Newspaper Page Text
The CBrnesville Tribune
VOL. XVI.
;*f.. A SONG OF THE WORLD.
“World ain’t what It usotor bo," you'll boar
a feller say
As he crosses of Ids legs an’ heaves aslgli;
But it Uapyous,she's the host world that she’s
ever been ta-Jay,
An' she’s whirlin’ like 2 : tO 'round the sky.
The stores give bigger measure ;
Tho mines, a sight o’ treasure
Tuero's uiore o’ love an’ pleasure
*« In tho land.
The skies is mostly sunny;
You jinglo mom o' money.
An’tho brown boss bring thoir honey
To your hand!
“World ain't what it usotor be.” Oi course,
it ain't, because
It's cuttin’ out a nowor kind o’ way.
It ain’t got time to worry 'bout the kind o’
world it was, •
For it keeps a gittln’ happy on tho way!
Brighter blossoms twinin';
Brighter suns a-shiuln’;
What’s the uso in pinin’
An’ whinin' through the laud?
Skies Is mostly suuuy ;
You jingle more o’ money.
An’ tho brown’ bees bring their honoy
To your band!
--Atlanta Constitution.
MRS. MEDLKJOrf,
BIG E. SI. HALDIDA
k HEN Mrs. Medli-
00 U. married Mr.
V Medlioott there was
j/qV Wonder All of his
a frit-lids sent gifts,
* because Mr. Medli-
cott had spent a
I lar «° percentage of
V® uot to ° lal 'ff e in-
vailik IvViii come upon wedding
presents, for some¬
thing like twenty
years. It was an
Harlem evening wedding in
a church. Mr. Medlieptt’s
friends seemed to have gathered to¬
gether upon'one side. The ladies wore
rather splendid gowns and diamonds,
and carried an ostentatious look of
.,wonder in their eyes as they gazed
■ around. Tire men wore expressions of
conscious good nature in having conic
to rather help tight an place. old comrade through tt
1 Mrs. Lupin, who had sent a superb
SCt of painted plates, put up her lorg¬
nette and let the corners of her mouth
speak her thought's as’tile brido went
by. Good natured Mrs. Richards,
who had come with her, looked kind.
“Now I think,she is pretty,” letting
ter eyes roam to tho pure profile and
delicate piuk eaV of the young bride.
“Look at that back,” Mrs. Lupin
Said sternly. , --
“Well now, that is —probably the
fault of her—mudispj. ”
“Modiste! She made that gown
herself,”
’*■ Mr. Hart, ono*of Mr. Medlicott’s
oldest friends, his associate on the
house committee of. the Philistine
Club, leaned over the buck of the pew
where the two ladies sat. Mr. Medli¬
cott was just now taking the hand of
Mrs. Medlicott to-be, and Mr. Hart
heaved a deep sigh. ‘ ‘Poor old Mat 1”
and then aloud in his usual tone of
gossip: “My dear Mrs. Lupin, you "in¬
give a new explanation for Mat’s
fatuation for the village maiden. If
she can make her own gowns, doubt¬
less she can cook,” and he chuckled
his loose laugh.
On the other side of the church,
where the elderly ladies were uniform¬
ly clad in tho elegance of stiff black
silks, and the young girls in that sim¬
plicity which is “so sweet,” the scru¬
tiny was all directed toward Mr. Men-
licott. “How strange it is,” Mies
Alice Grant, the President of the local
charity society, said, “that a serious
girl will make such a choice. A club
man!”
v “I do hope”—Mrs. Graves, whose
plump and pretty daughters sat
flushed anil excited, beside her—“that
Margaret will reclaim him. There is
no influence like a good wife’s, but I
should fear, were it one of my girls. I
hope they will never even meet any
men of that sort. * ; It seems almost a
providence thut Margaret’s mother is
not alive.”
F “Well, I rather fancy Margaret will
Bet him straight,” Miss Grant re¬
marked with a short laugh. ‘ ‘She will
how to manage. «She isn’t going
to giye up her work with us. She is
going to continue to edit part of the
Woman’s Friend. I suppose that man
thinks he is marrying a girl liko thoso
he knows iu his own sot He’ll find
out the difference. >Sho will open his
eyes to the meaning of Woman. Miss
Grant always spoke the word with a
capitul W.
k Mr. Medlicott had arrived at the
of forty, and in marrying he cer¬
tainly did not think that he was tak¬
ing a woman like those he knew in his
own set. If he had, he would have
gone there to look for a wife. Mr.
Medlicott had begun life with a small
inherited fortune, which years had not
increased. Mr. Medlicott, being unable
to enlarge his income to fit his tastes,
’had wisely cut his tastes to fit his in-
come, and had livcdlfkc a gentleman on
little money. In his youth he had
fallen in love with a beautiful, frivo-
lous girl whom he could not afford to
marry. He had seOh her carried off
by another man who could give her an
appropriate setting, and been best man
at the wedding. Love hal never
stirred again uut-ifenow.
