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THE COUNTRY^ VOLUNTEER.
•'lie wuz gruff an’ rough an’ ready—
Wuz our country soldier Joe,
An’he handle of his rifle
Like he'd handle of his hoe;
An’ he’d wan’t the kind of soldier
That the wtmmln try to smite,
But you just had ought to seen him
When the bugle sounded—fight!
"He wuz long an’lean soldier an’ lanky —
Wuz our country Joe,
An' he’d shoot the practice thievin’ target
Like he’d snoot a crow,
An’ there warn’t one inch of beauty
In his clumsy rawbone height.
But you just had ought to seen him*
But when the bugle sounded—fight!
He wuz slim an’ slow an’ stupid—
Wuz our country soldier Joe,
An’ he’d rick a heap of canvas
Like he’d rick a raedder mow;
An’ ho wan’t much good in drillin’—
On parade he wuz a fright,
But you Just had ought to seen him—
When the bugle sounded—fight!”
—Victor A. Hermann.
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!TWO CAREERS |
THAT BLENDED!
A Hospital Romance.
By Edgar T, Field.
0000000000000000003
P OUR cab is
waiting, Mr.
555 Blakeslee.”
***$–/–* – "Then I must
^go. "Yes, I suppose.” I sup
: pose so. That
9 = 3 ' was your inten
tion, I believe. ”
et* "I believe it
was. There doesn’t seem to he any
particular reason why I should stay
around here any longer.”
Here he glanced at her a trifle ex
pectantly. “No,” she replied, ab
sently, smoothing a tiuy wrinkle in the
covering of the hard little hospital
bed.
"Oh, you don’t think there is?" he
demanded, fiercely, stopping in his
task of buckling the straps of his army
blanket.
"Well, the doctors say there isn’t,”
she said, and theu commenced
straightening the bottles on the little
stand with rather nervous fingers.
"Confound the doctors!” He gave
n vicious and final tug to the straps,
and then added: "They’re a precious
set—the doctors.”
"Why, one would think you hadn’t
been well treated here.” she said, with
rather an unsteady laugh.
“Oh,” exclaimed the young officer,
"you’ve treated me well enough—just
as well as you would anybody else, I
suppose. ”
A shadow of a smile crossed her
lips, but there were tears in her eyes
he did not see.
"I don’t complain,’” ho went on
bitterly, watching the graceful lines
of the little figure in the blue and
white striped dress, as it moved to and
fro. "To morrow they’ll bring some
other poor fellow m here and you’ll
take just as good care of him as you
did of me, and let him go with just as
much cheerfulness, too. Poor
wretch.” And the young lieutenant
went to tho window and drummed on
the glass with impatient fingers as he
stared gloomily at the little patch of
gray sky visible above the high roof
ef the church next door.
Through many weeks of pain and
weakness and weariness indescribable
he had watched that little scrap of
gray as he lay helpless in the grasp of
that terrible fever—the insidious,
treacherous deadly fever of the trop
ics that, had crept into his veins from
the trenches of Santiago.
At first it had meant nothing to him
but so much blauk space, that patch
of sky.
Then it began to take on a new
meaning, as he noticed that it was
often the background for a picture— a
charming silhouette of a girlish face,
with a little tip-tilted nose and tender
curves of cheek and chin and waving
masses of hair surmounted by a tiny,
stiff cap of diaphanous white.
He came to watch for this dainty
vision, and sometimes in his fevered
dreams he would see it when it was
not there, always bending toward him
with a smile of divine pity on the
sweet lips. though his
He could see it now,
back was turned to the girl busy at
the table, and he gave an inward
groan as he remembered that soon he
would see it no more, except in
dreams.
No one knew what that face had
grown to be to him in the pnst weeks.
No one ever should know, he re
solved, with a little tightening of the
lips, as he turned from the window.
She uid not care for his going—that
was evident.
"We take good care of everyone, I
hope,” she was saying somewhat
coldly. 4 * As for our being glad to see
them go—that is nonsense, AVe are
very sorry to lose you, Mr. Blakes
lee -”
A groan burst from his lips.
"Oh, spare me that, I beg,” he ex
claimed, wrenching himself into his
blue cape overcoat.
