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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1897)
MILLIONS Saved by Importers Who Antici pated Increased Duties. THE YELLOW FEVER GERM. Charles S. Johnson Who Was Decently Appointed L'nit.d States Judge lor Alaska, Alleged to Have Voted for Bryan Hhd MiKinky. Antlctpalrd Increased Outles. Tbe bnresu of statistics, treasury department, has prepared a statement j showing the estimated loss of revenue to the government on account of in- ! creased imports during the mouths of March, April, May and June, in antic ipation of the increased duties by the new tariff, to aggregate 332,066,127. Voted /or flrynn and McKinley* Cline. B. Johnson, who was recently appointed United (states judge for Alaska, voted for McKinley at St. Lonis and Bryan at Chicago. Mr. Johnson was a delegate from Alaska to flic St. Louis convention, and voted for the nomination of McKinley. After the convention ho went up to Chicago to see the democratic show. 1 hero he fell in with the Alaska democratic del egration. I hey bad proceeded to make merry, and one of the democrats was laid out to sober np Jhonson borrowed his badge, went into the con vention with the delegation ami voted for Bryan. Appllcnnti Must n» Kqufpped. A statement prepared at the treas nry department shows that the recent civil service order of the President in creases the exemptions from the civil I servico 219 competitive internal examination from j 63 to in the revenue ser- ; v.ce, .U8 and in the enstoms added to department the exempt j positions are outside j class, and bill places hitherto the rules have been brought within them. All of tho exempt places, how- j ever, are subject to a rigid noucom- ! petitive examination, conducted by the civil Bervice conumssiouor. ! j Hallway Mall S«rvlcr*. _ Alexander Grant, scHfecr^lPfily chief c tffik-o f tbo Hi all »l» pointed ftHHistunt geuoral anperiotend mt ■ I that system, succeeding Lit burn T. Myers, of Virginia, resigned j to accept transfer as chief of the di- j 1 vision of nspection of the second as siwtant postmaster general s office, A. S Hobort.s, of Texaa, chief of the iD apectiou division, and John A. Chap man, now in the inter state commerce commission, have been appointed as sistaut superintendents of the Railway ; »■" .... ................ ■" insiicct the Star route service. l iic Yellow Fever Norm. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, has translated the account written by Dr. Suarolli, of Montevideo, of his discovery of what he claims to be the yellow fever germ. Tho particular germ which he holds to be responsible for yellow fever and j is found iu the blood or tissues, not iu tho gastro intestinal cavity. Nl w HOLD MINI: IN MEXICO. Here Hopeful Feeling Among Buslnea* , Men at the Capitol. ! A telegram , , from Mexico l lty states that a new gold lues been located ou the famous F.l Orovcm in the state oi Mt-xioo. and prospects for a valuable property arc excellent. Ibe Esperanza gold mum at 1 ultaneDgo is taking out $160,000 iu gout ore monthly, the govermeut has tnkuu measures which will result in economics which assure I the punctual payment of the gold in terest in October without iu any way a* m'.re U 'h?efutfeeling in the business community, ns it .s re called that the country hss never been , mot. prosperous hand.r.ug , ,, he past , few yenrs .d the declining value in sib ver All that remarkable progress “J * 1 KKlx ' '! ,,l0i UI <r 11 : '•"'“ '"“7 L v * r f, ATI of exchange have been bough the la t two hays. All Aboard for the Klondike. The steamer Kxcelaior, chartered bj the Alrtskau company, left !>aii Fran¬ cisco la>t week, t«ailitig direct from St Michael s. This ia the last of the com- ! pauy’s fleet that will counect with the ; Yukon river steamers this season. For hours before the departure of the steamer the wharves were crowded with people. Three times the origi- i ual priccwas offered tor passage. passenger changed his mind, after be mg offered $1,500 for the tor which he originally paid $1.X). Maov is -nle fathered upon the wbsrt «« UU lal.Nau tu« tio p al— ll gers lot tb« Xloodyka. NOTES AND COMMENTS. - It is now roughly estimated that in the college and university graduations f , till - year about one-half of the en tire output are women. Fifty years OJ>] abont a half of one per cent. of college 8 * graduates were women. Victoria has thirty , great- , Queen all of whom living, grandchildren, the number are boys, and nineteen of are Matronly honors are gathering also on the (Queen’s oldest daughter, the Em preHH Frederick, who has seventeen grandchildren. Kansas boasts that it had a had storm the other day iu which the hail