When Mr. Medlicott met Miss Davis
nt the house of his lawyer (not a very t
expensive one) whose niece she was,
she was sitting under a lamp, em-
broidering. Some way it seemed to
Mr. Medlicott that .4n breathed the
spirit of home, and he had grow tired
of being homeless. • The courtship had
been short, Mr. Medlicott had soft
and elegant wa a vs, and a considerate
speech, which -,t: re unknown charms
$n the men of Mi Davis’s acquaint-
•nee.
Cj'l I D * ILLE, FRANKLIN 00, GA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IT, 1891.
They did not stop to ask much
about each other’s inner lifo. Tho in¬
come which seemed so small to Mr.
Modlicott and his friends seemed largo
to Miss Davis, and tiict pleased him.
She was evidently domestic, and knew
how to economize. She was a pretty
young woman, twenty-five years old,
and Mr. Medlicott, in Kicking past his
wedding day, saw himself, with nil his
stock of worldly knowledge, training
his young wife in his ways He felt
that he was in her eyes a superior be¬
ing. He was glad she was so much
younger and had lived such u simple
life. He thought of how her opinions,
her ideas, would bu molded upon his.
Air. Medlicott was very happy.
After the honeymoon was over and
they came back to Now York they went
to a hotel.
“Now, my dear,” said Mr. Mcdli-
cott, “we will go out and look for a
little home. I have o list here that an
agent sent me.”
Mrs. Medlicott carno and looked
over his shoulder, sitting on tho arm
of his chair, while he put his arum
caressingly around her waist.
“But,” she pursed up her pretty
red mouth, “all these places are over
so far down town. ”
“Down town? Do you call Fifty-
Ninth street down down? There uro
only ono or two down town. This
one on Gramercy Park, and unothcr
ou Irving Place.”
“They’re all below the Park.”
“Well, where do want to live?”
“Why, up by my old friends; up in
upper Now York.”
Mr. Medlicott laughed.
“My dear child, nobody would ever
come up there to see us.”
“Wouldn’t they?” There was a
compression of his wife’s lips which
Mr. Medlicott did not see. “I have
some friends who would not find it
necessory to come up,” sho went on.
“They live there.”
When they went out to walk, Mr.
Medlicott enticed her into a furnished
apartment which was a little gem in
its way. The price was a little more
than Mr. Medlicott cared to pay, but
he had a young wife to introduce to
his old friends, and this apartment
was in a most desirable neighborhood,
very near the club, and tho dining
room was large and pleasant for a flat.
Mr. Medlicott anticipated giving din¬
ners. Dinner giving was very expen¬
sive at the club, but with a clever wife
who hud been brought up inadomestc
fashion it would be different.
Mr. Medlicott a week later invited
Mr. Hurt and the best man at his wed¬
ding to dinner. lie announced the
invitation to his wife, and made ymo
or two suggestions as to the menu.
When tho evening of tho dinner ar¬
rived, he had a little fire in the draw¬
ing room, and when the bell rang,
stood before the grate feeling like a
lord, at home in his own house !
But there was not the entry of two
quiet, well bred gentlemen J instead
of this tho shrill voices of women.
Presently Mrs. Medlicott ushered in
Miss Grant and a friend of hers, a shy
looking girl.
Mr. Medlicott was surprised. “I
thought,” his wife said, “that we had
better havo some ladies.”
Mr. Medlicott said nothing. He
went out into the dining room to look
at the table, and ou into the kitchen.
They had a very satisfactory cook, but
Mr. Medlicott shuddered when he saw
what he had been about to ask Hart
and Elliot to sit down to. He htul
always known how to order a dinner,
and he ordered one now—from the
restaurant around the corner.
“I know the taste of men better
than yon do, my dear,” he said to his
wife. “I took tho liberty of changing
some of your arrangements.”
Mrs. Medlicott was perfectly calm
and well bred, and looked delightfully
pretty in a pink dinner gown which
her husband had insisted upon order¬
ing for her, although she said it was
useless. Sho had gowns.
Miss Grant talked a great deal, but
the ono or two little tales Hart tried
to tell seemed to fall flat. The con¬
versation dually settled between the
three ladies. They discussed the re¬
cent death of a noted woman reformer,
and her published opinion upon mar¬
riage. The men looked respectful,
but not very hilarious.
Mr. Medlicott made up his mind that
it wouldn’t do to stop with that dinner.
It must be lost in a series. He couldn’t
have it going about the clubs that ho
kept such a menage as this. So in u
few days he asked a half dozen friends
in, and ho and Mrs. Medlicott mude
out the menu together, or rather he
made it out, and Mrs. Modlcott wrote
it down.
