■heir taxes. The cases against these
|oails refusing to muke the ante for
LCounty taxes, are still pending and
lsoon come up for hearing in court,
I which Judge Speer, of Macon,
|des.
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special says: The re-
Fcommittee is having pre-
ement of the entire opera-
Central railroad to present
iTackson on Mu v i j’ljj—
Inent is made that all the ar
ts for underwriting the new
have been made'.
■annuli News advances this
tnging immigrants to Geor-
Ireeent convention of south
ing adjourned without do-
BBng practical to get immi-
Jor the south, and the Savannah
l)W proposes that each south-
ernor ask liis legislature for an
fiction of $500 or $600, und all
> • to . secure an immigration
In Ellis Island to get the cream
Immigrants coming to this coun
sel Jones, principal keeeper of
litentiary, has been making an
|ion tour of ull the camps of the
The Ciimps of the southern por-
tlio state engaged his special
l>n, and he says that he found
a most excellent condition,
.that there is lmt little sickness
pts and but few deaths
tin that region of the
neatly pleased with
situation of the camps down in the
[ber regions.
tie fact that Houston county is liav-
Itwo abundant peach crops in suc-
lion increases the desire of l'ar-see-
Ipeople to own some of these line
eh lands and there is hardly a week
Jass without some northern gentle
purchasing as much land aH can
bought in one body. Sometimes
ecure as much us they desire they
•■bane two or three small tracts.
1 Richard McCormick, a capitalist
Columbus, O., a few days ago
,850 acres of tbe finest land
ftiou, which he will develop
Preparing 150 acres within a
Fort Valley for a large nursery
'ther 700 acres, which is situ-
|mTles from town, he will
peach trees this fall. Mr.
is very much enthused
prospects. There is no
fug anything, for it is a fact
I many years hence Houston
ill be almost a solid peach
"f'd. '
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S. &■ \Y. Receivership 3Inttcr.
tptain Robert J. Lowry, of At-
la, hasjbeen appointed a co-receiver,
li Mr. H. M. Comer, of the Savan-
and Western Railroad Company,
s appointment was made by Judge
|rdee ut New Orleans. The news
a surprise to some of the interests
[the Central litigation. There was
lort of understanding that nothing
lire would be done in any of the
lutral cases until Justice Jackson
ies up the ease on the 25th. There
JFas no agreement on this line, but
some of the lawyers thought that the
situation would be allowed to remain
unchanged for the present. Those
vho keep up with the management’s
do of the Central were not surprised
all, for it was expected that a co-re-
ver would bo appointed by Judge
Captain Lowry was selected
request of the Central Trust
ny of New York. He has been
bv that corporation to repre-
it before in receiverships. He is
isident of the Lowry Banking Com-
of Atlanta, and one of -thre
anciers in the south.
appointment of a co-receiver
mean that there is any serioiiB
asm or conflict of interests be-
lr. Comer and the Central
mpany. It is rather presumed
are working on the same
fenklier anil Crons.
ie weather crop bulletin for the
week shows that a pretty bad con-
>n of affairs in regard to vegeta-
exists in many parts of the state,
he northwest section of the state
1 are numerous complaints of cot-
dying on account of the eold and
dy weather, and on many planta-
s the damage lias been so great
t the crop must either be replanted
he fields plowed up and put into
■ etliing else. The cold winds and
have also damaged the fruit in
thife section to a considerable extent.
T n the western portion of the state the
ports are to the effect that peaches
e falling off considerably, and there
e but few places where the bud-
rms have not been at work to a dam-
ging extent, causing farmers to re
liant. The cotton crop is not doing
ueh better. In the central
art of Georgia the rains have
not been too copious, although no
scarcity of showers is reported. The
plowing of cotton is in pro-
and chopping is half completed,
ravages of the worms is something
out of the ordinary in this part of the
state, but is not so bad as in some por
tions. In the eastern portion of the
state wet weather has kept back the
plowing for a few days, but every
thing is in shipshape now. Garden
truck and sugarcane are doing well.
In the southern section of the state
the weather has been especially favora
ble, but corn and cotton are a little
backward. Watermelons are forming
nicely on the vines and give promise of
being more plentiful than was at first
expected. Inland rice is fctiU being
planted and potato slips are still being
set out.
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Dr. Curry Talks.
The Hon. J. L. M. Curry was in
Atlanta a few days ago. He is general
agent of the Peabody fund as well as the
Slater fund, and his movements are
invested with unusual interest. In an
interview he readily entered into a
discussion of the educational problem.
“The educational interests of Geor
gia,” said Dr. Curry, “are so closely
co-related that we cannot consider the
one without the other. The head of
the educational system in Georgia is
the university at Athens, in which I
feel the deepest interest as a native
Georgian, and as being my alma ma
ter. The prejudices of a large class
against university education are ill-
founded, because higher education is
the test of the best civilization. The
history of Georgia would be barren,
indeed, if stricken of the achievements
of the men who were the graduates of
Athens university. The legislature of
the state should make regular un-
nual contributions, not merely to sus
tain, but to enlarge the university,
and to place it on the advanced foot
ing of the foremost colleges of the
world.
“The public school system is the
chief reliance of the state for the edu
cation of the people. Comparatively"
few people can avail themselves of a
college education, but the public
schools are the colleges of the people,
and the best test of the progress of a
people is the provision they have made
for the thorough instruction of the
masses. The school system of Geor
gia, as it appears upon the statute
books has many advantages, und if rid
of some obvious defects, would be well
adapted to the present state of affairs.
