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THE VIENNA PROGRESS ! / Y I MtMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’ XNQ. B..HOWEU., I LACY A. MORQAN. > 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 ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. (groceries. Coffee—Roasted—Arbnekle’s 23.10 7? 100 R-. eases. Lion 23.10c, Levering's 23 10c. Green—Ex. 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 extra C 4J£u; Sew Orleans yellow clarified S^oJ^c; yellow extra C 4}£a4%:. Syrup—Saw Orleans choice 45; prime 36«J40c; common 20@30c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@33c;imi- 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. { -U