“I wouldn’t—er—ask anybody else
if I were you.”
“I must entertain my friends,” Mrs.
Modlicott said.
“Oh, certainly. Let us have any¬
body you like on Tuesday. We might
make out the menu for that dinner
now.”
It was quite as good as tho first one.
Mr. Medlicott reflected rather sadly
that the two would come high—even
though they were made up at home.
But Margaret must be gradually weaned
away from her friends.
The winter went on iu this way. It
hadn’t been the great success that Mr.
Medlicott had anticipated. To be sure,
it was sweet to go home, and his wife
domestic, almost too domestic, '
was [
Mr. Medlicott thought sometimes when
he saw that she was rather bored by
Mrs. Lupin, and that his iatcrconrse ,
with all the women whose houses had
once been opened to him, had taken
on a new and formal character. He fell
into a way of asking men to lunch at j
the club, and he thought ruefully that
he was spending a great deal of money.
And then, one night, he was sitting
at home after dinner, reading. Mrs. I
Medlicott, in her little house dress— I
she never dressed for dinner when
thev were alone, nor did he any more
—was sewing. The evening mail was ] ;
brought iu.
Mr. Medlicott exclaimed
go* ■ly, “hero is a bill from
the lit around the corner ]
nev cT» for (hat first dinner we
had. « ! ] % Whew 1 Why—there’s
someFe f.co hero.” Ho looked
agai hum i 1 ' ^ t|y, I'fffty.eight this is nonsense. dollars! They Six
have 1 (somebody olso’s bill. ”
E think not. That corro-
spoil; cott [my wly. account,” Mrs. Medli-
-
Mi 1 * 0 bott looked from tho bill
to host 'mm her to the bill.
with “M\ __ j^KitohoH. said, going “You ou know evenly
‘^^■fny you
did 7* dinners, so I always
sent came ?. i j^Wistaurant had time when to our waste friends in
no
the k- mu nil day when wo were
going LVutertain. I have my own
lifo wer
A woojFor two Inter Mr. Medlicott
cant: dear, I believe you woro
right—%\you living/ r»*pcr always sre—about our
New York. Suppose
you lx;* 8 ®Pap'irtmeni. ”
“I t.fiiBit you would know how to
mauau D,’, Miss Grant said, when
tiho hoar he story.—Muusey’s Mag-
aziue.
Detec®Vo Bitr| u ^rs Laugh at Locksw : *hs.
William Hend rson ol
Pliiliulc.’lgfia discussed tho evolution
of burgp ’ tools in a recent inter-
view * modern burglar is like
love iu"i c ™particular,” suid he, “in¬
asmuch I 10 laughs at locksmiths.
His seci*ngly Jtempts simple tools indicate
that the mado to bar his pro¬
gress araTiot difficult to overcome,
and yet not many years ago they were
possessed of a very different idea, and
in Old Man Hope’s prime brute force
was in a measure the leading idea in
forcing o safe. In those days ono
crook was selected to go with the gang,
not because of his brains, but on ac¬
count of his muscle, and his duty
was to carry tho heavy tools. Big
crowbars, lingo logs and strong men
were then tho order of things. Safes
were literally dragged apart.
“In a few years things went to the
other extreme. Men intending to rob
a safe would take hardly any tools,
but would break into a convenient
blacksmith shop, get a crowbar and
a sledge, and then go to the place to bo
robbed As safes were then con-
structed, a few blows with tho sledge
would knock off the hinges of one
door, and then a pry with ,
would wrench the door
safe manufacturers
anil when tl/
turned U”* 'jfl
1!
Would I
around tin- doors
two all little the spaces air would only ber.-y^^^B draVn^^^
one bo
pump, and through the other powder
would be allowed to sift iu. When
they touched it off the safo would be
ripped apart. But this method, de-
spite till precautions, was noisy, and
then came the modern tools. In the
case of an ordinary safe, the knob is
knocked off, a punch removes the com¬
binations, and a pioeo of wire throws
back the tumblers. In better safes
tho drag is used. If I had a safe, no
matter how good, with many valua¬
bles iu it, I would not trust 11 burglar
alone with it for over ten minutes* at
the outside. So far tho burglars aro
abreast of the makers of safes, and no
improvement is made by the latter
that the former in a short time do not
learn to circumvent.”
