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The Carnesville Tribdne.
VOL. XVI11.
THE PRISONER.
| man's skull is hie lifelong jail.
Behind its prison bars,
Prom its eye windows does the soil)
Peep at the earth and stars;
Bat unlike Jails of wood or stone
Its prisoner ever dwells alone.
Thongh through its front doors perfumed
gale*
Are blown from glena of gleduese,
And through its back doors music strains
Boll in tu waves of madness,
And though he hear and heed each toue,
The prisoner still must dwell alone.
Though past tha windows of the jail
Sweep scenes of solemn splendor,
And through the doors float hymns of joy
Or dirges deep and tender,
The prisoner hears the mirth and moan
Bnt in his jail he dwells alone.
No lover ever knows the soul
He loves in ail its sweetness;
The fullest love, however strong,
Is mar, ed by incompleteness;
No heart is ever fully known,
The prison r ever dwells alone.
—[Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade.
HOW HE SETTLED WITH
GRINGO.
By belle hunt.
‘'Back in the seventies,” said a Texas
merchant who was “on East” buyiug
goods, “when I was adjuster for a big
mercantile house of Galveston, I was sent
to the investigate southwestern a creditor of theirs out in
part of the State, my
Instructions being to collect the claim or
run an attachment on the concern.
“At the end of a thirty hours’ run on
the train, I found myself in--, the
nearest railroad station to P— the
town of my delinquent customer, which,
miles upon inquiry, I found to be seventeen
west, on the Mexican border.
“In my prow lings about -, whom
Should I run across but my old friend,
Bill Scott, captain of the Texas Rangers,
who asked me what I w.; doing out
there. I frankly stated my business, and
asked if he knew the man I was going to
•etti* with.
‘“Know Gringo Perez?’ Scott re-
peated. is ‘Well, I I reckon I do-
that “by reputation.” He’s
a regular fire-eater! Whv, man
alive, Gringo Perez has fine-hairs
like vou on toast for breakfast. He is a
Greaser, you know, whom his fellow-
citizens nicknamed “Gringo”—their term
contempt for an Anmrir an^bnean -
- .... h^HM ngffB
„„.n-
iNTror notch
six months and two
Pav? YVhy, he attachment; don’t pay for any-
thing, well and as for TOur rou’d
as try to serve attachment papers
on the devil for back bills on brim-
itone!’
“ <fcj, Rice, I think I’d better ride
over With you. We are making this
headquarters of this while we of make horse a roundup thieves'
season’s crop
road agents and fence-cutters in this part
of the country, and I can leave word for
thebovs to join me at P-— when they
come in this evening. We might come
in handy if you get into anv troublo.’
“It is needless to sav that I accepted
Scott’s offer with aviditv, though I gave
him to understand that I bnd not. under-
taken to adjust thit that claim under the im-
pression I was going to a Sunday
“It was about noon when we set out
r^jaacaf'ar^ss
fore we started—which I still hoped to
use Fire-Eater only as a last resort in bringing Mis¬
ter to terms.
“It was close upon 4 o’clock in the
afternoon when we rode into p—a
of typical the Texo-Mexican houses border town. Most
straggling along were either one-story of* adobes, ‘
side the mmn
street, which was nothing more or less
than the continuation of the wagon road
from one settlement to another. There
were bunches of chaparral here and there
about tbe outskirts of the town, and a
dense thicket of it lay about a mile away
to the west. Five of the nine business
houses had ‘saloon’ in big letters over
the door, and calmly and peacefully con¬
fronted me, when wc got off our horses,
goods, was the Clothing, sign, ‘G. Perez, Dealer in Dry-
Boots, Shoes, Notions, Hats, Caps, Millinery,
Agricultural Groceries, Hides,
Wool, Implements, etc.,’
which covered the entire gable and of
the nnpainted, weather-boarded store.
“Tied to the racks on either side of
the their public flanks well, weighed were eight or ten ponies,
down by the big
Mexican saddles, which varied their
monotonous duration by biting and kick-
ing rifers at each loafed other the while their indifferent
on steps and stoops ot
* be * tor 7’, t P " iu « > MU *' •? ra " ki, , K ci 8 ar -
ettes n playing . n whmh poker and handed reading . the
couAty papers, were out.
regardless of address, by tbe obliging
postmas •T\e cr. found p
weighed erez in. He scooped dollar’s
out and tied up a
worth of sugar fora slab-sided girl
Zl JELmnS™ " W 'tv ? 18 p £ f < r l0n f e t y
™* da ? d th ® t bd P ut t back carefully r i. on
the sugar barrel, he casually informed me
that ®y bouse might go to , and
that . he d pay when he got ready, and
, thls ... ^Pti<* .. did ... not ,
r
vfrrLriv Contending to^pT/ m - v amiability, mv* attachment and
papers in thb hands of the deputy-
sheriff And instruct him io serve them at
»nfe.
