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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS* One Dollar Per Annum.
“HEW TO THE LIXE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.”
JOHH E. HOWELL, Editor and Prop’r.
VOL. XIV. NO. 12.
VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1895.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
IdiY. DR. TAL3IAGE;
THE NOTED DlVlLNE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject:
‘Gideon’s Baitle Witt the
Midianites.”
Text: “An 1 the thre9 companions ble\»
Vhe trumpets, and brake the pitchers, an l
beld th? ‘amps in their left hands and the
trumpets in their rierht hands to blow withab
A.n<l they stood every man in his nlaee
round about the camp, and all the host ran
and cried and fled.”—Judges vii., 20. 2J.
That is the strongest battle evsr fought.
God had told Gideon to go down and thrash
the Midianites. hut his armv is too large, for
the glory must be givan to God aod not to
man. And so proclamation is made that all
those of the troops who ar* cowardly and
want to go home may go. an l 22,00') of
them s**ampered away, leaving on\y 10.000
men. But God says the army is too
large yet, and so he or lei's these 10.000
remaining to march down through a
stream and command Gidpon to notice id
What manner these m^n drink of the water
03 they oass through it. If they gee do wn
on all fours and drink. 1 hen they are to he
fironounCdd lazy arid incompetent for the
Campaign, but if, iii passing through the
Stream, they scoop tin the water in the palm
of their hand and drink and pass on they are
to be the men selected for the battle.
Well, the 10.000 men marched down in the
Stream, and the most of theni come down on
all fours and plunge their months like ahorse
or an ox into the water and drink, but there
are 300 men who, instead of stooping, jusc
flip the r>alm of their hands in the water and
bring it to their lins, “lanning it as a dog
lappeth.” Those 800 brisk, rapid, en
thusiastic men are chosen for the
campaign. They are each to take a trumpet
in the rierht hand, and a niteher in the lefc
hand, and a lamp inside the pitcher, and
then at a given signal they arc to blow the
trumpets, and throw down the pitchers, aai
hold up the lamps. So it was done.
It is night. I see a great host of Midianites
sound asleep in the valley of Jezroel. Gid
eon comes up with his 300 picked men. and
when everything is ready the signal is given
and they blow tbe trumpets, and they throw
down the pitchers, and hold up the lamps,
and the great host of Midianites. waking out
of a sound sleep, take the crash of the
crockery and the glare of the lamps for the
coming on of an overwhelming foe. and they
run and cut themselves to pieces and horri
bly peri3h.
The lessons of this subject are very spir
ited and impressive. This seemingiy value
less lump of quartz has the pure gold in it.
The smallest dewdrop on the meadow at
night has a star sleeping in its bosom, and
the most insignificant passage of Scripture
has in if, a shining truth. God’s mint coins
no small change.
I learn in the first pla-m from this subject
the lawfulness of Christian strategom. You
know very well that the greatest victories
ever gained by Washington or Napoleon
were gained through the fact that theycaere
when and in a way they were not expected—
sometimes falling back to draw out the foe,
sometimes breaking out from ambush, some
times crossing a river on unheard of rafts,
nil the time keeping the opnosing forces in
Wonderment as to what would be done next.
You all know what strategy is in military
affairs. Now I think it is high time we had
this art sanctified and spiritualized. In the
church, when wo are about to make a Chris
tian assault, we send word to the opposing
force when we expect to come, how many
troops we have, and how many rounds oi
shot, and whether we will come' with artil
lery, infantry or cavalry, and of course
Wo are defeated. There are thousands of
inen who might be surprised into the king
dom of God. Wo need more tact and ingen
uity in Christian work. It is in spiritual
affairs as in military, that success depends
in attacking that part of the castle which is
not armed and intrenched.
For instance, here is a man all armed or
the doctrine of election. Ail his troops of
argument and prejudice are at that particu
lar gate. You may batter away at that side
of the castle for fifty years, and j’ou will not
take it, but just wheel your troops to the side
gate of the heart’s affections, and in five
minutes you capture him. I never knew
a man to be saved through a brilliant nr-
gumet. You cannot hook men into the
kingdom of God by the horns of a dilemma.
There is no grace in syllogisms. Here is a
man armed on the subject of perseverance
of the saints. Ho does not believe in it.
Attack him at that point, and he will perse
vere to the very last in not be
lieving it. Here is a man armed
on the subject of baptism. He believes
in sprinkling or immersion. All your dis
cussion of ecclesiastical hydropathy will not
change him. I remember when I was a bov
that with other boys I went into the river on
a summer day to bathe, and we use i to dash
water on each other, but never got any re
sult except that our eyes were blinded, and
all this splashing of water between Baptists
and Pcdobaptists never results in anything
but the blurring of the spiritual eyesight. Iu
other words, veu can never capture a man’s
soul at the point at which he is especialIv
iutrenched. But there is in every’man’s
heart a bolt that can be easily shoved. A
little child four years old may touch that
bolt, and it will spring back, and the door
will swing open, and Christ will come in.
I think that the finest of all the lino arts is
I ho art of doing good, and yet this art is the
least cultured. Wo have in the kingdom of
God to-day enough troops to conquer the
whole earth for Christ if we only baa skillful
maneuvering. I would rather have the 300
lamps and pitchers of Christian strategom
than 101,000 drawn swords of literary and
ooclesiastical oombat.
I learn from this subject also that a small
part of the army of God will have to do all
the hard fightiug. Gideon's army wjis origin
ally composed of 32,000 men. but they went
off until there wore ouly 10,000 left, audthat
was substractad from until there were only
300. It is the same in all ages of the Ciiris-
t iau church. A few men have to do the hard
lighting. Take a membership of 1000, aQd
you generally find that fifty people do the
work. Take a membership of 5C0, and you
generally find that ten people do the work.
There are scores of churches where two or
three people do the work.
