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'l l I F, VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, $1. Per Annnm.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E HO WELL, Elite* and Proprietor.
YOL. XII. NO. 11
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
IN LIFE’S TUNNEL
Borne by a Power resistless aud unseen
We know not wither,
We look out through the gloom with troubled
mien;
How came we hither?
Darkness before and after. Blank, dim walls
On either side,
igainst which our dull vision beats and falls,
Met and defied.
Shrouded in mystery that leaves no room
To guess aright, .
Wc rush, uncertain, to a certain doom—
When lo —the light!
—Grace Denio Litchfield, in the Century.
he resorted to the jug, which had
somehow been left behind by the men
in the wagon.
I.ater in the afternoon the driver,
whoso depression had increased since
the sun sank, hitched up his horses.
leads from the valley to the ridges.
They were standing silently side by
side looking down into the valley.
There was a great white tent, a tab
ernacle, indeed, nea& the log house,
and a score of smaller white tents about
GEORGIA HEWS NOTES.
and the carriage began the assent of j the large one. Through the trees the
the long hill. The jug was left among ; people could be seen moving abont
the May apple blossoms. It was j like pigmies.
empty. ; “It is a beautiful and peaceful
Half-way up the hill a wheel dropped scene,” said Miss Chalmers, softly.
(Ins of General Interest Picked Op
All Oyer tlie Stale.
THE LITTLE LOG CHURCH.
OWN in the heart
,' V' of the mountains
is a summer re
sort. It is not in
the north nor of
the south, but it
is a cosmopolitan
little city of
hotels. It sprung
up in a season
and will endure as long as the waters
are limpid and the mountains grand.
Crowning the highest hill is the chief
hotel. The view from the veranda is
magnificent. The lower hilltops,
rugged and scarred, near by, seem to
grow • level in perspective, stretching
away in a vast plain of darkest green
to meet the blue sky in the distant
horizon. The morning wind brings
the odor of wild roses; the evening
wind is freighted with the spice of
pines.
The Chalmers, mother and daugh
ter, were guests of the chief hotel.
“It is exquisite,” said Miss Chalmers.
“I am weary of society. I will do
nothing but rest for tho entire sum
mer.”
Miss Chalmers rested four entire
days. The fifth day was Sunday.
“We must go to church,” said Mrs.
Chalmers.
“Rut there is no church, mamma;
the minister is taking his vacation in
the city while we take ours in the
hills.”
“I shall go to church,” declared the
elder lady. “There is a lovely log
church in the country. I went to a
log church when I was a little gird.
"We will go to-day in a carriage.”
So the Chalmerses went to church,
not to the little white church in the
valley below them, but over miles and
miles of gravelly ridge road, down a
long,' steep hill aud into another aud
a larger valley, where there was a
pellucid stream, shaded with syca
mores and festooned with a bewildc-r-
ing tangle of vine.
The country church was built of
rough hewn logs and was not large.
Mrs. Chalmers and her daughter found
that tho house was crowded, and ns
there was no usher obtained seats with
some difficulty.
Miss Chalmers was on the right of
the centre aisle.* She soon discovered
that the aisle separated the two sexes;
1 hat she, alone of all the women there,
was seated among the men. This
breach of local etiquette amused her
at fiist.
Miss Chalmers soon discovered that
the younger boys were nudging each
other with their elbows and laughing
at her. The young men looked at her
curiously ; the old men seriously ; she
began to feel nervous, and the feeling
annoyed her more than the attention
% she was receiving. Then she noticed
that the girls across the aisle wei’e
giggling and whispering maliciously ;
and, yes, actually pointing their fin
gers at her.
How dp.rcd they! Her face began to
flame. The young men looked sym
pathetic, now ; she felt that their pity
was an outrage. The preacher could
no longer hide his annoyance, for no
body heeded the sermon now, and
everybody was intent upon that young
lady, who knew no better than to sit
among men.
Mrs. Chalmers, who had fortunately
found a seat on the upper side, was
tho only person in tho house ignorant
of her daughter’s embarrassment.
The long ride had wearied her. She
was resting, as elderly persons some
times do. She listened earnestly at
the sermon, without hearing a word;
she gazed at the preacher and did not
see him.
Miss Chalmers tried to call up her
pride, but was helpless before the rid
icule, which constantly became more
unmerciful. The benches on the other
side all seemed to be full. She saw no
escape but to leave the room. She had
just decided to bolt ignominiously for
the door when there was a diversion in
her favor.
Immediately in front of Miss Chal
mers sat a young man. He had
aroused her interest, because he wore
what she called a respectable coat, and
because he had a fine head which he
carried on ‘ his magnificent shoulders
like a Roman hero, aud because—well,
there is no stronger word than be
cause. It can mean a great many in
expressible things.
