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WASHINGTON, D. C.
movements of the president
and mis ad visers.
MTMENTS. decisions, and othee matters
**of interest from the national capital.
".toUtoh« ‘teuTSreZ'oi
^000,000 vember 1st. m <he public debt since No
of treasury has decided e
Tbe secretary number of nationa bank
to reduce the
monies kept therewim. rUitb P
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the trial of the cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the last
alre “ dy rci,,lted
c „tary Tracy has made arrange
ted . ts bv wh.icb. the navy is to be furn
brown prismatic powder for large
guns and the new smokeless powder for
-
“ .
D. Armour, before the beef
committee, denied the eri.teuce pi a
„bi».tio» to raise pneea. He c almed
that tbe herding of immense numbers of
f * £ S'™ 1 Lrker
into
depressed prices.
The Secretary of State is . engaged in
i negotiations lor an international copy
right treaty with France. Count De
feratry has special been at representative Washington of some the
{■renchrepublic, time as a and voices the views of
literary men of that nation.
Senator Vest’s committee, which has
been investigating the dressed beef busi
De.sol the country for some months,
having visited the centers of that busi
nes ?, in the course of their inquiry, dur
jug the recess of congress, has resumed
the examination of witnesses in the room
of the senate committee on commerce.
A letter was read in the international
American conference on Wednesday
LaFavette Rodrigues Pereira, one
M the delegates from Brazil, announcing,
with regret, that he felt unable to con
nmie to act as delegate, affairs owing to the
manged condition of in his coun
try. The day was devoted to discussing
the proposed rules of procedure.
The first thanksgiving day of tho new
E 3sg was generally celebrated
. The president carried
out the letter of his thanksgiving proc
lunation by attending services at the
Church of the Covenant in the morning.
tn the evening he ate an old-fashioned
thanksgiving dinner members at the of white his family, house,
lurnunded by
Colonel Ernst, of the army, the new
commissioner of public buildings and
grounds, was the only guest.
JEFFERSON DAVIS DYING.
THE CONFEDERACY’S OHEIFTAIN SLOWLY
PASSING AWAY.
under A special dispatch from New Orleans
date of Friday, says: Mr. Jeffer
son Davis’ condition has again become
critical—more critical than it has been at
any time since his present attack, and
even the members of his family admit,
for the first time, that the situa
tion is very discouraging, ‘but stiil
cling to the hope that Mr.
Davis’s wonderful vitality and recujier
ative powers will pull him through. He
shows, however, no disposition to recup
erate, and this is regarded as far more
serious thin the bronchitis and fever from
which he has suffered. Mr. Davis has
taken no food M t beef tea, for
two weeks, Qi that in such
small quantities ns barely to keep the
patient alive. He has felt no desire for
him food, and has taken what was offered
under protest. And thus, while h*
has been bettor one day ihan another,
*nd then worse again, he has been grow
ing weaker alLtbe time, and has de
pended largely on stimulants for
strength. The bronchitis is now regarded
then: as simply a local complaint, from which
is little to fear, but the dread is
that the long sickness from which Mr.
davis lias been suffering, the lack of
nourishment and the levers which hava
visued him horn tim- to time, may
produce meningitis or paralysis.
- r -Davis is at the residence of Justice
enm-r, of the State Supreme -Court at
pnueman’s * ( ‘" Orleans, and is attended by that
H relatives family, Mrs. Davis and lov
“die and friends and Drs.
and Zickham, two of New Or
^ K Winnie b :»ding Davis, physicians, left llis months daughter,
Hu - trip two tigo
l,a ?P through ‘®d Europe for her health,
i , relieved an by a party of friends. Sbe
to be now at Paris. The res
“ceofMr. Davis is at Beauvoir, be
ween Bdoxi and Ocean Springs, Miss.
in v lUtlful P* ace on the gulf coast. While
“ew Orleans Mr. Davis was taken sick,
wd l bronchitis, then with pneu
m (n 111 an d fever added,
of which, with loss
allv P e 'ghty-one yeais and n;r>,ur
f ,eb i h‘ constitution threatened to
fctrenntf t,..: . 6 . b
* ( ’’ lls his little remaining
Was rapidly departing. A fnv
Witl'V fi.y,!. " 1111 tter "-^ 'rights tluM1 ca,ne and for absence a few da; s
rest of
j T l., “Ut strength returned very slow-!
