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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDENT
and ms AD VISERS.
Afr <il?:TMKNTB, decisions, and other matters
0K USTEHEST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Corporal Tanner and Colonel W. W.
Dudley, both ex-commissioners of pen
sion, have formed a copartnership here
iD t hc pension and claim business.
A. commission ot engineers has been
appointed by the secretary of war to re
port on the site of the pioposed bridge
^■ross the Mississippi river at New Or
leans.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the trial of the cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the last
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
Major Isaac Arnold has been ordered
from command of Fort Monroe arsenal,
Ya. to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn. ; Major J. R. McGinnis, from duty
„t Rock Island arsenal to command Fort
Monroe arsenal.
Subpoenas have been issued for Mr.
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union stock
nrds at Chicago to appear at Washing
ton before the United State’s senate’s
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly.
, 1 E lgar Engle, assistant chief of the
.
record division, George A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Heasev, assistant chief of the
western division, and Wm. P. Davis,
assistant chief of the middle division,alt
of the pen-ion office, have been asked to
resign. They were among those who
had their pensions re-rated.
The president, on Thursday,appointed
John II. Devaux, of Georgia, to be col
lector of customs for the district of
Brunswick, Ua.; William G. Reposs,
postmaster at Wythevitle.Va., vice A ex.
S. lleder, removed; Thomas Clay Me
Dowell, of Kentucky, collector of inter
nal revenue tor the seventh district of
Kentucky, vice William Cassius Goodlue,
deceased.
Secretary Proctor is endeavoring to
make surh arrangements as will enable
him to leave Washington dunng the
Christmas holidays in company with
Gen. Cook and Capt. Piatt, Superintend
ent of the Carlisle Indian school, for the
purpose of making a personal barracks, visit of
inspection to Mt. Vernon Ala
bama, where Geronimo and his band of
Apache Indians are now imprisoned.
The secretary has been informed by the
surgeon of the barracks that the tribe is
unusually sickly thi9 year, and that there
is especial difficulty found in prevent
ing the spread of the tendency
to consumption that is charac
teristic of the tribe, He received
a letter Saturday from Capt. Pratt who
argued strongly against the removal
of the Indians to a higher latitude or
altitude. The secretary hopes to find a
solution of the problem by a personal
scrutiny of the condition of the barracks.
Dr. Yalente, Brazilian minister, on
Saturday, received a cablegram from Rio
de Janeiro, stating that United States
Minister Adams had established relations
with the government now in the eontrol
of affairs in that country. This informa
tion he communicated to the state de
partment, and it is reported that he
urged upon the secretary the expediency
of this government instructing Minister
Adams to complete the act of formal rec
ogniii n. While it is doubtless felt by
the state department that the Republic
of the Ifnited States of Brazil has been
established upon a permanent basis, it is
probable that the act of formality recog
nizing it through our minister will be
postponed until there is an official head
or chief executive chosen in pursuance
of some regular method. A meeting of
the congress in Brazil has been called for
next month, vyhen the new republic will
probably organization. be launched with a complete
the When this is accomplished
this question of formal recognition by
delayed. government will probably not be
The annual report of First Assistant
!’ostiaaster General Clarkson shows that
lished -i fourth-ciass posioffices were estab
M64 during during the last fiscal year, against
the previous year, 1,147
postoffices were discontinued during the
^ame offices time, making the total number of
in operation on July 1, 1889, 58,
M9, of which number 2,683 were presi
dential offices. The whole number of
appointments of postmasters for the yeai
I* 20,939, of whicn 8,854 were on ies
•?nationa and commissions expired, 7,-
853 on removals. 553 on the deaths of
<4 postmasters, 2,770 on the establishment
post offices. The number of money
wier offices in operation at the close of
the fiscal year was 8,583, increase of 472
for the year. The number of money order
Nations in operation July, 1889, was 144;
an fhe increase of 14 over the previous year,
number of postal note offices in
operation at tin* end of the year was 587.
* he reports shows that June 30, 1889,
there were 4b 1 free delivery postoffices
1,1 operation, an increase of 41. In
about five other offices the free
delivery I lie service lias been established.
annual report of Second Assistant
I’ostmaster-General Whitfield shows the
number of star mail routes in operation
June 30, 1889, was 15,077, upon which
Die total coat of the service was $5,177,
'95. Colonel Whitfield recommends tho
appointment of a commissioner to in
vestigate and report, with a view to
make the carrying of the mail under the
<ffar route system equitable alike to the
government and the contractor, and re
and lieve iniquities it, aB far as posible, from the evils
At with which it is burdened.
the end of the year there were 128
"leamboat routes in oj>eration at an an
BIJ hl rute of expenditure of $446,033.
JUTE CULTURE.
What a Man Who Has Tested
It Says of It.