This young man arose, and the girl
noticed, even in her unhappiness, that
he was very tall, as most mountaineers
are. He stepped across the aisle and
took a little girl in his arms, whisper
ing a word to the child’s mother before
he returned to his seat. He did not
look at Miss Chalmers, but the woman
smiled to her, silently pointing to the
vacant seat. The unhappy young lady
was only too glad to accept the invita
tion. Her mother did not notice the
incident, nor did the young man seem
to be aware of it. He did not once
turn his head, and she found herself
becoming curious about the color of
his eyes. They must be gray.
into a deep gutter and the carriage
came down with a lurch and a crush.
It was a hopeless wreck. The driver
looked at the broken wheel with indif-
ftrence and the ladies were in conster
nation.
“How far is it to town?” asked Miss
Chalmers.
“Abouteight miles, I reckon.”
“Oh, dear, what can we do?”
“I dunnow,” said the driver, stu
pidly. From his manner one might
almost be justified in saving that he
did not care.
“Well, driver,” said Mis? Chalmers
emphatically. “I know. You must
go to town at once for another car
riage. It is now r 3 o’clock, and yon
can be back by 6; we will wait. ”
The driver began to unloose the
horses. He did not seem to be pressed
for time.
“You must hurry,” she declared im
patiently. “And say, driver, if you
are back by sunset you shall have §5
extra.”
He shook off his apathy, or seemed
to, and, mounted on one horse, led
the other rapidly away.
It was always Dad to wait. In this
case the two lonely women, oppressed
by the strange and solitary surround
ings, found the afternoon almost in
terminable. The Joshua of impatience
seemed to stay the sun at one spot for
hours. Six o’clock finally came; they
were expectant. Half past six: they
were anxious. At seven they were
alarmed. The sun loitered no more,
but rolled swiftly over the opposite
mountain and drew the day with him.
They were terrified.
There was no house and no human
being in sight. They remembered no
habitation on the road for miles.
True, the log church stood in the bot
tom below, but the darkest shadows
had already gathered there. They
dared not enter the profound obscurity
which enveloped tl[e valley and which
crept like a living.thing. up the moun
tain side toward them. They clung to
each other like little children and
wept.
Cochran has $1,700 surplus in the
treasury and there is a movement on
foot to begin boring an artesian well.
A bill is to be brought before the
next general assembly to incorpo
rate Worm Springs, Meriwether conn-
: tv.
Fnriucrs’ National toiivi-miou. .
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the entertainment of the
delegates to the national farmers' con
vention which is to be held in Savan
nah Dec. 12 to 15. Governor Nortben
will welcome the delegates to Georgia,
while Mayor McDonough will extend
them a cordial welcome to the city.
President J. O. Waddell will welcome
the delegates on behalf of the State
Agrieultnral Society. There will lie
speakers ou the list from South Caro
lina, Mississippi, Georgia, Kansas,
CROP STATISTICS.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL. |
Some Figures from Commissioner Nes-
„ , . , „ „ . . . . blit’s Report for September.
Condensed from Onr Most Important The cotton c rop 0 f Georgia » no
Tplpimuitlifl Arivippc greater than it was last year, all re-
10141 ay Jib n.lTibuD ports to the contrary notwithstand
ing. That is the opinion of the Com-
HOW ABOUT
HARD TIMES?
Are you a supporter of the present finan-
Aml Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
The young man was silent aud she
presently continued, with some hesita
tion :
“I have never thanked yon—I
hardly know how—for your kindness
that first day in the church when I
made such-an embarrassing mistake.” 1
“It was nothing; do not think L TVllcox has a Dew i ud S e -
0 f p » : Governor Nortben has appointed Hon.
“But I do think of it; it was a great T ; ^ Holto “ tu ‘he position of judge . ... . ... . „
0 of the comity court made vacant bv ! mention -was brought here included a ; wages of 14 per ccut. The Everett
the resignation of Hon. Hal Lawson. guarantee that the ’ expenses of the ; and Pemberton mills at Lawrence also
The driver from the chief hotel had
not entered tho church. As he lin
gered with his horses two men came
by in a wagon. The men were old
friends of the driver. In the bed of
the wagon, shaded by some branches
of the pawpaw tree, there was a jug;
nnd the liquor in the jug was the driv
er’s dearest and most fatal enemy.
There were three men in the wagon
when it halted beneath the trees, a
hundred yards below the church.
While the horses ate the men drauk.
When the sermon was over Mrs.
Chalmers and her daughter ate their
luncheon. Afterward, while the la
dies plucked May apple blossoms and
enjoyed the cool dampness which the
river exhaled, the driver slept. He
awoke often in a melancholy mood,
but they did not uotiee it; and each
time when he threw off’ his slumbers
At sunset a tall young man was rid
ing soberly along the wide road which
.led to town. . He stopped suddenly at
the sight of two harnessed horses graz
ing by the roadside.
* T know that team; what has hap
pened?’’
There was no one to answer the
question, but he looked about and dis
covered the driver under the trees.
“Here, wretch!” he exclaimed,
“wake up; tell me what is wrong.
Wake up, wake up. Where are the.
ladies?”
But expostulation was in vain. The
driver was a lump of clay—a log. The
young man mounted his horse again
and galloped furiously back toward the
log church. He looked at each side
of the road anxiously, but did not
slacken his pace, and the horse was
covered with foam when he reached
the broken carriage and dismounted.