Ivon, da y X a -° he had a relapse
° |n ! UI 5 1 l) fev and old
; 0I1 .'’j. vs er in sym
i Phig * ck/iess and C of sleep.
6
Fat AL explosion,
it L D-m*^P'osion ririo of natural gas occurred
; )U ' * Tuesday morning at
ktern r ■ / , 0nCe U! ot of a: * cott cit Hawthorne, in the
P"Wn tin..,] y. The house was
' ln i a ^ oni8 Hawthorne, - Two children were
father’ rT, . ved terril) l his wife and
rill Probably nr result fatally. e injuries, which
SCHLBY COUNTY NEWS.
A CITY IN RUINS.
Lynn, Massachusetts, visited BY a
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.
Lynn, Mass., the city of shoes, was on
Tuesday afternoon visited by the greatest
fire in its history, and, with two
ySfchTverrisited excep
disastrous New Enu
ft T ,*• ^
t of dollars’ ^ and ,’„ m
worth of property aud
the Portland fire of 1866, which caused
aftssof between ten and twelve millions,
dSed uevastatea a a7au2f' square mile d f ,e of ; S« the ht business , h0 “ rS -
section of the city, and caused a loss es
timated at ten millions. In fact, a greater
part of ward four is wiped out, as re
pL r‘^ e f ® re been
in progress
two hours, everybody declared it would
ato P until it reached the ocean,
Ana 80 n proved to be. The four daily
newspapers ^ were burned out-the Item
N a , ballk tionll the Oeutral sicuritV and Frai
lUt , for togetlier with the L,„„ In
*■*“> ute ,»*•<.re Savings, located in the Firrt Zt.
.U wiped
i/ruins,° and ablSrt^tV#™'^ 1
Among the prominent blocks burned are
Almont street, Mower's block, and the
block occupied by the Consolidated Ad
justable Shoe company; Central square
and Central avenue, Bennett – Barnard’s
block, Fuller’s block, a wooden block
iu which was located the Daily
See, E. Geugreen’s block; brick
block owned by the Daily Rem\
on Union street, b. W. Currier’s new
building. W. N. Breed – Co., the lar
gest lumber dealers iu Essex county,lose
brick everything, including their handsome
structure on the corner of Beach
aud Broad streets. They estimate their
* 08S a f 1200,000. Mount Vernon street
™’°. were located the large brick factories n ^18 street
^up.ed by Francis oc
W. Breed, Heath
Bros -» and William Porter – Son.
an appeal for aid.
Mayor Newhall, in an intervi ew, said;
“Lynn has suffered the greatest calam
ity in its history. The business portion
of the city is almost a wreck. Over six
thousand persons are thrown out of cm
ployment, and two hundred families are
homeless. The city of Lv»n will be
forced to issue au appeal for assistance.
I am loth to do so, but am obliged under
the circumstances to make such au appeal,
It is impossible to compute the loss, but
it must reach somewhere in tbe vicinity
of ten millions of dollars.”
THE SILVER QUESTION.
SOME OF THE RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED
BY THE CONVENTION.
The National Silver convention was
called to order by the chairman Wednes
day morning at St. Louis. Delegate
Morse, of Colorado, introduced the fol
lowing resolution: Resolved, Thai
Senators and Representatives in
the Congress of the United Statei
be and are hereby requested to es
tablish a unit for the coinage of silvei
with the South American States that
shall make silver coin pass current on pat
with gold in all the Americas of tin
western hemisphere, and that they also
be requested to open negotiations with
the Congress of all Americas now k ses
sion in Washington far the building of a
railroad from the United States to aud
through the States ot South America.
After a lively discussion the resolution wat
referred to the committee on resolutions.
The following resolution offered by Mr.
