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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’
JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. Xin. NO. 18.
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The next total eclipse of the sun
trill not take place until the twenty-
first century.
A publication issued by a big East
ern thread company says that over 7,-
000,000 miles of thread are annually
vsed in the United States.
COTTON GROWERS MEET
Jajian has been inflicted by fewer
internal revolutions than any other
nation, the existing Government hav
ing held unbroken sway lor 2500 years.
Chicago, it is said, has twenty-nine
men worth over §3,000,000, forty-oi;j
worth about §2,000,000, and 137 plain
millionaires. It has some 30,000 resi
dents who will have to pay the income
tax, and the tax in the city, if fully
collected, will amount to some §2,-
000,000 a year.
Secretary Carlisle Aste for Pro
posals lor a Rew Issne
FOR FIFTY MILLION TEN-YEAR
FIVE PER CENTS.
A Viennese journalist 1ms made
collection of aphorisms on love, women
and marriage, uttered at the German
parliamentary sessions. Bismarck
quoted as saying that “it is an extra
ordinary advantage to a man's career
if he can make his journey through
life without any feminine b.aggag
Mr. Dunn, weather observer at New
York, says there is no such a thine
an equinoctial storm. That violent
atmospheric disturbances should neces
sarily bo connected with the passage
of the sun over an imaginary lino has
long been regarded as a mere super
stition by a great many observers,
especially as the disturbances often
fail to connect at anything like the
proper time.
The Japnneso army appears to the
San Francisco Chronicle to ha in the
situation of the popular bachelor
preacher who is flooded every Christ
mas with fancy slippers worked by his
fair parishoners. The Japs are em
barrassed by the abundance of straw-
sandals which have been contributed
by their industrious countrywomen.
A rough calculation gives about six
teen sandals to every officer and high
private.
The American Agriculturist re
marks: “The city of Buflalo has
passed an ordinance prohibiting ped
dlers from selliirg their wares before
ono o’clock in the afternoon, and the
husksters arc waging a vigorous fight
against this unconstitutional invasion
of their rights. It is the same typo
of municipal legislation which has so
often been attempted in prohibiting
farmers from vending their wares in
a city or town without payiug a li
cense fee. Such class legislation is
wrong, opposed to the spirit of a re
publican form of government and is
So doubt unconstitutional.”
Thaddeus Stephens, in his will, be
queathed §50,030 for the founding of
a free homo at Lancaster, Penn., for
deserving boys, without distinction of
race, color or nationality. After pay
ing other bequests, the executors
found, states the Trentou TrueAmeri
can, that there were not §33,003 left,"
but that by the accumulation of vari
ous interests the estate wouid eventu
ally aggregate that sum, whereupon
the heirs brought suit over the con
struction of the will. They were
beaten iu the court below a few- years
ago, and now, after the lapse of twen
ty-five years iu the courts, the Su
preme Court has just rendered a de
cision affirming the decision of the
lower court, and the home will bo
built and go into operation.
Congress May inquire Info the Reas-
ens for This Lsue.
A Washington special says: Inas
much as the fact has leaked out that
the. president has made up his mind to
again-take advantage of the resump
tion act and issue another series of
bonds, he eouclndcd Tuesdav to take
time by the forelock and direct the
isme before public opinion should
have the opportunity to erystalize in
opposition thereto. Mr. Cleveland
thoroughly understood that a very
strong public snntimcut existed in op
position to any further increase of the
public debt. This was male manifest
iu a most pronounced manner at the
late k ssion when the democratic ma
jority in both branches of congress
took open ground, not only against
aDV further bond issue, but questioned
the authority of Secretary Carlisle to
issue the §59,000,000 loan of last
spring.
and
Un-
Tliere are hundreds of farmers, it
is safe to say, iu thinly occupied parts
of this country, who either do not
own their land or do not know
whether they do or not. They settled
on their holdings wheu young,
no claims for rent or dispossess
rants have been exhibited since,
claimed lands have been taken up iu
New England within two years, and
n man who recently built a house in
Maine was asked why he did not buy
the ground it stood on. “What’s the
use? ’ he answered. “The owners of
all this country are big lumber com
panies. Do you suppose they're going
to pay au agent a hundred dollars or
more to hunt around for a fellow who
is rising ten cents’ worth of their real
estate and doing no harm to any
thing? I guess not. Yon can stay in
this country as long as vou like.”
Spontaneous Combustion <>i Coal.
According to L. Koepke, it is to a
slow- oxidation and to the resulting
disengagement of heat that must be
attributed the spontaneous combustion
of cargoes of coal. The danger is so
much the greater iu proportion as the
surface exposed to the Rir is wider. It
is maximum with coal dust. The load
ing and trimming should, therefore,
be so done as to avoid ns much as pos
sible the crumbling of the coal under
the influence of the ship’s motion. The
smallest vessels are preferable for the
carriage of coal.
Mr. floepke does not believe iu the
possibility of the spontaneous com
bustion of cargoes of damp cotton.