We 'mourn that there is so much useless
lumber in the mountains of Lebanon. I
think of the 10,000,009 membership of the
Christian church to-day if 5,000,030 of the
names were off the books the cburca would
be stronger. You kuow that the more
cowards and drones there are in any army
tho weaker it is. I would rather have tno
300 picked men of Gideon than tho 32.000
unsiTted host. The many Christians there are
standing in the way of all progress! I think
it is the duty of the church of God to ride
over them, and tho quicker it does it the
quicker.it does its duty.
Do not worry, O Christian, if you have to
do more than your snare of the wont. You
had better thank God that He lias called you
to De one of tho picked men rather than to
belong to the host of stragglers. Would not
you rather be one of the 300 that fight than
the 22,000 that ruD? I suppose those cow
ardly Gideonites who went off congratu
lated themselves. They said: “Wo got rid
of all that fighting, * did not wo? Hov
lucky we nave Wn| That battle costs
us nothing at all.” But they got none,
of the spoils o* the victory. After the battle
the 300 men went down and took the wealth
of the Midianites, and out of the cues and
platters of their enemies they feasted. And
the time will come, ray dear brethren,
when the hosts of darkness will be routed,
and Christ will say to His troops: “Well
done, my bravo men. Go up and take the
spoils. Be more than, conquerors forever.”
And in that day all deserters will be shot.
Again, 1 learn from this subject that God’s
way is different from man's, but is always
the best way. If we had the planning of tb it
battle, we would have taken those 32.003
men that originally belonged to the array,
and we would have drilled them and
marched them up and down by the day and
week and month, and we would have had
them equipped with swords or spears, accord
ing to the way of arming in these times,
and then we would have marched them
down in solid column upon the foe.
But that is not the way. God depletes the
army, and takes away all their weapons,and
gives them a lamp, and a pitcher, and a
trumpet, and tells them to go down and
drive out the Blidianites. I suppose some
wiseacres were there who said: “That is not
military tactics. The idea of 300 men un
armed conquering such a great host of Mid
ianites!” Jt was the best way. What sword.
spea^f’or cannon over accomplished such a
victory as the lamp, pitcher and trumpet?
God ? 3 way is different from man’s way,
but it is always best. Take, for in-lance,
the composition of the Bible. If we had And
the writing of the Bible, we would have said:
“Let one man write it If you have twenty
or thirty men to write a poem, or make a
statute, or write a history, or make an argu
ment. tber* will be flaws and contra Ac
tions.” En* God says: “Let not one man do
it but forty men shall do it.” And they
did,differing enough to showthera had bean
no collusion between them, but not contra
dicting each other on any important point,
while they all wrote from their own stand
point an i temperament, so that the matter
of fact man has his Moses, the romantic na
ture k's Ezekiel, the epigrammatic his Solo-
mcr, the warrior his Joahua. the sailor bis
Jonah, the loving bis John, the logician his
Paul. Instead of this Bible, which now
I can lift in my hand—instead of the
Bible the child can carry to Sunday-school,
instead of the little Bible the sailor can put
in his jacket when he goes to sea—if it had
been left to men to write it would have been
a thousand volumes, judging from th*
amount of ecclesiastic! controversy which
has arisen. God’s wav is different from
man's, but it is best, infinitely best.
So it is io regard to the Christian's lifA
If we had had the p’anning of a Christian’s
life, we would have said: “Let him have
eightv years of sunsVue* a fine house to live
u. Let bis surroundings all be agreeable.
Let him have sound hea'tk Let no chill
shiver through his limbs * no pain ache his
brow or trouble shadow his sou). 4 ’ I
enjoy the prosperity of others so much I
would let every man have as much
money ns he wants and roses for his
children’s cheeks and fountains of glainoss
glancing in their large round eyes. But
that is not God’s way. It seems as if man
must be cut, hit and pounded just in propor
tion as he is useful. His child falls from a
third slorv window and has its life dashed
out. His most confident investment
tumbles him into bankruptcy. His friends,
on whom he depended, aid the natural
force of gravitation in taking him dowo.
His life is a Bull Run defeat. Instead of
32.009 advantages he has only 10,030. Aye,
only 300—ave, none at all. How many good
peoole there are at their wits* end about
their livelihood, about their reputation? But
they wlil find out it i3 the best way after
awhile. God will show them that He de
pletes their advantages just for the same
reason He depleted the array of Gideon—
that they may be induced to throw them-
crives on His mercy.
A grapevine says in the early spring:
“Hew glad I am to get through the winter!
I shall have no more trouble now. Summer
weather will come, and the garden will be
vary beautiful.” B it the gardener conies
and cuts the vine here ani there with his
knire. The twigs begin to fall, and the
grapevine cries out: “Murder! What are
you cutting me for?” “Ah,” says the garden
er. “I don’t mean to kid you. If I did
not do this, you would be the laughing
stock of all the other vines before the season
is over.” Months go on, and one day the
gardener comes UD ler the trellis, where great
clusters of grapes hang, and the grape vine
says: “Thank you, sir. You could not have
done anything so kind as to have cut me
with that knife.” “Whom the Lord loveth
He cha3teneth.” No pruning, no grapes; no
grin ling mill, no flour; no battle, no vic
tory; no cross, no crown.
So God’s way, in the redemption of the
world, is different from ours. If we had our
way, we would have had Jesus stand in the
door of heaven and beckon the Nations up
to light, or we would have had angels flying
around the earth proclaiming the unsearch
able riches of Christ Why is it that the cause
goes ou so slowly? Why is it that the chains
stay on when Go 1 could knock them
off? Why do thrones of despotism stand
when God could so easily demolish them?
It is His way in order that all generations
may co-operate aud that all men may know
they cannot do the work themselves. Just
in proportion as thes9 pyramids of sin go
up in height will they come down in ghast
liness of ruin.