Jacks, of California, was received with
cheers and referred under the rules;
Whereas, Wall street and easterr
bondholders are now actually at worh
striving to elect a speaker for the ap
proaching congress, whose recoul is en
tirely opposed to silver interests; and,
Whereas, Representatives in congress
should be the servants of the people; and
Whereas, This great convention shows
the unanimity of public opinion in south
ern and western states and territories m
favor of more coinage of silver; therefore,
be it resolved, That western and southern
representatives in congress be requested
to support some lrieud of silver for the
speakership of the present house of rep
resentative and that their failure to dc
so will be the betrayal of the people,
warranting their political death.
CONTRACTORS ASSIGN.
---
Caldwell, Wilcox A Co., of Newberg,
N. Y., iron manufacturers and contrac
tors, with extensive works on the river
front, made a general assignment on Mon
day for the benefit of their creditors.
Liabilities and assets are unknown, but
it is stated that they will be heavy.
SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE FASHION.
Charlie—1 see, Mamie, that diamonds
are no longer fashionable for engage
ment rings. Pearls are all the rage
u< w. Of course, you want to be In the
fashion? much
Mamie—No. I never did cave
for the edicts of fashion. You may Charlie. get
me a diamond engagement ring,
If they are no longer fashionable they
unis b ‘ cheaper. , .
»
p T edit. Ie» turn, o diamond.—[The
L. taker.
The fish are gel ting so Tampa, numerous iu.,
abound the docks at Port '
that they jump out of the water and
and on the wharves. A 1-iug-fish
------ ,
Sl U by S Upluiu l Gge Wa^erm
that way.
AN ANCIENT ART.
t
A Wonderful Display of French
Tapestry Work.
Pictures of Landscapes, Etc ■ a
D °" 9 tV W °* V6r Arttet# -
Ther There , a very mterestin .... S exhibit .....
°* Hie ^ amous Gobelin tapestries at
the Paris Exposition this year interest
"* A. “ *» illustration of one o the Fine
A a ! ’ auti , of . textlle A fabrics. . , .
The Gobelin tapestries had a gallery
in the main exhibition building devoted
t0 “ d >“ 1 ~
lct anc * attractive display. Here were
grand landscapes, historic scenes, por
traits and studies from animal and bird
life, in such numbers as to constitute a
” r ‘ WN ‘ ^
An especially noteworthy piece was
the “Letters, Science and Art in An
Tne Herons and Storks, too,
! -ere remarkably lifelike. There is a
! f r “ in S ° ttaeM “ b ° Ut tbo8e P lctare ’ ta
ta pestry work which the original pic
Hire iu °H colors lacks; original picture,
we say, for all the tapestry repiesenta
* 4 5n „ are C0 P ies - ° f ...... 0l1 P aint,n g s . b y cele ,
'
brated artists,
The flesh tints, the summer and
autumnal foliage, the flowers, the lights
and shadows, are all remarkably true
to nature, and as we gazed, the wonder
grew that it could be really a web
from a hand-loom, woven from woolen
woof.
A visit to the Gobelin factory, near
the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, follow
ed . very naturally . an examination of the
display of tapestries at the exposition,
This establishment was brought to Paris
early in the 15th century, aud was
bou-ht ° ! bv Louis L XIV XlV iu 1662 lbW ‘ The Th
brst tbe , name was Jean T Gobelin,
who died In 1476 He discovered a
peculiar kind of scarlet dye, and ex
pended so much money upon his estab
Hshment that it was named by the com
mon people La Folie Gobelin,
Many of the piece;? shown at tha ex
hibition belong to the time when Jean
Gobelin personally wrought or directed
the weaving, and those are now rated
at fabulous prices.
At present the Gobelin factory is
under Slate patronage and control, ex
clusively, and receives an annual sub
sidy of nearly $50,000 from the French
government.
