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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. % JOHN It. a LEX. DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OP CLEVELAND, WHITS OOUNTTAND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. TERMS:-One Dollar Dor Tear. VOL. II CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY IT, 1893. NO. T. A. II. HENDERSON, Miiu gcr. .T. II. UNDERWOOD, Att< rnt y and Abstractor. & Real Estate Agents, CLEVELAND, CA. Will Buy «ii!(1 Sell Mineral, Timber and Agricultural lands in White and adjoin ing- counties, guaranteeing the title to all properties sold. Will negotiate sales for reasonable commission. All properties entrusted to to us for sale will receive a liberal ad vertisement. Parties having Real Estate for sale will do well to to call on or write us, MANUKA' UltERS OK CLEVELAND, GEOIKtf A. HormMi M Repairing Neatly anil Cheaply Executed, Sash, Doors and Blinds! CLARK, BELL & CO., -Manufacturers and Dealt* Sash, Doors, Bit Mouldings, Brackets. SHINGHiiaS and H.UMB3UII. Also SEWER and DRAIN PIPE. Prices as low us the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed. CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga. MV. DR. TALMfAGE. CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA. FURNITURE FOR ANY DININC-ROOM j AND IF PLACED IN SOME CLOSET, THERE IS ALWAYS MORE OR LESS TROUBLE IN OETTINC AT IT. AVOID ALL BOTHER BY GETTING A "PEERLESS- TABLE IN WHICH THE LEAVES ARE CRATED. Nothing to Wear Out or get Out of Order. The oftener used the ea.ier it works. Ask your dealer for it or write us for prices. We can suit your pocket-book. THE HILLSDALE MFG. CO., HILLSDALE, MICH. FANCY AND PLAIN :-r THE HRtoOKDVW DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject! ’tGotl Aiuour tlto Fishes.” Spring Term Rrgins January 2(1, 1893. Fall Term Begins July 10th, 1893. Tuition in all Classes nor Month, 11.00. In connection with the Spring and Fall terms, will he taught the terms of the public schools. For further particulars cull on or address ALBERT BELL, Principal, Or CIIAS, W. MERRITT, Assistant. THE PEERLESS EXTENSION TABLE. l n B B I Text: “And Ood said. Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving vrva- tures that hath h/e.”-Genesis L» 80k What a new book the Bible is? After thirty-six years’ proiohittg front it arid dis cussing over UOnO different subject* foiitided on the word of God, the bOdk is n9 fresh to mo As when I learned, with a stretch of in fantile memory, the shortest verso in the Bible, “Jesus wept,” and 1 opened a few weeks ago a now realm of Biblical interest that neither my pulpit nor any one else’a bad ever explored) and having spoken to you in this course of sermons on God every where concerning the “Astronomy of tne Bible; or, God Among the Stars;” tho ’* limnology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries;” tho “Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds;” tho “Mineralogy of the Bible; or, Go l Among the Amethysts.” this morning, as t may be divinely helped, 1 will speak to you about the “Ichthyology of tho Bible; or* God Among tho Fishes.” Our horses were lathered Ah l tire lout, and their fetlocks wore rod with the blood cut out by the rocks, and I could hardly get my feet out of tho stirrups as on Saturday night we dismounted on tho bench of Lake Galilee. Tho rather liberal sappy of fdod with which wo lm-.l started from Jerusalem was well nigh exhausted, and the articles of iliet remaining had by oft repetition three times a day for throe woeks ceased to appo- tiz\ 1 never want to see a ilg again, and dates with me are all out of date. For several days the Aral) caterer, who could speak but half a dozen English words, would answer our requests for 'soma of the styles of food with which wo had beentlclec* toted the first few days by crying out “Fin ished.” The most piquant nppothter is ab- stinance, and tho demand oil nil the party was, “Let us breakfast oil Sunday morning on fresh lish from Lake Genuesareth*” for you must know that that lake has four names, and it is worth a profusion of nomen clature, and it is in tho Bible called Chin* nereth, Tiberias, Gennesareth and Galilee. To our extemporized table on Sabbath morning came broiled perch, only a few hours before lifted out of the sacred waters. It was natural that our minds should reverb to tho only breakfast that Christ, over pre pared, and it was on those very shores whore we breakfasted, Christ had in those olden times struck two flints together and gat on fire some shavings or light brushwood And then put on larger wood, and a pile of glow ing bright coals was tho Consequence. Meanwhile the disciples fishing on tho