0 thou father of all iniquity! If thou
canst hear my voice above the craokling of
the flames, drive on thy projects, dispatch
thy emissaries, build thv temples and forge
thy chains, but know that thy fall from
heaven was not greater than thy final over
throw shall be when thou shalt be driven
disarmed into thy fiery den, and for every
lie thou hast framed Upon earth thou shalt
have an additional hell of fury poured into
thine anguish by the vengeance of
our God, and all heaven shall shout at the
overthrow, as from the ransomed earth the
song breaks through the skies: “Halleluiah,
lor the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Hal
lelujah, for the kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Christ!” God’s way in the composition of
the Bible, God’s way in the Christian’s life,
God’s way in the redemption of the world,
God’s way in everything—different from
man’s way, but the best.
1 learn from this subject that the overthrow
of God’s enemies will be sudden and terrific.
There is the army of the Midianites down In
the valley of jezreel. I suppose their
mighty men are dreaming of victory. Mount
Gil boa never stoo t sentinel for so large a
hosr. The spears and the shields of the
Midianites gleam in the moonlight and
glance on the eye of the Israelites, who
hover like a battle of eagles, ready to swoop
from the cliff. Sleep on, O army oi the
Midianites! With the night to hide them
and the mountain to guard them and strong
arms to defend them, let no slumbering fbe-
man dream of disaster. Peace to the cap-
tains and the spearmen.
Crash go the pitchers! Up flare the lames!
To tho mountains! Fly, fly! Troop running
against troop, thousands trampling upon
thousands. Hark, to the stream and groan
of the routed foe, with the Lord God Al
mighty after them! How sudden the onset!
How wild the consternation! How utter the
defeat! I cio not care so much what is
against me if God is not. You want a better
sword or carbine than I have ever seen to go
out and fierht asminst tho Lord Omniooient.
Give me God for my ally, and you may have
all the battlements and battalions.
I saw the defrauder in his splendid house.
It seemed as if he had conquered God as he
stood amid the blaze of chandeliers and pier
mirrors. In the diamonds of the wardrobe
I saw the tears of the widows whom he had
robbed aud iu the snowy satins the pallor o!
the white cheeked orphans whom he had
wronged. The blood of the oppressed
glowed in the deep crimson of the im
ported chair. The music trembled with
the sorrow of unrequited toil. But the
wave of mirth dashed higher on reefs of
coral aud pearl. The days and the nights
went merrily. No sick child dared pull thal*
silver doorbell. No beggar dared sit on that
marble step. No voice of prayer floated
amid that tapestry. No shadow of a judgment
day darkened that fresco. No tear of human
svmDathy dropped upon that upholstery.
Pomp strutted tho hall, aud dissipation
filled her cup. and all seemed safe as the
Blidianites in the valley of Jezreel. But God
came. Calamity smote the money market.
The partridge left its eggs unhatched. Crash
went all the porcelain pitchers! Ruin, rout,
dismay and woe in the valley of Jezreel!
Alas for those who fight against God! Only
two sides. Man immortal, which side are
you on? Woman immortal, which side are
you on? Do you belong to the 30 » that art
going to win the day or to the great host o
Midianites asleep in the valley, only to be
roused up in consternation and ruin? Sud
denly the golden bowl of life will be broken
and the trumpet blown that will startle our
soul into eternity. The day of the Lord
someth as a thief in the night and as
the God armed Israelites upon the sleeping
foe. Ha! Canst thou pluck up courage for
the day when the trumpet which hath never
been blown shall speak the roll call of the
dead, and the earth, dashing against a lost
meteor, have its mountains scattered to the
stars and oceans emptied in the air? Ob.
then, what will become of you? What will
become of me?
If those Midianites had only given up
their swords the day before the disaster, all
would have been well, and if you will now
surrender the sins with which you have been
fighting against God you will be safe. Oh
make peace with Him now, through Jesus
Christ the Lor i! With the clutch of a drown
ing man seize the cross. Oh. surrender!
Surrender! Christ, with his hand on his
pierced side, asks you to.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF Jife WS GATHERED FROM
{TVER THE STATE;
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap
penings From Dsty to Day.
Several cases of hemorrhagic fever
have been reported from Aeree, near
Albany.
tween a state effiee and n federable
office vas brought to bis notice, Mr.
Barnes decided that the spirit of the
constitution was cltarly against his
holding both positions, and so for-
carded his resignation to the gover
nor.
Governor Atkinson immediately is
sued formal notice of the vacancy to
the ordinary of Richmond county.
That officer will at once issue his Call
for a special election to fill the
vacancv.
Fight Over a Will.
A fight is to be made in the courts
■v< r the will of the late A. J. Cheney,
who died at East Point and left a large
estate, to be divided among a nnrnber
of relatives aud Mercer University.
The University of Georgia now has J " J » e L nmpkin, at Atlanta, has grant-
VICTORY FOR BLACK gt&Z&S? Col °”' Th0 ”“ THE WHITE METAL
The unofficial returns wired from the
eleven different couuties Wednesday
night showed an apparent majority for
Black of 1,741. The estimate was that
the majority would be somewhere be
tween 1 400 and 1,800. As a matter of
fact, the figures were only 139 oat of
the wav, or considerably less than 1
per cent of the total vote. Consider
ing the fact that the populist managers
in a number of precincts refused to
give out the official vote on Wednesday
DEMOCRATS WIN OUT IX THE
10TH DISTRICT.
Black’s Majority Over Watson Is
Figured Out as 1,602.
The third great battle of the ballots
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT SIL
VER MOVEMENT OUTLINED.
Some of the League Committees An
nounced—Be Honest—Meeting
in Huntsville, Etc.
There are fifty-nine white and nine
negro schools in Paulding county in
fnll operation.
ed an order restraining the executors
of the will from paving certain sums
over to some of the relatives of Mr.
Cheney, and this is tho beginning of
what may be a long law suit.
Mr. Cheney left an estate worth
236 students enrolled. The different
classes of the college have been busy
selecting class officers.