“I thank heaven you are safe,” he
cried.
‘ ‘But we are not safe; we are lost,
lost. Oh, merciful sir, pity us!” ex
claimed Mrs. Chalmers, hysterically.
She thought the tall stranger was a
brigand.
Miss Chalmers knew better. She
recognized tlie young man, nnd a feel
ing of security, almost of happiness,
swept over her.
“Hush, mamma,” she said, softly;
‘ ‘we are perfectly safe now. This gen
tleman will protect us; he has come to
help us.”
The gentleman looke 1 histhauksfor
the confidence. It was dark almost,
but she could see that his eyes were
gray. She thought they were lumin
ous, but she was looking through her
tears.
“Are you employed at the hotel?
What happened to our driver? Is the
other carriage coming?” The mother
%sked three questions in a breath. '
“I am not employed at the hotelA- A
was riding to town and found yopr-
driver in a drunken sleep by^thecepHd-
side. You will get no help from hiir>.
I was afraid there had been a serious
accident and hastened back.”
“Serious,” asked Mrs. Chalmers in
a high voice, “is it not serious?- Oh,
dear, dear, what would you have?”
“My uncle lives two miles down the
river,” said the stranger. “It is the
nearest house. You will come with
me for the night and to-morrow you
can return to the town. ”
“You are very kind, sir,” said Miss
Chalmers. “We will go with you
gladly.”
“But two miles,” protested the
mother ; “I cannot walk two miles.”
‘ ‘It- is not necessary; you can ride
my horse. He is perfectly gentle, and
I will hold the rein,’-’ said their res-
eurer reassuringly; and the young
lady may ride behind you, if she will?”
“Oh, no; I would much prefer to
walk. I can walk two miles easily,
aud the dear horse is already very
tired. Indeed, I will walk,” said the
v oung lady decidedly.
The young man assisted the mother
into the saddle. The daughter clung
lightly to his arm and the little pro
cession moved slowly down the long
hill and into the starless depths of the
bottom. They traveled carefully, for
Mrs. Chalmers was not a good horse
woman. It was an hour before they
reached the farmhouse.
An hour! An hour is an epoch, an
age, an eternity. Love, which never
dies, is born, nourished and reaches
maturity in an hour.
deal to me, and I want you to remem
ber—you know we are going away to
morrow—I want you to remember that
I appreciate it. My predicament was
almost as bad as it was that night
when you again—”
“I beg you,” he broke in, “not to
mention those things again.”
She was silent. He turned to her
suddenly, abruptly, almost roughly,
and asked:
“Are you rich?”
She trembled a little, but did not
reply.
“I am surprised that you asked
that question,” she said gently; “It
is unworthy of you; it is painful to
me.”
“Forgive me,” he said, humbly.
“Oh, my dear, I love you, and I am
poor. Your beauty and your good
ness make you a long way above me,
and I have hoped that yoH were not
rich. But I adore you: I want you
to carry that memory away in your
heart. I adore you. Some time I
will come and ask you to marry me.
You will have known me longer;
my prospects will be brighter. I will
come and take you by the hand like
this, my dear. I will say : ‘I love you
dearly; I have loved you since that
first day in the mountains. I will love
you forever. Will you be my w r ife?’
When I ask you? that question, when
my soul waits for an answer, what will
you say to me, dear?”
She was palid; she dare not look
at him.
“Is there no grain of hope for me?
Oh, love, will you tell me what your
answer will be on that day?”
With a supreme effort she raised her
eyes to his face. She tried to speak;
she was speechless; bather lips formed
a single word:
“Yes.” ’
Dear reader, she was rich. She was
rich and proud, and the next day she
returned to her magnificent home in
the city. Aud two years afterward,
when a tall young man came and asked
again that question, when his soul
waited for an answer, w’hat do you
think she said?
“Yes.”
She was only a summer girl; she
met this poor youth on a summer hol
iday, but she loved him forever, and
they are now very happy.—Chicago
News.
The Hamilton Woolen company, at
Amesbury, Mass., started up on full
Nebraska, Maine, Illinois and other j tin » e Tuesday. All the hands will now
i-tates. The convention was held last year ! find steady work, although at a reduc-
in Lincoln, Neb., and Vice President | w'ages.
Purse, after a hard fight, succeeded in The Lancaster giughnm mills at
securing it for Savannah this year. Clinton, Mass., resumed full time
1 he resolution under which the eon- j Tnes lay with an average reduction in
The International Brotherhood of
Railway Track Foremen held its see
ond regular annual convention in At
lanta the past week. Representatives
from all parts of the United States
were present.
Nash R. Broyles has been appointed
I uited States commissioner for the
started up.
The Farham street theatre at
Oma-
convention to an amount not to exceed j
$500 would be paid and that the usual !
muietiou in hotel rates would be se- j ] ia , Neb., was completely destroyed
cured, tuo things with which Savan- by Ore Monday night and" was a total
uah never has and never will find any | loss. Estimated loss, $272,000. Six
difficulty in complying when a body
like the National Fanners’ convention
consents to pay them a visit.
