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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1889)
WASHINGTON, D. C. uoVEMENTS OF TUE PRESIDKN1 Aia) U1S ADVISERS. VTMEHVS. DECISIONS, Atm OTHEK MATTERS ^IJITEBEST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Hid. were opened Saturday at the navy department for the constiuction of three o (10 0 t on cruise is. " the President, on Friday, appointed E buck, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Uni ted States marshal for the Northren Dis trict of Georgia. general , of officials n is the impression , naV Y deimitment that the board of ; r veyon of condemning the Ossippee the will vessel. report in favor Saturday, centeTth? Windom, on ac n signati n of Charles B. Morton commissioner of navigation, to take affect on the 10th of November. Secretary Tracy, on Wednesday, con cluded the wo k on estimati s for the na val establishment tor the year 1890-91, au( i they "ill go to the secretary of the treasury as i,oon as a copy of them can be made. Bids were opened at the treasury de ou Wednesday, for the iron and wood floors in the public building at Savannah, Ga., the lowest being that of L. Schiieber – Co , of Cincinnati, at $8,946. It is understood that two of the em ployes of the pension office, whose pen sions were re-rated, have been officially requested to return to the government the extra money paid them on account of the re-rating. Dr. R. P- Daniel, president of the state board of health of Florida, tele graphed to the marine hospital service that the quarantine restrictions imposed m Key West on account of suspicious rases of fever there, have been removed. The ordnance bureau of the war de partment, has invited proposals foi the erection of one main store house, wmmanding officers’ quarters, office, guardhouse, workshops, magazine, stable ud shed, and two sets of barracks for enlisted men to comprise an arsenal at Columbia. Tenn. The proposals are to be opened at noon ou Wednesday, No vember 20 h. The amount appropriated fortheactuil cost of construction of the irsenal is $200,009. Argtim< nt was begun in the Su pro me Court of ihe United Statesou Thursday, in the well-known case of Chase Cro-s dent and Sami. and cashier C. White, respectively defaulting presi of the State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., igainst the gq.te of North Carolina. Cross and White were indicted in the Norih Carolina State Court for forgery, ft was alleged that they forged a note for the purpose of sustaining certain false entries they had m de iu the bank’s books, the inteution being to deceive the national bank examiner, whose duty it was to examine into and report on the Snancial condition of the same. An hundred or more gentlemen, rep resenting the National Board of Promo tion, o ganized for the purpose of hav in ing the World’s fair held in Washington 1892, met in that city Wednesday morning. rious I hose present came from va p its of the country and were nearly all members of boards of trade or similar commercial bodies. Delaware, Maryland and Florida were represented by their governors, A memorial was presented to congress, urging that body to take steps for an appropriate celcbra hen in 1892 of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. An exposition designed to show the progress of civilization in the western hemisphere dining the last 400 years is recommended for the purpose of this celebration and the memorialist “pray hat the dignity of the nation be not en trusted on the proposed occasion to the eepmg of an y corporation, association ^fver’but or municipality upon any inducement that the exposition beheld J, e “ direction e national and capieol, exclusively under control of the general government, the Lnited anu that from the treasury ■> States, overflowing with cu-nues in excess of the needs of the government, d a °y a bove the the receipts excess of expenditures be met.” AILORS ON A STRIKE Mr AD8E .tic THE managers refuse to dis < barge the foreman. . , hun,lred !—: and , fift and , sevTnL s > x y venmmdred i journeyman . tailors, em ? ln tailoring twenty-six of the largest and a f houses in Chicago, went U ;*’ n a 8trik Friday morning, Mir«.o « inertin g V, f < L Ihursd,, e , clsIon reached kt at Indica- p. big tiims S® u i the y n 'S - Mon * = difficulty will not be in tv, 7 m’ 1 ' Jho dis l )ute originated – . tHdorin ■ ff establishment of Mai hews < ui I lie men dissatisfied with foreman, were eir a man named Hendrick ’ ou - * bey made complain of this man 0 ° Mathews, but the latter claims that specific charges were made, a simple 'fin: ml being presented for Hendiiek- 11 s dismissal. The firm refused to elis the foreman and the men quit BANK STATEMENT hollowing banks is a statement of tlio asso at New York for the week ln g Saturday, October 26th: rvui «crcase.. $ 212,022 J U1 » di . ‘ increase....' crease..... .. 