Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOLUME XVI.
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HIl VAN A MCKEN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAV, 7 ,
MoDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
JAS. 11. TIIRit ER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court cf
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
P J. REAGAiV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Couvts
At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDunough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs-’79
yy A. BKOW A,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in ail the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. (anl-ly
JJ A. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hash-ton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oat 8, 1888
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Out of 100 Indian students returned
from Hampton Institute, Virginia, to
the reservation only two have been
failures.
The coinage of the world now absorbs
nearly two-thirds of the gold and more
than half of the total output of silver
annually.
The Loudon Times expresses (he
opinion that the building of the cruisers
is more necessary for the strengthening
of the British Navy than the building of
ironclads.
_ I | BUM MU I I I*———
These are the times of civilization auti
peace, and yet it is figured, remarks the
New York World, that during the last
thirty-three years full 2,500,000 men
have lost their lives in war.
New England, the birthplace of
wooden shipbuilding in this country,
still maintains her supremacy m this
department of industry, and is likely,
thinks the New York Press, to hold it
for all time to come.
It is entertaining to learn that in
1800 Philadelphia had 10,000 moro
population than New York. But that
was long ago, when Chicago, which is
now ahead of the city of Brotherly Lovo
in population, was a howling wilder
ness.
Sam Radges, of Topeka, Kan., paid
the Western doctors S3OOO to be told
that his eyes would not last long and
that he soon would be stone blind. Ho
then went to New York, where a dis
tinguished physician inlormci him that
they would last all his life aud go home
and be happy. For the latter informa
tion he paid SSOO.
In preparation for the next siege of
Paris, the French War Department has
taken steps toward the construction of
an immense establishment in the city for
the preservation of meat by freezing.
Similar establishments on smaller scales
will be attached to the forts encircling
the capital. The cokl air will be sup
plied to all from a central station oper
ated according to a new compressed air
system.
Principal Hare, of Hawkiusville, says
the Savannah (Ga.) News, has what ap
pears to be quite a novel way of manag
ing refractory boys at the graded school.
When he gets too previous he is wal
loped. Then he has to give a bond for
his future good behavior. He has to
have one, two or three boys on his bond,
who guarantees that that there will be
no fault to find with him by reason of
misconduct. If the principal misbe
haves the bondsmen catch it. Knowing
this the bondsmen keep the principal
out of mischief. They say it works beau
tifully.
It is not generally known that the
rules of the Postoffice Department em
powers, states the Boston Transcript,
inspectors to open suspicious letters at
discretion. The public appears to be
very much astonished at this, but it is
carried to a greater extent than even
those who know all about it suppose.
“In fact,” says a Government official,
“under the rules of the Postoffice De
partment almost any private letter can
be opened and read.’ This will surprise
some people, but it is nevertheless true,
and a reference to the private instructions
to Postoffice Inspectors, which are in
printed form, will convince anybody of
it. Whether such secret privileges are
ever used illegitimately would be diffi
cult to find out. It is a good deal like
arresting a man on suspicion. As a mat
ter of fact, therefore, you will see that
the United States mails arc not more
sacred than the mails of Russia or any
other country so far as Government
espionage is concerned.”
Tourists who passed through Califor
nia not many years ago will remember
how shabby and dilapidated was the ap
pearauce of the small country towns.
The inhabitants did not seem to care
about the condition of their streets or
of the suburbs. In fact, local pride had
no place in the administration of affairs,
n recent years a refreshing transforma
tion has occurred. The thoroughfares
that once were shadelens aud crude aro
now ornamented with graceful trees, and
asphalt walks are found where dust and
mud formerly annoyed tho traveler.
Water-works are to be seeu in nearly
every town of 5000 people, and at night
the streets are illuminated hv electricity.
A shining example of this spirit of im
provement is Santa Clara. It is no. a
great while ago that it consisted of a
mission and a few adobe houses only.