Peabody Work in Beoritin.
The Georgia holders of Peabody
scholarship in Vanderbilt university
have gone to Nashville. Representa
tives holding Peabody scholarships
are: Miss Ella L. Huff, Columbus;
Miss Lizzie McCord, Zebnlon ; Miss
Lillian J. Porter, Tallapoosa; Miss
Helen Proffet, Atlanta; Mr. Walter
Rountree, Emanuel county ; Mr. Ewell
E. Treadwell, Greene county; Miss
Leona Wright, Meriwether; Miss Lucy
H. Green, DeKalb; Miss Mamie Dru-
ble, Terrell; Mr. J. J. Nasb, Walton;
Miss Lucy Anderson, Atlanta; Mr.
W. G. Adams, Thomas county; Miss
lone M. Bailey, Savannah ; Miss Mary
M. Brooke, Canton; Miss Mattie
Crowley, Luthersville; Mr. Jason
Searboro, Bulloch county; Mr. Tonita
Short, AVilkes county; Miss Maud
Ptten up. A committee was appoint- '* tlan t a: ^
ed to prepare and issue a call for tin ! ^ ®V DaVla >
Northern district of Georgia to suc
ceed Judge C. C. Haley, whose death
two weeks ago created a vacancy in
the office.
The postoffice at Hull station on the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail
road was broken into recently by un
known parties and about 700 one and ;
two-cent stamps stolen, besides a small ■
amount of merchandise from the stock j
of the store in which tlie post office was j
quartered.
The district convention of the Ass'c- j
eiation for the Suppression of Out- !
rages and Lynehings, was held at j
AVavcross a few days ago. Tlie meet
ing was fairly well attended, consider
ing the brief notice on which it was
There was a camp meeting in
progress at the log house in the valley.
On the last Sunday of the meeting,
which happened to be also the last day
of the Chalmerses' visit in the moun
tains, a party from the chief hotel
visited the revival. The party was
A Son’s Epitaph.
The recent death of Rear-Admiral
Melanethori Smith, United States Navy,
recalls an incident of the Civil War
which has found its way into print be
fore, but which has long been forgot
ten. , It relates to a namesake and re
lative of the deceased, Commodore J.
Smith, for many years Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
The news of the Merrimac’s arrival
in Hampton Roads and of her first
day’s fight before she met the Monitor
reached AVashington on a Sunday after
noon. The telegram was brief but ex
plicit. The Confederate ironclad was
in complete control of the Roads.
Messengers were hastily dispatched,
summoning the chiefs of bureaus to a
council at the Navy Department. One
of these messengers, sent in search of
Commodore Smith, found that officer
on his way home from church, and he
knew that the Commodore’s only son
was first lieutenant of the ill-fated
Congress.
“Commodore',” said the man, “there
is bad news- from Hampton Roads.
The Merrini'ac has come down from
Norfolk, the'Minnesota and Roanoke
"are disabled, the Cumberland sunk
and the Congress is on fire and has
surrendered.”
“Surrendered! The Congress has
hauled down her colors?” repeated the
Commodore, and as the messenger con
firmed his words, “Then my son Joe
is dead, ” said the Commodore simply
—and that was all.
There have been longer winded
epitaphs, many of them, but not every
father could be so sure of his son’s
character as to honor his memory be
fore receiving the news of his death
with such a tribute as that. “Joe”
was indeed dead, as modest and as
brave a man as ever drew sword. —
New York Tribune.
prepare:
state meeting, which will be held id
Macon, Ga., October 19th.
AL. \V. A. Paschal, of V ay cross, has
harvested 20,000 pounds of choice hay
from the ground on which a crop of
oats was harvested this year. The hay
was properly cured and is now gather- |
ed in stacks over the field. He will I
clear over $100 from his crop of hay. j
This shows what can be done on tiie |
farms of south Georgia. There is j
ington; Air. AA r . P. Bailey, Newton
county; Air. H. B. Howard, Cohuttu.
Each of these receives from the Pea
body fund $100 a year, traveling ex
panses to and from Nashville and some
books. Georgia receives from the fund
for this "purpose abont $4,000. In re
turn each recipient binds him or her
self to teach two years in Georgia or
refund the money.
' * * **
Advance in .Naval Stores.
The receipts of naval stores at Savan-
money to be made by saving the hay j nah have been unusually large during
the past three weeks. This is on ac
count of the shipments which would
ff<> to Brunswick being sent there.
The large receipts have not had the
effect of weakening the market, how
ever, as prices have been steadily ad-
\ ancing recently and the demand
seems to be on the increase. The mark
'd for rosins has been firm for several
weeks. There is agood demand for all
grades, mediums and pales beiug
specially sought after. These grades
bring higher prices than the quota
tions when separated from the general
lot. Although the stocks of spirits
turpentine and rosin on hand and on
shipboard are more than double that
at this time last year, they are not.
really on the market, but have been
sold, and are waiting to be shipped.