“feut the deputy turned pale at tbe
meation of serving papers on Gringo
Perez, kindly explaining to me that his
present suit of incumbency his of office was the re-
‘never ’with under no sufekum-
wiices, meddlin’ other fblkses’
btwieesses.’ ^
“Of course. gain-
say so obvio-> Tn tha Wfc, j Ust
taking nitio» Jw V^-Hiet-
N , 0 tt
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO, GA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1893.
overtook me at the door of the
to office, situation, and hearing said: the new turn
my right. I’ll
“ ‘That.’* all serve your
per. “ The captain of the Rangers is
tually a sheriff anywhere in the
his own discretion, you know!’
and giving me the wink.
“ ‘By George, hand,‘I old man!’ I exclaimed,
grasping his “providential am beginning to
upon you as a this trip t’ and
tion" in my favor on
walked on together over to
store.
“It was getting on toward dusk,
Giingo was in the back part of the
looking over his books. Scott and I
saw that we had him at his disadvantage,
and before he knew what had happened,
Scott was reading off the paper at
rate of sixty miles an hour. The
seemed stunned for a minute, then,
denly collecting himself, he drawer, whirled
round, ran his hand in a and
whipped good out grip a revolver, it, I but knocked before it he
got a on but
of his hand, straddled it on the floor,and
covering him with my own said: ‘Come,
come, Mister Fire-Eater, none of that!
That isn’t what we want you to get out
of that drawer. A little cash would make
it easier for both of us. ’
“Like all bullies, the fellow was a
bluff and coward. He saw we had
him and he: cooled down, stand¬
ished ing sullenly by while Scott fin¬
the paper, and then ran¬
sacked the miscellaneous stock on the
counters and found some tacks and a
hammer, with which he fastened the
notice on the outside of the door. Then,
rejoining pistol under me, Scott kicked the fallen
one of the counters, and,
getting behind Gringo, the requested him to
precede locked us the out door, of store. the This in done, his
he put key
pocket, and we then bade our host a
pleasant good evening, and then walked
over to the racks to get our horses.
“ ‘I don’t think it would be a bad
thing for our health to get out of here as
soon as we can,’ Scott said. ‘The boys
are in mighty skirmish late somewhere.’ getting in. They may
be a
“We watered our horses, mounted and
ro< le , down , the mam street. As we
passed sniffled a little shanty close to the road
Scott and said: ‘That smells
! ‘ke fn«i ha«n and eggs, don’t it? Let’s
*top and have a snack,
“We alighted, hitched our horses be-
hind bouse In * n angle made by a
»hed room which served as the kitchen,
and, going inside seated ourselves at
on « of the two oil-clothcovered tables,
and gave our order to an old man, who
fi ’ led the J olnt * nd respective positions
of “While P™P™ tor we ’ C were °° k **?• eating we were mter- ■ *
™ptcd by the entrance of a girl, irtiom
1
P - Wm
m W * mail :
ed m>t
been .
vc
more han 14 ySTS^ld, yet her face , had
all of the shrewdness and strength of a
"°® ans - ,h ® ?“ a ? a
h W™? °, ( ‘ h ' k ! chcn ’ and tura,n &’
asked: ‘Whar a Tobe?’
“ ‘Gon« to the well,’ I said, thinkin ed
sbc n,eant our host, and half ruing
*“ ap ) 2 mysel ’ l *.' ? fter
* he m ™ of * e coun ‘7 to 7“ ® tore -
kc e P ar - Can 1 . do M * th,n S for J ou <
.
“^ecame close to the table, and, ,
. lea the back of Soott cha,r she
“ ln S 8 -
sa \, t ‘ *!? Yo rv u ? ns ns ^ better clar , * . , . ! ^ Dad .
an the . boys is on your trail. He come
home * u PP, er a> ! drft,sed ? a,n ' ,* ean
roaw8 hlde 11 f ‘I t fur J 00 ’" d ™»*•
^e understood , in . a flash that she was
turni ^ and ,akm S„ her hand > ‘ wb ^ do
—-»«. «*•
she an-
j’t want
him fair.’ to git the drap on yer—that ain’t
“She watched the door furtively, and
gathered up the ends of the shawl as
though for flight as she went on: ‘He’s
my step-paw, an’ a meaner cuss never
lived. Me and maw’d a let’ him long
ago, but he would kill us if he ever
ketched up with us. The only way to do is
to git him tuk up for some uv his devil¬
try, and put in the penitenshury, w'har
be can’t git at us. But, honest, you fel¬
lers better vamoose. You ain’t got no
time to fool. He’s gone arter the Cowles
boys, and I heard him tell Dick Sims an’
them to jine ’em, back thar, back cr the
callyboosc.’ the She pointed to is the rear of
house. ‘Some of ’em goin’ to lay
fur yer in front, and some uv ’em is goin’
to lay fur yer bellin’, an’ yer can’t git out
'n town no wa ys. You better git amove
yer, honest!’