Perhaps the time of this chrysalis state
dates back to the war. Santa Clara is
now a town of lovely vistas and attrac
tive homes. Nature is, of course, on
the side of tue California towns, hut
nature is only the setting. While the
Mexican influence was dominant, adobe
huts were seen where Queen Anne cot
tages appear now, and neither by night
nor day was the visitor favorably iu»-
I prafinl-bj fail surioundings. _
M’DONOUGH, GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1892.
SONj after silence
Winter s a weary time! v
Not the ripple of a rhyme
Stirs the icy shores along, *
Quickening quietude with song;
Emiles are choked with snow.
Not a metaphor will flow I
Envious frost doth hold in fee
Every tip in Castalv.
Eut let spring the bonds unbind
With the soft touch of its wind,
What a rapturel What a sweep!
AY hat a swift, ecstatic leap!
Mortal words but half express
All the rapture, all the stress?
Sweeter are the strains that come
If the lip awhile bo dumb.
—Chntou Scoiiord.in New isngiawi alagwzlna
KILLED BY VAN OBDEN.
2IY JAMES HARVEY SMITH.
wh r —* MOS, do you be
m\ lieve in dreams?”
/fi 1 “Certainly," I
Vtt'yAj / \ replied. “Evcry
body has dreams;
r/'' l ever y animate be
* s h ou id have
The * are the
creations t * le
brain, and every
thing that has a
brain has dreams.”
Frank looked out of the window' in si
lence, and, by the glare of the gas-lamp,
I scrutinized his face with some appre
hension. I anticipated something grew
some, although the surroundings were
neither gloomy nor romantic.
We were in Frank’s room, a second
story front, in a middle-class boarding
house in a middle-class neighborhood.
The windows looked out on a clean pro
eaic street, and the room was finished in
conventional style. Frank Chessman was
a medical student, now in his last year at
college, and he was not at all inclined to
be mystical, nor even speculative. Of all
professions, none is so intensely realistic
as the physician’s. He cuts and carves
to the root, and is so intent upon prying
into the secrets of the body that he gives
little thought to the mysteries of the
soul. The heart - is a machine to pump
blood, the lungs are chemical purifiers,
the bram is a mass of gray matter—that
is all. My young friend had not even
the average student's fondness for prank
ish decorations with bones and skulls;
his raprn might have been a bookkeep
er's.
Frank laughed softly, and, I was glad
to see, without any trace of uneasiness.
I had foreseen a discussion on matters
about which no man knows anything,
and nothing can be more jarisorr.o than
that. So I was disappointed when he
added. -‘Let mo tell you about a sin
gular aream I had a year ago."
“Very well,” I assented.
“I had gone to bed early,” began
Frank, “and lam quite certain that I
did not overeat, and I drank no liquor
at all. lam equally certain that I was
not in debt, love, or bad health. But I
dreamed— By-the-way, did you ever
meet Van Orden?”
“Not that I remember.”
“If you had, you would have remem
bered iiim. He was a law student in
the university; had a free scholarship
from the city, I believe; and in many
respects he was a remarkable young man.
He was about my age, but much larger,
and I always thought he was too hand
some for a mau. He had great black
eyes—soft as an Italian girl's—crisp curly
hair, and complexion like a peach. Not
a prig or a fop, mind! He was on the
football eleven and baseball nine, and an
all-round athlete as well.”
“Well?” I said, shortly.
“Well, I dreamed about Van Orden.
In my dream I was walking along the
edge of a great high cliff which over
hung the ocean. I do not remember that
I ever saw such a place in my waking
hours, and wnen I thought it over after
ward, I came to the conclusion that I
had read about such cliffs in England
and Scotland, and perhaps seen pictures
of a similar locality.”
“Very likely,” I assented.
“Well, I dreamed I was walking
along, when Van Orden came slowly
toward me, and as I stretched out my
hand to greet him, he seized me around
the body and hurled me over the cliff.
I fell down, down, an interminable time,
as you do in dreams, and then, which is
very unusual in dreams, I struck the
water.”
“And awoke?”
“No, I didn’t. A smothered feeling
came over me, and then I easv my face
floating on the surface of the water, and
heard a voice say, ‘He has been killed.’
