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J, D. STOKES , Proprietor,
T. P. CARNES, Editor .
—PUBLISHED KVERY FRIDAY AT—
EASTMAN, GEORGIA
Of the 400,000,000 population of
countries recognized a* belonging to the
civilized world, about 150,000,000 are
now under republican forms of govern¬
ment.
The labor question is said to be push¬
ing every other out of public interest in
London, the demands of the laboring
classes for the betterment of their con¬
dition having become so loud and fre¬
quent. __
Builders of French warship! do not
lack encouragement. The new cruiser
Cecile J a just been launched at Tou¬
lon. If she can develop a speed of
twenty knots, the builders will receive
from the government a prize of fifty
thousand dollars.
The amount of duty paid on Ciriucie
immigrants the past year shows how
greatly the number of Chinese entering
Canada is increasing. In November of
1889 the duty paid at Vancouver repre¬
sented 110 arrivals, against 74 in
November, 1888.
Out of thc 380,000,000 of which thc
population of China is, according to
the latest official statistics, composed,
about one in 10 is engaged in agricult¬
ure, one in 100 is a bricklayer or
mason, one in 120 is a tailor, one in
IMa blacksmith and one in nine a
washerman, while about one in 100 is a
carpenter.
Says a railroad man: “A passenger
engine averages sixty p mills of coal to
thc mile and travels about 56,000 miles
per year, while a freight engine aver¬
ages ninety pounds of coal to the mile
aud makes about 43,000 miles per year,
while yard engines burn less. Freight
engines travel much slower than pas
tengers, aud therefore burn more coal
per mile. The largest mileage mude in
1888 by a pnssenger engine was 81,000
miles, and by a freight engine 50,000
miles.”
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, thinks
that Providence is no longer with roy¬
alty. horn Pedro was an ideal mon¬
arch, but revolution swept him away.
No matter what a monarch docs, re¬
marks the Atlanta Constitution, sooner
or later he has to go into exile. If he is
liberal tho revolutionists find it all thc
easier to dethrone him, and if lie is se¬
vere tliat is made a pretext for an up¬
rising. AU that, keeps Spain quiet is
the fact that the queen regent is a young
widow, aud (he Spaniards arc too chiv¬
alrous to annoy her.
“J feel like a laborer of a Saturday
cveuing returning home with his week's
work doue, his week’s wages in his
pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the
babbatli,” is the modest message to his
friends of thc De Soto of Africa, Henry
M. Stanley. “It riiows thc longing for
rest alter his arduous aud dangerous
tabors which thc world can sympathize
with,” says the New' York Telegram.
“Whether the intrepid General of Civ¬
ilization will consent to accept the post
of Governor of East Africa from the
British Government is problematical.
If he does it will bo from a sense of
duty, for the man is evidently longing
for rest.”
Some of the effects of cocaine seem
lo the Chicago lkrald worthy file at¬
tention of those exacting people
who are not satisfied with the
ordinary spirits and drugs. One
of the cocaine cases reported in a
medical journal of a recent date is al¬
ways scraping hit tongue, bo
lieving that he is extracting little
black worms from it. Another
keeps his flesh in a continuous raw state
in Iris pursuit of cholera microbes with
which he believes that his body is tilled.
A physician who fell a victim to the
habit is perpetually looking for cocaine
crystals under his skin. There would
seem to be no doubt that eoraiue is a
perfectly reliable brain-destroyer.
The vastness of the Brazilian territory
is too little appreciated. It is as large
as the entire territory of the United
tjta'es, provided Alaska be not taken
into consideration. It has a coast line
of 4000 miles; from Pernambuco to its
Andean frontier is soir.e 2400 miles.
Tuis vast territory has Leen estimated
to be about one- tiftoeuth of the surface
of the earth not covered by water.
When this vastness is borne in mind,
and when it is remembered that thc
coun Irv is much in the position that thc
United States was in immediately aftet
the Louisiana purchase, or sav, at any
time prior to the construe
I ion of tho great transcon
tiueulal railroads; that as be
tween thickly populated points there
existed almost impassable mountains or
forests of inconceivable density and al¬
most endless extent; tliat North and
Srnth Brazil have between them abso¬
lutely nothing in common except their
language; that there are no railroads
whatever which traverse the country
throughout its length in any direction;
that the telegraph system has been little
developed; and that coastwise com¬
merce even is ns yet very incompletely
developed, it will be realized, says a
writer in the New York Turns, how
difficult of establishment a cohesive
lederal republic will be; and that the
great danger which attend* the present
snterprise is the breaking up of Brazil
into a number of republic!.
irriBXID HIS BK-VlN.
Jones—That fellow Smith is a gran
\ irovV L- ,5 rap.!
Brown He is, indeed. He borrowed
a volume of Browning from me two
years ago aud has novel - relumed it.
brake’s Magazine.
AT THE C Vl’H AL. !
