The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, April 15, 1892, Image 1

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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. VOLUME XVI. JP ROFEBBIONAL CARDS. JjR. «• P. CAMPBELL, DENTIST. McDonough Q*. Any ono desiring work done can lie ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Gao W. Bbtan | W. T. Dickkn. 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 Jno. D. Stl.. art. j E.T. Daniel. STEWART A I>A.\IEI« ATTORNEYS AT I.AW, GEirFiN, Ga. JOIIiM I- TVE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga. Practice* in the State and Federal Courts. THE- East Tenii. Virginia & Ga. R’Y. IB THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAH’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPEBS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOUT CIIAXJK. Direct Connections at Chat TANOOGA WITH THROUGH TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis asd the West, ill Knoxville with I’ullmitn #le«p«r» tor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B.W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KICHT Uen’L. F«i. A*‘. ( A. G. P. A. KNOXfII.IE. ATLANTA Georgia Ilidl-inii 4k Gnlf R. R. soctx . Leave MoDeaoug'u 7:o* a. m Arrive Greta wood 757 •* “ Loue! I* 7:35 “ •• Griffin Bios “ xo&ru. . Lmtc Griffin 4>oo p. m. Arrive Looella AM * Greenwood 4.43 “ “ McDonough 5r05 “ M. E GRAY, Sup’! 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 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS. /7j ATTEND THE //7j y {o&mntteMzz ioi W&& Of Kentaoby University, LEXiHGTO'f, K 7. 8. W. Corner miTX nm! n»rr:R Ktrceiu, $ nppotito < Ourt liouM a < ■WILBUR R. SMITH, president. (tT C'heapwl, Bent and n.'cbtit if one red Cnllcco. K. W. k W, R. Smith, o(Tlaer» of«M« <W:*v. rfcrivH the C2o» J Medal bad Diploma of 11 »n*»r at tV«i-MN HtpeiiMon, fir Sr item of BonU.Keroliiff, IniUtullag <s< nt r«l lfii»lnr«4 Education. Nc»riv HmK) atudonte hi Attendances the past rear, from BO Mia tea and Foreign Coaßtrlei. 10.000 O radii nice In Baalneaa. IS Teaehon amployoil. Bpcluro* Cmirae conH«»» •f Hook kwptng. Burin*"* Arltluu- i • . Pantr.auiMn. CommereU Law, Marenaadliing, Banhiuif. Joint CJo.dc, ilanuraottirin g, LeelurM, Burlnai* Practice, M«rcnitU*f Correepoadence, era Coat of Full BnelneMeCoitrnr. I .eluding Tulilin Statlonerr and Board U» a iilee fkniHv, about fr9o. Mn»H-llai»d. Typo- Wrttluir »wd Tel«**ri%plijr ar- ppecluitlr*: hare fcjtfvMal t#aeb«ra and rooms, aaa oau b« token alone or with the HtirinoM Oourao. Special department for Lvii»*. La- 1 ? Prlodnnl etnplored. C7* Merab an is' Rpoelal Conroe of Book -Kfepitiy. fl". (J /*»«•*• neia Arithmetic and Fenian mhlp when taken alone, f> jxir mooth. Cel leg* open day and night# fetudenti recelrwl on eaor pay ment*. (TJT Arrangement* «-an he roartu with Ilallmad Com paaiae fbr a obeap dally pass to attend thii Colleen. Bo varu «»*». Rotor bow. Graduetee nuecewfut. (T7* Tor elroulen ■ddreee WILIU B W. MM ITU. Free't, Lcxlujjtou, Kj. 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.