Then I awoke, all in a tremble.”
“A disagreeable dream,” I com
mented, “but not unique or otherwise
remarkable.”
“lam aware of that, ” rejoined Frank.
“But it has a sequel. I had another
dream a week later. I was in a ball
room having a jolly time, and presently
I went into the conservatory. I may say
that in this and the subsequent dreams
not once was there anything familiar in
the surroundings, nor did I recognize a
face—with a single exception. I had
been in the conservatory only a few
minutes when Van Orden appeared in a
near by doorway, and shot me, and I
died.”
“Good gracious 1” I exclaimed, invol
untarily.
“Singular, wasn’t it? Wall, a month
later I dreamed I was lying in a ham
mock in a grove, which, in my dream I
knew to be somewhere in the tropics,
when Van Orden suddenly appeared, and
strangled me.”
“One moment!” I cried. “Were you
and Van Orden enemies or rivals in any
seiise?”
“Not in any sense. I had meant to
say that at the start. We were the best
of friends, and I cannot remember that
we had even a difference of opinion.
Not that we were chummy, understand,
bccauss we met but seldom, but when
we did, we were very congenial. And
that reminds me of something else. In
all these dreams there was one point of
resemblance apart from the killing. Van
Orden never appeared furious or venge
ful; his expression was invariably one of
sorrow or pity, so far as I could judge.
It left an impression on me, in au odd
vtay, that Van Orden had to kill me.”
“Yes, I understand. Any more?”
“Two more. In one 1 met him in a
secluded by-street where I was walking
and was stabbed: and m the fifth, and
aud last wo were guests at a banquet.
Van Orden passed me a glass of wine,
and I knew it was poisoned, but I took
it and drank the contents, looking all
the whilo into his great soulful eyes, re
alizing that he pitied me, but was urged
on by fate, or whatever you may call
it.”
I felt a certain seme of uneasiness
creeping over me as my iricad concluded.
In spite of the fact that I knew, as a
philosopher, that the five dreams were
but five phantasies, I felt, as a friend, a
feeling of dread.
“And that was all?” I queried, after
trying to think of something more con
soling or explanatory to say.
“All of the dreams—yes,” replied
Frank, “but there is something else to
tell. First, about Van Orden. lam not
a philosopher like you, Amos, and so I
aoi not ashamed to say that this series of
dreams impressed me deeply. They not
only alarmed but bewildered me. Had
they been the same scene repeated—say,
the cliff—l would have made a vow,
and kept it, to never go near such a
place, but I could not avoid hammocks,
by-streets, banquet balls and ballrooms
as well, without beiug a downright her
mit.”
“But you could avoid Van Orden,” I
suggested.
“Not absolutely, without leaving the
university. Yet I determined to avoid
him as much as possible, aud I did so.
Mind 1 I felt no resentment, but as days
passed on I gradually formulated the ter
rifying theory that Van Orden was des
tined to kill me. Ho might kill me in a
hundred accidental ways—on the play
ground or in the gymnasium, at tabe, in
the street—l am sure I thought of a hun
dred possibilities. The idea took such a
hold of me that I actually turned aside
to avoid meeting him, even iu a crowd.
He noticed my behavior, I know, and
felt justly offended—be has told my
friends as much—but I made no expla
nation. What could I explain? To re
hearse my dreams as I have done to you,
and offer them as an excuse for my con
duct, would subject me to ridicule. Be
sides, I wanted him to avoid me, so as to
reduce the chance*.
“I see; and it seems to have reduced
the chances considerably. Van Orden
has not killed you.”
“No, uor never will,” Frank laughed.
I was rather surprised at the sudden
change of dctr.eMor, --(it below. I hail
time to make a comment, he became
grave again.
“Amos,” he said, with a sigh, “there
is nothing in dreams. I have told you
that I have had five most vivid dreams,
so realistic that I cannot recall them
without feeling a cold chill creeping over
me, and yet they have come to naught.”