* * *
The gates of the Cotton States and ^
International exposition will not open ab ^ t ' gioo'ouO, with the proviso that
oil Sundays. The question was settled $1>000 6houid be given to each of his
by dn overwhelming vote at a recent ne p be ^- s Hlu i neices, children of his
tneeting of the directors; brothers and sisters. The residue of
* * * his estate was willed to Mercer Uni-
At an election held in Pike county versity.
to determine whether bonds should be The trustees now claim that after all
issued to discharge the debt incurred the expenses are paid and the bequests
by the building of a hew court house, are settled there will be one hundred
bonds were defeated. The new build- thousand dollars of the estate ex-
ing is now in process of erection and hansted, but the executors refuse to
the taipayers of the county will be pay the balance to the university as
they say there aro at least thirteen
neices and nephews who were dead
when the will was made, but whose
children should share in the estate.
* * *
Mr. Watson’s Daily.
Hon. Tom Watson’s paper, The Daily
celled upon this fall to pay abont $3
on the thousand as extra taxes for this
purpose.
i i *
One of the most important business
deals that Brunkswick has had in some
time occurred a day or two ago. Jas. _ _ _ _ _
S. Wright, a prominent and wealthy Press, is not likolv to appear iu Atlan-
business msD, bought the entire fire Some time ago Mr. Watson, as
insurance business of Jordan S. president of Our Publishing C ompany,
Thomas. The Thomas firm controls i i F g Ue d an order saying that The Daily
about twenty large companies, aud is Press would begin publication again
one of the largest in this section. The about October 1st. It did not appear
consideration is large. on that date, however, and the project
* * * will in all probability be given tip;
Solomon’s lodge of Masons, at Sa- Major Charles McGregor, associate ed-
vannah, the oldest Masonic lodge in itor of The Peoples’ Party Paper, and
the state, has sent a large collection of who would also have been associated
old Masonio relics for exhibition at with Mr. Watson in editing the daily,
the exposition. They include the Bi- does not think that a daily in Atlanta
ble which was presented to the lodge with one in Augusta also would pay,
by General Oglethorpe. Captain and he says the populists will probably
Purse, who has charge of the Savan- abandon the idea of publishing a daily
nah exhibit, is one of the prominent in the former city and support the one
members of Solomon’s lodge. in Augusta or establish one in Colum-
* * * bus so as to have access to both Geor-
LaGrange is to have a new cotton ? ia and Alaba “ a ’ is established
in Columbus Mr. \V atsou will be eai-
j _ ^ . (JIYCUUt lUCUULltl
,e Tveeu nomocracy an l populi»m in night, the figures were remarkably ac-
the tentn Georgia district was fonght curate,
to a finish Wednesday, and for the
third time victory porches on the dem
ocratic banner. For tbe third time
Richmor d county has 6tood loyally
by Hon. J. C. C. Black and he will
get the commission of congressman,
and this time purged of the semblance
of fraud.
Columbia (estimated) gives Watson
650 majority; Glascock adds 315; Jef
ferson 98; Lincoln 697; McDuffie 646;
Taliaferro 374; Warren 515; Wash
ington 200; Wilkinson 102, making
Watson’s total majority 3,692.
Richmond registered 7,450 votes.
Lees than 200 wero thrown out by the
registrars, leaving 7,250. Of "these
6,439 voted. Watson received 923,
leaving Major Black a majority of
4,693. Hancock added 550, making
Black’s total majority 5,243 and his
net majority in the district 1,551.
The result shows that Watson has
lost gronnd all over the district. In
Columbia his majority of last Novem
ber bas been cut down 600; in Jeffer
Official returns from the whole dis
trict show that only 19,022 votes were not be discriminated against in 1892.
cast, against 34,440 last November and Is ‘hone3t money’ and ’standard mon-
30,102 in 1892. ey,’ money againBt which ‘no discrimi-
lism. This is folly, of course, and the
people will come to understand it as
such when the campaign comes on;
but, meanwhile, the northern and
eastern goldbugs are going forward
knocking international bimetallism in
the head. They say that but one of
the democratic state conventions (that
of Mississippi) that have acted this
year has declared for the free aud un
limited coinage of silver, while Ken
tucky, Iowa, Maryland, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York and New Jersey
have declared against it—the ratio of
strength being 18 to 270.
They purposely omit Nebraska,
which nominated a fnll state ticket on
The Meriwether Vindicator says;
"According to tho democratic plat
forms silver was ‘honest money’ in
1884 and ‘standard money’ that should
a free coinage platform, and also omit
the democratic state conventions of
Illinois and Missouri, which declared
These figures indicate strongly the nation’ must-be used, sound money? f° r ^ ree coinage, while in Kentucky
check that the new registration law If so, silver fills the bill.”
has proved against illegal voting. The .
vote of the several counties is: ,, ,, . „ . ,,,
Columbia—Black 223, Watson 839. . , 7
Glascock-Black 128, Watson 443. A lar « e = enthusiastic and intelligent
Hancock—Black 826, Watson 247. masa meeting of democrats from all
Jefferson-Black 861, Watson 946. P°, r J t,oa8 ° f Madison county Ala., was
Line dn-Black 183, Watson 832. beld at Huntsville a few days ago.
McDuffie-Black 351, Watson 997. Speeches were made by Judge William
Richmond-Black 5,512, Watson Richardson, ^ex-Congressman W. W.
923.
Taliaferro—Black 207, Watson 581.
Warren—-Black 262, Watson 809.
Washington—Black 1,124, Watson
j 1,336.
Wilkinson—Black 635, Watson 757.
Total—Black, 10,312; Watson, 8,-
710; majority for Black, 1,602.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Garth and . Captain Milton Humes.