WHAT THE FIFTT-FIKS1 COX-\
GREBS IS 1)01X0
AP,‘OINTMENTS 11V PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURE* OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTERS* 1.
nmily begun the preparation ‘r-rrji of a tanfl
7*lu, T“ hC ,n<S ’
It b 11 of the last congress Tt Hus lumber
and ^ood sections of that bill v»<u
adopted entire with the exception of the
clause relating to rattan and chair canes,
wldch had been attacked by a number of
persons before the committee, and lu-' ■
consequently been held up for future a>
tio«. The schedule senate bill, covering j
books and paper, wa* also adopted. ft 1 hi
action is preliminary and all -cl.ed
ul<-.- adopted will be subject to revision
when the bill is completed.
tion increasing the membership of the
world's fair committee from nine t > thir¬
teen* and providing that the committee
shail have jurisdiction over all questions lo¬
relating cation. to the location fair except that be determined as to
The is to
as follows; Ou one day the representa-i
lives of competing cities shall present |
their claims, and on the following day j
the members shall vote their ( hoice of lo- .
cation. Referred to the committee on |
rules.
journal Immediately after the reading of into the
committee on of Saturday, whole, the house the went
the ou customs
administrative bill. Mr. McKinley of¬
fered the following as an additional sec¬
tion : Any merchandise deposited in any
public or private bonded warehouse may
be withdrawn for consumption within
three years from the date of the original
importation on the payment of duties aud
charges to which it might be subject by
law at the time of such withdrawal: pro
vided, that nothing herein shall effect or
impair existing provisions of the law ill
regard to the disposal provided of perishable or
explosive articles; and further,
that this sec tion shall not apply to any
article United which has and been re-imported. exported from the
States
On Monday, the house in committee of
the whole, proceeded to consider the bill
appropriating $ 1 , 500,000 for the erection
of three United States prisons, and for
the imprisonment of United Mates pris¬
oners. The bill was reported passed, favorably 117,
to the house and was yeas
nays 101 .
Colonel Oates, of Alabama, is preparing
to meet tbe direct tax bill when it comes
over from the senate. refunding Hr- bill is going it, to tack and
the cotton tax to
demand a vote upon that first. Then he
is going to add another amendment,
which is of the utmost importance allow to
every section of the south. It is to
the people of tho south to go before the
court of claims and establish their right
to the $16,000,600 in the treasury, which
belongs to individual citizens of the
south, and which and is thc abandoned proceeds from the
sale of captured introduced three important property.
Mr. Barnes
Gills for Georgia on Monday. The collected first
was to refund the cotton tax
between 1863 and 1808. Another is to
make the arsenal at Augusta a manufac¬
tory of munitions of war. His third bill
appropriates $50,000 to improve and the Sa¬
vannah, between Trotter shoals Au¬
gusta, and $100,000 to itnproxe it be
tween Augusta and na\ aiman.
fhe house committee on territories on
Monday considered the Oklahoma tern
tory bill, and will perfect the measure ami
report it to the house by thc raid <>( the
week. A hot contest was made over ex
tending the laws of some one of the
states over the proposed new territory.
The probabilities are that the adopted, laws of
Missouri or California will be
with the chances in favor of the latter.
NOTES.
The house committee on rivers and liar- ’
bors has begun the preparation oi tlie
appropriation bill.
The comptroller of currency has au¬
thorized the first national bank of Besse¬
mer, Ala., to begin business with a capi¬
tal of $50,000.
The house committee favorable ou public thc lands
lias ordered a report on bill
to grant certain Fla., public for lands to the city ol
Jacksonville, park purposes.
The senate committee on naval affairs
he hi a meeting discussion, Friday, at which, committee at’tei
considerable the
decided upon the policy w hich w ill gov¬
ern it during this congress in tin- work of
building up the navy. This is. in brief.
that great toe-of-battle should ships constructed like the
English Hen Bow be at
OllCO. Majority aud minority reports will
be submitted to the senate.
Yalenta. Brazilian minister at Wash¬
ington, on Friday, received the following
cablegram from Buy Barbosa, Brazilian
minister of finaflice, dated Rio .Janeiro.
January 24th: institution, “Capital for a be great known na¬
tional banking United to
as the national bank of the States
of Brazil, was subscribpil capital is $100,000,000.” to-day within
four hours. Tho
Yalenta regards of this the ns people a crucial in the test stabil¬ ot
the confidence
ity and permanency of thc new republic.
A delegation of colored men from Vir¬
ginia, were before the house committee < n
the election of president and vicc-pres -
dent Saturday, to talk about the open -
tiiuis of election laws in Virginia. They
formed a committee appointed held bv a Rich
vention of colored people in
tnoud, December 17th last, to present this
matter to congress, The address con
tained some statistics concerning said alleged
election frauds aud outrages to have
been perpetrated in the state of Virginia
in the last election, and earnestly appeals
to the lawmakers of the nation lo
change the existing- national election law
that it shall be no longer in tlie power of
any registrar or other election officer to
disfranchise arbitrarily any voter to w hom
is given the right of ballot by thc cou-ti
tution of this country, and to remedy the
wrong- and evils, which they complain of
by reducing representation accorded in
the house of representatives to that ex¬
tent in which suffrage in the southern
states, aud especially in A'irginia. i- prac¬
tically denied and suppressed.
A GREAT RACE.
OIRCLING THK GLOBE IN' SEVE NTT-TWO
DAYS AND SIX HOURS.
Last , November v , the -v- New lork ,• , ... W.n, .
iudlhe C osmoijolitan Magazine, of tlie
same city, each sent out one of their l^dy
correspoudent* for a tour around the
world. Besides being a trip m the inter
est of the jiapers named, it was in reality
a race between thc two young ladies, and
the time of starting and their progress
over the world has been minutely noted
from Nellie the Llv day represented liland of their embarkation the 1 torU. 10^ and
Mra. Magazine. Kate Miss Sly reached the Cosmopolitan
New York
Saturday at -t.40 p. in., being just ,i
days, six hours and eleven minutes in cur
cling the globe. Uhn breaking all previous
record-. !i-» t«lv s trip from San Lran
cisco to New A ork was most exciting and
attracted wide-spread attention. All along
the route sh.. was ^. eiv „, WIth regular
D W -F'! Y a. K AIU R.v B ” ^ 1
y ret ’ , ' ,v il ‘
rovtt we come. Th moment of her arrival
was heralded over the city by the firing 1
In congregated ah at the \ork station accorded to mret hei.
tact, New a grau».
iva,ion to 1 he plucky young i-iuv who,
a.one anu unattended wcc,vmpG.-he l% tlu ;
marAelo^hr.n V ',—, of breaking .he recoru for I ^
Mis- v- bi-iana. v> last aci.ouni-. was -til. :
an the ocean, homeward la>und. 1
CONVENTION OF MINERS
IMPORT AST ( HANOI'S IN TUF. COSsTI I Ut ION
OF TITE UNITED 'IINF. WOBKFUS.