But it is possible that a spark falling
accidentally upon a bale may remain
ignited for weeks and afterward set
lire to the moss. Greasy cotton, cn
the contrary, veyy easily takes firo
Spontaneously. The same is the esse
with flax, jute and tow. Stacks of bev,
and bales of tobacco and htfpsarej;!:;-
wise liable to spontaneous combust; ,n.
—Scientific American.
Carlisle’s Circular.
The following circular was issued at
3:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon:
“Treasury Department,Washington,
D. C., November 13, 1894—By virtue
of the authority contained in the act
of congress entitled ‘An Act to Provide
for the resumption of specie payments,’
upproved January 14, 1875, the secre
tary i f the treasury hereby gives pub
lic notice that sealed proposals will be
received at the treasury department,
office of the secretary, until 12 o’eleck
noon on the 24th day of November,
1894, for United States 5 per cent
bonds, in either registered or coupon
form, dated February 1, 1894, redeem
able in coin at the pleasuro of the gov
ernment, after ten years from the date
of their issue, aud bearing interest
payable quartirly, in coin, at the rate
of 5 per cent per annum.
“Bidders whose proposals are accep
ted will bo required to pay 20 per cent
in gold coin, or gold certificates, upon
the amounts of their bids as soon as
they received notice of the acceptance
of such bids, and to pay iu like coin
or certificates au additional 20 per
cent at the expiration of each ten days
thereafter, until the whole is paid;
but they may, at their option, pay the
entire amount of their bids, wheu no
tified of their acceptance, or at any
time wheu an installment is payable.
The first payment, however, of not less
than 20 per cent must he made when
the bidder receives notice of the nc-
'‘eptance of his proposal.
The denominations of the bonds
will he §50 and upwards, and bidders
will, in their proposals, state the de
nominations desired, whether regis
tered or coupon, the price which the
bidder proposes to pay, the place
where it is desired that the bonds shall
be delivered, and the office, whether
that of the treasurer of the United
States, or an assistant treasurer of the
United States, where it will be most
convenient for the bidder to deposit
the amouuts of his payments.
“The bonds will be dated February
1, 1894, in order to make the proposed
issue uniform as to date with the ex
isting issue; hut interest thereon will
begin November 1, 1894, and bidders
will be required to pay accrued inter
est at the rato of 5 per cent on the
face value of their bonds from Novem
ber 1st to the date or dates of pay
ment. The total issue of bonds, in
pursuance of this notice, will not ex
ceed the sum of §50,000,000.
“The secretary of tho treasurey
hereby expressly reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
“All proposals should be addressed
to the secretary of the treasury, Wash
ington, D. C., and should be distinct
ly marked: ‘Proposals for the pur
chase of 5 per cent bonds.’
“Blank forms for proposals may bo
had on application to the secretary of
the treasury. J. G. Carlisle,
“Secretary of the Treasury.”
Anxious for Them.
A New York special says: The suc
cess of the new government issue is al
ready assured. It can be stated on
the highest authority that Drexel,
Morgan Co., and Speyer & Co., and
John A. Stewart, president of the
United States Trust Company, and his
following stand ready to take the whole
issue. Drexel, Morgan & Co. have
Bounded the feeling in London regard
ing tho' new issue and have found it
very favorable. They will, according
ly, put in bids for large amounts of
the bonds, and if the public subscrip
tions come iu slowly, will together
take the bulk of the new issue.
The manuscript of the Old Xesl
pept was complete.! 430 B, C,
GAVE UP THEIR GUNS.
The Cook Gang Hold Up a Train
Which Was Heavily Guarded.
At Blackatoue, five miles north of
Muskogee, Indian Territory, Tuesday
night at 9:45 o’clock, a northbound
passenger train on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railway was held up by
the Cook gang, and all the passengers
robbed of everything of value on their
persons.
The train was heavily guarded by
United States marshals, but Bill Cook
and Cherokee Bill, with their fifteen
men, forced them to contribute all
their guns, money aud watches to the
plunderers’ cause.
The express messenger saw the gang
before they reached the express car,
and put out the lights and locked the
door. An effort was made to break in
the door, but it did not succeed. A
company of men were organized and
started in pursuit of the robbers.
Many women aud children were on
the train, but-they were shown no fa
vors. Great excitement was caused
through the flourishing, by (he rob
bers, of their Winchester rifles and six
shooters,
And Discuss the Depressed Financial
Condition of the Farmers.
The cotton growers’ convention,
called by the commissioner of agricnl-
culture for Alabama, Hector D. Lane,
met at Montgomery Tuesday morning,
100 delegates being present, represent
ing Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
Florida and North Carolina. The ob
ject of the convention was to devise
means for improving the present con
dition of southern farmers.
Commissioner Lane was chosen pres
ident and J. Norwood, secretary.
Committees were appointed on order
of business and resolutions. The order
of business reported was discussions as
follows: Commercial fertilizer, with
a view to the reduction of (he use and
cost of planting; proper handling of
cotton, tho picking, packing and gin
ning of cotton.
Beduetion of acreage, improvement
of staple, marketing of cottoo, immi
gration. A number of risolutions
bearing on these subjects was intro
duced and referred to the committee.