lake had awfully “poor luck,” and every time they drew up the not it hung dripping with out a fluttering fin or squirming scale. But Christ from the shore shouted to them and told them where to drop the net, and 153 big fish rewarded them. Simon and Nathaniel, having cleaned some of those large fish, brought them to the coals which Christ hail kindled, and tho group who had been out all night and wore chill and wet and hungry, Fat down and berjan mastication. A'l t.lmb scene came back to us when on Sabbath morning, Decomber, 1889, just outside the ruins of ancient Tiberias and within sound of the rippling Galilee, wo breakfasted, Now, it ie not strange that tho Bible i n- sgery i« so inwrought from the flihorles when the Holy Land is, for the most part, an inland region? Only three lake j—two be sides the one already mentioned—namely, the Dead Sea, where fish cannot liVo At all, end ns socm us they touch it they die, and the birds swoon on then* tiny carcasses, au l tho third, the Fools of Heahbon* which are alternately full and dry, Only throe rivers of the Holy Land—Jabbok, Ivishon and Jor dan, About all tho fish now in tho waters of the Holy Land oro the perch, the carp, tbe bream, the minnow, tho blenny, thu barbel (so called because of tho barb at its mouth), the chub, the dogfish, none of them worth a Delaware shad or an A£rondack trout. Well, the world’s eoography has changed, and the world's bill of fare 1ms changed. Lake Galileo was larger and deeper and bet ter stocked thrm now, and no doubt the rivers wore deeper and the fisheries wore of far more importance then than now. Besides that, there was the Mediterranean Tea only thirty-tire miles away, and fish wore salted or dried and brought Inland, and so much of that article of food was sold In Jerusalem that a fDh market gave the name to one of tho gates of Jerusalem near bv, and it was called the fish gate. Ti»9 cities had great reservoirs in which fish were kept alive and bra I. Tho pool of Gibson was a flab poo!, Isainli and Solomon rotor to fish pools. Largo fish were kept nlivo and tied fast by ropes to a stake in thane reservoirs, a ring having been run through their gills, and that is tho meaning of the Scripture na^sago which says, “Canst thou put a hook into his nose or boro his jaw through with a thorn.” So important was the fish that tho go l Dagou, worshiped by the Philistines, was made half fish and half man, and that is tho meaning of the Lord’s indignation when in I Bauiuel wo road that this Dagon, tho fish S >d, stood beside the ark of tho Lord, and agon was by invisible hands dashol to pieces because the Philistinej had dared to make tho fl-h i\ god. That explains the Bcripture passage, “The head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off up on tho threshold; only tho stump of I) igon was left to him.” Now, tno stump of Dagou was the fish part. Tho top part, which was ^he figure of a man, was dashsi to pieces, and tho Lord, by demolishing every thing but tho stump or fish part of the idol, prac tically said, “You may keep your fish, but know from tbe way 1 have demolished tho rest of tho idol that it is nothing divine.” La yard arid Wilkinson found tho fish an object of idolatry all through Assyria and Egypt. The Nile was full of fish, and that explains the horrors of the plague that slaughtered the flmiy tribe all up and down that river, which has been and is now tho main artery of Egypt’s life. In Job you hear tho plunge of the spear into the hip popotamus as the groat dramatic noofc cries out, “Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irous or his head with fish spears?’ Yea, the fish began to swim in the very first book of Genesis, where ray text records, “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abund antly the moving creature that hath life.” Do you realize that the first living thing that God created was the fish? It preceded the bird, the quadruped, the human race. The fish has priority of resi dence over every living thing. The n?xb thing done after God had kindled for our world the golden chandelier of the sun an l the silver chandelier of tho moon was to make the fish. The first motion of the principle of life, a principle that all the thousands of years since have not been able to define or analyze—the very first stir of life—was in a fish. What on hour that was when In the Eu phrates, the Gibon, the Bison and the Hid dekel, the four rivers of Paradise,tbo waters swirled with fins aud brigntened with scales. All the attributes ot tho infinite God were call d into action for the making of that first Itab. Lanceolato nnl translu cent miracle. There is enough wonder in the plate of a sturgeon or in