"Aud we are always interested to
know what the—the patients do after
they leave us,” she proceeded, hesi
tatingly. "Shall you return to the
army, Mr. Blakelee?”
"I suppose so,” he replied. "I’ll
go out to Manila aud get shot, if
they’ll waste the powder and ball on
me.”
< i How cowardly that r sounds!” she
cried, indignantly, and the little
woman of five foot one surveyed the
big soldier with curling lip and dark,
scornful eyes.
< i It would be braver, perhaps, to
stay at home and face death iu the
shape of a diphtheria microbe or a
mettlesome horseless cab,” he said
with rather unsucessful sarcasm.
"It’s braver to face life than death,
sometimes,” was her reply. "Why
shouldn't you want to live?”
. Ue crossed the room suddenly and
stood close to her, looking down into
the flashing eyes. pretty
"I wonder if you know how
you ^re?” how rude
"I wonder if you know you
are?” she retorted.
"Do you suppose it’s easy to say
good-by to a girl with a face like
yours?” he went on recklessly, taking
her hands—the poor little hands all
reddened and roughened by hospital
work.
I Then it’s only my face that makes
it hard. You flatter me, sir.” Hhe
had withdrawn her hands promptly
from his eager clasp. little easier
"Oh, well, it might be a
if you were crosseyed or looked like—
like Becky Hharp,” ho admitted. And
they both laughed.
After all, they were so young. af
"And you expect me to go away
ter all these weeks with you and pro
tend not t<i care?”
"You have no right to care,” sht
cried, drawing herself up proudly.
"Ah, give me the right, he said. "I
cannot go away without you, and leave
you here to do this sort of work. Thie
hospital life is unfit for you—it is
wearing you out.”
"Mr. Blakeslee, you do not know
what you are asking. I’ve taken up
this work against the advice and wishes
of my family and friends. To give it
up now would be to acknowledge my
failure. It would be too humiliating.
You must not ask me to. And then—
your own career. You have made a
glorious record so far—you must not
think of anything else for years to
come. And your country needs you.”
"No one else does, evidently,” he
said bitterly. "Well, good-by, little
girl, and God bless yon.” And with
out auother word he left the room.
The young officer strode along the
echoing corridors with hasty steps.
HiB heart was hot within him and he
was ashamed to find tears in his eyes.
But when he reached the great door
way he hesitated.
Once outside and he had left her be
hind him forever. He could not leave
hor this way. Without a word of
thanks for the tender nursing she had
given him. She must not think him
ungrateful. retraced his
Swiftly ho turned and
steps. where
The door of the little room
he had lain so long was partly closed
when he reached it. What if she had
gone. pushed the
With a beating heart he
door open softly and went in.
And there she was—the stout-hearted
young woman who had so bravely sent
him forth to his duty and so sturdily
kept to hers, with her head on the
pillow—his pillow—crying her heart
out, just like any other unhappy girl.
A moment he stood transfixed.
Then in one bound ho crossed the
narrow room and took her in his arms,
and as their lips met two careers that
might have been melted into thin air
and disappeared forever.
ICromwell at Home.
What glimpses we get of Cromwell
by the fireside of the old gabled farm
house at Huntingdon!—in the fields,
mowing and milking; in the market
place with his fellow-townsmen, talk
ing not only of oats and barley, but ol
the sufferings of the non-conformists,
and the growing differences between
the King aud the Commons; at the
great open fire-place round which,
twice a day, he gathered his family
and servants, and expounded to them
the Scriptures; in the village church,
to which ho ivent with pious regu
larity, and where his burly form
always elicited respect, in spite of his
coarse, country-made clothes, his big,
unfashionable hat, and the piece of
red flannel that he always wore round
his throat wheu in the Fen Country.
All the sedgy shores and swampy
fields of the river Ouse he has made
classic ground, for there, amid the
blowing, sighing bulrushes, he fought
over again that great spiritual battle
which Luther had fought before him
at Erturth.—Amelia Barr, in Harper’s
Magazine.
A Hungarian Love Tragedy.
