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The Crawford County Herald i
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
W. J. McAFEE, Editor and Proprietor.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
adopted the course of administering
hues for vexatious appeals.
Queen Victoria admires Amcnear
oysters. On a recent outgoing steamei
were a dozen barrels of Long Islam,
oysters bound for Windsor Castle. They
have been selected with great care, and
their shells have been sandpapered and
polished until they are as smooth as ;»
well-worn pocket book.
n msn ■m-rrrncns'nas jrr-r i*nme<x
sixth wife. Every one of his wive c
brought him a farm, and he is now one
of the largest landed proprietors in this
county. This shows, sagely observes
the Reading (Penn.) Herald, that mar¬
riage is a great success if it is managed
properly, and that if a man sticks to that
business, as well as any other, he is
bound to come out ahead in the end.
In the opinion of the Farm and Fire
File, there can be seen the promise ot
the time when all the great, treeless
prairies of the West will be dotted over
with beautiful forest groves. Many
thousand acres of forest trees are now
annually planted there. Hastened by
necessity and encouraged by legislation
the work is going on at an accelerating
rate. Doubtless, in a half century the
appearance and condition of the whole
Western country will be greatly changed
for the better by timber culture.
The members of the Board of Police in
New York city received a distinguished
mark of consideration from an inhabitant
of Great Britaiu recently in the shape of
the following epistle, which was evidently
indited after the writer had taken a few
lessons in Volapuk: “I write these few
lines to ask you if you have any place for
the Hangman billet i say the elect, shock
is no good for execution 1 hava a good
knot to hang murderers on. I wisch tc
noh if you by so kind and let my noli 1
noh I shall suit in the Billet as liangmann
i will show you the knot on the paper so
good all I know so I have no more to
say and I are your obligent servant.”
It is not often that two stones are re
moved by the killing of one bird, but
such seems to be the result of a recent in¬
novation in sporting customs. For years
humane people and humane societies
have protested against the shooting ol
pigeons from traps, and the ingenuity ol
the United States has been devoted for e
time almost equal, to devising means foi
the elimination of the English sparrow
Now the trap-shooters have taken to us¬
ing sparrows for targets, thus at onc<
giving pigeons a chance tor life and re¬
ducing the surplus of the browu-feath-
cred little nuisances. It may be suggested
that what is cruelty to a pigeon is cruelty
to a sparrow, and this is probably true.
The real answer seems to be that the kill¬
ing of either sparrow or pigeon from a
trap is no more cruel than to shoot the
same bird free upon the wing, but that,
while the sparrow is a pest, the pigeon is
a useful bird atd its butchery without
giving it a chance for its life is wautoa
and unsportsmanlike, threatening the ex¬
tinction of its kind.
A member of the suite of a German
Prince tells a romantic story concerning
tbe youth of the late Empress Augusta.
At the age of seventeen she thought of
nothing but the romances aa.l gallantries
of the obi French court and was pre¬
pared to fall in love with everything
French. She was hedged in by most
irksome etiquette in her father'.- eourtof
Weimar. However, one day, a young
French nobleman of an ancient family
arrived at Weimar. He danced with the
Princess at a court, ball, and they fW1 in
love at first sight. Secret meetings in
the palace grounds followed. Unfortu¬
nately Augusta's maid lost a letter from
the Frenchman, a very tender and im¬
passioned epistle, picturing among things
the ideal of love in the pastoral lauds of
the New World. It was discovered by
the Grand Puke, whose indignation was
very great. In the excitement which
followed the Grand Ducal Chamberlain
challenged the Frenchman to a duel and
killed him. lie died pressing a hand¬
kerchief of the Princess's to his lips.
Sac never loved any one else, her mar
riage with the Empeior William having
been simply one of convenience.
New York last year spent $17,000,000
on her public schools, hiring 31,987
teachers to instruct 1,808,667 pupils. .
Reports from southern Russia indicate
that we are not the only ones who have
been experiencing an exceptional winter.
There has been no snow at all, and it is
feared that there will be no wheat crop,
owing to the fact that the frost sinks deep¬
ly into the ground.
This is an economical year. There is
one less syllable in eightcen-ninetv than
there was in eightecn-eighty-nine, and
1890 is much easier to write than 1889.
