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OL. XL, NO 44.
VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
R&IA ms NOTES.
from All Over the Stale.
Jfr. Kingsberry, tho receiver in the
p./ebrnted Ryan case, at Atlanta, is
freporing to distribnte the funds de-
jived from the sale of so much of the
lyan goods as were not covered by
1 he mortgages when the failure came.
Tho fund umounts to about $33,000
now, and the creditors will receive
something like 25 per cent, of their
claims.
Mr. Jerry Hollis, a well-known citi
zen of Macon, and an influential
member and official of the Georgia
State Agricultural society, has been
notified by President J. O. Waddell
that by authority given him by the
Augusta Exposition company he had
appointed Mr. Hollis one of the soci
ety’s representatives to the world’s
Columbian exposition.
It will be remembered that the bank
ers of Georgia met at Macon last year
and organized the Georgia Bankers’
Association. The association will hold
its annual meeting in Savannah June
8th. Mr. L. P. Hillyer, cashier of tho
American National bank, of Macon, is
secretary of the association, and is now
issuing the program of the convention.
Savannah bankers will prepare a spe
cial program cf entertainment.
A member of tho legislature from
Fulton county will be elected on June
22d, tosncceed Consul Harvey Johnson,
who resigned not long since to go to
Antwerp. Governor Northen, who
lias been in possession of Mr. John
son's resign - -several days, has
officially notified Ordinary Calhoun of
tho vacancy that was occasioned there
by, and instructed him to order an
election for a member to take Mr.
Johnson’s place. Colonel Calhoun
named Thursday, June 22d, as the
dav.
The valuation of tho property of the
citizens of Waycross, as received by
the city tax assessor, approximates an
aggregate of $2,000,000. This shows
a marked increase in the wealth of the
place since the city began to build up
what is now known as new Waycross
five years ago. There is a steady in
crease in tho value of real estate and
capital is being invested freely. Tho
commercial importance of the place
will demand that another bank be or
ganized to meet the requirements of
business in the near future. Tho
movement to start a new bank is al
ready on foot and is making consider
able headway.
A significant real estate transaction
took place at Poulan, Ga., a few days
ago which promises to be the entering
wedge to exclusive operations in grape
: culture and fruit growing. A syndi
cate composed of Pittsburg and Chi
cago capitalists purchased of Captain
J. Y. McPhane his celebrated Mosello
vineyard and several hundred acres of
very desirable lands adjoining. An
option held by this syndicate on sev
eral other large vineyards in the
county will be closed soon and the va
rious interests will be consolidated un
der one management. This deal means
- much for southwest Georgia and shows
that the successful culture of grapes by
Captain McPhane, Dr. J. F. Wilson
and others, has drawn outside atten
tion to the advantages which the sec
tion offers for grape and fruit culture.
Turppuline Operators Meet.
The turpentine operators’ associa
tion met a few days ago at Cordele.
The meeting was a secret. but import
ant one. About thirty members were
present at tho meeting and various
matters of interest were discussed.
Tho operators report a falling off of
about one-third in tho production this
season. This shortage has occurred on
account of a backward spring and a
short crop of virgin boxes. The crop
of naval stores will be short 25 jier cent,
throughout the turpentine belt, yet
prices remain low and there is lit
tle prospect of any advance until the
turpentine men have sold the product
of their stills, and then the commis
sion men and speculators will make
the profits. Some of the operators
think of putting on foot a movement
to have every still in south Georgia
shut down until prices go to a figure
that will authorize them to resume.
It would be a stupendous undertaking,
but it can be successfully carried out
from the fact that the membership of
the turpentine . operators’ association
consists of 90 per cent of the turpen
tine men of the state. The associa
tion is thoroughly organized and its
objoct is the protection of the opera
tors.
(Georgia is llarrecl Out.
Some weeks ago, it will be readily
recalled, a convention of the governors
of tho soutlu'rn states was held in
Richmond, Ya., on the call of Gover
nor Fishback, of Arkansas. ^The ob
ject of the convention was to consider
ways and means for bringing the ad
vantages and resources of the southern
states prominently- before capitalists
and others in the world’s fair year,
and thereby stimulate the influx of
capital and worthy populations into
the south. A resolution was adopted
that a descriptive pamphlet, contain
ing articles of proper' length and
properly illustrated by- the several
governors of the southern states be
printed in large quantity and distribut
ed at the world’s fair, or otherwise, as
any governor might elect. These
articles would be comprehensive of the
resources, natural advantages and lo
cal inducements offered by each
state to capitalists and immigrants.
The idea was considered not only fea-
sioie, Dut tne plan was generally com
mended as one that would attract gen
eral attention and be weighty because
of the authority behind its representa
tives in every instance. The pam
phlet is now being compiled by the
Hon. J. Bell Bigger, secretary of the
convention at Richmond, who has
written to Governor Northen concern
ing Georgia's part in the publication.
Governor Northen replied that he was
blockaded in this matter by the lack
of an appropriation for any purpose
connected with the world’s fair and by
the constitution of the state which for
bade him from making any expendi
tures not previously provided for.
And there is the situation. Geor
gia is barred out of even sc
small a matter as a joint pam
phlet association of her resources in
a great emergency and opportunity to
profit the state, because the governor
cannot raise $500 from state funds to
pay the Georgia pro rata of the work.