the cartilage of a shark to confound the scientist. It doe3 not take the universe to prove a Go l. A fish does it. fie wonder that Linpceus and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest minds of all the centuries sat enraptured before its anatomy. Ob, its beauty an 1 tbe adaptodnesi of its structure to tbe element in which it must live; the picture gallery on the side3 of the mountain trout unveiled ns they spriug up to snatch the flies; the grayling, exiled the flower of fishes; the salmon, aseanding the Oregon and the Severn, easily leaping the Tails that would stop th9:n; the bold perch, the gudgeon, silver an 1 black spotted, the herring, moving in squadrons five miles long; the carp, lor Qiuiumg calloi lb* f>x Af fishes; the wondrous sturgeons* Tormor ly reserved for tho tables of royal families, and the isinglass raAdo oiit of their membrane! tho tench, dalle! thrt physloiart of fishes, be cause #heti applied to human ailments it is Said to be curative; tho lampreys, so tempt ing to tho epicurean that too many of them slow Henry II— aye, the whole world of fishesI Enough of thorn floating up and down the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every ear of corn and every head of wheat and every herd Of quadruped And if every other article of food in dll the earth wore destroyed, universal drought, leaving not so mUoh as a fipoar Of grAss oil the round planet, would leave in the rivors art! lakes and seas for tho human race » staple comtno lifcy of food which, if brought to shore, would bo enough not only to feed but fatten tho entire human race. lu times to come tho world may bx so populated that tho harvests and vineyards au.l land animals may bo insufficient to food the human family, and thp nations may be obliged to come to the rivers and ocean beaches to seek tile living harvests that swim the deep, and that would mean more healh and vigor aui brilliancy and brain than the human race now oWn. Tho Lord, by placing the tlnh in the first course of the menu in paradise, making it precede bird and beast, indicated to tho world tho importance of the fish us an article df human foo I. Tho reason that men and Women lived throe and four and five and nine hundred years was because they were kept on parched corn and fish. Wo mix up a fantastic food that kill the most of us before thirty years of ago. (,’us- tards And whippo 1 sillabubs and Roman punches and chlokoii salads at midnight are a gantlet that few have strength to run. We put on many a tombstone glowing epithets saying that the person beneath died of patriotic services or from exhaustion in roligious work when nothing killed the poor fellow but lobster eaten at a party four hours after be ought to have been sound asloep in bed. There afo men to-day in oitr streets so nany walklutf hospitals Who might have been athletes if they had takort the hint of Genesis in my text and df our Lord's re mark an l Adhered to sixiolicity of diet. The reason that th.i country district have furnished most df tho men and womon of our time who are doing tho mightiest work in merchandise, in mechanics, in law, in rneHeine, in theology, in legislative and congressional halls, an l all the presidents from Washington down—at least thoso who have amounted to anything—is beoausethey were in those country districts of necessity kent on plain diet. No man or wouion over amounted to any thing who was brought up on floating island or angel cake. The world must turn back to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac morals And parad salad health. The human rads to-day needs more phosphorus, mid the fish is charged an! surcharged with phos phorus-phosphorus, that which shines in the dark without burning. What made the twelve apostles such stal wart men that they could eudure anything and achieve everything? Next to divine in spiration, it was bacaitio thoy were nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and a few plain condiments. Paul, though nob brought up to swing the net and throw tho line, must of necessity have adopted tho diet of tho population among whom he livod, and you sen the phosphorus in his daring plea before Felix, aild the phosphorus in his boldest of all utterances before tho wisacres on Mars Hill, un i tho phosphorus as he went without fright to his beheading, and tho phosphorus you see in tho lives o! all tho apostles who moved rigbton undaunted to certain martyr dom. whether to bo decapitated or flung off precipices or hung in crucifixion. Phosphorus, shining in , tho dark without burning. No mau or woman that ever lived was independent of questions of diet; Let those who by circumstances aro compelled to simplicity of diet