These fractions of time, ink and breath,
when multiplied by the usage of tbe en¬
tire race, will make up a tremendous
total of time and labor saved. *
A Boston reporter has canvassed the
penal institutions in Massachusetts with¬
out being able to find a prisoner who
would admit his guilt of the crime for
which he was arrested, tried and square¬
ly Convicted. Each and every one
ciuimed prejudice or unfair ruling, and
each one considered himself a martyr to
the cause of justice.
The Washington Star thinks it would
not be surprising if it should turn out
that the anthropological discoveries
made by Stanley in equatorial Africa are
greater even than the geographical and
the commercial. He has found one oi
more races that in fine, regular features,
warlike spirit and partial civilization re¬
semble the semi-Caucasian Abyssinians.
The Detroit Free Press says; “Cuban
papers 11 are always verv careful what they 3
and - ...... their language,
say, very precise in
That’s the reason we put great faith in
a statement in a Havana daily that a
shark measuring forty-seven feet and live
inches was seen in that harbor the other
day, and that he had a mouth large,
enough to swallow a horse. The ‘head
editor’ no doubt measured the fish him¬
self.”
The Tonawanda Indians in New York
are the wards of the State, receiving an¬
nually a certain amount of money, which
is divided among them as equitably as
possible. There has long l>een a factional
war among them on the question of
maintaining pagan rites or Christianity.
With most of the latter faction their
Christian religion is merely nominal;
but a few are good farmers, and in a way
to become good citizens. At the recent
election the pagan faction triumphed,
electing a full-blooded chief as President
t>f the tribe.
The New York Commercial Advertise-,
makes a very vigorous and sensible de¬
fense of Americans against the criticism
that has grown out of the fact that so few
of our public men are able to speak to the
delegates of the Pan-American congress
in Spanish. The conditions of European
life are such as to make the command of
more than one language natural and al¬
most necessary. In this coumry, on the
other hand, it is but a few years since
English was universal, and the over¬
whelming preponderance of the purely
American influence is certain to counter¬
act that of incoming foreigners and bring
them to our own tongue. The command
of a foreign language is an elegant accom¬
plishment, but the Detroit Free Press
thinks it not a necessary part of tho
equipment of an educated American.
According to the New York Witness,
“a German traveler just returned to
Berlin from West Africa takes quite a
different viow of African slavery from
that commonly entertained. He says that
the slaves in tho western part of the con¬
tinent, as least, arc as well off as their
masters and have no desire to change
their Condition. Slave and master eat,
sleep, labor and enjoy themselves togethei
on such terms of equality that one might
live for weeks in a village without being
able to deeido who are in bondage and
who aro free. A proclamation of eman¬
cipation would not be welcome to these
slaves, and were their freedom purchased
for them they would simply contiuue in
voluntary servitude. Tills description
may be, in a measure, true enough of cer-
taiu part* of West Africa whore tho slave
,lnvcr -hh » chain. .conrg. i. -
known, but wo have it on the word of
missionaries who testify to tho things
their own eyes have seen, that the evils
of the Arab slave trade in the regions
about tho great lakes ot Central Africa
are beyoud tho power of exaggeration—
are in fact only a little loss deplorable
than the iniquitous rum traffic carried on
by Christian nations in Africa.
A.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON-
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
As usual, on Thursday. the'Democrats
objected to the approval of the journal;
as usual, a roll-call was needed; its usual,
the Democrats refrained from voting, and
as usual, the speaker counted a quorum,
and declared the journal Consideration approved, by of a
vote yeas 141, nays 1 . proceeded
the code of rules was then
with.
The light on the rules was euded Fri¬
day. Speaker Reed’s code has been
adopted, and certain features of it are
claimed by the democrats as unconstitu¬
tional, and they acknowledge that under
them Speaker Reed can ‘count entertain a quorum,'
and that h# can refuse to any
motion, simply by announcing he deems
it dilatory—it might be a motion to ad¬
journ, but in no case is he required to en¬
tertain an appeal—he can kill or pass any
bill he desires; no man ear. speak with¬
out his permission, neither oau anything
be done without he agrees to it.
Iu the Ornate on Monday Mr. Chandler
presented several petitions to the senate
from Mississippi, complaining of the
suppression of the republican vote in that
State, and representing that the “so-
called legislature of Mississippi” had re¬
cently enacted a law for establishing a
new constitution of the state on
the 12th of August, 1890. the
same not to be submitted to the
people for ratification, and that it was
the avowed purpose of the democrats to
employ fraudulent • methods to deprive
many intelligent citizens of their fran¬
chise. Referred to the committee on
privileges and elections.... Mr. Chandler
offered a resolution calling on the attor¬
ney-general for information as to
the recent assassination of W. B.