“She started to the door, then shrank
back. ‘Thar's the ‘Dad Cowles fur boys, off. now!’
she exclaimed. ain’t Ef
he sees me I’m a goner.’
“By this time Scott and I were on our
feet, and the proprietor came in with his
? u PP° fi »—* nd hope—that there it was noth-
KIT, ? haid.s
on the tail of his roat of’his aD d tak
, £ P , f tobacco out remaned, pants
p kct off ft chew as he ’
,j reckon you fe)lcrg ig bec
doin’ somethin’, ’i an’ thar is goin’ to be
£ hten , Gringo Perez and
^ Co leg b an , Dick aims an’ er lot
uv ^ an ‘ they seemed to be surround--
in ’ the house. Fur as I kin see, you’ns
ain't f got no show. You mought jes’as
hr0 , ,* up Wg s ' rc „der’
, lWell) aS j could ^ thig wag
tbe a tatement bolt) of an unflattering gaid qui | fact, hig
, Don , t Rice . tly>
words accompanied eifcks of his by pistol, the rapidly -the boys t*~
ro | virig b| six
in any minut e-we’re all right!’
mak make i ^ » da sh for th* thicket.
“ ‘Stay where ydu are P ae answered,
and his vbice had the ring of the born
commander.
“ What Are you going to do?’I asked,
neWed-. “‘Whip the _ whole , , town 1’ he replied, .
beginning to barricade the back door
with banels of sugar and flour.
“Meanwhile tht child stoofi there, the
shawl dropped back from her head and
shoulders, her little white face a study
of disinterested curiosity and approba-
tion. Her heavy-lidded and bikek her tllia- eyes
glowed witb excitement,
arched nostrils contracted and
like a restive pony’s.
“ ‘I reckon you’ns is gwinc to
him?’ she said complacently. Just
my attention was diverted to Tobe,
sir name of Hartstield we had not
learned, the doing to a rack over the door
between two fooms, he took
an old army musket, and a raw-hide
Whipping containing powder ramrod and he shot horns.
out the swioed it
twice Up and down the barrel,
down jt afterward. Then,
around facing us, he slammed the gun
down on the table and said: ‘Gentle-
men, thar’s my weapons, and here’s me,
at yer service. I don’t know what yer
been up to, but I’m with yer! I’m glad
uv an excuse to shake this settlement,
ennyhow. Thar ain’t enough
gwine on here fur me. I want to move
fuder west whar folks is got some spunk!
and I’d jest as lief declar’ my principles
on you’nsez side as ennybody of clse’s!’ of
“Our formal acceptance the arms
our unexpected ally was prevented by
the whiz of a ball past the window, and
Scott’s springing to the door and calling
out:
“ ‘Throw down your arms and surren¬
der in the name of the law?’
“ ‘ Han’ us over that fine-hair, an’ we
will,’ came Gringo’s voice.
“‘What have you against him?’
asked Scott.
“ ‘ He’s too blamed smart, an’ wears a
stake-an’-ridered shirt!’ answered a
voice from the rear of the mob, followed
by a roar of laughtor, which was suddenly
changed to one of fury when it was dis-
covered who Scott was.
“‘That’s Bill Scott, the bell-wether
uv the Rang ers !’ howled one, ‘ le’s cap-
turc him 1 ’
“ ‘Yes, he’s strayed off too fur from
the fold this time ! ’ yelled another; ‘ le’s
shear him 1 ”
*“ ‘ Him, an’ the finc-hair’U look purty
riden’ uv the same rail, won’t they ? ’
joked another, and so the fun might
have gone on until they forgot their
blood-thirst, had not Gringo himself
pushed to the front swinging his pistol
around his head and yelling, ‘ stop yer
foolin’, boys 1 I’m here fur business.
I’ve been insulted an’ my rights as cr
citizen uv this State an’ county inter¬
fered with. All that is in favor uv pus-
sonal an’ help rights, an’ whoop hones’ the deaIs^^Md|
me
these smart Ellecks ! ’ v
“His harangue was
murderous yell, ami '/ v-
k...: ml. ii lik'. :i huii-lrf .
chesters. groi^M
“ ‘Stand your
me and Tube.
rammed ‘All right. wad\^B
he hitchcl^H a
mouth and
horns around frot^B
fairly danced
open ligbtetr^WW^H
July rocket. lief/]
“ ‘Gimme \
chuckled, bracing
the gun.