Tlte Secretary Bird’s Good Stomach,
The authorities at Cape Colony pro
toct the secretary bird on account of
tho thorough way iu which it protects
gardens and poultry from poisonous
snakes. A blow or two from its pow¬
erful legs or a pick from its sharp bill
is sufficient to break the back of any
serpent, and if the reptile succeeds in
getting in a blow with its fangs it is
adroitly received on tho long outer
feathers of the interposed wing of the
bird. Then the snake is swallowed
whole, a parting blow of tho head on
the ground being given it just as that
part is disappearing from view, But
snakes by no means constitute tho en-
tire bill of fare of this hungry creat-
uri The cutouts of the stomach of
one of them have tints been described:
“I found inside one# three snakes as
long as my arm, eleven lizards seven
inches long, twenty-one tortoises about
two inches in diameter, besides a
large quantity of grasshoppers and
other insects; or, in other words,
seven and a half foot of snake, six and
a half of lizard, three and u half of
tortoise and, say, a yard of miscel¬
laneous trifles.” Aw this dignified and
always reliable bird can be trained to
protect the poultry yard from all kinds
of birds of prey, small animals anil
other enemies, and os it can be accli¬
mated in this country, it would ■ ■ in
that it would bo, well to introduce it
here as a regular barnyard inhabitant
Mysterious Titles of Fiirnly.
Statistics regarding the tides in the
Bay of Fuudy are so startling as to
8< ; cm ‘^‘uost incredible. At Grand
Maiian the fall is from twelve to fif-
* eeu feet, at Lubee and Eastport
twenty feet, at St. John from twenty-
f°' lr t° thi^kHleet, at Moncton on the
while^^^^^^KjeJietweou bend c^Uj^^KDteodioc, seventy high feet, and
low^^^^^^^B^ieCoWjnid r actually River bi
¬
1 ''- r ut big,, than
this , p “ u river } l,: runup and In
Hb will leave them
pterin hours, so that
*^"3 ' iil between tides.—
Lhicago-^^^Y. W 11 1
'
A few years ago horses in Australia
multiplied to such nu extent that they
became a pi.-t, :;o that iu one district
the Government had 109,099 shot.
THE WHITE C®? IN ASHES.
.jte _
Rasing Flames WcrltlgJ Ani^f {tie Palaces ol
lie Fair.
The Fire Starts in lluj Cassuo and Takes
Everything^!! Its Path.
Tit.
A Chicago Tho world's
fair Pompeii .“ ..xonday night. A
rushing volean'o of ■ flame—a lingo
Gotliio architecture tumbling into
ohaos—bewildered nu’fc. «f people— all
j 1 wero thcro, under u groat starry sky
of Italian clearness, with Luke Michi-
| gan’s broad oxpanso a second Mcditor-
ranean.
Probably no moro magnificent yet
terrifying spectacle Jins ever been wit¬
nessed this side of the Atlantic. It
was long after dark when belated peo¬
ple, returning from work to their
names iu tho suburbs along tho elevated
railroad—familiar to hundreds of
thousands of world’s fair visitors—no-
firo tiood and a constantly smoke ascending enlarging skyward column iu of
the east.
“Tho world’s fair is on ftrol" was
tho cry, and few indeed of tho fascin¬
ated watchers from the train windows
alighted until tho famous terminal at
tho exposition grounds was reached.
Tho last half mile of the journey was
directly east to tho fair, so that all
view of tho blazing pleasure house of
tho world was shut off for a time com¬
pletely. Directly past tho scene of tho
frightful firo of tho cold storago ware¬
house, where scores of firemen lost their
lives during tho fair,hundreds of specta¬
tors hurried from the train into the cele¬
brated court of honor. There, sud¬
denly, the conilagratfo’n tfq-^no vmbers into
view. Whirlwinds of J
wero being carried from, |® 8 . - of the
court of honor furthest A ad¬
ministration building, t$Ji Jociation''.the ifrts
mammoth roof of w jj 0 4
building, tho largest golder!f' jrm io on
earth. ropublic Tho could great bo li; MrAg' ^t of lib¬ tho
seen r
erty cap defiantly aloft Agh tho
clouds of smoke and fla gty,
The firo stnrtqd ijr-’h iare j UH t
east south of ol tho J’ qer they M {J jduate it and
quiekN ^ 1110
ed n-’t I' ranUfl
r 1 tie
, t -
to.ri'i 1 6 ’
The ,
lake side had by 1 ’d tho
flames in tho ashes APtm $TIstyle south¬ and
in the lower eolonnailowif the
east side of tho liberal arts building,
and hopes were raised that tho fire
had been subdued, but shortly after
11:15 o’clock p. m. the flumes got
boyoml control way up on tho top
promenado of tho liberal arts building,
and tho main isle of the building was
a mass of flames, arising from tho
blazing brands which came from
aboVc,
FALL OF THE FEUIBTYLE.
The fire had been burning less than
an hour when a thunderous crush of
falling timber and a tremendous shout
from tho crowd announced the col-
lnpso of tho peristyle. A moment later
another terrific yell from tho crowd
told that tho liberal arts building hail
caught firo and that tho wliolo exposi¬
tion was threatened.