Saunders, United States deputy
marshal for the northern dis-
trict of Honda... .Mr. Beck presentee. his
the credentials of Mr Blackburn for
new senatorial term from the 4th of March,
1891, which were placed on file....
The senate then proceeded to business
on the calendar and passed including about two the
dozen bills (unobjected to), the of
following: To enable secretary
the interior to locate Indians in Florida
upon lands in severalty; appropriating
$40,000 for a statue and monument to
James Madison in the city of Washington
.... The Blair educational bill came up as
“unfinished business,” and Mr. Blair
resumed his argument iu support of it.
He occupied about three hours, but did
not close his argument.
NOTES.
The new rules were adopted by a strict
party vote of yeas 161, nays 145.
John J. Bell. Jr;, of Georgia, was on
Saturday appointed to a $1,000 clerkship
in the war department.
The senate was not in session Safur-
urday, and Mat Davis' appointment in. to
the Athens, Ga.. postoffice uid not go
The house amendment to the bill to
have statistics of mortgage indebtedness
obtained in the next census was non-
concurred in, and a conference was asked.
The senate committee on privileges and
elections began on Saturday the investi¬
gation of the credentials of several
claimants for seats in the senate from
Montana.
It is undoubtedly the republican inten¬
tion to pass, at this session, either the
Wickham or the Hoar bill, providing be held for
the next congressional elections to
from the same districts as the last.
The first assistant postmaster general fourth- on
Saturday appointed the following Good¬
class postmasters for Georgia: Cawthron; At
win, Franklin county, E. L.
at Round Oak, Jones county, J. W. Turk.
Chairman Rowell said on Saturday,
that he had promised the advocates of
the world’s fair bill next week to con¬
sider that matter in the house, C’onse-
quently he would not call up any more
contested election cases until Monday
week.
The superintendent of the census dis¬
tricts in Alabama have been appointed Engle; as
follows: First district, A. J.
second district, T. P. Ivy; third district,
L. Watkins; fifth district, Willis
Brightman. The superintendent for the
fourth district has not yet been ap-
;x>inted.
Representative Grimes, of Georgia, has
received a great many scurrilous and
threatening letters since he abandoned
the Riggs house so summarily the other
uay. They all bear the local postmark
and are all anonymous, of course, but
some of them go so far as to threaten Mr.
Grimes’ life.
Marshal Hayden and District-Attorney
Strippling. of Florida, arrived at Wash¬
ington on Monday to confer with the
attorney-general in regard to the admin¬
istration of election laws in that state,
and in regard to the assassination of
Deputy Marshal Saunders. They met
the attorney general at the department of
justice, and detailed the circumstances
attending the homicide.
The house committee on patents Thurs-
day, by unanimous vote, instructed Mr.
£TbS£
b ip 3914 , known as the international
? bill allows foreign
copyright bill. The
authors to take out a copyright footing iu the
United States upon the same as is
allowed American authors, binding provided is done the
type-setting, printing and
wholly in the United States.
The president on Monday issued a
proclamation directing the what removal is know of all
cattle from grazing oullei, upon in the northern n
as the Cherokee
part of the Indian territory, The remov-
al must be completed by October 1st next.
The president also directs that in case
the negotiations now pending for the
cession of that territory to the United
States shall have been completed be before
next October that the cattle must re
moved forthwith upon notice, He also
directs that no additional herds be per¬
mitted to enter this territory after this
date.
q'he house committee on elections at its
meeting Friday morning disposed of three
of the contested election cases before it,
deciding to recommend the seating of
two of the republican contestants and
to allow the democratic member to
retain his seat in the third contest. By a
strict party vote, the committee in-
strutted Representative Houk to make a
report recommending the seating of
Featherstone, republican contestant lor
the seat of Gate in the first Arkansas dis¬
trict, and Mudd, republican contestant
for the'seat of Barnes Compton in the
ifth Maryland district. By a unanimous
vote it was decided to recommend that
Clark, the democratic sitting member
from the first Alabama district, be ak
>«wcd to keep his seat.
COTTON STATISTICS.
NINE-TENTO OF THE COTTON HAS LEFT THE
PLANTATIONS.