One firm doing business in Savannah
owns about one-half of the stock on
hand. The price for spirits turpen
tine is about the same as it was this
time last year. Common rosins are
bout 10 cents cheaper, while medium
after the crops Rave been harvested.
“Good roads and better roads”
should be the cry from end to end of
Georgia. It is impiossilile to estimate
to what extent this state lias been held
back by bad roads. The wheels of
pirogress have stuck in the mud.
A triumphal march has been hindered
nnd stoppied by deep gullies or impass
able swamps until at last we cry,
“Give us good roads or we cannot
move on.” The advent of good roads
in this state will mark a wonderful in
crease iu its pirospieritv, and we main
tain that no real improvement will be
made in the agricultural situation un
til we have good roads aud plenty oi
them.—Macon Telegraph.
$2 it
piersons, five of them firemen, were in
jured by the" falling walls aud one
fireman is missing.
Leopold Peek and Henry Sondheim,
of the firm of Hardman, Peek A Co.,
piiano manufacturers at New York,
made an assignnent Monday, to Joseph
Ullman, with preference to the Mer- j
cantile nnd Second National banks j
and William Kraus, for all debts due i
them.
Reliable reports received from all ;
pinrts of Southwestern Texas show that 1
three-fourths of the cotton crop) has j
been piicked nnd about half marketed.
The crop has been gathered in a hurry
in the last ten days. There will be no
topi crop. The crop) will lie 40 pier
cent short of last year’s yield in south
west Texas.
A cable dispiatch of Wednesday from
Buenos Ayres says: The piorts of Bio
de Janiero and Santos are declared
blockaded liy Admiral Aiello. His ob
ject is to crippde the trades of the city
to such an extent as to. force the sin- j greatly reducing the yield. This year
render of Bio. Trade is paralized in we are confronted with the same condi-
missioners of Agriculture Nesbitt; and cial system which congests the currency of
his opinion is based on reports from the country^periodically at the money centres
the most reliable correspondents in ! a i th ^ merCy of cIas3e *'
n , . , , m, . , or Qo you favor a broad and
all parts of the state. I he department
system of securing crop estimates is
as complete as such a system could be j LIBERAL SYSTEM
and these reports are reinforced by
personal observations by the eommis- i Whioh pro te C ts the debtor while it does jm-
sioner in all parts of the state. A lice to the-creditor?
feature of his report is a reference to j If you feel this way, you should not be
the reports of the weather bureau. ■ without that great champion of the people’s
These reports, says Commissioner j rights,
Nesbitt, are often confounded with his '
own, and as there is a wide divergence ’
of opinion between the state and
the weather bureau findings lie!
has no desire to receive credit for re
ports that are not his own.
COTTON.
Regarding cotton the report says:
“In the August report the estimate of Published at Atlanta, Ga., and baring a
the department on our stapile crop) was circulation of
that it would not exceed that of last
year. The reports received from onr thrill 156 000
large number of correspondents for the J ^
present month verify this forecast and j chiefly among the farmers of America, and
we are satisfied that, notwithstanding going to more homes than any weekly naws-
Tbe Atlanta Weekly
CONSTITUTION
paper published on the face of the earth.
II is it)B Biggest
the small increase in acreage and the
large increase in the use of commercial
fertilizers, that the prospect is such
that the yield will accord with our es
timate.
“The estimate of the weather bureau
has been confused with that of this de
partment and through the piress many
reports have been circulated that the | newspaper published in America, covering
estimate of the department was that the news of the world, having correspondent*
the crop would exceed that of last : la eTery clt J 111 Al ?. erica “A,* t * (
inn non ! Europe, and reporting in full the details of
and Basl Weekly
year 100,000 bales. We regret this
exceedingly, as we are anxious that no
confusion should arise or question as
to the future or present repiort of the
department.
“Last year the almost total absence of
a top or second crop bad the effect of
consequence of tho blockade nml even
the banks are closed.
Advices of Monday from Kissengen
say that Prince Bismarck has hud an
other set back, and will now scarcely
touch food. It is also reported lliat
his right hand is apparently complete
ly useless. It is said lie salutes with
his left hand and signs his name also
with the left. He also complains of
piaiu day and night, and has certainly
aged in looks aud is very decrepit.
A Knoxville special says: Tlie trial
of the sixteen Coal Creek soldiers who j
are charged with the lynching of miner j
Dick Drummond, at Briceville last An- j
gust, was begun in the Anderson county
circuit court at Clinton Monday after
noon, the soldiers having been
turned over to the civil authori
ties. A large crowd are at Clinton
awaiting developments in the famous
case.
A dispatch from Des Aloines says:
The greatest political sensation of the
Iowa campaign this fall was sp>rung
I Monday morning by Senator L. R.