Tbe special need is to lengthen the
school term. The people should not
be content with one day less than six
months. A serious obstacle to progress
has been a failure to pay that salary,
which,inadequate in the first instance,
becomes doubly so by the long delay in
meeting it.
“Obviously the most pressing need
of all educational institutions in the
south is improved training and teach
ing. In no department of education
has there been so much advance dur
ing the last quarter of a century as in
the science and art of teaching. We
recognize and insist upon the value of
scientific training for other professions,
such as the bar, the pulpit and medi
cine, while we fail to insist upon tech
nical training for those who are to
train the mind and mould the charac
ter of the youth of the land. Euro
pean countries, and, in fact, almost nil
the other states of tbe union, have set
Georgia an example which she cannot
too soon follow in establishing normal
sohools. There is not a single south
ern state, Elorida possibly excepted,
which has not done more on this line
than Georgia. Two or three years
ago, the legislature of this state put
upon the statute book a law for the
establishment of a normal school at
Athens, but singularly enough failed
to appropriate a single dollar for its
maintenance. The state of Georgia
receives twenty or more scholarships
at the Peabody institute at Nashville,
and these young men and women, on
thei,r return, uie doing much to im
prove the methods of,education. What
Georgia imperatively needs is a nor
mal school, well officered for training
men and women how to teach. Even
with well-endowed normal schools,
there would still be teachers who could
not avail themselves of their advant
ages. Georgia requires one for each
county, but gives only $25 for its sup
port, and that is too meager to secure
the best results. The Peabody fund
this year will furnish $2,000 for the
support of one or two institutes, and it
is desirable that the teachers therein
should be trained experts, and that the
course of instruction published in ad
vance, should be dove-tailed into a sys
tem which will be continued for the
next year. In this appropriation,
which is for the benefit of both races,
I am stretching my authority because
of my desire to aid Georgia, for the
well-established and beneficent object
of the Peabody fund hitherto has been
to help only those who help them
selves.”
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The Unveiliug of Stephen’s Statue.
The unveiling of Alexander Stephen’s
monument at Crawfordville on the 23rd
instant will be witnessed by thousands
of Georgians. The local committee in
charge of affairs at Crawfordville have
succeeded in making full arrange
ments with the railroads for reduced
rates that day from all points. The
Georgia railroad authorities have
showu special favors to the committee
and have agreed to run special trains
that day both ways. There will be a
a truin from Atlanta and one from
Augusta to take the people to Craw
fordville. In this way the citizens of
all intervening points and from the
country along the Georgia
railroad will have excellent seheules to
and from Crawfordville, enabling them
to spend the day and return to their
home at reasonable and convenient
hours. It is going to be a great day
at Liberty Hall. That is already clear
and evident. Perhaps there was never
a man in Georgia so much beloved by
the populace as was Stephens. In his
own section he was worshiped like
a diminutive god. He was so gener
ous and so kind that he made warm
friends of every one with whom he was
thrown in private and public life. It
will never be quite fully known how-
much good he did. He educated more
worthy young men out of his own
pocket than any public man who ever
honored Georgia witu his service. He
sent dozens of them to school and gave
many of them collegiate educations.
He was never known to turn a weary
soulaway from his door. Even the.
tramqs, who counted crossties up and;
down the Georgia railroad, found a,
friend in Stephens and a warm bed;
under the roof tree of Liberty Hall.
Mr. Stephens had a room in his house
called the “Tramp’s room,” and when
ever they knocked at the door of Lib
erty Hall, no matter if it was in the
dead hour of night, the “great com
moner” would let them in and usher
them up to the tramp’s room, where
they were allowed to stay until they
resumed their journey to the greater
cities. There is no public man’s rec
ord like this. Hll these things ren.
deared Mr. Stephens to the hearts o:
the common people and won for. him
golden opinions at the bar of the gen
eral public’6 esteem, and all of these
things will take thousands to his grave
on the 24th instant to witness the un
veiling of his image in enduring mar
ble.
The address will be delivered by ex-
Senator Norwood, of Savannah. Gov
ernor Northen and all the state house
officials will have special invitations to
the unveiling, and will be on the stand
that day. Hon. Patrick Walsh, of
Augusta, will be there and will have a
prominent part in the celebration, he
having been one of Mr. Stephens’
greatest admirers and closest friends.
Many prominent Georgians will be
seated on the stand, and the pro
gramme that is being arranged by the
governing committee of the memorial
association will be one full of interest
to the throngs of people who will
crowd around the grave of Stephens
that day. All over Georgia the people
are talking about it. It is with grati
fication and genuine pleasure that
they think of the success of the effort
to raise sufficient funds to build a
monument to the great Georgian. The
work has been moving slowly along
ever since the death of Mr. Stephens,
for while nearly every citizen of Geor
gia was not only willing, but pleased
to contribute something to the fund,
these somethings have been in small
contributions and scattered pretty
generally all over the state. Many of
the lists ofVoUirt lolls cWiw
contributions of amounts ranging
from 10 cents up to $1. Thus it is
seen how slow and tedious has been
the work of raising the several thous
ands of dollars necessary to build the
monument. The money comes from
thousands of pockets. But the monu
ment is a splendid piece of work and
a fine specimen of art. It is a good
likeness of Mr. Stephens and very sat
isfactory to the public generally. Cit
izens of Crawfordville and neighbor
ing vicinity are preparing to entertain
the visitors right handsomely.—At
lanta Constitution.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
A review of the industrial situation in the
south for the p-ist week shows the organization
of the Imperial Phosplm e Jliuiug Company at
Gamtsville, Fla., with $500,000 capital; of the
rebuilding at Louisville, Ky., of the works of
the Lonisvillj Steam and Electric Motor Com
pany, at a cost of $300,000. of the organization
of a cotton mill company with $100,000 capital
at New Orleans, La., by T. J. Semmes and as
sociates. and of a cotton mill company also
with $100,000 capital at Shelby, N. C.; of tlie
building of a tobacco factory to cost $50,000,
at Atlanta, Ga., by N. S. Loyd, and others.