About 150 weavers—who may with
propriety be called artists—were em
ployed. The work is done entirely by
hand. The warp \ threads are stretched
perpendicularly , in the loom, and the
weaver stands behind the warp with
tlie light in front of it . Each thread of
the woof is put in separately and
pressed into its place with long, slim
needles. The colored filling or woof is
woun( j upon bobbins, also by baud, and
we were told that 13,000 different col
ors and shades of color are made use of
weaving the various pictured designs,
The painting of which the tapestry is
to be a copy l#ngs behind the weaver
artist. its dimensions are accurately
ou t]j ne q j n pencil upon the warp. With
alni , mtinue . patience .. , l the
.osi an care
work of reproduction then begins, and
continues month after month, and even
J after J A single weaver rarely
produces more than a square yard ol
tapestry in a year,
Men only are employed as weavers.
The art has descended from father to
son, and it seemed to tlv writer, that
t ] iere was that in the faces of these
calm artisans, and in the singularly
measuied, yet thoughtful movements of
their eyes, which betokened a descent
Q j- tliis hereditary French skill.—
Youth's Companion.
an( | $now, Tropical Imagination.
' The natives of tropica! countries are
seldom so much astonished as when
they are first introduced to snow and
j c0- The congealing of water is a p ie
they are slow t > comprehend.
A few months ago Sir William Mac
gregor enticed several New Guinea na
tives to the hitherto unsealed summit of
Mount Owen Stanley, the loftiest peak
j n British Australasia. On its barren
summit, nearly a thousand feet above
the *»»' *' Mg icicle, were
greatly tothe n»nl of O'
natives who were much startled when
’
they touched them, and insisted that
their fingers had been burned.
A year ago when Mr. Fillers ascesAled
Mount Kilima-Njaro, iu Africa, his na
live porters, who had lived all their
lives near the base of the great mom -
tain, pulled off the boots with which
they had been provided as they ap
proached the snow line and plunged
merrily into the snow in their bare feet.
They lost no time in plunging out
again, and lay writhing on the ground,
insisting that their feet had been severe
ly burned. Some of the Central Afri
can natives who have been introduced
into Germany mistook last winter the
first snow storm they saw for a flight of
white buttei flies. Lieutenant Von
Francois says the mistake was a very
natural one. One day when he was as
cending a tributary of the Congo, he
saw for the first time the air
filled with a great swarm of white but
terflies, and he says the spectacle close
ly resembled a gentle fall of snow.
The seductive summer drink, so pop
ular in our latitude during the dog days,
produces upon the untutored savage
when first brought to his notice as un
pleasant an effect as an unexpected elec
tric shock. King Dinah of West
Africa has been one of the record sight
seers in Paris. An attempt was made one
day to explain to him the nature of ice
by introducing him to an iced drink.
The unusual sensation greatly startled
his Majesty, and he dashed the cooling
draught on the floor as soon as he had
tasted it.
It is said that our Alaskan Eskimos
think the weather is uncomfortably sul
try when the temperature is at the
freezing point, while the Central Afri
can shivers in great distrees iu a tem
perature of 60 degrees above zero.—
New York Sun.
Personal Magnetism.
Henry TT Clay, to ...... the last hours of . ,. his
life, had a singular power over young
men and boys, who were invariably
ager to become, in some sort, his
friends and companions.
Young people regarded Washington,
on the other hand, with a profound re
spect into which no feeling of possi
ble comradeship ever entered, The
same feeling of separation, or aloofness,
characterised the intercourse of Daniel
Webster with the young.
What girl or boy has not a tender,
cheerful fellowship for the venerable
George Bancroft and Doctor Holmes,
men whose faces they probably never
have seen?
Why is it that old age is thus tosome
men, however good they may be, an im
passable gulf, which cuts them off from
all relations with childhood aud you:h,
while there are others aged laces dear
to every baby, boy or girl who looks on
them? The cold, dark flow of years
shut the first in and apart from their
kind, as the deep, bridgeless moat does
an ancient ruin; but years have no power
to separate us from the others. They
are as young and alive as their grand
children, despite white hairs and fail
ing senses. The secret of this perpet
ual youth in some men is the keen sym
pathy for others in their hearts, and a
certain warmth of temperament which
gives them an interest in the affairs of
every passing moment. No matter how
old a man may be, if his energy
affections remain he will attract friends
and companions. If the fire still burns
on the hearth, what matter if the walls
of the house be decayed? We shall
come to it to be warmed and cheered.
