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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.