The organiza ion of the N w York Mining
Company, at Batesvillo. Ark., with $10,000
capital; of the Texas Electrical Burglar and
Fire Alarm Companv, at Austin, Texas, capital
$30,000; of the Kmfman Cotton Seed Oil Con.
pany, capital $30,000, at Kaufman, Texas; of ihe
l iedmont Belt Mining Company, at Bock Hill,
S. C., capital $25,000, and of the Palmetto Soap
Manufacturing Company, capital $25,000, at
Charleston, S. 0.
Forty new industries were established or in
corporated during the week, together with six
enlargements of manufactories, and thirty-one
new buildings. Among the new industries not
above referred to are brick works at Union. S.
0., and Big Stone Gap, Va., canning factories
at Hefln, Ala., Jacksonville, Fla., Lavonia and
J homasville, Ga.; flour and grist mills at En
terprise, N. C., Clinton and NaBhville. Tenn.,
and glass works at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Moundsvilie and Wheeling, W. Va. A coal and
coke company is reported at Charleston, W. Va.,
a mattress factory at Hillsboro, Texas, and ex
celsior works at Natchez, Miss., anti cotton
mills are to be built at Little Bock, Ark., and
Charlotte. N. C.
Among the woodworking plants of tin week
are a cooperage on a large scale at Springdale,
Ark., a handle factory at Greenlicld. Tenn.,
saw and planing mills at Portia, Ark., Long-
wood, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Croatau, N. C., and
Liviugston, Tt xas, and stave and shingle mills
at Johnson City, Tenn., Houston and Jeffer
son, Texas.
Waterworks are to be built at Morganfield,
Ky., and enlarged at Fort Gaines, Ga. The
enlargements for the week include flouring
mill at Fall Creek, Tenn., a sugar mill at Ba
you Goula, La., a tannery at Shelby, N. C.,
cotton mills at Arkadelphia, Ark., and Enter
prise, N. C., and a woodworking plant at Bock
land, Texas.
The new buildings for the week include a
bank building at Little Bock, Ark., business
houses at Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Ocala,
Fla., New Orleans, Li., Sherman and Houston,
Tox., Sweetwater, Toun., and Norfolk, Va.; a
$100,000 courthouse at Fairmont, W. Va.; a
$24,0J0 dislillery at Coving'on. Ky.; a $50,000
hotel at Kittrell, N. G.; jails at Tuskecgee,
Ala., and Welch, W. Va.; a $25,000 Masonic
bnii 1 ng at V\ heeliug, W. Va ; and a public
bniiding to cost $100,000 at Nashville, Tenn.—■
tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Sending Whiting and Photographs
over an Electric Wire.—Aa exhibi
tion of the workings of the Gray telauto
graph was given to newspaper men at
the office ofthe company on the seventh
floor of No. 80 Broadway, New York,
last Tuesday. The invention is differ
ent from the telephone in that the latter
transmits speech, while this later
device enables a sender to write at one
end of any complete circuit and his
handwriting is reproduced in fac-simile
at the other; thus the sender and re
ceiver each has a record of every message
and reply. If the receiver is absent
when the message is sent he will find
the message on his return. One advan
tage is the secrecy which its work
insures. The sender sits in his office; he
calls up the central office and asks to
be put in communication with a certain
number. This done he writes upon a
scroll on the top of the instrument, and
as he writes his handwriting and signa
ture are reproduced upon a similar scroll
placed before the receiver at the other
end. Meanwhile the operator in the
Central is ignorant of what is passing be
tween the persons in communication.
An artist in like manner can transmit a
sketch. An ordinary lead pencil is used
by the sender. The receiving pen at the
other end of the circuit moving simulta
neously with the pencil of the sender, is
a capillary glass tube, placed at the junc
tion of two aluminium arms. The pen is
supplied with ink which flows from a
reservoir through a small rubber tube
placed in one of these arms. Elisha
Gray, of Highland Park, 111., is the in
ventor. T. M. Logan, of New York, is
President of the Company. The factory
is at Highland I ark, 111.
A sort of mythology has grown u|
about the American Indian in region!
whence he vanished 109 years ago. Thi
popular names of many plants includt
the adjective Indian. Few persons it
America say Indian corn now, but In
dian cakes is a term still strongly in
trenched south of Mason and Dixon’i
line, and there is even a plant known t<
children as Indian tobacco. The bril
liant canna is called Indian shot, becaust
its seeds are black, bullet-like pellets.
Indian traditions are preserved with s
sort of reverence in the truth. Twenty-
five years ago local travelers on a certain
road in Worcester county, Md., common
ly stopped at a point in the remoti
country, reached under a bush at tht
roadside, drew forth a stone mortar and
pestle used by the Indians 100 years
before, showed the relics to any strangei
in the company, and carefully put them
back. A whole neighborhood knew the
whereabouts of these instruments, but
.they Beemed as safe as In a museum.