A shocking story comes from the
village of Teteleu, Hungary. A cer
tain cook in service in the place was
in possession of a lottery ticket which
she had purchased years before when
in Vienna, Austria. A Vienna bank,
where she had deposited the ticket,
wrote recently to inform her that she
was the lucky winner of the chief
prize. The news spread like wildfire
t hrough the village, and two geudarmes
who had been paying her court for
some time offered her marriage. On
her choosing one the other became so
infuriated that he threatened to kill
them both. They were discovered
shot dead soon after while their
murderer committed suicide by throw
ing himself in front of a passing train.
On the day of his funeral and that of
his two victims a letter arrived from
the Vienna bank addressed to the
cook, in which she was informed, with
innumerable apologies, that her ticket
had not been drawn at all, a mistake
having been made in one of the figures.
—New York Press.
Danger of a Little Arithmetic.
An instance of the danger of a little
arithmetic Las occurred at Birming
ham. Afar-seeing Alderman objected
to building the coKucil house upon
ground held only upon a 999-year
lease, at the end of which land and
buildings (Birmingham buildings are
of course, durable) would belong to
the ground iearned landlord,
A mathematician thereupon
presented $50 to be accumulated al
compound interest tc buy them back
again. It seems, however, that $48.98
could safely be devoted to the present
purchase of turtle scup for the corpora
tiou-, two cents would be sufficient,
supposing that interest, rent and
money had not been abolished mean
while, and that the end of the world
had not come.'—Madame.
BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LEITER
MAKES A STRONG TALK IN RE
GAR]) TO LYNCHINGS.
HE WADES INTO THE CRITICS.
Bill Declare* That No Good Man Has Rea
son to Fear For the Result* of
Mob Raw.
The lynching of Sam Holt is over.
The press and the preachers have ex
pressed their horror or their approval
and the world moves on—not a stay
nor a stop nor a jolt is felt either so
cially, religiously, financially or com
mercially. The fulminations of the
northern press nor the apprehensions
of editors nearer home amount to any
thing. History is just repeating it
self. Every few years something like
this happens and the press and the
preachers explode in about the same
language until they get tired and then
subside and wait quietly for some
other harrowing thing to happen.
We remember well what the press
said about the burning of the brute at
Dallas a few years ago and the same
adjectives were used and the same
anathemas hurled upon our people.
The brute who ravished a child of six
years and then killed her and threw her
mutilated body into the bushes actu
ally found friends among our enemies.
They said it was brutal to burn him.
We remember when the negro as
saulted a little girl near Madison as
she was going home from school alone
and then cut her throat and threw her
body in a gully and covered it with
brush. When vengeance overtook
him the northern press howled as
usual.
It is their business to howl. They
like it, and do doubt are glad this
thing has happened. It feeds their
appetite and nurses their wrath and
will Inst them a week, perhaps longer.
In the language of Governor Oates, I
would rise to a pint or order and ask,
“What are you going to do about it?”
Nothing, of course, nothing. Such
things will happen sometimes every
where at long intervals, but they do
not nffect a single item of civilization.
Who is afraid to move to Georgia or
Texas because of lynchings? Nobody,
save, perhaps, a few bad men who i
think of coming because they are in
bad repu teat home. Fitzgerald was
not a raid to come, nor afraid to stay,
and the northern people in that grow
mg city are celebrating their content -
withpicn.es and and other hilarities
while I write. The wicked flee where
no man pnrsueth. No good man is in
danger of the lynchers. No law-abr*
ing citizen has any fear for himself or
his household.
It takes a terrible crime to arouse a
whole community into such a remedy,
and so I feel no personal alarm.
Reader, do you?
Tho truth is that lynchings they are not
as frequent in the south ns have
been, but are getting quite common
over the line. We read that they tried
to lynch a man in New York the other
day for stealing a horse. Why they
have long since quit that in Texas.
Mr. Inman is right or nearly so. He
says in his answer to the symposium
of opinions that "there is no just
cause for alarm among the country
people—no greater cause than there
has been. That 95 per cent of the
people, both white and black, are
harmless and law-abiding and w’e will
have to watch and punish the other 5
per cent just as we have been doing
for many years.” The per cent of
bad negroes is greater than he thinks.