Bolton, of Harrison county, who, iu a
Colonel Jesse L. Blalock, one of'the
oldest and best known citizens ot
Georgia, died at his home at Jones
boro, a few days ago. Colonel Blalock
was seventy-six years of age at the
time of liis death and has spent all of i „ t - ,,
his life at Fayetteville, where he was j !,nd P? les are brln S ln B m °re than they
born, and at Jonesboro. The Blalock I
family has resided in that section of I
Georgia for nearly a century and is ;
among the best in the state. Colonel |
tionin even a more marked degree and,
notwithstanding the lateness of the crop)
it will be virtually all gathered during
the month of October. For this rea
son large receipts may be expected
during this month, with rapid de
crease immediately after. The early
maturity and absence of a top) crop
are due to the changeable character of
the season; wet weather followed by
drought, parching winds nnd the une
qual distribution of rain throughout
the state, which we have illustrated.
“It will be seen from reference to
the tabulated statement that the con
dition and prospects since the Semtem-
ber report has fallen off 5 1-7.
“To the figures of the correspond
ents we are able to add the personal
observations of the commissioner, who
has visited a large number of counties
since the last report. These observa
tions and inquiries corroborate the es
timates of correspondents.
COEN.
“Notwithstanding the gloomy out
look as a result of want of rain, the
yield of this crop with the increase
of acreage will exceed that of
letter to Chairman Scott, of the popu- j last yedr> “ nd in thig connectio n it
list centrnl committee, announces that
lie has bolted the democratic ticket
and will support Joseph for governor.
Senator Bolton has been a democratic
leader in the Iowa general assembly for
sixteen years.
Surgeon General AA'vmau Alondav
the debates in Congress on all questions of
public interest.
THE CONSTITUTION
is among the few great newspapers publish*-
ing daily editions on the side of the people
as against European Domination of our
money system, and it heartily advocates:
1st. The Free Coinage of Silver.
Believing that the establishment of a
single gold standard will wreck the pros
perity of the great masses of the peoplq,
though it may profit the few who have
already grown rich by federal protection
and federal subsidy.
/d. Tariff Reform.
Believing that by throwing our ports
open to markets of the world and levy
ing only enough import duties to pay
tho actual expenses of the government,
the people will be better served than by
making them pay double prices for
protection’s sake.
3d. An Income Tax.
Believing that those who have much
property should bear the burdens of
government in the same proportion to
‘hose who>ave little.
until tnere is enougn or it in circulation to
do the ligitimate business of tlie country.
If you wish to help in shaping the legisla
tion of to these ends, GIVE THE CON
STITUTION YOUR ASSISTANCE, lend
it a helping hand in the fight, and remember
that by so doing you will help yourself, help
your neighbors, and help your country I
AS A NEWSPAPER:
gratifying to note that the tendency
of the Georgia farmer is towards inde
pendence of the growers of the west.
hog products.
While in several localities the cliol- j TIIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION has
era has greatly damaged the pork j no equal in America! Its news reports cover
prospects, yet, considering the state
ordered Surgeon DeSaussnre to V ay- j at large, we are pleased that we are
cross and Wuresboro to inspect cases of j able to congratulate our farmers on
were last vear.
A Story of Insinuation.
“Marrying,” remarked the colonel,
who was a bachelor, “ makes a man
brave. ”
“ I don’t know about that,” doubtful
ly replied the major, who had been mar
ried three times: “I don’t know aboui
that. None but the brave dare marry,
though. I’m sure of that.”
“ My original statement stands unre
futed,” said the colonel, “and foi
further corroboration let me cite the case
of Smith.”
There was a little laugh, none the less
significant on account of its size, for all
| the party knew what a woman Smith had
for a wife.
“Now, I remember,” continued the
colonel, “when Smith married. The
bride was fair, and Smith was in love,
and he brought her out to a post in the
west, where a monthly Indian fight was
the rule rather than the exception. The
first year we could hardly drag Smith out
on an expedition and if there was a
chance for a fight, I’ll swear that Smith
acted almost cowardly. The next year
A Steam Carriage for Road Use.’
C. L. Simonds, of Lynn, has made a
steam carriage for his own use that will
make ten miles an hour. The carriage
weighs only 400 pounds and can carry
two persons at a time. It has the ap
pearance of an ordinary carriage in
front, except there are no provisions
made for a horse. The wheels are of
cycle make and are four in number.
The hind wheels'are forty-three inches
and the Iront wheels are thirty-six
inches, with rubber tires. 1 he boiler
and engine sets just in the rear of the
seat and gives the carriage the appear
ance of a fire engine. The steam gen
erates in what is called a porcupine
boiler, which weighs 100 pounds.
The 6team is made by naphtha
flames from three jets. The naphtha
is kept in a cylinder, enough to last
for seven hours, and there is a water
tank that will hold ten gallons. There
is a pump that is automatic in action
directly connected with the engine.
The steering part consists of a crank
wheel on the footboard, so that the
engineer can steer and attend to the
engine at the same time. The body
of the carriage rests on a cradle and
Blalock was a lawyer liv profession,
but of recent years he has practiced
lint little, devoting the greater part of
his time to his financial interests. He
was possessed of considerable proper
ty, in Fayette and Clayton counties,
which he looked after with an active
interest unusual in a man of his ad
vanced age.