“ ‘Wait a min
Scott said, putting and^H
man's should -r leaning^H
around his ear. i*fl
ami listening intently. boysl’J^H ’!• ’•
“ That's the TlR^|
their horses’ feet.’ ealleiJ^H
door wide open lie /.“o';
‘Throw down your
you in the name of the State
‘Their answer was a volley
which Scott returned by thrusting out his
pistol arm and emptying the six cham¬
bers into their faces. This gave the sig¬
nal to me and the old man, who kept the
stream hot from the other side for the
next weight, minutes, till the Rangers
came. But, I tell you, they were the
longest eight minutes I ever counted.
The old man was in his glory. The way
he pftured powder, wads, bullets and
caps into Miss Betsey and fired them out,
was equaled quid of tobacco, only by the and way bit off he ejected
one another.
He took it as a matter of official inter¬
ference that the Rangers should come
up and take the fight out of our
hands. He sent his last load at random
through the air, and, going to the buck¬
et, stmid leaning on Miss Betsy dippers while he
gulped down two successive of
w'ater.
“‘Some fools is allers meddlin’,’he
said. ‘Them Rangers an’ better be tendin’
to their business let us ten’ to ourn 1
It ud a been the makin’ uv P--to
hev Gringo Perez an’ his gang laid out
by three men an’ a gal!’
“This called our attention to tbe
child, whom wc had utterly forg otten.
Looking around I found her sitting on
one of the barrels against the back door, '
swinging her feet and calmly awaiting
results.
“ ‘ Do you want to go home, sissie?’ I
asked, standing beside her perch. She
set her little teeth and shook her head.
“ ‘No, I dasn’t! Dad ud kill me for
shore 1 He seen me in here an’ knows I
giv him crwayl’
“ ‘That’s all right, Checl’ the old man
said. ‘You kin come an' go out West
with me, an’ be my answered gal!’ she. ‘Thar
“‘No, I can’t!’
ain’t no schools out thar, an’ I ought ter
be edicated 1’
“Our further family discussion was in¬
terrupted by the return of Scott, who
informed us that Gringo and his ring¬
leaders were and lodged bob-tail in the calaboose,and the had
the rag-tag of gang
taken to the brush.
“Scott, and the group of citizens who
accompanied proposition, him, concurred that she in ought support
of Ghee’s to
be edicated, and providing a purse was made child up
then and there, for the
and her mother out of reach of Gringo,
when he should again be at large.”—
[New York Recorder.
Refused to Be “Shook.”
4 rec-mt German newspaper two
curious announcements appear. In one
number is the following the written notice: notice “I here- of
by declare, since
the 8th of August, 1892, and notwith-
standing hei refusal to accept the same,
mybetrothalwith Fraulein Emma Zeig-
ler is null and vo.d Ricnard Jork.”
In the next number of the paper the fol-
lowing appeared: -“I hereby declare
tf#tt with respect to the advertisement of
the annulment of my betrothal, written
and proclaimed, with Herr Jork, I do not
agree. I am, and still intend to remain
his betrothed, f-mmaZiegler.”—[New
York World,
GEORGIA HEWS IN’ BRIEF.
Items of Interest Gathered at Random
from All Oyer the State,
Tbe emigration fever has Ngain of become Dooly,
epidemic among the negroes
Schley and Mscon counties,and hundreds
sre leaving every week or two for the In¬
dian territory.
* * *
In a lagoon branching off from Jack’a
creek, Walton county, fish were frozen
tight and fast in the late cold spell.
Many people viewed the strange spectacle
of frozen fish heads sticking through the
ice.
Nearly all the ponds that used to lie in
the country between Albany and the line
of Baker county have dried up, and there
ia no water in any of those places where
there used to be sheets of it covering
acres upon acres.
* * *
Mr. Turner has introduced in the house
of representatives a bill authorizing the
secretary of war to pay C. HT Goodyear,
his heirs or assigns, $10,000 for improv¬
ing the ocean channel entrance to the
harbor of Brunswick. i
*
Augusta claims to be the oldest weather
bureau station iu Georgia. *Tbe service
was established by the Fedeial govern¬
ment twenty-two years ago, and thirty-
five stations were designated. It. Through
the efforts of the Hon. A. Stephens,
then in representing the old included eighth district the
congress, Augusta was in
number.
Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, the popular
commissioner of agriculture, is busy is¬
suing bis monthly commissioftr talk to tlu farmers of
the state. The is doing
much good with his monthlltalks, as he.
gets down into the practiafl makcAiis details of
farming, and besides, reports
of a very interesting as vory in¬
structive nature.
some for the other evil, oau^_ and requefl^^H^^enntor
from the first district and (PBiam’s rep¬
resentative in the legislaiurelo endeavor
to secure the passage of sorse such law
at bly.” the next session of the gtlieral | assem¬
The secretary of the trearery at Wash¬
ington has transmitted to the house a
supplemental estimate of deflcieoces in
the postal service. The following are the
items pertaining to Georgia: K. D.