WOMAN’S CONGRESS.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Representatiyes Iron Every Section ot
The Largest Gathering of the Daugh
ters of Eve Ever Knowu.
Over twelve thousand women under
one roof, was the record of the attend
ance at the women’s congress at the
World’s fair Wednesday. It is 6aid
that this is the largest gathering of
women ever known. Should the
audience continue to grow, the
eight halls now in use at the
great art palace on the lake front
will be entirely inadequate and addi
tional accommodations will of necessity
have to be provided. Besides the general
congress held in three divisions, there
were five department-congresses in
session during the day and at night—
the National Christian League for the
promotion of social purity, Woman’s
Christinn Temperance Union, Inter
national Kindergarten Union, Woman’s
National Indian Association and Nation
al Association of Loyal Women of
American Liberty. At all these ses
sions the audiences were large and en
thusiastic.'
Women from Spain, Greece, France,
Switzerland, Peru and Russia told of
the efforts made in those countries to
obtain the emancipation of women
from the harsh conditions imposed
on her by the laws of the eighteenth
century. Isabel Bogelot, of France;
Calliheree Parren, of Greece; Sleona
Karla Machova, of Bohemia; Kaethe
Schifmacher, of Germanv; Jane Cob-
den Unwin, of England, and Lady
Aberdeen, of Scotland, were among the
speakers. Every English speaking na
tion and colony was represented by one
or more distinguished daughters, and
from each country in Europe, except
Turkey, a woman had come to tell the
world’s congress of the trials she and
her sisters at home were enduring in
the cause of woman’s advancement.
The report of the congresses, of which
there were two, were also devoted to
the reception of reports from the five
foreign woman’s associations repre
sented at the congress. Some of these
organizations are powerful bodies with
a large membership.
In the afternoon social receptions
were given the delegates to congress
by several of the leading society ladies
of Chicago. The main sessions of the
congress during the day were devoted
to the representatives of the foreign
nations. The audiences, which were
the largest by far of the convention to
date, listened to reports of the progress
of women politically and industrially
in other lands.
Wednessday night speeches from act
resses were in order. Modjeska, Julia
Marlowe and Clara Morris addressed
the convention, and all were greeted
with enthusiastic applause. Mme.
Modjeska, who began her address by
recounting the history of women on
the stage down to the present day,
closed by saying that the women of
the stage were tnore independent and,
as to morals, fully the equal of their
sisters off the stage.
BRUNSWICK BANKS FAIL.
The President of One of Them Com
mits Suicide.
Mr. Max Ullman, the president of
the Oglethorpe National bank, at
Brunswick, Ga., suicided Thursday
morning by shooting himself in the
head. A few minutes after nine o’clock
President Ullman and Mr. W. E. Bur
bage, president of the First National
bank, were engaged in earnest conver
sation about the condition of the two
banks, Mr. Burbage being a director
and stockholder in the Oglethorpe,
while Ullman had like relations with
the First. Mr. Ullman, stating that
he wished to step in the back room for
a moment, did so, closing the door be
hind him. In an instant, the report
of a pistol was heard and the bank offi
cials present, rushing in, found their
former president with a pistol in his
hand and a bullet hole in his head.
The doors of the bank were closed and
payment of checks suspended, and the
bank examiner wired to come and take
charge of the institution.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the First Nutional bank was imme
diately called by President Bnrbage,
and, after a brief consultation, it was
decided to suspend business and put
the bank in the hands of the United
States bank examiner, and he at once
telegraphed to that effect. This action
was taken by the First National be
cause of the relations of the two banks
and the certainty of a run.
The First National made a statement
Wednesday showing only $7,000 on
hand. The Oglethorpe made a state
ment on Tuesday showing only $4,000
in cash. This caused a run, and, in
fact, the condition of the two institu
tions had been rumored on the streets
for several weeks, and many of their
heaviest depositors had been gradually
withdrawing their money. This, cou
pled with the closeness of the money
market and the inability to get assist
ance from New Y’ork or elsewhere, ren
dered the closing of the two banks
! necessary.
The county treasurer had sixteen
thousand on deposit with the Ogle
thorpe, and it is said that the inability
of President Ullman to give County
Treasurer Lamb personal security was
one of the main causes that led him to
suicide,
The other banks in the city are in
no way affected, and their depositors
do not entertain any fear and are mak
ing no run.
Mr. Ullman was one of the most
prominent business men in that sec
tion of the state. He was president of
the Oglethorpe and of the Brunswick
Brewing and Ice Company, was a mem
ber of the firm of Mayer A Ullman and
a stockholder in many other corpora
tions.
The officials of the closed bank say
that depositors will be paid dollar for
dollar.
Ullman’s life was insured for $66,-
000. The only companies and amounts
known at present are the New York
Life, $25,000; Pennsylvania Mutual,
$25,000; Mutual Life, $10,000; Ameri
can Legion and Honor, $5,000.
to
Condition of Trade According
Bradstreet and Dun & Co.
Bradstreet’s trade report says:
Despite the favorable effect of a week
of bright, warm weather, the condi
tion of general trade has not im
proved. There has been no change in
the condition in southern trade, except
the depression due to threatened over
flows in the lower Mississippi valley.