A resolution from the Southeastern
Alabama district grange, declaring
that over-production and financial
stringency was the cause of the de
pressed condition of the cotton busi
ness and asking the co-operation of
southern planters in agreement and
practice of raising less cotton was
taken up by the convention, and dis
cussed for an hour or more.
Considerable divergence of opinion
was manifested regarding the cause of
the low price of cotton, Letters were
read from tho assistant secretary of
agriculture and the chief of the gov
ernment weather bureau detailing the
methods adopted and shortly to be in
troduced by the bureau in making the
accurate record of the cotton crop.
The thanks of the convention were re
turned to these officers.
At the atternoon session tho resolu
tions of the district grange were again
discussed and finally referred to the
committee on resolutions.
Governor-elect Oates being present,
was called upon to address the con
vention, which ho did in direct terms,
setting forth his views upon the situs
tion und why the price of cotton can
not be affected by monetary conditions
in America, so long ns cotton is sold to
foreigners and the price of cotton is
fixed in Liverpool.
A resolution was adopted that the
convention urge upon congress the ad
visability of the United States building
the Nicaragua canal, as that canal will
give shorter water route for southern
cotton to the mills of China and Ja
pan.
A resolution was adopted that, as
the manufacture of raw cotton into
yarns doubles its value, and turnin
yarns into sheetings quadruples the
value, and the south is without its
many factories that should be estab
lished.
Southern legislatures are urgently
requested to encourage the establish
ment of such factories by exempting
them from taxation for a period of ten
years.
Second Day’s Session.
The cotton growers’ convention re
assembled Wednesday and organized
an association national in its scope for
the better protection of planters’ in
terests. The committee on statistics
was instructed to obtain and arrange
for the use of the convention official
statistics of cotton, the prices, etc.,
for the past ten years. The president
of the convention, Commissioner
Lane, of Alabama, read a statement
showing by the census returns that
resolutions on the part of planters to
restrict acreage have been followed by
a decreased output of cotton.
Resolutions of the committee and
special resolutions subsequently offer
ed and adopted by the convention,
cover the following subjects:
1. Reduction of cotton acreage and
increased attention to production of
cereals.
2. Greater attention to stock and
cattle raising.
3. Encouragement of manufactur
ing in the south by exempting manu
factories from taxation for a period of
ten years.
4. Encouraging immigration, res
olutions advising that large planta
tions be divided into small farms and
the latter be sold to bona fide home
seekers.
5. Recommendation that cotton be
withheld tor sale by farmers who are
not in debt to their factors, and that
it be held for a rise—“which may rea
sonably be expected if the present
heavy receipts are appreciably re
duced.”
6. The organization of th# Cotton
Planters’ Association of the United
States of America to meet at least
twice a year and to consist of four
delegates from each congressional dis
trict in the cotton growing states and
three delegates at large from each
state appointed by governors of such
states, irrespective of party prefer
ence. Said association is to hold its
first meeting in JacksoD, Miss., the
second Wednesday in January, 1895.
7. Cotton seed trusts condemned.
8. Congress petitioned to pass the
anti-option bill.
9. Congress to be requested to re
fund the cotton tax collected in 1866-
1867.
The convention then organized the
new association by electing officers to
serve until the January meeting as
follows: Governor James Stone, of
Mississippi, president; Hon. J.O. Wad
dell, Georgia, and commissioner of
agriculture for the cotton growing
states, vice president; Robert E. Eck-
eberger, of Alabama, secretary, and
Professor James Smith, of Georgia,
treasurer.
The chairman of the convention was
requested to issue an address to all bus
iness interests asking co-operation in
obtaining the objects of the association.
The following resolution was adopt
ed :
“Resolved, That the honest convic
tion of this convention as practical
cotton growers is that the estimates
that are being sent out by the cotton
exchanges in reference to the crop are
excessive, and it is the belief of this
convention, based upon practical ob
servation and best statistical informa
tion, that the present crop will not ex
ceed 8,500,000.”
The convention adjourned pipe die.
SOUTHERN FLASHES. FROM WASHINGTON.' THE LATEST BY WIRE! BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
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NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Anil Presenting an Epitome of th^ Sayings anil Doings of the Official
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
At Kellar, La., Tnesday while Abram
Smith and his wife were in tho field
picking cottoD, their cabin burned,
cremating .their three little children.
The convention of the Southern Sur
gical and Gyn;e!ogienl Association,non
Heads of the Government.
The president, Thursday, appointed
Edward K. Lowry, of Ohio, second
secretary of the United States lega
tion at Pekin.
The democratic congressional breth
ren who were buried iu the recent po-
in session at Charleston, S. C., has an litical snow stonn, are beginning to
attendance of about one hundred mem
bers.
Some fifty odd enlisted men of the
garrison at Fortress Monroe, Ya., of
foreign birth, went to Norfolk to ob
tain naturalization papers Tuesday,
which is now required by a recent act
of congress.
Blue, red and green and every other
kind of fire burned in Chattanooga
Tuesday night when 5,000 republicans
of the county and surrounding towns
united with as many more in the city
to celebrate Evuns’ election.
H. P. Schmidt, banker and general
dealer, in Bremoud, Kobertsonconnty,
Texas, has filed a deed of trust to se
cure creditors in the sum of §75,000.