Finally a great iron arch gave way and
directly above the French wares
fulling heavily buried them beneath
the burning pile and they they were
abandoned. Rack of tho French was
the Japanese exhibit and about it clus¬
tered a crowd of scared and frantic
Japaneso, This, liko many exhibits
has not been released from bend
and goods could net bo taken from
tho building. Under the direction of
sorno Japaneso officials, the wares wore
carted to tho doors and thcro they
stood guarded by tho natives of U 10
flowery kingdom, who sorrowfully
awaited tho destruction that seemed
inevitable. All of tho American ex¬
hibits hail long ago been removed, but
the formalities of the custom house
hail detained the goods of tho foreign-
ers.
All through tlio grout structure fran¬
tic exhibitors rushed, seeking the safe¬
ty of their goods. “Our bands are tied,”
said ono. “Wo cannot removo our
wares from the building. Wo must
stand idly by and see them burn. We
can do nothing.” with
The firo department fought en¬
ergy and skill, but the conditions wero
all against success. A fierce wind
came over tho lake, flinging fiery em¬
bers everywhere and fanning the
flamos into fierce life with every mo¬
ment.
ESTIMATING THE LOSS.
Opinions seemed to be general that
the loss by water would be even great¬
er than that by firi The federal offi
cials put the maximum loss at $1,000,-
000. On the other hand, the estimates
made by the people connected with
the local directory mado the highest
figures $1,500,000 in tho liberal arts
building. tho number of pack¬
Three days ago shipment each build¬
ages awaiting in
ing was: Manufactures 1,974, Midway
plaisanco 300, fine arts 780, woman’s
819, mining, 1,350, electricity scattered 107, a
ricultural 1,800 and 15,000
in other buildings, making u total of
, ... ■ ... j,
F /' .A", iV’,„' 1 ,;.’, ^ , 1 ..
» ‘
, “ ‘ ‘ 11,1 ” ‘ ‘ ' ’ f ,
- ' ;
the goods ramafu ig < j -
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
(ho Imlu.dilul Situation ns Reported
for the Past IVeck.
Tho review of the indiistr nl situation in tho
South for tho past wcok sli iws that n» material
cliango in industrial conditions Ins taken place.
The number of now industrial! in process of or-
ganilttion oontinucs to be above tho average,
indioa ing a prosperous st months. ate of affairs, There ns c ail- he
pared with the past low can
no doubt that the tide of revival in manufac¬
turing and mechanical affairs has fairly set in
ohinery It is shown by tho increasing tho formation inquiry foi
of all kinds, by of new
co-partm rsliips and companies, by the enlarge¬
ments of existing plants, and by the growing
demand for sites for factories and Indnsiriul
plants- Southern merchants and southern
hanks aro in a good condition, and an ailjust-
nt (led of tho onsur<5 ponding ronowed tariff prosperity, question is only
lieei to
hlrty-throo new industries we rero oatali-
Halted or incorporated during of till! woek,
togethor willi eight, enlargements lllXlmfuC-
torios. The following are among tho pro
*nent new indue tries: The Arctic Ico and Stor¬
age Company, of Wheeling, W. Va., capital
fGOO,OliO, organized by l’etor Weity and associ¬
ates; tho l’oto »na o Mamifiietur 'ing Company,
of Ale xandn la, Va. va., digital $30, 1)00, by A. J.
Smith and others; tho Columbia Glass Ct mi
liiuiy, of Wheeling, W. Va-, capital the $300,0 nit
by M. F. Strong and others, and B.auku-
burg Phosphate Guano Company, of Blncka-
bmg, 8. 0., by T. II. Gautir and associates.
The Stonitigton Brick aud Tilo Com¬
pany, capital $90,000, has been organiz¬
ed, at Natchez, Jliss.; capital the Shreveport,
Manufacturing Company, stock $50,-
000, ntBhr Dvepart, l,a-, by II. It. Wheeler and
associates; the t-'atillicru Dynamite Ga.. capital and Power
Compauy, at McBride Tallapoosa, and others; the Bridge¬ $i0,-
000, by J. M.
port Stove Works, at Bridgeport, and associates; Ala., oap.tal
$25,000, by It- J. bowman tho
Montgomery Basket anil Wooili uwuro Compa¬
ny, ol Montgomery, Ala., capital $20,009, by
\V. K- Micou and others, and the Helena Box
Factory, capital $10,000, of Helena, An;., by
John J. Horner and others.
A brewery is reported at Austin, Texas, a
barrel factory at Florence, Ala.; a canning
fact at Cleveland, Tenn. • a cotton milt at
Augusta, Ua.; ilye works at Charlotte, N. C.;
a grist . mill at Birmingham, shop Ala.; a
foundry and machine at
Westminster, a. C., and an oil mill at Florence,
8. C. Gold mines arc to be developed Virgtlina, at Au-
ruria, Ga.; a slato quarry at Evergreen Va.;
Bttgar refineries are to lie built at
anil Martinsville, I.a,; lumber companies Knoxville, havo
b ou organized at Charleston, 8. 0.,
T'enn., and WeBt Norfolk, Va., amt saw and
planing mills arc to lie built at Browton, Ala.,
Newborn and Homervillo, Tenn., out Texar¬
kana, Texas.