Keith, postmaster, Dawnville, Ga., for
compensation undercredited in first quar¬
ter 1892, $1.10, in second quarter, 1892,
$10.33—$11.43; W. L. Combe, late
sation postmaster, Dawnville, Ga,, for compen¬
undercredited in first quarter
1892, $5.58; M. Dickson, postmister,
Dorminey Mills, Ga., for compensation
undercredited in second quarter 1892,
$1,928.
ated Something in of a sensation editorial has been in cre¬ the
Augusta by an
Evening Herald. The editorial is as fol¬
lows:
Five Augusts murderers at large! No real
and systematic attempts bcilrtt mods to appre¬
hend them 1 What a startling statement is
that! It ia made by Chief of Police Hood in
an argument by him in favor of the establish¬
ment of a detective fund in Augusta—a fund
from which to compensate detectives whose
cuty it will be to imprison capital criminals.
Let us hope that this matter will be carefully
locked into. Snch a state e of oi affairs must not
exist. It is putting a premium on crime. But,
by the way, whatever the doeijion, keep this iu
mind: Augusta wants no negro detectives of
the kind that have been employed here.
The Chickamauga cases have bobbed
up again. This time it is the case of the
United States versus Dyer Thomas, pro¬
ceedings for condemnation money.
Commissioner Fuller is taking the evi¬
dence in this case In the circuit, court
room in Atlanta and it is a big job, be¬
cause there are many witnesses to be ex¬
amined. The case, like the other Chick¬
amauga land cases heard, is in the nature
of Cbickaraauga an appeal from National the decision of tbe
Park commission,
Farmer Thomas claiming that they have
conderned his land at too low a price per
acre. National General park commissioner, Fullerson, Chickamauga
is on hand
and will endeavor to show that the ap¬
praisement was fair and just.
¥ * *
'lhe temper of the report of tbe Fulton
county grand jury in regard to the man¬
the agement highest of tbe degree Fulton county jiil was in
warm. Tne officials
were roundly scored for the recent jail
es< apes and for the negligent manner in
which they discharged their duties.
The condition of the jail was also com¬
mented upon in unmistakable English.
It was characterized as “a disgrace to
civil zation.” It was kept in a very
loose and careless style and the officers
bad shown an utter indifference as to
whether ties with or not they discharged They their du¬
satisfaction. had allew-
td prisoners to have the liberty of the
jail and to escape whenever tbejr
jail icauy wiiuoui resistance or protect, 1
was, moreover, insufficient to aeeom
modato the prisoners and a new one was
absolutely necessary.
A Sotilomrnt in Improbable.
Mr. Oakman, receiver of the Richmond
Terminal, stated that be *knew nothing
of a new effort to adjust the .suits be¬
tween his company and the Georgia Cen¬
tral. Directors of both the Central and
the Louisville and Nmhvillo denied tho
report that the lalter company was buy¬
in ing Central stock iu order to have a haud
the reorganization. About a year ago
the Terminal people suggested to Presi¬
dent MTlton Smith that he lease the Cen¬
tral. Mr. Smith mot General Alexander
and some of the directors at Savannah
and talked the matter over, but he was
afraid that there would be too much liti¬
gation over a lease and declined to take
hold of the property. He stated after¬
wards that the Central would be too ex¬
pensive a system for him to handle in the
fix it then was.
♦
Itrswin* Their Pensions.
clerk Captain the Tip Harrison, the pension
his hands at state capitol in Atlanta, has
full now attending to the calls
of the widows who are clamoring for
their pensions. They are swarming
around the genial Captain in great num¬
bers every day and with 187 counties
unaer ms consideration it can be easily
seen that he has a great deal to do from
now until the last widow's e!i pension has
been paid and the list sonar off. The
payments of the widow’s pensions began
last Wednesday, the applications havin «
all been straightened out aDd tho ordi¬
of naries those having who been furnished with a list
will get money from the
state. The widows will get only $60
h this year, and in this way the pen¬
sion list fund of Georgia has been con¬
siderably reduced. One thousaud wid¬
ows who received no pensions last year,
however, on account of the falling short
of the fund, will be allowed to draw their
money this year, a special law having
been passed in the last session of the
general assembly looking to this end.
* * *
A VI«oroin, Kick.
hfij^^jolumbus ^^fcj^^sident Enquirer-Sun Waddell, is of after the
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PP^jtfter farmeis 1/nbor of Montezuma, Aaenta. Macon
county, are aroused and are on the war¬
path for immigration agents. Two or
three hundred negroes have been carried
off to Texas and the Mississippi valley
within the past month or so. A white
agent does not find that section of the
slate healthy, now. The only agent who
has visited there and spent any time went
at night. Some who went down iu day¬
light left on the first, train coming away.