The United Mine Workers’ convention
held to session Friday and Saturday, at
Columbus. Ohio. The final report of the
committee on constitution was niatio. and
flre to be divided into divisions, or d«
anfl a sr.-ue uruon may be cr-..u.ze*i3
when more Hum one division exists The
following otftfer* were elected: Vresi
dent. John B. Rae. Pennsylvania: Ohio; vice
President. W. IT. Turner. - ere
tary. treasurer. Robert Wither,.. Ohio;
auditor, J II. Kennedy. Indiana; am,
tire board—Patrick McBride. Pfcrin«vlva
nia . MdHiam Sc.dfo. Illinois; H. F War
ren, colored, colored, Ohio; Ohio: John John Kane. Kane. Resolutions’ Indiana; Indiana; I |
W. W. C, C. Webb. Webb, Kentucky. Kentucky.
wfre were reported reported and and adopted adopted favoring favoring the the
immediate immediate euactment euactment for for the the abolition abolition of ot
the company store system: that the safety
of the miner is of highest importance,
and should that the most improved protection machinery life,
Ire used for the of
therefore indorsing the Shaw machine, !
recommerultngtts adoption m all mines of
tlie country.
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CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TREE
onApn AXB «*“*
THINGS THAT HAri’EX FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THK WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
There has been a great storm of wind
*m! rain in southern England.
The hostility of the German press to
the Samoan treaty is still outspoken.
Mxteen m.n«uv t fam.l.es t evicted .,.,1 |
' 11 ani ‘ ria a *
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Dispatcher . of Friday say: A teirtni:
storm is raging all over Central Austra- i
Ha. 1 here has boen a heavy snow fall in j
Bohuuia.
1 he four story brick block, Nos. Goto
101, Bristol street, Ikiston, Mass., owned
gutted by the by heirs lire early of William Thursday F. Paul, was j
Loss morning.
is estimated at $100,000.
The publication of thc Samoan treaty in
Berlin lias led to its denunciation by the
German press of both parties, I)is
patches received at Washington say that
radical and conservative papers alike call
it a “German retreat.”
The United States steamer Enterprise,
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S. ! Sj!r4&'SSf SS5S«!t!
icturii, owing to the weather.
At a PortogUese meeting, held al itio
Jauiero, Brazil, on Tuesday, it was re
solved to suspend business with the Eng
lish people, and to send a telegram col- to .
Lisbon, staling that members of the
ony there are prepared to make any sac
rifico for their native country.
The non-partisan Woman’s Christian
Temperance union at Cleveland, ()., on
Thursday affected organization and :
adopted dors. thc name of the National Crusa- Ohio, |
Mrs. Allen G. Phinuey, of
was elected president, and Mrs. Walker,
of Minnesota, vice-president.
A dispatch from Punxsutawuey, Pa ,
The sheriff evicted nineteen fanii
lies of striking coal miners at Walston
am) Aclrian Moll(lftv . ulll M( . vcn 0 „ Satin- I |
day There was no excitement. The
miners did not seem at all discouraged
by the wholesale evictions, and accept
the situation cheerfully,
II. M. Jackson, former paying teller ot
the sub-treasury at New York, who run
away guilty with $ 10 , 000 , and who pleaded
to the charge of embezzlement a '
few days ago, was on Thursday in Erie
to six years’ imprisonment
penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $ 10 , 00
the amount he embezzled.
Adam Forepaugh, died Thursday the night veteran Phila- circus
manager, at
dellihia. Pa. at the non of sixtv-eioht.
Mr. Fgrepaugli many years ago embarked
in the circus business, in which he was
verv successful, circus^ getting togetlier the most
extensive and menagerie, with
which he amassed a fortune which U c«*ti
mated at more than a million dollars.
1 j-, 1 ir V" . r'w"; . , V s," ,iio , ' ,
I , r liitch, .-. board ot H ade speculator, r <*t
(jucago, has been victimized by hi* M*t
,"*? '/ \v’ if irii 1 ,' 1
c erk ot \\ . 1 . Dn km-on .-; A ( o., anothci tl
firm, whose office non the same floor with
Hutchinson. Bniimr pluce* the amount
variously from $25,000 to $40,000.
Dickinson -was also robbed by bis clerk.
t^atced at $7,000. Both Clerks have gone
to Canada.
Fire broke out at Kittery navy yard at
P..rtsm uth, N. H.. Monday morning.
Buildings Nos. 45 and 46, with contents
were entirelv destroyed. No. 4o was
full of sawing and planing shop. machinery, Among
and 46 was a destroyed ship fitting furniture
the property was tne
of the Juniata, uow under repaii, and
part of the furniture of the Lancaster,
and a large amount of stores. The loss
aggregates a little over $ 100 , 000 , accord
ing to appraisement; no insurance.
NOW TIS ICE.
nn .-now ox the tacii-ti railroad mas
BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ICE.