The number in the chaingangs prove
this, but their. crimes are generally
misdemeanors, larceny and burglary,
and education does not correct this.
Booker Washington says it docs, but
observation and statistics of the prison
commission prove the reverse.
We old men who owned slaves be
fore the war are established in our
opinions that education does not les
sen crime, neither among whites nor
blacks. Mr. Stetson, the chairman
of the school commission of Massa
chusetts, declared this in a pamphlet
several years ago,and proved that educa
tion increased crime not a little, but
to an alarming extent. I have great
respect for Booker Washington, and
believe that, the kind of education he
is giving will lessen crime among the
pupils He is educating. Our slaves
were educated by fear of the lash or
the whipping post, and you can pick
them out today. It is their children,
born since the war, or their grand
children who are in the ehaingang.
Why should there be 4.000 negroes
in these state and county chaingangs
of Georgia when there are only 240
white convicts? It will not do to say
the negro is punished and the white
man escapes. That is a lie and every
observing man knows it. My own ob
servation is that the courts lean to the
negro rather than against him. No
small per cent of the colored convicts
are now serving a second term and
some a third term, which proves that
imprisonment does not reform the ne
gro. When he comes out his last con
dition is worse than the first. But the
whipping post would so thoroughly
reform a young negro that he would
not repeat the offense. Confinement
in jail nearly crushes the soul out of a
white man, but a negro is perfectly
contented there. Ask the sheriffs or
the jailers if this is not so. Now, it
will take perhaps ten years to do it,
but my candid opinion is that the
number of convicts would in that time
be reduced from 4,000 to 400 were the
whipping post used instead of the
ehaingang. Delaware has experi-
mented with this for half a century
and will not abolish it. It is used for
all colors—white, black and mulatto.
If that little state was south of the
line wouldn’t she catch it from the
northern press and northern preach
ers? the change,
But how con we moke
for as long as the negro has a vote he
will vote against a candidate who fa
vors it and the candidates are gener
ally demagogues nud dare not dis
please the negro? No, they won’t
even pass a dog law for fear of offend
ing their colored constituents. Every
now and then my wife asks me to buy
some mutton and snvs we used to have
mutton. But the uegroes own the
dogs and the dogs have exterminated
the sheep in Bartow county. We
ought to change the constitution and
elect lawmakers for four or six years
and after that they should be ineligi
ble. Theu they wouldent talk and
vote for buncombe.
Some of the symposium writers
thought that the law’s delay and the
lawyers were to blame for these lyneh
ings. Not so. A lynching for that,
crime is but the outburst of human in
digDation. The law’s delay is not in
their miuds. If I know myself I am as
crood a man as any horror-stricken
editor or preacher. 1 am kind in heart
and love my fellow men and fellow
women. I respect the supremacy of
the law just as much as Governor At
kinson or any other governor, but I
rejoiced wheu the brute was caught
and burned.
How much he suffered is of no con
sequence to me, nor am I afraid of the
crowd that did it or that will do it
again. It was the unanimous verdict
of a very large jury, a jury of men and
women, and I am not chicken-hearted
about such suspects as Lige Strick
land, nor would I take very much
sympathetic talk from other negro
leaders who raise their bristles. I
know and feel that tbe white people of
the south Lave been kind; yes, over
kind to the negro since the war and
that yankee emissaries have alienated
him from us LIU d vve have got no
thanks for all we have clone. Sooner
or later we will have to take away his
vote and establish the whipping post
and then, and not till theu, will we
have peace between the races.
If these remedies affected a few bad
white men, let them share it or leave
the country. Some of us remember
when the kuklux was our only protec
tion, and it raised a howl that was
heard across the ocean, but it saved
our wives and our daughters when the
vorld t]ie flesh and the devil were
fe ;' procession proceed,
And 8o let the
p S .-Dr. E. Van Goidtsnoven. of
Atlanta> is a scho j ar and a gentleman,
He sends me the iranslation of Bishop
Onderdonk’s gold-headed cane: "Epis
r)0e e bor” stands for "Episcopus noe
eboracen - 8i8 » and mea ns "Bishop of
New York.” Thanks.- Bill Arp, At
ianta Constitution,
AMENDMENTS DECLARED VOID.