Schmidt’s assets are from §100,000 to
§125,000.
The house of Louis Williams, nine
miles below Natchez, Miss., burned
at an early hour Tuesday morning and
two yonDg children were cremated iu
the blaze. Williams himself and an
older child were badly burned.
The estimate of the cotton crop
made on the exchange at CharletsoD,
S. C., varies from 9,000,000 to
10,000,000 bales. It is expected that
Charleston’s receipts this year will be
fully 400,000 bales, of which 188,782
bales have been so far received.
News reached Memphis, TenD.,
Wednesday of the burning of four
negro bouses by forest fins near Mil
lington, Tenn., and of the fatal burn
ing of Fannie Woods and the child of
a negro named Pitt Rhea. About
fifty negroes are now homeless in that
vicinity.
So far the grand jnry at Jackson,
Miss., has made no report to the court
relative to the special warrant case,
and may not do so, but it may be con
sidered as a certainty that its refusal
to indict was a finality, so far, at least,
as this court is conci rned. It is un
derstood that all the witnesses in the
case have been paid off and diecharged.
W. II. Gibbs, republican postmaster
at Jackson, Miss., under Harrison, ex-
anditor of Mississippi under the re
publican regime, recently indicted for
embeszlemeut as postmaster, of §3,-
970:82, was fined the amount of his
embezzlement by Judge Miles, iu the
federal court Wednesday and sentenced
to three years in the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
prison.
Forty-five persons were poisoned by
ice cream at Wake Forest college, Ral
eigh, N. C. The cream was served at
a golden wedding there. Among the
sick were five of the faculty. Mis3
SimmoDS, a daughter of the late Pro
fessor William G. Simmons, and Miss
Dnnn are not expected ' to live. The
others are out of danger. There were
ptomnines in the cream.
A Montgomery, Ala., special .says:
The feature of Wednesday’s assembly
proceedings was the presentation of
the governor’s message and the formal
election of the officers named by Tues
day’s democratic caucuses. In both
houses the populists had tickets for
every office voted on. Iu the house
the vote, iu almost every case, stood
about 63 for the demociats and 34 for
the opposition nominees. In the sen
ate the vote stood about 24 to 7 iu fa
vor of the democratic nominees.
The Alabama SheritFs Association
met at Montgomery in nnunal session
Tuesday. Officers were elected and
the usual business routine was gone
through with. Tho recommendation
of the state auditor in his report to the
legislature that sheriffs be allowed 20
instead of 30 cents per day for feeding
prisoners was discussed. The sheriffs
argue that they will not suffer by the
reduction so much as the prisoners
will and a committee was appointed to
look after the matter in the legislature.
If you would have your son to have
confidence in you, let him know |)to
yon hftTf ooufldMiee is bin.
COTTON ESTIMATES.
The • Exchanges Furnish Figures Re
garding the Output.
The estimate of the cotton crop
made by prominent operators cm the
exchange at Savannah vary from 8,-
750.000 to 9,463,000 bales, *the majori
ty putting it at about 9,250,000. It is
estimated generally that the crop of
Georgia will be 5 per cent increased
on last year or 1,200,000 bales.
Augusta’s report.
Averaging the opinions of promi
nent cotton men, the estimate of the
trade in Augusta is that the cotton
crop for this year will be between
9.250.000 and 9,500,000 bales.
ESTIMATE OF GEORGIA’S CROP.
A Columbus dispatch says: The
general estimate of the entire cotton
crop of Georgia is not over 900,000
bales. It has been rapidly marketed,
and in the territory tributary to Co
lumbus the receipts have been heavy,
but the total receipts will show a fall
ing off, as considerable cotton has
been left in the fields. It is estimated
now that the total receipts for Colum
bus will approximate only 58,000
bales.
FROM WTLMIXGTOX, N. C.
The produce exchange at Wilming
ton, N. C., makes no official estimate
of the cotton crop, but individual es
timates of the cotton men vary from
9,250,000 to 9,500,000 bales. It is
also estimated that about two-thirds
of the cotton in that territory has been
marketed. Receipts to date are 121,-
233 bales, which is about 14,000 bales
ahead of last year.
Devastating Floods in England.
Cable dispatches from London state
that floods in various parts of England
are still raging. Iu Buckingham the
houses in the lower portion of the
town are flooded and the roads are
blocked. The Avon has overflowed its
banks at Bath and thousands of per-
80us are consequently imprisoned in
the upper stories of factories and
dwellings,
put in a resurrected appearance in
Washington.
Major W. M. Stanton and Captain
F. V. Abbott, corps of engineers, have
been appointed as a bourd to investi
gate and report upon the channel
through the outer bar of Brunswick,
Ga.
Twenty-nine clerks of the census
office were dismissed Thursday. This
will he followed iu a few days by the
dismissal of 200 more. The cause is
the completion of the work of the
eleventh census.
The smallpox scare at Washington
has resuited in an order from the
health office for the closing for a time
of the Central High school, the Busi
ness High school and two of the gram
mar schools in the city.