Negro agents kept at work, sod the exo¬
dus grew serious. Labor has been get¬
ting scarce and the fanners saw a possi¬
bility of not haviDg enough help in the
community to cultivate tho usual crops.
An immigration agent ia required by he the
law to pay a license of $500 before can
engage in the business. No license has
been issued in Macon county. A num¬
ber of arrests have been made. The far¬
mers .are so mad, that tho next agents
who go into Macon county to entice the
laborers away, will be in danger of get¬
ting rough treatraeut. Borne of the rail
road men epposa tho exodus while oth
ers encourage it. This matter is likely
to bo pushed, and more arrests may fol¬
low.
Anatker *BI« fatten Crap.
A Bsvaunah special says: Cotton lac
tors have already “begun to borrow largely
from the banks for this season’s advancis
to cotton planters, being in this re-qrect
six or more weeks ahead of the time at
which they usually begin drawing on the
banks for funds for this purpose. This
it construed as evidence that collections
are still poor and that they are carrying
considerable cotton. Evidences coming
irom all directions of apparent inclina¬
tion on the part of farmers to plant
greater acreage than last year and to
use fertilisers heavily, have factors, caused
much uneasiness among who
fear another big crop and a
repetition of the 5 and 6 cents
prices, They are inclined as a result to
be careful in advances and this may serve
to retard the evident intention lo plunge
into another enormous crop, Then the
advance in the price of fertilizers—$2 from a
ton now—will prevent planters
buying as heavily as they have shown a
desire to do. Major Bhellman, traffic
manager of the Central, atated that busi¬
ness had not come up to expectations
this season, cotton shipments slacking
up mere suddeoly than bad been antici¬
pated. The shipments over the road
were more than 100,000 bales lesa than
last season, which means a large falling
i ff io receipts. The operating expenses
did not decrease proportionately. The
outlook for the year he regards as good.
Oar Cotimry Hoads.
Discussing tbe questions of highway
im prove meDt, tbe New Orleans Delta
says: “Notably Illinois and Georgia are
the two states that are makiDg the most
active efforts to secure good roads. Both
states are organizing 'o*d asaocia
tions, and the people are becoming en
| tbuaiastic upou [he subject of
fo» d * ” „
Commenting on the above, the Atlanta
Journal saya: It Is to be regretted
the people of this state do not deserve
the praise bestowed upon them by our
New Orleans contemporary. It i*
that several road conventions have been
held in Georgia, that the need for better
roads has been wisely discussed iu
the local press, and that
some interest has been aroused. But
it can hardly he said that the people
hare grown very enthusiastic over the
subject, and what enthusiasm they have
had has so far resulted only in talk and
notjn any way definite general move¬
ment for tho improvement of our coun T
try highways. Nevertbcle-a, the venti¬
lation of the subject has done will good, and
its continued discuation do more.
The fact that Georgia ia regarded oul-
s'de hor own borders crusade ms leading the
southern states in the for better
roads ought to act as an incentive, and
we believe it will.
„ President Waddell’* Order.
The state agricultural convention,
which waa to have met in Columbus on
the 8th of February, will not be held
there. The date has been changed to
the 15th, and the meeting will take
place in Augusta. The following special
order will explain the situation:
"To the Delegates slid Members of the State
with Agricultural of Conv. the oflioers ntion: of After the State a conference Agricul¬
some
tural Society, and written communication witb
all of them, it has been deemed advisable to
change the plaoe of meeting of our February
convention.
“This change ia due mainly to the fact that
two important lines of railroad entering that
city have declined to issue the usnal pauses
to delegates to the convention, while but one
road—the Ceutral -has agroe I to grant the
patiara. To hold the convention at Columbus
would be a burden on the Central, which haa
always been tho friend of our society, which
we are unwilling to impose. For the reason
that all the roads eutenng Augusta, thus di¬
viding the burden, have cheerfully the consented invi¬
to grant the passes, as well as cordial
tation from the authorities and citizens of An-
Kiitta an<l the agricultural agricultural society of Richmond
county, the convention will assem¬
ble and in will the bo city in session of Augusta two. days, ou February the 15th 16tb, and
ltttli. The postponement is due to the delay
of some of the made roads January in replying 7lh. to our Between requests, the
which we tween me
cities or commous anil Augusta w a liare
choice. Both arc re full i of splendid idid ajiecimena of
the ■tale's heat cit izenship. The question of
aeces saihility and ju stlce to the Central railroad
font rola ua
“Del i gates may expect their tioketa in ample
ttmn for jr the the 15th. 15th. It It la la impoaaible impoaaible Reapectfnlly, to to aecure aecr
them by the Stli of February.
John O. Wai'DF.ll, Preaident.