In the central west and northwest
there has been some improvement due
to opening of lake navigation and bet
ter weather. But the region included
between Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City and Omaha, and tributary to those
points is feeling the effects of cold,
wet weather, delayed seeding, extreme
conservatism by country buyers and a
further restriction of credits.
At nearly all centers, warm weather
has stimulated the demand for lumber
and other building materials, hardware,
shoes and hats. Stocks of print cloths
are growing heavier east and prices
recede. Steel billets, Bessemer pig
iron, wool, cattle, hogs, lard and other
staples are also lower, against which
advances are confined to sugar, due to
the reduction in the European crop
outlook and to wheat. Bank clearings
are in line with these conditions.
Official reports of imports for nine
months show 14 per cent increase in
JiiSUVST titT'-pfdCfiding year, while
the decrease in value of dSEK’Sijfi. ex
ports was 20 per cent. Increased im
portations of luxuries explain only
one-sixth of the total increase in value,
while the reduced value of the exports
of breadstuff's, cotton, cattle, fruits,
seeds and petroleum accounts for the
heavy falling off in shipments abroad.
Recent bank failures have increased
the sensitiveness in financial circles.
Money is no easier east or west, where
lines of discount are full. Chicago
banks are taking care of their best
customers. In nearly every direction
the financial institutions are drawing
lines of credit.
Business failures exceed the totals
in previous years. Railroad gross
earnings for April aggregate over $41,
000,000; 3.5 per cent, more than for
the corresponding month of 1892,
whereas in preceediag years, the like
increase ranged from 8 to 12 per cent.
Exports of wheat, flour included, from
all American ports including Montreal,
aggregate 2,712,000 bushels this week,
a total of about equal to the last week
but about 900,000 bushels less than in
the like week last year. .Notwithstand
ing 100,000,000 bushels of wheat at
home, and Canada with 73,000,000
bushels afloat for and in Europe, re
ports of widespread damage to crops
abroad, with delayed planting and
damage at home have served to ad
vance prices.
Summer weather and the opening of
navigation at Montreal have stimu
lated trade, but the season is shorten
ing.
Canadian banks are curtailing cred
its further. The situation at Toronto
has improved slightly, owing to the
weather, but export prices are low and
the export demand is disappointing.
General trade in Nova Scotia con
tinues quiet, owing to the late cold
weather, and collections are slow.
WHAT DUN AND CO. SAT.
R. G. Dun and Co. ’s weekly review
of trade says: The smash in the In
dustrials stocks a week ago, the fail
ure of some firms and of the National
Cordage Company and the largest de
cline in stock in a week since 1873,
have been followed by surprisingly
little disturbance. Business shows re
markable soundness and strength under
such a strain. Bank failures at Chicago
and Indianapolis, and rumors of others,
reflect large losses through Chicago
speculation in real estate and grain
and at Indianapolis through the failure
of the Premier Steel Company, but
commercial credits are not yet materi
ally affected. Interior money markets
are growing lighter and more cautious,
but no such stringency is yet seen in
stock, general trade in which appears
to have improved. Quiet liquidation
continues at Philadelphia. Collections
are slow and in the iron trade some hesi
tation is seen. Iron has grown weaker
at Pittsburg with a slower demand feu:
manufactured products, but the glass
trade is fair. Better weather helps
dry goods at Cincinnati. At Cleve
land trade is good to fair. Uneasiness
is caused at Indianapolis by the fail
ure of steel works and a bank, and
money is close. At Detroit collections
and prospects are a little better, The
volume of trade at Chicago is satisfac
tory, though somewhat disturbed by
financial troubles and retail dis
tribution is not up to expectations.
There is a heavy demand for
money and accommodations are some
what difficult, collections being slow.
Receipts of wheat are very large—
35.0 per cent above last year’s. Mil
waukee reports close collections and
scarce. At Minneapolis trade im
proves. The flour output is large
with heavy foreign sales. St Paul re
ports heavy seeding, favorable weather
and improving trade. The volume at
St. Louis is heavy, shoe factories
working extra time, and trade in dry
goods is excellent with easy collec
tions. At Kansas City business
is quiet; at Omaha good, and
at St. Joseph improving with money
easy. Slight improvement is seen at
Denver. At Little Rock and river
southern points the danger of high
water retards trade. Collections are
fairly good in Tennessee and Alabama,
with quiet trade, rather slower at At
lanta, somewhat improved at Augusta
and fair at Savannah, where trade in
naval stores is active. At Mobile trade
is active, at Charleston brisk, though
lower trade is unsettled by the new
law. The yverflowing of lowlands in
the Yazoo Delta arrests collections and
trade in that region.
A DISASTROUS STORM
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Sweeps Through Ohio Causing Irre
parable Damage to Property.
The worst storm ever known visited
Conneau, Ohio, and vicinity Tuesday
night. Communication east and south
was entirely cut off by destruction of
bridges. The nickle-plato bridge at
Conneaut is undermined and has been
condemded. No trains are running on
the road. The Peach street bridge
at Erie went down shortly after the
passage of the passenger train Tuesday
evening. The lake-shore docks at Ash
tabula are six feet under water, and
sixteen vessels are likely to be driven
into the lake.
THE ANIMALS OF CiliCU8E8.
A FAMOUS SHOWMAN TELLS SOME
MENAGERIE SECRETS.
The Elephants, Lions anil the Cat
Species Are the Best Stock to
Handle—Monkeys Are Delicate.