“Wait a bit,” I objected, becoming at
once logical and argumentive, “you can
not be certain of that. I will never be
lieve that a dream is in any sense a
prophecy of good or evil, but, on your
part, you can never be certain that Van
Orden will not kill you until you aro
drawing the last breath of a natural
decease.”
“Oh, yes,l can, most wise logician!”
cried Frank. “You have omitted one
major premise—suppose Vau Orden dies
first?”
“Is he dead?" I cried, in turn.
For answer Frank turned up the stu
dent lamp until the light flooded the
apartment, then he took from a near-by
cabinet a polished skull,and stood it on
the table before him.
“This is Van Orden,” he said briefly.
“Van Orden!” I repeated, recoiling
slightly.
“Don’t be alarmed,” said Frank, after
an outburst of morriment. I can read
your thoughts, Amos. No, I did not
kill him, although au acute rea9oner like
yourself might have argued that I was
justified. No, poor fellow”—dropping
again into a melancholy tone —“he died
a natural death, if disease is natural.”
“And how did you become possessed
of this ghastly memento?”
“In a roundabout but perfectly legiti
mate manner. Van Orden—l told you,
did I not?—was a poor chap, working at
odd jobs here and there to pay his board
and buy the necessaries of life during his
term, and when he died, there was no
one to bury him. He was a retiring
fellow—the pride of poverty, you know
—and no one knew where he lived; to
tell the truth, no one cared to inquire,
and when ho was taken sick, he was too
proud to appeal to Ills friends for help.
So he was taken to the almshouse hos
pital when he grew delirious from fever,
and there he died. You know what be
comes of pauper bodies, don’t you?
Well, I missed Vau Otdea, but, under
the circumstances, did not care to inquire
about him, and when I next saw his face
it was upturned on a dissecting table.”
I looked at the grinning skull within
reach of my hand, and with difficulty re
pressed a shudder.
“It was a dreadful shock to rao for a
moment, and then I actually felt a thrill
of joy, something like a murderer who
has been reprieved, I imagine. But I
did not breathe entirely easy until I got
this in my possession”—tapping the
skull—“and it cost me a pretty penny;
you know skulls are expensive. I
worked over it until I got it into excel
lent shape—don’t you think?”
“I shouldn’t care to keep it,” I said,
earnestly.
“Shouldn’t you?” said Frank, in sur
prise. “It is my greatest object-lesson;
one I shall remember as long as I live.
See what it teaches nje 1 Here am I. a
young man in perfect health and sound
mind, troubled with no mystical notions,
and a member of a profession that is
singularly free from superstition, and yet
a series of disordered visions lead me to
unhappy days and restless nights, rout
my reason, and warp my judgment, and
worst of all, make me cruelly suspicious
and unjust to a fellow-being who never
did aor never would have done mo an
injury. Could any lesson be more Im
pressive? Poor fellow!” he added,
with tears in his eyes, as he took up the
skull in his left hand, and slowly passed
his right hand ever the cranium. “It
will be many days before I can forgive
myself for doing you an injustice. Who
knows, Amos, that if it had not not been
for those foolish dreams, I would have
beeu his dearest irieud?”
“Who knows?” I echoed, keeping my
eyes upon the skull, which had for me a
singular fascination.
“He was a coble fellow, and would
have made a noble friend. I wish you
had known him, Amos; you would have
liked him. I look at this every day,
and try to picture it as alive. His mouth,
iiiis CjtJs—
“What is that?” I asked as Frank ut
tered a slight exclumatiou.
“I have pricked my finger iu the eye
socket—a mere scratch,” he replied.
TheD, rising, he put away the skull with
a sigh. “Well, well, I’ll forget it iu
time, Amos; but the whole affair has
certaiuly been a epoch in my life. Take
another cigar, Amos.”
Our senior delegated to me to go to
Montana next day, where a silver trust
was being organized, and some one was
needed to draw up the preliminary
papers, and it was lour weeks before I
returned to New York. Almost the
first person I met said to me;
“3ad about voung Chessman, wasn’t
it?”
“What of him?" I asked, quickly.
“Didn’t you know?” he rejoined,
open-mouthed. “Such a promising
young fellow—”
“Well? well?''