Lawyers in Montgomery, Ala., Preparing
To Test State lie venue Daw.
A firm of prominent lawyers of
Montgomery, Ala., is preparing the
papers iii a suit by which it is pro
posed to be shown that the amend
ments to the general revenue law of
the state, which were passed by the
last session of the general assembly,
are void as to their provisions foi the
reason that they were irregularly
passed. decline
The gentlemen of the firm
to say prior to the filing of the suit in
what particular they claim irregularity
in ihe passage of the act, but they in
sist that they will be able to defeat the
enforcement of the amendments.
REPRIMAND Ftilt COGHLAN.
German Minister Shows Disposition to
Close the Incident.
A Washington special says: The
case of Captain Coghlnn may be con
sidered ns finally closed. The' Ger
man ambassador, Dr. Yon Holleben,
called at the white house Wednesday
afternoon and had a conference with
the president of such a satisfactory ua
ture that the matter was considered as
settled.
The president explained the course
the navy department had taken in ad
ministering a reprimand to Captain
Coghlan. It was also pointed out that
the officer’s explanation of the inci
dent stated that his utterances had
been muoh, examrerated.
GRANT STATUE UNVEILED.
Three Generations of the Noted General’s
Family Were Present.
At Philadelphia Thursday in the
presence of President McKinley and
his wife, members of his cabinet, three
generations of General Ulysses S.
Grant’s family and a great crowd of
people, Miss Rosemary Sartoris,
grand-daughter of General Grant, un
veiled a heroic equestrian statue of
her illustrious grandfather in Fairmont
park.
Although the day was not a holiday
in honor of the event, there was a
great outpouring of patriotic citizens.
Flags were everywhere displayed
throughout the city.
rOPULISTS WILL WAIT.
Alabama State Chairman I B * Me * Address
Regarding Convention
State Chairman G. B. Crowe, of the
Alabama populist executive committee,
after a conference with leading mem
bers of his party, has issued the fol
lowing address to the populists of Al
abama:
‘Believing, under the existing cir
cumstances, it to be our interests to
postpone our state convention, which
is called to convene here on May 3d.
I hereby postpone the same until May
23d. Please notify all '
delegates.”
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Convention Was Successful.
The ninth International Sunday
scnool convention, which adjourned in
Atlanta Saturday night, was one of the
.most successful in the history of the
organization of the International Sun
day School Workers, and was also one
of the largest ever held. It was as
interesting as it was successful, and
the indications are that its results will
be far reaching. attended
More than 1,500 delegates
the convention, and these were enter
tained free of charge by the church
people of Atlanta, Atlanta threw
open her doors to the delegates, and
their impressions of the city were of a
most flattering nature.
At this convention there was tran
sncted probably more important busi
ness than ever marked any previous
convention of a like nature, and the
leaders are well pleased with the re
suits.
The meeting in Atlanta began Tues
day with the session of the interna
tional lesson committee and closed
Saturday evening with the final lesson
of the convention. The first business
meeting of the conventiou was held
Wednesday evening, and three ses
sions were held ench day until the
close,
During that period a great number
of important reports were rendered
and the work for the next three years
was mapped out by the executive com
mittee.
The convention was marked by the
large number of excellent papers that
were read and addresses that were
made. The delegates displayed un
bounded interest and enthusiasm in
the proceedings of the convention and
the Grand oper.» house was filled with
them every day. At times large num
bers of the visitors were turned away,
being unable to find seats in the audi
torium.
Atlanta was honored by the election
of Hoke Smith as president.
The delegates were entertained in
Atlanta’s usual hospitable manner and
were well pleased with the city. Es
pecially was this true of those who
came from the far north, and had no
idea that Atlanta was such a large and
progressive city.
While the conventions of coming
years may be larger than the one held
in Atlanta, it is hardly probable that
any of them will prove as pleasant and
accomplish as much work.
For Benefit of Wage Workers.