J AMES A. BAILEY, the foremost
showman of this country and the
principal owner of the Barnuoi ifc
Bailey Circus, gave the following
interesting facts in regard to his menag
erie, to a New York Tribune reporter,
the otl er day:
“The lions and the animals of the cat
species, such as tigers, leopards ani pla
thers, are the best stock to handle. Con
sidering that most of them some from
the tropics, they stand the c tanges of
our climate remarkably well. As a ride
they will li7e a dozen years in captivity,
and often much longer. I have know.i
of lions to live in the cages for twenty-
five or thirty years. Tigers, leopards and
panthers are not far behind tbe lions,
either. 'Well-grown lions and tigers in
a sound condition are worth from $390
to $1200 each. If you can buy iions or
tigers in pairs they are. a good invest
ment, as they reproduce so frequently.
A good tigress will produce two litters
of four in a year, and generally one-half
of them can be successfully raised and
sold at good prices. Leopards and pan
thers are given to eating their young, or
at least to killing them.
“You have to be mighty cireful with
your' lions; -tigers, panthers and leopards,
though, for while tkej are hardy, disease
makes short work with them if. it ouce
gots hold of them. Pneumonia is their
greatest enemy. Colds, developing into
lung troubles, kill by far the most of
them. During our London engagement
we lost five leopards in three weeks.
Post-mortem examinations showed that
they all died of cold which had settled
on the lungs.
“It is necessary to keep a close watch
on the appetites of these animals, too,
for if they get off on their feed you are
likely to lose them. Zoos generally feed
their animals on horse meat, but both at
the winter quarters and on the road we
give them good beef. It pays to do it.
If they begin to show a distaste for their
food we give them a little hot, fresh
blood to drink. If that does not stimu
late them we drop a few live chickens,
turkeys or rabbits into their cages and
let them slaughter them. That gener
ally brings them around all right.
“So far as hardiness and longevity go,
elephants are even better stock than the
lions and cat animals. They are not
much good as an investment, though,
for they seldom reproduce in captivity.
So far as I positively know, the one that
was Dorn with our show several years
ago, aud is in our herd yet, though it is
not now much of a baby in size, is the
only one bom and successfully raised in
captivity.
“They arc an exceedingly-useful ani
mal and are not much trouble. They
will stand almost anything and seldom
get sick. Up in our winter quarters and
on the road they are very useful for U3 in
pushing cars around and hauling heavy
loads. It was not many years ago when
the elephant was considered the chief
attraction of the show, and the worth of
a show was reckoned by the number ot
elephants it had in its herd. Now they
are a drug on the market. I have lent
them to zoos and have been glad to get
rid of them. I sold ten and sent them
to Europe a few years ago.
“A good elephant here is worth from
$1500 to $3000, according to his age,
size, temper and intelligence. In Europe
prices run a little higher at present. A
finely trained elephant will bring a much
higher price, but those who own such
generally do not want to part with
them. There is no telling how long an
elephant will live as a circus attraction.
I never knew one to die a natural death.
If they do not get killed in an accident
or in a fire they eventually become sav
age and dangerous and have to be killed.
“Monkeys are mighty poor stock to
handle, but they are so cheap that we
hardly keep any account of them. A
dozen of them are liable to drop over
from pneumonia any day if a draught
happens to blow through their cage.
They do well enough in winter quarters,
where the temperature is even, but we
seldom bring back half a3 many as we
start out on the road with. Tney are
subject to all sorts of digestive dis
orders, too, and people feed them with
all sorts of stuff calculated to produce
these disorders, in spite of the vigilance
of Keepers.
“Often we have to replenish our stock
of monkeys in the middle of a season.
There are plenty of dealers in New York
from whom we can get them. They buy
them of sailors generally. As for chim-
pauzee3, I would not have one in the
menagerie, for, although they are great
attractions, they are far too delicate to
make it profitable to invest in them. No,
monkeys are so hard to keep alive that
the wise showman contents himself with
letting rare species alone.
“An animal the people like to see and
that is good stock for the showman, is the
kangaroo. They are cheap. In Aus
tralia there are still huge droves of them,
and the natives capture them very easily,
with dogs trained to seize them by their
long tails. Tbe kangaroo’s tail, you
know, is his rudder and balancing pole.
Without it his huge hind legs are likely
to carry him anywhere except where he
wants to go. So when a half-dozen of
these Australian dogs get hold of the
kangaroo’s big, flat tail he 13 completely
at the mercy of his captors. Tney live
many years in captivity and reproduce
so often that we have to sell off the
stock occasionally.
“One of the best animals for show
purposes is the giraffe, but he is the mo3t
delicate animal we carry around. I have
only one, but it is worth $5000, a3 is any
good specimen. Colds and stomach
troubles are the giraffe’s ailments. When
it is sick it refuses food. The antelopes
are expensive animals, but, with the ex
ception of the eland, they are a hardy
lot and will live around the circus until
they get toothless and blind.
“You would perhaps think that an
ostrich, the hardiest of all birds, would
be the easiest to keep in captivity, but
they are very risky. You know they
will eat anything from an oyster shell to
a piece of lead pipe. Well, they are al
ways getting their stomachs out of order,
and when they are sick if you do not roil
food up in balls and cram it down their
throat3 they will starve themselves to
death. I bought eleven of them for $309
each. We trained them to run races,
but they died off. I have only onejiow.