“Bamnel Hape, Secretary.”
GROWTH OF _____ THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Developments During
The Week.
A review of tbe industrial
South tor the *
.M- aw
With tAVi.um oi,*atW»
8. Ga^nioo^dfaMIterah^breneh^^ O., capitalized at $100,000,
Weath erford, Texas and five flouring mills, four
ootto rm oil milla, three tanneries and seventeen
woo dworking establishments bate also been re-
coned. industrba established
Pifty-tbraa incorporated lew durin (the week, were together with
or
5 ■jiilargoments of manufactories, and 14 im¬
portant new buildings- Among the new iudua-
tries reported for the week ero brick worka at
Houston, Tex a; canning factories at Hender¬
son, N. (!., Clarksville and Oak Grove, Tenn., a
•80,000 development oompany at Covington, Tiiaa.
Kv., and a distillery at Fort Worth, Bladeatan.
Flour and grist milla are reported Jonesboro at and
Ky.. Maiden, N. C., Pikeville,
Willettc, Tenn., a fence company at Florence.
R. O., a machine ahop at Bock Hill, 8. 0., and
oil mills at Beebe and Little Rock, Ark., Mem¬
phis. Tenn., and Cleburne, Texas.
Phosphate works are to be established at Al¬
bion, Bariow and Willlston, Fla., and tanner¬
ies at Shreveport, La,, Bristol, Tenn., and
Charleston, W. Va. Tbe wood working p: Isnts
of the week include band saw mills at Dyera-
burg, Tenn., and Norfolk, V*., a furnhure fac¬
tory at Jackson, Tenn., a lumber company at
Charleston, 8. C., an I saw, planing and shingle
milla at Renfro, Ala., Ban Antonio, Fla., Kra¬
mer, Ga., Benton, Ky-, Eldaville, Mias., 8. O.,
caai and Woodland, N. G., G cn Alpine,
Bine Spring and Dyersburg, —
Churchvillo and Big Stone Gap, Va.
Water works are to be built ui Oullm an, Texas. Ala.,
Aransas Pass, Cameron and Hnntavill ie, .
Among the enlargements reported mills are no- at Union s'ove
works at Atlanta, Oa., cotlon Ga., Henrietta and
Springs, Ala.. Augusta, works at Mt. Pleas¬
Salisbury, N. C., and stave
ant, Tenn. buildings of (he week inoinde
Tbe new Worth, Texss, a
•500,000 court house at Fort and
one coaling 175,000 at Parkersburg, W. Ya., sn
o;iera house ot Clinton, Tenn., and school build¬
ings at Knoxville, 'i'enn., and Plant City, Fla.
—Tradesman fChattanooga. Tenn.l
BLAINE’S WILL.
He Leaves All His Earthly Possessions
to His Wife.
A WashiDgtou dispatch of Monday
says: The will of Mr. Blaine will be
probated in Augusta, Me., which was his
legal residence. The characteristic disposition he of makes the
of his property is
confidence he always reposed io his wife
and which was such a noticeable feature
of tbe family relation. Everything is is
left unreservedly to Mrs. Blaine. Sue
to be sole executrix of the instrument
and is not to Blaine’s be required estate, according to give any to
bond. Mr.
the estimate of a gentleman whose rela
tions with him enable him to speak with
correctness, will amouutto about $800,000.
It Washington ia composed and of Maine, improved and real of estate coal and in
timber lands in West Virginia and other
states, and small holdings of personal
property. The will was executed several
weeks since, at about tbe time Mr. Blaine
wag seized with his first serious heart
failure, which announced the rapid ap¬
proach of the end.
PROMINENT LADIES INDICTED
Fer Playing the Game of “Pedro”
for Prizes.
A special of Tuesday from Catlettg-
burg, Ky., says the grand jury now in
»ess ion there lound indictments against a
number of prominent society ladies of
that town for playing pedro for prizes.
A Penniless Ex-Governor.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Omaha,
Neb., says: It has been discovered that
ex-Qovernor Thayer, who created such
a sensarion two years ago by refusing to
allow Governor Boyd to take possession
of office, is being sheltered by a poor sol-
ui-r in the suburbs of Lincoln. All of
bis p 'litical friends turned ftgai' at him
alter his exit from office. He ip penni¬
less.
NO. 6.
TRADE REV!