Resolutions were adopted ratifying the
the action of the Birmingham confer
ence of September 10th and favoring
tho free and unlimited coinage of sil-
' ver with equal mintage rights of gold
at the ratio of 16 to 1, without consul
tation or agreement with any foreign
nation. A strong central campaign
committee of th.1 Madison County Bi
metallic league, with authority to or-
son 250; in McDuffie 100; in Taliaferro The Industrial Condition as Reported ganize clubs in every precinct of the
125; in Warren 325, and in Washing- ! ^ or Gie Cast Meek. county, was appointed,
ton 75. In Lincoln and Wilkinson he The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
gains 50 votes, but in Lincoln, about the following new industries incorpor-
600 disqualified voters were allowed to I ated or established in the southern
vote for Watson because the registrars states during the past week:
mill, carrying 15,000 spindles,
new factory will be known
The
‘Dixie Mills.” A New Hampshire
the ' tor 'i n ' c ^i e ^ with Major McGregor and
Colonel Cnrev J. Thornton as associ-
gentleman will be secretary and man- a ‘ e9 ; ^ Itljor ^ re ^, does not ^lieve
ager and the board of directors is com- ^ at the P°> ,u lsts "' ,11 TO PP ort la '' re
posed of some of the leading citizens oao d «ly and a meeting will be
of LaGrange and three prominent h t ld w ‘! hla next ten days to decide
New England manufacturers. The ' where the best field for that ,lal1 ^ 18 '
principal article manufactured will be
shoe linings.
failed to give them notice to appear
before them.
The Story Told.
The following dispatches indicate
how the battle was waged in the differ
ent counties, and the result:
Columbia.
Haulem, Ga.—Returns from two
precincts, Appling and No. 4, give
Watson a majority of 127. A con
servative estimate of the county gives
Watson a majority of between 550 and
600 in Columbia. When the polls
closed the election manager locked the
boxes and went home, refusing to let
the result be known. It was the most
quiet election day that Columbia has
had since the advent of populism.
Bets that Black's majority in the dis
trict would be 1,500 were left open
with no takers.
Glascock.
Newport Grain and Milling Co., of
Newport, Ark., and the Thompson Oil
and Gus Works, of Wheeling, W. Va.,
each with $100,000 capital; a sash and
door factory to be built at Palatka,
: B’la., also with $100,000 capital; a
! manganese mining company at Roan
oke; Va., capital $50,000; a $50,000
cotton oil company at Brownwood,
Texas,a $40,000 construction company
i at Columbia, S. C., and a $40,000 oil
and gas company at Wheeling, W. Va.
A cotton mill with 150 tons daily ca
pacity at Greenville, Texas, and a 30-
iDdiana’s Silver Meu.
The executive oommittee of the In
diana State Democratic Silver League
met at Indianapolis a few days ago.
In an interview President Clark de-
| dared that while the movement is be
ing kept wholly within the democratic
party it is rapidly spreading over the
state. He says:
"Among the district members are
members and ex-members of the state
committee. In many instances the
county chairmen named are county
chairmen of the regular democratic or
ganization. The men who are at the
head of the movement believe they
ton oil mill and oil refinery at New j will have such a perfect organization
early fn the year that they can name
at least ten of the state committeemen;
can control a majority of the district
conventions that select delegates to the
national convention, and will be able
to control the state nominating con
vention and exaot from it a free silver
resolution.”
Orleans, La.
There is also reported an electrical
plant at Cantoh, Miss., a 50-barrel
flouring mill at Madisonville, Tenn.,
an iee factory at Biloxi, Miss., and an
oil and fertilizer company at Ander
son, S. O. A knitting mill is to be
. r, iv. ■ , . , established at Brunswick, Ga., and
GEORGIA’S GATES AJAR.
PREACHER IN STRIPES.
Sent Up for Life for the Murder of
His Wife.
A dispatch from Danville, Ind., says:
Rev. William E. Hinshaw, who was in
dicted for the murder of his wife at
Belleville, January 10th, and has been
ou trial for the last five weeka, was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree aud sentenced tQ life imprison
ment. Three members of the jury
were in favor of hanging the divine.'
The minister never flinched when the
words which consigned him to a felon’s
cell the remainder of his days were
read.
Captain Dnncan Wright, of Bruns
wick, has issued an informal challenge
to race his pilot boat, the Gracie, j
against the Sophie Amelie K., of Fer-
nandina, for $500 a aide. The chal
lenge has been formally accepted. The
boats will start at St. Simon’s sea buoy
and run to Martin’s Industry lightship
and return. The distance is about
forty miles. The rounding point is
situated between Charleston and Sa- ;
vannab, on the South Carolina coast.
• * *
November 2d has been set as the day
for the sale of the Savannah and At
lantic, or Tybee railroad, which will !
take place before its depot in Savan
nah. According to the decroe, the
bidder mnst deposit $10,()00, either in
cash or the first mortgage bonds of the
company, and $5,000 of the purchase
price mnst at all events be paid in
cash for the purpose of paying the
court expenses and those of the sale.
The road will be sold by Messrs. John
Screven and J. N. Talley, who have
been made special commissioners for
that purpose.
* * *
Bryant Chnrchwell and a woman giv- i
ing her name as Mattie Jones were mar
ried at Cochran a few clays ago. Later
it was stated that the bride was the
widely known Debby Nobles, who has
assumed the name of Mattie Jones. A
brother-in-law vouches for this. The !
bride was heavily veiled. The couple
left at onoe. Debby Nobles is the
daughter of the woman in jail at Ma
con under sentenoe of death for mur
dering her husband. Debby was ac
cused of assisting in the murder, bui
she wbb acquitted aud went to Alabama.
She returned a few days ago and vis
ited her mother in jail at Macon.
* * *
A special from Topeka says: The j
leading populists of Kansas have started
an agitation for an early national con
vention, and will urge Atlanta as the
Immigrants From All Sections Bound
Hitherward.
A pleasing theme in Georgia is the
influx of immigrants to Wilcox county.
The work is one that arrests the at
tention of men.
Col. W. L. Glessner, first in employ
of Central railroad, then Georgia
Southern, was the pioneer of this great
work. It was he who induced the ex
cursion movement.
Then came Governor W. J. Northen
who went into this work with the de
termination which always bliugs suc
cess. And now Governor Northen is
the toast of the state.
But others have seen what was going
on and are on the alert for the further
development of Georgia’s resources.