It is a humiliating situation, but it is
not wholly remediless. If there is
among the wealthy men of Georgiaone
with something of the patriotic pride
of Toombs, who kept the constitution
al convention of 1877 going at his own
expense after the fund for it was ex
hausted, then that man now has his
opportunity. Any one of a hundred
men in Atlanta alone could step up to
the governor and hand him a check
for the needed $500, without feeling
the outlay, but rather carry with him
the feeling that he had saved his state
from a humiliating failure. When the
man appears and does this act we will
he glad to name him with honor, and
we beleive the people will reward him
by an offer of reimbursement with
thanks in official form. Atlanta Con
stitution.
For Advertising Georgia.
General Phil Cook, secretary of state,
recently made a good suggestion on
the line of attracting settlers and in
vestments to Georgia. Letters are
constantly being received at the office
of the secretary asking for informa
tion about the state. The inquiries
come chiefly from the west and north
west. General Cook suggests that the
counties and towns of Georgia should
get up some pamphlets filled with in
formation as to agriculture, minerals,
manufactures, railrod facilities,
schools, churches, water powers, price
of lands, character of crops and all
that. He could send out this inform
ation when inquiries come to his of
fice, or the matter could be supplied
direct from county seat. A splendid
handbook of Athens and Clarke county
has been issued by Professor Strahan,
of the -State university. He took his
engineering class from the university
and surveyed the county. In addition
he had assistance from other engineers
and citizens who are familliar with
the county. It is a very complete
book, and will give the inquirer just
the sort of information he wants. The
mayor of Cuthbert has written to the
secretary of state saying that a hand
book of Cuthbert and Randolph coun
ty is being prepared by direction of
the council of the town. This
work will he freely circulat
ed and the town will be glad to
have protective investors and home-
seekers send for copies. General Cook
will be furnished with copies, so that
one may be sent to every party who
writes to him for information about
the state. Georgia is getting wide ad
vertisement all over the country and
appears to be attracting wide atten
tion, but there is no suitable matter
to be sent out. Some years ago the
legislature authorized the commission
er of agriculture, Colonel Henderson,
to get up a handbook. He did pre
pare one, and it was complete, but
the edition has been exhausted a long
time ago. And as General Cook says:
“Since then new industries have de
veloped in the state. One county
sends out of the state half a million
dollars, worth of vegetables and fruit
annually, where a few years back it
did not sell anything scarcely in that
line. Each county ought to take hold
of this subject and work it for all it is
worth. The information would be
much more full and interesting if each
county and city would act for itself in
this matter, instead of waiting for the
legislature to authorize a general work
for the state. The counties which fol
low the example of Clarke will find
that they are amply repaid for the ex
pense. We would rather have a dozen
investors come down here from the
north-west than a hundred immigrants
from Castle Garden, or whatever the
new landing station is. Georgia ought
to look after getting settlers from the
older states, rather than from Eu*
rope. And the counties can draif
them if they go about it in the right
wav.”
THE STATUE OF STEPHENS
Uuyeiled with Impssiye Ceremonies at
Craftowille. Wednesday
In the Presence of throngs of His Ad
mirers—Hon. Norwood’s Address.
In the presence of a vast mnltthide
of admiring Georgians, many of whom
had listened to his patriotic speeches, ability, the luinnifi: eloquence, the nisbinE or-
Intiiayeir 1SI3 he wu; azaln drawn away
from iiiu first love, the law, never to retum.an J
as the circumstances from this partial divorce
ment from the profession of bisonoiee and life
long pr itrence h^re nev^r be^-n lolly detailed
and given to the public, I will give these inter
esting facts as stated to me by an e;.e,\viine«s.
During that year ilarli A. Cooper, a wh g, re-
S-gned from congre-s to le a candidate for
governor, and, the legislature being in session,
a number of promin^nc wh gs assembled in
Milledgeville to select a cjudidate. The dt mo-
cratlc majority in that dl.trict was about
three thousand. It w; a considered hopele.'Sly
lost to the whigs. Their leader * nitt ra t.d
nof long for the nomination. E ieh tried to con*
fer the honor upon the others. Many were the
compliments generously paid of the “great
FEW BUFFALO LEFT.
the statue of Alexander H. Stephens,
the great commoner, was unveiled at
Crawfordville, Wednesday afternoon,
in the shadow of Liberty Hall.
The streets of the usually quiet lit
tle city were thronged with patriotic,
liberty-loving Georgians, examining
the points of interest in the locality
that “Little Alex’.’ made famous.
Liberty Hall, the home of the
great statesman, was the greatest point
of interest to visitors, who ransacked
the old building from top to bottom.
There were probably 5,00(7 strangers
present. The program of exercises
commenced at 2 o’clock in the after
noon. The opening prayer was offered
by Rev. Dr. Barrett, of Atlanta, who
used the simple but impressive ritual
of the Episcopal Church. Hon.
George T. Barnes, of Augusta, ex
congressman from the tenth dis
trict, and president of the Stephens
Memorial association, in a brief hut j
eloquent speech presented to the
vast audience the orator of the day,
Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, of Savan
nah. Mr. Norwood’s reception, as he
came forward to deliver the oration of
the day, was warmly enthusiastic.
He was freequently interrupted dur
ing the course of his remarks by the
cheering of the multitude.