A dispatch tSi frojn San Francisco, says:
„ Sit ., klZto » u . to?.
»w-. -..... ;]«
Truckcc office ou the eastern slope ot the
Sierra mountains, where u was learned
that the snow was sixteen feet deep on
the track between that place and the
station five miles west of there. The late
rains followed by freezing weather, had
transformed this into iee, which will have
to be chopped out and shoveled away by
hand. It is understood that the railroad
company hns endeavored to secure tele
graphic- communication with Reno in
ordcr that a few at least of the west
bound trains that arc there can 1 C
ordered back to Ogden and the V
passengers transferred to the South
ern route. Tlie situation remains
the same on the road to Oregon.
Thc water in the streams and rivers ot
California is receding, but in some places
slowly. From Colusa, in the western part
of Sacramento vallev. icnnrts ; come vhat
for milrs north am! ; out) „ f Uiere 1;tnns
*
. ov # •ymI u irli «■■ i\ 1,1'throu-d. 1 f
from two to six feet. The
ont the statc bv tho riooil , =
,, aIUK)t ,
ayyrmiximateh- estimated ........ it thU '
:
TH g- ANGRY ATLANTIC C *
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mAvr seas damageto VE**ELa —tbirtv
pkopledkowned. pfoplf drownfd
Tbe Cunurd su . amer Cephalonia, Hum
b >ston. January 18th, for Liverpool. »r
r vw j at Qneenstown Monday. During
t v pas-agi -lie encountered a gale t hat
v ^ as ^ st veie that the passengers wer,
^ept below for two permitted dav*. it being feared d,-,
that if the v wen above l,
t> , woukT be away by th, -a
sh:,r CAme aboard Th, British -hi,
Loch Moidart, from Pizagu.,. NovemWi
Holland. Hamburg, Thirty is a-horeat her Callantsoog. wash
of crew were
edomboavd after she struck, and all i*r
;shl . d Ph e British -hip returned Janet Cowan
i month, K .f ore reported is in distres- having >b<- h.'t number to Ply
a
, } f sail- when off the islo of AA ight last
phurstiar. Five of her crew were lost,
Although the ship was almost dismasted,
g,c rcmSinder of thc crew sncc’ -lis* in
navigating her to Plymouth.
SOCTHKRN NOTE'S
1XTERESTIXO SEWS FROM All.
POTXTS IX THE SOUTH.
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general progress and occurrences
which a hr happening below ma
*»
A fire in Nashville, Tenn.. l huu.hu
night, *130,750. caused a lo«. in round figures «<
ir r, R » 1 f C °'" , j , eal , '-' ra Ju • l,r » >
, i‘ -r us amounted f ? tc
The trial of Mis (bra May N-ales Mor
™ Mrs began Morris at Wentworth. X. with « .. Friday having
caused - the death is of charged her husband by cblo
roform. roform. August August lit, 19, 1H«9. in**9.
The The libel libel suit suit over over the the grave grave of of Maty, Mary.
the mother of Washington, at Fredericks
btiro-, l... \ ............ a., happily terminated ................. by the .... de
feudants in ~ the suit * making association, .......* a gift of
property the monument
L A .. L dispatch lk. president of Monday of says: .... the National Colonel
p 0
I armors’ and Laborers' union, is at Ral
eigh, X. C\, and is very sick. Some ol
hi- friends speak of his condition as se¬
rious.
T he Mississippi house of representatives
in session at Jack-on, spout two hours
The race problem is the bone of coulen
tKlU '
The executive , committee , of the Charles
ton. S. 0., chamber of commerce on Sat
urdav adopted resolutions indorsing tlu
tonnage bounty bill, now before congress.
to encourage the building of American
shl l ,s -
Thirteen distilleries of T. J. MoGibbcn, ,
at Louigvi ll e , Ky„ who was buried 0,1
Saturday, have shut down. McGibben
appointed no administrator, and there
wus nobody to take charge. About 300
men were thrown out of work.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad,
f rom Xorfork to Danville, Va,, was form
^ >, X“m a p!L Thiirsdav bv sneeial exenr- dL
to
^ Hie The road is 207 miles Ion" the* and
gives Danville a direct route to sea
board.
rr The , program for - the southern trip of
tho Pan-American congress has not yet
been made out but they will, perhaps
leave Washington about the middle of
February. A number of the delegates
5K3SCS ***£ li ther
" ”" ”
ville, Tenn, Commercial club, called on j
Governor Taylor Friday, aud urged that
; u case (jg called an extra session, to in
t i ie t . a n t j 10 subject of double
taxation. Governor Taylor accorded the
committee a patient hearing, and prom
; suc j ,j,«t in case be decided to call an ex
tra session he would include the subject, j
\ strike was inaugurated at the Bir
m i ng b am Ala., rolling mill on and Monday,
which promises to be a long bitter
0 ne before the trouble is adjusted. Over j
one thousand men. including helpers, are
employed in the mill, and they will all he !
thrown out of work. Hnd the mill shut
down. The strike was caused by the men
trving to get the mill into the Amalga
mated association, to which the manager.*
objected,
A SOCIALIST MEETING
Hktfut.t I'ioNS 1‘ABSKD DECLARING THEIR
FOI rCV ANTAGONIZING ill RR MOST.
meeting , of , social 1 . indly
4t a 1 - “ m M
hull, Chicago, on Sunday, resolution
( ‘ n ' adopted, calling attention to the
la tion of (he aociub-J leadei. Ueri
la the Pevmuu reich-tag. on >af
urday. The statement of Bcbel was that
^ disupKarance of anarchism trom •
(, el ,P. aD v ««s due tothe iffort ot the *
- the had mt.i
vtalists, . and government
1111 l .’ st monjnen « °the^’mm,ose • P' 1 '■.. "ol
eononmui.g with socialism i - and ' thus >'>“ disciidiUn the ,
fl,uJ r ' 1,,st ” h '
prodnet . ot He t
1 hr resolutions eoiiciuvleu «\s lollovt .