A novel point of law was made iu
Judge Van Epps’ court at Atlanta re
cently in the case of the Grand Bap-
ids, Alich., Fnrnitnreiompany against
L. DeGive. The furniture company
sued Air. DeGive for material furnish
ed and obtained judgment. Air De
Give went before the city court,
through his attorney, aud asked that
the judgment be set aside on the
ground that he represents a foreign
power and cannot be sued in the state
courts. The attorneys for the plain
tiff filed affidavits alleging that Air.
DeGive was accredited to the United : f? braced up a bit, the following year a
States before the war, and that since ! b,t more and after be bad be . e “ married
that time Georgia had been out of the j ««»J«*»be was perfectly willing to fight
union. Judge Van Epps reserved his »• red f , sk !“ 3 and sta ? °“
, . . ° 11 their trail for six months if necessary and
decision. ^ never say a word about returning home.”
The colonel looked up quietly as he
heard another little laugh.
“Smith has been married t wenty years
At the last session of the Ware
Countv Teachers’ association, held at
AVavcross, a resolution was adopted now, he went on, “and I am glad that
urging that monthlv institutes be abol- Indian fighting is over, for I really be- ;
ished. and the five dnvs combined with deve Smith would be only too anxious to first argument. He made an able,
sickness at these places which had been
reported to him. Dr. DeSaussnre ar
rived at Waycross Tuesday morning
and went direct to Waresboro. He
found that there were no suspicious
eases there. Dr. DeSaussure returned
to AA’nycross in the afternoon and after
inspection pronounced the city all
right and free from any suspicious
sickness.
A San Francisco dispatch of Wednes
day says: The steamer Joan, the ten
der of the Pacific steam whaling fleet,
brings word that Captain Porter, of
Newport, while in pursuit of whales
reached the eighty-fourth parallel.
The sea was unusually free of ice this
year, otherwise he could not have
gone so near the pole. The Greely
party, in 1882, attained nil altitude of
83 degrees, 24 minutes. Captain Por
ter says the condition was so favorable,
that if he had dogs and sleds, he thinks
he might have taken to iee nnd reach
ed the pole.
THE LEGAL BATTLE
Over the Central Railroad Renewed
at Washington.
A AVashington special says: The
scene shifts from the quaint, s iffy lit
tle United States court room in Bavan-
! nah to the conference chamber of the
supreme court of the United States.
Justice Jackson nnd the galaxy of law
yers renewed the struggle Thursday
morning over the remains of the pros
trateCentral railroad of Georgia.
Alajor Bacon, of Macon, made the
the world, and its correspondents and agents
are to be found in almost every ball wick in
the Southern and AVestern States.
It prints more such matter as is ordinarily
found in the great magazines of the country
than can be gotten from even tho best of
them.
It is a schoolhouse within itself, and a
year’s reading of THE CONSTITUTION
is a liberal education to anv one.
..ihe animal session, making ten davs to S* 5 r ‘o^ out now and exterminate every
be held consecutively. Another reso- abongme betweeu the Mississippi and
lution called for more prompt pay to
the teachers. A third resolution de
clared it to be the sense of the meet
ing that all public school funds should
be disbursed proportionately a? per
the Pacific.”
This time the colonel smiled himseh
and bowed profoundly a3 Mra. Smith
passed by.—[Detroit Free Press.
registration, nnd that they shoo'd be
paid to teachers according to registra
tion and not by actual average. A
uniform system of text books was pro
nounced “disadvantageous.” Repre
sentatives in the legislature will be
The Irish Kerry Cattle.
These cattle having been kept for cen
turies on the exposed and mountainous
[lasturea of the County of Kerry, where
the storms of the Atlantic sweep with
, . . ,, i violence, are, as m'e'at be expected,
asked to embody these resolutions in , smalI> but from the n * oted excellence of
legislation. th e herbage in that locality, where the
fields are always green, they are fine
futieii. milkers and vield the best of beef. The#
Georgia s cotton crop will fall short are black or * red in colo - rj r h ^ to
of that of last year. That is the out- their coat, and not at all handsome, ex
look as viewed by Commissioner of cept it be under the rule that “ hand-
composed of Mrs. Chalmers, Miss three springs. It is easy riding, and
Chalmers and a tall young man with a allowance has been made for every
serious, grand face. The latter had I movement. The shafts are of steel,
been a guest at the hotel for only : and can stand all of 1090 pounds. Mr.
three weeks, or since the two ladies j Simonds has given the steam carriage
had been abandoned on the mountain > a trial already, and it has proved a
side by their drunken driver. j success. It started off at a ten-mile
On the afternoon of this Sunday the . gait; there was no noise, smoke or
two younger members of the party j trouble whatever,---Springfield Repul;-
were half up the leog hill which i lican, - ... --
Agriculture Nesbitt. AVhen his esti
mate was sent out on the firr-t of the
month, the indications pointed to a
crop not at all in excess of the crop of
last year and the commissioner stated
the ease plainly. Since jhou reports
from over two hundred corre
spondents representing all sections of
the state, put an even worse view on
the situation. These show that the
falling off, particularly iu north Geor
gia, is much greater than was first es-
timated^ndthe indications are that t lie
crop will be 10 per eent off from that
of last year. Letters received within
the last few days from Burk. Screven,
Murray, Baker and Sumter among
others, aud all tell the same story.