The monument was unveiled at the
conclusion of Mr. Norwood’s address
by Miss Mary Corry, a grand-neice of
Alexander Stephens.
An involuntary shout went up from
the eager throng as the covering which
wrapped the marable figure dropped
to the ground. It was instantly fol
lowed by a burst of enthusiastic ad
miration as the perfect work of the
artist was revealed in the clear sun
light which seemed to fall upon the
noble workmanship. The sculptor bad
performed his work so cleverly that the
crowd for a moment stood entranced.
Here, chiseled in stone, was the exact,
almost living image of the great com
moner, or as they delighted to call
him, “the little giant.” It seemed ns
if he were about to speak to them in
his wonted eloquence, and breathless
with impatient interest, they stood in
silence waiting for his words.
The exercises were divested of all
pomp save that which was made inevi
table by the presence of the great
crowd. They were simple, unostenta
tious and solemn—just such a ceremo
ny as Mr. Stephens himself might have
dictated—and from beginning to end
they breathed with the lofty spirit
which animated his own life and con
duct. It was a great occasion, and the
memories of the day will haye an abid
ing place in the heart of every one
present.
A TRAIN HELD UP.
Seven Masked Robbers Secure About
$4,000 from the Safe.
The westbound Missouri Pacific pas
senger train, which left St. Louis at
8:20 o’clock Wednesday evening, was
held up near Pacific station, thirty
miles from St. Louis, at 9 :30 o’clock.
Governor Stone and State Treasurer
Stephens were both passengers on the
train. State Treasurer Lon Y. Ste
phens telegraphed the following from
Washington, Mo.:
“Train No. 3 on the Missouri Pa
cific, the westbound express, was held
up by seven masked robbers a mile
aud a half west of Pacific,this evening.
The express car was shattered with dy
namite and the express messenger was
compelled to open the safe and deliver
the contents—thought to be about
$4,000. Governor Stone has already
offered a reward for the robbers. None
of the passengers were disturbed.”
A RICH GOLD FIND.
SeTen Pounds of Ore Assay Two Pounds
of Pure Gold.
Advices of Wednesday from Spokane,
Wash., are to the effect that the most
fabulous gold strike ever made in the
west is reported form the Grand Sum
mit mine on Palmer’s mountain, in the
Okanogan mining district. Almost a
solid body of pure gold was fonnd at a
depth of 200 feet. A seven pound
piece of ore assayed two pounds of
pure gold, which is equal in valne to
£175,000. There isplenty of the same
ore in sight. The news of the strike
has caused intense excitement and a
rush is being made for the district.
The owners of the mine have placed a
strong armed guard to protect the
property and everybody is warned off
the premises under penalty of being
shot.
SPEECH OF EX-SENATOR NORWOOD.
We come neither to praise him nor to bury
the great commoner ot the republic. Wbat of
him was mortal has long been given back to
earth, and what was spiritual needs no eulogy
from us. His fame, like the question of Ca‘S-ir’9
death, is enrolled in the Capitol and the capitol
covers the continent. 'Iliose re 1 hills echo and
re-echo his name and a thousand groves are in
part its sanctuaries. Wherever he addressed the
multitudes-and the m iltitudes followed him
as he journeyed—he lefr undying memories,
and the people wondered and many said:
“Never man spoke like this man." And this
was a true saying : “For take him for all in all
we shall never look upon his like again.” And
his like the world had never seen before. This
Is no extravagance of eulogy; no compliment
padonable only in au epitaph. It ic unvarnish
ed truth.
I repeat, that in all the tide of time, history
gives no record of anj* mortal whose physical
and intellectual combination was comparable
to that of Alexander Hamilton Stephens.
Wherever he first appeared—whether on the
hustings, in the forum, or in deliberative
bodies- his personnel aroused surprise and dis
appointment in every beholder; but when ho
spoke the people marveled at his power and
wisdom. With a stature of near six feet in
height, at no age of life did bis weight exceed a
hundred pounds. Pale and sallow, he seemed
to be a boy of 18 years until he attained middle
age, when envious time began to lurrow his
beard'ess cheeks.
Nor at any time was his health robust, while
for the last twenty year* of his wearisome pil
grimage he was a connrmed invalid. So feeble
and attenuated in form was he it seemed as if
every day would bo his last. And yet for the
first thirty years of his manhood his physical
endurance under constant labor was not sur
passed by that of any other man engaged in
similar work. In the most h .ated and active
political campaigns he seemed never to be
fatigued. In fact, in the fiercest of a political
contest he gathered strength, as the eagle rises
higher when the storms grow furious. He said
of himself: **I am like a kite; 1 soar only in the
rage of a gale.”
He was a signal exception to the theory that
great intellectual power is combined with strong
physical development. At no time did his
strength exceed that of a boy of fourteen years.
Such was the physical man, Alexander Ste-
I atory, the commanding influence" of each ’eatler
when the golden prize was tendered him, but no
man reached out his hand; they knew the gift,
like Clive's kiss, was fatal.