“We hereby emphasize tho necessity of
^nalisfs in the United State* giving heed
this declaration of thepoiny and prill
‘-iples of German socialism: that in this
,„‘ umr , .lyuamite agitation lias 110
J • wh-Owcr. and its ad
V)f;ate . tho \ lt ,g s ft „d the D. I.mu'
slll)lllll ben-cognized and treated as agents
uf , ( J ti , n , . iaJ not a , .formers, and
;a|( t |liMn b ,. tw ,.,. n socialism and their
roactionarv agitation be kept as well dc
. r m cd and aggressive as in Germany.”
THE FATAL BLIZZARD.
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, EO plk being frozen to death and
THOU8AXD s or cattle t‘Erisiun“.
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News from Tacoma, Washington, re
p 0r ts that at least ten human beings and
thousands of cattle and sheep perished m
t he blizzard which began with the year
au j raged over Washington for a week.
Reports from Colville reservation are to
hundreds the effect from that starvation cattle are and dying thirst, hy aud the
that tlie ground is covered w ith over two
feet of snow on a level, and tliat in some
places is drifted mountain high. The
keeper of a stage station, a mail carrier
and eight cattle men ate known to have
lost their lives in the storm. The
“'.Y:'?"h'lll™"
. AFTER THE OFFICIALS
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&Klse FO ,t an investigation of tub
AC ts ok members of the legislature.
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, 4 Topeka, Kan., dispatch says that a
. .
I petition is in circulation asking Judge
Guthrie to call a special grand jury to in
j vestigate thc acts of certain members ot
the state legislature and other state uffi
eers . One of thc circulators of the peti- peti
{j on stated on Saturday that the
tioners were after State Treasurer Harm!
ton, Insurance Commissioner Wilder and
Messrs. Burton and Gillette and two or
three-other members of the legislature.
pi, e charges against them are not made
public. ".Judge Guthrie if enough will probably petition-
5Un imon a grand jury
frs ask it.
SEABOARD FARMERS
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organize ax alliance and elect a
ki ll quota of offk ers.
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Hie Seaboaid Farmers* AlLiance wus
organized at Charleston. 8. C., Saturday,
The following officers were installed:
President AV G. Henson; vice-pre.si
<lcnt ’ Jo»‘n 8. Horbeck; secretary.
i E I.. lecture;. Roche treasurer 8 C.
Henson; E L. Rivers:
actant lecturer; H. B. Lee, doorkeeper,
4- H. I.igon; assistant doorkeeper, T. U.
Hamlin; sergeant-at-arms. Sandy Bee.
business agent, E. T. Ijegare. The farm
ers on its roll are those ou the sea islands
and ou what is known as the neck. Thev
»•*« «« island cotton and truck
A GOOD U ™__ PLAN PLAN '
torros mu.ls Af t AU U ass to
.
a now the chofit.sharing plan
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Maoagera of a number of big mills at
Fall River. M,,-. have been watching
the result of the profit sharing experiment
•* the Bourne mill, and it i. stated on
good authority that a number of mills
contemplate doing likewise, help for the incen
live offered keeps tbe from leaving,
as evil with which every large mill has
had to contend.
TRADE REVIEW.
COI.Dtlt WEATHER M AKE' THE CONDITION
OF BUSINESS MORE EAV< BAULK.
11. G. Dunn & Co S review of trade
for the week ending Jan. 25th, savs
Business has a decidedly more favorable
appearance. Colder v > other has brought
burseiuem by the treasury for bonds' have
brought easier nrnnev markets, and sev
era! troublesome labor controversies have
L-iouslv t,.,] Th*> inteirunt’ino-%nde irrrv.iilmo- ciokii^
t Si i 10u(r h Zu Ti and
fhl -o^and t* Tte A offidalSJ dU inrtlv
me. m ~ st assme ion is
nar . irukrl rat .- fti .,„ because ^m^sion h shows
„„ S0 M socks in the hand ■ of makers ami
.huiuo lss'.l but actuallv decreased 1(> -
30 (Jn „ t ' ou« ,it, The production was 7,004,525
s a 4 mo, imports 738 in the the total previous
yea,- Adding COIl- will
sumption of pig iron in this country
probably prove to have been about
tons against 6,688,7-14 in 1888.
\ gain of more than a million tons in the
rear over the largest consumption explains ever the
previously known, fairly
advancing prices in the, face of the un¬
precedented production.
THE WOOLEN BUSINESS.
p as tx-eu flttle improved for all grades by
with
(pin in heavier woolens. Cotton
goods j move fairly begins at firm prices, but dis- the
r j se a material Speculation to cause some
turbance. in cotton lias marked
up the price half a cent with sales for the
0 ( 1,100,000 bales aud receipts for
the week slightly fall behind, while ex
ports slightly exceed last year s Except
111 cotton the speculative markets show no
unhealthy activity, though money here
has been decidedly easier. The decrease
of $ 4 , 000,000 in cash held by the treas
ury, aud tbe rate for money on call has
declined to 8 J per cent. Foreign ex
change is also a shade lower at 4.86, and
increasing gold reserves at the banks of
England and France foreign give trade more confi- im
denco. In the some
provement is observed in exports fit New
York, which fall only six per cent, below
last year’s for January thus far, while thq
decrease in imports £ is seventeen per cent.
