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Tie Hamilton Journal
HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
KING ALFONSO DEAD.
FIGHTING DEATH BKAYELY UN
DER THE PALL Or DESPAIR.
The Cnblnet Invest* Queen ChrlMiann wllli
the Recency.
Alfonso, King of Spain,died Thursday morn
mg of consumption, accelerated by dysentery.
Queen Christiana is completely prostrated by
th# death of her husband.
King Alfonso first showed some signs of
catarrhal fever in the spring of last year, and
during four weeks he was ailing, but not «
single day was he ill. In the summer of 1884
he took the water of Beteln in the Basque
province of Guipuzera with such cojnplete resumed suc¬
cess that he passed a good winter and
his accustomed life and habits, hunting, shoot¬
ing, riding, assisting at the military maneuvers
and reviews, and above all being unceasing in
his attention to state and military affairs.
THE kino's FATAL ILLNESS.
Throughout Monday night, King Alfonso
had spasmodic fits, the result of fever and de
bility. .Six doctors from Madrid and two phy
sicians of El Pardo were in constant attend¬
ance. They derided on Tuesday morning that
the king was in a dangerous condition. The
fits continued throughout Tuesday, and the
king died at 8.45 o’clock Thursday morning.
The pope’s benediction arrived before he ex¬
pired. All the officers of state and the cabinet
ministers, except the minister of war and the
minister of the interior, were present at the
dissolution. The cabinet met immediately,
and the queen was appointed regent. In ac¬
cordance with the law, the members of the
cabinet have tendered their resignation, but
will remain in office pending the regent’s
pleasure. The body of King Alfonso will be
interred in the palace of the Escurial.
The TJ. S. Senate.
HOW IT IS DIVIDED AND TIIE El.EC.
TION^ TO OCCUR.
In the United States Senate, of the new
Congress, the Republicans have nineteen
States, as follows:
California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan, Island,
Minnesota, Rhode
Illinois, Nebraska, Vermont, Virginia,
Iowa, New Hampshire,
Kansas, New York, Wisconsin,
Maine.
The Democrats have fifteen States, as fol¬
lows:
Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Arkansas, Louisiana. South Carolina,
Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee,
Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia.
Georgia, Missouri, West
Four States— Indiana, Nevada, New' Jer¬
sey and Ohio—have one Democratic and one
Republican Senator. The States where the
terms of Senators exp-’. ' March 8, 1887, are
Rhode Island, West V irginia, Missouri.
Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont, Nevada,
Mississippi, Maryland, Maine, Indiana, Con¬
ginia, necticut, Texas, Tennessee, California, Florida, New Minnesota,Vir¬ York, Penn¬
sylvania, Wisconsin, New Jersey', Ohio, Ne¬
braska and Delaware.
The Commercial Year.
RKI’ORT OF CHIEF OF THE BE REAL
OF STATISTICS.
.A*"" statistics, 1 has , w R just completed f™* his annual " ur, ^ u re- o!
port on foreign commerce. The duty col¬
lected on merchandise fell from $190,000,000
in 1884, to $178,000,000 in 1885, but the eqniv
alentTad valorem rate rose from 41.7 per cent.
to 40 per cent. This increase in the ad val
orem rate is due to the decline in prices of
imposed goods sul high Jcot to specific of duty. duty upon which are
rates
Ttu? value of our foreign trade conducted
in vessels bearing our national flag shows a
steady decline. During the fiscal year 1SS5
ZXSESt&iiSS&llJSSS 14.0per cent, carried in American hot
was
toms and only seven per cent, in American
steam vessels, but of the 79.5 per cent, of this
commerce conducted by foreign vessels, 04,8
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ports ing to in 12,000,000 the foreign trade last vear, amount
tons, only 2,800,000 w as
American tonnage ami 0,200,000 foreign ton
nage. There
was also a large falling off in the
emigration. the lhe number arrived during
ing year the was 395,340 as against 518.502 dur
fifty preceding year, and a falling off of
per cent, since 1882, the year of the larg
ration, when the arrivals were
<8fe * 902 -
\ erv few , suits . are made entirely of one
fabric’ Of all the fancies shown each
has its matching cloth, and tailor-made
suits arc of a subdued stripe, plain oi
check, in somber colors, with plain cloth
matching one or other of the checks oi
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HE dies Sl’WDEXLT AT HIS HOWE
IN INDIANA.