stones were as large as oBtrichs’ eggs, and it is said that one enterprising farmer filled his cellar with the stones, covered them with sawdust, and will sell them to families that need ice. The proudest man in the State of Washington at the latest mail advices waB yj ,■ J. j;. Know, of Latah, Spo kune county, to whom four children j, aH be en born. One of them is a boy all d him the happy father has named Kogers, after the Governor of the .State. A reeent statement, based on good authority, affirms that between twenty five and thirty million birds are annu ally imported into England alone for decorative purposes, and that the sup ply for Europe requires not less than one hundred and fifty million. Add jng fifty million for America it makes a total of some two hundred million birds sacrificed annually on the altar of fashion. The reoent Danubian floods have ‘* t , been aK destructive as those c tbe M 1BfliBllippl> and i eft aH many Lihabitants homelflBS . Twenty thousand of Galatz, in Moldavia, haye been drowned ollt bv the deluge, the severest recorded in that region within the century. With its tale of earthquake and Hood and various forms of calamity and ruin around the world, the current year has taken a prominent place, but has several months left iu which to redeem its reputation. It is quite time it set about it. Up to the year 1804 tbe Bible had on | y been translated itdy. t lqrty ian ^„ ab ,„ H . Most of j.;,iglish ’ were dead uow> by th e latest statf ber o{ vers i 0U8 „f the 3g! , existenoe j u 1^95 j s Bible within about nine been trausiated These translatC^^— into sojBJ guages. greatfflfiW tbase of (01 the ™ world ,m ' uow bave »*'»' the uinwjenths Soiipturen in of their the own tongue. Thanks to the encouragement which Emperor f William has accorded to the pra( tice of duelling, it is now being a dopted by the medical profession in Gertmvxiv y A couple of physicians Bumlnou e d in consultation became in volved at the bedside of the patient in BO vehement a dispute with regard to tbe character of the malady and of its .....................o >;• took the matter out. the conflict place on the outskirts of Bonn on ,e Rhine, one of the combatants, . F iseher, receiving a mile m le ■ ies , w hich killed him instantly. ns nav be said to cons itute an altogether new departure in wia is uowu o uymen as medical etique te. The French parricide, who slew his father and mother and was asked upon condemnation what he had to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, entreated the Court to have mercy upon a poor orphan. This tale is green with the moss of ages and may not be true, but something like it is true of a woman named Marie Cel vet. recently sentenced by a Paris tri banal to twenty years’imprisonment of her at j, ard ] a l»ir for the murder While in court she constantly ^ a { veil. “Why do woar tins veil?" asked one of the to whi ch she repRed that she wa „ in luo „r„ing for her sister. Show • au ^{Teotionate sensibility, the earlier exhibition of which, however, woul( , UaV0 been woro becoming to u<ir 0Ten than the garment. w Hokasetl’, of Russia, is thus have -pn-ted come n, The to America Washington to study Post; yo -i r “"’thods of fanning and " T ness, and especially J to look into the j j tll6 ,. er plant in tUls ,, olultrv , am B sunflower far lnt , r „ m bonu , in Ku-ms One of mv family «as the tirst person in Kus siit to obtain oil from the seed of the suudower j t one of tne leading agricultural industries in the dominions now, and the people can clear more money from it than any other crop. If the soil and climatic conditions are right in the United States, and I can find a suitable loca¬ tion. I may enter on the cultivation of the sunflower on a large scale, and al ^ miils for the extraction of „ ____... Vn , , table . flower and .Ids * distnbnted by tbe Department of Ag nc^t^e d^tug the past spring. is j 9 ' ^ 40 000 na-ksizes of seed at w » mil of the4<? , kages were flower *o.u Aui J iieU -seed, the halwuoe being e great variety oi v«ge- tables. In t < FXtire distribution ! nearly every aAculturists “Vf x y vegetable known to the was dis t rib a ted. There vere -12 varieties of beans, 10 varxetn -of beets, 2d vane ties of cabbage, lliv urietiea of cwrots. 