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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1895)
WASHINGTON NOTES GOSSIPOFTHBCAIMTAL IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. , Doings of Hi*'Chiefs and Heads of the Various Departments. The United Stafcos government, it is authoritatively •announced at the state department,has decided to enter forth with upon an audepeudeut investiga tion of the Chang Tu riots, with the co-operation of a Chinese .representa tive. As at first .arranged, 1 the inquiry was to have beau made in co-opera tion with England, but there has been a change of plan w.thin the last few days occasioned >by the fact that the British consul at Ohung King has been detained at his post, and it is said will not be able to begin the inquiry for a month or more. Mr. Walter E. Faison, chief of the consular bureau, will be detailed as acting solicitor at the state depart partment pending the appointment of a successor to Mr. Walter D. Dabney, who has accepted the position of pro fessor of law at the University of Vir t ginia. The legal requirements of the office of solicitor are very high and care is always exereised in the selection. Mr. .Faison is be ilieved to be thoroughly equipped for «the place, and Mr. Adee, the acting -secretary of state, regards the depart ment as fortunate in so readily find ing a man of so much legal ability. The treasury gold reserve at the -close of business Monday stood at 4P?7;710,000. This decline was caused By $1,200,000 in gold being withdrawn in New York for export. In ordinary business the treasury gained $400,000 in the exchange of notes for gold at at the various subtreasuries, of which $250,000 was gained at (Chicago. At tie treasury it is under stood that the syndicate will make .a deposit at once which will again mstke Ihe gold reserve intact. Since July 13th, the beginning of the gold expert movement, about $21,- 700,000 in gold has been sent from this country to Europe. It is stated that within sthat time the Belmont Morgan syndicate has paid into the treasury in excess of the bond require ment about $11,000,000. J'romotioiis Announced. The president has approved the record of naval examining boards, promoting the following officers to the 'grades mentioned : Bear admiral, Lester A. Beardslee; commodore, John A. Howell; lieuten ant commauders, George W. Tyler, Perry Garst, James K. Cogswell, John H. Shipley; lieutenants, John Hood, Charles C. Marsh, John B. Blish, Charles W. Jungen; lieu tenants, junior grade, Guy W. Brown, Marbury Johnston, Harry A, Fielder, Albert A. Beramer, Frank K. Hill, Roger Welles, Jr. ; medical directors, Thomas C. Watson, George H. Cooke, George H. Woods; passed assistant surgeons, Louis L. Young; passed as sistant paymaster, Samuel McGowan; passed inspector, Henry T. Wright; passed assistant engineer, Ward P. Winchell. Chief Engineer Herschel Main and Mato Samuel Gee have been retired on disability incurred in the service. Must Wait Sixty F ays. The postoffice department has been put to considerable trouble lately by the issuance of duplicate money orders for those alleged to have been lost, misdirected or possibly stolen by dis honest clerks. All duplicates have to be issued by the department at Wash ington aud last year applications were than made for the issuance of more 30,000 such orders. The department %nd jjfijids that in many cases both original the duplicate have been paid, and in some cases suit has had to be brought to recover the money. In order to obviate such en tanglements in the future, First As sistant Postmaster General Jones, at the solicitation of the auditor, has adopted a rule not to issue duplicates in the future until the expiration of sixty days from the date of the orig al money order, thereby affording time for the the receipt at the auditor’s of fice of the money order statements of paying postmasters and an oppor tnnity to examine such statements to ascertain whether the original orders have been paid. This may work a hardship in some crises among those who can ill afford to wait the period of sixty days on ac count of the mistakes of their corres pondents, but it is held at the post office department that the general good of the whole service demands the enforcement of the new regulations. Testing Armor Plate. The naval ordinance board conduct id a most important and successful ' >st at Indian Head proving grounds 'ednesday. Primarially it was a test steel armor plate, but really one of it importance, as it was a trial of I itrength of the frames of modern 1 lips, which, it has been claimed, ™ N not withstand the shock caus helivy projectiles against the Kit covering them—some author / ""Wn going so far as to as s ° ft hat the if not shat- 1 te armor, 2 ’ e ‘or penetrated by the shot, the first frame test ever made of dis tinctly modern warship*. though tho English government some years ago did fire at an antiquated armored ves sel for the purpose of observing tho ef *eci8 01 ,.f sli.. ine snot, 0 t,.