Tin; Minion Grieving over the Death of Its
Vice-President.
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Mr. Hendricks died Wednesday afternoon at
5 p. m., under circumstances that were par tic
ularly distressing to his family and friends, in
somuch as they had not anticipated a fatal
termination of his brief illness, and nobody
was with him when the end came. He returned
from Chicago Saturday last, and since then
bad been complaining somewhat of a pain in
Us held and breast, I but nothin, serions wa.
thought ,, ot ... it x Last m,ht • ui. i he and , « Mra. tt Hen
dncka attended a reception given at the rest
dancoofthe Hon. John Cooper, treasurer of
the State, returning home in their carriage
about midnight. Mr. Hendricks had taken off
fore he got home he complained of chilliness
and a certain degree of exhaustion, but attri
buted it to malarial influences. He sat by the
lire for an hour or more before retiring, but
declined to send for a physician, although
urged to do so. He slept restlessly until about
8 o'clock the following morning,when he arose,
dressed himself and ate quite a hearty break
fast, would saying that he felt much better, and
dunng attend to considerable delayed business walk
the day . He and Mrs. Hendricks
ed out for nearlv half an hour, and he appar
ently regained his physical vigor and cheerful
ness. An hour later, however, he began to be
troubled with pains in the region of the sto
mach, and Mrs. Hendricks sent for the family
had E& £
lain only a few minutes, and read the
morning papers, talking cheerfully with his
wife and an old house servant. Just before
noon he had a relapse, however,and a physician
tSfusnat
patient, and Mr. Hendricks again expressed
himsell as being greatly relieved. He re
mained in his room all the afternoon,occasion
pelled r j 8 * to ng return b -om Id by 8 the recurrence to which he ol was the com- ab
ilominal pains. To all callers who came, and
they were numerous, he sent word that he was
indisposed, but would gladly see them to-mor- who
row. About 4.30 o’clock Mrs. Hendricks,
had been at his bedside all day, went down in
«f‘»ith r thf.ff.taTar!i
lornmtory institution, of which she was one of
the managers, and she remained with him
about twenty miuutes.
tue houh of death.
Tom, a colored servant, and Harry Morgan,
Hendricks’ nephew and page in Washington,
remained with him. The servant went out and
Morgan stayed. Hendricks tossed uneasily m
his bed and complained of great pain, but sud
denly it seemed to cease, and li© said to liis
uepliew free at last, send for Eliza, (meaning
*‘I am
hi. lut words, for the y ou„g
man, not realizing the urgency of the message,
did not deliver it Rt once# Just before live
o’clock Mrs. Hendricks came into the room and
found that her husband was dead. Iheendof
ludlfuSy."'^ on.wtrS'oVdle
covering, only partially disrobed, with liis toes
half closed as if he were in a gentle sleep. On
Ins face there were no traces of grief or sutler
j nf , j,ut the pallor had come over it indicating
onh too plainly that he had passed tell that away. It
needed no close examination to he was
dead and Mrs. Hendricks screamed and ran
downstairs. A servant was adjoining, dispatched and to the he
residence of Dr. Thompson, he had
eatne immediately, but by tl»e time
reached the bedside, the limbs of the distin
guished man were becoming cold and rigid,
» c a to Mrs. Hendrick^ pathetic appeal, “Oh!
Doctor,’ can't, you d> “It is something?” late. he was
obliged to answer: too
the cause of death.
Dr. Thompson says that in his o; inion Mr.
Hendricks died oT paralysis of the bram. and
there will probably be a postmortem exurnma
tion to establish what the disease was.
THE CAUCUS.
tifcre«tlnsr Account <4 II«w It Caiss>f
into Geitf-rn,! * w.