The enlargements for tho week include a
brewery at Han Antonio, Texas; brick and tile
works at Houston, Texas; gas woiks at Anli-
vitto, N. 0.; cotton mills at Anniston, Ala., and
Charleston, 8. C., and saw N. and pinning mid Liberty,B. mills at
\Vaycro88, Ga., 1 doiton, 0.,
C.—Tradesman (Cnntiauooga, Tenn.)
A CAUSTIC REPLY
.. ~ —'Lvl> *. • iL’.-'-^-qvjGeuernl
EWIS DAVIS,
Attorn ky-at-Law,
^>cco a,
Tr-vr-T The
iiXu-s irWtcur, and
__
«. JTrida at that. Hero is
whiti the club says in reply to the At-
torney General:
“Attorney General Lamar, speaking
for himself and the governor, having
declared in n letter to the Inter- Ov.can
of Chicugo that tho Corbett-Miicholl
contest will not take place in Florida,
it is proper that we inform tho public
that neither tho attorney general judicial nor
tho governor possesses any
power and to add that the state’s offi¬
cers, acting under tbo direction of the
executive, have refused to allow any
judicial determination by the courts of
the law which it is claimed tho contest
will Violate, and to that end have
caused the prosecution originated for
tho purpose of tosting tho law to be
dismissed; and further, that the exec¬
utive of tho state, possessing tho con¬
stitutional prerogative of asking the
opinion of tho highest judicial tribunal
of tho state as to the construction of
tho statute, has declined to do so.
The public is hereby assured that tho
contest will take place as advertised;
that no plans have been formed or
stops taken, and none will be, by
either tho governor or tho attorney
general, to stop the contest, and tick¬
ets* can bo bought with the confidence
that it will tako place under the con¬
tract as signed. President,
“lliSNity Mason,
“For the Duval AthletioClub.
DOLE A BLUSTERER.
He Makes a Delimit Reply to Min¬
ister Willis’ Demands.
Tho steamer Wavirmob, which ar¬
rived at Victoria, B. C., Monday
night, brought udv es from Honolulu
under date of January 1st. Ou tho
10th of December, Minister Willis de¬
manded of the provisional government
that it surrender to the queen. Pres¬
ident Dole replied, The refusing to consider
this demand. government is
keeping the answer of Dole to Willis’
demands secret until it shall have bad
time to reuch tho president. The fol¬
lowing summary, however, has been
obtained from good authority:
Dole begins by noting that this is
the first official communication this
government has had intimating in any
way the policy of President Cleveland
toward Hawaii. By no action of this
government has any matter connected
with tho lato revolution been submit¬
ted to the 'authority of tho United
States. This is carefully argued. No
intimation has ever been mado to the
provisional government of anything
having been done or considered in the
premises until tho alleged conclusion
of the president now presented by
Minister Willis. Art exhaustive re¬
sume is given of the series of political
struggles leading up to the revolution,
including the nets of Kalakauka before
1887,and his obstructing and dictating
legislation by filling the legislature
with officeholders.
Senhor Mendon, the Brazilian ntin-
Washington, . has , lnforma- . t
Ifitor at no
[ turn which would bear out the dispatch
received in Paris from liio de Janeiro
thut President I’eixoto has resigned.
The departments are also without in¬
formation respecting tho Par is report
that I’eixoto has resigned.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drill ol Her Progress an! Pros¬
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed In
Pllhy Paragraphs.
the Fire Starr Wednesday morning Richmond, destroyed
Tho piano works at
Va. loss is $300,000 and tho in¬
surance $40,000,
Tho Kentucky legislature Tuesday
ro-olootod Benator William Lindsay.
Ho received ninety-two democratic
votes. Fultz, republican, thirty-throo;
populist, four.
G. M. Woodbury, of Middlcsboro,
Tenu., was appointed receiver of tho
Mingo Mouutain Goal and Coke Com¬
pany, Tuesday by Judgo D. M. Key,
of tlu» United States district court.
Tho stock of dry goods of A. Halz-
man at Solrnan, Ala., was attached by
the sheriff Tuesday and writs sued out
by Steiner & Loebman, of Montgom¬
ery, Mrs. Fannio Bizzell, of Selma,’
and H. B. Clallin & Co., of Now York,
their claims aggregating $10,500.