^ Atr.Jna.tan’s Wednesday monts demonstrated the fact that the frames of our warships are perfectly It able to meet all ordinary demands. was also demonstrated that the new four* teen-inch armor with which the new battleships will be protected can, under ordinary circustances, receive the fire of any naval vessel afloat without seri ous damage. A test was also made of a new armor bolt designed by the or dinance board to replace the bolts now used in fastening armor ships, which are weighty, cumbersome aud expensive. Each of the three tests was entirely satisfactory. The armor plate far exceeded the prescribed re quirements ; the counterfeit frames bore the shocks without impairment, and the bolts were entirely satisfac tory. ON SOUTHERN SOIL. The G. A. R. Encampment Royally Welcomed. With a reception of the national commander-in-chief, the first encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Re public to be held on southern soil was ushered in at Louisville, Ky., Monday morning. The weather was heated and muggy and the skies were threat ening of showers, but these conditions did not repress the enthusiasm that Louisville had been keeping pent up for her guests. When Commander-in-chief Lawler and the members of his staff, with National President Margaret Wallace and her associates of the women’s re lief corps, reached the union depot from Chicago at 8 o’clock they were met by a great demonstration of cheer ing and waving of flags and handker chiefs. The committee on invitation, headed by General John B. Castleman, and including such representative Kentuckians as ex-Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, W. N. Heldeman, ex Congressman Caruth.Gen. Basil Duke, John M. Atherton and Gen. Andrew Cowan, was out in force and after wel comes, introductions and band-shakiDg the visitors, under escort of the com mand, two companies of the Louis ville Legion, with its band and drum corps, were taken to the Galt house. Here national headquarters were es tablished in the big clubroom, on the east wall of which the fiDgers of fair Louisville women had fashioned in letters of evergreens two feet square the inscription, “Hail to the Chief.” The entrance of Southland by the Grand Army commenced at daybreak and continued far into the night with the prospect of still greater hosts for the morrow. Horse, foot and dra goons, from the two extremes of the continent, the veterans of the war, charged front, flank and rear through the open gates of Louisville and pro ceeded to avail themselves of the in vitation to be seen on every hand to make themselves comfortable in an “old Kentucky home.” STORM SWEPT. A Village in Kansas Ct mpletely Wrecked by Wind and Ruin. The little town of Gridley, Kansas, of 400 inhabitants, one of the termin uses of the Burlington branch of the Santa Fe, is a wreck with not a single uninjured house in its confines. Most of the buildings and all of the stocks of goods of every description are utter ly ruined. About 3 o’clock Monday a storm of wind and rain burst on tho town from the northwest. Twelve inches of water fell in an incredibly short time. This deluge completed the destruction that had not been accom plished by the wind. Strange to say, with all the falling roofs and walls and flying debris that broke windows far and near, not a person of the town re ported more than the slightest person al injury. Among the eighty or ninety buildings which were razed to the ground were the Methodist and Christian churches and the Odd Fellows hall. No one can yet get in from the country on ac count of the waters, but it is feared that there must have been some loss of life. POISONED THE JAPS. Four Young .Japanese Dosed at a Chi nese Restaurant. Four young Japanese belonging to the Japanese Christian mission of San Franc’sco, went to a Chinese restau rant, at Waverly place, in the Chinese quarter. They received good atten tion and what was presumed to be a good meal was served. Shortly after they left the place they were all taken ssriously ill, and a doctor was hastily summoned. It, was discovered that they had been poisoned and an anti dote was administered, but with little effect, aud after a few hours of agony one of the victims died. The doctors have despaired of thelives of the other three, ns tho poison used is of a vary virulent nature, the dead man turning black and swelling to twice the normal size shortly after his death. It is pre sumed that the enmity which exists between the two nations at the present time was the cause of the crime on the part of the Chinese. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. ARP’S LETTER. HE HOPES THAT ALL THE BOYS WILL SEE THE _ ^ I XI’OSITION. __ ^ t v V111 i ani Ilis Experience * In Raising Silkworms. _____ The expo-itlon gets bigger and bigger. T -o managers lmvu buikled wiser than they knew, end everything < oncerning it seems to prosper. It will be a groat show snd a great school. I wish that every youth in this southern bind who is over ten years of age could visit it. They would learn more ifi a dsv than they can learn in a year from books. Tho sight is tho very best receptive of knowledge. The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to study art in to see things made by the artig; or the meehsn e. I fee that a Philadel phia si.k house will have silk wo ms there mak ing their cocoons and will r.*el the silk from them and spin and weave it into cloth and will sell you a cravat for a song. I make mention of this because when I was a lud my father carried on that same business of making silk in Lawreweevido. Ga., and for three years I bad to pick mtilb'rry leave* in their season and feed them to the greedy worms. I had to get np before day and go to the moms mnlticaultus orchard an t pick the leaves while the dew was on and carry them in sacks to ttie silk house and scatter them all over the hnrdles and the 1 r edt worms would eat them all up before breakfast. The big worms that were two to two and a half inches long were kept in one row of hurdles and were given the coarser leaves; smaller ones w ra graded down according to age and ihe little worm', half an inch long, had to have the young and tonder leaves. When the worms were full grown and had devoured till they had stufTed themselves with mulberry fiber they settled down to business an l spun their wind ing siieet in the shape of a c coon. These co coons were beautiful little things, about, as large as a pecan nut and of the same shape. They were of different colors. Some were pure white, soma green, some pi tile, some red, some The yellow and all were bright and glossy. worm got smaller as he wrapped his web around him, and by the timo the co coon was done it had ehanged its brown shape thing and turned into a chrysalis, an ugly that had neither head nor tail vi-ible. It pass ed into a comatose condition for awhile and then came to l fe again and cut its way out of the cocoon in the shape of a bntt'rfly or large flutteiing moth and crawled about over the hurdles to find some place to lay its eggs. These eggs soon hatched out into lirtle silk worms that went to eating leaves just like their gre' dy ancestors. wait the'r But we dident for many to cut way out of the cocoons. We put them in a pot of hot water and they staid comatose all the rest of their lives. We would have per haps a hundred coci on* floating on the top of the hot water and with a tiny brush would catch up the delicate fibers of silk from thirty to forty cocoons and make a thread of all of them together, and having fastened that tlir-ad to a reel close by we woulel turn the reel just like our grandmothers u-etl to turn it in wind ing spun truck—turn it until it clicked and then take the cut < ff and begin again. Just so we rc eled the raw silk and kep - putting more cocoons in the hot water. In this way we reel ed off every bit of the winding sheet and left the ugly dead cltrv sails floating on the water. When they accumulated so as to bo in the way wc skimmed them out and threw them aw.ty. Tliis is only an outline of the business, and 1 want the young folks to Bee how the thing is done from the tiny little egg to the taw silk upon the reel and from there to the loom. My father was a pioneer in the morns multicaulus craze, as it was called, and I think the only man in Georgia who made silk and sold it. I renumber that one year he sold $600 worth at one shipment and he sold some other smaller lot-'. He would have continued the business but his tr.es took the "die back” or some thing and he had to give it up. It was said that the continued stripping of the leaves will kill them in about three years, for the leaves are the lungs of plants and they can’t keep on making new lungs just to please silk worms. These trees were grown from cuttings and we began to strip them the second year when they were about as large as a broom-handle. They had no branches and were about as fur apart as young apple trees in a nursery. Wo down