Yet how absurd in the light of this
simple fact, is the conduct of the boys
and girls who assume a languid indif
ference to the affairs of life in the vain
hope of convincing the lookers-on that
they are hopelessly blase?
When they rob themselves of the
chief charm of youth and enthusiasm,
they are like the he r to a kingdom who
resigns a crown before he has worn it.
Icelanders as Colonists
The success o the Icelanders as colo
nists in Manitoba has suggested that
they should be induced to settle in
Alaska, also, As there are only about
60,U00 native Ala-kaas in a territory as
large as the who e of the United States
cast of. the M ssissippi aud uorth of the
A abaina line, there should be room
enough for the whole population of Ice
laud, where less than 75 000 people are
- c atered over a country as large as Ire
land. Alaska probably would be more
to them than Manitoba, as
they arc .ccu.tomed to li™ by C,boric.
.other tlnn by nm.ng reheat No kind
of gram has been grown in Iceland for
more than .li 1,000 nnn years, With ... the .. excep
‘ion ol . few sinal I p,tche. .own ro
cently by way of experiment. The first
settlers probably did grow barley, if
not wheat, as we read of the use <A
plows in the early Sages.
SCHLKV COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of t#*torj o^g
elf from Sumter, Marlon and Mac couattgfl,
It was organized in 1856, and naim 4 f v « n e ot
the old Colonial Governors of G< 3 ig l; Gov
ernor Schley.
Its location is Southwest-Central. A rea 180
square miles. General features, hilly, interr
spersed with level plateax. The soil is very
fertile all over the county, but varies in color,
some plaoes being red elay, some dark bvown^
very sticky in wet weather, some pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with elay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, punikins. melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears,prune*,
pomegranates, plums, apples, aprioots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries,
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, cu
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old held
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild frui^
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberriee
whortleberries. May haws, black haws, plums,
cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes.
Winter grapes, muscadines, chinquepins,
hickory nuts and chestnuts.
Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other
grasses, many of 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 th#
leading Industries of the county some of th#
finest horses in the South are raised here, an*
the rich golden butter and sweet country ham*
that are daily brought to market by the far
mors of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere.
Cotton is the money crop of the county, but
happily the day has past and forevevr gon#
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 home consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attention is given to poultry raising, yet tbe
people have all they want for home ose and
one man with ahorse and wagon keeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs from
Schlcv county to Americas.
The health of the county is excellent, the av
erage elevation being near two thousand fe#t
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
here.
The farming people of Schley ar% Intel igent
cultivated aud refined as any agricultural peo
ple in the world. The county is dotted with
school houses and churches! and a half grown
person who cannot read and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro race most
of them since freedom can read and write.
us mL~;~ mm.
UndGI' N©W McillHgGinBIlt.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., i*
fast becoming a great resort for
tbe traveling public.
This hotel ha-j been thoroughly renovated
inside and out and put iu 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 attentiv*
servants. The table supplied with all the del
loaolesof the season, making it a most popu
lar resort for drummers and the traveling
public generally.
GEORGE W. DAVIS
BARBER
Shop east side court honse square. Hair eut
20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 cents.Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
‘W’lLL HARRIS
BOOT UP lll-Mktt
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 wonderin' collection o. praotics
real value ar.d every-day use (or the peopl ev
er publi he _ on the jdode. A marvsl of money
saving and money earning for every one owing
It, Thousands of beautiful, helpfsl engravings
showing just how to do everything. No compe
tition; nothing like it in the universe. When
you select that which is of true value sales are
sure. All sincerely desiring paying employment
and looking for something thoroughly first-class
stanextriordiry.ry low price, should wrte for
description and terms on the most romarkalil#
achievement in book making since the world
began. HOAMMELL CO., Box
– 51105.
ST. LOUIS or PHILADEPHIA.
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remote from Washington.
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