thank God for their res cue from tho temptation of killing delica cies. Tho men and women who aro to de cide the drift of tho Twentieth Century, which is only seven or eight steps off, are now five miles back from tho rail station and ha l for breakfast this morning a similar bill of fare to that which Christ provided for tho fishermen disciple*.op tho banks of Lake Galilee. JT , _ yvrticli Christ by miracle multiplied were bread fish which the boy Who acted as sutler to tho 7000 persons of the wilderness haude i oyer —live barley loaves nn l two fishes, Tho boy must have felt ba lly when called on to give up the two fishes which h»* had brought out after having caught them himself) sit ting with his bare feet over tho bank of tho lako and expecting to sell his supply at good profit, bub he felt better when by tho mira cle tho fish wore multiplied and ho li xd more returned to him than ho h id flurrendero 1. Know also in order to understand the ichthyology of the Bitfe that in tho deeper waters, as those of the Mediterranean, there were monsters that arc now oxtlnct, The fools who become infidels because they can not understand the ipgiilfmsnt of the recro ant Jonah in a sea monster might have saved their souls by studying a little natural history. “Oh,” says soma one, “that story of Jonah was only a fable.” Bay others: It was interpolate! by some writer of later times,” Others say: “It was a reproduc tion of the story of Hercules devoured and then restored from tho monster.” But my reply is that history tells us that there were monsters large enough to wli3lnx ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages was thirty feet long, aq I as late as the Sixth Century of the Christian era up and down the Mediterranean there floated monsters compared with wh(ob a modern whale was a sardine or u herring. The shark has again and again bean found to swallow a man en tire. A fisherman on. tbo coaw of Turkey found a sea. monster which contained a wo man and a purse of gold. I hnvo soon in .is.urns sea monsters.Jarge enough to take down a prophet. ?' But 1 nave a better reason for believing ilia (Jid Testament account, and that is that Christ said it was true fan! a type of His own resurrection, aud \ suppose He ought to know. In Mttfcthowixli., 40, Jesus Christ mys, “For as Jonas was throe days and three nights in tho whales belly, so shall tne Bon of Man be three days and three nights in tire heart of ifia earth.” Aud that settles it for me and fetf any man who doss not believe ChrtRa dire* and an impostor. Notice uisoliow tho Bid Testament writers drew similitudelrom (fee fisheries. Jeremiah such imagery to®9jpbesy destruction, Behold, 1 will t the Lord, and they f USAS fish imagery “it shall come to pi stand upon it from Jaim; there shall b3 i nets; their fish shall : kinds, as the fish of th many,” tho explanatj Eogeii and Enegift of the Dead no fish can live, out*! the time will come vjj be regenerated, and! for fish. Amos r mg, “The day sbs he will take you a posterity with fl EcclesiastUb ded'i temptation ara i net. Indeed Solobj finny tribe and i ology wmch has i Furthermore, derstand the ichth othi tmys, they Jnme’i take: by hook Jlxe flalxecj [Least a ?*' And * out 4§matbau v kulcdfcy*, “They.! tbeng&ro.” Aupfcher mo that which was I other, by man; fishers, sailh fish them.” Ezskiel ti'Jphesy prosperity, >*t the fishers shall !©di oven to Eneg- liace to sproad forth according V) their :;reat sea, exceeding of which is that stood on the banks ie waters of which prophet says that jtlios) waters will will bo groat places ‘i Idolatries by say- upon you when hooks an x your .... ’ Boloaxdb, in t tii03e captured of taken in an evil new fall about tiie treatise on ienthy- bat you may un- the Bible, you [yere five ways of nee of reeds and fish wore caught. ;nt forbade that on boats be wreck© 1 ■ther mode was by “ (lee bo clear good raaefixiag. An as where Isaiah mourn, and brooks shall (Canst thou draw And Mabak* of them with r a casting net or >m the shore, an- which was thrown front a boat and drawn through th* RcA As the fishing smack sailed on. HoW wonderful all this is litwraiighfc into the Bible imagery and it leads ino to ask ill tfhidb mo lo nro you ami I fishing, for tho church is tho boat, and tho gospel is tho not, and the sea is tho world, an 1 thp fish aro the souls, and God addresses us as He did Simon and Andrew, saying, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men,” But whonis the best time to fish for souls? In the night. Peter* Why did you say to Christ), “wo have toiled nil tho night and lmve taken nothing?” Why dirt you not flsitt in the day* time? Ho replies, “You oitght to know,that tho