The labor convention in session at
Atlanta the past week adopted the fol
lowing constitution:
"Believing that the wage workers of
Georgia need more perfect organiza
tion and unity of action in order that
they may receive proper recognition
from employers, the general public,
and more important still, the various
municipal, state and federal legislative
bodies; and that such recognition must
result in laws being enacted which
will tend to alleviate the condition of
the laboring class; and,
"Believing the system of central
bodies organized in cities in this state
has resulted in much good to organ
ized labor and tbe people, and should
be encouraged and upheld; and,
"Belieying these central bodies
blended together in one state body
with the many labor unions of the
state can accomplish more satisfactory
results and greater benefits than the
independent and separate efforts now
put forth,
"It is hereby resolved, That the du
ly accredited.delegates of bona fide la
bor organizations, including local
unions and central bodies, do hereby
organize and constitute the Georgia
State Federation of Labor, to the end
that peace, prosperity and happiness
shall come to the toiler and justice
reign in the land.”
Veterans Fraternize at Fitzgerald.
The first annual picnic of the gray
and blue was held in Fitzgerald last
Saturday. Hundreds of old veterans
marched in line to the tunes of “Yan
kee Doodle” and "Dixie.” General
John B. Gordon reached the city dur
ing the morning, and at 11 o’clock de
livered an address to an immense au
dience. He completely captivated his
hearers, and as he would tell of the
days of ’61, and the struggle between
the armies of the north and south,
tears rolled down the cheeks of the
0 *“ confederates and the old Grand
Army veterans were wild in their ap
P Ia '| s e -
This . was truly a mingling of the
gray aiK * t * 10 blue in a southern colony
f° un< led ^y members of the Grand
of the Republic. The town was
decorated with both the national col
ors -
At night General Gordon delivered
his celebrated lecture, "The Last
Days of the Confederacy,” to an over
flowing audience at the opera house.
The reunion will beheld yearly in the
future.
Kick Against New Rule.
The railroads running out of Savan
nah have adopted some new rules with
reference to the transportation of sol
dies at half rate, the most important
of which is that the bearer of the
ticket must be in uniform or the ticket
is no good. The men are complaining
because many of them -want to throw
aside their old aud dirty togs. The
merchants of Savannah complain also
that the hew rules work to a disadvant
age for them. The tickets now- are
stamped across the face "Not good uu
! less bearer is in uniform.” This, say the
merchants, takes away a good deal of
trade from the city. There are many
members of the different commands
who would like to buy their clothes in.
Savannah, but they do not feel that
they could carry them away under
tlier arms or in valises, and stick to
the blue uniforms they have worn for
several months.
* * *
Ex-Governor Atkinson a Trustee.
Governor Candler has appointed a*-,
Governor Atkinson to the vancancy in
the board of directors of the Georgia
Normal and Industrial college and an
order to that, effect has been issued by
the executive department. Ex-Gov
ernor Atkinson has been connected
with the state industrial school for a
number of years and his services for
that institution have been of a signal
character. The reappointment of ex
Governor Atkinson by the present
chief executive was a compliment to
the former and Mr. Atkinson will hold
office under the appointment until the
next session of the legislature, wheu a
successor can be appointed and con
firmed by the state senate.
Atlanta Was Ignored.
At the meeting of the Georgia So
ciety for Colonial Dames at Savannah
the past week, the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. J. J.
Wilder, Savannah; first vice-president,
Mrs. Annie J. Waring, Savannah; sec
ond vice-president, Mrs. Joseph L.
Lamar, Augusta; honorary vice-presi
dent, Mrs. H. C. White, Athens. The
last mentioned office was especially
created for Mrs. White at this meeting.
Board of managers is composed of
Mrs. W. G. Charlton, Mrs. Wm. Gar
rard, Mrs. T. F. Screven, Mrs. L.
Gourdin Young, Miss Mary Ellis, all
of Savannah, and Mrs. F. H. Miller,
of Augusta. Atlanta is not represent
ed either in the list of officers or board
of managers.
Belay In Rural Delivery.
The rural mail delivery in Bibb
county was to have been inaugurated
May 1st, but Postmaster Hertz receiv
ed a telegram from Washington in
forming him that the delivery has been
suspended until further orders. It is
supposed in Macon that the authori
ties at Washington have taken this
action because of the protest made by
Senator Bacon and Congressman Bart
lett to the appointment of negro car
riers for the rural delivery.