stripped them like pulling fodder, coming with both hands and leaving only a few .leaves at the top. It would have been good fun if it had not been so monotonous and required so much of Ben Franklin’s advice about "early to bed and early to rise,” etc, I havent gotten over that habit yet, but it hasent made me wealthy or wise. I never have found out how one woi m can get red silk out of a mulberry yellow. leaf and another one will got white or I hea'd Captain Evan Howell make a speech once and he got eloquent and humble as be said: “My friends, we are helpless and ignor ant creatures. We know nothing hardly about the mysteries of nature that are all around us. The good book says: ‘Great is the mystery of of godliness.’ We cant tell why it is that when a goose cats grass the grass turns to feathers and when a horse eats grass it turns to hair and when a sheep eats grass it turns into wool.” And he might have added and when a worm eats multk-rry leaves it turns to silk. The exposition has been a great strain upon Atlanta, but that town is smart and gantev and will make it a grand success. When the scheme wa* first proposed we outsiders never said any thing to discourage it, but we smiled and whis pered was there ever such chfcek. Right after the great Chicago fair and right in tho middle of a financial panic for a little city of only ICO,000 people to propos ■ such an absurd scheme is perfectly ridiculous. And to think of the impudence of asking for the patronage of the national government aud an appropria tion. But the managers k-pt right on and have never faltered for a moment. And thev got the Smithsonian institution and the Liberty bell and thev seriously discussed the practica bility of borrowing the Bartholdi statute of liberty from New York harbor and putting it up in Clara Meet. I see that the hotel department is sheltered all right and that the visitors will be fed and decently. There has been a little flirtation go ing on about the street car lines charging 10 cents, but that is all bnneomb, I reckon. It is a right big rumpus about a very little matter and I reckon will die out after a few more have naatneirsay. _ it .. is a very amusing idea , for a South Caro ina man and a Brunswick preacher to write up an I sty they will not come to the fsir nary s ep if the stre't car fare is raised to 10 cents. Why, this is a free country and those gentlemen can stay at home or tliey can come and patronize tho Sou'h-rn railroad that will charge 10 cents, too. It does not seem to bo the price, but it is the this raise that arouses their indignation, But tittle episode will all settle down. I r, reminds me, however, of the time when we proposed to build a public acade my in Rom-, and it was to cost #1,800. Tlte boys had put me forward to ran for mayor and the issue was “academy” or ‘ no academy.” Of course I was for progress and the noisiest and b ;;2;rLTa‘rS.f.h , :,rSd . plo to death, and he for one was not going to Btand it. Looking over tlte tax books at his sworn return of his property I found that his part of the academy would be 47 cents. Sol leanant'y whowe i him the fignr 8 and told him would pay his part if he would hush—and he hushed. Ntw let ever holy htt»h about this car fare these business, for the p -opto making are tired of it and in t ints are not any fuss about tin it. 1 It r^ch will cost oiv the people f dr and ft om Joy two tho to 2 three moiSh aiTJe^o are m mTiiing go j" to'mis-"u ». ‘for 5 cent*; we are not built that wav. I should think it would remind a newspipor man of those aim ing fsilows who ever and ano.t get mud with tho editor and wri e to him to atop their r a P sr - But I don’t nckoii the fair will bust up uti account, of the ubrct.co of any nuui who swear he wont come if he has to p..y 10 cents Atlanta Constitution, NEWSY CLEANINGS. Japan hos ordered American flour. The States contain 500,000 Swedes. Kentucky is first in tobacco output. Tahiti, In the South Sons, is now lightoJ by electric lamps. There is an Increase of brigandage in Sic ily and Sardinia, owing to tho poverty of the people. The subscription for William Grace, the great cricketer of Englaud, now reaches $136,000. Boll worms are ravaging Southern cotton fields. Cotton has advanced recently anro than a cent a pound. It has been decided to lay a telegraphic cable 1400 miles up the bed of the Amazon as cheaper to build and mainiuin than a shore line. The National Hay Fever Association, which boasts a membership of nearly 10.000, held a convention recently at Bay View, Mich. William Luillam White, of Jamaica, N. Y., who will be fifteen years old in October, is six feet three inches tall and weighs 