At last in desperation a nestor among them
rose and made a speech full of F o:i °y* DOt to 8a ?
politician’s wisdom—a speech that has often
been made, and will always be m tie, under like
circumstances. Ho said, in substance: “Every
man here is praying to have the cat belled, but
it U very evident that not one of U3 is brave
enough to undertake the job. We are like a
good many people 1 know who,when a subscrip
tion is to be taken up, prefer to do*the praying
while the hat is passed round. Now,
we here are all too old to fool
with this business. We can't afford
to he boat, but a young man can. He can out
live defeat, but we can’t. I propose that in or
der to make a show of tight we nominate a little
fellow in my district named Stephens, tie's a
boy, looks to be 14 years old, but he’ll tight any
thing. If he gets killed he’s out or everybody’s
way. If he whips the fight we can choke him
off the next race.” Mr. Stephens was nominat
ed, accepted, and entered at once on his work.
What followed I hare from a friend of Mr. Ste
phens’ wno accompanied him throagh that
memorable campaign.
The democrats treated the nomination as a
joke and turned their back on that district as
one rock-ribbed and impregnable. The boy
candidate entered at once on a triumphal
march. There being rfo railroad or telegraph in
that section the news traveled slowly, but the
democracy of the state soon heard unwelcome
rumors of disaster at the front. They came at
first as the gem le breeze comes that foreruns
the gathering storm. Then < atne a louder,
swelling sound like the soughing of the pines
as the stronger couriers of tLe air broke from
the storm center, like fleet-footed couriers bear-
| ing messages of disaster to fore s held
in reserve. Fina ly the storm had
gathered In strength and the forest
sv.&yed and groaned and the democracy heard a
wail for help. Speedy meetings were held, and
a gentleman from Savannah—a trained and able
debator—was dispatched by relays to the scene
of conflict. He appeared suddenly and without
no:io! at ono of Mr. Stephens’ appointments
and challenged the boy to meet him in joint
debaie. The challenge was gladly accepted,
and when the pale-faced, beurdler* boy, who
had the conclusion in the debate, h id delivered
his last blow on the veteran democrat his re
mains were borne away by his sympathizing
an l mortified triends and were never heard of
again during that campaign.
That defeat sronsed the democracy to greater
energy. 1 hey decided to crush the boy at one
blow, and to that end they dispatched the
strongest stump speaker of their party. Hon.
Walter T. Colquitt, to drive the youngster out
ot the district. The democrat s were afraid that
the gosling whig would not dare to meet their
champion in joint debate and they arranged a
surprise by concealing him at farmer's house
the night before and near the pemt of Mr. Ste
phens’ appointment. At the hour for the
speaking Judge Colquitt was rushed on the
ground and his iriends demanded a joint de
bate. The little David of the wiiigs readily
consented, he having the opening and conclu
sion. Air. Stephens opened with a rambliug
talk of an hour, studiously avoiding all salient
points of advantage to his adversary. Judge
Colquitt replied with all the great power of
which he was master.
The eye-witness says when Mr. Stephens rose
to replv ho was transformed. His eyes flashed,
his form dilated, his stature seemed to stretch
to tLe ceiling, and his triumph in the debate
was so complete that the democrats grew angry
and attempted to break up the meeting, until a
lank mountaineer In a coohskln coat and cap
stepped to the side of the speaker’s stand with
his rifle and proc aimed that he would kill any
man who interfered with tho speaking. The
democratic champion had enough of that cam
paign and retired from tho district without an
other debate with the haste that had signalized
his coming.
Goliath was slain; the large democratic ma
jority was overcome, the boy was elected, and
from that day, for fifty years, he reigned with
out a rival in the hearts of bis people. For
forty years you honored yourselves In honoring
him. The Koman maxim, “a man is known by
his associates,” applies to a people and their
representatives. No higher enconium could be
paid to you than you conferred on yourselves
by continuing this great statesman In your ser-
A CAPTIVK HERD WILL
TAKEN TO THE FAIR.
How the Bison Thrives in Captivity
—Good Draft Animals and a
Source of Revenue In Many
Ways—The Catalo.
are named Sullivan and Corbett, re
spectively, because of their belli gerant
qualities. The big buffalo Sullivan
would as a calf rush out and knock a
man over if he could, and now when
full grown will go a mile to meet a man
on horseback. Jumbo, the monarch
of the herd, weighs nearly 3000 pounds
and is as fine a specimen as ever trod
the western wilds, with a crest like a
•earch of the “little brownies, w who
were to perpetuate an almost extinct
race.
The buffalo calf very closely re
sembles in color the dry grass and soil
of the plains, and many an embryo
bison king has been spared from the
fangs of the wolf when its mother was
not near by its resemblance to a tuft
of grass. On several occasions Mr.
NE by one the land
marks and traditions
of aboriginal Ameri
ca disappear. The
deer, the antelope,
the elk and the
buffalo, once as
numerous as the
leaves of the forest, j -r j
have dwindled away an
until the private parks and menageries
contain almost all that is left of these
animals.. Few of this generation, says
the Chicago Times, have more than a
vague conception of the appearance
and habits of the American bison, once
so numerous in this region that they
dotted tho grassy ocean of the plains
like great black islands of life and
motion. The vast southern herd which
covered the country south of the line
of the Union Pacific Railroad is esti
mated to have numbered between
3,000,000 and 4,000,000 head. The
pasture field of this tremendous herd
extended from Manitoba on the north
to Texas on the south, and from the
Missouri River on the east to the base
of the Rocky Mountains on the west.