Co-incident with the issue of the
circular inviting bids for gold United
States bonds the treasury department
is beginning to lose gold. On Novem
ber 13th it lost §6,000 iu gold and on
Wednesday §130,000 in exchange for
United States notes and treasury notes.
The gold was withdrawn from tho sub-
treasury, and further withdrals are ex
pected.
The report of the United States
strike commission upon the controver
sies which arose between the Illinois
Central Bailroad Company and the
Chicago, Bock Island aud Pacific Rail
way Company and their employes in
June last is a pamphlet of forty-three
pages, and contains suggestions of
more than usual interest.
The treasury sustained a further
loss Thursday in its gold reserve,
§275,000 being withdrawn from the
various sub-treasuries in exchange for
United States notes and treasury notes
of 1890. This brings the aggregate
loss from this cause within two days
to §400,000. The gold is being prin
cipally taken out in Boston, and is
evidently intended for bond pur
chasers.
The attention of the president was
called Wedesday to the statement con
tained in certain newspapers to the ef
fect that there had been a difagree-
ment between him and Mr. Carlisle in
regard to the issne of bonds and other
matters, and"intimating that such dis
agreement might result in the secre
tary’s retirement from the cabinet.
The president emphatically denied the
entire “batch of silly misstatements, ”
and said: “Never since our associa
tion together has there been the slight
est unpleasantness concerning the af
fairs of the treasury department or any
other matter.
Many requests are received at the
postofiice department from postmas
ters all over the country asking that
certain officers included in the recent
civil service order be excepted from
its operations for a short time. It
appears, according to many of them,
that the postmasters appointed since
the new administration came into
power have not yet had time to fill
the offices under them with their party
friends, and by the new extension
they are debarred from selecting chief
clerks and other officers who have
heretofore been considered entitled to
party patronage places.
United States Minister Dan has
communicated to the minister at Tokio,
Japan, the substance of an important
cipher cable proposition received from
Secretary Gresham at Washington. It
suggests that if Japan will join China
in requesting the President of the
United States to act as mediator in
settling the war he will exercise his
good offices in that capacity. A simi
lar proposition has been sent to China.
The proposition presents a grave ques
tion to the ministry. They are urged
on one hand by the popular sentiment
to continue the war and crush China.
On the other hand European powers
are threatening to intervene. As be
tween these conflicting influences the
ministry find great difficulty in reach
ing a decision on the American propo
sition, but the prospect is that it will
be accepted.
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief Mention of Daily Happenings
Throughout the World.
EIGHTY-FOUR AND FIFTEEN.
General Clay Captures a Fifteen-
Year-OId Bride.
A message from Foxtown, Ky., a
small village two miles from White
hall, the home of General Cassius M.
Clay, says the general has succeeded
in marrying pretty Dora Richardson,
despite the determined effort of his
children and friends to prevent it.
The ceremony was performed at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning by Squire K.
M. Douglass, with the brother of the
girl and two or three of the general’s
farm hands present.
His children plended earnestly with
him not to marry, bnt he assured them
that he could not be dissuaded Horn
his intentions. He is eighty-four,
while she is fifteen years old.
VIRGINIA BAPTISTS
Meet in General Association at Al
exandria.
The Baptist’s general association of
Virginia convened in its 71st annual
convention Tuesday night at Alexan
dria. This is the representative body
of Virginia regular Baptists, and now
includes 23 district associations—820
churches, 400 preachers and pastors,
and a membership of near 100,000.
Hill’s Election Expenses.
Senator David B. Hill has filed a
statement of his election expenses as
the democratic candidate for governor
as follows: Paid to democratic state
committee for the general expenses of
the campaign §2,500, paid for trans
portation §150, paid for use of type
writer machines §13, paid for personal
expenses, myself and secretary, on
trips throughout the state, §335; post,
age and telegrams, $55.
A band of schoolboys dug a cave on
a vacant lot in St. Louis and seven of
them were buried by the roof caving
in. Henry Raedeer, eight years old,
was killed, and Herman Walkenford,
aged twelve, was badly injured. The
others were unhurt.
A Memphis, Tenn., special says:
After a week’s delay in securing a jury
the trial of W. S. Richardson an-.l E.
N. Smith, charged with being parties
to the Kerrville lynching where six ne
groes were murdered, was begun
Thursday. It looks as if the trial will
last thirty days.
A London cablegram states that the
British ship Calmer, Captain Read,
last reported at Hamburg, Oct. l,from
Tquiqni, foundered in a gale off Spurn
Head, Yorkshire. Twenty-two persons
were drowned, including the captain
aud his wife. Eight bodies were washed
ashore at Worthing.
At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon a
fierce wind and dust storm struck
Denver, Col., from the north, fillin
the-air so that it was impossible to see
across the street for a long time.
Many plate glass windows and awn
ings were destroyed. The temperature
fell 20 degrees in 30 minutes.
The sensation at Memphis Thursday,
iu the murder trial of Smith and Rich
ardson, charged with the sextuple
lynching, was tho appearance on the
witness stand, one after another, of the
s-x widows of the murdered men. They
told the circumstances of the arrest of
their husbands by Detective Richard
son.
