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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1895)
CAPITAL GOSSIP. ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Sayings and Doings of the Official Heads of the Government. Congressman-elect Wilson, of South Carolina, was ut tho postoffioe depart ment Monday and requested a free de livery service at Spautanburg, S. C., claiming that the receipts at the office avarage §10,000 per year, the princi pal point upon which to base a request for free delivery. The two changes male in the cabi net Friday included one of President Cleveland’s old-time surprises. The promotion of Attorney-General Olney to Mr. On sham’s old place as secreta ry of state was a foregone conclusion, but the appointment of Judson Har mon, of Cincinnati, as attorney-gen eral, was totally unexpected. Richard Olney . was sworn in as sec retary of state Monday morning, Chief Justice T uller administered the oath of office. The ceremony, which took place iu the diplomatic room of the state department, was witnessed by Secretary Lamout, Assistant Secre taries Uhl and Adle, of the state de partment, Mr. Landis, private secre tary to ex-Secretury Gresham, and Mrs. Aubrey, daughter of Chief Justice Fuller. A favorable report from the govern ment commission which went to Nica ragua a month ago to examine the route for the proposed canal is confi dently expected on its return to the United States next month. Private letters received from members state that the commission traversed the route from Grey Town to Brieto, and that they are convinced, from a cur sory examination, that the plan of the canal is a feasible one. The high point reached the past week for sterling exchange, the high est for many weeks, causes treasury officials to fear that gold exports may be shortly resumed. At the present rate of exchange, §4.89 to §4.90 many millions of gold were exported last spring. The Belmont-Morgan syndi cate has so far been able to prevent gold exports, but their contract to protect the treasury gold reserve is out, and unusual scarcity of commer cial bills is reported in New York. The treasury gold reserve is now $99,- 300,000, with §8,000,000 in gold still due from the syndicate. The formal announcement that General Gordon, of Georgia, would retire from public life at the end of his present term in the senate created much interest among his friends in Washington, although it was hardly received with surprise, as he has thrown out intimations to this effect for some time. They hear of the prospective closing of his memorable career, however, with genuine regret, as he is both admired and loved by those who know him. The announce ment of his retirement creates consid erable speculation as to his successor. Iimprovement in Banks. The abstract of the reports made by the comptroller of the currency, show ing the condition of all the national banks in the United States on May 7, shows the total resources to be §3,410, 002,491, an increase of §31,499,952 since March 5, when tho last call was made. The amount of loans and de counts increased from §1,851,846,832 to §1,976,604,445. The lawful re serve was §364,105,757; decrease §7,763.000,000. of which $177, 000,000 was gold coin and gold certifi cates, $41,000,000 silver and silver cer and §145,060,000 legal ten ders. The amount of individual de posits had increased from $1,667,483,- 286 to §1,690,961,299. The showing is considered good. The loans and discounts increased about $25,000, 000 and the deposits about $21,000,000. Worked Them Full Time. Fifteen thousand government em ployes are disgusted with the action of the cabinet in a matter that greatly affects their comfort and convenience. For years it has been the custom to close the department in Washington at three o’clock on Saturday after noons during the summer months, the hour of closing on other days being four o’clock. When the ques tion came up this year of issuing the usual orders by the heads of the de partments Secretary Morton, of the agricultural department, refused on the ground that the law required the Fours employes to remain at work seven every day in the week. The matter was referred to Attorney Gen eral Olney and he sustained his col league in the view he had taken of the law. Thereupon it was decided by the cabinet, duly assembled, that all the departments should be closed at 4 o’clock on Saturdays thf same as on other days. Debs to Go to Jail. r Ihe certified copy of the order of the supreme court in the Debs case was received by the clerk of the United States district court at Chicago Mon day morning, and the marshal was no tified to return President Debs and the directors of the American Railway Union to jail. ANOTHER KOAI) SCOOPED. The Southern Gets Possession of the G. 8. – F. One of the greatest railroad scoops that has occurred for sometime is the acquisition of tho Georgia ami Florida by the Southern railroad, announced Wednesday. This latest acquisition is one of the most import ant of the lines to Florida. It runs from Macon to Sauford, and its local traffic is very heavy. In addition to this, it has been an important connec tion at Macon of the Central railroad ami the Seaboard Air-Line. These two latter lines have been great feeders of the Georgia Southern and furnished it most of its south bound business. In return they re ceived a great deal of northbound bus iness, and the fact that the Southern railway has acquired the control of the road