Robert I’. Hofei, who recently re¬
signed Goldsboro, as cashier of the bank of Wayne,
at N. O., made an assign¬
ment thcro Wednesday, turning ovor
his property to his creditors. His lia¬
bilities are estimated at $45,000. Ho
is one of the foremost eitizons of
Goldsboro. Tho assignment was un¬
expected and caused a sensation. ,
A Nashville special of Tuesday says:
There is a queer complication oxisting
between two federal judges over tho
sale of (lie Knoxville and Marietta rail¬
road. The original bill asking the sale
was filed in Atlanta and nearly all tho
litigation has been done in Judgo Key’s
court at Chattanooga. On application
of certain creditors, Judge Key ap¬
pointed a receiver and ordered a sale.
Tho traveling passenger agonts of
the country hold their annual session
iu New Orleans Tuesday. They came
from nil parts of the country to Now
Orleans to attend this convention, aud’
constitute a representative body of
men. The convention has received in-,
vitntious to go to Texas ufter tho sea-’
sion has been completed. This is tho
twenty-second anniversary of tho asso¬
ciation.
|| _ horiffMiddloton, of Duplin county,
c., has served a summons on the
jfeorH and ’’irN^Hnnovcr directors of the defunct action
| tr m in tin-
Jirt L • n >■ in the
of Duplin. Tito depositors of
if io bank in Duplin are tho plaintiffs
anil tho action is to recover from the
deposits in the bank amounting to
$30,000. The defendants are to an¬
swer February 19th.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special says:
Newspapers have had much to say dur¬
ing tho past year regarding tho ru¬
mored resignation of f lic Hon. 1). M.
Key, judgo of tho United Statos dis¬
trict court for tho eastern division of
Tennessee. It was said he would re¬
sign January 1st, but that (late has
passed and ho is now holding court iu
this city. In an interview Tuesday,
however, he gave out his intentions
positively.
A Jackson, Tenn., special of Wed¬
nesday says: llcv. G. F B. Howard,
of claim agency fame, is still at tho
county jail. Ho has the freedom of
the corridors, and his wife spends the
day with him. He has plenty of op¬
portunity to converse with his wit¬
nesses who are confined in jail await¬
ing the special term of tlm federal
court in February. The government
is getting its evidence ready by that aud
time. Howard seems cheerful,
limns the popular airs the of jail the corridor. day as
he walks up anil down
A Savannah dispatch of Wednesday master
says: J. J. Anderson, formerly
mechanic of the Central railroad, has
filed a suit for slander for $10,000
against Supt. 13. Ford, of tho South
Round railroad, charging that tho de¬
fendant falsely and- maliciously said
that ho was unable to get any, work
out of Anderson, who was working
also for tho South Bound, and that lie
had to offer him a $50 overcoat to get
llll engine out. Mr. Anderson has also
sued the Savannah J’tchh for $10,000
for libel for publishing tho statements
made by Superintendent Ford.
Firo was discovered Wednesday
morning in Arbuckle k Sou’s wuichotqjo
at Memphis, Tenn., aud before tho
lire department could arrive the entire
building covering a block, was a solid
mass of flames anil smoke. The heat
and blinding smoke worked against
very effectual work ou the purt of tho
firemen, and for two hours tho lire
raged in all its fury. Fully 2,500 bales
of cotton were stored, and of these
more than 1,500 bales wero burned,
while the balance is almost a complete
loss. Arbuckle, Hons & Co. uro losers
to about $4,000, and various other
firms suffer severe losses.
a ncnllier Medal.
A Denver, Col., special of Thursday
says: Governor Waite lias received
this dispatch from Benator Btewart:
“I believe, as a matter of law, a state
may make foreign com a legal tender,
according to the pure metal of stau-
daril value, uuil that a Mexican dollar
might be made a legal tender fot its
face value. Governor Watte has also
received by mrfll a leather medal of the
exact size of a silver dollar. On
side was this inscription : “To his ox-
cellercy, David Waite, in token of tho
citizens of Colorado for his able deois-
ion to act in opposition to their wishes
and best interests. ” On the other side
were the words: “Colorado 57 cents.
Mexico!”
IHount Roe- to Washington.
Mr. Blciint left Macon,Ga., Monday
for Washington where he goes to tes-
tify iu tin .Hawaiian investigation.
NO. 3.
WHEN I GET TIME.
When I got time—
I know what I shall do ,
I'll eqt tlio leaves of all my books,
And read them through and through.
When I get time—
I’ll write some letters then
That I iiuve owed for wooka and wooks
To many, many men.
When I get time — .
I’ll pay thoso bills I owe,
And with those bills, those countless bills,,
1 will not bo so slow.
When I get time—
I'll regulate my life
In such a way that i may get
Acquainted With my wife.
Wlion 1 Bet time—
Ob, glorious ilroam of bliss
A month, a year, ten years from now-
But I can’t llnlsh tills—
I have no tlmo.
Tom Masson, in Voguo,
IIUM0R OF THE HAY.