These restless animals were con
tinually on the move, and from the
vanguard to the stragglers at the rear
the herd spread over a distance of
from 200 to 300 miles. This vast army
of bovines marched in one continuous
circuit, passing southward on the east
ern line of this great area and north
ward on its western margin, but never
crossing the Rocky Mountains. This
storm cloud through which flashes a j Jones and his men had close encounters
dangerous light from his eyes when in | with these hungry scavengers of the
anger. He has the beard of a prophet. desert. Once when having several
and a back like old Atlas that might I calves in his charge he took off one
bear aloft a world upon its broad ex
panse, his horns measuring 144 inches
in circumference at the base. Although
it is not safe to trust the buffalo too
far, viciousness is not a predominating
trait of the animal. Many of them are
quite docile and will feed from the
garment after another and tucked them
under the collars of the different calves
and thus preserved them from attack
until the wagon could be secured.
Their escape was due to the well-known
fact that prairie wolves will not molest
anything that has the scent of a humau
In his attempts to subjugate j being about it. Mr. Jones killed his
them Mr. Jones and his attendants had ' last buffalo on this trip. It was a re-
3**
CATALO HEIFERS TWO TEARS OLD.
grand migratory circuit was completed
every four years and accounts for a
condition which often seemed strange
even to plainsmen; that is, that buffalo
would be found very plentiful in a cer
tain locality one year and the next the
hunter would find only a few.
to use pitchforks to control them,
adopting methods similar to those used
to subjugating elephants. ' The pitch-
forks were soon exchanged for brads
or goads, which finally needed only to
be shown to command a respectful
obeyance from Mr. Buffalo.
The cunning brutes were quick to
learn whether a person appearing
among them was armed with the goad
or not, and no sooner did the intelli
gent animal find that he was not than
he began at once an aggressive cam
paign against the intruder.
markable shot he made, bringing down
a huge bison on the run at 300 yards
without a sight on his rifle. This
buffalo was killed as a necessity to re
plenish the depleted larder of the ex
pedition. These calves were taken to
Garden City, where they grew and
prospered. The first and also the last
calf captured are in the present herd
and are named Alpha and Omega re
spectively. This band now consists of
thirty head of full-blooded buffalo and
ten head of catalo. It has been de
pleted by frequent sales, made neces-
WATJTNG THE LAST OPPORTUNITY.
The bison, popularly known as the
buffalo, is purely an American animal,
and differs widely in form and habits
from the true buffalo, which is a na
tive of Africa and India. The monarch
of our own plains is the American
bison. He is a magnificent beast, with
a shaggy mane covering his massive
head and shoulders, weighing when
full grown sometimes over 2000
pounds, and measuring from the
ground to the top of his hnmp often
six feet. His skin when first removed
is so heavy that a strong man can sympathy,
scarcely lift it.
Many of the men carry a small goad j sary to defray the expense of keeping
Snow in Michigan.
Snow fell at Ispeming, Mich., and
on a territory extending 200 miles
east and west of Ispeming all day
Wednesday. The snow was several
inches deep in the streets of Bed
Jacket, Mich. At Marquette a terri
fic snow-storm was in progress all day,
and a fall of four inches is reported.
The winter’s snow is not entirely gone
and the lumbermen are complaining
that the deep snow and high water are
unprecedented,
i
e turn to con
template his intellect? It is not saving too
much to assert that at the bar, on the hustings
and In tho legislative halls no man in America
has ever achieved greater renown. He was
never defeated in any contest before the peo
ple In the gladiatorial field his career was
more remarkable than that of any other
statesman of America. I will not consume
time before his neighbors and champions in
recounting bis continuous triumphs. Henry
Clay, in a great speech delivered to his con
stituents, began l>y 6aying: ‘ Forty years ago I
pitched roy tent on yonder hill, and you, and
you, and you, took me by the hand and made
me'what I am.” To you who took this home
less orphan by the hand when he pitched his
tent on that now famous hill and helped to
raise him to his high eminence, it would be
presamption in me to narrate hts wonderful
caieer.
Hi* boyhood was unmarked by any events or
Incidents of special interest. His parents were
poor and this lad had to undergo the hardships
and deprivations incident to poverty. But the
precious jewel of bis head ehowi: with such
brilliancy that it attracted the attention of
some friends of wealth, who, with a view to
secure his powers fer the pulpit, sent the boy
at their own expense to the university of Geor
gia to take the regular course for graduation.
For reasons, best known by himself, he pre-
fered the law to theology and, alter graduation,
began the practice as soon as he could l>e ad
mitted to the bar. With his power of analysis,
his 1 g il acumen, liis tenacious memory, his
studious habits, his fluency and entrancing
oratory, he roie rapidly at the bar, aud fcis fame
soon covered the state.
Within less tbau four years .after he was ad
mitted to the bar, bis ability as a lawyer and
debater convinced the voters of this county that
their interests should be committed to his keep
ing, and they sent Mr. Stephens in 1S36 to the
legislature, wucrc they kept him until the year
18il, when he declined re-election, but bis
fame bad gone ever and b joud the state. His j
speech on the bill for the state to build the
Western and Atlantic railroad, and his report
for the minority who opposed the resolutions,
censuring John MoFheraon Berrien, United
State* senator, for certain views and vote* in
the ferule—thuie aluae placed N r Stephens In
tt» from rook of 0- orgla’*
But his fame is not your exclusive inherit
ance. It belongs to his native state and to his
country- Ho came a surprise and remained
a wonder. Ho rose like a meteor, but soon took
his rightful position among the fixed stars. In
erecting this monument of marble standing on
a base of granite we add nothing to his name
and fame; we seek only to perpetuate both and
to give inspiration to the youth of coming gen
erations an incentive to high and noble deed?.