B)Jt thc oxpor of wheat have been de
w d , & y sincc the recent rLie , and
8 pmcnts ‘ are light, while even corn
£ )rt8 to fall behind these of last
fleborts from other cities are gen
'w.atl,.r»,I in trail.. I)ui.<-» fail.ma
29 g. Canada, 48; total, 338; against 336
last \veek,
BOYCOTTING ENGLAND
the business hex ok roirn oiTM; i i n:
he nticTtNo trad : with the i.noi.isii.
Tlie Commercial nssm-iatioii at l-i- •"
, resolved to do it- utmost tu pu -.-u
or restrict a.l trade oi co.nmei. ml mh^
course Port Miuhal. with England. torcibly |uvv,-,,t-d Ill- mimbitajit" a 1 ..rt„ o
guese mere ham irom 'hipping goods ot.
al ! Lnghrii steamer, uhich tbereloie.
sailed without any cargo. Many Ameri¬
can, French and German commercial
travelers at Lisbon are making the most
pf the opportunity afforded 1 .. replace
English goods in Portuguese markets by
goods from the countries they represent.
Four thousand merchants paraded “AVar th.
9 treet-s Tuesday night shouting: t<
England!’’
HERR MOST IN CUSTODY.
THE WELL-KNOWN ANARCHIST AGAIN IN
rni: hands ok the police.
^ New York dispatch -ays: Herr John
y[ oa i anarchist, whose conviction penitentiary and
sentpncc t0 one <V{ . ar in the
was affirmed Friday by tic general tenn
() j p,,, SU p V ,me ciitirt, was attested on
’'■'ftinlay by d.tcetixes from (lie cetifral
office. He was captured as he was h-av
mg the house of Mrs. Wa Hoffman, who
was ou i,; s bond, pending the decision of
tlie general term. Most was convicted of
using lmguage intending to incite ineotini? a riot of
while making ’ i^j] a speech fit a
{he anarch | st s in November. 1887, tu
,i ( . noa iM» the hanging counsel of the Chicago that he an- be
flrchisK His will ask
.tdrriittecl to bail pending the apppal.
Feline Facts and Fancies.
Mr. „ „ Men, . an Euglwh _ ... to anli.or beware ol of a
l*««k on cats, warns \ oop.e Such
cats with blue nit*. .
alm-s always deaf ”d not bn.-wmg
vhen thev make a muse, no matter how
“d C'e”bh- ScTlmd 1 «me‘
e b 7 who
* t i ,■
, fco°a in* , . „
4* ^ ^^ friend who turn t-ausf ‘ -ned ’ it
;°t f as the
and consequently couldn’t he ,r the
nlY |ii >vs the cat n ale,
\{ aon „ the chief ditewes of oats Mr.
Weir Eatur.rlly mentions catarrh as the
1 • j well
To show the cit’s love of light as
as of sue tn ss, Mr. AVe r tells this
story: James Fox
“It is related of dales
that, walking tip St. Jem s street fr..m
one of the cltib’ i;o; s s with tho Prinea would
of Wale?, he laid a w. g r ,hat he
see more’cats than t e Prince in top the
When th y had r-ache 1 tho
^ was found that Mr. Fox hadteen
**°“
%S£lJRZ&r«*k.*. 11 skid for an ex
m,
Fox tied- ‘Your E-oii' Highness took,of
comae, the study ride of t! e way cs the
mor ,. a-r r( - ta 'i,; e I ku -,v the sui ny side
.
would to left for me, and ...ts always
prefer There the sttnslih e.”’ the New
Ycrk Post are Office, phnty < f ca they s in chiefly
but are
fed with what is left over from the me vis
of the employees, and thusevstthe Gov
enm special Oat nothing; at any rate, there is
no appropriation for tlielr ra
tioafr’. So with cut; iu other large build
ins>. Ti e - -s not; o much u * d of ex
penditure of uviuy for cat” m at in
this conutry bring as m England, for owing
to meat susta more ginwally xl eaten 1 ere
cats can b ■ n on what is left
o\ r without taking ou out ile sup
plies.
Electric-Lighted Cars.
The Mul.and Railway ot England r , , is .
tt now city, running one a Aree short cats tu m, Ught^ in w hn -yelee- h the
<a:s aie always cotipl d, and two main
line trains, which are- m ule a nl lnokeu
np'-n the way. In all t me fia ns m
dynamo is m tbeguard the s.iort s^'an t an C 1 1
from »uaxle. In . ui .-a y
n:u at-Ofti p.aocd in tne an Ss'rai 1 • 'lu
Tjo ,
th- mam-ltue ^ 1.^ 1 fr
h ^ Cl “ S m
'o!i, tUin lms ..c tl e 1 att ri<s in series
. p i. Imiain-z the latie-ap
f v^-ry airaii“c
_!■ fv.ft,^tr-in -„‘,d lffotd a satis
! ^ a e Ivoken st'variors
..a u , „ tbe r.tirn
{^.arrangements. wMhouMnb rfcirov; with th,
T. 0 lights me - i
eight-caudle powa r each, two to etch
eompn dLwn ta«ut.‘ Thev can b ■ turned up ed
or and if a car becomes detae'
thev are autin.ati tally light, d. Tne
oou'pl n, anl geceGl te’.eqvaph a rangemeata depart
we e >t wis d bv the
ment tfcoa^r and are c ve el by j a > uts. Al
tbe work is eneritnee s i-1 regarded as f-nv ex
perircenta', an o:
months ha*induced th * company to ex
tend it, aud two ucw trains arc now lie
mg fitted up.
