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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 $178,000,000 in 1885, but the eqniv alentTad valorem rate rose from 41.7 per cent. to 40 per cent. This increase in the ad val orem rate is due to the decline in prices of imposed goods sul high Jcot to specific of duty. duty upon which are rates Ttu? value of our foreign trade conducted in vessels bearing our national flag shows a steady decline. During the fiscal year 1SS5 ZXSESt&iiSS&llJSSS 14.0per cent, carried in American hot was toms and only seven per cent, in American steam vessels, but of the 79.5 per cent, of this commerce conducted by foreign vessels, 04,8 E ports ing to in 12,000,000 the foreign trade last vear, amount tons, only 2,800,000 w as American tonnage ami 0,200,000 foreign ton nage. There was also a large falling off in the emigration. the lhe number arrived during ing year the was 395,340 as against 518.502 dur fifty preceding year, and a falling off of per cent, since 1882, the year of the larg ration, when the arrivals were <8fe * 902 - \ erv few , suits . are made entirely of one fabric’ Of all the fancies shown each has its matching cloth, and tailor-made suits arc of a subdued stripe, plain oi check, in somber colors, with plain cloth matching one or other of the checks oi strines 8inuea * m *■ mm I HE dies Sl’WDEXLT AT HIS HOWE IN INDIANA. Tin; Minion Grieving over the Death of Its Vice-President. m fjjFl & » ^ V ~T» v' w ^ V USat> A 1 1 : «: IS;; ■••i M$k: -'J <li ' >, s - is 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, , ,, a 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. \