night is the boit time for fishing.” At Tobylmnna Mills, among the moun tains of Pennsylvania, I saw a friend with high boots and fishing tackle starting out at 0 o'clock nt night, and I sai I, “Where ore you going?” He answered, “Going to fish.” “What, in tho night 1” Heauswered. “Yes, in tho night.” So the vast majority of souls captured for God are taken in timox of ro- yival in tho night maotings. Thoy might just as well come at 1! o’clock at noon, but most of them will not. Ask the evangelists of oldort times, ask Finney, ask Nottleton, ask Oxborn, Ask Daniel Baker, and then ask All the modern evangelists which is the best time to gather Sauls, and thoy will answer, “The night; by all odds, tho night.'’ Not only tho natural night, but tho night of trouble. Suppose t go around in this audience aud ask these Christians when they wore convert od to God. One would answer, “I was at tho time 1 lost my child by mombranotls croup, and it was the night of bereavement,” or tno answer would be, “It was just at tor I was swindled out of my property,and it was tiie night of bankruptcy,” or ft would bo, “It was during that time wheu I was down with that awful sickness,and it was the night of physical suffering,” or it would bo, “It was that time when slander took after me, ind I was maligned and abiweJ, and it was tho night of persecution.” Ah, my hearers, that is tho tune for you te go aftor souls, when a night of trouble in on them. Miss not that opportunity to save a soul, for it is tho best of all opportunities. Go up along tho Molmwk, or tho Juniata, or tho Delaware, or tho Totubigbeo, or tho Bb. Lawrence right after a rain, and you will find the fisherman all up aud down tho lakes? Why l Because a good tiino to angle is right after the rain, and that is a good time to catch souls, right after a shower of isfortune, right aftor floods of disaster, nd as a pool overshadowed with trees is a grand place for making a fine haul of fish, lion the soul is under tho long dark shadows of anxiety and distress it is a good time to make a spiritual haul. People in the bright sunshine of prosperity are not so easily taken. Bub be sure before you start out to tho gospel fisheries to got the right kind of bait. "But. how,” you say, “am I to got it?” My answer is, “Dig for it.” “Where shall I lig for it?” “In tho rich Bible grounds.” We boys brought up iu the country had to dig for bait before wo started for tiie banks of tho Raritan. We put the sharp edge of the spade against tho ground and thou put our foot oil the spade, and with one tremen dous plunge of our strength of body and will we drove It in up to tho handle and then turtle l over the so I. We bad never road Walton’s “Complete Angler,” or Charles CqAon’e ‘Tnatrudtiorts How to Angle for Gr.Tvllug in a Clear Stream.” We know nothing about tho mod ern red hackle or the fly of orange colored mohair, but we got tho right kind of bait. No use trying to angle for fish or angle for souls unless yon have tho right kind of bait, and there is plenty of it in tho promises, tho parables, the miracles, the crucifixion, the heaven of tho grand Old gospel. Yes, nob only musb you dig for bait, but use oniy fresh bait. You canuot do any* thing down at the pond with old angle* worms. Now views of truth. New views of God. Now views of tho soul. There are ull tho good books to help you dig. But make up your mind as to whether you will take the hint of Habukkuk and Isaiah and Job and use hook and line, or take the hint of Matthew and Luke and Christ and fish with a net. I think many lose their time by wanting to fish with a net, and thoy never got a place to swing the not. In other words, they want to do gospel work on a big scale or they will not do It at all. I see feeble minded Chris tian men going around with a Bagster’a Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work of an evangelist and use tho net, while they might bo better content with hook and line and take one soul at a time. They are bad failures as evangelists. They would be mighty successes as private Christians. If you catch only one soul for God, that will be enough to fill your eternity with colebration. All hail the fisherman with hook and line I I. have seen a man in roughest corduroy outfit come back from tho woods loaded down with a string of finny treasures hung over his shoulder and his gainebag filled, and a dog with Ids teeth carrying the basket fille 1 with tbo surplus of an afternoon’s angling, and it was all tho result of a hook and lino, and in tho eternal world there wilt be many a man aud many a woman that was never heard of outside of a village Bun- day-school or a prayer mooting buriol in a church basemtntwho