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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 TO SELL AN EN TIRELY NEW BOOK The most wonderfu’ collection of practica real value ar.d svsry-day use lor the peopl; ev er publi he- on tho jrlode. 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