“Died three weeks ago.'*
“Good heavens! How?"
“Blood poisoning; curious case, too.
It seems he was handling a skull aud cut
his finger—a mere scratch, they say. He
paid no attention to it until the finger
began to swell. Then he had two of the
best doctors in the city, but they
couldn’t save him, and he died on the
fifth day."—Harper's Weekly.
Heroism, and Cruelty.
An instance of heroism, and one of
the most atrocious acts of cruelty, the
truth of which is vouched for by the
most respectable authority, occurred
during the Columbia struggle for inde
pendence.
The Spanish General Morillo, the most
bloodthirsty and treaoherous tool of tho
Spanish Kiug, was created Count of
Cartliagenia and Marquis dc la Puuria
for serving which rather entitle him to
the butcher or hangman. While seated
in his tent, one day, he saw a young boy
before him drowned in tears. The chief
demanded of him for what purpose he
was there.
The child replied that he had come to
beg the life of his fathor, then a prisoner
in Morillo’s camp.
“What can you do to save your
father?” asked the General.
“I can do but little, but what I can
shall be done.”
Morillo seized the little fellow's ear,
and said:
“Would you suffer your ear to be
taken off to procure your father’s life?”
“I certainly would,” was the un
daunted reply.
A soldier was accordingly called, and
ordered to cut off tho ear with a single
stroke of the knife.
The boy wept.but did not resist while
the barbarous order was executed.
“Would you lose your other ear rather
than fail of your purpose?” was the next
question.
“I have suffered much, but for my
father I can suffer still," was the answer
of the boy.
The other ear was taken off piece
meal, without flinching on the part of
tho noble boy.
“And now go!” exclaimed Morillo,
untouched by hi| sublime courage.
‘The father of sucii a son must die.”
In the presence of his agonized and
vainly suffering son the father was exe
cuted.—N. Y. Ledger.
Wonders of Longevity.
i Thomas Parr, who was born in Shrop
shire, England, in 1483, lived until he
j killed himself from overeating in the
{ year 1635, when ho bad attained the
great age of 152 years. He lived in
three centuries and tilled the soil until
after the end of his one hundred and
thirtieth year. King Charles I. heard
of the wonderful old man and sent for
him to come and dine at the royal man
sion, Parr had always (for 152 years at
least) keen used to the most simple fare.
At the King’s table he let his appetite
get away with him and ate to much that
tie died the same night.
Ilepry Jenkins, also an Englishman,
lived to be 163 years of age.
Margaret Patten, the Scotch cook to
James VI., did not give up the ghost
until she had ground out almost exactly
147 years.
Henry Evans, a Welebmau, died in
1771 at the age of 129 years.
Jane Scrimshaw lived in London dur
ing the reign of eight sovereigns, from
Elizabeth to Anne. Of her 127 years,
eighty of them wore spent in an alma
| house.
Marion Delorme, who was born in
! France in 1612, and who had romantic
experience enough to All a half dozen
good-sized voulumes, lived to be 134
years.
A most extraordinary instance of hu
man longevity may be found in Bmel
lie’s “Philosophy of Natural History,”
where an account of Peter Torten, a na
i tire of Hungary, who died January 5,
1674, at the advanced age of 185!
Letitia Cox, who died at Bybrook,
Jamaica, in 1838. claimed and brought
evidence to prove tiiat she was 160 years
old at the time of her death.
As late as 1884 Tatnah Brooks was
liviog at Atlanta, Da. Bho was said to
be 123 years of age and to have given
' birth to several children after passing her
one hundredtn birthday.—St. Louis Re
public.
Krupp, the great gunmaker, is taxed
on on income of $1,500,000.
Highest of all in Leavening Tower.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
PHOSPHATE MINING QUESTION
In South Carolina Decided by the U. S.
Supreme Court.