will come before the tliron o of Go! with a multitude of souls ransomed through his or her instru* mentality, and yet the work all done through personal interview, one by one, one by one. You do not know who that one soul may be. Staupitz helped one bouI into the light, but it was Martin Luther. Thomas Bllnoy brought salvation to one soul, but it was Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was tbe a means of saving one soul, but it was John Summerfleld. Oar blessed Lord healed one blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arm at a time, one dropsical patient at a time, and raised from tho dead one girl at a time, one young man at a time. Admire tho net that takes in a great many at once, but do not despise tho hook and line. Oort help in amid tho gospel fisheries, whether wo employ hook or uot, for tho (jay cometh when we shall see how much uo- peuded on our fidelity. Christ Himself de clared; “The kingdom of heaven is like unto net that was cast into the sea and gathered every kin I, which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good iu tho vessels, but cast tho bad awnv. So shall it be at tho end of (Jie world—the angels shall come forth and separate tho wicked from the just.” Yes, fclio fishermen think it best to keep tho useful and worthless of tho haul in the same net until it is drawn upon the beach, nn l then the division takes place, and If it re on Long Island coast tne raossbankers are thrown out and the bluellsh an l shad pre served, or if It is on the shore of Galilee the fish classified as silurolds are hurled back into the water or thrown up on the bank as unclean, while the parch an l tho carp and tho barbel are put into pails to be carried home for use. Bo in the church ou earth the saints and the hypocrites, the generous and the mean, the cnaste and the unclean, are kept in the same membership, but at death the division will be made, and tho good will be gathered to heaven, and the bad, however many holy communions they may have celebrated, and however many rhetorical prayers they mav have offered, and however many years their names may have been on the church roll?, will be cast away. God forbid that any of us should bo among the “cast away.” But may we do our work, whether small or groat, os thoroughly as di i that renowned fisherman, Gaorge W. Bothune, who spent his summer rest angling in the waters around the Thousand Isles and beating at their own craft those who plied it all tho year, and who the rest of his time gloriously preached (Jhrist in a pulpit only Ufteeu minutes from where I now stand,and ordering for his own obsequies: “Put on me my pulpit gown and bands, with my own pocket Bible in my right hand. Bury me with my mother, my father and my grand mother. Sing also iny own hymn; ■Mesas, Thou prince of life! Thy chosen cannot die; • Like Thee, they conquer in ftic strife* To reign with Thee oa high.” THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH' Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And Iinportnnt Happenings from Day (o Day Tersely Told. The North Carolina house of represen tatives, on Wedneaday, pasied a bill ap propriating $211,000 for the states exhibit nt the world’s fair. The entire cast sido of tile square, which contained the ilnest block in Clarksville, Tex., burned Friday. Dosses nggreg .to $100,000. There was partial insurance. A. New Orleans special says: Iu re- spmiBo to an inquiry nt General Ucaurc- gard’s residence, Thursday, the informa tion was given thnt tho general has al most recovered from tho attack of colic which ho was prostrated with last Sun day. Ilis physicians consider him en tirely out of danger At Wheeling, W, V«., Friduy after noon, a street car manned by non-union men was attacked by a mob of 200 peo ple. Both the conductor and driver were terribly beaten, and thoforemin, whose real name is not known,will prob ably die. Tho affair has caused great ex citement. Governor Tillman, o South Carolina, on Friday, appointed J. E. Bre/.enle, of Anderson, to revise general statutes of the stato under tho enactment of 1889 and 1801. Tho salary for the work is $1,1500. Mr. Brczeal will take the placo of Judge Mahor, whoso illness will pre vent finishing the work. Hon. John F. Dunn, of Ocala, Fla., died at noon Sunday of Bright’s disease after an illnoss of many weeks. He was born in South Carolina in 1844, but had lived in Florida sinco 1852. He was a soldier in the confederate army, and siuco tho close of the war had held many public offices. Ho was probably tho moat wealthy man in tho state, and one of tho most liberal and public-spirited. A New Orleans special of Friday says: Secretary Hester’s weekly New