2,428,3t)(! 407.7. A’ a k lers ,. l,27s»,90C ' I1( decret pouts ase. .. Oecrejsa... .. 4,186, 'iOC t J ije bu.ks increase................ 62,29(1 now hold $916,650 in excess l>er cent rule. the deadly ax. an OLD MAN KILLED, AND HI8 KNOCKED aged wife UNCONSCIOUS. A dispatch fr an Hawkinsville, Ga., save a v. tumble ui murder n ' g deVen milesfr was committed 8 \rii° u U8 ^ . 0a couat kn °mhere,just iHm y ®. Mr. Wil- 1 an a M e( I farmer, was kilted , . . - lved was nearly killed. Mr. and " 1 ? r alone. They were sit • , -mail “f.,7 lamp. the fi Mrs. , r « reading Miller and heard each had a ''^ou’t her hus Ba ^ ir do that.” Then she foH h nerself struck, and knocked was un > onscious. When she regained con ciousmss she heard the clock strike we ve. She saw that Mr. Miller was apparently dead, and she was afraid to call for help, fearing that her assailants Acre still there. S ie lay there until four o clock, whea her suffering were so great hat she called for help. Her calls were soon answered by the cook, whose house bed was forty or fifty yards distant. On the was an ax which had struck the blows and the inrable top of a bureau which had been removed from its place to enable the murderers to rifle the draw ora in search of money, which Millet supposed was supposed to have iu the house. It is that Mr. Mi ler saw the parties as they raised the ax, anil asxed them not to stiike. Mrs. M Her did not see them. Wire was nearest the door, and was struck first with the ax. She was knocked senseless, and was probably thought to be dead. Then it is supposed tuat Air. Miller was attacked, lie was struck five blows with the ax, and his skull was badly smashed. When lound he was still sitting m his arm chair with his head and arm hanging over the side The blood had run from ms wounds and made a pool on the floor. Hisdea.h must h ive been instantaneous. Mr Alii ier was one of the most respected ci i zenaof Ilous’on; a well-to-do larnier upwards of sixty years old. El John •Min and Sam Chun„ey, two mu-roes are uspected of the murder, as th y have uisapptared from the neighborhood. D1SASTERS AT SEA. SEVERAL VESSELS GO DOWN—FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: The schooner George T. Simmons, of Camden, N. J., was wrecked off False cape, thirty miles south of Cape Henry, in a storm last Wedue-day night. When the vessel was fir-t seen sunk in the breakers, by the life-saving crew Thurs day morn ng, five men were lashed in the rigging. One by one the doomed men h ive been swept away into the sea. Sun day night two No-. men were left. Life-sav ing stations 4, p.cked 5 and G have kept in readiness a crew of men, watching an opportunity to go to surf tue re-cue of the wiecked men, but ihe has run too high for the life boat three-masted to make an attempt at relief.... A large schooner, flying a flag of distress, is ashore eight miles outside of Oiegon Imet. Assist ance will be sent from Norfolk. ...Tte schooner Lizzie F. II .ynes, lumber lad en, from Savannah to Balt,more, has been wrecked on Body’s Island. The captain and steward were saved. Five men were drowned. Two of their bodies were re covered and were buiied. The vessel is a total loss, and the cargo is washing out on the beach... .The schooner A. E Blackman rolled over when two miles out at sea. Captain jacket, Charles Edwards, by aid of a cork swam to New inlet and was saved. The other five of the crew were lost.... News from Charleston, S. U., Sunday, says: The ste mer Carbis Bay arrived from York on Friday. She reports that fiity-four miles northeast by east of Ilat teras light she passed the abandoned schooner Mabel L. Phillips, of Taunton, Ipmber laden. The hold was filled with waier. All the masts were gone, aud the deck bowsprit was standing in the track of the steameis, and is dangerous to navigation. She left Charleston for Philadelphia on the 12th with 558,000 feet of lumber on board. FLORIDA FRUITS WILL BE CONSIGNED TO CXllCKQO DEALERS FOR DISTRIBUTION. A largely attended meeting of whole sale fruit dealers of Chicago was held Thursday, at which Gen. A. S. Mann, of Jacksonville, Fla., was present, to f 0rnm |ate apian to mike Chica o a dis tributing point saili for Florida for the North* west. He that the fruit growers of bis etite ha 1 arrived at the conclusion that it was a waste of time and money to c<m sign hundreds of small packages f0 towns and villages throughout the Norlhw( , st . lie proposed, Florida, as spokesman had of the shippers of who 10, 000,000 boxes of oranges to send over the country, that the merchants of Chi ca g 0 unite to m ike that city a point for distribution, THEY RESOLVE l’O CONTINUE THE USE OF COTTON BAGGING ANU ENCOURAGE ITS MANUFACTURE. The