will no doubt seriously cripple the interchange of traffic at Macon with these lines. Iu addition to this, tho line is an important feeder of the Plunt system at its various Florida points, but there will probably be no changes in its re latious with this line. It is under stood that the Georgia Southern will hereafter be used as a feeder fertile western system of the Southern. On the line a very heavy business in fruit and lumber originates, and it is from this business that it derives its princi pal revenue. The lino is one of the most impor tant competitors of the great Florida connection of the Southern, the F!or ida, Central and Peninsular. This latter line handles all the Florida bus iness of the Southern from the east and its business has been interfered with by the Georgia Southern and Florida. The line with all its branches has 390 miles of track and its purchase by the Southern practically leaves the Seaboard bottled up so far as Florida business is concerned except through Atlanta. ACREAGE GREATLY REDUCED According to Reports From All Over the Cotton IJelt. The result of the special investiga tion made by the department of agri culture at Washington in 720 cotton growing counties shows that in 88 there will be little or no change in acreage as compared with last year; five report increase of 10 per cent and less; two an increase of from 11 to 20 per cent; four an increase of from 21 to 30 per cent and less; 250 a decrease of from 11 to 20 per cent; 158 a de crease of from 21 to 30 per cent; 44 a decrease of from 31 to 40 per cent; 7 a decrease of from 41 to 50 per cent, and 5 a decrease of over 50 per cent. The consolidated returns of reports to the statistical division for the month of June show the state percentages of acreage as compared with last year’s as follows: North Carolina, 81; South Carolina 84; Georgia, 85; Florida,95; Alabama, 89; Missiesipju, 88; Louisi ana, 87; Texas, 85; Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 81 ; Missouri, 75 ; Indian Territory, 91; Oklahoma, 90; Vir ginia, 73. The acreage for the United States is 85.2, a reduction of 24.8 per cent upon the revised acreage given out in May for 1894. The average condition of the crop for June 1st is as follows: North Carolina, 61; South Carolina, 72; Georgia, 82 ; Florida, 92 ; Alabama, 85 ; Mississippi, 88 ; Louisiana, 85 ; Texas, 79; Arkansas, 89 ; Tennessee, 87; Missouri, 89; Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 70; Virginia, 67. The general average for the country is 81 against 88.3 last year and 85.6 in 1893. DISAGREEABLY SURPRISED Was the German Government Over Russia’s Coup. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says: The news of the Franco-Rus sian loan of §80,000,000 to China has proved to be a disagreeable surprise both to the government and to the leaders of the financial circles, who had been relying upon official action to secure a large share of tbo Chinese loan for Germany. Immediately upon receiving news of the Russian coup, the members of a German syndicate, of which the Royal Sehnndlund is head, communicated with the finan cial department of the government upon the prospects of Ger many’s securing the main indenity loan, which will amount to $150,000, 000 or §200,000,000, and negotiations were also resumed by the syndicate with the London Rothschilds on the question of the co-operation of English bankers in the scheme. The syndicate has received prompt assurance that the government will intervene to obtain for Germany a share in such further financial arrangements as China may require, as the §80,000,000 now the guar anteed by Russia covers only in demnity to Japan for the surrender of the Liao Tnug peninsular. Coal Company Assigns. The Jellico-Birdeye Coal Company, of Knoxville, Tenu., organized years ago on the co-operalive plan with stockholders in all parts of the south, is reported to have made an as signment. Tho company owes $120, 000 to a bank in Louisville, Ky., and small debts aggregating $10,000 or 815.000. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. Women as Printers. Some interesting details regarding the first appearance of women in the printer’s art are given in the official organ of the Parisian printers. The general belief that women were for’the first time employed in typographical work in 1G81 by Eignoux, a printer iu Montbard, is declared to be erroneous, a printing press worked exclusively by women having been in regular use in Italy a century and a half before that date. The printing office was the con vent of St. James at Mount Ripoli, and the women printers were sisters of the Dominican Order. The sisters of this convent had prao ticed tho art of copying and illumina ting manuscript since the thirteenth century. When Gutenburg’s invention made its appearance the press spread rapidly in Italy, and every town soou possessed its printing office. Florence had one as early as 1472. It would have gone hard with the Dominican sisters if their confessor, Dominico de Pistoia and their procurator, Pietro di Pisa, had not come to their aid by im parting to them a knowledge of the new art. The sisters appear to have devoted themselves to their typograph ical labors with ardor and success, for between 1476 and 1484 more than a hundred works—a large number for that period—issued from the convent ual press. It is somewhat curious to note that among these works there is an edition of the Decameron, dated 1478.