H e Believes Okra Fibre Superior
to Jute for Bagging.
Charles Johnson, of Algiers, La.,
sends the following letter to the Manu
facturers’ Record , of Baltimore:
In the culture of jute a warm humid
climate is essential to success. It will
n row upon comparatively dry uplands
or in flooded valleys, but it prefers a
moist sandy loam. Very dry or very
sandy ‘
soil is not adapted to this tillage.
The land intended for this crop must be
thoroughly broken up until the soil is
well pulverized. The seed is sown
broadcast from 15 to 20 pounds to the
acre. I he time ot sewing the seeds va
ies with the condition of soil and cli
mate. March and April are the best
months for sewing, but it can even be
sown as late as July, depending upon
an early or late spring. If it be a late
spring, I would say April and May
would be the best months.
“Jute requires no cultivation after
the seed is sown. It will outgrow grass
or any other foreign plant. It matures
in 12 or 14 weeks, growing to the
height of 10 to 12 feet and sometimes
to the height of 21 feet. It is cut
while the plant is beginning to blossom,
because the fibre is then glossy. After
flowerage the fibre becomes woody and
loses much of its commercial value.
The yield of fibre is between 3,000 and
4,000 pounds to the acre, and ot seeds
12 000 or 14,000 pounds to the acre.
The market value of the fibre is be
tween 3 and 6 cts. per pound. That
used in making banging is the lower
end of the stalk and is termed jute
butts, about a foot long. Tne top part
is mixed with other fibres and is used
in making stair carpeting, rugs and
low-priced broadcloth.
“The way I have treated the fibre was
to decorticate it first, so as to get all
the wood/ matter and leaves from the
bark; then I put the bark into a wood
en tank, filled with clear water, to rot.
This takes nine to fifteen da/s. After
this process is over, I put the fibre into
a washing michine After washing I
dry the fibre, and then it is ready for
market.
“The farmers of the South are mak
ing a howl over the covering of their
cotton. This is their own fault. Why
do they not go into the raising of jute,
and not be depending upon a foreign
nation for their covering of the cotton?
They could save the $5,000,000 which
it now takes to cover the cotton crop.
They could also make $25,000,000 or
$30,000,000 off the raising of jute. I
is a plant a hundred times easier to
raise aud prepare for market than cot
ton.
“They can have their cotton covered
with okra fibre, of which there is
enough trampled under the.r feet annu
ally to cover the entire cotton crop.
With okra they can secure the lrmt
first, aud then the fibre. Okra will pro
duce about the same amount of fibre to
the acre as jute. I have found okra ten
times easier to get the fibre from than
jute, on aecunt of its rotting so much
quicker than jute, I think it would
make a bagging superior to either jute
or cotton.”
Curing a Hiccough.
Mr. Smithkm had heard that a sure
cure for a hiccough was a severe fright.
Oue evening, smoking at his fireside
after supper, he wai taken with a liic
cough, which continued in spite of all
his efforts to check it.
Presently he got up suddenly from
his chair, and called in alarm to Airs.
Smithkin:
“I’ve lost my watch! I’ve lost my
watch!"
Mrs. Smithkin hastened into tho
room.
••John Smithkin!” said she, “what
do you moan? Why, you haint done
any such thing. Here’s your watch all
right, in your vest pocket.”
“Don’t you think 1 know that?” said
Mr. Smithkin. “I was just giving my
self a severe fright, you kn >w, to stop
the hiccoughs. — Youth's Companion.
Hard Up.
jack—Pay my lunch check, too, will
you? I haven’t anything in my pocket
but a thirty-dollar bill.
p, c k-_Whnt kind of a bill is that?
Jack— It’s a bill on this suit of
clothes I have on.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
How Dimes are Made.
The process of dime making is an in
teresting oue. The silver bullion is first
melted and run into two-pound bars.
These in turn are run through immense
rollers, and flattened out to the thick
ness of the coin. These silver strips
are then passed through a machine
which cuts them into round disks of
the exact dimensions of the coin, ready
for the presses, the strips first having
been treated with a kind of tallow to
prevent their being scratched in their
passage through the cutters. The sil
ver blanks are then put into the feeder
of the stamping presses, and arc fed to
the die by automatic machinery at the
rate of 100 per minute—48,000 being
turned out in regular working days of
twelve hours.
As the smooth blanks are pressed be
tween the ponderous printing dies they
receive the lettered and figured impres
sion in a manner similar to that of
paper pressed upon a form of typo^ at
the same time the piece is expanded in
a slight degree, by which the milling is
formed on its rim. The machine
drops the completed coin into a re
ceiver, and it is ready for the counter’s
hands. The instrument used by the
counter is not a complicated machine by
any means, as one might suppose,
is a simple copper-colored tray, having
raised edges running across the surface
at a distance about the exact width of
a dime.