Georgia committee on cotton bag ging^ its recent session in Macon, Ga., passed the following resolutions: “Whereas, The bgging commute; has information from a number of sub-al liauces throughout this state indica ing, in the strongest terms, a determination to continue the use of cotton bagging alone for the purpose of covering the prop of 1889. Therefore. Ro olved, Tuat in conformity wi h this purpose, we recommend the manufacture of bag ging, to weigh not less than one loosely pound the yard aud 44 inches wide, woven, u Bimiliar to that now manufac by the .Lane and West Point, Ga., mills.” f, ‘i TRADE TOPICS. an encouhaging report from dun'i COMMERCIAL AGENCY. The following is R. G. Dun – Co.’ weekly ending review of trade for the week Sat C rdat, October 20tu: Th money mar T 7 et his b come more easy, w ‘th pro pects mat serious disturbance this seasun is no longer to be appre bended. The hunk ot England gamed ^st week $270,000, and the Bank of Trance $239,u00in gold. All report supplies adtquate fur legitimate needs Collections are unusually satis actoiy at a most all points, though some place note tardine.-s because fanners hold bacw products lor better prices. The volume yf I trade, fair for the season, at all points, s greater than a year ago, though th' aggregate of bank clearings outside ol New York exceed last year’s but two per cent. Trade in food and groceries is good. Tue wo 1 trade has been the largest at New York fyr a long time, and more active at Boston, where sales were B, 100,000 pounds, but full at Philadd phia. Irou grows stronger, having ad vauced in price $1. A demand from Canada and from Mexico is felt, foreigu blooms prices being high. Bir irou is fimi. and bidets feverish, and rails are $31.50 to $32, o ders already booked for 18000 amounting to 75,000 tuns or more, Copper is steady. Tin is a shade lower, an d lead depressed to $3.75 by expectn tlou of lar S e Mexican supply. The coal trade is dul1 tlm wetk < aaJ has aecom l dlsl,ed nothing beyond fixing upon 8,000,900 ions as the output for Novem by; tioH 5,1 sa.es "Teat generally at $3.90. with Liquida teuts lovver than continues prices three a weck a g°» auci sales " f 65 .°°M 00 bushels here. Poik is "e k, and in hogs the decline has been sixty cents pci 1U0 pounds. Oil has risen Uirec cent9 - Coffee is unchanged and sugar is again lower. Colton continues bowu, receipts exceeding those of the » a me week last year by forty tkousami LaleS1 ’ and ex l ,orts thirty thousand bales, and wb ! le there has bee “ a touch of suow m Virginia, the dreaded frost in the cot ton states is still deferred. The treasury has done little to help or hinder, but has increased its cash holdings $900,000 for the week. Ou the whole, speculative markets are not promising, aud judi ciously let alone by the public, but the outlook for all departments of legitimate business is more encouraging than it. has been for a long time. Business failures during last we k number lor the United S ates 188, and for Canada 37. For the corresponding Week la-t year, the figures were 222 failures in the United States and 32 in the D minion ot Canada. PETITIONS FOR PARDON OF MRS. MAYBRICK, NOW SERVING A LIFE SESTRNCE IN LONDON. Interest in the celebrated Maybrick poisoning case w as revived through a legal document which reached New York ou ihe arrival of the mail from England Friday. It was a mortgage, and bore the signature in a firm, bold hand of ETorence Maybrrk. The mortgagee is li chard Stewart Cleaver, of Liverpool, Mrs. Maybrick’s Engl sh counselor, and the mortgage was made to secure his fee. It be irs a date three days after the trial began, and was placed on file in the county register’s office in New York Friday morning. At the office of Roe – MackliiqMrs. Maybrick’s American attor neys, was teamed that strenuous effoits arc being made by several prominent mem bers of the English convicted bar to secure a pai - d >n for the woman, among tnem being Sir Charles Russell, Sir Henry James, and the recorder of Liv erpool. A petition asking her majesty’s intervention in the ensse ha«, it is said, ben signed by at least two-thirds of the barris ters in England, and members of parlia ment and leading men throughout the kingdom are interested in securing Mrs. Maybrick’s release in view of the insu - dcieucy of the evidence, as they believe, which convicted her. A Dog’s Sense of Justice. A gentleman residing in the suburbs is the owner of a very large and iutel i gent Newfoundland dog, to wlii h he is much attached. The other day Max (the dog in question) accompanied liis master to a ne ghboring market, where some purchases were to be made, and, of course, something for the dog was in cluded in the list. When it came to the latt. r investment the purchaser was impressed with the small return secured for his money, and the dog’s plance at the same time seemed to signify that a similar impression had taken posses son of his canine mind. Tue purclia with er the was dealer, just about to remonstrate when, turning suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the dog, who had taken his own method to get even, and was dart ing through the door with something The dea’er he had seized from the bench. did not notice the theft, and the owner of the dog thought he was justified in postponing any remonstrance as to his purchase until a more favorable time.