One of the most bloody battles
fought at Van Buren, Ark., since the
war, occurred Thursday between the
LnRnes and Johns, and as a result
John Johns is dead and Ben LaBnehas
a Winchester ball through him and
cannot recover. The Johns are armed
to the teeth and are pnrsuing the La-
Rues.
The committee on membership of the
aristocratic Woman’s Club, of Chi
cago, after a stormy session, refused to
admit to membership the colored lec
turer, Fanny Barrien Williams. The
application for membership had been
considered at several secret sessions
and ft quarrel of the first magnitude
developed by the discussions.
Adjutant General Tarsney” has re
fused to comply with a reqnest from
Governor Waite for his resignation,
saying he will resign when the govern
or, whose retirement has been decided
by a majority of 20,000, does the same.
It is understood that the governor will
now remove the adjutant general. Mr.
Tarsney was opposed to the renomina-
tion of Waite for governor.
The complete official returns of Mis
sissippi’s election arrived at the office
of the secretary of state at Jackson,
Thursday, from the seventy-five conn-
ties in Mississippi *how the following
aggregate vote at the congressional
election in the seven districts on No
vember 6th : Democratic, 26,501; pop
ulist, 12,096; prohibition, 451; repub
lican, 1,900. This was less than half
a vote.
The striking weavers at Lorraine
Mills, at Pawtucket, R. I., who have
been out since October 2, have at last
voted to return to their looms. A set
tlement was accomplished through the
intercession of Mayor Tiepke. It is
claimed by the management that the
employes will by the introduction of
improved loom heads on the machinery,
be able to earn more than before the
wages were cut.
After debating the question for
sometime the members of the repub
lican state central committee of Ne
braska have announced that they
would contest the election of Judge
Holcomb to the governorship. Secre
tary Sedgewiek said the grounds for
the contest on behalf of Majors, the
defeated candidate, would be charges
of fraud in several voting precincts in
Omaha, incompetency of election
judges and consequent irregularities
in the count.
A courier has arrived at Muskogee,
I. T., from the Arkansas bottoms and
reported that he, by chance, ran into
the Cook gang in their quarters. They
received him without fear of their
whereabouts being reported to the
officers. A number of farmers who
live near the rendezvous of the gang
have arrived and reported to United
States Attorney Jackson the situation,
and have asked that they be commis
sioned and be permitted to lead twenty
deputies against the outlaws.
H CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
HE TALKS PHILOSOPHICALLY OF
THE SITUATION.
Short and Crisp Morseli of General
Interest to Odr Readers.
PRESIDENT COMER.
He Will Head the Central of Georgia
Railway Company.
A New York special of Wednesday
6ays: There have been a number of
important modifications in the plan of
the reorganization of the Central of
Georgia Railway company, since the
terms were last published, which es
sentially change the method of the
-conversion of the old into the new se
curities.
The full plan is not yet ready for
formal announcement, bnt the general'
outlines are as follows:-The name is to
be changed from the Central Bailroad
and Banking Company of Georgia to Amjjonr.
the “Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany.” The new company will en
deavor to secure new leases of the
Southwestern and Augusta and Savan
nah roads at five per cent upon their
sfock. Mr. H. M. Comer will be presi
dent of the new company.
CHURCH CONGRESS.
Sixteenth Annual Session Convenes in
Boston, Mass.
With all the pomp and with the full
beauty of the church liturgy, the six-
teenra annual session of the great
church congress of America was form
ally opened in Trinity Episcopal
church at Boston, Mass., Tuesday
morning. It was a most impressive
gathering,composed of bishops, priests
and earnest, attentive churchmen and
women from all parts of the country,
representing every class and every
creed,
Greater New York commissioners
met Tuesday and prepared outlines of
l necessary initial legislation on the sub
ject of consolidation.
A boarding house in Elderfield,
Rhenish Prussia, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night and seven occupants
were burned to death. Several others
are missing.
Governor-elect Levi P. Morton, of
New York, has caused to be filed with
the secretary of state his statement of
election expenses. He gives tho total
at §19,700, of which §16,000 went to
the 6tate committee.
The British steamer Breckfield, Cap
tain Ferguson, from Galveston and
Norfolk, which arrived at Havre,
France, November 9, nfter partially
discharging her cargo, was found to
be on fire in her forekold Wednesday
morning. The fire was extinguished
with slight damage.
Advices from Rome state that several
Catholic bishops in the United States
have renewed their request to the Pope
that he condemn certain societies of
workingmen as associations that can
not be countenanced by tho church,
but the Vatican does not regard it as a
duty to interfere in the matter.
The official vote of last Tuesday’s
election in Indiana has been received,
and by congressional districts the re
publicans have a majority of 55,674.
For the head of the state ticket, with
one county (Sullivan) out, the repub
lican plurality is 47,649. The populist
candidate for secretary of state received
29,591 votes, showing a populist gain
over 1892 of 7,504.
A sensation has been created at Den
ver, Col., by the announcement of
Coroner Martin that a prominent bus
iness man is under strong suspicion of
having committed the horrible mur
der of strangling the three women who
have met death by this method in that
city during the past few weeks. The
identity of the man suspected is with
held by the coroner.