The marble but typifies the character of the
man, while the gran’te symbolizes the enduring
foundation on which his glory stands.
Bison were once fonnd all over the
Mississippi Valley as far east as the
Alleghany Mountains, and the battles
of the red man are not the only con
flicts that occurred noon the western
under their coats, which if shown is all
sufficient. The females are almost as
docile as domestic cows and are regu
larly milked by the attendants, tine
thing that attracts the attention of the
visitor to their winter quarters is the
entire absence of any kind of shelter,
throughout the whole of the last
severe winter the herd has not had a
board to shelter them- from the most
rigorous days. They love the storm
and go wild with delight over a driving,
whirling blizzard.
This band of buffalo known as the
Jones herd is the largest collection of
these animals in the world, and is truly
the last hope for the perpetration of
this noble race. Its existence is almost
wholly due to the energy, pluck, and
patriotism of J. C. Jones—better known
as “Buffalo” Jones—an old time buffalo
hunter and a contemporary of Buffalo
Bill, with whom he is entitled to divide
honors both in Europe and America.
Mr. Jones is an experienced plainsman,
and made his home in the haunts of
these animals in the years gone by.
Always an admirer of this noble ani
mal, their pitiless fate enlisted his
With such a man as Buf
falo Jones to think was to act, and he
resolved to rescue the last of the buffalo.
To this end he established a ranch and
built corrals at Garden City, Kan., as
a base from which to make excursions
to their haunts in the far southwest, in
them. The animals sold have gone to
private collections all over the country
and even to Europe. In fact, nearly
all of the buffalo now in existence have
been sent out at one time and another
from the animals captured on these ex
peditions.
Mr. Jones took a herd of ten full
bloods to Europe in 1890. These
animals, like most native Americans,
became seasick on the voyage, placed
their noses on the deck and groaned in
distress, but _ soon recovered upon
reaching the land. They awakened no
end of curiosity in Liverpool, and the
London Graphic sent a special artist to
sketch them, while all of the great
brown buffalo sombrero, the only one
of its kind, easily locates him in any
crowd.
This herd will be taken to the
World’s Fair and there be placed on
exhibition by their owner, who will
drive four of these huge animals
abreast, two of the largest weighing
twenty-four hundred pounds apiece,
to an old-fashioned rustic Mexican
cart with wooden wheels. He will
have forged iron bits in the mouths of
the monsters and guide them by wire
cables attached to a windlass. By this
contrivance he has them under perfect
control and can guide them as accur
ately as a driver can a well-broken car
riage team.
The training of these huge animals to
drive was a task that required great
patience and plenty of help. They
were yoked to a cart, the driver hold
ing wire cables for reins by means of a
windless, and a cowboy with lariat fast
to a buffalo on either side standing by
to assist. But the task was accom
plished and the bison has learned a
new. trade. They are very good trav
elers, in time become quite tractable,
and their immense strength would
make them valuable as draught ani
mals.
A four-year-old catalo dresses 1200
pounds. This would mean at least
2500 pounds live weight. The buffalo
is very easily kept, as is also the cata-'
1 o, bJ th«t much less cost is i'a^ c nfre<{*
in raising than in keepi® 0 ? do
mestic cattle. Added to this eatjk ani
mal will yield wool enough eaclCnjear
to make a blanket and a taxideAmist
will pay from $100 to $500 for the
head.
Mr. Jones made the Government an^^
offer some time ago to take this hejjl
to Texas, where he would care for ap’d
protect them, allowing them to in
crease unmolested for twenty years if
the Government would appropriate the
land and means to defray the expense.
His request was heeded by CongTess
which went far enough to set aside
the land but failed to make an appro
priation for expense.
. A Curious Rocking
When the engineers we:
the Congo Railroad they :
bank of the river, says thfi
THE CONGO HOCKING STONE.
plains. These monarch of the virgin order to secure animals from which to
heath often engaged in deadly con- j perpetrate the race. On his first ex-
fiict, and their loud bellowings of rage cursion he and his assistants captured
and anger as they rushed to the fray
rolled like muttering thunder and the
plains trembled beneath the rock.
Manv of the earlier travelers across
grown animals, but these soon died,
apparently determined not to live in
captivity. In their fury they often
broke their necks in frenzied charges
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(groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbnekle’s 23.10 7? 100 R-.
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tra choice 21c; choice good 20c; fair 10;;com
mon 17a 18c- Sugar—Granulated 5%c; off
granulated-; powderel 6%e; cut loaf 6>j; white
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tation 22@25. Teas—Black 35(5)55c; green
40(®60c. Sntmegs 65<®7()o. Clover 25@39e.
Cinnamon 10tg> 12%;. Alltpice 10®lie. Jamai
ca ginger 18c. Singapore pepper 12c; Mace
$1.00. Rice, Head 6c; good 5%c; common
4V£c; imported Japan 5@5 Q
Salt—Hawley’s dairy $!.50; Virginia 75T.
Cheese—Full cream, Clicddarr 13c; flats
12JjC; White flsli. lulf bbl.-.$4 00; pails 60c.