263 pounds. President Diaz, of Mexico, proposes to oc cupy Yucatan with astrong force of troops, and put down the predatory Indians there with a strong hand. A lake steamship has been launched at Chicago which has room in its hold for 600 J tons of freight, thus approaching the capac ity of many of the big ocean liners. A number of college girls at Hillsdale, Mich., have been earning money during tho summer to pay next winter’s tuition by serv ing as waiters in a summer hotel at Little Traverse Bay. There is great scarcity of all kinds of food in the interior of Guatemala. People are moving to the co:ist to avoid starvation. Beef from old nud diseased cattle sells at seventy-five McCullough cents a pound. John has just been admitted to West Point Military Academy from Kan sas. Ho is a poor farmer’s son. had had no advantages and drove 300 miles to take his examination, camping out by night. Snaefeil, the on the level, Isle is of Man, 2000 feet above sea now ascended by means of the first mountain electric road in Great Britain. The line isjfour and thro- quarter miles long, with a continuous gradi ent of one foot in twelve. The Hamburg-American Packet Company has ordered from the Harlands, of Belfast, a twin-screw steamer of 20,000, tons, the larg est in the world, intended primarily for freight, but with accommodations for 2 j 0 first-class and 1500 steerage passengers. The Russian ship Rostoff, from Croustadt, has arrived at Antivari with 30,000 rifles, 15,000,000 cartridges, a number of cannons and .machine guns, and a ouantity of dyna mite, all of which are a gift from the Czlr of Russia to Prince Nicholas I. of Montenegro. Albert McDonald, of Chicago, but four teen years old, whose extraordinarily rapid growth, as it is supposed, had rendered him peculiarily susceptible to morbidness, brood ing over his father’s mysterious death, which occurred about a year ago, committed suicide by shooting himself through the left breast. The fruit stands in London are loaded with California fruit brought to England by the American line steamer New York. This fruit was sold at wholesale in the Convent Garden Market as English grown, Tho pears buyers and peaches confident were that still sound. Largo are the next crops will bring higher prices in London. THE LABOR WORLD. California has 8000 factories. Austria-Hungary has 174 paper mills. Elwood, Ind., has the world’s largest tin plate works. Monday,’ September 2. was observed as Labor Day in thirty States. Ohio coal miners, accorling to returns just made, averaged only $15 a month last year. This country makes 6,152,420,000 bricks in a year, enough to build a ten-feet-wide walk around the world. The great strike of juto workers at Dun dee, Scotland, has b en ended an 1 the men have resumed work at the old terms. William O’Donneli. Robert F. Coombs and John P. O’Brien, of New York, have been ap pointed general auditors of the Quarrymen’s National Union. The National Railroad Master Blacksmiths’ Association has just held a four days’ con vention at Cleveland, Ohio, with about fifty delegates in attendance. James Henry Scott, who has been working as an electrician at Ottumwu, Iowa, for $7 a week, has fallen heir to $1,00),000 or more by the death of his father in Germany. The wages of the conductors, baggagemen and brakemen of the various divisions of the Boston and Maine Railway have been volun tarily increased on account of the improved business of the road. A return of the strikes of 1893 in France, just published, shows that they numbered 634. Four thousand three hundred and eighty-six factories and mines were affected, and 170,123 workmen took part tn the strikes, the number of working dais lost being 3,- 174,000. A short time ago the Sunderland (Eng land) guardians tried tho experiment of sending Canada. fifteen unemployed workmen to It was stated at a meeting of the guardians that six of the men had returned and that the other nine would probably do so. The Chairman said that Canada was evidently J not tho land which wuicu thev mey had sun- sup Tll ° following are tho rates of payment ‘, or cwr taiu work received by women in Lon Making paper bags, four pence per shirts, button-holes, two pence a dozen; two pence each; the worker finding “® r °wn cotton: sack sewing, six ponce for twenty-five; for thirty-six pill box whip makiDg, one shilliug dozen; gross-; making, one shill ln K P*r trousers finishing, three pence 4° pence each; shirt finishing, three penoe a dozeD. Unconstitutional. court *?*>,*“ of New »?