CATCHING RATS.
-
The Buildings Most infested
With the Rodents.
“How do you clear rats out of a
house:’’ asked a reporter of Louis Bes¬
sie of Philadelphia, who calls himself
the “champion rat-catcher of the United
States."
‘■First,” said he, “I let my ferret* !
loose in the walls. Taen 1 set my traps i
aud my dog?, and sometimes a net like
this all around (showing a long, loosely
woven hammock-like net). Aud then
Urn there myself. The traps arc baited
with a fluid having an unusual odor, I
lut one which never fails to attract the |
■
rats. Sec, here it is.” Aud he held a
small bottle under the reporter’s nose.
“Wnat do you think it is!”
“Smells like peppermint.’’
“Yes, and camphor and rnauy othei
things. The recipe for that fluid I got
from an old Liverpool rat-catcher, and
no one bat myself kuows Avhat ingro
dients there are in it. Well, as 1 was
saying, the traps are set, the ferrets
are loose, and I and my little dogs are
watching for tho rats. Presently they
come, and, if they are not attracted in- i
lo the cages by the odor, tho dogs and |
I go for them.”
“How long will it take?”
“That depends, of course, on a good
many things. I caught filty-seven in
two hours—big fellows they wire, too,
every ouc of them—l» 3 t winter at
Evans's drug store. But that was quick
work. What buildings arc most in
fcsled with rats? Busiuess houses, j
markets, restaurants aud particularly
newspaper cilices.” Tne reporter gave
a jump. Lou laughed.
“There areu’t many professional rat
catchers in the cuu itry. Some people
say there are eight, b it I think that s
too many. There are two others, be
sides myself, here in Philadelphia, but
I’m thc champion.”
“What become? of thc rats that you
catch in the traps!”
“Oh, some are fed to the ferrets aud
some arc killed, and some arc used iD
the shooting galleries, instead of
pigeons. A'ou know the law is against
shooting pigeons, but there isn’t any
against shooting rats. These that ]
have in tins cage I'm going to give to
those hungry ferrets in the window, so
as to show you some fun.”
A crowd had gathcrel about the
window, and ai the reporter went out¬
side to view the slaughter “Lou’
opened the window from within and
shook two rats out of the cage down to
the ferret?. Ju an instant ‘ho latter
made for thc rats aud caught one of
them, thc other escaping temporarily.
Running to thc otherend ol thc window
he made the most, frantic efforts to
climb its glass surfaiu, while the ferrets
at thc other end dine 1 off of his un
fortunate comrade.
The inner window was slid aside, aud
a poor old blind ferret was dropped in.
The rat ma le a jump at tho. ferret, who
retreated, stumbling shout in a thor¬
oughly blind manner, MHit tried
again to climb the glassy surface, and
a? lie fell back the ferret was on him.
Tlie rat shook him off, and, having tho
advantage of sight, and seeming to
realize this, made a jump at the ferret.
So it went on for a gffhd forty seconds,
first, tlie rat seemingly triumphant until
the ferret would make a turn -and a
shake which for the moment gave him
the victory. At last the rat got such a
hold that it med , as though , , tint . , fet
sc
let’s life wasn’t worth much, when sud -
denly ho made a spring and, winding
his long bodv’ about the rat, proceeded
to demolish him.
A Tree's Keeord of its Life.
It is not.known to every one that a
tree keeps a record within its stem of
the character of each successive season
since it began its growth. If a peach
tree, for instauce, be examined after it
lias been cut diwu, the ring pf wood
formed in each year will show by its
amount whether the summer of that
year was warm or dry, or otherwise
favorable or adverse; and by the con
dition of the wood thc character of the
winter will be denote 1. Severe early
frost will leave a layer of soft, decay¬
ing wood; and later fr03ts will be in¬
dicated by a change of color, if noth
ing more.
Jf a summer has been so dry as to
cause a total rest between the growths
of June and September, the annual
ring for that year will be a double one,
and sometimes barely distinguishable
as one, but liable to be taken by a not
very close observer, for two different
years’ growth.
At a late meeting of the Botanical
society of Edinburgh, Sir Robert
C'bristisun gave the results of measure
meats of large trees of different species
made annually on lines of girth marked
permanently with paint- In the very
unfavorable season of 1878, the deli
,ie„i’ ciencv in summer temperature wa3
10 degree. , ,, *
of different species the deficiency in an
nual increase in girth was 10 per cent.
Jn eleven other deciduous trees it was
42 per cent., and in seventeen pines it
was 20 per cent., diffrrent specie! ol
the sam^ family giving very nearly
similar results —VmVa Monthly .
Rights of a Chinese Husband.
tt ‘ , m ,n W,i, m s WI - f e v 1,1 , oes no f
’
i bleak her 1 mbs or maim her, the law
takes no notice of it; if „ wi f. beats
her husband she is liable to receive 100
blows, and tlie husband may separate
fi t ui hf-r. Tho=e who have been
j shocked by ' the sale of women in the
femme - rf r , on ops , w j|j bs inteiestnd in m
knowing tuat t„e law pr «s bat h. ;
who from poverty sells his wife shall
. l>e heavilv punished; lot the woman
“
revert to toe ... h band (that i«, to
the man she was sola to). ras Matt
GfUf'.te.