Soap—Taliow, 100 bars, 75 lbs -33.(10.(3.75;
turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
Candles—Parafine 11 Y t c; star 11c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 OOa2 75; 60s,
5 gross ?3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk 4c; do 1 lb pkgs
5%c; cases, 1 lb 5%c, do 1 and 8c, (lo Vi lb
6%c. Crackers—XXX soda 6}-{c; XXX batter
6%c; XXX pearl oysters 6c: shell and excelsior
7c;lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn-
hills 9c. Candy—Aa-ortcd stick 7 VJc; French
mixed 13c. Canned goods—Condensed milk
S6 00aSP0; imitation mack -rel .$3 95al00; sal
mon $6 00.(7 50: F. W. oysters 42 00; L.W.
4135; corn 42 50ft3 50; tomatoes 42 10
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4c; lump
4 ; nickel packages $3 00; celluloid $5 0 J-
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 00al 40: quarts
$1 50al SO. Powder—Rifle, kegs $3.50; >-j ke.;s
$2 00; % kegs$1 15. Shot $1 6J per sack.
the plains have noticed conical holes in i against the walls of the corral. Satis-
the prairie, which were filled with fied that the grown animals were a
water after each rainstorm. These | failure, Mr. Jones resolved to capture
holes are still to be found in the re- young calves, but at first this plan too
mote portions of the Western States.
They are called buffalo wallows and
were made by this animal pawing the
dirt out for a considerable space and
then deliberately sitting down in the
excavation and spinning round and
round very rapidly, with heels and
head together, until he gradually
reamed out a wallow. This he found
to be a very pleasant resort directly
after a rain, when full of water, as he
could dislodge the troublesome gad
flies and at the same time scratch his
was unsuccessful, as the condensed
milk upon which he was obliged to feed
them did not agree with them, and they
also died.
All of these experiments took valua
ble time, and the hunters and Indians
were driving the scattering herds of
buffalo farther and farther into the
southwest. But such difficulties never
daunted the spirit of “Buffalo” Jones.
In 1888 he organized an expedition at
Garden City, which he determined
should be and which was successful.
own back in a land where rubbing j The expedition started April 1 and re
posts or trees were unknown. ; turned in July of the same year. They
The history of the wanton destrnc- , captured thirty-seven calves and saved
tion of these animals by hunters and thirty-two of them, all of them under
amateur sportsmen is a chapter of ' six months old.
shame. | “Buffalo” Jones took with him on
In 1872 there were killed by white t this expedition twenty fresh milk cows
hunters nearly 1,500,000. The next ' to feed the captured calves. No per-
year more than this number. In the j son who has not crossed these arid
space of three years 3,158,739 were i lands, stretching into the illimitable
butchered by white men, and half of j distance with nothing bnt sky and
the carcasses left to rot untouched j plain, without a tree or hill, no birds,
when -they fell. Their doom was ‘ no noise, only the silence of the desert,
sealed when the Union Pacific ! can comprehend the terrors of such a
stretched its iron trail along the banks ! journey. Weak men tremble and
of the lone Platte and the grasping ad- ! strong men grow mad in the presence
venturer pre-empted their inheritance. | of this awful solitude.
FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA.
Tlotir- Grniti and .Meal.
Flonr—First patent $3 00; sebonl patent
$4.50; extra fancy $4.09 ; fancy 43 75; family
$3 25. Corn—No. 1 white, 61;. mixed,
59c. Oats, Mixe! 44-5;. white -fjo; Texta nut
proof 45e. Hay—Choice timothy, iaego haleo,
$1.00 No. 1 timothy, large baes, 95c;choice
timothy, small bales'$1 09; No. 1 timothy,small
hales. 95e: No. 2 timothy, small bales, 90c.
Meal—Plain 58:: lmltod 54c. Wheat bran—
Large sack? SSc, small sacks 90c. Cotton
feed meal—$1 3 > per ewt. Steam feed—41.10
r>er rat Stock peas C5a75c per bn. White, 75
to S1.00. Boston beans $2,65.(2.75 per bnshei.
Tennessee, SL75a 2.0'. Grits—Pearl $3.35.
Connfrv i’roduce.
Eggs 15al7%e. Butter—Western creamery
2Sa35c choice Tennessee 22%a2oc: orher grades
;0il2'^c- Live poultry—Tnrseys 10@ L2^c per
lb; hens 2S aul 30c. spring chickens
large 20a25c; small spring 12^yl5c. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys 15al8c ; ducks I5c; chick
ens I2;^al5. Irish potatoes. 1.00@1.10 per bu.
sweet p)tables new—75aS5c per bu. Honey-
Strained 8al0c; in the comb 10al2%c. Onion;
SI 75a2 00 per bu.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 11}£. ice-cured bellies
! 13c. Sugar-cured hams I oil7c, according
to brand and average; California, 14c.brea!t-
fast bacon 16c. Lard, Leaf il “7al2c. Compound,
|
Cotton.
Ro«»l—JlMkst Quiet. XiddUag 7«.
EARLY SETTLERS AT OMAHA.