J. J. Hanesley hns made consider
able progress in the matter of immi
gration development. The gateway to
the upbuilding of Georgia has been
opened and Mr. Hanesley thinks the
gales are ajar to be closed no more.
He bases his hopes on the many letters
he has received from abroad, making
inquiry about Georgia and her re
sources.
These letters of inquiry led Mr.
Hanesley to go to work systematically,
and he he has now local co-workerB iu
some eighty counties of the state. He
has secured the co-operation of north
ern, northwestern aud western land
agents, colonizers and co-workers, who
are aiding him in the cause of immi
gration. Mr. Hanesley’s idea is to fur
nish homes for home seekers. He is
not hunting speculators who open up
vast orchards and farms and remain
away, preferring palatial residences
north. But he is striving to bring set
tlers. Already there has been put into
his hands over a million acres of land
on which he and his coadjutors have
options and for which he dtsires home
seekers. Como south, be not only
among U3 but of us.
A few days sine i a party of northern
soldiers who had been imprisoned at
Andersonviile, aDd who were at the
Glascock county is: Black, 128; Wat
son 443; Watson’s majority, 315.
This is a failing off in his majority of
211 votes from 1894. The election was
very quiet.
Hancock.
Sparta, Ga.—The actual count of
Sparta, Farmers, Cnlvorton, Jewells,
Linton and Shouldur precincts gives
Major Black 567 majority. The other
four are not reported, but careful es
timates will add to this majority twen
ty more. His majority will reach very
nearly 600 in the county.
The election has been one of the
most quiet in Hancock’s history.
The total vote in Sparta was 450;
Black received five to one. In the
last election Hancock gave Black
1,548 and Watson 634.
Jeilerson.
Louisville, Ga.—The election pass
ed off quietly aud the registration law
worked very satisfactorily. Returns
from all precincts give Watson 93 ma
jority.
Lincoln.
McAlpin and Williston, Fla., Athens,
Ga., Trenton, Tenn., and Orange,Tex.
Waterworks aro to be built atEufaula,
Ala., and Canton, Miss.
Tho enlargements for the week in
clude brick works at Harriman.Tenn.,
iron and steel works at Houston, Tex.,
au increase in the capital of the Gaff
ney cotton mills at G.iffuey, S. C.,
from $200,000 to $600,000, and an en
largement of the Woodstock woolen
miils at Woodstock, N. C.
JAPAN WANTS COTTON.
Movement to Establish a Line ol
Steamers to West (’oast of Mexico.
Colonel John A. Cockerill, writing
from Yokohama, Japan, to the Manu
facturers’ Record, says:
“The cotton spinners association of
Osaka is now tiying to induce the
Japanese government to subsidize a
line of steamers to ply between Osaka
aud Yokohama and a point on the west j
coast of Mexico. The idi a is to secure I
a steamship line wholly controlled by
Lixcolnton, Ga.—The vote in Lin- I tho Japanese government and which
coin stood as follows: Watson, 882;
Black, 185. Everything passed off
quietly. The populists expected to
get 800 majority, but fell 100 short.
McDuffie.
Thomason, Ga.—The official count
gives Watson a majority of 646 votes
in McDuffie county, against a majority
of 762 last year. This is Watson’s
home county. The falling off in his
majority of 116 from last November
has given the democrats great encour
agement. The day was Due, and many
farmers in the county were more in
terested in picking their cotton than
voting.
Taliaferro.
Cbawpordville, Ga.—Taliaferro
gives Watson 581; Black 207. Wat
son’s majority in tho county is 374,
against 459 at tbe last election. The
election passed off quietly.
Warren.
Waerenton, Ga.—Six precincts
henrd from give Watson 433 majority.
Returns from the other two precincts
cannot be obtamed yet, but the best
estimate is that Watson’s majority will
be about 80 from these two. This will
Silver League Committees.
The executive committee of the Na
tional Silver league, which met in
Memphis on Septembr- 12th, did not
choose all its national committeemen,
and its work has not yet been com
pleted. Some thirty-five committee
men have been chosen. Senator Isham
G. Harris is not now in Memphis, and
he is the possessor of informati n, but
from another source some of the ap
pointments have been ascertained, as
follows:
Tennessee—J. M. Head, Nashville.
Mississippi—Col. R. H. Taylor, of
Sardis.
Texas—Senator Horace C. Hilton.
Arkansas—Carroll Armstrong, chair-
man of the state democratic executive
committee.
Georgia—Hon. Patrick Walsh, of
Augusts.
Alabama—J. W. Tomlinson, of Bir- j
mingham.
Louisiana—Attorney General M. J.
Cunningham.
North Carolina—Ex-Senator and
Governor Jarvis.
South Carolina—State Superintend
ent of Education Mayfield.
Illinois—W. H. Hinrichsen.
the democratic candidate is making a
straightout fight in favor of free coin
age.
But what is the condition of affairs
in New York, whose attitude may be
taken as a fair sample of eastern senti
ment? Senator Hill urged in tho Syr
acuse convention that a steady effort
be made in favor of an international
agreement, and declaring against free
coinage “only under present condi
tions.” This was a part of the plat
form proposed in the draft prepared
by the subcommittee on resolutions.
All reference to an international
agreement was stricken out in the
financial plank as passed, and a broad
declaration against free coinage under
any conditions was substituted. This
shows that the free coinage movement,
so far as the east is concerned, has no
relation whatever with any attempt to
inaugurate “international bimetal
lism.” That is a more cloak for the
single gold standard, and of late the
boldest of tho eastern organs have
thrown off this cloak as no longer nec
essary, and are now striving to con
vince their readers that an interna
tional agreement is as impracticable as
free coinage.
The whole contest is now one be
tween American bimetallism—the res
toration of silver—and the single gol.l
standard. We do not blame the east
ern people for advocating the single
gold standard. It is to their tempo
rary interests. Under its operations
they have gained pretty nearly all that
the rest of the country has lost, and
they have great reason to advocate a
“sonnd” currency at the expense of
unsound prices. Cotton has advanced,
but only because tho farmers were
compelled to cut down their crops,
owing to the low prices under the sin
gle gold standard. But the higher
prices they are getting now, with a
short crop, will not by any means re
pay them for the losses they sustained
under the low prices of last year.