19 varieties of™ «• orn, 18 kinds of rieties cucumbers, musk 30 kujL dons, of lettuce, 17 kinds 19 ta- of of watermelons, and 115 varieties of on j ong jhe entire imount of seeds dis- j tributed was sn icient to plant an | area f){ 355 g^.,, , ;d i es , or abont six t j mes Hie sice is 1 JMe -the largest District distribu- of Oo- | I i umbia This j tion of seed HRttteinpted by the Department q llculture, HK|dl ami it is , said that see' B over the coun try are ccmpljj that they do not make sales toff BL and others be cause they T- GHffug all the seed they want frei rjpthe Department of Agrxculturi Sava the Nc jYork Times: ‘ ‘An in cident in the < * \er of the late Isham G. Harris u- tag been ignored in most of his I 1 ies is so illustrative °f tbe Seiial •haraeter that it de serves recl ^nd remembrance. "hen the ;/2ey GoverJk fell there of Ten- was IIJ nessee b* s P' §1(1 ,s j pu as gold belonging to j be | ‘ fund. As an ardent Southern i thizer, Governor Har rb} wa8 j s of preventing this money X x into the hands of “p arson ” Brfinlow jew ^ and the other of g c j a j s 0 f the State government. when He took it wins es'jiurc him, therefore, be avo j ( ied by flight to Mexi co> an d after iwnaining in that coun j or e ig bl „, n months carried the treasure ♦<> Jcfgland. Many another Confederal. ifficer, State, municipal and military4id finds, much the same quite thing all of with public but not them, if runefe' can be trusted, innta ted the subse. pent course of Governor Harris. Aftej, he had been settled in down Eng land a year, flairs had so in the United States that he could safely return . So back he came, and "Mb him hi brought the $ on.iii still iu goldjF and turned every eeii <> it into the vunessee treasury. course, this ■ ;,s ■ >nly simple honesty, hut it mum hr remembered that Har ris had lost every penny of his own ^®th^r* whLh , . , , , ' uMnt 0^8 01 his X Rfcrate . dd to have found valid, tb , 13 monev had no lawful * - ceased to Lie Confederacy Rlriug Bwl States Government is to take observations | vfipse of the sun, which ' MI Aon May 28, 1900, says 'uon m «Uj| JrBe Htutioja. estaolisheu Observa- along the patili Je total eclipse and *>x periencad itronomers in the service of the govtlrhment will be sen dow n to take tii^observations so^^vabiable an<^ fo ma-e expeote be science au ^ ‘ r tber ' * earl no ^ - v fur . to b ^“ .Vf‘‘•jn “ L, " Ul “ u , v „ ars tlle goverl *I wil i heuin to take the ob SrjrS’K I ,- a d ZS ti , ue Z! nnti i ™ observations » will be for the determiningth ebest points at w hi,;h to establish the permanent stations, w here the final observations taken during the eclipse . of ^ ^ ^ of tUe total eclipse extend in a direct line from New Orleans to Norfolk, Va., and will pass through Georgia in the locality of Ma con Blank report sheets have been _ seni to all tlfe weather bureaus in the vicinity of tb® path of the eclipse with (he instruction to the weather man to secure the services of capable and in¬ telligeut men to take the observations 1 and register the results in the sheets ; made for the purpose. The exact con dition of the *ky, of the sun and ot tbe whole ieavens will be marked down in the sheets every morning of ; the month when the observations art' ' being taken, and allof the sheets when tilled out will be sent to Washington alK l carefully ..Item Traded. The perma nent ob? ,. stations will bees tablisbed at ibe points where the first I observations taken receive the highest percentage Horses That Count. Horses can cunt D is customary wheu hauling’ n«d coal here to pu s,x tubfuls in cart; when the last . i bas been dumped, those horses bt fmvearr "it!? have been in the bush ^ „t word from the driver. | off While discharging the soft j f rom the Dreadnaught, the other da v seyen tubs were hauled to the i oa d, and at the beginning of the work ih nearly sixth every tub instance j started when the was emp Hed, but after being stopped a few tuut>s lbey st ,,>med to realize they wer* to haul one more.—Boston Herald. Strange Coffin. A strange coffin, said to be intend ed for a British Admiral of the Fleet, is on exhibiti<yn at Liverpool. It is in. lifeboat seven feet long, aud painted with Uke au old-fashioned baUle#hip j, » fitted with life lines, oars a 11 ’ 1 * rudder, aud ie made sea worthy in every respect, Too much blind ari ytag o n a not [ 4*y has killed Ben and Siocsee. NEW ENTERPRISE STOVES IN OVER DAILY C 3 E 20S,GOO SATISFACTION. event one aivma They are made of Southern Iron by Southern Workmen, ■who ere sustained by the products of Southern Farmers. They last longer and make more homes happy than any other Stove on earth. Fire backs guaranteed for 15 years. If your Dealer does not handle them, WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. y la m K: %!«. 1 ij .. '.i M *!E|i m* m : it s ,||i 7 / ■ : I f & -XS r - Phillips & Buttorff Mfg.Co. NASHV1LLE, TENN. MANUFACTURERS OF COOKING AND IDEATING STOVES, Mantels and Grates, Hollowware, Tinware, Etc. DEALERS IN China, Crockery and Glassware, Cutlery, WOODEN AND WILLQWWARE. 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