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Help For Palmetto Citizens.
Residents of various cities of this
state are now taking subscriptions for
the benefit of the Palmetto citizens
who spent considerable time and
money in searching for Sain Holt. The
movement was commenced by citizens*
of Hogansville.
Firm Will Dissolve.
The firm of Draper, Moore – Co.,
wholesale dry goods dealers,of Atlanta,
will go out of business on the first
day of June. At that time the part
nership will dissolve and the firm will
become extinct.
WHEELER NOT ASSIGNED.
General Is Not Heeded In the Philippine
Islands.
A special from Washington says that
it is understood that the cabinet has
decided not to send Major General
.
Wheeler to the Philippines. The gen
eral officers who will be assigned to
duty under Geueral Otis will be Brig
adier Generals Young, Grant and
Bates.
It is proposed, however, however, to
place General Wheeler on active duty,
and to this end the organization of a
new department, to be known as the
department of Texas, is contemplated.
General Wheeler will be assigned to
command until next November, when
he will be relieved and will return to
Washington to resume his congres
sional duties.
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by subscribing for your home paper.
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ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED 'VEEKDY. —18
Groceries.
Roasted coffee, Arbuckle and Levering*
$11.30. Lion $10.80, less 50c per 100 TT.
eases. Green coffee choice 11c: fair 9c; prime
7^'(E8kiC. Sugar standard granulated, New
York 5.56. Now Orleans 5.56.
New Orleans wliito 5^c; do yellow 5>^c.
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25®40e.
mixed 12>£@20c: sugar house 28®35e.
Tens, black C0®6 5c; green 50®65 l
R ice, head 7}<c; choice 6%®7c; Sait, dai
ry sacks $1.25; do bbls. bulk S2.00: 100 3s
$2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65®70e.
Cheese, full cream 13c. Matches,
55s 45c: 200s $1.30@1.75: 300s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda 5<g)64-^c; cream stick
6c;gingersnaps 6c. Oysters', Candy, common $1.85®
fic: fancy 12®13e. F. W.
$1.75; L. W. $1.10.
Flour, Grain and Heal.
Flour, all wheat first patent. $5.00; second
patent. $4.40; straight, $4.00; extra fancy
$3.90; fancy. $3.70; extra family, $3.00.
Corn, white. 50c: mixed, 49c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 39c: Texas rustproof 49c. Rye,
Georgia 8‘c. Hay No. 1 timothy large bales
' timothy
80c-. small bales 75c-. No. 2
small bales 70c. Meal, plain 50a: bolted
45c. Wheat bran, large sacks 82o;
small sacks 82c. Shorts 95c. Stock meal:
85c. Cotton seed meal 90c per 100 lbs: hulls
$4.00 per ton. Teas stock 75®80o per bushel:
common white $1.15@1.25; Lady $1.25®
1.50. Grits $2.90 per bbl; $1.40 per bag.
Country Produce.
Eggs 11 J^@i12ij. Butter, western cream
ery. 18®20c; lancy Tennessee 18® 20c.
choice 123 ^ 0 ; Georgia 10®12Vc. Live poul
try, chickens, hens 27><@30c; spring chick
ens, large 17j^®25e; small 15®’18c:
Bucks, puddle, 22J^@25c; Peking 273^®
30c. Irish potatoes, 90® $1.00 ner
bushel, Sweet potatoes, 65® 90 5
per bu. Honey, strained G@7e: in
the comb 9®10e: Onions, $1.75®
$2.00 ner bu.: $3,25® 3.50 per bbl. Cabbage,
Florida 4®5o lb. Beeswax £0®22 1 -^.
Dried fruit, apples 7®8c-. peaches I2J-£@14‘.
Provision*.
Clear ribs boxed sides 5$jfe; clear sides
SJ^c; ice-cured bellies fij-^e. Sugar-cured, breakfast
hams 9®lle ; California 6j^c; 7 J- 0 ;sec
bacon ! 0 ® 12 6;V®6,!<f b,c. Lard, best quality
ond quality : compound 5c.
Cotton.
Market closed quiet; middling 5 11-46.