— [New York Star. THE PAPERS MISSING, DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT “BOODLE” CLAIMS DISAPPEAR. It was announced at Chicago Friday evening that important papers were miss ing from the state’s had attorney’s office,upon which the county largely claims, depended to combat the old “boodle” ag gregating $250,000. They arc needed chiefly to tight the bills of Contractor Kellogg, ex-Warden Varnell, tx-Com missioner Fray and tho American iStone and Brick Preserving company. It is said that unless the missing documents are recovered it may result in the loss of many thousand dollars to the county. CHINESE TAILORS. A Visit to a Mongolian Clothing House in New York. Suits that Cost from Ten Dol lars to Two Hundred Each. There are many Chinese tailor shops in New York. Mott street is filled with them. They are in cellars, where pig tailed Mongolians sit and watch on three-legged stools, and a password or a detective is needed to pass a stranger from the street. They are in the rear of first-floor shops and some are in up per stories, through long, -winding halls that smell of dried fish and frying pig’s tails. The clothes are kept on dingy shelves and in boxes under dark count ers, and only form part of tha general stock, liko nails in a hardware shop. But there is only one swell Chinese tailor in New York city, and he is known to the business puolic as Mei Lee Wa and Co., and is familiarly called Mr. Mei by those who have tha honor of his personal acquaintance. His place of business is in the Bowery, where he occupies the first floor and the basement of one of the largest buildings. The tailor shop looks as little like the customary clothing store as a Chinese laundry does like a fashionable drawing room. It is a large room fillo 1 with tables piled high with goods, and cloth ing seems to be about the only thing that is not offered for sate. At the door, behind a small counter, generally sit two men. One is short, stout, shrewd-eyed and smiling. He wears American clothes, with his pigtail eare fully coiled out of sight under a fashion able straw hat. lie is th; head sales man, aud a capable one, too, if appearances count for anything. The other is slender and melancholy, He affects the sombre in attire, and wears a black felt hat of the prevailing under taker style. II; spends his time finger ing a kindergarten counting machine and making up accounts With a piece of India ink or a paint brush on the long pages of a brown paper note book, lie is the bookkeeper, and is said to be one ot the most expert hieroglyphic makers in the Chinese quarter. The under salesman is aldermanio in form and drosses very much as an Amer ican docs in hot weather, with his coat off and the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up to the elbows. His knowledge of English is confined by strictly com mcrcial limits, but his winning smile is broad enough to cover any linguistic deficiencies he may possess. A casual caller might fancy at the door that Mr. Mei kept a tea store. Before he had gone twenty feet he would credit him with keeping a crock ery store. Another half dozen paces would change his opinion again, with another change in the appearance of the store. On the first row of tables are kept Chinese wares of all styles an l at all prices, from common crockery sets worth $5 each to a superb red vase worth $1000. On the next row are glassware and square boxes holding te,n and spice 1 herbs. Behind glass cases, against the wall, are kuick- knacks in ivory and gilt, worth a week’s wages for every square inch of surface, Far tlier back in the store arc laundry goods and the various utensils used by the frugal Mongolians for their housekeep ing. * Against the rear wall, which con ceals from the barbarian world the liv ing apartments of Mr. Mei and pretty Mrs. Mei, is kept the clothing. It is all made in China and imported in bulk. Here are clothes enough to deck out the 8000 Chinamen of New York in holiday attire and keep them in their Sunday clothei for a year. A Chinaman’s every day outfit is beautiful in its simplicity. It consists of a pair of short loose trousers, an undershirt, a short coat that is called Chan Sa Tien, or something that sounds like