In the dictionaries the word “caucus”
is delincd as “a cant term for a meeting
of citizens or electors held for the pur¬
pose of nominating candidates for public
offices or for making arrangements to
secure their election. 5 ’ In “Gordon's
History of the American Revolution”
(1788) “caucus” is referred to thus:
“This is a low word, less used than for
merly; ascertained, and although is its reputed origin is have not
well yet it to
been first brought into use in Boston,
Mass., and it has been supposed to have
been a corruption of calkers’ meeting—a
term applied to electioneering meeting
held in a part of Boston where all the
ship busineas was carried on.
In an entertaining monograph just
from the press, entitled “The American
Caucus System,” reference is made to the
calkers ot Boston, but it is shown tnat
the word caucus was in use long before
the events which gave rise to the assem¬
blages of the calkers. The tradition is
that long before the Revolutionary war
began a fued existed between the British
soldiers in Boston and the rope walkers
and calkers. Bloody collisions occurred
between them. The calkers held meet¬
ings in the calkers’hali, in the lower part
of the city, at which resolutions were
adopted and speeches made denouncing
the soldiers who in turn sneeringly
dubbed their opponents “The Calkers,”
which by an easy corruption became the
caucus and linallv a term to denote the
meetings. In spite of this pretty well
authenticated fact it is shown in the
little volume that the word caucus was
in use long before this local disturbance
in Boston, and in the writings of Samuel
Adams frequent mention is made of
R- Whatever its origin was, it first came
use political A. me , r ^ proceeding. Ca denote a very
common
It may * be news to mauy peoDle of the
g nt time that in the day, o{ the
DuWic the word caucus c i me t0 be re .
garded with superstitious aive, and that
in manv *it political circles the mere men
tion of was deemed a violation of the
proprieties. When thet Democratic party
^ as formed under Jefferson it was the
practice to nominate candidates for
^President by a caucus of the members of
Congress. At the first trial the scheme
did not 9UCCeed but after that it never
failed. , .. , When these , caucus decisions •, . .
had been several times ratified by
the election of the men so desig
na t e d the opponents of the Demo
y t began to denounce “ the scheme as
dangerous and ungodly. In T 18w3 the ,,
legislature of Tennessee passed resolu
tions and sent them to the governors of
the various States for the purpose of
bringing about concert of action against
foe practice. The open use of the bale¬
ful word in the Tennessee resolutions
shocked the entire country, and several
gt a t es took action concerning the
matter. Governor Tbroop, of Georgia,
made it the occasion of special mention
in his next annual message, and recom
mended his own legislature to take
prompt f, T. action to discourage t..T>uL the use of
objectional .- , ,_____ term. Ihi. paper _____ pui
ports, he says, “to be a formal act of
the legislature of Tennessee, and its ob
ject is the denunciation of what it
pleases to call a caucus which mav possi
Wy held in the city of Washington by
members of Congress for election pur
poses. AVhat precise and definite moan¬
ing the legislature of Tennessee designs
to attach to the word caucus I cannot
conceive. It is not an English word.
Jt is not to be found in our dictionary,
and, being an uncouth, word and of harsh
gound S°una, I T hODe nope it ic never nev ei mav may. ”
Tlie same horror of the w 01 d existed
elsewhere in the country whose political
institutions ^ave it birth. During the
agitation provoked by the Tennessee res
olutions the l nited btates ^ena.e was
drawn, into a licrcc discussion Oa. the
word e pon a remark made bv Senator
j- nfT o f New York who said:' “My at
tention has been most powerfully attract
cd by a power which has risen up, which
appears to me so terrific that I dare hard
ly to contemplate the effect it may pro
q UC6> * I mean the power which mera
, f Congress have assumed of nomi
nating President of the Lnited r , . ■, c states, , ,,
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selves and finally some one member in
cau tiously let the horrible word fall
hom nL up.. Th me eff enect t wag i as terrific ter.me.