Meyer Hirsch, for a number of years
grand treasurer of the Ancient Order
United Workmen, was arrested at Bal
timore, Wednesday night charged with
embezzling funds of the order. An al
leged shortage of §10,547 was found in
bis accounts. Hirsch’s bondsmen re
fused to make good this shortage and
the order turned the matter over to
the grand jury.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has rendered an opinion in the Gaultz,
in the school case, affirming the de
cision of the lower court. The court
refuses to restrain by injunction the
members of the order of St. Joseph
(Catholic sisters) from teaching in
public schools in the garb of their or
der or the school directors from em
ploying or permitting them to act in
that capacity.
Mary Neilson, twenty-five years old,
of Philadelphia, while dining with a
party of friends at Norwich, Conn.,
Tuesday afternoon, in response to a
toast, laughingly drank a glass of car
bolic acid with suicidal intent and died
soon afterwards. Nut one of the par
ty ,m.spect,_d that tho liquid was poison
until its fatal result was seen. Grief
at the death of her husband led to
the act.
Wednesday the governing commit
tee of the New York stock exchange
listed $119,000,000 of Southern Kail
way Company common stock, $50,-
000,000 5 per cent, non-cumnlative,
preferred stock; §21,911,000 first
mortgage, 5 per cent gold bonds and
the various securities of the lines com
prising the company, to-wit:‘ The
Columbia and Greenville, Georgia Pa
cific, Western North Carolina, Rich
mond and Danville, Virginia Midland
and East Tennessee companies*, which
have assented to the reorganization.
A New York special of Wednesday
says: The White Star line steamship
Adriatic took in her': steerage a party
of twenty colored people bound for
Liberia. This is a flying column from,
the army of 4,000 negroes, that is said
to be gathered in southern ‘ seaports
awaiting means for deportation. This
organization is under the management
of Jere McMillan, a white man living
in Birmingham, Ala., and under the
patronage of Bishop Turner, of the
African Methodist Episcopal church.
No Use
to Worry Over
Defeat.
ALABAMA’S LEGISLATURE
Convenes In Montgomery and Is Or
ganized by tlie Democrats.
The general assembly of Alabama
convened at Montgomery. Tnesday at
noon. Both houses were opened with
prayer, after which the members pre
sented their certificates and were
sworn in by Chief Justice Brickie, in
the senate.
The two houses adjourned about 1
o’clock to meet at 10 o’clock Wednes
day morning.
The democratic members of the sen
ate met in the senate chamber after
adjournment and nominated ■ the offi
cers of that body as follows: Presi
dent, F. L. Pettus, of Dallas; secre
tary, William L. Clay, of Madison;
assistant secretary, Elmore Garrett, of
Calhoun; enrolling and engrossing
clerk, Mrs. Emma Scott, of Birming
ham ; doorkeeper, Bryant James, of
The caucus of the democrats in the
lower house was held at night, and re
sulted as follows: Speaker, Thomas H.
Clark, of Montgomery; clerk, Massey
Wilson, of Clark; assistant clerk, J.
F. Proctor, of Jackson; enrolling
clerk, W. P. Howell, . of Clebourne;
engrossing clerk, Nat Taylor, of Ma
rengo;-doorkeeper, Robert Hasson, of
Etowah; assistant doorkeeper, Thomaa
Fain, of Dale.
Don't fret. This thing has happened before
and we survived it. If the United States of
North America can stand it, bo can I and to
can you. It is not as bad as war or pestilence
or famine; not so bad as a cyclone or fire or
tickne-s or death or taxes. An 1 yet we are lia
ble to all these. If we have health and strength
and food and raiment we ought to be thankful
and happy. The trudi U. onr p oplo care 1 as
about this republican victory than thov have
about auy sinoe the war. I heard an old-time
democrat say today: -‘I don’t care a darn. Our
party is not fit to run the government nohow.
Now let the yai ks take it anrl run it till king
dom come.” Another one said: “We swept our
state in the face of five oent cotton, blit up
nor h, where they have no cotton, tliev cleaned
ns np hko an ava anebe. How’s that?”
And now the quarrel still goes on in the dem
ocratic press. Who did ii? Who is to be held
responsible for the inglorious defeat? Both
factions are crying: ‘T told you so,” and tho
peoplo are tired. What, is the use of trying to
fine out how the wagon came to turn over while
dad is under the hay? Let’s get him out and
drive oh. It reminds me of Judge Undersood’s
old darkey, who waked up and found himself
m the calaboose. He sent for ••Mars John,”
and declared he hadn't “dim nuffin—uufiin at
all.” “Well, Jack, they oun’t put you in here
for that. There is no law to punish a man for
doing nothing.” Jack brightened up for a
moment: “Yon fay dey can’i, Mars John.”
“No, sir;” said the judge. “No, sir; they can’t
doit-” “But, Mars John, dey lias done done
it, and I is here right now—’fore G id I is-”
Well, wo democrats Sre all in for it now, and
I'm not going to bed about it. There is not
mnch difference between the two parties no
how. There is no dividing line on principle.