Those who have seen the Jones herd ! After traveling many days on the
at Benson, a suburb of Omaha, have j great plains of Texas his men mutinied
witnessed a picture of the last of the ! aud refused to go farther. They were
buffalo that no painter can rival. The ; terrified at the solitude and determined
herd numbers sixty, and for about one I to go back. Mr. Jones told them that
year past has been kept in an inclosnre ; they could take the alternative of stay-
well boarded up and resembling a Slate j ing with him or perishing in a hope-
fair ground, located about five miles ! less attempt to reach home. The men
northwest of the centre of Omaha. Just ! chose the lesser of the two evils, stayed
inside the board fence is a well built i und lived to participate in an expedi-
and plentifully barbed wire fence, ! tion that will go down to history,
which is the only kind of fence that, Through all of thc-sc dangers for forty
will hold his lordship, the buffalo balL j weary days the buffalo hunters rode
Two of the largest males pi the herd ever these arid, treeless plains iu
dailies gave much space to a descrip
tion of these strange animals from over
the sea.
“Buffalo” Jones has made a thorough
study of the habits of these animals,
and by careful experiments in crossing
with native cattle has produced a race
which he calls the catalo, a magnificent
creature. The head is less clumsy, the
hump less prominent, and the hinder
parts more symmetrical than in the
buffalo. The catalo is far superior to
the domestic animal for beef. Steaks
cut from its dressed carcass are de
licious, and it has been proved that
100 pounds more of porterhouse steak
can be cut from the dressed catalo than
from the ordinary steer.
The females of this race are very
superior milkers, and, although the
quantity is not so abundant, the milk
is far richer than that of the Jersey.
The pure-blood buffalo cow gives the
richest milk in the world. The robe
of the catalo is as far ahead of the buf
falo robe as a buffalo robe is ahead of
a sheep pelt. The seal buffalo, as a
cross between a buffalo and a Galway
cow is called, is the finest animal of
the cattle kind. The robe is nearly
black, as fine and glossy as a sealskin,
and would make a coat fit for any
queen. A Canadian lady of high rank
offered Mr. Jones $300 for the skin of
one of these animals from which to
make a coat, saying she preferred it to
a sealskin.
A strange freak of the buffalo
is that all calves born in close
confinement are females, so that
to perpetuate the race, room is
absolutely necessary. The present herd
is about equally divided as regards
sex, a fact due to the freedom allowed
them. Seven baby buffalo are expected
in a few weeks which will greatly add
to the interest of the herd, and if
they live will very materially increase
its value. This will be apparent when
it is remembered that each full grown
buffalo is worth fully $1000.
Even the shaggy coat of these ani
mals has been utilized by Mr. Jones
and turned to profit. When the shed
ding time arrives the animals are roped
and the great mats of fine brown wool
that has protected them in winter are
plucked off them, carefully packed, and
sent east, to be made into robes, hats,
and cloth. The fabric from this ma
terial brings $20 per yard. A splendid
lap robe made from this buffalo hair
was presented by Mr. Jones to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by
whom it is used in preference to ail
others.
“Buffalo” Jones himself is clothed,
overcoat, underclothing, pants, coat,
vest, shirt, and hat, in garments made
from this buffalo wool. Eveh his boots
are made from buffalo hide, and the
buttons on his clothes from the horns
and i»oo(« of this auuuoL His groat
Sun, a curiously shaped stone, so
poised on several smaller bits that it
rocked from one side to the other.
The rock bore a striking resemblance
to the remarkable monuments still
fonnd in France and England which
were used as altars by tho Druids about
the beginning of the Christian era.
was on such altars that the ?Druids
offered their sacrifices. S<j ism the
banks of 'Be Congo was four
terpart of the Dolmens
Europe.
The rock, a picture of wlj
given, was in the way of
track, and was therefore rel
never was a Dolmen. Its fal
lines were never fashioned |
hands; nor was it placed!
supporting stones by hum:j
At least the geologist, Mr.
who visited the Congo to mak<!
of its geology, says we have no
of the existence among the people i
the lower Congo or their ancestors o?
state of civilization that would justify
us in attributing to their handiwork^
even so rudo and primitive a monu
ment as a Dolmen.
There are in this part of
a number of examples
rocks like that shown ir
They are all of natural,
show the plainest evide^nq
Most of them have been ca
elements out of mica kcIj
contain veins of amphib
quartz much harder ti
and here aud there
rock above the hard <
been worn away, coml
the connection betweej
upper and lower parts!
so the upper part is lpfq
teeter on the rock or roi
Cannon Used by Columbus.
In an article on the “Reproductions
of Columbus’s Ships” the New York
Herald says: “All three vessels carry
guns like their orignals. On the
main deck of tho Santa Maria and
Pinta are two iron guns about four
feet long and two and a half inches
calibre, lashed on wooden blocks
mounted on rollers. There are ^broad
side guns pointing through small round
port holes and are called lomb-irdas.
Mounted in pivot sockets on their-1
like the rapid firing guns of to-f
these two vessels also carry two smaller
iron guns called falconetas. The Pint®
has no lombardas, bnt four falconetas.
One of the lombardas - on the Santa
Maria was carried on Columbus’s voy
age of discovery; all the other guns are
reproductions.
Yery Poor Taste.
Lion—“This business
most awful sick lately.”
' Lioness— ‘ ‘What’s the matter ?”
Lion—“Oh, the man who puts his /
head in my mouth has struck a nejgr/ j
brand oi hair oil I”—Puck. {
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