A Washington dispatch says: The
United States supreme court h\si thrmed
the judgment of the circuit court of the
United States for the district nf Snu b
Carolina in favor of the state of S nth
Carolina In its suit against the Ooosaw
Mining company, This is a case of
great importance to the state, involving
its right to control the phosphate rock
and phosphatio beds in the Coosaw river,
which are exceedingly valuable. The
Coosaw Mining comp my claimed that in
1870 the legislature of South Carolina
made a contract conferring on it a per
petual grat tto the exclusive mining of
alt phosphate rock and phosphatio de
posits in the Coosaw river. Tin,'state con
tended that by this act the legislature
had granted the Coosaw company exclu
sive rights for only a limited period,
namely, until the expiration of twenty
one years fixed in 1870, when the Coosaw
company was given the right, but not
exclusive right, to mine phosphate. This
period expired in 1801. The court, in
an opinion by Justice Harlan, ho’ds tint
the act of 1870 did not give the Coosaw
company the perpe'ual nud exclusive
grant, but merely an exclusive grant for
the balance of the twenty-one years cov
i red by lh • origieal c ntract of 1870.
GRESHAM AND POLK
According to Reports, Will Head tho
People’s -Party Ticket.
A Cincinnati dispatch Sunday says:
Bomo time ago The Enquirer stated that
tho eew people’s party would probably
nominate Judge Waiter Q. Gresham as
its cmdidatefor president of the United
States. Since that announcement the
matter has attracted great attention all
over the country, and the leaders of the
movement, with a few exceptions, have
declared their purpose to make the tioket
Gresham and Polk. The latter is
pres dent of the National Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union.
Hugh Cavans'igTSTgraha Wi rthy foreman
of the Knights of Labor and chairman of
the committee of resolutions at the re
cent Bt. Louis conference, has ju*t re
turned from the east and he says that
Grcslmm is sure to bo tho nominee of the
party. Several conferences of the lead
ing members of the Knights of Labor
and their indus’rinl oiganization have
been held, and they aro all for Gresham
ff he will accept the nomination. Mr.
Cavanaugh states that the party has us
nuances that General Gre-ham will ao
•cpt if ihi platform is modified.
BLAINE MAY BE A CANDIDATF.
A Report from Washington (lint he
Will Enter tlie Race.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: Mr. Blaine is in the emtest for
the republican presidential nomination.
The announcement was made in | rivate
by a Maine congressman, who was au
thorized by tho secretary of state to speak
for him.
“Mr. Blaine will be the republican
nominee, notwithstanding he has stated
in a letter that lie would not ho a candi
date,” said tho Maine man to a party of
persons! friends, “lie is in better health
than for many years. He believes he
can be elected if nominated, and nalur
ally is ambitious to be the president.
But he will not announce himself as a
candidate. He will say nothing one way
or the other. All the republicans of tho
oountry care to know is that he will ac
cept if nominated. When they know ha
wants it, the nomination will be tendered
him. The powers of the administration
cannot prevent it. for the republicans of
the country want B nine above idl men.
His friends will sec that it becomes
known that be will accept, and in my
opinion, that is all ‘.hat is necessary t# his
semisstiou.” _
MELON MEN
Of Georgia Will Make an Effort to Get
Cheaper Freight Rales.
The Melon Growers’ Association, of
Georgia, has its eye on the coming wa
termelon crop already. And it is going
to make an effort to have the juicy south
Georgia melon moved cheaper this year
than over before. Tho melon growers of
South Georgia have prepared a long pe
tition to Commissioner K. B. Stablman,
Betting forth their grievances and asking
for redress. They ret forlh that the
present rates of shipping are excessive
Watermelons, they say, should be en
titled to a low rate because the value of
a carload of them is less than the value
of ordinary freight. The business
comes in a dull season of the year, and
in such volume as to Ire cheaply handled
by quick schedules. The crop amounts
to over twelve thousand cars annua jy.
The railroads are free from all liability
from any loss or damage that may befall
a car of m lons in trausit. The melon
growers’ petitiou for a lower rate, not
exceeding 6 mills per ton ptr mile, and
for better service. The petition will be
presented to Commissioner Stablman in a
short time.
STATE AGAINST RAILROADS.