—London Daily News. —_ The Glass Snake. - The so-called glass or jointed snake does not break to pieces at the sight of an enemy, as is commonly supposed, but like some lizards, throws off its tail in an effort to escape. There are several lizards which, when attacked for instance by a bird, or animal, will throw off tbeir tails, and the tail flopjung up and down on the ground diverts the enemy and thus gives the lizard time to get away. The glass snake adopts the same trick, and thus frequently saves itself. It is true, however, that the joints of the singular creature are so loosely connected that the snake will be broken to pieces by a blow of a stick, though the idea of a reunion of the broken parts is a superstitious absurd ity The broken joints do not reunite, though a new tail will grow in a few months if the reptile has received no other injury. Scientist— Have you any idea of the immeDSSty of space, young man? Ad Solicitor—Well, rather ! I’ve got to fill three pages with paying ads every week or get the bounce !— Prin ter’s Ink. THE GUN MAKER OF ILI0N, JEFFERSON M. CLOUGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FRON THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. His Health was too Poor to Permit Atten tion to liusiness. A Great Sufferer for Many Years But Has Now Recovered. (From the Springfield, Mass., Union.') There isn’t a gun manufacturer in the United States who does not know Jefferson M. Clough, and why? Because he has been intimately assooiated all his life with the de velopment of the two best American rifles, the Remington and Winchester. For years he was Superintendent of the E. Remington – Sons’ great factory at Ilion, N. Y. After leaving there he refused a tempting offer of the Chinese Government to go to China to superintend their government factories,_ and accepted instead the superintendoncy of the Winohester-Arms Co., at New Haven, at a salary of ®7,500 a year. It was after this long term of active labor as a business man that he found himself in capacitated for further service by the em bargo which rheumatism had laid upon him and resigned his position more than two years ago, and returned to Belchertown, Mass., where he now lives and owns, the hundred Phelps farm, a retired 9pot where he has five acres of land. Being a man of means he did not spare the cost and was treated by leading physicians and by baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth notice. During the summer of 1893 and the winter of 1894 Mr. Clough was confined to his house iu Belchertown, being unable to rise from his bed without assistance, and suffering con tinually with acute pains and with no taste or desire for food, nor was he able to obtain sufficient sleep. Early in the year 1894 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People He began taking these pills about tho first of March, 1894, and continued to do so until the first part of September following. The first effect noticed was a better appetite and he began to note more ability to help himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August (1894) he was able to go alone to his summer residence and farm of 163 acres on Grenadier Island, among the Thousand islands, in the river St. Lawrence, where from the highest land of his farm be cotn mands a view for 13 miles down the river, and 60 of the Thousand Islands can be seen. Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and has been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the men what employed Dr. there and he is thankful for Williams’ Pink Pills have done for him. These pills are manufactored by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing th firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and are never sold in bulk. They may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medi cine Company. Everyone Knows How it Is to suffer with corns, and they are not conduc ive to walking: rimove them with Hindercorns If afflicted with snreeye 0 use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c par bottle. Highest of all in Leavening Tower.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report I mitss ABAOLUTEEV PURE FAVORITE RECIPES. Ego Omelet. — One cup of sweet milk; three eggs, whiten and yolks beaten separately. Pour iu a buttered pan, cover tight, and bake slowly on top of the stove. ouham Crackers. One-thin , of a cl }P tter, one cup of sugar, w hite P* one egg, all well beaten together, ( ne teaspoonful soda, dissolved in half »» cup of warm water and graham flour eD0| igh to knead. Roll thin, cut out, P ri ck with a fork, bake quickly until C1 * 9 P* Fruit Cookies. —One cup butter; two cups sugar ; one egg; one cup cold coffee; one cup English currants; two teaspoonfuls baking powder; one-half teaspoouful each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; four cups Hour. Rub butter, sugar, baking powder, spices and English currants well together. Make a hole in the center of mass and put in sup of coffee aud egg well beaten, Mix thoroughly and add flour enough to roll nicely. Dust with powdered sugar while rolling. Rake in quick oven. Ginger Bread - -One cup molasses; one-half cup sugar; one egg; two and one-half cups flour, one-half cup lard or butter; one cup coffee; one teaspoon ful soda; the same of ginger, clove and cinnamon; small cup of currauts or chopped raisins. Creamed Rice- One quart of milk ; ono small cup of rice apd a little salt; cook well together; then add three tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon vanil la; let it cool, and an hour before using add a pint of whipped cream, using a little at a time until all is whipped in. White Fruit Cake.