While the eastern gold standard
| men have shown a disposition and a
desire to throw off the thin disguise of
international bimetallism, the southern
and western gold standard men are
making tremendous attempts to draw it
| closer around their shoulders. We do
not think that any honest voter can
i be deceived by any such barefaced
Boheme, but we do think that if the
single gold standardists of the south
and west desire to appear before the
rest of the country on an honest plat
form, they ought to discard and throw
awny the sham and disguise of “inter
national bimetallism,” which is essen-
| tially and entirely played out.
will connect with the Tehuantepec
railway.
“By this route it is thought the
! cotton of the southern states can be
reached cheaper than by the way of Pr08per0US W1 *th Silver Bonds,
lacoma. It 13 moro than likely tnat r., • T , ~ ,,
this enterprise will be carried out, for Tbe ^cago Inter Ocean calls atten-
the Japanese are giving great atten- ‘ion to the following lecent dispatch
tion to the subject of colonization in
Mexico. , _ _
“Another compnny has been formed European exchange to offer than the market dJest and most sacred traditions
here with Viscount Enomato at its -can absorb. Tnis is due to the gratifying aud ; 0 j tbe government—an enforcement of
head to purchase lands in Mexico aud j cona ant demtud for the new silver five per j y je ^[ ouroe doctrine.
Secretary Glney’s dispatch is in snb-
from the City of Mexico:
For the pres-nt the hank; here have more
THREATENED COMPLICATIONS
With England Ov-er the Venezuelan
Boundary Line.
A special to the New York Herald
from Washington says: The great in
ternational question of tho hour is the
Venezuelan boundary dispute.
Secretary OIney has prepared a dis
patch to Ambassador Bayard which
will soon bring the matter to an issue.
This dispatch is of a most positive and
unequivocal nature. As soon as it
shall be placed before the British gov
ernment it will raise an issue which
can be settled ouly by the retreat of
one or the other governments.
The stand taken by tho United States
in this dispatch is one which involves
locate thereon some of the surplus
population of Japan. Japan is des
tined to become one of the greatest
cotton spinning countries of the world.
She will purchase 90 per cent of her
raw material in the United States
when the transportation rates are
properly adjusters.”
JACK FROST WITH US.
cent bonds in tbe principal trans-Atlantic
money markets.
While onr next door neighbor is
happy and prosperous with the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
with an issue of silver bonds, what are
we doing? The Inter Ocean says:
The issuing of bends calling specifically for
gold is now familiar in this conntry. It is be-
stance a declaration in tbe most posi
tive language that the United Stator
will never consent to British occupa
tion of the disputed territory iu Ven
ezuela unless that nation’s right there
to is first determined by arbitration.
In polite bnt firm and significant
words, Secretary OIney declares it to be
place and Febuary 21st a3 the time, so Chickamanga oelebration, visited the give Watson 512 majority in Warren
that the nomination can be made Feb
ruary 22d, Washington's birthday.
Senator Peffer, Hon Jerry Simpson,
Chairman Breidenthal and others will
urge this date and place on the na
tional committeemen in the several
states. This is done to force the free
silver fight early, as they say both old
parties are advocating a short cam
paign in order to sidetrack the finan
cial issne.
* * *
For the purpose of reorganization
the bondholders of the Augnsta Rail
way Company have filed a friendly pe
tition to place the property in the
hands of a receiver. There are no
creditors of the company except the
bondholders, and no change will be
made in the management. Colonel D.
B. Dyer was appointed receiver.
old Andersonviile prison grounds. A
few of them were so well “recon
structed” that they openly declared
for pensioning Confederate soldiers
by the Federal government. These
are the men who want to come south.
They have buried tbe hatchet, and it
is such as these Mr. Hanesley and his
co-laborers are addressing themselves.
And the prospect is bright.
Georgia is the home of tho peach,
the melon, the grape; here the cereals
all flourish, here the grasses grow, and
the cotton blooms, here all the agri
cultural and horticultural products
abound; here the sweat of the brow
turns into gold.
The great exposition will aid the
immigration work. Let tbe visitors
see all Georgia. The gates are open
everywhere. The hand of greeting is
Cotton Not Seriously Damaged But
Tender Vegetation Wilted.
I Frost was found in low-lying locali
ties Monday morning at various points
in West Tennessee, northern Missis
sippi and eastern Arkansas. Tender
vegetation was wilted, but no serious
damage was done to the Irish potato
! crop, and cotton was not injured to
any considerable extent on the up-
i lands.
A dispatch from Dnncan, Miss., re
ports a heavy frost in that part of the
delta, which may cut the top crop of
mates give the county to Watson by j cotton short by causing immature
175 or 200 majority. The vote was bolls to open.
light and the election quiet. a killing frost extended all over
done by sta’os, counties, cities and all ' the belief of the United States govern-
sort; and comb nations of long-time borrowers, nient that the territorial claims which
Even farm mortgages are made payable in Great Britaiu has sot up in Venezuela
manv cases in gold. It is purely a matter oi ore in the nature of au attempt to seize
business, which concerns only the borrow r and territory on the American continent
the lender. When, however, it was proposed to which she has no legal right. The
county, against 783 last year. The
election was quiet.
Washington.
Sandersville, Ga.—Fourteen pre
cincts give Black 94 majority. Seven
remote precincts not heard from wiU
overcome this. Conservative esti-
to make the United States bonds payable in
gold, instead of coin, a pro est was entered,
and very properly, too. 'Ihe government oi
the United States alone has the power of mak-
secretary points ont two horns to the
dilemma, leaving Great Britain to
choose which she will accept.