Orleans cotton exchange statement shows that the deficiency in tho movement of tho cotton crop, compnrod with that of last year,has crossed the two million mark for tho first lime. Tho amount brought into sight for tho week is over ten per cent under tho corresponding seven days of tho mouth Inst year and over 84 por cent un der the same period the year bofore. Tho special message of Governor Hogg to the lcgislntnro on the lynching waa not known in Faria, Texas, until the ar rival of the Thursday morning papers. The first impulse and expression wub in dignation thnt i ho govotnor should con tinue to ngitato a matter which lie con fesses is without a romedy, but on better considerrtion this gave wny to pity for tho absurdities, us people called them, into which ho had plunged. A Columbin, 8. C., dispatch of Thurs day, says: It is stated officially that Govornor Tillman haa selootcd the first floor of tho agricultural hall ns the loca tion for tho stato liquor dispensary, which may or may not go into being next July Tbcrc is talk umong tho prohibitionists of calling n March convention for tho purpose of preventing in tho various eouuiics tho number of signatures to the petitions necessary to get a dispensary. A dispatch of Wednesday states that four thousand people in tho Concordia and Caturaoula parishes in tho uorihcrn portion of Louisiana, nro on tho verge of stnrving. Information received.from that section shows that tho people aro in n pitiable condition, and unless relief is given them many deaths from starva tion will result. Tho floods of last sum mer destroyed their crops. Hundreds moved but thousands wore unable to leave. Wednesday morning, Govornor Jones, of Alabama, sent to the senate tbo names of It. T. Simpson, of Lauderdale, and II. M. Somerville and Alonzo Hill, of Tuscaloosa, as trustees of tho Alabama insane hospital. He also sent in the name of Major Henry It. Shorter to suc ceed himself ns president of tbo rail road commission. All tho appointments were confirmed. There is another va cancy on the railroad commission to be tided for which there are about seventy applicants. Lanier and Uurnott’s grist mill, in South Nashville, Tonn., was destroyed by fire Widnesday night. Tho mill and feed sheds covered nn nrre of ground aud adjoined tho big tobacco warehouse of Charles Dortch and tho Nashville ware house and elevator, and were practically destroyed when the fire department ar rived. The stock in the mill, which is known ns tho Hock Ci y mill, was low and the loss was only $80,000, nenrly covered by insurance. The fire origi nated in a boiler explosion, the cause of which Is not known. A Savannah, Ga., special of Thursday, says: Securities of tho Central railroad system aro being deposited in tiie South ern bank gradually by their holdors, who uro desirous ol coming in under the ro orgnniz ition plan. Each mail brings in a number of securities from points in Georgia und other states, and vice-presi dent Crane is kept steadily busy attend ing to them. One trouble is tho mistake of sending stock without tho power of attorney to authorize the action that the senders desire, rendering it necessary to wri’o to them for it. Atlanta, Ga., is to have a $1,000,000 land and lumber c< mpany. A charter was filed in tho clerk’s office Friday with (he following incorporators: Messrs. Stephen G. Clarke, Edward P. Kennard and Daniel MelOe, all of New Yoik state, and D miol W. Rountree, of Atlanta. The capital slock of tho com pany is to bo $1,000,000 with tho privi lege of increasing it t( $8,000,000. It will bo operated under the firm name of tho Allapaha Land aud Lumber Com pany. Tho period of the incorporation as applied for in tbe charter is twenty ycais with tho privilege of renewing it after that time. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: fcV M. Dodson is in trouble with tho United States government. Ho was bound over by a commissioner Friday on the charge of petting rock on govern ment land. J. L. Kinnebrew has a laige conlrnct wllh tbo government frr fur- nisli ng alone to tbe work on the Missis sippi livir. Dobson is n tub-conlmotor and leased some quarry hind in Walker county, Alabama. The stone on tho leased” land not being sntisfar t >ry, lie quietly moved over on tome neighboring land be'onging lo tho government and got mt 800 cailoads of twenty-two t -ns cuch before the officers appeared on rlie scene aud interrupted him. Tho value of tho stone is about $111,000. Recognized by All. A Washing'on special of Saturday sayB: The statement is made that all governments including Great Britain liavo recognized tbo provisional govern ment of Hawaii. 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