— One cup but ter; two aud one-half cups of flour; whites of seven eggs ; two teaspoons baking powder; one cut sweet figs, cream dates ; one pound each of raisins, and blanched almonds; one-fourth pound of citron. Chop the fruit and dredge with flour. Scotch Shortcake.— One pound of flour, one-half pound brown sugar; oue-fourth pound butter. Mix together the butter and sugar, then add the flour and make into cake with the bauds. The ingredients should be very thoroughly mixed or it will be impossible to form the cakes. The shortcake should be carefully baked in a moderate oven.— Womankind. A Palace Plated With Gold. The czar has a palace just outside of St. Petersburg, known as Tsarskoe Selo, which was built by Catherine the Great. It is of vast extent, and plated over with gold. It took nearly §1,000,000 worth of bullion to do the work, and when, owing to the damp ness of the climate it began to peel off, Catherine ordered it to be painted in stead. Some Russian speculators wanted to scrape off the old gold and melt it over again, and they offered Cather ine §500,000 for the job. She sent them to prison for insulting her with the proposition, aud covered the pal ace with yellow paint. This palace has rooms walled with amber. It has a parlor covered with lapis lazuli, and the walls and coiling of one drawing room are of the finest tortoise shell. There are 500 apart ments in the palace, and the ballroom covers nearly half an acre. Its floor is of wooden mosaic, and there are other rooms in which the finish is in ivory, bamboo and in bronze. The palace must have cost millions, and is only one of a dozen which be longs to the czar. (3 to vo». No dirt, no ashes. You strike » match, the stove does tbe rest. Send for cata’oerus of the • Perfection, the best made. Prices low. Stoves and. XInugos, A No. 7 Cook Stove with 30 pieces of furniture, tor $8.00. Oil Rtovos. 0-5 ;e will do *11 © cooking for a large size fami yatac a day. i«. Rams, Injectors, Inspirators, Wrou ht Iron W t- nee.’ Pipe 1 1 le- 3 ’ aad al k,nlB of p!uml,1 ‘^ ana a Mantels Tiles and Grates at factory prices. If you are ^ building write and get our prices. Anything you want in the House Furnishing Goods, or for the Kitchen, send to 1IICUTT – BELLMRM GO., Atlanta, GfiOim TnANT^PA'NT % a Hammar ' ■ COST LESS or Paints <] uaranteed 5 year* Add a gallon of Itaw Oil. at 75 cents, to a gallon of Hsmmar P.iint at SI.75. This makes two gallons of pure Linseed Oil Paint for $2.50, or $1.25 per ga Ion. The Paint cheapest : of poor, worthle-s Ready Mixed raint* cost you that much or more. Hammar s Paint guar anteed for five \ ear-,’ besides YOU mix it youhseuf and know’ it is good and pure. No or Lead made eaiwequal Hammar Paint in a common sense, practical or technica argument. N ..... A lloy’s Definition of Peace. School children are proverbially original iu many of their utterances, In tho grammar department of the West Middle school the teacher was examining her young charges iu his tory. Pennsylvania and its founder, William Penn, were under discussion. Sho told the little ones that Penn was a disciple of peace, aud Anally asked: C i Can any of you tall me what ‘peace’ means? breathlessly “I can, teacher,” ex claimed a little fellow. “Well, and what does ‘peaoe’ mean?” “It means ‘no scrappin’,” responded the boy .—Hartford Dost. In the United States there is one di vorce for every 479 marriages. If in compatibility is a good reason, there should be about 400. —3 Dr. PIERCE’S PLEA5ANT BPELLETS . ^ , ^CURE^ SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, iv'-a vrj CONSTIPATION, Vf INDIGESTION, A DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, and all derangements of the ”” Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Of all druggists. ONCE USED __— ALWAYS IN FAVOR. The Greatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S Medical Discovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a oommon pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred oases, and never failed except in two case* (both thunder humor). He has now in. his possession over two hundred certifi cates of its value, ail within twenty mile* of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from th* irst bottle, and a perfect oure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it cause* shooting pains, like needlos passing 1 through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the duct* being stopped, and always disappears in A week after taking it. Head the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first No change of diet ever neoessary. Eat the best you oan get, and enough of it Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. HOTEL TYBEE TYBEE ISLAND, GA. This Hotel is noted for its excellent service and apiendid ou nine, tia« table being supp ied with all t he deiicaei–H tho market affords. Leon’s An abundant fine oroheutra supply of fish, or for Mbs, shvnnp, Specially etc. low rates this season* ep* sraged Write for soason. Special inducements to parties of terms. tlVVAN. ten or more. BOHAN – i ipfe;: it®* Promote. Cleacie* HAIR PARKER’8 and • luaurlant beautifie* BALSAM growl the hair. Never Falls to Restore Color. r«y Hair to its You thru; hair tailing. Curw icaip di.ragat A Pruxgbta 50c,and f lhOftt A. N. U Twenty-four, ’93.