DO YOU j
WEAR CLOTHES? ■
do, *111 interest ou to know that our complete FALL and
Because If you it y Stock of Extra tine
WINTER
Suits, Overcoats, Hats,
UNDERWEAR’ HOSIERY. NECKWEAR AND FURNISHINGS*
IS USTOW R/EAEY!
C. 0. B. Shipments continue a special feature with usl
Privilege of examining before paying 1
Rules for self-measurement on request!
Extra sizes a specialty!
We Can Always Fit
ANY MAN, BOY OR CHILD REGARDLESS OF BUILD OR DIMENSIONS.
SOLE AGENCY FOR
KNOX’S - FINE - HATS ! 1
DEALERS Who cater to fine trade can get some special JOBS
hy writing gives so us. advant¬
Our Immense Retail Trade us many
ages over tho exclusive JOBBER 1
IOI Congress St., Savannah, Ga.
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
Schofield's iron Works,
Manufacturers and Jobrers of
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES,
General Machinery and all Kinds Castings.
Sole Owners anil Manufacturers of
SCHOFIELD’S FAMOUS COTTON PRESS. !
To Pack by Hand, Horse, Water or Steam.
Brass Goods, Pipe Fittings, Lubricators, Belting, Packing-Saws. Eto
General Agents for
Hancock Inspirators and Gullets Magnolia Cotton Cins.
J S. SCHOFIELD & SON
mySl-lyr MACON, GEORGIA.
id a. bm xm, 9
410 and 421 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
Successor to Small amt •llallartf.
Is still in the field, prompt to furnish merchants, millers and
tra( j ers wit p a u kinds of Provisions and Produce, Bagging, Ties, To
k acco and Cigars, small groceries, such as can goods. guaranteed. Lowest prices,
Orders will have prompt attention, and satisfaction
Captain Mallary will insure your life; 1 will insure your pros-
1 my31-6m
perity.
i *<;.» ESTABJ-i ISIilEID
OLD AND RELIABLE
Safe i®<t feed Stebkel
A LctFyb StOCk Oj 3-* h Horses and Mnles,
Kept Constantly on L ji I Hand. From the
j Cheap to the High-Priced.
H. & M. WATERMAN,
//.. n/.nisl fi/r. f.tl
,.J^SSKS£t5l3'lU, car load lots
1 .in. linn.
with first-class mules til the lowest market rates. W e make a special¬
ty in this trade. Information or orders by mail will receive prompt
: J apnl 12 88 Jv_
»■»—■ ttention.
j
—DEALERS IN—
maghinbby of EVERY ZECHSriD.
i Ballets, - saw - Mills, - Grist - Mills, - Cation - seed - Grinders, - Belling,
Lubricating Oils, Iron Pipe and Fittings,
j INSPIRATORS, BRASS FITTINCS, Etc.
j SMITH & MALLARY,
1 MACON, GA.
Jan. 15,1889. ly
j J. M. BATEMAN,
-REPRESENTING
GEO T ROGERS’ SONS,
j HOUSE,
THE OLD RELIABLE WHOLESALE GROCERY
Will call oa the Merchants of EASTMAN every two weeks.
This house is agent for the following celebrated and popular
brands of Flour:
WADE HAMPTON, LEONA PATENT, WHITE YELVET,
The PARTIDO is the best 5-cent Cigar in the market.
Also agent for the famous MISSING LINK Tobacco.
June 4-6m
PASSEWCEFf SCHEDULE
GEORGIA SOUTHERN & FLORIDA RAILROAD.
j SUWAHEE RIVER ROUTE TO FLORIDA.
Taking effect December 20, 1880. S an lari lime 9Jth Meridian.
. GOING SOI TH,
; f No* 1- Xo. 3 i S . 5. No. IL
j ^Kt’e 10 45 am 11 10 pin 5 30 pm 60) am
12 52 pm I 06 am 8 12 pm 11 20 pm
a rare Tifton....... 2 ( 8 pm H 4 r j pm 5 50 pn
No 18
L av ‘ Tifton............ 2 28 pm 2 13 am 6 30 am
j Air ve Valdosta.......... 4 JO pm o 35 • m 10 40
J Arrive Jaaper........... 5 28 pm 4 4 i am 3 p*n
Arrive Lake C'itv......... 6 45 pra 5 55 am 5 3ipm
ArriVH Jacksonville ( A 20 pm 8 30 am
......
GOING NORTH.
No. 2. No. 4. So. 6. i So. 12.
i Leave Jacksonville.... 7 35 am 4 D pm
LoaraLike Ciy..... 7 03 pm 7 OJaui
i'rive Jasper 11 05 am 8 10 pm . 9 :j5am
........ J i 12 y 20 12 0!
Arrive VahJost*....... pm pm pn.
kuivt Tifton......... 1 48 pm tl Oj pm
No 14.
i (*»> 'lift >n..... 2 S u* 17 pin 12 livijini 28,ni tt 8'Oani a>> ant 11 7 flu 2!) am
linrt t'oriele.... pm a;;
M»on. 5 2 “ i fit 2 5 0.ml _It SO am ! 7 15po.
Arrive ...
______ Macon aud l'ifton only Con’-i- and ttetiona
Xr.,a« Nos. 1, 2. 3 and 4 stop t :men at at
mmU ot T.ftou. aius Sir and
1 Fulham Pau-.v sittpu-i(- -* u ! J 4.
trtiiiTw ».v' OeVav: f an n-a on Macon Jepc'. M»e«n. et i »n t 12,
’ .«m ra-har.ire from function.
1 a. c.'KN'APK J. J. HOGE.
Tr»(Re 5b tin. (rpneral Pa-.enger Agent. MjcjU. Oa.