“On the ihinoceros and the hippopot
amus we can count as surely as we can
the elephants. Once in awhile they
will reproduce, but tne young are sosus
ceptible to cold that it is very larely one
is raised. If my hippopotamus should
d:«i I do not believe I coul-i get another
in this country. They ate getting mighty
sc tree.
“Bears are a3 goo 1 stock as weean
buy, as they are easily kept and not sub
ject to disease. The North American
grizzly, thoug —he real article—is get
ting scarce. I would like to get one.
The only one I know of is in California.
I offered his owner $1099 cash for him,
but he would not talk of selling him.
You see plenty of so-called grizzlies
around. They are no; the real articlo
though, but of the silver-tippe 1 variety,
worth $359 each for the best specimens.
Other bears are cheap eaough.”—New
York Tribune.
WISE MO IDS.
The heart that has not suffered has nol
loveJ.
Condemning other people will not
‘justify us.
Eternity will make the good better
aud the bad worse.
Mark this: You don’t have to be disa
greeable to be good.
If there is good in us it will be sure to
inspire good in others.
Fear to die till you have done soma
good that will always live.
The man who worships a golden calf
is burning incense to himself.
There is nothing easier to believe than
a pleasing lie about ourselves.
There is no bigger coward than the
man who is afraid to do right.
Tne st rougest man in the world is tha
one who cka best control himself.
Whatever sin has caused in the hu
man race, it will cause in you if not
given up.
The man who deprives liis brother of
a right is no better than the one who
robs his house.—Ram’s Horn.
Music and Heroism.
More than any other of the arts music
is capable of one particular interpreta
tion—that of heroism, writes Camille
Bellaigne. Its worst detractors have
not been able to deny that it inspires
courage. The military value of music is
the first that strikes the attention, but it
is not the only value. Its heroes are
distinguished not only by extraordinary
bravery in war, but by force of charac
ter, of virtue, of greatness of soul sel
dom met. Perhaps it is to veil the hor
rors of war that music has always been
united with it. Music is more natural
to combat than religion or love. It is
easier to worship or to love silently than
to kill. Savage and civilized races alike
are nerved for battle by music. It has a
mysterious and double power, it calms
and excites, it lulls suffering and quick
ens courage. Animals are sensible to
music alone of the arts.
It is not the noise, the sound, which
makes the impression, but the music;
that is, sound regulated and modified
by certain laws. And of these laws i<
seem3 that the most necessary to the ex
pression of war-like sentiment is rhythm.
The trumpet is par excellence the instru-
ment of warfare.
The music of war may be traced as fat
back into the past as war can itself;
military music, properly so called, be
gan to be organized by Louis XIIL, but
it is from the French Revolution that
the true beginning of heroic music
dates. The Frencn Conservatory was
formed by a Captain of the National
Guard and musician, Serette. His little
orchestra first taught the “Marseillaise”
to the trooDS, who in turn taught it to
the world. ' By it the world was revolu
tionized. Of all National songs the
“Marseillaise” is the most heroic. The
heroic lie3 in its rhythm, which is of a
mar.ced particularity, staiting as it does
with aa upward beat. All the impulse
of the composition confers in its pecu
liar accented measures.—Brooklyn Cit-
A Cane in Eleven Hundred Pieces.
William E. Yale, a wealthy Brooklyn
(N. Y.) bachelor, is a remarkable trav
eler, and his delight is historical study.
He has a cane that he carries with him,
which is undoubtedly the most C03tly
and unique of anything of the kind in
the world.
The stick contains about 1100 pieces
of wood. Each piece is cut in a curious
and artistic shape, so that the cane with
the various colored and shaped woods
has a strange appearance.
Mr. Yale planned and made the cane,
and work upon it consumed weeks of
labor at different times in the course of
several years.
Sixty of the 1100 pieces of wood are
of great value to relic hunters. The
head ot the cane is made from a post in
the house of Shakespeare’s birtfiplace at
Stratford, England. Set in the head is
a small lock of white hair from Martha
Washington’s head, the lock having
been given Mr. Yale thirty years ago by
Robert E. Lee, a descendant of Mrs.
Washington.
There is a Diece of wood from the
birthplace of Napoleon, on the Island of
Corsica, and one from Napoleon’s writ
ing desk at St. Helena.
Other pieces of the cane came from
the Charter Oak, from the home of John
Adams, from a chair of Oliver Cromwell,
from the home of Julia Hancock, from
the Mayflower, Roger Williams’s pew,
from a desk of Abraham Lincoln, from a
penholder of Gladstone, from a rule that
Garfield U3ed at school, from a penholder
of Longfellow, from a trunk that Lafay
ette used during the Revolutionary War,
from the bed upon which John Wesley
died and from the guillotine upon which
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were
beheaded. Mr. Yale spent years and
much care in collecting the reli03.
He has been offered $2000 for tha
cane, which is truly a wonder. He will
leave it to the historical department of
Cornell University when he die3.
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Washington's Last Letter.
What is regarded as “absolutely tha
last” letter penned by George Washing
ton was sold in Philadelphia. Wednes
day, for $350. The purchaser was tho
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
George W. Childs has what was long
supposed to be the last letter written by
the Father of his Country, as it was
composed six day3 before his death, but
the letter sold the other day was written
onlv twenty-four hours before General
Washington’s decease. It is dated
“Mount Vernon, 13ch December, 1799,
and gives very unromontic directions
about matters connected with the man
agement of his farm. — Detroit Frefl
Press.