Everybody was on Ins feet protesting
against the introduction of the word in
the Senate. Mr Holmes charged the
breach directly upon Mr. King, saying:
“the first use of the word came from
the Senator from New \ork. ' Mr.
j^j na ** r denied this with great * warmth.
ytr/affiy brought home to the ven- j
«m&Sm Senator Smith, of Maryland, who
s&idi unwilling that the discus
aloe a subject so unprofitable that I j
kas» mortified at its being introduced. J
alid so little comporting with attributed. the dig- I r 'I
nity of the Senate should be Y
to me. I regret that the honorable Sena
tor from New York should have deemed l
it proper to introduce it. It is true he V
qualified it by a new name, *central J
power.’ However, either my ears de- 1
ceived me or I heard him use the word I
caucus and one member opposite took it J
down. But whether he did or did not,
his meaning was perfectly understood,
and if I used it I used it because I
wished to give it the known name. I.
wished to call a spade a spade.” V
The fell word having at last got into
public use, it was not abhorred to the
extent that it had been. The change ia
the manner of electing Presidents and
Vice-Presidents made national conven- < ;i
tions necessary, and with them the cau- j
cus came into general use, and public I
men, though rarely proud of their par- off I \
ticipation in it, came to have no fear
mentioning it.— Chicago Herald. f
Japanese Flower Gardening, \
Among the Japanese the love of flow- )
ers and plants is an absorbing passion,
In the smallest of dwellings there is an
altar-like niche,in or upon which flower¬
ing plants are arranged, but they have
in some districts a most remarkable cus¬
tom in connection with window garden¬
ing. wherein morel
In houses reside one or
daughters flower of marriageable age, character an empty! isl J
pot of an ornamental
encircled by a ring, and suspended from I
the window or veranda by three light 1
chains. I
Now, the Juliets of Japan are of I
course attractive, and their Romeos as
love-sick as those of other lands. But
instead of serenades by moonlight and
other delicate ways of making an im¬
pression, it is etiquette for the Japanese
lover to approach the dwelling of his
lady, bearing some choice plant in his
hand, which he boldiv, but, let us
hope, reverently, proceeds to plant in
the empty vase. This takes place at a
time when he is fully assured that both
mother and daughter are at home, and
I need scarcely say neither of them are
at ail conscious that the young man is
taking such a liberty with the flower believed pot
outside of their window. It is
that a young lover lady so engaged has never t
been seen by the or her mamma in
this act of sacrilege; at any rate, a
friend tells me that, during his long resi¬
dence in Japan, he never heard of any
one being detected in the act or inter¬
fered with in any way.
The fact is, this act of placing a pretty
plant into the empty flower-pot is equiv¬ >'
alent to a formal proposal to the young
lady who dwells within. The youthful
gardener, having settled his plant to his
mind, retires, and the lady is free to act
as she pleases.
If he is the right man, she takes every
care of his plant, waters it, and tends it
carefully with her own hands, that all <
the world may see and know that the
donor is accepted as a suitor. But if he
is not a favorite, or if stern parents ob- ;
ject, the plant is removed from the vase,. .
and the next morning finds path it withered*/ below. ^
on the veranda, or on the
In a word, if you are not the right window man,
it is evident that this phase of
gardening must be a difficult and disap¬
pointing one to carry on in Japan.— F.
IE. Burbridge..
Origin of tlie Word “Glutton.” 1
From the Latin “glutto,” one who 1 J
eats voraciously: a gormandizer. Yitel- ! 1
lius, died the 09), Roman emperor called “The (born Glutton.” A. D. 15. ^1
was
Visiting the field after the battle of Bed
riac, in Gaul, he exclaimed: “The body, 'i
of a dead enemy is a delightful perfume.” {
Charles IX. of France, when he went in j
grand procession to visit the gibbet on( V
which Admiral Coligny was hanging, (
had the wretched heartlessness to ex- 1
claim, in doggerel verse: V
Fragrance sweeter than the rose /
Rises from our slaughtered foes. I
Gabius Apicus, who lived during th ej *
reign of Tiberius, was also called “Thja
Glutton.” He spent £’800,000 on the\
luxuries of the table, and when only
£80,000 of his large fortune remained,
he hanged himself, thinking death pref¬
erable to “starvation on such a miserable
pittance.”
A Leadville hunter encountered
wounded deer as it ran down the mou*
tains. He seized its antlers and vf
tossed upon its back and rode until t
animal dropped dead. \