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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. PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat cut business conducted for Mooerate Fees. and oo, or,,c.o--o.,r, u. >. r.r-xo.r.cr we can secure patent iu less tuns than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo,, with descrip SV W S^£,’tot''dS; , S5 Obtain , S5.?i. Patents,” , SJS with A Pamphlet, “How to names of actual clients in your State, county, or town, sent free. Addres*, C. A. SNOW – CO. UP.. Patent Om#t, Washington D. «.