Cotton returns of the department ol
agriculture for February gives local esti¬
mates of the proportion of the crop which
has left the plantation. The consolida¬
tion make 90.4 per cent, leaving 9.6 niue- per
cent, to still go forward. About
tenths of the crop has, therefore, been
reported in sight, or in small stocks unre¬
ported in the hands of country merchants,
or in transit. The state averages are as
follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina 89,
South Carolina 90, Georgia 90. Florida
93, Alabama 90, Mississippi 91, Louisiana
89, Texas 92, Arkansas 90, Tennessee 87.
The average date of the close in of Georgia, picking
is about the same as last year
Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, and
is earlier in the Carolinas, Florida and
Arkansas and later in Alabama and Texas.
The average of county dates is December
12, ranging from November to January.
The proportion of seed sold to oil mills
has been found difficult to estimate,but is
apparently not much over twenty-five per
cent, of the crop, possibly The between largest 900,-
000 and 1,000,000 tons. pro¬
portion reported is in Louisiana, followed
by Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi,
Alabama and the Carolinas. The average
state prices. a,s consolidated, are: The
Carolinas and Georgia. 18 cents per bush¬
el; Tennessee, 17: Florida, 16; Alabama
and Mississippi, 15: Louisiana, 14; Texas
and Arkansas, 13. Returns of quality are
very high, except in Virginia and North
Carolina, and in Tennessee and Arkansas.
It is superior in all states of the gulf coast.
The per centage of lint from seed cotton
is as follows: Virginia, 30; North Caro¬
lina, 31.5; South Carolina, 32.7; Georgia,
32.2; Florida, 32.3; Alabama, 32.5: Alls-'
sissippi, 32.3; Louisiana, 32.5; Texas,
32.4; Arkansas, 32.2; Tennessee, 32.
The damage by insects was the greatest in
Arkansas and Texas. In Florida, Alaba¬
ma, Mississippi, Tennessee and North
Carolina it. was general, but less severe.
Georgia and South Carolina suffered less.
The loss from the boll worm was in Geor¬
gia, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas greatei
than that fromtne caterpillar.
A FATAL COLLISION.
SMASH-UP ON THE MONON ROUTE, IN W HICH
SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST.
A north bound passenger train on the
Monon route collided with a freight train
tw r o miles north of Mitchell, Ind.. Friday
morning. W. H. Dillard, Gadinger, of Louisville,
engineer, and James of New
Albany, fireman of the passenger engine,
were instantly killed,and Charles Wright,
mail agent, of New Orleans, was fatally
injured, dying in a short time. The in¬
jured are: W. B. Green, news agent, of
Louisville; R. M. Smith, of Louisville;
John Bills, conductor; Morton, mail
agent; F. E. Railsback, Bedford: H. T.
Beasley, of hurt. Legioner. The wreck Five other passen¬ caused
gers were was
by wrong orders from the train dispatch¬
er, who ordered the freight train south op
the time of the north bound passenger.
BIG BLAZE IN CHICAGO.
FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS LOSS.
The large brick and stone building at
the corner of Adams and Market streets,
owned by the city dry goods house of J.
V. Farwrell & Co., at Chicago, caught fire
early Thursday morning, and before
the flames could be subdued the
southern half of it was gutted.
A careful estimate of the loss, made after
the fire was under control, places the total
damages at $475,000, of w hich Mr. Work
loses $325,000, Taylor Bros. $30,000, and
Farwell A Co., on buildings, $100,000.
One life will probably be lost, and several
firemen were seriously injured.
COLLAPSE OF A TRUST.
ENJOINED FROM SELLING OR DISPOSING
OF ANY OF THE STOCK.
Judge Lacombe. in the United States
circuit court at New York, on Friday,
granted an injunction restraining the cot¬
ton oil trust from selling or disposing of
a hJm° f p,0pCrt V ' C0 “ mandin S
'
t T? Ti! w bef ° r * Wh >, a
receiver should i not be appointed. The
bil! which w^ fi j ed that the trust
was •rganized beptember 10, 1884, and
188“ wt * r - ovei
$2,000,000. Tbe profits for the year 188C
were over $ 2 , 000 , 000 , and the amount of
outstanding certificates were $42,000.
CURB ENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Sara Bernhardt Is ill iu Paris, and has
discontinued her performances.
The O’Neill, Neb., roller mills were de¬
stroyed by lire Thursday night. The loss
is $30,000 and insurance $24,000.
Negotiations between the two parties the
in the Iowa legislature are all off and
deadlock has become a game of freeze
out.
The Paris Herald says President Carnot
lias decided to pardon the Duke of Or¬
leans, and send him under escort to the
frontier.