From the receiver the money is
dumped on the board or tray, and as it
is shaken rapidly by the counter, the
pieces settle down into the space be
tween the ridges. All those spaces be
ing tided, the surplus coin is brushed
backed into the receiver, and the coun
ter has exactly 1,250 silver dimes, or
$125, on the tray, which number it re
quires to fill the spaces. The tray is
emptied into the boxes, aud the money
is then ready for shipment. Tue dime
does not pass through the hands of the
weigher as does the Coin of a larger de
nomination. One and one-half grains
are aPlowe l for variance or “tolerance”
in all silver coin from a dol.ar down,
and the deviati >n from the standard in
the case of tho 10-cent pieces is so tri
lling that the trouule and expense of
weighing the coin of this denomination
are dispensed with.— Manufacturer and
Builder .
They Saw the Point,
TheAmerican Indians are note! for
their almost solemn gravity in the pres
ence of strangers. The Caribs ol Ven
tzuela are described as being equally
grim and sedate. Mr. Spence succeed
ed on one occasion in breaking their re
serve. He says that once the/ actually
saw the point to a joke:
“A brave and his squaw brought
some firewood to m/ camp, and as they
wanted to get twice its value, the pur
chase was decuned. Taey were greatly
enraged, and after loud maledictions
deliberately burned it. Some days after,
they appeared again, this time with a
bundle of bay for sale. To convince
them of the error of their ways, about
half of Us value was off wed. On tlieit
declining this abatement, 1 took a mutch
from my pocket, and suggested that
they should make a bonfire of the hay
also. A roar of laughter burst from
the pair as the fun penetrated tneir hard
heads. It was with difficulty they were
induced to take any payment at all for
the hay.
Water Filtering.
Various patterns of filters are in use,
very few of which are of any value
whatever. Tney act only as a strainer
to remove the coarser impurities, but
have no effect upon the microscopic
bacteria, or matters 'held in solution,
whicn arc the most dangerous. A flan
nel bag is exactly as go od filter as
these expensive devices, and possesses
the additional advantages of bung eas
ily cleaned or renewed, The most
effective filters arc those in which a
disk of porous stone or earthenware
form the filtering material; but it is
best to make sure of the original supply
of water, rather than to attempt to pu
lify it by any such uncertain methods,
—Science New*.
E flic's Thoughts.
“She is the dreamiest, most poetical
little thing you ever saw. What is my
Effie thinking about? Tell me, love?*
“Oh, mamma! Oh, can’t wo have
chicken livers aud cream tarts every
day forever and forever, dearest mamma?
1 think of them night and day; say yes,
dearest, sweetest mamma.” — Young
People. )
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Mr. Duthie, botanical director for
northern India, advocates the use of the
flowers of the Calligonum for food in
northwestern India.
In a recent report on magnetic rock
among the hills of Upper Burmah, Dr.
Noetling describes a mountain or hill at
Singaung, which consists of a huge
mass of iron ore.
More than 1000 peaks in the Hima
layas have been found by measurement
to exceed 20,000 feet in height, and it
is estimated that at least 2000 reach
this altitude. In the Alps there are
two peaks more than 15.000 feet high,
and six or seven over 14,000 feet.
The new piano invented by Dr. Eise
mann of Berlin can, by the aid of elec
tro-magnetism, sustain, increase or
diminish sound; another and valuable
novelty in its construction is that by
moving the electro-magnets the tim -re
of the tone is changed. a9, for example,
from that of a violoncello to piccolo.
Pita, the new remedy for hydropho
bia recently discovered in Spain, seems
be a name given to the flower stalk
of the aloe - a P laut common in some
part 8 of Spain. The story goes that its
virtues were discovered accidentally by
a man * n a ^ hydrophobia falling
U P 0U an aloe plant and unconsciously
bitiug the stem.
The noiseless powder is not a new
invention. In the lhird volume of
Benvenuto Cellini’s autobiography the
author relates that when suffering from
fever in Feir.tra he cured himself by
eating peac >cks, and that he procured
himself the birds surrept.ti udy by
shooting them with powder “invented
by him, that made no noise.”
Carbolic acid is now much less used
in surgery than formerly. Surgeons
have only gradually become acquainted
with its dangers. The acid may not
ouly cause inflamation aud gangrene,
but also blood poisoning, and so may
even prove lata.. It is useful only in
the hands of a skil ful surgeon, and
ought never t > be used without his ad
vice. The best lotion for recent in
juries is tae ordinary le id lotion, which
can be bou ;ht at any chemist’s.
That the eastern half of our conti
nent is slowly foundering in the At. an
tic is a fact well known to science. The
rate is slow—a few inc ics in a hun
dred years—but, Ike Mercutio’s wound
it is “enough.” It effects do not came
insensibly—ike a thief in tho night—
each generation amply able to take care
of iise.f by mnan3 of which it is un
conscious; they are felt at long intervals
in stoims whose devastations are greater
and extend farther inland than any
previously experienced.