■“• Jersey, °< has filed the court’s opinion in the case testing the constitutionality J of the Voorhees elec judiciary . act, . and he pronounces the law unconstitutional. DEFENDER A VICTOR WINS THE FIRST RACK IN THE INTERNATIONAL CON 1 EST. The American v Audit , 4 Heats the Brit* t, h , r b Elght Minut e 8 . All bail, Defender. The aluminium and bronze boa'; defeated Valkyrie III by eight minutes, forty-nine seconds in the first of the races for the Ameri ca’s cup Saturday. Twenty thousand people on ilia greatest flotilla that ever assembled off Sandy Hook witnessed the race, ami there was a teens of hilarious joy when the Defender crossed the line fully two miles nhead of Lord Dunraven’s boat. The joy of the multitude was undoubtedly increased by the fact that tqe Valkyrie led the yatikee boat for tho first hour. She walked away from the Defender in a way that led Eng lishmen to fondly hope that their day had come at last. Bright visions of tho America’s cup floated before their eyes* while tho patriotic Americans, who were packed tier above tier on the many decked excursion Bteamers, were very glum. . *. A hush fell over the marine amphi theater when the boats started, and all the joys of yachting seemed gone when the Valkyrie easily moved to the front and showed her heels to the Defender, Cheers and enthusiasm were missing for a full hour when the British boat was leading. There was only a five knot breeze atjthe start,and the Valky rie was going through the water faster thau the Defender in the light air. There was a lumpy 6ea, and quito a swell came in from the ocean, but the buffeting of the waves against her back. She outpointed and out footed the Herreshoff boat, to the amazement of the great crowd of spec tators. But after establishing a lead of a good quarter of a mile, the wind having freshened, the cup challenger failed to hold her own, and the yau kee yacht began to gain. Wljen the crowd saw it there was a general brightening up, and as it became plain that the product of American brains was picking up her rival, a cheer went up and tugboat whistles screeched. As both yachts were beating to wind ward, it is impossible to say just when the Defender overhauled the British boat, but it was about 1 :25 p. m. when the boats had covered nearly half of the eighteen miles of windward work. Once the defender got her gait, there was no catching her, aud as the wind continued to freshen she opened up a very large gap between her stern and the bow of the British boat. When the Defender reached the outer mark she had an advantage of three minutes and twenty-seven seconds. There was a big demonstration as the yankee boat made the turn. The wind having shifted, the run home became a broad roach, aud it was a constant gain for tho gallant American boat. Going home the gain was four minutes, fifty three seconds. With the time allowance of twenty nine seconds, the Defender’s victory was eight minutes, forty-nine seconds. The wind was ten knots at the finish. For forty-five years this country bus held the cup, which was won by the yacht America at Cowes in 1851. Since then the Englisbmeij have made many attempts to win it back, but have never succeeded. The history of the inter national races is deeply interesting. POPULIST CONVENTION CALLED To Meet In Birmingham, Alabama,oil November 13th. The People’s Tribune, Captain Kolb’s paper, published at Birmingham, Ala., prints a lengthy “Address to the Peo ple of Alabama. ” It is signed by B. F. Kolb, S. M. Adams, D. S. Troy, Philander Morgan, O. L. McKinstrey aud about one hundred other promi nent populists in Alabama. In clos ing, the addrecs says: We suggested that this representa tive conference be held in the city of Birmingham on Wednesday, Novem ber 13, 1895, and that the white men who favor honest elections and free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and v.ho oppose bank control of the currency in every precinct in the state, meet together on Saturday, November 2, 1895, and select one delegate to rep resent the precinct in this conference, and that a mass meeting or county conference be held at the courthouse in each county on Saturday, Novem ber 9, 1895, to select five additional , , for . each , member , the .. county delegates ® , entitled to in the house of represent- ....... atives, to represent the county, THIRTY-SIX VESSELS WRECKED. Many People Killed and Drowned During a Storm. A special to the New York Herald from Victoria, B. C., says a destructive typoon of unusual fury spent its strength at Kucbinotsu shortly before the last steamer sailed. All foreign ships in the harbor were blown on shore. With a few exceptions tho houses in the town were entirely de stroyed or partly wrecked. Thirty six vessels became total wrecks, and the crews were all drowned.