There are thousands of protection democrats
down sou li, especially in Alabama and Ten
nessee. They nay protection h..s enriched the
north, and now let the south go to manufact
uring and get rich too. On the silver question
cur people are as much divided as the republi
cans. Borne want to take silver straight, and
some to dash it with gold, and nobody but the
fools know which is right. So, after all, there
is but ono settled, well-defined line and that ria
office, spoils, patronage. Bnt few nf ns have
auy interest in that, so let the offico holders
and office seekers howi aud weep. I’m not go
ing to shed many tears. There are five repub
licans in this town who are right now rumina
ting about our little puBtc flies for two years
hence, and they are all clever men and good
citizens, but only one can get It. Then, there
are two or three revenue officers aud three or
four clerkships at Washington, and that is all
that onr whole county of three thousand voters
gets out of national politics, so lot tho proces
sion proceed. As Cobo Bays, “It’s all optionary
with nte.”
Federal politics is Dot of so much conse-
quenee to us as our Btate politics. Ah long :ts
ihe negro is here we want a solid south, a unit
ed people. Tho populist parly has done more
to disturb harmony and engender discord at
the south than all other causes. If it bad been
conceived on good principles and with a good
intent to reform corrupt methods thousands of
good men would have joined it, but it has pan
dered to the prejudices of the laboring classes
and arraigned them against their more fortu
nate nabors. It. has fostered and enconreged a
desire for paternalism and mttdo promises to the
negro that i t never intended to perform, It
is astonishing that men who paBS as gentlemen
at home shonld so far degrade their instincts,
their consciences as to carry the banner of
inch a party. I would rather be a republican
ten times over than a populist, and yet I know
some good men who have joined that party and
profess to Lel’eva in its absurd and ridiculous
platform. There is but ono explanation of
this strange anomally and that is just what a
clever populist said wheu I asked him if he
really believed in their platform. “Platforms,”
said he, “amount lo nothing. It is what a man
does that we judge him by—not what ho says
he will do. We propose to reform aud econo
mize and put down monopolies. Tho old par-
lies are utterly corrupt, as you will admit, aud
it is time to have a new deal.” That is sensi
ble, and if they had that for a platform and
hail left out all their foolishness and ban put
forward men who were not tricksters and dema
gogues there was a great opportunity to build
up a third party that would have held the bal
ance of power in national politics and havo
cheeked the corrupt methods of the state dem
ocracy. Even as it is, they have been a terror
to machine politics in Georgia and thereby
have done some good, bnt with their professed
principles of paternalism and the moral obliqu
ity of their leaders, woe bo unto Georgia if
they ever get into power. The people admiro
the boldness of an independent, hut lament the
foolishness of a populist. Dr. Feltou dident
mean to be one and ho is not one now. It is
very hard for an old line whig like him to be a
democrat. and we sympathize witli him in
ike strain that has been upon him for
forty years. Ben Hili was another and
said with mortification. “I dident go to bo
a democrat.” Toombs was ano her aud Alex.
Stephens, and they gave Dr. Felton aid and
comfort when lie ran as an independent against
Dabney and Lester. Mr. Stephens never was
a democrat at heart and would have run as an
independent if tho democrats had dared to
nominate another man. Dr. Felton has not yot
bee ime reconci.ed to democracy. He cannot
belie his raising, and some of his friends pre
dict that he will yet join the republican party,
for in that party he can find the protection pol
icy that he favors and can also find thousands
of jdhLline whigs. If tie had run this last race
as an independent he would have received
many votes that he did not. Now let the grand /
old man retire. Let him say with Othello: “I
have done the 'state some service and she
knows it. Speak of me as I am; nothing ex
tenuate nor set down aught in malice.”
But there is some good mixed up with every
had that comes. The populists are sick unto
death and so are the A F. A’s. and Tammany.
Now let the next presidential contest be fair
and square on the tariff. Let protection or
tariff reform be the issue. We want this ques
tion settled so that the hidden money can be
lurned loose. There is jnst as much of it as
there was a few years ago, when the boom was
on, bnt people will not invest while this uncer
tainty continues. It is not so much whether
silver should bo 1C to 1, or some vai iable ratio,
as it is the withdrawal of capital from active
employment. I wish to borrow and nobody will
lend. This may (ie good for me in the long
run, but in the short run it is very aggravat
ing—if not more so. Nevertheless, the best
thing for us all to do now is to bo calm and
sereae. —Bill t rp in Atlanta Constitution.
NORTH GEORGIA
il Elite,
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At Dah/onega, Georgia.
Spring term begins first Monday in February.
Fall term begin* first Monday In September.
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TUITION FREE
With ample corps of teachers.
THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING
under a U. 8. Army Officer detaHee. by
Secretary of war.
Decided Against the Brokers.
In criminal court No. J2 at Washing
ton, D. C., Tuesday morning, Judge
Cole overruled a demurrer to the in
dictment against McCarfnoy and Chap
man,-the stock brokers, who refused to
answer the questions pnt by the senate ;
sugar investigating c-ommjttee. The!
eourt held that the indictment was all |
right and that the committee was au-
fhqfized to ask the questions,
Departments of Business, Short
hand, Typewriting, Telegraphy,
Music and Art.
Under competent and thorough instructors.
YOUNG LADIES have equal advantages.
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