that, and an overcoat known to the initiated as a Foo Soi S un. The boots, called Tien San Ifi, together with the hat and hosiery, complete the ward robe. The undershirt does not differ nra terially from that worn by native New Yorkers, and is usually made of pongee silk. Chinese dudes when not working in their laundries wear finer grades of silk. The long coat is only worn on festal occasions by tha common clas ,03 of Chinese. The workingmen usually content themselves with the short coat. The long garment costs from $10 to | $15, depending upon the wealth ami rank of the wearer. The lowest priced article is made of coarse si.k and 1st usually blue or black in color. The short c >at sometimes cost $200, but tha variety usually seen on the streets can be bought for from $5 to $8. It is made of silk and is often gi#en a water proof gloss and does double service as coat aud umbrella. The sandal-shaped boots are made of cloth aud have soles an inch thiok. These soles are fashioned of layers of cotton pressed together, and arc as im pervious to moisture as sole leather. The tops of the shoes are embroidered and they sell at from $1.59 to $59 a pair. As none of the coats have sleeves the selection of a suit of Chinese clotho3 is both simple and satisfactory. The cus. tomer simply fits the garment around his neck and takes care to select one that is not too long for him and the task is done. Mr. Mei’s clerks follow an adaii ruble system in selling their clothing by the wholesale. They have a number of lit tle wooden manikins, which are dressed in the various costumes offered for sale. These are the samples and from them the choice is made. The higher grades of clothing are not offered for sale in discriminately. They are the marks of rank and can only be worn by those on tilled to the honor. While there are a number of Chinese clothing stores in New York there is no Chinese tailor. All clothing is ready made. Thanks to the Celestial stylo of coals,every one from a giant toa hunch backed dwarf can be fitted with equal ease, aud, as to trousers, all that is ever seen of them by the public is the bot toms, which to be in style must flap against the ankles at every step.-— M<*U atll> ' E" x P rebS - Chinese Floating Gardens. In a recent number of the China Jfy vieio Dr. Macgmvan describes the man ner in which floating fields and gardens arc formed in C.iina. In the month of April a bamboo raft 10 feet to 13 feel long and about half as broad, is pre pared. The poles are lashed together with interstices of an inch between each. Over this a layer of straw an inch thick is spread, and then a coating two inches thick of adhesive mud, taken from the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives the seed. The raft is moored to the bank in still water, and requires do fuither a'tention. The straw soon gives way and the soil algo, the roots drawing support from fhe water alone. In about twenty days the raft becomes covered with the creeper, and its stems and roots are gathered for cooking. In autumn its small -white petals and yellow stamens, ncstliug among the round leaves, present a very pretty appearance. In some places marshy land is profitably cultivated in this manner. Besides these floating vegetable gardens there are also floating rice fields. Upon rafts constructed as above weeds and adherent mud were p aced as a flooring, and when the rice shoots were ready for transplanting they were placed in the floating soil, which being adhesive and held in place by weed roots, the plants were main tained in position throughout the sea son. The rice thus planted ripened from GO to 70 in place of 100 days. The rafts are cabled to the shore, float ing on lakes, pools, or sluggish streams. These floating fields served to avert . famines, whether by drought or flood. When other fields were submerged and their crops sodden or rotten these floated and flourished, and when a drought prevailed they subsided with the falling water, and while the soil around was arid advanced to maturity. Agricultural treatises contain plates rep resenting rows of extensive rice fields moored to iturdy trees on the banks of rivers or lakes which existed formerly in the lacustrine regions of the Lower and Yellow Subsisting on Dried Coca Leaves. The dried leaves of the coca plant, which is cultivated on the slopes of the Andes, form an important article of in ternal trade am >ng the various native tribes. It is estimated that not fess than 3,000,000 pounds arc consumsd annually. Alter tho morning meal men and women aliko take a mouthful of the leaves mixed with a little lime: fresh leavoi are added throughout tno day, and without any additional food the consumer is enabled to do a hard day's work. The ielf-made man is frequently ex ceedingly proud of a very poor job.