It looks like a short crop.
some is as handsome does.”. For many
of these little cows, hardly three feet
high and weighing only 300 pounds, will
give more milk and butter, the latter
especially, than the average of cows
earnest plea for the saving of the
Southwestern railroad. His con
tention was that the Central railroad
should be first sold and its assets
exhausted before the Southwestern
should be sacrificed. He was followed
by Air. Beaman, of the firm of Evarts,
Beaman & Choate, on the same line.
The terminal's counsel, Henry Craw
ford, followed Beaman. He took the
position that the Southwestern shottl
be held jointly liable with the Central
and Alacon & AVestern.
The contention is over the five mill
ion of the tripartite bonds on which
the Central, Macon & AVestern and
Southwestern are joint securities.
The Work of Wreckers.
The worst wreck in the history of the
Mobile and New Orleans division of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad oc
curred at Gulfport, Miss., at 1 o’clock
Thursday morning.
No. 2, consisting of three sleepers, pas-
the fact that the reports evidence that
fact that the yield in Georgia of AS A MAGAZINE:
Georgia-cured hams and bacon will be ——
greater than for a number of years.
When we recall that in ante-bellum
dayR the state produced one-fifteentli
of the hog meat of the union we can
see no reason why Georgia should not
in this industry become a source of AS AN EDUCATOR
supply instead of demand. 11 111
FIGURES FOR THE STATE.
Total yield compared to an average:
Cotton, 74; corn, 89; sugar cane,
92 2-5; sweet potatoes, 95; tobacco,
88; prospect of pork compared to last ! AS A FRIEND AND
year, 104.
Clearing house exchanges indicate a ■
little gain in the volume of business, !
being for the week 19.5 per cent, be- :
low those of the same week last year.
In foreign trade exports again exceed
last year’s, and for the same month
about 24.6 per cent, while imports !
show a decrease for the month of
about 30 per cent. Yet foreign ex- j
change has risen so far that exports of
gold to Germany might be made with
little loss, and it is believed that calls
for repayment of gold obtained on
loans from Europe in July and Au- !
gust affect the rate more than current
business. Though a return of part of
the gold has been expected, and the
banks have now on hand more than
they need, the treasury stock is so low
that a renewed outflow would be re- |
garded with some ajipreliension. The
return of money from the interior
continues large, and plainly reflects
less activity than usual at this season
in domestic trade and industry.
MINERS DROWNED.
Thirly-Seren Unfortunates Caught lu
a. Flooded Mine.
The Mansfield mine, a few miles
from Crystal Falls, Alich., caved in
Thursday night and a number of
miners were entombed beyond hope of
rescue of any of them alive. The ac
cident occurred during the night.
The water of the river rushed into the
mine and the men were entrapped like
rats. It is not possible that any es
caped. Most of the victims are Cor
nish men and nine-tenths of them are
men with large families. The number
of the victims is now placed at thirty-
seven. Mansfield is an isolated sta
tion on the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad. The mine was the only ac-
p’’ ““pr tra'in tive one in the Cr J stal Falls district on
° account of its being a producer of
high-grade bessemer ore. It had
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JOB PRINTING,
r vv«u ; , ^ U 7‘ 0 o' < zr t mgn-grade bessemer ore. it bad a
K Z ?^ n - d Wei g ht - Bengerandsmokmg eoaehe mad and j capacity of abont sixty We arc Prep -.red to do all kinds of
VPrV hnrric nil? tnnir cmnll 0170 hoa linon rn-ro crc\ arm Pflf AT) 11 Anffinfl - r J J r
very hardy, but their small size has been baggage and express car and engine
the reason for their unpopularity a and tender, went into an open switch.
America. A few only of them have Investigation showed that the switch,
been imported, and these have gone out j -which had been properly set and lock-
of sight. Of late the breed has been | ed> ba d been forcibly opened. Three
improved by a mixture which has given
rise to the Kerry-Dexter oattle, now be
coming popular in England for parks
and small family cows. The milk of
these ccws is very rich in butter, and the
average of some herds has been over one
pound a day of the best kind of butter
per cow. The calves are not larger than
a good-sized dog.—[New York Times.
negro tramps who were stealing a ride
were killed.
Bismarck’s Book.
Prince Bismarck is said to have
sohlliis memorial to a South German
publisher for 50,000 murks, on con
dition they be published immediately,
aft Jr his death.
thousand tons per annnm, and gave j
employment to abont one hundred
men. The Alansfield mine bhs always
been considered a dangerous one to
work in, and Thursday [night’s disaster
oft« n been predicted.
For drinking chocolate, the French-
iest way is to serve it in four-cornered
green cups, but the prettiest way is in
tho pale brown cups that match the
contents, and are extremely narrow,
tall and flying at the top.
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