The Chinaman praiseth his Fs,
The mandarin praiseth his Q,
The gardener praiseth his turnips and
But I praise U.
The mariner loveth the Cs,
The biiliardist loveth his Q,
The husbandman loveth his cattle and B’s,
But I love U.
The foolish have need of the Y’s,
The actor needeth his Q,
The pilot hath need of two excellent l’s,
But I need U.
The hunters seeketh the J’s,
The shepherd seeketh his (J;
The college boys seek their final “3-A’s,”
But ICQ.
—St. Nicholas.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A curious woman—One who is not.—
Uife.
A hoilow mockery—The woodland
:cho.—Truth.
A force pump—The cross-examining
ittorney.—Truth.
A limn of the law—Painting the de
fendant black.—Truth.
It is only in school that low grades
make uphill work.—Chicago lntcr-
Ocean.
Nature covers herself with a plaster
of mud to cure that tired feeling in the
spring.—Pack.
Some men aie too mean to be happy
and others too happy to be mean. —
Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze.
“Who is to be chaperon!” “Mr?.
Talkington.” “What foolishness I Why,
she is a sufferer from insomnia.”
“I wonder why she gave him the mit
ten?” “Oh, that was natural outcome
of the yarns he gave her!”—Truth.
When a man is “beside himselt” lie
generally demonstrates that he doesn’t
like the company.—Boston Courier.
When a woman is trying to write a
letter on a half sheet of paper, much
may be said on both sides.—Texas Sift
ings.
If a woman can succeed in making
her husband proud of her she can gee
almost anything she wants.—Dallas
News.
A carpet tack is about the only thing
that has the “big head” an 1 still makes
a success of life.—Dansville (N. Y.)
Breeze.
Where’s the profit when spring makes
us happy and gay if it make ali the
microbes feel just the same way?—
Washington Star.
The woman of limited means who is
always well dressed either devotes her
entire income or her entire intellect to
her clothes.—Life.
Mabel—“I wouldn't marry the best
man in the world.” Jacques—“Alas,
you have made me the uohappie3t of
men.”—Boston Courier.
Every man thinks that modesty for
bids his telling you what he considers
the cleverest thing in the way of a story
ever told.—Washington Star.
Many a woman who resolves when
she is married to make over her husband,
ends by being content to make over her
bonnets.—Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze.
And now with rod and line and hook,
Tlie fisherman so bold,
Will go and sit do.va by tbe brook '
Anil catcli a fearful cold.
—Kansas City Journal.
“I haven’t any of the liquid quality
that musicians talk about,” said the bass
drum, “but I can drown out the rest of
the baud, just the same.”—Washington
Star.
Mrs. Byer—“Those are nice looking
eggs.” Grocer (enthusiastically)—“Yes,
indeed; they’re birds!” And then he
wondered why she didn’t buy any.—
Troy Press.
“It’s curious,” mused Bjorkins, “ho;v
this law of compensation run3 through
everything. Fot example, wherever
there is a well off aunt you will always
find a sychophant.”—Chicago Tribune.
“So I should make you very happy by
accepting you, count?” “Happy? Ah,
mademoiselle, I should die wiz zie hap
piness.” “Really, count? Y'ou almost
tempt me to say ‘Ye3’ ”—Brooklyn Life.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
This maxim let wise people hurl.
But take them together and tney are no
match
For one pretty typewriter girl.
—Chiea ;o Incer-Oosan. :
At a Dinner Party: Mistress—“But,
Mary, how often must I tell you always
to serve od the left?” Mary (from the
country)—“Oh, madam, but isn’t that
meiely a superstition.”—Fiigende Biaet-
ter.
“Well, Councillor, I hope you en
joyed yourself at my house last evening.”
“Indeed I did, midame. As a rule,
when I drink tea I can not sleep after it,
but your tea had not the least effect on
i ne .”—Fiiegende Blaetter.
Hawker—“My wife and I had it out
itrain this morning a3 to who should start
tbe fire.” Jepson—“ Which won?”
Hawker—“Neither. Before we finished
the argument became so hot my wife got
up and cooked breakfast on it.”—Troy
Press.
Mrs. Grey neck—“3o George i3 en
gaged?” Mrs. Taugletongue —“Yes;
he'll be married in June.” Mrs. Grey-
neck—“I hope he has a youag lady in
every way worthy of him.” Mrs. Tangle-
tongue—“Oh, yes, I think I can safely
say that I am satislied in every way with
his fiasco.”—Boston Courier.
The Milan Cathedral.
The cathedral of Milan, which is re
garded by many as the fins3t church
structure in Europe, and therefore in
the world, with the single exception of
St. Peter’s, at Rome, ha3 several cracks
in the roof of its main nave, which are
slowly widening, and it is feared
threaten the collapse of the entire roof.
The work of building this cathedral was
begun in 1336, more than 500 years ago,
and it is not yet entirely completed. It
is to be hoped it will not fall down from
old age before it is finished.—Caicago
Times.
A Un’qae Reading Club.
A new club for reading and the en-
coura fr emoat of good literature is the
Half "Hour Club. Its members pledge
themselves to read half au hour each day,
with tbs exception of a two weeks’ holi
day in the year. A fine of one cent
marks each day's loss in reading. Tue
proceeds of the dues are devoted '.o the
purchase of prizes for toe most industri
ous aud most capable readers.—Boston
Journal.
Rice was introduced from the East
Indies in 1695.