First. If the quarrel with Venezuela
ing money, and a bond disciimination in favor is an ordinary dispute, having its or-
of one particular money me:al would greatly ; igin in faulty descriptions, imperfect
embarrass the maintenance of bimetallism, surveys or other misunderstandings,
and, perhaps, render it impracticable without a refusal to arbitrate the same is eon-
finarcial revolution. Congress was wiser herein trarv to the precedents of Great Brit-
than the president. nin hersel f and contrary to the practice
The Mexicans have not been so weak of ® n civilized nations,
as to follow the example of a foreign Second. If, on the other hand, as
power over the sea. They have es- appears to be the case, and is the be*
Last November the vote was Black, central Kentucky. Tobacco standing F.noLnd’s finaDclafdomination, lief of the president of the United
•in finlrl o n rl rr*nr»Vi if nu t.Vio Kfefac fliA flitmnfp nR fn f.lifl lni»ltfinn
Judge Speer passed the order some cordially extended from every section
days ago. It is understood that Colo- of the state.
nel Dyer had paid up every account Great is Atlauta, great is Georgia,
outstanding before the order was pass- and blessel are the men who are de
ed. The bill was filed by Thomas G. voting themselves to the development
Hilboute, of New York, the attornev and upbuilding of the state, who are
of the Metropolitan Trust Company, bringing not land pirates bnt genuine
1,671; Watson, 1,944, a majority for
Watson of 273. This is reduced this
year from 75 to 100 votes.
Wi kiuson.
Toomsbobo, Ga.—The election pass
ed off quietly. Watson received 784,
Black 682. There was no enthusiasm.
It was the dullest election ever known
in Wilkinson.
The Total Vote.
trustee for the bondholders.
• « *
Representative Barnes Resigus.
Hon. John Barnes has resigned his
position as a member of the legislature
from Richmond county. A special
election to fill tbe vacancy will be held
as soon as it is possible under the law.
Mr. Barnes resigns because he has
accepted a position in the pension de
partment of the federal government.
He has been holding the position for
several months, and is stationed at
Knoxville, TenD.
When the matter of the conflict be-
home dwellers, whose future boast
will be like that of Dr. Duucan of
Chatauqua fame, “Georgia is my
adopted home.”—Atlanta Journal.
U.OI,D COMING BACK.
Quarter of a Million Shipped on the
Spree and Fuerst Bismarck.
The steamship tipree, which sailed
from Bremen for New York on Octo-
!ur 1. <- -rried $100,000 gold and tbe
>j . ja-h'.i rueret Bismarck from Him
i.nrg mi October 3 carried $150,010 j
i'. .tu umouum are carried for Ziinraer-
maui: Forshav, of New York.
Columbia
. . .
600
Glasscock
. .
315
Hancock
.. 587
—
Jefferson
93
Lincoln-
. .
697
McDuffie
. .
646
Richmond
... 4,693
—
Taliaferro
.. .
374
Warren
. ..
512
Washington
. ..
200
Wilkinson
• •
102
Totals
...5,280
3,539
in the field and much of it on the Bcaf-
fold was badly damaged. Sorghum
and other green vegetation was ruined.
The eight weeks’ drouth has dried the
corn crop np so that it was out of dan
ger.
JOHN C. NEW INTERVIEWED.
Says Harrison Is in No Sense a Candi
date for President.
Colonel John O. New, who managed
Harrison’s campaigns for the nomina
tions to the presidency and who was
consul general for the United States
to London dnriDg his administration,
has authorized an interview. The gen
eral, he says, does not desire to ran
again for the presidency.
“He is in no sense a candidate,
*t no tiroc in the history of th° conn
try has Mexico enjoyed such general
prosperity. Home manufactures are
increasing and wealth is accumulating.
Within the past ten years the deposits
of the banks of the City of Mexico
have increased from $7,000,000 to over
$35,000,000.
This object lesson is plain engongh
for even the wayfaring man.—Atlanta
Constitution.
»**
Be Honest.
[From tbe Atlanta Constitution.]
The gold standard organs of the
south and west are not pulling com
fortably in the same traces with the
single gold standard men of the north
and east. In the south and west we
States, the dispute as to the location
of a boundary line is a mere diegniss
under wnich Great Britain is attempt
ing by superior force to extend her
territorial possessions in America, this
is directly violative of the Monroe
doctrine, and will never be submitted
to by the United States.
Women in Kentucky Will Vote.
The women of LexiDgton, Newport
and Covington, Ky., are registering
preparatory to voting in November.
This is the first opportunity offered
but they are not taking to the idea to
any great extent. They can only vote
for the members of the board of edu
cation, which right of suffrage was se
cured by the untiring woman suffra
gist, Miss Laura Clay, the noted
said the colonel, “and the stories that tear a great deal of lovely taik about daughter of Cassius M. Clay.
l 1- j.. • xt _ • a i < himotftlliflm ” ThftSllCf-
Black’s majority, 1,741.
The Consolidated Vote.
The election managers in the several
oonnties met at their respective county
seats at 12 o’clock Thursday and con
solidated the votes cast on Wednesday.
The figures given below show the
vote in each county for Major J. C. C.
anyone are without foundation. In
fact, were his advice solicited,” con
tinued Mr. New, emphatically, “he
would select neither Reed nor McKin
ley as the republican candidate.”
Colonel Nv.w positively declined to
stale, however, who the general would
favor.
Banana sku.s are said to put a fine
polish on tan <•* shoes. .
gestion is made that a half a crop of
cotton, with higher prices, means
prosperity. But this is one of the
most serious delusions of those who
are trying to fool the people. A short
crop at higher prices will bring no
more money into the .country than a
large erop at lower prices; and money
is what is needed to carry on business.
The cry of the goldbugs in the south
and west is for international bimetal-
judge George S. Bryan Dead.
Ex-United States Judge GeorgeS.
Bryan died at Flat Rock, N. C., Sat
urday afternoon, aged eighty-seven
yoars. Judge Bryan belonged to the
old whig party in the state before the
war and in 1886 was appointed by the
president district judge for South Car
olina, which office he filled until his
retirement in 1886, when he was suc
ceeded by Judge Simonton.