Dun and Bradstreet’s Re)
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co’s, weekly revie it
trade say* there h«.i been some inoreasr
in the distribution of products during
the past week, and the demand for man-
ufactured goods is distinctly improved larger so
that business has perceptibly the of gold,
at many points. Yet outgo
expected t„ exoeed $8,000,000, reduce#
treasury resources, causes increased ner¬
vousness shout tbs future, and renders
men more reluctant to engage in new un¬
dertakings. is everywhere comparatively
Meney cheap, nevertheless there is
easy ana fut-
more sense of uncertainty about the
ure than appeared a month ago. Money
i» in good demand, but currency return¬
ing from the country and southern cities
generally report improvement, especially and
at Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville
Memphis, with good prospect# and Col¬
lections. At Little Rock, trade is quiet
and collections slow, but in Atlanta bus¬
iness increases and collections are very
fair. At New Orleans trade is quiet and
money in fair demand with an ample
supply; but cotton is dull with light
receipts. Sugar is still strong; iron and
steel breaking prices, though the de¬
mand and sales are large. Bessemer pig
at Pittsburg has fallen to $18.25, and
other markets for pig are irregular,
though sale# are large. Bnsiness is fin¬
ished products is very heavy, but for
many kinds prices are lower than ever
known. The contracts for cruisers,
given to the Pittsburg works, and for
elevated works he, given to a Pennsylva¬
nia mill are mentioned as remarkably
low, although structural iron works have
far more business than usual.
Business failures during the week num¬
ber for the United States, 265; Canada,
40; total 295 against 832 last week.
WHAT BBADSTHKET SAT#.
Bradstreat says: The features of bus¬
iness the past week haa been a gradual
return of movements of general accustomed mer-
chandite and produce to their
channels. Boats are once more running
freely on some southern streams except and
river traffic between New Orleans
the north, and at some Atlantic tide¬
water points. Produce and other per r
iahabie goods are again of the moving advance freely,
with a loss of some m
prices referred to last week. Eastern
jobbers and of dry wbat goods mills to be report most the
beginning January's demand appears for cotton a and
active
woolen staple goods for years past. Cot-
are strong, and print cloths
>ra fl rmer with the surplus cut down
^|kuate to 1,000 piece* against 248,000a h jobbers year ago.
unable t o furnis as
n d Janu-
r'
11
8 against
1 aWreduced or in-
crewed movement, from the plantation, week «how- to
porta, the net result for
jng a decline of one-tenth of a cent,
Considerable improvement is noted
throughout the south, where the effects
of the cold reap a week or two ago were
severe. Baltimore announces a larger
volume of orders than for the same peri¬
od in 1892, and reports that country
merchants very generally count on a
good spring trade.
Tbe recent ice blockade having been
raised at Richmond, orders for goods are
active with the excaption of shoes; as the
demand for tobacco, while travelers for
that city report that the bad weather
prevents their reaching interior points prices as
they had expected. At Charleston
for rosin ana turpentine are low, but the
intended curtailing of the output of the
season is expected to improve prices and
profits. Business has revived at Mem¬
phis, where navigation is under way
again, while at Atlanta satisfactory or¬
ders are being received for all staple
goods. At New Orleans the distributive
trade bss been checked as well as exports
of wheat, by ice in the river. At Galveston
and other Texas citipa country merchants
are buying freely to supply their wants
for the spring trade. Mercantile
collections throughout the south very
generally are alow, as is to be expected.
A COMMERCIAL WAR
Between the Panama and the Pacific
■ail Btcamshlp Companies.
A New York dispatch of i'uesday say#:
The policy of the Panama Railroad com¬
pany in putting on aline of steamships
in opposition to tbe Pacific Mail Steam¬
ship company has impelled the last nam¬
ed company to reduce its passenger rate
to Colon from $90 to $20 and its freight
rate from this $9 to $2 per will ton. grasped The signifi¬ when
cance of action be
it is considered ii is eight days’ journey
to tbe isthmus. This commercial war
gains additional significance from tbe al¬
leged fact that management of the Pana¬
ma Railroad company advertised abroad
for foreign steamers to carry freight from
New York to tbe istbuns.
BURNED AT THE STAKE,
Terrible Retribution Meted Out to a
Murderer at Paris, Texas.
A special from Paris, Texas, says: The
most teirible crime in the history of Tex¬
as received the most terrible expiation
here Wednesday. Henry Smith, the
dered negro who brut illy four-year-old outraged and daughter mur¬
Myrtle, the
of Henry Vance, a well known white
man of Paris was taken in hand by a mob
of furious citizens, and, with the father
and the brother of the’dead child at their
hrad, they burned him alive.
HE OBJECTED.
The Governor of Oregon Does Not Be*
Here in “Booming” Cleveland.
A specisl of Wednesday from Salem,
Ore., letter says: from Governor his adjutant Pennoyer general rec&gM
a
longing permission to tbe to use state two for brass the cannh^| puriHj ,
firing a salute sent the on inauguration following d^H
governor crante^J
"No permiaaion will be
cannon ot Wall in firing plutocrat a salute over Jjflfl tbe
a street as
tbe United States.”
Panama bondholders at twB asfl
a new company ami w 111 an«l
France, tb« United State*