A Lively Legal Rattle Is on in South
Carolina.
The great legal tight of the railroads
of 8 uth C-roliua against the board of
railroad equalization was begun in the
United States court at Charleston Thurs
day morning. Judges Bond and Simon
ton occupied the bench. A iormidable
array of legal lights are employed on
each G!e and the result of the tight is
h.oked forward to with interest.
Both sides *re confident of juaisab
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MISSING STEAMERS.
Great Anxiety Felt at Philadelphia for
Safety of Vessels and Ci-ews.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Sunday
says: Shipping olrcles are greatly alarm
ed over the probable loss of their vessels’
crows, numbering forty-sight persons,
end property to tho valuation of about,
two hundred and forty-eight thousand
dollars. The vessels are German s'eam
ihip Alaricb, Captain Eggers, from
Huelva, February 22nd, for Philadelphia
or New York j Italian bark Imma< nlota,
Captain Muro, which sailed from Cien
fugus January 28th for this port, and tho
ichoor er Taylor and Mathis, from Nor
folk March 2d for New York. The
British steamship Walby, from Bermuda,
Murch 80th for this port, is slightly over
due, and some anxiety la felt concerning
her.
THE BOAT CAPSIZED
Aud Sine of its Crew Find n Watery
Grave.
Siimluy evening an instructor aufl ten
boys connected with the Boston, Mass.,
fa m school, at Thompson’s island, cap
-i/.cd in a sailboat, and the instructor
md eight of the boys drowned. The
victims were: A. F. Nordberg, instruc
tor; Frank Hitchcock, Homer Thatcher,
Geo-ge Ellis, Thomas Phillips, William
Curran. Charles Graves, Harry E. Loud
and Adolbert If. Packard, The rescued
boys wore: Ove W. Clemeuts and Charles
A Limb. Tbc instructor had been to
the city during tho dav to attend church,
and the ten boys, constituting a regular
•.•re* of the school, left the island to sail
loC ty point to convey the instructor to
die island when the boat was struck by a
still ill.
OLCOTT PLAN A FAILURE.
But It* Friends Still Argue for it as The
Duly Chance of Success.
A New York di-patch of Thursday
states that Wall street has come to the
conclusion that the plan which has been
proposed for the reorganization of the
Ricnmond and West Point Terminal
Company is a failure, because it has, as
yet, not received the support of any
large proportion of the security holders,
and, also, that it will be modified in the
immediate future so as to win that sup
port. Both of these conclusions are in
correct. Seven days remtiiu before the
committee on reorganization will have to
decide whether the plan has become oper
ative or not. In tho meantime, the plan
will b<* modified, and its friends will
mak» i vei v effort to carry it through.
PRODUCTION OF COTTON
For the Years 1889--’9« as Compiled
by the Census Office.
The census office has issued preliminaiy
statistics of the cotton prnduc'.ion in the
United States for the years 1889-’9O.
The figures arc subject to slight modifi
cation in the final report. Tuey are f,s
follows:
STATIH. AI.'HBS, H VI,KS
Alabama * 761.771 915,414
Arkansas 1.700.612 691.483
Florid* 227 370 67 928
Georgia 3 *46.826 1,191.919
Louisiana 1,270.8*5 669.56.,
Mia is- pp 2,881,496 1,154,40,
North ( irohna 1 447.209 386.24,
Sou k Carolina 1,987,661 746,79
Tenn --f.ee 746,17* 189.07'
-•■naa art-i -«n 'rl - 3.407 672 1.809.49
srm lit mros*.
Mrs. Robinson—l have been sitting foi
a photograph, yon know. Here are the
proofs. Are they good likenesses, do
you think.'
Mr. tt.—How can I tell, my dear?
You know I never saw your face in re
pose.
AN UNEQUAL DIVISIOS.
First Pickpocket—How did you come
out last night at tho Xeighbob’s ball?
Second Pickpocket—Nothing in it; the
detective recognized me.
First Pickpocket—Did he squeal!
Second Piokpocket —No; but I had to
give us two-thuds.