In Fiance when a patient is under
ell oroform, on the slightest symptom
appearing of failure of the heart they
turn him nearly upside d iwn, that is,
with h.s head downward and his heels
in the air. This, they say, always re
stores him, and such is their faith in
the efficiency of this method that the
opeiatmg tables in the Paris hospitals
arc made so that in an instant they can
be elevated with one end in the air, so
as to bring the patient into a position
resembling that of standing on bis
head.
He Took it Away.
lie rang tho door-bell of a house ou
Second avenue and then sat down. In
a minute he rose up and rang again.
Then he waited a spell and rang for the
third time. Soon thereafter the lady
of the house, betraying a dozen proofs
of sick headache, opened the door aud
demanded:
“Arc you trying to pull the house
down?”
“No, ma’am,” he answered. “Have
you the 'Lives of Plutarch?’ ”
“No, sir, but if I was a man I’d have
yours in about a minute.”
“Eh—ha! I see, madam. I guess
Td better go.”
And he took tho “Lives of Plutarch”
under his arm, and his own in his hand,
and backed down the step and out of
the gate aud went off with the air of a
man who wished he hadn’t.— Detroit
Free Press.
An Inexperienced Practitioner.
Old Doctor: How are you coming on
with your first case?
Young Doctor: Well, I haven’t got
invalid out of his bed yet.
“Not out of lm bed yet! Great Es
culapius! Why, man, you ought to
h a ™ bad hUn i a hi* gravo by this lime. ”
—Time.
SCHUSY COUNTY.
Schley county is composed of l«dtory eu *
•* from Sumter, Marlon and Mat counties.
Xt was organized in 18C6, and nam. df r ene oC
the aid Colonial tiove. ziors of Gi or# a; Gov
ernor Bohley.
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area 180
square miles. General features, hilly, inter
epersed with level piatoax. The soil Is very
fertile all over the county, but variesin color,
some places being: red day, some dark brown,
very sticky in wet weather, somo pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pumkius, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears ,prune«.
pomegranates, plums, apples, aprioots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries*
mspberr.es, goose berries, beets, cabbage, cu
cumbers, squa-hes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden product** grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit,
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries, May haws, black haws, plums,
cherries, crab apples,persiminons, fox grapes.
Winter grapes, muscadines, chlnquepins.
hickory nuts and chestnuts.
Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other
grasses, many ef the best varieties of import
ed grasses do well here, especially Barmuda,
herds, blue and orchard grass.
The no fence law prevails in the county, yet
stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
leading industries of the county some of the
finest horses in the South arc raised here, and
the rich golden butter and sweet country hama
that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere.
Coiton is the money crop of the county, but
happily the day has past and forevevr gone
when the people of Schley depended on other
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for homo consumptions and many
of thorn make a surplus to sell. No particular
attent’on is given to poultry raising, yet the
people have all the7 want for home use and
one man with ahorse and wagon keeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs from
Schley county to Americus.
The health of the county is exoellonf, the av
erage elevation being near two thousand feet
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
hero.
The farmimr people of Schley are intelligent
cultivated and refined as any agricultural peo
ple in the world. The county is dotted with
Bchool houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot read and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro raoo most
of them since freedom can read and write.
amu-i-imi
Under New Management.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., i«
fast becoming a great resort for
the traveling public.
This hotel has been thoroughly renovated
Inside and out and put in first-class order, and
the fare, as well as the accommodations, is all
that could be desired. This hotel is centrally
located, large rooms, well ventilated and fur
nished in modern style. Polite and attentive
servant*. The table supplied with all the del
icacies of the season, making it a most popu
lar resort for drummers and the traveling
public generally.
GEORGE W. DAVIS
BARBER
Shop cast side court honse square. Hair cut
20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 cents.Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
’W'lLL m 1 ARRIS
n n
>
Repairing done with neatness and dis
patch.
Prompt attention given to all orders.
Shop Southeast corner of public square.
Ellaville Ga.
A GENTS W ANTED
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The most wonderfu’ collection of practica
real value ar.d svsry-day use lor the peopl; ev
er publi he- on tho jrlode. A marvel of nosey
saving ard money earning for every one owing:
it, Thousands of beautiful, helpful engravings
showing just how to do everything. No oonipe
tit ion; nothing Hue it in the universe- When
you select that which is of tro* value sales are
sure. All sincerely desiring paying employment
and looking for something thoroughly ftrst-elasa
at an exlriordlnary low price, should wrte for
description and terms on the most remarkable
achievement in book making since the world
began.
SCAMMKLL – CO., Box 5003.
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