After a year of total abstinence of the
liquor traffic iu Plainfield, N. J., the city
council met Monday night and granted
fifteen hotel and saloon licenses.
The Salem National bank, at Salem,
Ill., was robbed Friday night of $100,-
000, besides some securities. There is no
clue to the perpetrators.
The Davtou Manufacturing Company’s
Works at North Muskegon, Mich., with
its contents and lumber, were burned to
the ground Friday night. The loss is
about $18,000.
Gilmartiu & Doyle, wholesale dealers
in woolens, Nos. 14 made and 16 Lispernard
street. New York, an assignment
Monday. Nominal assets, $235,000; lia¬
bilities, $90,000.
At Baltimore, on Saturday, George T.
Brown, James Dorsey Brown and Thom¬
as B. Brow n, trading as Brown Bros. &
Co., perfumery, have filed a deed to
Frank Gosnell, trustee, for the benefit of
creditors. The bond is $100,000.
The jury in the case of the United
States versus H. M. Mason et al. accused
of ballot box fraud at the late congres¬
sional election in Memphis, Tenn., dis¬
trict, on Saturday, returned a verdict of
not guilty.
The steamer Finance, from Brazilian
ports, which arrived at New' York on
Monday, brings whom forty-one steerage Germans passen¬ who
gers, most of are
went to Rio Janeiro to better their condi¬
tion. They all returned disappointed.
Four hundred thousand miners in
Great Britain have decided to adhere to
their demand for increase of ten per cent,
in wages. It is probable the men will
strike. Should they do so, the coal out¬
put will be decreased three-quarters.
A dispatch from Pitsburg, Pa., says:
Thursday morning the boiler of a locomo¬
tive exploded on the Pittsburg, McKees¬
port and Youghiogheny railroad, thirty anil
miles south of there, killing one whom man has
injuring four others, one of
since died.
A big combine is reported from New
York, which is alleged to include the
Dayton, Union and Indianapolis, and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton lines,
with other connecting railroads in Indiana
and Ohio, having a total mileage of nearly
2,000 miles.
The New York executive committee on
the world’s fair general committee, on
Saturday, decided to call a mass meeting
of the citizens of New York and Brook¬
lyn to show the strong sentiment of the
citizens in favor of the passage of the or¬
iginal world’s fair bill.
The Western Cut Nail Association, at a
recent meeting in Pittsburg, Pa., resolved
to advance the price of nails, the advance
ranging from 5 cents on some sizes to 15
cents on others. The base price was fixed
at $2.25 per car load lots, with ten cents
advance for less than ear lots. The
meeting was unanimous in this action.
A cablegram from Paris, France says:
A sad accident happened to a wedding
party at Pontivy Thursday. The vehicle
conveying the bride and bridegroom and
a number of their friends was upset and
the whole party was precipitated into the
river. The bride and bridegroom and
ten others of the party were drowned.
Cincinnati Southern freight trains ll
and 15 collided at Melville, seventeen
miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., Sunday
night. Engineer Henry Crow, of train
15, and Brakeman Will Gray, of train 11 .
were killed. Fireman Andy Moore, of
No. 15, w as badly hurt, and it is feared
he will die. About twenty cars, loaded
with merchandise, w r ere telescoped and
most of their contents destroyed.
At a session of the American News¬
paper Publishers’ Association in New|
York, Thursday, the following resolution
was introduced: “That the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association is iu
hearty sympathy American with the authors efforts now ob¬
being made by fuller security for to lit¬
tain from congress
erary property, and we believe the pro¬
posed international copyright bill to be in
the interest of the national honor and w el¬
fare. ”
Dispatches from Baltimore say: James
Tasker. Ed. Woodfork aud N. Webster,
three of the Navasse rioters, plead guilty
Saturday to manslaughter. This dis¬
poses of the whole batch, with this re¬
sult, that three are convicted of murder
in the first degree, fourteen of manslaugh¬
ter and twenty-three of riot. The whole
business, the United after all, it is expected, w ill the go
io States supreme court
question being raised of the jurisdiction island of
of the United States over the
Navasse.
One of the luckiest investments Fhvre-
tftr v Blaine ever made was in a mine at
Leadvilie. . Colorado. It has paid dm-
dends of *4,500,000 in the last five years,
one-seventh of which went to Mr. Bisuue,
returning him $1,300 for every one ho
invested
It will pay you to advertise with us.