Tho season is hero when tho bravest
of ns aro glad to got umlor cover.
Buffalo Courier.
Filing a will sometimes rasps tho
feelings of disappointed legatees.—
Lowell Courior.
Maud “Our ongagomont everybody toll is a me.” se¬
cret.” Lama—“Bo
--Brooklyn Life.
It will not holp your own neighbor’s crop any
to throw stones at your
truck patch.—Ram’s Horn.
Watts—“You look rather shaky this
morning ” Potts—“Naturally. I foel
rocky.”—Indianapolis Journal.
Tho girl of tho period says she ob¬
jects to flattery, but sho likes to have
lior sleeves puffed.—New York World.
y(, 0 _j*‘r>o you think he is a real
nobleman?” Ho—“He must be; he
isn’t an ideal one.”—Detroit Free
Press.
A Philadelphia doctor tiled to “raise
the dead,” but was immediately tired
on by the cemetery watchman.—Plain
Dealer.
Young America, with his parents to
help him, is rapidly educating the
timid teachers of this country.
Galveston News. .
No matter if a man is peaceful at
all other times, 11 when I 10 meets a cy¬
clone lib is sure to strike a blow.
Rochester Democrat.
Naturalist—“And now. how shall wo
provo tlpit man its. tho superior him.”— crea¬
ture?” Pfipli—“By asking
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Barber—“How" would you like your
haircut, sir?” Uncle Hayseed—“Fust what
rate, young man; fact, is, that s
I cum iu fot ’’—Brooklyn Life.
It doesn’t make much difference to
barbers how hard times arc Evon in
the best of times they havo to scrape
for a living.—Miilajolphift Record.
Oil, wood mini, spti are that tree,
1 pray you let It stand,
A refuge it may bo
When tho bulldog is at hand.
Atlantu Journal.
•Site ‘Wind a foolish reason! So
sho wouldn’t marry yon on account ot
your family?” He—"No ; and I only
had a wife and one child”—Pick Me
Up
Mrs. Finite-■-“Maria says sho can
cook. Mr. Finite—“Ob, that girl
would any that bIio multi read a Chinese
Uu 11 dry-ticket. ”—Kate .l/icld h Wash¬
ington.
Student—“I tell'you frankly that I
shall not lie able to pay for tho suit till
next year. When will you have it
ready ?” “Tailor—“Next year. Flie-
gondo Blaetter.
“Ycr kin tall;,” suid rt philosopher bein’
of tho East Side, “’bout it’s
vulgar t’ wean di’mou’s, but I notice
that them that has ’em wears ‘em.”—
Buffalo Express.
Young Men (at restaurant)—-“Hear, cooked.
you, wo wanted those oysters
Waiter—“Den vot for you keep cry
rah ! rah ! all dor dime? How vosdot?”
-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
< Higgs — •‘Why, don’t you ever have
any trouble whatever in meeting your
bills? Hpriggs “Trouble? Not a
bit of it. I meet ’em everywhere I
go.”- -Homervillo Journal.
New Yorkei “Ybn don’t boo any
grass in our streets, anyway.” Bbo
(from Philadelphia)—“No-o. Must
be thd climate Tho soil is certainly
rich enough.”—Brooklyn Life.
“I was careless tliiw morning at
church and put a dollar in tho box „
when i intended to give only a dime,
“A case of contributory negligence,
so to spook. ’ Detroit J nbune.
Good Samaritan Don’t you know
better than to drive that poor horse up
lull so fast?” G’Couuoi “Up hill, is
it V Oh, bogorra! the nag’s blind and
he can’t see it! Life’s Calendar.
Ilo ilro|iiii!<l a curlrlilgi) In the slot
Ami then ho sought tho lair
Ol forest game, find soon ho got
A fat lucI juicy bear
Detroit Free Press,
“X think a love of football must bo
inherent in tho Pigskin family.”
“What makes you think so? “Why,
whenever little Joromio wants to play
the game, his mother kicks.”—New
York Press.
Durin B „ the siege " of Paris a French
} , (lrj , b er to uot her pot
exc , ttimetl whet she had finished
® “Poor'Fiflne! how pleased
he rtcal . ',
^ wouk hllve Wu to gnaw her own
bojJC , r _ Lo p 1Mli llom.
Mamma— it Hobble, yxmi a’ o ^ s
look any cleaner t.iau « ion >t 1
to Bobbie wa ? h >»• ‘ Yes, Did arul yon it inai e ^
B'ht soap bubbles vou e
Mowed. Inter Ocean,
The Right Ko Mr. Cassock—“I
greatly fear, my dear madam, that
your husband is destined to reap a
harvest of ta Mrs. Swiftly Gay—
“Indeed, I fear so, Bishop; lio has
been >n one for the last throo days.”
—Harlem Life